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Penn Medicine Abramson Cancer Center
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Empowering the Immune System to Kill Cancer
Using a patient's own cells to fight disease
CAR-T cell therapy, a form of immunotherapy, was first developed by Penn Medicine and was the first gene therapy to be approved by the FDA. It retrains healthy cells to hunt down and eliminate cancer cells. Penn Medicine is leading the world in delivering the promise of immunotherapy to you.
What Is CAR-T Cell Therapy?
Is CAR-T Cell Therapy Right for Me?
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Latest News about Immunotherapy at Penn
The Story of Immunotherapy at Penn Medicine
The groundwork for immunotherapy began in 2003 with the mapping of the human genome. For the first time, we knew which genes affected which traits in the body. But actually changing those genes would require something more.
Over the next decade, Penn Medicine built on this knowledge, creating the first FDA-approved immunotherapy, called CAR-T cell therapy. CAR-T cell therapy is a groundbreaking technique for retraining the body’s T cells that Penn Medicine has used to treat hundreds of patients with cancer. It was first approved for treating leukemia, a type of blood cancer.
Today, Penn Medicine's world-leading researchers are developing new immunotherapies to treat cancer, as well as other diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, infectious diseases and more.
To learn more, call us at 215-316-5127 or request a call-back.
Hunting Cancer from the Inside
Cancer spreads quickly for a simple reason: The body can’t see it. Cancer cells start out as healthy cells, so when they mutate, they still look like healthy cells to the immune system. They’re camouflaged. The immune cells never attack.
With CAR-T cell therapy, we teach immune cells to recognize cancer cells. We take some of the body’s T cells (a type of white blood cell) and genetically retrain them to find a specific chunk of biological code — the cancer fingerprint. When the T cells are returned to the body, they hunt down and destroy all cells with that fingerprint. These engineered "hunter cells" live on in the body as a permanent defense long after the cancer is gone.
First developed by Penn Medicine, CAR-T cell therapy is now in clinical trials around the world in thousands of permutations for many diseases. At Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center alone, clinical trials have already led to groundbreaking, FDA-approved therapies for lymphoma and leukemia. We hope to see similar results soon for glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer.
Although still in its infancy, CAR-T represents a turning point in the history of human medicine, a genuine revolution in our approach to disease.
Welcome to the ImmunoRevolution.
Interview with CAR-T Pioneer, Dr. June
Carl June, MD, is one of the pioneers of immunotherapy research, and he leads the team responsible for the historic CAR-T cell therapy FDA approval.
Listen to him discuss the journey that led to the first FDA approval of CAR-T cell therapy and how he believes cancer will be treated in the future.
Additional Cutting-Edge Immunotherapy Treatments at Penn
Our dynamic research program is always growing. In addition to CAR-T cell therapy, we focus on other types of immunotherapy research, such as vaccine therapy and checkpoint inhibitors.
Personalized Cell Therapy
What Is Personalized Cellular Therapy?
CAR-T therapies transform your immune T cells, so they’re better able to target and destroy cancer cells.
Currently, CAR-T cell therapies are approved to treat patients with leukemia. In addition, a growing number of immunotherapy clinical trials are in place to test this groundbreaking approach on other cancers like lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and for solid tumors, through trials in glioblastoma, mesothelioma, and ovarian and pancreatic cancer. Other CAR trials at Penn are exploring the technique for prostate cancer, melanoma, and triple-negative breast cancer.
Vaccine Therapy
Penn’s pioneering cancer vaccines aim to cure cancer — or stop it from happening in the first place.
Current studies focus on pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, head and neck cancers, and recurrent breast cancers.
Learn more about vaccine therapy
Checkpoint Inhibitors
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are drugs that help differentiate healthy cells from cancer cells. They disable the cancer cells, which allows the immune system to do its job.
These drugs have been used to treat melanoma and lung cancer, and are being tested in other cancers, including ovarian cancer.
Carl June, MD, is one of the pioneers of immunotherapy research, and he leads the team responsible for the historic CAR-T cell therapy FDA approval. Listen to him discuss the journey that led to the first FDA approval of CAR-T cell therapy and how he believes cancer will be treated in the future.
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Our success with CAR-T cell therapy is all thanks to the help we’ve received from our partners, researchers, philanthropists, and fellow cancer visionaries. Donate today, so we can continue creating immunotherapy treatments to put more and more people in remission.
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National Paralympic Heritage Trust
Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann
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Memories of Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann from patients at Stoke Mandeville
Patient Chris Checkley
The Hoover company adopted the ward and they donated this wheelchair - which was very modern then. They came in weekly and brought gifts. There is Poppa at the edge (it was very unusual for him to be smiling). That's me aged 16 in the bed.
I had a degenerative disease; I was an 11 year old on a geriatric ward before I came to Stoke. I had spent 2 years in a general hospital, but never got pressure sores – they took really good care there – I was turned and monitored frequently and bathed twice a day. Then I got moved to Stoke. I was there for about 9 months at the age of 16.
I used to fight with Guttmann all the time, he was always full of self-importance. He used to come round the ward with lots of people around him – we used to call it the circus. You had to make a list of what you’d done; there was a very strict regime and if you didn’t follow it you were out. Poppa expected everyone to do as he said and if you didn’t follow the regime he said there were other people that would use the beds.
You didn’t always want to follow it, but Guttmann used to say ‘If you don’t do it, you’re out. That bed can be use for someone who WILL work’.
But other people loved the man. My future husband was also treated by Guttmann and he was devoted to him.
Patient Diana Gabb
When I came to Stoke Mandeville in 1954 I remember it as a lot of old Nissan huts, not dissimilar in fact to the pony club camp where I had contracted Polio the previous year! In each ward hut there were 14 beds lined up on the left and right; great big metal beds each with a ‘monkey pole’ for hoisting yourself up on (they don’t use them now, they wrench your shoulders out of balance). I remember being woken up every four hours by a nurse to be turned. A ward trolley stood in the middle of the room from which they dished out the meals. At the end of the ward was the day room from which you had access out onto the grass. The bathroom and toilets were primitive and not very clean; and the roof leaked.
Patient Margaret Maughan
Margaret in bed on the ward at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1959
One day Dr Guttmann just appeared at my bedside; he had been away somewhere for a few days. I came to know him very well and discovered he was the boss.
From then on every week his ward round was quite an experience. There would be about 20 people with him – nurses, physios, junior doctors, visitors – all come to see what his treatment was like. He would go to each bed on the ward and hold forth in a loud voice about each patient’s condition; so we all ended up knowing about each other.
He could be very curt. You didn’t dare say anything back to him. I remember once I told him I was bored and I got this long lecture about how I shouldn’t be bored because there was always something to do or be thinking about.
Patient Rainer Kuschell
Finding Stoke Mandeville
When I was sixteen years old I broke my neck in a diving accident in a swimming pool; this was in July 1963. In those days in Switzerland nobody knew anything about spinal cord injuries. I was simply sent to the big area hospital where my family lived and put on my back; I lay there for six months.
My injury meant that I was a quadriplegic with seeming no movement in either my arms or legs. I was told – and I believed – that it was just a matter of time before I would die. They even sent in the priest to convert me to Catholicism so that my soul would go to heaven.
Eventually we found out about Stoke Mandeville Hospital and the treatment there. Then my step parents got all the people in my village together and raised money for me and finally, 18 months after my accident, in December 1964, I was flown to England.
The Journey: Switzerland to England
I remember that journey so well because it was quite strange. I was carried onto an ordinary passenger plane from which they had removed several rows of seats so that I could be laid on the floor on a very thin mattress.
I was lying there totally naked just covered with a thin towel – and this was mid-winter – and all around me there were normal passengers in their seats looking at me; I remember finding it very embarrassing.
People in Wheelchairs
But then when we landed at London I remember being left on the plane while all the other passengers disembarked and looking out of the window. And it was so strange, because right opposite there was another plane loading up; and all around it were people in wheelchairs; and they were laughing and smiling in the snow.
It was the very first time I had seen people in wheelchairs; and there were so many of them and they seemed happy. I remember thinking, what is this wheelchair city I have come to?
I discovered afterwards that it was the British team going off to one of the winter wheelchair games. But it was such a peculiar coincidence for me to see them and it felt like a good omen.
Life at the hospital
So then I went to Stoke Mandeville for three months; that was all the money that had been raised would allow for. The first big shock was being turned on my bed every three hours.
For the last eighteen months I had simply been immobile on my back and I was stiff like a wooden blade. No one had done this in Switzerland and of course it hurt incredibly! So much so that I fainted and collapsed from the pain.
I had my first meeting with Guttmann a few days later. I remember he was really interested in me and in taking care of me; he reflected a kind of fatherly emotional situation.
Then after his examination I was sent to a physiotherapist. A few weeks later he came back to me and said. ‘Rainer, I am not going to try and kid you about any miracle cures. The only thing I will be able to do for you is to get you so that instead of lying on your back you can sit in a wheel chair.’
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NPHT Trustees’ Meeting Summary Friday 25th September 2020
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Sports wheelchair and access
This year’s Disability History Month theme is, ‘Access – How far have we come and how far have we to go?’ This month’s blogpost considers this idea in respect to my research around sporting wheelchairs.
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Naomi Adie is an Ice Sledge Hockey player for the Peterborough Phantoms
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In Rome 1960 the International Games were held for the first time in the Olympics venue immediately after the Olympic Games. They are now seen as the first “Paralympic Games”
Interview with Nick Webborn, Chair of the BPA
Interview with Professor Nick Webborn, Chair of the British Paralympic Association and Clinical Professor of Sport and Exercise Medicine at the University of Brighton
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ReSource: Plastic puts focus on action, not just aspiration
The World Wildlife Fund is working with global consumer brands to bring best practices for sustainable production to more companies.
Backers of a new effort to combat the plastics pollution problem are about taking action, not just pledging to take action.
The World Wildlife Fund is teaming with six well-known companies to launch ReSource: Plastic, a program designed to help companies learn strategies to prevent plastic pollution, the environmental group said.
ReSource: Plastic wants to help "companies align their large-scale plastic commitments from aspirational to meaningful, measurable action," organizers said.
Initial members of the effort include McDonald's, Keurig Dr. Pepper, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks, Tetra Pak and Coca-Cola Co.
"ReSource is designed to identify the concrete changes that will make the biggest impacts in reducing a company's plastic pollution footprint," Nik Sekhran, chief conservation officer at WWF, said in a statement.
"To get closer to our goal of no plastic in nature will take nothing short of transforming the entire value chain. With ReSource, companies now have access to more advanced tools to maximize, measure and multiply their commitments to make this a reality," Sekhran said.
There's no shortage of environmental groups making efforts to help end plastic pollution, and WWF is working with Ocean Conservancy and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation as "thought partners" aiding the new program.
Procter & Gamble, based in Cincinnati, sells consumer products around the world and has been vocal in its efforts address issues facing plastic packaging.
"Addressing the plastic problem in our oceans, rivers and land is everyone's responsibility, including the companies that use much of the plastic in the world today. It's a complex issue with no one-size-fits-all solution, and that's why we're so energized by the approach WWF is taking with the ReSource program," said Virginie Helias, vice president and chief sustainability officer at P&G.
"ReSource will bring a systems approach in partnership with many stakeholders — common metrics, best practices, accountability — that is much needed to accelerate progress on long-term solutions," Helias continued.
Both WWF and the Ocean Conservancy have been loud voices regarding plastic pollution in recent years.
Michael Goltzman is vice president of global policy, environmental sustainability and social impact at Coca-Cola.
"Solving the world's plastic waste problem requires collective action across all sectors of society," he said in a statement. "Through platforms like the WWF's ReSource activation hub, we can share knowledge, measurement goals and collaborative frameworks to advance a circular economy."
Companies joining the effort can impact change by prioritizing activities that will yield the greatest impact, implement activities and methodology to measure progress, and collaborate with others to "incite new solutions and investments," the new group states.
ReSource: Plastics estimates participation by 100 companies could prevent 10 million metric tons of plastic waste. More information is available at www.resource-plastic.com.
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Highlighting social issues through media
Abigail Seta
CBC, Gordons: The fourth day of the Social Communication Seminar (SOCOM) on Thursday, 14th February saw discussions on using visual media to highlight the social issues of our country Papua New Guinea.
CBC Secretary for Social Communication, Fr. Ambrose Pereira sdb was the facilitator of the session which focused on using photographs to highlight social issues. The issues dealt with were what the participants were interested in such as environmental abuse, Laudato Si, Domestic violence and Christian family values.
“As media animators, it is important to connect with people and highlight their issues. Reflect on what emerges in your diocese and use photos to tell a story that will lead to a discussion,” said Fr. Ambrose Pereira sdb. The participants then used had a practical activity to put this into practice.
“Images carry stories and I learned that the most important thing is the person holding the camera. The emotions portrayed speak louder than words,” said one participant.
In the afternoon, the participants visited the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), Port Moresby studio where they were shown around the newsroom and interact with media personnel.
“Participants also had the opportunity to sit in the newscasters’ chair and face two cameras and a tele prompter. They were privileged to interview some personnel of NBC on television, NBC radio and Tribe FM. The staff were so kind and open to answer queries and explain the different departments from the production to broadcasting”, said Sr Evangeline Orpilla, from the Diocese of Vanimo.
The participants were challenged by Fr Ambrose to ensure a greater impact of the audio-visual and the social media.
“The influence on the mind and heart is proportional to the number of senses involved”, he said. The productions revealed that the participants were striving to put into practice what they had learnt.
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No, we're not mercenaries. We just carry weapons and kill things for the joy of the experience.
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It's that time of year again...
Author Topic: It's that time of year again... (Read 95869 times)
We all
Rock and Roll hall of Fame nominees for 2014:
http://t.today.com/entertainment/nirvana-linda-ronstadt-ll-cool-j-among-rock-roll-hall-8C11400900
Nirvana is obvious no-brainer. They should just skip all of the nonsense and induct them now.
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.
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Re: It's that time of year again...
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.
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You think Nirvana is more worthy than Cat Stevens, Deep Purple, and KISS.
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"The only way we can ever change anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy." - Akala 'Find No Enemy'.
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Meters, Replacements, Zombies, Chic.
In that order.
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Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on October 16, 2013, 05:22:46 pm
Do you honestly believe that Nirvana should not be a first ballot inductee?
Even if you don't like them, their impact on music is undeniable. That would be like passing on the Beatles or the Rolling Stones the first time they were up.
But in answer to your question.
Yes, yes, and fuck yes.
Nirvana > Deep Purple.
They induct more than one band you know.
Honestly, even though I don't like them much, KISS had a larger impact on the music industry, in terms of concept albums, image, marketing, and cross-promotion.
Nirvana had a larger cultural impact. They galvanized youth culture in a way that Gene Simmons could only dream about.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 16, 2013, 05:49:21 pm
KISS was crap, IMO.
But so was some strung out punk that whimpered a few albums and then became An Hero because life is so rough on a rock star.
Rock n roll is about not taking any shit. It's not about eating a fucking shotgun because the world is so dark that you can't risk angels seeing into your heart. Because they'd die.
3rd rate shitbag kills self. Story over. No need to put him in the hall of fame for ANYTHING. Except maybe ceiling painting.
Quote from: Not Your Average Mean on October 16, 2013, 05:51:37 pm
Nothing Nirvana did lasted 20 years. People are still doing the stuff KISS started 40 years ago.
Let's talk about the cultural influence of an habitual junkie who offed himself.
Such an example!
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on October 16, 2013, 06:01:59 pm
Yeah, this is just my experience here, but I've never heard anyone gush about Nirvana's cultural impact who didn't have a bong in one hand and a crack pipe in the other.
I think we should most definitely commermorate his life and cultural influence on youth.
Maybe we could name a needle exchange program after him.
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By Allan Grauberd, Lindsay Kaplan and David Lee Kovacs
Questions to ask before becoming a private company director.
An invitation to serve on a board of directors of a private corporation can be an interesting, even flattering opportunity.
Before accepting an appointment to a board, however, a potential director should engage in an in-depth review of the corporation. They should also ask pointed questions of the corporation’s management and the other directors on the board to obtain a complete picture of the state of business and operations, including any potential legal and business risks that may expose the director to unwanted liabilities.
Here is a checklist of questions to ask before you accept a position:
• Why is there an open seat on the board? Was the size of the board increased or is there a current vacancy? If the latter, why did the former director leave the corporation?
• Are there existing conflicts? Are there any areas of conflict or disagreement among the controlling or major shareholders, the directors or between the board and the senior executives? If there have been any such conflicts or disagreements, how have they been resolved? Do these conflicts relate to a systemic issue or does it appear as though the conflicts have been addressed and will not arise again?
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Microsoft Edge Browser FAQ
Have You Tried The Microsoft Edge Browser?
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been around from the early beginnings of the World-Wide Web. Over the years, it was sometimes immersed in controversy since it was “built into” some previous Windows versions. Well, not quite, since knowledgeable users knew how to install other browsers. But when Windows 10 came along, along with it came a new browser, Microsoft Edge. Below are some interesting, frequently asked questions.
What Great Things Can Microsoft Edge Do?
The following wonderful features exist on the newest Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge, released January 15, 2020.
It has a new Collections feature that helps organize favorite webpages.
Web Note allows you to annotate web pages you find with a pen, highlighter, or typed notes. You can even do artful doodling on those pages, then save them in Edge or into MS OneNote.
It natively supports 4K video viewing, Dolby Audio, and Dolby Vision.
It runs on and syncs passwords, favorite websites, and settings on macOS, iOS, and Android. A Linux version is also rumored to be in the works for release later in 2020.
We are all familiar with horizontal web page tabs, but Edge also has an option to make them vertical, which is great for having lots of tabs open at the same time.
When you use passwords, Password Monitor will check autofill passwords against a database to see if they are in use elsewhere.
As with all great browsers, Edge also has a Privacy Mode.
Does Microsoft Edge Have Good Internet Protection?
The World-Wide Web, the wild-wild-West of the Internet, danger lurks all around. Cyber-thieves could use adware, malvertising, pharming, formjacking attacks, and man-in-the-middle browser attacks. Webpages may have malicious or poorly programmed scripts able to harm your computer and compromise your security. MS Edge is one of the major browsers in use, so all the reputable security software companies work together with Microsoft to create safe, seamless browsing experiences. Microsoft is continually being attacked from all sides, so its products are always being updated whenever issues are discovered.
Even if you were to accidentally lose or turn off your computer protection software suite of products, MS Edge works with other Windows applications to protect against the most common Internet hazards.
How Often Is Edge Updated?
Windows 10 users know that Microsoft has monthly updates for their systems. MS Edge will sometimes be updated at the same time. The user can also manually do updates or turn on automatic updating.
Is Microsoft Edge Based on Chromium?
The first version of Microsoft Edge came with the launch of Windows 10 using a proprietary Microsoft technology. Starting on January 15, 2020, Microsoft launched a new Google-Chromium-based Edge browser. In some ways, Microsoft’s version is more advanced than Google’s Chrome. For example, it already has anti-tracking defenses built-in. Edge has its own add-on market, however, add-ons can also be obtained from the Chrome Web Store.
Do I Have To Use Microsoft Edge?
If you use Internet Explorer 11 or an earlier version, you are probably using an operating system that will eventually no longer be supported. When that operating system reaches the end of its lifecycle, Microsoft will also phase out all support for that version of Internet Explorer.
However, you can use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and many other browsers. Each browser has its strengths and weaknesses. Hard-core users of Chrome often find that MS Edge will often work where Chrome fails.
Should I Use Microsoft Edge?
Does your company require you to log in from home to get access to special web-based database applications? If so, you want to first check with your corporate IT office to see if their software is running software using legacy DLLs: ActiveX Controls, Silverlight, or Java. It is very expensive to make reliable, stable custom controls for specific company needs, so your IT department may want you to wait before trying to access their website for home-based work purposes. However, they may also give you special instructions on how to configure Microsoft Edge to run in IE mode or enterprise mode. Remember, for home-based work with established companies, ask them what upgrades work best before trying something new.
What About Edge with Adobe Flash, ActiveX, Silverlight, or Javascript?
Adobe is ending Adobe Flash after 2020, but Edge supports web pages with and without it. Edge does not support BHOs like Silverlight or Java, nor ActiveX controls. For operating systems that still support Internet Explorer 11, Edge can be set to open web pages with those technologies in IE 11 automatically.
Should I Try the New Microsoft Edge?
Yes! But make sure you first learn it on a personal computer or device. Anybody who does research on the Internet will like the new features within the Edge Browser.
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How to Change Your False Beliefs
A life coaching tip.
Exploring someone’s false beliefs and helping them change them
Okay, so life coaching is like eating a Reese’s peanut butter cup, in that there is no right way to life coach someone. You can coach someone a million different ways. It all depends on what they are coming to you for and how you work, how you go into your sessions. But there’s one technique that can be used in every session, no matter the topic or your style of life coaching. It’s something that affects every person every day of their life, and every session can benefit from it: Exploring false beliefs.
Now, this doesn’t have to be what the session is about. It’s just something that’s always playing in the background. It’s something you can examine peripherally but it’s a great door to enter at any given time when you feel it’s appropriate.
First, what are false beliefs? They are beliefs we have about ourselves that are untrue and limiting. They live in our subconscious and since 90 percent of our actions stem from our subconscious, our false beliefs play a huge role in nearly everything we do. Also since they live in our subconscious, we may not be aware of them and how they affect our daily lives.
For example, if you believe you are unlovable, you may sabotage relationships, hold on when you shouldn’t, or avoid getting into relationships. But logic may provide you will explanations on why you are doing this when at the core it’s fueled by your false belief that you are unlovable. Our behavior stems from our beliefs. And what our life looks like is a result of our collective behavior. So if we change or dissolve our beliefs, especially our false beliefs, we can change our behavior and ultimately change our life.
Once you discover their false beliefs, you can start to help them rewire themselves. And changing their wiring will change their life. There are many different ways and theories on how to rewire yourself. Everything from NLP to subconscious work. And a lot of it feels hokey to me. Here’s a simple technique I use that won’t turn your session into a seminar or get in the way of how you coach.
It’s three easy steps.
1. Listen for the false beliefs.
As your client is talking, a false belief will leak. For example, you guys may be talking about the trouble in her relationship and she mumbles under her breath, “I don’t deserve him.” Maybe you explore that statement deeper and find out that statement came from the false belief, “I’m not worthy.” And surely this belief is preventing her from loving fully. Make the client aware of her false belief. Then you can start following this string down. Where did this belief come from? Did something happen? How long did she have this belief?
The next question to ask is how does this belief manifest in behavior in her life. So because of this belief, she compromises her self? Stays in things too long? Will never break up with someone? What is the behavior that stems from this belief? It’s important for her to see it, to know how her false belief affects her life.
As you guys are processing this, she may have other revelations. It came from her dad. Or the emotional abuse from her first relationship. Just knowing where it stems from can be helpful in releasing the belief. As a life coach, you may have resistance when it comes to talking about the childhood stuff or the past because you think that’s what therapists do and you don’t want to go there. But I encourage you to not think about what a therapist talks about and what a life coach talks about. Go wherever the client wants to go.
2. Dissolve/redefine the false beliefs.
What does she need to do to start dissolving and changing this false belief? Ask her. She may have some great ideas. Many coaches stay away from asking their clients for answers because they feel like they should have all the answers and if they don’t, they’re not a good coach. That is not true. No one has all the answers. I don’t care how many letters you have after your name. So if you don’t, it’s okay. Don’t pretend. Remember, you and your client are in this journey together. You are not behind a podium or on a soapbox. You are with, not at. So if you don’t know, it’s okay.
Once you discover what the false belief is, explore the emotion behind it. It will be a disempowering emotion, something that makes them feel weak, invisible, less than. Have the client note that feeling. Now put a bookmark there.
Now have the client play detective and ask her to prove that the false belief is true. You want facts, not feelings. Remind your client just because she feels something doesn’t mean it’s a fact.
Help your client by challenging her false belief. One way to do this is to redefine. For example, if someone’s false belief is “I don’t think I’m good enough.” What does “good” mean to her? Challenge the client by exploring her definitions. As you do this, she may end up coming up with a brand new definition. Every time this happens, there’s a shift in thinking. We start questioning ourselves, in a good way.
Now go back to the feeling part. Have the client think of a time when she felt “good” according to her new definition. Let her soak in that feeling. Don’t just remember it, feel it. We need to use both mind and body. As people, we are whole. But many think they can just think their way out do something and get no traction. Feelings are always more powerful than logic.
Finally, as cheesy as it sounds, have the client say the new belief out loud: “I am good enough.” “I am lovable.” “I am an athlete.” It’s important for them to say it out loud. There is tremendous power in saying something out loud, announcing it, especially with a witness. It’s much more convincing than just thinking it. Think about the difference between thinking "I love you" about someone and actually saying the words to their face. Huge difference, right?
3. Set up a new experience.
This is the homework piece.
There’s nothing more convincing than experience. So the goal would be to set up a new experience(s) for the client that will disprove their false belief.
I’ll use my story as an example. My false belief I was trying to dissolve was “I am not an athlete.” This came from my high school football days. I was the kid with the whitest uniform. I was a benchwarmer. So because of this experience, I developed a false belief that I wasn’t an athlete.
Twenty years later, this false belief showed itself when I discovered CrossFit. CrossFit attracts a lot of athletes. So I would go against the kids who were first string in high school, the athletes. Because of my false belief, I would self-sabotage, not go as hard as I could, etc.
I wasn’t even aware of this. It’s something I discovered when I started asking myself a lot of whys. I started to dissolve the false belief when I gave myself a new experience. That new experience was beating an “athlete.” That shifted my thinking. It disproved my false belief. Of course, it took many, many more experiences but the new experience was the most important because it was the first domino.
So you and your client come up with a new experience that may change her false belief. But make sure it’s realistic and something your client will and can execute. If your client’s false belief is that she cannot be in a relationship, although the goal may ultimately be to get her to be in a healthy relationship, it’s probably not something that she can give herself soon. So then the homework would be to do something that works toward that.
Your sessions can be about processing what her experiences are like, how they make her feel, and what her revelations are from them. Or if she can’t execute, explore the whys.
Happy coaching!
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'Hanna': A Perfect Soldier
Along with makeup and sisterly advice, the regular teenager Sophie provides the trained killer Hanna with a glimpse of what she's missed.
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng, Jessica Barden, Michelle Dockery
Studio: Focus Features
US date: 2011-04-08 (General release)
UK date: 2011-05-06 (General release)
Hanna starts in snow. At first sky and horizon blur in a bright whiteness that is also, oddly and promisingly, somber. The surface you're seeing is actually water, and on it floats a swan.
The sight is exotic, maybe poetic, and too obviously metaphorical. But it's subtle compared with what follows, as this swan becomes one of many signs of the girl you're about to see, the whiter than white Hanna (Saoirse Ronan), a youthful 16-year-old with eyebrows so light they're barely legible on her perfectly -- and I mean, perfectly -- pale face. But Hanna's not so pure as her driven surroundings: she's a trained killer, as well as an expert in multiple languages, weapons systems, and body parts. You won't be surprised that she's learned all this from her dad, Erik (Eric Bana). She also copies his vaguely Germanic accent and rustic style of dress -- animal skins and hoods and laces to defend against the elements.
That doesn’t mean she's wholly defended against the world beyond her Finnish winter wonderland. But she'll head out anyway, because that's the logic of a film like this, a film preposterous and careless and wholly in love with itself.
Or maybe, in love with Hanna as she represents that self -- by turns sweetly childlike and stunningly brutal. Like Mindy in Kick-Ass, Max in Dark Angel, and Nikita in La Femme, she's a girl designed and/or tutored by unhappy people for lurid purposes, like military brilliance or heartless efficiency. Her father is noticeably unhinged, repeatedly assaulting her in order to assure himself she's ready to leave home. He's got his reason and it’s the usual one -- revenge.
Targeting his former CIA handler, Marissa (Cate Blanchett), Erik doesn't quite take the long view -- like, what trauma he's inflicted on Hanna and how this might, you know, shape her going forward. But if it's disturbing that Erik is using his kid for his own violent ends, it's not exactly news either. Yes, it would have been nice if he'd prepped Hanna more extensively, say, let her in on a secret called electricity or how the TV isn't actually sending helicopters to get her... though such instruction would obviate the scenes where she repeatedly turns a light switch on and off, enchanted by the effects, or has to sort out differences between a war movie on TV and the overhead fan she encounters in Morocco. As the camera careens to show her amazement, you're asked to see her as an innocent, a Bourne-like product of a corrupt system.
Hanna's abject naïveté is underlined by her affection for Grimm's fairytales (her fingers trace the drawings in her favorite book) as well as her reaction to a first kiss: the hapless Spanish boy who proffers it ends up splat on the ground with his neck nearly broken. "Should I let him go?" Hanna wonders out loud. "As opposed to what?" answers her new BFF, Sophie (Jessica Barden). As Hanna crouches over her almost prey, Sophie stands in for the regular teenager, interested in tight jeans and pop music and blue eye shadow.
When Sophie's parents agree to bring Hanna along in their camper as they gallivant through Northern Africa, they can have no idea of the monstrosity they've invited into their vacation. Neither can Hanna, though you know Marissa has set her own attack plan in motion when she hires Isaacs (Tom Hollander), a gaudy outlier who prefers intersexed partners and also to "do things," Marissa says, "my agency won't let me do." He and his skinheady minions track down Hanna and torture Sophie's family. The villains trap Hanna and her new friends in a cargo lot, so she can run between and atop boxcars, a beautifully art-directed and athletic sequence that exemplifies the movie's inclination to look terrific and go nowhere.
Along with makeup and sisterly advice, Sophie also provides Hanna with a glimpse of what she's missed. Hanna tells Sophie some things she shouldn't (like, she's headed to Berlin to meet up with her dad, a confession that moves the cumbersome plot), but she also shares with her some moments of girly bliss -- scoping out the Spanish boys, riding on the backs of their bikes, making fun of Sophie's folks, Hanna is charmed. Their intimacy is lovely and a little lascivious (their kiss is partly experimental, partly portentous, and rendered in a series of oppressive close-ups), but the movie doesn’t have much time for girls as such. It reverts almost instantly to its focus on Hanna as the object of fanboys' lust, lethal and lithe and pounding her opponents under a score by the Chemical Brothers.
Hanna's designed to be this way, which leaves her blameless. Not so Marissa, whose causal background is mostly unknown. What you do know is that she's determined to get Erik and Hanna, that she's obsessive (she cleans her teeth until her gums bleed), and that she has no children of her own. When one of her victims makes note of this last, the scene cuts to Marissa behind her big monogrammed handgun, aimed directly at the offender and you too, by way of the point-of-view camera.
She's a barren, hard-hearted bitch, all right. But, per her too obviously metaphorical role in this fairy tale, Marissa's also Hanna's very, very bad mom. By the time they face off in an abandoned Grimm's theme park, they're surrounded by swan boats and plaster toadstools (as well as a graveyard of broken dinosaurs, though it's not clear what these have to do with the park's theme). Hanna doesn’t even blink when Marissa emerges from a tunnel shaped like a wolf's mouth, framed by giant vagina-dentata-ed teeth. But you might sigh.
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Seventy years ago, a legend was born. The very first vehicle to bear the Porsche name, the 356 ‘No. 1’ Roadster, received its permit on 8 June 1948 and was in many ways the first Speedster. Open top driving pleasure combined with a high-performance drive.
Seventy years later, the legend is reborn. Unveiled on the 70th Anniversary of Porsche in June, the 911 Speedster Concept forges a thrilling link between that first Porsche and the production cars of today. Developed at the Porsche Motorsport Centre, home of the iconic 911 GT2 RS and 911 GT3 RS, its execution has history at its core.
A powerful machine
The heart of the new 911 Speedster is adopted from the 911 GT3. The naturally aspirated six-cylinder boxer engine with four-litre displacement is a pure GT engine. The peak power of 510 PS (375 kW) is reached at 8,400 rpm, with the maximum engine speed at 9,000 rpm. The new 911 Speedster sprints from 0 to 62 mph in just 4.0 seconds, thanks to its 6-speed GT sports manual transmission, increasing to a top speed of 192 mph.* The vehicle’s oil supply principle originates from Motorsport and uses a dry sump and separate engine oil tank, fully variable oil pressure pump and highly efficient supply of the bearings via the crankshaft.
Taking centre stage is the aesthetically shaped convertible top compartment lid with its double-bubble streamliners – a quintessential feature of this sports car type ever since the 911 Speedster from 1988. For Porsche, it is the largest and most complex component used in a road model, made of a single piece of carbon-fibre reinforced plastic.
Heritage Design package
Porsche also optionally offers the new 911 Speedster with a Heritage Design package. Created by Style Porsche and implemented by Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur, this equipment version reinterprets classic elements from the 1950s and 1960s. This includes the interior colour scheme in Black and Cognac with golden details. Special “spears” paintwork in White for the front fascia and front wings is applied to the basic vehicle paintwork in GT Silver Metallic. Historic looking Motorsports decals for the doors and front lid complete the package.
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911 Speedster official fuel consumption (WLTP): combined 13.8 l/100km (20.6 mpg). CO2 emissions (NEDC equivalent): 317 g/km
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Local chef shows off chops on ‘Chopped’
Sallee Ann Ruibal
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Flip Wise will compete on national television during Tuesday's episode of "Chopped Grill Masters."
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Where: Batch at Roaring Fork Beer Co., 358 Main St., Carbondale
When: Tuesday, 7-9 p.m.
Eat: Open Fire Catering will be on site
Drink: $3 pints, $7 to-go six packs of Flip IPA
Flip Wise doesn’t see himself as just a chef.
“I’m really firm with my idea that to be a real chef you have to be a representative of your community, where you live and the season,” said Wise, executive chef at Free Range Kitchen in Basalt.
Wise will soon represent the Roaring Fork Valley as a contestant on Food Network’s “Chopped Grill Masters.”
The popular show features four chefs in each episode, competing in three rounds of appetizer, entree and dessert. In each round, the chefs must utilize four secret ingredients. In the “Grill Masters” version of the show, all cooking must be done on a grill.
Grilling is Flip’s element.
Last summer, before joining Free Range Kitchen, Flip and his wife drove an 8-foot smoker, along with a wood fire grill, on a 20-foot trailer as Open Fire Catering.
“The concept was simple: only cook with fire and only with what farms and ranches have,” Wise said.
Rather than Wise going to farmers and ranchers and saying what he needed for his menu, he said he would — and still does — ask them what they have, and then make the menu from there.
“I made really good relationships with the farming and ranching communities in this valley, and [Open Fire Catering] pushed myself out of my comfort zone because it was do or die,” Wise said.
To him, the term “farm to table” is gimmicky, but the concept of eating local, in-season ingredients is essential.
“I think it’s as important as algebra,” Wise said. “People should be aware of the differences between a farm carrot and jumbo tasteless carrot from the store. Or how to cook something, how to fry an egg, even. That kind of stuff is important.”
Wise said the presence of farmers markets and accessibility to local ingredients, makes the valley a great place for chefs.
“I really want to keep it a secret because I get first pickings, but this valley, we really have an untapped supply of super talented, young farmers,” he said. “This stuff I get is just incredible. I feel very fortunate.”
Open Fire was a success, Wise said, as people were really receptive to the concept and the food spoke for itself — even with a few misconceptions at first.
“People saw this huge smoker and thought American barbecue, but actually they were going to have smoked lamb shoulder ragu and they were like ‘What?’” Wise said with a laugh. “But then they’d eat it and be like, ‘Can I have another?’”
Wise uses his food to then start a conversation, as a representative of his community.
“Once you engage in conversation, then I got to talk about the talented farmers and ranchers I got the ingredients from and it really opened eyes,” Wise said.
It is through that conversation and valley networking that Wise believes Food Network heard of him and reached out, starting more than a year ago, to get him on “Chopped.”
“I did a lot of events and cooking for people in Aspen. I remember one woman told me, ‘You should be on TV,’ and I just kind of laughed,” Wise said. “I don’t know if it was her connection, but you never know who you’re going to meet in Aspen.”
As for those secret ingredients Wise had to incorporate on the show, it wasn’t the ingredients themselves that proved a challenge, he said, but rather needing to use all of them in one dish.
“And the time constraints,” he added.
He had 10 minutes for the appetizer round and 15 for entree and dessert.
“It would be announced that there’s two minutes left, and it’d be like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”
Fans in the Roaring Fork can watch Wise battle it out where part of his journey in the valley started. Roaring Fork Beer Co. — which hosted Open Fire Catering last summer and named its flagship IPA after Flip — will be hosting a viewing party at their Carbondale tasting room, Batch, on Tuesday.
“Flip is a super-humble guy, so we’re excited that he’ll be out here for us to all watch him compete,” said Aly Sanguily, marketing director for Roaring Fork Beer Co. “It’s a big moment.”
The Roaring Fork Valley may very well get some added attention from the show, but Wise isn’t putting on airs.
“Eating good food shouldn’t be pretentious,” he said.
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Arenado homers, then wins it in 9th as Rockies top Mets 5-4
Dennis Georgatos
Colorado Rockies' Charlie Blackmon, left, hugs Nolan Arenado after Arenado's single drove in Blackmon with the winning run, off New York Mets relief pitcher Hansel Robles during the ninth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, Denver. The Rockies won 5-4. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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DENVER — Nolan Arenado hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning and a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth that gave the Colorado Rockies a 5-4 victory over the New York Mets on Tuesday night.
Charlie Blackmon crashed into the center-field fence for an outstanding catch that ended the top of the ninth. In the bottom half, the Rockies took advantage of a misplay by new Mets shortstop Amed Rosario, a touted prospect making his major league debut.
Blackmon drew a leadoff walk from Hansel Robles (6-2) and DJ LeMahieu followed with an infield single off the glove of Rosario, unable to make the backhand play after initially breaking toward second base with Blackmon running on the pitch.
Arenado reached out and looped a single to center that scored Blackmon.
Mike Dunn (3-1) pitched an inning of scoreless relief for the win.
Rosario got his first big league hit in the eighth and turned in several solid defensive plays. Jay Bruce hit a solo homer off Colorado reliever Chris Rusin in the eighth to give the Mets a 4-3 lead, but the Rockies came right back in their half to tie it on Carlos Gonzalez’s RBI single.
With the Rockies trailing 2-0 in the sixth, Blackmon singled and LeMahieu doubled off starter Steven Matz to begin the inning. Arenado worked the count full before connecting for his 24th home run, driving it over the right-center fence into the Mets’ bullpen.
New York evened the score with an unearned run in the seventh when pinch-hitter Jose Reyes reached on a strikeout and passed ball and later scored on Asdrubal Cabrera’s sacrifice fly.
The Rockies struggled to get their offense going early against Matz, who pitched into the sixth and allowed three runs on six hits. They went without a hit until Trevor Story beat out an infield single with one out in the fifth.
The Mets took a 1-0 lead in the first when Jeff Hoffman walked leadoff man Michael Conforto, and Yoenis Cespedes doubled to drive him home.
Bruce added an RBI double in the sixth.
Hoffman went six innings and allowed two runs on five hits.
Mets: Reyes, hit on his left arm by a pitch Sunday in Seattle, was feeling much better after resting on the Mets’ off day Monday. Reyes is expected to see additional time at third base and second base following Rosario’s arrival from Triple-A.
Rockies: The Colorado debut of catcher Jonathan Lucroy, acquired Sunday in a trade with the Texas Rangers, was put on hold. He was scratched from the lineup because of a stomach illness. … LHP Jake McGee, on the 10-day disabled list because of a mid-back strain, had a clean MRI. He’s slated to play catch Wednesday and is hopeful he’ll be able to return when he’s eligible to be reinstated late next week.
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CCS sector rapidly recovering from pipeline slump – report
Matthew Farmer 1 December 2020 (Last Updated December 1st, 2020 16:57)
Planned carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity has increased by 33% year-on-year, according to a report released today.
After a slump following the 2008 financial crash, CCS projects have seen a large uptick over the past three years. Credit: Equinor.
The Global Status of CCS Report 2020, by the Global CCS Institute think tank, shows 65 CCS projects at various stages of development. Along with operational CCS plants, these would capture more than 110 megatonnes per annum (Mtpa) of CO₂.
In his foreword, Global CCS Institute CEO Brad Page welcomed CCS funding increases, part of global coronavirus recovery packages. He continued: “As we have reported for the past two years, the pipeline of operating and in development CCS facilities around the world is again growing. This year continues the upward trajectory.”
Between 2011 and 2017, total planned and operational CCS capacity fell to approximately 60 Mtpa, less than half of its peak. The report attributes this fall to short-term recovery efforts after the global financial crisis.
Since then, the sector has quickly brought about renewed interest. The total planned and operational CCS capacity increased by more than 20 Mtpa in 2020, compared with 2019.
The institute puts this increase down to increased urgency around minimising climate change. As part of this, the need to address ‘hard-to-abate’ sectors, such as steel production, has become “more pressing and less often postponed”. Despite the increase, there is less capacity under construction than at any time in the last decade.
Page said: “Just considering the role for CCS implied by the IPCC 1.5 Special Report, somewhere between 350 and 1200 gigatonnes of CO2 will need to be captured and stored this century. Currently, some 40 megatonnes of CO2 are captured and stored annually. This must increase at least 100-fold by 2050 to meet the scenarios laid out by the IPCC.”
Future CCS pipeline will seek innovation – report
In the 2020 pipeline, 12 of the 17 planned CCS facilities come from the US. The country has significant porous rock deposits for CCS, and the report says it has twice the potential CCS storage of the rest of the world combined.
Future modular plants promise to minimise the cost of CCS. As an example, the report presents Aker Carbon Capture, which manufactures two standardised absorption-based CCS plants. The company will install its first modular plant in late 2021, at the Twence Waste-to-Energy plant in the Netherlands.
Other advances, such as better adsorbent or solvent materials for capturing carbon, also promise greater CCS efficiency.
While parts of the report welcome the growth of environmentally-conscious ESG funds, the report also highlights ‘several market failures’ that limit private investment. These include the value of CO₂ remaining too low.
Citing a 2017 Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition report, the CCS Institute report states: “In most jurisdictions, the cost of capture, transportation and storage of CO₂ is greater than the value currently placed on it. The carbon price needed to cost-effectively reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement is estimated at $40-80 per tonne of CO₂ by 2020 and $50-100 per tonne by 2030.”
Besides this, the interdependency of CCS clusters and local businesses presents risks, as well as the unlimited liability of CO₂ leakage.
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Phytophthora (pronounced Fy-toff-thora) is a microscopic organism that lives in soil and plant roots. The name Phytophthora is derived from the Greek meaning ‘plant destroyer’.
What is Phytophthora?
Phytophthora causes root rot in a broad range of plant species, including many native Australian and ornamental plants. Around 60 Phytophthora species have been identified, but P. cinnamomi is the species that is most destructive in native Australian vegetation communities.
Image: Phytophthora growing out of infected roots on agar
How does it attack plants?
P. cinnamomi attacks the roots and stems of plants, destroying the root system and reducing the ability of the plant to absorb water and nutrients. In susceptible plants, the young roots become dark and rot. Above ground, symptoms include wilting, yellowing and retention of dried foliage. Infection may result in the death of the plant. Symptoms are often more severe, and death more rapid, when plants are suffering from water stress (e.g. in summer or drought).
Image: Phytophthora Dieback affecting Banksia spinulosa
Is it a problem in NSW?
The extent of the occurrence of Phytophthora in NSW is only beginning to emerge, but the pathogen appears to be more widespread than originally thought. It has been identified in the World Heritage areas of northern NSW, including Barrington Tops NP, the Blue Mountains, including Wollemi NP, in southern NSW near Eden and in bushland reserves around Sydney Harbour.
Image: Predicted Dieback potential in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area
How is it spread?
