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Sora no Otoshimono: Forte
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Sakurai Tomoki has settled into his life with the two angeloids, Ikaros and Nymph, and is enjoying himself immensely. However, he keeps having weird dreams and asks all of his friends to help him investigate the cause. Nymph conjures up a device that enables people, but not angeloids, to enter other people's dreams. The device malfunctions at first but eventually they get to what was supposed to be Tomoki's dream but discover that something is very wrong with it. Later, a meteor comes crashing down from the skies at the site of the large cherry blossom tree where Tomoki first discovered Ikaros. An extremely well endowed blonde angeloid with a huge sword emerges from the meteor and sets off in search of Tomoki!
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Title: Sora no Otoshimono: Tokeijikake no Angeloid
English: Heaven's Lost Property the Movie: The Angeloid of Clockwork
Synonyms: Gekijouban Sora no Otoshimono: Tokeijikake no Angeloid, Sora no Otoshimono: The Movie, Lost Property of the Sky Movie, Misplaced by Heaven
Japanese: 劇場版 そらのおとしもの 時計じかけの哀女神（エンジェロイド）
Aired: Jun 25, 2011
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Harem, Romance, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Supernatural
Duration: 1 hr. 36 min.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
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Sarah Oakley Lactation
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Private clinic consultations and home visits to help with a range of issues including: latching difficulties, sore nipples, mastitis, thrush, concerns about milk supply and weight gain, relactation and induced lactation, in addition to premature babies and babies with special needs, twins and other multiples.
COVID19 During the pandemic I will be offering initial breastfeeding assessment and support via video call consultations only. A face to face appointment will then be booked if required.
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What is a Lactation Consultant?
International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC) are professionals with extensive experience and in depth knowledge in supporting breastfeeding mothers. Qualification is via a 4 hour degree level examination and to enter the exam practitioners must have completed a set number of breastfeeding counselling hours over a set period. In my case I had to demonstrate that I had spent 2500 hours supporting breastfeeding mothers before I was eligible. IBCLCs are required to prove they have kept up to date every 5 years and to resit the exam every 10 years. They come from a variety of backgrounds in medicine, nursing, midwifery and breastfeeding counselling. Most are women. But a few are men as there is no requirement to have breastfed yourself in order to be an IBCLC. It is the highest recognised qualification in breastfeeding.
The exam includes the following areas related to lactation: anatomy and physiology, endocrinology, biochemistry, nutrition, immunology and infectious disease, pathology, pharmacology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, research and ethics.
Lactation Consultants have specialist skills to support mothers and babies with the more complex issues such as prematurity, twins and multiples, sick babies and those with special needs, poor weight gain and low milk supply, sucking problems, tongue-tie and cleft palate.
Some IBCLCs work within the NHS and voluntary sector but the majority work privately as I do as there are very few opportunities in the NHS and the value of IBCLCs and breastfeeding expertise in the UK health system is still not acknowledged. Many people within the NHS and private sectors call themselves breastfeeding consultants or specialists but do not have the IBCLC credential. IBCLCs are regulated by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE). You can check that the person supporting you is an IBCLC on the IBLCE register at this link https://iblce.org/public-registry/
As an IBCLC I can offer parents antenatal consultations to prepare for breastfeeding and early parenthood as well as support with feeding after the birth. As an expert in infant feeding I can also offer training to other breastfeeding supports and healthcare professionals.
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I also offer consultations in the home (for clients within 30 miles travelling distance of Ely) when I have capacity. The area covered for home visits includes Cambridgeshire, West Suffolk (Newmarket/Mildenhall/Bury St Edmunds area)or West Norfolk (Downham Market/King's Lynn/Swaffham area). NB: I AM NOT CURRENTLY OFFERING HOME VISITS DUE TO THE PANDEMIC.
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Comedy Short Films
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#SBSSWPL1: Celtic v Glasgow City: League opener live on BBC Alba
Celtic will kick off their 2020 SWPL1 campaign under the flood and camera lights with their meeting with Glasgow City set to be aired live on BBC Alba.
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New manager Fran Alonso’s first taste of Scotland’s top tier will come in Friday night football action as champions Glasgow City come to town for another competitive affair between the two.
The fixture will be rescheduled from the original date of Sunday, February 23, to Friday, February 21, with a 7:30pm kick-off at K-Park in East Kilbride, with the Celts looking for a strong home backing as the new era at the club gets well and truly underway.
Celtic came out on top the last time the two met, with the Hoops running out 4-1 winners at K-Park, as goals from Natalie Ross, Josephine Giard and Sarah Ewens put the league leaders to the sword, ending their 72-game unbeaten run in the SWPL and a 32-match league winning streak.
Ahead of the league opener, the Celts take on SWPL2 side Glasgow Women this weekend in their first SWPL Cup Group A game, before traveling to St Johnstone for the second tie on February 16.
Celtic play Glasgow Women in the first group game of the SWPL Cup at K-Park on Sunday, February 9 in a 2pm kick-off. Adults £5, concessions £3, under-16s free!
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Home >> State of Georgia >> Stewart County >> Sanford >> Community Profile
Sanford, Georgia
(Stewart County)
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Welcome to Sanford ...
Sanford is located in Stewart County<1>.
The location of Sanford has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<2>
From the Census Estimates for 2019, Sanford has a population of 159 people<3> (see below for details).
Sanford is 540 feet [165 m] above sea level.<4>.
Time Zone: Sanford lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time
Note: If you travel west from Sanford (for example, toward Clayton (AL)), you will soon leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).
Sanford lies within the (229) area code.
Population Details ...
Taken from the 2019 Census Estimates, Sanford had an population of 159 people. This is a decrease of 3.64% since the 2010 Census (or a decrease of 32.91% since the 2000 Census).
At the time of the 2010 Census, Sanford had a population of 165 people.
With a 2010 count of 165 people, the population of Sanford decreased 30.38% from the 2000 Census (with a count of 237 people).
More information can be found on the Census Page for Sanford.
Communities Also Named Sanford ...
Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are two Georgia communities named Sanford: This one is located in Stewart County and the other is located in Madison County.
Beyond Georgia, there are 26 communities that are also named Sanford - they are located in Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida (2), Kansas (3), Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New York (2), North Carolina (2), Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sanford.
Communities near Sanford ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Sanford.
Eufaula [Barbour County]
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eufaula
Eufaula [Barbour County] lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<5> to the southwest of Sanford
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Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eufaula<6>
Wades [Randolph County]
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wades
Wades [Randolph County] lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<5> to the southeast of Sanford
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wades have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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Brooksville [Randolph County]
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooksville
Brooksville [Randolph County] lies 18 miles [29 km]<5> to the southeast of Sanford
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brooksville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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Florence [Stewart County]
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Florence [Stewart County] lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<5> to the northwest of Sanford
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Lumpkin [Stewart County]
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Lumpkin [Stewart County] lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<5> to the northeast of Sanford
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Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lumpkin<6>
Mount Zion [Stewart County] - Historic
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Zion
Mount Zion [Stewart County] was located 9 miles [14.5 km]<5> to the east of Sanford
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Zion have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Big Eddy [Barbour County] - Historic
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Eddy
Big Eddy [Barbour County] was located 11 miles [17.7 km]<5> to the west of Sanford
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Big Eddy have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Georgetown [Quitman County]
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Georgetown [Quitman County] lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<5> to the southwest of Sanford
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Morris [Quitman County]
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Morris [Quitman County] lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<5> to the south of Sanford
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morris have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morris<6>
Omaha [Stewart County]
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Omaha [Stewart County] lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<5> to the north of Sanford
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Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Omaha<6>
We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Sanford. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Sanford.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Sanford. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sanford.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Sanford. See our Newspapers Page for Sanford.
TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Sanford ...
Looking for more information about Sanford? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.
While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Sanford, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Sanford.
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About Stewart County
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Sanford. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Georgia: https://georgia.gov/
<1> If you're interested in how the shape of Georgia's counties, including Stewart, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3> Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Sanford.
<4> The elevation is an estimate for the area around Sanford - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5> Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sanford) to Point B.
Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sanford. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.9796, Longitude: -84.9435 In this case, the coordinates for Sanford have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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Relation-tips: When should parents introduce kids to someone they’re dating
By Christal Jordan | June 7, 2019 | 0
Question: When should single parents introduce their kids to someone they are dating? Terry: I think a lot of single parents make a mistake by waiting an extended amount of time before introducing their children to the people they are seriously dating. It makes more sense to introduce the children to the potential partner once…
v: Reality Check with Ms. Juicy, boss babe from ‘Little Women: Atlanta’
By Christal Jordan | May 20, 2019 | 0
Tune in for a new episode of Reality Check with host Christal Jordan as she talks with Ms. Juicy, one of the stars of “Little Women: Atlanta,” at 2 p.m. today.
Relation-tips: Is cheating a choice?
Question: A lot of people feel monogamy isn’t natural. If we weren’t created to be with one person physically, is cheating really a choice? Terry: Yes it’s definitely a choice. Making the decision to violate a relationship is always a conscious decision and is always wrong. There are several reasons why a person might choose…
Relation-tips: Were Ayesha Curry’s comments disrespectful to her husband?
Ayesha Curry said she was insecure because her husband, NBA franchise player Steph Curry, has countless groupies throwing themselves at her while she gets zero male attention. Do you think her husband should’ve been upset by her admission? Terry: Yes, I think Steph has every right to be upset. From his perspective, he has…
Relation-tips: What if my spouse’s unexpected weight gain is a turn-off?
By Christal Jordan | May 3, 2019 | 0
Question: My husband and I have been married for six years, and I’ve noticed he has begun gaining weight. I was very attracted to him when we were dating mainly because I found him so attractive. He has a thin build naturally, so all the weight is going into his stomach. I’ve tried to mention…
Relation-tips: How do you know when it’s time to let a relationship go?
By Christal Jordan | April 5, 2019 | 0
How do you know if a relationship is worth staying in? Terry: There is no specific response to this question because the response will vary based on an individual’s relationship goals. When considering a breakup, I think it’s important to do some introspective reflecting to try and pinpoint the actual source of the conflicts [and]…
Relation-tips from his and her perspectives: Is a threesome a bad idea?
By Christal Jordan | March 2, 2019 | 0
Question: My fiancé and I have been together for three years, and he has mentioned wanting to have a threesome from time to time. Lately he has been mentioning it more and more and even asked me if I would consider doing it for his birthday, which is coming up soon. I didn’t realize he…
Relation-tips from his and her perspectives
By Christal Jordan | February 21, 2019 | 0
Dear Terry and Christal, I’ve been with my lady a few years now. When we first met and started dating, our sex life was exciting and consistent, but now that we are in a committed relationship, it’s not. I feel like she tricked me into a relationship. I have never cheated or anything, but I’m…
Why your man isn’t excited about Valentine’s Day and how to change his mind
Valentine’s Day is known for setting the tone in a relationship and nine times out of ten, the expectations on both sides are very different. Stores are packed with roses, stuffed animals and candy, while jewelry stores are running television ads non-stop. All this works to get women excited and unfortunately, often does the opposite…
v: What She Said: Black women speak out on books and business panel
“What She Said” features a panel of entrepreneurial women who have all authored a book or own a business: Tamika Newhouse, founder and CEO of Delphine Publications; Jae Nash, radio personality and author; Marie Denee, celebrity blogger; and Christal Jordan, celebrity publicist and author.
Celeb hairstylist sparks beauty entrepreneurship movement starting with brunch
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So, 2018 has proven to be the year of the woman and Women’s History Month has taken the focus to an even higher level. African American female entrepreneurs are springing up everywhere, especially in cities like Atlanta, DC and Chicago. Atlanta celebrity stylist Kelz Wallace, owner of the Hair Rock Café in Atlanta, had a vision…
Tony Gaskins talks #blacklove and finding happiness at a Gathering of Champions
Best-selling author and speaker Tony Gaskins has a different perspective on Black-on-Black love. While many have all but abandoned the idea of monogamy or marriage, Gaskins is one of the few that encourages men and women to aspire to something greater. April Love wanted a different voice for her upcoming “Real Love Matter” edition of…
For the love of that Q score, publicists would sell their soul
They say the Internet was the death of the mega superstar and without being facetious I believe there is truth to that. If the internet wounded the superstar, then social media undoubtedly snuffed out the very definition, and now we are an industry filled with popular people for very little reason outside of visual stimulation.…
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Home > School Life > School Council
School Council is a representative group of pupils who have been proposed and elected by their peers to represent their views and raise issues with Senior Leaders, staff and Governors of our school. A School Council can also propose and take forward initiatives and projects on behalf of their peers. The objective of our School Council is support all their peers. Student councillors represent the voice of pupils of our school.
The role of a School Councillor is to:
Attend regular meetings with other School Councillors
Take time to listen to their peers ideas and suggestions and communicate these views to the council.
Be responsible for carrying out ideas and feedback to your peers what has been discussed during council meetings and take action where needed.
Play an active role in making the school a better place.
Encourage peers to be aware of their school environment and to respect and care for it.
Help to organise events throughout the year.
Set a good example by wearing full school uniform, good behaviour and being a good representative for the school.
Senior School Council members will be responsible for specific tasks:
School Council Chairperson
School Council Secretary
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Review of Injustice: Gods Among Us for Xbox 360
Even Superman and Batman combined can’t make Injustice be the game that all the hype was advertising. Yes, Gods Among Us is a good fighter with lots of depth, but it’s just not the masterpiece we were led to believe it would be.
Injustice is the fanfiction story of DC’s biggest superheroes and villains fighting alongside and against each other in a series of unfeasible and completely asinine battles that somehow culminate in stopping an evil Superman from oppressing his universe. If you think you’ve heard this all on tumblr already, that’s because you probably have.
Needless to say, the plot of Injustice is downright ludicrous. This is all in service of providing a story mode, and while ultimately unnecessary, it’s a nice addition to the overall package that is Gods Among Us and provides an amusing, albiet forgettable, assortment of minigames, battles and cheesy dialogue. Props to Netherrealm Studios for at least managing to make a cohesive plot with such a large assortment of characters.
Past the story mode, there are quite a few single player components to keep you busy before you go online. Training mode, S.T.A.R Lab missions and well over a dozen battle modes provide a lot to do when you’re in the mood to destroy AI opponents. These battle modes range from classic arcade fun to abstract modes that add twists, modifiers and handicaps onto your gameplay. While all of them provide interesting spins and were fun once or twice just for the kicks, classic was still my favorite at the end of the day and was the mode I kept returning to, as it allowed for the most substantial fighting experience that Injustice has to offer. The S.T.A.R Lab missions are another area of Injustice worth mentioning. I’m betting a lot of effort went into making the 200+ missions offered, but the problem is that they’re just not very interesting. They add twists onto the combat and throw in minigames every now and again, but none of it feels fleshed out enough to really get into, unlike the core fighting modes.
Once things go online, Injustice becomes a playground for testing out the cheapest battle tactics imaginable. That, coupled with the lag that is literally unavoidable in online fighters, leads to a run of the mill online experience. I can say I experienced lag so serious the match ended once every five or so matches, and that’s not a very good ratio for a twitch reflex online fighter. If you do get into a match without lag, it can be pretty fun and provide a lot of tense fun, as long as you’re versing players that aren’t Shazam or Deathstroke. These two characters can spam their most basic attacks to the point where you might as well go get a drink and come back once the match is over. It’s that bad.
Online hosts the basic 1v1 matches, but also offers KOTH and Survivor modes. It’s all well and dandy in the name of variety, and spectator mode makes all of this even better when in crowded lobbies. The online fighting scene is a good one in Injustice, with the only real issues to look out for being some serious lag and cheap characters.
Completely unrelated to anything else here, I just want to add that Batman fans have a LOT to love in this game. There’s a total of six Batman characters and three maps dedicated to the Dark Knight, so as to appease the hordes of Batman fans. Even better, Netherrealm Studios directly references Batman: AA and AC, with one map having stage transitions that incorporate a plethora of Rocksteady-stylized Batman villains.
-Solid fighter with lots of depth, statistics and combo opportunities; insane move lists that cater to each character individually
-A solid roster filled with some of DC’s best characters
-Stage transitions and interactive objects are a great twist on what are otherwise pretty backdrops
-The supermoves are dumb, explosive and messy fun
-NO DEDICATED BLOCK BUTTON?!
-360 controller is just too damn clunky to pull off a lot of the combos in Injustice, I feel there could’ve been some additional catering to the controller inputs
-Story lacks an interesting narrative with depth to justify its inclusion in the game
-Online lag is a pretty big nuisance
-Graphics are good… by 2006 standards; downright appalling visuals
-Batman haters (or Superman fanboys) should just avoid this game
I wish I could say I loved Injustice: Gods Among Us, but I really didn’t. The demos I experienced at NYCC (and the downloadable public demos) highlighted the best parts of the game by far, and while they’re still present in the core fighting, all of the silliness surrounding said fighting such as the S.T.A.R missions and messy story mode just stop anything from sitting well after a play session. Couple that with the atrocious graphics that are almost painful to look at, and this is a game for hardcore fighters and DC fans only. There is a lot to love in Gods Among Us, but not enough to warrant a purchase outside of the two previously mentioned demographics.
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ACLU Demands Kenosha Officials Resign Following the Shooting of Jacob Blake
Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=53236"><span class="small">Marty Johnson, The Hill</span></a>
Johnson writes: "The American Civil Liberties Union has called for the ousting of three Kenosha, Wisconsin, officials following the response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake and the killing of two protesters."
Police Chief Dan Miskinis speaks at a news conference on August 26, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (photo: Brandon Bell/Getty)
ALSO SEE: Kenosha Police Chief Blames Protesters for Their Own Deaths,
Defends Vigilante Groups
By Marty Johnson, The Hill
he American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has called for the ousting of three Kenosha, Wis., officials following the response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake and the killing of two protesters.
The influential activist organization said in a statement on Thursday that it wants Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis, Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth and Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian to resign.
“The ACLU strongly condemns Sheriff Beth and Police Chief Miskinis’ response to both the attempted murder of Jacob Blake and the protests demanding justice for him. Their actions uphold and defend white supremacy, while demonizing people who were murdered for exercising their first amendment rights and speaking out against police violence.” said Chris Ott, executive director of the ACLU's Wisconsin branch. “The only way to rectify these actions is for both Sheriff Beth and Police Chief Daniel Miskinis to immediately tender their resignations.”
Miskinis, Beth and Antaramian led a press conference Wednesday afternoon that lacked new, definitive facts about the shooting of Blake and the protesters.
But at one point, Miskinis suggested that the fatal shooting of the two protesters, and a third person who was injured, was the fault of people who were on the streets of Kenosha past the city's recently imposed 7 p.m. curfew.
Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Antioch, Ill., was charged earlier on Wednesday in connection to the shooting on Tuesday.
"Everybody involved was out after the curfew," Miskinis said. "I'm not [going to] make a great deal of it but the point is — the curfew's in place to protect. Had persons not been out involved in violation of that, perhaps the situation that unfolded would not have happened."
He added: "This is not a police action. This is not the action, I believe, of those who set out to do protests. It is the persons who were involved after the legal time, involved in illegal activity, that brought violence to this community."
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) also revealed on Wednesday that the officer who shot Blake, 29, was Rusten Sheskey, a seven-year veteran of the Kenosha Police Department.
Blake was seriously wounded Sunday afternoon when Sheskey shot him seven times in the back at point-blank range while responding to a reported domestic incident.
Graphic cellphone footage showed Blake walking away from a pair of police officers toward his car. As he attempted to get in his car — where his three children were — an officer could be seen pulling Blake back by his shirt before firing off several rounds.
Witnesses have said that Blake was not part of the domestic incident but was trying to break it up when police arrived.
Protests have rocked Kenosha since Blake was shot. Property damage has been reported at local businesses, prompting Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) to mobilize the state's National Guard.
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CSU study finds clues to aging in ‘junk’ DNA
By Hannah Halusker
Fluorescence microscopy images of the Charlie5 transcript in young versus old human skin cells. Credit: Aging Cell / doi: 10.1111/acel.13167
For decades, greater than 60% of the human genome was believed to be “junk DNA” that served little or no purpose in the course of human development. Recent research by Colorado State University is challenging this notion to show that junk DNA might be important after all.
A new study, published on June 5 in Aging Cell, found that a portion of noncoding genetic material, called repetitive element transcripts, might be an important biomarker of the aging process.
Tom LaRocca, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science and faculty member in the Columbine Heath Systems Center for Healthy Aging at CSU, led the study to investigate a growing body of evidence that repetitive elements — transposons and other sequences that occur in multiple copies in the human genome — may become active over time as we age.
LaRocca, graduate student Alyssa Cavalier, and postdoctoral researcher Devin Wahl centered specifically on RNA transcripts, molecules that are transcribed from the DNA of repetitive elements, to test whether they increase in number with age.
“The biomarker angle is important here,” LaRocca said. “Ten to 20 years from now, we might be able to take samples or certain measurements from people in the doctor’s office and get some insight into what’s going on with them biologically, so that we can know how to best treat them and maximize their healthspan. If these repetitive element RNAs are a biomarker of aging, then maybe someday you can get a measurement like this done to see how your repetitive elements are being expressed. Are there too many of them? Is that a problem?”
Mapping RNA
To carry out the study, the researchers began by analyzing an existing RNA sequencing dataset gathered from skin cells in healthy human subjects aged 1-94 years old. Just as the Human Genome Project of the 1990s sought to sequence and map the approximately 20,500 genes in human DNA, RNA sequencing can provide a map of the entire transcriptome in the cells under study. From that analysis, which was all computational, the researchers found that transcripts from most major types of repetitive elements were increased in older subjects.
In a second wave of study, the researchers verified their initial findings by performing their own lab analyses on skin cells from a biobank. Using fluorescent microscopy, the researchers tagged the transcript of a specific transposon, Charlie5, to see how it fluctuates with the age of cells: the brighter the tag appears under the microscope, the more Charlie5 transcript is detectable.
As hypothesized, skin cells from older adults revealed a marked accumulation of Charlie5 transcript compared to cells from younger individuals, showing that repetitive element RNAs appear to accumulate with age.
While an important observation, the grander outcome of this study is that repetitive RNA transcripts might be linked with biological age, or the health of a person’s cells, as opposed to chronological age in years.
Tom Larocca
“If you find something that changes progressively with aging, that finding alone is not necessarily interesting, because lots of things increase or decrease with age. What you really want to find is something that reflects biological aging,” LaRocca said. “For example, let’s say you’re a smoker and you’re under a lot of chronic stress. Then, perhaps even if you’re only 45, your biological age — the health of your cells — could actually be 60 or 65. We think that repetitive element transcripts could be a marker of this.”
Link to aging
To study biological age, Cavalier performed an analysis that compared sun-exposed skin cells to skin cells that had not been exposed to sunlight — the theory being that the more damaging UV rays a skin cell is exposed to, the older the cell will be biologically. Consistent with her hypothesis, Cavalier noted higher levels of repetitive element RNAs in the sun-exposed cells.
A link between repetitive element transcripts and biological age was further confirmed by studying skin cells from patients with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), a premature aging syndrome, and by studying an RNA-sequencing dataset from the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.
Why might repetitive element transcripts increase with age? The researchers suspect that chromatin — the complex of DNA and protein in cells that typically represses repetitive elements from being expressed — might become disrupted, allowing for the transcription of repetitive elements.
All in all, for a portion of the genome that scientists used to ignore, evidence is growing that noncoding RNAs and repetitive elements play vital roles in regulating the rest of the human genome, and in this case, as potentially targetable biomarkers of aging.
“This is a really big chunk of the genome that, for the longest time, no one really knew what it did, so they just kind of assumed it was junk. But we’re finding more and more that these noncoding regions might not only be doing something, but they might have actual health implications,” Cavalier said.
Future studies in LaRocca’s Healthspan Biology Lab will compare chromatin structure in people who exercise routinely with those who don’t to understand how exercise impacts repetitive element levels. Other studies will investigate the possibility of using a drug to inhibit repetitive element RNAs from being transcribed.
The study was supported by the National Institute on Aging.
College of Health and Human SciencesColumbine Health Systems Center for Healthy AgingDepartment of Health and Exercise ScienceOffice of Vice President for Research
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Something Very Big
The search for the story of Lancaster B for Baker (and other things)
467 Postblog: List of all sources used
October 28, 2014 October 9, 2014 ~ Adam Purcell ~ 4 Comments
The internet is full of tools to make the life of a Bomber Command researcher easier. There are forums to connect like-minded folk from across the globe. There is the National Archives of Australia website to view digital copies of original personnel and casualty files (among many many thousands of others). And there is Google Earth, which has for me proven invaluable in giving some sort of an appreciation of the geographical setting of the events I’m investigating from the other side of the world.
I made heavy use of the program while I was researching and writing my 467 Postblog series over the last couple of years. I pulled the approximate routes flown by the bomber streams on various operations from either logbooks or the Night Raid Reports, then stuck those ubiquitous virtual yellow pins into the map. Then I could plot the locations of casualties, nightfighter attacks or other interesting events in relation to the nominal track flown by the bombers. I could even, in some cases, locate the exact aiming point and trace the unfolding bombing operation in close detail.
As an example, take the Tours raid of 10 April 1944 (on which the crew of B for Baker did not take part). I wanted to find potential reasons for why the second wave of the attack was not as accurate as the first had been. I started with the Night Raid Report[1], which says that “the first red spot fires fell near the roundhouse and the bottleneck between the two yards”.
Off to Google Earth I went, where it was easy to find railway yards at Tours with a bottleneck between them and (though this image is quite low-resolution) a roundhouse visible just under the ’o’ in ‘Approx’. Excellent, I thought, and inserted a fire icon.
What next? “The Master Bomber therefore ordered crews to bomb 500 yards to the E”, continued the Night Raid Report. So I picked an appropriate icon (a bullseye), and placed it some 500 yards east of the spot fire icon. It’s pretty close to the bottleneck – smash that and the entire marshalling yard complex will struggle to function effectively. So things are beginning to make sense.
The bombers approached the target roughly along the line from bottom right to the target pin (which is probably slightly displaced from the actual aiming point because of limits in the resolution of the coordinate system used by the aircrews). This image has been rotated slightly towards the east to fit the text in comfortably so the line of approach should actually be only slightly north of west.
While most crews were carrying high explosives only, the 463 and 467 Squadron Operational Record Books reveal that a number of crews also dropped incendiaries, the fires from which caused a lot of smoke to rise over the target. The ground wind, according to Wing Commander Willie Tait’s report on the 467 Squadron ORB, was coming from the west. One look at the target area on Google Earth reveals that the smoke would have been blown back along the path of the second wave of approaching bombers. It’s easy to see why the second wave had trouble identifying the target and thus, one reason for why their attack was not as accurate as the first had been.
This analysis came from a careful study of the data found in the Night Raid Reports and the 463 and 467 Squadrons Operational Record Books, combined with a Google Earth satellite view of the target area as it was in 2010. Perhaps a map of the area may have afforded a similar conclusion but it’s unlikely that the detail of the bottleneck and the roundhouse, which stick out clearly on the satellite photo, would have been on a map. I used a similar technique throughout the Postblog series, including tracing Phil Smith’s evasion as he walked south through France – I could even pinpoint the farmhouse where he spent a couple of nights in Orchies two days after his aeroplane crashed.
I visited the UK in 2009 on what was essentially a pilgrimage around various sites associated with the crew of B for Baker and with Bomber Command in general. However much they have changed in the intervening decades, there is nothing quite like seeing first-hand places I had, to that point, only read about in logbooks and diaries. But, when trying to trace these events from the other side of the world, if you can’t be there in person Google Earth comes closest for giving an impression of how everything fitted together.
[1] No. 576 – see here for full citation
A modern-day ‘Escape from Colditz’
October 19, 2014 October 19, 2014 ~ Adam Purcell ~ Leave a comment
Colditz Castle, in Saxony in Germany, is of course most famous for housing Oflag IV-C, the supposedly escape-proof prisoner of war camp during WWII. The prisoners held there all had a demonstrated history of escaping from their previous camps and so describing their new home as escape-proof surely had the same effect as would waving a red rag at a bull. Consequently the prisoners had in place significant secret ‘escapist’ infrastructure and numerous attempts were made to abscond – some 30 of them successful.
Playing an important part in that escaping effort was an unassuming Australian man named Jack Millett, a Lieutenant of the 2/11 Battallion who had a knack for drawing maps. His talent was considered so valuable that the Escape Committee wouldn’t let him escape himself. I was alerted to his story in an article by Tony Wright in yesterday’s The Age newspaper here in Melbourne.
Millett’s wartime adventures inspired another Australian man, 51-year-old Mike Druce, to attempt a modern-day walk from Colditz to Switzerland, retracing as much as possible one of the routes used by escaping prisoners. He walked more than 600km over 17 days in September and October this year, and last Tuesday crossed the Swiss border at Ramsen, just as escapers Airey Neave and Pat Reid did, aided by Jack Millett’s maps, some seven decades ago. Mike had a copy of one of the maps with him as well on his journey.
Mike wanted to use the walk to raise funds for the Fred Hollows Foundation, a non-profit aid organization based in Australia that focuses on treating and preventing blindness and other vision problems, particularly in less-advantaged parts of Australia and the world. He wanted to raise $15,000 – enough money to save the sight of one person per kilometre that he walked.
At the time of writing he has just cracked $10,000 (up $2000ish since Wright’s article was published yesterday).
Mike’s just finished an inspiring walk. The physical challenge was not insignificant. The Fred Hollows Foundation is a very worthy cause. And, by walking across Germany unassisted he has experienced, at least in a limited way, some of the difficulties that faced wartime escapees, alone in a strange and hostile land, and ensured that their exploits are not forgotten. At least the locals were friendlier this time.
Well worth your support, if you can spare a few bob. You can donate to Mike’s cause through his page at Everyday Hero, and read the blog he wrote while he was on the road here.
Visiting Hux
October 16, 2014 April 9, 2016 ~ Adam Purcell ~ 1 Comment
Don Huxtable has featured on this blog before. A Lancaster pilot, he remains one of the living legends of 463 Squadron. He and his crew flew 32 operations between between September 1944 and April 1945, earning Hux a Distinguished Flying Cross in the process.
He has been a little in the wars in the last few months with a recent extended stay in various hospitals and rehabilitation centres. I made a mid-week dash to Sydney a couple of weeks ago and, with the prospect of a few hours to spare before my flight home, decided to see if I could arrange a visit.
The first step was to find out where he actually was. And when I rang his daughter a week before my trip I was most pleased to discover that Hux had returned home again. So on an unassuming Thursday morning I caught a train to Hornsby, on Sydney’s upper North Shore, and walked up the hill from the station to a simple weatherboard house on a quiet tree-lined street.
The importance of the ‘crew’ is one of the central themes of the Bomber Command experience, and in Hux’s case it was no different. In the words of Peta Fitzgerald, grand-daughter of Hux’s mid-upper gunner Brian Fallon[1], they had “[flown] together, lived together, drank together, prayed together, and on more than a few occasions saved each other’s lives… they became as close as brothers.”
In the years immediately following their return from war, the four members of Hux’s crew who were from Sydney stayed together as they settled back into normal life. They built four houses on adjacent blocks in the same street. Hux’s own house was the second to be finished. “We built that one first,” he told me, pointing through a window towards next door. Well, not that one, he corrected. “We built the one that used to be there!” And he raised the blind to reveal the solid brick wall of a huge McMansion now pressing up against his fence. Today, Hux is the only one of the four who is still there. The rest have all died.
When I first arrived Hux had just begun makinga simple salad for lunch, but after pondering it for all of, oh I don’t know, two and a half seconds, he suggested we instead went to “the Club” for lunch. I readily agreed.
I thought about it as we waited for the taxi. I’d seen the Hornsby RSL Club as I walked up the street from the station. Hux has been involved with the club for a very, very long time. In fact, the last time I spoke to him on the phone, when he was still in hospital and it appeared likely that he would need to move into full-time care, his main comment about it was that he did not mind whatever facility he ended up in if “at least I can still get to the club!” Knowing how special the place is for him I realised the honour implicit in an invitation to lunch there with him.
After a stimulating conversation about the quality or otherwise of the refereeing in the previous weekend’s rugby league semi-finals, the taxi driver dropped us off at the downstairs entrance. ‘When I first came here,” Hux told me, “the club was in a little tin shed about there,” pointing to what is now a large car park. “Look at it now!” It soon became clear just how well-known Hux is at the club. Every corner we turned was someone who said a cheery “morning, Mr Huxtable!” as we went past.
I was given the grand tour, then we ended up in the bistro for a classic RSL lunch: simple, cheap and lots of it. I drank beer; Hux had his usual scotch and soda. We chatted about all sorts of things: Hornsby, Hux’s post-war career in the meat trade, the recent tour of England by the Canadian Lancaster, the perils of shift work, life in Melbourne, the future of Bomber Command commemoration in Australia… I even found time for a quick portrait:
And on the way out we made a short detour. As if anyone needed any more proof of the importance of Hornsby RSL to Hux, or of his importance to them, there’s a room named after him:.
Don Huxtable outside the roon named for him, Hornsby RSL, October 2014
“I thought they only named rooms after people when they died,” he said gruffly, though even as he said it I’m sure I could detect a touch of quiet pride in his voice.
We shuffled out into the Sydney spring sunshine, and Hux bade me farewell. When I looked back, I saw the old pilot waiting at the street corner for the lights to change. Slightly stooped as he leant on his walking stick, he still towered over the rest of the crowd.
(c) 2014 Adam Purcell
[1] Fitzgerald was writing in the preface to Brian’s posthumously-published memoirs, Press On Regardless: Memories of Bomber Command, which she edited. Privately published.
Event: Ladies Day Lunch with 463-467 Squadrons Association in Sydney, 16 November 2014
October 6, 2014 ~ Adam Purcell ~ Leave a comment
Details have now been released for this year’s Ladies’ Day Luncheon, held by the 463-467 RAAF Lancaster Squadrons Association (NSW Branch) in Sydney:
12:00pm for 12:30pm
Killara Golf Club, Pacific Highway, Killara
$55pp covers three-course meal with wine/beer/soft drink
Speaking will be Bill Purdy, a 463 Sqn skipper who travelled to France in June as part of the official Australian Delegation to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
For more info, or to book, please contact David Southwell at PO Box 692, Pymble Business Centre, NSW 2073 or david(at)villageconcierge(dot)net.
You can read my post about the 2013 event here.
When I was young my father showed me a small blue felt-covered notebook. It was the flying logbook of my great uncle Jack, a Lancaster navigator in WWII. Jack's crew was made up of seven young men, all from vastly different backgrounds. They were normal, everyday lads caught up in extraordinary circumstances. This blog charts my search for their story and where it is leading me.
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Investors United School of Real Estate Investingis a for-profit educational institution and membership association based out ofBaltimore, Maryland, USA. The school offers on-campus and online training onreal estate investing, and provides a permanent structure and support system for those people who wish to continue using the organizations facilities, advisors, and resources after they have completed their training.
Founded in 19801by real estate entrepreneur and auctioneerCharles Parrish,Investors United has expanded its operations from a single classroom with a local focus, to an institution with services offered nationally.
The schools literature states that it is Americas oldest school dedicated to teaching the techniques of proper real estate investing. This assertion has been upheld by other organizations in the industry and by publications researching the school.2In addition to its corporate name, Investors United also holds several registered trademarks including its motto: You will succeed – Guaranteed, and slogan Earn while you learn.
In the early 1970s, Charles Parrish had established himself as areal estate investorinMaryland. By forming partnerships with otherreal estatepractitioners, he created several small, informal real estate investment groups that were connected to each other primarily through him. Noticing a lack of permanent networking outlet for people interested in real estate investment, Charles Parrish established the Maryland Real Estate Investors Association (MDREIA).
During meetings of the MDREIA, veteran real estate developers found themselves regularly answering questions from newinvestorsand home buyers interested in getting the best value from the purchase or sale of their real estate. Parrish recognized the public interest in the knowledge that he and his colleagues had accumulated, so he began organizing classes that he believed would apply broadly to real estate buyers and sellers, whether they were single family homeowners or high-rise developers.3
In 1980, Investors United began as a single-classroom consulting program and investment group led by Charles Parrish. Invited personally by Parrish, the inaugural members were all working real estate investors who were interested in learning new techniques and teaching them to others to enhance the overall capabilities of the group. Since that time, the school has expanded and updated its courses to cover trends and methods that have evolved since its founding.4
In 1998,Ian Parrishbecame President of Investors United School of Real Estate Investing and began an initiative to increase the schools reach and capabilities. In 2001,the school acquired the former headquarters of the Madison & Bradford Bank in Baltimore, MD; and all of Investors Uniteds classrooms and administrative offices were moved to the 31,000 square foot facility. To accommodate the schools expansion, all classrooms and conference rooms were upgraded to accommodate online interactivity. The move also allowed for the addition of meeting suites, a multi-media computer lab, and a real estate library.5
Investors Uniteds instructional program is based on theMontessori methodand philosophy of education, which values self-paced learning and real-world engagement. The school offers online courses to prepare students with a foundation of real estate knowledge which is further developed byfor-profitreal estate investing activities under the guidance of its instructors. On its website, the school describes this learning method by its motto: Earn while you learn.
Education on real estateinvestmenthas traditionally been fractured into courses on single topics (e.g. lease options, flipping etc.). By contrast, Investors United curriculum of 12 courses represent what its president, Ian Parrish, calls the full anatomy of real estate investing. Because the various areas of real estate investment are interrelated, the school encourages students to become familiar with each of them. All of the schools courses and instructional materials are available online, so that each student can learn at their own pace.6
Ongoing personal support is provided to students weekly in three-hour workshops held in the schools main classroom and broadcast interactively to online students.Workshopsare hosted by instructors and attended by students of diverse business experience, financial status, and social backgrounds, making for a heterogeneous learning environment which is intended by the school to give students the opportunity to learn from the experiences of other members, and also to stimulate networking, partnerships, and financial achievement in the business of real estate investment3
Whereas traditional realty training courses focus on licensure as their curricular goal, the stated goal of the Investors United program is for its students to earn money investing in real estate during their training.After completion of the 12-month training program, graduates become full-fledged Investors United members, which entitles them to continued access to on-campus and online resources including real estate investment courses and workshops, real estate reference material, contracts and form templates, and access to the schools network of members and instructors. Members also provided with a subscription toIURealist, the schools proprietary online real estate database and software program. The software is provided to members by the school at no charge and available to non-members as a paid subscription service.7
The people who make up Investors Uniteds membership body are socio-economically diverse, and include business owners, military and law enforcement, PhDs, everyday wage earners, and even public figures.Notwithstanding, Investors United maintains a comparatively low new student enrollment rate. Since its inception, the school has averaged fewer than 200 new students per year. However, after the initial year-long training, membership longevity in Investors United is quite high; the number of members in the institution currently outstrips the student population (or members in training as the school calls them) by a ratio of over 5 to 1.
In 2001, in response to Ian Parrishs interest in environmentally efficient building methods, Investors United began addingGreen Buildingtechniques into its curriculum. Several studies have shown that structures renovated using sustainable design methods decrease their environmental impact on the surrounding community and increase both their resale and rental values. Parrish stated in a 2008 message to his members that Adopting these techniques now wont just help us avoid problems later. Theyll save on materials, on water, on fuel, and on money. As investors, we call that a win-win.8
Distance learning is offered by the school using Sonic Foundrys Mediasite system9that allows for interactive real-time communication with online instructors. The school archives classes on its server for up to 3 years, allowing Student Members to review classes and view previous versions of current and upcoming courses. The Mediasite software is activated through a portal using theMoodleopen-sourceLearning Management System(LMS).
In 2010, Investors United entered into an agreement withCoreLogic, the custodian ofFirst American CorporationsU.S. database of properties, to license a software system that would allow members to gather property, neighborhood, and owner information. First American, through Corelogic, collects and distributes property ownership, geographic, and demographic information used by investors, capital markets, and government agencies. The resulting Web site, ,10was then made available to IU members at no charge, and to non-members as a paid subscription service.
The organization maintains a database of forms and reference materials on its servers for use by its members. In 2009, the schools directors began reviewing and summarizing proposed state and federal property legislation. Each year, Investors United sends those summaries directly to its members, and makes them available to any interested party via the schools Web site.
In early 2011, the schools directors chose to convert student texts and instructional materials to an exclusively electronic format. For on-campus students, all such materials are currently being stored on anAmazon Kindle, which is given to new Student Members upon admission.
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Investors United was featured in Marylands financial newspaper of record in the article, With Eyes Wide Open, Students Learn the Investors United Way
Columnist Kathleen Johnston-Jarboe featured Investors United members in her article Fleet Street Outperforms Wall Street, which dealt with issues surrounding the Baltimore City Tax Sale and its value for investors.
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Daniel Ricciardo credited for Renault’s ‘remarkable’ transformation
Daniel Ricciardo’s time with Renault is over but the Aussie F1 star has delivered in spades during his time with the team.
A horror first year was followed by a massive leap forward for Renault, and despite finishing fifth in the constructors’ championship in 2020 yet again, the team has progressed.
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After a season where Ricciardo’s 119-point tally personally outpointed Renault’s entire 2019 haul of 91 points, the 31-year-old is heading to McLaren, who wrapped up third place in the constructors’ standings.
