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14 GHz visible supercontinuum generation: calibration sources for astronomical spectrographs
Stark, S. P.
Russell Division, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Max Planck Society;
Hundertmark, H.
Russell, P. St. J.
Stark, S. P., Steinmetz, T., Probst, R. A., Hundertmark, H., Wilken, T., Haensch, T. W., et al. (2011). 14 GHz visible supercontinuum generation: calibration sources for astronomical spectrographs. OPTICS EXPRESS, 19(17), 15690-15695. doi:10.1364/OE.19.015690.
Cite as: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002D-69A5-7
We report the use of a specially designed tapered photonic crystal fiber to produce a broadband optical spectrum covering the visible spectral range. The pump source is a frequency doubled Yb fiber laser operating at a repetition rate of 14 GHz and emitting sub-5 pJ pulses. We experimentally determine the optimum core diameter and achieve a 235 nm broad spectrum. Numerical simulations are used to identify the underlying mechanisms and explain spectral features. The high repetition rate makes this system a promising candidate for precision calibration of astronomical spectrographs. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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IBM scientists demonstrate computer memory breakthrough
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated that a relatively new memory technology, known as phase-change memory (PCM), can reliably store multiple data bits per cell over extended periods of time. This significant improvement advances the development of low-cost, faster and more durable memory applications for consumer devices, including mobile phones and cloud storage, as well as high-performance applications, such as enterprise data storage.
With a combination of speed, endurance, non-volatility and density, PCM can enable a paradigm shift for enterprise IT and storage systems within the next five years. Scientists have long been searching for a universal, non-volatile memory technology with far superior performance than flash – today’s most ubiquitous non-volatile memory technology. The benefits of such a memory technology would allow computers and servers to boot instantaneously and significantly enhance the overall performance of IT systems. A promising contender is PCM that can write and retrieve data 100 times faster than flash, enable high storage capacities and not lose data when the power is turned off. Unlike flash, PCM is also very durable and can endure at least 10 million write cycles, compared to current enterprise-class flash at 30,000 cycles or consumer-class flash at 3,000 cycles. While 3,000 cycles will out live many consumer devices, 30,000 cycles are orders of magnitude too low to be suitable for enterprise applications (see chart for comparisons).
“As organizations and consumers increasingly embrace cloud-computing models and services, whereby most of the data is stored and processed in the cloud, ever more powerful and efficient, yet affordable storage technologies are needed,” states Dr. Haris Pozidis, Manager of Memory and Probe Technologies at IBM Research – Zurich. “By demonstrating a multi-bit phase-change memory technology which achieves for the first time reliability levels akin to those required for enterprise applications, we made a big step towards enabling practical memory devices based on multi-bit PCM.”
Multi-level Phase Change Memory Breakthrough
To achieve this breakthrough demonstration, IBM scientists in Zurich used advanced modulation coding techniques to mitigate the problem of short-term drift in multi-bit PCM, which causes the stored resistance levels to shift over time, which in turn creates read errors. Up to now, reliable retention of data has only been shown for single bit-per-cell PCM, whereas no such results on multi-bit PCM have been reported.
PCM leverages the resistance change that occurs in the material — an alloy of various elements — when it changes its phase from crystalline — featuring low resistance — to amorphous — featuring high resistance — to store data bits. In a PCM cell, where a phase-change material is deposited between a top and a bottom electrode, phase change can controllably be induced by applying voltage or current pulses of different strengths. These heat up the material and when distinct temperature thresholds are reached cause the material to change from crystalline to amorphous or vice versa.
In addition, depending on the voltage, more or less material between the electrodes will undergo a phase change, which directly affects the cell's resistance. Scientists exploit that aspect to store not only one bit, but multiple bits per cell. In the present work, IBM scientists used four distinct resistance levels to store the bit combinations “00”, “01” 10” and “11”.
To achieve the demonstrated reliability, crucial technical advancements in the “read” and “write” process were necessary. The scientists implemented an iterative “write” process to overcome deviations in the resistance due to inherent variability in the memory cells and the phase-change materials: “We apply a voltage pulse based on the deviation from the desired level and then measure the resistance. If the desired level of resistance is not achieved, we apply another voltage pulse and measure again — until we achieve the exact level,” explains Pozidis.
Despite using the iterative process, the scientists achieved a worst-case write latency of about 10 microseconds, which represents a 100× performance increase over even the most advanced Flash memory on the market today.
For demonstrating reliable read-out of data bits, the scientists needed to tackle the problem of resistance drift. Because of structural relaxation of the atoms in the amorphous state, the resistance increases over time after the phase change, eventually causing errors in the read-out. To overcome that issue, the IBM scientists applied an advanced modulation coding technique that is inherently drift-tolerant. The modulation coding technique is based on the fact that, on average, the relative order of programmed cells with different resistance levels does not change due to drift.
Using that technique, the IBM scientists were able to mitigate drift and demonstrate long- term retention of bits stored in a subarray of 200,000 cells of their PCM test chip, fabricated in 90-nanometer CMOS technology. The PCM test chip was designed and fabricated by scientists and engineers located in Burlington, Vermont; Yorktown Heights, New York and in Zurich. This retention experiment has been under way for more than five months, indicating that multi-bit PCM can achieve a level of reliability that is suitable for practical applications.
The PCM research project at IBM Research – Zurich will continue to be studied at the recently opened Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center. The center, which is jointly operated by IBM and ETH Zurich as part of a strategic partnership in nanosciences, offers a cutting-edge infrastructure, including a large cleanroom for micro- and nanofabrication as well as six “noise-free” labs, especially shielded laboratories for highly sensitive experiments.
A History of Pioneering Memory Technology
In 1966, IBM Fellow, Dr. Robert Dennard invented dynamic random access memory — DRAM — which, when combined with the first low-cost microprocessors, opened the door to small personal computers. Today, every PC, notebook computer, game console and other computing device is loaded with DRAM chips. DRAM also powers mainframes, data center servers and most of the machines that run the Internet. In 1988, Dennard was awarded the US National Medal of Technology for the invention of DRAM. As IBM celebrates its Centennial this year, the company celebrates DRAM as one of its 100 greatest innovations.
STMicroelectronics Advances in Development of Future Non-Volatile Memory Technology
More information: The paper “Drift-tolerant Multilevel Phase-Change Memory” by N. Papandreou, H. Pozidis, T. Mittelholzer, G.F. Close, M. Breitwisch, C. Lam and E. Eleftheriou, was recently presented by Haris Pozidis at the 3rd IEEE International Memory Workshop in Monterey, CA.
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Citation: IBM scientists demonstrate computer memory breakthrough (2011, June 30) retrieved 17 January 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2011-06-ibm-scientists-memory-breakthrough.html
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We are scanning the brains, hearts, bones and abdomens of 100,000 UK Biobank participants – and we are already half way there.
If you have taken part – then thank you so much. If you have not yet been invited, do not worry as we plan over time to invite all UK Biobank participants to be scanned.
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The £43 million study has been funded by the Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, and the British Heart Foundation (BHF). With a further £10 million from Dementia's Platform UK to re-image 10,000 participants.
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We are inviting participants by email (where we have an email address) and by post. If you are interested, you will need to go through a short telephone questionnaire with one of our team at the UK Biobank Participant Resource Centre. This is to make sure that it is safe for us to scan you (some implants, and existing health conditions mean we cannot scan you).
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The assessment lasts around 4-5 hours and involves imaging the heart, brain, abdomen and bones plus the collection of more information about your health and lifestyle, and a donation of blood.
MRI assessment of heart chamber diameter, the volume of blood flow, and how the heart changes as it pumps blood around the body, thickness of the heart wall and the size, shape and stiffness of the thoracic aorta, the vessel that delivers blood from the heart
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“Capturing such a vast number of images of the human body, in both health and illness, will chronicle disease in a way never attempted before.”
Dr Sara Marshall, Head of Clinical Research at the Wellcome Trust
"This imaging study offers us real insight into the heart itself on a scale hitherto impossible to imagine.”
Professor Steffen Petersen, of Barts Heart Centre and Queen Mary University of London, leads the heart imaging component
“This is a unique research opportunity and promises to deliver ground breaking scientific information.”
Nicholas Harvey, Professor at the University of Southampton, leads the musculoskeletal component
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The multi-organ scans will be analysed alongside the vast data already collected from UK Biobank participants. This extra layer of data, for all health scientists to access, will give new perspectives on the best way to prevent and treat multi-faceted conditions like arthritis, coronary heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease and osteoporosis. It has already sparked new ways in which to analyse and interpret scans. Such a vast amount of data needs innovative techniques for analysis. Heart scan measurements are usually manually taken, but with over 9,000 images of the heart taken per participant, researchers have had to develop new computer based techniques, with potential benefits for research as well as for the investigation of patients in the future.
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The scans we do are not intended to diagnose disease. They are not designed to find any particular abnormalities and will not be routinely analysed by doctors or other specialists.
The technicians (radiographers) who do the scans will be looking at the images to make sure of their quality, rather than looking for evidence of any health problems.
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Learning about fat distribution
The MRI scan will provide key information on the amount and distribution of fat and muscle mass. Combining these data with information about lifestyle, genetics and markers in the blood (like hormones, sugar and cholesterol) will hugely strengthen UK Biobank for studies into obesity and diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease and some cancers and other medical complications.
With increasing evidence to suggest that fat distribution, rather than amount of fat, is important for determining an individual’s risk of future disease, abdominal MRI provides an exciting opportunity to examine the predictive importance of particular fat depots (visceral, liver and pancreas) and the relative distribution of fat for the development of disease.
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Healthy brains
MRI scans of the brains of almost 10,000 UK Biobank participants have shown that factors that influence the health of our blood vessels, such as smoking, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes, are linked to less healthy brains. The strongest links were in areas of the brain known to be responsible for our more complex thinking skills, and which deteriorate during the development of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
With the exception of high cholesterol, all of the other vascular risk factors were linked to greater brain shrinkage, less grey matter (tissue found mainly on the surface of the brain) and less healthy white matter (tissue in deeper parts of the brain). The findings show the potential of making lifestyle changes to improve brain and cognitive ageing.
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If you are aged 65 and over you may be asked if you would be prepared to help us learn more about common heart rhythm disturbances, such as atrial fibrillation (AFib). Professor Barbara Casadei from Oxford University, who leads the heart monitoring study, explains why this is so important.
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Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at students and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability? :
Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at employees and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Name of the campaign:
New Paltz Unplugged
A brief description of the campaign, including how students and/or employees were engaged:
New Paltz Unplugged is an annual three week energy conservation competition between residence halls at SUNY New Paltz. The electricity use of each residence hall is monitored and displayed in several locations around campus, and halls compete to minimize electricity use. A Sustainability Ambassador attends Resident Hall Student Association meetings weekly to update hall representatives on weekly progress. Posters of the latest standings are available in the Student Union, Hasbrouck Dining Hall, and the library. Resident Assistants are encouraged to hold glow in the dark themed events in their residence halls. The Office of Campus Sustainability provides posters and glow sticks for these events.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign:
In 2016, the average reduction in electricity use across all halls was 1%. Scudder Hall decreased their energy use by the most with a 5% reduction in energy use from the baseline period. In 2015, the average reduction in electricity across all halls was 0.4%. Esopus Hall decreased their energy use the most with a 3.7% reduction in energy use from the baseline period.
The website URL where information about the campaign is available:
https://sites.newpaltz.edu/sustainability/energy/new-paltz-unplugged/
Name of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Daylight Hour
A brief description of the campaign, including how students and/or employees were engaged (2nd campaign):
Every year on or near the summer solstice, the Office of Campus Sustainability organizes a 1-hour energy conservation campaign encouraging staff members to turn off their lights for one hour during lunchtime. The aim is to motivate staff to rely on daylight rather than electric lighting in their offices, especially if they are away from their desk for lunch.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
At least 40 staff members reported via email that they participated in this one-time event. Around noon on June 16, the campus experienced an approximately 400 KW decrease in electric demand.
The website URL where information about the campaign is available (2nd campaign):
https://sites.newpaltz.edu/sustainability/2017/06/09/daylighthour-2017/
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Underwater audiogram of a Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) measured with narrow-band frequency-modulated signals
R.A. Kastelein, P. Mosterd, B. van Santen, M. Hagedoorn, D. de Haan
The underwater hearing sensitivity of an 18-year-old male Pacific walrus was measured in a pool by using a go/no-go response paradigm and the up-down staircase method. Auditory sensitivity was measured using narrow-band, frequency-modulated signals (1500 ms duration) with center frequencies ranging from 0.125 to 15 kHz. The resulting underwater audiogram (50 The range of best hearing (10 dB from the maximum sensitivity) was from 1 to 12 kHz. Sensitivity fell gradually below 1 kHz and dropped off sharply above 12 kHz. The animal showed a peculiar insensitivity for 2 kHz signals. His much higher sensitivity for 1.5- and 3-kHz signals indicated that this is a narrow-band phenomenon. Walrus hearing is relatively sensitive to low frequency sound, thus the species is likely to be susceptible to anthropogenic noise. The thresholds found during a small test with four frequencies with signal durations of 300 ms did not differ significantly from those obtained with signal durations of 1500 ms.
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Kastelein, R. A., Mosterd, P., van Santen, B., Hagedoorn, M., & de Haan, D. (2002). Underwater audiogram of a Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) measured with narrow-band frequency-modulated signals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112(5), 2173-2182. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1508783
Kastelein, R.A. ; Mosterd, P. ; van Santen, B. ; Hagedoorn, M. ; de Haan, D. / Underwater audiogram of a Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) measured with narrow-band frequency-modulated signals. In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2002 ; Vol. 112, No. 5. pp. 2173-2182.
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The Great Recession: 'Reparations' Gone Bad
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Some of the Democratic candidates for president support studying reparations to blacks to compensate for slavery. But in many ways, America has made reparations to blacks. What are race-based preferences if not a form of compensation for historical wrongs? Many cities have "set-aside" programs that award government contracts to minority contractors. President Lyndon Johnson pushed his Great Society programs to "end poverty and racial injustice."
But few think of the federal government's housing policy, particularly the Community Reinvestment Act, or the CRA, as a form of reparations. But that is exactly what it was and still is. In many ways, the so-called Great Recession of the late 2000s was a product of affirmative action and a form of reparations gone bad. Really bad.
In 1999, almost a decade before the Great Recession, the libertarian Cato Institute issued a warning about the CRA, which President Jimmy Carter signed in 1977. The CRA was based on the assumption that racist lenders denied mortgages to credit-worthy would-be borrowers, particularly minority applicants. The act initially merely sought data on banking practices to encourage lenders to practice fairness in granting mortgages.
But President Bill Clinton, in 1995, added teeth to the CRA. Economists Stephen Moore and Lawrence Kudlow explained: "Under Clinton's Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary, Andrew Cuomo, Community Reinvestment Act regulators gave banks higher ratings for home loans made in 'credit-deprived' areas. Banks were effectively rewarded for throwing out sound underwriting standards and writing loans to those who were at high risk of defaulting. If banks didn't comply with these rules, regulators reined in their ability to expand lending and deposits.
"These new HUD rules lowered down payments from the traditional 20 percent to 3 percent by 1995 and zero down-payments by 2000. What's more, in the Clinton push to issue home loans to lower income borrowers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made a common practice to virtually end credit documentation, low credit scores were disregarded, and income and job history was also thrown aside. The phrase 'subprime' became commonplace. What an understatement."
But is it true that banks were discriminating against minority borrowers?
CATO, in 1999, said despite widespread accusations and lawsuits alleging discriminatory lending, the facts show otherwise. CATO said: "Researchers using the best available data find very little discernible home-mortgage lending discrimination based on area, race, sex or ethnic origin. ...
"Other well-structured studies also found no evidence of redlining or unwarranted geographic discrimination. Thus, the claim that lenders redlined or were biased in making loans for the purchase of homes in central cities is not supported. Nor did the studies find that financial institutions discriminated against actual or potential borrowers on the basis of the racial or ethnic composition of neighborhoods."
What caused this narrative that racist banks refused would-be minority borrowers?
Enter lawyers like then private citizen and attorney Barack Obama. In 1995, Obama, representing 186 blacks, filed a class action mortgage discrimination lawsuit against Citibank. The case was settled, and his clients got mortgages. But, according to the Daily Caller in 2012, just 19 of Obamas 186 clients still had their homes. About half had gone bankrupt and/or had their homes in foreclosure.
Incredibly, at least two of his former clients now believe banks should be prevented from lending to people who otherwise cannot afford their homes. One client said: "If you see some people don't make enough money to afford the mortgage, why should you give them a loan? There should be some type of regulation against giving people loans they can't afford."
Lending standards became so lax that virtually anyone who could fog up a mirror got a home. Then along came the recession, and a lot of people lost homes that they would not have bought in the first place but for lax lending standards. The result? According to the Federal Reserve, from 2010 to 2013, white household median net worth — a household's assets minus its liabilities — increased 2.4%. But black net worth fell from $16,600 to $11,000, a four-year drop of 34%. As another of Obama's former clients put it, "(Banks) were too eager to lend money to many who didn't qualify."
In 1999, the Cato policy paper on the CRA made the following recommendation: "The Clinton administration wants an even stricter CRA. But more than two decades of its operation suggest that repealing rather than tightening the act would be the economically and socially responsible thing to do."
Too bad nobody listened.
Last updated: January 8th, 2020 at 15:01 pm
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Trippie Redd, Gunna, Young Dolph, Lil Pump & More to Perform on Rolling Loud’s Halloween “Loud Stream”
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Rolling Loud is here with a spine-chilling lineup for their second “Loud Stream” virtual festival. The star-studded bill will feature performances from Trippie Redd (whose Pegasus album releases 10/30), Gunna, Young Dolph, Lil Pump, Coi Leray, $NOT, 645AR, Rubi Rose, The Kid LAROI, and many more (full lineup below).
Happening Friday 10/30 and Saturday 10/31 exclusively on Twitch, “Loud Stream” is bringing a Halloween Rolling Loud experience directly to the living room. Each performance will be streaming live and uncut (nothing pre-recorded), and I would wager that the artists will be dialing up the spookiness with some impressive Halloween costumes of their own.
In addition to all the rap-related frights, the show hopes to further the “exchange of energy” between fans and artists that Rolling Loud is so well-known for, including entertaining interviews and commentary between sets, and interactive elements that allow fans to play a role in the action.. Fans will also be heavily encouraged to dress up in costume at home for a chance to not only be featured on the stream, but to win one of several prizes, including cold hard cash, tickets to the next live Rolling Loud and festival merch.
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Ranking system for Mumbai builders on the cards
BMC has decided to grade them according to their work. For instance, builders-architects who stick with their first submitted plan, follow all rules and complete a project on time will get a higher grade
Vijay V Singh
MUMBAI: The BMC will rank builders and architects on the basis of their completed projects and share the information in the public domain in about a month’s time to help property buyers make an informed choice while choosing a home.
At present, buyers usually have to go by the public perception of builders and architects while purchasing properties. They have little option but to accept the builders’ and architects’ claims about their past projects. Neither do they have access to any mechanism that can tell them if all the rules were followed during construction.
Now, the BMC has decided to grade them according to their work. For instance, builders-architects who stick with their first submitted plan, follow all rules and complete a project on time will get a higher grade. Others who changed building plans after starting work and introduced changes that delayed projects just to make more profits can be compared against them since they will be graded lower.
An officer said civic officials are working on the entire gamut of criteria that they need to include in the grading system. After finalizing the required standards, they will put it on the building proposal page of the civic authority’s website within a month. “We will grade them according to compliance of the regulations,” said civic chief Ajoy Mehta.
The BMC will not grade builders-architects on their earlier records. They will do it on the basis of ongoing projects after they approach them for the mandatory occupation certificate of buildings.
The need for grading was felt after it was noticed that in the past, some builders avoided criminal action despite committing serious violations, but then crowed that they are known for completing their work on time after following all legal procedures. Three years ago, the BMC had alleged that a builder in Bandra (West) had constructed two illegal floors in a 14-storey tower. Soon, they found the building’s file had gone missing. Further probe showed more than 6,000 building proposal files containing original building proposal, changes made and other approved plan details were missing. Officials suspected there were some violation or the other in all the projects but could not establish it.
Now, the grading system will ensure that the background of every builder and architect is known to buyers. “It’s a good initiative. But rating architects is complex. Builders hire established architects to design buildings, and another set to deal with the files in the BMC. On record, the BMC identifies architects dealing with them. Then how is BMC going to rate the designing architects who plan the building projects?” asked Shirish Sukhatme, of PEATA (Practising Engineers, Architects and Townplanners Associations).
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Case Study: Candy Japan grows its subscription business with Recurly
It was a confluence of sorts. After spending two years in Tokyo as an exchange student, Bemmu Sepponen fell in love with the unique culture of Japan, which is both fashionable and eccentric. And he had always been intrigued by subscription-based services and their continuous revenue streams.
Somehow, he wanted to bring these interests together. In 2010, Bemmu moved to Tokushima, a small city on the island of Shikoku, and started researching subscription-based businesses. Less than a year later, he formed Candy Japan.
“Japan has a huge variety of different sweets,” says Bemmu, originally from Finland. “Some are really strange, like pieces of wasabi-flavored seaweed or do-it-yourself kits for making sushi-shaped treats.”
Candy Japan started as an experiment. Bemmu had experience running a small online shop, but didn’t want to hassle with inventory control or complex logistics. Instead of allowing customers to order a variety of specific items, he envisioned Candy Japan as a one-product business. The product, however, is always different, and comes as a surprise to subscribers.
“Subscribers receive Japanese candy twice per month, but they don’t know what is coming until it arrives,” Bemmu says. “Everyone likes surprises.”
Except when it comes to billing and payments. Candy Japan initially relied on PayPal to facilitate customer billing, but it was clunky and lacked advanced integration capabilities, especially for an overseas merchant.
“I’ve had to refuse money from people because my system simply wasn’t up to the task yet,” Bemmu explains. “I needed a way to accept credit cards directly on the site without redirecting to PayPal. But for a non-U.S. merchant, the options are quite limited.”
He did find one option: Recurly. The subscription billing software has bolstered Candy Japan’s business, helping it grow from a handful of subscribers to more than 320 in less than two years.
Bemmu researched a variety of subscription billing services but settled on Recurly because of its established payment gateways, easy integration with backend systems, advanced reporting capabilities and effortless administration.
Running a Finland-registered business from Japan, Bemmu had difficulty finding a payment processor that would support Candy Japan. But Recurly’s established partnerships with a number of leading payment processors led him to WireCard, which approved Candy Japan in part because of its use of Recurly.
“Recurly’s partner list and documentation helped me find and integrate with a payment gateway,” Bemmu says. “And I’ve had no trouble integrating Recurly with my backend systems.”
This integration has eliminated many of Candy Japan’s manual processes. When customers subscribe to the service, they are automatically added to the company’s shipping list. The backend system also tallies how much candy to send based on each subscriber’s payment status and creates shipping labels.
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MTN’s new CEO can save its future as a phone company by making it a bank
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June 23, 2016 This article is more than 2 years old.
After nearly a year in corporate limbo, foundering in uncertainty created by a record regulatory fine, MTN, Africa’s largest telecoms company, looks ready to turn the corner with a future in financial services.
The embattled Johannesburg-based company revealed this week it had poached Vodafone’s Rob Shuter, 48, to join as chief executive, along with other senior executive appointments.
Shuter’s appointment came after MTN settled a months-long $5.2 billion fine dispute with the Nigerian government for unregistered SIM cards. After months of twists and turns, the phone company negotiated to pay $1.7 billion.
Currently chief executive of Vodafone’s Europe cluster, Shuter has had previous long experience in the South African banking industry. He was a former head of investment banking at Standard Bank and managing director at Nedbank’s retail banking unit division.
His banking experience will likely be seen as one way to pursue the multi-billion dollar opportunity in financial inclusion. With 168 million subscribers on the continent, few African companies have MTN’s scale of customer relationships.