Phytophthora lives in soil and plant material. Any movement of infested soil or plants can spread the disease.This includes soil on tools, footwear and vehicles. Phytophthora reproduces very quickly by producing millions of motile zoospores, particularly when the soil is moist and warm. The zoospores can be easily transported in drainage water, especially down slope. When conditions become less favourable, Phytophthora produces resistant chlamydospores, which enable it to survive until conditions become conducive again.
Image: Phytophthora Dieback is easily spread via soil on footwear
Which plants are affected?
Phytophthora cinnamomi threatens the biodiversity of natural ecosystems. The pathogen is known to infect banksias, native peas, eucalypts and ornamentals such as rhododendrons and camellias. It also impacts on native fauna by destroying food sources and habitat.
Image: Phytophthora Dieback in Glenbrook National Park, NSW
How can I manage Phytophthora?
It is impossible to eradicate Phytophthora from infested areas so limiting further spread is critical to management efforts. You can reduce the chances of spreading the disease by:
Preventing the movement of infected soil or plant material
Cleaning your shoes when moving in or out of bushland areas
Making sure your tools are clean before you start working
Improving organic matter in your garden
Ensuring your planting material comes from a reputable nursery
If you think you may have dieback you can have your soil tested for the presence of Phytophthora.
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Microsoft's adoption of the Blink rendering engine forked from WebKit, used by Google Chrome and also Opera browser, is perhaps the company's biggest move to improve Edge's market share and position it to deliver better performance.
While the new Edge browser has same Chromium base as Chrome and Opera, it offers access to Microsoft account and features like Bing search engine by default; also supporting browser add-on and extensions, which developers are expected to submit to the Microsoft Edge (Chromium) Addons Store.
The company for the first time made a strong case why enterprise users should switch to the new browser, by outlining what is to be implemented as group policies for Windows device and a doc describing the policies for both Windows and Mac computers; with the group policies, even as incomplete as it's currently is, tailored to convince enterprises to switch to the new browser.
Release date & Update for Chromium Edge browser
Microsoft has announced a January 15, 2020 release date for Chromium Edge browser, and the stable version of the browser will come as part of Windows 10 update. And with Windows 10 updates as functionally mandatory, except of course, for those users in a managed enterprise network, all Windows PC will automatically download the update and perhaps start pestering you to complete the installation by restarting your PC.
The change won’t be a problem for most people, and if you never used the old Edge, and don’t want to use the new one, Microsoft will still respect your choice. But, Microsoft will still bundle the program onto your PC all the same, but it does offer a tool to help you stop Edge from installing on your computer with the next Windows 10 update.
Albeit, it requires a bit of leg works, though pretty straightforward; which allows you to choose when (or if) to install the new Edge browser.
How to Prevent Microsoft Edge from Automatic Installation on Your PC?
Microsoft has made available the Blocker Toolkit to help users to retain the original Edge browser (bundled with Windows 10 since its debut), at least for some time, but just like other such kits before it, it is very easily executable to run locally, also including a template that IT admins can use to block the original-Edge through the Group Policy settings.
If an organization's IT admin sets the Allow Microsoft Edge Side-by-Side browser experience policy to "Enabled" both Edge browser versions (new and old) can run simultaneously, while alternating, and users can create dual-browser setup by running the Blocker Toolkit's executable (which retains the Original-Edge) and allows the download and installation of the Chromium Edge.
Although, there are several caveats about the Blocker Toolkit, including that it prevents PCs running Windows 10 1803 or later from pulling in Chromium-Edge via Automatic Updates.
Additionally, users can manually download and install Chromium Edge after the Blocker Toolkit has been deployed, while organizations with machines running an update/patch manager, including WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) and SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) won't be needing the Blocker Toolkit, as IT admins can use these tools to deploy or bar Chromium-Edge as well.
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The entire drivetrain is ahead of the front wheels. We're into it.
By Brian Silvestro
We've seen some pretty absurd drag cars over the years, but this has got to be one of the most outrageous. It's a tube-frame front-wheel drive monster that has its longitudinally-mounted engine placed in front of the front wheels. It's mind-bendingly fast, and looks unlike anything else.
The car was originally built to race in the US under the NHRA's front-wheel drive Promod class, though it now competes in Brazil. 1320video caught up with the owner, who says the 2.2-liter Ecotec-powered car has set a personal best time of 7.2 seconds in the quarter-mile. That's extremely quick, especially for a car sending power to the front wheels.
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The car sports body panels resembling a Chevy Cobalt SS, though because of its unorthodox drivetrain layout, has a comically elongated front end. It's able to go toe-to-toe with the rear-wheel drive cars in this video, and we bet it's a blast to drive.
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Posted: Dec 20, 2020 / 12:42 AM EST / Updated: Dec 20, 2020 / 09:17 PM EST
People line up for a free dinner at a soup kitchen in Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This soup kitchen is operated by neighbors who are in charge of preparing food and serving it to the public for free. The Secretariat of Inclusion and Social Welfare of Mexico City started its soup kitchen program in 2009. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has announced new social gathering restrictions while still refusing to implement a mask mandate despite pleas from front-line healthcare workers in a state experiencing the highest new cases per capita in the country.
Instead of a mask mandate, the Republican on Sunday signed an executive order limiting public gatherings to 10 people. However, places of worship, weddings and funerals are exempt from the order.
He called the state “ground zero” in the COVID-19 battle and urged Tennesseans not to gather with people outside their immediate households during the upcoming holidays. His message comes just a day after Lee confirmed that his wife Maria had tested positive for COVID-19. Lee says he has tested negative but will remain in quarantine at the governor’s residence.
Tennessee is one of a dozen states without a mask mandate. Instead, local counties have the option of implementing their own mask restrictions.
Lee was originally scheduled to take reporter questions after his statewide address, but his office later postponed that until Monday without giving a reason why.
THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
In Congress, negotiators have reached agreement on a new round of pandemic aid that would establish a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefits and $600 direct stimulus payments to most Americans, along with a fresh round of subsidies for hard-hit businesses and funding for schools, health care providers, and renters facing eviction. An expert committee has put people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workersnext in line for COVID-19 shots as a second vaccine began rolling out to U.S. hospitals. European countries are halting U.K. flights, fearing a new coronavirus variant. The variant seems to spread more easily than others, though experts are unsure about that, and they add that there is no evidence that it is any deadlier.
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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
SYDNEY — The apparent spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney’s northern beach suburbs had slowed to 83 cases on Monday, an increase of only 15 infections in the past 24 hours.
The number of new infections had halved since the previous 24 hours, despite more than 38,000 people being tested in the latest day, New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.
She cautioned against any assumption that the rate of recorded infections will continue to decline.
“Unfortunately, one day’s results doesn’t tell us it’s a trend,” Berejiklian told reporters. “In a pandemic, there is a level of volatility, so we’ll closely monitor what happens.”
All 15 new cases were linked to two Avlon Beach live music revenues from where many infections originated on Dec. 11 and Dec. 13.
The original infection is a U.S.-strain suspected to have leaked from Sydney hotel quarantine.
More than 250,000 Sydney residents in the northern beaches area are under a four-day lockdown until Wednesday.
Berejiklian said what restrictions continue over Christmas will be reviewed on Wednesday.
All Australian states have imposed restrictions on travelers from Sydney and parts of New South Wales because the coronavirus risk.
Berejiklian urged other state leaders to “think about things compassionately” due to Christmas approaching and to base decisions on border restrictions on the facts.
TORONTO — Canada is banning passenger flights from the UK in a bid to block a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England.
A person familiar with the matter confirmed the development on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly ahead of an announcement.
France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria all announced restrictions on U.K. travel, hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Christmas shopping and gatherings in southern England must be canceled because of rapidly spreading infections blamed on the new coronavirus variant.
Johnson said Saturday that a fast-moving new variant of the virus that is 70% more transmissible than existing strains appeared to be driving the rapid spread of new infections in London and southern England in recent weeks. But he stressed “there’s no evidence to suggest it is more lethal or causes more severe illness,” or that vaccines will be less effective against it.
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — The leader of a north Georgia megachurch who has been a spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19.
News outlets report Jentezen Franklin was absent from Sunday services at Free Chapel in Gainesville. Pastor Javon Ruff announced the diagnosis during Free Chapel’s Sunday service.
The diagnosis came within days of Franklin attending a Christmas party at the White House. More than a dozen parties at the White House have been criticized for being held indoors and not enforcing masks, but a church spokesperson says Franklin’s infection wasn’t related to that visit.
LOS ANGELES — Medical staffing is stretched increasingly thin as California hospitals scramble to find beds for patients amid an explosion of coronavirus cases that threatens to overwhelm the state’s emergency care system.
As of Sunday, more than 16,840 people were hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 infections — more than double the previous peak reached in July.
An enormous crush of cases in the last six weeks has California’s death toll spiraling ever higher. Another 161 fatalities were reported Sunday.
All of Southern California and the 12-county San Joaquin Valley to the north have exhausted their regular intensive care unit capacity, and some hospitals have begun using “surge” space.
A nurse in hard-hit Los Angeles County estimates she’s been averaging less than 10 minutes of care per patient every hour.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ governor is urging residents to protect each other from the coronavirus this holiday season.
The state on Sunday reported 1,536 new COVID-19 cases and 46 more deaths. One in every 190 people in Arkansas tested positive in the past week. The Arkansas Department of Health said that the state has reported more than 201,000 cases and more than 3,200 deaths since the pandemic began.
“The high number of Arkansans who have died is heartbreaking,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday on Twitter.
Noting that Christmas is just five days away, he asked Arkansans to protect each other and said, “What we do will determine how we start our new year.”
Health officials said that 1,057 people with COVID-19 are in Arkansas hospitals.
TOPEKA, Kan. — A FedEx executive says a higher-than-normal volume of Christmas-season package deliveries won’t interfere with the company’s effort to ship coronavirus vaccine doses.
Jenny Robertson, a FedEx senior vice president, said two trucks on Sunday moved doses of a vaccine developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health from a factory in Olive Branch, Mississippi, to the company’s world hub in nearby Memphis, Tennessee, so that shipments could be loaded onto its airplanes bound for multiple states.
She said the company is keeping its networks for shipping the vaccine and handling Christmas packages separate.
“Nothing’s more important than the delivery of the vaccine to us, but we have put in place distinct networks that are keeping e-commerce moving through our ground network and vaccines moving through our express network,” she said. “We’re able to manage this volume right now.”
Robertson said the company has seen holiday-level volumes for shipping packages since March because consumers switched how they buy products during the pandemic.
ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatia’s prime minister says the country is temporarily suspending air traffic with Great Britain over fears about the new strain of coronavirus.
Several European countries said Sunday they would halt flights from the U.K., hours after Britain’s government imposed tough new coronavirus restrictions on large areas of southern England to curb what officials described as a fast-moving new strain of the virus.
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Sunday said on Twitter the suspension will apply for 48 hours until more information is available.
Plenkovic says “citizens’ health comes first.”
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia has temporarily suspended all international passenger flights for citizens and residents over fears about the fast-spreading new variant of the coronavirus.
The kingdom’s interior ministry says the one-week flight ban may be extended “until medical information about the nature of this virus becomes clear.”
The country’s land and sea ports will also close for a week. The government ordered anyone who has returned from or passed through a European country over the past three months to get tested for COVID-19 immediately.
The ministry added that the travel suspension will not affect the country’s cargo flights and supply chains.
NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants a ban on flights from Great Britain to New York City over fears about the new strain of coronavirus.
Cuomo told reporters in a teleconference on Sunday that the six flights arriving daily at Kennedy Airport from Britain pose a health risk. He called on the federal government to either ban the flights or require testing on all passengers.
The first wave of coronavirus infections in New York “came from Europe and we did nothing,” the Democratic governor said. “Doing nothing is negligent.”
OKLAHOMA CITY — As new daily cases of the coronavirus have surged in Oklahoma, Gov. Kevin Stitt is starring in a promotional video encouraging people to visit.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health on Sunday reported 4,970 new cases and 23 deaths. That brings the state’s totals to more than 260,000 cases and more than 2,200 deaths since the pandemic began. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say there were 1,081 new cases per 100,000 people in Oklahoma over the past two weeks, which ranks 12th in the country for new cases per capita. One in every 175 people in Oklahoma tested positive in the past week.
Stitt, who has resisted calls for a statewide mask mandate, stars in a 30-second video that has has more than 100,000 views on YouTube. The video is also being promoted on digital and social media platforms in surrounding states, The Oklahoman reported.
“Today, we all need a place that offers hope,” Stitt says in the video. “Oklahoma is open to the challenge. We’re open with new, exciting places to explore safely.”
The video was posted on YouTube on Nov. 19 — the same day the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised against traveling around the Thanksgiving holiday. An Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department spokeswoman says the ads will run through Dec. 30.
Stitt spokesman Charlie Hannema tells The Oklahoman newspaper that the campaign is part of a state strategy to support businesses affected by the pandemic.
“We need people to continue to take precautions, but with the vaccination rollout starting, the light is at the end of the tunnel,” Hannema said.
Health officials in the state have been pleading with residents to take precautions, and warn that pandemic is far from over.
On Friday, Keith Reed, deputy commissioner of health with the Oklahoma State Department of Health, said that while it had been “a historic, yet emotional week” for health care workers, “we still have a long road ahead of us.”
WASHINGTON — The chief science adviser for the U.S. government’s vaccine distribution effort says it will be shipping nearly 8 million doses of coronavirus vaccine Monday.
Dr. Moncef Slaoui said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that 5.9 million doses of a vaccine made by Moderna and 2 million of a vaccine made by Pfizer will be shipped.
At least a dozen states reported last week that they would receive a smaller second shipment of the Pfizer vaccine than they had been told previously. Army Gen. Gustave Perna, in charge of the distribution effort, apologized Saturday for “miscommunication” with states over the number of doses to be delivered in the early stages of distribution.
Slaoui said the mistake was assuming vaccines that had been produced were ready for shipment when there was a two-day delay.
“And unless it’s perfectly right, we will not release vaccine doses for usage,” he said. “And, sometimes, there could be small hiccups. There have been none, actually, in manufacturing now. The hiccup was more into the planning.”
Slaoui also said the U.S. will experience “a continuing surge” in the coronavirus, with larger numbers of cases possible from gatherings for the Christmas holiday.
SOFIA, Bulgaria— Bulgaria is banning until January 31 all flights coming from and leaving for Britain in reaction to the new coronavirus strain.
At an emergency meeting on Sunday, the government had introduced new restrictive measures for all persons arriving from the United Kingdom, including a mandatory 10-day quarantine. Hours later, it added the flight ban to the list of restrictions.
SAN RAMON, Calif. – More than 1 million people have passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints in each of the past two days in a sign that public health pleas to avoid holiday travel are being ignored, despite an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases across the country.
It marks the first time U.S. airports have screened more than 1 million passengers since Nov. 29. That came at the end of a Thanksgiving weekend that saw far more travel around the country than had been hoped as the weather turned colder and COVID-19 cases were already spiking again.
Now, hospitals in many parts of the country are being overwhelmed amid the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S. since the pandemic since March when most people in the U.S. were ordered to stay at home and avoid interactions with other households.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for U.S. surgeon general says it’s more realistic to think it may be mid-summer or early fall before coronavirus vaccines are available to the general population in the United States, rather than late spring.
Speaking on Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Vivek Murthy said Biden’s team is working toward having coronavirus vaccines available to lower-risk individuals by late spring but doing so requires “everything to go exactly on schedule.”
“I think it’s more realistic to assume that it may be closer to mid-summer or early fall when this vaccine makes its way to the general population,” Murthy said. “So, we want to be optimistic, but we want to be cautious as well.”
Murthy, who also served as surgeon general in the Obama administration, said Biden’s promise of 100 million vaccines during his first 100 days in office is realistic and that the Biden team has seen more cooperation from Trump administration officials.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s surgeon general is defending Trump’s not getting a coronavirus vaccine, saying there are medical reasons for it.
U.S. Surgeon General and Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, noted that Trump both contracted COVID-19 in October and was treated with monoclonal antibodies.
“And that is actually one scenario where we tell people maybe you should hold off on getting the vaccine, talk to your health provider to find out the right time,” Adams said.
Asked about Trump doing a public-service announcement for the vaccine to encourage his supporters to get it, Adams noted that both he and Vice President Mike Pence got vaccinated.
Adams, who is Black, said he understands that mistrust of the medical community and the vaccine among Blacks “comes from a real place,” the mistreatment of communities of color.
JERUSALEM __ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the country is banning flights from Britain, Denmark or South Africa due to fears about the new strain of coronavirus.
“Those are the countries where the mutation is found,” he said.
He also said Sunday that anyone returning from those countries would have to go into mandatory 14-day quarantine in state-run hotels.
Netanyahu spoke a day after he was vaccinated against the coronavirus – the first Israeli to do so in what he said was an attempt to encourage the public to follow suit. Israel pushed ahead with its vaccination campaign on Sunday, beginning with other top officials and front-line health-care workers.
LONDON — Eurostar trains between London, Brussels and Amsterdam are being canceled from Monday, after the Belgian government announced that borders with the U.K will close at midnight Sunday.
The high-speed train operator said Sunday that trains continue to operate on the London to Paris route.
The Belgian government has said it will review the position in 24 hours. Eurostar said they’re awaiting further details from relevant governments on how travel restrictions will be enforced.
European countries including the Netherlands, Austria and Italy said Sunday they would halt flights from the U.K., hours after Britain’s government imposed tough new coronavirus restrictions on large areas of southern England to curb what officials described as a fast-moving new strain of the virus.
MILAN — Both the number of COVID deaths and new positives were significantly lower on Sunday, a day when typically many fewer tests are carried out.
Deaths rose by 352, down by several hundred from recent days, and bringing Italy’s known coronavirus dead to 68,799, the highest in Europe.
Another 15,104 people tested positive, down by over 1,000 from a day earlier as the number of tests dropped by nearly a quarter. Sunday marked the last day Italians were permitted to move from one region to another without a valid motive, including work and health.
The government has imposed more stringent restrictions for the Christmas holiday in a bid to prevent celebrations from setting of a new surge. Shopping streets in major cities were packed ahead of the imposition of a partial lockdown this week.
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Is Gia Getting Her Own Reality Show As Teresa Giudice Attempts To Turn Her Family Into The Next Kardashians?
by Mary McClelland on December 30th, 2014
Teresa Giudice has less than a week before she heads off to prison, and she is wasting no time getting her family into the limelight in her absence! Rumor has it Teresa’s eldest daughter Gia, already a budding popstar, is all set to film her own reality show! But Teresa has even bigger dreams for her family as she aims to turn their scandal into success, ala the Kardashians! Oh heavens…
A source says Gia’s show has been filming for “two months” and will focus on her burgeoning singing career. “It will be all about her group, 3KT. So far, the footage is really fun. Once the pilot is completed, they’ll start shopping it to the networks.”
Gia’s show will hardly feature her Real Housewives Of New Jersey star mom, because Teresa will be incarcerated, of course, but Teresa will make appearances supporting her daughter. “All the girls’ families are in it here and there. But it’s not a show about the grownups; it’s all about the girls. Everyone’s very excited about it,” the source clarifies.
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According to E! News, Teresa is “thrilled” for daughter, but relieved to not be the focus. “Teresa’s thrilled but is keeping her distance. She’s really not interested in being in the spotlight right now. She wants the focus to be on Gia.” 3KT recently did a holiday performance that was attended by the Giudice family, including Juicy’s brother, and they’ll presumably appear on the new reality show! How special.
Hmmm…well, I wouldn’t necessarily put stock in the idea that Gia is filming a reality show, BUT… Brandi Glanville recently leaked Teresa is filming in preparation for her departure to prison and there have been rumors that Bravo will be doing a spinoff with the Giudice family in Teresa’s absence. Gia is the perfect vehicle for that – she’s not as polarizing as Felon Joe – and it’d be a great way to keep Teresa’s family in the spotlight as a natural segue for Bravo to follow-up with Teresa as she is released. Which we all know is the plan whether we like it or not!
And apparently Teresa has other big plans post-release to make lemons into lemonade ala Kris Jenner turning Kim’s sex tape in to a multi-million dollar family industry! And Gia’s show is the start of all that’s next to come.
“Teresa would love to turn the Giudice family into a brand name like other reality stars. She said that when she gets out of prison her goal is to turn her family into the next Kardashians,” reports Hollywood Life.
“She would love the girls to all have their own spinoffs. She really believes that Gia, Gabriella, Milania, and Audriana have star potential,” the source says. “Teresa says her daughters actually have talent!”
Reportedly Teresa believes, post-prison, she can command big ratings as people will be even more interested in her life following tragedy. Gotta say – I agree with her here. And Teresa is also positive networks will be fighting to get their hands on Gia’s upcoming show, for which they are now readying a pilot.
“Teresa thinks the show would get great ratings. She’s really confident once the networks see some of the footage there will be a bidding war for the rights,” the insider says. “She’s praying that the show gets picked up and is a huge success by the time she gets out of prison.” Considering what a flop their Kickstarter was, I doubt it!
Well, errrrr… good for Teresa for having goals? Other sources have stated Teresa is laying low before prison focusing on her family and home, but in the last couple weeks she’s been out and about quite a bit. She saw NeNe’s broadway play.
And Teresa was spotted skiing (and filming?) with former RHONJ co-stars Teresa Aprea and Nicole Napolitano recently. Additionally, she and Dina Manzo have been working on a lifestyle show that has already released cooking segments of Teresa making recipes from her various cookbooks. As she has admitted her Fabulicious brand is currently dead until she deals with prison, Teresa is apparently doing what she can to move her brand in a different direction away from RHONJ.
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Three killed in Bear Fire; Butte County sheriff urges residents to heed evacuations
David Benda
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Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea confirmed Wednesday that three people have been killed as a result of the Bear Fire.
Two were found at the same location, one at another location. He declined to say where the bodies were found because they have not been identified and family has not been informed.
More:At least one foothill community destroyed, burn victims reported in North Complex Fire
Currently, 20,000 Butte County residents are under evacuation orders or evacuation warnings. Two thousand structures have been damaged or destroyed while 23,356 structures are threatened in Butte County.
Ninety families have been accommodated in shelters and 140 families are waiting to be sheltered. Because of COVID-19, traditional shelters are not being set up.
The Red Cross is working with local officials to temporarily house people in hotels, some in areas as far away as Sacramento.
The Bear Fire is one of multiple lightning fires – including the Sheep and Claremont blazes – that comprise the North Complex Fire located on the Mt. Hough Ranger District on the Plumas National Forest.
More:High Sierra's cool temperatures, wide-open spaces tempted campers caught in Creek Fire
Lisa Cox, public information officer for the North Complex Fire, said aircraft used to measure the scope of the fire have been grounded due to high winds and mechanical issues, but that the fire is “probably much bigger” than the 254,000 acres that the Plumas National Forest reported around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Honea urged residents to heed evacuation warnings and orders.
"We have seen far too often in this county people fail to abide by those orders and tragic consequences were the result," he said.
As of Wednesday evening, evacuation orders are in place for Feather Falls, Clipper Mills, Berry Creek, Brush Creek, Yankee Hill and Forbestown. The Butte County Sheriff's Office also provides a map outlining all the areas under evacuation orders and warnings.
The Butte Information Line is (530) 538-7826 while the Plumas Information Line (530) 316-4487. Visit https://www.buttecounty.net/ for more information.
See the Bear Fire on a map
Reporters Amy Alonzo and Chelcey Adami contributed to this report.
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Synopsis: Synovial tissue samples from patients with chronic juvenile arthritis and a control group of healthy young adults with recent joint trauma were examined for parvovirus B19 DNA using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. A higher proportion of the controls were positive for B19 than the patients.
Source: Söderlund M, et al. Persistence of parvovirus B19 DNA in synovial membranes of young patients with and without chronic arthropathy. Lancet 1997;349:1063-1065.
Cases that are classified as parvovirus arthropathy are usually transient, but it has also been implicated in chronic rheumatoid arthritis or juvenile chronic arthritis.
Söderlund and associates at the University of Helsinki used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect parvovirus B19 DNA from synovial tissue obtained at arthroscopy or arthrotomy. The amplified DNA was studied by southern blot hybridization.
Eight of 29 (28%) children with chronic arthritis were positive for parvovirus B19 DNA; however, an even higher proportion (13 of 28; 44%) of the non-arthropathy controls were positive. All of the individuals with B19 DNA in synovial tissue also had serum IgG antibodies to B19.
COMMENT BY PAUL McCARTHY, MD, FAAP
There is an extensive scientific literature that attempts to link various infectious agents with chronic synovitis (arthritis). Interest in this association has been sparked by selected molecular markers Class I and II molecules that are encoded by genes in the major histocompatibility complex on the short arm chromosome #6. For example, there is a strong association between HLA-DR4 (a Class II molecule) and polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor positivity. Class II molecules are intimately involved in antigen presentation to T cells and subsequent inflammatory events. It has been speculated that the increased frequency of selected Class I and Class II molecules in patients with chronic inflammatory states, such as arthritis, may be related to molecular mimicry between the molecule and a foreign antigen, most probably an infectious agent. Because of this mimicry, the immune system may not recognize the infecting agent; hence, the agent may produce chronic inflammation. An intriguing report of a putative prolonged infection causing chronic arthritis in children was that of Chantler et al, in which the authors found that 37% of 19 children with juvenile chronic arthritis but 0% of controls had rubella virus isolated from mononuclear cells from blood or synovial fluid.1 However, the etiologic role of rubella in chronic childhood arthritis has not been confirmed.
There have been several previous reports of arthritis in association with clinical parvovirus B19 infection in both adults and children. The arthritis is usually, but not always, self-limited. In one report, 20 children developed arthritis in association with clinical parvovirus B19 infection. The arthritis lasted less than four months in 13 children; in the remaining seven children whose arthritis had not resolve at the time of the report, only four had arthritis for more than four months.2
Does parvovirus B19 cause chronic arthritis? Söderlund et al report evidence of parvovirus B19 DNA in the synovium of 28% of children with juvenile chronic arthritis. But, he also found such evidence in 48% of non-arthritic controls. The implications of this report are that parvovirus B19 DNA is not a marker found exclusively in the synovium of children with chronic arthritis, and parvovirus B19 DNA in the synovium does not indicate that the synovitis will be self-limited, as is seen in the majority of children with arthritis having its onset during a clinical parvovirus infection. The data do not rule out the possibility that a parvovirus infection may trigger a chronic arthritis in a susceptible host since the Class I and Class II status of the patients and controls was not analyzed. A report in 1986 of 18 patients with arthritis persisting for a median of six months following a parvovirus infection noted that 12 of the 18 patients were HLA-DR4 positive.3
As is demonstrated by this report, defining the relationship among infectious agents, host susceptibility, and chronic inflammatory problems, including arthritis, remains an intriguing but unresolved scientific challenge. It is also true that PCR is a very sensitive test for detecting minute amounts of DNA. It is possible that small amounts of viral DNA may persist for a long time in tissues and have little relationship to any clinical entity.
1. Chantler JK, et al. Persistent rubella virus infection associated with chronic arthritis in children. N Engl J Med 1985;313:1117-1123.
2. Nacton JJ, et al. Human parvovirus B19-arthritis in children. J Pediatr 1993;122:186-190.
3. Klouda PT, et al. HLA and acute arthritis following human parvovirus infection. Tissue Antigens 1986;28:318-319.
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Book Signing at Vintage Books in Easton, Md. on Fri., Oct. 4
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BOOK SIGNINGS! Friday 9/13 in Rehoboth Beach & Saturday 9/14 in Ocean City
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Sir Roger Moore: Aidan Turner would be a 'very good' Bond
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SIR Roger Moore thinks Aidan Turner would be "very good" as James Bond.
The 89-year-old actor has played the role of the suave spy on film seven times, and has now tipped the 'Poldark' actor as the next hunk to don the sharp suit and take on the iconic 007 role.
Speaking to the Daily Star Sunday newspaper, the 'Live and Let Die' actor said: "I think Aidan would make a very good Bond."
And Roger wouldn't be the only acting veteran to give Aidan the seal of approval, as Robin Ellis - who played the role of Ross Poldark in the original 1970s version of the BBC series - previously branded him as "quite capable" of playing James Bond.
He said: "I like Aidan. I think he's doing a wonderful job as Ross. He looks great and has a brooding presence. He's registered enormously with the public, and that's terrific.
"I think he'd be an excellent Bond. Aidan is a good actor, and the first 007, Sean Connery, was a very good actor. Aidan is quite capable of doing that part. Good luck to him if he gets it. I'll be very pleased for him."
The stars' backing comes after it was announced earlier this year that 'The Hobbit' actor had made it onto a shortlist of names that MGM bosses were looking at to cast as the fictional spy if Daniel Craig continues with his threat to quit the franchise.
Other names that made the cut include 'Luther' star Idris Elba, 'Fast and Furious' actor Luke Evans, and 'Thor's Tom Hiddleston.
Speaking at the time, a source said: "To get anyone to take over from Daniel will be a tough job. MGM are confident that they are in a pretty strong place with a raft of talent available."
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? >> no. no take on steel. >> all righty then. copper is on the move after moody's downgraded china. we'll hit the future pits next. ♪ predictable. the comfort in knowing where things are headed. because as we live longer... and markets continue to rise and fall... predictable is one thing you need in retirement to help protect what you've earned and ensure it lasts. introducing brighthouse financial. a new company established by metlife to specialize in annuities & life insurance. talk to your advisor about a brighter financial future. >>> welcome back to "the halftime report." i'm jackie deangelis. we are watching copper today falling after moody's downgraded china's credit rating for the first time in nearly 30 years. china the world's largest consumer of copper. did you short copper on the down grade? >> i did not. that was a mixed down grade. think of how moody's hedged themselves. that was actually an upgrade. the modern day silk road from 2,000 years ago in china, that silk road we're calling one belt one road will touch 50% of global gdp, and that infrastructure should buo
? >> no. no take on steel. >> all righty then. copper is on the move after moody's downgraded china. we'll hit the future pits next. ♪ predictable. the comfort in knowing where things are headed. because as we live longer... and markets continue to rise and fall... predictable is one thing you need in retirement to help protect what you've earned and ensure it lasts. introducing brighthouse financial. a new company established by metlife to specialize in annuities & life...
Street Signs : CNBC : May 24, 2017 4:00am-5:01am EDT
in china's great wall of debt. moody's downgrades the country's credit rating, citing beijing's warning financial strength and rising liabilities. >>> a potent combination concerns over excess iron ore supplies coupled with china's credit downgrade chip away at europe's mining stocks. >>> the british government deploys nearly 4,000 soldiers on the streets of the uk after raising the country's terror threat level to critical as police conduct a series of raids in connection to the manchester attack. >> further attack may be imminent. the change in the threat level mean there's will be additional resources and support made availability to the poliavailab police as they keep us all safe. >>> legacy issues hurt like for like sales for two of britain's top retailers. france still provides a headache for kingfisher, with sales down over 5% while clothing weighs on m&s. >>> good morning. you're watching "street signs" as always at this time of the day. glad you're with us once again. we have another busy show for you. let's get straight to the european market action. the ftse 100 a bit
in china's great wall of debt. moody's downgrades the country's credit rating, citing beijing's warning financial strength and rising liabilities. >>> a potent combination concerns over excess iron ore supplies coupled with china's credit downgrade chip away at europe's mining stocks. >>> the british government deploys nearly 4,000 soldiers on the streets of the uk after raising the country's terror threat level to critical as police conduct a series of raids in connection to...
. according to a report from moody's the sector remains sound, and we now have lori mayers, associate manager and director of moody's around the desk. let's talk about the first quarter. i spent a lot of time talking ubs and the numbers and being very bullish. we see this, given seasonality, how much of the strength was se seasonality and how much is strength? >> well, we do expect that the markets will remain volatile. so we're not saying that one quarter necessarily makes a trend. but it was a good quarter for the european investment of funds and the market revenues with the exception of barclays. but really, what we saw was that capital markets revenues pulled the revenues for the quarter. because as revenues overall were relatively flat. and that's really reflecting, you know, weaker results in some of the noncapital markets where low interest rates continue. >> much of 2016, i feel like we talked about the fact that u.s. banks were gaining markets here at the expense of the european rivals. do you feel with that strong first quarter, european investors are able to claim back the
. according to a report from moody's the sector remains sound, and we now have lori mayers, associate manager and director of moody's around the desk. let's talk about the first quarter. i spent a lot of time talking ubs and the numbers and being very bullish. we see this, given seasonality, how much of the strength was se seasonality and how much is strength? >> well, we do expect that the markets will remain volatile. so we're not saying that one quarter necessarily makes a trend. but...
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want to bring you in breaking news in form of comments coming from the rating agency of moody's saying macron's policies credit positive for france. no surprise here but they do point out that implementation risk remains the same. moody's saying it will be crucial in terming whether the new president is able to achieve his policy plans. macron's policy plans are positive. and dead consolidation and one last nine, france's general governing debt of 1.5% of gdp. unlikely to decline materially before the end of the decade. so i guess there's a dose of a bit of a reality check in there, coming from the statement from moody's. but many are hoping that this will be the major turning point for france. the lack of competitiveness when if comes to its standing within europe and in the world as, you know, a great industrial nation. do you think this is it? >> i think it's definitely the best hope we've had in decades, that we can finally overcome these issues that have been plaguing the french economies for some time. but, look, remember in the '90s, the french actually outperformed germany. so
want to bring you in breaking news in form of comments coming from the rating agency of moody's saying macron's policies credit positive for france. no surprise here but they do point out that implementation risk remains the same. moody's saying it will be crucial in terming whether the new president is able to achieve his policy plans. macron's policy plans are positive. and dead consolidation and one last nine, france's general governing debt of 1.5% of gdp. unlikely to decline materially...
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Translating Florida Georgia Line’s Sexual Innuendo
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Professed Christians Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, known collectively as the pop country mega duo Florida Georgia Line have more euphemistic language on their new album Anything Goes than a salty-mouthed locker room. If you’ve been wondering what the hell they actually mean when they sing lines like, “Stick the pink umbrella in your drink,” then here are some useful translations of Florida Georgia Line’s most sexually-charged lines.
As Saving Country Music explained while declaring Anything Goes the worst album ever, “Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard have their own language, partial to the most grammatically-challenged and stupefying vocabulary lurking in the dankest sewers of the English dialect, but not residing firmly in any specific one of them so no truly proper translation can be obtained. It’s like Pig Latin for douchewads understood by them and them only.” So please understand if certain translations could be interpreted a different way.
To save virgin eyes, medical terms have been used where possible. But of course, some language can only be properly translated by using other slang words.
And to be fair, sexual innuendo has been used in country music from very early on to circumvent the genre’s rigid moral codes, and sometimes to instill smart wit in the lyricism. However Florida Georgia Line’s poor use of innuendo should not be compared to these proud traditions.
FGL: “I sit you up on the kitchen sink. Stick the pink umbrella in your drink.”
Translation: “I sit you up on the kitchen sink. Stick my penis in your vagina.”
This line from Florida Georgia Line’s song “Sun Daze” has to be the most egregious innuendo of the entire project, not particularly well-veiled, and diseased in so many ways. The key to its sexual pervertedness is the use of “the” in the second line instead of “a.” If the line had been, “Stick a pink umbrella in your drink,” then it could have been passed off as more literal, and in turn would have made the innuendo more effective. But using “the” makes no mistake about what is being implied (keep it simple for FGL fans, I guess).
Even if you’re a fan of perverted innuendo, there still seems to be something universally unhealthy about alluding to male genitalia as “pink” anything, though admittedly the hue is somewhat accurate. Even more troubling is that a female was in on the “Sun Daze” songwriting session in the person of Sarah Buxton. One would have thought she would have put the stop sign up on this one, but no dice.
FGL: “Good Good” (title of third song on Anything Goes)
Translation: “Favorable Pussy” (slang for female genitals)
Florida Georgia Line uses the word “good” on Anything Goes 25 times, including multiple times as “good good.” The only word they use more is “girl”—used a whopping 42 times.
According to the Urban Dictionary, using the word “good” twice in succession means, “High quality kegel muscles that keep your significant other coming back and not looking for other people to satisfy their needs.” The example the Urban Dictionary uses is “So I’ve been dating this guy for three weeks, and yesterday he told me he loved me. I got that Good Good.”
Using “good good” as a euphemism for “pussy” is illustrated in the song by Ashanti also called “Good Good.”
When my man leave the house, I know he’s comin’ right back
I got that good good, I got that good good
No matter how much he might try to act, he know just where it’s at
I put it on him right, I do it every night
I leave him sittin’ mouth open like wheww
So I don’t worry bout nobody takin’ mine
Cause I know just the right thing to do (I got that good good)
When Tyler Hubbard was asked what “good good” meant by The National Post, he said, “It’s just all over the album, it’s fun, it’s words that nobody’s ever said before.”
FGL: “And let me stay inside your drink.”
Translation: “And let me keep my penis in your vagina.”
From the song “Bumpin’ The Night” (which is innuendo itself), this line is yet another illustration of the adolescent mindset Florida Georgia Line has towards the human sexual anatomy.
FGL: “There it is, yeah, that’s the sweet spot. Blow your smoke, I’m gonna breathe it in, girl.”
Translation: “You have found the optimum erogenous zone. Continue to perform oral sex on me.“
From the song with the divine title “Angel.” It’s the song built from the unforgivable cliché, “Did it hurt when you fell from the sky?” Incidentally, Florida Georgia Line says the word “angel” 21 times on Anything Goes.
Other Potential/Untranslatable Innuendos
“Put a little shine on the vinyl seat.”
“If you want you can pet on my Harley.”
“Flow you the trouble like a champagne bubble, sayin'”
A Proper Use of Sexual Innuendo in Country Music:
Brian Kelley, Florida Georgia Line, Merle Haggard, Sarah Buxton, Tyler Hubbard
Joshua Wallace
November 4, 2014 @ 10:54 am
Chances that “Good Good” will be a single? Probably very high.
Let me preface this by making it clear ..I DETEST EVERYTHING THIS BAND STANDS FOR -EVERYTHING !!
But this issue is pervasive , Trigger . I believe Hollywood can be credited with ‘pushing the envelope ” initially but hell …musicians have been singing these sexual metaphors since Jesus was a cowboy ( Zep sang…’Squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down my leg’ ). The internet has certainly made them more and more accessible and ‘acceptable’ ( read “unstoppable” ) because there is really no way to censor the net . I think that it has really always been incumbent upon parents and guardians to be vigilant in making children aware of what’s really going on in a commercial /capitalist /consumer -driven society and now more-so than ever as nutrition , art , entertainment , politics and cultures in general are at risk of having their values undermined in the name of the dollar . With regards to the Kruise Kids being Christians . …c’mon . How many companies, artists , sects and religious off-shoots hide behind their supposed religious beliefs while bending or interpreting them to justify their OWN set of values and actions for commercial or political reasons ?
BJones
to further prove your point, Zep stole the lemon line from Robert Johnson.
Of course this issue is pervasive, but it has never been employed in this manner in mainstream country music. You can make the case that this is worse than even David Allan Coe’s X-rated albums, because those were purposely marked to not be for mass consumption. Florida Georgia Line is the biggest act in country music right now. Mainstream country used to be the refuge from this type of stuff. Now it’s a magnet for it.
And I pointed out myself that there is a storied history of this type of innuendo being used in music, and country music specifically. FGL and “Anything Goes” just take it to another level, but please don’t let me represent it like it is unprecedented or even unusual in society overall. This was more just an illustration based off of this specific album.
emfrank
I agree with Albert to a point and don’t really find this disgusting. Innuendo is everywhere, probably more common in traditional blues than anywhere, but this is poorly crafted innuendo. That, to me, is what makes it terrible, not the sexual content. Ledbelly’s “squeeze my lemon” or Hopkin’s “my starter won’t start” (one of my favorite innuendos) are used to get at the rawness of sex. “Pink Umbrella” is just silly and makes sex trivial.
Or, more recently, compare the above to the following from Jason Isbell’s Cover Me Up. (Percy Priest is a dam in Tennessee… but that is not what he is talking about. Wish I were Amanda Shires when I hear it, but I digress.)
“Girl leave your boots by the door, we ain’t leaving this room,
Til’ Percy Priest breaks open wide and the river runs through.”
Oops – making up my own lyrics. That is leave your boots by the bed.
Need an edit feature here Trig.
Oops again?
Not only on your misquote, but on the context too as the line following shows?
I read it differently than you, as in “nothing short of an emergency is getting us out of bed”.
So girl hang your dress up to dry/we ain’t leavin’ this room
Til Percy Priest breaks open wide and the river runs through
Carries this house on the stones like a piece of drift wood
Yeah – realized I also mixed up the verses. I read the first verse as “we are in for the winter and nothing but an emergency is getting us up”… but I definitely think the Percy Priest line is an innuendo for orgasm, hers not his. Maybe just my dirty mind, but Isbell is too good a writer not to see it.
To clarify, though, I don’t think your reading is wrong, but that it functions on both levels. I read Isbell’s twitter, and someone asked him if the line “use me for good” meant use me up or use me for good purposes. His answer was simply “yes.” He is quite happy with layers of meaning in his songs.
‘Of course this issue is pervasive, but it has never been employed in this manner in mainstream country music…… ”’
I whole-heartedly agree with your posit , Trigger …and I’m whole-heartedly opposed to what this band in particular is all about in terms of its talentless and exploitative modus operandi . Country (mainstream commercial country , at least ) did seem to be the last bastion of respect for its own and the culture’s values , morals and traditions. I applaud your efforst to preserve this by pointing out this band’s attempts to undermine it . They are musical ebola …..a serious but arrestable virus ,thanks to the passionate and concerted efforts of sites like this and observations like the review above .
Scotty J
One of my favorite examples of this is ‘I Got The Hoss’ by Mel Tillis. His phrasing is so perfect and knowing.
Conway’s “Don’t Call Him a Cowboy” is another good example of intelligent, understated innuendo.
Ashton smith
Why the hell are you so offended by sexual innuendos? Are you just confused with your life? Grow some nuts or shut the hell up talking shit.
Houston Erwin
Actually the line says, “If you want you can pet on my harley”, not “If you want you can get on harley.” Definitely a sexual innuendo though.
I’ve seen that line represented both ways, and since I would never let a physical copy of that unholy album across my threshold, I can’t verify the actual lyric myself, if such a thing is even included in the liner notes.
I would never buy the CD either to check. They made a lyrical video for the song though.
Actually it is ” If you want you can pet on my Harley”. I sadly have the cd, which was a major impulse buy. I’m still a teen, but even I can’t believe I was this stupid.
Waylon Van Smack
November 5, 2014 @ 7:17 am
admitting it is the first step to recovery Hoss. Remember, bad cd’s make good clay pigeons.
You can run a loop of fishing line through the center and hang them as Christmas ornaments, too.
Mercy,
That’s very and highly doubtful. They are as transparent as as glass.
And dumber than rocks.
Although it still seems like a really stupid line, like why the heck would you pet a Harley. Even if it does mean something else, it’s completely indecipherable.
LOL!! You know their music is bad when teenagers comment that FGL is dumber than rocks. Mercy, I couldn’t agree with you more!
That is what I said it was.
I was just confirming it, no one said they had the Cd. Isn’t Tyler Hubbard’s dog named Harley? Sooo maybe he’s not talking about a bike?
Don’t look for something where there is nothing. Harley is the name of Tyler Hubbard’s golden retriever. A dog he got around 6 months before the album released, presumably when the song was being written.
mystery stu
DISGUSTING -_-
How am I supposed to get to sleep tonight while my brain feverishly tries to figure out what the hell a “bottle seat” is and why someone would want to “put a little shine” on it?
The only thing worse than songwriting-by-committee is songwriting-by-committee-using-refrigerator-magnetic-poetry. Just throw some words out there because they rhyme, sense be damned.
It’s actually vinyl seat, which is just as bad. Sometimes you have to wonder if they don’t roll dice or spin a wheel or something to come up with these lyrics
Mercy, I believe that they were drunk and stoned (along with their songwriters) during the “creation” of their album. What disappoints me is that they’re nominated for an award on tonight’s CMAs. Even if the lyrics sound like someone from the projects wrote it, people buy it.