Ricciardo did most of the heavy lifting for Renault in 2020, nearly doubling teammate Esteban Ocon’s points, but signed with McLaren for 2021 after the F1 season was delayed due to COVID-19.
Two podiums, 14 top-10 finishes and 11 consecutive point scoring races to finish the season had Ricciardo thrilled after the season finale in Abu Dhabi.
He also added another fastest lap of the season by pipping former Red Bull comrade Max Verstappen at the death, after Renault hadn’t won a fastest lap since Montreal in 2010.
“I was pretty stoked with the year in general, (it) was really nice, it was really strong,” Ricciardo said on Sky Sports.
“The race with hard (tyres) worked, went really long and that really set it up. That was an exceptionally strong stint I felt and then we put the medium (tyres) on and we were kind of in no man’s land, I felt McLaren were definitely too far in front. At the very end, we pushed for fastest lap so nice little send off.”
It’s a huge turnaround for Ricciardo.
Halfway though his Renault experience, it appeared as though the move from Red Bull to the midfield was a miscalculation from the Aussie star as he struggled in 2019.
Ricciardo scored just 54 points and sat in ninth after a nightmarish first season with the French outfit.
The Aussie played off the performances as building towards the 2020 season and targeting podiums ending a nine-year wait for the team dating back to the 2011 Malaysian Grand Prix.
Ricciardo has arguably only enhanced his reputation on the grid, tallying 119 points and finishing fifth overall, only knocked out of fourth by Sergio Perez’s win in the Sakhir Grand Prix last week.
Daniel Ricciardo did a lot of the heavy lifting for Renault in 2020.Source:Getty Images
Renault team principal Cyril Abiteboul was singing the Aussie’s praises with his two-year stint making a real impact on the program.
“He’s given a lot,” Abiteboul said in Abu Dhabi. “What he’s given first and foremost as a driver, he’s been remarkable, in particular this year.
“I think there is no doubt about the progression of the team this year. It’s very much a credit to Daniel who’s been clearly leading the charge of the team and behind him a group of people and a group of mechanics and engineers who are doing a remarkable job on track.
“Off-track, obviously we know Daniel is a great ambassador, is a team leader. He has clearly been instrumental to the changes that we’ve done last year when we had altogether a disappointing season.
“So, I’ll say that frankly when he joined we knew that it would take a bit of time, that he was not coming into a turnkey organisation. I think I remember those exact words said to Daniel back in the first meeting back in 2018.
“It was not a turnkey organisation but he made an impact and we are so different today to what we were two years and a half ago when we decided to form this partnership.
“So, in that respect, frankly, it has delivered. It has delivered positively and the irony in all of this is that I believe we are a much stronger team now and he will have to race a much stronger team next year.
“We will be missing (Ricciardo) but … we’re also glad to see him in a great team and we look forward to an exciting battle against McLaren and Daniel next year.”
We’ve missed Daniel Ricciardo’s smile in 2020.Source:FOX SPORTS
Before the race in Abu Dhabi began, Ricciardo and his team had a nice moment over the team radio, speaking to the affection with which the Aussie is held.
“Whatever happens today, thank you for everything,” his engineer said. “We’ve got one more dance, final dance.”
“Yep, thank you boys, 55 laps, everything we got,” Ricciardo responded.
And he did, going from 11th to seventh and picking up the fastest lap point from race winner Verstappen.
Joining McLaren next season, Ricciardo will again work with a young driver in Lando Norris and have another chance to show his leadership abilities as a veteran on the grid.
Ricciardo said he was happy with the finish in Abu Dhabi, adding: “The bonus is that I walk into a team that now got third so it’s a big day for them.”
“It’s a team that showed so much promise last year and they backed it up and some this year,” Ricciardo added on Sky Sports. “Getting fourth last year was a statement and then they got up to third this year so I think it’s a team with a lot of momentum.
“I’m not going to start any time soon, I just want a few weeks off and switch Formula One off for a little bit but I’m hanging out to get started mid-January some time.”
McLaren boss Zak Brown is looking forward to working with his new recruit.
“I think we have the most exciting driver line up in Formula One next year,” Brown said. “Both on track and off track. Lando’s really come into his own this year. Last year was a great rookie year and he's been more aggressive this year.
“And then Daniel’s a seven-time winner so I think there’ll be a good relationship there on and off the track.”
Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris are going to make one hell of a double act.Source:FOX SPORTS
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Blackhawks' Kirby Dach injured in Canada’s exhibition win
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -- Chicago Blackhawks forward Kirby Dach left Canada's 1-0 exhibition victory over Russia in the third period Wednesday night at the world junior tournament after injuring his right wrist.
Dach was injured on what seemed like a harmless bodycheck in the neutral zone. After the hit, the captain pulled off his glove, skated off the ice and went directly to the locker-room area.
Canadian coach Andre Tourigny did not have details on Dach's injury after the game. He said an update would be provided once X-ray results were available.
The third overall pick last year, Dach had eight goals and 15 assists in 64 games last season for Chicago.
Canada is set to open the tournament Saturday against Germany.
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LeBron James reflects on ring night without Kobe Bryant there
Erik García Gundersen
The Los Angeles Lakers championship ring ceremony was a celebration but also a little empty. Of course, it was not only because thousands of fans were not in the arena to cheer, but they were also not there to once again mourning the loss of a legend, Kobe Bryant, a loss inextricably linked to their franchise in 2020, as long as their championship. LeBron James knows what he was missing and shared those feelings with Lakers fans after Tuesday’s ring night.
James shared an art piece created by a fan on Instagram featuring Kobe Bryant in a suit next to LeBron getting his ring, something that spoke to LeBron a great deal enough to share and credit the artist, Jeff Cole.
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Lakers vice president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka was Bryant’s agent and also one of Bryant’s closest friends. Between Bryant’s past on the Lakers, his friendship with Pelinka, and the one with James that got stronger after James joined the Lakers, the Lakers honoring Kobe Bryant will go beyond just the year in which they lost him.
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The Los Angeles Rams won't have leading receiver Cooper Kupp available for their NFC divisional playoff game against the top-seeded Green Bay Packers. Kupp headlines the Rams' list of inactive players for Saturday's game. Kupp had 92 catches for 974 yards in the regular season to lead the Rams in both categories, and three of his receptions went for touchdowns.
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Multiple Sixers expected to miss some time due to contact tracing
Ky Carlin
The Philadelphia 76ers are currently in a tough situation as they are still in New York following their loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday. That is due to the fact that Seth Curry tested positive for the novel coronavirus and the team is undergoing health and safety protocols.
Of course, this means that there will be some contact tracing being done along with tests for the entire team. The Sixers do have a game coming up against the Denver Nuggets back in Philadelphia Saturday afternoon and the expectation is that multiple players will miss time due to the tracing.
The 76ers are expected to have multiple players miss time due to contact tracing and are still awaiting results of today’s coronavirus testing, sources tell ESPN. Those players were in close contact with Seth Curry, who sources say returned a positive test on Thursday.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 8, 2021
One of those players will most likely be Joel Embiid who sat down next to Curry on the bench during the game before he left the arena and anybody knew he tested positive. Embiid has a three-month-old son that he would like to keep safe during this time, so he will isolate himself from his family until he knows he is OK.
Excuse the blurry screenshots here, but looking back through the first quarter footage tonight.
Seth Curry was the only player on the first row of the bench to start the game. As time wore on, other guys (including Embiid right next to him unmasked) were much closer pic.twitter.com/AZqYWUOpYs
— Kyle Neubeck (@KyleNeubeck) January 8, 2021
This story will continue to be updated as more details emerge.
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Seahawks tight end Greg Olsen won’t play Week 17 against 49ers
Liz Mathews
Seattle Seahawks tight end Greg Olsen was recently activated back from the injured reserve after suffering torn plantar fascia in his foot. He appeared in his first game back last week but will sit out against the San Francisco 49ers in Seattle’s regular-season finale.
Although he was listed on Friday’s injury report as questionable, coach Pete Caroll confirmed Olsen would not be playing on Sunday.
“We’re going keep him out of this game is what we’re going to do,” Carroll said after practice. “Just to make sure that he’s ready next week. Just a little flare-up from last week, but he handled it well, practiced today and got through it and all that, but we just think it’s the best thing to do is to give him another weekend.”
Carroll said Olsen really only suffered a “tweak” and is expected to return back to practice next Wednesday, giving him nearly a week to recover before the playoff preparations begin.
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Supreme Court tosses verdict in killing of Saints’ Will Smith
Barry Werner
The United States’ Supreme Court vacated the manslaughter conviction of Cardell Hayes in the 2016 killing of New Orleans Saint defensive lineman Will Smith.
Smith was shot to death after an automobile incident. His car hit Hayes’ car and the Saint drove off. Hayes followed Smith and shot him in the subsequent altercation.
#SCOTUS officially vacates manslaughter conviction of Cardell Hayes for killing @Saints star Will Smith in 2016, after non-unanimous jury verdicts found unconstitutional. @WWLTV pic.twitter.com/DS02CFZBV0
— David Hammer (@davidhammerWWL) January 11, 2021
Hayes was charged with second-degree murder after shooting Smith during an altercation that followed a traffic incident in the Lower Garden District. But an Orleans Parish jury ended up convicting Hayes of a lesser crime, manslaughter, on a split 10-2 vote.
The ruling is based on the SCOTUS finding Louisiana’s non-unanimous jury verdicts unconstitutional in the Ramos v. Louisiana case, allowing all convictions still on appeal to get a new review in light of Ramos. The high court looked at Hayes’ case Monday morning and vacated the conviction, sending the case back to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeal in New Orleans for review.
The 4th Circuit is expected to grant a new trial, as appellate courts have in several other split-jury cases. In July, Ronald Gasser, who also killed a football star, former NFL running back Joe McKnight, after a road rage incident in Jefferson Parish, was already granted a new trial by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal in Gretna.
It will be up to Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams, who is just being sworn in Monday, whether to pursue a new case against Hayes. Because the jury convicted Hayes on a “responsive verdict,” reducing the charge from second-degree murder to manslaughter, Hayes’ appellate attorney Eric Santana says Hayes could only be charged with manslaughter the second time around.
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Wolfsburg beats Stuttgart after coronavirus outbreak
WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) -- Wolfsburg revealed a coronavirus outbreak at the club shortly before playing Stuttgart in the Bundesliga on Sunday, but its depleted team still ground out a 1-0 win.
Wolfsburg said two hours before kickoff that midfielder Maximilian Arnold and left-back Jerome Roussillon were in isolation at home on Saturday after testing positive.
Three other players were asked to quarantine by local authorities because they had close contact with the infected players. Right-back William was earlier sent into isolation on Tuesday after testing positive.
Wolfsburg moved past Borussia Dortmund to fourth place in the league with the win over Stuttgart. Josip Brekalo scored the only goal of the game in the 49th minute with a pinball-like free kick which took two deflections off Stuttgart players on its way into the net. Stuttgart is seventh after its first away defeat since it was promoted back to the Bundesliga for this season.
Poor defending let Hertha Berlin down in a 4-1 loss at Freiburg which leaves the big-spending Berlin team 14th in the 18-team league, and with one win in its last six games.
Freiburg opened the scoring with a diving header from the unmarked Vincenzo Grifo, before Hertha leveled with a tap-in from Dodi Lukebakio off a a deflected cross and missed a string of chances to score a second.
Marking was a problem again for Hertha when Ermedin Demirovic was left free in front of goal to score Freiburg's second. Manuel Gulde's header and Nils Petersen's penalty kick extended Freiburg's lead.
Hertha has been one of the Bundesliga's biggest spenders on transfers in recent seasons, with the aim of becoming a continental power, but has spent the last year and a half closer to the relegation zone than the European places. Freiburg is 10th after three consecutive wins.
It was the last day of games before a shortened winter break. Most Bundesliga clubs have a round of cup games Tuesday and Wednesday before the league resumes Jan. 2.
More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/Soccer and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports
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Irish Senate Advances Bill Criminalising Trade with Illegal Israeli Settlements
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The Republic of Ireland's upper house has passed a bill which criminalises the import and sale of goods from Israeli settlements in occupied territories.
The Irish Senate, or Seanad Éireann, approved the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 on Wednesday, advancing Ireland to becoming the first European Union nation to oppose trade with Israel's settlements in the West Bank's occupied territories, Golan Heights and East Jerusalem al-Quds.
The new law will make it illegal "for a person to import or attempt to import settlement goods" and punishes offenders who "assist another person to import or attempt to import settlement goods" with up to five years in prison or a €250,000 (£222.500) fine.
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In order for Irish President Michael D. Higgins to sign the bill into law, the Irish Lower House (Dáil Éireann) must endorse the legislation.
Who is Speaking Out?
Senators gave a bipartisan standing ovation after the bill's passage, with Ireland's minority government opposing the motion. Several organisations and officials have voiced their support for the bill's approval.
"Incredible — the Occupied Territories Bill has just passed all stages in Seanad Éireann! Ireland can be the first EU country to end trade in illegal #SettlementGoods," Independent Irish Senator Frances Black tweeted.
"It now goes to Dáil for agreement, & with such huge support we'll make this vital bill law!"
Incredible — the Occupied Territories Bill has just passed all stages in Seanad Éireann! Ireland can be the first EU country to end trade in illegal #SettlementGoods. It now goes to Dáil for agreement, & with such huge support we'll make this vital bill law! #solidarity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/uwQoQ665UT
— Frances Black (@frances_black) December 5, 2018
Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Ireland Ahmed Abdelrazek attended the Senate visitors' gallery alongside lawyers who participated in drafting the bill and other organisations.
"This is a great day for this country," Independent Senator David Norris said.
"We are the first country and I hope we won't be the last [to break ranks with the EU]," Independent senator David Norris said.
However, Israeli officials were infuriated by the bill. "The Irish Senate (Seanad Éireann) have chosen to give their backing to the most extreme anti-Israel piece of legislation in Europe," the Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement. "This bill will not help a single Palestinian and is aimed at negating the historical connection between the people of Israel and the birthplace of the Jewish people."
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A spokesperson from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign told Sputnik that the organisation “welcomes the passing of the Occupied Territories Bill through Ireland’s Senate", adding that it was "absolutely vital" for governments to "take concrete action against Israel’s flouting of international law and human rights."
"This decision puts Ireland on track to become the first country in the European Union to end trade with illegal Israeli settlements," the spokesperson said.
"The UK government has declared settlements to be illegal and a barrier to peace, but has taken no meaningful action to end UK complicity," the spokesperson added. "We call on the UK government to follow Ireland’s lead and put its policies in line with its rhetoric by ending all UK trade with illegal settlements.”
Ireland has joined Chile in efforts to legislate the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, after the National Congress of Chile passed a resolution on 29 November urging the Latin American country's government to "forbid the entry of products manufactured and coming from Israeli colonies in the occupied Palestinian territory," with 99 votes for and only 7 against the motion. Mahmoud Nawajaa, general coordinator for the Palestinian BDS National Committee praised the resolution.
"We are glad that the Chilean Congress has marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People with concrete measures of solidarity and respect for international law," Mr. Nawajaa said in a statement. "We urge the Chilean government to respect the Congress resolution and make sure that no products from illegal Israeli settlements are allowed into the country."
Following US president Donald Trump's embassy move to Jerusalem, Israel has continued expanding construction of settlements across Palestine's occupied territories, despite the United Nations Security Council adopting Resolution 2334 in 2016, which recognises Israel as an "occupying Power" and condemns the nation's expansion of territories beyond the 1967 borders, where roughly 600,000 Israelis reside in 230 illegal settlements.
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Lakvijaya breaks down again; only one unit working
Only one unit of the Lakvijaya coal power plant in Norochcholai is currently functioning, signifying a shortfall of 600 megawatts of electricity in the country.
The plant has three units which together generate 900mw of power. However, while unit 2 was shut down for a scheduled maintenance unit 3 broke down midweek after a boiler tube leak, authoritative sources said, adding that it might take around two weeks to fix.
In August, too, the CEB faced difficulties getting all three Lakvijaya units online after a countrywide blackout that is still under investigation by an independent expert committee. Unit 1 had broken down repeatedly since its commissioning in 2011.
But the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is seeking to have a 300mw extension to Lakvijaya built by the same company that did the other three units–China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC).
Earlier this year, the utility called for expressions of interest to hire a financial consultant for the project.
The advertisement indicated that financial model for the planned build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT) or build, own and operate (BOO) project was still not available, despite multiple Cabinet papers having been approved and a timeline for completion set for 2023.
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PHOTOS Katy Perry took over Hillary Clinton’s Instagram
Billy Devon October 26, 2015 Hillary Clinton, Katy Perry
Katy Perry headlined a rally for Hillary Clinton over the weekend, and in the process, the former first lady and current presidential candidate let the pop star take over her Instagram account.
Perry, dressed in a white gown with Clinton’s logo pinned to the front and an American Flag cape trailing behind, amped up the crowd with renditions of her hits “Roar” and “Firework.”
When Perry wasn’t on stage, she was taking selfies with Clinton and showing off her campaign-themed nails:
Katy Perry here, taking over Hills' IG today for the rally in Iowa. The stage is set, and the nails are pressed. ? T-minus 1.5 hours before we Roar together. #ImWithHer -Katy
A photo posted by Hillary Clinton (@hillaryclinton) on Oct 24, 2015 at 1:02pm PDT
Perry said to the fans in attendance at the stop in Des Moines, Iowa:
“You have so much power and this is one of the most important elections in over a decade. So much change can happen. I believe in her future, her vision, her policies…Thank you for having me, she’s my firework.”
Perry had a warm up act for the gig in the form of former president Bill Clinton.
When Hillary Clinton took the stage following Perry’s set she said, “Sometimes it’s important, you just have to roar about what you need to fight for.”
Supporting a supporter, Noah from Iowa. #volunteer #getinvolved -Katy
Upon further review, it might have been more advantageous for Katy (30 million followers) to let Hillary (430 thousand followers) take over her account. 😉
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Long Beach State Women’s Volleyball sweeps CSUN
Tawnya Cervantes
The CSUN women’s volleyball team lost their fourth consecutive match after Saturday’s game against Long Beach State University at Long Beach State’s Walter Pyramid.
Long Beach dominated the Matadors in all three sets, 25-14, 25-21 and 25-15.
Sophomore outside hitter Aeryn Owens had nine kills, eight digs, and hit .032 on 31 swings.
Owens kept the Matadors close behind the 49ers (13-11) in the first set when Long Beach pushed the lead to 16-11. CSUN remained at close range 18-14, but failed to follow through, ending the set at 25-14.
Senior outside hitter Julie Haake had five kills, three digs and one block in the loss. The CSUN middle duo of Melissa Eaglin and Rachel Diaz had a combined 17 kills, but CSUN struggled offensively hitting .108 (31-20-102) as a team.
CSUN trailed the 49ers in the second set with 21-10. Long Beach called for a timeout with a slim 3-pont lead (22-19). The Matadors once again narrowed in on the 49ers (22-21), nearly took the set, but fell short 25-21.
Long Beach withheld their rhythm throughout the third set and swept the Matadors 25-15, dropping CSUN to a standing place of 6-12 overall and 2-4 in the Big West.
The Matadors next match is at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Friday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m.
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COUNTDOWN TO PHASE OUT SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BAGS BY 2018
Countdown has announced that single-use plastic carrier bags will be phased-out from its stores and online shopping by the end of 2018.
In November, Countdown will announce twenty corporate responsibility and sustainability commitments out to 2020. The plastic bag target will become a key part of Countdown's broader efforts on waste minimisation, which already includes the Countdown Food Rescue programme and the target towards zero food waste.
“Now is the right time to take the lead, phase-out single-use plastic carrier bags and introduce better options for customers. This move will result in the removal of 350 million plastic bags from our waste stream and environment," said Countdown’s Managing Director Dave Chambers.
“We have been tracking customer sentiment for two years and our most recent research concluded in August, indicates that 83% of our customers support phasing-out single-use plastic carrier bags.
“In May 2016, Countdown introduced New Zealand’s first plastic bag free supermarket on Waiheke Island, where customers are bringing their own bags and we have compostable bags on sale for 15 cents. Customers adapted quickly to plastic bag free check-outs, and we have had very positive feedback.
“We’re confident Kiwis will get in behind this change across the country, and we’re committed to making the move away from check-out bags as simple for customers as we can.”
As a first step, from Monday 9 October the price of Countdown’s reusable bags will be permanently reduced to $1 each (from the current price of $1.39). More affordable and sustainable initiatives will be introduced over the coming months.
Progressive Enterprises’ franchise supermarket brands, SuperValue and FreshChoice, have also committed to phasing-out single-use plastic carrier bags as soon as they can. Both these brands are finalising their transition deadline. In the meantime, compostable and paper bags are already on trial in a number of SuperValue and FreshChoice stores.
The phase-out will also apply to Countdown’s national online shopping service. Trials are already underway to replace the use of single-use plastic bags in deliveries. Further, from Monday 9 October, Countdown online shoppers living in areas where the Soft Plastics Recycling scheme is in place (Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and South Island) will be able to return their soft plastics to their delivery driver for recycling, instead of taking them into store.
As part of planning, Countdown considered whether to introduce a charge on plastic bags.
“We decided that charging for single-use plastic carrier bags was not the right option for Countdown and its customers. Charging is also not the ideal outcome for the environment because these bags are still provided,” said Chambers.
Countdown currently invests $8 million annually in cash and in-kind to the community and environmental initiatives. It has New Zealand’s leading Food Rescue programme, diverting almost $6m annually worth of food to food banks and food charities, and every year Countdown gives out more than 2.6 million of free pieces of fruit to kids.
Countdown has written to all of the 70-plus plastic bag-free community groups around New Zealand asking to work with them to support customers with this change.
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Ian McEwan: Can UK literary fiction ever “do” climate?
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There is a sense of anticipation about Ian McEwan’s new novel, Solar, out in a few weeks. Well… maybe we better not get our hopes up.
Of course I hope to be proved wrong. As a young novelist, McEwan was extraordinarily radical; The Cement Garden was scary, edgy and transgressive. He remains, without doubt, a brilliant talent. However as with Martin Amis, he’s been part of the literary establishment’s drift towards neo-conservativism, most visibly with his anti-Islamic pronouncements.
Acrtually, that’s less the problem; it’s as much that his books have become more conservative in their scope. Atonement, say, may have been a brilliantly constructed piece of work, but it was about polishing the form. The grand British novel is an old art form; despite a few post-modern pieces of trickery, it has settled down at the start of the 21st century as a form that tells stories in very conventional start-to-finish ways. The truth is, though Atonement appeared to encounter ideas of cognitive psychology, of how we can deceive ourselves, it was hardly a novel of ideas. The ideas were a device around which a novel hung. Whether McEwan has the will to encounter ideas about climate in a novel remains to be seen.
I thought my views on McEwan being able to write about climate were pessimistic until I came across Paul Kingsnorth of The Dark Mountain Project writing about him:
McEwan, over the last few years, seems to have been nominated by the guardians of our high culture (the broadsheets, Radio Four and the kind of people who hang around at Soho literary parties) as the Grand Old Man of contemporary letters. Every new novel is pored over and dissected in the TLS by professors of literature. McEwan is interviewed glowingly in broadsheet culture sections, and given thousands of words to muse ponderously on weighty subjects like September 11th or climate change. His utterances are quoted reverently by the kind of people who think that straight-bat banalities become profundities when uttered by novelists rather than cabbies.
And the whole thing is a fraud. That someone as dull and weightless as McEwan can be christened as some kind of literary godhead just shows how callow and flaccid the English novel is at this moment in history. McEwan is a man with nothing to say, who says it at great length, and is admired for it by people who have nothing to say either and enjoy reading about others like themselves. His style is as conservative as his worldview, which is narrrow, secular and bourgeois to a tee.
The trouble with McEwan’s conservatism of form is that it leaves the novelist increasingly hamstrung when it comes to tackling something big and real like climate change. How do you tackle new ideas when you’re still tinkering with an old machine? Ian McEwan has been on one of the Cape Farewell expeditions. He remains involved with the organisation and has written passionately in the newspapers about the need for us to tackle climate.
But when it was announced that he was writing a book about the subject, McEwan himself back-pedalled, to say it wasn’t “about” climate change; that climate change science was the milieu it was set in, it was “the background hum“.
Reasonably, this may be seen as an artists’ natural inclination not to be boxed in by assumptions about what his work is about. But it’s also the product of the kind of formalistic conservatism McEwan and his peers have embraced. Great British novels usually aren’t “about” very much. Maybe they shouldn’t have to be. Maybe to have climate as “the background hum” is enough.
Interestingly, though, while the grand names of British literary fiction have become increasingly strait-jacketed by the form, it’s the ungainlily-named genre Young Adult that has become the radical one in the last decade. Keen to keep up with the rampant imaginings of teenagers, novelists like Mark Haddon and Philip Pullman appeared far less constrained by a sense of what novels should be like. As a consequence, it’s in Young Adult fiction, rather than literary fiction, that you currently find the novels of ideas – especially when it comes to climate change.
Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries tackled the idea of how teenagers personal carbon budgets in the near future of 2015 (clue: not very well) head on. Kate Thompson’s new book The White Horse Trick also takes on climate with no sense that it’s a “difficult” subject. In fact, Young Adult fiction allows itself to use all the tricks that literary fiction deems gauche, but which are actually extremely useful when deailng with subjects as big as the environment and our future.
Kate Thompson’s rambunctious children’s book is set in two separate existences, one of which is an apocalyptic future in which Ireland’s topsoil is washed away by storms and its inhabitants struggle to survive in a Burren-like future in which trees are cut down too quickly to replace themselves. Characters cross from there to the Celtic mythic landscape of the West Coast, of Tir na n’Og, the land of eternal youth. As the Independent’s critic Nicola Baird notes approvingly, Thompson pulls off “the impossible”:
Despite the heavy theme, this is a positive tale that helps readers envision different ways of living. It does so without once lecturing about energy efficiency or using the bus.
It’s a matter of some pride that the book owes its life partly to a residency oragnised by the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre and Situations in Bristol. Kate Thompson kindly opens the book with a dedication which underscores the importance of that residency.
I’m sure Kate Thompson would not want her work compared to that of Ian McEwan’s any more than McEwan would relish having his work discussed in the context of Young Adult fiction. All the same, it’s continually interesting how different art forms feel empowered, or unempowered, to tackle the weighty subject of climate. If McEwan’s novel really does fail to get to grips with a subject he himself has harrangued politicians to take more seriously, then does it leave British literary fiction looking increasingly irrelevant; the fodder of genteel book groups rather than the real and urgent world?
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New Filmmakers, Animators & Artists to Watch: 'SVA Premieres' Returns to Hollywood
SVA Premieres takes place on May 31 at The Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Los Angeles.
SVA will return to Hollywood May 31 to present SVA Premieres, the College’s annual film and animation showcase, at The Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Los Angeles. SVA Premieres will feature a curated selection of works by talented, recently graduated filmmakers from SVA’s film, animation and visual effects programs who represent a diverse and global range of viewpoints and artistry. The selected group of artists will be present to meet the event’s audience of industry professionals.
"In a swimming pool, a young man must find the courage to prevent his best friend from sexually assaulting his Tinder date." BFA Film student Theo Le Sourd's Hold Your Breath.
SVA Premieres will kick off with a cocktail reception at 7:00pm. The main program, starting at 8:00pm, will feature the “best-of” film and animation projects by graduates from 11 different SVA programs. This 90-minute presentation will highlight exemplary, emerging talents in directing, screenwriting, cinematography and editing through work that runs the gamut of cinematic storytelling forms, from live-action narrative and documentary films to traditional hand-drawn and stop-motion animation to computer-generated 3D and visual effects.
"A man has an argument with his girlfriend that spurs a journey through his past–with the help of a childhood toy–to fix his present and their future." BFA Animation student Andres Padilla's Slides.
During the program, audience members will also be able to experience two distinct, exploratory VR games, both created by 2018 graduates, in the theater lobby.
To further SVA Premieres’ mission of introducing the next wave of artists and filmmakers to the industry, during their time in Los Angeles the participating graduates will visit a variety of local studios and media/arts companies—including Disney, Titmouse, Amazon Studios, Starz and Deutsch—to connect with professionals and fellow SVA alumni who work at the forefront of the film and animation fields.
SVA alumni have been featured in film festivals across the globe, steering their own projects and making integral contributions to blockbuster releases. They have won Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes and awards at festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Venice. Filmmakers and artists as diverse as Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya), Carlos Saldanha (Ferdinand), Lynn Shelton (Outside In), Tom Sito (Aladdin), Crystal Moselle (The Wolfpack), Gillian Robespierre (Obvious Child), Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) and Ti West (The House of the Devil) have all studied at SVA (full program/list of films below).
"A Syrian bodega owner and a teen girl with a fake ID find common ground on one winter night in Brooklyn." MPS Directing student Rebecca Halfon's Bodega.
SVA Premieres Program
1 by Brendan Jo, BFA Photography and Video
Bodega by Rebecca Halfon, MPS Directing
Crow by Sonja von Marensdor, BFA Animation
Cupboard (Excerpt) by Emily Cohen, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media
Emunah by DOMCAKE, BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects
The Game of Silence by Jenny Mascia, BFA Design
Hold Your Breath by Theo Le Sourd, BFA Film
Idol-L by Jaehyeong Kim, MFA Computer Arts
Joe And Emma by Ran Huo, MFA Computer Arts
A Long Way From Home by Eduardo Enriquez & Andy Tai, BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects
Meowpan by Ryoko Kondo, BFA Design
Negative Space (Excerpt) by Jenny Bee, MFA Visual Narrative
Sanctuary (Excerpt) by Andrea Cordoba, MFA Social Documentary Film
Signature Dish by Vanessa Zican Feng, MPS Fashion Photography
Slides by Andres Padilla, BFA Animation
High Light by Esther Gan, BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects
Walter by Christopher Kenu Huang, BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects
"An artist learns the value of true success as she makes her way to the top." BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects student Esther Gan's High Life.
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Behavioural change is not what you see, but what others see
The Interim Report of the APS Review talks about the need to change behaviour across the APS. While the focus is mostly on the need to be more collaborative, the Review sees the need for the APS to grapple with ‘fragmentation and the cultural and behavioural change required to tackle cross-cutting issues.’
For David Schmidtchen and Sally Dorsett, who lead Synergy’s People and Organisational Development practice and Synergy’s Creative Director Jason Perelson, the question becomes: what does it take to truly change behaviour in such a strong institutional culture?
To answer the question, they have adopted Marcel Proust’s view: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new sights, but in looking with new eyes.”
“The APS is changing all the time, but it is largely adaptative and responsive. It is the immediate adaptation to financial pressures in the shape of efficiencies, targets, and savings. This drives a cascade of uncontrolled change that are expressed in terms of initiatives, reform, and transformation. The effect is organisational confusion, increased complexity, distraction from core tasks, and the dilution of resources and effort. The primary focus then is on making change, or the change programme.” says Schmidtchen.
Like many governments, the APS has become enamoured with ‘nudge’ or ‘behavioural insights’. Nudge units and nudge experts have been proliferating across the APS over the last few years applying the methods to influence the community, and occasionally, the workforce in APS departments and agencies. Put simply, nudge is largely about the psychology of incentives and persuasion. In the language of the field, by constructing an appropriate choice architecture nudge can be a powerful tool for affecting behaviour.
“Nudge is not new; but the tools and techniques have been popularised, so the understanding is now more widespread. My concern though is with the way that nudge is talked about, and change applied in the APS. If we think about behavioural change as akin to art, then nudge is a useful brush that we’re fond of using. Unfortunately, we have become so fascinated by the brush that we have forgotten how to paint and the reason we’re painting in the first place.” says Perelson.
There is an enormous amount written on nudge and change techniques but precious little on the limitations of existing practice. If we are fans of muddling through, we cite the famous line ‘70% of change initiatives fail’. If we are advocates of change, we argue a rational management approach that discounts the involvement or agency of people. In both cases, behavioural change is seen through the eyes of the overseers of change rather than the eyes of those who will need to make change—the workforce. The incentives are institutional, not behavioural.
“Our experience is that culture and behaviour are local. If you want people to collaborate across agencies, then start with individuals and teams. It is an intensive process to get underneath the behaviour we see in the workplace to understand what is driving that behaviour. We find that organisational history, behaviour learned over time, poor work design, complex systems, and clarity of purpose, direction and role all shape how people behave. The APS Employee Census shows you where to look but it doesn’t tell you what’s going on.” says Dorsett.
“The effect of all this change works directly against the APS review goal to improve collaboration. The way change is done values generalists over specialists, reduces change to responsiveness rather than a set of coordinated actions taken over time, it creates rivalries and competition as agencies and functions compete for limited resources, it hollows the organisation as critical workforce resources are moved to manage the nearest demand, and it leads to workforce shortages and fading skills,” says Schmidtchen.
Schmidtchen, Dorsett, and Perelson are working with their clients to develop new ways to address the challenges of behavioural and cultural change. They are calling it ‘CreativeXPeople’.
“The way organisational reform is thought about has become very rote and transactional. With a focus on the brush, not the picture, and we’ve completely lost sight of the purpose of Art. As CreativeXPeople, we believe that behavioural and cultural change should start with the effect you are trying to achieve and the experience you want people to have.” says Perelson.
“We are bringing together the best of where David and I have worked, working on how to shape people, work, organisation, and how technology interacts to improve performance and the experience of work with Jason’s experience in creative strategy, campaigns and advertising, which brings a deeper understanding of shaping behaviour. We have found each other at Synergy and already we think the whole is greater than the sum of the parts,” says Dorsett
“Changing behaviour and culture requires more than the mechanical application of techniques. It requires strategy, an understanding of the real issues, and an orchestrated approach that draws on the experience of people who can see past the brush, who can create the picture, but most importantly, who understand that change is an experience for the workforce.” Says Schmidtchen
Behavioural and cultural change is not a rational process that can be managed. It is not an initiative that can be put in place and expected to naturally achieve the desired end state. Rather, it requires us to abandon the pursuit of the perfect brush, in favour of the open canvas. We need to understand the importance of time and scale so that we can pursue opportunities to shift, influence and motivate behaviours in ways that make lasting, impactful and meaningful change in new and exciting ways. Schmidtchen, Dorsett and Perelson are thinking beyond the textbook manifestations of behavioural theory and into new and uncharted territory. They are venturing into domains that are reserved for explorers, adventurers and artists.
About CreativeXPeople
CreativeXPeople is a journey of exploration through practice. Our objective is to get to a complete approach to organisational change that is supported by techniques that are grounded in a more complete understanding of human psychology and behaviour in the workplace.
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Sallie Mae’s tech transformation leaps forward as business strategy broadens
By Joshua HallMay 21, 2019
Indy’s major tech-enabled employers are gaining street cred among the local tech communities, and Sallie Mae is fast becoming a competitive player in Indianapolis. Information technology and digital strategy has been an integral part of its evolution since 2014, when the company became a standalone bank. In many respects, the company has been on its own digital transformation as it evolves to meet the growing needs of its customers. That next chapter acknowledges Sallie Mae’s history of helping students and families finance their educations, and ushers in a customer-centric vision that will extend beyond college.
“For those who might not know the new Sallie Mae, we’re a significant and still growing player in the financial services/fintech industries, and much of the innovation we bring to the market originates from our tech hub here in Indianapolis,” said Mike Migliore, senior vice president of application delivery at Sallie Mae (who recently celebrated his 10th year with the company). “Along with a major undertaking of migrating to the cloud, everything that we do—every customer interaction, every advancement we make, and every product we roll out into the market—is driven by and influenced by our tech teams and solutions.”
Indianapolis serves as Sallie Mae’s technology delivery hub with nearly 300 tech-related employees and contractors, which accounts for more than 80 percent of Sallie Mae’s engineering resources and technical thought-leadership. Tech support is integral to the company’s new customer-centric vision and that’s why Sallie Mae hired another 70 people for tech roles in 2018. Even more hiring is in process through 2019 and 2020 as the company accelerates its goal of improving the financial services industry through fintech innovation and relentless responsiveness to the changing needs of customers.
“Every single interaction our customers have with us shapes that cumulative brand experience that could determine whether or not they buy other banking products and become lifelong customers,” said Migliore. “It’s why we’re constantly seeking new ideas and innovation that keep us ahead of the curve of customer change.”
The Sallie Mae tech hub in Indianapolis boasts collaborative spaces for employees to get their work done and opportunities for them to connect and relax.
A key source for new ideas and innovation are the Sallie Mae employees themselves, explained Dave Hallgarth, senior director at Sallie Mae (a 15-year veteran with the company). During the company’s Employee Innovation Contest last year, thirty different teams pitched basic proofs of concept to senior leadership covering all manner of new tech like voice assistants and chat bots, artificial intelligence, blockchain, APIs and more. A handful of innovative ideas from the “Shark-Tank” style contest were selected for potential funding and future execution within Sallie Mae’s roadmaps and long-term strategy.
“That’s the kind of creative, collaborative culture we’re building within the company as well as with the Greater Indianapolis community,” said Hallgarth. “Just within the last year we have conducted over 10,000 hours of technical training; completely renovated our facilities to a modern, Agile-inspired workspace; completed our plans to move all platforms to the Cloud, overhauled our technical practices, and established an internship program and new talent recruiting pipeline.”
In addition to the aforementioned engineering resources and technical thought-leadership, the Indianapolis tech hub includes a unit for core DevOps and integration teams, cloud transformation leadership and delivery, information/cyber security and over 30 Agile delivery teams.
Key to Sallie Mae’s digital transformation has been its shift from a classic waterfall release schedule to Agile Methodology and delivery where “speed to value” is clearly defined and apparent across all teams and departments. As an Agile shop, Sallie Mae is now scheduling major “PIPE events” every 13 weeks coupled with a constant iterative process that has dramatically accelerated the speed to value realization.
“There’s too much risk delivering a gigantic software release once or twice a year and, quite frankly, that’s just not nimble enough in today’s age of disruption and fintech innovation,” said Migliore. “As we’ve matured on our own over four years and executed on our digital transformation strategies, we’re earning on that business value much faster and with higher quality. It’s what customers want and what the business needs, and it’s positioned Sallie Mae as the fintech innovator to watch in an industry that still has plenty of space to ‘straighten the arrow’ and deliver more disruptive tools and products.”
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ATA applauds reforms to Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute
by KatJercich | Nov 30, 2020 | Digital Health, Telehealth | 0 comments
The American Telemedicine Association this week issued a statement in response to the U.S. ATA
Department of Health and Human Services’ final rules regarding the Physician Self-Referral Law (also known as the Stark Law) and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute.
According to HHS, the rules will allow healthcare providers to participate in value-based arrangements with more flexibility and will ease compliance burdens.
“We applaud HHS and CMS for taking an important and urgently needed step towards modernizing the laws that are critical to the success of the regulatory sprint to coordinated care,” said ATA CEO Ann Mond Johnson in a statement.
“These new rulings move us closer to a value-based care model that will allow our healthcare system to reimagine how care is delivered and integrate telehealth with in-person care,” she said.
The agency’s final rules come as part of its efforts to examine the federal regulations potentially standing in the way of advancing value-based care.
The HHS Office of Inspector General’s final rule, “Revisions to the Safe Harbors Under the Anti-Kickback Statute and Civil Monetary Penalty Rules Regarding Beneficiary Inducements,” implements seven new safe harbors, modifies four existing safe harbors and codifies one new exception under the Beneficiary Inducements CMP.
The final safe harbor regulations protect value-based arrangements and modify the existing safe harbor for electronic health records items and services, among other changes. They also protect telehealth for in-home dialysis, among the several reforms the ATA advocated for in a December letter to the HHS.
Meanwhile, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ final rule, “Modernizing and Clarifying the Physician Self-Referral Regulations,” notes that the existing framework is tailored to a fee-for-service model.
By contrast, “the final rule opens additional avenues for physicians and other healthcare providers to coordinate the care of the patients they serve – allowing providers across different healthcare settings to work together to ensure patients receive the highest quality of care,” wrote CMS in a fact sheet.
Taken together, advocates and policymakers say the changes will allow for more innovation in patient care.
“OIG’s final rule, and the CMS final rule to the extent the Stark Law is applicable, would facilitate a range of arrangements to improve the coordination and management of patient care and the engagement of patients in their treatment if all applicable regulatory conditions are met,” said HHS in a press statement.
As one example: “A primary care physician or other provider may wish to furnish a smart tablet that is capable of two-way, real-time interactive communication between the patient and his or her physician. The patient’s access to a smart tablet could facilitate communication through telehealth and the provision of in-home services.”
“These new laws will help to drive value-based care and improve the coordination of patient care across care settings, [and] ease unnecessary regulatory burden on physicians and other healthcare providers, while reinforcing the goal of the physician self-referral laws,” said Johnson, “to protect patients from unnecessary services and be steered to less convenient, lower-quality or more expensive services because of a physician’s financial self-interest.”
THE LARGER TREND
The ATA was among several organizations that responded to HHS’ requests for comment regarding changes to both the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law last year, with many respondents saying the law had not kept up with the evolution to a value-based system.
The policies have arguably stood in the way of innovation as well: The laws have historically presented a potential risk to parties entering into telehealth arrangements.
