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Reopening: Teaching and Learning
The school calendar typically includes one or more staff-only days before students arrive at school. Acknowledging the challenges that our teachers and staff have faced this spring delivering remote instruction under stressful circumstances, the district will focus these in-service days on providing support to faculty and staff in the areas of social-emotional health, technology integration and teaching content in blended and virtual learning environments.
These days will also be utilized for student orientation. This time will allow small groups of students to meet with their new teacher and begin to establish the relationship necessary for a successful school year. Additionally, staff will coordinate the distribution of materials and check-in on Internet connectivity and device needs.
As we enter the new school year, the district will encourage teachers to spend time building relationships, supporting students with the transition back to school, and teaching social distancing etiquette at developmentally appropriate levels.
When a remote or hybrid learning model is necessary, certain groups of students will be prioritized for in-person learning to the greatest extent possible. This includes, but is not limited to, special education students, English-language learners, students who did not engage in remote learning during the spring, and students with technology or connectivity needs.
Assessing student learning gaps or areas of need will be critical. The district will conduct NWEA MAP-R and MAP-M assessments in order to assess the gaps. Formative assessment before a unit of instruction to assess student understanding of prerequisite skills will be common practice.
Acknowledging that the typical content in a given grade level or course may need to be adjusted, content will be prioritized to ensure that students receive instruction for the prioritized learning standards, key understandings and skills necessary for students’ success in future study.
Grading practices will follow a standards-based framework designed to provide direct feedback regarding students’ mastery of course content.
Our on-site prekindergarten programs will follow the health and safety guidelines outlined for all classrooms in the district. Our contracts with our community-based partners who provide the staff for our on-site programs will include the health and safety guidelines that will be adhered to in alignment with the district reopening plan.
Our off-site 3-and-4-year-old agency programs will follow New York State Department of Health and Office of Child and Family Services guidelines for childcare facilities, both on-site and off-site. Our early childhood director will be responsible for the coordination of continuity of learning for all of our on-site and off-site pre-K programs. Our contracts with our community-based partners who run programs off-site as a part of their larger childcare setting will include the health and safety guidelines that they developed and are required to implement as a part of their reopening plan.
Our contracts also include regular visits to observe the implementation of the contractual agreement. It is our intent to continue these on-site visits in alignment with the above-referenced NYSDOH and OCFS guidelines to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements, and alignment to the contractual agreement.
Fully in-person instruction
Upon reopening, the number of students in each of our classrooms will be reduced to adhere to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance regarding proper social distancing. Class size will reflect the need to ensure that students’ desks/seats are positioned no less than 6 feet apart.
Accommodating a 6-foot radius around students will necessitate the identification of additional rooms and common-area spaces that can be converted into elementary classrooms.
Current staffing levels may be insufficient to accommodate the expanded number of classrooms needed to ensure social distancing.
All instruction will continue to be aligned to the New York State Learning Standards.
Our schools will minimize the movement of students. This potentially means having students eat lunch in their classroom instead of the cafeteria, and eliminating assemblies, field trips and other large-group activities. Special-area subjects (e.g., Art, Music and Physical Education) may be pushed into the classroom. Whenever possible students will utilize outside space for PE instruction. We will adhere to 12 feet between students when engaging in physical activity. Whenever possible, special-area subject classes may utilize outside space as approved by the site administrator. We will adhere to 12 feet between students when engaging in chorus and wind ensemble type classes.
To the extent possible, students will remain in small cohorts when leaving the classroom, such as for recess or any necessary transition, so as to reduce their exposure to additional students.
Due to the large number of students enrolled and the limited physical space, it is impractical to have 100% of our student population in attendance at one time due to current social distancing requirements. The considerations that follow assume that we will have fewer than 100% of our students in school at any given time.
For information on school schedules, visit the School Schedules section of our reopening plan.
Our schools will split elementary classes into two cohorts of 12 or fewer students. The teacher will spend half the day with each cohort. While one cohort is with the teacher, the other cohort will be with a supervising adult (reading, ENL, co-teach special education teacher, teaching assistant, hall monitor).
The goal is for the teacher to move fluidly between the two cohorts using a flipped classroom model. This model allows the teacher to frontload necessary background information and skills practice through independent tasks assigned to the students when they are with the supervising adult. Then the teacher uses the time the students are with the teacher to provide explicit instruction in concept development and critical thinking for the priority NYS standards and data-based needs in ELA, Math, Social Studies and Science.
The supervising adult provides support and supervision while the students navigate their independent task. The supervising adult will use a small group instruction model to deliver required ENL, reading and special education services while the remainder of the cohort works independently.
Art, Music, Library and Physical Education will push into two classrooms a day and provide half-day coverage to relieve the teacher for planning with the instructional coach for on-site and blended learning needs. This model allows each class to have a live interaction with their encore teachers in addition to virtual assignments available each day for each encore subject. This model limits the exposure of adults to cohorts.
For information about how in-person instruction information will be communicated to students and families, visit the Communication/Family and Community Engagement section of this plan.
Middle school students in grades 6-8 will not participate in an all-on-site model unless CDC and health department restrictions for social distancing are no longer a requirement. Our school facilities cannot accommodate all students based on social distancing requirements. The only exception to this fully on-site model is our students with disabilities who have been placed in a self-contained classroom setting, and our English-language learners who attend the Albany International Center, which we are relocating to the Edmund J. O'Neal Middle School of Excellence building.
High school students in grades 9-12 will not participate in an all-on-site model unless CDC and health department restrictions for social distancing are no longer a requirement. Per CDC and state guidelines, our high school students will engage in an Enriched Virtual Blended Learning model.
Fully virtual instruction
Given the possibility that communities may experience spikes in COVID-19 cases at any point during the school year, which may prompt short- or long-term school closures, our district has developed an all-virtual instructional model and schedule that can be implemented immediately in a fully remote environment. Parents and guardians also will have the opportunity to choose a fully virtual learning environment for their students and will be asked to commit to that decision for a full marking period at a time.
In essence, the fully virtual instructional model blends the period-by-period schedule of on-site learning days with the virtual hourly schedule designed for our hybrid instructional model. Students will engage in virtual instruction via Google Classroom and Google Meet. All teachers will provide both synchronous and asynchronous instruction to all students. Students will follow a similar schedule as they do during on-site instruction; they will remain in their assigned cohorts with their assigned teachers and attend synchronous instruction 2-3 times per day, affording them time and flexibility to complete assignments for their remaining classes, including special-area classes, which will now also be conducted virtually in a remote environment.
By maintaining existing cohorts of students and the existing on-site schedule of classes, the district will ensure continuity of instruction in a manner that promotes participation and engagement by maintaining opportunities for small group synchronous instruction, asynchronous learning activities and alignment to the existing schedule to which they may already be accustomed.
Remote/hybrid instruction
Given the possibility that communities may experience spikes in COVID-19 cases at any point during the school year, which may prompt short- or long-term school closures, our district has developed a hybrid or blended learning model and schedule that can continue as-is in a fully remote environment.
Instruction will focus on core subject areas as well as elective courses. Consideration has been given to prioritizing hands-on and lab-based activities while students are on-site in school buildings. All instruction will continue to be aligned to the New York State Learning Standards.
As noted previously, student schedules will remain the same whether instruction is in-person or remote so that students do not encounter conflicts wherein synchronous lessons for different subjects are offered simultaneously.
Remote learning opportunities for secondary students will include a greater emphasis on synchronous instruction, with teachers finding ways to provide live instruction and lessons to students. While recording of live lessons is still essential for students unable to attend at a scheduled time, teachers will ensure that their students are directly engaged with them and their class peers in experiential learning on a regular basis.
To ensure high-quality remote learning experiences, we will standardize the use of a single online learning platform, to the extent possible, and develop a common, coordinated set of guidelines for teachers to follow when using the platform with students.
Grading practices will follow a standards-based framework designed to provide direct feedback regarding students’ mastery of course content. We will use a five-scale grading rubric based on levels of competency/mastery, which can then be aligned to numeric bands (for GPA purposes).
The hybrid model at the elementary level will be a combination of our in-person model and our virtual model. The priority NYS Learning Standards and data-driven needs of students in ELA, Math, Social Studies and Science will be the focus of this model.
The in-person part of the model will be reduced to two days, but still be a split of time with the classroom teacher and supervising adult. The virtual part of this model will continue to be limited to 2-3 hours of virtual instruction through the computer and independent practice. This model will still have a rotation of encore subjects pushing into the classroom the days students are in-person.
The remote mode is a balance of virtual learning with direct instruction from the classroom teacher, small group instruction from academic and related service providers, encore activities from the Art, Music, Physical Education and Library staff, and independent tasks that frontload concepts or provide meaningful work that allow students to demonstrate their learning.
This model is also supplemented by software platforms for ELA and Math.
Our hybrid instructional model involves all of our students in grades 6-8 (including the sixth-grade students in four of our elementary programs) reporting to their assigned school buildings two consecutive days per week, where they will follow a nearly typical nine-period school day. Exceptions include middle-level self-contained special education students, as well as our English-language learners who attend the Albany International Center; those students will participate in on-site instruction five days a week.
All students will be grouped into cohorts of 12-15; these cohorts will remain the same in both our hybrid instructional model and our virtual instructional model to ensure a fluid transition between models in the event of school building closure. While on-site, student cohorts will not transition between classrooms; they will remain in one classroom for the duration of their on-site instruction while teachers or supervising staff rotate into classrooms.
Students will have core classes on both on-site days (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies and World Language [Grades 7-8 only]). In place of World Language, sixth-grade students will participate in both ELA and Math enrichment classes. Content-area teachers will provide in-person instruction to approximately half of their assigned students on each day of on-site learning; the students who are not working directly with their assigned content-area teacher will engage in asynchronous learning designed by their teacher of record with the assistance of a supervising adult, who in most cases will be a certified teacher and, whenever possible, a teacher who also serves the same students (i.e., a reading teacher in an ELA classroom).
Students will have special-area classes on both on-site days scheduled in a rotation that permits students to experience four special-area subjects during their two on-site days. Those classes include Family and Consumer Science, Technology, Physical Education, Health, Music and Art. In scheduling students for these classes, the district took into account the requisite units of study that typically define the middle school experience. Special-area teachers will provide students with learning activities they can complete at home to ensure continuity of instruction when not on-site.
A third day of on-site instruction will be afforded to certain students identified as in need of additional support or enrichment, including, but not limited to, students with disabilities programmed for integrated co-teach services or resource room, English-language learners who do not attend the Albany International Center, students with a 504 plan and students identified for Academic Intervention Services. This additional day of on-site instruction will also provide opportunities for students to participate in instrumental music lessons or hands-on learning activities, such as Science labs. This time may also be used to identify students in need of in-person social-emotional supports through our MTSS model. Students who do not engage in this third day of on-site instruction will be responsible for the asynchronous learning activities their content-area teachers have assigned and will also have access to synchronous support from their assigned teachers in the form of scheduled office hours.
When not on-site, students will engage in virtual instruction via Google Classroom and Google Meet. All core-area teachers will provide both synchronous and asynchronous instruction to all students. Students will follow a similar schedule as they do during on-site instruction; they will remain in their assigned cohorts and attend synchronous instruction 2-3 times per day, affording them time and flexibility to complete assignments for their remaining classes, including special-area classes. Cohorts are designed to ensure appropriate social distancing when on-site, while also providing a platform for small group synchronous instruction while attending school virtually in order to promote participation and engagement. On the days in which students are participating in asynchronous instruction, teachers will have scheduled office hours that students can access for individual or small group support.
In order to ensure continuity of instruction by an appropriately certified teacher, students will have appropriate technology available to them while both on-site and at home, which will minimally include a district-assigned Chromebook, and, when necessary, a hotspot to ensure connectivity. Teachers will design on-site, synchronous and asynchronous instruction to deliver the district curriculum in a manner that prepares students with the knowledge and skills they need to meet the grade-level demand of the learning standards in each subject area. This includes explicit instruction in how to manage time, prioritize assigned tasks and navigate Google Classroom as well as other instructional technology the district has purchased to support teaching and learning (i.e., Nearpod).
Additionally, the district recognizes that our students may be returning to us feeling anxious, stressed, depressed and confused, to name a few of the complex emotions they may be experiencing due to our extended school closure, the public health crisis, and societal and community issues that have impacted our city directly. To that end, all middle school students will have an abbreviated period scheduled during on-site instruction geared to support social-emotional learning, emotional well-being, and overall health and wellness. This instructional period, coupled with the implementation of our MTSS model, will support the district in identifying students who may be in need of additional support.
Students who are unable to attend on-site instruction for any number of reasons will be fully supported virtually by an appropriately certified teacher through synchronous and asynchronous instruction.
The high school schedule is unique in that it is both structured and flexible.
The schedule is attentive to the master schedule developed this past winter and spring, which was was based on student course requests throughout the scheduling process. This is why the High School Reopening Subcommittee ultimately prioritized the period 1-9 schedule, including all encore areas and student choices. These courses will not all take place in one day, however, as we were attentive to the student course load in a blended or virtual environment. The 1-9 schedule will take place over a two-day period, with individual classes meeting five times in a 10-day cycle.
The 1-9 periods in a two-day span describes the structure, but the high school plan is also flexible. The flexibility can be found in the pod/advisory model, as well as in the scheduled classes. The high school intends to phase in access to hands-on activities and labs that can generally be found in Science, Technology, Career and Technical Education (CTE), Music, Art and Physical Education. Once our structure is in place, students will be able to access these classes either in the pod/advisory times when all teachers are on hand, or be scheduled during the class period in these areas. Social distancing will be maintained by virtue of who is on campus on any single day for on-site instruction, and by splitting the virtual class to attend an in-person class over the span of a week.
Additionally, there is flexibility in increasing in-person instruction if health precautions allow. In this event, students could attend as described in our schedule, but instead of working virtually they could change classes and transition to different classrooms for in-person lessons. Likewise, if there is a closure, students will seamlessly transition to an entirely virtual environment using the schedule established.
The district is committed to ensuring that both rigor and high quality informs all instruction, with a focus on student-centered, inquiry-based instruction to foster strong student engagement. To this end, teachers will provide live lessons during their course periods and present other information using a variety of instructional technology tools such as Nearpod and Flipgrid, as well as others.
Additionally, Google is rolling out several additions to Google Meet and Google Classroom this summer, to which all staff have access. Google Meet will have breakout rooms and whiteboards, allowing for small group instruction and different presentation options. Meanwhile, the secondary content instructional supervisors are working on compressing the curriculum for a focus on those high-leverage standards, and standards on the continuum, to further learning in courses beyond where the student currently sits.
Instructional technology tools will enhance the high school plan, and careful attention to modification of the current curriculum will provide us with the best opportunity for success.
Finally, the pod/advisory class is a cornerstone of the high school plan. Every student will have a teacher to check-in with on a daily basis. Our goal is that no student will fall through the cracks as this system ensures that an adult is monitoring challenges, successes, access and engagement with the program. Students will have an advocate for tutoring and social-emotional support, and a model for virtual learning protocols and practices.
Finally, there will be referral protocols in place for students who need more intensive intervention.
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Perhaps it’s no coincidence that “Wires,” Athlete’s highest-charting single to date, is also one of the band’s most subdued tunes. Since the release of Vehicles & Animals in 2003, Athlete has been universally compared to Coldplay, another British band with a penchant for soaring, supersized pop songs. Both groups make albums designed for the Wembley Stadiums and O2 Arenas of the world, but Coldplay does so with more finesse, not to mention a higher degree of commercial success. Athlete has been left to pick up Chris Martin’s crumbs, and it’s only when the band turns down the volume and settles into something different -- a quiet, poignant groove -- that they establish their own identity. The best track on Athlete s fourth album is “Love Come Rescue,” an acoustic ballad that, like “Wires,” sounds significantly quieter than the songs surrounding it. Sparse and haunting, it’s a reminder of the raw talent that exists beneath the band’s swirling guitar riffs and effects pedals. Black Swan still concerns itself with anthems -- there are many of them here, and most are more than four minutes long -- but the track list is broken up by the occasional ballad, and the tracks that do pump up the volume do so with a nuanced, mature approach. Athlete still has work to do in the lyrics department; sentiments like “I’m on fire and nothing’s gonna hold me back” can’t help but sound clichéd when paired with such driving, grand orchestration. Black Swan is a definite sign of progress, though, and the band would do well to follow its path on future releases.
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Main Street expecting busy holiday shopping season
By Michael Crumb, Editor mcrumb@amestrib.com
Nov 20, 2018 at 3:41 PM Nov 20, 2018 at 7:56 PM
Business owners on Main Street are optimistic about the upcoming holiday shopping season as more and more shoppers seek out unique, quaint shopping experiences, experts say.
As shoppers flock to big box stores and online for their Black Friday deals, at least one Main Street shop owner said he expects his business to jump on Saturday.
Terry Stark, owner of Chocolaterie Stam, 230 Main St., said he’ll have more staff on hand Saturday to welcome customers. While the day after Black Friday has commonly become known as Small Business Saturday, Stark said he thinks it’s more about the personal service and atmosphere Main Street businesses have to offer than any promotion.
“It about chaos versus coming into a small shop,” Stark said, comparing Main Street businesses to the long lines that form at big box stores on Black Friday. “We hear it from people all the time. They like how quaint these places are, or how the owner came up to them to greet them and talk to them. They love how they get treated. It’s a totally different experience.”
Linda Niehm, a professor of apparel, merchandising and design at Iowa State University, said shopping local has found its niche between the rat race of Black Friday and the hoopla over Cyber Monday.
“There are different legs to the whole holiday shopping season kick-off,” said Niehm, who studies small business and entreprenuership. “The one that gets a lot of oxygen is Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the economic deals and the thrill of the hunt. On the other side of the coin is that consumers are seeking is that experience factor.
“That’s something new, particularly to younger consumers who maybe didn’t grow up experiencing that downtown Main Street shopping. Those businesses shouldn’t be trying to compete (with big box stores) but they can win with providing that excellent, unique kind of experience.”
Niehm said studies show that customers like that more personalized experience of local stores compared to “croweded lines of people pushing and shoving each other.
“They’re looking for more thoughtful purchases, something unique,” Niehm said.
The holiday shopping season accounts for 30 percent or more of a business’ annual revenue, Niehm said.
Big box stores experience more of those gains on Black Friday while that growth is more drawn out over the entire season for small businesses on main streets, she said.
Niehm said all the information she has seen indicates businesses, big and small, will see increases in holiday spending this year.
“Last year we saw growth as well, and it’s projected to be up even more this year,” she said. “Whether it be tax reductions, job creation, increased wages, whatever the reason consumer confidence is high right now, and they’re looking for that to translate into increased spending this holiday season.”
Stark, who said he usually sees his business double on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, agreed.
“I think we definitley will (see an increase),” he said. “The economy seems to be good, and we’re already busy with lots of corporate orders and individual orders for the holidays. We’re going to see an increase. I know we will.”
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Home Business FBR’s export facilitation strategy leads to significant trade growth upto 50%
FBR’s export facilitation strategy leads to significant trade growth upto 50%
Wed, 13 Jan 2021, 1:00 PM
ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (APP): The Integrated Strategy, devised by the Federal Board of Revenue, has amply contributed to significant increase in exports from Pakistan, reaching to US $2.4 billion in December 2020 as compare to US $ 1.6 billion in August 2020, showing about 50 percent growth.
As compared to the exports of US $1.993 billion during the same month of last year, the exports in grew by 18.3 per cent, according to FBR data.
While mentioning factors that facilitated growth in exports, the board stated that import duties on 1,623 tariff lines, pertaining to basic raw material and intermediate goods were reduced to zero through the Finance Act, 2020.
In pursuance of this strategy, additional customs duties and regulatory duties on 164 items related to textile sector, not manufactured in the country, were also removed in collaboration with all the stakeholders, according to FBR press statement issued here.
All these measures were undertaken with the objectives of neutralizing adverse impact of COVID-19 Pandemic, especially for the exporters, and to make their products competitive vis-à-vis those of their competitors in the international market.
Under the initiative of “Make in Pakistan”, the Duty Drawback rates for at least eight (08) sectors were revised upwards by FBR, it said adding that during the whole exercise, more than 434,000 claims were disposed of and approximately 7800 exporters have benefited from this Initiative.
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Similarly, the board has paid ninety (90) percent more refunds of Sales Tax during July-December, 2020 as compared to the corresponding period last year. This led to significant rise in volumes of exports in the form of increase in TEUs (i.e. Tonnage Equivalent Units) / Containers from 35,477 in July, 2020 to 62,591 in December, 2020, showing a growth of 43%.
In order to tangibly contribute to exports, all the Export Facilitation Schemes were simplified or rationalized for their optimal use by the exporters.
First of all, extension in utilization period of different export facilitation schemes was allowed for a period of one year from March 1st, 2020 to February 28, 2021.
Secondly, retention period for plant and machinery, under the Export Oriented Units Scheme, was reduced from 10 years to five years.
Thirdly, for the prompt redressal of grievances, one administrative tier was reduced under Duty and Taxes Remission for Export Scheme and Manufacturing Bond Scheme and Regulatory Authority was created to facilitate the exporters.
Moreover, the investors in Export Processing Zones were facilitated in payment of duties/taxes on the disposal of machinery in the tariff area. These facilitation measures led to increase in number of exports Goods Declarations (GDs) from 71,190 in July, 2020 to 79,756 in December, 2020, posting an increase of 11%.
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In the same vein, total number of Exports Goods Declarations (GDs) from July 1st, 2020 to December 31st, 2020), remained at 408,472 against 333,943 during January 1st, 2020, showing an increase of 18%.
To realize the objective of facilitation / promotion of exports, an automated system of filing the claim to the final sanctioning of Duty Drawback Claims for the payment of Duty Drawback Claims to the exporter was rolled out on October 1st, 2020.
As a matter of fact, export Goods Declaration filed in Customs WeBOC system is being considered as the Duty Drawback Claim.
The State Bank of Pakistan credits the system sanctioned payments in the accounts of exporters online directly. In addition to the automation initiative, Green Channel clearances of the exports GDs / Consignments were increased from 74% in July, 2020 to 77.3 % in December, 2020. Similarly, for speedy payment of Sales Tax refunds to exporters, FASTER PLUS System has been implemented.
FBR also removed regulatory duty on import of cotton yarn, till June 30, 2021, which is a basic raw material for the value-added textile industry of Pakistan.
Being committed to the national goal of increase in exports, the board has been making all out efforts to assist exporters by continuously making improvements in its laws and procedures, the statement concluded.
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Book Review: Word by Word
Category: Book Reviews Tags: dictionaries, Harmless Drudgery, Jack Lynch, Kory Stamper, lexicography, Merriam-Webster, Noah Webster, The Lexicographer's Dilemma, Word by Word Leave a Comment
Disclosure: I received a free advance review copy of this book from the publisher, Pantheon Books. I also consider Kory Stamper a friend.
A lot of work goes into making a book, from the initial writing and development to editing, copyediting, design and layout, proofreading, and printing. Orders of magnitude more work go into making a dictionary, yet few of us give much thought to how dictionaries actually come into being. Most people probably don’t think about the fact that there are multiple dictionaries. We always refer to it as the dictionary, as if it were a monolithic entity.
In Word by Word, Merriam-Webster editor Kory Stamper shows us the inner workings of dictionary making, from gathering citations to defining to writing pronunciations to researching etymologies. In doing so, she also takes us through the history of lexicography and the history of the English language itself.
If you’ve read other popular books on lexicography, like The Lexicographer’s Dilemma by Jack Lynch, you’re probably already familiar with some of the broad outlines of Word by Word—where dictionaries come from, how words get in them, and so on. But Stamper presents even familiar ideas in a fresh way and with wit and charm. If you’re familiar with her blog, Harmless Drudgery, you know she’s a gifted writer. (And if you’re not familiar with it, you should remedy that as soon as possible.)
In discussing the influence of French and Latin on English, for example, she writes, “Blending grammatical systems from two languages on different branches of the Indo-European language tree is a bit like mixing orange juice and milk: you can do it, but it’s going to be nasty.” And in describing the ability of lexicographers to focus on the same dry task day in and day out, she says that “project timelines in lexicography are traditionally so long that they could reasonably be measured in geologic epochs.”
Stamper also deftly teaches us about lexicography by taking us through her own experience of learning the craft, from the job interview in which she gushed about medieval Icelandic family sagas to the day-to-day grind of sifting through citations to the much more politically fraught side of dictionary writing, like changing the definitions for marriage or nude (one of the senses was defined as the color of white skin).
But the real joy of Stamper’s book isn’t the romp through the history of lexicography or the English language or even the self-deprecating jokes about lexicographers’ antisocial ways. It’s the way in which Stamper make stories about words into stories about us.
In one chapter, she looks into the mind of peevers by examining the impulse to fix English and explaining why so many of the rules we cherish are wrong:
The fact is that many of the things that are presented to us as rules are really just the of-the-moment preferences of people who have had the opportunity to get their opinions published and whose opinions end up being reinforced and repeated down the ages as Truth.
Real language is messy, and it doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of right and wrong that we’re taught. Learning this “is a betrayal”, she says, but it’s one that lexicographers have to get over if they’re going to write good dictionaries.
In the chapter “Irregardless”, she explores some of the social factors that shape our speech—race and ethnicity, geography, social class—to explain how she became one of the world’s foremost irregardless apologists when she started answering emails from correspondents who want the word removed from the dictionary. Though she initially shared her correspondents’ hatred of the word, an objective look at its use helped her appreciate it in all its nuanced, nonstandard glory. But—just like anyone else—she still has her own hangups and peeves, like when her teenage daughter started saying “I’m done my homework.”
In another chapter, she relates how she discovered that the word bitch had no stylistic label warning dictionary users that the word is vulgar or offensive, and she dives not only into the word’s history but also into modern efforts to reclaim the slur and the effects the word can have on those who hear it—anger, shame, embarrassment—even when it’s not directed at them.
And in my favorite chapter, she takes a look at the arcane art of etymology. “If logophiles want to be lexicographers when they grow up,” she writes, “then lexicographers want to be etymologists.” (I’ve always wanted to be an etymologist, but I don’t know nearly enough dead languages. Plus, there are basically zero job openings for etymologists.) Stamper relates the time when she brought some Finnish candy into the office, and Merriam-Webster’s etymologist asked her—in Finnish—if she spoke Finnish. She said—also in Finnish—that she spoke a little and asked if he did too. He replied—again, in Finnish—that he didn’t speak Finnish. This is the sort of logophilia that I can only dream of.
Stamper explodes some common etymological myths—no, posh and golf and the f word don’t originate from acronyms—before turning a critical eye on Noah Webster himself. The man may have been the founder of American lexicography, but his etymologies were crap. Webster was motivated by the belief that all languages descend from Hebrew, and so he tried to connect every word to a Hebrew root. But tracing a word’s history requires poring over old documents (often in one of those aforementioned dead languages) and painstakingly following it through the twists and turns of sound changes and semantic shifts.
Stamper ends the book with some thoughts on the present state and future of lexicography. The internet has enabled dictionaries to expand far beyond the limitations of print books—you no longer have to worry about things line breaks or page counts—but it also pushes lexicographers to work faster even as it completely upends the business side of things.
It’s not clear what the future holds for lexicography, but I’m glad that Kory Stamper has given us a peek behind the curtain. Word by Word is a heartfelt, funny, and ultimately human look at where words come from, how they’re defined, and what they say about us.
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries is available now at Amazon and other booksellers.
Gray, Grey, and Circular Prescriptions
Category: Descriptivism, Prescriptivism, Words Tags: AP Stylebook, corpus linguistics, descriptivism, dictionaries, gray, grey, John E. McIntyre, lexicography, Noah Webster, prescriptivism 12 Comments
A few days ago John McIntyre took a whack at the Associated Press Stylebook’s penchant for flat assertions, this time regarding the spelling of gray/grey. McIntyre noted that gray certainly is more common in American English but that grey is not a misspelling.
In the comments I mused that perhaps gray is only more common because of prescriptions like this one. John Cowan noted that gray is the main head word in Webster’s 1828 dictionary, with grey cross-referenced to it, saying, “So I think we can take it that “gray” has been the standard AmE spelling long before the AP stylebook, or indeed the AP, were in existence.”
But I don’t think Webster’s dictionary really proves that at all. When confronted with multiple spellings of a word, lexicographers must choose which one to include as the main entry in the dictionary. Webster’s choice of gray over grey may have been entirely arbitrary. Furthermore, considering that he was a crusader for spelling reform, I don’t think we can necessarily take the spellings in his dictionary as evidence of what was more common or standard in American English.
So I headed over to Mark Davies’ Corpus of Historical American English to do a little research. I searched for both gray and grey as adjectives and came up with this. The grey line represents the total number of tokens per million words for both forms.
Up until about the 1840s, gray and grey were about neck and neck. After that, gray really takes off while grey languishes. Now, I realize that this is a rather cursory survey of their historical distribution, and the earliest data in this corpus predates Webster’s dictionary by only a couple of decades. I don’t know how to explain the growth of gray/grey in the 1800s. But in spite of these problems, it appears that there are some very clear-cut trend lines—gray became overwhelmingly more common, but grey has severely diminished but not quite disappeared from American English.
This ties in nicely with a point I’ve made before: descriptivism and prescriptivism are not entirely separable, and there is considerable interplay between the two. It may be that Webster really was describing the linguistic scene as he saw it, choosing gray because he felt that it was more common, or it may be that his choice of gray was arbitrary or influenced by his personal preferences.
Either way, his decision to describe the word in a particular way apparently led to a prescriptive feedback loop: people chose to use the spelling gray because it was in the dictionary, reinforcing its position as the main entry in the dictionary and leading to its ascendancy over grey and eventually to the AP Stylebook’s tweet about its preferred status. What may have started as a value-neutral decision by Webster about an utterly inconsequential issue of spelling variability has become an imperative to editors . . . about what is still an utterly inconsequential issue of spelling variability.
Personally, I’ve always had a soft spot for grey.
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Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years deep in the South American jungle with the Ye'kuana. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.
Above: Interview with Jean Liedloff by Michael Mendizza (Touch the Future)
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Though not written as a child-rearing manual, The Continuum Concept has earned a reputation as an excellent resource for parents and parents-to-be who intuitively feel that the parenting "techniques" of the modern era are inherently misguided. It has also been helpful to many adults — parents and non-parents alike — who hope to recover the natural state of happiness lost as a result of the modern child-rearing practices of their well-meaning parents.
Her website provides enough information to give you a good idea of just what the continuum concept is and how to apply it to your life; but if you want to restore more fully your natural instincts — especially for parenting — we heartily suggest you get your hands on a copy of the book and let it transform your consciousness. Jean Liedloff's writing combines vivid storytelling with articulate reasoning in such a way that it jars the reader's mind free of the entrenched, "civilized" way of thinking which obscures the inner knowing of what she calls the continuum sense.
The Continuum Concept has been translated from its original English version into several other languages and has sold hundreds of thousands of copies throughout the world. For the most part, the success of the book has been the result of readers not just recommending it to people they care about, but actually giving them the book as a gift. We've heard from readers who bought copies of The Continuum Concept by the dozen!
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This AI tool generates your creepy lookalikes to trick facial recognition
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If you’re worried about facial recognition firms or stalkers mining your online photos, a new tool called Anonymizer could help you escape their clutches.
The app was created by Generated Media, a startup that provides AI-generated pictures to customers ranging from video game developers creating new characters to journalists protecting the identities of sources. The company says it built Anonymizer as “a useful way to showcase the utility of synthetic media.”
The system was trained on tens of thousands of photos taken in the Generated Media studio. The pictures are fed to generative adversarial networks (GANs), which create new images by pitting two neural networks against each other: a generator that creates new samples and a discriminator that examines whether they look real.
The process creates a feedback loop that eventually produces lifelike profile photos.
Credit: 2020 Generated Media, Inc.
The images are tagged, categorized, and added to the training dataset.
You have to buy a license to use Anonymizer for commercial purposes, but the tool is free for personal usage — as long as you don’t violate the terms and conditions.
Just upload a clear photo of your face looking straight ahead, and the system will spit out a grid of 20 doppelgängers. You could then pick one that resembles you and use it in place of the social media profiles scanned by the likes of Clearview AI.
Unlike many of the facial recognition systems it could trick, Anonymizer seemed to work fairly well on a diverse range of faces during our brief testing. But Generated Media admits it needs to do better:
Our goal is to represent every person regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, or physical characteristics. The reality of generating consistent content with AI is that training data needs to be available for our systems to learn from. This requires sourcing a large number of models and takes time. After running a studio for the last two years, we have learned it can be difficult to find diverse models with unique features that are also willing to shoot stock photography. This is not a challenge will are backing down from.
However, many of the clones bear little resemblance to the face they replace. In some cases (including mine) it seems to suspect that the uploader is a child. I’m gonna take it as a compliment.
Credit: Generated Media
After the faces are created, further machine learning processes identify and remove flaws.
Nonetheless, Anonymizer could be a useful way of avoiding facial recognition systems. Still, there are risks of it being deployed for nefarious purposes, despite Generated Media prohibiting its use for any illegal activity, such as defamation, impersonation, or fraud.
The tool could also ascent our descent into a counterfeit world. But if you can’t beat ’em, I guess you might as well join ’em in the simulated reality.
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1 big thing: Every carmaker for itself
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The once monolithic automotive industry is splintering over a range of issues, as companies scramble to cope with unprecedented technological disruption and business challenges.
The big picture: Although fiercely competitive in the showroom, automakers have long presented a united front on shared interests like trade policy, government regulations and labor relations. That's all gone out the window lately; now it's every man for himself.
What's happening: General Motors' unprecedented racketeering lawsuit this week against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is the latest example of automakers turning on one another.
GM accuses its crosstown rival of inflicting billions of dollars in damages by bribing United Automobile Workers leaders for competitive advantages that the union denied to GM.
They say the injuries compounded between 2009 and 2015 in the form of higher labor costs and lost investment initiatives.
GM said former FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne, who died in 2018, conspired with former UAW president Dennis Williams to try to weaken GM and force it into a merger with FCA in 2015.
FCA vigorously denies the charges, and says GM is trying to undermine current merger negotiations with Peugeot parent Groupe PSA and ongoing labor talks with the UAW.
"If arguments both sides are making against each other are true — that Marchionne was using the UAW to bully GM's Mary Barra, and that she's now trying to undercut Fiat Chrysler's combination with PSA — the chess moves will go down as among the most dramatic by Detroit executives in decades," writes Bloomberg.
On Thursday, JPMorgan analysts estimated that GM is likely to seek at least $6 billion in damages, and as much as $15 billion.
Another big split occurred recently in the war over tailpipe emissions rules.
Ford, Volkswagen, BMW and Honda have lined up behind California, whose right to set its own pollution standards was revoked by the Trump administration.
GM, FCA, Toyota and others, meanwhile, are siding with Trump, who wants to roll back tough Obama-era standards.
Where they line up depends mostly on their sunk investments in future powertrains and how they think consumer demand will evolve.
Two decades ago, Detroit automakers fought shoulder-to-shoulder against California's clean car initiatives.
What to watch: Shifts in trade policy could further divide the industry as the interests of foreign and domestic automakers diverge.
The bottom line: Faced with falling global sales and a potential transformation of the business, "the always-competitive auto industry has become even more dog-eat-dog," says Cox Automotive analyst Michelle Krebs.
2. That's a pickup truck?
Elon Musk and his Tesla Cybertruck. Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
Tesla last night unveiled its futuristic "Cybertruck" at a splashy L.A. event, as other automakers also move closer to bringing electric models to the huge pickup market, Axios' Ben Geman reports.
Yesterday GM CEO Mary Barra said its planned electric pickup will go on sale in fall 2021.
The startup Rivian is also bringing an EV pickup to market, and Ford is planning an electric version of its popular F-150 model.
Driving the news: Tesla's unveiling showed how the automaker's strategy is bringing something radically new to the scene and betting there's a market for it.
"Trucks have been the same for a very long time, like a 100 years," CEO Elon Musk said onstage."We want to try something different."
My thought bubble: Those are famous last words for anyone trying to enter the pickup truck market.
There's a reason pickups are designed the way they are; people use them as tools for work.
Even Toyota, with deep enough pockets to reinvent the truck market if it wanted, hasn't been able to dent any of the top-selling pickups with its Tundra after 20 years.
There was one big snafu during the reveal: "Musk claimed the car was 'bulletproof' against a 9mm handgun. But when he got Tesla's chief designer to throw a metal ball at one of its armored windows, audible surprise could be heard as the glass smashed — twice."
The important numbers:
A base single-motor, rear wheel drive model starts at $39,900 with a 250-mile range; a dual-motor all wheel drive version with 300-mile range starts at $49,000; and a top-end "tri-motor" all wheel drive version starts at $69,900 and can travel 500 miles on a full charge.
The high-end model goes from 0 to 60 in 2.9 seconds and has a towing capacity north of 14,000 pounds, Tesla said. The base model tows at least 7,500 pounds and goes from 0 to 60 in 6.5 seconds.
Tesla says production is slated to begin in late 2021, and a year later for the high-end version.
What they're saying: "The looks are polarizing, but the performance and pricing specs are undeniable," Kelley Blue Book executive publisher Karl Bauer said in remarks circulated to reporters.
3. Digital assistants riding shotgun
NIO's digital assistant, Nomi, uses AI technology to help drivers. Photo: NIO
Some people like to name their cars (we called our old minivan "Chad" and my daughter's sedan is named "Trudy"). With the help of digital voice assistants, cars now are starting to take on their own personalities.
Why it matters: Using voice commands, rather than a touchscreen, can make cars safer by helping drivers keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel. But most early voice technologies have been disappointing or downright frustrating to use while driving.
What's happening: Advances in natural language processing and artificial intelligence are transforming the in-car experience.
Amazon is partnering with a growing list of automakers, including GM and Audi, to embed its Alexa digital assistant in their vehicles; drivers can ask her to do everything from play music to roll down the windows.
Ann Arbor, Mich.-based start-up Clinc's natural voice technology lets users speak conversationally to their car, using AI to understand the context and anticipate their needs.
It's easier to talk to your vehicle when it has a personality.
"Personality has to be proactive. Right now [voice assistants in the car] only interact when you interact with them ... human beings that do that aren't very engaging," Brian Rider, head of automobility at Clinc, said during a panel I moderated this week at Automobility LA.
For an engaging personality, check out this video of Nomi, the AI assistant from Chinese-American electric carmaker, NIO.
Engineers wanted Nomi to be engaging, but not intrusive, Tao Liang, NIO's director of machine learning, told me onstage.
That's why it only has eyes, and not full facial features.
Even so, it's cute as a button.
4. NTSB: AV tests need federal oversight
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The National Transportation Safety Board this week blasted the federal government for lax oversight of autonomous vehicle testing on public roads.
Driving the news: At a meeting this week, NTSB said the probable cause of a fatal accident last year involving a self-driving Uber test vehicle was a failure of the backup safety driver to pay attention because she was distracted by her phone.
The agency added that Uber's "inadequate safety culture" contributed to the accident.
What they're saying: NTSB said NHTSA should create a review process before allowing automated test vehicles to operate on public roads.
Companies should be required to submit a safety self-assessment before testing can begin, the agency said.
Currently, such safety reports are voluntary, and only 16 AV developers have submitted one; 62 companies are testing AVs in California alone.
In a statement, NHTSA said it welcomes the analysis and will review the NTSB’s recommendations.
"While the technology is rapidly developing, it’s important for the public to note that all vehicles on the road today require a fully attentive operator at all times," NHTSA said.
5. FCC will free auto airwaves for WiFi
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FCC chairman Ajit Pai offered a path forward Wednesday for the cable industry to gain access to auto airwaves for WiFi after a long-running spectrum battle with automakers, Axios' Margaret Harding McGill writes.
Yes, but: The move will pit the FCC against the Department of Transportation, which wants to see these airwaves fully dedicated to auto safety communications.
The big picture: Car companies and cable providers have been feuding over a swath of spectrum known as the 5.9 GHz band that was set aside 20 years ago for vehicle safety communications but never widely used for that purpose.
Driving the news: Pai's proposal, to be voted on at the commission's Dec. 12 meeting, would allocate the lower 45 megahertz of the band for unlicensed use such as WiFi, while setting aside up to 30 megahertz for vehicle safety technology.
What they're saying: Despite Pai's plans, a DOT spokesperson said all 75 megahertz of spectrum in the "safety band" should be preserved for transportation safety.
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America was more blunt, accusing the FCC of trading safety for more connectivity. "It comes down to priorities — we can save and protect people’s lives, or we can ensure it's easier to place online orders from our cars," ITS America CEO Shailen Bhatt said.
But Pai's proposal was cheered by cable companies and Public Knowledge, as well as the 5G Automotive Association, which backs the cellular-vehicle-to-everything technology that Pai's plan would accommodate.
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6. What I'm driving
Uber vehicles at the new "LAX-it" ride-hail passenger pickup lot. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
This week instead of a car review, I'm trying out the new LAX-it taxi and ride-share pickup system at Los Angeles International airport.
Why it matters: L.A. has banned taxis, Uber and Lyft from curbside pickup to ease the congestion at LAX terminals made worse by ongoing construction. If you're flying to L.A. anytime in the next few years, you'll have to get used to this new traffic management system until a new automated people mover opens in 2023.
What they're saying: The system got off to a rocky start in late October, as travelers complained about long lines and delays, prompting an apology from airport leadership.
On Nov. 6, LAX responded to complaints by adding three lanes to the pickup lot, expanding its size by about 50% in hopes of getting more travelers on the road faster, reports the Los Angeles Times.
How it works: From baggage claim on the lower level, passengers board a green LAX-it shuttle bus.
While on the bus, you can order an Uber or Lyft and you'll receive a PIN to give to the driver when you arrive at the lot.
The bus ride takes about 10 or 15 minutes, but you can walk in about the same amount of time if you don't have a lot of luggage.
Once you arrive at the LAX-it lot, you are funneled to waiting lines of Ubers, Lyfts or taxis.
Give the PIN to the driver and your destination pops up on their screen.
My impressions: I was anticipating a headache, but I found the system works quite efficiently.
There was plenty of signage, and lots of helpful people on both ends of the shuttle bus ride to direct unsure passengers.
My Uber driver said the system is faster because drivers often spend 30 minutes or more in airport traffic just trying to pick up a passenger at the terminal. Instead, cars are waiting when passengers arrive at the off-site lot.
Upon return to the airport, passengers can still get dropped off at the terminal as in the past.
The bottom line: Expect to see more ride-hailing solutions like this across the U.S. as traffic worsens at airports, concerts, sports stadiums and other big events.
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Verdunville, West Virginia
United States / West Virginia / Logan Metro Area / Logan County / Verdunville / Zip Codes
Climate in Verdunville, West Virginia
Verdunville, West Virginia gets 47 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year.
Verdunville averages 15 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year.
On average, there are 172 sunny days per year in Verdunville. The US average is 205 sunny days.
