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Capri, Castlemont, Rosemary and Sherman Oaks earned Star School honors, and Forest Hill, Marshall Lane and Village were named as Scholar Schools on the Campaign for Business and Education Excellence (CBEE) 2014 Honor Roll.
Elementary Schools Named Among High Achievers
Seven of Campbell Union School District’s elementary schools earned top ratings on the Campaign for Business and Education Excellence (CBEE) 2014 Honor Roll. Capri, Castlemont, Rosemary and Sherman Oaks earned Star School honors, and Forest Hill, Marshall Lane and Village were named as Scholar Schools. The 2014 Honor Roll includes public K-8 and high schools that are recognized for demonstrating consistently high levels of student academic achievement, improvement in achievement over time, and reduction in achievement gaps.
Pictured here, Castlemont Elementary School students use colorful floor robots in a game that teaches sequencing, estimation, and problem solving—skills needed for success in school and the workplace. This is just one example of Campbell Union School District’s focus on STEAM education and college and career readiness for all students.
“Many of our higher performing schools are not getting the recognition they deserve. Those schools that succeed in reducing the achievement gap and preparing their students for higher education and careers should be celebrated,” said Lee Blitch, CBEE Chairman and past CEO of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
Over time, CBEE has identified a common set of success factors in higher performing Honor Roll schools and districts. These include clear, specific learning objectives aligned to college and career readiness, along with evidence-based instructional practices; establishing system-wide mission of college and career readiness for all students; investing in human capital; maintaining data and assessment systems to monitor school and student performance; and deploying resources and guidance to support schools’ efforts to prepare all students for college.
“We’re proud to be honored for our work towards closing the achievement gap through equitable practices that support our students’ learning,” said Dr. Eric Andrew, superintendent of the preschool-through-grade-8 school district. “At all of our schools, we are focused on preparing students for college and career success and to be globally competitive in the workplace.”
Campbell Union School District educates more than 7,600 students in preschool through eighth grade from the communities of Campbell, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, San Jose, Santa Clara, and Saratoga. More information is available at 408-341-7254 or www.campbellusd.org. The Campaign for Business and Education Excellence (CBEE) is a leading, unifying voice for California business leaders who are committed to improving public education, closing the achievement gap and helping to ensure college readiness and success. The CBEE Honor Roll uses data provided by Educational Results Partnership (ERP), an educational non-profit with an eleven year history of providing open source, user-friendly, actionable data and best practices information to California public schools, colleges and universities. To see the full list, go to CBEE.org
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Ref watch: David Coote takes the whistle
Confirmation of match officials ahead of Saturday's home clash with Blackpool
David Coote will take charge of Wanderers’ home match against Blackpool at Macron Stadium on Saturday as Championship football resumes after the March international break.
The game will mark the Nottinghamshire-based referee’s first visit to BL6, though he has officiated one Whites’ match in the past – last season’s away victory over Birmingham City where goals from Neil Danns and Jermaine Beckford saw Bolton clinch a 2-1 win.
Refereeing his first Championship fixture in January 2011, Mr Coote also took charge of last season’s League One Play-Off Final at Wembley between Rotherham United and Leyton Orient.
So far this season he has officiated 23 matches, handing out 90 yellow cards and four red cards.
Mark Astley and Robert Merchant will run the line, while Tony Harrington is the fourth official.
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Programme Director Medical Ultrasound and Vascular Ultrasound
Susan Halson-Brown, DCRR, DMU, MSc, PgCL&THE, FHEA
As I approach the end of my career in Medical Imaging, Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month (MUAM) has given me an opportunity to reflect on the development of ultrasound as a medical imaging technique since my first introduction to the ‘diabolograph’ at St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children in Manchester as a Diagnostic Radiography student in 1976 working with Dr Valerie Jones.
So many developments….. and for me, every encounter with an ultrasound machine still produces a ‘wow’ factor or a ‘light-bulb’ moment. Only yesterday I looked across the room of attendees at a Study Day I was facilitating and found myself exclaiming “just look at that pancreas, isn’t it beautiful” and launching across the room to explain why the image was so good.
What have been the milestones of my career? In forty-years probably too many to include! Having seen those early obstetric images I knew from the outset that my career would be in ultrasound and I seemed to have a natural aptitude for it. My first post was as a diagnostic radiographer at the Manchester Royal Infirmary with my contemporaries being Leonie Paskin FCR, Kathlyn Slack FCR and Sue Taylor. We four musketeers have remained friends throughout our careers, albeit these days mainly through social media, due to our busy lives.
Key points were working with Mr R Alan Scott on the data collection which was the forerunner of the National Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme (NAAASP). I can confidently say that screening programmes take about 23 years from inception to fruition. The original work was done on a portable scanner provided by the Friends of Bognor Regis Hospital and I still have the newspaper cutting somewhere proudly receiving the scanner from their Chairman.
I reached a point in my career, before independent sonographer reporting became the norm, of being frustrated with the NHS and the reluctance to accept sonographer skills. I was offered a job as a Product Specialist with Sonicaid, later becoming Oxford Instruments, where I was able to undertake research in ultrasound and the early development of Continuous Wave (CW) Doppler to assess vascular waveforms. I was able to work with the late Professor Geoffrey Dawes and Chris Redman in Oxford on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) primarily to assist in interpreting short term variation of Cardiotocographs (CTG) in pregnancy. My moment of fame being an interview by the BBC World Service when the system received a Design Award. I have scanned a Killer Whale and visited her in the ‘Nunnery’ in California. I have scanned dogs, cats, horses and even a guinea pig for ureteric obstruction (great images). I have had a standing ovation from a room full of German salesmen. I have passed fainted delivering a lecture in Pisa and been transported back to the plane on a luggage trolley! All opportunities afforded to me by ultrasound.
The untimely death of my husband at the age of 38 focused my attention on the United Kingdom (UK) and the call of the NHS became too strong to resist. My MSc was based on community ultrasound services and I took up a post in my local community hospital providing principally a service to the local GPs, many of whom remain friends.
Next on to academia at the University of Portsmouth, with the brief to embed ultrasound within both the undergraduate diagnostic and therapeutic radiography programmes under the leadership of Derek Adrian-Harris TD JP M Phil FRC. This I did, including a few paramedics and military personnel, in the process. I don’t mind who undertakes ultrasound examination if they are undertaken properly; no ‘dabblers’, in my book. I was invited to apply for the position as Programme Director at King’s College, London in 2014 and here we are. King’s now has somewhere between 85-100 students each year, at various stages of the MSc programme.
What do I love most about ultrasound? A tough question. What do I not love about ultrasound would be easier to answer. The answer would be ‘nothing’. I am a complete enthusiast.
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Press the “Reset” Button on your Brain with TMS Therapy
Press the “Reset” Button on…
A new treatment approved by the FDA has gained popularity on the internet, and people from all over the world want to try it out. This new invention is popularly known as the device that “Resets your brain” with TMS therapy in FL.
How the TMS therapy device has changed people’s lives
Starting off with a student named Bre Hushaw, who is now more popularly known on the internet as the girl in the depression helmet.
Hushaw had previously lived a very troublesome life. Her depression started at age 10 when her mother died. Her condition kept getting worse, and it got even more pumped when she witnessed a school shooting on her campus in 2015.
She told in her interview that last year, she didn’t think that she was going to live up to graduation. Over the years, she had tried around 14 medications. She had been hospitalized multiple times and had lost all faith in the medical system.
“From age 15 until I was 20, I was extremely suicidal, and I was self-harming.”
Hushaw had wholly given up. Until last year, she heard of a device that can magnetically rewire her brain. Having used every other measure, she decided to give it a try.
She absorbed 20 minutes of the electoral pulses every business day for six weeks, and the results were astounding.
Referring to her suicidal depression, she said: “I felt like there was a huge blanket lifted off my shoulders and I felt completely free.”
She has been very passionate about the results she experienced and recounted multiple times that “It actually, really saved my life.”
Not only Hushaw but the marketing director Candise Miller also tried it for her treatment and recounted “My life is forever changed and I’m a completely different person.”
TMS, A hope for many mental conditions
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is what this process is termed in scientific terms, and many researchers are starting to take this seriously.
The TMS market started to boom after the first device NeuroStar, was used for the treatment of major depressive disorder in 2008. TMS therapy was duly approved by the FDA as manufacturers submitted evidence that these devices were effective and had no adverse effects. The device was actually approved 10 years ago, and continues to be respected as a safe and effective alternative to drug therapy for depression which many people quit due to negative side effect.
In addition to treating depression and anxiety, TMS therapy in FL is also used for treating numerous other conditions such as:
Another great thing about TMS therapy in FL is that it requires no sedation. It is a daily outpatient treatment that lasts about 20 minutes (5 times a week for 6 weeks). The patient can read, talk, watch TV or text during the treatment.
The idea for treating these conditions with such safe and targeted energy currents is not new, rather it has deep roots, since “electroconvulsive therapy” (ECT) was developed around 100 years ago. TMS therapy in FL is much less invasive and does not have the same negative side effects as ECT. TMS therapy has been shown to have dramatic effects for treating severe depression and other disorders without drugs or invasive procedures. TMS therapy provides hope for those needlessly suffering from disorders that have not responded to other treatments. Contact BoardPrep Recovery Center by calling 866.796.4720 to see the results yourself.
Categories: Blog, Psychiatric Disorders, Recovery for young adultsBy BoardPrep Recovery Center March 26, 2020
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Archive: Redistricting
Duke redistricting event elevated as justices schedule N.C. arguments
Attorneys arguing congressional redistricting cases from North Carolina and Maryland say they’ll offer U.S. Supreme Court justices an array of legal theories, hoping one will stick and the court will rule extreme partisan redistricting plans unconstitutional. By chance, the lawyers were speaking Friday at a Common…
by Dan Way
U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear N.C., Maryland gerrymandering cases
The U.S. Supreme Court finally may choose to decide how much partisan advantage is too much when a political party draws congressional districts. The justices agreed Friday to hear arguments in lawsuits involving the congressional maps in North Carolina and Maryland. Districts in both states had been declared unconstitutional by…
by CJ Staff
Three-judge panel named to hear NCGA redistricting challenge
N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin named a three-judge Superior Court panel to hear the Common Cause v. David Lewis redistricting challenge. In the order, dated Nov. 27 but released Thursday, Dec. 6, Martin appointed Democrats Paul Ridgeway (Wake…
Democrats, others, file lawsuit in state court to overturn legislative districts
The results of this month’s legislative elections haven’t been certified. Yet Common Cause, the N.C. Democratic Party, and 22 individual plaintiffs are seeking a court order to overturn some of those General Assembly districts. The parties filed the lawsuit Tuesday, Nov. 13, in Wake County Superior…
Education dominant issue in Nash County’s open state HD 25
N.C. House District 25 (Northern two-thirds of Nash County) • James Gailliard, Democrat. Occupation: Pastor of Word Tabernacle Church in Rocky Mount. Education: Morehouse College, Moody Bible Institute, Trinity Theological Seminary, degrees in biochemistry, theology, pastoral ministry, business administration. Career highlights: Morehouse College Board of Preachers. Board of…
by Lindsay Marchello
Three-judge panel vows quick ruling in latest NCGA redistricting suit
A three-member panel of Superior Court judges didn’t issue a decision after hearing testimony Friday in a state legislative redistricting challenge. But the judges won’t wait long. Wake County Judge Paul Ridgeway said the panel would review arguments and documents from opposing lawyers. He said the…
U.S. Supreme Court punts N.C. partisan redistricting challenge
The clock on partisan gerrymandering keeps ticking. The U.S. Supreme Court, in an unsigned order issued Monday, sent lawsuits challenging the legality of North Carolina’s congressional districts back to a three-judge panel for reconsideration. The justices ordered the lower court to look at the consolidated lawsuits…
Governor Cooper’s separation anxiety
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper spent much of his first 13 months in office defending the venerated principle of separation of powers. At the end of January, however, by signing a $57.8 million deal connected with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Cooper basically proved he’s been acting like a hypocrite all along.
Candidates for elected office preparing to file Feb. 12, as scheduled
UPDATE: This story was updated 6:52 p.m. Wednesday, February 7, with additional comment from Gannon. With the exception of Wake and Mecklenburg counties, candidates for most offices in North Carolina — legislative and congressional — will file during the upcoming filing period, without changes, says State…
by John Trump
Democratic challenge isn’t just districts
Unless state lawmakers or redistricting commissioners gerrymander the maps in a different sense, Democrats can’t count on new districts handing them control of Congress or the General Assembly.
by John Hood
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The good effects obtained from the acts of obedience.
A nun named Emilie was the Mother of a Dominican nuns’ convent in Italy. She had advised her nuns to be always obedient to her if they wanted to go straight to heaven avoiding Purgatory. According to a rule of that convent, the nuns had to get permission from the Mother if they wanted to drink water to appease their thirst, except during breakfast, lunch and supper. And as per this rule, when thirsty, some nuns went to their Mother and asked her permission to drink water, but the Mother sometimes refused to give permission saying, “When our Lord was crucified, he suffered a terrible thirst. If you accept your suffering from your thirst with patience in honor of our Lord’s thirst, it will be a great virtuous deed.” One day, a nun named Cecilia was very thirsty because of the scorching sun and requested permission to drink water. But the Mother told her, “Offer the water you wish to drink now to our Lord in honor of the terrible thirst which He endured on the Cross. And pray to Him to use that water to quench the fire which would torture you when you will be in Purgatory.” And Cecilia obeyed her and controlled her thirst and offered it to Jesus Christ. This act was very dear to Him. And He revealed His love for Sister Cecilia on the third day after her death. When the Mother was in meditation, Cecilia appeared to her with absolute happiness and glory and told her, “When I died, Our Lord decreed that I had to go to Purgatory and suffer for many days in atonement for my venial sins. But on the third day, my guardian angel brought the water which I offered to Jesus Christ and poured it on the flames around me. Immediately all the fires which were tormenting me were extinguished. And the Angel took me to heaven.” Saying this, she disappeared.
Christians! You can help the suffering souls through your acts of mortification such as controlling hunger and thirst, keeping vigil when sleepy, etc. If we offer such good acts of mortification, not only the fire which burns them, but also that which will torment you after your death will also be put out.
“The Purgatorial fire is one that has no rest” says St. Hilary. Even if the guards strike the criminal every day, the pain will surely subside. The pain he suffers when the wounds are dressed will not be felt so hard by him in other times and especially when he sleeps. But the pains of suffering souls are entirely different from this. They suffer by terrible pains as long as they are in Purgatory, day and night. How horrible this must be! Therefore, through offering the Holy Mass and other acts of mortifications, we can reduce their pains and even liberate them from these pains altogether.
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The Stars We Steal
byAlexa Donne
Engagement season is in the air. Eighteen-year-old Princess Leonie Leo" Kolburg, heir to a faded European spaceship, has only one thing on her mind: which lucky bachelor can save her family from financial ruin?
But when Leo''s childhood friend and first love, Elliot, returns as the captain of a successful whiskey ship, everything changes. Elliot was the one who got away, the boy Leo''s family deemed to be unsuitable for marriage. Now he''s the biggest catch of the season and he seems determined to make Leo''s life miserable. But old habits die hard, and as Leo navigates the glittering balls of the Valg Season, she finds herself falling for her first love in a game of love, lies, and past regrets.
Fans of Katharine McGee and Kiera Cass will be dazzled by this world of lost love and royal intrigue.
Alexa Donne is a Ravenclaw who wears many hats, including teen mentor, college admissions essay advisor, fan convention organizer, YouTuber, and podcaster. When she''s not writing science fiction and fantasy for teens, Alexa works in international television marketing. A proud Boston University Terrier, she lives in Los Angeles with tw...
Title:The Stars We Steal
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Volunteer mountain bike trailbuilders at Cannock Chase, Staffordshire
Chase Trails Membership
Bike Trails on Cannock Chase
Leisure Cycling Trails
Cross Country MTB Trails
Stile Cop Downhill MTB Trails
Directions & FAQs
🦠 COVID-19
Toilets: Limited number of temporary toilets available
Cafe: Takeaway only
Bike Shop & Bike Hire: Open
Cycling Trails: Open
Car Park: Open
• Limit contact with other people.
• Keep your distance if you go out (2 metres apart where possible).
• Wash your hands regularly.
For further information please visit the Forestry England – Cannock Chase Forest website.
Follow the Dog: Open
Monkey Trail: Open (see below)
Stile Cop: Open
Birches Valley Car Park: November » February opening hours are 7:30am to 5pm
• Trailbuilding is on hold. We hope to resume later this summer.
• Monkey Trail: Original Monkey & The Gully are temporarily closed. Please follow signage and diversions in place.
The bike trails all start at Birches Valley Forest Centre - WS15 2UQ.
Click here to view the Met Office forecast for Cannock Chase Forest.
© 2020 Chase Trails. All rights reserved.
Can I hire a bike?
If you don’t have a bike, you can hire one from Cannock Chase Cycle Centre, at Birches Valley. They offer a range of hire bikes and demo bikes as well as buggies or ‘tag-a-long’ bikes for children. Booking is highly recommended and you’ll need a deposit and ID to hire – see their website for more information. Note that Cannock Chase Cycle Centre is closed on Wednesdays.
What do the trail grades mean?
All the trails at Cannock Chase use the green, blue, red, and black grading system. Each trail is signposted with coloured arrows and the Forestry Commission’s grading panels. These are as follows:
Green: Easy. Suitable for: Beginner/novice cyclists. Basic bike skills required. Most bikes and hybrids. The green route can take trailers.
Blue: Moderate. Suitable for: Intermediate cyclists/mountain bikers with basic off road riding skills. Mountain bikes or hybrids.
Red: Difficult. Suitable for: Proficient mountain bikers with good off road riding skills. Suitable for better quality off-road mountain bikes.
Black: Severe. Suitable for: Expert mountain bike users, used to physically demanding routes. Quality off-road mountain bikes.
If you’re unsure which trail to choose, pop into Cannock Chase Cycle Centre and speak to the staff there – they’ll be able to recommend the right trail for you.
How much does parking cost and when does the car park close?
Parking costs and opening times are available on the Forestry Commission website (these can be found under ‘Visitor Information’). Part of the car park income at Birches Valley goes toward the mountain bike trails! Apart from the parking cost, the trails are free to ride and open all year round.
Where can I get a map?
Cannock Chase Cycle Centre stock two maps – one showing the XC mountain bike trails and another showing the green/blue walking and cycling routes. There are also information boards at the start of the trails, and all routes are signposted.
You can also download maps from the Forestry Commission website.
Facilities? Cafe, bike wash, etc?
Grounds Café Birches Valley Cafe serves sandwiches, paninis, toasties, soups, cakes, and ice cream, plus hot and cold drinks. Open 7 days a week.
Cannock Chase Cycle Centre have a bike wash available for a small fee until around 16:30. Closed on Wednesdays.
Birches Valley does have toilets, but unfortunately there are no changing rooms or showers.
What trails are accessible for disabled riders?
The answer to this question will of course vary depending on what type of bike or wheelchair you use – so if you’re unsure please get in touch and we can help you out in more detail. This is just a quick guide as to what you can expect on each trail.
First of all, Birches Valley Forest Centre car park has disabled parking spaces on both tarmac and gravel. Access to the Grounds Cafe is paved and there are no steps between the car park and cafe.
Cannock Chase has four different trail grades. These trails are not paved and at a minimum you will need to be able to get around on unpaved gravel paths, with a wheelchair (or similar) designed for off-road use.
Green: There are two green trails on Cannock Chase – the Route to Health (1 mile), and the Fairoak Trail (2.5 miles). Both of these feature very wide gravel paths, and are mostly flat though do feature some gentle gradients. The Fairoak Trail does feature a stream crossing through around 10-15cm of water (at F1 on the map), however this can be avoided if necessary – instead of turning left through the water crossing, follow the path a bit further on and you’ll see a path running next to one of the Fairoak Pools on your left. There are also large boulders you can walk across (and not get wet), though these have large gaps between them so they aren’t very wheelchair-friendly.
Blue: The blue route is 7.5 or 12.5 miles long, depending on which route you take. The trail is a similar wide gravel trail to the green routes. However, it’s longer, has some steeper climbs, three road crossings (national speed limit roads), and two water crossings. The water crossings are similar to the Fairoak Trail – around 10-15cm deep with stepping stones to get across on foot – though on the blue route they’re unavoidable if you want to complete the full route. They’re located at S3 and S4 on the map. The blue route is bi-directional, so if these pose a problem, you could use that as a turnaround point. In which case, the best route to take is S1 -> S2 -> S3 -> S4 (this one has the best views!) or S1 -> S7 -> S6 -> S5 -> S4.
Red: The terrain on the red route is a lot trickier and extremely varied – with narrow singletrack trail, unavoidable features such as boardwalks and rock gardens, drops, steps, and so on. Some sections may be possible on purpose-built four wheel off-road wheelchairs, but we would suggest getting in touch beforehand to check.
Black: Severe. Once again, these are tricky at the best of times for able-bodied riders, so these are not suitable for disabled riders. Our black sections are very narrow, very technical, and very rocky.
What should I do in an emergency?
All the marker posts (usually at the start of each section and near technical features) have emergency information on them, including the grid reference, nearest hospital, and emergency contact numbers. In case of an emergency you should contact the ambulance service and, if possible, Cannock Chase Cycle Centre and/or the Forestry Commission. Both numbers are listed on the emergency info posts.
For the downhill trails at Stile Cop, there are marker posts located at the top and bottom of the hill – these show the same emergency information including the post codes, grid references, etc.
Will my bike be stolen?
Unfortunately, due to our location we’re a target for thieves and they do hang around, even in winter. We’d recommend always locking your bike up (or have a friend stay with it) when visiting the cafe, toilets, or bike shop. And never leave it unattended in or on your car! Put it another way – if you spent £500 on a bike, would you leave £500 cash lying around on a table unattended?
Both the Grounds Café and Cannock Chase Cycle Centre provide locks if you need one while you’re having a bite to eat or shopping for shiny new bike parts – just ask for a key from a staff member if you need it.
Are there any local pubs or places to stay?
The two closest pubs to the XC trails are The Horns Inn and The Chase. The closest pub to Stile Cop is The Chetwynd Arms.
For accomodation, Follow the Dog passes through Tackeroo Caravan Site, or if you’d prefer to stay in something a little more luxurious, have a look at Cannock Chase District Council‘s website for a list of nearby accommodation, or try the usual places (Trivago, Booking.com, AirBnB etc).
Note: With the exception of Cannock Chase Cycle Centre, Birches Valley Cafe and the Tackeroo Caravan Site, Chase Trails and the Forestry Commission do not endorse or recommend any of these businesses, organisations, or events and the provided links are for information only.
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#14 QB / N.Y. Jets / EXP: 3YRS Height: 6-3 Weight: 225 lb Age: 23 College: USC Bye 10,18,19
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Jets' Sam Darnold: Picked twice in likely NY swan song
Darnold completed 23 of 34 passes for 266 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions in Sunday's 28-14 loss to the Patriots. He added three yards on one rushing attempt in the season finale. After struggling to move the football for most of the first half, Darnold tied the score at seven apiece with a 21-yard touchdown to Chris Herndon 1:40 before halftime. He was picked off with the game tied at 14 apiece in the third quarter and threw a crucial interception in the end zone to end New York's chances of coming back in the fourth. This pedestrian performance remarkably marked a season high in passing yards for Darnold, who finishes his third NFL season with 2,208 yards and an ugly 9:11 TD:INT in 12 appearances. Given the regression from the third overall pick in the 2018 draft, New York is expected to draft Darnold's replacement with the second overall pick in the upcoming draft.
Jets' Sam Darnold: Turnover-free in second straight W
Darnold completed 16 of 32 passes for 175 yards and two touchdowns in Sunday's 23-16 win over the Browns. He added 20 yards on seven rushing attempts. After throwing a key block on a 44-yard Jamison Crowder passing touchdown to Braxton Berrios in the first quarter, Darnold tossed a touchdown pass of his own from 11 yards out to Chris Herndon in the second. The third-year quarterback added a 30-yard touchdown to Crowder to take a 20-3 lead in the third, and the Jets were able to hang on from there. Darnold's TD:INT is still a dreadful 8:9 and he hasn't thrown for more than 230 yards in a game this year, but he has now gone three consecutive games without an interception for the first time since the last three weeks of his rookie season. Keeping that streak alive won't be easy in Week 17 against a Patriots defense that has flummoxed Darnold in previous meetings.
Jets' Sam Darnold: Shocks Rams for first win of 2020
Darnold completed 22 of 31 passes for 207 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 23-20 upset of the Rams. He added 18 rushing yards on five carries. The former USC Trojan put together a workmanlike performance in his return to Los Angeles, but Darnold avoided making mistakes against a tough Rams defense and did just enough to get the Jets their first win of the season -- and hurt the team's chances of being able to draft Trevor Lawrence to replace him in the process. It was the first time Darnold had topped 200 passing yards since Week 4, giving him some glimmer of momentum heading into Week 16's home tilt against the Browns.
Jets' Sam Darnold: Sleepy performance in Seattle
Darnold completed 14 of 26 passes for 132 yards in Sunday's 40-3 loss to the Seahawks. While the quarterback didn't commit any turnovers, there were no other positives to take away from this performance for Darnold or for the Jets offense as a whole. It's the fifth straight start in which he's failed to throw for at least 200 yards, and Darnold's fantasy outlook doesn't figure to improve in Week 15 on the road against the Rams.
Jets' Sam Darnold: Three total TDs in heartbreaking L
Darnold completed 14 of 23 passes for 186 yards, two touchdowns and an interception in Sunday's 31-28 loss to the Raiders. He added three carries for 26 yards and a touchdown, lost two fumbles and threw a two-point conversion. Darnold threw a pair of first-half touchdowns to Jamison Crowder but also turned it over three times, with an interception and two fumbles. He took better care of the ball in the second half and pulled New York within three with a physical four-yard rushing touchdown followed by a two-point conversion to Denzel Mims. His first attempt at the two-point try was intercepted, but Darnold made the most of a second chance provided by a flag on the defense. Ty Johnson's one-yard rushing score on the ensuing possession put New York up by four in the fourth quarter, but the Jets went 3-and-out with a chance to run out the clock and allowed a 46-yard touchdown to Henry Ruggs with five seconds left to fall to 0-12. Darnold's capable of the occasional big play with his legs but still has a dreadful 5:9 TD:INT heading into a Week 14 trip to Seattle, as this was his first multi-touchdown passing performance of the season.
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A make or break year for Australia business
Unsurprisingly, this year’s annual CEO survey by PwC shows a marked drop in CEO confidence around the prospect for growth, not just in their own business but in the economy as a whole.
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Following the launch of An India Economic Strategy to 2035: Navigating from potential to delivery on the CEDA stage, the report's author, University of Queensland Chancellor Peter Varghese AO, outlines the ambitious plan to unlock economic opportunities for Australia from India’s growth. Read more…
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Budget 2018: It's all good for now
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Building a fairer Australia after COVID-19
Logan Together Director, Matthew Cox; University of Queensland Institute for Social Science Research Professor, Tim Reddel; and public purpose strategy consultant Michael Hogan, write that the COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity to 'build back better', creating a more equitable Australia by focusing on place-based solutions to societal disadvantage. Read more…
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Cost of living prominent in SA election
South Australia's election will likely be fought over high energy costs, the state of the health sector and hospitals and cost of living issues. Michael O'Neil examines the economic and social priorities for an incoming government. Read more…
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CEDA Senior Economist, Gabriela D'Souza, says that the COVID-19 crisis has left thousands of temporary migrants in limbo. She argues we need a strong policy response to give certainty and security to Australia's migrant population. Read more…
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COVID-19: Real-time economic data is in high demand but short supply
As policy makers scramble to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, CEDA Chief Economist, Jarrod Ball, argues that with more access to relevant data and smarter use of the data already available, we could better anticipate events and quickly assess the effectiveness of our policy responses.
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Education inequality is costing Australia billions
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CEDA plays an important part in advancing the national conversation on economic and social policy. Having a strong contest of policy ideas is central to my approach to the health portfolio, and I thank CEDA for its role in promoting informed, thoughtful debate.
The Hon. Tanya Plibersek, Federal Deputy Opposition Leader, Shadow Minister for Education and Shadow Minister for Women
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Yemen: Misery Continues as UK prop up Saudi military
The British government is breaking the rules over a mandatory inspection regime for factories such as BAE supplying the war effort in Yemen. The report (link below) from ‘Declassified’ shows that:
Inspectors last visited an arms factory run by the UK’s largest arms exporter, BAE Systems in Warton, Lancashire, more than three years ago,
The Celtic League understands the same situation applies to Glenrothes in Scotland which supplies parts for so called ‘smart bombs’ used against Yemeni civilians and manufactured by Raytheon.
The UK has also failed to adhere to a High Court ruling that banned future arms sales and called for existing contracts to be REVIEWED.
A UN sponsored peace process is currently underway between Yemen and the Saudi led coalition. Yemen’s health infrastructure is already sorely stretched as it deals with the Covid-19 pandemic and many hospitals and clinics had been targeted in Saudi air raids.
RAF bases such as Valley in Anglesey provide support to the Royal Saudi Air Force and RAF personnel have been seconded to control air operations against Yemen. In addition BAE personnel provide technical support without which the Royal saudi Air Force would not function.
Sam Tarry, Labour MP for Ilford South in east London, told Declassified: “The fact that we are still using our RAF bases to service BAE Systems’ logistical support flights for the Saudi military is a slap in the face to the UN-led peace process. Our government needs to move beyond gestures and apply pressure on governments violating international law through tangible action.”
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/…/2020-06-18-exclusive-bri…/
Image: The human cost of a fat pay packet for BAE or Raytheon workers at Warton (Lancs) or Glenrothes (Fife).
Bernard Moffatt
Assistant General Secretary Celtic League (21st June 2020)
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At GMs meetings, Oilers’ Holland likes where he’s at
by: TIM REYNOLDS, Associated Press
Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid reaches for the puck in the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Nashville Predators Monday, March 2, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Ken Holland appeared to be in an exceptional mood when he walked out of Day 2 of the NHL general managers’ meetings Tuesday afternoon, and it had nothing to do with the balmy weather in South Florida.
The conversation he was about to have was centered around the Edmonton’s unplanned “problem”: Having two legitimate Hart Trophy candidates on the same team, with former Hart winner Connor McDavid and NHL scoring leader Leon Draisaitl probably the two frontrunners for the league’s MVP award.
Clearly, it’s a nice problem to have.
“I’m glad I don’t have to vote,” Holland said.
Entering Tuesday, Draisaitl has 107 points, well ahead of his nearest challenger for the points title — that being McDavid, who has 94. A year ago, they became the first Edmonton teammates to have simultaneous 100-point seasons since Jari Kurri and Jimmy Carson in 1989-90. This year, assuming McDavid gets there as he should, they’ll be the first Oilers to reach 100 points in consecutive seasons since Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier in 1986-87 and 1987-88.
That’s some serious company for Draisaitl and McDavid to be keeping.
“They’re both great players and, you know, they’re both having great seasons on an every night basis,” Holland said. “They’re obviously the two guys that are going to impact our team the most because they have a large factor in us providing offense.”
The Oilers — currently a playoff team, though one that can hardly afford a late-season swoon — might also play themselves into the role of being Canada’s next great hope of bringing the Stanley Cup back north of the border.
No one needs to explain to any Canadian team in the NHL about the nation’s title drought or how the team that ends that drought would be revered. There hasn’t been a Stanley Cup final game played in Canada since 2011. No Canadian team has won the Cup since Montreal in 1993. The non-traditional hockey states of Florida and California have more Cup-winning teams over the last 32 years than the nation where the game is like a religion.
Holland took over in Edmonton last May. He indicated this year’s success might be a bit ahead of his intended schedule.
“I said at the opening press conference, my hope was when the calendar turned to March 1st that we could be legitimately in the race,” Holland said. “You know, that was a sort of short-term goal. … So we’ve put ourselves in a position where we control our own fate. But we’ve got to win some games.”
TORNADO IN MIND
After more than 20 people were killed early Tuesday in tornadoes that hit the Nashville area early Tuesday, and Predators general manager David Poile said the team would do what it can to help those affected.
The Predators’ arena was not affected by the tornadoes. The team will play at home on Thursday, and was planning to raise awareness to the call for help on the broadcast of its game in Minnesota on Tuesday night.
“We will do all we can to help our community,” Poile said.
MEETINGS UPDATES
General managers were briefed on player safety issues Tuesday, with more discussion about offsides — the skate-in-the-air debate — and reviews and were provided with an update on puck and player tracking technology.
Many games have already been played with the new puck that will be fully deployed in this year’s postseason and league wide next season, and NHL officials have not gotten any negative feedback. Most arenas already have the technology installed, and it will be available when the playoffs begin next month.
Pucks that go into the stands next season will still be able to be kept by fans; the league will simply deactivate the tracking electronics once the puck leaves play. But, mindful of the additional cost, the league plans to do a better job keeping track of leftover pucks after games end.
WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE
More meetings are scheduled for early Wednesday, followed by remarks from Commissioner Gary Bettman in the late morning to end the three-day event.
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The flying carpet
Beneath the spectacular paraboloid of Rzeszów airport terminal, the elegant ceramic floor covering plays a key role in a project of great formal clarity.
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Now that passenger planes have all became monotonously similar, flying has lost its appeal.
The last aircraft capable not only of carrying humans into the skies but also of giving wings to their imaginations was perhaps Concorde. As a result, the most tedious part of a plane journey is now the flight itself, not least because the onboard services have been reduced to a bare minimum and sometimes extend no further than a glass of mineral water.
It is therefore hardly surprising that Icarus’ dream should have been reduced to an impatient wait for departure and arrival and that the true liturgy of flight is celebrated more in the airports than on the planes themselves. In this age of mass travel, the enormous potential of this phenomenon was understood right from the start. In the space of a few decades, airport terminals have evolved from simple, functional points of departure to cathedrals for celebrating the liturgy of flight, locations designed to provide memories that go well beyond the lost emotion of soaring in the sky.
Many of these buildings stand out for their memorable architecture, created by great contemporary architects and built to serve as authentic icons of travel. One example of a terminal that has sought to make a powerful impression is that of Jasionka Airport in Rzeszów (Poland), designed by
Krakow-based practice APA Architektura led by Jacek Czech, Janusz Duliński and Piotr Wróbel.
For over seven hundred years, Rzeszów has been an important cultural and trading crossroads between the Byzantine east and the European and Mediterranean west.
It retains this role today and is home to important administrative institutions, a thriving industry, a university and numerous commercial infrastructures built around the old town centre and the characteristic Rynek Square where the government buildings are located.
The airport lies to the northeast of the city, close to the two large roads that link the north and south of the region. It was built to replace the old terminal and to provide an effective response to the increase in freight and passenger traffic that passes through Rzeszów. Extending over a covered surface area of 14,600 square metres, it is based on a modular growth model designed with future expansion in mind.
The architectural project is organised around the large elliptical paraboloid roof which encloses the passenger concourse and appears to hover lightly above the ground. On the side facing the runways, it is juxtaposed with several glass volumes that stand out for their meticulous formal simplicity.
The roof structure is made entirely of steel, protected externally by an aluminium sheet envelope and clad internally with an elegant gridshell of acoustic panels, skilfully exploiting the vanishing lines to further enhance the visual impact of the unusual volume.
Glass and aluminium dominate the vertical surfaces of a space flooded with light and delicately coordinating colours, where a small number of well-designed elements are used to resolve a situation of overall complexity. A key role in terms of composition is played by the floor coverings, which consist of Granitogres honed finish porcelain tiles, Granito 4 series, colour Fiji produced by Casalgrande Padana. The elegant ceramic tile surface, extending over a floor space of more than 8,700 square metres, acts as a reflecting plane capable of dialoguing with and accentuating the technological structure of the building.
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Central Valley, Patterson to battle for WAC's final playoff berth
Hawks hosting tiebreaker match
Central Valley High School's varsity volleyball team will make history if it beats visiting Patterson today. The winner will secure the Western Athletic Conference's third-and-final playoff berth. The tiebreaker match will get underway at 6 p.m.
Central Valley High School’s varsity volleyball program closed out the 2014 Western Athletic Conference regular season with a 25-17, 25-18, 25-15 loss to undefeated Los Banos on Thursday in Ceres.
The loss, coupled with Patterson’s win over Livingston, sets up a win-or-go-home showdown between two similar teams.
Central Valley and Patterson will battle for the WAC’s final playoff berth Tuesday evening at 6 in Ceres.
“They know what’s at stake,” Hawks head coach Kelly Heese said. “All they can do is play. I’m not going to train them any differently. Looking at the stats, we’re the more solid team. It’s a do-or-die situation. We’re going to give it our all. I’d be disappointed if we lost.”
The Hawks earned the right to host the tiebreaker match after winning a coin toss following their 23-25, 26-24, 25-18, 26-24 win over Patterson on Oct. 28.
“It would mean everything, just the fact it would be our first time making playoffs,” Central Valley senior Lynaya Lerma said. “We really want it. We’re pretty confident. We just need to work hard and together. It’s going to be a good match. We’re ready for it.”
The Hawks and Tigers compiled identical 7-5 records in WAC play.
“We built up our confidence the last time we played them,” Lerma said. “We know how they play. We should be able to win.”
The Hawks and Tigers split during the regular season.
Central Valley won the second meeting on the road.
Lerma collected seven blocks, two kills and one ace.
Ellysa Widas led the Hawks with 21 assists, two digs, two kills and one block.
Blanca Espinoza had 12 digs and one ace.
Julia Ramsey tallied 10 kills, four blocks, four digs and three aces.
Elizabeth Olide added four aces, three digs and one kill.
“We played our game,” Heese said. “We ran our offense. We should have never lost to Patterson the first time.”
Patterson edged Central Valley in five games on Oct. 2 in Ceres.
Ramsey, the Hawks’ best all-round player, was slowed by an ankle injury.
“That made a difference,” Heese said.
Espinoza had 12 digs in Central Valley’s 3-0 loss to Los Banos last week.
Widas chipped in with eight assists.
Ramsey totaled five kills, five digs, two aces and one block.
“We competed,” Heese said. “We didn’t get slaughtered.”
Central Valley finds itself on the doorstep of history.
The Hawks are trying to secure their first-ever playoff berth.
A scrappy Patterson team stands in the way.
“The girls have worked very hard for me this year,” Heese said. “They’re receptive to what I’ve asked them to do. The bond they share is one I haven’t seen with teams I’ve coached in the past. We’ve had a successful season, win or lose.”
Added Lerma: “I just feel like we’re working better together. We have a good connection.”
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The Popes keep smoking, 20 years on.
Smoking Popes
Into the Agony
This album kicks off with bang with “Simmer Down”, and the Popes truly indicate that they are indeed still “smoking” more than 20 years after their debut. If you’re writing, or working on that next project, listen to this album. It will keep you in a rhythm.
The first song demonstrates, that it intends for you to listen to it in full. Some songs you’ll hear, they have that one catchy line, that one solo or rift that you just don’t forget. Then it ends there, that’s all you remember the song for. This opener keeps you engaged, and keeps you hooked throughout the rest of the album. The pure feeling behind the lyrics, let you know that this is real and something we can relate to.
If you like bands like 3 Doors Down, Hoobastank, and even Creed, then Smoking Popes will definitely be up your alley. In fact, those bands may have picked up a thing or two from Smoking Popes. One thing you’ll notice is the pure emotion behind their lyrics. I believe their lyrics and feel what they feel as I listen.