“An example of a telehealth arrangement that could implicate both laws would be an arrangement where a hospital engages a physician to provide on-call telestroke services, where the hospital provides the equipment to the physician and pays the physician an hourly rate for his or her services,” said Douglas Grimm, a health law partner at Arent Fox, in January last year.
“We are pleased that the HHS has taken action to reduce regulatory barriers to care coordination and accelerate the transformation of the healthcare system into one that pays for value and promotes the delivery of coordinated care,” said Johnson. “The ATA looks forward to continuing to work with the Administration to ensure that these rules can be implemented effectively.”
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The Simpsons Season 31 Starts Streaming on Disney+
Disney Plus adds to its arsenal of The Simpsons episodes with the entirety of last year's Season 31 hitting the streaming service.
— October 4, 2020
Everyone's favorite family is back for the 31st season of the longest running scripted primetime show in television history, The Simpsons. Now available on Disney+, the 22-episode season brings viewers back to Springfield for a fresh batch of episodes to binge alongside the service's comprehensive set of every season available since the show first premiered in 1989.
The Emmy Award-nominated season features an all-star lineup of celebrity guest appearances including Billy Porter, John Mulaney, Jason Momoa, Kevin Smith, Joey King, Lilly Singh, Cate Blanchett, Chrissy Teigan, and Jim Parsons, with musical performances from John Legend and Weezer.
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Marvel fans won't want to miss "Bart the Bad Guy" (Season 31, Episode 14) starring Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, Avengers: Endgame Directors Anthony and Joseph Russo, and Maria Hill Actor Cobie Smulders. After first debuting in the short film "Maggie Simpson in Playdate with Destiny, Baby Hudson makes his Simpsons return in "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby" (Season 31, Episode 18). The season also includes the 30th episode in the legendary "Treehouse of Horror" anthology as well as the series' first "Thanksgiving of Horror" (Season 31, Episode 8).
The latest season joins more than 600 episodes of The Simpsons, The Simpsons Movie, and short films "Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'" and "Maggie Simpson in 'Playdate with Destiny" already streaming on the service.
The Simpsons Season 31 Episode Descriptions
"The Winter of Our Monetized Content" (Season 31, Episode 1)
Homer and Bart becomes viral sensations. Meanwhile Lisa is sent to detention and is forced to make license plates.
"Go Big or Go Homer" (Season 31, Episode 2)
Homer befriends a younger man who idolizes him. They make a dangerous entry into to pizza business.
"The Fat Blue Line" (Season 31, Episode 3)
Fat Tony is framed and Wiggum must exonerate him. Homer uses his butt as a pickpocketing decoy.
"Treehouse of Horror XXX" (Season 31, Episode 4)
This 666th episode of the Simpsons parodies the Omen and Stranger Things, not to mention a little Crazy Rich Aliens.
"Gorillas On the Mast" (Season 31, Episode 5)
Homer buys a boat and is dismayed to learn the cost of operation. Lisa frees a whale so Bart frees a gorilla.
"Marge the Lumberjill (Season 31, Episode 6)
Marge feels get life is boring, so she takes up timbersports and novels to Oregon, birthplace of Matt Groening.
"Livin' la Pura Vida" (Season 31, Episode 7)
Homer and Marge go in a vacation with other families that goes awry. They are shocked to find who's really behind it.
"Thanksgiving of Horror" (Season 31, Episode 8)
The bloody first Thanksgiving, a black mirror of thanksgiving preparations and the horrifying last Thanksgiving.
"Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" (Season 31, Episode 9)
Todd loses his faith in God; Homer and Ned share a near-death experience.
"Bobby, It's Cold Outside" (Season 31, Episode 10)
Sideshow Bob returns, and Christmas is threatened. Bart tries to make sense of it all.
"Hail to the Teeth" (Season 31, Episode 11)
Marge's old suitor Artie Ziff returns, and he's engaged. Meanwhile a man tells Lisa she'd be more popular if she smiled more and against her wishes she does.
"The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson" (Season 31, Episode 12)
The sea captain finds a treasure he's been searching for all his life but it's taken from him. The town uses it to fund STEM classrooms.
"Frinkoin" (Season 31, Episode 13)
Professor Frink develops a crypto currency that makes him rich. Then he wonders if his new friends are true friends.
"Bart the Bad Guy" (Season 31, Episode 14)
Bart learns the ending of an upcoming blockbuster, and it gives him power over the town. Powerful superheroes decide to take a hand.
"Screenless" (Season 31, Episode 15)
The family goes without electronic devices. Then one member surprisingly cracks and they head to rehab.
"Better off Ned" (Season 31, Episode 16)
After a prank, Ned mentors Bart and his life greatly improves. A jealous Homer becomes a mentor to Nelson.
"Highway to Well" (Season 31, Episode 17)
Marge gets a job at a marijuana dispensary. Homer begins selling pot out of Moe's back room.
"The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby" (Season 31, Episode 18)
Cletus becomes a helium tycoon. Maggie reunited with baby Hudson from Playdate with Destiny.
"Warrin' Priests" (Season 31, Episode 19)
Pete Holmes guest stars as a charismatic new preacher. Lovejoy investigates his mysterious past.
"Warrin' Priests Part Two" (Season 31, Episode 20)
Reverend Lovejoy confronts a popular new pastor from his dark past. Lisa is shattered.
"The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds" (Season 31, Episode 21)
Lisa makes a new friend who loves horses, but she becomes part of a circle of snooty young rich girls.
"The Way of the Dog" (Season 31, Episode 22)
After the Simpsons' dog bites Marge the family explores the tragic past of Santa's Little Helper.
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Star Treks First Transgender Character?
It has been annouced that Discovery will introduce a transgender character to the show, and a non-binary character.
By Three of Seven Fri 04 Sep, 2020 9:11 PM - Last Updated: Sat 05 Sep, 2020 1:17 AM
Recently it has been annouced that Star Trek will intoduce it's first transgender character, Gray who will be played by the trans actor, Ian Alexander, who does not have an extensive acting career as yet, but at the age of just 19, he may well have a bright future. The non-binary character set to be introduced to Discovery is Adira who will be played by Blu del Barrio, for whom, Discovery will be their first acting role.
Star Trek has often tried to present other ideas of gender, such as the J'naii, in the TNG episode "Outcast", who are an androgynous race, they could be argued to be non-binary, because they evolved into not having a gender as such. It can then be argued that Soren is the first transgender character in Star Trek, because she didn't identify as androgynous, but as female, this was frowned upon by her society, and they used psychotectic treatment to for her to conform. This is no doubt a link to real world "conversion therapy", which has been used to control others sexual orientation.
There were a number of other androgynous species, which appeared in TNG, and Enterprise, as well as a reference to hermaphroditic, and species which required three, or more genders for reproduction. Never the less, these all tended to be individual stories, and not a recurring character. For the two characters being introduced in Discovery, they are set to play a role in all of the 13 episodes for season 3, possibly even season 4, depending on where the show goes.
What are you thoughts on these two new characters? Are you looking forward to the third season on Discovery?
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Sorotia
Fri 04 Sep, 2020 9:15 PM
But is it really the first? Have been so many characters in Star Trek...but Kurtzman again trying to rewrite Star Trek history to fit him...
Three of Seven
Originally Posted by Sorotia
The first main transgender, and non-binary characters, yes, I can't recall any others, nor could I find any reference on Memory Alpha, all other main characters to my knowladge have been male, or female, even Data is male, despite being an android. So while there have been individual storylines of other gender identities, and as much as Kurtzman has rewritten, in this case, they are the first. And even the first transgender actor on Star Trek.
Bar'ol
Fri 04 Sep, 2020 10:17 PM
Dax comes to mind. Many instances where it is confused what it is and experiences it "should feel". You really saw that struggle the most with Ezri, but some scenes with jadzi. Sure the actor(s) isnt trans but imo it fits the bill. However not going to get in some massive debate about subject matter. Its just at times I felt that way and many other audience members with how dax was perceived.
I'am not even a hardcore Trek fan...
Sat 05 Sep, 2020 1:18 AM
Originally Posted by Bar'ol
Dax is not transgender, because Dax is the symboint, not the Trill. Jadzi, and Ezri both identified as women, even if they had memories of being a man because of the symboint. If I put my memories into your mind, would that make you transgender? No, because you would still be you, this was explored when Jadzia was put on trial for the crimes commited by Curzon, while it was not resolved, and it could be argued she accepted responsibility for the crimes of the past hosts, she herself was not responsible. Nor was Curzon as it turned out.
As complicated as having a symboint is, it's not the same as gender idenity.
I'm glad you decided to dislike my post without giving me a chance to retort.
Lal appeared for one episode, not a main character, which is kind of the point here. In the article, I mentioned this, "Never the less, these all tended to be individual stories, and not a recurring character.".
Sat 05 Sep, 2020 1:28 PM
Originally Posted by Three of Seven
My downvote was your reply to someone else so not sure what that about.
I have no idea what it would feel like. All I could see is how Ezri struggled with it with awhile, which is my main example I guess. Confused and questioned a lot of things. This was someone not trained to have a symbiont. Having over seven or eight lifetime of memories would be very overwhelming. I'm sure there were rare cases where the memories would of overwhelm the person into changing but then again the symbiosis training process would of failed, in their eyes at least, in that case if the trill didnt be themselves.
I'm not a trans myself to judge the process or remotely understand them. I'm sure its very difficult being one thing and you feel another, which is why I brought up dax with so many memories and feelings.
Anywho, kudos to trek to always push the boundary. Even if I agree or disagree. It's what great about trek you see and learn.
Ezri struggled because she was not the intended recipient of the Dax symbiont, so she wasn't prepared, and she also didn't have an interest in being joined, it was only when the condition of the Dax symbiont got worse that she became the host. It's no real supprise that she had problems adjusting to new memories, possibly even a problem for those freed from the Borg as well.
Sun 06 Sep, 2020 10:57 AM
I think its great that Star Trek continues to push the envelope and try to highlight issues of the day, as it has always done.
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I always find it sad and disappointing that someone has to always turn news of progress in LGBT representation into a political narrative. When I saw this article posted, it was sad that I predicted that this sort of response would come.
I'm not trans myself, but as an openly gay man, I can understand the ever-present frustration of having other people try to comment on your lived reality. Trans people can speak for themselves, but if they are never allowed on any mainstream media then they can't. That's why its extremely important that minorities are represented on media, and it also serves to educate others on their struggles.
Sun 06 Sep, 2020 3:31 PM
Doesn't say main characters though and that's my problem...every article I've seen just says characters. Not only is Kurtzman trying to take credit for something that isn't true it's also disrespectful that he is trying to erase non-binary characters to toot his own horn. To me that feels like he is just using these characters as tokens and not as people...that all he cares about is the publicity and not the message.
On IMDB, they are both listed for all episodes of S3 at the moment, so at the very least, reoccurring cast, which Star Trek still hasn't had for a transgender, or non-binary character. I have tried my best to research this before I published, and those were my findings.
My Memory is trash so I can't quote the names or episodes like a second knowledge like some people but I do remember some examples
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Soren
Is another example I'm trying to look up that I remember from TNG but so far no luck finding it.
But I think if anything qualifies in Trek to be transgender it's a character who was born a different gender or lack of one and desires to be a different gender. Plus in universe it's pretty hard to tell who may actually be trans because they had the technology to easily change ones outside appearance and back again...saw how easy it was with Quark.
So if one was trans they could easily transition and with medical technology you could probably never tell the difference on the outside.
Soren is literally mentioned in the second paragraph of my article, but again, they were part of a single story, not a reoccurring character.
I think this is a really good thing that Star Trek is becoming more inclusive towards the LGBTQI+ community. I quite like how you picked up on different aspects shown in other Star Trek series like the Je'naii as being an androgonous race. It certainly has interesting parallels to recent developments regarding gender and indentity.
Its great that they are even employing a Trans actor to play the role, I feel like this a big step forward for us as a society and for inclusivity in general. Thanks for writing Three!
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'nuff said.
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Feeling things intimately can drive us more than money. That’s the finding of business behavior smart guy and “free agent” Daniel Pink. Feeling what we’re doing, immersing ourselves in the moment of activity, crafting meaning from our work – these qualities motivate us.
Yet, emotions often get hijacked by the intellect’s abstraction. A mind with analysis and quotidian fret at the forefront keeps otherwise potentially stoking emotions such as compassion and gratitude at a comfortable distance.
But to keep feelings at bay isn’t an option for creatives and creative entrepreneurs who want to flourish and feel alive in their work, who want to connect with their audience or clients, and ultimately who want to wed an intimate part of themselves with their work or business.
Writers, artists, designers, and other creatives burrow into their subjects’ skin. A strange sensual dance happens in the creative process between subject and medium. Words wrap around a subject. Paint becomes the subject.
We enter a place of felt mind, that part of awareness that glides into creative awareness so fully that we literally can feel words’ or images’ textures on our skin as we write, paint, or design. It is a place of verve and stillness at once. It is a place of emotional intimacy. It is a place we often yearn to return to.
I was reminded of all of this last night before we ate dinner. My wife and I have a simple ritual before we eat. On our farm table are scattered various books of poetry. One of us takes a volume, opens semi-randomly to a page, and reads that poem. Sometimes the poems seems appropriate; other times, not, but we enjoy the pleasure of the poem regardless.
Last night, Hillary took Gary Snyder’s collection No Nature and opened to “Prayer for the Great Family.” Now, if you know anything about Gary Snyder, you know that he’s not religious. But he is a man who lives in the deeply felt textures of his days. The inspiration for Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums, he has taken guidance from Zen, the Chinese arts, and any number of traditions that aim at living artfully.
The poem begins
Gratitude to Mother Earth, sailing through night and day--
and to her soil: rich, rare, and sweet
in our minds so be it.
Gratitude to Plants, the sun-facing light-changing leaf
and fine root-hairs; standing still through wind
and rain; their dance is in the flowing spiral grain
[the rest of the poem]
The poem proceeds this way with a stanza to Air, Wild Beings, Water, Sun, and Great Sky. Snyder has a masterful way of keeping himself out of the way and yet entwining himself intimately with the words and his subject. I don’t think of earth as sailing, but that’s precisely what it’s doing each nano-second. The staccato rhythm of “rich, rare, and sweet” evokes the simple yet complex nature of soil without embellished language. Each stanza is an intimate honoring, a way of the poet submitting himself both to the subject of the elements and to language itself.
In that intimate act, Snyder cares and connects that much more personably to the elements and to his medium. This poem is no generic “thank you” card to the elements grabbed off the Rite-Aid rack on Thanksgiving morning.
Why should our work – whether it’s writing a poem, working for a client, developing a business project, or crafting a shadow box – be any less intimate and meaningful?
In this season of gratitude, here is what Snyder shows me about the heart of creative innovation:
1. Submit to what you create and work on. Don’t try to figure out everything via analysis and prediction. Business plans are fine but not if they stifle your creating the business now. Outlines for novels are fine but not if you spend most of your time tinkering with the storyboard and little time drafting – and definitely not if an outline kills the joy of discovery and surprise. Humble yourself to the process and to not-knowing. Snyder submits himself to the elements and to language.
2. Feel what you create and work on. Drop down to this moment. What am I developing this business for? What am I designing this logo for this client for? What am I writing this memoir for? Feel the question circulate. What words and images and sounds and physical sensations arise that uniquely resonate with the nature of this work? Only in this way can Snyder hear and feel phrases such as “fine root-hairs” and sense the entwined relationship between what is out there in the physical world and the mind.
3. Dare to be intimate and unique and vulnerable in your work and in your audience or client relationships. The age of automaton, neutralized, voiceless, faceless “professional business” is fading. Clients and customers – like audiences for artists and writers – don’t want humanoid customer service reps reading from scripts. They want a human being who cares about what they need and want. This adage doesn’t mean that we get sloppy and self-centered and waste our clients or audiences time talking about ourselves. It does mean that we can respond with feeling, humor, transparency. Poets – whether ones with Zen-like observations or Mary Oliver-like lyrical exuberance – remind us how to be deeply feeling human beings in our work.
4. Feel gratitude. It’s not a concept. See it in your actions. Hear it in your words. Touch it with your fingers.
I wish each of you a Thanksgiving in which real words are spoken and true gestures expressed, in which family brings out the best in us, in which laughter and warmth prevail regardless of what someone else says or does, in which we feel our abundance, and in which we act for those without.
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Well spoken, Jeff, thank you, and to you and yours as well.
For those who doubt that work for hire can be every bit as embodied/heartfelt/transformative as any other creative work, check out the recent brilliant documentary on the advertising business, Art & Copy (http://www.artandcopyfilm.com/).
Particularly eye-opening is innovative adman Lee Clow’s assertion that it’s actually a huge diservice to clients to withhold yourself from your work and robotically give them what they ask for to the letter. His firm, ChiatDay, created the famous Super Bowl ad heralding the Apple Macintosh in 1984 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8).
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Now, Mass Media to be taught in higher School itself!
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By Viral Dholakia Last updated Mar 12, 2015
There isn’t a week that goes by when we do not hear about new initiatives in Education Sector – Kapil Sibal is fiercely changing the Education Landscape in India. Just last week it was also announced that Education is now a constitutional right of everyone.
Mass Communication is emerging as a viable career option with the advent of the fast growing media and communications industry over the last decade.
Mass Media platform with coverage spreads across broadcasting for infotainment to entertainment can be engineered across a number of fields such as advertising, public relations, entertainment, film-making and communication.
Now, CBSE board plans to include this buzzing industry of Mass Media as an under-graduate course in the school itself to students who have just stepped out of Class X.
What more? If all goes well, students can now opt for exclusive specialization in the field of Mass Media just like prevalent main stream fields of Science, Arts and Commerce in Class XI and XII. The course is expected to be offered to students in 21 schools in Mumbai, Pune and NCR, starting June 2010, before across the country coverage for this new filed in schools.
This step of likely introduction of Media courses at the school level is a welcome step towards a shift from mere theoretical based courses to a more realistic and practical way of approaching education.
Career in journalism is a fast growing and prestigious profession with prospects of high salary and income, among other new age businesses. The opportunities in the field of mass media are growing by leaps and bound and at the same time challenging in this fast moving and shrinking world.
The prospects of exclusively launching Mass Media courses in the school could lay a foundation for the industry to emerge as a standalone industry with specific categorization of interests among the interested students to specialize in the subjects of mass communications and media courses.
Mass media has the potential to transform India by better dissemination of news and other broadcasting services in almost all the fields of businesses. The extend of social changes that the mass media can bring in various field of businesses is still highly untapped and minor innovations can lead to quicker redressing of the long standing problem.
Inculcating of mass media preaching at a relatively early age can prove to be a booster dose for this fast emerging industry with wide spread coverage and potential to transform the prevalent procedures and processes of broadcasting and social awakening.
CBSE schools are also planning to introduce new syllabus conforming to board standards of International Baccalaureate (IB), as per a recent announcement by HRD Ministry. And, now, with the news of introducing Mass Media in schools under its purview, CBSE board is definitely making significant amendments towards the shift of the education pattern for the students.
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WILLIAM DOYLE – Great Spans of Muddy Time (DINKED NO.91)
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Tough Love is excited to share the first single from William Doyle’s remarkable new album Great Spans of Muddy Time, which will be released on 19th March 2021. Hear ‘And Everything Changed (But I Feel Alright)’ and watch its lyric video here. [insert link]
“Like other favourite songs of mine, this arrived when I least expected it, almost fully formed,” Doyle says of ‘And Everything Changed (But I Feel Alright)’. Representative of the album as a whole, the lead single is eclectic and unpredictable, but also playful and infectious. On top of gently pulsing electronics, soothing harmonies and glowing melodies, there’s also a ripping guitar solo that ricochets around the song like a pinball. “It’s partly a reaction to the complexity and excess of my last album. I wanted to get back into the craft of writing individual songs rather than being concerned with overarching concepts,” Doyle says.
It’s nearly a decade since William Doyle handed a CD-R demo to the Quietus co-founder John Doran at a gig, who loved it so much he set up a label to release Doyle’s debut EP (as East India Youth). Doyle’s debut album, Total Strife Forever, followed in 2014, as did a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize. A year later, he was signed to XL, touring the world and about to release his second album – all by the age of 25.
After self-releasing four ambient and instrumental albums, Doyle’s third full-length record – and the first under his own name – Your Wilderness Revisited arrived to ecstatic reviews in 2019: Line of Best Fit described it as “a dazzlingly beautiful triumph of intention” and Metro declared it an album not only of the year, but “of the century”. Just over a year later, as he turns 30, Doyle is back with Great Spans of Muddy Time.
Born from accident but driven forward by instinct, Great Spans’ was built from the remnants of a catastrophic hard-drive failure. With his work saved only to cassette tape, Doyle was forced to accept the recordings as they were – a sharp departure from his process on Your Wilderness Revisited, which took four long years to craft toward perfection. “Instead of feeling a loss that I could no longer craft these pieces into flawless ‘Works of Art’, I felt intensely liberated that they had been set free from my ceaseless tinkering,” Doyle says.
“The album this turned out to be – and that I’ve wanted to make for ages – is a kind of Englishman-gone-mad, scrambling around the verdancy of the country’s pastures looking for some sense,” says Doyle. “It has its seeds in Robert Wyatt, early Eno, Robyn Hitchcock, and Syd Barrett.” Doyle credits Bowie’s ever-influential Berlin trilogy, but also highlights a much less expected muse: Monty Don, presenter of the BBC programme Gardeners’ World, Doyle’s lockdown addiction.
“I became obsessed with Monty Don. I like his manner and there’s something about him I relate to. He once described periods of depression in his life as consisting of ‘nothing but great spans of muddy time’. When I read that quote I knew it would be the title of this record,” Doyle says. “Something about the sludgy mulch of the album’s darker moments, and its feel of perpetual autumnal evening, seemed to fit so well with those words. I would also be lying if I said it didn’t chime with my mental health experiences as well.”
Great Spans of Muddy Time is a beautiful ode to the power of accident, instinct and intuition. The result, however, is far from an anomaly: this celebration of the imperfect album is one that required years of honed craft and dedicated focus to achieve. “For the first time in my career, the distance between what I hear and what the listener hears is paper-thin,” Doyle says. “Perhaps therein reveals a deeper truth that the perfectionist brain can often dissolve.”
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2022 Audi Q5 Review: Sportback Debut
Posted on October 17, 2020 at November 9, 2020 by James
Audi updated Q5 for the season 2021, but the German company is not stopping there. The next 2022 Audi Q5 will bring the Sportback version with a more aggressive appearance. Well, the standard crossover will carry over the features to its new sibling. For the facelift, designers enlarged air intakes, added a couple of new paintjobs, and changed sill styling. At the back, the upcoming version will be more attractive, but there is also the OLED technology used for the taillights. Inside, the highlight is an updated MMI infotainment system. The premium crossover is coming with plenty of options.
The competition is the compact crossover segment is more than tough. Of course, the 2022 Audi Q5 will face the archrivals – BMW X3 and Mercedes GLC in every market it appears. Plus, there is an upscale Porsche Macan, which will introduce an electric version. Since the two companies are close partners, the 2022 Audi Q5 might also bring a battery as a source of power. The German carmaker is still testing and upgrading E-Tron technology.
Meanwhile, until the Sportback hits dealerships, we will see three standard packages for the starters. These are Premium, Premium Plus, and Prestige. The company also adds a performance-oriented version SQ5 and RS Q5might also joins the lineup.
2022 Audi Q5 Specs
The base configuration for the compact luxury crossover includes a turbo-four engine. A 2.0-liter mill is ready to deliver 248 hp and 273 lb-ft of torque. These are competitive numbers with its main rivals from BMW and Mercedes. The engine is sending power to all wheels, the popular Quattro system. The gas mileage of the 2022 Audi Q5 remains at 25 mpg. You can get more if you select the TFSI-e configuration. The same petrol unit is combined with the electric motor. The battery adds 105 kW and the total output of the system is 349 hp and 330 lb-ft of torque. The good thing about the PHEV system is that can run by using an electric source of power. Audi will try to extend the range from the current 20 miles.
The 2022 Audi SQ5 offers the same amount of power and even more torque (370 pound-feet). However, this version is using a V6 engine. A 3.0-liter turbocharged drivetrain is pretty thirsty. Not too many buyers will like 20 mpg of combined fuel economy. On the other hand, those who spend $55,000 on a luxury vehicle are not worried about the consumption. Still, it becomes annoying after some while visiting gas stations twice a week.
All three big German carmakers are out with concepts for electric crossovers. So, Audi has E-Tron, iX3 is BMW’s model, and EQC should be assembled in Mercedes plants. The 2022 Audi Q5 E-Tron is not in production yet, but we expect it as the next step of evolution from the PHEV system. According to predictions, the crossover will cover at least 220 miles from a single charge and the high-end versions are going to deliver more than 300 hp.
What is 2022 Audi Q5 Sportback?
Q5 rivals X3 and GLC. BMW and Mercedes have unique coupe upgrades with a more aggressive look of these vehicles – X4 and GLC Coupe. Now, Audi is entering the game with its own coupe crossover called the 2022 Audi Q5 Sportback. Images are showing the same vehicle as the standard Q5 upfront. There are equal noses, A-pillars. There are only minor changes that we can also find on the company’s sedans. The Sportback will be slightly longer than the regular version. But, only big fans will notice these small upgrades.
The entry-level model for the 2022 Audi Q5 remains the Premium. Now, it is upgraded with the latest MMI system. Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are standard. You will also get rain-sensing wipers and the base safety package. Premium Plus will add navigation, sunroof, and virtual cockpit. This is an upgrade that will cost you around $7,000. Also, part of the trim level is advanced safety features, such as blind-spot monitor and cross-traffic alert.
The Prestige model is the most luxurious, with HUD, premium sound by B&O, and adaptive cruise control. Its price is starting at $55,000. That is where the SQ starts with its V6 engine. However, heavily-loaded, it won’t exceed $60k, while the Q5 Prestige with options ends above $70k. All the options and packages will also be available for the Sportback edition.
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Cadillac reportedly axing the CTS wagon
Gentlemen and ladies, a moment of silence, please, for yet another excellent wagon. If a report by Car and Driver is to be believed, then Cadillac is reportedly scrapping the CTS wagon when the next-generation model comes around — including the 556 horsepower, rear-wheel-drive CTS-V Sport Wagon.
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Bob Lutz Confirms CTS-V Coupe and Wagon
Car and Driver recently had a talk with Bob Lutz of General Motors, and he confirmed that the Cadillac CTS-V will come in Coupe and Sport Wagon models.
Lutz stated that “You’ll be able to get the CTS-V any way you want.” In other words, you’ll be able to get it in Sport Wagon and the upcoming Coupe form. According to Autoblog though, everything which comes out of Lutz’ mouth should be taken with a grain of salt, and they have a point, so this may not be true, but I hope it is, as the CTS-V is a fine car, and I’m a huge fan of fast wagons. Coupe form should be pretty interesting as well.
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BREAKING: Trump Donates Second Quarter Salary to Public Health Advisory
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President Trump has donated his Q2 2019 salary to the office of the Surgeon General to fund an upcoming public health advisory.
Alex Azar, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, wrote:
President Trump has a sincere interest in #publichealth issues to which @HHSGov is going to devote his Q2 Salary donation. Thank you @POTUS for your leadership and for your generosity which will support an upcoming advisory from our @Surgeon_General @HHS_ASH.
— Secretary Alex Azar (@SecAzar) August 16, 2019
From USAToday
President Donald Trump wrote a check to donate his second quarter 2019 salary to the office of the Surgeon General to fund an upcoming public health advisory, the White House told USA TODAY.
It’s his third salary donation to the Department of Health and Human Services.
“The President recognizes the important mission of the Surgeon General to protect and improve the health of all Americans, including helping to tackle the opioid epidemic and raise awareness of the dangers of e-cigarette usage among teenagers and children,” the White House said in a statement.
The $100,000 will be used to fund an upcoming public health advisory, but officials declined to say the subject.
When he was running for office, Trump pledged that he wouldn’t accept his $400,000 annual presidential salary if elected. But because he has to be paid under law, he has been donating the payment to different ares of the federal government.
“His decision to donate his salary is a tribute to his compassion, to his patriotism, and to his sense of duty to the American people,” said HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley. “He has a sincere interest in public health issues to which HHS is going to devote his donation.”
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Where To Find the Best Doner Kebab in Istanbul
Turkey’s iconic doner kebab has been perfected at Kardeşler Lokantası | © Hale Erguvenc / Alamy Stock Photo
Mindy Yartaşı
Turkey’s iconic doner kebab has been perfected at Kardeşler Lokantası, a small restaurant in Istanbul’s humble neighbourhood of Kemerburgaz, thanks to the dedication of its 86-year-old owner Mehmet Akkaya.
Hidden in the urban high-rise sprawl of Istanbul’s European side is a dense patch of forest stretching for miles, an oasis in a desert of concrete. Nestled in this sea of green, sandwiched between Istanbul Airport and the rest of the city, is the quaint neighbourhood of Kemerburgaz. With its modest two-storey houses and corner shops, it isn’t what you’d call a major tourist attraction, but Istanbulites know this is the home of the best doner kebab in the city.
Like the rest of the community, Kardeşler Lokantası is low-key. There is no valet or million-dollar Bosphorus view. In fact, not much catches the eye about the restaurant’s single-storey venue other than the juicy doner being spun and expertly shaved in the front window and the steady stream of customers flowing in and out through the long strands of ’70s-style beads at the entrance. The magic happens inside, where the food speaks for itself, and it spins tales of original recipes and pride in a job well done.
Turkey’s iconic doner kebab has been perfected at Kardeşler Lokantası | © Hakan Tanak / Alamy Stock Photo
Humble successes
The restaurant’s owner and founder, 86-year-old Mehmet Akkaya, has been there virtually every day for 45 years to serve loyal customers. He has a soft-spoken yet welcoming air, and it’s easy to see why regulars make sure to say hello before paying their bill. Akkaya sat down with Culture Trip to tell us how his restaurant, which opened in 1974, has withstood the pressure of Istanbul’s rapid modernisation.
Owner Mehmet Akkaya has been here almost every day for 45 years | © Mindy Yartasi
Akkaya started cooking when he was 10. “These are all our recipes,” he says of his menu. “We created them. I worked with a chef as an assistant and learned over the years. Now, my son is over there at the cash register, and my nephew is working with us too.” The family-run business offers a warm atmosphere for its customers, with strangers sharing a table at the restaurant’s busiest times. The dishes available on any given day keep warm in the cart near the back, where customers can take a gander at what Akkaya, who is happy to help you choose as he doles out meals, has created that day.
Decades of dedication
Istanbul has morphed into a modern metropolis over the past 45 years, and Kardeşler’s food has stood the test of time and change. “Years ago, there were 40 to 50 coal mines in this area, and we stayed open nearly 24 hours a day because we were the truckers’ favourite place to eat. Every mine had 100 trucks that travelled along this road every day to transport coal. This road was full of trucks,” says Akkaya. The mines have long since closed and the area has been widely gentrified, but according to Akkaya, God’s been on his side. “Allah has provided new customers. Now we get factory workers, bank managers, market owners, doctors and almost any other type of profession you can think of. ”
For 40 years, Akkaya made or oversaw the making of the dishes and his famous doner kebab, but he has now passed the tradition down to one of his sons. “Nowadays, my other son comes in at 3am to start the soups for our customers, who start coming at 5am, and then they start on the main dishes and cutting meat for the doner.”
Akkaya made or oversaw the making of all the dishes | © Mindy Yartasi
The perfect doner
Popular since the 17th century, there are few Turkish foods more iconic than a slowly spinning rotisserie of doner kebab. Originally, the kebab was made with lamb, but nowadays it is prepared with a mixture of lamb and beef, just beef or even chicken – and the quality varies greatly. Though many restaurants buy pre-made kebabs, the best doner venues, like Kardeşler, prepare their own.
Akkaya has beef transported from the coastal province of Balıkesir, a region 300 kilometres (186 miles) away that is known for its quality livestock. “We buy our meat from Balıkesir, so it is always fresh, and we use a variety of cuts for our dishes. The meat we use is some of the best in the country. We buy large pieces, cut it ourselves and use the bones to make broth for our soups. Some cuts are used for the doner; others are used to make our kebabs and our main dishes. Doner is made from many different cuts of beef, specifically the brisket and thigh, and layered with cuts of lamb.”
Early every morning, the cooks at Kardeşler prepare a doner kebab weighing in at around 70 kilograms (154 pounds) – around 20 percent is lamb, and the rest beef. The kebab sells out by 3pm, every day.
There are few Turkish foods more iconic than a spinning rotisserie of doner kebab | © AM Stock 2 / Alamy Stock Photo
Slicing the doner from the rotisserie requires a steady hand and well-trained professionals are often known for their short tempers, which, according to Akkaya, is a prerequisite for the job. Chuckling to himself, he says, “If our master carver wasn’t always grumpy, the doner wouldn’t taste as good.”
Aside from moody carvers, what has led to success where so many others have failed? Akkaya says it’s simple. “I love my job! I’m always here. What else can I say?”
Slicing the doner from the rotisserie requires a steady hand | © Sam Dao / Alamy Stock Photo
What to try
Turkish cuisine relies heavily on soup, often eaten as a hearty breakfast with fresh bread. Sticking with tradition, Kardeşler offers a nice variety of classic Turkish soups starting at 5am, including yellow lentil (mercimek) and spiced red lentil (ezogelin). They also offer Turkish favourites tripe (işkembe) and head meat (kelle paça) soup, served with garlic sauce and vinegar, as well as beef broth, known as wedding, or düğün, soup.
If you’re looking for comfort food, the baked macaroni (fırında makarana) with béchamel sauce or stuffed, fried meatballs (içli köfte) fit the bill. For those watching their waistline, the baked artichokes (enginar) stuffed with peas, diced carrots and potatoes are also excellent.
In addition to their amazing doner, Kardeşler offers slow-cooked white beans (kuru fasuliye) and chickpeas (noghurt) with either white rice or bulgar pilaf, daily. Their other main dishes change according to the season but often include stuffed vegetables, aubergine kebabs (patlacan kebap), stuffed lamb liver (ciğer sarması) and a variety of sautéed or baked meats served with potatoes or rice. If you’re looking for something grilled, they also offer steaks and spiced meatballs (köfte).
Kardeşler Lokantası offers a delectable range of main dishes | © Mindy Yartasi
Remember to save room for dessert, because the baked rice pudding (sütlaç) topped with chopped hazelnuts is a must. They also offer an almond pudding (keşkül) and syrupy cookies called şekerpare, both of which are great with a cup of tea.
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The CyberWire Daily Briefing for 2.20.2013
Sino-American ties are strained by evidence of a massive Chinese cyber espionage campaign against US media outlets and other companies (among which utilities are curiously overrepresented). China's government categorically denies it all, but few observers are buying their protestations of innocence. (Wall Street Journal and New York Times editorial pages, rarely ideological bedfellows, read like Hearst and Pulitzer circa 1898.) Mandiant, whose investigation fingered the People's Liberation Army, stands by its report, and says (with commendable swagger) it expects retaliation. (CyberWire will follow Mandiant's fortunes with interest and best wishes.)
Lessons from this much-discussed imbroglio include the value of open sources (Anonymous rants and incautious Chinese operators' social media presence among them) and a corollary reminder not to mistake information's cost with its value. There's also a question: US-Chinese cyber conflict doesn't seem entirely like a war (the two countries remain close trading partners, even as the US Administration considers legal retaliation for Chinese hacking) but it isn't remotely an alliance, either. So what is it, and how can beneficial trade persist without unacceptable security risk?
McAfee researchers find a polymorphic autorun worm that evades detection through VM-awareness and advanced obfuscation.
Apple fixes its recently exploited Java vulnerability, Oracle issues another security patch, and Mozilla addresses PDF vulnerabilities. Adobe's promised patches have yet to appear.
US budget cuts are scheduled to hit next week. The US Navy says major (ACAT 1) programs are at risk (but the Navy's cyber chief sees a silver lining and expects austerity to bring innovation).
Notes.
Today's issue includes events affecting Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Russia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States..