Verdunville gets some kind of precipitation, on average, 138 days per year. Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground. In order for precipitation to be counted you have to get at least .01 inches on the ground to measure.
Weather Highlights
Summer High: the July high is around 87 degrees
Winter Low: the January low is 25
Rain: averages 47 inches of rain a year
Snow: averages 15 inches of snow a year
BESTPLACES COMFORT INDEX
The annual BestPlaces Comfort Index for Verdunville is 7.3 (10=best), which means it is one of the most pleasant places in West Virginia.
September, May and June are the most pleasant months in Verdunville, while January and December are the least comfortable months.
Climate Averages
Verdunville, West Virginia United States
46.6 in. 38.1 in.
138.2 days 106.2 days
172 days 205 days
Avg. July High
86.7° 85.8°
Avg. Jan. Low
Comfort Index (higher=better)
879 ft. 2443 ft.
Many people confuse weather and climate but they are different. Weather is the conditions of the atmosphere over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere is over long periods of time.
Weather is how the atmosphere is behaving and its effects upon life and human activities. Weather can change from minute-to-minute. Most people think of weather in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, brightness, visibility, wind, and atmospheric pressure.
Climate is the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a place. Climate can mean the average weather for a particular region and time period taken over 30 years. Climate is the average of weather over time.
July is the hottest month for Verdunville with an average high temperature of 86.7°, which ranks it as one of the hottest places in West Virginia. In Verdunville, there are 3 comfortable months with high temperatures in the range of 70-85°. The most pleasant months of the year for Verdunville are September, May and June.
January has the coldest nighttime temperatures for Verdunville with an average of 25.3°. This is one of the warmest places in West Virginia.
In Verdunville, there are 26.9 days annually when the high temperature is over 90°, which is one of the hottest places in West Virginia.
In Verdunville, there are 90.6 days annually when the nighttime low temperature falls below freezing, which is one of the warmest places in West Virginia.
In Verdunville, there are 0.9 days annually when the nighttime low temperature falls below zero°, which is warmer than most places in West Virginia.
July is the wettest month in Verdunville with 5.3 inches of rain, and the driest month is October with 2.9 inches. The wettest season is Autumn with 30% of yearly precipitation and 20% occurs in Winter, which is the driest season. The annual rainfall of 46.6 inches in Verdunville means that it is wetter than most places in West Virginia.
May is the rainiest month in Verdunville with 13.4 days of rain, and September is the driest month with only 8.7 rainy days. There are 138.2 rainy days annually in Verdunville, which is less rainy than most places in West Virginia. The rainiest season is Summer when it rains 28% of the time and the driest is Winter with only a 21% chance of a rainy day.
An annual snowfall of 15.2 inches in Verdunville means that it is one of the least snowy places in West Virginia. January is the snowiest month in Verdunville with 6.1 inches of snow, and 4 months of the year have significant snowfall.
Annual Rainfall (US Avg: 36.5")
Annual Snowfall (US Avg: 25")
Precipitation Days (US Avg: 100)
Sunny Days (US Avg: 205)
Avg. July High Temp (US Avg: 86.5)
Avg. January Low Temp (US Avg: 20.5)
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How minerals modulate taste and their role in extraction
A truly outstanding brew depends on many factors falling into place at once. Carefully chosen and roasted beans need to work harmoniously with matching water and a strict brew method to extract and highlight desired flavours.
Increasingly, brewers are focused on the impact water has on taste outcomes. According to 2017 World Brewer’s Cup Runner-up Sam Corra, one of the most important factors to brewing an amazing coffee experience is having a brew water that will best represent a coffee’s attributes. He notes, however, that one water formulation will not necessarily suit other coffee varieties, processes, and origins.
Dr. Monika Fekete is the Founder of Coffee Science Lab.
His observation is illustrated by the very different mineral make-up of 2018 Australian Brewer’s Cup Champion Heath Dalziel’s brew water.
Both brews were outstanding in their own right, but they needed careful adjustment of the minerals in the water to showcase the coffees to their full potential. But how does this work on a physical/chemical level? If we knew how minerals modulate taste, we could harness this knowledge to deliberately tailor brew water to coffee, or even coffee to water available in a particular location.
Do minerals affect extraction? Or is it all in our tastebuds?
A plausible answer would be that the three main mineral ingredients in brew water – calcium, magnesium, and bicarbonate – all help to extract different flavours from the coffee bean. Adjusting their levels in the brew water will result in different amounts of the various flavour compounds being extracted. If this is the case, changing the concentration of salts in the brew water should lead to a measurable difference in the chemical composition of the brewed coffee.
An alternative explanation could be that, instead of changing the extraction process itself, minerals act on our taste receptors, affecting the way we perceive the final brew. Or could it be a bit of both?
Digging into scientific literature, it quickly becomes apparent that cations (calcium Ca2+ and magnesium Mg2+) and anions (mainly bicarbonate, HCO3– ) play fundamentally different roles in extraction. Let’s tackle anions first.
The role of bicarbonates in coffee extraction
Brew water contains three main minerals to extract different flavours, including calcium, magnesium and bicarbonate.
Carbonate hardness (KH) has been identified as a main culprit for producing flat, bitter tasting coffee for a long time. In a study published in 1971, filter coffee brewed with 750 parts per million (ppm) bicarbonate was characterised as bitter by the panel, but, interestingly, had a somewhat higher level of total dissolved solids (TDS).
In contrast, coffee brewed with distilled water had lower TDS and a sour taste. When studying the effects of hard water on espresso coffee, scientists Navarini and Rivetti in their 2010 paper titled Water Quality for Espresso Coffee observed a similar effect, along with a prolonged brew time for bicarbonate- rich water.
It makes sense that distilled water produces a sour brew compared to bicarbonate-rich water. The natural acidity of coffee is neutralised by the alkaline bicarbonate solution, which explains a flat taste.
The increased presence of bitter notes is trickier. Bitterness is often due to over-extraction, but why would bicarbonates make coffee over-extracted? According to Navarini’s explanation, the pH of the brew water drops from around 7 to 5 during extraction due to the buffering effect of coffee itself. This significant drop in pH leads to the liberation of carbon dioxidegas from bicarbonate.
Carbon dioxide is normally present in roasted coffee and helps build resistance in the coffee bed to slow water flow. Excess carbon dioxide from the brew water increases this effect, and it can lengthen brew time to a point that the coffee becomes over-extracted. When 1000ppm bicarbonate was added to the brew water in Navarini’s experiment, espresso extraction time was prolonged by up to 55 per cent. The extra carbon dioxidebuild-up also destroyed espresso crema.
Excessive bubbling led to a higher volume of low-quality foam, which collapsed much quicker than foam produced by distilled water. Note that 1000ppm bicarbonate is extreme for practical coffee brewing. Detailed studies are needed to find out the lowest bicarbonate level where this effect becomes noticeable.
The effect of cations
As we have learned from master brewers, the effect of Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions is paramount on the final coffee experience. At the same time, the role of cations in extraction remains poorly understood.
In a 2014 published paper, The Role of Dissolved Cations in Coffee Extraction, researchers used a computational chemistry approach to investigate how common coffee flavour compounds bind to dissolved cations such as Mg2+ and Ca2+. The relative binding energies of magnesium were found to be the highest, followed by calcium. The authors concluded that cation-rich water, especially water rich in Mg2+, has the potential to extract most coffee constituents.
These theoretical findings, however, have not yet been backed up by practical experiments. If cations indeed increase extraction levels by binding to flavour compounds and pulling them into the brew, we should be able to measure an increase in TDS compared to coffee extracted with pure water.
Some studies showed no increase in TDS when 750ppm calcium chlorideor magnesium chloride was added to the brew water, compared to distilled water. Another experiment carried out by Five Senses Coffee investigated the effect of 0-500ppm magnesium chloride on the TDS percentage of Clever Coffee Dripper immersion brews. The results were inconclusive: they showed a marginal increase in TDS up to 400ppm Mg2+, but these remained within experimental error.
To date, I’m unaware of any evidence showing that varied levels of cations could lead to equal TDS levels with a different chemical make-up.
Salts and tastebuds
The interaction of salts and flavour compounds on our taste receptors is extremely complex. In 2003 research, the tastes of calcium and magnesium salts in water were characterised as “bitter and salty” by themselves. When larger organic anions, such as lactate (from lactic acid, also found in coffee) were introduced, they acted to suppress the inherent bitterness of Ca2+ and Mg2+. Imagine what could happen when we add the hundreds of coffee flavour compounds to the mixture?
A proposed experiment
If you’re feeling confused about the effect of minerals on coffee flavour, I’m with you. As we dig deeper into the chemistry, more questions than answers seem to emerge. Here’s one thought that might help us understand the effect of minerals a little better.
Do minerals affect coffee extraction itself, or do they mainly affect how we perceive the taste of coffee? If the answer is in extraction, the minerals would have to be added to the brew water. If the effect is largely taste-related, they could be added afterwards to no perceptible difference in the final outcome.
In a randomised sensory experiment, I would like test if a panel of coffee experts can taste a significant difference between coffee brewed with minerals in the water compared to coffee sprinkled afterwards with the same salts. If you’d like to volunteer to be on this panel email me at monika@coffeesciencelab.com.au and hopefully I can report back with an interesting outcome.
For further reading on the subject:
Pangborn R.M et al, 1971, Journal of Food Science
Navarini L & Rivetti D. 2010, Food Chemistry
Hendon, C. H et al, 2014, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood, 2014 WBC performance
www.fivesenses.com.au (blog post titled ‘Experimenting with the effect of water quality on water’)
Lawless, H. T et al, 2003, Food Quality and Preference
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How AI can transform hospital revenue cycle management — 5 thoughts
Scott Becker and Ayla Ellison - Monday, August 12th, 2019 Print | Email
Artificial intelligence is making big waves across many industries, and healthcare organizations are exploring ways to harness AI's transformative power.
Many hospitals and health systems are already leveraging AI to improve care, support clinical decisions and boost clinician satisfaction. However, the role of AI in healthcare isn't limited to the clinical experience. The same technology can transform nonclinical processes.
From insurance denials to costs rising faster than reimbursements, revenue cycle management in today's healthcare market faces numerous challenges. Hospitals and health systems see a potential solution to some of these issues: using AI in the revenue cycle process.
Below is an overview of key points that emerged from recent studies and surveys that provide insight on how AI can modernize revenue cycle management, and why hospitals and health systems see immense promise in this type of technology.
1. Claim denials are costly. One major area of opportunity in the revenue cycle for AI is in predicting denials. Constantly changing payer guidelines and human error are among the reasons hospitals and other provider organizations struggle with high claim denial rates. Reworking claims is costly, and every claim that is rejected or denied introduces the risk of a hospital not getting paid. It's estimated that hospitals lose more than $260 billion annually from insurance denials.
2. Predict and minimize claim denials. Using AI, hospitals and health systems can pinpoint the reasons payers denied claims in the past and uncover denial trends. This enables healthcare organization to predict denials and resolve problems before claims are submitted, leading to lower denial rates and higher revenue.
3. Cut cost to collect. AI and automation also present an opportunity for hospitals and health systems to cut costs by streamlining and optimizing manual processes. Based on the number of revenue cycle positions that could potentially be performed by AI and automation, Crowe predicts the cost to collect at healthcare organizations will decrease between 25 percent and 50 percent over the next five to 10 years.
4. Improve coding and clinical documentation. Another aspect of AI in healthcare that shows promise for transforming the revenue cycle is natural language processing. NLP enables computer programs to process and analyze unstructured data, such as free-text physician notes written in an EHR. Within the revenue cycle, application of NLP can improve coding and clinical documentation.
5. Investments in nonclinical AI. Hospital executives are interested in using AI and robotic process automation to increase efficiency in areas such as revenue cycle. A recent survey of 115 hospital and health system executives showed at least 50 percent plan on investing in nonclinical AI within the next two years.
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Human body in literature
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Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith
by Paula Gallant Eckard
Library of Congress Classification PS374.M547E29 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54093520431
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power have objectified the maternal and have disregarded female subjectivity. As a result, maternal perspectives have been ignored and the mother’s voice silenced. In recent literary texts, however, more substantial attention has been given to motherhood and to the physical, psychological, social, and cultural dynamics affecting maternal experience. In Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith, Paula Gallant Eckard examines how maternal experience is depicted in selected novels by three American writers, emphasizing how they focus on the body and the voice of the mother. These novels include: The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Beloved by Morrison; In Country, Spence + Lila, and Feather Crowns by Mason; and Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies, and Saving Grace by Smith.
By employing this focus, these writers lessen the objectification the maternal has received and restore a rich subjectivity that foregrounds the mother’s perspective. Moreover, their fiction reflects a deep concern for history and culture and for a woman’s experience of her world. They challenge the traditional representations of black and white motherhood that have appeared in southern literature and society, rendering complex portrayals of motherhood that defy cultural stereotypes.
Eckard incorporates historical perspectives on African American and southern motherhood, utilizing the works of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Sally McMillen, Deborah White, Jacqueline Jones, and others. She draws upon the feminist criticism of Adrienne Rich, Elaine Showalter, Naomi Schor, Tillie Olsen, Karla F. C. Holloway, Barbara Christian, and others, and the linguistic and psychoanalytic theories of Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, and Luce Irigaray. The author also addresses the cross-cultural connections shared by Morrison, Mason, and Smith, showing that, despite their racial and cultural differences, striking similarities can be found in their renderings of maternity.
The three women writers employ related image patterns, metaphors, and symbols involving the maternal body. By centering maternity so strongly in their novels, Morrison, Mason, and Smith establish the primacy of the mother and obviate the neglect to which maternal perspectives have been subjected. They restore the mother’s lost voice and her diminished subjectivity. Together they depict the maternal as a powerful force that shapes human lives and communities.
Paula Gallant Eckard is Chair of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Turner, Elizabeth Hayes
Women historians
Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians
edited by Constance B. Schulz and Elizabeth Hayes Turner
Library of Congress Classification E175.45.C585 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 975.007202275
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
It is no accident that the Southern Association for Women Historians enjoys the founding date of 1970. After extended and often bitter engagement with entrenched sexism in the decades following World War II, women historians found their voices and crafted a means by which to be heard. The years between 1970 and 1980 represented a decade of optimism for women who sought equality in the workplace. Professional women, professors of history most especially, found hope in organizations such as the SAWH, created to address issues of visibility, legitimacy, and equality in historical associations and in employment.
In Clio’s Southern Sisters, Constance B. Schulz and Elizabeth Hayes Turner collect the stories of the women who helped to found and lead the organization during its first twenty years. These women give evidence, in strong and effective language, of the experiences that shaped their entrée into the profession. They vividly describe the point at which they experienced the shift in their lives and in the lives of those around them that led toward a new day for women in the history profession.
Some found that discrimination followed them like a shadow, and the pain of those days still remains with them. Others sought their graduate education in institutions where women were welcomed and where professors valued their work and encouraged their success. Yet when they entered the job market, they found that some employers flatly refused to consider them because they were women. Lost job opportunities for women were linked in tangled ways to the prevailing image of women as less desirable as colleagues, or as intellectually weaker than their male counterparts.
Through the SAWH, these women were able to make changes from within the profession. They felt an obligation to help the next generation of women scholars. In the midst of a national movement to end sex discrimination through legislation, to increase women’s consciousness-raising efforts, and to acknowledge the economic realities of women in the workforce, these women came together to form an organization that could enable them to have the careers they deserved. This timely volume will be appreciated by all those who reaped the benefits for which these “southern sisters” fought so hard.
Constance B. Schulz is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Michigan Remembered: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, 1936–1943.
Elizabeth Hayes Turner is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas in Denton. She is the author or coeditor of many books, including Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880–1920 and Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women’s History (University of Missouri Press).
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What Do People Eat for Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere?
The weather outside is frightful, so we're imagining ourselves on the other, summery side of the planet. But what's for Christmas dinner?
(Credit: NASA)
For Americans, it's hard not to think of the ideal Christmas as a white one--a wintry wonderland in which a soft blanket of confectioners-sugar snow reflects the milky blue light of the moon outside the window as you snuggle up inside with a hot chocolate by a roaring fire.
But on the opposite end of the world, Christmas is a summer holiday. So forget your winter-seasonal treats, your steaming mugs of cocoa, hot buttered rum, and roasted winter vegetables. What would you eat and drink if you were on exact opposite side of the world?
Saltwater.
Lots and lots of saltwater.
Because, as it turns out, the far end of the world, for those of us living in the continental U.S., is a yawning stretch of the Indian Ocean.
So, assuming you were lucky enough to be on a raft of some sort, maybe you could snag a sea turtle or some sardines or something. But it probably wouldn't be the Christmas dinner you were hoping for. Although if you were stuck on a raft in the Indian Ocean, Christmas dinner would probably be the last thing on your mind.
But let's play fast and loose with the rules here and say you ended up not smack dab in a saltwater vastness largely devoid of fish but rather washed up in one of the settled bordering land masses--say Madagascar, to the west. What would you be sitting down to eat when Dec. 25 rolled in?
Well, you'd probably be polite and first tell your hosts "Arahab traty ny Noely," or "Merry Christmas" in Malagasy. Then, once you'd told the story of how you ended up floating in the Indian Ocean, using an iMac as a liferaft, here the comes Christmas dinner: A big, hot platter of fluffy rice--by far the most important staple in Madagascar--cooked with generous ladlefuls of coconut milk; smoky shreds of roasted beef from hump-backed zebu cattle; or maybe sizzling chunks of pork, dripping with hot oil--more fat than meat, in fact. Since you're near the shore, you're likely to have a fish curry, not too spicy. You might get a bowl of boiled yams, cassava or taro root, or potato or turnip greens, stewed in coconut milk and served with Bambara groundnuts. You'd wash the whole thing down with ranonapango, a hot beverage made by pouring boiling water onto the burnt rice that's stuck to the bottom of the rice pot.
For dessert, the host would bring out plates of fresh fruit--mangoes, pineapple, peaches, grapes, but especially lychees--sprinkled with sugar or the ubiquitous flavor of Madagascar, vanilla. But since it's Christmas, your hosts would serve one of the lasting legacies of the island's history as a French colony: a buche de Noel, the chocolate-filled rolled sponge cake we know so well right here.
And then you'd ask if there were a phone nearby so you could call the nearest U.S. consulate.
But maybe "the other side of the planet" is too restrictive. In fact, it's warm(er) just about everywhere south of the Equator. In Rio de Janeiro, say, you could watch the 28-story floating Christmas tree light up the city's Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon before you sat down to a feast of bacalhau (salted cod), ham or shredded chicken, and the ever-present rice and beans.
Dessert could be fresh fruit like guava, papaya, or passionfruit, but the real prize of the evening would be a French-toast-like treat called rabanada, batter-fried slices of bread dusted with cinnamon and sugar. And to cap off the celebration: a champagne toast to the birth of Jesus.
If you ended up in South Africa, you could be invited to a family braai, or barbecue, on the beach, where the main course would be pap(maize porridge) and vleis (a grilled meat, maybe beef marinated with pineapple juice and vinegar), or boerwors (coriander-and-garlic-flavored beef and pork sausage) or sosaties (chicken kebab), with a variety of salads, roosterkoek (grilled rolls), and a bottle or two of the nation's many notable wines. If you were on the east coast, near KwaZulu Natal, instead of the red meats, you might instead be offered a piece of banana-leaf-wrapped barracuda and cornbread.
And to finish the night, you'd ask for a piece of Malva pudding, a vestige of Dutch rule, a moist cake made with apricot jam and served hot with ice cream.
Let's say you found yourself in New Zealand, among a family of hospitable Maoris who included you in a traditional hangi dinner--something New Englanders might instinctively call a clambake. You'd help dig a pit in the ground, build a fire, heat up large stones, heap baskets full of food wrapped in leaves or tin foil on top of the hot rocks, then cover it up to steam for a couple hours.
When the food was done, you'd dig into honey-marinated chicken and kawakawa (mint)-flavored lamb so tender it would fall off the bones, steaming kumara (sweet potatoes), cabbage, carrots and onions.
Our final scenario: If, somehow, you went a little too far south, you'd wind up at Antarctica's McMurdo research station, where the crisscrossing steel reinforcing cables are painted a festive candy-cane red and white every holiday season.
Normally the station has up to nearly 1,300 residents from all over the world, but many take two weeks' leave for the holiday season, leaving the station quieter than usual, and the Christmas parties, held in the garage or carpenter's shop, are far mellower than the Halloween parties. In 2011, celebrants at the garage gawked at gingerbread versions of local landmarks, like the 1911 Discovery Hut and a beloved tundra bus nicknamed Ivan.
For the Christmas buffet, you'd better hope someone can slide you in without a much-needed reservation. In 2009, the dinner consisted of roast duck, prime rib with horseradish sauce, and lobster tails in herbed butter. But what you might get depends on the last supply run--and the foresight of the dining staff.
Then you might be invited to stick around for the station's annual New Year's tradition of Icestock--their version of Woodstock, except with scientist bands, and on a continent of ice and freezing winds.
At which point you ask for the next flight home, where you can dig into the leftover fruitcake.
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Summary and book reviews of Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
A Maisie Dobbs Mystery
by Jacqueline Winspear
Jun 2004, 360 pages
Aug 2005, 320 pages
1920s & '30s
Maisie is as intelligent and engaging a sleuth as one might desire: the period touches, from clothing to manners, are not only elegantly presented but unostentatious.
Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions lie in the unforgettable agony of The Great War.
Maisie parked outside the main gates leading to a red-brick neo-Georgian mansion that stood majestically in the landscaped grounds beyond an ornate wrought iron gate.
"D'you reckon someone'll come to open the gate?" asked Billy.
"Someone's coming now." Maisie pointed to a young man wearing plus fours, a tweed hacking jacket, woolen shirt and spruce green tie. He hurriedly opened an umbrella as he ran toward the entrance, and nodded to Maisie as he unlatched the gates and opened them. Maisie drove the car forward, stopping alongside the man.
"You must be Miss Dobbs, to see Mr. Waite at three o'clock."
"Yes, that's me."
"And your companion is . . . ?" The man bent forward to look at Billy in the passenger seat.
"My assistant, Mr. William Beale."
Billy was still dabbing his nose with Maisie's handkerchief.
"Right you are, M'um. Park in front of the main door please, and make sure you reverse into place, M'um, with the nose of your ...
It's the late 1920s and Maisie has set herself up as a 'Psychologist and Investigator' (according to her brass nameplate). She's been employed to find the only daughter of a wealthy and self-made businessman, so she sets out to find out as much as she can about the girl, including who her friends are - but the friends are all dead - recently dead, having been poisoned and bayoneted, and at each murder is a small, white feather. Readers familiar with the period may well have figured out much of the case ahead of Maisie but that's not really the point as the journey with Maisie is so enjoyable and absorbing...continued
The eponymous heroine of Winspear's promising debut, Maisie Dobbs, continues to beguile in this chilling, suspenseful sequel set in England a decade after the end of the Great War.
Booklist - GraceAnne DeCandido
Sinking into a novel this good is as satisfying as sinking into a good leather chair we know we are in for the duration, and it feels right.....Maisie, who has gone from being in service to a graduate of Girton at Cambridge, is as intelligent and engaging a sleuth as one might desire the period touches, from clothing to manners, are not only elegantly presented but unostentatious.
BeckyH
A tight plot and likeable characters people this mystery set in post World War I England. Masie is a detective and a psychologist and uses both to solve interesting and informative crimes. This one is no different. Hired to find a runaway daughter,... Read More
Cloggie Downunder
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Birds of a Feather is the second book in the Maisie Dobbs series by British-born American author, Jacqueline Winspear. Now in a new office in Fitzroy Square with Billy Beale as her permanent assistant, Maisie Dobbs is still under the generous ... Read More
I have not quite finished the cd but love it and the reader. There is so much to ponder. I really like the slow paced but intriguing plot. One thing I love about this book is there is no bad language. Often, I have to take books back to the ... Read More
I'm not sure I would enjoy this as much if I were "reading" it rather than listening to it as I am on audio book. It is a British author, which certainly gives it more flavor than the strictly American version I would be giving it in my own reading!... Read More
Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in England. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and while working in business and as a personal/professional coach, embarked upon a life-long dream to be a writer.
All three of her books to date, Maisie Dobbs, Birds of a Feather and Pardonable Lies (to be published in August) are set in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, with the roots of each story tracing back to the 'Great War', 1914-1918.
Winspear's grandfather was severely ...
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The Diary of a Haunting Books In Order
Publication Order of Diary Of A Haunting Books
Diary of a Haunting (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Possession (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Book of Shadows (2017) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Moscow, Idaho, Diary of a Haunting. In an old 18th Century home, the Blanton family moved in a week after New Year. Immediately after the Blantons settle in, Paige has an instinctive evil eerie feeling about the new home. She decides to write her thoughts, her experiences in a journal. Paige records every detail about the new place. She religiously updates the journal with all the spooky things happening in the house as well as her new environment at school. She has met a new friend, Chloe, who isn’t spared either. Chloe features in the diary, Logan too, Paige’s younger brother. During her stay at the weird house, she keeps the journal as up to date as possible. Paige writes about school and her friend Chloe. She talks about her brother Logan and her weird mom. Her creepy mom openly speaks of the divorce with her father and his subsequent new wife aged 22 years. But Paige writes more on the sinister atmosphere of the house, and its many haunts.
Paige also documents about the bizarre data flies and spiders in her Victorian house. These creatures seem odd and nothing like the real animals. The bustling activity in her brother’s room makes her restless, evidently an irritant. Logan has insomnia, which makes him a weirdo too; she notes that in her diary and all the crazy things that he does while in there, in his world. Paige’s life in Idaho combined with her mom and brother wasn’t the place she had hoped to spend her pre-college years. She cannot stand anything in their enormous house, nor the students at the school. Everything seems rancid and distant. It is like waking up from a nightmare, and reliving the dream in the morning! She writes down all the details in her new countryside setting. As time goes by, Paige finds it hard to overlook the unusual things happening around their home.
Sometimes she sees things in multiples, strange writings on the wall, and her brother’s insomnia worsens. He starts walking around the house late into the night. There’s also a mysterious neighbor living downstairs, and he is hiding something, Paige can feel it. Things get scary when she finds out about the evil cult that performed rituals in their house nearly a century ago. The more Paige probes into the history of the house, the more it becomes clearer: The spirits dwelling in the house make their presence known, and they will not leave without a fight. Diary of a Haunting narrates the journal entries and photographs of a teenage girl. The book packs with incredible evil things, weird happenings in a Victorian house in Idaho. As things only get worse, Paige is also entangled in the corrupt mess; she discovers that her mother’s appearance reverses her age. It is now apparent that the huge old house is haunted.
Paige’s mom thinks they have a right to live in the house too. But Paige loathes the place. The worst is yet to come. This book requires reading in full glaring lights, some of the scenes will make you jump in horror.
Possession #2 Diary of a Haunting
Possession features a 15-year-old girl, Laetitia. She is a bubbly girl who likes to wear colored wigs and pretends that she is a famous musician with adoring fans. She dreams of singing to stardom one day because God created her with a unique singing gift. Laetitia dreams of performing live on stage, in front of huge crowds. In the tradition of the movie Stigmata, and perhaps the Exorcist, Possession introduces us to a young girl with a strange untreatable illness. Laetitia sees things, ancient things, odd photos, and images. But these things do not bother her initially. All that she yearns is stardom. Deep inside, she knows that she is special. Laetitia begins to comprehend what is going on in her head; the strange illness has consumed her body. Confined at home due to her illness, she writes down her experiences in a diary. The shivers and strange fevers make her so sick, sometimes spiraling to violent convulsions that leave her weak and worn out.
The mysterious, illness seems to have no cure. Doctors cannot diagnose her symptoms because they have never seen anything like it. Laetitia’s only consolation comes from watching the TV and sometimes when she writes down whatever she can remember. She keenly follows the news on TV, mainly the riots closing in on her neighborhood. But when awful hallucinations take over her mind, she changes into an erratic rupture of torturous convulsions and sharp terrifying screams. It’s too much for her to bear. Why won’t doctors give her medicine to quiet down the voices in her head? Laetitia suspects her illness is inherited. As she documents her feelings and experiences, she discovers there is more to what she is writing. Some of the things are too sinister to write. Did she even write all the horrible accounts? Laetitia suspects that someone has been helping her.
It could be evil combined with Holy Scriptures. The difference between Diary of a Haunting and Possession is that this one inhibits holy traits, it’s more religious than evil, or a combination of both where the good conquers the bad. It starts with minor visions and steadily worsens. The story was fast paced and engaging but very similar to the movie Stigmata.
Book of Shadows #3 Diary of a Haunting
Melanie needs a journal to write down her private thoughts. She is looking for the perfect book, preferably a strapped, secure diary. While shopping for her journal, she finds a smooth leather book embedded with strange golden symbols. On arriving home, Melanie develops strange feelings about her new, perfect diary. The blank pages intimidate her, and it becomes difficult to write down her thoughts. Her friend Lara thinks it is a magical spell book- magical spell book, The Book of Shadows. Too naïve to think about evil stuff, Melanie brushes off Lara’s idea, but Lara’s boyfriend Caleb, together with his friend Lucas, motivate her by asking her to start by writing creative spells inside the book’s alluring blank pages. To their surprise, a new spell appears in a strange handwriting they have never seen before! The teenagers discover that Melanie’s new diary is a magical book. The book of shadows contains hidden spells that work. The teenagers got what they asked for. Trouble. This third book is not as spooky as the first edition but it’s entertaining if you love the suspense in horror movies, this is it.
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House Martin help needed in Scotland
01 May 2015 | No. 2015-21
The House Martin, a bird that nests under the eaves of buildings, has increased in Scotland by a massive 125% since 1995, giving more people in Scotland the chance to observe this delightful summer visitor on their homes.
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The picture in England is very different. Since 1995 England has lost almost a third of its breeding House Martins, and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) wants to find out why they are doing so much better in Scotland. To do this it first needs to know where there are, and are not, House Martins in Scotland, and it is asking people to sign-up to visit a randomly selected 1-km square and check for the presence, or absence of these wonderful birds. Despite the recent increases, House Martins are still scarce in some parts of Scotland.
Ian Woodward, House Martin Survey Organiser at the BTO, said, “Before we begin to understand what is driving the changes in House Martin numbers, we first need to collect more information and produce up-to-date population estimates so that we can monitor future changes. The more squares we can cover in Scotland, the more robust our results will be. We have already had people sign–up for 274 1-km squares but there are still large gaps in our coverage that we would like to fill.”
He added, “All it takes is two short visits during the summer to count any nests found, or to tell the BTO if there were no House Martins. Reporting absence is just as important as counting nests, as it will help us to determine future changes in population and distribution. To take part, or for more information, please visit www.bto.org/house-martins.”
Some of the biggest gaps to fill are on the Isle of Skye and on Harris and Lewis.
House Martins begin to arrive in April and leave for the winter during September to an unknown location in Africa, so, there isn’t much time to determine where all this year’s arrivals end up.
The House Martin Survey - surprisingly little is known about the House Martins despite the fact that they breed alongside us, using our houses on which to build a nest made of hundreds of beakfuls of mud. Critically, it is not known why this species is in rapid decline in the UK. Currently, it is ‘Amber listed’ in the Birds of Conservation Concern listings, compiled by the UK’s leading conservation agencies.
Why survey House Martins now? – there is a real need to discover more about House Martins to help identify why they are declining and provide scientific evidence to inform policy decisions that could reverse the declines. The House Martin survey over the next two years will collect more information on population size, breeding ecology and habitat preferences, so scientists at the BTO can begin to tackle some key questions about this eagerly awaited summer visitor.
The BTO is the UK's leading bird research charity. A growing membership and up to 60,000 volunteer birdwatchers contribute to the BTO's surveys, collecting information that underpins conservation action in the UK. The BTO maintains a staff of 100 at its offices in Thetford, Stirling, Bangor (Wales) and Bangor (Northern Ireland), who analyse and publicise the results of surveys and projects. The BTO's work is funded by BTO supporters, government, trusts, industry and conservation organisations.www.bto.org
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Pinterest is now valued at $12 billion after raising another $150 million in funding
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Pinterest has raised $150 million in funding from existing investors at a $12.3 billion valuation, the company said on Tuesday.
The round was based on Pinterest's share price from two years ago, according to Bloomberg. It brings the app maker's valuation up slightly from $11 billion in April 2015.
Choosing to raise more money now could delay Pinterest's eventual initial public offering. The private company had previously raised about $1.3 billion in funding to date.
A Pinterest spokesperson said the company plans to use this latest round to invest in its visual search technology and user growth. Its recently-announced "Lens" feature can recognize objects like a pair of sneakers through a phone's camera and show related photos.
Pinterest reportedly expects to make $500 million in ad revenue this year, up 67% from $300 million in 2016. The company recently started rolling out its first major ad campaign in the US to educate people on how to use its service.
The Pinterest app has 175 million users, the majority of which are women and outside of the US.
"One goal is to make the product experience great outside of the US, and the second is to continue building a sustainable revenue model that will let the company keep investing and building out a catalog of ideas," CEO Ben Silbermann told Business Insider last year.
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Danske executive bonuses at stake as bank explores all options
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Danske Bank A/S says it's exploring all avenues with a view to clawing back bonuses after the lender was embroiled in one of Europe's biggest money laundering scandals.
[COPENHAGEN] Danske Bank A/S says it's exploring all avenues with a view to clawing back bonuses after the lender was embroiled in one of Europe's biggest money laundering scandals.
The warning comes as indignation is mounting over a decision to let Chief Executive Officer Thomas Borgen leave Denmark's biggest bank with 12 months' pay after the 54-year-old failed to respond appropriately to a number of signs that dirty money was flowing through his bank.
Henriette Fenger Ellekrog, Danske's head of human resources, says the bank is "looking into claw-back possibilities." Mr Borgen's total pay in 2017 was 15.4 million, or $2.4 million, including variable cash and share-based payments of 3.7 million kroner.
"We cannot comment on expected amount, numbers or individuals, but claw back will be investigated for all relevant employees in relevant markets and in all levels of the organization," she said.
Danske has admitted that about US$234 billion flowed through a tiny unit in Estonia between 2007 and 2015, and is treating a "large" share of that amount as "suspicious" transactions. Aside from Mr Borgen's resignation, the bank says that several employees have been reported to the police. Criminal investigations are ongoing and the government says Danske may face a US$630 million fine.
Danske, which published an internal probe into the laundering scandal last week, says it is continuing to investigate the matter after many questions were left unanswered. The scandal has unnerved investors and Danske has lost about a third of its market value this year.
Ms Ellekrog said the bank's own remuneration policy doesn't restrict its options with regard to how much can be clawed back, but pointed out that the bank needs to comply with national legislation.
"All possibilities will be investigated and where deemed relevant, we will take proper action following these investigations," ms Ellekrog said.
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Malta edges Hong Kong for world's top home-price gains
Prices in the June quarter increase 17%, generated by a dearth of supply and a robust economy
Sat, Sep 15, 2018 - 5:50 AM
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MALTA has edged out Hong Kong to take the prize for territory or country with the highest residential price gains in the June quarter, according to a Knight Frank Global House Price Index published on Friday.
Home prices in the tiny Mediterranean island rose 17 per cent in the three months to June from a year earlier, Knight Frank said, citing data from the nation's central bank. A dearth of supply combined with a robust economy that grew 6.6 per cent last year and a buoyant tech industry is pushing up demand.
Hong Kong, the world's least-affordable housing market, came in second, with price increases of 16 per cent.
It's led the index's rankings on 10 occasions since 2009 but is expected to cool in coming months as a result of rising interest rates, Knight Frank said. Along with Singapore and New Zealand, the former British colony has seen fresh property market cooling measures introduced over the past three months.
"Uncertainties resulting from the trade war and potential mortgage-rate hikes are adding downward pressure on prices" in Hong Kong, Alva To, vice president for greater China at Cushman & Wakefield, said at a media briefing on Thursday. Cushman & Wakefield expects a correction in Hong Kong's property market in 2019, adding to comments from private-equity firm Gaw Capital Partners to CLSA that prices may drop as much as 15 per cent.
Rounding out the top five spots are Latvia, Slovenia and Hungary, which all registered double-digit price growth.
At the other end of the spectrum are Ukraine, Peru and Saudi Arabia, where residential prices in the June quarter dropped 4.5 per cent, 1.6 per cent and 1.3 per cent respectively.
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She can’t hear you, she’s checking her screen
By Richard Bracewell on 25 March 2017
Don’t play on the railway line! Don’t run in the corridor! Don’t swim in the quarry! Children of the 1970s knew exactly where they stood when it came to risk. Danger lay in action. Act unwisely and bad things will follow.
What to expect from a modern take on risk? More warnings about the dire consequences of foolish behaviour?
The exact opposite, in fact. The world is clearly a safer place, 40 years on from the humble safety film. For the young filmmakers entering this competition risk is something that lies not in action, but inaction.
Several themes emerged: climate change, street crime, the effects of social media on young people. The dangers are insidious but the message was clear: do nothing at your peril.
Many of the films confused risk with drama. Full marks for the drama, but it’s stretching the definition of risk if we’re to be worried about a character missing an appointment.
The winning entry explored nothing less than a risk to humanity – big themes delicately handled in Me Miphone & I by Juan Cruz-Hernández. If the series Black Mirror is a sprawling Hogarth, this was an intricate miniature, a pen portrait of an individual hurtling towards oblivion without leaving her mark on the world. You wondered for a moment where the risk lay – our character crosses the road without looking and doesn’t thank the waiter who brings her coffee – but the filmmaker has bigger fish to fry.
A familiar pattern emerges of a young person imprisoned behind glass walls. By the end of three minutes you’re screaming at her to break out. She can’t hear you – she’s checking her screen. The filmmaking was aided by a terrific central performance, a convincing portrayal of a young person sleepwalking through life. Me Miphone & I is warm, seductive, and therein lies the risk – and the film’s power.
Flight Risk was a subtle and engrossing piece of filmmaking which explored multiple themes of risk. Making the most of a small budget, the filmmaker put his faith in the actors, exploring ideas of trust and betrayal between three members of the same family – two sisters and an off-screen mother. The dialogue was believable and the metaphor of glasses quietly effective. If there was any criticism, the narrative meandered in the final third – the older sister needed time to reflect but the audience did not, so effectively the dilemma had already been established.
If the prize had been for pure filmmaking, Inertia was a runaway winner. A sumptuous portrait of a street vendor in an unnamed Indian market, the film – like many of the entries – was a warning about the risks of doing nothing. A stallholder experiences a fleeting moment of existential angst as the blade of a knife hovers over a helpless chicken and a passing boy drinks it all in with something approaching fascination and terror. We’re frustrated that he fails to act on his revelation, but would any of us?
Let’s Plan a Holiday was a Ronseal movie, which did exactly what it said on the tin. An engaging three-hander about flatmates faced with a big decision: save the world or go to the pub. The relationship between the characters was authentic and convincing. A neat premise efficiently delivered, with more than a spoonful of humour to make the medicine go down.
Risk was a refreshing mix of poetry and prose, told partly to-camera and partly through snapshots of life in the city. A number of competition entries explored everyday social and workplace dangers faced by women, but this edgy film stood out for its autobiographical daring and first-person evocation of risk. If there’s any criticism – and this applies to many of the submitted entries – it was in the choice of music, which seemed oddly impersonal and worked against the feeling of dislocation.
An honourable mention to Days Passed. Despite rough-and-ready production values, this was a film bursting with things to say. Too often the competition entries used up valuable seconds on credits and titles. Here the drama was established immediately: a schoolboy is invisible to his friends, but why? What happened to him? Can his friends not see him, or are they just ignoring him?
The story was unresolved – we never find out what leads the central character to kill himself – but the work avoided movie clichés and second-hand dialogue. The images captured a kind of loneliness even in familiar urban settings, and the shooting – including, literally, a shooting – was sensitively handled.
If a young person can put themselves in danger simply by leaving the house, we can’t ask them not to leave the house. The change must come from us, not them. The risks lie in doing nothing.
Existential risk, then, rather than overhead power lines or murky quarry pools. At least you knew where you stood with the latter. Full marks to the young filmmakers in this competition for alerting us to the dangers of simply staying alive.
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With 12,000 people thought to be dying from occupational lung disease every year in Britain, the British Occupational Hygiene Society is urging employers to adopt good exposure controls to protect workers from harmful airborne substances.
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The huge growth in lone and home working driven by the pandemic means greater numbers of staff could be facing a higher risk of aggression from the public and work-related stress due to isolation from colleagues.
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HSE's chief executive Sarah Albon speaks to Safety Management about helping the country get through Covid, and other challenges.
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Redshift Impressions
By nerv,
February 22, 2017 in Work in Progress
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More in my series of Renderer R&D (more like ADD ). This time, with the Redshift alpha.
I have to say, so far this is my favorite third-party renderer (with Cycles4D a very close second). It still has a few things that are missing, but again, it is in alpha and the Redshift team seems very responsive to issues and requests (as long as they're reasonable). It is mind-blowingly fast, and the automatic out-of-core switch (i.e., starts using computer RAM once VRAM is exhausted) is absolutely brilliant.
Really, really excited to continue experimenting with it, but I feel like between this and Cycles4D, my rendering toolkit might be complete.
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Great looking renders, thanks for sharing. How complicated are those materials to make?
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19 minutes ago, SIgor said:
It's no more complicated than with any other node-based systems. Each system has its own quirks in workflow but for the most part, it's all pretty much similar across the board. If I were to compare it to another renderer, I'd say Arnold is the closest match. They both use Xpresso as their shader node environment, which can be a plus (or a minus, depending on how you feel about Xpresso).
There are a few weird things, especially related to scaling (for example, some of the shaders and light scales sometimes require you work in the .0001 or 1000 ranges), so once they take care of that, I think it'll make things a lot easier.
I dont know why, but I dont like node based stuff. I dont enjoy it at all. But who knows, maybe RS changes my mind once is out and ready to be tested. :)
I'm using redshift on a job for the first time and I love it. I've got cycles as well, and I usually use Octane. For anything glassy / specular / refractive then redshift wins in a huge way, it's just so fast. Cycles is the winner for anything xparticles related (and the volume shading is awesome) but it's a bit slow I find. Octane is my preference purely for the look, I think it makes the nicest pics straight out of the renderer. A simple light and a white material and octane makes you look like a genius. However as soon as you've got specular materials, anything with hotspots.. octane takes ages to render.
Sigor - I know what you mean about nodal materials, or workflow in general. I could never get that comfortable using Nuke as a compositor for example, I much preferred AE and layers. Redshift has a nodal interface that looks like Xpresso (if that appeals to you), cycles and Octane have their own versions. Cycles (to me) is the most complicated but also possibly the deepest.
Redshift offers a lot of control over optimisation, and it's a bit like Vray in that if you know what number to make 0.5 instead of 2 suddenly your render will be way quicker.. Personally I hate having to swim through heaps of settings to make a render work. I love octane because it's super simple - but that can work to it's detriment as well when you want to speed things up.