The worst part is that these guys are major role models to teens, and it makes teens think it’s fine to get stoned and that maybe they will end up living the high life like these morons. It makes me wonder how many people will end up hurt or dead because of following what songs like sun daze say.
As someone who once lived that sort of lifestyle: its a dead end road and you’re on the money when you said someone will end up hurt or dead. Or in my case: living with regrets.
Either way: see if you can get a refund for the money you plunked down for their album and may I suggest checking out this site for album reviews. There are quite a few artists that have released great music recently. Stoney LaRue and Wade Bowen are two great examples of what country music should be in this day and age.
I was one of the people that thought it would be a good idea to pre-order the cd, so no chance on a refund. And I completely agree,there is so much better country music out there, but all the radios play the stuff about getting buzzed and demeaning women, there’s already to much of it out there, but numb skulls like FGL have to take it to the next step. There probably wont ever be an end to it, even with every body saying that FGL will gone in a few years I doubt they will. It seems best just to keep the radio off anymore.
Lil Dale
I had a closs personel frend of mine whos a big wig n nashvile tell me brian kely is reely dale ernhart jr in disgize an tylar hubbard is a 2nd cuzin of ray wylie hubbard. the dale jr conection wood explane a lot as to why they r such a big band cos dale jr has a lot of fanz all redy. an the ray wylie conection wood expplane why there a good band. U can here the inflewanse. I no they like to push,the limets sum times but there good boys just havin fun n all. im not imbareassed to say theyve groen on me an im a fan. God bless yall! And role tide!
WTF …..??
Learn how to spell.
I’m not sure that would explane it, but that is an interesting theory.
As much as Lil Wayne’s horrendous spelling grates, I could put up with it if he could just express a cogent thought.
(I realized I used a couple of big words in there that Lil Wayne probably won’t understand. “Horrendous” means “unpleasant, terrible,” while “cogent” means “clear, logical and convincing.”)
evan tho u like to thro around that belmont deploma of yers with all those cogent clear logical and convincing coments Im still a fan of yers heydey. Wut u dont get tho is yer like the willie Nelson of savin country music comenters. not evrywun can be as good as u. Im.at best the edie rabbet of savin country music comentars. I gess wut I meen is we dont allno as much about music as u but weer all tryin hard an given it a hundrud n tin persent. god bless yall!
What if they’re lyrics for a subliminal message that only a secret Government organization can decipher? And what if that organization wants real country music to be destroyed, so that more of this shit can be played on the radio? So they hire these douches to play songs that would make people more likely to have sex and party, thus making them ignore the extermination of other good musicians?
Or you could say, that it just fucking sucks.
I recently watched the Josie and the Pussycats movie for the first time (not by choice, I have a 10-year-old daughter). The plot revolves around an evil record company executive who records subliminal messages under the tracks of popular music telling the listener what trends to follow, including what music to listen to.
When I contemplate how many millions of people seem to love this drivel I can’t help but wonder if the writers of that movie were onto something.
“There it is, yeah, that”™s the sweet spot. Blow your smoke, I”™m gonna breathe it in, girl.”
“You have found the optimum erogenous zone. Pass some gas, I”™m gonna breathe it in, girl.”
It is called a queef. See also, vart.
Like the American visiting the Japanese golf course yelled when his tee shot went in the cup . . .’Wrong hole!’
(There is a great joke behind that punch line–google it.)
Mike W
I remember when Sarah Buxton was a bit of a critical darling early in her career when she was trying to launch her solo career. Guess she needed to pay the bills or something, cause talk about not even trying anymore…
I’ve seen it said a few times about her involvement in these songs that she is better than this. Maybe she’s not. Women can be hacks just as much as men.
Tyler Hubbard on “good good”: “It”™s just all over the album, it”™s fun, it”™s words that nobody”™s ever said before.”
Right, sure. And you and Brian are the greatest poets since Yeats.
Great piece, Trig. 😀 Innuendo is nothing new in popular music, but for some reason, this stuff seems way more incoherent and juvenile than ever. Or maybe the words are all the more glaring when the music itself has so little to offer…
Its also “Backseat, Jeep Jeep..”, “Let me step inside your dream.”, “Put a little shine on the vinyl seat.”, and “Float your trouble like a champagne bubble.”
According to every single lyrics site on the internet, you are correct about “vinyl seat” vs. “bottle seat”, and incorrect about the other three lines.
As a Christian (and Presbyterian seminary student!), I appreciate that you are calling them out as “professing Christians.” Of course, who isn’t in the South? This is sad and shameful, but FGL scarcely knows the meaning of shame.
We are a long way from the genuine faith of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and George Jones — and in Marty Stuart’s latest album. They were not perfect, but that’s not what faith is about…otherwise, we wouldn’t need faith.
It’s turtles all the way down the line, baby!
So the famous ‘Trigger’ isn’t even going to acknowledge my lyric corrections now lol
Actually dude, I’m actively working to try to confirm these lyrics because there are multiple “translations” of them and finding the official lyrics has proven to be difficult. So it took me a bit to moderate your comments. Even with an act like Florida Georgia Line, I don’t want to misrepresent their work, that does me no good. Multiple places have the lyric as “G G,” but I will take your word and just in case I have removed that specific line.
Its hard to find the original lyrics when 3 year old toddlers high on smack wrote this entire album. Not surprising, considering that it IS Florida Georgia Line. And how these inbred fucktards are nominated for awards is beyond me. If people like them, then more power to them. I will be listening to Reckless Kelly instead.
Three of your four “corrections” are incorrect according to every single lyrics site on the internet.
I have obtained an official copy of the lyrics, checked all references, made any necessary changes.
I hope you didn’t have to pay for that. Expense aside, the fact that someone purchased the lyrics might encourage the writers to churn out more songs like these………
Trigger, don’t waste your time. The lyrics (at best) are nothing more than mindless incoherent drivel. Hell, I am black and its offensive that these two idiots are attempting to use Ebonics & effectively mangling, butchering and helping to destroy the English language. You will be giving yourself a splitting headache attempting to decipher their kindergarten gibberish, brother.
I respect that. As you may have presumed, I am a die hard Florida Georgia Line fan lol. I read your articles because I respect your opinion and how you have formulated them. This is my first time writing on here and I just wanna say briefly, I know you people on this feed wouldn’t understand this, but my FGL CD’s sit right next to my George Strait CD’s. I have the upmost respect for pure country music and there are people like myself who can reconcile the two worlds very easily. I make no attempt to compare the two and I want you all to know that there are people who enjoy the fruits of both.
Since correcting folks seems to be your bag, you will probably be interested to know that the word you want to use is actually UTMOST, not upmost.
The use of “myself” instead of “me” rubbed me the wrong way, but I took the high ground…
😉
It doesn’t even sound like good innuendo. Miranda Lambert’s “Fine Tune” I thought was pretty clever when it comes to innuendo.
Bill Goodman
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the one band that makes Nickelback sound good.
JadeAlixandra
I had some hope for them after Dirt came out. Had meaning to it, and didn’t sound that bad. Then they do this -_-
Honestly, I think FGL should do a cover of willie and Waylon’s I can get off on you. That song was pretty dirty and ahead of its time depending on how you interpret it.
Adam Lawson (Singer/Songwriter)
FGL makes me want to lobotomize myself with a rusty, hot soldering iron!
I work in a record store and I do my best to try to inform people of all of the great music in the world. Tragically, Shit sells!
To quote one of my favorite songwriters in modern music and a huge influence of mine:
“There are plenty of good burger joints in Nashville. No one is making you go to McDonalds.”
Final thought, FGL is the pink slime equivalent of modern radio “country” and that shit is bad for you.
That quote was from Jason Isbell.
I forgot to put that.
‘Warm My Weiner’, by Bo Carter.
(Since we are all posting naughty songs, right?)
Any chance this website changes names from “Saving Country Music” to “Hating Florida Georgia Line”?
We don’t hate them as individuals or as human beings. We hate their music. I’m in agreement with Trigger when he said they’re an embarrassment to country music. When you are writing overtly sexual songs for yourself and Jason Aldean, not to mention dumbing down people in the process…people tend to have an issue with that. Especially the folks who appreciate well written, quality country music. Thank God Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Stoney LaRue, Wade Bowen & others have released great country music this year.
No. It would just have to be changed again in a couple of years when trends change and people are embarrassed to admit that they were fans.
My standing theory this whole time has been that these guys are actually pretty clever and were just on a mission to hop on the ensuing trainwreck that we know as pop country. I thought they did this knowing full and well that their lyrics are absurd, the music is in no way the “evolution” of country, and that they would simply just pretend “Hey this is us, we are doing our own thing!” I
I still stand by my theory, but sometimes I am just not so sure.. some lyrical quips are so bad that they could only come from someone who has genuinely poor taste.
The entire album, with the exception of the song “Dirt”, is in poor taste. It makes me wonder if they ever graduated high school, let alone attend college.
They’re trying to ruin innuendo, aren’t they?
Discovering sexy, secret talk in old blues (hello, “Ambulance Man”!) is a revelation, especially if you’re young, and you have picked up the weirdly permiating notion that sexy was invented in 1970. At least in media it was.
Obvious, too clever by half innuendo in gross, shiny country pop songs is pointless. Say it, or don’t.
I’m thinking they should have teamed up with Steven Tyler on Bull Moose Jackson’s “Big Ten Inch Record” last night.
I think all the innuendo is something they come up with naturally when they sit around with guys like Brantley Gilbert and jerk off together.
Schooley
I’m a fan of profanity, and sometimes puerile obscenity can be amusing. I own Blowfly albums, for chrissakes. But there is something about when it is forced on you from above by corporate interests that makes it insulting.
It’s like when they have to cram fart jokes into a new animated kids movie, or when a corporate fast food outlet has some advertising campaign were they skirt around almost dropping an f-bomb to be “edgy”.
When it comes from below it can be subversive, but when it is coming from a multi-million dollar corporate entity, it just feels like it is intentionally insulting your intelligence even if it is well-done. And these are not well-done.
RodRod
I just assumed that the innuendos were about them having sex with each other.
The “pink umbrella” lyric is just a filler lyric. Actually the sink part is probably the filler to make the drink line work in the song. It’s obviously not some sexual innuendo. And he clearly says “a” and not “the” pink umbrella. Also Harley is his dog. You guys are thinking too much into this simple song. P.S. Yes this is dude bro and about as country as Taylor Swift.
edjohns
Okay, so it’s “wrong” for FGL to sing about this stuff, but Kacey Musgraves can talk about homosexuality and smoking a joint? I bet if this was a Gates song NO one would have a problem with it. And obviously the people who wrote this have as dirty of a mind as FGL and everyone else who uderstood this. Harley is Tylers dog, not his penis. They have fun with their music just like everyone else does.
Y’all are idiots if you believe a word that this damn website says about FGL! You have no idea how much their music has and is helping me through the hard time that I’m having. And for any of you so called fans are giving this good comments. Shame on you, because you sure as hell aren’t an FGL fan! And if you don’t like their music then turn it off! Don’t go and freaking criticize it!
I agree to a point. The McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle got me through my second divorce.
April 7, 2015 @ 6:10 pm
Though I do not currently agree with some of the judgement about the music produced by the band Flirida Georgia Line being bad music, I do agree that the music does include many sexual innuendos (much to my disliking) and does not uphold their professed Christian morality/morals. Though they have gone to far on many accounts of sexual inuendo laiden lyrics, I still believe them to be good musicians and generally enjoyable people with generally good morals and Christian values
Bylle Breaux
This is hilarious! ?
Shella Fronzaglio
Pearl Necklace was a crossover. “She can put her shoes under my bed anytime” wasn’t about storage. “Crackers in my bed” etc, etc, etc. But I guess Elvis & Jerry Lee Lewis liking 12 & 14 year old girls was ok as they also did more wholesome music…. It was why Tom Parker got away with taking money for so long as he was hushing up some of Elvis’ skirt chasing with the younger ones. He had made him wait until Priscilla was of age. R Kelly didn’t start that people. I’d much rather the music push the envelop than the musician!!
What someone did 60 years ago doesn’t change the fact that FGL stink.
This website sucks total ass, I’ve never actually understood why people wanna talk shit for a living. Fuck this website, it is most definitely not “saving country music” by any means. Nobody gives a fuck about any of this trash on this website. Lol
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Sheffield Friends of the Earth
Letter to Supporters & Gill Furniss MP meeting update - December 2020
To start; an announcement - with a special shout out to FoE supporters living in the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough constituency. We finally hope to meet with Gill Furniss MP on Wednesday this week (9th December) from 6-7pm. Everyone is welcome– as part of the session we are planning on asking her about Labour’s attention to climate policy and the influence she can bring to action by local councils and the region – but local constituents might be particularly interested in what Gill has to say. It will be on Zoom, of course, so if you would like to attend (just observe or ask a question) please get in touch with me at admin@sheffieldfoe.co.uk and I can send on the link.
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Sharing the positives
Despite the way that so much in our lives has come grinding to a halt this year, there has been a lot of energy shown on the environmental front. There are many good news stories of promising developments, some of which we highlight on our Twitter and Facebook pages – from a startup in Spain that has developed a way of turning waste paper into construction boards to a liquid air energy storage facility in Manchester. We have also pointed followers to some of the best nature books of 2020 for when you have time to relax! Do consider following us on social media if you would like to keep up to date.
National & international round up
There are many very serious issues to be addressed of course and lots of grand statements have been made over the past month about action on climate change. While it is a relief to see that no-one is giving time to the views of climate change deniers, or even climate change sceptics nowadays, it is widely agreed that we need to move further and faster.
Next week should see the latest report from the UK’s Committee on Climate Change which should be pushing the agenda forward and the PM did announced a Ten Point Plan recently. Unfortunately, neither this plan nor the spending review announced by the Chancellor do enough to ensure the UK plays its part in tackling climate change. Friends of the Earth’s analysis sets out where the PM could and should have done better. Last week Boris Johnson additionally announced targets designed to significantly reduce the UK’s emissions but these also fell short of what is needed, particularly given the lack of specific action to meet even these targets. The Labour party are stepping more seriously into the debate fortunately and have published their own paper on a Green Recovery which goes some way to setting out a greener, fairer agenda
We should (and do!) welcome the attention being paid to the climate crisis but must continue to push for action to match the rhetoric. Much of the current activity is linked to the UK hosting COP26 the major international climate change forum (think ‘The Paris Agreement’) which was due to meet in Glasgow last month. It was of course cancelled due to the pandemic but it should (will!) go ahead next November. In the absence of the actual conference this year there is about to be an online climate ambition summit – see this short video
In a different (but related) issue, the Government published proposals to radically reform land use planning in England and we believe these changes are a serious threat to the environment and local democracy. Local community groups are campaigning hard in Owlthorpe, Loxley and Bradway against proposals which are damaging under current planning rules and this is set to get worse. The initial consultation has closed but the campaign continues. It would be great if you are able to contact your local Councillors to ask them to join hundreds of others and sign an open online letter to the Government objecting to the plans.
Local and regional roundup
Looking locally, Sheffield City Council will be publishing a climate action plan in January – a much belated follow up to the declaration of a climate emergency in February 2019. We also want them to consider the implications for biodiversity, an issue which has been increasingly highlighted this year and we intend in the new year to launch a petition asking them to declare an ecological emergency. We hope to be working with other organisations on this, including Sheffield Green Parents, whose own petition can be signed here.
Sheffield City Region has also been responding to lobbying by ourselves and our partners in Sheffield Climate Alliance, particularly GND UK, in relation to developing better economic plans for the region which reflect the need for a step change in the way we address the issue of the climate crisis. The outline of his response to us was reported by the Star last week, but you won’t be surprised to know that we are following up with him!
One of the ways in which the tiers of local government are working together on this is through transport planning. The South Yorkshire wide ‘Better Buses’ campaign is an active campaigner and some of their concerns are reflected in Sheffield City Council’s ‘Connecting Sheffield’ strategy whose intention is ‘to transform the transport infrastructure that people use to get around the city as part of their everyday lives’ For much more detail and a chance to have a say on the proposals, see the Connecting Sheffield website.
Sheffield Friends of the Earth plans
We are continuing to meet online monthly (next one Monday 21st December 7pm – Zoom link will be sent out just before then) and are busy working behind the scenes with our partner environmental organisations in Sheffield, mostly through Sheffield Climate Alliance, to lobby for change through better measures to tackle the environmental issues that confront us. We have found it frustrating not to be able to be out and about more but are in discussions about how we can work on some tree planting schemes in the new year – more details to follow in January (we hope!)
Meanwhile – we send you our very best wishes for as festive a season as is allowed and look forward to seeing you in 2021 (or on the 21st December if you can make it!) and if there’s anything you’d like to ask, comment on or draw to our attention to, please email us at admin@sheffieldfoe.co.uk
Lindy Stone
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On Saturday 30 November Richard and Ian from Sheffield Friends of the Earth planted trees with Green City Heritage to support Friends of the Earth's campaign to double tree cover in the UK. Picture Source: Richard Souter
It Asda Be Bad For Hillsborough
Asda are planning to build a new supermarket on the site of the Sheffield Wednesday training ground at Middlewood Road, Hillsborough. The area is already plagued with traffic problems and the new development, if built could destroy the local shopping area and undermine the existing five supermarkets. A public meeting was held on Friday 7th February in Hillsborough with local residents to create an action group to stop this development. The residents at the meeting made the following points: The land is actually owned by the Council and not Sheffield Wednesday. The loading bay will be situated next to housing at Winn Gardens. Gilders Car Showroom may be shutting down soon. If ASDA build a store on the training ground this would be an ideal location for an ASDA petrol station. It was suggested that 463 car parking spaces would be provided. Residents were not sure of store opening times and delivery times for large lorries. At some point in the future a road may be built linking the site
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15th May 2018 by solarmovie
The Three Musketeers is the most famous novels of Alexandre Dumas Sr., originally published in serial in the newspaper Le Siècle from March to July 1844 , then published in volume in 1844 by Baudry Editions and reissued in 1846 at JB Fellens and LP Dufour with illustrations of Vivant Beaucé . It is the first part of the novelist trilogy called “Musketeers”, to which he gives his name, followed by Twenty years later ( 1845 ) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne ( 1847 ).
The novel tells the adventures of an impecunious Gascon of 18, d’Artagnan , who came to Paris to make a career in the body of the musketeers . He became friends with Athos , Porthos and Aramis , Musketeers of King Louis XIII . These four men will oppose the prime minister, Cardinal Richelieu and his agents, including the Count of Rochefort and the beautiful and mysterious Milady de Winter , to save the honor of the Queen of France Anne of Austria .
With his many fights and his romantic twists, The Three Musketeers is the typical example of the cape and sword novel and the success of the novel was such that Dumas adapted himself to the theater, and took over the four hero in the sequel of the trilogy. It has been the subject of many adaptations to film and television.
I. The Arrival in Paris
The first Monday of April 1625 , the village of Meung sees the young d’Artagnan , Cadet of Gascony en route to Paris to enter the company of the musketeers of King Louis XIII , to be humiliated by two unknown, which he ignores that they are agents of the Cardinal de Richelieu : Count de Rochefort and Milady de Winter . Rochefort steals the letter of recommendation written by his father for Mr. de Tréville, captain of the king’s musketeers. In Paris d’Artagnan still presents himself to M. de Treville, who can not promise him a place in his company. Leaving the hotel, while trying to catch up with Rochefort, D’Artagnan provokes, despite himself, the three musketeers in a duel, striking Athos ‘ s injured shoulder , taking his feet in the cloak of Porthos and picking up a compromising handkerchief from Aramis .
Duels are forbidden by Cardinal Richelieu. Too happy to catch the king’s musketeers in default, the cardinal’s guards intervened as d’Artagnan prepared to cross the iron. The musketeers refuse to surrender and d’Artagnan then ranks on the side of his former adversaries to lend a hand. After a tough fight in which the guards of the Cardinal are defeated, the four young people swear friendship. Received by Louis XIII, D’Artagnan is offered 40 pistoles from the king’s hand; he enters as a cadet in the care of M. des Essarts.
II. Ferrets of the Queen
The young man falls in love with the wife of his owner, Constance Bonacieux , the maid of Queen Anne of Austria , kidnapped by Rochefort . The young woman, rescued by D’Artagnan, reveals that Richelieu sought to compromise the queen revealing the friendly relationship that it maintains with the Duke of Buckingham , favorite of King Charles I st of England . The queen, through Constance, sends d’Artagnan to London to recover the ferretswhich she imprudently offered to the Duke. Indeed, pushed by the cardinal, the king asked the queen to appear with these studs at the next Bal des Échevins. To be certain that the queen will not be able to obey, Richelieu instructed Milady de Winter to steal two of the ferrets that are in Buckingham’s possession. D’Artagnan leaves for Englandwith his companions and their lackeys. He leaves Porthos on the road, grappling with a drunkard, Aramis, wounded in the arm, and finally Athos, accused of being a counterfeiter. He finally rejoins England with a pass stolen from Count de Wardes (the lover of Milady). He sees the Duke of Buckingham agreeing to give him the studs and orders his personal jeweler to make two more ferrets to replace those stolen by Milady. D’Artagnan returns to Paris just in time to save the queen.
III. The headquarters of La Rochelle
Constance disappears, kidnapped by order of Richelieu who made sure of the neutrality of her husband. D’Artagnan goes in search of his friends before going to look for him. He finds Porthos ankle injury and his pride, Aramis ready to take orders (what it deters through a letter from M me Chevreuse ) and finally Athos still locked in a cellar . They return to Paris where M. de Tréville teaches them that they must prepare to join the headquarters of La Rochelle. M. de Treville announced to D’Artagnan that the King would grant him a place among the musketeers after the siege. During his preparations, d’Artagnan met Milady and his brother-in-law, Lord de Winter, whom he provoked into a duel. Winner, d’Artagnan gives thanks to Lord de Winter, and in return he gets an interview with Milady, whom he is going to court. D’Artagnan gets his favors and discovers that his shoulder is branded with a fleur-de-lis , an infamous sign for him as a thief. Furious at being unmasked, Milady twice attempted to assassinate d’Artagnan.
In La Rochelle, Athos, Porthos and Aramis meet the cardinal at nightfall and agree to escort him to an inn. Intrigued, the musketeers linger and discover that he expects Milady. He charged her to kill the Duke of Buckingham, and in exchange he would give him a blank check to assassinate D’Artagnan without risking the Bastille. Athos recognizes in Milady his ex-wife, Anne de Breuil, and steals the white-seign.
IV. The End of Milady
To escape the surveillance of the Cardinal’s agents, the musketeers attempt a heroic action by going to defend an advanced bastion where they find themselves alone under the fire of the enemy with Grimaud, one of their lackeys; Once the Gascon is informed of the danger he runs, they decide to write to Lord de Winter to reveal the truth about Milady. Then they will ask the Queen, through M me Chevreuse where Constance Bonacieux is. Their plans thus arrested in the greatest secrecy, the musketeers leave the bastion and return to the camp where they are welcomed as heroes.
Back in England, Milady is held captive by her brother-in-law. She seduces her jailer, John Felton , convinces him to murder the Duke of Buckingham, and returns to France . There, she takes refuge in the convent of the Carmelites of Bethune, where Constance also hides. Discovering the bonds between the young woman and D’Artagnan, she kills him by poisoning him at the very moment when D’Artagnan arrives with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Aided by Lord de Winter and the executioner of Lille – brother of a former victim of Milady – the musketeers seize the murderer in Armentièresand make him a mock trial. The verdict is unanimous: guilty, she deserves the death penalty and she is beheaded. The musketeers return to Paris, where d’Artagnan is promoted lieutenant of the musketeers by the cardinal with whom he is reconciled. He fights a duel with Rochefort and also ends up being reconciled with him. Athos left the company of musketeers to live in his native campaign, Porthos, to marry his procurator widow, and Aramis to become a priest among the lazarists .
The historical context of the Three Musketeers is closely related to the literary context: the Memoirs of the Duke of La Rochefoucauld (first part: 1624-1642) are at the source of the case of the stalls directed by Alexandre Dumas. The author, a historian who called himself a “whistle-blower,” had worked assiduously with the Classical Memorialists, without whom it would be futile to attempt to clarify the historical context of Alexandre Dumas’s “historical” novels.
In 1625, Louis XIII reigns over France with his prime minister, Cardinal de Richelieu . His wife is Queen Anne of Austria . Too inexperienced to manage state affairs, the king has no choice but to rely on his prime minister, Cardinal Richelieu, whose political and strategic genius ensures the cohesion and security of the kingdom.
Dumas highlights the feeling of distrust and the clash of influence that constantly occupy both men. In the novel, they clash secretly through their personal guard. Dumas also exploited the hostility known between the queen and the cardinal to make it one of the mainsprings of the case of the ferrets.
The Cardinal Richelieu : insisting on the private side of the character as much as his public side, detailing its ability to weave intrigues to achieve his personal, but especially by making him antagonist imbued hero chivalrous values Dumas helped develop the black legend of a Machiavellian and devious autocrat.
Louis XIII : Dumas can not attach himself to this character whose qualities, sobriety, piety, chastity were not to seduce this amateur of good food and women. The king appears as a weak husband (and jealous), in the shadow of his minister. He admires, however, the heroism of the musketeers, which makes him very indulgent towards them. Moreover, he is not unhappy to let them take care of the cardinal’s pride by thrashing his guards.
The Duke of Buckingham : Alexander Dumas assumes the lover of the Queen of France Anne of Austria, and gives him the build of a romantic character, suffering from an impossible love.
Queen Anne of Austria : Dumas kept the historical figure the victim of a political marriage, under the harassment of the cardinal. It is about this period of the life of the queen where, having failed to give an heir to Louis XIII, she is going through a difficult period in her marriage. Dumas idealizes her beauty, her sense of honor, while lending her love feelings that make her both more touching and more human. Here she plays the role of the Queen of Chivalry, capable of inspiring heroic exploits to the brave.
M. de Treville, captain of the King’s Musketeers, Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Count of Treville ;
M me Chevreuse ;
D’Artagnan: Charles de Batz of Castelmore d’Artagnan was thirteen years old in 1625, when Dumas placed the beginning of the novel. He would have been 15 years old at the time of the siege of La Rochelle , which seems hardly credible. Nevertheless his maternal uncle, Jean de Montesquiou d’Artagnan , teaches at the French Guards and appreciated the king, had been killed during the siege of La Rochelle in 1628. Charles de Batz having borrowed from the family of his mother the name of Artagnan for to serve in the Musketeers, it is possible that Dumas used the confusion to expand the biography of his hero. Confusion still maintained by the fact that d’Artagnan finished marshal of France in the Viscount of Bragelonne, unlike Charles de Batz who died in 1673 at the seat of Maastricht , but as his cousin Pierre de Montesquiou d’Artagnan .
Athos: Armand de Sillègue of Athos d’Autevielle who takes his name from the village of Athos-Aspis ;
Porthos: Isaac de Portau born in Pau ;
Aramis : based on Henri d’Aramitz , who was cousin of the Earl of Tréville also Béarnais;
The guards of the Cardinal;
The musketeers of the king;
John Felton , the murderer of Buckingham.
Constance Bonacieux, wife of the bourgeois Bonacieux, the queen’s maid, courted by d’Artagnan; character of a young bourgeois borrowed from the theater;
Main article: Constance Bonacieux .
Rochefort, gentleman, agent of the cardinal;
Main article: Comte de Rochefort .
M. Bonacieux, a stereotype of the petty bourgeois who is greedy for profit, cowardly and jealous;
Milady (nee Anne de Breuil, also called Milady de Clarick and Milady de Winter), former wife of Athos, widow of the former Lord de Winter; she is the archetype of the femme fatale .
Main article: Milady de Winter .
Lord de Winter, brother-in-law of Milady; Gentleman’s character.
Planchet: valet D’Artagnan, resource man;
Main article: Planchet .
Carabiner: valet de Porthos, whose greed he shares;
Bazin, valet of Aramis, whom he tries in vain to incite to enter into religion;
Grimaud, the valet of Athos, is distinguished by his taciturnity;
Kitty: maid of Milady, then M me Chevreuse love of D’Artagnan;
Jussac: officer of the guards of the cardinal: d’Artagnan wounds him in a duel during the battle which seals his friendship with Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
Sources of the novel
Headband from the newspaper Le Siècle dated March 14, 1844 announcing the beginning of the series to its readers.
The hero of the Three Musketeers is inspired by the historical figure of Charles de Batz d’Artagnan Castelmore regiment of Cadets de Gascogne of Louis XIII . His name is mentioned in the memoirs and correspondences of the time, notably at Madame de Sévigné’s . Dumas had as sources of M. d’Artagnan’s Memoirsof Gatien de Sandras Courtilz written in 1700 , 27 years after the death of D’Artagnan 2 . Dumas draws a lot of details, which he rewrites in a very personal style. So this passage of Courtilz
“My parents were so poor that they could give me a bidet of twenty-two francs, with ten crowns in my pocket, to make my trip. But if they did not give me much money, they gave me as a reward a good deal of advice. “
– Memoirs of M. d’Artagnan , Chapter I st
… becomes under the pen of Dumas:
“Such a beast was worth at least twenty pounds: it is true that the words of which the present had been accompanied were priceless. “
– The Three Musketeers , Chapter I st
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The project is originally an idea of Auguste Maquet , with whom Dumas collaborates in the writing of the novel 3 .
The memories of that time give him a windfall of intrigue, including the episode of the studs of the queen as for example La Rochefoucauld says in the first chapter of his memoirs 4 .
The original title was Athos, Porthos and Aramis , but on a proposal by Desnoyers, in charge of the soap opera in the Century (according to which this title evoked readers the three Parques ), to adopt The Three Musketeers , Dumas accepted this last title noting that its absurdity (as the heroes are four in number) contribute to the success of the work 5 .
The success of the novel was such that Dumas himself adapted it for the theater, and two other novels followed him, repeating the four main heroes to form the trilogy of the musketeers. This is Twenty years later , published in 1845 , and The Vicomte de Bragelonne released from 1847 to 1850 .
Life of the novel
The novel also enjoyed great success outside France and was translated into English in three different versions in 1846 . That of William Barrow still authoritative 6 .
The Three Musketeers inspired rapidly number of authors who invented them suites, new episodes, or pastichèrent the more or less verve 7 . A website has identified more than one hundred and eight . Even during Dumas’ lifetime, dramatic authors and novelists seized the musketeers. In 1845, the comedy Porthos in search of an equipment of Anicet Bourgeois and Dumanoir staged an episode of Twenty years after 9 . In 1858 appeared Les Amours de D’Artagnan , by Auguste Blanquet, who took advantage of the hiatus of twenty years between The Three Musketeers andTwenty years later to imagine the continuation of the adventures of D’Artagnan under the Fronde(1648-1653) 10 . With the death of Dumas, Albert Maurin tried to capitalize on the popularity of the still intact Gascon The True Memoirs of D’Artagnan (1874) fictionalized version banal memories Courtilz of Sandras 11 .
The infatuation with The Three Musketeers continues more than a century after the publication of Dumas’ novel, with for example the D’Artagnan in love with Roger Nimier 12 , adapted in 1970 for television by Yannick Andrei, or The Return of the Three Musketeers of a certain Nicolas Harin in 1997 13 . Recently, Martin Winckler has written a novel, Les Trois Médecins (2006), whose plot is traced back to that of Dumas’ novel and Gérard Delteil published Speculator ( 2010).), a modern remake in the form of a thriller, in which the musketeers have become agents of a security society and evolve in the world of finance. Delteil also meant it justice Milady and explains himself by criticizing the sexism of the Dumas novel in an afterword 14 .
If d’Artagnan proves to be the favorite of these adaptations, the other characters of the novel have also inspired several authors: in 1886, the Theater L’Ambigu gave The Son of Porthos , whose action takes place in the period before the revocation of the edict of Nantes and features the young and fiery Joel Breton, son of Porthos, faced with Machiavellian cunning Aramis, the only survivor musketeer 15 . In Milady, my love (1986), the author, Yak Rivais, embarrassed by some aspects of the novel become repugnant to modern sensibilities, for example the episode of Milady’s execution, rewrote the story with more than16 .
With The Three Musketeers , Dumas and Maquet managed to achieve the paradox of popularizing the historical novel by making it a cape and sword novel and giving the novel of action its nobility by drawing on history. He had created a new positive hero, the impecunious Gascon, still close to the picaro , but noble and heroic, fine and chivalrous blade while remaining human in his weaknesses: the irascibility of D’Artagnan, the vanity of Porthos, ambivalence from Aramis torn between Eros and Agapo, the melancholy and alcoholism of Athos prevent the musketeers from being “perfect” heroes as Raoul de Bragelonne will be, but these weaknesses are their literary strength. The young man, these matamores , Capitan and other Captain Fracasse of the Commedia dell’arte and the comic theater in general ( Pistol or Parolles at Shakespeare ) and the hero of the novels of chivalry. He began his career under the comical features of a young Don Quixote , and in a few chapters metamorphoses into a new Achilles . This is mid-comic character mid-heroic than found in Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Gautier (1863), or Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (1897).
He had also popularized a type of narrative where duels, political intrigue, overlapping, abductions, dramatic and comical passages alternate. The formula will make the fortune of the novels-feuilletons where will excel authors like Paul Féval ( Le Bossu , 1857) or Michel Zévaco ( Pardaillan , 1905-1918). Paul Féval Jr. will also make a specialty of exploiting the rich veins invented by his predecessors with titles like D’Artagnan against Cyrano de Bergerac , D’Artagnan and Cyrano reconciled , or The Son of D’Artagnan .
But the posterity of the Three Musketeers , the “One for all! All for one ! “- apocryphal motto – 17 goes far beyond the scope of literature. For André Roussin , speaking to the members of the French Academy in 1980, it is “the myth of friendship between men who, under the double seal of loyalty and courage, become invincible” , and he adds”It’s a big myth for the youth of a country. In the time of the underground, we have seen how much suffering and sacrifices he has led thousands of young people, who have died sometimes in atrocious ways, for not having given away the names of their network mates. Many of them had perhaps read at twelve The Three Musketeers and had retained this reading, the sense of the sacred brotherhood ” 18 . And the academician then evokes the quartet of French tennis of the 1920s, Henri Cochet , Jacques Brugnon , Rene Lacoste and Jean Borotrawho, by his youth, embodies the friendship between his members and his apparent invincibility, an ideal so close to the heroes of Dumas that they are nicknamed The Four Musketeers .
In 1974, a major distributor, Intermarché , will also want to take advantage of this positive image by choosing a logo where appear the musketeers, supposed to embody “equality and the fight led by the sign for the defense of purchasing power. In war against the expensive life … ” 19 .
Cinematographic adaptations
1903 : The Musketeers of the Queen , silent film by Georges Méliès
1909 : The Three Musketeers ( I tre moschettieri ), Italian silent film by Mario Caserini
1912 : The Three Musketeers , French silent film by André Calmettes and Henri Pouctal
1921 : The Three Musketeers , French silent film in 12 episodes by Henri Diamant-Berger
1921 : The Three Musketeers ( The Three Musketeers), an American silent film by Fred Niblo with Douglas Fairbanks
1923 : The Narrow Musketeer , Max Linder’s French silent film ( parody )
1932 : The Three Musketeers , Henri Diamant-Berger’s French film in two epochs
1933 : The Three Musketeers ( The Three Musketeers ), an American film by Colbert Clark and Armand Schaefer
1935 : The Three Musketeers ( The Three Musketeers ), an American film by Rowland V. Lee
1939 : The Three Musicians ( The Three Musketeers or The Singing Musketeer ), American musical film by Allan Dwan with Don Ameche (D’Artagnan)
1941 : The Three Musketeers ( Al-Foursan al-Thalâth ), Egyptian film of Togo Mizrahi
1942 : The Three Musketeers , Miguel M. Delgado’s Mexican film .
1948 : The Three Musketeers ( The Three Musketeers ), American film of George Sidney with Gene Kelly (D’Artagnan), Lana Turner (Milady de Winter), June Allyson (Constance Bonacieux), Vincent Price (Cardinal Richelieu), Van Heflin (Athos), Keenan Wynn (Planchet), John Sutton (Duke of Buckingham), Gig Young (Porthos), Robert Coote (Aramis), Angela Lansbury (Anne of Austria), Frank Morgan (Louis XIII), Reginald Owen(Mr. de Tréville) and Ian Keith (the count of Rochefort)
1953 : The Three Musketeers , André Hunebelle’s French film with Georges Marchal (D’Artagnan), Bourvil (Planchet), Danielle Godet (Constance Bonacieux), Georges Chamarat (Mr. Bonacieux), Yvonne Sanson (Milady de Winter), Gino Cervi (Porthos), Jean Martinelli (Athos), Jacques François (Aramis), Louis Arbessier (Louis XIII), Renaud Mary (Cardinal Richelieu),
1961 : The Three Musketeers , Bernard Borderie’s French film in two epochs with Gérard Barray (D’Artagnan), Mylène Demongeot (Milady de Winter), Georges Descrières (Athos), Bernard Woringer (Porthos), Jacques Toja(Aramis), Daniel Sorano (Cardinal de Richelieu) and Guy Delorme (Count of Rochefort)
1973 : The Rangers defy the karatekas ( Tutti per uno … boot per tutti ), Bruno Corbucci’s Italian film : very fanciful adaptation that transposes the characters into the world of the spaghetti western
1973 – 1974 : The Three Musketeers ( The Three Musketeers ) and The Four Musketeers ( The Revenge of Milady ), American film in two parts of Richard Lester with Michael York (D’Artagnan), Oliver Reed (Athos), Richard Chamberlain (Aramis), Frank Finlay (Porthos), Faye Dunaway (Milady), Raquel Welch (Constance Bonacieux), Geraldine Chaplin (Anne of Austria), Jean-Pierre Cassel (Louis XIII), Christopher Lee (Rochefort),Charlton Heston(Richelieu) – A third installment was made in 1989 : The Return of the Musketeers , freely adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas Twenty years later
1974 – 1975 : Four Charlottes Musketeers and Charlots madness: Four of us Cardinal! , French film in two parts by André Hunebelle (parody)
1989 : The Return of the Musketeers Richard Lester’s Franco-Anglo-Spanish film with Michael York (d’Artagnan), Oliver Reed (Athos), Frank Finlay (Porthos), Richard Chamberlain (Aramis), C. Thomas Howell (Raoul, Viscount de Bragelonne), Kim Cattrall (Justine De Winter), Geraldine Chaplin ( Anne of Austria, Queen of France ), Philippe Noiret (Cardinal Mazarin), Jean-Pierre Cassel (Cyrano de Bergerac), Christopher Lee (Rochefort), Roy Kinnear (Planchet)
1993 : The Three Musketeers ( The Three Musketeers ), American film of Stephen Herek with Chris O’Donnell (D’Artagnan), Kiefer Sutherland (Athos), Oliver Platt (Porthos), Charlie Sheen (Aramis), Tim Curry (Cardinal de Richelieu) Rebecca De Mornay (Milady de Winter), Gabrielle Anwar (Anne of Austria), Hugh O’Conor (Louis XIII), Julie Delpy (Constance Bonacieux)
1994 : The Daughter of D’Artagnan , French film by Bertrand Tavernier with Sophie Marceau , Philippe Noiret and Claude Rich (takes the characters from the novel, but is not adapted from a novel by Dumas).
2001 : D’Artagnan ( The Musketeer ), an American film by Peter Hyams with Justin Chambers , Tim Roth and Catherine Deneuve (takes the characters from the novel in a different version of the original story).
2011 : The Three Musketeers ( The Three Musketeers ), in 3D , the film Anglo – Franco – German of Paul WS Anderson with Logan Lerman (D’Artagnan), Matthew Macfadyen (Athos), Ray Stevenson (Porthos), Luke Evans(Aramis) , Milla Jovovich (Milady), Gabriella Wilde (Constance), Mads Mikkelsen (Rochefort), Christoph Waltz (Richelieu), Orlando Bloom (Buckingham), Juno Temple (Anne of Austria),Freddie Fox (Louis XIII).
Adaptations for television
1959 : The Three Musketeers of Claude Barma , televised drama with Jean-Paul Belmondo in the role of D’Artagnan. Broadcast live on Christmas Day 1959
1969 : D’Artagnan , Claude Barma, soap opera with Dominique Paturel (D’Artagnan)
1978 : D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers ( Д’Артаньян и три мушкетёра ), Russian telefilm by Georgy Youngvald-Khilkevich with Mikhail Boyarsky (D’Artagnan), Veniamin Smekhov (Athos), Valentin Smirnitsky(Porthos), Igor Starygin (Aramis ), Margarita Terekhova (Milady de Winter), Alisa Freindlich (Anne of Austria), Oleg Tabakov (Louis XIII), Alexander Trofimov (Cardinal Richelieu)
2005 : D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers of Pierre Aknine with Vincent Elbaz (D’Artagnan), Emmanuelle Béart (Milady) and Tchéky Karyo (Richelieu).
2005 : Milady of Josée Dayan with Arielle Dombasle (Milady), Martin Lamotte (Richelieu) and Florent Pagny (D’Artagnan). Adaptation that follows the adventures of the novel, but according to Milady’s point of view
2005 : Young Blades , American television series
2014 : The Musketeers of Adrian Hodges (en) with Tom Burke (Athos), Santiago Cabrera (Aramis), Peter Capaldi (Cardinal Richelieu), Howard Charles (Porthos), Alexandra Dowling (Anne of Austria), Ryan Gage (Louis XIII), Tamla Kari (Constance Bonacieux), Maimie McCoy (Milady), Luke Pasqualino (D’Artagnan), Hugo Speer (Captain of Tréville) and Marc Warren (the Count of Rochefort).
2014 : The Three Musketeers (2014 TV series) (en) , television series South Korean with Jung Yong-hwa and Yang Dong-geun .
Adaptations in cartoons and animated films
1952 : Tom and Jerry’s mini-series episode 65 The Two Musketeers
1973 : D’Artagnan the Intrepid (animated feature film directed by John Halas ).
1983 : The Three Musketeers (animation series)
1993 : Albert the fifth musketeer (animation series)
1987 : Under the sign of the Musketeers (animation series)
1995 : The Three Musketeers , cartoon from GoodTimes Home Video Corp.
2004 : Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers , cartoon from Walt Disney Pictures
2005 : The Three Musketeers – Film puppet of Janis Cimermanis
2009 : Shin Sanjūshi ( Japanese puppet series )
2009 : Barbie and the Three Musketeers
Adaptations in comics
Les Trois Mousquetaires is a cartoon series by Raoul Cauvin and Mazel ( Éditions Dupuis , Récréabull and Point Image ).
Les Trois Mousquetaires is a comic book by Michel Lacroix ( Éditions Fernand Nathan ).
The Three Musketeers is a cartoon series written by Henri Filippini and designed by Robert Hugues (Éditions Ange).
Les Trois Mousquetaires is a cartoon series written by Michel Dufranne , Jean-David Morvan and drawn by Ruben ( Éditions Delcourt ).
D’Artagnan is a cartoon series written by Courtilz de Sandras and drawn by Auguste Liquois (Éditions Prifo).
D’Artagnan: Diary of a cadet , script and drawing by Nicolas Juncker, Milan Publishing , label Treizeétrange , 2008.
Milady de Winter is a cartoon diptychwritten and drawn by Agnès Maupré (Ankama Publishing).
The Three Musketeers , collection “Teens”, Pearson, Turin, 2000 (simplified adaptation, in comics, intended for teenagers and young adults not French speaking, with CD audio and exercises) [2] [ archive ] .
Adaptations in novels (tributes, suites, pastiches …)
1914 : The son of D’Artagnan of Paul Féval son.
1925 : D’Artagnan against Cyrano de Paul Feval son.
1928 : D’Artagnan and Cyrano reconciled of Paul Feval son.
1930 : The Old Age of Athos by Paul Féval son.