Cyber Trends
Lessons Learned From A Decade Of Vulnerabilities (Dark Reading) A pair of reports look at the trends in vulnerability disclosure over a decade or more. Here are four lessons from the data on more than 50,000 flaws
The cyber war is real -- and our defenses are weak (InfoWorld) I used to think "cyber war" was the most overhyped security buzzphrase of all time. And it was -- until Stuxnet and APTs (advanced persistent threats) arrived. Now, as Bob Violino detailed in his recent InfoWorld article, all-out cyber war has begun
The Looming Certainty Of A Cyber Pearl Harbor (Politico) To state the painfully obvious, Washington is not a town filled with much unanimity these days. But on one subject there is common ground: the recognition of Americas vulnerability to and the threat from cyberattacks. The concern is so great that many argue it is only a matter of time until we face a so-called cyber Pearl Harbor. As outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta put it, a sudden, massive cyberattack would paralyze and shock the nation and create a new, profound sense of vulnerability
Cyber is a fraudulent weapon in a nonexistent war (THe Week) Corporate fearmongers are eager to make a fortune from the phony threat of cyber-terror. Just as the war on terror is winding down, a so-called cyber war is spinning up. How very fortunate for government contractors like BAE Systems. Historically, we would call attempts by foreign countries to acquire information from American government and industry "espionage." The problem is that spies aren't all that scary. But cyber war? It's a perfectly meaningless phrase to frighten a perfectly credulous government. When contractors really want to tighten their coils, they make "cyber" the prefix to "terror"
Critical infrastructure protection: Maybe thinking good thoughts will make us safe (Computer World) Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) retired in January after quite a colorful two-dozen years in the U.S. Senate. One of the major issues he pushed for during his last few years in office was protection of the U.S. critical infrastructure. Along with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lieberman put forth a series of bills aimed at requiring some level of protection for such infrastructure, the last of these being voted down in November
Your Company's Employer Brand Could Be the Victim of an Identity Thief (ERE) In the comedy movie "Identity Thief," mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson (played by Jason Bateman) travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman (played by Melissa McCarthy) who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity. It's a funny movie and in its first weekend it grossed over $34 million dollars at the box office
The sophistication of risky apps, mobile misbehavior and spyware (Help Net Security) McAfee released the results of a new report, documenting sophisticated and complex risky apps containing multi-faceted scams, black market crimes, drive-by downloads and near-field communication threats
Security pros should listen with their heads, not their hearts (Help Net Security) There is a phrase that has become quite popular in information security circles and it goes along the lines of "there are two types of organizations, those that have been breached and those that don't know they've been breached"
Cloud maturity seen in expanding enterprise security focus (ZDNet) Summary: RSA Conference week will kick off with Cloud Security Alliance Summit that examines issues from identity, to mobile to national securit
Cyber resilience overtaking security compliance as top business priority: Deloitte (CSO) Cyber resilience is becoming a top business priority for the world's largest technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies, according to Deloitte's TMT Global Security Study
Legislation, Policy and Regulation
How will EU cybersecurity directive affect business? (Computer Weekly) Since the publication of the EUs proposed cyber security strategy and supporting directive, much of the focus has been on how difficult it will be to implement and how effective it will be in improving data security. But what effect will it have on business? The most obvious effect is that it will mean additional costs for all businesses covered by the proposed directive in terms of creating new processes and acquiring new technology to comply
Why Banks Benefit from New Cyber Bill - BITS: Legislation is an Aid to Thwarting Threats (Bank Information Security) Information sharing within the financial sector has been critical in thwarting cyber-attacks. Legislation pending before Congress would help bridge the information gap among industries, says Paul Smocer of BITS. If passed, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act "will have a positive impact" because it will pave the way for sharing more threat information among various business sectors says Paul Smocer, president of BITS, the technology policy division of the Financial Services Roundtable."Information sharing in the financial-services sector is probably far more advanced than it is in other sectors," he notes
Products, Services, and Solutions
Canonical launches Ubuntu tablet interface (IT World) Canonical has introduced the Ubuntu tablet interface, which will compete with Android, iOS and Windows with its own take on multitasking and advanced security features. The launch is the next step in Canonical's quest to unify phones, tablets, PCs and TVs
Google Says Gmail Security Measures Have Reduced Account Hijacks By 99 Percent (Threatpost) Gmail accounts are high-priority targets for attackers of all stripes, particularly spam crews and state-sponsored attackers who use them to monitor the activities of activists and journalists. Hijacking those accounts can be quite useful for spammers and malware gangs as well, but Google said that it has put security measures in place that have greatly reduced the number of successful hijack attempts. In the last few years, the company has added a number of security systems to Gmail and its other services to help protect users' accounts
Cavium Introduces TurboDPI II For OCTEON Processors - Takes Deep Packet Inspection to the Next Level (Daily Markets) TurboDPI II Offers Nine Production-Ready DPI Modules Including Inspection, Extraction and Insertion for Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center, 3G/4G/LTE Wireless Equipment Manufacturers
Antibot: Network-based botnet removal tool (Help Net Security) Botnets are flourishing with new packaging, new methods and new business models. ZeroAccess, the world's fastest-growing botnet, infected millions of computers in 2012, using them to commit large-scale
Virtual appliance fuels Bring Your Own Identity (Help Net Security) NetIQ announced SocialAccess, a virtual appliance that allows business and government entities to leverage social identity providers to share select identity information for authentication via OAuth
Modeling, customizing, and automating applications with AWS OpsWorks (Help Net Security) Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks, an application management solution for the complete lifecycle of complex applications, including resource provisioning, configuration management, deployment
Duo Security launches secure mobile ID (Help Net Security) Duo Security announced that the high level of security traditionally associated with hardware smart cards is now available on consumer mobile devices that use Duo's two-factor authentication service
F5 Networks releases hybrid cloud solution for mobile application management (Help Net Security) F5 Networks announced F5 Mobile App Manager, a new hybrid cloud solution for mobile application management that enables organizations to safely support enterprise BYOD initiatives
Opera's WebKit Move Isolates Mozilla (InformationWeek) Opera makes its browser more broadly appealing but diminishes diversity of the Web browser technology stack
Making sense of stricter Office 2013 retail license (FierceCIO: TechWatch) Microsoft has confirmed that a retail copy of its new Office 2013 productivity suite is permanently tied to the PC that it is first installed on. The issue initially arose after the more stringent EULA, or End-User Licensing Agreement, for Office 2013 came to light, specifically its wording: "Our software license is permanently assigned to the licensed computer"
Windows 7 RTM to lose official support in April (FierceCIO: TechWatch) The Windows 7 Service Pack 1 will become the only officially supported version of the popular PC operating system as of April 9, in adherence to Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) policy of dropping support for the initial edition 24 months after the release of the first service pack
Nokia faces challenge in smart feature phone market (FierceMobileIT) Samsung is taking on Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the smart feature phone market with the launch of its REX line of mobile phones
Report: Samsung developing mobile enterprise platform to compete with BlackBerry (FierceMobileIT) Samsung is developing a mobile enterprise platform to challenge the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, according to a client note from brokerage firm Detwiler Fenton
Technologies, Techniques, and Standards
5 Overlooked Cloud-Based Compliance Dangers (Dark Reading) Fully understanding risks helps avoid expensive surprises later. We all know the use of cloud-based resources is becoming increasingly common in organizations of all sizes. This can range from large-scale systems to small software-as-a-service tools. While convenient and sometimes quite cost-effective, this trend creates several compliance and data security dangers that are often overlooked. Here are five of the most serious issues
Rashomonitoring (Dark Reading) When you don't know who to believe. There's something to be said for pure, unprocessed data: You know it doesn't come with any assumptions. Here's a simple example: Logs show use of an application from an executive's phone in Maryland
Japan Looks to Taiwan to Disaster-Proof Telecom (IEEE Spectrum) Software and wireless experience could help realize a wireless service that bounces back
Magazine article on Chinese online takedown services gets taken down (Ars Technica) A recent magazine article detailing the baffling inner workings of China's "black PR" industry—where companies pay to have bad press scrubbed from the Chinese Internet—has, itself, been taken down. The article reported on firms that had apparently figured out how to game China's Internet monitoring and filtering system into a simple way to make money
Darknet: Surfing the underground black markets (YouTube) Using the live Linux distro Tails to connect to the Tor network and log into Blackmarket Reloaded to show how fast and easy it is
Darknet: Mobile Hidden Service (YouTube) "This will cover a quick way to set up a darknet hidden service using portableapps. com for mobility. Includes using xampp apache and the Tor Browser Bundle"
How CSOs are enabling secure BYOD (Help Net Security) Wisegate released a new report that answers the industrys most complex Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) questions while providing expert insight to help CSOs successfully build policies and effectively manage employee owned devices in the enterprise. The report shares the latest perspectives of CSO members from across industries who agree that while allowing employees to use their own mobile devices improves job satisfaction and can increase productivity, it also raises serious questions about how to secure these devices when they are no longer completely under ITs control. The explosion of employee owned devices being used in the enterprise has quickly become a main focus for CSOs, said Bill Burns, Director of IT Security & Networking and Wisegate Member
Tips to overcome PHI security obstacles (Help Net Security) Healthcare organizations privacy programs are still understaffed and underfunded, even while millions of patients protected health information (PHI) are compromised. Securing PHI in healthcare is an obstacle, with 94 percent of healthcare organizations suffering data breaches in the past two years, according to the Third Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security. Organizations face new challenges with the recent release of the HIPAA Final Omnibus Rule
Mocny: US-VISIT biometric tech becoming world standard (FierceGovernmentIT) Broad-based use of biometric screening standards worldwide and interoperability between the Homeland Security Department and other agency systems are among the most significant technology improvements since Sept. 11, 2001, says Robert Mocny, DHS director of US-VISIT. Mocny spoke at a Feb. 7 Center for Strategic and International Studies event in Washington, D.C
NIEM 3.0 on schedule for fall release, say architecture committee members (FierceGovernmentIT) A beta release of the third version of the National Information Exchange Model should be ready by this summer with release candidates complete by this August or September, said Andrew Owen, NIEM technical architecture committee co-chair, while speaking Feb. 15 during an online meeting of NIEM stakeholders
The next gen database: Is it a one-or-the-other, all-or-nothing proposition? (FierceBigData) Where would tech news be without its holy wars? We'll never know. The freshest skirmishes have broken out among adherents to either relational or non-relational databases, better known as NoSQL and tied--at least in the headlines--most tightly with big data
Lack of standardization, evidence hinders wireless patient monitoring (FierceMobileHealthCare) Although venture capitalists recognize the potential for long-term returns from bringing "disruptive" wireless patient monitoring (WPM) technologies to market, the lack of standards in interoperability may delay the scaling up of these technologies, says a new report from research firm Frost & Sullivan
Integrating business continuity management with IT risk management (CSO) LockPath's Chris Goodwin says disconnects create risk instead of reducing it. Most organizations are transitioning, or have already transitioned, to a risk-based approach to security management. However, many of those IT risk management practices still suffer from a degree of fragmentation that hinders the ability of executives to see a reasonably complete picture and make well-informed, commercially reasonable, legally defensible decisions
Mabus: Automatic Defense Cuts Could Break Ship, Aircraft Contracts (Stripes.com) Massive cuts to the defense budget scheduled to take place March 1 could jeopardize acquisition of future Navy ships and planes purchased under multi-year contracts, the Navys top civilian leader said Wednesday
Navy Cyber Chief: Budget Crunch Will Drive Innovation, Force Jointness (AOL) Since 9/11, the armed services have made great strides in applying information technology to warfare -- but their implementation to date has relied on costly, manpower-intensive "brute force," said the Navy's director for "information dominance," Rear Adm. William Leigher. As budgets tighten, he said, the services will have no choice but to operate more efficiently and, above all, more cooperatively with one another."This is going to force us to take a different approach with jointness," Leigher told the audience at an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) luncheon yesterday. Under the growing fiscal pressure, he said, consolidation of separate networks to a single "joint information environment [JIE] becomes more possible in this downturn…than it might have been
Obama's Forecast On Cuts Is Dire, But Timing Is Disputed (New York Times) President Obama on Tuesday painted a dire picture of federal government operations across the United States should automatic budget cuts hit on March 1: F.B.I. agents furloughed, criminals released, flights delayed, teachers and police officers laid off and parents frantic to find a place for children locked out of day care centers
As Cuts Near, Focus Is On Blame (Washington Post) The fight between President Obama and congressional Republicans over the automatic spending cuts that start next week is shifting from one about stopping them to one about assigning blame if they happen
DOD Expected To Announce Plan To Furlough 800,000 Civilian Workers (Stars and Stripes) The Defense Department intends to notify Congress on Wednesday of a plan to furlough nearly 800,000 civilian employees one day each week beginning in April, a defense official said Tuesday
Sweeping Cuts For Army, Navy (USA Today) Budget cuts by the Army and Navy scheduled to take effect March 1 would force more than $26 billion in wage and spending reductions and prompt furloughs or layoffs for more than 450,000 people nationwide, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY
O'Malley names state cyber security czar (Baltimore Sun) Gov. Martin O'Malley tapped a private-sector cyber security veteran to lead a push to promote that industry's job growth in the state, he announced in a visit to Hanover company KEYW Corp. Tuesday. Jeani Park will serve as Maryland's director of cyber development as the state works to woo more cyber firms and train more workers for the growing field. Park has worked in product strategy and marketing for companies including Hewlett Packard and Dell
GSA announces consolidation of IT under CIO (FierceGovernmentIT) The General Services Administration announced Feb. 19 it will consolidate all information technology personnel, budgets and systems under the authority of its chief information officer
VA CIO Roger Baker resigns (FierceGovernmentIT) Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer Roger Baker announced his resignation in a Feb. 15 email sent to VA information technology staff
The tragedy of Roger Baker (FierceGovernmentIT) Roger Baker's decision to leave the Veterans Affairs Department is, on reflection, a tragedy. Yes, it comes shortly after his lamentable participation in the joint VA-Defense Department total whitewash of a presentation announcing cancelation of the iEHR program
IDEX: Boeing and SecureTech join to enhance UAE Cybersecurity (Arabian Aerospace) Boeing and SecureTech will collaborate to jointly offer solutions that protect critical data and national infrastructure for customers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the region through a cybersecurity agreement signed yesterday during the 2013 International Defence Exhibition Conference in Abu Dhabi
SAIC To Analyze DoD Antennas, Develop Software (GovConWire) Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) has won a potential $65 million contract from the U.S. Defense Department to perform software development and analyze and design antennas. 'This indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains one base year and four option years, the company said Monday. "We look forward to continuing to provide manufacturing and engineering support services to
Dan Hushon Named CSC CTO (GovConWire) Dan Hushon, a former chief technologist at EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC), has joined Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) as chief technology officer. Hushon's appointment is effective Feb. 28 and he will report to Mike Lawrie, chairman and CEO, the company said Thursday. The 20-year information technology industry veteran has also held chief technologist roles within
Meet the Company That's Profiting From Chinese Hacking (Slate) A big story out today seems to confirm longstanding suspicions that computer-hacking emanating from China is an official tool of PRC government policy, in this case People's Liberation Army Unit 61398. The sources pointing in that direction are multiple, but a key source of information is a detailed 60-page report from U.S.-based cybersecurity firm Mandiant, released today for all to read
Manos Antonakakis of Damballa Appointed Co-Chair of M(3)AAWG (MarketWatch) At Damballa, Dr. Antonakakis directs advanced research projects and university collaborations. He is responsible for developing several patent-pending cyber
RSA Update: CyberPoint's Jerry Caponera will speak about how the Prescient Program enhanced the security of a Chinese-made VTC system (MarketWatch) During next week's RSA conference, Jerry Caponera will discuss how CyberPoint's Prescient Program enhanced the security of a Chinese-made VTC. Since its inception in 2011, the Prescient Program has developed solutions to ease heightened US security concerns over Chinese and other foreign-made technology products
Sandia draws from nuclear science in inaugurating new cyber lab (Nextgov) Sandia National Laboratories on Tuesday will inaugurate a cybersecurity center to perform offensive and defensive warfighting techniques that onsite nuclear weapons scientists have been practicing for decades. The Cybersecurity Engineering Research Laboratory, which began operating in 2011, draws from nuclear research and development to test hardware vulnerabilities in closed facilities and model cyberweapons on supercomputers, Sandia officials said. Cybersecurity is one of the New Mexico-based labs defense systems missions
Security Patches, Mitigations, and Software Updates
Update Palooza (Internet Storm Center) If you are easily confused like me, you may appreciate this quick summary as to the different updates released the last couple of days
Oracle Patches Critical Java Flaws in 7u15 (Threatpost) On a day when Java zero day exploits were fingered in attacks against Apple, Facebook and Twitter, Oracle released the remainder of its quarterly security patch updates for the Java platform
Firefox 19 Fixes HTTPS Phishing Issue, Adds Built-In PDF Viewer (Threatpost) Mozilla has released Firefox 19, the latest version of its flagship browser, which includes not only fixes for a number of serious security vulnerabilities but also a built-in PDF viewer. The native PDF viewer in Firefox could help protect against some of the ongoing attacks that use vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and other PDF readers as infection vectors
Kaspersky apologizes for antivirus update that continues to disrupt customer nets (CSO) Kaspersky Lab's flawed anti-malware update that went out Feb. 5 for the Kaspersky Endpoint Security product continues to cause serious disruptions in enterprise networks. And Kaspersky, which has released ensuing patches aimed at remedying the problems caused by the first bad update, is apologizing for the ongoing problems
Apple patches the Java hole its own developers fell into - eventually (Naked Security) Shortly after admitting that its own techies got infected thanks to a Java hole, Apple has pushed out a Java update for the rest of us. Apple, with this most recent update, seems to have washed its hands permanently of browser-based Java. Paul Ducklin explains
US Ready To Strike Back Against China Cyberattacks (Yahoo.com) As public evidence mounts that the Chinese military is responsible for stealing massive amounts of U.S. government data and corporate trade secrets, the Obama administration is eyeing fines and other trade actions it may take against Beijing or any other country guilty of cyberespionage
U.S., China Ties Tested In Cyberspace (Wall Street Journal) Ties between China and the U.S., strained by military rivalries and maritime disputes, may face an even greater test from the newest front in global conflict: cyberspace. U.S. military and homeland security officials quietly have long blamed the Chinese military for the most egregious assaults on U.S. computer networks
China denies cyber attack allegations (BBC News) A secretive branch of China's military is probably one of the world's "most prolific cyber espionage groups", a US cyber security firm has said. Mandiant said Unit 61398 was believed to have "systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data" from at
Chinese Army unit is behind cyber espionage campaigns, researchers claim (Help Net Security) Mandiant, the computer forensic and incidence response firm that got called in following the recent breaches of the New York Times' and Wall Street Journal's networks, has issued a comprehensive report
Mandiant Used Data Leaked by Anonymous in 2011 to Investigate Chinese Hackers (Softpedia) In the report highlighting the activities of the Chinese cyber espionage unit responsible for breaching the systems of over 140 organizations, security firm Mandiant has also published the details of three personas believed to be involved in the APT1 campaign. So far, weve covered numerous aspects of the APT1 report, but theres another one worth noting. In order to collect information on the three hackers, Ugly Gorilla, DOTA and SuperHard, Mandiant relied on data leaked online by Anonymous back in 2011
It turns out that Chinese cyberspies love Facebook, too (IT World) Our nation is under attack by an army of Chinese hackers. But even they managed to get outed by their own social media accounts. Yesterday the New York Times revealed a blockbuster report about how deeply Chinese spies have insinuated themselves into more than 140 US and Canadian companies, many of them related to the power grid
6 Types of Data Chinese Hackers Pilfer - Mandiant Highlights Broad Range of Info Stolen from Victims (Bank Information Security) IT security provider Mandiant lists six categories of information that's commonly pilfered from business and government computers by hackers from a Chinese military unit it dubs APT1. Mandiant's findings appear in a comprehensive report issued Feb. 18 that the security firm contends documents how APT1 has breached computers in enterprises that conduct business mostly in English, especially in the United States [see map below]. China denies the allegations presented in the report
China's Online Thieves (Wall Street Journal) Mandiant Corp., the network security firm hired by the Journal and others hacked by the Chinese government, has released compelling evidence that the People's Liberation Army conducted hacking attacks on 115 U.S. corporations over the last seven years. Huge amounts of data and proprietary information were taken. The report even traces the digital footprints to a single building, the headquarters of PLA Unit 61398 on Datong Road in Shanghai
China's Cybergames (New York Times) Washington has not had much success persuading Beijing to rein in its hackers even though American officials and security experts have long known that China is the main source of cyberattacks on the United States. Two recent developments, however, should raise the political costs for China and may cause it to alter its calculus. Refusal to change its conduct could make its relations with the United States even more difficult than they are
Chinese Army link to hack no reason for cyberwar (CSO) Finding of China's involvement in recent hacks in U.S not an act of war because it's cyberespionage, says proponent of proactive defense. Security vendor Mandiant's 60-page report on Chinese cyberespionage, which offers proof that it is coming from a Chinese military unit housed in a building in the Pudong district of Shanghai, adds new fuel to two hotly debated cybersecurity questions. First, does this mean the quest for 100% certainty in "attribution" of intrusions has been achieved? And second, does that mean the U.S. is justified in taking what government officials like to call "active defense" measures -- what most others call "retaliation" or "offense"? Security experts are divided on the issue
Chinese cyber spies: Pwning U.S. businesses since 2006 (InfoWorld) The New York Times issued another blockbuster report yesterday revealing just how thoroughly U.S. companies have been pwned by Chinese cyber spies over the last few years. The Chinese government immediately took to Twitter, accusing the Times of publishing a "fake" account and having a bias against hackers of Chinese origin as well as $100,000 electric vehicles. (I'm kidding about that last bit
Is Australia next for Chinese cyber-attacks? (SBS World News) A US report details China's involvement in cyber-attacks on US companies and institutions, but experts say little is known about US attacks on China and that Australia too is at risk of Chinese cyber espionage
Several Chinese Government Sites Defaced by Algerian Hackers (Softpedia) In a statement issued earlier today, Chinese officials complained that their cyberspace was constantly targeted by hackers from abroad. One of the hacker groups involved in the attacks against the Chinese government is the Algerian Barbados-DZ collective. In the period between January 29 and February 19, the hackers defaced a total of 22 websites owned by the Chinese government, HackRead reports
Apple claims cyber-attack on staff computers by hackers that targeted Facebook (Russia Today) Apple has confirmed it has sustained the widest known cyber-attack on its computers. While the company is trying to downplay the consequences, the full extent of the breach is not
Apple targeted by Java zero-day bug (SlashGear) Last week, Facebook was attacked by a zero-day Java exploit. While the social network said that no personal data was stolen, it's never too comforting when companies and services get hacked. This week, however, Apple was the target this time around
Malware Attack on Apple Said to Come From Eastern Europe (Bloomberg) At least 40 companies including Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. were targeted in malware attacks linked to an Eastern European gang of hackers that is trying steal company secrets, two people familiar with the matter said. Apple, one of three victims to publicly disclose attacks this month, said some of its internal Mac systems were affected by a malware attack. The hackers used an iPhone-developer website, according to the people familiar with law enforcement efforts, including investigations by the FBI and Secret Service, and didnt want to be identified because of the probe
JEA website whacked by cyber-attack (Florida Times-Union) A cyber attack that shut down JEA's email caused the Jacksonville utility to suspend orders to disconnect overdue utility accounts Tuesday, the third day of a denial-of-service assault on its computers. The electronic mischief wasn't affecting power
JEA cyber attack, what does it mean? (Business Journal) JEA's website was shut down from a "denial of service" cyber-attack this week, knocking out the company's website and some payment systems. As of 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, it was still down. Those of you still timid about paying your bills online (like me, a
Rogue Chrome extension racks up Facebook likes for online bandits (CSO) Security researchers at Bitdefender have discovered a newA phishing scam that installs a malicious extension in the Chrome web browser in order to turn Facebook 'likes' into cash for cyber crooks. The exploit begins with a malicious link embedded in spam email, saysA Bogdan Botezatu, a senior e-threat analyst atA Bitdefender.A The link ushers you to the Chrome Web Store, where you download an extension for a "business" Flash player--assuming you're foolish enough to click on spam links
Researchers Uncover Polymorphic AutoRun Worm (Threatpost) W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb-h is an evolved, virtual machine-aware AutoRun worm that makes use of obfuscation and polymorphic techniques in order to evade detection and infect removable media and mounted network shares, according to McAfee
Cyber attack hits Central Hudson customer data (Poughkeepsie Journal) Customers of Central Hudson are being warned that their private banking data may have been compromised by a cyber security attack over the weekend. "Out of an abundance of caution, we are recommending that all customers monitor their credit reports
Microsoft Support Calling Customers, Or A SCAM! (Dark Reading) Microsoft is becoming proactive by calling their end users to ensure they are applying the latest security patches, or it's a social engineering scam? One weekday evening, the telephone rings unexpectedly. Brenton, a Sophos strategic account executive, pulls himself away from graduate school reading to see who could be calling. The caller ID was unhelpful as it usually is when it's being masked
Delta Airlines spam delivers Citadel Trojan (Help Net Security) Roman Huessy over at Zeus Tracker warns about a Delta Airlines-themed spam campaign that ultimately leads to a variant of the Citadel malware - a banking Trojan that is based on Zeus' source code
EDUCAUSE Hacked, Users Advised to Change Passwords (Softpedia) On Tuesday, EDUCAUSE a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of IT published an advisory urging users to immediately change their passwords because hackers had breached one of the organizations servers. According to EDUCAUSE, the cybercriminals might have gained access to information such as names, titles, email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords. On the other hand, the breach might have also compromised the hashed passwords of . edu domain holders
Jeeps' Twitter Account Hacked, DJ Blamed (Softpedia) The official Twitter account of Jeep, the world-renowned brand of American automobiles, has been hacked. The hacker said that Jeep had been sold to Cadillac. Yesterday, Burger King fell victim to a similar attack
Hackers Leak Data from Montreal Police Department Databases (Softpedia) Earlier this month, hackers published the names, phone numbers and job titles of thousands of individuals allegedly working for the Montreal police department (SVPM). The hackers accused the organization of tormenting the people of Montreal. The people do not sit idly under the SPVM, the SPVM sit idly under the people
Anonymous Takes On State Department, More Banks (InformationWeek) Hacktivist group says it will release work email addresses for more than 170 U.S. State Department employees in fifth round of Operation Last Resort attacks
How to filch explicit photos to fuel your revenge porn site (Naked Security) IsAnybodyDown's owner apparently impersonated a woman to trick victims into sending him nude photos. Showing true monopolistic genius, he also seems to be running the photo-takedown service that promises to get those photos off his site - for a fee
Why the Bit9 Hack is Not a Failure of Application Control, Whitelisting (lumension) There's never a dull day in the security industry. Anymore, we rarely have to look beyond the proverbial front page for news on the latest hack. Cyber attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication and no one is immune
Hybrid mobile payment products open up security risks, warns Frost & Sullivan (FierceMobileIT) The integration of cloud-based offerings and near-field communication technology in the mobile payments market poses security risks, warned research firm Frost & Sullivan. A cloud-based mobile payment product uses a mobile app, such as PayPal, which requires authentication prior to connecting with the cloud-stored account details to process the transaction. Data is stored virtually and is not easy to access or track, assuming the cloud provider offers appropriate protection, Frost & Sullivan explained
Software update goes bad - International Space Station lost and then found (Naked Security) Even if you have everything from Plan B all the way to Plan Z just in case the A-plan fails, you'll know that things can still go wrong. So spare a thought for NASA flight controllers, who lost contact with the ISS for a nerve-racking three hours during a recent software update
Pearson Launches Catalyst, An EdTech Incubator That The Publisher Hopes Will Give It More Startup Mojo (TechCrunch) On the heels of Kaplan linking up with TechStars to offer an edtech accelerator program in New York City, educational publishing giant Pearson is also wading further into startup waters to help propel the company further into the 21st century and away from declining, old media business models
Oxford University briefly blocks Google Docs in anti-phishing effort (CSO) Faced with an epidemic of phishing attacks on its academic networks, Oxford University took drastic measures: It blocked Google Docs. The tactic was short-lived, however. "It is fair to say that the impact on legitimate business was greater than anticipated, in part owing to the tight integration of Google Docs into other Google services," Robin Stevens, of Oxford's Computer Emergency Response Team (OxCERT) wrote in a university blog Monday
Litigation, Investigation, and Enforcement
Security And Privacy Legal Cases Vie For 2013 Headlines (Dark Reading) We're not even all the way into the second month of 2013 and it is already shaping up to be a busy year in the realm of security and privacy law. Juicy corporate espionage suits, privacy violation fines from regulatory agencies and class action settlements have all abounded in the last month and a half. If the courts keep pace with the current tempo of cases hitting the dockets, 2013 looks to be a precedent-setting year. Here's a look at some of the highlights.
Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites (Telegraph) Google is in discussions with payment companies including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal to put illegal download websites out of existence by cutting off their funding. The web search giant, which is embroiled in a long-running row over the way it deals with pirated material, is considering the radical measure so that it can get rid of the root cause instead of having to change its own search results. Executives want to stop websites more or less dedicated to offering links to pirated films, music and books from making money out of the illegal material
Tesco calls the police as online Clubcard accounts compromised (CSO) Retail giant says the number of affected accounts is small. Tesco has confirmed that it has called in the police to investigate a possible data breach after a number of complaints from Clubcard members who claim to have had their online accounts compromised
Design and Innovation
U.S. Accelerator TechStars Goes Global, Merges With UK's Springboard And Opens Its First International Outpost In London. 'Something Feels Different Now' Says Cohen (TechCrunch) A big step forward today for TechStars, the Boulder-based uber-accelerator founded in 2006 that has set up operations mentoring and funding startups in six cities across the U.S. as well as powering several more. The company today is opening TechStars London — the first TechStars outpost outside of the U.S. In doing so, it is also announcing a merger with Springboard, a UK-based accelerator
How (not) to launch a search engine with Chinese characteristics (Quartz) As its censorship prowess has shown, the Chinese government is great at removing things from the Internet. What it's not so great at, though, is creating things. Things that its people might plausibly want. Things that other businesses would eventually want to spend money on
Apple Beware, Samsung Plans Smartwatch Too (InformationWeek) Mere days after reports surface about an Apple-made smartwatch, leaked screenshots purport to reveal what Samsung's smartwatch will look like
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#BSidesBOS (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, February 23, 2013) Each BSides is a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members. The goal is to expand the spectrum of conversation beyond the traditional confines of space and time. It creates opportunities for individuals to both present and participate in an intimate atmosphere that encourages collaboration. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. It is where conversations for the next-big-thing are happening..
RSA USA 2013 (San Francisco, California, USA, February 25 - March 1, 2013) RSA Conference continually evolves program offerings to meet the ever-changing needs of our delegates in the dynamic infosec industry.
Nullcon Goa 2013 (Bogmallo Beach Resort, Goa, India, February 26 - March 2, 2013) An international information security conference that will feature speakers and training. Topics include security and politics, vulnerability elimination, Android hacking, SCADA and smart grid penetration testing, and more.
NRO Winter Way Forward Conference (Chantilly, Virginia, USA, February 28, 2013) This annual event will provide an increased awareness, understanding and support among the IT workforce by focusing on the NRO IT Way-Forward in terms of the NRO IT Sub-Portfolio Roadmaps. Exhibitors will gain valuable networking time with conference attendees and all NRO personnel.
TechMentor Orlando 2013 (Orland, Florida, USA, March 4 - 8, 2013) Celebrating 15 years of educational events for the IT community, TechMentor is returning to Orlando, Florida, March 4-8, for 5 days of information-packed sessions and workshops. Surrounded by your fellow IT professionals, you will receive immediately usable education that will keep you relevant in the workforce. TechMentor track topics include:Windows PowerShell and AutomationCisco and Networking Infrastructure Windows Server Management Windows Client Management Cloud and Virtualization Identity, Access Management and Security Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting Mobility and BYOD Messaging and Collaboration.
Business Insurance Risk Management Summit (New York City, New York, USA, March 5 - 6, 2013) The annual Risk Management Summit, now in it its fourth year, provides attendees with focused insight via specific, timely general sessions and strategic, thought-provoking discussions with peers and industry leaders.
CanSecWest 2013 (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 6 - 8, 2013) CanSecWest, the world's most advanced conference focusing on applied digital security, is about bringing the industry luminaries together in a relaxed environment which promotes collaboration and social networking. The conference lasts for three days and features a single track of thought provoking presentations, each prepared by an experienced professional and talented educator who is at the cutting edge of his or her field. We give preference to new and innovative material, highlighting important, emergent technologies, techniques, or best industry practices. It will feature a bigger, enhanced Pwn2own.
e-Crime Congress 2013 (London, England, March 12 - 13, 2013) The e-Crime Congress is designed to meet the needs of key stakeholders and decision makers who are responsible for designing and coordinating information security and risk management strategy, safeguarding digital assets and sensitive information, protecting customers, defending against internal or external threats and responding to incidents.
CTIN Digital Forensics Conference (Seattle, Washington, USA, March 13 - 15, 2013) Speakers include experts and published authors in the field of digital forensics and cybersecurity. Topics include; Mobile Device Forensics, Internet Forensics, Physical Memory Analysis, Open Source Tools, Data Carving, Registry Forensics, Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard, Triage and Live Forensics CDs, and more.
IT Security Entrepreneurs' Forum (ITSEF 2013) (Palo Alto, California, USA, March 19 - 20, 2013) Supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Science and Technology, ITSEF 2013 aims to connect the ecosystem of the entrepreneur: industry, government, and academia. The conference will advance innovation, lead change and build trusted global collaboration models between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats.
The Future of Cyber Security 2013 (London, England, UK, March 21, 2013) Cyber Security and the Citizen 2013 is a one-day conference and exhibition for senior decision-makers of central and local government organisations, NGOs and major private sector enterprises.
SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit (Washington, DC, USA, March 22, 2013) Conventional network defense tools such as intrusion detection systems and anti-virus focus on the vulnerability component of risk, and traditional incident response methodology presupposes a successful intrusio…Network defense techniques which leverage knowledge about these adversaries - known as cyber threat intelligence - can enable defenders to establish a state of information superiority which decreases the adversary's likelihood of success with each subsequent intrusion attempt…The goal of this summit will be to equip attendees with knowledge on the tools, methodologies and processes they need to move forward with cyber threat intelligence. The SANS What Works in Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit will bring attendees who are eager to hear this information and learn about tools, techniques, and solutions that can help address these needs.
AFCEA Belvoir Industry Days 2013 (National Harbor, Maryland, USA, April 2 - 3, 2013) The purpose of this event is to inform the IT community about the recent successes and the forward-thinking opportunities that the Department of Defense and the Department of the Army have developed.
CSO40 (Braselton, Georgia, USA, April 2 - 3, 2013) The CSO40 Security Confab + Awards will honor and share the critical viewpoints of today's leading CSOs, CISOs and security executives at the nation's leading CSO thought leadership conference.
Cloud Connect Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, California, USA, April 2 - 5, 2013) Cloud Connect returns to Silicon Valley, April 2-5, 2013, for four days of lectures, panels, tutorials and roundtable discussions on a comprehensive selection of cloud topics taught by leading industry experts.
An Evening in Cyberspace: Supporting Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Leaders (National Harbor, Maryland, USA, April 6, 2013) UMUC is pleased to present An Evening in Cyberspace: Supporting Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Leaders. Join us for this special black-tie event to support the next generation of cybersecurity students. The evening will feature a reception, dinner, keynote and entertainment.
Cyber 1.3 (, January 1, 1970) Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, USAF, commander, 24th Air Force, and commander, Air Force Network Operations, will discuss the global strategic implications that relate to the cyber domain at the Space Foundation national conference Cyber 1.3, to be held Monday, April 8th, at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cyber 1.3 is a full-day conference that takes place immediately before the official opening of the 29th National Space Symposium. The conference includes a networking breakfast, a luncheon and concludes with a networking reception, co-sponsored by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. Government Executive Media Group is a Cyber 1.3 media co-sponsor.
HITBSecConf2013 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 8 - 11, 2013) HITB2013AMS will feature cutting edge attack and defense research including the a presentation on the inner workings of the iOS 6.1 Evasi0n jailbreak presented by members of the world famous Evad3rs Team, a brand new kernel level exploit affecting _all versions_ of Microsoft Windows up till Windows 8 and even a presentation on remotely hacking airplanes.
INFILTRATE 2013 (Miami, Florida, USA, April 11 - 12, 2013) INFILTRATE is a deep technical conference that focuses entirely on offensive security issues. Researchers focused on the latest technical issues will demonstrate techniques that you cannot find elsewhere.
Information Tech Expo Series - Hawaii (Oahu, Hawaii, USA, April 12 - 19, 2013) This 6-series showcase will feature stops at 5 DoD locations and 1 Intel Center on the island of Oahu. Celebrating 20 years of these expos is a true testament to the government and military's readiness to learn from and work with industry partners. .
InfoSec World Conference & Expo 2013 (Orlando, Florida, USA, April 15 - 17, 2013) With the primary objective of providing top-notch education to all levels of information security and IT auditing professionals, InfoSec World delivers practical sessions that give you the tools to strengthen your security without restricting your business.
Infosec Southwest 2013 (Austin, Texas, USA, April 19 - 21, 2013) InfoSec Southwest is intended to be a general security and hacking conference with no specific industry or topical focus. As such, nearly all topics (other than vendor pitches) are fair game and the attending audience is expected to span all demographics.
23rd Annual Government Procurement Conference (Washington, DC, USA, April 25, 2013) This unique one-day event attracts more than 3,000 participants representing government agencies, prime contractors and small businesses from around the country. Participating companies are able to network with procurement officials from federal, state and local government agencies under one roof.
Interop Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, May 6 - 10, 2013) Attend Interop Las Vegas, May 6-10, and attend the most thorough training on Apple deployment at the NEW Mac & iOS IT Conference. Join us in Las Vegas for access to 125+ workshops and conference classes, 350+ exhibiting companies and the latest technology.
Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise Conference and Expo (San Francisco, California, USA, June 2 - 4, 2013) From smartphones to mobile apps, social software and 4G networks, the wave of innovation in the consumer space is transforming the way companies do business, both inside and outside of the enterprise. Over two and a half action packed days, CITE 2013 will bring together IT and business executives, venture capitalists and other practitioners to showcase leading efforts and teach others how to make the most of this transformation.
25th Annual FIRST Conference (Bangkok, Thailand, June 16 - 21, 2013) The annual FIRST conference provides a setting for conference participants to attend a wide range of presentations delivered by leading experts in both the CSIRT field and from the global security community.
SECRYPT 2013 (Reykjavik, Iceland, July 29 - 31, 2013) The 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2013) will take place from 29 to 31 July 2013 in Reykjavik, Iceland…The conference will focus on information systems and network security, including applications within the scope of knowledge society in general and information systems development in particular, especially in the context of e-business, internet and global enterprises. It will bring together researchers, mathematicians, engineers and practitioners interested in security aspects related to information and communication.
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Russian Science & Technology
Armata Tank T-14
by Alexey | May 9, 2015 | Russian Armed Forces | 0 comments
The Armata tank T-14 is the world’s first combat vehicle of the fifth generation.
By some estimates an average Armata tank T-14 by one third surpasses all existing and potential armaments in the sphere of tank construction.
The Armata tank T-14 / минобороны.рф
The distinctions of the Armata tank T-14
The Tank T-14 has an unmanned turret, with its crew being placed in a special armored capsule. This way crew members are separated from armaments and ammunition stores and can operate the Armata tank remotely. The crew is considered to include three members.
The module principle implemented in the tank T-14 is especially noteworthy. There is a detached armored capsule for crew members, a detached capsule for armaments and a detached capsule for the tank engine. Moreover, if any errors or damages occur, the automated system of the Armata tank will restore its major combat functions without outside interference.
The tank armaments are fully automated. The same goes for its surveillance system and data exchange between the tank T-14 and other armored vehicles or a command post. The Armata tank enables to wage the so-called network centric warfare.
The ability to become an integral part of tank groups or any other combat groupings is the major distinctive feature of the Armata tank.
The tank T-14 is equipped with an advanced radar system. Its active phased antenna is able of locating and monitoring from twenty-five to forty ground and air targets within a radius of one hundred kilometers (62 mi).
The Armata armaments and defense system
The tank T-14 has new machine guns, including a heavy one, and other armaments (sixteen types in total). The tank armaments comprise a full-fledged tactical missile system, a surveillance and target designating system and an air defense system.
Furthermore, the Armata tank has got higher accuracy and destruction range of ground and air targets, better mobility and other combat characteristics.
The tank T-14 is completed with both active and passive protection systems (triple armor), which withstand a hit of all existing and potential weapons.
Nowadays the most advanced German tanks Leopard cannot drill a hole in the armor of Russian tanks. The Armata tank possesses even stronger armor.
It is widely rumored that the T-14 active protection system did not enable any weapons to hit this combat vehicle.
All the tank armaments are operated remotely.
The modernization of its 125 mm smoothbore cannon is not a key objective. A special stress is laid upon the development of new ammunition. For instance, scientists are currently working on a guided missile, which can be launched through the cannon muzzle. These armaments are unparalleled.
New ammunition can hit any existing or potential armored vehicles made by all weapon producers.
The Armata universal platform
The fully-tracked platform Armata has been under development since 2009. This platform is planned to be used in various armaments to decrease the cost of military equipment development and its further maintenance. The fully-tracked platform will be mounted not only on the Armata tank T-14 but also on self-propelled artillery guns, infantry fighting vehicles, tank support fighting vehicles and other military equipment.
The Armata infantry fighting vehicle / минобороны.рф
The project Armata still belongs to one of the most classified projects of the Russian Armed Forces, which is intended to substitute the leading tank T-90.
We sincerely hope to see the Armata tank T-14 only on parades and military maneuvers where it will delight the eye of photographers and military experts.
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Mr. Wilson On The Beat Charts On Apple Music With Sy Ari Da Kid
Jeremy Wilson, commonly known as “Mr. Wilson On The Beat”, is a multi-talented, multicultural DJ, music producer & former radio personality for iHeartRadio with a Master’s in Business. Originally Mr. Wilson was born in Virginia Beach and has moved to different areas of the country over the years and began his production career after being inspired as a kid from other producers who became household names from his city such as Pharrell, Timbaland, and Teddy Riley. His compositions are a breath of fresh air, ranging from Hip Hop to Afro-beat and many vibes in between to set the tone for any mood.
Mr. Wilson On The Beat got his start producing and engineering for various Konvict Music artists in 2008. Currently located in Los Angeles, Mr. Wilson has worked with or under Empire Records, TIG Records, Bigga Rankin, BLOCK ENT & Jerry Wonda.he is also 1/3 of the production group The Wav Godz, whose production has surfaced on YMCMB artists, Fetty Wap, Siya, & MTV just to name a few.
Currently he is Lil Key’s official Producer, however, a recent placement with Sy Ari Da Kid has landed his production for “Disgusting” on the Apple Music Charts at #21. Proving his relevance in the music industry has been a non factor in his execution because Mr. Wilson just keeps the heat coming. He also drops beats constantly online via Beatstars at www.MrWilsonOnTheBeat.com , many upcoming projects are in the works with Mr. Wilson so be sure to stay updated with him.
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Almost Summer
Photo courtesy basheertome via flickr
It may not yet be summer on the calendar, but the pools are open, school is out (or almost!), and the days are getting longer. With a two-month break from the responsibilities of school, it could be argued that no one appreciates summer more than teenagers. Click the links below to read what these teens believe about the magic of summer.
The Beauty of Summer Nights
An Escape from Normal Life
A Summer Breeze
The Endless Possibilities of Summer
Listen to Your Parents
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Most people can remember receiving words of advice from their parents—whether they asked for it or not. And, even if we did not heed the advice we were given, there is often truth in the words our parents wanted to share to guide us in our lives. Click on the links below to learn more about the wisdom learned from listening to one’s parents.
The Power of Hello
Work Is a Blessing
Mom’s Everyday Advice
A Father’s Lectures
The Lawn Is Life
Living with Alzheimer’s
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The emotional and physical demands of providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s Disease can be exhausting. But through that crucible, people may find that a fundamental belief comes into sharp focus. Click the links below to read what these essayists have learned while caring for someone with Alzheimer’s.
Don’t Tell Me How Rocky the Sea Is…
At Moni’s Grill
Doing Your Duty with Love
Gazing into the Face of Death
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Most people can probably make a quick list of books that have had a deep impact on their lives. And one of those books on a lot of those lists is To Kill a Mockingbird. Click on the links below to read more about how this classic book has had an impact on these readers.
Unhardened Hearts
Lessons from the Mockingbird
I Believe in Atticus Finch
Other People’s Shoes
The Power of Literature
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The Latin phrase “carpe diem” translates as “seize the day,” an aphorism teaching us to put aside worries and concerns of the past or future in order to truly enjoy the moment. Many people heed this advice, and for the following essayists, living in the present moment has inspired a lifelong belief.
Listen to Your Mother-in-Law
It Felt Like Death
Living in the Present Moment
The Gift of Time
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The American Dream may include cruising down the highway in your own car, but many people prefer alternative means of getting from point A to point B. Whether it’s mass transit or human-powered modes of travel, these essayists have come to believe in the unique ways they move around town.
Bus Chick’s Manifesto
Commuting by Bike
A Daily Dose of Walking
Born to Bike
Seeing the World by Sidewalk
The Change of Seasons
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The official start of spring is this week, and for some in the U.S., it can’t come too soon. The vernal equinox not only marks a change in the seasons, but a transition in life as the dormancy of winter gives way to life blooming anew. Click the links below to read how these essayists are inspired by the coming of spring.
Beauty for Everyone
Hope Arrives on the Wind
The Dawn of a New Season
The Most Wonderful Rite of Spring
The Annual Cycle That Is Life
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Some say the secret to being a good friend is to be a good listener. But beyond friendship, being a good listener is essential in other relationships, both personal and professional. In honor of Listening Awareness Month, listen carefully to what these essayists have to say about being a good listener.
Listening Is Powerful Medicine
Listening Shows Me the Way
Listening To Silence
Beyond the Noise
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It’s National Foreign Language Week, a time when American high schools, colleges, and universities celebrate and recognize the importance of learning languages other than English. For some, the goal of learning a new language is to satisfy a grade in school. But for the essayists below, learning other languages changed their world.