Anyway, nice work on these tests Nerv! Keep em up..
Thanks @grain!
@SIgor I totally get it. For the longest time, I hated nodal workflows. And I still do in certain respects (I'm TERRIFIED of Houdini for example). But for materials it's started to make sense. I think there's something very powerful in being able to send a single pattern, texture, color, effect, etc. to multiple nodes, and have them all update procedurally at the same time, as opposed to having to update each channel separately each time you want to make a change. It does shave off a lot of time when doing look dev. Plus it allows for special tricks.
Yes, there's a learning curve at first, but once you get past the initial transitional pains, I think the payoff is great.
For what it's worth, at least Redshift gives you a handful of "ubershader"-like materials to start with. So if you just want to use a standard material, or a car paint material, or skin material, or hair material, etc. - each with their respective parameters - and you don't have any intent to add any special patterns, noises, effects, etc. you may never even have to dive into nodes. That's a big plus.
Cycles4D requires more work. You really have to build your materials from the ground up. But it does allow for much deeper interaction between parameters. For example, the way you can just play with volumes like with any other shader is absolutely brilliant. No other renderer (in my experience) does that. And, of course, the integration with X-particles is unbeatable (helps that both are made by the same people). These two facts make it worth the (very low) price tag.
I do have a special place in my heart for C4D's native channel flow, which is why I was excited about Corona. I think they're just missing the mark by ignoring things such as point / particle rendering, and HAIR! What kind of arch-vis-oriented renderer doesn't do hair (i.e. grass)?
That said, the prospect of them getting it together and providing a fully-featured renderer is exciting. It also makes me excited about what Maxon might be able to do with ProRender.
At this point, though, it might be too late. I feel like I'm in too deep now with nodal flows, so going back to channels may eventually feel like a downgrade. We'll see.
Maybe now it's also time for me to give Houdini another shot. :shudder:
A little off-brand for me, but I was somewhat inspired by the Realistic Rendering webinar thread and decided to take a stab at a car render in Redshift. Decided to go a little old school and use a model of my favorite childhood car: the Lamborghini Countach. I think it offers a good combination of curves and angular edges for specular and shadow work.
The car model is from CGTrader. Materials were made from scratch in C4D + Redshift.
It's missing a few things, like logos on the car and on the tire sidewalls, but I think the point comes across. I could have also "grunged" the car up a little bit, but decided to go for new and squeaky-clean instead.
Took about 20 minutes to render on a single GTX 1070.
First image is straight from the Picture Viewer. No post.
Second one is with some light post work in Photoshop.
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On 2/22/2017 at 4:10 PM, SIgor said:
Well, it's like using for the first time a pen with a tablet instead of a mouse. Hard for a couple of hours, but when you get to use it, you don't want to go back.
A little "Furiouser and Furiouser" re-edit.
13 hours ago, virtualzapp said:
Maybe I will give it a try once RS is out! :)
It's not without its quirks. Like, for example mapping certain procedural noise patterns has been sort of a nightmarish experience. Sometimes it'll work perfectly in tune with texture tags. Other times the texture tags seem to have no effect (especially when trying to change projection types). Makes mapping bump and displacement a guessing game.
Here's one from tonight. Far from what I originally intended, but following a long exercise in frustration as outlined above, I decided to just get rid of everything and strip it down to the bare essentials.
Le sigh... I need to go to bed now.
It did render out in like a blink of an eye, though.
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I'm a little confused. There's a Redshift version for C4D? I don't see it on their website.
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Guru Angad was the second Sikh Guru, leading the Sikh teachings after the death of Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru, in 1539. He was born in 1504 to a Hindu family, and was given the name Bhai Lenha. Prior to embracing the teachings of Sikhism, he worked as a religious teacher; promoting the preachment of goddess Durga, until he met the first guru and became a Sikh. Bhai Lenha was given the name Angad by Guru Nanak after many years of being his acolyte. Shortly after, Guru Nanak announced Guru Angad as his successor in delivering the messages of Sikhism, favoring him over his own sons.
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Ad blocking a concern ahead of Christmas, says M&S marketing chief
by Shona Ghosh November 09, 2015
M&S: retailer's Christmas campaign is made up of digital-friendly 'moments'
Marks and Spencer has upped its digital spend in the run-up to Christmas but the retailer will be keeping a close eye on pesky ad blockers.
During the unveiling of M&S' two, shorter Christmas ads for 2015, Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne, the executive director of marketing and international, warned that all marketers should be worried by ad blocking.
He told Marketing: "It is a concern, I do not think there is any marketeer that would not be concerned by it."
Bousquet-Chavanne pointed to earlier technologies that allowed consumers to skip TV ads en masse.
He said: "We were also all concerned when video-on-demand came out. Those are the transformations of the ways consumers are viewing and consuming media right now, and we have to watch it very closely to make sure marketing spend remains very efficient."
But, he added, M&S's use of analytics gave him confidence that the retailer wouldn't waste money targeting consumers who aren't interested in its ads.
The retailer has put a quarter of its - undisclosed - Christmas campaign spend into digital, and will be chopping the two ads into a series of shorter, attention-grabbing spots intended to work well on mobile.
It has described its Christmas campaigns as one made up of a series of "moments" that mark the run-up to Christmas, with one ad showing preparation like getting ready for the party season, wrapping presents on Christmas Eve and the feast itself.
The concept of "moments" is increasingly common in mobile marketing language, playing to the idea that consumers are constantly scrolling through their social feeds. This gives marketers a finite amount of time to capture their attention, resulting in shorter, highly focused creative.
But as marketers finally get to grips with strong mobile creative, consumers are finding ways to circumvent advertising.
Ad blocking has, up until now, largely been confined to the desktop.
According to an annual report from PageFair and Adobe, use of ad blockers in the UK rose 82% in the last year, with 12 million monthly users on average. That's mostly on desktop, with mobile still negligible.
But moves by Apple to enable the technology on iPhones for the first time mean the trend could go mainstream on mobile.
Still, M&S boasts impressive numbers on its owned media properties, suggesting its campaign will have strong reach regardless of ad blockers.
Bousquet-Chavanne said M&S has seen a considerable increase in sign-ups to its social channels, boasting 4.5 million fans across its accounts, though some of these are likely to be replicated.
It also has two million customers signed up to Sparks, its loyalty programme, who will be drip-fed the campaign first.
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Alex Polizzi – fixing ailing family businesses
The media often think family-run companies are boring, Rich Products president, Bob Rich, recently told CampdenFB. After all they’ve got a long-term outlook, which means they don’t go in for the story-making wheeling and dealing that is often seen in banks and listed businesses. But for once, the mainstream media are paying family businesses some attention.
Article | 29 January, 2012 10:00 AM | By Attracta Mooney
The media often think family-run companies are boring, Rich Products president, Bob Rich, recently told CampdenFB. After all they’ve got a long-term outlook, which means they don’t go in for the story-making wheeling and dealing that is often seen in banks and listed businesses.
But for once, the mainstream media are paying family businesses some attention. On 31 January, the BBC will air the first episode of Alex Polizzi – The Fixer. The series sees Polizzi, the granddaughter of hotelier Lord Forte, who founded the Forte Group, “set out to wage a one-woman campaign to save Britain's family businesses”.
In the first episode, she goes about helping a failing family bridalwear business, where profits are falling and the next-gens are fighting. Sounds like she’s got her work cut out for her from the get-go.
Polizzi, who also starred in The Hotel Inspector, knows exactly what trails and tribulations family businesses can face – her grandfather’s hotel chain was the subject of a hostile takeover bid by Granada. Her uncle later established the Rocco Forte Hotels and her mother works as a hotelier too.
“Polizzi cut her teeth in the Forte family business, which grew to become an empire valued at three billion pounds. She works in businesses today with her mother and her husband,” the BBC said.
The question is, can she prove that her forte is fixing ailing family businesses?
Related terms: Alex Polizzi, Alex Polizzi – The Fixer, Diary, Family Business
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Why These 3 Kings Point Us to the Most Vital Christmas Truth of All
2:00PM EST 12/23/2019 Kathleen Cooke
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Most people know the three kings in the Bible's New Testament Christmas story who brought Jesus gifts at His birth. But there were three Old Testament kings who bring us a gift that reveals to us the truth. These three kings' lives point us to why it was imperative for God to send His Son Jesus to earth. Jesus even tells us in John 8:32 that if we will follow His Word, we will know the truth, and the truth will set us free. In today's culture of "my truth is mine, and your truth is yours," these three kings bring us remarkable clarity.
The First King Was Significant Because He Was Israel's First King
His name was Saul. He was a strong, successful warrior king, defeating Jewish enemies but failing at recognizing that it was God who gave him success. Saul's pride in human strength went to his head, and he became an arrogant, insecure bully. When things went bad, it was never his fault. In the end, not honoring God cost him his throne and, more tragically, his family's eternal legacy.
The Second King Grew Up Watching Saul's 'All About Me' Rule
After discarding Saul's heavy armor, he killed a giant with just three stones, proving that it is God who defeats our foes, not we. His name was David. He fought and won bigger battles than Saul and, more importantly, won the hearts of the Jewish people. King David honored and served God passionately, and in doing so, won the heart of God, so God brought him wealth, honor and influence. Besides being a brilliant leader, David built cities and wrote songs and poetry that still exist today. But as he aged, he followed his heart more often than his head. He allowed selfish desires to overcome wisdom, which caused him to have an adulterous relationship that led to murder. However, David never lost sight that God was forgiving. God's great mercy and grace turned David's failure and sin into a gift that gave the world the next king—his son, Solomon.
King Solomon, the Third King, Became the Most Successful of All
Solomon learned from Saul's rule that physical strength would fail, and he learned from his father, David, that having a good heart wouldn't be enough either. So he began his reign first seeking God's direction, and God gave Solomon the greatest gift of all: wisdom. However, at the end of his life, Solomon's realized that even wisdom couldn't bring eternal life. He ended up calling life meaningless and stated in Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NIV), "For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief." Solomon had wisdom; a heart for his people; and was a physically strong, handsome man, but unable to attain eternal life. So, what do these three kings teach us in the end?
The Great Gift of These Three Kings
Their lives clarify for us that strength, heart and wisdom can't bring eternal contentment and forever life. Our sinful nature derails us every time. We will never be able to escape this messed-up, broken world without the gift of the one perfect King who leads us to the truth. Without God's redemptive gift—Jesus—we will always fail.
God's extravagant love prevailed at Christmas, giving us the greatest gift of all.
In fact, in John 18:37 (MEV), when Pilate asks Jesus at his trial if He is indeed a King, Jesus answers with, "You say correctly that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth." His life, mission and gift to the world were for us to know the truth. It was more important than any earthly power, fame or fortune that one could ever attain. It is this truth, this gift, that the three Old Testament kings bring us if we are paying attention. Only the truth will ever bring us ultimate eternal joy and peace.
Jesus laid down His Kingly crown to come to earth and become a man because bodily strength, having a passionate heart or all the wisdom in the world will never be enough. In today's never-enough culture, Jesus was, is and will be forever enough.
This Christmas, tell the story of the three kings of the Old Testament and bring others the greatest gift of all. Bring them the gift of the truth.
Kathleen Cooke is a media executive, Hollywood Screen Actors Guild actor, speaker, writer and a founding partner and vice president of Cooke Media Group, a media production and consulting company based in Burbank, California. She co-founded the nonprofit organization The Influence Lab, where she leads and mentors Christian professionals in the media industry. She writes a weekly blog, edits the bi-monthly Influence Women's Journal and has authored the devotional, Hope 4 Today: Stay Connected to God in a Distracted Culture. Follow Kathleen on Twitter: @KathleenCookeLA, Instagram: @KathleenCookeOfficial and Facebook: @Kathleen Cooke Official. Her website/blog is kathleencooke.com. Sign up for her monthly Influence Women's Journal at: Influencelab.com/women.
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Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Sent back to secondary site
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Reid-Foley was optioned by the Blue Jays on Friday.
Reid-Foley has been bouncing on and off the fringe of the Blue Jays' roster since late August. He's thrown 6.2 innings of relief, allowing just one run on three hits, but he's also walked six batters. Jacob Waguespack was recalled in a corresponding move.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Recalled by Blue Jays
Reid-Foley was recalled by the Blue Jays on Monday.
Reid-Foley was optioned to the Blue Jays' alternate training site Saturday after serving as the 29th man in Friday's doubleheader. However, he'll return to the major-league bullpen after Wilmer Font (lower leg) was placed on the 10-day injured list. Reid-Foley should pitch mainly in low-leverage situations.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Returned to alternate site
The Blue Jays optioned Reid-Foley to their alternate training site Saturday.
Reid-Foley's latest stay with Toronto lasted all of one day, with the right-hander joining the big club ahead of Friday's doubleheader with the Red Sox. He worked behind starter Ross Stripling in the second game of the twin bill, striking out four and working around two walks over 1.2 scoreless frames in relief.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Returns for doubleheader
Reid-Foley was recalled as the 29th man for Friday's doubleheader against the Red Sox, Scott Mitchell of TSN.ca reports.
Reid-Foley made a pair of relief appearances for the Blue Jays in late August, striking out a pair of batters over three scoreless innings. He'll likely fill a lower-leverage role during his time with the team.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Sent down to satellite camp
Reid-Foley was optioned to the Blue Jays' alternate training site Wednesday.
Reid-Foley was called up by the Blue Jays on Saturday, but he'll his time on the active roster was short-lived since the team acquired Ross Stripling via trade. The right-hander made two relief appearances during his time in the majors as he tossed three scoreless innings, allowing one hit and no walks while striking out two over three innings.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Recalled Saturday
Reid-Foley was called up to the Blue Jays when Jordan Romano (finger) was placed on the 10-day injured list, Mike Wilner of Sportsnet 590 The Fan reports.
Reid-Foley was optioned to the team's alternate training site Friday morning to make room for Daniel Vogelbach on the active roster but will make a quick turnaround back to the big-league club. He threw a scoreless inning Wednesday and should slot in as a middle reliever.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Returns to alternate site
Reid-Foley was optioned to the alternate training site Friday, Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet.ca reports.
Reid-Foley was promoted to the active roster earlier in the week and delivered a scoreless inning Wednesday against the Red Sox, but he's headed back to the alternate site. Recent acquisition Daniel Vogelbach was added to the big-league roster in a corresponding move.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Joins active roster
Reid-Foley was recalled from the Blue Jays' alternate training site Wednesday.
Reid-Foley will join the Blue Jays' active roster for the first time in 2020. He made nine appearances (six starts) for the Blue Jays last season, posting a 4.26 ERA and 28:21 K:BB over 31.2 innings. It's unclear whether he'll pitch out of the rotation or the bullpen this year, although the Blue Jays have several injuries in their rotation that could allow him to make some starts.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Added to 60-man pool
The Blue Jays included Reid-Foley as part of their 60-man roster pool that was announced Sunday, Keegan Matheson of MLB.com reports.
Due to the compressed 2020 schedule, the Blue Jays could opt for a six-man rotation, but Reid-Foley would probably need at last a couple injuries to crack the starting ranks. The right-hander hasn't been particularly effective in his 16 outings (13 starts) at the big-league level the past two seasons, posting a 4.71 ERA, 1.52 HR/9 and 9.3 K-BB% over 65 innings.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Heading to minors
Reid-Foley was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo on Friday, Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet.ca reports.
Reid-Foley split 2019 between Triple-A and the majors working as both a reliever and starter, but he had inconsistent big-league results with a 4.26 ERA and 1.71 WHIP. The 24-year-old was working as a starter prior to the suspension of spring training and didn't allow a run over six Grapefruit League innings.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: To work as starter
Reid-Foley will be stretched out as a starter in camp, Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet.ca reports.
Reid-Foley spent time in both the rotation and the bullpen last season, but he didn't fare too well in either role. His 4.26 ERA in 31.2 innings looks decent, but it came with a 5.68 FIP and a 28:21 K:BB. He doesn't appear to be a favorite to win a rotation spot this spring.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Sent to Triple-A
Reid-Foley was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo on Wednesday, Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca reports.
This move comes after Reid-Foley was roughed up as the primary pitcher in Tuesday's 16-3 loss to the Dodgers, allowing five runs on five hits and two walks while striking out two across 1.2 innings. The soon-to-be 24-year-old now owns a 4.26 ERA, 1.71 WHIP and 28:21 K:BB across 31.2 big-league innings this season. Look for Reid-Foley to return when rosters expand in September. Jason Adam was recalled from Buffalo in a corresponding move.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Roughed up as primary pitcher
Reid-Foley (2-4) was charged with five runs on five hits and two walks over 1.2 innings while striking out two in Tuesday's 16-3 loss to the Dodgers.
Reid-Foley's last four outings had come as a traditional starter, but manager Charlie Montoyo decided shortly before the contest that he would deploy the righty behind opener Buddy Boshers. Though he entered the game staked to a 1-0 lead, Reid-Foley unraveled in the third inning, ceding three extra-base hits in the frame as the Dodgers turned the game into a runaway. It's unclear if Montoyo will stick with the opener/primary pitcher arrangement when Reid-Foley's next turn in the rotation comes up Sunday in Seattle.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Allows three runs in 3.1 innings
Reid-Foley (2-3) allowed three runs on four hits and a hit batsman while also issuing three walks and recording three strikeouts across 3.1 innings while taking a loss against the Rangers on Wednesday.
The Rangers had baserunners in all four innings against Reid-Foley. During his last two frames, Reid-Foley hit a batter and walked two hitters, with the pair of free passes eventually resulting in runs. Reid-Foley has alternated wins and losses in his last four outings, but his ERA rose more than half a run as a result of Wednesday's start. He owns a 3.00 ERA, 1.57 WHIP and 26 strikeouts in 30 innings across eight appearances this season. Reid-Foley will make his next start Tuesday at the Dodgers.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Yields one run in win
Reid-Foley allowed one run on five hits with two walks and five strikeouts across five innings while earning a victory against the Yankees on Friday.
The 23-year-old gave up just one solo home run on his way to victory. He's only 2-2, but Reid-Foley has settled into the MLB and has allowed just two earned runs in his last 17 innings. While his 1.50 WHIP isn't great, Reid-Foley has shown some real progress lately. He owns a 2.36 ERA, .233 batting average against and 23 strikeouts in 26.2 innings. Reid-Foley will start next at home against the Rangers.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Hit with second loss
Reid-Foley (1-2) took the loss after allowing four runs (one earned) on four hits and four walks while striking out two over four innings Sunday against the Orioles.
Reid-Foley surrendered one run in the first inning, followed by three unearned runs in the second. Prior to Sunday's outing, he'd tossed 8.1 scoreless innings over his last two appearances, and although he was hit with the loss in the series finale, his ERA sits a 2.49 with 18 strikeouts across 21.2 frames this season.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Shuts down Royals
Reid-Foley (1-1) got the win against the Royals on Tuesday, giving up no runs on four hits over five innings, striking out four and walking four as the Blue Jays won 9-2.
With Marcus Stroman's trade to the Mets, Reid-Foley was given the first crack at taking the rotation spot, and he responded to the opportunity in blanking the Royals over his five frames despite issuing four free passes. He has a solid 2.55 ERA over his 17.2 big-league innings this season, and if he can continue to pitch well he should maintain his grasp on Stroman's old spot.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Called up to start Tuesday
Reid-Foley was recalled to start Tuesday against the Royals.
Reid-Foley could be pitching for a permanent spot in the Blue Jays' rotation with Marcus Stroman now a Met. He owns an unimpressive 4.70 ERA in 46 career innings, with his 13.1 percent walk rate generally overshadowing his 26.2 percent strikeout rate.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Likely replacement for Stroman
Reid-Foley is expected to be called up from Triple-A Buffalo to start Tuesday's game against the Royals, Rosie DiManno of the Toronto Star reports.
Reid-Foley started Sunday in Buffalo's 4-0 win over Durham, but covered only one inning before exiting the contest after word surfaced that the Blue Jays had dealt staff ace Marcus Stroman to the Mets. Since Stroman had been in line to start Tuesday in Kansas City, Reid-Foley makes for the most logical option to fill the opening in the big-league rotation. Reid-Foley's 19-pitch appearance Sunday was essentially equivalent to a between-starts bullpen session, which should allow him to handle a normal workload Tuesday if he is in fact summoned to the big club.
Blue Jays' Sean Reid-Foley: Could replace Richard in rotation
Manager Charlie Montoyo hinted Sunday that Reid-Foley could be a replacement in the Toronto rotation for the injured Clayton Richard (lat), Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca reports.
Richard was diagnosed with a left lat strain after exiting Saturday's win over the Yankees and is set to miss at least one turn through the rotation following his placement on the 10-day injured list. A replacement will first be needed Thursday in Boston, with Reid-Foley likely at the top of the list to enter the rotation since he and Richard were on the same pitching schedule. Though Reid-Foley acquitted himself decently enough in his first four outings (two starts) with Toronto this season (3.55 ERA, 1.34 WHIP in 12.2 innings), he's struggled to find the strike zone consistently at Buffalo. Over 76 innings with the Triple-A affiliate, Reid-Foley has issued a whopping 60 walks.
Last 7 Games
09/09 vs NYY L 2-7 1.0 1 0 1 0
09/07 vs NYY W 12-7 1 1.0 1 1 3 0
09/04 vs BOS L 2-3 1.2 0 0 2 4
08/30 vs BAL W 6-5 2.0 1 0 0 2
08/26 vs BOS W 9-1 1.0 0 0 0 0
Fantasy Points By Week
2020 TOR 1 0 1.35 5 0 0 0 0 0 6.7 3 3 1 0 0 6 6
2019 TOR 2 4 4.26 9 6 0 0 0 0 31.7 33 20 15 5 2 21 28
Total 5 8 4.42 0 13 0 0 0 0 71.3 67 46 35 11 3 48 76
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GO/AO
2020 TOR 1 9 6 1.50 0 0 0 0 0 .125 1.350 30 12.15
2019 TOR 0 30 36 0.80 0 0 0 0 3 .262 1.705 150 15.92
Total 1 59 77 0.80 7 0 0 0 6 .242 1.612 330 14.89
Minor League Pitching Stats
2014 R-Gcl Blue Jays 22.2 9 6 0 1 2 0 25 10 21 4.87 1.396
2015 AFX-Lansing Lugnuts 63.1 17 17 0 3 5 0 90 43 57 3.71 1.585
2015 AFA-Dunedin Blue Jays 32.2 8 8 0 1 5 0 35 24 25 5.31 1.522
2016 AFA-Dunedin Blue Jays 57.1 10 10 0 6 2 0 71 16 35 2.68 0.893
2017 AA-New Hampshire Fisher 132.2 27 27 0 10 11 0 122 53 145 5.11 1.498
2018 AAX-New Hampshire Fisher 44.1 8 8 0 5 0 0 52 20 27 2.04 1.066
2018 AAA-Buffalo Bisons 85.1 16 16 1 7 5 0 98 30 76 3.91 1.246
2019 AAA-Buffalo Bisons 89.0 20 19 0 3 5 0 105 65 78 6.47 1.607
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Three Trades to Keep Giannis Antetokounmpo in Milwaukee
September 23, 2020 UTC: 2:29 PM. September 9, 2020 UTC: 8:40 PM. by Aaron Weaver
The Milwaukee Bucks, and their two-time MVP, have been eliminated from the playoffs.
Giannis Antetokounmpo doubled-down on his commitment to Milwaukee after their latest loss.
Milwaukee can’t just ‘run it back’ again if they hope to keep their superstar.
Rumors have been swirling about the imminent departure of Giannis Antetokounmpo from Milwaukee.
And for good reason.
Milwaukee has disappointed us for the second year in a row. And this time, it was especially brutal after they nearly got swept by the Miami Heat in the second round.
And yet, Giannis Antetokounmpo is giving every indication that he wants to stick with his team.
Hopefully, we can build a culture in Milwaukee for many years that we can come out here and compete every single year for a championship.
Check out his full postgame press conference here:
Three Trades Milwaukee Could Make Save the Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo
The trade-mill is already winding up because it’s clear Milwaukee needs some changes. As good as Giannis is, teams have figured out how to stop him, for now.
Milwaukee’s biggest need became obvious throughout this Heat series. They need a pick-and-roll player who can create on offense. They need a dynamic player who can penetrate the defense.
The biggest and most common name out there right now is Oklahoma City’s Chris Paul. While he would help Milwaukee immediately, his contract is massive and age has to catch up with him soon. It is a viable trade, but let’s look at other options besides this common scenario.
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Trade One: Milwaukee Finds It’s Closer
Portland Receives: Eric Bledsoe, Brook Lopez, 2020 first-round pick
Milwaukee Recieves: CJ McCollum
Both of these teams need to shake things up. Damian Lillard desperately needs more defense around him and Milwaukee would be sending over two all-NBA defenders.
Milwaukee, meanwhile, would get a shot-maker extraordinaire in CJ McCollum, who’s also on a better contract and timeline than Chris Paul. The Bucks can afford to lose Brook Lopez, who looked rather impotent in the Heat series, when they have a rim protector like Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Trade Two: Giannis Gets a Savvy Veteran
Detroit Receives: Robin Lopez, Donte DiVincenzo, 2020 first-round pick
Milwaukee Receives: Derrick Rose
Derrick Rose is no longer a franchise savior, but as you can see in the video below, he’s still got ‘it.’ In this scenario, Milwaukee could keep their roster mostly intact, or use Bledsoe and/or Lopez to make other trades.
But Rose would give the Bucks an aggressive guard who can penetrate off the dribble, which is what they so clearly lacked in this year’s playoffs. Detroit would get a nice young prospect in DiVincenzo, and possibly a first-round pick.
Trade Three: Chris Paul on a Budget
Oklahoma Receives: Robin Lopez, George Hill, 2020 first-round pick
Milwaukee Receives: Dennis Schroder
Here’s another, smaller trade that Milwaukee could make in tandem with other moves. Dennis Schroder is not Chris Paul, but he is a certified ‘bucket-getter.’ He can take defenders off the dribble and he’s not afraid of the moment.
He’s not a big name prize, but Chris Paul has repeatedly gushed about the point guard.
The truth is that Milwaukee doesn’t have a ton of trade assets. But with several smaller moves for people like Rose or Schroder, they could surround Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton with players who can create; as opposed to players like Eric Bledsoe or Brook Lopez who are like to play in the background.
And it might be time to take a second look at that coach of theirs.
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Carlisle diocese’s ‘mission communities’ and the fall in stipendiary clergy
From Dr Chris Angus
Sir, — I feel the need to respond to Michael Watts’s letter “Growth: clergy or mission communities?” (19 August), and particularly his premise that “Carlisle diocese seems bent on reducing the number of clergy and replacing them with mission communities.”
It is certainly true that we are looking at a drop in the number of stipendiary clergy over the next few years. We know the age of our clergy, and know how many of them are likely to be retiring in the near future. In response to the numbers of clergy retiring, the Church of England is putting substantially increased resources into the training of new clergy, trying to increase the number of ordinands by a half, but in the knowledge that even if this ambitious target is met, the number of stipendiary clergy will continue to fall for several years.
In Cumbria, we have to face up to this and to two other factors: attracting able clergy and other professionals to the north of England is an uphill struggle (despite its being such a wonderful place to live); and the cost of employing stipendiary clergy is rising faster than our largely static level of giving.
In the Carlisle diocese, we are having to plan for a fall in the number of our stipendiary clergy (which is different from being “bent on reducing the number of clergy”); but we do have ambitious plans for substantially increasing the number of self-supporting and lay ministers. We view our stipendiary clergy as a really key resource. A significant part of our strategy is to free them to concentrate on those things that may well bring about growth, working in partnership with other ministers, the laity, and other denominations.
Mr Watts makes the assertion that we are replacing clergy with mission communities. Not only is that a clear category error, but it masks the rationale behind our move to mission communities as part of our “God for All” strategy. While mission communities may help us to redress the drop in stipendiary clergy numbers which we are facing, they would still be a key component of our strategy even if we were to be able to maintain or increase our stipendiary clergy numbers.
In drawing up our strategy, and in constantly reviewing it, we have been very conscious of reports on church growth, not just the latest reports, but also reports such as From Anecdote to Evidence; and we review what we are doing against them. The messages from such reports are not simple, any more than our clergy are a homogeneous resource. Once we dig under the headline quotes from such reports, we find that the strategy we are pursuing, not just in the Carlisle diocese but in full partnership with other denominations, resonates substantially with the more nuanced messages in those reports.
One clear message is that what really matters is how one uses the gifts of the clergy, and that too often we squander those gifts — in particular, spreading the clergy ever more thinly in keeping the “gathered church” going, with all that this implies in terms of administration, looking after the buildings, and the like. That is one of the key things that we are attempting to redress with our strategy.
Mr Watts may, of course, be right: we may be doomed to failure. But what we do know is that ignoring the drop in stipendiary clergy numbers which we are facing (and which we cannot reverse) and not putting substantially more effort into reaching out beyond the “gathered church” will undoubtedly lead to accelerating decline.
CHRIS ANGUS
Chair of the Carlisle Diocesan
House of Laity
Burtholme East, Lanercost
Brampton CA8 2HH
From Mr Jim Butterworth
Sir, — My good friend and neighbour Michael Watts’s letter in last week’s Church Times expressed his concern about clergy numbers, church growth, and mission communities. With respect, however, I am concerned that only a part of this issue was presented.
The reality is that our benefice, together with the one to which we will be joined in our new mission community, simply does not contribute enough funding to maintain the current number of Anglican clergy.
It is easy to say that more clergy will aid growth. If the funding is not there to support the current clergy numbers, then we have to look at practical ways of managing that situation for the future. We also have to ask how best the situation with regard to declining congregations can be improved with the resources available.
I do not agree that mission communities are “doomed to failure”, as Michael believes. Many of us are really looking forward to working together more closely with our Methodist friends and with our adjoining benefice, and working out how best to grow in future.
JIM BUTTERWORTH
Park Head Farmhouse
Renwick, Penrith CA10 1JQ
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The Bishop Bell affair; and the plea to unfrock
From the Diocesan Secretary of Chichester
Sir, — Marilyn Billingham (Letters, 19 August) asks for an explanation of the basis on which the settle- ment of the claim made against Bishop George Bell was made public.
As the Bishop of Horsham, the deputy Lead Safeguarding Bishop for the Church of England, explained last year (Letters, 11 December 2015), “Had we not published — and others would — we would also rightly have been criticised.”
In addition, the concern that there might be other victims, and the concern that to keep silent would have made us complicit in maintaining in public an image of Bishop Bell on which doubt had now been cast, meant that publication was important.
The diocese of Chichester participated in that decision and supported the national Church’s media release. A fuller explanation of the decision to settle with the survivor and then to publish can be found in a blog published last month by the Bishop of Durham, Paul Butler (http://cofecomms.tumblr.com/post/147338306887/further-points-on-the-george-bell-case).
I would add that the Church shares the police’s regret that
Bishop Bell’s niece was not informed before publication. The Bishop of Chichester apologised to her in January for the failure of the Church’s efforts to trace family members, shortly after she made herself known.
GABRIELLE HIGGINS
Diocesan Church House
211 New Church Road
Hove BN3 4ED
From the Very Revd Richard Lewis
Sir, — The road that borders Wells Cathedral is called The Liberty. In medieval times, the wrongdoer could escape arrest by the civil authority on entering the Sanctuary of The Liberty. In truth, however, with a slight smile, we tell the visitor or pilgrim today that the treatment meted out by the Church was often more severe than that imposed elsewhere.
Nothing has changed, it seems, and the smile has gone. The demand by the Revd Neil Patterson for even harsher penalties for criminal clerics (“The Church needs unfrocking”, Comment, 19 August) has a direct line to those far-off days.
This has little to do with justice, and more to do with retribution and revenge. These should have no place in the lexicon of Christian conversation. Yet it persists. Of one it was said in the upper reaches of the Church that that person “had not been punished enough”.
How dare we say that? Which of us is pure enough to cast the first stone? It is hard not to consider that some seek celebrity rather than justice.
I have been concerned in recent years with two such persons who have been convicted; the infamy never goes away. One said to me that many, many years ago, “I lost my home, my job, my income, and I have lived with the shame ever since.” Such a person is constantly harassed by media or police.
I have been present when quite early in the morning police officers arrive and try to insist, quite without the knowledge of legal advisers, that they interview a person alone, although that person is halfway already to the dementia ward. False accusations abound, as we have seen in some high-profile cases; the lives of such people are also changed for ever; yet no one seems to care. Our capacity for self-righteousness remains undiminished.
Unfrocking? Let us have none of it.
1 Monmouth Court
Wells BA5 2PX
Gorham case: the part a secular court played
From Dr John Mair
Sir, — A need for compression in his excellent review (Books, 12 August) of Dr Serenhedd James’s new book about George Errington may have inclined the Rt Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell to veer towards inaccuracy in his statement that in the Gorham case “a secular court ruled on Christian doctrine.”
The court concerned was the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which in 1850 held that the views — as understood by the Committee — of the Revd G. C. Gorham on the subject of baptismal regeneration were not at variance with the teachings of the Church of England as expressed in its official statements.
The Gorham judgment was thus essentially a legal determination: the Committee was not called upon, and did not purport, to adjudicate on the veracity of the teachings themselves. It was a widespread failure to appreciate this (after all, not very difficult) distinction which gave rise to so much bitter zeal, and to some reckless reactions.
JOHN MAIR
(Reader emeritus)
67 Bromefield, Stanmore
Middlesex HA7 1AG
It has been pointed out to us that the Roman Catholic hierarchy was restored in 1850, not 1851 as stated in the review. Editor
Clerical attire that ministers to self-projection
From Canon John N. Greaves
Sir, — I was dismayed recently that certain female priests were objecting, in the interest of being more glamorous, to the form of dress of male priests which they had inherited.
For at least 1500 years, priests have had to dress as women: long black frocks on the streets, and various lengths of white frocks in church. The whole concept of priestly dress was to obliterate gender, not to express it, in the interest of being conduits of God, i.e. not an expression of personal attractiveness.
I have been greatly heartened by the article by the Revd Joanna Jepson (Features, 29 July), which recognises completely the function of the minister. As a perambulatory retired priest, I have come across some grotesque male self-assertion: state-of-the-art face hair, chasuble and stole wihout alb or cassock, showing jeans and trainers, and a conduct more appropriate to that of a celebrity presentation of a chat show than an encounter with the glory of God.
I remember, in the late 1960s, a curate dressed in a teddy-boy suit, with clerical collar, drainpipe trousers, and sideburns, being apprehended by the police on a charge of “impersonating a clergyman”. He had to be rescued by his vicar. That sort of vanity seemed to disappear eventually as a more humble conformity prevailed.
Perhaps, as Ms Jepson so wisely suggested, such self-projection will settle down, as holy commitment overtakes secular pressures and self-centred projection.
JOHN GREAVES
3 Sitwell Close
Shropshire SY7 0DD
The forgotten elderly
From Miss Primrose Peacock
Sir, — Stephen Hammersley is the chief executive of the Pilgrims’ Friend Society, an Evangelical Protestant organisation that operates a chain of care homes and some independent living units.
In a recent issue of The Pilgrims’ Magazine, he writes: “Christian Churches may cherish older people in theory but in practice — and from the older person’s point of view — they are increasingly being forgotten.”
This appears to be accurate, and probably contributes to the CUF paper reported by one of your staff (News, 22 July). I hope that churches will take notice. Whereas currently there is some considerable focus on dementia awareness, very little seems to be done to stimulate the sound-minded elderly.
For this reason, I am about to circulate the third issue of Not Forgotten, a bi-monthly newsletter for older persons of sound mind, either at home alone or in less suitable residential care. It is free by email or second-class post.
It will always be small, owing to my circumstances, but two of the first subscribers are Church Times readers — then unknown to me, but who now correspond quite frequently.
PRIMROSE PEACOCK
4 Crescent Rise, Truro
Cornwall TR1 3ER
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CIC News > Latest News > Express Entry: So Far So Good
Express Entry: So Far So Good
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Published on April 1st, 2015 at 05:44pm EDT Updated on April 17th, 2015 at 09:36am EDT
Anybody who had followed the government of Canada’s announcements regarding the launch of its new Express Entry selection system for Canadian immigration coming up to launch day on January 1, 2015, knew the rules and procedures that would govern the system, but nobody could say for certain how things might pan out.
Three months and six draws later, we are getting a fuller picture of how the system operates in reality.
In terms of how often Express Entry draws are made, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) appears to favour frequent draws that select a limited number of candidates. Before launch day, CIC officials said that an estimated 15 to 25 draws would be made in 2015. With six draws having taken place between January 31 and March 27, CIC is on track to get to the upper end of that estimated range if the regularity of draws remains consistent.
CIC also indicated that candidates without a qualifying job offer from a Canadian employer or a provincial nomination may be selected in earlier draws from the pool. While the first four draws selected only candidates who had either a job offer or a provincial nomination, the two most recent draws have indeed selected a number of candidates who did not have either one. These candidates had reasonably high scores under the Comprehensive Ranking System based on factors such as age, level of education, language ability, and work experience. Up to 600 points may be awarded for these factors, with a further 600 awarded to candidates with a qualifying job offer from a Canadian employer or a provincial nomination.
(The dotted line at 600 represents the maximum number of points a candidate can be awarded without obtaining a qualifying job offer from a Canadian employer or a provincial nomination)
Express Entry: the past, present and future
“While three months of operation may not provide enough details to form a full picture of how Express Entry may function in the future, it certainly offers enough to make a fair analysis of how things are working today,” says Attorney David Cohen.
“The good news for candidates who have not yet been issued an invitation to apply is that the required CRS score required has decreased with each new draw from the pool. With CIC having selected a number of candidates without job offers or provincial nominations in recent weeks, this provides real incentive for these individuals to make efforts to improve their profile and ranking. Doing so may increase their chances of making it over the line and being selected.
“It should be remembered, however, that obtaining a qualifying job offer or provincial nomination remains the surest way of being issued an invitation to apply. Express Entry is a system that rewards proactive candidates.”
Click here to learn more about improving your profile and ranking under the Comprehensive Ranking System.
Express Entry quick facts, from January 1 to April 1 (All dates are for 2015)
Launch date: January 1
First draw from the pool: January 31
Most recent draw from the pool: March 27
Minimum CRS points required for selection in any one draw: 453 (March 27 draw)
Largest number of invitations to apply issued in any one draw: 1,637 (March 27 draw)
Fewest invitations to apply issued in any one draw: 779 (January 1 and February 7 draws)
Largest decrease in CRS points required between two consecutive draws: 254 (from February 27 to March 20 draws)
Smallest decrease in CRS points required between two consecutive draws: 10 (from February 7 to February 20 draws)
Longest gap between two consecutive draws: 21 days (from February 27 to March 20 draws)
Shortest gap between two consecutive draws: 7 days (on three occasions)
Click here to learn more about all Express Entry draws that have taken place so far.
Important information for all candidates and applicants
Once an invitation to apply has been issued to a candidate, he or she has 60 days to file a complete application with all supporting documents; no extensions will be granted. Candidates who have been issued an invitation to apply are encouraged to submit their complete applications in good time to avoid missing their opportunity, while those who have not yet been selected from the Express Entry pool are encouraged to gather these documents in advance.
Moreover, it is important that the information provided and documents submitted are completely accurate in order to avoid being penalised for misrepresentation. Penalties for misrepresentation may include a five-year ban on applying to immigrate to, or even visit, Canada.
Express Entry is not an immigration program in itself, but rather a system used by CIC to select candidates for immigration to Canada using the following economic immigration programs:
Federal Skilled Worker Program
a portion of the Provincial Nominee Programs
To find out if you are eligible for any of over 60 Canadian immigration programs, including the federal economic programs that are processed under Express Entry, please fill out a free online assessment.
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17 thoughts on “Express Entry: So Far So Good”
iyede edward Stacy September 5, 2015
I will need current updates on immigration processes.
Harpreet Singh July 24, 2015
Kindly help me
My points are 352 and I hvnot job offer
It is possible to get invitation ?
gagan June 17, 2015
My CRS points are 360 right now and probability that it will increase is less only and i also don’t have any job offer.So what are my chances to get ITA….
Ravi Nayak June 12, 2015
My CRS points are 343 right now … And I don’t think it will increase anymore
So what are the chances to get ITA without job offer
Kiranjit Kaur June 2, 2015
greetings of the hour!!!!!!!!
My points under CRS is 411 (by mistake it was written as 419). What are m chances of getting an ITA. At present my experience is 4.10 year. Will my points get increased hen it crosses 5 years?
Thanks & Regard
rajoo rajeshwar May 21, 2015
I have two degrees one after another. A bsc in physics followed by bsc in physiotherapy. Do i qualify to get 119 points for two or more credentials….
Narayan May 9, 2015
Thanks for info. my point is 367, is it possible to get ITA in furure? age. 31, ielt. 7, exp. 6+, master degree, spouse ielts 6.
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IBM invests $200 million in Watson IoT AI business
IBM looks into the future of A.I. at World of Watson
Self-driving Olli shuttle with IBM Watson debuts in Washington area
Here's to our health, with help from Watson
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Milestones along the way in Watson's colorful history
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How did IBM's Watson get to where it is today? Here are some key events that happened along the way.
May 1997: Deep Blue conquers chess
IBM's Deep Blue computer beats world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match that lasts several days and receives massive media coverage around the world. It also inspires researchers at IBM to undertake an even bigger challenge: build a computer that could beat the champions at Jeopardy.
February 2011: Victorious at Jeopardy
Watson competes on Jeopardy and defeats the TV quiz show’s two biggest all-time champions. It wins US$1 million; IBM donates the full amount to charity.
January 2014: A business unit is born
IBM launches the IBM Watson Group, a business unit dedicated to developing and commercializing the technology. Later that year, it opens a global headquarters in New York City's "Silicon Alley."
April 2015: Honing in on health
We each generate one million gigabytes of health-related data across our lifetime, IBM says. The Watson Health business unit aims to help patients, physicians, researchers and insurers use that data for better health.
December 2015: A new IoT branch
IBM opens a new Watson internet of things (IoT) global headquarters in Munich, Germany.
February 2016: Watson for U.S. president?
Though it says it's not affiliated with IBM, the Watson 2016 Foundation launches the "Watson for President" website to help promote the technology's presidential prospects.
May 2016: Eight languages and counting
Watson begins learning Korean, bringing the total number of its conversational languages to eight. Also part of its repertoire are English, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, and Arabic.
May 2016: Off to (cybersecurity) school
IBM Security announces a year-long research project through which it is collaborating with eight universities to help train Watson to tackle cybercrime.
June 2016: Learning to drive
Local Motors debuts Olli, the first self-driving vehicle to integrate Watson's capabilities. The 12-passenger electric vehicle analyzes and learns from transportation data produced by more than 30 sensors embedded throughout the vehicle. It also leverages four Watson developer APIs to enable smooth interactions between passengers and the vehicle.