“Amanda My Love” has some shades of popular punk rock band styles, where you get soft vocals, backed up with solid drum and guitar playing in total sync. There’s complete and total emotion, showing you that Amanda is indeed the main character in this song of love.
Their longevity, through an industry that’s ever evolving, is remarkable. “When you want something” is a song that’s inspirational, about wanting something that you can’t have. It motivates you to want to try harder. It’s a nice touch to the album. It plays well into the title of the album which references agony and holding on to things you can’t have.
Reading the title of “No Tomorrow Tonight” you think you’re falling into despair, as you listen you hear about clocks stopping, and mentions of the reaper. I certainly feel the agony, if you don’t plan on there being a tomorrow. You can tell this song has meaning behind it, albeit depressing. A meaning of not knowing what tomorrow will bring. Living and knowing that death is unavoidable, one can’t prepare for it, but can only expect it.
Sold our soul for “A little lump of coal” just to keep warm through the night. This song certainly has a reference to sacrifice we make to live well. It even mentions we stole the earth from our children and destroyed it. A reflection of the world through the singers voice. In retrospect, it might even help us as listeners open our minds to our reality.
Overall the album opens up my minds, it’s a bit depressing, but demonstrates cold hard truths. You have to train your ears to pull apart the lyrics and listen with an open mind. This is certainly a statement from these veterans. Through music they’re sending a message, about the status of the world around us. Our position as human beings, and being faced with harsh realities.
“Into the Agony” is a bit of a twilight moment for this band. You feel like they’re experiencing what’s around them, and through their songs want to show us the status of our country and surroundings. I can see and hear the emotional journey behind this album. Great record, that has opened me up to a different form of rock music. It has helped me become a better listener.
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Enter the Grishaverse with Book Two of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom.
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Irresistible fantasy romance for fans of Laini Taylor and Kristin Cashore, from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.
Leigh Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, raised in Los Angeles and graduated from Yale University. She indulges her fondness for glamour, ghouls and costuming in her other life as a make-up artist in Hollywood, and can occasionally be heard singing with her band, Captain Automatic.
Find her website at http://www.leighbardugo.com/ and follow her on Twitter @lbardugo
Publisher : Hachette Children's Group
Imprint : Hodder Children's Books
Author : Leigh Bardugo
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Home Columns The Marvel Rundown The Marvel Retro Rundown: Langridge and Samnee’s THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER proves...
The Marvel Retro Rundown: Langridge and Samnee’s THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER proves worthy ten years later
Is the all-ages version of the Norse God still worthy a decade later? You bet your double rainbow he is!
Beat Staff
Welcome back to the Rundown, all! This week’s Marvel Retro Rundown takes a peek into a not-so-long-lost — but certainly underrated — comic of the early aught-tens: Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee’s Thor: The Mighty Avenger. Made for an all-ages crowd, this collection of stories was very much a hit or miss title during its initial run, but looking back on it after ten years it’s clear to see that it was not given it’s due. And so here we are! Ready to take on that task!
Thor: The Mighty Avenger – The Complete Collection
Written by Roger Langridge
Pencilled and Inked by Chris Samnee
Colored by Matt Wilson
Lettered by VC’s Rus Wooton
Covers by Chris Samnee, Matt Wilson, et al
Reviewed by Chloe Maveal
It’s an undeniable fact that Thor is one of the most beloved members of the Avengers. What’s not to love? Yet, for those of us who are still walking around touting the brilliance of Walt Simonson’s Mighty Thor, there’s a certain expectation to be met when it comes to the humor, charisma, and heart-of-gold brutishness of the big Norse behemoth; and whether for children or adults, Eisner and Harvey Award nominated writer Roger Langridge and Eisner and Harvey Award winning artist Chris Samnee’s Thor: The Mighty Avenger takes the cake when it comes to a flashback to the good old days of Thor.
During its original 8-issue run through 2010-2011, Thor: The Mighty Avenger was acclaimed by people of all ages. Dipping their toes back into the all-ages market with less focus on brutality, muscle-bound macho heroes, and “all-serious all the time” storylines, Marvel hit the jackpot with a variety of age groups thanks to the breath of fresh air that was this lighthearted take on Thor. Langridge, who also has experience writing The Muppets from BOOM! Studios, and his own Fred the Clown — a humor series later collected by Fantagraphics — was clearly the perfect match for the character, and this series.
Launching a year before the first Thor film — and ending just months ahead of its release — the series follows Thor (obviously) coming to Earth and shacking up with the incomparable Jane Foster. And along the way to getting back to being the true God of Thunder, Thor faces off against Mr. Hyde, the Submariner, Fin Fang Foom, and (spoiler alert!) a newly minted early-days Tony Stark as Iron Man; a stellar lineup of villains and/or foes turned friends that makes for a killer read and fantastic introduction to new, younger readers, as well as old hats who are seeking out the joy of Thor again.
For many reasons, Langridge’s eight issue run makes Thor a joyous, silly, and naive hero whose true strength lies within as well as in Mjolnir; more than anything, his writing brings back the camp, light-hearted tone and gentleness of Silver Age Marvel, swapping the super-serious nature of late 2000s era for a message of hope, love, and inner strength. Never fear though: all of the feel-goods of this book never detract or cut corners from the complexity of subjects the short series covers!
I’m not completely ignorant, though. More than enough people had their fair share of negative comments about Langridge’s work on Thor, and — despite them being painfully wrong about this gem of an all-ages run — there’s no denying that, even if you hate the plot and Langridge’s writing style, Chris Samnee’s art takes the cake in a big way. Having just cut his teeth on a few Oni Press titles (as well as issues of Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man) before this, the evolution of Samnee’s art in these issues leans hard into influences like Alex Toth and Peter Snejberg, using thick linework and chiaroscuro lighting effects that create the most perfectly stylized version of everything from the faces to the background goings-on.
Overall, whether you’re trying to get back into Thor through stand-alone story or you’re introducing young’uns to the joy of comic books, Thor: The Mighty Avenger acts as the perfect [rainbow] bridge into the much beloved character that can so often be bogged down with detail.
Next week, another look back on a classic story from Marvel Comics!
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Preseason Coverage: Alianza Lima 2-2 Valencia CF (Pens:9-8)
The first match of the 2014 Euroamericana Cup ends in a loss on penalties. The game saw new signing Rodrigo partner up with Alcacer at the front for the first half but neither Feghouli or Guardado were given game time as they had just joined the group. The first have featured almost complete dominance from the Peruvian side which saw them score twice, leaving a lackluster Valencia down 2-0 at half time. Diego Alves had some sort of uncomfort and was taken off as a precaution. Nuno then brought on Rodrigo de Paul, Robert Ibanez and Barragan for the second half which saw Valencia CF change 180 degrees. The energy from these players made the game exciting to watch and very fast paced. Valencia tied it up with two goals scored in five minutes but ended up losing the shootout directly after full time.
I am still reserving judgement as the team is still in experimental stage with new teammates but I will point out the good things here. One, Piatti was an engine today, he never stopped running and was fighting for everything. He looks like he really wants a place on the team. Even in the first half when the Peruvian side was dominating he didn't give up. Two, Andre Gomes could prove to be a game-changer this season. In the second half when Parejo was subbed off, he had no trouble taking over his role and he lead the comeback by setting up Alcacer beautifully. If he can carry this skill into the season, he will be great. Three, Rodrigo de Paul is also improving and was a fresh burst of energy in the second half. Four, Jaume might very well be a better option than Guaita. He looks really confident and saved four penalties in the shoot-out, albeit 2 were disallowed as he moved early. Other than that, we really need to get working on the defense, Javi Fuego as a makeshift defender wasn't working out.
EDIT: I got to say Parejo was really terrible in the first half, I know he was our best or one of our best players last season, but so far in the preseason he has been really poor, slow in passing, slow to react, the passes haven't been good either, not creating much with them. It was Rodrigo Moreno first match so we can't judge him based on that, but he was really bad in his first match it has to be said. Its obvious that he will improve and sometimes players need up to 3-4 months to fully come into their own after a transfer, but it has to be said that he played really poorly.
Ultimately everyone played bad in the first half, then in the second half it was like a completely different team, Nuno had made few changes and it seemed to work. The gameplay was now fast and fluid, the players seemed to know what to do and had a goal(no pun intended). This lead Valencia CF to two early goals in the second half, equalizing the match and had opportunities to score more, but unfortunately it wasn't going to be.
Overall we didn't get to see a lot of the players, it seems the coach is testing more seriously and trying to really test the players, so he didn't make many changes. Plus Guardado and Feghouli arrived shortly from their vacations and hadn't had the preparation necessary, but I think we might see them feature at least as a sub in the next game.
I'm curious to see how Guardado plays after a successful World Cup, his performances were very good individually, so lets see if he can translate it in Valencia CF. Our left wing position is very pack either way, with Pablo Piatti, Rodrigo De Paul, Guardado, Viera even technically plays there, even though I've always argued he is being wasted there as he is central attacking midfielder and not a winger.
Overall I think its early to tell about the possible performance in the league, it won't be at least 2-3 more weeks that we will be able to seriously judge the team level of performance.
Squads:
Alianza Lima (2): Forsyth, R. Guizasola (. Donayre, m 64), Ibanez, Aparicio, Trujillo, Miguez, Molina, Costa (. Israel, 52 m), Landauri (. G. Guizasola, m 64), Guevgozian ( Uribe, m. 76) and Montes (Gonzalez Vigil, m. 52)
Valencia CF (2): Diego Alves (Jaume, 33 m.), Joao Pereira (Barragan, 46 m.), Victor Ruiz, Otamendi, Cissokho, Javi Fuego, Parejo (Robert, 45 m.), André Gomes, Piatti (Gayá , m. 73), Rodrigo (Rodrigo de Paul, m. 45) and Paco Alcácer
1-0 Guevgozian
2-0 Montes
2-1 Alcacer
2-2 Otamendi
Any thoughts on the game?
Posted by Amunt.Valencia at 10:18 AM
Labels: match report, preseason coverage
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Whitemoor Medical Centre is located in Belper which is in Southern Derbyshire.
The practice currently has a list size of approximately 12,463 patients.
The practice holds a General Medical Services (GMS) contract which is a contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering primary care services to local communities.
The practice is situated in an area of very low deprivation. It has a higher than national average adult population who are of working age. A higher number of those of working age registered at the practice are employed compared with the local CCG average.
The practice is run by a partnership of seven partners which includes six GPs and the practice manager. There are eight GPs in total, three of which are female and five are male.
The practice is a training practice for trainee GPs and is regularly involved in the teaching of medical students from a local medical school.
There are five practice nurses. an advanced nurse practitioner and three health care assistants, plus a recently appointed advanced community practitioner. All of the nursing team provide annual health checks and the nurse practitioners have received training in managing chronic illness. The advanced community practitioner is a prescriber and manages various aspects of care including home visits, chronic disease management, dementia care, care home visits and carers’ clinics.
The clinical team is supported by a practice manager, deputy practice manager, and reception and administration staff.
The practice is open on Mondays to Fridays from 8am to 6.30pm with an extended opening time on Mondays until 8pm. Appointments are available each day from 8.40am to 12.20pm and 3.30pm to 6.10pm with extended appointment times offered on Monday evenings from 6.30pm to 7.20pm and Wednesday mornings from 7.10am to 7.50am. There are additional appointment slots available throughout the day for people to see the advanced nurse practitioner for minor illness.
The practice has opted out of providing GP services to patients out of hours such as nights and weekends. During these times GP services are currently provided by Derbyshire Health United. When the practice is closed, there is a recorded message giving details of the out of hours service.
Latest inspection: 5 April 2016
Report published: 6 June 2016
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Latest review: 4 June 2019
Whitemoor Medical Centre is run by Whitemoor Medical Centre
Dr Sophie Rachel Axford
CQC inspections & ratings of specific services
People with long term conditionsGood
Families, children and young peopleGood
Older peopleGood
Working age people (including those recently retired and students)Good
People experiencing poor mental health (including people with dementia)Good
People whose circumstances may make them vulnerableGood
Doctors/GPs, NHS GP practice
Diagnostic and screening procedures, Family planning services, Maternity and midwifery services, Services for everyone, Surgical procedures, Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
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Uh Oh, We’re Inching Towards the ‘Demolition Man’ Future
JM McNab ·
Belated sequels to Sylvester Stallone movies have been somewhat of a mixed bag; sure, the Creed movies were pretty good, but the latest Rambo entry played like a Breitbart article written by a sentient machete. So we're not completely unskeptical of the news that, according to Stallone, a follow-up to Demolition Man is in the works. Even more worrying is the way reality itself is slowly becoming the future depicted in the 1993 film.
Piece by piece, society is paving the way for the 2032 of Demolition Man. Like our current toilet paper shortage, which naturally opens the field for a new alternative method of cleaning your butthole -- which may or may not involve three seashells.
With the COVID-19 pandemic devastating the restaurant industry, perhaps that explains why only a corporate-owned chain eatery like Taco Bell exists in the future. Though this theory doesn't explain why their food no longer looks like a pickup truck's worth of mystery meat crammed into a soiled hammock.
Remember how in Demolition Man, the most popular radio station plays only songs from commercials? That could be because the lack of live performances killed the music industry, and somehow the creepy personalization of brand Twitter fills that void by convincing us all to listen to jingles 24/7.
If you think this all sounds like a stretch, let us remind you that Demolition Man takes place in a future that's been shaped by multiple pandemics, which is why people don't actually touch when they high-five, and sex is done through a virtual reality system that's presumably just some newfangled version of Animal Crossing.
Although, as we've mentioned before, Demolition Man is wildly off-base about certain things, such as its prediction that a lack of guns will be one of America's biggest problems. Also, its premise that a villainous doctor will use a global emergency to seize power using disease prevention protocols is probably not something anyone should be watching right now.
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8 tips to stop banking app fraud
by Minda Zetlin
Having an app from your bank on a smart phone or tablet computer is incredibly convenient, but is it safe? Learn how to protect your mobile device
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Having an app from your bank on a smart phone or tablet computer is incredibly convenient, but watch out for fakes.
About a year ago, owners of Android smart phones began downloading mobile banking apps from Google’s Android Market. The apps cost about $1.50 each and connected users with about 40 major banks, including Bank of America and Wells Fargo.
There was only one problem: The banks hadn’t put them there.
The apps were created by a developer known only as 09Droid whose identity remains a mystery to this day. Once the fraud was discovered, Google removed the apps from its marketplace, but not before many users had downloaded them to their smart phones. The fraudulent apps were apparently intended simply to bilk people out of $1.50 each. Still the threat of phishing — stealing bank log-in and password info — was so obvious that many banks recommended that customers who had downloaded them actually have their mobile service provider remove the apps from their phones.
The deception was only discovered by a fluke. A mobile banking software executive happened to be playing with his wife’s Android phone when he noticed an app from a bank that was one of his clients. He knew the app couldn’t be legit — because it if were, his own company would have created it. This raises the alarming possibility that other fraudulent financial apps could still be out there, undiscovered.
As mobile banking is simply too convenient to ignore, is there a way to do it safely? Yes, experts say, if you follow a few precautions.
Before you download a bank or financial app:
1. Consider the app store. Different app stores have different standards for which apps they’ll offer to the public. Google’s Android Market is famously open, accepting nearly every app developers submit, while Apple’s App Store puts apps through rigorous testing first. When the online payment company mPayy wanted to publish its apps, “we just published our app to the Android market, while Apple looked at the entire code base and tried out every feature of the application. We also had to fax our articles of incorporation to Apple,” says Conrad Sheehan, mPayy CEO.
Though developers love the free-for-all world of the Android market, users should be cautious when downloading financial apps from there. One good alternative may be a more “curated” market, such as Verizon’s Media Store. Another would be to download the app directly from your financial institution’s website, or follow a link from there to its Android market app.
A lot of banking apps will ask if you want to save your password or stay logged in. You definitely don’t want to do that on a mobile device.
— Chris Wysopal
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2. Check out the source. If you’re downloading a third-party financial or banking app (Mint is one famous example), check out the sponsoring company or developer’s website. Look for an “About Us” page, a privacy policy and a news page, preferably with external links to articles about the company. “Find out who owns the domain,” Sheehan advises. “You can use Whois Lookup to find the owner of any domain.” There are domain-masking services that, for a fee, will hide the true owner of a domain, but if you see one of them, that by itself should raise a red flag.
In addition, check to see if the site itself is clearly written and correctly spelled. “Typos are a remarkably accurate predictor of spoof sites,” he adds.
3. See what others are saying. “Most mobile application markets are very good about posting real, live user reviews,” says Steve Schultz, chief operating officer of the mobile financial app Pageonce. Look for a large number of reviews because a small number could be fakes put there by the developers themselves. “You should also search social networking sites and check out the Twitter stream about it,” Schultz says.
What if there aren’t many — or any — user reviews? “You don’t ever want to be the first person to try out a banking app,” Sheehan says.
4. Try a bookmark instead. Before downloading a banking app, find out if you actually need one to do your online banking. Simply access your bank through your phone’s browser. If it has an easy-to-use mobile interface, that might work just as well as an app would have. If you’re using a tablet, even the traditional website might work fine for you. If you decide to go this route, it’s smart to create a bookmark, both for convenience and to avoid the risk of winding up at a spoof site if you later mistype your bank’s URL by mistake. (Creating a fake site with a typo in the Web address is a common tactic of fraudsters.)
After you have a bank or financial app:
1. Password-protect your device. With the growing popularity of financial mobile apps — not to mention phone-based mobile payments — you risk financial disaster if your phone or tablet is lost or stolen. Both the app and the device itself should be protected with a password to ensure that no one but you can get into your accounts.
“Make sure the password isn’t stored — you want to type it in each time,” says Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer of the app security firm Veracode. “A lot of banking apps will ask if you want to save your password or stay logged in. You definitely don’t want to do that on a mobile device.”
2. Make sure you know how to remotely wipe your phone or tablet. If your device is ever lost or stolen, you should remotely “wipe” it — that is remove all your personal data and restore it to its factory state. iPhones and iPads, BlackBerries and Windows 7 devices come with this capability included in their operating systems, and you can download Android apps that will do it as well.
Whichever mobile technology you use, it’s a good idea to learn the steps for remotely wiping your device and write those instructions down somewhere that will be easy to find. If your device is ever lost or (especially) stolen. The last thing you want to do is waste time paging around a website or waiting on hold on a support line trying to find out how to wipe it while some stranger is out there with access to all your data.
3. Don’t use public Wi-Fi for banking. Most smart phones and tablets can use both wireless Internet and a mobile provider’s 3G or 4G network. Make sure you’re using the latter and not the former if you’re banking or doing anything financial via free Wi-Fi at public places such as restaurants or airports.
Most banking sites and apps have encryption that protects against the most common forms of online eavesdropping. But that may not be good enough, Wysopal says. “Potentially, someone on the same Wi-Fi network as you could do a ‘man-in-the-middle’ attack,” he says. A man-in-the-middle attack is just what it sounds like: A third party inserts itself between you and your financial institution and can collect information about your account — without you ever knowing it happened.
4. Be alert to changes in your smart phone’s functioning. If you download an app, and your phone starts acting differently, such as responding more slowly to commands or draining its battery more quickly, that could be a sign of malicious code, Wysopal says. “Make sure to remove any app that changes the behavior of your phone.”
See related:Trial version of iPhone credit card processing app available, Don’t take the bait when you receive a ‘phishing’ e-mail, Tips to handle online debit card theft, Free, public Wi-Fi can be dangerous to your credit card
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Minda Zetlin is a former CreditCards.com personal finance contributor.
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The 10 Best Reasons to Give Generously
Joe McKeever joemckeever.com
Someone once told his pastor, “Give, give, give! That’s all I ever hear from you!” The preacher smiled and said, “Thank you for the best three-word description of the Christian life ever!”
Scripture does not simply command us to give. It does that, of course, but over and over God’s Word gives us great reasons for being generous to everyone around us, contributing to the needy and poor and generously supporting the work of the Lord.
I imagine there are 500 reasons for giving. But here are 10 of the best!
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1. When we give, the Lord takes it personally. We are handing it to Him.
“He who gives to the poor lends to the Lord” (Proverbs 19:17).
“Inasmuch as you did it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you did it unto me” (Matthew 25:40).
“When you give a reception, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed since they are not able to repay you; and you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous” (Luke 14:14).
And my all-time favorite: “God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love that you have shown to His Name in having ministered to the saints, and in still ministering” (Hebrews 6:10).
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2. We give because we have received so freely.
If you’ve received nothing, you are exempt from giving!
“What do you have that you have not received?” (1 Corinthians 4:7) Answer: Nothing at all. We have been the recipients of ten thousand blessings from the Father. “Daily, He loadeth us with benefits!” (Psalm 68:19).
Our Lord said, “Freely you have received; freely give” (Matthew 10:8). When the Lord stops giving to you, then you may quit being generous with others. But not until then.
The pond outside our back deck receives water from the heavens in the form of rain and runoff. On sunny mornings, you can see the fine mist rising off the surface of the pond, as it gives back to the skies the same water that it received a day or two earlier. Imagine the pond complaining, “Oh no! I can’t give this small amount! I need it.” It is in giving that the pond receives.
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3. We give because the Lord makes it a condition for His giving us further blessings.
“Test me on this,” the Lord says, “and see if I will not open for you the windows of Heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows!” (Malachi 3:10)
“Give and it shall be given unto you…” (Luke 6:38).
Think of a pipeline between you and Heaven. While greed and covetousness clog it up, generosity keeps it open and the blessings flowing.
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4. We give to increase our love for the things of God.
“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Matthew 6:21). That little insight is profound. Now, personally, I would have thought it was the other way around: Wherever your heart is, you will put your treasure. But, our Lord said wherever you put your treasure, your heart will follows. That’s incentive aplenty for pastors to keep urging their people to be givers (in all of life, not just the offering plate!).
When your kid went away to college, all of a sudden you found yourself interested in the news from that town and that campus. Your treasure is there and so your heart followed.
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5. We give to increase our reward in Heaven.
“Whoever in the name of a disciples gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water, truly I say to you he shall not lose his reward” (Matthew 10:42). What could be a smaller gift than a cup of water? So, when I give to support a worker in the kingdom–even if it’s only a cup of water!–I share in the reward God will give him for his work.
“Lay up treasures in Heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves cannot break through and steal” (Matthew 6:20).
We can’t take it with us, the old saying goes, but we can send it on ahead.
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6. We give because of what Jesus said.
Our Lord commended the widow who gave–even when she needed what she had, when others were giving far greater amounts (and thus her gift was practically meaningless), and when the temple was under the control of a den of thieves!
Jesus approved her giving. He honored her for bringing her small gift.
Friend, you and I have no excuse for not giving! (I can hear it now: “I’m sorry, Lord! I need this money to pay off my new car!” New boat. Vacation.)
Mark 12:41-44 contains the definitive story on this. I love the story and enjoy preaching it. Every pastor has known of people who quit giving because they didn’t agree with the preacher, didn’t like a decision made by the church, or could not support the deacons. But our Lord commends the widow for bringing her offering even when the temple was under the control of a bunch of crooks!
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7. We give to support the saints in their work of the Lord.
“… that there might be bread (provisions) in my house” (Malachi 3:10).
“… they begged us with much entreaty for the favor of participation in the support of the saints…” (2 Corinthians 8:4). “… your abundance being a supply for their want… as it is written, ‘He who gathered much did not have too much and he who gathered little had no lack'” (8:14-15).
Paul said to the church at Philippi, “After I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you alone. For even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs” (Philippians 4:15-16).
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8. We give because money is an earthly possession with a temporary value.
Eventually, we will lose it. (The only thing any of us will ever keep is what we give!)
“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming day of God, on account of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning… Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found in Him in peace, spotless and blameless…” ( 2 Peter 3:11-12)
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9. We give as a rebuke to our self-centeredness.
“He who is generous shall be blessed” (Proverbs 22:9).
I’ve been reading a book by a former director of the FBI. He talks about the time Martha Stewart broke the law on insider trading in order to save $50,000 on a stock sale. This woman, whose empire was worth perhaps half a billion dollars, risked jail time in order to save what was for her pocket change. (And she went to jail!) Why, we ask, did she do that? Answer: Greed. The money we have is never enough.
“How much money is enough?” they asked a tycoon. He answered, “Just a little more.”
Only by consistently, constantly setting a pattern of giving can we break the stranglehold of greed.
10. Giving is fun.
“The Lord loveth a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7).
Once you get past the initial barrier to becoming a consistent giver, you find yourself enjoying writing that check to a ministry, buying a suit for a preacher in private (without him ever knowing the source), and leaving a generous tip for the server. Soon, you surprise yourself in the realization that giving money is far more fun than getting it. The next step up is to find the joy in giving to people who do not deserve or appreciate your gifts. Our Lord said, “If you give to those whom you expect to pay you back, what credit is that to you? Lost people do that! But love your enemies, and do good and lend to them, expecting nothing in return.”
And when that happens, Jesus said, you will be like the Heavenly Father. “For He Himself is kind to evil and ungrateful men!” (Luke 6:35).
Be a giver, friend. Not just on Sunday when the offering plate is passed–yes, there too!–but every day, in every relationship. Look for ways to bless people.
Do not keep count of what you have given. Just spread the joy. The Father will keep better records than you anyway!
Joe McKeever has been a disciple of Jesus Christ more than 65 years, been preaching the gospel more than 55 years, and has been writing and cartooning for Christian publications more than 45 years. He blogs at www.joemckeever.com.
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Why Jurassic World 3 Should Wrap The Original Cast's Stories For Good
Mike Reyes
Published: Oct. 10. 2019 12:42 PM
How can you not get excited over the fact that Jurassic World 3 is going to mark the return of Sam Neill’s Dr. Alan Grant and Laura Dern’s Dr. Ellie Sattler?! Along with Jeff Goldblum reprising Dr. Ian Malcolm again, the Jurassic Park all-star trio is reuniting to help bring some extra bang to director Colin Trevorrow’s big threequel to the Jurassic World series. If franchise fans are lucky, this will also wrap up their stories for good.
Yes, it’s awesome that Jurassic World 3 is bringing those beloved characters back, but if Trevorrow and his team are not careful, these supposedly substantial roles could be disappointing. Or worse, they could lead to an unhealthy extension of Jurassic Park’s franchise lore. If this is to be a true celebration of the franchise, Jurassic World 3 should keep the following points in mind when using Alan, Ellie and Ian for their storytelling needs in the future.
The Jurassic World Series Has Done Pretty Well Without Them
The presence of Jurassic Park royalty is nothing to sniff at, considering that even as far back as when Jurassic World was announced, the world wondered if Dr. Grant, Dr. Sattler, and Dr. Malcolm would return, or even what they’d been up to, by the point of that first legacyquel. Though fans had to wait until Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom to see Jeff Goldblum bookend that film’s events as Dr. Ian Malcolm, we still hadn’t seen Sam Neill or Laura Dern’s faces at that point.
Now that we’re getting the Jurassic band back together, it’s certainly time to celebrate! At the same time, it’s hard not to admit that Jurassic World’s first two films have worked rather well in the absence of the three doctors from Jurassic Park. While there’s certainly a respect and deep ties to the series’ past in those two films, the creative forces behind this new trilogy haven’t dwelled too much on their roots.
Jurassic World Is Really A Trilogy About Owen And Claire
If we’re telling the truth, as much as Jurassic Park’s original trilogy may have been defined by the actions of the Grant/Malcolm/Sattler triangle, Jurassic World has been defined by those adventures had by Chris Pratt’s Owen Grady and Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing. Bringing back fan favorite characters certainly spice things up, and if this is the final Jurassic World film, it’s a fitting end.
But if the Jurassic World series is going to continue past Jurassic World 3, Owen and Claire will undoubtedly have to remain the front and center leads of the saga. Unless there’s a development that wraps up their characters up once and for all in Jurassic World 3, our intrepid leads still need to be the focus. And even if they aren’t, there’s another possibility that makes for an interesting continuation of the Jurassic saga.
Battle At Big Rock Already Set Up Some Cool New Jurassic World Characters
With the short film Battle At Big Rock, director Colin Trevorrow and co-writer Emily Carmichael bridged the gap between Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World 3’s future story. In that mini-adventure, there was a concentrated dose of character development and action-adventure that built up the presence of a new family in the Jurassic World saga.
If anyone should take over the Jurassic World saga after Owen and Claire depart, the family unit led by André Holland’s Dennis and Natalie Martinez’s Mariana should be given the first shot to take the reins. In such a short span, their characters and their children created a compelling narrative that packed a Jurassic franchise punch; so naturally people are going to be curious what they’ll get up to in the future.
It Would Make Their Appearance in Jurassic World 3 Mean Something
Bringing back Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic World 3 is a pretty momentous occasion. Now that it’s actually happening, it could be a moment that tips events in the franchise into larger territory than has ever been charted in the legacyquel saga. With those sorts of stakes, it’s important to know where you’re going with your characters, and part of that intent should be to make sure this appearance actually means something to the series.
Jurassic World 3 shouldn’t be an excuse to try and work these characters back into the fabric of the entire series. Rather, it should be a fitting close to their adventures, with an ending that rights their fates once and for all. Otherwise, it cheapens the memory of Dr. Grant, Dr. Malcolm and Dr. Sattler, and turns a cool story idea into stunt casting.
Their Appearances In Jurassic World 3 Would Be A Fitting End To The Series
The future of the Jurassic World saga past the third entry in the series is unknown. While there’s certainly a potential for huge developments past Jurassic World 3, the real question is should it continue beyond Colin Trevorrow’s return to the franchise? Should this be the end, bringing in the Jurassic Park trio would not only be a fantastic end to their respective stories, it would be a perfect ending for the story that Jurassic World is trying to tell on the whole.
Resolving the story of John Hammond’s dream park and the consequences of its success have been the driving force of all the events leading up to Jurassic World 3. No one would be better qualified to sew up the series in style than the legendary characters that first experienced that dream and the fallout firsthand. The three doctors who saw Jurassic Park come to a disastrous end have enough clout and knowledge to send things off for good, and in the most fitting way possible.
Drs. Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm have all remained pillars of the Jurassic Park lore, despite their roles being omitted or limited in the Jurassic World films. Jurassic World 3’s inclusion of their characters shouldn’t be used merely in the name of boosting box office grosses, or worse, to draw them into a series of increasingly ridiculous adventures.
To focus solely on their characters would be detrimental to everything built on the back of Owen Grady and Claire Dearing’s adventures thus far, as well as the entire Jurassic series. Whether it’s to close out the Jurassic World series in total, or to help set the stage for the next evolution of the franchise, having Jurassic Park’s legendary characters should be a temporary measure, rather than a long term strategy for continuing the trajectory of the film series they helped build.
Jurassic World 3 bursts into theaters on June 11, 2021. However, if you’re looking for an adventure to enjoy in the meantime, you can check both the 2019 release schedule, as well as the calendar for 2020. It’s going to be a bit of a wait, and you don’t want to miss out on any of the fun during the interim!
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1803 John Cary Large Antique Map North America, United States, Mexico, Caribbean
Cartographer : John Cary
Title : A New Map of The West India Isles from the latest Authorities by John Cary Engraver 1803....Published by J Cary Engraver & Mapseller No. 181 Strand Aug 1st 1803
Ref #: 70578
Size: 24 1/2in x 21 1/2in (620mm x 550mm)
Condition: (A+) Fine Condition
This large beautifully hand coloured original copper-plate engraved antique map of North America, The United States, Cenis (Texas) the Gulf of Mexico, The Caribbean, Central America and northern South America was engraved & published by John Cary in 1803 - the date is engraved in the title cartouche - and was published in the 1808 edition of Carys New Universal Atlas. (Ref Tooley M&B)
General Definitions:
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Yellow, green, blue, pink
Paper size: - 24 1/2in x 21 1/2in (620mm x 550mm)
Plate size: - 21 1/2in x 19 1/2in (535mm x 495mm)
Margins: - Min 1/2in (12mm)
Plate area: - Two small spots on the L&R sides of image
At the time of the engraving of this map the United States was still very much in its infancy. Thomas Jefferson was the president and the 7th congress sat from March the 4th. Belwo are the following significant events of 1803, in the US.
- January 30 – Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans; they end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
- February 24 – Marbury v. Madison: The Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
- March 1 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from
- April 30 – Louisiana Purchase is made by the United States from France.
- July 4 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
- October 20 – The Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, doubling the size of the United States.
- November 30 – At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer Louisiana (New Spain) to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat. Barely three weeks later, on December 20, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
1803 saw the birth of Ralph Waldo Emmerson (d 1882) and 1803 saw the death of Samuel Adams & Francis Lewis both signatories of the Declaration of Independence.
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Review: ‘Mlima’s Tale’ at Westport Playhouse a riveting indictment of the elephant ivory trade
By Christopher Arnott
Jermaine Rowe as Mlima the elephant (left) in "Mlima's Tale," shown here with Jennean Farmer (center) and Carl Hendrick Louis. (Carol Rosegg)
The elephant in the room in “Mlima’s Tale” is an elephant. In the first scene of Lynn Nottage’s elegant, occasionally amusing yet wholly traumatic drama at Westport Country Playhouse, Mlima is shot and killed by poachers, his tusks crudely removed.
We are shown horrific photos of an actual decapitated African elephant on the giant screens that serves as a changing backdrop for the swiftly changing scenes in this international odyssey of greed, corruption and exploitation. But Mlima’s spirit is very much present throughout the drama, personified by actor Jermaine Rowe, in a loincloth, white body paint and a dour expression.
Mlima’s spirit wanders into exchanges between poachers, traders, exporters, businessmen, ivory carvers and others who will leave their mark on his desecrated tusks. In turn, Mlima silently marks them with white paint for their complicity in his demise.
You want these people to be stopped, get arrested, held accountable. But there’s always another scene, as Mlima’s tusks pass through more and more hands.
The play is an indictment of the international underground trade in illegal ivory. Production notes in the theater playbill show how Connecticut, with its piano-key and comb-cutting industries, was complicit in the devastation of the elephant popular from the late 18th through the late 20th centuries. (The United States adopted a near-total ban on commercial trade of African elephant ivory in 2016.)
The message of “Mlima’s Tale” is clear, uncluttered and hard-hitting. This is partly due to the unusual form in which it’s told, and due to the extraordinary good fortune of having Mark Lamos to direct it.
When Lamos ran Hartford Stage in the 1980s and ’90s, he was celebrated for his rare understanding of the works of early 20th century Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler. Now the artistic director of Westport Playhouse (since 2009), Lamos returns to to Schnitzler in a roundabout way, via Nottage, a contemporary African American playwright.
Nottage has won two Pulitzers and a MacArthur genius grant, among many other honors, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Her Pulitzers were for “Sweat” and “Ruined,” but in Connecticut Nottage may be best known for the historical drama “Intimate Apparel,” which Westport Playhouse staged in 2014 and West Hartford’s Playhouse on Park did in 2018.
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Nottage has taken Schnitzler’s influential and controversial sex story “La Ronde” and borrowed its ingenious structure of short intimate scenes, each with their own title and just a couple of main characters. In “La Ronde,” each character sticks around for just two scenes. Nottage is not so restrictive in “Mlima’s Tale,” but there’s the same sense of progression, with events in the larger world of the characters motivating the plot more than any single character does.
Schnitzler used the format to describe a series of sexual liaisons. Nottage uses it for an equally seedy subject matter, capitalist greed. The dialogues about ivory, bribery, larceny, animal abuse and other evils are delivered with as much glee and excitement as sex talk.
“Mlima’s Tale” is constantly distressing, but it’s also vibrant and lively. These are animated, upbeat bad guys.
Adit Dileep, Jennean Farmer and Carl Hendrick Louis each portray numerous characters who handle Mlima’s tusks for a a while then move them on to other scoundrels. The actors are more successful with African and British characters than they are with Asian ones, which fall into bad stereotype areas. But they do an exceptional job of giving each of these fleeting figures a full existence in the short time they are on the stage.
As the conscience of the piece, Jermaine Rowe does not have access to the same quick-costume-change freshness, bright expressions and gleeful villainy of the other three cast members. He has to use other means to be heard.
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Rowe’s Mlima is withdrawn, undone, resigned to his fate, a ghostly apparition. He appears as a reminder of the calm beauty of nature that the hyperactive killers, exporters, dealers and ivory carvers, in their cash-stoked delirium, can not see.
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This is a production of rare beauty, rare understanding and great moral power. Share “Mlima’s Tale."
MLIMA’S TALE by Lynn Nottage runs through Oct. 19 at Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, Westport. Performances are Tuesday at 7 p.m.; Wednesday at 2 and 8 p.m.; Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m.; and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets are $40-$70. 203-227-4177, westportplayhouse.org.
Christopher Arnott can be reached at carnott@courant.com
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Hard Times (Vintage Classics Dickens Series)
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics Dickens Series)
作者 Charles Dickens
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‘I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.’
Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals. Pip's desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella, but secrets from the past impede his progress and he has many hard lessons to learn.
Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had be taken to the debtors' prison.Fagin is named after a boy Dickens disliked at the factory. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogarth. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837 while The Pickwick Papers was still running. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity America as well as Britain. He separated from his wife in 1858. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, leaving his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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"Care for Carolyn": Community rallies around Dawson County woman who lost home in fire
Dawson County resident Carolyn Hayes, center, surrounded by her friends and family members at a fundraiser that was held on Nov. 14 to help raise money for her to rebuild her home, which was lost in a fire earlier this year. - photo by Erica Schmidt
Community members flocked to the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame this Saturday to buy barbecue sandwiches and make donations in support of Carolyn Hayes, a longtime Dawson County resident who lost her home and possessions in a fire this fall.
On Sept. 25, Hayes’ home caught fire from a gas explosion. Her daughter Angela was inside at the time of the fire, and suffered second and third-degree burns over 80 percent of her body. Now, almost two months later, Angela is still in the hospital and Carolyn Hayes is life from the fire’s devastation.
Hayes’ family members, spearheaded by her cousin Pamela Hamalainen, organized a GoFundMe fundraiser to help fund Hayes’ rebuilding efforts, but quickly realized that they would have to explore other avenues of raising money too.
Hayes talks to a community member at a fundraiser on Nov. 14 to help raise money to rebuild her home. - photo by Erica Schmidt
“I put up a GoFundMe account which raised about $6,000 but that isn’t enough to rebuild, so I came up with the idea of doing a fundraiser to sell barbecue,” Hamalainen said. “And that way we get to see the community and the community can meet Carolyn and it becomes more personal.”
Hamalainen organized the fundraiser, and the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame donated the space to hold the event at. Hayes’ family members and friends from church all helped to set up and run the event.
“All of us are all teamed up, and my whole family helped cook,” said Liz Porter, another of Hayes’ cousins. “It’s been days and days to cook all the meat; I bet we cooked over 50 pounds of meat.”
Porter owns Buckeye Creek Farm, a farm in Woodstock that sells to restaurants and includes a farm kitchen that Porter uses for bulk cooking. She and her family smoked and donated all the barbecue sold at the fundraiser.
The event was advertised ahead of time on Facebook, and Hamalainen said that dozens of community members came out to the event to support their fundraising efforts.
“It’s been wonderful,” Hamalainen said. “Before we even finished setting up we had a crowd of people here, so we’ve done well.”
Hayes said that the support from the Dawson County community, both from individuals and from local churches and businesses, has been overwhelming in the weeks since she lost her home.
