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What does P9 stand for?
P9 stands for Power Nine (game)
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Project 79 (Westfield High School, New Jersey)
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Position 80
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The UP CM claimed that his government has been working constantly towards improving law and order situation, rated as the worst in the country, since coming to power nine months ago, blaming his predecessor Mayawati for poor law and order situation in the state.
UP CM denies state is supporting striking govt employees
In a televised interview with the Al-Jazeera, Prime Minister Erdogan said, "when we came to the political power nine years ago, there was a 30-year resentment between Turkey and Syria.
TURKEY-SYRIA -Turkish premier says Syrian leader overshadowed his ...
Meanwhile, Saturday's parliamentary election is being seen as a crucial milestone that could restore - or dash - Afghans' faith in the democratic system that was established after the Taliban was driven from power nine years ago.
Taliban may be eyeing role in Afghan politics again
But since New Labour came to power nine out of every 10 jobs created in this country have been taken by people from overseas.
Join me on the barricade to save Britain
When the NDP took power nine years after Lathlin was first elected, Premier Doer named him minister of conservation, switching him to minister responsible for Aboriginal affairs in 2002.
Lathlin remembered as a dedicated minister who never gave up
T HE minimum wage was one of the first policies implemented by Labour when Tony Blair first came to power nine years ago.
Private sector manifesto aims for friendliness; The Big Feature
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TINYtalk Altek Supply & Manager Month Theme and Results
by mc | Jul 30, 2020 | Corporate Culture | 0 comments
Recently, I saw a LinkedIn post by Altek Supply that shared the results of the four questions they pulsed their team during May, which they dubbed “Manager Month.” I was blown away by the transparency and the outstanding results of their pulses, so I had to interview Mike Atema, President and CEO of Altek Supply to learn more.
Don’t miss TINYtalk: Step Up For Students – Boosting Culture during COVID-19.
Click the video above to watch the full interview with Mike Atema. Or enjoy the edited transcript below.
Why we created a monthly theme around Managers?
What inspired us to dedicate the month of May asking questions around the leadership team was just their example that they set. Through COVID-19, we’ve done a lot of things as far as wages, and then being able to manage costs. We’ve avoided massive layoffs because the company as a whole stepped up and everyone stepped up to help out.
But the managers really set the example. And they were fairly positive, fairly optimistic, very engaging with their teams, having daily meetings. The level of engagement was necessary to be increased dramatically than we would otherwise. They crushed it.
Our monthly theme has been evolving through COVID-19. As CEO, I’m a Chief Emotional Officer right now and managing just the terror from COVID-19 from March when everything was rolling out, and then pivoting. When we were a necessary service and we were going to remain open, I went with “what are we going to do” because it wasn’t a lot of business. And then we went to more “growth, personal development”, and the managers really led that way. And then it went into “individual process improvement”. That was a major focus. Now, it’s a bit on recovery and what the future looks like. So it’s been evolving month over month.
How did we come up with the pulse survey questions for Manager Month
Here are the four questions we pulsed each week during the month:
How satisfied are you with the level of communication you are receiving from the company?
Do you receive an adequate level of feedback from your manager related to your work performance?
How would you rate your regular one-on-one meeting with your manager?
How confident are you that the leadership team will be able to successfully get us through the current economic challenge that we’re facing?
We wanted to make sure that people were getting what they needed, not just from the company, but from the individual managers.
“So top down strategy, we’re only as good as the information, the communication channels that we have.” So naturally, one question we pulsed in May was “How satisfied are you with the level of communication you are receiving from the company?”
We have great managers, but we wanted to make sure we weren’t overlooking anything because none of us had been through this before, so it’s not like we pulled out our COVID-19 handbook and went, “Okay, here’s what we do.” It was evolving, so we wanted to make sure everybody’s individual team got what they needed from their managers.
It was a combination of are you getting what you need now, and then we can start building a program of training and engagement coming out COVID-19.
Since we’re big believers in transparency, we even recently publicly shared the insights on LinkedIn to recognize their great work as managers.
It’s one of the things we really appreciate about having a robust engagement and recognition platform is the flexibility to support how we engage, award, and acknowledge some of the great people that we have within Altek. We’ve always had great managers, and through COVID-19, they have really stepped up amazingly.
“We were hearing it throughout the company, and we just wanted to find a way that they could be heard and acknowledged in a public setting.”
What were the results
I was impressed by all of our survey results, to be honest, they were all pretty surprising, but we have been encouraging and harping as a company for a long time the importance of one-on-ones and the importance of engagement. We have a great culture, and we want to keep strengthening that and put more intention into directing that culture as opposed to historically just having great people and it worked out.
“How would you rate your regular one-on-one meetings with your manager?” was responses were surprising because you never think you’re doing enough and you’re kind of always like, “Man, we can do more. You guys should be doing more.”
But to get a result that is 30% above the benchmark (8.7 / 6.7) was an amazingly positive level of feedback from everybody, it just check the box of we’re doing it right. It was nice surprise.
To get a 9.0 out of 10 on “How confident are you that the leadership team will be able to successfully get us through the current economic challenge that we’re facing?” makes me the proudest because we put a lot of time and energy into communicating. At the onset of COVID-19, we go back to stockpiling toilet paper. It was mass fear. It was pretty wild. When you go back to the hierarchy of needs, to level one, it’s clothing and shelter. So we started there from a communication standpoint and really focused on communications.
To get that kind of confirmation from the staff that we were knocking it out of the park meant the most to me.
Takeaways for leaders
Be intentional about your employee survey questions
We’re evolving the theme each month and waiting to see what July and August hold from a business standpoint as well. We’re having a town hall meeting. So we will TINYpulse to find out what people want to know about. And, of course, more COVID-19 related questions about our plan in case the second wave coming. July is more of a realignment month, and then August will be more about summer, enjoying time with families. September, October, we’ll be back to work.
“We before me.” Celebrate peer recognition whenever we can
Giving and receiving recognition seem to go hand in hand and those are the personalities. There’s no surprise there. A couple of guys that are leaders in the company. And Izzy is actually our receptionist. But she’s not your average receptionist – she’s fantastic! She’s fully integrated into the culture. She does a great job bringing everybody together the moment they walk in the door.
We’re more a personality side of things when hiring over the years. The most common used word is culture, and it can lose its meaning over time if you don’t really know what your culture is and what personalities you’re trying to hire.
“We’re just hiring good people that are genuine. And being a family company, it’s important to us to hold true to those family values.”
If you get the people right, everything else is easier. With our HR team and everybody being in alignment, it kind of just happens on its own now. Of course, with issues like COVID-19 and a recession, my input comes a little bit more, but with the platform and TINYpulse and with our team right now, it turns along. We set the path and we check in on it every once in a while.
Keep a consistent one-on-one schedule while working remotely
We’ve scored relatively high 8.7 on the ratings for one-on-one meeting because we’ve been working on our one-on-ones for quite a while. The value from the one-on-ones is exceptional.
“We’re very happy to find a platform such as TINYpulse where we can manage and schedule and maintain a certain one-on-one routine.”
Having the platform in place, being able to have the consistency is what makes the rating good. We can also build off of one-on-ones month over month and build direction around that. I really think it’s the consistency that matters. As entrepreneurs, we have ideas and we run off in this direction and that direction. I really tried not to do that from a business standpoint.
But from a culture standpoint, when we come up with something good, like a one-on-one, the consistency is key. We wouldn’t have scored that high going back a couple years ago.
About Altek Supply
Altek Supply is a wholesale master distributor into the oil and gas sector in Canada. They have an intense focus on baseline expectations. Established in 1999, Altek Supply takes pride in representing the highest Quality Products and is committed to delivering the Best Customer Service in the Industry.
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2020 Classic Rock Concert Tour and Festival Preview
Corey Irwin
Jamie McCarthy / Kevin Winter / Frazer Harrison / Ethan Miller / Noam Galai / Michael Loccisano / Universal Images Group / Matt Kent / Ivan Gavan / Theo Wargo, Getty Images
We’re so over 2019. The new year has arrived, and with it comes an exciting slate of tours.
The next 12 months are primed to be one of the best concert years in recent memory. Like reunions? You’ve got the Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald and the return of the Black Crowes. Want to see multiple massive bands on the same bill? There’s the Stadium Tour with Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett, or the Hella Mega Tour featuring Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy. Maybe you’re compelled to see your favorite artist one last time. In that case, farewell treks from Elton John, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne or Lynyrd Skynyrd could be up your ally. No matter your musical flavor, 2020 has plenty to offer.
It’s no surprise to see many of rock’s biggest acts heading out on the road. At a time when record labels and streaming services seem to be arguing over every penny, the live music industry continues to boom. More than 50 percent of the American population attends at least one concert a year, and worldwide the live music industry is expected to exceed $30 billion in revenue by 2022.
With so many artists playing shows, it can be hard to keep track of who is going where. That’s why we created this handy cheat sheet of 2020’s biggest rock tours. All information is up-do-date as of publishing, but remember that details are constantly changing. If there’s a tour that catches your eye, we suggest heading to the artist’s official website for further info.
Next: 2019's Biggest Rock Stories
Source: 2020 Classic Rock Concert Tour and Festival Preview
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ApsaraDB Hybrid for MySQL (ApsaraDB HybridDB for MySQL)
A relational database designed for hybrid transaction analytical processing (HTAP) that supports massive online transactions and massive online analytics.
A record that maps a host name or a domain name to an IP address.
AAAA record
A record that maps a host name or a domain name to an IPv6 address.
AccessKey (AK)
An authentication method that uses an AccessKeyId and AccessKeySecret pair to authenticate users. Accesskeyid identifies the user and can be public. Accesskeysecret is the key that the user uses to encrypt the signature string and that the OSS uses to validate the signature string. To ensure security, the Accesskeysecret must be kept private.
account ID
User credentials that enable the DNS service to be accessed through the API. Once the DNS service is enabled, this account ID can be created. Once created, it cannot be modified
additional write throughput
The amount in which the actual consumed write throughput exceeds the reserved read throughput. The statistical period is one second.
ARP provides dynamic mapping of network addresses, such as IP addresses, to corresponding hardware addresses, such as MAC addresses.
administrative Contact/admin Contact
A person responsible for administering the domain. The admin contact does not have to be the same as the owner of the domain.
administrator right
A user with the right to unrestricted access to a system, including ability to create, modify, or delete any folders or files as well as change system settings.
aggregate function
A function where the values of multiple rows are grouped together to form a single value of more significant meaning or measurement such as a set, a bag or a list.
The receiver of an alert notification.
alarm group
Multiple alarm contacts can be pooled together as a group. This group can then collectively receives the same alarm notifications when predetermined conditions are met.
alarm rule
A condition that is set by the user in which the system monitors for, and triggers an alarm if met.
Allows users to set alarm rules to monitor services and detect when the rules are met.
Alibaba Cloud ActionTrail (ActionTrail)
A logging service that allows you to log cloud account operations and save them to the target OSS bucket. You can also query the logs.
Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB (AnalyticDB)
Formerly known as ADS. A real-time Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) managed database cloud service that can crunch massive amounts of data. As a fast and flexible database service, AnalyticDB is compatible with the MySQL protocol, including metadata information. AnalyticDB easily integrates into your business ecosystem to allow you to discover new trends and transform your business based on data analysis.
See AnalyticDB.
Alibaba Cloud Anti-DDoS Service Pro (Anti-DDoS Service Pro)
A premium value-added service to provide high availability and complete protection from numerout types of DDoS attacks to your business. Incoming traffic is either diverted to Alibaba Cloud Anti-DDoS scrubbing centers, or the original website IP is replaced by an Anti-DDoS IP provided by Alibaba Cloud.
See Anti-DDoS Pro.
Alibaba Cloud API Gateway (API Gateway)
An API hosting service that provides lifecycle management including API provisioning, administration, maintenance, and go-to-market. It aggregates multiple backend micro-services, decouples frontends and back ends, integrates multiple systems, and exposes functions and data to your partners and the developer community in an easy to use, agile, and cost-effective manner.
See API Gateway.
Alibaba Cloud Application Real-time Monitoring Service (ARMS)
An end-to-end service monitoring solution for PaaS products in the Alibaba Cloud ecosystem. Integrating advanced components such as data collection, messaging channels, real-time computing statistics, online storage, and more, users can build monitoring programs based on their business requirements to achieve world-class business monitoring and response capabilities.
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for RDS (ApsaraDB for RDS)
An on-demand database service that automatically manages many administrative tasks of managing a database, leaving you with more time to focus on developing your core business.
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for Redis (ApsaraDB for Redis)
An automated and scalable tool for developers to manage data storage shared across multiple processes, applications, or servers.
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for SQL Server (ApsaraDB for SQL Server)
A commercial database that supports complex SQL queries for applications based on Windows .NET architecture.
Alibaba Cloud Archive Storage (Archive Storage)
An integral part of the Alibaba Cloud data storage ecosystem; it provides low-cost, reliable data archiving services that are suitable for long-term archiving and backup of massive data.
See Archive.
Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling (Auto Scaling)
A management service that can automatically adjust ECS instances according to business needs and policies.
Alibaba Cloud Bastion Host (Bastion Host)
A system that is fully exposed to attacks and is critical for network security. They are special purpose systems that are specifically designed and configured to withstand attacks. The system generally hosts a single exposed application such as a DNS, proxy server, email server, FTP server, web server, VPN server, or Honeypot. All other services are removed, or restricted, to reduce threats to machines.
Alibaba Cloud Block Storage (Block Storage)
A low latency, persistent, high reliability block-level random storage for ECS instances.
Alibaba Cloud Cloud Service Bus (CSB)
An open API service platform based on highly available distributed cluster technology. The API helps realize the interoperability of service capabilities across technology platforms, application systems and enterprise organizations.
Alibaba Cloud CloudMonitor (CloudMonitor)
CloudMonitor is a flexible monitoring service that provides in-depth insights into your cloud deployments.
Alibaba Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN)
A distributed content delivery network built on, and overlaying, the bearer network, and is composed of edge node server clusters distributed across different regions. Alibaba Cloud CDN delivers the source content to edge nodes, and works to a precise scheduling system. It distributes user requests to the most suitable nodes, allowing users to retrieve their desired content quickly and conveniently, reducing traffic congestion across the Internet and increasing the response speed of users visiting websites.
See Alibaba Cloud CDN.
Alibaba Cloud Data Encryption Service (Data Encryption Service)
A cloud data encryption service that protects data on the cloud, and enables you to comply with data security regulations.
Alibaba Cloud Data Integration (Data Integration)
Provides stable, efficient, and flexible data synchronization for Alibaba Cloud products and platforms.
Alibaba Cloud Data Management (DMS)
A data management service that integrates data manipulation, object management, resource market, instance authorization, security auditing, data trends, data tracking, data graphing, optimization, and server management. It supports relational databases such as MySQL, SQL server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and NoSQL database management, while also supporting Linux server management.
Alibaba Cloud Data Risk Control (Data Risk Control)
A risk engine for enterprise users to protect enterprise accounts, activities, transactions, etc. against fraud.
Alibaba Cloud Data Transmission (DTS)
Helps you migrate data between data storages, such as relational database, NoSQL, and OLAP.
Alibaba Cloud DataV (DataV)
Helps non-professional engineers to construct professional visual application on the GUI for daily service monitoring, scheduling and presentation scenarios.
Alibaba Cloud DataWorks (DataWorks)
A Big Data platform product that provides all-in-one Big Data development, data permission management, offline job scheduling, and other features.
See DataWorks.
Alibaba Cloud DirectMail (DirectMail)
A simple, efficient email service that helps send transactional notifications and batch emails.
Alibaba Cloud Distributed Relational Database Service (DRDS)
A distributed relational database service that is reliable, robust, and offers highly scalable capacity and service. It is compatible with the MySQL protocol and syntax and supports automatic horizontal splitting, scaling, expansion of service capabilities, and transparent read and write separation. It also offers management and control of the entire database life cycle.
Alibaba Cloud DNS (DNS)
Alibaba Cloud DNS is a highly available, highly scalable authoritative DNS service and DNS management service.
Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
A type of computing service that features elastic processing capabilities. It has a simpler and more efficient management mode than physical servers. You can create instances, resize disks, and add or release any number of ECS instances at any time to fit your business needs.
Alibaba Cloud Elastic IP (Elastic IP)
An Elastic IP address is a NAT IP address. It resides in the public network gateway of Alibaba Cloud and is mapped to the private network gateway of the bound ECS instance by NAT. It allows the ECS instance to communicate with the Internet without exposing its IP address.
Alibaba Cloud Elastic Web Hosting (Elastic Web Hosting)
A next generation web hosting solution that uses containers to implement better network isolation, security, and stability.
Alibaba Cloud E-MapReduce (E-MapReduce)
A big data processing solution based on Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. It lets you manage and process big data for uses such as trend analysis, data warehousing, and analysis of continuous data streams.
See E-MapReduce Service.
Alibaba Cloud Express Connect (Express Connect)
It provides a fast, stable, secure, and private or dedicated network communication between different cloud environments, including VPC intranet intercommunication and dedicated leased line connection across regions and users.
Alibaba Cloud Function Compute (Function Compute)
An event-driven serverless computing service. Users simply compile and upload the code, and Alibaba Cloud Function Compute executes the code in a way that scales smoothly with user access traffic.
Alibaba Cloud Graph Analytics (Graph Analytics)
A data modeling tool that can be used to build algorithms for targeted scenarios such as financial security services needing to undertake internal corporate reviews or risk scenarios.
Alibaba Cloud HPC (HPC)
A high-performance, stable, secure computing service that helps you quickly build applications with extreme processing capabilities and superior computational efficiency.
Alibaba Cloud HTTPDNS
A DNS service that uses the HTTP protocol to directly access the Alibaba Cloud DNS. It bypasses the carrier’s local DNS to prevent DNS hijacking and to provide real-time DNS resolution.
Alibaba Cloud LiveVideo (LiveVideo)
A direct platform to build content access and distribution networks using large-scale distributed real-time streaming media transcoding technology. It provides convenient access and smooth, high quality, low latency, high concurrent audio, and video broadcast service.
Alibaba Cloud Marketplace
A marketplace that provides cloud applications for Alibaba Cloud. On the Marketplace, you can buy cloud applications form third-party vendors.
Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute (MaxCompute)
A Big Data processing platform developed by Alibaba Cloud. It is mainly used for batch structural data storage and processing to provide massive data warehouse solutions and Big Data modeling.
See MaxCompute.
Alibaba Cloud Message Queue (MQ)
It provides messaging capabilities including creating and tracking subscriptions, resource statistic measuring, alarm monitoring, and more, to build a complete set of enterprise-level messaging functions using highly available distributed cluster technology.
Alibaba Cloud Mobile Feedback (Mobile Feedback)
Allows mobile developers to gather and analyze user responses and issues within select apps to enhance app development. It also supports automatic collection of developer reviews in targeted app markets.
Alibaba Cloud Network Address Translation (NAT)
An IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standard that allows an entire network to appear on the Internet as a single public IP address.
Alibaba Cloud Network Attached Storage (NAS)
A file storage service for compute nodes such as Alibaba Cloud ECS instances and docker. It provides standard file access protocols, and is transparent so that users do not need to modify existing applications.
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
A cloud storage service that enables you to store, backup, and archive large amounts of data on the cloud. It can be used for a wide variety of scenarios including websites, enterprise development, or individual developers.
See Object Storage Service.
Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch (OpenSearch)
A managed service that supports structured data, search sorting, and data processing.
Alibaba Cloud Private Line Service (Private Line Service)
An internet product that lets partners embed private line capabilities into their business. It’s dependent on the partner’s network operator, but it can provide improved privacy protection for business partners.
Alibaba Cloud Quick BI (Quick BI)
A next-generation intelligent BI service platform tailored for cloud users.
Alibaba Cloud R&D Collaboration (RDC)
An R&D platform for enterprise users. They can go from product coding, to testing, and releasing all while resolving cross-organizational development processes through data-drive measurement analytics and improved decision-making processes for improved performance.
Alibaba Cloud Recommendation Engine (RecEng)
A set of recommended service frameworks available in the Alibaba Cloud computing environment. It predicts user preferences for items in real time. It supports customized recommendation algorithm, and comparison of A/B test results.
Alibaba Cloud Resource Access Management (RAM)
A user identity and access control service which enables you to centrally manage your users (including employees, systems, or applications) and securely control their access to your resources by applying permission levels.
See Resource Access Management.
Alibaba Cloud SchedulerX (SchedulerX)
A distributed task scheduling product developed by Alibaba Cloud. SchedulerX server clusters provide high availability and stability guarantee for scheduling, and can provide distributed scheduling for client machine clusters. Applications that use the SchedulerX client can receive schedules set in the SchedulerX console.
Alibaba Cloud Security Partner’s Product Console (SPPC)
A unified management platform for Alibaba Cloud security partner products. Users can login and buy and manage security partner products.
Alibaba Cloud Server Guard (Server Guard)
It provides real-time monitoring of your servers and databases.
See Server Guard.
Alibaba Cloud Short Message Service (SMS)
A communication service that supports rapid delivery of SMS authentication codes, SMS notifications, and addition SMS functions, to users.
Alibaba Cloud Situation Awareness (Situation Awareness)
Collects 20 different kinds of logs and cyberspace threat information, and uses machine learning to recover from attacks and predict future attacks.
Alibaba Cloud Table Store (Table Store)
A massive, highly concurrent, low latency NoSQL data storage service.
Alibaba Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
An Alibaba Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a private network built and customized based on Alibaba Cloud. Full logical isolation is achieved between Alibaba VPCs. Users can create and manage cloud product instances, such as ECS, Intranet Server Load Balancer, and RDS, in their own VPCs.
Alibaba Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF)
A cloud firewall service that protects core website data and safeguards the security and availability of your website. It controls access to content by allowing or blocking web requests based on criteria that you specify, such as header values or the IP addresses that the requests originate from. It helps protect web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
Alibaba Cloud IoT
Alibaba Cloud IoT is built specifically for IoT. It allows developers to build secure and powerful data channels and two-way communications for IoT devices.
Ali-Tomcat
A container in which EDAS runs its services. It integrates core functions such as publishing, subscription, and call chain tracking. Applications must be published into this container for execution either at design time or at run time.
Alibaba Cloud Message Service (Message Service)
A high performance, reliable, safe, extensible distributed message and notification service that supports massive messages and concurrent operations. It decouples message transfers between applications and the system.
anti-leech
An action often implemented to inhibit to bandwidth leeching, a script is run on a website’s server that automatically bans the IP that attempts to leech (that is, drain resources, bandwidth, or data in an unethical manner) or redirects leechers to defective files.
API consumer
Users who manage API consumer applications and have subscriptions to CSB open APIs.
API consumer application
An application that uses CSB APIs.
API consumption token
A token used by the CSB to authenticate API consumer applications that call and subscribe to CSB APIs. It is comprised of an AccessKey and SecretKey pair (AK/SK for short).
API provider
Accounts that publish and manage API application and services through the CSB open API service.
API provider application
Applications published by API providers that can be accessed by API consumers through the CSB open API service.
Application Programming Interface. A set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building applications software.
An application can be created from a single image or layout template. Each application can contain one or more services.
A user’s set of data configurations including data source structure, index structure, and additional configurations.
application diagnosis
A detailed performance and troubleshooting analysis for Java applications such as heap/non-heap memory, class loaders, Tomcat connection statistics, and more.
application grouping
In-application group management that enables users to package beta releases, AB tests, and grayscale releases. It also enables improved application lifecycle management and resource monitoring.
The action in which users can view real-time traffic and historical information of select applications to monitor the health status and quickly detect and resolve issues.
A set of routines that an application uses to request and carry out lower-level services performed by a computer’s or device’s operating system. These routines usually carry out maintenance tasks such as managing files and displaying information.
Apsara distributed file system
A large-scale, general purpose operating system that can connect millions of servers to form, in essence, a supercomputer, which can provide computing power in the form of online public services.
A dedicated enterprise cloud platform running on bare metal systems that provides private IaaS capabilities, and Containers as a Service (CaaS) functionality, for enterprises.
ApsaraDB (ApsaraDB)
The proprietary distributed computing architecture that many of Alibaba Cloud’s services are supported on. It supports massive scalability with up to 5,000 servers, 100 petabyte storage capacity, and 100,000 CPU cores.
ApsaraDB for HBase (ApsaraDB for HBase)
ApsaraDB for Hbase is a distrubuted database based on Hadoop that supports petabytes (PB) of data storage for high-throughput read and write scenarios.
ApsaraDB for Memcache (ApsaraDB for Memcache)
ApsaraDB for Memcache is a managed memory based caching service that supports high-speed access to queries and data.
ApsaraDB for Memcache Cluster
The system that stores the key-value data. All the data is stored in the memory, enabling fast access and performance.
ApsaraDB for Memcache control flow
The action in which users can perform management operations on an instance, such as adding instances, deleting instances, changing instances, and querying information about the instances.
ApsaraDB for MongoDB (ApsaraDB for MongoDB)
A secure, reliable, and elastically scalable cloud database service that supports the ReplicaSet and Sharding architectures.
ApsaraDB for OceanBase (ApsaraDB for OceanBase)
An independently built, scalable database that implements inter-bank cross-table transactions and supports hundreds of billions of SQL statemetents to support transactional data generated in ecommerce environments.
ApsaraDB for PPAS (ApsaraDB for PPAS)
A stable, secure, and scalable enterprise-level relational database based on PostgreSQL. PPAS delivers enhanced performance and application solutions, and can run Oracle applications directly.
ApsaraDB HybridDB for PostgreSQL (ApsaraDB HybridDB for PostgreSQL)
A distributed cloud database composed of multiple groups to provide online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing services. HybridDB for PostgreSQL is developed based on the Greenplum Open Source Database program and is enhanced with some in-depth extensions by Alibaba Cloud.
atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability (ACID)
The abbreviation of a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee validity. The properties are atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability, which are necessary for a transaction supporting database, otherwise the data correctness cannot be guaranteed nor the requirement of the counterparty be met during the transaction.
Information that determines the properties of a field or tag in a database. There is no limit to the amount of attribute columns.
attribute field
Used to output statistics and other functions. The field type can be filter, sort, aggregate, or distinct.
A set of permissions that either allow or deny a user access to a certain resource. After an authorization policy is attached to a user or group, the user or users in the group will be granted access to resources that were specified in the authorization policy. Authorization policies are described using the policy language. For more information, refer to Policy Language.
automatic snapshot policy
A rule that defines when the automatic snapshots are taken and how long they are retained.
A rule that defines when the automatic snapshots are taken and how long they will be retained.
The ability of authorized entities to access and use a resource as needed.
The average response time, in milliseconds, when DRDS performs logical SQL queries during a cycle. It is calculated as follows: (the time point recorded by the DRDS for the last package of the result set) - (the point at which DRDs receives the SQL query).
backend server
A set of cloud servers that accept load-balanced distribution requests. The load balancing service forwards external access requests to the backend servers based on the rules set by the users.
backend server weight
A relative value. The bigger the weight, the more requests a backend server will be sent.
basic monitoring
EDAS collects data from ECS instances running the application, and monitors the CPU, memory, load, network, and disks used for system analysis and data processing.
Batch Compute
A distributed cloud service for large-scale parallel batch processing jobs.
A software release to select users for testing and reporting of any bugs or performance issues before a general release.
How cloud service resources are billed. This can be by traffic, bandwidth, duration, etc.
binary log file position (Binlog file position)
In a MySQL Binary log file, each line records a data change action. The position of the line is referred to as binary log (binlog) file position.
The action of transmitting a packet that will be received by every device on the network.
broadcast consumption
In this mode, each consumer instance for a consumer ID will consume each message once. For example, a topic has 9 messages and a consumer ID has 3 consumer instances, so each instance will consume 9 messages.
A bucket is a container for objects stored in Alibaba Cloud OSS. Every object is contained in a bucket.
buffer hit rate
A measurement that is the percentage of time in which the system is retrieving records from memory versus from disk.
buffer pool
A cache of existing database connections. It allows applications to reuse database connections that already exist in the pool, and reduces repeated attempts to create new database connections. This technology can improve system performance and avoid the overhead of building a new connection.
byte hit rate
The probability that a requested number of bytes hits the cache within a specified period of time.
canonical name record (CNAME record)
A DNS resource record type. It specifies a domain name as an alias for another domain.
canonical name resolution (CNAME resolution)
It maps multiple domain names to one destination IP address.
canonicalized query string
A query string that has been converted into a “standard”, “normal”, or canonical form by concatenating the equals sign with the & sign and parameter names in lexicographic order.
Country code top-level domain. An Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code.
Cellular Data Package
An internet data service that enables Alibaba Cloud users to use cellular data services with mobile phones and IoT devices.
Certificates are used in HTTPS. After uploading a certificate to a Server Load Balancer, users can bind the certificate during HTTPS listener creation to provide HTTPS service. Certificates include both server-side and client-side certificates.
certificate authority (CA)
An entity that issues digital certificates.
channel subscription ID
Unique identifier for a subscription channel. When users consume incremental data using the SDK, they need to configure the corresponding subscription channel ID.
character encoding
Computing actions that represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system. Depending on the abstraction level and context, corresponding code points and the resulting code space may be regarded as bit patterns, octets, natural numbers, electrical pulses, and so on. ASCII is an example.
Chinese domain name
A domain name for a China-based domain.
classless inter-domain routing (CIDR)
Also called supernetting, it is a method to prevent the expansion of Internet route tables. It is a method of allocating multiple IP addresses to reduce the total number of route entries in a route table.
See What is CIDR?.
cleanSession
When you connect an MQTT client application, the server checks whether session information has been saved from a previous connection to the server. If a previous session still exists, and cleanSession=true, then the previous session information at the client and server is cleared. If cleanSession=false the previous session is resumed. If no previous session exists, a new session is started.
The unique identifier for each client in MQTT. It is used to connect to MQTT services and is in the format GroupID@@@DeviceID.
A program that establishes connections to send requests.
clientDeleteProhibited
A status that indicates that it is not possible to delete the domain name registration, which can prevent unauthorized deletions resulting from hijacking and/or fraud. If you do want to delete your domain, you must first contact your registrar and request that they remove this status code.
clientHold
A status that indicates the registrar has placed the domain name on hold and its web-related functions are inactive.
clientRenewProhibited
A status that indicates the registrar has modified the name so that it cannot be renewed.
A status that indicates your domain is prohibited from being transferred without consent from the domain’s registrant.
clientUpdateProhibited
A status that indicates that it is not possible to transfer the domain name registration, which will help prevent unauthorized transfers resulting from hijacking and/or fraud.
Cloud Service Bus group (CSB group)
A collection of CSB nodes creates a CSB group. CSB groups can be created and managed within the CSB Management console.
cloud service bus instance (CSB instance)
A cluster of CSB nodes creates one independent CSB instance. A CSB instance is used to open capabilities in one service domain and release external capabilities within the service domain.
The means through which using the CloudMonitor console a user can view and query performance indicators of their instances, analyze usage, monitor trends, and detect and diagnose system problems.
A cloud computing container that contains sever nodes
cluster consumption
A consumption mode where all consumer instances for a consumer ID share consumption of messages evenly. For example, a topic has 9 messages and the consumer ID has 3 consumer instances, so each instance consumes 3 messages.
compound indicator
An indicator that is calculated based on another indicator.
configuration push service
A configuration management feature provided by EDAS. It provides centralized management of distributed systems. Users can add, modify, and delete configuartions in real time, and then push the configuration updates globally or within the application.
A TCP connection between the client and the RDS instance. If the clinet uses a connection pool the connection is long. Otehrwise, it is short.
connection mode
The connection mode for an RDS instance. There are two modes: Performance is the standard access mode; Safety is the high security access mode.
connection password
The password for connecting to specific cloud databse instance. The connection password format is: instance ID:custom password. For example, at the time of purchase, the cutom password is set to 1234, and the assigned instance ID is XXXX, then the connection password is xxxx:1234. The connection password can be changed in the management console.
A unified connection management technology designed to improve application performance and reduce database load. It is responsible for allocating, managing, and releasing database connections.
A cache of database connections maintained so that the connections can be reused when future requests to the database are required. Connection pools are used to enhance the performance of executing commands on a database.
A connection string includes a connection address, port, database name, database account, and the account password. For example, dbname@XXXX.mysql.rds.aliyuncs.com:3306,username/password.
connection timeout
The connectTimeout timer specified in the SDK configuration is exceeded.
A consumer can obtain an assigned number of shards and can consume the data on these shards. A consumer name must be unique within a consumer group.
A message subscriber who receives and consumes messages.
consumer group
Consumer groups are sub-resources of Logstores. Consumers with the same consumer group name consume data from the same Logstore, but the data consumed by each consumer is different. Up to ten consumer groups can be created under one Logstore, but the group names must be unique within the Logstore. Different consumer groups under the same Logstore consume data independently.
consumer ID
A unique identifier for a consumer.
consumer instance
An instance for a consumer. An instance can be used to run different processes or on different machines.
A run-time instance created using Docker. A node can run multiple containers.
A fully managed cloud container management service that enables you to run and manage Docker applications on a distributed cluster of Alibaba Cloud ECS instances.
The pathway for performing management operations on the instance such as adding instances, deleting instances, changing instances and querying information about the instances. Website users can activate the service on the purchase page and monitor and manage the service on the console. Channel users can perform all the control operations on the Alibaba Cloud API platform.
A small piece of data(usually encrypted) that websites store on the user’s local terminal. It can be used for session tracking, authentication, or recording any other program state information.
cooldown period
After scaling, there is a coldown period where you cannot perform a scaling operation on the same scaling group.
The amount of time for which a central processing unit (CPU) uses to process instructions of a computer program or operating system.
A type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications. XSS enables attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same-origin policy
A binary that includes all of the requirements for launching a container and the metadata describing its needs and capabilities.
Through the OpenAPI, users can monitor and analyze data reported to the CloudMonitor to better understand the output and determine cause of alarms.
A platform that allows users to quickly see an overview of cloud-monitoring data from multiple instances of different products.
A large group of networked computer servers typically used by organizations for the remote storage, processing, or distribution of large amounts of data.
Data cleansing or data cleaning is the process of detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database. For ARMS it specifically refers to the process of splitting the log data, performing static Join, and finally transforming the standard Key-Value (KV) format.
data collection rules
Rules that define the target instance data sources for monitoring and data collection by monitoring tasks.
data disk
A disk that contains only data. It does not include an operating system.
Data Process Center (DPC)
Alibaba Cloud’s underlying platform for massive parallel processing data development and analysis that includes data integration, machine learning, and output, for majority of its users.
Define in the data set what kind of data will be used for data set filtering. Data that does not meet the filter criteria will be filtered out the data set.
data sharding
The means of database partitioning that separates very large databases into smaller, faster, more easily managed parts called data shards.
A data source is simply the source of the data. For example they can be a file, a database, or monitoring tasks such as Loghub, MQ Topic, etc.
A type of database update. Data updates only modify data. They do not modify the schema.
Database Audit (DB Audit)
Monitors, records, and provides alarms for database risks, such as bad operations or SQL injection attempts.
database partition
After horizontal splitting of DRDS, the database data is split logically and stored on multiple physical storage instances. Each physical instance is a database partition.
database shard
After horizontal splitting of DRDS, the database data is split logically and stored on multiple physical storage instances. Each physical instance is a database shard.
Defines how the monitoring task makes aggregation calculations, persistent storage, and Open API access output based on the collected data.
dataset dimension
The key value that is used to aggregate a dataset when it is created. Similar to the GroupBy column.
default display field
Used through the API parameter fetch_fields to display results about the field or fields provided in the query result.
delayed message
A message sent to the MQ server at a specified time instead of directly in real time.
delayed queue
The message queue where messages scheduled to be delivered later are sent. A user can specify the message delay parameter to send a message at a specified time through the CreateQueue and SetQueueAttribute operations. If no message delay parameter is specified, the message in the delay queue may take an extended amount of time to be fetched.
destination network address translation (DNAT)
It changes the destination address of an IP packet to another address.
The unique identifier of each device as specified by the manufacturer or user. For example, device serial numbers. These must be globally unique.
distributed configuration administration
EDAS provides central management of distributed systems from the EDAS control panel. You can modify configurations on the control panel and update all machines in real time within seconds.
Distributed Denial of Service is an attack using client/server technology. Multiple systems are combined to form an attack platform and initiate a DDoS attack against one or more targets, increasing the threat posed by denial of service attacks exponentially.
See DDoS attacks.
A client/server-based application that allows clients to access and process data stored on the server as if it were on their own computer. When a user accesses a file on the server, the server sends the user a copy of the file, which is cached on the user’s computer while the data is being processed and is then returned to the server.
Docker image
The Docker official Ubuntu images. It includes everything needed to run the application and can be used to create custom images as well.
A searchable structured data unit. A document can contain multiple fields, but must contain one primary key firld. OpenSearch uses the primary key to determine if the document and its contents are unique, and duplicates the primary key (thereby overwriting the content) if the document is not unique.
A domain name is a server or network system name that identifies IP resources connected to the Internet. All domain names are unique worldwide.
domain name format
A series of labels separated by dots which comply with rules and procedures of the DNS. An example is www.abc.com.
domain name proxy service
A value-added domain name service that protects personal identity information used when registering a domain name by making it unavailable in the WHOIS database.
domain name resolution
The process of mapping a domain name to an IP address.
The translation of domain names to corresponding IP addresses needed for locating and identifying computer services and devices with the underlying network protocols.
domain name system (DNS)
An industry standard for managing domain names and their IP addresses.
domain renewals
To retain ownership of a domain name, you generally need to pay an annual domain fee to extend its period of validity.
A code set by the registry or registrar to indicate the current state of a domain name.
domain transfer-in
The process of the new registrar transferring the domain name to their service. The new registrar can automatically copy over the domain server information to ensure the website function normally. If the domain server information is not copied, it will need to be updated with the new registrar.
domain transfer-out
The process of changing the designated registrar of a domain name. The end user contacts the new registrar when they want to transfer the domain name to their service, and supplies the authentication code.
DRDS hint
Custom comments provided by DRDS to specify special behaviour such as specific syntax that affects the way SQL is executed.
DRDS instance
A DRDS instance is made up of several DRDS Server nodes form a DRDS instance. Multiple DRDS databases can exist in one DRDS instance.
DRDS instance ID
The unique identifier for each DRDS instance.
A high-performance, Java based RPC framework open-sourced by Alibaba. It is the core framework of Alibaba SOA and is widely used across all Alibaba web platforms.
EaaS (energy as a service)
The management of one or more aspects of a customer’s energy portfolio—including strategy, program management, energy supply, energy use, and asset management—by applying new products, services, financing instruments, and technology solutions.
EDAS agent
A Daemon installed on ECS instances. It is responsible for communication between the EDAS service cluster and any applications deployed on the ECS instance, and enables application-based controls.
EDAS application life cycle
EDAS provides complete lifecycle management for applications. It includes application creation, deployment, launching, rolling-back, capacity scaling, and more.
EDAS Eagleeye
The EDAS service monitoring system. It can be used to trace and analyze system calls, message sending, and database access to pinpoint bottlenecks and hidden risks.
EDAS RPC service
An RPC service based on the Dubbo framework, and deployed through WAR. It offers seamless publishing and management of applications on EDAS, as well as the service management data operation features of EDAS.
edge node
A network node with a comparatively small number of accessible links to improve the responsiveness and connection speed for the end user.
encryption service instance
An instance type that utilizes advanced encryption and decryption capabilities.
The access domain name served by the OSS over the Internet or intranet.
Each instance corresponds to an endpoint (also known as the connection URL). The endpoint must be specified before you can perform any operations.
Generally a client of the messaging system is configured with a URL, email address, phone number, or other necessary configurations so that an application can then use it to send or receive messages. It is the interface between an application and a messaging system.
Enterprise Distributed Application Service (EDAS)
A core component of Alibaba Clouds enterprise oriented cloud computing solutions. It makes full use of Alibaba Cloud’s resource management and service system, and provides a complete set of mature Alibaba middleware distributed products to help enterprise customers build large-scale distributed services.
ephemeral SSD
A disk located in the physical machine where the instance is located.
An enumerated message that corresponds to the status of a specific software application and are typically used to identify faults such as those in faulty hardware, software, or incorrect user input.
eviction policy
The policy used when the Redis database reaches its limit.
existing data initialization
Initializes the historical data of the synchronization object to the target instance before synchronizing the link incremental data.
The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
Field Programmable Gate Array instance (FPGA instance)
An Alibaba Cloud computing instance that includes a FPGA and are suitable for scenarios involving parallel computing workloads (such as DNA analysis). FPGA instances can be created on the Alibaba Cloud console and programmed by users as required.
A network security system used to separate intranets from public networks. It monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules.
forwarding rule
An action that directs traffic to specific target servers and works in conjunction with health checks and load balancing algorithms.
forwarding weighting
A user setting that specifies the forwarding weight of each ECS in the backend server. An ECS with a higher weight is assigned more access requests.
fragmented storage
Splits files into multiple fragments and multiple copies across multiple storage disks.
frames per second (FPS)
The number of picture frames displayed on the screen per second for a video, or game. Also called frame rate.
full snapshot
A first snapshot of a disk, where all the disk data is saved. Incremental snapshots save the differences from this first snapshot.
full table scan
In database splitting mode, full table scan is when the DRDS will execute the SQL query on all the sub-tables and merge the results. This should be avoided as it negatively affects database performance.
Global Transaction Service (GTS)
A high-performance, highly reliable middleware to ensure transaction consistency for distributed transaction systems.
globally ordered message
For a topic, all messages are published and consumed in the strict order of first in, first out (FIFO).
Graphics Processing Unit-intensive instance (GPU instance)
An Alibaba Cloud computing instance that includes a Graphics Processing Unit. They are ideal for GPU-intensive computing workloads such as video decoding, graphic rending, deep learning, and scientific computing, as well as floating-point computing. Users can easily create GPU instances through the Alibaba Cloud console.
The operation unit in HybridDB for PostgreSQL. A HybridDB for PostgreSQL instance is composed of multiple groups. Increasing the number of groups can result in improved linear performance.
Identifies sets of logically sharded nodes that represent classes of devices with identical functions.
The available package of computing resources. Each group type includes CPU, IO, memory, and disk resources. Different group types deliver different performance specifications. Resources in one group are allocated to the same physical host.
Generic top-level domain. A category of top-level domain maintained by the IANA for use in DNS. The core group of gTLD include com, info, net, and org domains.
GTS server
Responsible for the advancement of distributed transactions, assigning a globally unique transaction ID to the client-initiated distributed transaction request, and recording the status of the transaction branch submitted by the Resource Manager. It is ultimately responsible for committing or rolling back global transactions.
It provides high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is the de facto standard open source load balancer that is now shipped with most mainstream Linux distributions.
As a basic Server Load Balancer function, health checks are performed on each backend server. Traffic is only forwarded to servers in the normal status to ensure high availability of Server Load Balancer.
A periodic signal generated to indicate normal operations. It is usually sent between machines at regular intervals.
heterogeneous indexing
For the DRDS table, WHERE clauses in SQL statements are routed to a specific sub-library to improve query efficiency. If no partial table partitioning key is available in the WHERE condition, DRDS performs a full table scan using a heterogeneous index.
A characteristic of system and application durability in which downtime for users due to regular maintenance operations (planned) and sudden system crashes (unplanned) is minimized. A highly available system is likely to operate continuously without failure for a desirably long time.
high-availability control system
Responsible for monitoring system health and real-time handovers between all database instances to ensure high availability (up to 99.99%).
It is calculated as follows: (successful user reads)/(total user reads).
homepage detection
A service that allows you to check if your home page is attached, linked, or if there are any access issues.
horizontal partitioning
The partitioning of tables over multiple machines. When you shard a database, you create replicas of the schema, and then divide what data is stored in each shard based on a shard key.
horizontal sharding
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). It is a more secure version of HTTP and uses SSL and TLS protocols to establish an encrypted connection.
An application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems. It is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. HTTPS is a more secure variant of this protocol that uses HTTP over TLS.
ID key
A unique identifier required for the encryption service instance management software in conjunction with a USB key to manage the keys.
idempotence
It describes an operation that produces the same results no matter how many times a client makes it. Note that while idempotent operations produce the same result on the server (no side effects), the response itself may not be the same (e.g. a resource’s state may change between requests).
identity credential
Authentication you must provide when you log on to a user account. For example, a password, AccessKey, or an MFA code.
A running environment template for ECS instances. It generally includes an operating system and preinstalled software. There are three types of images: public images, custom images, and shared images. You can use an image to create an ECS instance or change the system disk of an ECS instance.
An account can share custom images with other Alibaba Cloud accounts. These can be used to create an ECS instance or change the system disk of an ECS instance.
imported database
An existing MySQL database that is mounted directly to the DRDS.
Indicates an inactive state
Traffic that comes inside your machine.
incremental data migration
A data migration solution that splits a large data migration into smaller migration tasks whereby incremental data is synchronized in real-time from the source instance to the target instance. Incremental data migration must be manually ended through the console.
index building
The action of collecting, parsing, and storing data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval.
index field
A data structure optimized for document retrieval. Multiple index fields can be created. The index field must be specified when using the query action.
The default storage engine for MySQL version 5.5 or later. It provides ACID-compliant transaction feature, foreign key support, and row-level locking.
input/output operations per second (IOPS)
The total number of I/O operations per second (when performing a mix of read and write tests). An input/output performance measurement for computer storage devices that is frequently mischaracterized as a benchmark. IOPS numbers do not relate to real-world application performance.
An independent virtual machine that includes basic cloud computing components such as CPU, memory, operating system, bandwidth, disks, etc.
instance ID
The ID for the instances you have purchased .It can be viewed on the console. ApsaraDB for Redis limits connection quantities, bandwidth, CPU specifications, and other aspects based on capacity specifications of individual corresponding instances.
Intelligent Speech Interaction (ISI)
Software that utilizes voice recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing and other technologies to generally intelligent human-computer interactions.
interactive dashboard
A set of interactive reports that can be customized in ARMS by the user based on the dataset.
A shared boundary across which two or more separate components of a computer system exchange information. The exchange can be between software, computer hardware, peripheral devices, humans and combinations of these.
Internet IP address
A connection address top access a host on a public networks. Public addresses are assigned by InterNIC and consist of class-based network IDs or blocks of CIDR-based addresses that are guaranteed to be globally unique to the Internet.
An internal computer network that uses the same technology as the Internet. It is generally established within an enterprise or organization to provide information sharing and exchange services to its members through a local or restricted communications network.
intranet IP address
A connection address used to access the host on a private network.
inverted rank
A process for full-text search that consists of a list of all the unique words that appear in a document, and for each word, a list of the documents in which it appears.
A specific computational requirement performed in BatchCompute. Users can submit, query, and manage jobs through the BatchCompute Management console of the SDK.
Key Management Service
Alibaba Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) is a secure and easy-to-use service to create, control, and manage encryption keys used to secure your data.
The delay before a transfer of data begins following an instruction for its transfer.
Linux virtual server (LVS)
Linux Virtual Server (LVS) is a clustering and load balancing technology. It provides both IP load balancing and application-level load balancing. A dispatcher with a large request handling capacity distributes requests among many servers in a cluster. In this model, the backend servers appear like a single server that is highly available and delivers high performance. Users do not have to be aware of the backend servers that are actually delivering the service. This architecture does not require any reengineering of the client software or server software.
See also: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
Linux virtual server gateway (LVS Gateway)
The Linux Virtual Server (LVS) gateway is a set of load balancers that appear as a single IP address to clients.
The minimum data unit processed by the log service.
log group
A set of logs. The basic unit for reading and writing logs. Log groups can have up to 4096 lines, and take up to 10 MB in space.
log hub
It provides real-time data collection and consumption.
A fully managed service for data collection, consumption, shipping, query, and analysis without development.
log shipper
Moves the Log Hib data to the storage service for storage and big data analysis.
logException
An exception class in the SDK for handling logical errors in the log service.
Loghub log4j appender
An open source project which allows you fine control over the log output destination, and the format and level of each log. You can configure it using a configuration file without needing to modify application codes.
Loghub producer library
A LogHub class library written for high concurrency Java applications. The Producer Library and Consumer Library are used by LogHub to read and write packaging to lower the threshold for data collection and consumption.
logical SQL
SQL queries sent to the DRDS from the application side.
Logstore
The collection, storage, and query unit of log data for Log Service. Each log library is part of a project, and each project can create multiple logstores.
logtail
An access service that makes it quick and easy to retrieve logs from servers.
logtail configuration
It contains the settings for how a Logtail collects logs and processes them, and then determines where the logs are sent to. You can configure a logtail for each logstore.
M3U8 file
A UTF-8 encoded playlist file. Videos are generally 3-5 minute .ts vdieo file segments. The .ts files are listed in the M3U8 file.
Utilizing machine learning applications and a graphical programming interface, developers can quickly perform accurate testing and development on new, unseen examples/tasks using a learning machine after it is configured with a learning data set.
mail exchange record (MX record)
A DNS resource record that specifies the mail server that accepts mail for the recipient’s domain. It includes a preference value that is used for prioritization if multiple mail servers are available.
manual gateway (MGW)
A user-created dedicated gateway.
mapping table
A user-defined static table that maps the value of the query result into certain business attributes, for example, query results of cities can be mapped into postal code attributes for better data analysis.
massively parallel processing (MPP)
A distrubuted computing architecture that improves performance by means of parallel processing on non-shared nodes (a computing group in HybridDB).
master-slave dual node
An instance configured according to master-slave architecture.
maxversions
The property column defines the maximum number of versions of the data.
Media Transcoding
A highly scalable transcoding service for multimedia files. It can transcode multimedia files into formats suitable for playback on PCs, TVs, and mobile devices.
medical smartwear
Wearable technology designed not only to log data about users’ health but to predict and potentially avert crises.
A high performance, general-purpose distributed memory caching system.
An efficient, general-purpose, comparison-based sorting algorithm. Sometimes written as mergesort.
A message contains data and attributes.
message accumulation
The action in which the MQ server saves unused messages in instances where a large amount of messages cannot be consumed correctly in the time available.
message filtering
The process by which messages are filtered according to their tags to ensure that consumers only receive specific messages. Message filtering is performed at the MQ server side.
A globally unique identifier for a message automatically generated by Alibaba MQ.
message key
A unique identifier for a message that is set by the message sender.
Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
A lightweight, open instant messaging protocol based on the publish-subscribe model and applicable for mobile and IoT scenarios.
message status
The status of Alibaba Cloud Message Service messages. This can be Active, Inactive, Deleted, Delayed, or Expired.
message track
The process by which users can track a message according to the relevant nodes used and incorporating time, date, and other data that is used to complete the message link.
Mobile Accelerator
A wireless acceleration technology that provides developers with faster, more stable network access. Built on the Alibaba Cloud platform, it utilizes acceleration nodes and massive bandwidth resources to provide better availability and an enhanced user experience.
It helps developers implement big data operations such as analyzing user behavior, developing customer analysis, and leveraging applications to enhance user stickiness and improve user experience.
Mobile Push
It helps apps integrate mobile push capabilities to deliver efficient and accurate real-time mobile services while reducing associated development costs.
Mobile Security (Mobile Security)
An online mobile application security service that protects applications from potential risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.
Alibaba Cloud Mobile Testing is a machine testing service that enables developers and customers to interact with and test for various risks, threats, and vulnerabilities in apps in oder to improve quality, enhance security, and get them ready for the market.
Mongos
Forwards data entry requests from MongoDB clusters to the corresponding shard server. Multiple mongos can be selected as the entry request.
Monitors instances, physical resources, networks, and alarms to ensure that the system is functioning properly.
monitored items
Items monitored by the system. These can be set by the user. The default monitoring items depend on which product is being monitored.
The access destination address of the file system in a VPC or classic network. Each mount point is mapped to a domain name. When using the mount command, you can specify the domain name of the mount point to mount the corresponding NAS file system to a local destination.
Group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously and is often employed in IP applications of streaming media.
An access control system that provides enhanced security protection more than just using usernames and passwords. After MFA is enabled, when a user logs on to Alibaba Cloud website, the system requires the user to enter the username and password (first security factor), and then requires the user to enter a variable verification code (second security factor) provided by the MFA device.
multipart upload
The process by which objects larger than 5 GB are split into multiple data blocks (or parts in OSS) with each data block then uploaded separately. When all data block uploads are complete, the parts are combined back into the original object.
Multi-Service Transfer Platform (Multi-Service Transfer Platform)
A unified network management platform for multi service nodes based on SDH. It allows you to manage TDM, ATM, Ethernet, and so on.
A physical area composed of multiple zones in a single region. They can be used to address zone-level faults.
A mail exchanger (MX) record is a type of resource record in the DNS that specifies a mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of a recipient’s domain, and a preference value used to prioritize mail delivery if multiple mail servers are available.
The default storage engine for MySQL prior to version 5.5. Each MyISAM table is stored as three files, a .frm file, a .MYD file, and a .MYI file.
NAT Gateway is an enterprise-class public network gateway. It provides an Internet gateway for a VPC to allow you to access the cloud service. You can control access using customized SNAT and DNAT rules. Furthermore, it supports the sharing of public network bandwidth by multiple IPs, while its static bandwidth resources help reduce operation costs.
The network type defines the accessible range of an RDS instance intranet address. Classic-type networks allows access from within the public cloud, while VPC-type networks only allow access from within the VPC network.
A virtual machine instance or physical server that Docker Engine has been installed on. It can be used for the deployment and management of containers. The container service agent program is installed on the node, and the node is registered to a cluster. The number of nodes in a cluster can be scaled based on your requirements.
non-partition mode
A mode to use existing MySQL databases with DRDS. It only allows the use of the DRDS read/write splitting. Other DRDS features are not usable in this mode.
The way in which users can choose to receive alarm notifications. Available methods include MNS console notifications, email, and SMS.
Objects are the basic storage unit of Alibaba Cloud OSS. Objects consist of user data, file name, and metadata.
Indicates a normal state
Open Ad
It enables businesses to build their own DSP, AND, or DMP system to provide reliable services including bidding, audience targeting, CTR estimation, delivery, and more.
A publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a proprietary software application or web service.
A user operation that utilizes a cloud resource. These can be a console operation or an API call.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
A technology that converts different types of documents (such as scanned paper documents, PDFs, or images) into editable and searchable data.
orchestration template
A text file that defines the collection of cloud computing resources, the dependency between the resources, resource configuration details, and more. It is used by ROS to automatically create and configure all resources for automatic deployment, operation, and maintenance. You can edit the file as required and use version control software to easily switch between different configurations.
ordered consumption of messages
For a specified Topic, the client receives the messages in sequential order.
ordered delivery of messages
For a specified Topic, the client sends the message in sequential order.
ordered message
An MQ message type that is published and consumed sequentially. It is divided into global sequential messages and partitioned sequential messages.
outbound traffic
Traffic that goes outside your machine.
The person responsible for setting and controlling the permissions of objects, and who can grant such permissions to other users.
An event where one or more packets or data traveling across a computer network fail to reach their destination.
The ratio of packets lost with respect to packets sent, generally measured as a percentage value.
Pandora is a light weight container (technically known as taobao-hsf.sar). It isolates web apps and middleware, and middleware dependancies, to minimize issues. EDAS Pandora integrates various plugins into the container to enable services such as discovery, configuration pushing, and link-tracing calls. These plugins allow you full management of EDAS applications.
parent topic
The first level of a Topic as defined by the MQTT protocol.
partition mode
A mode that allows full use of all DRDS features. Its creates multiple libraries for a MySQL instance, and creates a DRDS database from these tables.
An account used to purchase EDAS products. Payment accounts can be bound to up to 5 main accounts. Payment accounts are also master accounts.
A method by which a user can pay a fee, such as a credit/debit card, PayPal, or direct banking.
pendingDelete
A status that indicates the doamin name has been in redemptionPeriod status for 30 days and has not been restored. The domain name remains in pendingDelete status for an additional five days, at which point it will be deleted from the registry database and made available to anyone for registration.
pendingTransfer
A status that indicates the domain name is being transferred to another registrar, and cannot be modified during this process.
Performance Testing Service (PTS)
A world-class, powerful testing platform that simulates real-world business scenarios involving massive users to observe real world capabilities and identify limitations.
Allow or deny a user (or user group) from performing an operation (or list of operations) on a resource (or list of resources).
persistent connection
A connection used to send multiple data packets in a row. During the period the connection is persisted, both parties must send link detection packets if no data packets are sent.
physical average response time
For a measurement period, DRDS calulates the average response time for a physical SQL query in milliseconds. The response time is calculated as: (When DRDS receives the result set returned by RDS) - (when DRDS starts receiving the RDS connection)
physical connection
A physical connection is the abstraction of a physical line used to directly connect a customer to Alibaba Cloud. Every connection a customer uses to access Alibaba Cloud, is considered as one Alibaba Cloud physical connection object under the customer’s name.
physical QPS
The number of physical SQL queries per second the DRDS executes on RDS.
physical SQL
The SQL query that is sent to the RDS after the DRDS parses a logical SQL query.
pornographic content detection
A service that determines if probable erotic content is detected on your resources and censors according to the calculated probability. For example, in OSS an object is frozen if it is determined as having probable erotic content.
A port is an endpoint of communication in computer networking. This can be hardware port, a logical port, or both. TCP and UDP ports are identified by their port number (an integer from 0 to 65535).
The unique identifier for each row in a table. It consists of up to 4 primary key columns. The contents of the primary key must be explicitly specified during table creation. A primary key can be of String, Integer, or Binary type (if it is String or Binary type, the length cannot exceed 1 KB).
primary zone
The main zone in which requests for instances are sent to. If instances in the primary zone fail, load balancing redirects the requests to a secondary zone to maintain service availability.
A message publisher who creates and sends messages.
producer ID
A unique identifier for a producer
producer instance
An instance for a producer. An instance can run different processes or on different machines.
The operations performed on on the key-value using the web client or app. These can be add, delete, replace, set and get operations.
programming model
A style of programming where execution is invoked by making what appear to be library calls.
proprietary intellectual property right
Ownership of intellectual property which may include financial information, intellectual property (concepts, designs, techniques), technical documentation, artwork, and so on, and which are protected under law.
proxy connection point
An intermediary point used by encryption service instances to provide SSL encryption while also enabling secure load balancing across multiple encryption service instances.
Proprietary software involving machine learning, semantic analysis, and advanced algorithms that uses publicly available data to analyze trends in brand image, popular events, public policies, and so on to promote better business decision making.
The client that sends messages to a topic. Also known as a producer.
queries per second (QPS)
A metric for measuring the traffic processed by a query server. DNS server performance, for example, is measured this way.
queue owner
The account used to create the queue through the CreateQueue operation. An owner has access to all queue operations. The queue owner Account ID can be viewed on the Alibaba Cloud console.
Defines the ratio of DRDS reads for the main instance and sub-instances.
read timeout
When calling a constructor using the SDK, it specifies the period of time that the SDK waits when attempting to read data from an API response before timing out.
read/write capacity unit (read/write CU)
The smallest billing unit for data read and write operations. A CU is 4 KB. Data that only uses part of a CU will be rounded up. For example, writing 7.6 KB data will count as two write CUs, and reading 0.1 KB data will count as one read CU.
read/write splitting
A way to improve performance for a DRDS system. Read and write queries are first automatically identified, then read queries are sent to the secondary tables while write queries are sent to the primary table.
read-only instance
Data in a read-only instance can be accessed but not modified.
real-time streaming media cluster
A scalable cluster for video streams with built in load balancing capabilities. The cluster automatically scales based on changes to the cluster’s overall load for the video stream.
receipt handle
A temporary ID generated by MNS when fetching messages. These are single use IDs that cannot be reused.
received traffic
The application’s SQL network traffic sent to the DRDS.
recovery point objective (RPO)
Refers to the amount of data at risk, which is determined by the amount of time between data protection events and reflects the amount of data that potentially could be lost during a disaster recovery.
The action by which to renew a domain name upon its expiration.
redemption period
A 30 day time period in which an expired domain name is held until it is removed from the international domain name pool. If a domain name expires, and is not renewed during the normal renewal timeframe, the 30 day redemption period begins.
An open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, and geospatial indexes with radius queries. Redis has built-in replication, Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions, and different levels of on-disk persistence, and provides high availability using Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster.
Redis database
A cloud-based version of Redis. Redis is an open-source in-memory database that implements a distributed, in-memory key-value store with optional durability. It supports 256 DB. By default, it writes to the 0 DB.
References geographical locations where instances are physically located.
See Regions.
A person or company that registers a domain name.
An organization or commercial entity that manages the reservation of internet domain names. A domain name registrar must be accredited by a generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry and/or a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry. The management is done in accordance with the guidelines of the designated domain name registries.
The action or process of registering or of being registered.
A database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the DNS that allow third party entities to request administrative control of a domain name.
A publish and subscription feature of MQ that realizes interoperability between services in different network environments.
requests per second
The number of SQL statements recorded in one second.
reserved read throughput
Provisioned throughput capacity reserved for reads is a configuration of a table. Table Store reserves the requisite resources based on this configuration.
reserved write throughput
Provisioned throughput capacity reserved for writes is a configuration of a table. Table Store reserves the requisite resources based on this configuration.
An abstraction of a cloud service provided to a user such as ECS instances, OSS storage buckets, and so on.
Any hardware or software that is accessible by the computer, network or other object connected to a computer. In Alibaba Cloud, a resource is an abstraction of object entities that a user interacts with, for example. ECS instances and OSS buckets.
A resource manager abstraction in a transaction, which defines the behavior of resources participating in a transaction. Different transaction modes correspond to different resource managers.
Resource Orchestration Service (ROS)
It provides developers and system managers with a simple method to create and manage their Alibaba Cloud resources.
Rewards Program (Rewards Program)
A program for rewarding white hat hackers for reporting security vulnerabilities. Companies can decide how much to pay for high, medium, and low risk vulnerabilities.
The action of restoring a disk to a state and setting from a previous point in time.
root certificate
A public key certificate that identifies a root certificate authority (CA). A root certificate is used to “sign” other certificates in which the signed certificates then inherit the trustworthiness of the root certificate.
round-robin scheduling
A scheduling algorithm that distributes requests across backend ECS servers sequentially.
route entry
Each item in the route table is a route entry. A route entry defines the next hop address for the network traffic to be routed to the specified destination CIDR block. Route entries are categorized into system routes and custom routes.
route table
A list of route entries on the VRouter.
router interface
A router interface (or VRouter interface) is a virtual network device. It can be attached to a VRouter to establish an Express Connect connection with another VRouter interface. This creates an intranet connection between different networks.
A solution for scenarios where the business rules of an online service change frequently. It can help customers separate business rules from the application code to make managing business rules easier.
scaling configuration
Defines the configuration of ECS instances used for Auto Scaling.
scaling group
A scaling group is a collection of ECS instances with similar configurations deployed in an application scenario. It defines the maximum and minimum number of ECS instances in the group, associated Server Load Balancer and RDS instances, and other attributes.
scaling rule
Defines how many instances to add or remove when scaling.
SchedulerX
A PaaS distributed task scheduling product.
schema migration
A type of migration. In database migration, it refers to the migration of scema definitions including tables, views, triggers, stored procedures, and storage functions. For migration between heterogeneous databases, the data type mapping is carried out in the schema migration phase, and the object type is changed to the appropriate target type. For example, when Oracle is migrated to MySQL, the number type in Oracle is mapped to the decimal type in MySQL.
schema update
An update that modifys the schema definition such as create table, alter table, drop view and so on. Users can choose whether to subscribe to schema updates when creating a subscription channel.
seamless scaling
When you use horizontal splitting to distribute data dynamically in physical instances, the process is done asynchronously and does not require any change to the business code.
secondary zone
Server Load Balancer can be deployed in multiple zones in a region. The user can specify a primary and a secondary zones for a Server Load Balancer instance. The Server Load Balancer instance runs in the primary zone by default, and uses the secondary zone as a backup.
Secure Shell (SSH)
A cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network based at the application layer and transport layer.
Secure Shell key pair (SSH key pair)
An authentication method available for logging in to ESC instances remotely. An SSH key pair is a pair of keys generated through an encryption algorithm: one key is publically available (the public key) and the other key is kept confidential (the private key).
If you have placed the public key in a Linux instance, you can use the private key to log on to the instance using SSH commands or related tools from a local computer or another instance without a password.
See SSH key pairs.
security group
A named set of allowed inbound network connections for an instance (VPC Security groups also support outbound connections). Each security group consists of a list of protocols, ports, and IP address ranges. A single security group can apply to multiple instances, and multiple security groups can apply to a single instance.
A cross-platform open standard core component of the OASIS group’s WS-Trust web services single sign-on infrastructure framework. Alibaba cloud use it to grant temporary user credentials to to RAM roles.
See STS introduction.
Server Load Balancer (SLB)
A ready-to-use service that seamlessly integrates with Elastic Compute Service (ECS) to automatically manage sudden spikes in traffic, minimize response time, and maintain 99.99% availability of your web applications.
See Server Load Balancer.
ServerDeleteProhibited
A status that indicates your domain is prevented by the registry from being deleted.
ServerHold
A status that indicates the domain’s registry has placed the domain name on hold, and its web-related functions are inactive.
ServerRenewProhibited
A status that indicates the registry has modified the domain name so that it cannot be renewed.
ServerTransferProhibited
A status that indicates your domain is prohibited from being transferred without consent from the registry.
ServerUpdateProhibited
A status that indicates your domain is prevented from being updated.
A scalable micro service. It uses a set of containers based on the same mirror and configuration.
service access authorization
When API publishers give API consumers the requisite credentials to allow them to call an API.
service authentication
The HSF service framework ensures the stability and security of each user’s distributed calls. Each step of the process has strict service authentication.
service call monitoring
EDAS is able to monitor the service’s QPS, response time and error rates for application calls to the service.
service downgrade
A downstream process in which low priority calls to non-core service providers are timed out to ensure that upstream core applications are not affected.
The basic business unit of APIs. When you launch a new API you must assign it to a service group. APIs can only belong to one group.
service publication
The service is open on CSB and CSB provides the corresponding API call to access the service.
service-level agreement (SLA)
An agreement between a service provider and a client for a service agreed upon by both parties. This can include details such as quality, availability, and responsibilities. Note 1: Service level agreements can also be established between service providers and other providers. These other providers may be a group within an organization or a customer. Note 2: Service level agreements may be a part of a contract or another type of written agreement.
session persistence
A basic Server Load Balancer function that distributes access requests from a single client to the same backend server for processing.