Katherine Noyes has been an ardent geek ever since she first conquered Pyramid of Doom on an ancient TRS-80. Today she covers enterprise software in all its forms, with an emphasis on cloud computing, big data, analytics and artificial intelligence.
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We have never had a better opportunity to serve our city, but maybe you don’t know where to start.
As we can’t meet at our Selly Oak building in Tiverton Road at the moment, we would love to encourage you to join in serving communities around Birmingham. One way you can do that is to join in the work being done by Bournville Hub in Bournville and Selly Oak.
Bournville Hub is a registered charity run by Sarah Mullen, one of our church family. The Hub has been doing some amazing work during the Covid-19 Crisis and YOU could get involved and help them write the next chapter through Christ-centred community service. More details about their efforts to date can be found here or you can listen to Sarah’s Cup-of-Tea Tuesday talk here to be inspired to start volunteering in your community.
Every single day gives us a unique, God-given opportunity to serve our neighbours, community and city so pick an idea from the list below and get involved. Seize the day!
Give – Can you spare £15 a month or a week? That’s what it costs Bournville Hub to deliver 1 food parcel with a generous amount of long-life and fresh food to 1 household each week. By giving you can help ensure this vital service to those most vulnerable in our community continues in Selly Oak and Bournville. Details on how to give are here.
Do you or your children love to draw/write? – Get the whole family involved in making homemade greetings cards for elderly people who are lonely and isolated. Write them a personal letter of encouragement.
Donate food - Take a look at the list below and buy extra food in your weekly shop for The Life House Food Bank in Selly Oak run by the Christian Life Centre. They supply Bournville Hub’s long-life food bags and are always in need of donations. You can bring your food bank donations to Bournville Hub on Wednesdays between 12:00-2:00pm or add donations to the wheelie-bin for The Life House in Sainsburys Selly Oak.
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Do you have time to spare and you drive? – Please consider volunteering being a Delivery Driver for Bournville Hub and help them to deliver food parcels to those in need. Thankfully, the month of June has been filled, but there is still a need in July. Please email Sarah Mullen (sarah@busyparentsnetwork.com) if you are able to do this.
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Brazilian feijoada completa takes a good idea to the extreme
By Ari LeVauxMore Content Now
Dec 26, 2019 at 10:07 AM Dec 26, 2019 at 10:07 AM
Pork and beans is an age-old combination, expressed in countless ways around the world. Southwestern pinto beans refried in lard. Asian tofu with pork sauce. The all-American can of pork and beans. Wherever there are pork and beans, there is pork with beans.
Portugal’s feijoada (faysh-WA-da) has spread to the farthest reaches of its empire. Each former colony’s version is built on a different bean: red beans in the Iberian motherland, white beans in Angola, kidney beans in Macau. But the world’s favorite feijoada is probably the one made with black beans.
The national dish of Portugal’s largest former colony, Brazil, is usually what we are talking about when we talk about feijoada.
In any Brazilian restaurant, in or outside of Brazil, from swanky steakhouse to the eminently practical pay-by-weight buffet, there will be a dark, chunky vat of feijoada waiting for you. It isn’t glamorous, but it hits the spot.
The ascent of Brazilian feijoada began in the slave quarters, urban slums and poor rural villages. Beans were used to extend the mileage from each precious scrap of meat, and extract nutrients from bones. Over time less desperate cuts made their way into the panela de feijoada, along with smoked meat and sausage.
I learned how to make feijoada from Edilson Oliveira, owner of Oliveira’s Steakhouse in Somerville, Massachusetts. His first and only question was, “With or without pig feet?”
I soon realized that when it comes to his feijoada, such flexibility is rare.
Oliveira is soft-spoken and polite, with a wide grin and close-cropped hair. I asked about adding other meats like beef to a pork feijoada. He shook his head sympathetically. “Beef meat will confuse the taste,” he said. “It will make no sense.”
Oliveira’s feijoada recipe is one that any Brazilian would immediately recognize as an exemplary representation of this national art form. It’s a feijoada that breaks no rules, takes no chances, crosses no lines and contains no adulterants. A feijoada you could bring home to mama.
Most Brazilian meals are served with a shaker or bowl of cassava flour. This gritty powder, called farinha (far-EEN-ya), is hugely important in Brazilian food and culture.
Like feijoada, farinha began as a coping mechanism for the poor. It absorbs water from its surroundings and becomes a thick paste. A bowl of broth and a dish of farinha was a normal meal for the poorest Brazilians. In the same way beans can stretch the goodness of a chunk of meat, a few spoonfuls of farinha will stretch the goodness of a bowl of feijoada. And even well-fed Brazilians add farinha to many dishes, either plain or in its toasted form, farofa (fa-ROW-fa).
Oliveira’s manager, Victor Almeida, who’d been sitting with us in the crowded dining room, held up his phone so I could see the photo of a package of Yoki brand premade farofa.
“This is what you want it to taste like,” he said. Almeida suggested buying both plain farinha and a package of Yoki — easily found online — so that you have a reference for the farofa flavor when you fry it yourself.
While feijoada and farinha or farofa make a filling meal, on special occasions a whole spread is built around feijoada. Feijoada completa (comb-PLAY-tah) includes fried greens like collards or kale, along with rice, orange slices and pickled vegetables.
Brazilians are known to take good ideas to extremes, and a feijoada completa is no exception. It’s the Carnival of pork and beans.
Along the lines of “with or without feet,” the only room for improvisation in this recipe is in the kinds of pork to use. There should be at least three types of pork, one of which is sausage, ideally linguica. Something needs to be smoked, preferably not bacon unless it’s unsliced. A smoked ham hock is great. There should be meaty pieces, fatty pieces and a bone or two. A rib is an example of a cut that has meat, fat and bone (ribs can do all three). The recipe below gives one example of three types of pork that check all of these boxes.
Feijoada Brasileira
Serves: Everyone, provided there is farinha
2 lbs. dry black beans
1 lb. pork belly
2 lb. smoked ham hock (bone included)
1 lb. sausage (linguica, kielbasa or bratwurst)
5 garlic cloves (smashed with salt)
Optional accompaniments: farofa, collards, rice, orange, minced onion as a garnish
Add the beans to a large pot, and then water, to twice the depth of the beans. Bring to a boil and cook for about an hour, or 25 minutes in the pressure cooker, so the beans are soft but not mushy.
Meanwhile, brown the pork under the broiler, each type of pork in its own oven-safe pan — I use cast-iron. Rotate the pans and stir the parts as necessary so nothing stays too close to the broiler for too long. The sausage needs the least amount of time — it just needs to be browned on the outside. Cut the sausage into rounds, add the mashed garlic to the pan and cook the sausage and garlic on medium heat until browned, but not burned. Then turn off the heat.
When the meat is cool enough to work with, remove it from the greasy pans. Oliveira recommends leaving the melted fat behind. “Otherwise it would be too heavy.”
Cut the meat off the bones and into pieces of half an inch or less on a side. Add the meat, bones, bay leaves and browned garlic from the sausage pan back to the bean pot, along with enough water to cover everything. Cook another hour or two, seasoning with salt and pepper. The next morning it will be even better, and thicker. It’s always OK to add water.
Serve with all of the available fixings.
Ari LeVaux lives in Montana and New Mexico and can be reached at flash@flashinthepan.net. Follow him on Twitter at @arilevaux.
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Dawson struggled on Sunday running a 4.93. He also turned in the worst vertical among linebackers at 28 inches. Dawson's broad jump of 9-feet-1-inch was third worse.
McKinney had one of the best vertical jumps at the Combine for a linebacker. He leaped 40.5 inches, which was fourth at his position.
McKinney ranked 10th in the broad jump at his position group jumping 10-feet-1-inch. That tied the mark of teammate Preston Smith, who had a very, very good day.
His 7.21-seconds in the three-cone drill ranked in the middle of the pack at 14th. His 4.27 seconds in the 20-yard shuttle was 13th best.
The numbers came a day after McKinney finished with 16 reps in the bench press on Saturday. That was tied for the fewest of any linebacker. The average rep-count for a linebacker was 23. By comparison, McKinney's teammate, safety Justin Cox, did 15 reps. Running back Josh Robinson finished with 21 and Smith tallied 24.
Sunday started slowly for McKinney as well. His first 40-yard dash was timed at 4.78. He turned in a 4.69 in his second attempt. Both were unofficial. When it was made official, his time came in at 4.66.
"That hurts him a little bit," NFL Draft expert Mike Mayock said after McKinney's first 40-time. "A lot of people talking about him as a late first round pick. I would have like to see him run a little better."
McKinney solved that during his second attempt. But he can't improve his tape.
"He jumped 40 inches and you see that in spurts on tape," NFL Network analyst and former NFL scout Daniel Jeremiah said. "But the more you watch, the more I got concerned. He couldn't find the football. He couldn't get off blocks. So to me, he's one of the tougher guys to figure out. I ended up dropping him down."
Many project McKinney as a first-round pick. He would be the Bulldogs' first since 2012.
"I started out with a late one to a mid-two (grade)," Mayock said. "The more tape I watched, I kind of felt the same way. You were around the football a lot, but why didn't you make more plays?"
McKinney led the Bulldogs in tackles the last two seasons. He finished his junior season with 71 tackles. He also finished second on the team with eight tackles for loss and 3.0 sacks. He recovered three fumbles and forced another.
McKinney's numbers mirror those of former Bulldogs and current Seattle Seahawk K.J. Wright at the combine. Wright was selected in the fourth round in 2011.
McKinney will have another opportunity to impress scouts on March 4 at his Pro Day.
Measurables
McKinney: 6-4, 246
Wright: 6-3, 246
40-yard Dash
McKinney: 4.66
Wright: 4.75
McKinney: 16 reps
Wright: 20 reps
Vertical Jump
McKinney: 40.5 inches
Wright: 32 inches
Broad Jump
McKinney: 10-feet-1-inch
Wright: 10-feet
Three-cone Drill
McKinney: 7.21 seconds
Wright: 7.26 seconds
20-yard Shuttle
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Long Way Round | Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman
After reading the book, Long Way Round, documenting Ewan McGregor and Charlie Borman’s global circumnavigation, we here at corporate CanyonChasers [the wife and I] decided that we really wanted to see the television program. When Ewan and Charlie (we feel we’ve gotten to know them so well that we’re now on a first name basis)When Ewan and Charlie did their three months, 20,000 mile journey they took along a couple of chase vehicles, a couple of photographers and an extra GS1150 [Claudio!] to make a documentary of sorts. The cable network Bravo ran the five-part version of the series, but the complete 10-episode version is obviously better.
I had read the book and enjoyed it much more than I’d expected. But the DVD really shines! I felt like I really got to know Charley and Ewan during their adventures around the world and found myself watching episodes multiple times. These guys are really quite dynamic and fun to watch. True motorcyclists, (or Biker as you would say in England) and as such, they were very easy to relate to. Just wait to see the glee in their eyes when they get a digital torque wrench. They are true motor-heads!! They appear to be a couple of solid blokes that one could easily pal around with.
The first episode details them coming up with the idea and prepping for the trip. The two of them have an unusual obsession with burn-outs and “hoiking” wheelies, which makes them all the more endearing. The camera follows them as they search for a motorcycle sponsorship. KTM really dropped the ball with their lame treatment of the two actors. BMW should be commended for their support and willingness. If KTM treats two celebrities that way, I can’t imagine how they’d treat some lowly customer like myself. I’ll honestly have a hard time considering a KTM after watching the DVD.
By the end of the first episode, Ewan and Charley are on their way. From there on, the real adventure begins. One reason why the series likely didn’t gain the popularity it deserved is because of a lack of drama. Ewan and Charley get along quite well and have a strong friendship. There are no dysfunctional verbal attacks like the ones American Chopper is built upon. Instead these are two riding buddies that are out having a great time, missing their beloved wives and struggling through border crossings and an accident prone photographer on the third GS. The people they meet and the adventures they have is where the drama comes in. Anyone who has traveled by motorcycle knows this to be true anyway.
Its also very entertaining to learn with these guys. They start out quite inexperienced and slowly become more seasoned and expert at long-distance travel. So as viewers we get to endure the growing pains and learning proess with them as they break two frames on the bikes caused by overloading and destroy the ABS system on Claudio’s bike when they forget to disconnect the battery before welding on the frame. While some viewers could find this frustrating, watching them learn they way around made it that much better.
The highlight of the series is near the end of the program as they traverse Russia’s “Road of Bones” where conditions are so abysmal that they resort to piggy-backing, literally, on Russian transport trucks to cross spring run-off, swollen Russian rivers. Then they fly to Alaska and ride through areas familiar to us [Calgary!] on their way to a reunion with their families in New York.
The whole lot of CanyonChasers sat down and watched the series together. We laughed a lot – much more than I expected as I’d seen much of it before hand. It’s wildly entertaining, funny and quite poignant and touching in many places as they visit UNICEF centers and even a distressing encounter with a Russian bear.
Surprisingly, I found myself completely enthralled in their journey. It was well documented, although I felt that huge gaps had been left out for the sake of time – I got the sense that they could have easily produced 12, hour-long episodes, the seventh ‘bonus’ episode tries to capture the highlights from the cutting room floor. But I found myself wanting more. By the time they reached New York and crossed the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan, I was choked up with a feeling of accomplishment and saddened by it’s coming to an end. What an adventure it must have been…
I feel that I can safely say that Long Way Round is of the same entertainment caliber as Faster and On Any Sunday. While not racing related, it allowed for a vicarious journey that few of us will ever have the chance to make for real – a global circumnavigation. Just like Faster and On Any Sunday, Long Way Round captured my imagination and instead of dreaming of winning races, I found myself day-dreaming about my own world-wide journey.
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Paul Sanborn, one of Cape Coral’s earliest residents and a charter member of the Rotary Club of Cape Coral (1964), passed away in July of 2017. The Paul Sanborn Service Above Self Award will be awarded in his memory to a southwest Florida citizen who exemplifies the spirit of Rotary’s motto, “Service Above Self.” Nominations for this award are due by September 6 at 11:59 pm.
The nominee can be a Rotary club member or a non-Rotarian who selflessly volunteers his or her services to community causes or initiatives that benefit the community or its members. The winner of his namesake award will be a southwest Florida resident who can be counted on to serve the greater good, for both big or small actions – glamorous or thankless – offering whatever skills or resources at his or her disposal, inspiring those around him or her.
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Looking for nostalgia in the digital age
Robert Cron braced for the worst when he opened a board-game café in a Southern California suburb four years ago. He knew old-fashioned board games were making a comeback, but feared being crushed by the breakneck popularity of video games and other electronic diversions. Would customers really want to push game pieces around a rectangular strip of cardboard when they could be zapping digital foes on pyrotechnics-laden mobile phones?
“Our greatest fear in the beginning was we were going to open the door and tumbleweeds would blow in,” Cron recalls. “It would be too niche or too weird, or a flash-in-the-pan fad like muffin shops. But the first weekend we opened, I had people who came Friday night who returned two days later. It astounded me.”
Cron’s GameHaus Café is thriving today, with a waiting list to get in the door on many weekends. In fact, in an era in which technology permeates many aspects of daily life, old-school amusements — not just board games but vinyl records, pinball machines, paper notebooks and even bookstores — are enjoying a resurgence as fans reacquaint themselves with the simple pleasure of collecting $200 for passing Go.
Electronic pursuits such as online shopping and video games are surging because users prize their convenience and unique attributes. But the ascent of digital is being accompanied by an unexpected revival in old-school analog. Sales of vinyl records, for example, have reached their highest level in nearly three decades. Vinyl sales still pale in comparison with digital downloads, but New York and Chicago each sport more than a dozen record stores. Likewise, both the sales of printed books and the number of independent bookstores have climbed in recent years.
The analog renaissance is partially a backlash against digital oversaturation. But it also shows how a symbiotic relationship has developed between the two over time. Rather than being a zero-sum game in which digital growth is an automatic setback for analog, users increasingly blend the best of both into their lives. Some of the traits that make technology so compelling — speed, ease of use, instant gratification — have stirred an appreciation for the tactile experiences of the past.
“Analog gives us the joy of creating and possessing real, tangible things in realms where physical objects and experiences are fading,” writes journalist David Sax, author of The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter. “These pleasures range from the serendipity of getting a roll of film back from the developer, to the fun of playing a new board game with old friends, to the luxurious sound of unfolding the Sunday newspaper.”
A major component of that joy is face-to-face interaction that often is absent from the digital phenomenon. “The human aspect is what we crave,” Sax tells us. “When we go shopping when traveling, it is for more than just acquiring goods because we can get goods anywhere. It’s where you bought it, where you were, what the store was like.”
The appeal of old-fashioned hobbies is being fed by a combination of nostalgia and novelty. Members of the baby boom and Generation X are seeking vestiges of their youth, while Millennials are sampling new pursuits.
“One of our customers is a 14- or 15-year-old girl who comes in for [Jimi] Hendrix bootlegs,” marvels record store owner Dustin Lane. “She wants original pressings, and she was not even born yet when vinyl left the first time.”
Customers at Pop Obscure Records in Los Angeles, which Lane and his wife opened last year, value the experience of thumbing through rows of records, admiring the designs of album covers and reading liner notes. “With a record you have to physically put it on [the turntable] and flip it over,” observes Lane. “You have to know what song is on and know when the records ends. You’re that much more engaged. It comes down to actually being more present.”
Those are the same goals Cron and his partner, Terry Chiu, had when they launched GameHaus Café. The pair were board-game enthusiasts who sensed that the public at large would welcome a gathering spot that mixed the Big Bang Theory wonkiness of a game-board store with the relaxed atmosphere of a coffeehouse and sandwich shop. They based their creation on a successful café in Toronto. For a small cover charge, plus the cost of food and drinks, customers can sit and play for as long as they like. GameHaus is popular among all age groups, including parents trying to introduce their children to Operation, Sorry and other games of their youth.
GameHaus offered 650 board games when it opened in late 2013. That number is now up to 1,450, but there’s one common service that the cafe doesn’t have:
“We specifically don’t offer Wi-Fi because we don’t want people on their phones,” Cron notes. “We want people to be engaged.”
The above article originally appeared in the Summer 2017 issue of Quarterly Insights magazine.
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Tense moments at YLW
David Wylie - Mar 9, 2017 / 8:14 am | Story: 191096
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UPDATE: 8:10 a.m.
There were tense moments Thursday morning after the pilot of a private Cessna Citation plane suspected landing gear trouble.
Police, ambulance and fire rushed to the airport at about 7:30 a.m. after the plane – which had departed from Vernon Regional Airport – reported potential issues to the Kelowna International Airport air traffic control tower.
The plane, which had two people onboard, was diverted to YLW.
"It did do a flyover and they saw that the landing gear was out," said Jasmine Patrick, spokeswoman with the Kelowna airport.
The plane landed safely at about 7:45 a.m.
It's unclear where it was originally headed.
ORIGINAL: 7:50 a.m.
There was an emergency response at Kelowna International Airport Thursday morning.
It appears a plane was having landing gear issues – but has now landed successfully.
Emergency crews rushed to the airport just after 7:30 a.m.
The airport is expected to release more details this morning.
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Using Twitter to Get to the Top of Google Search Results
Twitter can get you to the top of Google search results when you plan your Twitter campaigns well.
Read this to understand how.
Did you know . . . .
77% of the users feel positive about your brand when you reply to their tweets (Source: Twitter Blog)
Twitter and Research Now reports that 69% of the users have already made purchases from small businesses because of something that they saw on Twitter (Source: Twitter Business)
85% of the small businesses with Twitter accounts have benefited by providing customer service using this platform (Source: Twitter Business)
Among 47,799 tweets on an average, around 2% of these tweets get indexed by Google
A Twitter profile having a verified mark with >1M followers and their tweets have got around 100 retweets and >100 favorites will have a chance of indexing on Google by 15% – 20% (Source: Stone Temple)
All the above-mentioned stats point out how important this particular social media platform is. The best part is social media platforms like Twitter give small businesses like you a fair chance to compete with every kind and size of businesses.
However, the trick lies in targeting the right audience and following a few best practices. Therefore, if you are considering SEO check for your website or wondering how to boost search engine results, how to get higher page rank on Google or how to get the website on Google first page, then you cannot ignore Twitter.
The first step to dominate Google search results is to erase any kind of negative content and building an impactful brand identity. This is exactly where Twitter can come to your rescue.
Erasing a Bad Reputation
Whether you want to get rid of a negative content or just want to boost your online brand presence, you can proactively manage your online reputation with Twitter. Today, around 30 out of 50 top business brands across the world have Twitter accounts which show up on the first page, when you type their name in Google search.
Twitter can be a great tool to provide prompt customer service as well as for promotional and brand-building. According to Statista, Twitter holds 33.2% market penetration in the US as of 2018. The audience size is only expected to shoot up in the years to come.
Statista also reports that this percentage will reach 34.1 % by 2019 and 34.8% by 2020. Now, considering the number of events that is expected to take place on Twitter, these numbers sound conservatively low. To make it easy for you, we have put together the following 10 major ways in which you can use tweets to reign Google’s search.
10 Tips to Get Your Tweets at the Top of Google Search
While the primary secret to making the most out of Twitter is frequent tweeting, it is not that simple. There are a lot of factors to watch out for. One such factor is Twitter “Carousel”, which can be achieved only by tweeting frequently.
Developing a Good Strength of Followers
Well, there is no need to have a specific number of followers to achieve the desired results. But, it is important that your tweets get noticed and receive some interaction. It is not possible to get interactions without followers. One way to develop followers is by following those who tweet things that you are interested in. Next, you can “return follow” those who follow you and also interact with tweets from others. While all this sounds a little time-consuming, the technique is worth trying!
Frequent Tweeting
Now, this is one of the most important factors and we just cannot emphasize it enough. You just cannot tweet something back to back for some time and then vanish without tweeting for days and months. The tweet carousel has a “recency” factor in its algorithm. So, if you stop tweeting after achieving a carousel, then you will lose it. You can tweet a couple of times every day preferably during the business hours so others can view and interact with all your tweets.
Increasing Engagement
Engagement is important and you cannot achieve it if you keep tweeting self-referential content, such as announcement, sales or brand or company-specific content. Just try to make a practice of tweeting something that interests your target audience. Next, you can reply to what they tweet, acknowledge it and implement whatever possible. After all, engagement is the other word for interaction.
You cannot sit away from your audience, send out some announcements or posts and expect great engagement. It is always two-sided.
Respond to Other Twitter Users
Engagement involves conversing with other companies on Twitter as well as other Twitter users. If you only look inward, you cannot engage with the community and consequently, the community will never engage with your tweets.
Tweet Content that Works
Do a small research to identify what works on Twitter and impresses the Twitter audience – the ones with more number of tweets, retweets, and replies. One such concept is “Humor”, however, you can also focus on discussing some controversies as it attracts interactions.
Using Popular Hashtags or Tweeting Popular Events
Engage with those who are passionate about specific events to fast-track your tweet interactions. Look out for popular hashtags that Twitter shows for some days and see whether you can respond to it. Sports events, conferences, concerts and other events will generally have tailored hashtags for those who discuss it. If you get involved in one such event, you can quickly begin interacting with the others who post on those hashtags.
Use Compelling Content
Pics, videos, and memes are compelling and tweeting them will automatically attract a number of interactions just like a magnet. This is because users tend to interact with tweets containing enticing pictures, videos or memes that entertain them.
Add Emojis
While social media pros are dubious about incorporating “clutter” to the tweets or just “spamming it”. However, if you use it judiciously, emojis enhance the user experience, attract some attention to your tweets and boost engagement.
Humor Riffs Involving Current Events
A great way to get several likes in a short time is to tweet something hilarious, which plays off a popular event or another Twitter account. This could either be contrary or co-operative.
Consistent Tweeting
We have already emphasized on the need for regular tweeting, but there is yet another positive effect when you frequently tweet and attain Twitter carousel. You should Tweet daily and a few time in a day. If your audience is largely other businesses, then posting your tweets on weekdays is a great option. Wondering how to schedule tweets? Today, there are several social media management tools to schedule your tweets in advance.
Just drop your email ID in the comments section below to download your copy of Social Media Management Tools PDF.
Get Industry Influencers to Retweet
Twitter influencers play a vital role in the amount of credibility you get online. Nielsen states that brands associated with the industry influencers are likely to be considered 70% more credible than the others. This serves as an added boost to your online reputation and you will be able to get more followers, better visibility online as well as higher conversions – all these factors will ultimately contribute towards your Google ranking.
You can consider the following to attract retweets from the industry influencers:
Create fantastic content, which can be shared
Develop long-term relationships with these influencers
Retweet all the relevant tweets from the industry influencers
Collaborate with industry influencers on blog posts and other projects
Extend Your Content Reach Using Twitter Ads
Twitter ads will help you to get better visibility, boost your conversions and help you to grow your followers, get leads and also get some additional ranking factors. While leveraging Twitter ads just ensure that the ad campaigns are particularly targeted. You can add UTM parameters to the links from promoted tweets to help Google keep a track of the visitors for conversion tracking.
While creating ads for Twitter just make sure of the following:
Target the keywords in the hashtags and tweets
Specific Twitter users have to be targeted
Target those who engage with trending topics on Twitter
Promote your profile for increased search visibility
While it is necessary to implement all the above-discussed strategies to leverage Twitter for better organic ranking, it is equally important for you to invest in long-lasting future relationships. When you have a foundation of strong relationships, you will emerge as a credible source and earn more followers.
Furthermore, you will be considered as an “authority” by the Google and you will get preference over the others on Twitter. Day-to-day Twitter engagement rate of 36% shows that using Twitter with an SEO focus can boost your web traffic by 10 folds!
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Pink Lotus by Grimanesa Amorós
Submitted by Circa 1881
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Client: The Peninsula New York
Location: NEW YORK, NY, United States
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PINK LOTUS, a large-scale, site-specific light sculpture by artist Grimanesa Amorós, was installed on the façade of The Peninsula New York in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. On view from October 1 – November 15, 2015, the light sculpture was part of “The Art of Pink,” an international, Breast Cancer Awareness Month arts initiative sponsored by The Peninsula hotels worldwide. PINK LOTUS was curated for The Peninsula New York by Circa 1881.
The goal of PINK LOTUS was to increase visibility for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, to celebrate the Peninsula hotel's "The Art of Pink" initiative, and to create a unique visual experience for the public. This façade of The Peninsula New York was selected as the installation site in order to achieve maximum public access. The design had to take into account the many rules and restrictions due to the Landmark status of the building. In keeping with the initiative’s “pink” theme, Amorós used LED lights to create a pink lotus flower. The installation activated the entrance to the hotel with a focus on the Palladian window above the door and the carvings of Ceres, Roman Goddess of agriculture and abundance, and Diana, the Roman Goddess of the hunt, the moon and childbirth. By placing the installation on the main facade, PINK LOTUS supported Breast Cancer Awareness Month by drawing attention to both the Roman Goddesses, who represent the power of women worldwide, and to the lotus flower’s symbolic associations with creation, enlightenment and rebirth.
Circa 1881 was hired by The Peninsula New York to curate and produce a project for The Art of Pink. The hotel's goal was for this installation to be their most ambitious to date. Circa 1881 commissioned Grimanesa Amorós to create a temporary site-specific installation and worked closely with the Amorós studio and hotel to help design install PINK LOTUS. All parties also collaborated in creating promotional special events around the installation.
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By Bang Showbiz on 12 April 2010
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club admit they over romanticised England before they came to the country.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club admit they over romanticised England.
The 'Love Burns' rockers got their first big break in England and said they had always been into a lot of English groups, but when they first arrived in the country hey realised their idea of the country wasn't exactly how things were.
Bassist Robert Been told BANG Showbiz: "I grew up in the East Bay of San Francisco and I got into a lot of, like Ride, - they were one of the first bands I really fell in love with. Then there's The Verve's 'Storm In Heaven', and the Stone Roses first album, and My Bloody Valentine.
"It's funny because it has a great mystery to it, like all things do, when it's far away from you. And I think when we showed up; we were kind of... not disappointed but (laughs) it's just one of those things where, like, my fantasy of it was a bit different to the reality of it.
"It's the same way Van Morrisson daydreamed of American bands, because they were exotic. The reality has issues in music."
Robert said the group, who recently released album 'Beat The Devil's Tattoo'are, however, grateful to their fans in the UK because that was where they got their first chance to prove themselves.
He added: "We owe the fans here a lot for giving us the chance. I always think of that when we get here. Even though you've got to earn it every time. For us it was a long time coming. And who knows where we'd be if we hadn't had that and a little luck on our side."
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Shareholders Claim SolarWinds Failed to Disclose Info About Massive Hack
January 4, 2021 January 5, 2021 DAVID LEE
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AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — Shareholders of Austin-based software firm SolarWinds claim in a federal class action lawsuit filed Monday that management misled investors by failing to disclose in public filings software vulnerabilities that ultimately led to a massive hack that affected over 18,000 private and government clients.
Lead plaintiff Timothy Bremer sued SolarWinds, chief executive officer Kevin B. Thompson and chief financial officer J. Barton Kalsu in federal court in Texas. Bremer claims the company filed at least four reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission since February 2020 and none of them disclosed that its Orion monitoring software “had a vulnerability that allowed hackers to compromise” servers it was running on.
“SolarWinds’ update server had an easily accessible password of ‘solarwinds123,’” the 17-page complaint states. “[C]onsequently, SolarWinds’ customers, including, among others, the federal government, Microsoft, Cisco and Nvidia, would be vulnerable to hacks.”
The hack was first revealed in news reports on Dec. 13. Four days later, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert that stated the hack began “in at least March 2020” and remains a “grave risk” to government and infrastructure entities. Federal officials have described the cyberattack, which the government has blamed on Russia, as “the worst hacking case in the history of America.”
Members of Congress were later briefed that the hackers were able to break into dozens of email accounts at the Treasury Department.
Microsoft disclosed on Jan. 2 the hackers were able to access some of its source code in the break-in. A Microsoft spokesperson said its employees are working “around the clock” and will share information “when there is actionable information to share.”
A spokesman for SolarWinds said the firm “was the victim of a highly sophisticated, complex and targeted cyberattack” and is working with intelligence and law enforcement agencies to determine if it was hacked by a foreign government.
“We are solely focused on helping the industry and our customers understand and mitigate this attack, and quickly released hotfix updates to customers that we believe will close the vulnerability,” SolarWinds said in an email message Tuesday morning. “We have also taken a number of steps to further secure our network and products, including through advanced endpoint detection and monitoring tools.”
The lawsuit claims the publicly traded shares of SolarWinds were artificially inflated in price due to the alleged nondisclosures and that shareholders have been injured by the ensuing reduction in price since the hack was made public.
Shares of SolarWinds traded as high as $23.70 each on Dec. 8. They closed Monday at $14.53 a share.
The lawsuit seeks to include in the proposed class of plaintiffs anyone who purchased shares from Feb. 24 to Dec. 15. It seeks damages for violations of the Securities Exchange Act.
The complaint was submitted by Kirstine Rogers with Steckler Wayne Cochran in Dallas.
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’Hulk Hogan of Australian politics’ checks out the regions
Two of the country’s most senior politicians have used some surprising insults to attack other as they try to claim the upper hand in regional Queensland.
by MICHAEL WRAY
10th Dec 2019 4:58 PM
A ROUND of name-calling has broken out between two of the country's most senior politicians as Anthony Albanese started a four-day road trip pledging to support "any project in Queensland or anywhere else" that creates jobs.
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese and Senator for Queensland Murray Watt stroll along the Brisbane River before embarking on a listening tour of regional Queensland. (AAP Image/Albert Perez)
The Opposition Leader opened his Queensland listening tour today by savaging Resources Minister Matt Canavan, calling him "a boy" before Mr Canavan hit back, labelling Mr Albanese the "Hulk Hogan of Australian politics".
The spat broke out after Mr Canavan challenged Mr Albanese to use his swing through regional Queensland to say "three simple words: I support Adani".
Resources Minister Matt Canavan sees some similarities between Labor Leader Anthony Albanese and famous wrestler Hulk Hogan.
"Matt Canavan is a boy and, what I don't do is, when a boy makes a request, agree to him in a snap," Mr Albanese said in Brisbane this morning
"This is childish from Matt Canavan. What I want to hear Matt Canavan say is to complete the sentence: 'there will be a new coal-fired power station subsidised by the Government that I'm a minister in at X location'."
Resources Minister Matt Canavan wants Labor Leader Anthony Albanese to say “I support Adani” during his tour of Queensland this week. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE
Mr Canavan immediately returned serve, telling The Courier-Mail Mr Albanese shared at least one quality with famed performance wrestler Hulk Hogan.
"He only pretends to fight," Mr Canavan said.
"We are not silly in north Queensland. We know when someone is trying to have a lend. Albo is trying to say he now supports coal but he won't fight back against the Greenies who are attacking coal mines like Adani. If he's not going to fight, what's the point of him coming to visit us?"
Mr Albanese said he would tour areas struggling with unemployment levels well above the national average and understood people were desperate for new projects such as mines that created jobs.
He said every mine had to meet environmental standards and secure private funding however once those hurdles were cleared should be fully supported.
"I support the jobs that will be created by any project, any project in Queensland or anywhere else for that matter," he said.
Mr Albanese is expected to visit Barcaldine, Emerald, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Bundaberg, Maryborough, Hervey Bay and Gympie this week.
"I'll be walking into pubs and I'll be talking to people about the issues that concern them," he said.
"And I'm sure they'll tell me their views and we'll take all of them into account."
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Susan Hallstead
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Spanish American women writers and journalists of the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on fashion, consumption and identity politics in Argentina.
Doctoral Dissertation: Fashionation: Politics of Dress and Gender in Nineteenth Century Argentina, 2006
A faculty member of the CU-Boulder Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dr. Hallstead specializes in 19th century Argentine fashion narratives and has several publications on Argentine narratives. She has traveled frequently to Argentina and throughout Latin America, and is very familiar with the local customs and cultural heritage.
Dr. Hallstead teaches Advanced Spanish Grammar (3120), Latin American culture (3220) and late 19th and 20th century Argentine literature (3260, Global Seminar in Rosario, Argentina). Since teaching at CU, Dr. Hallstead has won the CU-LEAD award, the Marinus Smith Award from the CU Parents Association for excellence in teaching and the "Champion of International Education for Study Abroad Students" award, administered by The Office of International Education, CU-Boulder.
Study Abroad Global Seminar in Rosario, Argentina
Dr. Hallstead is the director to the Study Abroad Global Seminar to Rosario, Argentina. This faculty-led Global Seminar is conducted each summer from early June to mid July. The intensive 5 week program, hosted by the private university Fundación del Gran Rosario offers 6 upper-division credit hours to its participants (there is one culture class and one literature class offered each year), an all-expense included home stay with an Argentine family, several cultural excursions and guest lectures by local intellectuals and much more. For more information, you may contact Dr. Hallstead or visit Study Abroad. If your are interested in applying, you can do so here for summer 2018.
2019 “José Mármol’s Amalia (1851, 1855) and the Politics of Consumption. Journal of Latin American Culture Studies, 28 (1): 23-41.
2017 Pasado de moda: expresiones culturales y consume en la Argentina (co-edited with Regina Root, The College of William and Mary). Ampersand: Buenos Aires forthcoming
2017 “De hombres afeminados a los peligrosos: la política identitaria de las modas y la vestimenta masculinas en la literatura Argentina decimonónica”. Forthcoming in Pasado de moda. Expresiones culturales y consumo en la Argentina (Hallstead, Susan and Root, Regina, eds.) Buenos Aires: Edhasa.
2017 “Introducción a la moda argentina: de la época colonial a la actualidad” (together with Regina Root). Forthcoming in Pasado de moda. Expresiones culturales y consume en la Argentina. Hallstead, Susan and Root, Regina (eds.) Buenos Aires: Edhasa.
2016 “Modas y máscaras de la civilización: Juana Manso frente al consumo”. Saga: Revista de Letras, No. 4, Segundo Semestre: 75-119.
2012 “Introduction”, student edition of El año del desierto by Pedro Mairal. StockCero.
2012 “La política de la frivolidad: consumo, bajas pasiones y género en Blanca Sol de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera”. In El lenguaje de las emociones: afecto y cultura en América Latina (Moraña, Mabel and Sánchez Prado, Ignacio, eds.) Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2012: 109-124.
2012 “Identity Crises and Immigration in Argentina: Consumption and Belonging in En la sangre (1887) by Eugenio Cambaceres”. Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultural y Literatura. Vol. 27, No. 2, Spring 2012: 16-33.
2012 “Pasiones fatales: consumo, bandidaje y género en El Zarco” co-written with Juan Pablo Dabove. In Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI: Nuevas miradas y lecturas. Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente, 193-212.
2011 “En la sangre (1887): Appearance, Consumption, Class and National Identity in Cambaceres.” In Lenguaje, Arte y Revoluciones Ayer y Hoy: New Approaches to Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies. (Cortázar, Alejandro and Orozco, Rafael, eds.) New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 44-54.
2009 “Disease and Immorality: The Problem of Fashionable Dress in Buenos Aires (1862-1880)”. Latin American Literary Review. Vol. 37, No. 73. January-June 2009: 90-117.
2008 “De peinetones a grandes tiendas finiseculares: Consumo, moda e identidad nacional argentina”. In Cultura y cambio social en América Latina, ed., Mabel Moraña. Mabrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert: 179-208.
2004 “Políticas vestimentarias sarmientinas: tempranos ensayos sobre las modas y el buen vestir nacionales”. Revista Iberoamericana, Special issue “Políticas familiares: género y espacio doméstico en América Latina” edited by Lelia Area. LXX.206: 53-69
2003 “Black Bodies, White Readers: The Representation of the Slave Body in Francisco and El Negro Francisco”. Tropos XXIX: 37-58.
2001 “¿Una nación enfermiza? Enfermedad grotesca y escritura femenina en Dolores de Soledad Acosta de Samper”. Working Papers in Romance Languages and Literatures IV: 69-81
2000 “Cruzando las fronteras de la identidad subalterna: las mujeres tontas de Julio Cortázar y Manuel Puig”. Ciudadanía: apropiaciones y definiciones. Eds. Marta López-Luaces and Alicia Cipria. Washington: Literal Books. 53-63
2015 Book Review of Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture. (Milanesio, Natalia). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
2012 Book Review of Entre hombres: Masculinidades del siglo XIX en América Latina. (Peluffo, Ana and Sánchez Prado, Ignacio, eds.) Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2010. In A Contracorriente, Vol. 9, No. 3, spring 2012: 420-426.
2012 Book Review of Couture and Consensus by Root, Regina A. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2010. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Washington at St. Louis.
2011 Book Review of Women and Print Culture in Post-Independence Buenos Aires. Macintyre, Iona. Warminster: Tamesis, 2010. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Volume LXXXVIII, No. 5 (July 2011) University of Glasgow (769-771).
2011 Book Review of Gendered Self-Consciousness in Mexican and Chicana Women Writers: The Female Body as an Instrument of Political Resistance. Roberts-Camps, Traci. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. In Hispania Vol. 94, No. 1, March 2011: 216-217.
2010 Book Review of Rewriting Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887-1903. LaGreca, Nancy. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. In Hispania Vol. 93, No. 2, June 2010: 328-330.
2009 Book Review of Prisma: Análisis crítico de textos en español. Sobejano-Morán, Antonio and Bianco, Paola. Wilkes Barre: Panda Publications, 2008. Hispania 92, 737-738.
2003 Spanish to English of Mabel Moraña’s article: “El boom del subalterno”. Trigo, Abril (ed. and introd.); The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader. Durham, NC: Duke UP; 2004: 643-54.
2000 English to Spanish of Jean Franco’s article: “A Ghost Dance in the Fields of the Cold War”. Nuevas Perspectivas desde/sobre América Latina:el desafío de los estudios culturales. Ed. Mabel Moraña. Santiago de Chile-Pittsburgh: Editorial Cuarto Propio / IILI.
2000 English to Spanish of Debra A. Castillo’s article: “Border Lives: Prostitute Women in Tijuana”. Nuevas Perspectivas desde/sobre América Latina: el desafío de los estudios culturales. Ed. Mabel Moraña. Santiago de Chile-Pittsburgh: Editorial Cuarto Propio / IILI
1999 Spanish to English of Hugo Achugar’s article: “‘Nuestro Norte es el Sur’. A propósito de representaciones y localizaciones”. Read at the University of Chicago.
Papers Presented at Conferences / Conferences Attended
2016 Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (March 17-20). Paper titled: “Argentine Romanticism and the Politics of Consumption: on José Mármol’s Amalia”.
2016 Attended the Western Regional CIBER Consortium/Rocky Mountain CIBER Network Conference. University of Colorado-Denver (Oct 27-29).
2014 Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (March 18-21). Paper titled: “Fashion as Capital”.
2011 Reading Emotions in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Represenation of Affect. Third South by Midwest International Conference, Washington University in St. Louis. Paper titled: “The Politics of Frivolity: Consumption, Base Passions and Gender in Blanca Sol by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera”.
2010 Latin American Studies Association, XXIX International Conference. Toronto, Canada. Organized Panel: Argentine Fashion and Consumption 1800-2010. Paper Titled: “From the Effeminate to the Dangerous: The Identity Politics of 19th Century Argentine Male Fashion and Dress”.
2010 XXVII Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Paper titled: “En la Sangre, En la apariencia: Consumo e identidad nacional en Cambaceres”.
2006 Latin American Studies Association, XXVI International Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Paper titled: “Fashionable Desires: Consumption and Gender in Post-Caseros Buenos Aires”.
2003 University of Utah 22nd Annual Western Humanities Alliance Conference title “Memory, Material and Meaning”. Paper titled: “Remembering Juana Manso: The Other Voice of 19th Century Argentine Nationalism”.
2001 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 7th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures. Paper titled: “FashionNation: Male Discourses on Fashion in Alberdi’s La Moda (1837) and Sarmiento’s El Progreso (1842) in 19th Century Argentina”.
1999 Arizona State University Conference title “Parody, Satire and the Grotesque”. Paper titled: “¿Una nación enfermiza? Enfermedad real y simbólica en Dolores de Soledad Acosta de Samper”.
1999 Montclair State University Conference title “Citizenship: Appropriations and Definitions”. Paper titled: “Cruzando las fronteras de identidad subalterna: las mujeres “tontas” de Julio Cortázar y Manuel Puig”.
1999 University of Minnesota Conference title: “Border Crossings: An Interdisciplinary Forum”. Paper titled: “La nieve del Almirante by Alvaro Mutis: A Reading of the Post-Colonial Gothic”.
1999 New York University Conference title: “Outer Limits: Geografías móviles”. Paper titled: “Juegos ambiguos y fronteras simbólicas: La mujer “tonta” en Rayuela de Julio Cortázar y en Pubis Angelical de Manuel Puig.
2019 Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Certification
2016 Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence Grant, University of Colorado-Boulder, for travel to Harvard University, annual ACLA conference.
2014 Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence Grant, University of Colorado-Boulder, for travel to New York University, annual ACLA conference.