“The community has been really great, there’s different churches that have donated a lot of gift cards and money to me,” Hayes said. “And I’ve gotten clothes and some beautiful furniture and other donations — Byrd’s Mini Storage donated a storage unit to put donations in until the house is built, and the storage unit is pretty much filled up with just donations.”
Hayes also received donations of time and services from several local businesses.
“Townley Construction cleared the whole property for no charge, and there’s other people going to come out and help rebuild,” Hayes said.
Previously, Hayes’ home was a mobile home fueled by propane gas, but Hamalainen said the goal is to build her a house that’s fully electric, without any gas.
“Our goal was to build a house instead of putting a mobile home back there because it had propane gas and it was a gas leak that caused the explosion,” Hamalainen said. “So Reliance Heating and Air is going to donate all the labor and equipment so everything will be total electric, with no gas.”
Hayes’ family and friends organized the fundraiser at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame to sell barbecue sandwiches and Brunswick stew in order to raise money for Hayes and her daughter. - photo by Erica Schmidt
One of the biggest reasons for rebuilding with electric and not gas is for safety in the future, and because of Hayes’ daughter Angela.
“Angela was in the house when the explosion happened, and she was hurt really bad,” Hamalainen said. “We want to build her a house that’s total electric, so that when Angela comes home she won’t have that fear of the gas.”
Hayes said that her daughter’s burns are healing slowly, but that her lungs were very badly damaged from smoke inhalation during the fire and that she is currently on life support.
“Her lungs are in bad shape cause she swallowed fire, but her burns are healing up pretty good,” Hayes said.
Hayes said that having her house rebuilt by the time her daughter is released from the hospital will be a relief for Angela, who has been in a medically induced coma since the day of the fire and therefore has no idea what has been happening since.
“It’ll be a burden lifted from Angela when she comes home from the hospital, and something for her to be thankful for,” Hayes said. “It’ll be a home for her to come back to.”
Hayes has lived in Dawson County since 1995, and said that in her time in Dawson she’s come to know many wonderful people. Since the day of the fire, she said that she has been humbled by the support so many people in the community have shown her.
“A lot of people are just donating whatever they can,” Hayes said. “It really helps to put a smile on my face, and it makes me proud to be a member of Dawson County.”
Hamalainen said that any donation, no matter how small, can help Hayes and her family in their efforts to rebuild her home.
“It doesn’t matter how big or small the donations are,” Hamalainen said. “Any amount helps; we are truly grateful for even a dollar because those dollars add up.”
To donate to the efforts to rebuild Hayes’ home, go to www.gofundme.com/f/fkuceb-care-for-carolyn or email Pamela Hamalainen at kph417@yahoo.com.
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Interview with Marianne Hirsch, Author of "The Generation of Postmemory"
Published date October 10, 2012
The following is an interview with Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust
Question: “Postmemory” – what is it? The description of your book claims that we can inherit other people’s memories, how so?
Marianne Hirsch: “Postmemory” describes the relationship that the “generation after” bears to the personal, collective, and cultural trauma of those who came before — to experiences they “remember” only by means of the stories, images, and behaviors among which they grew up. But these experiences were transmitted to them so deeply and affectively as to seem to constitute memories in their own right. As I see it, the connection to the past that I define as postmemory is mediated not by recall but by imaginative investment, projection, and creation. To grow up with overwhelming inherited memories, to be dominated by narratives that preceded one´s birth or one´s consciousness, is to risk having one´s own life stories displaced, even evacuated, by our ancestors. It is to be shaped, however indirectly, by traumatic fragments of events that still defy narrative reconstruction and exceed comprehension. These events happened in the past, but their effects continue into the present.
I first used the term “postmemory” in an article on Art Spiegelman’s Maus in the early 1990’s. Since then I’ve been trying to define and refine it, on the basis of personal experience and my reading and viewing of the work of writers and artists of what we might think of as the “postgenerations.”
Q: Why did you write this book? Are there personal stakes for you?
MH: Indeed, there was a moment, in the 1980’s, when I first began to wonder why certain stories that my parents had told me, or scenes they had evoked about what they always referred to as “the war,” were more vibrant and more vivid in my memories than moments I recalled from my own childhood. Their accounts had the textures and qualities of memories for me, but they were clearly not my memories: I had not experienced any of them directly. I felt that I needed a term to describe this indirect form of recollection, its belatedness and its multiple mediations. And I realized then that my experiences were not at all unique. Not only did I share them with other descendants of Holocaust survivors, but they described a larger cultural phenomenon common to my generation – a generation dominated by histories we did not ourselves live through. Memories are not just personal or familial. They are, as I describe in the book, more broadly affiliative – mediated by public images and stories that are transmitted to us from overpowering historical events like the Holocaust.
Q: People have criticized descendants of survivors for calling attention to themselves, rather than simply telling the story of those who have been persecuted and have suffered in the past. Is something like “trauma envy” involved in your book?
MH: The challenge for us in the next generations is precisely to acknowledge and to signal our own distance from the traumatic events that preceded us and not to appropriate them for ourselves. Of course, our own investment can be great, and trauma cannot so easily be contained, it seeps out of its bounds, connecting disparate subjectivities. Inherited trauma transmitted familially – or even culturally – can have significant effects on our lives, but it is not we who have suffered persecution or deportation. It is for this reason that I am particularly interested in tracing the workings of postmemory through a second- and now also third-generation aesthetics as manifested in literature, film, and visual arts, in the works of Art Spiegelman, Eva Hoffman, Anne Karpff, Lily Brett, Lorie Novak, Muriel Hasbun, David Levinthal, Judy Chicago, Jeffrey Wolin, among others. The multi-faceted and multi-layered aesthetic that emerges from the mediations of postmemory best communicate the contradictory needs, desires, refusals and aversions – the proximity and the distance – characterizing this experience.
Q: Your book focuses on photography as a medium of historical transmission. Why photography in particular?
MH: More than oral or written narratives, photographic images that survive massive destruction and outlive their subjects function as ghostly revenants from an irretrievably lost past world. Photographs, analog photographs, in particular are evidence of past presence. They have an indexical relationship to the object that was before the lens. But they also quickly acquire symbolic significance and thus they are more than themselves.
The Holocaust is one of the most widely photographed historical events of the twentieth century: literally millions of images survive from the period, images taken by perpetrators, bystanders and even by victims. And yet, like many events of extremity, the Holocaust is remembered by a small number of iconic images – the boy with his hands up from Warsaw, the gates of Auschwitz with the “Arbeit macht frei” sign, the image of Anne Frank’s face. My book examines how and why certain images become iconic at the expense of so many others. How that works is, I argue, a symptom of postmemory.
Q: Your book’s subtitle is “Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust.” After the multiplication of genocides throughout the second half of the twentieth century, and now the twenty-first, can we still consider the Holocaust as a watershed? And does “postmemory” extend to these other historical events?
MH: Clearly, at the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century, the Holocaust can no longer serve as the limit case in discussions of historical trauma, memory and forgetting. Indeed, the multiplication of genocides and collective catastrophes in the last decades and their cumulative effects have made the study of memory and transmission ever more urgent. The process and structure of intergenerational transmission that I understand as postmemory has become an important explanatory vehicle and object of study in numerous contexts ranging from American slavery to decolonization; the Vietnam war, the dictatorships in Latin America and Eastern Europe, the Armenian, Rwandan and Cambodian genocides, the Japanese internment camps in the US, the stolen generation in Australia, and others. These resonances and connections are important and announce new directions in the field of memory studies.
Q. Your book appears in the Gender and Culture series. What connections do you draw between postmemory and gender?
MH: I certainly do not want to go so far as to argue that memory is neatly differentiated by gender, or by other categories of social difference. But I do see the preoccupation with memory, and especially the memory of those populations who have been left out of the archives of official histories, as rooted in movements for social change such as feminism. Using feminist critical strategies to connect past and present, words and images, and memory and gender, allows me to understand different roles that gender plays to mediate which stories are remembered and which are forgotten, how stories are told, which tropes make traumatic histories bearable for the next generation. Family images and stories, and images of lost children in particular, hold great power over our imagination and I analyze how they continue to do so. Feminist approaches allow me to bring the entangled strands of disparate traumatic histories into more intimate contact.
Q: How do you see the future of memory and postmemory studies?
This book marks a point of transition for me. Scholarly work on the Holocaust has looked to this moment, when survivors and other contemporary witnesses are leaving our midst, with great trepidation. How will the story survive without their acts of witness? The second generation has acted as a gate-keeper but we now have to realize that we are ourselves handing the story on to the third, and making it available for others to connect their own very different histories. The future, as I see it, is comparative and connective, it is dominated by new media and new strategies of memorialization that are being invented in new museums and memorials. The Holocaust is one event in a global space of remembrance that looks toward a future that will know the past deeply but that will not be paralyzed by its darknesses.
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District seeks replacement for Carlsbad School Board member who stepped down
Adrian Hedden
An opening on the Carlsbad School Board was announced this week as an eight-year member stepped down leaving a vacancy for District 4.
Andrew Harris’ official date of resignation was May 21, and Carlsbad Municipal Schools has 45 days to find his replacement or New Mexico Public Education Department will make its own appointment.
Carlsbad Municipal Schools Superintendent Gerry Washburn said Harris left the post to care for an elderly family.
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Harris and School Board President David Shoup did not respond to requests for comment via email.
District 4 represents the Carlsbad Sixth Grade Academy, Joe Stanley Smith Elementary and Sunset Elementary School.
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Washburn said he hopes the Board can find and appointment someone ahead of the July 6 deadline, to keep the position local and avoid an appointee from the State.
“Our hope is we will get enough interest to have someone before that date,” he said. “We are on a deadline. We really hope that we don’t get there. They’re working with us.”
Washburn said the District plans to host an information session in collaboration with the New Mexico School Boards Association to educate local residents on the duties and requirements of board members, hoping to increase local awareness and interest in the position.
“We’re hoping we do it locally,” he said. “They we know that it’s somebody that really wants to be on the board.”
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If the State is forced to make its own appointment, Washburn worried that District 4 might not be adequately represented.
“If the State steps in, you might not get representation for that district,” he said. “We’re hoping we don’t have to go through that.”
A person interested in the post must live in the district represented by the seat, Washburn said, and he urged anyone unsure what district they live to call Carlsbad Municipal Schools.
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He said he doesn’t have any specific desires for a new board member, other than a value for public education and the children of Carlsbad.
“We want somebody that cares about the kids and the district as a whole,” Washburn said. “That’s really what it’s all about. Outside of that, I don’t know we’re looking for anything in particular. Our board members have a wide range of experiences. We just want someone on the team that can help make our district as good as it can be.”
Looking ahead, Washburn said the District will face challenges in transitioning to the State’s new funding formula enacted under the administration of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham this year – her first in office.
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He also said the District must address the population growth in Carlsbad during ongoing oil and gas boom by finding housing for teachers and expanding programs for a growing student population.
“We need to come up with creative solutions,” Washburn said. “They’re big challenges, but they’re wonderful challenges to have.”
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ADCS president calls for urgent action to address inequality in first virtual speech
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Queer does not mean consent
Non-consensual touching on the rise at Pride events, activists say
By HG Watson Jul 15, 2014, 8:51 AM EDT
Non-consensual touching has been an issue at past Dyke Marches, say organizers, who are now trying to use the event as an opportunity to educate onlookers about what consent means. Credit: Tanja-Tiziana
As the crowds emptied out of the bars and clubs on Church Street in the early hours of June 30, Victoria Warner, on her way home after a long WorldPride weekend, was approached by a group of men who had an innocent request — could they give her a high five?
She happily complied, until the situation took a turn. “One of them pulls me in for a hug,” then reached down and groped her butt, she says.
“It was not appreciated, asked for or invited in any way,” says Warner, who was angry that the incident came after a day of enjoying WorldPride festivities.
Warner’s experience is, unfortunately, not uncommon for people who come to Pride or other large festivals. While some may blame revealing costumes, free-flowing alcohol or the general atmosphere of revelry, many activists point their fingers squarely at a pervasive culture that does not value consent.
Organizers of Toronto’s annual Dyke March, where participants are encouraged to dress however they feel the most comfortable — including nude if they so desire — say they have to actively prepare people to deal with those who may take photos or touch marchers without their consent.
“It’s really so unfortunate that this type of non-consensual interaction is almost built into the experience of Dyke March at this point,” says Laura Krahn, one of the organizers of the event.
As Pride itself has grown larger, Krahn has noticed that more people have come to view the marches as a spectacle rather than a community or political movement.
“I think some people feel that if a person is dressed up, scantily clad or painted and glittery, it’s an invitation to come and touch,” says Christin Milloy, one of the organizers of this year’s Trans* Pride March. “But Pride does not change the bounds of good etiquette. “Don’t touch someone without their permission.”
Milloy says gay men are as likely to touch without consent as straight men, but Krahn and other activists say that unwanted touching can come from anybody.
In the days following WorldPride, people took to social media to share their own stories of non-consensual touching at the festival. The volume was so great that it led Meg Fenway to write her own Facebook post emphasizing that queer does not equal consent. The organizers of SlutWalk Toronto eventually shared her post on their popular Facebook page.
Fenway says that it is heartbreaking to hear of reports of sexual assault at Pride. “It makes me sick, to be quite honest,” she adds.
Incidents of non-consensual photo taking or touching are not limited to Pride. At SlutWalk Toronto on July 12, one march marshal had to put her own body between marchers and a man who was trying to videotape the parade on a home camcorder. It’s one of the non-violent tactics march and festival organizers will use to stop people from recording images without the consent of participants.
Natalee Brouse, one of the organizers of SlutWalk Toronto, says it’s important that people view issues of consent as a broader cultural problem rather than one affiliated with just one festival. “This isn’t just a WorldPride thing — this isn’t just a Pride thing. It’s a ‘going out on the regular’ thing,” she says, adding that events like the Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival and local comic book conventions grapple with the same issues.
In response to complaints from some women dressed in role-playing costumes (known as cosplayers) that people were touching them without consent, a grassroots Cosplay Is Not Consent campaign has emerged at a number of comic conventions.
After years of dealing with oglers at the Dyke March, Krahn says, organizers there have also come up with procedures to ensure that marchers have a safe and comfortable experience while educating onlookers. A group called the Ally Squad acts as a buffer between onlookers and participants, handing out educational information about consent as they follow the Dyke March. As well, a team of active listeners is available for marchers who may need to debrief their experiences post-march.
Both Milloy and Krahn would like to see Pride Toronto take a more active role in educating people about consent. They say that after they have completed their own community consultations, they plan to present Pride organizers with suggestions for an educational campaign.
Pride organizers did not respond to Xtra’s request for comment on this story.
But education can happen anywhere, Brouse emphasizes. She recommends that people talk about consent in the clearest terms possible when the issue arises. “Bring it to the forefront,” she says.
This story is filed under News & Ideas, Discrimination, Gender, LGBT, Toronto, Pride parades, News
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Archive for the tag “Raoul’s”
Cowlix, Coming and Going
“Je t’aime” by Doug Hubley from “20 Years of a Basement,” Aug. 10, 1991. (“Je t’aime” copyright © 1983 by Douglas L. Hubley. All rights reserved. Visit Hubley Industries Music on Vimeo.)
The summer of 1991 was my 20th anniversary of publicly performing with rock bands, and I wanted to celebrate.
I took a very literal approach to the celebration. It would be a concert featuring not only my current band, the Cowlix, but — I hoped — members of previous bands. I didn’t invite everyone I’d ever played with, but beckoned the most fun and creative people, dating back to 1971 and Truck Farm, my first real band.
Of course, not every invitee could, or wanted to, take part.
So in the event, in addition to the Cowlix, what we wound up with was the Fashion Jungle of late 1984: bassist Steve Chapman; drummer Ken Reynolds; multi-instrumentalist Jim Sullivan, up from the Boston area; and keyboardist Kathren Torraca, who came back East from California. (Ken and I had first played together in the Curley Howard Band (1977), and Jim had joined us in the Mirrors (1979-80), which segued into the FJ in 1981.)
Gretchen and Doug express a basic tenet of their philosophy.
I titled the event “20 Years of a Basement” (pun intentional. And yes, “basement” is a recurring theme in my work, so sue me). We rented Sprague Hall, a popular old community hall under the trees in Cape Elizabeth, for Saturday, Aug. 10, 1991.
What an exciting day. We had grand plans. For the audience we invited everyone we could think of, and many of them even showed. We asked our friend Alden Bodwell to videotape it, with excerpts from the result presented in this post (and on this Archives page). We worked out a big finale, of Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take Manhattan” and Graham Parker’s “Pouring It All Out,” a signature number from the first bands Ken and I had been in, 14 years prior.
I still dream about setting up masses of musical equipment, walls of amps and drums and miles of cables. I think the elaborate rig we erected in Sprague Hall planted the seed for those dreams. It took most of the afternoon for us to prepare for the evening concert — there the longest were rhythm guitarist and my girlfriend Gretchen Schaefer, singer Marcia Goldenberg, Ken and also Steve, who contributed PA equipment.
Marcia Goldenberg of the Cowlix sings Billy Walker’s hit.
Steve ran the sound for the Cowlix sets, and turned the board over to Cowlix bassist Ted Papadopoulos for the Fashion Jungle numbers, which Steve played on. Steve, in other words, was sharing that responsibility with his replacement in the Cowlix. It was still a bit awkward even though nearly two years had passed since Steve left the band.
But in these chronicles, for whatever that’s worth, Ted is just a footnote. (Sorry Ted!) He was the last in a succession of would-be Cowlix bassists who came and went, lacking the interest, equipment, ability, maturity and/or mental stability, in at least one case, for the connection to click.
The “Québécois Medley” — “You Married My Daughter (But Yet You Didn’t)” and “St. Anne’s Reel” — stayed with the Cowlix from first to last.
Ted was a deejay and musician who relied on gigs for his income, unlike the rest of us dilettantes. Getting scant return from his investment of time with the ‘Lix, he was gone by September. He performed with us only twice, at Sprague Hall and at a barn dance that same month, at the York County home of a colleague of Gretchen’s.
And those two gigs were the Cowlix’ only performances in 1991.
Fiddler/saxophonist Jim Sullivan joined the Cowlix for several numbers, including the best-known country song ever to come out of Maine.
It was quite a contrast from one year to the next. In 1991, two measly jobs. In 1990, we had a recording session, a WMPG-FM spot and at least seven performances, including opening spots for the Sir Douglas Quintet and Bill Monroe — both at Portland’s best-ever night club, Raoul’s.
(The Sir Doug job was very fun. Doug Sahm was a sweet and generous guy, we played well and of course the SDQ, well, there you go! The Monroe date, another story. The bluegrass great was past his prime, his blowhard bus driver bombarded us with bombast, Raoul’s sound guy disliked us and the bluegrass fanatics downright despised us.)
The Cowlix with a song that never made the country charts.
Another 1990 date was a charity event on the beach at Small Point on an August evening. We were on a makeshift stage on the sand, playing rough country music as waves of humid salt air washed over us.
Playing for our supper (not) on the beach at Small Point. (Hubley Archives)
Our one condition for doing the show had been that they give us dinner. This well-heeled crowd really didn’t want to give us dinner. I think we each got a hot dog and they begrudged us that. That’s how you stay rich, I guess.
We opened for Darien Brahms and the Soul Miners in September 1990 at the Drydock, a waterfront bar in Portland that’s still going strong. It was pouring rain and the management made us carry our equipment up a fire escape to the second-floor performance room. (This experience inspired my song “Thousand Pounds of Rain.”) We played well, as I recall. The punk dimension of our country sound had coalesced.
The setlist from the Drydock. Note the paper and marking: By this point we were using “setlist forms,” four-leaf self-duplicating forms that we had scavenged from somewhere. (Hubley Archives)
Our next drummer was in the Dry Dock audience, but we didn’t know that.
“I remember it well for two reasons,” says that musician, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick. “The first was that I was trying to recreate myself as a smoker . . . and was dragging away awkwardly on a Lucky Strike when my good friend Jimmy McGirr, Darien’s bassist, turned to me during the Cowlix’s rendition of ‘(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding’ and said, ‘That’s beautiful eh?’
“I had to agree. The second was that I made a mental note that I wanted to be in that band.”
Which finally came to pass. But how Jonathan came — and went — and then came back to stay, about a year after the Drydock, is another story.
Darien would again ask us to open for her, this time at a Halloween party at the Maine College of Art. All I remember about that is a giant conga line undulating around the room, in the old Portland Public Library building, while Ken, and I on accordion, played . . . I don’t know what. There was no conga-line music in the ‘Lix repertoire.
The Cowlix profiled by the Evening Express’ Barry Mothes, 1990. I meant to say, “An additional instrument.” Hubley Archives.
I’m sorry I don’t recall more of that gig, because it was Ken’s last for the next 10 months, although we didn’t know it at the time. And I also don’t remember why he left. Maybe he was just tired of country music, never his favorite genre in any case. And working second and third shifts at the post office was no day at Small Point
But he returned for “20 Years of a Basement” (and for Shyla and Bill Murray’s barn dance, where we met the fifth member of the 1992-94 Cowlix, fiddler Melinda McCardell).
And how did “20 Years” work out? The weather was sunny and humid for the biggest party we ever threw. I remember Gretchen, Steve, his wife Jeri and probably Ken standing outside the building passing around a bottle of Jack Daniels, the descending August sun shining through the trees.
Our first non-open-mic gig in 1990. Between Darien Brahms and the Soul Miners and the worldly electropop of Too Much Truth, where did the garage-country of the Cowlix fit in? (Hubley Archives)
Never one to search for an original idea when there was one worth stealing, I copped Talking Heads’ conceit from the film Stop Making Sense and structured the program such that I would begin with a song, Gretchen would join me for the second number, Marcia would come in next and finally Ken, Ted — and in a special guest appearance Jim Sullivan, on fiddle and mandolin — would complete the set.
We alternated sets with the Fashion Jungle, which also began small (Steve, Ken and Doug) and got bigger. I wore a Col. Sanders tie for the country stuff and one of my skinny neckties for the FJ.
The Cowlix did well — four of the five players were solid while my singing and guitar were somewhat erratic. The reunited FJ, which had time for only a few short rehearsals after years apart, had shaky moments but produced gratifyingly long stretches of our old sound.
The ‘Lix feeling licked in April 1991. (Hubley Archives)
There was something of a crowd, including my sisters and father and a strong delegation from the Corner. Some folks wanted to dance. Marcia kept turning the house lights off for the sake of atmosphere — we had no stage lights (us? Lighting? Really? Seriously?) — and Alden kept turning them back on for the sake of the video.
We closed with “Pouring It All Out” (having running out of time for “Manhattan”). We chased our friends out at midnight because the masters of Sprague Hall had strict rules about closing time.
And in the midst of all that, quietly and with barely a thought, we closed the book once and for all on the Fashion Jungle, 10 years after it began.
Watch video of the Fashion Jungle at “20 Years of a Basement.”
Hear (and buy) selections from the Fashion Jungle’s performances:
Je t’aime (Hubley) Audio extracted from the video at the top of this post.
Rubber Hammer (Chapman-Hubley-Reynolds) Audio extracted from the video on this page
Breaker’s Remorse (Hubley) Audio as above.
Peacetime Hero (Sullivan) Jim sings his composition, written for the original FJ in 1981. Audio as above.
Sporting Life (Chapman) Audio as above.
Little Cries (Hubley) Audio from a cassette.
Curious Attraction (Chapman) Audio from a cassette.
Copyright © by Douglas L. Hubley: “Je t’aime,” 1983; “Breaker’s Remorse,” 2010; “Little Cries,” 1983. All rights reserved.
“Rubber Hammer” copyright © 2013 by Steven Chapman, Douglas Hubley and Kenneth Reynolds. All rights reserved.
Copyright © by Steven Chapman: “Sporting Life,” 1982; “Curious Attraction,” 1984. All rights reserved.
“Peacetime Hero” copyright © 1981 by James Sullivan. All rights reserved.
Notes From a Basement text copyright © 2013 by Douglas L. Hubley. All rights reserved.
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BevMo! plans new location in Santee
by Rick Griffin | Aug 2, 2012 | East County Business News
The Beverages & More Inc. retail store chain is planning to open a new location of its BevMo! store at 9755 Mission Gorge Road in Santee. Santee city officials said that Concord-based Beverages & More has applied for a conditional use permit allowing liquor sales in an existing 9,500-square-foot space at the Plaza De Cuyamaca shopping center. Conditions limit hours of operation, require signage prohibiting on-site alcohol consumption and the presence of unaccompanied minors, and limit sales of certain accessory items. Beverages & More operates 118 BevMo! stores in three states, selling wine, beer, spirits and related products. It currently has 10 stores in San Diego County.
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Answers for “The life and work of Marie Curie” with explanations
June 12, 2019 by ashish
Question 1-6:
1. FALSE (para 1, last 5 lines: ―Prize. With her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel,
she was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics, and was then sole winner of the 1911
Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.‖)
2. NOT GIVEN
3. TRUE (para 2, last 3 lines: ―bad investment, she then had to take work as a teacher. From
her earnings she was able to finance her sister Bronia’s medical studies in Paris, on the
understanding that Bronia would, in turn, later help her to get an education
Para 3, first 2 lines: ―In 1891 this promise was fulfilled and Marie went to Paris
and began to study at the Sorbonne (the University of Paris). She often worked far into
the night and lived on little more‖)
4. FALSE (para 6, first 2 lines: ―The births of Marie’s two daughters, Irene and Eve, in 1897
and 1904 failed to interrupt her scientific work. She was appointed lecturer in physics at
the École Normale Supérieure for‖)
5. TRUE (para 7, line 3-4: ―the scientific work that they had undertaken. On May 13, 1906,
she was appointed to the professorship that had been left vacant on her husband’s death,
becoming the first woman to‖)
Question 7-13:
7. Thorium (para 4, last 2 lines: ―Marie later called ‗radioactivity‘, Marie Curie decided to
find out if the radioactivity discovered in uranium was to be found in other elements. She
discovered that this was true for thorium‖)
8. Pitchblende (para 5, the first line: ―Turning her attention to minerals, she found her
interest drawn to pitchblende, a mineral‖)
9. Radium (para 7, last 2 lines: ―teach at the Sorbonne. In 1911 she was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Chemistry for the isolation of a pure form of radium‖)
10. Soldiers (para 8, first 3 lines: ―During World War I, Marie Curie, with the help of her
daughter Irene, devoted herself to the development of the use of X-radiography, including
the mobile units which came to be known as ‗Little Curies’, used for the treatment of
wounded soldiers. In 1918 the Radium Institute‖)
11. Illness (para8, last 3 lines: ―physics and chemistry. Marie Curie, now at the highest point
of her fame and, from 1922, a member of the Academy of Medicine, researched the
chemistry of radioactive substances and their medical applications‖)
12. Neutron (para 10, line 3-6: ―abundant supply for research. The existence in Paris at the
Radium Institute of a stock of 1.5 grams of radium made a decisive contribution to the
success of the experiments undertaken in the years around 1930. This work prepared the
way for the discovery of the neutron by Sir James Chadwick and, above all, for the
discovery in 1934 by Irene and Frederic Joliot‖)
13. Leukaemia (para 10, last 3 lines: ―Curie of artificial radioactivity. A few months after this
discovery, Marie Curie died as a result of leukaemia caused by exposure to radiation. She
had often carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pocket, remarking on
the pretty blue-green light they gave off‖)
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Muslim World League leader tells World Council of Churches, 'we must combat extremists'
Peter Kenny | Friday, November 10 2017
(Photo: Marcelo Schneider/WCC)World Council of Churches General Secretary, Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit greets Dr. Mohammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, general secretary of the Muslim World League who visited Geneva' s Ecumenical Center in Switzerland on Nov.9, 2017.
One of the most important tasks of the Muslim World League is the defeat of virtual extremist messages that are spreading hatred in the world, the Islamic organization's secretary general has said at a meeting with a top Christian leader.
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Dr. Mohammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, general secretary of the Muslim World League visited the World Council of Churches in Geneva' s Ecumenical Center in Switzerland on Nov.9.
In his opening remarks, Al-Issa said: "Peace cannot be achieved without total justice, abstract justice can only lead to false peace," the WCC said in a statement.
He said, "Religious freedom is a human and logical necessity, a given if we understand the holy texts correctly."
The Muslim World League is an international non-governmental Islamic organization based in the Holy City of Makkah, or Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
The Muslim leader said, "We have to combat extremists, the means and media used by them. Their objectives are purely material. We all have to be well informed, open to dialogue and new information, keep the truth and listen to all parties"
WCC general secretary Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit who welcomed Al-Issa to the Ecumenical Center said, "As religious leaders we have a special responsibility to elevate the sanctity of the life of all human beings created by the Holy God.
"As communities of faith we are called to show this as love to one another, in relations of respect and care to everybody."
Tveit noted, "We believe in one God that has created one humanity to live together with its diversity and differences.
"We are here to share our reflections and commitment to show together what we believe this means in practice.
"Together we should call for the care of the life of everybody created by God. Therefore, we must be accountable to those are searching for justice and peace in our use of our Holy texts.
'UNITY AND CO-EXISTENCE'
Al-Issa responded: "I am very satisfied to be present and learn more about the distinguished work of the World Council of Churches on peace, unity and co-existence. We seek to achieve the same humanitarian objectives within our religions."
He stressed, "We might differ, but we have to achieve love and humanity together. Religions have nothing to do with terrorism and violence. It is our responsibility to cleanse Islam from incorrect ideas."
Al-Issa added: "World religions are neutral, they have nothing to do with profits and individual ambitions. The ones who kidnap religions are the ones that create the problem."
The Muslim leader said, "We have to unite and co-operate, those in all different religions and denominations; first reconciliation among us, and then show this paradigm to the rest of the world.
"As soon as we transform ourselves, we will be able to present mindful and unbiased solutions to others as well.
"In order to make an impact we would need to work together - through interreligious dialogue - in a sustainable way, neutral, with no political slogans. We need to develop strategic plans together and then make an impact to the world."
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Alternative Medicine: Instant Emotional Healing-Acupressure for the Emotionsdillahunt_x62ti62020-09-30T00:02:01+00:00
Instant Emotional Healing: Acupressure for the Emotions
Peter Lambrou, Ph.D., and George Pratt, Ph.D
Broadway Books, 2000
$25.00, ISBN 0-7679-0392-7
IMAGINE A PSYCHOLOGICAL technique capable of healing deep-seated emotional pain, fears, phobias, and lifelong negative habits in a matter of minutes, and often without the need for therapeutic assistance. For most people,especially those familiar with traditional talk therapy, the possibility that such a technique could exist might sound too good to be true, even absurd.
Drs. Lambrou and Pratt, who developed the technique known as Emotional Self-Management (ESM), say that theirs is just such a technique, and that it has achieved a 95% success rate in rapidly relieving both acute and chronic psychological problems. Moreover, the process involved in ESM is self-administered and can be learned without the aid of a therapist. Instant Emotional Healing is the guide for learning how to do so.
Both authors are conventionally trained and licensed clinical staff psychologists at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California. They say they developed ESM after becoming frustrated with the limitations posed by more established psychotherapy techniques for relieving their patients’ emotional pain. As the authors point out, “Many times, the best psychology can do is help people suffer more effectively.”
Initially skeptical about healing techniques outside of the mainstream, Lambrou and Pratt became intrigued by the success they were able to achieve using hypnosis and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a technique effective for dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder. Eventually their curiosity led them to explore a new therapeutic specialty known as Thought Field Therapy (TFT). Derived from ancient Chinese theories on bioenergy, TFT combines Western cognitive therapeutic approaches with Eastern acupressure techniques. In many cases it has provided nearly instantaneous relief from distressing emotional problems without the need for talk therapy or counseling. The two doctors sought a method that would empower others to achieve similar results on their own, and ultimately they developed the ESM methods. They claim that they have achieved a 95% success rate resolving the emotional problems of over 6,000 of their patients using this technique.
ESM is based on the premise that energy, thoughts, emotions, and the body are interrelated and operate as an intelligent, fully communicating system. “Emotions, in this framework, are believed to result from the influence of electromagnetic energy created by our thoughts, and the electrical and chemical changes that occur within the body,” the authors explain. ESM works by unblocking what the authors describe as “trapped emotional feedback patterns within that system.”
<blockquote>The combined process of tapping acupoints and reconnecting with troubling emotions allows trapped emotions to flow freely.</blockquote>
This is accomplished through a specific set of protocols that stimulate the acupuncture meridian system, specifically meridian points associated with emotions. In that regard, ESM is similar to NAET, the allergy-elimination protocols developed by Dr. Devi Nambudripad (see Alternative Medicine, issue number 29, May/June 1999).
The protocol calls for tapping relevant acupuncture points (using one’s fingers) and simultaneously envisioning one’s emotional problems. According to the authors, this combined process of tapping acupoints and reconnecting with troubling emotions enables the mind-body to clear away energy blockages, allowing trapped emotions to flow freely, while restoring physical, mental, and emotional balance. ESM also incorporates imagery and visualization techniques derived from the authors’ background as clinical hypnotists. Thought-focusing components of cognitive therapy and “balanced breathing” exercises that help align the body’s electromagnetic field are also part of the therapy. “Once the techniques are mastered,” Drs. Lambrou and Pratt write, “the entire ESM protocol frequently takes less than ten minutes to perform.”
ESM is easy to use and the results produced are significant. The authors have worked with clients to totally eradicate habitual patterns of anxiety, anger and rage, emotional trauma, grief, guilt, heartache, jealousy, panic attacks, deep-rooted shame, and a wide range of phobic and other conditions. In addition to eliminating unproductive distress, ESM can also be used to enhance confidence, mental focus, performance goals, and a healthy self-image. This aspect of ESM, known as “The Optimizer,” has been used by athletes, actors, business people, and public speakers to achieve greater degrees of success in their respective fields. The authors caution, however, that ESM is not intended to replace professional care necessary for treating serious conditions such as substance abuse, eating disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, or major depression.
<em>Instant Emotional Healing</em> outlines the theory, techniques, and application of ESM in a manner that anyone can understand. The authors lay the foundation for how to apply ESM for self-care using photographs, illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and offering revealing and inspiring case histories.
Part I provides an overview of the research on which ESM is based and ESM’s many theories and applications, including basic techniques. Part II discusses the role that emotions play in our lives, including how and why emotional energies become stuck and out of balance. A hands-on approach for determining your stress level and a potent stress relief technique are also explained. In Part III, the reader is introduced to the various emotion-specific ESM protocols for 28 emotions. Detailed instructions help the reader determine which protocols to use and how to apply them. Finally, in Part IV, ESM techniques geared to increase productivity and performance are shared, along with guidelines for teaching and administering ESM to others, including children. The comprehensive Resource and Recommended Reading sections steer readers to material on aspects of Thought Field Therapy.
Drs. Lambrou and Pratt predict that, within the next decade, the various applications of ESM and TFT in general will become a standard approach for health care professionals and anyone interested in optimum performance. Fortunately, readers choosing to apply the revolutionary techniques revealed in Instant Emotional Healing won’t have to wait that long to enjoy the benefits ESM can provide.
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Where do you draw the line with Frankenstein?
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NerfLad
For a couple of years now I've been using Mapex Saturn drums with a 22" bass drum as a main kit. As you may know, they are notoriously heavy. I have been carrying a 20x16 Tama Starclassic B/B bass drum in its place simply because it's so much easier to transport. Thus, right now I'm gigging with Frankenstein.
I read somewhere a story Steve Smith told about playing with Jean-Luc Ponty. When he first got the gig he combined a couple different four or five piece kits into a Cobham-esque fusion setup, but soon Jean-Luc requested that he use drums that matched, as he thought it looked too unprofessional on stage.
In my completely biased opinion, I see no problem with "Frankensteining" kits for practical, musical purposes. Where do you/would you draw the line? A wedding/funeral? A big tour? A TV appearance?
NerfLad said:
Where do you/would you draw the line? A wedding/funeral? A big tour? A TV appearance?
...or when the person who's paying you to play drums for them says it looks too unprofessional.
Les Ismore said:
Of course. What would you consider unprofessional?
Anon La Ply
There are no limits for me, but my band gets paid diddly and no one seems to care as long as I make vaguely appropriate sounds.
GeoB
Motown guitarists weren't allowed to play Fender guitars because they weren't as dressy as Gibsons. Okay... the funny part is that a lot of people in the 70's were interpreting Motown material (sight unseen) with strats and tele's from Fender. I guess the mixes made the Gibsons sound thin. Much to the surprise of many... these timeless classics weren't recorded with Fender guitars... The electric bass parts were, but not the guitar. And if you look at the electric bass pics, they were the top of the line fancy model fenders.
Anyway.... I have wrap, silver sparkle, that I put on my shells at some point, if they stay in rotation. I chose silver sparkle because it has been around forever and you can always match it. If some drum stays in the rotation or in the shed for any length of time it gets wrapped. Personally, I would play 5 gallon buckets if they sounded good, but for the sake of the band leader... they would match... so I guess I would be using Sherwin Williams 5 gallon buckets!
KarlCrafton
When I was younger, there was NO WAY I would have Frankensteined a (color) kit together.
Probably becauce when I first started playing, then playing out, I had a cobbled together kit of different brand bass drum and toms. The color matched, but that was it. Once I could buy things, it all matched.
Now, 20+ years later, it wouldn't be a huge deal to me to have some miss matched gear.
The bigger stages its where it's LESS noticeable if things don't match. There's so much space, your eye doesn't focus on small areas.
As long as the kit wasn't obviously duct taped together, people in the audience wouldn't likely even notice if each piece was different. Either that, or they'd assume it was supposed to be that way.
As for hardware, nobody notices, or thinks anything of it (other than the person playing) if it's different brands--which usually it is on some part of the hardware.
From 25 feet away, stands all just looks like chrome sticks holding cymbals up.
caddywumpus
I'll Frankenstein my snare with the rest of the kit. That's about it. I DID do a sparkle Frankenstein kit once (blue bass drum, red tom, gold tom, silver floor tom, green snare), but that was clearly intentional and very noticeable.
I don't think it makes that much difference, as long as it looks nice. If it's too distracting to others, THEY are the ones with "the problem."
Hollywood Jim
Anon La Ply said:
my band gets paid diddly and no one seems to care as long as I make vaguely appropriate sounds.
Ha !
Yeah, Ain't that the truth.
I can identify with that.
Dr_Watso
Lines are for snorting, not drum kits. Play whatever you think sounds best, is my SOP. A lot of the time I don't want the 24 bass drum but I do want the other big tom sizes from that kit, no reason not to mix and match.
My kit couldn't be closer to Frankenstein if I pulled the electrical switch and said, "It's Alive!". Nobody has ever said anything, people have complimented my drum sounds a lot even though I use a Gretsch bass drum, pearl toms, and a Pork Pie Snare. The only line I draw is if what you want to use and if it works and sounds good.
I would consider venue inappropriate messaging on the set itself to be unprofessional...no need for profanity graffiti at a family wedding reception....otherwise, who cares about the non-compensated etiology of your set?
..now if you are not honoring your endorsement contracts....that's something else..
I say "Its Alive!"
I think if the colors match, then you're not "Frankenstiening" if you're mixing brands. Some kits, like jellybean vistalites, look pretty cool, but most of the times I try to have a matching colored-kit everytime I go out. I do have a FRankenstein kit, but they're all black, so nobody would notice anyway. Of course, if it looks unprofessional, and the client doesn't like it, be prepared to do what's asked. What you have to say on the instrument is more important than what you want it to look like.