Voice, and then data, have become commoditized services in the last few years, cutting into profit margins and growth projections for African telcos. While their counterparts in advanced economies have benefited from the rapid rise of mobile video, gaming and social media as drivers of heavy network use, many African telcos are looking to innovate around essential services to grow and retain customers.
With only 34% of Africans having a bank account and opportunities abounding in payment services, these telcos are looking to financial technology as a way to grow future profits. A report by the Boston Consulting Group estimates that mobile financial services in Africa is a $1.5 billion market opportunity that has even greater growth potential by tapping into an unserved market.
“In their core business the growth from subscriber acquisition is slowing down and competition is intensifying, rapidly driven by operating companies trying to grow through acquisition from competitors as well as increasing regulatory pressure, putting pressure on margins in their traditional business,” Hans Kuipers, a partner with the consulting group, told Quartz.
To be sure, MTN Mobile Money is already a key part of the operator’s business across the continent. While Kenya’s Safaricom’s mobile money platform M-Pesa has won international plaudits and recognition, MTN, with less fanfare, has built a network of some 34.7 million Mobile Money subscribers as of last year in 15 countries. For example at MTN Uganda, Mobile Money is the fastest growing sector of the business. Its 3.5 million Mobile Money customers generated 17.2% of its revenue last year.
Shuter will no doubt be looking to build on that opportunity in larger markets like Nigeria. Though his current employer Vodafone, which has a stake in Safaricom, has previously tried to launch M-Pesa in South Africa without success.
For now MTN is officially staying mum on what the new boss will do. “In terms of strategy from the new CEO, he’ll have to clarify what our new focus will be,” said MTN spokesman Chris Maroleng.
In Africa, the lines between mobile and banking sectors are blurring faster than in the rest of the world. Many banks are already flocking to the mobile money industry and the success of Kenya’s Safaricom signals just how lucrative it can be when a mobile operator becomes a financial services provider.
“MTN has a good understanding of the mobile side of the business, if they get someone who has a very good understanding of the banking and financial sectors, especially retail, that would make it easier for them to converge the different sectors,” said Sibonginkosi Nyanga, an analyst with Momentum S.P. Reid Securities.
MTN needed an experienced executive to lead it across two continents and a major region (Africa, Asia and the Middle East) and 232 million customers said analysts. MTN’s Maroleng said Shuter was identified as the best candidate after an “extensive global search.”
But all the moving parts and complexity of its network have also made it slow to act in a fast changing industry, says Arthur Goldstuck, an analyst with World Wide Worx, a South African technology consultancy. MTN’s reaction to ‘over the top’ services like Facebook, WeChat and Whatsapp—which an MTN executive basically called a freeloader—has been lumbering and uncompetitive, according to Goldstuck.
“It’s been like a massive aircraft carrier with all these different country components on it but as a whole was too big to steer in different directions,” Goldstuck told CNBC Africa. “They’ve got to be open to a more nimble strategy and the ability to move more quickly and to shift their strategies in changing areas.”
If MTN was grooming a new leader from within the company, the record fine from Nigerian authorities and CEO Sifiso Dabengwa’s subsequent exit may have caught them off guard, said Nyanga. Still, judging by the recovery of MTN’s share price at the news of Shuter’s appointment, the market may well welcome a new face. “I think the market is willing to give him a chance,” said Nyanga.
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In our increasingly high-tech and computer-mediated daily routines, it can sometimes be easy to forget that we are ultimately biological creatures inhabiting a world teeming with plant, animal, and microbial life. However, this reality is never far from our day-to-day experiences, especially if we get sick. Basic science is the study of the fundamental processes that are essential to life on our planet, including biology, biochemistry, genetics, anatomy, neurobiology, immunology, and more.
Sometimes used interchangeably with the term “life science,” basic science isn’t just an abstract, theoretical field. Practical applications of this knowledge are responsible for many breakthroughs that we take for granted in our daily lives, from modern medicine to foods and other common household products. This research is also essential for new advances that researchers are working towards today, such as improved treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, genetically modified crops, and even potential cures for cancer.
This body of basic science knowledge represents the cumulative work of countless scientists over hundreds of years. Referring to this tradition of accumulated scientific knowledge, Sir Isaac Newton famously said that “If I have seen further than others it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Studying basic science is foundational to contributing to the work of these “giants” or to standing on their shoulders.
What careers can you pursue with an education in basic science?
Because basic science is fundamental to so many fields, an education in this area can open the door to a wide variety of jobs. For starters, basic science courses are essential to understanding how the human body works, and thus are prerequisites for attending medical school. Becoming a doctor is one of the most well-known (and highest-paying) career paths that requires a background in basic science, but it’s hardly the only one.
If you prefer doing research in the laboratory to working with patients in the hospital or doctor’s office, you can become a biomedical scientist, microbiologist, biochemist, or industrial pharmacist. With some exceptions, these jobs do not require doctorates, and offer good pay, regular hours, and the ability to make a difference through impactful research. For example, microbiologists play a major role in developing treatments for epidemics through their study of bacteria and viruses.
More technically-oriented learners can use basic science education to help launch careers as biological technicians, computational biologists, or bioinformaticians. Working at the intersection of medicine and technology, these professionals play a vital role in leveraging computers, specialized medical equipment, and data to improve our understanding of biological systems. These emerging fields are increasingly important to creating new tools for public health professionals as well as improving the basic life science knowledge on which they depend.
Can online courses help me learn basic science?
Absolutely. Today’s online learning platforms allow you to access a high-quality education from top universities in a wider variety of disciplines than ever, including basic science. And, just like online learning options in other fields, online courses in basic science are providing the opportunity to gain this valuable education at a significantly lower cost and with greater flexibility than on-campus alternatives.
As the leading online education platform in the world, Coursera offers a myriad of courses in basic science from schools like the University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Duke University, and Johns Hopkins. Popular courses include human physiology, immunology, anatomy, cancer biology, brain, and genetics.
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Robert Quine: The Hits
By Tim Quine
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In my recent post on guitarist Robert Quine, I pulled together a few personal stories while carefully sidestepping any attempt to define his musical legacy. That’s better left to those who can speak with a lot more authority on all of the disparate influences that came together in downtown NYC in the mid-‘70s – punk, new wave, no wave, avant garde… I’m sure someone will argue that I’m already using the wrong terms here.
Art Garfunkel, The Boxer
I can’t even lay claim to my favorite Rob story. According to his friend The Hound (whose blog is listed at right), Rob was once punched in the face by Art Garfunkel when Rob told him that his act with Paul Simon was “for people too dumb for Bob Dylan.” So my cousin may have been the only person on the planet (other than Simon, maybe) who could say he was sucker-punched by Art Garfunkel.
My post on Rob certainly gave me a greater appreciation of the size, scope and reach of his output over 35 years as a working musician. And sometimes it takes an unexpected source to really drive it home – like the jolt of hearing Rob’s jagged guitar closing an episode of HBO’s fine new series, “How To Make It In America.”
Now that CD box sets are going the way of the cathode-ray tube TV and, well, the CD, it seems unfortunate that Rob’s career never got the full box treatment. I mean, the German Bear Family label delivers a 12-CD set of the “Singing Ranger” Hank Snow, and we got bupkis on Quine? OK, maybe that’s not a good example – I’m just the kind of nutball who would plow through 12 CDs of Snow.
But a stray comment following one of The Hound’s posts on Rob got me thinking, what would even the most basic compilation of his stuff sound like? Just a quick look at Rob’s discography would scare away even the most disciplined producer. Recordings with Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch, John Zorn, Marianne Faithfull, Brian Eno, They Might Be Giants, Lloyd Cole, Matthew Sweet… full-bore rockers, experimental soundtracks, atmospheric instrumentals, catchy pop songs, off-kilter blues and R&B… How could anyone create a seamless, cohesive listening experience out of this body of work?
Maybe that’s not the point. You could certainly separate the pop/rock stuff from the soundtracks and instrumentals, but you’d still be jarred by sudden shifts – from low-fi to high-quality production; from gentle, airy soundscapes to angry squalls of distorted guitar. But why should listening to a Quine compilation be any different from a conversation with a guy who could go from Link Wray to Miles Davis in 10 seconds flat?
I won’t even try to offer the definitive list of Rob’s essential recordings. But I have a few favorites that should be part of any meaningful attempt to capture the high points of Rob’s career, and I’ve included samples to get the argument started.
Most worthwhile box sets start with those early, formative recordings – think The Band (aka The Hawks) with Ronnie Hawkins. And we now have a few good ones featuring Rob, courtesy of his old friend and bandmate, Barry Silverblatt, and posted by The Hound here. Back in the Sixties, Rob and Barry played together in a band called Bruce’s Farm. This solo from a cover of the Kinks’ Where Have All The Good Times Gone offers ample evidence that Rob already had his chops together before he hit NYC (excuse the sound on this one). Where Have All The Good Times Gone/Robert Quine solo (Bruce’s Farm)
Recorded in 1977, Blank Generation by Richard Hell and the Voidoids is an undeniably great record. And it underscores a comment Rob made to The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach (another cousin): “Everything I do is just a variation on Chuck Berry.” He was only half-kidding. In some of his rock ‘n roll solos, Rob seems to take the same basic licks that Berry used to great effect on his classic hits and turn them inside-out, almost beyond recognition. Almost.
The next sample starts with Chuck Berry’s solo on Thirty Days and moves to Rob’s playing on Love Comes In Spurts. Is it just me, or does Rob sound like Berry trying to play one of his signature solos while getting zapped by a bad amp? Thirty Days/Chuck Berry + Love Comes In Spurts/Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Most of the critical praise is heaped on Rob’s recordings with Lou Reed, and that probably has as much to do with Reed as it does with Rob. I sampled two favorites in my last post – Betrayed (“Live in Italy”), because Rob’s convoluted country solo seems to be a tip of the shades to ace string-bender James Burton, and Waiting For My Man (“A Night With Lou Reed”), from a filmed performance at the Bottom Line in 1983. Rob’s playing on the latter is as potent as anything I’ve heard from any guitarist… simply brilliant. In the video at the end of “Encounters,” Rob’s first solo starts at around 2:00, and he comes back in at 3:40. Here’s another standout cut from the Lou Reed era, The Gun from “The Blue Mask.” The lyrics set the dark mood, but the tension builds with Rob’s sinister fills. A lesson in how to serve the song… The Gun/Lou Reed with Robert Quine
Move to 1984… I’ve always liked this number from Rob’s collaboration with drummer Fred Maher, “Basic.” I’m not exactly sure what he’s doing here, but it’s a fairly unusual chord progression – maybe something that rubbed off when he took jazz guitar lessons from the great Jimmy Raney. And he’s adding a little dissonance with a few well-placed overdubs. So it’s one of those “something doesn’t sound quite right, so it must be right” numbers. The programmed drums come across as a bit dated, but not heavy handed. Is he re-imagining the Sixties from a more cynical time and place? Maybe, but it sounds heartfelt to me. ’65/Robert Quine and Fred Maher
The next year, Rob teamed up with Rolling Stone Keith Richards, fellow Akronite Ralph Carney and others to record “Rain Dogs” with Tom Waits. Rob only appears on two cuts – Blind Love, featuring some fine interplay between Rob and Richards, and Downtown Train, which eventually became a monster hit for Rod “The Bod” Stewart. Rob’s contributions on the two songs are fairly minimal, but his insistent rhythm on Downtown Train was picked up on the remake by Stewart’s guitarist, Jeff Golub – another Akron native. This is starting to get complicated… Downtown Train/Tom Waits with Robert Quine
Now we get to Rob’s first and only appearance on a bona fide hit – as guitarist on Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend, a Top 10 single in 1991. I’d argue it features some of the most dangerous guitar playing ever heard on hit radio. But I’m family… you be the judge: Girlfriend/Matthew Sweet with Robert Quine
Rob had finally rubbed up against some mainstream success and recognition. So what did he do next? Play even more obscure and challenging music, of course – including an ongoing collaboration with avant-garde composer and saxophonist John Zorn. Here’s a 1995 duet with fellow NYC guitarist Jody Harris (who Rob described as “tragically underrated”) from a compilation titled “Come Together: A Guitar Tribute to the Beatles” – Rob’s guitar is the dominant voice on this sample: Yes It Is/Jody Harris and Robert Quine
Rob had an especially productive year in 1997. He contributed to a few albums by Zorn, worked with Marc Ribot on Ikue Mori’s “Painted Desert” (sampled on my previous post) and took part in what he described as his most positive experience in the studio – “Valdun: Voices of Rumantsch” by Corin Curschellas. Rumantsch is a rare language spoken by only a few thousand people in the Alpine valleys of Switzerland. But Corin’s music approaches almost mainstream pop, which makes this an unusual outing for Rob. I like his relaxed, expansive playing on this number from “Valdun”: Al Mar/Corin Curschellas with Robert Quine
I’ll close with a recording Rob did in 2001 with legendary R&B showman and pulp author Andre Williams. After he burned his way through this one, Rob reportedly said, “Now I’ve worked with two geniuses, Lou Reed and Andre Williams.” Head First/Andre Williams with Robert Quine
So those are just a few of my favorite Rob moments… and they’re certainly not based on an encyclopedic knowledge of his recorded oeuvre, as the Times might say. I’ll also fully admit that I came across a few cuts that didn’t move me at all.
I’m just a guy who plays broke-dick guitar, paying tribute to a true master – an underrated one at that. And just a single-disc compilation from an enterprising label (Nonesuch, are you listening?) would help right that wrong.
Robert Quine with Matthew Sweet on the Dennis Miller show – 1992… workin’ that whammy bar. Former Gang of Four bassist Sara Lee is on the other side of the stage. You’ll have to suffer through about 30 seconds of Miller being a dipshit (turn up the volume on this one).
From the same show – Sweet’s I’ve Been Waiting. Rob was a huge fan of The Byrds, so this was like tossing raw meat to a junkyard dog.
Big week for The Black Keys – “Brothers” is the Number 1 new rock album in the country (Soundscan)… Number 3 overall if you count “Glee” – which is exactly what you’d expect if you brought a high school glee club into a studio to cover hoary rock hits – and “Exile on Main Street,” which the Stones spent a small fortune promoting. So congratulations, Dan and Pat… an amazing achievement that may have missed the attention of the local press, but now is gaining notice throughout the RCR blogosphere (mainly, those of you who didn’t get the email from Dan’s mom).
Oh, they also played the Letterman and Jimmy Fallon shows. Here’s the Letterman performance of Tighten Up, followed up by the “official” video of the song, which is easily one of the funniest music videos I’ve ever seen:
Chuck Berry, Dan Auerbach, Lou Reed, Marc Ribot, Matthew Sweet, Quine, Richard Hell, Robert Quine, Tom Waits
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Jim May 29, 2010
Robert Quine’s final recordings, a home recorded soundtracl for an indie movie that was never released can be downloaded here: http://thehoundblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/robert-quine.html
Quine is playing all the instruments.
Thanks, Hound… If anyone ever gets serious about doing a Rob anthology, you should produce it.
Douglas Quine May 31, 2010
This is a great tribute to Rob who died 6 years ago today. I’ve added it to your previous posting at the web site that I created for Rob: http://www.quine.org/robertquine.html
Thanks, Douglas… Lots of great stuff on your site about Rob, Willard Van Orman and other Quines. And I highly recommend your discography to Rob “completists”!
AK June 14, 2010
Tim, thanks for the great posts on Robert Quine…
Regarding the annoying Dennis Miller banter, you may be able to cut it out. I’m not sure if this works in WordPress, but it does with Blogger: you can set a start-point in an embedded YT video by typing in &start=43s (for example) after both instances of the clip’s code-name after you’ve pasted the code into your post. If you want to start it after a minute, then you would type, say, &start=79s
I hope this is of use to you.
vladimir July 25, 2010
hey tim, i would like to go deeper in robert, did you remember the albums where robert plays, can you mail me the list ? allthatyoufeel@gmail.com,
keeping the flame alive, vladimir.
Vladimir: You can find a fairly complete discography at his cousin Douglas’ site here.
Ronny Bowersox February 15, 2011
yeah,I just thought you may possibly wish to know that your blog is messed up whenever you view it on my iphone. I?m not positive if it has some thing to do with my telephone?s browser or your internet site? just stating…
JR August 6, 2012
Just fell onto your blog, googling Quine… What a glorious memorial… My favorite Quine solo? Again, from Girlfriend, Your Sweet Voice – he keeps it so simple, yet crushingly, heart-stoppingly beautiful…
admin August 6, 2012
Thanks much… so much great stuff to choose from. Also check out this piece — a long-lost interview with Melody Maker. He was very generous with the writer, Rick Batey. Really nails his wit and musical wisdom.
James July 8, 2014
I’m trying to find the “Bruce’s Farm” recordings……all the links are dead, and Hound hasn’t been helpful at all……I’m a HUGE Quine fan, I’m dying to hear these…..any help, friends?
mac November 20, 2018
Hey Tim, Great piece.
re: Girlfriend. Loved Robert’s performance circa 1991/’92 on the Letterman show. Used to be able to view it on YouTube. Any idea how to access video of this performance?
What a great solo.
Tim Quine November 30, 2018
The same band appeared on the ill-fated Dennis Miller Show at roughly the same time. Check it here.
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Heathcliff by Jeffrey Caine Hardcover Suspense Large Print
In a novel alight with brilliance and mischief, this tells the story of Heathcliff's life during the time he was mysteriously absent from Wuthering Heights. Where was he? What happened following that desperate moment when he fled from his adopted home-humiliated, defeated, outraged-up to the day, three years later, when he returned strong, rich, the master of his passions?
A retelling of the story of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights from the point of view of Heathcliff. Recommended for die-hard fans of Wuthering Heights who must know *the rest of the story*.
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Death toll in Indonesia bus plunge rises to 35 as more victims found
Rescue personnel retrieve a victim after a bus careered into a 150-meter deep ravine and ended up in a river killing dozens, near Perahu Dipo village in Pagar Alam, South Sumatra, Indonesia, in this Dec. 24, 2019 file photo. — AFP
JAKARTA — At least 35 people were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine in Indonesia, officials said in a new toll on Thursday, making it one of the most deadly bus accidents in recent years.
A rescue team in Indonesia's island of Sumatra on Thursday continued the search for a third day to find more bodies after seven new victims were found in a river late on Wednesday.
According to a passenger manifest, the regional bus left Bengkulu province for Pagar Alam with 27 on board but some survivors told police there were around 50 people inside when the accident happened on Monday just before midnight.
Spokesman for a local rescue team in South Sumatra Taufan, who only goes by one name like many Indonesians, said Thursday that of the 35 people killed, 16 were male and 19 female.
"The rescue team is searching the river 6 km toward the north using rafting," Taufan said on Thursday.
The team has evacuated at least 13 survivors and the search is still ongoing to find more bodies over fears that some might have been carried away in the river.
At least eight of the passengers killed were children, local police chief Dolly Gumara said Wednesday.
Traffic accidents are common in the Southeast Asian archipelago, where vehicles are often old and poorly maintained and road rules regularly flouted.
In September, at least 21 people died when a bus plunged into a ravine in West Java's Sukabumi region.
Several months earlier, 12 people were killed and dozens more injured when a passenger tried to wrest control of a bus steering wheel following an argument with the driver on the same toll road in West Java as Thursday's accident. The bus smashed into two cars, causing a truck to roll. — AFP
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INTERVIEW: Rachel Ling, Regional Asia Manager of Lyre’s — “It’s no longer a stigma to go to a bar and not have alcohol”
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2020 is shaping up to be a year of firsts. Although framed mainly by the inescapable eye of a pandemic, 2020 is also the year when the world populace start to take better care of their bodies both physically and mentally. I'd go as far as to reckon that historians would look back at this moment in time as the impetus to a burgeoning movement dedicated to wellness, self-care, and a diet that's mainly plant-based and alcohol-free.
It's a trend that serves non-alcoholic purveyor Lyre's well, evident by its growing presence in Singapore, counting in its midst, well-heeled establishments such as Manhattan Bar, Don Ho, and Ah Sam Cold Drink Stall. Lyre's tour of beverage inclusivity in Singapore is lead by the energetic, and highly spirited Rachel Ling who waxes lyrical about the rapidly growing sober curious movement and readily offers up her personal story of discovery and growth which lead her to become the regional Asia manager of Lyre's.
She shares her thoughts on some of the biggest misconceptions people have about non-alcoholic drinks and what this movement means for the F&B scene in Singapore.
How would you describe what you do to someone you’re meeting for the first time?
My name is Rachel Ling, and I’m the Regional Asia Manager of Lyre’s non-alcoholic spirits. I look after business development and distributor relationships for Asia except China (China is a region of its own; we have a dedicated team there).
If I’m describing my personality, I recently discovered that I am an ambivert, which is both an extrovert and introvert, depending on the situation and the people I’m with. I love being around people and making sure everyone is happy, having a good time and being taken care of, but I also appreciate my own time and being on my own to do things in quiet.
I love yoga, travelling (when we could), exploring new places even locally, and eating healthy with the occasional pizza. I abstain from alcohol most days but will drink once every one or two weeks with friends and family. I’m a total workaholic and love being productive, and so I prefer being clear-headed, sober and hangover-free on most days.
As a child, what did you aspire to be when you grew up?
Call me weird, but as a young child around six, I imagined myself as a CEO running a company—even I think it’s strange looking back now. As I grew up (I’m still growing up), I turned to more creative and artistic hobbies and wanted to be a Fashion Designer.
Eventually, I got the best of both worlds and ran my own event company, where I got to run my own little business and be creative at it at the same time. I was young and felt I wasn’t growing enough being my own boss. I love learning and having mentors, so I decided to venture into the corporate world and learn from experienced colleagues and peers. I love what I do now and continue to learn and adopt new skills.
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What is your origin story in deciding to immerse yourself in the world of non-alcoholic spirits?
I’ve been in the alcohol realm for over ten years; I could drink my body weight as people would describe. It was intense being a former APAC Brand Ambassador to one of the world’s largest vodka companies, Stolichnaya. I would drink back-to-back five out of seven days a week, and so you can imagine the kind of toll it was taking on my health. My ‘office job’ was travelling, going to bars, meeting amazing bartenders and bar owners around the region. It was super awesome, and I had the best time of my life.
I tried very hard to balance doing that and working with a hangover, but I eventually realised I was completely neglecting my health. I started to feel unwell, my health was deteriorating, allergies began to form out of nowhere, and I was uncomfortable in my own body physically, and it was mentally draining. It was the best job in the world, but it felt empty everywhere else, and I would fall into depression once in a while.
What steps did you take to recover and regain control of your physical and mental body?
I decided to take it easy on the alcohol and focus on regaining my health. I went full-on vegan, exercised as regularly as I could and would do water fasts over the weekends as my way of cleansing. Eventually, I became more drawn to a lifestyle with much less alcohol and into health foods and drinks to enhance my wellness.
Landing a job with Lyre’s was an unexpected dream come true really. I’m very grateful because I deeply love the bar industry, but I couldn’t dive back into my previous lifestyle. This job allows me to stay in the industry and gives me the flexibility to drink or abstain alcohol and keep close to the bar community.
The immersion into non-alcoholic spirits was not immediate after being an advocate of so many fantastic alcohol brands for so long. Still, it grew on me very quickly, and I’ve fallen in love with Lyre’s and what the brand can do. We’ve got the most extensive range in the world, so I can still re-create and enjoy my favourite cocktails without or less alcohol in it. I don’t feel like I’m missing out—I can still walk into a bar like everyone else and receive the same experience without feeling like an outcast.
Lyre’s Dry London Spirit & Italian Orange (PHOTO: Lyre’s)
What is the biggest misconception teetotallers have about non-alcoholic spirit and what would you say to change their misperceptions?
That it is flavoured water or syrup.
If the alcohol buzz is what people are going for, it’s not something I can change people’s minds. Everyone has different motivations to abstain from alcohol—some for health reasons, allergies, pregnancy, training for sports, detox, cleansing, minimising intake or just taking a break for a while.