2011 Champion of Study Abroad, University of Colorado-Boulder for Global Seminar to Rosario, Argentina.
2011 Dean’s Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado-Boulder for travel to Buenos Aires to fund research for El año del desierto edition.
2011 Kayden Research Grant, University of Colorado-Boulder for edited volume Pasado de moda: expresiones culturales y consumo en la Argentina.
2010 Dean’s Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado-Boulder for travel to Toronto, Canada for LASA XXIX International Conference.
2009 Travel Grant, Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado-Boulder for travel to Lima, Peru for archival research.
2009 Dean’s Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado-Boulder for travel to IILI conference, Washington, D.C. June, 2010.
2006 Women’s Studies Dissertation Prize, University of Pittsburgh, awarded to the best graduate dissertation of 2006, chosen by a panel of university scholars.
2005 Travel Grant, Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado-Boulder for travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina for archival research,
2005 Dean’s Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado-Boulder for travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico for LASA XXVI International conference.
2002 Women’s Studies Research Award, University of Pittsburgh, to conduct research at Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
2001 Teaching Fellowship Recipient for Women’s Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, to teach course “Women and Society”.
2001 Center for Latin American Studies Travel Grant recipient, University of Pittsburgh, to conduct research at the National Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2001 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLASF) recipient, for the advanced study of Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the Instituto-Brasil-Estados Unidos (IBEU) (Department of Education, Washington, D.C.).
2000-2001 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLASF) recipient, for the study of Portuguese at the University of Pittsburgh (Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and Department of Education, Washington, D.C.).
2000 Center for Latin American Studies Travel Grant recipient, University of Pittsburgh to conduct research at the National Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998 Phi Beta Kappa Member, University of Pittsburgh.
2008 Marinus Smith Award from the CU Parents Association for excellence in teaching
2008 CU-LEAD award for excellence in teaching
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Bird-Man of Akah Ma'at
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Subj: Re: I remember when Shang-Chi said Daredevil took his title as “Master of Kung-Fu”..
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Reply Subj: Re: I remember when Shang-Chi said Daredevil took his title as “Master of Kung-Fu”..
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 at 11:15:55 pm EDT (Viewed 148 times)
Not exactly, but in any case, what Iron Fist thinks to himself, that Shang-Chi is the only person on the planet who can, not equal Danny in a martial arts fight, but probably win is a more honest assessment than friendly banter between the two.
Both can be true. Danny can think he’s superior as well as acknowledging that Shang has a chance in defeating him too.
That's not what Danny thinks though. The word "probably" means more likely than not, as in Shang-Chi would probably win against Danny according to Danny's own thoughts on the matter.
And as for the “one person in the world”.. did Danny forget about Shen Kuei or Master Izo? I could also see Gorgon, Fat Corbra, and Prince of Orphans defeating Danny but I can understand not taking them into account given their enhanced abilities.
Shen Kuei cannot "probably" beat Danny. I think he'd be seen as the underdog. How much does Danny even know of Izo to consider him? Fat Cobra isn't normally on Earth, so he wouldn't count. I don't know the status of the Prince of Orphans, but he may not be on Earth either.
How to make an entrance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMiOlIUGQw
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Shang-Chi Master of Kung Fu vs. Daredevil Man without Fear · Visitor · Thu Mar 01, 2018 at 08:46:16 pm EST
I remember when Shang-Chi said Daredevil took his title as “Master of Kung-Fu”.. · Bird-Man of Akah Ma'at · Sat Mar 03, 2018 at 10:07:37 pm EST
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Re: I remember when Shang-Chi said Daredevil took his title as “Master of Kung-Fu”.. · zvelf · Sat Mar 10, 2018 at 01:56:24 pm EST
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Shang-Chi (no text) · Poltargyst · Fri Mar 02, 2018 at 06:16:46 pm EST
The master of Kung Fu · BattleLord · Fri Mar 02, 2018 at 12:14:53 pm EST
In pure HtH combat, I think they're evenly matched... · The Shuruku Demon · Fri Mar 02, 2018 at 07:11:35 am EST
Daredevil (no text) · Bird-Man of Akah Ma'at · Thu Mar 01, 2018 at 11:01:08 pm EST
One says DD the other Shang-Chi, with another saying dead even. Anyone want to chime in to break the tie? (no text) · Visitor · Fri Mar 02, 2018 at 06:02:07 pm EST
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By Dean Woodward on October 16, 2009 in Community Care
In common with other public sector bodies, the Youth Justice Board must cut costs, but where?
The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is being reviewed. After years of inspecting others, the organisation itself is being inspected.
In this climate of public sector funding cuts it is reasonable to presume that such a review will include the potential for scope to make financial savings.
Even before the public purse-strings were tightened, the YJB was planning to cut overhead costs by 10%. But that would save less than 1% of its £527m annual budget.
Gordon Brown has recently mentioned cuts of 9.4% in public sector budgets yet assured the NHS it would not have to make such savings. This means, I can only surmise, that public sector bodies outside the NHS will face cuts of considerably more than 9.4%.
So where can the savings be found at the YJB? I have a bold and perhaps simplistic solution that could deliver at least part, if not all, of a 9.4% savings target on its annual budget.
Demand for custody
According to the Youth Justice Board’s Corporate and Business Plan 2009-10, a whopping 60% of the total budget (£316m) will be spent on keeping young people in custody as well as transporting young people to and from custody.
The YJB has already set out its strategic objective to “reduce the demand for custody”. The core of this strategy is to ensure that custodial remands and sentences are used only when a community sentence is inappropriate.
So why not take this objective a step further and look closely at the need for short-term detention and training orders (DTOs)? DTOs require young people to serve half their sentence in custody and the other half in the community under the supervision of a youth offending service worker who co-ordinates some kind of community payback.
This is usually victim-led and includes mediation or voluntary work in the local area as part of a training and supervision plan.
DTO sentences currently range between four months and two years and should only be used if a custodial sentence is considered necessary.
Questionable value
However, at present, a young detainee on a four-month DTO spends nine weeks in custody. The rehabilitation value and economic value of this is questionable.
My proposal, therefore, is to abolish four-month and six-month DTOs and introduce a minimum length of eight months for a DTO. The obvious danger of this plan is that those young offenders who would have received a four- or six-month DTO end up with an eight-month DTO.
Therefore considerable tinkering to sentencing guidelines would be needed in parallel to ensure those offenders who would have received short-term DTOs are instead given intensive community-based sentences rather than longer custodial sentences.
However, if this could be done it would free up resources in young offender institutions, save the YJB money, and enable greater access to courses and support for young detainees on longer sentences.
Dean Woodward is assistant director of Lambeth Specialist Youth Services
This article is published in the 22 October issue of Community Care magazine under the heading Ending lightest DTO sentences would save the YJB plenty
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How did your life change when you got scleral lenses?
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Consortium Special e-bulletin
Welcome to this special e-bulletin, which is full of updates about what Consortium is doing to support our Members in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Support for the Voluntary and Community Sector
The Chancellor announced yesterday a £750 Million package of support for charities.
£360m of this will be allocated by Government Departments to charities providing key services and supporting vulnerable people during the COVID-19 crisis £60m will be allocated through the Barnett formula to those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
£370m of the package will be distributed by other grant-making bodies for small and medium-sized charities providing services such as; delivering food, essential medicines and providing financial advice.
A minimum of £20m as match funding for ‘The Big Night In’.
NCVO estimates that charities stand to lose around £4bn in 12 weeks as a result of the crisis, so we know that not every charity is going to get through this unscathed. Consortium is here for Members that are experiencing issues, please get in touch to see if there is anything we can do to support you at this time.
COVID-19 Emergency Funds across the UK:
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Consortium hopes that the announcement from the Chancellor on a package of support is just the start of a commitment to ensure that the voluntary sector can deliver its vital services. Consortium will continue working with others across the voluntary sector to ensure no voices are unheard and that no communities are forgotten in all this.
We know you are all working incredibly hard to keep your services running and ensure LGBT+ people stay safe, keeping the pressure off frontline NHS and social care services and we continue to ensure that this is being recognised by key stakeholders including funders, government and other public bodies.
Consortium has written on behalf of the sector to Liz Truss, Minister for Women and Equalities, seeking support and collaboration for LGBT+ services right across the UK. We are about to follow-up on this given the Chancellor’s announcement, to ensure the GEO will be playing its part in the Government’s financial response for the voluntary sector. We will also be reaching out to partners across the UK to collect additional data on the impact COVID-19 is having in parts of the UK and what response is being given.
Consortium is working tirelessly to keep LGBT+ voices on the agenda and to highlight the vital support our Members are providing to vulnerable, isolated and marginalised members of our communities. Please continue to share your data with us, let us know how you are responding and what more we can be doing to support you during this challenging time.
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Consortium has published it’s LGBT+ Sector COVID-19 Insight Report here, which outlines the immediate impact that the pandemic and subsequent Government lockdown is having on the work of our Members.
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Best new kit from iceBike 2015
With more than 70 brands under one roof, there was plenty of new kit on display at iceBike 2015. Here are some of our favourite products from the show.
Henry Robertshaw February 25, 2015 3:20 pm
This week sees the iceBike trade show taking place at Stadium MK in Milton Keynes. The in-house show of Madison, the UK’s largest cycling distributor, there were plenty of new products on display, and here are just a few of our favourites.
The new Road Race Light jersey promises an uncompromising aerodynamic fit
New for spring/summer 2015 is the top-end Road Race Light clothing range from Madison. Consisting of a short sleeve jersey, long sleeve jersey and bib shorts, the new range was developed alongside the Madison-Genesis pro team over the course of the 2014 season, with extensive input from Andy Tennant and co. in the details of the range.
The Road Race Light range has been developed closely with Madison-Genesis
The focus of the Road Race Light range is very much on performance with the short front and longer rear of the jersey promising to provide a close fit even when riding on the drops. The jersey also features mesh panels under the arms and on the side panels to aid airflow. Pricing and availability is still to be confirmed, but Madison tells us that the jerseys will be around £65 and the shorts £90, with stock hopefully available from late May.
The Madison Road Race Carbon saddle is a new-top end model, weighing only 120g
Madison was also showing off its extensive range of saddles, including this new top-end Road Race Carbon model. As you can probably guess from the name, this is a lightweight model with UD carbon-fibre used for the shell and rails, and ultralight foam for padding. The model on show at iceBike was only a prototype, and public availability is still a couple of months away, but Madison are giving a very low claimed weight of 120g, and a half decent price of £149.99.
The P.R.O. Ltd Speed jersey is the pick of the new Pearl Izumi range
More new clothing comes courtesy of Pearl Izumi, with the overhauled P.R.O. and Elite ranges. Our favourite piece from the collection was the P.R.O. Ltd Speed jersey, developed alongside the BMC Racing. This is an aero-minded short sleeve jersey, which includes anatomically cut sleeves which are angled forward to fit well while riding on the drops, a design that Pearl Izumi is in the process of patenting. Expect the price to be around the £90 mark.
The Kryptonite Messenger Mini lock with optional extender to secure the rear wheel
Kryptonite had their new Messenger collection on display, a small range of products developed in collaboration with bike messengers in New York which aim to offer the same level of security as their standard locks, while being easier to carry and usable in plenty of different scenarios.
The Messenger Mini is essentially an elongated version of the company’s Mini-5 D-locks, making it easier to attach to railings and rails, while the reduced diameter of the rail reduces the weight. For an extra £3 you can get the Messenger Mini+ which includes a wheel extender loop, making it easier to lock up both your frame and wheels with one lock.
The Security Wheelnutz mean the front wheel can only be removed with the bike turned upside-down
However perhaps the cleverest pieces of tech on show were the Security WheelNutz. These are essentially a pair of wheel nuts which attach to your front skewer and mean that your front wheel can only be removed if the bike is turned upside down – not something that’s easily done if it’s locked up. A pair will cost £24.99 – not cheap for a pair of wheel nuts, but certainly less than the price of a second lock to secure your front wheel.
The Cosmo helmet sits at the top of Lazer’s new MOi women’s helmet range
There was also plenty to see on the Lazer stand, most notably their extensive new “MOi” range of women’s helmets. The helmets use Lazer’s RollSys adjustment system that places the adjustment dial on the top of the helmet rather than at the rear, meaning that all of the MOi range is marketed as “ponytail friendly”.
The MOi range is proudly marketed as “ponytail friendly” thanks to the RollSys adjustment system
The range is pretty large, and thankfully not all pink, with the top-end covered by the £199.99 Cosmo helmet, which includes a detachable aero shell and a definite focus on the road racer, all the way down to the £29.99 Summer helmet.
Lazer’s new iSensor technology already has one world record under its belt
Another neat thing we saw on the Lazer stand was the company’s new i-Sensor technology. Recently ridden to a world record by the Australian women’s team pursuit squad at the Track World Championships, the system is a small box which sits in the helmet and alerts you by sound or vibration whenever you’re head moves from a pre-configured aerodynamic position.
The i-Sensor system will be available on Lazers Wasp and Wasp Air time trial helmets, and although there’s no confirmed pricing just yet, word on the street is that the cost will be an extra €150 (approximately £110) on top of the cost of the helmets.
The LifeBEAM system monitor heart rate and calories with a tiny chip in the front of the helmet
The final piece of product news from Lazer was the new LifeBEAM system, effectively a heart rate monitor integrated into the front of the helmet, eliminating the need for a chest strap. Data is transmitted via both ANT+ and Bluetooth via a wireless transmitter attached to the rear of the helmet, and while the current version only measures heart rate and calories burnt, future models could have the ability to analyse the electrolyte content of your sweat to monitor for dehydration. The system is currently available only available on the Genesis helmet, and costs £199.99.
Rapide unveiled an eye-catching prototype of its first disc road bike, due to launch in 2016
From the people who brought you Ridgeback and Genesis, Rapide is a new brand launched last summer with a range of four carbon and five alloy bikes. Despite being a new name, Rapide is already planning for the future with a new disc version of the RL3, the company’s top-end alloy model, which is in the pipeline for 2016.
The prototype on display at iceBike came with a carbon fork with enough clearance for whopping 42mm tyres, 11-speed Shimano 105 gearing, mechanical discs and disc-specific wheels from Alex Rims. Pricing is still to be confirmed, but Rapide is looking to sell the Disc RL3 at around £1149, with lower priced RL2 and RL1 versions, with Tiagra and Sora groupsets respectively, also on their way.
K-Edge offers a range of number of solutions for holding your Garmin and GoPro with the Aero version alonside this XL mount
K-Edge first developed an aerodynamic version of their out-front Garmin mount while working with Team Sky ahead of last year’s Tour de France, and are now offering the Aero Combo Mount which will also hold a GoPro (or other action camera) beneath the Garmin.
The aero qualities of the mount mean that the computer is held closer to the bars, meaning that it is only compatible with Garmin Edge 200, 500, and 510 computers, so owners of 800, 810 and 1000s will have to look to the non-aero XL Combo mount for their cockpit decluttering solution. The new Aero Combo mount is priced at £44.99 with black the only colour available.
The Sidekick light aims to improve camera footage in low light conditions
Another new GoPro related product came courtesy of Light & Motion and the new Sidekick companion light. Launched on Kickstarter at the start of this year, the Sidekick aims to solve the problem of poor quality video when shooting in low light conditions, emitting a 600-lumen flood beam to provide enough light for decent images. The Sidekick Duo seen above also includes a 400-lumen spot beam allowing it to double as a decent front light.
The light is secured using a simple arm that attaches to existing GoPro mounts and has a claimed battery life of between 1 and 4 hours – nothing amazing but recharging should be easy enough with a simple USB cable.
The Recon Jet sunglasses were perhaps the most high tech product on show, and will certainly divide opinion
The Recon Jet smart glasses first appeared on our radar back in December, so we were looking forward to setting eyes on a sample pair at iceBike. The glasses feature a powerful microcomputer, sensors and GPS which collect a large range of metrics which are then projected onto the glasses just below your right eye, as well as a HD camera which can shoot photos or videos. With both ANT+ and Bluetooth capabilities, the Jets are compatible with pretty much every speed, cadence and power meter on the market, and can also connect to your smartphone, allowing you to instantly upload videos and photos to social media.
As you’d expect, this sort of technology doesn’t come cheap, with a pair setting you back £589 (although this is a relative bargain compared to the £1000 price-tag that Google Glass commanded), and we certainly weren’t entirely convinced by large amount of extra bulk that the Jet added, so we’ll wait to see whether the market really exists for this sort of technology.
Sam Pilgrim’s custom-built Ridley Noah as seen in Road Bike Party 3
Ridley had not one but two unique bikes on display: Tony Gallopin’s yellow Helium SL from his one day in the yellow jersey on stage 10 of last year’s Tour de France, and the Noah used by Sam Pilgrim in Road Bike Party 3.
For a bike that has certainly received a lot of abuse in its short life, the custom-painted Ridley Noah looked in pretty good nick, with the FSA K-Force Light crankset and Shimano Dura-Ace drivetrain looking in perfect working order, with the same being said of the FSA finishing kit and Prologo saddle. However the beady-eyed amongst you will note the Vision Metron 55 wheels, rather than the Metron 81 wheels used in the film, which we’re guessing are not quite in working order.
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[Cancelled] Mitigating Location Privacy Attacks on Mobile Devices using Dynamic App Sandboxing
Speaker: Prof. Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University | Location: Rundeturmstraße 10 (S3|20), Room 111, Darmstadt
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This talk explores mobile security threats and discusses the design, implementation and evaluation of a system, called MATRIX, developed to protect the privacy of mobile device users from location inference and sensor side-channel attacks. MATRIX gives users control and visibility over location and sensor (e.g., Accelerometers and Gyroscopes) accesses by mobile apps. It implements a PrivoScope service that audits all location and sensor accesses by apps on the device and generates real-time notifications and graphs for visualizing these accesses; and a Synthetic Location service to enable users to provide obfuscated or synthetic location trajectories or sensor traces to apps they find useful, but do not trust with their private information. The services are designed to be extensible and easy for users, hiding all of the underlying complexity from them. MATRIX also implements a Location Provider component that generates realistic privacy-preserving synthetic identities and trajectories for users by incorporating traffic information using historical data from Google Maps Directions API, and accelerations using statistical information from user driving experiments. These mobility patterns are generated by modeling/solving user schedule using a randomized linear program and modeling/solving for user driving behavior using a quadratic program. MATRIX was extensively evaluated using user studies, popular location-driven apps and machine learning techniques, and demonstrate that it is portable to most Android devices globally, is reliable, has low-overhead, and generates synthetic trajectories that are difficult to differentiate from real mobility trajectories by an adversary.
I received my PhD in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL 1996) and my engineering diploma (MS) from École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées at Grenoble (ENSIMAG 1991). Prior to joining Northeastern University, I was a senior research scientist at CSEM SA (Switzerland) where I led several research project and contributed to the definition of the third generation Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) standardized as 3GPP WCDMA. I held visiting research positions at Eurecom, MIT, and UNL. I am a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and Google Faculty Research Award. I serve(d) on the editorial board of ACM Transactions of Privacy and Security, ACM Transactions of Information and Systems Security, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and the Elsevier Computer Networks Journal. I co-chaired the TPC of ACM WiSec‘2015, IEEE CNS‘2015, IEEE WoWMoM 2015, IEEE SECON’14, NETYS’14, ICCCN’12 and regularly serve on the TPC of wireless networking and security conferences such as IEEE Infocom, ACM WiSec, ACM Mobicom, ACM MobiHoc. I served as a judge in the Synthetic Biology iGEM competition 2012-2013.
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Jean Kapata axes Kalulushi Council
MINISTER of Lands Jean Kapata and Commissioner of Lands Wilfred Muma leave State House after presenting their quarterly report to President Lungu yesterday. PICTURE: MACKSON WASAMUNU
MINISTER of Lands Jean Kapata has suspended Kalulushi Municipal Council on the Copperbelt from serving as its land administration agent for its failure to adhere to guidelines and procedures in the management of the natural resource.
This comes barely a week after Government suspended Kabwe Municipal Council and Ndola City Council from serving as its land administration agents for equally failing to adhere to guidelines in the management of land.
Ms Kapata said at a press briefing in Lusaka yesterday that all land administration processes at Kalulushi Municipal Council will now be handled by the provincial land office until sanity is restored.
“Government has suspended Kalulushi Municipal Council from serving as its land administration agent for their failure to adhere to guidelines and procedures in the management of the natural resource until further notice,” she said.
On Thursday last week, Ms Kapata suspended Kabwe Municipal Council and Ndola City Council from serving as its land administration agents for their failure to adhere to guidelines and procedures in the management of the natural resource.
She warned all councils countrywide that the ministry will not hesitate to revoke the agency for any council that will be found violating the guidelines and procedures in land administration.
Ms Kapata has since urged technocrats in her ministry to revise administrative circular number one ne of 1985 to improve the administration of land. She regretted the high prevalence of illegality and lawlessness pertaining to land allocation and acquisition in Zambia, which is threatening law and order and, consequently, affecting socio-economic development in this country.
Meanwhile, CATHERINE MUMBA reports that Government through the Ministry of Lands has banned the export of all types of timber species until further notice.
Ms Kapata said in a statement that the move is aimed at empowering the local people and ensure sustainable operation of the local timber industry.
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Ali Wentworth, comedian and wife of George Stephanopoulos, tests positive for COVID-19
Ali Wentworth has tested positive for the coronavirus.
The comedian and wife of ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos confirmed her COVID-19 diagnosis on Instagram Wednesday, revealing that she's "never been sicker."
"I have tested positive for the Corona Virus. I’ve never been sicker. High fever. Horrific body aches. Heavy chest. I’m quarantined from my family."
She accompanied her health update with a solemn picture of herself lying in bed while sick, describing her battle with coronavirus as "pure misery."
Earlier Wednesday, Stephanopoulos revealed on "Good Morning America" that he would broadcast from home after Wentworth "developed some symptoms" consistent with COVID-19, although he didn't confirm whether she had the virus or not.
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"Ali has developed some symptoms so she’s upstairs resting right now," Stephanopoulos told his "GMA" co-hosts. "While she’s recovering as she goes through this, I’m going to be broadcasting from home and we’ll be working as long as we can."
The couple share two daughters: Elliott, 17, and Harper, 14.
On her Instagram post, Wentworth urged everyone to "stay home" to limit the spread of the coronavirus, a similar message she shared last week while participating in the #istayhome challenge.
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Her acting credits include "In Living Color," "Seinfeld," "Jerry Maguire," "Office Space," and "It's Complicated."
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Morrison Sacked Five Management Executives– Casualty of Slumping Profits
New leader of the distressed supermarket steps to clear the decks of its executive management team.
Morrison’s Chief executive, Dalton Philips, left the company after continuously recording 5 years of declining profits. Former Tesco executive, David Potts was placed as the new CEO of Morrison. The UK retail market distress led to the latest casualty in the boardroom. The supermarket chain delivered repeatedly the worst performance post-Christmas among the top listed supermarkets in Britain. The new CEO, David Potts dismissed almost half of its senior management group in his attempt to save the plagued supermarket. The drastic stroke came in just a week after the leadership change.
Besides the CEO and the finance director, the company’s top 10 senior officials are also a part of the management board, out of which 5 are going to leave the company. The sacked senior executives include consumer marketing and digital director Nock Collard; property & strategy director Gordon Mowat; retail director Martyn Fletcher; convenience managing director Nigel Robertson and logistics director Neal Austin. These include officials brought by Dalton Philips.
Mr. Potts stated that he will be building a slimmer management board with the objective to simplify and increase the pace of business. The intimidating action taken by David Potts was his move to bring back Morrison in the race. At the time he took the leadership, the company recorded the lowest yearly profits and also warned that the company could cut down its dividend in future. The company also recorded write down of property in its accounts and would be more transparent in booking its revenue. With the launch of a new campaign to receive consumer as well as staff feedback, the CEO also announced that he will be working in a store in April. Further he bought more than £1million of the company’s shares.
Britain is considered to be highly competitive food market. Hence, it led to a price war amongst the four biggest supermarket chains including Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons. As a result of the fierce competition from its rivals, the company is struggling hard to regain back the lost momentum of its growth. With huge cut in its prices, Tesco has emerged as Britain’s largest retailer with its sales much ahead of its rivals. This strong growth of Tesco has been attained after a difficult year. The Company also have a new CEO, Dave Lewis and is trying to rebuild the company’s image after the expose of accounting scandal of Tesco that overstated the company’s profits by £264million.
Ross Eggleton and Miles Foster are said to continue in their positions of logistics and M convenience chain respectively. Meanwhile Andy Atkinson will take the position of interim marketing director and Clare Grainger as interim retail director. The company did not disclose the size of its managing board but the company cleared the doubts that departures were nor triggered by any scandals. The new CEO of Morrison has become one of the three former Tesco officials along with the new chairman Andrew Higginson and the finance executive Trevor Strain.
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The spread of COVID-19 has created a serious public health challenge for governments throughout the world, but several countries have responded differently.
The U.S. and many European nations, for instance, have introduced widespread social distancing and “stay at home” orders.
South Korea, the country that has shown the most success at reversing the course of the pandemic, has relied on aggressive public health interventions, such as temporary isolation and contact tracing, with only limited resort to social distancing.
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But Sweden has largely eschewed social distancing, choosing instead to permit more normal levels of economic and social interaction.
Other experts have argued that the disease spreads in exactly the same manner regardless of the mitigation approach, and some favor a completely different “controlled avalanche” approach that encourages young people to quickly develop immunity through voluntary exposure to the illness.
It will certainly take some time for the international data to definitively say which approach is best, but it seems that very few people want to have a healthy debate over the costs and benefits of those approaches.
In the U.S., criticism of social distancing and shutdowns is often misconstrued as advocating for tens or even hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Aside from the fact that these death tolls are based on uncertain statistical modeling, the choice is not between maintaining current policies and doing nothing. The choice is between maintaining current policies and doing something that may be more effective.
It’s vital that the public scrutinize current public health policies and examine the evidence as it becomes available. Only a robust debate can produce the best public policies.
In an interview posted April 17, one of the world’s leading epidemiologists, Johan Giesecke, gave a very blunt assessment of why he thinks Sweden’s approach is the right way to attack the COVID-19 problem.
The interview was with UnHerd.com, a U.K.-based outlet dedicated to providing “a platform for otherwise unheard ideas, people, and places.” Listen to Giesecke’s “unheard ideas” for yourself here: “Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy.”
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The Academy The Academy's audition information packets for percussion and color guard members are now available to download.
ArizonaAcademy.org
Blue Devils At the end of September, members of the Blue Devils organization traveled to South Africa in support of the Field Band Foundation Championships. The contingent delivered a donation of musical instruments.
BlueDevils.org
Blue Knights Those who register before Oct. 31 can get a special discounted rate on the fee to attend the Blue Knights' audition camps.
Blue Stars The Blue Stars will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2014. To kick off the milestone, the organization posted a new video featuring corps founder and DCI Hall of Fame member David Kampschroer.
The Cadets Parent organization of the Cadets, Youth Education in the Arts, is looking to hire a managing director of finance and administration.
YEA.org
Cascades Cascades will hold an open house for prospective corps members on Nov. 16 and 17 in Bellevue, Wash.
The Cavaliers The Cavaliers have set up several groups on Facebook for prospective members to get more information about the corps' audition camps, arrange carpools and more.
Cavaliers.org
City Sound City Sound will host a two-day audition Nov. 23 and 24 in San Pedro, Calif. Registration will begin the evening of Friday, Nov. 22. Those interested in attending should register online.
City-Sound.org
Colts You can help the Colts receive an office makeover. The corps is one of two organizations in Dubuque to be participating in the Make My Non-Profit Run Better contest presented by RK Dixon and Premier. Do your part by voting for the corps once per day until Oct. 23.
Colts.org
Genesis Genesis will have representatives at several upcoming marching band shows throughout October and November in Texas to meet with students interested in joining the corps in 2014.
Gold Gold posted a new video on Facebook featuring interviews with corps members explaining why they chose to be members of the corps.
Jersey Surf Jersey Surf posted its complete schedule of audition and off-season rehearsal camps. The corps will kick things off Nov. 22-24 with auditions for brass, percussion, color guard and field conductors.
JerseySurf.org
Madison Scouts In addition to its regularly scheduled audition camps, the Madison Scouts will also offer brass musicians the opportunity to audition online scheduling a 15-minute session of one-on-one time with a brass and visual instructor for evaluation.
MadisonScouts.org
Music City Music City recently launched an online fundraising campaign through GoFundMe.com. The corps is aiming to raise $50,000 to help the corps return to the field in 2014. Donation levels come with various "rewards," including some that offer the opportunity for the donor to conduct the group playing its theme song, "Tennessee Waltz."
MusicCityDrumCorps.org
Oregon Crusaders Oregon Crusaders snare drummer Jay Reddicks has been selected as a member of the U.S. Army All-American Marching Band.
Pacific Crest DCI Hall of Fame member Todd Ryan will serve as a visual consultant on Pacific Crest's 2014 instructional staff.
Pacific-Crest.org
Pioneer Audition information and materials for brass and percussion players are now available for download from Pioneer.
Raiders Raiders' technique and audition information packet for battery percussionists is now available for download.
Santa Clara Vanguard Santa Clara Vanguard posted updates to its 2014 audition schedule. Battery percussionists now have the opportunity to audition Sunday, Dec. 1 in Indianapolis.
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Agere Systems Announces 150 Mbit/s Throughput for Multimode Wi-Fi Products
Software enhancements to Agere's WaveLAN™ 802.11a/b/g chip set deliver increased data throughput for wireless media applications
March 15, 2004 - ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A, AGR.B) today announced performance acceleration software for its WaveLAN™ 802.11a/b/g multimode chip set, delivering up to 150 megabit-per-second (Mbit/s) data throughput speeds for wireless networking products. This "turbo mode" capability, developed using standards-based quality-of-service (QoS) techniques and other software enhancements, will give retail and PC OEMs the highest performing multimode solution on the market, enabling seamless connectivity and broad compatibility.
With the proliferation of wireless networking standards and applications for PCs and consumer electronics, high-speed Wi-Fi users are most concerned about getting the best throughput at any given range and uninterrupted connections in mixed-mode networks. Agere's WaveLAN multimode chip set provides up to twice the range of competing solutions at peak data rates - as well as higher throughput when combined with software enhancements - to deliver reliable, high-speed connections. Agere's advanced acceleration techniques build on this strong foundation and, by employing mechanisms anticipated in the IEEE 802.11e QoS standard, ensure the maximum interoperability with millions of Wi-Fi products being deployed globally.
"Our WaveLAN multimode chips offer outstanding baseline range and data throughput," said Stan Swearingen, vice president of Agere's computing connectivity division. "By leveraging standards-defined software mechanisms, Agere is raising the bar in peak performance and industry-wide interoperability for high-speed Wi-Fi devices."
Agere's acceleration software enables ever-faster networking. Networks employing Agere's WaveLAN solution can support applications that require greater bandwidth, such as streaming media within the home, transmitting large data files, or routing multiple Wi-Fi devices to an external hard disk drive.
Delivering turbo-charged software enhancements
Agere's software acceleration capabilities have been developed using a number of techniques to improve data transmission speeds, including client-to-client transfer, in which two devices bypass an access point to send data directly to each other, data compression, frame bursting and overhead management, among others. With peak performance representing a multiple of baseline performance, Agere's software builds on exceptional range and data throughput to enable up to 150 Mbit/s wireless connectivity.
Striving for standards-based interoperability
Ramping to production this month, Agere's WaveLAN multimode chip set consists of a single-chip, dual-band 2.4/5.2 GHz RF transceiver, media access controller (MAC), baseband processor and power amplifier. Agere's acceleration software will be implemented as a technology overlay to the WaveLAN chip set in third calendar quarter 2004, aligned with the expected ratification of the 802.11e standard. This timing will ensure that Agere's software enhancements fully comply with the final QoS specification, providing Wi-Fi product developers with the highest performing interoperable solution available.
Agere Systems is a premier provider of advanced integrated circuit solutions for high-density storage, wireless data and multiservice networking applications. The company is the market leader in providing chips for desktop, mobile and consumer electronics hard disk drives. Agere's wireless data portfolio includes industry-leading solutions for data-capable cellular phones, as well as Wi-Fi/802.11 solutions for wireless LANs and computing applications. Agere also provides custom and standard networking solutions to move information across wired, wireless and enterprise networks. Agere's customers include the leading PC manufacturers, wireless terminal providers, network equipment suppliers and hard disk drive providers.
For more information, customers may visit Agere's Web site at www.agere.com or contact one of Agere's regional sales offices. Customers in the U.S. may also call the Agere Systems Customer Response Center at 1-800-372-2447. Customers in Canada may call 1-800-553-2448. Customers outside those countries may call 1-610-712-4323. Fax inquiries may be directed to 1-610-712-4106, or e-mail queries to docmaster@agere.com. Written inquiries should be sent to Agere Systems, Room 10A-301C, 1110 American Parkway NE, Lehigh Valley Central Campus, Allentown, PA, 18109, USA.
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Official Calls for Tech Giants to Report on Fake Virus News
A senior EU official warned Google and Facebook to step up the fight against fake news.
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European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova addresses an online press conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, June 10, 2020.
AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool
BRUSSELS (AP) — A senior European Union official warned online platforms like Google and Facebook on Wednesday to step up the fight against fake news, coming notably from countries like China and Russia, but she praised the approach of Twitter for fact-checking a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Unveiling a plan to fight disinformation linked to the coronavirus, European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said that she wants online tech companies to provide detailed reports each month on the action they are taking to prevent a fake news “infodemic.”
The commission insists that “foreign actors and certain third countries, in particular Russia and China, have engaged in targeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns in the EU, its neighborhood, and globally.” No details were provided.
Jourova praised those U.S. digital giants that agreed to extra scrutiny under a voluntary code of practice aimed at halting the spread of disinformation linked to the virus, but she told reporters that this is just a first step and that “there is room for improvement.”
“They have to open up and offer more evidence that the measures they have taken are working well. They also have to enable the public to identify new threats independently. We invite them now to provide monthly reports with more granular information than ever before,” she said.
She noted that short-video app TikTok would soon sign up to the disinformation code of practice, launched in 2018.
Jourova played down concerns that the EU commission, which proposes laws in the 27-nation bloc and ensures that they are enforced, plans to regulate disinformation itself, saying: “I don’t want to create a ministry of truth.”
But she praised the approach of Twitter last month, when it placed fact-check warnings on two tweets from Trump’s own account that called mail-in election ballots “fraudulent” and predicted problems with the November U.S. elections.
Under the tweets, there is now a link reading “Get the facts about mail-in ballots” that guides users to a Twitter “moments” page with fact checks and news stories about Trump’s unsubstantiated claims.
“I support the Twitter reaction to tweets of President Trump,” Jourova told reporters. “They did not delete it. We all can see it. They provided fact checked information and promoted facts.”
The big U.S. tech companies, which have been filing monthly reports since February 2019 on progress eradicating fake news in general from their platforms, said they supported the EU’s new request for more detailed data on their work to limit virus-related disinformation and advertising.
“We share the European Commission’s goal of reducing misinformation about COVID-19,” Facebook said in a statement. The company noted its efforts on fact-checking, labelling content and “removing hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation about the virus that could lead to imminent physical harm.”
Twitter has been “engaging with the European Commission, as well as industry partners, civil society and the research community, since February specifically on COVID-19,” said Sinead McSweeney, its vice president of public policy. The social media company said it was strengthening how it tackles misinformation, including promoting better media literacy across the EU.
Google said it’s cooperating with Jourova and national authorities and is committed to finding “new and creative ways to continue the fight against disinformation.”
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India in talks with all COVID vaccine manufacturers, domestic and foreign: Health ministry
A day after Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE announced more than 90 per cent efficacy of their potential vaccine for the coronavirus, the health ministry on Tuesday said the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 is in conversation with all vaccine manufacturers, including domestic and foreign ones.
PTI | New Delhi | Updated: 10-11-2020 20:38 IST | Created: 10-11-2020 20:38 IST
A day after Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE announced more than 90 per cent efficacy of their potential vaccine for the coronavirus, the health ministry on Tuesday said the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 is in conversation with all vaccine manufacturers, including domestic and foreign ones. Asked if India is considering a tie-up with Pfizer for its COVID-19 vaccine and whether it has the infrastructure for specialised cold chain requirement for this vaccine, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said, "The National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 is in talks with all vaccine manufacturers, including domestic and foreign manufacturers." "When we continue this dialogue, we not only look at the status of the development of their vaccines, we also look at the regulatory approvals as to where they have progressed and we also engage in a dialogue about the logistical requirements, if such vaccines have to stored at temperatures that may range from two to eight degrees to minus 50 to minus 90 degrees Celsius as well as the doses that will be required to be administered.
"This is a continuously changing, dynamic situation and if and when the regulatory approval comes, we will share it with you," he said at a press briefing. Asked whether the vaccine would only be available in the metro cities initially since the Centre is planning an early 2021 roll-out, Bhushan said the government does not make any discrimination between metro cities and non-metro cities.
"Whenever the regulatory approvals for the vaccines are provided, we have a plan that would ensure that the vaccines would be available to all priority population groups, irrespective of the region where they reside," he clarified. Responding to another query on vaccine administration, he said, "We are in a position to not only augment and strengthen, but also to add to our cold chain capabilities." Any large-scale immunisation would not only require a substantial increase in the number of cold-chain points, but also a huge rise in the number of cold chain equipment, Bhushan added.
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE on Monday said their vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19. "Today is a great day for science and humanity. The first set of results from our Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial provides the initial evidence of our vaccine's ability to prevent COVID-19," Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla said.
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A group of developers -- apparently unhappy with the open source FFmpeg project community -- forked it.
It's not clear who forked it, or really why FFmpeg has been forked, but it's forked, Phoronix Michael Larabel reported.
The new project is called libav.
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Home > Video review > Video: What I love about Death End re;Quest (Sony PlayStation 4)
Video: What I love about Death End re;Quest (Sony PlayStation 4)
Video by Matt S.
Death End re;Quest is Idea Factory's latest JRPG, and it surprised me in terms of how good it actually is. I've always enjoyed the work of the developer/publisher, but this one is the most mature and intelligent one to date - this is a genuinely cracking game.
So, in addition to my review (which you can find here), I thought I'd do a video, looking at some of the stuff that I really loved about the game, as well as giving you all a look at what the game looks like in action.
No spoilers, I promise! Footage is exclusively from the first couple of hours of the game alone.
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Are you prepared to purchase a new game console every two years?
By Andrew Mayer July 28, 2016
For decades, if you wanted the best gaming experience possible, the easiest option has been “go out and buy the latest console.” From the first Nintendo Entertainment System in the early 1980s through the Xbox 360’s domination in the early 2000s, we embraced the console as a stable, affordable alternative to PC gaming. But times are changing.
Console sales are stable, but they aren’t growing like the rest of the gaming world. The bag of tricks consoles used to entice new gamers to buy in every five to 10 years has run dry. Games cost so much to develop now that platform exclusive games are more rare, and sheer graphical prowess isn’t enticing players like it did for so long.
To compete with an escalating number of ways players can get their gaming fix, Sony and Microsoft are trying a new strategy that looks very similar the one Apple has been using for the iPhone.
It is a strategy that’s slowly transforming game consoles from cutting-edge systems we replace every half decade or so, to disposable entertainment appliances that must be upgraded every couple of years if you want to keep playing the newest and most spectacular games.
Constant upgrades with backward compatibility
In 2013, the console landscape began to shift. Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One arrived, but rather than relying solely on unique hardware designed to outpace home computers, they were constructed directly from PC parts.
This year, Sony and Microsoft took their commitment to PC processors a step further, announcing interim upgrades that will bring their X86 based boxes up to speed with more-current, high-end home computer technology.
Upgrades guarantee gamers a feature that’s been lacking for years — backwards compatibility.
Apple’s success proves that people are willing to drop hundreds of dollars to upgrade their devices every couple of years. The apps and games you’ve purchased on one iPhone almost always work on the next, but if you don’t upgrade every three to four years, at minimum, you get left behind. Microsoft and Sony want in on that model.
To get there, they still have some work to do. Backward compatibility is a huge missing feature in consoles right now. Sony experimented with it on the PlayStation 3, but only a few titles made the cut. Microsoft’s Xbox has treated the concept with more respect, but both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One lack backward compatibility with many titles of the previous generation, forcing users to re-buy their favorite games for each console.
PC, Android, and iPhone users have faced no such issues with backward compatibility, and it freed everyone to upgrade at any time and know that their games and apps would transfer to the new phone.
Microsoft seeks to re-take the lead
In April, Sony confirmed that the PlayStation 4.5 will run all existing PS4 games, and unleash more features and effects for upgraded players. At E3, it showed off its new PlayStation VR headset. It hasn’t said it yet, but PSVR will be one of many reasons to upgrade to a PS4 Neo. To make VR the next big thing (and competitive with PCs), Sony will need that extra computing power.
Meanwhile, Microsoft announced both a slimmer version of the Xbox One, and a powerful new console clearly positioned to work with VR, dubbed Project Scorpio. A new “Play Anywhere” initiative, also announced at E3, will let players buy select titles that can be played on both Windows and the Xbox One.
Both companies are being cagey about their iterative platform strategies, but a comment from Microsoft is telling. One of its top engineers, Mike Ybarra, recently stated, “In the phone market, people are more used to upgrading fast and wanting the latest of everything. But with phones, your new apps had better work on that phone and the next one. According to what they’re telling us, the consumer expectation is — games and apps had better work even if I upgrade.”
Upgrades are the future
Microsoft and Sony are seeking to emulate Apple’s spectacularly successful iterative upgrade model. It has allowed Apple to fully transform software into a service that can bring users (and their libraries) forward from generation to generation, and upgrade to upgrade. Features like backward compatibility may usher in the kind of device loyalty that only Apple has been able to generate so far.
If the plan works, it will mean the console wars we’ve seen in the past will be nothing compared to the future. If players know their entire library of games will be available for years, and compatible with more and more powerful boxes, they won’t just be fans — they’ll have a powerful financial incentive to stick with the machine they already have, and invest in regular upgrades for years to come. The feeling may be much like the resistance many iPhone owners have to leaving Apple for Android, and vice versa.
That doesn’t mean it will be easy, or that success is guaranteed. The early 21st century is littered with companies that have tried and failed to emulate Apple. The arrival of VR and AR could entice players to move beyond gaming consoles entirely, too. Nothing is certain.
There will be winners, and there will be losers. It’s hard to be sure if Sony, Microsoft, or even dark horse Nintendo will prevail, but the battle to lock players into a single premium gaming platform has only just begun.
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Firefox to take another crack at putting ads in new browser tabs
By Trevor Mogg May 8, 2018
“Internet for people, not profit,” is the motto that drives Firefox creator Mozilla, but to keep the popular browser in the game takes much time, effort, and yes, money.
That’s why the organization is having another stab at working ads into its offering, with the update being included as part of Firefox 60 that’s expected to be pushed to go live this month.
The ads will appear as personalized sponsored links when a user opens a new tab in Firefox. Users of the beta version may already be seeing them.