AudioWonderland
Doesn't matter. Its what the man signing the check thinks
My priorities are:
1. I hit them at the right time
2. They sound good
10. They look good.
There is no line for me. I love Frankenstein kits. Seeing a kit with all the same brand is goofy IMO.
Starship Krupa
caddywumpus said:
I DID do a sparkle Frankenstein kit once (blue bass drum, red tom, gold tom, silver floor tom, green snare), but that was clearly intentional and very noticeable.
Isn't that a "jellybean?"
SmoothOperator
http://youtu.be/OEQZTzIYRXs
Seriously though, Frankenstein is the only way to go. I have a brass snare two matching green grain lacquer session series bass drums and a blue lacquer export series with long lugs on snare stand, and a Brazillian tamborim on LP mic clamp. Exactly what I want.
It is really annoying how incompatible various mounts are though, especially when trying to adapt more traditional percussion into the set.
MileHighDrummer
I don't see a line. If someone wants different types, colors, brands of drums played together - then that's obviously fine. I choose to keep my kit homogeneous. Probably from when I was young and broke. I didn't want my drums appearing cobbled together. Back then I chose additions to my kit that were of the same blue sparkle even if different brands. Personal preference only. I couldn't care less what anyone else wants to play.
Mikeyboyeee
yea... just short of there is where my line would be!
Apparently Bill Rieflin, one of three drummers (incuding the estimable Gavin Harrison and Pat Mastelotto) in the new version of King Crimson isn't concerned about his Frankenstein kit!
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Cautious Uptake Of the Pension Freedoms Reported – Could Annuities Be Holding Steady?
Last March, in his 2014 Budget speech the Chancellor George Osborne announced sweeping reforms to the way pensioners could access their lifetime of pension savings.
No longer would purchasing an annuity be a necessity; no longer would retirees be tied into an annuity contract; and no longer would retirees have no responsibility over how they managed their retirement income.
Caps and restrictions were to be lifted on income drawdown, giving pensioners the ability to access their entire pension savings as a cash lump sum if they so desired.
What was referred to as a ‘death blow’ to annuities was to allow complete freedom over how retirees drew a retirement income from their pension fund.
The new tax year loomed ever closer, with most pension providers only just getting their processes in place to deal with the new freedoms, many expecting a year’s worth of new business just in the first few months of the new rules coming into effect.Billions of pounds were expected to be withdrawn from pension funds across the country.
Then, when April 6 finally arrived, moving us into the new tax year and bringing the pension freedoms with it, the phones weren’t ringing. Or more accurately… the phones were ringing, just not about cashing in whole pension funds.
It was today reported that pension provider Hargreaves Lansdown took hundreds of calls on 6 April… but less than 8% of them were about withdrawing a whole pension fund.
The remaining calls were mostly about long-term retirement planning, including income drawdown plans over a length of time, or even those much-slighted annuities.
So while annuity rates and sales were expected to decline in the wake of the pension freedoms, it looks like reports of their demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
They are still the most secure retirement product for many pensioners, especially for those who are adverse to a great deal of risk, providing a guaranteed income, often for life.
It looks as though the pension freedoms, while great for many pensioners, may not cause such a radical shake-up to the pensions industry as once predicted.
While it is still early days, and people will always want more control over how they manage their retirement income, we think annuities will be sticking around for a little while longer than many originally thought.
Ryan Smith is part of the content development team at Compare Annuity, working with a carefully selected network of annuity specialists offering retirees free, no-obligation quotes and advice on annuities.
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By Brian Soergel
GoFundMe campaign for longtime hairstylist Lori Peña
A GoFundMe account has been created for a longtime Edmonds hairstylist, Lori Peña, who is undergoing a kidney transplant Wednesday, Jan. 6.
The fundraiser is organized by two local business owners, Mary Kay Sneeringer from Edmonds Bookshop and Colleen Bowman from C'est La Vie.
"My pal Lori Peña (the woman I'm talking about when I say, 'Only my hairdresser knows, for sure!') is one of the most generous people I know," said Edmonds resident Nancy Leson, on her Facebook page. "In a few days, one of her friends is gifting her with a new kidney. Lori got her last one 30 years ago.
"She has worked so hard and has been so sick, but she'll still text me and say, 'Bangs?' - then fit me in for a quick snip. She could use some financial help."
The GoFundMe campaign has a goal of $30,000.
From the campaign page:
Thirty years ago, shortly after opening Salon Peña in downtown Edmonds, a young hairstylist with a heart of gold – and a failing kidney – had a transplant that saved her life and allowed her to become a vibrant part of the downtown Edmonds community.
On January 6, 2021, Lori Peña will undergo another transplant: a gift from a longtime friend and client, Wendy Hutchins-Cook.
While an organ is a kind of sacrifice too few of us would brave, those who love and support Lori hope you'll make an easier donation: a financial one.
Over the past few years, with her kidney in failure, the hope of a transplant in her future, and mounting medical bills, Lori's had a tough go. But as ever, she kept going. She sold her house, closed her beloved business, and leased a solo suite at Mosiac studios where – between the many hours spent in a dialysis chair – she's worked as much as possible, but not nearly enough to make ends meet.
Fabulous, flamboyant, and known for her generosity, Lori needs and deserves our help to recuperate and rejuvenate from two-plus-years of dialysis. To take time off for the first time since she underwent her original transplant. To get back on her feet and ultimately, back behind the chair she loves most: the one with a client in it.
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Follow Up: Burglar Identified, Property Recovered
Timothy G. Russell, 29, of Bowling Green
Bad news yet again for the bad guys trying to burglarize Edmonson County. For the second time in three days, stolen property has been recovered by local law enforcement. Timothy G. Russell, 29, of Bowling Green, was charged Tuesday evening with Burglary 1st and Theft By Unlawful Taking (firearm). Police say Russell had just burglarized the home of Nick and Brooke Stevenson of New Grove Road when Mr. Stevenson found the suspect's vehicle parked in his driveway, walking from the back yard. Stevenson confronted Russell, who stated he was looking for a jeep that had been posted for sale. Stevenson noticed an imprint of a gun in Russell's pocket. Russell then left and headed south. Stevenson entered his home and found that he had several items missing. Dept. of Homeland Security Agent Theodore Curtis overheard the radio traffic and was able to intercept Russell. He followed Russell to Country Living Estates. When Warren County Sheriff's Dept. and Kentucky State Police arrived, the officers approached Russell and detained him until responding officer, Lt. Shane Doyle with the Edmonson County Sheriff's Department arrived. Doyle placed Russell under arrest after seeing Russell and confirming that it was, in fact, the same subject that Stevenson had confronted.
Warren County K-9 Deputy Hargis and K-9 unit Gunner (the dog) tracked the suspect's trail to the nearby woods. Agent Curtis located another piece of the stolen property in the area that the K-9 tracked. Officers on the scene stressed the importance of K-9 Unit Gunner's tracking ability and assistance during the incident.
Warren County Deputy Steve Morris returned to the scene and located all the Stevenson's property that was reported stolen, two guns and a walking cane.
Russell with Warren County Deputy Steve Morris
jeannie minyard
I am glad they got him, I am glad they got there thing back.
Rick Perko
Great job Guys and Gunner Too! Everyone kept their cool and no one was hurt, once again guys great job!!!!
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Rolling Contact Bearing, Its Types and Applications
21:07 bearing material, bearings, Machine Design, Mechanical Engineering
Bearings are used to reduce the friction when there is a relative motion between two parts like shaft and housing. There are two major groups of bearings, sliding contact bearing and rolling contact bearing. In this topic, we will discuss rolling contact bearing.
Bearing is a mechanical element that permits relative motion between two parts, such as the shaft and the housing, with minimum friction.
A rolling contact bearing is also known as the antifriction bearing. However, this is misnaming because there is always friction between the rolling element and the inner and outer cages.
A rolling contact bearing consists of four parts - inner and outer races, a rolling element such as ball, roller, or needle, and a cage which holds the rolling element together and are equispaced around the periphery of the shaft.
Depending upon the type of load, bearings are classified as Radial bearings and Thrust bearings. However, there is no clear distinction between these two bearings types. Certain types of radial bearings can take thrust load, while certain thrust bearings can take the radial load.
Depending upon the type of rolling element, bearings are classified as
Ball-bearing
Angular Contact bearing
Needle bearing.
Types of Rolling Contact Bearing
Let us see the types of rolling contact bearings, which are frequently used.
Deep groove ball bearings are the most frequently used ball bearings. Deep groove ball bearings are found in almost all types of products in general mechanical engineering. In this type of bearing, the radius of the ball is slightly less than the radii of curvature of the grooves in the races. Therefore, the balls and the races may roll freely without any sliding.
Nomenclature of Deep groove ball bearing
Advantages of Deep groove ball bearings:
Deep groove ball bearings take the load in radial as well as the axial direction.
Due to the relatively large size of the balls, deep groove ball bearing has a high load-carrying capacity.
Due to point contact between the balls and races, frictional loss and resultant temperature rise are less in this bearing. The maximum permissible speed of the shaft depends upon the temperature rise of the bearing.
Deep groove ball bearings give excellent performance in high-speed applications.
Due to point contact, these bearings are less noisy.
The deep groove ball bearing is available with a bore diameter from few millimeters to 400 millimeters.
Disadvantages of Deep groove ball bearings:
The deep groove ball bearing is not self-aligning. Accurate alignment between the axes of the shaft and the housing bore is required.
These bearings have poor rigidity compared to roller bearing. This is due to point contact compared with the line contact of the roller bearing.
It is not suitable for a machine tool spindle where rigidity is an important consideration.
When maximum load-carrying capacity is required in a given space, the point contact in a ball bearing is replaced by line contact of the roller bearing. Cylindrical roller bearing consists of relatively short rollers that are positioned and guided by the cage.
Advantages of Cylindrical roller bearing:
Due to line contact between rollers and races, the radial load-carrying capacity of the cylindrical roller bearing is very high.
The cylindrical roller bearing is more rigid than a ball bearing.
The coefficient of friction is low and frictional loss is less in high-speed applications.
Disadvantages of Cylindrical roller bearing:
In general, cylindrical roller bearing cannot take thrust load.
The cylindrical roller bearing is not self-aligning. It cannot tolerate misalignment. It needs precise alignment between axes of the shaft and the bore of the housing.
Cylindrical roller bearing generates more noise.
In angular contact bearing, the grooves in the inner race and outer races are so shaped that the line of reaction at the contact between balls and races makes an angle with the axis of the bearing. This reaction has two components, radial and axial. Therefore, angular contact bearing can take the thrust loads and radial loads. Angular contact bearings are often used in pairs, either side by side or at the opposite ends of the shaft, in order to take the thrust load in both directions. These bearings are assembled with a specific magnitude of pre-load.
Advantages of Angular contact bearing:
Angular contact bearing can take both radial and thrust loads.
In angular contact bearing, one side of the groove in the outer race is cut away to permit the insertion of more number of balls than that of the deep groove ball bearing. This permits the bearing to carry relatively large axial and radial loads.
The load-carrying capacity of angular contact bearing is more than a deep groove ball bearing.
Disadvantages of Angular contact bearing:
Two bearings are required to take thrust load in both directions.
Angular contact bearing must be mounted without axial play.
Angular contact bearings require initial preloading.
There are two types of self-aligning rolling contact bearings, self-aligning ball bearing and spherical roller bearing. The self-aligning ball bearing consists of two rows of balls, which roll on a common spherical surface in the outer race. In this case, the assembly of the shaft, the inner race and the balls with a cage can freely roll and adjust itself to the angular misalignment of the shaft. There is a similar arrangement in a spherical roller bearing, where balls are replaced by two rows of spherical rollers, which run on a common spherical surface in the outer race.
Compared with self-aligning ball bearing, spherical roller bearing can carry relatively high radial and thrust loads. Both types of self-aligning bearing permit minor angular misalignment of the shaft relative to the housing. They are therefore particularly suitable for applications where misalignment can arise due to errors in mounting or due to deflection of the shaft. They are used in agricultural machinery, ventilators, and railway axle boxes.
The taper roller bearing consists of rolling elements in the form of a frustum of a cone. They are arranged in such a way that the axes of individual rolling elements intersect in a common apex point on the axis of the bearing.
In kinematics analysis, this is an essential requirement for pure rolling motion between conical surfaces. In taper roller bearing, line of resultant reaction through the rolling elements makes an angle with the axis of the bearing.
Therefore taper roller bearing can carry both radial and axial loads. In fact, the presence of either component results in the other, acting on the bearing. In other words, a taper roller bearing subjected to pure radial load induces thrust component and vice versa. Therefore, taper roller bearings are always used in pairs to balance the thrust component.
Taper roller bearing has separable construction. The outer ring is called 'cup' and the inner ring called 'cone'. The cup is separable from the remainder assembly of the bearing elements including the rollers, cage, and the cone.
Advantages of Taper roller bearing:
Taper roller bearing can take heavy radial and thrust loads.
Taper roller bearing has more rigidity
Taper roller bearing can be easily assembled and disassembled due to separable parts.
Disadvantages of Taper roller bearing:
It is necessary to use two taper roller bearings on the shaft to balance the axial force.
It is necessary to adjust the axial position of the bearing with preload. This is essential to coincide the apex of the cone with the common apex of the rolling elements.
Taper roller bearing cannot tolerate misalignment between the axes of the shaft and the housing bore
They are costly.
Taper roller bearings are used for cars and trucks, propeller shafts, and differentials, railroad axle boxes and large size bearing in rolling mills.
Thrust ball bearing consists of a row of balls running between two rings i.e. shaft ring and housing ring. Thrust ball bearing carries thrust load in only one direction and cannot carry any radial load. The use of a large number of balls results in high thrust load carrying capacity in smaller space. This is the major advantage of the thrust ball bearing.
Disadvantages of Thrust ball bearing:
Thrust ball bearing cannot take the radial load.
It is not self-aligning and cannot tolerate misalignment.
Their performance is satisfactory at low and medium speeds. At higher speeds, these bearings give poor performance because the balls are subjected to centrifugal forces and gyroscopic couple.
Thrust ball bearing does not operate as well on horizontal shafts as they do on vertical shafts.
Thrust ball bearings require continuous pressure applied by springs to hold the ring together.
Thrust ball bearings are used where heavy thrust loads are to be carried, for example, worm gearboxes and crane hooks.
Also read Properties of bearing materials, Materials for sliding contact bearing.
There are specific materials for the parts of rolling contact bearings. They are as follows:
The balls and the inner and outer races are made of high carbon chromium steel (SAE 52100 or AISI 5210). It contains 1% carbon and 1.5% chromium. The balls and races are through-hardened to obtain a minimum hardness of 58 Rockwell C.
The cages are made from stampings of low carbon steel.
The rollers are made of case hardened steels (AISI 3310, 4620 or 8620). They are case carburized to obtain a surface hardness of 58 Rockwell C.
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Citing “endless risk,” district court DQ’s firm from 401(k) case
By Karen Rubin on July 29, 2020
Posted in ERISA
A New York district court judge earlier this month disqualified a firm representing hundreds of 401(k) plan participants based on a conflict of interest. The judge called the risks posed “endless,” and requested additional briefing on whether the firm would be allowed to remain as counsel in related arbitration proceedings in Missouri. The ruling spotlights the sometimes-thorny conflict issues that can arise in ERISA litigation.
Litigation in the Empire State; arbitration in the Show-Me State
Several related actions are pending in the Southern District of New York centering on the 401(k) plan and its administration. In two of the actions, The Klamann Law Firm represented profit-sharing plan participants who alleged ERISA violations based on several breaches of fiduciary duty against the participants’ employer, the trust investment manager and the plan advisory committee along with the advisory committee’s individual members.
At the same time, in Missouri, The Klamann Law Firm was representing a number of claimants, including three individual former members of the plan advisory committee, in arbitration proceedings against the employer and the trust investment manager. Claimants’ claims in the arbitration were nearly identical to the litigation claims asserted in the two New York district court cases.
The defendants in the district court cases moved to disqualify The Klamann Law Firm, asserting that in suing the plan advisory committee and its individual members, the firm was essentially suing its own clients, raising a disqualifying current-client conflict of interest.
The district court agreed.
“Broad discretion”
Citing its broad discretion to invoke the “drastic remedy” of disqualification whenever a lawyer’s conduct “tends to taint the underlying trial,” the district court noted that the Second Circuit considers adverse representation of current clients improper per se. The burden is on the lawyer to show that there will be no actual or apparent conflict in loyalty or “diminution in the vigor of [the lawyer’s] representation.”
The court noted that claims in the New York District court complaints made it “evident” that plaintiffs intended to sue both the employer and the plan advisory committee for fiduciary breaches committed while two and possibly all three of the individual members were on the committee — the same members The Klamann Firm was representing as claimants in the Missouri arbitration.
“The risks posed by this scenario are endless,” the court wrote, brushing away plaintiffs’ arguments. The court rejected contentions that the DQ motion was merely a “strategic tool,” that the law firm’s clients would suffer undue prejudice from its disqualification and that all the clients had consented to the conflict.
The court was harsh in discussing the contention that the district court complaints should be read to allege claims only for conduct after the three advisory committee members had left the committee. To the court, that raised the possibility that the firm was “improperly” seeking to “limit the scope” of the assertions in the district court complaints “simply to preclude liability against [the] arbitration clients.” It is not possible, the court wrote, to “amend[] a complaint to erase the appearance of concurrent representation.”
Some key take-aways from this disqualification opinion:
Like many federal courts ruling on disqualification motions, the court here said it would look to state disciplinary rules, but that they “merely provide general guidance,” and that a violation of a lawyer conduct rule will not necessarily spell disqualification.
Although the court did not cite it, the relevant rule here is New York’s version of Model Rule 1.7, which provides that a conflict of interest exists when a lawyer concurrently represents clients with “differing interests,” even when the matters are unrelated.
Under many circumstances, a current-client conflict is waivable if each client gives informed consent. Timing is everything, however. Here, the firm said it had obtained consent of its clients — but only too late, wrote the court. Consent “needed to be obtained prior to … undertaking representation of adverse interests, not in response to a motion to disqualify.”
The National Association of Plan Administrators has commented on a “spate” of ERISA litigation that includes claims against plan advisory committees and their members, and has called for better member education about the risks, including potential personal liability. The conflict issues that arise for lawyers demand equal attention and caution.
Karen Rubin
Karen is a member of Thompson Hine’s business litigation group. She is a member of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism, a former chair of the Certified Grievance Committee of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, and a member and past chair…
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The Jerusalem Council
15 yBut some men came down from Judea and were teaching zthe brothers, “Unless you are acircumcised baccording to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and cdebate with them, Paul and Barnabas and dsome of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to ethe apostles and the elders about this question. 3 So, fbeing sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, gdescribing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and hbrought great joy to all ithe brothers.1 4 jWhen they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and kthe apostles and the elders, and gthey declared all that God had done with them. 5 But some believers who belonged to lthe party of the Pharisees rose up and said, m“It is necessary nto circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”
6 oThe kapostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. 7 And after there had been much pdebate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, qthat by my mouth the Gentiles should hear rthe word of sthe gospel and believe. 8 And God, twho knows the heart, ubore witness to them, vby giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, 9 and whe made no distinction between us and them, xhaving cleansed their hearts yby faith. 10 Now, therefore, why zare you putting God to the test aby placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples bthat neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? 11 But we cbelieve that we will be dsaved through ethe grace of the Lord Jesus, wjust as they will.”
12 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul fas they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. 13 After they finished speaking, gJames replied, “Brothers, listen to me. 14 hSimeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them ia people for his name. 15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,
16 j“‘After this I will return,
and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen;
I will rebuild its ruins,
and I will restore it,
17 that the remnant2 of mankind kmay seek the Lord,
and all the Gentiles lwho are called by my name,
says the Lord, who makes these things 18 mknown from of old.’
19 Therefore nmy judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who oturn to God, 20 but should write to them pto abstain from qthe things polluted by idols, and from rsexual immorality, and from swhat has been strangled, and from sblood. 21 For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, tfor he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”
The Council’s Letter to Gentile Believers
22 Then it seemed good to uthe apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called vBarsabbas, and wSilas, leading men among xthe brothers, 23 with the following letter: x“The brothers, both uthe apostles and the elders, to the brothers3 who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, ygreetings. 24 Since we have heard that zsome persons have gone out from us and atroubled you4 with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, 25 it has seemed good to us, having come bto one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our cbeloved Barnabas and Paul, 26 dmen who have erisked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 We have therefore sent fJudas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. 28 For it has seemed good gto the Holy Spirit and hto us ito lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: 29 jthat you abstain from kwhat has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
30 So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter. 31 And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement. 32 And Judas and Silas, who were themselves lprophets, encouraged and mstrengthened nthe brothers with many words. 33 And after they had spent some time, they were sent off oin peace by nthe brothers to those who had sent them.5 35 But pPaul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
Paul and Barnabas Separate
36 And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit nthe brothers qin every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.” 37 Now Barnabas wanted to take with them rJohn called Mark. 38 But Paul thought best not to take with them one swho had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work. 39 And there arose ta sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. uBarnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus, 40 but Paul chose Silas and departed, vhaving been commended by wthe brothers to xthe grace of the Lord. 41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, ystrengthening the churches.
Timothy Joins Paul and Silas
16 Paul1 came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named zTimothy, athe son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. 2 He was well spoken of by bthe brothers2 at Lystra and Iconium. 3 Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he ctook him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance dthe decisions ethat had been reached by fthe apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. 5 gSo the churches were strengthened in hthe faith, and they increased in numbers idaily.
The Macedonian Call
6 And jthey went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. 7 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but kthe Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. 8 So, passing by Mysia, they went down lto Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 And when Paul3 had seen the vision, immediately mwe sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
The Conversion of Lydia
11 So, setting sail from Troas, we nmade a direct voyage to Samothrace, and the following day to Neapolis, 12 and from there to oPhilippi, which is a leading city of the4 district of Macedonia and pa Roman colony. We remained in this city some days. 13 And qon the Sabbath day we went outside the gate rto the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we ssat down and spoke to the women who had come together. 14 One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, twho was a worshiper of God. The Lord uopened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. 15 And after she was baptized, vand her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she wprevailed upon us.
Paul and Silas in Prison
16 As we were going to xthe place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had ya spirit of zdivination and abrought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. 17 She followed Paul and us, bcrying out, “These men are cservants of dthe Most High God, who proclaim to you ethe way of salvation.” 18 And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, f“I command you gin the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And hit came out that very hour.
19 But iwhen her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and jdragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. 20 And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city. 21 They kadvocate customs that are not lawful for us las Romans to accept or practice.” 22 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders mto beat them with rods. 23 And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely. 24 Having received this order, he put them into the inner nprison and fastened their feet in othe stocks.
The Philippian Jailer Converted
25 pAbout midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, 26 and suddenly qthere was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately rall the doors were opened, and severyone’s bonds were unfastened. 27 When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and twas about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” 29 And the jailer5 called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he ufell down before Paul and Silas. 30 Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, vwhat must I do to be wsaved?” 31 And they said, x“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you yand your household.” 32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 And he took them zthe same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he awas baptized at once, he and all his family. 34 Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he brejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.
35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.” 36 And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Therefore come out now and go in peace.” 37 But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, cuncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out.” 38 The police reported these words to the magistrates, and cthey were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens. 39 So they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and dasked them to leave the city. 40 So they went out of the prison and visited eLydia. And when they had seen fthe brothers, they encouraged them and departed.
Paul and Silas in Thessalonica
17 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to gThessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 And Paul went in, has was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them ifrom the Scriptures, 3 jexplaining and proving that it was necessary for kthe Christ to suffer and lto rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.” 4 And msome of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did na great many of the devout oGreeks and not a few of the leading women. 5 pBut the Jews1 qwere jealous, and taking rsome wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. 6 And when they could not find them, sthey dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also, 7 and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against tthe decrees of Caesar, saying that there is uanother king, Jesus.” 8 And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard these things. 9 And when they had taken money as security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
Paul and Silas in Berea
10 vThe brothers2 immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they wwent into the Jewish synagogue. 11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, xexamining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. 12 yMany of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek zwomen of high standing as well as men. 13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, aagitating and stirring up the crowds. 14 Then the brothers bimmediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and cTimothy remained there. 15 dThose who conducted Paul brought him as far as eAthens, and after receiving a command ffor Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.
Paul in Athens
16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was gprovoked within him as he saw that the city was hfull of idols. 17 So ihe reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, j“What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because khe was preaching lJesus and the resurrection. 19 And they took him and brought him to mthe Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this nnew teaching is that you are presenting? 20 For you bring some ostrange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.” 21 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: p‘To the unknown god.’ pWhat therefore you worship qas unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 rThe God who made the world and everything in it, being sLord of heaven and earth, tdoes not live in temples made by man,3 25 nor is he served by human hands, uas though he needed anything, since he himself vgives to all mankind wlife and breath and everything. 26 And xhe made from one man every nation of mankind to live yon all the face of the earth, zhaving determined allotted periods and athe boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 bthat they should seek God, cand perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. dYet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for
e“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;4
as even some of fyour own poets have said,
“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’5
29 gBeing then God’s offspring, hwe ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30 iThe times of ignorance jGod overlooked, but know he lcommands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed ma day on which nhe will judge the world oin righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and pof this he has given assurance to all qby raising him from the dead.”
32 Now when they heard of rthe resurrection of the dead, ssome mocked. But others said, t“We will hear you again about this.” 33 So Paul went out from their midst. 34 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius uthe Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
18 After this Paul1 left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And he found a Jew named vAquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife vPriscilla, because wClaudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them, 3 and xbecause he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. 4 And yhe reasoned in the synagogue yevery Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.
5 zWhen Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul awas occupied with the word, btestifying to the Jews that the Christ was cJesus. 6 And when they opposed and reviled him, dhe shook out his garments and said to them, e“Your blood be on your own heads! fI am innocent. gFrom now on I will go to the Gentiles.” 7 And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius hJustus, ia worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue. 8 jCrispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together kwith his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized. 9 And the Lord said to Paul lone night in ma vision, n“Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10 nfor I am with you, and ono one will attack you to harm you, for pI have many in this city who are my people.” 11 And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12 But when Gallio was qproconsul of Achaia, rthe Jews2 made a united attack on Paul and sbrought him before the tribunal, 13 saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to tthe law.” 14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious ucrime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint. 15 But vsince it is a matter of questions about words and names and wyour own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.” 16 And he drove them from the tribunal. 17 And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.
Paul Returns to Antioch
18 After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of xthe brothers3 and set sail for Syria, and with him yPriscilla and Aquila. At zCenchreae ahe had cut his hair, for he was under a vow. 19 And they came to bEphesus, and he left them there, but che himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. 20 When they asked him to stay for a longer period, he declined. 21 But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you dif God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus.
22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he ewent up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch. 23 After spending some time there, he departed and fwent from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, gstrengthening all the disciples.
24 Now a Jew named hApollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, icompetent in the Scriptures. 25 He had been instructed in jthe way of the Lord. And kbeing fervent in spirit,4 he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only lthe baptism of John. 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when mPriscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him nthe way of God more accurately. 27 And when he wished to cross to oAchaia, pthe brothers encouraged him and qwrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, rhe greatly helped those who through grace had believed, 28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures sthat the Christ was Jesus.
19 And it happened that while tApollos was at Corinth, Paul passed uthrough the inland1 country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. 2 And he said to them, v“Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, wwe have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” 3 And he said, x“Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into yJohn’s baptism.” 4 And Paul said, y“John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people zto believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” 5 On hearing this, athey were baptized in2 the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And bwhen Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and cthey began speaking in tongues and dprophesying. 7 There were about twelve men in all.
8 And ehe entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them fabout the kingdom of God. 9 gBut when some became stubborn and hcontinued in unbelief, speaking evil of ithe Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.3 10 This continued for jtwo years, so that kall the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.
The Sons of Sceva
11 And lGod was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 lso that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and mthe evil spirits came out of them. 13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish nexorcists oundertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, p“I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” 14 Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. 15 But the evil spirit answered them, q“Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?” 16 And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all4 of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17 And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and rthe name of the Lord Jesus was extolled. 18 Also many of those who were now believers came, sconfessing and divulging their practices. 19 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So the word of the Lord tcontinued to increase and prevail mightily.
A Riot at Ephesus
21 Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit uto pass through vMacedonia and Achaia and wgo to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, xI must also see Rome.” 22 And having sent into Macedonia two of yhis helpers, zTimothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia afor a while.
23 About that time bthere arose no little disturbance concerning cthe Way. 24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, dbrought no little business to the craftsmen. 25 dThese he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. 26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, esaying that fgods made with hands are not gods. 27 And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the ggreat goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”
28 When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, g“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” 29 So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and hAristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul’s icompanions in travel. 30 But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples would not let him. 31 And even some of the Asiarchs,5 who were friends of his, sent to him and were urging him not to venture into the theater. 32 jNow some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together. 33 Some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had put forward. And Alexander, kmotioning with his hand, wanted to make a defense to the crowd. 34 But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all cried out with one voice, l“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
35 And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from mthe sky?6 36 Seeing then that these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash. 37 For you have brought nthese men here who are neither osacrilegious nor blasphemers of our goddess. 38 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open, and there are pproconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another. 39 But if you seek anything further,7 it shall be settled in the regular assembly. 40 For we really are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion.” 41 And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly.
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European Blades
Interview: Oliver Goldschmidt
Italian knife maker Oliver Goldschmidt (26) spent almost ten years building his workshop and honing his skills before he decided to unveil his knives to the public. It was a very pleasant surprise when he finally did.
Text Bas Martens, pictures Oliver Goldschmidt and Bas Martens
An Italian knife maker with the name Goldschmidt? For some that may raise some questions. The answer is simple: Oliver comes from an international family with German ancestry. His mother is from New Zealand, his father spent his childhood in the Netherlands, and Oliver was born and raised in Italy, near Florence, where he still works and lives.
When he was 14 years old, Oliver Goldschmidt shared the interests of any other child of his age. Stimulated by popular fantasy novels, he fantasized about dragons and swords. But unlike most of his contemporaries, Oliver did not merely play with ‘swords’. He wanted to make them. More than that: he wanted real fire and real steel, and he was quite persistent about it. A neighbouring blacksmith showed him some tricks and it was not long before Oliver was building his own forge.
Italian knife maker Oliver Goldschmidt in his workshop.
At that point, his father gave him some sound advice: before trying to make big blades, he should start with smaller ones. That is how Oliver discovered the world of knives, which fascinated him ever since. “Knives are objects in which I can express my artistry, but they are also a tool”, he says. “They are a combination of functionality and aesthetics with endless possibilities.”
For almost ten years, Oliver worked on building his workshop, and mastering the different aspects of forging and knife making. He taught himself to make Damascus steel, he perfected his fits and finishings, all the while not being quite sure whether he was doing well. Finally he mustered up the courage to show his knives to the public. It was not half as bad as he had feared.
Two of Oliver’s semi-integrals. Both are made from O2 steel. One has a black Micarta handle, the other
handle is green Loveless Micarta. The knife with the black handle has a hot bluing finish, the knife with
the green Micarta handle has a cold bluing finish.
At his first knife show, in Livorno, Oliver got very good feedback and sold most of his knives, which secured him a place among the Italian knife makers. His first show outside of Italy was Gembloux, Belgium, in 2018. To his amazement and delight, he won the prize for the best fixed blade. One of his knives landed on the cover of European Blades Mag. His next step is his own table at the Blade Show, in June this year - a dream come true. Another dream is still waiting to come true though; to become a master blade smith of the Corporazione Italiano Coltellinai, so he can be present at the Milan knife show.
Here is a young man who loves his work, who magically combines big blades with Italian elegance in a distinct style and who, when asked about his ambitions, only says: “I just want to be a very good knife maker”. Well carry on, you are doing fine.
Oliver Goldschmidt spends a lot of time on the finish of his knives, with a seemingly simple and elegant result.
Oliver would love to attend more shows, but there is a problem. At the moment, he does not make enough knives. With his strive for perfection, every knife takes up a lot of time: forty to sixty hours, depending on size and complexity. He simply does not produce enough knives for more than two or three shows a year, but he is working hard to increase his production.
And then there is the financial aspect. The price that Oliver can ask for his knives, has little relation to the costs – something most knife makers know all too well. Oliver explains: “First you have your materials. G10, wood, maybe ivory for the handle. You need steel, gas for the oven. Those are direct costs. But the real expense are all these hours. If I would calculate them at a normal rate, the price of my knives would be double what I’m asking. So for now, it’s just an investment.”
Fortunately, Oliver has a second career. His family has a ballooning business, and Oliver is a certified hot air balloon pilot. When in season, he makes almost daily flights over the Tuscan landscape – one can imagine worse jobs.
Different stages of making a knife, from a steel bar at the far right, to a finished knife. They serve as a
demonstration. The bar and the finished knife are monosteel, the stages in between show Damascus.
Oliver Goldschmidt does not usually make drawings of his knives. “I normally get my ideas at night. When I start forging, I have the complete knife fixed in my mind’s eye. And sometimes when I am not sure, the process of forging shows me the way. There are so many moments where you can choose.”
Oliver forges his own Damascus, for which he normally uses a combination of 15N20 and K720 (O2) steels. His monosteel knives are made from O2, or 125SC. His use of monosteel is mainly due to requests from customers. Although his knives are fully qualified for practical use, people are still afraid to damage the Damascus – and therefore request monosteel. The big question remains which finish to give them. Oliver is still experimenting, but for the moment has found a satisfactory solution using gun bluing chemicals. Hot bluing gives a shinier result, cold bluing gives a duller finish.
One of the trademarks of Oliver’s knives is the striking butt cap. It appears to be the end of the tang, sunk into the handle which has somehow grown over it. Some people have even asked Oliver how he managed to shrink the handle around it. In reality, the butt cap is a separate piece, fixed by a hidden pin. It’s not an easy construction, Oliver admits, but as he explains: “I like the process of making the knives, so I put a lot of energy into the details of the handle, which may not always be strictly necessary. But it is nice to find something you like, and then follow through with it until you have mastered it.”
The Tiger and the Panther, two knives from home-made Damascus steel. The Panther has the black handle.
His focus up to now has been on fixed blades. We would call them integrals, but in Italy a fully integral knife must include the pommel. Oliver therefore refers to his knives as semi-integrals. He has not made a folding knife yet, but has little doubt that, in the future, he will. “I like folders very much, and one day I will make one. But it is a completely different world. So for now, I’ll continue to concentrate my efforts on my semi-integrals.”
A big knife made from 125S steel with a very subtle hamon, which unfortunately does not show in the
picture.Guard and butt cap are from bead blasted O2. The blade has gotten a hot gun bluing finish.
The handle is Ironwood burl.
The blade and details of the knife show Oliver’s strive for perfection. Oliver signs his knives ‘Goldschmidt’
on the spine of the blade.
After having spent so much time teaching himself, is there some good advice which Oliver can give aspiring knife makers?
“The advantage of teaching yourself is that you make all the mistakes, and learn from them. If an experienced knife maker teaches you, you undoubtedly will learn faster, but you might also run the risk of learning his 'mistakes', which can make it harder to find your own way and style in knife making. I preferred to find out myself and I believe that patience is the key."
One of Oliver’s Damascus blades.
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The Whole Wide of Everything (in brief...)
Sitting on a bench, Jane could see the whole wide of everything. It started with the fields that waved at her, tall grassed blowing gold in a soft breeze. Next came the trees that hedged the field in, tall and stately, dappled green. After that rolled the hills that went on and on; until they stopped. For next came the horizon, revealing the rounding of the earth, sloping to reach the sky. The sky turned bluish black and out came the light of the stars, beckoning her to dance among them. And among them and beyond lay space and... well, that was all there was, really. But, sitting as she did, a bit cold in the night air, it felt like an awful lot.
The Symphony of the Morning Stars
Once upon a time, a symphony arose. It came every day, and careful souls would still and watch and listen, for it was glorious. There are none left who remember, for we have forgotten it, and there are no more careful souls to hear. But it might have gone like this... A blink. A small, sweet blink that lights the sky, so soft and quiet that only the most careful could stir to the sound—and they are all asleep. A moment passes, and then a sister brightens in reply. A third chimes in, and then a forth. And slowly the sky begins to fill. They are tentative at first. A note here, another there, as though there is a wee babe that they are scared of waking. The eyes of the careful souls, awake now, jump in delight from one side of the sky to the other to try and catch the space between the sounds. The notes twinkle, readily now, across the huge expanse, their sounds flickering about like the drips
Emily and the Sprite
Emily thought, as she lay in the grass with her hands behind her head, that summer days were glorious. Taking in the sweet air, and chewing on a grass straw, she reveled in the delight of doing nothing. And that was because she had nothing to do. Well, nothing to do if you asked her. If you asked her aunt, she would tell you quite a different story. But for Emily, the only task she had on her list today was to escape, and having done that, she found herself quite free. Her eyelids began to flicker under the soporific effect of the bright warm sun, and she was about to yield to the delightful sleepy feeling when something landed on her stomach with a sudden and sizably thudded oomph. Emily’s eyelids flew open to see the smallest boy she had ever seen scrambling to get off her. ‘Oi!’ he said, looking at Emily as if she were the offender. ‘What do you think you’re doing, laying there in the middle of the grass like that?’ Emil
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Jose Mourinho’s Dream Man Utd 2016/17 XI including Neymar and Varane
By Aaron Goldstein
The rumours of Jose Mourinho to Manchester United are seemingly endless.
The Portuguese manager has been out of work since December, and Louis van Gaal’s future at Old Trafford is under scrutiny.
Van Gaal’s men have been accused of being very boring this season and missed the chance to enter the top four after losing to West Ham 3-2 in the last game at the Boleyn Ground.
Man United will surely be playing Europa League football next season, unless Manchester City lose to Swansea at the Liberty and United can get the better of Bournemouth.
Some of the world’s best managers will be in the Premier League next season including Arsene Wenger, Antonio Conte, Jurgen Klopp and perhaps The Special One.
The question is, despite playing in the Europa League, can the likes of Jose Mourinho and Old Trafford attract the world’s biggest stars to Manchester? If so, here is Mourinho’s DREAM starting 11 for next season…….
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Building Community As If People Mattered
Brook ManvilleContributor
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“What kind of America would you like to have?
Instead of the usual electoral horserace questions, a recent focus group of citizens was simply asked about their vision for a better nation. Peggy Noonan, the WSJ columnist who reported the story, reprised the group’s answers--“a solid education system,” “no more war,” “people with joy in their work,” “our country leading again, including in morals"—and then reflected that the respondents were looking back to “when things seemed assumptive of progress.” She noted the comments, unexpectedly, emphasized not individual desires, but rather “hopes [that] were communal, societal.”
I was less surprised than Ms. Noonan. Amidst rapid global economic and social change, as institutions and hierarchies erode, people everywhere are trying to find—or rebuild—communal values, to restore some collective optimism to their lives. It’s happening throughout society: in neighborhoods, towns, businesses, churches.
And they are searching for a new kind of leadership to help with that. Many Americans, looking beyond this toxic election, are wondering about something more universal: how do the best leaders actually succeed in “building community”—whatever the would-be community might be?
Watch on Forbes:
The 'How' Of Community Leadership
That question began my recent conversation with Richard Harwood, a practitioner and thinker who since 1988 has devoted himself to such inquiry. His Harwood Institute for Public Innovation has helped transform thousands of communities around the world, strengthening collective progress among people who share some common purpose.