1962 : D’Artagnan lovers or five years before of Roger Nimier , Gallimard .
1993 : The Last Love of Aramis or the True Memories of the knight René d’Herblay , Jean-Paul Dufreigne, Grasset .
1995 : Club Dumas of Arturo Pérez-Reverte , The paperback .
2018 : The drunken novel by Isabelle Stibbe , Robert Laffont .
Theatrical adaptations
Alexandre Dumas himself adapted his novel for the theater in 1845 :
1845 : The Musketeers after Twenty Years Later
1849 : The Youth of the Musketeers after The Three Musketeers
1861 : The prisoner of the Bastille, end of the musketeers after the episode of the Iron Mask in The Viscount of Bragelonne .
Then, among the many adaptations that followed:
1959 : The Three Musketeers by Roger Planchon , Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique
1971 : The Three Musketeers by Michel Berto , Carcassonne City Festival, Collioure Festival
1977 : Die drei Musketiere by Jerome Savary , in Germany
1978 : Fencing does not pay by Francis Perrin
1982 : The Three Musketeers by Marcel Maréchal
1999 : The Three Musketeers (reprise of Marcel Maréchal )
2006 : The Three Musketeers by Marianne Serra and Thomas Condemine
2008 : The Three Musketeers (cover of Marianne Serra and Thomas Condemine )
2011 : Musketeer of Richelieu , Puy du Fou
2012 : The Three Musketeers (the series) by Clara Hédouin, Jade Herbulot, Romain de Becdelièvre and the collective 49701
2016 : The Three Musketeers , musical from September 29, 2016 in Paris.
2016 : The Three Musketeers , directed by Carlo Boso, Montfavet, July 22.
Adaptations in ballet
1980: The Three Musketeers , two-act ballet, choreographed by André Prokovsky with music by Giuseppe Verdi , established on 22 November 1980 by the Australian Ballet at (in) Palace Theater, Melbourne (en)
Adaptations in board game
2010: Musketeers of Roy , François Combe and Frédéric Henry ( Ystari Games )
Adaptations in musical
2016: The Three Musketeers , musical comedy .
Alexandre Dumas , The Three Musketeers (full text, read by Alain Carré ), Éditions Autrement dit , Mons, 2006, 20 compact discs (duration: 22 h 35 min), ( ISBN 2-87445-029-4 ) .
↑ Presentation of the novel in The Small Classics Larousse, Larousse, 2011, p.11 [ archive ]
↑ text available on Gallica [ archive ]
↑ Albert Thibaudet, History of French literature, Haeres, 2012 [1] [ archive ]
↑ See Memoirs of La Rochefoucauld
↑ Correspondence between Dumas and Desnoyers Dumas cited in a report in The Dartagnan February 29, 1868, reproduced in the great novels of Alexandre Dumas , I – The Musketeers: The Three Musketeers and Twenty years later , Robert Laffont, coll. Bouquins, 1991, pp. 1338-1339
↑ Oxford World’s Classics, 1999
↑ Suites and pastiche of the Three Musketeers in Russia [ archive ]
↑ Introduction to the suites of the musketeers [ archive ]
↑ sheet and extract the work [ archive ]
↑ critical summary [ archive ]
↑ Summary [ archive ]
↑ Summary of D’Artagnan in love [ archive ]
^ “Suites and pastiches of Dumas in Russia” [ archive ]
↑ The Three Doctors on the site of Martin Winckler [ archive ]
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The Product Support Life Cycle table describes the phase during which SonicWall products are eligible for product support and new release downloads. Models not listed here are considered to be current and have not yet entered the End of Support life cycle.
Product Support Life Cycle Policy
SonicWall products have five post-release phases:
Last Day Order (LDO)
Active Retirement (ARM)
One-Year Support Last Day Order
Limited Retirement Mode (LRM)
End of Support (EOS).
Last Day Order (LDO) is advanced notification that we intend to start the end of life process. LDO is informational only and products in this phase are active and continue to sell support contracts.
Active Retirement Mode (ARM) is an announcement that we are no longer actively manufacturing or selling the product. Support contracts for products in this phase will continue to be available. During this time, we may release a limited number of new features and will issue bug fixes only to the latest version of firmware available on the device. Support is available throughout ARM for products with an active support contract. The duration of ARM is two years beginning one day after the end of Last Day Order.
One-Year Support Last Day Order represents the final day to purchase a one-year support contract or subscription service that bundles support from SonicWall Partners. You may purchase and activate the one-year support contract so that the product will be eligible to receive support until the product has reached End of Support.
Limited Retirement Mode (LRM) is an announcement to indicate that we will no longer develop or release firmware updates or new features for these products. Software and firmware support for products in LRM is limited to critical bugs and security vulnerabilities. The duration of this phase is three years beginning one day after the end of Active Retirement Mode.
End of Support (EOS) is an announcement to indicate that we will no longer provide technical support, firmware updates/upgrades or hardware replacement for the product, and that all remaining unique inventory or materials will become unavailable. We may continue to offer security service subscriptions during the End of Support phase, but we will no longer provide technical support for the product or any security service running on it.
Software and Firmware Release Model
Our software/firmware release model helps you make the right choice when it comes to deciding which software or firmware version to load onto your appliance. For information on the different releases, read below; if you need help selecting the release that’s right for you, contact your local SonicWall partner or sales representative.
General Release: General Release software is a mature, widely deployed and proven release, suitable for typical use cases and is the software of choice for reliability. General Releases are used for production environments.
Feature Release: Feature Release software is a new release that introduces major new features in the product. A Feature Release has gone through multiple & thorough engineering, quality, alpha, and beta test cycles and is being launched for general availability. A Feature Release is a candidate to move to General Release after the maturity criteria is met. Please refer to the release notes for a list of major features.
Maintenance Release: Maintenance Release software includes bug fixes and enhancements made to a previous release. A Maintenance Release has gone through engineering & quality test cycles and is launched for general availability. Maintenance Release is a candidate to move to General Release after the maturity criteria is met. Please refer to the release notes for full details.
Initial Release: Initial release software is the first release of a new product. It is recommended to upgrade to General Release upon availability.
Hotfix Release: Hotfix releases contain the latest fixes and patches, and are provided to customers who are looking to address specific issues. Eventually Hotfix releases are integrated into the Maintenance/General release.
Please note: The above release definitions reflect our current release types. References to legacy or retired release types, including “Early Release,” may continue to exist throughout the website and technical documentation. Before performing any software or firmware upgrades, it is recommended that you consult the relevant Release Notes as they may include exception notices or warnings.
Click here to read our support and services policies.
Our firmware release model helps you make the right choice when it comes to deciding which firmware version to load onto your appliance.
General Release
General Release software is a mature, widely deployed and proven release and is the software of choice for reliability. General Releases are used for production environments.
Feature Release
Feature Release software is a new release that introduces major new features in the product. A Feature Release has gone through multiple and thorough engineering, quality, alpha, and beta test cycles and is being launched for general availability. A Feature Release is a candidate to move to General Release after the maturity criteria is met. Please refer to the release notes for a list of major features.
Maintenance Release software includes bug fixes and enhancements made to a previous release. A Maintenance Release has gone through engineering & quality test cycles and is launched for general availability. Maintenance Release is a candidate to move to General Release after the maturity criteria is met. Please refer to the release notes for full details.
Initial release software is the first release of a new product. It is recommended to upgrade to General Release upon availability.
Hotfix Release
Hotfix releases contain the latest fixes and patches, and are provided to customers who are looking to address specific issues. Eventually Hotfix releases are integrated into the Maintenance/General release.
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Highways England’s motorways and A-roads are the backbone of the country and key to driving a successful economy. Its ambition is for a modern and reliable network that improves economic growth, reduces delays, creates jobs, helps business and opens up new areas for development.
One of our ambitions is to make sure all our major roads are more dependable, durable and, most importantly, safe.
Crossing the Thames
Dartford Crossing facts and figures: Click to expand
Everyone knows that driving across the Thames east of London is frustrating. For many road users, including motorcyclists, the Dartford Crossing is the only viable way to cross the river. It is also a vital freight route connecting ports in the South East.
As a consequence, it is the busiest river crossing in the country and is heavily congested, carrying more traffic than it was ever designed for. This puts huge pressure on roads and motorways on both sides of the river.
A new crossing
Whether you’re travelling just a short distance across the Thames to visit family and friends, looking for better access to jobs or business opportunities in the South East, or reaching new markets across the UK and Europe, the Lower Thames Crossing will provide new connections and better journeys.
The Lower Thames Crossing is a proposed new motorway connecting Kent, Thurrock and Essex through a tunnel beneath the River Thames. It will provide much needed new road capacity across the river east of London.
On the south side of the Thames, the new road will link the tunnel to the A2 and M2 in Kent. On the north side, it will link to the A13 and junction 29 of the M25 in the London Borough of Havering. The crossing and the new connecting road network will provide quicker and more reliable journeys locally, regionally and nationally.
This is the most ambitious project of its kind in the country. It is the largest single road investment project in the UK since the M25 was completed more than 30 years ago. The crossing under the Thames will be the longest road tunnel in the country. At 16 metres in diameter, it will be one of the largest bored tunnels in the world.
The Lower Thames Crossing will have:
approximately 14.5 miles (23km) of new roads connecting the tunnel to the existing road network
three lanes in both directions with a maximum speed limit of 70mph
improvements to the M25, A2 and A13, where the Lower Thames Crossing connects to these roads
new structures and changes to existing ones (including bridges, buildings, tunnel entrances, viaducts and utilities such as electricity pylons) along the length of the new road
two 2.5 mile (4km) tunnels, one for southbound traffic, one for northbound traffic crossing beneath the river
a free-flow charging system, where drivers do not need to stop but pay remotely, similar to that at the Dartford Crossing
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SK Sales - business as usual during lockdown 2
As we move in to the next national lockdown please be assured SK Sales will continue to provide a full and complete service to support the construction sector across the UK.
We have conducted risk assessments, implemented Covid Safe Working Practices at all of our branches and are available to fulfil all of your ventilation product requirements.
Please contact your local area sales manager or branch direct with enquiries, orders or any queries, or email contact@sksales.co.uk.
SK Sales Ltd Midlands Hub - fully operational again
The SK Sales Midlands Hub is now fully operational again and with some new faces to assist you with your ventilation product requirements. We’re delighted to welcome Fran Buxton and Matthew Cheesman to Birmingham. We have also now installed a brand new Covid-19 Safe Working trade counter. Fran, Matthew and all the team look forward to hearing from you soon.
Head to:
Unit 1, Octagon Business Centre
1 Miller Street
B6 4NF
or call 0121 3596374
New signage at our Northern Hub in Leeds
We're delighted with the new signs now installed at our new Copley Hill location in Leeds. If you haven't been to see us yet in our new Leeds location you can find us at Unit E1, Copley Hill Trading Estate, Whitehall Road, Holbeck, Leeds, LS12 1HE or you can call us on 0113 385 7770.
New premises in Leeds
SK Sales Ltd is pleased to announce it has recently secured a new base for its Leeds team.
Very shortly the Leeds SK Sales team will be moving from Intermezzo Drive, Pontefract Road to the recently refurbished Unit E1 on the Copley Hill Trading Estate, just off Gelderd Road and only 1.5 miles from Leeds city centre.
The property, a 4,971 sq ft industrial warehouse space, with high-specification trade counter and mezzanine level, will become the new Northern Hub for SK Sales Ltd.
Hub Manager, Andy Kneeshaw said “This is an exciting move for the team as Copley Hill provides a prime position for our trade counter.”
Managing Director, Richard Ward added “We are delighted with our new premises and look forward to welcoming customers in due course, as the construction sector gets back to work.”
When the move is complete the full postal address for the new premises will be:
SK Sales Ltd Northern Hub
Unit E1 Copley Hill Trading Estate
Whitehall Road
LS12 1HE
E: leeds@sksales.co.uk
For more information or to contact the SK Sales Ltd team please click here.
In recent months we've worked hard on developing a new website to provide you with the most complete and best quality information.
We hope you'll find all the brands, products and related documents you're looking for. In the near future you'll be able to order everything you need via our state of the art e-shop. Do you have any suggestions on how to improve our experience for you? Don't hesitate to contact us.
The France Air Group finalises its acquisition of SIG Air Handling
The France Air group, a designer and distributor of ventilation products and solutions for indoor air quality and comfort, announces that it has completed its acquisition of SIG Air Handling, a division of the British group SIG plc.
SIG Air Handling is a European leader in the distribution of ventilation products for tertiary and residential buildings with a large European presence and strong positions in France, Belgium, Bulgaria and the Netherlands. It also covers the United Kingdom, Germany, Romania, Austria and Hungary. The France Air group has a strong presence in France, Portugal, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. These complementary territories provide optimal coverage and give the new venture a solid European base.
This acquisition enables the France Air group to accelerate the internationalisation strategy that Laurent Dolbeau has been implementing for the last five years, creating a European leader in ventilation for buildings, with 1800 employees based in 14 countries in Europe.
In 2018, the SIG Air Handling division reported approximately 350 €M revenue while the France Air group recorded almost 150 €M. The new group is expected to achieve a combined revenue of approximately 500 €M, propelling the new venture into the top 5 biggest players on the European ventilation market for indoor air quality and comfort.
Statement from Laurent DOLBEAU, CEO of the France Air Group:
“This acquisition will enable the group to change dimension and become one of the leaders in the European ventilation market, without changing our business model. It will also enable the group to retain its financial independence and preserve the human and management values which have been key to the success of France Air: managerial autonomy, accountability and commitment“.
Statement from Olivier DOLBEAU, President of the France Air Group:
“This acquisition provides a great opportunity for the France Air group to grow and expand onto the international scene whilst retaining the family's shareholding, an approach which has been central to the history the company has built over the last 60 years“.
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HTC: Quietly Blundering
Chris Davies - Nov 27, 2011, 3:17pm CST
To say HTC is having a bad month is an understatement: share price ditching, outlook slashed and reeling from an embarrassing and unexpected defeat by Apple in the patent courts. The company that once led the smartphone segment has found its “Quietly Brilliant” message struggling to be heard above the crowd. The potential collapse of the S3 Graphics deal is just the latest stage of the company’s ebbing momentum, though it can’t blame the USITC entirely for investors’ loss of faith. HTC lost its common Sense some time ago.
HTC is arguably at a disadvantage from the off in comparison with its mobility rivals. The smartphone market, outside of Apple for the most part, has become a vast game of spec-sheet bingo, with flagship, mainstream and budget products competing on how many buzzwords they can tick off. Advanced users familiar with the tech look for key features like the current generation of high-speed dualcore processors and pixel-dense displays, while the less involved can only compare long lists of checkboxes in stores to figure out which of the increasingly identikit devices is “best.”
[aquote]HTC has been left to pick up what suppliers will allow it to have[/aquote]
When your worth is the sum of your components, HTC’s shortfall in manufacturing begins to drag. Samsung has a huge advantage in producing its own displays, camera modules, chipsets and memory, while LG has its NOVA display prowess. Apple has not been shy in flexing its mighty bank balance and tying up the latest and greatest in hardware for its phones and tablets. In comparison, HTC has been left to pick up what suppliers will allow it to have.
Meanwhile, its lead with Android – founded on the very first Android smartphone, the G1/Dream – has lost momentum. Samsung usurped HTC’s Nexus role with the Nexus S and leveraged its leading-hardware position to produce the Galaxy Nexus after it; Motorola Mobility, now in Google’s pocket, looks increasingly likely to produce the fourth Nexus device, despite Andy Rubin’s protestations that it will be an independent decision.
Where HTC should have pushed ahead was in software and services; in fact, at one point it showed all the signs of doing so. HTC Sense was the perfect sop for the smartphone-naive public, back in the days when Android’s own UI was more hotchpotch than holistic. The company even led the way for features Google later integrated into Android itself, such as synchronizing Facebook details with individual contacts.
With HTCSense.com and the investment in OnLive, it looked like HTC was doing its best to innovate on software and services to balance out its shortcomings in raw components. The online Sense service was to be a cloud hub of contacts, messages and content, offering free tracking and remote access if your lost your phone or left it in your desk drawer at work, while offering a distilled selection of apps that HTC had picked out of the Wild West melee of the Android Market. With the addition of gaming it could have been a legitimate selling point, not just to first-time smartphone buyers drawn in by HTC’s eyecandy-rich UI, but to upgraders too. After all, why jump ship from HTC to, say, Samsung if you lose access to all those useful cloud services in the process?
Unfortunately, Sense online ran out of steam and HTC seemed to lose interest. What could’ve been a strong differentiator – something that would have a powerful impact on users’ daily experience with their phones – it became little more than another pointless pop-up in the notification bar. For most, the only reminder that HTCSense.com is there is the “Matched Contacts” dialog that periodically appears, asking you to link new profile information on your phone with that of other registered Sense users in the cloud. Problem is, once you’ve gone through and signed off on the links, nothing actually happens. It’s smartphone busy-work, another missed opportunity for HTC to put its merits front and center before an audience near-addicted to tapping on their phones.
With Ice Cream Sandwich receiving rave reviews, the Sense UI is losing some of its schtick. HTC is still positioning it as the straightforward, multimedia-rich way to interact with your device, but the OS it covers up no longer really demands such short-cuts. Instead, with fragmentation the platform bogey man of the moment, it introduces a cavalcade of delays to updates.
[aquote]As a user, you may not know it’s called “fragmentation” but you definitely know you don’t like it[/aquote]
That’s easy to gloss over when you’re writing about the mobile industry, or investing in it. When you’re a user, less than a year into your 24-month agreement, watching your friends get OTA updates bringing shiny new features to their smartphones and wondering where yours might be, you may not know it’s called “fragmentation” but you definitely know you don’t like it. After two years of that, it’s perhaps enough to make you look elsewhere for your next smartphone hit; that’s when HTC’s value-added services should be coaxing users back into the fold, but we’ve already seen how that’s not happening.
Based on the latest batch of leaks, HTC’s 2012 line-up shows real promise. Gone are the “big screens for the sake of big screens” of me-too handsets like the Sensation XL, replaced with top-tier hardware, aesthetically pleasing design and an apparent recognition that more-of-the-same is a shortcut only to mediocrity, not a consistent cash-flow. We’re seeing devices that can legitimately compete with the spec sheet prowess of Samsung and Motorola phones, for instance.
Hardware is only half of the story, though, and we still need to see whether HTC can deliver the second part. The company needs to screw its courage to the sticking place, and trust in the strengths of its software and service acquisitions. In today’s market, that means recognizing that a smartphone or a tablet is part of an ecosystem: communications, entertainment, gaming, social media and more. HTC has stuck a toe in before: OnLive for cloud gaming, the MediaLink DLNA-streaming adapter, HTC Watch for movie purchases and rentals. Now it needs to commit to them in a way that convinces carriers, investors and – most importantly – customers that there’s more to company strategy than a scattershot of ad-lib devices and ephemeral services.
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Zoey on DAYS OF OUR LIVES — Everything You Need to Know
By Chris Eades May 18, 2020
Alyshia Ochse,
Kelly Thiebaud
XJJohnson/jpistudios.com
Zoey Burge on DAYS OF OUR LIVES looks a little different now but it’s still the same character. Actress Kelly Thiebaud debuted in the role on April 16, but by May 14, Alyshia Ochse stepped into the attorney’s shoes. And both of them have been on DAYS before in different roles! Back in 2011, Thiebaud launched her daytime career playing Alicia for a few episodes, and Ochse played Nurse Sara back in 2009.
Zoey Burge is the attorney hired to represent Evan Frears on his murder and kidnapping charges, and seeing as how he has confessed (under duress) to murdering Jordan Ridgeway and he was arrested for kidnapping their son, David, she’s got her work cut out for her! Of course, Evan’s real name is Christian Maddox, and he’s the son of the notorious international supervillain Orpheus, who took responsibility for the kidnapping, so that was easily taken care of. But Zoey is certain she can get him acquitted of murder as well, and Evan was released into her custody. Then it was revealed that the reason she’s representing him is that she’s Evan’s sister!
Are Orpheus’ children a chip off the old block?XJJohnson/jpistudios.com
Although Zoey has admitted to Evan that she doesn’t entirely trust their father, she followed Orpheus’ orders and filed for custody of David for herself to keep him in the family. She later pressed Evan to share the painful secret that was forcing him to do their father’s bidding and after she failed to keep him from going to prison, shared the truth with Rafe Hernandez that Orpheus had actually caused the car crash that took the lives of Adrienne Kiriakis and Sarah Horton’s child.
Stay tuned to see what happens next!
Coby Ryan McLaughlin Stars in The Nanny Murders!
John Enos Mourns the Death of His Beloved Dog, Duke
Jaime Lyn Bauer Returns to DAYS OF OUR LIVES
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DAYS OF OUR LIVES Star Camila Banus Is Engaged!
DAYS OF OUR LIVES Spoilers: Lani Gives Birth!
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www.sifadesign » Arts & Photography » Victorian Sculpture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
Benedict Read Sculpture English
Author: Benedict Read
Title: Victorian Sculpture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
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Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA; First Edition edition (September 10, 1984)
Victorian Sculpture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) by Benedict Read
Since 1996, it has been situated at 16 Bedford Square in a Grade I listed building
What we do. Paul Mellon (1907–1999) was one of the greatest art collectors and philanthropists of the twentieth century. The Centre funds and produces publications that will make an important contribution to the field. The books are distributed by Yale University Press. Our Library collects comprehensively in the field of British art and architectural history.
2. 22 cm. Pp. x + 414, 476 pls. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1982.
Victorian Sculpture book. Paperback, 416 pages. 0300031777 (ISBN13: 9780300031775).
Victorian Sculpture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis): ISBN 9780300031775 (978-0-300-03177-5) Softcover, Paul Mellon Centre BA, 1984. Founded in 1997, BookFinder.
I joined the Paul Mellon Centre on 1st November 2013 as Assistant. This interdisciplinary session seeks to examine the various ways in which sculpture has been put in motion, literally or metaphorically, and to consider what drives this desire to animate sculpture.
Rubens and England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis). Rubens and England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Close. 1 2 3 4 5. Want to Read. October 11, 2004, Paul Mellon Center BA. Hardcover in English.
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Pub place. 0300025068,0300025068.
The library at The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art holds a comprehensive collection of study materials on British painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture and garden history from the 16th to the mid-20th century, as well as 18th-century British decorative arts. Particular strengths are the collections on the British country house, the 18th-century Grand Tour and the Royal Academy of Arts. No, material held at the Paul Mellon Centre Library is reference only. The Paul Mellon Centre data on Copac.
The Paul Mellon Centre underwrites the production costs of publications concerned with the study of British art and architecture. The centre published an online catalogue raisonné of the artist Richard Wilson to coincide with the tercentenary of the artist's birth . Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. The Public Study Room at The Paul Mellon Centre, 16 Bedofrd Square, London, 2015. Paul Mellon Centre (4 May 2017). The Paul Mellon Centre acquires Brian Sewell's Archive". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
[publisher: For Paul Mellon Centre By Yale University Press, New Haven] 414 pages; b/w illustrations throughout. Text in English. en anglais. [publisher: YALE U.P.] La sculpture victorienne: commandes et mécénat; typologie des genres; la sculpture architecturale.** Ouvrage en anglais ** Un vol.br 28x22cm 414pp. 476 ill. Biblio. Index
Survey of London: Clerkenwell: Volumes 46 and 47 by Survey of London
Survey of London: Clerkenwell: Volumes 46 and 47
Survey of London
On public view: A selection of London's open-air sculpture; by Paul William White
On public view: A selection of London's open-air sculpture;
Paul William White
Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture : Sculpture 1974-1980 (Henry Moore Complete Sculpture) (Henry Moore Complete Sculpture) by David Sylvester,Henry Moore
Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture : Sculpture 1974-1980 (Henry Moore Complete Sculpture) (Henry Moore Complete Sculpture)
David Sylvester,Henry Moore
Gwen John, With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and a Selection of the Drawings (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Cecily Langdale
Gwen John, With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and a Selection of the Drawings (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Cecily Langdale
Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Dr. David H. Solkin
Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Dr. David H. Solkin
Imperial Landscapes: Britain's Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by John E. Crowley
Imperial Landscapes: Britain's Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
John E. Crowley
Alchemy and the occult;: A catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Alchemy and the occult;: A catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
William Nicholson (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Sanford Schwartz
William Nicholson (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Sanford Schwartz
The Materials of Sculpture by Nicholas Penny
The Materials of Sculpture
Nicholas Penny
The Diary of Joseph Farington: Volume 7, January 1805 - June 1806, Volume 8, July 1806 - December 1807 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (v. 7 & 8) by Kathryn Cave,Joseph Farington
The Diary of Joseph Farington: Volume 7, January 1805 - June 1806, Volume 8, July 1806 - December 1807 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (v. 7 & 8)
Kathryn Cave,Joseph Farington
Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Emmanuel Cooper
Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Emmanuel Cooper
Gothic to Renaissance: Essays on Sculpture in England (Paul Watkins Medieval Studies)
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WATCH: Sonny With A Chance Cast Reunite On Zoom
11:49 27 Apr 2020
Sonny With a Chance cast reunion
The cast of Sonny With a Chance delighted fans when they reunited on Zoom video chat over the weekend.
They talked about their memories from the show, what they're up to now and loads more.
A post shared by Tiffany Thornton (@tiffthornton) on Apr 25, 2020 at 4:07pm PDT
Demi Lovato joined her former co-stars Tiffany Thornton, Allisyn Ashley Arm, Doug Brochu, Sterling Knight, Audrey Whitby, Matthew Scott Montgomery, Shayne Topp and Damien Haas in the video chat.
Zora actress Allisyn Ashley Arm asked what everyone's been up to since the show and Demi replied, "Rehab!"
Her former cast mates couldn't help but laugh as she added, "Several times!"
A post shared by Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) on Apr 16, 2020 at 7:46pm PDT
Chad actor Sterling Knight replied, "I'm glad you're better though!"
He went on to compliment her performance at the Super Bowl, "The national anthem was fu**ing phenomenal."
Knight added, "I was bawling my eyes out, just FYI."
A post shared by Sterling Knight (@realsterling) on Nov 25, 2018 at 6:02pm PST
The cast went on chat about their favourite memories from the show.
Matthew Scott Montgomery reminded them of the, "Demon mannequin," they used to hide in each other's dressing rooms.
While Tawni actress Tiffany Thornton recalled the time Nico actor Brandon Mychal Smith ate a prop croissant that was years old.
A post shared by Tiffany Thornton (@tiffthornton) on Apr 3, 2020 at 7:01am PDT
The cast get candid
Tiffany spoke candidly about how she wishes she, "lived in the moment more."
She said, "What I wouldn't give to look like myself back in my twenties."
"I even worried like man do I look fat in this costume, do I look bad in this like..."
A post shared by Tiffany Thornton (@tiffthornton) on Apr 7, 2020 at 2:59pm PDT
Demi told her, "When I went away to treatment for the first time, you were my biggest inspiration coming out of it."
She explained, "Because you dealt with all of those pressures of being a woman on TV."
"I looked at that as, 'God, I wish I had that so bad.'"
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Tiffany said, "I've never met someone who was able to go into a room, look at a script one time, memorise 99 percent of it, be funny, cry on cue, sing, play guitar and you weren't sleeping!"
"Let's be 100 percent honest, you would stay up all night, you were un-medicated in a way that you really needed."
She added, "You'd stay up all night and you'd come to set the next day and you would sleep in between scenes because you were exhausted."
"And I'm like, 'what did you do last night,' and you're like, 'I wrote 12 songs!'"
Watch the full reunion chat below:
Meanwhile, Alexa PenaVega and Daryl Sabara surprised fans with a Spy Kids reunion on Instagram Live last week.
Check it out here.
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Singapore is turning 50
A company that is turning 30 is commissioning a portrait of a nation that will soon turn 50. And doing it will be a British artist with an amazing ability to sketch cities from memory. As part of its 30th anniversary celebrations, Singapore Press Holdings is getting Mr Stephen Wiltshire to draw the city skyline.
He will do the artwork in full view of the public at the main atrium of Paragon from Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm daily. Before he begins, Mr Wiltshire, who is in Singapore for the first time, will be given a brief helicopter ride sponsored by the Republic of Singapore Air Force.
When it is done, the artwork will be presented to President Tony Tan Keng Yam as SPH’s gift for Singapore’s 50th birthday next year. The event will also feature an exhibition of some of Mr Wiltshire’s best drawings of other cities, as well as an interactive booth that allows people to pose with their favourite bit of Singapore architecture.
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June 11, 2019 By Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic Achieves FedRAMP Ready Milestone
Leader in Machine Data and Security Analytics Brings Cloud-Based Platform to Federal Marketplace to Support Digital Transformation and DevSecOps Initiatives
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – June 11, 2019 – Sumo Logic, the leading cloud-native, machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence, today announced it has achieved the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Ready designation, and is now listed in the FedRAMP Marketplace for federal agencies and government contractors.
This FedRAMP Ready designation applies to a specific multi-tenant Sumo Logic environment tailored for federal customers and organizations that serve the federal market. In order to achieve the Ready designation, Sumo Logic underwent a rigorous assessment of critical security controls to ensure that federal organizations can leverage the unified Sumo Logic platform to build, run and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures.
“Tyler Technologies provides a FedRAMP-Moderate Authorized data platform built exclusively for government,” said Jeffrey Newball, compliance officer for the Data & Insights Division of Tyler Technologies. “Given the sensitivity of government data, our clients require us to be FedRAMP Authorized and that means the solutions and tools we use also have to be compliant. We’re pleased that Sumo Logic is FedRAMP Ready as our teams rely on their machine data analytics platform to give us the real-time insights and intelligence to securely operate in the cloud.”
FedRAMP is a government-wide compliance program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and monitoring for cloud services. Cloud service providers with a FedRAMP Authorization have successfully undergone a stringent in-depth evaluation of their data security safeguards and technology, and must continue to comply with FedRAMP requirements in order to retain their authorization status.
“The world is moving toward a digital-first mentality and there is a massive shift to the cloud taking place within the federal community,” said George Gerchow, CSO, Sumo Logic. “Federal agencies understand the necessity to transition from legacy on-premises systems to more scalable and secure, cloud-based architectures; however the challenge today is that options are limited. While our pursuit of FedRAMP Authorization is a work in progress, the FedRAMP Ready designation is a testament to our dedication towards maintaining a strong robust security posture as well as continuing to listen to our customer’s needs. With Sumo Logic, federal organizations gain the continuous intelligence and insights needed to securely migrate their workloads to the cloud, adopt DevSecOps practices and address the shared responsibility of the public cloud model.”
The FedRAMP Ready designation is a critical first step in Sumo Logic’s commitment to achieving a FedRAMP Authorization. This not only gives existing customers confidence in our security posture, but will also make it easier for U.S. federal agencies to adopt Sumo Logic services.
“Multi-cloud adoption is the new normal for the federal government because it allows agencies to adapt their architecture as programs and initiatives evolve,” said Andrew Nebus, digital architect, ASRC Federal. “This drives a need for cloud-native monitoring and troubleshooting, and security operations, which are areas where Sumo Logic can deliver high value and differentiation to a wide variety of federal organizations that want a trusted partner and advisor to grow with them throughout their digital transformation journey.”
The Sumo Logic federal environment, in U.S.-East 1, is a fully functioning multi-cloud capable ecosystem set up specifically to serve the federal market. With Sumo Logic, customers are protected against concerns around data protection, privacy and security, including those regarding cardholder data under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and application security under the NIST 800-53 Framework.
Sumo Logic Brings on General Manager to Lead Federal Strategy
On the heels of this milestone, Doug Natal joins Sumo Logic as the company’s general manager of federal to lead the company’s go-to-market public sector strategy with a focus on supporting the mission-critical needs of U.S. federal customers worldwide.
Natal joins Sumo Logic from MapR where he served as the vice president and general manager of the federal division, responsible for driving sales, business development, and market messaging that improved product visibility and expanded customer success. Prior to that, Natal held similar federal leadership roles at Crossmatch Technologies, Oracle and VeriSign Corporation. He was also Vice President of Public Sector for Taleo Corporation, until Oracle acquired the company in 2012.
Natal has a 20 year track record of growing federal, state and local government technology adoption. As a partner of ACT-IAC, Natal will focus his team on the government end-user needs while orchestrating successful partnering strategies to increase federal channel activity.
More than 2,000 customers across the globe, including AirBnB, Alaska Airlines, Anheuser Busch, Hudl, The Pokemon Co. International, Salesforce, Samsung SmartThings, Zscaler and more already rely on Sumo Logic as the only machine data analytics platform capable of providing continuous intelligence across the breadth and complexity of their IT infrastructures in a single, cloud-based service.
For more information on how Sumo Logic can help federal customers achieve their business, security and operational needs, visit the Sumo Logic federal page.
Download the federal IT modernization white paper
Read our CSO’s blog on the value of machine data analytics in the fed space
Learn about how Sumo Logic can help secure and monitor government IT systems
Sign up for a free trial of Sumo Logic
About Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic is a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service, delivering real-time, continuous intelligence from structured, semi-structured and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack. More than 2,000 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic for the analytics and insights to build, run and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures. With Sumo Logic, customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth.
Founded in 2010, Sumo Logic is a privately held company based in Redwood City, Calif. and is backed by Accel Partners, Battery Ventures, DFJ Growth, Franklin Templeton, Greylock Partners, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and Tiger Global Management. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
Melissa Liton
mliton@sumologic.com
Sydney Holmquist
PAN Communications for Sumo Logic
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CH Robinson to manage new Robinson Fresh operations facility
Follow @SamJermy and @SupplyChainD on Twitter.CH Robinson announced today that the company has begun operations out of a new, state of the art facility ...
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CH Robinson announced today that the company has begun operations out of a new, state of the art facility near Los Angeles in order to provide Robinson Fresh customers with expanded and efficient supply chain solutions.
The service centre in Corona, California has over 187,000 square feet of warehouse space that includes over 135,000 square feet of temperature controlled operations, eight cold rooms with varying temperature zones, 28 docks doors, as well as cutting edge air purification technology and cold chain handling processes. The facility is PTI compliant, PrimusGFS certified, and certified organic.
Robinson Fresh will provide temperature controlled distribution services that support national and regional programs, repack, consolidation, cross dock, forward distribution, and floral services throughout the facility.
By centralising these operations, Robinson Fresh will create just-in-time efficiencies for customers in order to address seasonal surges and capacity strains within the market.
Ray Griffin, Director of Global sourcing at Robinson Fresh, said: “The Los Angeles service centre is an important addition to CH Robinson’s robust network of nationwide service centres.
“Strategically located operations provide a value-added service that complements our sourcing and transportation expertise and provide a single source solution for customers who seek end-to-end supply chain services.”
With location being a key component to maximizing supply chain efficiency, the Los Angeles service centre is in close proximity to multiple retail distribution centres, major US shipping ports, and West Coast metropolitan areas. Robinson Fresh manages seven additional facilities located in north east, mid-west, south, and south-eastern areas of the US.
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#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd: Barack Obama, Rihanna, Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas, Bella Hadid And Others Say Black Lives Matter
Not only the netizens, but many renowned personalities like former US president Barack Obama, Priyanka Chopra-Nick Jonas, Justin Bieber- Hailey Bieber, Rihanna, Bella Hadid, Kareena Kapoor Khan among many others are coming forward to seek justice for George Floyd
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Early this week, an African-American man named George Floyd died when a police officer kneeled on his neck resulting in his death. Soon after the video of the same incident emerged, hashtags like #ICantBreathe, #BlackLivesMatter and #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd made it to top Twitter trends. The video saw George Floyd breathing his last in Minneapolis, Minnesota when a police offer kneeled on his neck for quite some time. The video sees the onlookers protesting to that officer that his life was in danger. In the video, Floyd repeatedly said, “I can’t breathe, I’m about to die.”
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POLL: Who will win the Game of Thrones?
Well, here is something a bit different
In honour of the final few episodes of the epic 'Game of Thrones' - not to mention the threads that are currently populating our forum - here is a one-off poll asking that big question that is on everyone's mind right now
Who will end up sitting on the iron throne in a few episodes time? In other words Who will win the Game of Thrones?
I've put the most obvious candidates in the poll - albeit the writers could throw a curve ball and someone totally different could end up sitting on the throne.... Qyburn anyone? Or even Euron Greyjoy (please....NO!!!). Make a case for another person if you like, and click 'someone else I will mention on the thread'
Happy speculating!
SpookyBorn2021
Ulfric Stormcloak for High King of Skyrim? Oh wait, the Ruby Throne maybe, it's an ESO question?
This post was edited by SpookyBorn2021 at May 2, 2019 2:23 AM EDT
Golden Fool
The Dragons, it has to be the Dragons. What chance do normal people have against a giant flying lizard? But honestly I have no idea, I've not watched the show and am instead still waiting for the next book which will never be released :(
A-Pocky-Hah!
The answer is obviously Hodor who'll come back from the dead as a champion of the Lord of the Light under the name HODOR. He'll seize the Iron Throne, rename the Seven Kingdoms as the Seven Hodors and rule under the Lord of Light's name.
Honestly I don't know. I just want to see a good massacre. :P
Also, I heard somewhere that GRRM said he'll consider the TV series ending as canon if he can't finish writing the last two books in his lifetime (hopefully he can).
May 2, 2019 4:19 PM EDT
I don't think there will be an Iron Throne left, either physically or especially as an institution. That said, I'm confident Sansa will end up as some kind of ruler, be it as Queen of the North, Vale and Riverlands or the Seven Kingdoms or something else.
ilanisilver
Honestly, no clue. They’ve given some hints that there won’t be anyone on the Iron Throne, or even an Iron Throne or a Westeros left. At least, not like we know them now. A season or two ago, can’t remember when, Danerys is talking to Tyrion and says all the families vying for the throne are like spokes in a wheel, rising and falling with their fortunes as the wheel spins. And Tyrion says many people have tried to stop the wheel, that it’s a dream. Danerys says she doesn’t want to stop the wheel, she wants to break it. Now, this could just be her Targaryen-ness coming through, and she might be talking about ruling unquestionably with no need for a wheel at all. But she might be talking about something else - or rather, the writers want us to think about it in a different way.
There’s certainly arguments to be made for anyone, really. Jon should have it not because of his bloodline but because he doesn’t really want it. Danerys should have it because she’s worked so hard to get to where we are now. Sansa has learned a lot through watching good leaders and bad, and is smart and compassionate. Tyrion, the same. Arya is a badass who takes no shit from nobody. The list goes on. Then again, they might just keep Cersei on the throne, redneck sex pirate by her side, just to show us that life sometimes works out that way. Who really knows?
Golden Fool said:
You haven't watched the show at all, or stopped watching it after it started messing up the characters/story?
Mr. Edd said:
I've not watched it at all. A friend lent me the first couple of books several years ago, I can't remember if it was before or after the show started... probably just after. I'd not had any interest in it before I borrowed the books and by the time I'd read all the books I didn't really feel like watching everything I'd just read.
I figured it out: given that the writers went on record saying they like to "subvert expectations" for the sake of "subverting expectations", there's only one answer...
Me too. Honestly, I don't expect Himself to finish them, even at the final assembly phase it would be a massive amount of work for something you are "over". I much prefer the written word to visual stories, but eventually I will grit my teeth and watch the whole series. Despite trying not to, I'm sure I will become aware of the right answer to your question.
May 7, 2019 10:16 PM EDT
I’m going to go out on a limb, after the last couple of episodes, and put my money on Bran. Why? Because they’ve built him up over the past few seasons as having a role to play, and so far it’s been disappointing. I have my guesses as to what’s going to happen to the rest of the main players in Westeros, and maybe that would be a great topic for discussion in a spoiler-warned zone. But I don’t really have one for Bran. So I’m guessing Bran. How’s that for subverting expectations, Mr. Edd? ;)
Dunno Bran, to me, looks like someone who'd spend all his time among the Weirwoods and be a crow all day. Y'know like those Bosmer tree hippies.
Exactly. Like a crow. Or...like a fox?? I think the oddsmakers (which is crazy in its own right, that oddsmakers have odds on this) have him in favor to win. I’m trying (badly) to reason out why!
May 20, 2019 10:56 AM EDT
Not a lot of point in leaving this poll up now ;)
For the record, the result was...
May 20, 2019 11:20 PM EDT
(spoilers for the last episode)
ilani guessed it right!
This post was edited by Mr. at May 20, 2019 11:20 PM EDT
The oddsmakers were the winners, I think. I looked around today and there were soooo many leaks that spelled out the last few episodes just scene for scene. Apparently, they have some editors who need a lesson in shutting the hell up.
May 21, 2019 5:00 PM EDT
You could make a case that Sansa actually 'won'
She gets to be Queen of her home region, doesnt have to live in Kings Landing with a bunch of schemers, doesn't have to have Tyrion 'I made a mistake' Lannister as her Hand. doesnt have to deal with all the problems of competing Houses.... need I go on?
True. In a way, the real winners are the Starks: Bran gets to be king and do what he has been trained (or prophesized? We won't know until the books come out); Sansa manages to both satisfy the Northern wish for independence and to be in a position she enjoys (and excels at). In the end, Sansa ends up as what she always wanted to be: a Queen; Arya gets to do what she always wanted to do, to go in an adventure and be her own, free spirit; and Jon gets to go North of the Wall and live with the people he he really belongs with, the Wildlings, probably mirroring Mance Rayder (a former Night's Watch ranger that ends up being respected and trusted amongst Wildlings).
This also fits well with the first name George came up for "A Dream of Spring", the last book in the series, "A Time for Wolves". Guess it was a bit too spoilery, huh?
Even "Stark loyalists" got a good ending: Brienne is now a Knight, having fulfilled her vows to Catelyn Stark, and is now in service to her last living son and is the representation of everything a Knight should be in Westeros, as Lady Commander of the King's Guard.
The ending is growing on me, mostly because I'm rationalizing it with the books in mind, but Ramin Djawadi's music and all the talented actors and actresses, crew and directors helped!
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Porn makers unleash file-sharing lawyers too
By J. Mark Lytle 30 November 2008
Unsuspecting elderly couple accused of pirating porn
The most unlikely of P2P pirates are being accused
As if the notorious anti-piracy lawsuits being wielded like weapons by the music industry weren't bad enough, we now have the same tactic being used by a much darker force – the porn barons.
One of the highest profile cases involves a British couple in their 60s who have been hit with a demand for the odd sum of £503 for allegedly downloading a gay porn film.
No knowledge
The legal action comes from the German copyright holders through London lawyers Davenport Lyons. The Hertfordshire recipients, unsurprisingly, say they have no knowledge of any piracy.
In fact, the anonymous couple told The Guardian: "We were offended by the title of the film. We don't do porn - straight or gay - and we can't do downloads. We have to ask our son even to do an iTunes purchase."
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With 25,000 similar demands estimated to have been sent so far, there are fears that the scattergun approach is more about making money than protecting copyright.
Considering that lawyers like Davenport Lyons are seeking £500 for a single alleged offence, it's clear that legal fees make up a disproportionate chunk of the demands.
Moreover, dubious user-identification technology and open wireless networks mean no one can really be sure who's doing the file sharing.
In defence of its cases, Davenport Lyons merely states, "We allow ample opportunity for the recipient to respond, and if they have done nothing wrong they have no reason to be concerned."
Perhaps someone should tell them that old saying about the nature of mud and what happens when it's thrown.
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Premier League: Son Heung-min (£5.0m)
Son Heung-min set the record for the most points accumulated in a single game week, racking up 29 in just two appearances. The South Korean scored twice and added two key contributions against Rochdale on Wednesday night, and would have earned more if his penalty wasn't disallowed for a staggered run-up. Then, on Saturday, he produced another brace as Spurs ran out 2-0 winners against Huddersfield.
Son has flown somewhat under the radar this season and has now reached his peak ownership - still just 10.7% - yet is the eighth highest point-scoring player in the game. He's only £5.0m and is well worth consideration with Bournemouth and Swansea to come in Tottenham's next two fixtures.