After Mozilla acquired read-it-later service Pocket in 2017, the browser started showing links to content “recommended by Pocket” in new tabs. In a recently posted message, Pocket CEO Nate Weiner said the new sponsored links will appear among Pocket recommendations.
Nate, who outlined the upcoming changes in his post, described today’s ad model as “broken,” claiming that it “doesn’t respect user privacy, it’s not transparent, and it lacks control, all the while starting to move us toward low-quality, clickbait content.”
But the CEO said that experiments over the last few months have shown that Firefox can serve personalized sponsored content “that provides value to users without jeopardizing their privacy.”
Nate promised that the personalization of the sponsored links will take place on the client side, “without needing to vacuum up all of your personal data or sharing it with others.”
You can also hide stories you don’t like, and, if you’re really not comfortable with Firefox’s sponsored content, you can simply disable it.
This isn’t the first time Mozilla has included ads on new tabs. It last had a crack at it in 2014, but ditched the effort the following year. “Advertising in Firefox could be a great business, but it isn’t the right business for us at this time because we want to focus on core experiences for our users,” Mozilla declared at the end of the short-lived experiment.
Mozilla, which describes itself as “proudly non-profit, non-corporate, and non-compromised,” currently receives most of its funding via contracts with search providers, and also relies on donations to keep the show on the road.
“Thousands of people like you help us stand up for an open web for all,” the organization says on its website, adding that it’s determined to “keep the web open and free.” Mozilla supports can donate funds via its website.
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Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett lead larcenous ladies in ‘Ocean’s 8’ trailer
By Keith Nelson Jr. December 19, 2017
Move over Danny Ocean, your sister is ready to steal more than the spotlight. The first trailer for Ocean’s 8, a female-led installment of the heist thriller franchise, shows off its impressive cast of actresses and a gives a peek at the film’s central scheme.
In the trailer, Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) is released from prison on parole, and decides to wrangle up seven other highly skilled thieves to rob a necklace that is valued at more than $100 million. The problem, or better yet, the opportunity, lies in the fact that the expensive neck ornament is scheduled to be worn by Daphne Kluger (Anne Hathaway) at the annual Met Gala.
The action-packed trailer also pulls the curtain back on what a few of Ocean’s 8 can do. Rihanna‘s a dreadlocked hacker named Nine Ball, who can hack into a company’s personnel directory using a nine-ball as a mouse. Mindy Kaling’s Amita can fabricate fancy jewelry in under five hours — with the right motivation. Constance, played by hip-hop artist Awkwafina, is a master at the sleight of hand. Lou (Cate Blanchett), Rose (Helena Bonham Carter), and Tammy (Sarah Paulson) round out the team — almost. One spot remains unfilled, and it will be fun to see who ends up filling it.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly this month, Bullock revealed that Debbie is the sister of George Clooney’s Danny Ocean from previous Ocean’s films. She also clarified that Ocean‘s 8 is not an Ocean’s reboot, but instead another twisted branch on the Ocean family tree. “It’s a parallel story of another family member that was raised in the same family Danny Ocean was and what happens when Debbie steps out of jail with all of these amazing, powerful women.”
At least some part of Clooney’s Ocean’s films will make its way into Ocean’s 8. The Ocean’s 8 IMDB page has Matt Damon set to reprise his role as pickpocket specialist Linus Caldwell from the previous Ocean’s films.
Ocean’s 8 is directed by The Hunger Games helmer Gary Ross, who also co-wrote the film’s screenplay with Olivia Milch. The film is set to hit theaters June 8, 2018.
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Nvidia GeForce Now gains Ubisoft titles as Microsoft and Warner Bros. pull games
By Tyler Treese April 21, 2020
Xbox Games Studios, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Codemasters, and Klei Entertainment are the latest to exit Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service, and the companies’ titles will no longer be available as of April 24.
The recent departures join a long list of publishers that have yanked games off GeForce Now since it launched its paid version in February. Meanwhile, Nvidia is working to form official partnerships to keep GeForce Now, which allows players to stream titles they already own at top graphic and performance settings, viable.
Losing all of Microsoft’s first-party PC games and the Warner Bros. catalog is a significant hit to Nvidia. Xbox Games Studios’ decision is unsurprising as its cloud-based streaming service Project xCloud will compete with GeForce Now when it exits public preview. Nvidia said it hopes titles leaving the streaming service will return in the future.
Not all major publishers are leaving GeForce Now, however. Nvidia announced it struck a deal with Ubisoft to add the complete Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry series beginning April 21. Many Ubisoft titles were previously playable including Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and For Honor.
“Ubisoft fully supports Nvidia’s GeForce Now with complete access to our PC games from the Ubisoft Store or any supported game stores,” Ubisoft Senior Vice President of Partnerships Chris Early said. “We believe it’s a leading-edge service that gives current and new PC players a high-end experience with more choice in how and where they play their favorite games.”
Nvidia said hundreds of publishers are committed to GeForce Now, including Bandai Namco and Bungie, which publishes Destiny 2. It claims that 30 of the 40 most-played games ever on Steam are available on GeForce Now, including Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Rust, and Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem. Nvidia is also adding 1,500 additional titles to the service.
“We’re already seeing a lot of our existing players take advantage of GeForce Now to stream Destiny 2 so they can play anytime, anywhere with their friends,” Bungie Director of Product Management Gary Clay said. “With Destiny 2 now free to play, we’re excited to partner with Nvidia to introduce even more players — even those who previously couldn’t hit min spec — to our growing community of Guardians.”
Despite the setbacks, Nvidia says it is committed to expanding GeForce Now’s library and expanding the number of people who can experience PC games.
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Two years on, most of government’s new disability networks remain silent
By John Pring on 8th October 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning
Five of the nine regional networks created by ministers to “amplify” the voices of disabled people have not held a single meeting, nearly two years after the government announced they were being set up.
The aim, the government said, was to “bring the views of disabled people and local disabled organisations across England closer to government”.
Today (8 October), it is exactly a year since Justin Tomlinson, the minister for disabled people, named the new chairs of the nine networks.
And it is more than six months since the government’s new Disability Unit announced that the networks had finally started work across England.
But by 24 September, as the country struggled with a pandemic crisis that has led to thousands of disabled people losing their lives – and with the government accused of repeatedly breaching the rights of millions of other disabled people – five of the networks have yet to have their first meeting.
Two of the four networks that have met – those for London and the north-east – only had their first meetings towards the end of last month, according to a freedom of information (foi) response to Disability News Service (DNS).
The Disability Unit has also been forced to admit in the foi response that it has not even seen the minutes of the few network meetings that have taken place.
The foi response is likely to put yet further pressure on Tomlinson (pictured), particularly because last month he appeared to mislead MPs on the women and equalities committee about the success of the networks.
He told them the networks were allowing “all voices, particularly of all sizes of disability organisations” to “share their real lived experience and help us improve our policies, our communications”, and that he found it “a very, very rewarding part of my role”.
At that point, only two of the nine networks – those in the north-west and in Yorkshire and Humber – had held any meetings.
Tomlinson and his new Disability Unit came under further criticism this week after it emerged that they had posted just one announcement on their website in the last six months.
This near-silence came at a time when disabled people and disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) were calling for national leadership, co-production with DPOs, clear information and timely guidance from the government during the pandemic.
The foi response from the Cabinet Office – the government department that hosts the Disability Unit – said that planning and arrangements for the regional meetings were “impacted” by the 2019 general election, and the move of the Office for Disability Issues (which was incorporated into the Disability Unit) from the Department for Work and Pensions to the Cabinet Office.
The foi response added: “Work to arrange the network meetings (one in each of the nine regions) was progressing in early 2020, but had to be halted due to the outbreak of the Corona Virus Pandemic.”
Tracey Lazard, chief executive of Inclusion London, told DNS: “It’s not a surprise to find that the regional stakeholder structure this government chose to pursue instead of meaningful engagement with DDPOs* is not working.
“These regional stakeholder networks are not DDPO networks, they are not resourced, they operate in a complete policy vacuum and they are simply not compliant with the UNCRPD**.
“It now transpires a year on that most haven’t even met yet.
“The government needs to stop this window-dressing approach and start to seriously and strategically engage with DDPOs.
“COVID has revealed just how deep and structural disabled people’s inequality goes and the government must in response set up engagement mechanisms with us that are genuinely up to the challenge of tackling the structural discrimination and inequality we experience.”
Vicky Foxcroft, Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people, said: “The government’s claim it regularly engages disabled people and disabled people’s organisations just doesn’t stack up.
“The government must do better when it comes to genuine engagement and involvement from disabled people on issues that affect them.
“Disabled people, the experts by experience, deserve to have their voice heard.”
And Fazilet Hadi, head of policy for Disability Rights UK, said: “In 2017 the UNCRPD committee criticised the UK government for its lack of engagement and coproduction with disabled people-led organisations.
“Now, after three years of almost total inaction, all that has happened is that four out of nine regional stakeholder networks have met and no minutes have been kept [by government] of their discussions.
“There is a major question regarding whether setting up unfunded networks with unpaid chairs demonstrates a genuine commitment by government to engage with disabled people.
“However, given that setting up regional networks was the government’s chosen engagement route, it does seem to have proved singularly ineffective.
“With the [government’s] national disability strategy being published next spring, there is a real urgency to create a dynamic and transparent engagement process with disabled people.
“Without this process, it is hard to see how the strategy will be credible.”
A Cabinet Office spokesperson refused to explain why the Disability Unit had been so quiet during the pandemic; why it had not asked to see the minutes from the few regional network meetings that had taken place; whether ministers believed that regular meetings of the networks would have been useful during the pandemic; whether Tomlinson agreed that his comments to the women and equalities committee had been misleading; and whether Tomlinson accepted responsibility for these failings.
The spokesperson said: “We have nothing further to add to the foi you have.”
*Deaf and disabled people’s organisations
**The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) makes it clear that, when developing laws and policies relating to disabled people, governments “must closely consult with and actively involve persons with disabilities, including children with disabilities, through their representative organizations”. It defines “representative organizations” as those that are “led, directed and governed by persons with disabilities”, a definition which the UN committee on the rights of persons with disabilities included in general comment number seven
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5 Yr 12.8%* -3.2% 20.9% 64.36%
10 Yr 11.8%* -0.4% 15.3% 71.90%
2020 12.3% -40.9% 2181.7% 42.50%
2019 16.7% -22.7% 41.1% 81.62%
2018 -16.0% -100.0% 17.1% 64.75%
2017 11.5% -100.0% 33.2% 64.34%
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2016 14.6% -16.4% 26.8% 8.24%
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James B. Lovelace is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He also serves on the Portfolio Oversight Committee. He has 37 years of investment experience, all with Capital Group. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, Jim covered beverages & tobacco, restaurants & lodging, household products and personal care companies. Jim began his career at Capital as a participant in The Associates Program, a two-year series of work assignments in various areas of the organization. He holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in philosophy from Swarthmore College. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts. Jim is based in Los Angeles.
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A green wave
Will Democrats’ fundraising edge help them flip the House?
In some competitive districts Democratic candidates have vastly out-raised their opponents
by E.M. | WASHINGTON, DC
FOR the past two years, Democratic fundraisers have been engaged in an unprecedented fundraising effort. Fortunately for them, Donald Trump’s presidency has become an unrivalled motivator for disaffected voters to donate to political campaigns. By the time this year’s mid-terms are over, contributions from individual donors to Democratic candidates will top $1bn, compared to Republicans’ $500m. Democrats have also received an infusion of cash from political action committees, or PACs; though conservative PACs have spent more, candidates in the opposition have entered Election Day having spent more dollars in total than their competitors. If a big blue wave washes over America on November 6th, a green wave of campaign cash will have been one of the factors behind it.
Democrats are showing levels of enthusiasm previously unseen during mid-term elections, when fewer Americans typically vote. They are also feeling more generous. In 2014, 48% of American individuals’ contributions flowed to Democratic candidates. Today the figure is 64% (see article). Momentum is on their side, too; 18 of the 20 House of Representatives campaigns that raised the most cash between July and October of this year were Democratic.
The Democratic Party is not only posting impressive fund-raising numbers nationally, but in the right districts, too. In Kentucky’s sixthth district Amy McGrath, a former marine fighter pilot, has out-raised her Republican opponent Andy Barr nearly three-to-one. She has coin-toss odds of winning this House seat in a district that Mr Trump won by double digits in 2016. In Virginia’s seventh, Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, has posted a similar margin against Dave Brat; she too stands a good chance of being seated in the House next year. Both women are political first-timers. Across the country, impressive fund-raising for Democrats is proving that they can compete even in places that they should not be able to. Cash advantage doesn’t just allow a candidate to out-spend their opponent; it sends the message that they are considered reliable and likeable.
In Texas, Beto O’Rourke, a charismatic congressman who is trying to take Ted Cruz’s Senate seat, is showing what countrywide fund-raising efforts can do for candidates facing off against entrenched Republican opponents. Mr O’Rourke is thought to have raised $70m from voters, compared to Mr Cruz’s $24m. The catch is that not all of these donors are Texan. According to a report from the Centre for Public Integrity, a nonprofit news organisation, a disproportionate amount of Mr O’Rourke’s funding has come from large liberal states like California and New York. Online applications that facilitate campaign donations, like the progressive liberal platform ActBlue, are responsible for this massive allocation of funds to a Texas Democrat.
What will Democrats' fundraising advantage mean for the result on November 6th? Nothing is certain and no party has ever dominated the money race to the degree that Democrats have done in 2018, making predictions difficult. But discrepancies this large tend to end poorly for the party that is trailing.
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Is the arguments in "The Perils of Indifference"- by Elie Weisel logical arguments?
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I think that the arguments presented in Wiesel's speech are highly logical and force democratic societies that stand for freedom and tolerance to examine their own policies and predispositions. For example, when Wiesel criticizes America of the 1930s for silence, it is a logical analysis of American intervention in the war. The mythic retelling of American entry into World War II was to stand for democracy and freedom, whose antithesis was present in the form of Hitler and the Nazis. Yet, Wiesel points to FDR's and the government's silence to the problem, even rejecting Jewish refugees who escaped from death only to be sent back to it. The idea of demanding voice in the face of injustice and resisting silence and indifference as paths if one believes in freedom is of critical importance and logically made in Wiesel's speech. At the time of his writing, the ethnic cleansing happening in Rwanda and the war crimes perpetrated in the former Yugoslavian republic were moments where the United States had to reexamine its own position towards these and the points made in Wiesel's speech help to resolve any potential inaction that one might feel would be an appropriate course: "Indifference is not a response... it is a sin."
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Review: Samsung Epix - A BlackJack Replacement
The Samsung Epix is a slick, handsome smartphone that offers some improvements over the older Blackjack models it replaces. This should position the Windows Mobile-run Epix well to compete with other new and similar smartphone. It should especially appeal to heavy multimedia users, as the 2.5-inch, 320 x 320 pixel resolution display is larger than those found on many other tablet-style handsets with QWERTY thumb keyboards..
Your index finger will be the judge of one of the Epix's most innovative features. A small black square in the center of the control area serves as the touch pad for an optical mouse. Run your finger over the pad and watch an arrow cruise around your screen, just the way the mouse controls the cursor on your laptop.
Point the mouse to a scroll bar and press and drag your finger to move up or down. Tap the pad to "click" the option you've placed the mouse over. The Epix is a touch-screen device, but the optical mouse makes the stylus much less important. Unfortunately, if you do want to actually touch the screen, we found the stylus is critical as the display doesn't respond as well to the human finger input as with the new breed of touch screen smartphones, such as the HTC Touch series and the iPhone.
If the mouse doesn't work for you, you can turn it off and use the touch pad as a four-way navigator instead. In this setting, slide your finger left, right, up or down to get where you want to be and tap the pad to click. No mouse icon is on the screen to show you where you are.
The full QWERTY keyboard feels cramped and the keys are, in fact, slightly smaller than the Blackjack's keys. They are also a little smaller than those on a Moto Q or a Blackberry. Some quick keys are handy, such as one-touch access to email, internet browsing, the calendar and the camera. There's also a key to put the phone on silent, which is faster than fumbling through menus.
The Epix measures 4.6 x 2.4 x .5 inches and weighs 4.4 ounces, making it just the slightest bit bigger and heavier than the Blackjack. In standby, the battery can go for days. For talk time, the company estimates up to 7 hours, a claim we didn't test.
It's increasingly common and handy for devices like these to come with Wi-Fi. The Epix Wi-Fi radio worked well when it worked, but seemed a little finicky. In zones where we knew free Wi-Fi was available, and where the Epix had recently connected, it sometimes hesitated to see the network. When we went in manually and requested a connection, though, the radio complied and we were good to go.
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ERM joins more than 560 companies with revenues of US$ 4 trillion to call on governments to act now to reverse nature loss
ERM has joined more than 560 companies urging governments to adopt policies now to reverse nature loss in this decade.
Working alongside Business for Nature, the organizations with a combined revenues of US$ 4 trillion and including organizations such Walmart, Citigroup, Microsoft, JD.com, Hitachi, IKEA, Unilever, Axa, Mahindra Group and H&M, have issued the following statement:
“Healthy societies, resilient economies and thriving businesses rely on nature. Governments must adopt policies now to reverse nature loss in this decade. Together let's protect, restore and sustainably use our natural resources.”
Business for Nature’s Call to Action is the first time so many businesses have stepped forward with the ambition of influencing discussions in the run up to delivering a Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. It follows recent and widespread calls from Conservation, Development and Humanitarian Organizations, Faith Groups, Cities, Indigenous Peoples and Youth groups for more ambitious action on nature to protect human and planetary health.
More than 560 businesses from 54 countries, employing 9.5 million people and across all sectors are calling on governments to act with courage and urgency by putting nature front and centre of policymaking. Without doing so, we simply will not be able to meet the 1.5C climate target set out in the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 or prevent a catastrophic loss of biodiversity. Businesses recognize that it is in their best interests.
Before COVID-19, the need to create more resilient economies and societies was clear, now it is inescapable. The natural resources and ecosystems that power businesses and underpin economies and communities are under huge strain and the potential for disruption to whole industries is significant. According to the World Economic Forum, industries highly dependent on nature generate 15% of global GDP ($13 trillion), while moderately dependent industries generate 37% ($31 trillion). Natural disasters linked to ecosystem degradation and climate change cost more than $300bn each year – while an estimated 40 to 60 percent of small businesses never reopen after such events.
Forward-thinking businesses are committing, acting and now advocating to reverse nature loss, but businesses cannot address this global crisis on their own. To accelerate action, businesses are calling on governments to work together and create a positive policy feedback-loop to spur more business action and ambition.
Eva Zabey, Executive Director, Business for Nature said: “It is exciting and unprecedented to see so many businesses urging for bold government action to reform nature policies. Many businesses are making commitments and taking action. But for us all to live well within the planet’s finite limits, we need to scale and speed up efforts now, not tomorrow. We need to see positive political ambition to address nature loss, climate change and inequality which will drive more even more action by business.
ERM CEO Keryn James commented: “ERM’s purpose is to shape a sustainable future with the world's leading organizations. This call to action speaks to everything that we do as a business working with companies, business groups and other thought leaders who need and want to meet planetary and societal responsibilities and also meet the commercial expectations of their shareholders. This statement is an important demand as without significant change and ambitious policies on nature the future of our planet will remain under threat.”
The full list of signatories is now available on the Business for Nature website.
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Opinion: Inclusive project needed to fight for NI’s interests
Uncategorized Article 50, Brexit, Conservatives, DUP, EU, general election, negotiations, Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin, Theresa May, UK June 12, 2017 Information EuroMove 0 Comments
In this opinion piece, former MEP John Cushnahan argues that an inclusive project is needed to highlight the interests of Northern Ireland as negotiations on the triggering of Article 50 loom.
Twelve months ago, the then British Prime Minister David Cameron held a referendum on Britain’s continuing membership of the EU. The poll was unnecessary and the decision to proceed with it had more to do with serving the interests of his own political party rather than the national interest. However, the result was not as he expected. The decision to leave the EU sent shock waves throughout the EU. However, the chain of events that had been set in motion and the threats that they posed were most acutely felt in both parts of Ireland. There was universal concern that not only would there be serious negative economic consequences but the continued implementation of the peace process could be derailed.
Thankfully, the response of all major political parties throughout Ireland had been to work together to minimise the dangers and considerable progress was being made.
Unfortunately, the current Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May was to repeat the mistake of her predecessor. She called an unnecessary general election. The motivation, once again, was for narrow party-political interests and once again the outcome was unexpected. New political uncertainties have been added to the mix just as the Brexit negotiations were about to commence between Britain and the EU.
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Concerns were further exacerbated by the outcome of the election of Northern Ireland’s 18 MP’s. The pro-Brexit DUP won 10 seats, an Independent Unionist (who is pro EU) took a seat and Sinn Fein won seven. Because Sinn Fein have affirmed that they are continuing with their policy of abstentionism, this means that there will not be a single non-unionist Northern Ireland MP present during any of the Westminster discussions on the Brexit negotiations. Furthermore, the prospect of an agreed alliance between the DUP and Theresa May to support a pro Brexit minority Conservative government adds a new twist to the situation.
It therefore came as no surprise that Fianna Fail leader, Micheal Martin and others called on Sinn Fein to end their policy of abstentionism and take their seats in the Westminster Parliament because “Brexit is the single greatest issue facing our generation.” Ending a policy of abstentionism was not something that was new to Sinn Fein. Its decision to end abstentionism for the Dail was made in 1986. Similarly, its abstentionist policy towards participation in Stormont (which after all is a British political institution) ended in the 1990’s. Micheal Martin’s request to Sinn Fen to accept its responsibilities and act in the national interest was therefore sensible and reasonable.
In contrast, the reaction of Sinn Fein Deputy Leader Mary Lou Mc Donald was both alarming and revealing. In her rejection of Martin’s proposal, she said “we are entering the endgame of partition which is spurred on by the logic of Irish unity in the wake of Brexit.” This was in keeping with the reaction of her Leader Gerry Adams whose reaction to the Northern Ireland Election results was that “a referendum on Irish unity is now inevitable because of a dramatic shift among Northern Ireland voters.”
Such statements are deliberately mischievous and provocative and are not confirmed by any objective analysis of the outcome of this general election. They merely confirm that Sinn Fein is in the process of abandoning devolution in favour of exclusively pursuing Irish unity as its primary objective. However, there are many reasons why there is little prospect of a border poll/ referendum taking place in the foreseeable future.
Firstly, since the 2017 March Assembly election there has been no dramatic shift in support for nationalist parties. In fact, the gap between the two unionist parties and the two nationalist parties has widened in favour of unionism. In March 2017 that gap was 1.2%. In June 2017, it was 5.2% and if you were to add the vote for North Down MP, Lady Hermon, the gap would be 7.2%. Furthermore, Unionists won 11 seats, Nationalists only won 7 seats.
It is clear that in the wake of the recent British General Election, Brexit will not lead to Irish unity. What is not so clear is what impact the current political uncertainty that now exists at Westminster will have on Irish interests north and south.
The priority therefore is to ensure that putting Northern Ireland’s case is not simply left in the hands of the DUP alone who are pro Brexit. It must be an inclusive project involving all shades of political opinion in Northern Ireland and because of Sinn Fein abstentionism that can only be achieved by the restoration of a Power Sharing Executive working together to make the case for Northern Ireland as the Brexit negotiations get under way.
John Cushnahan is a former MEP in Munster & former Leader of APNI.
A longer version of this piece was originally published in the Irish Times.
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/john-cushnahan-brexit-will-not-bring-irish-unity-now-dup-hold-sway-in-westminster-1.3115570
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Home » Power Electronics » The Envelope Engineer - Smarter Plugs
The Envelope Engineer - Smarter Plugs
December 11, 2018 Simon Holt, Mouser Electronics
Everyone should have an automated home. That isn’t just the geek in me speaking, it’s an observation based on where we are as a species. We now generate and consume around 25TW of energy yearly, or just over 3kW for every single person on the planet. The process of generating electricity produces greenhouse gases, which are measured in terms of grams of CO2 or equivalent per kWh (written as gCO2eq/kWh) of electricity produced. Not surprisingly, governments want to see this figure come down - with targets for the carbon footprint of generating electricity expected to see it dropping to around 500 gCO2e/kWh by the 2030 timeframe. By reducing our personal demand for power we could help reduce the overall carbon footprint for energy generation almost overnight. Home automation could help us curb that personal demand, simply by remembering to turn things off for us.
Let’s face it, nobody turns everything off all of the time, but technology could clearly help here. Digital assistants are great for this and through wireless technologies, like Zigbee and Z-Wave, we are already moving in the right direction. Any home appliance that is mains powered could be switched on and off remotely. The problem is, however, that most of our current home appliances are dumb, so we need to use a smart plug to facilitate the automation a bit.
Today, a smart plug is simply a wirelessly enabled adapter that goes between the existing plug and the socket. Some use Wi-Fi to connect to a cloud service, which is in turn accessed by a smartphone or digital assistant, while others are Zigbee-enabled and can be controlled directly by a home gateway. A few digital assistants now integrate a Zigbee home hub for this very purpose.
So here’s the idea folks: develop a smarter plug, not an adapter (although these are cheap, simple to use and easily retrofitted - it’s just a plug and socket, after all) but a proper OEM moulded power lead that can be sold in large volumes to appliance manufacturers and fitted at the factory during final assembly. It would make all appliances smarter by design, but without forcing the manufacturer to make any design changes to the appliance itself.
There are a few things that would need to go on inside the plug to achieve this, such as generating a low DC voltage to drive the smart functionality, and adding in some form of wireless connectivity - although power line communications (PLC) is also potentially an option to consider. Lastly, it would need to be capable of isolating the mains power from the socket to the appliance, without cutting off its own power supply. This means we are looking at AC/DC conversion, possibly DC/DC buck conversion with regulation, a power switch and wireless compatibility with modern home hubs. This isn’t going to be a single-chip solution, so we’re probably talking about specifying a handful of components. Since RF can prove tricky it would make sense to use a wireless MCU, and as there’s quite a lot of power management going on here it would be nice to use one that could potentially handle everything.
If we assume that we are targeting Zigbee-based systems, then the options are numerous. There are a couple of potential solutions that I like the look of, including the EM341 Zigbee SoC from Silicon Labs and the JN516x from NXP. The Silicon Labs device integrates an ARM Cortex-M3 processor, while its NXP counterpart relies on a proprietary processor that can also host application code. Both are competitively priced and feature-rich, so I suppose it might come down to processing architecture preferences.
The power conversion could be handled in a number of ways, but the overarching requirement here is to keep it as small as possible. Ideally it wouldn’t be apparent to the consumer that the plug is smart in any way. Modern USB power adapters are now available that meet this requirement, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to mimic that. A quick web search has turned up the VIPer01 family of high-voltage converters from STMicroelectronics. High up on the list of target applications for these devices is low-power SMPS for home appliances, along with building and home control. Based on that, I think we may have a winner!
The only other part of the puzzle is really the power switch that would cut off power to the device when it is not needed. I’m thinking that something from the ACST range for triacs, again from STMicroelectronics, would do the trick.
Now that we’ve got the basis for a design it’s time to start tinkering. Each of the devices selected requires a minimal number of external components to accompany it, so I am hopeful that I can squeeze everything into the size of a regular plug. This will mean there are now aesthetical or functional disadvantages associated with utilising it.
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The Beatles receiving new documentary telling 'untold secrets' of Abbey Road
THE BEATLES have received a number of documentaries over the years about their career, and indeed about the band members' lives. A newly announced documentary has now been announced, and will delve into the legendary Abbey Road Studios, and will be helmed by Sir Paul McCartney's daughter, Mary McCartney.
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Mary, 51, is a noted photographer in her own right, and will detail the recording studio’s life from its inception in 1931.
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Speaking out about the film, Mary said: “Some of my earliest memories as a young child come from time spent at Abbey Road.
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Mercury Studios’ CEO Alice Webb also commented: “Mercury Studios could not be partnering with a more visionary and passionate team than Mary McCartney and John Battsek to tell Abbey Road Studios’ incredible story on film for the first time.
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Despite Fewer Inspectors, California’s Orange County Finds More Violations and Closes More Restaurants
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Los Angeles Hotels|West Hollywood, California, United States
Sunset Tower Hotel
A historic Hollywood hot spot
Home to many of Hollywood’s greatest early stars, Sunset Tower Hotel is an iconic beauty on the Sunset Strip. Today, the 14-story zigzag-moderne-style structure is a celebrity work-social hot spot, much like it was in Tinseltown’s golden era.
Designed by famed architect Leland A. Bryant as an apartment building in 1929, it especially was a hub of the who’s who until the 1950s, housing celebrities from Bugsy Siegal to Howard Hughes.
But the movie-star guests aren’t the property’s only claim to fame — the building has starred in its fair share of films, from The Italian Job to The Player.
Throughout the hotel, you’ll notice black-and-white candid photos of its celebrity patrons throughout the decades.
Sophisticated and subdued in décor and service, the newly renovated property has been the site of Vanity Fair’s Oscar party for several years and is now the hotel of choice for many award nominees.
Sunset Tower is an architectural and art deco rarity. If you enjoy staying in historic hotels with soul, this should be your homebase for a Hollywood getaway.
This storied L.A. stay is home to the only West Coast spa by celebrity facialist Joanna Vargas. She comes in once a month for personal appointments with her celebrity clientele — call in advance to see if you can snag a treatment with Vargas herself.
Tower Bar is a nostalgic step back in time to the golden era of Hollywood supper clubs — except with modern-day celebrities dining next to you.
Keep your eyes peeled for celebrity occupants. Just as it was the former residence of many stars — such as John Wayne and Frank Sinatra — the property is still a temporary home to actors and musicians when they’re in town.
The hotel’s location, right on Sunset Strip, is ideal if you have business in Hollywood or simply want to take in the sights or hit nearby nightclubs. It’s only a few minutes’ drive to Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, the Runyon Canyon hiking trail or shopping on Melrose Avenue or Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
At Tower Bar, if you want to dine at prime time (7:30 p.m.) any night of the week, make reservations at least a week in advance — it’s always a bustling scene.
The new Terrace Room Bar features intimate booths, walnut-covered walls and a fireplace.
Celebrity favorites are rooms 1207 and the Penthouse Suite. Both have spacious terraces with star-quality views of the City of Angels.
The L.A. hotel boasts a boutique feel with just 81 spacious accommodations, including 30 suites. Two Penthouse suites and split-level Townhouse Suites provide a posh pied-à-terre for those who desire a longer stay.
Rooms are equipped with Kiehl’s toiletries, a gourmet minibar, a Nespresso machine and complimentary WiFi.
As a former apartment building, the hotel’s accommodations are quite spacious and offer floor-to-ceiling windows that allow ample natural light to the already-airy rooms.
Modern updates to the art deco spaces include gorgeous French oak armoires, black marble bathroom countertops, custom wallpaper depicting iconic Sunset Strip landmarks, leather bench seating, plush duvet covers and cream-and-black-trim couches.
The Hollywood hotel’s wood-paneled, dimly lit The Tower Bar restaurant, is an intimate space (30 tables) usually filled with larger-than-life diners. It’s a favorite power spot of Hollywood’s A-listers — George and Amal Clooney celebrated their first anniversary here.
The menu is an ode to Americana nostalgic comfort foods, from pigs in a blanket and fried chicken to chili and chicken pot pie, with a few modern favorites as well, like Brussels sprouts, truffle mac and cheese and lobster tacos.
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By Stephanie Laughlin Nov 4, 2011 Nov 7, 2011
The strangest motherdaughter duo you'll ever meet: "Big" and "Little" Edie Beale
Featuring “Big” and “Little” Edith Beale
Directed by: Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
Distributed by: The Criterion Collection
Working on Friday Film Review for over two years now, I do believe I have made a few of my opinions quite clear:
1. I believe it is impossible for a film to be bad if it has Julianne Moore or Cate Blanchett in it.
2. Ryan Gosling and Joseph Gordon Lewitt are currently battling it out for the title of my fake future husband.
3. I don’t like documentaries.
I’ve always preferred fiction narrative…but that’s not to say this genre of film has never intrigued me. There is one documentary that I can say without a doubt is one of the most interesting pieces of film I’ve ever seen.
Grey Gardens, voted number 9# on the list of best documentaries of all time by the International Documentary Association, came about by accident. The original project was a documentary about Lee Radziwill and her sister, a lady you might know from the history books as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. But as the filmmakers began working on the project they realized a much more interesting film lay in the lives of Jackie’s aunt and first cousin, “Little” and “Big” Edith Beale.
The Beale’s enjoyed an extremely priviledged and lavish early life; part of the Bouvier family, Big Edie grew up as part of the American elite (her first home on Madison Avenue is now the Carlyle Hotel). Her daughter Little Edie grew up to be smart and beautiful; the possibilities for her future seemed endless.
And yet somehow, by the late nineteen seventies these women were living in squalor in their once majestic East Hampton estate, which they called Grey Gardens. And these are the women we see in the film. Women whose lives are long past their prime so all they can do is fight about things that don’t matter anymore. While they bicker incessantly fleas, racoons and an endless stream of cats roam around their decaying house.
You clearly see the deep love and enormously unhealthy co-dependence the women have, and when you combine that with their fascinating back story the whole documentary consistently tips back and forth from heartwarming to heartbreaking.
But you gotta give it to the Beales: no one in the history of cinema has made crazy cat ladies look more fabulous. Seeing them wear homemade turbans, fur coats and swimsuits with pumps while sipping on wine from Dixie cups and eating ice cream, in a twisted way you wish you too could be a crazy lady living by the sea. But then when the camera pans over to the mouldy walls and racoon gnawing garbage you quickly realize how silly a thought that was.
In 2009 HBO made a mini-series about the making of the documentary and it starred Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange. These are two fine actresses who have each won me over during the years in various roles, but even as lovely as they are, they never capture that same wild energy that the real Beales have.
So I guess that’s why I could never REALLY trash the documentary genre: no matter how glossy a miniseriesHBO can put together is, it can just never quite compare to the real thing.
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Javier Muñoz, a pastor in Colombia, has seen the need for marriage ministry in his country. High divorce rates throughout Latin America have taken their toll on individual families and societies as a whole. Pastor Muñoz wondered what he could do to make a difference in Colombia. He decided to ask Roger and Laura Dye, American missionaries serving in Latin America, if they could come train a core group in his congregation to do marriage ministry.
“In order to ‘prime the pump,’ I had them (about five couples) watch the Art of Marriage® the week before we arrived,” says Roger. “This served to get them thinking about practical theological applications in marriage and family issues.”
During the training seminar, Los Principios Perdidos del Matrimonio (The Forgotten Fundamentals of Marriage), a woman named Caty shared her testimony with the group:”My mother never married my father, and he was gone before I was very old. Most of my friends were the same. There was this one weird girl in our school who always asked permission of her parents to go out. Most of us were rebellious, and life was chaos in our community. One day she invited me to her house. It was the first time I had ever seen a family with a mother and a father and children who obeyed. I wanted that! That is what drew me to Christ. That is why I am a Christian today.”
Caty now works with her husband in their church’s ministry in Bogota. They have chosen to use marriage ministry as a main tool for sharing the Gospel and planting the church. Pastor Muñoz is convinced that this is the best way for his congregation to build their own faith while reaching out to others.
“We desire to have strong, vibrant, edifying couples’ ministry because we are convinced it must be the central axis of our church, both to edify our members and to seek Kingdom growth,” says Pastor Muñoz.
The marriage training seminar was a success. “We have seen the hand of God using it in our own marriages and the marriages of our leaders and, God willing, we will bring it to the church and also provide programs to non-believers,” says Pastor Muñoz.
In working toward that goal, Pastor Muñoz provided the trained couples with opportunities to start doing marriage ministry in the cities of Bogota, Bucaramanga, and Cúcuta, with hopes to also spread the ministry to Bolivia and Argentina. Other churches have heard about the Art of Marriage material and are begging for someone to bring it to their congregations.
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Let me start out by saying this: MMA is NOT a martial art focused on self-defense. If anything, it's one of the most aggressive, no-holds-barred martial arts designed to take down your opponent as quickly as possible. That being said, MMA is actually one of the best self-defense martial arts, simply because a good offense is the best defense!
Watch any MMA match and you'll see the fighters throwing powerful punches, striking at their opponent's legs, and grappling their opponent to the floor. All of these things can come in very handy when facing an attacker.
The Downsides to MMA
MMA teaches you to be aggressive and go on the attack, which is not the ideal way to approach potentially volatile situations. If you can avoid the fight, do so!
MMA uses a lot of one-on-one techniques. While many martial arts prepare you to face multiple combatants, MMA is all about taking down ONE person. You may end up in trouble in a real life situation.
MMA attacks are violent and designed to take down the opponent. However, it's often easy to hurt yourself while attacking.
How to Use MMA Skills in Self-Defense
If you find yourself in a situation where you have to defend yourself, here is how to do so using the skills you have learned in your MMA training:
Back off — Take a step back to get a broader view of the situation. Assess the threat or threats, and analyze your opponent's movements. Let them throw the first punch, and watch them for any tells, signaling, or weaknesses.
Stay on your feet — DO NOT GRAPPLE! Once you're on the floor, you are vulnerable to any of your opponent's friends who might step in. You can throw your opponent to the ground, but you need to stay on your feet. If you go down, get up as quickly as possible.
Be smart with punches — Don't throw overpowered blows that could shatter your knuckles as well as his jaw. Throw smart punches, using your training to control your movements and strength. A few quick jabs to his face followed by a solar plexus punch is usually enough to stop anyone.
Watch your kicks — High kicks may work in the ring, but not in real life. Never raise your foot above the level of your opponent's stomach. If you're going to kick, use them to attack his foundation — ergo, his knees.
End it quickly — Unless you want to get hauled off by the cops, a prolonged street fight is not in your best interest. If you can't take your opponent down with a few well-placed punches, use a joint lock to injure your opponent's main weapons. The faster you end the fight, the less risk of either of you getting hurt.
Control yourself — Your instinct may be to let loose on your opponent, but that can lead to serious problems. Control your temper, and let them throw the first punch. Once they do, you can step in and take them down, but without excessive force. DO NOT injure them permanently, but use techniques that will incapacitate without serious harm.
MMA may not be a martial art focused on self-defense, but if you're smart, you can use it to protect yourself in any situation.
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Individually and collectively, the attorneys at Flaster Greenberg have been recognized for excellence by clients, peers in the legal community, business and industry groups and by numerous civic, cultural and nonprofit organizations. A few examples include the following:
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Will the crisis be a catalyst to invigorate European ATM reform?
While most of impacts of the global pandemic have been to shake the foundations the airline industry relies upon, beleaguered carriers and airports will be hoping it could help a fresh push to progress the stalled Single European Sky (SES) programme.
Although all players have recognised the significant role implementing SES could have in improving the efficiency of the airline industry in Europe – and with it the impact of the region’s carriers on climate change – finding the political will to make it happen has proved another matter altogether.
Valean: new proposals help aviation advance on the dual green and digital transitions
Notably a Commission effort to push the programme forward with fresh proposals in 2013 aimed at tackling the lack of progress was ultimately itself also mired in political deadlock.
European transport commissioner Adina Valean has launched a fresh attempt to invigorate air traffic reform in Europe, proposing an upgrade to the SES regulatory framework to accelerate implementation. This has ambitions to cut the region’s air transport emissions by 10%.
“[This] proposal to revise the Single European Sky will not only help cut aviation emissions by up to 10% from a better management of flight paths, but also stimulate digital innovation by opening up the market for data services in the sector,” Valean said in launching the proposals in late September. “With the new proposed rules we help our aviation sector advancing on the dual green and digital transitions.”
WHAT IS THE COMMISSION PROPOSING?
Notable changes in the fresh Commission proposals from those put forward in 2013 are that charges will be based on environmental footprint, a move away from functional airspace blocks (FABs) and a new European-wide regulator – integrated into EASA – overseeing the system-wide performance planning and review of air navigation service providers (ANSPs).
The move to base charges on the environmental footprint is a key to incentivise the use of the most efficient routes, which, in turn, will heighten pressure on more expensive ANSPs to reduce fees.
The push to FABs was intended to improve efficiency by re-organising air traffic control responsibility to focus on traffic flows rather than territorial borders. But the proposals would end the mandatory use of these blocks.
“Experience and assessment of the functioning of FABs since they were first set up in 2009 has made clear that the FABs have failed to address the problem of airspace fragmentation, which was their original objective,” the Commission says. The blocks may continue, though, if states consider them useful.
”Better network management, combined with effective economic regulation, is expected to incentivise co-operation within the network,” the Commission states.
Moving from a mandatory “vertical unbundling of support services for ATM” to a voluntary decoupling of en-route air traffic services from other air navigation services is aimed at speeding reform and transparency.
“The air traffic service providers will decide whether to procure those other services under market conditions. If they do, these procured services will not be subject to economic regulation,” it says.
Significantly, it notes: “Providers can therefore decide to continue providing all the services in an integrated manner, but cannot prevent other providers from offering competing services.”
The Commission says this will be made possible by making operational data available to other providers at a low cost, enabling cross-border data services and competition on a European market for data service provision.
WHY IS THE TIMING SIGNIFICANT?
The timing of the move is significant, as several factors provide some reason to believe efforts to progress SES could achieve more traction than in the past.
One factor is the UK’s leaving the European Union, which appears to remove one of the political obstacles to progress. The row between Spain and the UK around the status of Gibraltar airport has for many years been a blocker in efforts to secure political support for SES.
It also comes as the Commission embarks on its European Green Deal, a wide-ranging initiative outlined last December and which identified SES as one of the key ways to combat aviation emissions.
And crucially it comes after European summers at opposite ends of the demand spectrum. Two years ago a capacity crunch, and related congestion and delays, showed a European system struggling to keep up with demand. Yet this summer, amid the global pandemic, the industry has had to deal with the biggest sustained fall in air traffic in its history.
Notably, a by-product of that diminished traffic environment is that this summer has already delivered significant flightpath efficiency improvements both en-route and at congested airports.
“Air traffic management in Europe needs to be reformed to cope both with sustained air traffic growth over the last decade and with significant unforeseen traffic variations such as the one caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,” the Commission says, in a background document explaining the need for action.
”This requires changes allowing operations to take place under the safest, most cost- and flight-efficient and environmentally friendly conditions.
”This implies de-fragmenting the European airspace, reducing delays, increasing safety standards and flight efficiency to reduce the aviation environmental footprint, and regulating charges related to monopolistic service provision. In this context, close civil-military collaboration, at national and EU levels, is necessary for the implementation of the Single European Sky,” the Commission says.
The pandemic – and the bleak assessment on how long air travel will take to recover – means for the first time the European system is facing a traffic rather than a capacity crisis. Given that ever-increasing traffic has been the one of the principal ways in way ANSPs in Europe have managed to lower their unit costs in recent years, ANSPs and the wider industry must now adjust to new realities.
