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Company buys CMD Phonebook
Published 6:30 am EDT, Thursday, July 28, 2011
Northern Michigan Review, which publishes the Petoskey News-Review, has purchased the CMD (Central Michigan Directories) Phonebook.
News-Review Publisher Doug Caldwell said the purchase is a positive step toward the company's continued growth. CMD Phonebook serves Clare, Gladwin, Isabella, Gratiot and Midland counties, with a distribution of 111,000, said Larry Hensley, Petoskey News-Review CFO and publisher of the PhoneGuide and CMD Phonebook.
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“Jennifer Smith (Solicitor)”It was reported last week that Marlon King is to be jailed for 18 months after being found guilty of sexual assault and actual bodily harm over an incident in a London nightclub. The Professional Footballers Association deputy chief executive commented that Marlon King had brought the situation on himself: “I don’t think anybody can deny that,” he said “but I think it’s important to bear in mind footballers are not divorced from society.”
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Where an employee commits a criminal offence at work, an employer is likely to be justified in treating it as misconduct. In certain circumstances, the employer can rely on criminal offences committed away from work, as in King’s case. Gross misconduct must be so bad that it is reasonable to dismiss without giving any warnings or opportunities to improve.
Criminal conduct outside the workplace must generally affect in some way the employee’s suitability to continue working for the employer. This is likely to depend on the nature of the offence, the nature of the work undertaken by the employee, the extent to which it involves contact with other employees or the public and the status of the employee. King is in the public eye and in a position where he should be setting a good example to those who follow him and his club.
Employers should note that it will not necessarily be fair for an employer to dismiss an employee who is convicted of a criminal offence, even where the offence relates to his job in some way; the employer must still comply with basic principles of fairness such as giving the employee the opportunity to state his case. Any explanation given by the convicted employee may then be relevant to the question of whether dismissal is a fair sanction. Where the employee has been found guilty by a court, whether or not he pleaded guilty, it would be reasonable for the employer to conclude without further proof that the offence has been committed by the employee.
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This report assesses the potential for Eastern Europe to provide the high-technology products necessary to further the modernization of the Soviet economy. It examines both traditional trade in high-technology products as well as recent measures to encourage integrated and cooperative technology development within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). The author (1) discusses the institutional setting for CMEA trade and for cooperation in developing high-technology goods, (2) analyzes the results of the CMEA science and technology program by examining the number and nature of agreements signed to date and considers the barriers to more extensive contacts, (3) examines trade in four specific high-technology commodities to determine how exports to the Soviet Union have shifted during the late 1980s, and (4) considers how extensive East European deliveries of these goods are likely to be in the future, and how likely they are to prove a significant source for satisfying Soviet needs.
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Tropical Butterfly House, Wildlife and Falconry Centre
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Encounter the exotic and discover a wild family day out in South Yorkshire. Meet lemurs, meerkats, owls, otters, snakes and other amazing animals during Animal Encounters throughout the day and explore the indoor rainforest and meet the friendly residents of the Farm Barn. The Realm of Camelot adventure playground, outdoor wet play area and indoor activity and craft centre will entertain children in all weathers. Please see website for themed events during the school holidays.
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Game theory, online auctions, and the hot used machinery market — a LIVE! Q&A with Greg “Machinery Pete” Peterson
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Kara Oosterhuis
Brandt Agricultural Products has recently launched a new purpose-built dozer blade attachment, suitable for 4WD tractors. The new unit is available in a variety of blade widths, heights and lugging configurations, designed to make it easy for farmers to find the right blade for their operation. The goal of this product-line addition is to enable… Read More
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Raven rolls out DOT updates following acquisition
Since the acquisition of Dot Technology from the Beaujot family and SeedMaster by Raven Autonomy, the technological marvel — that always draws a crowd at trade shows — will advance even further. Wade Robey, executive director of Raven Autonomy, joined Kara Oosterhuis to talk about the transition from the previous owners, DOT moving under Raven’s… Read More
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Brandt introduces a new U-trough auger
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Canola School: Tom Wolf’s top tips for winterizing the sprayer
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Fendt launches new generation of Vario tractor
Fendt users are more than familiar with the 200 Vario series, which was launched almost ten years ago. Now, AGCO is introducing a new generation of the tractor, with a complete redesign, bringing it closer to the design of the large tractors. The Fendt 200 Vario series includes five models — the Fendt 207, 208,… Read More
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Three SIMI workers convicted by MP court
July 31, 2008 14:20 IST
A court in Indore has sentenced three workers of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India to one-year rigorous imprisonment for attempting to create communal hatred.
First Class Judicial Magistrate Neelesh Yadav on Wednesday convicted Parvez (32), Sajid Pasha(38) and Imran(30), all residents of Nayapura in the city.
According to the prosecution, the accused were running SIMI [Images] activities from Nayapura area and literature aimed at creating communal hatred and other documents were recovered from them in November, 2002.
The conviction came in the wake of arrests of 13 top ranking activists of SIMI from Indore and adjoining areas in March and their suspected involvement in the recent serial bomb blasts in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad.
Indian Mujahideen is SIMI, V2.0
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Lynn Whitmer
Lynn Whitmer (you may know her as R. Lynn Whitmer) has lived in Redlands since 1978. Lynn is married to her high school sweetheart, Gary (a native Redlander), and they have two grown children.
Lynn is quite the busy lady. She is a fulltime realtor at Century 21 Lois Lauer Realty, where she partners with well-known symphony supporter Shirley Harry. She is a member of the Rotary Club of Redlands, the Redlands Community Hospital Foundation, Redlands Festival of Arts, Redlands Community Foundation, PEO Chapter PK, the Redlands Educational partnership Foundation, and the Redlands Community Hospital Board of Directors.
“I’m looking forward to my turn in Dancing with the Stars for the Redlands Symphony Gala,” says Lynn. “I think it will be a fun way to earn money to support this extraordinary organization.”
Lynn loves sunsets, hiking, music, and photography. She enjoys fine wine and great food. “I will throw a dinner party together at a drop of a hat,” Lynn explains. “I love to entertain.”
“I look forward to possibly discovering my inner dancer through this experience,” says Lynn. “One of my sisters is a Broadway dancer. Perhaps I can channel her talent when I take the dance floor at the Gala.”
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Home » WWE News » Kevin Owens, Ricochet & Others Drag Jaxson Ryker For Pro-Trump Tweet
Kevin Owens, Ricochet & Others Drag Jaxson Ryker For Pro-Trump Tweet
by Darshan Shethon June 2, 2020 June 2, 2020 at 8:54 am
Jaxson Ryker of the Forgotten Sons took to his Twitter handle and expressed his support for the President of the United States – Donald Trump. WWE Hall of Famer Dave Batista saw the tweet, and called Ryker a “sorry motherf*cker”.
Soon, more of his peers saw the tweet and their reactions weren’t too different than Batista’s.
Kevin Owens said that although he acknowledged Ryker’s freedom of expressing his opinions, the fact that Ryker used his wrestling catchphrase to do so (given the context) was “f*cking pathetic”.
The freedom you speak of entitles you to speak your mind all you want. I’m not here to argue that. I just really need to tell you that I think you pushing your shitty wrestling catchphrase as all of this is happening is absolutely fucking pathetic.
Good night. https://t.co/d34xdOXZr6
— Kevin (@FightOwensFight) June 2, 2020
Ricochet said that he understood that Ryker is a “bad guy on TV” and hoped that this was all there was to his statements. However, he said that if these were Ryker’s actual thoughts then he’d be saddened.
I get you’re a “bad guy” on tv. And I’m HOPING that’s all this is. Even then, that ain’t it. But if this is actually your true thoughts – I’ll be really sad, man. 😔 https://t.co/9unml5rsiY
— Pretty Ricky (@KingRicochet) June 2, 2020
Ryker’s Forgotten Sons team-mate Steve Cutler went on his Twitter to separate himself from his tag-team partner’s statements. Cutler said that he might be in a tag-team but he is his own person and that he fought for the freedom ALL the people of the country, regardless of how they look.
Cutler used #JusticeforGeorgeFloyd and said that everyone deserves to be treated equally regardless of their race.
https://twitter.com/SteveCutlerWWE/status/1267674728371826688
Mustafa Ali called Ryker out for supporting a person who refuses to acknowledge the pain of the African American population at a time like this.
I’m thankful you posted this because I’m now aware of what you stand for. When black brothers and sisters are crying, you praise someone that refuses to acknowledge their hurt. https://t.co/O4xm5L3Rpl
— Mustafa Ali / Adeel Alam (@AliWWE) June 2, 2020
AEW’s Joey Janela reacted to Ryker’s tweet by saying that someone might take a dump in his gear bag after this.
Someone is gonna take a nice shit in your gear bag….
— “The Bad Boy” Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) June 2, 2020
Ryker and The Forgotten Sons have been making a name for themselves after getting called up to SmackDown recently. However, given the time and context of Ryker’s tweet, it could spell trouble for the group’s future in the company.
Ricochet Responds To Criticism Saying He’s Too Nice To People Opposing #BlackLivesMatter
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Dave West: Son to appear in court accused of father’s murder
Published: 8:01 AM December 17, 2014 Updated: 4:43 PM November 27, 2020
David West will appear at the Old Bailey (Picture: PA) - Credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images
The son of Dave West, the Romford barrowboy turned Soho club owner killed on Friday, is set to appear in court today charged with his father’s murder.
David West, 44, of Jermyn Street, central London, will appear at the Old Bailey accused of killing his father, who has the same name.
The body of Mr West, 70, was found at a residential address - believed to be his home - in Ormond Yard behind Jermyn Street, near Piccadilly, on Friday night.
A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as a single stab wound.
Mr West, a self-styled lord who owned nightclubs Hey Jo and Abracadabra, started out selling flowers and groceries from a stall in Romford Market.
He has been described as a flamboyant figure and is said to have bought the title of “Lord of the Manor of Hollesley” on eBay.
• Did you know Dave West? Get in touch with your tributes by emailing sebastian.mann@archant.co.uk or calling 0208 477 3821.
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Footballer’s stolen Rolex found during raids in Havering and Bethnal Green
Published: 3:47 PM November 14, 2011 Updated: 12:09 PM October 13, 2020
Stolen goods worth more than half a million pounds - and which included a Rolex watch looted from the home of a former Arsenal player - were found in Romford.
Footballer Laureano ‘Lauren’ Bisan-Etame Mayer flew to London this week to be reunited with a high value watch stolen from him in March 2005.
Detectives from the Tower Hamlets Crime Squad searched addresses in Havering and Bethnal Green.
More than 400 items were recovered, including jewellery, antiques, silverware and Lauren’s Rolex Daytona Watch.
The swag was worth more than �500,000.
Also seized were several air rifles and a pump action 308 Remington rifle.
Experts state that many of the watches recovered, both wrist and pocket, are sought after and highly collectable, and would be identifiable to owners.
A number of the watches were stolen in armed robberies on jewellers and homes across the southeast of England from 1994 to late 2010.
Now officers want to reunite victims with their property.
Detectives have photographed all the property and set up a Flickr page, called Tower Hamlets - Operation Avitus, in the hope that people will come forward to identify them.
Det Sgt Richard George of the Tower Hamlets crime squad said: “We are delighted to be able to reunite Lauren with his watch. We are utilising every tool available to us to identify as many victims as possible.”
If you believe any of the stolen items could be yours, contact Tower Hamlets Crime Squad on 020 8217 3743; or email opavitus@met.police.uk to arrange to come in and view the property.
A 73-year-old man was arrested for handling stolen goods on July 6.
He has been bailed to return to an east London police station in December pending further inquiries.
Anyone who believes they may have a claim on the property:
- You will be asked for identification
- Proof of ownership
- Any photographs that are held by you showing the item/Insurance claims
- And you will be required to make a statement
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We can’t do this with Leadpages. Instapage also provides you unlimited A/B testing on its fundamental “Core” plan and its landing page home builder is probably the best I have actually utilized up until now. One of Instapage’s standout functions is its heatmapping tool. This is a vital optimisation tool for landing pages and you’ll need to incorporate Leadpages or Unbounce with a third-party platform for this, such as Hotjar. You can check out our Hotjar review here. Leadpages aims to supply a landing page builder for smaller businesses and its prices policy looks quite appropriate at a glance.
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Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and go back to this page. As you’ll find in this Leadpages evaluation, the web-based platform guarantees to provide you the tools you’ll need to publish high-converting landing pages for your lead-generation campaigns. Leadpages is the best option for individuals with the money to invest in a tool that will let them create stunning and high-converting landing pages and opt-in boxes.
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You can utilize Leadpages no matter what CMS you’re using. It can support WordPress, Joomla, Squarespace, and more. The bulk of this Leadpages evaluation was concentrated on the landing page home builder but let’s not forget that customers also get access to Leadboxes. There’s no denying the truth that pop-up boxes are reliable and can result in conversions that would otherwise be missed if not for Leadboxes.
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**Substance in oregano oil could be used in sanitizers along with antimicrobials to kill norovirus
**Oral immunotherapy changes the DNA of a peanut allergic patient’s immune cells
**Our immune response may make us vulnerable to bacteria it is supposed to protect us from
**Controversial scientist claims pesticide more toxic than previously reported
**Food hygiene when eating out tops food safety issues of concern - FSA
**Mice study finds BPA exposure associated with liver cancer in offspring
**Large amounts of choline needed to support foetal development
**Exposing peanut allergic children to small amount of peanut protein may build immunity
**Blumenthal temporarily, voluntarily closes restaurant in Hyde Park after outbreak of norovirus
**Food Standards Agency publishes latest report on industry beef product test results
**Raw milk consultation launched by FSA
**Outbreak of E.coli O157 Scotland possibly linked to burgers
**Animal diseases updates and food poisoning outbreaks
**The Food Safety Network
Research published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology is reporting that carvacrol, a substance found in oregano oil, is effective against norovirus. Bright et al state that the substance breaks down the virus’ outer coat, and has the potential to be used as a food or surface sanitizer alongside other antimicrobials. Once carvacrol has broken down the protein that surrounds the virus, antimicrobial could enter the internal part and kill it. Bright et al report that because it is slower acting than many disinfectants it would be best used as part of a routine cleaning regimen to provide long-lasting antimicrobial residue on surfaces. As carvacrol only act on the external proteins of the virus, the scientists indicate that it would be unlikely that norovirus would ever develop resistance to the substance. However carvacrol could not be consumed as it is quite unpalatable and could cause a burning sensation and then numbness of the tongue!
A study by researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology is reporting that using oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy sufferers changes the DNA of the patient’s immune cells. The paper investigated 20 peanut-allergic children and adults who had completed two years of immunotherapy, enabling them to eat one 4-gram serving of peanuts daily without experiencing a major allergic reaction. For a 3 month period the patients were asked to stop eating peanuts and then given a small amount of peanut powder to see if their allergy returned. Thirteen of the patients regained their allergy, while seven did not. The researchers compared the immune cells in the blood of patients from the two groups. Blood samples from peanut-allergic patients who had never received oral immunotherapy were used as a control. The FOXP3 gene which has previously been reported to be involved in allergies was found to be slightly different in all three groups, with different number of methyl groups attached to the DNA. Patients who maintained their tolerance to peanuts had low levels of DNA methylation at FOXP3, while those who regained their allergy had intermediate levels.
RSSL carries out allergen testing using immunological, DNA and distillation techniques, depending on the allergen to be detected. Detection limits are in the range 1- 100 mg allergen/kg of sample for almond, Brazil nut, macadamia nut, peanut, walnut, hazelnut, cashew nut, pistachio nut, pecan nut, pine nut and chestnut. Celery, celeriac, black mustard, lupin and kiwi allergens can be detected by DNA methods, as can crustacean, fish and mollusc allergens. The laboratory also uses a range of UKAS accredited immunological procedures for the detection of allergens including gluten, peanut, hazelnut, almonds, soya, egg, milk, sesame and histamine. Distillation and titration methods are used for the determination of sulphur dioxide and sulphites. For more information please contact Customer Services on Freephone 0800 243482 or email enquiries@rssl.com.
Findings published in the journal Immunity indicate that the immune protein interleukin-22 (IL-22) actually heightens the growth of bacteria, such as salmonella, which causes food poisoning, and restrains the growth of healthy bacteria commonly found in the gut. Raffatellu et al infected normal mice and mice genetically engineered to lack IL-22, with salmonella. In normal mice salmonella was found to out compete gut bacteria however in the genetic engineered mice the reverse happened, indicating that IL-22 activity reduces the population of common gut bacterium in favour of salmonella. The scientists also investigated the effect on mutant salmonella strains, lacking cell membrane proteins, for absorbing iron and zinc from the environment. Normal salmonella was found to significantly out compete these mutant strains in normal mice but this competitive advantage was reduced in mice lacking IL-22. These findings suggest that salmonella relies on alternative pathways to overcome IL-22's defences and acquire essential metal ion nutrients.
The researcher, Serallini, who published a highly criticised rat study on GM maize, the pesticide Roundup and tumours has published new claims that the chemical is more toxic than advertised. The previous 2012 paper on GM maize was withdrawn from the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology after his study methods were found to be lacking. According to the AFP, his new paper, published in the journal Biomed Research International, reports that follow-up tests, this time using human cells, showed that Roundup, and other pesticides that can be bought over the counter, were "between two and 1,000 times more toxic than their main, active ingredient". According to EurActiv “the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) - whose members include many of the world’s largest pesticides manufacturers, including BASF chemicals, Dow Agrosciences, Monsanto and Syngenta - said the new research paper was not up to sufficient standards of scientific enquiry to contribute to the literature on pesticide safety. “The testing model used by the authors is inappropriate for drawing any conclusions regarding real life toxicity relevant to humans,” read an ECPA statement.
RSSL's DNA and Protein Laboratory offers qualitative and real-time quantitative analytical services for GM soya, maize and rapeseed in raw materials and finished products. For more information please contact Customer Services on Freephone 0800 243482 or email enquiries@rssl.com
The Food Standards Agency has published its results for the Biannual Public Attitudes Tracker for November 2013. The results represent a sample of 2,509 adults in the UK who were interviewed via the TNS consumer face-to-face omnibus survey. The survey found that the top three food safety issues of concern were food hygiene when eating out (36%), the use of additives in food (26%), and food poisoning such as salmonella and E.coli (26%). The top three wider issues of concern were food prices (60%), food waste (50%), and the amount of salt in food (44%).
The previous edition of FEN reported on a study that found a link between BPA and prostate cancer. This week a mouse study published in Environmental Health Perspectives has found a significant association between BPA and liver cancer. The scientists from the University of Michigan School of Public Health found liver tumours in mice exposed to BPA via their mothers during gestation and nursing. The researchers fed 6-week-old female mice diets containing one of three environmentally relevant doses of BPA, prior to mating, then throughout pregnancy and nursing. They then followed one male and one female from each litter and followed them through to 10 months. The higher the dosage of BPA, the more likely that tumours were present. Mice whose mothers received the highest dosage, 50 mg of BPA per kg diet, were seven times more likely to have tumours than those whose mothers were not exposed to BPA.
Reporting in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a scientist has found that during pregnancy, and particularly during the third trimester, large amounts of choline may be needed to support foetal development. The study found that choline deficiency in pregnant women may increase levels of homocysteine, which could potentially result in birth defects. Choline is required to make phosphatidylcholine, a component of all cell membranes. The scientist evaluated pregnant and non-pregnant women who were all given a controlled diet that provided 380 milligrams/day (mg/d) of choline, primarily from eggs. The women were then randomly assigned to receive choline supplements of 100 or 550 mg/d. The study found that there is an increased foetal demand for phosphatidylcholine during pregnancy, much of it being transferred to the developing foetus. (Eurekalert)
Treating peanut allergic children aged between 7 and 16 years old with a daily dose of peanut protein, starting with only small amounts, over a four to six month period, may increase intolerance. The study published in The Lancet and highly cited by the popular press has found that 84% of the group consuming the peanut protein tolerated daily ingestion of 800 mg protein (equivalent to roughly five peanuts). Andrew Clark, the lead researcher of the study states: “Before treatment children and their parents would check every food label and avoid eating out in restaurants. Now most of the patients in the trial can safely eat at least five whole peanuts. The families involved in this study say that it has changed their lives dramatically."
The Daily Mail is reporting that Heston Blumenthal has voluntarily closed his Michelin starred restaurant in Hyde Park, London after an American couple, who ate at the restaurant, were stuck down with norovirus. Tests have confirmed an outbreak of the illness. Blumenthal reports that the closure might be “rather extreme and over cautious” however he was criticised before for reacting slowly after a similar outbreak occurred at his restaurant The Fat Duck, Berkshire. The couple, who became sick on their flight back to Denver, ate foods including calf tail and powered duck breast. Blumenthal has apologised to customers at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel when he closed the restaurant on Saturday, after 24 diners and 21 members of staff were taken ill. According to the Daily Mail, a food website reports that Westminster food safety officers have confirmed there had been an outbreak of the bug and were quoted as saying: “We have asked the restaurant to improve some of its hygiene procedures – including telling staff to wash their hands more often. The changes were made immediately.”
The FSA has published the third quarterly report of industry results from the testing of beef products for horse meat or horse DNA. No results found horse meat/DNA at or above the 1% reporting threshold. The report includes 6,069 new results, of which 3,333 were submitted by ABP Food Group. (quoted directly)
RSSL's DNA and Protein Laboratory uses PCR techniques to identify DNA from over 20 meat species including chicken, pork and beef in protein extracts and other complex ingredients as well as foodstuffs. Routine meat speciation is also performed using ELISA techniques to detect pork, beef, lamb, poultry and horse (UKAS accredited). For more information please contact Customer Services on Freephone 0800 243482 or email enquiries@rssl.com
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published proposals that would continue to allow farmers to sell unpasteurised, or raw, milk to consumers from their farms or at farmers' markets. In a consultation document the FSA, considers a number of options ranging from removing restrictions on sales through to introducing a requirement for all milk to be pasteurised prior to sale. The FSA would like to hear from a broad range of stakeholders about its current preferred approach.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has issued a statement about an outbreak of E.coli O157 in Scotland. The FSA is working with them, NHS Lothian, NHS Lanarkshire, Health Protection Scotland and Glasgow City Council environmental health, to identify the source. Seven cases of illness have so far been reported. While there is no conclusive evidence at this stage, initial investigations have indicated that there may be a link to the consumption of burgers at the SSE Hydro venue. Glasgow City Council environmental health are working closely with the vendors to ensure all appropriate food hygiene standards are being met. (FSA – quoted directly)
Regular global updates on food poisoning outbreaks and animal diseases, such as avian influenza, foot and mouth, Ebola, SARS, and Anthrax can be found on the International Society for Infectious Diseases ‘ProMED-mail’ web site.
**BITES safe food from farm to fork
The BITES web site at Kansas State University (KSU) provides up-to-date details of food safety incidents around the world. It replaced the International Food Safety Network (iFSN) web site at KSU, which is no longer being kept up-to date. The Fsnet Archives are still available but only updated until September 2009.
RSSL's scientists are able to assist food businesses to manage food safety issues more effectively. The laboratories have considerable experience in the detection and identification of foreign bodies, heavy metals, allergens, toxins and chemical residues. For more information on any of these services and RSSL's Emergency Response Service, please contact Customer Services on Freefone 0800 243482 or e-mail enquiries@rssl.com
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Transport &
Distribution Security
Secure your transport & distribution business with Safe Security Solutions.
Transport Yards & Distribution Security In The UK
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Protect Your HGVs, Vans, Goods and Cargo
Transport and distribution centres provide the backbone of the UK economy; delivering goods all year round. Everything from the parcels you ordered online to cars and keeping stores stocked with all the essentials
It’s no surprise that they are heavily targeted by criminals and see some of the highest crime rates and threat levels.
At Safe Security Solutions, we know that time is everything with distribution services. Many transportation companies are contractually obligated to deliver to set schedules and any form of hold up can negatively affect that timeline.
Let’s take security worries out of the equation.
The prospect of thefts, damage, vandalism will be a waste of valuable resources, time and can potentially stop you from operating your business.
We offer cost-effective security solutions for small scale, private distribution centres up to corporate transport companies across the UK.
Effective security will save you money, time and ensure you’re delivering to those important deadlines.
Security Threats To The Distribution & Transport Industry
HGV & Vehicle Thefts
Fuel Theft
Trailer & Equipment Damage
Acts of Terrorism
Building Intrusion
Theft of Goods
Issues Causing Late Delivery
Internal & External Threats
Sensitive Materials Storage
Issues Resulting in Insurance Claims
The above list may include some but certainly not all of the common security threats to farms and smallholdings that might seem impossible to deal with. But you can… And it may prove more cost-effective to do so than to ignore the problem.
Basic Security For Transport Yards & Distribution Centres
It is advisable to look at the problem areas on your farmland and put security measures in place, especially in areas where equipment, fuel, chemicals or equipment are stored.
You may already have some basic security in place:
Standard CCTV recording
Noisy alarms & sirens
PIR activated lighting
Flashing beacons
All of these systems are of some use and will help to deter threats or increase the probability of catching criminals AFTER they have stolen or damaged your property. This is too late. Prevention is better than dealing with the after effects.
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Security in this sector can be broken down into two parts: traffic control and footfall. Perimeter detection enhances these but your primary threats will come from main entrances to and from your site or facility.
In an ideal world, an advanced transport and distribution facility would have security gates that Monitor ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) hooked up to cameras which will let employees and registered vehicles into the facility, without the reliance on security guards. This will aid the workflow and provide minimum hold-ups for checks.
Potentially, a second gatehouse for trucks, HGVs and delivery vehicles could use a similar system or be manned by security staff to ensure that vehicles (which may be coming from all over the world) are correctly checked for security purposes.
Security staff are best in a front-facing role for the control and operation of security and dealing with tasks or threats as they occur. Dividing time between roles can lead to mistakes and these can be costly.
Our fence-mounted detection systems can usually be added to your existing perimeter and linked directly via a video feed to the guard’s cabin, along with seamless integration of the security camera feed. This means that guards will only be notified when actual threats occur such as tampering with the fences or attempted intrusions.
Humans are always the weakest link in spotting security issues. A moments distraction can be too long; Any guard who is monitoring multiple security cameras can potentially miss an event so we look to alert them to important issues as and when they happen. Standard operating procedures can be put in place to ensure security is almost entirely automated. This will save time, money on wages and reduce losses and threat levels.
Technology is always more reliable and our military-grade solutions are the best technologies available for security. Your site’s existing security can still be used and integrated seamlessly with our numerous systems: from fence-mounted sensors, seismic perimeter detection, ultra-long-range cameras and Integrated Security System Software.
We’re here to identify your issues and provide safe security solutions for them.
Real-Life Application
“Transport and distribution sites are usually huge and can span several acres often across multiple sites in different geographical locations.
Many sites will only have the standard warehouse mounted CCTV cameras which will generally have been installed by a non-specialised, regional CCTV installation company with no general knowledge of security apart from the client has told them that they need a system and they need to be able to see the site.
The installer does a great job; cables are nice and pretty but that’s about it. There was never a clear definition of what is required.
Monitoring a site and site security is not the same thing.
The name ‘site’ is very different to what is required for ‘security’ of a site. Very rarely does a client understand the difference between site CCTV and security CCTV.
Site CCTV is generally where a manager and staff want to be able to view the site easily and quickly from an office. It will be for watching forklifts or trucks moving around because of targets, orders, stock etc. That is ok, and they can have a large screen on the wall or access the cameras via the on-site IP system.
But none of them will be watching for potential intruders or break-ins.
A Security system is very different, it would focus on key areas, risk area, perimeters, waters, fences, hedges easy access points and there may be a team in place to be able to deal with such an event.
There should be a separate system for the team or even placed on the office wall, but it is doing a very different job indeed. It should be protecting the asset base on-site, not monitoring if a truck has been loaded.
Along with this, there are considerations of perimeter detection and prevention of threats. Typically, we would assess each transport and distribution centre, look at the holes in it and assess how and where protection is required”
Worried About Your Security?
Let Us Fix It.
Any transport and distribution centre is a busy place with strict deadlines to meet and targets to achieve. We understand that.
Protecting your workforce, eliminating security threats and allowing you to focus on the business rather than the distractions should be the role of your security systems.
Threat prevention is the goal. We’re here to help provide a completely unique, 100% reliable security solution for you. Get in touch with our expert team.
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Fernandina Beach, FL: So amazing that four countries and three rebel groups fought over it for 300 years.
Pirates and … world class spas? Behind this serene, upscale community is an island that was once a pirate-era smuggler's cove of ill repute. Fortuitously positioned on the northeastern point of Florida, it's sheltered from the most extreme tropical weather the state experiences. Discovered in the 1560s, it repeatedly passed hands until it became known as the Isle of Eight Flags. With its clear waters, 13 miles of beach, five-star restaurants, affluent boutiques and luxury resorts, Fernandina Beach delivers a paradise as opulent as its history is black.
While the more adventurous opt to rough it like Gilligan in the campgrounds on the northern tip of the island, you could also swag it out movie-star style. Choose from high-end, gated palace communities to what passes as a humble abode to a millionaire. If that's not your thing, you can opt for more decently priced townhouses and duplexes for rent by the week throughout the town. The choice mostly comes down to whether or not you want to walk three whole minutes to the beach, golf course, or five-star gourmet restaurant.
Other than the get a sunburn on the beach, there's plenty to do in this sleepy little pirate hammock. Check out the Fort Clinch State Park, the Amelia Island Museum of History and Central Park (not the New York one). If you're looking for fun in the way of restaurants, try out 29 South, Cafe Karibo, Kelley's Courtyard Cafe, or O'Kane's Irish Pub and Eatery.
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December online shopping records point to new normal
By Pallavi Singhal and Dominic Powell
December 22, 2020 — 12.00am
Australian households bought more items online in the first week of December than ever recorded before and nearly one million residences shopped online for the first time this year, in what is expected to become a permanent shift in shopping patterns.
Australians spent $3.2 billion online in October, a 70 per cent increase on the $1.9 billion spent last October, the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data revealed.
More than 900,000 households bought something online for the first time between March and August, Australia Post figures show.
In early December, there were 42 per cent more online purchases made than there were last year.
"The first week of December and the week of Black Friday recorded the biggest number of online purchases Australia has ever seen," Australia Post noted in its latest report.
An Australia Post spokesperson said they have "consistently been delivering over 13 million parcels each week in December".
Despite the record volume of deliveries, Australia Post and other logistics providers are confident items will arrive in time for Christmas, given orders were placed by the cutoff dates of December 12 for regular post and December 19 for express.
At the peak of lockdown in April, Lakemba in Sydney's south-west was the NSW suburb with the most households making an online purchase for the first time.
Lucy Gow is one of many who have done all their Christmas shopping without going into a physical store for the first time this year.
"It just feels safer to do it online," Lucy Gow said of shopping this year. Credit:Christopher Pearce
She said the convenience of shopping online in a year when most stores have improved their checkout platforms along with health concerns that come with visiting stores drove her decision to buy gifts online.
"I don't really want to go and try to beat the crowds and feel claustrophobic when we are still in a pandemic, it just feels safer to do it online," Ms Gow said.
"And as a result of COVID the market has shifted so significantly, it's much more accessible and easier to shop online."
Andrey Vasnev, head of Business Analytics at the University of Sydney's business school, said the jump in households shopping online for the first time pointed to a structural shift in behaviour.
"The move online was already happening but COVID-19 brought it to a completely new level, it made it the norm," Associate Professor Vasnev said.
"The whole population suddenly had to know how to buy online and get comfortable with it ... I would say a lot of the people who started shopping online will continue to do that."
Rolling lockdowns, such as Victoria's second wave and this month's outbreak in Sydney's northern beaches, have also prompted shoppers to go online.
The growing northern beaches cluster has also coincided with the Christmas week, leading residents to look for ways to complete their last-minute shopping from home.
Shippit, which manages logistics for a number of retailers, said there was a surge in express delivery orders following last week's lockdown announcement for the northern beaches.
Major online gift card seller Prezzee has also reported a 171 per cent increase in sales over Saturday and Sunday in Sydney, one of its highest increases on record.
While the initial surge in online shopping occurred between February and April, with a 56 per cent jump coinciding with the start of national COVID-19 restrictions, this growth has continued steadily throughout the year.
Associate Professor Vasnev said the growth bucked predictions that the pandemic would lead to a drop in overall sales.
Instead, online and in-store spending spiked in March and then dropped in April before rebounding to above pre-COVID levels for the rest of the year, ABS data shows.
"When the lockdown was announced people went crazy and we had the toilet paper crisis and then at the beginning of lockdown, they'd already bought a lot of stuff so there was a drop," Associate Professor Vasnev said.
Online purchases for non-food items made up nearly 17 per cent of all sales in October, compared to about 11 per cent in October last year. Online sales peaked at 21 per cent of all sales in April.
A spokeswoman for DHL, which provides express international delivery services, said deliveries coming into Australia have jumped 25 per cent this year, while outbound shipments have gone up 48 per cent.
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Customer Experience Expert Shannon Smith Joins SDI Presence
Chicago, IL – April 15, 2019 – IT Managed services provider (MSP) and consultancy SDI Presence LLC (SDI), announced today former Blueye CEO Shannon Smith has joined the firm as Director of SDIALIGN, the firm’s customer relationship management program. Shannon will join Chief Relationship Officer Dawn Gupta in leading the ALIGN program, which maintains vigilance over the firm’s portfolio-wide customer satisfaction score of 98%.
“Our clients expect exceptional service delivery, and that starts with a solid customer partner relationship. SDIALIGN is designed to foster the open communication channels and honest feedback that are fundamental to long-term customer success,” states SDI Chief Relationship Officer Dawn Gupta. “We are really excited to have Shannon join the SDIALIGN team. Her robust business, technical, and client relations experience makes her the perfect choice for this position.”
SDI developed its SDIALIGN program to ensure that SDI senior management maintains connectivity to clients’ needs and that SDI project teams are delivering according to expectations. The SDIALIGN Team meets with SDI client teams on a quarterly basis to collect feedback on the firm’s performance, reliability, and customer service. SDI’s proactive program is structured to identify issues before problems occur, with SDIALIGN Team members providing independent and unbiased oversight of client engagements. The SDIALIGN Team is empowered with the authority, support, and budget by senior management to enforce SDI’s commitment to presence in every client engagement.
“I am thrilled to join an amazing organization like SDI Presence. Their commitment to their clients is unparalleled and I look forward to initiating and maintaining a top-of-the-line, two-way dialogue with our clients,” states Shannon.
In 2005, Shannon founded Blueye, an agency that helped brands define their engagement journey and build tailored social programs to drive loyalty and ROI. Featured in Crain’s Chicago and Adweek, Blueye was listed as one of the top 10 design companies in Forbes 2009 and as one of the top 10 web development companies in Entrepreneur Magazine in 2008. Blueye became a Facebook-preferred marketing partner, holding two of their four PMD program. Over eleven years, Shannon led Blueye through a period of rapid growth and change while directing the development of The Blueye Hub, a technology built off Facebook’s Ads API that allowed brands to turn data into sales. The Blueye team developed several web, mobile, and social apps across a range of platforms and devices, for clients such as the Salvation Army, Amway Global, and Starwood Hotels.
After the acquisition of Blueye in 2016, Shannon served as senior vice president of business development at Complementics, working with a family of brands that included Complementics, Info.com, eContext, and BotBuilder to bring new business opportunities to the business units and foster those relationships. As the companies grew, Shannon focused on helping them properly brand and adapt – building structure that supports expansion throughout the organization and maintaining a sharp focus on development and operations of the sales and marketing teams.
In her spare time, Shannon devotes to saving animals through the rescue that she co-founded in 2013 called Furever Rescue, a 401(c)3.
Shannon can be reached at 312.580.7519 and ssmith@sdipresence.com.
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and Big Sur Half Marathon to keep you busy. Feel like you're drowning in a plethora of options? Here's our top picks for this weekend.
The Great Wine Escape kicks off Friday morning with a series of Coastal Kitchen Seminars throughout the day at Intercontinental: The Clement on Cannery Row. In the evening, there are eleven winemaker dinners to choose from. Buy tickets on the Great Wine Escape Weekend website. Warm up for the Big Sur Marathon with the Health and Fitness Expo at the Monterey Conference Center. Pick up some new gear, and register for Saturday's JUST RUN! Just Kids 3K or Run Forrest Run 5K. Expo is free; registration for the races runs from $5 to $27. Noon-6pm.
If you're a fan of Celtic music, get your tickets now for the "Celtic Winter's Eve Concert" at the Performing Arts Center of Pacific Grove. The concert, which starts at 7pm, features Molly's Revenge, Tempest, the Gas Men and Drum Major Michel d'Avenas. If you're feeling important, attend the VIP reception at 6pm, which features hors d'oeuvres, desserts and cocktails. Tickets for the reception plus concert are $50. Tickets for the concert only are $10 for students and $20 for everyone else. Buy your tickets through the Performing Arts Center of Pacific Grove website.
The big races may be sold out, but there's still a chance to participate in the Run Forrest Run 5K or JUST RUN! Just Kids 3K as part of the Big Sur Half Marathon. Anyone aged 5 or over in good health can participate in either race. Registration starts at Bubba Gump at 6:30am. Fees are $20 for adults and $5 for children 5-17 for the 3K and $27 for adults and $16 for children 17 and under and active military with ID for the 5K. The 3K starts at 8am and the 5K starts at 9am at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company on Cannery Row. Event company Illusions of Grandeur has decided to clear out their warehouse with a gigantic garage sale, and a number of other businesses in Sand City have decided to join in the fun and make it a community event. 9 am to 2 pm, 479 Elder Avenue.
Why go up to Santa Cruz to see redwoods when you can see a breathtaking redwood grove in your own backyard? The Monterey Peninsula Regional Parks District and Big Sur Land Trust's "Walk Among Giants" event offers two unique hikes through the redwoods of the Mitteldorf Preserve. The first hike is 3.5 miles with a 1000 foot elevation gain; the second is 5 miles and a 1,900-foot elevation gain. 9 am to 3 pm, free. Register in advance online under "Teen to Adult Explorations."
The Great Wine Escape has several options available for a day of oenophile fun. Take a self-guided wine tour of Carmel Valley or the Salinas Valley from 11 am to 5 pm for $25. Let someone else do the driving and take a hosted wine tour of Carmel Valley or the Salinas Valley, which includes educational elements, from 10 am-5 pm for $65. Or go for the full educational experience and take the Winemaker For a Day tour at Paraiso Vineyards from 9:30 am to 4 pm for $85. Order tickets at the Great Wine Escape Weekend website.
The Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce holds its 21st annual Holiday Fashion Show and auction at Asilomar's Merrill Hall tonight. View fashions from eight boutiques, eat a strolling dinner, enjoy live entertainment, and bid on over 150 trips, restaurant certificates, golf packages and more. 5:30 pm-8 pm, $20.
Taste fantastic wines and gourmet food at the Wine Enthusiast's Signature Dinner or one of three Winemaker Dinners as part of the Great Wine Escape Weekend. 7 pm, $150 for Wine Enthusiast's Signature Dinner, $95 for Winemaker's Dinner. Reserve online.
It's too late to register for the Big Sur Half Marathon or 10-Mile Walk/Run, but you can still cheer the racers on! The course runs down Del Monte, around Lake El Estero, through downtown, through the Custom House Tunnel onto Foam Street, down to Cannery Row, along Ocean View in Pacific Grove, down Lighthouse in Pacific Grove, along the coast to Asilomar, and then back to Custom House Plaza. Both races start at 7 am.
The Great Wine Escape Weekend comes to a blockbuster end with the Grand Finale at Intercontinental The Clement. Taste wine from over 30 wineries and food from many of Monterey County's finest restaurants, and watch chef demonstrations. Noon-3 pm, $90. Buy tickets online at the Great Wine Escape website.
The Listening Place Reader’s Theater performs a live reading of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and The Remarkable Rocket at the Monterey Museum of Art La Mirada. 1:30 pm. $5 for the general public, free for MMA members.
Still looking for something to do? Check out the Monterey County Weekly's calendar section.
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By Service Year Alliance
| July 14, 2017
We have some good news from Capitol Hill:
Yesterday afternoon, the subcommittee in the House that oversees funding for national service programs like AmeriCorps and YouthBuild voted to approve their draft budget for 2018. Thanks to your hard work and dedication, the committee's draft budget rejects President Trump’s proposal to eliminate AmeriCorps, and fully funds both AmeriCorps and YouthBuild at their FY17 levels.
The House is often where national service faces its biggest hurdles, and with the most serious threat to national service in a decade — this is a tremendous first step on the path to victory. Your calls, your emails, your tweets, and your petition signatures over the past sixth months were critical in securing a big win for the entire service year field. Congress heard the message loud and clear: the American people will not accept the elimination of national service.
This is only the beginning of a long process that will last through the Fall — the fight is not over until the full House and Senate act, and the FY18 budget becomes law. And we’ve still got work to do. Unfortunately, the State and Foreign Ops subcommittee that oversees funding for the Peace Corps accepted the President’s recommendation to cut $12 million. We’ll be working with allies in the House and the Senate to ensure that piece of the budget does not become a reality. We need your help to keep up the pressure for the remainder of the budget process, and that starts today.
Take action on social media: tell Congress that we need to EXPAND national service so every young American has the opportunity to serve.
On behalf of the entire service year community: Thank you.
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Wild Monk's craft brews, food combine to offer relaxing dining experience
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The menu at Wild Monk features a wide selection of burgers served with fries and coleslaw. (Photo provided)
LA GRANGE – Step into Wild Monk in downtown La Grange and it's difficult to ignore a certain comfortable, yet chic feel that defines the bar and eatery.
A few Chicago Blackhawks banners adorn the dark walls, and a Chicago Cubs "W" flag hangs in the window. A mix of metal chairs and well-worn wooden stools line the bar and tables.
“It’s a minimalistic, comfortable environment,” said owner Demetri Kopley, who opened Wild Monk 5.5 years ago at the corner of La Grange Road and Cossitt Avenue.
The bar dominates one wall of the restaurant, which seats about 100. Twelve televisions, strategically located throughout the pub, broadcast all the Chicago sports teams. Outdoor seating is plentiful.
The environment is by design, Kopley said. His goal was to create a laid-back, relaxing atmosphere, where patrons could enjoy a wide selection of craft beer, along with an appetizer, sandwich or burger.
“We knew we were going to be craft beer focused,” Kopley said.
Indeed, the restaurant was named with craft beer in mind. "Wild" refers to the wild yeast used to make craft beer, and monks were the first people to produce beer, Kopley said.
Wild Monk has 35 craft beers on tap and offers another 30 in bottles. A selection of craft cocktails also is available.
“People do enjoy them,” said Kopley, who has worked with mixologists to create the restaurant's signature cocktail list.
Wild Monk offers craft beer flights of four 5-ounce samplings. Cocktail flights are available as well.
“If you’re a craft beer connoisseur, you know who we are,” Kopley said. “I try to focus on local breweries.”
Wild Monk has earned its reputation serving craft beer, but Kopley is equally proud of his menu, which is comprised of “upscale bar food,” he said.
Appetizers include steak, lamb and beef sliders, sweet potato fries and a Bavarian-style pretzel.
Calamari, seared scallops, chicken wings and nachos also can be found on the starter menu.
Brussels sprouts that are flash-fried, seasoned with lemon and sea salt, and served with a bacon jam sauce are a crowd favorite.
“Our Brussels sprouts are one of our biggest sellers,” Kopley said.
Wild Monk’s entrees include a 10-ounce grilled skirt steak, lobster macaroni and cheese, fish and chips, and chicken pot pie. The brisket sandwich complete with fried egg is popular with diners, he said.
Several times a year, the restaurant partners with a local craft brewery to offer a six-course meal. Each course is paired with a craft beer that complements the food.
Desserts recently were added to the menu and include turtle cheesecake, a chocolate chip cookie, brownies and pudding made with RumChata and creme de cacao powder, topped with whipped cream.
Wild Monk is ideally located at the southern end of La Grange next to the La Grange Theatre and often caters to the pre- and post-movie crowd. A good number of patrons walk to the restaurant from the adjacent residential areas.
“We have a wide demographic – young, old, all ages. We even have a kids' menu,” Kopley said.
He said time spent at his restaurant should be about more than food and drink.
"We're not selling food, we're not selling beer, we're selling an experience," he said.
What: Wild Monk
Where: 88 S. La Grange Road, La Grange
Hours: 4 p.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday; kitchen closes one hour before closing time
Info: wildmonkbar.com
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Chris Hughes DRAGS troll who insulted Jesy Nelson’s appearance
Former Love Island star Chris Hughes has slammed the 'sickening abuse' experienced by girlfriend Jesy Nelson after she was called 'the ugly one' out of Little Mix.
The 26-year-old jumped to his girlfriend's defence after a cruel troll wrote a horrible comment on his latest photo with 28-year-old Jesy.
The couple are shown cuddling in bed with snacks resting on Chris' chest, and Chris captioned the post;
“So today we went to the cinema, but didn’t watch a film, we just bought chocolate and sweets instead,” adding pig emojis for good measure. Jesy wrote back; "My piglet" with a heart emoji. ADORBS.
A post shared by Chris Hughes (@chrishughesofficial) on Aug 25, 2019 at 12:37pm PDT
The girlband member later posted the same cute image to her Instagram feed, captioning it: “Just a couple of curly-haired posers on a Sunday evening.”
One person wrote a cruel comment about Jesy's appearance saying: “I would rather pay cinemas prices than be led next to that sooooooo much makeup but she was always the ugly one.”
Chris has been vocal about a number of issues that are close to his heart, including animal cruelty, and made sure to stand up for his girlfriend by naming and shaming the troll;
Image: Instagram/@chrishughesofficial
Reacting to the message, Chris shared a screenshot of the comment to his Instagram Story and wrote: “What a c***.”
Chris added in another post: “Find it so strange that grown women enjoy insulting young girls they don’t even know…. honestly.
“Some of the people that follow me and give my girlfriend abuse is actually sickening. Your lives must be so miserable, that you can only feel for them.”
A post shared by Chris Hughes (@chrishughesofficial) on Jun 16, 2019 at 11:50am PDT
Jesy recently got candid about being branded "the fat one from Little Mix" and the impact which it had on her mental health in a moving Instagram post;
“6 months ago this girl was someone I just wanted to forget. I wanted to erase her from my mind and everyone else’s memory. I didn’t see her as Jesy I saw her as 'the fat one from Little Mix.'
“Up until now I hated her not because she’d ever done anything bad but because I was made to hate her by endless amounts of trolling. Since filming my documentary for @bbcone and @bbcthree I’ve learned so much more than I ever expected to. Thanks to all the inspirational people I’ve met on this emotional journey, I now love the girl in this photo.”
A post shared by @jesynelson on Jul 30, 2019 at 5:18am PDT
Jesy added: “I’ve made this documentary for 2011 Jesy and for anyone who might be feeling like she did. I refused to speak about how I was feeling for so long. I was embarrassed and scared to. But I was so wrong to feel that way. "
The BBC One documentary references body image and mental health. Chris and Jesy began dating in January after the singer broke up with Harry James.
The couple have sinced moved in together last month, with Chris telling The Mirror; "Oour schedules aren’t too bad. We obviously live together now, which I think everyone knows. But we fit around it."
A post shared by @jesynelson on Jun 15, 2019 at 10:04am PDT
"I also want to get married. That’s something I’m looking forward to doing one day.” Gushing about Nelson, Chris recently revealed that his favourite thing to do was “explore new places” with her.
"I’m happiest when I’m travelling around, exploring new places, with my other half not having a clue where we’re going,” he said.
“Being lost in a foreign country with my girlfriend makes me feel free and is when I’m at my happiest.” What a great couple, we simply have to stan.
Feature image: Instagram/@chrishughesofficial
How does society judge when cosmetic beauty is ‘botched’?
Beauty means something different to everyone. An episode of Sherlock I distinctly remember had the protagonist declare while giving the Best Man’s speech at a wedding; “Beauty is a construct based entirely on childhood impressions, influences and role models.”
At the time, I was roughly 16 years old, obsessed with changing absolutely everything about my appearance. During my school days, everyone wanted to look the same.
The same tanned skin, bright blonde hair which is pretty much only natural if you are of Scandinavian descent, contoured cheekbones and slender figure with a waistline that most likely requires a corset to maintain.
Being different was not only seen as unattractive, it was even feared.
It was only when I entered college and saw beauty expanding its traits that my eyes were opened to different types of aesthetically pleasing looks. As well as this, I began to understand that confidence is beauty.
Happiness is beauty, intelligence is beauty, generosity is beauty. And that beauty is often the least interesting thing about a person.
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However, the ideal of beauty which had been prominent during my secondary school years remained the same until the Kardashians exploded onto the reality TV scene, and over the course of the last decade have altered the idea of beauty as we know it.
With their bum and breast implants, nose jobs, cheek implants, lip fillers, whitened teeth among other procedures I don’t have the vocabulary to describe, somehow the idea of what was beautiful drastically changed.
Body modification became far more normalised, as well as the fact that social media gave audiences the power of knowledge.
While celebrities were undoubtedly changing their faces and bodies for decades, especially ones on our cinema and TV screens, social media and the internet now gave us the tools to recognise when ‘work’ had been done.
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One fascinating case which has attracted massive public attention in the last few weeks is that of Elliot Joseph Rentz, otherwise known as Alexis Stone.
The make-up and drag artist garnered public furore after revealing a massively drastic surgical transformation to his large social media following, uploading reveal videos to his YouTube channel which were bombarded with negative comments spewing hateful language and even death threats.
Rentz began the process on August 1 of last year, explaining to his following in a video;
“I don’t want to look the way I look today. I don’t connect with what I see. I never have. So I’m changing it all. I’ve been called crazy. I’ve been called botched. I’ve been called an addict. I’ve been called ugly. I’m told every single day that I’ve ruined my face,” he claimed, emphasising that every last cent he owned would be given to his surgical dream of metamorphosis.
“You name it, I’m having it done,” he explained.
A post shared by Alexis Stone (@thealexisstone) on Oct 17, 2018 at 4:10am PDT
Alexis uploads a video titled “The Reveal”, which has since racked up over 450,000 views. In the diary-like visual film, the drag artist shows off his brand new face, which included fat grafts to his nose, forehead, and chin, as well as chin and cheek implants and an eye lift.
“This had nothing to do with vanity and everything to do with sanity,” he quotes, directly from Pete Burns’ biography.
One month later, Rentz uploads a compilation of comments, each more vicious and negative than the next. Some of them are hard to read.
Stone later claimed his so-called friends and family members often joined in on the vitriolic, with some people even telling him to take his own life, and that his ex-boyfriend committed suicide because of Stone.
A post shared by Alexis Stone (@thealexisstone) on Dec 28, 2018 at 4:21am PST
Roll on January 1 2019, and Stone reveals in a lengthy YouTube documentary that the whole six-month journey was a complete hoax – his new ‘botched’ face was a complex mask.
Working with Academy Award-winning makeup artist David Marti, a stunt mask was even developed from prosthetic facial materials to be worn outside of the house. Months of effort and secrecy had led to this, and the result was fascinating.
He referred to the stunt as a social experiment, while others called it a cry for mental health help, an attention seeking performance or even a show of disrespect for those who have undergone extreme surgery themselves for whatever reason.
So why did he do it, and what did his social experiment show about society’s idea of beautiful versus ‘botched’ surgery?
Ireland’s perception of the cosmetic surgery industry is vastly different from the reality.
Clinics across Ireland have experienced a 75% increase in inquiries about cosmetic surgery; with an increase in both women in their 40's and men choosing injectable treatments.
Those in their 20's are opting for @KylieJenner lips.
Would you consider cosmetic surgery?
— (@BreakfastNT) August 16, 2018
Dozens of clinics have popped up all over the country – Westport in County Mayo is even the predominant creator and exporter of the world’s botox – and yet there is an element of hushed secrecy to the entire organisation.
It is rare to find an Irish person who opens up about having plastic surgery, we are a country of people who lament so-called ‘narcissism’, yet self-confidence issues remain potent within our society.
In a society that profits from self-doubt, liking yourself is an act of rebellion.
In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act pic.twitter.com/RAqIHtaL0u
— Caroline Caldwell (@DIRT_WORSHIP) May 17, 2015
Jameela Jamil has frequently found herself in the public eye for her scathing indictment of the Kardashian family, arguing that their world is one which 'recycles self-hatred'.
Yet the reality TV clan have essentially transformed the perception of beauty over the last decade, morphing women into self-obsession with curves, plumped up lips, tanned skin and bodycon clothing.
“You’re selling us self-consciousness,” she claims, portraying her deep disappointment of the ‘double-agents to the patriarchy’. Her main issue with the Kardashians is their weight-loss product endorsements, which are basically a fancier packaging for laxatives in protein shake form.
The family have abundant riches which can afford the best photoshop, photographers, airbrushing, personal trainers, stylists, dermatologists and cosmetic surgeons the world can offer.
the kardashian family has created an unrealistic beauty standard through surgery after surgery that women & girls across our country devote their life to recreating in hopes of appearing as what they’ve set as today's social norm. let’s have a conversation about that https://t.co/uMuw8u7VWj
— kelsey nicole. (@kwerdkels) January 7, 2019
Even a glance over websites aimed at young women such as Boohoo, Missguided and PrettyLittleThing shows the huge changes in the beauty industry.
Their models have hyper-miniscule waists and voluptuous curves, glossy brunette locks, tanned skin and full lips, highly reminiscent of the Kardashian family’s idea of what beauty means.
The #10YearChallenge has proven at least one thing; those who have money have a greater control over their appearance than those who don’t.
Body modification has become normalised in society, whether it’s permanent or semi-permanent. Contouring, filters on our social media apps, airbrushing, make-up tutorials on YouTube and cosmetic surgery all reflect the culture we live in, which constantly tells us what we look like isn’t enough.
A post shared by Muriam Waseem (@muriamwasi) on Jan 21, 2019 at 3:59am PST
And yet, if a person who changes their appearance is genuinely happier and finds improvement in their mental health and self-esteem as a result of body modification, who are we to judge their lifestyle choices?
Choice is the vital word here. Our society and law consistently shows that it believes it possesses the right to control other people’s bodies. Specifically female bodies.
If another person has the funds and is of sound mind, shouldn’t they be allowed to alter their body if it sparks joy in them, to reference the iconic Marie Kondo?
What struck me most was the understanding which the public has for those undergoing body modification for the sake of their physical health.
Whether it’s a nose job for aiding breathing, a breast reduction surgery to alleviate back pain or even just braces, the level of support appears to be significantly higher when physical health is taken into account, rather than perceived vanity.
A post shared by River Medical (@rivermedical) on Dec 12, 2018 at 3:24am PST
Yet if a person’s mental health is suffering as a result of their appearance, is this not still a health reason? On an ‘extreme’ level, is transitioning from a male or female gender to the opposite biological sex classified as body modification?
In this case, a person’s mental health would presumably suffer as a result of their appearance, should they not identify with who they see in the mirror.
Cases of body dysmorphia are higher than ever in Ireland, obsession with one’s flaws can cause great emotional pain. Yet we fixate on the reasoning for a person’s body modification, we presume we have the right to judge them for their choices.
my eating disorders, suicidal tendencies, body dysmorphia, anxiety, anger issues: pic.twitter.com/h0WtMoEVb3
— bia (@doceblossom) January 17, 2019
SHEmazing spoke to a young woman named Gráinne, who underwent breast reduction surgery at the age of 19, and never looked back. She was plagued with back pain throughout her secondary school years, but the daily toll which her chest took on her confidence and mental health was the final straw;
“For my own personal experience I would say, I think my chest came in in like first year when I was 13, and got bigger after that. I’d say it probably crossed my mind, a chest reduction every once in a while. You’d be trying on clothes and things just wouldn’t fit, whether it was bikini or swimsuits or whatever, I couldn’t buy clothes that fit. You’d be thinking, ‘just chop them off and be done with it’.”
“Throughout secondary school if you had that idea, you’d just dismiss it, because we don’t do that. I didn’t take it seriously, it was a passing thought. It was first year of college that my cousin, who had a bigger chest than I did, got a breast reduction surgery done. I thought, ‘If she could do it, why can’t I?’ It dispelled the taboo a bit, I guess.”
I'm SO OPEN about my breast reduction. Like I'm sorry if you were around me for 6 months after my surgery because it's literally all I talked about but I don't tell men I had a reduction because so far every comment I've gotten is along the lines of "wHy wOUld YoU dO tHaT?!!1?!"
Gráinne noticed the unspoken way which Irish people often have of burying a topic until somebody else is brave enough to unlock it.
“I hadn’t really thought about it, but that took away the wall up around it. The summer before I started second year in college, it was just getting to me. It affected everything in the way of confidence, everything I wore, playing sports just wasn’t a thing, I just felt vulnerable. My mum always compared it to wild games of tennis at Wimbledon, everything’s going the wrong direction. You’re very self-conscious about it. I was starting to get dints in my shoulders, I would have been 19 at the time so I couldn’t believe I could get them so young”
Gráinne discovered that she qualified for the surgery through the state on medical grounds, and her life greatly changed after that pivotal moment;
“I got my chest done September of 2015, so I would have been 19 when I started. I went to my GP about it, and he referred us. It was on medical grounds, I couldn’t straighten my back or stand for five minutes without a pain in my back because it just couldn’t hold my breasts. You feel like a hunchback all the time because you’re always bending over. I remember when I was going to the consultant, I was more nervous because I thought ‘If he tells me I can’t get this surgery, what am I going to do?’"
"I went in and found out I could have it on health grounds, and I was the right BMI for them to justify it. We had to wait for the insurance to approve it. The only funny thing was that they told me there would be scars. I never cared about this, I knew I could deal with them if it meant that I could have a smaller chest. To this day, I don’t care about the scars. They’re there, they’re fine, they’re healed.”
The process of the surgery itself is a journey, from the initial thought pattern, to the planning, to the operation itself and then recovery. Nobody takes on cosmetic surgery lightly, nobody does it on a whim or doesn’t think it through. They don’t think about ‘ruining’ their looks, or what other people think.
When I got my breast reduction surgery, I wanted my breasts to be as small as possible bc I was tired of the constant back/neck/chest pain and never being able to find shirts that fit me. ALSO because I was tired of men oggling my chest and TOUCHING it without my permission.
— (@juliahagins) January 21, 2019
They have been on their journey for a long time, they are of sound mind, and they have ultimately made a choice and will handle whatever consequences arrive afterwards;
“Having the surgery itself, people would ask me if I was nervous. I kept telling people, ‘Why would I be nervous, I just have to lie there? It’s the doctor’s job.’ I wasn’t nervous, I was excited about it because it meant that so many other things were going to be open to me. When I finally got the surgery done, I was just ready for it. After the surgery, you had to have a week of bedrest to recover, and take care of yourself. It was fine, I had protein and scrambled eggs because the nurses said that it would help the healing of scars. I never put any kind of stress on it, I was always just excited about the chance to have it done. I can’t imagine what my life would be like without having it done, if I was still in the mental headspace of constantly being conscious of my chest like that.”
What changed in Gráinne’s life after her operation, and how does she feel today about it?
“It was just such a thing that you hid before. Everyone in my family had adapted to wearing big jumpers and scarves to hide it, we were a big chested family. I have no problem talking about my surgery, I have no problem talking about my chest size. I was never vulnerable about it, I kind of own it. Every year around the anniversary of my surgery, I think of it like a little victory. It’s an attitude, it’s another year on of not having to deal with my chest. People who knew me and knew how important it was for me were supportive."
"I wonder if there was someone who wanted implants for their chest, would it have been the same reaction? My flat chested friends always joked ‘I’ll use whatever you don’t want!’, I wonder if someone had gotten implants, would it have been the same reaction? Would people have been as supportive? Even if it was for their own mental health because they can’t stand being so flat-chested, I don’t think it would be as accepted.”
Stop shaming women for having cosmetic surgery. Y'all still shame them if they remained flat anyway
— July 25, 2017
I asked Gráinne how her life changed after the surgery, in more than just a physical way;
“It definitely improved my mental health and the way I see myself. It’s made me more accepting of other parts of my body, of me as a whole. My physical health has also improved, I’m more active. I used to do so many after-school activities in primary school, but once my chest developed I stopped those. Sports bras didn’t improve it either. No one in my life ever commented on me having a big chest in a negative way to me, I don’t think. It was just something I wanted.”
Ariel Winter chose to have a breast reduction surgery following years of public and online ridicule, complications involving acting roles as well as intense back pain. Speaking about the difficulties to Glamour in 2015, she said;
“We live in a day and age where everything you do is ridiculed. The Internet bullies are awful. I could post a photo where I feel good, and 500 people will comment about how fat I am and that I am disgusting. On red carpets, I just said to myself, "You have to do your best to look confident and stand up tall, and make yourself look as good as you can in these photos," because everyone is going to see them. I definitely seemed confident; I'm an actress, that's what we do. But on the inside, I wasn't feeling so happy.”
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For Gráinne, Ariel Winter’s story deeply resonated with her;
“I saw her on Ellen, and just understood everything she said. You’re so self conscious of it. It would have affected my confidence going on Erasmus, I always hid behind scarves and jumpers. I’m far more confident now, and whether that was just growing up or having my chest done, I feel the chest was a major contributing factor. I’m still a curvaceous figure, but it’s manageable and I’m not weighed down by it. It wasn’t about anyone else, it was about me and no one else. If that’s what someone else wants, then they should go for it.”
When asked her opinion on Alexis Stone’s stunt, Gráinne was struck by the thought of going ‘too far’, and why that seemed to offend so many people. The idea that if you transform yourself to look less like the culturally accepted beauty standards, you are committing a grave sin in some way;
“For the whole Alexis Stone side of things, I think the problem with that was, did he go too far in people’s eyes? He didn’t fit with what society wanted him to look like. Kylie Jenner’s lips, she was self-conscious about them, and had been over-drawing, she got them done, but now we forget that she ever got them done. We accept that this is her face. But with Alexis, everyone thinks he went too far. People getting things like that done are often afraid of other people seeing their insecurities. There’s a model of what society wants people to look like, and you’re either reaching that model or you’re going too far."
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"Rachel Green in Friends, it’s so overlooked that she got a nose job, because it was to fix what they saw as a flaw. If Alexis Stone pretended to get work done for what he saw as a flaw, but society didn’t, then it’s a problem. Other people didn’t know about my chest, but I felt that it was a burden for myself and how I viewed myself. It was literally weighing me down. Kylie Jenner’s lips were a flaw to herself, and she ‘fixed’ them and she’s happy. It’s about ‘fixing’ what people’s perception of beauty is.”
What a large group of people perceive to be aesthetically pleasing offers a mirror to that society itself. Sociological factors have a major impact on why we see certain shapes, sizes, faces, skin types, hair and eye colours etc as the desirable way to look. Despite the fact that millions of young women ache to look the same as the Kardashians, it’s what is unique to each person that is the inherently beautiful part of them.
What's 'beautiful' today may be off-brand tomorrow. Why try to keep up?
Today I ask what is beauty? Look how fast it's definition evolves. Examine the never-ending yet ever changing pressures on women to conform. New film by me out today a @CNN commission. HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2018 PEOPLE #IWD2018 #IWD #whatisbeauty pic.twitter.com/YT7M5yvGoJ
— Anna Ginsburg (@annaginsburg) March 8, 2018
As well as their appearance, their worth is so much more than what they look like or what they way. What they feel, what they offer to the world, their identities, their language, their flaws, their intelligence, their kindness; these factors are often greatly impacted by appearance, but beauty is more to do with the mind than what the eye envisions.
“Society has an issue with it if it’s pointing out flaws that they see in themselves as well. If you see something that you really admire in someone else, you feel self-conscious about it yourself in some way.”
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This crazy Khloe Kardashian Konspiracy theory has us REELING
Someone pick us up off the cold, hard ground, because we are CONFUSED as hell after hearing the latest conspiracy theory regarding the Kardashians.
The famous family are absolutely embroiled in the drama (where else would they be?) after Tristan Thompson allegedly cheated on Khloe with Jordyn Woods, AKA Kylie Jenner's bestie.
Tristan is the father of Khloe's daughter, True Thompson, and has been caught up in his fair share of infidelity scandals himself, having cheated on Khloe while she was pregnant multiple times. Classy.
A post shared by Khlo(@khloekardashian) on Mar 13, 2018 at 5:51am PDT
Brace yourselves for this next part, because the Konspiracy of Khloe Kardashian is about to let a Kat out of the bag. It's major.
Fans are now speculating that Khloe created Jordyn Woods as a "honey trap" for Tristan, knowing he would cheat and create yet another scandal. All for the next season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
Yup, people genuinely think the family are orchestrating this chaos. Kris Jenner specifically, which we TOTALLY believe. The momager is iconic, and can spin drama from legit nothing at all.
This Khloe Kardashian / Tristan / Jordyn drama screams honey trap and a Season 17 story line.
The devil works hard…… pic.twitter.com/9foghzwZ29
— Elisa Duncan Cullen (@ElisaD_C) February 20, 2019
One Twitter user wrote; "This Khloe Kardashian/Tristan/Jordyn drama screams honey trap and a season 17 story line." We have to agree, the timing is perfect.
The family are positively gifted at staying relevant. Many presume that the only reason Khloe took Tristan back after he cheated was for this precise reason; more drama.
Imagine planting your younger sister's 21-year-old BFF (who lives in her mansion for free) as a honey trap for your love rat boyfriend…Imagine…
What if the Kardashians planted Jordyn as a honey trap to test Tristan? The man has form, until now she's been a good friend to Kylie. I sense a set up. Tristan failed & he's out!
— Cookie (@MissDonnaCooke) February 20, 2019
Another user wrote; "The man has form, until now she's been a good friend to Kylie. I sense a set up. Tristan failed & he's out." It was all a major Tristan Test, and predictably the lad failed.
He cheated on his ex-girlfriend, who was also pregnant, with Khloe. It's not that surprising he can't change his cheater ways, is it?
Others think that Jordyn herself was in on the entire plan with the Kardashians, which is craziness at it's finest.