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Championship: Patrick Bamford (£6.4m)
It's been a difficult season for Middlesbrough's Patrick Bamford, but his performances in the last two weeks suggests he's finally found his form. After racking up 19 points in the former game week, he scored a hat-trick against Leeds in his latest outing and now has six goals in three appearances.
Bamford, who is valued at £6.4m, is in just 3% of all teams but could play a crucial role in Boro's push for promotion.
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Managers of the week
Premier League: Michael Haines
Michael Haines picks up the Premier League manager of the week award as he topped the leaderboard with 195 points. He collects a £100 first prize and sees his name added to the TFF 2017/18 hall of fame.
Championship: Jonathan Wood
Jonathan Wood was the manager of the week in the Championship, also scooping a £100 first prize. His team, Blackman XI, chalked up a total of 98 TFF points.
Teams of the week
Premier League: 175 points
Unsurpisingly, players from Manchester City, Swansea and Tottenham comprise the Week 30 best XI as they all recorded back-to-back wins.
Fernando Llorente's hat-trick against Rochdale sees the Spurs striker join his teammate Son and Swansea's Jordan Ayew in attack, with Ederson Moraes also getting a notable mention for producing two clean sheets and saving Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's penalty.
Premier League Week 30 Best XI. Credit: Calum Ward
Championship: 110 points
Bobby Reid now tops the Championship goalscoring charts after producing a hat-trick in Bristol City's 4-0 demolition of Sheffield Wednesday. That performance earned Reid 17 TFF points - the same as Middlesbrough's Patrick Bamford.
Reid is joined by teammates Aden Flint, Josh Brownhill and Marlon Pack, while Boro's Ben Gibson and Darren Randolph also make the XI.
Championship Week 30 best XI. Credit: Calum Ward
Week 30 scout report
Only 2,000 managers transferred in Son Heung-Min ahead of Week 30, with 2,000 sending him the other way. Fine margins in fantasy football and those transfers could prove the difference come the end of the season.
Leroy Sane was by some considerable distance the most popular addition, drafted into 10,000 more teams, with Raheem Sterling highest on the out-list as he continues to struggle with injury.
Tottenham's Ben Davies has been getting rave reports of late and he was the most popular defensive transfer in Week 30, seeing his name appear in 4,300 more teams. Phil Jones was the one to be culled the most, removed from 8,000.
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Is socialism winning?
by Emma Wilde Botta
Emma Wilde Botta contends that the idea that socialism is winning misreads the moment.
Some socialists have recently claimed that our movement is winning. In a post-election newsletter, the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America commented, “Although establishment Democrats belittle our movement for socialism, we know that the vision we have for this world is popular. WE ARE WINNING!” An article in Jacobin put out a similar message: “There Was Actually a Lot of Good News for the Left on Election Day.” This analysis highlights that 20 out of 29 DSA-endorsed candidates were elected and that 8 out of 11 DSA-backed ballot measures passed, including propositions on the minimum wage, child care, and rent control.
For the first post-election national DSA webinar, “Socialism is winning,” victorious DSA candidates spoke about the opportunities ahead for the Left, suggesting that electing socialists into office moves us closer to winning reforms. Jabari Brisport, who won his race for New York state senate, said:
…across the country, we’re winning these elections. We win ballot measures. We change the conversation. We shift the Overton window. We make our enemies afraid of us because they know we’re going to shift power away from the corporate elites into working class people, into marginalized communities, and give them agency for the first time in our nation’s history. I know that when we win, we can indeed win a Green New Deal. We can indeed defund the police. We can get a homes guarantee. We can get health care for all. We can eliminate student debt.
However, a broader assessment of the political landscape shows that the socialist Left is in a weaker position after this election cycle.
Successful ballot measures endorsed by DSA.
At the beginning of the election cycle, socialists had high hopes for shifting national politics to the left chiefly through the Bernie Sanders campaign. Once Sanders conceded to Joe Biden, DSA shifted the conversation to how to defeat Donald Trump. Though the organization never formally endorsed the Biden-Harris ticket, leading members advocated for supporting Biden, as did a broad array of figures on the U.S. Left.
In the course of supporting Biden, Sanders and others had to compromise on key demands including Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. Expectations had to be lowered in order to accept Biden’s uninspiring neoliberal centrism. Criticism of Biden had to be submerged, including the fact that he faces credible sexual assault allegations.
Biden will not deliver any of the things that people fought for in the Sanders campaign. In fact, Biden positioned himself in opposition to Sanders’ politics, bragging after his nomination, “I beat the socialist.” He campaigned on “law and order” in opposition to the anti-racist uprising this summer. And he responded to October protests in Philadelphia over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. with “There is no excuse whatsoever for the looting and the violence.”
Biden’s transition team is shaping up to be a centrist dream team, packed with lobbyists, tech executives, and former Obama administration officials. So far, neither Sanders nor Warren have been offered a place in the new administration. Biden recently nominated Neera Tanden as budget director. This puts Senator Sanders in the uncomfortable position of overseeing the appointment of a person who a former campaign aide called “the single biggest, most aggressive Bernie Sanders critic in the United States of America.” The Sanders wing is not on the brink of taking over the Democratic Party. Rather, the neoliberal wing appears to have strengthened its hold.
Despite the realities of a potential Biden-Harris administration, parts of the Left insisted on a vote for Biden on the basis that Trump could carry out a coup—but the Right has not been defeated. Though Trump lost the election, he received 10 million more votes than he did in 2016. He is already raising the prospect of a 2024 presidential run. On November 14, thousands of his supporters including members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers marched through Washington, D.C., in a “Stop the Steal” demonstration. Though Trump lost the election, his base has been strengthened over the course of it. To say now that the Left is winning downplays—perhaps unintentionally—the growing relevance and threat of the Right.
What does it mean to win?
The idea that the 2020 election marked a victory for the socialist Left flows from an electoralist perspective that equates winning elections with “building power” and that uses electoral victories as a gauge of strength. DSA-endorsed candidates contested 29 out of more than 595 federal, state, and municipal races. The post-election DSA newsletter points to the 73 percent win rate of DSA-endorsed candidates and ballot measures to support the idea that socialism is winning.
Socialists recently elected to office.
On the DSA post-election webinar, National Political Committee members laid out why they think the socialist Left is in a stronger position. Hannah Allison declared, “We are winning this fight to transform our world.” Allison then went through all of the electoral victories to conclude:
…We are celebrating, like many of you, the big, broad, multiracial coalition, all the amazing community organizations, unions, and national organizations that kicked Trump out of office. And there’s so much more we’re going to fight together to win. We’re going to keep fighting… and to keep building socialist power at the ballot box.
Another National Political Committee member, Kristian Hernandez, highlighted that candidates who supported Medicare for All won their races and asserted that “DSA is winning” because of the win rate of endorsed candidates and ballot measures. She explained:
While we have establishment Democrats out here trying to undermine what we accomplished together, we know that the vision we have for this world is popular. We know it was millions of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and working class people and our movements that kicked Trump out of office.
This echoes organizations like Justice Democrats that responded to centrists’ attacks on the Left by telling them:
Scapegoating progressives and Black activists for their demands and messaging is not the lesson to be learned here. It was their organizing efforts, energy and calls for change needed in their communities that drove up voter turnout.
How do we tell if we are winning?
The historic turnout of millions of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, working class people to vote for Biden is taken as a sign of the Left’s strength. But the fact that the Democratic Party mobilized its base with help from nongovernmental organizations, community groups, and unions is not a new phenomenon and does not in and of itself reflect social movement strength. Even if it did, the conclusion that we are in a stronger spot when Biden barely managed to beat Trump does not follow.
Electoral victories are not a sufficient way to gauge whether the balance of forces is shifting. Socialists winning down-ballot elections certainly points to the possibilities of the moment. But we have not yet grappled with some of the limitations of these gains, namely how little winning an election actually guarantees. Reforms are won based on the balance of class forces—when the working class creates a situation where the political price would be too high to not implement a reform. The victory of a candidate who supports Medicare for All does not necessarily tell us if we are any closer to winning Medicare for All. Though progressive ballot measures passed in some places, popular policies were rolled back by referendum in California.
The electoral arena is important, but workplaces, neighborhoods, and the streets are the primary and decisive arenas of class struggle, the spaces where workers and oppressed people can start to feel their own power.
Down-ballot socialist and progressive victories are contradictory. On the one hand, they give socialists a platform to promote ideas and politics. At the same time, they can bolster illusions that the Democratic Party can be a working class political instrument or that reforms are won by electing socialists to office.
Objective conditions make winning reforms an uphill battle. Government officials at the state and local level are likely to face austerity budgets as the capitalist class attempts to mitigate the economic crisis on the backs of working people. Just last week, the defection of several progressive Democrats and the DSA Alderman Vasquez on the Chicago City Council provided the margin of votes to pass Mayor Lightfoot’s austerity budget, which leaves police funding intact.
Chicago DSA issued a statement censuring Vasquez, a positive step that should be a model for how other DSA chapters and left-wing organizations respond to politicians. The budget vote raises larger questions about how to engage in electoral politics, what it means to hold politicians accountable, and the pressures socialists face in office.
The ideology behind “we’re winning”
If the post-election assessment is that the socialist Left is winning, then we do not have to do anything differently. That is the logic of electoralism, which rests on the idea that elections are the key source of social change. This perspective orients towards elections as the path to socialism, running candidates with the goal of gaining majorities or significant minorities in representative bodies of government to then pass reforms and eventually legislate in socialism.
If socialism is full democracy—everyday people in control of social forces that shape our lives—then movements that attempt to introduce socialism on our behalf could succeed in providing reforms but inevitably will not be socialism.
Electoralism is a political error distinct from electoral strategy itself. Socialists should contest the electoral arena. Engaging in electoral competition can be a way to measure the independent capacities of workers and social movements to fight for themselves. This is how participating in elections can build power, promote socialist ideas and lead to formation of a party that can champion demands of social movements and present an alternative to the two capitalist parties.
The lack of critical post-election assessments has meant that DSA is slipping deeper into a default electoralist practice without interrogating this slide. When Sanders conceded to Biden in early April, questions of why he lost the Democratic primary twice and what has or has not been built through DSA’s all-in for Bernie strategy were left unexplored. Many DSA members and the Left more broadly believe that Sanders almost took over the Democratic Party.
There is not a lot of talk about a “dirty break” on the socialist Left anymore. Instead, there has been a doubling down on arguments that the strategic priority should be electoral and that working class gains will be won by struggling within the Democratic Party and the U.S. state. This tendency existed in the DSA before the elections, but it seems to have deepened.
Many DSA calls and statements will end with “and we need our own party,” but it remains to be seen how that is going to influence our strategic priorities as we face a Biden administration.
DSA is the largest socialist organization in the U.S. with around 85,000 members. What are all of those members going to do? In the coming months, we must continue to discuss and debate how we are going to act differently in these new conditions.
Given the “socialism is winning” assessment, we can anticipate that some DSA members will argue for a focus on supporting and running socialist candidates. Mobilizing people as voters can be a part of a broader strategy, but if it becomes the primary goal of our organizing we risk falling into an electoralism that will not deliver working class power.
If we are not yet closer to defunding the police or winning reforms like Medicare for All, we need to reorient our strategic focus. The electoral arena is important, but workplaces, neighborhoods, and the streets are the primary and decisive arenas of class struggle, the spaces where workers and oppressed people can start to feel their own power.
These spaces have not been stagnant or quiet. This summer we saw the largest movement in U.S. history win swift, unprecedented reforms and change the entire conversation about racism and police violence. This past April, we saw a labor uprising against unsafe working conditions in hospitals and warehouses. In August, professional athletes went on strike against racism, raising the prospect of a general strike for Black lives.
We need to assess these movements and what they mean for how we can win reforms. There is a risk that “defund the police” will be turned into a legislative demand that revolves around electing better city council representatives. Yet, this summer’s rebellion showed that disruptive—often illegal—struggle from below is key to winning.
We need to throw ourselves into struggles to defund the police, to protect essential workers, to defend tenants from evictions, and to build anti-fascist coalitions.
Even though socialism is not yet winning, socialism can win.
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KNOXVILLE, November 13, 2015
The quarterfinals are set at the US-$ 50,000 Knoxville ATP Challenger taking place at the UT Goodfriend Indoor Tennis Center.
Jared Donaldson knocked out third seed Tim Smyczek, winning 7-5, 7-6. The 19-year-old from Irvine saved nine of the ten break points he faced, converting two of his own to reach his eighth quarterfinals of the season after two hours and nine minutes of play. Donaldson will take on Liam Broady next. The 21-year-old British overcame Mischa Zverev, winning 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 in one hour and 39 minutes.
Frances Tiafoe joins his fellow countryman into the stage of the final eight through a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 victory over Blaz Kavcic. The 17-year-old US-American fired 13 aces and won 75% of his first service points to prevail in one hour and 56 minutes setting his fifth quarterfinals appearance this year. Tiafoe will face fellow countryman Tenny Sandgren next. The 24-year-old from Gallatin beat with eighth seed Blaz Rola another Slovenian, winnnig 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Sandgren lost his service only once and converted two of his own break point chances to advance after one hour and 50 minutes.
Dennis Novikov emerged victorious from the all-US-American-affair with Stefan Kozlov, who gained his first win over a top 100-player this season by beating top-seed Malek Jaziri on Wednesday. The 22-year-old world number 142 defeated the teenager 6-3, 7-6 in one hour and 32 minutes meeting fifth seed James Duckworth next. The 23-year-old Australian fired 11 aces to down Sekou Bangoura in three sets, winning 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in two hours and five minutes.
Bjorn Fratangelo ousted the tournament’s number six John-Patrick Smith with a 7-6, 6-4. The 22-year-old from Florida withstood 12 aces and captialized on two of his nine break point opportunities to seal victory in one hour and 41 minutes. Fratangelo will meet Daniel Evans, who knocked out second seed Austin Krajicek with a 6-3, 6-2 win. The 25-year-old Brit saved all of the three break points he faced and converted three of his own to prevail in 65 minutes.
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AromaLAB has moved!
After almost six years in the former location in Planegg, Semmelweisstr. 3, aromaLAB has moved to its new laboratory and office space in Martinsried. Because of aromaLAB’s steady growth and ambition to continuously improve its analytical services the business segments were expanded. The previous premises could no longer keep up with this.
Since the new location is within a rather short distance from the previous facilities in Planegg, the move, which took place towards the end of October 2019, went relatively smooth and fast. After a short transition period, the laboratory is now fully equipped and functional, and aromaLAB at your service as usual.
The new accommodation in Martinsried offers not only bigger and more suitable spaces for laboratory and office work, but also a modern and convenient meeting room and training room for all kinds of advanced training and tutorials. The training room belongs to Quant Qualitätssicherung, another Tentamus company which has occupied part of the new premises in Martinsried since November 2019 and has kindly agreed to share this room with us. Thus, the move also enables further convergence and improved cooperation within the Tentamus family.
Our new address is Fraunhoferstraße 11 b in 82152 Martinsried, Germany. While all Internet and E-mail addresses remain unchanged, the contact options per phone have changed with the move: you can now reach us on the number +49 89 41325355 100. Please update our contact details accordingly.
We look forward to you visiting our new rooms!
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Fawn Lake Weekly Update, September 4, 2020
By Bedford Department of Public Works | September 5, 2020
Bedford DPW (c) all rights reserved
Fawn Lake from Springs Road
In spite of a few rain events, the Dredgit crew was able to dredge and haul all week, removing an additional 1,036 cubic yards of lake sediments for a total of 2,686 yards, approximately 33% of the total amount to be cleared. This material is being sent to the Lexington facility for reuse in their compost operations. The dredge barge has just about completed the P – P cross-section (see construction drawings, sheet C-6), and will be moving to section O – O in the middle of the lake after Labor Day.
Progress by the weed harvester this week was sporadic due to on-going mechanical issues, but it has now removed 262 cubic yards of vegetation. The harvesting should be complete by September 11th. As noted in the project plan, the southwestern portion of the lake is not being cleared. This will maintain the current habitat for species that exist in this type of resource area.
Dredgit’s subcontractor has started to install the steel sheet piles at the Springs Road dam. These 4’ by 10’ panels are being driven through the existing embankment down to bedrock to become the new structural dam. Once the sheet piles are in place, a temporary flexible dam will be installed to contain the water away from the outlet so that the organic material can be removed and replaced with structural fill. (This temporary “Portadam” should really confuse the Fawn Lake beavers.)
The trail across the dam is still closed, but the trails on the northeast side of the lake are now open. The barge cables are near the trails, but please do not cross, touch, or stand on the cables. Access from Fawn Circle is still open alongside the work site; please use caution walking across the lawn at the end of Sweetwater Avenue.
Letter to the Editor: Regarding the Question of Distancing among Children in Bedford Schools
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Jason Howerton
The Significant Detail District Attorney Claims Media Misreported in Story of Murdered Australian Student Chris Lane
"I was standing right next to him..."
Chris Lane with his girlfriend Sarah Harper. (Facebook)
The district attorney in Stephens County, Okla., says a very significant detail in the story of murdered Australian student Chris Lane has been misreported by a number of media outlets, including the Associated Press, CBS News and the Daily Mail. TheBlaze also reported the quote using Associated Press information.
Various media sources quoted 17-year-old suspect Michael Jones as saying, "I pulled the trigger" during his bail hearing on Tuesday. But Duncan Banner reporter Mike Smith reported the quote as "I didn't pull the trigger." Obviously, the two statements are only slightly different, but mean drastically different things.
Jones has been charged with using a vehicle to facilitate the discharge of a weapon and accessory after the fact of murder in the first degree. His accomplices, James Edwards, 15, and Chancy Luna, 16, have both been charged with first degree murder.
This booking photo provided by the Stephens County Okla., Sheriffs Department shows Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, of Duncan, Okla. Credit: AP
This combination made with booking photos provided by the Stephens County, Okla., Sheriffs Department, shows, from left, James Francis Edwards Jr., 15, Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, and Chancey Allen Luna, 16, all of Duncan, Okla. Credit: AP
Smith reportedly told Mediaite the the quote he used was accurate, insinuating that the mainstream media got the story wrong. He said he was "standing right there" and District Attorney Jason Hicks was "even closer."
Hicks also told the website that Smith's account was correct and Jones did in fact say "I didn't pull the trigger" at his bail hearing.
"I was standing right next to him, Mike Smith was standing right next to him, a whole bunch of deputies heard him," he said. 'The judge stopped him and told him ‘You’re here [to] set a bond, and that’s it."
The district attorney said he would have "immediately stopped the proceeding" and "filed a murder one charge" if Jones really said he pulled the trigger.
Responding to reports of racist tweets found on the suspects' social media pages, Hicks said there is no evidence to indicate that Chris Lane was murdered because he was white.
"I don't see anything there," he said, later adding, "Our focus is on making sure that we get justice for Christopher Lane."
The Daily Mail's Rachel Quigley told Mediaite that she took the seemingly erroneous quote from the AP version of the story. However, CBS News' Iris Carreras seemingly doubled down, saying the "right quote is 'I pulled the trigger.'"
(H/T: Jim Treacher, @jtLOL)
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The Free Library > Science and Technology > Environmental issues > E > January 1, 2004
The Free Library > Date > 2004 > January > 1 > E
Under the table: eco-friendly furniture that's beautiful and functional.
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If you were to dissect a typical living-room couch, you'd likely find an environmental disaster: a frame made of unsustainably harvested wood treated with formaldehyde and varnishes that can pollute indoor air; unrecyclable foam cushions dosed with flame-retardant chemicals that accumulate in fish when released into the environment; and upholstery colored with chlorine-based dyes and tacked on with toxic glues.
In fact, toxic materials are used throughout the traditional furniture-making process. The paints, varnishes and waxes commonly employed can release the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are known to decrease indoor air quality. One of the most common VOCs is formaldehyde, which is used in glues for particleboard. It is also added to paints as a preservative and to upholstery to give it a permanent-press quality. Formaldehyde emissions can cause eye and throat irritation, allergic reactions, and possibly cancer, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
"Traditional furniture can off-gas for years," says Tom Heerman, co-founder of Baltix Furniture, a four-year-old office furniture manufacturer in Minnesota. Heerman says his company only uses finishes that don't contain formaldehyde. Instead, Baltix dries products with an ultraviolet process that prevents off-gassing.
San Rafael, California-based Tamalpais NatureWorks also uses toxic-free finishes on its clean-lined furniture. The company uses paints, stains and waxes from BioShield, which makes its products out of citrus peel extracts, essential oils, tree resins, bee waxes and natural pigments. Many natural products experts also recommend that people use water-based finishes, and apply paints as powder coatings to minimize VOCs.
Furniture and bedding is a $66 billion industry in the U.S., and the vast majority of those products are still constructed in the conventional way--from declining natural resources, However, a handful of furniture makers are blazing a more sustainable path. "We're at the boutique stage now with 'green' furniture, with the exception of Ikea," says Keith Winn of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). While furniture that doesn't contain harmful chemicals or is made from environmentally friendly resources is readily available online, most conventional retailers don't offer it in their show rooms.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Wood is still the primary component of most furniture. In the face of devastation caused by widespread deforestation, some furniture makers are turning to alternative sources of lumber. "While sustainably harvested wood has been available for some years, recycled, reclaimed and urban wood products are just beginning to enter the market," explains William Callahan, founder of Tamalpais NatureWorks. Reclaimed, recycled and salvaged are terms that describe wood collected from such sources as old buildings, boats and fallen trees, as well as from lakes and streams. Urban wood usually refers to logs milled from city trees that have fallen because of storms and age. Employee-owned Tamalpais makes some of its distinctive furniture from wood salvaged from an 1888 timber mill.
Portland, Oregon-based Resource Revival started making coffee and end tables from the salvaged fir beams of old houses in 2003. "I see what we do as more like resourceful subsistence than an extension of the industrial economy, except that we scavenge from the latter rather than from the natural environment," says founder Graham Bergh. Resource Revival also uses recycled bike components in a range of unique products, including eye-catching tables (see photo at left).
The keystone component of Tamalpais furniture is actually recycled steel and brass fasteners. The parts can be ordered separately so you can build your own piece, ensuring easy disassembly down the road, and allowing you to use local wood, which reduces shipping and transportation costs.
For products made with new wood, look for a label from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Although the FSC has approved a few controversial certifications, the overall program is a good indicator of commitment to sustainability (see "Behind the Label" Currents, January/ February 2003). If you don't see a label, ask, as many companies don't necessarily advertise their use of certified wood. Swedish furniture maker Ikea, for example, uses FSC-certified material in some of its products, but doesn't use the label because not all of its suppliers qualify.
Heerman of Baltix argues that wood is not the greenest option for building. "Because wood takes a tree 10 years or more to replenish, recycling post consumer waste is the greenest method of making furniture--it stops materials from going into a landfill," he says. Baltix creates attractive bookshelves, tables and desks out of "Sunflower boards," which are made from the shells left over from sunflower seed processing (see photo previous page).
The company also uses recycled plastic, newsprint, cork, wheat straw and linoleum, a natural product of linseed. Baltix designs products for easy disassembly, which makes repair and recycling easy. Products can be sent back to the company at the end of their use instead of to a landfill.
Keeping Things Covered
Massachussetts-based Furnature is one of a handful of companies using organic upholstery. The company started making furniture for chemically sensitive people 12 years ago. "It was not our intention to make all-organic furniture, but we found that it worked best for people with chemical sensitivities," says co-founder Barry Shapiro.
Fifty percent of the toxic insecticides used in the U.S. are applied to conventional cotton, argues Rebecca Zellmer of online retailer The Green Culture, which offers a wide selection of eco-friendly beds and mattresses, nightstands, tables, dressers and armoires.
Sandra Marquardt of the Organic Trade Association's Organic Fiber Council says that while certification for organic cotton already exists, her organization is also in the final stages of developing organic fiber processing standards to cover treatment and dyeing. "The most harmful component in traditional dyes is chlorine," says Zellmer. While organic fabric is generally found in earth tones, more colors of natural dyes are on the horizon, she says.
Hemp, a durable fiber that requires low pesticide use, is also occasionally employed in green furniture. Bean Products of Chicago uses hemp upholstery on chairs (photo above), ottomans, couches and beds. "Hemp has been around forever, although it is illegal to grow in the U.S.," says Bean's Isabella Samovsky. "People associate it with marijuana and burlap. We've come a long way though--the hemp we use looks nothing like burlap." Hemp is six times stronger than cotton, says Samovsky. Bean Products uses an air-blasting process to soften the fabric.
Climatex Lifecycle, made by Swiss company Rohner Textil, is fabric made of pesticide free wool and organically grown ramie (a natural linen-like fiber). The material will decompose in the right composting system.
The eco-furniture of the future will have "health-giving" attributes, predicts Winn. "Instead of off-gassing toxic fumes, furniture will give off something beneficial like vitamin C." CONTACT: Baltix Furniture, (763)210-0155, www.baltix.com; Bean Products, (800)726-8365, www.beanproducts.com; Furnature, (800)326-4895, www.furnature.com; Resource Revival, (800) 866-8823, www.resourcerevival.com; Tamalpais NatureWorks, (415)454-9948; www.tamalpais.com; USGBC, (202)828-7422, www.usgbc.org.
TASHA EICHENSEHER is a former E intern who appreciates natural materials.
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A Case of Identity by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Mystery with a Moral by Laurence Sterne
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A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins
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August Heat by W. F. Harvey
By the Waters of Paradise by Francis Marion Crawford
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The Baron’s Quarry by Egerton Castle
The Boscombe Valley Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Corpus Delicti by Melville Davisson Post
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field by Ambrose Bierce
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The Golden Ingot by Fitz James O’Brien
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Unseen Passage: Mystery Stories
The Mystery of Sasassa Valley by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The new rules of work
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Many employees have realised that working remotely suits their lifestyles better. Photograph: Bonninstudio/Stocksy United
“Nobody knows exactly what the workplace is going to look like after the pandemic,” says Margreet Brenkman, ServiceNow’s area vice president of employee experience, EMEA. “But we do see a hybrid future – and hybrid teams and distributed work are going to be a big part of the way we work.”
The Covid-19 pandemic has been described by some as the greatest experiment in remote working the world has ever known. In April 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics, almost 50% of people in employment in the UK were doing some work from home. In white-collar-heavy London, the figure was closer to 60%. Today, 29% of the UK workforce is working exclusively from home.
In the early days of the pandemic, companies quickly realised that jobs once seen as office-only could be done remotely – so long as the right digital workflows were in place. From then on, digital transformation has been barreling forward at breakneck speed.
There have been suggestions that Covid-19 compressed a decade’s worth of digital change into six months, fundamentally altering what we mean by being “at work”. In tandem with this, some people soon realised that working from home (WFH) suited their lifestyles better. Freed of an average commute of almost an hour, workers in the UK could spend more time with their families, exercising or relaxing.
Outside of national and regional lockdowns, many people will partly return to their offices. However, with Covid-19 cases rising, it seems likely that significant numbers of people will continue to work from home. For this reason, hybrid teams – those with a proportion of remote members – are likely to remain commonplace.
So, what does this mean for the teams and those who manage them? “It’s not so much returning to work as a new way of working,” says ServiceNow innovation evangelist Nerys Mutlow. “Particularly in knowledge-worker roles, people are becoming much more oriented around tasks and outcomes.” This is welcome news for those who advocate that performance – not presence – is the true measure of an employee’s value.
This may require a change of thinking. “Managers will have to shift their mindset from activity to value,” says Mutlow. “If I have a highly skilled consultant who is only hired out for half the year, but because their experience covers their costs plus 50%, then should I care that they have only been used for half of the year?” She adds: “If you look at a lot of large meetings, with 20-30 people, only five to 10 people usually contribute.” So perhaps you only invite active participants and make the meeting available digitally for other staff, which is now far easier.
Corinne Mills, joint managing director of the consultancy Personal Career Management, says that one of the key ingredients in making semi-dispersed teams work is trust. “Where you see WFH working very well tends to be where already strong relationships are in place.” However, she adds: “If you don’t have a good relationship, it is unlikely to be improved by working remotely.”
This can be particularly tough for new joiners. “Normally you’d start at a company and on your first day you’d arrive at the office and you’d see how things are done and start to absorb the culture,” says Mills. Integrating a new person into a team is much tougher if you’re rarely in the same office – which means that having proper remote onboarding processes in place has become even more important.
Working from home tends to work best when teams already have strong relationships. Photograph: fizkes/Getty Images/iStockphoto
In terms of managing day-to-day work, digital productivity tools can help, by providing team members and their bosses with everything from workflow management to visibility. “You also need to give people access to company resources such as HR systems,” says Brenkman. “You want to replicate the work experience as closely as possible at home.”
On the subject of having the right tools, managers obviously need to ensure that those working remotely have all the equipment they need – from the right tech to ergonomic aids such as proper chairs, a keyboard and a mouse. And of course, as well looking after employees’ physical wellbeing, managers need to prioritise looking after their mental wellbeing – and there are many tools and measures that can help with this.
Much more difficult is replicating the less formal stuff – the so-called watercooler conversations, which are a traditional component of knowledge work. In-person teams are likely to see each other around the office, bump into each other while getting coffee and spontaneously share gossip and snippets of intelligence. If you’re working from home, this type of serendipity is gone. “It does take longer to build those informal networks,” says Mutlow. “You have to identify somebody, reach out to them in the virtual world, make that connection.”
However, there are other forms of serendipity that employees working remotely have been able to tap – from feeling free to flick through a magazine for inspiration at their kitchen table, to solving complex problems during the solitude of a mid-day walk.
It’s important to recognise how remote working can unleash different kinds of productivity and then encourage teams to lean into that. By encouraging employees to play to the strengths of their own particular circumstances, managers can foster a powerful kind of agility that hadn’t really existed before.
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This approach can also help managers to guard against the emergence of a two-tier workforce, where those working remotely find themselves at a disadvantage to those who work in the office, particularly when it comes to career progression. This is bad for morale and for teamwork.
Mutlow says one novel way to connect remote teams might lie in video games. “When my kids were in lockdown, they played a lot of Roblox, which is a kind of virtual world. They were always bumping into their friends there. Children do it really well.”
Another more formal way of maintaining contact among staff in hybrid teams is to ensure you have weekly meetings – perhaps, first thing on a Monday morning where everyone attends and is encouraged to participate and the agenda is open. Of course, this could turn into a two-tier event, with 20 people in a room and 20 people on video calls. One solution would be to have everyone join virtually.
Although the pandemic may feel like it’s dragging on forever, truly widespread hybrid teams are relatively new and we’re still on a steep learning curve. As more and more people, especially managers, work at least part of the time from home, it will get easier. And together we will figure out which tactics and tools work in the new normal of remote work.
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The Ledger Book Club: You'll Want To Pass on Patterson's 'Toys'
By JEFF KLINETHE LEDGER
It's a rare occasion when The Ledger Book Club is in complete agreement about a book, be it positive or negative.
But that's what happened with James Patterson's new novel, "Toys." Panel members were unanimous: They didn't like it.
Been there, read that, saw the movie (which many feel is sure to come in another year or so,) and knew how it would end way before the final chapter, were the common criticisms.
Think of the movies "Terminator," "Six Days," "Minority Report," and "Gattaca" and that pretty much sums up "Toys," panelists agreed.
Plus, the novel doesn't hold together, they said.
"Toys" is set 50 years hence, in 2061. By this time, man has created literal super men and women, people who are a combination human and machine, enhanced with microchips and programming. These super people are called elites and they have combined to "save" planet Earth from humans, who were killing each other and using up natural resources at an alarming rate.
The elites are in charge of everything, while humans are reduced to subservient roles and mostly live in poverty.
Hunting down criminal humans is the job of Hays Baker, an elite super agent with the Agency for Change. But through a series of violent events, Baker discovers he is not who he thinks he is and the world of the elites is not what it seems to be.
Without spoiling the plot, those who have many toys are unknowingly in a lot of danger from an elite conspiracy. Trouble is, elites have the most toys. So it follows that they would be the ones most hurt if the conspiracy goes off as planned.
"The book makes no sense," said panelist Ada Lavin, who knew by the end of the first chapter (and chapters in t.
"It's like taking a 16-ounce soda and pouring in 32 ounces of water. It's all watered down and full of fluff. You could read this book in your sleep and know what the ending is going to be," said panelist Michael Pimentel.
Panelist Sally Miller agreed, finding the book predictable and much too violent. She also was bothered by some lose ends, like what becomes of Baker's children.
"It was a comic book without pictures," is how panelist Terry Christian described it.
Besides finding the book something of a cliche, panelists were disappointed that the story wasn't better.
Panelist Joy Banks felt let down because the book begins with a definition from the Oxford English Dictionary and a quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica.
"I was hopeful. I thought, 'Good, this is going to be high minded, thoughtful, future analysis,' and then no."
Lavin thinks Patterson fans will be disappointed by "Toys" as she was. She blames it on Patterson hiring other people, in this case Neil McMahon, to write the books.
"When he (Patterson) writes a book all by himself, they are well thought out. But when he writes them with others, they're not go good."
Other Patterson books "have interesting, believable characters and exciting, imaginative plots," Christian said. "This story had cartoonish characters and a tired, cliched plot. It reads as though he simply bought an amateur's manuscript and put his brand on it."
The panel's advice: If you still decide you want to read "Toys," go to the public library and borrow the book; don't spend your money on it.
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Marjorie Irna STINSON
Marjorie Irna Stinson passed away peacefully at home on Monday Feb. 18, 2008 in Agassiz, BC. She was born February 12, 1943 in Brandon, MB.
Marge is survived by her son and daughter–in-law Zane and Kim Williams; her mother and step-father, Pearl and Howard Katzeley; and her father David Thacker, all of Calgary, AB; sister, Margaret (Barry) Konzelman in Winnipeg, MB and brother, Keith Katzeley in Calgary.
Marge, who recently turned 65, was well known to many people in the area for her quick wit and quiet mischievous smile. She was an avid reader, evident by her collection of nearly 1000 books.
Marge had extremely close family ties and a love of animals, especially her dog Amy.
Marge always made her final wish clear that when she passed, we were not to mourn her death but instead to celebrate her life with a toast. Marge, we love you, and you will be missed deeply.
A casual come and go was held on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008 from 1 – 3 pm at the Elks Lounge, Unit 7, 1824 #9 Highway, Agassiz.
If family and friends so desire memorial donations to the SPCA P O Box 142, Chilliwack, V2P 6H7 would be appreciated.
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Penny Swift, executive director of Education Through Music, writes that she champions a new emphasis on ensuring students have access to an in-school, qualified arts instructor.
This new emphasis is obtained from the City Controller Scott Stringer's report on New York City's creative economy. The report finds that "an astonishing 12% of all creative industry jobs in the United States are located within the five boroughs — compared to less than 3% of all jobs nationally."
Among the report's recommendations for capitalizing on and broadening this growth is to "ensure that every New York City school has access to a full-time arts educator."
As a former educator and an education advocate, Swift finds it reassuring that creative career opportunities may exist for every single child who wants to pursue them. She also addresses educational segregation perpetuates workplace and societal segregation. Read the Entire Article
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Lawyer For Tyler Clementi’s Roomie Asks That Charges Be Dropped
August 13, 2011 by Andrew Belonsky
Lawyers for Dharun Ravi, the man accused of bullying late Rutgers University Tyler Clementi, have asked that the charges against their client be dropped.
Ravi, they say, didn't use a webcam spy on Clementi, who killed himself after being harassed for being gay; rather, Ravi wanted to make sure that no one was stealing his belongings.
And to prove their case, the defense team has submitted web transcripts and emails that they think will help paint a clearer picture of what happened before Clementi took his own life.
From the New York Times:
The papers, hundreds of pages in all, include transcripts of some of each student’s online chats and of interviews with witnesses.
Mr. Ravi’s lawyer attached them to a motion seeking a mistrial and a court order compelling the prosecution to identify the man whom Mr. Clementi took to his dorm room.
Mr. Ravi’s co-defendant, Molly Wei, who has known Mr. Ravi since grade school and has agreed to testify against him, described him to investigators as a braggart and a habitual liar, who tried to mislead the police into thinking that the spying was unintentional.
Even before he met his future roommate, Mr. Ravi had learned from some Internet research about Mr. Clementi’s sexual orientation, had written about it on Twitter and was discussing it with friends.
On Sept. 19, three days before he killed himself, Mr. Clementi asked Mr. Ravi to leave their room for a few hours. Mr. Ravi figured out that his roommate intended to have another man visit.
“Dharun’s in my room and he’s kind of freaking out,” Ms. Wei said of the episode in an interview with investigators, adding that he had said he was worried the visitor would steal his iPad.
Mr. Ravi set up his webcam so that they could view his room on Ms. Wei’s computer, and later turned it on and saw Mr. Clementi and his guest, their shirts off, kissing and touching. “We were both kind of just in shock,” she said, “just freaking out.”
According to the Times, the chat transcripts also show that Clementi was unconcerned about being outed, that the 18-year old's mother was unsupportive of her son and that he preferred to be alone, rather than socialize.
"I would die if I was forced to always have people around me," the teen wrote in one chat.
The detail that strikes me here is the fact that Ravi and Wei were "freaking out" about Clementi having sex with another man, yet continued to watch. If they were so disturbed, rather than having a cheap laugh, why didn't they find something else to do?
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Global Asset Allocation: March Insights
Discover the latest global market themes and the outlook for the world's major regions
Yoram Lustig, Head of Multi-Asset Solutions, EMEA
Coronavirus: Shock to Supply and Demand
While last year’s heightened trade tensions weighed on global supply chains, the worldwide spread of the coronavirus has nearly brought activity to a standstill, creating the potential for a global economic shock. The outbreak has not only disrupted supply chains and reduced access to goods, but fears of the infection spreading and associated work stoppages are weighing on consumer spending. This comes at a vulnerable time as growth in many developed markets had just started to recover from last year’s lull, particularly across Europe, which is now at risk of deteriorating. Companies closely tied to the consumer—including retail, technology, and consumer goods—are already acknowledging the impacts to sales and earnings expectations. Economies reliant on tourism, particularly in Asia, have also taken a hit as consumers continue to pull back on travel plans as the virus spreads to new regions. Global economic growth will certainly take a hit; however, the full impact is likely to be felt over the course of several months.
Whatever It Takes 2.0?
Expectations are heightened for central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, to take further policy action to avoid an economic collapse due to the coronavirus outbreak. G-7 central banks pledged to collaborate and take concerted action to provide ample liquidity to ensure stability in the global economy, despite limited room for monetary policy. So far, the Fed has delivered a 50-basis-point inter-meeting cut, and other countries, including Canada, Australia, and Malaysia, have also cut rates. Apart from the Fed, many central banks within developed markets most impacted by the virus are starting from a position of weakness, with already low or negative policy rates and extended balance sheets. With limited tools in their arsenals and questionable ability to stave off the virus’s economic impacts with monetary policy alone, “whatever it takes” may need some fiscal help this time around.
Biden’ Time!
Equity markets rallied in response to the outcome of Super Tuesday primary elections after former Vice President Joe Biden, a perceived moderate, secured the lead among Democratic hopefuls to challenge President Donald Trump. Moderate Democrats united in the days leading into Super Tuesday with other key candidates dropping out and pledging support for Biden. For now, Biden’s strong performance has quelled investors’ fears that had gained traction in February as Senator Bernie Sanders, who is viewed as a less market-friendly candidate, rose to the lead. Notably, managed health care companies, that would be most at risk of Sanders’ “Medicare for All,” rallied on the news. With former Mayor Mike Bloomberg also dropping out, Biden looks more likely to take the nomination come July. Looking forward, markets will likely refocus on the potential threats to Trump’s economy resulting from the spreading coronavirus and the real chance it could derail his reelection prospects.
For a region-by-region overview, download the PDF.
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2015-12-16 · Truck
More concrete pays off
Payload advantage provided by the lightweight MAN TGS 32.400 mobile mixer chassis
The calculation is simple: if you deliver more concrete per day, you increase sales and profit. This is achieved, not with faster round-trip times, but with an increase of approx. 0.5 m³ per load on each round-trip.
The permissible weight for four-axle vehicles in Germany is 32 tonnes. Concrete is a heavy cargo - normally calculated at approx. 2.35 tonnes per cubic metre. Vehicles with a drum capacity of 9 m³ are widespread among concrete transport companies in Germany and, in line with this, may be loaded with around 7 to 7.5 m³ of concrete. The greater the payload the chassis provides, the more concrete can be charged into the drum. The four-axle MAN TGS 32.400 8x4 BB is specially designed for this purpose – with no compromise made in terms of driver and passenger, economy and suitability for the industry. It manages around 8 m³ of concrete with the same sized drum. Result of the calculation: Based on 9 round-trips a day, a MAN mobile mixer chassis with optimized payload allows an additional 10 tonnes of concrete to be delivered.
The four-axle MAN TGS 32.400 meets the requirements of the industry perfectly. It provides a weight optimized frame made of high-strength steel, a light-weight but powerful 400 HP engine from the D26 CommonRail series combined with the MAN TipMatic automated gearbox and a wheelbase of 2505 mm between the second and third axles ensuring compact vehicle dimensions and optimal manoeuvrability both in traffic and on the construction site. It also includes a uniform set of tyres in 315/80 R 22.5 format all round on aluminium rims, tanks for 300 litres of diesel and 35 litres of AdBlue, a spacious and clearly arranged M cab and a partially raised Euro 6 exhaust system behind the cab. This arrangement reduces dust circulation on the construction site caused by the exhaust gas stream. The chassis therefore has an empty weight of around 9360 kilogrammes with an empty tanks for fuel and water.
The payload remains at exactly 8 m³ of concrete in each case for manufacturers of the truck mixer body and tank filled with diesel, AdBlue and 300 litres of water - both designed for 9 m³ - plus the driver, in order to comply with the gross permissible weight of 32 tonnes.
The idle speed driving function included in the MAN TipMatic gearbox uses the high torque of the engine at low speeds, providing greater comfort when driving slowly and allowing for greater fuel-savings.
Following the bauma trade fair in 2016, the overall weight of the TGS 32.400 8x4 BB will improve again for the better: MAN will introduce a light-weight double hypoid axle with a load capacity of 11,5 tons which further increases payload by ca. 180 kilogrammes compared to the standard hypoid axle which has a load capacity of 13 tons.
This MAN chassis is also available as a right-hand drive. In markets which do not have a stipulated maximum permissible gross weight of 32 tonnes, the vehicle weighing up to 34 tonnes is approved.
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Your smart TV is spying on you. Here are step-by-step instructions to stop it
Jefferson Graham / USA TODAY
Those smart TVs that sold for unheard of low prices over the holidays come with a catch. The price is super low, but the manufacturers get to monitor what you're watching and report back to third parties, for a fee.
Or, in some cases, companies like Amazon (with its Fire TV branded sets from Toshiba and Insignia) and TCL, with its branded Roku sets, look to throw those same personalized, targeted ads at you that you get when visiting Facebook and Google.
It doesn't have to be this way. You have the controls to opt out. Within just a few clicks, you can stop the manufacturers from snooping on you in the living room.
Amazon-branded 'Fire TV Edition' sets
Go to Settings and Preferences, where you have several categories to uncheck. Select "Privacy Settings," and make sure "Device Usage Data," "Collect App and Over-the-Air data" and "Interest-based ads" are turned off. (And be sure to go back and check your settings often. We own one of these sets and had "interest-based ads" turned off. When we checked Wednesday, it had somehow clicked back to "on.")
Amazon will urge you to turn interest-based ads back on, saying that the apps will be instructed not use your information to "build profiles" for advertising purposes or "target you with interest-based ads. It only sounds like a great deal.
TCL/Roku
TCL makes branded Roku TVs with software also used in sets by Hisense, Hitachi, Insignia, Philips, RCA and Sharp.
Turn off ACR by going to Settings, then Privacy, and "Smart TV Experience." To disable ACR, make sure all the options there are unchecked, notes CNET.