MongoDB uses sharding for horizontal scaling of databases. Each shard is a separate server that handles a subset of the overall workload.
shard key
A column in the logical table. DRDS routes SQL statements to the table indicated in this column.
Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
A framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols. It decouples authentication mechanisms from application protocols. In theory, this allows any authentication method supported by SASL to be used with any application protocol that supports SASL.
single point of failure (SPOF)
A part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working.
Simulates user access scenarios to enable monitoring of availability, connectivity, DNS resolution, and other management tasks
SLB instance
An instance running the Server Load Balancer service. To use the Server Load Balancer service, the user must first create an Server Load Balancer instance. The LoadBalancerId is the unique identifier of a user’s Server Load Balancer instance.
SLB listener
A concept used in Server Load Balancer instances. A listener defines how the incoming requests are distributed. You must add at least one listener to a Server Load Balancer instance. It includes frontend ports, backend ports, Server Load Balancer policies, and health check configurations. Each listener corresponds to a backend application service.
Smart Conversation Analysis (SCA)
Software that utilizes dialogue recordings or text, and analyzes the content based on intelligent rules to achieve natural human speech patterns.
smart electric meters
An electronic device that records consumption of electric energy in intervals of an hour or less and communicates that information at least daily back to the utility for monitoring and billing.
A copy of data on a disk at a certain time point. There are two types of snapshots, automatic snapshots and user-created snapshots.
SNAT table
A configuration table on the NAT Gateway for SNAT configurations to permit ECS instances access to the Internet using a specified public IP address.
software defined network (SDN)
An approach to computer networking that allows network administrators to programmatically initialize, control, change, and manage network behavior dynamically via open interfaces and abstraction of lower-level functionality.
software development kit (SDK)
A collection of development tools used by software engineers when creating application software for a specific software package, software framework, hardware platform, or operating system.
souce field
The smallest unit of source data. It contains the field name and field value and can be of text, integer, or floating-point type.
A user’s raw data that can contain multiple source fields.
source network address translation (SNAT)
It translates the source address of an IP packet to another address.
SRV record
A record that defines the location of servers for specified services in the Domain Name System. It includes the hostname and port number of the specified server.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificte. It is a small data file that digitally binds a cryptographic key to an organization’s details.It complies with the SSL protocol and is issued by trusted root certification authorities.
standard message
Messages sent to the queue that can be fetched immediately.
standard queue
The default message delay time is zero which means any message not set with delay seconds attribute is available for receiving at once.
Websites with web pages composed of fixed content, including scripts such as JavaScript, that are executed by the client without the need for prior web programming or database design.
static website hosting
Users can configure their own bucket as a static web host. After it is configured, the bucket can be accessed as a static website, and can automatically jump to the index page and error pages.
StreamCompute
A general-purpose computing platform that provides stream data computing services in real time.
Users subscribed to a topic. They receive messages about the topic.
An agreement to establish a relationship that enables subscribed users to receive messages from publishers
A topic under the parent topic.
synchronization latency
The difference between the timestamp of the target instance on the source library, and the current timestamp of the homologous instance.
synchronized records per second
The number of records synchronized to the target instance per second.
system disk
A disk that contains an operating system.
table broadcast/replication
By synchronizing in advance the data of a single-warehouse table to all the sub-libraries, DRDS can convert the cross-database combined query into a push-down joint query to be completed on the physical database.
table shard
The physical data table for each shard.
An identifier used to classify and manage ECS instances.
An identifier used to classify and manage a large number of ECS instances.
TCP retransmission
The resending of TCP packets that have been damaged or lost during transmission. TCP handles a retransmission by setting a timeout when it sends data, and if the data isn’t acknowledged when the timeout expires, it retransmits the data.
technical contact/tech contact
A person responsible for resolving technical issues concerning the domain name and domain status.
A user or group of users who share a common access with specific privileges to software instances.
Tengine
An open source webserver that is based on the Nginx HTTP server. It originated from Taobao, and is now actively developed by the Tengine team.
A word or phrase used to describe a thing or to express a concept.
Rules by which one must agree to abide in order to use a service.
A limit beyond which something changes.
The amount of data successfully transmitted through a network, device, port, virtual circuit, or another facility within a given time.
Logs within a logstore can be divided up by the journal topic. User can specify topics when creating logs and can use topics to query logs.
A message type.
TopicURL
A customizable section of a URL that can be used to point to a specific page.
A series of operations performed as a single logical unit of work. You must execute all of the operations or none of them.
transaction alias
A customizable part of the customer application that is placed in the @TxcTransaction note. It identifies whether a transaction in the runtime has a global transaction open which can be seen on the console.
transaction boundary
Marks the start and end of a transaction.
transaction branch
A distributed transaction may contain multiple branches, and only if all the branches succeed, the distributed transaction succeeds, and the failure of a branch causes the rollback of the distributed transaction. Under the GTS framework, a branch may be an SQL statement executed on a library or a manual mode branch.
transaction group
A unque name specified by the customer data and the system parameters. Each GTS application must apply for a transaction group.
transaction ID (XID)
The global transaction ID of a GTS distributed transation. It is unique so it can be used to troubleshoot problems using the logs.
transaction initiator
The GTS client that starts/submits the distributed transaction through the transaction co-ordinator.
transaction instance name
The indentifier for the code block that starts the transaction in the client application. It is used to identify which part of the application starts the transaction. This can be viewed on the console.
transaction message
Used by MQ to provide a similar function to X/Open XA for distributed transactions, to ensure that transactions are ACID.
transactions per second (TPS)
The number of database transaction per second.
transfer prohibition lock
A method that prevents unauthorized outbound domain name transfers between registrars.
transient connection
A type of connection created when both parties need to send data to or receive data from each other. After data is sent, the connection is closed. Only one data transmission occurs for each connection.
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
One of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite. It provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of octets between applications running on hosts communicating by an IP network. Major Internet applications such as the World Wide Web, email, remote administration, and file transfer rely on TCP.
transmitted traffic
DRDS network traffic sent to the application result set.
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Performs real-time I/O encryption and decryption of the entire database. It is completely transparent to applications and does not require any modifications to existing applications.
two-phase commit protocol (2PC)
A processing protocol for distributed transactions.
A text (TXT) record is a type of resource record in the DNS used to provide the ability to associate some arbitrary and unformatted text with a host name or a domain name.
update prohibition lock
A method that protects domain name registrant information from unauthorized modification or tampering.
URL forwarding
The automatic redirection to a different URL when a domain is visited. It includes both explicit and implicit URL forwarding actions.
A core component of the Internet protocol suite, UDP uses a connectioness communication model with a minimum protocol mechanism. Through UDP, applications send datagrams to other hosts on an IP network without the need to set up a communication channel or data path.
A pool of user accounts that, when grouped, can be granted the same permissions.
virtual border router (VBR)
Customers can create multiple VBRs on a physical connection. Each VBR is responsible for forwarding the data of one VLAN on the leased line to an address in Alibaba Cloud. Using VBRs, customer data can be directly transmitted to any Alibaba Cloud region.
virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN)
A network virtualization technology that uses VLAN-like encapsulation techniques to address scalability problems associated with large cloud computing deployments.
virtual local area network (VLAN)
A virtual LAN (VLAN) is any broadcast domain that is partitioned and isolated in a computer network at the data link layer (OSI layer 2).
VLAN abstracts the idea of a LAN. VLAN can divide up a LAN into logical segments that cannot see each other’s traffic. It can also be used to allow geographically dispersed systems to communicate as if they are on the same LAN.
virtual network layer
The network hosting the ECS instances. It avoids the restrictions on the physical network layer. User logic and transmitted content at the virtual network layer are invisible to the physical network layer so the physical network layer does not parse the information transmitted at the virtual network layer, protecting user privacy. The virtual network layer is completely implemented using software. Data/control plane separation, path decision and policy delivery are done by the controller at the virtual network layer, thus implementing a Software Defined Network (SDN).
A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public or shared network. It enables users to securely send and receive data across the public network as if their devices were directly connected to the private network.
Voice Messaging Service
A communication service that supports voice notifications, authetication of calls, multi-party calls, and other communication capabilities.
A networking hub in the VPC. It connects all VSwitches in the VPC and serves as a gateway device that connects the VPC to other networks. It forwards network traffic according to specific route entries.
VServer group
A group of backend servers that can be customized and managed in the listener dimension. They allow listeners under an SLB instance to distribute different requests to different backend servers depending on the configured forwarding rule.
VSwitch
A basic network device on the VPC network. It can be connected to different cloud product instances. When creating a cloud product instance in a VPC network, you must specify a VSwitch for the cloud product instance.
web content detection
A service that notifies you if any illegal or illicit content is detected in any of your webpages. Web content detection will send the snapshot created at the time the content is detected, the URL of the suspected page or pages, and will help facilitate a review and recommend actions in order to rectify any issues.
web SQL injection
An injection attack wherein an attacker executes malicious SQL statements (known as a malicious payload) to control a web application’s database server or RDBMS.
A relative value that indicates the relative importance of the index in the overall evaluation.
weighted round robin (WRR)
In this mode, external and internal access requests are distributed to the backend ECS instances based on the weight you set each server.
An access control method. When a user is added to the whitelist, the user is permitted access. Users who are not on whitelist are not permitted access. The opposite of a blacklist.
wildcard DNS
A DNS record in a DNS zone that will match requests for non-existent domain names. A wildcard DNS record is specified by using a “*“ as the leftmost label (part) of a domain name. e.g. *.example.com. This wildcard DNS record will cause DNS lookups on domain names ending in example.com that do not exist to have MX records synthesized for them. So, a lookup for the MX record for somerandomname.example.com would return an MX record pointing to host1.example.com.
word breaking
The fragmentation of a string of written language into its component words.
Refers to physical areas with independent power grids and networks in a region. The network latency for resources within the same zone is lower than across zones. Intranet communication can take place between resources in different zones of the same region, and fault isolation can be performed between zones. Deployment of resources in the same zone depends on the requirements for disaster recovery and network latency.
See Zones.
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Mighty Switch Force! Collection Announced for PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC
Switch up the fun with four games in one with Mighty Switch Force! Collection!
Grab your Pellet Shooter, turn on your Infinity Dousing Apparatus, and activate your Siren Helmet! WayForward is thrilled to announce that Mighty Switch Force! Collection—featuring four complete games—is on its way to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, at last allowing players to enjoy the series’s core entries in one convenient package. (That’s right, we’ve finally put the “Switch” in Mighty Switch Force!) Comprising Mighty Switch Force!, Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition, Mighty Switch Force! 2, and Mighty Switch Force! Academy, this highly requested, value-packed compilation arrives digitally on July 25, 2019.
“Fans have been asking to see more of Mighty Switch Force! for a while now,” said WayForward creative director Matt Bozon, “so we’re very happy to finally answer those requests and bring the series to current platforms. With four games’ worth of content for less than $20, Mighty Switch Force! Collection will have more action, challenge, and savings than you can throw an Ugly Twitching Dog at!”
The fun begins with Mighty Switch Force!, in which players take control of cybernetic law enforcer Officer Patricia Wagon, jumping and blasting their way across Planet Land in pursuit of the escaped Hooligan Sisters. Using Officer Wagon’s unique Siren Helmet, you can reconfigure level layouts by “switching” blocks from the foreground to the background (and vice versa) — each stage is a puzzle that tests your wits as well as your reflexes. Next, Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition takes things to a new level with gorgeous, high-definition visuals and super-challenging Hyper Mode stages. The action then really heats up in Mighty Switch Force! 2, which sees Officer Wagon trade in her Pellet Shooter for the Infinity Dousing Apparatus (AKA a firehose) as she encounters new types of blocks and battles a mysteriously relentless inferno while overcoming a fresh batch of brain-bending, block-shifting stages. Last but not least, Mighty Switch Force! Academy allows up to four players to team up or battle it out to put new recruits through their puzzle-platforming paces in sprawling widescreen levels.
Mighty Switch Force! Collection is planned for digital release via the Nintendo eShop, PlayStation Store, Xbox Live, Steam, GOG, and Humble Bundle at the price of $19.99. For additional information on Mighty Switch Force! Collection, please visit wayforward.com.
• Four fantastic games in one: Mighty Switch Force!, Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition, Mighty Switch Force! 2, and Mighty Switch Force! Academy.
• Use your Siren Helmet to switch around level layouts and solve tricky puzzles!
• Blast enemies with your Pellet Shooter and extinguish flames with your Infinity Dousing Apparatus!
• Encounter colorful characters like Corporal Gendarmor, Ugly Twitching Dog, and Ugly Secret Baby!
• Avoid hazards and interact with elements like Launch Blocks and Force Field Blocks to navigate more than 70 levels!
• Aim for the fastest time! Perfect for speedrunners!
• Up to four players can join in locally in Mighty Switch Force! Academy!
• Newly added HD Rumble effects on Nintendo Switch!
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51. Obama Likely to Address Russian Cyberattack at Year-end News Conference
President Barack Obama will likely face questions about allegations of a Russian cyberattack related to the U.S. election and the continuing violence and upheaval in Syria during his year-end news conference – and the final one of his presidency -- Friday at the White House. Typically, Obama begins the news conference to review his administration's efforts during the past year. He then begins calling on individual reporters takes questions on a wide range of topics. Shortly after... ... (read more)
Author: webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
52. Tanzania Charges Whistleblower Website Owner With Obstructing Police
Tanzania on Friday charged the co-founder of a website where people can post comments on officials they believe are corrupt with offences including obstructing a police investigation. Maxence Melo Mubyazi was arrested on Tuesday and has since been held by police, who have also searched his office and home. A charge sheet seen by Reuters showed that Mubyazi, 40, managing director and co-founder of jamiiforums website, has been charged with multiple counts of obstructing justice and... (read more)
Author: webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
53. 'Tis The Season to Be Festive with Big Movie Productions
This holiday season has a lot of offerings for moviegoers who may feel like celebrating with a film full of special effects, nods to Hollywood classics, A-list actors, thrills, action and of course, romance. Some of these films will also dominate the awards season after the new year. VOA Entertainment reporter Penelope Poulou explains. ... (read more)
Author: webdesk@voanews.com (Penelope Poulou)
54. Africa 54
Vincent Makori heads up the reporting team to inform you about Africa, the U.S. and the world. ... (read more)
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55. China Seizes US Navy Underwater Drone in South China Sea
The Chinese Navy has seized a U.S. naval underwater drone from international waters in the South China Sea. The U.S. has demanded the unmanned vehicle, which is used to measure water temperature and salinity levels, be returned after it was taken about 50 miles off the western coast of the Philippines. The Chinese seized the drone Thursday just before a U.S. Navy oceanographic survey ship was set to retrieve it. ... (read more)
56. Zimbabwe's Mugabe Tries to Unite Fractious Party
Africa’s oldest head of state, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, says he has no immediate plans to step down. In fact, on Friday the Zimbabwean leader said he was not happy with some members of his ruling ZANU-PF party who are calling for him to resign. Speaking at the official opening of the ZANU-PF annual conference in Masvingo, about 300 kilometers south of Harare, the 92-year-old leader urged his party to unite as Zimbabwe heads toward its next elections in 2018. His... ... (read more)
Author: webdesk@voanews.com (Sebastian Mhofu)
57. Congo Gold Mine Innovates to Solve Illegal Mining Dilemma
When Guy Robert Lukama looked out at thousands of illegal gold diggers hacking away at the verdant hills in remote northeastern Congo, he glimpsed opportunity where previous owners saw only an intractable problem. Lukama's former employer, South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti, had for years sought to develop the 3,260 square kilometre Mongbwalu concession but pulled out partly due to concern over the sprawling blue-tented camps full of miners. When he led a buyout of... ... (read more)
58. Syria Suspends Aleppo Evacuation
The Syrian government suspended the evacuation of civilians from eastern Aleppo Friday after blasts and gunfire were hard in parts of the city and both rebels and government forces accused the other of breaking the fragile cease-fire agreement. The Syrian government ordered trucks and buses that had been carrying people out of the rebel-held parts of Aleppo to turn around as the army set up roadblocks along the highway that had been used in the evacuation. Turkey, which has been... (read more)
59. Venezuelans Scramble as Most-used Banknote Becomes Void
Venezuela became a country without cash Friday. As the country's most widely used banknote went out of circulation, the higher-denomination bills that were supposed to replace the 100-bolivar note had not yet arrived at banks or ATMs. In the capital, people were relying on credit cards and bank transfers, or avoiding making purchases altogether. President Nicolas Maduro made a surprise announcement Sunday that the 100-bolivar note would go out of circulation by the... ... (read more)
Author: webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
60. Duterte Government Says it Won't Bow to America to Get Aid
The Philippines' top diplomat criticized the United States on Friday for deferring a decision on a major aid package over human rights concerns and said the Philippines can survive without it. Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. said the uncertainty over the aid package emerged after President Rodrigo Duterte declared he would chart a foreign policy independent of the United States. A U.S. government aid agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, said this week that its board... ... (read more)
61. Immigrant Elector Who Backed Cruz Says He'll Vote for Trump
Hector Maldonado took one oath to support the U.S. Constitution when he became a citizen, a second when he enlisted in the U.S. Army and another earlier this year when he became an elector and promised to support whichever Republican presidential candidate won Missouri. The Mexican immigrant and former Ted Cruz supporter said he will make good on his most recent promise and pick President-elect Donald Trump in what's shaping up to be an unusually controversial Electoral College vote... (read more)
62. Israeli Group Asks US Court to Block Boeing Deal With Iran
An Israeli advocacy group on Thursday asked a U.S. federal court to block aerospace giant Boeing Co.'s planned $16.6 billion deal with Iran Air, saying the Tehran government must first pay off billions of dollars in damages to families of people killed or wounded by Iranian-backed militant groups. In papers filed in the Northern District of Illinois court, the Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center organization said it was seeking a lien against Boeing until the damages against Iran are... ... (read more)
63. Democrats to Use Hearings on Trump Picks to Court Working Class
Determined to hold around two dozen Senate seats in 2018, Democrats will use the coming series of confirmation hearings to try to distinguish themselves from President-elect Donald Trump's billionaire nominees and convince working-class voters who elected him that he's not on their side. While Democrats have little leverage to stop the Republican's picks in the Senate, they still plan a fight. To highlight what they say is the hypocrisy of Trump's campaign promise to... ... (read more)
64. Thai Lawmakers Approve Tighter Control of Internet
Thailand's military-appointed legislature approved a bill Friday tightening the country's already harsh Computer Crime Act, defying critics who said it infringes on the right to free expression. The National Legislative Assembly voted 168 to 0 with four abstentions to approve amending the 2007 law. Internet activists had campaigned against the amendment, which will allow the authorities to intercept private communications and block websites deemed harmful to national security... ... (read more)
65. Radio Station Serves 'Our Ghetto' in Nairobi
Mtaani radio, founded three years ago, has been the voice of the people in Nairobi's Dagoretti area, boasting an estimated 5,000 listeners. From making announcements on lost children to calling out pickpockets and lobbying politicians to keep to their promises, the radio station has impacted the community in positive ways. Mtaani is a Swahili slang word that means "our ghetto." The 100 watt station broadcasts both in Swahili and Sheng, a dialect that youth in this area... ... (read more)
Author: webdesk@voanews.com (Rael Ombuor)
66. Bergdahl Due Back in Court for Pre-trial Hearing
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is due back in court for a pretrial hearing on accusations that he endangered fellow service members by walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009. The Friday hearing will likely include further arguments on whether prosecutors should be allowed to admit evidence of injuries to service members who searched for Bergdahl. The judge has also threatened to require testimony from government officials about the pace at which the defense is receiving classified... ... (read more)
67. With Boko Haram on Backfoot, Cameroon, Nigeria Reopen Border
The border between Nigeria and Cameroon has been completely reopened for the first time in three years. It’s a key sign of progress in the war against Boko Haram. Officials from the two countries met this week in Yaounde to review security issues. They were welcomed by a military band before sitting down to discuss Boko Haram. Officials here say the threat of terrorist attacks has been greatly reduced due to joint cross-border military raids targeting the Islamist militant... ... (read more)
Author: webdesk@voanews.com (Moki Edwin Kindzeka)
68. What Does Trump Gain from Taiwan Call, What Can China do?
China has expressed “serious concerns” about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to call into question the United States’ continued adherence to the “one China” policy. Since 1979, no United States president or president-elect has spoken directly with Taiwan. It’s a policy based on a series of communiqués between Washington and Beijing and grounded in the Taiwan Relations Act. White House spokesperson Josh Earnest called the practice an important diplomatic tool... ... (read more)
Author: webdesk@voanews.com (Steve Miller)
69. Philippines Rejects Trump Associate’s Housing Project
Philippine environment officials have canceled a compliance certificate for a housing project by President-elect Donald Trump’s business associate, saying it would endanger a watershed that supplies drinking water to 12 million people. Century Communities Corp. seeks to build the 58-hectare (143-acre) housing project within the 2,000-hectare (4,942-acre) La Mesa Watershed in the capital. It is the source of metropolitan Manila’s drinking water. “That’s the watershed of 12 million... (read more)
70. Japan, Russia Summit Produces Economic Deals, No Peace Treaty
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended two days of talks without any significant breakthrough on the major issue that divides them, a territorial dispute that dates back to World War II. The two leaders met Friday in Tokyo after holding talks the day before at a hot spring resort in southwest Japan. In the Japanese capital, police kept nationalist protesters away from the summit. The demonstrators were demanding that Russia give back the southern... (read more)
Author: webdesk@voanews.com (Brian Padden)
71. Pakistan ‘Willing’ to Discuss Freedom for Doctor Who Helped Find Bin Laden
Pakistan says “it would be willing” to discuss with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration freedom for a jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden. The doctor, Shakil Afridi, is serving 33 years in a Pakistani prison on treason charges. U.S. authorities have denounced Afridi’s treatment as unjust and unwarranted and have frequently demanded his release. “Pakistan would be willing to look at how we could move forward in a resolution of... ... (read more)
Author: webdesk@voanews.com (Ayaz Gul)
72. Philippines Won’t Protest China’s Islands, Defense Systems
The Philippines would not protest China’s moves to militarize its man-made islands in the South China Sea, Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said Friday, amid Manila’s efforts to improve ties with Beijing. China has deployed anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems on the artificial islets it has built in the disputed Spratly Islands, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in findings reported by Reuters this... ... (read more)
73. Mexico Braces for Fresh Flood of Central American Asylum Seekers
Mexico expects a sharp increase in people seeking asylum from Central America next year, fleeing gang warfare and poverty in their home countries, a senior official said on Thursday. There has been a steady surge of Central Americans applying for asylum in Mexico since 2015. Cinthia Perez, a director of Mexico's refugee agency COMAR, said in an interview that she is receiving about 9 percent more applications each month. There were 3,424 asylum applications in 2015, and she... (read more)
74. EU Offers More Funds to Africa to Curb Migration
The European Union offered Niger 610 million euros ($635 million) Thursday to curtail migration from Africa through the Mediterranean to Europe and said it was seeking more such money-for-migration deals ahead. Some 1.4 million refugees and migrants arrived in Europe this year and last, and the EU wants to cut back on the uncontrolled influx of people. Niger's desert city of Agadez is a popular way station for people trying to cross the Sahara to reach Libya and eventually Europe... (read more)
75. Brazil Prosecutors Hit Ex-president Lula with More Corruption Charges
Prosecutors on Thursday charged former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, his wife and a former finance minister with more corruption charges in the investigation of graft at state-run oil company Petrobras. It is up to federal judge Sergio Moro to decide if the new charges will result in another trial for Lula, who is already accused in Moro's court in southern Brazil with separate corruption charges. A ruling on those charges is not expected before late January or early... ... (read more)
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New APA guidance offers six principles for conducting tele-assessments while social distancing.
Last updated: May 1, 2020 Date created: April 3, 2020 3 min read
American Psychological Association. (2020, May 1). How to do psychological testing via telehealth. http://www.apaservices.org/practice/reimbursement/health-codes/testing/psychological-telehealth
While some psychologists may pause their psychological assessment services during the COVID-19 crisis, others have time-sensitive, high-needs or high-stakes testing that needs to continue. A new guidance on tele-assessment from APA’s Div. 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) provides some advice on practicing in this time.
Some standardized testing administration methods will need to be altered. Altering these administration procedures should be done carefully, thoughtfully and deliberately, with special attention paid to how the alterations themselves may modify the data. These six principles will help psychologists continue providing tele-assessments within the current physical distancing constraints.
Note: This article is a brief summary of the full guidance on tele-assessment during the COVID-19 crisis from the Boards of the Society for Personality Assessment and Section IX (Assessment) of APA’s Div. 12.
Do not jeopardize test security
While some test materials and procedures will need to be modified to allow for physical distancing, psychologists should be sure they do not jeopardize test security. For example, sending stimulus materials (copies of psychomotor task stimuli or record forms) may not be approved by test publishers.
Do the best you can with what is available to you (mindfully and ethically)
It is important for the psychologist to know the limits of tele-testing and to consider whether this approach is appropriate given the referral question, evidence, client characteristics/ preferences and clinician expertise. Do your best to keep the administration procedures as close as possible to the traditional, in-person procedures. Remote audio-visual monitoring of the test administration, even with self-administered instruments, is essential.
Be rigorously mindful of data quality
To date, there is limited research and evidence for equivalence of testing in a remote, online format compared to a traditional, face-to-face format. Psychologists should think through every single task administered and decide just how much the quality of the data are likely affected by the alternate administration format.
Think critically about test and subtest substitutions
There will certainly be some tests or subtests that are not possible to replicate via telehealth. However, psychologists can consider tasks that tap similar constructs. Remember that the most robust and meaningful scales in multi-faceted tests are typically the overall “full scale” indices, rather than their subscales. That means that slight data problems may not be as important, meaningful or disruptive because they are only partially contributing to the larger, overall score.
Widen “confidence intervals” when making conclusions and clinical decisions
Psychological assessment requires psychologists to use their clinical judgment to interpret test scores, including their margin for error, within the context of individual and contextual factors, including presenting problems, diversity considerations and other factors. Integrating test data derived from non-standardized administration procedures broadens the margin of error. It is important for psychologists to be deliberate and explicit about the broader confidence intervals and potential for errors in the administration process, interpretation and in the write-up of results.
Maintain the same ethical standards of care as in traditional psychological assessment services
The ethical principles that underlie the APA’s Ethics Code are built on the foundation of doing good, avoiding harm and being faithful and just in our work. These principles remain intact during this crisis period. This includes ensuring that the process of informed consent is thorough, clear and ongoing. It is important to be transparent in reports about the novel circumstances under which the assessment was conducted, as well as the considerations that went into how data are interpreted, with consideration to alterations, and integrated with other information.
It is assumed that all psychologists will adhere to respective federal and state rules and regulations, the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Guidelines, and the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. This guidance does not imply that these professional services will be reimbursed. Psychologists should check with payors to confirm billing, coding and reimbursement policies.
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Nicholas Maino, 92, was pronounced dead shortly after the fire on Atlantic Avenue, Swendeman confirmed Tuesday morning. Maino's wife, Joan Maino, 86, emerged from the fire alive but later died of her injuries.
Nobody else was in the home at the time, Swendeman said.
The cause of the fire was still under investigation Tuesday morning, Swendeman said. Authorities do not believe it was suspicious.
Crews from the South Wall Fire Rescue Company arrived at the home shortly after 9 p.m. and were told two people were trapped inside. Firefighters quickly reached the couple and pulled them out of the burning home, said Wall Fire Marshal William Newberry.
Conditions were "extremely smoky and hot" when firefighters first arrived, Newberry said. Crews were able to extinguish the blaze within about 12 minutes.
Neighbors said they knew little about the couple.
Marilyn Kessler, who has worked at Allenwood Animal Hospital, next door to the Mainos' home, for 35 years, said she only recalls seeing the couple leave the driveway a few times.
"They were just very quiet," she said.
Rich Griswold, 49, a retired Ocean County corrections captain, moved across the street from the Mainos from Brick a year and a half ago. He didn't recall seeing anyone ever leave the home. He said he didn't know them.
"It's still a tough loss," he said. "This is a terrific community. When we moved here, people were very welcoming. It's a blow to the community."
Firefighters swiftly arrived at the home in part because the South Wall Fire Rescue Company headquarters is less than a quarter-mile away and members were already at the fire house for a monthly training exercise when the call came in.
"House fires are a horrible, tragic thing and then we compound that with a loss of life, especially with a couple like in this case, it does take a toll on the first responders," Newberry said.
Fire companies from Wall, Glendola and surrounding areas in southern Monmouth County assisted at the scene, Newberry said.
Firefighters attacked the fire as temperatures dipped below freezing.
On Tuesday, yellow police tape encircled the large, barn-like home. The inside of the first floor was blackened and gutted. Windows on the second floor were smashed. An older model Cadillac sedan stood in the driveway.
A photo to a March 2003 story in the Senior Scoop section of the Asbury Park Press shows Nicholas Maino, then of Colts Neck, at the stand-up bass with a group called Sentimental Journey that played big band music at senior centers.
EARLIER: Wall fire draws massive response
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SCOTT REDDING ON THE FIFTH ROW AND ALEIX ESPARGARÓ ON THE SIXTH AT SILVERSTONE
ESPARGARÓ 16TH AND REDDING 20TH AT THE END OF THE FIRST DAY OF PRACTICE AT SILVERSTONE
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The well-known instability of the weather at Silverstone played a leading role in the MotoGP qualifiers. The FP4 session, which started on a dry track, ended early due to a series of crashes on asphalt that had been made treacherous by the rain. Even Aleix Espargaró was involved in an off-track excursion, managing to keep the bike upright and returning his Aprilia RS-GP to pit lane.
In qualifying, the English track was divided into two parts: one part was almost dry, in contrast to other sections with wet asphalt, forcing the riders to put on rain tyres. This was a choice that did not reward Aleix Espargaró, who only turned one flying lap in the final moments of the session and was relegated to the sixth row.
Scott Redding, always fast in these conditions, found a good pace and skilfully exploited his feeling on the wettest sections. His spot on the fifth row in fourteenth place and the forecast for rain tomorrow make him optimistic for a good race.
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"The biggest problems, even in the wet, stem from the uneven asphalt. In FP4 I was among the first to go out with a rain tyre and at the end of the back straight it was impossible to brake because of the aquaplaning. I thought I was going to crash, but instead I managed to slow down enough in the gravel and stopping just short of the air fence. Unfortunately, Tito was hit by a bike while he was on the ground. First and foremost, I hope that his condition is not too serious. In qualifying, the soft tyre we started with was not the best choice. I boxed to go out with the second bike, but I only had time for one flying lap. I think that with a second lap, Q2 could have been within our potential. It will be important to make the right choice tomorrow, always putting safety first, because in the wet there are some very critical points."
"In qualifying, the wet tracked helped us, but the circuit was split into two parts. I was fast on the damp patches but lost a bit on the dry track. In these cases, tyre choice is always a compromise. At Silverstone, situations like today are the norm. I'd say that it is part of the charm of this race. Tomorrow I would prefer to race on a wet track, but in any case I'll do my best to give the fans a good show."
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New Bentley Continental GT3 claims inaugural victory at Silverstone
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First race on home soil for 84 years yields victory for modern-day Bentley Boys Guy Smith, Andy Meyrick and Steven Kane
Guy Smith, Andy Meyrick and Steven Kane won for Bentley at Silverstone
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The works Bentley Motorsport team claimed victory in its first race on home soil for 84 years at Silverstone today.
The M-Sport Bentley Continental GT3 driven by Guy Smith, Andy Meyrick and Steven Kane won the second round of the Blancpain Endurance Series, despite incurring a drive-through penalty for a yellow-flag infringement early in the race.
Rolf Frech, member of the board for engineering at Bentley, said: “We knew our Continental GT3 was a potential race winner, but to finish first in only the car’s second race in the series feels very special.
"Bentley has a history of winning, and today we’ve written the start of the next chapter in our long history. The victory today is the result of an outstanding effort by the whole team, and is the reward for a great deal of hard work since the first round at Monza.”
The race car is based on the Continental GT V8 coupé and is built by the Bentley Motorsport team in conjunction with M-Sport, Malcolm Wilson's Cumbrian-based motorsport preparation company.
A more focused V8-powered Bentley Continental Supersports road car could be signed off for production to tie-in with the motor racing effort.
Silverstone was Bentley Motorsport's first official race in the British Isles since the RAC Tourist Trophy at Ards near Belfast on 23 August 1930. Tazio Nuvolari won for Alfa Romeo, with the top Bentley Blower of Herbert Kensington Moir in eleventh position.
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New BAE Systems Digital Light Engine Head-Up Display Debuts at Seoul ADEX
28 Oct 2013 2013-10-28T01:00:00+01:00
BAE Systems is exhibiting for the first time its new Digital Light Engine Head-Up Display (DLE HUD) to the public at the 2013 Seoul ADEX, in partnership with LIG NEX1 of South Korea.
BAE Systems’ fully digital HUD, on display at Stand H10-B1, brings to the market form, fit, functional retrofit HUD to the T/FA-50 and F-16 fleet communities in Republic of South Korea.
Designed for mission effectiveness, the DLE HUD introduces a more advanced digital display solution, with no loss to brightness, which is also stable over the life span of the equipment. This new technology advancement addresses obsolescence issues and dependency on traditional HUDs powered by Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) technology.
With more military aircraft upgrade advancements to digital displays, the DLE HUD offers easy integration into existing HUD space. Factors attributing to the maintenance, life-cycle cost, weight reduction, increased reliability and performance of this new progressive display technology underscore BAE Systems’ world-class credentials in the HUD market as a significant investor and provider of future-proof platform technologies.
Mike Reader, Asia Pacific Programs Director for Communications and Control Solutions, BAE Systems said, “BAE Systems has gained a solid reputation for producing accurate HUD systems for over 40 years. The new DLE HUD being exhibited for the first time this year at Seoul ADEX is cutting-edge, and will be able to offer its users a simple retrofit to their obsolete HUDs as well as significantly lowering life-cycle costs due to reduced maintenance and spares.”
BAE Systems is a world leader in HUD technology; over 14,000 of its systems are currently in operational service on more than 50 aircraft in more than 50 countries. The company’s HUD systems are deployed in existing T/FA-50 and F-16 fleets for The Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) as well as for the international F-16 fleet community.
Visit BAE Systems’ partner stand at LIG NEX1: H10-B1 for a demonstration on its interactive Digital Light Engine HUD.
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Home / Business News / CEO of ad giant Omnicom outlines strategy for reopening agency offices around the world — read the internal memo
CEO of ad giant Omnicom outlines strategy for reopening agency offices around the world — read the internal memo
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John Wren, CEO of ad giant Omnicom, laid out steps for the holding company's offices around the world to reopen.
He said the entire network would continue working remotely until at least May 15 except in some Asian countries.
Wren said leaders will follow local government guidelines and that anyone uncomfortable returning to the office will not be required to do so.
According to sources in Omnicom, some executives have already volunteered for salary reductions while others have not.
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Omnicom CEO John Wren sent memos to the holding company's 70,000-plus employees about reopening its offices
"Our leaders worked tirelessly to limit the number of people impacted," Wren wrote on April 23, stating that corporate executives along with "many others" have taken voluntary pay cuts.
The move comes as China reopens its economy and other countries, including Germany and South Korea, issue guidelines for businesses. The holding company already went through multiple rounds of layoffs across agencies including BBDO, DDB, and all of Omnicom Media Group.
"We have formed a multidisciplinary committee to develop guidelines for how our offices should open once government officials give us the green light to do so," Wren wrote, expressing confidence that Omnicom would "be well-positioned for success as client business returns."
Omnicom may take extra time to open offices after local governments clear the way
Wren stated the entire network would maintain its work-from-home policy until at least May 15, except in certain Asian countries.
He linked to a company guide including tips and requirements, such as each employee wearing a mask and taking his or her temperature before entering the office.
Similar to rival holding company WPP CEO Mark Read, Wren suggested that Omnicom would follow the guidance of local governments but will "take some extra time before opening," using a phased approach and telling all employees who feel uncomfortable that they don't have to come in.
Wren did not address the topic of salaries in the memo. Three people with knowledge of the matter who are known to Business Insider but requested anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss it said these cuts have already begun in some regions, but that certain agency CEOs had not volunteered.
Omnicom declined to comment.
The full memo is printed below.
A Message from John Wren
As we begin another week, I want to share some much-needed good news about the exceptional work by our agencies and their recent award wins, as well as provide an update on our return-to-office plans.
Most recently, Ad Age revealed its 2020 A-List and our performance was outstanding. Goodby Silverstein & Partners, TBWA and BBDO were all named to the top ten for Agency of the Year, adam&eveDDB was named International Agency of the Year and TBWA\Media Arts Lab was named Creative Agency of the Year. For the sixth year in a row, adam&eveDDB was awarded Campaign UK's Agency of the Year and Manning Gottlieb OMD won Media Agency.
In addition, all three of our global creative networks — BBDO, DDB and TBWA — came in the top five for The Drum's World Creative Rankings, and Omnicom was named the most awarded holding company. On the PR front, Marina Maher Communications was named an Agency of the Decade by PRovoke.
Congratulations to all on these achievements.
The work you've been doing around COVID-19 continues to be impressive. OMD helped increase awareness around Draft-A-Thon, which raised over $100 million for COVID-19 relief. Several of our healthcare agencies are working tirelessly with their clients on clinical trials for drugs being used to treat Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), one of the most dramatic issues of COVID-19. A group of 25 individuals at Harrison & Star and SSCG Media Group worked around the clock to support the Emergency Use Authorization of remdesivir for COVID-19, and it has just been approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. In Helsinki, TBWA helped its client develop a hands-free door handle that minimizes the spread of the virus. Addressing the rise of domestic violence during this pandemic, TBWA is working with a client to promote a hand signal that will silently inform others if a person is in danger. These are just a few of the countless examples I've heard of, and I want to thank you for your hard work and ingenuity.
As of now, except in certain markets in Asia where our people have already returned to the office, we are maintaining our work from home policy until at least May 15.
That said, many markets around the world are preparing to end lockdowns and re-open their economies. With this in mind, a cross-functional committee developed Returning to the Office Safely guidance for you and your agency leaders. The guidelines will be implemented by each office and will be tailored for local regulations and the specific needs of your agency.
You can access the guidelines at returningsafely.omnicomgroup.com.
As part of our plan to return to the office safely, we sent out a brief survey last week. More than 30,000 of you responded to the survey. Thank you. Our committee used your feedback to inform the recommended guidance.
While each of our agencies is still in the planning process, I want to reassure you of a few things:
First, our offices will not open before local governments and public health officials give us the green light to do so, and even then, we will take some extra time before opening.
Once we open our offices, it will be under a phased approach so we can maintain proper social distancing.
We know many of you are juggling both professional and personal responsibilities. You'll be informed of our plans in plenty of time to discuss your particular situation with your manager so we can do our best to accommodate you.
And finally, please know that anybody who is not comfortable returning to the office as we gradually transition back and maintain social distancing will not be required to do so and should speak with their manager.
As always, your safety and well-being remain our top priority, and we will do our best to keep you informed on any new developments. In the meantime, stay safe and continue to take care of yourself and your loved ones.
SEE ALSO: WPP CEO lays out how the ad giant will reopen its offices around the world and why they may never return to full capacity
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Interest rates, Fed chief on the move?
By Mark Hamrick Mark Hamrick's Twitter profile
Jul. 24, 2017 /
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The Federal Reserve meets this week, and — spoiler alert — they’re almost certainly leaving interest rates unchanged.
Longer term, the Fed remains on track to raise rates once more in 2017 and is expected to boost rates a number of times over the next couple of years.
Along with the direction of rates, the direction of Fed Chair Janet Yellen has been making headlines. President Donald Trump reportedly might nominate someone else for the job after Yellen’s four-year term ends in late January. Pressed on the point during her congressional testimony this month, Yellen said she hadn’t given thought to the question of serving another term.
The front-runner to replace Yellen
Gary Cohn, head of the National Economic Council and former Goldman Sachs president, is reportedly in line for the nomination. Confirmation would pluck Cohn from the tumult of the Trump White House and place him in one of the most powerful positions in the world.
Yellen, nominated as chair by then-President Barack Obama, has presided as the economy has continued to heal with help from historically low interest rates. The unemployment rate has been below 5 percent for over a year, and the stock market has rallied.
Critics suggest Yellen should have pressed for more aggressive monetary policy, including an earlier winding down of the Fed’s $4.5 billion balance sheet and a higher path for the federal funds rate, boosted four times from the record-low levels targeted during the financial crisis and Great Recession.
Even so, it isn’t clear whether Yellen — who turns 71 in August — wants more time on the job.
Risks await the next Fed chair
If Yellen does leave her post, she may be getting out at the right time. The next Fed chair, whoever it is, faces a possible recession and stock market pullback. While both events are difficult to predict, history suggests their inevitability. And that could mean new problems for the Federal Reserve.
The current economic expansion is more than 8 years old. Few economists predict a big acceleration from here; in fact, just the opposite.
“As the domestic economy continues to tread water at a 2 percent-ish growth rate, the risk is not that we head to 3 percent from here, but down to 1 percent or lower,” says Lindsey Piegza, chief economist for Stifel.
As for the stock market, veteran investor Hugh Johnson notes: “The average duration of the 10 previous post-World War II bull markets has been 57.1 months. The current bull market just finished month 100.”
What this all means for your money
Whether it is Yellen, Cohn or someone else leading the Fed next year, the best bet right now is that interest rates are headed higher over the next couple of years.
If you’re carrying variable-rate debt, double your efforts to pay it down. Apply for a 0 percent APR balance transfer credit card; it will give you time to pay down your credit card debt interest-free.
Add to your emergency fund to recession-proof your savings. While savers will have to wait to see a substantial improvement in rates on CDs, savings accounts and money market accounts, the need for emergency savings is paramount. If you don’t have an emergency fund, compare savings accounts to find one offering a great yield, and then start funding it.
If you’re looking to buy a home, lock a mortgage now. Mortgage rates don’t always move in the same direction as the Fed, but mortgage rates remain near historic lows, so take advantage of them while you can.
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Think we need Trident? You hypocrite!
by The Peacemaker Blog | Jul 24, 2016 | 0 comments
“We cannot compromise on our national security, we cannot outsource the grave responsibility we shoulder for keeping our people safe, and we cannot abandon our ultimate safeguard out of misplaced idealism.That would be a reckless gamble; a gamble that would enfeeble our allies and embolden our enemies; a gamble with the safety and security of families in Britain that we must never be prepared to take.”
“We’re discussing eight missiles, 40 warheads with each warhead believed to be eight times as powerful as the atomic bomb which killed 140,000 people in Hiroshima in 1945. We’re talking about 40 warheads, each one with the capacity to kill more than one million people. What is the threat that we’re facing that over a million people’s deaths actually deters?… I do not believe the threat of mass murder is a legitimate way to go about dealing with international relations.”
– Jeremy Corbyn
Are you someone who favours keeping our nuclear capabilities? Then please consider the potential hypocrisy you are faced with.
This week parliament chose to renew trident by a majority of 355. For somebody who believes in nuclear disarmament this was a depressing result.
However, Ronnie Cowen, of the Scottish National Party, posed a challenge argument that had already struck me as very true and I believe it highlights a great degree of hypocrisy and contradiction in our support for trident.
“To say the world is safer with nuclear weapons is akin to saying there would be less gun crime in the United States if there were more firearms.”
The Contradiction
Many people I have debated with about nuclear disarmament over the years stand by our need for trident as a deterrent and security necessity in the face of a dangerous and continually changing world. However, often these same people have no objection to slamming American’s for their desire to own guns and for the mass murderous fall out that seems to follow!
Every time there is a gun crime in America we are quick to condemn the third amendment, yet we ourselves are willing to be armed as a nation with a weapon far more powerful than a gun. A weapon our prime minister has proudly admitted she is willing to use and which if we did, would quickly outdo decades worth of statistics for death from gun crime.
What’s the argument?
One of the main arguments in favour of the right to arms in America is that they are the best way to protect innocent people in a very violent and unpredictable world. Sound familiar?
Here is a quote from prominent philosopher, author and gun owner Sam Harris, who believes just that;
‘Like most gun owners, I understand the ethical importance of guns and cannot honestly wish for a world without them. I suspect that sentiment will shock many readers. Wouldn’t any decent person wish for a world without guns? In my view, only someone who doesn’t understand violence could wish for such a world. A world without guns is one in which the most aggressive men can do more or less anything they want. It is a world in which a man with a knife can rape and murder a woman in the presence of a dozen witnesses, and none will find the courage to intervene….A world without guns, therefore, is one in which the advantages of youth, size, strength, aggression, and sheer numbers are almost always decisive. Who could be nostalgic for such a world?
This sentiment could so easily be replaced with our need for nuclear weapons.
Gun ownership comes out of an understandable fear to protect ourselves and family at any cost. But it also feeds into a problem where society begins to trust violence over peace.
We must see the comparisons here!
One of the main arguments for trident is that it will stop atomic bombs being used at all, the bomb prevents bombs, just like the guns prevents guns. And yet all evidence would suggest that guns do not prevent guns. Similarly, having a nuclear weapon has encouraged more and more nations to develop their own nuclear capacity.
So is America in a cycle that makes it impossible to control gun ownership, just as the world seems to be a never ending reliance on nuclear weapons that Governments or societies are unwilling to stop?
But you may argue, Guns are used every day, Nuclear weapons are not!
It would only take one country to use their nuclear weapon to make the whole world forget guns in an instant. And the truth is we have form. In fact the way we consider ourselves as the ‘good guys’ in this debate present us as a nation of hypocrites, being one of the only countries to have ever actually dropped an atomic bomb.
Let’s not stand and mourn the loss of life on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki if we cannot believe in a world without the need for Trident. What tribute do you give the thousands of dead, injured and ill people that we are remembering.
It may seem impossible to consider as a comparison, but it bares little difference to the idea that modern Germany could condemned the holocaust, but still see a benefit in keeping concentration camps in working order, just in case they could be of use.
So let’s stop teaching our children to remember with grief something we are not willing to give up ourselves.
And if, like Teresa May, you say I am an idealistic and naive? Well remember, Jesus never criticised idealism, but he had plenty to say about hypocrisy.
For more information;
Trident and the vote to renew it visit BBC
Banning the Bomb please visit; CND
APF member Lucy Barbour is a mum of two beautiful children. Before having children she studied a master’s degree in Peace and Reconciliation at Coventry University and is passionate about finding ways for the Anglican Church to focus more on Jesus’ message of Peace and non-violence
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A new GOP color?
Mixed philosophies make up Southeast Texas Republicans
Sep. 9, 2018 Updated: Sep. 24, 2018 7:13 p.m.
The national debate over what it means to be a Republican is playing out in Jefferson County, a place where voters walk a tightrope between the red and the blue.
Officials at the local and federal levels say the party is more ideologically diverse than ever — with socially conservative, libertarian-style and traditionally pro-business Republicans all in ascendance — but a Texas politics expert says discord within these ranks illustrates "a cost to the diversity."
"There have always been strains of each of these philosophies in the Republican Party, but they haven't ever had them all competing for attention in such a way as we do now," said Brandon Rottinghaus, a University of Houston political science professor. "The strengths of each wing are really at their height."
The election of President Donald Trump has highlighted, some might say exposed, the fractures between the groups.
In Jefferson County, the spectrum of GOP leadership is reflected by county Judge Jeff Branick, a recent Democrat-turned-Republican; Mitch Templeton, a libertarian-leaning candidate for district judge; and U.S. Rep. Randy Weber, R-Friends-wood, who leads with his social conservative principles.
State Rep. Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, said he maintains "a foot in each camp" because "that's kind of what Southeast Texas is like."
Rottinghaus agreed that "purple" Jefferson County is a bellwether for the state.
"Understanding where Southeast Texas is tells us a lot about where the country will go and gives hints about where Texas will go," he said.
"It's a very mixed bag down here with politics," added Phelan. "You have your Chamber of Commerce Republicans, Tea Party, libertarian, 'America First' Donald Trump — a new group of voters in the Republican primary — and many of them are traditionally Democratic voters or Independents."
While Southeast Texas is "clearly" not a region Democrats can count on, Rottinghaus said it also is not an area Republicans "can afford to take for granted."
National, local trends at play
Branick, elected as a Democrat in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, is running for his final term as a Republican. He made the party switch a year and a half ago.
"As both sides of the aisle have had people move to the fringes, it's kind of left people like me behind that believe in fiscal responsibility," said Branick, who cited national reasons for the change.
He said his beliefs in limited government and the Second Amendment "more closely aligned with Republicans as they currently exist."
As the leader of a traditionally Democratic-controlled county, Branick said making the switch was worth any potential danger to his re-election bid.
"I've got to be who I am," he said.
Despite the "diversity of opinion" in his new party, Branick said he wishes it were more racially diverse as well.
Democrats like Branick began crossing party lines in the 1970s and '80s, Rottinghaus said. The former Democrats were typically small government conservatives who began to see it "more advantageous" to be a Republican, he added, counting them in the party's libertarian-leaning strain.
"They were Democrats because they were called Democrats, not Democrats in the way we look at Democrats today," Rottinghaus said.
At its rebirth in the 1960s, the core of the Republican Party in Texas was "about economic conservatism with a flex of libertarianism," Rottinghaus said.
The1980s brought in the growth of religious conservatives who "began to demand their own policy agenda," he said. He called the 2017 proposal to ban transgendered people from using the bathroom of their choice the "modern incarnation" of the party's religious influence.
A "Christian, conservative Republican in that order," Weber said he defines himself as a social conservative, a faction within the party that he said cares more about the "social mores, or what we'd call the foundation or fabric of our country."
Branick said he is a libertarian on "some issues," mostly stemming from his own Christian faith.
The Bible "says that I'm supposed to be patient, long-suffering and kind in all circumstances and I'm not always that way," Branick said. "Because I can't adhere to it perfectly, I'm not going to dislike other people who don't adhere to it perfectly."
Templeton, the Republican judicial candidate for 172nd District Court, said he sees a "real libertarian streak" within the GOP, at least at the local level.
These types of Republicans are a "liberty-minded group of people" who want the "government to leave people alone," Templeton said, referring to leaders like U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who are known for their libertarian views.
Rottinghaus said issues like the bathroom bill caused a clash among Republicans, specifically social conservatives and fiscal conservatives who worry that stances seen as intolerant would negatively affect business.
"To me, that's the kind of trade-off the party has to deal with," Rottinghaus said.
Trump effect a question mark
Trump "emboldened many of the wings of the party in a way that no other candidate could," Rottinghaus said.
"A lot of Republicans don't view him as being terribly conservative, yet many point to him as an example of how Republicans should act," he said. "On one hand, he promotes his economic philosophy, which economic Republicans like, and a fairly conservative social vision, which conservative social Republicans like."
Phelan said Trump's message resonated with the Golden Triangle's working class. He said Orange County, which went 80 percent for Trump in 2016, would likely not have done so "a decade ago."
Trump was only the second Republican presidential candidate to win Jefferson County, Phelan said.
"Even Reagan didn't do it," he said.
Trump "connected to Southeast Texas without question," Phelan said.
Yet Weber said a small group of "never Trumpers" remains. These voters didn't like Trump "on the front end" for his tweeting or "vulgar language," Weber said, but they "abhorred the possibility of Hillary Clinton."
Lamar University political science professor James Nelson said he believed it was "a little early at this point" to say how much Trump's election changed the Republican Party. But he does see "limited evidence" of the beginning of a new demographic divide shifting coalitions within the GOP.
Despite Republicans winning in "blue wall" states near the Great Lakes in 2016, most of the country "remained similar," Nelson said. For example, Texas stayed red and California stayed blue, he said.
"Southeast Texas, politically, it's been a diverse area in recent decades, particularly Jefferson County," Nelson said. Both Trump and former President Barack Obama won the county by small margins.
Nelson said it might take a few more presidential elections to gauge the full effect of the Trump presidency.
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Port Arthur unveils plan to revitalize downtown, upgrade future
April 10, 2018 Updated: April 10, 2018 8:40 a.m.
1of9Rendering of a proposed 2.25 acre park for the city of Port Arthur's Downtown Revitalization Plan. The park would be located on the block bound by Shreveport Avenue, Fifth Street, Beaumont Avenue and Sixth Street.Photos provided by Shad ComeauxShow MoreShow Less
2of9The old Hotel Sabine is among the Port Arthur abandoned and deteriorating commercial properties which the city hopes to demolish in revitalization efforts. It is being offered up as part of a film-friendly incentive proposal to potential film-makers. Photo taken Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Kim Brent/The EnterpriseKim BrentShow MoreShow Less
5of9The old Hotel Sabine is among the Port Arthur abandoned and deteriorating commercial properties which the city hopes to demolish in revitalization efforts. It is being offered up as part of a film-friendly incentive proposal to potential film-makers.Other city-owned abandoned properties, including this one at 443 E. Procter Street, are also slated for demolition. Photo taken Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Kim Brent/The EnterpriseKim BrentShow MoreShow Less
7of9The old Hotel Sabine is among the Port Arthur abandoned and deteriorating commercial properties which the city hopes to demolish in revitalization efforts. It is being offered up as part of a film-friendly incentive proposal to potential film-makers.Other city-owned abandoned properties, including this one at 701-709 E. Procter Street, are also slated for demolition. Photo taken Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Kim Brent/The EnterpriseKim BrentShow MoreShow Less
8of9A property at 1048 E. Procter Street is also slated for demolition. The old Hotel Sabine is among the Port Arthur abandoned and deteriorating commercial properties which the city hopes to demolish in revitalization efforts. It is being offered up as part of a film-friendly incentive proposal to potential film-makers. Photo taken Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Kim Brent/The EnterpriseKim BrentShow MoreShow Less
Fresh seafood could be on the menu for Port Arthur, with pier-elevated restaurants on Lakeshore Drive, fitted with a wraparound deck for outdoor dining and a pedestrian bridge connecting visitors to the boardwalk, under an ambitious, upgraded city plan in the works.
Before any visionary changes, though, improvements will have to be made to drainage and roadways to
accommodate the city's future central business district.
"We have to improve infrastructure that's on the ground and under the ground so we can encourage developers to return to downtown," said Ronald Burton, city planning and zoning director.
Port Arthur native and project manager Shad Comeaux said the new plan highlights the community's vision: "an inclusive community in a place that whatever your age is, you'll be able to have something to do."
The comprehensive plan hasn't been updated since 1989, but Burton said the new plan will set the direction of future growth for at least the next decade.
A final draft will be presented to Port Arthur City Council today, with the city
set to adopt the plan on May 8, Burton said.
The 200-page plan includes everything from new dining options and parks to upgraded residential neighborhoods and office spaces.
"We are looking ahead to the future as to what are the areas that are presently undeveloped and the potential it holds for development," Burton said.
The idea, he said, is to attract future developers to do business in Port Arthur.
"Developing access to the renovated downtown Port Arthur, that's what is going to be key," said Bill McCoy, president of the Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce. "You have to be able to get there before you want to build there."
A draft of the plan addresses problems of access and mobility through drainage and roadway repairs.
McCoy cited Texas 73 as a "definite barrier" dividing the city. North of the state highway is a lot of retail, McCoy said, while south of the highway is an industry-heavy, older portion of Port Arthur.
"You have to get people to cross 73 and go on down to Procter. You can't entice them to drove over potholes and through a hundred stop signs and redlights," McCoy said.
Several roadway extensions are recommended in the city plan, some of which would entail expanding roads from two to four lanes. In other cases, more repairs are necessary, Comeaux said.
Infrastructure will be completed phase-by-phase and financed through the city's capital improvements fund, Burton said. The plan includes $13 million in waste and wastewater capital improvement projects. Depending upon the project, Comeaux said grant funding could be sought. Private-public partnerships would be another option.
Port Arthur received more than 40 inches of rain during Tropical Storm Harvey, but "even before Harvey, drainage was a top priority," Comeaux said.
Port Arthur has a lot of promise, said Comeaux, who highlighted Pleasure Island, the city's coastal location and refineries as some of the city's assets.
The plan "looks at what's existing versus what could potentially happen in the future," Comeaux said, with a revitalized downtown as one of the city's "largest assets for future development and investment."
The comprehensive plan proposes six "catalyst projects," totaling $43 million, to go with a Downtown Revitalization Plan developed in 2015.
As the core of Port Arthur's downtown revitalization, the projected $10 million Central Business District will include 30,000 square feet of mixed office space, 4,000 square feet of retail space and a park just under three-quarters of an acre.
An "urban-style streetscape," with street trees and sidewalk landscaping, "would encourage a walkable environment for residents and users of the retail and office space," according to the draft.
A new buildling across from the Economic Development Corporation office on 501 Procter Street could feature office spaces for energy companies or residential lofts on the upper story, while the ground floor could make use of retail and restaurant space, according to the plan.
While the draft highlights Port Arthur's potential, McCoy said infrastructure is just the beginning.
"Government cannot do it. They can do pieces of it, but until you get free enterprise interested in helping you rebuild and invest in downtown Port Arthur, it's going to be a long battle," McCoy said.
An additional 18,000 square feet of commercial and office space is planned for the intersection of Procter Street and Charleston Avenue near the Lamar State College-Port Arthur campus. With student-oriented shops like a deli or a bookstore, the plan's 55 new townhome units on Fourth Street could cater to young professionals, Lamar faculty or retirees.
Burton said the plan "will not adversely affect existing development," and residents who live in planned project zones have nothing to worry about.
"We cannot just go and demolish people's houses," he said.
"Look at Lamar State College in Port Arthur and you see what our city could be," McCoy said, referring to the campus's renovated buildings and landscaping.
"Planning is detail and it's complicated, but the implementation is where you find out what you're made of," McCoy said. "Are you going to do it, or are you going to talk about it?"
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Chapter 1 of The Rescue of Elizabeth Bennet
November 5, 2018 May 17, 2020 by Bella
Elizabeth Bennet stood in front of Netherfield Park and waited for the Bennets’ carriage to pull around. She was quite sure that Mrs. Bennet had arranged for their carriage to come last, which did not make the Bingleys any fonder of the Bennets.
Elizabeth had a first-hand view of how much some Bingleys wanted them to leave. Mr. Bingley was still talking to Jane, completely oblivious to Caroline Bingley, Mrs. Louisa Hurst, and Mr. Hurst yawning, coughing and making pointed comments about how much they wanted to go to bed. This embarrassment on top of the entire mortifying and disappointing evening made Elizabeth wish she could fly home like a bird. Elizabeth was glad Jane and Mr. Bingley had this extra time to talk to each other, though. She was sure that Mr. Bingley would offer for Jane within a sennight.
However, that was the only thing Elizabeth was glad for this evening. She had spent extra time on her hair and dress to look good for George Wickham, who never even appeared at the ball. He had sent a word with his friend Denny that he decided it was best if he did not show up because of someone else there. Denny did not name anyone, but pointedly looked at Mr. Darcy.
So Mr. Darcy had ruined her evening without even trying. Then he had the gall to ask her to dance! This after he insulted her at the Meryton Assembly when he stated that she was not handsome enough to tempt him! Elizabeth did not care for men who could not make up their minds. She especially did not care for men who ruined the livelihoods of others. Namely how Mr. Darcy ruined George Wickham’s life.
Charlotte Lucas had warned her not to make Mr. Darcy angry, that he was a man of great consequence. Charlotte was of course correct; however, Elizabeth could not keep quiet about such injustices as Mr. Darcy did to poor George Wickham. During her dances with Mr. Darcy, she questioned him. It did not go well.
She left the dance more frustrated than ever with Mr. Darcy. She did not know nor care what Mr. Darcy thought of her. The man may have 10,000 pounds a year, but he lived in Derbyshire. How did his opinion even matter to her? He was just a friend of Mr. Bingley, an arrogant and proud friend.
Then the Bingley sisters had to stick their nose into it. Caroline told her that she did not know the particulars, but she was quite sure George Wickham had done something awful to Mr. Darcy. Did they not think that Mr. Darcy told them whatever would make him look good?
And then, to make the night even worse, Elizabeth had accidentally agreed to dance the first two with Mr. Collins. What an embarrassment! She blushed just remembering it. Mr. Collins did not even know how to dance correctly. He stepped on her feet, turned in the wrong directions and used her exceedingly ill. She could not wait to get away from him, but he continued to embarrass her, along with her entire family, except Jane, throughout the night.
Finally, the Bennets’ carriage pulled up. If she had to listen to Miss. Bingley utter one more time how much she wished to go to bed, Elizabeth did not know what she would do. They all squeezed into the carriage with some of them sitting on each other’s laps. And no, she would not sit on Mr. Collins’ lap, thank you for the offer though.
She did not know how Mr. Collins ever came to be a parson. He was so entranced with the female figure. She pitied whoever had to marry him, for no one could stand his fawning behavior for long. She vowed to marry for love; nothing less than love, to a man that was intelligent, playful, and one that she respected.
Mr. Darcy did not feel that he had to stand with the Bingleys and wait for their last guests to leave, but for some reason he could not keep himself from the occupation. So, he stood quietly listening to the comments of Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst, the quiet talk of Mr. Bingley and Miss Bennet, and the simpering praises of Miss Bennet by Mrs. Bennet.
He had not thought his friend in danger until Mrs. Bennet had stated during the ball that she expected Mr. Bingley to offer for Miss Bennet soon. He then paid attention to his friend and Miss Bennet throughout the rest of the evening. He would much rather have kept an eye on those two, but the rest of the Bennet family, except Elizabeth, seemed determined to make spectacles of themselves. His attention was drawn to their lack of decorum over and over.
It was obvious that the Bennet family was an embarrassment. It was a miracle that Mr. Bingley chose to dance and talk to Miss Bennet, given the poor behavior exhibited by Mrs. Bennet, Miss Mary, Miss Catherine, Miss Lydia and even Mr. Bennet. There was no way he would let Mr. Bingley make such a monumental mistake and offer for Miss Bennet. Sure, Miss Bennet was nice and pleasing to look at, but her family was horrid. The younger girls, Lydia and Kitty, ran around and played as if a ball was a big lark for them. Mary Bennet could not understand that this was not her own theater to showcase her lackadaisical pianoforte talents. And that singing voice! Mr. Darcy shuddered.
He could not think of anything bad about Elizabeth, though. Her eyes, her pleasing form, her luscious lips. He had enjoyed holding her hand while dancing with her. Unfortunately George Wickham had told her a fictional version of events that Elizabeth believed. She had spent their dance questioning him. Of course she did not outright accuse him, but her questions were obviously about Wickham. Instead of being angry at Elizabeth, he was attracted even more to her quick mind. However, he was very angry at Wickham.
It was far too dangerous to pay any more attention to Elizabeth Bennet. He greatly admired her wit, intelligence, and pleasing figure, but it was too dangerous for him to continue to think of her, let alone be around her. He could not marry someone with such a family as hers. He would have to exert control on himself; the same control that he had put forth in every other aspect of his life. He would ignore the Bennets, especially Elizabeth Bennet, from this day forward.
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Joe Pantalone releases "complete" transit plan
With just a few days to go until voters cast their ballots, Joe Pantalone has released his "complete" transit plan for Toronto.
"I don't believe it's late," Pantalone told the Toronto Star. "I think this is very appropriate as people are still making up their minds." Pantalone's plan includes completing 1,000 kilometres of bike routes by 2012 and building European-style separated bike lanes along University and Richmond. Pantalone also says he plans to add a second general manager to the TTC.
Other details of Pantalone's transit plan include expanding the Bixi bike network and converting some street parking to create 50 "bicycle parking corrals." It seems Smitherman and Ford are too busy giving each other wet willies to comment on the new announcement.
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AZ-HCIF is the first in a portfolio of endowments from across the U.S. and around the world that will be collectively grown and managed by the Healthcare Impact Foundation (HCIF).
HCIF is building a portfolio of evergreen endowments to support the commercialization of healthcare innovations as they progress from the research laboratory to the patient.
Phoenix, Arizona, January 11, 2018 — A coalition of nonprofit organizations has come together to raise a $200 million endowment to support the commercialization of life changing and lifesaving healthcare innovations that are developed by Arizona-based researchers and entrepreneurs.
The founding members of the coalition include the Arizona Bioindustry Association, Inc. (AZBio) and the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation, Inc. (OTEF) as well as the Healthcare Impact Foundation, a Delaware 501c3 public charity based in New York.
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The Arizona component of the Healthcare Impact Foundation (AZ-HCIF) is designed to provide sustainable funding to support the progression of Arizona-based life science discoveries along a path from development to delivery.
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Arizona-based local trustees will serve to distribute the annual proceeds with a goal of supporting the growth of innovative early-stage healthcare companies in Arizona.
“Arizona has made great progress since the formation of our Bioscience Cluster in 1997 and the launch of the Arizona Bioscience Roadmap in 2002,” stated Joan Koerber-Walker, president & CEO of AZBio and chairman of OTEF. “By conservative estimates, over $18 billion has been invested in the bioscience and healthcare sector by public and private sources over the last two decades. We have built up our research enterprise, are launching exciting companies, and are educating the next generation of bioscience leaders. Yet, one major hurdle still must be crossed. Lack of access to early stage life science capital has plagued Arizona for two decades. It’s time to stop talking about the problem and solve it.”
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“Great ideas can grow into great companies,” stated Yelton. “The State of Arizona did its part by raising the cap on its successful Angel Investor Tax Credit program by an additional $10 million and authorizing $2.5 million a year in tax credits for the next four years. But, angel investment alone will not get us where we need to go. Arizona needs a steady flow of early stage capital to support the life science companies being created by Arizona entrepreneurs and to honor our Angel investors for the risks they take by investing alongside them. This plan is a way for us to make it happen.”
Chuck Stetson, head of a third and fourth generation family office in New York, serves as Chairman of the Healthcare Impact Foundation and worked with Koerber-Walker to develop the HCIF concept.
“The Stetson Family Office has spent the last 18 months meeting with emerging healthcare innovation ecosystems around the US and globally,” stated Stetson. “We found that while great ideas with high impact potential were coming from emerging life science markets like Arizona, the capital streams and support ecosystems are insufficient to support efficient growth of the companies. Too much time is wasted chasing funding. This time needs to be focused on getting high quality healthcare innovations further along the path to commercialization so that traditional venture capital and public equity funding can take it the rest of the way. We were honored to work with our partners here in Arizona to develop a new and sustainable funding model to address this critical need.”
Arizona’s capital campaign for the AZ-HCIF has now launched with a goal of reaching $200 million in charitable donations by the end of 2018.