Khloe Kardashian and Jordyn Woods planned this together so Khloe would have a good reason to dump Tristan – A Conspiracy
— nick (@VersaceDeIRey) February 19, 2019
"Khloe Kardashian and Jordyn Woods planned this together so Khloe would have a good reason to dump Tristan – A Conspiracy," one eagle-eyed fan tweeted. We're SO here for these thoughts.
Another, even wilder, theory ponders the thought that Khloe and TRISTAN HIMSELF were in on the gag together;
"Conspiracy: Tristan Thompson didn’t really cheat on Khloe Kardashian, they made the whole thing up to make more money like Beyoncé and Jay-Z did in 2018."
This gal is referencing Beyoncé's iconic Lemonade album, which was a direct response to Jay-Z's cheating scandal with "Becky with the good hair." The general public were enthralled.
A post shared by HEIR JORDYN (@jordynwoods) on Feb 14, 2019 at 7:08pm PST
Jordyn Woods has reportedly moved out of Kylie Jenner's home, which is probably for the best.
Khloe has also responded by posting a series of cryptic tweets about pain and betrayal, but hasn't commented herself. Kim also slammed trolls who criticised Khloe for making a public appearance at the PrettyLittleThing event.
The scandal also came out days before Jordyn launched a new false eyelash range in Los Angeles, with the model saying the most underwhelming statement the world has ever heard.
Would you prefer she lose the too? A single mom has to work too boo! This was a professional commitment planned far in advance and you better believe she is not waiting on anyone to pay her bills or provide for her daughter. PERDIODT!!! https://t.co/FU3VorGzqx
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) February 21, 2019
Jordyn told the crowd; "Through everything that's been going on, you know it’s been real, and Eylure has been super real." Wow, this gal's an eloquent scholar.
What conspiracy theories about the scenario do you believe? We personally are fans of the Kris Jenner "the devil works hard…" one, but maybe the entire thing was truly just a disorganised mess.
Feature image: @khloekardashian/Instagram
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Hailey Bieber gets REAL about her constant confidence battle
Hailey Bieber has anxieties, just like the rest of us.
The model and new wifey to Justin Bieber himself opened up to her fans via her Instagram account last night, vowing to get far more open about her troubles online.
"Stepping into 2019 I want to be more open, I want to be more open about the things I struggle with, and be able to be more vulnerable," she described in the post, below.
A post shared by Hailey Rhode Bieber (@haileybieber) on Jan 6, 2019 at 4:32pm PST
"I’m a 22 years old, and the truth is no matter how amazing life may look from the outside I struggle…"
Battles with confidence appear to be a daily dilemma for young women, with society continuously placing pressure to look perfect on their shoulders.
"I’m insecure, I’m fragile, I’m hurting, I have fears, I have doubts, I have anxiety, I get sad, I get angry," she continued.
A post shared by Hailey Rhode Bieber (@haileybieber) on Aug 19, 2018 at 3:20pm PDT
Hailey's honesty revolves around her self-esteem, describing how every single day is a "confidence battle";
"I have had more days than I can count where I’ve found myself scrolling through Instagram comparing myself, comparing my looks, feeling like I’m not good enough feeling like I lack so many things and really struggling to be confident in who I am because I constantly feel like I’m just not good enough."
"I'm a human.. I'm a young woman, I'm learning who I am and, it's REALLY FREAKING HARD. It's hard finding who you are, but what's even harder is being picked apart and compared to other women while trying to do that," she opined.
A post shared by Hailey Rhode Bieber (@haileybieber) on Nov 27, 2018 at 1:48pm PST
Hailey explained at the conclusion of her post that she's not "writing this for a pity party," rather for her fans to see their own beauty inside and out.
"It would be incredible if other young girls and women could find it in themselves to lift each other up, to stop making other women who are struggling JUST LIKE THEM, feel incompetent and less than," she asked for her fans to see the positive side.
"We ALL have flaws, and that will never change. What I do know is, God made us individuals for a reason, with our own beauty, our own personalities, and our own story because there's a specific plan and purpose for each and every human created and he makes no mistakes!!"
A post shared by Hailey Rhode Bieber (@haileybieber) on Dec 2, 2018 at 7:58pm PST
The famous model has taken social media breaks before, as well as opening up about the difficulties of Instagram negativity and trolling;
"Whenever I take breaks from it I feel so much better so much happy as a person.. the second I come back on I get immediate anxiety, I get sad and I get worked up," she typed in one of the images.
The constant media attention and focus on her appearance unsurprisingly takes its toll.
"The negativity screams so loud."
A post shared by Hailey Rhode Bieber (@haileybieber) on Nov 23, 2018 at 10:10am PST
Baldwin has spoken about the impact of social media on her relationship to Sorry singer Justin Bieber;
"It's hard to focus on your well being and mental health when each time you open Instagram someone is tearing apart your job, or your relationship or essentially any of the things in your life that are positive."
She finished, "I won't let people make me feel like I'm doing something wrong by enjoying my life and being happy."
You go girl, everyone deserves to feel confident and positive in their own skin, no matter how big a celebrity they are.
Jennifer Aniston claims she wasn’t the ‘model’ child her mother wanted
Jennifer Aniston has opened up about the strained nature of her dysfunctional relationship with her late mother, Nancy Dow.
The actress describes the correlation between their maternal bond and her complex new Netflix film Dumplin', in which she plays a pushy mother and former pageant queen.
In the new movie, her daughter is plus-size and enters herself in a competition purely to make a dramatic statement regarding unrealistic beauty standards in our society.
A post shared by faniston (@queen.aniston) on Nov 14, 2018 at 2:35pm PST
The 49-year-old actress spoke candidly to The Sunday Telegraph about the many parallels between how Dow treated her during her childhood and Dumplin's expression of mother-daughter relationships.
When asked whether the two were similar experiences, Aniston replied “Where do we start?”
“One of the reasons I really loved the mother-daughter aspect of it was because it was very similar in a way to what my mother, and our relationship, was,” Aniston told the publication.
Nancy Dow, based on Aniston's description of her, was clearly preoccupied with her daughter's appearance.
“She was a model and she was all about presentation and what she looked like and what I looked like,” The former Friends actress commented. The star endured a highly-publicised fall-out with former actress Dow.
“I did not come out the model child she’d hoped for and it was something that really resonated with me, this little girl just wanting to be seen and wanting to be loved by a mum who was too occupied with things that didn’t quite matter.”
A post shared by Stylist Magazine (@stylistmagazine) on Nov 17, 2018 at 12:25am PST
The actress added that she really resonated with the film's message, which encourages the audience to embrace their flaws and imperfections.
"This movie is so special because it is about stripping away those preconceived notions of beauty, trying to become individuals and not feeling that we have to live up to some unrealistic ideal that society is feeding up to us," she explained.
"My idea of beauty is, it's what makes you feel beautiful and what makes me feel beautiful are the people around me, the life that I have. And maybe a good hair day."
A post shared by F.R.I.E.N.D.S. (@_.friendspostsandmemes._) on Dec 4, 2018 at 2:18am PST
Aniston previously told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015 about Dow, saying; "She was very critical of me."
Nancy wrote a biographical book in 1999 about their strained relationship: From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir, which Aniston saw as a breach of privacy.
"Because she was a model, she was gorgeous, stunning. I wasn't. I never was. I honestly still don't think of myself in that sort of light, which is fine."
We think she's absolutely beautiful, inside and out. Dow passed away in 2016 at the age of 79, after a long illness.
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Ellie Goulding: “I wasn’t aesthetically pleasing enough”
Ellie Goulding has opened up in a recent interview about how when she first started out in the music business she thought she wasn’t pretty enough:
“At one time, I was getting all this musical success, but I wasn’t getting all the things that went with it, like magazine covers.
“I was convinced for a long time I wasn’t aesthetically pleasing enough. I would have to angle my face to hide the side of my nose, or my chin.
“Then I stopped caring. I let go. Put a different energy out there — then [the covers] all started to happen.”
The pop star came under criticism last year when she performed on the X Factor in a revealing dress – people were commenting on her figure:
“They said my body was ‘too athletic’. Too athletic?
“Isn’t it admirable that someone has worked so hard to look good and be healthy?”
It sure is Ellie – we think you look fab!
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5 actors who dramatically changed their appearance for a role
These actors showed true dedication to their art when they dramatically altered their appearance for movie roles.
1. Christian Bale
Christian is a repeat offender of altering his body shape for movie roles. In 2004 Christian lost 62 pounds to play the lead role in The Machinist and just last year he put on a significant amount of weight to play Irving Rosenfeld in American Hustle.
2. Mila Kunis
Mila lost 20 pounds for her acclaimed role in the haunting Black Swan where she played a professional ballerina.
3. Jared Leto
Similarly to Christian Bale, Jared Leto has dramatically transformed himself more than once. He piled on 67 pounds to play Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27. More recently, he went down to a shocking 114 pounds for his Oscar winning role as Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club.
4. Charlize Theron
Charlize was almost completely unrecognisable as Aileen Wuornos in Monster. She wore prosthetic teeth and gained 30 pounds for the role.
5. Renée Zellweger
Renée is best known as the beloved Bridget Jones. At the time of casting, Renée was a controversial choice as she was skinnier that Bridget is described in the original books and she is American. However, she quickly proved the critics wrong as she gained 20 pounds and developed an impressive accent.
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ATTENDANCE WORRIES?
A lot has been made recently about attendance at PAETEC Park and at the newer MLS stadiums such as Toyota Park (home of the Chicago Fire) and Pizza Hut Park (home of FC Dallas). But this past week there was some very interesting attendance numbers that were generated.
Let's start at home where the Rhinos outdrew 3 of the 4 MLS league matches this past weekend. On Friday night, the Rhinos had two big reasons for fans to come out to PAETEC Park. First, they were taking on their arch rivals, the first place Montreal Impact. Add in that it was Doug Miller Night as the team formally retired Doug's #19 and everyone was hoping for a big crowd. Well, the 11,069 fans that came out to see the game was a larger crowd than those that came out to see 3 of the 4 MLS matches on Saturday. Only 9145 fans came out in Kansas City to watch the Wizards take on the Columbus Crew. In Colorado, only 10,820 fans watched Landon Donovan and the LA Galaxy take on the Rapids. And in Houston, 10,964 fans came out for the Texas tussle between the Dynamo and FC Dallas. The one MLS league game that outdrew the Rhinos was the Chivas USA-Chicago Fire game at Toyota Park. The 17,066 fans that came out for that match was the largest crowd at Toyota Park since the full opener drew a sold out crowd of over 20,000 fans.
While some people will point to the fact that a minor league team outdrew 3 of 4 major league teams as a bad sign, there was plenty of good news when it comes to soccer fans coming out in large numbers. It just took some of the best soccer players in the world to draw the really big crowds in the US this past couple of weeks.
Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona both came to the US for some preseason tune up matches and the crowds did not disappoint.
Real Madrid took on MLS' DC United at Seattle's Qwest Field and drew 66,830 fans for the 1-1 draw. Real Madrid then traveled to Utah to take on Real Salt Lake. That match only drew 45,511 fans due to the fact that that is all that Rice-Eccles Stadium could hold.
Barcelona's three game tour not only was covered live by Fox Soccer Channel, but it also had three crowds that all topped the 70,000 mark. The opener in the LA Coliseum versus Mexico's CD Chivas drew 92,650 fans. There were a lot of claims that that may have been the largest crowd in US history ever to witness a club soccer match. Barcelona then took their act to Houston where they took on Club America from Mexico City. That game packed 70,550 fans into Reliant Stadium. Barcelona ended their tour by taking on the New York Red Bulls at Giants Stadium. In the debut of Bruce Arena as the Red Bulls' coach, the match drew 79,002 fans. And the day before around 4500 fans showed up just to watch Barcelona practice.
So, in all the 5 games that Real Madrid and Barcelona played in the US drew 354,543 fans or over 70,000 fans per game.
If that doesn't show that there is a huge base of soccer fans in the US, then I don't know what does.
Will there be any last minute fireworks in Utah?
Today is day for soccer vote
I wonder if Dave Checketts' head will explode if there is another unforeseen turn of events when the Salt Lake County council votes on the latest Real Salt Lake stadium deal?
For entertainment sake, I'd like to see that happen. But, for the good of MLS, I hope this deal happens.
First they get a stadium deal done and now they might get DMB?
RSL making play for Beasley
It is still way too early to pencil US international midfielder DeMarcus Beasley into the Real Salt Lake starting lineup, but this is exciting news for the team and MLS.
Beyond monetary issues, Real Salt Lake would also have to figure out a way to move from 4th in MLS' allocation pecking order to first (a spot currently held by the KC Wizards) without having a whole heck of a lot to offer.
But, if the money issues get worked out and Beasley demands on going only to Real Salt Lake, you know that MLS will figure out a way to get the deal done.
Revs could be losing key pieces to the puzzle
Revolution at a loss?
Clint Dempsey has made it very obvious that he's looking across the pond for his next employer after his coming out party at the World Cup.
But, Pat Noonan, whose contract with MLS expires after this season, and Taylor Twellman are both looking longingly towards Europe as well. Twellman and Dempsey both are under contract with MLS until December 2007, so MLS would be in line to pick up a nice transfer fee should a European club come calling for either one of the Revs marquee talents.
But, the Noonan situation is a little bit more interesting as MLS would appear to need to make something happen quickly or else they might just lose Noonan to Europe on a free transfer after his contract is up in December.
No matter which way you slice it, the Revs look to have a sizable retooling job ahead of them over the next couple of years when these three key contributors take the next step in their pro careers.
DC United making another player move
United Appear Set to Acquire Argentine Player
Midfielder Matias Donnet appears to be the latest Argentine to join DC United. United already has two Argentines in midfielder Christian Gomez and defender Facundo Erpen. United also had another Argentine in forward Lucio Filomeno. However, Filomeno was released in June when things weren't working out between the club and the player.
Donnet joins MLS from Argentine powerhouse Boca Juniors where he played in the right outside midfield. DC has been using a variety of multidimensional midfielders in that spot this season with players such as Josh Gros and Ben Olsen seeing time out on the right wing. It will be interesting to see how Peter Nowak works Donnet into the squad upon his arrival. It is expected to take two to three weeks for his work permit to get issued and for the move to be finalized.
It took a while, but Sarachan wins the battle of Rochester natives
Fire in US Open Cup Quarterfinals
Thanks to some inclement weather a couple of weeks ago, it took a while for the KC Wizards and Chicago Fire to actually play their US Open Cup fourth round match that featured two teams led by coaches from the Rochester area.
In the end, Dave Sarachan's Chicago Fire defeated Brian Bliss' KC Wizards 2-0 on Monday night. Chicago got goals from Calen Carr and Andy Herron in the victory. They will move on to face the New England Revolution in the quarterfinals.
The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author, and not necessarily those of the Rochester Rhinos or SoccerSam.com. Feel free to send any comments or complaints to news@soccersam.com. James promises to read (but not to respond) to all of them.
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Government are not medical experts or qualified economists
By - 07 May 2020 - 06:34
Nompumelelo Runji Columnist
Unemployment and poor leadership has brought about informal settlements like Setjwetla in Alexandra./Thulani Mbele
Up until now I have been supportive of the SA government's Covid-19 response.
It was important to buy time, to enable both the government and public health system, in particular, to prepare adequately for various scenarios.
Crucially, there needed to be a clear path to flattening the curve and preventing people from getting ill unnecessarily, and dying from the virus.
Scientists and health experts have been studying the situation and all the available data and facts, and advised the government to take required action.
But the job of the government is to govern, not to be a sub-committee of medical experts who have little practical experience on how to run a country and keep an economy, especially one that is underperforming like ours, afloat.
There is no harm in reiterating that Covid-19 was not the beginning of our socioeconomic problems.
We were already in deep trouble before this disease flew in from overseas.
This year was always going to be a difficult year, and frankly a headache for the ANC-led government.
This is the year that we reap the harvest of wasted years, bad decisions, poor leadership and bad governance.
Even without the Covid-19 pandemic, the ratings downgrades were inevitable given the absence of an emphatic change of course in the policies that got us where we are now.
Frankly, the vision for a more inclusive economy needs to become reality quickly. The sixth administration under President Cyril Ramaphosa has no luxury of time, very limited political capital and no comfort of understanding from a despondent citizenry.
The lockdown, relief packages, top-up of social grants, a basic income grant for the unemployed, all these have their place.
Now is the time to transform our economy for good
In the South African perspective, there has been but a single life-changing socioeconomic crisis in the past century with the kind of legacy it is ...
The uncomfortable truth is that the prolongation of these measures is eroding the dignity of millions, who were already living with the indignity of being poor, not because of a lack of effort but of sustainable opportunities to participate meaningfully in the economy.
It would seem that the ANC-led national government has seized on this public health crisis to cajole society.
It has gone beyond just flattening the curve and containing a deadly contagious virus. It's become about containing society.
Using force to get township and informal settlement residents to toe the line. Banning the sale of certain goods to control the behaviour of adults.
Decision-making has been centralised. Consultations and meetings between social partners are held behind closed doors. As the public, we only get announcements.
Even with the phased easing of the lockdown, it remains unclear what will trigger the shifts from one stage to another and under what conditions this will happen.
This creates uncertainty which is neither good for business nor for our personal lives.
It has been established that the state lacks capacity at many levels and this was pre-Covid-19.
Covid-19 is therefore not the biggest threat to our society. The big threat is a government that is beyond its depth and unable to come up with workable solutions to SA's problems.
We need a government that is able to think laterally, that strikes a balance between managing a health crisis and reviving a dying economy and protecting an already vulnerable people.
The question is what is going to be done about our dire economic and social situation? What answers does the new dawn have for these problems?
Covid-19 and the latest ratings downgrade have amplified these questions and made them even more urgent.
Where are the big ideas from the government about how we are going to redeem lost time and find ourselves in a better place - not the same place - than we were before Covid-19?
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Disney to buy majority stake in BAMTech, launch streaming offerings
Author Shahzad Shahid
Walt Disney Co. agreed to buy an additional 42% stake in video-streaming company BAMTECH, LLC in a deal worth $1.58 billion.
Disney previously bought a 33% stake in BAMTech under an agreement that included an option to acquire a majority stake in BAMTech in the future.
Disney is also set to launch its ESPN-branded multisport video streaming service in early 2018, followed by a new Disney-branded direct-to-consumer streaming service in 2019.
The ESPN-branded multisport service will offer various sports programming, featuring around 10,000 live regional, national and international games and events a year, including Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, Grand Slam tennis and college sports. Individual sport packages will also be available for purchase, including MLB.TV, NHL.TV and MLS Live.
The new service will be accessed through an upgraded version of the current ESPN (US) app.
The new Disney-branded service will become the exclusive home in the U.S. for subscription-video-on-demand viewing of content from Disney and Pixar, beginning with the 2019 theatrical slate.
As part of the strategic shift, Disney will end its distribution agreement with Netflix Inc. for subscription streaming of new releases, beginning with the 2019 calendar year theatrical slate.
Upon closing of the transaction, Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger will serve as chairman of the BAMTech board. MLBAM and NHL will remain as minority stakeholders in BAMTech, with seats on the board. BAMTech CEO Michael Paull will report to Disney Chief Strategy Officer Kevin Mayer. John Skipper, ESPN president and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks, will manage the new ESPN-branded service. The BAMTech transaction is expected to be modestly dilutive to Disney’s EPS for two years.
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Spirit Realty offloads 48 assets for $110M in Q2; DCT sells 7 buildings for $62M
Author Faizan Farooque
This feature rounds up recent commercial property news and highlights larger deal coverage already published.
* Spirit Realty Capital Inc.offloaded 48 properties for gross proceeds of $109.6 million during the second quarter, including 33 income-producing properties for $97.9 million, with a weighted average capitalization rate of 7.14%, and 15 unoccupied and non-income-generating properties for $11.7 million.
The company also invested $92.8 million in nine properties, with a remaining average lease term of 12.9 years, through seven deals that earned an initial weighted average cash yield of around 6.98%.
* DCT Industrial Trust Inc. off-loaded seven buildings totaling 1.3 million square feet subsequent to the first quarter. The deals generated gross proceeds of $61.9 million and have an expected year-one weighted-average cash yield of 6.4%.
DCT also purchased a 73,000-square-foot building in the 880 Industrial Corridor submarket of Northern California for $11.1 million. The property is fully occupied and DCT anticipates a year-one cash yield of 5.1%.
* BTB REIT picked up a retail building in St. Hubert on the south shore of Montreal for C$23.2 million. 1949-1979 F.X. Sabourin Street is 100% occupied with an estimated leasable area of 123,000 square feet and houses retailers such as Sportium (SAIL), Ashley Furniture and Dormez-vous.
* Preferred Apartment Communities Inc. closed on a loan investment of up to roughly $15.6 million in connection with the company's planned development of a 224-unit class A multifamily community in Fort Myers, Fla.
After closing on the investment, the company secured an option to acquire the multifamily community, following stabilization, at a discounted price to market.
* Slate Office REIT sold an unoccupied industrial building at 7001 96th Street in Grande Prairie, Alberta, for C$4.4 million, subsequent to quarter-end.
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Morguard purchases Ontario office building for C$67M
Monmouth pays $41M for NC industrial property
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6 April 2007 Surface functionalization of a microfluidic biosensor for bacteria detection and identification
Douglas A. Boehm, Philip Gottlieb, Susan Z. Hua
Douglas A. Boehm,1 Philip Gottlieb,1 Susan Z. Hua1
1SUNY, Buffalo (United States)
Proceedings Volume 6529, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2007; 65290H (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.714441
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2007, San Diego, California, United States
Rapid identification and detection of bacteria is an important issue in environmental and food science. We have developed an impedance-based method to simultaneously identify and detect bacteria in a derivatized microfluidic chamber with monoclonal antibodies. The presence of bacteria in the solution can be selectively recognized and fixed on the chamber wall and detected via impedance change in real time. The optimum reaction time between antibody and bacteria has been estimated using a simple model and evaluated experimentally. Various concentrations of cultured E. coli cells ranging from 105 to 108 CFU/ml were tested using the biosensor. By taking the advantage of a microfluidic system, the bacteria can be concentrated and accumulated on the chamber wall by continuously perfusing the chamber with bacterial suspension, therefore, enhancing the detection limit of the sensor. Using this approach, the biosensor was able to detect 106 CFU/ml E. coli (BL21(DE3)) via five consecutive perfusions. The selectivity of the sensor is demonstrated by testing the antibody reaction for two bacteria stains, E. coli and M. catarrhalis. By derivatizing the chamber walls with specific antibodies, we can clearly identify the bacteria that are specific to the antibodies in the detection chamber. The simplicity of the technique also makes the device portable and ideal for clinical and field applications.
Douglas A. Boehm, Philip Gottlieb, and Susan Z. Hua "Surface functionalization of a microfluidic biosensor for bacteria detection and identification", Proc. SPIE 6529, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2007, 65290H (6 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.714441
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Douglas A. Boehm, Philip Gottlieb, Susan Z. Hua, "Surface functionalization of a microfluidic biosensor for bacteria detection and identification," Proc. SPIE 6529, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2007, 65290H (6 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.714441
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2020 Pac-12 football preview
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Villanova goes from dominant to dynasty with NCAA title romp
UPDATED: Tue., April 3, 2018
Villanova’s Omari Spellman kisses the championship trophy as he walks to the locker room after a victory over Michigan on Monday in San Antonio. Villanova won 79-62. (Eric Gay / AP)
By Dan Gelston Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA – Villanova players flash their fingers in a “V” symbol to celebrate big wins.
For coach Jay Wright, that’s a finger for every national championship ring.
Already cemented as a dominant program in college basketball, the Wildcats are flirting with putting their names on a more opulent D-list: dynasty.
The Wildcats’ romp through the NCAA Tournament that ended Monday with a second national title in three seasons has them up for debate as one of the top programs since the tourney field was expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
You know, the year the Wildcats won their first national title.
There’s plenty of time to talk about Villanova’s place in history after the partying is done this week. The Wildcats were to return home to a raucous celebration at their suburban campus on Tuesday and a parade was planned for Thursday in downtown Philadelphia just hours before the Phillies’ home opener.
Parades have suddenly become a thing in Philly.
See: the Eagles.
Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges and breakout star Donte DiVincenzo helped the Wildcats win all six tournament games by double digits, joining Michigan State in 2000, Duke in 2001 and North Carolina in 2009. Villanova also joined the 1968 UCLA team as the only ones to win both their Final Four games by 16 or more points.
“I knew we were good, but you don’t think we can win this,” Wright said.
He should know they can: The Wildcats set a program best in wins (36-4) and won an NCAA-record 136 games over a four-year span.
And if anyone is still stumped about how Villanova could be considered on the short list of college basketball’s blue bloods following a decade of dominance, consider:
In the post-John Wooden/UCLA era, only three other teams have won two titles in three seasons: Duke in 1991 and 1992, Florida in 2006 and 2007 and Kentucky in 1996 and 1998. Villanova became just the ninth program to win three championships (1985 and ’16) and has made three Final Fours since 2009.
In the last five seasons, the Wildcats have four regular-season Big East titles, three Big East tournament titles and two national championships. The list of accolades under Wright stretches longer than the combined distance of the Final Four-record 18 3-pointers hit against Kansas in Saturday’s national semifinals.
Wright leads a loaded roster fully positioned to go back-to-back and show college basketball that Duke and Kentucky and Kansas and North Carolina can all be rolled into one program nestled in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Here’s what’s ahead for the Wildcats:
The Wildcats had no seniors in their rotation and should return a nice chunk of their roster. But Brunson, the AP player of the year, and Bridges are both likely to declare for the NBA draft.
Brunson already has two championship rings and more hardware from his various player-of-the-year awards than he can carry, and he is set to follow his dad, Rick Brunson, into the NBA.
Bridges has played his way into becoming a likely NBA draft lottery pick and should make a serviceable pro. Brunson and Bridges would leave a considerable void in the lineup and be on the small list of ’Nova players under Wright who left early for the NBA.
Hey, it worked out fine for Kyle Lowry.
Who’s coming?
DiVincenzo, Eric Paschall, Omari Spellman and Phil Booth are all expected to be in the starting lineup and joined by five-star point guard Jahvon Quinerly. Quinerly is one of Wright’s more anticipated and prized recruits in his 17 years at Villanova. Quinerly was set to attend Arizona until he reopened his recruitment in the wake of a federal probe.
Cole Swider and Brandon Slater are also prized incoming freshmen expected to help.
Throw in Collin Gillespie, Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree and Jermaine Samuels, and the Wildcats should keep rolling as national championship favorites.
Wright stuff
Wright’s success has again made his future a hot topic at Villanova. He’s said many times he wouldn’t leave ’Nova for another college job, and with good reason. He’s turned the Wildcats into a dynasty even Blake Carrington would envy, and the program is set to move into its $60 million state-of-the-art renovated on-campus arena next season following a year of playing at the Wells Fargo Center, home of the Philadelphia 76ers. Wright, who made $2.6 million this season, is King of the Cats and he’s pretty much guaranteed a job for life at Villanova.
But the NBA is a different story.
He’s resisted overtures from NBA teams in the past but if the situation – and the cash – were right, the coach dubbed “GQ Jay” could be swayed to leave his cushy gig in the tony Philly ’burbs.
The magic eight ball says he’ll stay – but what’s left to accomplish?
The Wildcats will have to decide if they’ll visit the White House for a championship celebration should they be extended an invitation from President Donald Trump.
Wright once worked in the marketing department for the Philadelphia Stars of the United States Football League and Trump owned the New Jersey Generals in the ill-fated league.
“When they signed Herschel Walker, they had a press conference and the Stars sent me up to represent them,” Wright said. “I met Trump there. In the USFL championship game, the Stars owner asked me to work and be a runner for Trump in his box. He was very cool, very nice guy. He was relaxed. But when they signed Herschel Walker, he was very businesslike, very professional. That was a big day for him and the league.”
Familiar foe
The Wildcats thumped Kansas in the Final Four and the two powerhouse programs will get an immediate rematch in 2018. Villanova will play Dec. 15 at Kansas.
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Vanessa Hudgens And Josh Hutcherson Cheer For The Lakers In L.A.
Vanessa Hudgens was seen while throwing up her arms in cheer and sitting behind a booth with Josh Hutcherson.
The Journey 2: The Mysterious Island co-stars were cheering for their home team against the New Orleans Hornets at the Staples Center on March 27 in Los Angeles. The Lakers won 102 to 84.
Her sister Stella gushed about her lucky shirt, which Vanessa wore as a goodluck lakers shirt. Her shirt really worked everytime.
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St Helens 48-2 Catalans Dragons: Champions return to Grand Final after rampant semi rout
St Helens will have the opportunity to defend their Super League title against Wigan Warriors in the Grand Final after dismantling the undisciplined Catalans Dragons on Friday.
Saints were stunning 48-2 winners in a complete mismatch of a play-off semi-final as Kevin Naiqama ran in a hat-trick of tries.
James Maloney kicked the first points of the game for Catalans, but he soon departed for the sin bin following a rugged challenge on Regan Grace and the visitors fell apart.
Lachlan Coote - consistent with the boot throughout - nudged the champions in front with the opening try and there was no looking back.
Naiqama got his first score before James Graham's final Saints home game ended in disappointing fashion as he failed to return after a head injury.
It mattered not as his team-mates did the business in his absence after half-time.
A relentless display saw Naiqama in for his second three minutes after the restart, then Coote doubled his tally and Jonny Lomax added try number five.
Ben Garcia became the second Dragons man to see yellow and again Saints capitalised, scoring with James Bentley, Naiqama - completing his treble - and then Grace to seal a sublime victory.
Catalans Dragons 26-14 Leeds Rhinos: Tomkins stars in play-off win
Sam Tomkins delivered a sensational performance as Catalans Dragons set up a Super League semi-final clash with St Helens by seeing off Leeds Rhinos 26-14 on Friday.
Tomkins' superb run from deep inside Catalans' half got the French side up and running in Warrington, the former Wigan Warrior keeping his composure to play in Tom Davies.
The Dragons’ full-back then teed up Samisoni Langi and Israel Folau, who reeled in a high kick before twisting over the line, as the Dragons raced into an 18-0 lead.
However, the Rhinos hit back either side of half-time thanks to tries from Alex Sutcliffe and Liam Sutcliffe, yet David Mead wrapped up the win for Catalans before Konrad Hurrell's late consolation.
James Maloney was in fine form with the boot for the Dragons, converting all four tries prior to sending a late penalty over, pushing his team into the last four for the first time in six years.
They will now face defending Super League champions Saints for a place in the Grand Final, which will take place at KCOM Stadium in Hull on November 27.
Salford Red Devils 42-24 Catalans Dragons: Inu gets hat-trick in fine comeback
Krisnan Inu scored a hat-trick as Salford Red Devils came back from 12 points down to defeat Catalans Dragons 42-24 at the AJ Bell Stadium on Monday.
Catalans were playing their first Super League game since October 9 but showed no early signs of rust as Paul Seguier and Tom Davies crossed inside the opening quarter of an hour.
Inu converted his first try before Sam Kasiano ran in the Dragons' third of the game for an 18-6 half-time advantage.
Rhys Williams and Inu dotted down within 10 minutes of the restart to restore parity, with Tui Lolohea crossing either side of a score from Kallum Watkins as Salford surged clear.
Inu dived over in the left corner for his third try and retained his 100 per cent conversion record for the game to hit 26 points, with David Mead scoring a late consolation for the Dragons.
Salford moved up to eighth in the table and Catalans remained fourth.
Catalans-Hull FC clash called off due to positive coronavirus tests
The Super League clash between Catalans Dragons and Hull FC has been cancelled after five players and two members of the French club's backroom staff tested positive for coronavirus.
There will be a shutdown of up to five days at Catalans in order for further antigen testing to be staged.
The positive tests cases were confirmed on Wednesday following testing on Tuesday and a further round of checks will take place in the coming days.
Those tests will determine whether the Dragons can return to training in time to play against Warrington Wolves next Monday.
Catalans face a backlog of fixtures, as their games against Leeds Rhinos and Wigan Warriors were also postponed.
Wigan have been able to resume training after seven positive COVID-19 tests were reported at the club last week.
There were no positive cases in the latest round of testing of Warriors players and staff.
Three players and non-player at Wakefield Trinity tested positive for the virus this week, but their match against Huddersfield Giants on Thursday will go ahead.
St Helens 48-6 Wakefield Trinity: Makinson hat-trick fires ninth straight win
Champions St Helens stretched their winning run to nine Super League matches with a 48-6 thrashing of strugglers Wakefield Trinity on Thursday.
The chasm between the division's top and bottom sides was evident as Tommy Makinson ran in a first-half hat-trick.
There were also two tries before the break for James Roby and a single score from Alex Walmsley to open up a 30-0 advantage.
Innes Senior belatedly offered a Wakefield response after Regan Grace extended that lead early in the second period.
Tries from Lewis Dodd and Kevin Naiqama completed the scoring for Saints, though, comfortable winners in the only match of the evening as coronavirus cases in the Wigan Warriors camp led to the clash with Catalans Dragons being called off.
Farrell's late show sees Wigan sink Wolves, Saints continue to march
Liam Farrell's late try secured an 18-14 victory for Wigan Warriors over Warrington Wolves, while St Helens continued to roll in Super League on Friday.
The Wolves led by six points at the break, with a penalty try and Chris Hill's score answered by Joe Greenwood for Wigan.
Zak Hardaker converted his own try to level the scores but a Stefan Ratchford penalty had Warrington just ahead going into the final stages.
But, just when it looked as though Warrington's brave defensive effort would yield its reward, Farrell took Harry Smith's offload to go over with four minutes left and Hardaker added the extras for second-placed Wigan to keep the Wolves fifth.
Leaders St Helens were made to work hard for an eighth straight Super League win, coming from behind to defeat Wakefield Trinity 20-16 in the first of the double header at Headingley.
Alex Walker and Craig Kopczak tries had Wakefield flying but their advantaged was reduced to 12-10 by the break, as Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook and Lachlan Coote responded.
Regan Grace crossed and Coote had a second before Matty Ashurst scored a consolation late on for struggling Wakefield.
Catalans Dragons remain in the play-off race after outclassing Hull KR 34-4.
Joel Tomkins and Tom Davies scored twice tries apiece, while Ben Garcia and Israel Folau also touched down to send the Dragons above Leeds Rhinos into third spot.
Warrington and Wigan march on in Super League
Warrington Wolves and Wigan Warriors stayed level on points at the top of Super League thanks to battling wins over Catalans Dragons and Wakefield Trinity respectively
The Wolves made it seven wins from seven since lockdown as they prevailed 30-16 over opponents who were compromised by travel disruption, while Wigan had to dig deep to prevail 28-16 against a Wakefield side who belied their lowly standing in the table
Catalans made light of a shambolic journey to the Halliwell Jones Stadium, with high winds a factor in them only arriving at Liverpool John Lennon Airport two hours ahead of kick-off.
Tries from Tom Davies and Samisoni Langi had Catalans 12-6 up a minute before half-time, when Matty Ashton touched down following a cute kick from Gareth Widdop, who was immaculate from the tee and landed five out of five conversions.
Anthony Gelling scored early in the first half for Warrington and Matt Davies did likewise after the resumption, with Blake Austin and Danny Walker dotting down either side of a well-worked try from Catalans winger Fouad Yaha.
That score had the game in the balance but Warrington were able to gain breathing space after James Maloney was sin-binned for an off-the-ball tackle on Walker.
In the later game, Wigan were reeling at 12-0 down - Jacob Miller and Tinirau Arona going over for the Wakefield, who have been beset by coronavirus struggles.
Jackson Hastings and full-back Bevan French ensured the Warriors were on terms at half-time and French's second try concluded a spurt of three in seven minutes after the hour to take the game away from Trinity.
Sam Powell crowned an all-action display before Oliver Gildart got in on the act, although Tom Johnstone's brilliant finish five minutes from time gave Wakefield some reward for their considerable efforts.
Catalans Dragons 12-28 Wigan Warriors: Returning fans not enough to inspire French hosts
Wigan Warriors saw off Catalans Dragons 28-12 on Saturday, as Super League welcomed back fans for the first time since March.
Crowds of 5,000 or lower are now permitted at sporting events in France but partisan support was not enough to inspire Catalans against the Warriors, who have now won their past five games in Perpignan.
Oliver Gildart, Bevan French and Joe Burgess ran in tries to put the visitors 18-0 up at the break, with the Warriors quickly casting aside their defeat to Hull Kingston Rovers last time out.
Catalans, playing for the first time since August 15, were unable to get to grips with Wigan after the interval either, and Burgess and Sam Powell put the Warriors in further control.
Julian Bousquet and Fouad Yaha went over late on to restore some pride for the home side, but it was an ultimately comfortable triumph for Wigan.
Victory takes the Warriors four points clear of fourth-placed Leeds, and they are level on 16 points with leaders St Helens and second-placed Warrington Wolves.
Catalans Dragons see Leeds Rhinos home fixture postponed
Catalans Dragons' home game against Leeds Rhinos in Super League, set to take place on September 7, has been postponed.
The announcement was made as the French club continue to quarantine after it was confirmed this week that three players and one member of staff had tested positive for coronavirus.
Saturday's clash with Wigan had already been called off following the news, though the Warriors will still be in action against Castleford Tigers instead.
Super League has now announced that with the Dragons needing to continue isolating, Leeds will not be visiting as planned early next month.
"It is now confirmed, following consideration of all the available health information, that all Dragons squad members must isolate for 14 days - a duration which takes them beyond the scheduled fixture with Leeds Rhinos," a statement read.
"A decision on rescheduling the Catalans Dragons versus Leeds Rhinos game will be made in due course, and the RFL [Rugby Football League] and Super League will now actively explore all available options to avoid any further disruption to the fixture calendar."
The Rhinos had initially been due to travel to Perpignan in March to play the game behind closed doors, only for one of their players to show symptoms of COVID-19, forcing a postponement.
Davies and Whitley hat-tricks see Dragons batter Wakefield in 10-try rout
Tom Davies and Matt Whitley each scored a hat-trick as Catalans Dragons thumped Wakefield Trinity 58-0 in a 10-try rout to move top of the Super League standings.
Wing Davies touched down twice before half-time, with Whitley and Samisoni Langi also going over to give the Dragons, who flew in by private jet as they adhere to protocol measures, a 24-0 lead at the Totally Wicked Stadium.
Wakefield's cause was not helped by injuries to Tony Gigot, Kelepi Tanginoa and Lee Kershaw, while Adam Tangata also needed a head injury assessment, but they capitulated further after the break.
Davies' hat-trick try preceded further scores from Julian Bousquet and Fouad Yaha, before Whitley celebrated his own treble and a second try for Langi rounded off a classy Catalans performance.
Warrington Wolves' 19-18 triumph at a spirited Huddersfield Giants was an altogether more tense affair.
Blake Austin scored the crucial drop goal for Wire, who had been pegged back with three minutes to go by Oliver Russell's converted try.
The game was all square at the break with Ukuma Ta'ai scoring for Huddersfield and Ben Currie replying for Warrington, who then looked in charge when Tom Lineham and Gareth Widdop crossed in the second half.
Jermaine McGillvary's try preceded Russell going over, though, meaning Austin had to hold his nerve to save the day.
Hull FC and Salford's Super League games postponed after positive coronavirus tests
Hull FC and Salford Red Devils have had their upcoming Super League games postponed following positive coronavirus tests at the former club.
Hull announced on Tuesday that six players and two members of staff had tested positive for COVID-19, while another needed to be re-tested after an inconclusive result.
Five of the players to return positive results, and the one in need of another test, featured in the 54-18 defeat to Salford on Sunday.
While the Red Devils confirmed that tests carried out on their players and staff returned solely negative results, 11 players were required to self-isolate after track and trace analysis carried out by the Rugby Football League (RFL).
Salford took the decision to place the entire matchday squad in self-isolation ahead of further tests later this week.
Hull were due to face Castleford Tigers, while Salford were set for a meeting with Catalans Dragons.
Super League executive chairman Robert Elstone said: "Throughout this crisis our priority has been to ensure we minimise any risk, and the postponement of this weekend's scheduled fixtures involving Hull FC and Salford underlines that approach.
"It left us with another challenging situation, but it is a credit to the solidarity of the Super League clubs who agreed to adjust the fixture list at such short notice."
Catalans will now play Wakefield Trinity on Saturday, and Castleford will go up against St Helens on Sunday.
Folau stars as Dragons rout Tigers, Wolves thrash Hull KR
Israel Folau scored a try and set up three more as the Catalans Dragons came from behind to thrash Castleford Tigers 40-14 in Super League.
The Tigers raced into a 14-point lead following Michael Shenton's early double but fell apart when Peter Mata'utia was sin-binned with 10 first-half minutes to go.
Catalans scored 40 unanswered points as Folau teed up Tom Davies for the first of the visitors' seven tries.
Folau – who once again did not kneel for the Black Lives Movement prior to kick-off – also went in prior to half-time, before the centre set up a further tries after the interval.
Warrington Wolves also scored 40 points in their first Super League match back as they cruised to a comfortable 40-10 win over Hull KR.
Tom Lineham scored two of their seven tries, with Josh Charnley, Gareth Widdop and Stefan Ratchford among the others to go over.
Gale the hero as Leeds down Huddersfield with remarkable comeback
Leeds Rhinos claimed an astonishing 27-26 golden-point victory over Huddersfield Giants as Super League resumed in spectacular fashion at Headingley on Sunday.
The Rhinos were comprehensively outplayed for the majority of the contest, with Darnell McIntosh running in a hat-trick.
When Louis Senior touched down for his second of the contest, Huddersfield led 26-6 with a man advantage – Ash Handley having been sent to the sin bin for dissent.
Luke Gale, who would ultimately prove the matchwinner, started the charge with a 68th-minute try – the first of four in a rampaging 10-minute spell.
Luke Briscoe then went over in the corner to crown a fabulous team move and Alex Mellor collected a Gale pass to score against his former club.
Konrad Hurrell's second try of the game gave Rhyse Martin a conversion to send the match into golden-point extra time, where Gale slotted over a drop goal to settle matters and spark wild celebrations.
In Sunday's earlier game in Leeds, St Helens steamrollered Catalans Dragons 34, with Lachlan Coote going over for a try in each half as part of an 18-point haul.
Before kick-off, Catalans' Israel Folau once again made himself a figure of controversy by being the only player not to take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter.
Folau returned to rugby league in January after Rugby Australia sacked him for homophobic posts on his social media accounts.
McNamara defends Folau's choice not to take a knee for Black Lives Matter
Steve McNamara defended Israel Folau's personal choice after the controversial rugby star elected not to take a knee before Catalans Dragons' 34-6 Super League defeat to St Helens.
In keeping with displays of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement across the sporting world over recent months, players on both sides knelt before the UK's premier rugby league competition resumed.
The exception was Folau, leaving Catalans coach McNamara to address the Australia's refusal to take part in the gesture, which has been widely interpreted as a means of displaying a united front against and solidarity with the victims of police brutality.
"As a club and a group of players and coaching staff we spoke about it in depth," McNamara said.
"As a whole club we are completely against racism, we are completely for equal opportunity but there were some players and staff who made a decision not to the knee and that was based on their personal choice.
"As a group we decided we would respect anybody's personal choice in and around this matter. I think you've seen in some other sports that situation happening and those individuals have their own reasons for doing that."
Folau returned to rugby league with Catalans in January after Rugby Australia sacked him for posting homophobic slurs on his social media accounts.
Former Great Britain and England international Leon Pryce, who is himself of Jamaican descent, replied to a tweet reporting Folau's actions at Headingley to show support.
Pryce said Folau's decision was "absolutely fine" and added: " Nobody should feel like they are forced to do anything they are not comfortable with."
There was nothing so notable about the efforts of Folau or his team-mates on the field as Saints ran out convincing winners.
Lachlan Coote was the star of the show, crossing in each half and landing five conversions to end with an 18-point haul.
In-demand Folau signs new Catalans deal
Former Australia international Israel Folau has signed a new one-year deal with Catalans Dragons.
Folau made a controversial move to Catalans in January after his Rugby Australia contract was terminated for a "high-level breach", the 31-year-old having posted hell awaits "drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolaters" on Instagram.
The centre, who scored a try on his Super League debut, attracted interest from the NRL and Top 14 but has decided to remain at the Gilbert Brutus Stadium.
Folau said: "Me and my family are very excited to stay on at the club for season 2021.
"We're very grateful for the opportunity that Bernard Guasch [Catalans chairman] and the Dragons have given me. I'm looking forward to working hard and achieving great success on the field with my team-mates and this great club."
Guasch expressed his delight that Folau wants to repay the faith the Perpignan-based club have shown in him.
"His decision to stay at the club for one more season honours him. Once the media storm that followed his signing passed, and after only three Super League appearances, he received many requests and became a highly demanded player," he said.
"But he feels gratitude for the club. He shown he is a respectful player since he arrived at the club. He will be 32 years old at the end of his new contract and we will then think about the rest of his career."
There has been no Super League action since March due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the season is due to resume on August 2.
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Academy member Sara Strandberg, Particle physicist. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud/Nobel Center
Nobel panel discussed the nature of good questions
Young Academy of Sweden’s member Sara Strandberg and Scientific Patron Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Medicine awardee, participated in the panel talk How to ask a question arranged by Nobel Center at Kulturhuset, Stockholm on 13 September.
On the panel were also Chemistry laureate Rod MacKinnon and Karolinska Institutet’s new Chancellor, Professor Ole Petter Ottersen. Torsten Wiesel moderated the panel, which offered a joyous conversation. Ole Petter Ottersen confessed that a rather stupid question had led him into his research career. Sara Strandberg told how she as a veterinary student found herself pondering questions like: what would happen if you fell into a black hole? This eventually led her to pursue a career as a particle physicist instead. She also highlightened that she appreciates being part of a large collective (e.g. at CERN), cooperating to answer complex questions: “I think it is fantastic to be one out of 3,000 people that can achieve something together that is much bigger than I could do on my own. We make a pattern together.” Rod MacKinnon’s groundbreaking research did not start with the perfect question, he admitted, but eventually it proved to be of great importance for our understanding of many diseases of e.g. heart, muscles and nervous system. Several members of the panel stressed the importance of curiosity as a driving force in their research, and to allow for a bit of serendipity. The panel concluded that the questions that we get excited about are the best. Nobel Center hosted the event.
1. Torsten Wiesel 2. Sara Strandberg, Ole Petter Ottersen and Rod MacKinnon 3. The panel. Photo: AlexanderMahmoud/Nobel Center
Rod MacKinnon Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
Torsten Wiesel Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981
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30,000 Malaysian businesses have folded up since movement curbs in March
The highest number of business failures occurred in August, six months after the MCO was first imposed.PHOTO: REUTERS
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KUALA LUMPUR - More than 30,000 businesses have folded up in Malaysia since the government first imposed movement curbs in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the Entrepreneurship Development and Cooperation Ministry (Medac) had said.
Malaysia imposed the movement control order (MCO) on March 18, shutting down most businesses, malls, restaurants and social gatherings for about three months to June 9.
Only essential workers such as health workers and those delivering food to homes were allowed to move around freely. Restaurants were limited to serve only takeaway purchases.
A more relaxed partial lockdown was started on June 9, but by then most of these companies failed to revive their operations, Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar was quoted as saying by Malaysiakini news site on Wednesday (Nov 11).
The highest number of business failures occurred in August - six months after the MCO was first imposed - with 17,800 businesses shut permanently, he said.
From March 18 when the strict MCO was imposed to June 9, when the so-called Recovery MCO was put in place, 9,675 business operations closed down.
Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi said the ministry conducted two online surveys from April 10 to April 17 and from July 15 to July 17 - during the initial MCO and the following recovery period.
The survey found 8.85 percent of owners ended their businesses during the initial MCO period, while 1.39 per cent made the same move during the recovery period.
It was also found that micro-entrepreneurs made up the majority of the failed businesses, or over 70 per cent of those who closed their businesses.
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Jeremy Hunt's selective announcement on Israel voting may have been more than just foreign policy
The JC / The Jewish Chronicle
Michael Daventry
Jeremy Hunt's selective announcement on Israel voting may have been about more than just foreign policy
We now know the UK will not oppose every anti-Israel resolution at the Human Rights Council, so why did the Foreign Secretary imply it would?
There was a lot of excitement at first. After all, it is not every day the British Foreign Secretary uses the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper to announce a seemingly landmark change to UK policy on Israel.
From now on, Jeremy Hunt wrote in our pages this week, Britain will oppose all resolutions under Item 7, the slot used in meetings of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to discuss alleged abuses committed by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
No other part of the world — not DR Congo, not Myanmar, not even Syria — makes a fixed, regular appearance in the HRC’s agenda like this.
“By any standard of fairness or proportion, elevating [the Israeli-Palestinian] dispute above all others cannot be sensible,” Mr Hunt said.
His stance was applauded by Jewish and pro-Israeli groups around the world. Marie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, hailed the UK’s “new and principled stance”. The education group StandWithUs praised the Foreign Secretary’s “principled stance”.
But our own analysis of Mr Hunt’s speech spotted a catch: Britain will oppose anything tabled at the HRC under agenda item 7, but will not every resolution that criticises Israel.
It was a detail reinforced by the lawyer and United Nations observer Hillel Neuer, who pointed out a vote on the HRC’s report into last year’s violence on the Israel-Gaza border had been submitted under a separate agenda item this week.
There may have been coordination with the Palestinians in doing this, he added.
That very vote took place on Friday morning and the United Kingdom did not vote to oppose it. It abstained, reflecting Britain’s long-held position of seeking to avoid offence by not taking sides.
Perhaps this was why the Jewish Leadership Council in the UK added a caveat to its earlier statement welcoming Mr Hunt’s announcement.
“Additional biased resolutions against Israel which fall under other items on the UNHRC agenda should also have been treated the same way,” chief executive Simon Johnson said.
So given this is not a dramatic shift in UK foreign policy towards Israel, what exactly is it?
Sure, it is palpably unfair for the UN Human Rights Council to regularly single out abuses in one part of the world and not anywhere else. Britain can make a reasonable claim to standing up to that injustice by uniformly opposing article 7.
But Mr Hunt chose to make the announcement himself and not delegate it to a deputy like Alistair Burt, the Foreign Office minister for the Middle East.
What’s more, he chose the British Jewish community’s newspaper of record — not an international news organ — to carry his column first.
Given British Jews’ present aversion to the opposition Labour Party and persistent rumours that Mr Hunt has ambitions to lead his own party, perhaps this declaration was not just about paperwork at the United Nations.
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BARD BRINGÉUS
International Expansion Partner EQT Ventures
CEO Isar Aerospace Technologies
Senior Director Elsevier
VAN ANDEL
CEO Zerocopter
Co-founder & COO LifeX
LEAHY
Field Sales Google Cloud Switzerland
GRADOW
Co-Founder Usercentrics
Urology Head University of Rochester
Journalist CNNMoney Switzerland
Master Trainer, Inspirational Speaker & Elite Level Coach Sage Academy
BUENINCK
General Manager DACH Klarna
ARSLANAGIC
CEO Visium
MELEDER
Co-founder & CEO Securaxis
Co-founder & CEO LifeBlocs
REBERNIK
CEO Vivy
Co-Founder & CEO Voi Technology
Television and Film producer, singer/songwriter & digital enthusiast
Co-Founder SAGA Space Architects
NIEDER
Partner Redalpine
LUEKE
Principal Cherry Ventures
BAWA
Founder Goodwall
SCHRUMPF
Co-Founder Spaactor
LEUENBERGER
Head of Digital Business Services at SAP Switzerland
SCHMIDT-EHEMANN
Senior Manager Business and Process Management Flight Operations at Lufthansa
Global Blockchain Innovation Leader EY
HENGARTNER
Innovation Lab Manager, Head of Intrapreneurship at swisscom
CPO Tamedia
DR. STEPHAN
SIGRIST
Founder and Head of think tank W.I.R.E
MCHARG
Insight & Design Strategy Lead
JONGWOO CHOI
HENSEN
Senior Partner Loomish SA
HALBLAUB
CEO SIX Digital Exchange
SUVOROV
VP Technology Strategy Luxoft
Founder Decentriq
KOHLHAAS
Founder & CEO Linum Labs
Partner Relations Director BlockScience
ZARSKE BUENO
Corporate Ventures Swiss Prime Site
MAODDI
Founder & CTO
STOECKEL
Founder & Board of Directors Mindfire Global
PROF. DR. KUNO
SCHEDLER
Vice President & Full Professor of Management with special focus on Public Management University of St. Gallen
KOFMAN
Founder & CEO Trint
GUNZ NIEDERMANN
Partner Walder Wyss
DR. PETER
Chairman IDTechEx
WITTWEILER
Country QSE & Sustainability Manager Coca-Cola HBC
GEBALD
Co-Founder & CEO Climeworks
CEO soccerwatch.tv
CEO campai
BÜRER
Managing Director digitalswitzerland
MAROVAC
Founder & CEO DN Capital
FACCHINETTI
Initiator & Representative SwissPropTech
Directorate for Research and Technology University Hospital Zurich
Co-Founder Health-Trends, Manager Sympulse Management Consulting
GHAYTH
NASHED
Co-Founder SINGA Business Labs Deutschland
Founder Homelike
Co-Founder & CEO Pushing Limits
SPIRIG
Founder & CPO
Managing Director, Head SIX FinTech Ventures, Co-Founder & Member of the Board F10
NÄGELE
Associate Partner McKinsey & Company
CEO MX Healthcare
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Hannah is a natural born host! Her talent for authentic and charming moderation as well as hands on stage training is unique and empowering. Since 2014 her moderation focuses on events with tech, digital, innovation and startups topics in GER, AUT and CHE. Hannah is a business trainer and coach mainly in communication. Starting in 2017 she is running her own public speaker program called STAGELOVERS.
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Peter Sage is a well known international & serial entrepreneur, author, philosopher and teacher. His unique way of looking at and relating to life has inspired tens of thousands of people worldwide to Reinvent themselves. Whether by improving or turning around a business or developing a new and empowering psychology through practical yet profound shifts in awareness, Peter hopes his insights and teachings can offer something of value to those who seek it.
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David is heading Swisscom Kickbox, the bottom-up intrapreneurship program at Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telco company and one of its leading IT companies. He fosters the internal innovation culture and empowers employees to experience “Lean Startup” methodologies by validating their start-up ideas. Employees get a project budget, work time, an innovation booklet and access to internal experts and external service providers. Besides his job, David is teaching the “Lean Startup Academy” course at ETH Zurich and is a guest lecturer at the HSG EMBA and CAS “Digital Banking” at HSLU/IFZ.
Robin is responsible for all things product at Tamedia’s non-publishing operations. He’s member of the supervisory boards at Ricardo, Gowago and CarForYou and supports the deal flow at Tamedia. With his internal product and UX team he supports all portfolio companies to build better products. Before his Tamedia-days he was building up several startups for over nine years.
Pascal has worked at the interface of wearable technologies and healthcare for more than 15 years. Before Ava he built up Limmex (a watch-based emergency system for seniors) and Cardiosafe (a real-time alarming system for cardiac patients). Pascal won various international prizes for his projects and was named one of the 300 most influential Swiss persons by the Swiss business magazine Bilan. Pascal has studied at the University of St. Gallen and Columbia Business School. Before focusing on wearable technologies, he worked as a product manager at medtech company Synthes and as a strategy consultant at McKinsey. Ava was named best Swiss Startup in 2017 and 2018.
Sean McHarg is the Insight & Design Strategy Lead within McLaren Applied Technologies Design Group, advocating research-led design which recognises the value of combining human insight, data science, and technology with design to deliver life improving innovations. He is currently working on several programmes in Health and Public Transport, focussing on both improving health outcomes and patient experience by collecting real-world data, and providing insight on systemic challenges that will lead to improved operational performance. Sean has experience leading global brands through a process of research led design including planning and conducting in depth, generative and evaluative, research studies that aim to uncover what is possible, what is wanted, and ultimately what benefits a strategic business direction.
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Jörg is a mover and innovator within the fashion and retail field, dedicated to helping leading brands transform their business and gain competitive advantages from the new digital environment. He has 10 years+ experience as CEO and 17 years+ of P&L responsibility. He has extensive experience in growing and restructuring international multi-channel retail organizations as well as in digitally transforming multi-channel fashion companies.
Martin Halblaub has 25 years of experience in the Financial Service Industry, having served as Chairman, Board Member, CEO, Senior Executive or Senior Advisor in internationally active Financial Institutions, Asset Managers and Market Infrastructure Providers as well as having been President of a regional Stock Exchange and General Manager of a Bank in London. In the last decade he has also been consulting and coaching Leaders and Executives with their teams and supported High Potentials in their development.
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Alexander Stoeckel is a Partner and Member of the Board of Directors of btov. He has an academic background in international business administration and has studied at the European Business School (ebs) in Oestrich-Winkel and Paris as well as at the International School of Management (ISM) in Dortmund and San Diego. He holds an MBA from the University of Oxford. Prior to joining btov in 2007, Stoeckel has worked for Hauck & Aufhaueser Private Bankers as fund-of-funds manager, and as Executive Management Assistant (Vorstandsassistent) to KPMG’s Global Managing Partner for Tax. Alexander is a member of the Swiss Private Equity & Corporate Finance Association (SECA), where he was a member of the Executive Board from 2015 to 2017. He is also a guest lecturer on venture capital topics at the University of St. Gallen. Stoeckel was born in Berlin and lives with his family in St. Gallen.
Lukas is an investment communications professional and entrepreneur with a track record of helping dozens of companies to successfully expand and raising the profile of governments and locations. Lukas speaks frequently at international technology events and conferences on economic development, foreign direct investment, blockchain, augmented and artificial intelligence and other topics at the intersection of society, economy and technology. He has been leading the operations of Greater Zurich Area in North America attracting investment to Switzerland in life sciences, software, blockchain, artificial intelligence, AR/VR and other technologies, creating hundreds of jobs. Lukas is also the Co-Founder of the Mindfire Foundation, a blockchain-backed research and collaboration platform to decode human intelligence. In addition, Lukas has been heading the international affairs department for the leading communications and marketing agency Warschawski. He has worked for Burson Marsteller in Europe, and for the Swiss Embassy in Washington, DC as head of Public Diplomacy. Lukas holds a master’s degree from the University of Zurich in Political Science and Geography and earned a Masters in International Business Management from Georgetown University. Lukas lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is an active rock climber and paragliding pilot.
Prof. Dr. Kuno Schedler is the Vice-President of the University of St. Gallen as well as Full Professor of Management with special focus on Public Management. He focuses his research on topics such as public organisations and smart government. Additionally, he founded the Smart Government Lab in which the effects of smart technology on public administration are examined.
Emmy-winning reporter-turned-entrepreneur.
Florian Gunz Niedermann is a partner at Walder Wyss. He specialises in international and domestic M&A transactions (mainly private M&A and private equity) as well as transactions in the venture capital industry, with a focus on projects in the sectors e-commerce, healthcare and life sciences. In addition, he advises corporate clients on all matters of corporate and commercial law related to their daily operations as well as startups with regard to the implementation and financing of their business models. Born in 1973, Florian Gunz Niedermann was educated at Zurich University (lic. iur. 2000) and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LL.M. 2006). Before joining Walder Wyss, he gained working experience as a trainee and law clerk in the District court of Winterthur and as lawyer in another business law firm in Zurich. Florian Gunz Niedermann’s professional languages are German and English. He also speaks French and has a basic knowledge of Spanish. He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.
Dr Peter Harrop PhD, FIEE is Chairman of IDTechEx Ltd. He was previously Director of Technology of Plessey Capacitors Scotland and Chief Executive of Mars Electronics, a start-up he took to $260 million gross sales value with highly automated factories built in US and UK, without acquisitions. He was a board member of $1.5 bn Mars UK, a division of Mars Inc. Mars Electronics was sold for $500 million after he left, generating an excellent return. He has been Chairman of 15 high tech companies over a period of years including turnrounds on behalf of venture capitalists such as Computer Security International. The largest was Pinacl plc in Wales, made profitable and grown to $100 million in fiber optic manufacture and multimillion dollar structural networks. Peter lectures and consults internationally on electric vehicles, energy storage, RFID and printed/organic electronics. He writes a minimum of five openly published techno-marketing reports yearly at IDTechEx. Read more at: https://www.idtechex.com/contact/team/dr_peter_harrop.asp
Christoph is a mechanical engineer (ETH Zürich and UC Berkeley) and holds an MSc with distinction and a PhD from ETH Zürich. Together with Jan, Christoph is responsible for the management of the company. Christoph’s passion is the exploration of new places on a kitesurf board, skis or mountain bike.
Nicolas Bürer, studied Physics at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. After several years in management consulting and young startups, he then went on to co-found MOVU, of which he still is Chairman. Movu has been acquired through a Swiss insurance Group in 2017. Since October 2016, Nicolas Bürer is Managing Director at digitalswitzerland. Nicolas is one of the 100 "2019 Who is Who" and „2018 Who is Who“ of the Swiss Economy and has been awarded as 2018 „Swiss Business Angel of the Year“. He is a passionate entrepreneur and startup investor.
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Roland Haag is a member of the directorate for research and technology at the University Hospital Zürich. Besides his work at the hospital, Roland works at the Swiss Innovation Agency Innosuisse and coaches Healthtech startups. He graduated from the University of Basel and holds an MBA from the Northwestern University in Chicago.
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Ghayth studied business administration at Aleppo University in Syria, and after working in various companies in Syria, Turkey and the GCC he moved to Berlin in 2015. Together with his colleagues at SINGA Germany, Ghayth co-created an Incubation Program with new immigrants and immigrants entrepreneurs in Berlin, believing that newcomers have a unique vision to discover the needs of communities and economic opportunities in their new society.
Niclas is a former professional Triathlete and works as an endurance sports and triathlon blogger since 2014, writing inter alia for the German magazine triathlon. He is Co-founder and CEO of Pushing Limits, which is his own blog on all topic associated with endurance sports.
Andreas Iten is a highly experienced innovation & entrepreneurship strategist, with proven leadership in high-level innovation, open-innovation, information technology management and entrepreneurship. Andreas has worked for over 15 years within leading institutions in the IT service, airline & transportation and the financial industry. Since 2015 Andreas he was leading technology innovation and he was the Chief Information Officer for the division Financial Information within SIX. Today he is responsible for the SIX FinTech venture fund. His specific areas of expertise focus on end-to-end innovation frameworks, innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurial spillovers, emerging technologies, digital innovation and business transformation. Andreas is co-founder of the the SIXHackathon (Europe's largest Fintech coding contest), co-founder and board member of the Zurich based F10 FinTech Incubator & Accelerator. He is a public speaker and active communicator on social media.
Florian Nägele is an Associate Partner in McKinsey’s Zurich Office. Since joining the firm in 2010, he has been serving clients in the industrial, automotive and high tech sector. Florian is a core member of McKinsey’s Advanced Industries and Product Development practices and has been working with OEMs, suppliers and technology ventures. Besides his industry focus, he has experience in strategy, operations and technology development and large scale transformations.
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Ministry of Defence claims: never straightforward, often contested
Claims against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) are typically fraught with complexities and the MoD is notorious for denying liability and appealing decisions. But this should not put off potential claimants pursuing compensation.
A former solider badly injured in the line of duty has recently been granted permission to pursue the MoD for negligence, but it wasn’t without a legal fight.
Dan Twiddy suffered facial injuries when his tank was mistakenly fired at by another British tank in Basra, Iraq in 2003. His colleague was killed in the same incident and another was seriously injured.
Lawyers representing the two soldiers and the deceased’s widow put forward a case suggesting that the MoD was negligent because they hadn’t put in place the correct specialist battlefield identification gear in order to prevent their tank being fired at by the same side.
The MoD argued that issues surrounding battlefield equipment were not under their remit. But at the beginning of this month, the High Court ruled that claims for negligence could be pursued. However, the MoD has said it will appeal the decision.
Last month it was reported that a former Lancashire soldier was awarded a £40,000 compensation payout after suffering lasting hearing damage during shooting practice. The 20-year old was told to participate in a training exercise involving hand grenades and machine guns. But because of a shortage of safety equipment, he was only given one ear plug. He immediately knew his hearing had been affected and now suffers from tinnitus.
On this occasion, the MoD agreed to settle out of court, awarding the soldier £40,000 in personal injury compensation.
Pursuing a Ministry of Defence compensation claim
When pursuing a claim against the MoD, specialist lawyers with very specific expertise offer tenacious representation and steadfast determination to achieve a settlement that is just. It’s vital to engage the very best lawyers in this notoriously difficult area of injury compensation law.
If you would like to launch a claim against the MoD, here at Stephensons we have dedicated MoD claims specialists with the high level expertise needed to take the case all the way. Talk to us today in complete confidence by calling 01616 966 229.
By personal injury solicitor and Stephensons’ Partner, Kate Sweeney
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SDEtv / David Bowie: A New Career in a New Town / unboxing video
September 29, 2017 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, 1980s, david bowie, SDEtv
Watch the unboxing video
Out today is A New Career In A New Town a new David Bowie box set released by Parlophone that covers the period 1977-1982. It’s available on vinyl and CD. SDE has unboxed the CD version and you can watch the video below…
A new career in a new town - 13LP vinyl box
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A new career in a new town - 11CD box
Amazon es 155 Order
DAVID BOWIE / A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977-1982)
13LP Box Set:
84 Page hardback book
Low (remastered) (1LP)
“Heroes” (remastered) (1LP)
“Heroes” E.P. (remastered) (12” Single)*
Stage (remastered) (2LP Yellow Vinyl) *
Stage (2017) (remastered) (3LP)
Lodger (remastered) (1LP)
Lodger (Tony Visconti 2017 Mix) (1LP)*
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1LP)
Re:Call 3 (non-album singles, single versions and b-sides) (remastered) (2LP)*
* Exclusive to ‘A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982)’
11 CD Box Set:
128 Page hardback book
Low (remastered) (1CD)
“Heroes” (remastered) (1CD)
“Heroes” E.P. (remastered) (CD EP)*
Stage (remastered) (2CD)*
Stage (2017) (remastered) (2CD)
Lodger (remastered) (1CD)
Lodger (Tony Visconti 2017 Mix) (1CD)*
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1CD)
Re:Call 3 (non-album singles, single versions and b-sides) (remastered) (1CD)*
Detailed CD & Vinyl Tracklistings (showing Vinyl side breaks)
A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977-1982)
Released on RCA PL 12030 (U.K.) / CPL1-2030 (U.S.) on 14thJanuary, 1977.