Lyre’s is unique because there are so many flavours mimicked from the alcoholic versions to choose from, that you can get creative with it. They are flavours that people can relate to, that bartenders are familiar with and can easily re-make cocktails that already exist in the world, into non-alcoholic versions. If you’re at a nice restaurant eating really good food and had the option, would you rather pair it with a sugary soft drink, or have a nicely crafted cocktail thoughtfully created by the bartender, to match your experience?
We’ve created our range with natural ingredients such as essences, extracts and distillates, that are vegan and gluten-free. On a ‘calorific’ note, we’re 75-90% fewer calories than the alcoholic versions. Many test and trials, thousands of flavour combinations, and advanced food technology have been used to create this range to achieve incredible flavours.
The practice of consciously adding non-alcoholic spirits to a menu is slowly but surely picking up in Singapore. Coincidentally, there’s also been renewed interest in vegetable-forward menus and plant-based food. Do you think these phenomena happening concurrently is merely coincidental or is there something more to this situation that we should be more aware?
In general, as we become more exposed to information, people become more aware of the environment and the cause and effects of meat intake, which has, in most parts driven the vegetable and plant-based lifestyle. The other part is being more self-aware and health-conscious and realising that we can live without meat. I’ve not taken meat for over four years now, and I’m still alive and kicking. If anything, I’m healthier, and most people would say I’m energetic. We’ve also seen many athletes going meatless and performing even better than they did before.
The rise of both plant-based and non-alcoholic spirits supports each other. The pandemic of 2020 has accelerated people’s consciousness to having a better immune system to protect their health. It’s not just a trend—it’s becoming a lifestyle.
Some people might not have gone entirely meatless, but I know many of my friends that are significantly trying to reduce their meat intake, just like drinking a lot less alcohol. That said, people still don’t want to give up on the experience of going out, socialising and enjoying a good dining experience—so the need for more plant-based foods and non-alcoholic cocktails is growing in demand to fulfil that ‘want’.
Lyre’s White Cane Spirit (PHOTO: Lyre’s)
Is the adoption of non-alcoholic spirits an encouraging measure of inclusivity, or are restaurants and bars merely opportunists to meet supply with much-needed demand?
For Asia, we are still at the early stages of growing the non-alcoholic spirits category, but the Western parts have almost reached maturity. There, it’s becoming very normal to have non-alcoholic drinks while dining outside and drinking at home.
Bars that have adopted it take into account that they regularly receive guests that both drink and don’t drink, and are adopting it for their guests’ inclusivity. For example, usually non-alcoholic cocktails are presented at the back end of a menu, but Atlas Bar has a non-alcoholic cocktail on every page of their alcoholic cocktails. MO Bar has their non-alcoholic cocktails from the front of their menu to increasingly more alcoholic cocktails towards the back. It makes their non-drinking guests feel indifferent and very much included.
It’s no longer a stigma to go to a bar and not have alcohol and still enjoy the experience with ‘bespoke cocktails’ that isn’t a juice, soda or syrupy mix. The phenomenon is turning into a norm.
When you look at the state of dining (and by extension, drinking) in Singapore today, what is the one thing that gives you hope?
Within Asia, Singapore is still leading in the world of F&B trends. Witnessing the non-alcoholic spirits category grow and evolve at speed here, it’s very evident that we’re ahead of the curve. It gives me hope to observe that Singapore, even with the COVID-19 situation, has not reverted cut-off times and curfews imposed. Restaurant and bar owners and bartenders are still their creative and forward-thinking selves—they take pride in staying ahead and considering every guests’ need as much as they can.
They follow strict rules set by the government and yet still put their creative minds to work, making improvements and getting ready for when we reopen to full operational capacity again. This gives me a lot of hope—it shows that we are not afraid to venture out of our comfort zone, as our industry continues to adapt, grow and lead even during something as dire as a worldwide pandemic.
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NYC MTA’s contactless fare system completes rollout, will phase out MetroCard in 2023
Brian Heater
On the last day of 2020, New York City’s Metro Transit Authority announced that it has finished its roll out of contactless payment systems. With the addition of a final stop in Brooklyn, every MTA subway station and bus in the five boroughs now sports the OMNY “Tap and Go” system.
We got an early demo of the Grand Central terminals when the project rollout began last May. The system involves a major infrastructure overhaul as the transit authority looks beyond the iconic Metro Card to mobile payment systems from vendors like Apple, Google, Samsung and Fitbit – allowing users to use smartphones and smartwatches to swipe their way through the turn style.
NYC’s push for citywide contactless transit payment is delayed by COVID-19
The MTA had expected to finish the project by October – though COVID-19 put the kibosh on those plans along with so much else. The goal was pushed back to December, and it appears it's been met with no time to spare.
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MetroCards are sticking around for the time being – though the MTA expects they will be phased out at some point in 2023. Part of the transition involves the arrival of the OMNY Card, which use the new technology but function similarly to MetroCard. A reduced far version of the card is set to arrive for riders who qualify at some point in 2021. The new readers are also coming to the Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road systems.
NYC’s contactless subway turnstiles open today with Apple, Google, Samsung and Fitbit Pay support
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Moe Greene of ‘Godfather’ CONTROVERSY as “one state solution” comments surface in Vegas
July 29, 2020 · by Seth Frantzman · in Funnies, Uncategorized. ·
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Moe Greene of The Godfather fame shocked social media over the weekend with newly unearthed comments in which he condemned Israel as “not as interesting as Las Vegas” and appeared to support a “one state solution.” He is the latest celebrity to be in hot water amid growing Liberal Zionist criticism of Israel and concern that the US Jewish community is less interested in Israel than in the past.
Greene, who was born in 1922, was not previously thought to hold controversial views on Israel. However it turns out that newly revealed tapes show that he was also a supporter of binationalism and a so-called “one state solution.” Greene, a well known Jewish property investor who is portrayed in the Godfather as a “mobster” and associate of Hyman Roth, was know for his charitable giving and support for progressive causes. Despite his outward demeanor as an abusive casino owner, a softer Moe Greene can now be revealed from the new tapes.
“I’m not sure about this whole Israel thing,” he says. “Do we need a whole state or one state that can fully express my values of Tikkun Olam.” He argues that much like he built Vegas, he believes Israel could be a thriving country carved out of the desert, but he has concerns about the endless conflict. “Conflict is not good for business. Like I told Michael Corleone, this is a delicate thing we have going here, and I can’t even imagine how difficult it would be to run a city in the middle of the kind of thousand-year wars they have in the Middle East.”
Greene has been slammed by pro-Israel organizations as out of touch and ignorant as to the difficulties Israel faces. However friends of Greene point out that he was merely caught off guard on the new tapes and they don’t reflect the full depth of his views. He joins a growing list of those in the US caught up in recent controversies about Israel.
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'Black Mirror' Creator Charlie Brooker's Mysterious 2020 Project Gets a Mysterious Teaser
This year has been such a shit-show that it makes episodes of Black Mirror look almost quaint by comparison. Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker is aware of that, so rather than bring us a new season of Black Mirror he’s unleashing a new, mysterious mockumentary about the hell year that was 2020. Brooker just dropped a new teaser for the project, which may or may not be called Death to 2020.
At the end of November, Hugh Grant casually revealed he was working on something with Charlie Brooker, creator of Black Mirror. Grant said that the project was a “mockumentary about 2020,” and that he was playing a historian being interviewed about the year in question: “I’m doing a thing tomorrow, actually. Charlie Brooker [the creator of Black Mirror] has written a mockumentary about 2020. It’s for Netflix, and I am a historian who’s being interviewed about the year. I’m pretty repellent, actually! And you’ll like my wig.”
Now it looks like we have our first teaser for whatever the hell this mystery mockumentary is. “2020: even the creators of Black Mirror couldn’t make this year up,” the text in the teaser tells us. “But, they do have something to add. Death to 2020.” That final appears on the screen in such a way that it suggests this is titled Death to 2020, but we’ll have to wait for confirmation to be sure.
Beyond that, all we know is that it’s “coming soon” to Netflix. Would Brooker actually be able to get this thing wrapped up in time to release it this year? Maybe, depending on what type of footage he’s using. Black Mirror season 4 dropped on December 29, 2017, and the Black Mirror movie Bandersnatch arrived on December 28, 2018. So there’s certainly some precedent there. But this is all guesswork on my part – we might not see 2020 until 2021. Stay tuned.
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Souhegan’s girls ice hockey team is off to a strong start as winter sports kick into gear. They recently played their first game of the season against Conval. The team easily took the win with a score of 10-0. Shannon Paquette (Sophomore) contributed with four goals and two assists. Simonne Dodge (Freshman) added two goals and two assists to the scoreboard, while Julia Pinkham (Freshman) added a goal and two assists. Other players who put pucks in the net included Riley Tobin (Freshman), Eliza Cullen (Senior), and Hunter Baum (Senior). Maggie Dix (Junior) also had two assists. The team’s goalie, Makayla Lachance (Junior), supported the Lady Sabers with multiple saves.
The team’s head coach, Kelli Braley, recently commented her thoughts on the season. “I love the young talent we’ve picked up.” Braley said. “They’re coming in eager and skilled. Our chemistry is great.”
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Jill Biden Visits Columbia on Eve of Missouri Primary
The former Second Lady spoke on hot issues and rallied voters to support her husband in the primaries.
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On the eve of Missouri’s 2020 Democratic primary election, former Second Lady of the United States, doctor Jill Biden visited Columbia’s Recreation center, the ARC, to rally voters and sway support for her husband, candidate Joe Biden.
Over the weekend of March 7, Biden’s campaign spent time lobbying across the state with rallies in Saint Louis and Kansas City, hoping to out-poll his competitor, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, in the state’s primary. At the time of publishing, Biden had a 77 point lead over Sanders with 652 delegates. A win in Missouri could give Biden as many as 71 more delegates.
Jill Biden made a last-minute stop to Columbia on the campaign trail, with the rally being announced to the public less than a day earlier. Nevertheless, a considerable crowd showed up to hear the Second Lady speak.
“I don’t really know who I’m supporting yet, so hopefully hearing (Biden) speak will help me make that decision,” Jackie Ozanich, a freshman who attended the rally, said. Ozanich came to the rally with her mom, a registered Republican who is still deciding who to vote for in the upcoming election.
Not all attendees came to the event to make a decision. Some people, like Tucker Black, a high school student, had already made up their mind. “We need someone stable-minded and with experience leading the country,” he explained on why he’s supporting Vice President Biden. Black said that he’s prioritizing the economy, climate change, and gun control this election cycle, all of which Biden fits the bill for.
Another topic on voters’ minds right now is the coronavirus outbreak and the disease it causes, COVID-19. At the time of publication, Missouri has seen confirmed cases in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. With a spread of the infectious disease looming and creeping closer on Columbians, attendees applied hand sanitizer upon their arrival and were strongly encouraged to bump elbows or give a “namaste” signal instead of shaking hands.
“Trump is lying to himself and us about the coronavirus, we need a President that’s level-headed and can face the facts, which I feel like Biden can do,” Black added.
Not everyone at the rally was keen to Biden’s candidacy. West Middle School eighth grader Jacob Penn sat quietly outside the venue while Biden spoke, equipped with his AirPods and iPhone streaming one of the 2016 General Election debates between President Trump and Hillary Clinton. Beside him were hand-drawn signs that read “MAGA” and “Trump 2020.” Even though he’s too young to vote, NAME stood strongly in his position against the opposition of the rally.
“Trump’s doing great things for the economy, there’s a record low amount of people without jobs, and he’s improving the situation at the border,” he explained. However, Penn thinks that his age gives him a unique perspective this election cycle. “I can’t vote, and I don’t pay taxes, so I think I’m more removed from the situation.”
Regardless of their political standings, Jill Biden looked to unite voters during her speech. The English teacher provided personal anecdotes for her husband’s campaign promises, like her sister’s struggle with cancer and paying for the treatment, which was remedied by the Obama-administration’s Affordable Care Act. The crowd cheered as she rallied behind gun control, women’s rights, and health care.
“For those of you that are students here today, in your English classes you talk about your stories, and how they can isolate us, divide us, or make us feel angry,” Biden said. “Stories can help us rise to kindness as well, they can remind us that our differences are precious and our similarities are infinite.”
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An impeachment vote in the U.S. House of Representatives — and some of the history of this process — is today’s first topic. Then, we’re reporting on a new restriction concerning airline travel to the U.S. A lava “meatball,” the world’s busiest intersection, and an icy winter wonderland round out our show!TRANSCRIPTClick here to access the printable version of today’s CNN 10 transcript.CNN 10 serves a growing audience interested in compact on-demand news broadcasts ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom. The show’s priority is to identify stories of international significance and then clearly describe why they’re making news, who is affected, and how the events fit into a complex, international society.Read MoreThank you for using CNN 10
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Many jobless Americans will lose benefits unless Trump signs relief bill Saturday
(CNN)Millions of jobless gig-workers and independent contractors, as well as long-term unemployed Americans, will lose their unemployment benefits after this weekend if President Donald Trump doesn’t sign the $900 billion relief package Congress passed earlier this week.
What’s more, all laid-off workers could lose a week of the $300 federal boost to payments if the President doesn’t put his signature on the bill by midnight Saturday.The Covid-19 relief legislation, which was flown to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to await Trump’s signature, would extend the number of weeks people can stay on two key pandemic unemployment programs and increase weekly benefits by $300 for all through mid-March.But after sitting on the sidelines during the negotiations, Trump emerged with an eleventh-hour complaint that a separate provision in the deal, which the President’s own White House helped broker, would only provide up to $600 in direct payments. Trump now wants to send out $2,000 checks.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seized on Trump’s call for $2,000 checks and brought to the floor a standalone bill that would have boosted the amount for relief checks on Thursday. House Republicans, however, objected to the bill over deficit concerns.Read MoreThe standoff comes as millions of Americans face financial hardship — including difficulty affording food and shelter — triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.Unemployment benefits running out
Analysis: Trump's mind is elsewhere as unemployment benefits run out for millions of AmericansAn estimated 12 million-plus laid-off Americans are set to receive their final unemployment payment for the week ending this weekend, according to The Century Foundation.Those affected are part of the historic expansion of the nation’s unemployment system that Congress enacted as part of the $2 trillion CARES Act in late March. The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program allows independent contractors, the self-employed, freelancers and gig workers to qualify for payments. It also opens up the program to those who can’t work because of the pandemic, including if they or family members are ill or quarantining or if their children’s schools are closed.And the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program provides an additional 13 weeks of federally paid benefits to those who run out of state payments, which typically last 26 weeks. The programs technically expire on December 31.The third CARES Act measure — an extra $600 a week in federal payments — expired at the end of July.The new relief package expands the two pandemic programs for up to 11 weeks. Each would close to new applicants on March 14, but continue through April 5 for existing claimants who have not yet reached the maximum of 50 weeks.If Trump signs the latest relief package Saturday, the jobless would likely still suffer a break in payments of several weeks while state agencies reprogram the package’s provisions into their computers. But the benefits would be retroactive to the end of December.However, states can’t provide payments for weeks that start before the bill is signed. So if Trump doesn’t act Saturday, those in these two programs would not receive benefits for the final week of the year, though they would likely still get the full 11-week extension, said Michele Evermore, senior policy analyst for the National Employment Law Project.But the $300 weekly boost for all unemployed Americans only runs through March 14, so it would likely be cut short by at least a week. Renters at risk, too
Biden warns of 'devastating consequences' in push for Trump to sign Covid relief packageThere are more problems on the horizon if Trump continues to let the legislation sit on his desk. A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order halting some evictions is set to expire at the end of the year. Since the order does not cancel or freeze rent, all of a tenant’s back rent will be due January 1 if the moratorium is allowed to expire. Without rent relief or an extension of the protection, many struggling renters will again face eviction.An estimated 9.2 million renters who have lost employment income during the pandemic are behind on rent, or 23% of such renters, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.The relief package would extend the eviction protection to January 31 and provide $25 billion in rental assistance for those who lost their sources of income during the pandemic.
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More than 90,000 Americans could die of Covid-19 in next three weeks, CDC forecast shows
(CNN)More than 38,000 Americans have died of Covid-19 in the first two weeks of the new year.
Another 92,000 are projected to die from the virus over roughly the next three weeks, according to an ensemble forecast published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers are scary and reflect what public health experts have repeatedly warned: While the end is in sight — with the help of ongoing Covid-19 vaccinations — the nation is still facing challenging times ahead.
Here's why we can have some hope about the Covid pandemicCurrently, more than 130,300 people are hospitalized with the virus, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project. In Pennsylvania, officials said the number of hospitalizations are nearing double the peak experienced during spring. Louisiana’s governor said earlier this week the state was seeing a “huge spike” in infections and hospitalizations. And in Arizona, officials reported Tuesday record-high Covid-19 hospitalization and ICU numbers. Read MoreHundreds of thousands of infections are added to the country’s tally every single day, with the US adding more than three million new reported infections since the start of the month.
United States sets record for most Covid-19 deaths reported in one dayIn Los Angeles County, about one in three residents has been infected with the virus since the pandemic’s start, according to data published by county officials. Outbreaks have increased across workplaces as well as schools and daycare settings, they said. Echoing other leaders’ warnings, the LA officials added they have “not yet fully seen the effect of transmission in the period from around Christmas to New Years.” And with all eyes now turned to the nation’s capital ahead of Inauguration Day, cases in Washington DC have never been higher. Right now, it’s averaging more than 320 new cases every day — about a 38% jump from the previous week. DC has reported a total of more than 32,600 Covid-19 cases since the pandemic’s start, about 10% of which have been added in 2021. States are expanding groups eligible for vaccinationSo far, more than 29.3 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been distributed nationwide and more than 10.2 million Americans have received their first dose, according to data from the CDC.And some experts have encouraged states to open vaccine eligibility to more groups, to help speed up vaccine administrations.
Trump administration reverses course and adopts part of Biden vaccine distribution planIn New Jersey, residents 65 and older and residents aged 16 to 64 with certain chronic health conditions are now eligible to sign up to get vaccinated, officials announced Wednesday. California also expanded its eligibility guidelines to include residents 65 and older. A news release from the state’s health department added that healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities remain California’s top priority for vaccines. “There is no higher priority than efficiently and equitably distributing these vaccines as quickly as possible to those who face the gravest consequences,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “Individuals 65 and older are now the next group eligible to start receiving vaccines. To those not yet eligible for vaccines, your turn is coming.”The announcements follow similar ones made by state leaders including Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, who earlier this week said residents 65 and older or those with pre-existing medical conditions can make appointments for Covid-19 vaccinations. “My main priority is not to try and fight this pandemic with stricter and stricter orders,” Reeves said. “It’s to get better and better at distributing the vaccine, and that’s what our focus is now.” Mass vaccination centers being opened And while expanding the list of who can get vaccinated, states are coming up with more options for where residents can get their shots.New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is working on a plan to use the Yankee Stadium as a vaccination site, the mayor announced Wednesday.”That plan is in motion,’ he said, adding the city will release more details when the plan has been worked through.
As sites shift from Covid-19 testing to vaccinations, health officials warn balance is neededDe Blasio’s announcement came about a day after he and New York Mets owner Steve Cohen said a 24-hour vaccine mega site will be set up at Citi Field in Queens later this month.In Hawaii, officials said Wednesday they are opening two new Covid-19 mass vaccination sites, which they hope can in a few weeks be able to vaccinate between 3,000 and 4,000 people daily. And in California, the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim is now Orange County’s first “super” Covid-19 vaccination site. Hundreds of cars had lined up for its opening on Wednesday, CNN affiliate KCAL/KCBS reported. The site will be able to vaccinate upwards of 7,000 people each day, Andrew Do, acting chairman of the county’s Board of Supervisors said in a news conference Wednesday. Here is how pharmacies will helpPharmacies will also play a key role in helping administer vaccines. On Wednesday, the head of one of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains expressed optimism that it could soon be giving as many as a million vaccine doses daily.
Pharmacy chains want to help as nation struggles to vaccinate people against Covid“We’re very hopeful that the federal program will open up soon and open a more direct distribution into pharmacies across the country, which will open up access,” CVS Health Executive Vice President Karen Lynch said Wednesday during the annual J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference. CVS can administer 25 million vaccinations a month, Lynch said, through its retail locations across the country.”We have a large reach,” Lynch added, saying the company’s 10,000 stores can reach about 85% of the American population.Walgreens also said earlier this week it expects to administer about 30 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine across the country by the end of this summer, once vaccines are available to the wider population. The drugstore chain said it is hiring and training staff and increasing digital and phone booking capabilities in preparation for the wider vaccine rollout.”We’re making sure that everyone is ready to get after this as soon as the vaccines become available en masse, which we believe will be probably March, April,” Walgreens COO Alexander Gourlay said at the conference.
CNN’s Amanda Watts, Alexandra Meeks, Gregory Lemos, Lauren del Valle, Jamiel Lynch, Michael Nedelman and Sarah Moon contributed to this report.
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Rifle-Toting Militia Men Rail Against Mitch McConnell In Kentucky, Hail D.C. Rioters
Dozens of heavily armed self-described militia members dressed in camouflage descended on Kentucky’s statehouse Saturday to loudly bash Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and praise the Donald Trump-supporting rioters who stormed the nation’s Capitol.
The men, toting rifles and zip ties, also railed against socialism, communism, and Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
They were there to demand the democratic election for president be overturned.
At one point they took a knee to honor Air Force veteran Ashli Babbit, who was fatally shot inside the Capitol Wednesday as she climbed through a window to move closer to the House chambers after a mob of Trump supporters had stormed the building.
The brother-in-law of another victim in the attack, Roseanne Boyland, blamed Trump on Sunday for inciting the violence. Boyland, 34, reportedly died of crushing injuries as the mob surged into the Capitol.
Beshear said after the militia protest on Twitter that “we will not be bullied. America is counting on the real patriots — those who condemn hate and terror when they see it.”
Three days after domestic terrorists attacked our U.S. Capitol, there was a militia rally in Frankfort. They brought zip ties. We will not be intimidated. We will not be bullied. America is counting on the real patriots. Those who condemn hate and terror when they see it. ^AB
— Governor Andy Beshear (@GovAndyBeshear) January 9, 2021
Guns are allowed on the Capitol grounds in Kentucky — and even in much of the building in the “gun-friendly state,“ noted the newspaper. But with COVID-19 restrictions, the building was closed Saturday to those without appointments.
The Kentucky protest was among the most ominous of several demonstrations at state capitols across the nation this week as Trump supporters continue to demand he continue as president, despite voters’ choice. There were rallies Wednesday in Kansas, Michigan, Idaho and California, among others.
Salem, Ore., the white nationalist “Proud Boys” clashed with left-wing protesters, using smoke bombs and a rapid-fire paint ball rifle.
Correction: A relative’s comments about a death in the Capitol attack in an earlier version of the story referred to a second victim, Roseanne Boyland.
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Trump Rioters Bring Violence To State Capitols Across The Country
Trump-supporting protesters and rioters gathered at state capitols across the country Wednesday, inspired by chaotic, violent scenes at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. earlier in the day.
In Arizona, members of a pro-Trump group cracked the window of a museum at the state Capitol, reportedly while shouting for Republican Gov. Doug Ducey to exit the building.
Ducey had tweeted an hour earlier condemning the scene at the U.S. Capitol and imploring followers to respect “peaceful transitions of power.”
AZ Central reports protesters brought a guillotine to the building.
Protesters at pro-Trump rally shouting for Governor Ducey to come outside at the door to the Arizona capitol museum at state capitol. Pounding lead to cracked window (NOT by woman in first photo). pic.twitter.com/HwNM1G6GRa
— David Wallace (@DavidWallce) January 6, 2021
At least one person at the Oregon Capitol in Salem was arrested for harassment and disorderly conduct as what appeared to be dueling groups of protesters ignited fireworks.
Video from the encounter shows apparent protesters spraying some sort of gas:
Officers rolled in shortly after this. #LiveOnK2 pic.twitter.com/K8zVYGqKk7
— Genevieve Reaume (@GenevieveReaume) January 6, 2021
In Austin, Texas, the Department of Safety closed the Capitol grounds out of “an abundance of caution,” as protesters gathered there.