“Arizonan’s have come together to create great hospitals, research institutes, and universities,” shared Koerber-Walker. “Now is the time to complete our life science ecosystem by taking steps to create a sustained stream of early stage capital that can help ensure that life changing innovations that are discovered in Arizona, are developed in Arizona, and that their companies stay and grow in Arizona.”
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Everything's Free In Heaven
An 85 year old couple, having been married almost 60 years, had died in a car crash. They had been in good health the last ten years mainly due to her interest in health, food, and exercise. When they reached the pearly gates, St. Peter took them to their mansion which was decked out with a beautiful kitchen and master bath suite and Jacuzzi. As they "oohed and aahed" the old man asked Peter how much all this was going to cost. "It's free," Peter replied, "this is Heaven." Next, they went out back to survey the championship golf course that the home backed up to. They would have golfing privileges every day and each week the course changed to a new one representing the great golf courses on earth. The old man asked, "what are the green fees?" Peter's reply, "This is heaven, you play for free." Next, they went to the clubhouse and saw the lavish buffet lunch with the cuisines of the world laid out. "How much to eat?" asked the old man. "Don't you understand yet? This is heaven, it is free!" Peter replied with some exasperation. "Well, where are the low fat and low cholesterol tables?" the old man asked timidly. Peter lectured, "That's the best part...you can eat as much as you like of whatever you like and you never get fat and you never get sick. This is Heaven." With that the old man went into a fit of anger, throwing down his hat and stomping on it, shrieking wildly. Peter and his wife both tried to calm him down, asking him what was wrong. The old man looked at his wife and said, "This is all your fault! If it weren't for your blasted bran muffins, I could have been here ten years ago!"
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What's Your Secret, Old Man?
Roger, 88, married Jenny, a beautiful 45-year-old. Since her new husband is so old, Jenny decides that after their wedding she and Roger should have separate bedrooms, because she is concerned that her new but aged husband may over-exert himself if they spend the entire night together. After the wedding festivities, Jenny prepares herself for bed and the expected knock on the door. Sure enough, the knock comes, the door opens and there is Roger, her 88-year-old groom, ready for action. They unite as one. All goes well, Roger takes leave of his bride, and she prepares to go to sleep. After a few minutes, Jenny hears another knock on her bedroom door - it's Roger, Again he is ready for more "action". Somewhat surprised, Jenny consents for more coupling. When the newlyweds are done, Roger kisses his bride, bids her a fond good night and leaves. She is set to go to sleep again, but, aha, you guessed it - Roger is back again, rapping on the door and is as fresh as a 25-year-old, ready for more "action". And, once more they enjoy each other. But as Roger gets set to leave again, his young bride says to him, "I am thoroughly impressed that at your age you can perform so well and so often. I have been with guys less than a third of your age who were only good once. You are truly a great lover, Roger." Roger, somewhat embarrassed, turns to Jenny and says: "You mean I was here already??"
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Breaking it to the Wife
One night, a Boston police officer knocked on a woman's door. "Ma'am", he said, removing his hat, "I'm here about your husband. We have bad and good news". "Please, give me the bad news first", the woman replies. The officer replied: "I'm so sorry, but someone stabbed your husband and threw his corpse in the harbor." The woman began wailing, and crumpled to her knees. Utterly despondent she begged the cop: "Please, what could possibly be the good news?" He replied: "Well Ma'am, when we pulled him up he had 20 four-pound lobsters crawling on him. Would you like one?" Sobbing even louder, the woman shouted: "How DARE you! I've never been so insulted in my entire life!" The officer replied: "Well, if you change your mind, we're pulling him up again tomorrow morning."
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My Son Is Better Than Yours
Four Catholic ladies are having coffee together, discussing how important their children are. The first one tells her friends, "my son is a priest. When he walks into a room, everyone calls him "Father." The second Catholic women chirps, "Well, my son is a Bishop. Whenever he walks into a room, people say, "Your Grace." The third Catholic woman says smugly, "well, not to put you down, but my son is a cardinal. Whenever he walks into a room, people say, "Your Eminence." The fourth Catholic women sips her coffee in silence. The first three women give her a subtle "Well...?" She replies, "My son is a gorgeous, 6'2", hard-bodied male stripper. Whenever he walks into a room, people say, "My God".
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When Your Ball Strays
Two women were playing golf. One teed off and watched with horror as her ball headed directly towards a foursome of men playing the next hole. The ball hit one of them and he immediately fell to the ground clutching his hands together to his groin, rolling around in obvious agony. The woman rushed over and immediately began to apologize. "Please allow me to help, I'm a physiotherapist and I know I could relieve your pain if you'll allow me" she told him. "Oh no I'll be all right, I'll be fine in a few minutes" the man grunted, still lying in a fetal position, still clasping his hands at his groin. "Don't be silly, Let me help!" she told him and, following her persistence, he finally allowed her to help. She gently took his hands away and laid them at his sides, she loosened his trousers and put her hand inside. She administered tender and skillful massage for several long moments and then asked "How does that feel?" He replied, "It feels terrific, but my thumb still hurts like hell."
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How to Raise Your Grade
A student comes up to the professor, "What is this, why did you grade me an 80?" The professor looks at the exam again, "Yep, an 80 is what you deserve." The student takes the exam back, and asks "If I'll bite my own eye, will you give me an 85?" The professor is surprised, but still he agrees, at which point the student then takes out his glass eye - and bites it. The shocked professor then takes the exam back, and marks it 85. The student then says "If I'll bite my nose, will you give me a 90?" The professor is once again shocked, "He can't pull out his nose" he thinks to himself. He finally agrees, at which point the student takes out his dentures, and bites his own nose. The professor then once again takes the exam, and marks the grade 90. The student then makes another offer: "If I'll get up on this table, and pee the perfume Coco Chanel on you, will you give me a 100?" The professor now has to see what this kid can do, so he agrees. The student goes on the table, and pees all over the professor, the professor's shirt is soaking wet, as he goes to to sniff it. "What the hell?! This isn't Coco Chanel! This is piss!" "Fine, we'll leave it at 90." said the grinning student.
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Your Dad Does It Better
A small town man decides to go to the city. He's a self sufficient guy so this is a rare occurrence, however finding himself low on essentials he decides there's nothing for it and heads in. Being something of a special occasion he takes his youngest child with him, thinking it was the perfect chance to show off his knowledge of the world outside to an eager audience. On the trip in, they chatter away until they arrive at their first stop, the bakery. Pulling up, the little one excitedly asks where they are. "Why this is John the Baker, youngest. You see, when Dad doesn't make any bread, John makes it for him." The little one stares at him wide eyed and asks "is it as good as yours?" With a small grin he replies "No, mine is better!" And off he went to get the bread. Arriving at their next stop, the little one again queries where they are. "Why this is Ted's Liquor store, youngest. You see, when Dad doesn't make any beer, Ted makes it for him." The little one stares at him, thinking hard, and asks "is it as good as yours?" With a bigger grin he replies "no, mine is better!" and off he went to get some beer. At their final stop, the butcher's shop, the little one thinks the world makes a lot more sense now. "So then Dad..." his smallest child begins, and looks at him expectantly. "Yes that's right little one. This is Tom the Butcher. And when Dad hasn't made any sausages...." he trails off. "... Tom makes them for you?" She asks hesitantly. "Yes that's right! You are a smart one!" He exclaimed. "And yours are better!!" She shouts. Beaming with pride he says "Exactly!" And away he goes to collect some sausages from Tom. On the road home they pass the postal truck coming the other way. "Hey Dad!" Exclaimed the little one. "It's Pete the Postman!" "Yes that's right" said the farmer, but sensing what comes next he quickly continued "but we need Pete, your Dad is a farmer and can do a lot of things but I can't do what Pete does." "Oh yes!" she replied, "Mum says so too!"
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Two Cannibals Look For Food
Two cannibals, a father and son, were elected by the tribe to go out and get something to eat. They walked deep into the jungle and waited by a path. Before long, along came this little old man. The son said, "OOh dad, there's one." "No," said the father. "There's not enough meat on that one to feed the dogs. We'll just wait." Well, a little while later, along came this really fat woman. The son said, "Hey dad, she's plenty big enough." "No," the father said. "We'd all die of a heart attack from the fat in that one. We'll just wait." About an hour later, here comes this absolutely gorgeous woman. The son said, "Now there's nothing wrong with that one dad. Let's eat her." "No," said the father. "We'll not eat her either." "Why not?" asked the son. "Because, we're going to take her back alive and eat your mother."
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Don't Allow Your Wife to Be The Boss
A henpecked husband was advised by a psychiatrist to assert himself. "You don't have to let your wife bully you," he said. "Go home and show her you're the boss." The husband decided to take the doctor's advice. He went home, slammed the door, saw his wife and growled: "From now on you're taking orders from me. I want my supper right now, and after you get it on the table, go upstairs and lay out my clothes. Tonight I am going out with the boys. You are going to stay at home where you belong. And another thing, you know who is going to tie my tie for me?!?" "I certainly do," said his wife calmly. "The Undertaker."
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An Old Husband and Wife Discuss Golf
"How was your golf game, dear?" asked Jack's wife. "Well I was hitting pretty well, but my eyesight's gotten so bad I couldn't see where the ball went." "Well you're 75 years old now, Jack, why don't you take my brother Scott along?" suggested his wife. "But he's 85 and doesn't even play golf anymore," protested Jack. "But he's got perfect eyesight. He could watch your ball." his wife pointed out. The next day Jack teed off with Scott looking on. Jack swung, and the ball disappeared down the middle of the fairway. "Do you see it?" asked Jack. "Yup," Scott answered. "Well, where is it?" yelled Jack, peering off into the distance. "I forgot."
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Older Guys Are So Helpful
I was in Walmart the other day pushing my cart around when I collided with a young guy. I said to the young guy, "Sorry about that. I'm looking for my wife and I guess I wasn't paying attention to where I was going." The young guy says, "That's OK. It's a coincidence. I'm looking for my wife, too. I can't find her and I'm getting a little desperate." I said, "Well, maybe we can help each other. What does your wife look like?" The young guy says, "Well, she is 24 years old, tall, with blond hair, big blue eyes, long legs, and she's wearing tight white shorts, a halter top and no bra. What does your wife look like?" I said, "Doesn't matter - let's look for yours." We older guys are helpful like that.
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I Don't Know Where to Put It
A young virgin couple is finally wed. Each one is nervous about the impending night, but neither is willing to admit it or ask each other about it. Wondering what to do first, the young man calls his father. "Pop, what do I do first?" "Get naked and climb into bed," his father replies. So, the young man does as he is advised. The girl is mortified and calls her mama. "Get naked and join him," is the advice from mama, so she complies. After laying there for a few moments, the young man excuses himself and calls his dad again. "Now what do I do?" he asks. His father replies, "Look at her naked body. Then, take the hardest part of your body and put it where she urinates!" is the dad's advice. A few moments later, the girl again calls her mama. "What do I do now?" she asks. "Well, what is he doing?" mama asks. "He's in the bathroom, dunking his head in the toilet!"
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How to Get Your Packages
Two friends, Mick and Dave, are having lunch over at Dave’s house when the conversation turns to postal delivery workers. Dave, disgruntled about the subject, says “I order a lot of books to get delivered here daily, but I always get a slip saying that they missed me, even if I’m home to receive them. I’m getting sick of it.” Mick, understanding his frustration, suggests “Maybe you should fight back, complain about it or something.” Dave confidently replies “Don’t you worry about that. I’ve got it sorted today. I’ve put a sign on the front saying that I trade books for paint thinner.” Mick confusedly asks “And how will that solve the problem?” As though on cue, the doorbell rings and a man is heard calling out that he’s with the local postal delivery service, followed by some choice swearing. Dave, nonplussed by the whole situation, wipes his mouth, stands up and says to Mick “Because I covered the front doorstep with super glue.”
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Son, I have a confession
One Sunday morning Michael burst into the living room and said, "Dad! Mom! I have some great news for you! I am getting married to the most beautiful girl in town. She lives a block away and her name is Susan. After dinner, Michael's dad took him aside, "Son, I have to talk to you. Look at your mother, Michael. She and I have been married 30 years, she's a wonderful wife and mother, but, she has never offered much excitement in the bedroom, so I used to fool around with women a lot. I'm afraid Susan is the result of one such affair. She is actually your half-sister, and I'm afraid you can't marry her." Michael was brokenhearted. He broke up with Susan the next day. After eight months he eventually started dating girls again. A year later he came home and very proudly announced, "Diane said yes! We're getting married in June." Again his father insisted on another private conversation and broke the sad news. "Diane is your half-sister too, Michael. I'm awfully sorry about this." Michael was livid! He broke up with Diane that same day, leaving her in tears. He finally decided to go to his mother with the news his father had shared and told her about his father's secret. "Dad has done so much harm. I guess I'm never going to get married," he complained. "Every time I fall in love, dad tells me the girl is my half-sister." "Oh, " his mother shook her head, "What are you listening to him for? He's not even your real father."
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The New Technology
A fifteen-year-old Amish boy and his father visited the city for the very first time. They wandered around, marveling at the different sights. Eventually, they got to a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but they were especially amazed at two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again. The boy asked, "What is this Father?" The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is." While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old lady in a wheelchair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened, and the lady passed between them into a small room. The walls closed, and the boy and his father watched the small numbers above the walls light up sequentially. They continued to watch until it reached the last number, and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order. Finally, the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blond woman stepped out. The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son: "Junior, go get your Mother."
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Their Heavenly Vehicle
Once there were three men, Charlie, Mason and Buck, who were involved in a tragic car accident in which all three died. As they stood at the gates of Heaven, St. Peter came up to them and said, "You will all be given a method of transportation for your eternal use around Heaven. You will be judged on your past deeds, and will have your transport chosen accordingly." St. Peter looked at Charlie and said, "You, Charlie, were a bad man. You cheated on your wife four times! For this, you will drive around Heaven in an old beat-up Dodge." Next, St. Peter looked at Mason and said, "You were not so evil, but you still cheated on your wife two times. For this, you will forever travel around heaven in a Toyota station wagon." St. Peter finally looked at Buck, and said, "You, Buck, have set a fine example. You did not have s*x until after marriage, and you never cheated on your wife! For this, you will forever travel through heaven in a Ferrari." A short time later, Mason and Buck pulled up in their cars next to Buck's Ferrari, and there he is, sitting on the hood, head in hands, crying. "What's wrong, Buck?" they asked. "You got a Ferrari! You're set forever! Why so down?" Buck looked up, ever so slowly opened his mouth and cried, "I just saw my wife go by on a skateboard."
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The Unhealthiest Food...
A doctor was addressing a large audience in Oxford on the subject of modern nutrition. "The rubbish we put into our stomachs should have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is full of steroids and dye. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High trans-fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realize the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. But, there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and most of us have, or will eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?" After several seconds of quiet, a 70-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said: "Wedding Cake?"
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The Small Bells
A Canadian park ranger is giving some ramblers a warning about bears, “Brown bears are usually harmless. They avoid contact with humans so we suggest you attach small bells to your rucksacks and give the bears time to get out of your way." His tone turns serious. "However, grizzly bears are extremely dangerous. If you see any grizzly-bear droppings leave the area immediately!” “So how do we know if they’re grizzly bear droppings?” asks one of the ramblers. “It’s easy,” replies the ranger. “They’re full of small bells.”
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Does Your Dog Bite?
A man walks into a shop and sees a cute little dog. He asks the shopkeeper, “Does your dog bite?” The shopkeeper says, “No, he doesn’t bite.” The man then tries to pet the dog and the dog bites him. “Ouch,” says the man, “I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite!” “That’s not my dog."
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The Prejudiced Juror
A man wanted to be dismissed from jury duty, but none of his excuses worked. So on the day of the trial, he asked to approach the bench. "Your Honor," he said, "I must be excused from this trial because I am prejudiced against the defendant." "Oh?" the judge asked. "Yes!" the man replied. "I took one look at the man in the blue suit with those beady eyes and that dishonest face, and I thought, 'He's a crook! He's 100% guilty.' So, your Honor, I couldn't possibly be on this jury!" The judge replied, "Get back in the jury box. You are just the kind of juror we are seeking--a good judge of character." The man protested, "How can you say that?" "Because," the judge said, "that man is the defendant's lawyer."
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So Lifelike
Two priests are going to shower in the male shower rooms. They undress and step into the showers before they realize there is no soap. Father Michael remembers he bought some soap the other day and it's in his room. He goes to get it, not bothering to put anything on in the the quick jog. He grabs two bars of soap, one in each hand and turns back. While he is halfway down the hall when he suddenly sees three newly inducted nuns going his way. In a moment of sheer panic, he stands against the wall and freezes like he's a wax statue. The nuns stop and comment on how life-like he looks. The first nun suddenly reaches out and pulls on his manhood. Startled, he drops a bar of soap. "Oh look" says the first nun, "it's a soap dispenser". To test her theory the second nun also pulls on his manhood. Sure enough, he drops the second bar of soap. Now the third nun decides to have a go. She pulls once, then twice, and three times but nothing happens. So she gives several more tugs, then yells: "Holy Mary, Mother of God! LIQUID SOAP TOO!"
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The Italian Mama
Sophie just got married, and being a traditional Italian was still a virgin. On her wedding night, staying at her mother's house, she was nervous. But her mother reassured her. "Don't worry, Sophie. Luca's a good man. Go upstairs, and he'll take care of you." So up she went. When she got upstairs, Luca took off his shirt and exposed his hairy chest. Sophie ran downstairs to her mother and says, "Mama, Mama, Luca's got a big hairy chest." "Don't worry, Sophie", says the mother, "All good men have hairy chests. Go upstairs. He'll take good care of you." So, up she went again. When she got up in the bedroom, Luca took off his pants exposing his hairy legs. Again Sophie ran downstairs to her mother. "Mama, Mama, Luca took off his pants, and he's got hairy legs!" "Don't worry. All good men have hairy legs. Luca's a good man. Go upstairs, and he'll take good care of you." So, up she went again. When she got up there, Luca took off his socks, and on his left foot he was missing three toes. When Sophie saw this, she ran downstairs. "Mama, Mama, Luca's got a foot and a half!" "Stay here and stir the pasta." says the mother. "This is a job for Mama!"
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If You Can't Count On Family
Joshua calls his son in NY and says, "Benny, I have something to tell you. However, I don't want to discuss it. I'm merely telling you because you're my oldest child, and I thought you ought to know. I've made up my mind, I'm divorcing Mama." The son is shocked, and asks his father to tell him what happened. "I don't want to get into it. My mind is made up." "But Dad, you just can't decide to divorce Mama just like that after 54 years together. What happened?" "It's too painful to talk about it. I only called because you're my son, and I thought you should know. I really don't want to get into it anymore than this. You can call your sister and tell her. It will spare me the pain." "But where's Mama? Can I talk to her?" "No, I don't want you to say anything to her about it. I haven't told her yet. Believe me it hasn't been easy. I've agonized over it for several days, and I've finally come to a decision. I have an appointment with the lawyer the day after tomorrow." "Dad, don't do anything rash. I'm going to take the first flight down. Promise me that you won't do anything until I get there." "Well, all right, I promise. Next week is a holiday. I'll hold off seeing the lawyer until after the holiday meal. Call your sister in NJ and break the news to her. I just can't bear to talk about it anymore." A half hour later, Joshua receives a call from his daughter who tells him that she and her brother were able to get tickets and that they and the children will be arriving in Florida the day after tomorrow. "Benny told me that you don't want to talk about it on the telephone, but promise me that you won't do anything until we both get there." Joshua promises. After hanging up from his daughter, Joshua turns to his wife and says, "You were right! They're coming, and we don't even have to pay our half of the tickets!"
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Yo Mama so stupid she disses her kids with Yo Mama jokes.
Grandpa's Advice Was So Awesome
I hope that this will once again confirm that the most important information in your life won't come from a teacher, the library or the internet, but from a mentor, and on a very personal level. My long-passed grandfather's birthday is coming up, and for me, it is a time to reminisce. The long walks we used to take. The long drives. The special trips he would make to pick me up so I could spend weekends with him, and the advice he used to give! Much was wasted because I was young when he died. If he were alive today and sharing his pearls of wisdom, I'd be a better man. Those gems were well and good, but the one I remember most, the jewel in the crown of grandfatherly advice, came when I was 12. We were sitting on a park bench eating a sandwich, watching children and their mothers enjoying a beautiful spring day. He told me that one day, I'd find a woman and start my own family. "And son," he said, "be sure you marry a woman with small hands." "How come, Grandpa?" I asked. "It makes your pecker look bigger."
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A Blonde Interview
A young blonde woman goes to an office for a job interview. The interviewer decides to start with the basics "So, miss, can you tell us your age, please?" He asks. The blonde counts carefully on her fingers for about 3 seconds before replying "Ehh... 25!" The interviewer tries another straightforward one to break the ice. "And can you tell us your height, please?" The young lady stands up and produces a measuring tape from her handbag. She then traps one end under her foot and extends the tape to the top of her head. She checks the measurement and announces, "Five foot three!" This isn't looking good so the interviewer goes for the real basics. "And ehh, just to confirm for our records, your name please?" The blonde bobs her head from side to side for about twenty seconds, mouthing something silently to herself, before replying "Stephanie". The interviewer is completely baffled at this stage, so he asks "Just out of curiosity, miss. We can understand your counting on your fingers to work out your age, and the measuring tape for your height is obvious, but what were you doing when we asked you your name?" "Oh that!" replies the blonde, "That's just me running through 'Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you...'"
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They Unionized...
An accountant was at a convention in Las Vegas and decided to check out the local brothels. When he got to the first one, he asked the madame, "Is this a union house?" "No, I'm sorry, it isn't." "Well, if I pay you $100, what cut do the girls get?" "The house gets $80 and the girls get $20." Mightily offended at such unfair dealings, the man stomped off down the street in search of a more equitable shop. His search continued until finally he reached a brothel where the madame said, "Why yes, this is a union house." "And if I pay you $100, what cut do the girls get?" "The girls get $80 and the house gets $20." "That's more like it!" the man said. He looked around the room and pointed to a stunningly attractive redhead. "I'd like her for the night." "I'm sure you would, sir," said the madame, gesturing to a fat 60-year-old woman in the corner, "but Ethel here has seniority."
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Yo Mama So Poor
Yo Mama so poor a tornado hit your house and did 10,000 dollars worth of improvement.
Questionable Divorce
A judge was interviewing a woman regarding her pending divorce, and asked, "What are the grounds for your divorce?" She replied, "About four acres and a nice little home in the middle of the property with a stream running by." "No," he said, "I mean what is the foundation of this case?" "It is made of concrete, brick, and mortar," she responded. "I mean," he continued, "What are your relations like?" "I have an aunt and uncle living here in town, and so do my husband's parents." He said, "Do you have a real grudge?" "No," she replied, "We have a two-car carport and have never really needed one." "Please," he tried again, "is there any infidelity in your marriage?" "Yes, both my son and daughter have stereo sets. We don't necessarily like the music, but the answer to your question is yes." "Ma'am, does your husband ever beat you up?" "Yes," she responded, "about twice a week he gets up earlier than I do." Finally, in frustration, the judge asked, "Lady, why do you want a divorce?" "Oh, I don't want a divorce," she replied. "I've never wanted a divorce. My husband does. He said he can't communicate with me!"
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Three Prosperous Sons Return Home to Mom
Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. They discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother. The first said: "I built a big house for our mother." The second said: "I sent her a Mercedes with a driver." The third said: "You remember how our mother enjoys reading the Bible. Now she can't see very well. So I sent her a remarkable parrot that recites the entire Bible. It took elders in the church 12 years to teach him. Mama just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot recites it." Soon thereafter, their mother sent out her letters of thanks. "William," she said, "the house you built is so huge. I live only in one room, but I have to clean the whole house." "Arnold," she said, "I am too old to travel. I stay most of the time at home so I rarely use the Mercedes. And that driver is so rude! He's a pain!" "But David," she said, "the chicken was delicious!"
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The Dying Accountant
An old accountant is on his deathbed. Summoning his last bit of strength, he lifts his head and whispers: "Is my beloved wife Sarah here with me?" And Sarah says, "Yes, I am here." He then says: "Are my children -- my wonderful children -- are they here with me?" And they reply, "Yes father, we are here with you to see you breathe your last." And he says: "Are my brothers and sisters here with me as well?" And they too tell him that they are here. So the old man lays back quietly, closes his eyes, and says, "So if everybody is here... why is the light on in the kitchen?!?"
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Pronouncing This Name Is SO Easy
Three tourists were driving through Wales. As they were approaching Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on the Welsh island of Anglesey, They started arguing about the pronunciation of the town's name. “LLan-fair-poo-wee…” said the first. “No no – it’s llan-fair-pi-well…” argued the second. “I think we need to ask a local about this,” the third sighed. They argued back and forth until they stopped for lunch. As they stood at the counter, the third asked the blond employee: "Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please pronounce where we are... very slowly?" “Sure!” said the girl behind the counter. She leaned toward them and said: “Burrrrr-gerrrrr-Kinnnnng.”
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And That's When the Fight Started...
When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive. So I took her to a gas station. That's when the fight started... After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver's license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later. The woman said, "Unbutton your shirt". So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said, "That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me." as she processed my Social Security application. When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office. She said, "You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too." And that's when the fight started... My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table. My wife asked, "Do you know her?" "Yes," I sighed, "She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since." "My God!" says my wife, "Who would think that a person could go on celebrating that long?" And that's when the fight started... I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first. "I'll have the strip steak, medium rare, please." He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?" "Nah, she can order for herself." And that's when the fight started... A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, "I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment." The husband replies, "Your eyesight's darn near perfect." And that's when the fight started... I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light for $14.95. Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95. I told her the beer would make her look better at night than the cold cream. And that's when the fight started... My wife asked me if a certain dress made her butt look big. I told her not as much as the dress that she had worn yesterday. And that's when the fight started... A man and a woman were asleep like two innocent babies. Suddenly, at 3 o'clock in the morning, a loud noise came from outside. The woman, bewildered, jumped up from the bed and yelled at the man "Holy crap. That must be my husband!" So the man jumped out of the bed; scared and naked he jumped out the window. He smashed himself on the ground, ran through a thorn bush and to his car as fast as he could go. A few minutes later he returned and went up to the bedroom and screamed at the woman, "I AM your husband!" The woman yelled back, "Yeah, then why were you RUNNING?" And that's when the fight started... Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, and slipped quietly into the garage. I hooked up the boat to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour. The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day. I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. I cuddled up to my wife's back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, "The weather out there is terrible." My loving wife of 10 years replied, "Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?" And that's when the fight started... I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary?" It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation. "Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said. So I suggested, "How about the kitchen?" And that's when the fight started... My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, "Do you want to have sex?" "No," she answered. I then said, "Is that your final answer?" She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying "Yes." So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend." And that's when the fight started...
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How to Increase Your Savings
On a hot afternoon, Scrooge the miser and his grandson, Tim, were walking home from a party. Tim complains, "Gramps, it's still a long way back to our house. It's hot and I'm tired. Look, there's a bus stop here. Can we please take the bus home?" Scrooge is aghast. "It'll cost us six dollars to get home from here! What a waste of money! We'll walk it." Tim sighs, but he's a good kid, and doesn't fuss about it. They barely walk a few feet, when Scrooge sees a passing taxi and hails it. "How much would you charge to take us home to Springfield Avenue?", Scrooge asks the cab driver. "Springfield Avenue? Around twenty bucks.", says the driver. "Oof! That's too much. We won't be requiring your services, thank you." The cab drives off. Tim turns to his grandfather, exasperated. "Did you *really* think that a taxi to Springfield Avenue would cost less than a bus ride?", he asks, incredulously. "Don't be ridiculous, of course not.", Scrooge scoffs. "Then why did you bother flagging down the taxi, Gramps?!" "Foolish boy! We would've saved $6 by not taking the bus, now we're saving $20 by not taking the taxi!"
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Two Men With Black Eyes
A guy with a black eye boards his plane and sits down in his seat. He notices immediately that the guy next to him has a black eye too. He says to him, "Hey this is a coincidence, we both have black eyes. Mind if I ask how you got yours?" The other guy says, "Well, it just happened. It was a tongue twister accident. See, I was at the ticket counter and this gorgeous blonde with the most massive breasts in the world was there. So, instead of saying, 'I'd like two tickets to Pittsburgh', I accidentally said, 'I'd like two pickets to Tittsburgh'. So she socked me a good one." The first guy replied, "Wow! This is unbelievable. Mine was a tongue twister too. I was at the breakfast table this morning and I wanted to say to my wife, 'Please pour me a bowl of Frosties, honey.' But I accidentally said, 'You ruined my life you fat, evil hag'."
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I Wonder How Paul is So Fast
Paul got a part-time job at the Post Office. He was thrilled, because he had been looking for employment for a while, without any luck. It wasn’t long before his first day arrived, and he headed to the Post Office brimming with confidence. The first assignment his supervisor gave him was the job of sorting the mail. Paul separated the letters so fast that his motions were literally a blur. His supervisor was astounded as his speed. At the end of the first day, he approached Paul.. "I just want you to know," the supervisor said, "that I'm very pleased with the job you did today. You're one of the fastest workers we've ever had." "Thank you, Sir," said Paul, beaming, "and tomorrow I'll try to do even better." "Better?" the supervisor asked with astonishment. "How can you possibly do any better than you did today?" Paul replied, "Tomorrow I'm going to read the addresses!"
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Yo Mama So Fat
Yo mama so fat her shadow weighs 35 pounds.
Yo mama so fat she can't even jump to a conclusion.
Yo mama so fat she shows up on radar.
Yo mama so fat she leaves footprints in concrete.
Yo mama so fat she has a sock for each toe.
Yo mama so fat whenever she goes to the beach the tide comes in.
Yo mama is so fat, her alphabet starts with O.
OBCD.
Yo mama so fat she sat on Walmart and lowered the prices.
Yo mama so fat when she cuts she bleeds gravy.
Yo mama so fat she puts on her lipstick with a paint-roller.
Yo mama so fat she has to put her belt on with a boomerang.
Yo mama so fat she has her own zip code.
Yo mama so fat that when she farted she started global warming.
Yo mama so fat her neck looks like a pair of hot dogs.
Yo mama so fat she goes to KFC and licks other peoples' fingers.
Yo mama so fat she has to put her boobs in the back seat to drive.
Yo mama so fat when she was in school she sat by everybody.
Yo mama so fat if she buys a fur coat a species will be extinct.
Yo mama so fat she sued Xbox 360 for guessing her weight.
Yo mama so fat she needs a GPS to find her ass hole.
Yo mama so fat she had to go to Sea World to get baptized.
Yo mama so fat she got arrested at the airport for ten pounds of crack.
Yo mama so fat that she doesn't need the internet; she's already world wide.
Yo mama so fat she laid on the beach and Greenpeace tried to push her back in the water.
Yo mama so fat when she turns around, people throw her a welcome back party.
Yo mama so fat the back of her neck looks like a pack of hot-dogs.
Yo mama so fat when she goes swimming the whales start singing "We Are Family".
Yo mama so fat she's got more chins than a Honk Kong phone book.
Yo mama so fat if she got her shoes shined, she'd have to take his word for it.
Yo mama so fat she pulls her pants down and her ass is still in them.
Yo mama so fat she has two watches; one for each time zone she's in.
Yo mama so fat when she went to the circus the little girl asked if she could ride the elephant.
Yo mama so fat she puts on a black bathing suit and gets in the ocean, everyone screams "Oil spill!"
Yo mama so fat when she burped New Orleans thought Katrina had come back to finish the job.
Yo mama so fat her belly button gets home 15 mins before she does.
Your mom is so fat
Her school picture from first grade is still printing.
Yo mama so fat when she's going on an airplane, she has to pay baggage fees for her ass.
Yo mama so fat when she stepped on the scale, Buzz Lightyear popped out and said "To infinity and beyond!"
Yo mama so fat that when she fell from her bed she fell from both sides.
Yo mama so fat she was diagnosed with flesh eating bacteria and the doctors gave her 87 years to live.
Yo mama so fat I tried to hang a picture of her on my wall, and my wall fell over.
Yo mama so fat you have to grease the door frame and hold a Twinkie on the other side just to get her through.
Yo mama so fat she's got a eating disorder. She eat dis order, and dat order, and everybody else's order too.
Yo mamma so fat she influences the tides.
Yo momma is so fat, she sweats barbecue sauce.
Yo momma so fat she can't fit in this joke.
Yo momma so fat she's on both sides of the family.
Yo momma so fat Mount Everest tried to climb her.
Some of the Funniest Lines in History...
“The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good ... spit it out.“ Unknown “I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: ‘No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall’ ". Eleanor Roosevelt “The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning, and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible.” George Burns “Santa Claus has the right idea ... visit people only once a year.” Victor Borge “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.” Mark Twain “I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” Groucho Marx “My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.” Jimmy Durante “The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.” Jilly Cooper “I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.” “I was always a good housekeeper. Whenever I divorced I always kept the house.” Zsa Zsa Gabor “Only Irish coffee provides, in a single glass, all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.” Alex Levine “My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.” Ed Furgol “Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” Spike Milligan “I am opposed to millionaires, but it would bedangerous to offer me the position.” Mark Twain “Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” Herbert Henry Asquith “I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.” Bob Hope “A woman drove me to drink ... and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her.” W C Fields “It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth, or the fourteenth.” George Burns “We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.” Unknown “Don't worry about avoiding temptation... As you grow older, it will avoid you.” Unknown Doctor to patient: “I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you are not a hypochondriac.” Unknown “By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.” Unknown
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The Missing Wife
A man walks into a police station in tears and goes to the sergeant at the desk. Husband: "My wife is missing. She went to rescue people from the flood yesterday and has not come home!" Sergeant: "What is her height?" Husband: "Gee, I'm not sure. A little over five-feet tall." Sergeant: "Weight?" Husband: "Don't know. Not slim, not really fat." Sergeant: "Color of eyes?" Husband: "Sort of brown I think. Never really noticed." Sergeant: "Color of hair?" Husband: "Changes a couple times a year. Maybe dark brown now?" Sergeant: "What was she wearing?" Husband: "Could have been pants, or maybe a skirt or shorts. I don't know exactly." Sergeant: "What kind of car did she go in?" Husband: "She went in my Jeep." Sergeant: "What kind of Jeep was it?" Husband: (sobbing) It's a 2010 Rubicon with Sprintex Supercharger with Intercooler, DiabloSport T-1000 Trinity Programmer, Teraflex Falcon 3.3 Shocks ,1350 RE Reel Drive Shafts, Method 105 Bead Locks, Toyo 37" X 13.5" Tires, Custom Olympic Off Road Front Bumper, Olympic Off Road Smuggler Rear Bumper with tire carrier, Seward Radius 4s LED Light, Seward 12" LED Light bar, 50" LED Light bar with, sPod LED switch pod with Boost gage,, Rigid LED Lights, 15# Power Tank, Rock Hard Cage, Rock Hard Under Armor, Posion Spyder Sliders, Posion Spyder Crusher Fenders, Posion Spyder Evap Armor, Posion Spyder Extreme Duty Trans-Mount Cross Member, Bushwacker rear armor, 5.13 Gears, Magnum 44 Front Axle, Off Road Evolution "C" Gussets, Cobra 75 CB Radio, Warn 10K on Front and 8K Winch on Rear, Bartact Seat Covers, Delta Quad Bar Xenon Headlamps,Tantrum LED Offroad Rock Lights, Teraflex HD Tie Rod, Teraflex Falcon Steering Stabilizer, Teraflex Alpine Long Control Arms Front & Rear, Teraflex 4" springs, Teraflex JK Performance Slotted Big Rotor Kit, TeraFlex Monster HD Forged Front Adjustable Trackbar, Teraflex Front & Rear Brake Line Kit, Teraflex Bump Stops Front & Rear, Surprise Straps, Hothead Headliner, Teraflex D-44 Diff Covers, Wild Boar Grille, Rigid Ridge Hood, Drake Hood Latch's & a Tuffy Security Drawer...... (At this point, the sobbing has turned into a full meltdown) The sergeant, touched, hands him a tissue: "There there buddy. We'll find your Jeep."
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I Appreciate Your Presence, But...
A devoted wife had spent her lifetime taking care of her husband. Lately, he had been slipping in and out of a coma for several months, yet she stayed by his bedside every single day. When he came to senses, he motioned for her to come near him. As she sat by him, he said: "You have been with me all through the bad times. When I got fired, you were there to support me. When my business failed, you were there. When I got shot, you were by my side. When we lost the house, you gave me support. When my health started failing, you were still by my side. You know what?" "What dear?" she asks gently. "I think you bring me bad luck."
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The Burning Questions of Life
These innocent-looking questions are actually cleverly crafted: Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan? Can fat people go skinny-dipping? Why is it that rain drops but snow falls? Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"? Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, which side would it fall on? Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds? Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations? Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM? Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo? If you throw a cat out a car window does it become kitty litter? How did a fool and his money get together in the first place? Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets? If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from? How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign? Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream container? What's another word for thesaurus? Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections? Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
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What Was Your Answer?
There were these two elderly people living in a Florida mobile home park. He was a widower and she a widow. They had known one another for a number of years. Now, one evening there was a community supper in the big activity center. These two were at the same table, across from one another. As the meal went on, he made a few admiring glances at her and finally gathered up his courage to ask her, "Will you marry me?" After a dramatic pause and precisely six seconds of 'careful consideration,' she answered. "Yes. Yes, I will." The meal ended and with a few more pleasant exchanges and they went to their respective places. Next morning, he was troubled. "Did she say 'yes' or did she say 'no'?" He couldn't remember. Try as he would, he just could not recall. Not even a faint memory. With trepidation, he went to the telephone and called her. First, he explained to her that he didn't remember as well as he used to. Then he reviewed the lovely evening past. As he gained a little more courage, he then inquired of her, "When I asked if you would marry me, did you say 'Yes' or did you say 'No'?" He was delighted to hear her say, "Why, I said, 'Yes, yes I will' and I meant it with all my heart." Then she continued, "And I am so glad that you called because I couldn't remember who had asked me."
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Do I Have...?
John and his wife are getting ready for bed. The wife is standing in front of a full-length mirror taking a hard look at herself. "You know love," she says, "I look in the mirror and I see an old woman. My face is all wrinkled, my boobs are barely above my waist and my bum is hanging out a mile. I've got fat legs and my arms are all flabby." She turns to John and says, "Tell me something positive to make me feel better about myself." He thinks about it for a bit and then says in a soft voice. . . . "Well... there's nothing wrong with your eyesight."
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How Did You Get Her to Do That?
Three old men are discussing their sex lives. The Italian man says, "Last week, my wife and I had great sex. I rubbed her body all over with olive oil, we made passionate love, and she screamed for 5 minutes at the end." The Frenchman boasts, "Last week when my wife and I had sex I rubbed her body all over with butter. We made passionate love and she screamed for 15 minutes. The old Jewish man says, "Well last week my wife and I had sex too. I rubbed her body all over with chicken schmaltz (kosher chicken fat), we made love and she screamed for 6 hours. The Italian and Frenchman were stunned. They replied, "What could you have possibly done to make your wife scream for 6 hours?" "I wiped my hands on the drapes."
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My Technology Is Better Than Yours
Three men - an American, a Japanese and an Irishman - were sitting naked in a sauna. Suddenly there was a beeping sound. The American pressed his forearm and the beep stopped. The others looked at him questioningly. "That was my pager," he said. "I have a microchip under the skin of my arm." A few minutes later a phone rang. The Japanese fellow lifted his palm to his ear. When he finished, he explained, "That was my mobile phone. I have a microchip in my hand." The Irishman felt decidedly low tech and, not wanting to be outdone, he decided he had to do something just as impressive. He stepped out of the sauna and went to the bathroom. He returned with a piece of toilet paper hanging from his behind. The others raised their eyebrows and stared at him. "It appears that you've got a bit a of a stuck paper problem there," pointed the amused American. "Well, will you look at that. I must be getting a fax!" Declared the Irishman.
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The Nature of Politics
A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?" The father says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism. Your mother, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the people. The nanny, we'll consider her the working class. And your baby brother, we'll call him the future. Now, think about that and see if that makes sense." The little boy goes off to bed thinking about what dad had said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has soiled his diaper. The little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now." The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about." The little boy replies, "Well, while capitalism is screwing the working class, the government is sound asleep, the people are being ignored and the future is in deep s**t."
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12 Celebrity Quotes So Dumb They're Hilarious!
1. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman." 2. Mariah Carey: "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." 3. Brooke Shields: "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." 4. Paris Hilton: "What's Walmart, do they sell, like, wall stuff?" 5. Jessica Simpson: "Is this chicken what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna but it says Chicken by the Sea." 6. Britney Spears: "I get to go overseas places, like Canada." 7. Britney Spears again: "I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa." 8. George W. Bush: "Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" 9. Alicia Silverstone: "I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness." 10. Victoria Beckham: "I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football." 11. David Beckham: "I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet." 12. Axl Rose: "It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people."
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Half Wishes
A woman's husband was cheating on her. The woman and her husband got a divorce and the woman went on with her life hating her ex-husband. One day she found a beautiful lamp tossed in the streets. She picked it up and rubbed it a little bit. Suddenly, a genie popped out of the lamp! The genie said: "I feel that you are married. You have 3 wishes woman, but know that anything you ask for your husband will get as well, only double! Sorry but the rules were written at a more primitive time." So, the woman thinks of a first wish... "I want to be rich!" So, the woman became rich, and the husband became twice as rich! So, the woman thinks of a second wish... "I want to be beautiful!" So, the woman became beautiful, and the husband became twice as beautiful. "Okay", the genie says. "This is your last wish so be careful what you wish for." The woman thinks real hard and finally comes to a decision. "I Want You To Scare me HALF To Death!"
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What Your Husband Needs
After 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife came for counseling. When asked what the problem was, the husband went into a passionate, painful tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had been married. On and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs he had endured. Finally, after allowing this for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk and, after asking the husband to stand, she embraced and kissed him long and passionately as his wife watched with a raised eyebrow. The man shut up and quietly sat down as though in a daze. The therapist turned to the wife and said, 'this is what your husband needs at least 3 times a week. Can you see to it?' 'Well,' she said, 'I can drop him off here on Mondays and Wednesdays but on Fridays I have book club.'
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Yo Mama So Short
Yo Mama so short her best friend is an ant.
Yo Mama so short she poses for trophies.
Clever Jokes
Your mama is so classless, she could be a Marxist utopia.
An act of kindness
A wife arriving home from a shopping trip was horrified to find her husband in bed with a lovely young woman. She screamed at him: "You're a pig! A pig with no honor! How dare you do this to me! I'm your faithful wife!" She was about to storm off, when her husband stopped her with these words: "Wait a minute, let me at least explain what happened!" "Fine!" sobbed the angry wife, "but they will be your LAST words to me!" "Well, while I was driving along the highway, I saw this young girl here, looking tired and haggard. I felt sorry for her, so I brought her home. She was hungry, so I made her a meal from the roast beef you thought was too fattening. Her sandals were torn so I gave her a pair of good shoes you had discarded because they had gone out of style. She was cold, so I gave her the sweater I got you for your birthday that you don't wear because the colors don't suit you. Her slacks were worn out, so I gave her a pair of yours that you liked before your sister bought the same pair. Then, as she was about to leave the house, she turned to me and said pleadingly, "Please, please, is there anything ELSE your wife doesn't use anymore?"
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A Sporting Spirit
At one point during a game, the coach called one of his 7-year-old hockey players aside and asked, "Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?" The little boy nodded in the affirmative. "Do you understand that what matters is not whether we win or lose, but how we play together as a team?" The little boy nodded yes. "So," the coach continued, "I'm sure you know, when a penalty is called, you shouldn't argue, curse, attack the referee, or call him a pecker-head." Do you understand all that?" Again the little boy nodded. He continued, "And when I call you off the ice so that another boy gets a chance to play, it's not good sportsmanship to call your coach 'a dumb a--hole', is it?" Again the little boy nodded. "Good," said the coach. "Now go over there and explain all that to your mother."
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Please Choose Your Password
Today I opened a new email account, I always use the same password: "cabbage". It's easy to remember. But it seems the computer had other plans... Please enter your new password: "cabbage" Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters. "boiled cabbage" Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character. "1 boiled cabbage" Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces. "50bloodyboiledcabbages" Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character. "50BLOODYboiledcabbages" Sorry, the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively. "50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourArse,IfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessnow” Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation. “ReallyPissedOff50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourArseIfYouDontGiveMeAccessnow” Sorry, that password is already in use!
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Your Guilt Won't Change the Past
A man decided to spend the night with a prostitute. When it was over she told him to pay $500. He said he’d send it to her in an envelope marked “Rent for Apartment.” The next day, however, he regretted that he spent the night with her and sent only $250. When she wrote him a letter asking why he didn’t pay full price, he wrote her a memo saying: "Dear lady, I am including a check for $250 for your rent. I am not sending you the sum we previously agreed on, as before I rented the apartment I was given the impression that: 1. The apartment had not been used before. 2. It had adequate heating. 3. It was small enough for me to feel comfortable in it. Instead, I found the apartment had been used many times before, had no heating and was too big for me!" Quite pleased with himself, he sends the letter. A few days later the prostitute responds in her own letter, saying the following: "Dear Sir, 1. You should have known such a beautiful apartment had been rented before. 2. The apartment did have adequate heating. You just didn’t know how to turn it on. 3. The apartment was the perfect size. You just didn’t have large enough furniture to fill it. You are hereby asked to pay the rent in full or I will be forced to contact your current landlady!"
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A Funny Christmas Tale
Twas the night before Christmas and throughout the substation, Not a deputy stirred, they were all on vacation. The stockings were hung on the wall with great care, Next to some T-shirts and old underwear. I was working the night shift compiling stats, Answering the phone, and feeding the rat. When all of a sudden there arose such a clatter, I leapt from my desk to see what was the matter! I opened the door with a creak and a crick, And saw a jolly red fat man I knew must be St. Nick. I had seen his picture a time or two, He was wanted: Article 27 - Section 342. I threw open the door and commanded him "Freeze!" "Put your hands on you head and get down on your knees." But he turned and he ran, up the chimney he flew, with me in pursuit, toward Booth St. I knew. When we got to the roof Santa made for his sleigh, Throwing down toys and blocking my way. As I got to the peak, he threw down some crack, I slipped and I fell landing flat on my back. To my front I was faced with a toy M-1 tank, And Pink Power Rangers covering my flank. "On Dasher, on Dancer!", he cried loud and clear. Then I got off three rounds and just missed the lead deer. And I heard Santa say as he sailed into the blue, "Merry Christmas to all! My Lawyers will sue!"
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Anti Pick Up Lines
You must sprinkle extra sugar in your cereal in the morning...
Why, because I'm so sweet?
No, because you're really fat.
I saw a woman drop her purse in the high street this morning, so I quickly followed her. As I was just about to tap her on the shoulder she started running for a bus. So I ran after her shouting, “You dropped your purse! You dropped your purse!” She didn’t hear me and proceeded to get onto the bus, so I got on the bus too. As I walked to the back of the bus I breathlessly said, “You floor your purse on the floor outside outside McDonald’s." "Thank you so much!" She exclaimed. "Where is it?" "I just told you, on the floor outside McDonald’s."
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The Miracle Child
A woman starts dating a doctor. Before too long, she becomes pregnant and they don’t know what to do. Long About nine months later, just about the time she is going to give birth, a priest goes into the hospital for a prostate gland infection. The doctor says to the woman, “I know what we’ll do. After I’ve operated on the priest, I’ll give the baby to him and tell him it was a miracle.” “Do you think it will work?” she asks the doctor. “It’s worth a try.” he says. So the doctor delivers the baby and then operates on the priest. After the operation he goes in to the priest and says, “Father, you’re not going to believe this.” “What?” says the priest. “What happened?” “You gave birth to a child.” “But that’s impossible!” “I just did the operation,” insists the doctor. “It’s a miracle! Here’s your baby.” About fifteen years go by, and the priest realizes that he must tell his son the truth. One day he sits the boy down and says, “Son, I have something to tell you. I’m not your father.” The son says, “What do you mean, you’re not my father?” The priest replies, “I’m your mother. The archbishop is your father.”
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A Novel Way of Calling Your Children
A woman had 8 children, all of them boys. So, one day a magazine sent a journalist to her house for an interview. He asked her about the boys and what their names were. She said 'Kevin'. 'Right', he said, 'what about that blond one over there?' 'Kevin', she said. 'Oh, and the tall one with the freckles?' 'Kevin', she said. 'Well, and the little chubby one with the baseball cap?' 'Kevin', she said. 'Are all your boys called Kevin?' he asked, 'isn't that terribly complicated?' 'Not at all', she said, 'it makes everything very easy, actually. When I shout: Kevin, tea is ready!, they all come. When I say: Kevin, it's time for bed!, they all go to bed.' 'I see. But what if you want only one of them?' 'No problem.' she answers. 'Then I call them by their surnames.'
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The Generous Bartender
A guy goes into a bar and orders a beer. The Bartender says “that’ll be a dollar”. The guy thinks “man, that’s cheap” but the beer turned out to be delicious. So he finishes his beer and decides to take a chance. “Bartender, I’ll have your finest wine.” The bartender goes through a long process of showing the bottle, opening it, aerating the wine, and pouring it into a nice glass before saying “that’ll be 50 cents.” The guy can’t believe it, so he thinks “screw it” and says “I’ll have a whole bottle of your best scotch.” The bartender hands it to him and says “here, on the house.” Curiosity finally gets the better of the guy so he asks “OK, where’s the owner?” The bartender replies “Upstairs with my wife.” The guy asks “What’s he doing upstairs with your wife?” And the bartender looks the man in the eye and replies “The same thing I’m doing to his business.”
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The Thumping Noise
A little boy wakes up three nights in a row when he hears a thumping sound coming from his parents' room. Finally one morning he goes to his mom and says, "Mommy, every night I hear you and daddy making noises and when I look in your bedroom you're bouncing up and down on him." His mom is taken by surprise and says, "Oh, well I'm bouncing on his stomach because he's fat and that makes him thin again." And the boy says, "Well, that won't work!" His mom says, "Why?!?" The boy replies, "Because the lady next door comes by after you leave each day and blows him back up!"
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Forgive Your Enemies
The preacher's Sunday sermon was "Forgive Your Enemies." He asked how many of the congregation have forgiven their enemies? About half held up their hands. He then repeated his question. Now about 80% held up their hands. He then repeated his question once more. All responded, except one elderly lady. "Mrs. Johnson, are you not willing to forgive your enemies?" "I don't have any." "Mrs. Johnson that is very unusual. How old are you?" "Ninety-three," she replied. "Mrs. Johnson, please come down in front and tell the congregation how a person cannot have an enemy in the world?" The little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle and said, "I outlived every one of those bitches!"
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The Genius Student
Tommy was sitting in math class when suddenly his teacher asked him “Tommy, How much is 2 + 2?” Tommy, caught off guard, begins counting his fingers under the table mumbling to himself: “1…2…3…4,” before happily exclaiming “The answer is four!” “That’s correct,” answered his teacher, “but I saw you counting your fingers instead of doing the math in your head. So I want you to put your hands behind your back and tell me what do you get if you add 3 + 3?” Tommy put his hands behind his back, but his teacher saw that he was still moving uncomfortably as if he were trying to count fingers. After a few moments he said uncertainly, "is the answer six?" "You are correct," she replied, "but I see you're still counting fingers despite me asking you not to! Put your hands in your pant pockets and tell me what you get if you add 5 + 5." Tommy put his hands in his pants and his teacher saw him looking at his pants and moving his lips without uttering a word. Finally the teacher became impatient and said: "I see what you're doing there and I can tell you right now that the answer is not eleven!"
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It Is SO COLD THAT...
How cold IS IT? It's so cold THAT... The rock rattling around in your shoe is your toe. Lawyers have their hands in their own pockets. You have to break the smoke off your chimney. You have to open the fridge to heat the house. Your false teeth chatter, and they are still in the glass. Police tell a robber to freeze, and he really does. Our words froze in midair and we had to put them in a frying pan to thaw them so we hear what we were talking about. People look forward to getting a fever Mailmen watch out for both dogs and polar bears I'm shivering like a mobster in a tax office. We had to chisel the dog off a lamp-post Pet stores sell hamsters, gerbils and penguins Lady Liberty put her torch inside her dress! Prisoners are begging for the electric chair. Richard Simmons wearing shorts that come nearly to the half-thigh region. Roosters are rushing into KFC and begging to use the pressure cooker! A streaker froze in mid-streak! I chipped my tooth on my soup. Dunkin' Donuts is serving coffee on a stick. The local flasher was seen describing himself to three different women this morning. We pulled everything out of the freezer and huddled inside to keep warm. I saw an Amish guy buying an electric blanket. I actually saw a gangsta pull his pants up. I'm drinking hot sauce instead of coffee. Ice cubes are coming out of my faucet. Trees are chopping themselves into firewood. Cops are tasing themselves. I saw a greyhound bus and the dog was riding on the inside. The ice cubes in my drink have goose bumps. When all is said and done, I'm really thankful for the HOT FLASHES!
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I Wonder If It's Him...
I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his DDS diploma on the wall, which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class, some 30-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on way back then? Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man was way too old to have been my classmate. After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Northmont high school. "Yes. Yes, I did. I'm a thunderbolt," he said gleaming with pride. "When did you graduate?" I asked. He answered, "in 1975. Why do you ask?" "You were in my class!", I exclaimed. He looked at me closely, then, the ugly, old, bald, wrinkle-faced, fat, gray-haired, decrepit fool asked, "What did you teach?"
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Fine Living: Top 10 Tasting Menus
Phil Pivnick
Head chef: René Redzepi
Cost: DKK1,200 ($220 USD)
After touring regions such as Greenland and Iceland, chef and owner René Redzepi created a modern take on Nordic gourmet cuisine for this Denmark restaurant.
With a largely seafood-based menu, horse mussels, deep-sea crabs, and langoustines are just some of the regional foods you will enjoy. The dishes are bursting with very distinct smells of the sea. Unlike most gourmets who prepare their sauces with wines, these are prepared with beers and ales. As for appearance, anticipate plates filled with glistening whites and reds laid out in ways reminiscent of deep-sea landscapes.
Menu highlight: Served as somewhat of a snack, dried chicken skin and crisp bread are presented as large, dry chips. They are very thin, expectantly crunchy, and their smoky flavor is one that may leave you addicted.
Jean-Georges
Head chef: Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Cost: $125 USD
Jean-Georges opened this New York restaurant in 1997 after a lifetime of gaining an eclectic education by working in restaurants throughout the world. The menu is built around French cuisine with obvious Asian influence.
Seafood makes many appearances on this menu, but you’ll also find delicacies like young garlic soup with frogs’ legs and duck with cracked almonds. Standing out with reoccurring yellows and greens, the dishes are served with light oils and broths instead of thick and heavy sauces. This allows the foods’ natural textures to push through, as well as the flavor.
Menu highlight: Many recommend the goat cheese royale. Laid out in green, white and red, it is combined nicely with roasted Sicilian pistachios and beet marmalade.
Charlie Trotter’s
Location: Chicago, USA
Head chef: Charlie Trotter
The author of over a dozen books and the host of an award-winning PBS cooking series, Charlie Trotter heads the Chicago restaurant that bears his name. Much lauded and heavily awarded, this is considered to be one of the finest restaurants in the world, and it also happens to be one of the first “tasting menu only” establishments.
The menu’s contents change with each season, but diners can always choose between the vegetable and grand menus. By mixing the culinary arts of French and Asian cuisine, they present dishes that are startlingly visual with reds and oranges that practically let you see the taste. Free-ranged meats and organic vegetables are mixed with sauces from vegetable juice-based vinaigrettes, helping the flavor reach its full potential.
Menu highlight: The menu is always evolving, but one item that people seem to love is the Arkansas rabbit loin. It’s a loin and leg served with turnips, fingerling potatoes and mustard greens.
Head chef: Neil Perry
Cost: $175 AUD ($150 USD)
When in Sydney, Australia, this is the place to eat. Neil Perry, owner and chef, is the author of several cookbooks and is revered as Australia’s premier chef. At Rockpool, he presents a 12-course tasting menu that melds together Chinese, Thai and French cuisines.
Items such as Chinese roast pigeon make their way onto the menu, but most dishes are seafood-centered. One of the chef’s secrets for bringing out the best flavors is to use only line-caught fish; this way there is a reduction to the stress and damage of the fish and it preserves the best texture and flavor. The dishes range from bite-sized to regular-sized portions and are often dark and creamy, but all are raved about.
Menu highlight: The tasting menu is ever-changing, but the lobster dishes are always delicious — whether served with sterling caviar and white asparagus or as a lobster omelet in prawn sauce.
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Japanese GP
MotoGP: No Replacement Race if Japanese GP Falls Through
Ever since the Great East Japan Earthquake, there’s been a great deal of speculation in the MotoGP paddock about the status of the Japanese GP. Although postponed until October, the reality that the Motegi circuit will be able to safely host a MotoGP event is still dubious in many minds, and accordingly names of alternate venues have been banded about as replacements for the Japanese round. At the top of the list has been Istanbul, which last hosted MotoGP back in 2007.
Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta has seemingly put the kibosh on the Turkish GP taking over for the Twin Ring Circuit though, saying that if the Japanese GP cannot be undertaken, the round would be dropped altogether from the MotoGP calendar. Such an action would leave only 17 stops for MotoGP’s racing season, instead of the customary 18 rounds.
The Motegi Infraction
While Valentino Rossi may have gotten a slap on the wrist from Yamaha Racing Boss Lin Jarvis for over-zealously racing teammate Jorge Lorenzo at Motegi, the Spanish press and Lorenzo have been less reserved with their words about the final laps of the Japanese GP. This hasn’t stopped some cheekiness from the Italian press though, who put together this fake accident report after Rossi and Lorenzo collided on the Twin Ring Circuit. Watch the video above, and make the call if that assigned fault to the right rider after the jump.
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Official: Dani Pedrosa Out for Sepang
After breaking his collarbone during practice at the Japanese GP, Dani Pedrosa’s chances of racing at Sepang for the Malaysian GP were held highly in question. With some close to the team suggesting Pedrosa would attempt to race in Malaysia, a press release this morning seemingly confirms that the Spaniard is out for the weekend’s races, instead intending to focus on a return at Phillip Island next week. This announcement is big news for Jorge Lorenzo, who is trying to lock up the 2010 MotoGP Championship. With only Dani Pedrosa having a mathematical chance of stealing the crown from his fellow Spaniard, Lorenzo now only has to finish 9th in Sunday’s race to claim his crown. Press release after the jump.
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The Suzuki Silly Season Roundup: The Rookie, The Veteran, & The Frenchman
Noticeably absent from the silly season slogging has been the factory Suzuki MotoGP team. Although we know that Suzuki intends to stay in MotoGP for at least one more season, despite a continued tradition of mediocrity, very little other information has come forward. Perhaps at the top of the rumor heap is the speculation that Rizla Suzuki will potentially field only one bike in the 2011 MotoGP season, electing not to replace Loris Capirossi who has been linked to the Pramac Ducati team.
Volcano Postpones Japanese GP Round
While Icelandic volcanic ash from Eyjafjallajökull grounded flights all over the world (most noticeably in northern Europe), the impact to motorcycling seemed negligible. However with the Japanese GP at Motegi scheuled for this weekend, Dorna quickly realized that teams would not be able to leave European airspace to setup camp in Japan for the next round of MotoGP. As such Dorna and the IRTA have postponed the Japanese GP, and rescheduled the event for Octoberd 3rd, between the Aragon and Malaysian GP’s.
Bridgestone Releases Findings on Pedrosa Tire Failure at Motegi
You may remember that a month ago, . While still able to stay in the race, fans watched as the Spainard began slowing down, unable to challenge the Fiat Yamahas any further. Pedrosa would finish 3rd for the day, but some serious questions and concerns were being asked of Bridgestone, the sole tire provider of the series.
Bridgestone has now confirmed that faulty construction of the tire allowed a foreign element to be embedded in the rubber, which later broke out, taking chunks of rubber with it.
MotoGP: Motegi Race Results
The rain gods smiled down on Motegi, Japan today and provided a timely start to the second GP race of the season, after rainy conditions forced race officials to cancel the GP’s qualifying session on Saturday. The Japanese GP wasn’t without incident however, as several riders failed to finish the race due to various incidents and events. This is of course code for you to read further, and to help us curb spoilers for those who haven’t sat down with their Tivo yet. Needless to say, continue reading to see a full race report on the Polini Grand Prix of Japan at Motegi.
Rain at Motegi Forces Japanese GP Qualifying to be Cancelled
Heavy lunchtime rain at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit led to the cancellation of all qualifying sessions for the Polini Grand Prix of Japan, leaving grid positions in all three World Championship categories to be decided according to Free Practice positions. Initially, the decision was to wait for an hour, and then assess if the weather conditions would improve enough for qualifying to be run later in the day. However with the rain being unrelenting, there was nothing left for Race Direction to do but to cancel the qualifying sessions for all three classes. As such, Valentino Rossi will start at the Japanese GP’s pole position for the first time in his career.
Hayden is Nearly 100% for Japanese GP
Nicky Hayden is a go for Friday’s practice session for the Polini Grand Prix of Japan, although the American will not be fully recovered from his Qatar highside. Hayden still has several stiches from his practice session crash at Qatar, but they should not affect his ability to ride hard on Sunday.
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Giants 2020 Positional Breakdown: Running Backs
Saquon Barkley – © USA TODAY Sports
With New York Giants training camp hopefully beginning in late July, BigBlueInteractive.com (BBI) breaks down each of the team’s positional groups until the players report at Quest Diagnostics Training Center. Keep in mind that some of the players discussed may be cut as the 2020 NFL draft class signs their rookie contracts.
POSITIONAL BREAKDOWN: Running Backs
2019 YEAR IN REVIEW: Coming off an incredible debut season in 2018, where he earned “Offensive Rookie of the Year” honors and led the NFL with 2,028 yards from scrimmage, much was expected of Saquon Barkley in 2019. However, his second pro season quickly became forgettable after he suffered a high-ankle sprain in Week 3. The injury caused him to miss three games and nagged him much of the remainder of the season. Playing soft and tentative at times, Barkley did not show signs of his old self until December. Nevertheless, Barkley still rushed 217 times for 1,003 yards (4.6 yards per carry) and six touchdowns behind an offensive line that did not block very well. He also caught 52 passes for 438 yards and two touchdowns.
The game that best epitomized Barkley’s frustrating season was the Week 14 contest against the Philadelphia Eagles. The Giants led 17-3 at halftime, yet the team’s offensive brain trust only called for seven runs by Barkley in the second half. Three weeks later, the Giants faced the Eagles again, this time in the Meadowlands. Barkley’s 68-yard touchdown late in the 3rd quarter tied the game at 17-17. Yet the Eagles went on to win comfortably as Barkley only touched the ball twice before the score became 34-17 in the 4th quarter. One was left with the sense that the coaching staff simply did not use Barkley to full effect.
Unbelievably, and especially when you consider the fact that Barkley missed three games and played hurt in the final 10 games, no other running back on the roster gained more than Wayne Gallman’s 110 yards. To put this in perspective, Daniel Jones rushed for 279 yards. Gallman’s stock plummeted, falling from Barkley’s primary back-up to being a healthy scratch from the game-day roster in the last five contests of the season. Gallman carried the ball only 29 times all year. Jon Hilliman only carried the ball 30 times for 91 yards. Eli Penny 15 times for 39 yards. Javorius Allen 10 times for 36 yards. In other words, all of the other backs combined only gained 276 yards, or three less than Daniel Jones (who only played 12 games).
ADDITIONS/SUBTRACTIONS: The team decided not to re-sign unrestricted free agent Javorius Allen, but did re-sign fullback Eli Penny to a 2-year contract. Saquon Barkley, Wayne Gallman, Jon Hilliman, and practice squad fullback George Aston also return.
Newcomers include Dion Lewis (signed by Giants after he was cut by Tennessee Titans), Javon Leake (undrafted rookie free agent), and Sandro Platzgummer (Austrian from the NFL’s International Player Pathway Program).
TRAINING CAMP STORY LINES: Saquon Barkley is a generational talent. His presence on the roster had to be an immense appeal to coaches like Joe Judge, Jason Garrett, and Burton Burns, the latter coming back to coaching at the age of 67. But as we saw with Odell Beckham, talent guarantees nothing. And it is up to Judge, Garrett, and Burns to get the very best out of Barkley. Burns is an under-the-radar addition. He’s an old-school, demanding hard-ass, but running backs love playing for him.
Judge has stated numerous times that New York’s offensive game plans will change weekly depending on the opponent, to the point where he said there may be games where the Giants almost exclusively run or pass the football. Given the fact that Barkley is a superb receiving target and that Garrett had the Cowboys throw a ton to Ezekiel Elliott, Barkley should be heavily involved in any game plan. At the same time, the pressure is on all of the new offensive coaches, including offensive line coach Marc Colombo, and the blockers up front to simply give Barkley a chance to do his his thing. Too many times, Barkey was having to avoid tacklers in the backfield. Barkley also needs to touch the football, particularly in the clutch. When he does, good things happen.
There were a couple of red flags with Barkley last year. He still dances around a bit too much instead of taking what is there. And after he got hurt, Barkley looked tentative and indeed soft at times. That changed in December as his ankle got stronger. Hopefully that was only an anomaly. Other than that, Barkley is a legitimate League MVP candidate if he can stay healthy and keep his head on straight.
The other story line of camp is the depth situation behind Barkley. Gallman has not developed as hoped. Penny is more of a fullback. Hilliman didn’t impress as a rookie. The Giants added Dion Lewis, a smaller, elusive journeyman who did his best work in New England.
ON THE BUBBLE: Honestly, I don’t think anyone other than Barkley is totally safe. This is an area where the Giants may be actively scanning the waiver wire before the season starts. Given Judge’s familiarity with Lewis and his versatility as a runner, receiver, and returner, Lewis also has a good shot to make the roster.
PREDICTIONS: I’m a little bit wary of piling on the previous coaching staff, but I just don’t get the impression that they were terribly imaginative in using Saquon Barkley in the passing game (there was an odd, overreliance on the wheel route). The run blocking obviously wasn’t good either. Talent? Coaching? Scheme? Probably a combination of all three. When something worked, the Giants moved away from it, and just when you thought the opponent should be hit with a heavy dose of Barkley, he was nowhere to be seen.