1. Speed Of Life
2. Breaking Glass
3. What In The World
4. Sound And Vision
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car
6. Be My Wife
7. A New Career In A New Town
1. Warszawa
2. Art Decade
3. Weeping Wall
4. Subterraneans
Released on RCA PL 12522 (U.K.) / AFL1-2522 (U.S.) on 14th October, 1977.
2. Joe The Lion
3. “Heroes”
4. Sons Of The Silent Age
5. Blackout
1. V-2 Schneider
2. Sense Of Doubt
3. Moss Garden
4. Neuköln
5. The Secret Life Of Arabia
“HEROES” E.P.
1. “Heroes”/”Helden” (German album version)
2. “Helden” (German single version)
1. “Heroes”/”Héros” (French album version)
2. “Héros” (French single version)
STAGE (Original)
Released on RCA PL 02913 (U.K.) / CPL2-2913 (U.S.) on 8thSeptember, 1978.
1. Hang On To Yourself
2. Ziggy Stardust
3. Five Years
4. Soul Love
5. Star
1. Station To Station
2. Fame
3. TVC 15
STAGE (2017)
2. The Jean Genie *
6. Suffragette City *
2. Alabama Song
* Previously unreleased
Released on RCA PL 13254 (U.K.) / APL1-3254 (U.S.) on 18th May, 1979.
LODGER (2017 Tony Visconti mix)
1. Fantastic Voyage
2. African Night Flight
3. Move On
4. Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live)
5. Red Sails
1. D.J.
2. Look Back In Anger
3. Boys Keep Swinging
4. Repetition
5. Red Money
SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS)
Released on RCA BOWLP 2 (PL 13647) (U.K.) / AQL1-3647 (U.S.) on 12th September, 1980.
1. It’s No Game (Part 1)
2. Up The Hill Backwards
3. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
4. Ashes To Ashes
1. Teenage Wildlife
2. Scream Like A Baby
3. Kingdom Come
4. Because You’re Young
RE:CALL 3
1. “Heroes” (single version)
2. Beauty And The Beast (extended version)
3. Breaking Glass (Australian single version)
4. Yassassin (single version)
5. D.J. (single version)
2. Space Oddity (1979 version)
3. Ashes To Ashes (single version)
4. Fashion (single version)
5. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (single version)
1. Crystal Japan
2. Under Pressure (single version) – Queen and David Bowie
3. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (soundtrack album version)
4. Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy * – David Bowie and Bing Crosby
* mono
Bertolt Brecht’s Baal
1. Baal’s Hymn
2. Remembering Marie A.
3. Ballad Of The Adventurers
4. The Drowned Girl
5. The Dirty Song
The running order for Re:Call 3 CD differs from the vinyl version
10.Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (single version)
11.Crystal Japan
12.Under Pressure (single version) – Queen and David Bowie
13.Baal’s Hymn
14.Remembering Marie A.
15.Ballad Of The Adventurers
16.The Drowned Girl
17.The Dirty Song
18.Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (soundtrack album version)
19.Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy * – David Bowie and Bing Crosby
135 responses to SDEtv / David Bowie: A New Career in a New Town / unboxing video
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Thanks Paul for another superb, detailed review. I was glad to have the chance to watch your video before receiving my copies. The visual aspect of all Bowie’s albums and creativity is an amazing, essential part of the whole experience to me. So, needless to say I really enjoyed your presentation.
I also want to thank and congratulate the design team (Mark and Gavin?) in charge of scanning the original artworks for doing such a brilliant job. The high quality and degree of precision are simply remarkable. The choice of fonts, paper stocks and finishes used on the newer artworks (“Heroes EP”, “RE:CALL 3”…) as well as the old ones indeed, is an absolute feast for the eyes. I also like how they replicated the bright yellow vinyl and original sticker on “Stage” (1978). Really nice touch!
However, I unfortunately would have to agree about some of the album covers being somewhat darker (especially noticeable when compared to the originals).
My copies (on vinyl and CD) of both versions of “Stage” (2017 & 1978 replica) look a little bit dark and kind of yellowish. The bright fluorescent lights now look way too dimmed. The white lettering (‘David Bowie Stage’) on my copy of the original 1978 RCA front cover was almost matching the backdrop’s white lights.
And the same seems to apply also to my copies of “Low”, with Bowie’s skin color being overly yellow, and the outstanding iconic orange background looking much darker…then again, not matching the bright lettering (‘David Bowie Low’), which kind of looks like a neon sign now against the darker background ;-)
For some reason, it just seems to me like there’s an overall higher percentage of black ink used for the printing of some of the new album covers, or it might just be an issue with only a small batch of copies, I honestly don’t know.
One thing I do know though is that “Low” is an absolute masterpiece. Both the audio portion and the striking visuals (graphics, the timeless, powerful cover shot) will never cease to amaze.
And so, even though the artwork is unfortunately not as bright as it used to be (I just hope it will be fixed before they release the stand-alone versions next year), I also have to thankfully add that I was totally thrilled and impressed to see the original Pantone colors – the electric bright orange and the yellow – being faithfully used here to recreate the original pressing. This 40th anniversary edition deserved nothing less than a royal treatment, and the use of both Pantone colors, as well as the reproduction of the fan club leaflet and track-listing sticker is awesome.
Everything else…“Lodger”, “Scary Monsters”, the book, the unseen photographs and essays are all simply stunning. Many thanks!
Phillip Anderson says:
Well my copy of Stage definately looks ” yellowish” as it’s on yellow vinyl. All official ( bought at HMV store Baker St London on release day).
ps, A great review of a great review..
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Nigel D Day says:
People on the Steve Hoffman forums are saying contact Rhino (?????). I can’t recall seeing Rhinos name on anything in the short time I had the box.
Wayne Klein says:
In the U.S. Rhino now owns Parlophone. Not sure if they own the titles in the U.K. That’s why folks are saying to contact Rhino–that arm of Warner handles the box.
GavinH says:
Thanks for the comments everyone, I spoke to Amazon (I never use anyone else anymore) who offered 20% refund on the cd boxset and 23% on the vinyl. The biggest difficulty was explaining the difference between cd and vinyl to the young lady on the phone! Hopefully Parlophone provide replacements as many other record companies have done with defective sets in the past. I’ve a funny feeling they won’t though.
Auntie Sabrina says:
Under UK laws the seller is responsible regarding the sale of faulty goods. You also have some rights to a refund via your bank/building society if you paid with a debut/credit card. As regards being able to identify corrected discs, any replacement could have a -2 suffix added to the numbers toward the centre of the CD playing side (the matrix number).
eMSig says:
Interesting that everybody is contacting Amazon (or other sellers) because of the error. I just sent Parlophone an e-mail and I hope they will answer. If they do, I will share the answer.
Celtic Bob says:
What email do you have? I couldn’t find one. I contacted Warner to no reply.
Do you have a link / address to email Parlophone? It was next step for me too. Everyone on here should do the same and hopeful that if retailers like Amazon and HMV stop selling the product, something will be done.
I Paid £177 pre-order and have just had a £65 partial refund from Amazon, so £112 isn’t too bad for the Vinyl box set.
Me: How much would a partial refund be?
Rjara: The partial refund would be 65 GBP.
Me: ok thank you, that will be acceptable
Rjara: I’ve requested a partial refund of 65 GBP. Please allow your bank between 5-7 business days to process it. When the refund is completed, we’ll send you an e-mail letting you know the date, amount and payment details. You can view completed refunds in Your Orders, https://www.amazon.co.uk/your-orders , by selecting “Order Details”.
Can I be of any further assistance?
Me: Have a nice day :-)
joemesk says:
Presuming that Parlophone will issue a new ” corrected” BOX , how can we be sure we will buy a corrected one ?
this second edition should be well identified in the internet market to avoid any bad surprise
will Parlophone have the honesty to do that?
After talking to Amazon, i got a partial 15% refund , the should vover the price fopr the future single reissues of Heroes !!
Following up on the reports I’ve read here today, I also spoke with Amazon about the variety of glitches, especially the one on “Heroes”. After declining the Amazon US CS rep’s offer of a replacement box – because, the problem is on all of the sets, I explained, she proffered a 22% (almost exactly $22.00) refund credit to my credit card. That for me means a total cost with tax included of around $99.00 for the CD box. Thanks to all the comments and guidance from the other readers here, and of course to Paul always for this excellent resource that is SDE.
RJS says:
A couple of seconds fade on one track and people are complaining that it doesn’t just spoil the track but it spoils the complete album and the complete box set! A big over-reaction. As is proven time and time again, remasters are always a gamble. They shouldn’t be, but they are. Fear not, you’ll have the chance to buy it all over again when they re-re-remaster it and put it inside a different cardboard box for the 50th anniversary celebratory super duper deluxe £250 box set. Maybe it’s time to err, Move On folks and check out some different music instead of buying the same music over and over again. P.S. I did LOL at the “if you look at the WAV file” comment. Look? Try using your ears instead!
Think you might be on the wrong site if you don’t like buying the same music over and over again lol ;-)
I think what people are ticked off about is the fact that for a premium, expensive box set, these sort of annoying issues shouldn’t be present, especially given the amount of promo this box has been given.
David Harold says:
Amazon.co.uk confirmed to me they are investigating it. They first offered me a return and refund but when I said I would prefer replacement discs they told me that wasn’t possible and gave me a £35.55 refund, which was 20% of my order price (vinyl).
I have all the Ryko versions and don’t plan to shell out on the new box set, but I would also be curious to read an analysis of the new ‘Lodger’ mix!
The issues I had with the Ryko discs was the use of noise reduction when it really wasn’t necessary. Other than that, the bass isn’t as well defined on some discs but they are a step up from the horrible horrible brickwalling on Low, the Heroes goof up, drop outs and tape flutter on Lodger.
Really, Ray Staff has done a crappy job here–these weren’t carefully remastered and restored. They were done in a slap dash fashion.
MGW says:
I pre-ordered the CD box set from Amazon at £99.99 and received in on 28/09 with the same posted price of £99.99.
Tonight I went on live chat and explained that I had issues with Low, Heroes and the two Lodger issues, which I do.
I was immediately offered 15% (£14.99) . I persisted and explained that it seemed disproportionate as 4 of the 11 CDs seemed to be defective (36%), which corresponds to £36.36. I was then immediately offered a one-time exception of a discount of 37% (£36.99). Needless to say I accepted and am happy having paid £63.00 for the set.
Clearly it pays to be persistent (and to keep it polite and professional).
Philip S says:
Looks like my pre-ordered vinyl box set is about to wing its way to me from Amazon as they’ve just extracted the cash from my credit card. I’ll give it a few spins before I decide how noticeable any defects are and what I want to do about them.
Out of (financial) interest, how did everyone go about contacting Amazon to get their partial refund? I’m struggling to find a chat option.
Just google “amazon live chat uk”.
Bobbyjean says:
That bad
I bought the vinyl and when I rang them they offered me £40.89 refunded and the autorip of the full box set.bargain .I must admit I played heroes 3 times a on Sunday and didn’t even notice anything wrong until it was pointed out and I still don’t think it’s that bab .but I guess it shouldn’t of had any problems
Paul Chapman says:
as a high-res customer I’m surprised that none of the re-call discs have been included, anybody know why?
William_M says:
Glad I held off now on ordering this, the reviews are horrendous and one can only hope parlaphone address the issues and go public with either a resolution or basically say all is well, having listened to the drop in heroes it is horrendous, even in Spotify you hear it clearly
Kevin from Edinburgh says:
Hi William-M (and others in this thread, perhaps)
The reviews are, as you say, horrendous, but without wishing to dismiss others’ views, I can’t help but feel that this has grown out of all proportion. Each hour brings an online assessment of the set that seems hell-bent on being more indignant and more damning than the last. You’d be forgiven for thinking that this is a total affront to sound quality, and that those responsible should be put in the stocks and ridiculed in public.
I too heard, and then notified Amazon, about the volume drop on ‘Heroes’, which is something that does spoil ones enjoyment of that track, and arguably the album, such is the jarring effect on the listener. Someone has messed up…..it happens. Hopefully, they will repress this disc.
As for the rest, Low sounds terrific to my ears, and I think the remix of Lodger is a marked improvement on the original. Scary Monsters also sounded fine to me. It is true that, to some extent, what we hear is system-dependent, so I’ll be open and say that I listen via Harbeth loudspeakers; speakers that are more than up to snuff when it comes to resolving sounds and the various strands and textures therein.
I’m not saying that my speakers, my hearing, or my views are better than anyone else’s, but am offering this up in the interest of balance and perspective.
To anyone still waiting for their’s to arrive, I hope you enjoy the set – obvious flaw excepted – when it does so.
I got the cd boxset at £90 and only received it this afternoon so haven’t had the chance to open it. Now I’m dreading it. :(
UPDATE: Following opening it & listening I have spoken to Amazon via livechat & all they are offering (to me) is a full refund but a promise that it will be resolved & that I should contact them ‘in a couple of days’ if I want a replacement.
I suspect it may take longer than a couple of days….
Dean T says:
My refund has just been confirmed… im playing stage right now ,the yellow vinyl is quiet and well pressed ..if the rest of the set is like this then I’m a very happy chap. No need to return this fabulous set . Hats of to Amazon who are taking a fair hit on this whole affaire.
I’m off now to just chill and enjoy something I have waited all year for ,I hope there are others diong the same.
Got a 20% refund – £18.50 or so. It’ll do. Hopefully Parlophone issue corrected discs.
Well I just contacted Amazon about the drop out on the Heroes track and was offered a 20percent discount on my vinyl set(£35) . Makes the set a bit of a bargain really and in all truth I think most of this is a bit of a knee jerk reaction, it just does not sound that bad to me ,as for the bass on the low lp.. well I think people are just hearing a much cleaned up and more detailed remaster .Its like the noise floor has been lowered or something and it’s all come as a bit of a sock to some of us . I’m playing side 2 of low right now …sounds great to me
broonzy says:
They are almost brickwalled if you look at a wav file of the albums (some people would say they are brickwalled, but there are definitely worse examples). That’s got nothing at all to do with cleaning them up. What happens is they compress them so much that everything in the mix is right up in your face so that you get a false impression of detail – in reality it’s just a lack of depth. And everybody had said side 2 of Low works ok compared to side 1, but that’s because the tracks are very different to side 1 – all they have done is lazily used a blanket approach to the mastering so that certain songs work within the context of what they’ve done and other’s don’t. It’s similar to how film studios seem to have a terrible time of colour correcting blu ray films – one scene looks incredible! but, oooh that next scene looks so dark? why can one scene look so fantastic and another so terrible? . . . because they just used one quick fix approach to the film rather than spending time going through it scene by scene.
That’s why some albums and tracks sound good and others not so good, and it’s also why things like the volume drop on Heroes goes unnoticed – they just don’t want to mastering each track seperately to match the original sound on the original albums – it’s all done with broad brush-strokes, and it’s all done very quickly.
By comparison if you look how they mastered the Beatles mono vinyl box set, it was always going to end up coming out well, because their methods meant there would never be a different outcome.
Heroes (volume change), Neuköln (buzz), original mix Red Sails (start messed with), African Night Flight (tape flutter/tape wear)…
Extra dialogue on Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy.
Helden 7″ sounds like it was recorded through the Berlin wall not next to it.
A blanket gets thrown over the full length Heros as the splice into the French version takes place.
Other errors remastered Lodger that i’ve picked up on first listen:
– African Night Flight 1:28 “…fly like a mad thing” (this alone deserves a replacement disc)
– Red Sails 0:58 “…red sails”
And just the whole sound in general.
Speed Of Life RCA Germany dynamic range 13.3
Speed Of Life 2017 dynamic range 8.8
That difference is clearly audible, you don’t need software to discover it.
Again, i’d say compare these to non-tampered-with releases to get a genuine appreciation of how these records can sound.
These remasters are one way, and if that’s preferred in a Pepsi challenge then nobody can say that’s wrong.
But if this is the only copy in a record collection, I personally believe that collection is missing a better listening experience, certainly one without errors.
Daniel Wylie says:
I got offered a full refund if I send it back. I’ve accepted and will wait to see if Parlophone corrects any faults before I buy it again.
Murray Robbins says:
I followed up my chat with Amazon yesterday having been offered either a full refund on return of the box or a replacement box and return label.
I mentioned the fact that partial refunds had been offered to other Amazon customers up to £26.99 and that I would be happy to accept that figure. They agreed almost instantly.
Anyone going down this route should be aware that this is the “going rate”. I would suggest that if you were offered a lower amount you now get straight back to them.
Hopefully the market clout that Amazon have and the fact they have withdrawn the box may force Parlophone to address the issue and sort out new discs.
The only downside is if these aren’t made available separately.
Phil Wilson says:
I think the main one is the Heroes title track volume fade, which seems to be a genuine error, the high levels of bass on Low I presume are part of the mix, rather than an error? I think some have complained of hiss on Scary Monsters and ‘tape flutter’ on Lodger (original mix)
Amazon CA are pulling it to investigate.
They offered no refund or discount if I keep it. They said if not satisfied, return it.
What is the main issue? Heroes title track volume drop, or are there others?
The original Lodger mix has some issues with (from memory) tape flutter and drop outs which easily could have been repaired by Ray Staff in the digital domain.
Low is a brickwalled mess and needs to be remastered. I can’t imagine the original master sounds like this.
Heroes–the volume drop is VERY noticeable and spoils the song.
All in all this has been the worst of the reissues so far. Why they wouldn’t be consistent when it comes to the mastering is beyond me and the QC sucks for the audio (the most important part).
This reminds me of the awful mastering of the Aladdin Sane which was inexcusable (it was just the anniversary remastering) re: Low.
There is no excuse for this shoddy work in this day and age.
LeBaron says:
I really don’t understand why some customers get a 10% refund when others get a 20% refund on the same box set… :'(
If you pre-ordered it was £90, if you bought it on release it was (is) £100. So both refunds bring it down to £80. I guess that’s their policy.
Mark Hagen says:
I think it’s based on 3 things – how much you paid for the set, how many CDs/albums you think there are in it and how many CDs you have a problem with…
So I paid £99.99 for it, in my head it’s a 9 album box & I only complained about “Heroes” – £13.50 refund…
If I’d described it as an 11 CD box I think I would have got less, and if I’d complained about more than one CD I would have got more.
Don’t know where the tipping point is though, ie how many CDs you have to complain about before it becomes a return only item…
Hi, I just received a £26.99 refund on the CD box set so it’s ended up costing £70. Happy with that. The Heroes error should not have happened though and needs to be corrected.
i have cancelled my pre -order but can we expect this problems to be fixed in the future or the box will remain like this ?
Ronja S. says:
I contacted Amazon via chat today and they agreed to give me little compensation for the matter. I was given 10% of the full price as refund to make me feel better.
Im receiving my orders of the cd and vinyl-boxset soon, so I have to examine each carefully and then inform them if I need anything else. The cd:s in the boxset will be most likely pristine and correct but with the vinyl-boxset have really examine each album carefully. Even test them on the turntable to see if they are warped. This is just common practice especially nowadays, when it’s just sometimes very common to find somewhat inferior vinyl-issue at hand. Luckily, I haven’t encountered too many problems through the years.
Now, I think it’s possible that Parlophone will somehow acknowledge this large problem and they should provide new pressings to all the people who bought these sets. And I would not prefer to wait for some individual releases which for the time being aren’t even yet 1005 fully confirmed to be released.
Too bad that they did this sort of thing with quality control..
I have emailed my contact at the label and asked if they will be correcting the “Heroes” issue. I will report back here if they reply on it.
As a writer on a music webzine, when we receive an album to review either on CD, LP or digitally we listen to it all the way through (or are supposed to). That is why if I only get a ‘Stream’ of an album I just comment on the music and not the quality. Recently I was fortunate to receive the Kreator and Celtic Frost reissue LP’s to review. I sat down listened to every song on every album so my reviews would cover music, sound and packaging.
Look forward to the next video Paul.
So some people got a £15 partial refund and others closer to £20 then? So much for fairness…
And for anyone lamenting the missing Ryko bonus tracks, this page (if the links work) http://bit.ly/2fJiLd0 from Nicholas Pegg’s updated book puts a nail in the coffin of I Pray Ole being from the Lodger sessions, ruled out by Tony Visconti himself, as he also did with All Saints from Low http://bit.ly/2yCQ3OL and to some extent Abdulmajid which he describes as a “heavily remixed, worked on 90s creation.” http://bit.ly/2xMjEWF.
Amazon have taken the CD version off sale (they no longer sell it directly, only 3rd party sellers), but the vinyl version is still up there.
Heinz says:
Vinyl gone, too…..
The CDs have gone from Amazon now. There’s just third party sellers with copies. Vinyl still there though and that has the same faults.
Just to let everyone know, Amazon.co.uk seem to have pulled the CD version of the box set, and can only be bought from other sellers. There may be light at the end of the tunnel
David Simon says:
I’ve just had a “chat” with Amazon. I noticed the volume decrease during Heroes, but the other issues have passed me by, although I’ve only listened to the first three discs. I’ve been given a 15% refund, but I’m really hoping for a replacement disc. The Amazon responder did suggest the the set would be going off sale due to the issues, but it doesn’t seem to have happened yet.
SimonH says:
Out of interest have received a 20 per cent refund from Amazon in recognition of the Heroes issue.
The real problem is that these albums have been messed with one too many times now. The mastering from album to album over all three box sets is so varied. Partly because no two albums sound exactly the same but also due to lack of real care. Some suffer from being brick walled, others are mastered well. Brick walling a master destroys the dynamics. If you want music to be loud, turn the volume up on your amp. Most mastering engineers I know, are now abandoning the “loud” wars and thank goodness for that.
Will be interested to hear your thoughts Paul.
One thing I forgot to say: sometimes it’s not a case of one is definitively ‘better’ but rather it depends on what sound you are after at that particular time.
I respect the views of people who are unhappy with this set. I now have a replacement after receiving a box with 2 original Lodger mixes. Yes the Heroes error is very unfortunate, but I’m not unhappy overall with the mastering. I need time to decide which versions will be my ‘go to’ copies but don’t see this as the disaster some people are describing. What’s the point of talking about the RCA CDs when they are totally out of most people’s price range. As for the Rykos, they’re ok but for me were always a bit flat. Maybe that means I have undiscriminating ears but that’s what I hear. Sometimes it feels like the music gets lost amongst the complaints. In the end there are so many variables when it comes to judging mastering, it’s a bit like cooking a meal and expecting the same reaction from ten people who eat it:)
Later on today I will be posting a detailed comparison of the remastered Lodger versus the remixed Lodger versus the Ryko mastering.
I can send you a flac rip of the German RCA if you’d like. Compare Red Money on the remastered 2017 and the Ryko and you can hear why the Rykos are not preferred by some. The 2017 remaster sounds much closer to the original 1979 vinyl (albeit with way too much bass) and the Ryko is much more sparkly and artificial sounding. The German RCA captures the original vinyl sound and feel very well.
Ultimately it comes down to taste, but the Ryko is not a faithful reproduction of the RCA vinyl as a quick comparison to the 2017 shows. The Ryko may be preferred but it’s not what Bowie released. Red Money is also a great track to use as a comparison for the 2017 remix which (to my ears) is horrible.
Taste is one thing but there is one objective measure which is dynamic range. It’s an undeniable fact that the greater the dynamic range the better. Compression reduces the range and is what makes modern sounding music less airy. Taste aside, the loudness wars are killing music.
DR measurements for each below – fairly obvious to see the pattern:
RCA Germany: 14
Ryko: 12
2017 remaster: 10
2017 remix: 9
Adjust each of those tracks to the same volume and it’s much easier to start hearing the deficiency of the overly compressed 2017 versions.
I’ve packed mine up to send back. Not interested in spending so much money on broken product. Such a shame. Will keep an eye out to see if Parlophone “fix” the issues otherwise I’m going back to my Japanese paper sleeve CDs.
Dear SDE Community,
I have “lurked” for a while and love the site. Thanks Paul.
Regarding the Bowie NCIANT CD box set I went on a live chat with Amazon. I asked them regarding their level of awareness of the commonly reported fault(s) and asked regarding their stance with Parlophone. In the end I was offered a replacement set which no doubt will be as per the first one I received. What operator (Anjali) told me though is that if one reports the second item they send as faulty, in the same way the set is likely to be pulled form listing on Amazon pending investigation. I was not offered a partial refund as an earlier poster was, but I’m guessing all the live chat operators may be briefed as to their response to this issue.
Let’s get the ball in their court!
Therefore I suggest that folk who ordered through amazon enter into a chat, order a new set and put it to them big time. Amazon have the clout to get Parlophone to redress the issue and if there sales are hit may well get us the reproduced correct discs well want. .
Anjali also confirmed that all purchases have a one year warranty so it is a good idea, certainly nothing to lose to get in early and register your dissatisfaction. You can get an email copy of your live sent to you and they are all logged so god for ongoing evidence.
Sorry about the typos everybody but it was a long conversation with Amazon!
Hi to all – after reading comments I got onto Amazon promptly. Being in far off New Zealand my copy (pre-ordered is still in transit). After a long negotiation Amazon gave me a full refund and even said not to worry about returning the faulty set when it eventually turns up. Stick to your guns (but be polite)) and dont take no for an answer or a refund of delivery costs (their first offer to me). Shocking that Parlophone would sent out product with so many issues. Hope this helps.
Interesting that various reviews of the set (by Boston Globe etc) on the net don’t mention any sound glitches. Is it confined to a certain batch produced separately from review copies? Surely reviewers would have noticed the sound issues?
People reviewing these records just seem to essentially be restating their reputation. Parroting the same old cliches and making the same old errors and not actually listening to these discs.
Yes these records are important, yes Visconti introduced the drum sound that shaped the 80s, yes it was bold of Bowie to do what he did in the face of punk, his growing sales in the US etc. Yes the box is pretty and isn’t it clever that they have produced small versions of the fan club flyers.
But all of this is old news and irrelevant. Most of these discs have been remastered so compare them to other masterings so purchasers can decide whether to buy or not based on literally the only thing that matters, the quality of the sound. But these fawning sycophants can’t bring themselves to say “you know what, these don’t sound great because they are mastered way too loud, are overly compressed and lose a lot of the dynamic range available on earlier pressings. Buy if you like nice packaging but don’t care too much about the music quality.”
I think a lot of people hear music but don’t listen. There is a passive acceptance of the damage being done by record companies terrified to back out of the loudness wars. I just tinkered with a rip of the Heroes album from this set and matched the volumes to the RCA cd and played it to my 70 year old dad who does not like Bowie and has never heard the album or knew anything about loudness. He said one sounded like noise compared to the other. No need to say which that was.
I suggest anyone that has bought this set does something similar if they can access an RCA or even Ryko copy and compare the sound of the songs set to the same volume. The more these sets are purchased, the more license is gives the record companies to keep feeding us this junk with no respect for the music and no QA.
Do you think these reviewers really sat down and listened to each & every CD/vinyl all the way through? I can only get through 1 or 2 CDs max per day to give any real thought to what I am hearing sound wise, lyrics, and music. Perhaps they cherry picked songs to listen to for fidelity and that was it. It would be “nice” if you were right about it being a case of one bad batch.
Thanks Paul, for a fab unboxing of the new Bowie Box Set. Packaging-wise if the labels are gonna insist on using cardboard mini-LP sleeves to house CD’s vs. jewel cases or digi-paks then, this is the way to go with the plastic inner sleeves to protect the discs from scratches and/or scuffs from the manufacturing plant onward and the paper sleeve replicas are very nice too ! Very nice box. I hope the sound quality across the board is great as well ?
Amazon were supposed to deliver my vinyl yesterday but it became “undeliverable” as it was damaged in transit !!! Had to reorder and was not going to get it until Friday, now it’s coming on Tuesday, frustrating.
Amazon have given me a partial refund because I mentioned the Heroes sound dropout.
Hopefully when the standalone discs are out in Feb they will be fixed and I can repurchase.
Anyone getting these from Amazon ? Contact them and they will sort out . They are always helpful in my experience .
Hi Mark, my vinyl set is due to be delivered tomorrow by Amazon and the Heroes glitch has somewhat taken the shine off the whole thing – I’d been deliberating for months whether th buy this set. How did you go about contacting Amazon? Was it email or webchat?
How much of a partial refund?
John Barleycorn says:
I bought the first two sets but this one is getting panned on Amazon with just a two star rating on average so far, many mentioning poor quality mastering and the Heroes error(s). Many here also mentioning this and other problems… must be worthy of a follow up based on your own listening analysis, Paul?
Am I the only one who prefers the 1999 EMI remasters of some of these albums? “Low” and Lodger, in particular.
No, I’m with you because the 1999 remasters are all I’ve really known for this era of Bowie as that’s all that’s been available in my lifetime! I got that “Zeit!” box set and Scary Monsters at the same time years ago and sound quality was always fine to me! Still have them now. Wanted to buy the 2017 remasters of Heroes & Scary Monsters when released separately but nervous now from all the negative reviews on sound quality – just saw the Amazon reviews… Ouch!
Will you be doing a review video for those of us on the fence about buying this set? I have the first 2 and want to continue on. I was looking forward to this as the only album from this that I own is a second hand copy of STAGE. I would love to hear your thoughts on the sound quality, mix, mastering…etc.
At the end of the video as you put the thing back together you mention a word – drawer. That’s pronounced “draw” though, right?
Very good unboxing video, you didn’t mention that the New 2017 version of Stage (Which is a Triple LP in the Vinyl Box) as Jean Genie and Suffragette City on the album, which have not been available on any previous editions of Stage before. I bought both the Vinyl and the CD boxes and feel that as with the Other Bowie Box Sets put out by Parlophone they have done a Stella job.
Wim says:
Paul could you investigate the unbearable volume drop at 2:50 on “heroes” on vinyl and cd?
This must be corrected…
I don’t have a problem with bass on Low (I have the CD). Heroes needs fixing.
gogandmagog says:
I cancelled the box
I listened my Ryko.
There is a raise, then a micro volume drop at 2:51, then recovers.
I mean the same that happens with the RCA .
In the image the 2017 version don’t recover the volume
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/david-bowie-a-new-career-in-a-new-town-1977-1982-boxset-3.683605/page-146#post-17274119
I don’t dislike the new Lodger.
The volume drop on Heroes however ……… :(
Ref Lodger 2017; I agree with Christian, it’s a one play only for me.
Interestingly I feel the same about many of the tracks as Christian; There’s a lot of reverb added to Bowie’s vocals at specific points, very glaring if you’re familiar with the album. Drums on some tracks almost sound as if they are overdubs. Perhaps Visconti ‘flew’ a different take into the tracks? (Eg African Night Flight/Move On).
I didn’t notice any speeding up of Move On … but thought Repetition was faster! Going back to the original I’m not sure it’s true, it just sounds it. A pity, because otherwise Repetition works well.
Red Sails has been emasculated. In cleaning up the sound much of the power is lost, particularly during the coda.
Red Money is horrid. George Murray’s bass seems to have a ‘wah wah’ effect applied which sounds as if a duck has invaded the studio!
But the real travesty is Boys Keep Swinging. Christian thinks the guitar solo is a mistake. I’m not so sure … well it is a mistake in judgement but I suspect Visconti intended it this way. As many know Belew/Bowie’s solo is in fact different takes faded in at different points. You can hear this on the original when the ‘Buzz saw’ solo appears. I think this is great a moment adding tension and emphasizing the irony of the whole song. In this version it never appears. Visconti has stuck with the one Belew solo which plays out in typical Belew style. No tension just Ade soloing away. Great for a multi disc Lodger sessions set, awful for a version that is meant to be rectify a mistake.
The whole album sounds very ‘Pro Tools’; Modern, pristine and lacking punch. I think Visconti may have talked himself into a corner by saying the original was muddy. Really only one way to go when you’ve said that!
I wonder what folk who are new to the album think?
Martyn says:
Too much bass on ‘Low’, and volume variations on “Heroes” title track. Unforgivable.
Hi Paul –
My previous comment from September 29, 2017 at 23:29 is still awaiting moderation. I guess you must have missed it.
Just listened to the Lodger remix and it is interesting mainly due to the extra little bits and pieces (presumably alternative unused tracks) that Visconti has sneaked into the mix. Guitar solos are slightly altered in a number of places, extra backing vocals and even some added Bowie sax.
Overall the sound doesn’t really have any extra sparkle although the drums have been really given a sonic boost – slightly more crisp and less soggy than on the original.
Interesting but not essential would be my verdict.
Now must listen to “Heroes” to hear what all the fuss is about…
the volume drop is in the Vinyl…CD or both?
can't-be-a-dolphin-quite-yet says:
it’s on both. it’s also on the hi-res downloads.
i think they let the work-experience kid master that track.
when you look at all the promotion and everything else around the release, then you get the box & say “wow, they’ve even put in fanclub booklets etc…” then you put the needle down or pop in the cd and your smile slowly disappears as the bass in speed of life kicks in – that Heroes volume error really encapsulates the types of minds in control of david bowies legacy – as the other boxes have all had sound issues too – it’s style over content.
As far as I can see it’s on all formats vinyl, CD and digital….
The Volume drop is horrible… it’s also on the download from the iTunes Store . How can such a thing happen?
Yes it’s dreadful. I thought I had a dodgy copy. Surely these must be replaced? The box cost £100!! Shocking!
Professor Quatrmass says:
That volume drop in “Heroes” is REALLY noticeable
Just got a dispatch email … vinyl should be here tomorrow…was not expected till Wednesday but looks like Amazon got there stock in ….only just read about the sound issues …is it the same for the vinyl copies?..
yes, exactly the same as it’s the same digital source – they aren’t analogue masters. things like the jacked up bass on low might be worse or better than the cd, depending on your system, but the source is the same.
gwynogue says:
Paul, do you have giant hands? LOL. Because the box looks TINY in the photo.
(Please don’t take that as a mean-spirited comment.)
Normal-sized hands!
Paul, if you actually make a video on the sound – do you think you’ll be mentioning things like the error on Heroes? I only say this because it’s only really people like you complaining that might actually get the company to put their hand up and say they made a mistake and recall the disc. It’s not like the set is budget priced, it’s a lot of money for a cd or vinyl set and it’s a very very clear fault.
danmac says:
I read about the volume drop off in “Heroes” before listening – but even so its clear there’s something wrong. Actually sounds like a surge in volume happens first then a drop from which it never recovers. Are others noticing this?
I always treat the side with Bowie’s torso as the back of “Lodger” and the legs as the front so for me that bit of extra copy feels like just your typical back of album small print. Anyway, nice video… Thanks
Chris Brown says:
Yeah, IIRC most jewel-cased CDs of Lodger have his legs on the front (and of course that’s where the title is). Looking at my old RCA vinyl, holding it that way round means the record is in the back half of the gatefold and the pictures inside are the right way up, though the spine goes upwards. And if that is the back then yes, mine has copyright info, RCA logo, catalogue number for the cassette etc on there.
Yes, I think I was talking shite on the video about front/back of Lodger…
Warning to everyone: There is a very very clear drop in sound on the track Heroes, on the album – it’s very noticeable and totally ruins the song. Far too much bass on Low (which is ok on the b-side due to the nature of the tracks, but it bad on side a), and original Lodger has drop outs and is almost brickwalled – not quite, but very loud which makes the mix very undynamic and dull.
The Heroes drop in volume should be enough for Parlophone to recall the disc and issue a corrected one for the vinyl and cd box sets – it’s terrible quality control and sums up how much care actually went into the sound.
Anyone on here know who to complain to? – as they really should correct this. It’s not a mastering choice, it’s an error.
Parlophone are unlikely to do anything based on previous errors. The Space Oddity disc in the first box was a joke but no one seems to care. That even had a section of a word clipped out, not even a drop out, it was cut out. Changed the lyrics.
Listen to the Lodger remaster at 1:00, a horrible click not on other versions.
An error plain and simple so that’s two discs to replace.
Couple that with the false advertising of saying it’s complete 77-82 and it’s another beautiful looking, awful sounding Bowie release.
Feel free to delete this last comment Paul but I have noticed that a few of my comments go unpublished and I’m never sure why. They are never comments on this site, only on releases and are pretty much facts. A previous comment noting that Tony Visconti didn’t consider the Ryko bonus tracks from these albums to be actual outtakes for instance. I think those things are useful to raise here given the discussions that take place around tracks being ‘missing’ from these Bowie releases.
Since Warner now owns Parlophone, perhaps Rhino since they seem to be the “label” distributing these. It is, indeed, disturbing. I thought I was imagining the drop out while I was driving.
I am a wee bit concerned that these won’t be fixed. Glad I kept my Ryko and RCA discs.
Nuh uh says:
Downloaded mine last night. Low sounds excellent.
Ignore my previous comment, Amazon are sending a replacement box…it seems you can hold on to yours until you receive the replacement and then return the original. I wonder if there are many with duplicate CDs?
Would love a Lodger vs Lodger 2017 comparison. I’ve listened to the latter on Spotify and have very strong feelings about it. But would love to find out what you and everyone else think.
Hi Ian, here are my opinions.
I won’t be listening to the remix again I don’t think but i’m sure it works for some.
Some of the quirky charm is lost I feel.
The remaster in this box has an error in one track (as does the Japanese RCA oddly enough but in a different track) so i’ll stick with the German RCA.
Fantastic Voyage – Too much reverb for me and messes up the key moment of the histrionic “will I”.
African Night Flight – Opening ‘buzz’ seems to be messed up a little, almost sounds like an error. Not a fan of the panning of the backing vocals.
Move On – sped up slightly? Seems almost to have shifted from minor to major. Just a big too chipper for me this version.
Yassassin – this is the best sounding version yet to these ears, an improvement on the original.
Red Sails – a bit to throaty, revved up and too modern sounding.
DJ – the original has this crazy thing happening in the left channel that’s like it’s a different song playing in the next room. That’s not there anymore which is a loss for me. The piano riff in the verses is a little high for me too.
Look Back In Anger and Boys keep Swinging – sound good but I think the changed guitar solo in the latter is a mistake so to be avoided.
Repetition – sounds great, possibly an improvement because it’s the same but cleaner.
Red Money – too clean this time and the percussion is mixed to high for my ears.
There you go, thoughts as requested.
adam shaw says:
And Heroes also had RCA in the corner
Re Parlophione name on Lodger , I haven’t got it in front of me but I think the original vinyl had RCA in the same place .
Also your Jap Heroes is the correct colour , my vinyl was a dark grey not black .
You can see the back side of Bowie’s hair on the Japanese issue versus the new one – at least from the perspective in the video.
The original vinyl edition did have the RCA logo in the upper left, however it was oriented the other way round compared to the Parlophone logo in the reissue.
Jimi Fletcher says:
Great video – it’ll keep me going until I get round to getting the box set for myself! I would love for you to a Lodger Vs Lodger 2017, please do so! I love the original album so much, it’ll be weird hearing different mixes! Going to give it a listen on Spotify later…
GaryB
https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/david-bowie-who-can-i-be-now-1974-1976-full-track-listing-and-details/
This article confirms “… the CDs will be gold coloured rather than the usual silver.”
DH says:
Nicely done Paul. I have the vinyl box on order but useless Amazon haven’t delivered yet so I look forward to your review of that.
A reviewer on Amazon says there is tape hiss on the Scary Monsters album. He bought the CD and Vinyl too.
This is a very nice release, a nice unboxing. I look forward to further reviews and then deciding whether to buy this.
I’m going to do more coverage, probably a Lodger vs Lodger 2017.
Dishy says:
The new mix of LODGER is amazing. Absolutely stunning. It was ALWAYS a muddy mix. Visconti did it justice!!
dreamdate-narcissist says:
tape hiss is what you want on a remaster – it means it’s not had noise reduction on it, which is not a good thing as it removes more than just the noise. analogue recordings = some sort of hiss, it’s just the nature of the beast.
scary monsters is by far the best sounding remaster.
low seems to have far too much bass on it, which is ok on some of the songs, but it is very obnoxious on other tracks (speed of life being particuarly bad). lodger also apparently has drop outs in sound, which i can’t confirm myself, but others have mentioned.
the set definitely has it’s sound issues, but it’s all round an improvement over the recent emi discs, just nowhere near the quality of the rca issues from the 1980s.
it’s not audiophile, let’s put it that way, but still probably worth getting for most people.
I’ve only heard tape hiss & sometimes barely noticeable sound glitches on deluxe sets; I always assumed that was because the engineer/mixer went back to the first generation tape master. I noticed that on Visconti’s deluxe editions of T.Rex & Tyrannosaurs Rex. The tape hiss at the beginning and ends of songs is so easily eliminated just using Audacity. But I will respect anyone’s choice of being authentic with master tapes.
How do you tell the Lodger CDs apart?
Mine look identical, I’m wondering if I have two copies of the original mix.
GaryB says:
Is it safe to say that if you have a Bowie box from this series that’s on silver CDs it’s a counterfeit?
Are all of the boxes on gold CDs?
I have the Five Years box and it has gold discs but The Who Can I Be Now box is on silver.
I didn’t know about the possibilities of counterfeit boxes until today. I assumed the gold CDs were special versions perhaps only from the Bowie website. I purchased the first two boxes from sellers on eBay. Checked their ratings and all was good. The packaging on both looks good. They were at a more reasonable price but not low enough to raise concern.
silver discs are definitely 100% counterfeit – they have matrix codes on them which show they are made in mexico – the proper box sets have only ever been gold discs. the who can i be now box set is not a very bad counterfeit, as far as counterfeits go, but it is still a counterfeit (i got one myself off ebay, but when i complained i got my money back with the seller saying “sorry, i had no idea!”. the plastic inlays are not the same as the proper ones, and also look at the structure of the gate folds – you’ll see that they are made in the same way as the five years box set, if you’ve got a genuine copy of that. there’s loads of other little things wrong with them, but china are definitely doing a better job than they used to – they are still ok, but you’re still giving criminals £30 or whatever you paid – hopefully not more than that! depending on how long ago you got it, i’d complain and try and get your money back whilst keeping the set – then at least they are the ones out of pocket on a fake set, rather than you.
Andrew F. says:
Received my CD box today and it’s lovely. Amazon tells me the vinyl box will be in stock on 6 October.
I ordered the Vinyl Saturday and it came Sunday! This is the most beautiful package! NOw I will have to buy the other 2! Damn!
Do you think these boxsets are likely to go out of print? I know the vinyls are limited, but I’m not sure about the CDs…
I don’t think you’ll have to worry about the CD sets for a good few years..
That’s really good to know, because I definitely want to pick up all of them, but it’s not a financially sound decision at the moment. Glad to know I should hopefully not lose my window of opportunity.
Any clue if they intend to go beyond this period into the 80’s, or was the goal just to cover the RCA years? I would really love if they were going to gather the uncollected 80’s b-sides and extended versions, but I don’t know if that will be a priority for the estate or not.
Mad Earwig says:
Quick!
£99.99 Amazon UK
(Accurate at 16:55 Friday)
Oops, sorry, false alarm, I thought this was the vinyl version….it’s yhe CD.
Simonf says:
It’s £86 at What Records for the CD set. But be warned, they wack on a staggering £8 in postage. I can understand that for the vinyl set but CD? Anyway that’s where I got mine from, it arrived this morning, have yet to unwrap it from the massive amount of bubblewrap that it is contained in. At end of the day, Brian, I have saved myself just a lousy fiver!
Tony Orwell says:
What records will “Sting” you for £8 postage but you have the option to buy another 100 items and the postage will not change. even if you add the £8 to the £86 it still seems to be ok.
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Memoir of Tanah Runcuk: Rereading Ludwig Stern and Kreuzer Wallach’s Travel Literature in the ‘Lost’ Land
By Lukman Sudjatmika
Tanah Runcuk, or Tanaruncuk, is an area discovered by an adventurer-cum-coffee entrepreneur from Hamburg named Ludwig Stern Jr., and his partner Kreuzer Wallach, an anthropologist from Frankfurt, in 1864. According to some sources that have been found, it is explained that Tanah Runcuk was the former colony of a splinter syndicate of the Dutch East Indies-VOC.
However, hitherto the experts are unable to find its exact location. The joint teams of independent researchers incorporated in the Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies (CTRS) had begun a specific study on the journey and the ethnography performed by Ludwig Stern Jr. and Kreuzer Wallach in 2013. A series of hypotheses and theories have been developed in order to reveal this mystery.
CTRS researchers, in a thorough and careful way, conducted some studies on Ludwig Stern Jr. and Kreuzer Wallach’s collection of ethnographic records and artifacts found in a warehouse of a former library building in Weimar, Germany in 2006. Ludwig Stern Jr. and Kreuzer Wallach’s existences had been unknown since their observation in Tanah Runcuk.
The writing you are going to read is a series of interpretation on Stern and Wallach’s artifacts and ethnographic records made by the experts incorporated in CTRS. The data and analysis will remain developing along with CTRS investigation on the mystery of Tanah Runcuk.
We hope this report may give an alternative viewpoint, and help us all in understanding the historical construct which all this time tended to be a single version.
A part of restored artifacts and piles of document and manuscript belonged to Stern Jr. and Wallach. These valuable discoveries are currently being studied by CTRS.
The artifacts and documents within the photograph have much to tell about Orang Runcuk and the mythology of The Strident Runcuk Horse.
(Archive of CTRS)
The map of Tanah Runcuk which was also discovered in Weimar, stored neatly within Stern Jr.’s travel box. Historicians predict that this map was the one accepted (or taken) by Stern Jr. from the present given by Syaalman to Droogstoppel during his stay in Lauriergracht 37.
The map of Tanah Runcuk enclosed in this writing is the map given by Syaalman within his present for Droogstoppel. The map was later remade by Wallach based on his actual survey together with Ludwig Stern Jr. It is very regrettable that the travel and ship navigation maps that brought them from Amsterdam to Tanah Runcuk remained missing. Based on the investigation of Sam Bergmann, a Swedish historician who performed some investigations and researches on the missing works of art and cultural artifacts, the Ancient Cruise Map of Netherland – Tanah Runcuk(1) has changed hands and been illegally sold in antiques black market(2).
The topographic survey on Tanah Runcuk conducted by Ludwig Stern Jr. and Kreuzer Wallach was complementary to the previous survey result conducted by the Dutch people under the authority of Tanah Runcuk which was called Tuan Perentah Tanah Runcuk (TPTR—a sort of antecedent government in Tanah Runcuk).
Stern and Wallach themselves admitted that there had been some measurement discrepancy and inaccuracy intentionally ignored by TPTR. However, the topographic survey is still used to be the basic data functioning as a control variable in making some considerations of economic and expedition activities(3).
Stern & Wallach wrote in their notes, “Notizen aus dem unbekannten Teil der Niederländisch-Ostindien”, that TPTR or “Tuan Perentah Tanah Runcuk” was actually an authority formed in secret by the Dutch chartered company (VOC) through an economic-political contract with the local rulers preceeding the bankruptcy and the disbandment of VOC in 1799, followed by the Dutch’s loss against Napoleon Bonaparte, and the takeover of power over the East Indies under the control of France(4).
A while after the period of political turmoil in France, Bartjan van der Bunt, a VOC sea captain in Batavia, also wrote in his diary (the diary was unintentionally found within a chest in the Dutch’s “Welvaren” ship that had been sunk in its journey from Batavia to Tanjung Harapan)(5):
“A number of VOC’s conservative authorities smelled something fishy from the left-wing movement radical upheaval heating up in France. A number of these insecure officials suspected that the sore of the French Revolution would impact the political constellation of Europe, including the Dutch Empire. I have heard that a ‘strategic retreat’ had been prepared; even before the battle coming under their noses, thousands miles away from defeat. How disgraceful!”
Long before the discovery of van der Bunt’s diary, Stern and Wallach had written as well as made a perusal and analysis stating that several VOC’s high officials who tended to be conservative and corrupt made a series of speculation on the probability of the Dutch’s loss in the Napoleonic Wars and its impact towards their economic-political constellation.
That very fear later urged those corrupt officials of VOC to make a confidential agreement—unbeknown to the Dutch Empire (both in Europe and in the East Indies)—with the local rulers who owned potential territories which had not been largely exposed and were located outside the mainstream of cruise and trade lines(6).
Stern and Wallach underlined that some key documents and maps on the existence of this island have been obliterated by the double agent working structurally, systematically, and secretly in Amsterdam, Middelburg, Enkhuizen, Delft, Hoorn, and Rotterdam. The attempt of blotting out Tanah Runcuk from historical record is executed in order to save the assets, power, and influences of the syndicate of several VOC’s stakeholders, employees, and corrupt officials in the East Indies. The suspicion regarding the existence of the stealth government of “Tanah Runcuk” was almost tracked by Raffles before his reign over the Dutch East Indies ended around 1815. However, his effort was forced to stop as the Congress of Vienna sued for the returning of the East Indies to the Dutch after the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
According to the founders’ initial objective, Tanah Runcuk was indeed successfully isolated and free from any impact resulting from the war situation in Europe. This unidentified and undetected place became a paradise for hoarding the assets corrupted by VOC’s employees and high officials, as well as by the Dutch Empire’s stakeholders after the monopoly trading company went bankrupt.
It turned to be a “hiding place” for those who escaped the ideological turmoil and political pressure occurring in Europe at that time. The formation of the “stealth state” Tuan Perentah Tanah Runcuk that used up a great amount of illicit funds could also be one of the factors that led VOC to bankruptcy. This very factor had not been recorded in the history of Europe until eventually Ludwig Stern Jr. and Kreuzer Wallach’s ethnographic record was discovered in 2006.
By the local elites’ lending a hand and by immersing themselves into the oligarchy that had been legitimated irrationally by the people throughout generations, TPTR held an absolute power over the entire aspect of life in Tanah Runcuk(7).
“The photograph of TPTR plantation supervisor.” This photograph is predicted to be a result of photographic manipulation done by the colonial government for the sake of deceiving the people, as well as reviving the myth of the Megaphone-Head Strident Runcuk Horse. (Archive of CTRS)
To look at the context of the VOC at that time, Stockdale’s writing (1811) might be an important reference. Stockdale suggested that in the period before 1740, the free people, who had never been under the control of the VOC, commonly went back to Europe as bringing abundant wealth. The situation had changed since 1740, when there was only a little chance to earn money by conducting individual trade. At that time, business was predicted to be nonprofitable day by day and the condition was not good at all. Such circumstances led the VOC backwards(8).
As a comparison, Stockdale explained that during the same period (the middle 18th century) in Java Island, the governor-general of the VOC was holding a nearly unlimited authority(9). Formally, there was indeed an obligation of reporting accountability to and consulting the board for specific matters. However, in practice, the governor-general held the most independent and authoritarian power among all. It was very much likely to happen when almost all member had certain business with his power. The clearest example was the practice of nepotism, conducted for the sake of providing a certain advantageous position or occupation for either their relatives or friends(10).
Stockdale also stated that in the East Indies, the governor-general assigned someone with the title “commissary of inland affairs” as the representative of the territorial power over the inland areas. The commissary was the person who adjusted all differences emerging from all local nobles, definitely with the governor-general’s notice. The commissary was the party having the right to impose punishment and fine upon the local rulers who were bound to an economic-political contract with him. In this case, the fine was a source of great income for him. In the inland areas, he was a spectre revered like a prince, because one’s happiness was determined by his power(11). The authority within this structure and hierarchy, in conjunction with the weak control and difficult access to directly visit a certain area, had at least opened many chances of abusing the authority commonly occurred in that period.
Such scheme, supported with an organized coordination through a secret conspiracy between VOC’s principal officials and the agents of the Dutch Empire’s administration, had successfully closed the whole possible access of information on Tanah Runcuk. The secret operation that went neatly and slyly turned out to last quite long and be unaffected by European political turmoil. Even after the East Indies was returned to the Dutch Empire by the Congress of Vienna (1815), Tanah Runcuk and its authoritative apparatuses managed to escape the clause of the agreement once again. Event though the local rulers held the power over and legitimacy from the people, TPTR’s economic-political pace remained controlled remotely by the next generation of the ruler of the East Indies whose movement was undetected, neither by Batavia nor Amsterdam(12).
According to TPTR’s record, the area of Tanah Runcuk was 12,539 square kilometers. However, Stern and Wallach doubted this number. They assumed that Tanah Runcuk was broader, but unfortunately there was no more reasonable and scientifically adequate counter record found in comparison to TPTR’s data.
Tanah Runcuk was located in the borders of Pacific, Eurasia, and the Australian tectonic plate; it caused Runcuk to have many volcanoes and be on the tectonic earthquake belt. Tanah Runcuk had several active volcanoes, among others: Kawaruncing (the highest volcano of the land), Karasdendam, Tanagelap, Tanajaoh, Tanaujong, Pacakgilo. The volcanic ash resulted from the eruption was one of the main factors that fertilized Tanah Runcuk. This area was located on the equator, therefore it had tropical climate with two main seasons: dry and rainy seasons(13).
The middle-northwest part of the island received more rainfall and tended to be wetter. On its diagonal line (northwest-southeast) lay Pegunungan Tak Sudah (The Ceaseless Mountains). The mountains geographically shaped the island’s interior and divided it into two geographic patterns (western and eastern parts), as well as built the perception of north-south orientation. Tropical rainforest covered almost the entire middle-northern area of the island. The average temperature was around 22-29°C, with the humidity of 75%. Western and eastern coasts tended to be hotter; the temperature might reach 33°C in dry season(14).
A. NORTHERN ZONE
On the northern coastline of Tanah Runcuk, there were many niches with extremely steep topography. High and sharp reefs in the likely shallow water made some cruises and expeditions avoid this area. Many ships were stuck and sunk in the sea around northern Tanah Runcuk due to the hazardous reefs that resemble underwater saws. The northern area rarely had beach; if any, it would be less sloping and less wide, craggy and not ideal for a ship to sail let alone to dock. Based on the note of observation from the sea written by the VOC’s Cruising Team (1790), there were many high and steep cliffs directly led to the sea.
The land of the northern Tanah Runcuk was just as unfriendly as the others. The most part of the area had the characteristic of tropical rainforest which was relatively similar to the middle area, but most of them remained unexplored (parte incognita). Exploration of this area could not be escalated because of its unfriendly and insurmountable topography, particularly in the area Stern called as The Triangle of Death: Pegunungan Rumpunbatu (Rumpunbatu Mountains), Mount Karasdendam-Mount Tanatombak, Pegunungan Rumpunkelok (Rumpunkelok Mountains).
A number of indigenous tribes in the area survived by hunting and gathering food. It was estimated that 3-5 inland tribes lived nomadically around the area of the triangle of death. They lived and isolated their community, made no contact with other groups of society which had been established, settled down, and managed farms earlier in the southern side of the triangle of death. Such assumption departed from the stories circulating among a more modern tribe, living in the southern area of the triangle of death around Mount Karasdendam-Tajambibir Hill. The assumption was reinforced by Stern and Wallach’s discovery of totem variation seen around the foot of mountain in the outmost of the triangle of death.
Stern and Wallach stated that the eminence of the triangle of death is its variety of height and short-range topography. These aspects ensure its environmental diversity and variety of habitat. The higher elevation generated rain in the area of the mountains, therefore such area was weathered and it had thick soil horizons and perennial stream (in fact, this theory was later proved to be true nearly throughout the mountains zone in Tanah Runcuk).
A difficult geographic condition or ecology hindered the dissemination of food production technology from outside into the area of the triangle of death. According to Wallach’s prediction, a few people who remained living as hunters-gatherers, while in other areas of Tanah Runcuk people tended to be more advanced and sophisticated, managed to break away safely from the pressure of food producers precisely because they lived in an area unsuitable for food production.
B. MIDDLE ZONE
Natural Fort: The Ceaseless Mountains
In the inland area in the middle of Tanah Runcuk, there lay a row of high, wonderful mountains from the northwest to the southeast part of the island. The people of Runcuk called it Pegunungan Tak Sudah which literally means: the unending (ceaseless) mountains. From the point of view of The Ceaseless Mountains, other lower mountains and hills appeared to spread randomly to all directions, forming a wide and various valley. A beautiful landscape with steep cliff and valley was the characteristic of the topography of the area around The Ceaseless Mountains. The inland areas around the mountains had a relatively high level of humidity, dominated by tropical rainforest. Referring to Stern and Wallach’s experiences, the area was said to have apparent mystical dimension, manifested into floras and faunas having a kind of negative energy in a high and fierce intensity. Compared to other areas, the intensity of mystical atmosphere indeed got intensified along the area of The Ceaseless Mountains.
Hundreds of poisonous plants and giant-sized flowers were spread throughout the inland areas. The old, high and dense trees, with large diameter trunks and giant-sized roots, of various kinds grew thick within the jungle. In this area, a great number of predators also prowled. Insects and birds also existed in unreasonable number and various kinds. Venomous reptiles, small-large-giant-sized mammals, bushes, poisonous flowers were scattered around and shaped the complexity of this very habitat.
Stern and Wallach once made an illustration and brief notes on the biodiversity of the forest located in the end of The Ceaseless Mountains, adjacent to Pucukrimba River and Tanagelap Volcano. Stern and Wallach underlined some anomalies (mystical anomalies) within the kingdoms of animalia and plantae. The illustration they attached to The Origirn of Realms described some animals and plants whose frequencies were on the scientific threshold, that they were able to store such a great energy and mystical potential manifested into physical shapes, and the excess of psychokinesis that negated the natural law.
The mystical anomaly in a biodiversity could be classified, and it became more complex and dominant in several specific areas here, particularly on the land where two or more big streams of river met the “fort” of The Ceaseless Mountains. Stern and Wallach marked this area within the map with the illustration of “Devil’s Flower” which they called as Safanus lucifera. This plant is a kind of giant carnivorous plant that preys on small reptiles and insects. It wafts stinking odor and grows wild as parasite. A place with such identification could be found in the northern side of The Ceaseless Mountains, hedged in by Pucukrimba River–Belago River, as well as in the western side of the mountains fenced in by Airpolah River–Masampolah River–Aerkarat River.
Typical orientalist admiration and exaggerated enthusiasm towards the exotism of the jungle in Tanah Runcuk were predicted to contribute to obscure some objectivity of the morphology of this image. (Archive of CTRS)
C. WESTERN ZONE
The west side of the island, viewed from The Ceaseless Mountains, looked terraced starting from the coast to the foot of The Ceaseless Mountains. The coastal area of the southern and western sea was lowland, mostly covered with mangroves, bushes, and some swamps. The opposite condition happened to be in the north, southeast, and northeast sides, where mountains and rocky hills lay more closely and varying.
The landscape and condition of the area around the volcano in the western zone (Mount Tanagelap and Tanajaoh) of Tanah Runcuk were very contrary to the condition of the inland in the middle zone. The condition of the area within a radius of more or less 10 km around the volcanoe tended to be dry and sandy, also consisted of savanna or homogeneous forest. Low humidity, high intensity of mountain-valley breeze, and relatively cold temperature were identical to the area around the foot of this volcano. Great rocks and volcanic sands were the sediments beneath the river and the valley which were the streams flowing the lava of those active volcanoes.
In this area, the dominant fauna was Runcuk horses, or Equus ferus sonitus. The population of this communal animal drastically decreased due to the rituals and traditions of the people of Tanah Runcuk to hunt and take the heart of Runcuk horses.
The coastal area was relatively hotter and dry. The average temperature in dry season might reach 33° C.
The coastal area was as beautiful and wondrous as the mountains in Tanah Runcuk. The main exellences of the nature of Tanah Runcuk were clean and healthy air, as well as its amazing sceneries. After walking for a while from the beach to the mountain, we could see the beauty of a mysterious thick forest. Even in dry season, the air was always fresh and the rivers kept streaming fresh water. Some low and highlands in the west coast were overgrown with paddy, whose fields were irrigated by surrounding rivers with terracing system. Stern and Wallach called such landscape as “the marvelous land of green”.
Rivers and abundant supply of water supported the livelihood within the area. The relatively flatter natural condition with gradual slope enabled the people to settle down, cultivate land, produce food (by farming and breeding cattle), and build a more stable settlement. The area in the western side of The Ceaseless Mountains was the centre of civilization with the most sophisticated technology ever happened in Tanah Runcuk. The long and friendly coastline also enabled ships to dock; thus this is the place where TPTR built its administrative basis and central government.
The availability of suitable mammals and wild plants allowed the citizens to collect the appropriate biological package for the survival of generation. Here was also the place where food production did not generate much competition, and hunting-gathering lifestyle was almost unrecognized. Moreover, the aquatic resources (fish, freshwater and sea clams) were available in abundant amount of supply.
The soil was quite friable and it did not require much treatment, which was very suitable for tobacco plantation. The citizens planted tobacco and paddy intermittently with only one harvest season each year. Following the harvest of paddy and tobacco, the soil was left vacant until the next growing season. Young tobacco plants were produced in a higher land, in the area of the western foot of The Ceaseless Mountains.
C. SOUTHERN ZONE
The southern part of Tanah Runcuk was an area which was very ideal for plantation and terraced field. The topography of the land had a gradual transition from low-mid-high altitudes in quite long distances, making the land suitable for domesticating plant and animal for the sake of food production. Stable rainfall and humidity as well as regular change in the season made this zone worth for living and settling down (building colonies).
In a relatively higher land, it had the characteristics of black soil mixed with sand, very ideal for coffee plants. The area around Tanatengkarok Hill and Perkara Hill were not much exposed to the sunlight and received less rainfall (which could wash away the fertile soil). The valley around the foot of the mountain or the slope of low hills were the places with the finest fertility because they were flanked by two volcanoes (Tanaujung Volcano and Pacakgilo Volcano). Thus, people opened many coffee plantations here. The altitude of this area indeed impacted on the longer period heading to the harvest season, but it produced excellent coffee beans.
The land was overgrown with bushes, weeds and reeds (Saccharum spontaneum), indicating that the land was very fertile. It was also the centre of pepper plantations that needed a similar treatment to coffee plants. On the side of the rivers streaming down from the mountain springs, many indigo plants grew. Indigo mostly grows both in mountaneous area and lowland. Indigo is the raw material of indigo-blue dye processed into liquid form. The dye was made by squeezing the leaves with some limes. It resulted in the dye primarily used in Tanah Runcuk.
The cotton grown in this area was the variety of Gossypium herbaceum. It was the raw materials of people’s clothes. Cotton produced from woody plants, growing approximately 1.5 feet high, and commonly planted in the fields after harvest season, might be picked in less than 3 months.
D. EASTERN ZONE
In the east and southeast coasts, including the islands around them, the area still had much forests even though not as thick and heterogeneous as the other zones in Tanah Runcuk. Some areas were indeed barren and desolate (just like the island in the northeast side of Tanah Runcuk where Stern and Wallachstopped over for the first time).
The differences of geographical characteristics impacting on contrasting periods of season (between the west and east side of The Ceaseless Mountains) were caused by several factors, particularly some high mountains which imaginarily diveded Tanah Runcuk into two geographical interiors. When the southwest wind brought high precipitation, the rainfall tended to be restrained by the height of The Ceaseless Mountains. The restrained clouds on the west side of The Ceaseless Mountains would generate rainfall in the western zone, while the eastern zone did not experience the same season. Mount Pucukrimba and Pacakgilo Volcano (on the southeast side), as well as Rumpunkelok and Tanatombak Mountains (on the northeast side) with such altitudes that were able to break and hold the monsoon seemed to fortify some parts of the eastern zone from longer dry season and low precipitation.
It impacted on the type of the forests overgrown this area, which was dry tropical forest. The trees growing therein were able to store water and food supply for the plants to survive the dry season; and the leaves tended to fall in dry season. Such condition certainly affected the creatures living within.
Sunlight might reach the ground, thus it was less favourable for the trees. The biodiversity of this place was lower compared to other areas in Tanah Runcuk. Some large-sized predators, and also vertebrates, proved their adaptability to the difficult climate. Water supply was the key to life within this area.
In an area with low humidity (closer to The Ceaseless Mountains), or with relatively shallow groundwater, the spectrum of the forests would turn into evergreen forests. It might be observed along the river stream: many trees remained green because the leaves did not fall. In this kind of area, the formation of the forest became wetter.
The dominant plants growing in the eastern zone of Tanah Runcuk were among others candlenut (Aleurites moluccana, the same species as candlenut growing in Maluku), reonja (Acacia leucophloea), klampis (Acacia tomentosa), sengon (Albizia chinensis), terisi (A. lebbekoides), Asian palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer), Indian rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia), kesambi (Schleichera oleosa), walikukun (Schoutenia ovata), tamarind (Tamarindus indica), and so on.
In a small island (Chandana Island or widely known as Keciksebarong Island), located on the eastern side of Tanah Runcuk, there were abundant trees producing sweet-scented sandalwood (Santalus album). The island was the final destination of Stern and Wallach’s journey (Stopover XIV). The wood of this parasitic plant was utilized as spices, incense, and creese blade. The wood has strong scent which might linger for more than one hundred years. Because the root is unable to support its own life, the sprout needs a host in order to grow. Since it requires a special condition to live, this island was the only place where the plant might grow.
Volcanoes, Mountains
Stern and Wallach entered Tanah Runcuk through a beach on the northeast side, after previously docked for a while in a quite barren and dry island across Tanah Runcuk (Stopover I). In the island, they penetrated to the inland area from the northeast beach located between Mount Tanatombak and Kawaruncing Volcano (Stopover II). From the seashore, Kawaruncing Volcano seemed to loom high. Due to its height which could be seen from afar, it became a sign for the sailors. Here, they were treated with very thick forests. As they entered deeper to the inland, Stern and Wallach reported that Kawaruncing Volcano was surrounded by desolate fields lying until the foot of Mount Tanatombak.