Separately, the Texas Republican Party fired its sergeant-at-arms Wednesday after the man, Walter West, posted a message on social media apparently endorsing violence at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In Colorado, at least one protester was arrested at the state Capitol, with CBS Denver’s Rick Sallinger reporting the use of a stun gun. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock (D) ordered all city buildings closed as a precaution.
Update. Protester arrested at Colorado state capitol. Stun gun used, does not appear by police at this time. pic.twitter.com/yoDvBdCLkb
— Rick Sallinger (@ricksallinger) January 6, 2021
Protesters in Kansas entered the Statehouse on Wednesday afternoon. Unlike what transpired elsewhere around the country, the group in Kansas obtained a permit that granted them legal access to the building, according to KSNT.
In Georgia, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) was forced to leave the Capitol building out of concerns for his safety as militia members gathered outside.
Militia members have gathered outside the Georgia Capitol. Brad Raffensperger and senior staff have been escorted out to safety.
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In New Mexico, the Statehouse in Santa Fe was evacuated as a precaution after hundreds of Trump supporters congregated outside, with some shouting to “arrest the governor.”
According to KRQE, some state officials remained inside, however, to continue working on pandemic-related procedures ahead of the start of the Jan. 19 legislative session.
Protesters gathered outside the Utah Capitol also forced the evacuation of that building. Rioters reportedly pepper-sprayed a Salt Lake City Tribune photographer after growing upset he was documenting the protest.
Similar protests also broke out at state capitol buildings in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and California.
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Woman accused of throwing Molotov cocktail at NYPD pleads not guilty
(CNN)Samantha Shader, a New York woman indicted for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police car containing officers during a protest in Brooklyn, pleaded not guilty to the federal charges on Friday.
Shader was indicted in June on seven counts, including use of explosives, arson, using an explosive to commit a felony, arson conspiracy, use of a destructive device, civil disorder and possessing and making a destructive device. According to a criminal complaint, New York Police Department officers saw Shader throw a Molotov cocktail at their vehicle, jumped out and arrested her. The May 29 incident was caught on video shot by a witness.Prosecutors said Shader admitted to “possessing the Molotov cocktail and throwing it at the NYPD vehicle.” Prosecutors say Shader “wanted to cause harm to NYPD officers and damage NYPD property,” according to a detention memo.
A woman accused of throwing Molotov cocktail at a police car suggests a protester gave her the deviceProsecutors say Shader said that a Black protester gave her the device, according to court filings, but investigators said they determined Shader got the bottle for the Molotov cocktail from a friend in upstate New York. Read MoreTimothy Amerman, a 29-year-old painter from Saugerties, New York, is accused of giving Shader the glass bottle. When authorities asked Amerman what he thought Shader planned to do with glass bottles he gave her, he said he believed Shader “planned to use them as projectiles to throw at police and counter protestors” and didn’t think Shader would use the glass bottles to create Molotov cocktails, according to a criminal complaint.Amerman was charged with civil disorder and civil disorder conspiracy. CNN attempted to contact Amerman and his attorneys for comment.A detention memo states that Shader has been arrested 11 times in 11 states since 2011 for various crimes including “acts of violence and resisting arrest.”She is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. She made her court appearance remotely, as did the attorneys and judge involved in the case.Judge Dora L. Irizarry also granted a motion allowing Shader and her attorneys to be able to view grand jury records but said that Shader would not be able to keep the documents in prison. Because the prison where she’s being held is on lockdown and visits from attorneys are not allowed, only her attorneys will be able to view the documents at this time.
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I Taste-Tested and Compared 5 Items From McDonald's and Burger King's Value Menus
From chicken nuggets to apple pies.
Tara O'Connor
Hungry for something to fill the empty void that an upcoming test has created? How do students decide which fast food joint is right for them? Nobody can say they are a college student if they haven't once in their college career's went through the fast food drive-thru late at night.
With Burger King opening in December of 1954, and McDonald's just four months later, these fast food chains have been a staple in American culture, but who is better? Asking that very question myself, I taste tested five similar menu items at both restaurants, and my verdict may surprise you.
1. Chicken Nuggets
Who doesn't love a classic crispy chicken nugget? Sorry vegetarians, this one is not for you. I won't deny it, I thought my bias towards McDonald's would affect my judgment, but for the value and taste that Burger King provides, I was pretty impressed.
Coming in at $1.49 for 10 nuggets, Burger Kind blew me away compared to McDonad's $1.39 for only 4. With more flavor and crisp, Burger King came out on top.
Winner: Burger King
#SpoonTip: While Burger King's chicken nuggets impressed me, their sauces, more specifically their ranch, was anything but impressive. Bland and somehow sour, Burger King failed to complement their tasty nuggets with this "weak sauce." McDonald's definitely takes the win when it comes to their ranch, which is both classic and flavorful.
2. French Fries
Salty and savory, you can't go wrong with the classic French Fry. If you're looking for a thick cut, more potato-like fry, then Burger King may be the one for you. Hefty, with a strong potato taste, Burger King's fries go for around $1.39 if you get the value meal size.
While Burger King does have some tasty fries, I can't help but love McDonald's classic side. With just the perfect ratio of salt and oil, McDonald's delivers on the flavor. Thinly cut with just the right amount of crisp, these fries go for the same price as Burger King's.
Winner: McDonald's
#SpoonTip: Ever order too may fries and just can't finish the rest? Don't throw them away! There are many ways to re-purpose old french fries. You can pop them in the oven and give them a nice broil, or even turn them into hash browns for breakfast.
3. Crispy Chicken Sandwiches
I love chicken sandwiches, and when I'm not in the mood for beef, you can't go wrong with poultry. While McDonald's McChicken sandwich is popular among customers, its flat greasy bun, lack of crispiness, and bland flavor disappointed me. Even with extra toppings like mayonnaise, this chicken sandwich let me down big time.
It seems that Burger King is dominating the chicken portion of this taste test. Their chicken sandwich came with a puffy sesame seed bun and an even distribution of mayonnaise on both sides of the patty. Light, flavorful, and crisp, this crispy chicken junior is priced at just $1.00 (on the value menu) compared to McDonald's McChicken for $1.29.
#SpoonTip: If you want to save on some fat or calories, both of these crispy chicken sandwiches come in a grilled version as well.
4. Apple Pie
Who doesn't like dessert with their burgers? I remember when I was young, I would beg my mom to buy me an apple pie from McDonald's. It was all I would ever eat! Getting the chance to try the delicious pie once again, I was pretty excited.
After opening the cute cardboard box, the initial smell made my mouth water. The apples were indeed delicious, but I couldn't help but notice the overwhelming taste of cinnamon contained within. McDonald's apple pie definitely packs a punch.
On the other hand, Burger King offers a more traditional form of the classic dessert. Shaped like a slice of pie with crumbles on top, Burger King's apple pie was tasty, but not mind-blowing. Its mushy consistency and not-so-mobile-friendly packaging was a disappointment. Burger King's pie goes for $1.49, while McDonald's apple pie costs just under $1.00.
#SpoonTip: This may come as a surprise to everybody, but Burger King's apple pie is actually vegan!
5. Cheeseburgers
Finally, this is what we have all been waiting for; the battle of the burgers. With a name like Burger King, you'd hope that they can provide some beautiful burgers. In order to even the playing field, I ordered both of my burgers plain, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Starting off with Burger King, I immediately tasted the flame-broiled flavor that their restaurant is known for. The cheese, perfectly melted, further complemented the tasty burger, and I eagerly scarfed down the rest of my meal in seconds.
McDonald's on the other hand, also serves up a pretty delicious burger. I don't know what it is, but whenever I bite down into a McDonald's cheeseburger, the memories of my childhood come flooding back. The taste of that perfectly seasoned patty has remained the same for over 60 years!
Enjoying both the flavor appearance of these two burgers, I simply couldn't pick a winner. Both contain unique seasonings and flavors that I just can't get enough of.
Winner: Tie
McDonald's and Burger King are two fast food restaurants that have helped shape the culture of America. Just like a person, each restaurant has its own unique set of qualities. After taste-testing items from both value menus, I've ultimately determined a tie.
Over the years, these fast food chains may have faced some heavy critics in regards to their food quality, but these million dollar companies show no signs of slowing down.
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The Michael L. Printz Award annually honors the best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit, each year. In addition, the Printz Committee names up to four honor books, which also represent the best writing in young adult literature. The awards announcement is made at the ALA Midwinter Meeting as part of the Youth Media Awards and is celebrated with a program and reception each year at the ALA Annual Conference.
The award's namesake was a school librarian in Topeka, Kansas, and a marketing consultant for Econo-Clad, as well an active member of YALSA. He had a passion for books and reading. He also appreciated the authors who wrote books for young adults and demonstrated this by initiating an author-in-residence program at his high school. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.
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Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in YA Lit. 2020
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
The Beast Player by Henry Holt and Co.; Nahoko Uehashi
Michael L. Printz Honors for Excellence in YA Lit. 2020; Mildred L. Batchelder Honor 2020
Nahoko Uehashi's The Beast Player is an epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.
Elin's family cares for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their kingdom's army. When some of the beasts mysteriously die, Elin's mother is sentenced to death as punishment. With her last breath she manages to send her daughter to safety. Alone, far from home, Elin discovers that she can talk to both the terrifying water serpents and the majestic flying beasts that guard her queen. This skill involves her in deadly plots that could cost her life. Can she save herself and prevent her beloved beasts from being used as tools of war?
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Call Number: JUV PZ7.7.T355 Lau 2019
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Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl, but Freddy is learning she is not the best girlfriend, so she seeks help from a mysterious medium and advice columnists to help her through being a teenager in love.
Michael L. Printz Honors for Excellence in YA Lit. 2020; Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor 2020
"Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring memoir that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how the power of those words helped.
Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2020
In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them.
I, Claudia by Mary McCoy
Call Number: JUV PS3613.C36 I35 2018
"Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--
Claudia McCarthy never expected to be in charge of Imperial Day Academy, but is pulled into the tumultuous and high-profile world of the Senate and Honor Council. Suddenly, Claudia is wielding power over her fellow students that she never expected to have ... and isn't sure she wants. Claudia intends to use her power to help the school, but there are forces aligned against her: shocking scandals, tyrants waiting in the wings, and political dilemmas with no easy answers. She must struggle with the question: does power inevitably corrupt? "
Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
Call Number: JUV PS3601.R5834 Dam 2018
"The rite has existed for as long as anyone can remember: When the king dies, his son the prince must venture out into the gray lands, slay a fierce dragon, and rescue a damsel to be his bride. This is the way things have always been. When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory, she knows none of this. She has no memory of what came before she was captured by the dragon or what horrors she faced in its lair. She knows only this handsome young man, the story he tells of her rescue, and her destiny of sitting on a throne beside him. It's all like a dream, like something from a fairy tale. As Ama follows Emory to the kingdom of Harding, however, she discovers that not all is as it seems. There is more to the legends of the dragons and the damsels than anyone knows, and the greatest threats may not be behind her, but around her, now, and closing in."
The Hazel Wood: A Novel by Melissa Albert
Call Number: JUV PZ7.1.A4295 Haz 2018
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
The poet X : a novel by Elizabeth Acevedo
Call Number: JUV PZ7.5.A35 Po 2018
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in YA Lit. 2019; Pura Belpre Award 2019Novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo, about Afro-Latina Xiomara Batista who turns to journalling poetry.
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‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’: Contacted by Late Wife Beth with Clue to High-End Robbery?
August 10, 2019 February 17, 2020 Maggie Larkin 2468 Views Beth Chapman, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Duane Chapman
Dog the Bounty Hunter, Duane Chapman, shares how he’s still connected to his late wife Beth Chapman as she recently offered a clue to help him solve a robbery. That robbery was very personal to Dog. As it appears the perpetrators got away with some of their expensive items.
But one of the sad things about this robbery is that several of those stolen items belonged to Beth Chapman. Needless to say, Dog looks at them as priceless.
Dog the Bounty Hunter – ‘Dog’ Duane Chapman Still Has Strong Connection to Beth Chapman
Dog and Beth had a deep connection in life that seems to continue today for him. Apparently even with Beth gone, he believes she found a way to contact him.
The nation got to know this husband and wife team as they traveled the country looking for criminals at large. That popular Dog the Bounty Hunter show now has a spinoff.
WGN America’s Dog’s Most Wanted is due to roll out its first season on September 4. Fans get to see Beth Chapman for the last time as she filmed the show with her husband.
Dog the Bounty Hunter believes the robbery that took place in their store last month was an inside job. When asked by law enforcement why he believes that to be the case he gave an answer that caused a few eyebrows to raise.
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Goal Zero Yeti 400 Lithium Review: A Glorified Battery?
By Richard Walker
The Goal Zero Yeti 400 lithium solar power station is a portable solar generator that has been specifically designed to tackle light things: smart phones, digital cameras and occasionally, something higher up like a laptop or LED TV.
It’s also light and super portable – making it a favorite for those who must power things on a hike, camp or generally, when on the move.
Sadly, there are those who sincerely think that the unit is nothing more than a glorified battery pack, tied to an inverter for the purposes to DC to AC power conversion.
My job here is not to either affirm or deny any of this (at least not yet).
Instead, I have something much more solemn and realistic to present: to offer you an unbiased review of the Yeti 400 lithium and at the end, leave you to decide if the entry level Yeti lithium is something worth your while as a portable power station or is simply a glorified lithium ion battery paired with a pure sine wave inverter.
Without much ado, let’s begin.
Article at a Glance
First Impression Of The Goal Zero Yeti 400 Lithium Portable Power Station
What Can The Yeti 400 Lithium Portable Solar Generator Power?
Weight, Noise And Runtime Analysis Of The Goal Zero Yeti 400 Lithium
What You Should Understand Before Considering The Goal Zero Yeti 400 Lithium Portable Solar Generator
Charging Means & Times Of The Yeti 400 Lithium
Special Feature(s) Worthy Of Note
On first look, the identity of the Goal Zero Yeti 400 lithium is shrouded in mystery – all thanks to the universal Yeti lithium freshened design that sees to it that the hitherto boxy nature of the Yeti 400 is smoothened and replaced with strategic finishing that gives the unit, I dare say, a royal feel.
This is especially true if the unit is looked at from the back or sides – or from any other angle that does not betray its elegantly placed buttons, ports and LCD.
In my test, first timers (and non-initiates) were quick to ‘guess’ that what was before them was a large radio – or some sort of electronic, capable of working with electricity. None guessed correctly, not until the front of the unit was shown and the power ports, revealed.
In this rendering, I got the best close guess: a large sort of power bank!
However, to the trained eye, the Yeti 400 lithium solar power station is one solar power station that is difficult to miss – looking at it from any angle whatsoever.
The reason is simple: Goal Zero has deployed some design uniformity across its lithium series and the overall design structure of the Yeti 400 lithium is what is obtainable in the higher end lithium options, the yeti 1000 lithium and the top of the line Yeti 3000 Yeti lithium included.
The chiseled edges are familiar – so is the handle and importantly, its ‘dashboard’. On the LCD, one who has prior experience with the Yeti 1000 lithium, the Yeti 1400 lithium and the top of the line 3000 lithium will notice that the similarities are more striking than passing.
Overall, the first impression one get – whether professional or not – is that of a nicely chiseled portable unit that it used as a portable solar generator, will certainly work awesomely and importantly, fit the all important tag of ‘portable’.
Luckily, the Yeti 400 lithium power station is exactly that: a portable solar generator.
The Yeti 400 lithium from Goal Zero is powered by a lithium ion battery – one of the very smallest battery type available to solar power stations at the moment.
However, the size of the battery – is what fools many: it packs a punch type that is disproportionate to its size. And for its price and weight point, the battery in the Yeti 400 lithium delivers, well beyond all expectations.
However, ‘expectation’ can be quite a vague term: in the world of numbers, the units or electronics a generator can power is simply all that matters.
So, what can the Yeti 400 lithium power station keep on in real life?
Mini fridge for about 7 hours.
Digital camera for about 70 recharges plus.
Regular smartphone for about 40 recharges.
iPad for about 10 recharges.
These are the electronics that I actually tested and individually verified. However, it is worthy of note that there are options that the unit can power as well: laptops, LED TVs etc.
However, the runtime and how well the Yeti 400 lithium from Goal Zero will handle each is largely dependent on their power demand and importantly, how long you intend to run each of them using the solar power station as a means of either keeping them on, powered or charged.
MORE: Goal Zero Yeti 1250 Solar Power Station Review
For the experienced tech mind, the specifications of a portable solar generator (or anything at all for that matter), remain the best thing about such a unit or piece of tech.
Here, one gets to see the core basics of a unit as it truly is with its major characteristics and potentials clearly highlighted.
For the none tech inclined mind, the features of a unit also present something close: what the unit can be used for and importantly, what to expect from it when one finally buys same and begins the process of everyday use.
Let us now take a very close look at our option here and see what it speaks of in terms of key specifications and features.
Weight: 16.3 lbs (7.4 kg).
Dimensions: 7.5 x 11.25 x 7.0 in (19.0 x 28.6 x 17.7 cm).
Operating Usage Temp: 32-104F (0-40C).
Chainable: No.
AC inverter (output, pure sine wave): 120VAC 60Hz, 2.5A (300W continuous, 1200W surge max).
Cell Chemistry: Li-ion NMC.
Peak Capacity: 428Wh (10.8V, 39.6Ah).
Lifecycles: 500 cycles to 80% (discharge rate: 1C, full charge/discharge, Temp 25C).
Warranty: 12 Months.
Triple charge reality: AC, solar and the 12V vehicle inspired DC.
An LCD display that ensures all important stats at a mere glance.
Fair shelve life of up to 6 months.
A plethora of power ports (USB inclusive) capable of taking on any compatible device that is plugged to the generator.
Reasonable light weight – largely inspired by the internal lithium ion battery of the power station.
Ultra-portable reality that is super perfect for easy mobility and realities such as camping and general truck life.
The unit can be used while it is being charged. This setup, used smartly, can see to it that you use the generator non-stop, for ever!
By the very nature of the Yeti 400 lithium, it is designed to tackle light weight options and light weight options alone. It thus does not make sense that the unit itself, turns around and winds up being heavier than necessary.
A light weight reality, I have always held, will also endear the unit to upwardly mobile users and those who camp and hike for the greater part of either the year or their lives.
However, this position is mere assumption: I had to test things out to be certain of what I had suspected all along.
I had to physically weigh the Yeti 400 lithium and be dead certain.
As weighed and tested, the unit pulled about 17 lbs (7.7 kg) on the scale.
This weight is fair enough and I could actually run while grasping the generator with both hands or by the provided handle on the unit. This test proves that a healthy adult will have no problem transporting the unit at all, even for long distances.
However, that being said, I was a little dissatisfied with the overall weight of the unit, especially given the fact that Goal Zero is currently leading in the business of the manufacture of portable power stations.
To put things into perspective, a close competitor, the Audew 500Wh solar power station produces about 500Wh (which is better than the 428Wh this unit cranks) and still manages to weigh way less: a mere 14 lbs (6.3 Kg) – a difference of 3 lbs (or 1.4 kg).
I sincerely believe that Goal Zero would have still done something about the weight of this unit, given the fact that it is primarily intended to be used in the most mobile of fashions.
Noisewise, Goal Zero (as a company) is known for making library quiet solar power solutions and this unit is no exception.
When I tested the 400 lithium, sure enough, it complied with what I have already known and suspected to be true for the unit.
Usually, when testing, I keep the unit close to my bed (during the night – and make it power something that will keep it busy all through the night).
During the day, the testing procedure is more or less the same: I keep the unit on the table where I work and see if it will bother my work or concentration.
In both circumstances, the Yeti 400 lithium performed more than I expected working with a certain grave yard quietness that only a pure sine wave inverter coupled with a superior manufacturing process can ensure.
Runtime wise, the solar generator is in the average league at best.
The reason for this is that, the unit is meant to tackle light devices like phones and tablets and occasionally, something like a laptop.
I did not thus see any impressive power from the 428Wh capable 12V battery. This will even be more so when you take the solar generator away from its comfort zone and into the realm of light-medium devices like laptops – and LED TVs.
However, for the intended purpose of the unit, it serves brilliantly and performs wonderfully.
Usually, the power a portable solar unit ensures is quite appreciable. However, with this power comes the desire to ‘stretch up’ such a unit and see how it truly stands.
If this is you, you have no future with the Yeti 400 lithium from Goal Zero: the unit is understandably a small one and must be used and judged from that standpoint.
Closely related to the power of the unit is its (in) ability to fully take up backup capacity.
If you’re considering an option that will stand the test of your purchase during challenges like a storm, you’re better off with a higher end model such as the Yeti 1000 lithium or the top of the line Yeti 3000 lithium.
Today, the primary attraction of a portable solar station remains its hybrid charging reality; the ability to seamlessly charge your power station by means of more than a single charging option.
Accordingly thus, a solar unit that isn’t capable of being charged by more than one means isn’t generally taken serious – and is far less desirable. Afterall, who doesn’t appreciate options?
Fortunately, the Yeti 400 is a lithium portable solar generator that is a true hybrid (by all standards). The unit can be charged via 3 channels:
AC and
12V DC of your car.
It does not take genius to figure out that, I naturally prefer the solar charging option and accordingly, had a take on it first.
In my tests, the Boulder 200 solar panel, in powerful tropical sunlight gets the unit charged up from a flat state to 100% in about 7 hours. No more, no less. Of course, in instances where the sun isn’t shining brightly, this time would certainly be higher.
The Boulder 100, in our tests, took about 10 hours and the Boulder 50, about 17 hours – all under ideal tropical conditions; with a flat battery at 0% that I was hell bent on seeing to 100%.
It is also worthy of note that unlike the larger lithium series, this particular model is actually capable of being recharged by means of the smaller (and more flexible) nomad series of solar panels. According to Goal Zero, a typical nomad solar panel will charge the portable solar generator between 6.5 and 16 hours, all other things being equal.
However, due to the vulnerable nature of this panel type, I did not test and instead, relied on Goal Zero’s figures (which are decent enough, by the way).
These figures are quite decent and leave nothing more to be desired. From, my tests, solar charging alone can be used to keep this unit up and running when it is desired, be it in an emergency, camp or trail where power is of the essence and the grid cannot help.
This is especially true since the unit can, while it is being used, recharge its battery if plugged in.
AC wise, the included wall charger that came standard with the portable solar generator charged the generator in about 7 hours.
As a matter of fact, the exact time was a little under 7 hours at 6:52 hours.
Why this charging time for the AC isn’t the most impressive across both model and brands (the Yeti 400 lead acid recharges from the wall in under 5 hours), I find it passably okay and at least, capable of getting the job done (and on time too).
The solar power station could also be charged with the 12V DC of a vehicle. However, due to the extremely long time this takes, I have always held it to be a waste of time and usually, do not bother with this impractical charging method.
Accordingly, this review of the Goal Zero Yeti 400 lithium was no exception.
Many portable solar generators today cannot be used when they are charged. Once plugged in, you simply have to wait till they are fully charged or if you must use them, unplug and be content with whatever charge you have (until you decide to plug in again).
Not the Yeti 400 lithium.
This portable power station, though not capable of true pass through power, can be charged while you use the already stored charge.
This way, you could technically never go out of juice and keep using the unit for as long as your energy needs exist and the unit is still in one piece.
Like everything in the world of electronics (in general) and portable solar generators (in particular), there exist the advantages of this portable generator.
However, with its advantages, also come a myriad of disadvantages you must take note of.
At the end, what ultimately matters is what is important to you and how you see each of what matters in relation to how your challenge is tackled.
Light weight reality and super easy to carry around – even on a challenging trail.
The generator, though not capable of true pass-through power output, can still be used while it is being charged. This creates room for use almost indefinitely or as power needs actually arise.
Standard lithium-ion battery that comes with all the good such a modern battery presents.
Pure Sine Wave inverter output.
Hybrid charging reality: solar, AC and 12V of a traditional car.
Up to 6 months of shelve life.
This portable power station cannot be chained with another similar unit for increased run-time.