On paper, Garrett, Colombo, Burns, and tight ends coach Freddie Kitchens are major upgrades in the coaching department. I think they will know how to use Barkley. I also expect Will Hernandez, Kevin Zeitler, and Nate Solder to play much better and for Andrew Thomas and possibly Shane Lemieux or Nick Gates to make an impact. Provided he stays healthy and focused, Barkley should hit the 2,000 yard mark again. He’s clearly one of the very best players in the entire League.
FINAL DEPTH CHART: Saquon Barkley, Dion Lewis, Wayne Gallman, Eli Penny
After Barkley and Lewis, this is a bit dicey. Gallman is on the bubble. Penny is replaceable. A guy like Javon Leake could easily press for a roster spot, especially given his kick return skills. Hell, a guy like Sandro Plazgummer probably couldn’t have picked a better team to compete on. My guess is Gettleman and Judge will be actively scanning the waiver wire here. Don’t be shocked to see running back a priority area next offseason. The Giants need better insurance behind Barkley.
Eric Kennedy
Eric Kennedy is Editor-in-Chief of BigBlueInteractive.com, a publication of Big Blue Interactive, LLC. Follow @BigBlueInteract on Twitter.
Articles, Roster Breakdown Tagged with: Dion Lewis, Elijhaa Penny, George Aston, Javon Leake, Jonathan Hilliman, Sandro Platzgummer, Saquon Barkley, Wayne Gallman
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Former Houston police officer charged with murder over raid
by: JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press
Posted: Aug 23, 2019 / 06:48 PM GMT-0500 / Updated: Aug 24, 2019 / 05:05 AM GMT-0500
FILE – In this July 25, 2019 file photo John Nicholas, brother of Rhogena Nicholas, lowers his head next to a photo of his sister during a news conference in Houston. A former Houston police officer has been charged with felony murder in connection with a deadly January drug raid that killed a couple and injured several officers, prosecutors announced Friday, Aug. 23. Killed in the shooting were 58-year-old Rhogena Nicholas and 59-year-old Dennis Tuttle.(Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)
HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston police officer has been charged with murder in connection with the deadly January drug raid of a home that killed a couple who lived there and injured five officers, prosecutors announced Friday.
Former Officer Gerald Goines, who was shot in the ensuing gunfight during the Jan. 28 raid, is charged with two counts of felony murder after police accused him of lying in a search warrant about having a confidential informant buying heroin at the home. Goines later acknowledged there was no informant and that he bought the drugs himself, authorities said.
Another former officer, Steven Bryant, was charged with tampering with a government record for allegedly providing false information in a report after the raid that supported Goines’ story about a confidential informant.
“We recognize that the community has been violated and I want to assure my fellow Houstonians and other residents of Harris County that we are getting to the truth,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said at a news conference. “Each day we uncover more and with each fact, we work toward doing justice.”
Goines’ attorney, Nicole DeBorde, did not immediately return a phone call or email seeking comment. But she has previously said Goines has done nothing wrong.
Andy Drumheller, Bryant’s attorney, said in an email that he had not yet seen the charge but he was “troubled that a person who wasn’t involved in drafting the affidavit for the search warrant, never fired his weapon and didn’t enter the home … was given a couple of hours notice that he’s been charged with a state jail felony on a Friday afternoon and needs to turn himself in.”
Both former officers surrendered to authorities Friday and appeared at a bond hearing. Goines was given bonds totaling $300,000 and Bryant was given a $50,000 bond. Drumheller said Bryant planned to post bond.
If convicted, Goines faces up to life in prison. Bryant faces up to two years in state jail.
At a separate news conference, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said the charges against the two ex-officers were a result of his agency’s investigation and are an example of how a police department can ask tough questions about its actions.
“We are a department that will vigorously pursue the rule of law, including holding our officers accountable as we did here,” Acevedo said.
Killed in the raid were Rhogena Nicholas, 58, and 59-year-old Dennis Tuttle, 59.
Family and friends of Tuttle and Nicholas have continuously dismissed allegations the couple sold drugs. Police found small amounts of marijuana and cocaine in the house, but no heroin.
Ogg offered an apology to the couple’s families.
“I want to tell them how sorry we are as a city and a county for the actions that resulted in the loss of their loved ones lives and that our work is dedicated to ensuring that their loved ones receive justice,” Ogg said.
In a statement, Michael Doyle and Charles Bourque, attorneys for the Nicholas family attorneys, called the charges against Goines and Bryant important developments but only the “beginning of the pursuit of justice” in the couple’s deaths.
Initially, Houston police maintained that after officers entered the home, Nicholas tried to take away a shotgun from an officer and was fatally shot by officers who saw what was happening. But an independent review by the family of Nicholas earlier this year cast doubt on that portrayal.
Following the shooting, prosecutors began reviewing more than 2,000 cases tied to Goines and Bryant. In June, prosecutors said their investigation has grown into a probe of 14,000 cases handled by the Houston Police Department’s narcotics division.
Both officers were relieved of duty after the shooting and later retired.
Ogg said prosecutors decided to file charges instead of waiting to present the case to a grand jury because they feared the two officers might flee the area and they feared for the safety of witnesses.
The case is still set to be presented to a grand jury in the next few weeks and the panel could file additional charges against the two officers or charges against other officers, Ogg said.
“The purpose of the broader investigation is … to determine if this was single act by rogue officers or whether it’s part of a greater and pre-existing problem in that squad,” Ogg said.
Acevedo said neither his agency’s investigation nor an ongoing probe by federal authorities has shown that the two ex-officers’ actions were part of a systemic problem within the police department.
Acevedo said he believes the officers who entered the home were also victims as they were led astray by the actions of two officers who “dishonored the badge.”
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MIDDLE EAST: Monjasa expanding Middle East operations
Written by Ian Taylor
Monjasa is set to use its newly-acquired oil and chemical tanker Monjasa Server for cargo and bunkering operations in the Arabian Gulf this month.
In a statement issued today (23 Novembcer), Monjasa said that it acquired the 9,600 DWT tanker, formerly known as the GS Adventure, from Golden-Agri Stena.
The Monjasa Server will complement the company’s existing Middle East fleet, which includes four tankers ranging between 4,000 DWT and 10,000 DWT .
The new tanker is equipped with deepwell pumps and five tank segregations, allowing multiple fuel grades onboard.
Monjasa said the ship’s capacity is a good match for requirements of transporting oil cargoes from the Fujairah bunkering hub to the main markets across Dubai, Abu-Dhabi and Sharjah ports, as well as performing ship-to-ship refuelling operations.
In 2019, Monjasa supplied 600,000 tonnes of marine fuels across the Middle East, which represented about 13% of the company’s total global volume of 4.5 million metric tonnes.
Monjasa’s Group CEO Anders Østergaard commented: ‘During the past years, we have actively pursued additional ownership of the supply chain through an increasing percentage of owned tonnage across our fleet. We have seen how the IMO 2020 sulphur cap sparked further market interest in how the new fuel products are being sourced, shipped and supplied. This most recent acquisition fits well with our ambitions and matches market demand in terms of cargo capacity and high technical specifications.’
Monjasa added that it currently controls some 20 tankers globally of which 11 are fully owned.
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Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, 1819. First edition, 4to, (viii), 364, (2) pp, bound without the half title. 7 plates (5 folding) plus a folding map, some occasional light foxing, old repaired tears to the inner margin of the four leaves of the preliminaries, 20th century inscription and very small booklabel to front endpapers. Uncut in the original boards, edges rubbed, neatly rebacked with new endpapers. A surgeon in the East India Company, Hamilton (né Buchanan) was appointed to a succession of survey posts in Asia, initially in Burma and India. His two years (1802-04) in Nepal were followed by a brief interlude as director of the Natural History Project of India, a short-lived scheme instigated by his patron, Lord Wellesley, and eventually a topographical survey of Bengal. Composed after his return to England, the work includes an appendix containing daily meteorological observations for just over a year during his stay. Item #31015
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Ever closer union?
Many Roman provincials were Christian higher clergy. Between the legalization of Christianity by Constantine about 313 and the adoption of Christianity as the legal religion of Rome by the emperor Theodosius I in 380, Christian communities received immense donations of land, labour, and other gifts from emperors and wealthy converts. The Christian clergy, originally a body of community elders and managerial functionaries, gradually acquired sacramental authority and became aligned with the grades of the imperial civil service. Each civitas (community or city), an urban unit and its surrounding district, had its bishop (from the Latin episcopus, “overseer”). Because there had been more Roman civitates in the Italian and provincial European areas, there were more and usually smaller dioceses in these regions than in the distant north and east.
During the 5th and 6th centuries, bishops gradually assumed greater responsibility for supplying the cities and administering their affairs, replacing the local governments that for centuries had underpinned and constituted the local administration of the empire. Two bishops, Ambrose of Milan (339–397) and Gregory I of Rome (pope 590–604), wrote influential guidebooks on episcopal and other clerical duties and responsibilities toward congregations. These works set standards for all later bishops and are still observed in many churches.
Besides the bishops and their subordinates the priests, who tended to the spiritual and material needs of Christians living in the world—the “secular clergy”—there also existed communities of monks and religious women who had fled the world. These communities were independent, although nominally under the control of the local bishop, and they followed diverse rules of life—hence their designation as “regular clergy” (from regula, “rule”). The most influential monastic rule in Latin Christianity after the 8th century was that of Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–c. 547). Benedict’s rule provided for a monastic day of work, prayer, and contemplation, offering psychological balance in the monk’s life. It also elevated the dignity of manual labour in the service of God, long scorned by the elites of antiquity. Benedict’s monastery at Monte Cassino, south of Rome, became one of the greatest centres of Benedictine monasticism.
St. Benedict of Nursia
Abbot Benedict of Nursia, depicted in the act of writing the Benedictine Rule, painting by Herman Nieg, 1926; in the church of Heiligenkreuz Abbey near Baden bei Wien, Lower Austria.
Georges Jansoone
The origins of monasticism lay in the ascetic practices of Egyptian and Syrian monks, which were transplanted to western Europe through texts such as the 4th-century Latin translation of the Life of Saint Antony (by Patriarch Athanasius of Alexandria) and through widely traveled observers such as the theologian and monk John Cassian (360–435). These Mediterranean-wide influences were among the last examples of the communications network of the older, ecumenical Mediterranean world. Monasticism developed and sustained a powerful ascetic dimension in both Greek and Latin Christianity that increased in importance as monasticism itself came to define the ideal of clerical life in the West.
In the case of Martin (316–397), a former Roman soldier turned wandering holy man, monastic asceticism was combined with the office episcopal, as Martin eventually became bishop of Tours in Gaul. He emphasized the conversion of rural pagans, as well as ministering to the urban and rural elites. In the Iberian Peninsula the work of the monk and bishop Martin of Braga (c. 515–580) was also devoted to the religious instruction of rustics. His work provided an influential model for the later conversion of northern and eastern Europe.
While Greek Christians called their church and religion Orthodox, Latin Christians adopted the term Catholic (from catholicus, “universal”). The term catholic Christianity was originally used to authenticate a normative, orthodox Christian cult (system of religious belief and ritual) on the grounds of its universality and to characterize different beliefs and practices as heterodox on the grounds that they were merely local and did not reflect duration, unanimity, or universality. These three characteristics of Latin orthodoxy were defined by the 5th-century monastic writer Vincent of Lérins (died c. 450) and adopted generally throughout the Latin church.
Devotional movements that differed from the norms of orthodoxy were defined as heterodoxy, or heresy. The earliest of these were several forms of Judaizing Christianity and Gnosticism, a dualist belief in asceticism and spiritual enlightenment. Once Christianity was established throughout the empire, other local movements were also condemned. Donatism, the belief among many North African Christians that Christian leaders who had bowed to pagan imperial persecution before 313 had lost their priestly status and needed to be reordained, was the first major heterodox practice to be considered—and condemned—at an imperial church council (411). Other movements were Arianism, which challenged the divinity of Jesus, and Pelagianism, which denied original sin and emphasized purely human abilities to achieve salvation. Other beliefs, usually those that contradicted increasingly normative doctrines of Trinitarianism (the belief that the Godhead includes three coequal, coeternal, and consubstantial persons) or Christology (the interpretation of the nature of Christ), were also condemned as heresy.
Normative Christianity, which was expressed in imperial legislation, church councils, and the works of influential Christian writers, gradually became the faith of Europe’s new regional rulers. Within that broad, universal ideology, however, many of the new kings and peoples based their claims to legitimacy and a common identity on their own versions of Latin Christianity, as expressed in local law, ritual, saints’ cults, sacred spaces and shrines, and saints’ relics. The cults of saints and their relics served to territorialize devotion, and control over them was a distinctive sign of legitimate power. Although the older empire and the new, nonimperial lands in Europe into which a new culture expanded came to call themselves Christianitas (“Christendom”), they were in practice divided into many self-contained entities that have been called “micro-Christendoms,” each based on the devotional identity of king, clerics, and people.
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Sully demonstrates that nice guys dont necessarily finish last
Clint Eastwood, left, gives direction to Tom Hanks on the set of "Sully." The film is playing in local theaters. - photo by Chris Hicks
By now you have no doubt come across numerous stories about Sully, Clint Eastwoods new movie that stars Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger the pilot who, with First Officer Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart), safely guided a passenger airliner to an emergency water landing on the Hudson River in January 2009.
This film about the Miracle on the Hudson is getting rave reviews and was a box-office hit after opening last weekend not a hit on the Captain America or Jungle Book scale, of course, but very successful nonetheless.
And, naturally, theres Oscar talk since Sully is really the first salvo by a major studio in the Academy Award sprint that begins each September. Whether it will still be included in that conversation come January remains to be seen. But it should be.
Its also worth noting that Sully is an adult movie about good people doing good things, without any hidden agendas, dark secrets, lies or deceit.
That the film did well at the box office should send a signal to Hollywood that theres an audience out there for heroes who dont wear masks, capes or jet packs, who dont have superpowers, who arent seeking revenge, and who care deeply about such real-life values as honor, service, humility, love and the instinct to do good.
Sully is about people, real people not just Sullenberger but most everyone in the film doing the right thing, helping one another and reacting in a positive way when confronted by unprecedented circumstances.
Really, whens the last time you saw a 21st-century movie that was about good people being good?
The conflict in Sully stems from the National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the incident, which initially shifts the blame from the extraordinary circumstances of a massive bird strike to pilot error because the plane was guided to the Hudson River instead of heading to a local airport. Did both engines really stop functioning or did he just miscalculate when one was actually still idling?
But in the end, even the board members arent villains. Theyre just doing their jobs, trying to uncover the truth, and therein lies the mystery and the source of Sullenbergers angst. Well, that and the enormous amount of unwanted public attention foisted on him. (If there are villains here, they may be members of the media.)
Actually, thats another thing. With so many films and television programs about people who are dying to become famous or just get on TV or the internet, its refreshing to see a movie about someone who doesnt want any of that.
I loved Sully, and its nice to have a movie playing in theaters that I can recommend without hesitation because Im asked to do that almost daily and there hasnt been one this good in quite a while.
And its worth noting that the PG-13 rating in this instance is fair, due to the images of crashing planes and the terror exhibited by those involved in the forced landing.
But its also worth noting that somewhere along the way, someone in power got nervous and must have felt that the film might come away with horrors! a PG rating instead of a PG-13.
So the F-word was added to the soundtrack, as if theres some law in place that requires every PG-13 movie to have a character speak it at least once.
When that word arrives, its spoken off-handedly by a character walking away from the camera, and hes already quite a ways off. Which leads me to suspect it was looped into the soundtrack late, perhaps as an afterthought.
Its purely gratuitous, its spoken during a moment that goes by so quickly you might miss it and theres absolutely no dramatic reason for its existence in this context.
In fact, I wonder if its in the script or if some anointed marketing genius got together with the director and warned, So, Clint, we might want to throw an F-bomb in there, just once, yknow? To be sure we get that PG-13? Whadayathink?
If so, shame on them.
It doesnt ruin the experience by any means, but it does, um, sully it a bit.
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CALIFORNIA PHENOLOGY
Phenological Research
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We will leverage previous digitization efforts and greatly expand the capacity of California herbaria. We will create a new Phenology Data Portal using Symbiota, an open-source, web-accessible collections management platform, and develop new tools that will be available to all Symbiota users. This portal will greatly expand California’s ability to digitize specimens given the data curation and management tools inherent in the Symbiota software. This portal will provide the infrastructure necessary to manage and serve all images generated by participating institutions as part of this project and into the future. To ensure that the phenological data collected here is useful into the future, we will develop data standards for phenological traits that are shareable as Darwin Core Archives. This will set the stage for how trait data, beyond phenology, is dealt with in future digitization efforts.
This project is being conducted under the umbrella of the Consortium of California Herbaria, an organization that serves the collections community of the state. The project will help leverage the previous digitization efforts coordinated by the CCH and provide a framework that all future digitization activities will benefit from. Since 2003, the Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH; http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/) has served the main goal of making California specimen data available to the public, which has facilitated much research on the flora (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=R9KFuPQAAAAJ). Since that time, institutions in California and across the U.S. have shared vascular plant data from California via the CCH search page. The CCH has reached a number of important milestones; growing to include over 30 member institutions, serving over 2 million digital records, and establishing regular communication via the CCH Google group. Despite the growth and successes of the CCH, institutions in California face numerous challenges moving forward. Many partner institutions lack modern databases to curate their records and efficiently share data. Through the development of a new Symbiota based Phenology Portal, this project will expand of the CCH to include new participants and the enable those new participants (and other collections in the CCH) to dynamically manage their data directly in the new portal. This will add long-term stability and sustainability to the CCH, ensure that newly added collections comply with Darwin Core standards, and facilitate data mobilization. In the future, the CCH search page will obtain data for California specimen from the portal and will continue to serve as a searchable public database linked to the Jepson eFlora project.
Digitization and Data Sharing
Each digitizing institution will be equipped with one imaging station in accordance with community recommendations. There will be separate digitization workflows depending on the status of the specimen. Some will already have the label data captured in a database and these data will already be loaded into the Phenology Portal. If the specimen has not been databased, skeletal data will be captured at the time of imaging, and full label capture will occur in later steps. We will leverage the tools and expertise of Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) to link images to database records and make these records publicly accessible on the Phenology Portal.
Our goal is to further the development of data standards that have broad community support, as well as develop protocols and training materials that will ensure long-term community participation. In close collaboration with iDigBio, the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), and the Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Specimen Data to Track Environmental Change (NEVP) Thematic Collections Network, and based on the results of the March 2016 iDigBio-sponsored workshop with the relevant stakeholders (Yost et al., 2018, Applications in Plant Sciences), our advisory committee will work toward standardizing protocols for phenological traits in AppleCore, a set of standards developed to address data fields and vocabulary needs specific to herbaria, such that the data is easily comparable and sharable via Darwin Core Archives.
This project made possible by National Science Foundation Award 1802312.
Poppy images courtesy of Matt Ritter
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Used Toyota Sienna for Sale in Repentigny, QC
2018 Toyota Sienna LE 8-Passenger FWD
Description: Used 2018 Toyota Sienna LE 8-Passenger FWD for sale - $23,999 - 82,120 km with LE Package, Adaptive Cruise Control, Third Row Seating, Bluetooth, Premium Wheels, Backup Camera, Heated Seats
Color: Blanc
D'Astous Auto
Montréal-Est, QC H1B 1B8
Personnel gentil et avenant !
Description: Used 2017 Toyota Sienna LE 8-Passenger FWD for sale - $22,495 - 91,300 km with Navigation System, Alloy Wheels, Third Row Seating, Bluetooth, Backup Camera, Heated Seats
FAIR DEAL $1,018 BELOW
Great service, efficient staff.
Tres professionnelle !!!
GuruM21F1
On m'a donné un rendez-vous alors que la voiture n'était pas la. J'ai rappelé pour un autre rendez-vous arrivé là bas la voiture était déjà vendue.
La Prairie, QC J5R1S8
2019 Toyota Sienna LE 7-Passenger AWD
Description: Used 2019 Toyota Sienna LE 7-Passenger AWD for sale - $32,998 - 54,822 km with Bluetooth, Backup Camera, Heated Seats
GuruSFLM3
Great contact all the time! Thank you.
quebecmanation
Très mauvais service. Ça se voyait que le vendeur ne voulait pas me servir. Je lui demande de faire un estimé sur un char (prix de base, cashdown, pneux d'hiver, etc) et avec une tentative de négociation pour me faire répondre : " On achète à l'encan à chaque semaine so on en a toujours des chars comme tu veux. Celui que tu veux n'es pas là so reviens la semaine prochaine". Pour conclure, j'ai acheté ailleur et je suis bien content du service que j'ai eu à l'autre place !!
Saint-Eustache, QC J7P 3W1
Description: Used 2014 Toyota Sienna LE 8-Passenger for sale - $15,898 - 111,045 km with Bluetooth, Backup Camera, Heated Seats
Good communication.
Honest, gave me a good deal, threw in 4 snow tires. The car was in excellent condition. Rick was beast to deal with
I had an appointment to see a véhicule that was an hour and a half away but when i got there the véhicule got transfered to another location and sold the day before no one contacted me ! I was very angry no more HGrégoire for me
Description: Used 2017 Toyota Sienna LE 7-Passenger AWD for sale - $23,989 - 102,790 km with Bluetooth
Guru9ZGH6R
I drove really far for this vehicle and I'm super happy with my purchase. It was straightforward and they were fully prepared when I arrived, even though I was late. However, my only criticism is the salesmen don't know much about the vehicles they're selling, and I felt like they were rushing the sale which wasn't pleasant. The interest was negotiable at least! If you're buying used, just know what you're looking for.
Expérience très professionnelle.
Prompt response and good customer care though the deal wasn't sealed.
Drummondville, QC J2C 2A8
2014 Toyota Sienna SE 8-Passenger
Description: Used 2014 Toyota Sienna SE 8-Passenger for sale - $19,888 - 97,330 km with Sunroof/Moonroof, Alloy Wheels, Third Row Seating, Bluetooth, Backup Camera
Guru9ZC4PY
Quand j'ai écrit au concessionnaire on m'a répondu assez vite la journée même et le vendeur a répondu a mes demandes et j'ai jamais senti de pression
Purchased a low-mileage used vehicle. Staff were friendly and helpful, however; - was told all fluids had been replaced, but a day after taking it home the "change oil" light came on, so either fluids weren't replaced or reminder wasn't cleared. - barely passed safety check due to brakes - should have been done prior to purchase So, pretty skeptical of their "100 point" checklist
Guru94GYFD
Responded quickly to my inquiry.
Blainville, QC J7C 4N3
Description: Used 2012 Toyota Sienna SE 8-Passenger for sale - $13,995 - 135,000 km with Bluetooth
Color: Bleu Du Pacifique Sud Nacr? (grey)
Guru94T7S9
Another email inquiry, response was the very same day complete photographs & car evaluations...
Montréal, QC H1C 1Z2
Description: Used 2014 Toyota Sienna LE 8-Passenger for sale - $17,999 - 90,000 km with Remote Start
Montréal-Est, QC H1B 5A3
Description: Used 2017 Toyota Sienna LE 8-Passenger FWD for sale - $22,665 - 78,853 km with Alloy Wheels, Third Row Seating, Bluetooth, Backup Camera, Heated Seats
Helpfull ans frendly
Personnel très gentil rapide et courtois
Laval, QC H7L 5X9
2017 Toyota Sienna Limited 7-Passenger FWD
Description: Used 2017 Toyota Sienna Limited 7-Passenger FWD for sale - $27,989 - 93,283 km with Navigation System, Bluetooth, Parking Sensors
suivi du vendeur apprécié
Le vendeur était très bien,
I called bac and the dealer was honest said that the car need some brakes and lights fixed in the back of the mirrors plus it needed a new exhaust as the owner put on straight pipes thus the cost would go up i was pleased he was honest
2012 Toyota Sienna LE Mobility 7-Passenger
Description: Used 2012 Toyota Sienna LE Mobility 7-Passenger for sale - $13,995 - 115,973 km with Bluetooth
Color: Gris Fonc?
Guru94H3QH
Excellent service à la clientèle. Je suis satisfait de ma visite.
Very good service and honest people. Thx for everything you did with me
good sevice.
Lachine, QC H8S 1A9
Description: Used 2019 Toyota Sienna LE 8-Passenger FWD for sale - $26,900 - 65,000 km with Adaptive Cruise Control, Alloy Wheels, Third Row Seating, Bluetooth, Backup Camera, Heated Seats, Android Auto, CarPlay
Color: Noir Minuit M?tallis? (black)
Honest-reliable
Saint-Léonard, QC H1S3A4
Donkeypunch2
Very nice sales man, unfortunately couldn't agree on price
2017 Toyota Sienna XLE 7-Passenger AWD
Description: Used 2017 Toyota Sienna XLE 7-Passenger AWD for sale - $34,495 - 35,700 km with Leather Seats, Sunroof/Moonroof, Bluetooth, Backup Camera, Blind Spot Monitoring, Heated Seats
Color: Predawn Gray Mica
Very good, we had a good experience, the person we meet were very nice and helpful, when we pick up the car , it was ready , they clean it , change the oil , the brakes was change Very good service
Extraordinaire j ai acheté la voiture
Courteous and swift response
Brossard, QC J4Y 1A4
Authorized Toyota Dealer
Description: Used 2019 Toyota Sienna LE 8-Passenger FWD for sale - $25,998 - 87,600 km with Adaptive Cruise Control, Bluetooth, Backup Camera
axe720
Très à l’écoute du client
Saint-hyacinthe, QC J2S 8W5
Guru99PGB3
Were not willing to provide details, options spec on the vehicle. Then reposted the car adding $3000 to the price and somehow the mileage increased by 5,000km?
Everyone is really nice
Fast and smooth.
RJako
vendeur sympathique et honnête l'auto ne me correspondait pas mais le vedeur l'a tres bien compris
Super réponse rapide
2017 Toyota Sienna L 7-Passenger FWD
Description: Used 2017 Toyota Sienna L 7-Passenger FWD for sale - $22,498 - 72,058 km with Bluetooth, Backup Camera
très professionnel
Very good service.
GuruHY6XQ
Description: Used 2015 Toyota Sienna XLE 7-Passenger AWD for sale - $27,888 - 77,495 km with Leather Seats, Sunroof/Moonroof, Navigation System, Alloy Wheels, Third Row Seating, Bluetooth, Backup Camera, Blind Spot Monitoring, Heated Seats
Spinelli Infiniti
Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 4S1
GuruYB9T
It Was a good experience And i bought the car .Thank you .
Guru99CK83
He contacted me quickly and offered a road test at my home. Very polite and interested to satisfy my needs. I really appreciated even if in the end I decided to wait at a later date due to COVID and working from home for several months still.
Très très bonne
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Toyota Sienna Overview
Considered one of the top minivans currently available, the Toyota Sienna delivers a safe, comfortable ride with good reliability and fuel economy. Owners and reviewers continually place the Sienna at the top of its competitive class, which includes such vehicles as the Honda Odyssey, the Chrysler Town and Country, the Kia Sedona, and the Volkswagen Routan.
The Sienna debuted in 1997 for the 1998 model year, replacing the rear-wheel-drive Previa minivan in Toyota's lineup. In creating the Sienna, Toyota used a modified front-wheel-drive platform borrowed from the Camry, resulting in a car-like ride. The Sienna was initially praised for its handling, but it lacked many of the advanced features the best-selling minivans offered. Subsequent Siennas were better equipped, offering new features like traction control, Bluetooth connectivity, and a "kid view" mirror. The Sienna now ranks as one of the best-selling minivans in the U.S.
Designed to provide maximum passenger and cargo space, the Sienna accommodates up to seven passengers in three rows. A typical configuration includes two front seats, two second-row captain's chairs, and a third-row, fold-flat bench seat, with room for three more passengers. However, in later generations, owners could expand seating capacity to eight by replacing the second-row bucket seats in certain trims with an available bench seat, which included a small, slidable middle seat for a child or infant.
In addition to its comfortable ride and eight-passenger seating, the Sienna's safety record remains one of its key assets. Throughout its production run, the Sienna has consistently posted top scores in crash tests, and when the third-generation Sienna went on sale in 2010 for the 2011 model year, it was named a Top Safety Pick by the IIHS.
For its third generation, the Sienna received an extensive makeover, which elevated it over its competitors, in the eyes of many reviewers. In addition, Toyota added a sporty SE trim to the Sienna's lineup, which also includes the Base Sienna, the LE, the XLE, and top-of-the-line Limited. In pricing and equipment, the SE slots between the LE and XLE. Owners can add all-wheel drive to the LE, XLE, and Limited trims, making the Sienna the only minivan with available AWD.
The Sienna receives a new base four-cylinder engine for 2011, which powers the Base and LE trims. The 2.7-liter engine produces 187 hp, which can leave the Sienna feeling underpowered at times when accelerating, passing, or carrying a full load of passengers or cargo. A 266-hp, 3.5-liter V6 does a better job of powering the Sienna. It comes standard in the SE, XLE, and Limited trims, and remains optional in the two lower-end trims. Fuel economy ranges from 16/26 mpg for the four-cylinder engine powering front-wheel-drive trims, to 16/22 mpg for the V6 when powering an AWD trim.
When Toyota's first minivan, the Previa, debuted in 1990, it proved unpopular for a number of reasons, including its unusual egg-shaped body and its tiny, hard-to-service engine, which was located under the front seats. To change the spark plugs, owners or mechanics had to first remove the front passenger seat. However, Toyota learned a number of lessons from the Previa, which was discontinued less than a decade after its debut, replaced in 1998 by the new Sienna.
The Sienna sported a more traditional minivan shape, a more affordable price, and a more extensive equipment list, with such features as standard antilock brakes and side supports for the front bucket seats. The Sienna sat on a wheelbase of 114.2 inches, with an overall length of 190.5, which compares to the Previa's 112.8 inches and 187 inches, respectively.
Initial trim levels included the base CE, the midrange LE, and the high-end XLE. The CE was a barebones package, while the top-of-the-line XLE came equipped with leather-trimmed seats and a power moonroof. A passenger-side sliding door provided access to second- and third-row seats, while owners of LE and XLE trims could add a driver's-side sliding door as an option. Power came from a 194-hp, 3.0-liter V6, which posted class-leading fuel economy of 18/24 mpg. Optional safety features included Toyota's Vehicle Stability Control system and front seat-mounted airbags, which resulted in high safety marks for the minivan.
In 2001, Toyota gave the Sienna a mid-generation makeover, with a redesigned front end, new headlights and taillights, and some minor interior updates, including a new center console. In addition, the CE trim received a driver's-side sliding door, which became standard equipment for all three trims. Toyota also added variable valve timing to the V6 engine, pushing horsepower from 194 to 210 hp.
The second-generation Sienna debuted at the North American International Auto Show in early 2003 for the 2004 model year. Toyota stretched the wheelbase by more than 5 inches, to 119.3 inches, and increased overall length to 200 inches. In addition, Toyota increased the Sienna's width by almost 4 inches, which resulted in 44 more cubic feet of interior space when compared to the first-generation Sienna. Toyota offered the CE and LE trims with an optional eighth seat in the second row.
Thanks to its longer platform, the second-generation Sienna displayed a low, aerodynamic look. Toyota added a new upper-end XLE Limited trim, which joined the CE, LE, and XLE trims. A third-row bench seat split 60/40, enabling owners to fold one or both sections into the floor to expand cargo space to 94.5 cubic feet. In addition, owners could remove the second-row seat, which maxed out cargo space at 148.9 cubic feet. With all three rows of seats in place, the second-generation Sienna offered 43.6 cubic feet of cargo space.
Standard features included remote keyless entry and climate control for the rear seats, while optional features included a navigation system, rear parking assist, a rear-seat DVD entertainment system, and an upgraded 10-speaker, 360-watt JBL audio system. In addition, a optional "kid-view" rear-view mirror made it easier for drivers to keep an eye on younger passengers in the back seats.
Power came from a new 230-hp, 3.3-liter V6 engine, which pushed the Sienna from 0-60 mpg in a respectable 8.3 seconds. All trims except the CE were available with AWD. The XLE Limited trim came standard with side-impact airbags for all three rows. The side-impact airbags were available as an option for the other three trims. Optional safety features included Vehicle Stability Control with traction control and brake assist.
For a mid-generation refresh in 2006, Toyota again updated the Sienna's front end, bumpers, and headlights, as well as the interior instrument cluster, which received Optitron electroluminescent gauges. The name for the XLE Limited trim was shortened to the Limited trim, and side-impact airbags became standard safety equipment across the line. In addition, the options list expanded to include a power-folding third-row seat and Bluetooth connectivity.
Updates for 2007 included a new 266-hp, 3.5-liter V6 engine, which posted fuel economy numbers of 17/23 mpg for FWD trims and 16/21 mpg for AWD trims. In addition, Toyota added available satellite capability to the Sienna's audio systems.
The Sienna's wheelbase and overall length remained essentially the same for the third generation, which debuted at the Los Angeles Auto Show in late 2009 for the 2011 model year. The SE trim debuted with a number of unique exterior features, including special taillights and 19-inch wheels, as well as a sport-tuned suspension and tighter, more responsive steering. All trims came equipped with new electronic power steering, which replaced the previous generation's hydraulic steering system. In addition, Toyota offered a number of new options for 2011, including a widescreen, dual-view DVD entertainment system and a panoramic rear-view camera.
For the third generation, the automaker also introduced leather-trimmed second-row lounge seating, which comes standard in the Sienna Limited and XLE AWD trims, but is not available in the other trims. The reclining lounge seats include an integrated padded footrest, or ottoman, which raises as the seat reclines. However, Toyota warns against use of the ottoman when the vehicle is moving for safety reasons.
With the recent arrival of the third-generation Sienna in showrooms, prospective buyers will find their best bets for a used Sienna among the second-generation trims, produced from 2005 to 2010. The second-generation Sienna offered 44 cubic feet of additional interior space, when compared to the first-generation Sienna, and included the high-end XLE Limited trim, later called simply the Limited, which came equipped with leather upholstery, among other features.
Buyers will find the Sienna available in a number of configurations, geared toward different requirements and needs. Those with larger families will want to seek out CE and LE trims equipped with the optional three-person second-row bench seat, in place of the second-row captain's chairs, which expanded passenger capacity to eight. In addition, all Siennas produced after 2001 came equipped with a driver's-side sliding door, which made it easier for passengers to access the second- and third-row seats.
Those who place a premium on safety will want to look for trims equipped with side-curtain impact airbags, which were standard after 2006 on all trims and standard on high-end Limited trims produced since the beginning of the second generation. Similarly, buyers who require optimal traction and stability will want to look for Sienna trims equipped with all-wheel drive. Antilock brakes were standard on all Sienna trims throughout the production run.
Although shorter and less spacious than the second and third generations, the first-generation Sienna also presents a good option for used-car buyers. While the entry-level CE trim came without such niceties as air conditioning and power windows and door locks, the mid-range LE and upper-level XLE trim were well-equipped, with the XLE receiving leather upholstery and a power moonroof as standard features. The first-generation Sienna posted good fuel-economy numbers, and buyers might find certain trims equipped with such optional features as front-seat-mounted airbags and Toyota's Vehicle Stability Control system.
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Best iPhone XR cases and covers you can buy
Posted by Aisling Gormley on August 02, 2019
According to its past trends, Apple launches new iPhone models every September. It is the beginning of August and there are rumors, of course, about how the latest new iPhone 11 looks like. On the other hand, Iphone XR, iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max have been released for almost a year. If you’re a big fan of Apple, you should notice that the iPhone Xr is priced far more affordable than the iPhone Xs series. Although it is a cheaper smartphone compared to the iPhone Xs, it still works “Brilliant. In every way,” Apple claimed. Undoubtedly, iPhone Xs and Xs Max offer the features and materials “to the extreme.” But in terms of the sales, iPhone Xr seems to dominate its sales out of other products.
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Without doubt, the biggest reason that iPhone Xr sold better than Xs may be mainly due to its price and functionality. Apple’s iPhone XR is priced at $749 while iPhone Xs is priced at $999. In terms of functionality, iPhone Xr offers similar functions to an iPhone Xs, it both have an edge-to-edge display but it uses a Liquid Retina LCD instead of OLED displays. Xr has a larger display compared to an iPhone 8 Plus, but in a smaller body that falls between 5.8-inch iPhone XS and the 6.5-inch iPhone XS Max. The iPhone XR uses the same TrueDepth camera system that's in the iPhone XS with faster, more efficient Face ID facial recognition for unlocking your device, making Apple Pay payments, and more. It comes in 6 colours option - white, black, blue, coral, yellow, and product red.
With the glass body, Qi-based wireless charging is supported, and the device features IP67 water resistance for keeping it safe from splashes and spills. Speaking of water resistance, Catalyst Case produces the best waterproof cases in the industry. Our team at Catalyst are experts on IP ratings. For those of you out of the loop, this refers to a standard of protection against tiny materials and particles from outside your device. A rating of IP67 means that the iPhone Xr has been tested to withstand splash, water, and dust in a laboratory setting. This typically means 1 meter of water for 30 minutes. As such, the iPhone Xr doesn’t quite meet the waterproof limits of the iPhone Xs and Xs Max. This puts it at about the same level of resistance as the previous iPhone X and perhaps more than the iPhone 8 or 7.
While the iPhone XR is thought to be “brilliant” all around, it doesn’t promise complete protection from the elements. You’ll find that beyond most dust, splashes, and 1 meter of water for a short period, you should also consider a case to protect your $749 investment. A little bit of water damage may very well throw you and your iPhone XR off the deep end.
Catalyst offers a Waterproof Case for the iPhone XR which increases the IEC rating from an IP67 to an IP68. This means that your device will be safe from water damage even when it is submerged in up to 33 feet or 10 meters of water. It also gives protection from drops of up to 6.6 feet or 2 meters high. Catalyst is known for preserving the superior acoustic performance of your Apple device and, consequently, the brand’s patented True Sound Acoustic Technology™ and rotating mute switch. The case also has hard-coated dual optical lens that is fully sealed from snow, dirt and dust. The integrated screen protector provides perfect touch sensitivity while the clear case showcases the phone's stylish design.The case is available in Stealth Black.
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Why wasn’t Liam Payne invited to Kimberley Walsh’s birthday party?
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Liam was back in the UK, but Cheryl attended Kimberley’s celebrations alone…
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Amid constant speculation that she’s expecting her first child, there’s no doubt Cheryl has been missing boyfriend Liam Payne as he records his debut solo album in the States.
One Direction singer Liam, 23, has been in Los Angeles for two months and, given the constant noise surrounding 33-year-old Cheryl, it can’t have been easy for them being so far apart.
Which is why, perhaps, it seems strange that he missed her best friend Kimberley Walsh’s birthday party last week.
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Former X Factor judge Cheryl was pictured at Kimberley’s home surrounded by 15 friends – including Nicola Roberts – but one person was notably absent: Liam.
Sparking even more confusion, earlier that day a fan claimed to have seen Liam in a Surrey branch of Sainsbury’s, a favourite haunt of his, suggesting he was back in the UK and able to attend the party.
Cheryl and Kimberley have been close ever since their Girls Aloud days and are such good friends that some fans speculated whether the party was held at home to make Cheryl’s life easier.
One commented: ‘Did you have it at home so less press attention for Cheryl? Sweet if that was the reason.’
But if Liam was back in town, why wasn’t he Cheryl’s date?
As we reported last week, some Twitter users have started to question Cheryl and Liam’s one-year relationship. There’s no doubt that Cheryl is hugely supportive of her boyfriend’s career and understands why he has to spend so much time away in what’s gearing up to be an important time for his music.
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But some social media users have pointed out that it’s been eight weeks since Liam last mentioned Cheryl on social media and nearly 20 weeks since she posted about him.
The last time Cheryl mentioned her man on Instagram was to introduce their ‘new family member’ – an adorable puppy.
Cheryl and Liam’s relationship is under constant scrutiny and often targeted with horrible comments.
Recent digs have included: ‘Are Liam and Cheryl even a thing/ Has Liam even been near the UK lately? #endit.’
Now Liam’s finally home, we hope he and Cheryl get the quality time every new couple needs.
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Yanks don’t let Nats toot own horn, beat 2019 champions 3-2
by: HOWARD FENDRICH, Associated Press
Washington Nationals’ Emilio Bonifacio, left, plays his trumpet in the supplemental dugout as Andrew Stevenson yawns during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Nationals Park, Sunday, July 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gleyber Torres helped the New York Yankees prevent the Washington Nationals from tooting their own horn.
Yes, the reigning World Series champs had an actual, honest-to-goodness trumpet in their dugout Sunday. Alas, their bullpen blew a lead, so the Nationals never got the chance to jazz up a victory celebration with the brass instrument.
Facing two of Washington’s top relievers, Torres homered in the seventh inning to begin the rally from a two-run hole, then tacked on a go-ahead single in the eighth, lifting New York to a 3-2 victory for wins in two of three games in the season-opening series.
Torres had started 2020 by going 0 for 7 before delivering hits in three consecutive at-bats Sunday.
“I felt a little more confident,” the shortstop said. “The first couple games, I was a little too excited.”
Teammates noticed.
“We were waiting for Gleyber to break out,” said Luke Voit, who also homered, “and today he finally broke out in a clutch way.”
On a sunny afternoon, with the temperature topping 90, Washington’s Patrick Corbin retired 18 of the first 19 Yankees batters, Trea Turner homered off Jonathan Loaisiga, and Eric Thames provided an RBI single.
But with one out in the seventh, Torres took Corbin deep on a first-pitch fastball to make it 2-1.
“A low heater in,” Corbin said. “Probably would have liked it a little more in.”
Nationals manager Dave Martinez then turned to a key new reliever, Will Harris, expected to help the team fare better in late innings than it did for much of 2019.
Harris surrendered a tying homer to Voit, who joined Torres in flexing their biceps on the way into the dugout.
In the eighth, after Sean Doolittle (0-1) put men on via a walk and single, Torres pushed New York ahead with his third hit of the day.
“I’m super-frustrated with the results,” Doolittle said, “not being able to put a zero on the board there and navigate that inning.”
New York’s bullpen was better, with Chad Green (1-0) working two innings for the win.
After a throwing error by Torres and Adam Eaton’s double put runners on second and third for the Nationals in the eighth, Tommy Kahnle struck out Starlin Castro and Thames to get out of the jam.
“It felt like a high-pressure situation. I loved it,” Kahnle said. “Felt just like a regular season game with stakes at hand and everything. Definitely the same, even without the fans.”
Serving as the Yankees’ primary closer while Aroldis Chapman is on the COVID-19 injured list, Zack Britton worked around a leadoff infield single and a passed ball charged to Gary Sánchez in the ninth for his first save of 2020.
Pinch-runner Emilio Bonifácio tried to steal third but overslid the bag and was thrown out by Sánchez.
“It was a good aggressive play,” Martinez said. “I kind of liked it.”
Bonifácio is the utility player who brought his trumpet to the ballpark — even polished the horn with a white towel while sitting on the bench during the game.
It might just be this year’s version of Washington’s “Baby Shark” shenanigans: Bonifácio had red T-shirts made with a drawing of a gold horn, and Nationals have been pretending to play notes after base hits.
“Honestly, I really don’t know what they’re planning on doing with that thing,” Martinez said about the trumpet. “I saw it there, later in the game, Obviously they didn’t blow it today.”
Yankees: RHP Masahiro Tanaka threw 42 pitches to 11 batters at New York’s Scranton training camp. Tanaka, on the concussion IL, could be activated to start Friday against Boston. … RHP Luis Cessa, who has recovered from COVID-19, threw 24 pitches and is expected to be activated in the next few days.
Nationals: Moved LHP Roenis Elías from the 10-day to the 60-day IL because of a left elbow flexor strain.
Yankees: Head to Philadelphia for two games. Yankees LHP J.A. Happ starts Monday against RHP Jake Arrieta.
Nationals: Have four more games at Nationals Park coming up, all against the Blue Jays — the first two with Washington as the home team, and the next two with Toronto as the “home” team. On Monday, Washington RHP Aníbal Sánchez faces RHP Trent Thornton.
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Environment and Development Economics
Volume 23 Special Issue 3: Poverty and Climate Cha...
Disaster risk, climate change, and poverty: assessing...
Limitations and recommendations for further research
Disaster risk, climate change, and poverty: assessing the global exposure of poor people to floods and droughts
Hessel C. Winsemius ,
Brenden Jongman ,
Ted I.E. Veldkamp ,
Stephane Hallegatte [Opens in a new window] ,
Mook Bangalore and
Philip J. Ward
Hessel C. Winsemius
Deltares, Delft, Netherlands Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Brenden Jongman
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA
Ted I.E. Veldkamp
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stephane Hallegatte
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA
Mook Bangalore
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA Grantham Research Institute and Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
hessel.winsemius@deltares.nl
People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as floods and droughts. This paper analyses household survey data and hydrological riverine flood and drought data for 52 countries to find out whether poor people are disproportionally exposed to floods and droughts, and how this exposure may change in a future climate. We find that poor people are often disproportionally exposed to droughts and floods, particularly in urban areas. This pattern does not change significantly under future climate scenarios, although the absolute number of people potentially exposed to floods or droughts can increase or decrease significantly, depending on the scenario and region. In particular, many countries in Africa show a disproportionally high exposure of poor people to floods and droughts. For these hotspots, implementing risk-sensitive land-use and development policies that protect poor people should be a priority.
Climate change droughts exposure floods global scale poverty
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 23 , Special Issue 3: Poverty and Climate Change , June 2018 , pp. 328 - 348
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X17000444[Opens in a new window]
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018
Globally, about 700 million people live below the US$1.90/day poverty line, with many more balancing just above it (World Bank, 2015). This substantial part of the world population is particularly vulnerable to external shocks, including those caused by natural disasters, such as floods and droughts. Such disasters can reduce household income and destroy houses and productive capital. For example, after the 2004 floods in Bangladesh, poor households affected by the flood lost more than twice as much of their total income as non-poor households (Brouwer et al., Reference Brouwer, Akter, Brander and Haque2007). This illustrates the consistent finding that poor people are more vulnerable to disaster events (Carter et al., Reference Carter, Little, Mogues and Negatu2007). By vulnerability, we refer to the fact that poor people are more susceptible to flooding, e.g. by the fact that they lose a larger fraction of their wealth when they are affected by a natural hazard or have a higher probability of suffering mortality (see e.g. Jongman et al., Reference Jongman, Winsemius, Aerts, Coughlan de Perez, van Aalst, Kron and Ward2015), and have more difficulty coping with it. They have a lower capacity to deal with shocks than non-poor households, due to lower access to savings, borrowing, or social protection (Kundzewicz and Kaczmarek, Reference Kundzewicz and Kaczmarek2000; Masozera et al., Reference Masozera, Bailey and Kerchner2007; Highfield et al., Reference Highfield, Peacock and Van Zandt2014). By exposure we mean the location of people in flood-prone areas.
Natural disasters are a key factor for pushing vulnerable households into poverty and keeping households poor (Sen, Reference Sen2003; Krishna, Reference Krishna2006). Just as importantly, exposure to natural hazards may reduce incentives to invest and save, since the possibility of losing a home due to a flood, or livestock due to a drought, makes these investments less attractive (Elbers et al., Reference Elbers, Gunning and Kinsey2007; Cole et al., Reference Cole, Gine, Tobacman, Topalova, Townsend and Vickery2013). This vulnerability of poor people to natural disaster risk is particularly worrying in the context of climate change, which may change the frequency, intensity, and spatial distribution of floods and droughts (IPCC, Reference Field, Barros, Stocker, Qin, Dokken, Ebi, Mastrandrea, Mach, Plattner, Allen, Tignor and Midgley2012). Therefore, future climate change may represent a significant obstacle to eradicating poverty (Hallegatte et al., Reference Hallegatte, Bangalore, Bonzanigo, Fay, Kane, Narloch, Rozenberg, Treguer and Vogt-Schilb2016).
Several previous studies have investigated statistical relationships between national-level economic indicators and reported disaster losses on a global scale to find out if poor countries are more affected by natural hazards (Kahn, Reference Kahn2005; Toya and Skidmore, Reference Toya and Skidmore2007; Ferreira et al., Reference Ferreira, Hamilton and Vincent2011; Shepherd et al., Reference Shepherd, Mitchell, Lewis, Lenhardt, Jones, Scott and Muir-Wood2013; Jongman et al., Reference Jongman, Winsemius, Aerts, Coughlan de Perez, van Aalst, Kron and Ward2015). Whilst these studies have found statistical relationships between experienced flood impacts and average income, they have not investigated the spatial or socioeconomic distribution of the losses within countries. Recent advances in the global spatial modelling of floods (Pappenberger et al., Reference Pappenberger, Dutra, Wetterhall and Cloke2012; Hirabayashi et al., Reference Hirabayashi, Mahendran, Koirala, Konoshima, Yamazaki, Watanabe, Kim and Kanae2013; Wada et al., Reference Wada, van Beek, Wanders and Bierkens2013; Winsemius et al., Reference Winsemius, Van, Jongman, Ward and Bouwman2013, Reference Winsemius, Aerts, van Beek, Bierkens, Bouwman, Jongman, Kwadijk, Ligtvoet, Lucas, van Vuuren and Ward2015a) and droughts (Prudhomme et al., Reference Prudhomme, Giuntoli, Robinson, Clark, Arnell, Dankers, Fekete, Franssen, Gerten, Gosling, Hagemann, Hannah, Kim, Masaki, Satoh, Stacke, Wada and Wisser2014; Schewe et al., Reference Schewe, Heinke, Gerten, Haddeland, Arnell, Clark, Dankers, Eisner, Fekete, Colón-González, Gosling, Kim, Liu, Masaki, Portmann, Satoh, Stacke, Tang, Wada, Wisser, Albrecht, Frieler, Piontek, Warszawski and Kabat2014) have led to improved estimates of the global population exposed to natural hazards, but these assessments have not addressed different income groups.
To our knowledge, the relationship between poverty and exposure to floods and droughts has only been studied on a case-study basis for a few countries. A literature review of 13 of such studies, conducted in this paper, shows that poor people are often disproportionately overrepresented in hazard-prone areas. As shown in figure A2 (online appendix), only one of the 13 studies finds that non-poor people are more exposed than poor people. Although these cases highlight a possible relationship between poverty and exposure, evidence on the global representativeness of these case-study results and general figures on the exposure of poor people is lacking.
In this paper, we analyse global exposure of poor and non-poor people to river floods and droughts under current and future climates. To do this, we combine hazard maps from global river flood and hydrological drought models with detailed household wealth and income datasets for 52 countries. At this stage, we have not yet included coastal flooding, which would result in additional flood impacts. Poverty is defined here using the distribution of wealth amongst households within a given country. We explore whether there is a significant exposure bias for either poor or non-poor people to river floods and droughts and whether their exposure will increase in the future. As data limitations create certain constraints on the analysis, this study should be treated as a first-cut exploration.
In this section, we review the complex relationship between poverty and exposure to natural hazards. The relationship between poverty and exposure may go in both directions. First, poor people may be more likely to settle in flood- and drought-prone areas. Second, households affected by floods and droughts have a higher risk of falling into poverty or being trapped in poverty. Both aspects are discussed below.
Localization choices across regions and cities are driven in the first place by socioeconomic considerations (housing prices, proximity to jobs, amenities) much more than by natural hazards (Hallegatte, Reference Hallegatte2012). Households may be willing to accept high levels of risk to get access to opportunities. For example, in Mumbai, households in flood areas report that they are aware of the flood risks, but accept them due to the opportunities offered by the area, such as access to jobs, schools and health care facilities (Patankar, Reference Patankar2016). Compounding this incentive for people to reside in flood zones and close to opportunities is the reality that transport is often unreliable, unsafe, or expensive (Dudwick et al., Reference Dudwick, Hull, Katayama, Shilpi and Simler2011; Gentilini, Reference Gentilini2015). In some rural areas, proximity to water offers cheaper transport opportunities and regular floods may increase agricultural productivity (Loayza et al., Reference Loayza, Olaberría, Rigolini and Christiaensen2012). People may also settle in risky areas to benefit from opportunities with industries driven by exports in coastal areas (Fleisher and Chen, Reference Fleisher and Chen1997). These opportunities attract all people –rich and poor –to places that are exposed to natural hazards.
However, at the city or neighbourhood level, where the opportunity factors are broadly similar but risk of floods may be different from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, poor people might be more exposed due to lower housing prices in flood zones (Bin and Landry, Reference Bin and Landry2013). A meta-analysis of 37 empirical studies, mostly in developed countries, found that prices between flood-exposed and non-flood-exposed houses varies widely, ranging between −7 per cent to +1 per cent (Beltran et al., Reference Beltran, Maddison and Elliott2015). Poorer people, with fewer financial resources to spend on housing and a lower willingness and ability to pay for safety, are more likely to live in at-risk areas. This factor is more likely to exist for floods than for droughts, due to the small-scale variability in flood hazard. For example, with floods, impacts can be very different in areas 100 meters apart.
Alternatively, causality may go from flood and drought exposure to poverty. Evidence shows that floods affect household livelihood and prospects, and increase local poverty levels, through the loss of income and assets (see e.g. Rodriguez-Oreggia et al., Reference Rodriguez-Oreggia, De La Fuente, De La Torre and Moreno2013 for an analysis in Mexico). Exposure to droughts has been found to increase poverty ex-post (Dercon, Reference Dercon2004; Carter et al., Reference Carter, Little, Mogues and Negatu2007). Furthermore, the impact of disaster risk on poverty occurs through both the visible ex-post channel (the losses when a disaster occurs), as well as the less obvious ex-ante channel: households exposed to weather risk have been shown to reduce investment in productive assets and to select low-risk, low-return activities (Elbers et al., Reference Elbers, Gunning and Kinsey2007; Cole et al., Reference Cole, Gine, Tobacman, Topalova, Townsend and Vickery2013). This link from natural hazard exposure to poverty may create a feedback loop, in which poor households have no choice but to settle in at-risk zones and therefore face increased challenges to escaping poverty.
3. Data and methods
We examine relationships between poverty and exposure to river floods and hydrological droughts by combining flood and drought hazard maps from a global hydrological model with household level poverty data for 52 countries. River floods are identified from larger rivers (in the order of 10,000 km2 upstream area and above) only, and hydrological droughts are defined as climatological anomalies in river flows. The household data are taken from household surveys from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), which are carried out by ICF International and hosted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
In brief, per country we first analyse the wealth of households in all areas, and then the wealth of households in areas prone to river floods and/or hydrological droughts, and examine the difference between them. We do this by checking for each individual household whether its geographical position is within a flood/drought prone area or not. Using a precise geographical location is important in particular for floods, as floods can be a very local phenomenon. In the following subsections we describe the data and methods used. More detailed information about data and methods can be found in a background paper by Winsemius et al. (Reference Winsemius, Jongman, Veldkamp, Hallegatte, Bangalore and Ward2015b). The overall workflow is shown in figure 1, for the example of Colombia.
Figure 1. Flow-chart visualizing the modelling and analysis procedure for Colombia. The hazard maps show the distribution of flood and drought events as simulated using the global hydrological model PCR-GLOBWB under the EU-WATCH (1960–1999) scenario, with a return period of 100 years.
3.1 Deriving the flood and drought indicators
We use a global hydrological model, PCRGLOB-WB (Winsemius et al., Reference Winsemius, Van, Jongman, Ward and Bouwman2013) run with the EU-WATCH Forcing Data (Weedon et al., Reference Weedon, Gomes, Viterbo, Shuttleworth, Blyth, Österle, Adam, Bellouin, Boucher and Best2011) to derive maps showing indicators of flood and drought hazard. PCRGLOB-WB in brief estimates globally, at 0.5×0.5 degree resolution (about 50×50 km at the equator) on a daily basis over a given run time, how much rainfall runs off to rivers, and how this runoff accumulates in the river network and travels downstream. We use the WATCH Forcing Data, providing 0.5 degree gridded meteorological data needed to drive the model (precipitation, temperature and potential evaporation), to run this model over a 40-year period (1960–1999). From the resulting discharge and water depth time series at 0.5 degree resolution, we derive the hazard indicators for floods and droughts for several return periods (i.e., one divided by the average exceedance probability per year of a flood or drought event of a given magnitude, further described below). An event with associated return period should be interpreted as follows: an event with a very high return period (i.e., an event happening very infrequently) is more severe than an event with a low return period (i.e., a more frequently occurring event). Below we provide a brief description of the model cascade and derivation of flood and drought maps. We provide a more elaborate description in online appendix A. For simplicity, we focus on results for 10 and 100-year return periods.
3.1.1 Flood hazard
Flood hazard is represented by flood inundation depth maps at 30″ (arc seconds) ×30″ resolution (approx. 1 km × 1 km at the equator) from the GLOFRIS model cascade, which uses PCRGLOB-WB for its hydrological boundary conditions. In short, the water depths, associated with a given return period (see section 3.1) at 0.5 degree resolution, are downscaled to a much finer resolution using a much more granular elevation dataset. To define whether there is a flood hazard, we applied a threshold set at 0 m (i.e., any flooding occurring is hazardous). GLOFRIS is described in detail in Winsemius et al. (Reference Winsemius, Van, Jongman, Ward and Bouwman2013) and applied at the global scale in several studies (Ward et al., Reference Ward, Jongman, Weiland, Bouwman, van Beek, Bierkens, Ligtvoet and Winsemius2013; Jongman et al., Reference Jongman, Winsemius, Aerts, Coughlan de Perez, van Aalst, Kron and Ward2015; Winsemius et al., Reference Winsemius, Aerts, van Beek, Bierkens, Bouwman, Jongman, Kwadijk, Ligtvoet, Lucas, van Vuuren and Ward2015a). The method does not consider flood protection, as this is relatively low in developing countries. It also does not include coastal floods and flash floods. More details on the derivation of flood hazard maps from the runs with PCRGLOB-WB are provided in online appendix A2.
3.1.2 Drought hazard
We applied a variable monthly threshold method (namely the 80 per cent exceedance probability of discharge, Q 80) to estimate the yearly maximum cumulative discharge deficit, that is, the accumulated amount of discharge under the Q 80 threshold over a continuous period of time, per grid cell at 0.5° resolution as a measure of hydrological drought (Lehner and Döll, Reference Lehner, Döll, Lehner, Henrichs, Döll and Alcamo2001; Wada et al., Reference Wada, van Beek, Wanders and Bierkens2013; Wanders and Wada, Reference Wanders and Wada2015), using outputs from PCR-GLOBWB. Figure A3 in the online appendix shows the definition of droughts in a graphical form.
The resulting maps express the intensity of droughts relative to long-term mean discharge and can be interpreted as the amount of time a long-term mean discharge would be needed to overcome the maximum accumulated deficit volume occurring with a certain return period. We assumed that hazardous conditions occur when this value exceeds 3 months, and tested the robustness of our results using 1-month and 6-month thresholds. The indicator does not include information on groundwater availability or upstream water use. The resulting drought values should therefore be interpreted as conservative (underestimating drought hazard). Naturally, much more sophisticated drought indicators can be derived by accounting for season, rain-fed or irrigation based agriculture, locally specific demands, but these would all require much more local information and cannot easily be used at the global level.
3.1.3 Future flood and drought hazard
The model was also used to estimate future climate change impacts on flood and drought hazard, for different time periods (1960–1999, 2010–2049, 2030–2069, and 2060–2099), using meteorological outputs from five Global Climate Models (GCMs), forced by two representative concentration pathways (RCPs) (Van Vuuren et al., Reference Van Vuuren, Edmonds, Kainuma, Riahi, Thomson, Hibbard, Hurtt, Kram, Krey, Lamarque, Masui, Meinshausen, Nakicenovic, Smith and Rose2011), which represent scenarios of future concentrations of greenhouse gases (RCP 2.6 and 8.5, consistent with a 2 and 4°C increase, respectively). By ‘forced,’ we mean that the GCM outputs are generated by running the GCMs with the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere prescribed in the RCP scenarios. We have used RCP 2.6 and 8.5 so that we show two very contrasted developments in climate change. Note that climate change does not make floods and drought risks become more severe everywhere. In some regions, floods become less severe and frequent due to reduction in rainfall (shown e.g. by Hirabayashi et al., Reference Hirabayashi, Mahendran, Koirala, Konoshima, Yamazaki, Watanabe, Kim and Kanae2013; Winsemius et al., Reference Winsemius, Aerts, van Beek, Bierkens, Bouwman, Jongman, Kwadijk, Ligtvoet, Lucas, van Vuuren and Ward2015a); in others, increase in precipitation reduces drought severity. Since the GCMs used contain bias due to unrepresented intra-annual and inter-annual variability, we use the difference in annual exposed people between GCM-forced model runs in the future and the past to establish changes in exposure.
3.2 Poverty data sets
A comprehensive spatial database to examine the distribution of poverty within and across countries is not yet available at the required spatial resolution.Footnote 1 However, household surveys contain some spatial information to approximate the location of a household, which we employ in this analysis. Our main analysis is undertaken using the ‘wealth index’ (e.g. Barros et al., Reference Barros, Ronsmans, Axelson, Loaiza, Bertoldi, França, Bryce, Boerma and Victora2012; Fox, Reference Fox2012; Ward and Kaczan, Reference Ward and Kaczan2014) from the USAID's DHS surveys. This index is available across 52 countries that contain geo-referenced household-level data. These countries represent about 23 per cent of the world's population. There are typically 500–1,000 survey clusters for each survey, with each cluster containing approximately 25 households.
All households in each country are classified in five quintiles (with quintile 1 having the lowest wealth, and quintile 5 the highest). We furthermore classified urban and rural households into quintiles, which enabled us to investigate the exposure across urban and rural populations separately.
3.3 Analysing the relationships between poverty and floods/droughts
To investigate the global exposure of poor people to floods and droughts, we define a ‘poverty exposure bias’ (PEB) that measures the fraction of poor people exposed, compared to the fraction of all people exposed per country. When estimating the number of people exposed, we multiply the exposed households by their household size and use household weights to ensure the representativeness of our results at the national level. The household weight is a measure of the representativeness of the household related to all other households. We compute the PEB using:
(1) $$I_{{\rm p}} =\displaystyle{{f_{{\rm p}} }\over{f}}-1,$$
where I p is the PEB, f p and f are the fraction of people exposed to floods/droughts in the country (estimated by individually overlaying household location with our flood/drought maps, see section 3) in the poorest household quintile within a country and in the entire population, respectively. If I p is lower than zero, poor people are less exposed to floods/droughts than average. If I p is above zero, poor people are more exposed than average. Since the wealth index is comparable only within and not between countries, the PEB quantifies whether poor people are more or less exposed compared to the entire population within a specific country. Aggregation of all wealth index data for all countries and computation of a single global PEB is not possible with the data currently available. We tested our method for robustness regarding uncertainty in the geographical location and sample size using the methods described in online appendix A4, and robustness estimates are used in the description of our results.
All results are summarized in table 1. Below we describe and analyse the distribution of the results for floods and droughts.
Table 1. Poverty exposure bias and increase in exposure for floods and droughts
Notes: For countries where none of the households within the DHS survey were exposed, not available (NA) is stated. Significant results appear in bold type.
4.1 Geographic distribution of the PEB under present-day climate
4.1.1 Floods
Figure 2 shows the PEB for floods with a return period of 10 years. The results for a higher return period of 100 years exhibit very similar patterns (not shown here). For floods at the national-level, under present-day climate conditions, 34 out of the 52 countries show a significant result when testing the exposure bias by means of bootstrapping. Of these 34, half (17) exhibit a disproportionally high exposure of poor people to floods. This result supports the general notion that the relationship between poverty and disaster exposure is impacted by multiple channels and is therefore complex. For instance, where non-poor are more affected by floods, this could mean that the regions investigated offer amenities to richer households, or that the areas are equipped with flood protection to facilitate households. Using country-level population data (World Bank, 2015), we find that these 17 countries include 60 per cent of the analysed population.
Figure 2. PEB for 10-year return period floods. White areas are not part of the 52 country sample. Areas are dotted when there is a lower than 95% confidence that the sign of the exposure bias is as estimated.
Moreover, regional patterns become visible. In particular, countries in Southern Africa, the Horn of Africa (except Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Mozambique), and Egypt have a disproportionally high exposure of poor people to floods, although not all countries show significant results (Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo). In Western Africa, the results are mixed, although in countries with larger rivers and delta areas (notably Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon) there appears to be a tendency towards poor people being disproportionally exposed to floods. In Asia, poor people are disproportionally exposed (by a moderate but significant amount) in Indonesia; the same can be seen for Central and South America in Colombia and Guyana.
There are also several countries where poor people are less exposed to floods than average. These include some of the Asian countries in our sample (Cambodia, Nepal and Philippines, although the PEB for the last is insignificant), some West African countries, and most of the countries investigated in Central and South America.
The same analysis was performed using a quintile subdivision over only rural and urban households (that is, examining the PEB only within urban areas and only within rural areas). The results for urban households demonstrate a clear difference: in most countries poor urban households are clearly more exposed to floods than the average urban population (figure 3). Of the 30 countries with significant results, 22 exhibit a positive exposure bias (73 per cent in population terms). This suggests that the national poverty exposure bias may be largely driven by the wealth differences and hazard exposure differences between rural and urban households. There is no such strong signal for rural households, suggesting that different mechanisms may be at play in rural and urban settings. For instance, land scarcity may be more acute in urban areas (than in rural areas), creating a stronger incentive for poor people to settle in risky areas due to lower prices. We have also tested how spatially variable the overrepresentation of poor people can be, by performing an additional assessment on a much more local scale for Morocco and Malawi (see online appendix B). This suggests that very local differences in exposure may be experienced as well.
Figure 3. PEB for 10-year return period floods, for urban households only. Note that the quintile subdivision used is based on urban households only. White areas are not part of the 52 country sample. Areas are dotted when there is a lower than 95% confidence that the sign of the exposure bias is as estimated.
4.1.2 Droughts
Figure 4 shows country level PEB for droughts with a return period of 100 years. Again, the results for other return periods are similar, although the very low return period results yielded no exposed households in many countries. Of 30 countries with significant results, 24 exhibit a disproportionally high exposure of poor people (85 per cent in population terms). In all countries studied in Asia and in many countries in Southern and Western Africa, we find a clear signal that poor households are more exposed to droughts than average. For instance, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon in a row all show a signal of higher exposure to droughts of poor households compared to average. Other countries to the north and west show the opposite result, i.e., more exposure to droughts for non-poor households. In Central and South America, poor people appear less exposed in Bolivia and Peru, but more exposed in Colombia, Guyana and Honduras.