In the menu, click to Settings, which brings you to All Settings, and find your way to General. The feature to look for here is LivePlus, which is what LG calls the ACR technology that monitors your viewing. This is the one you want to turn off.
On newer sets, go for Settings in the menu, then Support, then Terms & Policies. From there, CNET suggests "Choose Viewing Information Services" and unchecking the ACR tab. Personalized ads are in Service Privacy Notice, where you uncheck Enable to hopefully stop them in their tracks.
Consumer Reports notes that ACR is turned on during setup of the TV, via agreements with Sony, which makes the TV; Google, which provides the AndroidTV operating system; and Samba TV, a company that gathers analytics on viewers' habits that advertisers can use for targeted ad campaigns.
On Sony TVs, you'll have to go back to the setup, available within Settings, to turn off ACR.
For Vizio sets, select System, click on "Reset & Admin" and opt for "Viewing Data" to opt out of ACR.
And there's always a simpler, incredibly effective step. If you don't want your viewing tracked, just turn the WiFi off on the set altogether and just rely on your cable TV signal.
But what fun is that? You won't be able to say "Alexa, turn off the TV" or "Hey Google, open Netflix."
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Popular programme tough to Master
The first Masters programme offered by Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is proving so popular it has already expanded once and is likely to do so again.
He Waka Hiringa – Master of Applied Indigenous Knowledge – was initially offered only at Mangakōtukutuku campus but due to its popularity, it is now offered at Māngere as well.
However, with more than 100 potential tauira still on the waiting list, kaiako Dr Hohepa Tamehana is hoping the programme can next be offered in Wellington or Palmerston North, to cater for the lower North and South Island.
“We want to open more streams but we have to get it right first,” he says.
“We expanded to Māngere to cope with some of the waiting list but they ended up with their own waiting list.”
The two-year applied master’s degree offers tauira the opportunity to enhance their education and practice and to contribute to a community project.
Hohepa says the levels of experience needed to be accepted onto the programme cannot be underestimated.
“With this masters, to get in you have to have practice that is guided by Māori or indigenous principles and values,” he says.
“You can get on with practice and no degree but not with a degree and no practice. It acknowledges the experience of the practitioner.”
He says the programme is proving increasingly popular because “it gives us the right to sit in the academic space and to challenge in that space. It places our lived experiences and principles at the forefront.”
It also enables tauira who have vast experience but no formal qualifications to achieve a higher degree.
“Many of our tauira left school with no qualifications or were quite afraid of academia,” Hohepa says.
The programme involves tauira identifying, researching and carrying out a community project, along with completing a 20,000-word exegesis.
That means their knowledge is being applied in the community - which can mean more than whānau, hapu and iwi – and Hohepa says the focus is not to find out what we are doing wrong.
“We are not identifying problems and fixing them. We look at what you do and rangahau how to do that better.”
Hohepa says the key difference between He Waka Hiringa and a traditional masters degree is the necessity of tauira to be experienced in their subject area.
“With a usual masters, you can study anything you want and don’t need any experience in that field. We don’t do that.”
Tauira are placed into one of three streams, depending on their specialisation, and carry out their rangahau and community project from home while also attending noho each year.
Tauira include teachers, health practitioners, social workers, environmentalists, carvers, weavers, kai kōrero, and kaikaranga, among others, and Hohepa says it is likely many will go on to complete a PhD, but they will also continue to work in their communities and to share their knowledge.
“Our rangahau is about sharing knowledge, not gathering knowledge.”
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4 Ways to Help Your Kids Play Freely Outside
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Free play is so important, yet gets short shrift in our safety-obsessed culture. Parents need to learn how to cut a child loose, for his or her own benefit.
My boys spent several weekends this fall building a tree fort in the forest across the road from their grandparents’ house. While I’m a big supporter of outdoor projects, it is slightly nerve-wracking to see my 4- and 7-year-old sons heading into the bush, hauling brush to create their special place.
My inner dialogue runs wild: What if they got lost in the forest? No, they’re unlikely to wander away from where the action’s at. What if they get hit by a car, crossing the road? There’s hardly any traffic. What if a bear comes along? Don’t be ridiculous. Bears would stay far away from all the noise they make.
Worries melt away when I see their fabulous structure, built with some help from a teenage uncle. Red-cheeked and sweaty from the hard work, they are proud as can be. They show me their cannon, their spyhole, their battering ram, their cave, their lookout. This is heaven for them.
Kids need time and space to run wild and free, but it depends entirely on parents allowing them that freedom – something that is increasingly rare in a safety-obsessed culture. This is especially tragic because my generation of new, youngish parents is arguably the last generation to have enjoyed childhood freedom. If we fail to pass on that experience to our own kids, it will be much harder for them to implement in their future parenting.
There are legitimate hang-ups that get in the way of allowing kids freedom; so how does one go about addressing these? In an article for Outside called “The Importance of Free Play for Kids,” writer Katie Arnold gives helpful suggestions for how to set your child loose.
1. Build a community
Not everyone may feel the same way about free play as you do. Speak with neighbors to explain why and how you’ll be letting your child roam. Encourage other parents to let their kids out to play, too, so yours won’t be alone.
“Open the lines of communication with other parents about your shared goals for getting kids together for unstructured play and together strategize ways to make it a reality.”
2. Schedule unscheduled playtime
It may sound like an oxymoron, but in kids’ over-scheduled lives these days, it is helpful to set aside specific blocks of time that allow for free play. Purposely leave some after-school hours or weekends empty. The more you do it, the more normal it will feel for your family, and the more you’ll see the surprising benefits of unstructured activity. You don’t have to go completely overboard and cancel all extracurriculars. As Richard Louv, author of Last Child In The Woods and Vitamin N, says, “Some is better than none and more is better than some.”
3. Be a ‘hummingbird’ parent
Hummingbirds are much less obnoxious than helicopters! Sometimes parental supervision is necessary because your child is quite young and really cannot be unattended. In this cause, hover on the periphery, keeping an eye out but allowing him or her to explore independently. Sit on a bench in the park, stand at the kitchen window, read a book on a step. Be present, but uninvolved, ready to rescue if truly needed.
4. Aimlessness and adversity are OK
Why do we have such a phobia of boredom? Kids’ boredom is surprisingly fleeting, as I’ve learned from watching my boys. They complain, but inevitably find something to do. As long as their go-to distraction is not a screen, let your kids be bored. They’ll figure it out, and there is probably a lot more going on in their minds than you’d ever think.
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NBA Betting Picks: Los Angeles Clippers at Houston Rockets Preview & Predictions
March 5, 2020 by Jared Johnson
You won’t want to miss this game. In one of the most anticipated matchups of the season, the 42-19 Los Angeles Clippers and 39-21 Houston Rockets square off in Houston today (8 p.m. ET Thursday on TNT).
Both teams are very healthy right now after facing some injury problems throughout the season and are playing well as of late. Los Angeles is on a five-game winning streak in which it has outscored opponents (four of which are in playoff positioning) by an average of 17.4 points per game. Houston snapped its own six-game winning streak with a disappointing loss against the New York Knicks on Monday, but the squad is undoubtedly ready for redemption after a couple of days off.
The second-seeded Clippers and fourth-seeded Rockets should definitely provide us with an entertaining game today. We’ll hone in on some key factors that will decide the outcome before nailing down the best ways to bet on the contest with our LA Clippers vs Houston Rockets predictions.
Will Ivica Zubac Chip in With Any Sort of Impact for Clippers?
The Rockets’ super-small-ball approach since trading away center Clint Capela has worked well, in general. The team is 7-3 since the trade deadline and has wins over the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics (twice), Utah Jazz and Memphis Grizzlies.
However, Houston’s strategy does make it a poor rebounding team. The Rockets have been outrebounded in each of their 10 games since the trade deadline, but the disparity becomes much worse in their losses. Houston has been outrebounded by an average of 21.7 rebounds in its three losses since the deadline, while the Rockets have been outrebounded by only 4.9 boards per game in their wins.
Clippers starting center Ivica Zubac is a very traditional seven-foot center who scores efficiently inside the paint and rebounds very well but he struggles to space the floor and defend the perimeter. He usually plays about 20 minutes per game and is good for around eight points and seven rebounds.
I could see Zubac’s impact in this game being very limited by the Rockets’ versatile, quick lineups. I could also see him dominating the boards and making Houston pay for trying to defend him with players much shorter than he is.
Will Eric Gordon Rise to the Occasion for the Rockets?
This season has been an injury-plagued one for Gordon, who is averaging a five-year low in points per game (14.8) and a career low in true-shooting percentage (51.6). Recently, things have been even worse.
Gordon hung a spectacular 50 points on the Utah Jazz on January 27, but his scoring average since then is just 11.5 points per game. He is also shooting a terrible 34.5 percent from the field and 23.9 percent from three-point range.
The key thing about Gordon is that he doesn’t have a conscience. Whether he is red-hot or ice-cold on his shot, he is always going to fire away shots that he likes. In this game, we’ll see if he rises to the occasion against his former team and against Lou Williams, a former teammate who he’s fought with in the Sixth Man of the Year award voting in recent years.
Will the Russell Westbrook-Patrick Beverley Rivalry Affect Things?
There aren’t many better individual rivalries in the NBA than the one between Westbrook and Beverley. It started with Beverley injuring Westbrook in the playoffs seven years ago, and their competitive play and disrespectful comments to each other continue to this day.
One fun storyline to watch in today’s game will be how the feud between these two point guards will affect the game. Beverley has mocked Westbrook’s shot this season, and Westbrook has also suggested strongly that Beverley is an overrated defender. The intensity between the two players might be at an all-time high.
There is a difference between playing with controlled aggression and playing with an out-of-control anger. Both guys need to play intense basketball without letting their emotions lead to bad fouls or ill-advised shots and turnovers.
Our Betting Preview’s LA Clippers vs Houston Rockets Predictions & Picks Verdict
This is a drama-filled game with seeding and pride on the line. With so many players on both teams who have played for the other earlier in their careers, there is sure to be a lot of competitiveness.
When both the away and home teams have very similar levels of motivation, I think home-court advantage becomes less of a factor and the players themselves play a bigger role. As such, I like the Clippers’ defense and their depth of offensive options a little bit better, so I expect a win for them. So these are today’s LA Clippers vs Houston Rockets predictions against the lines from the sites for online betting in the USA:
Los Angeles is just the better team and doesn’t have a glaring weakness like the Rockets have (rebounding) with their super small lineups. You should bet on the Clippers +1 point @ -115 with Intertops or Bookmaker. It is “pk” (ie: no spread and effectively just the moneyline) with Bovada, BetOnline and 5Dimes.
A playoff atmosphere will lead to more isolation basketball and defensive action that is high intensity.For the second of the picks, taking the under 236.5 total points @ -110 with Intertops seems like an obvious choice.
Jared is a lifelong sports fan and writer whose specialist subject is NBA. A 2015 graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University, with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, Jared has been a sought-after freelance sports writer. In addition to his valuable USA Betting contributions, he has also written for other top media outlets.
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An ophthalmologist is a medical or osteopathic doctor who specializes in eye and vision care. Ophthalmologists are specially trained to provide the full spectrum of eye care, from prescribing glasses and contact lenses to complex and delicate eye surgery. Many ophthalmologists, including those at Virginia Eye Institute, are also involved in scientific research into the causes and cures for eye diseases and vision problems.
An optometrist receives a Doctor of Optometry (OD) degree, is licensed to practice optometry and specializes in examining the eye for the purpose of prescribing and dispensing corrective lenses, screening vision to detect certain eye abnormalities, and prescribing medications for certain eye diseases.
An optician is trained to design, verify and fit eyeglass lenses and frames, contact lenses and other devices to correct eyesight. They use prescriptions supplied by ophthalmologists or optometrists, but do not test vision or write prescriptions for visual corrections.
Will I be dilated at my exam with the retina specialist?
Yes, in order for the retina specialist to fully evaluate the retina, you will need to be dilated. We recommend having someone drive you to and from your appointment.
How much does an exam cost without insurance?
It varies based on the exam, however the charge for a complete dilated eye exam is $200. Also, look at our VEI Outreach for activities Virginia Eye Institute provides to those in need, or contact Access Now – a community partnership VEI is part of that improves access to health care for low-income, uninsured residents of the Greater Richmond metropolitan area. Refraction is the measurement of the focus error of an eye. It determines the set of lenses that will best focus the light entering the eye. The results of a refraction are used to: (a) determine the health and visual potential of an eye; (b) aid in performing tests such as visual fields; and (c) to prescribe glasses and /or contact lenses. Refraction is considered a “non-medical” service by most insurances companies and is therefore most usually a non-covered service. The refraction fee is $40 and is due at time of service, if performed as part of the patient’s examination.
How do your prices compare to your competitors?
Our prices are comparable with both Medicare fee schedules and area competitors in ophthalmology, optometry and optical. Also, please reference the Optical, Cosmetic and LASIK sections of our site to see the latest specials and promotions.
ZEDS Clinical Research Study
The Zoster Eye Disease Study (ZEDS), supported by the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, aims to determine the best treatment to reduce the complications of herpes zoster ophthalmicus, also referred to as shingles of the eye. Our goals are to have a diverse group of study participants and to make the study as accessible as possible across the United States and Canada. Your participation in this research study will enable us to find the best treatment for zoster/shingles of the eye. Interested in being in our study?
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Opportunity for a privacy law that works for consumers, businesses
By Patricia KosseimContributor
Wed., Sept. 16, 2020timer2 min. read
Early on during the pandemic, at a time when they were feeling most vulnerable, Ontarians reacted with disgust to reports of stores charging sky-high prices for disinfectant wipes.
The government responded quickly with an emergency order prohibiting businesses from charging grossly unfair prices for necessary goods.
Ontarians could breathe a sigh of relief, knowing we are protected from predatory pricing. But what protection do we have against predatory practices involving our personal information?
Unlike other provinces that have their own private-sector privacy laws, Ontario does not. Businesses here are subject to a decades-old federal law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
Many criticize PIPEDA for not keeping pace with digital technology and lacking enforcement teeth. Meanwhile, privacy laws emerging around the world provide for binding orders and administrative penalties.
But a modern private-sector privacy law is about more than punishing the bad. It’s also about encouraging the good.
It recognizes modern business realities of different-sized organizations and aims to solve problems rather than add to the regulatory load. It levels out the playing field, requiring all businesses to be fully transparent about what they do with people’s data and to come clean in the event of breaches.
A forward-looking privacy law creates space for public-private partnerships, supporting ethical research and innovation to address some of society’s most pressing health, social and economic problems.
It respects consumers as human beings, not just bits and bytes. It requires businesses to explain, in simple ways, the risks and benefits of online products and services. It supports informed consumer choices, helping build trust and confidence in the marketplace.
While a modern privacy framework respects privacy through meaningful consent, it is also practical and realistic.
It allows for certain business practices without consent, when individuals can reasonably expect them as part and parcel of what they signed up for, subject to appropriate conditions and regulatory oversight.
A modern approach also requires an agile regulatory authority — one that is sufficiently flexible to adapt to fast-changing times, with the right tool box to engage with businesses and provide real-world advice on emerging privacy issues.
The provincial government recently released a public consultation paper on the potential creation of a made-in-Ontario, private-sector privacy law. The paper considers many of the key ingredients of a modern privacy framework.
Given the right dose and combination, these ingredients can support businesses in Ontario’s data-driven economy as they pivot business lines to reinstate much-needed jobs and put their ingenuity to responsible use.
Consumers, too, stand to benefit from a modern privacy law with greater transparency and stronger protections — particularly at a time when they are carrying out most of their lives online.
COVID-19 provides a critical stress test for Ontarians to think carefully about what kind of law can stand up to this grand challenge, and sustain future challenges to come.
This is an important time to pursue a new private-sector privacy law for Ontario. I encourage all Ontarians to join in the conversation.
Patricia Kosseim is Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner.
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All You Need To Know About The FIFA World CUP 2018 So Far
The FIFA World Cup 2018 is in full swing as the group matches are about to end. The match between Panama and Tunisia on 28th of June will be the last match of the first round. There has been a lot of shocking moments in the World Cup 2018 so far. The match results such as Germany losing its first match to Mexico, Spain drawing against Portugal, Argentina leveling the scores against Iceland which made its first appearance ever in any FIFA World Cup, and Argentina losing 3-0 to Croatia have put the football fans in a shock.
Not all the football stars are performing well. Leo Messi of FC Barcelona couldn’t score a single goal for his Argentinian team while Mo Salah from Egypt couldn’t perform for his team as he was expected to do after his phenomenal season at Liverpool.
Don’t forget to get yourself some amazing online football backpacks in Pakistan.
The first crucial match of the World Cup was between Spain and Portugal. The match ended with a score of 3-3 and Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a hat-trick. From the side of Spain, Diego Costa scored two goals while one was from Nacho. The match turned into an extreme thriller when Ronaldo scored his third goal on a free kick in the 88th minute of game.
Watch the highlights of Portugal vs Spain thriller here.
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Germany although lost its first match against Mexico but managed to win its second match against Sweden by 2-1. Argentina managed to equalized against Iceland but lost 3-0 to Croatia. Lionel Messi was bashed widely on social media for missing out on penalties and free kicks and not being able to score even a single goal for his team when they needed his performance the most.
Watch the highlights of Argentina vs Croatia thriller here.
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Brazil has managed to win both of its first matches of the group stage. England has also won matches against Tunisia and Panama. Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur scored a hat-trick in the match against Panama. The teams of France, Uruguay and Russia have also qualified for the next round.
As of now, only two quarter finals have been decided. The match between Uruguay vs Portugal will take place on 26th of June while the thriller between Spain and Russia will be held on 1st of July.
No matter if you are a football fan or not, almost every person watches the FIFA World Cup. The tournament has been a great source of entertainment so far. Now is the time to express your love and craze for the football season by and and every means. Get these amazing football mobile covers to show your loyalty for your favorite team or football star.
Moreover, watching a crucial match wearing your team’s shirt multiplies the fun. Get your hands on these quality football t shirts in Pakistan for yourself or for your friends.
All You Need To Know About The FIFA World CUP 2018 So Far was last modified: June 28th, 2018 by admin
Four items you need to buy for school this year
New school session is always a big deal after vacations when it comes to kids. The endless lists of what we need to buy for ourselves that we can take to school with us is relatively a bigger deal than actually shopping for some cool items you can take to school with yourself.
This story is of not me or you; it is of every school kid in the world. Hence, if you have not planned what you would like to take to school this year, and is it going to be something new or not, let’s make a list of some things that you’d definitely need for school this year:
Notebooks:
Notebooks are one of the essential items that you need for school after you’re done with your vacations. Not only you need a single notebook for school but several, as they are your requirement for every subject. Hence, if you want to buy some notebooks that are cooler than the usual ones, and would make your friends swoon over them, then you need to look for some notebooks online to purchase, or you can get them designed yourself in reasonable prices.
Keychains:
Keychains are something you may have not thought of as an item you’d like to take to school, but now you have. Keychains are something that work as an additional accessory when attached to the zip of your backpack or your pencil box. Not only keychains look cool on your bag, but they also make people think of why they don’t have one on their bag. So, in case you’re wondering where you can buy an amazing keychain, then you need to look for some custom keychains online, or get them customized for yourself!
Backpacks:
The next thing that you undoubtedly require for your school is a backpack. Your parents always tell you that backpack don’t matter that much, but you know that your backpack is something that creates an impression in school. Hence, you need to search for a backpack that looks cool on you and portrays your personality. If you’re looking for something different then you can buy backpacks online in Pakistan online as online websites own backpacks that are not only funky, but those that will also look amazing to carry in school.
In the weather like Karachi’s, you always need a water bottle to carry with you to school. Not only the water bottle will help you stay hydrated throughout the day, but will also help you smack it on to your best friend’s head in school whenever he teases you. Hence, you need to search for a good water bottle that will not only keep the water cool for a long time, but will also look good whenever you take it out.
School accessories are something that keeps on changing according to the trends and requirements of the kids. It depends on their personal choices over what they prefer to take with them to school.
Four items you need to buy for school this year was last modified: June 22nd, 2018 by admin
Your Ramadan starter pack for 2018 in Pakistan
When it comes to Ramadan, the holy month brings us a lot of things along with glories and blessings. From spending nights before sehri gossiping while watching guys play cricket on the roads, stuffing yourself with loads of food every single day, and praying five times a day without missing out, your month of Ramadan becomes a special one.
Ramadan in Pakistan may be a bit difficult due the constant load shedding and heat waves, but it is still a memorable one. Not only do we miss Ramadan when it’s gone, we desperately wait for the Holy month to come back.
Hence, we’ve made a list of all the things you’d require for your Ramadan this year. Also, some of these might also work as Ramadan gift ideas, if you want to gift it to somebody:
Khajoor:
We all know that there is no Ramadan without khajoor. Also, khajoor becomes the ultimate bae of every rozedaar in Ramadan. Hence, khajoor AKA Ramadan ki soghat can be used as one of the Ramadan gifts to gift to somebody.
Paper fans:
In the weather so hot prevailing in Pakistan, you might want to get a handful of papers, and use them to make some paper fans for yourself. Not only will these fans keep you cool throughout your roza, but will also distract you from whining about how hot it really is.
Rooh afzah:
Rooh afzah AKA the national sherbet of our country works as an ultimate chiller in iftar. Not only is it used widely, but is also loved by everybody enough to be used with water and doodh every single day. Hence, we probably won’t hesitate in saying that there is no Ramadan without Rooh Afzah!
Tasbeeh:
You may not pick up tasbeeh all year, but you definitely will in Ramadan.
Ramadan may make you religious all of a sudden, but the change is definitely appreciable. Hence, purchasing a tasbeeh for Ramadan is a must when you don’t have one at home.
Pakoray:
The next thing listed is something that we can’t live without during Ramadan. It is something that is a must for holy month. It is pakoray!
We all say goodbye to food items like French fries and say hello to pakoray in Ramadan. We eat them every day, we love them every day, and we try every type of pakoray during Ramadan. Without these heavenly deep-fried food items, our Ramadan feels quite empty.
Emergency lights:
You might be able to spend your entire day without light, but sehri and iftari are gonna be the crucial two times of the holy month of Ramadan when you would want light to be available. With the constant load shedding, you might want to buy a rechargeable emergency light for those intense moments.
Hence, we want you to enjoy the holy month praying, eating, laughing at nights, and watching all those cringe-worthy Ramadan transmissions on TV, and we hope you have an amazing Ramadan this 2018!
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Starz Puts Itself Up For Acquisition, Meets With Fox for Potential Bid
The premium cable company’s market value is currently $3.2 billion, Discovery is said to be interested
Sharon Waxman | September 23, 2014 @ 8:42 PM Last Updated: September 24, 2014 @ 9:22 AM
Starz is shopping itself for possible acquisition, taking a meeting on Tuesday with 21st Century Fox, according to individuals with knowledge of the encounter.
A Fox insider said that the media company was not seriously considering an acquisition and that their executives take meetings of this kind “all the time.” The insider said the meeting with Starz CEO Chris Albrecht and his investment bankers occurred “as a courtesy.”
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Starz could be a valuable asset to the right media company. The premium cable company could be valued at more than $3.2 billion based on its share price of $29.58 on Tuesday.
One individual close to the discussions said Discovery Communications was an interested bidder. Update: An individual with knowledge of the discussions denied that Discovery had submitted a bid.
The Walt Disney Co., which does not have a premium cable channel and whose CEO Bob Iger has acquired numerous assets in recent years, could be another potential buyer.
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Starz, which was spun off from Liberty Media in 2013, makes its revenue from affiliate fees paid by cable and satellite distributors such as Time Warner Cable, Comcast and DirecTV.
Albrecht, a former HBO executive, has aimed to distinguish Starz as a producer of premium content such as “Black Sails,” a pirate drama with its seconds season set to air in January, and “Outlander,” based on the popular book series by Diana Gabaldon. Its biggest hit to date has been “Spartacus,” which ran for three seasons from 2010-2013.
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A spokeswoman for Starz did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
Fox showed a serious appetite for acquisition with CEO Rupert Murdoch’s bold bid to buy Time Warner earlier this year for $80 billion. Time Warner rejected the offer, and Fox’s share price took a beating in the aftermath of the rejected offer.
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RBS tipped to appoint McKillop
By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 02:28 EST, 28 June 2005
ROYAL Bank of Scotland is tipped to appoint veteran Scottish pharmaceuticals boss Sir Tom McKillop as its next chairman at the group's half-year results in August.
Sources in Scotland believe the AstraZeneca chief executive would help advance the global ambitions of RBS supremo Sir Fred 'The Shred' Goodwin, particularly in America and China.
Speculation grew at the weekend that AZ was lining up its American operations chief, David Brennan, as McKillop's successor at the drugs giant.
An announcement could be timed to coincide with AZ's interims on 28 July, just days before RBS reports figures on 4 August.
Drugs analysts said that McKillop had failed to deliver on his promises to outperform the group's peers.
Last year was disastrous for the company as two blockbuster drugs failed to make it to market. Banking sources said that McKillop's succession to retiring chairman Sir George Mathewson was one 'well-connected Scot' replacing another.
McKillop, the son of a coal miner, started his career with ICI in 1968, where he eventually became head of drug research. He led the Zeneca spin-off from ICI in 1993 and joined it with Astra in 1999.
Shares in RBS closed down 21p at 1696p, while AZ slipped 26p to 2225p. AZ and RBS both declined to comment.
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Why It Hurts So Much When a Friendship Ends
There are few among us who haven't had to deal with the heartache and anxiety that comes with a platonic breakup.
by Annie Armstrong
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It's expected that a romantic breakup will wreck you emotionally. Breakup albums are abundant to the point of cliché, and there's approximately a billion books and movies on the subject.
Little art has been made on the subject of losing friends, though. Which is surprising, given how frequently it happens. According to researchers in the Netherlands who studied the relationships of 604 people, over half of friendships expire after seven years.
And losing a friend sucks. Whether it's the result of a blowout fight, moving to a different area, or gradually falling out of touch, there are few among us who haven't had to deal with the heartache and anxiety that comes when a platonic relationship ends.
For a romantic breakup, a long period of emotional disarray is anticipated, but platonic breakups are often dismissed and quickly swept under the rug.
I talked to Irene Levine, psychologist and author of Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup with Your Best Friend, about why it sucks so bad to lose a friend and what we can do to get over it.
VICE: Why don't people talk about friendships ending that often?
Irene Levine: Pop culture mythologizes friendships, suggesting they should last forever. So women, especially, are often judged by their ability to make and keep friends and are embarrassed that others will see the end of a friendship as a personal failure. Men often stereotype and dismiss friendship breakups among women as catfighting. Breakups are trivialized because it's hard for outsiders to understand the depth of feelings involved in a close friendship.
Why are friendships important for people to have? What do we get out of these relationships?
Our friendships are nothing short of life affirming. They make us feel valued, understood, and connected to something larger than ourselves. Our friends introduce us to new experiences and ways of being. Good friends are there to cheer our successes and console us when things go badly. Unlike [familial relationships], these ties are totally volitional. These are people we choose to be with because the relationship is a mutually satisfying one. What is different about the pain of losing a friendship versus losing a lover?
Outsiders to the friendship may not appreciate the significance of the loss or offer up much sympathy. When someone breaks up with a lover or divorces, everyone rallies around her with support. The same isn't true with friendship endings.
Why do you think that the older you get, the fewer friends you tend to have?
It's not age, per se, that makes it more difficult to find and have friends. It's more likely to be related to circumstances. For example, when we are in high school and college, we are thrown together with people at the same stage of life, in the same physical location, with similar interests, who are eager to befriend their peers. After that, people branch out in different directions as they further their education or pursue careers and romantic relationships. This also may entail geographical moves that put the kibosh on (or dramatically alter) past friendships. When people are juggling responsibilities and paving a path for the future, it's less convenient and more difficult to carve out time for friends. With age comes more responsibilities, and many people view friendships as self-indulgent. How do you think a relationship becomes toxic?
A friendship is toxic when it is one-sided, unsupportive, and undermining. It isn't necessarily the fault of one or both individuals but a toxic friendship is no longer reciprocal. It feels draining and unrewarding. How do you know when it's appropriate to step back from a friendship?
The decision whether to—and how to—step back from a friendship should be considered carefully beforehand. Ending a friendship opens the door for collateral damage. Your friend may know secrets you don't want spilled. You may have friends in common who will be uncomfortable with the breakup. You may be co-workers and the demise of the friendship can potentially strain your working relationship. Your ex-friend may become angry and resentful. If you were to bear the brunt of a platonic breakup, should you take this personally?
If you said or did something wrong, or didn't say or do something you should have, of course, not only should you take it personally, but you should apologize to the other person and learn from the experience. In most circumstances, however, breakups are "no fault." Neither person has enough interest and motivation to sustain the friendship. Bear in mind that it may have more to do with the other person and his or her life than it has to do with you. What are good coping mechanisms for going through a platonic breakup?
Remember that it takes time to get over any loss. Also, remember you're likely to romanticize the positive aspects of the friendship and gloss over the reasons the relationship ended. Try to fill your reclaimed hours catching up with other people and activities you've missed. Don't succumb to the myth that all friendships are forever. Most friendships end, even very good ones end over time. The ending of the friendship doesn't invalidate prior positive experiences. Use your learning to be a better friend and make better choices in the future.
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Patek Philippe Nautilus review
Patek Philippe (Patek Philippe replica) was founded in 1851, the company provides a series of iconic luxury watches, has since attracted watchmakers and wearers. Patek Philippe thanks the keyless winding system and many other watch innovations. Many Patek Philippe watches have incredible complexity and are known for their excellent performance. These watches are coveted. In fact, many of the most expensive watches sold at auction come from Patek Philippe.
Patek Philippe Nautilus History
The original Patek Philippe Nautilus was designed by Gérald Genta, who is also known for designing Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. This luxurious sports watch is inspired by the unique round shape of the ship’s porthole. Upon closer inspection, you will find that the waterproof case of this design provides a slightly octagonal bezel that is cleverly beveled and engraved. The bracelet is fully integrated, with offset links and folding clasp, which can bring a distinctive appearance while providing a comfortable feel.
The nautilus watch is named to commemorate the submarine that Captain Nemo drove in Jules Verne’s 20,000 Undersea Leagues. Even if it provides a water resistance of 120 meters, it is not considered a professional diving watch.
Like many Patek Philippe Nautilus models, the original Jumbo Nautilus model 3700/1 is made of stainless steel. It gets its name because of its size: at launch, Jumbo’s 42mm diameter was considered quite large. The giant nautilus is equipped with a black dial, delicate horizontal stripes on the surface, a date window at three o’clock, a luminous platinum hand and a baton hour marker.
The first lady Patek Philippe Nautilus (reference number 4700) came out in 1980. In 1981, a smaller and thinner case was introduced, with a diameter reduced by 37.5 mm. Patek Philippe (Patek Philippe) reference 3800 / 1A was not immediately welcomed when it entered the market, but soon after, consumers picked it up.
In 1998, the Patek Philippe Nautilus model 3710 / 1A came out. The model uses an iconic black dial, but no crossbar design. Slim seconds, bold Roman numerals and a power reserve indicator at 12 o’clock make the design more attractive. The date remains at three o’clock. When introducing this model, Patek Philippe restored the original design in size. Like a giant aircraft, the Nautilus in 1998 provided a 42 mm case. It is only 8 millimeters thick and manages to combine the lightness, luxury and sporty dimensions to give the model a wide range of appeal.
In 2005, Patek Philippe cited the original giant design again. The 3712 on the black dial has a striking horizontal texture. Simulated date and moon phases, power reserve indicator and independent second hand have increased interest.
Patek Philippe (Patek Philippe) model 3712 is a rare replica watches swiss, loved by collectors. It was produced only in 2005 and was discontinued before the new generation Nautilus model was introduced in 2006.
Seeing the 30th anniversary of Patek Philippe Nautilus, Jumbo fans were thrilled. Compared to the original design, the product number 5711 / 1A was launched in 2006 and has many visual similarities, including baton markings and simple horizontal textures on the black dial. This model is equipped with a 43 mm case, a central seconds dial and a simple date window at three o’clock.
Two models were introduced in 2006, including Patek Philippe model 5712, which is the successor to Patek Philippe 3712. Like model 5711 / 1A, this model uses a 43mm case. It also includes an independent second hand, power reserve indicator and date / moon phase indicator. Its hands are more slender, and the dial has a blue and black tone, which makes it different from the previous model.
The Nautilus chronograph 5980 came out in 2006. A bolder 44 mm case is equipped with a black dial with iconic stripes, luminous baton markings and hands. The relative automatic chronograph movement and subtle second hand increase the appeal of the model, while the date window at three o’clock is more classic.cheap men watch
Although the original design of Nautilus was mainly stainless steel, some models did have precious metals, including platinum, gold, white gold and rose gold. A few have blue, gray, gold, chocolate or white dials instead of black dials, and various complex functions have been incorporated over the years. Patek Philippe Nautilus Travel Time Chronograph 5990 / 1A is a good example. It has a column-wheel flyback chronograph and dual time functions.
Many Patek Philippe Nautilus models use a transparent back cover, which gives a clear view of the movement. Some are set with diamonds and some are set with leather or crocodile straps instead of the classic chain bracelet.
Italian Juventus football player Claudio Marchisio and Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema prefer the Patek Philippe Nautilus Chronograph Ref 5980 made of classic stainless steel.
Actors Jonah Hill and Jimmy Fallon were spotted wearing the Patek Philippe Nautilus Ref 5711 / 1A in “Tonight Show”.
The actor Robert Downey Jr., whose star, Tony Stark (Iron Man) Avengers series movie wears Patek Philippe Nautilus number 5712 / A.
Don Cheadle, also a famous figure in the Avengers, was found wearing a Patek Philippe Nautilus Ref 5711 / A.
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The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, J.D., 2015
The Ohio State Law Journal, managing editor, 2014-2015
Gonzaga University, B.A., 2012, magna cum laude
Admitted to practice law only in the states listed above.
Chris is an associate in the litigation group in the Columbus office. His practice focuses on complex business, commercial, class action, and contract litigation. He has significant experience in counseling large commercial clients related to potential litigation, including breach of contract, statutory and regulatory compliance, and general best business practices. Chris also maintains a significant privacy and data security practice, advising companies regarding privacy compliance and technology, including privacy policy creation, marketing, information sharing, cybersecurity, and unfair competition.
Chris received his J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he was the managing editor of the Ohio State Law Journal and a co-founder of The Ohio State Energy Law Society. He received a dual Bachelor's degree in finance and political science, magna cum laude from Gonzaga University.
Professional and Community Activities
Skating Association for the Blind and Handicapped, volunteer
St. Aloysius Youth Athletic program, golf, basketball and baseball coach
International Thespian Society, member and former chapter president
Vorys Welcomes New First-Year Associates
Vorys is pleased to welcome seven new first-year associates to the firm. Christopher LaRocco joined the Columbus office; Lauren Brown, Timothy Dougherty and Laura Erdman joined the Cincinnati office; Natalia Cabrera joined the Cleveland office; and Andrew Gordon-Seifert and Brian Simmons joined the Akron office.
Vorys Attorneys Daren Garcia, Blake Finney and Chris LaRocco spoke at an eCommerce Consortia meeting on February 19, 2020.
The ADA Applied to Websites in 2018: An Increased Liability Exposure for Businesses
Vorys hosted a webinar series highlighting important topics in the consumer finance industry on November 14, 2018.
Consumer Financial Services Webinar Series
Vorys hosted a webinar series highlighting important topics in the consumer finance industry on October 23, 2018.
Vorys is proud to have host a webinar series highlighting important topics in the consumer finance industry. Webinar dates included March 15, April 10 and May 8, 2018.
2017 Cybersecurity Days
Chris Ingram and Chris LaRocco spoke at the 2017 Cybersecurity Days at The Ohio State University on September 21, 2017. They discussed the legal and regulatory requirements of cybersecurity.
On January 6, New York legislators introduced Assembly Bill 27, the Biometric Privacy Act (BPA).
California Attorney General Releases Fourth Draft of Proposed CCPA Regulations
On December 10, 2020, the California Attorney General proposed modifications to its recent California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations.
Client Alert: California Voters Set To Approve New Privacy Rights Act – 5 Things to Know
California voters are set to approve the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA).
Client Alert: California Governor Signs CCPA Amendment Giving Clarity for HIPAA-Regulated Entities
Governor Gavin Newson signed a bill on Friday, September 25 to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to exempt certain health information from the CCPA, among other things.
Client Alert: Indiana Attorney General to Create Safe Harbor for Businesses that Implement Reasonable Cybersecurity Plans
On September 23, at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event, Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill announced his intention to establish a rule to give businesses an incentive to implement cybersecurity plans to protect Indiana consumers’ information from cyberattacks.
Client Alert: California Legislature Extends CCPA’s Employee and Business-to-Business Exemptions Until 2022
On Sunday, August 30th, the California Legislature passed AB 1281, a bill extending the business-to-business and employee carve-outs to California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance until January 1, 2022.
Privacy Alert: New California Privacy Rights Act Headed to California Ballot
On June 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) became eligible for the November 2020 general election ballot in California. The CPRA would expand and amend the recently-operable California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Privacy Alert: Final Proposed Regulations Filed for CCPA
On June 1, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra submitted the final proposed regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL).
Senators Propose the COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, John Thune, Jerry Moran, and Marsha Blackburn recently announced their plan to introduce the COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act, seeking to provide Americans more transparency and control over the collection and use of “covered data” during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
CCPA Update: Zoom Application Facing Several CCPA-Related Class Action Lawsuits
Although the draft regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have not been finalized, businesses are already encountering a wave of CCPA class action lawsuits.
Client Alert: California Attorney General Releases Third Draft of Proposed CCPA Regulations
Yesterday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released a third set of draft regulations (the New Modifications) implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Businesses Now Being Sued in Latest Class Action Wave for ADA Claimed Violations for Gift Card and Expanded Web/App Accessibility
Beginning in October 2019, more than a dozen individuals through at least four law firms have filed hundreds of new lawsuits against businesses alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990’s Title III (starting at 42 USC §12101), as well as local New York state (N.Y. Exec. Law Article 15) and New York City Human Rights Laws (starting at N.Y.C. Admin. Code §8-101).
Ohio Criminal Supreme Court Decision Permits Banks to Recover Restitution for Forged Checks
By 6-1 vote, the Ohio Supreme Court recently ruled that under Ohio criminal law, a bank that cashes a forged check and then recredits a depositor’s account is a “victim” such that the person who forged the check may be required to pay restitution to the bank.
Client Alert: California Attorney General Releases Modified CCPA Draft Regulations
On February 7, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released proposed modifications (the Modifications) to the previously-released draft regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Client Alert: CCPA Amendments Update
Last Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed several last-minute amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Client Alert: California Consumer Privacy Act Amendments Update
On July 9, 2019, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) amendment picture got a little clearer as the California Senate Judiciary Committee advanced several amendments while also eroding and eliminating others.
Client Alert: Privacy law update: Nevada and Maine Pass Laws Restricting the Sale of Personal Information
Last week Nevada amended its law that governs online privacy policy disclosures to now give Nevada residents the right to opt out of the sale of certain personal information.
Client Alert: In Line with Recent Trends, New Jersey Amends its Data Breach Notification Law to Expand the Definition of “Personal Information”
Earlier this month, New Jersey joined a growing list of states which require companies to provide notification under their respective data breach laws where non-traditional personal informational is compromised.
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Doctors, nurses, social workers, and first responders are the types of professionals thought of when it comes to reporting elder abuse.
Client Alert: Canadian Privacy Commissioner Releases Data Breach Notification Guidance
Canada’s new mandatory breach-notification requirements in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) take effect on November 1, 2018.
Client Alert: D.C. Circuit Narrows FCC’s Broad 2015 TCPA Order
Financial Services Alert: Key Updates: Financial Institutions, Websites and the Application of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Over the past year, various plaintiff-side law firms sent aggressive demand letters on behalf of activist organizations and individuals to financial institutions – typically community banks – asserting that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to websites.
Client Alert: NIST Guidelines Expanded to Include ‘Internet of Things’ Devices and Systems in the Private Sector
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an updated draft of its Special Publication (SP) 800-53, Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations that sets forth cybersecurity guidance for securing devices and software commonly referred to as the “internet of things.” The draft represents NIST’s latest attempt to produce a unified information security framework for the federal government that is now also bleeding into the private sector.
Client Alert: Historic Win for Plaintiff in First Ever ADA Public Accommodations Website Accessibility Trial
This week a federal judge in Florida passed down one of the most historic ADA website accessibility decisions to date, finding that Winn-Dixie was liable under Title III of the ADA because its website was inaccessible.
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overnights Nov. 2, 2015
The Affair Recap: You Can Stay
By Angelica Jade Bastién
Editor’s Rating 4 stars ****
Photo: Mark Schafer/Showtime 2015
The Affair gives me emotional whiplash. Last week I felt the show was at its worst with one of the most ponderous, morose, and boring episodes. This week it’s back in my good graces by juxtaposing the perspectives of Alison and Cole to great effect. A lot of the time, the framing device of The Affair gets bogged down in minute details (characters wholly absent, different clothing, dramatically conflicting tones) when circling the same incidents in different perspectives. Episode 205 eschews this for a seamlessness between their memories. But it isn’t a perfect episode.
The flash-forward dealing with Noah’s upcoming murder case still feels like an afterthought the writers only remember to include at the very last moment. But there are some worthwhile developments in the few minutes the flash-forward is given. Most interestingly, it isn’t told from any of the main character’s perspectives. Jon meets Detective Jeffries at a cozy Montauk restaurant (we realize at the end that it’s Cole’s, given the name) and proposes a different suspect for Scotty’s murder: Cole. When Jeffries leaves, Alison’s sleazy former boss, Oscar, gives Jon a tip that may lead to Noah’s innocence or incriminate Cole. We don’t get to see what it is exactly, but it’s obviously important. It was only a matter of time until Cole was pulled more into the investigation.
But what makes this episode so great is how it addresses nagging questions I had about the emotional dynamics of the characters with a heartbreaking sincerity: How do you deal with being in love with someone who has hurt you, who you can’t see a future with? How will Alison live without Noah at the cabin, in light of last week’s events? How does Alison wrestle with being Noah’s muse? It’s this last question that threads through the entire episode.
Alison is an incredibly lonely woman. Even when Noah is around there’s a sense that Alison is searching for her identity, some sense of purpose from him. Which is dangerous to do. This week Noah is absent, but his presence is clearly felt. Alison’s chapter opens with her waking up to an empty bed, her hand grazing where Noah should be. Throughout the episode she calls him over and over to figure out what they should do next. Should she stay in the cabin? What are they supposed to do now that Helen has made it clear she doesn’t want her around their children?
The first question resolves itself with the tense interactions between Robert and Yvonne. It’s clear when we see Alison interacting with Yvonne that her assistant position isn’t going to last long. Yvonne is increasingly cold to Alison. She glares at her, undercuts her every move, criticizes her clothing as if she is wearing too little. I was waiting for her to call her a “slut” under her breath. While it isn’t said explicitly, it’s obvious why she’s treating Alison this way: Noah’s novel. Yvonne has been, to quote Robert, “devouring” Noah’s manuscript. Noah may try to act like the female lead in the book isn’t Alison, but it’s clear to everyone else she is.
When Alison helps Robert with physical therapy, things take an unexpected turn. Apparently, Yvonne was his first wife’s friend. Their relationship also started with an affair. Robert frames Alison as blameless in the situation. As if the affair were an unavoidable reaction like gravity itself, which I think is far too simplistic of a reading. But it’s one Alison shares. “I felt like I had been asleep for years in this fog of grief…and then there’s this person that makes me feel alive,” Alison says about Noah. I like seeing Robert and Alison interact. He often comes across as a kindly confidante. Which is exactly what Alison needs. But this dynamic shatters when Robert gets a hard-on, promptly ending the physical therapy session and their conversation about their respective affairs. “I guess you just have this effect on men,” he says. Damn. That’s the very last thing Alison wants to hear. Alison is struggling with how she’s looked at as only a sexual figure. This image of her is a fantasy that Alison is finding it hard to escape from.