Charging with the standard 5 Amps wall charger takes a little longer than desired.
It has been held in some quarters that the Yeti 400 lithium is nothing but a glorified lithium battery. This was what prompted me to take a closer look and publish this in depth review article.
I looked for the truth of this accusation – and the truth I got: the 400 lithium is not a glorified lithium battery or any other battery at all.
Granted, the unit is a little bit underpowered – especially when compared to other close competitors and is slightly heavier (all of which are mild cons that should not deter a seriously interested person).
To make up however, the Yeti under review here is solidly built, intelligently designed and has enough quirks and features to otherwise, rival the competition any day or time; the greatest being its ability to take a charge while actively being used.
If you’re looking at a small solar generator to take around, use on a camp or power light electronics when the grid fails, you will be pleasantly surprised that the Yeti 400 lithium will brilliantly perform – well beyond expectations.
The generator is not an ordinary lithium battery with connection ports and an LCD screen.
If however you still have some doubts, kindly take to Amazon and see what others who have used the Goal Zero Yeti 400 lithium power station have to say.
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Remove the Rizzo statue from public property
Because he oversaw and maintained police brutality in the black and brown communities in which I grew up, the statue of Frank Rizzo must immediately be removed from the steps of the taxpayer-funded Municipal Services Building.
Not one more cent of my tax dollars maintaining it. Not one more moment of my property housing it. Not one more word from my city excusing it.
The Frank Rizzo statue must be moved to private property, and it must be moved now.
Frank Rizzo was both the symbol and the substance of a racist system upheld by law enforcement. His police force was used to maintain racial boundaries that kept blacks trapped in red-lined communities, locked into a segregated educational system, and mired in second-class citizenship.
We’ve all heard the stories by now. Under Rizzo’s direction, Philadelphia police officers stripped Black Panthers naked in the street, beat black children who were demonstrating for black history classes, and broke nightsticks over a black man’s head for running a stop sign.
Rizzo’s police department engaged in cruelty so pervasive, that by 1979, the U.S. Justice Department had filed a lawsuit against them, saying their unfettered use of brutality “shocks the conscience.”
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Doha to kick off 2021 events with WTT Middle East Hub
by Sheriff Owolabi Bada
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World Table Tennis (WTT) is excited to announce that Doha, Qatar will host the WTT Middle East Hub, with two events to take place consecutively at the Lusail Sports Arena between 3 March – 13 March 2021.
The brand-new series of events now become reality with WTT designed to revolutionize the sport. Players and fans are being positioned at the core of WTT’s mission to drive table tennis into the future.
MIDDLE EAST HUB – MAJOR DATES IN DOHA BROUGHT FORWARD
The Middle East Hub will feature two tiers of the new WTT event structure. A WTT Contender event will get the 2021 calendar underway before players move to the first WTT Star Contender event the following week, providing the perfect setting for some of the world’s leading stars to be challenged by the best up-and-coming athletes in table tennis.
The cancellation of the postponed 2020 World Table Tennis Championships that were to be held in Busan, has also provided WTT with the opportunity to move the Middle East Hub forward from its previously announced dates, granting players a chance to compete at WTT events earlier than originally planned. The confirmed dates of the individual events are:
WTT Contender – Wednesday 3 March – Saturday 6 March 2021
WTT Star Contender – Monday 8 March – Saturday 13 March 2021
The proposed Hub format will create the best possible environment for WTT Series events to be held, ensuring better logistics for meeting COVID-19 health and safety guidelines and a manageable travel schedule for players. This format has been created based on both ITTF and WTT’s recent successes of player and staff health and welfare at #RESTART and WTT Macao.
QATAR COMMITTED TO WORLD TABLE TENNIS FUTURE
Qatar enjoys a significant and longstanding association with table tennis, with the President of the Qatar Table Tennis Association (QTTA) and ITTF Deputy President, Khalil Al-Mohannadi spearheading the nation’s contributions to the sport.
This year marked the 25th anniversary of the ITTF World Tour Platinum Qatar Open, one of the most prestigious events on the ITTF calendar, consistently attracting the world’s best players and offering among the highest prize money on the tour.
Qatar will continue to play a key role in the future of the sport, as the nation prepares to host the first-ever WTT Hub after committing to payment of the full WTT hosting fee and ensuring the events will be delivered in line with ITTF/WTT Covid-19 Protocols.
“We are honoured to be hosting the first-ever WTT events in Qatar. We have made many special table tennis memories over the years and we cannot wait to kick off the WTT era on our shores. This confirms Doha as a truly global sports hub and demonstrates the QTTA’s commitment to establishing WTT.” – Khalil Al-Mohannadi, QTTA President and ITTF Deputy President
“Congratulations to Doha upon becoming the host of the WTT Middle East Hub. As one of the most established host cities on the international table tennis circuit, Doha is certain to bring the first WTT events of the year to life.” – Liu Guoliang, WTT Council Chair and CTTA President
WTT CONFIRMS ADDITIONAL PRIZE MONEY FOR MIDDLE EAST HUB
The new table tennis era also heralds a landmark moment for the sport with all event prize money funded and paid to players exclusively by WTT.
To launch the WTT era, the WTT Board has approved the prize money levels for the Middle East Hub, with these two events offering a combined prize pool of USD 600K.
“We have made no secret about our desire to take table tennis to the next level through WTT. It is exciting that Doha is set to continue delivering world-class WTT events. We realize it will be another impacted year in 2021 with a limited number of events, however, the additional prize money for Doha shows we will deliver on our promise and proves how we at the ITTF and WTT are motivated to grow prize money for the most important stakeholder in our sport – the athletes.” – Steve Dainton, WTT Director, and ITTF CEO
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Loris.ai, a Crisis Text Line spin-out, raises $2 million to help companies have hard conversations
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Loris.ai, a spin-out product from the maker of suicide prevention organization Crisis Text Line, has raised $2 million to help companies navigate conversations around harassment and other charged topics. Loris.ai’s seed round was led by Floodgate with participation from LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, Kapor Capital and others.
“We started getting calls from companies and even one municipality — a law enforcement agency that does serious work including hostage negotiation,” Loris.ai founder and CEO Nancy Lublin told TechCrunch. “And these companies and municipalities are like, ‘you’ve trained people in how to handle hard conversations, can you train our employees?'”
That’s when the idea dawned on Lublin to repurpose some of the learnings from Crisis Text Line and build them into an artificial intelligence platform to sell to companies.
Crisis Text Line has trained over 12,000 counselors who have handled over 62 million messages. With Crisis Text Line, people in crisis can contact another human to help calm them down and walk them through whatever issue they are facing.
Built on the learnings of Crisis Text Line, Loris.ai is designed to help educate employees around conversations that about performance, human relations, upset customers, firings and layoffs, and diversity and inclusion.
“What we really want to do is work with the best,” Lublin said. “We plan on talking to 50 companies and then inviting in only a small handful of companies we think are committed to compassion, authenticity and empathy.”
From there, Loris.ai will train those companies on how to best approach hard conversations, and employ empathy and compassion. Within a company, the idea is to improve internal culture, and help out the sales and customer care teams.
“This is software to make humans better humans,” Lublin said.
If Crisis Text Line can help people in some of their hardest moments. Lublin says she is optimistic Loris.ai has value for someone who feels overwhelmed at the office, or doesn’t know how to talk to a transgender co-worker.
“We thoughtfully design so many things — clothing, software, cellphones — and yet take for granted how we design the literal fuel for all of the things we build — conversations,” Floodgate Partner Ann Miura-Ko said in a statement. “Conversations don’t happen when we are just talking about easy things. The fire that tests and tempers our relationships happens when we disagree or when we need to tell someone something they won’t want to hear.”
Loris.ai is not ready to launch quite yet, but Lublin says she has already heard from some companies that are interested. The plan is to be in beta by Q2 of this year with a handful of companies. Unlike Crisis Text Line, Loris.ai will be a for-profit venture. Lublin declined to comment on the price of Loris.ai at this time.
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20 Positive and Negative Effects of Video Games on Children
by nicolePosted on July 18, 2020
A few specialists have attempted to understand the effects of video games on children’s turn of events. There are numerous sorts of games made for changed purposes – some can be engaging and unwinding while others can be testing and useful for learning and mental health. Be that as it may, not all games are useful for children and their effects can be unfavorable. In this article we have talked about the positive and negative effects of video games. Video games have changed our lives in many ways.
Video games are disapproved of by guardians as time-squanderers, and more terrible, some education specialists feel that these games degenerate the cerebrum. Playing vicious video games are handily accused by the media and a few specialists as the reason why some youngsters become savage or submit outrageous enemy of social conduct. In any case, many researches find that video games have many advantages such as making kids keen. Video games may really show kids elevated level reasoning abilities that they will require later on. Playing video games change the mind’s physical structure a similar path as to figure out how to peruse, playing the piano, or exploring utilizing a guide. Much like exercise can assemble muscle, the ground-breaking combination of concentration and remunerating floods of synapses like dopamine reinforce neural circuits that can fabricate the mind. Here is a complete guide on effects of video games on children. Here we have a list of positive and negative effects of video games.
Many accept that now like never before it is urgent to control video game utilization among young people to forestall addiction and to limit the odds of fierce acts being happened in schools. The last concern comes from a conviction among numerous that video games are connected to expanded aggression among children. Some contend that video games can be seen by children and young people as “killing simulations” and make children less sharpened to savage acts after some time. Video games have many advantages and dis-advantages we have prepared a very brief list of positive and negative effects of video games.
Cooperating As a Team
Most games today are played online and often include a few players from the nation over or world, which urges the youngster to play with others. This will enable your kid to fabricate the abilities required to cooperate as a group and take care of issues together.
Better Decision-Production Skills
Games function continuously, and most games are relentless and require the player to settle on fast decisions in a brief timeframe. This aides in chiseling decision-production abilities that are significant, in actuality, fields, for example, sports or medication, where part second decisions under tension are often required to be taken.
Keeping up Accuracy in Quick Decisions
Video games can enable your child to keep up a decent degree of precision by figuring out how to compute all the needy boundaries quick. This is an incredibly helpful ability, which is the reason even troopers and specialists are encouraged to play video games to hone their decision-production aptitudes.
Better Cognitive Functioning
At the point when a specific ability is rehashed on various occasions, the cerebrum begins building up a structure and makes new neural pathways and transmitters to improve its functioning. In times when serious concentration is applied, the mind molds itself to have the option to take care of issues quicker, which can at last likewise help in unraveling issues, all things considered.
Critical Thinking and Rationale
At the point when a youngster likes to play games, for example, Mario, Where’s my water, and Angry birds he prepares his cerebrum to think of innovative approaches to take care of riddles and different issues in short blasts
In shooting games, the character might be running and taking shots simultaneously. This requires this present reality player to monitor the position of the character, where he/she is going, his speed, where the weapon is pointing, if the gunfire is hitting the foe, and so on. Every one of these variables should be considered, and then the player should then facilitate the mind’s interpretation and reaction with the development in his hands and fingertips.
This procedure requires a lot of eye-hand coordination and visual-spatial capacity to be effective. Examination additionally proposes that individuals can learn iconic, spatial, and visual attention aptitudes from video games. There have been even examinations with grown-ups indicating that involvement in video games is identified with better careful abilities. Additionally, As stated by specialists regarding why military fighter pilots are better is because this generation pilots are being trained through video games.
Planning– Positive and Negative Effects of Video Games
The player figures out how to oversee assets that are restricted, and choose the best utilization of assets, a similar path as, all things considered. This expertise is honed in procedure games, for example, SimCity, Age of Empires, and Railroad Tycoon. Remarkably, The American Planning Association, the exchange association of urban organizers and Maxis, the game designer, have guaranteed that SimCity has roused a great deal of its players to take a profession in urban arranging and engineering.
Performing Multiple Tasks
In technique games, for example, while building up a city, an unforeseen shock like a foe may develop. This powers the player to be adaptable and rapidly change strategies.
Now and again the player does this pretty much each second of the game giving the cerebrum a genuine exercise. As per specialists at the University of Rochester, drove by Daphne Bavelier, an intellectual researcher, games recreating unpleasant occasions, for example, those found in fight or action games could be a preparation instrument for true situations. The examination proposes that playing action video games prepares to settle on snappy decisions. Video games can be utilized to prepare troopers and surgeons, as indicated by the examination. Significantly, decisions made by action-pressed video game players are no less precise.
Developing Reading and Math Abilities
The youthful gamer peruses to get instructions, follow storylines of games, and get information from the game writings. Likewise, utilizing math abilities is imperative to dominate in numerous matches that includes quantitative investigation like overseeing assets.
Investing a great deal of energy playing video games as opposed to enjoying physical exercises can be inconvenient to a kid’s wellbeing in a few different ways. A kid’s intellectual advancement may get influenced in the event that he doesn’t get out and associate in reality. Constantly sitting in one spot and playing video games finally can expand the odds of heftiness, debilitate the muscles and joints, make hands and fingers numb due to over-exertion, and various investigations propose that it can even debilitate the visual perception.
Scholarly Issues
The great that video games give is as a distinct difference to an ordinary day in school. This can make kids incline toward video games over whatever else, along these lines pushing them to not focus on school work. Indeed, even outside school, they may skip schoolwork or reading for tests and pick video games. This can bring about lackluster showing and influence their emotional knowledge.
Presentation to Wrong Values
Numerous video games in the market contain unnecessary viciousness, over-the-top sexuality, profanity, prejudice, and numerous different things that can’t be seen by kids in the correct way. They may neglect to take these depictions with a spot of salt and may wind up attempting to imitate a similar conduct as depicted in the games. Their mind design is as yet creating and they won’t have the option to separate right from wrong, until being uncovered in reality.
Makes Them Socially Disconnected
Despite the fact that multiplayer games exist, most children wind up playing them without anyone else in their own rooms. This seriously constrains their interpersonal aptitudes, in actuality, and they may favor being without anyone else and cooperate carefully. Such children neglect to initiate conversations and feel exhausted and strange at get-togethers. And therefore, odds of modification issue, depression, uneasiness, stress gets high in their filling in just as personal life.
The fierce content in video games and the moment gratification that they give can make the children be eager and forceful in their conduct. At the point when things neglect to go as arranged or any restrictions are laid on them, they may lash out or begin holding forceful considerations that can show in problematic conduct.
Overstimulation of the Sensory System
At the point when a youngster plays video games, overstimulating messages are sent to the sensory system because of the screen visual of splendid hues and fast developments. This empowers the body’s flight or battle response, making a hyperarousal state. At the point when the kid isn’t playing video games, the mind encounters tangible deprivation, which can prompt crabbiness. This can make children experience seizures, spasms and headaches.
Mentally Addictive
The mind compound dopamine is discharged when a kid plays video games. The more a kid enjoys a game, the more dopamine is discharged, making the kid need to continue playing. An investigation conducted at Iowa State University discovered one of every ten gamers examined could be characterized as neurotic players utilizing standards for obsessive betting (everyone utilizes the word addiction). Exploration by Sun et al. utilized MRIs and found that when gamers play, their cerebrums enlighten in a similar way as someone who is dependent on drugs.
Rest Disturbances
Fake blue light is radiated from electronic screens. This kind of light makes the mind stifle the hormone melatonin which your body needs to rest. An investigation conducted at Harvard University discovered introduction to blue light stifled melatonin twice the length green light which moved circadian rhythms by twice so much (3 hours versus 1.5 hours). Examination by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine discovered gamers who played for 7 hours or more experienced both poor and less rest than non-gamers.
Absence of rest joined with the overstimulated tangible framework can prompt touchiness, state of mind swings and aggression. Dr. Dunckley got inspired by the negative effects of electronic use when she was working with children determined to have psychological well-being issues. She at that point had a partner approach her for help with her son. He had been seen by a few therapists and was first determined to have ADHD, at that point with mental imbalance and at long last with bipolar turmoil. Dr. Dunckley suggested expelling all electronics for three weeks. After the electronic quick the youngster’s practices improved essentially and he weaned off all medications. This model demonstrates how ESS can copy mind-set issues, for example, bipolar.
Helpless Sense of Time
Video game play has been connected to time distortion in players. Rau et al. discovered that gamers experience issues measuring how much time they really spent playing, and often required outside intervention by a person to quit playing. A helpless feeling of time perception likewise makes issues with time the executives, which could make the youngster be late.
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Supply Chain Lessons Learned During COVID-19
by James Musoba
in Columnists, COVID-19
For the first time in our lives, most of us began to look at the way the global supply chain works when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in December 2019. By 2020, stores and online retailers across the world were reporting panic buying with the medical sector also affected by the tendency of the general public to hoard supplies at a time of crisis, according to the World Bank.
The pressure placed on the global supply chains during the pandemic has not eased completely with nations affected by second waves of COVID-19 seeing more panic buying and reductions in the number of products ordered by stores, according to UC Riverside. Technology is changing the way supply chains are managed and having a positive effect on how global supply chains cope with the aid of innovators, such as MRO Inventory Solutions.
1. Global Vs Local Supply Chains
What has been learned during the COVID-19 pandemic is the lack of resilience in both global and local supply chains. One of the major calls from consumers, when they could not find their favored products on the shelves of a store when they wanted, was that every retailer should switch to a local supplier for products. In reality, local supply chains have as little resistance to unexpected events as those using local suppliers. News reports have shown farmers supplying local restaurants have been destroying their crops and food products because local companies have shuttered their doors.
2. Technology can Limit Impacts
What has to be said is COVID-19 was a global event that nobody in any business had foreseen, in terms of its impact on the global economy. Earlier SARS outbreaks had not become global events, but earlier events had shown the power of analytics in the global supply chain. The use of technology, such as MRO Inventory Solutions, has been shown to allow the right decisions to be made to keep production offline for as short a time as possible. Proctor & Gamble used this form of global supply chain technology in the buildup to Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Irma as they battled to keep production facilities working in New Jersey. Eventually, these two facilities had just over two days of downtime caused by unexpected events, such as COVID-19 and weather events.
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3. China?
The ongoing trade wars between the U.S. and China had always had the potential to push China to the center of any debate about global supply chains in the 21st-century. COVID-19 has had the effect of pushing the CHina debate to the fore far earlier than anybody could have imagined. The supply chain lessons that are being learned include the issue of any global supply chain not being reliant on a single area to source all its components.
The reliance on China of most manufacturers in North America and Europe saw many industries grinding to a halt when components of products were no longer available. The question of whether China should remain at the heart of the global supply chain is not a question that is easily answered because of the manufacturing capabilities of the Chinese economy.
4. An Agile Approach to the Global Supply Chain
There have been many success stories in the global supply chain during the COVID-19 era, but they do not get the news coverage of the negative stories that have dominated the media. One of the things we have learned about the global supply chain is its ability to move in an agile way and bring success to different parts of chains across the planet.
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The U.K. has struggled to overcome the medical issue of COVID-19, but its position in the global supply chain has never been higher because of the agile nature of many business leaders. The McLaren Formula One team made giant leaps alongside its fellow automotive racing team, Mercedes when they developed a new Continuous Positive Airway Pressure ventilator device. Other success stories in the global supply chain have been the retooling of facilities by Brewdog to manufacture hand sanitizer instead of alcoholic beverages.
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5. Changing the way the Global Supply Chain Works
One of the most impressive aspects of the global supply chain and those who use it during the COVID-19 era is the ability of business leaders to adapt and identify issues for the future. The uncertainty over COVID-19 has pushed many business leaders to identify the areas where their chain is struggling to remain effective. One of the biggest issues identified in the last few months has been the reliance on passenger airlines for the movement of freight. Around 40 percent of the air freight moving the global supply chain uses passenger flights that drew to a standstill during the early days of the pandemic. Taking a positive approach to the identified problems is changing the way the global supply chain is moving forward in the future.
James Musoba
Studying Africa's startup and technology scene. I always look forward to discovering new exciting inventions and vibrant entrepreneurs. Ping me at [email protected]
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Intangible assets, such as copyrights, patents, trademarks and goodwill, don’t have physical substance but still contribute value to a company. Accountants record intangible assets according to their current value, but that value doesn’t remain stagnant. Businesses have to re-evaluate their intangible assets on a regular basis and book adjusting entries when necessary.
Some intangible assets, such as patents, expire or lose their value after a certain amount of time. Companies should amortize the value of limited-life intangible assets over their estimated useful life. For example, a company may amortize a 20-year patent worth $10,000 at $500 each year (10,000/20). Each time the company records amortization expense, it decreases the value of the intangible asset. To record amortization and adjust the asset’s value, the accountant would debit amortization expense for $500 and credit the intangible asset for $500.
Impairment
Companies can’t amortize intangible assets that have an indefinite life. Instead, they periodically evaluate the asset for impairment and write down the value when necessary. U.S. generally accepted accounting principles instruct companies to employ a two-part test for impairment. First, they compare the sum of estimated future cash flows to the book value of the asset. If the asset value is less than the cash flows, accountants measure the amount of impairment. The amount of impairment loss equals the difference between the asset’s book value and the fair market value. For example, an asset with a book value of $10,000 and a fair market value of $8,000 has impairment loss of $2,000.
Adjusting Useful Life
Intangible assets don’t always hold the same useful life that management originally estimates. For example, a 20-year patent may actually have a shorter useful life if the company plans on discontinuing an associated product. Businesses don’t need to record an adjusting entry when the useful life of an intangible asset changes, but it does affect subsequent adjusting amortization entries.
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Goodwill is considered an intangible asset, but businesses use different methods to measure and adjust goodwill value. U.S. generally accepted accounting principles suggest accountants use a unique two-part test to measure goodwill impairment. First, the company measures the book value of the goodwill versus the goodwill fair value. If the book value is lower, the company goes on to measure implied goodwill. Implied goodwill equals the fair value of the unit minus the fair value of the unit’s assets excluding goodwill. The impairment loss is the excess of the book value of the goodwill over the implied goodwill
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Media Briefing: Kellogg's Intentionally Adding Allergens to Products
UPDATE: Please note that on May 17, 2016, Kellogg’s finally admitted to KPIX TV San Francisco that the reason they added peanut flour to eight varieties of Keebler and Austin crackers was because they were manufactured on shared lines with peanuts. This allowed them to add peanuts to the ingredient list as stated in this article. To see the newscast with Kellogg’s admission, see our update entitled Kellogg’s, Unintended Consequences, and the Death of ‘May Contain’.
On March 30, 2016, the Kellogg Company quietly disclosed on a food allergy website that they would begin adding peanut flour to eight varieties of crackers that were previously considered safe by many with peanut allergy1. The decision and relative silence surrounding the disclosure puts many with peanut allergies – especially children – at significant risk for anaphylaxis, a severe, sometimes life threatening reaction.
Though Kellogg’s will not disclose their reason for adding peanut flour to products and endangering individuals with peanut allergy – asserting only that the change was “needed” and that is was a “hard decision” for them2 – we surmise the company is doing this to avoid the costs of complying with new directives of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that become mandatory this September3.
This briefing is intended to provide context for the media, parents, school nurses, teachers, and all others that care for children with food allergies so they fully appreciate the implications of Kellogg’s decision.
What is the immediate concern?
Many in the food allergy community have considered these crackers safe for peanut allergies for years. They are often considered “go to” snacks at daycare facilities, preschools, and cafeterias where peanut and tree nut bans are in place to protect allergic students.
An individual with peanut allergy that ingests or comes in contact with the newly formulated crackers runs the risk of an anaphylactic reaction that may result in hospitalization or death.
We urge you to note this change and avoid these Keebler and Austin brand products if you or someone in your care has a peanut allergy. Note that these products are no longer safe for facilities that maintain a peanut-exclusion policy.
Which products are affected?
The firm’s Keebler and Austin brand crackers will be affected, specifically4:
Keebler® brand Club® & Cheddar Sandwich Crackers, Cheese & Cheddar Sandwich Crackers, Pepper Jack Sandwich Crackers and Variety Pack Sandwich Crackers;
Austin® brand Cheddar Cheese Cracker Sandwiches, Grilled Cheese Cracker Sandwiches, Pepper Jack Cracker Sandwiches, and Variety Pack Cracker Sandwiches.