Rumpunkelok Mountains covered with tropical rainforest lay behind Mount Tanatombak. Barren fields with volcanic sand started to disappear and changed into the trees at the foot of Tajambibir Hill (Stopover III). From Tajambibir Hill heading to northwest, the forests got thicker and more complex as it approached Mount Karasdendam (Stopover IV). Wild and savage animals, as well as mystical plants, dominated this place. The area lay on the eastern side of The Ceaseless Mountains; and big rivers with many tributaries streamed over it. Heading to north, Stern and Wallach arrived at Rumpun Batu Mountains (Stopover V) which was dominated by limestones and dry, barren land. This stopover made a sudden contrast. Continuing to the west side of Rumpun Batu Mountains, Stern and Wallach again trod tropical rainforest and passed through the end of The Ceaseless Mountains which was dominated by jungle. They continued the walk to reach the foot of Tanagelap Volcano that was desolate and sandy just like Kawaruncing Volcano (Stopover VII). On the northwest side, they saw Mount Tanajaoh looming clearly from the barren, sandy landscape at the foot of the mountain. In their journey, Stern and Wallach chose to go along the branch of Tanagelap Volcano extending to the southwest side: Mount Tanarimba (Stopover VIII). The mountain was covered with forest which was not as dense as in the middle zone of the island. Stern and Wallach went along the mountains and arrived at the tropical rainforest on the west side of The Ceaseless Mountains (Stopover XII). Thence they headed to the southeast to meet the edge of The Ceaseless Mountains ended with rocky Tanatengkarok Hill, located precisely next to Perkara Hill. From that place, they might see Tanaujung Volcano and Mount Rentetbukit on the west side. Meanwhile, on the southeast side appeared Pacakgilo Volcano exactly in line with Mount Pucukrimba.
Illustration of the ritual in a crater by Stern Jr. (Archive of CTRS)
The mountaneous area had many big rivers and tributaries; while there might be even more small rivers within. Many springs also spread throughout the expanse of the island. There is no point of counting the number of them all. Those rivers primarily functioned as the support for farming and the access to distribute big logs.
There were also a lot of lakes in different sizes which always provided freshwater all year round. Four big lakes recorded were Lake Air Dalam (located between Tanagelap Volcano and the end of The Ceaseless Mountains), Lake Salalaot (located at the foot of Mount Tanatengkarok), Lake Takberiak (located between The Ceaseless Mountains, Mount Karasdendam, and Tajambibir Hill), and Lake Tulangbatu (located at the foot of Kawaruncing Volcano).
Concentrated in the Western Zone – Southern Zone – East Coast (Access through the south route; by sea or land)
Tanah Runcuk was very ideal for farming. Its fertile soil was able to grow any seed falling to the ground. The growth of plants in this area was relatively fast due to the help of the season and stable water supply. Most citizens of Tanah Runcuk earned their livelihood as farmers and fishers; the numbers were followed by the administrative officers of TPTR, and other jobs in the fields of artistic and recordkeeping (the numbers were very few and nearly undetected).
The farmers planted crops in a great amount. Other than to fulfill their own basic need, they also had to deliver their yields to TPTR (the sole authority in Tanah Runcuk). Since most of them earned their livelihood as farmers who depended on cultivating land, buffaloes, and irrigation system, they eventually formed a typical structure of agrarian society.
Fertility and luxury given by the nature for the farms did not force the farmers of Tanah Runcuk to give much effort in order to improve their standard of living. A little effort might be able to produce abundant yields. Being the staple food of the area, the cultivation of paddy spread over almost the entire land nearby the settlement.
In the work structure of the farmer, there was no division of labour based on gender. Therefore, each family had 8-10 workers in average. With such composition, half of the harvest generated a surplus and it was commonly managed to buy a few necessities of farming, clothing, and furniture. Nevertheless, clothing and furniture were never a priority. Children were left naked even though the farmers family could afford clothing.
Despotic governance run by TPTR impacted on the absence of protection over the proprietary rights of land in Tanah Runcuk. The ruler’s policy on the result of land cultivation also tended to be unstable and pressing the farmers.
Plantation was executed in a systematic and organized manner. The land of plantation and its supporting facilities were concentrated in the western and southern sides of The Ceaseless Mountains. Within the areas, plantations and settlements were monitored and managed by TPTR.
Coffee was brought into the East Indies in the 18th century by the Dutch colonial. Thence it was smuggled illegally to Tanah Runcuk through some main harbours on the west side of the island. Later it was distributed by sea for its planting in the southern area of The Ceaseless Mountains. What had been recorded regarding Javanese people in the History of Java written by an English man, Thomas Stamford Raffles, tended to be similar to the way people planted, treated, and distributed the harvest to the barn in Tanah Runcuk; for example being done by the people under pressure and force, as well as other violent actions performed by the foremen hired by government.
Pepper, opium, cotton, tobacco, indigo, sandalwood (in Keciksebarong Island, on the east side of Tanah Runcuk) were the exported commodities managed by TPTR to be traded in the black market. The plantations which were forceful and bound the farmers tended to give no chance for the farmers to manage their own basic needs. Many farmers died of starving, escaped to the forest of The Ceaseless Mountains; or some of them committed suicide because they could not stand the oppressive rulers.
Stern Jr.’s illustration of plantation commodities in Tanah Runcuk (Archive of CTRS)
Orang Runcuk (The People of Runcuk)
According to Stern and Wallach, the people of Tanah Runcuk were the members of the same race as the people living in Java, Sumatera, and around the southeast Asia. As written by Thomas Stamford Raffles on his investigation of Javanese people, their ancestors came from the islands on the east side of the Peninsulas of Asia which were the first place inhabited by human. Their ancestors were the Tatars(15). According to Dr. Faris Buchanan who wrote the report on the monarch of Burma(16),
“There was a great nation residing in the East Asia, including the Tatars in the eastern and western lands of China, the Chinese, the Japanese, and some other nations living in the Indian Peninsula outside Gangga, and in its southern and eastern islands, until New Guinea. The nation might be described as short, stout, gallant, muscly people who were very different from the Europeans. They have square face, with sharp forehead and chin, wide cheek bones, thin eyebrows, small eyes dented into the facial bones. Their nose is small, unlike the Negroes’ nose, it is not flattish. Europeans’ nostrils look parallel and pointed, while these people’s nostrils are nearly round and wide, septum nerium is the thicker part of their face, making it nonparallel. The shape of the mouth is common, the hair is coarse, straight, and black. Even those who live in the hottest place are not as black as Negro or Hindu, and those who live in the coldest place are not as white as European.”
Within their development of history and interaction with other civilizations, ancient Orang Runcuk, as the ancestors of Orang Runcuk, can be categorized into two groups. The categories departed from the distribution pattern and the way Orang Runcuk produced their food. The two categories include Orang Runcuk living in the inland areas (Orang Runcuk Dalam) and Orang Runcuk living in the coastal areas (Orang Runcuk Luar). The development of these two types strongly depended on the extreme geographical split of Tanah Runcuk.
Due to its relatively vicious and less explorable inland environment and nature, ancient Orang Runcuk mostly migrated (from one beach/island to another in Tanah Runcuk) by sea. However, since the arrival of the Europeans, the domination over sea was held by the more sophisticated and deadly European fleet. It impeded Orang Runcuk’s marine expedition and urged those who could not adapt to the circumstance to move deeper into the inland areas and became alienated from their own maritime tradition. Some others remained staying in the lowland and coast (concentrated in the southern and western zones), adapting by performing some syncretic actions.
Orang Runcuk Luar/Coastal Orang Runcuk
Orang Runcuk Luar, or the citizens living in the coastal area, were the sailors and traders strongly influenced by the spirit of expedition and struggle for a new place. However, they were increasingly pushed inside and eventually performed agriculture in the lowland, becoming the agrarian people who were bound to their fertile land, polite and calm, barely interacting with and at last not having much interest to cruising and foreign trade.
In order to bridge the alienation, (western and southern) Coastal Orang Runcuk really kept in mind their imagination of their past, maritime glory. These people of Runcuk lived in the pride of the past, and at the same time in the pride and possessiveness of “becoming the people who believe in God”. The underestimation upon these believers was affected by the assumption that “monotheism” is the peak of spirituality. It made them accustomed to underestimate other people’s talent, regardless of its being expressed out or kept in their own community.
Orang Runcuk living in the western and southern zones were collective yet hierarchical society. Compared to the people of other areas, those who lived within these zones (spreading over the coastline and its surrounding lowland) had earlier encountered and adapted to the values of spirituality, modern technology, and economic system brought by the merchants from India, Arab, China, and later Europe.
In Tanah Runcuk, lowly workers spoke in a language and dialect only known to their own community; they tended to be exclusive and showing up their social class. The dialect and language spoken by them could not be used as the means of communication with the people belonging to a higher social hierarchy. Such situation formed a separator that confirmed the border of social class difference, while at the same time avoid any close relationship among different social classes.
Superstitious belief had been firmly ingrained and deeply-rooted in Orang Runcuk of almost all social classes. Monotheism, instead of setting them free from the attachment with superstitious and old beliefs, made a bigger chance for Orang Runcuk to legitimize the existence of such beliefs. Orang Runcuk Luar were very enthusiastic about worship and ritual, and it had been an inseparable part of their identity and honour system. In this case, honour is a well-maintained imagination; thus it might be a sensitive matter when someone tried to underestimate or belittle it.
Orang Runcuk’s pride of identity was formed by the romanticisim of their past glory, by means of their belief of myths and fantastic traditional stories. Orang Runcuk were a patriarchal society. The patriarchal spirit was represented in the way people worshipped time, honour, and full obedience to the persons who belonged to a higher hierarchy. Moreover, it was also represented in the awareness of their position within the social hierarchy of the society. These attitudes shaped inferior individuals, who concealed their enthusiasm and genuine traits that were actually energetic and sometimes quite extroverted.
The Social Class and Characteristics of “Orang Runcuk Luar”
In order to understand the characteristics of hierarchical society of Runcuk, firstly we must comprehend their individual/communal level of dignity. Orang Runcuk who belonged to a high social stratum, for example government executives or high officials, had the tendency to enjoy a certain luxury and wealthy life. They were usually sly and corrupt, showing many contradictions between their attitudes and the morality they worshipped and celebrated through monotheistic rituals. The citizens of Tanah Runcuk were generally influenced by their system and governance that were corrupt and applying double standard.
Otherwise, the lower class citizens (the majority of the people) was the most harmed group. Since they were uprooted from their maritime tradition, and pushed backwards to the inland areas, Orang Runcuk Luar lived by producing food and farming, which were later managed by Societas Tanaruncia in a monopolistic and authoritarian manner for the sake of illicit trade. The tedious oppression had deprived their confidence and courage to have any ambition and to express something independently. In articulating their attitudes, the people tended to prefer congregating and delivering communal expression, by means of prominent figure or patron as the representative of their voices. The emerging tendencies as the result of such characteristics were dependency and excessive confidence at voicing their arguments within a crowd.
In practice, Runcuk farmers as a part of lower class society (the majority) in Tanah Runcuk were those having the qualities of hard-working, discipline, and highly loyal. Such qualities were shaped by regularity and proximity to all aspects they had been working on for earning a livelihood: cultivating land, growing, and harvesting. The peasants were modest, honest, and natural. Their tendencies were contrasting to the traits of high class people: full of pretention and power-hungry.
Orang Runcuk were commonly obedient and innocent. They were basically credulous. However, living under a government that did not execute a clear legal enforcement made them have an inclination to be suspicious, and finally performed frontier justice upon those who were “assumed to be guilty” based on the values they believed in. Such inclination could be seen in their judgement upon the “guilty persons” in the form of either social excommunication or collective judgement by physical violence.
This kind of situation raised a trend among Orang Runcuk to take the act of revenge, that was commonly triggered by murder or jealousy. Past stories had proved that prolonged war often raised vengeance within Orang Runcuk—who were inferior, but having a high self-esteem. Such situation frequently lapsed Orang Runcuk into senseless violent acts.
Orang Runcuk who were uprooted from the habit of cultivating their own land had even worse behaviours. They were commonly the leaders of lower class being subject to Societas Tanaruncia, or those having the trust of being the extension of the Europeans’ hand in plantation monitoring and government management. This note has to be read and comprehended in careful manner because the society had multilayered pattern. Lower class society—the majority—should have been the emphasis while reading the context of Orang Runcuk; the concern given on them should be different from the way we look at Orang Runcuk who had been contaminated by the corrupt mechanism of Societas Tanaruncia.
A very rare antique map by unknown artist, describing the unknown part (Parte Incognita) of Tanah Runcuk. (Archive of CTRS)
Orang Runcuk Dalam
Orang Runcuk Dalam were the native tribes of Tanah Runcuk who remained living in the jungle throughout The Ceaseless Mountains (Middle Zone), the Triangle of Death (Northern Zone), the Area of Karasdendam Volcano, Keciksebarong Island (Eastern Zone), and other wildernesses in Tanah Runcuk.
The inland tribes were mostly unidentified and unclassified in a proper way. Other than the natural condition that caused them to be unreachable, the reason was that these tribes were likely to be nomadic.
Based on the discovery of several totems in the outer area of the Triangle of Death and the jungles of the middle zone, it can be traced and assumed that each tribe developed a distinct language system and way of life, including the belief systems of animism-dynamism. Being geographically separated and not having any direct contact with Orang Runcuk Luar led to the absence of cultural and value exchanges between Orang Runcuk Dalam and Orang Runcuk Luar.
Following the arrival of VOC who later infiltrated the local elites around the coastal and lowland area, and claimed themselves as Societas Tanaruncia, Orang Runcuk Luar underwent a rapid acceleration of civilization. The entire aspects of life rapidly evolved and were oriented to economy. The hegemony gradually brought some major changes in the existence of Orang Runcuk in general, and of the closest tribes to the more modern civilization of Orang Runcuk Luar in particular.
The pace got faster as the economic liberalization of the Europe affected the pattern of agriculture and plantation industries in the western–southern zones (1850-1860s). The demand of industrialization upon certain commodity plantation by TPTR had impacted on some agrarian expansions to the middle zone where Orang Runcuk Dalam lived.
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Javanese Jungle. Oil on canvas. Raden Saleh, circa 1860. Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Footnotes[+]
↑1 According to Bergmann, the missing Ancient Cruise Map of Netherland Tanah Runcuk was secretly made by a VOC cartographer named Johannes van Witsen in 1780s. In the late period before VOC was officially disbanded.
↑2 Bergmann, Sam. World War II Cultural Artefact Cases. Apollo-Historia (1993): 62-41
↑3 Stern, Ludwig. Notizen aus dem unbekannten Teil der Niederländisch-Ostindien. 1868: 14
↑4 ibid. 23-37
↑5 “Welvaren” was discovered in 2002 by a Spanish maritime archaeologist. It was recorded that there were 653 VOC ships sunk in the period of 1595-1800. Welvaren ship led by Bartjan van der Bunt was drowned due to the leaks on the ship’s body caused by cannon fire at close range. At this time, the ship and its entire load, including Bartjan van der Bunt’s diary—the data source of this study, are under restoration in Crusoe University Museum.
↑6 Some historicians called this confidential agreement as Geruisloze Verhan-deling. The location and time of the agreement, as well as the attendees remain being debated and further tracked by the Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies team. The invisibility of Tanah Runcuk was put to use in order to conduct a strategic retreat, as precisely written by Bartjan van der Bunt in 1979
↑7 This political model was commonly done by the VOC in order to fasten their power in the East Indies area. For example, as stated in the notes written by John Joseph Stockdale (1770-1847) within his book Island of Java published in 1811 in England, it was told that the kingdom of Susuhunan, or the King of Java widely known as Susuhunan Mataram—the name of the place where he lived—once occupied the most part of Java Island. However, it started to lose its glories and significances since the appearance of VOC. Such situation remained until finally the kingdom showed its mistake and weakness due to the king’s losing face after the rebellion of Manko Boeni (Mangkubumi), a prince of the blood. Mangkubumi made the king trust his territorial right to the VOC (also called as Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies Kompeni), in exchange for another part of support by becoming their vassal and demanding protection over him, and at the same time committing not to crown any King of Java who was not the prince of the royal family. This event caused Mataram to be divided into two; one part was devolved on Mangkubumi, as the vassal of the Kompeni, with the title of Sultan and the promise of receiving the same protection. Under the VOC’s control, the local rulers lost their power over the northern sea of Java that was actually crucial for trade and cruise affairs. The kingdoms in Java Island were “forced” by the circumstances to cultivate their land instead of thinking about their ocean. Each prince was bound to a promise to deliver the entire yields of their regions to the Kompeni, and not to build any relationship with other authority. Instead of quenching the feud,the VOC kept the hostile tension high between the two divided kingdoms. For the VOC, if the area as wide as Java was ruled by a sole ruler, it would clearly be a dangerous potential to their economic-political power and interest. It was better for VOC to have control over the two opposing parties with particular approach to each kingdom. Jealousy and hostility among the indigenous kings were the safeguard of the VOC’s political perpetuation. Furthermore, in order to maintain the people-based legitimacy of the king’s power, the myth of “Ratu Pantai Selatan” (The Queen of the Southern Sea) developed and was integrated into the life of the people in the land of Java. “The Queen of the Southern Sea” was believed having a certain relationship with the king (who just lost his power over the northern coast of Java). Back to the writing aforementioned, Stockdale also affirmed that if only the kings of Java united to fight against the VOC, they would have likely pushed the company backwards and caused certain obstacles for it to maintain its power over the land of Java.
↑8 Stockdale, John Joseph. Sketches, Civil and Military, of the Island of Java and Its Immediate Dependencies. London (1811): 94
↑9 ibid.59
↑10 The second paragraph of the oath taken by the governor-general of the VOC and the entire Indies chancellors in their appointment ceremony says “not to receive present in any form, either directly or indirectly, from anyone under their authority; as well as, for the sake of respect, or any hope and advantage, or other individual considerations, either in a personal relation, friendship, or any other, not to assign or cause an assignment of other individual to a certain title, position, or office, unless for the ones who deserved it, which means those who have experiences, honesty, loyalty, and more capabilities to bear such position”—in this case, they perceived this oath as something mighty.
↑11 Stockdale, John Joseph. Sketches, Civil and Military, of the Island of Java and Its Immediate Dependencies. London (1811): 95
↑12 Bambang, Dalidja. The Hidden East: An Introduction to the Lost Memory of Runcuk People. 1960. Chicago: FOPS Press. Pages 79-94
↑13 Godfrey, Robert. Dark Archipelago: Tanaruncuk. Chicago (1960): 15
↑14 ibid. 27
↑15 Raffles, Thomas Stamford. The History of Java. 1817
↑16 Asiatic Researchers, vol. v, p. 219, octavo edition.
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Russia blocks encrypted email provider ProtonMail – TechCrunch
Francisco Peguero
Russia has told internet providers to enforce a block against encrypted email provider ProtonMail, the company’s chief has confirmed.
The block was ordered by the state Federal Security Service, formerly the KGB, according to a Russian-language blog, which obtained and published the order after the agency accused the company and several other email providers of facilitating bomb threats.
Several anonymous bomb threats were sent by email to police in late January, forcing several schools and government buildings to evacuate.
In all, 26 internet addresses were blocked by the order, including several servers used to scramble the final connection for users of Tor, an anonymity network popular for circumventing censorship. Internet providers were told to implement the block “immediately,” using a technique known as BGP blackholing, a way that tells internet routers to simply throw away internet traffic rather than routing it to its destination.
But the company says while the site still loads, users cannot send or receive email.
ProtonMail chief executive Andy Yen called the block “particularly sneaky,” in an email to TechCrunch.
“ProtonMail is not blocked in the normal way, it’s actually a bit more subtle,” said Yen. “They are blocking access to ProtonMail mail servers. So Mail.ru — and most other Russian mail servers — for example, is no longer able to deliver email to ProtonMail, but a Russian user has no problem getting to their inbox,” he said.
That’s because the two ProtonMail servers listed by the order are its back-end mail delivery servers, rather than the front-end website that runs on a different system.
The letter, translated, says that the listed internet addresses caused “the mass distribution of obviously false reports of a terrorist act” in January, resulting in “mass evacuations of schools, administrative buildings and shopping centers.” (Image: supplied)
“The wholesale blocking of ProtonMail in a way that hurts all Russian citizens who want greater online security seems like a poor approach,” said Yen. He said his service offers superior security and encryption to other mail providing rivals in the country.
“We have also implemented technical measures to ensure continued service for our users in Russia and we have been making good progress in this regard,” he explained. “If there is indeed a legitimate legal complaint, we encourage the Russian government to reconsider their position and solve problems by following established international law and legal procedures.”
Russia’s internet regulator Roskomnadzor did not return a request for comment.
Yen says the block coincided with protests against government efforts to restrict the internet, which critics have dubbed an internet “kill switch.” The Kremlin, known for its protracted efforts to crack down and stifle freedom of speech, claimed it was to protect the country’s infrastructure in the event of a cyberattack.
Some 15,000 residents protested in Moscow on Sunday, during which users started noticing problems with ProtonMail.
It’s the latest in ongoing tensions with tech companies in the wake of the Russian-backed disinformation efforts. Russia’s crackdown on the internet intensified in 2014 when it ratified a law ordering tech companies operating in the country to store Russian data within its borders. LinkedIn was one of the fist casualties of the law, leading to the site’s nationwide ban in 2016.
Last month, Facebook was told to comply with the law or face its own ban. Twitter, too, also faces a possible blackout.
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Facebook bans events near DC and state capitols over inauguration concerns
In light of safety concerns surrounding the upcoming US presidential inauguration, Facebook has decided to ban events on its platform that would take place near the US Capitol building and White House. As well, the platform has also banned new events that would take place near state capitols until after Inauguration Day.
Soon after the events that took place at the US Capitol last week, social media posts began surfacing with indications that rioters are planning a second attack in DC, one that will aim to disrupt the Presidential Inauguration. As well, law enforcement has warned that some groups may be planning to target state capitol buildings.
Facebook has announced a number of changes on its platform in light of these concerns, one of which is banning the creation of new events near capitol buildings and the White House until after the inauguration. In addition to preventing these new events from being created, the company also says that its team is conducting a ‘secondary review’ of all events on the platform related to the inauguration.
Any events found to violate the company’s policies will be removed, Facebook said. As well, the platform is still preventing non-US based accounts and Pages from creating events in the US.
Beyond that, Facebook says that it will use various signals like repeated policy violations to prevent some US-based accounts from accessing certain features like creating events, live-streaming videos, and making new Groups or Pages. Earlier today, the company said that it is also banning advertisements for protective equipment and weapon accessories in the US through January 22, at minimum.
Apple TV+ free trials extended again: What you should know
If you were one of the people who signed up for Apple’s lengthy one-year free trial of Apple TV+, you’ll be glad to hear that the company has extended their lengths…again. With this extension, the users who were set to lose their free trial in the coming weeks will instead get several additional months of access without charges.
Apple TV+ is the company’s streaming service. When it first launched, Apple offered a huge one-year free trial for those who purchased an Apple device. Back in October 2020, it was announced that the free trials period would be extended through to February 2021, meaning the first wave of subscribers are now weeks away from having to pay to keep watching.
According to 9to5Mac, Apple is once again extending the free trial period, this time pushing it back to July 2021. The extension will apply to free trial users whose trials were set to expire at some point up through June. Assuming you didn’t already cancel in anticipation of the trial’s end, you’ll be able to watch for free until summer.
If you’re one of these free trial subscribers, you can expect to get details about the extension in an email from Apple soon, according to the report. Some subscribers who have started paying can expect to see credits for the extra months.
The move isn’t entirely surprising — Apple TV+ is still a neophyte in a market dominated by big alternatives, and though it is cheap at $4.99/month, many critics have pointed out that it doesn’t yet have the content to compete with companies like Netflix. The pandemic and its impact on movie and TV show production has made things trickier.
The free trial extension will likely keep many people watching, giving Apple more time to roll out new content that may encourage many free users to eventually become paying customers.
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra vs. iPhone 12 Pro Max: The flagship battle
The two heavyweights of flagship smartphones – Samsung and Apple – are in for another blockbuster bout as the Korean smartphone maker just announced the S21 series at the Galaxy Unpacked event. This comes after the release of the Apple iPhone 12 series a couple of months ago. While the iPhone’s latest and greatest iPhone 12 Pro Max has already proved its substance, Samsung is here to spoil the party and take the laurels away.
It’s still too early to make an in-depth analysis of the Galaxy S21 Ultra – the shining new star from the house of Samsung – yet things are now clear as to what the smartphone is capable of delivering. So, without further ado, let’s get straight into comparing some prominent features of the two premium flagship phones that money can buy. The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Design aesthetics
The Samsung Galaxy S21 ultra gets a bit of a bump (from the S20 Ultra) in the way it looks – draped in new colors with matte finish for a classy look. The revamped camera module topped with a metal frame surely looks minimalistic and flows down into the aluminum body on the side. iPhone 12 Pro Max on the other hand adapts the sharper old-school aesthetics of the iPhone 5. The phone has a glass sandwich design housed in stainless steel frame with a frosted glass finish that makes it so desirable. The clear winner for pure design aesthetics is the iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Being the best flagships that you can buy, both the phones have a large display. The Galaxy S21 Ultra comes with a curved 6.8-inch Infinity-O Dynamic AMOLED display (3200×1440 resolution @ 515 ppi) with a center-aligned hole-punch camera. The iPhone 12 Pro Max has a 6.7-inch Super Retina XDR OLED display (2778×1284 resolution @ 458 ppi) with the notch housing the front-facing shooter.
The Galaxy S21 Ultra comes with an adaptive 120Hz refresh rate that can go as low as 10Hz for battery efficiency depending on the content being viewed. While the iPhone 12 Pro Max sticks to the contemporary 60Hz refresh rate that’s nothing much to talk of. Samsung’s flagship also takes the upper hand in peak brightness viewing with 1,500 nits while Apple’s phone has 1,200 nits value. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra takes the edge here promising to offer a wholesome viewing experience.
Both the devices will come in 128GB/256GB/512GB internal storage configuration as the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra ditches the microSD card slot for good. The Galaxy S21 Ultra will offer a massive 12GB and 16GB RAM for the buyers while iPhone 12 Pro Max has 6GB RAM on-board.
To rival the Apple A14 Bionic chip on the latest iPhone series, the Samsung series (for the US) gets the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor that’s more than just a powerhouse, it’s AI-capable for taking things to the new level. While preliminary benchmarking tests show a comparable result for both the chipsets, Galaxy S21 Ultra could have a slight edge. The real-world processing capabilities will make things clearer, so we’ll reserve a verdict for now.
Rear camera capability
The camera setup on the two devices is pretty interesting. The Galaxy S21 Ultra comes with a 108MP (24mm f/1.8) main sensor with OIS, while the iPhone 12 Pro Max gets the 12MP (26mm f/1.7) primary sensor with shift stabilization. Interestingly the Samsung phone has two 10MP telephoto zoom lenses with OIS – one having 3X zoom level lens (72mm, f/2.4) and the other with 10X zoom periscope lens (240mm, f/4.9).
The flagship iPhone however gets a 12MP 2.5X zoom telephoto shooter (65mm, f/2.2) with OIS. The ultra-wide shooter is where both of them coincide with a 12MP ultra-wide 13mm lenses with the Samsung device having f/2.2 value while the Apple monster dishing out f/2.4.
For capturing videos, the Galaxy S21 Ultra comes with 8K video recording capability at 30fps, while the iPhone 12 Pro Max can manage 4K videos with support for Dolby HDR standard for richer colors. So, Galaxy S21 Ultra can shoot much cleaner looking videos while the iPhone 12 Pro Max has a higher dynamic range.
iPhone 12 Pro Max with the LiDAR sensor (for supreme focusing in low-light conditions) has been touted as being one of the best camera setups out there but with the Galaxy S21 Ultra having an upper hand as far as specs go, things could get interesting if the camera software can leverage full potential. This could be possible with the advanced capabilities of the Snapdragon Camera AI.
Battery and charging speed
The Galaxy S21 Ultra has a solid 5,000mAh battery compared to the 3,687mAh battery on the iPhone 12 Pro Max. On paper that might sound like a huge difference but Apple’s battery management is no joke, it has proven to be the best hardware-software ecosystem for years now.
Galaxy S21 Ultra with its massive battery already looks good. Additionally, with the Android 11 powering its guts and the power-efficient Snapdragon 888 promising huge leaps in battery management; things look promising for Samsung. Again Galaxy S21 Ultra gets our vote here and we are confident its battery will last longer than that of the iPhone 12 Pro Max, even if it is by a little.
The charging speed is another advantage here as Galaxy S21 Ultra gets the 25W charging speed support and the iPhone 12 Pro Max has 20W support. Both can however charge at 15W wirelessly. They ship without the charger, so that’s something you’ll have to sort for yourself, if you’re not a previous user of any of these ecosystems, or are making a shift to the other.
Added perks
Samsung Galaxy S21 comes with support for the S Pen, including for the old generation S Pen and the new Wacom-powered S Pen. It can also reverse wireless charge, so you can juice up your Galaxy Buds Pro on the go from your phone. On the other hand, Apple iPhone 12 series comes with the MagSafe to enjoy the perks of the unique compatible accessories that add another dimension to the use-case scenario. More innovative ways to leverage MagSafe’s capability is a surety, so depending on your priorities both have their advantages, and it’s going to be a subjective decision.
This is where the buying decision can go one way or the other. Samsung has lowered the prices of its Galaxy S21 series lines-up to get more traction. The Galaxy S21 Ultra comes at a $1,200 for the 128GB model, $1,250 for the 256GB, and $1,380 for the 512GB variant.
Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max surprisingly is a good bargain here if you are looking at the price alone. The 128GB model comes at $1,100, 256GB model demands $1,200, and the top 512GB model can be yours for $1,400. As for the pricing, even though Galaxy S21 Ultra is cheaper than its predecessor, iPhone 12 Pro Max will make things difficult for Samsung.
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Concert review: BBC PO/ Mena at Media City UK, Salford
A stylishly conducted exploration of Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, one of the most intriguing ‘if only’ figures in music history
Richard Morrison
Friday March 16 2018, 12.01am, The Times
Even in 1820 it was probably a bit insensitive for a composer to write an opera called The Happy Slaves. Perhaps, though, we can forgive Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga. He was only 14 at the time.
The opera has been lost, which may not be a bad thing, but the surviving overture — the opening item in this BBC Philharmonic exploration of Arriaga’s music, stylishly conducted by Juanjo Mena — shows why the boy from Bilbao caused a sensation when he arrived at the Paris Conservatoire. Gentler than Rossini, but in the same ebullient spirit, and reminiscent of Schubert’s Rosamunde overture in its effortless tunefulness, it signals the arrival of a prodigy.
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Online dating ad banned after scientific claims were dismissed as 'fake news'
The advert by eHarmony which has been banned Credit: ASA/PA Wire
Telegraph Reporters
3 January 2018 • 1:07am
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
An advert for an online dating service has been banned after its scientific claims were dismissed as little more than "fake news".
The billboard advert for eHarmony claimed it uses a "scientifically proven matching system".
However, the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) said the service could offer no evidence that customers had a significantly greater chance of finding lasting love.
Lord Lipsey, who lodged the complaint and is joint chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Statistics and a former lay member of the Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA) council, said: "Phrases like 'scientifically proven' should be confined to claims that are just that, not used in crude puffery designed to lure in those longing for love.
"This is a new form of fake news which the ASA has rightly slapped down."
The advert, placed on a London Underground platform, said: "Step aside, fate. It's time science had a go at love."
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It went on: "Imagine being able to stack the odds of finding lasting love entirely in your favour. EHarmony's scientifically proven matching system decodes the mystery of compatibility and chemistry so you don't have to. Why leave the most important search of your life to chance?"
The website said it used an algorithm based on scientific theories in the relationship literature of assortative mating that required users to complete lengthy questionnaires to determine their personality traits, values, interests and other factors.
Users were then matched to other individuals whose responses complemented their own preferences and matched a specific percentage of a list of personality factors that eHarmony determined to be vital in successfully matching people.
The ASA said consumers would interpret the claim "scientifically proven matching system" to mean that scientific studies had found that the website offered users a significantly greater chance of finding lasting love than what could be achieved if they did not use the service.
It noted that neither of the studies provided by eHarmony revealed anything about the overall percentage of its users who had found lasting love after using the website compared to other sources.
Therefore, neither study provided insight into the likelihood of the website finding users lasting love compared to users who did not use the service.
The ASA said: "Because the evidence provided by eHarmony did not demonstrate that their matching system offered users a significantly greater chance of finding lasting love than what could be achieved if they didn't use the service, we concluded that the claim 'scientifically proven matching system' was misleading."
Romain Bertrand, managing director at eHarmony UK, said: "eHarmony was conceived on the premise that science and research could be harnessed to help people find love. For over 17 years, eharmony has been matching singles into high-quality, long-lasting relationships based upon sophisticated matching standards designed by PhD psychologists.
"Although we respectfully disagree with the ASA's findings, we are happy to work with them to assure that our advertising is as clear as possible."
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Whistleblowers Reveal Medicare Fraud in 6 Hospitals
The Department of Justice is to receive a settlement of $8.3M thanks to qui tam whistleblowers. And to show its thanks, per the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, the two employees who reported the hospital’s Medicare fraud (called “relators”) will receive up to 15-25% of these recoveries, or approximately $1.4 million.
The whistleblower lawsuit alleges these hospitals based certain healthcare decisions on financial gain rather than medical reasons when treating Medicare patients. This allowed the hospitals to deliberately overcharge the government, through Medicare, for routine, minimally-invasive back surgery.
From 2000 to 2008, according to the whistleblower lawsuit, Medicare patients who went in for kyphoplasty, a kind of spinal surgery to treat certain spinal compression fractures, were unnecessarily kept at the hospital overnight and billed as inpatient to boost the hospitals’ revenues. According to whistleblowers in the government lawsuit, kyphoplasty is a minimally invasive surgery that can safely be performed as an outpatient procedure in most cases. A few hours of successful surgery, patients are capable of walking unassisted. Rather than save taxpayers money, these six hospitals, according to the qui tam lawsuit, profited by thousands of dollars, and U.S. taxpayers bilked by thousands of dollars, each time Medicare was fraudulently billed for what amounts to unnecessary inpatient surgery.
The breakdown of the $8.3 million for fraudulent Medicare billing is as follows:
St. Vincent’s East Hospital, Birmingham, AL – $1.46 million
St. Vincent’s Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, AL – $422,748
Providence Hospital, Mobile, AL – $381,713
St. Francis Hospital, Beech Grove, IN – $3.16 million
Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, IN – $2.11 million
St. John’s Hospital System, Anderson, IN – $826,256
These six hospitals represent a second round of hospitals to settle whistleblower charges of fraudulent Medicare billing for kyphoplasty. Previously this year, three hospitals in the St. Paul, Minnesota-area paid a $2.28M to settle the whistleblower allegations. These whistleblowers had their lawsuits pursued against Medtronic Spine LLC, who settled this portion of the qui tam lawsuit for $75 million last year. Medtronic had acquired Kyphon Inc., the seller of kyphoplasty equipment and materials, who promoted the procedure as a moneymaker for hospitals if they billed Medicare for inpatient surgery.
Presently, the Justice Department has 985 qui tam healthcare fraud cases pending, according to a recent news release from one of the architects of the 1986 changes to strenghthen the False Claims Act, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). Of these, 200 qui tam cases deal with pricing and marketing of pharmaceuticals while a nearing equal number (205 whistleblower cases) with Defense Department procurement fraud.
In the 2009 fiscal year, whistleblowers brought 65 settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act to help recover more than $2.8 billion in taxpayer dollars.
For more information on qui tam lawsuits, visit the employment law pages of my Nashville, TN law firm (False Claims Whistleblower / Qui Tam lawsuits) or complete our qui tam lawyer query form to speak with one of our employment lawyers.
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Booster Club Spotlight: Grapevine group boosts Mustang spirit
All-Star Inflatables highlights the team behind the team.
Thomas Bingham
Kip Ewing has held various positions inside the Grapevine Football Booster Club, so he understands how to run a successful booster club campaign. He’s currently in his second term as president. He was also the freshman representative in 2011, and vice president in 2012 and 2014.
The booster club wants locals to get excited about their local team, so it hosts tailgates prior to each home game. The local support should grow this season because the tailgates are open to the public and the food is free. Ewing hopes to see banners and posters around town so it can be a community affair. He plans to reach out to the community because there are unused fundraising opportunities.
The booster club’s community efforts were on display for the annual rivalry between the area’s two high schools, and it received support from two football sponsors. Frost Bank supported the Colleyville Heritage and Grapevine tailgate financially, and Red Dog Right provided the food. The booster club’s partnership with Red Dog Right seems to be a perfect fit because they both want to serve their community. The restaurant is also scheduled to serve food at the senior night tailgate.
The booster club does great things for the football program, but it wouldn’t accomplish those tasks without a dedicated team of volunteers, which fills in the gaps that the school budget cannot provide. Ewing wants to provide the athletes with a better working environment so they can be successful. The booster club has achieved this by providing the football team with new equipment, helmets and uniforms, and making repairs to the weight room. It also provides eight $1,000 scholarships to senior football players, awarded via an essay contest.
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Many schools purchase their inflatable entrance with local business funds. During the manufacturing process we sew velcro on each side of the tunnel or archway, then the teams can sell to their local companies signage spots to provide revenue. The benefit to velcro is this sponsor spot can be sold year after year to not only help pay for your inflatable, but also aid in purchasing power for other necessities such as weight room equipment, headsets, and new team equipment.
As the teams come roaring out on the field in front of thousands of fans; both at home and away; your team sponsors will be highlighted every week. With this kind of attention every business owner will do anything to have there name on the inflatables. This is how even our smallest organization can afford an incredible team entrance.
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It’s a Game
Jeff McCord
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There’s a seeping, winterlike melancholy to the slender songs of It’s a Game (Drag City), the first album in four years from San Antonio native Edith Frost. Her music betrays a quiet sadness devoid of self-pity but full of heartache; she has hinted that upheaval in her personal life led to the long layoff. Frost, who has made her home in Chicago for years, sings with a pretty whisper of a voice, and a spare and spooky accompaniment perfectly complements the haunting melodies. Piano keys clatter as if dropped from above; guitars are amplified but muted. It’s all an organic affair, intimate, straightforward, and almost impossibly delicate. Only later do you realize how much her songs, and the mood they create, are impossible to shake.
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Google continues to get rid of “extra” buttons on Android
The Android 9 Pieit Signing System left much to be desired, but Google does not stand still. Developers from the XDA-Developers community have unveiled yet another innovation of the next version of the Android 10 Q operating system.
In Android 9 Pie, three custom Android buttons have been replaced by two. Although the button for recent applications has disappeared, the “back” button has been saved. Now Google has decided to get rid of it.
The early Android 10 Q build contains a redesigned navigation system. Instead of using the traditional “back” button for Android, the user must make a swipe gesture to the left in the small space below the screen to which the former home button has turned. The assembly also provides a smooth transition between applications when swiping to the right.
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How the spectre of police brutality could influence Joe Biden’s choice of running mate
Joe Biden’s search for a running mate could be reshaped by the police killing of George Floyd and the unrest it has ignited across the US, raising questions about contenders with law and order backgrounds and intensifying pressure on the presumptive Democratic nominee to select a Black woman.
Biden, who has already pledged to pick a woman, has cast a wide net in his search.
Some of the women on his list have drawn national praise amid the protests over Floyd’s death, including Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who delivered an impassioned appeal for calm in her city on Friday night.
But the outcry over police brutality against minorities has complicated the prospects of Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who had a controversial record addressing police violence as a prosecutor in the city where Floyd died.
Biden’s choice of a running mate will be among the most consequential decisions he makes in the campaign, particularly given that the 77-year-old is already talking about himself as a “transition” candidate to a new generation of Democratic leaders as he prepares to duel with president Donald Trump for the keys to the White House.
It is THAT feeling again. The one that makes me sick to my stomach and nudges me to hold my children close….And “YES” I’ve felt it EACH time, at home and watching it from afar. “I, too, am America.” ~Langston Hughes #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/yw4PF5gRqc
— Keisha Lance Bottoms (@KeishaBottoms) May 27, 2020
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His pick will also be viewed as a signal both of his values and who he believes should have representation at the highest level of the US government.
Even before the outcry over Floyd’s death, some Biden allies were already urging him to put a Black woman on the ticket given the critical role African Americans played in his path to the Democratic nomination.
Those calls have become louder in recent days.
“The more we see this level of hatred, the more I think it’s important to confront it with symbolic acts, including potentially the selection of an African American woman as vice president,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and one of the labour leaders who has been asked for input by Biden’s team on the selection process.
Bottoms is one of several Black women under consideration by Biden’s campaign.
Others Mr Biden is believed to be considering include California Senator Kamala Harris, Florida Representative Val Demings and Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and voting rights activist.
Demings did not answer directly when asked if the events of the past week increased pressure on Biden to choose a Black woman in an interview on Sunday.
“Well, we’ve never seen a Black woman selected as a vice presidential candidate.
“But I think the American people want someone who cares about their issues and are willing to move the ball forward,”
Asked if she believes race should be left out of the conversation, she was careful to defer to Biden.
“It doesn’t really matter what I think,” she said.
“What matters is what Americans think, and what Joe Biden thinks.”
Demings, a former Orlando police chief, wrote a high-profile editorial on Friday challenging her former colleagues in law enforcement.
“As a former woman in blue, let me begin with my brothers and sisters in blue: What in the hell are you doing?” Demings wrote in the Washington Post.
Politicians with law-and-order backgrounds have been viewed sceptically by some in the Democratic Party given the high-profile instances of police brutality against minorities and other inequities in the criminal justice system.
Stacey Abrams (Michael A. McCoy/AP)
In an interview on Sunday, Demings defended herself and other potential contenders with such backgrounds, declaring “you’re either gonna be part of the problem or part of the solution”.
“And I think the community wants people who understand the system from the inside out in order to bring real life necessary reforms,” she said.
Harris faced criticism throughout her Democratic primary campaign for her record as a prosecutor and attorney general in California, when she resisted reforms that would have required her office to investigate killings by police and established statewide standards for body cameras.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid suggested a resume as a prosecutor could be problematic for potential contenders.
“Prosecutors are not very popular, especially among young people now,” he said.
“I’ve got a granddaughter who is graduating from law school and she wants to be a public defender.
“She doesn’t want to be a prosecutor.
“And I think a lot of younger people feel the same.”
New announcement: Attorney General @keithellison will be directly working with Hennepin County prosecutors to take on George Floyd murder case. Keith will bring his vast experience and an unending commitment to justice to the case.
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) June 1, 2020
Klobuchar, who also sought the Democratic nomination, has faced questions about her eight years as prosecutor for Minnesota’s largest county during the primary.
Most of the more than two dozen people who died during police encounters in her tenure were people of colour, according to data compiled by Communities United Against Police Brutality and news articles reviewed by the AP.
An officer involved in one of those past fatal incidents was Derek Chauvin, who was arrested and charged on Friday with Floyd’s murder.
Since ending her campaign, Klobuchar has emerged as a key Biden surrogate and some Democrats see her as a running mate who could help him appeal to some of the white, working-class voters who turned against the party in the 2016 election.
Yet some Democrats say the renewed focus on police brutality could complicate her path.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (Ben Gray/AP)
“This is very tough timing for her,” said Representative James Clyburn, a top Biden ally.
Klobuchar has said that she is confident Biden will make the right choice and that she is not thinking about politics right now.
Biden has said he will announce a running mate by 1 August, a timeline that leaves plenty of time for the national mood to shift again, particularly as the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic collapse pressed on.
Those twin crises have already led to increased scrutiny for others in the mix to become Biden’s running mate.
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (AP)
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, a frequent Trump target during the pandemic for her resistance to lifting stay at home orders, faced questions after her husband allegedly tried to skip the queue with a dock company and get his boat in the water ahead of other patrons over Memorial Day weekend.
And governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico was criticised by Republicans in her state following a report that she purchased jewellery from a local business just days after she ordered non-essential businesses to shut down and told residents to stay home.
Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, who was vetted as a potential vice presidential pick in 2004, said the scrutiny contenders are facing now has “proliferated”.
“The scrutiny compared to when I was vetted is so much more intense and potentially troublesome for a VP candidate,” he said.
Biden’s search process is still in a relatively early phase.
A search committee has been meeting with power players on the left, with special attention to Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill and across organised labour.
Biden, who has largely been cloistered at his home in Delaware during the pandemic, would also like to conduct in person meetings with finalists.
“It’s important for him to see the candidate, talk to the candidate, get body language from the candidate. And I don’t mean one time. I think it needs to be several times,” said Cedric Richmond, a Louisiana congressman and campaign co-chairman.
themagicmancunian100 says:
1st June 2020 at 12:47 pm
It would be better if the running mate was elected. The crucial matter is that whoever it is, they can think, as Biden has difficulty in that regard. Who wouldn’t like to see a black woman, but wasn’t Condoleeza Rice one of those? Tokenism does no good. It’s pretence equality. In the end, it serves the conservative cause, especially when its combined with the idiocy of meritocracy. When then happens is that the rise of a few minorities, or women, or working people to the top is taken as the best we can do. The best we can do is real equality, not a greasy pole which leaves millions behind
Oldshagnasty says:
1st June 2020 at 3:43 pm
The Democrats are just as bad as Republicans. In the end it wouldn’t matter if you elected a Native American transgender woman to the White House, they would still end up doing what their big money donors want.
jeff3 says:
values his are money money money and the American peasant will be voting for another Clinton it wouldn’t matter about picking a woman of colour she only be there for show same has Donald I’m afraid he’s all about big biz not the American peasant
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Lyft expands monthly ride-hail subscription service nationwide
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Ride-hailing giant Lyft said Monday that its monthly subscription service is now available nationwide.
For $299 per month, "All-Access Pass" subscribers get 30 rides costing up to $15 apiece. Anything over $15 is charged directly to the rider's credit card through the Lyft smartphone app.
MORE: Lyft launches its scooter service
The subscription program could save regular Lyft riders as much as $151 per month, assuming most of their rides cost more than $15. Initially, Lyft will give subscribers a 5-percent discount on additional rides, although the ride-hailing service said that promotional perk is only temporary. The All-Access Pass is aimed at regular commuters and Lyft riders without regular access to their own vehicle.
Lyft said that the subscription applies to single-passenger ride-hailers and carpools, but the bikes and scooters it has recently rolled out.
Lyft's first scooter service—what it envisions as a "last-mile" solution—launched in Denver last month and recently hit the road in Santa Monica, California. Scooters and bicycles cost $1 to start and 15 cents a minute thereafter, meaning it would take nearly an hour to rack up a $15 scooter or bike bill, anyway.
The average cost of a Lyft ride varies greatly by location. In 2015, it was about $13.50 nationwide, but Lyft has not released more recent data.
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celebrity splits May 27, 2020
Scott Disick and Sofia Richie Are Apparently No More
By Amanda Arnold@aMandolinz
Scott Disick and Sofia Richie. Photo: Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Rolla’s
And another one: Scott Disick, 37, and Sofia Richie, 21, have apparently broken up after three years of dating, or approximately one-seventh of Richie’s life.
According to an unnamed source who spoke to Page Six, Disick and Richie recently decided to call it quits after their relationship “ran its course,” just like Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson before them. Apparently, Disick “had gone back to his old ways” and Richie started to get “fed up.” The source also told Page Six that Richie had grown increasingly tired of Disick’s convoluted relationship with Kourtney Kardashian, his ex with whom he shares three children. “Kourtney didn’t make it easy for her,” the source told the outlet, adding, “you can only tolerate that kind of treatment for so long.”
While the source’s “reasons” behind the breakup are certainly plausible, they manage to spark more questions than they answer. First of all, what exactly are these “old ways” of Disick’s of which the source speaks? Is the source referencing his struggles with substance abuse or with fidelity, which led to the couple’s first split in 2018? Disick did go to rehab last month, though his attorney told Page Six that he checked into a facility to deal with “past traumas” — namely, the sudden death of his mother and then the death of his father soon thereafter — and not issues related to alcohol or cocaine use. Also, let’s hear more about this seemingly exhausting “treatment” to which Kourtney apparently subjected her ex’s significantly younger girlfriend. Hadn’t the two made their peace?
Whatever the actual reasons may have been, it appears they had been sources of tension in the relationship for at least a few months. Per Page Six, Disick and Richie had not been quarantining together, which suggests their relationship was on the rocks as early as March.
Guest we’ll see if this breakup takes!
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Listen to Jessie Reyez new song “Apple Juice”
Along with a cute ass artwork of a cartoon robot holding a not so cute bloody heart.
Leon Bennett/Getty Images
Jessie Reyez has released a new song, sharing "Apple Juice" today. The Grammy-nominated singer premiered the song today via Apple Music, on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio bloc.
The stripped down song is introduced by Reyez's elastic vocals and a filtered-guitar riff. As the song progresses, a range of crashing percussion is blended in, as the Canadian singer's voice gradually gets more emotional.
Listen below.
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Garçons peel back the layers of suburban life in their “Ladybug” video
Off of the Canadian duo’s new project Be Human.
Cul-de-sacs. Ice cream trucks. Paperboys. The outline of an average suburban neighborhood should start to form in your mind. And that's the right mindset to be in when you hit play on Garçons latest visual for "Ladybug."
The Ottawa duo composed of singer/songwriter Deelo and producer/director Julian Strangelove created a slow burning, guitar-driven song that doubles as a love song to a special someone as well as the simple life of the outskirts of a city. The hazy nostalgia imbued in the song also makes it feel like it came straight off of the soundtrack for the film Mid90s.
As told to The FADER in an email, Garçons shot the video in King City, a small town north of Toronto, "Ladybug" since "there's a lot of emotion in the lyrics. Growing up in the suburbs, that's how I always saw it. Everything is mundane and ordinary but all the emotion is hidden under the surface and it can implode at any second."
Watch the video above and stream their new project Be Human below.
Photo: Kevin Kudukis
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Home>Latest Travel News>Best Western and Habitat Group Sign Contract for Asia’s First Newly-Built BW Premier Collection Hotel
Best Western and Habitat Group Sign Contract for Asia’s First Newly-Built BW Premier Collection Hotel
Na Jomtien, Pattaya (Thailand) – June 19, 2019 (travelindex) – Best Western Hotels and Resorts celebrates the signing of a full management contract for Bluphere, BW Premier Collection by Best Western, which will become the first newly-built BW Premier Collection hotel in Asia.
On June 13th, 2019, the famous hotel group concluded a Professional Service Agreement (PSA) with Habitat Group, Thailand’s leading property-for-investment developer, for this striking new hotel, which is located in Na Jomtien, Pattaya, a peaceful beachfront destination on Thailand’s popular Eastern Seaboard.
As a result of the PSA, Bluphere, BW Premier Collection by Best Western will now benefit from Best Western’s 70+ years of hospitality experience and expertise, with full operational support. This will include day-to-day management, global sales, marketing and distribution, revenue management, state-of-the-art technology, human resources, training and much more. The hotel will also join the network of Best Western Rewards®, the company’s industry-leading loyalty program.
Bluphere, BW Premier Collection by Best Western is located just 100 meters from the beach, a few minutes from the attractions of downtown Pattaya, and about 1.5 hours’ drive from Bangkok. Scheduled to open in Q2 2020, the hotel will feature 195 contemporary suites, ideal for family getaways, weekend breaks and couples retreats. The eight-story property will also offer an array of upscale facilities, including a stylish rooftop swimming pool.
This exciting project has already won a series of awards, including “Best Low-Rise Architectural Design (Resort)” at the 2017 Thailand Property Awards and the “New Hotel Construction & Design – Thailand” title at the 2018 Asia Pacific Property Awards.
“The signing of a PSA for Bluphere, BW Premier Collection by Best Western represents a significant milestone in our development strategy. At Best Western, we are striving to create an exceptional portfolio of hotels and resorts all across Asia, and we believe that the best way to achieve the highest standards of hospitality is through full management contracts,” said Olivier Berrivin, Best Western’s Managing Director of International Operations – Asia.
“Habitat Group is a fantastic, forward-thinking partner, and their team has demonstrated amazing skills and vision to create such an outstanding project. We are honored that they have entrusted us with the management of Bluphere, BW Premier Collection by Best Western, and I look forward to introducing guests to an exciting new era of upscale hospitality in 2020,” Olivier added.
Habitat Hospitality, a subsidiary of Habitat Group, oversees the group’s portfolio of resort developments. With a strong focus on Thailand’s East Coast and a desire to work with the best brands in hospitality, Bluphere, BW Premier Collection by Best Western is the first Habitat Hospitality property to be managed by Best Western.
“We’re very excited to be working with the professional team at Best Western. I’m confident Bluphere, BW Premier Collection by Best Western will set a new standard for hospitality in the area and will be a valuable addition to Thailand’s East Coast leisure industry,” added Chanin Vanijwongse, Chief Executive Officer, Habitat Group Co., Ltd.
The signing of the PSA continues the successful partnership between Best Western and Habitat Group; the two companies are also working together at Best Western Premier Bayphere Pattaya – another upscale development on Thailand’s Eastern Seaboard, scheduled to open in Q1 2020.
Best Western’s rapidly-expanding Thai portfolio now covers a series of established and emerging business and leisure destinations all across the kingdom, including Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya, Chiang Mai, Hua Hin, Buriram and Prachinburi.
Pictured at the PSA signing ceremony: Mr. Chanin Vanijwongse, Chief Executive Officer, Habitat Group (3rd left); Ms. Sasivimol Sutthibut, Chief Operating Officer, Habitat Group (2nd left); Ms. Vimolsiri Sutthibut, Marketing Communications Director, Habitat Group (left), Olivier Berrivin, Managing Director of International Operations – Asia, Best Western (3rd right); Rodney Simpson, Senior Regional Director of Operations – Asia (2nd right); and Cyrill Czerwonka, Regional Director of Development – Asia, Best Western (right)
About Habitat Group:
Habitat Group was founded in 2012 and is a leading premium property-for-investment developer in Thailand with extensive experience in developing hotel branded residences and a track record of delivering award-winning resorts with strong ROI for investors. Habitat Group’s portfolio includes upscale branded resort residences in prime locations in Pattaya as well as high-end low rise condominiums in Bangkok’s Central Business District. For more information, please visit www.habitatgroup.co.th.
About Best Western Hotels and Resorts:
Best Western Hotels & Resorts headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, is a privately held hotel brand with a global network of approximately 4,500 hotels in nearly 100 countries and territories worldwide*. Best Western offers 16 hotel brands to suit the needs of developers and guests in every market. Best Western branded hotels include Best Western®, Best Western Plus®, Best Western Premier®, Executive Residency by Best Western®, Vīb®, GLō®, AidenSM, SadieSM, BW Premier Collection®, and BW Signature Collection®. Through recent acquisition, Best Western now also offers WorldHotels® Luxury, WorldHotels Elite and WorldHotels Distinctive brands. Completing its portfolio, Best Western offers SureStay®, SureStay Plus®, and SureStay Collection® franchises**. Now celebrating more than 70 years of hospitality, Best Western provides its hoteliers with global operational, sales and marketing support, and award-winning online and mobile booking capabilities. Best Western continues to set industry records regarding awards and accolades, including 66 percent of the brand’s North American hotels earning a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence award in 2018, Business Travel News® ranking Best Western Plus and Best Western number one in upper-midscale and midscale hotel brands respectively for two consecutive years, and Fast Company honoring Best Western Hotels & Resorts with a spot in the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in the Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality category. Best Western has also won 10 consecutive AAA®/CAA® Lodging Partner of the Year awards, recognizing the brand’s commitment to providing exceptional service and great value to AAA/CAA’s nearly 60 million members in the U.S. and Canada. Best Western-branded hotels were top ranked in breakfast (food and beverage category) by J.D. Power’s 2018 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Study – ranking first for midscale; and second for upper midscale. Nearly 40 million travelers are members of the brand’s award-winning loyalty program Best Western Rewards®, one of the few programs in which members earn points that never expire and can be redeemed at any Best Western-branded hotel worldwide. Best Western’s partnerships with AAA/CAA and Google® Street View provide travelers with exciting ways to interact with the brand. Through its partnership with Google Street View, Best Western is the first major company of its size and scale to launch a virtual reality experience for customers, setting a new industry standard and reinventing how guests view hotels.
**All Best Western, WorldHotels and SureStay branded hotels are independently owned and operated.
Sirimanas Maungrod (Cake) | Senior Regional Marketing Communications Manager | Asia
Phanintorn Tangtrongjit (Dream) | Assistant Marketing Communications Manager | Asia
Email: phanintorn.tangtrongjit@bestwestern.com
Best Western Hotels and Resorts
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Latin America Is Leading The Way On Trans Issues
August 26, 2011 · monica_roberts
Been interesting to note that when it comes to trans issues lately, it seems Latin American nations are leading the way when it comes to positive forward momentum on human rights issues that affect trans people.
Brazil’s universal health care system not only provides free SRS, they created a national LGBT council that formulates policy recommendations and guidelines aimed at decreasing the discrimination that TBLG people face in the country.
Brazilian transwomen from Roberta Close to Lea T are breaking ground in many fields inside and outside the country.
Bolivia and Ecuador ban all discrimination based on gender identity
Colombia not only has transwoman Endry Cardeno acting in major soaps, she has a spread in a major men’s magazine. Shelcy Sanchez recently made a historic run for a seat in the Colombian congress. Colombian transwomen since 1993 have been able to easily change their names on the national ID card, but the gender marker field requires SRS.
The Costa Rican Supreme Electoral Court after agitation from transwoman Audrey Porras Araya, published a resolution allowing transsexuals to appear on their national ID with the image they frequently present to society.
Uruguay passed legal protections in 2004 and in 2009 approved a gender change law. Their neighbors in Argentina are currently debating a law that will make it easier for trans people to change documentation as well.
In Mexico City, transpeople living in the DF have been able to change their names and gender markers since 2008. One transgender couple got married. Efforts are underway to try to expand those policies to areas outside the Federal District despite resistance from the Roman Catholic Church..
Cuba has made progress on these issues as well. It provides free SRS through CENESEX and has made it easier for transpeople to change documentation.
And as Wendy Iriepa demonstrated a few days ago, transpeople can get married there.
So while there has been major progress in Latin America as documented on the electronic pages of Blabbeando , xQsi Magazine and other blogs dedicated to tracking TBLG events in the Latin@ community and the region, there are still problems in terms of the influence of the Roman Catholic Church and its anti-trans doctrine that is fueling a spike in anti trans violence across the region.
Honduras has long been a trouble spot for anti trans violence. As much progress as Brazil has made on other fronts, they still reported over 250 murders involving TBLG people. There has been a spike in anti-trans violence aimed at transpeople in Puerto Rico, Peru and in Mexico.
But despite the problems, when you look at the trans civil rights balance sheet for Latin America, it’s definitely trending toward the positive side of the ledger.
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At the end of the semester we host an animation festival as opportunity for students to display their work. The Society for Art Video at ASU is a club for students interested in viewing and creating art video. Free This program takes place virtually Meet artists and designers online and explore the playful side of making art. When creating this product we tried to imagine a mother sitting with her children around the kitchen table. There is a large interest in ceramics within the Phoenix metropolitan area, and the program maintains and nurtures its strong relationship with the community. The sculpture program thrives on enthusiasm, hard work and passion. Critical inquiry is augmented by courses in the art history program. Our location in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area offers countless opportunities as we maintain a dedication to community engagement. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Performance from Rutgers State University of New Jersey in 1993.Her recent projects include: performance/installation at the Salt Lake Art Center for Out of the Closet which also included three of Ellsworth’s mixed media works; performance/installation at Barlow & Straker in Phoenix with Tina Takemoto as Her/She Senses entitled Squeak and Clean; and waist/waste room, a performance for the opening reception of the Arizona State University Art Museum exhibition Art on the Edge of Fashion.Ellsworth’s writing will be published in the upcoming performance book, Women’s Comedy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Gender and Humour, edited by Lizbeth Goodman (Cambridge: Polity Press) and an issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on performance and disability with a paper entitled Performing Illness: Crisis, Collaboration and Resistance.ASU Art Museum PresentationOrganized by John D. Spiak, Club Extra will be installed in the 2,400-square-foot Experimental Gallery of the Arizona State University Art Museum at Matthews Center. America Reads: The ASU America Reads Program matches children from low-income communities with an ASU student as their tutor/mentor.. Public Allies Arizona: Public Allies are diverse, emerging leaders working to solve some of our community’s most critical issues. ABBA is an ASU student-run organization of interdisciplinary artists and writers working in the contemporary artist book movement. Each aim to bring a sense of community and act as the voice of AME and DC:AMESA (School of Arts, Media and Engineering Student Association):AMESA is an organized student body that acts as a unified voice for our collective vision.
Over the years, some clubs have grown and developed to become repeated multiple years in a row and are now considered staples of the club offerings: Serve as a catalyst for students in the Digital Culture program to share knowledge, resources, and expertise freely.
While classes run the gamut of the contemporary sculpture environment, there also is an emphasis on helping students put today's creations in the contexts of the history of sculpture and the larger field of contemporary art. Personal studio spaces are provided for advanced undergraduate students. The Nature’s Art Club can be adapted for all ages and stages! The ceramics program features a complete and varied line of kilns; most recently including a Blaauw kiln, plus electric wheels, extruders, a RAM press, two laser decal printers and other equipment. Visiting artists, curators and critics connect students to the contemporary context. The Herberger Institute comprises the Schools of Art; Arts Media and Engineering; Music, Dance and Theatre; The Design School; The New American Film School; and the ASU Art Museum. Community Solutions, Career and professional development services.
The program maintains traditional black-and-white darkrooms and integrates the newest technology in digital photography. There are over 1000 clubs and organizations at ASU. Being part of a student organization can help you make important connections with your peers (who are future professional colleagues), with local professionals through mentoring programs and field trips and with national student and professional organizations that may help you with your long-term career plans and goals.
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If All of This Was Easy, It Wouldn’t Be Worth Doing
Lessons learned, expensive mistakes... time for a re-boot. Nothing worthwhile ever comes easy. If it did, it wouldn’t be worth doing.
Paul The Esk 29/05/2018 23comments | Jump to last
The truth is that nothing in life that’s worth achieving is achieved easily. It’s difficult from wherever you start.
A year ago we had a significant financial base from which to start; we had sellable players in Lukaku and Barkley in particular (even though the stated intention was to keep our best talent), and we had what was considered to be a formidable pairing of Koeman and Walsh to identify prospects, attract players in and with perhaps the help of Bill Kenwright as arch-negotiator from time to time strike some decent deals.
Whilst perhaps for the first time in our modern history we had the financial resources, we clearly had no strategy, no joined-up thinking and frankly Koeman and Walsh were left without “checks and balances” resulting in an almost complete waste of resources at an enormous opportunity and financial cost. The lack of balance in the squad and the “must have Sigurdsson at all costs” strategy was ample proof of a truly dysfunctional recruitment policy.
12 months on, with many lessons learned, we are perhaps a little wiser under the footballing directorship of Brands and a soon to be announced Head Coach in Silva.
Resources for a spending spree?
One thing for certain though is that in the absence of an enormous contribution from Moshiri, we will not have the financial resources to match last year’s spree.
The first requirement must be to thin out a bulky squad that has many aged and non-contributing members using valuable resources to no benefit to the club whatsoever.
Robert Elstone, the former CEO, projected a total wage bill of £139 million (up from £94 million) for the 2017/18 season. Conservatively Klaassen, Rooney, Bolaise, Williams, Besic, Schneiderlin, Robles, Martina, Mirallas and Sandro account for near 1/3 of that wage bill (circa £45 million). There are of course, others who could be released but of that list, with the possible exception of Schneiderlin in his best form, who is going to be missed and perhaps more pertinently who is required by Brands and Silva?
Elstone’s figures suggested an operating loss of around £14 million this year (against a profit of £43.6 million in the previous year). Assuming transfer costs and receipts are spread over 2 years and there’s not a massive change in the balance between creditors and debtors the club will have spent anywhere from £50-60 million more than it received (ie a significant negative cash flow).
That negative cash flow was funded by Moshiri’s £45m injection post May 2017, the Santander short term loan against the outstanding cash from the Stones’ and Lukaku sales (£32.5 million) and assuming funds had to be put aside for the exchange of contracts for Bramley Moore (£22 million) the ICBC facility arranged last summer.
Funds for transfer activities this summer can come from a limited number of sources. Player sales are unpredictable in their timing and valuations (I reckon the list above could gross £72 million) but they’re also expensive in that agent’s fees must be accounted for. As an aside I believe the club could do itself a real favour by showing agents’ fees as a separate item in the P&L rather than lumping them in with the unexplained “other operating costs”.
Back on topic, player sales are not in isolation a reliable source of funding
In the past we have made use of debt, but in the lead up to an expensive stadium move, it should be assumed that any debt facilities the club can negotiate for itself would be reserved for the stadium and the obvious working capital requirements in the build phase.
The final and third option is for Mr Moshiri to put more money into the club to fund transfers. As is very well known he has already injected £150 million into the club without security of a repayment schedule.
It’s also certain that he will have to put cash into the club for Bramley Moore. Using the figure quoted by Bill Kenwright at the AGM of a total cost of £500 million, with funding of £280 million via Liverpool City Council, there’s still another £220 million to find.
If transfer funds, his existing investment and the likely contribution required for Bramley Moore are added up, we arrive at an eye-watering figure of perhaps £450 million.
Thus, we might be looking at an issue of shares worth £225 million in the near term with another similar raise in a couple of years after the Council funding is spent on Bramley Moore.
Using these figures this would convert his existing investment of £150 million into shares and provide £75 million of funding for transfers.
There are of course, many variables, and I’m just suggesting one scenario. Based on the above, a valuation of the club at £350 million (£10,000 a share) would see the number of shares rise from 35,000 to 57,500.
It’s possible (even probable) that Kenwright, Woods and Abercrombie would sell their shareholding as per the options agreement giving Moshiri a total of 25,746 (73.56%) before the rights issue.
Further board changes
Their share sale would inevitably lead to further changes and recruitment in the boardroom with only Barrett-Baxendale, Ryazantsev and Harris remaining from an initial six some months earlier. I’d like to nominate Brands please!
The above being the case Moshiri would then have a maximum of 48,246 shares (83.9%) if no other single shareholder took up their rights to the new shares.