Later, after getting Noah’s voicemail again and more coldness from Yvonne, Robert comes by the cabin to see Alison. He very gently fires her on Yvonne’s behalf. Apparently, Yvonne wants someone “more professional” and found it in a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. While he won’t say it outright, the real reason is obviously Yvonne doesn’t trust her and looks at her through the lens of Noah’s writing. Robert tries to soften the blow by saying Alison was never meant to be someone’s assistant. That’s all well and good. But Alison needs a job and some money and a way to create her own life (though I’m unsure about how much she wants that sort of independence).
When Alison storms into Yvonne’s home to confront her about being fired she finds the place empty. But Noah’s manuscript is on the desk and she gives in to temptation. Through Noah’s voiceover we finally get to hear his writing. And the way he characterizes the Alison figure in the novel explains Yvonne’s coldness. “She was sex…the very definition of it, the reason the word was invented,” he says. Alison flips through page after page, each new piece of voiceover more damning than the last. “No marriage no matter how strong could survive her,” he reads. That isn’t a woman, that’s a fantasy, and it’s why I didn’t find it romantic whenever Noah refers to her as his muse.
Muses can’t mess up. They can’t create art of their own. They can’t have a life of their own making. Reading the manuscript, Alison faces this truth. Maybe Noah isn’t in love with Alison but the idea of her. And if that’s true, what does it say about their future or her place in their life?
Alison does the one thing she can think of: She packs all her things, leaving the cabin to go into the city. She goes to the one place she thinks Noah may be: his former brownstone. Unfortunately, it’s Helen who answers the door. “You have a lot of balls coming to my house.” I agree, Helen.
Helen and Alison are a study in contrasts. Helen looks remarkably put together even with those harsh, platinum highlights. Alison looks like she’s unraveling by the second. Alison tries to apologize by saying she didn’t mean to break up their marriage. Again, Alison, own up to your decisions no matter how ugly they are. You had agency. Pretending otherwise makes that apology feel very insincere. Helen does give her some important advice: At first, Noah seems like one of the greatest men. He’s passionate, caring, and involved. But once he feels comfortable enough, he blames all his pain, headaches, and mistakes on whatever woman he’s with. I’ve dated (and dumped) men like this when I was younger. I love this scene. The acting, framing, dialogue is all on point.
Unable to find Noah or go back to the cabin, Alison goes to the only other place she feels she can find what she needs: Montauk.
Going into Cole’s chapter I wondered when (and if) Alison would show up. She does, in a big way. But first we see the state of Cole’s life. He’s much better than the last time we saw him, but I wouldn’t say he’s making great choices. Cole is screwing around with the blonde woman he once gave a cab ride to. The sex scene veers from mortifying to oddly comical. Blondie keeps calling Cole “ranch hand” and is one of the most annoying characters I’ve seen in a while. The writers seem to be playing a game of one-upping themselves. Just when you think it couldn’t get worse, her husband storms in on them in the most compromising position. It’s hilarious, to say the least.
The most important new figure in his life is Luisa, an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador who has been in the States for most of her life. We saw her a few weeks ago when Cole dropped off Bruce in his cab, nut we get a deeper understanding of her here. She seems to nanny for various people in the area, including the blonde woman in the aforementioned sex scene. Luisa’s involved with Scotty, although that blows up when she finds out he deals drugs. She’s sweet, smart, and I like the way she curses. She seems to bring out something in Cole we don’t get to see that often: a smile.
We see Scotty and Cole share a few ugly, heated moments. Scotty has appraisers visit Cole’s home uninvited. He’s possessive over Luisa. He arrives at Cole’s announced to pick a fight only to stop when he sees it isn’t Luisa who is keeping him company but Alison. But it’s clear Cole and Luisa are going to get together. Coupled with what we learn in the flash forward, Cole is looking more and more like a worthy suspect.
Toward the end of the episode, Cole comes home to see the lights on. He gets a baseball bat from his trunk and creeps inside. Instead of an intruder he finds Alison asleep in the bedroom. He wakes her up. It’s obvious things have taken a nosedive with Noah even if she doesn’t say so explicitly. Alison is afraid there’s something wrong with her, that people think she’s a slut. He doesn’t think she is. I think Cole is the only person who doesn’t look at Alison as a muse or minx or slut, butas a complicated woman.
“People don’t see me Cole. They just want to fuck me […]But they don’t see me. They don’t care,” she says. Alison was breaking my heart throughout the entire episode, and I really felt for her here. She knows she has no direction and hasn’t done much with her life. She’s afraid she doesn’t matter. Cole reassures she does matter, at least to him. I love seeing Alison and Cole interact like this. I honestly prefer seeing how her relationship plays out with Cole than anything going on with Noah. Mostly because I want to set Noah on fire.
“Cole, can you just stay?” she asks. So he crawls into bed and holds her. This is one of kindest, most romantic moments in the entirety of The Affair. Which may be a problem since this isn’t the central relationship. But I loved watching it anyway. They kiss passionately and although it isn’t seen, we can assume they had sex.
What I loved about the interactions between Alison and Cole was how it seamlessly reflects what we saw in her perspective. This is one of the first times I think Alison comes across as the same person in both her perspective and that of another lead character. It doesn’t surprise me. I feel like Cole and Alison greatly love each other, but just haven’t been able to mend their relationship in light of their son’s death. Grief changed the architecture of their relationship, but the love is still there.
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By Beka Compton News November 5, 2020
A tail-wagging' Aloha
WAITSBURG-Not everyone is as excited to wake up in Hawaii and go to bed in Washington as Lark, the dog. On October 28, a Hercules C-130 flew more than 600 dogs and cats from the Kauai Humane Society...
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Six cases of COVID-19 reported in Columbia County on Monday
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Manners in a pandemic
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Stubbins Sets Keeneland Record in G2 Woodford Stakes
by Xpressbet
In the 23rd running of the $200,000 Woodford (G2) Presented by Keeneland Select, Joel Rosario had Stubbins at the rear of the field as Satellite Storm led the field of nine through fractions of :21.18 and :44.21 over the firm turf course.
On the far turn, Stubbins eased off the rail, waited behind horses and swung five wide at the top of the lane for clear sailing. In midstretch, Leinster had emerged with a daylight advantage only to be nailed in the final sixteenth as Stubbins moved on to a three-quarters of a length victory.
Stubbins finished the 5½ furlongs in 1:01.44 eclipsing the stakes record of 1:01.67 set by Sgt. Bert in 2006 and the course record of 1:01.53 established by Perfect Officer in 2012.
Doug O’Neill trains Stubbins, who delivered the first Woodford victory for O’Neill and Rosario.
The victory was worth $120,000 and improved Stubbins’ bankroll to $418,151 with a record of 10-4-2-2. It is the first graded stakes victory for the 3-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Morning Line out of the Atraf (GB) mare Sierra Vista (GB).
Stubbins, a Keeneland sales graduate, returned $17.20, $7 and $4.40. Leinster, ridden by Tyler Gaffalione, returned $4 and $3 and finished 1½ lengths in front of favored Imprimis, who paid $2.40 to show under Paco Lopez.
It was another two lengths back to Smart Remark, who was followed in order by Extravagant Kid, Fareeq, Win Lion Win, Satellite Storm and Royal Commish.
WOODFORD STAKES QUOTES
Joel Rosario (winning rider of Stubbins)
On the difference today and his last race on Sept. 12 at Kentucky Downs when he was second to Legends of War in the Nevada State Bank Franklin-Simpson (G3)
“Today, it looked like there was good speed in front. There was good speed at Kentucky Downs, too, but it was a bit different – the horse that won (Legends of War) had a tremendous race. (My horse) came running and was a good second. Today, he came running and put in a good run there at the end. I tried to stay in (on the rail in the turn). I was saving ground and then when I had some room was able to turn him loose.”
Tyler Gaffalione (rider of runner-up Leinster)
“It worked out perfect. The speed went on. We were able to relax right off. When I asked him, he finished up strong. The other horse ran us down. My horse was in full flight and that horse (Stubbins) was finishing all the way to wire – he had a lot left.”
Joe Orseno (trainer of third-place finisher and beaten favorite Imprimis)
“He (jockey Paco Lopez) wanted to get to the outside and he couldn’t. The 9 (Leinster) was holding him in there, he said, and he couldn’t run his race. It’s not that (Imprimis) has to be on the outside but he was trying to run and he couldn’t.”
On whether Imprimis will continue to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships
“If he’s OK, then I think we should plan for it. He was running at the end.”
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DXC Technology Receives Top Customer Satisfaction Score in Spain
December 2, 2020, 2:00 AM ·2 min read
Ranks #1 in 2020 IT Outsourcing Study by Whitelane Research and Quint
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is ranked number one for customer satisfaction in Spain’s most extensive survey of IT service provider performance. Moving to the top spot from second position in 2019, this recognition reflects the "new DXC" and the company’s focus on its customers and people, as well as outstanding service delivery and account management quality.
(Graphic: Business Wire)
The 2020 Spain IT Outsourcing Study, conducted by Whitelane Research in collaboration with Quint (the transformation consultancy firm), examines more than 620 IT sourcing relationships held by over 230 of the top IT spending organizations across all industry sectors in Spain. Twenty IT service providers were evaluated and ranked based on the opinion of their customers (see graphic).
"This achievement recognizes the ‘new DXC’ and the daily dedication and commitment of our entire team," said Juan Parra, General Manager for Spain and Portugal, DXC. "We are very proud to be recognized by our customers as the market leader in Spain, helping run their mission critical systems while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds across the Enterprise Technology Stack."
The study also underscores DXC’s leadership position in IT outsourcing and cloud capabilities, two layers of the Enterprise Technology Stack. These capabilities enable DXC to manage their customers’ existing investments in enterprise infrastructures and provide a path to move portions of their IT estates to the cloud. Eighty-four percent of the companies surveyed recognize DXC as one of the major national providers of public cloud services.
"DXC has consolidated a leadership position in the Spanish market," said Jef Loos, Head Sourcing Research Europe, Whitelane Research. "Customers recognize DXC for the quality of the services delivered and their ability to help organizations successfully undertake their cloud transformation journeys".
For more information on DXC Technology, click here.
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Alex Rodriguez Accused of Racketeering and Civil Theft in Ongoing Legal Battle
Alex Rodriguez has been accused of racketeering and civil theft, the latest step in a years-long legal battle with the younger brother of Rodriguez’ ex-wife, Cynthia. The former New York Yankees slugger — and fiance of Jennifer Lopez — has been locked in a legal dispute with Constantine Scurtis since 2014 around a joint real estate venture that was launched almost two decades ago. Among the 59 counts in a lengthy amended complaint filed in a Florida State court on Jan. 8, Scurtis accuses Rodriguez of racketeering and civil theft. While a 2015 New York Daily News report outlined accusations against Rodriguez of mortgage and insurance fraud, the new complaint lists evidence that supports those claims. “Mr. Rodriguez will face a jury on August 2, 2021, to answer claims that he and his co-conspirators engaged in a pattern of racketeering and embezzlement, gravely damaging a legitimate and successful family real estate business that Constantine Scurtis built through hard work and savvy investment decisions, as laid out in the complaint,” Scurtis’ attorney, Katherine Eskovitz, said in a statement. Also Read: Virtual Concert Innovator Wave Raises $30 Million in New Funding From Maveron, Scooter Braun and Alex Rodriguez In the complaint, Scurtis accuses Rodriguez of lying and cheating in their real estate partnership, including “breaches of fiduciary duty, breaches of contract, and illegal and fraudulent pattern of criminal activity–including embezzlement, obtaining property by fraud, insurance fraud, forgery, mail fraud, and wire fraud.” It goes on to say that “through their racketeering, Rodriguez and his co-conspirators have caused Scurtis many millions of dollars in damages.” Scurtis had filed a $50 million lawsuit against Rodriguez last July. Denying all allegations, A-Rod countersued. Scurtis is now demanding a jury trial on all counts and issues. Rodriguez’ attorney, John C. Lukacs of Coral Gables, Florida, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This is not Rodriguez’ first brush with the law: While playing for the New York Yankees in 2014, he was suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs and violating the MLB’s anti-doping rules. Pamela Chelin contributed to this report. Read original story Alex Rodriguez Accused of Racketeering and Civil Theft in Ongoing Legal Battle At TheWrap
Samaritan's Purse Opens Southern California Emergency Field Hospital
Today, Samaritan's Purse opened an Emergency Field Hospital in Lancaster, California, as coronavirus cases are at a critical level—with reports showing one virus-related death every six minutes in Los Angeles County. The 54-bed specialized respiratory care unit is being operated in partnership with Antelope Valley Hospital to relieve some of the burden faced by the region's healthcare professionals. The hospital's opening comes just nine days after the organization began accepting patients at a similar respiratory care unit in western North Carolina.
Study Shows Election Misinformation Dropped 73 Percent After Trump's Twitter Suspension
Ever since Donald Trump was suspended indefinitely from Twitter, election misinformation has fallen by 73 percent, according to a recent study.
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Though Rams head coach Sean McVay told the Fox broadcast in a halftime interview that Aaron Donald wasn’t on a snap limitation, he clearly was not 100 percent after suffering an injury to his ribs last week. Donald had only one tackle on the final stats sheet. He was also consistently shown on the sideline, [more]
Former CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson denies sexual assault lawsuit accusations
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Packers obliterate NFL’s No. 1 defense during dominant playoff win
The Packers offense obliterated the Rams' top-ranked defense during the NFC Divisional Round.
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Driver/Trainer Bill Carter Sweeps Both the Open Pace & Trot Saturday at Shenandoah Downs
(WOODSTOCK, VA. — 9/20/2020) —- Driver/trainer Bill Carter swept both Open classes in back-to-back fashion Saturday in Woodstock as Shenandoah Downs concluded its fifth annual opening weekend festivities.
Carter, last year’s winningest reinsman, piloted Pilgrims Lass to a wire-to-wire effort in the $7,000 Open Trot and reached the winners circle again the next race —a $7,000 Open Pace — with Captain McKee.
Driver Bill Carter in the winners cirle Saturday.
The former, who faced a full field of seven others, got away strong and authored fractions of :28 3/5, :59 1/5 and 1:28 1/5 before crossing in 1:57 1/5. The four-year-old Muscle Mass mare beat Beguin Dugoutier F by 1 1/4 lengths in earning her third win of the year.
Unlike the Open Trot, Captain Mckee only reached the front of a full field around mid-stretch. Track record holder John’s Dream (1:52 1/5) took control early in the Open Pace and maintained the lead until Carrer’s charge caught him just before the finish.
After an initial quarter of :28 1/5, Captain Mckee came first over before the half and remained outside of King Corona and John’s Dream the next two panels. Once the leader triggered :58 2/5 and 1:26 2/5 fractions, Carter guided his four-year-old Captaintreacherous pacer past King Corona in the final turn and bested John’s Dream by one length at the wire in 1:55 2/5.
Both Open winners are co-owned by William Daggett Jr. and Lawrence Vukovic.
Six Virginia Breeder’s elimination races for three-year-olds kicked off the Saturday card. A trio were decided by one-half length or less.
Both of Arlene Cameron’s filly trotters crossed together in the first race. Cate’s A Keeper — winner of a 2019 Virginia Breeders divisional championship as a two-year-old — and K J Deb crossed together in 2:02 1/5. Eddie Davis Jr. and John Wagner drove respectively. The pair are both owned by Pamela Wagner and Dr. Scott Woogen.
Pilgrim’s Lass after completing a 1:57 1/5 trotting mile.
Breeze Away B wired the field in the filly pace division in 1:56.0. Hillbilly Kisses was a game second and lost by just a half-length. The winner is seeking to repeat her championship path of last year when she won both the prep and final as a two-year-old. Breeze Away B is owned and trained by William Fletcher and was driven by Allan Davis. The runner-up was piloted by Frank Milby, is trained by Amamda Jackson and owned by her Hillbilly Haven Farms.
Caviart Sage passed front stepping Virginia Cruiser at the quarter pole, held the lead until the end but had to fend off a pesky K J Michael in deep stretch in a three-year-old colt pace elimination. The Artspeak colt crossed in 1:56 3/5, a head in front of Arlene Cameron’s runner-up. The winner was driven by Tyler Shehan and is trained by Marna Shehan for the Caviart Farms of Vienna, Virginia. Dr. Scott Woogen owns the second-place finisher.
Two-year-olds will compete in a series of elimination races on Saturday, September 26. Finals of both age groups will be held on Saturday October 3.
The Shenandoah Downs meet will continue through October 17 with racing every Friday and Saturday at 2 PM. The meet is being run spectator-free and without wagering, but races are streamed live at shenandoahdowns.com.
← Brandy Wine, John MacDonald Team Up for the Day’s Fastest Two Miles as Shenandoah Downs Fall Meet Opens Winner Photos From the Sept. 19 Blue Ridge Point-to-Point Meet in Berryville →
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The three key targets the Welsh Government has set for the coronavirus vaccine rollout
All over 70s in Wales will get a dose of the coronavirus vaccine within 35 days under the plan
Will HaywardPolitical editor
The Welsh Government has released its plan for widespread delivery of the coronavirus jab (Image: Getty Images)
Everyone over 70 in Wales will have received a coronavirus vaccine within 35 days under a new set of targets set out by the Welsh Government.
The targets were revealed by Health Minister Vaughan Gething as he gave the Welsh Government's coronavirus briefing on Monday, January 11. Follow live updates from that here.
The new targets released by the Welsh Government has also said that everyone over 50 will have the jab by March 20 and all eligible adults will be offered a Covid vaccine by the autumn.
The three milestones set out in the plan are:
By mid-February – all care home residents and staff; frontline health and social care staff; everyone over 70 and everyone who is clinically extremely vulnerable will have been offered vaccination. This is 740,350 people.
By the spring (which is March 20)– vaccination will have been offered to all the other phase one priority groups. This is everyone over 50 and everyone who is at-risk because they have an underlying health condition. This is 924,900 people.
By the autumn – vaccination will have been offered to all other eligible adults in Wales, in line with any guidance issued by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). This is 1,098,100 people.
In total, around 2.5m people throughout Wales could be offered coronavirus vaccines by September, depending on further advice from the JCVI.
The Welsh Government has stressed that the strategy depends on sufficient and regular supplies of the vaccines being delivered. It will be kept under review in line with supply of the vaccine and any further advice from the JCVI.
Health Minister Vaughan Gething said: “The Covid vaccines offer our best hope of a return to the normality we are looking forward to after such a difficult year, which has turned all our lives upside down.
“Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.
“We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.
“Over the coming week we will see the programme pick up further speed with more clinics opening and the first vaccines to be given by pharmacists.”
The Welsh Government had been widely criticised for a perceived lack of transparency around their Covid vaccine roll out plan. By contrast Scotland released a comprehensive plan on December 24.
The Welsh Government also announced:
The number of mass vaccination centres will increase to 35 over the coming weeks, with at least one in each county. We started with seven, five weeks ago.
Military support in the mass vaccination centres – there are 14 immunisers and 70 other personnel providing support.
100 GP practices providing clinics by the end of this week.
The first pharmacies to provide the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will start vaccinating in North Wales in the next week.
14 mobile units, run by community nurses, which are taking the vaccine to care homes.
Text message vaccination appointment reminders.
Dr Gillian Richardson, who leads the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said: “This is the biggest vaccination programme Wales has ever seen and the NHS is working incredibly hard to get the vaccine to as many people as possible, safely and as quickly as we can.
“People will be invited to come and have a vaccination at a clinic close to their home or at one of the mass vaccination centres. I know everyone is really keen to get their jab but please wait until you are contacted for your turn.
“Vaccination will give us a path out of this pandemic but it will take us a little while to protect all the people in Wales who need it – this is why it’s so important everyone continues to take steps to protect themselves and their families from coronavirus.”
Data for the number of Covid-19 vaccines administered in Wales will be available every week day from today.
The daily release accounts for the total number of vaccines given until 10pm the previous day, which have been recorded on the Covid-19 Welsh Immunisation System. Actual figures will be higher due to ongoing data entry.
Data revealed last week that Wales is behind other UK nations in terms of the amount of people vaccinated.
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Wendy's Partners with NextGen Consortium to Boost Sustainability
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The Wendy’s Company announced its approach to sustainability and efforts to advance packaging sustainability via the new partnership.
Waste360 Staff | Mar 18, 2019
The Wendy's Company announced a commitment to advance sustainable packaging solutions in the foodservice industry and its own operations through its partnership with the NextGen Consortium.
The NextGen Consortium is a multiyear partnership of foodservice industry leaders convened by Closed Loop Partners' Center for the Circular Economy. Wendy's joins the consortium as a supporting partner, alongside other industry leaders, to address single-use food packaging waste. The consortium recently executed its NextGen Cup Challenge, which is focused on identifying new and existing cup solutions designed to optimize the hot and cold fiber cup used by many foodservice operations, including Wendy's.
"We're thrilled to have Wendy's join us and other like-minded, innovative partners to participate in the NextGen Consortium," said Kate Daly, executive director of the Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners, in a statement. "Together, we can work to develop smarter packaging solutions and combat the global environmental consequences of single-use food packaging."
"At Wendy's, we know that our customers are increasingly aware of packaging waste and its impact on the environment, and they're already doing their part to be more conscious about their product use and recycling habits," said Liliana Esposito, Wendy's chief communications officer, in a statement. "Our Squarely Sustainable approach is the next step for Wendy's—embracing our role as part of the solution. By sharing goals and regular updates, we'll outline areas where we need to drive progress and hold ourselves accountable to our commitments. One commitment is to engage in partnerships that help us arrive at smart solutions, like our new partnership with the NextGen Consortium."
Squarely Sustainable, a nod to the Wendy's brand's signature square hamburgers, is the company's four-pronged approach to sustainability:
Use less and reduce unnecessary materials use.
Use better and seek certified sustainable materials where possible.
Spark action by identifying consumer-facing actions that can drive change.
Engage partners to work with others to find solutions on important issues.
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Home » County sued over alleged talks with Pilgrim’s Pride
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County sued over alleged talks with Pilgrim’s Pride
Walker County, Georgia, commissioner says suit is based on rumors and is nothing but ‘theatrical nonsense’
A nonprofit group called the McLemore Cove Preservation Society is suing the government of Walker County, Georgia, claiming that government officials are secretly “conspiring to install a large-scale chicken slaughterhouse” in the area.
The group claims county officials are in talks with Pilgrim’s Pride and is offering the company tax incentives to open a plant there, according to a report from the Times Free Press.
Walker County is located directly south of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
However, those talks have never been confirmed by county officials or by Pilgrim’s Pride. Further, Walker County Commissioner Shannon Whitfield and local economic development director Robert Wardlaw said that the county has a practice of signing non-disclosure agreements when negotiating with potential businesses and therefore, cannot comment on such matters.
Whitfield, in a video posted on Facebook, condemned the actions of McLemore Cove Preservation Society, for filing a lawsuit he deems frivolous that will end up being costly to county taxpayers, including those who filed the suit. He further says the group is “working off rumors, not facts.”
“This group demands that we stop talking to companies that are interested in Walker County. We have asked ourselves why. What (are) their motives and special interests? This lawsuit and public relations smear campaign are designed to prevent our ability to attract great paying jobs and generate new tax revenues to benefit our citizens,” Whitfield said.
“The folks suing all of us are doing so with full awareness that we are in a financial distress and will be forced to use your tax dollars to defend this kind of petty, theatrical nonsense.”
During a commission meeting that commenced about an hour after Whitfield posted the video, several people in attendance criticized the practice of signing non-disclosure agreements, but Wardlaw said such agreements are signed “in every city, every county, and every state in the United States every day.”
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Top Saudi Cleric Issues Fatwa Defending Pedophilia As Marriage, Says Girls Can Be Married While “They Are In The Cradle”…
(Raymond Ibrahim) — Muslim “child-marriage” — euphemism for pedophilia — is making headlines again, at least in Arabic media: Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, just issued a fatwa asserting that there is no minimum age for marriage, and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”
Appearing in Saudi papers on July 13, the fatwa complains that “Uninformed interference with Sharia rulings by the press and journalists is on the increase, posing dire consequences to society, including their interference with the question of marriage to small girls who have not reached maturity, and their demand that a minimum age be set for girls to marry.”
Fawzan insists that nowhere does Sharia set an age limit for marrying girls: like countless Muslim scholars before him, he relies on Koran 65:4, which discusses marriage to females who have not yet begun menstruating (i.e., are prepubescent) and the fact that Muhammad, Islam’s role model, married Aisha when she was 6-years-old, “consummating” the marriage — or, in modern parlance, raping her — when she was 9. . . .
Fawzan concludes his fatwa with a warning: “It behooves those who call for setting a minimum age for marriage to fear Allah and not contradict his Sharia, or try to legislate things Allah did not permit. For laws are Allah’s province; and legislation is his excusive right, to be shared by none other. And among these are the rules governing marriage.”
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Fujitsu Offers FUJITSU Industry Solution for Microsoft Dynamics® AX, for Fast, Low-Cost ERP Setup Overseas
Broad selection of options, including three industry-specific solutions and cloud capable of utilizing the latest Microsoft Azure features
Tokyo, Japan – WEBWIRE – Saturday, April 25, 2015
Fujitsu has announced that from today it will begin to roll out three new solutions for FUJITSU Industry Solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX to help Japanese companies quickly and inexpensively deploy ERP systems at their overseas locations as they expand outside Japan.
For Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft’s globally integrated ERP solution, Fujitsu will now offer a sales and service company solution, a cost management and analysis solution, and an automobile supplier solution to address specific industries and work processes where the needs of overseas locations are highest. These services will be offered on premise and through FUJITSU Cloud A5 for Microsoft Azure, a Fujitsu cloud service that enables use of the latest Microsoft Azure features.
This will enable customers to quickly and flexibly build optimal ERP systems for their business outside of Japan to meet the increasingly diverse needs of their customers.
To quickly get their businesses at overseas locations up and running, Japanese companies have an increasing need to quickly construct small-scale systems that are suited to each of their overseas locations and that reduce operational burden on local offices.
In 2014, Fujitsu entered into an alliance with Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd in the ERP field in Japan, and since then has conducted sales of Microsoft Dynamics AX licenses and constructed systems for numerous customers.
In line with the business environments and ICT policies of customers that are expanding their businesses globally, particularly in Asian countries, Fujitsu is now offering FUJITSU Industry Solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX in a cloud environment with three types of solutions, enabling customers’ ERP systems to be extended to their overseas locations quickly and inexpensively.
Features of the New Services
1. Three industry-specific solutions
Fujitsu will offer three types of solutions to meet the high demands of Japanese companies in their overseas regions and industries/business conditions.
(1) Solution for Sales and Service Companies
Building on the company’s own know-how with overseas expansion, Fujitsu is providing this solution with business processes localized for each country to overseas sales companies and to firms contracted to handle overseas services. This enables companies to streamline bidding, project management, and sales activities.
(2) Solution for Cost Management and Analysis
This service centralizes management of budgets, results, and simulation data to improve management quality, and provides meaningful information for business analysis and profit management. This helps process-industry companies around the world with precise cost and profit management.
(3) Solution for Automobile Suppliers
This service implements features needed for transactions between auto suppliers and auto makers, including order acceptance and shipping-related functions (order intake, production planning, shipment planning, shipment inspection, payment management), and helps companies use transaction data effectively and run their business processes efficiently.
2. Enable use of Microsoft Azure’s latest features
The three new solutions will be offered on premise and through FUJITSU Cloud A5 for Microsoft Azure, which enables use of the latest features in Microsoft’s Microsoft Azure. In addition, the solutions also enable use of value-added services, such as Fujitsu’s own cloud-based, high-quality support services, software services, and integrated monitoring and operations services. Customers will be able to use hybrid configurations that are combined with the on premise or private cloud-based mission critical systems of their headquarters in Japan.
3. Local deployment and support network
In addition to Japan, this solution will also be available from local Fujitsu Group companies in Singapore and Thailand. This allows customers to feel secure in receiving local service in the Asia region as well. In addition, customers may also utilize the FUJITSU Cloud IaaS Private Hosted LCP cloud platform, which is Fujitsu’s datacenter environment in Singapore.
Hiro Higuma, General Manager, Dynamics Business Group, Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd
Microsoft Japan welcomes Fujitsu Limited starting to provide “FUJITSU Industry Solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX,” a dynamic new enterprise resource planning solution for Japan enterprises’ overseas business. We believe this solution will greatly benefit Japanese business through it’s deep-reaching solution features that uniquely match operational needs in every industry and can be quickly implemented with low cost. Customers can manage and operate comprehensively from application to infrastructure with Microsoft Azure and other Fujitsu cloud services that ensure a flexible and efficient cloud environment. Microsoft looks forward to supporting Japanese companies’ global business and helping more customers leverage cloud-enabled ERP via a combination of both our and Fujitsu’s solutions and global services.
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Woonsocket schools will shift to full distance learning after Thanksgiving
by: Bay Gammans
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — When the state of Rhode Island enters a two-week “pause” on Monday, Nov. 30, Woonsocket schools will shift to full remote learning for the rest of the calendar year.
In a Facebook post Sunday night, Superintendent Patrick McGee said all classes from pre-K to twelfth grade will be held virtually through Thursday, Dec. 23, then students and staff will return to school as planned on Monday, Jan. 4.
“I believe that we will see a spike in COVID-19 cases during this period and I feel that it is safer for our students and staff to not be in close contact with one another,” McGee wrote.
During Gov. Gina Raimondo’s briefing on Thursday, she asked high schools to move to their “limited” in-person plans and keep buildings at or below 25% capacity. She said pre-K through eighth grade could continue with in-person or hybrid learning.
“While I respect and appreciate the Governor’s options, I am choosing to take a different path in the Woonsocket Education Department after Thanksgiving,” McGee added.
The superintendent said the decision was made due not only to the recent surge in positive cases in Woonsocket, but also the potential for even more cases between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
“We have had to close many classrooms across the district and schools over the past month due to staff and students testing positive, which has made the supervision of classes and buildings extremely challenging,” McGee said.
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Raleigh, Triangle pumpkin patches, haunted trails, corn mazes, fall fun
It's about to get a little spooky around here! The region is gearing up for Halloween and fall fun with all kinds of corn mazes, hayrides, pumpkin patches, haunted houses, movie series, trick-or-treat hot spots and a lot more.
Search our list by the name of the place, or by city or county. Expand an entry for the address, website links, hours, cost and age recommendations (especially for those haunted houses and trails). And remember that your favorite corn maze or haunted house might just be in the county next door. Be sure to check WRAL.com's Out & About calendar for more!
Open in 2020?
Vollmer Farm 677 NC Hwy 98E Bunn 27508 Franklin The Back Forty Playground and more. The farm opened on Sept. 25 for the 2020 season. All Day pass admission is $10. Kids under 2 are free. 919-496-3076 http://www.vollmerfarm.com/ Yes
Hill Ridge Farms 703 Tarboro Rd Youngsville 27596 Franklin The farm's annual Fall Harvest and Pumpkin Festival features everything from hayrides and pumpkins to a large playground, train rides and gem stone panning. The farm will not open for fall 2020. All General admission is $14 per person for ages 2 to 64. 919-556-1771 http://www.hillridgefarms.com/harvest.php No
Gillis Hill Farm 2899 Gillis Hill Rd Fayetteville 28306 Cumberland Self guided walking tours, ice cream Ice cream available 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. All Self guided tours are free with ice cream. Otherwise they are $3 for ages 3 and up. 910-308-9342 http://www.gillishillfarm.com/ Yes
Halloween Pumpkin Fest at Fearrington Village 2000 Fearrington Village Center Pittsboro 27510 Chatham Intricately carved pumpkins, live music and more. The annual event is not on Fearrington Village's calendar. All Free 919-542-2121 https://fearrington.com/ TBD
Gross Farms 1606 Pickett Rd. Sanford 27332 Lee Includes a 15-acre corn maze, giant jumping pillow, two-lane, 40' slide known as Tom's Tunnel, pumpkin patch and hayrides. 2020 Dates of Operation: Sept. 26 to Nov. 1 All See website for details. All tickets must be purchased online in an effort to limit the number of people at the farm. 919-498-6727 http://www.grossfarms.com/index.html Yes
Ken's Korny Corn Maze 3175 Benson Highway Garner 27529 Wake Mazes, wooden playground equipment, hayrides, mini golf and more. The farm opened on Sept. 25 for the 2020 season. All Check the website for details. 919-779-4765 http://www.kenskornycornmaze.com/ The farm also produces the scary "Harvested Nightmares." Yes
Harvested Nightmares 3175 Benson Highway Garner 27529 Wake Scary haunted house, trail and corn field. The haunted farm has been canceled for the 2020 season. Scary. Not recommended for kids under 12. $20 919-779-4765 http://www.harvestedfarmnightmares.com Farm also has family-friendly activities during the day. No
Hubb's Corn Maze 10444 US Hwy 421 North Clinton 28328 Sampson Corn mazes, giant slides, toddler town, train, jump pillow, air cannon and large sandbox. 2020 Season: Sept. 26 to Nov. 7. See website for details All See website for details. 919-564-6709 http://hubbscornmaze.com/ Yes
McKee's Corn Maze 5011 Kiger Rd. Hillsborough 27527 Orange McKee CornField Maze celebrates 10 years of elaborate Art in the Field. 2 separate mazes 12 acres and 2 acres children maze. Pumpkins/ Hayrides/ Farm Animals/ Maple View Ice Cream/ Lots of Family Fun on a farm in the Country. The farm had not announced plans for 2020 as of Sept. 16. All $12. Kids 2 and under are free. 919-732-8065 http://www.mckeemaze.com/ TBD
Phillips Farms 6701 Good Hope Church Rd Cary 27519 Wake Corn maze, corn cannon, pumpkin launcher, tube swing, hay mountain, big slide and more. 2020 season: Open Sept. 19 to Nov. 1. See website for hours and new COVID-19 safety measures. All General admission for ages 3 and up is $12. 919-795-0675 http://phillipsfarmsofcary.com/corn-maze/ An evening haunted farm also offered. Yes
Phillips Farms Haunted Farm 6701 Good Hope Church Rd Cary 27519 Wake Haunted farm and hayride 2020 season: Opens Sept. 15 Not recommended for under age 12. General admission starts at $21. 919-795-0675 http://phillipsfarmsofcary.com/haunted-farm/ The farm also offers a corn maze and other activities for all ages during the day. Yes
Truck or Treat the Trail Morrisville Community Park 1520 Morrisville Parkway Morrisville 27560 Wake Quarter-mile trick-or-treat trail, trunk or treat, bounce houses, food trucks. No plans for a 2020 event were posted as of Sept. 16. For ages 12 and under. Free http://www.townofmorrisville.org/government/departments-services/parks-recreation-cultural-resources/special-events/trick-or-treat-the-trail-trunk-or-treat TBD
Downtown Clayton Trick or Treat Main Street Clayton 27560 Johnston Costumed kids ages 12 and under load up on goodies from participating Clayton merchants. 2020 Season: 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Oct. 30, but COVID-19 may alter those plans. All Free http://www.townofclaytonnc.org/Parks-and-Recreation/special-events.aspx Yes
Clayton Halloween Fun Ride Clayton Community Park 1075 Amelia Church Rd. Clayton 27520 Johnston Hayride! Games and refreshments provided. This is usually held on the Friday before Halloween. Check the website to see if it's scheduled for 2020. 12 and under with parent $5 per child (parents ride free) http://www.townofclaytonnc.org/Parks-and-Recreation/special-events.aspx TBD
Trick-or-Treat the Trails White Deer Park 2458 Aversboro Rd. Garner 27529 Wake Put on your costume for this free event and trick-or-treat your way around our one mile loop trail. An adult must accompany children at all times. Overflow parking will be available at nearby Lake Benson Park. The event typically takes place on Oct. 31, but it was not scheduled as of Sept. 16. All ages Free http://www.garnernc.gov/departments/parks-recreation-and-cultural-resources/events/trick-or-treat-the-trails TBD
Carrboro's Halloween Carnival Carrboro Town Commons 301 W. Main St. Carrboro 27510 Orange Instead of the usual Halloween Carnival, Carrboro will be hosting a Halloween Prize PickUp where kids are encouraged to stop by the Carrboro Town Commons for a small prize bag. 2020: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Oct. 30 10 and under Free http://nc-carrboro.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/1412 Yes
Smith's Nursery Fall Festival 443 Sanders Rd. Benson 27504 Johnston Pumpkins, crafts, hayride, corn hole, music, food and more. The 2020 event was canceled. All 919-934-1700 http://smithsnurseryinc.com/fall-festival/ No
Halloween Trunk or Treat Smithfield Community Park 600 Booker Dairy Rd. Smithfield 27577 Johnston Get some treats at this Trunk or Treat As of Sept. 16, the event was not on Smithfield's calendar. All Free 919-934-2148 https://smithfieldparks.recdesk.com/Community/Calendar TBD
Halloween Spooktacular Green Road Community Center 4201 Green Rd. Raleigh 27604 Wake Games and activities. Pre-registration is recommended. 2020: TBD 10 and under Free (919) 872-4140 http://www.raleighnc.gov/arts Registration is highly recommended as space is limited. No
Haunted Halloween Peach Road Community Center 911 Ileagnes Rd Raleigh 27603 Wake Witches and goblins, spooks and spiders, join us for the spookiest night of the year. 2020: TBD All Free (919) 807-8545 http://www.raleighnc.gov/arts No
Haunted Mordecai Festival Mordecai Historic Park 1 Mimosa St. Raleigh 27604 Wake Enjoy an afternoon of Halloween themed fun including food, music, games, and crafts on the lawn at Mordecai Historic Park. There will be costume contests for kids up to 16 years old beginning at 1pm. 2020: TBD All. Costume contest for kids up to age 16 starting at 1 p.m. Free 919.857.4364 http://www.raleighnc.gov/arts/content/PRecRecreation/Articles/HRMProgram.html Haunted Mordecai lantern tours and haunted trolley rides also planned at Mordecai. NO
Haunted Mordecai Ghost Tours Mordecai Historic Park 1 Mimosa St. Raleigh 27604 Wake Some believe that the Mordecai House is the most haunted home in North Carolina. Do you? 2020: TBD Can be scary. Parent discretion advised. $5. Advanced registration highly recommended. 919.857.4364 http://www.raleighnc.gov/arts/content/PRecRecreation/Articles/HRMProgram.html Festival and haunted trolley also planed at Mordecai. Pre-registration highly recommended. No
Haunted Trolley Mordecai Historic Park 1 Mimosa St. Raleigh 27604 Wake Hop on board the Haunted Trolley, if you dare, for a special late night tour of downtown Raleigh's most haunted places. 2020: TBD Can be scary. Parent discretion advised. $10. Advanced registration required. 919.857.4364 http://www.raleighnc.gov/arts/content/PRecRecreation/Articles/HRMProgram.html Festival and haunted lantern tour also planned at Mordecai. Pre-registration highly recommended. No
Haunting at Harris Harris Lake County Park 2112 County Park Dr. New Hill 27562 Wake Come as you are or show off your Halloween costume. Meet Blackbeard, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and more amazing legends. 2020: Park programs and events like this are canceled. All Free 919-387-4342 http://www.wakegov.com/parks/harrislake/events/Pages/default.aspx No
Ghost Walk in downtown Cary Page-Walker Arts & History Center 119 Ambassador Loop Cary 27513 Wake Spooky stories and ghostly legends sure to send chills up your spine are dramatized by Cary Players. 2020: Cary's events and programs are canceled until further notice. Ages 10 and up $15 919-469-4061 https://www.townofcary.org/recreation-enjoyment/events/holiday-events/halloween-events No
Halloween Mall Crawl (formerly Safe-N-Sane Halloween) Cary Towne Center 1105 Walnut Street Cary 27511 Wake Dress in your best Halloween costume and join us for an afternoon of trick-or-treating, storytelling and a magic show. 2020: Cary's events and programs are canceled until further notice. All Free 919-469-4061 https://www.townofcary.org/recreation-enjoyment/events/holiday-events/halloween-events No
Clayton Fear Farm Daytime 1620 Loop Rd. Clayton 27527 Johnston Corn maze, playground, picnic shelter, giant slide and Semour's House of Dreams, a 3D adventure. 2020: As of Sept. 16, the farm had not announced plans. All About $11. See website for updated details. (919) 553-0016 https://claytonfearfarmdaytime.com/ The farm also produces the scary Clayton Fear Farm in the evening starting Sept. 30. TBD
Clayton Fear Farm 1620 Loop Rd. Clayton 27527 Johnston Haunted "scream" park with seven attractions. 2020: The farm will be open on select weekends starting Oct. 2. 12 and up. Attractions are similar to a PG-13 movie. See website for details. (919) 553-0016 http://www.claytonfearfarm.com/ The farm offers family-friendly fun during the day. Yes
Darkside Haunted Estates 11875 NC 222 W. Middlesex 27557 Johnston Haunted house. 2020: Opens Sept. 26 for the season. Very scary. $20 for adults, $12 for kids 12 and under. http://www.darksidehauntedestates.com Yes
Tweetsie Railroad's Ghost Train 300 Tweetsie Railroad Lane Blowing Rock Watauga Ghost train rides, haunted house, Halloween shows, trick or treating and more. 2020: Canceled All. The haunted house, freaky forest and ghost train is not recommended for kids under age 8. $38 for kids, $44 for adults. http://www.tweetsie.com/special-events/ Advance tickets recommended. No
Porter Farms and Nursery 3525 NC Highway 42 Willow Spring 27592 Wake Farm stand, pumpkins and homemade ice cream. 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturdays; noon to 9 p.m., Sundays; and 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays through Halloween All No fee 919-567-0504 http://www.porterfarmsandnursery.com Yes
Raleigh Farmers Market 1201 Agriculture St. Raleigh 27603 Wake Large farmers market with lots of pumpkins, mums, apples and other fall fare. Great for a pumpkin photo opportunity. 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday All No fee 919-733-7417 http://www.ncagr.gov/markets/facilities/markets/raleigh/ Yes
Trick or Treat Downtown Scavenger Hunt Downtown Fuquay-Varina North Main Street Fuquay-Varina 27526 Wake Some Halloween-themed activities are planned for downtown. Check the Facebook event page for more information. 2020: Oct. 23 to Nov. 2 All No fee https://www.facebook.com/events/601627664011505 Yes
Boo at the Zoo 4401 Zoo Parkway Asheboro 27205 Randolph The annual event will look a little different, but include some trick-or-treating stations, live music and more. 2020: Oct. 24 and Oct. 25 All $5 per person plus the cost of general admission. 800.488.0444 https://www.nczoo.org/experiences/events Yes
Track or Treat Halloween Express 3900 Bonsal Rd. New Hill 27562 Wake A Halloween ride on New Hope Valley Railway's diesel powered trains. 2020: It's reopening to the public with four weekends of our Track or Treat: Halloween Express trains on Saturdays, Oct. 10, 17, 24 and 31. All ages. The final rides of the night might be a little spooky. $14 per person. https://www.triangletrain.com/ Tickets sell out so get them early. They must be purchased in advance. Yes
Pumpkin Patch Express Museum of Life and Science 433 Murray Ave. Durham 27704 Durham A Halloween train ride at the Museum of Life and Science, along with special games, crafts and more. New safety measures have been added due to the pandemic. 2020: Oct. 3 to Oct. 4; Oct. 10 to Oct. 11, Oct. 17 to Oct. 18 and Oct. 24 to Oct. 25. All ages $15 per person. Visitors also will need to purchase a ticket for admission to the museum. 919-220-5429 https://www.lifeandscience.org/pumpkin-patch This event sold out last year. Get your tickets early. Yes
Fright Night fall festival and haunted house Pineywood Park 400 E. Woodcroft Parkway Durham Durham Ghosts and ghouls will enjoy an evening that is sure to have them howling with screams and laughter. Participants can dress in their Halloween attire and enjoy drive-through trunk-or-treat, haunted drive-through trail, and a socially distanced movie on the lawn. The movie playing will be James and the Giant Peach. 2020: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m, Oct. 23; registration required for movie All ages Free (919) 560-4292 https://www.dprplaymore.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=1704&month=10&year=2020&day=6&calType=0 Yes
Hallow-Eno West Point Park 5101 N. Roxboro Rd. Durham 27704 Durham Durham's 32nd Annual Hallow-Eno will be a fun event for the entire family! Participants will enjoy a drive-through style event that includes Halloween decorations along the Park Loop, trick-or-treat activity stations, and live Halloween music from the comfort and safety of their vehicle. 2020:: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Oct. 31; pre-registration required It's designed for ages 12 and under and their parents or guardians. Free (919) 471-1623 (option 1) https://www.dprplaymore.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=1705&month=10&year=2020&day=6&calType=0 Yes
Scare-olina Skies 250 E. Franklin St. Chapel Hill 27514 Orange A unique version of the "Carolina Skies" planetarium show. Explore the dark legends behind the constellations! 2020: As of Sept. 16, the planetarium was closed. $7.68 for adults, $6.51 for kids ages 3 to 12 http://moreheadplanetarium.org/programs/special-activities/special-carolina-skies No
Deans Farm Market 4231 NC Highway 42 W Wilson 27893 Wilson The farm offers hayrides, playground, picnic area and more on Saturdays and Sundays. 2020: Season opens Sept. 26 All $12 252-237-0967 www.deansfarmmarket.com Yes
Odom Farming Co. Maze 1426 Claridge Nursery Rd. Goldsboro 27530 Wayne We're a family farm hosting fall activities including a corn maze, pumpkin patch, punkin' chunkin', hayrides, educational farm tours and more. 2020: Season runs Sept. 26 to Nov. 4 All Pass run between $6 and $12 per person. 919-738-2905 http://www.odomfarmingcompany.com/ Yes
Ragan and Holly's Pumpkin Patch Corner of HWY 751 and Lewter Shop Rd. Apex 27523 Chatham Large selection of gourds and pumpkins, plus corn stalks and other fall decorating items. 2020: The business was starting to get pumpkins by mid-September. All No fee 919-362-5800 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jeans-Berry-Patch/116133708404504?sk=wall&filter=12 Yes
Original Hollywood Horror Show 8333 Bass Mountain Rd. Snow Camp 27349 Alamance The show is produced by award-winning Hollywood filmmakers Dean and Starr Jones, whose credits include "Day of the Dead," "Night of the Living Dead 3D," "Pirates of the Caribbean," Train," and "Star Trek." 2020: Tickets were not available as of Sept. 16. Scary Typically $25. See website for any update. https://hollywoodhorrorshow.com/ No
Haunted Forest of Panic Point 2808 Cedar Creek Rd. Youngsville 27596 Haunted forest and more. 2020: Opens Sept. 25 PG-13 scary. Kids ages 8 to 11 should probably only see the Menacing Maze, the T-shirt winning games, food, music and bonfire. Kids 7 and under are not allowed inside the scarier attractions. Tickets start at about $27. http://www.raleighhauntedhouse.com/ Yes
Pumpkin Flotilla Bond Park Boathouse 801 High House Rd. Cary 27511 Wake Bring your carved pumpkins from 4 p.m .to 5:30 p.m. and join the first Pumpkin Flotilla. Enjoy a discounted boat ride and a boathouse snack on the deck while you see your pumpkin float on the lake. 2020: Cary's events and programs are canceled until further notice. All ages Free 919-469-4061 http://www.townofcary.org/Departments/Parks__Recreation___Cultural_Resources/events/holiday/halloween.htm No
Huckleberry Trail Farm 143 Pleasant Hill Church Road Siler City 27344 Chatham Huck and Tom's Corn Maze Adventure and Hay Ride, a bonafide pumpkin patch, a cotton patch and a family farm yard filled with old-timey games. 2020: Sept. 26 through Oct. 31 All ages $8 to $10 919-432-4825 http://www.huckleberrytrailfarm.com Yes
Marbles Kooky Spooky Halloween Party 201 E. Hargett St. Raleigh 27601 Wake Come in costume for a ghoulish good time! Experience the magic of Marbles after dark at this family-friendly Halloween spooktacular with activities like Ghoul School, Mad Scientist Lab, Monster Mash Dance Party and more! 2020: As of Sept. 16, the annual event wasn't scheduled. All $15 919-834-4040 https://www.marbleskidsmuseum.org/KookySpooky TBD
Cary's Great Pumpkin Carve Downtown Park 319 S. Academy ST Cary 27513 Wake Buy a pumpkin or bring your own, carve it, and light it up! Pumpkins will be judged in a variety of categories. After the pumpkin carving and lighting, stay for screenings of your favorite Halloween TV specials! 2020: Cary's events and programs are canceled until further notice. All Free, except for the cost of the pumpkin https://www.townofcary.org/recreation-enjoyment/events/holiday-events/halloween-events No
Trick or Treat on Salem Street Salem Street Apex Wake Local merchants and businesses will be handing out candy and treats. The 2020 event was canceled. All Free https://www.apexnc.org/944/Halloween No
Gallberry Corn Maze 5991 Braxton Rd. Hope Mills 28348 Cumberland Corn maze, hayride, farm animals, jumping pillow, tube slide, more. Gallberry will be closed for the 2020 season. All $11 (free for ages 2 and under) 910-309-7582 http://gallberrycornmaze.com No
Herbert's Haunted House Herbert C. Young Community Center 101 Wilkinson Ave. Cary 27513 Wake Let the Cary Teen Council take you on a spooky walk through their house of horrors! $3 per person. All ages are welcome, but parental discretion is advised. 2020: Cary's events and programs are canceled until further notice. All ages, but parental discretion is advised. $3 919-460-4965 https://www.townofcary.org/recreation-enjoyment/events/holiday-events/halloween-events No
Creepy Crabtree Lake Crabtree County Park 1400 Aviation Parkway Morrisville 27560 Wake The free park-wide event explores the darker side of nature. Enjoy scavenger hunts, crafts, more. Costumes welcome. 2020: Park programs and events like this are canceled. All ages Free http://www.wakegov.com/parks/lakecrabtree/Pages/default.aspx No
Granville Haunt Farm and Corn Maze 4534 Hwy 15 Oxford 27565 Granville The redesigned attraction now offers a haunted drive through. 2020: Open Oct. 9 to Oct. 31, Fridays and Saturdays Scary $10 to $60, depending on how many people are in the vehicle. http://www.granvillehauntfarm.com/ Yes
Hipp Farms Corn Maze & Field of Fun Corner of U.S. 401 and Ballard Road Fuquay-Varina 27526 Wake Corn maze, petting zoo, hay ride, hay maze, stick horse race, corn box, play area and more. 2020: As of Sept. 16, the farm hadn't announced its plans. All Admission for ages 3 and up is $10. A fun park all inclusive package is $20. 919-669-5741 https://www.hippfarmscornmaze.com/ TBD
Naylor Family Farm and Corn Maze 6016 US 401 N Fuquay-Varina 27526 Wake Corn maze, gem mining, jump pad, farm animals, pumpkin patch, hayrides, corn crib play barn, farm tower fort, barrel train and more. 2020: Sept. 12 to Nov. 8 All $18 per person for a farm pass, kids 2 and under are free with a paying adult. 910-249-2258 http://www.naylorfamilyfarm.com/ Yes
Page Farms 6100 Mt. Herman Rd. Raleigh 27617 Wake Pick your own pumpkin, corn maze, hayride, corn crib, hay stack slide, cow train, farm animals and more. 2020: Sept. 25 All $15. Kids 2 and under are free. 919-451-5534 http://www.pagefarmsraleigh.com Yes
Tractors Corn Maze 13912 Bold Run Hill Rd. Wake Forest 27587 Wake A corn maze, pumpkins and other fall attractions. 2020: Day hours are Oct. 3 to Nov. 1. The corn maze after dark is open from Sept. 19 to Oct. 24. All See website for details. https://www.tractorscornmaze.com/ Yes
Holder Hill Farms 4822 Holder Rd. Durham 27703 Durham Pumpkins, walking trails, play areas and more. 2020: Opens Sept. 25 All 919-605-3818 https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Farm/Holder-Hill-Farm-LLC-107968920982433/
Trick or Treat Stay 6 Feet Holton Career and Resource Center 401 N. Driver St. Durham Durham Participants will enjoy a fun filled evening that will include free candy and treats. 2020: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Oct. 30. Pre-registration required for each child participating. All 919-560-4355 https://www.dprplaymore.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=1703&month=10&year=2020&day=6&calType=0 Yes
Halloween House 1010 Medlin Dr. Cary Wake We’re not letting COVID-19 stop us from having a spooktacular Halloween. We’re planning on doing socially distant trick or treating with individual goodie bags placed on a table, 6-foot distancing markers, and a circular flow so there is oneway traffic. Yes
Meridian Waste pumpkin patch Shotwell C&D Landfill 4724 Smithfield Rd. Wendell Wake A pumpkin patch with other seasonal activities, incuding pumpkin painting and tours of the landfill. 2020: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturdays, in October. All Activities are free. Pumpkins are between $5 and $15. https://www.meridianwaste.com/our-company/community-happenings/2020/meridian-waste-charity-pumpkin-patch-supports-the-local-community/ Yes
Howling Halloween at Hill Street Park Hill Street Park 2307 Hill St. Raleigh Wake Your kids will go batty over these fun Halloween crafts. Join us for a fun afternoon of crafts, food experiences, and games to celebrate the spirit of Halloween. 2020: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Oct. 26 Ages 2 to 5 $8 for city residents; pre-registration is requird https://raleighnc.gov/news/2020-10-01-celebrate-halloween-raleigh-parks Yes
Trunk or Treat at Sanderford Road Park Sanderford Road Community Center 2623 Sanderford Rd. Raleigh Wake Drive through Sanderford Road Park and see all the decorated trunks! We will be passing out candy bags! Get ready to have a howling good time! 2020: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Oct. 30. Pre-registration required. Free https://raleighnc.gov/news/2020-10-01-celebrate-halloween-raleigh-parks Yes
Batty for Bats at Thomas G. Crowder Woodland Center 5611 Jaguar Park Dr. Raleigh Wake Join us at the Crowder Woodland Center for an evening of fun where we will learn about the mysteries of bats. We will play games, make a craft, and even spend some time looking for bats. 2020: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Oct. 31 All ages, but best for families with children in elementary school or older. $3, adults must accompany children. Pre-registration is required. https://raleighnc.gov/news/2020-10-01-celebrate-halloween-raleigh-parks Yes
Trunk or Treat Trail at Lions Park Community Center Lions Park Community Center 516 Dennis Ave. Raleigh Wake You are invited to enjoy our Trunks & Treats Trail from the safety of your vehicle. Dress the kids up and bring them by to see the creatively decorated trunks displayed by City Staff as well as local community businesses and programs! At the end of our parade of trunks, each child will receive a bag of candy and treats to enjoy. Please note: For your safety, all participants must stay in their vehicles. Restrooms are not available during this event. The bags of candy will be prepared and distributed by masked and gloved city staff. 2020: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Oct. 31. 12 and under with parent Free, pre-registration is required. https://raleighnc.gov/news/2020-10-01-celebrate-halloween-raleigh-parks Yes
This list will grow over time so check back. If your favorite Halloween event or venue isn't listed or you have questions, let us know!