Why is Kellogg’s adding peanuts to products previously considered safe?
FSMA directives will soon raise allergen cross-contact – i.e. contamination resulting from manufacturing practices – to the level of scrutiny of other food-borne safety issues where there were fewer mandatory rules before5. This may introduce a nominal cost for companies to comply.
It is surmised that Kellogg’s is preemptively adding minute quantities of peanut flour to these crackers so the ingredient can be added to the ingredient list. This will allow the company to avoid the costs of complying with directives of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that go into effect this September.
Rather than implement the additional requirements of the new FSMA directives, it is believed Kellogg’s is adding trace amounts of the allergen to dispense with the entire process. If this is indeed true, they are making their products more allergenic in order to avoid the costs of complying with directives intended to make product safer.
Hasn’t the company responded to concerns by promising to return one variety of cracker to the peanut-free formulation?
Yes, but their confusing pledge to remove the peanut flour from the Austin Grilled Cheese Sandwich Crackers variety in September after adding it now greatly exacerbates the dangers6. This means consumers may purchase a product that either does or does not contain peanut flour depending on when they visit the market.
The company makes no claim the reformulated crackers will be made in a peanut-free facility, nor are there assurances that once the peanut flour is removed, the crackers will be produced on a manufacturing line separate from the peanut flour containing varieties. There may still be a danger of cross-contact with peanuts even after the peanut flour has been removed.
We urge those with peanut allergy to avoid Austin Grilled Cheese Sandwich Crackers regardless of whether or not the peanut flour has been removed.
How might this lead to other allergens being added across Kellogg’s product line?
If indeed Kellogg’s is taking this action to avoid the costs of implementing FSMA directives for peanut allergen control in their Keebler manufacturing facilities, they may be planning to add traces of other allergens – including milk, soy, egg and tree nuts – to other products manufactured in facilities where these allergens are processed in order achieve the same results.
How might this lead to other companies adding allergens to their product lines?
Kellogg’s action is a litmus test for the entire food industry. If Kellogg’s is successful implementing their plan with minimal pushback from consumers, other companies may follow their lead by adding minute quantities of allergens to their products in order to achieve the same cost avoidance goals.
We have reached a tipping point where the industry may decide that adding allergens to products in order to avoid the costs of implementing FSMA directives is in the interest of their shareholders. This will have catastrophic consequences for the allergic community, where many products that were previously acceptable for consumption are purposefully tainted.
How are concerned consumers responding?
A petition was initiated on Change.org urging John A Bryant, Chairman and CEO of the Kellogg Company to reconsider his plan. To date, the petition has garnered over 24,000 signatures and continues to build momentum.
Consumers are also tweeting, e-mailing, posting and voicing their concerns via Kellogg’s website, social media properties and consumer phone line.
Important Consumer Resources
There are a number of resources available to learn more about Kellogg’s plan and take action:
Read more about Kellogg’s plan: snacksafely.com/kelloggs
Read, sign, and distribute the petition to family and friends: change.org/KelloggsPeanuts
Tweet your concerns to @KelloggsUS using hashtag #NoPeanutFlour
Post your concerns to Kellogg’s website: kelloggs.com/en_US/contact-us-form.html
Voice your concerns to Kellogg’s consumer phone line: 1-800-962-1413
1Food Allergy Research & Education – foodallergy.org/alerts/ingredient-notices-feed;
2SnackSafely.com – snacksafely.com/2016/04/kelloggs-potential-for-injury-illness-and-death-is-a-cost-of-doing-business/;
3US Food and Drug Administration – fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm334115.htm;
4Food Allergy Research & Education – ibid;
5US Food and Drug Administration – ibid;
6SnackSafely.com – ibid;
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Sue Southard 2016/05/03 At 7:08 pm
I think there are more friendly flours to use instead of peanut flour. Anything but peanuts for kids snacks….I’m not allergic to peanuts.
Mary 2016/05/04 At 8:41 pm
I never write to companies with complaints but am so disgusted by this that I just did! Thank you for the info on what to do Sancksafely! Look forward to follow up!
sidney 2016/05/05 At 11:00 am
My family will NEVER buy ANYTHING made by KELLOGG’s again.
John 2016/05/05 At 2:00 pm
I agree with sidney… Goodbye!!!
You cannot fathom the loss of customers. Foolish!!!
Saran 2016/05/06 At 6:55 pm
Terrible, just terrible and foolish. Sad to hear. NO ON KELLOGG, I will be sure to pass this on and around all my peoples.
Deb 2016/06/18 At 7:59 pm
Kellogg you are making a huge mistake. so many children are allergic to peanuts. Who ever made this decision obviously has not had to give a child an epi pen. Or seen anaphylaxis !!!!!
Cheryl 2018/06/05 At 10:43 pm
What about all the hidden crap Kellogs is putting in its cereal. I had a bowl of raisin bran 4 days in a row for breakfast, then some hives emerged, 2 weeks later i still had new hives emerging, and i was covered in hives from my head to my toes. This was the first time i had eaten raisin bran in about 8 years, had never had a reaction to it prior. I am not allergic to dairy, nuts, bran or raisins! so what else are they putting in the cereal?
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VR3000 for Gaming
Earphones to reproduce the auditory spatial impression of games and VR as intended by the creators
Many of the earphones aimed for use for the gaming or 3D sound content employ sound creation focused on the surprise of first listening to its sound with exaggerated bass and high range. But, the objective of sound used in tandem with video for games is to immerse the players in the world of content and to provide extra critical information which is visually unpresentable to help players succeed the game, not to surprise the player with the sound. We believe that in order to immerse players in game, it is important to accurately reproduce the intention and aim of the game creators as embedded in the sound. The VR3000 earphones were developed based on this way of thinking.
Sound creation based on acoustic engineering and psychology
This is the birth of a new staple earphones based on our proprietary research into the “differences between
2-ch stereophonic sound productions and binaural sound productions”. It has been widely known that a characteristic uncomfortable feeling occurs in the high frequency range when listening to binaural sound for games and VR content on ordinary earphones and headphones. Acoustics researchers grasped the cause, but there was still no precedent for achieving adequate success in implementing countermeasures. This time, as a result of a new approach toward implementing countermeasures to this problem, we were able to give birth to the earphones that make it possible to feel the tone color, spatial impression, and direction of sound images on games and virtual reality content produced in binaural sound in a manner consistent with the creator’s intention.
Featuring the completely redesigned [f-Core DU] driver unit, which entails new design, parts and production technology.
In order to achieve sound quality impossible at this price range, we newly developed 6mmφ [f-Core DU] dynamic driver unit from the scratch. To realize the brand new driver, we established new production facility overseas and newly designed not only parts for the driver unit such as diaphragm, voice coil, magnet, magnetic circuits, adhesives, but also the production masichinely used in the manufacturing process. As material for the driver front housing, rather than the traditional aluminum, we used brass, a material that is both highly resistant to the effects of magnetism and also boasts a high specific gravity. In order to increase the time response characteristic of the diaphragm, the voice coil employs a 30μ ultrathin CCAW, and a minimum of adhesive is used for assembly to thoroughly lighten the moving parts. Moreover, the diaphragms are neatly pressed in small lots of roughly 1/3 the normal size in order to constrain pressure deviation to a minimum and realize uniform shaped diaphragm with no deformation.
The Feeling of a Customized Fit
Based on the chassis design that serves as an ideal solution for the IEM that become established during development of the B Series, the VR3000 realizes a superior sense of fit. Whether or not earphones offer a superior sensation of fit is determined by the sensation of oppression. While at first glance it may seem correct to select an ergonomic shape and hold it in place with the elasticity of silicone, this always places pressure on the ear which creates an unwary burden and leads to the accumulation of fatigue. By limiting the area that comes in contact with the ear in contrast to an ergonomic shape that comes in contact with a large area of the ear, this product aims to achieve a sense of fit with no feeling of oppression. The green section of the diagram below (earpiece) is the 1st position, the blue section (Tragus) is the 2nd position, and the pink colored section (cavity of the concha) is the 3rd position which contribute to the ultimate stablity and fitting. For that reason, it is suitable for the ears of many different people. To the extent that there is no feeling of oppression at any of the points of contact, that makes for such a comfortable, superior feeling of a customized earphone fit.
Ear hooks that alleviate cable touch noise (incorporaties lock mechanism)
An ear hook is effective in reducing touch noise; wearing it when walking dramatically reduces the unpleasant rustling sound that may occur when the cable rubs against the body (cable touch noise). In the past, our company’s ear hooks have characteristically been slimmer than ordinary and virtually indistinguishable from a wire or rosin filled cable, making it so comfortable that it is easy to forget that one is even wearing it. This is the type with an affixed lock (B Type) that is capable of holding the cable firmly in place.
Original earpieces with a color difference between the left and right bushes.
Two types of silicon differing in rigidity are employed for the sound conduit and for the earbud that comes into contact with the user’s ear. The silicon used for the sound conduit is more rigid than that used for the earbud, and by having groove processing applied to it, combines both strength and flexibility. Soft silicon has been employed for the earbud, making for a comfortable fit and a high level of sound insulation.
One of the bushes is gray, while the other is red; by pulling the earpiece back slightly to check the color of the bush, it is easy to distinguish between left and right, even in places with subdued lighting. Since the bush colors of neighboring sizes are different (the gray bushes alternate between dark and light gray; the red bushes alternate between red and pink), it is also easy to distinguish between sizes.
Comes in 5 sizes – SS/S/M/L/LL
Aging refers to the phenomenon whereby the sound produced by the earphones changes over time as they are used. There is a small driver unit – what could be called a speaker – inside the earphones; a diaphragm of extremely thin film is attached to this using a coil and an adhesive agent. With aural signals, the diaphragm moves in micronic increments while the coil moves, giving off sound. While it can’t be proven, we believe that in this situation, the adhesive section may possibly influence these infinitesimal movements. Using the product over a set period of time, the diaphragm moves more easily, and sound quality approaches the original design intent. This product has a small aperture, and so an extended period of time is necessary for changes through aging to become indecipherable. In general, if the product is used in a normal way over a period of 150 ~ 200 hours, it should feel that sound has become more subtle. A more favorable outcome can be obtained through aging of the product by listening to the music you normally listen to at a volume you usually listen at, rather than expediting aging through very high volumes or aging through noise. While not an accurate metaphor, when you make unnecessary movements to break in a pair of shoes, you’re bound to cause wrinkles different to those that occur when you walk normally. In the same way, rather than having the diaphragm move unnecessarily, it is better to think that it is more natural to break it in in the environment in which it is used.
There is also a psychological aspect to aging. Buying a new set of earphones, the impression you had of these earphones prior to buying them is by no means set in stone. You’re actually making a relative comparison between these and the earphones that you use on a daily basis. When you buy a new set of earphones and continue to use them for a set period of time, those earphones become the standard. An evaluation of sound quality based on continuing to use them until they become such a standard makes it easier to choose a product that you don’t get tired of over the long term.
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This product is an earphone that is hung over the ear. The transmission of touch noise to the ear can be prevented by placing the cable on the ear to achieve a comfortable fit.
STEP1 Confirm the R and L marks on the inside of the chassis. R is right, and L is left.
STEP2 Run the cable toward the front from behind the ear, and insert the earpiece of the earphone into the ear.
STEP3 If it is difficult to fir the earphone into the cavity of concha, try to insert the earphone while pulling back and somewhat upward on the ear lobe.
* If the cable does not fit on the back of the ear, please use the ear hook accessory.
* If the fit is too loose, try changing the size of the sleeve. In some cases, the size of the left and right earpieces may be different.
One of the characteristics of VR3000 for Gaming is its suitability for the listening of binaural sound. Therefore, we will introduce YouTube demo videos suitable for your listening with the VR3000.
There are two types of binaural sound.
One is binaural sound directly recorded using a dummy-head microphone.
The other is binaural sound created from multichannel 3D sound through signal processing known as the binaural rendering. And, for 3D audio production, there is a channel-based production method used mainly for music and an object-based production method used mainly for games and films.
Please note that turning off all audio effects (EQ, spatial enhancer, compressor, etc.) incorporated in the media player of your smartphone, handheld tablet, PC, etc. when playing back these demo videos is essential to fully experience the sound presentation of the earphones.
Binaural sound recorded directly as a 2-ch signal using a dummy-head microphone
BBC: All of it is interesting, but we especially recommend the part from 4:47 onward.
3Dio: In the golf ball scene from 0:25 onward the depth perception of the sound is enhanced by the video.
The Sound Traveler: Experience the inside of an Egyptian pyramid. Pay attention to the differences in reverberation due to differences in the size and shape of the space.
France television: Pay attention to the distance perception and orientation perception of sound.
Hear the World in 3D Audio! // Short Film: This is typical sound you usually hear in your life.
Binaural sound created by binaural rendering of 3D multichannel sound.
Radio France: 3D audio live recording of a large orchestra and chorus at a concert hall.
LST: Pay attention to the perception of vertical movement of sound from around 1m00s.
Battlefield 4: This is typical shooting game sound.
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An interview with singer-songwriter and actor Tom Goss. BY ORLY LYONNE | PHOTO BY DUSTI CUNNINGHAM How are you coping with the extended safer at home order? Honestly, I’m up and down. I’m doing my best to stay active (physically and mentally), connected with friends and family, and creative. Some days are better than others,…
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Call Me By Your Name (Again)
It’s happening! A sequel is in the works with most of the original cast members. BY VICTOR MELAMED Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer and others from the cast of Call Me by Your Name are returning for the sequel, director Luca Guadagnino said in an interview last month with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, reports Variety. Not…
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Members of the LGBTQ community on how they are coping with social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic BY PAULO MURILLO PERSONAL JOURNEY “I have found that slowing my life down has many upsides including reading and meditating twice a day. Currently I am reading two books, How to Think Like A Roman Emperor by Donald…
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Richard Childress Racing Aiming For Something They’ve Never Accomplished
By Toby Christie, Editor — Follow on Twitter @Toby_Christie
After Friday’s qualifying session for Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Austin Dillon’s attempt at doing what hasn’t been done since 2009 — sweeping the first two events of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season — doesn’t look great as he will roll from the 25th-position on the grid.
However, Richard Childress Racing is still in good position to collect more hardware this weekend.
Continue reading “Richard Childress Racing Aiming For Something They’ve Never Accomplished”
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Last-lap pass gives Austin Dillon dramatic Daytona 500 victory
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Austin Dillon prevailed in a game of Survivor played at 200 miles per hour, winning the Sunday’s Daytona 500 fiercely and unapologetically after turning race leader Aric Almirola in the third corner of the final lap. Continue reading “Last-lap pass gives Austin Dillon dramatic Daytona 500 victory”
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There’s More Than Wrecked Cars to Talk About After Daytona
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By: Toby Christie, Editor – Follow on Twitter @Toby_Christie
Speedweeks 2018 is in the books. For the last couple of weeks, we were treated to a stunning display of brightly colored race cars driving two to three, and sometimes four-wide.
We saw breathtaking crashes, that luckily every driver walked away from.
In all, 58 machines were wadded up past the point of being able to finish the race between the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, and ARCA Racing Series events in Daytona. Continue reading “There’s More Than Wrecked Cars to Talk About After Daytona”
The Final Lap Weekly NASCAR Racing Radio Podcast #447 A. Dillon / Byron – 3 Stage Racing
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Austin Dillon gets improbable win in wild NASCAR XFINITY race at Bristol
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06.10.2019 Culture
The Death of Single Use Plastic
Alexandra Mathieu
In today’s world we need to be proactive about being corrective because one of two things is bound to happen: a) the death of plastic or b) the death of our planet.
More than 40% of plastic is used just once with over 51 trillion microplastic particles currently living out their non-biodegradable lives in our oceans. Every year, 8 million tons of plastic enters the water system leading to the ingestion — and ultimately the deaths — of approximately 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals.
This December I went to Bali, a tropical haven near the equator featuring coasts known for their surfing, diving, black sand beaches, and more. Bali has my heart, but my heart broke seeing plastic littering its serene beaches. It was everywhere. Swimming on the coast of Canggu meant bumping into plastic bottles. Walking on side streets meant hearing and feeling the crunching of plastic packaging beneath your feet. Diving and snorkeling the coral reefs of Nusa Penida meant actively dodging plastic bags and food wrappers, as if playing an extreme dystopian video game.
But it’s not a game, rather a very real concern. We have a choice to make. Not only can we not survive without our planet and its resources, but our very bodies are already being affected by the plastic epidemic. Scientists have now detected microplastics in humans’ systems. That’s right, you’re now a whole lot of water and a little bit of plastic!
But let’s start from the beginning. The world’s first plastic was bakelite, invented in 1907 by Leo Baekeland. “Plastic” gets its name from the plasticity property, which refers to malleability without breaking. Plastics were made to be bent, stretched, squished, and squashed, all the while remaining virtually indestructible. The versatility of this invention made it hyper-malleable to our lives. Throughout the last century plastics have become essential to just about every part of our existence, from the clothes we wear and the cars we drive to the toys we play with and the groceries we haul.
Plastic has changed our lives for the better, but our planet’s health for the worse.
Today, more efforts than ever before are finally being made to, at the very least, reduce the impact of plastic. Some people, companies, and even countries, are eradicating plastic entirely from their lives. After accumulating no more than a mason jar of trash over a multiple-year span, Lauren Singer of Trash is for Tossers created a business based on products that help you lead a trash and plastic-free life. Grocery stores in the UK have opened plastic-free zones to act as models of what a shopping experience could and should be, in hopes that the supermarket giants will follow suit. Bali most recently banned plastic bags, providing people with a 100% biodegradable plastic bag alternative made from cassava, a root vegetable.
Other brands are focusing their efforts specifically on removing the single use aspect of plastic. P&G, the company behind everyday household brands like Pantene, Tide, and Oral-B is creating refillable packaging in partnership with Loop. Startups like by HumanKind are eliminating single use plastic from your morning routine with refillable cartridge deodorant and even package-free shampoo bars.
More and more brands are inviting their customers to return plastic directly to them so that they can reuse and recycle themselves. Adidas has created shoes that are fully recyclable and made from ocean plastic, that you can return to Adidas once you’ve worn them out.
We must vote with our dollars by turning to brands who are spearheading massive efforts, just as we must support startups that are seeking to use technology to shed light on all the players. French startup Clothparency has created a tool to help you analyze how eco-friendly your clothes are, taking into account water pollution impact, carbon footprint, and more.
It will be a while (perhaps an eternity?) until we can take strolls on the beach without encountering plastics and until turtles can swim oceans without confusing deadly plastic for delicious jelly fish. But we have to start somewhere. For us and the turtles…
Alexandra Mathieu is a freelance marketing strategist who likes to read, write, and draw. Visit her on her website or on Instagram at @JustMissAlex.
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Nicki Minaj Cancels Saudi Arabia Concert in Pro-LGBTQ Move
Katie Burkholder
Rapper Nicki Minaj has cancelled an upcoming concert in Saudi Arabia in solidarity with the LGBTQ community, reported Gay Times.
Minaj was set to headline the Jeddah World Fest music festival next week, but pulled out after receiving an open letter from the Human Rights Foundation.
The organization urged the rapper to “refuse the regime’s money” and cancel her show to demand the release of detained women’s activists.
Around a dozen Saudi women activists were detained for the past year because of human rights work and contacts with foreign journalists and diplomats, according to the New York Times.
After “careful reflection,” Minaj released a statement explaining she cancelled her show to show her support “for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, and freedom of expression.”
“While I want nothing more than to bring my show to fans in Saudi Arabia, after better educating muself on the issues, I believe it is important for me to make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, and freedom of expression,” she said.
Saudi Arabia was named one of the ten least LGBTQ-accepting countries by the Williams Institute last year. In the country, homosexuality and cross-dressing are illegal, and LGBTQ rights aren’t recognized by the government.
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Nearly 3 Out of 4 Patients Say Weed Helps with Opioid Withdrawal, Study Finds
Medical researchers at Johns Hopkins University say there’s now enough evidence that cannabis could be one solution for the worldwide opioid epidemic.
A recent study conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Medical School surveyed 200 people who said they consumed both marijuana and opioid painkillers. The survey sought to uncover whether these respondents thought that cannabis helped or worsened their struggle with opioid addiction.
Of the 200 total respondents, 125 said they used weed to deal with the painful withdrawal symptoms associated with heavy opioid use. Almost three out of four respondents, or 72 percent, said cannabis helped them get through the harrowing withdrawal period, which can last for days if not weeks. Only 6.4 percent said that cannabis made the withdrawals worse. The remainder reported mixed results or no effects at all.
The symptoms that respondents said weed helped with the most were “anxiety (76.2 percent of respondents), tremors (54.1 percent), trouble sleeping (48.4 percent), bone and muscle aches (45.9 percent), restlessness (45.1 percent), nausea (38.5 percent) and opioid cravings (37.7 percent),” reported Ben Adlin at Marijuana Moment.
“The most common symptoms reportedly made worse were yawning (7.4 percent), runny nose (6.6 percent), teary eyes (6.6 percent), restlessness (5.7 percent), vomiting (5.7 percent) and hot flashes (5.7 percent),” he continued.
“Across all symptoms, more participants indicated that symptoms improved with cannabis compared to those that indicated symptoms worsened with cannabis,” the study’s authors wrote “Ratios reflecting the participants who experienced improved versus worsened symptoms indicated that more individuals found cannabis to improve rather than worsen all evaluated symptoms.”
Previous studies show that states with legal weed see lower rates of opioid overdoses or abuse compared to states without legal weed, too. Although researchers aren’t sure why people in weed-legal states pop fewer painkillers than those in prohibition states, it’s possible that marijuana’s ability to control pain leads some patients to reduce their opioid use.
Additionally, the Johns Hopkins researchers found that women reported getting more positive improvements from weed when going through opioid withdrawals. The finding confirms results from another recent study suggesting that women probably enjoy marijuana’s psychoactive properties more than men do.
Of course, every study has its flaws. For this latest by Johns Hopkins, the researchers relied entirely on the respondents’ answers. Survey subjects were not drug-tested to confirm their use of opioids or marijuana, nor were respondents required to submit documentation of their drug use.
Regardless of the study’s limitations, the researchers said they believed they had enough evidence to request clinical trials into weed’s potential use for curbing opioid addiction.
“This data suggest that the co-users of opioids and cannabis endorse cannabis as a method for reducing opioid withdrawal therapy,” the researchers wrote, according to Marijuana Moment. “Given the shifting legal landscape, prospectively designed clinical trials that assess whether cannabis or its components can effectively treat opioid withdrawal are warranted.”
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Home All Articles After losing power, Osborne starts first day as journalist
After losing power, Osborne starts first day as journalist
Former Chancellor George Osborne arrives at the Evening Standard offices to formally take up the role of editor of the newspaper in London, Britain, May 2, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
Carrying a bundle of newspapers, former British finance minister George Osborne turned up on Tuesday to start work as a journalist, following last month’s shock announcement that he would take the reins of London’s main daily paper.
The new Evening Standard editor, who lost his job as finance minister last year after helping to lead the doomed campaign to stay in the European Union, will step down as a member of parliament in the June 8 general election.
Veteran journalists have mocked his lack of editorial experience and potential conflicts of interest.
He already has a part-time job with a salary of 650,000 pounds a year for working 48 days at asset manager BlackRock, and earned hundreds of thousands of pounds giving speeches.
Once regarded as a future leader of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, Osborne has opposed some of Prime Minister Theresa May’s policies and has said he wants the Evening Standard to be a “fearless” newspaper.
While at the University of Oxford, Osborne dabbled in student journalism and was proud enough of his efforts to display the two issues of the magazine he edited in his Downing Street flat while chancellor.
(Reporting by Andy Bruce; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
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Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen
January 24, 2018 by Stephanie Williamson
A teenage spy. A Nazi boarding school. The performance of a lifetime.
Sarah has played many roles – but now she faces her most challenging of all. Because there’s only one way for a Jewish orphan spy to survive at a school for the Nazi elite. And that’s to become a monster like them.
Survive. Deceive. Resist.