Critically at this stage, as this is below 90% all other shareholders would still retain the right to call a General Meeting (requiring 10% of the shareholding) and Moshiri would not be able to force minority holders to sell against their wishes. I stress that I doubt that is his intent given the very clear re-assurance he provided John Blain (Chair, EFCSA) in the summer of 2016. Subsequent funding (the second traunch in perhaps two years) would see Moshiri go above 90%. However I’m sure there’s an agreement or two to be made to ensure that minority interests are protected.
New ownership almost inevitably means teething problems at best
I said at the beginning if it’s easy it’s probably not worth doing. It seems inevitable that almost every new owner or investor in a football club regardless of their knowledge, intent and intellect have to experience a difficult first couple of years coming to terms with the peculiar business of football.
The very best learn from their mistakes, make the necessary changes in personnel, continue to provide the funding, and if they’ve got good enough people on and off the pitch make a success of it. Failure to continue funding or not attract the right people into the business can have disastrous results (Lerner at Villa, Short at Sunderland for example).
Re-boot!
We’re not in that position, we’ve had an expensive year because of the mistakes of last summer. Moshiri has the resources to fund us now, and the remainder of Bramley Moore. With the acquisition of Brands we have a Director of Football that will reduce the financial burden placed on the club currently. With Silva we will have a modern coach playing attractive football. One would hope he’d provide the coach with players to increase our revenues through higher league placings and regular European competition plus some silverware. That’s for the future though – this summer is about recreating the platform to re-boot the Moshiri revolution.
To fully re-boot we need learn the lessons of last summer, provide the funding to make good the mistakes, ensure the delivery of an iconic Bramley Moore, recruit well on and off the field (hence why Brands is so important) and finally bring about a complete revolution in the boardroom bringing in people who relish the challenge and are equipped for success…
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Peter, I think we all thought that last season but things do look slightly better. Get rid of all those players except Klaassen – he is yet to prove himself.
And definitely Schneiderlin can't be kissing his arse after going missing the whole season – he put himself in the shop window with those last displays.
Liam Reilly
FFP rules won't allow Moshiri (or his backers) to throw cash at the football club; at least not without legal ramifications, so the club needs to find a way through a mixture of experience and youth.
it doesn't look like Brands was brought in to buy success and Silva likewise (imminent arrival) and, with the bloated squad, there'll be more leaving than arriving in the close season.
I'm expecting no more than a season of transition, whilst hopefully Bramley-Moore Dock moves ahead and we get a spade in the ground; which – along with some positive football – I'll settle for.
Liam, we've increased our revenue streams from new sponsors and are 7th for income from this, just behind Spurs. Plus we got record income from games shown this season.
It seems toying with relegation is inadvertently good for games shown on Sky/BT. We could spend over 𧵄m in the summer. We'll bring in half of that losing the likes of Rooney and Schneiderlin and another 7 or 8 players knocking around the fringes.
We need an immediate injection of quality with 4 or 5 quality signings. For argument's sake – Rose 㿔m, Lascelles 㿅m, Sari 㿊m. Zaha 㿔m + Bolasie, Balotelli on a Bosman. Total: 𧴿m.
Steve Ferns
We've already tried the shortcut to the promised land. We spent 𧶲m on older, supposedly ready-made players. We had a manager with a renowned talent for mounding teams instantly and overachieving. We had a super scout cum Director of Football to help make sure those players were the right ones. It failed as we all know.
The players weren't good enough. The manager wasn't as skilled as we thought he was and the same could be said for the DoF. The cost of the mistake is that we can't sell the flops and get our money back. So we're stuck with them.
Moshiri is going for the opposite approach now. Instead of buying players believed to be good enough for 6th and clawing our way up, place by place, we're going to sign players who can be top 4 quality and develop and coach them to that level.
By focusing on younger players we can have a better chance at resale value if things go wrong. Also a younger player can be eased into the side, whilst an older big name player has to immediately perform to the ability he supposedly has, with little patience for him to adapt.
This model relies on the head coach being a top class coach and the Director of Football working closely with the academy and focusing signings on players we need immediately for the first team (ie, left-back) and young players to supplement perceived deficiencies in the quality of those coming through, along with any special talents our scouts find.
I'm very optimistic about the future. I've been waiting for a good coach to come in and focus on developing younger players. I just hope the new dawn is not a false one.
Frank McGregor
Liam (#4), I believe you are correct in saying a "year of transition". I fear we will be transitioning from the Premier League to the Championship.
I cannot see the relationship between Brands and Silva working, or for that matter any manager.
Any manager worth his salt could only successfully report to the owner.I could not imagine Catterick, Kendall, Ferguson, Shankly working in such a structure.
After the immediacy of bringing in some quality editions this summer, I would hope we then become a bit more frugal where we have a strong body of existing players and just buy a couple of big signings each year – alongside a couple of players from the U23s being integrated into the squad.
Dan Davies
The truth is Moshiri never wanted Walsh or Koeman.
They were employed because the real targets weren't interested.
Moshiri needs total control to take the club where it needs to be.
The death grip that Kenwright and cronies have had on the club is soon to be over.
Fair summation Esk, as always with The Ev, more questions than answers / always jam tomorrow, never jam today. We will all, however much we want it now, just have to wait and see.
Hopefully we will have a minimum 5 of those you mentioned Out and at least 2 of those you hope for In. By Christmas, I would like to think that the powers that be will have done a deeper due diligence on the playing staff and act accordingly.
Andrew Presly
We didn't spend 𧶲m last summer; all we did was sell Lukaku which was obviously going to kill our progression. Typical Everton mediocrity. It's not rocket science.
As for mentions of FFP, that's just in place to stop us breaking into the existing cartel. Ignore it and pay the paltry fines for doing so or it's 7th forever!
Fran Mitchell
A long-term strategy is necessary. The stadium move is essential for our club, but will also act as a short term block on our progress.
Therefore our short-medium term strategy must be focussed on youth and a sell to buy policy (or a limited budget).
Hopefully, done correctly, we can consolidate ourselves as at top 7 team, maybe break the top 5/4 occasionally, and get some silverware and play good, attractive football.
In the immediate season, sale of players like Bolasie and Rooney to be replaced in house by Dowell and Lookman. Further consolidation into the squad of players like Baningime, Robinson, Kenny, Vlasic, and maybe Williams meaning we can focus our signings on a few specific players, dealing with specific areas of the first team.
Alan J Thompson
Paul, I agree with most of what you say as far as it goes with the major exception of, "Schneiderlin at his best". If that is how you are going to rate him then you must use the same criteria for the rest of the players mentioned. I wonder what effect it may have if we do find that there are many outgoings (you list a possible 10) and who will come in from where and when in a World Cup year.
As for ignore FFP and pay the paltry penalty (Andrew #11), the paltry penalty may be exclusion from the transfer market for a period of time and the associated losses due to contracts expiring and the inability to improve on-field performances and therefore TV appearance remuneration, unless of course you think we will be so successful in the transfer market this year that it won't be a problem.
The least of our worries may be Bramley-Moore as it may not yet have a strict timetable although a few months delay would probably be another season at Goodison.
Kieran Fitzgerald
Fran @12, I would go with your view. The stadium is/has to be our priority. To pay for it, we have to go with youth. At face value, we have the young talent already at the club to try this policy.
As fans, I think we would accept not winning trophies if it meant there was a clear strategy to improve the squad and style of play and put a badly needed new stadium in place at the same time. Fair enough, if we win a trophy, great. But I would accept the club not going all out to achieve instant success.
With the Premier League, a top finish is very achievable. Fans would take this as it meant we were staying somewhat competitive, where qualifying for European football and gave us something over the course of a season to keep our interest.
Fans were miserable this season as there was nothing to make us feel happy about in terms of the club, there was nothing of interest, no positivity. A clear strategy, actual progress, and pride in our own young players, would go a very long way next season towards banishing the pain of last season.
Darren Hind
"12 months on with many lessons learned."
Are you sure about that, Paul? Many lessons have been taught, but there is no clear sign that Moshiri has learned anything.
I said last year that we were building a house without giving any thought to putting a roof on it. I fear this time around we are going to try to use sky hooks to suspend a roof over a non-existent house.
The appointment of Brands was pleasing but, without learning lessons from the past, Moshiri has chosen his manager/coach and pursued him without giving a second thought to other possible candidates. A really big mistake and proof positive that he has learned nothing. How can he know what others can offer if he doesn't speak to them?
Silva is a mistake, the fact that his kecks rolled up last year simply for being mentioned as the target of a club this size should have been enough to rule him out of the running.
I worry that so many of those who whooped and cheered at Moshiri's previous choices are back cheering this one, it's as if they are working on the theory that the law of averages will ensure that he (and they) will get it right sooner or later. They won't. His and their judgement will always let them down.
If Silva was anywhere near as good as some have made out, we would be fighting off competition from top clubs for his signature.
Amit Vithlani
I believe it is right that we only spend big in transfers and wages as long as we keep growing our revenue base as we want a sustainable financial position for the club.
We have an overloaded squad and quality has to be the priority, so even if our net spend this summer is zero, that is fine with me. We do not need 38 paid professionals, 3 No 10s or 8 centre-backss to break into the top 6.
A squad of 25 talented players, paid well, motivated will sustain our challenge.
What we really have to worry about are the future plans of Kenwright and Woods. Their intentions, greed or rights to refuse dilution could make it impossible for Moshiri to put more money in.
Put it this way, by injecting 𧵎m as a loan with zero interest and no fixed repayment, Moshiri made his acquisition of Everton more expensive for himself. He originally paid 䀁m for 49.9% of the club. That went to Kenwright and Co. He then injected 𧵎m into the club for no additional return. So that is 𧶣m he spent and what he has to show is 49.9% ownership of the club's net profits (bearing in mind he earns nothing from zero interest on the 𧵎m injection).
Perhaps the 𧵎m injection was part of the deal to buy into the club. But, it would value the equity of the club at an eye watering 𧺎m (since 𧶣m would buy 49.9% in this scenario).
An equity value which is more than 15 times the annual net profits of a business (15x valuation multiple) is generally viewed as being expensive – as it takes 15 years to recoup your investment from the current annual level of net profits. The only way to make it a shorter time frame – eg, 7.5 years (ie, half the time) – would be for those profits to double.
Everton would have to consistently generate profits of 㿊m a year to justify a valuation above 𧹺m assuming a 15x valuation multiple; arguably the club would need to generate more than 㿞m a year to bring the multiple down to more reasonable levels. As we all know, the club is nowhere near that type of sustained profit making.
In any case, it is not likely that the club will make net profits in the medium term given Elstone's recent remarks.
In fact, I would say that the club needs at least another 𧵎m from Moshiri for the stadium alone. Assuming a 𧺬m cost, I simply don't see the council voting through a 𧺬m loan. A loan for half the amount – 𧶲m – seems more plausible. Moshiri putting up 𧵎m on Everton's behalf reduces the gap to be bridged to 𧴜m / 20%. A combination of naming rights, sponsorship, debenture schemes would surely raise such an amount.
So, can you see Moshiri putting in another 𧵎m on an interest free, no fixed repayment basis, taking him to an investment outlay of 𧸹m into Everton for only 49.9% of future net profits?
If we start making 㿊m a year consistently from 2019, he would have to wait for 25 years to earn his investment back.
The only way he earns a return sooner, therefore, is flogging his shares to someone else, and doing a cute deal like Kenwright did. That is only a possibility if the club is heading for a new stadium and shows real sign of progress on the pitch. We know that it took donkey's years to find an investor with no stadium in sight.
Those who think the Sky gravy train alone justifies a 𧺎m equity value need to remember two things:
1 – Inflation in broadcast revenues has inflated wages and transfers;
2 – The nagging thought that Sky may someday not be able to keep paying up still lingers in my mind. Amazon, Netflix and Facebook are lurking but I have not seen them spend any crazy money on sports broadcasting rights as yet.
So, to unlock more cash from Moshiri, what has to happen is that Kenwright and Woods have to agree to dilute their shareholding in a rights offer so Moshiri gets a bigger slice of the returns in exchange for more cash into the club.
This gives the club access to more money over the next 2-3 years as it continues growing revenues, investing in the squad and the stadium.
Kenwright and Woods will hopefully do the right thing and signal their intent to let Moshiri have more shares in exchange for injecting more cash. We will certainly need it.
Should Moshiri put up another 𧵎m of cash, then having made a total outlay of 𧸹m he will expect to own a bigger slice of the shares. How much depends on the equity value. If the club is really worth 𧺎m then 𧸹m should get him more than 80%.
I recall that the Echo reported that Moshiri had an option to buy shares up to 76% of all the shares of the club, but the Echo's report was silent on the terms /price. Hopefully, such option is for an amount of 𧵎m, over and above 𧶣m already spent, TO BE INVESTED BY MOSHIRI INTO THE CLUB and not into Kenwright & Co's pockets.
To make a further 𧵎m investment and take his outlay to 𧸹m, the club will need to show signs of being capable of generating profits above 㿊m a year, perhaps closer to 㿔m a year, consistently. A valuation above 𧹺m (15×), and indeed closer to 𧺬m becomes plausible. Then owning 76% for a 𧸹m outlay makes sense (𧸹/76% = 𧺬m).
So, sustainability is key. Shrewd business in transfers is key: net spend is not a guarantee for success on the pitch, as we have painfully seen. Growing commercial revenues is key. Kenwright and Woods agreeing to dilute is key. With those factors, Moshiri can put his hand in his pockets and entrust paid professionals to get on with the task of transforming the club.
Whilst he is at it, he will hopefully say a lot less to his mate Jim White, avoid making grandiose statements at the AGM, and leave the likes of Brands and the new managerial appointment to do the talking to the Media and the players to do the talking on the pitch...
Ray Said
Interesting article and responses. I cannot agree with Paul's estimation that Klaassen, Rooney, Bolasie, Williams, Besic, Schneiderlin, Robles, Martina, Mirallas and Sandro could bring in 72 million in player sales.
Robles's contract is up so he will be gone for free; I think the club will let Rooney go for free if it means saving his wage; Williams's age will limit any fee to a nominal amount.
I cannot see any of the remaining players listed, even if we do find buyers, bringing in any anything over 㿔 million in total. I hope I am wrong though!
I agree with some of the comments here. Lessons have to be learned, and one season of success (Walsh) doesn't constitute being brilliant!
All the talk of Silva is also a little misleading. People wanting Emery (before he went to Arsenal), Tuchel (before PSG), Simeone etc... these guys will go to the clubs with success already, they don't want to build it. Why do you think Guardiola goes from top club to top club!? He wants to go to a successful team and make them more successful. Would he be interested in starting from scratch!? No.
Silva is known as a good coach and people person... so we need to see. Moyes wasn't exactly world famous when we got him, but given time and support, he made us as competitive as we have been for a long while.
It will be an interesting summer.
Alastair Donaldson
Leaving the accountants to discuss options in impressive style my twopence..
Taking Arsenal as perhaps the most recent example of a top flight club building a new ground, they went from a very successful side challenging for the title to one only capable of winning the cups. That's left them feeling they're under-performing...it's all relative!
Where are we currently? Not realistically competitive in either league or cup, perhaps we need to really state the medium and long term ambitions on the playing side a bit more clearly.
If that is coming out of the new DOFs words so far, in terms of reference to developing the academy/U23s and trying to build a sustainable supply of decent home grown players..I'd think that's sound. Not exactly saying we can't progress as quickly on the playing side as we'd like because of BM, but hinting at it.
Fans expectations are not easily managed, but a joined up approach to player recruitment and robust out policy (though that costs aswell) are really needed and will help keeping support.
So as fans, are we happy to put serious and consistent playing success on hold (realistically, for a few more years) whilst the club structure and new ground take a lions share of the resources?
Personally I say yes, but then I have been waiting (like all of us) for 23 years for silverware and 32 years for title ware! What's another 5??
Kevin Tully
Oh dear:
James Hughes
I see plans have been submitted for a new 㿀M link road to the stadium area
Plans in for 㿀m link road to provide access for Everton's proposed new stadium
Bill Watson
Dan (#9),
Moshiri's 49.9% gives him total control as he can't be outvoted.
Alan McGuffog
Bored with the game so turned over for Countdown. Absolutely nowt to do with the length of Rachel Riley's skirt btw. A woman called Helen Fospero (?) was eulogising about EiTC and plans for Goodison WHEN we move to docks in 4 years. She seemed very sure that this was happening and that the club was taking very seriously the impact on the community in Walton. That Rachel is well fit mind!
Pat Waine
I firstly agree with most of what the article says. However, I think all Evertonians underestimate the damage done by Ronald Koeman.
He came in as a manager who knew the Premier League but acted like a novice. The purchase of Klaassen, who he clearly had watched, was a terrible buy. No left back and he brings in Martina (who again, he knew)... again, terrible.
Rooney was a nostalgia buy that hasn't worked. Schneiderlin seems to have a character problem as well as not being able to dominate midfield.
The point I am making is Koeman wrecked the club and it will take years to get out of the mess. I will be more than surprised if the new management team can move all these on (Williams and the like). Their wages will prohibit moves, mark my words. I just hope Evertonians give the new manager a good period and understand who was really to blame for the mess that Brands and Silva have to deal with.
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Just Three Months After Launch, One in Three Switch Consoles Sold is a Switch Lite
The Switch Lite is off to a very strong start.
News by Mike Williams, Reviews Editor
Updated on 30 January 2020
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When the Nintendo Switch Lite was announced, there was a question of how the new portable would affect the sales of the original Switch model. Today, Nintendo released its earnings report for the nine month period ending on December 31, 2019. The Switch Lite performed very well for the period, and sales of the $299 Switch didn't drop too much either.
From April 1 to the end of December, the original Switch sold 12.6 million units, down from 14.5 million units sold during the same period in 2018. That's a 13% drop, which isn't too bad year-over-year, especially with a newer, cheaper model on store shelves.
The Switch Lite sold 5.2 million units during the reporting period, which is 29% of total Switch sales for the nine months. The Switch Lite debuted on September 20, 2019, meaning it only sold for three months of that period. That's a very strong start for the Switch Lite. Unfortunately, Nintendo did not break out sales for the holiday quarter, so we can't see a more direct comparision between the Switch and Switch Lite yet.
Nintendo already reported that the Switch Lite was in fact expanding the market for the Switch. During its last earning report, Nintendo noted that 57% of Switch Lite buyers were purchasing the system as their first Switch. "We are starting to see a higher percentage of female users among new Nintendo Switch Lite purchasers compared to the status before the launch of Nintendo Switch Lite, across the world. This signals further expansion of the female consumer base," said Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa.
Together with a potential Switch Pro model, Nintendo could be poised to see more growth in Switch sales over 2020. In fact, the company raised the forecast of Switch sales for the full fiscal year from 18 million to 19.5 million units. That's impressive three years into the system's run. The Switch itself continues to surpass Nintendo's classic consoles, recently jumping over the lifetime sales of the Super Nintendo.
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Provost's Office
Academic Affairs Initiatives
Faculty and Academic Staff Awards
University Honor Societies
Other Awards & Honors
UW System Awards
Every year the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater recognizes faculty and staff excellence in: teaching, academic advising, scholarly and creative activity, and service to the institution. Faculty and staff are honored for their distinguished contributions to the university community and the many constituencies served by the institution.
UW-Whitewater Awards
Roseman Excellence in Teaching Award
The W. P. Roseman Excellence in Teaching Award is presented annually to a faculty member in recognition of outstanding teaching and the improvement of student learning.
Outstanding Research Award
The Outstanding Research Award is given annually in recognition of a single faculty member making significant advances to knowledge, technique, or creative expression in her/his professional discipline.
Faculty Service Award
The Faculty Service Award, given annually, recognizes a faculty member for outstanding service to the University.
University Faculty/Staff Academic Advising Award
The University Faculty/Staff Academic Advising Award recognizes a faculty member or instructional academic staff member who has demonstrated excellence in the academic advising of students.
Everett and Ellen Long Award for the Advancement of General Education
The Everett and Ellen Long Award for the Advancement of General Education is awarded annually to a faculty member who has been vital in advancing the centrality of general education.
Excellence Awards for Academic Staff
Two academic staff members are honored each year, one from the instructional/teaching ranks and one from the non-instructional ranks, for their contributions to the University.
Nomination Schedule and Process
Below is the annual schedule for the university-wide awards process. The schedule is designed to allow for adequate time to prepare and review application materials and organize the annual Recognition Reception.
Note: If you are nominating or being nominated you are required to complete and submit digitally the Faculty and Academic Staff Awards Nominee Submission Form by March 1.
Overview of Nomination Process and Due Dates:
Campus-wide Call for Nominations
Application Materials Due
Application Materials Submitted to
Initial Call
2nd Call
Dec 1 Jan 7 Jan 28 March 1
Dr. Kristin Plessel, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Dr. Joan Cook, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Dec 1 Jan 7 Jan 28 Feb 15
Dr. Tracy Hawkins, Chair - Faculty Senate
Allison Prather, Associate Director - AAEC
Everett Long Award for Advancement of General Education (even-numbered years)
Dr. Elizabeth Hachten, Assistant Dean, College of Letters and Sciences
Patricia Fragola, Chair, Academic Staff Assembly
Other important dates:
Faculty and Academic Staff Awards Reception - Thursday, April 15, 2021, Webex.
List of nominees to be submitted by selection committees by March 12 to Dr. Kristin Plessel, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Decisions on all awards made by the selection committees are due to the Office of Provost by no later than March 31.
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Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma Marry in Wedding at Home: See the Intimate Photos
TOPICS:celebrity weddingsDisneyHilary Duffwedding photos
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 06: Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma attend the Amazon Prime Video's Golden Globe Awards After Party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 6, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)
Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma are really cute as husband and wife. The Disney actress and Koma wed the weekend before Christmas in a low-key ceremony at home, and to round out the holidays, the couple shared a series of intimate, new photos from their nuptials on Thursday, December 26.
Duff posted the first photo from her wedding the day after she married Koma on December 21. “This,” she captioned the photo. The first reveal showed Duff in a long-sleeve, satin gown by Jenny Packham with an open back and buttons down the train. The actress chose cape-like sleeves to give her ensemble a dramatic effect against Koma’s sleek attire. The groom added on his account, “For the rest of forever… 12.21.19.”
Me & my wife
A post shared by Matthew Koma (@matthewkoma) on Dec 26, 2019 at 10:37am PST
A post shared by Hilary Duff (@hilaryduff) on Dec 22, 2019 at 6:55pm PST
Several days later, the pair received additional selects from their wedding photographer, including images of their kids, who were involved in the nuptials. “The most magical day into night with the one that I love,” Duff noted alongside a candid pic with her husband.
The groom walked down the aisle with Luca Comrie, Duff’s son with ex-husband Mike Comrie, while the bride held their baby girl Blair as she made her way to Koma. “Little girl cried up until we opened the front door and she knew we were walking towards her daddy and bruvvah,” she revealed.
A sweet family photo showed the four huddled outside before a floral backdrop. “Truly sad this day went by so quickly,” Duff added.
The most magical day into night with the one that I love
A post shared by Hilary Duff (@hilaryduff) on Dec 26, 2019 at 10:39am PST
Little girl cried up until we opened the front door and she knew we were walking towards her daddy and bruvvah♥️
best guys I know.
Truly sad this day went by so quickly.
Thank you so much @hilaryduff for being there on such an important day for @taylordawesgoldsmith and I.
Together, the couple tapped a team of top professionals to help pull off the secret ceremony. Celebrity wedding planner Yifat Oren of Oren Co planned the nuptials, while photographer Harper Smith captured the event. Celeb hairstylist Nikki Lee was tasked with Duff’s gorgeous updo, while makeup artist Kelsey Deenihan crafted a glam makeup look on her client.
“The wedding was at her house. It was small and low-key. Only family and close friends,” a source told People magazine. “The ceremony started at sunset and they got married inside the house. When the ceremony was over, guests cheered. The reception was in a white tent in the backyard.”
Mandy Moore’s husband Taylor Goldsmith performed at the reception. “Thank you so much @hilaryduff for being there on such an important day for @taylordawesgoldsmith and I,” Koma joked on his account.
JustJared was first to report the news with Koma later confirming it on E! News. The outlet posted a marriage speculation update and Koma replied with the caption, “wife.” Of course it was a family affair for Duff, who walked down the aisle for the second time. A source told People that her sister, actress Haylie Duff, was also “very involved in the wedding prep too” and that the siblings are “very close.” The kids were also very much involved in the nuptials.
The bride took to Instagram Stories too to reveal more wedding weekend snaps, including a loved-up pic with her new husband a day after the nuptials took place. In the mirror selfie, Koma embraces Duff as they both show off their new rings.
(Hilary Duff / Instagram Stories)
The couple confirmed the engagement in May. “I came home from work on a random Tuesday, and he was like ‘Let’s go for a walk. Let’s go check out this park,’” the Younger actress shared about a month later. “We were living in Williamsburg and I was like ‘I’m so tired.’ We just started [watching] Game of Thrones, and I just wanted to eat dinner in bed and watch Game of Thrones.”
Koma, however, insisted they go for a walk in their Brooklyn neighborhood. “He presents me with this book that he said he’s been working on for a while,” Duff added. “He’s like, ‘It’s our story.’”
Everything’s gunna be alright♥️
A post shared by Hilary Duff (@hilaryduff) on Oct 4, 2019 at 1:16pm PDT
Inside the book was a series of illustrations of the couple. “He was like, ‘We are going to forget things along the way so we need to constantly fill this out so our kids can know our story,’” she continued. And inside the book was a hidden compartment that contained her ring.
“It was so sweet. It was so sweet,” she gushed in June. “And he got down on one knee and he’s like, ‘I forgot everything I’m supposed to say, but you’re my best friend.’ It was so sweet.”
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The Obamas Sent J.Lo and A-Rod a Congratulatory Engagement Note
TOPICS:Alex Rodriguezbarack obamaJennifer Lopezmichelle obama
(Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo/Epa/REX/Shutterstock)
Will they get an invitation? Celebrity pals of Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are still celebrating the high-profile pair’s recent engagement, including former President of the United States of America Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
The previous leader of the free world, 57, sent the MLB analyst a handwritten letter this week to congratulate the couple on the beginning of their wedding planning journey, which Rodriguez shared via Instagram.
The letter, addressed to “Jennifer + Alex,” was written on Obama’s personalized stationery. “Jennifer & Alex—Michelle and I just wanted to congratulate you on your engagement,” the note read. “After 26 years together, we can say that whatever challenges life may bring, sharing them with someone you love makes it all better.”
This means the world to us. #44
A post shared by Alex Rodriguez (@arod) on Mar 21, 2019 at 11:14pm PDT
Rodriguez, positively glowing from the thoughtful gesture, added a caption that read: “This means the world to us. #44.”
The couple got engaged in the Bahamas on March 9, with the former Yankees player proposing with an estimated 15-carat emerald cut diamond ring.
“We’re really happy,” Lopez told People this week as Rodriguez added: “We have [an] appreciation for where we are in our lives today, and that’s what we’re enjoying the most.”
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Abubakar Takes Over as CP Yobe From Abdulmalik
By Sadiq Abubakar, The Nigerian Voice, Yobe
The new Yobe State Commissioner of Police, CP Yahaya Sahabo Abubakar, has taken over the affairs of the state command from CP Sunmonu Abdulmaliki who has retired after his meriteous service with the NPF
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Yobe State Command ASP Abdulmalik Abdulhafeez stated in a statement Monday in Damaturu.
The statement read in quote, “A new Commissioner of Police in person of CP Yahaya Sahabo Abubakar, has been posted to the state and assumed duty Monday 23/9/2019 taking over the leadership of the Command from CP Sunmonu A. Abdulmaliki who retired after 35 years of selfless service to the Nation.
“A seasoned Police officer with vast experience in policing both within and outside Nigeria, hails from Hong local government council of Adamawa State and holds LLB (Hons) from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and further obtained BL in Law, at Nigeria Law School, Lagos,” the statement reads in part."
The statement however added that that the new CP Abubakar joined the Nigeria Police Force in 1992 as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) while his last place of assignment was Commissioner of Police in charge of Community Policing Units in the Research and Planning Department, Force headquarters having served in Kaduna, Kogi, Plateau, Rivers among others in different capacities.
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Sri Lanka Travel Guide Sri Lanka Trips Day 4 (Kandy - Nuwara Eliya)
Day 4 (Kandy - Nuwara Eliya)
By Born.Nomadic
Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic of Lord Buddha
I was suggested by a fellow traveller Logesh to visit Nuwara Eliya. So, I decided to change my plan, instead of going north I changed my direction to south. But before I could start my travel to Nuwara Eliya. I had to visit one more place in Kandy - The famous 'Temple Of The Tooth'. I had a lot to do today. Thus, I woke up early had a heavy breakfast as always and headed towards the temple. I was told that the entry fee to the temple was 1500LRK for the foreign nationals. Thinking of the amount, I thought I would stroll around the place and will not enter the temple.
Nanuoya
Next to me was this gentleman named 'Hakeem'. Once, he got to know that I was from India, he started narrating his experiences of his travel to India. I was good to hear good things about my country. I saw the ticket checker approaching so I put my hand into my pocket to get the ticket. I realised it was not there. Probably, I had dropped it somewhere. I ran to the ticket checker and told him that I've lost the ticket. He calmly responded suggesting me to buy one from the next station. Hakeem helped me get the ticket from the next station. Also, when he dropped off at his destination; he got me some snacks too so that I don't have to get down at any station if I was hungry. I had no clue how to thank him. Before I could say anything he was gone.
Seetha Amman Temple
Fortunate was I that I bumped into Asankya. I local from Galle. After a chit chat about where I was from and where I am heading to. He told me that he can get me into the temple without paying a penny. It sounded like a plan and my mind I was happy that the amount that I paid as a donation at Dambulla Cave Temple would get compensated.
He asked me to stay mum till we pass the entry gates. And I did. Once I was in the temple a feeling of advantage came over me. I was happy.
We offered the gifts to the Lord. Then, Ashankya showed me around the temple and the museum. I was grateful to him. He told me that he would try to meet me again at Galle when I go south and parted our paths. I returned to the hotel to pick my stuff. It was around 10.45 AM and the train to Nuwara Eliya was about to leave in the next 10 minutes. I was sure I would miss it and wait for the next.
Luck was on my side today. The train was running late and it arrived at around 12 PM, a few minutes later after I reached the railway station. I got the window seat and couldn't be more thankful as I got to know that this route was the most beautiful one in the entire country.
Reached the beautiful town of Nanu Oya but this was not my destination. So, I boarded a bus to Nuwara Eliya. I liked the weather, it was raining and it was cooler here as compared to Kandy. After reaching the Nuwara Eliya bus station. I used Google Maps to locate the hostel I had booked online. Maps showed me that it was 10 minutes walk from the station. I started walking, making my way through the woods.
I booked a dorm bed at the hostel for 2 nights believing I would be able to cover as much as I could. It was around 5 PM and I wanted to see a couple of places before it gets dark. I decided to visit the 'Ashok Vatika'; today's 'Seetha Amman Temple' as everyone back in India had suggested me to visit the place.
There was no one in the temple. I was the only person at this hour. From my childhood, we've heard stories about Ravana's Lanka and places associated with Ramayana like any other Indian. I sat near the Feet imprint of Lord Hanuman for a while. The place made me feel a deep connection and I got hysterical.
I wanted to stay longer but due to the brevity of time. I had to leave. The bus stand is opposite to the temple.
While I was waiting for the bus, I met these two gentlemen from India. We talked about the food, the people, the places. They were kind enough to give me company till I boarded the bus. I reached Nuwara Eliya bus station around 8 PM, went to this restaurant on the opposite side. I ordered Masala Dosai and a glass of milk. Once done, I walked back to the hostel. In less than 15 minutes I was in the hostel; good that I was carrying a flashlight because the path to the hostel turned dark.
Day 4 Expenses - 2060LRK (13.50$)
(a) Snacks - 130LRK
(b) Train Fare Kandy to Nanu-Oya - 160LRK + 150LRK (for the new ticket) = 310LRK
(c) Hostel/ Dorm Charges - 1330LRK
(d) Bus to Nuwara from Nanu-Oya - 25LRK
(e) Bus to Hakgala (Seetha Amman Temple) - 30LRK
(f) Bus to Nuwara Eliya from Seetha Amman Temple - 30LRK
(g) Dinner - 205LRK
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Top 10 Must-See Temples in Bali
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Michael Aquino
Mike Aquino is a travel writer covering Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. He lives in Manila full-time, but is perfectly at home in a Singapore hawker center.
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No visit to Bali would be complete without a trip to see at least one of Bali's temples. There are over 20,000 Pura (Balinese for temple) in Bali at last count, a widespread marker of Bali's exuberant culture; you don't have to make an effort to see all of them, but you do have to see at least a few of the temples listed below.
Some temples can be seen in a single trip (Tirta Empul and Pura Gunung Kawi are both near Tampaksiring, for instance); others may need a little more advance planning. In any case, the effort to see any of these Bali temples is effort well spent - particularly if your visit coincides with an odalan, or temple festival!
Holy of Holies: Pura Besakih
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Jl. Gunung Mas No.Ds, Besakih, Rendang, Kabupaten Karangasem, Bali 80863, Indonesia
Phone +62 823-3919-8076
The holiest of all temples in Bali, the "Mother Temple" of Pura Besakih is located some 3,000 feet up Gunung Agung in East Bali. This sprawling complex consolidates 23 separate temples, some dating back to the 10th century. The temple's main axis aligns with the peak of Gunung Agung, the tallest mountain and holiest site in all of Bali.
Pura Besakih narrowly escaped destruction in 1963, as lava flow from Gunung Agung's killer eruption missed the temple by mere yards. Today, Pura Besakih is a major draw for tourists and for devout Balinese. (For other tourist attractions in this part of the island, read: Places to See in East Bali.)
Location: East Bali, accessible via Ubud, Denpasar or Candidasa.
Odalan of Pura Penataran Agung (biggest temple) falls on: July 5 (2019), January 31 and August 28 (2020), March 2 and October 22 (2021)
Valley of the Kings: Pura Gunung Kawi
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Banjar Penaka, Tampaksiring, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80552, Indonesia
Located about a mile south of Tampaksiring, Bali's "Valley of the Kings" is located in a ravine between rice fields. The Pakerisan river flows through this ravine, and the cliffs flanking the river feature shrines carved into the stone honoring kings and queens from the 11th century. The Balinese, who are big believers in the holiness of water, believe that the river sanctifies Pura Gunung Kawi.
The site isn't a temple per se, neither is it an actual tomb - the royalty honored here were likely cremated as per Balinese custom.
Location: Near Tampaksiring, accessible via Ubud. The temple can be visited together with Tirta Empul nearby.
Odalan falls on: March 24 and October 20 (2019), May 17 and December 13 (2020), July 11 (2021)
Healing Waters: Tirta Empul
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Jl. Tampaksiring, Manukaya, Tampaksiring, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80552, Indonesia
The sacred spring that feeds Tirta Empul provides holy water for priests and bathing for ordinary Balinese, who believe that a dip hereabouts can bring good fortune and health. An offering must first be made at the temple before you can climb into the long main pool to bathe and meditate.
Legend has it that the god Indra created the spring Tampaksiring (namesake of the nearby town) as an antidote to a poisonous spring created by an evil demon king.
In reality, Tirta Empul was probably built in 926 AD during the Balinese Warmadewa dynasty. A villa complex nearby houses government VIPs; it was originally constructed for former President Sukarno in the 1950s.
Location: Near Tampaksiring, accessible via Ubud . The temple can be visited together with Pura Gunung Kawi nearby.
Odalan falls on: April 22 and November 18 (2019), June 15 (2020), January 11 and August 9 (2021)
Stairway to Heaven: Pura Luhur Lempuyang
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Bunutan, Abang, Seraya Bar., Kec. Karangasem, Kabupaten Karangasem, Bali 80852, Indonesia
Obscurity aside, the temple of Pura Luhur Lempuyang is one of Bali's most important religious places: it's one of the six sad kahyangan ("temples of the world") dedicated to Sang Hyang Widi Wasa (the supreme God), and it's also one of the island's nine directional temples that "protects" the native Balinese from evil spirits.
The temple presents an interesting challenge to visitors: reaching the top means conquering 1,700 steps cut into mountainside jungle, requiring about an hour and a half of serious climbing. Ordinary Balinese make their way up the stairs to ask for divine assistance with problems or request blessings from above.
The temple at the top offers awesome views of Gunung Agung, framed by the temple gate. Try to visit on the Thursday after Galungan, to see Lempuyang during its odalan.
Location: East Bali, accessible via Candidasa.
Odalan falls on: July 25 (2019), February 20 and September 17 (2020), April 15 and November 11 (2021)
A Cave Agape: Goa Gajah
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Ubud, Bedulu, Kec. Blahbatuh, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia
Known as the "Elephant Cave," Goa Gajah seems strangely free from elephants until you realize it takes its name from its proximity to the Elephant River. (Which is also strangely lacking in elephants.)
Goa Gajah's key attraction is the menacing entrance to the cave — the surrounding rock has been carved into a face, mouth agape.
The interior of the cave features a statue of the Hindu god Ganesha and a worship area devoted to the Hindu god Shiva. Goa Gajah probably dates back to the 11th century and is mentioned in a poem that dates back to the 1300s.
Location: Central Bali, about 10 minutes' drive southeast of Ubud.
Rising from the Sea: Pura Tanah Lot
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Beraban, Kediri, Tabanan Regency, Bali 82121, Indonesia
Tanah Lot stands on a rock some distance from the shore, towering over the sea. Access to the temple is limited to low tide; even so, this picturesque temple is barraged by visitors.
The temple's construction was supposedly inspired by the priest Nirartha in the 15th century; after spending the night on the rock outcrop where the temple now stands, he instructed local fishermen to build a temple on that site. Today, Tanah Lot is regarded as one of Bali's most important directional temples. A multimillion-dollar restoration effort in the 1990s saved Tanah Lot from falling into the sea.
As one of Bali's most popular temples, Tanah Lot is surrounded by crowds and vendors. Do not visit if it's peace and quiet you're after, but do come if you're after a great sunset view.
Location: Accessible via Ubud or Denpasar. The temple can be visited together with Pura Taman Ayun nearby.
Odalan falls on: January 9 (2019), March 4 and September 30 (2020), April 28 and November 24 (2021)
Beautiful Garden: Pura Taman Ayun
Jl. Ayodya No.10, Mengwi, Kec. Mengwi, Kabupaten Badung, Bali 80351, Indonesia
Built in the 1600s by the King of Mengwi, Pura Taman Ayun survives today as a beautiful example of a royal public temple. The descendants of the Mengwi royal family still sponsor the temple, which also serves as the clan kawitan temple (a temple dedicated to the worship of the deified ancestors, in this case, the previous rulers of the Mengwi royal family).
"Taman Ayun" means "beautiful garden"; a moat surrounds the temple, which gives the complex the appearance of floating on water. A landscaped front courtyard entered through an ornamental candi bentar (split front gate) adds to the temple's beauty. The inner courtyard features a number of multi-tiered meru (pagodas).
Location: About 11 miles northwest of Denpasar; 5 miles southwest of Ubud. The temple can be visited together with Tanah Lot nearby.
Odalan falls on: January 15-18 and August 13-16 (2019), March 10-13 and October 6-9 (2020), May 4-7 and November 30-December 3 (2021)
Floating Pagoda: Pura Ulun Danu Bratan
Danau Beratan, Candikuning, Kec. Baturiti, Kabupaten Tabanan, Bali 82191, Indonesia
This temple on the shores of Lake Bratan is second only to Pura Besakih in its significance, but for rice farmers in Bali, this temple is the foremost on the island. Pura Ulun Danu Bratan is the primary temple in the many temples and shrines that punctuate the subak irrigation system popular in Bali. The temple is dedicated to the worship of the goddess of lakes and rivers, Dewi Batari Ulun Danu.
Part of the temple is located on the mainland, while a significant section seems to "float" on the lake. It's set on an island just off the mainland temple complex. An 11-roof meru (pagoda) sits on the island section, a towering beauty surrounded by a placid lake.
Location: Lake Bratan, an hour and a half from Denpasar.
Odalan falls on: July 9 (2019), February 4 and September 1 (2020), March 30 and October 26 (2021)
Soaring Cliffs: Pura Luhur Uluwatu
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Pecatu, South Kuta, Badung Regency, Bali, Indonesia
Pura Luhur Uluwatu is both a major Balinese temple (one of the six sad kahyangan revered by all Balinese) and the site of a nightly kecak performance that re-enacts the Ramayana through chanting half-naked men, masked actors, and a dramatic fire-dance.
Pura Luhur Uluwatu was first constructed by a Javanese Hindu guru in the 10th century. The whole temple stands on a cliff soaring 200 feet above a prime Bali surfing spot in the westernmost part of South Bali — the temple's name refers to its position "at the head of the rock", and visitors get an eyeful of the sea as it breaks against the base of the cliffs below. The view is especially beautiful during sunset.
Location: 11 miles south of Kuta.
Odalan falls on: August 13-16 (2019), March 10-13 and October 6-9 (2020), May 4-7 and November 30-December 2 (2021)
Bats and the Beach: Pura Goa Lawah
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Jl. Raya Goa Lawah, Pesinggahan, Kec. Dawan, Kabupaten Klungkung, Bali 80761, Indonesia
The temple of Pura Goa Lawah in East Bali is centered around a cave inhabited by thousands of bats. A black-sand beach nearby makes Goa Lawah a popular site for post-cremation purification, for the Balinese families that can afford it.
The Javanese priest Nirartha is reputed to have visited the cave back in the 15th century. Legend has it that the cave interior extends over 19 miles underground to emerge at Pura Besakih.
Location: 6 miles west of Candidasa.
Odalan falls on: January 15 and August 13 (2019), March 10 and October 6 (2020), May 4 and November 30 (2021)
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Conservatives cheer Gov Fallin’s income tax reduction/phaseout plan
Capitol Editor Patrick B McGuigan
Conservatives in the Legislature, and the leader of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, cheered Governor Mary Fallin’s historic income tax reduction proposals on Monday.
Michael Carnuccio of OCPA said, “I hope every Oklahoman realizes how truly remarkable this day is for our future. On President Ronald Reagan’s 101st birthday, Gov. Mary Fallin exhibited the same bold, transformational leadership of Reagan in joining state lawmakers in the goal of advancing economic freedom to empower all citizens in our great state.
“No other governor in the country is working this boldly to provide tax
relief, and no other Legislature in the country is this passionate about
eliminating waste and inefficiency and returning tax dollars to their
rightful owner – the people. While the legislative process will now
focus on the details of each plan, we can clearly see that when the dust
settles, Oklahomans will keep more of their hard earned money next
At the Capitol, the governor’s Republican allies generally applauded the framework of her tax cut plan and applauded priorities listed in her State of the State address.
Senate President Pro Temp Brian Bingman of Sapulpa said, “I thought she laid out something that is certain to lay a basis to move Oklahoma forward.” He cautioned, “the devil’s in the details,” saying his members would “need to sit down and see what common ground we can find.” However, Bingman emphasized he supports efforts to “reduce the burden on Oklahoma taxpayers.”
In a session with reporters shortly after the State of the State speech ended, Bingman covered a range of issues. He predicted “a lot of attention on the Department of Human Services,” in light of the Children’s Rights litigation where a proposed settlement is now under judicial review. He reflected that he believes there will be “movement this session” toward some resolution of the health exchange issue.
Asked to predict areas where there might be conflict between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate, he quipped quickly, “Probably on tax cuts.”
Fallin’s tax proposal will head to the Revenue and Finance Committee. Bingman and House Speaker Kris Steele have reserved bill numbers to serve as vehicles for the governor’s proposal, the legislative leaders said this afternoon.
Lieutenant Governor Todd Lamb, who presided over the joint session in the House Chamber, where Fallin delivered her speech, expressed strong support for the governor’s message. In comments sent to CapitolBeatOK, Lamb said:
“The Governor outlined an ambitious, pro-growth agenda today that will make Oklahoma more competitive and government more effective. Serving as Oklahoma’s Small Business Advocate, I’m excited about the vision for reforming our tax code and lightening the economic burden of all Oklahomans.
“This is a crucial task that allows our citizens to keep more of their money, and attracts more businesses to our state. I am hopeful and optimistic this upcoming legislative session will be productive while maintaining fiscal responsibility.”
Speaker of the House Kris Steele issued statement boosting Fallin’s goals, while addressing other areas of governance. He commented:
“Governor Fallin laid out the type of aggressive vision we need to take this state from good to great. The picture the governor painted of our state is true: We’re growing, and we’re on the cusp of something great. With 41,600 new jobs in the past year, low unemployment and a growing economy, Oklahoma is positioned well to grow and prosper in the years ahead.
“The pro-growth state we promised our constituents is starting to take shape, which is proof that what we’re doing is working. Under this governor’s leadership, the state has unprecedented momentum that we’re all looking forward to seizing and building upon this session.”
The Shawnee Republican continued: “The governor’s income tax reduction plan appears bold, strategic and responsible all at once. That’s exciting, and we’re excited to begin reviewing it. Over the next four months, the governor’s tax plan will be front and center before the Legislature along with other tax reform plans put forth by legislators.
“All income tax plans will get careful consideration as we determine the best way to achieve a growth-spurring, responsible tax reduction. I commend the governor and my colleagues in the Legislature for their commitment to the meaningful tax reform Oklahomans have asked for and deserve.
“It’s a fantastic sign for public safety to see funding for smart on crime initiatives in the governor’s proposed budget. The governor has been a champion for public safety and she knows, as many of us now know, how critical these services are to public safety and to improving our criminal justice system.
“This funding dovetails extremely well with the statewide public safety plan we developed through the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, as does the governor’s call for a new trooper academy. All these initiatives would be tremendous boosts to law enforcement and we will make them a priority.
“The governor’s commitment to transportation, education, government modernization, DHS reform, water, public health and energy are priorities also shared by the House, so we look forward to working with her in these policy areas, as well.”
Tax credits targeted for elimination in the governor’s proposal, dubbed the Tax Reduction and Simplification Act, include these: Dry Fire Hydrant Credit, Credit for Railroad Modernization, Credit for Breeders of Specialty Trained Canines, Volunteer Firefighter Credit, Wire Transfer Fee Credit, Credit for Cancer Research Contribution, Oklahoma Capital Investment Board Tax Credit, Credit for Hazardous Waste Control, Gas Used in Manufacturing Credit, Oklahoma Investment/ New Jobs Credit, Credit for Energy Assistance Fund Contribution, Coal Credit, Child Care/ Child Tax Credit, Credit for Manufacturer of Qualified Electric Motor Vehicles, Oklahoma Agricultural Producers Credit, Credit for Employers Providing Child Care Programs, Credit for Businesses Providing Providing Child Care Services, Small Business Guaranty Fee Credit, Credit for Electricity Generated by Zero-Emission Facilities, Credit for Manufacturers of Small Wind Turbines, Food Service Establishment Hepatitis A Vaccination, Credit for Tourism Development or Film or Music Production Facility, and Credit for Qualified Rehabilitation Expenditures.
Also under deliberation for a sunset in the governor’s proposal are the Credit for the Construction of Energy Efficient Homes, Credit for Wages Paid to An Injured Employee, Credit for Modification Expenses Paid for An Injured Employee, Credit for Qualified Recycling Facility, Credit for Qualified Ethanol Facilities, Earned Income Tax Credit, Credit for Qualified Biodiesel Facilities, Low Income Property Tax Credit, Oklahoma Local Development and Enterprise Zone Incentive Leverage Act, Poulty Litter Credit, Film or Music Project Credit, Credit for Rural Economic Development Loans, Credit for Stafford Loan Organizational Fee, Sales Tax Relief Credit, Research and Development New Jobs Credit and the Business Activity Tax Credit.
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Red Hat Updates OpenShift Container Platform with New Service Catalog
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Red Hat, an American multinational software company, recently released an update of its OpenShift container platform on August 9. This update provides users with capacities which are taken from open-source Kubernetes 1.6 release. This is Red Hat’s quarterly update of the OpenShift platform. This update brings in a lot of changes but the major one is an addition of a Service Catalog which will help IT or third-party vendors in creating connections to internal or external services.
This shows that in recent years, OpenShift has mainly become a Red Hat distribution of Kubernetes. The OpenShift is largely responsible for providing enterprise-grade container management and orchestration system to organizations. The previous update of OpenShift, i.e. OpenShift 3.5, rolled out on April 13, 2017. That particular update was based upon the Kubernetes 1.5 milestone.
This new update, OpenShift Container Platform 3.6, is based on “Kubernetes 1.6”. This Kubernetes 1.6 was released on March 28, 2017. The major feature of the update was the incorporation of the “etcd 3.0”, which is an open-source distributed key-value store. This integration provided improved scale.
Red Hat, Inc. is a multinational software company whose major work is to provide open source software products to business communities. The company was founded in 1993 by Bob Young and Marc Ewing. The company has its headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA and has offices worldwide. Red Hat provides a lot of services like storage, operating system platforms. Consulting services, training and support is also given by this software company.
They also provide middleware, applications, management products, etc. Red Hat has obtained a lot of software product codebases that are protected by trademarks or belong to big companies by acquisitions and business mergers. Then it releases these software products under open source license which allows developers to examine and further update them.
Red Hat is associated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is its business operating system. It is also associated with middleware vendor, JBoss, which is an open-source enterprise. After Intel, Red Hat is the second largest corporate contributor to the Linux kernel version 4.5. Red Hat also creates and contributes to a lot of free software programs and projects. It is part of projects and initiatives like “One laptop per child” initiative, Dogtail, MRG, Opensource.com, Red Hat Exchange, Open Shift, Open Stack, etc. It has also created a subsidiary named “Red Hat India” to provide all the services and support to its Indian consumers.
About OpenShift
OpenShift is a software product made by Red Hat, Inc. It first released six years ago on May 4, 2011. This software product’s main job is container-based software deployment and management. In simple words, it is just the supported distribution of Kubernetes using the Docker containers along with DevOps tools. It is used for accelerated application development.
OpenShift is of four types
OpenShift Origin − It is used in OpenShift Online, OpenShift Dedicated, and OpenShift Container Platform as a community project. It presents an open source application container platform. It is controlled by the application lifecycle management functionality and DevOps tooling.
OpenShift Online − It is the public cloud application development and hosting service made by Red Hat. It contains frameworks, databases and a lot of different languages through “catridges”, which are pre-built. They run under “gears”. Developers can use the OpenShift Cartridge application programming interface and add or change languages, databases, etc.
OpenShift Dedicated − It is the private cluster offering controlled by Red Hat. It is built within a center of application containers which are powered by Docker. It runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the orchestration and management is supplied by Kubernetes. It is available in different market places like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
OpenShift Container Platform − This was previously named as OpenShift Enterprise. It is Red Hat’s OpenShift platform-as-a-service product. It also runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and managed by Kubernetes.
Details of OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 Update
On August 9, 2017, Red Hat announced the launch of a new incremental update of the OpenShift Container platform, i.e. the 3.6 version. It is Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes container application platform. According to big organizations like Copel Telecom, cloud-native applications are the path to digital transformation. We don’t absolutely deny that but there are major other IT issues like greater application security, compliance and service consistency.
The answers to these issues must also be found. The new OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 uses the new PCI-DSS applicability guide and also possesses fine-grained network policy and control and with the help of these it will look forward to solving all the above stated problems. The new container platform has features which will help deliver uniform applications across both hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. The full form of PCI-DSS is Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This sets perfect practices and requirements for securely storing and processing all payment card information.
New Features of the OpenShift Container Platform 3.6
This new Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 is based on Kubernetes 1.6 and runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and also the integrated docker container. The big changes that come to the platform after the update are explained below. As you all must be knowing that security is too important in this digital world.
The chances of important data getting leaked are more nowadays. Irrespective of the fact that modern, cloud-native applications exhibit better facilities and innovations yet they are equally sensitive to security as the old, traditional apps. This is the reason why the new update of Red Hat’s OpenShift Container platform focuses on helping companies pull off more secure operations at both the container and the host operating system level.
It has introduced a new PCI DSS product applicability guide, which as you must know, helps in making companies understand the ways to accept, process, store or transmit credit card information.
It has also introduced two new brilliant features, i.e. Secrets encryption and image signing. Secrets encryption helps in complete encryption of secrets and save them in rear storage to keep it safe and secure. It allows administrators to force signature usage on image content in projects which actually saves projects from piracy and keeps it secure.
A lot of improvement has been made to Network Policy, which gives better control to the administrators and they can check what information the applications are transferring as well as the network resources they expose.
The introduction of “Service Broker and Service Catalog”. They help the users to search, prepare and attach application services to their OpenShift applications. This works regardless of the service running in their data center or public cloud.
The new OpenShift Template Broker helps the users to choose OpenShift Templates using the new Service Catalog. This helps in distributing multi-container application services in OpenShift.
Another useful feature is “Ansible Playbook Broker”. This allows the use of Ansible Playbooks for distributing application services on OpenShift. It also helps in sticking together the applications, irrespective of the place they came from, i.e. OpenShift cluster or public cloud, etc.
The new merged installation of Container Native Storage which is built with Red Hat Gluster Storage brings forward a new three way replicated storage for the OpenShift registry.
We discussed about all the new features of the update but the feature that stood out was the introduction of the new “Service Catalog”. It allows developers to enter and find pre-configured connectors. This works regardless of whether they were an internal connector to an Oracle database or an external one to a public cloud service from AWS or Azure. This feature is only out for preview and will be released later this year. Thank you all for devoting your precious time in reading this article. I hope the information was helpful.
Karthikeya Boyini
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Soundsnap © 2008 - 2020, All rights reserved. It is rare in the Australian Alps, being replaced there by the little raven. They lose their egg tooth at the same time. [44], The wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) preys on adult, nestling, and fledgling Australian ravens, while the little eagle (Hieraaetus morphnoides) also takes nestlings, and powerful owl (Ninox strenua) has been recorded killing adults;[26] other birds of prey are seen as threats, yet there is no evidence they have successfully preyed on the ravens. New nests are built each year generally, as the re-use of old ones might spread disease or parasites—nests become caked with faeces as the nestlings grow and the parents cannot keep up with its removal. Rowley noted that the western subspecies of the Australian raven had features intermediate between the eastern subspecies of Australian and little ravens.
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[44], The Australian raven is omnivorous, though eats more meat than smaller corvids. [5] Scottish naturalist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant corrected this in 1912 after re-examining the type specimen, clarifying the species as C. coronoides (raven, and incorporating little and forest ravens) and C. cecilae (Torresian crow). [29] The bill is shorter and shallower;[25] its base can be pinkish and the tip can be light grey.
The wings are long and broad, with the longest of its ten primary feathers (usually the seventh but occasionally the eighth) almost reaching the end of the tail when the bird is at rest.
House [19] Foraging takes place in the early morning or late afternoon; birds rest in the hotter part of the day.
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These black birds may belong to the same family and look similar in some ways, but several distinctive traits help set them apart. Written by Bob Sundstrom [37] Australian ravens will defend their territory by chasing, dive-bombing and occasionally striking the backs of birds of prey, foxes or even people. Rural ambience - in the field - Hombeek, Belgium 1. https://wildambienceassets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/28174908/XC174168-Australian-Magpie-Gymnorhina-tibicen.mp3 XC174168 A variety of short, single note calls. The nest is a bowl-shaped structure of sticks sited high in a tree, or occasionally in a man-made structure such as a windmill or other building.
[55], To the Noongar people of southwestern Australia, the Australian raven was Waardar, "the Watcher" and was wily and unpredictable.
[51] Scientific observation in the country's southeast showed that the killing of healthy lambs was rare, but that sick animals were predisposed to being attacked. [21] The Australian raven has adapted very well to human habitation in some cities and is the most common corvid in Canberra, Sydney and Perth; in Melbourne and Adelaide it is replaced by the little raven,[21] and by the Torresian crow in Brisbane.
Spread the word. [28], The volume, pitch, tempo and order of notes can be changed depending on the message the Australian raven intends to convey.
[42] Eggs are quite variable, and thus which Australian corvid laid them cannot be reliably identified. Make certain that your volume level is not too loud.
It has affinities with canary circovirus (CaCV) and pigeon circovirus (PiCV). Car Measuring 46–53 cm (18–21 in) in length with a 100 cm (39 in) wingspan and weighing around the 650 g (1.43 lb),the Australian raven is Australia's largest species of corvid. The upperparts are glossy, with a purple, blue, or green sheen, and its black feathers have grey bases.
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Sometimes they are aggressive with little ravens if both are at a food source and drive them off, though not if the smaller species greatly outnumber the larger.
Despite their fondness for roadkill, fewer ravens are hit by vehicles than Australian magpies.
They have also been recorded using fence posts as anvils to bash snails against before eating them. Crows in Bangkok, medium distant with a pair of crows calling, AB.
[44] The ravens occasionally nest on buildings, telegraph poles,[32] or tall windmills which allow the species to occupy areas lacking in tall trees. Recorded in Capertee National Park, New South Wales. The three species of raven are more heavily set with a broader chest than the two crow species, with the forest raven the stockiest of all. [36] Its large range, abundance and increasing population mean it is classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. https://wildambienceassets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/28183310/XC200412-Australian-Magpie-Gymnorhina-tibicen.mp3 XC200412 Begging calls from a juvenile. They have also been known to take golf balls from fairways, possibly mistaking them for eggs. They are often in family groups consisting of a dominant pair along with younger birds raised in previous seasons.
Audubon protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Breeding takes place between July and September, with almost no variation across its range.
Reviews There are no reviews yet. Initial single gene genetic analysis of the genus using mitochondrial DNA showed the three raven species to belong to one lineage and the two crows to another. Be the first one to write a review. [14] This has been followed by later authors. The raven bites a sleeping lamb's tail, holding on and walking behind it when it wakes up. Crows in Bangkok, medium distant with a pair of crows calling, ORTF. Occasionally they have been observed caching carrion or a killed animal in a hole nearby to store it. The skin itself is oedematous and wrinkled, and does not get re-feathered until December after the breeding season has finished. Get Crow Sounds from Soundsnap, the Leading Sound Library for Unlimited SFX Downloads. Motorcycle [37] Juvenile birds leave their parents and join flocks when they are four or five months old. [5][b] Immature birds older than one year develop hackles,[24] while some pink remains in the gape until the bird is two or three years of age.
Unlike many birds, crows don’t sing loudly to attract mates from a distance. Photo: Dick Dickinson/Audubon Photography Awards. We have gratefully received numerous donations of high quality private collections of sound recording data sets, which have greatly contributed to the breadth of our archive. [49], A circovirus—given the name raven circovirus or RaCV—was isolated from an Australian raven suffering from feather lesions in 2006. [31] Either member may initiate it, generally by landing near the other bird, shuffling next to its mate, then bending its head forward and presenting its nape.
[44] Incubation of the eggs is done solely by the female over roughly 20 days.
[38], A single breeding pair and their brood can occupy a territory of up to around 120 hectares (300 acres) and remains there year-round, though groups of ravens may enter this area to forage.
People from other country may call it Raven but we call Crow. [44] Measuring 45 by 30 mm (1 3⁄4 by 1 1⁄4 in), eggs are pale green or bluish-green and splotched with darker olive, brown and blackish markings.
Smaller flocks of 8–30 birds stay within an area of around 260 square kilometres, while larger flocks of up to 300 birds may travel hundreds of kilometres seeking food. Crows are very common birds and easy to find anywhere in Australia. The Australian raven is territorial, with pairs generally bonding for life. [56], Maturing bird with white irises with slight blue ring, Nowra. [10] In 1877 Richard Bowdler Sharpe recognised two species, but recorded that the feather bases of the type specimen of C. coronoides were white. [46] Ravens use their bill rather than their feet to explore or turn items on the ground (rocks or sticks) over or hold or snatch food while flying.
The Australian raven was first described by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827, when they reported George Caley's early notes on the species from the Sydney district.
T… [45] They leave the nest at 40–45 days of age, and stay with the parents for three to four months after that. In areas where it occurs with the little raven, namely over much of central New South Wales, Victoria and into South Australia,[21] the Australian raven is restricted to more forested areas while the latter species prefers more open areas. [19], Ian Rowley proposed that the common ancestor of the five species diverged into a tropical crow and temperate raven sometime after entering Australia from the north,[20] which molecular evidence indicates occurred in the early Pliocene epoch around 4 million years ago. Workshop
It’s been said that if someone knows only three birds, one of them will be the crow. Measuring 46–53 centimetres (18–21 in) in length, it has all-black plumage, beak and mouth, as well as strong grey-black legs and feet.
It’s been said that if someone knows only three birds, one of them will be the crow. He used Johann Friedrich Gmelin's 1788 name,[a] which predated Vigors and Horsfield's description.
[44] A clutch can comprise up to six eggs, though usually four or five are laid, with five being the most common number. It has adapted well to urban environments and is a common city bird in Sydney, Canberra, and Perth. In contrast, the little raven and forest raven hold their bodies in an upright posture. In Australian Aboriginal mythology, the crow is an ancestral being. Lice and hippoboscid flies have been recorded yet little-researched, and an infestation by the fly Passeromyia longicornis was recorded in one nest.
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Discussion and Debate
Who killed Tony Soprano.
Thread: Who killed Tony Soprano.
August 24, 2020, 03:12 PM #1
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I don't recall there ever being a thread for the Sopranos while it aired. I watched the series through recently and read a few theories on who killed Tony. All presuming Tony actually died. I remember being shocked at the end. Like everyone I tried to remember what had happened in the last few minutes, who could have done it. Below are the popular theories and my thoughts on why some of them don't fit.
Theory 1: Little Carmine (Lupertazzi) had Butch Deconcini kill Phil (Leotardo) and Tony (Soprano). Little Carmine was the rightful boss of the Lupertazzi family but was outstead by Johnny Sacromoni and then Phil Leotardo. Problem here is Little Carmine had always got on well with Tony and had no reason to kill him, in fact Tony was one of the few mobsters who would have been happy to see Little Carmine as boss as Little Carmine was easily manipulated.
Theory 2: Butch Deconcini had Tony killed to see through Phil's (Leotardo) plan of killing off the leadership of Jersey so the Lupertazzi family (under Butchie) could take over what was left of the Jersey crew once the Soprano's were gone. The problem with this theory is that it doesn't end the war. Butch already gave Tony the go ahead to kill off Phil and he was keen to make peace, he already had a lot on his plate not being killed himself for betraying Phil without having to worry about reprisals for killing Tony too.
Theory 3: Patsy Parisi: Tony had Patsy's twin brother killed early in the show and Patsy had tried to kill Tony at his house, but bottled out. Patsy was definitely a killer and was scared his son (Jason) was following him into the Soprano crew and mob life. Jason Parisi was good friends with Jason Gervasi who was in turn the son of Soprano crew member Carlo Gervasi, who had flipped to the FBI. The problem with this theory is Patsy would have been painting a target on his own back and put his family in danger. To wait this long to take another shot at Tony doesn't make much sense.
Theory 4: Eugene Pontecorvo's Brother: In the first episode of the last season 'Members Only' Eugene inherits $2m. He and his wife plan to move to Florida and he seeks permission from Tony to leave the Mob. After some pondering Tony refuses, which is told to Eugene through Sil. Eugene is distraught and takes his own life, presumably wanting a better life for his family but thinking his wife and kids will never be able to leave while he is connected to the Jersey crew. 3 o'clock: When Christopher is shot and coming out of his coma he tells Paulie and Tony of his near death experience and gives them a warning from dead associate 'Mikey Palmice.' The warning is 3 o'clock. In the final scene we see a man sitting at the counter wearing, the same members only jacket Eugene Pontecorvo was wearing in the first episode of the season. Later in the scene the man goes into the men's room, which is situated at Tony's right hand side, at 3 o'clock.
Spoiler for Last scene:
Show creator David Chase later stated all the clues were in the last scene. I've watched the end scene many times and noticed the prominence of the number 3 throughout. There are 3 scouts. The guy has 3 creamers with his coffee. Tony only ordered 3 cokes, before being told Meadow will be late and before Carmella and AJ turned up. The song starts as Carmella walks in, which is the third time the door bell rings. Meadow takes 3 attempts to park her car. 3 is the first number on Meadow's number plate.
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Re: Who killed Tony Soprano.
Well, now I have to rewatch the Sopranos again. Thanks Halie .
On my first watch through I always thought it was either Patsy or Little Carmine, leaning more towards Patsy.
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Iirc then the answer is simply whatever you want it to be. Tony's arc was that in the end he was more or less incorrigible, and bound to continue his mafia life, even as a huge element of the show had been him struggling with the negative aspects of it. As him sticking to this life is integral to his personality, the only way this series could have ended for him if it had ended on a definite ending, would have been death (also since him rotting in jail would have been less interesting).
But let's for one second reverse the premise of the OP and say he's NOT killed that day. Well, he might be killed the day after, or the day after. Or the day after that. Or, even more fatalistic, he'd continue to have many more of those family dinners where he as a made man would have to continuously watch over his shoulders, never feeling safe, always suspecting an entering customer to potentially be a hitman.
And that to me the absolute beauty of the ending. I love it so much, it's the only specific thing I still remember of the show. It's so deep and meaningful, while any definite ending would have been trivial.
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Tony predicts Christopher's death, Christopher predicts Gandolfini's death.
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Patsy wouldn't have lasted a week if he'd had a hand in killing Tony and that would be impossible to keep quiet. I immediately thought New York, but that was Carmine and Butch and neither had the stones.
Originally Posted by Nebaki
What about Slavas Brother Valery? They had never found him.
Missing for 3 seasons and only mentioned in passing, Valery would be a long shot. Apparently when Bobbie enters the room dressed in his hunting outfit and we see Tony cracking up, it was because off camera Bobbie was wearing a giant sex toy.
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Iirc then the answer is simply whatever you want it to be.
Whether or not he died, yeh. My brothers, both huge fans, won't accept Tony died at all. I prefer to think he did. It felt like Chase was peeling back the likeable anti-hero in the last season and showing him more and more for what he was. Tony was a monster who didn't deserve to walk away.
I remember watching the ending with one eye on the clock, that gradual realisation there was no time left for any kind of ending, and then, black screen/silence. Brilliant.
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The dead silence is jarring and I love when it's used properly in TV shows. You know you just watched an intense episode when it goes to black and the credits roll silently and you're just sitting there staring like, "holy ". I'm horrible at remembering specific episodes of shows, but I remember the end of season 3 of Better Call Saul did it to great effect.