(Photo: Corey Wilson. Permission The Harwood Institute)
Though renewing American rust-belt cities first put his Institute on the map, Rich’s experience has since grown to include lessons for leaders of many kinds of communities, whether geographical, regional, or virtual; whether the relationships are political, economic, or business strategic.
It Begins—And Ends—With The People
What unifies it all for Rich Harwood is people: building a community always comes back to the core, its human members. As he explained, unless a leader lives that truth, no progress can ever be sustained.
“But ironically, the more ‘community’ has become important to leaders—as it has in recent years—the more they’ve squeezed out the human element as they try to ‘fix the problems.’ They gloss over what people really care about. A new generation of technocrats has turned community building into a Gantt chart, endless initiatives following a schedule. Even worse, they often frame challenges around their own good—not the common good.”
Turning Outward
Rich went on to describe how would-be community leaders must “turn outward”—away from themselves, instead focusing horizontally on members, their relationships, and their collective yearnings for progress. “Great leaders build community from the outside in, talking and listening to people in their real lives. They abandon the heroic ego of directing top down.”
As we spoke further, a deeper conceptual infrastructure of Harwood’s accumulated experience emerged--about leadership mindset and skills, how to diagnose the state of a community, establishing the right context (creating “public capital”), and promoting a “ripple effect” that encourages other leaders, groups and citizens to join in.
Six lessons for community leaders seemed particularly distinctive:
Hope And Understanding
1.Your most important job is to help people have hope, and believe in the possibility of progress.
“Members of a struggling community may talk about problems, but what motivates them is hope for a better life, and belief that they might somehow get there. Great leaders will acknowledge challenges—but they rapidly pivot to summon a ‘can-do’ spirit among as many members as possible. Nothing’s more important than sparking a sense that if people work together, they will succeed.”
2. You earn credibility as a leader through authentic understanding of the community itself.
Instead of raw power, Harwood’s approach stresses leadership credibility: becoming trusted as someone who truly understands the opportunities, traditions, networks and relationships which give life to a community. A good leader doesn’t mandate; he or she co-creates.
“Regrettably,” Rich explained, “’community understanding’ often gets defined as data—a poverty rate, school drop-out statistics, etc. Of course data is useful—but it can crowd out what’s really on people’s minds. A leader must combine data with ‘public knowledge’: what people are feeling, talking about, and aspiring to, even if those collective feelings are out of sight.”
“A few years ago, we worked in Mobile County, Alabama, to help accelerate school reform that had been bogged down ever since the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown vs Board of Education. Polarizing race issues stymied progress: many whites blamed bad schools on unwillingness of blacks to improve their lives, while many blacks felt the root cause was an implicit effort to maintain local segregation. The data highlighted the stagnant student test results, low graduation rates, declining spending, etc.”
“But when we brought together the various community and civic groups, a steering committee formedto engage citizens about their shared aspirations. Local leaders were surprised to learn that white rural people felt just as neglected educationally as members of the black community. The conversations sparked interest for more people, both black and white, to get involved, working together to improve the schools. This new ‘public knowledge’ stimulated critical collaboration that ultimately led to increased educational funding, new math and science programs, and improved teaching and test results.”
Does Political Identity Matter?
“How important is political identity?” I asked. “Do leaders have to be ‘the right color’ or ethnic origin, or have deep personal experience in a community?”
“Of course those things help—but they’re not required. Most important is that you have the trust and right relationships—and achieve real understanding of people involved. You also need courage to face what will be tough challenges from some of those same people—and demonstrate back to them you really care about helping the community build itself up. Leadership can’t be about you; it has to be about everybody else.”
3. Build momentum by first getting people to work together and then helping others see their progress.
Harwood prioritizes “getting people on the right trajectory”—starting and then building momentum with achievable, hope-inspiring collective work.
“Another misunderstood community leadership practice is ‘creating vision.’ Those exercises can become blue-sky, untethered from reality. People get discouraged when there’s no forward movement. Great leaders start by leading community conversations, and then guide members towards valuable but near-term achievable goals. They build on that progress over time.”
“Mobile County again serves to illustrate. The leaders there laid the foundation for measurable school reform, beginning with local discussions about people’s shared aspirations. Those first steps mobilized a sense of common purpose and public support for more educational funding; that in turn allowed the leaders to involve the broader community in making concrete reforms. As more people worked together, and saw initial success, still others joined in.
4. Foster “can-do” narratives,” not disconnected storytelling.
Storytelling has become a new pillar of leadership, but Rich Harwood explained how it can sometimes be counter-productive. “People don’t need isolated tales of nostalgia or stories that don’t lead to action. Much more energizing is when leaders encourage what I call “can-do narratives”—accounts collaboratively constructed by members that are coherent, positive and forward-looking. The best of these evolve organically—laying out the trajectory people see themselves following to achieve longer-term success together.”
“I saw the power of such narratives years ago, in Battle Creek Michigan. Teams collaborating on an initial pilot project constructed a story for one of their retreats, like a Dr. Seuss kids’ book. This ‘Battle Creek Fable,’ as it came to be called, confessed why they had been struggling, and what they now wanted to achieve to improve local education, healthcare, and social services.”
“They actually acted it out as a little play at the retreat, and then later shared it more widely, as a public document. As they updated the narrative every few months, it became a chronicle about themselves--how they overcame initial barriers, and then began to succeed—and where they next wanted to go. It successfully engaged others to become part of the movement.”
Everyone At The Table?
5. Lead with “pragmatic selectivity”
Another community-building myth Harwood explodes is “always getting everyone around the table.”
“If you pursue that too literally, it can kill momentum-- and people lose hope. An effective community leader is ruthless about making choices—who to ‘run with’ (the right partners, citizens most committed to real change, etc.), where to productively start collective efforts, how fast to move, etc.”
“The right balance is to be ‘opportunistically inclusive’—work with whoever is authentically willing to collaborate on goals most people agree on. In the Bible, Abraham had a tent that was open on all sides—so that travelers from everywhere could come in. The good community leader, like Abraham, must be ready to accept new travelers once they are ready to join the collective effort. You should never exclude anyone who legitimately wants to help make progress—but the leader must avoid getting drawn into arguments with naysayers who harp on problems instead of solutions.”
Virtual Or Not
6. Lead even more intentionally if the community is virtual
Over the years Harwood’s practice has expanded into helping leaders of regional networks, extended virtual partnerships, and larger, technology-enabled communities. He emphasizes that community-building leadership, whatever the setting, follows most of the same principles that work in smaller towns and cities.
“Building hope, creating momentum for progress, being selective in where and how you work to create initial trust—the practices are essentially the same. But at greater scale, or in virtual situations, the leader does have to be even more intentional, almost exaggerated at times--to help people work together when they don’t know one another or even see one another.”
“With virtual, the typical pitfall is over-emphasizing technology, instead of people’s hopes and aspirations. Remember, virtual communities will likely not be people’s primary source of relationships—and it’s easier for them to opt out.”
“Larger, and virtual community-building calls for particularly focused leadership: to really understand the public knowledge across members, and being clever in packaging it so people understand one another’s deeper aspirations. The leader must also take extra care to nourish the broader context that fosters collective action—opportunities for people to collaborate on something winnable, encouraging face-to-face relationships whenever possible, creating more easily understood narratives when members are online."
Why All This Now?
I closed by asking Rich why building better communities today really mattered—and why it mattered so much to him.
“Everywhere I look, people are losing hope. They see a status quo that isn’t working. We’ve come to an inflection point, too many people sensing we can’t go on like this."
"But at whatever level or in whatever domain you’re living and working, the greatest source of progress through history has always been ‘the community.’ Tomorrow’s best leaders must do whatever they can to rekindle the can-do spirit of that fundamentally human invention. It’s the challenge that still wakes me up every morning.”
Brook Manville
Brook Manville is Principal of Brook Manville LLC, consulting on strategy and organization, with special interest in networks, learning, and leadership.
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Home > About Ford > Newsroom > 2019 > Ford Performance Mustang Supercar takes definitive victory at the 2019 Pirtek Perth SuperNight with two wins
Ford Performance Mustang Supercar takes definitive victory at the 2019 Pirtek Perth SuperNight with two wins, five podiums from two races to extend championship lead
Ford Performance Mustang Supercar achieves a 1-2-3 finish in Race 11 of the 2019 Virgin Australian Supercars Championship, led by Shell V-Power Racing’s Fabian Coulthard and Scott McLaughlin, with SuperCheap Auto Racing’s Chaz Mostert third for Tickford Racing
Scott McLaughlin achieved his eighth victory for Shell V-Power Racing in 2019, with Tickford Racing’s Cameron Waters posting a strong third place in the Monster Energy #6 Mustang at the historic Barbagallo Raceway in Perth in Race 12
Shell V-Power Racing’s Scott McLaughlin extends his lead in the series to 142 points after five rounds in the #17 Ford Performance Mustang ahead of team-mate Fabian Coulthard, with Tickford Racing’s Chaz Mostert in fifth with 944 points.
A strong Ford presence in Perth included global motorsport director Mark Rushbrook, and Ford Australia and New Zealand President and CEO Kay Hart, in support of the Mustang teams.
Melbourne, May 6, 2019 – The Ford Performance Mustang Supercar has seen Shell V-Power Racing and Tickford Racing take home the silverware after a fantastic night-racing spectacle for Round 5 of the 2019 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, the Pirtek Perth SuperNight.
Held at the historic Barbagallo Raceway in Western Australia, a closely-fought battle across the two-race weekend saw both Fabian Coulthard and team-mate Scott McLaughlin from Shell V-power Racing add to Mustang’s win tally, and strong results from Tickford Racing with a podium finish in both Race 11 and Race 12 of the series.
“This was a great weekend from the teams, and shows the dedication, hard work and professionalism of our partners in Shell V-Power Racing Team and Tickford Racing,” said Ford Australia and New Zealand President and CEO Kay Hart. “The grit and determination saw a hard-fought victory and a stunning 1-2-3 in Friday night’s race. We’re so proud of the teams and what they have achieved with Mustang so far.”
The #17 Shell V-Power Racing Mustang of Scott McLaughlin scored pole position for both of the event’s races – establishing a new qualifying and race record for the Perth circuit – however it was team-mate Fabian Coulthard in the #12 Mustang who led home a one-two-three finish ahead of McLaughlin and Tickford Racing’s Chaz Mostert in Race 11. The win was Coulthard’s second of the year, following his first 2019 victory in Race 10 at Phillip Island in April.
It was McLaughlin who won Race 12 from pole position, with Tickford Racing’s Cameron Waters in the #6 Monster Energy Racing Mustang finishing in a superb third place for the Tickford Racing’s second podium of the weekend.
“We have worked so hard alongside Shell V-Power Racing and Tickford Racing, so to come to Perth and see Mustang in such competive form is such a great feeling,” said Ford Performance Director, Global Motorsport, Mark Rushbrook. “We saw a stunning debut weekend in Adelaide earlier in the year, and it’s great to see that the teams haven’t stopped developing and honing their Mustangs to get more and more from them. It’s a testament to their skill and dedication, and we’re absolutely rapt at their focus and ability, which is why we’re such proud partners with them in Supercars.”
The win for McLaughlin sees him extend his championship lead to 142 points over team-mate Coulthard, with Shell V-Power Racing leading the teams’ championship with 2490 points. From 12 races so far in 2019, Shell V-Power Racing has claimed victory in all but two of them, with McLaughlin’s title defence off to a strong start.
“It’s just been a great weekend,” said Shell V-Power Racing co-owner, Roger Penske. “To see the reliability of the Mustang, the speed of the Mustang and all of the issues we had to get the car to where the officials wanted it … It’s dynamic duo with these two guys [McLaughlin and Coulthard], and with Ford’s support and the new Mustang what can we say – just a world-class weekend.”
Tickford Racing’s Chaz Mostert qualifed on the second-row for both races, with a strong third in Race 11, which was backed up by team-mate Cameron Waters standing on the final step of the podium for Race 12. With Waters third, Tickford team-mates Will Davison in the Milwaukee Racing #23 Mustang and Lee Holdsworth in the #5 Bottle-O Mustang finshed eighth and ninth. Holdsworth’s result was made all the more impressive after starting 22nd on the grid for the Saturday evening twilight race.
“We’re thrilled to have Cam back on the podium, he’s had a couple get away from him this year so it’s great to see him lift a trophy,” said Tickford Racing co-owner, Rod Nash. “Will and Lee did tremendous jobs coming through the field; seven Top Tens and two podiums from two races is a very good result, and we look forward to going for more at Winton.”
Round 6 of the 2019 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship will be held between 24 - 26 May with the Truck Assist Winton SuperSprint in Victoria. Tickets can be purchased via supercars.com.au
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The Montreal Mayoral Debate in English: Watch and Read Analysis
By Jason C. McLean Oct 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017
Debate Season 2017 in Montreal is done. There were only two debates between incumbent Mayor Denis Coderre and challenger Valérie Plante of Projet Montréal (unless you count the informal one on Tout le monde en Parle).
There was one in French and one in English (more were offered, Plante accepted and Coderre refused). The French debate took place last Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce and the English one finished a few hours ago at Loyola.
If you came here to watch it, skip ahead to the video. If you want my analysis first (or after), here it is:
Admittedly, I came into this debate cheering for Plante, but she did not disappoint. She spoke with energy and a very positive attitude. Coderre was, well, Coderre. Gruff old school politician, and unabashedly so.
He had a very Coderre moment when talking about the Pink line. Instead of just shrugging it off as something that would never happen as he has done in the past, he went into why, boasting about his good relationship to the Provincial and Federal Liberal and laughing off Plante’s ability to get things done with just her “friends in Quebec Solidaire.”
While that quip clearly was intended to imply a connection between Projet and a provincial party some anglos may be wary of (Plante, fortunately, didn’t take the bait), it also exposed the Coderre mentality of “I’m buddies with the Liberals in power, so I can make things happen in the back room.”
Shouldn’t the Mayor of Montreal, elected representative of the people of Montreal, be able to deal with Quebec and Canada regardless of who they are buddies with? Do we really want to vote for the same Old Boys Club and expect change or do we want someone who speaks for us?
It also brings up the issue of how steadfast Coderre can be in his opposition to his buddy Couillard’s Bill C-62, something both he and Plante oppose. While Coderre tried to score points with Plante having to clarify her position, she turned the tide by talking about how neither she nor her opponent ever had to deal with the kind of discrimination this bill brings.
Coderre did have his moments, most notably by acknowledging that the debate was taking place on unseeded indigenous land and when talking about renaming Amherst Street, something Plante had also supports. I wish Plante had said an immediate yes when moderator Leslie Roberts of CJAD asked about also renaming Lionel-Groulx Metro, but both her and Coderre took a pass on that one and just said that there needed to be discussion.
The Pit Bull Ban, Montreal 375 spending and the Formula E were also topics. While I’m guessing who won these sections will fall in line with people’s existing picks, for those looking to be convinced, Plante did the best job of convincing, though when Coderre referred to the SPCA as merely a lobby group, he may have convinced some to vote Plante.
Watch the debate (in four parts) and vote on November 5th:
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There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has been a watershed moment in innovation for the healthcare industry. And Ganesh’s home care services company, Portea Medical, has been on the ball. By marshalling resources, mobilising key relationships with contact centre partners, and even executing unprecedented collaborations with competitors like CallHealth and HealthCare atHOME, Portea delivered home isolation support for Covid-19 patients under agreements with the governments of Delhi, Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab, and the local administrations of Chennai and Mumbai. Her company served over 100,000 patients at home with less than 3% needing hospitalisation, thereby ensuring that hospital beds across the country were available for critical care patients. Portea’s efforts in fighting the pandemic led to it hiring nearly 500 trained healthcare workers, 200 nurses, and 200 doctors. Based on its experience, Portea has created a playbook for the management of chronic and infectious diseases. Portea apart, Ganesh has her hands full. She sits on the boards of Axis Bank, Pfizer India, Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Limited, and ManipalCigna Health Insurance.
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A Nurse's Gamble
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"Why do we need to go though these fèi wù lists anyways?"
Sophie Campbell moaned as she leaned back against the wall of the supply room filled with what was left of the medical supplies that was in the hospital. There wasn't really much available not since tensions had started to appear between the Core Worlds and the Rim Worlds, having the Boarder Worlds caught in the middle. Onyx Clark, who was newly granted privileges to be a designated Critical Care Nurse, was the one who had the responsibility of going through the medical stores to make sure that they were stocked well. There was a huge list of projects to do before the harvest season when the whole planet it seemed becomes a buzz with activity. Sophie's brown eyes and golden hair were darting all around the place in boredom, mainly because she was assigned to help him and protect him as a Bodyguard. It wasn't because he really needed protecting in a secure facility, it was the fact that she was bored and they have been friends since before they can remember.
"You volunteered Sophie."
Onyx turned his eyes over to her with a slight grin on his face as the list was held comfortably in his hand.
"I know, but I thought that all of this was automatic and such!"
Sophie's protest humored Onyx as he shook his head slightly and returned to the task.
"Every vial has to be accounted for. If we know what we don't have, then we know what we need to order."
Sophie sighed as she again looked around she puffed out her cheeks watching Onyx do his work. She eyed him cautiously, finding herself becoming focused on his physique. She watched how his eyes looked focused and determined. She also knew much more about him physically than he would feel comfortable with. Typically it is not a good idea to have a curious teenager be friends with someone who loves setting traps. The memory gave her a grin, so much so that she hopped up on a counter and let her legs dangle, feeling her Colt revolver resting on her thigh as the bottom securement was undone for comfort.
"You know this could be done a lot faster if you helped me."
Onyx spoke with a straight face, which gave Sophie an idea.
"How about we dice it?"
Onyx stopped what was he doing and spoke with a curious expression. Once that was made, Sophie knew she had him.
"Zàilái?"
Hopping off the counter, she got really close to him. So close in fact that any concept of "personal space" flew right out into the black where only the Reavers would go. She also gave him a teasing expression that would make any young adult male question his ability to maintain self-control. Sophie moved her left hand pointing at herself while her right hand went to her pocket.
"You..."
She then placed her hand on Onyx's chest, giving her a triumphant shudder from Onyx's lips.
"Me..."
Her hand agonizingly worked its way down his chest through his arm, teasingly skimming past his arm hairs like the winds weaving their way through the valley outside. Her lips came closer to his, and he could feel her breath in his lungs as they forgot how to exhale.
"This list..."
Right as it seemed like he dropped the list and was about to make her his Queen to have and to hold until his death she shall take to part, she took a step back and rolled out a six sided dice in her hand showing it to him. A wide smile and the eyes of an innocent (she's guilty as tā mā de!!) young woman.
"And this dice."
Onyx took a huge exhale as he caught his breath and heard the sounds of Sophie's laughter as she was unable to breath herself. The look he gave her wasn't enough to stop her laughter, in fact it made it worse. He continued working while she was finishing her bought with laughing.
"That's not funny."
Sophie took a deep breath as she spoke back.
"I don't care if the whole Verse thinks it's not funny I think it's hilarious!"
Onyx sighed as he couldn't help but shake his head and chuckle too. He had too, considering how much she wound him up and teased him about everything, upto and including...
"Seriously though. We pick numbers and roll the dice, whoever it lands on gets to decide who checks what in here."
Onyx narrowed his eyes and he grinned ever so slightly.
"How do I know those aren't loaded?"
Sophie tossed it in the air like flipping a coin, catching it with precision.
"You just have to trust me to be a good girl."
Taking a breath, he thought that if he won, he could make her do the rest of it since he was already half way done.
"Deal...but..."
Onyx used his reflexes to catch the dice in midair, much to Sophie's amusement. He felt it and he knew that they were not messed with and they were legit dice.
"I throw it."
Sophie smiled, her lips curled up in excitement.
"Four and higher."
"Three and lower."
Onyx threw the dice down the hall, flinging it in a way a gambler would on the Craps table when money is on the line. It bounced down the room, bouncing on different objects before coming to rest on the floor. As Onyx and Sophie walked up, to it, they looked down and saw the number of the winner. Looking back at each other, Onyx smiled as Sophie looked at him with a nervous expression and a pitiful grin.
"Two out of three?"
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It wasn’t all bad: Here are 20 good things that happened in 2020
By Stephanie Weaver, Kelly Hayes, Catherine Park, Austin Williams and Chris Williams
Good things that happened in 2020
From small acts of kindness to awe-inspiring events, there were some good things that happened in 2020.
LOS ANGELES - While 2020 proved to be an extremely difficult year with a worldwide pandemic, record unemployment numbers, social injustices and record-breaking weather events, silver linings do exist.
From small acts of kindness to awe-inspiring events, below is a list of some of the better things that happened in 2020, so we can all leave the year behind with a glimmer of optimism.
Neighbors start ‘singin’ in the rain’ with a socially distanced dance party
Neighbors in England followed actor Gene Kelly’s example, making the most out of social distancing amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
English street comes together for social distance dancing
Residents of a street in England have been taking part in socially distanced dance parties since the pandemic began.
The residents of a street in Frodsham, Cheshire, England have been taking part in socially distanced dance parties since the pandemic began.
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Elsa Williams shared a video on social media which showed footage of her neighbors dancing in the rain with umbrellas, while the song “Singin’ in the Rain” played in the background.
On May 5, Williams shared another video of her neighbors dancing on the street, telling viewers that, “Today was day forty-two.”
SpaceX launches two astronauts into space for first time
Millions of Americans may remember where they were on May 30, 2020 when a rocket ship designed and built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched two Americans into orbit from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.
NASA astronauts jettison towards stars on top of SpaceX rocket
The May 30 launch marked the first American-manned space mission since 2011.
All eyes were on NASA’s Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who were lifted from the same launch pad used to send the Apollo astronauts to the moon a half-century ago.
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“WE DID IT!!!” former NASA astronaut Michael J. Massimino wrote about the historic event.
“It takes about 8-and-a-half minutes to get to space, and a whole day to parallel park,” wrote astronaut Catherine Coleman, who departed the International Space Station in 2011.
103-year-old veteran survives COVID-19, 102-year-old woman survives the virus twice
Major Lee Wooten got quite the sendoff from staff at Madison Hospital on Dec. 1 after he was given a clean bill of health. Not only did Wooten, also known as “Pop pop” by staff, beat the novel coronavirus, but he did it at 103 years old.
World War II veteran beats COVID-19 in time for 104th birthday
Major Lee Wooten won his battle with COVID-19 in time to be home to celebrate his 104th birthday.
The World War II veteran was released just two days before his 104th birthday.
Video shared on the hospital’s Facebook page showed Wooten being wheeled out as staff members sang the happy birthday song to him.
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In December, a 102-year-old New York woman who survived the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and beat cancer also overcame COVID-19 not once, but twice.
Angelina Friedman was born on October 18, 1918, and more than 100 years after making it through her first major pandemic, Friedman was diagnosed with COVID-19 in April.
After running a fever for several weeks, Friedman finally tested negative for the virus in late April.
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But six months after that first positive test, the nursing home called Friedman's daughter Joanne Merola in late October to inform her that her mother had tested positive again.
Merola said she got updates daily from the nursing home, and by mid-November, Friedman had once again overcome the virus."My invincible mother tested negative," Merola said, attributing her mother's survival to "an iron will to live."
Kansas farmer mails N95 mask to NY governor for health care worker
A retired Kansas farmer with a sick wife sent New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo a spare N95 mask, along with a letter asking him to pass it along to a doctor or nurse working to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.
Kansas farmer mails Cuomo N95 mask for NY medical worker
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was touched by the gesture.
During his daily coronavirus briefing in Albany, Cuomo read the letter he received from Dennis — a farmer who found a spare mask and felt compelled to send it to a health care worker. Cuomo called the gesture a “snapshot of humanity.”
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“Enclosed, find a solitary N95 mask, left over from my farming days. It has never been used. If you could, would you please give this mask to a nurse or doctor in your state? I have kept four masks for my immediate family,” Dennis wrote.
Cuomo said he was touched by the letter, calling Dennis’ action “selfless.”
Mother opens ‘Special Kneads Bakery’ to employ son with cerebral palsy
An Illinois mother opened a bakery to make sure her son with cerebral palsy would have a job when he graduates high school.
Mom opens bakery to employ son with cerebral palsy
Margaret Cortes said she hopes to employ others with disabilities at the Illinois bakery in the future.
Margaret Cortes opened Special Kneads Bakery in Galva, Illinois in 2018 after she found herself unemployed, according to the shop’s Facebook page. She researched what types of businesses the area may need, and decided on a bakery.
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Her son, Frankie, is a senior at Geneseo High School and now works in the front of the shop, according to KWQC-TV.
Our local bakery had been in business for over 80 years and the owner just closed shop on 12/31/17,” she wrote on the Special Kneads Bakery page. “Bingo that is it! Let’s open a bakery to provide for my family and for there to be a place for Frankie when he enters the workplace.”
Netflix documentary series ‘Tiger King’ excites millions
In March, “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness” became a hit series with 34 million people tuning in to the documentary within the first 10 days of its debut.
Carole Baskin, the CEO and founder of Big Cat Rescue, said she is disappointed with the Netflix documentary, 'Tiger King.'
The true-crime documentary series is about the life of zookeeper Joe Exotic.
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In May, Variety reported that Nicolas Cage would take on the role of Joseph Maldonado-Passage, better known as Joe Exotic, in a movie based on the documentary.
Big Cat Rescue CEO and breakout star of the series Carole Baskin competed on "Dancing With the Stars" in September.
Former ‘Reading Rainbow’ host LeVar Burton reads to COVID-19 quarantined people
Former “Reading Rainbow” host and Star Trek actor LeVar Burton knew the perfect way to pass the time during self isolation.
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 14: Actor LeVar Burton attends the Reading Rainbow's 30th Anniversary Celebration at Dylan's Candy Bar on June 14, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)
In April, Burton announced he would read to quarantined people live on Twitter, taking inspiration from his popular podcast LeVar Burton Reads.
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Following the halt of nearly the entire entertainment industry because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, many artists took their performances online in a display of “the show must go on” mentality.
John Krasinski, best-known for playing Jim Halpert in “The Office,” tried to boost people’s pandemic moods and spirits with his YouTube series “Some Good News.”
Man finds 9.07-carat diamond, thought it was a piece of glass
Kevin Kinard, a 33-year-old bank branch manager from Maumelle, Arkansas, uncovered the second-largest diamond ever found in the Crater of Diamonds State Park’s 48 year history — a 9.07-carat stone.
Man finds 9.07-carat diamond in state park
Kevin Kinard, a 33-year-old from Arkansas, found the second-largest diamond ever found in Crater of Diamonds State Park's 48 year history.
While combing the southeast portion of the diamond search area, Kinard picked up a marble-sized crystal, but he didn’t think he’d found a valuable stone. Kinard said, “It kind of looked interesting and shiny, so I put it in my bag and kept searching. I just thought it might’ve been glass.”
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The carat weighed 9.07 carats, the second-largest found it the park since it became an Arkansas state park in 1972. The only larger stone found was a 16.37-carat white diamond called the Amarillo Starlight, which was discovered in 1975.
According to The Diamond Registry, the average wholesale price of a nine-carat diamond ranges between $123,000 and $1.8 million.
Police officer receives life-saving transplant from woman he put in jail 8 years ago
Jocelynn James, a recovered drug addict and former member of “Franklin’s Most Wanted,” saved the life of the police officer who put her in jail nearly a decade ago.
Police officer receives kidney transplant from woman he put in jail
James said Terrell Potter, a former officer with Phil Campbell Police Department, saved her by arresting her and leading her to turn her life around. “I’m perfect, I’m healthy, and I had no idea that I was that healthy,” James said.
Last November, Potter learned that his kidney was failing and only functioning at 5%. Doctors told Potter that he would face a seven to eight-year waiting period for a kidney.
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After scrolling through Facebook, James learned that Potter needed a kidney. “I just threw my phone down and the holy spirit told me right then that I had that man’s kidney.”
After a series of hospital tests, James learned that they were a perfect match.“If you asked me 100 names of who may give me a kidney, her name would have not been on the list,” Potter said. “It’s just unbelievable that she was willing to do that.”
UK gives 1st COVID-19 vaccine doses
A retired British shop clerk received the first shot in the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 vaccination program Dec. 8, the start of an unprecedented global immunization effort intended to offer a route out of the pandemic, according to the Associated Press.
NHS staff applaud first recipient of approved coronavirus vaccine
Margaret Keenan became the first person to receive a fully-tested and approved vaccine amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Credit: NHS England via Storyful)
Margaret Keenan, 90, was first in line at University Hospital Coventry, one of several hospitals around the country that are handling the initial phase of the UK’s program.
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“As luck would have it, the second injection went to a man named William Shakespeare, an 81-year-old who hails from Warwickshire, the county where the bard was born,” the Associated Press said.
Britain’s program is likely to produce information for other countries, including the United States, as the world prepares to vaccinate billions of people worldwide.
A petition to rename Columbus, Ohio ‘Flavortown’ racked up over 130,000 signatures
A petition to rename Columbus, Ohio “Flavortown” in honor of celebrity chef and TV host Guy Fieri cropped up on Change.org and garnered thousands of signatures.
Petition calls to rename Columbus Ohio Flavortown
A petition to rename Columbus, Ohio to “Flavortown” in honor of celebrity chef and TV host Guy Fieri has cropped up on Change.org, and it already has tens of thousands of signatures.
After only two weeks, the petition racked up more than 54,000 signatures out of its 75,000 goal as of June 23.
RELATED: Petition to rename Columbus, Ohio ‘Flavortown’ in honor of Guy Fieri has nearly 55,000 signatures
As homage to Guy Fieri, who was born in Columbus, the petition stated that the benefits of changing the city’s name to Flavortown were twofold:
“For one, it honors Central Ohio's proud heritage as a culinary crossroads and one of the nation's largest test markets for the food industry,” the petition read. “Secondly, cheflebrity Guy Fieri was born in Columbus, so naming the city in honor of him (he's such a good dude, really) would be superior to its current nomenclature.”
Fieri, who is passionate about giving back, has been lending a helping hand for restaurant workers that have suffered financially due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The celebrity chef told FOX News about his partnership with the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund, which raised over $21.5 million to assist over 43,000 restaurant employees, providing workers in all 50 states with one-time $500 grants.
From coast to coast, the foodservice industry has been devastated by the ongoing outbreak, amid restaurant closures, restricted operations and self-isolation efforts from the public. Thus, the present moment has marked a critical time to step up for those who serve, Fieri said.
4-year-old twin girls dress up as Trump and Biden ahead of Halloween, 2020 election
A pair of 4-year-old twins were the spitting image of the two 2020 presidential candidates in creative, politically themed Halloween costumes ahead of Election Day.
4-year-old twin girls dress up as Trump and Biden
Sisters Haven and Koti Garza dressed up as this year’s presidential candidates, president Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden. (Credit: @garzacrew)
Pictures and footage posted to social media showed sisters Haven and Koti Garza, who live in Edmond, Oklahoma, dressed as rivals President Donald Trump and now President-elect Joe Biden.
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“They love dressing up, whether in regular clothes or costumes! We had five different costumes planned for this year,” Adrea Garza, the twins’ mom, told FOX TV Stations.
Garza revealed that the twins were born right before the election in 2016. “I knew that in four years, I was going to dress them as the candidates,” Garza said.
A baby is born from an embryo frozen more than 27 years ago
A baby girl in Tennessee was born in October, though she could have been born at any point over the last two decades.
Sisters born from embryos frozen decades ago
Two sisters in Tennessee have already made history in their young lives.
Molly Everette Gibson was born Oct. 26, 2020 to parents Tina and Ben Gibson, weighing 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Her embryo was first created and frozen in October 1992 and stayed frozen until it was thawed on Feb. 10, 2020.
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The baby’s birth set a new known record for the longest-frozen embryo to ever be born, according to research staff at the University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library. Amazingly, the previous record was set by Molly’s sister, Emma Wren Gibson, whose embryo had been frozen for more than 24 years until she was born in 2017.
Both girls were frozen together as embryos and are full genetic siblings, according to the National Embryo Donation Center, which facilitated the embryo storage and adoption.
Single foster dad adopts five siblings so they can all stay together
Robert Carter began fostering three boys in December of 2019, taking in Robert Jr., Giovanni and Kiontae into his home. But he later learned the brothers had two sisters as well, Marionna and Makayla, who were also in the foster system.
(Courtesy: Hamilton County Job and Family Services Adoption and Foster Care Recruitment)
“We met up for visits, and all the kids were crying," Carter told Fox 19. “They didn’t want to leave each other, and at that moment, I knew, OK, I have to adopt all five.”
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Carter said he grew up in foster care, and was separated for years from his siblings. He didn't want the children to experience what he went through.
“My mom had nine kids, and I didn’t see my youngest again. He was two," he recalled. "I didn’t see him again until he was 16, so for me going through that, I knew how important it is for them to see each other and be around each other. When I had my boys before I got the girls, that’s all they talked about was their sisters.”
A dog finds his forever home after spending 729 days in shelter
After spending more than 700 days in an animal shelter, one lucky pup finally found his forever home.
Drools with his new dad, Josh Simpson. (Conour Animal Shelter - Upper Rio Grande Animal Society)
“Drools,” a 4-year-old male pit bull-boxer mix, spent approximately 729 days at the Conour Animal Shelter - Upper Rio Grande Animal Society in Monte Vista, Colorado, but thanks to a joint effort between the shelter and Kacey Widetich, Relay For Rescue founder and executive director, he secured a home and a family.
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Relay For Rescue is a nonprofit animal welfare organization that aims to reduce pet overpopulation and minimize animal suffering, according to the organization’s website.
Because of the attention Drools’ story got on other news outlets and on social media, the shelter was able to find homes for three of their other long-term residents.
Iowa boy sells baseball bats from fallen trees to help storm victims
After a rare storm packing 100 mph winds swept across the Midwest in August, Tommy Rhomberg crafted more than 200 baseball bats, which he sold to raise money for victims of the storm, from fallen branches.
Boy turns downed trees from storm into baseball bats
Tommy Rhomberg has crafted hundreds of baseball bats, made with his grandfather's whittling tools and sandpaper.
Each bat, about 30 inches long, made with his grandfather's whittling tools and sandpaper, sold for $100, and Tommy donated $20 from each sale to the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation Disaster Relief Fund.
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His mom , Amanda, posted photos of the bats on Facebook, which went viral.
Tommy had a waitlist of more than 600 people looking to purchase the bats after his story got widespread attention.
"I am 12 years old and my parents won't let me drop out of the 6th grade," Tommy explained to potential customers who were waiting.
7-year-old throws personal prom for his babysitter after hers was canceled
A 7-year-old in North Carolina showed his nanny how much she really meant to him by throwing her a private prom. He was reportedly inspired to hold the socially-distant dance after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the young woman’s original prom plans.
Curtis Rogers went two months without seeing his nanny, Rachel Chapman, due to the coronavirus. (Becky Chapman)
Curtis Rogers went two months without seeing his nanny, Rachel Chapman, due to the coronavirus, ABC 11 reported.
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After Chapman’s prom was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, she was understandably upset. But Rogers' invite lifted her spirits, even though she was momentarily saddened after finally putting on the dress she was supposed to wear to the actual event.
“I was kind of like bummed putting my dress on because I was sad; I don't get to wear it to my senior prom. After leaving it and having that time with him because it was the first time I had seen him in two months, it was like, really fun, and I'm really glad that he did that.”
Kind-hearted 5th-grader doles out snacks, positive messages to 100,000 for Thanksgiving
Ten-year-old Orion Jean’s kindness was on full display this year as he took it upon himself to collect and donate Thanksgiving snacks to thousands of families in his home state of Texas.
Orion Jean races to feed families for Thanksigiving holiday
Orion Jean, 10, is aiming to feed 100,000 people before the Thanksgiving holiday ends.
The fifth-grader started a Thanksgiving charity initiative called “Race to 100k Meals.” He collected and donated tens of thousands of snack bags from volunteers containing water, fruit, a granola bar and a positive message written on the bag. Chobani also donated yogurt.
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Orion’s team then handed off the donations to local charities that distributed them to families in the community. They also partnered with Tango Tab, an organization aimed at reducing hunger.
Woman invites those ‘feeling lonely’ to virtual Thanksgiving
Jessica Kantrowitz usually spends the Thanksgiving holiday with her parents in New Hampshire, but this year, she was one of many who chose to stay home alone due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Woman invites those ‘feeling lonely’ to virtual Thanksgiving dinner by drawing them at her table
“If anyone is alone today and feeling lonely, you are invited to my Thanksgiving dinner,” Jessica Kantrowitz wrote on Twitter. “I made lemon & rosemary turkey. Tell me your hair & eye color & what you’re bringing, & I’ll draw you in.”
The change in plans didn’t stop the Boston resident and author from thinking up a way to spread a little holiday cheer with a creative take on a virtual Thanksgiving party.
On Thanksgiving morning, Kantrowitz drew a picture of herself alone at the dinner table with a turkey on the table and posted the drawing to Twitter.“If anyone is alone today and feeling lonely, you are invited to my Thanksgiving dinner,” Kantrowitz wrote on Twitter.
“I made lemon & rosemary turkey. Tell me your hair & eye color & what you’re bringing, & I’ll draw you in.”
RELATED: Woman invites those ‘feeling lonely’ to virtual Thanksgiving dinner by drawing them at her table
Hundreds of comments poured in on social media from people requesting to join the party. One by one, she began drawing them around her table.
“It was a reminder of the power of gathering together for a meal, even a virtual one. People are still sharing recipes on the thread! I'll have to go back and get some ideas for new things to try myself,” Kantrowitz said.
Fauci says Santa Claus is immune to COVID-19
Santa Claus will spread joy and happiness — not COVID-19 — this holiday season.
Santa Claus waves to the crowd during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 27, 2014 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Santa Claus is coming to town, and thankfully, has “innate immunity” to the novel coronavirus infection.
RELATED: Fauci says Santa Claus is immune to COVID-19
"Santa is exempt from this because Santa, of all the good qualities, has a lot of good innate immunity," Fauci told USA TODAY ahead of the holiday.
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Based on Lionsgate’s global blockbuster franchise The Hunger Games, 'Mockingjay Flight' is a 3D motion simulator at Lionsgate Entertainment World that lets riders join the rebellion to try and escape The Capitol. The ride is located within a wider themed area of the park where visitors can immersive themselves in the setting of the oppressive capital city of Panem.
The ride's media was written and directed by Jason Fox who wanted to create the most exciting narrative he could that fit in the rich and interesting world of The Hunger Games franchise, one of Lionsgate's most popular properties.
Producing the media for Thinkwell Group meant designing and creating the world of The Capitol in CG but Framestore also needed to produce shoots with actors for the live action elements of the ride and commission the original score for the ride as well as creating characters and vehicles and mapping out the ride's route in CG.
'Creating Mockingjay Flight as a simulation ride allowed us to put visitors into a world where anything can happen and engage them with the movie property on a level not possible anywhere else.'
Jason Fox - Creative Director
For more behind the scenes information on how we created the media for 'Mockingjay Flight', check back soon or get in touch with the team.
'Mockingjay Flight' is one of five rides that framestore produced media for at Lionsgate Entertainment World as well as environmental media that plays throughout the park. Learn more about these attractions here:
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Review: Dell Inspiron 13 7000 series (2-in-1 laptop)
Leigh D. Stark
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Need a computer with a decent keyboard and aren’t sure if you want it to be a tablet or a laptop? Dell hopes it has the answer with the Inspiron 7000, a 13 inch laptop that also works as a tablet, too.