They think she is just a little girl. But she is the weapon they never saw coming… with a mission to destroy them all.
“History has to be burned into the imagination before it can be received by the reason”- Lord Macaualy.
I was drawn to this book as soon as I read the author’s letter that came with the review copy I was sent by Usborne. Matt Killeen stresses the importance of history in our society in light of the times we’re living in. How many of us would like to think we would have protected jews during the war? Are we standing up for those who are being persecuted today?
This is a terrifying book; intense, disturbingly violent and eye-opening. I couldn’t put it down.
Fifteen-year-old jew Sarah finds herself working as a spy in Nazi Germany in the build-up to WWII. Her task is to infiltrate a prestigious school for Nazi girls to get an invitation to the house of one of her classmates, in order to help sabotage the terrible weapon her father is creating. This book contains starvation, brutal nazi girls, paedophiles and murderous parents…all acting in the name of ‘The Reich’.
Thanks to her actress mother, Sarah is used to playing different roles, but now she must become one of her tormentors. She’s a little girl who goes to terrifying lengths to survive and to stay sane, navigating the traps set for her and overcoming the efforts to destroy her.
Despite her strength, we’re always aware of her youth and how gruelling and skin-crawling her task really is. Using her training as a gymnast and dancer to ‘commit to the move’, Sarah makes for an admirable character- tough and witty but with an enormous sense of justice and love. The character development, especially of Sarah, the British spy and their relationship, felt authentic.
Killeen’s writing is beautifully evocative. The descriptions, especially of food and characters, are striking.
“He was not comfortably plump or slightly overfed, not jolly, round or chubby as some people can be, but excruciatingly bulbous. It was a fatness that looked like it came from a deliberate, sustained and highly disciplined over-consumption that had no hint of pleasure in it. The increasing sense of hunger that had been a feature of the last few years yawned to life inside Sarah and she knew instantly that she loathed this man.”
“She put her hands around the scalding cup and raised it to her lips, letting the warm updraft touch her face. Her nose brushed through the froth, but it gave like soap suds and vanished, popping in a million tiny crackles. The rich, dark liquid flowed through it and cooled as it tore the bubbles apart and slid into her mouth. Both sweet and bitter, sharp and comforting, invigorating and calming like strong arms carrying you through a storm.”
The pages are also peppered with shorter, snappier sentences that build the tension and show Sarah’s fast-thinking and survival instinct. There were just a couple of instances where I found myself skimming over the flowery writing as I was excited to get to the action, but this was rare. The story is full of plot twists and danger- especially towards the end- and had me on the edge of my seat throughout.
Katherine Locke has commended the historical accuracy of Orphan Monster Spy on Twitter, saying that the British spy Sarah works for ‘is not perfect, or flawless, and he’s no hero, really, the way Allied forces are often portrayed.’
She praises the fact that ‘… ON THE PAGE, it’s acknowledged that it does not matter that [Sarah] is only half Jewish, that she’s never been to synagogue, that she’s not religious, and that she’s Aryan-passing. She. Would. Still. Be. Killed. For. Being. Jewish.’
Sarah never stops being aware that people are dying and her driving force is to work towards the effort of preventing this. She’s only Jewish by birth, yet ‘she does not ignore the plight of other Jews, even though she has no community connection to them. She is a girl who grew up, was given a label, and the label killed her mother and put her life in danger. She is aware of it on every. single. page.’
Read this book, and then think about the Rwandan Genocide, the attacks on Syrian immigrants and Muslims, police violence against black people, the deportation of US and UK citizens and the degradation of people from ‘shit-hole countries‘. Seem familiar?
This novel serves as a warning against allowing history to repeat itself and as a reminder that we can and must prevent that, whether we have ‘community connection’ to those being persecuted or not.
“We are, right now, looking at the conditions that created the Third Reich and all it will take, to paraphrase Burke, is for good people to do nothing.” – Matt Killeen.
A must-read for teens and adults alike, Orphan Monster Spy will be published by Usborne in March 2018.
*Quotations taken from a proof copy of Orphan Monster Spy and may be subject to change.
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Automobile Interior Partition/Bio Hazard barrier for Cruisers and Taxis
PLEASE: Sign the petition to enforce federal laws concerning partition safety! Click the link below the image labeled "Partition Safety Petition". The search bar is at the top of the side menu.
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SOMEBODY is MISSING Something...
There is an apathy that pervades the subject of automobile interior partition risk.
When taxi passengers strike the partitions’ hard edges and protrusions, the reaction has been (in NYC) and is (in Boston) to raise the liability limits rather than address the problem, then - somebody is missing something. Also, constant admonitions that the reason that any partition impact injury occurred, is only because the passenger did not wear a seat belt… do nothing to address the true problem, hard and dangerous surfaces on the partition.
When police car prisoners are hurled into the steel grid of the partition with the force of a third floor nose dive, and official reactions to officers who have bragged about doing this, are muted at best, then - somebody is missing something. At worst, we hear; “Hey, off the record, they’re just prisoners, they deserve no better.”
When police officers are rendered unconscious due to a rear end collision causing the partition to strike the back of the officers’ head, where they frequently remain in cars that are catching on fire and many (70+) have perished this way, the reaction is - horror that gasoline would ignite in a 100 MPH collision, then - somebody is missing something. Nobody is questioning why so few officers, rear ended this way, actually get out of the cruiser in time.
When frisked, disarmed, handcuffed, seat belted prisoners drive away (300 times in ten years) with the cruiser, usually crashing it, when the reporters, on eight of those occasions, characterize the prisoner as a latter day “Houdini” then - somebody is missing something.
When mandated taxi partition installation requirements do nothing to help, and actually result in more murders, we are told; “It’s better than nothing.” or when it is pointed out that murders continue with partition mandates, we are told; “Just imagine how bad it would have been… if we didn’t have them at all!” then - somebody is missing something.
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Partition related losses in police cruisers
The number of trooper deaths due to partition impact is astounding.
"You have officers who survive the trauma of a crash, but they die by fire and that should never happen,"
Clarence Ditlow, president of the Center for Auto Safety, a Washington, D.C., group focused on the U.S. automotive industry which has unsuccessfully tried to get the Crown Victoria recalled after the fiery deaths and injuries of dozens of law enforcement officers around the country.
Researching fallen officers memorial pages reveals numerous deaths by fire after rear-end collisions.
Most of these officers died because they suffered fatal burn injuries indirectly because of the partition.
Some (3) survived with the head injury.
Nearly eighty did not survive.
We believe the partition is clearly the surface which contacts the back of the head - causing loss of consciousness at the time of impact.
Unconscious officers remain in burning vehicles and die.
This must end.
Auxiliary Trooper Truelove was killed when his patrol car was rear ended by a tractor trailer and burst into flames.
Officer Julia was killed when his patrol car was struck by a dump truck while stopped to help a disabled truck. The dump truck struck his patrol car from behind while traveling in the wrong lane of traffic. Officer Julia was killed on impact and the patrol car and the truck were engulfed in flames.
Corporal Paul Sweeney succumbed to injuries and burns received one month earlier when his patrol car was struck from behind and burst into flames.
Trooper Patrick Ambroise was killed when his patrol car was struck from behind while he was stopped on the shoulder of the Florida Turnpike, near Okeechobee Road. A vehicle being driven on the turnpike suddenly veered onto the shoulder and struck Trooper Ambroise's 2006 Crown Victoria from behind, causing it to burst into flames, and trapping him inside.
Deputy Jefferson Davis succumbed to injuries received the previous night in an automobile accident while responding to a burglary-in-progress call. He was responding on County Road 133 when he swerved to avoid three juveniles who were walking against traffic in his lane of travel on the unlit road at 2301 hours. His patrol car left the roadway and struck a pine tree and burst into flames. Deputy Davis received burns over 65% of his body.
Officer Garret Davis was killed in an automobile accident when his patrol car was rear-ended on H-1, near the Kaonohi Street overpass, at approximately 8:20 pm. He had stopped his marked patrol car behind a stalled vehicle on the left shoulder. Before he was able to exit his car it was struck from behind by another vehicle and burst into flames.
Trooper James Sauter was killed when a semi-trailer truck struck his cruiser on Interstate 294 south of Willow Road shortly after 11:00 p.m. The trooper was stopped in the left shoulder of the south-bound lanes when the semi rear-ended his cruiser, causing both vehicles to burst into flames. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A semi-trailer truck driver, having fallen asleep behind the wheel, slammed into Trooper Skeeters' squad car. Trooper Skeeters' squad car was forced into the IDOT paint truck which was carrying flammable paints and thinners. Both the squad car and paint truck exploded and were engulfed in flames. The three vehicle accident instantly killed Trooper Skeeters. The drivers of both the IDOT truck and the semi-trailer survived the accident.
Investigator Rusnak was about to meet with other officers from his unit to do surveillance on a suspect's home when his vehicle was struck. His vehicle was spun around and pinned against a guardrail. The pickup truck rolled several times after the initial impact, coming to rest on top of Investigator Rusnak's vehicle before both vehicles burst into flames. Investigator Rusnak died due to the fire and massive internal injuries.
Deputy James Abel was killed in an automobile accident while responding to an officer needs assistance call. Deputy Abel struck a patch of ice on Old Alton Road, left the roadway and struck a utility pole. His patrol car caught fire as a result of the impact and Deputy Abel was killed.
Deputy Samuel Smith was killed in an automobile accident on California Road while responding to a domestic disturbance call. His patrol car left the roadway for unknown reasons and struck a tree before bursting into flames.
During his response, Deputy Courville's cruiser struck the back of a pickup truck on I-10. After striking the pickup truck, his cruiser went out control, struck a tree, and caught fire.
Deputy Ratcliff was killed when his cruiser was struck head-on by a vehicle which crossed into his lane. The impact caused both vehicles to burst into flames and both vehicles were burnt beyond recognition. The other driver was killed in the crash as well.
Deputy Heirtzler was killed in a single car accident as he was responding to a fire call. During the response his vehicle struck a cow in the roadway. The cruiser then left the roadway and struck a utility pole, bursting into flames. Efforts to free him by other deputies and citizens failed and he was killed in the ensuring fire.
Trooper Hung Le succumbed to injuries sustained in an accident on May 19, 1998. Trooper Le received burns to over seventy percent of his body, lung and heart damage. His patrol car was struck from behind as he was stopped behind a construction crew, blocking traffic, on I-55. His emergency lights were activated when the accident occurred. The patrol car was pushed into the construction zone and burst into flames. Construction workers and passersby were able to pull him from the wreckage and he was taken to a burn unit in Houston, Texas.
Sergeant John Bagileo was killed in an automobile accident while responding to backup other officers on a call involving a supsect who was tampering with an automobile. As he came around a curve on Martin Luther King Highway, a vehicle pulled out from an intersection and attempted to cross the road. Sergeant Bagileo successfully evaded colliding with the vehicle, but lost control of his patrol car. His vehicle skidded, collided with a utility pole and burst into flames.
Trooper Edward Mahoney was killed when his patrol car was struck from behind while on a motor vehicle enforcement stop on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Trooper Mahoney became trapped in the vehicle and was killed in the ensuing fire.
Officer Schultz was killed in an automobile accident while en route to assist during a vehicle pursuit involving a stolen car. During the response, Officer Schultz's patrol car flipped over and struck a house, causing the car to burst into flames.
Trooper Newton was killed when his patrol car, a 2003 Ford Crown Victoria, was struck from behind while he was making a traffic stop on the shoulder of I-70 near Odessa, Missouri at 0700 hours. The patrol car burst into flames upon impact and Trooper Newton was trapped inside. The driver of the vehicle he had stopped and the driver of the truck that struck his patrol car were both injured in the accident.
Officer Clark Wooldridge was killed in an automobile accident while responding to a report of a fight caused by a traffic crash. During the response his patrol car collided with another vehicle, overturned, and became engulfed in flames.
Trooper Robert Ambrose was killed in an automobile accident when his patrol car was struck from behind by another vehicle on the shoulder of I-87 in Yonkers at approximately 2035 hours. Trooper Ambrose was writing an accident report for a minor accident when the driver of a vehicle attempted to switch lanes, struck another vehicle, and then veered onto the shoulder and struck the rear of Trooper Ambrose's Ford Crown Victoria. The vehicle burst into flames and both Trooper Ambrose and the driver of the vehicle that struck him, who was driving on a suspended license, were killed. The fire was so intense that the rounds in Trooper Ambrose's service weapon began to discharge.
Deputy Incardona was killed in an accident while responding to a call of an officer down. His patrol, which was powered by propane fuel, struck a utility pole and erupted into flames.
Police Officer Russell Willingham was killed in an automobile accident while responding to backup another officers at approximately 3:15 am. He was traveling on North Vargrave Street when his patrol car left the roadway and struck a tree. He was able to notify dispatch that he was pinned inside and rescue units were dispatched. Moments later he notified dispatchers that his vehicle had caught fire. When the rescue units arrived the vehicle was fully engulfed in flames.
Officer Michael Jennings was killed when his car slid into a tree and burst into flames as he was driving down a steep hill. His partner was injured in the accident.
Officer Brentar had spotted a speeding motorist on North Lakeland Boulevard, just north of I-90, and was attempting to catch up to the vehicle when his patrol car hydroplaned and the right rear end hit a pole. The patrol car burst into flames, with Officer Brentar trapped inside.
Sergeant Muncy was killed after his patrol car collided with a tractor trailer and burst into flames as he was responding to a call for backup.
Major LeBlanc was killed in an automobile accident on State Route 59 in Ravenna Township. A county truck turned in front of him and his patrol car burst into flames. Several witnesses attempted to help him and were burned when the car exploded.
Trooper Van Krevelen's patrol car went out of control on the U.S. 81 overpass, struck the right-side guard rail and then crossed the roadway and became stuck on the left-side guard rail. The vehicle was suspended over the edge of the overpass. The patrol car burst into flames and burned so hot that rounds from Trooper Van Krevelen's sidearm began to discharge.
Not unlike NY Trooper Ambrose’ bullets.
Deputy Cannon and another deputy were both following a dump truck whose driver was suspected of being involved in an earlier assault. As they approached US 378, Deputy Cannon's patrol car, for unknown reasons, crossed the interstate's median, struck an SUV head-on, and was then struck by a passenger car. The patrol car burst into flames after the second collision.
Lance Corporal Hewitt was killed when his patrol car was struck from behind by a pickup truck on I-95 in Florence County. He was in the process of working an accident scene when the truck veered off the road and struck his vehicle. Both vehicles caught fire, killing Lance Corporal Hewitt and the driver of the truck. A pedestrian was killed and two others injured as a result of the accident.
Deputy Brian Denning was killed in an automobile collision on Long Hollow Pike while returning from a call. His patrol car left the roadway, struck a tree, and burst into flames.
Several passerbys attempted to free him from the vehicle but were unable to do so because of the flames.
Trooper Ross' vehicle was positioned at the rear of the work-zone with its emergency lights flashing when a tractor-trailer struck it from behind. The patrol car immediately flipped over and was engulfed in flames with Trooper Ross inside.
Trooper Javier Arana was killed in an automobile accident as he responded to assist a vehicle pursuit in El Paso at approximately 1:30 am. During the response, Trooper Arana's vehicle collided with a pickup truck near the intersection of Joe Battle Boulevard and Bob Hope Drive. Trooper Arana's patrol car burst into flames upon impact.
Deputy Odell McDuffie was killed in an automobile accident on FM 770 in Saratoga.
He was returning from transporting a juvenile to the Hardin County Detention Center at approximately 1:00 pm when his patrol car left the roadway. He over-corrected, causing the vehicle to strike a grove of trees and burst into flames. Deputy McDuffie suffered severe injuries and died at the scene.
Deputy Robert Harvey was killed in an automobile accident on CR 2500, at East 88th Street, while responding to a fight in progress call.
The driver of a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction attempted to make a left turn in front of Deputy Harvey's patrol car, and caused a head-on collision. Deputy Harvey was trapped in his patrol car as it became engulfed in flames.
Trooper Matthew Myrick was killed in an automobile accident while responding to an accident call in Deaf Smith County. He was responding on FM 1259, in Hereford, when his patrol car left the roadway at Main Street and struck a concrete culvert. The patrol car burst into flames upon impact.
Investigator Herman Scott was killed in an automobile accident on FM 31 while responding to a gang-related call. During the response, his vehicle hit a deer and crashed head-on into an oncoming car. His vehicle then burst into flames.
Corporal George Gross was killed in an accident while assisting EMS personnel treating a cardiac arrest victim. Due to a limitation on staff, Corporal Gross was driving the ambulance to the hospital when it was struck by a truck. The vehicle caught fire, trapping him inside. He was freed and transported to a local burn unit where he succumbed to his injuries.
Investigator Chad Carr was killed in an automobile accident on Route 631, near Stanardsville, when his department vehicle collided with a tractor trailer and burst into flames.
Deputy John Sanford was killed in an automobile accident while responding to a disturbance call. Deputy Sanford, along with a second deputy in another vehicle, were responding to a disturbance call shortly after midnight. As they were traveling west on Route 360, the lead deputy encountered a car driving on the wrong side of the highway in a blind curve. The deputy radioed Deputy Sanford to warn him, but Deputy Sanford was unable to avoid the collision, and was struck head-on. Both vehicles burst into flames as a result of the collision. The other deputy was able to free Deputy Sanford from the wreckage, but he died at the scene from his injuries.
Trooper Williams was attempting to stop the vehicle when his cruiser struck a tree and was engulfed in flames. He was taken to a local hospital before being flown to a trauma center with third degree burns over most of his body.
Officer White succumbed to injuries received several days earlier when he was involved in an automobile accident in Haymarket. He was responding to the scene of another accident when his vehicle struck a ditch, overturned, and caught fire.
Ranger Catherine Secor was killed in an automobile accident while en route to the Eastern Region Headquarters. She was riding in the backseat of the vehicle when the driver of a tractor trailer lost control in the wet road conditions and sideswiped the vehicle, causing it to crash and burst into flames. Ranger Secor was trapped inside and died at the scene.
Trooper William Schoenberger succumbed to injuries sustained when his patrol car was struck by a tractor trailer on I-94. He had positioned his patrol car in the right line of the interstate to block traffic as the local fire department attempted to extinguish a car fire.
Lowell Russell TN State Trooper Head injured http://www.statetroopers.org/PFStories/PFS032312.htm
Ellen Engelhardt MA State Trooper killed http://www.odmp.org/agency/2382-massachusetts-state-police-massachusetts
Amanda Anna NY State Trooper killed http://www.odmp.org/officer/21271-trooper-amanda-dorcas-anna
Jason Schechterle Pheonix, AZ Officer burned beyond recognition http://www.autosafety.org/crown-vic-fire-forever-changes-police-officer SURVIVED FIRE
Those who perished in fires (43) are listed first.
Auxiliary Trooper Edward W. Truelove Connecticut State Police, Connecticut
End of Watch: Friday, November 13, 1992 FIRE
Patrol Officer Vincent A. Julia Delaware River and Bay Authority Police Department, Delaware
End of Watch: Friday, February 9, 1996 FIRE
6. Corporal Paul John Sweeney New Castle County Police Department, Delaware
End of Watch: Thursday, November 30, 1972 FIRE
7. Trooper Patrick Ambroise Florida Highway Patrol, Florida
End of Watch: Saturday, May 15, 2010 FIRE
8. Deputy Sheriff Jefferson Hancock Davis Columbia County Sheriff's Office, Florida
End of Watch: Thursday, May 30, 2002 FIRE
9. Officer Garret Collin Davis Honolulu Police Department, Hawaii
End of Watch: Saturday, January 21, 2012 FIRE
10. Trooper James Sauter Illinois State Police, Illinois
End of Watch: Thursday, March 28, 2013 FIRE
11. Trooper Bernard D. Skeeters Illinois State Police, Illinois
12. Investigator John A. Rusnak Cook County Sheriff's Police Department, Illinois
End of Watch: Wednesday, August 3, 1977 FIRE
13. Deputy Sheriff James Robert Abel Madison County Sheriff's Department, Illinois
End of Watch: Thursday, December 30, 1976 FIRE
14. Deputy Sheriff Samuel Adam Smith Franklin County Sheriff's Office, Kansas
End of Watch: Friday, July 23, 2010 FIRE
15.Corporal James Ronald Courville St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office, Louisiana
End of Watch: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 FIRE
16. Deputy Troy Anthony Ratcliff Assumption Parish Sheriff's Department, Louisiana
End of Watch: Saturday, June 5, 1999 FIRE
17. Deputy Allen Lawrence Heirtzler East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Department, Louisiana
End of Watch: Friday, September 4, 1998 FIRE
18. Trooper Hung Nguyen Le Louisiana State Police, Louisiana
19. Sergeant John Louis Bagileo Prince George's County Police Department, Maryland
End of Watch: Monday, February 28, 1994 FIRE
20. Trooper Edward A. Mahoney Massachusetts State Police, Massachusetts
End of Watch: Sunday, November 21, 1976 FIRE
21. Police Officer Brad Lee Schultz, Jr. Riverview Police Department, Missouri
End of Watch: Tuesday, Dece mber 14, 2004 FIRE
22. Trooper Micheal Lynn Newton Missouri State Highway Patrol, Missouri
23. Police Officer Clark Anthony Wooldridge Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Nevada
End of Watch: Sunday, August 12, 1979 FIRE
24. Trooper Robert Wayne Ambrose New York State Police, New York
25. Deputy Sheriff Jeffrey A. Incardona Niagara County Sheriff's Office, New York
End of Watch: Thursday, July 22, 1993 FIRE
26. Police Officer Russell Mark Willingham, Jr. Winston-Salem Police Department, North Carolina
End of Watch: Saturday, July 30, 2011 FIRE
27. Police Officer Michael Ray Jennings Winston-Salem Police Department, North Carolina
End of Watch: Friday, January 29, 1993 FIRE
28. Police Officer George Brentar Euclid Police Department, Ohio
End of Watch: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 FIRE
29. Sergeant Marc Muncy Columbus Division of Police, Ohio
End of Watch: Wednesday, April 5, 1995 FIRE
30. Major Joseph LeBlanc Portage County Sheriff's Department, Ohio
End of Watch: Monday, September 13, 1976 FIRE
31. Trooper Christopher Michael Van Krevelen Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Oklahoma
32. Deputy Sheriff Byron Keith Cannon Richland County Sheriff's Department, South Carolina
End of Watch: Wednesday, May 4, 2005 FIRE
33. Lance Corporal Randall Scott Hewitt South Carolina Highway Patrol, South Carolina
End of Watch: Sunday, June 23, 1996 FIRE
34. Trooper Lynn McCarthy Ross Tennessee Highway Patrol, Tennessee
End of Watch: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 FIRE
35. Trooper Javier Arana, Jr. Texas Department of Public Safety - Texas Highway Patrol, Texas
End of Watch: Saturday, March 24, 2012 FIRE
36. Deputy Sheriff Odell McDuffie, Jr. Liberty County Sheriff's Department, Texas
End of Watch: Monday, October 25, 2010 FIRE
37. Deputy Sheriff D. Robert Martin Harvey Lubbock County Sheriff's Department, Texas
End of Watch: Sunday, April 26, 2009 FIRE
38. Trooper Matthew DeWayne Myrick Texas Department of Public Safety - Texas Highway Patrol, Texas
39. Investigator Herman Owen Scott, Jr. Harrison County Sheriff's Office, Texas
40. Corporal George Washington Gross, Jr. Port Isabel Police Department, Texas
End of Watch: Friday, August 15, 1986 FIRE
41. Investigator Chadwick Alan "Chad" Carr Greene County Sheriff's Office, Virginia
End of Watch: Thursday, June 4, 2009 FIRE
42. Deputy Sheriff John Walter Sanford, Jr. Northumberland County Sheriff's Office, Virginia
43. Trooper II Daniel Lee Williams Virginia State Police, Virginia
End of Watch: Sunday, December 12, 1999 FIRE
44. Officer Paul Thomas White, Jr. Prince William County Police Department, Virginia
End of Watch: Saturday, October 27, 1973 FIRE
45. Park Ranger V Catherine E. Secor Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, Washington
End of Watch: Tuesday, May 9, 2000 FIRE
Head injured, no fire;
Deputy Sheriff John Lewis Burkett, III Berkeley County Sheriff's Department, West Virginia
End of Watch: Wednesday, January 31, 2001
Trooper III William Schoenberger Wisconsin State Patrol, Wisconsin
End of Watch: Thursday, April 22, 1993
Alex Del Rio Hollywood, FL police officer killed http://www.odmp.org/officer/19661-police-officer-alex-del-rio
Floyd James Fink Jr. AR Officer Floyd Fink was killed when his patrol car was rear-ended while he was stopped behind another vehicle on the shoulder of U.S. 60 near Tempe, Arizona.