I find myself watching the clock sometimes too during intense scenes like that, I feel like it takes me out of the moment a little bit but I can't help it.
Tony was a monster who didn't deserve to walk away.
Yeah, towards the end of the show he was beset on all sides. It was only a matter of time before he was shot or arrested, it's just a matter of who got to him first.
Never watched Better call Saul past the first season. It was too slow for me. Is it good/better now?
August 26, 2020, 08:12 AM #10
S2 and S3 of BCS are pretty much like S1, S4 gets slightly better and S5 is good.
Things slowly ramp up throughout the show. First two seasons are a bit of a slow burn (but I still loved them), but three is when things start really getting interesting and it only gets better from there. It took me two or three tries to get into the show, but now I'm hooked and I've rewatched it a couple times.
November 26, 2020, 01:12 PM #12
as for me too slow
November 27, 2020, 04:28 AM #13
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Imo the Sopranos was a bad show. Even the Wire was better - obviously due to the greeks
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I just finished the show. For me there are 2 ways of seeing the finale scene. Since we don't see it happen, either it means he could get clipped anywhere by anyone as part of the lifestyle or if he gets killed then it's normal we don't know, that's the way of the mob.
Then there was to be a mass arrest by the FBI and Tony was almost surely on the list, considering the number of mafioso who turned rats to save their skins, may be the higher echelon of the organisation did not want to risk it. Tony knew too much, considering the damaged he could have done his death is a small price to pay for the safety of the business.
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Didn't the creator of the show say that "Actually, nope, nobody killed Tony Soprano." in a recent interview?
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Interviewers have been trying to get Chase to commit one or the other for 20 years. As far as I'm aware he's never given a definitive answer regarding how the show ended. He has previously said he always intended to kill Tony and not show his death, the only thing that changed was the black screen.
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It's the only thing that makes sense.
Foreshadowing all the way to the beginning.
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SMPTE News at IBC2017
S.mclennan ⋅ Published: August 10, 2017
Registration is open for the
SMPTE 2017 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition
(SMPTE 2017), which will take place Oct. 24-26 in Hollywood, California. The event kicks off with the daylong
SMPTE 2017 Symposium
, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in Digital Media Creation: The Promise, The Reality, and The (Scary?) Future,” on Oct. 23. During SMPTE 2017 itself, experts from around the globe will present 69 technical papers, plus a conference keynote. This year the event will culminate with the
SMPTE Annual Awards Gala
hosted in the Loews Hollywood Hotel’s Hollywood Ballroom on the evening of Thursday, Oct. 26. Further details on presentations and speakers are available at
www.smpte2017.org.
IBC2017 Preview
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®)
Partnership Village, Stand 8.F51
SMPTE Publications and Resources at IBC2017
Visitors to the SMPTE stand will have the chance to view and order “The Honor Roll and Honorary Members of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers,” a limited-edition book that showcases the past century’s industry leaders and innovators. The Society also will be accepting pre-orders for “Magic & Miracles: 100 Years of Moving Image Science & Technology,” a richly illustrated and meticulously crafted history of the Society and its groundbreaking work over the past century. SMPTE is offering new lower-cost international shipping options on these and all other products ordered from its online store at
www.smpte.org/store
Throughout IBC2017, SMPTE staff will be available on its stand within the
IBC Partnership Village
to discuss current trends and answer questions about SMPTE activities, resources, and publications, including the latest “SMPTE Standards Quarterly Report,” which details the outcome of the June 2017 SMPTE Standards Committee meeting. The report summarizes the current progress of SMPTE committees that are working to create, approve, revise, and remove standards for the industry and is available at
www.smpte.org/standards/meeting-reports.
As always, the Society will feature the
SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal
, which earned a Distinction Award from the New York Metro, Philadelphia Metro, Atlanta, and Rochester Chapters of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and then continued on to earn a Merit Award in the STC International Summit Awards (STC ISA) competition. Copies of the SMPTE
Motion Imaging Journal
, including the September 2017 “Progress Report” issue, will be available on the stand.
Readers may access
content from 1916 to the present through the SMPTE digital library, which provides one-stop access to SMPTE resources that keep professionals informed of the latest technology and industry research. The SMPTE digital library has been fully incorporated into the
IEEE Xplore®
Digital Library, one of the industry’s most popular sources for technical publications. A complete listing of SMPTE publications is available at
www.smpte.org/digital-library.
SMPTE Director of Membership, Roberta Gorman, and Society leadership will be on hand at IBC2017 to discuss membership benefits and the Society’s role in global standards and interoperability. Prospective members will be able to join, and existing members may renew their memberships on-site. Through the Student Membership Challenge (SMC), a SMPTE fund that pays for a student’s first year of membership, students can join for free. Further information on student programs is available at
www.smpte.org/students
SMPTE at IBC2017
Approximately 130 SMPTE Sustaining Members will exhibit at IBC2017, and the Society itself is among the six leading international associations that serve as the partners behind IBC, representing both exhibitors and visitors. In its role as an IBC partner, SMPTE provides insight that assists to ensure the annual convention is relevant, comprehensive, and timely. SMPTE also provides support that is instrumental to IBC’s continued leadership as an international forum for content creation, management, and delivery, and contributes to the IBC365 online community platform, which provides business knowledge for the global media, entertainment, and technology industry. IBC365 may be accessed at
http://www.ibc.org.
IP Showcase (Room E.106 at the RAI)
SMPTE has joined with the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS), Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA), European Broadcasting Union (EBU), IABM, Media Networking Alliance (MNA), and Video Services Forum (VSF) to support the IP Showcase at the IBC2017 Show. Dedicated to educating visitors and highlighting the business and creative benefits of IP, the exhibition will provide a unified, industry-wide view of the latest advances in IP technology and how it can add maximum value to the broadcast industry and the individuals and companies that drive it. Visitors to the IP Showcase will see engineering progress along with real-world examples of IP applications from leading networks and program producers. The exhibition also will assist broadcast/IT engineers, CEOs, producers, and others in determining how they can leverage the benefits of the draft SMPTE ST-2110 specifications.
SMPTE Conference Session — SMPTE ST 2110: Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks
Scheduled for the Forum on Monday, Sept. 18, at 14:00, as part of the Advances in Technology stream, the SMPTE session will provide an overview of the proposed SMPTE ST 2110 suite of standards and describe how the tools included in it can be used within an infrastructure of networked specifications to achieve agile and flexible solutions for professional media live production. Session Chair Thomas Edwards, vice president of engineering and development at FOX Networks, will be joined in the discussion by SMPTE President Matthew Goldman of Ericsson; SMPTE Fellow John Mailhot, systems architect for IP convergence at Imagine Communications; Howard Lukk, Director of Engineering and Standards at SMPTE; and Willem Vermost, Network IP Media Technology Architect.
EDCF Global Update
SMPTE Members Brian Claypool of Christie, Mats Erixon of Community Hub Foundation, Toby Glover of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema, Andy Maltz of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), Radoslav Markov of Audio Video Orpheus, Richard Phillips of Arts Alliance Media, and Julian Pinn will speak at the EDCF Global Update, an annual IBC Show occurrence. Along with other leaders in the cinema technology field, these SMPTE Members will provide delegates with current information on the latest business and technical advances in global cinema across the value chain — from manufacturing through postproduction, mastering, distribution, exhibition, and archiving. A networking and drinks reception will follow the presentations.
Sessions Featuring SMPTE Members
More than 70 SMPTE Members will participate in more than 20 different IBC2017 conference sessions, across the streams. Bill Baggelaar of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Jimmy Fusil of Netflix, and Richard Wilding of Molinare TV & Film Ltd. will be speakers for the session “UHD from Lens to Screen: Who’s Calling the Shots?”
Julian Pinn of Julian Pinn Ltd. will chair “Visualizing the Science of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG),” a session featuring SMPTE Fellow Dave Schnuelle of Dolby Laboratories and SMPTE Member Dominic Glynn of Pixar. “Efficient and Profitable Operations from the IT/IP Revolution” will include SMPTE Fellow Stan Moote of the IABM as chair, along with speakers Mike Cronk of the AIMS Alliance for IP Media Solutions, Steve Fish of Turner Broadcasting, and Tom Griffiths of itv. These are just of few of the many sessions featuring the expertise and experience of SMPTE Members.
Company Quote:
“SMPTE has been making tremendous strides in standards work related to new modes of content processing and distribution, while also providing valuable educational programs that assist all members of the industry to keep on top of the latest tools, techniques, and technologies. We look forward to showcasing a year of significant SMPTE progress at IBC2017.”
— Barbara H. Lange, Executive Director of SMPTE
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About SMPTE®
For more than a century, the people of SMPTE (pronounced “simp-tee”) have sorted out the details of many significant advances in media and entertainment technology, from the introduction of “talkies” and color television to HD and UHD (4K, 8K) TV. Since its founding in 1916, SMPTE has received an Oscar® and multiple Emmy® Awards for its work in advancing moving-imagery engineering across the industry. SMPTE has developed thousands of standards, recommended practices, and engineering guidelines, more than 800 of which are currently in force today. SMPTE Time Code™ and the ubiquitous SMPTE Color Bars™ are just two examples of SMPTE’s notable work. As it enters its second century, SMPTE is shaping the next generation of standards and providing education for the industry to ensure interoperability as the industry evolves further into IT- and IP-based workflows.
SMPTE’s global membership today includes more than 7,000 members: motion-imaging executives, creatives, technologists, researchers, and students who volunteer their time and expertise to SMPTE’s standards development and educational initiatives. A partnership with the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) connects SMPTE and its membership with the businesses and individuals who support the creation and finishing of media content. Information on joining SMPTE is available at
www.smpte.org/join.
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SMPTE Accepting Technical Manuscripts for Publication Consideration in SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal
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I was driving down Silk Rd in Bennington, VT around 3 pm and I spotted this object, matte dark gray; quite large hovering over one of the mountains. I was really trying to process what I had seen and was actually apprehensive about mentioning it to my husband. I did tell him about 1 -2 minutes later as we were driving (30 mph) and when I looked again, it was gone. I am not sure what it was but I cannot get it out of my mind.
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Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella sheet music for two flutes (duets)
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California’s Amazing Coastal Preserves
Search for Nemo and Dory's ocean friends on the edge of the Pacific
National Monuments & Preserves
California’s western border is edged by oceans, bays, and other tidal waterways filled with life. While you're not likely to run into Nemo (unless you're lost like Dory), you will find popsicle-orange garibaldi (California's state fish) swimming in kelp beds offshore, plus whales, sea lions, anemones, and a skyful of seabirds. A great way to experience these remarkable habitats is to visit one of the state’s 120-plus protected sanctuaries or preserves, not just to see wildlife, but to kayak, swim, snorkel, and SCUBA dive too.
“These are places underwater and along the water to play—where you can kayak, SCUBA dive, surf, tide pool, and watch your kids build sandcastles on the beach,” says Rikki Dunsmore, project manager at the California Marine Sanctuary Foundation.
To help you discover this remarkable network of preserves, we asked Dunsmore and her colleagues to pick 10 sites that offer outstanding—and varied—ocean experiences. Some preserves are in or near state parks with coast-hugging campsites. (Reserve well in advance for these choice spots, especially in summer.) A bit of savvy advice before you go: Check the tide tables for the area you plan to visit. Reef and beach areas might disappear under high tides, leaving you splashing in the surf, or worse yet, getting stranded as the tide comes in.
— Ken McAlpine
California Marine Sanctuary Foundation
http://www.californiamsf.org/
California Marine Protected Areas
http://www.CaliforniaMPAs.org/
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve tides
http://www.tides.net/california/2193/
San Diego-Scripps Coastal State Marine Conservation Area
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=27936
Ten Mile Beach
Experience unspoiled beauty at one of California’s wildest stretches
Van Damme State Marine Conservation Area
Explore a rocky and wild wonderland
Salt Point State Marine Conservation Area
See sea stacks and breakers along a breathtaking coast
Visit a wild archipelago, with whales, seabirds, and great white sharks
See life scuttle, dart, and bark in some of the state’s best tide pools
Paddle a kayak or board a pontoon boat to view otters and seabirds up close
Point Lobos State Natural Reserve
Enjoy wildlife and wild ocean views
Piedras Blancas
See (and hear) thousands of bellowing elephant seals and tour a historic lighthouse
Casino Point
Swim with Nemo-like garibaldis and dive to shipwrecks
Crystal Cove State Marine Conservation Area
Discover what has enchanted artists and parents for years
San Diego-Scripps Coastal Preserves
Visit an underwater—and on-shore—playground in La Jolla
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The REAL reason why Arsenal withdrew their contract offer to Aaron Ramsey with Liverpool front-runners to sign him
The midfielder is set to leave the Emirates after contract talks broke down
Mathew DaviesFootball audience editor
Aaron Ramsey poses with the Arsenal squad for a team photo ahead of the 2018/19 season. It's expected to be his last with the club
Arsenal withdrew their contract offer to Aaron Ramsey because of their continued lack of involvement in the Champions League, according to reports on Sunday.
The Gunners have failed to qualify for the elite European competition for the past two seasons, and the financial hit that has come with that has affected the balance books at the Emirates.
Liverpool lead the chase for Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey as Jurgen Klopp bid revealed
The Mail claim that Ramsey is paying the price for that Euro failure.
A £200,000-a-week deal was reported to have on the table for Ramsey, but that has now been withdrawn, with Unai Emery looking at internal and cheaper external options to replace the Welshman.
Mesut Ozil is on the thick end of £350,000 a week at Arsenal
Arsenal created a rod for their own back by giving Mesut Ozil a £350,000-a-week contract last season and shelling out £200,000 deals to newcomers Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
The loss of a Champions League windfall has had a direct bearing on the Ramsey contract situation, claim the reports.
Liverpool are now the frontunners for Ramsey's signature, with Jurgen Klopp having a bid for the Welshman knocked back over the summer.
It is understood that Ramsey would like the opportunity to work under the German.
Manchester United, Chelsea, Juventus and AC Milan all covet the former Bluebird, who, barring an incredible turnaround, will leave London after 10 years' service.
What is Arsenal fans' problem with Aaron Ramsey? The strange relationship that doesn't look like ending well
The 27-year-old was hooked after the hour mark in Arsenal's 2-0 win over Watford on Saturday, with Alex Iwobi coming on and changing the game for Emery.
He was visibly disappointed, shaking his head as he left the field with the game goalless.
Gareth Bale limps out of Real Madrid's draw with Atletico to give Wales scare ahead of mouthwatering Spain clash
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Safety concerns voiced regarding immigration courts in wake of virus
On behalf of Vickerstaff Law Office, PSC | Mar 23, 2020 | immigration court cases
Across the nation and the world, people are rapidly trying to figure out how to respond to the growing pandemic and help stop the spread of the potentially deadly virus. This effort impacts every facet of society, including the legal and judicial one. It seems the...
Organizations appeal for detainee release in wake of Covid-19
On behalf of Vickerstaff Law Office, PSC | Mar 17, 2020 | immigration law
As the Covid-19 virus outbreak continues, its effects are being seen at all levels. So far, the elderly and immunocompromised are at the worst risk for serious complications. This concern extends to high-risk areas like hospitals where pregnant women or those with...
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‘The Fosters’ season 4 plot news: EP talks about finale’s cliffhangers,...
Johanne See - April 15, 2017
The fourth season finale of “The Fosters” left the Foster siblings in turmoil. In the episode titled "Until Tomorrow," Christina traded places with Callie (Maia...
'The Fosters' season 4 spoilers: Stef and Lena will have a...
J.Paclibar - August 16, 2016
After the introduction of Emma Dumont for the role of Sasha in the recently released episode of Freeform's hit drama "The Fosters," fans can...
'The Fosters' season 4 spoilers: Mariana blamed by students for the...
J.Paclibar - July 1, 2016
Callie (Maia Mitchell) gets suspended from school and Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) will be dealing with shakers who blame her for Nick's (Louis Hunter) actions...
'The Fosters' season 4: Callie and Brandon to try to move...
P.Tan - April 21, 2016
In just two months, season 4 of the American family drama television series "The Fosters" will be returning to the small screen. The upcoming season...
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Accommodation | Activities | Restaurants | Business Directory
General Information on Mossel Bay
Mossel Bay is a coastal village on the south coast of the Western Cape in South Africa, and is situated on the Garden Route approximately half way between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. The history of Mossel Bay is closely linked to maritime activities with its lighthouse being first lit in 1864. Pleasure boats as well as other international seafarers dock here regularly using the modern docking facility.
One of the most famous landmarks in Mossel Bay is the Post Office Tree, where ancient seafarers on their way to the east left their letters for home in a shoe or iron pot. Sailors returning to Portugal would collect these letters, and so the first Post Office in Southern Africa was founded.
Due to its rich history, there are many museums in the town to visit including the Maritime Museum, the Granary, the Shell Museum and the Cultural History Museum. The Dias Museum Complex marks the spot of the historical landing of Dias in 1488 and a replica of the Caravel is housed in the museum.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mossel Bay has the second mildest all year around climate in the world. The first is Hawaii. The town also has the only north-facing beach in Southern Africa.
Seal Island is home to a breeding colony of hundreds of seals and their cubs and they can be viewed from the daily cruise or from land. Dolphins sometimes in large schools also make regular visits to these shores and they can be viewed from land.
Mossel Bay is a sportsman and water sport enthusiast’s paradise, offering a wide variety of adventure sports including shark cage diving, wreck diving, surfing, and snorkelling.
Conventional sport facilities are also in abundance with golf, squash, tennis, indoor heated pools, horse riding and swimming.
Camp sites and caravan parks, B&Bs, luxury lodges and hotels are spread out around the town, as well as beach-front accommodation. Restaurants dotted all over Mossel Bay feature a range of different foods, something for everyone!
For more information on Mossel Bay, please view :
www.mossel-bay-info.co.za.
Mossel Bay Tourism Office Information
Web address: http://www.visitmosselbay.co.za/
E-mail: admin@visitmosselbay.co.za
Address: Corner of Church & Market Street
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Australian Hi-Fi
Panasonic unveils SC-GA10 smart speaker, huge 4K OLED TV and more
By Simon Lucas 30 August 2017
As is its way, Panasonic announced a deluge of new products at IFA 2017. Here are the highlights...
The SC-GA10 (pictured above) is a Google Assistant-enabled smart speaker. All of Google Assistant's voice-triggered operations are incorporated, as well as major streaming services like Spotify, Tune-In radio and Google Play Music.
The SC-GA10 features a pair of 20mm soft dome tweeters, arrayed to deliver 180º sound. They are augmented by an 8cm mid/bass driver with a dual voice coil, and bass reflex port.
Built of aluminium and fabric mesh, the SC-GA10 is available in black or white finishes. It's accompanied by a new Music Control App (in case you get tired of talking to it, presumably) which allows, among other functions, stereo pairing and multi-room functionality. Pricing and UK on-sale date are yet to be confirmed.
On the TV front, Panasonic is busily forging ahead and using as many exciting-sounding acronyms and numbers as possible.
At the top of its model range now sits the EZ1000 - the 77in variant is the largest OLED screen Panasonic has ever produced. Both the EZ1000 (which is also available in a slightly more modest 65in screen size) and the EZ950 range (55in and 65in) have THX 4K certification - and, in common with all Panasonic's 4K Pro TVs, will be upgraded to HDR10+ compatibility via a firmware update later this year.
And as well as painstaking attention to picture performance, the EZ1000 also features a Technics-tuned 'soundblade', rated - for the 77in version - at 70 watts.
Once again, on-sale dates and prices are a little way off.
There's also a new pair of Panasonic wireless headphones - the RP-HTX80Bs. Featuring 40mm full-range drivers with neodymium magnets and a battery good for 20 hours of playback from a single charge, they're Bluetooth-enabled and available in grey, black, burgundy or ochre.
As to exactly when and how much, though, we'll let you know as soon as we know.
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Sennheiser reveals wireless Momentum Free and upgraded IE 80 S headphones
Deezer HIFI brings lossless audio and voice control to wireless speakers
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Fowler, L.J. et al.
Human alveolar macrophage-56 and carcinoembryonic antigen monoclonal antibodies in the differential diagnosis between primary ovarian and metastatic gastrointestinal carcinomas.
The immunohistochemical expression and localization of monoclonal antibodies to carcinoembryonic antigen ( CEA) and human alveolar macrophage (HAM-56) were evaluated in primary ovarian and metastatic gastrointestinal (GI) carcinomas. Immunohistochemistry was performed using an avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method with capillary gap technology on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues from 41 primary ovarian epithelial neoplasms, 17 metastatic gastrointestinal malignancies, and 10 tumors of uncertain primary origin. Overall, immunostaining for HAM-56 was positive in 35 (85%) ovarian epithelial neoplasms compared with only two (12%) gastrointestinal cancers. Carcinoembryonic antigen was positive in 16 (39%) ovarian versus 13 (76%) GI tumors. Of the primary ovarian neoplasms, 22 were positive for HAM-56 only, 13 were positive for both HAM-56 and CEA, three were positive for CEA only (all mucinous neoplasms), and three were negative for both. Of the primary GI neoplasms, 12 were positive for CEA only (including all eight colon cancers), one was positive for both HAM-56 and CEA, one was positive for HAM-56 only, and three were negative for both. Of the 10 neoplasms of unknown origin at initial presentation, six were positive for HAM-56 only, three were positive for CEA only, none was positive for both HAM-56 and CEA, and one was negative for both. Only three of these 10 neoplasms remained of indeterminate origin after pathological review and clinical follow-up. When positive, CEA was usually strong and generalized in GI cancers but weak and focal in ovarian neoplasms. The HAM-56 positivity in ovarian neoplasms was typically focal and largely limited to areas with glandular or papillary differentiation with apical linear accentuation. We conclude that an immunohistochemical panel using both HAM-56 (Enzo Diagnostics, Syosset, NY) and CEA monoclonal antibodies is helpful in differentiating primary ovarian neoplasms from metastatic gastrointestinal malignancies, and in evaluating metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown primary site.[1]
Human alveolar macrophage-56 and carcinoembryonic antigen monoclonal antibodies in the differential diagnosis between primary ovarian and metastatic gastrointestinal carcinomas. Fowler, L.J., Maygarden, S.J., Novotny, D.B. Hum. Pathol. (1994) [Pubmed]
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Tuboka - Village
Arunachal Pradesh Anjaw Hayuliang Tuboka
State - Arunachal Pradesh District - Anjaw Block - Hayuliang Local Language - Nishi, Monpa, Deori
About Tuboka village
Tuboka is a village placed in Hayuliang Block of Anjaw district in Arunachal Pradesh. Situated in rural part of Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh, it is one of the 100 villages of Hayuliang Block of Anjaw district. According to the administration records, the village number of Tuboka is 266683. The village has 6 homes.
Population of Tuboka village
According to Census 2011, Tuboka's population is 25. Out of this, 17 are males whereas the females count 8 here. This village has 7 kids in the age group of 0-6 years. Out of this 5 are boys and 2 are girls.
Literacy rate of Tuboka village
Literacy rate in Tuboka village is 16%. 4 out of total 25 population is educated here. In males the literacy rate is 17% as 3 males out of total 17 are literate whereas female literacy rate is 12% as 1 out of total 8 females are literate in this Village.
The dark part is that illiteracy rate of Tuboka village is shockingly high -- 84%. Here 21 out of total 25 individuals are illiterate. Male illiteracy rate here is 82% as 14 males out of total 17 are illiterate. Among the females the illiteracy rate is 87% and 7 out of total 8 females are illiterate in this village.
Agricultural status of Tuboka village
The number of occupied individual of Tuboka village is 11 while 14 are un-employed. And out of 11 working person 10 individuals are totally reliant on agriculture.
Tuboka's Members & Followers
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Williamson County Jester Annex
Terry Cook
Commissioner Precinct One
1801 East Old Settlers Blvd.
Doris Sanchez
(512) 244-8610 Direct Line
Garry Brown
Commissioner Cook is Sworn into her Second Term of Office on Jan. 1, 2021 for Williamson County Precinct 1
Judge Betsy Lambeth of the 425th District Court administered Commissioner Cook's Oath of Office.
Author: Doris Sanchez
Free Christmas Tree Recycling Offered at Williamson County Landfill
Media Release from the Wilco Public Information Office
Starting December 26, Williamson County residents can dispose of their Christmas trees for free by dropping them off at the Williamson County Landfill, located at 600 Landfill Road in Hutto.
According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), at least one-third of house fires that begin with a Christmas tree going up in flames occur in January. Prompt removal and disposal of a Christmas tree after the holiday season is highly encouraged to avoid any potential hazard.
Residents have until January 19, 2021, to get rid of their trees at the landfill. Before taking a tree to the landfill, residents are asked to remove all lights and ornaments. Flocked trees are not accepted for recycling.
The landfill is open Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon.
Juvenile Justice Transformed, Youth and Community Safer
Column by Commissioner Cook
Four years ago, Williamson County’s juvenile system was based on punitive measures but thanks to a great Judge and juvenile justice staff, today it is focused on youth rehabilitation and development.
Appointed to the 277th District Court in October 2013 by former Gov. Rick Perry, Judge Stacey Mathews, as the county’s juvenile Judge, is fulfilling her goal to ensure that both juveniles and young adults are treated supportively but not enabled to continue unlawful behaviors.
In Texas, children ages 10 to 17, and those over 17 alleged to have committed an offense which has a statute of limitations that exceeds juvenile age can be processed through the juvenile court.
The Juvenile Justice Code—in the Texas Family Code—is a hybrid system providing resolution for legal conflicts through both civil and a few criminal procedures.
Almost all cases begin with law enforcement bringing a child into the juvenile detention center. A prompt detention hearing is held to determine if the child is a likely danger to him/herself or the public, and if probable cause (a set of circumstances leading a prudent person to believe a person is subject to the charge) exists.
Williamson County Judge Terminates Burn Ban (Updated 12/31/2020)
Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell has lifted the burn ban for unincorporated ares of Williamson County effective 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, terminating the outdoor burning ban prior to its 90-day expiration period.
For additional information, please visit www.wilco.org.
Wireless radio communications benefit Wilco public responders and residents
Just as phones connect us to one another, wireless radio communications connect law enforcement officers, firefighters and paramedics to emergencies.
The Williamson County Radio Communications System ensures every programmed wireless radio worn by a first responder or installed in an emergency vehicle communicates across the county.
An advisory board of representatives from the cities of Cedar Park, Georgetown, Hutto and Round Rock provides recommendations to the program manager/Williamson County on the system’s overall health, direction and operations.
Other board members include Wilco Commissioners, department officials and Chief Chris Connealy, senior director of Emergency Services.
Each subscriber pays $28.18 per radio per month for use of the system. The revenue-based fund from the more than 4,200 subscribers (total number of radios on the system) provides greater purchasing power, radio interoperability throughout the county, centralized command and control, and priority support for public health and safety.
Interoperability means the ability of emergency responders to communicate among
jurisdictions, disciplines and various levels of government, using a variety of radio frequency bands, like UHF for EMS paging, VHF for fire paging, 800 for radio transmitting and microwave for simulcasting. Also, certain radios are dual band–they use 800 and VHF.
The Round Rock school district’s new police force is the latest to join the system.
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Here's everything you should know about the 2017 French Quarter Festival
Kelsey Davis
WEBVTT ♪ADRIANNA: BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE34TH ANNUAL FRENCH QUARTERFESTIVAL 2017, IS ONLY 72 DAYSAWAY.AND TODAY, PERFORMERS AND OTHERFESTIVAL DETAILS WERE ANNOUNCED.WDSU REPORTER KELSEY DAVIS HASDETAILS ON WHAT ORGANIZERS CALLTHE LARGEST FREE MUSIC FESTIVALIN THE U.S.>> WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD.♪KELSEY: UNDER A CLEAR BLUE SKYIN JACKSON SQUARE, FRENCHQUARTER FESTIVAL OFFICIALSTOASTED TO CELEBRATE THEUPCOMING FESTIVAL. [APPLAUSE]KELSEY: ABOUT 60 OF THE BIGEASY'S RESTAURANTS WILL BESELLING ALL KINDS OF FOOD FORFEST-GOERS TO TRY.AND SOME 1700 LOCAL MUSICIANSARE SET TO HIT STAGES THROUGHOUTTHE QUARTER OVER THE FESTIVAL'SFOUR DAYS, INCLUDING ONE PERSONTHAT IS KNOWN TO PEOPLE AROUNDTHE CRESCENT CITY AND AROUND THEWORLD.REBECCA SELL: A NAME THAT ISSYNONOMOUS WITH NEW ORLEANS, AGREAT ARTIST THAT IS CELEBRATINGHIS BIRTHDAY TODAY, A MUCH LONGOVERDUE DEBUT. WE'RE THRILLED TO-- OVERDUE DEBUT.WE'RE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THATAARON NEVILLE WILL MAKE HISFRENCH QUARTER FEST DEBUT ONTHURSDAY, APRIL 6.[APPLAUSE]KELSEY: LAST YEAR, THE EVENTDREW MORE THAN 700,000 PEOPLEFROM 37 STATES AND 12 COUNTRIES,AND HAD AN ECONOMIC IMPACT ONTHE CITY IN THE BALL PARK OF$188 MILLION.NADINE RAMSEY: THIS IS WONDERFULWHEN WE CONSIDER THAT THE FRENCHQUARTER FEST STARTED OUT AS ALOCAL FESTIVAL, A WAY TO GET OURLOCALS BACK TO THE FRENCHQUARTER.I THINK WE'VE DONE THAT, AND ITHINK WE HAVE DONE THAT WELL.KELSEY: AND AS WE NEAR THECITY'S TRICENTENNIAL, TOURISMOFFICIALS ARE PROUD TO HAVE THECITY ON DISPLAY THROUGH THIS,WHAT THEY'RE CALLING AN ICONICEVENT. MARK ROMIG: TO BE ON STAGE WITHOUR GREAT CULTURAL ASSETS ANDREALLY EXPLAIN TO THE WORLD WHATREALLY HAS MADE NEW ORLEANS SUCHA CITY FOR ALMOST 300 YEARS, THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THANTHE FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVAL TODO THAT. KELSEY: IT WILL BE ON APRIL 6-9.TO FIND OUT WHO IS PERFORMING,GO TO OUR WEBSITE, WWW.WDSU.COM.THEY WILL NOT RELEASE THE
With only 72 days to go, organizers and city leaders released the music lineup and other details about the 34th annual French Quarter Festival. About 60 of the Big Easy's restaurants will sell food. Some 1,700 local musicians will hit stages throughout the French Quarter over the festival's four days, including one artist who is known to people in the Crescent City and around the world. “A name that is synonymous with New Orleans, a great artist that is celebrating his birthday (Tuesday), a much long-overdue debut: We're thrilled to announce that Aaron Neville will make his French Quarter Fest debut on Thursday, April 6,” said Rebecca Sell, marketing and publicity manager for French Quarter Festivals, Inc. The event drew more than 700,000 people from 37 states and 12 countries last year and had an economic impact of $188 million. “This is wonderful when we consider that the French Quarter Fest started out as a local festival, a way to get our locals back to the French Quarter. I think we've done that, and I think we've done it well,” said Councilmember Nadine Ramsey. As the city's tricentennial approaches, tourism officials said they are proud to have the city on display with the festival. “To be on stage with our great cultural assets and really explain to the world what really has made New Orleans such a city for almost 300 years, there's nothing better than the French Quarter Festival to do that,” said Mark Romig, president and CEO of the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation. French Quarter Festival 2017 is April 6-9. The performance schedule will be released in March. More information and updates can be found online. Keep up with local news, weather and current events with the WDSU app here. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news right in your inbox. Click here to sign up!
With only 72 days to go, organizers and city leaders released the music lineup and other details about the 34th annual French Quarter Festival.
About 60 of the Big Easy's restaurants will sell food. Some 1,700 local musicians will hit stages throughout the French Quarter over the festival's four days, including one artist who is known to people in the Crescent City and around the world.
“A name that is synonymous with New Orleans, a great artist that is celebrating his birthday (Tuesday), a much long-overdue debut: We're thrilled to announce that Aaron Neville will make his French Quarter Fest debut on Thursday, April 6,” said Rebecca Sell, marketing and publicity manager for French Quarter Festivals, Inc.
The event drew more than 700,000 people from 37 states and 12 countries last year and had an economic impact of $188 million.
“This is wonderful when we consider that the French Quarter Fest started out as a local festival, a way to get our locals back to the French Quarter. I think we've done that, and I think we've done it well,” said Councilmember Nadine Ramsey.
As the city's tricentennial approaches, tourism officials said they are proud to have the city on display with the festival.
“To be on stage with our great cultural assets and really explain to the world what really has made New Orleans such a city for almost 300 years, there's nothing better than the French Quarter Festival to do that,” said Mark Romig, president and CEO of the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation.
French Quarter Festival 2017 is April 6-9. The performance schedule will be released in March. More information and updates can be found online.
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Barry Lewis, Miami Beach 1988—1995
Lisa Davidson 1 May, 2019
A new photo book published by Hoxton Mini Press documents an enrapturing series of images captured by photographer and filmmaker Barry Lewis of Miami's South Beach from the late 1980s to the mid '90s; its colourful souls, contrasting cultures and...
Chotto Matte, Miami
Chotto Matte is drenched in the drama of Miami Beach from the moment you meet a mammoth pivoting door that punctuates a stark white façade. It only gets more impressive. A retractable ceiling sees Herzog & de Meuron's iconic 1111 Lincoln Rd car...
Hyatt Centric South Beach Miami
Compact in comparison to many of its neighbours on iconic Collins Avenue, the Hyatt Centric South Beach Miami sets itself apart from the crowd; its sleek 10-storey cubed glass building an interesting juxtaposition to the classic Art Deco which it...
DÔA Miami Beach
James Davidson 13 July, 2017
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AC Hotel Miami Beach
Rob Wilkes 30 June, 2015
Although the AC Hotels brand is part of the Marriott group, it is the creation of Spaniard Antonio Catalan and bases much of its appeal on a European cachet that goes over so darned well in the United States. AC Hotels has picked the perfect place...
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We are recycling more than ever. We are thinking about our impact on the environment from farming methods, how the things we buy are transported, and our carbon footprints are increasingly to the forefront of our decision making. In short, we care...
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Upscale hostels that directly compete with pricier hotel options are now an established part of the tourist accommodation market, and examples such as Freehand Miami are showing how it should be done in terms of design standards. But to truly go...
Rob Wilkes 11 March, 2015
Ian Schrager has got form in Miami. In the early 1990s, the American hotelier and entrepreneur behind Studio 54 sensed the city was ready for a revival and set about building the luxury Art Deco hotel the Delano. It was the first new build in the...
The Standard Hotel and Spa Miami Beach
Kelly Salih 8 July, 2014
Clandestine in nature, yet close to the allure of 305's key happenings, The Standard Hotel and Spa Miami Beach radiates covert halcyon milieu from its waterfront backdrop of Belle Isle. An atmosphere unique in comparison to the brand's Los Angeles...
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Bee-Venom Acupuncture Shows Promise in Parkinson's
By Michael W. Smith, MD
June 18, 2014 -- Both acupuncture and bee-venom acupuncture improved symptoms in people with Parkinson’s disease, a small study shows.
Acupuncture has been used for years in Asia to relieve Parkinson’s symptoms. Early studies show it may help protect nerve cells like the ones the disease destroys. Researchers have also been looking into bee venom’s ability to ease inflammation in nerve cells. This is one of the first studies to test whether acupuncture and bee-venom acupuncture can help Parkinson’s.
Many of the symptoms from Parkinson’s develop when brain cells that make the brain chemical dopamine are destroyed. Why this happens isn’t clear.
Researcher Seong-Uk Park, MD, says acupuncture may help by increasing dopamine levels. Acupuncture may also enhance the effects of the Parkinson’s drug L-dopa and lessen the drug’s side effects, he says. Park is with the Stroke and Neurological Disorders Center, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Gangdong, Seoul, Korea.
The study's results are important, as 70% of people in some countries use complementary therapies to help treat Parkinson’s disease, says Louis Tan, MD. Tan is with the National Neuroscience Institute in Singapore and was not involved in the study.
The study was presented at the recent 18th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders.
How Bee-Venom Acupuncture Might Help
The treatment involves injecting bee venom under the skin at an acupuncture point. It’s thought this may help enhance and prolong the effects of stimulation of acupuncture points.
"So the mechanisms of bee-venom acupuncture might be similar to those of acupuncture. Or there could be another effect due to the bee venom itself," Park says.
Tan suggests that bee venom could act like botulinum toxin (the toxin in Botox), causing a temporary paralysis of the muscles. Some Parkinson’s symptoms include muscle spasms that can cause pain and trouble moving. Bee venom may help relax these muscles.
In the study, 35 patients with Parkinson's disease who had been on a stable dose of medication for at least a month were randomly assigned to three groups. One group received acupuncture, another received bee-venom acupuncture, and the third group received neither. The treatment was repeated twice a week for 8 weeks.
Symptoms improved in those who received bee-venom acupuncture or regular acupuncture. There were no serious side effects in either group. One person who received bee-venom acupuncture complained of itchiness. Those who received no treatment had no change in their symptoms.
The results are promising, but more research is needed before we can draw any firm conclusions, Park says. He says a second study is now under way, and it's expected to be completed later this year.
"Acupuncture is quite commonly used for Parkinson's disease, but hard evidence of benefit is lacking," Tan says.
With reporting by Sue Hughes, Medscape Medical News.
These findings were presented at a medical conference. They should be considered preliminary as they have not yet undergone the "peer review" process, in which outside experts scrutinize the data prior to publication in a medical journal.
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD on June 18, 2014
18th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Stockholm, Sweden, June 8-12, 2014.
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Seong-Uk Park, MD, Stroke and Neurological Disorders Center, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Gangdong, Seoul, Korea.
Louis Tan, MD, National Neuroscience Institute in Singapore.
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Ed Woods Dirty Movies
Film and TV Genre Cult
This is it! Cult movie auteur Ed Wood Jr.'s very last film as writer-director. The Young Marrieds (1972) is also one of the rarest 'lost' movies in cult filmdom-so rare it wasn't even known for sure it existed. But finally a print of Ed Wood's final 16mm masterpiece surfaced, and After Hours Cinema is proud to present this rare feature in a revealing DVD collection of Wood's declining years toiling in the adult movie industry of Los Angeles. The Young Marrieds is both a step deeper into the adult film world Ed Wood helped pioneer-and at the same time hearkens back to Wood's very first feature, the infamous Glen or Glenda (1953) and it's plea for tolerance of alternate sexual lifestyles and identities. Sporting numerous prop items from Wood's Necromania (1971) but trading it's softcore-with-inserts format for full hardcore, The Young Marrieds will both shock and fascinate the millions of Wood fans around the world. This one-of-a-king collection also includes Ed Wood on-screen in Nympho Cycler and Shot on Location.
Title: Ed Woods Dirty Movies
Genre: Cult
Director: Ed Wood
Studio: After Hours Cinema
Original Language: ENG
Closed Caption: No
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Number: SILCD1587
CARTER BURWELL: MUSIC FOR FILM (CD)
Composed by: Carter Burwell
The culmination point of Film Fest Gent’s film music programme is the annual World Soundtrack Awards Gala where several awards are distributed to celebrate outstanding achievements in scoring music for motion pictures. Each year a major film composer is invited to present his work during this prestigious event. Furthermore Film Fest Gent and partner Brussels Philharmonic record an album with their music. This year (2018) we are honoured to welcome Academy Award-nominated composer Carter Burwell, considered one of the most brilliant film composers of his generation. Burwell is known for his compelling scores including ‘Being John Malkovich’, ‘In Bruges’, ‘Where The Wild Things Are’, ‘Twilight’ and his unique collaborations with some of the world’s most respected filmmakers such as the Coen Brothers (‘Fargo’, ‘No Country for Old Men’) and Todd Haynes (‘Carol’, ‘Wonderstruck’, ‘Mildred Pierce’).
“In reflecting on the honour that the Ghent Film Festival has paid me this year, I’ve looked back at the random path that’s brought me here. It had never been my intention to be a composer of film scores - or a composer at all. But after Joel and Ethan Coen bestowed that title on me with the film 'Blood Simple', and then asked me to write an orchestral score for 'Miller's Crossing' (knowing perfectly well I had no experience doing that), I began to believe that I was in some sense a composer and have tried to be worthy of that title. A film composer is two things: a composer and a filmmaker. It’s not easy to separate these two things, and I generally find it off-putting to take the music, written for particular characters, particular dialogue, particular action, out of its context for performance on its own. In the case of the compositions presented here, I’m endlessly grateful to Dirk Brossé and the Brussels Philharmonic for giving the music its own life.” - Carter Burwell
1. Miller’s Crossing - End Credits
2. Fargo - Fargo, North Dakota
3. The Spanish Prisoner
4. Gods and Monsters - Friend?
5. Being John Malkovich - Puppet Love
6. The Man Who Wasn’t There - The Trial of Ed Crane
7. In Bruges - Prologue / Medieval Waters
8. Twilight - Bella’s Lullaby
9. A Serious Man
10. True Grit - River Crossing / Talk About Suffering / The Wicked Flee
11. Mildred Pierce - Opening Titles
12. Olive Kitteridge - Olive Opening
13. Carol - Opening
14. Anomalisa - Overture
15. The Founder - Flags and Steeples
16. Hail, Caesar! - 5A.M. / Hail, Caesar!
17. Goodbye Christopher Robin - Drawing Pooh
18. Wonderstruck - Silent Whispers / Little Girl, Big City
19. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - My Dear Anne / Billboards on Fire
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Improved GCC equity outlook amid Covid-19 vaccines rollout: NBK
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Generation Amazing to extend its outreach
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Over 500,000 benefit from SC's Generation Amazing plan
More than 500,000 people in the Middle East and Asia have so far benefitted from ‘Generation Amazing (GA) – the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy’s (SC) football ...
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Rio youth benefit from Qatar 2022 legacy initiative
Generation Amazing – a Qatar 2022 legacy programme – teamed up with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Flamengo FC to deliver a football for development session to impoverished youth in Rio de Janeiro.
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Generation Amazing coaches help in Kerala flood relief work
Generation Amazing ambassadors have been helping to support the disaster relief efforts in the Kerala state of India, after the area was devastated recently by severe flooding.
Generation Amazing’s Russia trip 'showed power of sport'
Generation Amazing uses football for development projects to reach 1mn young people ahead of Qatar 2022.
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Generation Amazing expands footprint
The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC), which is responsible for delivering the infrastructure required to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, has announced plans to expand its flagship CSR programme, Generation Amazing, into Kuwait, Oman, India and the Philippines.
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EM currencies and stocks drift lower
Emerging market currencies and stocks drifted lower in Europe yesterday, having been lashed overnight
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submitted by MCAST Institute for the Creative Arts : Andrew Portelli Hale for 19+
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, Social Media Post
filed under Reporting video Video Clips
The short film is about how the overdevelopment in Malta affects the daily routine of a young man. The amount of noise disrupts his daily life whether it be eating with his family, getting ready for the day ahead or just doing an errand. The problem of overdevelopment is so bad that it causes him stress and panic as he lies awake at night only to hear the sounds of construction echoing in his mind making him numb to his surroundings. He decides to get away from this craziness and chaos in the city and goes to the countryside where he finds peace and quiet. For a while, he has found a safe haven, until a construction crew worker comes and gives him a paper which lets him know that the property will be built on and that he must leave.
Waste bin story
submitted by University of Malta : Denise Brignani, Federica Scinetti for 19+
dissemination(s): website
Waste bin story We are two Erasmus student of the University of Malta. We created this video to promote the zero-waste lifestyle. By using a waste bin as the focus of the video, we showed how Malta’s waste crisis could be eased by ditching single-use products.
Traces of Him
submitted by MCAST : Alexandre for 19+
dissemination(s): school media
did this project about Social Issue with others students, because it is a problem the influence a considerable numbers of the individuals within a society. This project is about a Person life social issue. A younger photographer who hasn’t been so close to her father, until he passed away and she start to realize that, she had a good time together with her father, sharing a bowl of ice cream, movies, playing etc… Perhaps she shouldn’t wait so long to tell her father I am sorry or how much she loved him. Now he’s gone and there’s nothing that she can do to chance it, but she can let others knows that it can happen to anyone.
Ġgantija temples and their preservation
submitted by MCAST Institute for creative arts : Christopher for 19+
dissemination(s): other, Youtube video
Ġgantija is a Gozitan marvel and is a shame when someone vandalises and abuses such magnificence. As a concept it gathers what is done to preserve and protect these temples as well as what procedures are taken when vandalism is the guest. This also highlights the beauty and the appreciation people have for this ancient temple. The video questions how, why, when and what is done to assure that these temples does not suffer from any ‘graffiti’ or personal signature from ‘culprits’. In this video, a brief knowledgeable and visual story is given to audience to immerse for the first time or relish for the second time watching this beautiful phenomenon created by our ancestors. Last but not least this video shows how up to date is the welcome centre and that finally Ġgantija is given the appreciation it deserves. Enjoy!
Shark Conservation in Malta
submitted by MCAST : Karl Azzopardi for 19+
dissemination(s): school media, tv, website
Sharks have always suffered from an unnecessary stigma induced by Hollywood. This project aims to bring conservation projects and people closer together. I interview Martina Brancato, who is the aquarium’s Science and Education officer and she explained to me how the Malta National Aquarium and SharkLab and collaborating on a conservation project on Nursehound and Spotted Cat sharks. This is a volunteer driven project and relies on the commitment of those that work effortlessly to see the shark populations increase. Martina then goes on to explain how SharkLab is an international project whose efforts are spread worldwide on may species of shark.
Solar Power?
submitted by Malta College of Arts Science and Technology : Nina Karniej for 19+
dissemination(s): other, Social Media
For a centuries sun was described as a god. Nowdays the energy it creates can be captured and used in our everyday life. Malta has over 300 sunny days per year, is the power of the sun the future main energy source for the island? What if this future is happening now? Maltese people already introduced the process of being first green island in Europe with starting the sequence of events like Research, Partnership and Education schemes.
#InsalvawFortiRicasoli
submitted by MCAST ICA : Liam Carter for 19+
dissemination(s): radio, school media, tv, website
Il-Forti Ricasoli, l-akbar fortifikazzjoni ġo Malta jinsab f’sitwazzjoni perikoluża. Tant hu hekk li jekk kollox jibqa’ mixi bl-istess rata dan il-forti jista’ jispiċċa biss eku tal-passat. Ħejejt dan dan il-proġett awdjo-viżiv bl-għan li l-awtoritajiet ikkonċernati flimkien mal-poplu Malii jsir konxju tas-sitwazzjoni li din il-ġahwra storika tinsab fih. Produzzjoni u kitba ta’ Liam Carter
submitted by MCAST Institute for the Creative Arts : Dwayne Sammut for 19+
This video was created for school to try and show awareness about the problem at hand. So my video is about one of the biggest fights which are nature vs. machine and the emotions behind them because we see this every day and still don’t do anything about it. These days it’s more common to see construction work/sites and a lot of different types of machinery everywhere and then we see nature less and less every day. This video was made to bring awareness and open people’s eyes to what mankind is doing to the world. Solutions for construction if you are seeing/hearing it everywhere just go to a quiet place for yourself examples: parks or gardens were you can be in silence and peace while looking at nature
submitted by MCAST Mosta : Alexandre Dos Santos Garcia for 19+
dissemination(s): https://youtu.be/3F19g0iDSD0, other, school media
I did this project about Social Issue with others students, because it is a problem the influence a considerable numbers of the individuals within a society. This project is about a Person life social issue. A younger photographer who hasn’t been so close to her father, until he passed away and she start to realize that, she had a good time together with her father, sharing a bowl of ice cream, movies, playing etc… Perhaps she shouldn’t wait so long to tell her father I am sorry or how much she loved him. Now he’s gone and there’s nothing that she can do to chance it, but she can let others knows that it can happen to anyone, and you have to be with peoples that you love. because we all have to go someday.
A Day Too Far
submitted by MCAST Institute for the Creative Arts : Matthias Vella for 19+
The goal of this short advert is to bring attention to those that we do not notice in our day to day lives, people who feel like they’ve lost everything, and think they have no alternative. This shows the conflict in their hearts and minds, but we can overcome it together if we seek help and take action before it’s too late. And it is never too late.
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White House ramps up push for drug cost legislation
Updated: 10:33 AM EST Nov 17, 2019
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
The White House is ramping up its push to get a bill through Congress that curbs prescription drug costs as the impeachment investigation advances amid the 2020 election campaign.The effort has progressed beyond anything seen in years, says President Donald Trump’s top domestic policy adviser. “This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to confront these issues in a nonideological fashion,” adviser Joe Grogan said in a recent session with reporters.“Unfortunately,” Grogan explained, “there are some current complications.”After months of dialogue, the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have parted ways on Medicare price negotiations that Pelosi advocates and Trump once supported in principle.Instead, the president is backing a compromise bipartisan bill in the Senate, which does not give Medicare bargaining authority but forces drugmakers to pay rebates if they raise prices too high.Grogan said the administration is working to line up Republican support for the Senate bill while trying to sweeten its impact by plowing more of the government’s savings from reduced drug prices into benefits for seniors.“We’re really at a stage on a bipartisan basis of dialing in on the final specifics,” he said at a recent event sponsored by the Alliance for Health Policy.Related video: Senators Sanders and Booker propose move to bring down drug prices A Gallup-West Health poll finds that 66% of adults don’t believe the Trump administration has made any progress, or very much progress, in limiting the rising cost of prescription drugs.“If I were the president of the United States, facing a very difficult reelection campaign, I would want to have something to show people in this area,” said political scientist Bill Galston, of the Brookings Institution.Democrats “will be very reluctant to give the administration a win,” he added. “If they are going to do that, they are going to need something pretty solid and substantive to show their troops.”People in the policy debate say a deal must be sealed this year or by early next year at the very latest, before election season goes into overdrive.Medicare enrollees would be the biggest winners under either bill.The bipartisan Senate legislation would cap what Medicare beneficiaries pay out of pocket for medicines and require drugmakers to pay rebates to Medicare if they hike prices above the inflation rate. Its lead authors are Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore.Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has made no public commitment to bring it to the floor.The House Democratic bill would build on the Senate’s foundation but also authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for the costliest drugs. That would limit high launch prices for new drugs, not just price increases. Medicare’s discounts would be provided to privately insured people, as well.Pelosi is driving toward a floor vote, but right now, neither bill has a clear path to the president's desk.Some Democrats contend they’d be better off taking Pelosi’s bill into the election campaign rather than giving Trump a bipartisan bill he’d claim credit for.Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, says his party should think carefully before going to the voters empty-handed.“I think it’s critically important for the country for us to get a bill done. A drug-pricing bill is long overdue,” said Bennet.“It’s always better to get a result,” he added. “And if we don’t get a result, we need to draw the lines very clearly so people can see it’s the administration that prevented us from getting a result.”Bennet is backing the Senate compromise and also pursuing his own legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices.Most pro-business Republicans see government-negotiated drug prices as unacceptable interference in the private market. But not Trump.In 2016, he campaigned on giving Medicare the power to negotiate. Pelosi’s bill is a reminder to Trump the 2020 candidate of his politically popular 2016 promise.“House Democrats are taking the bold action to negotiate lower drug prices that President Trump always claimed was necessary, and working people won’t like it if he sells them out on one of the most important kitchen-table issues in America right now,” said Pelosi spokesman Henry Connelly.With weeks until the end of the year, impeachment is draining the political energy in Washington. If nothing happens, the clearest winner will be the drug industry lobby, which has poured millions of dollars into a fight seen as an existential threat to its political influence.“We think it’s going to be very hard,” said Frederic Isasi, executive director of Families USA, a liberal advocacy group calling for action this year. “It would be completely short-sighted for people not to deliver what can be done now for American families.”
The White House is ramping up its push to get a bill through Congress that curbs prescription drug costs as the impeachment investigation advances amid the 2020 election campaign.
The effort has progressed beyond anything seen in years, says President Donald Trump’s top domestic policy adviser. “This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to confront these issues in a nonideological fashion,” adviser Joe Grogan said in a recent session with reporters.
“Unfortunately,” Grogan explained, “there are some current complications.”
After months of dialogue, the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have parted ways on Medicare price negotiations that Pelosi advocates and Trump once supported in principle.
Instead, the president is backing a compromise bipartisan bill in the Senate, which does not give Medicare bargaining authority but forces drugmakers to pay rebates if they raise prices too high.
Grogan said the administration is working to line up Republican support for the Senate bill while trying to sweeten its impact by plowing more of the government’s savings from reduced drug prices into benefits for seniors.
“We’re really at a stage on a bipartisan basis of dialing in on the final specifics,” he said at a recent event sponsored by the Alliance for Health Policy.
Related video: Senators Sanders and Booker propose move to bring down drug prices
A Gallup-West Health poll finds that 66% of adults don’t believe the Trump administration has made any progress, or very much progress, in limiting the rising cost of prescription drugs.
“If I were the president of the United States, facing a very difficult reelection campaign, I would want to have something to show people in this area,” said political scientist Bill Galston, of the Brookings Institution.
Democrats “will be very reluctant to give the administration a win,” he added. “If they are going to do that, they are going to need something pretty solid and substantive to show their troops.”
People in the policy debate say a deal must be sealed this year or by early next year at the very latest, before election season goes into overdrive.
Medicare enrollees would be the biggest winners under either bill.
The bipartisan Senate legislation would cap what Medicare beneficiaries pay out of pocket for medicines and require drugmakers to pay rebates to Medicare if they hike prices above the inflation rate. Its lead authors are Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has made no public commitment to bring it to the floor.
The House Democratic bill would build on the Senate’s foundation but also authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for the costliest drugs. That would limit high launch prices for new drugs, not just price increases. Medicare’s discounts would be provided to privately insured people, as well.
Pelosi is driving toward a floor vote, but right now, neither bill has a clear path to the president's desk.
Some Democrats contend they’d be better off taking Pelosi’s bill into the election campaign rather than giving Trump a bipartisan bill he’d claim credit for.
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, says his party should think carefully before going to the voters empty-handed.
“I think it’s critically important for the country for us to get a bill done. A drug-pricing bill is long overdue,” said Bennet.
“It’s always better to get a result,” he added. “And if we don’t get a result, we need to draw the lines very clearly so people can see it’s the administration that prevented us from getting a result.”
Bennet is backing the Senate compromise and also pursuing his own legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices.
Most pro-business Republicans see government-negotiated drug prices as unacceptable interference in the private market. But not Trump.
In 2016, he campaigned on giving Medicare the power to negotiate. Pelosi’s bill is a reminder to Trump the 2020 candidate of his politically popular 2016 promise.
“House Democrats are taking the bold action to negotiate lower drug prices that President Trump always claimed was necessary, and working people won’t like it if he sells them out on one of the most important kitchen-table issues in America right now,” said Pelosi spokesman Henry Connelly.
With weeks until the end of the year, impeachment is draining the political energy in Washington. If nothing happens, the clearest winner will be the drug industry lobby, which has poured millions of dollars into a fight seen as an existential threat to its political influence.
“We think it’s going to be very hard,” said Frederic Isasi, executive director of Families USA, a liberal advocacy group calling for action this year. “It would be completely short-sighted for people not to deliver what can be done now for American families.”
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flight status security means
As a traveler, what does Secure Flight mean to me? Here's an interesting story that happened when I had just joined the industry. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) integrated a robust privacy and redress system as part of the Secure Flight program. Secure Flight screening also is designed to identify individuals presenting a lower risk to security for whom expedited screening may be appropriate, allowing TSA to more effectively allocate its screening resources. For additional information regarding delays and cancellations, check directly with your airline. According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Secure Flight is a program developed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a key 9/11 Commission recommendation: uniform watch list matching by the TSA. No it can't because of security reasons. Check Immigration, rules and regulations & more with the guide. … TSA PreCheck is a U.S. government program that allows travelers deemed low-risk by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a U.S. Department of Homeland Security … TSA has dedicated privacy staff to ensure Secure Flight systems and analyses are in compliance with applicable laws, procedures, and best practices. Delhi Airport Passenger Guide is informative and ensures your journey is effortless & enjoyable. The system also has built-in safeguards to manage privacy risks. This is, well, exactly what it says: a flight tracking app that offers details on arrival and departure time, terminal info, seat maps, and alerts for gate changes, delays, and cancellations. I used to serve a very nice couple for all their travel needs. Complete information about flight status of an airline is available along with the latest updates and changes happening in its schedule. Best Flight Tracker: Live Tracking Maps, Flight Status, and Airport Delays for airline flights, private/GA flights, and airports. I just flew on Southwest Airlines (SWA) about 2 weeks ago and they said the plane is at the gate. I look at the gate and saw the plane there . The Charles M. Schulz – Sonoma County Airport website is designed, developed, and maintained to comply with California Government Code Sections 7405, 11135, and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 AA and AAA whenever feasible based on content. The phrase relates to a flight plan revision, or changing something about the flight checks that means the plane could be behind schedule. 2 0? Need Accessibility Assistance? There is real-time flights tracker that can help you in tracking the details of the arrival, departure and delay of different airlines from various airports. This code marks you as a higher security risk, or “Secondary Security Screening Selection,” which means you've been pre-selected for additional security screening. 1 decade ago. If the flight is "at gate" that means the airplane is parked at the airport, waiting for people to get on/off, having food loaded, etc. Thats what that means. Track arriving and departing flights with real-time status updates. ("Secure Flight … Departures. Arrivals. 5 TSA also uses the Secure Flight program to implement its redress Flight Status Information.
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Logan Yonavjak is no longer on staff at the World Resources Institute.
Bringing Ecosystem Markets to Scale in the Southern United States
by Logan Yonavjak - March 14, 2012
For the most part, Ecosystem Markets still linger in the early stages of development. There is much more theoretical work to be done to set up environmental credit markets, including carbon offsets and payments for watershed services. But more pilot projects can also help these markets evolve and show how they might work in the real world.
Carbon Canopy Initiative Aims to Sustain Appalachian Forests for Climate and Certified Timber
by Logan Yonavjak - February 06, 2012
While much has been written from a theoretical perspective about markets for ecosystem services, few on-the-ground projects currently exist. Yet the projects that do exist provide one of the best windows onto what actually works in practice. That’s why WRI has issued a new brief, Insights from the Field: Forests for Climate and Timber to discuss an innovative initiative called the Carbon Canopy.
Conservation Easements: a Good Investment for the U.S. South
by Logan Yonavjak and Nick Price - September 14, 2011
WRI’s new issue brief, “Gaining Ground: Increasing Conservation Easements in the U.S. South,” released today jointly with the American Forest Foundation, aims to increase the use of conservation easements in the South by helping landowners, conservation professionals, and conservation funders understand the unique benefits that conservation easements provide, key barriers to their implementation, and how to best address those barriers.
What Woodland Owners Should Know About Forest Carbon Offsets in the U.S. South
by John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak - September 07, 2011
A new issue brief, released today by the World Resources Institute and the Pacific Forest Trust, looks at the economic opportunities for southern landowners created by emerging forest carbon offset markets. This new revenue stream can offer real rewards to landowners who steward their forests for climate benefits.
Property Tax Incentives for Forest Conservation in the U.S. South
by John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak - June 15, 2011
Current use valuation programs can encourage landowners to resist development pressures and leave forest as forest.
Public Ballot Measures Unlock Billions of Dollars for Conservation Nationwide
by Logan Yonavjak - May 19, 2011
A new WRI report explores what makes public ballot measures successful and how they can help conserve forests in the U.S. South.
Protecting Forests to Protect Water in the U.S. South
by Logan Yonavjak and Todd Gartner - February 28, 2011
When it comes to providing clean water, investments in forest conservation can save money.
Beyond Timber: New Economic Opportunities for Southern U.S. Forests
by Nick Price and Logan Yonavjak - February 01, 2011
It's time to raise awareness of the variety of incentives that can help forest owners in the southern U.S. keep their land.
Like the Holidays, Ecosystem Services Are All Around
by Nick Price and Logan Yonavjak - December 22, 2010
During the winter holidays, there are many items that Americans consider “essential” as part of a proper celebration; whether it be a wreath on the door, wood for a cozy fire, or an ornamented tree in the living room. But how many people know where most of these items come from?
Development Encroaches on the Southern United States’ Last “Wild” Areas
by Nick Price and Logan Yonavjak - November 19, 2010
As a result of rapid development over the last 40 years, the vast majority of land in the southern U.S. has been in some way impacted by humans.
Implementation Strategies for Renewable Energy Services in Low-Income, Rural Areas
This issue brief is the first in a series of three that focus on expanding the delivery of affordable, renewable energy in developing countries.
by Logan Yonavjak, Emily Norford, Athena Ballesteros, Tom Nagle and Susan Alzner - February 2013
Topics: Finance
Insights from the Field: Forests for Climate and Timber
The Carbon Canopy is a novel partnership among companies, landowners, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that seeks to leverage markets for ecosystem services to increase the area of southern U.S. forests certified as sustainably managed. The
by Logan Yonavjak and Craig Hanson - February 2012
Topics: Forests
Geography: United States
Gaining Ground
Increasing Conservation Easements in the U.S. South
A “conservation easement” is a voluntary, legally enforceable land preservation agreement between two parties wherein a landowner sells or donates the development rights to a tract of land to a qualified holding organization, such as a land trust,
by Logan Yonavjak and Todd Gartner - September 2011
Topics: Climate, Forests
Forests for Carbon
Exploring Forest Carbon Offsets in the U.S. South
Southern U.S. forests remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the form of carbon in leaves, roots, branches, trunks, soil, and woody debris and other plant litter through a process known as "carbon sequestration." Through this process, southern
by Logan Yonavjak, John Talberth and Paula Swedeen (Pacific Forest Trust) - September 2011
Current Use Valuation Programs
Property Tax Incentives for Preserving Local Benefits of Forests
This paper explores current use valuation programs as one tool for conserving and fostering sustainable management of southern U.S. forests under private ownership. The brief identifies key constraints on existing programs and suggests measures that could be
by John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak - June 2011
Funding for Forests
The Potential of Public Ballot Measures
A variety of measures exist to prevent deforestation or forest conversion to other land uses. Some of these measures, such as purchasing land outright for conservation or purchasing conservation easements, are designed to permanently protect forests by
by Craig Hanson and Logan Yonavjak - May 2011
Forests at Work
A New Model for Local Land Protection
To date, traditional public land acquisition programs have played a relatively small role in the conservation and sustainable management of southern U.S. forests. The South trails behind other U.S. regions in both the percent of the land base and the acres per
by John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak - March 2011
Forests for Water
Exploring Payments for Watershed Services in the U.S. South
The forested watersheds of the southern United States provide a number of benefits—including water flow regulation, flood control, water purification, erosion control, and freshwater supply—to the region’s citizens, communities, and businesses.
by Craig Hanson, John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak - February 2011
Keeping Forest as Forest
Incentives for the U.S. South
Forests of the southern United States provide a wide variety of benefits—collectively known as “ecosystem services”—to people, communities, and businesses. For example, they provide timber, help purify water, control soil erosion, help regulate climate by
by Logan Yonavjak, Craig Hanson, John Talberth and Todd Gartner - January 2011
Southern Forests for the Future
Additional information and resources are available at www.SeeSouthernForests.org, an online interactive information portal developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI).
by Craig Hanson, Logan Yonavjak, Caitlin Clarke, Susan Minnemeyer, Lauriane Boisrobert, Andrew Leach and Karen Schleeweis - March 2010
"Green versus Gray: Nature's Solutions to Infrastructure Demands."
By Gartner Todd, Gray Erin, Yonavjak Logan, Talberth John.
The Solutions Journal 4 (2013): 40-47.
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This Portfolio (t.j.gunn)
Before Night Steals Our Love
Poem to the determination of love
Alphabetical Conversation
Based on 90 second alphabet on "Whose Line is it Anyway"
The subconscious battle going on in the mind of an addict. I watch on awaiting the victor.
Bad things are happening again.
Daily Flash Fiction Challenge
Enter your story of 300 words or less.
RAOK Upgrade Brigade Group
RAOK (Random Acts Of Kindness) helps members by Upgrading them.
Dance of the Arowana
Chapter 1 of my novel to be titled “Arowana”
A contest entry for Stormy's Poetry Newsletter and Contest
Trying to be funny
. . Please, do not read if the word "crap" is bad language to you.
Unlock the Shadow Clone Technique
Unlock Naruto's Shadow Clone Technique Here
12 Days of "Christmas"
The holiday season is the perfect time for a holiday music challenge! Runs every December.
Things I've made.
A list of things I've made.
Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/2235956-The-Rat
The Rat
by T.J.Gunn
Rated: E · Fiction · Thriller/Suspense · #2235956
Sometimes things are not what they seem. (Under 1000 words.)
Created: October 23rd, 2020 at 3:14am
Modified: October 28th, 2020 at 6:33am
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Genres: Thriller/Suspense, Crime/Gangster, Mystery
Wispy mare-tail clouds dotted the blue spring sky, thin and streaky in the dry air and drifted east slowly over a policeman speaking to a man lying on a park bench.
“You’re under arrest, Bernie,” the policeman said to the grubby vagabond.
“Vagrancy again?” Bernie had played this game before and sat up on the bench, frowning at the officer.
“It could be robbery this time.” The officer smiled and held up a pair of handcuffs. “Similar routine though.”
Bernie eyed the shiny, steel bracelets. “Robbery? I think you’re mistaken, officer.”
He stood and extended both arms towards the lawman, wrists close together.
The officer snapped the cuffs in place and shot his hand into Bernie’s coat pocket, withdrawing a big handful of precious stones. “You have the right to remain silent... ”
The previous week.
Bernie’s daily routine never varied much. He slept in the park at night and spent most of his days out of sight, amongst the dumpsters, behind the small town’s shopping complex. These dumpsters were Bernie’s source of food, clothing, and even shelter when it rained. The staff at the shops knew about him and paid him no heed.
The only friend Bernie had was a clever rat. He would play with his rat and teach it tricks to pass the time away. He’d throw a set of car keys, he’d found in the carpark, and the rat would fetch them for him, rewarded suitably with a morsel from the dumpsters.