Urdu—A Key to Another World
The Magic in Letters
Saying Thank You
It’s a Small World
I Believe in Sesame Street
True Love’s Kiss
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
There must be something special about a kiss. Painters paint them, sculptors sculpt them, and poets write about them. Whether it’s a sweet peck on the cheek, the kiss of young love, or the passionate embrace of romantic love, the kiss endures in our memories. Click the links below to learn how these writers feel about a kiss.
Swing-shift Kisses
The Love I Choose
Gray Hairs and Wrinkles
Here’s to You, Merrie
I Believe in a Good Kiss
Essay of the Week
Will Thomas had planned to give up on America and move to Haiti after putting up with decades of bigotry and injustice toward African Americans. Then he decided to give the country one more chance, moving his family to an all-white town in Vermont. Click here to read his essay.
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Aimhigher London is a team of dedicated education professionals who believe in equality of opportunity. They work with over 50 partners to engage over 1,000 young people every year in collaborative outreach activities such as conferences, summer schools, subject taster sessions, student ambassador led sessions, application…
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Lambeth College is a large further education (FE) college situated in Lambeth. The majority of students are adults aged 18+, but the college also provides courses for young people aged 16-18 years, and for people with Learning Difficulties and disabilities. The College also offers courses for people…
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MiddletonMurray is a multi-award winning Apprenticeship training provider and Apprenticeship Levy consultancy that takes a holistic view of the job market to maximise the chance that the right candidate gets placed with the right employer. MiddletonMurray offer: support to start an apprenticeship; support to start a traineeship;…
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Ivanka Trump slapped with ethics complaint by CREW after Goya IG post
by Jacob Ellis
in Business, National, Politics, World
First daughter Ivanka Trump has landed herself in hot water. This as Citizens for Responsibiliy and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics about promoting Goya products on her official social media pages.
If it’s Goya, it has to be good. Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.
A post shared by Ivanka Trump (@ivankatrump) on Jul 14, 2020 at 7:02pm PDT
From The Washington Examiner:
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sent a letter on Friday to the Honorable Emory Rounds, the director of the government agency, asking him to determine whether the president’s daughter and adviser violated Standards of the Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch.
The issue stems from posts to Twitter and Facebook in which Trump was holding a can of Goya beans with the caption, “If it’s Goya, it has to be good. Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.”Goya CEO Robert Unanue inspired a boycott after praising President Trump at a recent event at the White House.
“The circumstances would lead any reasonable person to conclude her Goya Foods posts represented an official government endorsement intended to counteract the negative effect of any boycott,” CREW stated.
Plus added, “In particular, when viewed in the context of President Trump’s own contemporaneous social media messages about the company, any argument to the contrary would be disingenuous. As a result, Ms. Trump appears to have clearly violated the Standards of Conduct barring her from using her government position, title or any authority associated with her public office to endorse any product, service, or enterprise.”
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told: “As has been reiterated prior, this tweet was made in her personal capacity voicing her personal support. This complaint is another politically-motivated, baseless attack from an organization with a vendetta against all of the administration.”
CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said in a statement, “This is not just about beans; it’s another example of a disturbing pattern of this administration acting to benefit the businesses of the president’s supporters. In the midst of a worsening pandemic, senior administration officials should not be focused on the promotion of an ally’s business and should not be providing official incentives for businesses to support them politically. Senior Trump officials continue to act like ethics laws to not apply to them.” A serious set of charges made.
Jacob Ellis
Jacob Ellis is a Michigan-based writer with a passion for crafting thoughtful, investigative content that goes beyond the noise of today's polarized mainstream media. Whether covering politics, sports or local issues, Jacob applies his admiration for storytelling and journalism to every word.
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Jasmine Ware, left, and Mariam Ebeid start packing up leftovers they'll drive from the cafeteria loading dock to the kitchen at Stewpot.
Published on Thursday, January 10, 2019
By: Gary Pettus, gpettus@umc.edu
Landfills are emptier and stomachs are fuller, thanks to the dedication of dozens of Medical Center volunteers recruited by second-year medical student Mariam Ebeid.
To put it another way: A funny thing has happened to more than one-and-a-half tons of food on the way to the trash can; they ended up at a soup kitchen instead.
Platefuls of fried chicken, ham, vegetables and more – the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s untouched cafeteria leftovers – have been rerouted by students to the dining tables of the Stewpot Community Kitchen in Jackson, where some 150 to 200 people gather daily for their noontime meal.
Theresa Earnest, right, Stewpot's kitchen manager, expresses her gratitude to Ebeid.
“I love them so much,” said Theresa Earnest, Stewpot’s kitchen manager, referring to the student crew. “We don’t usually have a lot of different kinds of meat here, but they come through for me every time.
“They’re so sweet. I thank them for everything they do.”
For her part, Ebeid said the food collected over the past several months may “be a tiny drop in the bucket, but it’s one thing we can do to help. This also serves as kind of a gateway between the Medical Center and community right around us.
“A lot of people who eat at Stewpot may not have access to healthy food, and what we collect would normally go in the trash.”
One way to get between the Medical Center and the garbage trucks, Ebeid discovered, is through the guidance and resources of the Food Recovery Network , “the largest student movement fighting food waste and hunger in America,” as its website claims.
Since 2011, more than three million pounds of food have been reclaimed through the national organization’s 230 chapters, which include the one Ebeid got going at UMMC with faculty advisor Dr. Alan Penman, professor of preventive medicine.
Here, about 50 volunteers are taking part, many from the School of Medicine, but also several from other schools, including Graduate Studies and Health Related Professions.
With the help and encouragement of Dr. Tammy Dempsey, UMMC director of community engagement and service learning, the food rescuers signed up through a platform that gives students and employees opportunities to help nonprofits: GiveGab.
“Putting it in GiveGab opens it up to the entire student body,” Dempsey said. “We are hopeful this will build interest amongst other students and result in [the Associated Student Body] and school philanthropy chairs continuing to lead in these efforts – long after Mariam is Dr. Ebeid.”
Ebeid was an undergraduate at Rhodes College in Memphis when a friend of hers started a Food Recovery Network chapter there. Because it speaks to food waste and hunger in America, this commitment had a profound attraction for Ebeid, whose social conscience was pierced as well by the Anthony Bourdain-produced documentary, "Wasted."
When she became the community service co-chair for her medical school class, Ebeid did not have to look far for a mission to embrace.
Ebeid and other volunteers for the Food Recovery Network chapter at UMMC deliver food to the Stewpot Community Kitchen, where it is served in this dining area.
It has required, of course, the cooperation of the cafeteria – that is, the staff, who serve and prepare 1.5 million meals a year among the campus’ three main dining halls; that’s the equivalent of, on average, 1,312,000 pounds of food each year, said Tim Liskey, food services director.
“The employees have a sense of pride about doing something for the local community, especially the employees who live here in Jackson,” said Chef Richard Curtis, who, along with Liskey, are UMMC contractors through their employer, Morrison Healthcare.
“There’s been a real buy-in from our team members, who now think in terms of donating, instead of throwing away something we could no longer use.
“We have very strict guidelines for what we can and can’t serve our patient population.” The latter could mean cooked, but too-soft, vegetables more suitable for soup. It could mean an overabundance of fried chicken, for instance, or leftover salmon which could be reincarnated as croquettes.
“We give everybody who eats at the cafeterias a fresh product, so we can’t reuse the food here,” Curtis said. “We are allowed to keep food in-house for no more than two days.”
That’s a restriction handed down by Morrison’s parent company, Compass One Healthcare, which “does a lot of work with second-harvest food banks,” Curtis said.
“Before we set the food aside in Ziploc bags for the students to pick up, I inspect it to make sure it’s wholesome and in good shape.”
Among the medical students (shown here in Stewpot's kitchen) who volunteer for the Food Recovery Network are, front row, from left, Ashley Noblin and Tori Wilson; back row, from left, Tilak Patel, Caroline Garraway and Anna Bailey Britt.
Operating from a sign-up schedule, Ebeid and other students are now picking up the Stewpot-bound meals from the main cafeteria loading dock two days a week: Tuesdays and Fridays.
“Anything we can do to help Stewpot and the community is a good cause,” said Jasmine Ware of Tupelo, a graduate student in biomedical sciences, who was recruited by fellow grad student Simmi Pal of Clinton.
“Instead of wasting food, you bring it here,” said Ware, standing in the Stewpot’s West Capitol Street parking lot on a chilly December afternoon just after a drop-off.
Before delivering it, though, Ebeid weighs it on her scale – a routine she began around May of last year, a couple of months after the collections commenced. As of late December, the total take weighed in at around 2,800 pounds, but, if you throw in those “missing” months, it may be closer to 3,500, Ebeid estimated.
Within that total are about 100 pounds of cookies and other sweets liberated for Stewpot from Campbell’s Bakery in Jackson.
“We call the students whenever we have something ready to donate,” said Kaley Farris, a customer service representative at Campbell’s. “Mariam is great. She even came by one day in the pouring rain with an injured ankle – she was wearing a boot on it.
“She’s amazing. I like calling her just so I can see her that day.”
While the volunteers’ partnership with the cafeteria is unique at the Medical Center, at least within recent memory, their impulse is not. Among UMMC students, faculty and staff, there is a tradition of service devoted to keeping people fed.
Students studying occupational therapy and physical therapy cook and deliver meals for families who stay at the Ronald McDonald House during their children’s long-term medical care.
Michael Evilsizor, left, UMMC Food Services storeroom manager, helps Ware, center, and Ebeid box up a supply of surplus meat on its way to Stewpot.
Dr. Bettina Beech, dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health, and Dr. Josie Bidwell, associate professor of preventive medicine, serve on the board of the Mississippi Food Network, which distributes donated food and groceries through hundreds of agencies.
Beech is also the executive director of the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities, which, through its EversCare Clinic, will operate an emergency food pantry with the Mississippi Urban League starting in February.
The food, provided by the Mississippi Food Network, “will be available for any of our patients and others in the community who are food insecure,” said Victoria Gholar, EversCare’s clinical director.
Bidwell, a lifestyle medicine nurse practitioner, is a board member as well for the Good Samaritan Center, the provider of meals and other services to families in crisis.
Another UMMC faculty member, Dr. Caroline Compretta, an assistant professor with appointments in the departments of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, and in the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, is on Stewpot’s board of directors.
Dr. Gregory Chinchar, professor of microbiology and immunology, pitches in on behalf of Gleaners Inc., a decades-old organization that salvages and donates provisions for a variety of charities, such as Stewpot.
“Last year, Gleaners collected more than one million pounds of food,” Chinchar said. Several years ago, a number of students from UMMC joined Gleaners’ ranks on Saturday mornings, and “we would welcome them again,” he said.
Ad hoc efforts by other students, notably those in the School of Nursing, have also eased the hunger of Mississippians in need.
Obviously, there’s still a lot of work to go around – the kind that should hit home with those who occupy the classrooms, offices and clinics of the Medical Center, Ebeid said.
Food Recovery Network volunteers, from left, Ware, Simmi Pal and Ebeid haul boxes and bags of UMMC cafeteria food to Stewpot's kitchen on West Capitol Street in Jackson.
Social accountability is a target for academic medical centers, and in Mississippi, there are many opportunities to practice it: More than 600,000 people – one in five – struggle with hunger, reports Feeding America, a national group of food banks and pantries.
Among those Mississippians are more than 176,000 children who have incomplete or tentative access to enough food to live healthy lives.
“I believe it’s important for us in health care to see the effects of food waste and hunger outside the place we study and work,” Ebeid said. “Often, it's hunger or lack of access to healthy food that sends people to the hospital.”
For her, it comes down to the question she and many of her fellow students are trying their best to answer: “‘What are you going to do about it?’”
For more information, contact Mariam Ebeid at mebeid2@umc.edu; or, to sign up online, go here.
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(a) provides a platform for sharing of information, experiences and good practices related to access to justice (through e.g. collection and dissemination of relevant practices and establishment of portal for the relevant jurisprudence);
(b) plans and implements strategic and catalytic capacity-building activities and information exchange, in particular for senior members of the judiciary at the subregional level;
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(d) Develops training materials on implementation of article 9 of the Convention that are adaptable to national priorities and the needs of specific groups of legal professionals;
(e) Examines the way the issue of remedies is handled in a selection of representative countries;
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(g) Continues the exchange of information on practices in establishment of assistance mechanisms to remove or reduce financial barriers;
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(i) Identifies good practice with respect to ensuring that sufficient scientific and technical expertise is available to review bodies dealing with environmental cases;
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(k) Encourages the involvement of representatives of ministries of justice, the judiciary, other legal professionals, including public interest lawyers and non-governmental organizations specializing in litigation and legal advice on environmental matters, in its activities;
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The Task Force was established pursue to the following decisions of the Meeting of the Parties.
The first meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention (Lucca, Italy 21-23 October 2002) decided to establish a Task Force on Access to Justice to support the implementation of the third pillar of the Convention by inter alia, examining good practices, sharing experience with implementation of particular paragraphs of article 9 of the Convention and assessing the impact of certain barriers in access to justice such as costs and delays. The mandate of the Task Force was completed. More detailed information on the activities of the Task Force in the period of 2002-2005 can be found here.
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The mandate of the Task Force was extended in time by the Meeting of the Parties through decision III/3 on promoting effective access to justice ( ENG, FRE, RUS), adopted at its third meeting (Riga, 11-13 June 2008).
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The mandate of the Task Force was further extended by the Meeting of the Parties through decision VI/3 on promoting effective access to justice (ENG, FRE, RUS), adopted at its sixth meeting (Budva, Montenegro, 11-13 September 2017). The Meeting of the Parties also decided to continue giving access to justice particular priority (see para. 8 of Decision VI/5 on the work programme for 2018-2021 in ENG FRE and RUS).
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Cleveland's rage at LeBron James finds voice in an angry and acidic broadside
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Esquire writer-at-large Scott Raab is not one to politely overlook the things he dislikes, as we quickly learn in his rollicking and profane jeremiad, The Whore of Akron. The book's title refers to the nickname that Raab, a long-tortured Cleveland sports fan, has bestowed upon Heat forward LeBron James. And while James—whom Raab foresees languishing in the ninth circle of Hell for the sin of leaving the Cavaliers two summers ago as a free agent—is the chief target of Raab's scorn, there are many others. Raab hates most members of his family; Detroit ("a sinkhole of permanent despair"); Pittsburgh ("a human sewer"); Heat fans (first "sun-baked cretins," then "sun-dried cretins"), president Pat Riley (one of the undead, he suspects) and p.r. man Tim Donovan; Willie Mays (for the Catch); Art Modell, the 86-year-old former NFL owner who moved Raab's beloved Browns to Baltimore; and Raab's own body, which mid-book balloons to 380 pounds and resembles, he says, "a silvered land walrus."
It is with such vitriol that Raab chronicles the soul-crushing conclusion of the Akron-born James's career in Cleveland and then follows his first season in Miami. For the latter he mostly relies on StubHub, as Donovan quickly stops issuing the author media credentials. (Why? Look no further than Raab's blog and Twitter feed, on which he addressed James directly as a "loser," "gutless punk," "motherf-----" and, presaging the book, "the Whore of Akron.") Along the way Raab finds new and increasingly gymnastic ways to insult James and those complicit in his "treachery." Raab's mastery of invective is one element of The Whore that lifts the book above the standard of the average late-night sports radio caller. Another is his self-awareness in plumbing the source of his hate, which he attributes to his dysfunctional, drug-addled past, here rendered evocatively.
Raab several times comes close to admitting that his loathing of a 26-year-old basketball player is a bit much. "I acknowledge the validity of the view that fanhood is a matter of rooting for laundry," he writes. Later, he notes, "the real suffering to come has nothing at all to do with sports," referring to the sickness and death that he, and all of us with him, eventually face. In fact, while Raab's sustained attack on James ("no guts, no heart, no soul") is diverting, it is the author's self-portrait of a man and a fan of serious extremes, one who loves his wife and son as fiercely as he hates most of the rest of the world, that engrosses.
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"Hey, an intoxicated Brodus is better than nobody."
DEREK DOOLEY Tennessee football coach, rationalizing his decision—made 50 minutes before kickoff against Middle Tennessee State last Saturday—to replace his two injured kickers with freshman walk-on Derrick Brodus, whom Dooley had suspected would already be partying at a frat house by that point in the evening.
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Nicolas Cage Is A Bumbling Army Of One In First Trailer For Larry Charles’ Satire
By Michael Briers @briersytweets 4 years ago
Nicolas Cage is on a mission from God in the riotous, rather bizarre first trailer for Army of One.
Hailing from Borat and Religulous director Larry Charles, the upcoming satire fits right into Cage’s wheelhouse, and will have the actor portray a character that is quite simply larger-than-life. That character is Gary Faulkner, a low-life, clumsy ex-con attempting to make ends meet as an unemployed construction worker. But following a divine intervention from God above – played here by a wickedly charming Russell Brand – Faulkner plots course for Pakistan to take down Osama bin Laden equipped with a measly sword purchased from a home shopping TV channel.
Also starring Wendi McLendon-Covey, Paul Scheer and Rainn Wilson, if Army of One seems stranger than fiction, that’s because it is. Gary Faulkner became the centerpiece of Chris Heath’s GQ article six years ago after taking no less than 11 trips to the Middle East in an attempt to take down who many considered to be one of the most dangerous men on the planet back in 2010.
Equal parts ridiculous and suicidal, Nicolas Cage looks to revel in the role of the bat-shit insane, patriotic flag-bearer, who can be seen tripping and stumbling all the way to Pakistan numerous times over in the reveal trailer below. It’s a satirical account of America’s obsession to hunt down the former founder of al-Qaeda, though whether it’ll resonate with modern-day audiences remains to be seen.
Look for Army of One to debut via select digital HD on November 4. It’ll then expand to Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, and on demand on November 15.
Source: EW
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Daredevil Wraps Production As First Image Of Charlie Cox In Costume Arrives
By Isaac Feldberg @i_feldberg 6 years ago
Netflix’s expansions into original programming have taken us into the upper echelons of Washington politics, the cell blocks of a women’s federal prison and the dangerous wilds of 13th century Asia, but next year will see the streaming service bring us somewhere both exciting and familiar for comic-book aficionados: Hell’s Kitchen, New York.
Daredevil, which stars Matthew Murdock, will follow the early days of the blind vigilante as he sets out to clean up the city’s mean streets. Today brings our first look at Murdock in costume as the titular hero, and it looks like, at least at first, the character will go for a stealthy all-black get-up, which is in keeping with the series’ reportedly gritty and grounded tone. Daredevil’s iconic red threads will evidently be introduced at a later date.
Today also brings word that Daredevil has officially wrapped production. Executive producer and showrunner Steven DeKnight tweeted out a thanks to the cast and crew, bidding adieu to New York:
Thanks to the cast and crew for an amazing experience directing the season finale of #Daredevil. Goodby, NYC. Peace and love!
— Steven DeKnight (@stevendeknight) December 21, 2014
DeKnight, who previously worked on Starz’s Spartacus series, has said that Daredevil will be “grittier and edgier” than anything we’ve seen thus far from Marvel, and though Netflix gives the series few restrictions on content, it is “not looking to push it to extreme violence or gratuitous nudity.” Fans should relish the 13-episode run though, as Daredevil will go on hiatus following that until a planned team-up miniseries called The Defenders (and seeing as that series will follow Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, none of which have yet entered production, it may be a very long wait).
Daredevil arrives in May of 2015. Will you be tuning in? Sound off below and let us know!
Starring Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Elden Henson (Foggy Nelson), Rosario Dawson (Claire Temple), Bob Gunton (Leland Owlsely aka The Owl), Vondie Curtis Hall (Ben Urich), Toby Leonard Moore (Wesley, Wilson Fisk’s right hand man), Ayelet Zurer (Vanessa Fisk), and Vincent D’Onofrio (Wilson Fisk), “Marvel’s Daredevil” follows the journey of Matt Murdock, who was blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, now fighting against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the super hero Daredevil in modern day Hell’s Kitchen, New York City.
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As the World Record Holder for sounding like forty hammered dulcimers at once, clocking in at an average speed of 339.5 notes per minute, Lucille Reilly, “double-threat virtuoso of hammered dulcimer and autoharp” (as per the John C. Campbell Folk School), is hailed as both the Vanna White of the hammered dulcimer and as Folk Music’s Best Kept Secret.
Since her New York City début at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in 1982, she has thrilled the masses at Keystone Racetrack, Philadelphia, PA; the Harvard Square “T” station, Cambridge, MA; Chemical Bank, New York City; Hahn’s Homemade Bagels, Hanover, PA; Phil’s Citgo Station, Ringoes, NJ; Clay’s Possum Pit, Brasstown, NC; as official dulcimatrix for Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadelphia (Liz Claiborne department, all stores); and as being the fifty-first and sixty-second performer of the Arizona Folklore Preserve (thus establishing herself as not quite playing with a full deck but doing so at lightning speed). And she’s brought the autoharp to new heights: Now that she’s played for the retiring of the colors on the widow’s walk of the Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park (elevation 8,250 feet), her next highest desire is to perform autoharp in the bell tower at St. John’s Cathedral, Denver, CO (elevation 5,340 ft., although she’ll probably have to settle for the carillon tower at Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in July 2004, elevation 644.75 ft.). She also performed the First Annual Going Out of Business Concert for Caffe Gelatto, Wichita, Kansas. Prior to winning the National Hammered Dulcimer Championship in 1997, she was so well known as Everybody’s Favorite Second-Place Hammered Dulcimer Champion (a title she enjoyed for 16 years) that she even clinched the red ribbon at one contest without showing up to compete.
In 1999, Lucille diversified her championship status by capturing the gold medal for accuracy in the Mountain Laurel Autoharp Gathering’s now defunct Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest, followed by the distance award of an amazing 0 feet in 2001. (Similarly, she duplicated the latter record in the catapult event at the Fourth Annual Fruitcake Toss in Manitou Springs, Colorado, a record that was never recorded.) Despite that, she served as the Fruitcake Toss’ 2004 poster child, anyway, and placed first in the Toss’ Glamour Division in 2005.)
As for Lucille’s ability on the autoharp, Autoharp-Hall-of-Famer Bryan Bowers has said, “Anyone with that much talent should have been drowned at birth.”
In her spare time, Lucille can be found waiting for music friends under the head of T. Rex at Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta GA (at right). And if she can ever find Father Guido Sarducci, Lucille plans to pursue a master’s degree from his Five Minute University for mastering the art of “pumping felt” on diatonic autoharp in 30 seconds or less.
Except for the last statement, all of the above is, alas, true.
Back to Lucille Reilly’s very real and much more interesting bio
In addition to being talented, Lucille is also personable…the whole audience was drawn in to her performance.
Great Lakes Scottish Fiddle Club Newsletter, Illinois
Magnificent, both in terms of musicianship and showmanship. Lucille has a special talent to raise people’s spirits and get them moving and smiling. How lucky the audience!
Jerry Wrzosek, hammered dulcimer player, Pennsylvania
I hear Lucille’s heart in her music.
Ben Buckles, hammered dulcimer player, Kansas
Lucille performs with a skill and grace not usually heard (or seen)…a committed performer/teacher who strives for excellence, bringing wit and personality to her performances…delightful to listen to and a pleasure to watch.
June Van Thoen, Director, Music at Morristown (NJ) United Methodist Church
I will never forget the first time I heard Lucille play. It is right up there with the most outstanding performances I’ve ever heard (Victor Horowitz, Leon Fleisher, and James Galway, to name a few).
Kay Hooper, pianist and Alexander Technique clinician, Pennsylvania
The best thing to walk into our studio in a few years.
Jim Ratts, Raven Recording, Colorado
I have always believed in giving public credit to musicians whose talent and originality awe and inspire me, and one of the best is LUCILLE REILLY. She’s a master at both hammered dulcimer and autoharp. I love her magnificent technique, feeling for the music, and clever (often humorous) improvisations on well-known music.
Lois Hornbostel, North Carolina
A Denver musical icon…Holy mackerel!
John Kuzma, Minister of Music, Montview Presbyterian Church, Denver, CO
Music drips from her fingers. Lucille Reilly is music.
Dr. John Williams, friend and music aficionado, Alabama
Exuberant and lively…GREAT energy!!!
Kathy O’Hanlon, hammered dulcimer player, West Virginia
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Rep. Donna Shalala was one of two lawmakers recognized by the Congressional Management Foundation for fostering a healthy workplace environment.
Eight members of Congress cited for doing the legislative branch proud
Four lawmakers from each party were honored Tuesday for being good members of Congress. But they were cited for behavior that has nothing to do with their ideologies, legislative skill or rhetorical flair. Instead, they were singled out for running decent modern workplaces and taking care of their constituents.
The awards were the third annual set handed out by the Congressional Management Foundation, one of the most prominent nonprofits advocating the view that a more smoothly operating legislative branch is one of the main cures for democracy's ills.
The winners were culled from a roster of 26 finalists unveiled in the spring that was notable for the disproportionate share of women (seven) and first-term lawmakers (nine). In the end, three women were honored, two of them Democratic newcomers to the House: Donna Shalala of Miami, who was Health and Human Services secretary in the Clinton administration, and Chrissy Houlahan of suburban Philadelphia, a former Air Force captain.
"Americans usually only hear about Congress when something goes wrong," noted the group's CEO, Brad Fitch, and it's important to "shine a light on Congress when it does something right."
Shalala and GOP Rep. Adrian Smith of Nebraska were cited for fostering a healthy workplace environment. Houlahan and GOP Rep. Michael Burgess of Texas got awards for running a transparent and accountable office.
For constituent service, the awardees were Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts. Singled out for their innovative and modernized operations were Republican Rep. Kay Granger of Texas and Democratic Rep. Mark Takano of California.
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Program Launched to Fast Track Backlogged Criminal Cases
Jan 9, 2021 | In The News
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In late December 2020, California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye announced plans to launch a program aimed at fast tracking the resolution of criminal cases by making retired judges available through the Temporary Assigned Judges Program.
The temporary, fact track initiative will help ease significant criminal case backlogs that have accrued in counties around the state due to the COVID-19 pandemic and steps taken by trial courts to protect the health and safety of court users and staff.
“Courts, prosecutors and defense attorneys will face a substantial number of cases as we emerge from shelter in place orders and the COVID-19 pandemic unless the justice community makes a concerted effort to take action now,” Cantil-Sakauye said.
In a memo to court leaders she explained how the burden of the pandemic-induced criminal trial backlog falls on all justice system partners, victims and defendants.
Prosecutors may have witnesses who become unavailable over time or find that evidence in the case has become stale. Defendants and their counsel must continue to develop the defense case with counsel having only limited access to in-custody defendants.
In addition, defendants who are out of custody are often severely hampered in their ability to steady their lives through employment, obtaining a driver’s license, moving to lower cost housing, etc. and victims find themselves without timely resolution or restitution.
To help address these issues the proposed program will assist the courts in establishing readiness conferences for the early disposition of criminal cases.
Cantil-Sakauye is reinforcing the effort by making retired judges available through the Temporary Assigned Judges Program (TAJP) as needed at the request of the presiding judge in each county.
The success of this program according to Cantil-Sakauye, will likely hinge on judges who understand the local court culture and are highly regarded by both the defense and the prosecution.
S.E. Williams is executive editor of the IE Voice and Black Voice News.
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The Yasloughve Project, Webnovel
January 9, 2021 January 16, 2021 by themarlenamarie
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150 Days Until Marvel And the Uncertain End
The Space Agency Research and Development facility was one of the largest governmental agency facilities in the world. At one point it had been built to build and create all the transportation needed to get the human race off the planet. It still had the space, but none of the funding. Now the major expanse could be used for little, as other facilities had been built to supplement all over the world, and with a smaller population than before the Catastrophe, such a place was little more than a grandiose relic.
Heia stepped out of the car to look at the entrance of the facility, wondering what they’d meet. They had seen the facility hours ago, crossing the first defenses and having to drive for what felt like forever, until they came to the main building. The doors opened to Lynx and Onyx who waved.
“Alright, dad, time to get you working.” Evester pushed his father ahead of them as Zeydar trailed behind with Kony. The two were scouting the best location for Zeydar to go nuclear, Heia could tell from the way that Zeydar’s eyes level off in the distance where nothing was positioned.
“We can probably do it on the take off area. Those places are designed to take a beating, sending rockets to space and all.” Kony suggested from behind Heia as they walked on.
Inside the facility, it looked old. Old metal walls that were rusted and warped. There was a smell that Heia could not place. She saw a thick layer of dust everywhere, besides the visible movement walkways. It was cleaned out of everything else and they were led to a large ware house where a ship was being built.
“I don’t know why you need my help.” Evester’s father protested. “Uly has it all under control.”
“Because I know how to work programming.” Uly snapped as they all entered the room. Uly was a mess. “What about logistics? The location where we are supposed to flee to? I may be smart but I don’t know everything.” The Genius of EverDanger looked frazzled and in need of a good shower.
“Ah, Uly. You could have figured it out without me.” Evester looked to Uly as if Uly were another son.
“Don’t flatter me old man.” Uly snapped back. Uly then walked up to Maverin and almost hit him. He stopped short, instead grabbing Maverin and hugging him before letting him go. “I need you to keep this going, but don’t think I wouldn’t break your nose.”
“Nice to see you too.” Maverin snorted.
“Why did you have to disappear?” Evester asked, but it was the question they were all asking.
“I had to.” Maverin shrugged, giving them the only answer that he would. “Alright Uly, what do you have for me?”
The two began to talk in jargon that Heia could not understand, nor wanted to decipher. Kim looked over them all before smiling at Heia. She walked closer, whispering to Heia low and close, grabbing her arm. “They are going to keep talking. We should see your family.”
Her family? She knew her family was well equipped for survival, but she wanted them to be safe. She had to see them.
“He’s bored.” Kim changed conversations. She could see it too, how Evester had lost his edge and purpose. How he no longer cared to save the world. It had grown more apparent in the days they had driven to get here. What ever adrenaline rush he’d been high on for the last year was gone, or disappearing rapidly. “What’s the next plan?”
“See my family, prepare to go to the X’s.” Heia stated. Zeydar would detox then go to the Stars. Evester would stay here and… manage his father? Heia had to believe that he had made the choice because he knew his care for it all would disappear.
“Alright.” Kim nodded looking back once more, before pulling Heia away. “Let’s go see your family.”
Heia had her arm held by Kim as they walked through the facility, Phil trailing after them chatting with Kim about what they could expect to find and what checks they had to do later. Heia could care less for what they were saying, too focused on the fact that Kim refused to let go of her. Kori and Kony chased them as well. Or rather, Kori pulled Kony from Zeydar demanding that they see Karla, as they had to be together again and more nonsense that Kony protested. They made their way from Uly to where the others were, practicing. Her siblings did not even notice her entrance, but the EverDanger members noticed Kim and Phil.
“Welcome back!” Rayda called.
“You would not believe what went down.” Phil skipped in.
“Welcome back!” Karla smiled turning to them all. Her words alerted the other siblings who brightened at Heia. Trace and Robee gave their own nods, chilled but warm all the same. Like they expected her to return and that any less would have betrayed who she was. Kony and Kori walked past Heia to Karla.
“Not exactly the welcome you were expecting?” Kim asked Heia leaning her head against Heia’s shoulder, refusing to let go.
“No.” Heia admitted trying to find Shawn. He was not there. She had thought he’d come to see everyone, as they were his family too. Yet…
“He went with Zeydar to begin preparation.” Kony called to Heia, directing her attention to him.
“Preparations?” Rayda asked.
“Zeydar is getting off Dreams, once and for all.” Kori answered.
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“Best Friends” Ban in UK Schools Mirrors Ayn Rand’s Anthem
Ari Armstrong March 24, 2012
An almost-unbelievable story in The Sun claims that teachers at some UK schools have banned “best friends.” Harry Hawkins writes for that paper:
Teachers are banning schoolkids from having best pals—so they don’t get upset by fall-outs.
Instead, the primary pupils are being encouraged to play in large groups.
Educational psychologist Gaynor Sbuttoni said the policy has been used at schools in Kingston, South West London, and Surrey.
She added: “I have noticed that teachers tell children they shouldn’t have a best friend and that everyone should play together. They are doing it because they want to save the child the pain of splitting up from their best friend. But it is natural for some children to want a best friend. If they break up, they have to feel the pain because they're learning to deal with it.”
The story seemed so strange that I contacted Chris McGovern of the UK’s Campaign for Real Education; McGovern also was quoted in the story. He responded, “No one has questioned the veracity of this story. It simply reflects the state of our ‘education’ system. 1984 has arrived.” So for now I will take the story at face value, as bizarre and unbelievable as it seems.
While perhaps it was natural for McGovern to invoke the dystopian work of English author George Orwell, Ayn Rand’s dystopia Anthem (published in England more than a decade before 1984 came out) actually better-anticipates the “best friends” ban.
In Rand’s novella, a collectivist society has crushed individuality to the degree that the word “I” has been eliminated from the language and preferences among friends have been forbidden. Yet the central character of the story, Equality 7-2521, nevertheless develops a preference. He writes:
International 4-8818 and we are friends. This is an evil thing to say, for it is a transgression, the great Transgression of Preference, to love any among men better than the others, since we must love all men and all men are our friends. So International 4-8818 and we have never spoken of it. But we know. We know, when we look into each other’s eyes.
Equality 7-2521 goes on to fully embrace individualism and to see preference in friendships not as a transgression but as a reflection of his deepest moral and personal values. Hopefully his example will help to inspire and liberate school children of today who are forbidden to engage in the “Transgression of Preference.”
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6 Real Questions That Gen Zs Need To Ask Themselves (Inspired By These 3 Role Models)
Iylia Aziz
With every generation that passes, studies have shown that there is always a shift in mindset.
And the next one to step forward is Generation Z.
If you’re from this era, you probably can probably differentiate how your mindset differs from Millennials due to certain events happening that shape your experiences as well as the difference in upbringing due to the advancement of resources.
But when you’re put in today’s life scenarios, how do you respond? Would you say you’d do the same as those who came from the generations before you?
A series of videos following a common theme were uploaded online recently, and they highlight three inspiring stories that show us what our potential could be if we gave ourselves that chance. Inspiration aside, it also brings up a series of questions the younger generation should be truthfully asking themselves.
1) “Every problem requires a solution. What am I gonna do about it?”
The world isn’t perfect, it’s riddled with a lot of issues the bigger the human population grows. But as the generations get younger, there is a stronger urge in humanity to open up their eyes and solve the vast problems we have out there.
In the “Serving Hope short”, Kim, the CEO of PichaEats (previously known as The Picha Project), shared that after volunteering at a refugee learning centre with her three co-founders, they saw the problems experienced by refugees in Malaysia.
From carrying large amounts of debt to not being able to send their children to school, refugees struggle a lot. So Kim and her co-founders decided to start a sustainable business to help out.
They started an online business where refugees could cook their traditional dishes and customers could go on PichaEats’ website to make orders.
As of early 2019, PichaEats is now working with 15 refugee families and have provided 90,000 meals to date.
2) “People keep telling me age is a factor. How can I prove to them that my age doesn’t limit me?”
The younger generation tends to think that it’s crucial to learn important skills at a young age before it’s too late.
But as Pak Su showed in his short, “A Helping Hand”, it’s never the case.
Coming from a teaching background, Pak Su had no experience whatsoever in 3D printing. But with the help of the internet, he was able to pick up electronic engineering skills that led him to now using 3D printing to help disabled children.
Being self-taught, it’s impressive that he has now built over 50 prosthetic arms for children throughout Malaysia. He is now also collaborating with ADTEC Taiping in an effort to create better 3D-printed prosthetic arms.
3) “Passion and career can’t become one. How can I marry the two and make it work for me?”
Traditional folks will always believe passion and career should be separated, especially if you consider gaming as a hobby.
But for Kathireswaran Sugumaran (or known by his gaming alias InFamous9), he’s managed to convince his parents that his love for games can put food on the table.
In his short “Dreaming Big”, Kathires first believed that he would never be able to make a living by playing FIFA. But after giving it a try and seeing his potential, he decided to pursue it and joined the esports team, FrostFire.
Despite his parents initially being against his desire to pursue a career in esports, Kathires persevered and is now handled by a pro management and getting a stable income along the way.
Through this, he’s been able to pay his tuition fees and give money to his parents
He is currently the reigning Malaysia Cyber Games FIFA champion and is aiming to bring back his first international title to Malaysia.
4) “Money is the only way to help others. What can I do to not be limited by my wallet?”
Of course money is always a beneficial resource, but it’s not the only thing that matters.
Pak Su himself mentioned that he doesn’t do his 3D-printed arms for money or expecting any returns. As a teacher, he’s always had a soft spot for children so just knowing that he’s able to help them a little in living their lives is enough for him.
He believes that resources can come from others who share the same vision and are able to spare their extra funds.
To the younger generation, you should know that where you may lack in funds, you can provide in skills or talent instead.
5) “Successful ideas are ones that follow trends. How can I stand out from the crowd?”
As the saying goes, trends come and go, but good sustainable ideas are here to stay. It doesn’t mean that just because your idea may not fit the definition of what a “sexy” concept is, it won’t be successful.
When PichaEats first decided to with refugees, it was a little hard to gain attention because the topic is not talked about largely.
Kim shared that instead of focusing on just refugees, she believed that food is the key because it can tell stories. The refugees are able to share their own tales and cultural background from the dishes they cook. This is what draws customers to their service.
6) “It’s hard to rely on others. Who should I trust and lean on for the right kind of advice?”
A study has shown that 71% of generation Z believe the phrase “If you want it done right, then do it yourself.”
Most of the younger generation prefer working solo, but at times, it can be difficult. When he lost a match during the Golden Goal, Kathires admitted to feeling really down.
Luckily for him, as with any other football team, he had a sports psychologist who helped remind him that he has a way of not losing himself when faced with hurdles.
He learned to rely a lot on his sports psychologist, and used the encouragement received to better himself. Sometimes we all just need a nudge from someone to put us back on track and make sure we do our best.
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The message behind these stories is clear: if there is a will, there is a way.
Life has now blessed us with so many resources that are easily accessible (thanks to the internet), so the younger generation can really learn a lot and push their limits further.
With technology at its advanced stage now, Maxis’ Fibrenation Stories campaign brings up a good point. The internet can really bring up thousands of possibilities, and we as the younger generation that will be stepping into the workforce and becoming the new leaders can start taking advantage of this more.
If you’d like to see the full stories behind these three chosen ones, we’ve attached the short videos from Maxis here:
Video credit: Maxis
For more information on Maxis Fibrenation, you can click on their official website here.
This article was written in collaboration with Maxis.
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It’s been a busy few weeks with both of the top two voice assistant platforms announcing new devices and software improvements, but what does it all mean for brands, designers and developers?
Google Home Mini becomes top selling smart speaker
That’s right, the Google Home Mini smart speaker outsold all other smart speakers in Q2.
Google’s intense advertising over the summer months looks like it could be starting to pay off. It still isn’t the market leader. Amazon still holds that spot, for now.
At the beginning of this year, Google Assistant was a nice-to-have feature in your voice strategy. Google’s progress over the summer and the recent sales of the Google Home Mini now mean that obtaining a presence on Google Assistant is unavoidable for brands looking to make serious play in this space.
We discuss whether you should use a tool like Jovo for developing cross-platform voice experiences or whether you should build natively.
Dustin’s pro tip:
If you need access to new feature updates as and when they’re released, you should build natively. If you’re happy to wait, use something like Jovo.
Google rumoured to be launching the Google Home Hub
It’s rumoured that Google will be releasing a smart display to rival the Amazon Echo Show.
In the podcast, we said that this will go on sale in October. That’s not the case. The actual sale date hasn’t been announced yet.
With more voice assistants bringing screens into the equation, designing and developing multi modal experiences is going to be an increasing area of opportunity over the next year.
Google becomes multi-lingual
Google announced multi-lingual support for Google Assistant. That means that you can speak to the Assistant in a different language and have it respond back to you in that language without having to change the language settings. This is a great feature for households that speak more than one language.
Although this might not be widely used initially, this is a great step forward in providing a frictionless user experience for those who speak more than one language. For brands, this brings the necessity to internationalise your voice experiences closer to home.
Check out the podcast we did with Maaike Dufour to learn more about how to transcreate and internationalise your voice experience.
Amazon announces about a million Alexa devices
Amazon announced a whole host of Alexa enabled devices last week, including:
Echo Dot V2 and Echo Plus V2
A new Echo Show (with a 10 inch screen)
Echo Auto (for the car)
Echo Sub (a subwoofer)
Fire TV Recast (a TV set top box)
An Alexa-injected microwave
A clock, with Alexa built in
Echo Input (turns any speaker into a smart speaker)
A Ring security camera
A smart plug
An amp
These new devices, whether they succeed or fail, present opportunities for brands, designers and developers in that they provide an insight into a user’s context. That can help you shape an experience based around that context.
For example, you can now target commuters with long form audio through Alexa while they’re driving. You can provide micro engagement through Alexa while your customer is cooking their rice.