Figure 4. PEB for 100 year return period droughts. White areas are not part of the 52 country sample or have no exposure to droughts at all.
Many Sub-Saharan African countries show a positive PEB for droughts as well as floods. In many parts of Africa, many poor people are subsistence farmers, and therefore very dependent on reliable rainy seasons, which makes them more vulnerable to drought. A similar analysis for rural and urban households does not reveal significant differences with the country-scale analysis (see figures A4 and A5, online appendix). This may be due to the different scales of flood and drought hazards. Our flood indicator (and flood processes in general) has a higher spatial resolution (and variability) than drought.
4.2 The impact of climate change
Climate change is likely to increase the number of people exposed to floods and droughts. To estimate the range of increase in population exposure, we overlay future projected flood and drought hazard maps with present-day population density data.Footnote 2 We use a high-emissions pathway consistent with a 4°C increase in global temperatures, the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5. We run the analysis for five GCMs.Footnote 3 Across the GCMs, for droughts we find that the number of people exposed could increase by 9–17 per cent in 2030 and 50–90 per cent in 2080. For floods, the number of people exposed to floods could increase by 4–15 per cent in 2030 and 12–29 per cent in 2080.
To assess how poverty exposure may change in the future due to climate change, we calculate PEB for a low-emissions pathway RCP 2.6 (consistent with a 2°C increase) and high-emissions pathway RCP 8.5 (consistent with a 4°C increase) and for five GCMs. To ensure that we only see the impact of climate on exposure, we do not include compounding effects such as migration and population growth.
The PEB does not change significantly under the two different future climate scenarios and is therefore not displayed. Of course, hazard does not drive exposure and exposure bias alone. The expectation is that PEB will change in the future due to other driving mechanisms not assessed in this paper, such as migration, changes in the spatial distribution of poverty, or the general increase in income within countries. Countries with rapid urbanization may exhibit major changes in flood exposure patterns in the coming decades, independently of climate change and other changes in hazards.
Regions where climate change causes an increase in the annual expected number of people exposed to floods and droughts, and where poor people are already more exposed than average (i.e. I p > 0), should be treated as highly climate-sensitive regions for poor people. To locate these, figure 5 shows the percentage change per country in the annual expected number of people exposed to floods between 1980 and 2050, based on the household data and RCP 8.5, and figure 6 shows the same for droughts (table 1 also reproduces results for all countries). RCP 2.6 shows similar changes in exposure, although it takes longer before these changes are reached. In some countries, the number of flood-exposed people under climate change rises rapidly; this is the case in the Horn of Africa, parts of West Africa, Egypt, Bangladesh, Colombia, and Bolivia. For droughts, the different GCMs show more disagreement in drought extremes, causing less significant results. However, if we use the GCM ensemble mean we see that West African countries in particular show an increase in the number of exposed people.
Figure 5. Percentage change in nationwide average annual number of flood-exposed people in our sample of 52 countries following RCP 8.5 from 1980 until 2050. The GCM ensemble average is shown. Countries where the GCM ensemble standard deviation is higher than 50% of the GCM mean are dotted.
Figure 6. Percentage change in nationwide average annual number of drought-exposed people in our sample of 52 countries following RCP 8.5 from 1980 until 2050. The GCM ensemble average is shown. Countries where the GCM ensemble standard deviation is higher than 50% of the GCM mean are dotted.
Finally, we have determined countries where a combination of disproportionally exposed poor and exposure increase is observed. We have determined these as countries with a PEB larger than 10 per cent (i.e., poor people are disproportionally exposed) and an increase in the amount of total exposed people larger than 10 per cent. Under RCP 8.5, in 2050, the marked countries include Egypt, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Bangladesh. For droughts, only Nigeria, Ghana and Togo are facing this situation.Footnote 4 These are predominantly African countries, located above the equator. Here, climate change-induced flooding will likely hit poor people the hardest, although less than half of the countries have both an overexposure of poor people to floods and an expected increase in flood risks due to climate change.
5. Limitations and recommendations for further research
We found a high variability in results between countries; poor people are not over-exposed to natural hazards everywhere. However, the analysis is limited by data availability, as the DHS samples are too small to look at regions and within-country variability. The limited number of households per country has implications for the results for droughts in particular: in many countries, there is no overlap between zones with extreme drought conditions (e.g. a minimum of 3 months drought, at 100 year return period, yielded only 15 countries with significant results) and households, meaning that no estimate of the PEB for droughts could be made in these cases. A larger number of observations per country would therefore make the results of our analysis more robust.
A related limitation is the spatial scale of the analysis. DHS samples are rarely representative within sub-national regions, which limits our ability to examine the poverty exposure bias within specific regions of a country. Higher-resolution data (e.g. poverty maps within a city) would be able to better capture dynamics at the local level, where lower land prices may push poorer people into more risky areas. Furthermore, the DHS data are clustered with between 500–1000 clusters per country. This modest number of clusters means that some areas that are flood or drought prone may not be covered by the DHS data, limiting our ability to test robustness.
Ideally, we would compare our results across countries and not just within them. However, the wealth index calculated by DHS is country-specific, meaning that the same value for the wealth index across two different countries may imply a different level of wealth. While some authors have recently suggested that the DHS wealth index may be compared across countries (Rutstein and Staveteig, Reference Rutstein and Staveteig2014), country-to-country comparability remains difficult. This is one reason why we use relative thresholds (e.g. quintiles) rather than absolute ones. Another reason for the use of relative numbers is that, in case of an absolute poverty threshold in some countries, an overwhelming majority of the population would be classified as poor, hampering the envisaged analysis.
In this study, we have not investigated factors that influence the vulnerability of households to flooding, such as the building quality, or other determinants of flood impacts such as flood duration (Parker et al., Reference Parker, Green and Thompson1987; Dang et al., Reference Dang, Babel and Luong2010), and its impact on indirect losses such as loss in output and revenue and economic disruption (Lekuthai and Vongvisessomjai, Reference Lekuthai and Vongvisessomjai2001) and flood-related health issues; and flood level rise rate which is especially important in terms of mortality (Jonkman et al., Reference Jonkman, Maaskant, Boyd and Levitan2009). More research is required to examine how these could impact on poverty (for a review, see Hallegatte et al., Reference Hallegatte, Vogt-Schilb, Bangalore and Rozenberg2017).
Similarly, households that are highly vulnerable to droughts (e.g. with assets strongly relying on water) may experience problems even during a one-month drought condition, although others may only experience problems if the drought lasts three months or more. To assess the robustness of the drought indicator applied, we also tested our results using a one-month and six-month threshold (shown in Winsemius et al., Reference Winsemius, Jongman, Veldkamp, Hallegatte, Bangalore and Ward2015b). More people are exposed with a one-month threshold than with a six-month threshold. For the aggregated PEB results, we could only find a significant number of exposed households in six countries using a six-month drought threshold with a return period of 10 years. This increases to up to 50 countries when considering one-month droughts as a threshold with a 100 year return period. Notably, median PEB values are above zero for the 100 year return-period drought, and decrease toward and below zero for lower return-period (10 years) droughts and higher drought thresholds.
This suggests that the small sample sizes make it difficult to find a robust exposure bias pattern in many countries. Nonetheless, we found consistent results on the sign of the PEB for sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Togo, and Benin (not significant for a one-month threshold)), Southeast Asia (Philippines, Indonesia (not significant for a six-month threshold)) and Colombia (when comparing the one, three and six-month threshold results under the 100-year return period). Other countries showed mixed results over the different threshold values and therefore results over these countries should be treated with lower confidence.
The general conclusion of this study is that, in a large number of the countries investigated, poor people are disproportionally exposed to droughts and urban floods. But the situation differs strongly between countries, within countries, and based on the type of hazard. However, there are geographical patterns: the countries where the strongest bias in exposure of poor is found are concentrated in Africa for both perils. Thirteen out of 23 countries in Africa with significant results show a positive PEB, most of which are found in the region under 10°N latitude. For droughts, we found significant results in only 30 out of 52 countries, due to the low amount of sample observations for our estimate of PEB. Nonetheless, of these 30 countries, 24 (representing 85 per cent of the population within the countries with significant results) show a positive PEB to droughts.
We find that in urban areas, poor people are disproportionally exposed to floods compared to average, while such a signal is not found for rural households. This is particularly noticeable in Africa, with the exception of several western African countries. In some countries, the absence of disproportionate exposure of poor at the national level may be due to the large gap in wealth between cities and rural areas, combined with the fact that flood hazard is often high in cities. The urban-rural gaps in income and flood risk may thus hide the fact that poor people are more exposed.
A particular concern is the fact that some of the countries where poor people are overexposed will also experience more frequent flooding or droughts in the future due to climate change. We see this in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda for floods. For drought, Nigeria and Ghana were found to be in this situation, although results for Ghana were found to be less robust.
Exposure, the topic of this paper, is only one component of risk. Almost everywhere, the other risk components—from protection to vulnerability to the ability to cope and recover—are also biased against poor people (Hallegatte et al., Reference Hallegatte, Bangalore, Bonzanigo, Fay, Kane, Narloch, Rozenberg, Treguer and Vogt-Schilb2016), which means that even in places without a poverty bias, poor people may still experience higher risk. Protection levels and quality are lower in poor countries and lower in poor neighbourhoods and regions. Poor people live in low quality houses that suffer more damage in case of floods, and they have most if not all of their assets in material form, making them more vulnerable to floods. Finally, poor people have limited access to recovery support, such as social protection and credit.
A recent report (Hallegatte et al., Reference Hallegatte, Vogt-Schilb, Bangalore and Rozenberg2017) assessing the well-being impacts from natural disasters suggests that when including all these dimensions—exposure, vulnerability, and the ability-to-adapt—the impact of extreme weather on poverty is more devastating than previously understood, responsible for annual consumption losses of US$520 billion and for pushing 26 million people into poverty every year. The results from this paper on the distribution of the poverty exposure bias across countries were used as an input to the report's analysis, and are one example of an application of this paper's findings.
Disaster risk management and poverty reduction go hand in hand. In countries where poor people are disproportionally exposed to floods and droughts, it is particularly important to integrate risk management policies within poverty reduction strategies, to understand the underlying drivers of the exposure bias, and to correct it through better land-use regulation and other supporting policies. Critically, such policies should support the access of poor people to opportunities, and not stifle them. In locations where hazards will become more frequent or more intense, implementing risk-sensitive land-use policies that protect poor people, such as flood zoning and land entitlement, should be a priority.
The supplementary material for this article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X17000444.
We thank Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Anne Zimmer for their careful review of this paper, and Tom Pullum, Ruilin Ren, and Clara Burgert from ICF International for their very helpful guidance on using the DHS data. We are grateful for financial support from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (and thank Alanna Simpson as being the main counterpart from GFDRR) and the World Bank, under the work program on ‘Poverty and Climate Change,’ led by the Office of the Chief Economist of the Climate Change Group. We also acknowledge support from Earth2Observe, EU FP7 project grant agreement no. 603608. Furthermore, P.J. Ward received additional financial support from a VIDI grant for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (grant number 016.161.324).
1 Note that recent initiatives try and estimate global poverty at high-resolution gridded scales, see for example WorldPop at http://www.worldpop.org/ (accessed 14-12-2017).
2 For present day population, Landscan is used (http://web.ornl.gov/sci/landscan/)
3 A factor delta approach was used to bias correct for the GCM uncertainty. That is, we examined the factor increase between historical GCM runs and future ones (2030,2080) and superimposed this factor increase on top of the EUWATCH results.
4 Although the low CO2 concentration scenario (RCP 2.6) shows similar patterns (not shown here), the increase in floods/droughts for 2050 is lower and also the number and share of people exposed does not rise as fast as in the high concentration scenario (RCP 8.5).
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Paul Glen: The benefits of an unstructured career
How to Prepare for Tough Interview Questions
How to Become a Better Leader
The 2014 Premier 100 IT Leaders: Reinventing themselves many times over
Opinion by Paul Glen
Paul Glen: The most important career question you've never even considered
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As a reflective practitioner of the technical arts, you've likely pondered a lot of questions about the career you want to pursue, including these: What technical discipline should I focus on? Which degrees or certifications should I get? Should I stay technical or become a manager?
But here's one question so fundamental that it rarely gets asked: Do I want to be an asset or a liability?
You're probably wondering whether you should take me seriously. No one wants to be a liability, right? But I see this as one of the most important career questions you can consider. Let me explain.
Over the course of the past couple of years, while working on a book for early-to-mid-career IT professionals, I've had a lot of opportunities to think about the future of organizations, what's in store for enterprise IT groups, and how the lives of the technical people who will populate those IT groups are going to change.
One thing that seems clear is that over the past 30 years, a radical transformation of labor markets has taken place around the world. Some observers are predicting that by 2020, just six years from now, half the people in the U.S. workforce will be contractors -- temporary workers outside of the traditional definition of "employee."
Economists, sociologists and management theorists will likely argue for 100 years over the "true" reasons for this fundamental overhaul. Personally, I have a relatively simple take: Organizations, and their leaders, have been forced by a historic confluence of economic, technological, financial, legal, managerial and cultural forces to take a definitive position on a very basic question: "Are employees assets or liabilities?" Their answer ultimately determines whether an organization enters into long-term, mutually committed relationships with the people who work for it, or instead negotiates contracts with suppliers of labor. Organizations that focus on engaging long-term employees have decided that the asset nature of people outweighs the liability of the obligations that come with the relationship. Those that emphasize service transactions have determined that the cost of the liability exceeds the value of the asset.
In an economy that's headed toward an even division between those two modes, you are left with this choice: asset or liability? Admittedly, you aren't going to think of it that way. Here's another way to phrase the question: Do you want to be a hot commodity or a treasured stalwart? Either way, the decisions that employers make about their workforces will determine how they see you and ultimately how you see yourself.
I'm not discussing the ethics of all this, which are ambiguous at best. (I've written columns on both the positives and the negatives for individuals.) As I said, external forces have contributed. In the end, some organizations will invest in human assets, nurturing them as a way to increase returns, and some will enter into agreements for services because they see a better return that way. Both are valid exchanges of effort for remuneration.
The question for you personally is what type of relationship do you want to be in?
There's no right answer. Both have costs and benefits. But your choice will to a large degree dictate the answers to all those other critical questions that get so much more attention.
Paul Glen is the co-author of The Geek Leader's Handbook: Essential Leadership Insight for People with Technical Backgrounds and a principal of Leading Geeks, an education and consulting firm devoted to clarifying the murky world of human emotion for people who gravitate toward concrete thinking You can contact him at info@leadinggeeks.com.
Paul Glen is the CEO of Leading Geeks, an education and consulting firm devoted to improving collaboration between technical and nontechnical groups and people.
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Lache Gym Operational Guidlines
v0.6 issued
Chester Heart Support Group (CHSG) is a Registered Charity - No. 1123789 and exists to benefit cardiac patients, their families, friends and carers.
In the course of its operation it has collected and continues to collect information about its members. Primarily this information is for the purpose of communication of activities events and welfare functions and is of the nature of personal contact details and in some cases, medical details. It is therefore clearly incumbent upon CHSG to have systems in place which ensure the security of data which would identify members to those who have no reasonable right to such information.
Lache Community Centre
Chester Heart Support Group (CHSG) exists to benefit cardiac patients, their families, friends and carers. One of our aims is to provide social, physical (exercise) and rehabilitation programmes for our members, and where appropriate, initiate such programmes.
The Lache Gym project was successfully initiated following receipt of funding from:
The aim of the project is to provide affordable gym facilities for the benefit of our members. The gym is run entirely in a non clinical capacity by ‘expert patient’ volunteers who have personal experience of a cardiac event. We employ a BACR level 4 trainer on a weekly basis to provide additional support.
2. Finance
Please refer to the business plan (appendix 1) for a five year projection of costs.
3. Management
All financial decisions relating to the gym will be made by the CHSG committee. The gym will be managed day to day by a team of volunteers.
The gym is available to any member of the Chester Heart Support Group. Membership of the gym is included in the annual subscription fee for the group. There is a fee of £2.00 per gym session payable at the door. Members will be required to complete a gym membership/induction form and undergo an induction to the facility. As the gym is run on an entirely non clinical basis, there will be no medical assessment. However, the member will need to provide either a referral from Cardiac Rehabilitation or a letter from their GP stating that they are able to exercise or complete a Self Declaration.
Members will be given a member’s pack which includes:
An acknowledgement of risks, injury and obligation
Release and indemnity
Administration and use of gym information
Members will be asked to sign to agree that they comply with the rules listed in the member’s pack. Please refer to appendix 2 for the member pack.
5. Induction
New members of the gym will be required to undertake an induction with a gym supervisor who is an ‘expert patient’. This will consist of instructions on how to use the equipment, plus a health and safety briefing. Please see appendix 3 for a copy of the membership/induction form.
6. Gym Roles & Responsibilities
6.1. Volunteer Gym Supervisor
The supervisor will be responsible for switching on the equipment at the start of the session and, where required, demonstrating correct use of the equipment. Each volunteer supervisor will receive training on first aid (optional), manual handling (optional), safeguarding, health & safety and on use of the equipment prior to commencement of the role. Please refer to appendix 4 for CHSG’s Volunteer Policy.
6.2. BACR Level 4 Trainer
The BACR Level 4 trainer will be responsible for:
Gym induction for new members
Training the new volunteer gym supervisors in use of the equipment
This is a paid role and the trainer will be available approximately once a week in an advisory capacity.
The trainer will hold a valid BACR level 4 certificate and will hold personal indemnity insurance.
7. Insurance
CHSG has public liability insurance for £2m which is provided by British Heart Foundation. Please see appendix 5 for a summary of cover.
8. Emergency Procedure
In the event of a medical emergency, the gym supervisor will follow the emergency procedure detailed in appendix 6 and will dial 999 if appropriate. All incidents will be reported to the CHSG committee by the gym supervisor.
In the event of a fire, the gym supervisor will follow the fire safety instructions displayed on the wall of the gym. There is a fire bell in the gym and muster stations are clearly marked. There is a fire extinguisher available in the gym.
9. Accidents
Accidents will be logged in the gym accident book and reported by the gym supervisor to the CHSG management committee. There will be a first aid kit available in the gym.
10. Risk Assessment
A risk assessment of the gym will take place annually. Please refer to appendix 6 for a copy of the document.
Members will be asked to complete a membership application. This data will be held securely in a locked cabinet which is held on the premises. Data may also be held on computer and records will be password protected. Please refer to appendix 7 for CHSG’s Data Protection policy.
12. Safeguarding
CHSG understands the importance of Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults. Please refer to appendix 8 for a copy of the policy.
13. Equality & Diversity
Please refer to appendix 9 for a copy of the policy
14. Privacy & Dignity
CHSG recognises the importance of privacy and dignity to its members. There are separate changing and bathroom facilities for ladies and gentlemen which are clearly indicated.
15. Cleaning
Cleaning of the gym and bathroom facility is included in the rental fee for the room by Lache Community Centre. Cleaning of the equipment is the responsibility of CHSG. The gym supervisor will ensure that equipment is wiped down at the end of each session. Cleaning equipment and supplies will be provided by CHSG for this purpose. Members are encouraged to bring a towel to wipe down the equipment after use. Full details are in the service level agreement appendix 10.
16. Opening and Closing Responsibilities
The Lache Community building will be opened at closed by the caretaker or another member of staff at the community centre. Apart from access for cleaning, the gym will remain locked until the gym supervisor is on site.
17. Maximum Numbers
The maximum recommended number of concurrent users of the gym is ten.
18. Drinking Water
All water in the community centre is suitable for drinking.
19. Attendance
Members will be asked to sign in each time they attend the gym. Records will be kept according to CHSG’s Data Protection policy.
Lache Gym Business Plan
Lache Gym Member Pack
Lache Gym Membership /Induction Form
CHSG Volunteer Policy
CHSG Summary of Insurance Cover
Lache Gym Risk Assessment
CHSG Data Protection Policy
CHSG Safeguarding Policy
CHSG Equality & Diversity Policy
Cheshire West & Chester /CHSG Service Level
Agreement for Lache Gym
St. Columba's Church Hall, Plas Newton, Chester, Cheshire, CH2 1SA, Tel: 01244 535788
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Catholic Charities Removes Pro-LGBT Tweets
News: US News
by William Mahoney, Ph.D. • ChurchMilitant.com • June 11, 2020
Questions arise about archbishop's role
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SAN FRANCISCO (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholic Charities San Francisco (CCSF) removed various tweets in support of "Pride Month" and sadomasochistic homosexual activities not long after a report on the organization's social media activities surfaced, leading some to wonder where the San Francisco archbishop stands.
On Tuesday, Sons of St. Joseph published a story spotlighting CCSF's recent pro-LGBT social media activity that included six screenshots ranging from late April to this week. All six tweets disappeared by Wednesday.
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"June is #PrideMonth. Catholic Charities would like to wish everyone a happy pride. We continue to be a leader and a champion of our friends in the #LGBTQ+ community," read the first tweet.
"June is #PrideMonth. Catholic Charities would like to wish everyone a happy pride," read the second tweet published on Monday.
Another tweet posted on Friday advertised celebrating Pride Month at home in the wake of the Wuhan virus: "Although Pride Month will look different this year, we are still coming together to celebrate our #LGBTQ community and honor 50 years of #SanFransciscoPride. Festivities start at noon today!"
On the first of this month, CCSF launched its recognition of Pride Month with a retweet of local area website 7X7's article titled, "Pride in Place: 50 Ways to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of San Francisco Pride." Among the 50 ways, the article suggests wandering the leather district, eating a "cookie d**k" and getting "stoned, courtesy of a lesbian-owned cannabis delivery service."
The leather district is the center of Leather and BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism) in San Francisco and the cookies are available at Hot Cookie, which according to its website, is famous for its "notorious penis and Venus cookies" and its "wall of hot customers posing in our signature Hot Cookie underwear."
June is #PrideMonth. Catholic Charities would like to wish everyone a happy pride. We continue to be a leader and a champion of our friends in the #LGBTQ+ community.
Church Militant reached out to the San Francisco archdiocese to learn if Abp. Salvatore Cordileone, who is the chair of the board for CCSF, was aware of the organization's pro-LGBT activity. The media contact for the archdiocese directed Church Militant to contact CCSF's communications and marketing manager.
Church Militant then reached out to CCSF's communications manager, Liza Cardinal Hand, and received the following statement: "Catholic Charities is committed to the social teachings of the Catholic Church. The posts shared on our social channels were not authorized and posted in error. For more information about Catholic Charities' work in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin, please visit www.CatholicCharitiesSF.org."
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The archdiocese later provided the following message: "The post was sent out by a lower-level employee and was unauthorized by Charities' leadership. When leadership became aware the post was immediately taken down."
Church Militant also spoke with Joseph Sciambra, who runs Sons of St. Joseph.
"The cover-up continues," he said. "I am not surprised that the archdiocese has removed those tweets. This is the fourth time this has happened."
Other Questionable Incidents
Sciambra recounted three earlier instances in which Sons of St. Joseph reported on pro-LGBT activity in the archdiocese.
The first report involved James Dewan, a candidate for the deaconate at Most Holy Redeemer in the Castro district. When so-called same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015, Dewan voiced his support on social media, saying, "I personally do not understand why some people object so vehemently to same-sex marriage, aka marriage. It doesn't affect them one iota. Quite frankly we don't [need] approval. God is love, and that love is expressed in so many different ways."
And on the day of the San Francisco Pride Parade that year, Dewan posted an image of a statue of the Virgin Mary draped in colorful beads given away every year at the parade by Most Holy Redeemer parishioners.
The second report involved the parish manager of Most Holy Redeemer, Michael Poma, who also posted pro-LGBT messages on social media and published on Facebook that he was in a relationship with another male in 2014.
The third report involved Most Holy Redeemer's Young Adults Ministry connection to Ish Ruiz, a pro-gay advocate teaching religious studies at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco. On its Facebook page in 2017, the youth group called for "a moment tomorrow to thank Ish Ruiz for the great work he has done and will continue to do representing us in his testimony after each of the Masses this weekend, but also in so many other ways, both at MHR and within the broader Church."
I am not surprised that the archdiocese has removed those tweets. This is the fourth time this has happened.
"When I have informed the archdiocese (specifically Cordileone himself) about the pro-gay (often crude and gross) social media posts by people of authority at Most Holy Redeemer," Sciambra explained, "their accounts are closed, locked-down or scrubbed, while they maintain their place of authority at the parish."
He noted Mike Poma is still the parish manager and James Dewan is still in the San Francisco diaconate program and the Young Adults Group at Most Holy Redeemer.
Abp. Salvatore Cordileone
Where Does Abp. Cordileone Stand?
Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cordileone the archbishop of San Francisco in 2012.
At the time, executive director of pro-LGBT New Ways Ministry Francis DeBernardo said, "Bishop Cordileone's record on LGBT issues has not been welcoming. He will have to learn to be more sensitive and pastoral as he takes over in the archdiocese of San Francisco, which has a large LGBT community, and very active and organized groups and parishes of LGBT Catholics."
"Lay Catholics in San Francisco will need to work with Bp. Cordileone to let them know what kind of leadership that they want from him," he continued. "If he does not heed the prayerful requests of faithful Catholics there, the church in San Francisco will be greatly diminished."
Jamie Manson of the National Catholic Reporter was also displeased with the appointment.
"It's very likely Cordileone's role as the 'Father of Proposition 8' landed him the position in Oakland, the role as chairman of the USCCB's [U.S. Catholic bishops'] subcommittee on the defense of marriage and, ultimately, his elevation to archbishop of San Francisco, a city in which 75% of the population voted against Prop 8," he said.
Proposition 8, originally titled the "California Marriage Protection Act," was a California ballot proposition to add a new section to Article I of the state's constitution to read: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." It passed in 2008 but was ultimately overturned by federal courts.
For the majority of Catholic laity in this country who support marriage equality, Cordileone's promotion is only further, glaring evidence of the hierarchy's deepening descent into meanness, spitefulness and pastoral insensitivity.
"With this latest appointment, the Vatican solidifies its 'pack mentality' approach to promotions," continued Manson. "Nowadays, a man earns his stripes and proves his loyalty to the hierarchy by attacking a group the hierarchy perceives as a threat to survival, even if the threat is based on nothing more than fear and paranoia."
Manson went on to say that "for the majority of Catholic laity in this country who support marriage equality, Cordileone's promotion is only further, glaring evidence of the hierarchy's deepening descent into meanness, spitefulness and pastoral insensitivity."
While the archdiocese under Cordileone has a Courage chapter — a Roman Catholic apostolate that offers support for those dealing with same-sex attraction — some Catholics are wondering if these pro-LGBT groups like New Ways Ministry ever had to fear an interruption of their business-as-usual in San Francisco.
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Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor
Published: September 21, 2018, 11:24 am
Bird scooters caged; 'Go Blue' at the Emmys; future of food trucks in A2 doomed?
Bird scooters parked on the sidewalk on Church St. on Sept. 17, 2018 (Photo: Meredith Bruckner)
Warning: Bird puns ahead.
The saga of the for-rental scooters was taken to a whole new level this past week when the City of Ann Arbor revealed it has been confiscating scooters left on sidewalks that impede pedestrian right-of-way.
The city is now holding around 30 Bird scooters at one of its storage facilities, which some are referring to as the "Bird cage" (I must admit, that's pretty funny). As the city tries to strike a licensing deal, we have yet to hear a chirp from the California-based company.
On another note, it looks like fall will arrive tomorrow. Enjoy the chillier weather this weekend.
- Meredith (meredith_a4)
What's been happening:
The University of Michigan is holding its annual Entrepalooza event today. Titled 'Recipes for Entrepreneurial Success,' this year's event focuses on food entrepreneurship. (Concentrate)
Staying with U-M, lots of changes are happening right now in its Greek system, from a nationwide hard alcohol ban to the disaffiliation of six fraternities. (A4)
One story that had townie social media abuzz this week was the discovery of a proposed zoning ordinance that could have major implications for food trucks operating in town. (Eater)
The Ann Arbor PTO Council will be hosting a "meet and greet" on Sept. 27 at Pioneer with candidates running for seats on the school board. Sarah has the details. (A4)
If you watched the Emmys this past week, you may have said to yourself: "Wait, did he just say 'Go Blue'?!" Yep, that's how U-M's SMTD alumnus Darren Criss ended his acceptance speech and it filled all of us with pride. (Michigan Daily)
Matt has struck again with cuteness for this week's Human Society of Huron Valley's 'Pets of the Week.' Warning: adorable felines ahead. (A4)
Did you know that the Old West Side Homes Tour celebrates its 45th year Sunday? Catch all the fun and see some beautiful homes from noon to 5 p.m. (A4)
Feature interview of the week:
"I think high school, for me, was probably the most formative in terms of music here in Ann Arbor. I think Community High, which is an alternative high school here, provided the kind of atmosphere that encouraged the arts. We didn’t have sports teams; we had bands."
- Laith Al-Saadi, musician
Stay tuned next week for another roundup of local news, happenings and insights!
Have something to share? Write us anytime at allaboutannarbor@wdiv.com.
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Meredith Bruckner
Meredith has worked for WDIV since August 2017 and was voted one of Washtenaw County's best journalists in 2019 by eCurrent's readers. She covers the community of Ann Arbor and has a Master's degree in International Broadcast Journalism from City University London, UK.
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Published: September 29, 2020, 12:22 pm
Tags: Election, politics, Hillary Clinton, Government, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden
Ex-Sanders staffers promote Biden to Latinos in Iowa, Nevada
FILE - In this March 15, 2020 file photo, now Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, greet one another before they participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate at CNN Studios in Washington. Former staffers from Bernie Sanders presidential campaign want to harness strong support for the Vermont senator among Hispanics to bolster Joe Biden in two battleground states that could prove critical in Novembers election. Nuestro PAC is launching a 30-second spot that will begin airing Thursday for two weeks in heavily Hispanic Nevada and Iowa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
WILMINGTON, Del. – Former staffers from Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign want to harness strong support for the Vermont senator among Hispanics to bolster Joe Biden in two battleground states that could prove critical in November's election.
Nuestro PAC is launching a 30-second spot that will begin airing Thursday for two weeks in heavily Hispanic Nevada and in Iowa, another state where the growing Latino population is largely overlooked. Backed by a six-figure ad buy, the spot features Hispanic staffers of Sanders’ campaign saying they worked hard for him during the Democratic primary, “But now, we’re all for Joe Biden, because Biden’s endorsed by Bernie.”
“We’re going to go into states where Bernie just dominated the Latino vote to help lift up Biden,” said the group's founder, Chuck Rocha, who headed the Sanders campaign's Hispanic outreach. “In Iowa, going to Latinos will surprise people ... but they’re there, and we won them by huge margins. And the opposite side of that equation is going into Nevada to shore him up with young Latinos.”
The Biden campaign has acknowledged that its standing with Latinos could use improvement and tried to build a coalition of 20-plus voting blocs to mitigate that — including seniors, Native Americans and another group that strongly supported Sanders during the primary, progressives.
On Tuesday, Biden's campaign unveiled its own ads in English and Spanish highlighting the Latino community. They are airing on television and digitally in Arizona, Florida and Nevada. The ads are also appearing in other states where Latino populations do not get a lot of attention but could play decisive roles at the ballot box — Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Another onetime Biden primary rival, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, has announced $100 million in investment in the swing state of Florida on Biden's behalf, after a recent poll showed Biden garnering less support among Latinos there than Hillary Clinton did at the same point in 2016.
Rocha's organization is instead betting on Sanders' appeal in areas where Latinos backed him the past. He easily won Nevada during the primary and effectively mobilized Iowa’s small but growing Latino population to succeed in its caucus.
That may counter the Trump campaign's efforts to bolster its national outreach to Latinos, especially men. While campaigning Friday in Florida, Trump said, “Biden betrayed Hispanic Americans.” He did not elaborate. The president has also visited Iowa and Nevada in recent weeks, something Biden has not done since the primary.
Sanders is a fierce critic of super PACs. But Nuestro PAC is teaming with the America's Progressive Promise, run by Jeff Weaver and other former top strategists from Sander's presidential campaign, to produce the spot.
“I think 2016 showed us, especially with states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, that a lot of these minority communities — like Latinos and African American communities — can also be the margin of victory,” said Eileen Garcia, who was national surrogate communications coordinator for Sanders’ presidential campaign and is one of the ex-staffers featured in the ad that begins airing Thursday.
The title “Tio,” which translates to “Uncle,” is a play on the nickname some Hispanic supporters bestowed on Sanders during the primary. The ad will air only on digital media. Nuestro PAC says that's because Latino voters tend not to watch network TV at high rates.
The groups have teamed up for previous ads. One that decried Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic targeted several states, including Michigan and North Carolina.
“Everyone is starting to realize that this untapped community has a lot of potential," Garcia said, “if you just put in the resources to talk to them.”
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Published: October 19, 2020, 11:26 am Updated: October 19, 2020, 8:54 pm
Tags: Donald Trump, Government, politics, Election
The Latest: Trump plans to debate Biden despite rule changes
Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News speaks as President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speak during the first presidential debate Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
WASHINGTON – The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times local):
President Donald Trump plans to attend Thursday’s debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden despite rule changes — opposed by his campaign — that are meant to foster more ordered discussions.
Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien says Trump “is committed to debating Joe Biden regardless of last minute rule changes from the biased commission in their latest attempt to provide advantage to their favored candidate.”
The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday that the second and final debate between the two candidates will have each nominee muted while the other delivers his two-minute remarks at the outset of each of the six debate topics. The remainder of each 15-minute block will be open discussion, without any muting, the commission said.
The move is meant to prevent a repeat of the inaugural debate three weeks ago when the two candidates, but mostly Trump, interrupted each other repeatedly.
The Biden campaign did not immediately comment on the new rule.
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE:
President Donald Trump held rallies in Arizona after campaigning over the weekend in California and Nevada. His Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, was in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday.
— Some states allow ballots of folks who voted early but die before Election Day.
— Suburban women are leading a rebellion against Trump.
— Upcoming debate offers Trump a chance to generate momentum.
HERE'S WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON:
President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden will have their microphones cut off in Thursday’s debate while their rival delivers their opening two-minute answer to each of the debate topics.
The 90-minute debate is divided into six 15-minute segments, with each candidate granted two minutes to deliver uninterrupted remarks before proceeding to an open debate. The open discussion portion of the debate will not feature a mute button, but interruptions by either candidate will count toward their time in the second and final debate Thursday.
The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced the rule changes Monday, three weeks after a chaotic opening faceoff between the two presidential contenders that featured frequent interruptions — most by Trump.
The commission has faced pressure from the Trump campaign to avoid changing the rules, while Biden’s team was hoping for a more ordered debate. In a statement, the commission said it “had determined that it is appropriate to adopt measures intended to promote adherence to agreed upon rules and inappropriate to make changes to those rules.”
President Donald Trump is promoting his efforts to combat rising drug prices.
Trump told supporters in Tucson, Arizona, on Monday that for years, people complained about rising drug prices, but nobody did anything until he was in the White House.
He is predicting that drug prices are going to be dropping “like a lot.”
Trump has taken actions to reduce patient costs for some drugs, such as insulin, but the steps have been less ambitious than those in a bill from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., that the House passed last year.
Trump’s plan to mail millions of seniors a $200 prescription savings card has hit legal and budget roadblocks, making it unlikely the government can carry it out before Election Day.
Democratic lawmakers have raised questions about whether the administration has the authority to unilaterally order billions of dollars in Medicare spending for what the Democrats say are political reasons.
President Donald Trump is deploying a new attack line against Joe Biden, saying his Democratic presidential opponent “wants to listen to Dr. Fauci.” Biden says that’s correct.
Trump made the comment Monday at a campaign rally in Prescott, Arizona, after criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci during a conference call with campaign staff. Trump told the staff that Fauci is an “idiot” and a “disaster.”
Fauci is the nation’s top infectious-disease expert and a member of Trump’s White House coronavirus task force. The doctor is both respected and popular, and Trump’s rejection of scientific advice on the pandemic has already drawn bipartisan condemnation.
Biden’s campaign says Trump is using staunch opposition to science as his “closing argument” as Election Day looms. Responding on Twitter to Trump’s accusation that Biden wants to listen to Fauci, Biden wrote, “...yes.”
Fauci said on a “60 Minutes” episode that aired Sunday that he and his family have been receiving death threats from people angry over coronavirus restrictions.
Joe Biden’s campaign says President Donald Trump is using staunch opposition to science as his “closing argument” as Election Day looms.
During a campaign conference call on Monday, Trump called Dr. Anthony Fauci “a disaster” and other top infectious-disease scientists “idiots.” The president blamed them for what he argued was the nation’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, did not answer questions on Trump’s comments as he left the taping of a television interview in Delaware on Monday.
But his campaign released a statement noting that the pandemic has now killed nearly 220,000 Americans, seen more than 8 million confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide and cost millions of jobs.
“Trump’s closing message in the final days of the 2020 race is to publicly mock Joe Biden for trusting science,” Biden’s campaign said in statement. “Trump is mocking Biden for listening to science. Science. The best tool we have to keep Americans safe, while Trump’s reckless and negligent leadership threatens to put more lives at risk.”
Joe Biden is taping a television interview, the only thing on his light, pre-debate public schedule this week.
The Democratic nominee’s motorcade rolled shortly after noon on Monday from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, to the Queen, a downtown theater where his campaign has built a makeshift studio and stage for its candidate to hold virtual events, as well as some speeches and press conferences in person. Biden was taping an interview with “60 Minutes,” which was scheduled to air on CBS next weekend.
Biden’s traveling press pool caught a glimpse of him entering the theater, but he did not answer questions.
Biden has nothing else on his public schedule this week except Thursday night’s debate in Nashville, Tennessee. His campaign says he plans to use the bulk of the remaining time preparing for the second and final time he is scheduled to face off with President Donald Trump before Election Day on Nov. 3.
Kamala Harris has returned to the campaign trail after a brief absence when people connected with her team tested positive for the coronavirus.
Harris kicked off her return at a car rally in Orlando on Monday to mark the first day of early voting in Florida, a critical swing state. She’ll later campaign in Jacksonville.
The Democratic ticket is largely forgoing traditional campaign rallies because of the risk of spreading the virus. But Harris was energized as she bounded onto the outdoor stage in Orlando, dancing and shouting greetings to the crowd as they honked their horns in support.
She largely stuck to the campaign message of outlining President Donald Trump’s failures in tackling the pandemic and urging people to cast their ballots early.
She told the crowd: “You will be the first to put our country back on the right track.”
Harris halted travel Thursday after her communications director and a member of the flight crew for her travel tested positive for the virus. The campaign said Harris did not need to quarantine under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, but she paused travel for four days.
She has repeatedly tested negative for the virus.
Melania Trump plans to make her first public appearance since recovering from the coronavirus disease, joining President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally.
It was not immediately clear if the first lady also planned to address Trump supporters in Erie.
Tuesday's rally in Pennsylvania will be the first campaign trail appearance for Mrs. Trump since she spoke briefly at a June 2019 event in Orlando, Florida, where the president launched his reelection effort.
She addressed the Republican National Convention in August from the White House.
Mrs. Trump recently announced that she has recovered from a bout with COVID-19 that included headaches, body aches and fatigue. She also revealed that the couple’s 14-year-old son, Barron, had contracted the virus, never had symptoms and has since tested negative.
Mrs. Trump’s spokeswoman says she also plans to attend Thursday’s presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee.
President Donald Trump says people are tired of hearing from Dr. Anthony Fauci “and all these idiots” about the coronavirus.
Trump has made no secret of his growing impatience with Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert.
Speaking Monday to campaign staffers, Trump called Fauci a “disaster” but said he’d create bigger issues for himself if he fired the doctor.
Fauci is head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and is a member of the White House coronavirus task force.
Trump has needled Fauci over his advice on wearing face masks.
Nearly 220,000 Americans have died from the disease the virus causes.
President Donald Trump is bucking up his campaign staffers 15 days from Election Day, amid worrisome public and private polling.
On a conference call Monday, Trump says, “We’re going to win. I wouldn’t have told you that maybe two or three weeks ago.”
Addressing stories about declining morale at his campaign, Trump said he’s never been more confident in his chances, “Today is the best single day that I’ve felt on either campaign.”
He added: “We have never been in as strong a position as we are today.”
Trump encouraged his staffers to ignore news reports about the state of the race.
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2012-12-10 Ansar Burney, center, Pakistani member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and members of Akhil Bharatiya Human Rights Organisation gather to celebrate Human Rights Day at the Wagah border between India and Pakistan on Monday, December 10.
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2012-12-07Pushpa Basnet was shocked to learn that children in Nepal were living in prisons with their parents. In 2005, she started a children's center that has provided housing, education and medical care to more than 140 children of incarcerated parents. &qu
2012-12-07A young Israeli boy looks at a serving of fresh oil-fried and jam-filled doughnuts, known in Hebrew as "sufganiyot", served at one of the local bakeries in Kadima, central Israel, during Hanukkah.
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Dungeon Defenders Eternity Will Hold You Over Till the Sequel
Screens 7/30/2014 at 11:00 AM by Nick Puleo 0
Loads of new content, tweaks and enhancements...for a price.
Trendy Entertainment has launched a stop-gap game to tide players over until Dungeon Defenders II is finished. Called Dungeon Defenders Eternity, the repackaging of the original adds more than just a fresh coat of paint and all of the DLC.
Dungeon Defenders Eternity features new content, including four new missions, redesigned gameplay balances and enhanced cross-platform play. An anti-chat/hack system was put in place as well, though that may have caused some issues with users initially (more on that later). The game will also unlock exclusive content in the upcoming sequel, Dungeon Defenders II, shortly after launch.
Some of the other improvements players will see are visible armor that reflects each player’s unique equipment, a new dashing system, new consumables, new amulets and more. Soon after launch the Hall of Triumphs will activate, where players can unlock special items, titles and pets for use in Dungeon Defenders II.
While only the PC, Mac, Linux and Android (Tegra) versions have launched, the game will be out on iOS devices as well. The Android version is especially interesting because it exclusively runs on NVIDIA Tegra platforms only, but furthermore, you'll have access into Trendy's new backend platform, playverse. Later iPhone, iPad and other Android systems that allow cross-platform play will get access to all their content with the same account on any device at any time. There's no word if you'll have to purchase the game multiple times though.
But what about that anti-cheat technology Trendy implemented? The problem was the game originally didn't allow offline play, essentially becoming a crippling DRM if you want to play single player. The whole thing backfired for Trendy and they quickly worked to update the game to re-include single player and private gameplay.
Dungeon Defenders Eternity is out now with four player online co-op for PC, Mac and Linux. NVIDIA Tegra devices can download it from the Tegra Zone. The game is currently on sale for $14.99 until August 5th where it'll return to its normal price of $19.99.
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I am a seasoned community organiser; having been part of the original ‘Community Organisers Programme’, my work has also supported the application of the Community Rights and Neighbourhood Planning as well as the Community Organisers Expansion Programme.
I have been an active organiser in my home town of Glastonbury, where I am also a Town Councillor, and was Mayor of Glastonbury in 2016 and 2017. Over the past eight years, I have applied community organising principles and practice as a Councillor, and have championed the participation of Glastonbury’s residents in the issues dealt with – and choices made – by the Town Council. Helping to create opportunities for all members of the community to be listened to; for local people to not only have their say and make meaningful contributions to decision-making, but also be empowered to take action and make change.
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5 *Scandalous* Reality Shows To Add To Your Netflix Watch List
Who doesn't love drama?
by Francesca Pangilinan | May 20, 2020
PHOTO: (LEFT) YouTube/Keeping Up With The Kardashians, (RIGHT) Netflix/Selling Sunset
If you're feeling stuck in a routine and wanting to break the cycle, maybe a little ~drama~ is just what you need to spice things up! Reality shows are here to serve us with juicy content that gets us hooked from one episode to another. Hear this: The Netflix gods have answered our prayers with an expanded reality show lineup that's available for streaming soon. Add these titles to your watch list:
1. Keeping Up With The Kardashians (June 1)
Imagine living in the Kardashian household and just watching all the famous family drama unfold from Kris Jenner's momager antics to sibling feuds among Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Kendall, and Kylie. So. Much. Drama.
2. The Real Housewives (June 1)
Rejoice because you're getting three versions like The Real Housewives of New York, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Each show features sosyal women who try to raise their kids while maintaining a glam job and social life. Fun fact: Gigi and Bella Hadid's mom, Yolanda Hadid, stars in the Beverly Hills franchise. This means you'll get a glimpse of them too!
3. Married To Medicine (June 1)
This show boasts successful women who are doctors and doctors' wives thriving in the Atlanta medical community. Watch their ~shady exchanges~ and how they still manage to patch things up in the end.
4. Top Chef (June 1)
This kitchen competition turns the heat up with aspiring chefs who are determined to outdo each other in different challenges. Best to have some snacks on standby because you'll stress-eat just by watching them cook under pressure.
5. Selling Sunset Season 2 (May 22)
Premiering on Friday, here's a reality show that revolves around the bad-ass women behind Oppenheim Group. They hustle hard as real estate agents who sell luxurious properties in sunny LA. Of course, there's tension especially with a new agent joining the team. We can't wait to see how it goes.
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10 Things To Include In Your Batanes Itinerary In 2020
Is this the year you finally visit this magical place?
by Denise Fernandez | Jan 19, 2020
PHOTO: (left) instagram/gcelmonjardin, (RIGHT) instagram/gewhh
Batanes is the Philippines’ northernmost province, known for its unassuming, yet colorful culture and lush terrain and beaches that look right out of a storybook. While it is also the country’s smallest province, its abundance of destinations and attractions for travelers makes up for its humble size. Multiple travel agencies and online platforms offer fixed day tours of the best of this renowned archipelago, but if you’re up to DIY it for the sake of an awesome adventure, take a look at these things to do and all the places you’ve got to tick off that Batanes bucket list.
Pay a visit to Diura Fishing Village.
A good place to learn about Ivatan culture is Diura Fishing Village, a small settlement on the coastlines with a population of around 300 people. Local boat makers and fishermen can guide you in riding their handmade boats for a small fee. You may also roam the village and marvel at the homes adorned with fish, which the villagers salt and dry to preserve for stormy weather. Their culture dates back to the pre-colonial era, so it’s always a treat to learn about ancient roots.
Bathe in the Spring of Youth.
Tucked in a secluded beachfront just 30 minutes away from the village of Diura is the Spring or Fountain of Youth, known as Rakuh-a-idi to the locals. This man-made spring, with fresh waters coming from Imnajbu, is a hidden gem overlooking the ocean and the picturesque scenery of Mount Iraya. Locals say that dipping into this spring keeps them young, hence its namesake. You can also choose to bring some snacks for a picnic by the sea!
Take a breather at Fundacion Pacita.
Fundacion Pacita is one of the more renowned accommodations in Batanes, thanks to its prime location on top of a lush hill that overlooks the Pacific Ocean. If you’re not already staying here, you could simply drop by and have a snack at Cafe du Tukon to relish authentic Ivatan cuisine before snapping gorgeous photos of the view and the resort’s rustic architecture.
View the sunset at Marlboro Country’s rolling hills.
Feel like you’re in Europe when you visit the pastures of Batanes’ Marlboro Country, abundant with green grass, grazing cattle, and rolling hills like you’ve never seen before. It’s nice to stroll around this area with your loved ones while enjoying the endless sea breeze and ocean views. The place is also the perfect location to watch the sunset.
Grab a treat at the famous Honesty Coffee Shop.
You may have heard of this unique sari-sari store and coffee shop. A sign that says “This store is too small for dishonest people,” shows the trust that its owner has in customers. Guests may stay for some coffee, roam around for some snacks, and simply leave their payment inside a drop box. Souvenirs and shirts are also sold for customers looking to bring something back home.
Tour the famous stone houses.
The famous Ivatan stone houses are a must-visit for any tourist in Batanes. These one-of-a-kind homes are built to protect residents from the province’s harsh and stormy weather. The House of Dakay is one of the oldest surviving stone houses in Basco and is maintained by the oldest living woman in Batanes. These stone buildings can also be found in Sinakan, Chavayan, and Savidug.
Wear traditional Ivatan attire on Sabtang Island.
Sabtang Island is home to the famous Sabtung Weavers Association, where female weavers make vakul. Vakul attire and headgears are used to protect locals from the strong winds and rain of the location. The headgear costs around P400, but you can rent one to take pictures with for just P20! It’s also a good idea to visit the association itself and see exactly how vakul is made by Sabtung’s talented weavers.
See Batanes’ renowned lighthouses.
Batanes is known for its lighthouses, and you’re definitely in for a more pleasant experience than Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe in that one movie. The province has three main lighthouses—Basco, Tayid, and Sabtang—all majestic sights to behold, towering over the waters. It’s always a treat learning about the structures used to guide seafarers back to shore while seeing one in all its glory.
Lounge by the beaches.
Batanes also has its fair share of white sand beaches, and its most famous one is Morong Beach, home to the iconic Nakabuang Arch (which will undoubtedly look great for your Instagram feed). If the waves aren’t too strong during your time of visit, go for a dip after strolling through its white sand.
Go sightseeing at various tourist attractions.
Batanes may be small, but it’s got tons of places to see, such as its old stone churches, majestic rock formations, eerie ruined buildings, wondrous caves, and plenty more! List places like the Old Spanish Bridge, Chawa Viewdeck, Songsong Ruins, Alapad Hill Pass, and a handful of others down on your bucket list—the sceneries you’ll be witnessing for yourself will all be worth it.
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Christchurch rider Ollie Jones switches from his international virtual online world for the roads around the Wairarapa, joining the Cycling New Zealand team for the New Zealand Cycle Classic starting on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old is part of the six-strong national team to compete in the first UCI level 2 sanctioned event and the sole Oceania UCI stage road event being held in New Zealand this year after all six Australian races usually run early in the year, including the Tour Downunder, were cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jones joins with current Vantage Cycling New Zealand Olympic track riders Regan Gough and Corbin Strong, and three European-bound professional tyros Laurence Pithie, Reuben Thompson and Finn Fisher-Black in the Cycling New Zealand national team.
He got his professional break courtesy of winning the Zwift Academy global competition in 2017, and more recently signed with Canyon ZCC, the Esport professional team in this fast-growing element of the sport.
While Jones is still disappointed that a failure with his supplied gear cost him the chance of a medal in the UCI Esport World Championship last month, where he had to settle for fourth place, he predicts a big future for this rapidly rising part of the sport.
“Esport is here to stay. All COVID-19 did was speed up the process,” said Jones. “It is going to be another discipline in cycling that is mainstream. It won’t replace anything. All the current disciplines will still exist but it will be another discipline within another five years.”
He sees himself continuing to split his professional life between esport and the road.
“Esport does not take up a lot of time as you don’t need to leave your house. Training is more time-efficient than road. If you do a Grand Tour you have to train six hours a day pretty regularly to have that ability in the legs. Esport races are all 45 to 60 mins so you need shorter intensity interval sessions.
“Physiologically esport is similar to things like mountain bike and cyclocross.”
This week Jones will stay with the national team during the tour, but he has never met any of his teammates in the Canyon ZCC esport team.
“One of the team lives in Belgium, there’s another kiwi, a South African, a German and a couple of Brits. Added to the women’s team and development team, there are riders from every continent except Asia.”
Jones predicts a bright future for esport in cycling.
“I see esport developing to the point where it becomes part of road racing. In USA, for instance, race organisers have a road criterium one day and virtual criterium alongside it the next.
“As there is more competition with the platform, we will get more ability for independent race organisers to bring in this sort of combination. That is where I see the future.”
Jones has no issues switching between the two disciplines.
“In New Zealand road races are not too long – like 130km to 150km, so I do not need to adapt my training too much. For a bigger tour I just need to adapt with some longer rides.”
He is excited about riding for the national team in the New Zealand Cycle Classic, his third time in New Zealand’s premier international tour race.
“I think we will gel together well. I ride with Laurence all the time in Christchurch and Finn is often down here too. I have ridden against Regan since we were 13, and rode in the same team as Corbin in Southland.
“Reuben Thompson is probably our best climber but there are probably four of us capable of winning the Tour if it goes well. We will be looking for a good team time trial on Wednesday and take it from there.”
Jones said the lack of international teams won’t mean a lack of excitement.
“We saw in Southland, which did not have international teams, that it was one of the most exciting tours that there has been with five guys split by 40 seconds in the end, and decided with the final sprint.
“We can expect more of the same in the New Zealand Cycle Classic. It is going to be a really exciting tour.”
The New Zealand Cycle Classic begins with a team time trial in Masterton on Wednesday evening. Stage two is 158km with five climbs before returning to Masterton; stage three features a multi-lap street circuit in Martinborough on Friday before the gut-busting stage four which finishes with a 10km ascent of Admirals Hill near Gladstone. The final stage on Sunday moves to Wellington for an exciting criterium centred on Lambton Quay.
Event details: www.cycletournz.com
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13 Reasons Why is the new Netflix show that tackles rape culture - here's why you need to watch it
A teen show with a difference.
By Amy O'Connor Wednesday 5 Apr 2017, 10:50 AM
Apr 5th 2017, 10:50 AM 10,675 Views 34 Comments
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READY TO DIVE headfirst into another Netflix series? 13 Reasons Why ought to be at the top of your list.
The series, which is based on a young adult novel of the same name, launched on the streaming service last week and has garnered near universal acclaim – it boasts an impressive 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
What’s the gist?
A post shared by 13 Reasons Why (@13reasonswhy) on Jan 24, 2017 at 7:15pm PST
13 Reasons Why is a 13-part series that follows a teenager’s quest to discover why his classmate Hannah decided to take her own life. He uncovers a package containing 13 cassette tapes in which Hannah clearly outlines the reasons for her decision and reveals some secrets about her classmates.
It’s written and developed by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Brian Yorkey and directed by Spotlight director Tom McCarthy. It’s also executive produced by Selena Gomez.
2 days til @13ReasonsWhy… Here's a 1st listen to my cover of "Only You” from the soundtrack, inspired by Hannah and Clay's story. Out 3/30! pic.twitter.com/aSrAFhpFoY
— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) March 29, 2017
Source: Selena Gomez/Twitter
So now.
So wait… it’s a teen show?
It is, but that shouldn’t discourage you from watching it. Sometimes teen shows are good! (Hello, My So Called Life and Freaks and Geeks.)
Source: هوڤا🦇/Twitter
I don't need 13 reasons to tell you why you should watch #13ReasonsWhy. It's honest, it's raw, it's everything you need from a teen show.
— Seno Novriawan (@senovriawan) March 31, 2017
Source: Seno Novriawan/Twitter
It tackles everything from teen suicide to rape culture to toxic masculinity. In other words, this isn’t a teen show about getting a date for prom or sourcing beer for a party. It goes deeper than that.
How does it tackle rape culture?
i don't know whats more disgusting the toxic masculinity, male entitlement, and rape culture shown in 13 reasons why or how realistic it is
— cat (@filmgloss) April 4, 2017
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Without delving into spoiler territory, the series explores issues like sexual assault, revenge porn and slutshaming.
It examines how teenage girls are damned if they do and damned if they don’t when it comes to “putting out”. It shows how the “boys will be boys” attitude still prevails when it comes to sexual assault. And it illustrates how women are very often held culpable for their own sexual assaults.
13 Reasons Why should be also called "the tragic result of fragile masculinity and male false entitlement against High School Girls"
— mac* (@Machaizelli) April 3, 2017
Source: MacDoesIt/Twitter
As Bustle explained in this excellent, spoiler-laden piece:
13 Reasons Why is undeniably painful to watch, and that’s exactly why it’s such important TV for both teens and adults. Instead of dismissing a “hot or not” list or a rumor as no big deal, we need to consider the environment this creates. Once we acknowledge the magnitude of the problem, we’re better positioned to confront and prevent it.
A teen show with a message/social conscience? We can get on board with that.
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John Cornyn tweets about ‘President-elect Joe Biden,’ as list of GOP holdouts and deniers remains long
The senator from Texas has said for weeks that Trump hadn’t proven fraud, but he has resisted acknowledging Biden’s victory.
By Todd J. Gillman
8:06 AM on Dec 9, 2020 CST — Updated at 9:09 AM on Dec 9, 2020 CST
WASHINGTON — The long list of Republicans in Congress who refuse to acknowledge the obvious, that Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump, seemed to shrink by one on Wednesday morning when Texas Sen. John Cornyn referred to him for the first time as president-elect.
But Cornyn and his aides insisted that in tweeting someone else’s words, he wasn’t himself calling Biden the winner.
Cornyn has been more pragmatic than many GOP colleagues in saying for weeks that Trump had yet to prove his oft-repeated allegations that the election was stolen, while stopping short of saying he recognized that Biden would be the one taking the oath of office on inauguration day next month.
On Wednesday, he tweeted about “PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN’S DECISION” to pick Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge for housing secretary.
It was the second time in three weeks that Cornyn had copied and pasted a sentence from Politico that referred to Biden as president-elect. Both times, aides clarified that repeating such terminology did not mean the senator himself was embracing the judgment.
Cornyn himself took to Twitter again Wednesday to tamp down the impression that he now views Biden as president-elect: “It’s a quote from the article. Not news.”
It is a quote from the article. Not news. More interesting is the thin margin Ds will have in the House and what that means for the type of legislation they pass. Pelosi will have to work with McCarthy on bipartisan bills and will not be able to pass solely on D votes. #TDS https://t.co/39dZvhsoN1
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) December 9, 2020
It’s been a nuanced balancing act for Cornyn, a top adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who likewise has refused to call Biden the winner.
Cornyn told Texas news outlets Dec. 3 that he saw no valid reason for Congress to overturn the outcome in the Electoral College, given Trump’s inability to show fraud. And like other Republicans he has not held back on critiquing Biden’s personnel moves in a way that takes it as given that Biden will be in position to send nominees to the Senate after his swearing-in at noon on Jan. 20.
“I would say probably the key date is, I believe it is December the 14th when the Electoral College will actually certify the Electoral College votes, so that’s right around the corner,” Cornyn said on Dec. 3, referring to the Democrat as “former Vice President Biden” in discussing some of his Cabinet picks. “I think every candidate has a right to pursue legal remedies … but obviously they have to have evidence to back up their allegations and so far, it looks to me like the pathway for the president has narrowed, if not closed.”
Just three Texas Republicans in Congress have acknowledged that Biden won, and two are retiring after declining to seek reelection: Reps. Will Hurd of suburban San Antonio and Mac Thornberry of Clarendon, in West Texas. Fort Worth Rep. Kay Granger is the third.
More than 200 Republicans in Congress have refused to say who they think won the election. That includes nearly all Texas Republicans.
On Wednesday morning, five Texas Republicans in the House, led by Rep. Lance Gooden of Terrell, wrote to Trump urging him to direct Attorney General William Barr to name a special counsel to investigate allegations of election fraud. They complained that the Justice Department and Barr hadn’t taken the claims seriously enough.
PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN’S DECISION to put Rep. MARCIA FUDGE (D-Ohio) in the Cabinet as HUD secretary gives Speaker NANCY PELOSI a 220-seat majority -- just a five-seat edge over House Republicans, and a two-vote cushion to get bills through the chamber. @playbookplus
Several dozen federal and state courts have rejected the Trump legal team’s claims. Many judges have chastised his lawyers for leveling serious charges not supported by any evidence.
Cornyn had said for several weeks that he would await certification of votes by states before accepting either candidate as the victor. That process is ended. Tuesday was the “safe harbor” deadline for states to certify their elections ahead of the Electoral College vote.
Cornyn insists that Joe Biden isn’t president-elect because the election is contested and too close
Cornyn says Congress has ‘no reason’ to overturn Electoral College, given Trump’s inability to show fraud
Electors from each state meet on Dec. 14 after a presidential election — that’s next Monday — to formalize the outcome of the vote.
Saturday will mark five weeks since the vote count in Pennsylvania put Biden over the top. As ballot-counting continued, his tally has hit a record 81 million votes, with a 7 million-vote margin over Trump. His electoral tally is decisive: 306-232, the same margin Trump himself described as a landslide when he drew it four years ago.
27 House conservatives urge Trump to name special counsel on election fraud
The Supreme Court dealt Trump a major setback Tuesday by refusing to hear a case challenging Biden’s win in Pennsylvania on grounds that state law did not allow for counting mail ballots after Election Day, a rules change implemented in light of the pandemic. A Republican congressman was the lead plaintiff, and Texas’ junior senator, Ted Cruz — the state of Texas’ chief appellate lawyer before winning his seat in 2012 — had agreed to argue the case for the plaintiffs if the high court agreed to hear it.
There were no dissenters, including from the three justices Trump appointed.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday filed a lawsuit in which the state of Texas challenges Biden’s wins in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, accusing those states of illegally changing their election procedures. Trump tried and failed to overturn the results in those and other key battlegrounds he lost.
Only the Supreme Court has jurisdiction over controversies between states. The court asked the four states targeted by Texas to respond in writing by Thursday, as a prelude to a decision on whether it would hear the case.
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Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick says they must 'get over' shock German Cup exit to Holstein Kiel
Liam Happe
The German football giants will not be involved in the last 16 of their domestic cup competition for the first time in over 20 years.
There was a big upset in the DFB-Pokal — the German equivalent of the FA Cup — on Wednesday when defending cup holders Bayern Munich, the nation's biggest and most successful club, were dumped out in the second round by Bundesliga 2 side Holstein Kiel via penalties.
Goals from Serge Gnabry and Leroy Sane gave the heavy favourites the lead on two occasions, only to be pegged back twice by the home side including a dramatic stoppage-time equaliser by Hauke Wahl.
Bayern won "the treble" in 2020, lifting a staggering eighth straight Bundesliga title as well as the Pokal and the Champions League. This season, the battle for the league title looks to be more competitive than usual, and now the Bavarians are out of the cup in unexpected fashion.
However Bayern coach Hansi Flick said at the post-match press conference that the players must brush the humbling result off and move on in their search for more trophies.
“It’s a shock,” said Flick. “We’re extremely disappointed.
"Their first goal was the same pattern as the last few games. We have to close gaps in the centre and we didn’t do that. For their second goal, we didn’t have enough men inside the box and didn’t defend one versus one.
“It was a cup fight that meant the end of the cup journey for us,” added Flick. “We must get over it because we have a lot of things to do.
“We have to work on having better defensive compactness, apply more pressure on the ball carrier and secure our backline. We have to get over this defeat now and work well in training on Friday and Saturday.”
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Posted on March 5, 2020 by Glenn Battishill
Schultz students present research
By Glenn Battishill - gbattishill@aimmediamidwest.com
Dominic Mrazek shows off his presentation about founding father Benjamin Franklin, complete with a hair piece and bifocals. Mrazek said he enjoyed learning about Franklin and thought it was really interesting that he had 16 siblings.
Glenn Battishill | The Gazette
Ellie Hess, a second grader, presents her research about educator Anne Sullivan to fourth grader Kyler Doyle Wednesday afternoon at Schultz Elementary School in Delaware.
Schultz Elementary School students prepared and presented research about influential people to staff, fellow students, and their parents Tuesday and Wednesday.
The second grade students began working on their projects in February, according to teacher Kirsten Cole, who added students were allowed to choose an influential person and then had to research what made them an important figure.
“They had to figure out what they had done to make the world a better place,” Cole said. “They created slideshows, wrote paragraphs, created a craft, and some students made additional pieces at home or came in with props.”
Cole said the project teaches students about a variety of subjects.
“This is a social studies, reading, and writing project for them,” she said. “They get to read and do research, write their paragraphs, work on their finalizing skills, and turning things into slideshows as well as presentation skills. The students get so excited to share what they’ve learned, and they get to be the teacher.”
Cole said she was excited to see students passionate about their subjects.
“You can tell by the way they’ve dressed up that they are taking pride in what they are doing,” she said. “There’s at least one part of the project that really shows their personality — the writing part, the crafting part, or the presentation part.”
Second grader Elizabeth Rose Port focused her project on artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Rose Port said she chose her because she enjoyed her work.
“I like art,” Rose Port said. “I like that she painted flower and included insects.”
Ethan Cooper said he chose his subject, Albert Einstein, because he really likes science and knew Einstein was a famous scientist.
“He created the Theory of Relativity,” Cooper said, adding he didn’t really understand what it was but enjoyed the project all the same. “I like that I got to work by myself and didn’t have to do it with a partner.”
Autumn Ferguson did her project about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She picked him because she didn’t know much about him.
“I thought it would be good for me to learn about him,” Ferguson said, adding her favorite part was making the paper version of King.
During the event, upperclassmen at Schultz came to see the projects. Fourth grader Kyler Doyle said she was very impressed, especially by Ellie Hess, who presented her research — in full costume — on teacher Anne Sullivan.
“I like that her presentation included a lot of the details,” Doyle said. “(Her project) was inspiration.”
Hess said she chose Sullivan because she worked with the deaf and the blind.
“My mother used to do that kind of teaching, too,” Hess said. “My favorite thing about her is that she used these hand signals (to communicate), and Helen Keller loved her.”
Hess presented her research about Sullivan in a period appropriate costume, which she got from Goodwill.
Jennifer Larrison, another second grade teacher whose students did the project, said she would like to keep doing the project year after year.
“Kids love it,” Larrison said. “The older kids love to come back. It’s great to have presentations, and (I like) how proud they are of their work.”
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East Timor ‘Required’ to Develop Sunrise LNG Project (Update1) By Jason Scott and Dinakar Sethuraman
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Woodside Petroleum Ltd. said Australia, East Timor and partners of the Sunrise liquefied natural gas project are “required to develop the reservoir” as part of an agreement.
“Under the International Unitisation Agreement, the governments of Australia and Timor Leste and the Sunrise joint venture participants are required to develop the reservoir to the best commercial advantage,” Woodside’s spokeswoman Yvonne Ball said in an e-mail today.
East Timor will block Woodside’s plans to develop the Sunrise LNG plant, the Associated Press reported, citing a statement from Secretary of State Agio Pereira. Plans to either pipe the gas to Darwin or process the fuel using floating LNG technology won’t be approved by the government, according to the report published on the Sydney Morning Herald Web site. Telephone calls to Pereira’s office were not answered.
Woodside and its partners in Sunrise, which include Royal Dutch Shell Plc and ConocoPhillips, are deciding “a development theme selection that will accord with key treaty requirements,” Ball said.
Australia and East Timor completed a treaty in 2007 for the administration of the Sunrise field, which straddles a boundary between Australian waters and an area jointly managed by the two countries. The countries agreed to share royalties.