“Get the keys,” Bernie said to the rat showing him the keys. They jingled quietly and the rat quivered and stood on its hind legs. Bernie threw them across the carpark and watched his friend scurry after them.
“Good rat... clever rat,” he said, when the rat returned with the keys in its mouth. “Good boy.” Bernie stroked its tiny head with a finger and fed him a small piece of dry dog-treat, reinforcing the desired behaviour.
Likewise, he’d taught the rat to eat glass craft-beads, also scavenged from the dumpsters.
It was a windy day. Not hot. Not freezing. Just pleasantly cold. Bernie sat with his back against a brick wall, with an old, dirty blanket draped over his torso. He reached behind him, keys in hand, scratching away at the old mortar between the bricks.
Thirty paces away, the back door of the drug store opened. Mr. Chalmers stepped out into the sunshine and arced up a smoke. He looked around taking a deep drag and raised his free hand in a wave when he saw Bernie.
Bernie smiled, and he stopped scratching at the mortar, raising a hand, returning the gesture. Then his hands returned to their previous task, scratching at the mortar. He felt a brick loosen.
Finally, he thought.
Slowly, he removed the brick. Mr. Chalmers ground out his cigarette with the heel of his shoe, glanced at Bernie and stepped inside, closing the door.
Bernie reached inside his shirt and brought out the rat, placing it in the hole.
“Go, boy. Eat the glass. Good rat... clever rat.”
Some rodents have the remarkable ability of being in close proximity to humans, without being detected and Bernie’s rat excelled in this stealth behaviour. It roamed the interior of the open jewellery store, scurrying from place to place unnoticed and sometimes remaining motionless for minutes at a time. All the while looking for glass-to-eat. However, there were no glass beads in this jewellery shop, only precious stones in trays ready for setting into gold and silver rings.
The rat came back to Bernie and he weighed it in his hand.
Heavy, he thought. Poor bugger.
He put it in the front of his shirt, before returning the brick to the hole in the wall. He folded his grimy blanket and made his way to the park.
Five more days ought to do it.
All that remained now was to wait for the rat’s bowel movements.
“We found him in the park.” The arresting officer led Bernie into the watch-house cell and locked the door. Bernie turned around extending his hands past the bars. The officer unlocked the cuffs and hung them on his belt.
“Your hunch was right, Sarge.” The second officer held up an evidence bag full of precious jewels. “He had these in his pocket. How he got them is a mystery.”
The burly sergeant stood up from behind his desk and examined the evidence. “Good work fellers. I’m sure a nice, friendly chat with Bernie will reveal the whole story.”
“We’re going to finish our rounds,” the first officer said, dropping the cell keys on the sergeant’s desk and walked towards the front door.
The Sargeant glanced at the wall clock, then at Bernie. I’m due in court soon. This case will have to wait for now.
He followed his officers outside, closing the door behind him.
Bernie took the rat out of his shirt and gently placed it on the floor. “Get the keys boy. Good rat... clever rat.”
It was still windy, and the darkness crept in. There was no moon. The only lights visible were the yellow-glowing widely spaced streetlamps.
A black Mercedes Maybach S600 stopped at the entrance of a dark alley. The uniformed driver killed the headlights, got out, and opened the rear-passenger door.
“Good evening, sir,” the driver said, seemingly to no one, staring into the dark depths of the alley. The mouth of which was littered with rubbish. The restless wind toyed with small bits of paper, swirling and whirling them in a playful flurry.
“Good evening to you too, Hutchinson,” Bernie said, stepping from the shadows and handing the driver a big evidence-bag full of precious stones. “I think it best we find ourselves another small town, with a brick jewellery store, preferably far, far away from here.”
© Copyright 2020 T.J.Gunn (t.j.gunn at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
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NOWCAST Pittsburgh's Action News 4 at 11 pm Saturday
Fryer gets 3 RBIs, Pirates beat Cardinals 5-2
Updated: 11:28 PM EDT Jul 5, 2016
Eric Fryer burned his former team with two hits and three RBIs and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2 on Tuesday night.The Cardinals released Fryer when backup catcher Brayan Pena came off the 15-day disabled list and the Pirates claimed him off waivers on Sunday. He batted .368 with St. Louis with five RBIs in 38 at-bats behind seven-time All-Star Yadier Molina but Pena has a two-year, $5 million contract.Juan Nicasio (7-6) worked two scoreless innings in relief of lefty Steven Brault, who allowed one earned run in four innings while throwing 82 pitches and adding a single in his debut. The 24-year-old Brault pitched in place of fellow rookie Jameson Taillon, placed on the DL on Sunday with shoulder fatigue.Josh Harrison and David Freese added RBIs for the Pirates, who have taken the first two games of a four-game set and are 7-4 in the season series, closing within one-half game of the second-place Cardinals in the NL Central.Mark Melancon finished for his 21st consecutive save and 25th in 26 chances.Mike Leake (5-7) gave up five runs in six innings for the Cardinals, who got RBIs from Jedd Gyorko and Matt Holliday. Leake has lost his last three outings with a 6.06 ERA.Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang, under investigation by Chicago police on an allegation of sexual assault, singled pinch-hitting to open the ninth.HOT BOXHarrison stayed alive in a rundown between third and home long enough for the hitter and runner to take two bases in the fifth. The Cardinals finally got him out on a play scored 3-2-5-3-6-4.TRAINER'S ROOMPirates: RHP Ryan Vogelsong (facial fracture) threw 61 pitches in a four-inning simulated game. ... RHP Gerrit Cole (biceps) struck out six and allowed two hits for Triple-A Indianapolis to begin a rehab start.Cardinals: SS Jhonny Peralta was taken out after three innings with discomfort in his left thumb. The team said it was unrelated to the surgery for a torn thumb ligament in March.SLUMPINGMatt Adams, who replaced Peralta in the lineup, is in an 0-for-31 slump.UP NEXTPirates: Jeff Locke (8-5, 5.13) has won his last three starts with a 1.93 ERA and bested Oakland ace Sonny Gray his last time out.Cardinals: Jaime Garcia (6-6, 3.84) allowed one run in eight innings against the Brewers his last time out. He has a 0.57 ERA against Pittsburgh in six games, four starts.
ST. LOUIS —
Eric Fryer burned his former team with two hits and three RBIs and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2 on Tuesday night.
The Cardinals released Fryer when backup catcher Brayan Pena came off the 15-day disabled list and the Pirates claimed him off waivers on Sunday. He batted .368 with St. Louis with five RBIs in 38 at-bats behind seven-time All-Star Yadier Molina but Pena has a two-year, $5 million contract.
Juan Nicasio (7-6) worked two scoreless innings in relief of lefty Steven Brault, who allowed one earned run in four innings while throwing 82 pitches and adding a single in his debut. The 24-year-old Brault pitched in place of fellow rookie Jameson Taillon, placed on the DL on Sunday with shoulder fatigue.
Josh Harrison and David Freese added RBIs for the Pirates, who have taken the first two games of a four-game set and are 7-4 in the season series, closing within one-half game of the second-place Cardinals in the NL Central.
Mark Melancon finished for his 21st consecutive save and 25th in 26 chances.
Mike Leake (5-7) gave up five runs in six innings for the Cardinals, who got RBIs from Jedd Gyorko and Matt Holliday. Leake has lost his last three outings with a 6.06 ERA.
Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang, under investigation by Chicago police on an allegation of sexual assault, singled pinch-hitting to open the ninth.
Harrison stayed alive in a rundown between third and home long enough for the hitter and runner to take two bases in the fifth. The Cardinals finally got him out on a play scored 3-2-5-3-6-4.
Pirates: RHP Ryan Vogelsong (facial fracture) threw 61 pitches in a four-inning simulated game. ... RHP Gerrit Cole (biceps) struck out six and allowed two hits for Triple-A Indianapolis to begin a rehab start.
Cardinals: SS Jhonny Peralta was taken out after three innings with discomfort in his left thumb. The team said it was unrelated to the surgery for a torn thumb ligament in March.
Matt Adams, who replaced Peralta in the lineup, is in an 0-for-31 slump.
Pirates: Jeff Locke (8-5, 5.13) has won his last three starts with a 1.93 ERA and bested Oakland ace Sonny Gray his last time out.
Cardinals: Jaime Garcia (6-6, 3.84) allowed one run in eight innings against the Brewers his last time out. He has a 0.57 ERA against Pittsburgh in six games, four starts.
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Friends of the Earth (Melbourne)'s renewable energy campaign
Energy in Victoria – The Facts
Denmark, green economy, renewable energy, Vestas, Wind Farm Benefits, wind farms
Largest Wind Turbine In World Ready For Production
Published by www.cleantechnica.com. View original here.
On Tuesday the world’s largest and most powerful wind turbine swung into gear at the Danish National Test Centre for Large Wind Turbines in Østerild. The prototype V164-8.0 MW wind turbine is 720 feet tall, has 260-foot blades, and can generate 8 megawatts of power — enough to supply electricity for 7,500 average European households or about 3,000 American households.
A joint venture between Vestas and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the turbine is slated to go into production next year and was designed to take advantage of the growing offshore wind industry across Europe.
“We have now completed the production, testing, and installation of the V164-8.0 MW as planned, thanks to the team’s intense effort during a time when Vestas has reduced its investments and lowered fixed costs,” Anders Vedel, Chief Technology Officer for Vestas, said. “We now look forward to evaluating the turbine’s performance on site.”
According to the European Offshore Wind Industry, 418 offshore turbines came online last year, providing 1,567 MW of capacity. That brought the total offshore wind capacity in Europe to 6,562 MW with just over 2,000 turbines, enough to provide 0.7 percent of the EU’s electricity. The European Offshore Wind Industry estimates that by 2020 Europe’s offshore grid should have a capacity of 40 gigawatts and by 2030 it should have 150 gigawatts, enough to provide 14 percent of the EU’s electricity demand.
Britain has the most installed offshore wind capacity with 3.68 gigawtts while Denmark is a distant second with 1.27 gigawatts.
Vestas is Europe’s second leading wind turbine manufacturer, after Siemens, a German company. As of last year Vestas had installed 27 percent of Europe’s offshore wind turbines, or 547, compared to Siemens’ 1,249, or 60 percent.
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Disney, Universal & Other Theme Parks
Ground Transportation (Bus, Lyft, Subway, Taxi, Train, Uber, etc.)
Newbies (& those who don’t travel often)
Roadside Attraction
Home Airports Come See MCO….Grow (Based On What We’ve Seen So Far, The New Terminal Is Going To Rock!)
Come See MCO….Grow (Based On What We’ve Seen So Far, The New Terminal Is Going To Rock!)
by SharonKurheg August 9, 2019
Orlando International Airport (MCO) has had some growing pains in the past few years. In 2008 it was ranked as the 22nd busiest airport in the United States. 10 years later (2018 are the latest stats available) it’s been ranked as the busiest airport in Florida (even busier than Miami!) and the 10th busiest in the country. So for the past couple of years now, it’s been, well, something of a hot mess. But they’re doing a lot to fix the problems…
We’ve found MCO to have been pretty proactive in making its passengers aware of what’s going on – from warnings to give themselves extra time when a new security procedure was underway, to letting people know the current parking situation…
MCO Parking Update 🚗
Terminal Top ❌
A/B Garage ❌
Garage C ✅
Economy Lots ✅
Please follow signage to Garage C & economy lots. Picking up? Use our free cell lots.
🔗 https://t.co/RwIZfKUgGN
— Orlando International Airport (@MCO) July 25, 2019
(Psst! We recommend off site parking. It’s always cheaper and, depending on where at MCO you park, sometimes faster. Sorry not sorry, MCO)
But the airport is still bursting at the seams, and they know it.
So for the past year and a half, they’ve been working on (FINALLY!) a new Terminal. South of the original Terminals A and B, the South Terminal (also known as Terminal C…they tend to use both interchangeably, although “Terminal C” is what’s on the signage) is slowing rising from the dirt. Sand. Whatever we have here in Central Florida. I think it’s sand.
The first thing they completed was the Terminal C parking garage (whoop whoop! More parking! OK, it’s $17/day parking but still…more parking!), as well as the automated people mover (APM) to Terminal C, which is up and running (well, of course it is…people are parking in the garage over there!). This whole South/Terminal C Complex is also where the Virgin Train will eventually stop, perhaps on its way to Walt Disney World and then Tampa, who knows?
I went to Rhode Island not long ago and purposely got to MCO on the early side (thanks for the ride, Janey!) so I could ride the APM over to see how the construction and everything was going. Here are some pictures:
Front car of the APM. It’s 100% automatic and driverless, so I’m not sure why there’s a windshield wiper there, or who it’s for, but there ya go // PC: Me
South Airport APM Complex and Intermodal Terminal Facility, facing north(ish). I’m guessing the train will load/unload on the other side of those windows on the right // PC: Me
^^^ Current “art” installation in Terminal C, called Lightly Salted, to commemorate the 1-year anniversary that Southwest stopped serving peanuts on its planes. Because someone at MCO has a sense of humor 😉 // PC: Me
Panorama of where the monorail drops off/picks up at the South/Terminal C Complex. Terminal C parking are those doors on the right // PC: Me
Current situation: Building the actual Terminal C. Estimated completion: Late 2021. It will add 19 gates to MCO // PC: Me
But if you’d like an idea of what the whole complex will look like when it’s all constructed, you don’t have to go any further than MCO’s official Twitter account:
There's been some exciting renderings released in town lately but may we say that we also have something 𝙀𝙋𝙄𝘾 coming soon. 😏 pic.twitter.com/TKGnZNejSY
— Orlando International Airport (@MCO) August 5, 2019
So yeah, we’re really excited about the new terminal. Late 2021 feels like forever away, but we have patience.
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Christian August 9, 2019 - 5:48 pm
Wow. I haven’t been to MCO since my late teens in the 80’s, when it had maybe a dozen gates. It’s a tad bigger now.
If I remember my 8th grade history, southern Florida sits on a bed of oolitic limestone, with swamp and stuff on top.
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Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual
Scott Rifenbark
Scotty's Documentation Services, INC
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Copyright © 2010-2019 Linux Foundation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales as published by Creative Commons.
Manual Notes
This version of the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual is for the 2.7 release of the Yocto Project. To be sure you have the latest version of the manual for this release, go to the Yocto Project documentation page and select the manual from that site. Manuals from the site are more up-to-date than manuals derived from the Yocto Project released TAR files.
If you located this manual through a web search, the version of the manual might not be the one you want (e.g. the search might have returned a manual much older than the Yocto Project version with which you are working). You can see all Yocto Project major releases by visiting the Releases page. If you need a version of this manual for a different Yocto Project release, visit the Yocto Project documentation page and select the manual set by using the "ACTIVE RELEASES DOCUMENTATION" or "DOCUMENTS ARCHIVE" pull-down menus.
To report any inaccuracies or problems with this manual, send an email to the Yocto Project discussion group at yocto@yoctoproject.com or log into the freenode #yocto channel.
Revision 2.5 May 2018
The initial document released with the Yocto Project 2.5 Release.
Revision 2.6 November 2018
Released with the Yocto Project 2.6 Release.
1. The Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual
1.1. Welcome
1.2. Other Information
2. Introducing the Yocto Project
2.1. What is the Yocto Project?
2.1.1. Features
2.1.2. Challenges
2.2. The Yocto Project Layer Model
2.3. Components and Tools
2.3.1. Development Tools
2.3.2. Production Tools
2.3.3. Open-Embedded Build System Components
2.3.4. Reference Distribution (Poky)
2.3.5. Packages for Finished Targets
2.3.6. Archived Components
2.4. Development Methods
2.5. Reference Embedded Distribution (Poky)
2.6. The OpenEmbedded Build System Workflow
2.7. Some Basic Terms
3. The Yocto Project Development Environment
3.1. Open Source Philosophy
3.2. The Development Host
3.3. Yocto Project Source Repositories
3.4. Git Workflows and the Yocto Project
3.5. Git
3.5.1. Repositories, Tags, and Branches
3.5.2. Basic Commands
3.6. Licensing
4. Yocto Project Concepts
4.1. Yocto Project Components
4.1.1. BitBake
4.1.2. Recipes
4.1.3. Classes
4.1.4. Configurations
4.2. Layers
4.3. OpenEmbedded Build System Concepts
4.3.1. User Configuration
4.3.2. Metadata, Machine Configuration, and Policy Configuration
4.3.3. Sources
4.3.4. Package Feeds
4.3.6. Images
4.3.7. Application Development SDK
4.4. Cross-Development Toolchain Generation
4.5. Shared State Cache
4.5.1. Overall Architecture
4.5.2. Checksums (Signatures)
4.5.3. Shared State
4.6. Automatically Added Runtime Dependencies
4.7. Fakeroot and Pseudo
Chapter 1. The Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual¶
1.1. Welcome¶
Welcome to the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual! This manual introduces the Yocto Project by providing concepts, software overviews, best-known-methods (BKMs), and any other high-level introductory information suitable for a new Yocto Project user.
The following list describes what you can get from this manual:
Introducing the Yocto Project: This chapter provides an introduction to the Yocto Project. You will learn about features and challenges of the Yocto Project, the layer model, components and tools, development methods, the Poky reference distribution, the OpenEmbedded build system workflow, and some basic Yocto terms.
The Yocto Project Development Environment: This chapter helps you get started understanding the Yocto Project development environment. You will learn about open source, development hosts, Yocto Project source repositories, workflows using Git and the Yocto Project, a Git primer, and information about licensing.
Yocto Project Concepts: This chapter presents various concepts regarding the Yocto Project. You can find conceptual information about components, development, cross-toolchains, and so forth.
This manual does not give you the following:
Step-by-step Instructions for Development Tasks: Instructional procedures reside in other manuals within the Yocto Project documentation set. For example, the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual provides examples on how to perform various development tasks. As another example, the Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK) manual contains detailed instructions on how to install an SDK, which is used to develop applications for target hardware.
Reference Material: This type of material resides in an appropriate reference manual. For example, system variables are documented in the Yocto Project Reference Manual. As another example, the Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide contains reference information on BSPs.
Detailed Public Information Not Specific to the Yocto Project: For example, exhaustive information on how to use the Source Control Manager Git is better covered with Internet searches and official Git Documentation than through the Yocto Project documentation.
1.2. Other Information¶
Because this manual presents information for many different topics, supplemental information is recommended for full comprehension. For additional introductory information on the Yocto Project, see the Yocto Project Website. If you want to build an image with no knowledge of Yocto Project as a way of quickly testing it out, see the Yocto Project Quick Build document. For a comprehensive list of links and other documentation, see the "Links and Related Documentation" section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
Chapter 2. Introducing the Yocto Project¶
2.1. What is the Yocto Project?¶
The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems that are designed for embedded products regardless of the product's hardware architecture. Yocto Project provides a flexible toolset and a development environment that allows embedded device developers across the world to collaborate through shared technologies, software stacks, configurations, and best practices used to create these tailored Linux images.
Thousands of developers worldwide have discovered that Yocto Project provides advantages in both systems and applications development, archival and management benefits, and customizations used for speed, footprint, and memory utilization. The project is a standard when it comes to delivering embedded software stacks. The project allows software customizations and build interchange for multiple hardware platforms as well as software stacks that can be maintained and scaled.
For further introductory information on the Yocto Project, you might be interested in this article by Drew Moseley and in this short introductory video.
The remainder of this section overviews advantages and challenges tied to the Yocto Project.
2.1.1. Features¶
The following list describes features and advantages of the Yocto Project:
Widely Adopted Across the Industry: Semiconductor, operating system, software, and service vendors exist whose products and services adopt and support the Yocto Project. For a look at the Yocto Project community and the companies involved with the Yocto Project, see the "COMMUNITY" and "ECOSYSTEM" tabs on the Yocto Project home page.
Architecture Agnostic: Yocto Project supports Intel, ARM, MIPS, AMD, PPC and other architectures. Most ODMs, OSVs, and chip vendors create and supply BSPs that support their hardware. If you have custom silicon, you can create a BSP that supports that architecture.
Aside from lots of architecture support, the Yocto Project fully supports a wide range of device emulation through the Quick EMUlator (QEMU).
Images and Code Transfer Easily: Yocto Project output can easily move between architectures without moving to new development environments. Additionally, if you have used the Yocto Project to create an image or application and you find yourself not able to support it, commercial Linux vendors such as Wind River, Mentor Graphics, Timesys, and ENEA could take it and provide ongoing support. These vendors have offerings that are built using the Yocto Project.
Flexibility: Corporations use the Yocto Project many different ways. One example is to create an internal Linux distribution as a code base the corporation can use across multiple product groups. Through customization and layering, a project group can leverage the base Linux distribution to create a distribution that works for their product needs.
Ideal for Constrained Embedded and IoT devices: Unlike a full Linux distribution, you can use the Yocto Project to create exactly what you need for embedded devices. You only add the feature support or packages that you absolutely need for the device. For devices that have display hardware, you can use available system components such as X11, GTK+, Qt, Clutter, and SDL (among others) to create a rich user experience. For devices that do not have a display or where you want to use alternative UI frameworks, you can choose to not install these components.
Comprehensive Toolchain Capabilities: Toolchains for supported architectures satisfy most use cases. However, if your hardware supports features that are not part of a standard toolchain, you can easily customize that toolchain through specification of platform-specific tuning parameters. And, should you need to use a third-party toolchain, mechanisms built into the Yocto Project allow for that.
Mechanism Rules Over Policy: Focusing on mechanism rather than policy ensures that you are free to set policies based on the needs of your design instead of adopting decisions enforced by some system software provider.
Uses a Layer Model: The Yocto Project layer infrastructure groups related functionality into separate bundles. You can incrementally add these grouped functionalities to your project as needed. Using layers to isolate and group functionality reduces project complexity and redundancy, allows you to easily extend the system, make customizations, and keep functionality organized.
Supports Partial Builds: You can build and rebuild individual packages as needed. Yocto Project accomplishes this through its shared-state cache (sstate) scheme. Being able to build and debug components individually eases project development.
Releases According to a Strict Schedule: Major releases occur on a six-month cycle predictably in October and April. The most recent two releases support point releases to address common vulnerabilities and exposures. This predictability is crucial for projects based on the Yocto Project and allows development teams to plan activities.
Rich Ecosystem of Individuals and Organizations: For open source projects, the value of community is very important. Support forums, expertise, and active developers who continue to push the Yocto Project forward are readily available.
Binary Reproducibility: The Yocto Project allows you to be very specific about dependencies and achieves very high percentages of binary reproducibility (e.g. 99.8% for core-image-minimal). When distributions are not specific about which packages are pulled in and in what order to support dependencies, other build systems can arbitrarily include packages.
License Manifest: The Yocto Project provides a license manifest for review by people who need to track the use of open source licenses (e.g.legal teams).
2.1.2. Challenges¶
The following list presents challenges you might encounter when developing using the Yocto Project:
Steep Learning Curve: The Yocto Project has a steep learning curve and has many different ways to accomplish similar tasks. It can be difficult to choose how to proceed when varying methods exist by which to accomplish a given task.
Understanding What Changes You Need to Make For Your Design Requires Some Research: Beyond the simple tutorial stage, understanding what changes need to be made for your particular design can require a significant amount of research and investigation. For information that helps you transition from trying out the Yocto Project to using it for your project, see the "What I wish I'd Known" and "Transitioning to a Custom Environment for Systems Development" documents on the Yocto Project website.
Project Workflow Could Be Confusing: The Yocto Project workflow could be confusing if you are used to traditional desktop and server software development. In a desktop development environment, mechanisms exist to easily pull and install new packages, which are typically pre-compiled binaries from servers accessible over the Internet. Using the Yocto Project, you must modify your configuration and rebuild to add additional packages.
Working in a Cross-Build Environment Can Feel Unfamiliar: When developing code to run on a target, compilation, execution, and testing done on the actual target can be faster than running a BitBake build on a development host and then deploying binaries to the target for test. While the Yocto Project does support development tools on the target, the additional step of integrating your changes back into the Yocto Project build environment would be required. Yocto Project supports an intermediate approach that involves making changes on the development system within the BitBake environment and then deploying only the updated packages to the target.
The Yocto Project OpenEmbedded build system produces packages in standard formats (i.e. RPM, DEB, IPK, and TAR). You can deploy these packages into the running system on the target by using utilities on the target such as rpm or ipk.
Initial Build Times Can be Significant: Long initial build times are unfortunately unavoidable due to the large number of packages initially built from scratch for a fully functioning Linux system. Once that initial build is completed, however, the shared-state (sstate) cache mechanism Yocto Project uses keeps the system from rebuilding packages that have not been "touched" since the last build. The sstate mechanism significantly reduces times for successive builds.
2.2. The Yocto Project Layer Model¶
The Yocto Project's "Layer Model" is a development model for embedded and IoT Linux creation that distinguishes the Yocto Project from other simple build systems. The Layer Model simultaneously supports collaboration and customization. Layers are repositories that contain related sets of instructions that tell the OpenEmbedded build system what to do. You can collaborate, share, and reuse layers.
Layers can contain changes to previous instructions or settings at any time. This powerful override capability is what allows you to customize previously supplied collaborative or community layers to suit your product requirements.
You use different layers to logically separate information in your build. As an example, you could have BSP, GUI, distro configuration, middleware, or application layers. Putting your entire build into one layer limits and complicates future customization and reuse. Isolating information into layers, on the other hand, helps simplify future customizations and reuse. You might find it tempting to keep everything in one layer when working on a single project. However, the more modular your Metadata, the easier it is to cope with future changes.
Use Board Support Package (BSP) layers from silicon vendors when possible.
Familiarize yourself with the Yocto Project curated layer index or the OpenEmbedded layer index. The latter contains more layers but they are less universally validated.
Layers support the inclusion of technologies, hardware components, and software components. The Yocto Project Compatible designation provides a minimum level of standardization that contributes to a strong ecosystem. "YP Compatible" is applied to appropriate products and software components such as BSPs, other OE-compatible layers, and related open-source projects, allowing the producer to use Yocto Project badges and branding assets.
To illustrate how layers are used to keep things modular, consider machine customizations. These types of customizations typically reside in a special layer, rather than a general layer, called a BSP Layer. Furthermore, the machine customizations should be isolated from recipes and Metadata that support a new GUI environment, for example. This situation gives you a couple of layers: one for the machine configurations, and one for the GUI environment. It is important to understand, however, that the BSP layer can still make machine-specific additions to recipes within the GUI environment layer without polluting the GUI layer itself with those machine-specific changes. You can accomplish this through a recipe that is a BitBake append (.bbappend) file, which is described later in this section.
For general information on BSP layer structure, see the Yocto Project Board Support Packages (BSP) Developer's Guide.
The Source Directory contains both general layers and BSP layers right out of the box. You can easily identify layers that ship with a Yocto Project release in the Source Directory by their names. Layers typically have names that begin with the string meta-.
It is not a requirement that a layer name begin with the prefix meta-, but it is a commonly accepted standard in the Yocto Project community.
For example, if you were to examine the tree view of the poky repository, you will see several layers: meta, meta-skeleton, meta-selftest, meta-poky, and meta-yocto-bsp. Each of these repositories represents a distinct layer.
For procedures on how to create layers, see the "Understanding and Creating Layers" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
2.3. Components and Tools¶
The Yocto Project employs a collection of components and tools used by the project itself, by project developers, and by those using the Yocto Project. These components and tools are open source projects and metadata that are separate from the reference distribution (Poky) and the OpenEmbedded build system. Most of the components and tools are downloaded separately.
This section provides brief overviews of the components and tools associated with the Yocto Project.
2.3.1. Development Tools¶
The following list consists of tools that help you develop images and applications using the Yocto Project:
CROPS: CROPS is an open source, cross-platform development framework that leverages Docker Containers. CROPS provides an easily managed, extensible environment that allows you to build binaries for a variety of architectures on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X hosts.
devtool: This command-line tool is available as part of the extensible SDK (eSDK) and is its cornerstone. You can use devtool to help build, test, and package software within the eSDK. You can use the tool to optionally integrate what you build into an image built by the OpenEmbedded build system.
The devtool command employs a number of sub-commands that allow you to add, modify, and upgrade recipes. As with the OpenEmbedded build system, “recipes” represent software packages within devtool. When you use devtool add, a recipe is automatically created. When you use devtool modify, the specified existing recipe is used in order to determine where to get the source code and how to patch it. In both cases, an environment is set up so that when you build the recipe a source tree that is under your control is used in order to allow you to make changes to the source as desired. By default, both new recipes and the source go into a “workspace” directory under the eSDK. The devtool upgrade command updates an existing recipe so that you can build it for an updated set of source files.
You can read about the devtool workflow in the Yocto Project Application Development and Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK) Manual in the "Using devtool in Your SDK Workflow'" section.
Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK): The eSDK provides a cross-development toolchain and libraries tailored to the contents of a specific image. The eSDK makes it easy to add new applications and libraries to an image, modify the source for an existing component, test changes on the target hardware, and integrate into the rest of the OpenEmbedded build system. The eSDK gives you a toolchain experience supplemented with the powerful set of devtool commands tailored for the Yocto Project environment.
For information on the eSDK, see the Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK) Manual.
Toaster: Toaster is a web interface to the Yocto Project OpenEmbedded build system. Toaster allows you to configure, run, and view information about builds. For information on Toaster, see the Toaster User Manual.
2.3.2. Production Tools¶
The following list consists of tools that help production related activities using the Yocto Project:
Auto Upgrade Helper: This utility when used in conjunction with the OpenEmbedded build system (BitBake and OE-Core) automatically generates upgrades for recipes that are based on new versions of the recipes published upstream.
Recipe Reporting System: The Recipe Reporting System tracks recipe versions available for Yocto Project. The main purpose of the system is to help you manage the recipes you maintain and to offer a dynamic overview of the project. The Recipe Reporting System is built on top of the OpenEmbedded Layer Index, which is a website that indexes OpenEmbedded-Core layers.
Patchwork: Patchwork is a fork of a project originally started by OzLabs. The project is a web-based tracking system designed to streamline the process of bringing contributions into a project. The Yocto Project uses Patchwork as an organizational tool to handle patches, which number in the thousands for every release.
AutoBuilder: AutoBuilder is a project that automates build tests and quality assurance (QA). By using the public AutoBuilder, anyone can determine the status of the current "master" branch of Poky.
AutoBuilder is based on buildbot.
A goal of the Yocto Project is to lead the open source industry with a project that automates testing and QA procedures. In doing so, the project encourages a development community that publishes QA and test plans, publicly demonstrates QA and test plans, and encourages development of tools that automate and test and QA procedures for the benefit of the development community.
You can learn more about the AutoBuilder used by the Yocto Project here.
Cross-Prelink: Prelinking is the process of pre-computing the load addresses and link tables generated by the dynamic linker as compared to doing this at runtime. Doing this ahead of time results in performance improvements when the application is launched and reduced memory usage for libraries shared by many applications.
Historically, cross-prelink is a variant of prelink, which was conceived by Jakub Jelínek a number of years ago. Both prelink and cross-prelink are maintained in the same repository albeit on separate branches. By providing an emulated runtime dynamic linker (i.e. glibc-derived ld.so emulation), the cross-prelink project extends the prelink software’s ability to prelink a sysroot environment. Additionally, the cross-prelink software enables the ability to work in sysroot style environments.
The dynamic linker determines standard load address calculations based on a variety of factors such as mapping addresses, library usage, and library function conflicts. The prelink tool uses this information, from the dynamic linker, to determine unique load addresses for executable and linkable format (ELF) binaries that are shared libraries and dynamically linked. The prelink tool modifies these ELF binaries with the pre-computed information. The result is faster loading and often lower memory consumption because more of the library code can be re-used from shared Copy-On-Write (COW) pages.
The original upstream prelink project only supports running prelink on the end target device due to the reliance on the target device’s dynamic linker. This restriction causes issues when developing a cross-compiled system. The cross-prelink adds a synthesized dynamic loader that runs on the host, thus permitting cross-prelinking without ever having to run on a read-write target filesystem.
Pseudo: Pseudo is the Yocto Project implementation of fakeroot, which is used to run commands in an environment that seemingly has root privileges.
During a build, it can be necessary to perform operations that require system administrator privileges. For example, file ownership or permissions might need definition. Pseudo is a tool that you can either use directly or through the environment variable LD_PRELOAD. Either method allows these operations to succeed as if system administrator privileges exist even when they do not.
You can read more about Pseudo in the "Fakeroot and Pseudo" section.
2.3.3. Open-Embedded Build System Components¶
The following list consists of components associated with the OpenEmbedded build system:
BitBake: BitBake is a core component of the Yocto Project and is used by the OpenEmbedded build system to build images. While BitBake is key to the build system, BitBake is maintained separately from the Yocto Project.
BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints. In short, BitBake is a build engine that works through recipes written in a specific format in order to perform sets of tasks.
You can learn more about BitBake in the BitBake User Manual.
OpenEmbedded-Core: OpenEmbedded-Core (OE-Core) is a common layer of metadata (i.e. recipes, classes, and associated files) used by OpenEmbedded-derived systems, which includes the Yocto Project. The Yocto Project and the OpenEmbedded Project both maintain the OpenEmbedded-Core. You can find the OE-Core metadata in the Yocto Project Source Repositories.
Historically, the Yocto Project integrated the OE-Core metadata throughout the Yocto Project source repository reference system (Poky). After Yocto Project Version 1.0, the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded agreed to work together and share a common core set of metadata (OE-Core), which contained much of the functionality previously found in Poky. This collaboration achieved a long-standing OpenEmbedded objective for having a more tightly controlled and quality-assured core. The results also fit well with the Yocto Project objective of achieving a smaller number of fully featured tools as compared to many different ones.
Sharing a core set of metadata results in Poky as an integration layer on top of OE-Core. You can see that in this figure. The Yocto Project combines various components such as BitBake, OE-Core, script “glue”, and documentation for its build system.
2.3.4. Reference Distribution (Poky)¶
Poky is the Yocto Project reference distribution. It contains the Open-Embedded build system (BitBake and OE-Core) as well as a set of metadata to get you started building your own distribution. See the figure in "What is the Yocto Project?" section for an illustration that shows Poky and its relationship with other parts of the Yocto Project.
To use the Yocto Project tools and components, you can download (clone) Poky and use it to bootstrap your own distribution.
Poky does not contain binary files. It is a working example of how to build your own custom Linux distribution from source.
You can read more about Poky in the "Reference Embedded Distribution (Poky)" section.
2.3.5. Packages for Finished Targets¶
The following lists components associated with packages for finished targets:
Matchbox: Matchbox is an Open Source, base environment for the X Window System running on non-desktop, embedded platforms such as handhelds, set-top boxes, kiosks, and anything else for which screen space, input mechanisms, or system resources are limited.
Matchbox consists of a number of interchangeable and optional applications that you can tailor to a specific, non-desktop platform to enhance usability in constrained environments.
You can find the Matchbox source in the Yocto Project Source Repositories.
Opkg Open PacKaGe management (opkg) is a lightweight package management system based on the itsy package (ipkg) management system. Opkg is written in C and resembles Advanced Package Tool (APT) and Debian Package (dpkg) in operation.
Opkg is intended for use on embedded Linux devices and is used in this capacity in the OpenEmbedded and OpenWrt projects, as well as the Yocto Project.
As best it can, opkg maintains backwards compatibility with ipkg and conforms to a subset of Debian’s policy manual regarding control files.
2.3.6. Archived Components¶
The Build Appliance is a virtual machine image that enables you to build and boot a custom embedded Linux image with the Yocto Project using a non-Linux development system.
Historically, the Build Appliance was the second of three methods by which you could use the Yocto Project on a system that was not native to Linux.
Hob: Hob, which is now deprecated and is no longer available since the 2.1 release of the Yocto Project provided a rudimentary, GUI-based interface to the Yocto Project. Toaster has fully replaced Hob.
Build Appliance: Post Hob, the Build Appliance became available. It was never recommended that you use the Build Appliance as a day-to-day production development environment with the Yocto Project. Build Appliance was useful as a way to try out development in the Yocto Project environment.
CROPS: The final and best solution available now for developing using the Yocto Project on a system not native to Linux is with CROPS.
2.4. Development Methods¶
The Yocto Project development environment usually involves a Build Host and target hardware. You use the Build Host to build images and develop applications, while you use the target hardware to test deployed software.
This section provides an introduction to the choices or development methods you have when setting up your Build Host. Depending on the your particular workflow preference and the type of operating system your Build Host runs, several choices exist that allow you to use the Yocto Project.
For additional detail about the Yocto Project development environment, see the "The Yocto Project Development Environment" chapter.
Native Linux Host: By far the best option for a Build Host. A system running Linux as its native operating system allows you to develop software by directly using the BitBake tool. You can accomplish all aspects of development from a familiar shell of a supported Linux distribution.
For information on how to set up a Build Host on a system running Linux as its native operating system, see the "Setting Up a Native Linux Host" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
CROss PlatformS (CROPS): Typically, you use CROPS, which leverages Docker Containers, to set up a Build Host that is not running Linux (e.g. Microsoft® Windows™ or macOS®).
You can, however, use CROPS on a Linux-based system.
CROPS is an open source, cross-platform development framework that provides an easily managed, extensible environment for building binaries targeted for a variety of architectures on Windows, macOS, or Linux hosts. Once the Build Host is set up using CROPS, you can prepare a shell environment to mimic that of a shell being used on a system natively running Linux.
For information on how to set up a Build Host with CROPS, see the "Setting Up to Use CROss PlatformS (CROPS)" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
Toaster: Regardless of what your Build Host is running, you can use Toaster to develop software using the Yocto Project. Toaster is a web interface to the Yocto Project's Open-Embedded build system. The interface enables you to configure and run your builds. Information about builds is collected and stored in a database. You can use Toaster to configure and start builds on multiple remote build servers.
For information about and how to use Toaster, see the Toaster User Manual.
2.5. Reference Embedded Distribution (Poky)¶
"Poky", which is pronounced Pock-ee, is the name of the Yocto Project's reference distribution or Reference OS Kit. Poky contains the OpenEmbedded Build System (BitBake and OpenEmbedded-Core) as well as a set of metadata to get you started building your own distro. In other words, Poky is a base specification of the functionality needed for a typical embedded system as well as the components from the Yocto Project that allow you to build a distribution into a usable binary image.
Poky is a combined repository of BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core (which is found in meta), meta-poky, meta-yocto-bsp, and documentation provided all together and known to work well together. You can view these items that make up the Poky repository in the Source Repositories.
If you are interested in all the contents of the poky Git repository, see the "Top-Level Core Components" section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
The following figure illustrates what generally comprises Poky:
BitBake is a task executor and scheduler that is the heart of the OpenEmbedded build system.
meta-poky, which is Poky-specific metadata.
meta-yocto-bsp, which are Yocto Project-specific Board Support Packages (BSPs).
OpenEmbedded-Core (OE-Core) metadata, which includes shared configurations, global variable definitions, shared classes, packaging, and recipes. Classes define the encapsulation and inheritance of build logic. Recipes are the logical units of software and images to be built.
Documentation, which contains the Yocto Project source files used to make the set of user manuals.
While Poky is a "complete" distribution specification and is tested and put through QA, you cannot use it as a product "out of the box" in its current form.
To use the Yocto Project tools, you can use Git to clone (download) the Poky repository then use your local copy of the reference distribution to bootstrap your own distribution.
Poky has a regular, well established, six-month release cycle under its own version. Major releases occur at the same time major releases (point releases) occur for the Yocto Project, which are typically in the Spring and Fall. For more information on the Yocto Project release schedule and cadence, see the "Yocto Project Releases and the Stable Release Process" chapter in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
Much has been said about Poky being a "default configuration." A default configuration provides a starting image footprint. You can use Poky out of the box to create an image ranging from a shell-accessible minimal image all the way up to a Linux Standard Base-compliant image that uses a GNOME Mobile and Embedded (GMAE) based reference user interface called Sato.
One of the most powerful properties of Poky is that every aspect of a build is controlled by the metadata. You can use metadata to augment these base image types by adding metadata layers that extend functionality. These layers can provide, for example, an additional software stack for an image type, add a board support package (BSP) for additional hardware, or even create a new image type.
Metadata is loosely grouped into configuration files or package recipes. A recipe is a collection of non-executable metadata used by BitBake to set variables or define additional build-time tasks. A recipe contains fields such as the recipe description, the recipe version, the license of the package and the upstream source repository. A recipe might also indicate that the build process uses autotools, make, distutils or any other build process, in which case the basic functionality can be defined by the classes it inherits from the OE-Core layer's class definitions in ./meta/classes. Within a recipe you can also define additional tasks as well as task prerequisites. Recipe syntax through BitBake also supports both _prepend and _append operators as a method of extending task functionality. These operators inject code into the beginning or end of a task. For information on these BitBake operators, see the "Appending and Prepending (Override Style Syntax)" section in the BitBake User's Manual.
2.6. The OpenEmbedded Build System Workflow¶
The OpenEmbedded build system uses a "workflow" to accomplish image and SDK generation. The following figure overviews that workflow:
Following is a brief summary of the "workflow":
Developers specify architecture, policies, patches and configuration details.
The build system fetches and downloads the source code from the specified location. The build system supports standard methods such as tarballs or source code repositories systems such as Git.
Once source code is downloaded, the build system extracts the sources into a local work area where patches are applied and common steps for configuring and compiling the software are run.
The build system then installs the software into a temporary staging area where the binary package format you select (DEB, RPM, or IPK) is used to roll up the software.
Different QA and sanity checks run throughout entire build process.
After the binaries are created, the build system generates a binary package feed that is used to create the final root file image.
The build system generates the file system image and a customized Extensible SDK (eSDK) for application development in parallel.
For a very detailed look at this workflow, see the "OpenEmbedded Build System Concepts" section.
2.7. Some Basic Terms¶
It helps to understand some basic fundamental terms when learning the Yocto Project. Although a list of terms exists in the "Yocto Project Terms" section of the Yocto Project Reference Manual, this section provides the definitions of some terms helpful for getting started:
Configuration Files: Files that hold global definitions of variables, user-defined variables, and hardware configuration information. These files tell the Open-Embedded build system what to build and what to put into the image to support a particular platform.
Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK): A custom SDK for application developers. This eSDK allows developers to incorporate their library and programming changes back into the image to make their code available to other application developers. For information on the eSDK, see the Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK) manual.
Layer: A collection of related recipes. Layers allow you to consolidate related metadata to customize your build. Layers also isolate information used when building for multiple architectures. Layers are hierarchical in their ability to override previous specifications. You can include any number of available layers from the Yocto Project and customize the build by adding your layers after them. You can search the Layer Index for layers used within Yocto Project.
For more detailed information on layers, see the "Understanding and Creating Layers" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual. For a discussion specifically on BSP Layers, see the "BSP Layers" section in the Yocto Project Board Support Packages (BSP) Developer's Guide.
Metadata: A key element of the Yocto Project is the Metadata that is used to construct a Linux distribution and is contained in the files that the OpenEmbedded build system parses when building an image. In general, Metadata includes recipes, configuration files, and other information that refers to the build instructions themselves, as well as the data used to control what things get built and the effects of the build. Metadata also includes commands and data used to indicate what versions of software are used, from where they are obtained, and changes or additions to the software itself (patches or auxiliary files) that are used to fix bugs or customize the software for use in a particular situation. OpenEmbedded-Core is an important set of validated metadata.
OpenEmbedded Build System: The terms "BitBake" and "build system" are sometimes used for the OpenEmbedded Build System.
BitBake is a task scheduler and execution engine that parses instructions (i.e. recipes) and configuration data. After a parsing phase, BitBake creates a dependency tree to order the compilation, schedules the compilation of the included code, and finally executes the building of the specified custom Linux image (distribution). BitBake is similar to the make tool.
During a build process, the build system tracks dependencies and performs a native or cross-compilation of the package. As a first step in a cross-build setup, the framework attempts to create a cross-compiler toolchain (i.e. Extensible SDK) suited for the target platform.
OpenEmbedded-Core (OE-Core): OE-Core is metadata comprised of foundation recipes, classes, and associated files that are meant to be common among many different OpenEmbedded-derived systems, including the Yocto Project. OE-Core is a curated subset of an original repository developed by the OpenEmbedded community that has been pared down into a smaller, core set of continuously validated recipes. The result is a tightly controlled and quality-assured core set of recipes.
You can see the Metadata in the meta directory of the Yocto Project Source Repositories.
Packages: In the context of the Yocto Project, this term refers to a recipe's packaged output produced by BitBake (i.e. a "baked recipe"). A package is generally the compiled binaries produced from the recipe's sources. You "bake" something by running it through BitBake.
It is worth noting that the term "package" can, in general, have subtle meanings. For example, the packages referred to in the "Required Packages for the Build Host" section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual are compiled binaries that, when installed, add functionality to your Linux distribution.
Another point worth noting is that historically within the Yocto Project, recipes were referred to as packages - thus, the existence of several BitBake variables that are seemingly mis-named, (e.g. PR, PV, and PE).
Poky: Poky is a reference embedded distribution and a reference test configuration. Poky provides the following:
A base-level functional distro used to illustrate how to customize a distribution.
A means by which to test the Yocto Project components (i.e. Poky is used to validate the Yocto Project).
A vehicle through which you can download the Yocto Project.
Poky is not a product level distro. Rather, it is a good starting point for customization.
Poky is an integration layer on top of OE-Core.
Recipe: The most common form of metadata. A recipe contains a list of settings and tasks (i.e. instructions) for building packages that are then used to build the binary image. A recipe describes where you get source code and which patches to apply. Recipes describe dependencies for libraries or for other recipes as well as configuration and compilation options. Related recipes are consolidated into a layer.
Chapter 3. The Yocto Project Development Environment¶
This chapter takes a look at the Yocto Project development environment. The chapter provides Yocto Project Development environment concepts that help you understand how work is accomplished in an open source environment, which is very different as compared to work accomplished in a closed, proprietary environment.
Specifically, this chapter addresses open source philosophy, source repositories, workflows, Git, and licensing.
3.1. Open Source Philosophy¶
Open source philosophy is characterized by software development directed by peer production and collaboration through an active community of developers. Contrast this to the more standard centralized development models used by commercial software companies where a finite set of developers produces a product for sale using a defined set of procedures that ultimately result in an end product whose architecture and source material are closed to the public.
Open source projects conceptually have differing concurrent agendas, approaches, and production. These facets of the development process can come from anyone in the public (community) who has a stake in the software project. The open source environment contains new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues that differ from the more traditional development environment. In an open source environment, the end product, source material, and documentation are all available to the public at no cost.
A benchmark example of an open source project is the Linux kernel, which was initially conceived and created by Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds in 1991. Conversely, a good example of a non-open source project is the Windows® family of operating systems developed by Microsoft® Corporation.
Wikipedia has a good historical description of the Open Source Philosophy here. You can also find helpful information on how to participate in the Linux Community here.
3.2. The Development Host¶
A development host or build host is key to using the Yocto Project. Because the goal of the Yocto Project is to develop images or applications that run on embedded hardware, development of those images and applications generally takes place on a system not intended to run the software - the development host.
You need to set up a development host in order to use it with the Yocto Project. Most find that it is best to have a native Linux machine function as the development host. However, it is possible to use a system that does not run Linux as its operating system as your development host. When you have a Mac or Windows-based system, you can set it up as the development host by using CROPS, which leverages Docker Containers. Once you take the steps to set up a CROPS machine, you effectively have access to a shell environment that is similar to what you see when using a Linux-based development host. For the steps needed to set up a system using CROPS, see the "Setting Up to Use CROss PlatformS (CROPS)" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
If your development host is going to be a system that runs a Linux distribution, steps still exist that you must take to prepare the system for use with the Yocto Project. You need to be sure that the Linux distribution on the system is one that supports the Yocto Project. You also need to be sure that the correct set of host packages are installed that allow development using the Yocto Project. For the steps needed to set up a development host that runs Linux, see the "Setting Up a Native Linux Host" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
Once your development host is set up to use the Yocto Project, several methods exist for you to do work in the Yocto Project environment:
Command Lines, BitBake, and Shells: Traditional development in the Yocto Project involves using the OpenEmbedded build system, which uses BitBake, in a command-line environment from a shell on your development host. You can accomplish this from a host that is a native Linux machine or from a host that has been set up with CROPS. Either way, you create, modify, and build images and applications all within a shell-based environment using components and tools available through your Linux distribution and the Yocto Project.
For a general flow of the build procedures, see the "Building a Simple Image" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
Board Support Package (BSP) Development: Development of BSPs involves using the Yocto Project to create and test layers that allow easy development of images and applications targeted for specific hardware. To development BSPs, you need to take some additional steps beyond what was described in setting up a development host.
The Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide provides BSP-related development information. For specifics on development host preparation, see the "Preparing Your Build Host to Work With BSP Layers" section in the Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide.
Kernel Development: If you are going to be developing kernels using the Yocto Project you likely will be using devtool. A workflow using devtool makes kernel development quicker by reducing iteration cycle times.
The Yocto Project Linux Kernel Development Manual provides kernel-related development information. For specifics on development host preparation, see the "Preparing the Build Host to Work on the Kernel" section in the Yocto Project Linux Kernel Development Manual.
Using Toaster: The other Yocto Project development method that involves an interface that effectively puts the Yocto Project into the background is Toaster. Toaster provides an interface to the OpenEmbedded build system. The interface enables you to configure and run your builds. Information about builds is collected and stored in a database. You can use Toaster to configure and start builds on multiple remote build servers.
For steps that show you how to set up your development host to use Toaster and on how to use Toaster in general, see the Toaster User Manual.
3.3. Yocto Project Source Repositories¶
The Yocto Project team maintains complete source repositories for all Yocto Project files at http://git.yoctoproject.org. This web-based source code browser is organized into categories by function such as IDE Plugins, Matchbox, Poky, Yocto Linux Kernel, and so forth. From the interface, you can click on any particular item in the "Name" column and see the URL at the bottom of the page that you need to clone a Git repository for that particular item. Having a local Git repository of the Source Directory, which is usually named "poky", allows you to make changes, contribute to the history, and ultimately enhance the Yocto Project's tools, Board Support Packages, and so forth.
For any supported release of Yocto Project, you can also go to the Yocto Project Website and select the "DOWNLOADS" item from the "SOFTWARE" menu and get a released tarball of the poky repository, any supported BSP tarball, or Yocto Project tools. Unpacking these tarballs gives you a snapshot of the released files.
The recommended method for setting up the Yocto Project Source Directory and the files for supported BSPs (e.g., meta-intel) is to use Git to create a local copy of the upstream repositories.
Be sure to always work in matching branches for both the selected BSP repository and the Source Directory (i.e. poky) repository. For example, if you have checked out the "master" branch of poky and you are going to use meta-intel, be sure to checkout the "master" branch of meta-intel.
In summary, here is where you can get the project files needed for development:
Source Repositories: This area contains IDE Plugins, Matchbox, Poky, Poky Support, Tools, Yocto Linux Kernel, and Yocto Metadata Layers. You can create local copies of Git repositories for each of these areas.
For steps on how to view and access these upstream Git repositories, see the "Accessing Source Repositories" Section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
Index of /releases: This is an index of releases such as Poky, Pseudo, installers for cross-development toolchains, miscellaneous support and all released versions of Yocto Project in the form of images or tarballs. Downloading and extracting these files does not produce a local copy of the Git repository but rather a snapshot of a particular release or image.
For steps on how to view and access these files, see the "Accessing Index of Releases" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
"DOWNLOADS" page for the Yocto Project Website:
The Yocto Project website includes a "DOWNLOADS" page accessible through the "SOFTWARE" menu that allows you to download any Yocto Project release, tool, and Board Support Package (BSP) in tarball form. The tarballs are similar to those found in the Index of /releases: area.
For steps on how to use the "DOWNLOADS" page, see the "Using the Downloads Page" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
3.4. Git Workflows and the Yocto Project¶
Developing using the Yocto Project likely requires the use of Git. Git is a free, open source distributed version control system used as part of many collaborative design environments. This section provides workflow concepts using the Yocto Project and Git. In particular, the information covers basic practices that describe roles and actions in a collaborative development environment.
If you are familiar with this type of development environment, you might not want to read this section.
The Yocto Project files are maintained using Git in "branches" whose Git histories track every change and whose structures provide branches for all diverging functionality. Although there is no need to use Git, many open source projects do so.
For the Yocto Project, a key individual called the "maintainer" is responsible for the integrity of the "master" branch of a given Git repository. The "master" branch is the “upstream” repository from which final or most recent builds of a project occur. The maintainer is responsible for accepting changes from other developers and for organizing the underlying branch structure to reflect release strategies and so forth.
For information on finding out who is responsible for (maintains) a particular area of code in the Yocto Project, see the "Submitting a Change to the Yocto Project" section of the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
The Yocto Project poky Git repository also has an upstream contribution Git repository named poky-contrib. You can see all the branches in this repository using the web interface of the Source Repositories organized within the "Poky Support" area. These branches hold changes (commits) to the project that have been submitted or committed by the Yocto Project development team and by community members who contribute to the project. The maintainer determines if the changes are qualified to be moved from the "contrib" branches into the "master" branch of the Git repository.
Developers (including contributing community members) create and maintain cloned repositories of upstream branches. The cloned repositories are local to their development platforms and are used to develop changes. When a developer is satisfied with a particular feature or change, they "push" the change to the appropriate "contrib" repository.
Developers are responsible for keeping their local repository up-to-date with whatever upstream branch they are working against. They are also responsible for straightening out any conflicts that might arise within files that are being worked on simultaneously by more than one person. All this work is done locally on the development host before anything is pushed to a "contrib" area and examined at the maintainer’s level.
A somewhat formal method exists by which developers commit changes and push them into the "contrib" area and subsequently request that the maintainer include them into an upstream branch. This process is called “submitting a patch” or "submitting a change." For information on submitting patches and changes, see the "Submitting a Change to the Yocto Project" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
In summary, a single point of entry exists for changes into a "master" or development branch of the Git repository, which is controlled by the project’s maintainer. And, a set of developers exist who independently develop, test, and submit changes to "contrib" areas for the maintainer to examine. The maintainer then chooses which changes are going to become a permanent part of the project.
While each development environment is unique, there are some best practices or methods that help development run smoothly. The following list describes some of these practices. For more information about Git workflows, see the workflow topics in the Git Community Book.
Make Small Changes: It is best to keep the changes you commit small as compared to bundling many disparate changes into a single commit. This practice not only keeps things manageable but also allows the maintainer to more easily include or refuse changes.
Make Complete Changes: It is also good practice to leave the repository in a state that allows you to still successfully build your project. In other words, do not commit half of a feature, then add the other half as a separate, later commit. Each commit should take you from one buildable project state to another buildable state.
Use Branches Liberally: It is very easy to create, use, and delete local branches in your working Git repository on the development host. You can name these branches anything you like. It is helpful to give them names associated with the particular feature or change on which you are working. Once you are done with a feature or change and have merged it into your local master branch, simply discard the temporary branch.
Merge Changes: The git merge command allows you to take the changes from one branch and fold them into another branch. This process is especially helpful when more than a single developer might be working on different parts of the same feature. Merging changes also automatically identifies any collisions or "conflicts" that might happen as a result of the same lines of code being altered by two different developers.
Manage Branches: Because branches are easy to use, you should use a system where branches indicate varying levels of code readiness. For example, you can have a "work" branch to develop in, a "test" branch where the code or change is tested, a "stage" branch where changes are ready to be committed, and so forth. As your project develops, you can merge code across the branches to reflect ever-increasing stable states of the development.
Use Push and Pull: The push-pull workflow is based on the concept of developers "pushing" local commits to a remote repository, which is usually a contribution repository. This workflow is also based on developers "pulling" known states of the project down into their local development repositories. The workflow easily allows you to pull changes submitted by other developers from the upstream repository into your work area ensuring that you have the most recent software on which to develop. The Yocto Project has two scripts named create-pull-request and send-pull-request that ship with the release to facilitate this workflow. You can find these scripts in the scripts folder of the Source Directory. For information on how to use these scripts, see the "Using Scripts to Push a Change Upstream and Request a Pull" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
Patch Workflow: This workflow allows you to notify the maintainer through an email that you have a change (or patch) you would like considered for the "master" branch of the Git repository. To send this type of change, you format the patch and then send the email using the Git commands git format-patch and git send-email. For information on how to use these scripts, see the "Submitting a Change to the Yocto Project" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
3.5. Git¶
The Yocto Project makes extensive use of Git, which is a free, open source distributed version control system. Git supports distributed development, non-linear development, and can handle large projects. It is best that you have some fundamental understanding of how Git tracks projects and how to work with Git if you are going to use the Yocto Project for development. This section provides a quick overview of how Git works and provides you with a summary of some essential Git commands.
For more information on Git, see http://git-scm.com/documentation.
If you need to download Git, it is recommended that you add Git to your system through your distribution's "software store" (e.g. for Ubuntu, use the Ubuntu Software feature). For the Git download page, see http://git-scm.com/download.
For information beyond the introductory nature in this section, see the "Locating Yocto Project Source Files" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
3.5.1. Repositories, Tags, and Branches¶
As mentioned briefly in the previous section and also in the "Git Workflows and the Yocto Project" section, the Yocto Project maintains source repositories at http://git.yoctoproject.org. If you look at this web-interface of the repositories, each item is a separate Git repository.
Git repositories use branching techniques that track content change (not files) within a project (e.g. a new feature or updated documentation). Creating a tree-like structure based on project divergence allows for excellent historical information over the life of a project. This methodology also allows for an environment from which you can do lots of local experimentation on projects as you develop changes or new features.
A Git repository represents all development efforts for a given project. For example, the Git repository poky contains all changes and developments for that repository over the course of its entire life. That means that all changes that make up all releases are captured. The repository maintains a complete history of changes.
You can create a local copy of any repository by "cloning" it with the git clone command. When you clone a Git repository, you end up with an identical copy of the repository on your development system. Once you have a local copy of a repository, you can take steps to develop locally. For examples on how to clone Git repositories, see the "Locating Yocto Project Source Files" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
It is important to understand that Git tracks content change and not files. Git uses "branches" to organize different development efforts. For example, the poky repository has several branches that include the current "warrior" branch, the "master" branch, and many branches for past Yocto Project releases. You can see all the branches by going to http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/ and clicking on the [...] link beneath the "Branch" heading.
Each of these branches represents a specific area of development. The "master" branch represents the current or most recent development. All other branches represent offshoots of the "master" branch.
When you create a local copy of a Git repository, the copy has the same set of branches as the original. This means you can use Git to create a local working area (also called a branch) that tracks a specific development branch from the upstream source Git repository. in other words, you can define your local Git environment to work on any development branch in the repository. To help illustrate, consider the following example Git commands:
$ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky
$ cd poky
$ git checkout -b warrior origin/warrior
In the previous example after moving to the home directory, the git clone command creates a local copy of the upstream poky Git repository. By default, Git checks out the "master" branch for your work. After changing the working directory to the new local repository (i.e. poky), the git checkout command creates and checks out a local branch named "warrior", which tracks the upstream "origin/warrior" branch. Changes you make while in this branch would ultimately affect the upstream "warrior" branch of the poky repository.
It is important to understand that when you create and checkout a local working branch based on a branch name, your local environment matches the "tip" of that particular development branch at the time you created your local branch, which could be different from the files in the "master" branch of the upstream repository. In other words, creating and checking out a local branch based on the "warrior" branch name is not the same as checking out the "master" branch in the repository. Keep reading to see how you create a local snapshot of a Yocto Project Release.
Git uses "tags" to mark specific changes in a repository branch structure. Typically, a tag is used to mark a special point such as the final change (or commit) before a project is released. You can see the tags used with the poky Git repository by going to http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/ and clicking on the [...] link beneath the "Tag" heading.
Some key tags for the poky repository are jethro-14.0.3, morty-16.0.1, pyro-17.0.0, and warrior-21.0.0. These tags represent Yocto Project releases.
When you create a local copy of the Git repository, you also have access to all the tags in the upstream repository. Similar to branches, you can create and checkout a local working Git branch based on a tag name. When you do this, you get a snapshot of the Git repository that reflects the state of the files when the change was made associated with that tag. The most common use is to checkout a working branch that matches a specific Yocto Project release. Here is an example:
$ git fetch --tags
$ git checkout tags/rocko-18.0.0 -b my_rocko-18.0.0
In this example, the name of the top-level directory of your local Yocto Project repository is poky. After moving to the poky directory, the git fetch command makes all the upstream tags available locally in your repository. Finally, the git checkout command creates and checks out a branch named "my-rocko-18.0.0" that is based on the upstream branch whose "HEAD" matches the commit in the repository associated with the "rocko-18.0.0" tag. The files in your repository now exactly match that particular Yocto Project release as it is tagged in the upstream Git repository. It is important to understand that when you create and checkout a local working branch based on a tag, your environment matches a specific point in time and not the entire development branch (i.e. from the "tip" of the branch backwards).
3.5.2. Basic Commands¶
Git has an extensive set of commands that lets you manage changes and perform collaboration over the life of a project. Conveniently though, you can manage with a small set of basic operations and workflows once you understand the basic philosophy behind Git. You do not have to be an expert in Git to be functional. A good place to look for instruction on a minimal set of Git commands is here.
The following list of Git commands briefly describes some basic Git operations as a way to get started. As with any set of commands, this list (in most cases) simply shows the base command and omits the many arguments it supports. See the Git documentation for complete descriptions and strategies on how to use these commands:
git init: Initializes an empty Git repository. You cannot use Git commands unless you have a .git repository.
git clone: Creates a local clone of a Git repository that is on equal footing with a fellow developer’s Git repository or an upstream repository.
git add: Locally stages updated file contents to the index that Git uses to track changes. You must stage all files that have changed before you can commit them.
git commit: Creates a local "commit" that documents the changes you made. Only changes that have been staged can be committed. Commits are used for historical purposes, for determining if a maintainer of a project will allow the change, and for ultimately pushing the change from your local Git repository into the project’s upstream repository.
git status: Reports any modified files that possibly need to be staged and gives you a status of where you stand regarding local commits as compared to the upstream repository.
git checkout branch-name: Changes your local working branch and in this form assumes the local branch already exists. This command is analogous to "cd".
git checkout –b working-branch upstream-branch: Creates and checks out a working branch on your local machine. The local branch tracks the upstream branch. You can use your local branch to isolate your work. It is a good idea to use local branches when adding specific features or changes. Using isolated branches facilitates easy removal of changes if they do not work out.
git branch: Displays the existing local branches associated with your local repository. The branch that you have currently checked out is noted with an asterisk character.
git branch -D branch-name: Deletes an existing local branch. You need to be in a local branch other than the one you are deleting in order to delete branch-name.
git pull --rebase: Retrieves information from an upstream Git repository and places it in your local Git repository. You use this command to make sure you are synchronized with the repository from which you are basing changes (.e.g. the "master" branch). The "--rebase" option ensures that any local commits you have in your branch are preserved at the top of your local branch.
git push repo-name local-branch:upstream-branch: Sends all your committed local changes to the upstream Git repository that your local repository is tracking (e.g. a contribution repository). The maintainer of the project draws from these repositories to merge changes (commits) into the appropriate branch of project's upstream repository.
git merge: Combines or adds changes from one local branch of your repository with another branch. When you create a local Git repository, the default branch is named "master". A typical workflow is to create a temporary branch that is based off "master" that you would use for isolated work. You would make your changes in that isolated branch, stage and commit them locally, switch to the "master" branch, and then use the git merge command to apply the changes from your isolated branch into the currently checked out branch (e.g. "master"). After the merge is complete and if you are done with working in that isolated branch, you can safely delete the isolated branch.
git cherry-pick commits: Choose and apply specific commits from one branch into another branch. There are times when you might not be able to merge all the changes in one branch with another but need to pick out certain ones.
gitk: Provides a GUI view of the branches and changes in your local Git repository. This command is a good way to graphically see where things have diverged in your local repository.
You need to install the gitk package on your development system to use this command.
git log: Reports a history of your commits to the repository. This report lists all commits regardless of whether you have pushed them upstream or not.
git diff: Displays line-by-line differences between a local working file and the same file as understood by Git. This command is useful to see what you have changed in any given file.
3.6. Licensing¶
Because open source projects are open to the public, they have different licensing structures in place. License evolution for both Open Source and Free Software has an interesting history. If you are interested in this history, you can find basic information here:
Open source license history
Free software license history
In general, the Yocto Project is broadly licensed under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) License. MIT licensing permits the reuse of software within proprietary software as long as the license is distributed with that software. MIT is also compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Patches to the Yocto Project follow the upstream licensing scheme. You can find information on the MIT license here. You can find information on the GNU GPL here.
When you build an image using the Yocto Project, the build process uses a known list of licenses to ensure compliance. You can find this list in the Source Directory at meta/files/common-licenses. Once the build completes, the list of all licenses found and used during that build are kept in the Build Directory at tmp/deploy/licenses.
If a module requires a license that is not in the base list, the build process generates a warning during the build. These tools make it easier for a developer to be certain of the licenses with which their shipped products must comply. However, even with these tools it is still up to the developer to resolve potential licensing issues.
The base list of licenses used by the build process is a combination of the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) list and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) projects. SPDX Group is a working group of the Linux Foundation that maintains a specification for a standard format for communicating the components, licenses, and copyrights associated with a software package. OSI is a corporation dedicated to the Open Source Definition and the effort for reviewing and approving licenses that conform to the Open Source Definition (OSD).
You can find a list of the combined SPDX and OSI licenses that the Yocto Project uses in the meta/files/common-licenses directory in your Source Directory.
For information that can help you maintain compliance with various open source licensing during the lifecycle of a product created using the Yocto Project, see the "Maintaining Open Source License Compliance During Your Product's Lifecycle" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
Chapter 4. Yocto Project Concepts¶
This chapter provides explanations for Yocto Project concepts that go beyond the surface of "how-to" information and reference (or look-up) material. Concepts such as components, the OpenEmbedded build system workflow, cross-development toolchains, shared state cache, and so forth are explained.
4.1. Yocto Project Components¶
The BitBake task executor together with various types of configuration files form the OpenEmbedded-Core. This section overviews these components by describing their use and how they interact.