Dell is no stranger to playing with computer form-factors, and the Inspiron 7000 series takes the 360 degree hinge seen on many a laptop and applies it to a fresh thin and light machine in an attempt to bridge the middle ground.
As such, you’ll find a 13.3 display on this laptop featuring the Full HD resolution of 1920×1080. The display relies on In-Plane Switching technology (IPS) and features a touch panel underneath, though a version of the Inspiron 7000 series 13 inch can be found with a standard HD 1366×768 touchscreen IPS panel.
Under the screen, you’ll find a computer with modern innards, as Dell goes for Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, offering a choice of either in the series, and as much as 8GB RAM.
Storage on the computer is set to 500GB with a conventional hard drive, or 256GB with a solid-state drive, with Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 installed on the computer out of the box.
Connection options are pretty standard for a computer these days, though some might see them as high end, with Dell opting to include 802.11ac wireless connectivity (WiFi), backwards compatible with standards such as 802.11a/b/g/n, with Bluetooth 4.0 also included.
Wired connection options and ports are also found in this machine, with two USB 3.0 ports, one USB 2.0 port, an HDMI port, full-size SD card slot, and a 3.5mm headset jack.
Also included is a passive stylus built into a recess in the body, with a spring-loaded eject mechanism.
Keyboard and mouse are included, too, the former with spill-resistant keys and backlighting, and the latter supporting gestures.
Several options of the Inspiron 13 inch 7000 series are available, but the review model was spec’d with a 13.3 inch Full HD touchscreen, Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB RAM, and 256GB solid-state drive.
These days, computer buyers are pretty lucky because these days, when you buy a computer, you don’t just have to settle with one style.
Laptop. Tablet. Laptop. Tablet. These days, when you buy a computer, often, you’re getting both.
That can certainly be said of the computer we’re looking at in this review, the Dell Inspiron 7000 series 13 inch laptop, a notebook that takes the same perpendicular style you’ve seen in laptops for years and applies it to a mid-range computer with enough guts for most people, and a decently sized Full HD display.
While this technically feels like an Ultrabook, Dell isn’t calling it one, instead sticking with the “2-in-1” moniker and throwing in a set of specs that it believes matters, such as the Intel Core processors, between 4 and 8GB RAM, and the choice of a proper hard drive or a speedy solid state drive.
We’ll tackle performance soon, but the look is worth commenting on because it’s both a mixture of plain yet simple and easy on the eyes.
Silver is the name of the game here, and while silver typically means metal for many a company, for Dell’s Inspiron 7000, silver is just another way of saying silver coloured plastic, because that’s what you’re given here.
That said, despite it being plastic only, it’s a soft touch plastic that is comfortable on the wrist and easy to hold when you pick the machine up, with enough firmness and strength in the body so as to not feel that you’re holding a toy, because you are most certainly not.
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We even like the curved edges at the front of the laptop, which make the laptop feel like they’re softened for your body and aren’t trying to cut your limbs as you leave them resting on the laptop, a feeling we’ve had from other computers in the past.
You’ll also find a large display aimed at you, and it’s here you’ll find the 13.3 inch Full HD display. Switch the computer on with the small sliver of a power button on the right edge and the machine will come to life.
When it does, you’ll be greeted with one of the best parts of the laptop.
Anyone who has read our laptop reviews in the past is probably aware of how much we like screens, and it’s one of our favourite areas to talk about because — in fairness — it’s also one of the areas manufacturers tend to cheap out on.
Fortunately, that’s not the case with the Dell Inspiron 7000 13 inch laptop, and for this computer, the company has applied a clear and sufficiently bright 13 inch panel that shows colours nicely, and is sharp enough for most people to be happy with.
It is so much better than the standard HD 1366×768 13.3 inch screens we’ve seen on computers for the past few years, and while it’s a fair way off the Retina suggestion of 227 pixels per inch and only offers closer to 165 pixels per inch, the screen is still much more comfortable to set your eyes upon than so many other 13 inch laptops that pass through here.
Screen angles are also decent, which is particularly handy given you shouldn’t have to have one specific view for any display, just make sure to not have too much light behind you, because it is one super reflective display.
In the input department, though it’s a bit of a mixed bag.
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Infinity Ward, the award-winning studio that helped to create the blockbuster Call of Duty franchise, reaches new heights with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. At its core, Infinite Warfare returns to the roots of the franchise where cinematic, immersive storytelling takes centre stage as told through an unfolding large-scale war and epic battles that deliver an authentic Call of Duty experience.
Packing three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies, there is something for every Call of Duty fan. Delivering a rich and engaging narrative in a setting unlike anything to date in a Call of Duty game, the campaign is a return to the franchise’s gritty, military roots throughout gripping environments never before seen in the franchise.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare delivers something for every Call of Duty fan with three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies. Delivering a rich and engaging narrative in a setting unlike anything to date in a Call of Duty game, the campaign is a return to the franchise’s gritty, military roots throughout new environments never before seen in the franchise.
The player will embark on a classic war story about grand scale warfare; all set in a grounded future where human conflict has spread throughout our solar system. Multiplayer brings ground-breaking gameplay innovations to deliver the deepest and most engaging Call of Duty experience to date. The title introduces stunning, never before seen, multi-planetary environments, new weaponry, and all-new player abilities to Call of Duty. In addition, the new cooperative zombies experience will thrill players with an original direction featuring fun and unique gameplay, all wrapped into an entertaining narrative sure to excite fans.
RETURN TO CLASSIC, LARGE-SCALE WAR
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will take players on an unforgettable journey as they engage in battles from Earth to beyond our atmosphere against a relentless, enemy faction that threatens our very way of life. It’s grand scale war and hallmark boots-on-the-ground Call of Duty action with memorable characters, rich emotional arcs, and stunning new environments, all within an epic new setting.
A CALL OF DUTY CAMPAIGN TO REMEMBER
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare puts storytelling front and center, in a deeply engaging narrative. It features jaw-dropping set-pieces and blockbuster cinematic moments, while also delivering a gripping portrayal of war that harkens back to the roots of the franchise. Infinity Ward also breaks new ground by thrusting the player into wartime leadership as Captain Reyes, a Tier 1 Special Operations pilot, who takes the helm of the Retribution, one of Earth’s last remaining warships. In a time of unthinkable hardships, Reyes must lead the remnants of coalition forces against a relentless foe in a war that spans our solar system.
FIGHTING A FANATICAL ENEMY
The Settlement Defense Front (SetDef) represents a splinter group of insurgents that broke away from the United Nations Space Alliance during a war of secession, years ago. In the world of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, our planet has been stripped of its natural assets through population growth and industrial expansion. The people of Earth now rely upon colonies throughout the solar system to mine planets and asteroids for necessary fuel and other resources. The SetDef is a fascist power, comprised of brutal and militant radicals, toughened by the extreme conditions of offworld environments. They seek to control those outposts and their wealth, putting a stranglehold on the countries of Earth. After years of uneasy stalemate, diplomatic relations are strained, and it will take only the slightest nudge to lead to full-scale war.
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will feature an evolution of Call of Duty’s movement system with an emphasis on front-line engagement. Maps are designed to further leverage the movement system and immerse players into fast, fun, and frenetic gameplay that players have come to expect from Call of Duty. With its new approach to play, multiplayer will bring innovative gameplay that challenges players to achieve their goals in creative ways based on their specific play style.
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Infinity Ward introduces a fresh take on the nightmarish Zombies mode in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. With an all-new, immersive zombies storyline for players to uncover and explore, players are thrust into a spine tingling adventure not for the faint of heart. The new zombies experience will take players on a wild ride with a multitude of new features, while thrilling players with the core mechanics that fans have come to expect from the mode.
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Fallout Setting Editorial, Part Two
Written by WorstUsernameEver on October 1st, 2012
After arguing that a Boston setting doesn't fit the Fallout series in its first piece, the California Literary Review's videogame blog doubles the editorial dose with a second write-up. It consists of a series of suggestion for an alternative location for the unannounced, but doubtlessly upcoming, Fallout 4.
Picking a particular point in The South to use is tricky. While Fallout 3 was set in Washington, D.C., meaning it was on the southern side of the Mason-Dixon line, Columbia isn't really representative of what most conceive of as (The South). To differentiate it further, you have to make like Inception and go deeper. So, like in Live and Let Die, we go from one (New) to another, from the York to the Orleans!
Unlike other parts of (The South), the outsider's (read: Northerner's) image of Louisiana isn't all racism and hillbillies in a bog filled with as much Southern animosity as moonshine. Thanks to N'awlins, it's also wild parties, delicious spicy food, Dixieland Jazz, and outrageously revealing costumes on loose women enjoying the aforementioned. There's plenty of potential for diverse locations deep marshes filled irradiated swamp water juxtaposed against the flaring laser-lights of a neo french quarter new monsters giant, exploding, mutant craw fish, (and Gators again) and even a new currency Mardi Gras beads of course!
Cajun and Creole culture would make fine replacements for that (unique personality) of the Southwest I mentioned last time, while the Voodoo traditions supply the requisite (kooky mysticism). Voodoo in Fallout would be especially interesting, thanks to all the (zombies) walking around in the form of Ghouls. Of course, there's the touchy issue of post-Katrina New Orleans being used as virtual site of total devastation, but A) it was done already in Infamous 2, and B) Fallout 3 showed a completely destroyed Washington D.C. once you do that, what more you could do to offend people, I mean seriously.
The major problem is Point Lookout, which already covered much of this ground (er, marsh), right down to the steamboats and inbred antagonists. While setting a complete game here and embracing the entirety of the region's diversity would offset this, it still seems like more time should pass before people would regard a Fallout: Swamp Thing as anything other than a greatly expanded side story. However, that seems to be the popular opinion of New Vegas, so I guess it really comes down to how it's handled. It would just have to have one hell of a plot to convince Bethesda, methinks.
So with the chances of a swampland mystery dashed against the hard reality of marketable differentiation, it's time to Go West My Boy! Go west!
Driving along in the Highwayman, we continue out of the deltas and the marshes along the I-10, dodging gunfire from drunken ghouls after skipping out on a bar tab.
It isn't long before we head right in to where the stars at night, are big and bright . . .
Related Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, Fallout: New Vegas
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Aussie Joe hit with fine after low blow
Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles (2) tries to get past Oklahoma City Thunder guard Terrance Ferguson (23) in Salt Lake City. Chris Nicoll
by Michael Randall, Herald Sun
IT'S been an eventful couple of days for Aussie Joe Ingles in the NBA.
The Jazz cult figure got the news this morning that his hip pocket will be US$15,000 lighter after he gave New Zealander Steven Adams an old fashioned whack in the groin in Utah's 96-87 win over Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday.
To make matters worse, he was in doubt to play today, having been suffering from "gastric distress".
That's American speak for the runs, but it just sounds nasty.
Word this morning is Ingles will suit up for the 1.30pm AEDT tilt with the Los Angeles Clippers, in a rematch of last year's Western Conference first round playoff opponents.
Ingles hoping to improve on the Jazz's 2-1 record to begin the NBA season.
Slow Mo Joe - now Low Blow Joe - has been shooting the lights out in the early going, making 12 of his 19 three point attempts, at the remarkable clip of 63.2 per cent. That's not sustainable, but he continues to win over Jazz fans with his on-court exploits.
He lit up the Thunder with 19 points and five treys and told Thunder rookie and former Adelaide 36er Terrance Ferguson all about it.
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He will be hoping to draw the start against the New York Knicks at 10.30am AEDT, after posting 10 points and eight rebounds in just 14 minutes of action on Saturday.
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Biker in blue sets record straight on the bikie laws
JUST THE FACTS: Senior Sergeant Robbie Goodger and Theo Woollett from Ultimate Motorbikes dispel myths surrounding the Newman Government’s anti-bikie laws. Claudia Baxter
by Andrew Korner
Andrew Korner Editor Born and bred in Ipswich, Andrew Korner has been at the Queensland Times since 2007. Over the past decade Andrew has covered country rounds, courts, police and emergency services and been editor of the Ipswich Advertiser. Andrew is editor of the Queensland Times.
NOT only is long-serving Ipswich police Senior Sergeant Robbie Goodger the proud owner of an 1800cc motorcycle and a bushy facial growth, he is also a member of a motorcycle club.
This has given him a fair insight into the attitudes of some people in relation to the introduction of tough anti-bikie legislation towards the end of last year.
While the crackdown was always aimed at deterring members of what the State Government refers to as criminal motorcycle gangs, it is no secret that some recreational bikers with no links to criminal gangs have also voiced concerns about how the laws could affect their freedoms.
Snr Sgt Goodger, a member of the Blue Knights motorcycle club, said there were some misconceptions in the community about how the new laws - and the way those laws would be enforced by police - would affect law-abiding riders.
Over the coming weeks, the Ipswich cop aims to get the word out to various clubs, licensed premises and businesses that police are not out to get the "Average Joe".
"A lot of people seem to think that if the police see three or more riders together, that they will be targeted by police - but that only pertains to criminal motorcycle gangs," Snr Sgt Goodger said.
"For anybody else, there is no significance from a police point of view.
"Other clubs are riding in large numbers and we don't pull them up."
Another common misconception is that police will target non-criminal motorcycle club members who enter a licensed venue while wearing their colours.
This law is again only aimed at members of nominated criminal motorcycle gangs.
"I have heard all sorts of things - people worried that they will be in trouble with the police because they went on a charity ride with the Hell's Angles in the past," Snr Sgt Goodger said.
Rumours recreational riders were selling bikes en masse have also been challenged by police and West Ipswich motorcycle shop principal Theo Woollett.
Mr Woollett said Ultimate Motorbikes had increased its business each month since opening a year ago.
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Devoted mum in 'wrong place' at the wrong time
The scene of a fatal traffic crash at Hatton Vale early last Monday morning. Claudia Baxter
by Tom Threadingham
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TRAGIC LOSS: Linda Elliott, 64, was killed in a traffic accident at Hatton Vale last week. Contributed
THE Winch family will remember Hatton Vale woman Linda Elliott as a caring mother, grandmother and friend who would do anything for her children.
Ms Elliott, 64, tragically died after the car she was travelling in was hit by a B-Double truck in roadworks at Hatton Vale early last Monday morning.
She had been on her way to a routine blood test at the time and was the sole occupant of the car.
Ms Elliott will be farewelled at a funeral service to be held at the Zion Lutheran Church in Minden on Friday.
Colin Winch said his mother, who had three sons and eight grandchildren, was a caring person who wasn't afraid to stand up for what she believed in.
"Her biggest thing was she always fought for what was fair so if she thought something wasn't fair she would fight for that," Mr Winch said.
"It wasn't to do with money or anything like that it was just to prove the principle and making it fair.
"She was a caring person and loved her family."
Former partner, Paul Winch, flew from England as soon as he found out about the accident and remembered Ms Elliott as a great mother.
"She was a really good mother and loved her kids and supported them immensely in everything they did," Mr Winch said.
"She was really, really supportive and they meant everything to her.
"She worked very hard for the family and was willing to do all sorts of things to make it work."
Originally from the UK, Mr Winch and Ms Elliott owned several businesses in the Ipswich area including a mixed business in North Ipswich and later a tyre shop and spare parts shop.
Ms Elliott made the move to Hatton Vale 10 years ago for a different pace of life.
A timely reminder of how life can be cut short so quickly and with multiple roadwork sites across the region, the Winch family urged motorists to take care, slow down, and be more alert when driving through roadworks.
"It'd be nice if other people learn from it so that the same thing doesn't happen to someone else," Colin Winch said.
"She was, from what we know, just an innocent person in the wrong place.
"Especially with the roadwork and how it's changing every day, you don't know whether you're going to be detoured or what so you should just drive slow and look out for what's around you," Colin's wife Julie said.
The Winch family welcomed anyone who may have known Linda to come to the funeral at the Zion Lutheran Church in Minden on Friday at 11am.
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G20 will be interactive with lights display for 17 nights
22nd May 2014 2:51 PM
"WHAT colour is Brisbane tonight?"
That is the question that will be on everyone's lips in the lead-up to the G20 Summit later this year.
Queenslanders will be able to play their own part in the G20 with an interactive lights display to highlight the cultural celebrations in the lead-up to the summit.
Premier Campbell Newman said on Thursday the government was organising the event to take advantage of the vast economic and tourism benefits that would flow on from hosting the event.
"The Lighting and Projection Project will illuminate the CBD for 17 nights in the lead-up to the G20," he said.
"It will feature displays and interactive lighting shows across around 15 buildings, drawing the attention of people to our wonderful city.
"The G20 Cultural Celebrations will showcase our amazing state not just to the international media and global leaders but also to the people of Queensland and Australia.
"This is our chance to show the rest of the world what a remarkable place we live in - a vibrant, strong state with a bright future."
The show's creative director Jono Perry said the project would have something for everyone.
"My hope is that the people of Brisbane will be asking 'What colour is Brisbane tonight?' as the lighting spreads across building facades," he said.
"People will be able to interact with the control and choose the colour of certain buildings in the CBD as part of the event."
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Heartbroken family’s tribute to crash victim Emily Barnett
ROADSIDE TRIBUTE: Emily Barnett's family left a heartbreaking tribute to her by the side of the Bruce Highway at the place where she lost her life on Friday.
Leighton Smith, Leighton.Smith@capnews.com.au
Leighton Smith
31st May 2020 1:59 PM
EMILY Barnett's family have made a heartbreaking journey 15km south of Rockhampton to visit the straight stretch of highway where their daughter inexplicably lost her life in a crash on Friday.
Her distraught Uncle, Leyland Barnett, was among the family members who laid a floral tribute at the Bruce Highway crash site over the weekend.
Emily Barnett tragically lost her life in a crash on the Bruce Highway on Friday afternoon.
Well known in the Rockhampton community for his role as a driving instructor and his work as a road safety advocate, Mr Barnett said there were no brake marks at the crash scene.
He said it appeared that a Mitsubishi Triton had crossed the highway into the path of Emily's Toyota RAV4, leaving her no chance to react and brake in the 100km/hr zone near Midgee.
Speaking on behalf of his family, he gave a heartfelt tribute to his niece Emily Barnett.
"On Friday May 29, 2020 at 3pm, a beautiful 21 year old girl full of life was taken away from my brothers family, ripping a hole in their hearts, from a devastating head on collision," Mr Barnett said.
Emily Barnett had only recently celebrated her 21st birthday.
"Emily was a hard worker and knew how to save money, buying a car and house to secure a good future. She was always happy and enjoyed life to the fullest."
He said Emily only recently had a 21st birthday party where she enjoyed everyone's company and talked about her ambitions.
"She was the eldest in her family of 2 sisters and a brother that now are missing her shining light," he said.
Emily Barnett celebrating her 21st birthday with Bluey.
"God has you now in his care and we all know that he will have another shining light to join in heaven."
Emily was an Alton Downs resident and a former South Rockhampton High School student.
She was a manager of retail store that had closed and was in the process of looking for a new job at the time of her death.
Leyland Barnett urges everyone to take care on and off the road.
"It is tragic that a young life is lost through no fault, there is nothing that anyone could have done and it is always important to let your loved ones know every day, that you love them before getting in behind the wheel of a car as you never know what can happen," Mr Barnett said.
The tragedy was heightened given Mr Barnett had only just implored motorists through social media to drive safe and make it a "Fatality Free Friday" on morning before Emily's death.
Let's make it a Fatality Free Friday.
Posted by Leyland Barnett on Thursday, 28 May 2020
Initial police inquiries suggest a white Mitsubishi Triton was travelling north on the Bruce Highway when it collided with a Toyota RAV4 travelling south at the time.
The 56-year-old driver of the Triton was treated and prepared for transport by the RACQ Capricorn Rescue on-board (QAS) Critical Care Paramedic and flight doctor.
"The patient was intubated prior to departure and airlifted to Rockhampton Base Hospital in a critical condition with suspected extensive internal injuries and multiple fractures," an RACQ Capricorn Rescue spokesperson said.
"The passenger of the second vehicle (RAV4) was treated on scene by Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) paramedics and transported by road also in a critical condition with similar injuries."
A Queensland Health spokesperson confirmed the two crash victims were flown to Brisbane for further treatment.
Queensland Police said on Sunday that they remained in critical condition.
Ms Barnett's death was the second fatality in the Rockhampton region over the past week after a 65-year-old woman lost her life in a crash on the Bruce Highway near the Yeppoon Rd intersection at Parkhurst on Thursday.
TRAFFIC INCIDENT: The fatal crash at the intersection of Yaamba Rd and Yeppoon Rd forced peak hour traffic to be diverted through the Parkhurst Industrial estate, creating significant congestion throughout North Rockhampton on Thursday evening.
Queensland Police were unable to provide any further updates on their forensic investigations into the causes of the two crashes.
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Furious passengers stranded amid chaos
FROM 30-hour delays to teary breakdowns, flyers who remain stranded at Sydney Airport following a huge storm yesterday have told of nightmarish scenes.
by Kate Schneider
8th Sep 2018 3:21 PM
FURIOUS passengers have told of chaotic scenes at Sydney Airport a day after it was hit with a crazy storm.
Wild weather including lightning strikes, hail and flooding rolled through Sydney yesterday, forcing flight cancellations, and the chaos is continuing today with numerous delays.
Kieran McGregor, from Melbourne, is among those affected. He is getting married in just a few hours, but as he gears up for the most important day of his life his hopes of two dear friends making it along are all but dashed.
One of his wedding guests who was due to fly to Melbourne last night was rebooked to fly out tonight - the only problem is the ceremony will be over by then. His other friend will also arrive too late.
"They're going to miss the event," Mr McGregor told news.com.au. "We are going down the aisle just after 3pm, it's an afternoon tea and service all rolled into one.
"Qantas are just completely unhelpful."
That's despite his desperate attempts to get the airline's attention on social media.
"Thanks @Qantas for booking my friends cancelled Sydney flight to 5pm tomorrow. He's missing my 3pm wedding," Mr McGregor tweeted to the airline.
Alas, he was stunned by their response, which offered an apology but no resolution.
"We're sorry for the inconvenience Kieran. There have been multiple flight disruptions in Sydney due to the weather. In these cases, we'll rebook affected passengers on to the next available service. Your friend is welcome to discuss available options with our team on 13 13 13."
When contacted by news.com.au regarding the delays, Qantas said it has been working to get passengers on their way as fast as possible, while Sydney Airport acknowledged that "all delays are a response to weather".
"We know delays are less than ideal, but our operational teams are working to get customers affected by the Sydney storm on their way as soon as possible," a Qantas spokesperson said. "We thank our customers for their patience and understanding. Customers on cancelled services last night have been provided with meals and accommodation.
"We encourage customers to check Manage Your Booking for updates or contact us via Facebook Messenger or Webchat on Qantas.com"
It's Kieran McGregor's big day. Picture: Kieran McGregor
The problem, in situations like these, is call wait times can be extreme. Kieran's friend was on hold for over an hour before giving up, and said that airport staff were extremely unhelpful.
So he made another attempt to get the airline's attention, but says they have now gone "silent".
"My friend missing my wedding is apparently an inconvenience. I'm furiously appalled at the lack of care and refusing to try to get my friend on a flight until tonight," he tweeted.
And again: "Two people need to be on flights ASAP. We go down the aisle at 3.08pm."
Still, no luck.
Mr McGregor' said his friend was told by flight crew that only Melbourne locals would be given priority to board an earlier flight.
A third wedding guest caught up in the flight dramas managed to get to Melbourne in time, but only after forking out an extra $800 for a business class seat.
He said while he understands that weather events happen, "Qantas has clearly not managed the utter chaos".
"I get that storms create chaos, and it's out of their control but I thought if someone had reasonable request such as 'I'm going to a wedding, can you help me', they would help," he told news.com.au.
Another stranded traveller jumped in on Mr McGregor's twitter thread, also slamming the way Qantas has been dealing with the situation: "You need to do better @qantas after five hours at the airport last night - I waited for an hour on the phone in the wee hours of the morning and ended up giving up. Just tried again now - to be told there is an hour-long wait. There needs to be a better alternative."
Another passenger jumped in to urge the airline to help Kieran: "Come on @Qantas social team pull your finger out and help this guy out! Calling the 131313 number isn't going to help. You'll be on hold for hours. Hope it works out mate."
The line at Sydney Airport. Picture: Fabric/Twitter
Showing that Mr McGregor is far from alone in his frustration, Twitter user Kewan voiced his concern for the way his parents Jayne and Peter have been treated at the airport.
He tweeted: "Just spoke to my parents who have had no sleep for 30+ hours. Been stuck at Sydney airport due to QF864 cancellation. They have been at airport since 3pm yesterday. @Qantas staff have been disgusting and rude. Mother is in tears. @Qantas is an embarrassment to Australian tourism."
Earlier he posted: "@Qantas shameful service at Sydney airport … No staff to help. No answer on customer service phone number. Waited 3 hours in a rebooking queue, no idea where baggage is."
Kewan told news.com.au that there was little communication from staff, and says the customer service was lacking.
"My parents said they tried to lie down on the floor to rest and be first in line for any earlier flights. The staff member said something along the lines of 'well that didn't help you very much did it'.
"Staff were saying 'Well we can't control the weather, its not our fault'. But they can control their customer service or put more staff on to help stranded people when circumstances like these arrive."
But it's not just Qantas that is feeling the strain. Mumbrella's Paul Qallbank tweeted, along with a photo of a crowded terminal: "We're overbooked. Really impressed with @virginaustralia's impersonation of United Airlines."
Another traveller lamented the lack of food and hours spent waiting on the tarmac.
Fellow passenger Tom Forbes was also not impressed: "There's obviously no accountability on your part for the storm, but the emergency response to the crisis from @SydneyAirport was abominable, and at least invisible."
A plane in the cloud during yesterday’s storm. Picture's Darren Leigh Roberts
Earlier, passenger Sarah MacDonald wrote of the chaos: "I'm going home lucky me. To all those people at Sydney airport waiting for bags I hope you get them. Or a flight. Or home. Sydney Airport disgraceful management by you - no one on duty to brief the media, no info releases on social media. We understand a storm. But COMMUNICATE."
ILL-TIMED TWEETS RILE UP FLYERS
Social media users have also been left scratching their heads over ill-timed tweets from Sydney Airport and Virgin amid the chaos.
Virgin posted a dreamy image of a plane on the tarmac along with the caption: "Friday afternoon is cleared for takeoff. Where do you wish you were taking off to?"
One traveller responded: "Stuck in Sydney terminal waiting for bag! Really wanted to see my kids before bed! Looks like we'll be here for a while."
"Wish I was taking off to Adelaide but stuck at Sydney Airport," another said.
An hour later, Sydney Airport posted a similar inspirational plane photo, with the jet cruising off into the sunset.
Passengers were quick to point out that it was a very strange thing to post at a time of weather chaos.
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State School equipment stolen
GATTON State School fell victim to thieves last weekend, when around $1300 worth of equipment was stolen from the school grounds.
Gatton State School janitor, Reg Archinal, said a 100L rain tank, tank stand and pump was taken.
“That tank provides water to the special education department for their washing machine and that building,” he said.
“It makes it worse especially that it was the Special Education kids that are affected by this as they use the tank for water play and sensory education.
“It's hard to believe that someone would take something like this and it's all our tax money that has to cover it.
“It's not like our school just has that money lying around and can afford to replace this equipment all the time.”
Gatton residents are encouraged to keep an eye on the school grounds over the Christmas holidays and to report any suspicious activity to the School Watch number 131 788.
He said it will be difficult to replace the equipment.
Police were contacted and are investigating the theft.
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Indigenous Bloom Corp. opened its first medical marijuana dispensary on the Kwaw-Kwaw-Apilt First Nation reserve on Ashwell Road in Chilliwack on July 5. Another location is planned for Shxwha:y Village, which is also the reserve where the product is being grown. (Paul Henderson/ The Progress)
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Cannabis legalization may be just three months away in Canada but First Nations in Chilliwack aren’t waiting.
A second marijuana dispensary on a local reserve opened its doors this week with a grand opening set for July 11, with a third storefront on the way.
Indigenous Bloom opened its doors to customers on the Kwaw-Kwaw-Apilt reserve on Ashwell Road on July 5 while workers were still on site putting the finishing touches on the medical marijuana dispensary.
And Indigenous Bloom Corp, which is based in Kelowna, is just getting started with some big corporate experience and First Nations leadership on its board.
That includes Chief Isaac Laboucan-Avirom of the Woodland Cree in Alberta, and Robert Louie, former chief of the West Bank First Nation near Kelowna and owner of Indigenous World Winery.
Also on the board are former CEOs of various companies, and former Conservative Member of Parliament for Kelowna-Lake Country Ron Cannan.
Kwaw-Kwaw-Apilt Chief Betty Henry said her community is fully behind the venture.
“It is our intention that the operation of a cannabis business must be under the domain of our people,” she said in a statement. “Our purposes include the elimination of criminals who market illegal drugs to our community members, to our youth and to the society at large.”
So where does the marijuana for sale at Indigenous Bloom’s shop come from? Nearby Shxwha:y Village announced its “intended operation” of a licensed producer (LP) cannabis growing facility through Health Canada, in addition to the groundbreaking of its dispensary storefront on Wolfe Road.
“Our tribe has set goals to achieve economic self-sufficiency and to become fully functioning partners in the social and economic welfare of this great country we know as Canada,” Shxwha:y Village Chief Robert Goldstone said. “We are striving to build a better future for our people and this economic initiative will help us to achieve that.”
The bands say they intend to provide high quality products that originate from First Nations businesses, and they want to be part of the cannabis industry to create employment, careers and increase economic development.
In short, Gladstone and Henry say they will not be left out of the emerging industry, adding “The federal and provincial governments collect billions of dollars in tax revenue from tobacco, fuel, alcohol and gambling with little or no return to First Nation communities.”
As for the growing of the product, a visit to a large otherwise unused warehouse at Shxwha:y Village on July 6 showed vehicle activity out front, and in plain sight were plants growing in pots under bright lights visible through an open door.
As for the legality of all this, all levels of government say “no.”
The same day Indigenous Bloom’s dispensary opened up on Ashwell, the Attorney General of B.C. announced that the eligibility requirements for prospective non-medical cannabis retail licence applicants is now available online.
When asked about the storefronts in Chilliwack, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General said “any cannabis retail store currently operating is illegal,” and it’s up to local law enforcement whether or not to take action against them.
“Upon legalization, existing dispensaries will have to close, unless they obtain a licence from the [newly renamed] Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch,” the spokesperson said.
“A new Community Safety Unit … will have the authority to deal with all illegal sales outside the provincial regulatory framework. Cannabis enforcement officers will be able to enter illegal cannabis retailers without a warrant, and will be able to seize illegal product and records. They will also have the authority to impose administrative monetary penalties based on the value of illegal cannabis.”
Someone involved with Indigenous Bloom pointed out that First Nations on reserves do not deal with the provincial government, only the federal government.
So what does Health Canada think? Storefront operations selling cannabis, whether they call themselves “dispensaries” or “compassion clubs” are unlicensed and illegal.
“Until cannabis laws change, and strict regulations and restrictions are put in effect, local police authorities will continue to address illegal cannabis possession and sales,” according to Health Canada media relations officer André Gagnon.
When asked a month ago, the Chilliwack RCMP said only that investigation and charges are possible.
“Businesses and/or individuals operating in contravention of the [Controlled Drugs and Substances Act] and Health Canada regulations may be subject to investigation and criminal charges in accordance with Canadian laws,” according to spokesperson Cpl. Mike Rail.
All this comes nearly two months after The Kure Cannabis Dispensary opened its doors on the Skwah First Nation just off Wolfe Road.
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Plants were visible under bright lights inside a large facility at Shxwha:y Village on July 6. The reserve is home to the licensed producer for Indigenous Bloom, which opened up a dispensary on the Kwaw-Kwaw-Apilt reserve on Ashwell on July 5. (Paul Henderson/ The Progress)
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The Resurgence of Hogan, a la McLean
By Roger Schiffman
Driving to work this morning I listened, as I often do, to the Fairways of Life Show with Matt Adams on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio. Today he interviewed Jim McLean, No. 3 among Golf Digest's 50 Best Teachers in America, about Jim's new book, The Complete Hogan. As I've said before, I love this book, even though I've never been a huge fan of the Hogan swing as it pertains to the average golfer. I also thought Hogan's swing was better after the accident (post 1950). But Jim enlightens us with the point that Hogan himself said he played his best golf in the late 1940s, which is when these film stills were taken.
For better players, and anyone who is a student of the golf swing, this book is a must read, as are Hogan's books Five Lessons and Power Golf. For the complete interview with McLean, click on the interview link below. Go to the 9:22 mark to listen to Jim discuss how he produced the Hogan book.
--*Roger Schiffman
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All posts tagged "ULCPC"
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Europe was silent to death in Armenia
Eyvazlı said “Yeqiazaryan has died as a political prisoner“ and “After the death of the political prisoner, his son VazgenYeqiqaryan wrote an open letter to a group of Deputies of Armenia’s Prime Minister and Parliament and, by holding them accountable for the death of his father, said ‘remember, the executives are not responsible, but they are on your position, your chair.”
Yeqiazaryan, pointing to the double standard attitude of Europe in relation to the death, noted: “All this gives importance to expressing the Armenian will and to remind the world’s double standards again. Interestingly, have the countries of the world and the European Parliament, which adopts prejudiced statements and decisions about Azerbaijan, ever made such an analysis;
1. If the Armenians’ approach is that way in their own case, how we can mention about humanistic approach to DilgemAskerov and ŞahbazGuliyeve, the captives in the hands of the Armenians;
2. Why are the international organizations that adopts the decision about the Republic of Azerbaijan on the basis of wrong information behaving so “strongly” against the death of the Armenian political prisoner in the prison because of hungry? Is this not an obvious example of double standards?;
3. This fact proves that the Armenian politicians keep their political aspirations superior to the lives of their own citizens. Even the starvation of people does not make them restrained from their political ambitions. The re-initiation of war in Nagorno-Karabakh just because of such ambitious Armenian politicians.
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B Sai Praneeth wins Singapore Open Super Series Title
Sai Praneeth defeated the world No 29 Kidambi Srikanth in an all-Indian men’s singles final and clinched Singapore Open Superseries badminton title. With this, India has become only the fourth country after China, Denmark and Indonesia to have its nationals in a men’s singles Superseries final.
Last year, Sai Praneeth clinched the Canada Open. Kidambi Srikanth has won the 2014 China Super Series Premier and 2015 India Super Series. He also reached the quarterfinals of Rio Olympics. He holds the distinction of being the first Indian to claim a Superseries title after the graded events became part of the world badminton calendar.
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2017
Topics: Persons in News • Sports
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New TB-resistant cows developed in China
Chinese scientists from Northwest A&F University have produced world’s first live cows with increased resistance to bovine tuberculosis (TB).
This development shows that genetic modification technology can be better suited to producing transgenic livestock with purposefully manipulated genetic.
Researchers had used a modified version of the CRISPR gene-editing technology called CRISPR/Cas9n to insert a new TB resistance gene NRAMP1 into the genome of bovine foetal fibroblasts, cell derived from female dairy cows.
These cells were then used as donor cells in a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer. In it, nucleus of a donor cell carrying the new gene was inserted into an egg cell, known as an ovum, from a female cow.
These ovum were then nurtured in the lab into embryos and transferred into mother cows for a normal pregnancy cycle.
During this cycle, cows were produced with no off target effects on the animals’ genetics — a common problem when creating transgenic animals using CRISPR.
This scientific process revealed that NRAMP1 had successfully integrated into the genetic code at the targeted region in all of the calves.
When it was exposed to Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis), bacterium that causes bovine TB, transgenic animals showed increased resistance to M. bovis.
Further in laboratory tests, the white blood cells taken from the calves also showed much resistance to M. bovis exposure.
What is CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique?
CRISPR short form of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. It allows scientists to selectively edit genome parts and replace them with new DNA stretches.
Cas9 is an enzyme that can edit DNA, allowing the alteration of genetic patterns by genome modification. CRISPR is a collection of DNA sequences that direct Cas9 where to cut and paste.
CRISPR-Cas9 technology has the potential to revolutionise the treatment of blood diseases, tumours and other genetic diseases.
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2017
Topics: China • Genetic Technology • Livestock Sector • Science and Technology
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Gucci Is Going Fur-Free
By Kate Friedman
At the 2017 Kering Talk at the London College of Fashion, Gucci’s president and CEO Marco Bizzarri announced that the brand is going fur-free, beginning with its Spring 2018 collection, which was just presented at Milan Fashion Week.
"Gucci announced that it will no longer use, promote or publicize animal fur beginning with its Spring Summer 2018 collection," reads a press release provided to Glamour shortly after Bizzarri's panel with Livia Firth, the founder of Eco Age, wrapped. "As a commitment and thanks to a long term partnership with LAV and The Humane Society, Gucci joins the Fur Free Alliance (FFA) which focuses on the deprivation and cruelty suffered by fur bearing animals both in wild trapping and industrial fur farming. Gucci will be organizing a charity auction of remaining animal fur items with proceeds to benefit LAV and the Humane Society."
This major development from the luxury fashion house comes a few months after the Net-a-Porter Group announced it was dropping fur. What's more, this means some of Gucci's most recognizable products—such as the princeton slides worn frequently by street-style stars during Fashion Month, which were previously made with kangaroo fur—will likely be reimagined in upcoming collections.
"Today the world is changing so fast, it's not even an option not to change," Bizzarri said during his talk at LCF. "We are not perfect, but we are doing our best to improve what we our doing."
In a blog post about the news, Wayne Pacelle, CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, wrote: "In 2009, Gucci hosted me for a meeting with their senior leadership in Florence to discuss the use of fur in their products. At the time, I was greatly impressed by the company’s record of concern for social and ecological issues and its commitment to corporate social responsibility. To its credit, Gucci kept up the dialogue with us for eight years, and today, patience paid off. With this announcement, Gucci has signaled to the entire luxury fashion industry that it’s time to move away from using fur."
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Trade Directories of Staffordshire
A list of some early trade directories covering Staffordshire. Directories relating to individual locations within the county can be found on the appropriate parish pages.
Staffordshire General & Commercial Directory for 1818.
Compiled by Messrs W Parson & T Bradshaw.
Published Manchester, 1818 in three parts:
Part I containing Newcastle-under-Lyme, the Potteries & Leek.
Part II containing Lichfield, Stafford & Tamworth (& a number of other towns) with the Neighbouring Villages.
Part III containing Bilston, Walsall, (etc) and the Whole of the South of the County of Stafford.
This directory was also published in one volume.
History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire.
by William White.
Published Sheffield, 1834.
Harrison, Harrod & Co's Directory and Gazetteer of Staffordshire and Shropshire with Dudley in Worcestershire.
Published Harrison, Harrod & Co, London, 1861.
Jones's Mercantile Directory of the Pottery District of Staffordshire.
Published Jones & Proud, London, 1864.
Jones's Mercantile Directory of the Iron District of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire.
Keates & Ford's Annual Potteries and Newcastle Street and Trade Directory.
Published Keates & Ford, Hanley, 1865 & 1867.
Keate's Gazetteer and Directory of the Staffordshire Potteries, Newcastle and District.
Published J Keates, Hanley, 1869, 1873, 1875, 1879, 1882, 1889 & 1892.
White's Directory of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Wednesbury and the Principal Villages in the Hardware District.
J G Harrod & Co's Postal and Commercial Directory of Staffordshire.
Published Harrod JG & Co, Norwich, 1870.
Postal Directory for the Potteries with Newcastle and District.
Published Rockliff Bros, Liverpool, 1887.