”ANSPs are faced with the challenge to adjust activities and related costs in response to the crisis – also to support the future recovery of the air transport sector – while at the same time ensuring that future air traffic growth does not create another delay crisis like the one experienced before the current crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,” the Commission notes.
“This ultimately shows the need for transforming the way air navigation services are provided so that changes in demand can improve and be accommodated in a more flexible way.”
HOW MUCH HAVE AIR NAVIGATION REVENUES FALLEN?
While the shortfall in airline revenues has been clear – and in many cases prompted governments to step in to prop up carriers through the crisis – the collapse in traffic is being felt across the industry.
This makes one of the challenges ensuring the required modernisation and investment in the European air traffic management system still happens, given the major revenue loss ANSPs face as a result of reduced flying.
ICAO figures show that across the first eight months of the year, revenue raised through navigational charges was around 57% down over the comparable period in 2019. Revenues of $6.84 billion are $9 billion lower than the $15.85 billion of navigational charges over the first eight months of 2019.
While the heaviest revenues reductions were incurred during the initial lockdown in the second quarter – down across each month by more than $1.7 billion – they remained $1.5 billion down in August despite higher levels of flying.
More than half that lost revenue across the year so far – just under $5 billion – comes from Europe, led by reduced revenues in France, Germany and Russia. Indeed, six of the 10 Flight Information Regions with the biggest shortfall in revenues this year so far are in Europe.
As flight activity has stalled – or if anything moved backwards since August – and with seemingly no solid testing regime or medical breakthrough imminent, the shortfall of revenues raised from navigation charges will continue to mount. That makes even deeper the challenge of recovering these revenues and cutting costs accordingly.
WHAT HAS THE REACTION BEEN?
Tackling that revenue shortfall is certain to involve action around costs, and unions have already sounded the alarm.
The European Transport Workers Federation (ETF) argues the proposals “ignore countless issues” facing air traffic management and instead focus on reducing costs of ATM services and aiming to bring competition into the sector.
”The new proposal totally misses what the real issues of the sector are and what we will be facing in the coming years,” says ETF ATM committee chair Charles-Andre Quesnel.
”With the current Commission’s approach, we are condemned to repeat the same mistakes of the past. We will see the Single European Sky initiative fail again because there won’t be enough trained and skilled staff to secure stable and continuous air navigation services in the near future.”
Meanwhile. European airline body Airlines for Europe (A4E) says the crisis provides an opportunity for aviation to ”build back better” and to prepare an ”outdated air traffic management system” for a return to increasing traffic levels in the future.
”We particularly welcome its clear focus on SES efficiency gains to benefit the environment, which will help our airlines meet Green Deal goals. In our view, however, full implementation of the SES must include an enhanced governance structure, with airlines – the primary customers of Europe’s ATM system – at the heart of a collaborative decision-making process.
”We now need to assess whether our recommendations for a digital transformation of the sector and a clear governance structure are adequately reflected in the updated proposal. Only this would ensure it is ‘future-proof’,” it says.
Global air traffic management body CANSO welcomes the proposals as an opportunity “to realise a more digital” European air traffic management sector
”A reformed legislative framework will help ANSPs to provide the increased capacity and scalability required in the future by our customers, the airspace users, and to offer more environmentally efficient flight trajectories,” the body says.
Noting the wide-ranging nature of the proposals, it says it will now examine these further so as to form detailed positions.
Indications of the response of European ministers to the proposals are set to become clearer after an ”informal exchange” hosted by the German presidency on 8 October.
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5G fuelled by ful...
5G fuelled by full-fibre diet
Fibre Systems Spring 2020
Fibre & 5G
A look at how the kind of full-fibre infrastructure that will be essential to support 5G can be realised in line with roll-out targets
Readers of this magazine do not need to be told about the benefits of full-fibre. Or, indeed how the buzzword-that-is 5G can only provide the kind of exciting benefits everybody is so looking forward to – such as higher speed or lower latency – with the assistance of a reliable network infrastructure to support the many thousands of devices. We also all know that fibre deployment is ramping up – even during the unprecedented situation we faced in quarter 1 of 2020, the recognition of fibre engineers as key workers demonstrated perfectly the importance and reliance that is afforded to fibre broadband throughout the world. But we are not there yet, and the demands likely to be placed on fibre infrastructure from 5G mean that deployment must continue. This is certainly the message from most governments, which have set up ambitious but much-needed targets for full-fibre adoption.
In the UK, for example, just 10 per cent of premises have access to full-fibre, and this is up 4 per cent on the number reported by Ofcom at the end of 2018. While this continued momentum does show signs that the UK is moving in the right direction, the rate of growth suggests the UK could significantly miss its target. Sajid Javid, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced an additional £5bn of investment for the UK’s roll-out of full-fibre, 5G and gigabit capable networks, but a plan for delivery of this network infrastructure overhaul remains to be seen.
In late 2019 the UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson also announced his plan to achieve ‘full-fibre for all’ by 2025, dismissing his predecessors’ target of 2033 as ‘laughably unambitious.’ While this announcement was welcomed, for the many UK public sector organisations still relying on legacy connections, the thought of access to full-fibre or fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) connectivity, in a little more than five years, probably seems challenging. Andrew Shilton, solutions director at network provider, MLL Telecom believes that change is particularly needed in the public sector to help deliver significant and much needed transformation. He explained: ‘With the rise of the altnets – companies like CityFibre and Hyperoptic – full-fibre for the public sector is becoming reality, as their open access models provide local authorities with methods to build and light their own fibre networks. NHS Digital is also driving change with HSCN, under the Internet First initiative, transitioning public healthcare networking away from outdated systems like N3.’
Much of the public sector, according to Shilton, believes there is a lack of options or guidance in terms of accessing the connectivity services appropriate for its businesses. What’s more, it would be impractical for new fibre networks to be built for all public sector organisations.
The biggest cost associated with putting fibre networks in the ground is actually digging up roads. So, organisations laying fibre have historically, said Shilton, ‘buried as much as possible into the ground, even when not all of it was required.’ This ‘unlit’ fibre is widely referred to as ‘dark fibre’. Dark fibre is unique in that organisations can lease the underlying infrastructure to run their privately-owned networks. ‘Taking the dark fibre route presents a huge number of advantages for public sector organisations keen to pursue digital transformation to improve efficiency and leave frustrating, outdated and redundant network services behind,’ continued Shilton. ‘While commercial internet services may be enough for some applications, there is a high amount of network traffic as huge quantities of data are sent down the network by multiple users. This causes traffic to bounce around a lot before reaching its destination.
However, if an organisation owns a private dark fibre network then they are the only ones creating network traffic. This could be critical for the likes of healthcare and blue light services that have mission critical applications hosted on the network that rely on high network performance and the ability to send and receive information quickly.’ In addition to improving the flow of network traffic, investing and lighting a dark fibre network gives the ability for organisations to transfer high volumes of data, securely. Fibre cables, when lit, can deliver speeds up to and in excess of 100Gb/s. As the manager of the network, organisations can optimise this with the right equipment to fit their connectivity needs. This will become increasingly important, said Shilton, in hospitals for things like processing large image files of x-rays or in schools as technology integrates itself into the classroom. Flexible friend Shilton went on to express that the flexibility and potential for future scalability of dark fibre networks, coupled with high performance means investments in dark fibre could play an instrumental role in the UK’s digital future. ‘A key consideration for any organisation investigating dark fibre,’ he explained, ‘is that it isn’t available everywhere, but can still serve some of the hardest-to-reach, rural areas of the UK.’
A local council or public sector organisation, for example, can explore the potential of dark fibre for its use in fixed wireless access (FWA). The dark fibre can be lit to make up the essential fibre backhaul layer for FWA. Broadband connectivity is then provided wirelessly, transmitted via a base station, to communities that have historically been poorly served by outdated network infrastructure. ‘While navigating these options and, importantly, deciding on the right supplier to partner with might at first seem daunting,’ said Shilton, ‘new government frameworks have simplified the procurement process. Frameworks like RM3808 and RM6095 for the procurement of network services and fibre optic infrastructure services respectively, lists government accredited suppliers that will provide competitive solutions that can be tailored to an organisation’s specific needs.’
Underpinning all this, Shilton believes it is crucial that public sector organisations understand both their connectivity needs and the needs of the local communities they serve. Further to that, it’s essential that organisations understand how connectivity can be used as a springboard to support businesses functions. ‘Organisations will save a significant amount of time, money and effort in the long run,’ he said, ‘if they can ensure their network is futureproofed to accommodate for technological advances and evolutions that may require increased network capacity.’
Cable development
Looking at the actual fibre cables themselves, Prysmian Telecoms UK product manager Adam Ashenden has a view on the direction of travel for technical development. ‘Legislation has made existing cable infrastructure (mainly legacy British Telecom ducts and poles) available to all network builders,’ he said, ‘but much of this infrastructure is already at or near capacity. Even for those organisations building their own new infrastructure, space is money.’ The focus for all major product manufacturers in the fibre optic market is now on reducing the diameter of fibre optic cable. This includes reducing the size of components and connectivity and implementing novel installation methods to maximise the capacity of existing infrastructure. ‘There are probably limits on just how small it is possible to go,’ pondered Ashenden, ‘but we don’t think we have reached those levels yet. The speed of development is astonishing. In 1990 we were looking at a 12-fibre cable with a diameter of 2.5mm. In 2020 the same capacity can be provided in a cable with a diameter of just 0.9mm.’
Mini-might
Getting to this point has required intense product development from vendors. This is not only of the fibres themselves but also the sheathing materials and central strength member. High-performance fibres can now be supplied down to 180µm, while research teams are studying materials down to the chemical composition level in order to further reduce cable diameter without affecting performance and capacity. ‘Maintaining performance and capacity requires further innovation to accommodate the practicalities of installation into already crowded infrastructure,’ said Ashenden. ‘As cable is shoe-horned into smaller spaces and as the space available for splice trays is also reduced, so the flexibility of cable, and its resistance to performance loss through cable bending is key. It’s a fairly obvious calculation that the greater the bend resistance of the cable, the more the bend radius of splice trays can be reduced: connectivity devices become smaller, saving even more valuable space.’
This has, Ashenden continued, had a knock-on effect for the development of connectivity components – all of which need to follow product innovation in cable design to produce an overall system that is getting smaller all the time. ‘Joints, terminations, junction boxes are all the subject for further product design innovation to maximise on the miniaturisation of the cables.’ The final piece of the puzzle, Ashenden went on, is of course, the installation itself. In the UK and northern Europe the preferred method for maximising the capacity of existing infrastructure is to use a blown fibre technique. Eliminating the need to excavate underground ducts, cable blowing allows cable to be installed into existing ducts at great speed – typically some 40m per minute. ‘Specially designed cables and installation equipment is required,’ he explained, ‘but the speed and efficiency of the system has led to huge uptake in markets where the use of legacy infrastructure is critical to full-fibre roll-out.’
Densifying down
The need to speed up installation is also resulting in further technical innovation of cable design. Ribbon technology, for example, allows for mass splicing of fibres, significantly reducing the time required for splicing and termination during installation. Ribbon technology cables are currently on the market utilising 200µm fibres and approaching 7,000 fibres in a single cable. ‘Increasing the speed of full-fibre roll-out is a global challenge,’ said Ashenden. ‘There is much common ground, allowing international groups to centralise research and development expertise, but there are also challenges specific to individual markets. Despite the seismic changes in global business brought about by the coronavirus, one constant theme has been the need to continue with a relentless focus on full-fibre installation. The speed of technical innovation will only increase – leading to ever smaller, faster and higher performing cable solutions.’
The development of network infrastructure is also reliant on the components, subsystems and access infrastructure behind it, and the new, digitalised era is creating waves in the ways these markets do business. Giovana Labegalini, business development manager at Huber + Suhner offered her view: ‘Over the last 10 years, technological advancement across the world has been remarkable, with the number of things that can be connected growing exponentially. As the decade unfolds, demand will only increase for different types of streaming services and high bandwidth-consuming applications, such as virtual reality simulations.’
The only option
The only solution that can deliver the seamless connectivity expected by consumers, said Labegalini, is fibre. ‘Creating radical change in every aspect of our lives, from how we communicate, to how we work and relax, fibre is the only future-ready option. Fibre will support deployments on 5G mobile networks, FTTx fixed networks, cloud and edge data centres, as well as enable industry transformation, together with software innovation such as NFV and SDN.’ Therefore, she reasoned, investments made within the existing network infrastructure must consider the expected quality and reliability levels demanded, both now and in the coming years, to avoid wasting money with non-future-ready solutions. ‘Year-on-year,’ she said, ‘the demand for improved network capabilities increases, and many telcos have seen the revenues from traditional services reduce dramatically. Some traditional service examples which are no longer needed by a number of consumers include voice calls and short messages, which are being replaced by services offered by free apps. To make things worse, these kinds of apps do not take any responsibility over the network infrastructure provided by telcos, creating a challenging environment for the carriers to balance investment and return.’
To overcome these challenges, Labegalini believes that telcos will need to increase innovation to boost business and secure new sources of revenue. As a way of doing this, many are partnering or merging with content providers, data analytics or cloud suppliers, which allow for different revenue sources. ‘By adding a dash of innovation to an existing business model,’ she explained, ‘organisations can profit and thrive from new services, and overcome the revenue drop caused by the obsolescence of traditional services. They will also need to carefully plan network infrastructure investments and balance technical requirements and costs.’ Bandwidth-boost The vast bandwidth capabilities of fibre optics, according to Labegalini, will open new doors for those operators, service providers and developers with an appetite to capitalise on the service delivery and revenue opportunities only fibre can offer. ‘These fibre systems,’ she said, ‘must also match high bandwidth and low latency demands of business and residential applications on fixed lines, as well as on the infrastructure behind 5G networks. ’Think of it like this, the fibre infrastructure is the road that all data traffic takes and the many cars or systems on this journey must perform at their full potential to reach the desired destination. But it doesn’t matter how expensive or well-made the car is, the journey will still be delayed if the road is bumpy. Therefore, it is vital to optimise network infrastructure in all of its components to increase efficiency in order to enable infrastructure to deliver services demanded at the next level.’ Fibre infrastructure can, of course be present in every part of the network, from the data center and central office to the subscriber. It can be viewed as a network asset. Choosing a supplier that can fulfil current and future needs, safety and ease of installation, together with guaranteed performance, is crucial and carriers have been working closely with access partners in order to tailor optical solutions for the exact project requirements they have in mind. ‘
With great performance brings peace of mind for operation teams, in order for future requirements to be met,’ concluded Labegalini. ‘An investment now into high-quality infrastructure is an investment for the future. Aiming to save on investments in network components in the short-term may result in greater losses due to potential service disruption or the need to substitute alreadyinstalled components.'
CASE STUDY: BRINGING FIBRE TO EVERY UK PREMISE, SUPPORTING COUNTRYWIDE ROLL-OUT WITH FAST, FLEXIBLE, FUTURE-READY SOLUTIONS
The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR) issued by the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport states that full-fibre broadband coverage should be available to every home in the UK by 2033. By 2025, 15 million premises should have full-fibre broadband. However, at the end of 2018, only 6 per cent of homes in the UK had access to fullfibre connections.
The company that owns and maintains all telephone wires, ducts, cabinets and exchanges – connecting nearly all UK homes and businesses to the national broadband and telephone network – is playing an essential role in meeting this demand. By extending its ultrafast broadband footprint using FTTP and G-Fast technology, the company is making faster, more reliable services available across the country. More than 27.6m premises across the UK can get speeds of over 30Mb/s.
FTTP should be available to four million premises by the end of March 2021, extending to 15 million premises by 2025. Currently, some 20,000 premises are being connected with FTTP each week. In addition, the company is starting to collaborate with its telco customers on identifying the best way to migrate from copper to fibre infrastructure across the UK – and eventually shut down the analogue network. Quicker, simpler and tidier fibre management To accommodate the move and meet the increased need for full-fibre deployment, a solution was required that would reduce time spent working on fibre frames in central offices.
CommScope, a key partner to the national telecommunications company, was brought in to support this critical program. The key requirements were for an optical distribution frame with far greater connection density in the same footprint as the outgoing product, for rapid, simple, repeatable installation practices that save time and money. Superior fibre management was needed to reduce the risk of intervention faults, thereby optimising service availability and continuity of revenues. Innovative WDM cassette technology was required to deliver fast and simple deployment of optical devices for existing and future PON architectures. An optimised colour coded patch cord management system was needed to limit scope for installation bad-practice and aid the accuracy of record keeping and auditing of circuits. Meanwhile, intuitive access to individual connectors should save time when repairing or replacing components. Low weight is needed to allow single operative installations, reducing total task time to lower the cost of deployment.
‘With such a huge task ahead, the client is increasingly reliant on external partners to provide integrated solutions that match the precise needs of each project,’ explained Scott Tovell, CommScope field application engineer. ‘Discussions about replacing the existing optical distribution frames (ODFs) started in 2016. The solution in place used only spliced cabling and its layout made installation and moves, adds and changes very difficult and time-consuming. Setting up one rack took considerable time.’
‘The ODF is a key part of the network, providing the flexibility customers need to support current and future transmission requirements, explained Geoff Buddington, key account sales director, CommScope. ‘We’ve been working closely with the client to fully understand their needs, requirements and constraints. With this in mind, we have taken the building blocks of the FACT ODF and worked to develop a complete solution that will deliver the full functionality which they require for their fibre programme.
‘We proposed a solution that was not only far easier to work with, but which could also manage very high densities. Limited density was a particularly big issue with wave division multiplexing (WDM) connection. Following tests directly comparing the old and new solutions, the decision was made to equip new installations with CommScope’s FACT optical distribution frame, which offered both of the required functionalities. One of the main advantages of this ODF is the fact that it is fully connectorised. Splicing is only necessary during installation. Once the ODF is built, connecting services is as simple as plugging in patch cords.’
The FACT ODF meets the requirements of rapid deployment, ease of installation with plugand-play connectivity, high usable density, and long-term value for the evolving fibre network. The infrastructure being rolled out today will satisfy residential and commercial subscribers’ fast-growing appetite for converged phone, data and video services for many years to come. The ODF has been designed and dimensioned with significantly greater capacity in mind. This means it can manage 144 more spine fibres than both the optical consolidation rack (OCR) and optical fibre rack OFR, allowing for a total of 720 fibres from the external network to be presented. During comparisons between FACT ODF and the former solution, building a rack/frame and cabling and patching side ducts and mandrels was more than 25 per cent faster. Securing spine cables, breakout and fanning trays could be done in half the previous time and splicing spine fibres to LC connector pigtails could be done in less than half the time. When rolling out fibre across an area as large as the UK, these savings – especially in combination with the use of pre-connectorised cables - add up enormously.
CommScope scored highest in the key selection categories that had been defined for the project:
Speed of deployment
Reliability of deliveries
Ease to scale up
This was alongside an 71 additional and more subjective criteria, such as feedback from field engineers.
‘Building blocks’ and processes are highly standardised, but the system offers ample flexibility to create a tailor-made solution. Factory-tested components and pre-terminated cable are improving network build quality and speeding up installation, because there is no need for specialist fibre splicing skills and equipment. CommScope employees held regular meetings with the company’s engineer and inspections to keep improving the solution’s performance and implementation.
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Composed and Produced by:
Additional Music by:
Phill Boucher
Zak McNeil
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(October 18th, 2019)
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Regular commercial download release only.
• Maleficent
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
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Buy it... if you loved James Newton Howard's score for Maleficent, for you will be relieved by the care with which Geoff Zanelli adapts and advances Howard's themes and style to impressive new heights.
Avoid it... if you expect to hear some of the score's highlights on the inadequate album arrangement, Disney also failing to provide this deserving recording with necessary lossless availability.
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil: (Geoff Zanelli/Various) Although it annoyed film critics with its underlying commentary on rape and capitalism, 2014's Sleeping Beauty spin-off, Maleficent, was a hit with audiences. Turning the classic film's villain into the protagonist was a twist well worth exploration, and 2019's direct sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, further explores the relationship between Queen Aurora and Prince Phillip that proved to be the red herring of the prior story. As Aurora's adopted mother, Maleficent must reconcile that the two youngsters are to be married, and the mother-in-law in this case is more than a handful. With most of the cast returning despite a changeover in crew for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Michelle Pfeiffer steals the show as Prince Phillip's conniving mother, Queen Ingrith, a truly evil bitch of epic proportions who plans to use her kingdom of Ulstead to destroy the fairies despite the marriage of her son to the queen of the Moors. All-out war ensues, and Maleficent leads a band of hidden "dark fey," her kindred, against Ulstead to save themselves and the fairies of the Moors. The film allows Angelina Jolie to expand the expressiveness of her titular character, though the visuals suffer from poor continuity in their major effects sequences. With the arrival of director Joachim Ronning to this franchise, his collaborators from 2017's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales were brought to the table, and one of these was the highly capable composer, Geoff Zanelli. The score for Maleficent by James Newton Howard was a classic success, among the best of its year and containing some of that composer's most outstanding melodic passages of the 2010's. There is no indication that Howard was even asked to return for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Zanelli hired to do what he has done for countless Hans Zimmer and John Powell scores since the 1990s: write music in someone else's shoes. Although Zanelli had won an Emmy award for his own musical voice by this point in his career, his paychecks had definitely been earned by adapting others' styles into additional music for blockbuster films. Such is the case once again with the Maleficent franchise, and his talent, as well as that of co-writers Phill Boucher and Zak McNeil, is reflected in the surprising quality of his score for the second film.
When James Newton Howard is in top fantasy and adventure form, few composers can compete with his output. Zanelli has somehow managed the near-impossible by writing not only in Howard's voice for much of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil but also expanding upon that base with compelling new identities and instrumentation for the continuing story. It's challenging enough to emulate Howard in any circumstance, but to do so in the context of a sequel requiring a blend of old themes and new is even more daunting. A novice listener would not be able to tell the difference between Zanelli's output here and Howard's prior entry, Zanelli's phrasing, orchestration, and choral usage all masterfully emulating Howard at every turn. There are hints of other influences at times, but they are never distracting enough to merit worry. The composer and director decided early on to reprise the usage of Howard's themes from the first film, and at least seven of them do return. More impressively, though, is the addition of seven all-new themes, making Maleficent: Mistress of Evil a melodically complex and satisfying tapestry with a clear and compelling musical narrative. The base instrumentation employed by Zanelli is comparable to Howard, the full and vibrant orchestra joined by a diverse percussion section and seemingly omnipresent choir. Key solos for piano and woodwinds exist throughout, though Howard's solo boy vocals are dropped. Zanelli approached the instrumentation with zealous over-achievement, addressing the characters of the story with sounds sensible to their culture. The "dark fey" species of Maleficent's heritage is, of course, adverse to iron and can be destroyed by it. Zanelli thus constructs his dark fey themes and supplemental underscore without any metallic percussion aside from inevitable light chimes used as always for a sense of magic. (Expect some beefy brass to still convey the fey theme; it would have been interesting to hear Zanelli do without even that.) For these characters, Zanelli brings a range of exotic woodwinds, duduk, and drums into the equation for a primal feeling. Conversely, the Queen Ingrith and Ulstead material is heavily metallic in its percussive applications, a dulcimer aiding in the abrasive sheen of that realm. Meanwhile, the fantasy element is addressed by a Howard-like adult choir in a typically supporting role, expressing frequent whole-note accompaniment rather than chanting at the forefront.
The emotional range of Zanelli's music for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is perhaps more impressive than Howard's preceding work, the humor and daintiness of early character interactions a highlight of the sequel. In cues like "What is Going on Here?" and "Etiquette Lessons," Zanelli allows the score some jubilant interludes with the innocence of Joel McNeely's flighty Tinker Bell scores. On the other hand, Zanelli never does express the massively melodramatic monstrosity of Howard's most powerful sequences, particularly his monumental "Maleficent Suite," and listeners will likely find this sequel a step behind its inspiration because of that diminishment alone. But Maleficent: Mistress of Evil has more than enough force of will to stand well on its own, mostly because of its intense loyalty to the themes by both Howard and Zanelli. Howard's assignment of themes in Maleficent was always up for debate, especially in the squishiness of melodies applied to both Maleficent and Aurora, and Zanelli offers some clarification (or re-interpretation) in the sequel by applying Howard's more nebulous, lighter character ideas a bit differently or outright replacing them with similarly structured but more cohesive alternatives. Returning are both the primary and auxiliary curse themes, the main one going so far as to keenly inform the new Queen Ingrith theme. Also to be heard are Maleficent's main theme and her motif of evil, the former barely touched upon before the finale but the latter expressed liberally throughout. The romantic material for Aurora and Maleficent's softer identity returns, though these themes are stated in somewhat counterintuitive placements until you accept that Zanelli has sought to give them different meaning here. More prevalent in the work are new themes for the dark fey, including a main idea and a secondary war motif, and dual identities for Ulstead and Queen Ingrith, the latter eventually usurping the former as one might expect. Her scientific goblin, Lickspittle, receives a little motif of ominous mischief. Anchoring the score, however, are the fresh themes for Aurora, a new one for her and the Moors finally consolidating her musical identity into what could be considered this sequel's main theme. And, of course, after Howard intentionally left Maleficent without a love theme for Aurora and Phillip, Zanelli supplies one as appropriate now, culminating in the obligatory statements of romantic drama for both the proposal and wedding scenes.
Before proceeding with discussion about the themes from Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, a complaint must be made against Disney's album for the score, as the thematic narrative is hindered considerably by its omissions. Only 69 of 105 minutes of music in the film is released, leaving out a huge portion from the first third of the work (all of the Ulstead arrival, banquet, and king curse scenes). Both the Maleficent and curse themes are thus underrepresented on the album. The curse theme by Howard was made up of two parts, first the hypnotic series of two note phrases in a choral crescendo and secondly in the dramatic motif for the casting of the spell itself as heard at the end of "The Christening" in the prior score. Both are applied by Zanelli here and not always as expected. The primary curse theme is co-opted by Ingrith's character for her theme, a clever acknowledgement of connected plotlines, and at 2:18 into "Ulstead" and 1:21 into "All He Wanted Was Peace," you get the two ideas clearly merged. The latter statement is especially sly. The most obvious use of the curse theme in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is during the banquet scene, and this pivotal sequence, although relying heavily on Howard's arrangements, is absent from the album. After a cameo in suspense mode at 1:41 into "Protecting Our Kind," the idea gets a full airing during the resurrection scene at 1:48 into "The Phoenix," Zanelli adding a snare drum to the rhythm for additional militaristic implications. The secondary casting of the spell motif is heard during the protagonists' first, rather unconventional arrival at Ulstead (not on the album), during the banquet curse scene (as another red herring), and to herald the Ingrith/Maleficent confrontation at the outset of "The Phoenix." As Maleficent lightens up at the wedding, Zanelli responds with some brief humor for the curse theme at 1:35 into "Time to Come Home." From the same origins of the curse material is Maleficent's theme of evil, and this idea gets ample representation here, starting with the scene in which Maleficent flies to confront Aurora about Phillip's proposal and the aforementioned banquet scene. (Neither cue is on the album.) By "Maleficent Returns," the theme is in full battle mode (0:58, 1:21, 4:29, and 4:49), and its rhythm extends to 4:12 into "The Phoenix." Zanelli includes the theme at 0:27 into "Mistress of Evil," the opening sequence to the end credits score suite. A touch of humor also graces this theme at 0:31 into "Etiquette Lessons," as Maleficent grimly practices her smile.
Howard's themes for Maleficent and Aurora often bled together in application, and Zanelli separates them Maleficent: Mistress of Evil by marginalizing Maleficent's own theme and moving one of that theme's phrases to Aurora. The main Maleficent theme does make two appearances prior to her finale flight sequence that is not featured on the album. The first comes heroically and briefly at 1:55 into "Maleficent Returns" and the second is a soft choral performance at 1:05 into "Time to Come Home" that is missing one key note in the melody. A secondary phrase of that Howard theme is a distinctive descending line that Zanelli shifts over to Aurora for several statements in the sequel, starting with two pivotal performances in "What is Going on Here?" After a quick interlude for this phrase at 1:50 into the cue, Zanelli affords it a massively satisfying rendition at 3:56 as the Moors celebrate the prince's proposal. Soft woodwind and string reprises of this passage are reprised with a slower tempo at 0:42 into "You Don't Have to Change" and 1:19 into "Hello, Beastie." In two of these performances, Zanelli extends the idea to envelope the Aurora and Maleficent relationship motif, an extension of the descending Maleficent phrase heard best late in "True Love's Kiss" from the previous score. You can hear this carry-over at 1:59 and 4:03 into "What is Going on Here?" and 0:51 into "You Don't Have to Change," and in all three cases, the choice by Zanelli to transfer this idea to Phillip is highly effective. In fact, the exuberant performance of this kiss-related material at the end of "What is Going on Here?" is a highlight of the entire franchise. Finally, the other recurring melody from Maleficent in the sequel is the celebratory Aurora and Maleficent friendship theme heard more memorably in "The Queen of Faerieland" from the prior film. It is reprised for the wedding scene in "Time to Come Home," first in full and lovely form at 2:21 and later with gorgeous woodwind counterpoint at 3:45. There are singular passages elsewhere that feature motifs that don't track to anything else in the two scores, and yet Zanelli still keeps these moments rooted in Howard's sound. One such example is a lyrical moment at 0:19 into "What is Going on Here?" that shares roots with Waterworld, of all things. Zanelli's new recurring themes also retain this sensibility, and there's plenty to like about them. The composer's choice to evolve Aurora's thematic identity is acceptable because of the character's own maturation, and Zanelli's repetition of certain figures in this music follows a similar penchant by Howard.
The new theme for Aurora in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil isn't a showstopper, though it, like the new theme for the dark fey, does utilize some chord progressions reminiscent of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Andrew Lloyd Webber showtunes that might have made these melodies well adaptable for a song. Heard first early in "What is Going on Here?" as dual representation for the Moors, this idea is afforded a darker variant as Aurora waits for Maleficent to discuss Phillip's proposal (a cue not on album) and receives similarly somber treatment at 1:12 into "Etiquette Lessons." After a slight reference at 0:22 into "Pinto's Recon Mission," the idea is deconstructed in despair at 0:26 into "It's Love That Will Heal You." Its true demeanor returns at 1:07 into "You Don't Have to Change" before shifting into battle mode for Aurora at 3:17 into "I've Made My Choice, You'll Have to Make Yours." A more stoic battle form awaits the theme at 1:26 into "Protecting Our Kind," turning suspenseful at 2:02 into "Maleficent Returns" before figuring at the forefront in "The Phoenix." After a melancholy performance at 0:28 into "The Phoenix," the theme becomes massively remorseful at 1:01, a solo violin dissolving the melody as Aurora mourns her loss. Redemption for the theme arrives in "Hello, Beastie," pretty renditions at 1:51 and 2:49 yielding to a majestic but brief variation at 3:26. The idea is heard at 1:19 into "Time to Come Home" as Aurora is supplied her wedding dress, and Zanelli closes the theme with a compelling exploration after 0:48 into "Mistress of Evil." Opening that end credits cue is a joyous performance of the Aurora/Phillip love theme, which is first heard in the film with extreme playfulness throughout "What is Going on Here?" It returns at 1:31 into "It's Love That Will Heal You" and with appealing piano at 0:22 into "You Don't Have to Change." Its references continue at 1:16 into "Maleficent Returns," 3:51 into "The Phoenix," and on piano once again at 1:05 into "Hello, Beastie." It takes an almost mystical turn at 1:19 into "Time to Come Home" and receives the heartwarming climax at 4:17 into that cue for the wedding vows. It's not the most obvious of themes in the larger scheme, as its performances tend not to be overwhelming, but it functions well enough and is easy to appreciate once you identify it. Phillip himself doesn't have a theme, but the better side of Ulstead does. You hear this theme upon first glimpse of the Ulstead castle (not on album), and opening the "Ulstead" and "Our Fight Begins Now!" cues. This theme understandably becomes displaced by Queen Ingrith's theme as she takes control of the kingdom.
One must appreciate the intelligence with which Zanelli bases the Ingrith theme upon the chord progressions of Howard's existing curse theme in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, for the evil queen uses Maleficent's sorcery as a decoy for her own rise to power. Audiences believe that Maleficent cursed the king of Ulstead when, in fact, his ailment was Ingrith's doing via other means, and Zanelli plays along with the deception. Her theme is introduced with a bang at 1:14 into "Ulstead," as audiences learn of her plans. The use of the theme throughout "All He Wanted Was Peace" is a pleasure, ranging from sinister to humorous. When she's not on screen, her menace is still felt, as in slight references at 0:35 and 2:27 into "We Have Her," with oddly noble horns at 2:25 into "We're Dark Fey," and in ominous shades at 0:08 into "It's Love That Will Heal You." As her armies assault the Moors, Zanelli juxtaposes the dark fey material with brutal interludes of the Ingrith theme at 0:29 and 0:50 into "The Dance of the Fey." The abrasiveness of the brass and percussion in these performances is particularly raw. A major announcement of the theme comes at 0:57 into "Our Fight Begins Now!" and is mobilized into battle fragments throughout "Your Majesty, They're Coming from the Sea" and at 0:56 into "I've Made My Choice, You'll Have to Make Yours." Repeated dramatic statements of the theme start at 3:01 into "Maleficent Returns." For Ingrith's goblin sidekick (Warwick Davis, of course... Why not?), Zanelli supplies an uneasy rhythmic motif for dulcimer at 3:56 into "Poachers on the Moors," 1:54 into "Ulstead" (the fullest exploration), and 1:18 into "Pinto's Recon Mission." The dark fey are given perhaps the most important theme of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, and it too uses melodramatic progressions suitable for a stage song, shifting chords under the same repeated phrases in the main melody. Zanelli opens the film with this theme, the opening logo at 0:05 into "Poachers on the Moors" receiving a sumptuous performance of the idea over the Disney castle. The theme doesn't feature in the film until Maleficent is shown a tour of the dark fey culture in "We're Dark Fey," the theme's only fantastic fanfare variation existing here. The deep string rhythms carrying the idea raise memories of John Ottman's backstory for the giants in Jack the Giant Slayer. Similarly dramatic shades await the theme at 0:55 into "Origin Story" and 0:06 into "You Don't Have to Change." The idea turns powerfully dramatic and ultimately traumatic at 0:17 and 2:40 into "I've Made My Choice, You'll Have to Make Yours," the latter statement a massive choral and ensemble performance in slow tempo.
The dark fey theme in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil has a few intriguing connections to Jerry Goldsmith, its fanfare in the middle of "We're Dark Fey" reminiscent of The Ghost and the Darkness in its percussion, and the slower brass performance at 2:32 into "Maleficent Returns" stomps with the spirit of Baby: Secret of Lost Legend in its low brass. At 3:53 into "Maleficent Returns," brief choral sadness overtakes the theme, and this tone turns respectfully optimistic at 0:31 into the following "Hello, Beastie." As the dark fey, fairies of the Moors, and humans uncomfortably intermingle during the wedding scene, Zanelli opens "Time to Come Home" with a solo horn sendoff for the theme, the performance either incomplete or mutated in melody to reflect a new existence for the fey. A secondary theme also exists for the fey, one that serves as both a war theme and an accompaniment for the militaristic fey named Borra, who leads the charge against Ulstead. This idea is more of a rhythmic motif resembling Dario Marianelli's V for Vendetta, rumbling along at 2:01 into "We Have Her" and 2:07 into "Origin Story" before its underlying rhythms join the battle at 0:00 into "Your Majesty, They're Coming from the Sea" and become overwhelmed by surrounding action at 0:45 into "Protecting Our Kind." Together, these themes present an outstanding musical narrative for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Singular chase and fight cues, such as "Pinto's Recon Mission" and "Back to the Moors," offer the few moments without prominent themes, and they still serve well. The end credits of the film opens with the Bebe Rexha pop song, "You Can't Stop the Girl," which features really strong melodic ideas but suffers from an awful, manipulated vocal performance. It is no competition for Lana Del Rey's creepy take on "Once Upon a Dream" in Maleficent. The credits then go on to "Mistress of Evil" and the proposal cue and others from the score. As mentioned before, the album is woefully incomplete, missing the banquet and finale cues and leaving a huge gap between "Etiquette Lessons" and "All He Wanted Was Peace." Multiple introductions for the Ulstead castle are missing. Disney also failed to release a CD of this score, so listeners will be left scrambling to find a lossless presentation. (This review is based on a lossless digital promo from Disney, and the score shines in this quality.) Ultimately, Zanelli's work doesn't have the awe-inspiring highlights of Howard's original, but it is extremely smart, cohesive, and accomplished from start to end. All things considered, once Howard was not re-signed, this was the best result that concept and film music fans could have hoped for, a faithful adaptation and spell-binding evolution. @Amazon.com: CD or Download
Music as Written for the Film: *****
Music as Heard on Album: ****
Overall: *****
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• 1. Mistress of Evil (1:33)
• 2. Poachers on the Moors (4:24)
• 3. What is Going on Here? (4:31)
• 4. Ulstead (2:39)
• 5. Etiquette Lessons (2:05)
• 6. All He Wanted Was Peace (4:50)
• 7. We Have Her (3:49)
• 8. We're Dark Fey (3:53)
• 9. Pinto's Recon Mission (1:52)
• 10. It is Love That Will Heal You (2:07)
• 11. Origin Story (2:30)
• 12. You Don't Have to Change (2:01)
• 13. The Dance of the Fey (2:11)
• 14. Back to the Moors (1:14)
• 15. Our Fight Begins Now! (1:45)
• 16. Your Majesty, They're Coming from the Sea (2:16)
• 17. I've Made My Choice, You'll Have to Make Yours (3:33)
• 18. Protecting Our Kind (2:42)
• 19. Maleficent Returns (5:09)
• 20. The Phoenix (4:41)
• 21. Hello, Beastie! (3:42)
• 22. Time to Come Home (5:49)
• 23. You Can't Stop the Girl* (2:39)
* Performed by Bebe Rexha
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Apple AirPods review: Great sound but limited utility
Alex Kidman
Apple’s AirPods are a fascinating fusion of its ongoing love affair with design over just about everything else, which has both its appeal and its rather obvious drawbacks.
Great audio quality
Case adds battery power
Good call quality
Suitable for jogging
In no way inconspicuous
Lacks noise cancelling
One size doesn't fit all
Siri controls everything
Bluetooth pairing could work a lot better
All white design shows off the earwax
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Apple’s purchase of Beats put it squarely in the headphones arena, but at the launch of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus it also used that purchase to announce its own AirPods wireless headphones. It’s not the first time Apple has dabbled in own-brand audio, having offered for example the iPod Hi-Fi Audio dock a decade ago. AirPods, according to Apple’s hype, are wireless, effortless and magical, which sounds impressive, at least in theory.
Read our full review of the AirPods' design
One of our first worries with the AirPods, even before we'd tried them on, was that they could simply fall out of your ears. We tested this going for a heavy 5km street run, after which we were sweaty and tired, but the AirPods stayed the entire route, never once threatening to bounce out of our ears. We could see how a very sudden impact such as a car braking might cause them to go adrift, but for regular everyday use they're very solid.
Apple rather likes its design notes to stand out, and there's no doubting that this is true of the AirPods. Great if you're walking the fashion runway at Milan, but perhaps a little less desirable late on a Friday night when you're leaving the pub. Even if you're staying in secure areas, they do still also have that slight social awkwardness that has long been associated with Bluetooth earpieces. Maybe Apple can change that over time, but right now it's definitely an issue.
Competing bud earphones come with silicon tips to fit different ear canal sizes, but the AirPods are a one-size-fits-or-falls-out proposition. We didn't have issues with this, but if you typically reach for the largest silicon tips for your earbuds, you might find them a less than optimal fit.
Remember how white iPods used to show every scuff and mark? The AirPods are like that, but with whatever material may collect in your ears. Again, that's a function of any in-ear buds, but the stark glossy white really serves to show it off to its full revolting potential.
Regular battery life is quite short, though
Read our full review of the AirPods' performance
Small bud earphones are typically tinny little devices, but Apple has done a great job with the audio that comes out of the AirPods. Audio quality across a range of music genres was represented well, and surprisingly, given the Apple/Beats relationship, they're not heavily tuned towards bass frequencies.
Voice call quality is notoriously difficult to assess, because there are so many factors to take into consideration. Still, in our calls on the AirPods, those we spoke to had no problems understanding us even at low volumes.
Apple didn't invent the idea of a case that adds extra battery power, as it has been part of any number of previous Bluetooth headsets, but it's nicely implemented here with a solid magnetic click when you drop the AirPods into their case for storage and recharging.
In one sense Apple has done a great job getting the five hours of battery life you get out of the AirPods. Still, five hours is only five hours no matter how you time it, which means that they're not suitable for all-day office listening or long plane flights without dropping them back into their charging case.
Read our full review of the AirPods' features
You do get some noise isolation because the buds go into your ear canal, but there's no functional noise cancellation going on with these buds. That would impact battery life, but it's the kind of premium feature you might have expected.
The only interaction you can have with Apple's AirPods is to double tap on the side to invoke Siri. She works as you'd expect, which feels futuristic, but the downside here is that you have to use her for everything. Want to adjust volume? You'll have to ask Siri, which is slow and tedious, not to mention a little imprecise. Frankly it's easier to dig your phone out of your pocket and adjust the actual volume controls.
Apple's contention is that the AirPods are easier to pair than conventional devices because they'll pair with an Apple device with one tap and then spread to your devices on the same account. This is only partially true, because while pairing is easy, you've still got to use the same menus to actually shift from one audio source to another, which is as time consuming as regular Bluetooth.
For what it's worth they will pair with other non-iOS devices, but you naturally lose the Siri integration if you do this. The AirPods will pair with anything Bluetooth, but only a single connection at a time. We've seen a number of Bluetooth headsets that will dual pair, which is handy if you're listening through a MacBook but also want your phone calls routed through. The AirPods can't handle that kind of sophistication outside of an Apple Watch and iPhone 7 pairing, however, meaning you'll have to manually switch them through the Bluetooth menu to swap audio sources.
Apple's AirPods are a fascinating fusion of its ongoing love affair with design over just about everything else, which has both its appeal and its rather obvious drawbacks. They're best suited if you're already heavily within the Apple ecosystem given the quick pairing with iOS and macOS Sierra devices and you like the rather obvious design style.
Read our full verdict on the AirPods
Maybe Apple can overcome the general social stigma associated with Bluetooth headsets in a short span of time, but right now you’re likely to feel rather conspicuous wearing a pair of AirPods. Apple’s hype wants to suggest that they’re wireless, effortless and magical. They’re certainly wireless, but the lack of on-device controls beyond the double tap for either Siri or Play/Pause (but not both) means that they’re far from either effortless, and they’re only magical if you’ve never seen a set of Bluetooth headphones before, or wish to fool people that you’re a magician because you have two white tubes sticking out of your ears.