Woodside owns about 33 percent of Sunrise and is the operator, while Houston-based ConocoPhillips has a 30 percent stake. Shell has about 27 percent and Osaka Gas Co. 10 percent.
To contact the reporters on this story: Jason Scott in Perth at jscott14@bloomberg.net; Dinakar Sethuraman in Singapore at +65- dinakar@bloomberg.net.
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New skateboard park plan for Swartz Creek Golf Course announced by Flint’s “SK810” group
Home » Analysis » New skateboard park plan for Swartz Creek Golf Course announced by Flint’s “SK810” group
By Jeffery L. Carey Jr.
Under threat of rain, more than 75 people were in attendance April 20 for the announcement of plans to build a new skate park for the city of Flint.
The announcement came during this year’s Easter egg hunt and skateboard jam at the existing skate park at the Swartz Creek Golf Course, 1902 Hammerberg Rd. The new skate park would be built on the same site, on the old tennis courts visible from the westbound side of I-69.
The new park, announced at the skate-jam by steering committee member Michael Wright of Flint’s Factory Two, will be planned by a group of local members under the name Flint Sk810, a play on Flint’s area code.
Jennings Harper skates in the current park at Hammerberg Road (Photo by Darlene Carey)
Wright also thanked local skateboarder Dan Wilson for revitalizing the old skate park and “bringing it out [of] the ashes it had fallen into.”
“This project is very similar in many ways to how the city has helped guide and facilitate at the former Mott Park Golf Course, now known as the Mott Park Recreation Area,” said Candice Mushatt, public information officer for the city of Flint, who answered questions from EVM via an email reply.
“The planning and zoning division of the city is responsible for Flint’s publicly owned parks and implementing Imagine Flint Master Plan’s environmental, open space, and park goals,” she said.
The Mott Park project, a “paddler’s landing” on the Flint River, is being built this summer and was financed partly through a “Patronicity” matching funds campaign through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. That project was promoted by a group of Mott Park residents and other local donors in collaboration with the Flint River Watershed Coalition and the city.
“This project is another example of how we work to empower Flint’s residents, volunteers, and partners to plan and implement improvements in parks and neighborhoods,” Mushatt said.
Kids enjoying the skate park (Photo by Darlene Carey)
“Ideally, the community-led Flint Sk810 steering committee will research, promote, and guide the project’s design process and planning, and ultimately raise funds and write grants for the skate park,” Mushatt added.
“This is very similar to what has been done at several Flint park properties, including the Mott Park Recreation Area, Max Brandon Park, Berston Fieldhouse and the 45 other parks that have been adopted by Adopt-a-Park groups,” she said. “Partnerships and volunteer groups such as the Friends of Max Brandon and now the Flint Sk810 committee are valuable partners of Flint.”
Artist Zeb Molina creating a mural during the April 20 skate jam event (Photo by Darlene Carey)
“In the process of doing our due diligence, city planning staff have contacted and had conversations with several other municipalities, foundations, skate park designers and builders, and several local and national professional skateboarders,” Mushatt said.
“This includes meeting with representatives of the Tony Hawk Foundation to tour potential sites, and to discuss the different grant and funding opportunities their organization and others might be able to provide,” Mushatt explained.
The mission of the Tony Hawk Foundation, as described on their website, is to “promote high-quality, public skate parks in low-income areas throughout the United States, and to support international programs that enrich the lives of youth through skateboarding. Only organizations seeking to build free, public skate parks in low-income communities in the United States may apply for a grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation.”
In attendance at the launch event was also Ann Arbor consultant Trevor Staples, a member of the Friends of Ann Arbor Skatepark. Sk810 members say they hope to use Ann Arbor’s skate park initiative as a model for their own community fundraised initiative.
Currently, the stakeholders involved in this project are Michael Wright, of Factory Two in Flint, a community member on the committee; Zachary Hayes, a student majoring in environmental science and sustainability at the University of Michigan-Flint and who is also part of the city of Flint Master Plan Implementation group through AmeriCorps VISTA – Parks; Adam M. Moore, lead planner in the planning and zoning department forthe city of Flint, who is sponsoring the project and is on the planning committee; and local volunteers Shawn Rust, Brett Pierce, Dan Wilson, William “Mackie” Thomas, Jennings Harper, Jenna Bankston, Thomas Hutchinson, John Guynn, Nick Cotton, Sydney McCarley, Jon Hardman, Polly McCollum, Dave Pietrowski, Drake Allen, Stefanie Bentoski, Jeff Johnson, Angela Stamps, Joe Enriquez, and Nick Welch as chairman, are all on the steering committee.
“In order to assist with this project, the city is working to hire a professional skate park designer to work with the public at large, stakeholders, neighbors, and the Sk810 committee, to design and budget a new park,” Mushatt said. “This process is in its very early stages and will work to ensure a community-designed, multi-use space near the parking lot of the city-owned, Swartz Creek Valley Golf Course.”
Five design companies submitted proposals to the city of Flint on Thursday, April 4, Mushatt added. “The proposals themselves are being reviewed by the city and its purchasing division. The city’s goal in hiring a designer is to allow the Sk810 committee to focus on outreach, building the growing committee, and eventually fundraising for the park.”
The steering committee expects to hold more meetings to finalize their design, but Jennings Harper, of the Brush Alley Skateboard Shop, said he has been personally looking at a company called California Skateparks.
“That’s the most up-to-date and modern style skate park that everyone in California skates and that’s where skateboarding is from, so I want a park like the ones they skate every day,” Harper said.
As for ownership of the new skateboard park, Mushatt said, “Improvements to Flint city parks, regardless of who makes or pays for them, become the property of the city of Flint. Ultimately, the long-term maintenance of the 70 public recreation and open space properties, and the public amenities in them, are the responsibility of the city.
“The city does enter into partnership agreements, leases, or other formal agreements with private, public, non-profit, and governmental organizations, stakeholders, or community volunteers, to raise funds for new amenities to conduct maintenance of existing amenities,” she said.
Mushatt said the city has worked with a number of local and national partners to build new playgrounds in Flint parks. She stated the playgrounds were bought and installed by a mix of partners and volunteers, though they become the property of the city.
“While fundraising to build those playgrounds, a maintenance fund was also created, and park adopter relationships formed. General day-to-day maintenance, such as picking up litter, changing trash bags, painting, etc. is handled by volunteer groups coordinated by the city and Keep Genesee County Beautiful, a program of the Genesee County Parks, which operates the Adopt-a-Park program.”
Mushatt said the fund also pays for hiring contractors to make improvements or install replacement parts, where a professional is required. While the details have yet to be worked out, a similar arrangement to this will be sought with the Flint Sk810 committee.
Skateboarding Easter Bunny, AKA Mike Wright, meeting kids at the April 20 skate-jam (Photo by Darlene Carey)
Sponsored by the newly formed Sk810 steering committee, DIY Flint, Brush Alley Skateboard Shop, and the Recycle Bike Shop and Mobile Bike Repair of Flint, the April 20 event included children and adults alike, as children were able to meet the Easter Bunny as he skated around the park during the egg hunt.
Also featured at the event was local artist Zeb Molina, who created a large mural of a skull wearing a baseball cap. The performance artist used spray paint to create a nearly seven-foot-tall piece. Free food, vendor tables for the sponsors, and prizes including tee-shirts and free skateboards rounded out the day.
Banner photo of skateboarders hanging out by Darlene Carey.
EVM Staff Writer Jeffery L. Carey, Jr. can be reached at jlcareyjr@hotmail.com.
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Posted on the 27th April 2015
If you were to judge British public opinion from newspaper headlines, you would assume we were terrified of the idea of political parties working together. The horror stories of smaller parties ‘holding the country to ransom’ suggest an electorate fearful of multi-party politics and utterly committed to the old model of single-party majority rule.
But this ignores an inconvenient truth – Britons actually quite like the idea of parties working together. A recent ComRes poll of voters in the 40 most marginal Conservative-Labour constituencies – in other words, where you would expect two-party competition to be fiercest – found 78% think “the Opposition should work with the government on issues they agree on”, while 54% believe “parliament works best when no party is too dominant so that cross-party agreement is needed to pass laws” (against just 28% who thought the opposite). These are not the attitudes of an electorate yearning for the comfort of one-party rule.
This contrasts with other polls which suggest people don’t like coalition. But perhaps that’s because we don’t have enough experience of what power-sharing is like, at least at the Westminster level.
That’s why the Electoral Reform Society, in its recent report Working Together, asked senior politicians from the UK and overseas to give their advice on how to make power-sharing work. And a key lesson from the report is that there are a multitude of different ways to do it.
For instance, as former New Zealand Labour minister (and ERS Deputy CEO) Darren Hughes points out, you can have all sorts of mechanisms for involving smaller parties in minority or confidence-and-supply arrangements. A recent feature of power-sharing agreements in New Zealand is “the appointment of ministers from support parties who do not become members of the government but are bound by Cabinet collective responsibility for the portfolios they held”. It is innovations such as this which make power-sharing seem less scary and more possible.
As former Lib Dem MP and special adviser Julia Goldsworthy notes, “more change and adaptation will be necessary” after the coming election, to reflect the changed political circumstances and different parliamentary arithmetic. But we don’t even have to look overseas to find inspiration – we have a wealth of experience of power-sharing in the devolved institutions and local government.
In fact, the UK has seen every conceivable form of power-sharing from full coalition to minority government via confidence-and-supply and minority coalition. You just have to read our report to realise that’s the case.
So, when it comes to sharing power, what is there to be afraid of?
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Investing "Gangnam Style"
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Korean smallholders do their part to demonstrate the unwisdom of crowds
Oct 2nd 2012
by D.T. | SEOUL
A MID-SIZED sized Korean semiconductor firm named DI makes products with distinctly un-sexy names like “Monitoring Burn-in Tester” and “Wafer Test Board”. It has lost money in each of the past four quarters. And there have been no changes to its fundamentals that might explain why its share price should shoot up from 2,000 to 5,700 won (from $1.80 to $5.12) in the space of just three weeks—including another 15% gain today.
But DI’s chairman and main shareholder, Park Won-ho is no ordinary mortal. He is the father of Park Jae-sang, better known as PSY (as in “psycho”). “Gangnam Style”, if you haven’t heard, is now number one in Britain’s pop charts and number two in America. Local retail investors—referred with the derogatory gaemi-deul (“ants”) by professionals—are piling into DI shares because of it.
Quite how they expect the horse-dancing YouTube phenomenon of 2012 to help DI sell more of its Wafer Test Boards is a mystery. But convoluted investor logic is of course not a new thing. DI is merely the latest example of Korea’s “theme stock”—the local equivalent of the 17th-century Dutch tulip, Pets.com and the like going into 1999, or the Chinese walnut.
One of the most common themes has been the marriage stock. When the son or daughter of a company owner weds a chaebol family member, an unusually generous wedding gift may arrive. Back in 2009, shares in a firm named Bolak ran up from 2,000 won to 9,000 won after the owner’s daughter married into the family behind LG. The effects were short-lived: Bolak shares now fetch a more earthly 3,110 won.
The upcoming presidential election has created another subcategory of theme stocks. Following Ahn Chul-soo’s emergence as a political force about a year ago, shares in his company, Ahnlab, ran up from about 20,000 won each to a peak of 167,200 won. Since he declared himself as a candidate, Ahnlab has been crashing: now each share fetches 82,000 won. Ahnlab’s price-earnings ratio is still 87, mind you.
There are worse cases. Excitable ants bid up shares in Daehyun, a clothing firm, by 350% last summer, due to an apparent link with another presidential contender, Moon Jae-in. A widely-circulated photograph of a man who looked like Daehyun’s CEO seated smiling with Mr Moon was all they needed.
The man in the photo of course was in fact not even the CEO in question. The Financial Services Commission (FSC believes that the photograph and accompanying fib was deliberately spread by an individual pump-and-dump artist who ended up making 1.1 billion won (around $1m) from the jump in Daehyun’s shares.
The presidential race is just getting into full swing. Despite the FSC’s warnings, it is likely that political theme-stock mania will reach new heights in the coming weeks. This correspondent interviewed Moon Jae-in back in August and, unlike Daehyun’s CEO, actually had his picture taken with him. Should you read of an English journalist in South Korea quitting his day job and striking it rich between now and the election, you’ll know what happened.
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What's the Best Kind of Car for the Climate?
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Aug. 12, 2019 09:29AM EST Climate
By Sara Peach
Dear Sara,
I live in a city that does not have great transportation options, and I live far enough from my work that I am not able to walk or ride a bike. I have a 15-year-old car that I am looking to replace.
My husband and I are open to buying a hybrid or electric car. We live in Michigan, and the gentleman at the dealership told us that in our climate, we would not get maximum efficiency out of a hybrid due to cold temperatures in the winter. Additionally, I understand that hybrid and electric cars have less of a footprint on the road, but require greater resources to create, thus negating the benefit. Is that true? – Christina in Michigan
Dear Christina,
One of the claims you've heard is true – but it's not the whole picture. And the other is false. As I'll explain, Michigan is an imperfect place to drive hybrid or electric vehicles. But overall, their benefits to the climate outweigh the drawbacks, so these vehicles can make solid choices even in your cold Midwestern state.
Why Hybrids Can Be Better for the Climate
Most cars and trucks run by burning diesel or gasoline in internal combustion engines. They contribute to climate change by releasing heat-trapping carbon dioxide from their tailpipes.
Hybrid vehicles, by contrast, contain both an electric motor and an internal combustion engine. The electric motor assists the gasoline engine and in some cases propels the car on its own, boosting the vehicle's efficiency. Hybrids also take advantage of several fuel-saving features, such as powering off automatically at stoplights to prevent idling. As a result, they typically boast better fuel economy – and therefore a smaller climate impact – than vehicles running on conventional engines alone.
But be sure to compare mileage ratings: A hybrid SUV may get fewer miles to the gallon than a compact car running on a conventional engine alone.
The Climate Benefits of Electric Cars
Fueling and driving an electric vehicle generally produces far less carbon dioxide than a car with a conventional engine. That's because across much of the U.S., generating the electricity to charge the car produces less heat-trapping pollution than burning gasoline or diesel.
That said, the mix of fuels powering the electricity grid makes a big difference to the climate impact. For example, California generates less than half of its electricity from fossil fuels. As a result, the average electric car charged in the Golden State is responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide as a gasoline car getting 109 miles per gallon, according to a Union of Concerned Scientists analysis. In Michigan's Lower Peninsula – where a larger share of electricity is generated from fossil fuels – an average electric car pollutes as much as a gasoline car getting 49 mpg. That's worse for the climate than an electric car fueled in California, but still better than the average new car with an internal combustion engine.
In fact, most U.S. residents now live in a place where electric cars get at least the equivalent of 46 mpg, and often much higher. You can see the mileage estimate for your region here.
When it comes to climate change, an electric car holds another advantage over vehicles with conventional engines: the opportunity to improve if and when the grid reduces its reliance on fossil fuels.
"If you buy a gasoline car, you know, the efficiency is set," said David Reichmuth, an engineer who studies vehicles at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "If anything, it gets a little less efficient, you know, as the car gets older – whereas the electric car could effectively become cleaner over time, not because it becomes more efficient, but because the electricity going into it will become cleaner over time."
How Does Cold Weather Affect Vehicle Efficiency?
Your dealer was correct to say that cold weather reduces the efficiency of hybrid vehicles. But that's not the whole picture. In fact, cold weather causes efficiency to decline in all three kinds of vehicles – hybrid, electric and internal combustion engine. In icy temperatures, vehicle batteries and engines simply don't perform as well as they do in warmer weather, among other factors that drag down efficiency.
According to FuelEconomy.gov, a gasoline car's mileage is 12 to 22% lower at 20 degrees Fahrenheit than at 77 degrees. For hybrids, fuel economy falls by 31 to 34% in cold weather.
But that need not deter you from purchasing a hybrid vehicle – provided you choose one with a high mileage rating. Top-performing hybrids, such as the 2019 Hyundai Ioniq hybrid (58 mpg) and the 2019 Toyota Prius (56 mpg), will likely contribute less to climate change than vehicles with conventional engines, even accounting for cold-weather efficiency declines.
As for electric vehicles, a 2015 paper by Carnegie Mellon researchers found that the range of the Nissan Leaf can drop by as much as 36% in cold climates. Test drives of several electric vehicle models by AAA and Consumer Reports have also found substantial range losses in cold temperatures. So don't miss these tips from Consumer Reports, which advises those living in cold climates to purchase a car with twice the range they expect to use.
But despite Michigan's cold climate, the Carnegie Mellon researchers found that an electric vehicle will still likely pollute less than one with a conventional engine. Taking into account the carbon impact of the regional electricity grid and the diminished performance of electric vehicles in a cold climate, the researchers calculated that a Nissan Leaf driven in Michigan's Lower Peninsula is responsible for roughly 200 grams of carbon dioxide per mile driven. That's about half as much as the average new vehicle, according to this greenhouse gas emissions calculator from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.
How Manufacturing Affects the Climate Impact of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Christina, you've heard that hybrid and electric vehicles consume more resources to manufacture than vehicles with internal combustion engines. It's true that producing hybrid and electric vehicles requires more energy – and associated greenhouse gases – than those with only internal combustion engines. Manufacturing batteries for electric vehicles, in particular, consumes a lot of energy.
However, that does not negate the climate benefits of the vehicles. Calculating the lifetime impact of the vehicles is complex, but various studies suggest that after they hit the road, hybrid and electric vehicles more than make up for their energy-intensive beginnings.
Reichmuth of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an author of one such analysis, said that excess emissions from manufacturing electric vehicles are offset quickly: "As long as the car's driving for more than a couple years, there'd be a net emissions benefit," he said.
The bottom line: Either a hybrid or electric vehicle is likely a better choice for the climate than a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, even in chilly Michigan. But nothing beats avoiding unneeded car trips in the first place, so don't neglect to let your leaders know your thoughts on improving local options for walking, biking and public transit.
– Sara
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— EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) May 14, 2019
Wondering how climate change could affect you or your loved ones? Send your questions to sara@yaleclimateconnections.org. Questions may be edited for length and clarity.
Sara Peach is the senior editor of Yale Climate Connections.
Reposted with permission from our media associate Yale Climate Connections.
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NOAA Names 2020 Second-Hottest Year on Record; NASA Says It Tied for Hottest Ever
Wildfires within the Arctic Circle in Alaska on June 4, 2020. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data processed by Pierre Markuse. CC BY 2.0
By Jeff Masters, Ph.D.
Earth had its second-warmest year on record in 2020, just 0.02 degrees Celsius (0.04°F) behind the record set in 2016, and 0.98 degrees Celsius (1.76°F) above the 20th-century average, NOAA reported January 14.
<p><a href="https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v4/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NASA</a> and the <a href="https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-global-november-temperatures-reached-record-high-while-europe-experienced-its-warmest" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">European Copernicus Climate Change Service</a> rated 2020 as tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record (NASA rates the margin of error at .05 degrees C); the <a href="https://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/nov_wld.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Japan Meteorological Agency</a> rated 2020 as the warmest year on record. Minor differences in rankings often occur among various research groups, the result of different ways they handle data-sparse regions such as the Arctic.</p>
<p>Global ocean temperatures in 2020 were the third-warmest on record, global land temperatures the warmest on record. Global satellite-measured temperatures in 2020 for the lowest eight kilometers of the atmosphere were the second-warmest or warmest in the 42-year record, according to the University of Alabama, Huntsville and Remote Sensing Solutions, respectively.</p><p>The Northern Hemisphere had its warmest year on record in 2020 and the Southern Hemisphere its fifth-warmest. By continent, here are the 2020 temperature rankings:</p><p>Europe: first warmest<br>Asia: first warmest<br>South America: second warmest<br>Africa: fourth warmest<br>Australia (and Oceania): fourth warmest<br>North America: 10th warmest</p><p>As detailed in a January 12 post at <a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/01/hurricanes-wildfires-and-heat-dominated-u-s-weather-in-2020/" target="_blank">this site</a> by Bob Henson, 2020 for the U.S. was the fifth-warmest year in history going back to 1895. Ten states had their second-warmest year on record and four had their third-warmest year. None of the contiguous 48 states was below-average in temperature in 2020.</p>
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Figure 1. Departure of temperature from average for 2020, the second-warmest year the globe has seen since record-keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA. Record-high annual temperatures over land and ocean surfaces were measured across parts of Europe, Asia, southern North America, South America, and across parts of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. No land or ocean areas were record cold for the year. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
<p>The remarkable global warmth of 2020 means that the seven warmest years on record since 1880 were the most recent seven years — 2014 through 2020. The near-record global warmth in 2020 is all the more striking since it occurred during the minimum of the weakest solar cycle in more than 100 years and during a year without a strong El Niño. Record-warm global temperatures typically occur during strong El Niño events and when the solar cycle is near its maximum. The warmth of 2020 is a testament to how significantly human-caused global warming is heating the planet.</p>
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Figure 2. Total ocean heat content (OHC) in the top 2000 meters from 1958-2020. Cheng et al., Upper Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High in 2020, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
<h4>Warmest Year on Record for Total Ocean Heat Content</h4><p>Despite the presence of a prominent La Niña event that began in August, the total heat content of the world's oceans in 2020 was the warmest in recorded human history, according to a January 13, 2021 paper by Cheng <em>et al.</em>, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-021-0447-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Upper Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High in 2020</a>, published in <em>Advances in Atmospheric Sciences</em>. In the uppermost 2,000 meters of the oceans, there were 211 to 234 zettajoules more heat in 2020 than the 1981-2010 average, and 2020 had 1 to 20 zettajoules more ocean heat content than in 2019 (a zettajoule is one sextillion joules — ten to the 21st power). For comparison, in 2010, humans <a href="https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/1216783686957297672?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">used</a> a total of 0.5 zettajoules of energy.</p><p>More than 90% of the increasing heat from human-caused global warming accumulates in the ocean because of its large heat capacity. The remaining heating manifests as atmospheric warming, a drying and warming landmass, and melting land and sea ice. Increasing ocean heat content causes sea-level rise through thermal expansion of the water and melting of glaciers in contact with the ocean. It also produces stronger and more rapidly intensifying hurricanes; causes more intense precipitation events that can lead to destructive flooding; contributes to "marine heat waves" that damage or destroy coral reefs; and disrupts atmospheric circulation patterns.</p>
<h4>A Slew of Heat Records in 2020</h4><p>International records researcher <a href="https://twitter.com/extremetemps" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Maximiliano Herrera</a> keeps the pulse of the planet in remarkable detail, and he logged 11 nations or territories that set or tied their all-time heat records in 2020. That total fell far short of the record of 24 such records in 2019. No nations or territories set or tied an all-time cold record in 2020. Here are the all-time heat records set in 2020:</p><p>Colombia: 42.6°C (108.7°F) at Jerusalem, February 19 (tie);<br>Ghana: 44.0°C (111.2°F) at Navrongo, April 6;<br>Cuba: 39.2°C (102.6°F) at Palo Seco, April 10; broken again April 11 with 39.3°C (102.7°F) at Veguitas, and again on April 12 with 39.7°C (103.5°F) at Veguitas;<br>Mayotte, France department: 36.4°C (97.5°F) at Trevani, April 14;<br>Taiwan: 40.5°C (104.9°F) at Taimali Research Center, July 16;<br>Lebanon: 45.4°C (113.7°F) at Houche Al Oumara, July 27;<br>United States: 54.4°C (129.9°F) at Death Valley, California, August 16;<br>Japan: 41.1°C (106.0°F) at Hamamatsu, August 17;<br>Dominica: 35.7°C (96.3°F) at Canefield Airport, September 15;<br>Puerto Rico (U.S. territory): 37.8°C (100.0°F ) at Aguirre, September 17; and<br>Paraguay: 45.5°C (113.9°F ) at Pozo Hondo, September 26.</p><p>Among global weather stations having at least 40 years of record-keeping, Herrera documented 348 that exceeded their all-time heat record in 2020; only eight stations with a long-term period of record set an all-time cold record in 2020. For comparison, 632 stations set their all-time heat record in 2019 and 11 their all-time cold record.</p>
<h4>Notable Global Heat and Cold Records for 2020</h4><p>Hottest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere: 54.4°C (129.9°F) at Death Valley, U.S., August 16;<br>Coldest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere: -66.0°C (-86.8°F) at Summit, Greenland, January 2;<br>Hottest temperature in the Southern Hemisphere: 48.9°C (120.0°F) at Penrith Lakes, Australia, January 4;<br>Coldest temperature in the Southern Hemisphere: -80.8°C (-113.4°F) at Dome Fuji, Antarctica, August 16;<br>Highest 2020 average temperature worldwide: 31.5°C (88.7°F) at Yelimane, Mali, and Matam, Senegal; and<br>Highest 2020 average temperature in the Southern Hemisphere: 29.8°C (85.6°F) at Surabaya Airport, Indonesia, and Wyndham, Australia.</p><p>Earth's record for hottest yearly average temperature was 32.9°C (91.2°F) at Makkah, Saudi Arabia, in 2010 and 2016.</p>
<h4>126 Additional Monthly National/Territorial Heat Records Beaten or Tied</h4><p>In addition to the 11 all-time national heat records, 126 other national monthly heat records were set in 2020, for a total of 137 national monthly heat records:</p><p>– January (13): Norway, South Korea, Angola, Congo Brazzaville, Dominica, Mexico, Indonesia, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Sao Tome and Principe, Cuba, British Indian Ocean Territory, Singapore;<br>– February (12): Spain, Antarctica, Azerbaijan, Costa Rica, The Bahamas, Switzerland, Maldives, Gambia, Russia, Seychelles, Dominican Republic, U.S. Virgin Islands;<br>– March (7): Paraguay, Cabo Verde, Mozambique, Seychelles, United States, Thailand, Northern Mariana Islands;<br>– April (14): Paraguay, Niger, St. Barthelemy, Honduras, Guernsey, Haiti, Congo Brazzaville, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, China, Saba, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominican Republic;<br>– May (10): Niger, Greece, Saba, Cyprus, Solomon Islands, Turkey, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Chile, Uzbekistan;<br>– June (6): Maldives, Thailand, U.S. Virgin Islands, Saba, Kenya, Ghana;<br>– July (7): Mozambique, U.S. Virgin Islands, Laos, Myanmar, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Northern Mariana Islands;<br>– August (6): Solomon Islands, Mexico, Australia, Cocos Islands, Paraguay, U.S. Virgin Islands;<br>– September (18): Laos, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, Mexico, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Botswana, St. Barthelemy, Mayotte, Argentina, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory;<br>– October (11): Algeria, Brazil, Tunisia, Turkey, Cyprus, Jordan, Peru, Myanmar, Northern Marianas Islands, Botswana, Maldives;<br>– November (11): Luxembourg, Finland, Nepal, Mexico, Aland Islands, Sweden, Maldives, Northern Marianas, Taiwan, Swaziland, Sudan; and<br>– December (11): Mexico, Ghana, Pakistan, Algeria, Qatar, Maldives, Niger, Taiwan, Dominica, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands.</p>
<h4>One Monthly National/Territorial Cold Record Beaten or Tied in 2020</h4><p>– April: St. Eustatius.<br></p><p>An October monthly record reported in Aruba was judged to be unreliable.</p>
<h4>Hemispherical and Continental Temperature Records in 2020</h4><p>– Highest minimum temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere in January: 29.1°C (84.4°F) at Bonriki, Kiribati, January 17;<br>– Highest maximum temperature ever recorded in North America in January: 42.0°C (107.6°F) at Vicente Guerrero, Mexico, January 21;<br>– Highest temperature ever recorded in continental Antarctica and highest February temperature ever recorded in Antarctica plus the surrounding islands: 18.4°C (65.1°F) at Base Esperanza, February 6;<br>– Highest minimum temperature ever recorded in February in Antarctica: 7.6°C (45.7°F) at Base Marambio, February 9;<br>– Highest minimum temperature ever recorded in February in the Northern Hemisphere: 32.0°C (89.6°F) at Yelimane, Mali, February 23;<br>– Highest minimum temperature ever recorded in April in the Southern Hemisphere: 31.1°C (88.0°F) at Argyle, Australia, April 2;<br>– Highest minimum temperature ever recorded in May in Europe: 30.1°C (86.2°F) at Emponas, Greece, May 17;<br>– Highest minimum temperature ever recorded in May in North America: 35.0°C (95.0°F) at Death Valley, California (U.S.), May 28;<br>– Highest temperature ever recorded in the polar regions: 38.0°C (100.4°F) at Verkhoyansk, Russia, June 20;<br>– Highest reliable temperature ever recorded on Earth: 54.4°C (129.9°F) at Death Valley, California, August 16;<br>– Highest reliable minimum temperature ever recorded in August in North America: 40.0°C (104.0°F) at Death Valley, California (U.S.), August 17;<br>– Highest temperature ever recorded in Australia and Oceana in August: 40.7°C (105.3°F) at Yampi Sound, Australia, August 22; beaten again with 41.2°C (106.2°F) at West Roebuck, Australia, on August 23; and<br>– Highest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere in November: 44.8°C (112.6°F) at San Francisco and Tubares, Mexico, November 5.</p>
<h4>December 2020: Earth's Eighth-Warmest December on Record</h4><p>December 2020 was the eighth-warmest December since global record-keeping began in 1880, NOAA's <a href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202007" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Centers for Environmental Information</a> reported January 14. NASA and the <a href="https://climate.copernicus.eu/monthly-climate-bulletins" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">European Copernicus Climate Change Service</a> rated the month as the sixth-warmest December on record, and the <a href="https://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/nov_wld.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Japan Meteorological Agency</a> rated it as the tenth-warmest. Again: Minor differences in rankings often occur among various research groups, the result of different ways they handle data-sparse regions such as the Arctic.</p>
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Figure 3. Departure of sea surface temperature from average in the benchmark Niño 3.4 region of the eastern tropical Pacific (5°N-5°S, 170°W-120°W). Sea surface temperature were approximately one degree Celsius below average over the past month, characteristic of moderate La Niña conditions. Tropical Tidbits
<h4>A Moderate La Niña Event Continues</h4><p>La Niña conditions remained in the moderate range during December and early January, prompting NOAA to continue its <a href="https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ninonina.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">La Niña</a> advisory in a January 14 <a href="https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso/current/?enso_tab=enso-cpc_update" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">monthly discussion</a> of the state of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation, or ENSO.</p><p>Over the past month, sea surface temperatures in the benchmark Niño 3.4 region of the eastern tropical Pacific (5°N-5°S, 170°W-120°W) have been approximately 1 degree Celsius below average. The threshold for "strong" La Niña conditions is 1.5 degrees Celsius below average; "moderate" La Niña conditions are 1.0-1.5 degrees below average.</p><p>Forecasters at NOAA and at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society <a href="https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso/current/?enso_tab=enso-cpc_plume" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">expect La Niña conditions</a> will continue through the winter (95% chance during January-February-March), and potentially transition to "neutral" during the spring (55% chance during April-May-June). About half of all La Niña events continue into a second year, but fewer than 20% of the ENSO models predicted that La Niña conditions would last into the summer of 2021.</p>
<h4>Arctic Sea Ice: Third-Lowest December Extent on Record</h4><p>Arctic sea ice extent during December 2020 was the third-lowest in the 42-year satellite record, behind 2016 and 2017, according to the <a href="http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Snow and Ice Data Center</a>. <a href="https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Antarctic sea ice extent</a> in December 2020 was near-average.</p>
<h4>Notable Global Heat and Cold Marks for December 2020</h4><p>– Hottest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere: 41.5°C (106.7°F) at Matam, Senegal, December 2;<br>– Coldest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere: -57.5°C (-71.5°F) at Oymykon, Russia, December 29;<br>– Hottest temperature in the Southern Hemisphere: 48.7°C (119.7°F) at Birdsville, Australia, December 5; and<br>– Coldest temperature in the Southern Hemisphere: -44.9°C (-48.8°F) at Dome A, Antarctica, December 3.</p>
<h4>Major Weather Stations' New All-Time Heat or Cold Records in December 2020</h4><p>Among global stations with a record of at least 40 years, two stations set all-time cold records in December, and no stations set an all-time heat record:</p><p>Hamamasu (Japan) min. -21.5°C (-6.7°F), December 31; and<br>Bibai (Japan) min. -26.5°C (-15.7°F), December 31.<br></p><p><em>Statistics courtesy of <a href="http://www.mherrera.org/temp.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Maximiliano Herrera</a>.</em></p>
<p><em>Reposted with permission from <a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/01/noaa-names-2020-second-hottest-year-on-record-nasa-says-it-tied-for-hottest-ever/" target="_blank">Yale Climate Connections</a>.</em></p>
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Career in Biotechnology-Courses, colleges, scope and more
Bachelor in Engineering
Biotechnology- An introduction:
What is Biotechnology Course – When most of the students with medical stream (PCB Physics Chemistry Biology) think about their career path after class 12th they either think of a doctor or a pharmacist. But fortunately, the scope of this stream is much beyond just medical science. Biotechnology course offers students very interesting and lucrative career opportunities. It offers a different perspective on science. The sector of biotechnology is growing at a steady pace in India. Today thousands of students from all parts of the country are choosing biotechnology engineering field as their career. There are many biotechnology courses which enable the students to make a career in this field. However, in this article, we will read about two such major biotechnology courses and department of biotechnology which are quite popular among students, Bsc Biotechnology and B.Tech in Biotechnology.
In simple words biotechnology is the combination of biology and technology. Both aspects work together to help mankind. It can be defined as the use of living organisms or biomolecular processes to create technology and products which help us to improve our life. Biotechnology is based on the concept that all living organisms have one thing in common i.e DNA. It is the modification of cell structures according to human needs so that they can be used for research work and product development. It blends together the concepts of cellular and molecular biology and animal, human and plant genetics. We have been using biotechnology since ancient times to improve the quality of human life in different fields such as medicine, agriculture and food production. Biotechnology has its applications in various fields like pollution control, growth of vaccines, animal husbandry, curing diseases, energy conservation and production etc. Applications of modern Biotechnology includes genetic engineering.
What does a Bio technologist do?
A biotechnologist is a trained professional who has deep knowledge of various living structures and uses it in different fields like medical, agriculture, manufacturing, food etc. There are a number of duties a bio-technologist can perform. Tasks of a bio technologist may vary depending upon the industry they are a part of. Most Bio Technologist may work in labs. Their job may include assisting lab technicians, writing records, analyzing results, doing research work etc. They also set up the instruments used for different experiments and conduct them.
The scope of biotechnology spreads across various fields and since everyone can not do everything, a bio technologist chooses his/her specific area of specialization. One may indulge in the processing of food and household products. They also make many preservatives and additives which are found in preserved food items.Bio technologists are responsible for the production of various food items such as soya bean and yeast.
A bio technologist plays an important role in the medical field as well. They research to find a cure for various diseases. They also work to improve various drugs and the treatments they are used for.
A Bio Technologist who specializes in the field of agriculture may be involved in plant and animal research. Their job is to research various pesticides and their effect on crops and our environment and to develop their alternatives. They also use genetic engineering to make hybrid fruits and vegetables.
Research and production is not the only work Bio technologists do.They can work as investigator in various companies to ensure the whole process is being done safely and health standards are being maintained.Senior professionals can lead or manage research teams and various projects.
Academic programs in Biotechnology Colleges:
Bsc in Biotechnology
Bsc in Biotechnology is an undergraduate degree program.It’s duration is 3 years which includes 6 semesters.This course includes subjects such as maths, biology, chemistry and physics.The course focuses on deep understanding of various biological processes at cellular and organism level.Students are given both theory and practical sessions.Some of the subjects which are taught in this course are
Bio molecules
Biotechnology Medical
Microbiology of soil
Co enzymes
Genetic Mapping
Biofertilizer and Biopesticide
B.Tech in Biotechnology
B.Tech in Biotechnology is a four year bachelor degree undergraduate program in biotechnology.It is an engineering program.Just like any other engineering discipline the duration of this course is 4 years, divided into 8 semesters.Each semester is about 6 months long.Both theory and practical sessions are imparted to students along with internship programs.Subjects which you will study under this course may include
Nano Biotechnology
Metabolic Engineering
Principles of Chemical Processes
Genetics and Genetic Engineering
Enzyme Engineering and Technology
NOTE- Subjects may differ in different colleges depending upon the management .The basic remains same.
The eligibility requirement to apply for undergraduate degree in Biotechnology (Bsc and B.Tech)
The basic eligibility criteria to apply for Bsc in Biotechnology and B.Tech in Biotechnology remains same.A student must have passed his/her class 12th examinations from a recognized national or state level board of education with science stream.Students with both PCB (Physics Chemistry Biology) and PCM (Physics Chemistry Maths) can apply for the course.
Along with this it is mandatory to clear various entrance exams held by various colleges who give admission strictly on the basis of merit scored in these tests.
Academic Paths in Biotechnology
Here are the few courses one can pursue in the field of Biotechnology:
Bsc in Applied Biotechnology
Bsc in Medical Biotechnology
B.E. Biotechnology
B.Tech in Industrial Microbiology
B.Tech. Industrial Biotechnology
M.Tech in Biotechnology
M.E in Bio informatics
Msc in Medical Biotechnology
M.Tech in Bio process Engineering
M.Tech. Industrial Biotechnology
M.Sc. Nanobiotechnology
How to become a Bio technologist
STEP 1– Take science stream in high school.
One must choose science stream in their 11th class because only students with science stream can apply for this course.You can choose either PCM or PCB as your subjects.
STEP 2– Give entrance exams.
One must give national and state level entrance exams held for admission in various Biotechnology courses in order to get yourself eligible for admission in various colleges.
STEP 3– Earn a Bachelors degree (Bsc or B.Tech in Biotechnology or any other course in this field) from a reputed college.
STEP 4– Earn internships through college.
STEP 5– Get a job.
Entrance exams for admission in Biotechnology courses
A.I.I.M.S (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) Biotechnology Entrance Examination
J.A.M Biotechnology Entrance Examination of I.I.T (Indian Institute of Technology), Chennai
Goa University Biotechnology Entrance Examination
J.N.U (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Combined Biotechnology Entrance Examination
Combined Biotechnology Entrance Examination (CBEEE)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi JAM Biotechnology entrance exam
All India Biotechnology Entrance Examination
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Common Entrance Test
Kurukshetra University Biotechnology Entrance Exam
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Biotechnology Entrance Exam
M.K.U (Madurai Kamaraj University) Biotechnology Entrance Examination
Central University Biotechnology Entrance Examination
Anna University Biotechnology Entrance Examination
Alagappa University M. Sc Biotechnology Entrance Examination
B.H.U (Banaras Hindu University) M.Sc Biotechnology Entrance Examination
H.P.U (Himachal Pradesh University) M.Sc Biotechnology Entrance Examination
O.U (Osmania University) M.Sc Biotechnology Entrance Examination
University of Mysore M.Sc Biotechnology Entrance Examination
University of Madras M.Sc Biotechnology Entrance Examination
Top Biotechnology Colleges in India
Bsc Biotechnology
A.V.C. College – Bachelor of Science in Bio-Technology
Bangalore City College – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
Amity Institute of Biotechnology – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
Fergusson College, Pune – Bachelors of Science in Biotechnology
Dayanand College – Bachelor of Science In Biotechnology
I.P. College – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
Jodhpur National University – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
Dasmesh Girls College of Education – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
Khalsa College Amritsar – Bachelor Of Science in Biotechnology
St. Mary’s College For Women – Bachelor Of Science In Bio-Technology
Kishan Institute Of Information Technology, Meerut
Vivekanand Education Society’s College of Arts, Science and Commerce – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
St. George College of Management, Science & Nursing – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
Shyamlal Saraswati Mahavidyalaya – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
T John College (TJC), Bangalore – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli – Bachelor Of Science In Bio Technology
Madina Degree College – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
MVP Samaj’s K.T.H.M College – Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
GGS Indraprastha University , Delhi
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG)
Indian Institute Of Technology , Madras
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR)
VIT University (VIT)
PSG College of Technology (PSGTECH)
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (NIT D)
Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar (NITJ)
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
B.S. Abdur Rahman University (BSAU)
National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NIT, Warangal)
Thapar University (TU Patiala)
Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management University (GITAM University)
Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT Madras)
Andhra University (AU, Visakhapatnam)
National Institute of Technology (NITC)
BMS College of Engineering (BMSCE)
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT)
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT)
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD)
Career Prospects in Biotechnology
Biotechnology is one field which has a lot of scope for growth and development of an individual.It is a fast growing sector and it is not a difficult to find a job after doing this course.A Biotech professional can seek job in a variety of sectors such as agriculture, textile industry, manufacturing industries, pharmaceutical companies, chemical industries, healthcare sector, food and drug industry, clinical research, genetic research etc.Both government and private sector offers opportunities to Biotechnology graduates.
Senior Research Associate
Quality Control Officer
Bioinformatics Analyst/Programmer
Bio technologist
Manufacturing Supervisor
Facilities Technician
Bioinformatics Scientist/Engineer
Quality Control (QC) Technician
Molecular Modeler
Director of Product/Process Development
Environmental Health & Safety Specialist
Director of Quality
Director/Manager of Regulatory Affairs
Hindustan Antibiotics
Thapar Group
IDPL
Biocon India Ltd.
Hindustan Lever Ltd
SRL Ranbaxy
Praj Industries
Panacea Biotech
Yashraj Biotechnology
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Indeco expands hammer line with improved models; brings smallest to U.S.
Don McLoud (EQW)
Indeco HP 400 FS hammer
Indeco has rolled out additions to its hydraulic hammer attachment line, including its smallest hammer for the U.S. market, two productivity models, and what it calls an entry-level large hammer.
Here’s a rundown of the products, which the company introduced at ConExpo 2020:
HP 150 FS
Italy-based Indeco is bringing its smallest hammer to the United States with a different model name.
The HP 100 FS has been renamed the HP 150 FS for the U.S. market. The company says the U.S. market is experiencing increased demand for attachments for compact equipment for operating in restricted areas. It is designed for excavators of .7 to 1.8 tons.
Indeco calls its HP 150 FS “the little giant.” It has a working weight of 135 pounds and can achieve top performance even at reduced hydraulic flow, the company says. It delivers 150 foot-pounds of impact and 400 to 1,900 blows per minute. Tool diameter is 1.66”
HP 400 FS and HP 550 FS
Indeco says its upgraded HP 400 FS and HP 550 FS breakers get a boost in power and 10 millimeters more in tool diameter, while not changing the hammers’ size or design.
The HP 400 FS is designed for 2.5-ton excavators. It delivers 406 foot-pounds of impact energy and 540 to 1,670 blows per minute. It weighs 507 pounds. Tool diameter is 2.6 inches.
The HP 550 FS is designed for excavators of 3.5 to 6.5 tons. It weighs 705 pounds, delivers 550 foot-pounds of impact energy and 780 to 1,720 blows per minute. Tool diameter is 2.9 inches.
HP 6000 FS
Indeco HP 6000 FS hammer
Indeco says its new HP 6000 FS hammer is designed to meet a growing trend in the excavator market of 30-ton machines being replaced by those weighing 35 to 36 tons. The HP 6000 is compatible with excavators of 35 to 45 tons. Indeco gave the breaker Hardox steel inserts in the lower part of the casing for increased durability. It has a working weight of 7,936 pounds and impact energy of 6,000 foot-pounds. Tool diameter is 6.7 inches.
Indeco Lube
Indeco has teamed up with Bekalube to offer automatic greasing systems for its hydraulic hammers. The new Indeco Lube systems are designed to provide the correct amount of lubricant and eliminate the need for manual greasing. Two types of lube kits are available: one that can be fitted to the hammer and one that can be fitted to the excavator. Both connect to the hammer through a single greasing point.
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Le Mans Sarthe Basket 53
Cibona Zagreb 64
November 20, 2013 CET: 20:30
Local time: 20:30 ANTARES
Cibona Zagreb got its first win of the season by routing Le Mans Sarthe Basket 53-64. Andrija Zizic tallied 21 points with 7 rebounds to lead the winners, D.J. Strawberry added 13 points and 7 boards, while Dario Saric amassed 11 points, 8 boards, 3 assists and 2 blocks. Despite the win, Le Mans remains last in Group A at 1-5. Reyshawn Terry and Dashaun Wood both scored 19 points for Le Mans, which slipped to 3-3.
Cibona opened the night by scoring the first 14 points – 8 of them by big man Zizic. DeShaun Wood ended a nine-minute scoreless stretch for the home team from downtown before a layup by Saric fixed the score at 3-16 after 10 minutes. A Strawberry layup gave Cibona 6-20 lead and late in the quarter, a three pointer bagged by Antoine Eito made the score 18-25. Zizic’s free throws and Wood’s basket from beyond the arc left the score at 23-29 in favor of Cibona at halftime. The visitors came back from the lockers and went on a 0-7 run with 5 points from Strawberry to lead 23-36, but a dunk and three-pointer by Terry made it 30-38. A 14-3 run capped by back-to-back lay ups from Darko Planinic gave a 33-52 margin to Cibona at the end of the third quarter. Terry netted 7 consecutive points opening the final quarter to get within 40-52, but Matt Janning and Zizic fueled the guests to make it 40-56. Wood’s three pointer tried to keep alive Le Mans, 45-58, but a Strawberry layup and Zizic free throws sealed the visiting team’s win.
Eurocupbasketball.com
Referees: BULTO, VICENTE; JURAS, JASMINA; FRITZ, CLEMENS
Attendance: 4300 (Tentative)
Le Mans Sarthe Basket 3 20 10 20
Cibona Zagreb 16 13 23 12
Le Mans Sarthe Basket
5 KAHUDI, CHARLES 21:15 0/1 0/3 1 4 5 1 1 4 5
6 TERRY, REYSHAWN 27:31 18 3/5 4/7 2 2 3 3 2 11
7 KOFFI, ALAIN 20:31 8 2/9 4/5 4 4 8 1 1 2 4 4 6
8 EITO, ANTOINE 17:52 3 1/6 2 2 2 2 3 3
9 FOUCAULT, TOM DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
10 SY, PAPE 18:45 0/3 0/1 2 2 1 3 -6
13 BATISTA, J.P. 19:29 4 2/8 2 2 4 1 2 2 2 1
18 MENDY, KEVIN 3:25
24 ISSA, DOUNIA 12:29 2 1/2 4 4 2 1 2 2
30 WOOD, DASHAUN 31:36 18 2/3 4/11 2/2 1 2 2 3 2 10
44 DUGGINS, VAUGHN 27:07 0/5 0/3 1 2 3 3 1 1 4 2
Totals 200:00 53 10/36 9/31 6/7 13 20 33 7 5 12 1 3 19 21 37
Head coach: JACKSON, JD
Cibona Zagreb
5 KUS, DAVOR 28:15 2 1/1 0/1 2 1 1 4 -1
6 PLANINIC, DARKO 12:44 6 3/4 0/1 1 2 3 1 1 4 3 4
7 BLASSINGAME, JEREL 31:35 5 1/1 0/4 3/4 8 8 5 7 2 4 8
9 SARIC, DARIO 36:56 11 4/8 3/4 2 6 8 3 1 2 2 2 3 19
21 JAGODIC-KURIDZA, MARKO 3:04
22 JUNAKOVIC, MARTIN 5:40 2 1/2 1 1 3 -1
23 JANNING, MATT 24:27 4 2/3 0/3 2 2 1 2 1 1 3
24 STRAWBERRY, DJ 30:03 13 4/5 1/5 2/2 7 7 1 1 2 4 17
31 ZIZIC, ANDRIJA 27:16 21 6/10 9/10 3 4 7 1 1 4 1 3 5 24
44 GABRIC, TOMISLAV DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
64.7% 7.7% 81%
Head coach: RIMAC, SLAVEN
JACKSON, JD
"We had no rhythm or discipline to start the game. Cibona played with control and built their win with patience. We didn’t play together and ended up forcing solutions that were not there. Honestly this is our worst game so far in the Eurocup. Cibona deserves this win and ends a long and difficult period…I congratulate them."
RIMAC, SLAVEN
"For the club, we had a lot of pressure. It’s very important for the continuation. We know it’s difficult for us to go in the second round, but for the confidence, it’s very important. I’m happy with the team’s reaction, we played a good game."
TERRY, REYSHAWN
"We have to change. Our started was very bad. We have to find a way to progress. The first half, like the last few games, we had to come back and we spent a lot of energy. We needed to impose our tempo."
BLASSINGAME, JEREL
"It’s our first victory in the Eurocup. We have some talent, our chemistry is better. We work hard and it pays. We knew that Le Mans is a good team, but we prepared very well."
REGULAR SEASON LAST 32 EIGHTHFINALS QUARTERFINALS SEMIFINALS FINALS
Telenet Ostend 51
November 20 18:30 CET LIVE FINAL
FoxTown Cantu 81
Le Mans Sarthe 53
Cedevita Zagreb 89
Bilbao Basket 79
Belgacom Spirou 77
Banco di Sardegna 82
EWE Baskets 74
Paris Levallois 52
Ratiopharm Ulm 78
Cimberio Varese 82
Belfius Mons Hainaut 65
CAI Zaragoza 104
Telekom Baskets Bonn 61
Virtus Rome 64
Igokea 110
Pinar Karsiyaka 98
Buducnost Voli 69
Khimik Yuzhne 79
Aykon TED Ankara 81
Alba Fehervar 78
Nizhny Novgorod 84
UNICS Kazan 79
Maccabi Haifa 58
Kalev Cramo 75
Banvit Bandirma 72
MZT Skopje 70
VEF Riga 77
Spartak St. Petersburg 61
Besiktas Integral Forex 64
Neptunas 85
Bisons Loimaa 72
Radnicki Kragujevac 84
Panionios Athens 77
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Hanzevast Capitals 79
Local time: 19:30 MARTINI PLAZA
Hanzevast Capitals registered its first win in Group C by edging Spirou Basket 79-73 in Groningen, the Netherlands on Tuesday night. Hanzevast improved to 1-4 while Charleroi stayed fourth at 2-3. Alton Mason led the winners with 16 points. Dwayne Archbold added 15, Kitwana Rhymer had 13 while Rogier Jansen got 11 for the Capitals. Wes Wilkinson had 15 points for Spirou, Tremmell Darden added 13 and Adam Hall 10. Charleroi opened the game with a 0-9 run but Mason and Archbold allowed the Capitals to get a 24-22 lead after 10 minutes. A 10-2 run allowed the Capitals to get a 37-30 lead, but Charleroi fired back to get within 41-40 at the break. Charleroi trailed all the wat in the second half, but Jonathan Tabu still got the guests close, 53-52, after 30 minutes. Jansen and Mason fueled a 11-0 run that put the Capitals ahead for good, as even when Spirou managed to make it a two-point game at 72-70, it could not complete its comeback.
Hanzevast committed 2 quick turnovers in the opening minute. Meanwhile, Darden fed Andre Riddick for a layup and added consecutive baskets in a 0-9 run that Hamilton capped with a triple. Darden kept pacing Spirou, but Rhymer and Mason brought the Capitals back to life, 14-16. Mason capped a 8-0 run with free throws to give the hosts their first lead at 18-16. An outstanding Archbold and Guido Grunheid allowed Hanzevast to extend its lead to 24-22 after 10 minutes. Wilkinson stepped up with consecutive baskets early in the second quarter while Roel Moors score to put Spirou back ahead, 27-28. Rhymer answered with 4 quick points, igniting a 10-2 run that Grunheid capped with a basket off a steal to make Spirou call timeout at 37-30. Wilkinson brought the guests back in the game while a three-point play by Cristophe Beghin tied it at 40-40, but a free throw by Kelvin Melson made the Capitals get a 41-40 halftime edge. Both teams slowed the game tempo after the break, as a basket by Mason and a triple by Archbold allowed Hanzevast to get a 47-42 lead. Tabu and Riddick tried to keep Spirou in the game, but Meijer and Grunheid fueled a 6-0 run that made it a seven-point game, 53-46. Darden and Tabu brought the guests within 53-52 after 30 minutes. Spirou struggled to score early in the fourth quarter, allowing Hanzevast to break the game open. Jansen had 4 points in an 11-0 run that Mason capped with a big triple that boosted the hosts' lead to 64-52. Riddick and Hamilton stepped up for Spirou while free throws by Moors got the guests within 67-59. Jansen scored and Mason hit a critical triple, but Darden and Hamilton got Spirou within 72-70. Meijer hit a free throw while Darden missed a game-tying three-point shot, allowing Hanzevast to celebrate its first ULEB Cup win this season. Mason sealed the outcome with more foul shots.
ULEBCup.com
Referees: SUDEK, PETR; KRAUSE, OLIVER; OBRADOVIC, PETAR
Hanzevast Capitals 24 17 12 26
Spirou Charleroi 22 18 12 21
Hanzevast Capitals
4 JANSEN, ROGIER 18:12 11 3/3 1/5 2/2 1 1 1 1 4 2 1 5
5 HEINEN, RAOUL 17:31 7 1/2 1/1 2/2 2 2 1 2 3 2 6
6 ZDRAVKOVIC, JOVAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
7 ARCHBOLD, DWAYNE 32:15 15 3/9 1/5 6/6 4 4 3 1 4 5 12
8 RHYMER, KITWANA 26:41 13 5/8 3/4 4 3 7 1 2 2 5 4 16
9 MEIJER, NIELS 29:15 7 3/5 1/2 1 5 6 4 3 3 5 13
10 MLADENOVIC, STEFAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
11 MASON, ALTON 33:21 16 3/5 2/6 4/4 2 1 3 5 4 2 1 6 25
12 MORALES, EMILIANO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
13 GRUNHEID, GUIDO 15:44 8 3/5 0/1 2/2 2 2 4 2 2 4 2 7
14 MELSON, KEVIN 21:12 2 0/1 2/4 2 3 5 2 1 2 2 5
15 ENGLICKY, PAVEL 5:49 1 1 1
Team 2 2
Totals 200:00 79 21/38 5/18 22/26 12 21 33 9 19 17 0 0 24 27 92
Head coach: CLAROS, PEP
Spirou Charleroi
4 MOORS, ROEL 29:32 7 1/1 0/1 5/6 3 3 5 2 5 5 6 11
6 HALL, ADAM 26:47 10 3/5 1/4 1/2 3 3 1 3 5 1 1
7 HAMILTON, JUSTIN 33:32 8 2/3 1/2 1/1 1 1 2 2 1 4 4 3 6
8 DARDEN, TREMMELL 22:26 13 5/11 1/3 1 4 5 3 3 1 3 2 14
9 TABU, JONATHAN 16:34 6 2/5 1 1 2 1 3 2 1 2 8
10 RIDDICK, ANDRE 24:23 8 4/5 0/2 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 6
11 WILKINSON, WES 21:57 15 7/8 0/1 1/2 2 4 6 3 1 1 2 21
12 CHADA, ANTHONY 0:22
13 VERMEULEN, SEBASTIEN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
14 MATELA, LEN 11:23 2 1/1 1 2 2 3
15 BEGHIN, CHRISTOPHE 13:04 4 1/3 2/5 2 2 1 1 3 3 1
Head coach: CASTEELS, EDDY
CLAROS, PEP
"We played to our limit to be able to win. This time we improved in the last two minutes. The following next ULEB Cup game against Asesoft Ploiesti we must win by 8 points difference. Possibly there are then still chances. Concerning the input of Kit Rhymer, we were satisfied. It's not his first game, but he doesn't have experience with European basketball yet. He'll adjust. The others must help lead the team to better performances. The game was tough for us. It was a difficult game against a good opponent. We played ourselves fortunately as a team and that brought us the victory."
CASTEELS, EDDY
"I knew, after losing to Amsterdam and Eiffeltowers here [in the preseason], what waited for us in Groningen. All I can do is congratulate our opponent, Hanzevast Capitals, for the victory."
RHYMER, KITWANA
"I'm very happy to have played my first game for this team. We played as one, as we are supposed to play. We really deserved to win this game."
REGULAR SEASON LAST 32 LAST 16 QUARTERFINALS SEMIFINALS FINALS
Alba Berlin 141
Bosna Sarajevo 127
December 4 19:30 CET LIVE FINAL
Guildford Heat 67
Turk Telekom 107
DKV Joventut Badalona 90
Siauliai 65
FMP 70
Besiktas Cola Turka 73
Cologne 99ers 81
Galatasaray Cafe Crown Istanbul 86
Hemofarm Stada 71
Akasvayu Girona 73
Azovmash Mariupol 84
Skyliners Frankfurt 80
SLUC Nancy 92
Anwil Wloclawek 66
Triumph Lyubertsy 88
Antwerp Giants 67
Hapoel Galil Elyon 65
Benetton Fribourg 85
Swans Gmunden 72
Fortitudo Bologna 83
Panellinios Athens 59
Red Star 73
Kalev Cramo Tallinn 61
Slask Wroclaw 79
Kalise Gran Canaria 86
Ludwigsburg 77
Panionios On Telecoms 85
Kiev 87
Benetton Tamoil 73
ASK Riga 63
PGE Turów Zgorzelec 78
Strasbourg 65
EiffelTowers Den Bosch 79
Unics Kazan 108
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Semiconductor shortage forces automobile production cuts
by: TOM KRISHER and MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press
FILE – In this Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020 file photo, A row of 2020 Ford Escape sports-utility vehicles sits at a Ford dealership in Denver. A widening global shortage of semiconductors for auto parts is forcing major auto companies to halt or slow vehicle production just as they were recovering from pandemic-related factory shutdowns. Ford had scheduled down time next week at its Louisville, Kentucky, assembly plant, but moved it ahead to this week. The plant makes the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair small SUVs. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
DETROIT (AP) — A widening global shortage of semiconductors for auto parts is forcing major auto companies to halt or slow vehicle production just as they were recovering from pandemic-related factory shutdowns.
Officials at Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota and Nissan all say they have been hit by the shortage and been forced to delay production of some models in order to keep other factories running.
“This is absolutely an industry issue,” Toyota spokesman Scott Vazin said in an email Friday. “We are evaluating the supply constraint of semiconductors and developing countermeasures to minimize the impact to production.”
If the chip shortage lasts, production cuts could reduce the inventory of cars, trucks and SUVs for sale in the U.S. and other markets. That comes at a time when the industry was just starting to replenish inventory lost when factories shut down last spring to stop the spread of novel coronavirus.
Toyota was forced to slow production of the full-size Tundra pickup at a factory in San Antonio, Texas. Ford had scheduled down time next week at its Louisville, Kentucky, assembly plant, but moved it ahead to this week. The plant makes the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair small SUVs.
Fiat Chrysler has temporarily car closed factories in Brampton, Ontario, and a small-SUV plant in Toluca, Mexico, while Volkswagen said in December it was facing production slowdowns due to the shortage. Nissan said it has had to adjust production in Japan but hasn’t seen a significant impact so far in the U.S.
Industry officials say semiconductor companies diverted production to consumer electronics during the worst of the COVID-19 slowdown in auto sales last spring. Global automakers were forced to close plants to prevent the spread of the virus. When automakers recovered, there weren’t enough chips.
“There have been warning signs about his for months,” said Kristin Dziczek, vice president of industry at the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank.
It takes six to nine months of lead time for the industry to get chips via a complex web of suppliers, Dziczek said. She said she hopes that some of the lead time had passed when the issues began surfacing several months ago, making this a short-term rather than long-term problem. “There’s still some coming through, just not the volumes that they thought there would be,” Dziczek said.
In many cases, automakers have stopped making slower-selling vehicles in order to divert the chips to hotter segments of the market, including pickup trucks and SUVs.
“This will minimize the impact of the current semiconductor shortage while ensuring we maintain production at our other North American plants,” Fiat Chrysler said in a statement.
The auto industry is using more semiconductors than ever before in new vehicles with electronic features such as Bluetooth connectivity and driver assist, navigation and hybrid electric systems. Semiconductors are typically silicon chips that perform control and memory functions in products ranging from computers and cellphones to vehicles and microwave ovens.
Auto sales plunged during the first wave of lockdowns in April but have since recovered significant ground. U.S. new vehicle sales were down 34% during the first half of last year, but recovered to end the year down only 15%.
The shortage in chips required in increasingly automated cars is the latest example of how the semiconductor industry’s ebbs and flows can have ripple effects in products.
Schools districts last summer scrambled to get orders filled for laptops for students still largely going to classes remotely as personal computer makers struggled to secure processors and other components.
The problems started when overseas factories making the chips were forced to shut down in the pandemic’s early stages. The problem was exacerbated last July after the Trump administration imposed sanctions on 11 Chinese companiesfor alleged labor abuses.
To make matters worse, the schools found themselves competing for laptops against deeper pocketed companies that were also placing huge orders for employees while they worked from home.
Chip shortages also forced Apple to push back the rollout of its latest lineup of iPhones until late October and early November, more than a month later than when the trendsetting company usually releases its top-selling device.
The global semiconductor market is expected to be worth about $129 billion in 2025, nearly triple its size in 2019, according to the research firm Mordor Intelligence. The firm lists major players in the automotive chip market as STMicroelectronics, Infineon Technologies, NXP Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and Toshiba.
Liedtke reported from San Ramon, California.
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Blood donors urgently needed to avert shortage amid outbreak
by: LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press
Surgeon General Jerome Adams speaks during press briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House, Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. surgeon general on Thursday urged healthy Americans, especially younger ones, to donate blood as supplies dwindle amid the coronavirus outbreak.
“Social distancing does not have to mean social disengagement,” Dr. Jerome Adams said, noting that blood centers are taking extra precautions so people can safely donate.
Supplies already are tight in parts of the country. The bigger concern is that blood has a short shelf life and the regular donations needed to replenish expiring stocks are drying up. Retirees, among the most reliable blood donors, are heeding calls to stay home. With college campuses closed and corporate blood drives called off as employees work from home, younger people aren’t filling the void.
“It’s lost in the shuffle of everything else now,” said Dr. Brian Williams, who co-directs the University of Chicago’s surgical intensive care unit. But “trauma and emergency surgeries are not decreasing as a result of the pandemic.”
The industry has counted more than 12,000 blood drives canceled, some immediately and others set for coming months. So far, 355,000 fewer blood donations are projected because of the coronavirus outbreak, AABB, formerly called the American Association of Blood Banks, said Thursday. Its website lists donation centers.
Red blood cells last for 42 days, platelets just five days, and some blood types are more rare than others. Already, blood centers have sent hospitals tips on how to stretch supplies.
The new coronavirus can’t be spread through blood, either getting or giving it. And the message for would-be donors: Answering a call for a local blood drive isn’t violating the message to avoid crowds.
“A blood center environment is going to be safer than another more public area like a grocery store,” said Dr. Suchi Pandey, chief medical officer of Stanford University’s blood center, which filled appointments Thursday for a mobile drive.
Just like before the outbreak, would-be donors must be healthy, with no fever or other signs of illness. Among extra precautions being taken now: Donors are spaced at least 6 feet apart in fixed blood centers; workers who draw blood have their temperatures regularly checked; and spaces get extra disinfection. When Stanford does a mobile drive, it’s allowing fewer donors on the bus at a time.
The Associated Press receives support for health and science coverage from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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1741: Caesar and Prince, leaders of a plot to burn New York? 1868: Robert Smith, the last publicly hanged in Scotland
Corpses Strewn: New York’s slave conspiracy of 1741
May 11th, 2016 Headsman
Beginning on this May 11th, and scattered depressingly over the coming weeks, we revisit New York City’s great terrorist panic … of 1741.
This was scarcely the first security scare of New York — indeed, the city had been rocked by a major slave revolt back in 1712, a revolt that included arson.
By 1741, New York “boasted” the second-largest slave population of Britain’s North American colonies, behind only Charleston: enough souls to outnumber the city’s propertied elite should they manage to act in concert. As the cruel winter of 1741 abated, a series of fires in the city raised suspicion … and then fear … and soon, certainty … that just such a slave conspiracy was underway.
On March 18, Fort George caught fire, burning to the ground with the mansion of the autocratic royal governor before a semi-timely rainstorm aborted a potential Great Fire of London scenario.
Nobody could be sure what happened, but the cold-dried tinders of a wooden city were easy prey to accidental sparks. Though devastating, the calamity was not necessarily suspicious.
The event took on a different hue when another fire broke out near the ruins of the fort the very next week, March 25. Another occurred on April 1, and yet another on April 4.
1762 illustration of New Yorkers fighting a blaze by passing water buckets to a pumping wagon.
There were 10 fires in all, plus alarming near-misses like fizzled coals left under a heap of straw, and although each was contained without devastating the city it must have seemed that the flames licked Manhattan from the very mouth of hell, convening an ever more rattled bucket brigade again and again until — as the city’s Common Council recorded in convening on April 11 — “every one that reflected on the Circumstances attending them, the Frequency of them, and the Causes yet undiscovered, must necessarily conclude, that they were occasioned and set on Foot by some villainous Confederacy of latent Enemies amongst us.”
New-York Weekly Journal, April 20, 1741
A frightened populace confronting a shadowy menace in a world at war made an environment ripe for a witch hunt. That was not quite true in the literal sense:* a half-century’s distance from the Salem trials put 1741 New Yorkers in a different philosophical universe.
But for at least 30 of New York’s slaves, and for four white people known to keep intimacy with them, the effect was much the same. Harrowed between the masters’ self-confirming fears and their fellows’ desperate accusations under duress, the plot or the “plot” staked them to flaming pyres, high gallows, and public infamy.
We will pause for the particulars of various individuals’ situations as we meet them. As to the general outline, the provincial supreme court that condemned these 30-plus souls (and inflicted various sub-lethal punishments on others) had via testimony delivered to a grand jury beginning on April 22 evolved a working theory that the black slaves who frequented a tavern kept by a white couple named John and Peggy Hughson had formed a sinister society bent on outright revolution. The allegations of the Hughsons’ servant Mary Burton, drawn from her with fear and favor, were key to the entire affair; in her words, three slaves named Caesar, Prince, and Cuffee were the architects of the plan along with Mr. Hughson and they aimed to “burn the whole town … [and] when all this was done, Caesar should be governor, and Hughson, her master, should be king.” More than that: these dark serviles should when they ruled New York have the city’s white women for their own. There is something of the Witches’ Sabbath about these specifications after all.
Whether there ever was a slave conspiracy — and if so, whether it ever compassed more than a handful of people, or rose past the level of loose words or isolated and opportunistic deeds — has never really been known. Cities have now and very much had then a susceptibility to fire, and their inhabitants a susceptibility to finding spurious patterns in noisy data.