This could be the beginnings of the ‘Alexa Everywhere’ movement, which will be laden with opportunities for those who seek to understand where users are and what they’re seeking to achieve at that time.
Alexa Presentation Language
The Alexa Presentation Language allows you to design and develop custom visuals to enhance your user’s screen-accompanying Alexa experience.
Until now, if you wanted to serve visuals on an Echo Spot or Echo Show, you’d have to use one of 7 design templates. This announcement means that you can create your own designs and even do things like sync visual transitions with audio and, in future, there’ll be support for video and HTML 5.
As with many of the items in this week’s Rundown, there’s an increasing emphasis on multi-modal experiences. Over the next year or so, expect more voice + screen devices. This will mean that you’ll need to start thinking about how you can add value through visuals as part of your offering.
Kane’s pro tip:
Even though there are more options for voice + screen, still focus on creating voice-first experiences. Don’t let the screen take over. Lead with voice and supplement or enhance with visuals.
Alexa smart screen and TV device SDK
This announcement enables device manufacturers to create hardware with a screen that runs Alexa. For example, Amazon will announce the details of how Sony have used the SDK to add Alexa capability to their TVs.
For hardware brands, you can now add Alexa to your products. For the rest of us, watch this space. This is yet further evidence to suggest that voice + screen experiences are going to be something users come to expect in future.
Introducing the Alexa Connect Kit (ACK)
ACK allows device manufacturers to add Alexa to their hardware without having to worry about creating a skill or managing cloud services or security.
Essentially, you can add an ACK module to your device, connect it to your micro controller and hey presto, you have an Alexa enabled device.
It’s the same thing Amazon used to build their new microwave.
Another opportunity for hardware brands to add value to your product line and another signal that Alexa will potentially be spreading further and wider. If you haven’t thought about how this might impact your business and the opportunities you might find in future, this is a good time to start that thought process.
Two final Alexa announcements:
Whisper mode, which enables a user to whisper at Alexa and it’ll whisper back.
Hunch, which is Alexa’s first move to become proactive in suggesting things you might want to do based on previous behaviour.
In unclear whether either of these things require developers to markup their skills for this in any way or whether Alexa will take care of everything for you.
Finally, Bixby
Bixby will be opening up for public Beta in November after a few months in private beta.
There was a webinar this week, exclusive to the private beta members, which included a host of announcements. I’m still trying to get hold of the webinar or someone who can shed some light on it and we’ll try and bring you further news on this on the next Rundown.
Voice AI in the contact centre: 2021 trends, with Dan Miller, Opus Research
Incorporating VUI into your UX repertoire with Stuart Silverstein
Voice commerce: the state of play with James Poulter
Creating independent voice assistants with Kavita Reddi and Sirish Reddi
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Professor of Law at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., for the past thirty-five years, contributor to the Remnant and Latin Mass magazine, Dr. Marcin is well respected as a traditional Catholic apologist. Teaching at CUA, that bastion of non= Catholicity, he certainly knows the enemy. Our speaker began his talk by reminding his traditional Catholic audience that while doing their best to keep on the straight and narrow, which is the road of faith and tradition, they must always be prompt to support all good and positive things that issue forth from our pope and hierarchs, even if we are more often disappointed by the same. Making his point that it is much easier to dismiss the whole hierarchy, whatever the shade of liberalism to which they all seem more or less tainted, than to stay balanced and be a vital part of the reform, the professor went on to highlight some very critical remarks made by our present Holy Father, while a Cardinal, concerning Vatican II and the new humanistic orientation. Zeroing in on Ratzinger's analysis of Gaudium et Spes, the council's pastoral constitution On the Church in the Modern World, as a "counter syllabus" to both Pius IX's and St. Pius X's encyclical condemnations of modern errors and modernism, Dr. Marcin launched into the theme of his extraordinarily well structured presentation on the priestly Oath Against Modernism, as legislated by motu proprio in 1910 by Pope St. Pius X, and the dismal aftermath of its revocation by Paul VI in 1967. This revocation took effect, he said, even though Paul VI actually stated, shortly after the council, that the modernist conspiracy is "the most dangerous revolution that the Church has ever had to face and it is still scourging her severely." The quotations that our speaker provided from Pope Paul VI just prior to his death are a stunning admission. Over and over again this pope bemoaned the "self-destruction" of a Church in a diabolical crisis. "The tail of the devil," the pope said, "is functioning in the disintegration of the Catholic world. The darkness of Satan has entered and spread throughout the Catholic Church even to its summit. Apostasy, loss of faith, has entered into the highest levels throughout the Church." Dr. Marcin takes a different view of Pope Benedict XVI than that commonly heard in traditionalist circles; he finds in him a man who knows that the Church is in a doctrinal crisis as well as a moral one, but who applies the remedy slowly. The arch-demon, of whom Paul VI spoke, says Marcin, must be personally excised from the Church, and, so must his smoke, through which he has blinded the shepherds. A doctor of law, the professor concluded by stressing that a good step, in that ultimate exorcism, would be to re-issue the mandate of Pius X. Restore the Oath Against Modernism.
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The Tories' dilemma
Matthew Parris in the Times raises a challenge for Tories – but not, perhaps, the one he thinks he does.
The government’s willingness to borrow to get through the crisis, he says, undermines the traditional “Conservative case for prudence in public spending.” And if there are not the limits the Tories thought on public spending, then:
The Tories had better brace themselves serious questions about how we can do it for a virus but not to save a shipyard, or the planet from climate change. Or double the future capacity of our hospitals, or legal aid limits, or nurses and carers’ wages.
I think Tories have – and always have had - two answers here. But they contradict each other.
First, let’s dispose of bad reasons for “prudence.”
In part, it is a legacy from different times. In the relatively closed economies of the 70s and 80s, there were limits on how much governments could borrow, set by inflation and savers’ reluctance to lend to the state. Although these limits haven’t been binding for a long time, it’s common for people’s ideas to outlive the reality behind them.
Also, the idea that government debt is a burden on future generations is wrong, and not just because they can roll it over to the next generation and because interest rates are negative. There’s plenty else that can impose a burden on our children. Recessions have scarring effects, both by reducing the skills and experience young workers acquire, and by making people more risk-averse (pdf) in later life. Equally, poor education and inadequate infrastructure depress people’s incomes in future. And a lack of action on climate change might be catastrophic for our grandchildren. Reducing the “burden on future generations” might as well justify increased government borrowing as lower.
Why, then, have the Tories had an instinctive (if not always realized) desire to limit public spending?
Simple. It’s because they want a large private sector. If there were no moral or prudential limits on government spending, they fear, the state would expand at the expense of the private. Voters do not instinctively favour a market economy.
One reason why the Tories want a large private sector, of course, is that they are the party of capitalism, and capitalism is about making profits.
This explains why their belief in “prudence” has waxed and waned. Sometimes – as in the early 80s - austerity is needed to depress wages and so relieve the squeeze on profit margins. But at other times, such as the early 90s and now, capitalism requires increased public spending to shore up legitimacy, compensate for weak private sector demand, or provide the infrastructure that capitalism needs.
But there’s a second reason why Tories want a thriving private sector. It’s that this can sometimes deliver the goods.
The USSR put a man into space but couldn’t give its citizens comfortable shoes. Which shows the strength and weakness of the state. It’s good at achieving single agreed-upon objectives such as winning wars or (we hope) defeating viruses: there are no libertarians in foxholes. But it’s bad at delivering a variety of goods or at innovating to improve the quality of those goods. For this, we need a market economy.
It’s not just material goods that a market economy delivers, some Tories think. Following McCloskey and Montequieu, some believe in “doux commerce” - that commercial society inculcates virtues. They believe that success in markets requires an understanding of what others want, sobriety, prudence and the cultivation of good reputation.
Herein lies the real problem for Tories. These two cases for a large private sector can conflict with each other. “Doux commerce” requires constraints upon capitalists. As Jesse Norman writes in Adam Smith: What He Thought and Why it Matters:
Markets are sustained not merely by incentives of gain or loss, but by laws, institutions, norms and identities, and without those things they cannot be adequately understood.
Profit maximization, however, sometimes requires that these institutions and norms be ripped down, the better to pursue rapacious exploitation, monopoly, and cronyism. You can interpret that much-abused term “neoliberalism” as the process whereby “doux commerce” is supplanted by a harsher form of capitalism – in which we lose the James Timpsons and get the Mike Ashleys.
In this process, says Jesse:
Business activity loses any relation to, and often clashes with, the public interest;…business merit is separated from business reward. These features then feed off and into a culture in which values of decency, modesty and respect are disregarded, and short-termism and quick rewards come to dominate long-established norms of mutual obligation, fair dealing and just reward.
It's not just in the realm of morality that there’s a conflict between capitalism and commercial society, however. There’s also a conflict in economics. A genuinely thriving free market would see few concentrations of private wealth or power, because competition and creative destruction would eliminate them. American leftists have the slogan “every billionaire is a policy failure”, but it would be equally true to say that every billionaire is a market failure.
Herein, I suspect, lies the biggest dilemma within conservative thinking. It does not concern their attitude to “prudence” in the public finances: it is sometimes correct to suspend such prudence. Instead, their problem is: why do they want a large private sector? Because there is a conflict – which has grown markedly in recent years – between a healthy commercial society and more exploitative forms of capitalism.
We might wonder why this dilemma is not more publicly discussed. One reason, I suspect, is that here we have another example of an idea outliving their material base. In the mean and nasty 70s, it was plausible that there was little tension between these two conceptions of a market economy; one could believe that more capitalism would mean doux commerce. It is, however, less plausible now. Another reason, perhaps, is that the Tory party has, in one respect at least, an emergent intelligence that Labour lacks: it knows instinctively that some issues should not be raised.
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Another wasted crisis?
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 there was much talk that the real heroes were firemen rather than hedge fund managers. That talk soon disappeared, and Americans’ indulgence of plutocrats continued as normal. This warns us about clapping for carers: it might prove to be a brief emotional spasm with no lasting social effect.
Yes, crises can be turning points. But those of the 1970s and 2008 tell us that, for the left, they can also be wasted opportunities.
Here are five uncertainties about how the legacy of this one.
Will the crisis shift politics in a more technocratic direction?
It has taught us that we need more spare capacity in the NHS and that the government has prioritized static “efficiency” too much at the expense of resilience. It’s also taught us that the we need to build a welfare and monetary policy infrastructure so that help can be funnelled quickly to those in need – for example, ensuring everybody has a bank account so that helicopter money can be delivered immediately, or ensuring that people don’t face long waits and Kafkaesque bureaucracy when claiming benefits. Yes, this crisis was sudden and unpredicted, but so were previous recessions. We need the means to respond to them quickly.
In short, what we need are technically competent politicians focused on improving state capacity.
But will we get this? I had hoped that the Grenfell catastrophe would drive politics in this direction, I was wrong. The fact that people could vote Tory and then clap for carers a few weeks later shows that too many have forgotten (if they ever knew) that politics should be about collective action and regard it instead as a TV gameshow. And there are powerful forces entrenching such a conception, such as Bayesian conservatism and the incumbent grifter media.
Will the crisis increase global cooperation?
Gordon Brown says it shows the need for a global effort to produce vaccines and medical supplies and for global support for emerging markets, whose economies might well be hardest hit. But on the other hand, the Orange Imbecile’s talk of the “Chinese virus” shows that the crisis is also stoking up crude nationalism. Robert Shrimsley says it could provoke “a new emphasis on self-sufficiency” with protectionism and subsidies for farmers and key manufacturers.
How will the crisis change attitudes to risk?
We know, not least thanks (pdf) to the work (pdf) of Ulrike Malmendier, that recessions can have scarring effects. Memories of them can make us more cautious (pdf) even years later.
The political manifestation of this is, however, uncertain. On the one hand, we might hope that an awareness of one’s vulnerability to unemployment might increase demands for redistribution: support for the post-war welfare state was founded in part upon memories of the Great Depression. But on the other, it was (in part) the people who suffered from unemployment in the 80s who handed the Tories their election victory last year.
What’s more, scarring isn’t the only mechanism. There’s also a framing effect. This time next year we’ll be seeing the economic damage done by post-Brexit trade barriers. But these will look small compared to the drop in output we’ll see in the next few weeks and they will therefore seem tolerable to some. A lot of ERGers will be saying “we got through the coronavirus so we can get through this.”
What’s the future of fiscal policy?
One lesson of the crisis is that western governments have much more fiscal space than austerians pretended. And as it’s likely that borrowing costs will stay negative and tax revenues will recover as the economy normalizes, there should be no urgency to cut borrowing much.
But on the other hand, some Tories might see the higher debt-GDP ratio as a pretext for demanding more spending cuts.
How will the crisis change the balance of class power?
James Meadway says a retreat from globalization and workers’s ability to withdraw labour on public health grounds should shift this balance “dramatically back in favour of labour” – especially if we also get a universal basic income.
But higher unemployment will have the opposite effect. And just as memories of the Great Depression squashed wage militancy for a generation – it only re-emerged in the 60s when workers with those memories started to retire – so might memories of this crisis cow labour too.
All of this is deliberately inconclusive. As Jon Elster said, the social sciences are a toolbox of mechanisms which sometimes help us explain without being able to predict. There is little inevitability in human affairs. Those of you who want this crisis to lead to a better world need a lot more than gestures and hope.
Against "aggregate demand"
One legacy of the 2008 crisis has been that firms have built up big cash piles. Bank of England data show that non-financial firms now have over £425bn of sterling deposits. That’s equivalent to over two months of GDP and over 12 months of profits. You might think this is a great comfort, as it suggests that companies can respond to their loss of revenues not just by borrowing but by simply running down these cash piles: isn’t that what they are for?
But, but, but. There’s a huge problem here. The firms suffering the biggest drops in cashflow might well not be those with the cash mountains. To the extent that the two groups differ, there will be genuine distress.
Which alerts us to a fact overlooked by basic macroeconomics. The economy does not comprise a “representative agent” firm supplying “aggregate demand.” Instead, it comprises tens of thousands of different ones, with very different balance sheets (even within the same industry) supplying different goods, who respond differently to changes in economic policy.
This is not a trivial fact. It matters enormously. A given fall in “aggregate demand” which hits cash-strapped firms will be much nastier than one that hits cash-rich ones. We can have no confidence that this crisis will see the latter happen.
Also, as Daron Acemoglu has shown, recessions can be a story of the interconnections (pdf) between firms. The 2008 crisis was so bad in part because banks were key hubs in networks, so when they cut supply everybody suffered.
Networks could amplify this downturn. If a firm fears its customer will go bust, it’ll not supply it on credit and so it might well fail: in this way, expectations can be self-fulfilling. Equally, one way in which multiplier effects work is that one firm’s failure and one worker’s redundancy (or, importantly, one freelancer’s lost contract) depresses demand for others.
There’s another problem. Let’s say you buy a coffee every morning on your way to work, but you then work from home for a month. You won’t buy 26 coffees on your day back in the office. But you will have over £50 more to spend on something else. The losers from this downturn will not therefore necessarily be the same as the winners from the upturn. Even if the macro data show a V-shared recovery, the ground truth will be that the upward leg of the V is different from the downward leg.
This wouldn’t matter much if capital and labour were fungible – if, say, car manufacturers could easily switch to making ventilators. But they are not. Instead, as Banerjee and Duflo point out in Good Economics for Hard Times, economies are “sticky.” Resources cannot switch from one job to another. The pit closures of the 80s and 90s, for example, led to longlasting unemployment and poverty, contrary to the just-so fairy tales of Econ101ers.
Which raises a problem. If unemployed waiters and bar staff cannot easily shift to become (say) the construction workers needed on the government’s new infrastructure projects then we might see unemployment co-exist alongside labour shortages.
This is a common effect of recessions. They don’t just cut “aggregate demand” but shake up the pattern of it. My chart shows this. It plots the Beveridge curve – the link between unemployment and job vacancies.
As you might imagine, many points lie on a downward-sloping line: in recessions we are at the top-left, with high unemployment and low vacancies, and in good times we’re at the bottom right, with low unemployment and lots of vacancies.
But look at the vertical line in the middle of the chart, where vacancies are around 600,000. In 2004, this level of vacancies coexisted with unemployment below 1.5m. By 2008, however, the same level of vacancies existing alongside unemployment of 1.8m, and by 2014 with unemployment of 2.2m. This tells us that the crisis created a greater mismatch between labour demand and supply.
And we’ve not recovered from it. Those points in the middle of my chart below the main curve all depict the pre-crisis years. Since the crisis, we’ve moved down the curve, but the curve has stayed further out than it was pre-crisis.
There’s a danger that this recession will shift the curve even further out, causing unemployment to coexist alongside vacancies.
Which would mean that the unemployed won’t even serve the interests of capital because they’ll not bid down wages: unemployed baristas in London would compete against construction workers in the north.
Now, this might not be a severe problem for capital if immigration adjusts, so that we replace one group of migrant workers with another, as baristas return to Poland whilst construction workers come over.
But this is unlikely to be the whole story. Which is why there is an overwhelming case for stopping firms laying off workers in this crisis. The case is not just a humanitarian one, but an economic one; the workers who lose their jobs won’t easily find new ones, and won’t even be a decent reserve army of labour.
Against one-trick ponies
Those of you who believe that bourgeois economics is mere ideology have had two data points of corroboration recently.
First, Stephen Moore, Art Laffer and Steve Forbes said: "don’t expand welfare and other income redistribution benefits like paid leave and unemployment benefits that will inhibit growth and discourage work."
This contain layers of nonsense. For one thing, during the current public health crisis we want to discourage people from working so they don’t infect others. But even in normal times. Their statement would be wrong. In one survey of the evidence Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo conclude that “there is no evidence that cash transfers make people work less.” (Good Economics for Hard Times, p289). One reason for this is suggested by the fact that the unemployed are much unhappier (pdf) than a lack of income alone would predict: work is a source of meaning and identity.
The second piece comes from ECB council member Robert Holzmann who claimed that the virus might “release positive cleaning forces.”
It is true that some recessions (pdf) can sometimes have this effect. If aggregate demand falls, people are likely to cut spending on the goods and services that offer worse value, which are likely to come from the worst-managed firms. And capital scrapping can raise aggregate profits and so spur future investment. But it’s obvious that this recession is not one of these cases. The hardest-hit firms will be those most hurt by lockdowns such as pubs and restaurants. These are not necessarily the least efficient or profitable ones.
What we have here, then, are two especially egregious examples of an error which Dani Rodrik warned us against (pdf): we must not impose the same model upon every problem. Instead, we must have a variety of models or theories and apply the right one in the right place. Economists cannot be one-trick ponies – especially when as in Laffer’s case, that trick is a lousy one.
In this sense, there’s a big difference between these rightists and we Marxists. As I’ve said, many of us are unideological about many matters (such as the impact of minimum wages) because we’ve no dog in those fights.
This is true of crises. Although Marx held the ideological (and correct) view that capitalism was inherently prone to crises, he saw that these would take many different forms. As one of the earlier and better of his commentators put it:
Crises are extraordinarily complicated phenomena. They are shaped to a greater or less extent by a wide variety of economic forces…the actual economy [is] so much more complicated than the model systems which were analysed in Capital (Paul Sweezy, The Theory of Capitalist Development, p133)
It should be obvious to anyone who isn’t an ideologue that a public health crisis, and the attendant economic crisis, requires a greater degree of state intervention than would be appropriate in normal times. Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, nor are there any intelligent libertarians.
The smarter people on the right get this. “Treating this event as a normal market adjustment seems perverse” says Ryan Bourne. He says the aim of policy should be to
mitigate distress among vulnerable households and businesses, preventing business failures or mass layoffs in viable firms, or severe hardship for those without significant savings or employer benefits.
“Paying people not to work”, he says, “becomes, for the time being, a virtue.”
He would put far more stress on those words “for the time being” than many of us on the left would, who favour more redistribution and automatic stabilizers even in normal times. This, however, should be a debate for another time. The fact is that what’s appropriate in a crisis might not be appropriate in normal times*. Today, the distinction is not between left and right, but between those who get this and those who don’t.
* This is true in another sense. A universal basic income and/or helicopter money are, I suspect, good ideas for the future, but not so appropriate today.
Winning the argument?
The reaction of many on the left to the big spending rises in yesterday’s Budget is that they show that Labour has “won the argument” for higher public spending. This is partly true.
On current plans (pdf), total public spending will rise to 40.8% of GDP by 2024-25*. That’s a bigger share than Labour spent between 1997 and 2008. The Tories’ justification for this is correct: low borrowing costs make it sensible to borrow to support economic growth and improve our infrastructure. But this is exactly what most on the left – as well as mainstream macroeconomists - were saying years ago. In this sense, the left has won.
In another sense, though, this is awkward for the left. It tells us that the Tories can increase spending at least as much as Labour can. One reason for this is the old cliché “give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep til noon.” The Tories can raise spending a lot for the same reason that Nixon could pursue détente. Their (wholly unjustified) reputation with the media and voters for sound stewardship of the public finances means they can better get away with raising spending. Whereas John McDonnell’s promise of £500bn of infrastructure spending was portrayed as reckless, Sunak’s £600bn is “the road to riches” and a “bold battle plan”. Yes it’s unfair, and appalling double standards. But this is the world we live in.
if we identify leftism with higher public spending, the Tories do leftism better than Labour.
But of course, we should not identify the two. There are still at least five big differences between the Tories and the left:
1. Day-to-day spending. Although Sunak has stopped cutting, he's not reversing Osborne's cuts, as Simon points out. That increased share of spending in GDP owes a lot to more spending on the NHS and pensions. This suggests that plenty of other areas of spending, such as by local authorities, will remain under pressure.
2. The environment. Freezing fuel duty and building more roads will give us more cars and pollution. Sunak might have been converted to fiscal common sense, but this Budget was not the Green New Deal.
3. Income equality. This Budget fell way short here. As Aditya says, it failed to raise sick pay or extend it to gig workers. And as the Resolution Foundation says in its excellent assessment (pdf), “this Budget was silent on arresting ongoing welfare cuts” – cuts that will increase income inequality. Yes, Sunak promised cuts in NICs and a higher minimum wage. But as the IFS points out, these are not especially egalitarian:
Only 8% of the gains from the NICs cut would accrue to the poorest fifth of working households. And only 22% of minimum wage workers live in the poorest fifth of all households.
4. Economic institutions. There is, though, more to inequality than incomes. Genuine equality requires more equality of power, and breaking the dominance of the ultra-rich (pdf). Which requires institutional change. As James Meadway has said, this means that “ownership and control of productive resources… should be decentralised, democratic, and collective as far as possible.” Worker ownership should be a key part of any leftist platform.
5. Productivity. The Tories’ conversion to the idea that infrastructure spending can raise productivity is welcome. But we need more than this. The OBR estimates that the rises in government investment spending will, if sustained, eventually raise productivity by 2.5%. But this is only a fraction of the productivity shortfall we’ve suffered since the crisis: if productivity had grown as much since 2007 as it did in the 40 years up to then, it would now be 22 per cent higher than it actually is. Boosting productivity requires far more than public spending. Whilst some of these things should be compatible with Tory sentiments – such as tougher competition policy – others might not be, as such as shifting taxes onto landlords, pursuing a softer Brexit** or fighting workplace inequality and cronyism.
So yes, the left has won the argument on public spending. But there is much more to leftist economics than spending. And these arguments are far from won.
* My eyeball econometrics suggests there are upward trends in my chart. Maybe Wagner’s law still holds.
** The OBR says we have so far suffered only one-third of the total adverse effect of Brexit on productivity.
On (un)predictability
It’s a cliché that stock markets have been in panic mode recently. But why? The answer is not as obvious as you might think. And the issue matters not just for equity investors but for everybody interested in social science.
My chart shows the point. It shows that the All-share index has been largely predictable simply by the dividend yield. Since 1985 the correlation between the yield and subsequent five-year changes in the index has been a humungous 0.8. With the yield now over 5%, history suggests we have the best buying opportunity since 2009.
But, but, but. If investors had believed that the dividend predicts returns, we would never have seen any significant sell-offs of the sort we’ve seen lately. Any incipient rise in the yield would have triggered buying with the result that the yield and prices would have been stable. The pattern in my chart exists only because people didn’t believe it would exist.
Why, then, has the yield been so volatile?
One answer is that it only predicts medium-term returns. Most stock market participants, however, don’t care about these. For many, “the long-term is this afternoon.” Over shorter periods, returns are unpredictable: the correlation between the yield and subsequent monthly returns has been only 0.1. A cheap market can get cheaper – hence the saying, “never try to catch a falling knife.”
In the short-term, participants focus on two things other than the dividend yield.
One is trying to anticipate others’ beliefs. As Keynes put it:
Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole; so that each competitor has to pick, not those faces which he himself finds prettiest, but those which he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors, all of whom are looking at the problem from the same point of view. It is not a case of choosing those which, to the best of one’s judgment, are really the prettiest, nor even those which average opinion genuinely thinks the prettiest. We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be. And there are some, I believe, who practise the fourth, fifth and higher degrees.
This means we face what Mordecai Kurz has called endogenous uncertainty – uncertainty not just about the so-called fundamentals, but about other investors’ beliefs (or their beliefs about others’ beliefs and so on).
A second concern in the danger of a positive feedback loop, whereby falls lead to further falls. These can arise simply because leveraged traders, facing big margin calls, are forced to sell. Or they are the result of “risk parity” trades, whereby traders trying to maintain stable volatility in their portfolios sell stocks when volatility rises. (This isn’t as daft as it seems).
Of course, not all uncertainty is generated only within financial markets. Some exists because the world really is unknowable. What investors must worry about is not merely the central case scenario but the distribution of risks. As David Meenagh and colleagues have shown, small but reasonable changes in the probability we attach to a catastrophe can justify big swings in prices.
In this context, my chart overstates the predictability of share prices. For decades, the UK stock market has recovered from most setbacks*: we’ve enjoyed what Dimson and Marsh called the triumph of the optimists. Disasters have not materialized and it has therefore paid off nicely to buy when investors have worried about them.
But we have no assurance whatsoever that history will repeat itself. Instead, we face what Richard Bookstaber called radical uncertainty – the unknowable chance that the past won’t be a guide to the future. Returns might be non-ergodic.
It’s reasonable to worry about this now. As Paul Krugman says, “markets are implicitly predicting not just a recession, but multiple years of economic weakness.” With conventional monetary policy almost maxxed out, central banks can do less than before to support equities. Covid-19 might accelerate deglobalization and the productivity gains it has brought. The low aggregate rate of US profit might ensure continued secular stagnation. “Sticky” economies (to use Banerjee and Duflo’s useful term) cannot adapt well to shifts in the pattern of demand wrought by Covid-19. And so on.
Sure, a high yield in the past has been a predictor of high returns. But it might today instead be a predictor of low profit growth. And even if it isn’t, it would be imprudent to bet the house this way.
We have known since Shiller’s work (pdf) in 1981 that share prices are more volatile than underlying dividends. What’s not so certain is whether this is because investors are irrational or not.
Now, I know a lot of you aren’t interested in stock markets. Insofar as they are full of pompous posh white men, I share your lack of interest. But there’s more to them than this. Markets raise questions of general importance: is there predictability in human affairs? Is history a guide or not? How do beliefs not only reflect the world but shape it too? Does the pursuit of individual incentives lead to efficient aggregate outcomes or not? What are the roles of rationality and irrationality? Markets matter not because of a few points here or there on the Footsie, but because they are a window onto the social sciences.
* Not all, though. The market is lower than it was during the tech bubble of 2000.
On centrist decline
One of the BBC’s most successful comedy shows of recent years is Radio 5’s 6-0-6, wherein actors pretending to be football fans phone in to spout gibberish about the game. A recurring trope is the need for “passion”: managers are expected to be passionate, and teams lose because they “didn’t want it enough.”
I was reminded of this by a tweet from Andrew Adonis, that Labour must “get real about winning” – as if the party would win elections if only they wanted it more.
This is yet another example of one of the great political changes of my lifetime – the utter intellectual collapse of the Labour right.
Think back to the mid-90s. Blairism – lest we forget - was at the time a genuine intellectual project, an attempt to accommodate (mild) social democracy to the economic realities of the time. So, for example, tax credits were intended to help the low-paid and boost work incentives in the face of weak demand for unskilled work: the minimum wage was in part a way of limiting the fiscal cost of such credits. Expanding universities was a way of meeting the increased demand for educated workers (as signalled by the rising graduate pay premium) whilst also capping inequality. Fiscal rules were an attempt to reassure bond markets: real long-term yields were then over 4%. And such rules, along with central bank independence were intended to reduce policy uncertainty, thereby encouraging investment.
This programme had its flaws but it was intellectually serious.
Today, though, the economy has greatly changed and poses different questions. What should we do now the inequality which matters is not so much the 90-10 ratio as it was in the 90s but the high incomes of the 1% or 0.1%? Is inequality really only a matter of income but also of ownership and power, and if so what should be done about this? What (if any) adverse effects does inequality have and how might we mitigate them? What should macroeconomic policy be when real interest rates are sharply negative? What should we do about unaffordable housing? How can we restart productivity growth? How can we ensure macroeconomic stability given that we learned in 2008 that stable macroeconomic policy alone is insufficient?
To questions such as these centrist politicians and pundits (most of the latter having not lost their jobs) have no answer. They have learned nothing since 2007. Neither Chris Leslie’s “manifesto” nor CUK’s launch document contained any meaningful economics at all. As Phil says, they offer “not one scintilla of policy, or rumour of an alternative to Corbynism.”
Labour’s election defeat might have been the ideal opportunity for centrists to reassess Corbynomics and to question its critique of capitalism. But for the most part they have not done so. Far more of the reaction to that defeat has been to ask how Labour might better do retail politics, or how it might accommodate itself to socially conservative voters. What discussion of Labour’s economic policies there has been has focused upon its lack of appeal to voters rather than upon any intellectual defects in it. Of a centrist alternative to Corbynomics there is little sign.
This is not entirely for want of resources. You could put together a reasonable economic platform from the work of folks like the Bennett Institute, Radix or Sam Bowman and Stian Westlake. Instead, all we get is vague talk of electability and endless amounts of punching left.
Of course, we should not see politics merely as a matter of technocratic policies – and still less, in postmodern capitalism – as delivering real solutions to real problems. Centrists, for all their talk of being evidence-based rationalists, are as tribal as the rest of us. Hatred of the left is the premise of their thinking, not the conclusion.
Politics is also, of course, about class. And herein lies a problem for centrists: what is their class base supposed to be? Blair succeeded by forming an alliance of the low-paid; businessmen alienated by the Tories economic incompetence; and public sector workers.
But where is the equivalent today? Labour have captured workers alienated by high house prices and the neoliberal managerialism which New Labour accelerated. And the Tories have retirees and rentiers scared of redistribution. I suppose centrists could, if they tried, find a platform that appeals to the more progressive elements of capital and those workers who identify with them. But one lesson of Brexit is that such elements are insufficient.
Perhaps, then, the intellectual decline of centrism is a symptom of a decline in its client base. If so, then we have less to learn from Blair’s electoral successes than centrists pretend.
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On capitalist stagnation
One of the problems with even the best journalism is that it reports day-to-day events without putting them into context, thereby telling us about the weather but not the climate. So it is with the news that ten-year Treasury yields have hit a record low.
Although the latest move is due to increased risk aversion triggered by the coronavirus this merely continues a long-term trend. Nominal yields have been trending down since the 80s, and real yields probably since it 90s.
Why? Standard explanations talk of the shortage of safe assets and global savings glut. Useful as they are, such explanations miss something important. This is that basic theory (and common sense) tells us that there should be a link between yields on financial assets and those on real ones, so low yields on bonds should be a sign of low yields on physical capital.
And they are. My chart shows that the profit rate for US non-financial companies has trended down since the 1950s. I’m not using fancy Marxian calculations here – though they tell a similar story. I’m simply using the Fed’s own numbers, expressing pre-tax profits as a percentage of non-financial assets measured at historic cost. Although this profit rate is higher than it was in the crises of 2000-01 and 2008-09, it is much lower now than it was in the 60s and 70s. And profits have never sustainably recovered from the crisis of the 70s and 80s. Even by their own lights, therefore, neoliberal policies – such as lower taxes, sharper CEO incentives, weak unions and a focus on shareholder value - have failed.
You might find this surprising. How can we reconcile it with the fact that, until a few days ago, the stock market was at a record high? Simple. For one thing, listed firms are an unrepresentative sample of all firms. They tend to be bigger and more monopolistic than the average – and the bigger ones among them are more profitable. And for another, the market’s high valuations reflect the hope that firms which are not very profitable (or loss-making such as Tesla) today will deliver monopoly profits in future. If we look past a few giant monopolies, the typical American firm has been struggling.
In light of this, three Big Facts make sense.
The first is the slowdown in productivity growth. Having risen by 2.2% per year in the 50 years to 2007, output per worker-hour has grown only one per cent per year in the last ten years. One reason for this (of several) is that lower profits reduce the incentive to invest and innovate. This is especially the case when low profits for many firms co-exist alongside monopoly power for a few, because monopolies prefer to entrench their power rather than innovate. Secular stagnation did not drop from the sky. It’s the product of trends within capitalism.
The second is capitalism’s vulnerability to crisis. To see this, imagine a different world in which there were abundant big profit opportunities for non-financial firms in the early 00s. The flow of savings from Asia would then have financed these cheaply. We’d thus have seen strong growth in the real capital stock and in productivity and profits (and maybe wages and employment too). But we didn’t, because there were few such opportunities. Savings flowed instead into housing and mortgage derivatives thereby stoking up a bubble which led to the crisis.
The third fact is documented by Anne Case and Angus Deaton in their new book, Deaths of Despair, wherein they show that, for middle-aged white people without much education, deaths from suicide, alcohol and drug misuse have soared since the 90s. A big reason for this is that employment opportunities for such people have worsened; even in today’s supposedly “tight” labour market, people without degrees are much less likely to be in work than they were in the 90s. And many of those who are in work are in worse jobs. Case and Deaton note that white men without a degree earn less in real terms than they did in 1979. Fewer and worse jobs mean a lower sense of self-worth, stress, family breakdown and hence deaths of despair.
But why have such job opportunities declined? It’s easy to blame globalization or technical change. But these are different ways of saying that it is no longer profitable for capitalism to employ less-skilled people at a decent wage.
The drop in bond yields is therefore one of the more innocuous symptoms of a dysfunctional capitalism.
Of course, all these trends have long been discussed by Marxists: a falling rate of profit (pdf); monopoly leading to stagnation; proneness to crisis; and worse living conditions for many people. And there is plenty of evidence (pdf) for them. The problem is, however, that many people want to shut their eyes to this evidence. In this sense, perhaps today’s two big stories – the record-low for bond yields and the success of Joe Biden in the Super Tuesday primaries – are related.
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49ers fear a torn ACL for RB Reggie Bush
Nov 1, 2015 at 2:17 PM • --
San Francisco 49ers RB Reggie Bush was seen on crutches in the locker room following the team's 27-6 loss to the Rams in St. Louis.
FOX Sports' Mike Garafolo is reporting that the 49ers are fearing the worst. They believe that he may have a torn ACL. He will have an MRI to confirm the injury, which may end his season.
Bush slipped on the sideline concrete at the Edward Jones Dome while running out of bounds on a punt return. He did not get back up and was eventually carted to the locker room.
RB Mike Davis (hand) also left the game. With RB Carlos Hyde (foot) inactive, that left only RB Kendall Gaskins to play in the game. Gaskins was promoted from the practice squad on Saturday. To make room for him, the team released RB Jarryd Hayne, the former Australian rugby league star. It was a move that many fans questioned.
It is highly likely that the team will now re-sign Hayne to the active roster if he clears waivers on Monday.
#49ers Reggie Bush on crutches in locker room.
— Eric Branch (@Eric_Branch) November 1, 2015
49ers fear a torn ACL for Reggie Bush, source says. This after he slipped on the concrete there in St. Louis. That has to be addressed.
— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) November 1, 2015
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'This is the year to adapt': Manitoba premier asks residents to change holiday plans
Published Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:11PM CST Last Updated Tuesday, November 24, 2020 1:18PM CST
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba’s premier says this holiday season will be different for Manitobans and is encouraging people to get creative with their celebrations.
“This is the year to adapt, this is the year to not get together apart from those in your household, but rather to celebrate family in a real way by contacting and being in touch with those you love and care for,” Premier Brian Pallister said during a news conference on Tuesday.
“We have technologies now we can use that we didn’t have years ago.”
Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba’s chief provincial public health officer, said last week that the province will have targeted measures for the holiday season, but it will depend on the COVID-19 case numbers and how the new restrictions are working.
In Manitoba, gatherings outside of people living in your household are not allowed, with exceptions for home-care, health-care and child-care services, as well as tutoring, repairs, construction, and emergency response services. Those who live alone can also have one person visit their home.
During Tuesday’s news conference, Pallister said following the current public health orders will make the holiday celebrations next year even better.
“It’s important to remember the real celebration in 2021 at Christmas time would be best if it included all of our family,” he said.
Pallister expressed optimism that a vaccine could be deployed "shortly" but stressed that, until then, it's important to follow public health guidance to keep everyone safe.
“That’s ultimately the best holiday gift we can give each other.”
Health Canada said the safest way for people to celebrate the holidays is with people in your immediate household. If people wish to gather with anyone outside of their household, they need to check with their local health authority to see if it's permitted, as each province has different rules around private gatherings.
Some provinces, including Quebec, are looking at potentially allowing small gatherings over the holidays, granted that people self-isolate for a period before and after.
-With files from CTV Winnipeg’s Kayla Rosen.
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says Manitobans should be prepared to adapt their holiday season this year due to public health orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic. (FILE PHOTO: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adina Bresge)
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Winnipeg family creates stop-motion Lego video in time for Christmas
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Published Tuesday, December 1, 2020 6:11AM CST
A screen shot from Tyler Walsh's latest stop-motion Lego video: Santa Claus will still be delivering presents in time for Christmas despite the pandemic. (Source: Tyler Walsh)
WINNIPEG -- Winnipeg resident Tyler Walsh and his two sons have a new message for children in their latest stop-motion Lego video: Santa Claus will still be delivering presents in time for Christmas despite the pandemic.
In the video, Walsh uses a Lego Santa Claus, elves, and other characters inside intricately-built sets to reassure children and show how the North Pole team is safely preparing for Christmas Eve, from sanitizing presents to wearing masks.
He also reminds children to be “extra good” to their parents, who’ve had a tough year.
“My hope is that parents get a hold of it, teachers get a hold of it, and then show their kids because I think there’s a great message for kids in there,” said Walsh, who works for Economic Development Winnipeg.
He posted the video to his social media platforms on Sunday after dedicating around 30 to 40 hours to the project. Walsh said his sons helped source the Lego pieces and build Santa’s workshop along with other sets.
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Santa Claus �� has sent an important #Christmas2020 message to all the children of the world.
The holidays are going to be different this year, so here's what you need to know.���� #LEGO @LEGO_Group #COVIDー19 #SantaClaus https://t.co/rIJ96kGcIK pic.twitter.com/J8PKQNZ2TL
— Tyler Walsh (@walsht) November 29, 2020
Walsh has created several other stop-motion Lego videos this year, including one with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s message for children during the pandemic, which received national attention in April.
Since then, Walsh said he and his sons have upped their game by expanding their Lego collection and investing in a stop-motion animation software program, Dragonframe.
“Part of it is just that it’s really fun, but there’s some really kind interesting or neat messages that I can get out there as well,” he said.
Walsh said he hasn’t ruled out creating another video before the end of the year but doesn’t have anything planned just yet.
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The Perfect Storm, Hurricanes are young but ACC play will make them mature fast
In the Atlantic Coast Conference when it comes to basketball, it is a battle every night on the hardwood.
The Miami Hurricanes basketball team is learning that after starting the season in non-conference play unblemished with ten wins and zero losses, they are playing in the ACC. After their latest loss to the Duke Blue devils, Miami is 2-3 in the conference and losers of two in a row.
Freshman guard Gary Trent scored a season-high 30 points, and No. 5-ranked Duke needed less than three minutes to erase a 13-point second-half deficit, scoring 18 consecutive points to overtake No. 25 Miami 83-75.
“We played a great 32 minutes,” Hurricanes coach Jim Larranaga said. “And then everything changed. The Gary Trent show began.”
Miami’s loss to Duke marked the Hurricanes’ first loss of the season at home. A sellout crowd of 7,972 included 37 NBA scouts, Miami Heat owner Micky Arison, Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez.
Blue Devils departed with a win however they have not been at full strengthening in conference play. They played their third consecutive game without injured center Marques Bolden (sprained knee) and forward Javin DeLaurier (hamstring). A reminder it is a battle for wins in the conference.
Trent’s final 3-pointer helped seal the win, putting Duke up 76-70 with 1:15 to go. He shot 9 for 14, including 6 for 9 from 3 point land.
Freshman Lonnie Walker IV helped the Hurricanes build their big lead and finished with 19 points and four steals.
“We have to be aggressive; we have to know each and everyone’s personnel, to know where our shooters are, we have to know where our big men are,” Walker stated. “We can’t be careless and pass the ball east and west. We have to go downhill and make them play us.”