BitBake handles the parsing and execution of the data files. The data itself is of various types:
Recipes: Provides details about particular pieces of software.
Class Data: Abstracts common build information (e.g. how to build a Linux kernel).
Configuration Data: Defines machine-specific settings, policy decisions, and so forth. Configuration data acts as the glue to bind everything together.
BitBake knows how to combine multiple data sources together and refers to each data source as a layer. For information on layers, see the "Understanding and Creating Layers" section of the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
Following are some brief details on these core components. For additional information on how these components interact during a build, see the "OpenEmbedded Build System Concepts" section.
4.1.1. BitBake¶
BitBake is the tool at the heart of the OpenEmbedded build system and is responsible for parsing the Metadata, generating a list of tasks from it, and then executing those tasks.
This section briefly introduces BitBake. If you want more information on BitBake, see the BitBake User Manual.
To see a list of the options BitBake supports, use either of the following commands:
$ bitbake -h
$ bitbake --help
The most common usage for BitBake is bitbake packagename, where packagename is the name of the package you want to build (referred to as the "target"). The target often equates to the first part of a recipe's filename (e.g. "foo" for a recipe named foo_1.3.0-r0.bb). So, to process the matchbox-desktop_1.2.3.bb recipe file, you might type the following:
$ bitbake matchbox-desktop
Several different versions of matchbox-desktop might exist. BitBake chooses the one selected by the distribution configuration. You can get more details about how BitBake chooses between different target versions and providers in the "Preferences" section of the BitBake User Manual.
BitBake also tries to execute any dependent tasks first. So for example, before building matchbox-desktop, BitBake would build a cross compiler and glibc if they had not already been built.
A useful BitBake option to consider is the -k or --continue option. This option instructs BitBake to try and continue processing the job as long as possible even after encountering an error. When an error occurs, the target that failed and those that depend on it cannot be remade. However, when you use this option other dependencies can still be processed.
4.1.2. Recipes¶
Files that have the .bb suffix are "recipes" files. In general, a recipe contains information about a single piece of software. This information includes the location from which to download the unaltered source, any source patches to be applied to that source (if needed), which special configuration options to apply, how to compile the source files, and how to package the compiled output.
The term "package" is sometimes used to refer to recipes. However, since the word "package" is used for the packaged output from the OpenEmbedded build system (i.e. .ipk or .deb files), this document avoids using the term "package" when referring to recipes.
4.1.3. Classes¶
Class files (.bbclass) contain information that is useful to share between recipes files. An example is the autotools class, which contains common settings for any application that Autotools uses. The "Classes" chapter in the Yocto Project Reference Manual provides details about classes and how to use them.
4.1.4. Configurations¶
The configuration files (.conf) define various configuration variables that govern the OpenEmbedded build process. These files fall into several areas that define machine configuration options, distribution configuration options, compiler tuning options, general common configuration options, and user configuration options in conf/local.conf, which is found in the Build Directory.
4.2. Layers¶
Layers are repositories that contain related metadata (i.e. sets of instructions) that tell the OpenEmbedded build system how to build a target. Yocto Project's layer model facilitates collaboration, sharing, customization, and reuse within the Yocto Project development environment. Layers logically separate information for your project. For example, you can use a layer to hold all the configurations for a particular piece of hardware. Isolating hardware-specific configurations allows you to share other metadata by using a different layer where that metadata might be common across several pieces of hardware.
Many layers exist that work in the Yocto Project development environment. The Yocto Project Curated Layer Index and OpenEmbedded Layer Index both contain layers from which you can use or leverage.
By convention, layers in the Yocto Project follow a specific form. Conforming to a known structure allows BitBake to make assumptions during builds on where to find types of metadata. You can find procedures and learn about tools (i.e. bitbake-layers) for creating layers suitable for the Yocto Project in the "Understanding and Creating Layers" section of the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
4.3. OpenEmbedded Build System Concepts¶
This section takes a more detailed look inside the build process used by the OpenEmbedded build system, which is the build system specific to the Yocto Project. At the heart of the build system is BitBake, the task executor.
The following diagram represents the high-level workflow of a build. The remainder of this section expands on the fundamental input, output, process, and metadata logical blocks that make up the workflow.
In general, the build's workflow consists of several functional areas:
User Configuration: metadata you can use to control the build process.
Metadata Layers: Various layers that provide software, machine, and distro metadata.
Source Files: Upstream releases, local projects, and SCMs.
Build System: Processes under the control of BitBake. This block expands on how BitBake fetches source, applies patches, completes compilation, analyzes output for package generation, creates and tests packages, generates images, and generates cross-development tools.
Package Feeds: Directories containing output packages (RPM, DEB or IPK), which are subsequently used in the construction of an image or Software Development Kit (SDK), produced by the build system. These feeds can also be copied and shared using a web server or other means to facilitate extending or updating existing images on devices at runtime if runtime package management is enabled.
Images: Images produced by the workflow.
Application Development SDK: Cross-development tools that are produced along with an image or separately with BitBake.
4.3.1. User Configuration¶
User configuration helps define the build. Through user configuration, you can tell BitBake the target architecture for which you are building the image, where to store downloaded source, and other build properties.
The following figure shows an expanded representation of the "User Configuration" box of the general workflow figure:
BitBake needs some basic configuration files in order to complete a build. These files are *.conf files. The minimally necessary ones reside as example files in the build/conf directory of the Source Directory. For simplicity, this section refers to the Source Directory as the "Poky Directory."
When you clone the Poky Git repository or you download and unpack a Yocto Project release, you can set up the Source Directory to be named anything you want. For this discussion, the cloned repository uses the default name poky.
The Poky repository is primarily an aggregation of existing repositories. It is not a canonical upstream source.
The meta-poky layer inside Poky contains a conf directory that has example configuration files. These example files are used as a basis for creating actual configuration files when you source oe-init-build-env, which is the build environment script.
Sourcing the build environment script creates a Build Directory if one does not already exist. BitBake uses the Build Directory for all its work during builds. The Build Directory has a conf directory that contains default versions of your local.conf and bblayers.conf configuration files. These default configuration files are created only if versions do not already exist in the Build Directory at the time you source the build environment setup script.
Because the Poky repository is fundamentally an aggregation of existing repositories, some users might be familiar with running the oe-init-build-env script in the context of separate OpenEmbedded-Core and BitBake repositories rather than a single Poky repository. This discussion assumes the script is executed from within a cloned or unpacked version of Poky.
Depending on where the script is sourced, different sub-scripts are called to set up the Build Directory (Yocto or OpenEmbedded). Specifically, the script scripts/oe-setup-builddir inside the poky directory sets up the Build Directory and seeds the directory (if necessary) with configuration files appropriate for the Yocto Project development environment.
The scripts/oe-setup-builddir script uses the $TEMPLATECONF variable to determine which sample configuration files to locate.
The local.conf file provides many basic variables that define a build environment. Here is a list of a few. To see the default configurations in a local.conf file created by the build environment script, see the local.conf.sample in the meta-poky layer:
Target Machine Selection: Controlled by the MACHINE variable.
Download Directory: Controlled by the DL_DIR variable.
Shared State Directory: Controlled by the SSTATE_DIR variable.
Build Output: Controlled by the TMPDIR variable.
Distribution Policy: Controlled by the DISTRO variable.
Packaging Format: Controlled by the PACKAGE_CLASSES variable.
SDK Target Architecture: Controlled by the SDKMACHINE variable.
Extra Image Packages: Controlled by the EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES variable.
Configurations set in the conf/local.conf file can also be set in the conf/site.conf and conf/auto.conf configuration files.
The bblayers.conf file tells BitBake what layers you want considered during the build. By default, the layers listed in this file include layers minimally needed by the build system. However, you must manually add any custom layers you have created. You can find more information on working with the bblayers.conf file in the "Enabling Your Layer" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
The files site.conf and auto.conf are not created by the environment initialization script. If you want the site.conf file, you need to create that yourself. The auto.conf file is typically created by an autobuilder:
site.conf: You can use the conf/site.conf configuration file to configure multiple build directories. For example, suppose you had several build environments and they shared some common features. You can set these default build properties here. A good example is perhaps the packaging format to use through the PACKAGE_CLASSES variable.
One useful scenario for using the conf/site.conf file is to extend your BBPATH variable to include the path to a conf/site.conf. Then, when BitBake looks for Metadata using BBPATH, it finds the conf/site.conf file and applies your common configurations found in the file. To override configurations in a particular build directory, alter the similar configurations within that build directory's conf/local.conf file.
auto.conf: The file is usually created and written to by an autobuilder. The settings put into the file are typically the same as you would find in the conf/local.conf or the conf/site.conf files.
You can edit all configuration files to further define any particular build environment. This process is represented by the "User Configuration Edits" box in the figure.
When you launch your build with the bitbake target command, BitBake sorts out the configurations to ultimately define your build environment. It is important to understand that the OpenEmbedded build system reads the configuration files in a specific order: site.conf, auto.conf, and local.conf. And, the build system applies the normal assignment statement rules as described in the "Syntax and Operators" chapter of the BitBake User Manual. Because the files are parsed in a specific order, variable assignments for the same variable could be affected. For example, if the auto.conf file and the local.conf set variable1 to different values, because the build system parses local.conf after auto.conf, variable1 is assigned the value from the local.conf file.
4.3.2. Metadata, Machine Configuration, and Policy Configuration¶
The previous section described the user configurations that define BitBake's global behavior. This section takes a closer look at the layers the build system uses to further control the build. These layers provide Metadata for the software, machine, and policies.
In general, three types of layer input exists. You can see them below the "User Configuration" box in the general workflow figure:
Metadata (.bb + Patches): Software layers containing user-supplied recipe files, patches, and append files. A good example of a software layer might be the meta-qt5 layer from the OpenEmbedded Layer Index. This layer is for version 5.0 of the popular Qt cross-platform application development framework for desktop, embedded and mobile.
Machine BSP Configuration: Board Support Package (BSP) layers (i.e. "BSP Layer" in the following figure) providing machine-specific configurations. This type of information is specific to a particular target architecture. A good example of a BSP layer from the Poky Reference Distribution is the meta-yocto-bsp layer.
Policy Configuration: Distribution Layers (i.e. "Distro Layer" in the following figure) providing top-level or general policies for the images or SDKs being built for a particular distribution. For example, in the Poky Reference Distribution the distro layer is the meta-poky layer. Within the distro layer is a conf/distro directory that contains distro configuration files (e.g. poky.conf that contain many policy configurations for the Poky distribution.
The following figure shows an expanded representation of these three layers from the general workflow figure:
In general, all layers have a similar structure. They all contain a licensing file (e.g. COPYING.MIT) if the layer is to be distributed, a README file as good practice and especially if the layer is to be distributed, a configuration directory, and recipe directories. You can learn about the general structure for layers used with the Yocto Project in the "Creating Your Own Layer" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual. For a general discussion on layers and the many layers from which you can draw, see the "Layers" and "The Yocto Project Layer Model" sections both earlier in this manual.
If you explored the previous links, you discovered some areas where many layers that work with the Yocto Project exist. The Source Repositories also shows layers categorized under "Yocto Metadata Layers."
Layers exist in the Yocto Project Source Repositories that cannot be found in the OpenEmbedded Layer Index. These layers are either deprecated or experimental in nature.
BitBake uses the conf/bblayers.conf file, which is part of the user configuration, to find what layers it should be using as part of the build.
4.3.2.1. Distro Layer¶
The distribution layer provides policy configurations for your distribution. Best practices dictate that you isolate these types of configurations into their own layer. Settings you provide in conf/distro/distro.conf override similar settings that BitBake finds in your conf/local.conf file in the Build Directory.
The following list provides some explanation and references for what you typically find in the distribution layer:
classes: Class files (.bbclass) hold common functionality that can be shared among recipes in the distribution. When your recipes inherit a class, they take on the settings and functions for that class. You can read more about class files in the "Classes" chapter of the Yocto Reference Manual.
conf: This area holds configuration files for the layer (conf/layer.conf), the distribution (conf/distro/distro.conf), and any distribution-wide include files.
recipes-*: Recipes and append files that affect common functionality across the distribution. This area could include recipes and append files to add distribution-specific configuration, initialization scripts, custom image recipes, and so forth. Examples of recipes-* directories are recipes-core and recipes-extra. Hierarchy and contents within a recipes-* directory can vary. Generally, these directories contain recipe files (*.bb), recipe append files (*.bbappend), directories that are distro-specific for configuration files, and so forth.
4.3.2.2. BSP Layer¶
The BSP Layer provides machine configurations that target specific hardware. Everything in this layer is specific to the machine for which you are building the image or the SDK. A common structure or form is defined for BSP layers. You can learn more about this structure in the Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide.
In order for a BSP layer to be considered compliant with the Yocto Project, it must meet some structural requirements.
The BSP Layer's configuration directory contains configuration files for the machine (conf/machine/machine.conf) and, of course, the layer (conf/layer.conf).
The remainder of the layer is dedicated to specific recipes by function: recipes-bsp, recipes-core, recipes-graphics, recipes-kernel, and so forth. Metadata can exist for multiple formfactors, graphics support systems, and so forth.
While the figure shows several recipes-* directories, not all these directories appear in all BSP layers.
4.3.2.3. Software Layer¶
The software layer provides the Metadata for additional software packages used during the build. This layer does not include Metadata that is specific to the distribution or the machine, which are found in their respective layers.
This layer contains any recipes, append files, and patches, that your project needs.
4.3.3. Sources¶
In order for the OpenEmbedded build system to create an image or any target, it must be able to access source files. The general workflow figure represents source files using the "Upstream Project Releases", "Local Projects", and "SCMs (optional)" boxes. The figure represents mirrors, which also play a role in locating source files, with the "Source Materials" box.
The method by which source files are ultimately organized is a function of the project. For example, for released software, projects tend to use tarballs or other archived files that can capture the state of a release guaranteeing that it is statically represented. On the other hand, for a project that is more dynamic or experimental in nature, a project might keep source files in a repository controlled by a Source Control Manager (SCM) such as Git. Pulling source from a repository allows you to control the point in the repository (the revision) from which you want to build software. Finally, a combination of the two might exist, which would give the consumer a choice when deciding where to get source files.
BitBake uses the SRC_URI variable to point to source files regardless of their location. Each recipe must have a SRC_URI variable that points to the source.
Another area that plays a significant role in where source files come from is pointed to by the DL_DIR variable. This area is a cache that can hold previously downloaded source. You can also instruct the OpenEmbedded build system to create tarballs from Git repositories, which is not the default behavior, and store them in the DL_DIR by using the BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS variable.
Judicious use of a DL_DIR directory can save the build system a trip across the Internet when looking for files. A good method for using a download directory is to have DL_DIR point to an area outside of your Build Directory. Doing so allows you to safely delete the Build Directory if needed without fear of removing any downloaded source file.
The remainder of this section provides a deeper look into the source files and the mirrors. Here is a more detailed look at the source file area of the general workflow figure:
4.3.3.1. Upstream Project Releases¶
Upstream project releases exist anywhere in the form of an archived file (e.g. tarball or zip file). These files correspond to individual recipes. For example, the figure uses specific releases each for BusyBox, Qt, and Dbus. An archive file can be for any released product that can be built using a recipe.
4.3.3.2. Local Projects¶
Local projects are custom bits of software the user provides. These bits reside somewhere local to a project - perhaps a directory into which the user checks in items (e.g. a local directory containing a development source tree used by the group).
The canonical method through which to include a local project is to use the externalsrc class to include that local project. You use either the local.conf or a recipe's append file to override or set the recipe to point to the local directory on your disk to pull in the whole source tree.
4.3.3.3. Source Control Managers (Optional)¶
Another place from which the build system can get source files is with fetchers employing various Source Control Managers (SCMs) such as Git or Subversion. In such cases, a repository is cloned or checked out. The do_fetch task inside BitBake uses the SRC_URI variable and the argument's prefix to determine the correct fetcher module.
For information on how to have the OpenEmbedded build system generate tarballs for Git repositories and place them in the DL_DIR directory, see the BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS variable.
When fetching a repository, BitBake uses the SRCREV variable to determine the specific revision from which to build.
4.3.3.4. Source Mirror(s)¶
Two kinds of mirrors exist: pre-mirrors and regular mirrors. The PREMIRRORS and MIRRORS variables point to these, respectively. BitBake checks pre-mirrors before looking upstream for any source files. Pre-mirrors are appropriate when you have a shared directory that is not a directory defined by the DL_DIR variable. A Pre-mirror typically points to a shared directory that is local to your organization.
Regular mirrors can be any site across the Internet that is used as an alternative location for source code should the primary site not be functioning for some reason or another.
4.3.4. Package Feeds¶
When the OpenEmbedded build system generates an image or an SDK, it gets the packages from a package feed area located in the Build Directory. The general workflow figure shows this package feeds area in the upper-right corner.
This section looks a little closer into the package feeds area used by the build system. Here is a more detailed look at the area:
Package feeds are an intermediary step in the build process. The OpenEmbedded build system provides classes to generate different package types, and you specify which classes to enable through the PACKAGE_CLASSES variable. Before placing the packages into package feeds, the build process validates them with generated output quality assurance checks through the insane class.
The package feed area resides in the Build Directory. The directory the build system uses to temporarily store packages is determined by a combination of variables and the particular package manager in use. See the "Package Feeds" box in the illustration and note the information to the right of that area. In particular, the following defines where package files are kept:
DEPLOY_DIR: Defined as tmp/deploy in the Build Directory.
DEPLOY_DIR_*: Depending on the package manager used, the package type sub-folder. Given RPM, IPK, or DEB packaging and tarball creation, the DEPLOY_DIR_RPM, DEPLOY_DIR_IPK, DEPLOY_DIR_DEB, or DEPLOY_DIR_TAR, variables are used, respectively.
PACKAGE_ARCH: Defines architecture-specific sub-folders. For example, packages could exist for the i586 or qemux86 architectures.
BitBake uses the do_package_write_* tasks to generate packages and place them into the package holding area (e.g. do_package_write_ipk for IPK packages). See the "do_package_write_deb", "do_package_write_ipk", "do_package_write_rpm", and "do_package_write_tar" sections in the Yocto Project Reference Manual for additional information. As an example, consider a scenario where an IPK packaging manager is being used and package architecture support for both i586 and qemux86 exist. Packages for the i586 architecture are placed in build/tmp/deploy/ipk/i586, while packages for the qemux86 architecture are placed in build/tmp/deploy/ipk/qemux86.
The OpenEmbedded build system uses BitBake to produce images and Software Development Kits (SDKs). You can see from the general workflow figure, the BitBake area consists of several functional areas. This section takes a closer look at each of those areas.
Separate documentation exists for the BitBake tool. See the BitBake User Manual for reference material on BitBake.
4.3.5.1. Source Fetching¶
The first stages of building a recipe are to fetch and unpack the source code:
The do_fetch and do_unpack tasks fetch the source files and unpack them into the Build Directory.
For every local file (e.g. file://) that is part of a recipe's SRC_URI statement, the OpenEmbedded build system takes a checksum of the file for the recipe and inserts the checksum into the signature for the do_fetch task. If any local file has been modified, the do_fetch task and all tasks that depend on it are re-executed.
By default, everything is accomplished in the Build Directory, which has a defined structure. For additional general information on the Build Directory, see the "build/" section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
Each recipe has an area in the Build Directory where the unpacked source code resides. The S variable points to this area for a recipe's unpacked source code. The name of that directory for any given recipe is defined from several different variables. The preceding figure and the following list describe the Build Directory's hierarchy:
TMPDIR: The base directory where the OpenEmbedded build system performs all its work during the build. The default base directory is the tmp directory.
PACKAGE_ARCH: The architecture of the built package or packages. Depending on the eventual destination of the package or packages (i.e. machine architecture, build host, SDK, or specific machine), PACKAGE_ARCH varies. See the variable's description for details.
TARGET_OS: The operating system of the target device. A typical value would be "linux" (e.g. "qemux86-poky-linux").
PN: The name of the recipe used to build the package. This variable can have multiple meanings. However, when used in the context of input files, PN represents the the name of the recipe.
WORKDIR: The location where the OpenEmbedded build system builds a recipe (i.e. does the work to create the package).
PV: The version of the recipe used to build the package.
PR: The revision of the recipe used to build the package.
S: Contains the unpacked source files for a given recipe.
BPN: The name of the recipe used to build the package. The BPN variable is a version of the PN variable but with common prefixes and suffixes removed.
In the previous figure, notice that two sample hierarchies exist: one based on package architecture (i.e. PACKAGE_ARCH) and one based on a machine (i.e. MACHINE). The underlying structures are identical. The differentiator being what the OpenEmbedded build system is using as a build target (e.g. general architecture, a build host, an SDK, or a specific machine).
4.3.5.2. Patching¶
Once source code is fetched and unpacked, BitBake locates patch files and applies them to the source files:
The do_patch task uses a recipe's SRC_URI statements and the FILESPATH variable to locate applicable patch files.
Default processing for patch files assumes the files have either *.patch or *.diff file types. You can use SRC_URI parameters to change the way the build system recognizes patch files. See the do_patch task for more information.
BitBake finds and applies multiple patches for a single recipe in the order in which it locates the patches. The FILESPATH variable defines the default set of directories that the build system uses to search for patch files. Once found, patches are applied to the recipe's source files, which are located in the S directory.
For more information on how the source directories are created, see the "Source Fetching" section. For more information on how to create patches and how the build system processes patches, see the "Patching Code" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual. You can also see the "Use devtool modify to Modify the Source of an Existing Component" section in the Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (SDK) manual and the "Using Traditional Kernel Development to Patch the Kernel" section in the Yocto Project Linux Kernel Development Manual.
4.3.5.3. Configuration, Compilation, and Staging¶
After source code is patched, BitBake executes tasks that configure and compile the source code. Once compilation occurs, the files are copied to a holding area (staged) in preparation for packaging:
This step in the build process consists of the following tasks:
do_prepare_recipe_sysroot: This task sets up the two sysroots in ${WORKDIR} (i.e. recipe-sysroot and recipe-sysroot-native) so that during the packaging phase the sysroots can contain the contents of the do_populate_sysroot tasks of the recipes on which the recipe containing the tasks depends. A sysroot exists for both the target and for the native binaries, which run on the host system.
do_configure: This task configures the source by enabling and disabling any build-time and configuration options for the software being built. Configurations can come from the recipe itself as well as from an inherited class. Additionally, the software itself might configure itself depending on the target for which it is being built.
The configurations handled by the do_configure task are specific to configurations for the source code being built by the recipe.
If you are using the autotools class, you can add additional configuration options by using the EXTRA_OECONF or PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS variables. For information on how this variable works within that class, see the autotools class here.
do_compile: Once a configuration task has been satisfied, BitBake compiles the source using the do_compile task. Compilation occurs in the directory pointed to by the B variable. Realize that the B directory is, by default, the same as the S directory.
do_install: After compilation completes, BitBake executes the do_install task. This task copies files from the B directory and places them in a holding area pointed to by the D variable. Packaging occurs later using files from this holding directory.
4.3.5.4. Package Splitting¶
After source code is configured, compiled, and staged, the build system analyzes the results and splits the output into packages:
The do_package and do_packagedata tasks combine to analyze the files found in the D directory and split them into subsets based on available packages and files. Analysis involves the following as well as other items: splitting out debugging symbols, looking at shared library dependencies between packages, and looking at package relationships.
The do_packagedata task creates package metadata based on the analysis such that the build system can generate the final packages. The do_populate_sysroot task stages (copies) a subset of the files installed by the do_install task into the appropriate sysroot. Working, staged, and intermediate results of the analysis and package splitting process use several areas:
PKGD: The destination directory (i.e. package) for packages before they are split into individual packages.
PKGDESTWORK: A temporary work area (i.e. pkgdata) used by the do_package task to save package metadata.
PKGDEST: The parent directory (i.e. packages-split) for packages after they have been split.
PKGDATA_DIR: A shared, global-state directory that holds packaging metadata generated during the packaging process. The packaging process copies metadata from PKGDESTWORK to the PKGDATA_DIR area where it becomes globally available.
STAGING_DIR_HOST: The path for the sysroot for the system on which a component is built to run (i.e. recipe-sysroot).
STAGING_DIR_NATIVE: The path for the sysroot used when building components for the build host (i.e. recipe-sysroot-native).
STAGING_DIR_TARGET: The path for the sysroot used when a component that is built to execute on a system and it generates code for yet another machine (e.g. cross-canadian recipes).
The FILES variable defines the files that go into each package in PACKAGES. If you want details on how this is accomplished, you can look at package.bbclass.
Depending on the type of packages being created (RPM, DEB, or IPK), the do_package_write_* task creates the actual packages and places them in the Package Feed area, which is ${TMPDIR}/deploy. You can see the "Package Feeds" section for more detail on that part of the build process.
Support for creating feeds directly from the deploy/* directories does not exist. Creating such feeds usually requires some kind of feed maintenance mechanism that would upload the new packages into an official package feed (e.g. the Ångström distribution). This functionality is highly distribution-specific and thus is not provided out of the box.
4.3.5.5. Image Generation¶
Once packages are split and stored in the Package Feeds area, the build system uses BitBake to generate the root filesystem image:
The image generation process consists of several stages and depends on several tasks and variables. The do_rootfs task creates the root filesystem (file and directory structure) for an image. This task uses several key variables to help create the list of packages to actually install:
IMAGE_INSTALL: Lists out the base set of packages from which to install from the Package Feeds area.
PACKAGE_EXCLUDE: Specifies packages that should not be installed into the image.
IMAGE_FEATURES: Specifies features to include in the image. Most of these features map to additional packages for installation.
PACKAGE_CLASSES: Specifies the package backend (e.g. RPM, DEB, or IPK) to use and consequently helps determine where to locate packages within the Package Feeds area.
IMAGE_LINGUAS: Determines the language(s) for which additional language support packages are installed.
PACKAGE_INSTALL: The final list of packages passed to the package manager for installation into the image.
With IMAGE_ROOTFS pointing to the location of the filesystem under construction and the PACKAGE_INSTALL variable providing the final list of packages to install, the root file system is created.
Package installation is under control of the package manager (e.g. dnf/rpm, opkg, or apt/dpkg) regardless of whether or not package management is enabled for the target. At the end of the process, if package management is not enabled for the target, the package manager's data files are deleted from the root filesystem. As part of the final stage of package installation, post installation scripts that are part of the packages are run. Any scripts that fail to run on the build host are run on the target when the target system is first booted. If you are using a read-only root filesystem, all the post installation scripts must succeed on the build host during the package installation phase since the root filesystem on the target is read-only.
The final stages of the do_rootfs task handle post processing. Post processing includes creation of a manifest file and optimizations.
The manifest file (.manifest) resides in the same directory as the root filesystem image. This file lists out, line-by-line, the installed packages. The manifest file is useful for the testimage class, for example, to determine whether or not to run specific tests. See the IMAGE_MANIFEST variable for additional information.
Optimizing processes that are run across the image include mklibs, prelink, and any other post-processing commands as defined by the ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND variable. The mklibs process optimizes the size of the libraries, while the prelink process optimizes the dynamic linking of shared libraries to reduce start up time of executables.
After the root filesystem is built, processing begins on the image through the do_image task. The build system runs any pre-processing commands as defined by the IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND variable. This variable specifies a list of functions to call before the build system creates the final image output files.
The build system dynamically creates do_image_* tasks as needed, based on the image types specified in the IMAGE_FSTYPES variable. The process turns everything into an image file or a set of image files and can compress the root filesystem image to reduce the overall size of the image. The formats used for the root filesystem depend on the IMAGE_FSTYPES variable. Compression depends on whether the formats support compression.
As an example, a dynamically created task when creating a particular image type would take the following form:
do_image_type
So, if the type as specified by the IMAGE_FSTYPES were ext4, the dynamically generated task would be as follows:
do_image_ext4
The final task involved in image creation is the do_image_complete task. This task completes the image by applying any image post processing as defined through the IMAGE_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND variable. The variable specifies a list of functions to call once the build system has created the final image output files.
The entire image generation process is run under Pseudo. Running under Pseudo ensures that the files in the root filesystem have correct ownership.
4.3.5.6. SDK Generation¶
The OpenEmbedded build system uses BitBake to generate the Software Development Kit (SDK) installer scripts for both the standard SDK and the extensible SDK (eSDK):
For more information on the cross-development toolchain generation, see the "Cross-Development Toolchain Generation" section. For information on advantages gained when building a cross-development toolchain using the do_populate_sdk task, see the "Building an SDK Installer" section in the Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK) manual.
Like image generation, the SDK script process consists of several stages and depends on many variables. The do_populate_sdk and do_populate_sdk_ext tasks use these key variables to help create the list of packages to actually install. For information on the variables listed in the figure, see the "Application Development SDK" section.
The do_populate_sdk task helps create the standard SDK and handles two parts: a target part and a host part. The target part is the part built for the target hardware and includes libraries and headers. The host part is the part of the SDK that runs on the SDKMACHINE.
The do_populate_sdk_ext task helps create the extensible SDK and handles host and target parts differently than its counter part does for the standard SDK. For the extensible SDK, the task encapsulates the build system, which includes everything needed (host and target) for the SDK.
Regardless of the type of SDK being constructed, the tasks perform some cleanup after which a cross-development environment setup script and any needed configuration files are created. The final output is the Cross-development toolchain installation script (.sh file), which includes the environment setup script.
4.3.5.7. Stamp Files and the Rerunning of Tasks¶
For each task that completes successfully, BitBake writes a stamp file into the STAMPS_DIR directory. The beginning of the stamp file's filename is determined by the STAMP variable, and the end of the name consists of the task's name and current input checksum.
This naming scheme assumes that BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER is "OEBasicHash", which is almost always the case in current OpenEmbedded.
To determine if a task needs to be rerun, BitBake checks if a stamp file with a matching input checksum exists for the task. If such a stamp file exists, the task's output is assumed to exist and still be valid. If the file does not exist, the task is rerun.
The stamp mechanism is more general than the shared state (sstate) cache mechanism described in the "Setscene Tasks and Shared State" section. BitBake avoids rerunning any task that has a valid stamp file, not just tasks that can be accelerated through the sstate cache.
However, you should realize that stamp files only serve as a marker that some work has been done and that these files do not record task output. The actual task output would usually be somewhere in TMPDIR (e.g. in some recipe's WORKDIR.) What the sstate cache mechanism adds is a way to cache task output that can then be shared between build machines.
Since STAMPS_DIR is usually a subdirectory of TMPDIR, removing TMPDIR will also remove STAMPS_DIR, which means tasks will properly be rerun to repopulate TMPDIR.
If you want some task to always be considered "out of date", you can mark it with the nostamp varflag. If some other task depends on such a task, then that task will also always be considered out of date, which might not be what you want.
For details on how to view information about a task's signature, see the "Viewing Task Variable Dependencies" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
4.3.5.8. Setscene Tasks and Shared State¶
The description of tasks so far assumes that BitBake needs to build everything and no available prebuilt objects exist. BitBake does support skipping tasks if prebuilt objects are available. These objects are usually made available in the form of a shared state (sstate) cache.
For information on variables affecting sstate, see the SSTATE_DIR and SSTATE_MIRRORS variables.
The idea of a setscene task (i.e do_taskname_setscene) is a version of the task where instead of building something, BitBake can skip to the end result and simply place a set of files into specific locations as needed. In some cases, it makes sense to have a setscene task variant (e.g. generating package files in the do_package_write_* task). In other cases, it does not make sense (e.g. a do_patch task or a do_unpack task) since the work involved would be equal to or greater than the underlying task.
In the build system, the common tasks that have setscene variants are do_package, do_package_write_*, do_deploy, do_packagedata, and do_populate_sysroot. Notice that these tasks represent most of the tasks whose output is an end result.
The build system has knowledge of the relationship between these tasks and other preceding tasks. For example, if BitBake runs do_populate_sysroot_setscene for something, it does not make sense to run any of the do_fetch, do_unpack, do_patch, do_configure, do_compile, and do_install tasks. However, if do_package needs to be run, BitBake needs to run those other tasks.
It becomes more complicated if everything can come from an sstate cache because some objects are simply not required at all. For example, you do not need a compiler or native tools, such as quilt, if nothing exists to compile or patch. If the do_package_write_* packages are available from sstate, BitBake does not need the do_package task data.
To handle all these complexities, BitBake runs in two phases. The first is the "setscene" stage. During this stage, BitBake first checks the sstate cache for any targets it is planning to build. BitBake does a fast check to see if the object exists rather than a complete download. If nothing exists, the second phase, which is the setscene stage, completes and the main build proceeds.
If objects are found in the sstate cache, the build system works backwards from the end targets specified by the user. For example, if an image is being built, the build system first looks for the packages needed for that image and the tools needed to construct an image. If those are available, the compiler is not needed. Thus, the compiler is not even downloaded. If something was found to be unavailable, or the download or setscene task fails, the build system then tries to install dependencies, such as the compiler, from the cache.
The availability of objects in the sstate cache is handled by the function specified by the BB_HASHCHECK_FUNCTION variable and returns a list of available objects. The function specified by the BB_SETSCENE_DEPVALID variable is the function that determines whether a given dependency needs to be followed, and whether for any given relationship the function needs to be passed. The function returns a True or False value.
4.3.6. Images¶
The images produced by the build system are compressed forms of the root filesystem and are ready to boot on a target device. You can see from the general workflow figure that BitBake output, in part, consists of images. This section takes a closer look at this output:
For a list of example images that the Yocto Project provides, see the "Images" chapter in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
The build process writes images out to the Build Directory inside the tmp/deploy/images/machine/ folder as shown in the figure. This folder contains any files expected to be loaded on the target device. The DEPLOY_DIR variable points to the deploy directory, while the DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE variable points to the appropriate directory containing images for the current configuration.
kernel-image: A kernel binary file. The KERNEL_IMAGETYPE variable determines the naming scheme for the kernel image file. Depending on this variable, the file could begin with a variety of naming strings. The deploy/images/machine directory can contain multiple image files for the machine.
root-filesystem-image: Root filesystems for the target device (e.g. *.ext3 or *.bz2 files). The IMAGE_FSTYPES variable determines the root filesystem image type. The deploy/images/machine directory can contain multiple root filesystems for the machine.
kernel-modules: Tarballs that contain all the modules built for the kernel. Kernel module tarballs exist for legacy purposes and can be suppressed by setting the MODULE_TARBALL_DEPLOY variable to "0". The deploy/images/machine directory can contain multiple kernel module tarballs for the machine.
bootloaders: If applicable to the target machine, bootloaders supporting the image. The deploy/images/machine directory can contain multiple bootloaders for the machine.
symlinks: The deploy/images/machine folder contains a symbolic link that points to the most recently built file for each machine. These links might be useful for external scripts that need to obtain the latest version of each file.
4.3.7. Application Development SDK¶
In the general workflow figure, the output labeled "Application Development SDK" represents an SDK. The SDK generation process differs depending on whether you build an extensible SDK (e.g. bitbake -c populate_sdk_ext imagename) or a standard SDK (e.g. bitbake -c populate_sdk imagename). This section takes a closer look at this output:
The specific form of this output is a set of files that includes a self-extracting SDK installer (*.sh), host and target manifest files, and files used for SDK testing. When the SDK installer file is run, it installs the SDK. The SDK consists of a cross-development toolchain, a set of libraries and headers, and an SDK environment setup script. Running this installer essentially sets up your cross-development environment. You can think of the cross-toolchain as the "host" part because it runs on the SDK machine. You can think of the libraries and headers as the "target" part because they are built for the target hardware. The environment setup script is added so that you can initialize the environment before using the tools.
The Yocto Project supports several methods by which you can set up this cross-development environment. These methods include downloading pre-built SDK installers or building and installing your own SDK installer.
For background information on cross-development toolchains in the Yocto Project development environment, see the "Cross-Development Toolchain Generation" section.
For information on setting up a cross-development environment, see the Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK) manual.
All the output files for an SDK are written to the deploy/sdk folder inside the Build Directory as shown in the previous figure. Depending on the type of SDK, several variables exist that help configure these files. The following list shows the variables associated with an extensible SDK:
DEPLOY_DIR: Points to the deploy directory.
SDK_EXT_TYPE: Controls whether or not shared state artifacts are copied into the extensible SDK. By default, all required shared state artifacts are copied into the SDK.
SDK_INCLUDE_PKGDATA: Specifies whether or not packagedata is included in the extensible SDK for all recipes in the "world" target.
SDK_INCLUDE_TOOLCHAIN: Specifies whether or not the toolchain is included when building the extensible SDK.
SDK_LOCAL_CONF_WHITELIST: A list of variables allowed through from the build system configuration into the extensible SDK configuration.
SDK_LOCAL_CONF_BLACKLIST: A list of variables not allowed through from the build system configuration into the extensible SDK configuration.
SDK_INHERIT_BLACKLIST: A list of classes to remove from the INHERIT value globally within the extensible SDK configuration.
This next list, shows the variables associated with a standard SDK:
SDKMACHINE: Specifies the architecture of the machine on which the cross-development tools are run to create packages for the target hardware.
SDKIMAGE_FEATURES: Lists the features to include in the "target" part of the SDK.
TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK: Lists packages that make up the host part of the SDK (i.e. the part that runs on the SDKMACHINE). When you use bitbake -c populate_sdk imagename to create the SDK, a set of default packages apply. This variable allows you to add more packages.
TOOLCHAIN_TARGET_TASK: Lists packages that make up the target part of the SDK (i.e. the part built for the target hardware).
SDKPATH: Defines the default SDK installation path offered by the installation script.
SDK_HOST_MANIFEST: Lists all the installed packages that make up the host part of the SDK. This variable also plays a minor role for extensible SDK development as well. However, it is mainly used for the standard SDK.
SDK_TARGET_MANIFEST: Lists all the installed packages that make up the target part of the SDK. This variable also plays a minor role for extensible SDK development as well. However, it is mainly used for the standard SDK.
4.4. Cross-Development Toolchain Generation¶
The Yocto Project does most of the work for you when it comes to creating cross-development toolchains. This section provides some technical background on how cross-development toolchains are created and used. For more information on toolchains, you can also see the Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK) manual.
In the Yocto Project development environment, cross-development toolchains are used to build images and applications that run on the target hardware. With just a few commands, the OpenEmbedded build system creates these necessary toolchains for you.
The following figure shows a high-level build environment regarding toolchain construction and use.
Most of the work occurs on the Build Host. This is the machine used to build images and generally work within the the Yocto Project environment. When you run BitBake to create an image, the OpenEmbedded build system uses the host gcc compiler to bootstrap a cross-compiler named gcc-cross. The gcc-cross compiler is what BitBake uses to compile source files when creating the target image. You can think of gcc-cross simply as an automatically generated cross-compiler that is used internally within BitBake only.
The extensible SDK does not use gcc-cross-canadian since this SDK ships a copy of the OpenEmbedded build system and the sysroot within it contains gcc-cross.
The chain of events that occurs when gcc-cross is bootstrapped is as follows:
gcc -> binutils-cross -> gcc-cross-initial -> linux-libc-headers -> glibc-initial -> glibc -> gcc-cross -> gcc-runtime
gcc: The build host's GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
binutils-cross: The bare minimum binary utilities needed in order to run the gcc-cross-initial phase of the bootstrap operation.
gcc-cross-initial: An early stage of the bootstrap process for creating the cross-compiler. This stage builds enough of the gcc-cross, the C library, and other pieces needed to finish building the final cross-compiler in later stages. This tool is a "native" package (i.e. it is designed to run on the build host).
linux-libc-headers: Headers needed for the cross-compiler.
glibc-initial: An initial version of the Embedded GNU C Library (GLIBC) needed to bootstrap glibc.
glibc: The GNU C Library.
gcc-cross: The final stage of the bootstrap process for the cross-compiler. This stage results in the actual cross-compiler that BitBake uses when it builds an image for a targeted device.
If you are replacing this cross compiler toolchain with a custom version, you must replace gcc-cross.
This tool is also a "native" package (i.e. it is designed to run on the build host).
gcc-runtime: Runtime libraries resulting from the toolchain bootstrapping process. This tool produces a binary that consists of the runtime libraries need for the targeted device.
You can use the OpenEmbedded build system to build an installer for the relocatable SDK used to develop applications. When you run the installer, it installs the toolchain, which contains the development tools (e.g., gcc-cross-canadian, binutils-cross-canadian, and other nativesdk-* tools), which are tools native to the SDK (i.e. native to SDK_ARCH), you need to cross-compile and test your software. The figure shows the commands you use to easily build out this toolchain. This cross-development toolchain is built to execute on the SDKMACHINE, which might or might not be the same machine as the Build Host.
If your target architecture is supported by the Yocto Project, you can take advantage of pre-built images that ship with the Yocto Project and already contain cross-development toolchain installers.
Here is the bootstrap process for the relocatable toolchain:
gcc -> binutils-crosssdk -> gcc-crosssdk-initial -> linux-libc-headers ->
glibc-initial -> nativesdk-glibc -> gcc-crosssdk -> gcc-cross-canadian
binutils-crosssdk: The bare minimum binary utilities needed in order to run the gcc-crosssdk-initial phase of the bootstrap operation.
gcc-crosssdk-initial: An early stage of the bootstrap process for creating the cross-compiler. This stage builds enough of the gcc-crosssdk and supporting pieces so that the final stage of the bootstrap process can produce the finished cross-compiler. This tool is a "native" binary that runs on the build host.
glibc-initial: An initial version of the Embedded GLIBC needed to bootstrap nativesdk-glibc.
nativesdk-glibc: The Embedded GLIBC needed to bootstrap the gcc-crosssdk.
gcc-crosssdk: The final stage of the bootstrap process for the relocatable cross-compiler. The gcc-crosssdk is a transitory compiler and never leaves the build host. Its purpose is to help in the bootstrap process to create the eventual gcc-cross-canadian compiler, which is relocatable. This tool is also a "native" package (i.e. it is designed to run on the build host).
gcc-cross-canadian: The final relocatable cross-compiler. When run on the SDKMACHINE, this tool produces executable code that runs on the target device. Only one cross-canadian compiler is produced per architecture since they can be targeted at different processor optimizations using configurations passed to the compiler through the compile commands. This circumvents the need for multiple compilers and thus reduces the size of the toolchains.
For information on advantages gained when building a cross-development toolchain installer, see the "Building an SDK Installer" appendix in the Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK) manual.
4.5. Shared State Cache¶
By design, the OpenEmbedded build system builds everything from scratch unless BitBake can determine that parts do not need to be rebuilt. Fundamentally, building from scratch is attractive as it means all parts are built fresh and no possibility of stale data exists that can cause problems. When developers hit problems, they typically default back to building from scratch so they have a know state from the start.
Building an image from scratch is both an advantage and a disadvantage to the process. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, building from scratch ensures that everything is current and starts from a known state. However, building from scratch also takes much longer as it generally means rebuilding things that do not necessarily need to be rebuilt.
The Yocto Project implements shared state code that supports incremental builds. The implementation of the shared state code answers the following questions that were fundamental roadblocks within the OpenEmbedded incremental build support system:
What pieces of the system have changed and what pieces have not changed?
How are changed pieces of software removed and replaced?
How are pre-built components that do not need to be rebuilt from scratch used when they are available?
For the first question, the build system detects changes in the "inputs" to a given task by creating a checksum (or signature) of the task's inputs. If the checksum changes, the system assumes the inputs have changed and the task needs to be rerun. For the second question, the shared state (sstate) code tracks which tasks add which output to the build process. This means the output from a given task can be removed, upgraded or otherwise manipulated. The third question is partly addressed by the solution for the second question assuming the build system can fetch the sstate objects from remote locations and install them if they are deemed to be valid.
The build system does not maintain PR information as part of the shared state packages. Consequently, considerations exist that affect maintaining shared state feeds. For information on how the build system works with packages and can track incrementing PR information, see the "Automatically Incrementing a Binary Package Revision Number" section in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
The code in the build system that supports incremental builds is not simple code. For techniques that help you work around issues related to shared state code, see the "Viewing Metadata Used to Create the Input Signature of a Shared State Task" and "Invalidating Shared State to Force a Task to Run" sections both in the Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual.
The rest of this section goes into detail about the overall incremental build architecture, the checksums (signatures), and shared state.
4.5.1. Overall Architecture¶
When determining what parts of the system need to be built, BitBake works on a per-task basis rather than a per-recipe basis. You might wonder why using a per-task basis is preferred over a per-recipe basis. To help explain, consider having the IPK packaging backend enabled and then switching to DEB. In this case, the do_install and do_package task outputs are still valid. However, with a per-recipe approach, the build would not include the .deb files. Consequently, you would have to invalidate the whole build and rerun it. Rerunning everything is not the best solution. Also, in this case, the core must be "taught" much about specific tasks. This methodology does not scale well and does not allow users to easily add new tasks in layers or as external recipes without touching the packaged-staging core.
4.5.2. Checksums (Signatures)¶
The shared state code uses a checksum, which is a unique signature of a task's inputs, to determine if a task needs to be run again. Because it is a change in a task's inputs that triggers a rerun, the process needs to detect all the inputs to a given task. For shell tasks, this turns out to be fairly easy because the build process generates a "run" shell script for each task and it is possible to create a checksum that gives you a good idea of when the task's data changes.
To complicate the problem, there are things that should not be included in the checksum. First, there is the actual specific build path of a given task - the WORKDIR. It does not matter if the work directory changes because it should not affect the output for target packages. Also, the build process has the objective of making native or cross packages relocatable.
Both native and cross packages run on the build host. However, cross packages generate output for the target architecture.
The checksum therefore needs to exclude WORKDIR. The simplistic approach for excluding the work directory is to set WORKDIR to some fixed value and create the checksum for the "run" script.
Another problem results from the "run" scripts containing functions that might or might not get called. The incremental build solution contains code that figures out dependencies between shell functions. This code is used to prune the "run" scripts down to the minimum set, thereby alleviating this problem and making the "run" scripts much more readable as a bonus.
So far, solutions for shell scripts exist. What about Python tasks? The same approach applies even though these tasks are more difficult. The process needs to figure out what variables a Python function accesses and what functions it calls. Again, the incremental build solution contains code that first figures out the variable and function dependencies, and then creates a checksum for the data used as the input to the task.
Like the WORKDIR case, situations exist where dependencies should be ignored. For these situations, you can instruct the build process to ignore a dependency by using a line like the following:
PACKAGE_ARCHS[vardepsexclude] = "MACHINE"
This example ensures that the PACKAGE_ARCHS variable does not depend on the value of MACHINE, even if it does reference it.
Equally, there are cases where you need to add dependencies BitBake is not able to find. You can accomplish this by using a line like the following:
PACKAGE_ARCHS[vardeps] = "MACHINE"
This example explicitly adds the MACHINE variable as a dependency for PACKAGE_ARCHS.
As an example, consider a case with in-line Python where BitBake is not able to figure out dependencies. When running in debug mode (i.e. using -DDD), BitBake produces output when it discovers something for which it cannot figure out dependencies. The Yocto Project team has currently not managed to cover those dependencies in detail and is aware of the need to fix this situation.
Thus far, this section has limited discussion to the direct inputs into a task. Information based on direct inputs is referred to as the "basehash" in the code. However, the question of a task's indirect inputs still exits - items already built and present in the Build Directory. The checksum (or signature) for a particular task needs to add the hashes of all the tasks on which the particular task depends. Choosing which dependencies to add is a policy decision. However, the effect is to generate a master checksum that combines the basehash and the hashes of the task's dependencies.
At the code level, a variety of ways exist by which both the basehash and the dependent task hashes can be influenced. Within the BitBake configuration file, you can give BitBake some extra information to help it construct the basehash. The following statement effectively results in a list of global variable dependency excludes (i.e. variables never included in any checksum):
BB_HASHBASE_WHITELIST ?= "TMPDIR FILE PATH PWD BB_TASKHASH BBPATH DL_DIR \
SSTATE_DIR THISDIR FILESEXTRAPATHS FILE_DIRNAME HOME LOGNAME SHELL TERM \
USER FILESPATH STAGING_DIR_HOST STAGING_DIR_TARGET COREBASE PRSERV_HOST \
PRSERV_DUMPDIR PRSERV_DUMPFILE PRSERV_LOCKDOWN PARALLEL_MAKE \
CCACHE_DIR EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN CCACHE CCACHE_DISABLE LICENSE_PATH SDKPKGSUFFIX"
The previous example excludes WORKDIR since that variable is actually constructed as a path within TMPDIR, which is on the whitelist.
The rules for deciding which hashes of dependent tasks to include through dependency chains are more complex and are generally accomplished with a Python function. The code in meta/lib/oe/sstatesig.py shows two examples of this and also illustrates how you can insert your own policy into the system if so desired. This file defines the two basic signature generators OE-Core uses: "OEBasic" and "OEBasicHash". By default, a dummy "noop" signature handler is enabled in BitBake. This means that behavior is unchanged from previous versions. OE-Core uses the "OEBasicHash" signature handler by default through this setting in the bitbake.conf file:
BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER ?= "OEBasicHash"
The "OEBasicHash" BB_SIGNATURE_HANDLER is the same as the "OEBasic" version but adds the task hash to the stamp files. This results in any metadata change that changes the task hash, automatically causing the task to be run again. This removes the need to bump PR values, and changes to metadata automatically ripple across the build.
It is also worth noting that the end result of these signature generators is to make some dependency and hash information available to the build. This information includes:
BB_BASEHASH_task-taskname: The base hashes for each task in the recipe.
BB_BASEHASH_filename:taskname: The base hashes for each dependent task.
BBHASHDEPS_filename:taskname: The task dependencies for each task.
BB_TASKHASH: The hash of the currently running task.
4.5.3. Shared State¶
Checksums and dependencies, as discussed in the previous section, solve half the problem of supporting a shared state. The other half of the problem is being able to use checksum information during the build and being able to reuse or rebuild specific components.
The sstate class is a relatively generic implementation of how to "capture" a snapshot of a given task. The idea is that the build process does not care about the source of a task's output. Output could be freshly built or it could be downloaded and unpacked from somewhere. In other words, the build process does not need to worry about its origin.
Two types of output exist. One type is just about creating a directory in WORKDIR. A good example is the output of either do_install or do_package. The other type of output occurs when a set of data is merged into a shared directory tree such as the sysroot.
The Yocto Project team has tried to keep the details of the implementation hidden in sstate class. From a user's perspective, adding shared state wrapping to a task is as simple as this do_deploy example taken from the deploy class:
DEPLOYDIR = "${WORKDIR}/deploy-${PN}"
SSTATETASKS += "do_deploy"
do_deploy[sstate-inputdirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR}"
do_deploy[sstate-outputdirs] = "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}"
python do_deploy_setscene () {
sstate_setscene(d)
addtask do_deploy_setscene
do_deploy[dirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR} ${B}"
do_deploy[stamp-extra-info] = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
The following list explains the previous example:
Adding "do_deploy" to SSTATETASKS adds some required sstate-related processing, which is implemented in the sstate class, to before and after the do_deploy task.
The do_deploy[sstate-inputdirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR}" declares that do_deploy places its output in ${DEPLOYDIR} when run normally (i.e. when not using the sstate cache). This output becomes the input to the shared state cache.
The do_deploy[sstate-outputdirs] = "${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}" line causes the contents of the shared state cache to be copied to ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}.
If do_deploy is not already in the shared state cache or if its input checksum (signature) has changed from when the output was cached, the task runs to populate the shared state cache, after which the contents of the shared state cache is copied to ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}. If do_deploy is in the shared state cache and its signature indicates that the cached output is still valid (i.e. if no relevant task inputs have changed), then the contents of the shared state cache copies directly to ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE} by the do_deploy_setscene task instead, skipping the do_deploy task.
The following task definition is glue logic needed to make the previous settings effective:
sstate_setscene() takes the flags above as input and accelerates the do_deploy task through the shared state cache if possible. If the task was accelerated, sstate_setscene() returns True. Otherwise, it returns False, and the normal do_deploy task runs. For more information, see the "setscene" section in the BitBake User Manual.
The do_deploy[dirs] = "${DEPLOYDIR} ${B}" line creates ${DEPLOYDIR} and ${B} before the do_deploy task runs, and also sets the current working directory of do_deploy to ${B}. For more information, see the "Variable Flags" section in the BitBake User Manual.
In cases where sstate-inputdirs and sstate-outputdirs would be the same, you can use sstate-plaindirs. For example, to preserve the ${PKGD} and ${PKGDEST} output from the do_package task, use the following:
do_package[sstate-plaindirs] = "${PKGD} ${PKGDEST}"
The do_deploy[stamp-extra-info] = "${MACHINE_ARCH}" line appends extra metadata to the stamp file. In this case, the metadata makes the task specific to a machine's architecture. See "The Task List" section in the BitBake User Manual for more information on the stamp-extra-info flag.
sstate-inputdirs and sstate-outputdirs can also be used with multiple directories. For example, the following declares PKGDESTWORK and SHLIBWORK as shared state input directories, which populates the shared state cache, and PKGDATA_DIR and SHLIBSDIR as the corresponding shared state output directories:
do_package[sstate-inputdirs] = "${PKGDESTWORK} ${SHLIBSWORKDIR}"
do_package[sstate-outputdirs] = "${PKGDATA_DIR} ${SHLIBSDIR}"
These methods also include the ability to take a lockfile when manipulating shared state directory structures, for cases where file additions or removals are sensitive:
do_package[sstate-lockfile] = "${PACKAGELOCK}"
Behind the scenes, the shared state code works by looking in SSTATE_DIR and SSTATE_MIRRORS for shared state files. Here is an example:
SSTATE_MIRRORS ?= "\
file://.* http://someserver.tld/share/sstate/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH \n \
file://.* file:///some/local/dir/sstate/PATH"
The shared state directory (SSTATE_DIR) is organized into two-character subdirectories, where the subdirectory names are based on the first two characters of the hash. If the shared state directory structure for a mirror has the same structure as SSTATE_DIR, you must specify "PATH" as part of the URI to enable the build system to map to the appropriate subdirectory.
The shared state package validity can be detected just by looking at the filename since the filename contains the task checksum (or signature) as described earlier in this section. If a valid shared state package is found, the build process downloads it and uses it to accelerate the task.
The build processes use the *_setscene tasks for the task acceleration phase. BitBake goes through this phase before the main execution code and tries to accelerate any tasks for which it can find shared state packages. If a shared state package for a task is available, the shared state package is used. This means the task and any tasks on which it is dependent are not executed.
As a real world example, the aim is when building an IPK-based image, only the do_package_write_ipk tasks would have their shared state packages fetched and extracted. Since the sysroot is not used, it would never get extracted. This is another reason why a task-based approach is preferred over a recipe-based approach, which would have to install the output from every task.
4.6. Automatically Added Runtime Dependencies¶
The OpenEmbedded build system automatically adds common types of runtime dependencies between packages, which means that you do not need to explicitly declare the packages using RDEPENDS. Three automatic mechanisms exist (shlibdeps, pcdeps, and depchains) that handle shared libraries, package configuration (pkg-config) modules, and -dev and -dbg packages, respectively. For other types of runtime dependencies, you must manually declare the dependencies.
shlibdeps: During the do_package task of each recipe, all shared libraries installed by the recipe are located. For each shared library, the package that contains the shared library is registered as providing the shared library. More specifically, the package is registered as providing the soname of the library. The resulting shared-library-to-package mapping is saved globally in PKGDATA_DIR by the do_packagedata task.
Simultaneously, all executables and shared libraries installed by the recipe are inspected to see what shared libraries they link against. For each shared library dependency that is found, PKGDATA_DIR is queried to see if some package (likely from a different recipe) contains the shared library. If such a package is found, a runtime dependency is added from the package that depends on the shared library to the package that contains the library.
The automatically added runtime dependency also includes a version restriction. This version restriction specifies that at least the current version of the package that provides the shared library must be used, as if "package (>= version)" had been added to RDEPENDS. This forces an upgrade of the package containing the shared library when installing the package that depends on the library, if needed.
If you want to avoid a package being registered as providing a particular shared library (e.g. because the library is for internal use only), then add the library to PRIVATE_LIBS inside the package's recipe.
pcdeps: During the do_package task of each recipe, all pkg-config modules (*.pc files) installed by the recipe are located. For each module, the package that contains the module is registered as providing the module. The resulting module-to-package mapping is saved globally in PKGDATA_DIR by the do_packagedata task.
Simultaneously, all pkg-config modules installed by the recipe are inspected to see what other pkg-config modules they depend on. A module is seen as depending on another module if it contains a "Requires:" line that specifies the other module. For each module dependency, PKGDATA_DIR is queried to see if some package contains the module. If such a package is found, a runtime dependency is added from the package that depends on the module to the package that contains the module.
The pcdeps mechanism most often infers dependencies between -dev packages.
depchains: If a package foo depends on a package bar, then foo-dev and foo-dbg are also made to depend on bar-dev and bar-dbg, respectively. Taking the -dev packages as an example, the bar-dev package might provide headers and shared library symlinks needed by foo-dev, which shows the need for a dependency between the packages.
The dependencies added by depchains are in the form of RRECOMMENDS.
By default, foo-dev also has an RDEPENDS-style dependency on foo, because the default value of RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev (set in bitbake.conf) includes "${PN}".
To ensure that the dependency chain is never broken, -dev and -dbg packages are always generated by default, even if the packages turn out to be empty. See the ALLOW_EMPTY variable for more information.
The do_package task depends on the do_packagedata task of each recipe in DEPENDS through use of a [deptask] declaration, which guarantees that the required shared-library/module-to-package mapping information will be available when needed as long as DEPENDS has been correctly set.
4.7. Fakeroot and Pseudo¶
Some tasks are easier to implement when allowed to perform certain operations that are normally reserved for the root user (e.g. do_install, do_package_write*, do_rootfs, and do_image*). For example, the do_install task benefits from being able to set the UID and GID of installed files to arbitrary values.
One approach to allowing tasks to perform root-only operations would be to require BitBake to run as root. However, this method is cumbersome and has security issues. The approach that is actually used is to run tasks that benefit from root privileges in a "fake" root environment. Within this environment, the task and its child processes believe that they are running as the root user, and see an internally consistent view of the filesystem. As long as generating the final output (e.g. a package or an image) does not require root privileges, the fact that some earlier steps ran in a fake root environment does not cause problems.
The capability to run tasks in a fake root environment is known as "fakeroot", which is derived from the BitBake keyword/variable flag that requests a fake root environment for a task.
In the OpenEmbedded build system, the program that implements fakeroot is known as Pseudo. Pseudo overrides system calls by using the environment variable LD_PRELOAD, which results in the illusion of running as root. To keep track of "fake" file ownership and permissions resulting from operations that require root permissions, Pseudo uses an SQLite 3 database. This database is stored in ${WORKDIR}/pseudo/files.db for individual recipes. Storing the database in a file as opposed to in memory gives persistence between tasks and builds, which is not accomplished using fakeroot.
If you add your own task that manipulates the same files or directories as a fakeroot task, then that task also needs to run under fakeroot. Otherwise, the task cannot run root-only operations, and cannot see the fake file ownership and permissions set by the other task. You need to also add a dependency on virtual/fakeroot-native:do_populate_sysroot, giving the following:
fakeroot do_mytask () {
do_mytask[depends] += "virtual/fakeroot-native:do_populate_sysroot"
For more information, see the FAKEROOT* variables in the BitBake User Manual. You can also reference the "Why Not Fakeroot?" article for background information on Fakeroot and Pseudo.
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Brownies & Lemonade Makes Huge Strides As Curator of LA’s Red Bull Sound Select [Interview]
by Matthew Meadow
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Brownies & Lemonade isn’t just a strange nutritional pairing anymore, it’s also the name of a major movement in LA dance music. The collective or promotional group or something else entirely (B&L has worn many hats) has embedded itself as a part of LA dance music culture, as can be clearly evidenced by the myriad artists who have called their stages home. But it isn’t just dance music; the artists booked for B&L shows are as diverse as the people who go to them.
This year, B&L is honored to participate in the Red Bull Sound Select series of shows as a full-fledged curator, putting together a stellar lineup of shows. Red Bull Sound Select is an accelerator for music artists. It consists of 18 city residencies, 200+ events each year, 250+ artists, 50 partners and a growing list of our own festivals like 30 Days and 3 Days in Miami.
Tonight, Brownies & Lemonade has their own showcase at the Belasco in Los Angeles that you do not want to miss… trust us.
We caught up with events producer Chad Kenney to ask him a few questions about B&L, their partnership with RBSS, and more. Details on tonight’s show can be found here.
Brownies & Lemonade has been a fixture in LA for a couple years now. What does this milestone mean for you as a brand, and also as the founders of the brand?
It’s been a huge milestone being able to work with Red Bull Sound Select in a creative capacity, and pretty surreal to see the growth from a couple of kids who just wanted free Red Bull product at our small parties a few years ago, to a full-fledged team helping put together a show for the 30 Days in LA series last year. Working with RBSS on this show at Belasco is a culmination of that growth as well.
Bringing out special guests like Diplo, Lido, and Alison Wonderland for shows is a pretty clear indication that you guys have caught the eyes of some major players. Do you try to stay visible as a brand or does it come naturally at this point?
Every time we’re able to work with artists of that caliber it’s always a big deal for us and we definitely don’t take it for granted. For all the visibility that these artists have helped us gain it adds more expectations to continue to bring that level of talent to our shows, so that requires a lot of hard work that doesn’t come naturally.
You clearly have a devoted group of fans, but also a lot of DJs who owe a lot of their first appearances in LA to a B&L show. What’s one of the more memorable debuts you’ve featured?
When looking at the incredible rise of artists such as Louis The Child, Sam Gellaitry, Jai Wolf, etc. it’s pretty hard not to look back at their LA debut with us and reminisce. For me personally I think the first Moving Castle showcase in LA really felt like a watershed moment for us by being able to bring out the wave of internet talent that wasn’t getting shine at that time. And it’s all been up from there.
How do you think Red Bull has been able to bridge the gap between “just an energy drink” and a major sponsor and mover in dance music?
They just have the right people making decisions that allow projects like Red Bull Sound Select, Music Academy, BC One and Culture Clash to gain the necessary funding and production to have an impact on music culture.
I think that many companies invest in dance music / events solely focused on making a return, and Red Bull has focused on transformative projects that pay them back more through community and culture experiences than dollars and cents ever could.
As far as LA fixtures, B&L is a pretty heavy player for some of the craziest parties. What do you think of the importance of bringing (mostly) free music to people who might not have ever heard anything like it before?
None of us at B&L ever believed that music should have a high entry level price point in order to be enjoyed. When young, promising artists are playing their first shows how are you going to convince an unfamiliar audience with a $40 ticket? Luckily there are some really successful artists and partners here in LA that also share that sentiment.
A lot of LA party crews tend to stick to the “EDM” model. B&L has made a point of branching out into a lot of different styles. Case in point: Denzel Curry or Jazz Cartier. How have you been able to branch out without alienating a core fan base?
LA more than anywhere else represents a unique intersection between so many various cultures and styles that people are open to. I’m not sure a lot of people could branch out in other cities the way we’ve been able to. You’ll go to a typical “EDM” festival these days in So Cal and kids react the craziest for a Kendrick Lamar song.
Genres have been blurred beyond recognition since the term EDM was first coined and I think our parties and fans have embodied that naturally.
Becoming a curator for RBSS in LA is clearly an indication that you’re here to stay, but what’s next for B&L the rest of the year? Next year?
We just want to continue throwing shows each week and bring good music to people that want to hear it.
Featured image via Quasar Media // In article image via Jennica Mae Photo
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Win Two Tickets To Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival With Zedd, Marshmello & More
SMLE & XAXO Deliver Stunning Live Cover of Zedd’s “Stay”
Matthew Meadow
Lover of all bass music. I'm not afraid to speak my mind and put it to paper, and I do it often. I call Los Angeles my home, there's no better place for emerging EDM. Get in touch with me more via email or Twitter.
SMLE & XAXO Deliver Stunning Live Cover of Zedd's "Stay"
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Your job is to douse the fire: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tells Union Home Minister Amit Shah
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that Amit Shah is the Home Minister of the country and his job is to maintain peace and harmony in the country.
Tanweer Azam
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee continued her protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) for the third consecutive day on Wednesday and targeted Union Home Minister Amit Shah who tabled the Citizenship Amendment Bill in Parliament and ensured its passage in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
“You (Amit Shah) are the Home Minister of the country, and not just a BJP leader. Please maintain peace in the country. You have not done ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ but ‘sabke saath sarvanash’ (disaster). Withdraw CAA & NRC, or else I will see how you implement it here,” the Bengal Chief Minister said.
“When Babri Masjid was demolished there was some tension but after that the people were living in peace. But this has been disrupted ever since they came to power again. Look what they did to Kashmir, look what they did to Assam and Tripura. The entire country is burning. Your job is to douse the fire,” she added.
Calling CAA and NRC two sides of the same coin, Mamata slammed the BJP leaders and said that they were lying as the CAA is aimed at taking away citizenship from a particular community. “CAB and NRC are two sides of the same coin. They are lying when they say this will not nullify anybody’s citizenship. Don’t understand us. We are mice if you think you are rock. We will bite you into bits. You cannot scare me,” said Banerjee.
The Trinamool Congress supremo stressed that if Aadhaar is no longer a proof of citizenship as per the BJP-led government at the Centre, then why did the government decide to link Aadhaar with welfare schemes and the banking system. “They want to turn the entire country into a detention centre. But we will not let that happen,” she said.
Mamata also accused the BJP of circulating fake videos of violence to create Hindu-Muslim divide in the country. The West Bengal chief minister started her protest march on Wenesday from Howrah Maidan and the march ended at Dorina Crossing at Esplanade in Kolkata.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the Centre on a batch of 59 pleas challenging the CAA. The apex court, however, refuses to stay the implementation of the Act. The apex court has directed the Centre to submit its reply by the second week of January 2020. A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice (CJI) SA Bobde and Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant heard the pleas and ordered that the next hearing will be on January 22, 2020. Pleading on behalf of the government Attorney General Venugopal said, "There are four judgments of the SC that the Act cannot be stayed."
The CAA seeks to grant Indian citizenship to refugees from Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi communities fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.
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Congress to hold march against CAA on its foundation day
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