As soon as July of that same year 1741 it was charged publicly (albeit anonymously) that those tongues of Hell had been the “merciless Flames of an Imaginary Plot,” and New Yorkers admonished that “making Bonfires of the Negros … [is] perhaps thereby loading yourselves with greater Guilt than theirs.” On the other hand — and one is reminded here of the Rorschach quality these distant and ill-documented episodes carry — the idea of an actual wide-ranging slave plot has also been valorized as working class resistance to the cruel Atlantic economy. To think, the ghost of Spartacus abroad in Manhattan! If it were, then they died like Spartacuses, too.
May 11, 1741: Caesar and Prince
May 30, 1741: Cuffee and Quack
June 9, 1741: Cook, Robin, Caesar and Cuffee
June 12, 1741: John Hughson, Sarah Hughson and Peggy Kerry
June 16, 1741: Five “inferior agents”
July 3, 1741: Prince, Tony, Cato, Harry and York
July 4, 1741: Will, Ward’s Negro
July 18, 1741: Othello, Doctor Harry, and five other slaves
July 29, 1741: Not Sarah Hughson
August 15, 1741: Juan de la Silva
August 29, 1741: John Ury
A few books about the slave conspiracy
* Witches were actually passingly entertained as the possible malefactors here, as the day for this superstition was not yet entirely past.
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Ontario- Science: 10th Grade
Ontario Curriculum Adopted: 2005
Science: 10th Grade
SNC2D: Science, Academic
SNC2D.B: Biology: The Sustainability of Ecosystems
SNC2D.B.1: Overall Expectations
SNC2D.B.1.1: demonstrate an understanding of the dynamic nature of ecosystems, including the relationship between ecological balance and the sustainability of life;
Forest Ecosystem
Interdependence of Plants and Animals
Prairie Ecosystem
SNC2D.B.1.2: investigate factors that affect ecological systems and the consequences of changes in these factors;
SNC2D.B.2: Understanding Basic Concepts
SNC2D.B.2.1: describe the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration as they relate to the cycling of energy, carbon, and oxygen through abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem (e.g., explain that photosynthesis and cellular respiration are essentially reverse processes, and identify the reactants and products of their overall reactions);
Cell Energy Cycle
Photosynthesis Lab
SNC2D.B.2.2: illustrate the cycling of matter through biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem by tracking nitrogen;
SNC2D.B.2.3: explain the process of bioaccumulation and assess its potential impact on the viability and diversity of consumers at all trophic levels;
SNC2D.B.2.4: examine the factors (natural and external) that affect the survival and equilibrium of populations in an ecosystem (e.g., resource limits of an ecosystem, competing populations, bioaccumulation, selective decline);
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
SNC2D.B.2.5: examine how abiotic factors affect the survival and geographical location of biotic communities (e.g., explain why deserts exist in different parts of the world);
SNC2D.B.2.6: explain why different ecosystems respond differently to short-term stresses and long-term changes (e.g., short term: the activity of tent caterpillars during a season; long-term: the effect of acid rain on maple trees);
SNC2D.B.2.7: compare a natural and a disturbed ecosystem and suggest ways of assuring their sustainability (e.g., compare a meadow and a lawn);
SNC2D.B.2.8: explain how soil composition and fertility can be altered in an ecosystem and identify the possible consequences of such changes.
Rabbit Population by Season
SNC2D.B.3: Developing Skills of Inquiry and Communication
SNC2D.B.3.1: through investigations and applications of basic concepts:
SNC2D.B.3.1.a: formulate scientific questions about observed ecological relationships, ideas, problems, and issues (e.g., "What impact will supplying an excess of food for a particular organism have on an ecosystem?");
SNC2D.B.3.1.b: demonstrate the skills required to plan and conduct an inquiry into ecological relationships, using instruments, apparatus, and materials safely and accurately, and controlling major variables and adapting or extending procedures where required;
SNC2D.B.3.2: design and conduct an investigation to examine the effects of one factor on soil composition and fertility and on water quality in an ecosystem (e.g., design and conduct an experiment to examine the effects of altering soil pH on the fertility of plants and on the concentration of dissolved oxygen in water, and graph the results);
SNC2D.B.3.3: analyse a population case study (e.g., of deer, wolves, or humans) by producing population growth curves for each of the populations in the study, and use the graphs to explain how different factors affect population size and to predict the effect of varying factors (e.g., the availability of food) on the population.
SNC2D.B.4: Relating Science to Technology, Society, and the Environment
SNC2D.B.4.2: describe ways in which the relationships between living organisms and their ecosystems are viewed by other cultures (e.g., First Nations);
SNC2D.B.4.3: identify and research a local issue involving an ecosystem; propose a course of action, taking into account human and environmental needs; and defend their position in oral or written form (e.g., organize and participate in a debate on converting a grass lot into a parking lot);
SNC2D.B.4.4: describe the physical and chemical processes involved in the methods used to clean up a contaminated site (e.g., how absorbent chemicals such as charcoal work in cleaning up oil spills);
SNC2D.B.4.5: identify and evaluate Canadian initiatives in protecting Canada's ecosystems;
SNC2D.B.4.6: explain changes in popular views about the sustainability of ecosystems and humans' responsibility in preserving them (e.g., the shift from a belief that all resources are inexhaustible to the belief that recycling, reusing, and reducing are important);
SNC2D.B.4.7: describe careers that involve knowledge of ecology or environmental technologies, and use resources such as the Internet to determine the knowledge and skill requirements of such careers.
SNC2D.C: Chemistry: Chemical Processes
SNC2D.C.1: Overall Expectations
SNC2D.C.1.1: demonstrate an understanding of chemical reactions, the symbolic systems used to describe them, and the factors affecting their rates;
Chemical Equation Balancing
Collision Theory
SNC2D.C.2: Understanding Basic Concepts
SNC2D.C.2.1: recognize the relationships among chemical formulae, composition, and names;
Covalent Bonds
Dehydration Synthesis
Ionic Bonds
Stoichiometry
SNC2D.C.2.2: explain, using the law of conservation of mass and atomic theory, the rationale for balancing equations;
Bohr Model of Hydrogen
Bohr Model: Introduction
SNC2D.C.2.3: describe, using their observations, the reactants and products of a variety of chemical reactions, including synthesis, decomposition, and displacement reactions (e.g., the burning of magnesium, the production of oxygen from hydrogen peroxide, the reaction of iron in copper sulphate);
Limiting Reactants
SNC2D.C.2.4: describe and explain qualitatively how factors such as energy, concentration, and surface area can affect rates of chemical reactions;
SNC2D.C.2.5: explain the interrelationships among metals and non-metals, acidic and basic oxides, and acids, bases, and salts;
pH Analysis
pH Analysis: Quad Color Indicator
SNC2D.C.2.7: describe how the pH scale is used to identify the acidity of solutions;
SNC2D.C.2.8: name and write the formulae of common ionic and molecular compounds (e.g., H2SO4, NaNO3, CO2, NaOH), using a periodic table and an IUPAC table of ions.
SNC2D.C.3: Developing Skills of Inquiry and Communication
SNC2D.C.3.1: through investigations and applications of basic concepts:
SNC2D.C.3.1.b: formulate scientific questions about practical problems and issues involving chemical processes (e.g., "How does varying the concentration of a reactant affect the rate of a reaction?");
SNC2D.C.3.1.g: select and use appropriate vocabulary, SI units, and numeric, symbolic, graphic, and linguistic modes of representation to communicate scientific ideas, plans, results, and conclusions (e.g., descriptions of experimental procedures using the scientific method; data presented in tables);
SNC2D.C.3.2: represent simple chemical reactions using molecular models, word equations, and balanced chemical equations;
SNC2D.C.3.4: conduct experiments to identify the acidity and basicity of some common substances (e.g., use acid-base indicators to classify common household substances according to the pH scale);
SNC2D.C.3.5: conduct experiments on the combustion of metals and non-metals and react the oxides formed with water to produce acidic or basic solutions;
SNC2D.C.3.6: design an experiment to determine qualitatively the factors that influence chemical reactions (e.g., an experiment to measure the effect of surface area on rate of reaction);
SNC2D.C.4: Relating Science to Technology, Society, and the Environment
SNC2D.C.4.1: explain how environmental challenges can be addressed through an understanding of chemical substances (e.g. challenges such as the renewal of the Great Lakes, the neutralization of acid spills, the scrubbing of waste gases in smokestacks);
SNC2D.C.4.3: identify everyday examples where the rates of chemical reactions are modified (e.g., the use of kindling to increase surface area in order to start a fire; the refrigeration of food to slow down spoilage);
SNC2D.E: Earth and Space Science: Weather Dynamics
SNC2D.E.1: Overall Expectations
SNC2D.E.1.2: investigate and analyse trends in local and global weather conditions to forecast local and global weather patterns;
Coastal Winds and Clouds
Hurricane Motion
SNC2D.E.2: Understanding Basic Concepts
SNC2D.E.2.2: describe and explain heat transfer within the water cycle and how the hydrosphere and atmosphere act as heat sinks;
Calorimetry Lab
SNC2D.E.2.3: describe and explain heat transfer in the hydrosphere and atmosphere and its effects on air and water currents;
SNC2D.E.2.4: describe and explain the effects of heat transfer within the hydrosphere and atmosphere on the development, severity, and movement of weather systems (e.g., effects such as pressure gradients, cloud formation, winds);
SNC2D.E.2.6: describe the factors contributing to earth temperature gradients and to wind speed and direction;
SNC2D.E.2.7: describe cyclones, hurricanes, tornadoes, and monsoons in terms of the meeting of air masses, atmospheric humidity, and the jet stream.
SNC2D.E.4: Relating Science to Technology, Society, and the Environment
SNC2D.E.4.1: explain the role of weather dynamics in environmental phenomena and consider the consequences to humans of changes in weather (e.g., the role of weather in air pollution, acid rain, global warming, and smog; the fact that smog aggravates asthma);
SNC2D.E.4.2: explain how people have utilized their understanding of weather patterns for various purposes (e.g., to harness wind as a power source; to participate in ocean sailing races);
SNC2D.E.4.3: compare various cultural (e.g., First Nations) and historical views on the origins and interpretations of weather;
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
SNC2D.E.4.4: explain how a scientific understanding of weather patterns can be used to modify environmental conditions (e.g., by seeding clouds to alleviate drought; by modelling the dynamics of fire-fighting strategies to fight forest fires);
SNC2D.E.4.5: describe examples of technologies, particularly those of Canadian origin, that contribute to the field of meteorology (e.g., satellite imaging).
SNC2D.P: Physics: Motion
SNC2D.P.1: Overall Expectations
SNC2D.P.1.1: demonstrate an understanding of different kinds of motion and of the quantitative relationships among displacement, velocity, and acceleration, and solve simple problems involving displacement, velocity, and acceleration;
Atwood Machine
Fan Cart Physics
Force and Fan Carts
Freefall Laboratory
Roller Coaster Physics
Uniform Circular Motion
SNC2D.P.1.2: design and conduct investigations on the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of an object;
Distance-Time Graphs
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
SNC2D.P.2: Understanding Basic Concepts
SNC2D.P.2.1: distinguish among and provide examples of scalar and vector quantities as they relate to the description of linear motion (e.g., among distance delta d, displacement delta d1, and position d1, and between speed v and velocity v1);
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
SNC2D.P.2.2: add collinear displacement vectors algebraically and graphically and non-collinear displacement vectors graphically;
Adding Vectors
SNC2D.P.2.3: distinguish among constant, instantaneous, and average speed and among constant, instantaneous, and average velocity, and give examples involving uniform and non-uniform motion;
SNC2D.P.2.4: describe quantitatively the relationship among one-dimensional average speed vav, distance travelled delta d, and elapsed time delta t, and solve simple problems involving these physical quantities v to the log ave = delta d/delat t;
SNC2D.P.2.6: draw position-time graphs and calculate the average velocity and instantaneous velocity from such graphs;
SNC2D.P.2.7: describe quantitatively the relationship among one-dimensional average acceleration v1 to the log av, change in velocity delta v1, and elapsed time delta t, and solve simple problems involving these physical quantities a1 to the log av = delta v1/delta t
SNC2D.P.2.8: draw position-time and velocity-time graphs for constant velocity and for constant acceleration, and calculate the constant acceleration and displacement from velocity-time graphs;
SNC2D.P.2.9: use a velocity-time graph for constant acceleration to derive the equation for average velocity (v1 to the log av = (v1 to the log 1 + v1 to the log 2)/2 and the equations for displacement [delta d1 = (v1 to the log 1 + v1 to the log 2)/2 times delta t and delta d1 = v1 to the log 1(t) + 1/2 a1(delta t squared)] and solve simple problems in one dimension using these equations.
SNC2D.P.3: Developing Skills of Inquiry and Communication
SNC2D.P.3.1: through investigations and applications of basic concepts:
SNC2D.P.3.1.a: formulate scientific questions about observed relationships, ideas, problems, and issues related to motion (e.g., "What are the different acceleration characteristics of different transportation vehicles?");
SNC2D.P.3.1.b: demonstrate the skills required to plan and conduct an inquiry into motion, controlling major variables and adapting or extending procedures where required (e.g., determine the time or distance intervals at which measurements should be taken to calculate the average velocity of a bicycle rider);
SNC2D.P.3.1.c: use a broad range of tools and techniques safely, accurately, and effectively to compile, record, and analyse data and information, and apply mathematical and conceptual models to develop and assess possible explanations (e.g., stopwatches, photo-gates, length-measurement devices, and motion sensors to obtain data; electronic spreadsheets and graphs to record and analyse the data);
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
SNC2D.P.3.1.g: select and use appropriate vocabulary, SI units, and numeric, symbolic, graphic, and linguistic modes of representation to communicate scientific ideas, plans, results, and conclusions (e.g., present a graph showing an object's velocity, ensuring that the variables are on the appropriate axis);
SNC2D.P.3.2: design, conduct, and evaluate experiments to measure the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of a moving object in one dimension, for both uniform motion and constant acceleration;
SNC2D.P.3.3: design, conduct, and evaluate an experiment to measure acceleration due to gravity;
Golf Range!
SNC2D.P.3.4: use simple graphs and vector diagrams to describe predicted and observed motion in one dimension.
SNC2D.P.4: Relating Science to Technology, Society, and the Environment
SNC2D.P.4.1: evaluate the costs and benefits, including the safety and environmental factors, of technologies which have enabled us to travel at ever-greater speeds, and the impact of the increased capacity for speed on risk behaviour and subsequent injuries (e.g., snowmobiles, automobiles, motorized personal water craft);
SNC2P: Science, Applied
SNC2P.B: Biology: Ecosystems and Human Activity
SNC2P.B.1: Overall Expectations
SNC2P.B.1.1: demonstrate an understanding of ecosystems, including the relationship between ecological balance and the sustainability of life;
SNC2P.B.1.2: analyse natural and human threats to a local ecosystem and propose viable solutions to restore ecological balance;
SNC2P.B.2: Understanding Basic Concepts
SNC2P.B.2.1: describe the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration as they relate to the cycling of energy, carbon, and oxygen through abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem (e.g., explain how glucose, water, and carbon dioxide are produced and/or consumed during these processes);
SNC2P.B.2.2: illustrate the cycling of matter through biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem by tracking nitrogen;
SNC2P.B.2.3: illustrate the process of bioaccumulation through an example, and explain its potential impact on the viability and diversity of consumers at all trophic levels;
SNC2P.B.2.4: show the relationship between the resources available and the equilibrium of a natural population in an ecosystem (e.g., describe the impact on an aquatic ecosystem of fishing or of harvesting a resource such as seaweed);
SNC2P.B.2.5: explain why ecosystems with similar characteristics can exist in different geographical locations (e.g., why deserts exist in different parts of the world);
SNC2P.B.2.6: describe how different ecosystems respond differently to short-term stresses and long-term changes (e.g., short term: the activity of tent caterpillars during a season; long-term: the effect of acid rain on maple trees);
SNC2P.B.3: Developing Skills of Inquiry and Communication
SNC2P.B.3.1: through investigations and applications of basic concepts:
SNC2P.B.3.1.f: communicate the results of the investigation using a variety of oral, written, and graphic formats (e.g., write a letter to the mayor or organize a public debate);
SNC2P.B.4: Relating Science to Technology, Society, and the Environment
SNC2P.B.4.1: assess the impact of technological change on an ecosystem (e.g., the introduction of fertilizer and pesticides to soil; the introduction of a genetically engineered plant; the effect of polluted water or air on plants and animals);
SNC2P.B.4.2: describe ways in which relationships between living organisms and their ecosystems are viewed by other cultures (e.g., First Nations);
SNC2P.B.4.3: identify and evaluate Canadian initiatives in protecting Canada's ecosystems;
SNC2P.B.4.5: identify and describe careers based on ecology and environmental technology.
SNC2P.C: Chemistry: Chemical Reactions and Their Practical Applications
SNC2P.C.1: Overall Expectations
SNC2P.C.1.1: demonstrate an understanding of chemical reactions and the symbolic systems used to describe them;
SNC2P.C.2: Understanding Basic Concepts
SNC2P.C.2.1: recognize the relationships among chemical formulae, composition, and names;
SNC2P.C.2.2: demonstrate an understanding of chemical reactions, including conservation of mass, and their representation through balanced chemical equations;
SNC2P.C.2.3: describe, using their observations, the reactants and products of a variety of chemical reactions, including synthesis, decomposition, and displacement reactions (e.g., the burning of magnesium, the production of oxygen from hydrogen peroxide, the reaction of iron in copper sulphate);
SNC2P.C.2.4: describe qualitatively, using their observations, how factors such as heat, concentration, light, and surface area can affect rates of chemical reactions;
SNC2P.C.2.5: classify substances as acids, bases, or salts based on their characteristic properties (e.g., reactions with indicators and with metals), names, and formulae (e.g., HCl, NaOH, NaCl);
SNC2P.C.2.7: describe how the pH scale is used to identify the concentration of acids and bases;
SNC2P.C.2.8: name and write the formulae for common ionic and molecular compounds (e.g., H2SO4, NaNO3, CO2, NaOH).
SNC2P.C.3: Developing Skills of Inquiry and Communication
SNC2P.C.3.2: use the pH scale to determine the acidity or basicity of some common household substances (e.g., vinegar);
SNC2P.C.3.3: conduct experiments to determine the factors that affect the rate of a chemical reaction (e.g., temperature, surface area of a solid, concentration of a solution);
SNC2P.C.3.4: represent simple chemical reactions using word equations, balanced chemical equations, and, where appropriate, molecular models.
SNC2P.C.4: Relating Science to Technology, Society, and the Environment
SNC2P.C.4.3: relate chemical reactions (including the rates of reactions) to familiar processes encountered in everyday life (e.g., acid-base reactions in film processing, food processing, fabric and hair dyeing, agriculture, wine making, pulp-and-paper and mineral processing) and identify careers that require knowledge of such processes (e.g., environmental engineering, swimming-pool maintenance);
SNC2P.E: Earth and Space Science: Weather Systems
SNC2P.E.1: Overall Expectations
SNC2P.E.1.2: investigate and analyse trends in local and global weather conditions in order to forecast local weather patterns;
SNC2P.E.1.3: describe new technologies in meteorology and explain the impact of weather on our daily lives.
SNC2P.E.2: Understanding Basic Concepts
SNC2P.E.2.2: describe and explain heat transfer within the water cycle and how the hydrosphere and atmosphere act as heat sinks;
SNC2P.E.2.3: describe and illustrate the factors affecting heat transfer within the water cycle in the atmosphere (e.g., temperature, pressure, humidity, winds);
SNC2P.E.2.4: observe, through experiment and simulation, and describe
SNC2P.E.2.4.(b)b: the pattern of air movement in convection,
Conduction and Convection
SNC2P.E.2.4.(d)d: the greenhouse effect, and
SNC2P.E.2.4.(e)e: heat transfer through radiation (e.g., the use of dark solar panels for effective heat transfer);
Herschel Experiment
SNC2P.E.2.6: describe and explain heat transfer in the hydrosphere and atmosphere and its effects on air and water currents;
SNC2P.E.2.7: describe and explain the effects of heat transfer within the hydrosphere and atmosphere on the development, severity, and movement of weather systems (e.g., effects such as pressure gradients, cloud formation, winds).
SNC2P.E.3: Developing Skills of Inquiry and Communication
SNC2P.E.3.1: through investigations and applications of basic concepts:
SNC2P.E.3.1.c: demonstrate the skills required to plan and conduct a weather-related inquiry, and collect data using appropriate instruments and techniques safely and accurately (e.g., record temperatures and atmospheric pressure; interpret weather maps and satellite photographs);
SNC2P.E.4: Relating Science to Technology, Society, and the Environment
SNC2P.E.4.2: describe examples of Canadian contributions to the field of meteorology (e.g., in satellite observation and imaging; in cold-climate meteorology);
SNC2P.E.4.3: describe the impact of new technologies on our ability to predict local daily weather (e.g., Doppler radar, satellite imaging);
SNC2P.P: Physics: Motion and Its Applications
SNC2P.P.1: Overall Expectations
SNC2P.P.1.1: describe different kinds of motion and the quantitative relationships among displacement, velocity, and acceleration;
SNC2P.P.1.2: design and conduct investigations to study the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of a vehicle;
SNC2P.P.2: Understanding Basic Concepts
SNC2P.P.2.1: distinguish among and provide examples of scalar and vector quantities as they relate to the description of linear motion (e.g., among distance delta d, displacement delta d1, and position d1, and between speed v and velocity v1);
SNC2P.P.2.2: distinguish among constant, instantaneous, and average speed and among constant, instantaneous, and average velocity, and give examples involving uniform and non-uniform motion;
SNC2P.P.2.3: describe quantitatively the relationship among one-dimensional average speed vav, distance travelled delta d, and elapsed time delta t, and solve simple problems involving these physical quantities v log av = delta d/delta t ;
SNC2P.P.2.5: draw position-time graphs and calculate the average velocity and instantaneous velocity from such graphs;
SNC2P.P.2.6: describe quantitatively the relationship among one-dimensional average acceleration a1 to the log av, change in velocity delta v1, and elapsed time delta t, and solve simple problems involving these physical quantities a1 to the log ave = delta v1/delta t.
SNC2P.P.3: Developing Skills of Inquiry and Communication
SNC2P.P.3.1: through investigations and applications of basic concepts:
SNC2P.P.3.1.a: formulate scientific questions about the motion of an object, including displacement, velocity, and acceleration, and outline experimental procedures for finding answers (e.g., "How can you accurately measure the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of a person, a bicycle, or a falling object?");
SNC2P.P.3.1.b: demonstrate the skills required to plan and conduct an inquiry into motion, identifying the variables to be measured, and collect data using appropriate instruments and techniques safely and accurately (e.g., measure and analyse an object's motion in terms of displacement, velocity, and acceleration);
SNC2P.P.3.1.d: analyse the data and information gathered to clarify aspects of the chosen questions (e.g., estimate journey times from road maps and average speeds);
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CelebritiesPopularMajor Harris: Top 10 Must-Know Facts About R&B Singer
Major Harris: Top 10 Must-Know Facts About R&B Singer
Major Harris (R&B Singer) was born on the 9th of February, 1947. He was born in 1940s, in Baby Boomers Generation. His birth sign is Aquarius and his life path number is 5. Major’s birth flower is Violet and birthstone is Amethyst. What does this all mean? Let’s find out!
Discover all the facts that no one tells you about Major Harris below ↓
NAME: Major Harris
FULL NAME: Major Harris
NICKNAME: Major
PROFESSION: R&B Singer
BIRTHPLACE: Richmond, VA
1. Bio
Major Harris, best known for being a R&B Singer, was born in Richmond, VA on Sunday, February 9, 1947. R&B singer who joined the Delfonics in 1965 and who was associated with the Philadelphia soul movement.
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2. Major Harris’s zodiac sign is Aquarius
Major Harris zodiac sign is a Aquarius. Dates of Aquarius are January 20 - February 18. Aquarius often comes off as an oddball - they have quirky personalities and quietly go about accomplishing their goals in quiet, and unorthodox ways. Many of them are also easy going and their peculiarity alongside their curious nature make them fast friendships. They are intelligent, inventive, humanistic, friendly, altruistic and reformative. Although, they can be emotionally detached, scatterbrained, irresponsible, impersonal
BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE: Pig
RULING PLANET: Uranus
3. He is currently 73 years old
The American r&b singer has been alive for 27,005 days days or 648,141 hours hours. There were precisely 915 full moons after his birth to this day.
BORN ON: Sunday
GENERATION: Baby Boomers Generation
Major Harris was born on a Sunday. People born on Sundays typically are bright, creative, bold, loud, usually natural leaders.
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4. On Major Harris’s birthday
The world’s population was and there were an estimated babies born throughout the world in 1947, Harry S. Truman (Democratic) was the US President, and the number one song on Billboard 100 was [Not available]. No song matches found..
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HEIGHT (METERS): 1.9 meters
HEIGHT (INCHES) 73 inches
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6. The Year of the Pig
Major Harris was born in the Year of the Pig. People with Chinese zodiac Pig sign are considerate, responsible, independent and optimistic. They always show generousness and mercy to endure other people's mistakes, which help them gain harmonious interpersonal relationships. Their strengths are being warm-hearted, good-tempered, loyal, honest, and gentle. But they can also be naive, gullible, sluggish, short-tempered. Their lucky numbers are 2, 5, 8 and lucky colors are yellow, grey, brown, gold.
7. Major Harris’s life path number is 5
Life Path Number 5 represent 'The Free Spirit'. Those who walk a Life Path with Number 5 have an uncanny ability to understand the deepest esoteric & metaphysical teachings. 5 turns the mystical into the norm. Its energy is that of Experience. The values are adventure, movement, change. The challenges are to find some kind of daily structure that works for you.
8. Baby Boomers Generation
Major Harris was born in the middle of Baby Boomers Generation.
9. Major Harris’s birthstone is Amethyst
The amethyst is a symbol of strong relationships and courage. At one time, only royalty could wear the gem. Ancient Greeks thought that the amethyst guarded against intoxication.
10. Major Harris’s birth flower is Violet
Violet symbolizes faith, valor, wisdom, valued friendship, hope, my compliments and passion.
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Master's courses offered in Northern Mindanao
A list of universities and colleges offering Master's courses in Northern Mindanao, Philippines. Whenever possible we provide full details about the courses in each of the schools, including tuition fees, admission requirements, course description and the admission phone number.
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Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology
State University, Iligan City, Lanao del Norte
MS in Information Technology
Master of Information Technology
MS in Chemistry
MS in Civil Engineering
MS in Environmental Science
MS in Computer Science
Master's ₱ 28,000 per year
"The professors are really good, no question about that. The school itself is A-Ok!"
L. J. studied Master in Human Resource Management, graduated 2007
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Private University, Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental
Master in Business Administration (Thesis & Non-Thesis)
Master in Public Administration (Thesis & Non-Thesis)
MA in Nursing
MA in Educational Management
Master in Information Technology
Master's ₱ 21,500-45,000 per year
studied , graduated
Central Mindanao University
State University, Maramag, Bukidnon
MA in English
MS in Mathematics
MA in Administration and Supervision
MS in Animal Science
MS in Food Science
MS in Mathematics Education
Master's ₱ 4,000-13,000 per year
University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines
State University, Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental
Master in Public Administration
MS in Applied Mathematical Sciences
MS in Electrical Engineering
Master of Engineering Program
Master in Sustainable Development
MS in Science Education
Master in Technician Teacher Education
Mindanao State University - Naawan
State University, Naawan, Misamis Oriental
Master of Science Education
MS in Marine Biology
MS in Aquaculture
Master in Sustainable Development Studies
Master in Biology
Liceo de Cagayan University
Master of Music
Master in Local Governance
Master of Music major in Music Education
Bukidnon State University
State University, Malaybalay City, Bukidnon
MA in Science Education
MA in Sociology
MA in Education with Specialization in Mathematics Teaching
La Salle University Ozamiz
Private University, Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental
Master of Education major in Science
Capitol University
Master in Business Management
MA in Filipino
MA in Guidance and Counseling
Master of Public Service Management
Misamis University
Master in Nursing
MS in Criminal Justice Education with Specialization in Criminology
Lourdes College
Private College, Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental
Master in Library and Information Science
MA in Home Economics
MA in Human Resource Development
Cagayan de Oro College-PHINMA Education Network
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MA in Elementary Education
MS in Criminology
MA in Educational Administration
Private College, Iligan City, Lanao del Norte
Master in Educational Management
Master in Public Management
Master in Human Resource Management
Mindanao State University - LNAC
State University, Sultan Naga Dimaporo, Lanao del Norte
MS in Farming System
Southern Philippines Colleges
MA in Secondary Education
University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines - Claveria
State College, Claveria, Misamis Oriental
MS in Agriculture
St. Michael's College of Iligan City
Private College, Valencia City, Bukidnon
Mindanao State University - Maigo
State University, Maigo, Lanao del Norte
Schools with less than 10 examinees in the past 4 exams, are not ranked.
This school is included under the "Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education" law that passed in 2017.
The law covers students enrolled in State and Local universities/colleges in Bachelors and Certificate programs.
Under the Law students in accredited State and Local universities/colleges will not pay any tuition fees or misc fee.
The Law covers only first time students (students who don't already have a college degree).
However, the full implementation of this law is not clear yet.
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The Night Shift playing D:ream - U R The Best Thing
Recycling oven makes asbestos safe to reuse
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Wolverhampton-based Thermal Recycling has opened what is claimed to be “the world’s first socially and environmentally responsible alternative to asbestos disposal”.
The demonstration plant removes the nasties from asbestos sheeting and coverts it into a useable aggregate.
Approximately 60% of asbestos taken to landfill is in the form of roof sheets. Removing asbestos roof sheets involves putting them in a skip and sending to landfill. There has been no alternative – until now, it is claimed.
Thermal Recycling collects the asbestos and takes it to Wolverhampton where its treatment facility converts the cement roof sheets containing chrysotile asbestos. Thermal treatment changes the chemical and physical composition of the asbestos and the asbestos-free material is then crushed to produce aggregate for road building.
Chairman Graham Gould said: “Thermal Recycling is delighted to announce the opening of our demonstration plant. We can convert asbestos into asbestos-free material on an industrial scale, in a commercially viable and environmentally safe way. We can’t continue putting asbestos in landfill sites for future generations to deal with”.
The recycling planned has been endorsed by the National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC), whose president, Kevin Taylor, said: “The NFRC welcomes this leading edge technology with the potential for a more sustainable approach to the disposal of asbestos. It is vital that we divert waste from landfill and reduce the number of sites containing asbestos”.
Northeast construction workers have most disposable income
Average salaries in the UK construction industry fell by 2% in 2020 according to an analysis by a recruitment firm, which is harder for some than for others.
Are you really sure you can’t work from home?
The construction industry and all related trades have been told by the government that they can and must continue working during the third national lockdown. But with the virus still spreading, this does not mean there is nothing to worry about.
Covid guidance revised... a bit
In the wake of the third national lockdown coming into force in the UK this week, site operating procedures for the construction industry have been revised.
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Title: More than just turf
Turf: that’s what most of us think of when we hear the term “bogland”, but Tina Claffey’s book of photography opens our eyes to the beauty we are quick to dismiss, writes Tracey Donaghey
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/more-than-just-turf-316743
Entertainment > Living Life
More than just turf
Tapestry of Light
Tina Claffey is “Ireland’s pre-eminent bog photographer”, whose latest work has been locked into a book entitled Tapestry of Light, which promises to alter the way you look at Ireland’s boglands forever.
Following a nine-year stint working in Africa, Tina admitted that her return to Ireland was challenging, as she relocated to her hometown of Birr, Co Offaly. Geologist, botanist and broadcaster Dr John Feehan helped Tina to settle back into her native country as the pair embarked on an eco-walk in 2012, which became the catalyst for Tapestry of Light.
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In Conversation with Yatin Pandya
Posted on January 27, 2018 (April 9, 2019) by
FA Interviews
In Conversation / Jan - Feb 2018
by Nitika Agarwal
NA: After your bachelor’s degree in architecture from CEPT University in Ahmedabad, what was the focus of your master’s programme overseas? And thereafter, what made you come back and start off a career in Ahmedabad?
YP: I pursued higher studies in low-cost housing from McGill University in Montreal. What we studied there was also relevant to India as it addressed the universal issue of housing with three major concerns—how does one account for sociocultural appropriateness, frugal resources and timeless aesthetics? So the parameters were of course similar based on working in context with some of these severe conditions.
Simultaneously, I was also interested in the vernacular habitat. There have been two references since I started my career, and as part of the Vastu Shilpa Foundation, we made efforts to evolve norms and standards that are indigenous and related to our context. I would begin with the traditional habitat, not for nostalgic reasons but because there are important lessons that they demonstrate purely by their performances. Despite harsh conditions in Ahmedabad, if we can build environmentally friendly physical spaces with adequate comfort, why can’t we learn from those principles today and develop them further instead of dismissing them, to rely entirely on high-energy intensive means of comfort? I also refer to squatter settlements that were derived by the people themselves. Built out of a severe resource crunch, they reveal needs and priorities better. Although deprived in terms of physical infrastructure, they express a habitat much closer to their lifestyles and day-to-day needs.
The second point of reference is timeless aesthetics: how a building performs over the years and withstands the challenges of time to not wear off from people’s memories and appreciation, like most of the ruins. Although functionally obsolete, these structures built in scarce resource conditions continue to be an exciting architectural space. So this quality of timelessness and sustainability has led me to delve into vernacular architecture. Even in Montreal and later at Vastu Shilpa, we derived lessons from these habitats as they have succeeded in bringing in sociocultural responses, greater interactivity and a timeless quality.
NA: Until recently, India was largely isolated from the world markets. Now, with globalisation and the integration of world economies, do you believe these lessons are appropriate in the current circumstances?
YP: I believe human behavioural responses have not changed for centuries. Today, we base our existence on technology that becomes obsolete in no time. We still go to the cinema even with the television at home providing over 30 channels; we prefer meeting people over the phone or video call right? Certainly, those are fundamentally more ‘human’.
Making a prototype independent of site, context and cultural lifestyle is rather regressive and strange. It lends tremendous burden on the user to maintain the entire mechanised infrastructure. Taking clues from centuries-old traditional pol houses with shared walls, we can possibly release congestion from our urban land by building only four storeys to consume the available 1.8 free space index (FSI). I have learnt a lot from the pol house and traditional courtyard house typologies to contemporise the form of row houses with the front and back yards from the bungalow and street edges from the cluster. It brings light, ventilation, views with privacy and interactive edges, presenting a classic civic form to the city. There’s no denial of new technology; we are only recognising what is proven true performance wise and take it from there. Any development that bases its principles on these two equations—human to human (interaction and interdependency) and human to nature—has responded to the call of the environment, humanity and sustainability.
NA: How do you see the idea of sustainability being accepted as an underlying principle today?
More importantly, how would you demonstrate its development over the past few decades in India and otherwise?
YP: We are currently working on a book that demonstrates a study on contemporary Indian architecture where we have traced the so-called pendulum swing. In post-independent India, there was a collective euphoria of an independent nation and political thinking to ‘begin again’. Corbusier and Kahn were invited to plan our cities and suggest a way of living with brand new infrastructure and a modern image. That was a conscious denial of the past. The next decade or so traced the admiration of the first planned city and many such structures by the Indian masters that adopted similar grammar and aesthetics. Then about 25 years later, the late 1970s and 80s were to me better phases of the Indian architecture and built environment, when we enquired into finding local answers to infrastructure, poverty and housing. This was the introspection age and an example is the work of architect Laurie Baker. His work in Kerala came to be recognised, although he built right from the late 1940s of what he thought was appropriate to the environment, culture and economics. We got something like the Aranya housing scheme commissioned in those days that incorporated all neighbourhood facilities in appropriate quantities to sustain community life. The character of a city is not derived by institutions or stand-alone buildings. Rather, it is defined by the way you treat housing, as it inhabits more than 60 per cent of the built form. So it was a socialist stand in terms of being plural, in every field of art, music, architecture and likewise.
Unfortunately, post 1980s, the economy gave us a huge setback and with tremendous exposure came a fancy for external things. You started wrapping things up and the same gave rise to packaged architecture. Now, once again, with a resurgence of looking for the Indian idiom and India being a global player, it’s important to draw a line instead of competing on a global stance.
NA: How do you think the government policies in India are responding to the current need for
sustainable living and building norms?
YP: Our policies in the recent past have been formed by a government that has conformed to autocratic decision-making with no platform for collective thinking. Several communities in the past with the right direction and support from the government were successful in initiating a number of welfare works for their cities. Taking cues from an inappropriate development model, the current government is responsible
for enforcing an American model that gives priority to high-rises and integrated township over contextual development. For instance, if instead of applying a mandatory 10- to 15-feet side margin on a plot, a reversed typology with internal margin was enforced, it would provide for a usable open space to the residents. Additionally, I feel a reverse by-law of mandatory terrace on every floor should be enforced with a cascading built form instead of vertical accumulation and adaption of inappropriate norms. It would still meet the maximum FSI. So it’s not about compromising the density, but the direction and right intent. My emphasis on the government is not to blame them, but only they can form the means of control and by-laws that are mandatory to all. I believe as an architect, we should evolve from the traditional typologies as they were built for the people, by the people.
NA: Would you explain the position of professionals as role models in bringing awareness and advocating an appropriate way of living?
YP: A large majority of professionals have somehow been subjugated by the development patrons and haven’t been honest to the profession’s ethics. As a result, we have lost our faith value, (prioritising) personal gain (over) the end user’s. I always say holistic architecture is about a few diverse perspectives. It should be experimentally engaging, environmentally sustaining, socioculturally responsive, and most importantly, contextually appropriate. Hotel corridors without light and ventilation, south-facing double glass, artificial light in summer afternoon—these are the factors that I deem inappropriate. Need we chart an agenda for 20 per cent reduction in air-conditioning load or resolve to find comfort without one? I think our professional obligation has to be to the people, to the place where it belongs and to the planet of which we are a part of. As architects, we are called to take six basic decisions where the sum total of which is architecture:
1. Siting and location 4. Elements of space making
2. Form and mass 5. Material and construction techniques
3. Space organisation 6. Finishes and surface articulation
Any building, good or bad, demands architectural decisions based on these six aspects. Only when we understand the wider implications of these decisions would we be able to make informed choices and arrive at the resolutions. So the debate is not about shying away from the technological advancements but rather to let them play second fiddle and not hide architectural fallacies behind the façades of energy-intensive
technologies.
To bring awareness, the first and foremost is to provide the right value system during education. The second would be demonstration and right professionalism. I always say that there’s no one way of doing things. For everything, there are many approaches. Sustainable architecture is a sampling of the different scales and diversified approaches in which recycling and waste management could be one approach, traditional knowledge and its reinterpretation, changing certain norms and mindset, using local materials and giving equal importance to participatory process as others. And above all, it is critical to engage in collective thinking and have by-laws that actively participate in improving the quality of life.
NA: What is your opinion on the Green building movements in India and worldwide? What do they offer in terms of bringing people closer to a sustainable lifestyle?
YP: Green has become a fashionable word these days. Unfortunately, more often than not, it has remained a word rather than a colour. As a result, it gets interpreted in numerous shades. On the one hand, fully glazed buildings using photosensitive glass products may be rendered as Green; on the other hand, buildings with adequate comfort conditions without air-conditioners would not find favours with the LEED rating system. Five hundred miles as distance to local materials, which is beyond states in India, has advantages over vernacular architecture despite functional and regional responses. Green has to be our resolve rather than mere rendering. So, the problem is about formula and universalisation; not intent and phenomenon.
NA: Your practice demonstrates a dedication towards raising awareness on Green architecture far beyond just the built environment. What standards or development norms have been evolved that can facilitate a change in the lifestyle of a wider audience?
YP: Our practice is research-driven and for every project, we evolve local solutions appropriate to context, climate and costing. Our understanding of Green and its diverse interpretations are demonstrated in projects of varying scales, as we firmly believe that sustainability is not a formula but a phenomenon that needs to find appropriate interpretations according to context. For example, the Environmental Sanitation Institute that was built in 2004 is a holistically sustainable campus, from water harvesting and waste recycling to passive cooling and solar-active strategies, etc.; Manav Sadhna is about waste recycling as building components; Evosys is about eco-friendly interiors; and Karma is a stand-alone office building with multiple solar passive strategies, and so on. We have always documented our research and processes with actual figures for relevant application, which is handed out as monographs, free of cost to schools and colleges.
The project Ujasiyu was initiated to provide natural daylight and air ventilation in the dark and dingy spaces of slum houses of the urban poor. Simple, affordable, alternative solutions were devised and were installed in 140 houses in the slums of Ahmedabad alone in less than two years. As a participatory solution, it is in the progress to spread through many more settlements even outside of Gujarat. Through publications and academic endeavours, we are more than happy to propagate sustainable living, and that is in fact the larger intent.
NA: What are the things that inspire you?
YP: Like I said, some traditional architecture, as its survival itself is a proof of its values. I also love the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. To me, it’s a fantastic example of just two walls and sloping ground that has the strength to inform, indulge and inspire. I have interpreted it in many ways and as a student of architecture, it has taught me a lot.
The Pompidou Centre—not for its function because I would still get intimidated of going inside. What is unbelievable is the impact of its façade that has turned its surroundings into an active civic plaza! I don’t recall any contemporary building of being able to succeed in igniting such impromptu responses. It’s the way the building stimulates communication and gives people the liberty to make it their own. Likewise, there are many other examples that interest and excite me, including the jelly bean installation in Chicago by Anish Kapoor.
That intervention has turned the park into an absolutely amazing active civic space.
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Fox Tails & Fairy Tales with Annette Marnat & Vanessa Gillings
Opening Reception / Jan 16, 5:00PM - 8:00PM
** Please note: attendance to this event's opening is by appointment only. Please email gallery@gallerynucleus.com to make your viewing appointment, limited spots available. *
Gallery Nucleus is proud to present artists Annette Marnat and Vanessa Gillings in a cozy, literary themed show this January. Full of fairies and more than a few foxes, this whimsical show feel like curling up with your favorite book and a mug of tea.
ABOUT ANNETTE MARNAT
Based in Paris, Annette has worked in editorial illustration as well as animation, and is well known for her character design and visual development work for major studios like Disney and Sony Pictures Animation.
ABOUT VANESSA GILLINGS
Vanessa Gillings is a children’s author and illustrator inspired by nature, fairytales, and quiet, everyday scenes. Her illustrations have been featured in coloring apps, children’s clothing companies, and galleries across the country. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Fox Druid - Vanessa Gillings enamel pin
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Armstead Mead Prichard
Armstead Mead Prichard lll (Pete)
Armstead Mead Prichard III (Pete) Born Feb. 17, 1939 in Charlottesville, Va Died peacefully at home Sept. 15, 2002 Beloved son of Shirley Huffman of Santa Ana and the late Mead Prichard, Loving husband of Judy Prichard, father and Father-in-law of Elizabeth and Dale Coffey of Manteca, Scott Prichard of Chico, and Janet and Leif Pedersen of Newark, Grandfather of Catherine, James, Victoria, and Alexandra Felt of Manteca, and Morgan and Haley Pedersen of Newark, Brother of Carter Condon, Cay Akers, Brian Huffman, Kirk Huffman, Lewis Prichard, and Sarah Prichard, And Best friend of Baldwin Jennings of Staunton, Va.. He grew up in Staunton, Va. And served as a paramedic in the special forces. Pete started his career as an Airline pilot for Hawaiian Airline, flew as a captain for Flying Tiger Line from 1965-1990, and retired from Federal Express. Newark resident for 34 years, he was a renown authority on military badges who authored “Submarine Badges and Insignia of the World”. At his request, no services will be held.
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http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm
4 / 9 Reviews
Feb 3, 2020 Last updated
Jarnal Windows Installer
Jarnal Windows ZIP
Jarnal macOS
Jarnal Linux ZIP
Jarnal is a free, open source program designed for keeping a journal, notetaking, sketching, making presentations and an excellent annotating document including PDF files. It is written in Java which means you can edit and view files on almost any platform.
It is a great alternative for other tools such as Microsoft® One-Note® (formerly known and developed as Microsoft® Windows® Journal®) and other commercial tools that will require you to buy them to use similar features that are available for free in Jarnal.
Note: We currently list the Microsoft® Windows® and Linux versions which are offered as a ZIP archive. If you wish to download the Linux Debian version, go to Jarnal official site. Also, please note that the Mac® OS X® version is offered as a test version so use it at your risk.
Jarnal Review
Whether they need to take notes for work, school, or just to serve as personal reminders, many people opt to use software and apps rather than the traditional paper and pen. After all, so many people carry a smartphone, tablet, or even laptop everywhere they go. If you're interested in installing a note-taking app for daily use, you should consider Jarnal, a program created by David K. Levine and Gunnar Teege.
Jarnal Features
Written in Java, Jarnal is an open-source note taking and sketching application. Not only is Jarnal intended for freehand note taking and drawing, but it also has features that allow users to annotate imported PDF files and pictures. Users can use the following tools to assist their free hand note taking:
- Graph paper
- Arrow tools
- Ruler
Those who want a note-taking software to use at school or in the workplace will be happy to know that Jarnal supports collaborative writing. This feature allows more than one user to edit a file at the same time. If you're working with a group to get a project done, this collaborative feature will boost productivity significantly.
This software is compatible with a stylus, keyboard, or mouse, which means you can use it on most laptops, tablets, and smartphones with ease. Jarnal even has a feature that allows users to record pen strokes and turn them into cool animations. The handwriting recognition boosts the ease of use of the stylus with this software. Due to its features, Jarnal is frequently compared to Microsoft® Windows® Journal®, Mimeo whiteboarding®, and the Palm Notepad® applications.
What Does Jarnal Allow You to Do?
Users can make presentations, keep a journal, take notes, and draw pictures with Jarnal. At work or school, it is often necessary to present data and findings to peers. Not only can users single-handedly do this with Jarnal, but the collaboration feature of this software allows an entire group to work with each other in real time.
Unlike Microsoft® Windows® Journal® and Microsoft® OneNote®, Jarnal lets users access files created with the software on any platform; it is possible because files are written in Java. The editor of Jarnal is both customizable and redistributable, which means users will not have to worry about encountering compatibility issues.
Without a doubt, everyone could benefit from a good note-taking app. Without a doubt, Jarnal is one of the few applications out there that provide users with the flexibility and the features they need on a day-to-day basis. Try out Jarnal and it may boost your productivity levels significantly.
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The Music Forum
Why I Love....British Sea Power
By Bellend Sebastian, 24 July 2020 in The Music Forum
Bellend Sebastian 2,128
Posted 24 July 2020
Bellend Sebastian
Thick Lives Matter
Location: Barse
A band having a good name is of course no guarantee that the act itself will deliver on any level, but when I first heard mention of British Sea Power in the music press I really hoped that they wouldn’t disappoint. Being old enough to have grown up when Airfix kits of World War II fighter planes were still very much a thing, and comics like Victor and Warlord somewhat bizarrely recounted exciting tales of daring from a war that had ended more than 3 decades previously to under twelves, the name struck a chord with me.
Although I read a few encouraging if confused reviews I hadn’t seen a picture of them or heard a note of their music before I saw them live, supporting The Flaming Lips at Rock City at the beginning of 2003. I honestly cannot remember what I thought of the music, but I was sold pretty much straight away on the aesthetic, which mainly consisted of dressing up in clothes it looked like had been stolen from the Imperial War Museum and having lots of foliage and a stuffed owl on stage. Finding myself face to face with band member Eamon, on a mid-song wander through the crowd with his marching drum further convinced me that there was something here of note.
It was a few months before I encountered them again, this time in video form on the then fantastic MTV2 channel who played the promo for the ‘Carrion’ single, a series of baffling and surreal images which OF COURSE looks like it was filmed on a 1930s home cine camera. Naturally, this seemed to be a one off, and I didn’t hear hide nor hair of them again until, to my astonishment the very same track entered the great British pop charts at no 38 or something, meaning it was actually played on the chart run down on a Sunday evening when I just happened to be driving my racing green Astra through a mountain pass in the Lake District, which is about as British Sea Power a place as this could possibly happen in. Needless to say, it sounded amazing on the radio, and completely at odds with everything else in the charts at that time and my love affair with the band began in earnest.
I bought their debut album soon after. I loved and love it to this day, but one of the main reasons I am such a fan is that BSP from the word go have offered so much more than simply making music. Even their ‘newsboost’ bulletins to their mailing list were works of art in themselves – penned by their then manager (the older brother of the two brothers in the band) in wonderfully flamboyant and enthusiastic language, peppered with recommendations of obscure books and films and frequently side-tracked by passionate accounts of rare bird sightings and the like. The same chap went on to write ‘Do it for your Mum’, his similarly barmy and just as enjoyable book about the band’s rise to semi-fame, an account tinged by the disappointment of their tendency for duller acts that would at the time have equivalent or even lower billing (The Libertines and The Killers being good examples) overtaking them and going on to enjoy much greater success, and provides a sobering insight into how being in even a moderately successful indie rock band is a lot of hard work for precious little financial reward.
The music is in some ways the most conservative thing about them, which is in absolutely no way a criticism; it’s not especially original, but that’s fine if you do it well, and BSP always deliver theirs with vigour, both on record and live, and unusual subject matter (light pollution, sea birds, Antarctic ice shelves always keeps things interesting). Like many of my favourite bands, mastery of both discordant noise and fragile beauty is achieved. Hurrah! And the drummer is ACE.
A tendency for playing gigs in unusual places (village halls, caves, libraries, ships, CERN), obsession with British wildlife, being frequently joined on stage by a bloke in a 10ft bear costume (previously the property of Hammer Films) a truly (despite their name) international outlook and an appearance on Country File may have sealed the deal for me, but are perhaps not the ingredients for mainstream success (whereas whatever it is the Killers do apparently is), and they’ve never broken through sufficiently to become even close to being a household name. Happily, what they have done is found their level, a modest but loyal audience and through crowd-funding releases and branching out into other projects (their own mini-festivals, soundtrack work for film and computer games), a way of keeping the whole thing going and interesting for both themselves and the likes of me.
One of the few things they have in common with a lot of the acts I like is that ability to keep doing what they clearly love to do where other bands have been less resilient in the face of not achieving the levels of success they might have once aspired to.
British Sea Power? British Staying Power, more like! Ha ha did you see what I did there etc
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Saw them live many times between 2003 and 2008. Always a great gig.
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Love BSP. Good thread. Is this to be a series? If so, I like it.
1 hour ago, The People's Hero said:
Why thank you.
It is to be a series, but hopefully not just of my contributions. Nobody wants that. Get scribing, FTers!
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That's the band, that dress up as trees on stage at Leicester one time, that was different, was that friends of the earth
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Saw their gig at the Leicester Festival in that plastic dome last year,they were excellent, playing Leicester again on their next tour , will definitely be going
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Posted 29 July 2020 (edited)
Music chat needs more of this content and less spamming YouTube videos of 70s crap to be honest.
Top bombing Bellend. Also, well done subverting expectations by not doing Belle and Sebastian.
Shame BSP are shit like.
Edited 29 July 2020 by Finnegan
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Quality Band! Especially love the random polar bears in the crowd Looking toward to their gig in Leicester again.
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On 24/07/2020 at 11:05, Bellend Sebastian said:
What a great read. Incidentally, I remember 'Victor' and 'Warlord' - wasn't there one called 'Bullet' too? I noticed that the kids at school that bought them were invariably the same ones that read 'Scorcher' 'Roy of the Rovers' and 'Tiger'.
Great recollections and observations. I adore the follow up 'Open Season' - such a clever piece of work - which I had on repeat for a week during lockdown. It's perhaps a more accessible sound than the debut which I also love...but the same infectious melodies are stirring under the simmering, stormy surface of "The Decline of the British Sea Power". 'Open Season' is perhaps the best invocation of 'Bossanova' era Pixies this side of the Atlantic, and this side of Modest Mouse.
Being old enough to have grown up when Airfix kits of World War II fighter planes were still very much a thing
My friend at school was a member of the 'Airfix Modellers Club" which as I recall had Dick Emery as the president.
On 29/07/2020 at 07:48, rico said:
I was at that, think everyone (including the band) thought it was a weird set up at first but as usual it ended up being a triumph
On 24/07/2020 at 14:43, Blueman1967 said:
I don't think THEY dressed up as trees although there probably were some on stage. Had you had a drink? I know I had
On 01/08/2020 at 13:38, Line-X said:
A quick Google reveals this to not be the result of a fever dream but completely true (the bit about Dick Emery, not whether your mate was a club member). I mean, who wouldn't join such an enterprise?
On 29/07/2020 at 13:29, Finnegan said:
Thank you and damn your eyes at the same time.
I may yet get to B&S but I can think of at least 3 turns I'd probably write about first
You're very kind.
Weirdly, it took me ages to notice the very obvious Pixies influence, given that I really like them.
I always suggest Open Season to new listeners for exactly the reasons you've described. Contains 'Please Stand Up', which could well have been a breakthrough hit if MTV hadn't removed it from their playlist after deeming some of the words a bit naughty (they're really not).
Yet more BSP misfortune
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He was indeed. He had a page in Buster every week. Not that I read it, I wasn't really interested.
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Comment by Judy Staab
Entered on: 4/13/2010 9:15:05 AM
Did you hear him say this? Weatherman describes "bands of very distinct cloud cover moving into the region" and that, "military planes dumping 'chaff' which he describes as bits of aluminum, tiny pieces of plastic or even metallicized paper products," etc. then goes on to say that "it is used as an anti-radar issue and obviously they're practicing." and . . "Now they won't confirm that, but I was in the Marine Corps for many years, and I can tell you here right now, that's what it is." If you research: www.bariumblues.com . . www.chemtrailtruth.org . . www.amercianskywatch.com . . www.arizonaskywatch.com (and on this site, be sure to check the EPA certified lab report showing aluminum is 39M in Arizona whereas 2K is toxic level) and see all the experiments being done, then by golly you should (what most people don't do) watch the sky! We should have had rain today but for the last few days, planes dumping tons of chemicals (aluminum is a desicant - a drying agent) have dried up the atmosphere. Arizona would have been drenched the last two years! I say this because those of us who continually watch these planes saturate our skies, have seen at least 500+ potential storms squelched in the last 24 months! Don't you ever see waves of white muck over the entire sky? This is NOT normal! And it does NOT come from your car or someone's fireplace! How many times do you see natural, normal clouds? How many times do you see deep, clear blue skies without milky, spidery-webbed-looking substance over it? If there's no water, watch for it to be privatized or under the U.N (more likely w/Climate Change/Geo-engineering legislation which will require a world governance effort and since they've sold this as a "global" problem), and water will be at a premium (lots of people leaving Anthem due to $300-$400 water bills); Monsanto will have its way with genetically-engineered seeds and GMO foods because they claim (ads now in magazines) its seeds take 1/3 less water, but what Monsanto won't admit to is that these deadly seeds change DNA (turning immune system against itself) and destroy organic fields as well (more interesting research available to any who cares); and look at the billions to be made in the "green" industry so cleverly planned due to this so-called global warming scare! Well-marketed I must say. The saddest part of all of this is that media (for exception of a few including this site) is completely sold out to covering this up. That's why, when one weatherman comes out and drops a piece of truth, we all jump on it! Lord knows, it's refreshing to hear truth for a change!
Comment by Shadow Patriot
Entered on: 4/12/2010 6:40:44 PM
I'm trying to figure out what it was he said that "named" chemtrails. I didn't hear anything like that, but maybe I'm not catching whatever phrase it is or word said that means he's calling them out without calling them chemtrails.
Entered on: 4/11/2010 12:42:26 PM
NOTE TO: Weathermen & women, media and government officials who've kept silent about this ILLEGAL weather manipulation program using toxic, deadly chemicals and numerous experiments harmful to human life as well as the entire world! Nonetheless, go along with "the green" movement and proposed "geo-engineering" (Climate Change) agenda which will make all of the insane weather control experiments . . . LEGAL! And thus crippling an already financially burdened citizenship to the max!!! ___________________________________________________________________________ Compliance is a funny thing. It starts when we're kids and someone not so popular is roughed up and made fun of by some bully while we just watch and say nothing. As we grow up, we're taught the rights and wrongs of life and watch the adults who taught those ideals tell "little white lies" as they justify why they're stretching the truth and once again, we comply and keep silent for fear of displaying a lack of respect. Then life goes on and we comply with lies, deceit and eventually evil. We say we pick and choose our battles but make sure we don't step on too many toes or rock the boat in an unsafe manner. We "feel" good and convince ourselves we're making a difference but all the time, unconsciously, fear has grown its ugly roots like a fungus inside our souls. Let's just tackle the safe issues. Let's not tread where it might be uncomfortable. After all, we don't want to lose our jobs. Fear drives our rationale for being complicit to the atrocities and despicable evil acts against mankind. We marvel, however, at the stories we hear about brave individuals who have risked their lives saving people. But we continue to comply with blatant evil because perhaps we've convinced ourselves it's way out of our control! This brave, honest weatherman (who did not SLIP but stated firmly the truth) doesn't see it that way! He is a perfect example behind Edmund Burkes' famous quote: "The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." We would have a different world . . right now . . if we had more of these brave souls!
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Freemark Abbey Legacy
Part Two: Establishing the Legacy of Freemark Abbey
In 2015, Freemark Abbey went through renovations to Antonio Forni’s historic 1898 stone building. The goal was to create a more hospitable venue for its visitors. Changes were extensive, but it was a reminder to Freemark visitors and employees alike that this storied property has been evolving for many decades.
A slightly earlier improvement occurred around 1990: a fountain was constructed in the courtyard, under which, according to longtime employee Sue Cottrell, a Freemark Abbey time capsule is buried—but more on that below.
In his second volume of A History of Wine in America, wine historian Thomas Pinney includes a photograph of an unadorned, stone winery facing Highway 29. There’s a large basket press visible to one side and in the foreground, in block letters, a “Visitors Welcome” sign installed over a patch of scrub. The photo offers no clues as to which winery this was or is, though the caption identifies it as Freemark Abbey in St. Helena. Pinney notes that it was taken “in the 1950s, when Napa tourism was simple and direct.”
The photo of Freemark Abbey in the 1950s featured in Thomas Pinney's, A History of Wine in America.
Albert "Abbey" Ahern, one of the three original partners who founded Freemark Abbey.
Back in 1940, Albert “Abbey” Ahern and his business partners, Charles Freeman and Mark Foster, purchased the Forni family’s Lombarda Winery property and combined their names to form the Freemark Abbey moniker. Then in 1949, the trio opened a “sampling room.” They were among the earliest Napa Valley proprietors to create space for what would become commonly known as a “tasting room,” where visitors were offered sips of the wines made right there on the property. 70 years later, that tasting component of a winery visit is more or less expected, but back then it was a rather novel idea.
So, in addition to giving their names to Freemark Abbey, the three partners helped bestow on Napa Valley an identity that endures and thrives to this day: a place for hospitality.
It’s hard to believe—or overstate—how far the Valley has come as a wine tourist destination since the “simpler” days of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, when traffic on Highway 29 was light, and there were fewer than fifty wineries between Napa and Calistoga.
“This first Freemark Abbey Winery operated for twenty years,” Pinney’s fellow wine historian, Charles Sullivan, writes in Napa Wine, A History. The partners closed it after Ahern’s death in 1959, but, as Sullivan notes, “during that time the winery produced a wide variety of wines.” He explains that, while a handful of others like Ahern arrived in Napa Valley in the 1940s, “the trickle would grow in the fifties and sixties and become a flood in the seventies.”
It was that decade of the 1960s that saw the rebirth of the Freemark property.
“The lights at Freemark Abbey came back on in 1967,” the historian later notes in Napa Wine, “when a partnership headed by Charles Carpy bought the old Lombarda place.” Carpy and his six partners soon ramped up both the winery’s production and reputation.
The seven partners who purchased Freemark Abbey in 1967.
From left to right: Dick Heggie, Brad Webb, Bill Jaeger, Frank "Laurie" Wood, Jim Warren, Chuck Carpy, John Bryan
Sullivan points out that “Cabernet Sauvignon made the Freemark Abbey reputation, specifically the wines made from John Bosché’s twenty acres in Rutherford,” the property that would become the source of Freemark’s signature wine, Cabernet Bosché.
Then in 1976, the Judgment of Paris tasting introduced Napa Valley wines to an international audience. Of the dozen California wineries chosen to compete, Freemark was the only one that included both a red and a white wine.
The two wines Freemark Abbey entered in the 1976 Judgement of Paris
In her own way, Sue Cottrell is a direct connection to that 1970s heyday.
She arrived in St. Helena in 1970 with her then-husband to open Cuvaison Winery just north of town. “My former husband had a doctorate in laser optics, which, of course is a wonderful background to make wine,” she joked on the phone recently.
“The person from whom we learned the most and who gave us the most expertise was Bill Bonetti, who was the then-winemaker at Charles Krug. Without his time and expertise, I don't think we would've ever made any wine there.”
The couple eventually sold Cuvaison, and Sue started working at Freemark Abbey in 1982.
Though retired, she rivals Ted Edwards for the length of her Freemark tenure. Ted is still going strong after 35 years at the winemaking helm; Sue spent 31 years in a variety of hospitality-related positions at the winery. Anyone wondering what the contemporary history of Freemark Abbey looks like should consult her.
“Harvest was the most exciting season,” she shared in a separate email, reflecting on her early days at the winery. “Guests would watch grapes being dumped into the hopper and pressed. Employees working at either the press or the tanks inside the winery often answered questions posed by curious guests.”
She noted “the tour always began with a brief history of Napa Valley and the founding of Freemark Abbey by Josephine Tychson. Often we pointed to the nearby hillside home of Josephine! And I made a point of explaining where Freemark Abbey fit into the historic presence of the first wineries in Napa Valley, and especially the importance of both Bosché and Sycamore Vineyards, each privately owned by the Bosché and Bryan families, with whom Freemark continues to have long term contracts.”
She recalled that she and her Freemark colleagues hosted events at both Sycamore and Bosché Vineyards, especially around the Napa Valley Vintners’ June Wine Auction. “We also hosted events at Carpy Ranch and Red Barn Ranch, which is now Frog’s Leap Winery. It was the site of many a harvest party.”
On the phone, she clarified about that time capsule.
Looking at an old photo of the property reminded her that she’d once heard about the engraved “Lombarda Winery” sign coming down in the 1940s to be replaced with a Freemark Abbey sign. Behind the stone sign, a stash of money and an old newspaper were supposedly discovered—or maybe this was just hearsay.
The fountain in the Freemark Abbey Courtyard where the time capsule is buried.
Either way, she said, “it gave me the idea in the early 90s, when they put it in the fountain, of making a time capsule. And so I got a strong box and put a bottle of Bosché in it, along with a work order, our Christmas picture that year, a corkscrew or an Ah-so opener—I can’t remember which—and some comments about the grapes from Ted. It's documented in some file at Freemark Abbey. There's a photo of someone putting everything in the strong box, what the box includes, and then the box was actually placed under the fountain as the concrete was poured over it.”
No one would accuse Sue of not having fun in her job.
To this day, she has great memories of Chuck Carpy and his partners, who were regular presences at the winery in the 1980s and interacted closely with the Freemark staff. She was particularly fond of the partner and original winemaker, Brad Webb.
“Brad was the one who was probably the quietest but also had the most influence on the wine,” she said. “Ted was there when Brad was still alive and appreciated his influence.”
Echoing Sue’s recollection, Charles Sullivan writes that Webb “set the tone for the style of Freemark Abbey wines in the years to come.”
Sue continued, “You know, day-to-day at the winery it would be Chuck and Laurie Wood. And each month our staff would get together for lunch, and we'd usually have a speaker. Oftentimes it was somebody within the winery, and the best one was Laurie Wood, who would recount his days in the second landing at Omaha Beach or helping to build transcontinental Al-Can Highway. I mean, he had incredible stories. We kept saying, ‘And what happened then, and what happened then?’
“Laurie and Chuck were present every day. We would see Brad periodically, and then we would of course see John Bryan, who owned Sycamore Vineyard. We didn't see Dick Heggie as much, although whenever we had an event, which were frequent, all the partners would come with their spouses. The Heggies in particular, who were world travelers, had a real comfort level. They always chose to sit with the cellar crew and communicate with them in Spanish, which was great.”
Then Sue paused and laughed, “I’ve only scraped the surface here. The stories abound! Where to begin?”
She acknowledged that the three decades she spent at Freemark Abbey were just a chapter in one of Napa Valley’s great winery histories. When—or if—that time capsule gets opened, more tales will no doubt spill out of it.
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[General] To be a woman in pakistan
Thread: To be a woman in pakistan
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Long Live Pakistan
To be a woman in pakistan
Womanhood in Pakistan is being born with ashes in your fist.
Raniya Hosain
‘Womanhood in Pakistan is being born with ashes in your fist.’ This year, the Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women was awarded to a young Pakistani writer for her experiential examination of womanhood in Pakistan. Eos is proud to exclusively publish the winning entry
Womanhood’ is an abstract, formless thing — like an old God, or an undiscovered island. To me it means waking up at 8 am to dust the living room, open up the window and let in the light. It means a body that is soft and giving and kaleidoscopic — here are my bird-boned ankles, here my scarred knuckles, here my floral neck. I met a boy once who told me he couldn’t joke with women — they were too sensitive. I suppose, to him, womanhood was the complete lack of a punchline, a serious snail-like thing, curling away from laughter, and salt.
There are certain symbols of womanhood that have collected in our subconscious, the detritus of constant mis-definition. A woman is a candy-bar. No, she is a suffering thing, what poet Kaveh Akbar would call a “poor deer” — run over (and over and over) by every passing car, and still, still standing in the glow of the headlights.
A woman is a metaphor. Wait no — she is a biological certainty, a fixed chromosomal truth. Wait — wait — a woman is a Giver Of Life. A woman is silver earrings and five different kinds of organic conditioner. A woman is salad for lunch, and bile for dinner. A woman is a touched, untouched, virginal whore.
So if no one really knows what a woman is, what does it mean to be one? Especially in a country like Pakistan — where the law half-heartedly tries to protect us, and society tells it to shut its dirty kafir mouth and that’s that. Let me include here two little instances of my experience of Pakistani womanhood, truthful to me, but perhaps only me, which is quite alright, because that’s how memory works. Little instances because — there is comfort in smallness, in lightness, in being able to raise objects, bodies and voices with ease. Because my sharpest pains are all wordless cries. Because in saying the small things, carefully, ritualistically, twice — the big things sort of reveal themselves anyway.