Hanley and Potteries District Trades Directory.
Published Town & Country Directories Ltd, Edinburgh, 1902, 1913 & 1917.
The Potteries, Newcastle and District Directory.
Published Staffordshire Sentinel Ltd, Hanley, 1907 & 1912.
Staffordshire Directory and Buyers Guide.
Published EF Cope & Co, Walsall.
24 Editions published for the years 1905, 1908, 1910-1914, 1916, 1921-1925, 1927-1936 & 1938.
Staffordshire Directory.
Published Aubrey & Co, Walsall.
8 Editions published for the years 1933-1940.
Kelly's Directories of Staffordshire
Pigot's & Slater's Directories of Staffordshire
Last updated Thu, 08/10/2020 - 20:11 - maintained by Mike Harbach
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations
Google Maps of Ancestral German Colonies (1700-1939)
Ellis Island Opened 1 January 1892
Excerpt from Our Immigrants at Ellis Island: An Exercise Prepared for the Young People and Descriptive of the Reception, Inspection, and Experiences of our Immigrants in the Detention-Room and Railway Offices, by Mrs. Francis E. Clark, a.k.a. Harriet Elizabeth (Abbot) Clark, 1912.
GENERAL DIRECTIONS
SCENE I.
The Inspection.
Let the arrival of the ship, with the number of immigrants, be announced to the officer in charge, and let the order be given that they shall be brought in. Have a special officer conduct them to the platform in groups, a family, or two or three individuals, or sometimes a single person.
1. A general inspection, as they pass through a gateway, by a surgeon of the marine hospital, who takes a general look from feet to head; he is on the lookout for contagious skin-diseases or for any disease or deformity. If he sees anything suspicious in any one, that person is marked with a chalk-mark and sent to the detention-room, after being marked "F. I.," for a more careful examination.
2. A careful inspection of the eyes by another uniformed doctor, who is looking especially for trachoma or any contagious eye-disease. Those whose cases seem doubtful are also marked with chalk and sent to the detention-room.
3. The immigrants pass up to the table of the inspector, who asked them the questions given below. He has before him the papers on which the answers they have already given to the same questions at the the place where they embarked. If their answers are satisfactory, and if they agree with those on the paper before him, they are marked "O.K. for New York," or "O.K. for the Railroad," or "O.K. for the West," or wherever they are going.
If any immigrants are not able to give satisfactory answers to the question, or if for any reason the inspector does not dare to admit them on his own responsibility, they are marked "F. I." (Further Investigation), of "S. I." (Special Inquiry), and are sent to the detention-room.
Questions to be Answered by all the Immigrants.
Where did you live before coming here?
Who paid your passage?
Have you a ticket?
What is your business?
How much money have you?
Can you read and write?
Were you ever in prison or an almshouse?
Are you an anarchist or polygamist?
Are you under a labor-contract?
Who is to meet you here?
On 1 January 1892, Ellis Island Immigration Station opened. It was named for Samuel Ellis who owned the island in the 1700s. During the 62 years it was in operation, more than 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island.
The original Ellis Island Immigration Station on Ellis Island, circa 1896. The following year, this building would be completely destroyed by fire. Source: WikiCommons
The original building was built from Georgia pine, and it was completely destroyed by fire on 15 June 1897. No lives were lost in the fire. While a new fireproof building was constructed, immigration intake was moved to the U.S. Barge Office on the southeastern tip of Manhattan in Battery Park.
Ellis Island Immigration Station with a ferry docked at the adjacent pier taken between 1902-1913.
Source: New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Among the millions who passed through Ellis Island, many were our immigrant Germans from Russia ancestors, who began coming to the United States in the early 1870s after the privileges granted by Catherine the Great and Alexander I were revoked. They came seeking land and a new life.
1855 – Between 3 August 1855 and 18 April 1892, Castle Garden, located on the southwestern tip of Manhattan in Battery Park, was used for immigrant intake in New York Harbor. Prior to 1855, there was no central immigrant processing center in New York. Each wharf kept their own custom passenger lists.
1890 – 19 April 1892, immigration intake was moved to the the U. S. Barge Office on the southeastern tip of Manhattan in Battery Park.
1892 – 1 January 1892, Ellis Island Immigration Station opened on a a small island off the New Jersey coast in New York Harbor.
1897 – 15 June 1897, a fire destroys the Ellis Island Immigration Station. Immigration intake moved back to the U.S. Barge Office from 15 June 1897 through 16 December 1900.
1900 – 17 December 1900, the new fireproof Ellis Island Immigration Station opened and was in operation until late 1924 after the Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act).
FamilySearch New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1982-1924
New York Emigration and Immigration – All about the comings and goings of emigrants and immigrants through New York Harbor, courtesy of FamilySearch.
Library of Congress – Over 8,000 items online including photos, periodicals, newspapers, books, manuscripts, personal narratives, etc.
The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act) – An entry from the U.S. State Department's Office of the Historian on the immigration act which "limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States through a national origins quota...[the] basic purpose [of the act] was to preserve the ideal U.S. homogeneity. Congress revised the act in 1952."
National Park Service Ellis Island (part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument NJ, NY)
New York Public Library Digital Collections – Over 300 images of Ellis Island, immigrants who passed through and had their portraits taken, detention conditions, etc.
Our Immigrants at Ellis Island, by Mrs. Francis E. Clark (Harriet Elizabeth Abbot Clark), 1912. (full digitized booklet)
Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
YouTube – There are a number of videos on YouTube about Ellis Island. Check the source or creator who uploaded the video to understand what angle might be presented in the video.
Posted by Sandy Schilling Payne
Map: Germans from Russia Settlement Locations
Data last refreshed 24 August 2020
This is the home of the Google maps of the locations of German settlements in the Imperial Russian and Austria-Hungary empires that began in the 1700s and continued into the early 20th century just prior to WWII. The locations are based on numerous historical maps, translated to GPS coordinates, with added genealogical and historical information for researchers of kinds. This unique geographical genealogy resource is detailed and vast in scope, inclusive of all German groups who uprooted from their Germanic homelands and heeded the call of empresses and emperors to colonize former empires that span the present-day countries of Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
This is a work in progress and a living document.
Google Maps of German Settlements in Russia and Austria
Tutorial - How to Search the Maps
Germans from Russia Settlement Locations (all colonies)
German Settlements by Year Founded
Region: Asiatic Russia
Region: Austria-Hungary
Region: Black Sea
Region: Dobrudscha
Region: Don Cossacks
Region: Saint Petersburg
Region: Vistula
Region: Volga
Region: Volhynia
Colony Group: Am Trakt
Colony Group: Astrakhan
Colony Group: Batschka
Colony Group: Belowesch
Colony Group: Beresan
Colony Group: Bessarabian
Colony Group: Bukovina
Colony Group: Caucasus
Colony Group: Central Asia
Colony Group: Chortitza
Colony Group: Crimea
Colony Group: Dobrudscha
Colony Group: Don Cossacks
Colony Group: Galizien
Colony Group: Glückstal
Colony Group: Hoffnungstal
Colony Group: Jewish Agricultural
Colony Group: Kherson
Colony Group: Kronau
Colony Group: Kutschurgan
Colony Group: Liebental
Colony Group: Mariupol
Colony Group: Molotschna
Colony Group: Poltawa
Colony Group: Prichib
Colony Group: Samara
Colony Group: Saint Petersburg/Nowgorod
Colony Group: Schwedengebiet
Colony Group: Siberia
Colony Group: Taurien
Colony Group: Ural
Colony Group: Vistula
Colony Group: Volga
Colony Group: Volhynia
Colony Group: Yekaterinoslav
Colony Group: Zagradovka
Survey Summary
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Live updates as The Killers tickets go on sale for Etihad Stadium
The group's Imploding The Mirage Tour is coming to the UK
The Killers are headlining the Emirates Stadium (Image: David Jensen/PA Wire)
The Killers are headlining their biggest UK tour to date 2020.
It'll see them perform stadiums across the country including London's Etihad Stadium.
They'll perform at the venue on June 6 as part of the Imploding The Mirage Tour.
It's in support of their album of the same name, due for release next year, marking their first in three years.
More recently the band headlined Glastonbury Festival in a career-spanning set, which received a huge reaction from fans on social media who missed out on tickets to the UK's biggest festival.
Tickets for their stadium tour are expected to be in high demand when they go on sale with dates also taking place in Manchester, Falkirk, Norwich, Southampton, Bristol, Coventry and Middlesbrough.
Tickets for The Killers tour go on sale at 9am via AXS.com , ticketmaster.co.uk or seetickets.com.
You can follow our live blog below for updates as tickets are released.
Extra date added! 09:36
Extra date added!
An extra London date at has been added for June 5 at Emirates Stadium.
Tickets are on sale now via AXS.com , ticketmaster.co.uk or seetickets.com.
Good availability on See Tickets
The best availability for the London Emirates Stadium show is currently through See Tickets with both standing and seated tickets available.
You can get tickets for all of the seated section as well as VIP standing and seats.
To get them go to seetickets.com..
Ticket queuing system
If you’re trying for tickets on Ticketmaster you’ve probably been met with this message, but this is likely because of the initial rush to get tickets.
Once it calms down and more people get through, you’ll be able to select your tickets. Try and be patient or attempt to get tickets from AXS or See Tickets too.
Meanwhile AXS usually set up a queuing system with a wait time of five to ten minutes. You’ll then enter the ticket page to select your tickets.
The Killers at Glastonbury
The Killers headlined Glastonbury Festival this summer to one of the biggest crowds of the weekend.
They played a career-spanning set featuring The Man, Somebody Told Me, When You Were Young and All These Things That I’ve Done to name a few.
The Killers play the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival (Image: Aaron Chown/PA Wire)
The group were also joined by Johnny Marr and the Pet Shop Boys to perform This Charming Man and Human.
Their epic set should give fans an idea of what to expect from The Killers’ headline live dates next summer, with new and old songs likely to make an appearance.
For tickets go to AXS.com , ticketmaster.co.uk or seetickets.com.
10 minutes until tickets go on sale
Tickets go on sale in 10 minutes so head to AXS or Ticketmaster now and get the page ready for 9am.
Good luck and we’ll be posting updates on ticket availability and any extra dates.
The Killers ticket prices
Here’s a breakdown of ticket prices for The Killers show at Emirates Stadium, with standard and VIP tickets available:
£55 - seats
£75 - standing and unreserved seats
£140 - standing VIP package
£145 - seated VIP package
They go on sale at 9am via AXS.com , ticketmaster.co.uk or seetickets.com.
Checklist before tickets go on sale
Before tickets go on sale here’s some tips to make sure you’re prepared:
Sign up or log into your AXS or Ticketmaster account and check your banking details are filled in correct so you can save time once tickets are in your basket.
Load up a tab and get settled on the The Killers event page. Try readying a number of devices including a desktop as well as your phone to get tickets, this will increase your chances and you might be more lucky getting through, plus you can try the AXS and Ticketmaster apps.
Once the The Killers page is on your screen get ready to refresh or click through as it hits 9am - be patient and wait in the queue until you’re allocated ticket(s) If your preferred ticket option isn’t available, maybe go for the ones offered from AXS or Ticketmaster to ensure you don’t lose out all together.
Keep up-to-date with the latest ticket news on Twitter. If anything changes with these tickets AXS or Ticketmaster’s social followers will be the first to know about it. They send real-time updates on availability and on any technical difficulties. Plus we’ll also be here to give you updates.
Remember they go on sale at 9am via AXS.com or ticketmaster.co.uk
Emirates Stadium seating plan
(Image: Emirates Stadium/Ticketmaster)
Here’s the seating plan for The Killers show at Emirates Stadium which includes a general admission standing area and tiered seating.
This should give you an idea of what ticket type you might be after when they go on sale, or if you’re automatically offered tickets by AXS or Ticketmaster you’ll know where you’d be sat.
The group are playing a huge show at London’s Emirates Stadium on June 6 to around 70,000 fans.
Here’s the full list of tour dates for 2020:
May 28 - Falkirk Stadium
May 30 - Manchester, Emirates Old Trafford
June 1 - Norwich, Carrow Road Stadium
June 3 - Southampton, St Mary’s Stadium
June 6 - London, Emirates Stadium
June 9 - Bristol, Ashton Gate Stadium
June 11 - Coventry, Ricoh Stadium
June 13 - Middlesbrough, Riverside Stadium
Welcome to our live blog as tickets for The Killers go on sale.
The group are bringing the Imploding The Mirage Tour to stadiums across the UK.
After a sold-out presale earlier this week tickets are expect to be in high demand this morning, so we’ll be updating you on availability, extra dates and more.
Tickets go on sale at 9am via AXS.com, ticketmaster.co.uk or seetickets.com.
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NPP warns gov’t over attempts to punish head teachers over demo
Source: citifmonline.com - The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has cautioned government against any attempt to sanction or punish head teachers of the schools whose pupils joined the party’s ‘Won Gbo’ demonstration.
They say such attempt will portray the government in a bad limelight. The NPP hit the street last Wednesday to protest what they say is inconsistent power supply and the worsening economic situation in the country of which some pupils joined in the exercise.
Some of the pupils who joined the demonstration told Citi News’ Pearl Akanya Ofori that “we are joining because we don’t have light.”
Meanwhile, government has threatened to deal with the head teachers who allowed the pupils to take part in the protest.
But the NPP disagrees saying “nobody can suppress the expression of the school kids.”
Speaking to Citi News, National Youth Organizer of the NPP, Sammy Awuku argued that “if they [pupils] are going to have their homework done and they know that there is no electricity…it shouldn’t be somebody from the opposition to tell them there is blackout.”
“I’m throwing a serious warning to the government and its allies that they will be committing a serious thing against our democratic culture.
“Nobody should try and hide behind an establishment that teachers who partook in the demonstration or the children who were shouting because of unreliable power supply are going to be punished for their actions.”
“The government should not dream of even traveling that path because that will sink this government, because I can see danger ahead if they try to travel that far,” he warned.
In a related development, the four head teachers who allegedly allowed the pupils to join in the demonstration have subsequently written an apology letter to the GES and asked for forgiveness.
They include Ernestina Ofori Atta of Liberty Avenue 1&4 primary; Christiana Hanson Nortey, Mantse Tackie 1 primary; Lucy Kanyaguay Adego of the Ernest Brew Memorial Basic School and Robert Amankra, Liberty Avenue 3 primary.
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Victorian Greyhound Racing is a vibrant, entertaining and thriving sport with animal welfare at its heart.
To professionally regulate, conduct and promote greyhound racing and welfare in Victoria with integrity and care, and to ensure an engaging, ethical and sustainable sport.
Integrity, Transparency, Collaboration, Respect, Safety, Responsiveness and Progression.
GRV 2019-24 Strategic Plan – Executive summary
GRV has worked with the industry to drive significant change. The challenge for us all is to now build on these achievements while increasing market share and revenue growth as well as investing more in the promotion of the sport while continuing to deliver strong welfare and integrity outcomes.
The environment in which we interact is constantly evolving with new digitally based products and services so GRV needs to become even more agile, connected and engaged with participants, fans and the community.
This Strategic Plan sets out a new path forward to meet these challenges and secure the long-term future of Victorian greyhound racing as a vibrant, ethical and financially sustainable sport that delivers a great wagering experience and most importantly, increased returns to our participants so that they can continue to work in our sport for many years to come, doing what they love – caring for their dogs.
Peita Duncan, GRV Chair
The 2016-19 Strategic Plan has guided a period of major reform for the sport and GRV. A strengthened regulation and compliance regime combined with real cultural change among participants has significantly improved the welfare outcomes of Victorian greyhounds throughout their full life cycle. Greyhound welfare and integrity is at the heart of everything we do. Retired racers are now being re-homed in record numbers while there has been a dramatic fall in euthanasia numbers and a strong focus on safe racing has been embraced.
GRV is now fit for purpose as a modern, professional and effective regulator. Evidence-based decision making has become the norm. Its integrity and welfare functions have set a new benchmark for the code nationally, and engagement with participants, other stakeholders and the general community is underpinned by targeted communication, education and marketing initiatives. In line with our values we will actively support and nurture our staff and participants.
We can be proud of our achievements to date but there is still more to do.
Alan Clayton, GRV CEO
Download an executive summary of the 2019-24 Strategic Plan here (PDF).
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Whatever It Takes: A moving saga of life after the war
Fiction, Sagas, Historical fiction
Paperback Sep 15, 2005 | 9780755308811 | RRP $21.99 Buy Now
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Kay Clifton has waited five hard years for her husband to return from the war - but is he still the man she married
Kay Clifton has waited five, long, lonely years for her husband Bob to come home from the war. Despite her excitement at his return, their whirlwind romance prior to his departure makes her feel as though she hardly knows him, so it's not surprising that Kay is apprehensive when she meets him at the station.
Kay's hopes of starting their blissfully happy marriage are dashed by the presence of Bob's fellow soldier Tony. Bob is indebted to Tony for saving his life and seems hell bent on repaying that debt to the couple's detriment. But as Tony starts acting more and more strangely, Kay worries that something else happened during the war that Bob is keeping secret. And Bob himself isn't behaving like the man whom she waved off so tearfully all those years ago. But with the love and encouragement of her family and friends, Kay is determined that whatever it takes she will bring out the Bob with whom she first fell in love and forge the future that they had envisaged before the war wreaked its havoc.
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Where Memories Are Made: Trials and tribulations hit the staff of Jolly s Holiday Camp (Jolly series, Book 2)
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A Perfect Christmas: ... would be for a father to find his daughter
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Onwards and Upwards: Ambition threatens true love in this moving saga
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A Lucky Break: A compelling saga of ambition, friendship and bitter rivalries
No Going Back: New beginnings. New hopes. New dangers.
Against the Odds: An unforgettable saga of family, romance and taking chances
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Lynda Page was born and brought up in Leicester. The eldest of four daughters, she left home at seventeen and has had a wide variety of office jobs. She now spends the majority of her time helping her daughter and writing her novels in the peace and tranquillity of her daughter's holiday park in Epworth, North Lincolnshire.
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Our physiotherapist and complementary therapists can help you to manage your symptoms. They aim to help you live your life to the full no matter what illness you may have.
A number of years ago Mat Atkins, one of our Complementary Therapists produced a Relaxation session lasting 20 minutes. Anyone who might feel that they may benefit from some quality “me time” during these challenging times can listen in and hopefully it will help.
The session is self guided and follows the classic relaxation sequence with positive suggestions for health and well-being and has received many positive comments and feedback from patients and carers over the years.
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At the current time we have had to step down our Complimentary Therapists from face to face contact however you can still access telephone support (01495 717277) and other resources such as the relaxation audio.
Our specialist physiotherapist can help you with physical problems associated with your life-limiting condition. Physiotherapy can play a key role in palliative care and focuses on helping you to improve and maintain quality of life and to enable you to be as independent as possible regardless of prognosis. Some of the symptoms physiotherapy can help with are breathlessness, fatigue and pain.
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For our patients that can attend our Day Centre we offer the Living Well Programme. The four week programme aims to provide education and practical tips on how to self-manage a number of symptoms including anxiety, fatigue and breathlessness. Patients and carers can be referred to us for an assessment by any member of clinical staff at the hospice.
Our complementary therapists work alongside the other hospice teams to help manage your symptoms. These might include insomnia, anxiety, constipation and other side effects commonly associated with treatment.
The therapies we provide are Reflexology, Reiki, Aromatherapy, Massage, Hypnotherapy, Visualisation/Relaxation techniques.
The course of treatments we provide will vary depending on individual needs.
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Phil was shell shocked when diagnosed with Prostate Cancer three years ago, age 44. Not knowing where else to turn, Phil self-referred to the hospice, already aware of the service as his father- in- law had received support. “When I was diagnosed I was unsure where to turn. The hospice helped me understand my diagnosis and then explained the services they could provide to support me and my family” Shortly after Phil’s referral his specialist nurse saw he was suffering from a number of stress induced problems and suggested complementary therapy. “I was sceptical to begin with, but I could soon feel the benefits. My stress levels decreased and my sleep dramatically improved”. Phil received reflexology, massage and aromatherapy he also received these treatments when staying at Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan hospital. The treatments improved Phil’s physical and psychological symptoms, allowing him to open up, discussing his fears and anxieties in a safe and relaxed environment. “It was my oasis in life, it was me time and I didn’t get that anywhere else. I would highly recommend having complementary therapies to anyone who is unsure. They have helped me no end and I haven’t looked back since” Phil explained. During Phil’s journey he accessed a variety of the hospice’s services including family support, nursing and therapies. The clinical team worked together providing the support Phil needed. Phil was discharged from the hospice as his symptoms were controlled and stable. Although Phil was anxious about discharge, he worked with the team and knows that should anything change, the hospice is only ever a phone call away.
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Anderson Reunion, day 1 (Thursday, Oct. 14)
We spent the past few days at Zion National Park for a family reunion on Andrew’s side of the family. I went up a day earlier than Andrew and I was very glad I did. I was afraid it would be a little awkward because there are a few people in Andrew’s family that I hadn’t ever met (there are still a few left, actually, that I’ve yet to meet, even after the reunion). I had already met almost everyone there, though, and the ones I was introduced to were very nice.
Andrew’s cousin Ashley apparently follows our blog (hi, Ashley!) and knew so much about us that it made me feel famous...so it was especially fun to meet her! She had her mom, Aunt Therena, bring down a big bag of yarn for me (that she was planning on giving away anyway) because she knew that I crocheted. It was so sweet.
Rachel was in “friend” heaven. There were so many 2, 3, and 4 year-olds running around it was hard to keep them straight. Rachel was especially fond of Adrian and Barrett. She called them her '”boy-friends.” I tried to convince her they were her cousins but she didn’t believe me.
“How come I’ve never met them if they’re my cousins?”
“Well…because we’ve been living in Egypt…and they’re really your dad’s cousins’ children so they are your second cousins.”
“Mom, we’re just friends, okay?”
She was really open to the idea of having so many new aunts and uncles, though.
We didn’t do much on Thursday but settle into camp. Some families brought RVs. The rest stayed in the hotel adjacent to the RV park. We were part of “the rest” and it was the most comfortable camping experience I’ve ever had.
Rachel spent quite a while with Grandpa down by the river. I think it’s the Virgin River but it might not be. The Virgin River flows through the canyon, I know…so it would only go to figure…but I could be wrong. She was really nervous about the fish in the water, particularly the “peanut-butter fish.” When we were packing up at home Grandpa told her there would be a river so she started asking if there would be jellyfish in the water because she hates jellyfish and wouldn’t want to go swimming if there were jellyfish in the water.
Grandpa gets all smart and said, “There are no jellyfish in the water…but there are peanut-butter fish.”
“They stick to the roof of your mouth,” I added.
“So be sure not to try to eat them,” warned Grandpa.
Rachel was as nervous as she could be at the river, worrying about the peanut-butter fish that “stick to the roof of your house.” Even though we told her over and over again that we were joking she remained genuinely terrified and screamed hysterically every time Grandpa threatened to take her closer to the water.
Miriam was less melodramatic.
Later, after Grandpa went to sit up by Aunt Therena and Uncle John’s RV, Rachel got brave enough to play by the water and pretended to fish for a while. She was trying to catch her a nice peanut-butter fish.
Looking at that water started giving her ideas and soon she asked if she could go swimming. I told her that we could go swimming together but that there was no way I was going to swim with her in the river. I heard that it was 50°F (10°C) but it felt much colder than that. I tried standing in it and my feet started aching and screaming to get out.
Unfortunately, the pool wasn’t much warmer, but I got in the pool anyway because I’m a nice, dedicated mother (you can thank me when you’re older, Rachel). She insisted that the water was fine but did so while her teeth were a-chattering and her skin was turning blue and breaking out in goose bumps. I didn’t get in past my waist.
Uncle Clark, though? He dove right in.
“Come on in, the water’s fine!” he yelled happily to his grandkids. Then he turned to me and whispered, “This pool is flippin’ cold!”
We stayed in until Rachel was shivering uncontrollably. Then we went to rest in the last rays of sunshine before it disappeared behind the 3,800 foot cliffs surrounding us.
At home, before we left, I told Andrew to be sure to pack his swimming stuff so that, if the pool was still open, we could go swimming. But I couldn’t say this out loud because Rachel was around and if she heard there was a pool at the hotel and then there wasn’t…well, we would have had a major crisis on our hands. So instead of saying anything simple like, “Remember to pack your swimsuit,” I said, “Remember to pack attire for the P-O-O-L.”
“What for?” Andrew asked.
“Well, unless you want to S-W-I-M naked you’re going to need something…”
“Oh, that…” he laughed, “I thought you meant ‘a tire,’ like for a car.”
“No. I meant ‘attire,’ like for you.”
I told Grandpa this story while we were walking from the river to the pool and Rachel was there and overheard it.
“We don’t bring tires to the pool. Like, some people use them, but I like to leave my wheels on the car. Did you see the people in the wheels in the river? We aren’t going to do that at the pool because you can’t take a tire to the pool.”
She was talking about the people we saw tubing down the river (the crazies! The water was like 50-stinkin’-degrees!) but the funny part was that she had the same thought her dad had. Attire=a tire.
Either she’s a really smart for her age or her father thinks like a three-year-old…
Just kidding—I think the man’s brilliant, obviously!
Calamitously, like most brilliant people, he’s also a little scatterbrained. And thus he forgot his swimming attire. So every time Rachel wanted to go swimming in the frigid pool (which was probably only about 5 degrees warmer than the river) guess who had to take her? Me.
*sigh*shiver*sigh*
I never got in past my waist and spent as much time as I could hogging the sun. Uncle Clark made like he was going to splash me once and I said, “Oh, don’t you dare!”
Either a) I’ve perfected my evil look, b) Clark was afraid to offend the newbie (I was the newest in-law in attendence, I think), or c) Clark’s just a compassionate person because he didn’t splash me and didn’t even fake like he was going to again. Truthfully I didn’t want him to splash me but I would have been fine if he had because I was towing Rachel around while she kicked her legs to practice “swimming” and got thoroughly splashed, anyway.
After swimming we had supper and a family meeting before retiring to our room for bed. Rachel played “musical beds.” She fell asleep with Auntie Sarah, then I took her to bed with me when I went to bed, and then at five in the morning she wound up in bed with Grandma and Grandpa. It was kind of funny…but I think I’m getting into day #2 now and I’m not ready to do that, really, because I’m exhausted and need to go to bed.
I miss looking out the window and seeing this, though:
It was such a beautiful weekend!
Labels: #Anderson Reunion 2010, Andrew, camping, extended family, Miriam, Rachel, Tourism
Hi Nancy! I have to say that I felt like I was meeting a celebrity. It was so nice to meet you finally. Your girls are so adorable, and Adrian had a blast with his new "friend."
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Firbank boasts some of the most up to date facilities and programs in Australia. It places value on staff that has a balanced, experienced worldview. Academics and doers, teachers are leaders in their fields at the school impart their knowledge from a place of experience and personal achievement. Through it?s girls-only and co-educational options, the school offers more choice and flexibility for students to find the right fit. Later in life, this sense of belonging and the connections forged at Firbank evolve into valuable professional and community networks.
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Dengue epidemic: What can we offer?
Raj K Manchanda
Editor in Chief, Central Council for Research Homoeopathy, Janakpuri, New Delhi, India
Editor in Chief, Central Council for Research Homoeopathy, Janakpuri, New Delhi
Manchanda RK. Dengue epidemic: What can we offer?. Indian J Res Homoeopathy 2015;9:137-40
Manchanda RK. Dengue epidemic: What can we offer?. Indian J Res Homoeopathy [serial online] 2015 [cited 2021 Jan 17];9:137-40. Available from: https://www.ijrh.org/text.asp?2015/9/3/137/166371
Most parts of India are in the grip of dengue epidemic. Dengue epidemics have increased in extension and virulence, possibly indicating viral mutation and evolution. [1] Dengue is a vector-borne disease transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito. There are four serotypes of the virus that causes dengue. These are known as DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4. The total economic burden of dengue in South-east Asia is estimated at 970.2 US$. [2] Dengue outbreak in the country is attributed to a number of factors, including heavy rains, intense construction activity and better surveillance system that enable detection of more cases. Hospitals and clinics across the country are inundated with patients, putting a strain on emergency services. Outbreak of dengue fever is reported every year from various parts of country and this year, the total incidence reported by Directorate of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme [3] until August 2015 is 17,340, which is already 43% of the last year's total figure 40,571, and the worse seems yet to come, since the maximum prevalence of dengue in most parts of India is in post monsoon period (September to November). [4]
Homoeopathic literature mentions several medicines for treatment of dengue. Eupatorium perfoliatum is one of the most frequently indicated medicines in dengue fever. Even the cases that Council collected through its online data recording software during the last year epidemic, pointed towards Eupatorium perfoliatum. Further, the clinical presentation of this year's dengue fever recorded by the teams deputed by the Council at various hospitals of Delhi is also suggestive of Eupatorium perfoliatum as a key drug. Moreover, most studies (discussed below) carried out on dengue have used Eupatorium perfoliatum as the only or one of the drugs. Based on these observations and facts, Council recently announced Eupatorium perfoliatum 30 as the preventive drug for the ongoing outbreak.
Studies carried out for evaluating the role of homoeopathic treatment of dengue fever have been encouraging, with evidence reported from Brazil, Pakistan and Cuba.
In Brazil, in May 2001, a single dose of the homeopathic remedy Eupatorium perfoliatum 30C was given to 40% of residents of the most highly affected neighborhood. Thereafter, dengue incidence decreased by 81.5%, a highly significant decrease as compared with neighbourhoods that did not receive homoeopathic prophylaxis. [5] Again in early 2007, facing the challenge of controlling an outbreak of dengue, the Secretary of Health of the county of Macaι, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, carried out a "Homeopathy Campaign against Dengue." 156,000 doses of homoeopathic remedy were freely distributed in April and May 2007 to asymptomatic patients, according to the notion of "epidemic genus." The remedy used was a homoeopathic complex against dengue containing Phosphorus 30cH, Crotalus horridus 30cH and Eupatorium perfoliatum 30cH. The incidence of the disease in the first 3 months of 2008 fell by 93% in comparison to the corresponding period in 2007, whereas in the rest of the state of Rio de Janeiro there was an increase of 128%. While confounding factors were not controlled for, these results suggest that Homoeopathy may be an effective adjunct in dengue outbreak prevention. [6] Further, in 2012, a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial was conducted on dengue patients using the same homoeopathic complex, to evaluate the effectiveness of the homeopathic intervention in dengue epidemic. The intervention group showed improvement in most symptoms including headache, fever, and myalgia. [7]
In Pakistan, a homoeopathic complex of 10 medicines including Bryonia alba, Rhus toxicodendron, Gelsemium sempervirens, Aconitum napellus, Eupatorium perfoliatum, China boliviana, Hamamelis, Citrullus colocynthis, Crotalus horridus and Phosphorus was given to 25 patients of dengue fever and the mean values of each of the criteria of both homoeopathic and standard treatment groups were compared. Better results were seen in the blood values within a week of prescription, as opposed to the standard maintenance therapy. [8]
In Cuba, 25,000 patients who tested positive for dengue were treated with a homoeopathic complex containing medicines Bryonia alba, Eupatorium perfoliatum, Gelsemium sempervirens and Dengue nosode. As a result, no severe symptoms were reported after its administration, nor did any patient require any more intensive care from an average of 3 to 5 days of entering Intensive Care Unit. Even the stay at the hospital reduced from 7-10 days to 3-5 days. [9]
These results reflect that the dengue epidemic is not a country specific health problem, but an global burden, with most parts of world trying to find ways to fight it, especially so when the dengue vaccine is not existing yet. The standard management of uncomplicated cases of dengue fever primarily includes controlling fever, ensuring adequate hydration and monitoring blood values for platelets, hematocrit and total leucocyte count. However, clear cut antiviral therapy for dengue is largely wanting. It is not only an opportunity for the homoeopathic community but also its obligatory calling to rise to the occasion and offer all that it can in prevention, management, and treatment during the dengue epidemic.
Evidence that Homoeopathy may be effective in prevention of dengue, as well as an add-on therapy, especially in reducing the intensity of the disease and decreasing the duration of stay at hospital is enough to lay our foundation for more work on this front. Nonetheless, the studies so far also give rise to some thought-provoking questions on our approach to selecting medicines for prevention or treatment in epidemic situations. The use of complex medicines in recent trials compels one to revisit the approach of administering only one medicine for homoeoprophylaxis and certainly calls for more trials. On the contrary, another double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized control trial by Jacobs et al.[10] using a combination remedy was carried out in Honduras, along with standard conventional analgesic treatment for dengue. The results showed no difference in outcomes between the two groups. However, most of the studies discussed above, including this one, had some or the other limitations ranging from small sample size, poor research design or abrupt withdrawal of study. Still, the data are sufficient to invoke more studies with better methodology and compliance. Thus, shedding all bias and without losing any more time in opinion clashes, we must initiate preventive and curative trials based on either of the two approaches - single or complex medicines for preventive and/or curative roles.
That said, the hard fact remains that conducting these studies is a challenge in itself, especially the prophylactic studies. The preventive programs for epidemics need a synergistic association: Formal approvals from government heads, tie-ups with health service centers and adequate awareness about Homoeopathy of those who are involved in conducting or facilitating such a program. It has been observed that since epidemic is a short-term situation if precious time is lost in getting such approvals or in establishing tie-ups, true justice cannot be done to these studies. Such kind of challenges need to be overcome and for that, we need to build strategies and standard protocols in liaison with the concerning authorities.
Coming back to the ongoing epidemic, we, as healthcare delivers, should not forget that going by the present state of affairs, especially in the state of Delhi, which is witnessing the worst epidemic of dengue, we must remember that the control of dengue requires a combination of strategies, with Homoeopathy as only one pillar. During the infection, the use of antipyretics for lowering the temperature in patients reporting of high fever and regular platelet monitoring to ensure timely blood transfusion, in case of need, are vital management steps. Homoeopathic remedies, especially in advanced cases, should be proposed in an integrated manner along with the standard therapy, with the chief aim to minimize the progression and severity of the disease.
For information and education of a homoeopathic practitioner dealing with dengue cases, 'Guidelines for homoeopathic Practitioners for Clinical Management of Dengue' have been developed by Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy. These guidelines aim to present all relevant details to a practitioner in daily clinical practice for management of cases diagnosed or suspected to be of dengue and are available at the Council's website www.ccrhindia.org. As regards the new cases of dengue, which a homoeopathic practitioner, by way of his or her knowledge of the disease, finds to be uncomplicated, should be treated with the indicated medicines prescribed on the basis of their individualizing symptoms. Such cases may also be reported at Council's website link http://www.ccrhdengueinfo.org/#, created for organized data management and subsequent analysis of dengue cases treated with Homoeopathy.
With the increasing understanding of the role of homoeopathy in epidemics and more rigorous trials, future epidemics, it is hoped, will be tackled with better strategies and management plan.
Nano Dimensions of Homoeopathy
Several studies have revealed that homoeopathic remedies contain Nanoparticles (NPs) of source materials. NPs induce adaptive changes in the organism at non toxic doses (hormesis). Homoeopathic remedies act by stimulating hormetic adaptive rather than conventional pharmacological effects. This reflects the possibility of its integration with modern medicine in future. [11] In a review article being published author elaborated the nano-dimensional properties of Homoeopathic medicine. [12] It can be argued that Homoeopathy represents the earliest practical development of "integrative nanomedicine" for using pulsed doses of NPs from natural source materials safely and effectively in treating a wide range of acute and chronic clinical conditions. [13] This is a very informative article that discusses the current state of affairs from Physicist's point of view. It highlights the preliminary outcomes in terms of size of these particles, their spectral properties and effect on membrane fluidity. It connects important, old, un-quantifiable effects with the latest quantifiable technology and opened up an era of applications with more possibilities. Other usage of these NPs outside medicine such as thermovolatge generation and enhancing electrical properties of the polyvinylidene fluroride film, which can be a promising high dielectric material for the fabrication of high charge strong multilayer capacitors in electronic industries. [11] Mohanty et al. has presented an outcome of homoeopathic pathogenetic trial of Nano Curcumin 6X potency. [14] The symptoms reported need further verification by profession provided this drug is available.
A book review of "Homoeopathy and Modern Medicine" written by Dr. R.D. Lele is being published. [14] This is a unique book that connects homoeopathic principles, philosophy with modern day knowledge of science; all students, homoeopaths and scientists of basic research should read it.
Homoeopathy in Leprosy And Vitiligo
Since the adoption in 1991 of the World Health Assembly resolution on the elimination of leprosy, the prevalence of leprosy has fallen globally. [15] However, the pockets of high incidence (endemic) are still remaining in many countries such as Angola, Brazil, the Central African Republic, Nepal, Tanzania, and India. These countries remain highly committed to eliminating the disease and continue to intensify their leprosy control activities. [16] An environment, in which patients will not hesitate to come forward for diagnosis and treatment at any health facility, must be created. [17] Chakraborty et al. had been working in this area since 20 years, their latest publication "Comparative Study of a Homoeopathic Medicine - Sulphur with the Multi Drug Therapy in the Treatment of Paucibacillary Leprosy" is another piece of evidence that points toward the distinct advantage of integrated care. [18] Another publication highlights the usefulness of homoeopathy in a cohort study in vitiligo. The frequently indicated medicines are Sulphur, Arsenicum album, Phosphorus and Lycopodium. [19] The outcome measures are generic, and there is a possibility of improving the success rate of prescribing. Further, study using specific outcome measures and with the aim of identifying statistically significant indications of each drug is a prerequisite for instituting randomized control trial for a limited period.
The publication on "Homoeopathic preparation of Berberis vulgaris as an inhibitor of Calcium Oxalate Crystallization: An in-vitro evidence" is another study justifying the use of Berberis vulgaris in the prevention and treatment of renal stones. In this in-vitro study, Berberis vulgaris has been found as a potent drug against calcium oxalate crystallization both at the level of nucleation and aggregation. [20]
We are glad to announce that now onwards, the abstracts of all the articles will also be published in Spanish, and this will benefit Spanish speaking countries. We extend a warm thanks to Madam Ute Fisch, National Vice President, Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis, Spain for agreeing to translate all the abstracts. We welcome her as Associate Editor.
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Published by Anna Rosenberg on 7 December 2012
Looking to expand into Africa? How to work with local distributors
Finding the right distributors to work with in sub-Saharan Africa can be a challenging task for companies wanting to do business in the continent. The local distribution landscape varies from country to country. In general, it is shaped by traditional and nascent modern trade channels, the role and dominance of wholesalers, but also differing regulations such as import bans, price controls and cloudy business processes.
The right local distribution partner can be the difference between commercial success and failure in sub-Saharan Africa.
Distribution services across the continent can be divided into broadly defined categories of traditional and modern trade, with the latter being more prominent in countries such as Kenya and South Africa. But modern trade typically centres around urban and semi-urban areas. While modern trade is growing, the point of sale still takes place predominantly through traditional trade channels for most customers.
As more companies enter the continent, local distribution businesses are being set up and the quality of service is improving. However, increasing competition also means that the battle to work with the best is getting fiercer.
Finding distributors
To find the right distribution partners, companies have to do a thorough analysis of the distribution landscape in the selected market to understand local realities, find potential partners and ultimately reduce challenges and costs. This is not easy, nor cheap, but crucial for success on the ground as selecting the right local partner can be the difference between commercial success and failure in sub-Saharan Africa.