Hurricanes are young however this conference will make you mature fast. Hurricanes forced the Blue Devils to commit 19 turnovers and fall short of a win in ACC play that will not get easier on their schedule. Teams like Syracuse and N.C. State who the Hurricanes play soon is clawing for wins in the conference. It is not the time to hit the panic button. However, March is here as January winds down.
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Tech4Good: Scaling up social transformation in the fourth industrial revolution
Exponential powers of Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, genomics and other emerging digital technology sets up unprecedented opportunities to shape the future of work and solve some of society’s most vexing problems. Improving access to education and health care, achieving gender equity and other challenges are bigger than any single entity—in academia, business or government—could possibly take on alone.
But there is strength in numbers. Accenture Labs believes only the “collective intelligence” of a synergistic ecosystem can steer the combined forces of tech for good toward the desired outcome.
Business leaders must think and act differently to find their place in these new digital ecosystems that are creating markets where none currently exist—indeed, innovators put themselves in position to capture part of a $12 trillion market opportunity by 2030 (1).
In this report, Accenture Labs explains what we learned from examining more than 30 case studies around the use of digital technology for solving social challenges, and explains our steps to unleash Tech for Good for future growth and prosperity.
"Governments, business and civil society can't alone address the multifold challenges we have on the global agenda. We need collaboration."
—Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum
The Tech4Good innovation ecosystem
Business leaders looking for the next big growth opportunity are unlikely to go it alone. More likely, they’ll adopt solutions developed by academic researchers and startups before building them out at industrial scale.
Additionally, businesses face challenges innovating where market mechanisms fail to function well, requiring help from civil society and government. The upshot: Businesses must orchestrate a synergistic innovation ecosystem to reach the next billion people and capture a multitrillion-dolar market opportunity (See figure 1).
The five "Es" of Tech4Good
Motivations for participating in the Tech4Good Innovation Ecosystem will vary depending on the player: academia will likely be driven by ideas; governments may seek transformational change; businesses must maintain a mission to create shareholder value.
Build a strong foundation of digital ethics.
Engineer solutions for the next billion.
Embed social good in business models and offerings.
Enable civil society with digital capabilities to address market cracks.
Educate to build capacity to absorb innovation for the masses.
Reimagine, reinvent how business is done
Through the Tech4Good Innovation Ecosystem, businesses can amplify their mission and their profits by leveraging collective intelligence of regulators, academics, innovators and civil society, rather than doing it alone.
By aligning these interactions with our recommendations, it’s possible for businesses to address needs of society with differentiated go-to-market strategies powered by digital technologies and partnerships.
In doing so, businesses will discover new revenue growth models and differentiate their brands. They’ll also be contributing to building a more inclusive, fair and prosperous world.
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Seminar – The Art and Process of Making Community Theatre
The Art and Process of Making Community Theatre
Join us on Wednesday 25 November 2.00 – 4.00pm for an online, interactive seminar – focusing on the different ways that facilitators and community performers work together to make original, relevant theatre which tells their stories.
The seminar will look at different examples of how the artistic process works:
gathering the stories
devising and development through workshops
how workshops are structured
how creative relationships between facilitator/director and community performers are brokered
how decisions are made and managed to achieve equal ownership
The seminar will also include input from acta facilitators and directors, drawing on examples from 35 years of creating new theatre.
The seminar will be presented and chaired by Neil Beddow, acta Artistic Director, and will include presentations and the opportunity to question and discuss the sometimes complicated processes of creating community theatre.
who is this seminar for?
Theatre Makers: those already in the field of community theatre or those interested in learning about how the artistic process works.
Creative Artists: anyone interested in learning how to make community theatre.
Social Change Professionals: those interested in creating change through community theatre.
Students and Academics: in Applied Theatre and similar disciplines.
acta is delighted to welcome to the seminar two expert guest speakers;
Becca Finney, Director of Appalshop’s Roadside Theatre, which has been delivering ground breaking community theater in rural Kentucky and in communities all across the U.S. since the 1970s, with the ’story circle’ process.
Jo Ronan, artist and practice-based researcher, who has studied, practiced and lectured on Collaborative Theatre. She worked with 7.84, and founded The Necessary Stage in Singapore, and Bloodwater Theatre, which experiments in egalitarian ways of making theatre.
Full biographies at bottom of page.
Availability: Tickets are limited to 30: book your place here.
Event Structure: The seminar will run from 2.00 – 4.00pm, including a short break. There will be an opportunity to network with other attendees, either after the session or by sharing contact information. More information to come.
Location: the event will be held virtually over Zoom.
Interactive: We want this seminar to bring you real value, and will be offering opportunities to ask questions in advance – via a survey – as well as other interactive elements to maximise your learning, and recordings available after the seminar.
acta’s seminar programme
This is the latest of acta’s seminar series, delivered as part of the Cornerstone programme, funded by PHF to widen diversity and develop practice within the community theatre field.
The seminar will be conducted online, in keeping with Government guidelines.
Places are limited so please follow this link to book!
Guest biographies
Becca Finney joined Appalshop in 2019 as the Director of Appalshop’s Roadside Theatre. She has spent the last decade as a collaborative theatre maker in rural spaces, and believes theatre is an essential balance in contemporary culture because it invites an availability to both mystery and movement. Becca is also an advocate for community-led art, which really just means she believes all theatre-makers should also be good neighbours. She was born and raised in central Kentucky into a family with a history of civic service, a legacy which she embraces and which fuels her work with both generosity and political persistence. Becca earned her BFA in Dramatic Arts from Centre College, and her MFA in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre from Dell’Arte International.
Jo Ronan is the originator of Dialectical Collaborative Theatre, a rehearsal and research methodology she developed to politicise the making and spectatorship of performance. Her praxis-driven PhD argues for the possibilities of non-hierarchical collaborative theatre production and consumption within a capitalist economy. She founded BloodWater Theatre to experiment with egalitarian ways of making theatre, producing original work at the Tron Theatre (2011) and the CCA (2014). She challenges the binaries of professional and applied performance, exploring these tensions in her research. Jo was Associate Director with 7:84 (Scotland) directing its final production, Eclipse by Haresh Sharma which toured Scotland and Singapore. She co-founded The Necessary Stage (Singapore) in 1987, directing numerous productions, including Still Building by Sharma staged in Singapore, the UK and Egypt. She was its associate director till 1995 when she settled in Scotland. Jo has been teaching on Performance programme at the University of the West of Scotland for the past 13 years but will shortly be leaving her post to pursue new opportunities as an independent artist/scholar.
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White Ops And Beachfront Team Up To Prevent OTT Ad Fraud – But How Big Of A Problem Is It?
by Kelly Liyakasa // Thursday, March 15th, 2018 – 2:00 pm
Video supply-side platform Beachfront Media is expanding its partnership with White Ops, the digital verification vendor that specializes in bot detection, to include over-the-top (OTT) inventory.
All inventory passing through Beachfront’s marketplace is now vetted and verified by White Ops, according to Frank Sinton, Beachfront’s founder and chief product officer.
But is OTT fraud a big problem yet? For the most part, connected TV advertising happens in private marketplaces and little to no inventory is available on open exchanges, Sinton said.
So OTT fraud wouldn’t happen in the traditional sense of a bot generating fake clicks or impressions.
But sometimes, non-OTT impressions are dressed up like OTT, said Tal Chalozin, co-founder and CTO for OTT ad server Innovid. And “those are mostly, if not only, distributed via the exchanges.”
Beachfront is working with White Ops to help eliminate that possibility by detecting instances where, for example, mobile video inventory might be passed off as OTT.
And prevention is almost always better than detection after the fact, particularly for a new channel in need of advertiser budgets.
“The looming threat of spoofing is not just theoretical in OTT,” added Michael Tiffany, president and co-founder of White Ops. “The reality is, initiatives like Ads.txt are working as they’re designed, which makes it harder to spoof premium web inventory. That’s naturally going to drive an adversarial shift … to new frontiers without Ads.txt protection, and that’s mobile and connected TV.”
Moreover, because OTT commands lucrative CPMs, it has the potential to attract bad actors.
“The biggest profit to be made is by gaming the systems people least expect and precisely because of the profit potential,” Tiffany said. “We’re putting measures in place to prevent fraud from the outset because every dollar that goes to someone gaming the system is a dollar not going to people who’ve done the hard work” to create content or build an audience.
Ways it happens and ways to prevent it
Device-level detection is the best way to combat OTT inventory fraud – but that’s neither easy nor always reliable, Chalozin said.
Because two devices – such as an Android-powered TV or phone – can share the same signature in the user agent within an HTTP query, it can be hard to distinguish whether that device is, in fact, a mobile device or a TV.
“There’s still no way to know with 100% certainty that this inventory is OTT unless you are embedded inside the app that originated that impression,” he said.
For instance, an app publisher like Fox would know an impression originated from its app, as would a tech partner like Innovid because of its SDK.
But Mike Fisher, VP and head of advanced TV at MediaMath, who previously worked for the OTT ad server BrightLine, said buyers and demand-side platforms (DSPs) can take device types into account to ensure the validity of OTT inventory.
“It’s very difficult to spoof device type,” he said. “Luckily, the majority of impressions we’re seeing are coming to us via three device types – Roku, Apple TV and, further down the line, Amazon Fire – and we’re able to detect that.”
Eventually, he predicts more industrywide measures like Ads.txt, which helps validate the origin of an impression to ensure a domain is legitimate, to translate to OTT.
“We and other DSPs out there are shutting off publishers who don’t support Ads.txt by a certain date,” Fisher said. “For TV, it’s a little different, obviously, but we have started to see some OTT publishers adopt it as well.”
Innovid’s Chalozin agreed.
“Throughout this year, I predict there will start to be ways to identify an impression coming from OTT as genuine and legit, which essentially will give more value to that impression,” he said. “Maybe it’s not a full Ads.txt comparable, but we’ll start to see solutions.”
As for the possibility of app developers or publishers gaming the system at the device level? There’s little chance of that happening, experts say.
“It’s very difficult to spoof an actual app on OTT because of the queue these things go through,” said Fisher.
Because of their closed ecosystems, device manufacturers are often a first line of defense in fighting fraud.
“They do a deep dive to ensure there aren’t peripheral ad calls being made or anything that’s not above board going on,” Fisher said.
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Prof-Bot: The autonomous chemistry professor
by Geoffrey Ozin | Mar 10, 2020
Will artificial intelligence expand and enhance its teaching prowess to the point where it can replace the professor in his or her traditional role?
After 50 years as a chemistry research professor at the University of Toronto, the thrill of materials discovery by tried-and-true human intelligence and experiential learning has never waned and continues unabated. By happenchance, however, I now find myself working alongside colleagues equally interested and excited by materials discovery made by blue-sky artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Curious about what the future holds for the synthetic chemistry professor and his co-workers, I imagined how prof-bots and co-bots in self-driving chemistry laboratories could replace and render them obsolete (see my recent article Autonomous chemical synthesis).
This made me wonder whether a prof-bot could supplant my other role as a teaching professor, working with teaching assistants in the traditional lecture theater of learning. I am not talking here about the massive open online course known as the MOOC, where one replaces the so-called “sage on the stage” by a “scholar on a screen.” Rather, I am conjecturing whether the wide-ranging tasks and the vast repertoire of skills of the university teaching professor are replaceable by a robotic equivalent that is better able to educate students than a human educator.
I imagine this is an unthinkable thought and an unacceptable scenario for most of my professorial colleagues. They know the importance of the professor/student human interaction and its personal touch when it comes to the art and science of teaching.
If we could build all outstanding human qualities [above] into Prof-Bots, then we would not fear this reality-in-the-making [below]. Images courtesy of Todd Siler and Geoffrey Ozin www.artnanoinnovations.com
Teaching is an inherently human endeavor requiring higher-order education traits than simply knowledge transfer. It requires pervasive qualities that include and transcend the skills of communication, judgement, empathy, passion, understanding, foresight, insight, reason, respect, generosity, rationality, humor, motivation, inspiration, organization, reliability, encouragement, non-judgemental, adaptation, resonance, synergy, oversight, relationships, objectivity, curiosity, honesty, problem solving, critical and independent thinking, innovative ideas, creative solutions, and thirst for knowledge, to name but a few.
Excellent teachers understand this evidence-based truth: The ability to learn — or inability — determines our health, happiness, self-worth, and success. The act of learning and applying what we learn as wisely and productively as possible, is an act of creation. Will this truth hold true for the best of our creative AI, VI, and machine learning systems, as well? How many of these outstanding characteristics will these advanced systems have, given that they may eventually have the capacity to realize human/machine potential in unimaginable ways? That is one open-ended question.
These are exceptionally challenging talents for an autonomous teaching professor to acquire beyond the purview of simple knowledge transfer. Recall my last article on autonomous chemistry laboratories in which I imagined synthetic chemists as we know them today could become obsolete, as referred to above.
I would argue that it is not beyond the realm of possibility that with supercomputer power, big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, all-knowledge-endowed robot educators and robot assistants could rise to match or even outperform professors and teaching assistants in the theater of higher learning.
It is conceivable that all of the concepts and principle of chemistry that have been recorded in textbooks and the open literature could be read and analyzed by a learning machine and coded to find the best possible approach for a humanoid professor to educate undergraduate and graduate students in the classroom. I could similarly envision developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning that would enable the robot professor to create computer-based assignments and examinations and complete the marking tasks on time.
This is not a far-fetched proposal. Last year, the first intelligent robot, the brainchild of digital teaching pioneer Professor Jürgen Handke, was trialed delivering lectures at the Philips University of Marburg in Germany. Named Yuki, the knowledgeable and approachable humanoid functioned well as co-bot assisting the professor with lectures and tests, evaluating the academic performance of the students and determining the kind of support they needed. Similar developments are underway in other countries.
I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg as to whether Yuki will remain just a teaching assistant or with artificial intelligence-based self-learning will expand and enhance its teaching prowess to the point where it can replace the professor in his or her traditional role as teacher. Whether university professors would end up believing this inhuman state of university education would improve the student learning experience is another question that I leave to professional chemistry educators.
Keep in mind, however, there are other cost-benefit counter-forces at work in this potentially disruptive emerging educational technology that realize an autonomous chemistry professor works 24-7, has lower running costs, no need for an office, easily replaced, immune to illness, no family problems, requires no coffee and lunch breaks, and never asks for a vacation.
What is next for Prof-Bots?
Imagine a time when these sophisticated Prof-Bots evolve completely on their own that they feel foreign to us altogether; implying, they advanced to a point in which the antiquated “Book of Life,” is surprisingly unrecognizable to them! Image courtesy of Todd Siler and Geoffrey Ozin, www.artnanoinnovations.com.
20 years from today we may be wondering how it was possible to research and teach chemistry without Prof-Bots and Co-Bots! Considering the daunting abundance of new knowledge created and shared at a constant dizzying pace through labyrinths of supercomputers conversing with “their own kind” of gnarly networks, all-human faculty members and students would never have been able to manage the continuum of complexity we are now experiencing.
In fact, it would be more difficult without the aid of Prof-Bots and Co-Bots working tirelessly to teach us not just the rudiments of chemistry but how best to apply those concepts and principles to manage such vexing climate change phenomena as greenhouse gas emissions, permafrost methane escape, and ozone depletion. Human “learning systems” would be throwing in the towel — or waving the white flag of surrender — to the unbearable global climate we have created. On the other hand, we would be burying our heads in the sand just hoping and praying that our selfless, life-saving innovations could do the impossible on our behalf: save the human race from the physical and mental limits of its own ingenuity. Somehow, we gave ourselves a second chance at surviving in the inhospitable cosmos. Moreover, we human beings are simply grateful for their essential aid and relief.
Be that as it may, we sense there are tremendous trade-offs for this aid. Arguably, none is greater than the indescribable touch of humanity: What Dow Chemical Company called “The Human Element” in June 2006, when they boldly launched their advertising campaign heralding their commitment to tap human potential in solving global problems. In this regard, they recognized the uniquely humanistic qualities we are aiming to imbue or impart to our world of robots now serving our every need and every aspect of our lives — and without which, we could not survive, much less thrive. When you ponder the importance of teaching S.T.E.M. & S.T.E.A.M. knowledge and practices — in preparing learners for working in chemistry — how many schools serving high school and university will need to integrate AI, machine learning, and VI systems to their instructional technology programs? And not just for their chemistry courses! How pressed will our learning organizations become trying to engage young learners at all cost — if only to ensure they remain competitive nationally and internationally?
When we think about that word “competitive”, other real human concerns pop up. Welcome to the New Age of Real-Life (and true-to-life) “Sibling Rivalry,” so to speak — rivalry among virtually intelligent human/machine systems. Unlike our “younger”, heavily programmed and regulated AI closed systems, the new and improved virtually intelligent open systems will self-learn in ways that surprise even the most knowledgeable computer programmers and engineers. Will these advanced, self-learning “systems” become as fiercely competitive as humans do? Perhaps the manufacturers of Prof-Bots felt it was a great idea to offer learning organizations a wide range of personalities to prepare students for real-world human and machine interactions.
This point raises yet another basic question concerning the evolution of our vision for education and the machine enhanced tools and operatives we will need. If one could count the number of schools in sovereign nations that are currently experimenting with and adopting AI and virtually intelligent systems, this would give us some idea of how fast the projected adoption will happen; and, more to the point, how fast the robots will be teaching us. Out of necessity.
So one immediate task is to understand the various ways these virtually intelligent and machine learning learning systems are being used. Are they primarily being applied to the chemical, physical, biological, and engineering sciences and mathematics, like Wolfram MathWorld, which was built by Stephen Wolfram, the British-American computer scientist, theoretical physicist, and entrepreneur? Or are they being envisioned and engineered with much broader plans and deeper applications for serving businesses, industry, and learning organizations world-wide?
Ultimately, Prof-Bots can bridge academia and everyday learning, engaging students at an early age to learn how to best self-learn. In doing so, they will be simultaneously preparing minds for a lifetime of innovating and problem solving.
We hope the Prof-Bots will teach us something profound about our humanity — and not just grow our technology profoundly. They will certainly possess the means to help us see ourselves more clearly and deeply: like looking in a plain mirror and correcting our mistakes by seeing the mistakes as they are occurring or catch sight of them before they occur. Consequently, we can learn to use the mirror to discover new possibilities of thinking and innovating.
Finally, we must always keep in the forefront of our imagination how these Prof-Bots do not have to resemble humans or act like humans in order to teach us — or teach themselves. They can be as non-anthropomorphic as a Samsung refrigerator, a table, or a Tesla car with machine learning and virtual intelligence capabilities. In fact, as we experience daily with the bounty of practical, virtually intelligent interactive tools, they can take any form or size imaginable.
In short: these teaching appliances might think like gods, but will look like amoebas! Never mind beautiful sentient “Sophia” and “Ester” — or the bipedal Herculean robot, “Atlas” — the Prof-Bots can look as mundane as a house fixture and yet think as brilliantly and beautifully as Einstein … or not.
Written by: Geoffrey Ozin1 and Todd Siler2
1Solar Fuels Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Email: g.ozin@utoronto.ca, Web sites: www.nanowizard.info, www.solarfuels.utoronto.ca, www.artnanoinnovations.com.
2ArtScience, Denver, Colorado, USA, Email: siler.todd@gmail.com, Web Site: www.toddsilerart.com/home.
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Screenshot of the Pacific Salmon Explorer. The Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Samon Waterheds Program recently expanded the range of data to include southern salmon populations.
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Oct. 17, 2020 6:00 a.m.
The Pacific Salmon Foundation has updated an important database that allows British Columbians to track the spawning status of salmon throughout most of the province.
The Pacific Salmon Explorer is an interactive online tool to analyze some of the most comprehensive data available for all salmon species in B.C.’s fresh waters. For the past 10 years the explorer’s reach was confined to the North and Central Coast populations. The expansion announced Sept. 22 now includes Southern B.C., adding 150 new genetically and geographically distinct groups of salmon across 160,000 square kilometres of freshwater habitat.
As a result, 80 per cent of B.C.’s 411 populations, or Conservation Units, are now accounted for in the database.
“The Pacific Salmon Explorer is a high priority for the Pacific Salmon Foundation and we will continue to catalyze efforts to bring together salmon experts and support them in using the Pacific Salmon Explorer to identify strategies for supporting the conservation and recovery of salmon,” said Michael Meneer, president and PSF CEO. “Involving the people who are monitoring, restoring, and making decisions about salmon conservation and management, has been, and will continue to be, a central tenet of this work.”
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The words "Porn Is" followed by a Jewish Star of David, was discovered Sunday morning on a billboard at Silverbrook Estates along Highway 93 just north of Kalispell.
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BT research shows 'digital gender divide'
Are men more IT prone than women?
Oliver Garnham (PC Advisor (UK)) 21 August, 2007 13:42
Men are three times more likely to try and solve an IT problem themselves than women, according to new research which BT says highlights the 'digital gender divide.'
BT's research shows that home PC users are 'in the dark' when it comes to securing valuable data, the company claims, but men and woman take very different attitudes to protecting their digital photos, videos and music files.
According to the research, nearly 50 per cent of females considering their data 'priceless' compared with just over one third of men, with women taking responsibility for making sure music, video and photo files are safely stored on a home computer. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to store work-related spreadsheets and documents.
But the gender divide is most apparent when it comes to IT support, according to BT. The company said just 14 percent of women try and sort out technical problems, with men three times more likely to get their hands dirty.
"It's interesting to see the differences in approach to what people think is important and what they protect, but also what they do when it comes to solving computer problems and those most likely to seek expert help," said Emma Sanderson, director of consumer value-added services at BT.
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AARNet Lightpath Puts Scientists on the Right Path to Real-Time Data Access
<p>Successful demonstration delivers first real-time e-VLBI correlation results from China, Australia and Europe baselines</p>
<p>SYDNEY, Australia – 30 August, 2007 – AARNet broke new ground at the APAN24 (Asia-Pacific Advanced Network) meeting in Xi'an, China today by setting up and successfully linking Astronomers across the world via "lightpath". The demonstration involving collaborators of the EXPReS project (Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service) conducted the first successful e-VLBI observations to jointly use telescopes in China and Australia, China and Europe.</p>
<p>The demonstration covered an impressive 41,000kms in total with consistent data transfer rates of 250 Mbps. The data was transferred from Mopra to Sydney over AARNet lightpath, then on to AARNet's lightpath along Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) SXTransport South to Los Angeles, then by CENIC to Seattle, CaNet to Chicago and then via SurfNet to Amsterdam and then on to JiVE. The other route involved Shanghai via CSTNet and the across ORIENT to Copenhagen, GEANT to Netherlands and SURFNet then on to Jive.</p>
<p>Chris Hancock, CEO of AARNet said "Today was a first for researchers and the astronomy community in Australia and it demonstrates the real value of investing in high-speed infrastructure. To connect across such a vast area via dedicated lightpaths to such far-away telescopes is a phenomenal achievement”.</p>
<p>A lightpath is a direct network path from telescope to computer for which a permanent or temporary connection of fibre-optic cables is configured without using routers. There is no competing traffic on a lightpath therefore the data reaches its destination without congestion and enables real-time transfer. e-VLBI is a technique by which widely separated radio telescopes simultaneously observe the same region of sky, and data from each telescope are sampled and sent to a central processor via high-speed communication networks operating in real-time.</p>
<p>“Traditionally, VLBI has been done by recording the data as observed at each telescope onto a magnetic disc or tape and shipping those recordings to a central location – this could take months. What was achieved yesterday allows scientists to have immediate access to data in real time, even while experiments are in progress,” said Chris Hancock.</p>
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<p>AARNet Pty Ltd (APL) is the company that operates Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNet). It is a not-for-profit company limited by shares. The shareholders are 37 Australian universities and the CSIRO. AARNet provides high-capacity leading edge Internet services for the tertiary education and research sector communities and their research partners. AARNet serves more than one million end users who access the network through local area networks at member institutions. For further information, please visit: www.aarnet.edu.au.</p>
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Symantec cuts ties with Veritas in $US8 billion sale
“This transaction strengthens our financial foundation..."
James Henderson (New Zealand Reseller News) 12 August, 2015 04:24
Symantec has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its information management business, known as Veritas, to an investor group led by The Carlyle Group together with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, and other expected co-investors for $US8 billion in cash.
The transaction, which was unanimously approved by Symantec's Board of Directors, is expected to close by January 1, 2016.
Upon closing of the transaction, Symantec expects to receive approximately $US6.3 billion in net cash proceeds, subject to certain customary post-closing adjustments.
The security firm claims the Symantec Board has authorised a $US1.5 billion increase to its existing share repurchase program, bringing the total to $US2.6 billion, with $US2 billion expected to be returned to shareholders over the 18-month period following the close of the transaction.
The Board has also determined that Symantec will maintain its quarterly cash dividend of $US0.15 per common share, which represents an overall increase to the company’s dividend payout ratio post-separation.
Between its dividend and share repurchases, Symantec expects to return about 120 per cent of its after-tax domestic cash proceeds from the sale to its shareholders.
“This transaction strengthens our financial foundation, paving the way for Symantec to grow its security business and increase its lead as the world’s largest cybersecurity company,” says Michael A. Brown, President and CEO, Symantec.
“We believe the agreement with the investors, including The Carlyle Group and GIC, delivers an attractive and certain value for the Veritas business, and is in the best interests of all stakeholders.”
For Brown, the Symantec Board of Directors explored a variety of strategic alternatives to “maximise the value of Veritas” and in reaching the conclusion that the sale agreement is in the “best interest of Symantec shareholders.”
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Brown adds that the all-cash transaction provides Symantec with “significant proceeds” to continue organic and inorganic investments in the rapidly growing market for security products and services, and to support its capital return initiatives through the purchase of common stock and its dividend.
“Since the Board first announced the separation of Veritas, we have been preparing the company to operate independently and evolving our business strategy, while continuing to deliver industry-leading solutions to our customers,” adds John Gannon, Symantec Executive Vice President and Veritas General Manager.
“We are thrilled to partner with The Carlyle Group and GIC, which have a strong track record of successfully growing businesses and share our dedication to Veritas' strategy and success.
“Veritas will continue to provide next-generation information management solutions to serve the world’s largest and most complex environments, including multiple cloud deployments, managed services and on-premise infrastructure.”
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The Carlyle Group has announced separately that Bill Coleman and Bill Krause will become CEO and Chairman, respectively, of Veritas upon closing of the transaction.
“Veritas is a market innovator with global scale, an iconic brand, and significant growth potential,” says Cam Dyer, Managing Director, Carlyle.
“Bill Coleman is a proven leader whose strategic vision and strong execution skills will leverage Veritas’ new-found position as a private, standalone company to grow the firm and provide customers an integrated information management solution.
“Our significant experience investing in software businesses, as well as our extensive experience with carve-out transactions, positions us well to support Bill and the existing management team in creating value at Veritas.”
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News : Plug-in hybrid MINI nears production
17 October 2016 admin 3
The first plug-in hybrid MINI is readying for launch, with development almost completed. The 1.5-litre power unit works in parallel with an electric motor, which enables purely electric propulsion for the first time in a MINI.
MINI is promising that the car will be fun to drive, retaining the existing car’s ‘go-kart’ feel. There are few outward differences, but inside the start/stop button in the centre of the dashboard glows yellow instead of red. The tachometer has been replaced with a power display, which informs the driver about the electric motor’s power reserves before the petrol engine fires up. When exactly the combustion engine starts varies depending upon on the vehicle’s speed and how hard the driver presses the accelerator.
It’s a high-capacity hybrid, and MINI promises that this one maintains its zero-tailpipe emissions at motorway speeds. The high-voltage battery under the rear seats provides power for long-lasting electric driving. AUTO eDRIVE standard mode permits speeds of up to 50mph, and in MAX eDRIVE mode speeds of up to 78 mph are possible.
Peter Wolf, MINI’s Brand Manager, reckons it still drives as a MINI should: ‘As far as the chassis and suspension are concerned, nothing changes from the conventionally driven model variants,’ he says. ‘Thanks to the eDrive components, which are positioned very low down at the rear, the car’s centre of gravity is lowered and the weight is evenly balanced between the front and rear axle – ideal for achieving an even higher level of agility.’
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Keith Adams The countdown to the MG5 Turbo’s launch has begun and, as can be seen from this image first published in China Car Times, the front-end is to be mildly tweaked. The Golf-rivalling MG5 [...]
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PLAY Campaign
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These tools are available on all consoles and enable you to control spending, screen-time and limit access to games by age-rating.
As reported by the Children’s Commissioner in October 2019, 93% of children in the UK play video games. They are popular entertainment that offers a wide range of experiences that spark imagination, creativity, competition and encourage social interactions.
As the report highlights, “Children say online gaming extends normal play into the digital landscape and provides a chance to make new friends.”
Although the report raises concerns over the levels of spending by children in games, the good news for parents is that all modern consoles provide excellent tools to guide and limit both monetary spending and time spent playing.
Monthly spending limits can be quickly set-up on child accounts on PlayStation 4. You can add limited funds on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. On any console, you can add a password to ensure that your child needs to talk to you about a game or in-game purchase before purchasing it.
These tools not only ensure you are in control of any spending but create a context for you to discuss virtual items and value with your child. Understanding what Loot Boxes are, or other ways of buying items in games will help both you and children make informed decisions.
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Loot Boxes offer in-game items that vary in popularity. From next year, console makers will be revealing how likely you are to get particular items before making a purchase. It’s important to understand that these items are often optional, and don’t offer an in-game benefit other than changing the appearance of the character.
These discussions and helping parents develop literacy and confidence about video games are essential to empower them to play the role in guiding their children. When parents and carers play games themselves or establish gaming as something the family does together, the benefits from the activity increase greatly.
The report also suggests that online games should have a legally enforced age rating as boxed games currently do. The good news is that all the console platform holders already voluntarily enforce this strictly for every game sold.
The PEGI ratings offer an age rating and content descriptor for each game. Additionally, the new PEGI app enables parents to read the examiners report that let to a specific rating. This detailed information is hugely helpful in making an informed decision. You can also use the app to search for age-appropriate alternatives by selecting a younger PEGI rating.
All consoles enable you to set-up automatic age limits that require the child to ask permission and enter a password before purchasing, installing or launching a game of a specific age rating.
Finally, the report highlights that children sometimes need help to realise how long they have played for and stop when they’ve had enough. Again, it’s important that parents use the excellent existing tools to guide screen-time in a healthy direction.
Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo consoles each enable you to set a daily limit of gaming time. When the time is running out the child needs to ask for more and enter a password. Along with this, you can get weekly reports from Xbox and Nintendo systems that outline which games your child has spent time playing.
Understanding what your child is doing when playing games is another important measure of healthy behaviour. This not only enables you to ensure they stop when they’ve had enough, but also to encourage a wide range of gaming activities rather than always playing the same game. It also means you can understand when they have worked towards a difficult goal or skill in a game, and then praise their success.
Taken together, the tools than control spending and screen-time limits along with the PEGI age ratings, really put parents and carers in the driving seat.
Andy Robertson is the editor of AskAboutGames and has written for national press and broadcast about video games and families for over 15 years. He has just published the Taming Gaming book with its Family Video Game Database.
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I Spent 4 Seasons as Amy Poehler’s Stand-In
by Hadley Meares August 19, 2015
I Spent 4 Seasons as Amy Poehler's Stand-In
Hadley Meares on set with the Director of Photography of “Parks and Recreation.” (Photo: Tom Magill)
For years, I have described my job thusly: I am a moving piece of furniture. I am a crash test dummy with a working mouth. I am the understudy that never overtakes. I am the cheat sheet. The technical term for my job is “stand-in.”
I am not a body double. I am not a stunt double. Before I got the gig as Amy Poehler’s stand-in on Parks and Recreation, I didn’t know the difference either.
I was chosen solely because I am about her height, and have blond hair and similarly impish facial features. Every TV show and movie has several of these “fake” folks who are permanent members of the crew. Officially, we are known as the “second team.”
I spent four seasons on the set of Parks and Recreation. Often, I stood in for actors other than Amy. Pull my hair back and place me on a large apple crate, and voila: I’m an adequate stand-in for Chris Pratt. When Christie Brinkley appeared for her occasional cameos on the show, I stood in for her too. That was kind of intimidating.
I continue to be a stand-in, and my days on set are very formulaic. I arrive in my normal street clothes and pick up “sides,” which are extra-small scripts, with all the scenes being shot that day. Regulars almost always stand in for more than one actor, so these “sides” tell you who you will be covering that day. Occasionally, I am thrown a T-shirt or sweater that is the same color the actor I am covering is wearing, or my hair is styled to approximate a distinctive hairdo.
Relaxing on set. (Photo: Tom Magill)
When the assistant director (AD) calls “we’re in” or “rehearsal’s up,” I go to the set and watch the actors rehearse the scene. The actor I am covering leaves to get her make-up done and costume on, and I take her place and stand in the exact same place she will later.
The director of photography (DP) and head gaffer light my face and body. This means staying very still while a man repeatedly waves his hand near my face to test the light. If you don’t like being stared at or prodded, standing in is not the job for you. Every stand-in should know how to meditate.
Next, we run through the scene at half-speed or full-speed so that the camera department can practice shooting it, the sound department can practice recording it, and props and set dressing can make sure everything is where it should be. The AD, DP, and gaffer watch from monitors.
“Second team rehearsals” like this are often hilariously bad, but they are enormously helpful to the crew. The stand-in basically does everything her actor does: sit in a bathtub, jump in a pool, lie in bed with a romantic partner, play piano, hold a fake baby, skate on ice rinks, get lifted up in chairs to “Hava Nagila”, and get covered in soapy suds. The purpose of this is so that once the actor is ready and back on set, the shooting can proceed with no hiccups.
Anything remotely dangerous is done by crews of stunt men and women, who can generally be identified by their ripped bodies and ill-fitting wigs. Body doubles, who are much closer physical matches than stand-ins, are occasionally brought in to double for the leads. But sometimes, if no one else is available on set, the stand-in gets to substitute on film, too. My hand once doubled as Amy Poehler’s, and (most amazingly) my torso was used for Lucy Lawless’s!
Hadley being aged for “Parks and Recreation.” (Photo: Hadley Meares)
Sometimes, stand-ins get pulled out of our comfy camping chairs to be test dummies in other ways. For the last episode of Parks and Recreation, I spent six hours in a make-up chair so that they could test out aging makeup for Amy. My skin was stretched and sprayed with a glue that created wrinkles, and a bald cap was placed over my head and painstakingly painted my exact skin color. This was so that my hair would not show through the old lady wig they pulled on over it.
Prosthetic jowls were glued to my cheeks to give me the sagging skin of an 80-year-old. Occasionally, if a character is supposed to be having a conversation on the phone, they have us read lines off-camera, crouching out of the actor’s sight line. Try keeping a straight face while reading lines with people who are paid to be funny–it’s nearly impossible.
The funniest thing that ever happened to me on set occurred during my first season on Parks and Recreation. We were shooting outside on what was supposed to be Andy and April’s (Chris Pratt and Aubrey Plaza’s) front lawn. First team was already shooting, and I was sitting in my chair with the other stand-ins under a large tree. Just then, I realized I needed to go to the bathroom, which was annoying, since the porta-potties are always placed as far down the street from the set as possible.
I got up and started walking on the lawn, positive that I was safely out of camera view, when I noticed that Chris Pratt was staring at me, looking very confused. “Why on earth is he looking at me?” I thought, “shouldn’t he be focusing on acting?” But slowly Amy turned to stare at me, then Rob Lowe, then Jim O’Heir. What was going on?
Then I heard the second assistant director hiss, “Hadley, Hadley get out of the shot.” I looked over, and everyone was motioning for me to move. I panicked and ran to hide under a bush on the side of the house, utterly mortified. The director yelled cut, and everyone started laughing. Not only had I walked right through the shot, I was completely visible on-camera as I crouched under the bush!
(Photo: Hadley Meares)
The trickery of set life can make you feel like a glorified carny. Streets are watered down between takes to give shots greater depth and contrast. For night shoots, moonlight is supplied by a large balloon of light which flies high overhead. On shows like Parks and Recreation, the scenes where the character appears to be speaking with another person off-camera, are done by having the actor speak to a tiny cut-out of a person or cartoon character Velcro’d onto the side of a camera lens.
Background actors mime talking during scenes, and dance scenes are also often silent, with actors having to pretend to dance to what is often no more than a “click track” that taps out the beat of a song that will be added later, in post-production. Post production is where all the pieces are put together to form the show–where order comes out of chaos, and where short actors don’t appear to be standing on apple crates.
Being a stand-in is not glamorous. The days can be as long as 16 hours, and the work can be tedious. But I hit the jackpot on Parks and Recreation. Thanks to my four seasons on the show, I’m now confident that I’ll be good looking as an old lady. Oh, and did I mention I was on set twice with the great Bill Murray? Once he was a dead body, but don’t worry–he was just pretending.
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Christine Hellyar
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Like a historical novel, Mrs Cook's Kete - Thought Trays is based in fact, but is woven together using fictional elements. It examines the events of history through the eyes of a minor character in them-Elizabeth Cook, wife of the explorer James Cook-offering a unique and untold point of view. The work is based on the fictional premise that Mrs Cook's collection of souvenirs from her husband's travels were found in kete (flax bags) abandoned in the attic of her home in Clapham.
Hellyar has organised the objects into 7 trays according to their 'typology' or function; a system used at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, where Mrs Cook's Kete were first unpacked. The categories Hellyar uses are also inflected by Mrs Cook's position as a wife and widow. Her fictional collection consists of items relating to domestic tasks: gathering food, cooking, sewing, cleaning, dressing and adornment. Hellyar reflects that she is "interested in raising questions about the kinds of interactions that may have occurred between women from opposite sides of the world during the late eighteenth century." Consequently one finds under 'Binding Restricting' a book of threads which includes embroidery silks with harakeke, kiekie, hibiscus and muka.
The historical character of Elizabeth Cook has had quite an influence on Mrs Cook's Kete - Thought Trays, down to details such as the embroidery of the classificatory categories on the silk tongues which line the trays. The artist, however, insists that the items are not intended to be authentic or to directly imitate the original objects. Rather they are signifiers for the originals which allow the exploration of thought systems and taxonomies both of the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries and encourage reflection on how these are constructed and how they have changed through time.
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Old Man's War, Book 1
By: John Scalzi
Narrated by: William Dufris
At 75 years old, John Perry is after a fresh start - so, naturally, he joins the army. Earth's military machine can transform elderly recruits, restoring their lost youth. But in return, its Colonial Defence Force demands two years of hazardous service in space. This is how Perry finds himself in a new body crafted from his original DNA. A genetically enhanced and upgraded new body, ready for battle. But upgrades alone won't keep Perry safe. He'll be fighting for his life on the front line as he defends humanity's colonies.
A good first audible book
By Angus L. on 02-08-2017
Good concept, poor writing
Reviewed: 26-07-2017
Scalzi has a pretty interesting concept for a sci fi universe. The organisation of the government is fairly unusual.
Which is a shame, because his writing is rather poor and dialogue dull. The performance of the reader is quite good though.
I recommend this if you have already read all the other scifi stuff you want to read and don't have anything else left. Even then I'd rather go back and re-read a classic
Eaters of the Dead
By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: Simon Vance
The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs - the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness...their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth.
Not my favourite Crichton, but enjoyable.
By Hebby~Bookworm on 30-03-2019
Well voiced and a strange and interesting story
Eaters of the Dead is a strange and fun book. Unconventionally, it's told as if reading an old translated manuscript, with fake foot notes and translation explanations to boot.
If you liked the film that was based of this, you'll probably like the book. Alternatively, the protagonists journey through cultures completely alien to him makes it exciting and feel almost fantasy. It's a short listen, so give it a chance.
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A Little Familiar
Familiar Spirits, Book 1
By: R. Cooper
Narrated by: Joshua Macrae
Series: Familiar Spirits, Book 1
Categories: Romance, Paranormal
The Mysterious and Amazing Blue Billings
A Black and Blue Novel, Book 1
By: Lily Morton
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Levi Black is at a crossroads. After suffering a loss and breaking up a long-term relationship, he’s looking for a change. When he receives the news he’s inherited a house in York, he seizes the opportunity to begin a new chapter in his life. However, when he gets there, he finds a house that has never kept its occupants for very long. Either through death or disinclination, no one stays there, and after a few days of living in the place, Levi can understand why.
A spooky paranormal romance!
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Cutie and the Beast
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By: E.J. Russell
Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
Temp worker David Evans has been dreaming of Dr. Alun Kendrick ever since that one transcription job for him, because holy cats, that voice. Swoon. So when his agency offers him a position as Dr. Kendrick’s temporary office manager, David neglects to mention that he’s been permanently banished from offices. Because, forgiveness? Way easier than permission. But cheeky David isn’t intimidated, and despite himself, Alun is drawn to David in a way that can only spell disaster: When fae consort with humans, it never ends well. And if the human has secrets of his own?
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Silk Dragon Salsa
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By: Rhys Ford
Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
SoCalGov Stalker Kai Gracen always knew Death walked in his shadow. Enough people told him that, including his human mentor, Dempsey. Problem was, the old man never told him what to do when Death eventually caught up. Where Tanic, his elfin father and the Wild Hunt Master of the Unsidhe Court, brought Kai pain and suffering, Dempsey gave him focus and a will to live...at least until everything unraveled.
Great world building and intriguing twists.