Everyone is jostling for wireless audio supremacy right now, so your choices are quite wide. If the concept of headphones that are just buds appeals to you, you could consider Samsung’s Gear IconX headphones or Jabra’s Elite Sport buds. If you want to keep things within the Apple family, you could opt for a pair of Beats Solo3 headphones which share the same W1 wireless chips as the AirPods. If you’re after something with more of a fitness angle, consider Plantronics’ BackBeat Fit headphones, which wrap around the back of your head. If you’re after something with a bit more audio oomph and a lot more battery life, we recently tested out and adored the Plantronics BackBeat PRO 2 headphones.
Apple’s AirPods are sold through Apple’s retail stores and online for $229.
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A multi-award winning journalist, Alex has written about consumer technology for over 20 years. He has written and edited for virtually every Australian tech publication including Gizmodo, CNET, PC Magazine, Kotaku and more. He has also been the Editor of Gizmodo Australia, PC Mag Australia, CNET.com.au and the Tech and Telco section at Finder. Alex has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New England and a serious passion for retro gaming.
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Employer Branding, Recruitment, Tips & Tricks
The Top 7 Must-Read Books for Recruitment Marketing
If you work in recruiting or human resources, you’ve probably noticed a huge shift in the way companies scout for talent. So-called Recruitment Marketing (RM) is a new approach that focuses on building a company culture that makes high-performing employees want to work for you. This people-centered approach is the future of recruitment.
Adopting an RM strategy will enhance a company’s ability to attract the best talent. Here’s all the important information to know about this fresh approach.
What Is Recruitment Marketing?
It’s a strategy that focuses on attracting and nurturing talented people to a company before they apply for any openings. In an RM approach, the human resources department works closely with the marketing department to build the company’s brand and image. Together they create a brand that’s irresistible not only to talented people but to the people already working for the business, who become its biggest supporters.
Here’s how it works in a nutshell. First, they create a company whose brand represents the qualities workers are looking for. Talented people who hear about the company like what they hear and want to work there.
Referrals Are Key to Your Recruitment Marketing Strategy
Referrals are a crucial part of an RM strategy. When employees talk about how great it is to work for a business, they become the company’s recruitment partners. They use their own networks to find people with the right mix of skills, values, and goals to be successful at the company.
Who knows the business better than its own workers? That’s why happy, engaged, and productive workers are a company’s best referral sources.
Employee referrals lead to great employees. Successful companies can fill more than half their available positions by using employee referrals. That saves a lot of time, money, and effort. It also results in loyal, productive employees who fully commit to the company’s growth and success.
Employees who love working with the company are its best ambassadors. They’ll recruit for the company, and they often find amazing, talented people among their own networks.
What Is the Difference Between Traditional Recruiting and RM?
The major difference is that RM is proactive. In traditional marketing, the recruiter starts their work once there’s an open position. The recruiter finds talented people to fill the position, screens them, evaluates them, and helps the hiring manager decide who to hire. It’s a reactive process.
In RM, the company begins by positioning itself as a great place to work. Employer branding marketing creates a company’s image among potential customers. RM establishes a company’s image among potential employees. It’s a proactive strategy.
Maren Hogan, CEO of Red Branch Media, describes it this way in an interview with the Undercover Recruiter:
It is the natural, tactical extension of employer branding. It’s the art of attracting someone not just to the company but to a specific job and team. It includes everything that traditional marketing does such as traditional advertising, digital ads, copywriting, graphic design and audiovisual components. It should also be measured the same way we measure traditional marketing, including how qualified a lead is and what it costs to get a conversion.
Why You Need a Good Recruitment Marketing Strategy
RM isn’t a flashy new trend. It’s the only way to be sure the company can attract the talent it needs. The old methods won’t work.
In an interview with the Society for Human Resources Management, SmashFly CEO and recruiting expert Mike Hennessey explains:
These days, companies shouldn’t just be selling jobs. Candidates are looking at your brand, your message and your value. The ‘job’ may be the final transaction with the candidate, but to attract the best people that fit your organization’s purpose, your recruitment strategies must be brand-led. Your brand value message needs to be communicated at every interaction throughout the candidate journey.
Yes, it works.
Employers who rely on fostering and nurturing their referrals see a tremendous increase in the number and quality of their leads. Hiring is faster and easier when employees do half the work for the recruiter.
As recruiting expert Liz Ryan wrote in Forbes magazine,
Employee referral is the best recruiting channel I know. It is not the only one, but it’s the only one that reinforces and celebrates your employees in a tangible way for contributing to your company’s success.
Recruitment is a dynamic process. Staying successful at it means having the best tools and the deepest knowledge at your fingertips. You can get there by reading blogs, listening to podcasts, and taking workshops, but nothing beats the in-depth knowledge and inspiration you get from a book.
To get started, here are our picks for seven of the most interesting, informative recruitment marketing books. Every recruitment professional should have these on their bookshelf.
1. Exceptional Talent: How to Attract, Acquire and Retain the Very Best Employees
Mervyn Dinnen and Matt Alder bring their combined decades of experience in RM and human resources to this information-packed, insightful book. The book guides its reader through the new world of RM and explains why it’s vital for a business. The authors give a roadmap to success. They back up their suggestions with considerable research and interesting case studies.
Exceptional Talent examines how changes in technology, communication, and employee preferences are changing how recruiters work. Smart recruiters will use this change to transform their own talent management strategies. This is a powerful, immensely useful how-to for any recruitment professional.
2. Getting Goosebumps: A Pragmatic Guide to Effective Inbound Marketing and Talent Attraction
The authors have revamped and updated their original bestseller to reflect innovative trends in recruitment. Authors Bryan Adams and Dave Hazlehurst argue convincingly that the key to attracting and keeping the best talent is to build a story around an employer’s brand. This will motivate employees to help bring in new clients and top-tier talent. That’s the underlying philosophy of RM in a nutshell. This book provides a plan of action any recruiter can implement.
3. Social Media Recruitment: How to Successfully Integrate Social Media into Recruitment Strategy
Social media can be used to create a consistent brand image, reach potential employees, and build a brand identity. It’s not rocket science, but it’s tricky to walk the slippery slope of social media. This book helps create a solid social media recruiting plan.
Andy Headworth is one of the world’s authorities on social media recruitment. In this eminently practical book, he shares his hard-hitting strategies for putting the power of social media to work for any company. Headworth has an in-depth knowledge of recruitment strategy, candidate attraction, and content marketing strategies anyone can use right now.
4. The Talent Brand: The Complete Guide to Creating Emotional Employee Buy-In for Your Organization
Talent branding is the art of winning employees’ hearts and minds. When a company does it, employees buy into the company’s dreams and goals. How do you create that kind of talent brand? In this book, Jody Ordioni shows how to connect talent to strategic objectives. Leverage the power of teams to transform the company.
Jody Ordioni is the founder and chief branding officer of Brandemix, a New York-based branding and communications company. Ordioni has worked with hundreds of clients to develop branding tools, comprehensive marketing plans, and successful brand launches. This book collects all her hard-won experience into a step-by-step guide for creating a business brand that will attract high-performing employees.
5. Recruit Rockstars: The 10 Step Playbook to Find the Winners and Ignite Your Business
According to author Jeff Hyman, executive recruiter and author of Recruit Rockstars, 90% of all business problems are recruiting problems. Hiring the wrong people drags a company down in every way. Hyman has started and managed several companies himself, and he has made the same mistakes we all have.
When hiring motivated, talented rock stars, the company will have fewer business problems and waste less time. In this book, he shows exactly how to do that using extensive examples and case studies from his own work. Hyman has been a top-tier recruitment expert for decades. He teaches the MBA course on recruiting at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and hosts the popular Strong Suit podcast.
6. Talent Magnet: How to Attract and Keep the Best People
Recruiting the best talent starts with understanding what these talented workers are looking for in a company. The next step is transforming your business culture into one that attracts these high-performing employees. In this inspiring book, Mark Miller shows how to hire, retain, and nurture talented people who will make a business thrive in a competitive global marketplace. The book is part of Miller’s High Performance book series.
Mark Miller knows about company culture inside out. He started as an hourly employee at Chik-Fil-A. He moved into corporate management and eventually headed the company’s global recruitment strategies. He is a co-author of the bestseller The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do.
7. Recruiting Sucks… But It Doesn’t Have To: Breaking Through the Myths That Got Us Here
Steve Lowisz thinks recruiters spend too much time thinking about the process of recruiting and not enough about the people involved in it. It’s an outdated, uninspiring approach that does nothing to inspire current or potential employees. Lowisz shows how to see beyond skillsets and traditional recruiting methods to build what he calls a “people-centric workforce.” It’s a fresh take that will inspire new and experienced recruiters.
Lowisz is the CEO and founder of the Qualigence Group, which consults with companies on talent acquisition, management, and retention. An industry veteran who has helped hundreds of businesses, he regularly contributes to Fortune, CNN Money, the Detroit Free Press, and Bloomberg Radio.
Get Inspired to Read, Reflect and Recruit
We hope these recruitment marketing books motivate you to take a fresh approach to your recruiting strategies. Whether you work for a small start-up or a global corporation, you’ll find valuable information in these books. Read them to get informed and inspired. Use what you learn to recruit the top talent your company needs.
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Convicted killer Roy Oliver returns to court to face other charges
Convicted of murder, former Balch Springs Police Officer Roy Oliver will be back in court on Friday.
A jury sentenced Oliver to 15 years in prison for the on-duty shooting and killing of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. But other criminal charges from the night the teen was killed and from an alleged road rage incident two weeks earlier remain an open question.
There are a total of four aggravated assault deadly weapon charges against Oliver that the state has not made clear whether they plan to try them. So Judge Brandon Birmingham is bringing everyone back to his court to learn the answer. But it could be a legal bargaining session.
Oliver will return to Judge Birmingham's court on Friday just eight days after a jury sentenced him to 15 years in prison for murder.
"Although it wasn't what we wanted, those 15 years or however long he does its gonna feel like life to him since he's ripped away from his family," said Charmaine Edwards, Jordan's stepmother.
Oliver will be back in court because of unfinished legal business. Attorney Toby Shook is not involved in the case.
"It's a lot on the table," Shook said. "This will be interesting to see how this plays out because the state could try to play hardball."
Oliver was found not guilty on two aggravated assault charges brought at trial for when he fired into the car carrying Jordan and four others on April 29, 2017. But there are still two other aggravated assault charges from that event, and the state could take him to trial on those.
"I'm sure you would have a defense objection saying the jury found him not guilty of those agg assaults on the same exact evidence," Shook said. "Therefore, the state should be barred from prosecuting those cases again."
Monique Arredondo and her sister, Ashley Cuevas testified Oliver pulled a gun on them following minor off-duty traffic accident.
"All I could see was the end of the gun to my face," Arredondo previously said in court.
The former Balch Springs officer admitted pulling his gun. But he said he put it on his chest as he approached Arredondo's car. Under cross examination, he denied ever pointing the weapon at the women.
The confrontation happened 13 days before Jordan was murdered. Oliver faces two aggravated assault charges.
"Those could be tried if the state wanted to and they could try to get more time on Mr. Oliver," Shook said.
The outstanding cases could be used in other ways.
"When you have pending cases, the state often uses leverage. 'Well, we can try you again or you can plead to something concurrent and waive your appeal,'" Shook explained.
One possibility is Oliver could agree to drop his appeal of his murder conviction and the state would dismiss the outstanding aggravated assault cases.
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Navistar may close plants to cut costs, CEO says
LISLE, Illinois (Reuters) - Embattled U.S. truck and engine maker Navistar International Corp is cutting administrative and engineering spending and may close factories as it works to lower its costs, the company's newly named chief executive said on Thursday.
The company is cutting its white-collar work force by about 800 people through a combination of voluntary buyouts and layoffs, reducing its engineering spending by 28 percent and will next review whether it needs all 19 of its North American factories, CEO Lewis Campbell said in his first interview since taking the reins at Navistar on August 27.
"We are now looking at what are the range of industry volumes that could come to us over time and what is the right footprint? More than likely we'll have to adjust our footprint. And we're ready to do that," said Campbell.
The Lisle, Illinois-based company is also reviewing whether to close or sell any of its businesses outside of its core North American truck and engine operations, Campbell said.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)
Embattled U.S. truck and engine maker Navistar International Corp is cutting administrative and engineering spending and may close factories as it works to lower its costs, the company's newly named chief executive said on Thursday.
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Alcoa Betting on 3D Printing, Spends $60 Million to Expand 3D Manufacturing Center
Sep 04, 2015 08:09 PM EDT | By Jean-Claude Arnobit
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Alcoa, a leader in lightweight metals, is betting on 3D printing as it plans to expand its 3D manufacturing center in Pennsylvania, according to a press release issued by Alcoa.
Alcoa's investment aims to speed up the development of advanced 3D-printing materials and processes.
Alcoa is allotting $60 million for the expansion of its research and development center to meet the increasing demand of 3D-printed parts for aerospace, automotive, medical, and building and construction markets.
The company has already been creating 3D-printed tools, molds and prototypes for the past 20 years.
Klaus Kleinfeld, chairman and CEO of Alcoa, said in the press release that the investment will strengthen the company's position as the leader in "meeting the fast-growing demand for aerospace components made using additive technologies."
"Combining our expertise in metal alloys, manufacturing, design, and product qualification, we will push beyond the limits of today's additive manufacturing," he said.
Reuters adds that Alcoa's investment is part of the company's strategy to focus more on its advanced aerospace and automotive products.
The company will also be selling off its more traditional, but more costly smelting facilities.
Ray Kilmer, chief technology officer at Alcoa, told Reuters that the focus of the expansion in its R&D center will be to explore new aluminum, titanium, nickel and other metal alloys, as the alloys they currently use are expensive.
"The (alloy) powders need to be improved upon, they need to be cost effective, and they need to work better in the additive printing process," he said. "What's new now is the machines are getting better, faster and cheaper."
Kilmer adds that the company "is stepping into the process" so that they "can get the performance and the cost to where they need to be."
The company expects the construction of the new facility to be completed in the first quarter of 2016, according to the press release.
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Located in Maumusson – in the north of the Madiran appellation – on great limestone-clay and salty-clay soils, Domaine LABRANCHE LAFFONT was only a 6 hectare (15 acres) estate vineyard when Christine DUPUY took over the family estate in 1992, just after her father’s death. She was then 23 years old and had to immediately take-up the challenge of a very difficult but extraordinary adventure to run the vineyard.
Christine had the theory basis but no practical experience. Full of abnegation, courage and motivation, she called for help and got some from her famous neighbours MM. Ducourneau, Laplace and Capmartin. 1992 was her first vintage and a real challenge. The wines were the first of the vineyard to be oak barrel-aged for part of the crop and were rewarded with a citation in a famous French wine guide. In 1994, she started to use the brand new micro-oxygenation technology, locally invented by P. Ducourneau and now used all over the world to soften the tannins of the Tannat, then step by step and every year, she has adopted and adapted changes to her vines and vinification to always improve and provide more fruit and roundness to her powerful and structured wines. Today, Domaine LABRANCHE LAFFONT is a 18 hectare (45 acres) estate in Madiran and Pacherenc appellation. Most of the Tannat vines are more than 50 years old, including a spectacular 2 acre parcel of twisted and knotted 155 years old Tannat vines planted before Phyloxera ravaged France, used for the amazing Vieilles Vignes Cuvée.
Christine DUPUY has been widely praised for her Madiran wines and also her brilliant dry and sweet Pacherenc du Vic Bilh.
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Labranche Laffont - Madiran Tradition, 2015
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Red, Tannat, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, 750ml
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Dessert Wine, Gros Manseng, Petit Manseng, Petit Courbu, Arrufiac, 500mL
Labranche Laffont - Madiran Vieilles Vignes, 2014
Red, Tannat, 750ml
Labranche Laffont - Madiran Les Préphylloxériques, 2009
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Dominic Cavendish (THE TELEGRAPH)
Reviewed by Mister Kipper Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 THE TELEGRAPH 0 responses
Dominic Cavendish is perhaps best known, among comedians anyway, as the man who walked out of a Stewart Lee gig. Appalled by Lee’s apparent contempt for his audience, Cavendish asked why “the capacity crowd didn’t mutiny at this sardonic onslaught”. The reason, in the heads of most comedygoers, was that they understood the context of the contempt. To which Cavendish replied that he understood that his fans understood, but it was getting a bit tired. And anyone who has seen Stewart Lee’s website will know that the appalled outbursts of reviewers are simply collected and put on display like little trophies. It’s hard to win an argument with someone hellbent on self-deconstruction.
This year, perhaps to oil the waters, his colleague Mark Monahan went along to see Lee and found that there was “a great deal to enjoy”. So that’s alright then. Cavendish, meanwhile, has been pursuing his own line in contrarian needling by reviewing – indeed, celebrating – the most liberal-baiting comedians he could find: Andrew Lawrence, Geoff Norcott and Shazia Mirza.
It’s a relief that a reviewer has done justice to Norcott this year. By actually spelling out the jokes – quite a lot of them, possibly to the detriment of the show – Cavendish at least gives the lie to other reviewers such as Fest‘s resident communist Sean Bell who claimed that Norcott, despite admissions of Tory sympathies, had nothing controversial to say. These jokes “could easily bring death threats in the Twittersphere,” Cavendish assures us. And after the Lee debacle, he should know.
It’s clear that Andrew Lawrence is a bit of a critical battleground this year. From hate blurts that backhandedly validate him (Broadway Baby) to considered take-downs (Chortle) and contemptuous dismissals (Fest), most have attempted a sort of bomb-disposal review that won’t prove Lawrence right about the Liberal conspiracy. There’s no reason why the Torygraph should toe such a line, though, and Cavendish commends his bravery while excusing pretty much all his faults: “It’s as if we’d forgotten that comedians had licence to be honest, however ugly that might make them. Does that mean too few jokes? At times, yes.” He lets Mirza off too for having the courage not just to condemn Isis, but show evidence that the Prophet does too: “Given the bravery and urgency of the material, you’re inclined to overlook the fact that she loses momentum midway in by over-stating the same points.”
While we may disagree on which kind of bravery is most needed in comedy or the world, it’s clear that Cavendish is is genuinely concerned with this idea of ‘urgency’. He puts more emphasis on the message, and how different it is, than he is with the slickness, the surroundings or the technicalities. This is especially important when so many critics troll up to Edinburgh, watch Jack Whitehall and then complain that they didn’t see anything political/right-wing/controversial/daring. One criticism we might make of Cavendish as of all broadsheet reviewers: do you really see enough comedy to appreciate what is truly brave or different? You get the feeling that the shows Cavendish picked were selected in pursuit of a theme, and because he wanted to make his points without seeing any more than he had to.
Yet, when Cavendish is not having to explain why he went home early, he gives the show he’s looking at time to unfold on the page. At times this does mean a little too much punchline-spilling, but that’s a small loss to an hour-long show and worth it for an approach that, instead of having a point to prove, aims to prove its points with detailed reference to the original material. Not that Cavendish is always convincing: it seems sometimes that he was determined to come out in favour of these three shows before the lights even dimmed. But, the misjudged Stewart Lee debacle aside, there’s nothing particularly wrong with a reviewer with a point to make.
Mister Kipper
4 Stars, Andrew Lawrence, Geoff Norcott, Mister Kipper, Sean Bell, Shazia Mirza, The Telegraph
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What AAA games can learn from the six-month Watch Dogs delay
By Andy Hartup 27 March 2014
Watch Dogs was originally due to be a launch title for next-gen, but Ubisoft delayed the game last October. The reasons given revolved around a need to ‘polish’ the final game; to make it a better experience. All very applause-worthy. A recent story by CVG explains that the delay allowed the team at Ubi Montreal to include gameplay elements and systems that would've otherwise been cut and added to a hypothetical sequel. It’s worded to make this delay seem like a luxury--but I’d argue it was a necessity.
This whole story perfectly sums up the advantages and drawbacks of modern, AAA game development. On the one hand, it’s great that Ubisoft took the time to make Watch Dogs all it can be. While players will undoubtedly benefit from this, we shouldn’t be fooled into thinking it’s an act of benevolence from the publisher.
With the gap between success and failure now vaster than ever, new video games need to be given every possible chance to succeed financially, and spark enough player interest to create demand for a sequel. Releasing a half-baked Watch Dogs simply wasn’t an option for Ubisoft. So the cost of a six-month delay vastly outweighs the cost of a brand new franchise failing at the start of a fresh console generation.
On the other hand, it shows a worrying reliance on the notion of creating sequels. The fact that Ubisoft considered holding ideas back--while sensible--could be construed as a lack of ambition. If there’s an acceptance that a sequel will happen, it could mean that the best concepts are spread over several games, leading to the kind of sequel fatigue we’ve seen in franchises like Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed.
If ideas keep getting banked for later, there’s less chance of those concepts feeling genuinely fresh and innovative by the time a sequel rolls around. That’s potentially as damaging as releasing a game that isn’t quite up to scratch from the get-go. Given that Watch Dogs is a cross-generation release, I’d expect Ubi to be aiming much, much higher with a Watch Dogs sequel, since the developers won’t need to consider consoles with less power for future projects. It should prove liberating.
The net result of all this extra pressure on developers, who essentially need to get things right first time, will likely manifest in either one of two ways during this new generation. We’ll likely see more substantial, last-minute delays as publishers refuse to release games that aren’t given the best chance to succeed. The alternative is to announce late--when games are largely feature-complete--to create more realistic timescales for development and rein in any grand expectations. The drawback here is that you lose time to hype up the game. Realistically, I think we’ll see a mixture of both.
If everything goes the way I hope, they'll be fewer AAA games to sift through, and each one will benefit from an increase in quality. Plus, once devs are familiar with the new hardware, the focus on polish should also mean fewer bugs at launch, and less patches to correct errors. (Yeah, I'm looking at you, Battlefield.) So while this has been a painful lesson for Ubisoft to learn with Watch Dogs, it’s encouraging to see the focus being firmly fixed on quality. Quite simply: If a game doesn't meet AAA standards, then no publisher--no matter how cash-rich--will be content to put out a AAA-budget failure
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Issue 166 - 21st December 2009
The Chief Inspector of Prisons has reported this week that detention conditions for women and children at Tinsley House Detention Centre are unacceptable. Read more.
The UKBA have revised again their Judicial Review guidance. They will now seek to continue with removal in cases where a previous removal has failed within the last ten days because of a technical reason. They will not automatically defer removal upon a threat of judicial review in cases certified on safe third country grounds or those designated clearly unfounded. They will also no longer automatically give 72 hours' notice of removal to those who are deemed to be disruptive or pose a threat to others. Read more.
The Supreme Court in Mahad (previously referred to as AM) (Ethiopia) v Entry Clearance Officer [2009] UKSC 16 have found that for applications under the Immigration rules r.281, r.297 and r.317, when considering whether the applicant can maintain themselves without recourse to public funds, it was acceptable to take third party financial support into account. Read more.
Sedley LJ in JA (Ivory Coast) & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 1353 found that the principles in N v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2005) UKHL 31, (2005) 2 AC 296 did not apply in a case where the appellant's had lawfully entered the United Kingdom and were then diagnosed as HIV-positive and consequently given exceptional leave to remain so they could receive medical treatment. Their appeal should be considered on the basis of whether their removal would be proportionate. Read more.
Four new Country Guidance cases. In TK (Tamils, LP updated) Sri Lanka CG [2009] UKAIT 00049 the Tribunal reaffirmed LP (LTTE area - Tamils - Colombo - risk?) Sri Lanka CG [2007] UKAIT 00076, that only persons with a profile of affiliation with the LTTE are likely to be at risk. They also affirmed that country evidence should meet the standards set out in NA v UK, [2008] ECHR 616 and the Refugee Qualification Directive (2004/83/EC). Read more.
Revised guidance for post election Iran in SB (risk on return-illegal exit) Iran CG [2009] KAIT 00053. Persons who are likely to be perceived by the authorities in Iran as being actively associated with protests against the June 12 election results may face a real risk of persecution or ill treatment, although much will depend on the particular circumstances. Read more.
In AA (Non-Arab Darfuris - relocation) Sudan CG [2009] UKAIT 00056, the Tribunal held all non-Arab Darfuris are at risk of persecution in Darfur and cannot reasonably be expected to relocate elsewhere in Sudan. Read more.
In HA (Ethiopia, work permits, restrictions) Ethiopia CG [2009] UKAIT 00052, it found that a foreigner who wishes to be employed in Ethiopia will only be able to do so if there is no qualified Ethiopian for the activity in question. Read more.
Finally a reported decision of the Tribunal in NO (Post, Study Work, award needed by date of application) Nigeria [2009] UKAIT 00054, found that for post study worker applications under immigration rule 245Z, the applicant must have been awarded the requisite qualification in respect of which points are claimed by the date of the application. Read more.
On Monday 11 January 2010 Edward Nicholson & Allan Briddock present a course on refugee spouses and their families & further submissions in asylum cases for HJT Training at 1 Liverpool Street London EC2M 7QD. Read more.
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SESA GOA : Q1 June 2008: Spectacular non annualised EPS of Rs 161!…A chance to yet grab it at Rs 3300!
By Gaurav Parikh 23 Jul, 2008 Leave a comment
We all know that SESA GOA has been sizzling for a few years now…..but this Quarter’s results show that this Iron Ore Company,now part of the Vedanta Group , which holds a 51.12% has put up a spectacular show.It’s unaudited consolidated Profit is Rs 633 crs for the three months ending June 30,2008 against just Rs 33 crs in the same quarter last year.This gives an astounding EPS of Rs 161! for just this quarter.The Equity is Rs 39.36 crs with reserves of Rs 2904 crs as on March 31,2008 rising now to cross Rs 3500 crs as on June 30,2008.Sales have surged to Rs 1324 crs in Q1 2008 from Rs 536 crs in a similar period last year…..The Sesa Group earned an EPS of Rs 392 in the whole of last year 2007/8 and paid Rs 45/share (450%) dividend…a payout of less than 12% of total profits
Check out the results at www.sesagoa.com/QuarterlyResults.htm
With further significant price escalation for the current year…Chinese Steel Companies recently signed a 90+% price escalation for iron ore supplies in 2008/9….SESA GOA should perform even more spectacularly in the future
It faces risks of taxes on Exports of Iron Ore and even a rare possibility of a ban on iron ore exports to support supplies of Iron Ore for the Indigenous Steel Industry !
It has surged today to Rs 3300 levels after buoyancy in the market today after UPA won the trust vote yesterday in the Lok Sabha
SESA GOA has also announced at their Board Meeting on April 28,2008 a Bonus in the ratio of 1:1 and subdivision of shares into 10 shares of Face Value of Rs 1 from the current one share of Face Value of Rs 10
The Share Price of Rs 3300 is cum bonus and cum split…Bonus hardly dents the reserves
Clearly with the Steel Sector continuing to enjoy buoyancy for the next few years as demand in India and China remains strong,the Mineral Resource Iron Ore Provider SESA GOA will continue to outperform
Clearly SESA GOA should be in your portfolio even at this price as last years EPS of 391 would easily be eclipsed and a new Record established in 2008/9
So how much should SESA GOA earn in 2008/9 ?…You’ll say “WOW” if I tell you that dont be surprised if the EPS for 2008/9 crosses Rs 800 !…before Bonus and split adjustments
My logic is simple.In Q1 2008 SESA GOA sold 3.2 million tonnes of Iron Ore at Rs 3491/MT to generate Revenues of Rs 1117 Crs and a PBT of Rs 855 crs and PAT of Rs 634 crs….For the rest of the year it will be benefit from new contract prices of over Rs 6000/MT…Assuming 65% Operating margins,SESA GOA should easily earn a PBT of over Rs 4000 crs and a PAT of over Rs 3000 crs,twice that of 2007/8.
That’s an EPS Level of close to Rs 800.Today’s cum bonus and cum split price of Rs 3300 is under 5 multiple….Now’s that’s begging you to buy…Price should easily cross Rs 5000
To borrow an adline “GO GOA !”…just insert SESA in the middle
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Last week, Pfizer and BioNTech announced a breakthrough in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Pfizer proclaimed its initial Phase 3 data showed its vaccine is 'more than 90% effective'. The news was hungrily devoured and then regurgitated by the national press in an excited fanfare. The BBC reported Health Secretary Matt Hancock as saying the NHS will be ready from December to roll out the new coronavirus vaccine if it gets approved.
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Removing a pair of latex gloves in a single movement with a “pop” is an art form and takes practice. Two deciduous teeth out, bite on this, a satisfying pop and I’m marching through to reception to take a call. “Mike Lennon here” said the voice at the end of the line. The last time I heard that voice was on the child dental health clinic at Manchester University way back in 1984.
So hop into the De Lorean for a quick spin. Mike, regional director of dental public health, was affectionately christened “Boss Hog” for his striking similarity to the character in The Dukes of Hazard and his straight talking. Fast-forward to 2012 and Mike, a Chairman of the British Fluoridation Society (BFS), had read my letter in the British Dental Journal and wanted to make contact with Hull LDC. The BFS as a Group are world experts on fluoridation and were keen to help and advise.
In 1984 Orwellian language, Mike talked in “old speak” and in 2012 he wanted to hear about my theory that CWF had indeed fallen in to a “memory hole”. Mike must have done something right at Manchester in 1984. Tom Robson leading the CWF campaign in the North East in 2019 is also one of Mike’s Manchester graduates. As Tom says – we all have the same hairstyle now.
Returning to the TV theme, the BFS are the Dental Public Health equivalent of the ‘New Tricks’ retired detective team. Not wishing to be age-ist, certainly mostly 65 plus but all of them with brains the size of planets and huge commitment. They have forgotten more about fluoridation than we have learned over the last seven years and, to be very honest, without them the towel would have gone in years ago. And boy they work hard at it. To say the BFS are inspirational is an understatement.
Mike was, however, a realist. Having been round the proverbial fluoridation block – the F-block - for many years he wanted to know if Hull LDC were in it for the long haul. I think we convinced him we were.
Alan Johnson was one of Hull’s MPs at the time and still the only Secretary of State for Health to state his clear unequivocal support for CWF so Mike suggested I contact him and try and set up a meeting in Hull to get the ball rolling. At this point in time the F-Word was not exactly a thought crime but it tended to be hidden in a “basket of measures” in new speak terms.
We were going for direct action – so we sent out a letter inviting local councilors to a meeting on Oral Health in the City to discuss how to improve the situation.
So in attendance at the Hull Ionians Rugby Club we had: a former Secretary of State for Health, several Councillors, NHSE Dental Commissioners, PHE representatives and this was the moment when Hull LDC made it’s pitch beside the pitch.
It was an important first step in bringing CWF to the attention of local Councillors who, at the end of the day, have the final say on policy. This is only right and proper. After all, targeted fluoridation is a local issue. The challenge for Hull LDC was describing the challenges we face daily, the poor oral health, the high numbers of child GAs, the very poor child dental health statistics, all in human terms and offering CWF as part of the solution because it is safe and effective. Councillors want to do the right thing but are also nervous about doing the wrong thing. It takes time and an attentive audience to provide the science and to reassure that most of the “googled” information needs to be critically evaluated. The best reassurance though existed across the Humber where parts of North Lincolnshire have a fluoridation scheme. As is often the case with CWF – the numbers speak for themselves.
The meeting went well and we knew we had Councillors who were supportive and understood the benefits fluoridation could and would bring to the City. But progress seems agonizingly slow, tedious and frustrating for Dentists at the front line of Primary Care. In fact it is a necessary part of following the correct procedure and rightly so.
So, in the meantime, Hull LDC chose some direct action. We pledged to try and raise CWF at every opportunity and at any meeting we attended. So we quizzed Andrew Lansley at the BDA Conference and asked questions around fluoridation on every possible occasion. Hull LDC members attended an anti-fluoridation meeting in Hull and had the first of many encounters with the “Ministry of Truth” which bottomed out at CWF turning the public in to waste disposal units for the aluminum industry and boosting the profits of the Rockefeller pharmaceutical companies. By the end many of the more neutral in the audience were leaving incredulous. At first we were the “odd” ones at professional meetings but over the next few years we could sense that slowly but surely the F-word was no longer being avoided or whispered but was slowly making it’s way out of the basket of measures to become a single measure in it’s own right.
Slowly the “double speak “ of CWF being recognised as being one of the ten greatest public health achievements of the 20thcentury (1). but being too “hard” was being countered and challenged 2+2=4.
Centers for Disease Prevention and control: Community Water Fluoridation: A vital 21st Century public health Measure
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Community Water Fluoridation – Campaigning With Fortitude
If you check out the word fortitude you get a sense of the characteristics necessary to campaign on Public Health. Resilience, endurance, perseverance, patience, tenacity, resolve, determination, grit and pluck. I wish we’d looked this up in 2012 when we started all of this – we may have decided to duck the challenge. We didn’t, and now we know why fortitude is essential, necessary, imperative, obligatory paramount, courage over a long period, plucky………
Back to 2012 then - let’s fire up the De Lorean although for the petrol heads it’s a metaphorical one as we know they stopped making them in 1983 which coincidentally was the same year that McColl v Strathclyde set a 201 day record for any legal case in Scotland over you guessed it Community Water Fluoridation. Manchester City win their first league title in 44 years, the Olympics come to London, Bruce Springsteen releases Land of Hope and Dreams and Hull LDC wake up.
Hull LDC met at the Ionians Rugby Club back then and that evening we meant business. Ionians were known for their love of democracy, philosophy the arts and pleasure. We were more in to treating our patients and staying healthy and solvent as NHS Practitioners but we did enjoy a beer. That night we were fed up as usual. Fed up with the tsunami of decay and the human consequences, the pain, the extractions the relentless tide of poor dental health. We were all very committed to prevention. We were all very committed to our patients and to the community of Hull. But we felt powerless and we knew we needed change. Hull has very poor oral health and is one of the most deprived areas in England. We understand the social health gradient now, but we were embedded in it in 2012 (as we still are) and we finally decided to do something. This isn’t surprising. People from Hull have a track record of standing up. In 1642 Hull refused the King entry to the City even though he turned up personally, endured a long siege militarily outnumbered by 2:1 and finally saw off the threat. That definitely takes pluck, grit, and fortitude.
Over a pint of bitter and a sandwich we voted to try and drive a Fluoridation agenda. We would start with a letter to the BDJ and publish an e – petition. So we did, convinced in our own minds that by the next AGM we would have cracked it.
We even developed a QR code link to the e- petition on the Petition Parliament site. Like a deluded punter down the bookies – we couldn’t lose could we?
The BDJ printed the letter and we waited for the e-petition to take off, soar,go viral. But it didn’t and in October six months after our rallying call for something to happen, it closed on 315 signatures.
So in October 2012 it seemed like Hull LDC were standing at the Fluoridation barricades alone or at least there were only 315 of us. Then the phone rang in Reception and my Nurse whispered in my ear – “there’s a Prof on the phone who wants to speak to you about your letter in the Journal.” I finished my fifth extraction on a child that morning and took the call.
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Tackling Global Dental Decay - Humble Foundation
Posted by Erica Kilburn
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In developing countries, oral health services are limited to regional or central hospitals in urban areas. Even where dental assistance can be found, little priority is given to preventative or restorative treatments; many African, Asian and Latin American countries solely offer pain relief or emergency services.
In Africa, there is a ratio of one dentist per 150,000 people – in developed countries it’s one per 2,000[1]. Sadly though, preventive dentistry is even more crucial to these remote areas of our world, because there are far fewer dentists to treat oral diseases. Dental pain is of course unpleasant for everyone but in the UK the inconvenience of booking and then attending an appointment is the main concern. However, for someone without access to dentistry, their suffering constitutes chronic pain, occupational and social limitations and can even be life threatening.
Most concerning is children’s oral health. Tooth decay is a widespread childhood disease, from which 60-90% of schoolchildren are suffering around the world[2]. A study across two decades from 1990 to 2010 in London, with close to 3 million subjects found that 20% of children had dental decay in their deciduous teeth[3]. In The Gambia, 86% of 5 year-olds have decay in four or five teeth and half of those clean their teeth with chewing sticks: the other half simply don’t clean their teeth at all. In Cambodia 93% of 6 year-olds average 9 teeth with cavities and 60% of mothers reported their children had suffered dental pain in the last six months.
Dental decay is a lifestyle-related disease that is increasing in the far reaches of the world where traditional diets are being replaced with cheaper, imported food products containing high levels of sucrose and carbohydrates. Also, junk food manufacturers vigorously campaign their products towards vulnerable groups, such as children. In the UK we have vastly improved levels of sugar consumption when compared to a country like Mexico, but it is still double the WHO recommendation of 18kg per person, per year.
Along with the spread of unhealthy eating habits, developing countries are contending with other exacerbating factors like lack of access to:
· Fluoride – An average UK worker need only work for an hour to accrue enough fluoride toothpaste for a year, the average Kenyan would have to work for an entire week.
· Dental clinicians – There are about a million practising dentists unevenly distributed around the world. They may be found in urban areas but there is a critical shortage in poor, remote areas.
· Government healthcare funding – In some countries, government policies and the sheer number of people suffering with caries makes treatment virtually impossible. In India, the health budget is meagre for oral health and there is no fluoride policy. Moreover, preventive products like toothbrushes and toothpaste are classed as cosmetics and subject to hefty tax levies.
It’s frustrating to think that there are simple and cost-effective solutions for lifestyle change, which are not available to so many. A scheme that was introduced in Jamaica between 1987 and 1995 proved how simple a solution could be. The National Salt Foundation Program encouraged the country’s only salt provider to produce and sell only fluoridated salt. This led to an 87% decrease in schoolchildren’s dental caries, at a cost of just 6 cents per person, annually[4].
Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, is a mantra that Darren Weiss, dentist and founder of the Humble Smile Foundation holds close to his heart.
“The focus on prevention became a practice philosophy for me,” said Weiss. “I was actively lecturing dentists about the value of prevention, but I was troubled with one thought – if I truly wanted to apply my preventive expertise, why wasn’t I based where it is of the greatest value?”
In light of this, Weiss collaborated with local dental professionals to design an oral health outreach programme, called Planet Smile. The focus was to promote preventive dentistry in parts of the world where the need is greatest. When he visited the Humble Brush stand at the 2015 International Dental Show and learned of their sustainable, biodegradable bamboo toothbrushes, he found a like-minded organisation with an inspirational, environmental and social vision. By working together, The Humble Smile Foundation was born. Now, for every Humble Brush sold, a physical toothbrush or equivalent oral care is given to someone in need overseas.
The Humble Brush Foundation recently joined forces with Assyrians Without Borders, a group to which they have donated toothbrushes assisting the charity’s aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey. With more programmes in the pipeline for Iraq and Syria, the work of the Humble Smile Foundation and Humble Brush continues to reach out to global communities suffering unimaginable hardship.
Contact Humble Brush today, to discover how you can effect change in the far-flung reaches of the world, without even leaving your surgery.
For more information about the Humble Brush visit www.humblebrush.co.uk or to find out more about the Humble Smile Foundation’s work visit www.humblesmile.org
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[1] World Health Organization – Oral Health Services. http://www.who.int/oral_health/action/services/en/ (Accessed 2/9/2015).
[2] World Health Organization – Oral Health Fact sheet no318, April 2012. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs318/en/ (Accessed 2/9/2015)
[3] Journal of Dental Research. The Global Burden of Oral Conditions 1990-2010: A Systematic Analysis, June 2013. W. Marcenes, N.J. Kassebaum, E. Bernabé, A. Flaxman, M. Naghavi, A. Lopez and C.J.L. Murray J DENT RES 2013 92: 592 originally published online 29 May 2013. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/research/divisions/population/Bernabe-JDR.pdf (Accessed 2/9/2015)
[4] Centre for Global Development. Case 18 Preventing Dental Careis in Jamaicahttp://www.cgdev.org/doc/millions/MS_case_18.pdf
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Momentum added to the Big Lie campaign?
Posted by Tony Jacobs
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After a couple of years, is there now some momentum behind the Big Lie campaign devised, proposed and propagated by Dr Tony Kilcoyne BDS, often using the columns of GDPUK, as well as using ITV Daybreak, Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2, and the letters column of the Daily Telegraph.
The basis of the campaign is wide ranging and Dr Kilcoyne often talks about protected time, so that dental professionals can have adequate time with patients that is not constrained by overbearing pressures of targets which must be met, targets set by unaccountable NHS managers. In addition, his campaign always mentions the un-noticed aspect that the most likely reason for hospital admission in England for children between ages of 5 and 9 is the disease of dental decay, and those children need extractions of multiple teeth under general anaesthetic, which, for safety reasons, must only be provided in a hospital environment.
Medical and dental professionals must stop politicians pontificating on the NHS being free at the point of demand, and repeat again and again, in reality, the politicians run a finite, cash limited service with growing and open-ended demand.
Other aspects of the campaign must be patient education, a tax on sugar drinks and confectionery to fund better dental care as well as discouraging use, as with cigarettes. In addition, the dental professional of this country must takes steps using public relations techniques to educate and win over the public so they know that adding fluoride in tiny quantities to public water supplies will benefit their children and future generations.
I find it amazing that despite the public image of dentists, we are the only group in favour of this latter measure, yet this would make less work for us in our high investment, high expense practices. Because we are professionals, and we see the damage caused, and our professionalism makes us draw attention to the widely ignored preventive message.
Last week [13th January 2015] the august body that is the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons released their thoughts on what is going wrong for the teeth of young children in England, in the form of a press release. This body is not one of the wildest of institutions, it is hundreds of years old, with roots going back to 1540. Its' leaders rise through an establishment process of professorial rank in a high achieving and multi-qualified professions. In effect, by publishing the concerns of the Royal College in this rare move, they have joined the clamour with a loud hailer from the tallest building - children are suffering with a preventable disease and un-necessary hospitalisation, but the Government is looking the other way.
In our highly developed United Kingdom, the sales of sugar, sweets and confectionery continue to rise. In fact between 2008 and 2013, when consumer spend has been squeezed in the UK, cumulative rise was only 2%, [source Mintel] despite a fall in that time in disposable real family income. Every year more millions are spent on these items, and the manufacturers, the supermarkets, the retailers churn it out. For students of economics, these confections are great value added products for the manufacturers and the rest. But the culture of ignorance, and the sad culture of avoiding and deriding the dentist, together with the inexorable rise in sales mean tooth decay is on the up, and hospital admissions increase.
Cynically we can joke and say we need a "sugar czar" but maybe the way forward for this campaign is for a high profile leader to enact established, proven concepts, increase regions with artificial fluoridation of water, increase education regarding the effects of sugar, and reduce sales of confectionery aimed at small children. In addition a change in attitude, promoting the concept that families who allow their children's teeth to rot are neglectful, this is a totally preventable disease and this knowledge is not new.
Let us hope that more dental bodies, in fact all dental bodies, come together to raise the profile of this health failure, and improve the national oral health of our children.
The children of dentists do not suffer this disease. Full stop.
References and further reading:
Royal College of Surgeons report January 2015
Daily Telegraph letter 2014
Mintel market insight reports
Running to Paradise Garden
by Nicolas Alejandro
https://www.facebook.com/nicolas.alejandro.ph Shown under Creative Commons licence
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