Illustrations by Samiah BilalI) A Tale Of Two Windows
“In a way,” a male friend of mine once said, “catcalls are compliments.” Every woman in the room stared at him like he had grown another head, or perhaps, lost his current one.
I was in a car once, with my sister, and we were dressed up in all our Eid finery — the draped silks, the daringly short sleeves, our mother’s jasmine perfume dabbed on our collarbones and wrists. We were discussing how much Eidi we’d gotten, and how the biryani had been under-spiced, and the way that one uncle of ours looked so tired, na? It’s all his wife’s fault — always nagging, doesn’t even keep a proper house for him.
We stopped at a traffic light. A man in the car next to us knocked on the window. He gestured for us to roll down the window. We didn’t. He gestured again, more emphatically. “Maybe he’s in trouble or something,” I whispered to my sister. “More like he is trouble,” she replied, firmly avoiding his gaze.
He looked me directly in the eye, and his eyes dropped to my chest. He smiled at me, made a hand gesture for oral sex, and drove away laughing. This all happened in broad daylight, in the smoke-filled sedentary bustle of Lahore, basking in Eid lunch afterglow. It took a minute, perhaps less. I didn’t quite know what had happened — I only know that I felt the weight of his hands through two car windows. I only knew that I never wanted to be looked at again.
“Do you think,” I asked my sister, “it was because I was wearing sleeveless?” “No,” she said unconvincingly, “of course not.” “But maybe,” she added, “you shouldn’t wear sleeveless out of the house anymore.” And I didn’t, for years. And when I did, I thought of that man — the crooked width of his smile, the yellow of his teeth, the quick forceful way his fingers moved, like a bird or a bullet.
Being catcalled, or stared at, or having hands gesture toward you is perhaps the smallest, most intangible act of violence. When I walked into middle school, with my newly grown (training bra friendly) breasts, I felt eyes follow me like shadows, like strangers in dark alleyways, like the ghosts of hands that never stopped touching me. The thing about any kind of harassment is that it takes things from you — things you never even knew you could give.
It took sleeveless kameezes from me. It took wandering through my neighbourhood park alone. It took, for a few seconds, my body — my sense of self — my name. It took, and it took, and it takes even now.
They say Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned. It’s an indictment more than anything. But I get it. Sometimes all you have is the urge to make something beautiful.
Maybe womanhood is a constant emptying out. The sound of quickened breath in the street, as heavy footsteps sound languid behind you. A trembling hand moving to lift up a neckline, pull down a hemline, brush hair like a concrete bridal veil in front of a face. And maybe womanhood in Pakistan is being retold the stories of your countless little traumas as a lilting, joking aside — “I would be happy to be catcalled!” My friend continued, “It’s the price you pay for being beautiful.” Maybe he’s a little bit right, maybe womanhood is exactly that — the price you pay for being beautiful.
But I can’t accept that. I can’t equate my identity to all the little acts of violence committed against me. Qandeel Baloch is metonymic for resistant, empowered womanhood in Pakistan — posters of her abounded at the Aurat March, her lips pulled up into a half-smirk. This is the image, and that is the face. It is not the wounds, or the body, or the perpetrators of a gross and unjust violence that define who she was, is, to us. Her womanhood is, and must be, extricable from her victimhood.
Feminist criticism has recently highlighted the importance of active versus passive language, the way we position subjects in sentences — so rather than saying ‘I was raped,’ you would say ‘he raped me.’ Rather than saying ‘I was catcalled’, you say, ‘He was a middle aged weirdo who decided to mimic oral sex to a 15-year-old girl.’ In image, in symbol, in language, and in thought — there is a pressing need to separate who we are from what is done to us.
Womanhood is 21-year-old me, wearing a sleeveless black jorra, and ashing a cigarette out of my car window. Womanhood is that precise moment during the Aurat March where dozens of women donned a mask of Qandeel’s face — as if to say, look, here, you could not take her from us. Being a woman in Pakistan isn’t — but should be, but is inching toward — a re-assertion of what we will not give.
Protesters at Aurat March 2019 in Lahore | Photo by Ema Anis, copyright Amnesty International
II) AGAINST THE TIDE
The thing about patriarchy is that I don’t know who I would be without it. It’s like asking a child to imagine what it is to be an adult. There’s the faint scent of freedom, a kind of light at the edges of your vision, but it’s not something that can be known until it is lived. I will never know who I could have been — unafraid and bare-chested, walking home alone at 10 pm. I will never know how to enter a room without instinctively hunching my shoulders and lowering my gaze. I will never know what it is like to love a stranger, alone and in the dark, without shame and fear gathering force in my lungs. I will never know what it is like to be unaware, even for a second, of my own damned beautiful body.
The closest I have come to a world without patriarchy is Ladies Hour at the Islamabad Club Pool (9-10 am). I go with my aunt, and we walk hand in hand, sensible beige towels slung over our shoulders, my excited chatter undeterred by the stolid unresponsiveness of her placating “hmms.” My aunt is the sort of woman who could walk into a palace and immediately zero in on a speck of dust on the side table. She taught me how to swim — like a parody of embodiment, she slowly uncurved her arms over and over again to show me exactly how to float. Womanhood is, often, forced meticulousness — and I think this is the definition my aunt inhabits most comfortably.
The smell of chlorine stings, and my eyes water a little bit because I forgot my goggles at home — but, oh, is this what it is to be a man? To be weightless, to slice through the world like it is not a concrete thing, to never worry about having both feet on the ground? I cannonball into the water and my aunt scolds me, and the waves cascade outward with slowly diminishing force. I think if I jumped from high enough, I could make a tsunami. I could make a wave, so large, so brutal, it would wipe out cities. It would baptise the whole universe. This is the never-ending search — what point is high enough to drown out the world as we know it?
But the pool is more than a metaphor — it is a kingdom where nobody hurts. A stranger tells me that I have to kick my legs a bit faster if I want to go anywhere and I am not afraid. A stranger smiles at me when I catch her eye and I am not afraid. I trip and fall, and three different elderly ladies cluck and fuss over me, tell me I’m so brave for not crying, and I am not afraid.
Fear arrives, with a whistle. I don’t recall if there actually is a whistle that announces the end of Ladies Hour at Islamabad Club, but I can hear it anyway. A sharp staccato thing, ringing in my ears like a fire alarm — the kind of sound that warns you something bad is coming. “Five more minutes,” I say to my aunt. “No — come out.” Always, the leaving, the ushering off, always, the emptying out. The women leave the pool so fast, even the water is confused — trembling, lapping at concrete edges, a limpid question mark.
“I don’t want to go,” I say. “Please — just this once — five more minutes.” “We can go to the ladies only pool — now hurry up, get out.” The ladies only pool is cramped, and lukewarm, with far less room for me to make waves. I do not compromise, fists clenched at my sides — “I want to stay five more minutes.” “Come on!” My aunt says, losing her patience, “Do you want all the men to look at your legs? Do you want them to think you’re that kind of a girl? Get out, NOW.” And with this final commandment, my little kingdom collapses — I watch Islamabad Club disappear in the rear view mirror like Nero, watching Rome burn.
They say Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned. It’s an indictment more than anything. But I get it. Sometimes all you have is the urge to make something beautiful. Sometimes there is nothing left but sad strains of music, echoing into spaces that can no longer belong to you. This is, of course, over-dramatic. We would go back to that middle class sanctuary, Islamabad Club, the next day. There are much more sinister spaces snatched away from women, far more permanently — schools, hospitals, homes, bodies. But that’s my point. Patriarchy spreads like an oil spill — choking off all access to life. Even the smallest space is something we cannot have. So we watch Rome burn — every day, every hour — womanhood in Pakistan is being born with ashes in your fist.
Is this what it is to be a woman in Pakistan, then? A sliding scale of suffering? Different garnishes on the same bland bodies? Where, in womanhood, do we make space for joy?
Womanhood is the art of the after-life — of inhabiting a body that creates far more than it could ever destroy. Not just children, but bonds of friendship, of community, of any and all kinds of boundless love. But then — that’s not just womanhood is it? That’s just — it’s just supposed to be — humanity? It’s more obvious in women though. A kind of forced meticulousness. Women don’t owe the world love, or delicacy, or birth. Women can be corrupt, can be rapists, can be awful, and evil, and unlovable — but we should be able to keep swimming. Women should be able to tread water and be unafraid.
Pakistan has a complicated history regarding women and fear. Uzma Khan was beaten and threatened with rape by another woman, the wife of a man with whom she had an alleged affair. In the viral ‘Colonel Ki Biwi’ video, a woman yells at, abuses and almost runs over a male police officer — granted privilege through her proximity to power, rather than through inhabiting it. Muslim women accuse Christian women of crimes that they did not commit, crimes that remain unsayable. Aunts will constantly ask when a girl is getting engaged, in the pestering mindless way of a mosquito bite that stings more than it should. Women will call a girl a slut for daring to ever desire, a prude for refusing too many eligible advances. We saw a woman with short hair, in plaid once, and my mother wisely declared, “She must be some sort of a lesbian.” Which — is patently untrue. She must not be anything, other than herself.
Women will teach you how to swim, then drag you out of the pool. Women will talk about the sanctity of marriage, then turn around and ignore the husband in favour of dishing it out to the mistress. And the colonel’s wife — well that’s all she’ll ever be in our collective imagination. Someone’s wife. It hurts more coming from women — where did these sweat-soaked, loud, violent beings come from? We were promised boundless love.
Women can fit so comfortably in the system of patriarchy, that they learn to ignore the slices of themselves they cut off along the way. Like Cinderella’s step-sisters — off with the toes, and down with the heels, a little bit of blood in the shoe is not much of a price to pay for a kingdom. The thing about kingdoms is that they demand subjects. So someone, somewhere, is always hurting. And hurt permeates outward — it is the wave that never stops breaking. Unless we’re all swimming, we’re all drowning. Being a woman in Pakistan is the constant, impotent struggle to breathe underwater.
SINCERELY, MINE.
There are certain “crucibles of difference,” as Audre Lorde so eloquently put it, that are intrinsic to womanhood. Poor women, Baloch women, women from religious minorities, transgender women, queer women, dark-skinned women, fat women. The intersectionality of struggles is what constitutes identity — and the ‘degree of harm’ might differ, but the lived experiential reality of harm holds within it a scarring permanence, a tendency toward empathy.
I cried when I read about Qandeel Baloch’s murder. I feel personally offended when people malign Meesha Shafi, in speaking truth to power — I feel she gave us all a voice. Rights of divorce crossed out in nikahnamas, acid attacks, and honour killings, and the systemic degradation of trans women — it implicates us all. There is a sense of a joint struggle, a resurging feminist movement toward an incorporeal, unimaginable future. And still the constant refrain, by male critics, by cynical family members, by angry unhappy people online — you, personally, haven’t suffered enough.
Womanhood is a part of me, not the whole of me. Being Pakistani is a part of me, not the whole of me. My identity is more than a list I fill out in hospital waiting rooms, and college applications.
Is this what it is to be a woman in Pakistan, then? A sliding scale of suffering? Different garnishes on the same bland bodies? Where, in womanhood, do we make space for joy? My experience echoes yours, echoes hers, echoes our grandmothers’ — with a little bit of fabric loose at the edges, the slight room for movement. But my God — must we all be so cyclically, perpetually hurt?
Why is the phrase ‘Womanhood in Pakistan’ synonymous with tragedy? My experience of womanhood in Pakistan is specific to me, my family, all my unearned privilege. It is the specific blue of my lehnga, the smell of garlic lingering on my fingertips, the smooth hairlessness of my arms and the frightening thicket of my legs. Womanhood isn’t really anything solidified, anything that is classifiably the same. It’s just hard to spot the differences when we’re all bleeding out on the floor, sacrifices to an unappeasable Unknown.
Womanhood is a part of me, not the whole of me. Being Pakistani is a part of me, not the whole of me. My identity is more than a list I fill out in hospital waiting rooms, and college applications. It’s become a joke amongst my friends — how often I say, casually and insistently, “Gender is a patriarchal social construct.” So are borders. So are words.
Audre Lorde writes “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” As long as I limit myself to patriarchal borders of identity, patriarchal modes of self identification, I will be within the power of patriarchal thought. My womanhood, my Pakistani-ness — I hold power over them. I choose what to take, and what to discard; no one else can tell me what it means to be myself.
In honour of armpit hair, and childlessness, in honour of spitting paan and red lipstick, in honour of bracelets of jasmine and low cut tops, in honour of Badshahi Masjid and Bahria farmhouse parties, in honour of old gods and undiscovered islands — here I am. A Pakistani woman. And that means nothing to me, and everything to me, all at once.
The writer is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in English Literature at King’s College, London and is working on launching a digital literary magazine called Spacebar
This winning essay was originally titled ‘Portrait of a Woman in Pain’
Published in Dawn, EOS, November 22nd, 2020
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Heart of Your Community Awards
Heart of Your Community 2019: Nominate a Local Hero
Nominate the unsung heroes who make a difference in our community for the Grimsby Telegraph Heart of Your Community Awards 2019
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Who will you nominate this year? Pictured at the 2018 Heart of Your Community Awards Night are Local Hero winners Leann, left, and Shane Brumby, right. The award is sponsored by ENGIE represented by Marcus Asquith, centre (Image: Duncan Young)
This week we are asking members of the public to nominate a Local Hero, as part of this year's Heart of Your Community awards.
So far we have showcased the Emergency Services and Mental Health and Wellbeing, Young Sports Star, Friend/Neighbour, Inspiring Youngster and Community Project of the Year categories.
These awards recognise the upstanding members of our community who make the area a better place to live and work.
The Local Hero award will recognise remarkable acts of courage or selflessness by an ordinary member of the community.
This might be someone who has helped to save a life or acted in a courageous way in their community.
Local Hero award - category sponsor Engie
'Luminations' was designed by Esther Rolinson, and will run along the full length of the North Promenade (Image: North East Lincolnshire Council)
Last year, Leann and Shane Brumby scooped the award. They have been longstanding community First Responders for LIVES in the Grimsby area for many years.
Leann has been co-ordinating the Grimsby and District group for a couple of years and as a volunteer; looking after around 60 volunteers.
Shane, is a long distance lorry driver but commits his spare time to LIVES as a group trainer, volunteer and Level 4 responder.
The work of Engie, as regeneration partners of North East Lincolnshire Council, is all about improving the community in which we all live and work.
In order that this area continues a path of re-invention and growth, Engie is engaged in an eclectic mix of projects – from arts, culture and heritage to industrial progression and business improvement.
The lights will lead up to the main art installation, the White Palm (Image: North East Lincolnshire Council)
In the months and years ahead, the community will see major grant-supported projects come to fruition, with extensive work in Cleethorpes, Grimsby’s St James’ Square and – on an industrial vein – at a vital industrial area, called SHIIP (South Humber Industrial Investment Programme).
The latter will support up to 4,000 jobs, with companies offered major incentives and assistance to expand, grow and relocate in North East Lincolnshire.
While the projects are all very different in their purpose, they have one common aim and that is to improve North East Lincolnshire for the community. That will happen in a variety of ways – creating job and business opportunity, growing the visitor economy and improving the cultural and business aspirations for our young people.
Engie, working alongside North East Lincolnshire Council, can only achieve true change with the support and involvement of community partners and as we progress we look to further engage those groups and individuals in order to improve our area as a place where people want to invest, live and visit.
Engie partnership director Marcus Asquith (Image: www.DaveMoss.com)
Marcus Asquith, partnership director, Engie said: "In North East Lincolnshire, the heart of the community continues to have a strong and healthy beat.
"As the council’s regeneration partner, the teams at Engie have a large presence out and about and what we see is people, volunteering day in and day out, who work tirelessly for the good of others. They are true local heroes, who champion their communities and whose work does far, far more than is often recognised.
"Whether it is helping a neighbour, volunteering at a local centre or working for a cause in which they believe, these people are the ones who will inspire others, make those they help feel better about themselves and offer support that would otherwise not be there.
"It is for these reasons that Engie is proud to support this award for the fourth consecutive year. Local Heroes, we thank you all.”
Heart of Your Community awards 2019
The awards provide an excellent opportunity for local companies to partner with the Grimsby Telegraph and GrimsbyLive to celebrate the people in our local community.
This year, awards will be presented across 12 categories, with an overall winner determined by a panel of judges. GrimsbyLive will be featuring a different category every week.
The aim is to celebrate individuals or community groups who have done extraordinary things – whether that's caring for others, raising huge sums for charity or simply making a real difference to their communities.
Other winners have faced adversity or illness with great courage from all ages and walks of life.
Nominations can be made in the award categories for Emergency Services , Friend/Neighbour of the Year, Inspiring Youngster, Community Project of the Year, Young Sports Star , Local Hero, Child of Courage, Mental Health and Wellbeing , Charity Champion, Community Sports, Carer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Heart of Your Community 2019 categories
CARER OF THE YEAR AWARD
We are searching for someone who is either looking after a relative or friend, providing domiciliary care or is looking after an individual in a care home environment. We want you to help us find that one person who goes above and beyond and puts the needs of other first.
YOUNG SPORTS STAR - sponsored by DFDS
We are looking for a girl or boy, under the age of 18 who has achieved excellence in their chosen sport throughout the past 12 months, either as an individual or part of a team. Their entry must demonstrate commitment, dedication and sheer hard work.
FRIEND / NEIGHBOUR OF THE YEAR - sponsored by Lincolnshire Housing Partnership
This award will go to a friend or neighbour who have helped others living near them, whether it be running errands, looking after those living alone, or being a shoulder to cry on when times are tough.
INSPIRING YOUNGSTER - sponsored by Franklin College
There are thousands of terrific youngsters out there, but we're looking for a role model, aged 16 or under, who deserves special recognition. This could be someone who has made a contribution to their community, taken steps to support important causes or fundraising for charities. These young people are the future – they are building their confidence and resilience, and are already working hard to be the change in creating a better world.
COMMUNITY PROJECT OF THE YEAR - sponsored by focus
Have you made things happen in your neighbourhood? We want to hear from groups that have worked tirelessly to improve the quality of life for people in their community. Whether you raised money for a new play area, organised a demonstration, campaigned for safer roads or supported youth groups.
VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR - - sponsored by John Roe Toyota
Ordinary members of the public devote countless hours to helping others in our community. This category will recognise the people who carry out a multitude of good work, without asking for anything in return.
CHARITY CHAMPION
Our Charity Champion will highlight an individual or group whose charitable work has made a significant impact to a worthy cause. This could be someone who raises money regularly or who has generated significant funds for a chosen charity or charities.
CHILD OF COURAGE - sponsored by Ramsdens
Do you know a youngster, aged 16 or under, who has had to endure heartache or pain and still showed a shining spirit? This could go to a child who has fought against illness or shown bravery beyond their years.
COMMUNITY SPORTS AWARD - sponsored by Cyden Homes
This award will recognise an outstanding example of an unsung hero in the field of amateur sport. Every week hundreds of men and women volunteer their time to act as coaches and trainers to make sport accessible for people in our communities to join in with sporting activities.
LOCAL HERO AWARD - sponsored by Engie
The Local Hero award will recognise remarkable acts of courage or selflessness by an ordinary member of the community. This might be someone who has helped to save a life or acted in a courageous way in their community.
EMERGENCY SERVICES OF THE YEAR - sponsored by Sentiments
As part of their line of duty, members of the emergency services are there to protect and serve the public. This award is for someone who has risked their own life to save another, going above and beyond their line of duty.
MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING AWARD - sponsored by Navigo
This award will reward a service, team or an individual offering support, advice or help in the community to encourage well being. It could be a project/person/service looking at the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health to improve the lives of people suffering from an emotional state. It could be someone who has overcome mental illness and is using their experience to help others.
The award ceremony and how to nominate
(Image: Grimsby Telegraph)
The awards will be hosted by BBC Radio Humberside's Phil White and Lara King at the Humber Royal Hotel on Thursday, November 7, 2019.
The evening will include a dinner along with the announcement of who has won each award.
Nominate online today via www.grimsbyheartawards.co.uk - nominations close Sunday, October 6, 2019
Emergency Services category
Mental health and Wellbeing award
Young Sports star award
Friend or Neighbour of the year
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People walk by COVID-19 artwork along Government St. in Victoria, B.C., on Wednesday, December 2, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
B.C. records 16 deaths due to COVID-19, 566 new cases
There are 9,315 active cases
Another 16 people have died due to complications from COVID-19 in B.C., health officials confirmed Tuesday (Dec. 8).
The new death toll – now totally 543– comes as the province also recorded 566 new cases of the novel coronavirus.
There are 9,315 active cases.
Officials said that 352 people are currently hospitalized, 74 of whom are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.
The new cases come one day after provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix announced COVID-19 restrictions were extended until Jan. 8.
“Let’s make the coming weeks our ‘winter break’ by breaking the chain of transmission in our province. We can still be festive and enjoy the season, but let’s ensure it is only with our immediate household or, if you live on your own, with one or two close contacts,” the pair said in a statement.
“Take in the holiday lights in your neighbourhood, have a virtual visit with friends or support a ‘drive in and drop off’ charitable toy drive.”
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Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam provides an update on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
The tale of two pandemics: Provincial COVID-19 case numbers suggest growing disparity
Dr. Theresa Tam, chief public health officer of Canada, says that disease activity remains widespread
It was a day of disparity in Canada’s protracted battle against the novel coronavirus, with some provinces recording alarmingly high numbers of infections while at least one province managed to whittle new cases to zero.
Ontario set a new daily record with 3,945 COVID-19 cases today, while neighbouring Quebec’s elevated case load showed little sign of abating with 2,588 new infections.
The country’s lopsided pandemic is evident when comparing those figures with provinces farther east, where Newfoundland and Labrador saw its first new case in several days and Nova Scotia – the most populous province in Atlantic Canada – had none.
In the west, while Saskatchewan had no new COVID-19 deaths for the first time in a week, it still had 307 new infections.
Dr. Theresa Tam, chief public health officer of Canada, says on Twitter that disease activity remains widespread and the country remains on a path of “continuing resurgence.”
Quebec’s new curfew is perhaps one of the most severe steps taken by a province to curb its rising caseload, though Ontario Premier Doug Ford also warns on Twitter his province will see some “real turbulent waters” over the coming months.
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HAP Joins Supreme Court Petition to Delay Civil Proceedings During COVID-19 Pandemic
HAP and other organizations representing health care providers issued a letter to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in response to an effort by the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Pennsylvania Defense Institute to re-open pre-trial proceedings against health care practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In New Video Series, HAP President and CEO Shares COVID-19 Insight
This week, HAP has launched a new video series to bring the media and consumers insight into the hospital community’s response to COVID-19. In these short updates, Andy Carter, HAP’s President and CEO will provide key updates and analysis how the ever-changing crisis is unfolding in the state.
Face Shield Donation Opportunity Available to Hospitals by way of Vizient
HAPevolve’s endorsed partner, Vizient, recently announced a partnership with Ford Motor Company in distributing recently made face shields to hospitals across the country.
Governor Wolf Petitions Federal Government to Declare COVID-19 a Major Disaster
On March 29, in a letter to the Trump Administration, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf asked the federal government to declare the commonwealth’s COVID-19 outbreak a major disaster. President Trump approved this request on March 30.
National Doctors Day is a Day to Thank Pennsylvania Physicians
Thank you to Pennsylvania’s physicians who are working long hours on the frontlines to manage, treat, and prevent the spread of COVID-19 across the state.
Wolf Administration Expands Stay-at-Home Order
Today, Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine expanded the state’s stay-at-home” order, bringing the total to 26 counties under the order.
Uptick in Health Care-Related Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware attacks targeting the health care sector have risen dramatically during 2020 and continue to claim enterprise victims. There have been new victims of the Ryuk ransomware, which specifically targets large enterprises for large payments.
Congress Passes Third Coronavirus Package
After a tumultuous week of negotiations, Congress passed the $2 trillion “phase three” COVID-19 relief package. The package includes a number of policies that will support health care providers in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
HAP, HAPevolve Partner with Life Sciences, Business, and State Agencies to Increase Supplies and Health Care Volunteers
HAP is partnering with Life Sciences Pennsylvania, the PA Chamber of Business and Industry (PA Chamber), the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, and the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development to generate donations, promote volunteerism, and increase supplies needed by Pennsylvania’s hospitals and health systems to test and treat patients with novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
PA Legislature Passes Package of Bills Related to COVID-19
Today, the Pennsylvania legislature passed a set of bills aimed at helping to relieve stressors on Pennsylvanians caused by COVID-19 and the ripple effects in communities.
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The Speeches at Princess Eugenie's Wedding Reception Made Everyone Cry, Including Me
Prince Andrew's Father of the Bride speech brought the house down.
By Amy Mackelden
Oct 12 2018, 12:28 pm EDT
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The second royal wedding of 2018 was just as spectacular as the first, and that included its own array of emotional speeches.
Royal Couples Bond at Eugenie's Wedding
Following the gorgeous ceremony at St. George's Chapel, Princess Eugenie's first wedding reception was hosted by Queen Elizabeth II in Windsor Castle. And now Hello! has exclusively revealed that Eugenie's father, Prince Andrew, gave an unforgettable speech as father of the bride.
Hello!'s anonymous source, who was allegedly a guest at the royal wedding reception, revealed that "Prince Andrew gave a great father-of-the-bride speech, there was some great anecdotes from childhood and all the way through to current affairs." The publication described the perfect speech as both "light-hearted and moving," revealing that guests were in fits of laughter, and tears, by the end of it.
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Apparently a big part of the reason that guests started to cry was because Prince Andrew showed a lot of love for his daughter's new husband, Jack Brooksbank. Per Hello!'s source, "The one thing that made me cry was the Duke, when he said he was going to do something he's never done before; he went over to his new son-in-law and hugged him. He isn't a very tactile person."
Clearly, Princess Eugenie's parents are embracing Brooksbank into the royal family, and it sounds as though Prince Andrew demonstrated genuine warmth towards his new son-in-law.
Meanwhile, another anonymous guest at the reception described Brooksbank as making a "really lovely speech" before being told to get down from standing on his chair, which is pretty legendary.
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‘The Life Ahead’ writer-director Edoardo Ponti on adapting the novel ‘I’ve loved ever since I was a teenager’ [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW]
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“It was a novel that I’ve loved ever since I was a teenager,” says writer-director Edoardo Ponti about the 1975 book “The Left Before Us” by Romain Gary, which inspired Ponti‘s new Netflix film “The Life Ahead.” “I read it I think when I was 15, and then I read it again in my 20s, and what really inspired me first and foremost was the relationship … between these two completely different people … They could be no more different on the surface and yet really they’re just two opposite sides of the same coin. They’re both survivors.” Ponti recently joined us for our “Meet the Experts” writers panel. Watch our video interview above.
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The film tells the story of Momo (Ibrahima Gueye), a Muslim orphan from Africa who is taken in by Madame Rosa (Sophia Loren), a Jewish Holocaust survivor and former prostitute. Loren also happens to be Ponti’s mother, and “the character reminded me not only of my mother, but she reminded me of my grandmother … the same irreverence, the same fragility.” They have in common that they’re “no-nonsense, sarcastic, somewhat cynical, but … wearing her heart on her sleeve.”
“First and foremost, the relationship between these two people is the heart of the book and had to be the heart of the film,” Ponti explains about how important it was to capture the love that develops between Momo and Rosa. It was also crucial to capture Momo’s unique voice and experience, since the novel is written from his perspective. “I think the most important thing is to be able to see life through the point of view of someone else … because being able to see life through the eyes of another is really, in the end, the beginning of empathy.”
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Home Showbiz Revealed: 7 Musicians Who Sing Like Daddy Lumba
Revealed: 7 Musicians Who Sing Like Daddy Lumba
Charles Kwadwo Fosu, known in music circles as Daddy Lumba is perhaps the only Ghanaian musician who has the highest number of ‘sing-alikes.’
After successfully etching his name in the annals of Ghanaian music as one of the best musicians, he has also impacted greatly on other musicians. Some of these musicians either through inspiration, admiration or copy-cat tendencies sound like him.
Daddy Lumba made an entry into the music industry in the early 1980s with ‘Yereye Aka Akwantuo Mu’ which he did with Nana Acheampong (they were then known as Lumba Brothers).
Since then, he has consistently released a lot of monster hit songs, thereby making him one of the most sought-after highlife musicians in Ghana.
Some musicians who sing like the ‘Aben Waha’ hit maker are Dada KD, Paapa Shee, Ofori Amponsah, Kofi Nti, Ama Ba, Richie Rich and Anokye Supremo (formerly DL Junior).
i. Dada KD
Born Dada Kwaku Duah, Dada KD is well known for his velvety voice and songs about love.
Some of his songs include ‘Ebeboawo,’ ‘Obiara Se Eye,’ ‘Somgye’ and ‘Mewura.’
He was adjudged Best Male Vocal Artist (Ghana Music Awards) in Britain in 2004 by Ghanaians resident in Britain.
Dada KD once worked with bands like RELATIVES in Germany, with Kojo Antwi’s Band, Tropical Vibes (Accra) and also with Amakye Dede’s band.
ii. Paapa Shee
Papa Shee (now a minister of the gospel) is well known for songs like ‘Koyoonsor,’ ‘Atadwe,’ ‘Yaa Asantewa,’ ‘Atepa,’ among others.
Previously known as the Wonder Boy, he used to perform at a lot of Ghanaian entertainment events in the United States of America when he was at his prime.
Paapa Shee was the first Ghanaian musician to release a DVD on the music scene.
Dancing since he was six years old, he became known early in his teenage years as a lead danger for many famous Ghanaian recording artists such as Dady Lumba and the late Mr.AAA (Akwasi Amphofo Adjei).
iii. Ofori Amponah
Ofori Amponsah is a highlife musician who took a foray into gospel music and ministry few years ago but returned when it occurred to him he had not really been called for God’s work.
He is a protégé of Daddy Lumba. He first got the exposure in the music industry when he was featured on Daddy Lumba’s album ‘Wo Ho Kyere.’
On the song, their voices sound too similar that one has to really strain to differentiate between which is Lumba’s and which is Ofori’s.
After releasing his own production ‘Asew’ under Owusek Productions in 2001, he became a household name.
He followed with albums like ‘Mepraw.’
In 2005, Amponsah released ‘Otoolege’ which had KK Fosu, Kofi Nti, and Barosky.
Mr. All for Real won big the next year at the Ghana Music Awards with seven awards. ‘Otoolege’ won him 2005 VGMA Artist of the Year.
In 2015 when he released ‘Alewa’ after making a u-turn from the word for the ‘world.’
Ofori Amponsah later admitted that starting the Family of Faith and Love Ministries was a miscalculated step.
iv. Kofi Nti
Kofi Nti is another artiste whose style of singing and vocal texture bears great resemblance to Daddy Lumba’s.
Born on the 25th January, 1980, Kofi Nti comes from Aburi in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
His ‘Rakia’ featured some of Ghana’s most renounced best artistes namely K.K Fosu, Ofori Amponsah, and Isaac Mensah Obeng (Barosky).
He also has songs like ‘Monica,’ ‘Atwetan,’ ‘Odo Nwom,’ and others.
v. Ama Ba
Amaba may not be as popular as the others but he also released a couple of highlife songs. In fact, until Anokye Supremo, most people considered his voice as the closest in similarity to Daddy Lumba’s.
He has not been visible in the music industry recently but he is known for songs like Nipa Nye Nyame.
On 20th October, 2016 George Kwabena Opoku (real name) ditched secular music for gospel with the launch of his album ‘My Soul’ which has tracks like ‘Nipa Nnye Nyame,’ ‘Onim Nea Oye’ and ‘Ebenezer.’
vi. Richie Rich
Richie Rich is well known for his feature on C-Zar’s ‘Mercy Loko’ and ‘Befe Ma No.’ He did the chorus on those songs.
He was inspired to do music when he started listening to Charles Kwadwo Fosu (Daddy Lumba) and Ofori Amponsah.
He got featured on some of Ofori Amponsah’s songs after he was introduced to him by C-Zar.
Richie has songs like ‘Nsroma,’ ‘Tasty’.
vii. Anokye Supremo
Undoubtedly, Emmanuel Kwame Anokye known showbiz as Anokye Supremo is the only artiste who does not sing just like Daddy Lumba, but also a spit image of the highlife legend.
He was discovered through a TV Africa-produced reality show, ‘Just Like You’ which took place in 2010.
Just Like You’ was a reality TV show which gave artistes the platform to mimic their favourite celebrities. Anokye Supremo imitated Daddy Lumba.
After the show, Anokye Supremo (DL Jnr.) who has similar looks as Daddy Lumba has been plying his trade as a musician.
On 17th January, 2018, Daddy Lumba filed a lawsuit at the Accra High Court alleging that Anokye had claimed to be his son and even impersonated him to get gifts from people.
He further alleged that Anokye had a history of impersonating him since his appearance on a
Even though the case is still pending in court, the Lumba look-alike changed his name from DL Junior to Anokye Supremo.
He has songs songs like ‘Befa Me,’ ‘Efri Nea Efire, ‘Krom Aye De’ and the latest ‘Hash Wuish.’
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Goffs Oak schoolgirl qualifies to compete in world's largest dog show Crufts 2019
Imogen has qualified with four dogs
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Imogen, 11, with Air, Boo and Hush (left to right)
A schoolgirl from Goffs Oak has qualified to compete in the world’s largest dog show Crufts.
Imogen White has qualified for Crufts 2019 with four different dogs for three events in the annual competition held in Birmingham.
The 11-year-old has followed in the footsteps of her mum Tracy White, who has competed in agility competitions with her dogs for nearly 30 years.
Tracy said: “Imogen came along and at age six she borrowed one of my friend's dogs, who was quite reliable, and she ran him in some competitions.
“She got a lot of eliminations bless her, but she carried on and she enjoyed doing it.
“As she’s got older, she’s got more experienced about what she does and her handling.
“She’s been loaned some other dogs by other people and she’s qualified for Crufts with those.”
Imogen with Working Cocker Spaniel Rocco - owned by Donna Holmes
Imogen and her family often spend their summer holidays competing in competitions all of over the country.
And in August 2018 Imogen took the title of International Junior Handler Under 12s at the Kennel Club International Festival at Rockingham Castle.
The Goffs Oak Primary School pupil has also won at other Young Kennel Club (YKC) events - all of which had led to her qualifying for the competition in March in the agility, under 18s jumping and a team event.
“She qualified four dogs for one event, three dogs for another and then she’s got one dog in the team,” continued Tracy.
“But she’s only allowed to take one dog so she’s had to make a decision which one she is going to take.”
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Imogen has chosen Cavalier Jack Russell Boo, owned by family friend Stacey Irwin, as one of her dogs to compete with as she is due to retire this year.
Tracy added: “She’s going to be retiring at Crufts as I think she is 11 this year.
“Imogen has decided she’ll take her so she can go out and have her glory and then retire.
“In the team she’s running my other friend's dog called Air who is a nine-year-old Border Collie.”
Air is owned by friend Amy Bennett.
Imogen with the dogs that she qualified for Crufts 2019 with
In August 2018, Imogen took the title of International Junior Handler Under 12s at the Kennel Club International Festival at Rockingham Castle, as well as other Young Kennel Club (YKC) classes.
Imogen is currently on the YKC Junior European Open squad and there are hopes that she will represent Team GB in Switzerland in July.
However whether Imogen, who is sponsored by JR Pet Products, will go to Switzerland will be dependent on her performance at Crufts.
Tracy continued: “Because of the points she got for Crufts, she qualified for the squad so that’s a lot of children.
“We’ve had one squad day already in December and then we’ve got another squad day at the end of February.
“What they do is they’re looking to see how the kids do and if they run really well on those days, they’ll select children from that squad to represent.
“But we won’t know if she’s going to represent the team until after Crufts as they’re also looking at her performance at Crufts as well.”
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Salou Holidays
It's really easy to see why Salou is one of Spain's most popular holiday destinations - this wonderful seaside resort on the Costa Dorada offers absolutely everything you could need for a break to remember. Boasting stunning Blue Flag beaches, great city amenities and hotels, and not forgetting a fantastic theme park with a waterpark, Salou holidays are a firm favourite with families, couples and groups of friends alike. Oh, and the weather is always fabulous too!
On your holidays to Salou you're spoiled for choice of things to do. Sun-seekers can take their pick of beaches in Salou, which include lively Levante, and picturesque Llarga and Capellans, all of which also offer a variety of watersports for when you'd like to get your adrenaline flowing! Or when you fancy getting out and exploring the town, take a stroll along the stylish marina, or the long promenade to find outstanding shopping and boutiques, plus cafes and restaurants galore to suit every taste. True to its reputation as a particularly family-friendly resort, there are children's play areas along the edges of the beaches too.
When night falls on Salou, the town certainly doesn't sleep as the nightlife has something for everyone. From karaoke bars and British pubs to nightclubs open until the early hours, there's lots to entertain older Salou holidaymakers, but if you'd prefer to just sip a sangria and watch the sunset you'll find no shortage of quieter local bars where you'll receive a warm welcome.
Of course, we couldn't talk about attractions in Salou without mentioning PortAventura World! Home to PortAventura theme park with its hair-raising rollercoasters, it's where you'll also find Caribe Aquatic Park and Ferrari Land, which is an unmissable experience for sports car lovers and thrill seekers alike. Speaking of great days out from Salou, you'll find the cosmopolitan city of Barcelona less than a couple of hours up the coast.
Flights to Salou from the UK take just over 2 hours from most departure airports, which is especially great news for families with young children. Holidays in Salou really do tick all of the boxes, so why not speak to Hays Travel today? We have over 40 years of experience in booking unforgettable Spanish holidays, and also been voted the UK’s Best High Street Travel Agent. Trust Hays Travel to help you plan your perfect trip.
Holidays in Salou revolve around the long sandy beaches and the Mediterranean. Salou's Marina has many watersports to enjoy from windsurfing, scuba diving and snorkelling to waterskiing, jetskiing, parasailing, canoeing, kayaking and fishing. On the outskirts of the resort youll find Karting Salou, one of the largest tracks in Europe. Theres also the Aquapolis waterpark in nearby La Pineda. Port Aventura is the must for a fun day out for all the family. As night falls the resort of Salou comes alive with bars, discos and nightclubs to keep you happy to the early hours with Pacha and Kiss two of the popular choices. For family fun theres comedy nights, karaoke, bingo, singalongs and variety shows along the resort's main streets.
Youll be spoilt for choice when it comes to dining out in Salou. Restaurants serving British roast dinners, fast food and pizzas rub shoulders with traditional Spanish eateries with tapas, meat and shellfish on the menu. You cant come to Spain and not sample a dish of Paella. Wash down your meal with a traditional jug of sangria or try the local wines and beers.
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Year : 2010 | Volume : 11 | Issue : 1 | Page : 2-9
Clinical features and outcome of infective endocarditis in Yemeni patients treated with empirical antibiotic therapy
Al-Aghbari Khaled, Alezzy Yahya Al-Noami, Mohamed Al-Ansi, Ahmed Askar Faiza
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen
Date of Web Publication 16-Jun-2010
Al-Aghbari Khaled
Department of Internal Medicine, Sana'a University, Sana'a
Background : Infective endocarditis is a common disease in Yemen. Although the incidence of rheumatic valvular disease and uncorrected congenital heart disease in adults is high in Yemen, there are few data regarding the pattern, characteristic features and outcome of infective endocarditis in Yemen.
Objective : The aim was to study the characteristic, clinical features and diagnostic criteria of infective endocarditis in Yemeni patients and the outcome in patients treated with medical therapy.
Patients and Method : Seventy-two consecutive patients admitted to Kuwait teaching hospital in Sana'a with suspected infective endocarditis between June 1, 2005 and June 1, 2007 were included in this study. A questionnaire including history, clinical findings, and result of requested investigations, treatment, complications and outcome was used. The diagnosis was based on Dukes criteria, which proposed two major or five minor criteria. In our study, we included raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) as a minor criteria. The patients were classified as definite, possible and rejected cases. All patients received empirical antibiotic therapy.
Results : The mean age was 28.56 ± 14.5 years. Men were 30 (42.2%) while women were 42 (57.7%). 59 (81.9%) of the patients had been admitted due to fever. Past history of rheumatic heart disease was positive in 38 (53.3%) of the patients. Mitral regurgitation was the commonest form of valvular affection 54 (82.1%) of patients followed by aortic regurgitation in 45 (63%). Anemia was present in 53 (74%) while raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate was high in all patients. Vegetations were detected by transthorasic echocardiography in 51 (70.83%) of the patients while blood culture was positive in only 7 (9.6%). After adding high ESR to the criteria, definite infective endocarditis were found in 34 (47.2%); possible in 38 (52.7%) and no rejected patients. Sixty-two (87.5%) of the patients improved and were discharged in good general condition. Nine patients died, an In hospital mortality of 12.5 %.
Conclusion : patients with IE in Yemen were younger than those patients in western countries, RHD is the commonest predisposing factor. Duke's criteria in addition to high ESR as minor criteria improved the diagnostic possibilities and using empirical antibiotic therapy improves the outcome.
Keywords: Infective, Bacterial, Endocarditis, Echocardiogram, Blood culture, Vegetations
Khaled AA, Al-Noami AY, Al-Ansi M, Faiza AA. Clinical features and outcome of infective endocarditis in Yemeni patients treated with empirical antibiotic therapy. Heart Views 2010;11:2-9
Khaled AA, Al-Noami AY, Al-Ansi M, Faiza AA. Clinical features and outcome of infective endocarditis in Yemeni patients treated with empirical antibiotic therapy. Heart Views [serial online] 2010 [cited 2021 Jan 17];11:2-9. Available from: https://www.heartviews.org/text.asp?2010/11/1/2/63620
Infective endocarditis (IE) is one of the most feared complications of structural heart lesions. Early referral, high yield of blood cultures, and appropriate use of antibiotics has decreased the morbidity and mortality of this disease in the developed world [1],[2] . In the developing world like Yemen where rheumatic heart disease (RHD) still common, antibiotic prophylaxis for potential septic procedures is not routine and late referral is common. It remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in all age groups [3],[4] . During our daily practice in Yemen, we deal with advanced cardiac lesions beyond surgical correction, usually in young age. Positive blood culture in suspected cases of IE is low. This circumstance encouraged us to study the characteristics of Yemeni patients who presented with a suspected diagnosis of IE. Hoping to improve the diagnostic possibilities, we suggest to add an elevated ESR as minor criteria which is commonly elevated in such situation.
This study was conducted from June 1, 2006 to May 30, 2007. All cardiac patients who presented to our hospital with suspected infective endocarditis were included. Revised Duke's criteria [Table 1] was used for the diagnosis of IE.
In addition to Duke Criteria, we included raised ESR as minor criteria in the absence of an extra cardiac infection. Examination and clinical findings were recorded and all patients had three sets of blood culture. In patients who were receiving antibiotics before admission, blood samples for culture were taken after stopping the antibiotics for at least 48 hours.
The culture was considered typical if classical organism like streptococci or enterococci or HACEK group were found. A single isolation of coagulase negative Staphylococci were considered a contamination.
Other blood test like hemoglobin (Hb), hematocrit value (HCT), total WBC, differential blood count, ESR, electrolytes, renal function, Rheumatoid Factor (RF), liver function test, serology were requested when necessary and indicated. Urine for microscopic hematuria and Chest X-ray were routinely requested for all patients.
Only one experienced operator in transthoracic echocardiography performs the echocardiography. Vegetations were defined as typical if a mobile dense mass was found attached to the valve or their supporting structure. This mass should be in the path of turbulent jets of blood passing through regurgitation or stenotic valve or intra cardiac shunt. Suspicious echo cardiac densities which were not meeting the major criteria were classified as minor criteria.
Abdominal ultrasound was done when complications such as renal, splenic infarction, or abscess were suspected. CT for brain was performed when neurological complications occurred. When diagnosis was made, empirical antibiotics were started (penicillin group 2-3 million I.V every 4 hours + Gentamicin; 1mg/kg q 8hours for the first two weeks and then penicillin for the last two weeks or ceftriaxone 2g I.V. for 28 days.
Dosage and duration of antibiotics, outcome of medical therapy, complications, indication for surgery and its results were recorded.
Seventy two patients were included with a mean age 28.56±14.5 (minimum age was 12 years and maximum age was 60 years). 58.7% (42 patients) were women and 41.6% (30 patients) were men. Thirty three (46%) of the patients came from Sana'a city and 54% from outside Sana'a.
Most of the patients admitted because of prolonged fever more than one week(59) 81.9%. Other presenting symptoms and baseline characteristic are shown in [Table 2]
Thirty-eight (53.3%) of the patients had apPast history of RHD and 2 (2.8%) of the patients had previous valve replacement while 1 (1.4%) had post mitral balloon dilatation for Mitral stenosis (MS). One of the patients (1.4%) had a history of previous (IE) and 26 (36%) had no history of previous cardiac disease.
Cardiac lesions on admission were mitral regurgitation (MR), which was the commonest lesion occurring in 54 (82.1%), followed by aortic regurgitation (AR) 45(63%. MR with AR was the commonest combined lesions 38(52.7%).
Other clinical signs which were detected on examination were tachycardia in the range of 90 - 120 beats/min; spleniomegaly in 11 (15.4%), hepatosplenomegaly in 3 (4.2%) and hepatomegaly [22] (31%).
Peripheral signs like splinter hemorrhage were seen in 3 (4.2%), clubbing of the finger in 7 (10%); Janeway lesion and Osler's node were not seen. Fiftythree (74%) of the admitted cases were anemic with hemoglobin (Hb) ranging from 8-11gm/dL. Total WBC above 12000 was seen in 17 (23%). ESR was high in the range of 50-100 in 34 (74 %), above 100 in 25 (23%) and in the range of 20-50 in 22 (30%).
Microscopic haematuria was noted in 24 patients (33.3%.Transthoracic echocardiography confirmed most of the cardiac lesions observed on clinical examination. Two cases of MR appeared to have been due to Mitral valve prolapse. Transthoracic Echo was able to detect vegetation in 51 patients (70.83%), 36 (70.58%) on Mitral cusps; 13 (25.49%) on aortic cusps, One (1.4%) on pulmonary valve, one (1.4%) on the ventricular sepal defect (VSD) border toward right ventricle.
Serum creatinine was within normal range in 64 (89%) and it was elevated in 8(11%) and 2 of them underwent dialysis and 57 (79%) of the liver enzyme was normal.
Blood culture and serology results are shown in [Table 3]
Revised Dukes criteria were used for the diagnosis of IE. 12 patients (16.7%) were classified as definite and 58 patients (80.5%) as possible IE. Only 2 (2.8%) cases did not fulfill the Dukes criteria but could not be rejected and they were treated as IE because of high clinical suspicion.
After adding high ESR as a minor criteria the number of patients with definite IE rose up from 12 to 37 (51.4%) and those with possible IE decreased from 58 to 35 (48.6%) patients. No patient was classified as rejected.
Forty-nine patients (68.05%) received benzyl penicillin and Gentamicin for the first two weeks and then penicillin alone for two weeks. Twenty-one patients (29.17%) were given Ceftriaxon once a day for 4 weeks; two Brucella More Details cases (2.8%) were treated with Ceftriaxon for 6 weeks, Gentamicin for 2 weeks, doxycyclin, and Rifampicin for 12 weeks. Three patients with positive blood culture received Vancomycin instead of the standard penicillin + Gentamicin or Ceftriaxon.
Therapy extended to 8 Weeks for one patient who presented with renal failure and dialyzed before Ceftriaxon therapy was started. The renal function test completely normalized after SBE therapy (Antibiotic dose was adjusted according to creatinine clearance). Two patients were sent for valve replacement after 2 weeks of empirical therapy when clinical deterioration and worsening heart failure was seen.
In developed countries, the epidemiological characteristics of lE have changed over the past few decades. This shift is attributed to a number of factors including increased patient longevity and concomitant rise of degenerative valvular lesion, a marked reduction in the incidence of acute rheumatic fever and more frequent use of invasive central vascular catheters associated with an increase nosocomially acquired endocarditis [2] .
The mean age of a patient with endocarditis from western countries in the pre-antibiotic era was about 35 years and in subsequent decades the age at presentation has gradually increased to more than 50 [1],[5],[6] .
In our patients the mean age was 28.5 years which reflects the effect of rheumatic fever and its sequelae on the heart and to uncorrected congenital heart disease. In India and Pakistan, the same young mean age is also seen, 25 and 29 years respectively [3],[7] .
In this study women (58%) were affected more than men (42%). In contrast to the series of endocarditis from the pre-antibiotics era which did not describe any difference in gender prevalence [8],[9],[10] . Unlike western countries RHD was the commonest underlying heart disease in this study as indicated by a positive past history in 53.3%. Other studies from this part of the world support this finding. RHD is no longer the commonest underlying heart disease in western countries and the incidence of rheumatic fever has decreased [29] . Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) has been reported as a common underlying heart lesion in western studies [30],[1] but constituted only a small fraction in our series (2.8%). There was no history of intravenous drugs abuse in our patients.
Fever was the most prevalent symptom among our patients (81.9%) although it was not mentioned in (18.1%) of cases. Thus the lack of fever should not exclude the diagnosis of IE in a patient with suggestive clinical features [31],[32] .
The other various symptoms and signs were comparable with some exceptions. Systemic embolization and peripheral signs were low. Hepatomegaly was found solely in our study which could be attributed to right sided heart failure. In addition a few patients presented with epilepsy and meningitis. These clinical presentations were not reported before.
Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) showed that more than one valve was affected in the majority of cases. Mitral valve regurgitation was the predominant lesion in (82.1%) with female predominance. The same observation was reported in Turkey where females represented 62.5% of the IE patients [13] .
TTE was able to detect vegetations in (70.83%) of our patients which was within the range of other studies (50-93.8%) [13],[14] . The higher range reported was due to transesophageal echocardiography study which was not available in our hospital at the time of this study. Anemia was present in (74%) which may suggest delay in suspecting diagnosis, the same results were reported in other studies [11],[14],[15] .
In this study, all patients had an elevated ESR which was in line with results described in other studies [14],[23] . These observations support our opinion to add elevated ESR as minor criteria for the revised Dukes Criteria. The same proposal was also suggested in previous literature [24] . Adding high ESR as minor criteria in our study improved the diagnosis of definite IE and decreased possible IE. This improvement in the diagnosis was statistically significant (p-value .000) [Table 4].
High ESR is important in countries like our country where the use of blood culture in the diagnosis of IE is limited. Positive blood culture and serology in our patients were (9.6%) and it was markedly lower than a report from a review of 206 cases of IE seen over a 15 years period at a New York hospital which was (90%) [16] and even lower than other reports from developing countries; Argentina (89.9%) [27] and Tunisia (46.4%) [28] . This low result may be attributed to previous use of antibiotics, either self administration or prescribed by general practitioners who had low index of suspicion of the possibility of IE.
The diagnosis of IE is usually based on constellation of clinical findings rather than upon a single definite test result. .The Duke Criteria [Table 1] is valuable in assisting clinicians to diagnose IE. In 1994 investigators from Duke University modified the old Von Reyn criteria to include the role of echocardiography in the diagnosis. Multiple studies have validated the Dukes Criteria and compared its utility to Von Reyn criteria [12],[18],[19],[20],[21] . Each of these reports evaluated patients in whom the diagnosis of IE was established. When applying the Dukes criteria to validate our cases, 12 patients were diagnosed as definite IE and 58 patients were diagnosed as possible IE. Adding a high ESR as minor criteria, the diagnosis is improved [Table 4] hence confirming the value of these criteria in the clinical diagnosis of IE. Patients with rheumatic or congenital heart disease and high ESR need especial effort to exclude IE.
In our daily practice, there is a limited role of bacterial culture in guiding the selection of antibiotics on different clinical circumstances. Multiple factors such as low experience in specimen collection and lack of optimal conventional culture techniques may play a role in this low incidence of positive blood culture and that is why we start empirical therapy as suggested in the literature [22] .
Although all cases in this study were subjected to 3 blood cultures only seven of them were able to identify the type of organism and the suitable antibiotic and according to the results, treatment has been adjusted. In two cases serology for Brucella was positive and both of them did not develop heart failure or embolization during hospitalization. They were treated successfully with prolonged course of antibiotics [33] . Sixty five (90.4%) were unexpectedly negative cultures. These patients were given antibiotic therapy for 4-6 weeks according to the recommendation of the American Heart Association (AHA) [22] and showed good clinical response. Two patients deteriorated with worsening heart failure and were sent for valve replacement. One patient with severe aortic stenosis was also sent for valve replacement but he died while waiting for operation.
A significant number (87.5%) of our patients were discharged in good general condition. , This good result is explained by strict adherence to modified Duke Criteria in the diagnosis and following empirical antibiotic therapy as suggested in literature [22] .
Heart failure (HF) was the most common complication in our study (37.5%) and it was more severe in the patients who died. A higher incidence of HF was reported in India (41.9%) [15] and Tunisia (45.4%) [28] . Those who died (6/9) presented with advanced heart failure due to more than one valve affection with marked left ventricle dilatation and below 40% ejection fraction.
The second complication was neurological (11.1%) which is lower than the results obtained in Tunisia (20.2%) [28] , cerebral embolization was the major cause of neurological complications and this was also seen in previous studies [14] .
In hospital mortality was (12.5%) which is lower than other reports in underdeveloped countries in Asia [7],[24] and comparable to the mortality in Poland [25] . The predictors of mortality in our study were high mean age and heart failure as well as intracranial hemorrhage and renal failure [Table 5]. The same findings were noted in other studies [26] . A low fatality rate may be explained by low mean age of the patients who are expected to be free from other end organ damage and low virulence infection like streptococcus viridans.
A comparison of mean age, underlying heart disease, blood cultures and treatment between those who died and those who recovered is shown in [Table 5].
IE in Yemen is different from the developed countries but quite similar to that reported from developing countries. It occurs in relative younger population. Rheumatic heart disease is the most important precipitating etiology. IE in MVP, degenerative heart disease and intravenous drug abusers is uncommon in Yemen. Extra effort is needed to recognize and manage streptococcal infection. General practitioners should be advised to follow the guidelines in antibiotic prophylaxis for infective endocarditis prevention.
High ESR as additional minor criteria for Dukes Criteria improves the diagnostic possibility for IE. We find that empirical antibiotic therapy, which has been suggested in the literature, is extremely valuable in our situation to decrease morbidity and mortality of IE.
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4. Sharma M,Saxena A, Kothari SS et al. Infectious endocarditis in children: Changing Pattern in a developing country. Cardio Young 1997:7:201-206.
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18. Bayer AS, ward JI, Ginzton LE, Shapiro SM, Evaluation of new clinical criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Am J Med 1994;96:211-219.
19. Hoen B, Selton-Suty C, Danchin N et al. Evaluation of the Duke criteria Versus the Beth Israel criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Clin Infect Dis 1995;21:905-909.
20. Sandre RM, Shafran SD. Infective endoczrditis; review of 135 cases over 9 years. Clin infect Dis 1996; 22:276-286.
21. Nettles RE, McCarty DE, Corey GR, Li J, Sexton DJ. An evaluation of the Duke criteria in 25 pathologically confirmed cases of prosthetic valve endocarditis, Clin Infect Dis 1997;25:1401-1403.
22. Wilson WR, Karchmer AW, Dajani AS et al. Antibiotic treatment of adult, with infective endocarditis due to Streptococci, enterococci, staphylococci and HACEK microorganism. American Heart Association. JAMA 1995;274:1706-1713.
23. N,Kim, J. M. lazar, B.A. Cunha, W. Liao and V Minnaganti: Multivalvular endocarditis: Clinical microbiology and infection; april 2000; 6:207-212
24. Masood Sadia, Mohsin Nazir, Sheryar A. Sheikh: Infective endocarditis in children-incidence, pattern, Diagnosis and management in a developing country. International Journal of cardiology 78(2001) 175-182.
25. Elzbieta Abramczuk, Tomasz Hryniewiecki, Janina Stepinska. Influence of pathogenetic factors on prognosis in patients with native valve infective endocarditis, Polish Heart Journal 2006 Jul; 64 (7): 675-681.
26. Bouza E, Menasalvas A, Munoz P. Infective endocarditis a prospective study at the end of Twentieth century: New predisposing conditions, new etiologic agents and still high mortality. Medicine (Baltimore) 2001;80:298-307.
27. Ferreiros et al. Epidemiologic, clinical, and microbiologic profile of infective endocarditis in Argentina: American Heart Journal: February 2006;Volume 151:545-552.
28. Amel Letaief, Essia Boughzala, Naoufel Kaabia, Samia Ernez, Fekria Abid. Epidemiology of infective endocarditis in Tunisia: A 10-year multicenter retrospective study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases (2007) 11;430-433.
29. Gordis L. The virtual disaapperance of rheumatic fever in the United Sates: lessons in the rise and fall of disease. Circulation 1985;72: 1155-1162.
30. Van der Meer JT, Thomson J, Valkenburg HA, Michal MF. Epidemiology of bacterial endocarditis in Netherlands: I. Patient characteristics. Arch Inter Med 1992; 152:1863-1868.
31. Fefer, P, Raveh D, Rudansky B, Schlesinger Y, Yinno AM. Changing epidemiology of infective endocarditis: a retrospective survy of 108 cases, 1990-1999. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2002; 21:432-437.
32. Hoen B Alla F, Selton-Suty C, Bouvet I, Bouvet A, Briancon S, et al. Changing profile of infective endocarditis: result of a 1- year survey in France. JAMA 2002; 288:75-81.
33. Kasper, Braunwald, Fauci, Hauser, Longo, Jameson. Mickael J. Corbel, Nicholas J. Beeching. Harrison S. Principles of Internal Medicine McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing Division. New York 16th edition: 2005: volume 1; 914-917.
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Kang Daniel Announces ‘Color On Me’ Fan Meeting in Singapore
Published on : August 3, 2019 August 3, 2019 Published by : Lya Susanto
Exciting news for fans of Kang Daniel! The K-pop superstar is set to stage his first ever fan meeting on 16 August 2019 at Singapore Indoor Stadium . While more information will be announced soon, fans can mark these dates in the calendar!
Singapore will be the first stop for Kang Daniel‘s upcoming Color on Me Fan Meeting Tour. The 22-year-old K-pop heartthrob will greet his Singaporean fans on 16th August 2019 before heading to Hong Kong on 18th August 2019. More cities are set to be announced.
The super rookie has recently released his solo debut album “Color On Me” accumulating over 450,000 pre-orders in just a week! Having personally participated in the production of his album, he hopes to convey the message of finding and creating one’s own colour.
With his soaring popularity, Daniel will be holding his first ever solo fan meeting at the 12,000-capacity Singapore Indoor Stadium – a feat that
no other K-pop solo artist has been able to achieve. Aside from spectacular performances of songs off his debut EP Color On Me, there will also be special segments prepared for fans to interact with the idol. Premium gifts such as an exclusive fan will be given to all ticket holders, and a limited edition Kang Daniel EZ-Link card will also be packaged with all VIP and Cat 1 tickets.
On top of that, all Cat 1, Cat 2 and Cat 3 ticket holders will also stand a chance to win a Send-Off Party pass to catch the idol star up-close, whereas all VIP ticket holders will be entitled to a Meet & Greet Group Photo.
DETAILS OF EVENT
Date: 16th August 2019, Friday
Time: 8PM
Venue: Singapore Indoor Stadium
Ticketing Details (excludes booking fee):
• VIP – $298
• CAT 1 – $238
• CAT 4 – $98
• CAT 5 (Restricted View) – $238
Tickets are available on:
• Website: https://www.sportshub.com.sg/KangDaniel
• Hotline: +65 3158 8788
• Retail: Singapore Indoor Stadium Box Office, The Star Performing Arts Centre Box Office, Scotts Square, island-wide SingPost outlets
Seating details and fans benefits below.
For more details on Kang Daniel‘s upcoming Color on Me Fan Meeting Tour, stay tuned to UnUsUal Entertainment’s Facebook page.
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Crowdfunding: How the Web and Social Media are Changing the Face of Real Estate Investment
September 2014 – Advisories
David L. Coombs, Yaacov M. Gross, and Timothy B. Bancroft
Crowdfunding is a new financing model through which providers and consumers of equity or debt capital can come together and finance specific investments or investment entities. Although still in its infancy, crowdfunding has the potential to redefine the way sponsors and investors access the real estate capital markets. It is important that real estate developers, owners, sponsors and other consumers of investment capital familiarize themselves with this new model for raising capital.
Stated simply, crowdfunding involves the use of the internet and social media to raise equity or debt capital, typically from a large number of investors, each of whom is able to choose to invest only a relatively small amount. Crowdfunding comes primarily in two iterations:
Private crowdfunding, through which private entities or sponsors seek to raise capital from high net worth individuals who qualify as “accredited investors” under regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and
Public crowdfunding, through which public offerings registered with the SEC are marketed primarily to retail investors.
In the real estate context, private crowdfunding enables sponsors of “sub-institutional” property investments or small real estate investment pools to seek equity or debt capital while by-passing traditional intermediaries, such as equity funds, investment banks or commercial lenders. It thereby potentially enables investment capital to be accessed more cheaply and for a broader selection of investments than was previously possible. Public crowdfunding, which is still in its infancy, could significantly enhance the capital-raising capabilities of companies that rely on retail capital, such as public non-traded REITs.
How is Crowdfunding Different?
Previously, private equity capital could not be raised through the use of public advertising or solicitation. Real estate sponsors seeking to raise private equity capital were therefore limited to small “friends and family” offerings or were forced to make use of placement agents who were licensed broker-dealers and had access to institutional capital or large “books” of prospective high net worth investors. Prospective investors, on the other hand, did not have ready access to deal flow (unless somehow connected to a market intermediary, such as a broker-dealer or financial advisor) and were therefore effectively excluded from this segment of the capital markets.
Today, this landscape is changing as a result of the Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012. Among other things, the JOBS Act directed the SEC to remove the existing prohibition on general solicitation and advertising in private placements as long as all purchasers qualify as “accredited investors”. The SEC responded by adopting new Rule 506(c) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933.
These changes, coupled with the growth of the internet and social media and the SEC’s no-action position with respect to certain aspects of federal broker-dealer regulation, have given rise to a growing number of online crowdfunding platforms that use sophisticated internet technologies to enable sponsors to raise private capital from high net worth investors. Typically, these platforms:
post and publicize their hosted sponsors’ investment offerings,
sign up prospective investors who qualify as “accredited investors” under SEC regulations,
make available the sponsors’ offering documentation, due diligence materials and subscription documentation,
provide a mechanism for these investors to subscribe for their selected investments online, and
provide their hosted sponsors with the equivalent of back-office logistical support with respect to their capital-raising efforts.
Accredited investors seeking to invest in real estate can now scroll through these platforms’ internet sites, identify their investments of choice, and subscribe to invest amounts that can range from as little as $10,000 in any single investment. Platforms that are not registered as broker-dealers with the SEC are paid through “back-end” participations in the profits from their hosted investments (coupled, in some cases, with management fees that are calculated to reimburse the platforms’ actual costs in performing their services) or in some cases through up front service fees from the hosted sponsors. In some cases, these platforms act as “quasi-sponsors,” raising capital for an investment vehicle created by the platform to invest alongside a sponsor’s other equity investors. Platforms that are registered as broker-dealers charge brokerage commissions that depend upon the amount of capital raised through the platform.
These private crowdfunding platforms potentially enable a much larger universe of sponsors and investments to access the private capital markets than was previously possible. Specifically, smaller first-time funds, or single asset investments, are common offerings among the private real estate crowdfunding platforms. On the flip side, these platforms have not yet proven themselves capable of raising truly large amounts of capital for individual investments, although one such platform claims to have raised some $17 million in crowdfunding for a NYC office building. There are also concerns over the inability to police the quality of offerings in which no registered broker dealers or investment advisors are involved; simple crowdfunding platforms do not guaranty either the accuracy of their hosted sponsors’ offering materials or the results of an investment made over their site. However, private investment offerings are likely to increase in size as specific crowdfunding platforms become better-known, proper quality controls are implemented and high net worth individuals become more comfortable with the notion of investing online.
Public crowdfunding platforms are also beginning to appear. For example, American Realty Capital’s Nick Schorsch is setting up a public crowdfunding platform through his RCS Capital affiliate, a registered broker-dealer. For now, that platform seems dedicated to ARC-affiliated offerings. We suspect, however, that other large sponsors of public non-traded REITs are likely to follow suit. These platforms could enable public non-traded REIT “wholesalers” to by-pass their traditional retail private broker-dealer sales forces and access the retail investors directly. It remains to be seen whether traditional brokerage firms will also establish crowdfunding platforms to allow for their customers to invest online.
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The SEC has also proposed but not yet adopted a public crowdfunding regulation that would allow for retail capital to be raised via crowdfunding platforms by non-public sponsors; however, given the many limitations on the use of this model, including a $1 million limitation on the amount of capital permitted to be raised over a 12-month period and the associated post-offering compliance costs, we do not think that it will have much application for real estate investments. There are other provisions under the JOBS Act for which regulations will be forthcoming which could also potentially impact the way capital is raised for real estate investments.
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George Briggs
Rep. George Briggs
Former Representative for Massachusetts’s 7th District
Briggs was the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1839 to 1843.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1837 to 1839; the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1835 to 1837; the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1833 to 1835; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district as a Whig from 1831 to 1833.
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From Dec 1831 to Mar 1843, Briggs missed 697 of 3,448 roll call votes, which is 20.2%. This is better than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1843. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Dec 1831-Feb 1832 53 1 1.9% 19th
1832 Mar-May 98 1 1.0% 4th
1832 Jun-Jul 168 17 10.1% 35th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833 143 10 7.0% 11th
1834 Mar-May 92 7 7.6% 12th
1834 Jun-Jun 95 48 50.5% 82nd
1836 Mar-May 150 47 31.3% 57th
1837 Sep-Oct 54 5 9.3% 51st
Dec 1837-Feb 1838 52 6 11.5% 39th
1838 Mar-May 122 28 23.0% 51st
Dec 1839-Feb 1840 170 17 10.0% 17th
1840 Mar-May 250 94 37.6% 52nd
1841 May-Sep 264 51 19.3% 44th
1842 Apr-Jul 218 47 21.6% 40th
1842 Aug-Aug 116 69 59.5% 89th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843 172 13 7.6% 9th
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