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The Heart of the Lost Star
Tales of the High Court, Book 3
By: Megan Derr
Narrated by: Michael Stellman
Kamir is on the verge of losing everything. Knowing full well he can't meet the ultimatum his parents have issued, he instead finally puts in motion his plans to live completely independent of them. His plans are interrupted, however, by the unexpected return of his despised ex-husband - and thrown even further into upheaval when he ends up comforting the man he's secretly loved for years.
Magic in Manhattan Series, Book 2
By: Allie Therin
Narrated by: Erik Bloomquist
New York, 1925: Psychometric Rory Brodigan's life hasn't been the same since the day he met Arthur Kenzie. Arthur's continued quest to contain supernatural relics that pose a threat to the world has captured Rory's imagination - and his heart. But Arthur's upper-class upbringing still leaves Rory worried that he'll never measure up, especially when Arthur's aristocratic ex arrives in New York.
I am in love with this series!
By JEN on 10-05-20
Sweet Clematis
Being(s) in Love, Book 9
Narrated by: Dominic Carlos
Clematis attracts attention whether he wants it or not, and in response, he's turned himself into the ideal fairy, or, at least, what humans think is the ideal fairy. He works hard to embody every fairy stereotype. He can be a sulky prince or a submissive flirt, slutty and arrogant, or silly and soft. Everyone wants him, just not for long. Well, everyone except the fairy Clematis secretly adores. But Clematis has never expected a happily ever after.
The Bureau: Volume 2
By: Kim Fielding
This collection contains the fourth and fifth Bureau novellas, Chained and Convicted.
Hate Shrivels the Heart
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Mastering the Flames
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By: SJ Himes
Guilt-ridden after the massacre of his family, Isaac Salvatore turned to binge drinking to escape the pain. Now 24 years old, Isaac is a recovering alcoholic woefully out of practice in the magical arts, leaving his fire affinity hanging on the edge of disaster. After a month of rehab, he returns to Beacon Hill and his family, determined to remain sober, learn to control his magic, and figure out a plan for his life that doesn't involve drinking.
This is a book meant to be listened, not read
Port Lewis Witches, Book 3
By: Brooklyn Ray
Narrated by: Walter Pike
Despite the rumors about Port Lewis, Michael Gates doesn’t expect the house he rents with his sister on Foxglove Lane to be haunted. An eerie meeting with Victor Lewellyn, the resident witch-turned-demon who is bound to the property by dark magic, changes his mind. Michael isn’t looking to start a relationship with anyone, let alone someone like Victor, but the intense attraction between them can’t be ignored. As he dives into the world of magical drug rings, demons, witches, and necromancers, Michael also grapples with the complicated past he left behind in Arizona.
Worth a credit
1925 New York. Arthur Kenzie's life's work is protecting the world from the supernatural relics that could destroy it. When an amulet with the power to control the tides is shipped to New York, he must intercept it before it can be used to devastating effects. This time, in order to succeed, he needs a powerful psychometric...and the only one available has sworn off his abilities altogether. Rory Brodigan's gift comes with great risk. To protect himself, he's become a recluse, redirecting his magic to find counterfeit antiques.
So Glad I Picked this One Up!
By A.E. Bross on 12-11-19
The ABCs of Spellcraft Collection, Volume 1
By: Jordan Castillo Price
Narrated by: Nick Hudson
Dixon Penn’s family wasn’t terribly shocked when he announced he was gay, but they were devastated to learn he’s the only one without the gift of spellcraft. Fortunately, that doesn’t stop spellcraft from reaching out to him. Dixon’s prospects have gone from bad to worse, but a contest at the biggest greeting card company in the tri-state area would be just the thing to turn his luck around. Yuri Volnikov is determined to keep the charming contestant out. But Dixon has always been a sucker for big guys with exotic accents, and he won’t take no for an answer.
Scrivener and Seers and magic, oh, my!
By Clau on 11-19-19
Thicker Than Water, Book 3
By: Ann-Katrin Byrde
Narrated by: John Solo
Do vampires deserve love? I should have died, the night I got stabbed. Instead, I was reborn as a vampire. New name, new identity - new master. My sire treated me like his pet. It was rough, at first, but I learned to adapt, learned to please him. Learned to follow every one of my sire's commands. Now he's gone, killed by a pack of mortals. Mortals who seem to think they've rescued me. One of them, Jared, claims that he knew me back when I was mortal too. I'm not the person I used to be, though.
A sweet second chance romance of finding love!
Powerful witch Piotr Russell has resigned himself to loneliness, because ordinary humans can’t know what he is, and other witches are intimidated by his abilities. Generations of Russells have lived and died with only their familiars at their side. The presence of a friendly familiar is enough to keep even the loneliest witch sane, and yet Piotr deliberately hasn’t chosen one. He forces himself to keep busy instead, but the emptiness of his house haunts him even more the spirit of Great-Great-Aunt Elysia in the parlor. With Samhain and Halloween approaching, he’ll have much to do, and knowing that, his concerned coven seizes the chance to intervene and sends help to his door in the form of Bartleby Dorchester.
The rarest of rare jewels, Bartleby is a human familiar: a witch with no magic of his own, and a desire to find a strong witch to help and serve. In particular, he desires to help and serve Piotr, and everything in Piotr wants to let him. Bartleby was meant to be his familiar; Piotr knows it as surely as he knows when it will rain or when the apples in his garden will ripen. But what Piotr wants from Bartleby, all he’s ever wanted, is for Bartleby to love him, something he thinks is impossible. Russells live and die unloved, and he won’t allow Bartleby to feel obligated to spend his life with him as his familiar if he could be happy in love with someone else.
But Samhain is a time for change, when walls come down and borders grow thin, and Bartleby isn’t going to waste what might be his last chance to convince Piotr that they were meant to be. He might have no magic, but love is a power all its own.
©2015 R. Cooper (P)2020 R. Cooper
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What listeners say about A Little Familiar
Elizabeth O
a favorite seasonal story
quiet story read gently, interesting worldbuilding, cute characters, a bit of angst before reconciliation. social commentary too!
Gentle, understated and lovely romance
I love this story. It's a gentle, understated and lovely romance set in a world where witches coexist with the regular world. The protagonists are a very powerful witch who loves the magic of everyday, and his longed-for-love that he actively distances from to to protect his love from the dull and "small" - a persnickety fuck, per his own classification. His love is a gender-fluid, very lovely non-witch who will be a perfect companion (in this world, a "familiar") if the witch would ever acknowledge his need and the companion's true interests. The physical setting is a lovely Halloween or Samhain settnig, i.e. end-of-year-harvest-let's try to survive, celebrate and thrive until spring. It's a very slow, no-big-plot-but-emotional-growth-plot plot, and it's comforting and lovely. The familiar book 3 is the strongest one in the series, but this one is lovely, and I love Bartleby. The narrator isn't the best R Cooper (R Nieman is the best) has used, but I bought it on itunes as soon as it was released, and again on audible because audible is a better platform. I prefer to listen to this narrator at a sligthly reduced pace (0.8 on audible) because he speaks very fast and breathy, slightly monotonous at his lovely deep voice. I know a lot of people prefer a faster speed, but as a non-native speaker, I can't relax at this narrator's natural pace, but slightly slower I get the breathing room and voice distinction I prefer, as well as the world-building.
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Erderwärmung, Klimawandel
Shrestha / Anal / Salam / van der Valk
Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty
Examples from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Australia
xlii, 438 S. 65 s/w-Abbildungen, 95 Farbabbildungen, Bibliographien.
Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Springer Water
The availability of clean water is a major global challenge for the future due to a rapidly growing population and urbanization where further stress in water resources is expected due to the impact of climate change. The wide range of impacts includes for example changes in hydrology, moisture availability, spatial and temporal variations in magnitude of stream flow, and dwindling of water levels with adverse effect on wetlands and ecosystems. As a consequence, water management has become a serious issue and was identified as a global societal challenge. Climate change forecasting is one of the key issues in recent research on sustainable water resources management. This book aims to come up with views to address the queries of planners, policymakers, and general people for water resources management under uncertainty of climate change, including examples from Asia and Europe with successful adaptive measures to change the challenge of climate change into opportunities.
Includes several climate change impact studies from the water sector Illustrates various sources of uncertainties while dealing with climate prediction Provides adaptive measures to cope with future climate change for a sustainable water sector
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EconomicsQ&A LibraryIn his discussion of the impact of Globalization, Mike Myatt asserted the following: "In today's market-place, conductinbg business internationally is as much of a defensive play as an offensive play." Futher elaborated on menaing of this sentance by clearly articulating his implications of a defensive versus offensive position.
In his discussion of the impact of Globalization, Mike Myatt asserted the following: "In today's market-place, conductinbg business internationally is as much of a defensive play as an offensive play." Futher elaborated on menaing of this sentance by clearly articulating his implications of a defensive versus offensive position.
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Purposeful Work
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Setbacks and successes: How students navigated academic surprises in the fall 2020 semester
By Phyllis Graber Jensen —
If you remember the 1960s, you remember the self-help book: I’m OK — You’re OK.
As Bates students navigated a fall semester within COVID-19 protocols, another saying came to the fore: “It’s OK not to be OK,” said Kenza Nadifi ’21 of Bethesda, Md.
Besides being a “bizarre” semester, said Nadifi, it was, importantly, a time when “being extra careful with people is more vital than ever.”
The protocols stripped away many favorite pursuits while creating some high hurdles. There was no sit-down dining in Commons, no competitive sports, few in-person activities for clubs and organizations, and required physical distancing and masking nearly all the time.
Plus, there was a brand-new “module” course format. Instead of four semester-long courses, students took two courses for 7.5 weeks (known as Module A) then two more courses for 7.5 weeks (Module B), with courses covering the required material by meeting for more hours each week.
We asked seven students how it went. (Students have now departed campus before Thanksgiving and will finish their semester remotely.)
What we heard is that for every challenge or setback, they often found something that worked, something that felt “normal,” and someone who gave them a little help.
Mei Kane ’23 of New York City
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Major: Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus in digital and computational and gender and sexuality studies
Challenge: An unexpected hiatus from humanities-focused classes
Mei says: As luck would have it, my two courses during Module A were both in digital and computational studies. During a normal semester, I would have also taken some humanities classes for balance, but I couldn’t because of the module system.
It was nice in some ways: My DCS classes overlapped a lot in material, and I was able to do an intense, deep dive into critical digital theories. One of the downsides is that I couldn’t practice my humanities-oriented academic skills for a long time. During Module B, I took a gender and sexuality studies course. When I had to write my first paper, I realized that I hadn’t had to use academic citations in six months.
So far, I’ve had Professor Anelise Hanson Shrout for four courses in my three semesters at Bates. That’s been a bonus, to be able to explore an academic discipline with such continuity and stability and have her see me grow as a student.
In every class I’ve had with her, I’ve been challenged to learn in a different way. But I’ve also been able to work with the same sort of familiarity: I know how the syllabus is going to look, I know her different attendance policies, so it’s nice to have that mix of things in class.
Deon Custard ’21 of Chicago
Major: Theater and English
Challenge: A canceled fellowship and travel grant, then hope
Deon says: Last summer, I was going to do research for my senior thesis in London and Cambridge thanks to a Phillips Fellowship. That was canceled.
I was approved for a small grant to take a trip to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., this fall. That was canceled.
What wasn’t cancelled is my production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” during the winter semester. Mounting a show during COVID-19 protocols, including physical distancing, creates logistical and technical setbacks, but I’m surrounded by an incredibly flexible production team that is taking even the most abstract ideas and turning them into concrete pieces of art to share with the entire community.
We’re setting this show around New Year’s Eve 1969. When a play is set in a time and place different from what we might expect — 1969 instead of 1602 — the text and the context need to reveal something deeper about each other in order to be an effective piece of storytelling. Otherwise, it’s just camp.
As someone studying the early modern period and the 1960s and ’70s from the historical vantage point that is 2020, it’s clear how history continues to repeat itself over and over. Our stories of revolutionary love and social resistance will always be worth telling.
Esme Goldfinger ’21 of Portland, Maine
Major: Psychology and Dance
Challenge: Making connections with Bates alumni
Esme says: I am graduating this month, so I began this semester so anxious about what my job opportunities might be. What I’ve learned is that Bates alumni are very generous and sympathetic to how COVID has affected our college experience. They are more than willing to speak to us about their career paths or offer any assistance that they can in helping current seniors get jobs after graduation.
I am particularly interested in the intersection between physical anatomy and psychological health. In the past week, with support from the Center for Purposeful Work, I’ve spoken to Bates alums who graduated in 1985, in the ’90s, and even just a few years ago. They’ve been able to connect me not only with their labs and psych opportunities but also send me lists of other contacts.
When I realized that Bates alums are willing to talk to me, I realized just how easy it is to connect and network with them and get a better understanding of different opportunities that I might have with my majors that I wouldn’t have otherwise considered.
Peder Bakken ’21 of Seattle
Major: Mathematics and Economics
Challenge: Getting timely feedback during the module format
Peder says: A lot of students, including me, struggled to adjust to the module format. Instead of having an entire semester to complete coursework, we had just half that time. Often, a paper or assignment might be due before you got comments on the last one. This was challenging because I typically adjust my work based on a professor’s feedback.
But faculty were very nice about always having office hours and availability to meet over Zoom. They were always available to have one-on-one discussions. For instance, I just had a meeting yesterday with my math professor about one of our quizzes. We were able to talk through a problem: what it means to be an open set or a closed set.
I had a few holes in my knowledge, and that that conversation filled them in a way that I don’t think I would have gotten from just getting the problem marked wrong on a quiz. Though it’s not something I’ve done as much as I should have over the years — talk to your professors during office hours — it’s what I tell the first-years on the soccer team to do now.
Muskan Verma ’21 of Shimla, India
Major: Theater and Rhetoric
Challenge: A death in the family
Muskan says: This semester, one of my close family members died unexpectedly. If it had happened any other year, I probably would not have gone home. But just the fact that I didn’t even have a choice — that hit harder. But support from people around me in terms of the staff and professors got me through it. They were so understanding. I immediately knew I could rely on them.
Academically, what changed the most for me was the course “Presidential Campaign Rhetoric.” Everyone in the course takes part in a mock presidential campaign, conducted all around campus, featuring the two major parties. I played “Muskan Zaveria,” a U.S. senator who was the Democratic presidential candidate.
This time, we couldn’t have as many in-person events or in-person debates, which usually happens. But that provided an added challenge: We had to come up with different strategies, including using social media. It was hard, but having that group to work with and talk with — we still have our group chat — kept me sane.
For my theater major, I did one of my two required performances this semester in a play entirely on Zoom, directed by Olivia Dimond ’22. I was not looking forward to it; I did not think I had it in me. I had to be my own stage manager, my own camera person, my own Zoom manager. Now I can add to my resume: “proficient in Zoom theater”! Not a lot of people get to say that.
It actually went really well — it was the first time my family saw me act, since it was online. There were some really hard scenes there — like when I get a panic attack and where I’m crying — and my Mom said, “Oh my God, just do happy plays, don’t do sad plays.” My family thought I was crying for real. I guess that means I did a good job.
Quinn Kiernat ’21 of Minneapolis
Major: Economics and Politics
Challenge: Finding a way for Zoom to replace in-person office hours
Quinn says: I’m a huge fan of in-person office hours to go over difficult concepts with a professor helping every step of the way. Adjusting to Zoom office hours has been difficult, but my professors and thesis advisers have gone above and beyond to help me succeed.
They hold extensive Zoom office hours, and in many instances they have dropped everything to hop on Zoom and help me, like 8 a.m. on a random Wednesday or right after their class or just really quick, like at 8 or 9 at night. They were so accessible. That gave me light at the end of the tunnel.
I was really worried coming in, especially writing two theses and thinking I wouldn’t be able to meet with my professors. I felt like I’d be really isolated on my own doing them. I have definitely not found that to be the case. If anything, I have probably met more with my professors. I think that goes down to availability on Zoom.
Kenza Nadifi ’21 of Bethesda, Md.
Major: Politics
Challenge: Juggling academics, responsibilities, and stress
Kenza says: This semester was bizarre — in so many ways. Still, I can now confidently say that my expectations were exceeded by a pretty decent margin.
Leading up to the presidential election, I started to feel almost frantic: academics, internship work, the political divide, the environmental crisis. I remember lying on my bed and suddenly deciding I needed to journal for the first time in my life. I wrote two pages, accidentally dropped my journal behind my bed, and then became too busy to fish it out and continue my self-care journey.
The unfortunate fate of my journal is a metaphor for what’s happening to a lot of people now. Bates students are so busy and driven that with all the added stress of the pandemic and the election, taking time to check in with ourselves was left in the dust (or behind the bed).
That’s why it’s so important to be open about the challenges you are facing, if you feel comfortable doing so. If I can help someone feel less alone simply by communicating my own struggles, then it is 100 percent worth it, to reach a mutual understanding that things are tough.
It’s important to recognize that it’s OK not to be OK. It’s also important to recognize some students carry the added weight of fearing for their rights and even their lives in our country.
Being extra careful with people is more vital now than ever.
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GoCardless raises another $95M as it bets on open banking alongside its recurring payments network
GoCardless, the London fintech that aims to become the one-stop shop globally for businesses that want to let customers pay via recurring bank payments, has raised $95 million in Series F funding.
According to The Telegraph newspaper, this gives the company much coveted unicorn status. However, I understand the round values GoCardless at just over $970 million, meaning that the 2011-founded fintech is perhaps best described as a soonicorn (presuming these things are important to you).
The latest fundraise was led by Bain Capital Ventures, and follows 46% year-on-year growth for GoCardless as it benefits from an increase in e-commerce and online payments generally during the pandemic. It brings the total raised by the company to-date to $240 million.
GoCardless says it will use the funding to accelerate its open banking strategy, which will see it combine open banking-enabled bank-to-bank payments with the global bank debit payments network it has already built out. “For the first time, merchants will be able to access the best of both worlds for recurring payments: Instant open banking payments will provide visibility and speed, while bank debit maximises cash flow and minimises churn by pulling funds automatically from payers – all at a lower cost than cards,” pitches the fintech.
In addition — and noteworthy — GoCardless says it will also expand its offering into the “adjacent e-commerce market” to launch a simple and secure way of making open banking-enabled bank-to-bank payments as a lower-cost alternative to cards.
The company has always pitched direct debits as a much better recurring payments method, especially for subscription commerce and regular B2B payments. That’s because, amongst other things, debit and credit cards expire, breaking any subsequent recurring payments. By adding bank-to-bank payments to its stack, GoCardless is continuing to push up against the card network duopoly of Visa and Mastercard.
“We think the magic is in the combination of open banking payments and our existing direct debit platform,” co-founder and CEO Hiroki Takeuchi tells me, when asked why GoCardless is entering the soon to be commoditized space of open banking payments.
“They are really complimentary as open banking is faster and more secure but direct debit is more flexible and more reliable. The combination will create something entirely new and unique that will not only make our product better for our existing customers but also enable us to go after new markets”.
He says that GoCardless already has the required FCA permissions to do open banking payments, and new products are actively under development. Debut products will be launching in the first half of 2021.
“We have been following open banking very closely but we felt it wasn’t reliable enough or slick enough for payments until quite recently,” adds Takeuchi. “This has been changing and we think now is the perfect time to focus on open banking payments”.
One interesting aspect of open banking is that the U.K. regulator is currently consulting with the industry on plans to make recurring payments possible via open banking, meaning that they could be used instead of direct debits. Arguably, GoCardless’ biggest moat is the global recurring payments network it has built, and so I put it to Takeuchi that open banking is both an opportunity and a threat to GoCardless.
“We don’t worry about this – we are agnostic to the rails we build on,” he says, pushing back. “What we care about is getting money from one bank account to another as efficiently as possible. In fact, we processed the first (and I think maybe the only) variable recurring payment via open banking last year as part of a test we worked on with the open banking team.
“If open banking offers rails that replicate direct debit then we will adopt those. The reality is that the payment itself is only a small part of the overall value we provide for our merchants — there are a lot of other basics such as reconciliation, refunds, international settlement, FX etc. that are really important — so we are confident that there is still a lot for us to do”.
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Black Death skeletons unearthed by Crossrail project
By James Morgan
Science reporter, BBC News
image copyrightCrossrail
image captionThe plague victims' bones reveal clues to their harsh lives in medieval London
Skeletons unearthed in London Crossrail excavations are Black Death victims from the great pandemic of the 14th Century, forensic tests indicate.
Their teeth contain DNA from the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and their graves have been dated to 1348-50.
Records say thousands of Londoners perished and their corpses were dumped in a mass grave outside the City, but its exact location was a mystery.
Archaeologists now believe it is under Charterhouse Square near the Barbican.
They plan to expand their search for victims across the square - guided by underground radar scans, which have picked up signs of many more graves.
Crossrail's lead archaeologist Jay Carver says the find "solves a 660-year-old mystery".
"This discovery is a hugely important step forward in documenting and understanding Europe's most devastating pandemic," he said.
"Further excavations will follow to see if - as we expect - we are coming across a much bigger mass burial trench."
media captionJames Morgan reports
Between 1347 and 1351 the "Great Pestilence" swept westward across Europe killing millions of people. It later became known as the Black Death.
It arrived on Britain's shores in 1348 and is believed to have wiped out up to 60% of the population at the time.
In London, two emergency burial grounds were dug outside the walls of the City. One has been found at East Smithfield, while the other is known to lie somewhere in Farringdon.
In March 2013, Crossrail engineers uncovered 25 skeletons in a 5.5m-wide shaft - alongside pottery dated to the mid-14th Century.
Samples from 12 of the corpses were taken for forensic analysis. In at least four cases, scientists found traces of the DNA of the Yersinia pestis, confirming they had contact with the plague prior to their death.
To pinpoint which historical plague outbreak the "Charterhouse 25" could have fallen victim to, the researchers used radio carbon dating.
They determined the burial ground was used in at least two distinct periods - the earliest within the Black Death in 1348-50, followed by a later outbreak in the 1430s.
image captionThe bodies were found in a Crossrail shaft
In a bid to understand just how far the grave extends across the square, Crossrail approached the University of Keele to undertake a forensic geophysics survey - using ground-penetrating radar.
The initial scan detected signs of further burials across Charterhouse Square and also the foundations of a building - possibly a chapel.
image captionTraces of plague bacteria were found in the teeth of the skeletons
"We will undertake further excavations in Charterhouse Square later this year to confirm some of the results," said Mr Carver.
The skeletons provide a rare opportunity to study the medieval population of London, according to osteologist Don Walker, of the Museum of London Archaeology.
He said: "We can start to answer questions like: where did they come from and what were their lives like?
"I'm amazed how much you can learn about a person who died more than 600 years ago."
Analysis of the skeletons' bones and teeth indicates that:
Many of the skeletons appear to suffer signs of malnutrition and 16% had rickets.
There is a high rate of back damage and strain indicating heavy manual labour.
The later skeletons from the 1400s had a high rate of upper body injury consistent with being involved in violent altercations.
13 of the skeletons were male, three female, two children, the gender was undetermined in the other seven skeletons.
40% grew up outside London, possibly as far north as Scotland - showing that 14th Century London attracted people from across Britain just as it does today.
Mr Carver said: "We can see from the people here that Londoners weren't living an easy life.
"The combination of a poor diet and generally a struggle means they were very susceptible to the plague at that time and that's possibly one of the explanations for why the Black Death was so devastating."
image captionArchaeologist Jay Carver hopes to explore more of the burial site
By sequencing the ancient bacterial DNA, researchers hope to understand how the plague has evolved and spread over the centuries.
Globally the infection still kills 2,000 people a year, including countries like Madagascar. Antibiotics are available, but if untreated the disease kills within four days.
Scientists hope to confirm whether the 14th Century strain was the grandmother of all plague that exists today.
The £14.8bn Crossrail project aims to establish a 118km-long (73-mile) rail link with 37 stations across London, and is due to open in 2018.
The excavations have already unearthed Roman skulls washed down a lost river, a Bronze-Age transport route, and the largest piece of amber ever found in the UK.
The latest announcement comes ahead of a Channel 4 documentary, Return of the Black Death: Secret History, on 6 April, which follows the Charterhouse Square discovery.
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On behalf of Bradley, Drendel & Jeanney | Aug 8, 2018 | Car Accidents
Some people in Nevada and across the nation may say that they are willing to text and drive in order to be available to their bosses at work. However, a recent report from TrueMotion suggests that the biggest temptation for owners of cellphones and other technology is not related to their careers.
This same study, which also concluded that texting and driving and other distracted behaviors are more common in the summer, concluded that most of the time, people who choose to communicate and drive are communicated with a family member or a close friend.
Around 45 percent of those asked said that they communicate with their spouses or significant others. Over 20 percent of those asked said that they had sent or received texts from their children while they were driving, and about one-third of those asked had demonstrated a willingness to text and drive with their friends.
While these numbers might come as a surprise to someone who had in their minds the image of a distracted driver who is either really young or who is a busy professional, the reasons why people are willing to text and drive shed some additional light on this topic.
Overwhelming, people who were willing to engage in distracted driving did so because they thought that if they did not do so, then they would miss out on an emergency situation. In other words, over 60 percent of those surveyed had the attitude that every text or phone call was potentially urgent and thus demanded a response. By contrast, only about one in four motorists said that they engaged in distracted driving out of a fear of missing out.
Whatever the reason, distracted driving is unacceptable behavior and also a good way to cause car accidents in the Reno area. A person who is the victim of a car accident involving a distracted driver may have legal options available to him or her, including the option to file a lawsuit in order to seek compensation for his or her injuries.
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Mortgage Lenders Tighten Screws on U.S. Credit in Echo of 2008
Joe Light
May 08 2020, 1:30 PM May 09 2020, 10:40 AM May 08 2020, 1:30 PM May 09 2020, 10:40 AM
(Bloomberg) -- Mortgage rates are at record lows, but borrowers hoping to take advantage are running into the toughest loan-approval standards in years.
Over the past month, lenders have put in place higher credit-score and down payment requirements, and in some cases stopped issuing certain types of loans altogether, in effect shutting down a large swath of the mortgage market.
The triggers, industry executives say, include lenders becoming risk-averse during the coronavirus crisis, knock-on effects of Congress allowing millions of borrowers to delay their monthly payments, and policies implemented amid the pandemic by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The impact has been dramatic, with one model showing mortgage credit availability has plunged by more than 25% since the U.S. outbreak of the virus.
The tightened lending could add another headwind for the nation’s besieged economy by dampening home sales just as some states lift stay-at-home orders and the spring months herald the traditional buying season. Already, mortgage refinances are coming in at a much slower pace than analysts would expect, considering the rock-bottom borrowing rates.
In March, riskier borrowers “could get a mortgage but just pay a higher price than other people,” said Michael Neal, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute Housing Finance Policy Center. “Now, some people are just not going to get mortgages.”
JPMorgan Chase & Co. tightened its standards last month, requiring borrowers to have minimum credit scores of 700 and to make down payments of 20% of the home price on most mortgages, including refinances if the bank didn’t already manage the loan.
Wells Fargo & Co. increased its minimum credit score to 680 for government loans that it buys from smaller lenders before aggregating them into mortgage bonds.
Read More: Why the Mortgage Market Needs Its Fixes Fixed
The banks’ revised standards are far above the typical minimum score of 580 and down payment of 3.5% that borrowers need to qualify for home-buying programs supported by the federal government.
Wells Fargo is no longer letting borrowers refinance their mortgages while cashing out home equity, and both Wells and JPMorgan have suspended new home-equity lines of credit. Truist Financial Corp. has suspended some cash-out refinances for jumbo loans with high balances because of economic conditions, a spokesman said.
Refinance Hesitancy
There are signs that banks are even trying to limit regular refinances. Wells Fargo on Thursday quoted a refinance rate of 4% for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, more than half a percentage point higher than it quoted for the same loan if used to buy a home.
A Wells Fargo spokesman said the company believes its rates are within the range of what they see from other lenders. He said the company suspended home-equity lines of credit in light of uncertainty surrounding the economic recovery.
A JPMorgan spokeswoman said the bank’s changes are temporary and due to the unclear economic outlook.
Refinances surged in early March as homeowners utilized low rates to reduce their monthly payments. But refinance rate locks, a forward-looking measure of refinance activity, had plunged 80% from their peak by mid-April, according to Black Knight Inc., a mortgage information service. The company said that even the steep increase in unemployment in March and April couldn’t explain why refinance activity fell so dramatically.
Fannie-Freddie Policies
Industry executives say the tighter underwriting is partly in response to policies put in place by Fannie and Freddie that make it expensive or risky to make certain kinds of mortgages. For instance, Fannie and Freddie said last month they would buy mortgages where the borrower had already entered forbearance. But the mortgage-finance companies excluded cash-out refinances. Mortgage Bankers Association Chief Economist Michael Fratantoni said that prompted many lenders to limit issuance of those products.
Fannie, Freddie and government agencies such as the Federal Housing Administration set standards for the mortgages they’re willing to back. For example, the FHA will insure loans where the borrower has a credit score of as low as 580 with a 3.5% down payment.
However, mortgage lenders sometimes set their own, stricter standards, even if they intend to sell the loans to Fannie or Freddie or have them insured by the FHA. Fannie and Freddie, which have been under the U.S. government’s control since the 2008 financial crisis, buy mortgages from lenders and package them into trillions of dollars of bonds with guarantees that protect investors against the risk of borrowers defaulting.
Read More: The Endless Fight Over Fannie and Freddie Has a New Twist
Mortgage credit availability has fallen 26% since the end of February, the Mortgage Bankers Association said in a Thursday statement, citing an index of lending standards. Most of the pain has been for loans not supported by the government. Still, mortgages backstopped by Fannie, Freddie and federal agencies in April did have the toughest credit terms that such loans have had in more than five years.
Servicers’ Peril
Many lenders appear to have put restrictions in place in response to the $2.2 trillion stimulus bill that lawmakers passed in March. Under the new law, lenders must let borrowers with government-guaranteed mortgages delay as much as a year’s worth of payments if they were impacted by coronavirus.
Even though they eventually get reimbursed, mortgage servicers are required to advance the missed payments to bond investors. That makes lenders less eager to offer loans to borrowers who they think will need forbearance, such as consumers with low credit scores and those who can only afford minimal down payments.
Read More: Cheap Mortgages Thwarted by $5 Billion in Margin Calls
The MBA’s Fratantoni said the credit crunch has been exacerbated by the reticence of federal regulators to establish a liquidity facility that would help servicers advance payments to bondholders. While Fratantoni said large servicers may not go under, they’re still protecting themselves by tightening mortgage requirements.
“I can’t imagine any lender wanting to be aggressive at all in this environment,” said Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi. “It’s how far deep into the bunker are you.”
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Azadi - Some Bitter Realities of Past
by Prof. Shubha Tiwari
Chaman Nahal's ‘Azadi’ is a simple and candid novel about the realities of India's independence and her partition. The words like sacrifice, struggle, non-violence sound very grand indeed but certain aspects of this important historical event were grotesque and gruesome. The novel strips off the layers of romance, valor and chivalry and lays bare certain historical realities which demand attention.
The British ruled India for centuries. Generations came and went by. The British continued to rule India skillfully and autocratically. They always maintained the show of a superior race - a race more beautiful, more sophisticated, more able and technologically more advanced. They held all the awe and mystery that a ruling class could possibly have. In their heart of hearts, Indians idolized and worshipped them. Mountbatten was a Prince Charming. He presented such a lovely picture with his pretty wife. The Indian psyche rested peacefully under the British banner. Voices of independence reached the masses but did not affect their psyche acutely. The general mentality was that although the fight was on but who would win over the unsurpassable British. Even by 1947, independence seemed a distant, remote reality. People like the character in the novel, Lala Kanshi Ram had deeply and unconsciously developed 'slave mentality'. They were not even aware of it. Their hearts bubbled with pride at the thought of being a part of an empire which was just supreme, unbeatable. They had even defeated Hitler. They were "an absolutely invincible race". For the younger generation also, it was a matter of immense pride to talk to an Englishman, to be friends with him, to have tea with him.
All this mental calm and assurance was shattered by partition. The cruel way in which the English granted freedom to India was enough to break the confidence of masses in them. The country was butchered without proper measures being taken to safeguard people's property, life or honor. Their lives were made tools and toys in the hands of ill luck and tragedy. What the people had known were noble feelings and high ideas - independence, equality and national pride. The result of all these noble feelings was rape, murder, death and separation. There was no connection between the effort and its result. People were simply betrayed. They felt cheated. Hindus were panic stricken. They were dead scared of the violent and cold temperament of Muslims. An humble servant of the English, Lala Kanshi Ram was flabbergasted that even "an Englishman was unable" to keep law and order. He felt so frustrated that he did what he would never dream of doing -"carrying on a spirited argument with one of his masters".
It is difficult to describe in words the extent to which Hindus in Pakistan felt demoralized. It was as though a butcher was literally tearing apart their bodies. They felt so defeated, so lost that the horror of horrors like abduction, naked marches by women, rapes, murders - ceased to arise any response in them. The group of Hindu refugees looked beaten a thousand times. Their tears had dried. They were reaching India butchered amputees. The hearts of some unfamiliar Muslims melted at the sight of group after group of disabled, wounded or weeping and lamenting men and women turned bend trudged on to whatever lay ahead of them. The children were not crying but they looked dazed. The most pathetic sight was of the very old weeping hysterically.
To some, it was proved that Indians did not deserve freedom. Indians had failed to manage things on their own. Given a chance Indians created as big a mess as could be dreamt of. Lala Kanshi Ram developed a firm belief - "We had no right to ask for freedom". There was no retaliation from Hindus when Muslims rampaged their colonies and localities. A dream was broken. The confidence in Indian-hood was lost.
Some of the leaders were working in pursuit of personal interest and selfish end. Chaman Nahal hints at it. Many historical studies have also described the episodes in this light. Maulana Abul Kalam's ‘India Wins Freedom’ created a furor and much controversy. But it is high time we realized that a united India could not have satisfied the ego of two leaders who both could not compromise with their individual wish to become the Prime Minister of the country. The question was as why the surrender should come from the side of Hindus only? No side was ready for compromise and the British were only two happy to strike the knife at the map. Two countries were made so that two Prime Ministers could be made. The leaders, in fact, rushed to independence at a fast pace which was totally unjustified. The Indians had actually won the battle on paper with Cripps Commission Report. Some patience, tactics and sacrifice on the part of our so called great leaders would have saved so many human lives and would have prevented loss of property, honor and confidence.
The creation of Pakistan solved no problem. There were Hindus everywhere in Pakistan and so were Muslims in India. The sixty five years of post British rule has proved that partition could not and has not solved communal problems. Innocent lives were unnecessarily victimized and sacrificed. Young girls and boys like Nur, Arun, Madhu, and Chandni were killed or separated from each other for no reason at all. Partition was not a historical necessity.
Vividly painting all the realities, Chaman Nahal poignantly touches the subject of women victims. Women were the worst victims. They were the hardest hit. The description of Sunayana, her grandeur, her untouched sophistication and then the description of the way in which she is dragged and ill treated by Capt. Rahmat-Ullan Khan is heart rending. Vulnerable and open to the savage instincts of brutes, these women had no protection. They sought to associate themselves with one man respectably but that protection proved insufficient in front of mass and systematized brutality. The point to be noted is that it was not only Hindu women who were ill treated; their counterparts in India were no less insulted. Seeing the pitiable and helpless condition of Muslim women in India, Lala Kanshi Ram stopped hating Muslims. In each hurt Muslim girl, he saw his own daughter Madhu whom he had lost in Pakistan in the violence erupted by the partition - "We are all equally guilty... Each of those girls in that procession at Amritsar was someone's Madhu”.
People expected freedom, dignity, equal opportunities and democracy and they received just the reverse. The whole novel is an anticlimax. The anticlimax reaches its climax when the refugees from Pakistan are treated in an abusive and indifferent manner at Delhi. There is no welcome. There are no emotional reunions. The refugees are treated as intruders - a nuisance. Lala Kanshi Ram is rebuked when he requests for a room and a shop to be allotted to him. He was made to feel "small and debased".
The novel drives home the pain of partition. The novel is a contribution to live and real historical studies. Chaman Nahal has used simple language and direct narration. He has succeeded in recreating the air and atmosphere of those turbulent days.
1. Nahal, Chaman, ‘Azadi’, New Delhi:Allied Publishers, 1988.
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very good article and the book must be a worth to read!!! It will reveals the truth of partitions and the selfish will of the great leaders of that time.
Kimaya Singh
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Chicken Parm Is My Self-Care
Finding the cure to what ails me under a blanket of cheese
By Carey Polis
Welcome to Red Sauce America, our coast-to-coast celebration of old-school Italian-American restaurants.
I’m no stranger to self-care trends—I covet Byredo candles, recently attended a hybrid sound bath and reiki workshop, and have about a dozen different types of tea in my pantry. But I draw the line at equating self-care with supposedly virtuous or “clean” eating, as countless articles and Instagram accounts insinuate. Comfort eating can be self-care too; it's not a crutch, or a sign that you don't eat enough vegetables, but rather a totally acceptable balm to bad days and crummy moods.
Enter chicken parm.
My childhood dentist was located in a mall. After getting my teeth cleaned, my mom would take me to the food court, where I would beeline to Sbarro and order the chicken parm that was sitting out in metal warming trays for who knows how long. The side of spaghetti was overcooked, the breaded chicken was eerily soft in a way I loved, the cheese was plentiful. Everything about it was mushy and perfect for my recently bleeding gums.
Over the years I learned to recognize that a crispy chicken cutlet was superior to a mushy Sbarro one (though I’m still not above ordering Sbarro at a rest stop). Chicken parm became my go-to order anytime I was at an Italian-American restaurant, and especially when I found myself at a diner.
I’ve eaten a lot of chicken parms throughout Westchester, New York, when visiting my maternal grandparents—diners were places where they felt at ease because my grandmother could order a meal with no salt (“That’s no salt, whatsoever,” repeated to the waiter at least four times), and my grandfather could order something extremely salty, as a respite from my grandmother’s bland cooking. As my grandfather aged, bedridden by the end, my family would often end up in a diner after visiting him. He wasn’t eating much anymore, but I still found that a copious amount of breadcrumbs soothed my soul.
About three years after my grandfather died, I got sick. My Crohn’s disease dramatically worsened, and I was being fed nutrients via a PICC line (essentially an on-the-go IV) for several weeks. My stomach was in such intense pain that I was pretty much medically instructed to stop eating.
Dealing with pain, and having tubes attached to your right arm for several weeks, is hard for anyone. But for someone whose job it is to oversee a culinary website, it’s a pretty bizarre experience to literally not be able to eat. I would wake up, spend some time curled in a fetal position, get to the office late, hide in a closet filled with old magazines and video equipment to clean my IV lines, and attempt to create a strategic launch plan for our new website vertical in between.
Eventually, I had surgery and slowly recovered in about a three-week process. My appetite returned, first in fits and starts and then with a vengeance—I wanted to eat everything that I hadn’t been able to: smash burgers, steak, all the pasta. And I needed chicken parm.
A few weeks post-recovery, I went to the gastroenterologist for an “all clear” visit. I’ve spent a lot of time in that office in the past decade—chronic inflammatory diseases will do that to you. On my way back from my frequent visits, I’d often stop at a diner, Eat Here Now, on 64th and Lex, before taking the F train back to Brooklyn. There’s something uncomfortably oxymoronic about eating a big meal after having a gastrointestinal-related appointment, yet I found the hum of the diner calming when it just felt like my body wasn’t working right. (Please spare me the lecture about the foods you should or shouldn’t eat when you have Crohn’s—I’ve tried it all.)
And it seems odd to get emotional over chicken parm. But the all-clear visit was a big health milestone—I had just been told I could resume a relatively normal diet. So I mini-celebrated at Eat Here Now. There I was, eating a solo dinner at 5:30 p.m. among an almost exclusively geriatric crowd, holding back tears while diving into a $17.95 plate of melty cheese and slightly dry white meat. It felt good to have an appetite, to eat without physical pain, to have agency over what I chose to put in my body.
That was two years ago. I haven’t been back to that diner since, but my chicken parm quest has continued at other diners and restaurants, most recently back in Scarsdale, where my grandmother ordered a broccoli omelet with no salt (“That’s no salt. I don’t want any salt.”). At 91, she’s getting forgetful these days, and tends to repeat herself a lot. It’s annoying, and frustrating, and ultimately depressing.
But maybe there’s some solace in the repetition—after all, I eat the same diner meal with her that I have since forever. Her food will be bland, and she’ll always remark how she’ll never be able to finish; my chicken will be massive, yet I’ll always eat more than I intended.
I get that chicken parm doesn’t actually cure anything—I still have Crohn’s, my grandmother is still declining, and I still have bleeding gums when I go to the dentist. But I can’t deny its role as a mild panacea—one that has been there for me more regularly than pretty much any other self-care attempt (I’m looking at you, $40 salt cave visit).
And that’s the point of self-care, right? To do what makes your body and mind feel good. Which, for me, is all the obvious stuff like yoga and reading for pleasure...mixed with the occasional too-big portion of chicken cutlet, tomato sauce, and melted cheese.
Carey Polis is the digital director at Bon Appétit.
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