Wondering when to send your kids trick-or-treating? It's one of the most common questions we get at Go Ask Mom all year. Halloween, Oct. 31, falls on a Thursday this year. That's when moms and dads will be sending their kids out for treats. Some communities do set hours or recommend hours for the annual tradition. Go Ask Mom will have a post about that in October.
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Gio Ponti 1891–1979
Gio Ponti excelled at painting as a child and expressed a fervent interest in the arts. Feeling that a career in architecture was preferable to that of a painter, Ponti’s parents encouraged him to pursue the former and in 1914 he enrolled at the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. His studies were interrupted by war, and in 1915 he was forced to postpone his education. He served as a captain in the Pontonier Corps until 1919, earning multiple military honors. After graduating in 1921, Ponti married Giulia Vimercati, the daughter of local aristocracy and started an architecture firm. During this time, Ponti aligned himself with the neoclassical movement, Novecento and championed a revival of the arts and culture. In 1928, Ponti founded Domus, a periodical tailored to artists and designers, as well as the broader public. A shift occurred in the 1930s when Ponti took up a teaching post at his alma mater, the Politecnico di Milano. In search of new methods to express Italian modernity, Ponti distanced himself from the sentiments of Novecento and sought to reconcile art and industry. Together with the engineers, Eugenio Soncini and Antonio Fornaroli, Ponti enjoyed great success in the industrial sector, securing various commissions throughout Italy. In the 1950s, he gained international fame with the design of the Pirelli Tower in Milan and he was asked to be a part of the urban renewal of Baghdad, collaborating with top architects from around the world. His 1957 book, Amate l’architettura, is considered to be a microcosm of his work —an incredible legacy spanning art, architecture, industrial design, publishing and academia.
Auction Results Gio Ponti
Room from the 9th Triennale of Milan 1951
estimate: $300,000–400,000
custom coffee table from Villa Arreaza, Caracas
estimate: $50,000–70,000
rare sofa for Palazzo Liviano, University of Padova
coffee table from Villa Arreaza, Caracas, Venezuela
pair of Diamond armchairs from the Lisa Ponti residence, Milan
custom coffee table from Via Dezza 49
pair of Diamond lounge chairs from Via Dezza 49
Rare lounge chairs, pair
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Diamond sofa from the Lisa Ponti residence, Milan
Diamond sofa from Via Dezza 49
pair of Diamond lounge chairs from Villa Arreaza, Caracas
rare Diamond dining table
vessel from the Classical Conversation series
pair of lounge chairs from Villa Arreaza, Caracas
custom armchairs, pair
set of eight dining chairs from Villa Arreaza, Caracas
rare coffee table
important dining table from Villa Arreaza, Caracas
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The world’s biggest money manager is still waiting for its first check.\nThe slow pace of fundraising reflects the challenges facing BlackRock as it makes an aggressive push into a part of Wall Street it doesn’t dominate: private equity.\nBlackRock became a $6 trillion giant with the rise of exchange-traded funds and index funds that investors use to replicate markets cheaply. Now the New York firm is under pressure to seek new revenue sources as prices of popular funds hurtle to zero, cash flowing into traditional asset managers slows and clients seek higher-returning alternatives to stocks and bonds.\nBut an experiment with private equity is proving to be a tough sell for some investors. A major Chinese sovereign-wealth fund and the state investor for Alaska’s oil wealth passed on a new BlackRock fund known as Long Term Private Capital, according to people close to those organizations. Florida’s largest public pension fund and Minnesota State Board of Investment are in talks with BlackRock, but no deal is done, said people close to those institutions.\nBlackRock officials now hope to secure initial funding later this quarter after missing internal deadlines in 2018. The architect of Long Term Private Capital said the launch has taken longer than expected partly because of the fund’s unusual approach. Its fees are cheaper than many in the industry, but it doesn’t have a deadline for returning money to investors.\n“Innovation is harder than we thought” in private equity, said Mark Wiseman, BlackRock’s head of active equities.\nThe idea of Long Term Private Capital came from Mark Wiseman, BlackRock’s head of active equities.\nPhoto: mike segar/Reuters\nAlthough the firm has a vast lineup of financial offerings, exchange-traded funds and index funds are still a major source of revenue for BlackRock. These products comprised two-thirds of the firm’s roughly $6 trillion in assets and generated roughly 40% of BlackRock’s revenue in 2018.\nThat leaves BlackRock vulnerable to sudden shifts in investor sentiment. The firm has been adding to business lines that allow the company to lock up investors for longer periods and charge more lucrative fees. Its nontraditional investments include corporate loans, energy pipelines, solar plants and backing other private-equity funds. These assets, known in the industry as alternatives, made up about 2% of the firm’s assets in 2018 and generated 8% of revenue.\nBlackRock has done private-equity deals for decades, but it struggled to create its own fund for these investments. In 2011 it launched a group that would take stakes in smaller companies but closed it in 2013 after failing to hit fundraising targets.\nIn 2017, BlackRock considered options from buying a private-equity firm to bringing in a team from another firm. It ultimately decided that it should build its own fund.\nBlackRock’s Larry Fink Wants to Become the Next Warren Buffett (Feb.7)\nBlackRock’s Assets Fall Sharply (Jan. 17)\nPrivate-Equity Firms Create Funds That Are Built to Last (Jan. 1)\nThe idea of Long Term Private Capital came from Mr. Wiseman, formerly the chief of a large Canadian pension investor. What he sketched out in his black Moleskine notebook during the fall of 2017 was the beginnings of a fund to hold bets as long as it desired, an approach that takes a page from Mr. Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Many buyout funds operate under strict deadlines to cash out of bets—even if it means cutting off future gains.\nThe fund would make $500 million-plus wagers on cash-generating businesses so returns could compound over time and would move between stocks and private equity. The firm told investors cheaper fees would allow the fund to deliver the same returns as rivals while taking less risk.\nLong Term Private Capital is offering to charge clients a management fee below 1%, and 10% of profits, and its management fees would fall as the fund gets bigger. Private-equity funds across the industry charge clients a 2% management fee and 20% of profits, according to median figures from Preqin.\nBlackRock aimed to raise $12 billion to $18 billion. Mr. Wiseman told the firm’s chief executive, Laurence Fink, the fund should raise $4 billion in 2018, said people familiar with the matter.\nThe company decided not to staff the fund with a full team at first and test the appetite of investors with a seven-page slide presentation, refining the concept as it went along.\nSeveral potential investors were concerned that a team wasn’t yet in place, and that BlackRock had no record to show, according to people familiar with the matter. The firm didn’t want BlackRock’s own balance-sheet capital at risk for its first deals, said three people familiar with the matter.\nBlackRock now has a team of 17 dedicated to the fund. Officials hope for a first fundraising close this quarter with about four outside investors. BlackRock would also invest money alongside those investors, according to two people familiar with the matter.\nMr. Fink told Mr. Wiseman in late 2018 the firm wouldn’t necessarily have the right team or design for the fund if it moved faster, said people familiar with the matter, a reminder that the fund’s success wasn’t decided by the speed of a first close.\nWrite to Dawn Lim at dawn.lim@wsj.com\nCopyright ©2020 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 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Ashley Curtis, Digital Content Producer
Published: July 24, 2020, 4:07 pm
Tags: Reopening Schools, Education, Lynchburg, Lynchburg Education Association
‘No way currently to safely open’: Lynchburg Education Association calls for 100% remote learning
LEA asks school board to make change to remote learning before Aug. 4
LYNCHBURG, Va. – Some Lynchburg educators are calling for a return to school that is 100% virtual.
Other than a few exceptions for students with special needs or IEP teams who determine that in-person instruction is necessary, the Lynchburg Education Association is asking for the fall semester to be held exclusively online.
As it stands right now, Lynchburg City Schools will reopen for the fall with a combination of in-building, hybrid and remote learning.
The LEA addressed concerns for the health and safety of students and their families, as well as teachers and their kids and families they take care.
The group said the conditions in some Lynchburg city schools create a scenario, which according to the Virginia Department of Health, allow the virus to easily spread. That includes indoor areas with poor ventilation where people gather for more than 15 minutes.
The LEA pointed to a survey they gave to their members in which 74% of members said they do not feel comfortable returning to the classroom, bus and cafeteria. 55% apparently said they are “adamantly” opposed to reopening.
There are financial implications of in-person instruction too, according to the LEA. The group said that schools will have to invest in extra signage, plexiglass, cleaning supplies, PPE and “other items that will be obsolete once a vaccine is developed.”
Safety remains a top concern for the group.
“As one staff member stated: A will should not be a school supply,” the group wrote in a statement.
The LEA asks for the school board to make the change to 100% virtual learning prior to staff reporting for work on Aug. 4.
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Rob Gillies
Published: July 21, 2020, 7:37 pm Updated: July 21, 2020, 11:54 pm
Tags: Randal Grichuk, Ross Atkins, Sports
Blue Jays OF says team may play in Pittsburgh or Baltimore
Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Jonathan Davis throws the ball back after making a catch during live batting practice at baseball training camp in Toronto on Monday, July 20, 2020. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
TORONTO, ONT – The Blue Jays’ front office has told its players that Pittsburgh and Baltimore are possibilities for where team will hold home games this year after Canada’s government barred the club from playing in Toronto amid the coronavirus pandemic, outfielder Randal Grichuk said Tuesday.
Canada denied the Blue Jays’ request to play at Rogers Centre because the regular-season schedule would require frequent travel back and forth from the United States, where COVID-19 cases are surging. The other 29 major league teams plan to play the pandemic-shortened, 60-game season in their home ballparks, without spectators.
Toronto begins the season at Tampa Bay on Friday and is scheduled to play its first home game on July 29 against the defending champion Washington Nationals.
Grichuk said the players want to play in a major league stadium but have also been told their Triple-A affiliate in Buffalo, New York, is a possibility.
“We’ve heard Buffalo. We’re heard Baltimore possibly. We’ve heard Pittsburgh possibly,” Grichuk said before a exhibition game in Boston.
“To this moment I’ve heard not a definite place to play yet. It’s kind of still up in the air. Which is crazy this close to opening the day. Luckily we start on the road. But yeah, that’s what we’re hearing. Possibility Pittsburgh or Baltimore. Worst case, Buffalo.”
Grichuk said the players want the amenities that come with a major league ballpark such as the hot and cold tub and big league level weight and training rooms.
“If we have to go (to Buffalo) we’d go there obviously, but we would love to be in a big league ballpark and have all that that comes with that,” he said.
"It’s going to be a messed up year all around. Do I think that would will make things tougher, I do. But it's something we got to roll with this year and hopefully things get back to normal in 2021."
Pirates President Travis Williams confirmed the talks with the Blue Jays on Monday and sounded ready to welcome club if it could be done safely amid the pandemic.
Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said the team has more than five contingency plans and was in talks with other clubs. He has declined to name them.
Atkins said if the Blue Jays can’t find a major league park, their Triple-A affiliate in Buffalo would be their most likely site for home games.
The team had been considering playing home games at its spring training facility in Dunedin, Florida, but that is among the states that are virus hot spots.
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Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility allow assessing a measurement process. Gage R&R for qualitative variables available in Excel with the XLSTAT software.
What is Gage Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility for Attributes
Measurement System Analysis (MSA) or Gage R & R (Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility) is a method to control and judge a measurement process. It is useful to determine which sources are responsible for the variation of the measurement data. Variability can be caused by the measurement system, the operator or the parts.
The word gage (or gauge) refers to the fact that the methodology is aimed at validating instruments or measurement methods.
In contrast to the Gage R & R for quantitative measurements, the analysis based on attributes gives information on the agreement and on the correctness. The concepts of variance, repeatability and reproducibility are not relevant in this case.
A high agreement of the measures taken by a given operator for the same object (product, unit, part, or sample, depending of the field of application) repeatedly, shows that the operator is consistent. If the agreement of a measurement system is low, one should question the quality of the measurement system or protocol, or train the operators that do not obtain a high agreement, if the measurement system does not appear to be responsible for the lack of agreement.
A high correctness of the measures taken by an operator for the same object (product, unit, part, or sample, depending of the field of application) in comparison to the given reference or standard value shows that the operator comes to correct results. If the correctness of a measurement system is low, one should train the operators so that their results are more correct.
Correctness can be computed using the Kappa or the Kendall statistics. Kappa coefficients can be used in the case of qualitative and ordinal quantitative measurements. Kendall coefficients can be used in the case of ordinal measurements with at least 3 categories.
The two concepts agreement and correctness can be computed for a given operator, for a given operator compared to the standard, between two operators and for all operators compared to the standard.
The goal of a Gage R & R analysis for attributes is to identify the sources of low agreement and low correctness, and to take the necessary actions if necessary.
Gage Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility for Attributes in XLSTAT
The XLSTAT Gage R & R for Attributes tool is used to control and validate your measurement method and measurement systems, in the case where you have several qualitative measures taken by one or more operators on several parts.
Results for Gage Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility for Attributes in XLSTAT
When the measures are qualitative or ordinal quantitative data, the Gage R&R analysis for attributes is based on the following statistics to evaluate the agreement and correctness:
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disagreement statistics
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If possible, the following comparisons are performed:
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All Operators vs. standard
It is possible to calculate these statistics in all of the sections. In the intra rater section, XLSTAT computes for each operator the number of cases where he agrees with himself for a given part across repetitions.
Additionally the ratio of the number of cases and the total number of inspections of the operator is computed.
In the Operator vs. standard section, XLSTAT gives the number of cases where an operator agrees with the standard across repetitions. Additionally the ratio of the number of cases and the total number of inspections of the operator is computed.
In the inter rater section, XLSTAT computes the number of cases where all operators agree for a given part and across repetitions. Additionally the ratio of the number of cases and the total number of inspections of all the operators is computed.
In the all operators vs. standard section, XLSTAT computes the number of cases where all operators agree with the standard, across all repetitions. Additionally the ratio of the number of cases and the total number of inspections of all the operators is computed.
In addition, confidence intervals are calculated. For proportions, XLSTAT allows you to use the simple (Wald, 1939) or adjusted (Agresti and Coull, 1998) Wald intervals, a calculation based on the Wilson score (Wilson, 1927), possibly with a correction of continuity, or the Clopper-Pearson (1934) intervals. Agresti and Caffo recommend using the adjusted Wald interval or the Wilson score intervals.
This statistic is only calculated in the Operator vs. standard section in the case where the measurement variable is binary (for example, success or failure). Three different kinds of disagreements statistics are calculated for each operator:
False Negatives: This statistic counts the number of cases where a given operator systematically evaluates a part as category 0 while the standard evaluates it as category 1. Additionally the proportion of false negatives across all parts of category 0 is displayed.
False Positives: This statistic counts the number of cases where a give operator systematically evaluates a part as category 1 while the standard evaluates it as category 0. Additionally the proportion of false positive across all parts of category 1 is displayed.
Mixed: This statistic counts the number of cases where an operator will be inconsistent in the rating of a given part across repetitions. The proportion of such cases computed as the ratio between Mixed and the total number of parts is displayed.
Kappa coefficients
Cohen’s and Fleiss Kappa are well suited for qualitative variables. These coefficients are calculated on contingency tables obtained from paired samples. The Fleiss’ kappa is a generalization of the Cohen’s kappa. The kappa coefficient varies between -1 and 1. The closer the kappa is to 1, the higher the association.
In the case of an intra rater analysis, it is necessary that 2 or more measures have been taken by an operator for a given part. In the case of operator vs. standard, the number of the measures for each operator must be the same as the number of measures for the standard.
In the case of inter rater, the number of the investigations for the two operators being compared must be the same. In the case of all operators vs. standard the number of investigations for each operator for a given part has to be the same.
Kendall coefficients
These indicators are available for ordinal quantitative variables with at least 3 categories.
Kendall’s tau: This coefficient, also referred to as tau-b, allows to measure on a -1 to 1 scale the degree of concordance between two ordinal variables. The Kendall’s coefficient of concordance: This coefficient measures on a 0 (no agreement) to 1 (perfect agreement) scale the degree of concordance between two ordinal variables.
The coefficients are computed to evaluate the measurement system by comparing each operator to the standard, operators between each other, and all operators vs. standard
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From the ancient mountains of Andalucia - land that has been cultivated throughout history by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Muslims - lies this categorically modern winery with state of the art facilities and stunning architecture. This mountainous area (the nearby Calar Alto observatory sits at 2,100 meters) enjoys more than 3,000 hours of sunshine per year, providing optimal ripening conditions during the day while a 20 degree drop at night grants the necessary acidity and balance. Este is represented by a pregnant mare - a symbol of fertility that has blessed the estate's fields for thousands of years. Consulting Winemaker Rafael Palacios' skillful hand working behind the scenes is abundantly clear - a stunning wine for an even more stunning price.
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The 2008 Este is composed of 50% Monastrell, 25% Tempranillo, with the balance Garnacha, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot aged for 6 months in French and American oak. Purple-colored, it reveals a lightly roasted bouquet of black cherry and blueberry, underbrush, spice box, and violets. Supple, sweetly-fruited, and forward, this tasty, friendly effort has no hard edges. Drink it over the next 3 years.
Alto Almanzora
From the ancient mountains of Andalucía - land that has been cultivated throughout history by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Muslims - lies this categorically modern winery with state of the art facilities and stunning architecture. Este is represented by a pregnant mare - a symbol of fertility that has blessed the estate's fields for thousands of years. Consulting Winemaker Rafael Palacios' skillful hand working behind the scenes is abundantly clear - a stunning wine for an even more stunning price.
Known for its bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy red wines, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.
Most planted and respected is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.
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The top 5 steamiest movie scenes of all time
Posted: Jan 9, 2018 / 06:34 PM EST / Updated: Jan 9, 2018 / 06:34 PM EST
Anybody who’s ever seen the Arnold Schwarzenegger masterpiece “Conan the Barbarian” remembers that one scene with Conan and the witch/vampire.
You know the one. It went a little something like this: Man enters witch’s cave (apologies for the obvious metaphor, but blame the filmmakers for that one). Witch speaks of man’s destiny. Man and witch have hot, barbarian sex. Witch tries to kill man. Man throws witch into fire. Witch is no more.
This no-frills cinematic sex gem is enough to make even a bad boy blush, but wait until you peek at our top five picks for the steamiest movie scenes ever.
We have compiled the hottest, most intriguing love scenes for your contemplation. If you are wondering what the criteria are for selecting a top five for steamy love scenes it is this: if it makes us hot, it’s considered. If people cannot seem to quit talking about it years later AND it makes us hot … voila — it makes the list.
It’s a dirty job, but someone had to select the top five. Here are ours …
No. 5: “Bound” – Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly
In the movie “Bound,” Gina Gershon plays Corky, a newly paroled ex-convict who tries to earn her keep on the outside by doing maintenance for an apartment building.
In the hallways she meets Violet — played by Jennifer Tilly — and her live-in mobster boyfriend. After the boyfriend leaves, Violet coyly begs Corky to retrieve something from her drain (like that line’s never been used before).
After Corky finishes, Violet admits it was all a ruse to get closer to Corky and tries to seduce her. The seduction happens pretty early in the movie and leaves audiences begging for more. Violet eventually screws over her sleazy boyfriend, but not before she and Corky have a sexy go at it first.
Spontaneous lesbian sex is steamy, but dominance and submission is where it’s at, as our next selection shows us …
No. 4: “Secretary” – James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal
The hot love in “Secretary” revolves around the sadomasochistic relationship that develops between a newly hired secretary and her boss.
The boss-man (James Spader) realizes that the secretary (Maggie Gyllenhaal) was once in the insane asylum for doing harm to herself and orders her never to do it again. We soon come to realize however, that he is actually turned on by her submissive manner — as is she by his dominant one.
Some feel the famous spanking scene in the boss’s office is the hottest of all, but the final love scene where they engage in S&M/wedding-night-type sex is too good to be counted out.
Rather than depicting commitment as a turn-off in this film, this once-taboo choice is shown as an acceptable lifestyle and it leaves us hungering for more.
S&M is hot, but cheating is rapturous, as our next two steamy actors display …
No. 3: “Unfaithful” – Diane Lane and Oliver Martinez
Connie Sumner’s (Diane Lane) life appears to be perfect for all intents and purposes while married to her adoring husband played by Richard Gere in the movie “Unfaithful.”
Her world turns upside down, however, after she happens upon a hot Frenchman who offers to “help” her after she f injures her knees during a minor fall. Initially she rejects his advances, but eventually finds an excuse to visit him again, and a torrid extra-marital affair ensues.
The two have passionate first-time-cheating sex, and the Frenchman asks her to slap him around a little. They later outdo themselves and heat up the screen in a quite memorable scene in the hallway of his apartment building after she tries to end it. It does not end well, but the sex is undeniably terrific.
And though the cheating is blissfully steamy, savage sex is forbidden and undeniable, as we’ll see next …
No. 2: “The Blue Lagoon” – Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins
Take two innocent children of the Victorian era and maroon them in a tropical paradise and you have the makings of an irresistible potential for steamy onscreen bliss.
Cousins Richard (Christopher Atkins) and Emmeline Lestrange (Brooke Shields), survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and somehow manage to thrive in their private paradise in “The Blue Lagoon.” Time reveals them to be two very attractive teenagers who spend their days scarcely clad while fishing, swimming and diving for pearls.
This voyeuristic portrayal captures their lack of understanding over the sexual impulses they begin to have toward one another. They eventually give in to their animalistic desires and all of it unfolds right before our eyes as the pair swim naked into shore. There they have sex for the first time and it is somehow innocent yet taboo; forbidden, yet natural.
Many were stunned at the use of such young people for material so risque, but none could avert their eyes in view of the consumption of this forbidden young fruit.
Innocence is bliss but sexual healing beats all, as our No. 1 scene illustrates …
No. 1: “Monster’s Ball” – Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton
In “Monster’s Ball,” Halle Berry plays a woman who has experienced the death of her husband by execution and also the recent accidental death of her young son.
She comes to meet Billy Bob Thornton’s character, who makes an unlikely companion for her as he is the man who actually performed her husband’s execution.
The two are of different racial identities and both seem to struggle with just trying to get by in the world, emotionally speaking. They are desperate for a human connection when they somehow end up all over each other in what has been described as one of the most raw and animalistic love scenes of all time.
Berry received an Oscar for her performance. Some people were confused by the steamy scene and thought the actors were actually having real sex. Now that’s a sign of a good sex scene.
If loving in real life were half as good as this Hollywood sex, it is hard to imagine people would do little else.
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Senators discuss system for paying college athletes
WASHINGTON D.C. (WCMH) — College athletes will soon be able to make money off their name, image and likeness after the NCAA signaled earlier this year it was open to athletes making money from endorsements.
Now, Congress wants to make sure there’s one system in place to keep things fair as more states are passing laws to regulate how college athletes can make money while at school.
“Is there anybody here on the panel that does not believe that there is a need for a nationwide standard?” asked South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune.
Thune got no disagreement from senators or college sports experts during Wednesday’s Senate hearing on the issue.
“The question for us is how do we protect the athlete?” asked Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal.
Even though the NCAA has decided it will allow college athletes to make money from endorsement deals, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey told senators he’s worried about the NCAA going professional.
“We must not allow college athletics to devolve into a pay-for-play system,” Sankey said.
Meanwhile, Thune worried about the impact on which schools athletes choose to attend.
“If this becomes a money issue, how it could affect that recruiting process,” Thune said.
But Dionne Koller, director of the Center for Sport and the Law, told senators she is concerned the NCAA will put its own best interests above its athletes.
“Rather than seeking protection from Congress seeking to impose economic restraints on athletes, the NCAA should craft rules that better support athletes health safety and well being,” Koller said.
This is at least the second time senators have explored the issue, but there’s no consensus on when legislation might get a vote.
Roundball Roundup (1-15-21)
by Jesse Krull / Jan 15, 2021
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) - Highlighted scores from Friday's high school basketball action are as follows.
Daniel Boone- 50David Crockett- 53 (Boys)
New ETSU pitching coach Jamie Pinzino excited about the Bucs staff
by Kenny Hawkins / Jan 15, 2021
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — ETSU Baseball Head Coach Joe Pennucci Jamie Pinzino to his staff on Monday afternoon.
Pinzino, who has more than 20 years of coaching experience, spent the last three seasons as the pitching coach at Army. He was promoted to the Associate Head Coach prior to the 2019 season. Prior to Army, Pinzino spent time as the pitching coach at Virginia Tech (2017), Oklahoma (2013-2016) and William & Mary (2012). He also has experience as a Head Coach at William & Mary, Bryant and Assumption.
ETSU Bucs LeDarrius Brewer is doubtful for the Furman game
Johnson City, TN -- Due to the COVID-19 re-acclimation period, ETSU guard/forward Ledarrius Brewer is doubtful for Saturday’s game at Furman. Brewer will continue to complete further testing with the medical staff, and based on those results, that will determine when he can return.
“The health and safety of my players is our number one priority, says ETSU head coach Jason Shay we are following all of the safety measures put in place by our medical team. When the doctors give Ledarrius the green light, and he’s comfortable with playing, then he will return to competition.”
VDH: 125 new COVID-19 cases in Southwest Virginia; 8 new deaths
National Guard members from Hawkins Co. heading to nation’s capital ahead of inauguration
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Commentary OpinionELECTION 2014
Against Obama, but for what?
Pat Buchanan characterizes ballot contest as 'America's choice between undesirables'
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Published November 3, 2014 at 7:17pm
After billions in attack ads that turned the approval ratings of almost every candidate, in both parties, upside down, Republicans appear primed to take control of Congress.
Why are Democrats falling like dominoes?
Easy. Theirs is the Party of Government. And government is failing. And their leader Obama projects diffidence and incompetence.
National surveys also show that large majorities believe America is heading in the wrong direction, that our children will not have it as good as we did, and that the United States is in a long-term decline.
Measuring the performance of Obama against the promise, America is voting for another change in leadership and direction.
But where does she wish to go? And whom does she wish to lead her? The country is voting against Obama, but voting for what?
The new majority leader is likely to be Mitch McConnell, who is about as popular as Harry Reid. The Republican Party that will take power is less well-regarded than the Democratic Party losing it.
What America is voting against is easier to discern than what she is voting for. Consider: Who speaks for a victorious GOP today?
The principal foreign policy voices in the new Senate will be Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Tennessee's Bob Corker, who is slated to become chairman of foreign relations. All are interventionists; all are hawks.
But are the American people really voting to send arms to Kiev, to confront Russia in Ukraine, to commit to a forever-war to "degrade and ultimately defeat" the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria?
Does the country really want a clash with Iran over its nuclear-enrichment program?
If so, the GOP should return to Washington and in the lame-duck session authorize Obama to take us to war with the Islamic State.
My sense: A victorious GOP would prefer to take a pass on that.
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At its core the Republican Party is socially conservative, a family values party. The party champions right-to-life and opposes same-sex marriage and legalized marijuana.
How many Republicans ran on these issues this fall?
How many will be advancing this social agenda in Congress? How many cultural warriors are left in the GOP, when even the pope is calling for a truce in the culture wars?
Yet if the GOP is no longer united on foreign policy and social issues, surely they are as one on lower taxes and smaller government.
But are they really?
Certainly, even liberals must see from the inversion epidemic – U.S. companies buying up foreign firms to change residence and nationality – that having the highest corporate tax rate is economic suicide.
But is the Republican Party so committed to a balanced budget that Congress will slash spending to match cuts in tax rates and tax revenues?
And, if so, where does the GOP propose cuts?
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and defense are the big budget items. Is the GOP ready to cap or cut these?
Will the GOP go after education, housing, income security or food stamps, with Obama accusing them of pillaging the programs of the working and middle class while protecting Wall Street and the 1 percent?
Today's vote, as the Washington Post's Dan Balz writes, is "an election about rejection," the rejection of Obama's leadership after six years of his presidency.
It is a referendum on Barack, and he is losing it. But it is not a vote of affirmation. It is not a vote of confidence in the party of McConnell and John Boehner. And it is no mandate.
It is America's choice between undesirables.
America is saying: We do not like either of you. But we cannot keep going the way we have been going. We have to change. And the Republican Party is the only one on the ballot that appears to offer that.
When the returns come in, the mainstream media will declare that the country wants the Republican Party to work with President Obama to end the gridlock. Nonsense. If that is what America wanted, the country would have voted Democratic.
A Nancy Pelosi House and Reid-led Senate, with Obama in the Oval Office, would bring an instant end to gridlock. But instead of voting for a Congress to help Obama end gridlock, it will vote to augment the forces of those who have promised to checkmate him.
The country, in short, will vote today – for gridlock.
In a democracy, people get the kind of government they deserve.
The American people are today a deeply divided people – on ideology, politics, faith, morality, race, culture. Americans today – and not for the first time – do not really like each other.
As that is who we are, we will get that kind of Congress. And that is the kind of government we will have, until one half of the nation triumphs decisively over the other, as happened in 1932 and in 1980.
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Speaking on Business: Culinary Crafts
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Chris Redgrave Sep 28, 2018
This is Chris Redgrave for Zions Bank Speaking on Business.
While the transition from one generation to the next with a family-owned business can be stressful, the Crafts family of Culinary Crafts has figured it out, with expert advice and creating a detailed and formal succession plan. Founder Mary Crafts-Homer has complete confidence in turning the company over to her sons, Ryan and Kaleb, who have been involved since they were kids. In fact, Ryan says they’ve worked every dirty job in the business, from washing dishes and scrubbing floors to changing oil in the fleet trucks and weeding the produce garden.
Almost 35 years in business, Culinary Crafts is one of the largest catering companies in the state. With over 175 employees, they have locations in Pleasant Grove, downtown Salt Lake City, the University of Utah and will soon open an event venue on Main Street in Park City. The team is excited and knows this is setting them up to continue to be a serious player in the competitive catering industry.
Their growth has come because of the quality of their food, which is at the heart of what Culinary Crafts offers because everything is made from scratch using fresh, premium ingredients. They’ve also focused on attracting the best talent by offering competitive wages and benefits, building a great team trained exclusively in house.
Visit online at www.culinarycrafts.com.
For Zions Bank, I’m Chris Redgrave, speaking on business.
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Barry Byrne
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Turkish Airlines Damages A330 3 Days After Delivery!
Hah, Polar Air Cargo already did that at Port Harcourt, with a whale
(Written on 2020年 01月 03日)(Permalink)
Air Force One is an 'unrivalled flying fortress'
It's OK, you can say E-Systems here.
Airplane Tires Don’t Explode on Landing Because They Are Pumped!
A million years ago, 1973, when I was a student pilot one of the rich guys in El Paso was given a Saberliner by his Grandmother. It was one of the first Corporate Jets in town. So one evening the rich guy was going to show off his new toy to some of the other rich folks. I was taxiing my Cherokee 140 back in on a parallel taxiway as they took off, and right as they rotated both main tires exploded. Seems the FBO had serviced the tires with oxygen instead of nitrogen. Made a heck of a mess of the trailing edge of the flaps. Anyway, they took off, flew for a while to burn off fuel, and made a successful landing on what bit of rubber remain on the rims.
Report: Airlines Installing Uncomfortable Bumps In Seatbacks Because It Pleases Them
You were trying to DOX me.
Aren't you afraid those wind turbines will slow down the rotation of the planet? I'll bet that whole Jade Helm thing REALLY interfered with your liberties, eh?
Yes, DC-8 and G-1. Hot air balloons too, did you miss that? Apparently you didn't believe me about my ratings and checked the FAA database. That's quite insulting Ken.
Would you like the video link to Sean Hannity repeating it? He still references it.
If you're going to say your Liberty is being infringed upon, then show me where flying is a Right. You might as well claim that MOAs impede your Liberty. Try flying from Las Vegas direct to Tonopah and see how that works out.
"will be accompanied by 40 aircraft, 3,000 people, a fleet of cars and 34 warships, according to a string of blow-by-blow news updates. The Press Trust of India quoted an official in the state of Maharashtra pegging the cost at $200 million a day. Obama's said to have booked the entire Taj Mahal Palace hotel and, according to The Wall Street Journal, Mumbai officials have ordered coconuts plucked from palm trees outside a memorial the president is scheduled to visit to ensure there are no bumps on the noggin. In Delhi, the president's second stop, monkeys have been the subject of a municipal crackdown. " Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/04/security-entourage-earning-epic-reputation-ahead-obama-india-visit/
17,000+ hours, 747 Captain since 1991, Cessna 170 owner. And FYI, TFRs weren't an Obama invention. Considering he has spent more time in DC than Bush did your depiction of the economic impact on CFIs would seem to be flawed.
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