Following an analysis of the distribution landscape, companies can identify potential partners through the following sources, for example:
Networks: Executives should speak to companies already present in the market, experts with experience, and also reach out to local business people and entrepreneurs to benefit from their experience
Relevant organisations: Chambers of commerce, country-specific industry associations, relevant government departments, local embassies, and investment promotion agencies can help in identifying local partners
Walking the market: Executives can walk the market to get a better understanding of the distributors operating on the ground and reach difficult-to-access areas
Industry events: Attend relevant industry events in the region or, if possible, in the country of choice to get a better understanding of the industry and meet potential partners
Yellow Pages/ Pages Jaunes: Traditional paper-based directories still play important roles in some countries; many of the larger distributors are listed or advertise in directories
Social media: Follow Twitter and LinkedIn for relevant industry groups that can provide information. Social media is increasingly important in sub-Saharan Africa
Advertising: Companies should consider reaching potential partners via advertising in the country’s major media outlets
Widening your scope: Established distributors often deal in various sectors: a foodstuffs importer in Uganda may also import automobile spare parts. Consider working with an established distributor even if the distributor may not distribute similar products. Similarly, some countries are regional trading hubs. Watch if local distributors serve a regional territory that can benefit your expansion plans
Taking advantage of international relationships: The Burundian distribution sector has, for example, several foreign operators from Belgium, China, India, Netherlands and Pakistan. Often, French distributors operate in French-speaking countries because of historical relationships. Identify international relationships and take advantage of them, where possible
What is most important is for companies to manage their expectations. Companies may not find the ideal distributor they would like to work with, as often they simply do not exist. Instead executives should focus on finding the best possible fit and invest in building the distributor’s capabilities.
Vetting distributors
Once potential business partners have been identified, the vetting and prioritising process begins. As sales data is limited in sub-Saharan Africa and financial backgrounds of distributors are hard to obtain, companies need to account for a longer vetting period than in other markets.
During the vetting process, companies should make sure to invest resources in building relationships and trust with potential partners. This will not only allow companies to evaluate business owners – a key criteria in an environment where business decisions often come down to personal relationships – but it will also make the potential partner more willing to disclose crucial information required for the due diligence process.
Structuring successful working relationships
Successfully managing distributors requires monitoring, incentivising, and supporting them. To optimise the resources put into this process, companies should ensure that the three activities reinforce the common objective of building critical distributor capabilities.
For example, if the capability a company seeks from a distributor is better market information, the company should not only incentivise the distributor for sales growth but for the quality of information received. At the same time, the company should support the distributor through technology that enables an easier collection of this market information.
To optimise distributor performance, create a self-reinforcing distributor management process:
Monitoring distributors: Most executives with successful operations in sub-Saharan Africa interviewed by Frontier Strategy Group understand the importance of personal relationships in doing business in the continent. They emphasise the need of having a local presence on the ground and maintaining a close line of communication with distributors. Often, dedicated staff is responsible for checking in frequently with distributors. Local presence and frequent communication allow companies to:
Increase distributor control
Gain a greater understanding of the market
Work closely with distributors on the ground to build capabilities
Build relationships and distributor loyalty
Hire local staff directly and put employees in key positions to gain market intelligence
Be poised for rapid expansion with increasing level of experience in market
Incentivising distributors: Companies often lack sufficient incentive structures that motivate distributors to develop key capabilities. Instead, incentives are primarily tied to financial indicators. Companies with successful operations in the continent understand that supporting distributors in building their businesses is an incentive that will ultimately add value to their local operations. Apart from monetary incentives, popular incentives in sub-Saharan Africa include:
Branded cars/vans, refrigerators, and other goods
Materials to decorate and paint outlets (with the company’s logo)
Advertising in local media with distributor name to give visibility
Recognition among peers (through award programmes)
Rewards such as trips (to see how products are made, to sporting events)
Smaller presents from company headquarters that strengthen the importance of the personal relationship and partnership
Supporting distributors: By providing support to distributors across a variety of categories, companies can build capabilities and increase performance. Companies need to think long-term about building capabilities and closing the skills gap. For example though educating the distributor across a variety of business issues such as finance and credit control, general management, compliance and sales. By providing training, the distributor will view the company as a partner and loyalty is likely to increase.
But it is not enough to educate the distributor. Customers also require education to understand certain products and the benefits of using them. Companies can either engage directly in providing customer education or work jointly with the distributor. Educating customers on the benefits of using products will ultimately drive sales. But also, by providing customers with training on certain products, the company and the distributor will be seen as adding value to local communities. For example, Procter & Gamble, employs nurses to act as sales representatives to educate young mothers about the health benefits of using nappies and sanitary pads. The nurses visit schools and clinics. P&G nurses offer educational sales pitches in pop-up clinics where potential customers may arrive.
Access to capital is often limited for distributors across sub-Saharan Africa, particularly for smaller distributors. Most executives with successful operations in the continent interviewed by Frontier Strategy Group emphasise the importance of supporting distributors financially during the startup phase and, in many cases, also providing loans or bridge capital to support cash flows. However, in the continent, markets are often disrupted by liquidity issues, which affect the distributor, but are also often caused by the distributor. Sometimes, distributors in the startup phase get distracted and use their working capital to invest in other areas (buying a house, selling SIM cards), after which they run out of capital and/or underperform on their sales. This happens most commonly within the first two years. This is a risk that companies can only manage by staying in frequent contact and building relationships with distributors.
Companies will also need to support distributors with expertise, materials, and training to succeed with marketing campaigns. Companies should work with distributors to develop marketing campaigns that fit the market and the customer segment.
Navigating logistical challenges
Markets across sub-Saharan Africa are dominated by logistical bottlenecks including poor roads, electricity shortages, insecurity and corruption. Distributors have to navigate through this environment on a daily basis to ensure goods reach their final destination. Companies can support the process. For example, by solving infrastructure bottlenecks: SABMiller paved the roads that link its distributors to its plants, making sure it has the infrastructure required to operate in new markets. Equally, Coca-Cola operates in remote areas by using micro distribution centres, which are owned by local entrepreneurs, but supplied by the distributors. From there, local sellers make use of any means of transportation – be it bikes, walking, pushcarts or donkeys – to reach customers in difficult-to-access areas.
Anna Rosenberg is senior analyst for sub-Saharan Africa at Frontier Strategy Group. This article is a summary of the report ‘Evaluating and Managing Distributors in Sub-Saharan Africa’ published by Frontier Strategy Group. To listen to a podcast recording of the report please click here.
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Flight Caps: Perth Mum’s ‘Phenomenal’ $50,000 Journey Home From Saudi Arabia
Due to Australia's arrivals cap, the trip took two weeks – including four days trapped inside a German airport – and cost a chunk of their life savings.
Stephanie Capper
22/09/2020 12:36pm AEST | Updated September 22, 2020
Rinnie Nelson
The Nelson family navigate one of many airport stops on their two-week commute home from Saudi Arabia under Australia's strict arrivals cap.
When Emirates Flight EK 420 touched down in Perth last Thursday, Rinnie Nelson’s eyes filled with tears.
It was an emotional end to a “phenomenal” journey home from Saudi Arabia in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which, under normal circumstances, would have taken 15 hours and cost a family of six approximately $5,500.
But, due to a host of coronavirus travel restrictions, the trip took two weeks – including four days trapped inside Germany’s Frankfurt airport – and cost $50,000 in life savings.
Nelson says that, although she feels an “overwhelming sense of joy and relief” having finally made it home, there are no words to describe the depth of mental, emotional, physical, and financial exhaustion the journey has inflicted on her family.
The Nelson family (above) was trapped inside Germany’s Frankfurt am Main Airport after a transit policy oversight by a travel agent. This was their first taste of fresh air in four days. (The family asked that the children's faces be obscured.)
“We had already endured so much”
Nelson and her husband, Matthew, are both from Western Australia but have lived in the Middle East for the past 10 years. When the coronavirus pandemic triggered global lockdowns and travel restrictions in March, the Nelsons had a secure income, housing and access to health care – so they followed the advice of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to stay in place.
However, things took an unexpected turn in June when Matthew lost his job.
“Initially, there was absolutely no reason whatsoever to return to Australia,” Nelson said.
“But with no work, no more private health care, the children unable to continue schooling and residency visas due to expire in two months’ time, we had no choice but to pack up everything and begin the difficult and challenging task of relocating a family of six to the other side of the world ― in the middle of a global pandemic.”
On August 28 the Nelsons flew from Saudi Arabia to Frankfurt, where the plan was to spend the night before catching a flight home to Perth. But the next day, an hour before boarding, the family was informed that due to a Singapore transit policy oversight made by their travel agent, they were not permitted on the flight.
“We were in shock. We didn’t want to believe we weren’t going home,” she said. “We’d already endured so much in the last two months ― that flight home was meant to be the final step, so finding out that wasn’t happening was both heartbreaking and infuriating.”
The Nelson family were denied boarding their flight from Frankfurt to Perth due to a Singapore transit policy oversight made by their travel agent.
The blunder stranded the family inside Frankfurt airport until they were able to board an Emirates flight to Dubai, then fly nonstop to Perth, avoiding a stopover in Singapore. Nelson describes the next four days as “both an exciting adventure and arduous trial”.
“We tried to make it fun and adventurous for the kids and reminded each other that one day this would make a phenomenal story to tell the grandchildren,” she said.
“We were also thankful for a lot of things – we were together, we were safe, had access to our bank accounts and a transit hotel to sleep in at night, which, while expensive, was clean and comfortable.”
“Everyone told us ‘Be strong for the children’ – and I tried my best, even if I had to fake a smile,” she said. “But deep inside, I was angry – angry that the caps made flights out of Saudi Arabia difficult; angry that the Singapore transit policy had been overlooked; angry that we still had a 14-day hotel quarantine to complete that was going to cost us another small fortune.”
“When you’re desperate... you do what you need to do to survive”
The number of Australians allowed to return home has been limited to 4,000 a week since July.
After meeting with the National Cabinet on Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the number will gradually increase to 6,000 per week and has requested that states and territories boost hotel quarantine capacity.
At least 27,000 Australians remain stranded overseas, though the Board of Airline Representatives of Australia puts that number closer to 100,000.
Many Australians trying to return home are complaining of repeated flight cancellations or being “bumped” off flights in favour of business or first-class passengers, sometimes within hours of departure.
Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, has admitted the airline is prioritising higher-paying passengers so they can remain profitable.
“Because we have such a limited number of passengers that we can carry, we have no other alternative but to maximise the yield that we get because you know very well Australia is at the end of the world,” Al Baker told ABC’s ′News Breakfast’ last Friday.
“It is a very long flight, and when we carry limited numbers of passengers you can see that it puts a huge strain on our costs.”
With this in mind, Nelson felt she had “no alternative” but to dip into their retirement savings and purchase business class tickets to guarantee her family seats on a flight home.
“It was a difficult choice, but at that moment – after already spending days in Frankfurt airport with four children – it was more important for us to secure seats home, no matter how painful the cost. When you’re desperate and you’re worried about the welfare of your family, you do what you need to do to survive.”
After a two-week journey and $50,000 spent in tickets, Rinnie Nelson arrived in Perth for 14 days of hotel quarantine.
Despite the upgrades costing the Nelsons “a significant chunk” of their retirement savings, on the morning they were scheduled to depart Frankfurt for Dubai, the family received devastating news that their connecting flight to Perth had been cancelled. Western Australia had already reached their weekly cap of 525 passengers.
Nevertheless, the Nelsons were advised to fly to Dubai as planned, where they would have to wait for the next available flight. They spent the next nine days in an apartment as the city grappled with a surge in coronavirus infections.
On August 10, almost two weeks since their first scheduled flight from Saudi Arabia, the Nelsons waited at Dubai International Airport praying to board Emirates Flight EK 420 to Perth.
“I’m not going to lie – I felt sick to my stomach. My husband and I were incredibly tense – we were in constant prayer,” Nelson said. “Afterall, in Frankfurt airport, we’d successfully checked in online and had been issued our boarding passes – yet were denied boarding. What if that happened again?”
It was only when the plane taxied down the runway that they were able to relax. “When the plane took off, I closed my eyes, thanked God and cried. We were finally going home.”
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“The caps are tearing lives apart”
Nelson said that, though she feels fortunate to be home and halfway through the 14-day mandatory hotel quarantine in Perth, she feels “extremely guilty”.
“We were one of the lucky ones because we had some funds to help us out – even if it meant touching hard-earned retirement savings,” she said.
“But how many other fellow Australians are able to do the same? There are tens of thousands more Aussies – more vulnerable, less abled – who simply do not have funds to buy tickets on the fly when a flight gets cancelled or they get booted off.”
She urged the Australian government to do more for Australians stranded overseas who want to come home.
“It’s not fair at all that other Australian families out there, with young children too, have to ‘suffer’ more in their plight to get home. The caps are tearing lives apart and making things very difficult for citizens who have every right to be in the country in the first place.”
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Trump Campaign Can't Stop Blaming Obama For Humayun Khan's Death
Paul Manafort says the real problem is "war in the Middle East, the destabilization and the policies of Obama and Clinton that caused them.”
By Igor Bobic
Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Thursday blamed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the death of Army Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan, a Muslim American war hero whose parents mounted a vocal opposition to the GOP nominee and his anti-Muslim bigotry last week.
Asked in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” why Trump refused to apologize to Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Manafort said the GOP nominee had already “paid the respect” and “expressed his sympathy” to the family.
“We quibble over the words and the sentiments about what he feels towards the family and what they’ve went through ... I mean, just because he doesn’t say the words everybody wants ― he’s said he’s sorry for what they’ve gone through,” he claimed, even though Trump has not publicly apologized to the Gold Star parents.
Manafort then attempted to recast the debate, claiming the “main issue” wasn’t Trump’s campaign, but rather the “suffering” of the Khans due to the “war in the Middle East, the destabilization and the policies of Obama and Clinton that caused them.”
The Khans, however, didn’t speak out against the Iraq War. They spoke out against the GOP nominee because of his Muslim ban. “If it was up to Donald Trump, he never would have been in America,” Khizr Khan said last week at the Democratic convention.
Moreover, Capt. Khan was killed in Iraq in 2004 while protecting his unit from a car bomb. Obama did not take office until 2009 ― meaning Manafort made the same chronological error that Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson did earlier this week.
“It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life,” she told CNN on Tuesday.
Pierson later walked back her remarks, admitting her “timeline” was off.
“What I was talking about is Donald Trump has no connection with anything to do with Capt. Khan,” Pierson told CNN on Wednesday. “Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq. She did not support the surge. Barack Obama made things worse by invading more countries than President Bush did.”
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims ― 1.6 billion members of an entire religion ― from entering the U.S.
Muslims React To Trump's Islamophobic Comments
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Hey @realDonaldTrump, I’m on a trip to the UK this week. Can you make your #totalmuslimban go into effect after I’m back? #please
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) December 7, 2015
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Multi-Runtime Microservices Architecture
Feb 27, 2020 23 min read
Bilgin Ibryam
Creating distributed systems is not an easy task. Best practices have emerged around “microservice” architecture and “12-factor app” design. These provide guidelines related to the delivery lifecycle, networking, state management, and binding to external dependencies.
However, implementing these principles consistently, and with an approach that is scalable and maintainable, is challenging.
Traditional technology-focused approaches to addressing these principles included Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM). While these solutions offered a good feature set, the main challenge was the monolithic architecture and tight technological coupling between business logic and platform.
As cloud, containers, and container orchestrators (Kubernetes) have become popular, new solutions to address these principles have emerged. For example, Knative for delivery, service meshes for networking, and Camel-K for binding and integration.
With this approach, the business logic (referred to as “micrologic”) forms the core of the application, and sidecar “mecha” components can be created that offer powerful out-of-the-box distributed primitives.
This decoupling of micrologic and mecha components may improve day-2 operations, such as patching and upgrades, and help to sustain the long term maintainability of the cohesive units of business logic.
Creating good distributed applications is not an easy task: such systems often follow the 12-factor app and microservices principles. They have to be stateless, scalable, configurable, independently released, containerized, automatable, and sometimes event-driven and serverless. Once created, they should be easy to upgrade and affordable to maintain in the long term. Finding a good balance among these competing requirements with today’s technology is still a difficult endeavor.
In this article, I will explore how distributed platforms are evolving to enable such a balance, and more importantly, what else needs to happen in the evolution of distributed systems to ease the creation of maintainable distributed architectures. If you want to see me talking live about this topic, join me at QCon London in March.
Distributed application needs
For this discussion, I will group the needs of modern distributed applications into four categories — lifecycle, networking, state, binding — and analyze briefly how they are evolving in recent years.
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Let’s start with the foundation. When we write a piece of functionality, the programming language dictates the available libraries in the ecosystem, the packaging format, and the runtime. For example, Java uses the .jar format, all the Maven dependencies as an ecosystem, and the JVM as the runtime. Nowadays, with faster release cycles, what’s more important with lifecycle is the ability to deploy, recover from errors, and scale services in an automated way. This group of capabilities represents broadly our application lifecycle needs.
Almost every application today is a distributed application in some sense and therefore needs networking. But modern distributed systems need to master networking from a wider perspective. Starting with service discovery and error recovery, to enabling modern software release techniques and all kinds of tracing and telemetry too. For our purpose, we will even include in this category the different message exchange patterns, point-to-point and pub/sub methods, and smart routing mechanisms.
When we talk about state, typically it is about the service state and why it is preferable to be stateless. But the platform itself that manages our services needs state. That is required for doing reliable service orchestration and workflows, distributed singleton, temporal scheduling (cron jobs), idempotency, stateful error recovery, caching, etc. All of the capabilities listed here rely on having state under the hood. While the actual state management is not the scope of this post, the distributed primitives and their abstractions that depend on state are of interest.
The components of distributed systems not only have to talk to each other but also integrate with modern or legacy external systems. That requires connectors that can convert various protocols, support different message exchange patterns, such as polling, event-driven, request/reply, transform message formats, and even be able to perform custom error recovery procedures and security mechanisms.
Without going into one-off use cases, the above represent a good collection of common primitives required for creating good distributed systems. Today, many platforms offer such features, but what we are looking for in this article is how the way we used these features changed in the last decade and how it will look in the next one. For comparison, let’s look at the past decade and see how Java-based middleware addressed these needs.
Traditional middleware limitations
One of the well-known traditional solutions satisfying an older generation of the above-listed needs is the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and its variants, such as Message Oriented Middleware, lighter integration frameworks, and others. An ESB is a middleware that enables interoperability among heterogeneous environments using a service-oriented architecture (i.e. classical SOA).
While an ESB would offer you a good feature set, the main challenge with ESBs was the monolithic architecture and tight technological coupling between business logic and platform, which led to technological and organizational centralization. When a service was developed and deployed into such a system, it was deeply coupled with the distributed system framework, which in turn limited the evolution of the service. This often only became apparent later in the life of the software.
Here are a few of the issues and limitations of each category of needs that makes ESBs not useful in the modern era.
In traditional middleware, there is usually a single supported language runtime, (such as Java), which dictates how the software is packaged, what libraries are available, how often they have to be patched, etc. The business service has to use these libraries that tightly couple it with the platform which is written in the same language. In practice, that leads to coordinated services and platform upgrades which prevents independent and regular service and platform releases.
While a traditional piece of middleware has an advanced feature set focused around interaction with other internal and external services, it has a few major drawbacks. The networking capabilities are centered around one primary language and its related technologies. For Java language, that is JMS, JDBC, JTA, etc. More importantly, the networking concerns and semantics are deeply engraved into the business service as well. There are libraries with abstractions to cope with the networking concerns (such as the once-popular Hystrix project), but the library’s abstractions "leak" into the service its programming model, exchange patterns and error handling semantics, and the library itself. While it is handy to code and read the whole business logic mixed with networking aspect in a single location, this tightly couples both concerns into a single implementation and, ultimately, a joint evolutionary path.
To do reliable service orchestration, business process management, and implement patterns, such as the Saga Pattern and other slow-running processes, platforms require persistent state behind the scenes. Similarly, temporal actions, such as firing timers and cron jobs, are built on top of state and require a database to be clustered and resilient in a distributed environment. The main constraint here is the fact that the libraries and interfaces interacting with state are not completely abstracted and decoupled from the service runtime. Typically these libraries have to be configured with database details, and they live within the service leaking the semantics and dependency concerns into the application domain.
One of the main drivers for using integration middleware is the ability to connect to various other systems using different protocols, data formats, and message exchange patterns. And yet, the fact that these connectors have to live together with the application, means the dependencies have to be updated and patched together with the business logic. It means the data type and data format have to be converted back and forth within the service. It means the code has to be structured and the flow designed according to the message exchange patterns. These are a few examples of how even the abstracted endpoints influence the service implementation in the traditional middleware.
Cloud-native tendencies
Traditional middleware is powerful. It has all the necessary technical features, but it lacks the ability to change and scale rapidly, which is demanded by modern digital business needs. This is what the microservices architecture and its guiding principles for designing modern distributed applications are addressing.
The ideas behind the microservices and their technical requirements contributed to the popularization and widespread use of containers and Kubernetes. That started a new way of innovation that is going to influence the way we approach distributed applications for years to come. Let’s see how Kubernetes and the related technologies affect each group of requirements.
Containers and Kubernetes evolved the way we package, distribute, and deploy applications into a language-independent format. There is a lot written about the Kubernetes Patterns and the Kubernetes Effect on developers and I will keep it short here. Notice though, for Kubernetes, the smallest primitive to manage is the container and it is focused on delivering distributed primitives at the container level and the process model. That means it does a great job on managing the lifecycle aspects of the applications, health-check, recovery, deployment, and scaling, but it doesn’t do such a good job improving on the other aspects of distributed applications which live inside the container, such as flexible networking, state management, and bindings.
You may point out that Kubernetes has stateful workloads, service discovery, cron jobs, and other capabilities. That is true, but all of these primitives are at the container level, and inside the container, a developer still has to use a language-specific library to access the more granular capabilities we listed at the beginning of this article. That is what drives projects like Envoy, Linkerd, Consul, Knative, Dapr, Camel-K, and others.
It turns out, the basic networking functionality around service discovery provided by Kubernetes is a good foundation, but not enough for modern applications. With the increasing number of microservices and the faster pace of deployments, the needs for more advanced release strategies, managing security, metrics, tracing, recovery from errors, simulating errors, etc. without touching the service, have become increasingly more appealing and created a new category of software on its own, called service mesh.
What is more exciting here is the tendency of moving the networking-related concerns from the service containing the business logic, outside and into a separate runtime, whether that is sidecar or a node level-agent. Today, service meshes can do advanced routing, help to test, handle certain aspects of security, and even speak application-specific protocols (for example Envoy supports Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, etc.). While service mesh, as a solution, might not have a wide adoption yet, it touched a real pain point in distributed systems, and I’m convinced it will find its shape and form of existence.
In addition to the typical service mech, there are also other projects, such as Skupper, that confirm the tendency of putting networking capabilities into an external runtime agent. Skupper solves multi-cluster communication challenges through a layer 7 virtual network and offers advanced routing and connectivity capabilities. But rather than embedding Skupper into the business service runtime, it runs an instance per Kubernetes namespace which acts as a shared sidecar.
To sum up, container and Kubernetes made a major step forward in the lifecycle management of the applications. Service mesh and related technologies hit a real pain point and set the foundation for moving more responsibilities outside of the application into proxies. Let’s see what’s next.
We listed earlier the main integration primitives that rely on state. Managing state is hard and should be delegated to specialized storage software and managed services. That is not the topic here, but using state, in language-neutral abstractions to aid integration use cases is. Today, many efforts try to offer stateful primitives behind language-neutral abstractions. Stateful workflow management is a mandatory capability in cloud-based services, with examples, such as AWS Step Functions, Azure Durable Functions, etc. In the container-based deployments, CloudState and Dapr, both rely on the sidecar model to offer better decoupling of the stateful abstractions in distributed applications.
What I look forward to is also abstracting away all of the stateful features listed above into a separate runtime. That would mean workflow management, singletons, idempotency, transaction management, cron job triggers, and stateful error handling all happening reliably in a sidecar, (or a host-level agent), rather than living within the service. The business logic doesn’t need to include such dependencies and semantics in the application, and it can declaratively request such behavior from the binding environment. For example, a sidecar can act as a cron job trigger, idempotent consumer, and workflow manager, and the custom business logic can be invoked as a callback or plugged in on certain stages of the workflow, error handling, temporal invocations, or unique idempotent requests, etc.
Another stateful use case is caching. Whether that is request caching performed by the service mesh layer, or data caching with something like Infinispan, Redis, Hazelcast, etc., there are examples of pushing the caching capabilities out of the application’s runtime.
While we are on the topic of decoupling all distributed needs from the application runtime, the tendency continues with bindings too. Connectors, protocol conversions, message transformations, error handling, and security mediation could all move out of the service runtime. We are not there yet, but there are attempts in this direction with projects such as Knative and Dapr. Moving all of these responsibilities out of the application runtime will lead to a much smaller, business-logic-focused code. Such a code would live in a runtime independent from distributed system needs that can be consumed as prepackaged capabilities.
Another interesting approach is taken by the Apache Camel-K project. Rather than using an agent runtime to accompany the main application, this project relies on an intelligent Kubernetes Operator that builds application runtimes with additional platform capabilities from Kubernetes and Knative. Here, the single agent is the operator that is responsible for including the distributed system primitives required by the application. The difference is that some of the distributed primitives are added to the application runtime and some enabled in the platform (which could include a sidecar as well).
Future architecture trends
Looking broadly, we can conclude that the commoditization of distributed applications, by moving features to the platform level, reaches new frontiers. In addition to the lifecycle, now we can observe networking, state abstraction, declarative eventing, and endpoint bindings also available off-the-shelf, and EIPs are next on this list. Interestingly enough, the commoditization is using the out-of-process model (sidecars) for feature extension rather than runtime libraries or pure platform features (such as new Kubernetes features).
We are now approaching full circle by moving all of the traditional middleware features (a.k.a ESBs) into other runtimes, and soon, all we have to do in our service will be to write the business logic.
Traditional middleware platforms and cloud-native platforms overview
Compared to the traditional ESB era, this architecture decouples the business logic from the platform better, but not yet fully. Many distributed primitives, such as the classic enterprise integration patterns (EIPs): splitter, aggregator, filter, content-based router; and streaming processing patterns: map, filter, fold, join, merge, sliding windows; still have to be included in the business logic runtime, and many others depend on multiple distinct and overlapping platform add-ons.
If we stack up the various cloud-native projects innovating at the different domains, we end up with a picture such as the following:
Multi-runtime microservices
The diagram here is for illustration purposes only, it purposefully picks representative projects and maps them to a category of distributed primitives. In practice, you will not use all of these projects at the same time as some of them are overlapping and not compatible workload models. How to interpret this diagram?
Kubernetes and containers made a huge leap in the lifecycle management of polyglot applications and set the foundation for future innovations.
Service mesh technologies improved on Kubernetes with advanced networking capabilities and started tapping into the application concerns.
While Knative is primarily focused on serverless workloads through rapid scaling, it also addresses service orchestration and event-driven binding needs.
Dapr builds on the ideas of Kubernetes, Knative, and Service Mesh and dives into the application runtimes to tackle stateful workloads, binding, and integration needs, acting as a modern distributed middleware.
This diagram is to help you visualize that, most likely in the future, we will end up using multiple runtimes to implement the distributed systems. Multiple runtimes, not because of multiple microservices, but because every microservice will be composed of multiple runtimes, most likely two — the custom business logic runtime and the distributed primitives runtime.
Introducing multi-runtime microservices
Here is a brief description of the multi-runtime microservices architecture that is beginning to form.
Do you remember the movie Avatar and the Amplified Mobility Platform (AMP) "mech suits" developed by scientists to go out into the wilderness to explore Pandora? This multi-runtime architecture is similar to these Mecha-suits that give superpowers to their humanoid drivers. In the movie you have humans putting on suits to gain strength and access destructive weapons. In this software architecture, you have your business logic (referred to as micrologic) forming the core of the application and the sidecar mecha component that offers powerful out-of-the-box distributed primitives. The micrologic combined with the mecha capabilities form a multi-runtime microservice which is using out-of-process features for its distributed system needs. And the best part is, Avatar 2 is coming out soon to help promote this architecture. We can finally replace vintage sidecar motorcycles with awesome mecha pictures at all software conferences ;-). Let’s look at the details of this software architecture next.
This is a two-component model similar to a client-server architecture, where every component is separate runtime. It differs from a pure client-server architecture in that, here, both components are located on the same host with reliable networking among them that is not a concern. Both components are equal in importance, and they can initiate actions in either direction and act as the client or the server. One of the components is called Micrologic, and it holds the very minimal business logic stripped out of almost all of the distributed system concerns. The other accompanying component is the Mecha, and it provides all of the distributed system features we have been talking about through the article (except lifecycle which is a platform feature).
Multi-runtime (out-of-process) microservices architecture
There might be a one-to-one deployment of the Micrologic and the Mecha (known as the sidecar model), or it can be one shared Mecha with a few Micrologic runtimes. The first model is most appropriate on environments, such as Kubernetes, and the latter on the edge deployments.
Micrologic runtime characteristics
Let’s briefly explore some of the characteristics of the Micrologic runtime:
The Micrologic component is not a microservice on its own. It contains the business logic that a microservice would have, but that logic can only work in combination with the Mecha component. On the other hand, microservices are self-contained and do not have pieces of the overall functionality or part of the processing flow spread into other runtimes. The combination of a Micrologic and its Mecha counterpart form a Microservice.
This is not a function or serverless architecture either. Serverless is mostly known for its managed rapid scaling up and scale-to-zero capabilities. In the serverless architecture, a function implements a single operation as that is the unit of scalability. In that regard, a function is different from a Micrologic which implements multiple operations, but the implementation is not end-to-end. Most importantly, the implementation of the operations is spread over the Mecha and the Micrologic runtimes.
This is a specialized form of client-server architecture, optimized for the consumption of well-known distributed primitives without coding. Also, if we assume that the Mecha plays the server role, then each instance has to be specifically configured to work with the individual client(s). It is not a generic server instance aiming to support multiple clients at the same time as a typical client-server architecture.
The user code in the Micrologic does not interact directly with other systems and does not implement any distributed system primitives. It interacts with the Mecha over de facto standards, such as HTTP/gRPC, CloudEvents spec, and the Mecha communicates with other systems using enriched capabilities and guided by the configured steps and mechanisms.
While the Micrologic is responsible only for implementing the business logic stripped out of distributed system concerns, it still has to implement a few APIs at a minimum. It has to allow the Mecha and the platform to interact with it over predefined APIs and protocols (for example, by following the cloud-native design principles for Kubernetes deployments).
Mecha runtime characteristics
Here are some of the Mecha runtime characteristics:
The Mecha is a generic, highly configurable, reusable component offering distributed primitives as off-the-shelf capabilities.
Each instance of the Mecha has to be configured to work with one Micrologic component (the sidecar model) or configured to be shared with a few components.
The Mecha does not make any assumption about the Micrologic runtime. It works with polyglot microservices or even monolithic systems using open protocols and formats, such as HTTP/gRPC, JSON, Protobuf, CloudEvents.
The Mecha is configured declaratively with simple text formats, such as YAML, JSON, which dictates what features to be enabled and how to bind them to the Micrologic endpoints. For specialized API interactions, the Mechan can be additionally supplied with specs, such as OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, ANSI-SQL, etc. For stateful workflows, composed of multiple processing steps, a spec, such as Amazon State Language, can be used. For stateless integrations, Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs) can be used with an approach similar to the Camel-K YAML DSL. The key point here is that all of these are simple, text-based, declarative, polyglot definitions that the Mecha can fulfill without coding. Notice that these are futuristic predictions, currently, there are no Mechas for stateful orchestration or EIPs, but I expect existing Mechas (Envoy, Dapr, Cloudstate, etc) to start adding such capabilities soon. The Mecha is an application-level distributed primitives abstraction layer.
Rather than depending on multiple agents for different purposes, such as network proxy, cache proxy, binding proxy, there might be a single Mecha providing all of these capabilities. The implementation of some capabilities, such as storage, message persistence, caching, etc., would be plugged in and backed by other cloud or on-premise services.
Some distributed system concerns around lifecycle management make sense to be provided by the managing platform, such as Kubernetes or other cloud services, rather than the Mecha runtime using generic open specifications such as the Open App Model.
What are the main benefits of this architecture?
The benefits are loose coupling between the business logic and the increasing list of distributed systems concerns. These two elements of software systems have completely different dynamics. The business logic is always unique, custom code, written in-house. It changes frequently, depending on your organizational priorities and ability to execute. On the other hand, the distributed primitives are the ones addressing the concerns listed in this post, and they are well known. These are developed by software vendors and consumed as libraries, containers or services. This code changes depending on vendor priorities, release cycles, security patches, open-source governing rules, etc. Both groups have little visibility and control over each other.
Business logic and distributed system concerns coupling in different architectures
Microservices principles help decouple the different business domains by bounded contexts where every microservice can evolve independently. But microservices architecture does not address the difficulties coming from coupling the business logic with middleware concerns. For certain microservices that are light on integration use cases, this might not be a big factor. But if your domain involves complex integrations (which is increasingly becoming the case for everybody), following the microservices principles will not help you protect from coupling with the middleware. Even if the middleware is represented as libraries you include in your microservices, the moment you start migrating and changing these libraries, the coupling will become apparent. And the more distributed primitives you need, the more coupled into the integration platform you become. Consuming middleware as a separate runtime/process over a predefined API rather than a library helps loose coupling and enables the independent evolution of each component.
This is also a better way to distribute and maintain complex middleware software for vendors. As long as the interactions with the middleware are over inter-process communication involving open APIs and standards, the software vendors are free to release patches and upgrades at their pace. And the consumers are free to use their preferred language, libraries, runtimes, deployments methods, and processes.
What are the main drawbacks of this architecture?
Inter-process communication. The fact that the business logic and the middleware mechanics (you see where the name comes from) of the distributed systems are in different runtimes and that requires an HTTP or gRPC call rather than an in-process method call. Notice though, this is not a network call that is supposed to go to a different machine or datacenter. The Micrologic runtime and the Mecha are supposed to be colocated on the same host with low latency and minimal likelihood of network issues.
Complexity. The next question is, whether it is worth the complexity of development, and maintaining such systems for the gained benefits. I think the answer will be increasingly inclining towards yes. The requirements of distributed systems and the pace of release cycles are increasing. And this architecture optimizes for that. I wrote some time ago that the developers of the future will have to be with hybrid development skills. This architecture confirms and enforces further this trend. Part of the application will be written in a higher-level programming language, and part of the functionality will be provided by off-the-shelf components that have to be configured declaratively. Both parts are inter-connected not at compile-time, or through in-process dependency injection at startup time, but at deployment time, through inter-process communications. This model enables a higher rate of software reuse combined with a faster pace of change.
What comes after microservices are not functions
Microservices architecture has a clear goal. It optimizes for change. By splitting applications into business domains, this architecture offers the optimal service boundary for software evolution and maintainability through services that are decoupled, managed by independent teams, and released at an independent pace.
If we look at the programming model of the serverless architecture, it is primarily based on functions. Functions are optimized for scalability. With functions, we split every operation into an independent component so that it can scale rapidly, independently, and on-demand. In this model, the deployment granularity is a function. And the function is chosen because it is the code construct that has an input whose rate correlates directly to the scaling behavior. This is an architecture that is optimized for extreme scalability, rather than long term maintainability of complex systems.
What about the other aspect of Serverless, which comes from the popularity of AWS Lambda and its fully managed operational nature? In this regard, "AWS Serverless" optimizes for speed of provisioning for the expense of lack of control and lock-in. But the fully managed aspect is not application architecture, it is a software consumption model. It is an orthogonal functionally, similar to consuming a SaaS-based platform which in an ideal world should be available for any kind of architecture whether that is monolithic, microservices, mecha or functions. In many ways, AWS Lambda resembles a fully managed Mecha architecture with one big difference: Mecha does not enforce the function model, instead it allows a more cohesive code constructs around the business domain, split from all middleware concerns.
Architecture optimizations
Mecha architecture, on the other hand, optimizes microservices for middleware independence. While microservices are independent of each other, they are heavily dependent on embedded distributed primitives. The Mecha architecture splits these two concerns into separate runtimes allowing their independent release by independent teams. This decoupling improves day-2 operations (such as patching and upgrades) and the long term maintainability of the cohesive units of business logic. In this regard, Mecha architecture is a natural progression of the microservices architecture by splitting software based on the boundaries that cause most friction. That optimization provides more benefits in the form of software reuse and evolution than the function model, which optimizes for extremely scalability at the expense of over-distribution of code.
Distributed applications have many requirements. Creating effective distributed systems requires multiple technologies and a good approach to integration. While traditional monolithic middleware provided all of the necessary technical features required by distributed systems, it lacked the ability to change, adapt, and scale rapidly, which was required by the business. This is why the ideas behind microservices-based architectures contributed to the rapid popularization of containers and Kubernetes; with the latest developments in the cloud-native space, we are now coming full circle by moving all of the traditional middleware features into the platform and off-the-shelf auxiliary runtimes.
This commoditization of application features is primarily using the out-of-process model for feature extension, rather than runtime libraries or pure platform features. That means that in the future it is highly likely that we will use multiple runtimes to implement distributed systems. Multiple runtimes, not because of multiple microservices, but because every microservice will be composed of multiple runtimes; a runtime for the custom micro business logic, and an off-the-shelf, configurable runtime for distributed primitives.
Bilgin Ibryam is a principal architect at Red Hat, committer and member of Apache Software Foundation. He is an open source evangelist, blogger, occasional speaker, and the author of Kubernetes Patterns and Camel Design Patterns books. In his day-to-day job, Bilgin enjoys mentoring, coding and leading developers to be successful with building open source solutions. His current work focuses on blockchain, distributed systems, microservices, devops, and cloud-native application development.
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As Author highlighted creating distributed application required lot of deep understanding about system and data flow. common challenges remain same in microservices architecture like how to sync data flow in message driven architecture, how to maintain eventual consistency. currently no simple framework available to support these features out of box. we have to rely on patterns like SAGA and Event sourcing .
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In Furness and North Lancashire, a pre-employment programme with the NHS was run in-conjunction with Inspira, Furness and Lancaster & Morecambe colleges as well as the Jobcentres in Lancaster, Morecambe and Barrow.
While over 100 people expressed an interest in the pilot programme, 26 people actually undertook the course. Twelve candidates were selected for roles within the two hospitals and care providers based in Lancaster and Barrow.
Allan Porter, a participant in Barrow said, "The Programme has built my teamwork skills which has improved my confidence. When I first came to Inspira my confidence was very low and I am now delighted to have just been offered a new role with the NHS as a Domestic."
The programme consisted of three components – development of employability skills, an accredited college course and a live work placement – followed by opportunities to apply for live vacancies within the hospitals and care sector.
Through a supported application process which included a session looking at the NHS as an employer, the roles available and opportunities within the organisation
for progression and development, potential candidates were then offered a place on the programme.
Inspira ran the employability skills section which included personal development,
creating a stand out CV and cover letter and tailoring applications where clients learnt the importance of matching the job and person specifications against their skills and qualities. Advisers also led a session on how to win at interviews which involved preparation for different kinds of interviews and employer-led interview experience; this was supported by local employers including BAE, Lakeland Care and Johnston Recruitment.
”Using social media including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for professional networking and job search opportunities and creating a positive digital footprint, were an important part of the programme,” said Lisa Thomason, Inspira Adviser.
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Updated: 29th April, 2020
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