Corporal Johnny Mack Scarberough Arkansas State Police, Arkansas
End of Watch: Wednesday, September 2, 1998
Officer Paul Hubertus Pino California Highway Patrol, California
End of Watch: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Trooper Joseph A. Ynostroza Colorado State Patrol, Colorado
End of Watch: Wednesday, December 6, 1989
Trooper First Class Kenneth Ray Hall Connecticut State Police, Connecticut
End of Watch: Thursday, September 2, 2010
Deputy Sheriff Richard Lyn Daniels Twiggs County Sheriff's Office, Georgia
End of Watch: Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Police Officer Terry Jay Emerick Illinois Commerce Commission Police, Illinois
End of Watch: Wednesday, May 25, 1994
Chief Deputy Sheriff George Oliver Williamson Dickinson County Sheriff's Office, Iowa
End of Watch: Friday, June 8, 1973
Deputy Eric Shane Stafford Edmonson County Sheriff's Office, Kentucky
End of Watch: Wednesday, June 26, 1996
Chief of Police Randy Wells Forest Hills Police Department, Kentucky
End of Watch: Monday, October 29, 2007
Trooper First Class John Edward Sawa Maryland State Police, Maryland
End of Watch: Tuesday, March 10, 1987
Trooper Larry Eugene Small Maryland State Police, Maryland
Deputy Sheriff Dennis Leo Riley Charles County Sheriff's Office, Maryland
End of Watch: Tuesday, January 11, 1977
Trooper Ellen E. Engelhardt Massachusetts State Police, Massachusetts
End of Watch: Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Amanda Dorcas Anna New York State Police, New York
End of Watch: Saturday, May 26, 2012
Trooper Thomas F. Hudson New York State Police, New York
End of Watch: Tuesday, November 26, 1985
Probation / Parole Officer II Jeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Settle North Carolina Department of Correction - Division of Community Corrections, North Carolina
End of Watch: Thursday, August 4, 2011
Master Trooper Calvin E. Taylor North Carolina Highway Patrol, North Carolina
End of Watch: Wednesday, October 3, 2001
Trooper David Harold Dees North Carolina Highway Patrol, North Carolina
End of Watch: Sunday, April 4, 1999
Officer Jackie Lamont Daniel North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles Enforcement Section, North Carolina
End of Watch: Thursday, July 28, 1994
Trooper Robert Perez, Jr. Ohio State Highway Patrol, Ohio
End of Watch: Monday, May 15, 2000
Chief Deputy Sheriff George H. Allen Cleveland County Sheriff's Office, North Carolina
Deputy Sheriff Richard Dean Harmon Stark County Sheriff's Office, Ohio
Trooper Scott Alan Lyons Oregon State Police, Oregon
End of Watch: Tuesday, September 2, 1997
Trooper Matthew R. Bond Pennsylvania State Police, Pennsylvania
End of Watch: Friday, January 14, 2000
Deputy Sheriff Brian DeWayne Denning Sumner County Sheriff's Department, Tennessee
End of Watch: Monday, December 8, 2008
Policeman Clifford Riddle Tullahoma Police Department, Tennessee
End of Watch: Thursday, January 1, 1987
Sergeant James E. Faraone Salt Lake City Police Department, Utah
End of Watch: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
Trooper Randy K. Ingram Utah Highway Patrol, Utah
End of Watch: Wednesday, October 5, 1994Deputy Sheriff Lester Dewayne Tatum Trinity County Sheriff's Department, Texas
End of Watch: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 FIRE?
Lieutenant Robert Duane "Bob" Haley Comanche County Sheriff's Department, Texas
End of Watch: Thursday, October 28, 2004
Deputy Sheriff Jesus A. Garza, Jr. Bexar County Sheriff's Office, Texas
End of Watch: Friday, December 26, 2003
Corrections Officer John Murphy Bennett Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas
Deputy Sheriff Charles Allen VanMeter Brazoria County Sheriff's Office, Texas
End of Watch: Sunday, June 26, 2011
Officer Timothy Joseph Zurovetz Forest Hill Police Department, Texas
End of Watch: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Police Officer Mark Steven Simmons Amarillo Police Department, Texas
End of Watch: Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Trooper Eduardo Chavez Texas Department of Public Safety - Texas Highway Patrol, Texas
End of Watch: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
By Steve Crowell at April 09, 2013 2 comments:
Labels: Police Officer Loss Issues
Doctor comments about Illegal taxi partitions
“Those partitions create a plastic surgeons’ dream.” Jack Lusk - NYC TLC Chairman 1988-1991
“It’s a significant safety hazard,” said Dr. Jesse Taylor, a Plastic Surgeon at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, who operated on Marc. He’s seeing a growing number of injuries, related to cab partitions.
Dr. Rahul Sharma, NYUMC - has worked in several city emergency rooms, is all too familiar with the damage the anti-crime partitions, required since 1994, can cause. “Ask any ER doc in Manhattan, and they will tell you they see it very frequently,” he said. “People have a false sense of security in the backseat of a cab.”
Dr. Gary Sbordone – Massachusetts Chiropracter - “Could cause complex spinal injuries.”
Dr. Geoffrey Doughlin - E.R. Director, Jamaica Hospital – ‘Since the partitions act as a second windshield, back seat passengers fall victim to the same type of injuries as people in the front passenger position, the "suicide seat," ‘
Dr. Gregory Husk - Chairman of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, “You can't do this kind of work (Emergency Medicine) without being impressed that the taxicab partition breaks a lot of noses, a lot of lips, a lot of chins.''
Dr. John Sherman - Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, New York Hospital, New York City - "The results are uniformly disastrous: patients with head wounds from dividers, fractured noses, lacerations and worse. Last month I saw two patients die from taxi-related injuries.”
Dr. Arnold Komisar, Dr. Stanley Blaugrund and Dr. Martin Camins - Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC - "Every emergency room in New York is seeing patients injured in taxicabs: three here, four there, six at another hospital, so it's easy to underestimate the problem,"
Dr. Stephen Pearlman - Upper East Side facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon - “Gaping soft tissue injuries are also prevalent, since an edge of a partition's sliding door or its metal track can tear the skin.” “In the most severe instances, this causes "almost an avulsion" of the nose.”
Dr. Paul Lorenc – NYC Plastic Surgeon “Crushed noses, fractured cheekbones and eye sockets, and "stellate," or burst lacerations, are among the most common injuries suffered when a passenger is hurled into the clear partition.”
Dr. Kai Sturmann - Acting Chairman, Emergency Department, Beth Israel - “I would like to see back-seat air bags.”
Dr. Marc Melrose - Emergency Physician, Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan - "Cabs don't have to get into an accident for people to be hurt. The cab stops short and you go flying into the screen with the handles and bolts and that metal change thing. It's dangerous."
Dr. Talmor, Dr. Barie, Dr. Shapiro and Dr. Hoffman, Department of Surgery, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, NY. In 1996 four surgeons from the Department of Surgery, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center released a report, this is a review of it.
“Craniofacial injuries resulting from taxicab accidents in New York City”
Taxicab accidents are a common occurrence in New York City. This review was undertaken to characterize the nature of craniofacial injuries that result from taxicab accidents
Data were collected on 16 patients who required admission to trauma or plastic and reconstructive surgery services, after sustaining craniofacial injury as a result of a taxicab accidents.
Front-end deceleration collisions were the most common mechanism of injury.
Fifty-six percent of the patients were thrown against the bulletproof, Plexiglas driver safety divider and sustained an injury most commonly to the anterior midface.
Both bony and soft tissue injuries were common in the entire group.
“Given the high incidence of craniofacial injury, appropriate safety standards for taxicabs must be initiated, including the reevaluation of the utility of the safety divider”
Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, ACSH (American Council on Science and Health) President, “The deaths and injuries attributed to taxicab accidents are highly preventable.
Dr. Ralph Upchurch, chief of emergency medicine at Somerville Hospital, said not wearing a seatbelt in the back seat of a cab can be especially dangerous because of the plastic divider between the front and back seats.
Dr. Seth Manoach, lead author of the report, said 'The plexiglas partition that seperates the front and back of the cab, protruding change dish, and metal border can cause serious injury in an accident.' He urged taxi passengers to buckle up "Sit in one of the seats with shoulder and lap belts. The middle seats don't have them and during a front-end collision, your head is going to come forward and hit the barrier."
From - 12/29/98 New YorkTimes article about zero seat belt usage observed by N.Y. Univer. Research Team findings 4/97-8/97
Diane McGrath-McKechnie, Chairwoman of the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission – “The experience of New York City absolutely does not support the notion that partitions have increased the number of passenger injuries.” “We are well aware of the potential dangers of passengers not wearing their seat belts hitting partitions in short-stop circumstances.”
“As officer safety and wellness is of the utmost importance to the International Asssn. Of Chiefs of Police you can be sure that we will continue to study all aspects of this issue.” Erin Vermilye 2/25/2013
Frank Armstrong, Motor Vehicle Safety Compliance Enforcement Section Director, 6/22/84 "Dear Sir: It has come to the attention of this office that you may be in violation of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 by the manner in which you are installing partitions in taxicabs and/or police cruisers.“
Matthew Daus – TLC Chairman - “These cars and the partitions that are in them are 100 percent safe,”
In 1984 I prompted official USDOT letters of warning about numerous partition safety violations. People die, are head injured and facially lacerated by illegal partitions. They "recommended" the Hackney bureau "consider" a requirement for seat belt retention. It was the practice of the partition maker/installer (George Summers of USA taxi) to REMOVE front seat shoulder harnesses at the time of partition installation.
Hackney allowed George Summers to CHARGE for seat belt reinstallation. THAT is a federal violation. It is just one of several federal safety violations that Summers was warned about.
I was named as the complaintant in the Hackney bureaus' letter of warning, by the USDOT. Hackney then told Summers that I was the whistle blower. I was rousted repeatedly by the state police at Logan airport. I was confronted a number of times by irate cab owners who were angry that they had to pay Summers for seat belt re-installation. They were told by Summers that Steve Crowell was the whistle-blower that was costing them all this money for seatbelt replacement. I told them the federal law required Summers to replace the stolen belts at his own expense. Apathetic, ignorant cab owners refused to follow up or complain to anybody.
The Globe ignored all my letters for 30 years. Shame on them too. Eighteen trauma surgeons have been ignored also.
Now, some feel that the minimum compulsory liability limits are too low for the extent of losses sustained by taxi occupants. Will we do the same as NYC did about this? Will we retain the partition hazards and raise the liability limits? Or will we finally address why taxi losses are so high? 12,000 children are hospitalized every year in NYC from taxi crashes.
Labels: Taxi Partition Issues
Liability Limits on Taxis
In NYC when it was noticed that people were not getting proper compensation for the staggeringly high losses, they raised the liability limits. In Massachusetts the minimum mandatory liability coverage is the same as all other Mass cars, as it is for taxis. 10/20/10 coverage is inadequate coverage for taxis, by virtue of the fact that taxis have much greater exposure. It is even less satisfactory because of the tremendous risk involved in using sub-standard, un-certified, non-complying interior partitions. Rather than raise the liability limits (only because of partition risk, as they did in NYC) to some astronomical amount such as 500,000/1,000,000/500,000 (which would still be inadequate for partition head injuries) why not get rid of the partitions or at least be sure they meet minimum federal safety standards?
Steve Crowell
Automobile Partition Design Innovator, Court Officer (Retired Constable - Marlboro, MA),
Automobile Safety Lobbyist (C.M.C.),
Taxicab Regulation Consultant (Boston, New York City & New Orleans),
Natural Resources Officer (Eastham, MA),
Television & Radio Electronics Technician,
Introductory Electronics Instructor (C.E.T.A. Program),
Automotive Electronics Specialist (BMW's and domestic),
Repair Technician - heavy materials handling equipment (fork lifts, clamp lifts, cement mixers),
Electronics Component Factory - Assembly Supervisor,
Wood Turner - my most recently aquired skill
Father of two sons, Married once (1990-)
Mason & Wheeler - our sons
Our Two Sons
A.J. Loria, Me and Alan Toussaint in New Orleans 2001
Taken outside of Cosimos' Bar in the French Quarter. A.J. can be found at http://www.ajloria.com/ & Alan's biography can be found at http://www.nynorecords.com/allen.shtml
My Wife - Chef, Leah Carlsen-Crowell
On our wedding day 1990
Police Officer Loss Issues
Taxi Partition Issues
what's wrong with police car cages and taxi partitions
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Sunday’s game against Tottenham will be Roman Abramovich’s 1,000th as Chelsea owner. There probably won’t be a cake. Nor should we expect much in the way of a lavish presentation, given that the supreme leader himself hasn’t been glimpsed at a home game in two and a half years. And yet as Abramovich watches on from afar – presumably from his Moscow palace, surrounded by objets d’art and luxury snacks – he may reflect that this is a curiously appropriate fixture to mark the occasion. It is, after all, a meeting between the two men who have arguably defined his 17 years in English football more than any other. His favourite player, and his favourite manager.
Related: My Premier League team of the season so far | Barry Glendenning
As a player and coach, nobody has been involved in more of those 999 matches than Frank Lampard. Even now, he has scored 10% of all Chelsea’s goals in the Abramovich era. As a manager, he has already lasted 70 games, which by Abramovich standards is practically old age. Given a couple of decent cup runs, he should overtake Antonio Conte and Carlo Ancelotti before the end of the season. By which point, only one name will sit above him on the list.
The summer signing Timo Werner scores Chelsea’s last goal in the 4-0 win against Sheffield United, the Blues’ most recent home game. Photograph: Getty Images
In a way it was José Mourinho, the very first Abramovich appointment back in 2004, who would set the tone for all the others: not simply the expectation of success but the means of achieving it. The first Mourinho dynasty blew in like a typhoon, and blew out just as quickly: an era of shock therapies and quick fixes and trophies dropping from the sky like rain. Everything that followed seemed a logical progression from that first, scintillating hit of pure mayhem.
And yet. Take a step back, and the two longest managerial tenures of the Abramovich era are still Mourinho I (2004-07) and Mourinho II (2013-15). José, as it turned out, wasn’t the chaos. The chaos was everything else. Perhaps it gets forgotten amid the feuds, the sackings, the bared claws, the pervading sense of menace. But Mourinho was actually the closest Abramovich-era Chelsea ever got to stability.
Until now, perhaps. In the 13 years since Mourinho’s first sacking, Lampard is the manager who has come closest to challenging the ceaseless Abramovich cycle of boom and bust. He is by no means the first of Abramovich’s “project managers”, appointed not simply to win trophies but to establish a defined identity, to build something. But he is the first to get this sort of time and this sort of backing. There are two possible ways of reading this.
First, that Abramovich himself has taken his foot off the gas. This is a theory that has been doing the rounds for a while now. And yet, committing more than £200m to transfers during a pandemic is hardly the act of an absentee owner going through the motions. Which brings us to the second, more intriguing possibility: that he has been studying Lampard’s work, and likes what he sees.
John Terry, Roman Abramovich, Frank Lampard and Eidur Gudjohnsen (left to right) celebrate at Bolton after Chelsea clinched the 2005 title. Photograph: Darren Walsh/Action Images
Nine games into the season, Chelsea are the Premier League’s top scorers: cautiously improving while most of their rivals are regressing. The arrivals of Thiago Silva and Ben Chilwell have tightened up the back five. Hakim Ziyech, Timo Werner and Kai Havertz have given them delightful new dimensions in attack. The press appears to be fully functional. They no longer have a goalkeeper who looks haunted and broken. All of which, some argue, puts Chelsea in the title frame.
Naturally, Lampard has not been touching that one with a bargepole. And yet already he seems to have exceeded the meagre expectations invested in him when he took the job last year in the middle of a transfer ban and steered Chelsea judderingly into the top four. Already this season his smooth, frictionless 4-3-3 – with N’Golo Kanté back at the base of midfield – feels more disciplined and structured than in Lampard’s riotous first season, when every counterattack felt like a strip search, every set piece like a crisis.
Related: Frank Lampard makes case for the defence as forwards take back seat | Jacob Steinberg
The restoration of Kanté to the midfield sentinel role has been integral to all this. So far this season, he has not made a single tackle in the final third. His shots and key passes have nosedived. But the trade-off has been divinely worthwhile: more defensive interventions, more pressure on the ball, more of the quick switches that keep Chelsea ticking over.
Frank Lampard with Avram Grant in 2008. Chelsea reached the Champions League final and were Premier League runners-up but Grant was sacked. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Observer
Perhaps there are some stylistic similarities here with Mourinho’s first Chelsea team, one Lampard himself played in: a structured 4-3-3 with Claude Makélélé in the Kanté role and two roaming wingers in Damien Duff and Arjen Robben. There is a tonal similarity between the two men as well: the sort of charming ruthlessness that allows you to cajole players with one hand and cut them adrift with the other.
The churn from last season has been remarkable: of the six most-frequent starters from 2019-20, only Mason Mount remains a first-choice. Along the way almost an entire team has been discarded or sidelined: César Azpilicueta, Fikayo Tomori, Ross Barkley, Pedro, Marcos Alonso, Willian, Antonio Rüdiger, Andreas Christensen, the poor, wretched Kepa Arrizabalaga in goal.
It says something of Lampard’s resilience – or perhaps his self-regard – that he has shown virtually no ill-effects
Already Chelsea have used 26 players this season, more than any other team in the Premier League. And while you could just as easily take this as evidence of Chelsea’s enviable strength in depth and their ability to simply buy their way out of trouble, keeping the plates spinning at a club of Chelsea’s size and sanity has always been a harder job than it looks.
“We all have pressure,” Lampard retorted on Friday to Mourinho’s suggestion that Chelsea’s spending demanded instant results. But more experienced managers than Lampard will tell him that the madness of Chelsea invariably claims you before long. Maurizio Sarri ended up bruised and fractious, Conte wired and paranoid, Avram Grant sad and crumpled, like a man living out of the back of his Renault. It says something of Lampard’s resilience – or perhaps his self-regard – that he has shown virtually no ill-effects so far.
But then, this is the pattern of the Abramovich years: things are as they are; right up until the moment they aren’t. Chelsea are a club where the floors shift quickly, where the walls push back at you: a realm of the ruthless, and having paced their corridors for 15 years Lampard will know that better than anyone. He will know that no manager has ever survived two seasons under Abramovich without winning the Premier League title. He knows he might never get a better chance, but he also knows he might never get another.
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Siemens Energy AG starts trading after IPO
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Shares in Siemens Energy rose 1.3% on Friday after German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse said the firm would be included in Germany's midcap index later this month.
Spun off from former parent Siemens in September, Siemens Energy shares have gained 13% since their separate listing, giving the group a market value of about 18 billion euros ($22 billion).
About one sixth of all electricity generated globally is based on the group's technology.
Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch said the inclusion, which will become effective Dec. 21, is a great success, adding it should be an incentive to continue the group's transformation.
"Our goal is not only to become the world's leading energy technology company but also generate stable profits and pay a reliable dividend to our shareholders," he said.
Siemens Energy, which builds steam turbines for power plants, last month said it will no longer take on new business to supply coal-fired powered stations, making it the latest firm to scale back fossil fuel-related operations.
(Reporting by Christoph Steitz; Editing by Maria Sheahan)
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Network Working Group C. Lonvick, Ed.
Internet-Draft Cisco Systems, Inc.
Expires: August 21, 2005 February 17, 2005
SSH Transport Layer Protocol
draft-ietf-secsh-transport-23.txt
This document is an Internet-Draft and is subject to all provisions
of Section 3 of RFC 3667. By submitting this Internet-Draft, each
author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of
which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of
which he or she become aware will be disclosed, in accordance with
RFC 3668.
other groups may also distribute working documents as
Internet-Drafts.
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005).
SSH is a protocol for secure remote login and other secure network
services over an insecure network.
This document describes the SSH transport layer protocol which
typically runs on top of TCP/IP. The protocol can be used as a basis
for a number of secure network services. It provides strong
encryption, server authentication, and integrity protection. It may
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also provide compression.
Key exchange method, public key algorithm, symmetric encryption
algorithm, message authentication algorithm, and hash algorithm are
all negotiated.
This document also describes the Diffie-Hellman key exchange method
and the minimal set of algorithms that are needed to implement the
SSH transport layer protocol.
1. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Connection Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1 Use over TCP/IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2 Protocol Version Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Compatibility With Old SSH Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.1 Old Client, New Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2 New Client, Old Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.3 Packet Size and Overhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Binary Packet Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.1 Maximum Packet Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.2 Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.3 Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.4 Data Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.5 Key Exchange Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.6 Public Key Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7. Key Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.1 Algorithm Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.2 Output from Key Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.3 Taking Keys Into Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8. Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8.1 diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.2 diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
9. Key Re-Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
10. Service Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
11. Additional Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
11.1 Disconnection Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
11.2 Ignored Data Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
11.3 Debug Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
11.4 Reserved Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
12. Summary of Message Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
13. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
14. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
15. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
15.1 Normative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
15.2 Informative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . 30
1. Contributors
The major original contributors of this set of documents have been:
Tatu Ylonen, Tero Kivinen, Timo J. Rinne, Sami Lehtinen (all of SSH
Communications Security Corp), and Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen
(University of Jyvaskyla). Darren Moffit was the original editor of
this set of documents and also made very substantial contributions.
Additional contributors to this document include [need list].
Listing their names here does not mean that they endorse this
document, but that they have contributed to it.
Comments on this internet draft should be sent to the IETF SECSH
working group, details at:
http://ietf.org/html.charters/secsh-charter.html Note: This paragraph
will be removed before this document progresses to become an RFC.
The SSH transport layer is a secure low level transport protocol. It
provides strong encryption, cryptographic host authentication, and
integrity protection.
Authentication in this protocol level is host-based; this protocol
does not perform user authentication. A higher level protocol for
user authentication can be designed on top of this protocol.
The protocol has been designed to be simple, flexible, to allow
parameter negotiation, and to minimize the number of round-trips.
all negotiated. It is expected that in most environments, only 2
round-trips will be needed for full key exchange, server
authentication, service request, and acceptance notification of
service request. The worst case is 3 round-trips.
3. Conventions Used in This Document
All documents related to the SSH protocols shall use the keywords
"MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD",
"SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" to describe
requirements. These keywords are to be interpreted as described in
The keywords "PRIVATE USE", "HIERARCHICAL ALLOCATION", "FIRST COME
FIRST SERVED", "EXPERT REVIEW", "SPECIFICATION REQUIRED", "IESG
APPROVAL", "IETF CONSENSUS", and "STANDARDS ACTION" that appear in
this document when used to describe namespace allocation are to be
interpreted as described in [RFC2434].
Protocol fields and possible values to fill them are defined in this
set of documents. Protocol fields will be defined in the message
definitions. As an example, SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_DATA is defined as
follows.
byte SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_DATA
uint32 recipient channel
string data
Throughout these documents, when the fields are referenced, they will
appear within single quotes. When values to fill those fields are
referenced, they will appear within double quotes. Using the above
example, possible values for 'data' are "foo" and "bar".
4. Connection Setup
SSH works over any 8-bit clean, binary-transparent transport. The
underlying transport SHOULD protect against transmission errors as
such errors cause the SSH connection to terminate.
The client initiates the connection.
4.1 Use over TCP/IP
When used over TCP/IP, the server normally listens for connections on
port 22. This port number has been registered with the IANA, and has
been officially assigned for SSH.
4.2 Protocol Version Exchange
When the connection has been established, both sides MUST send an
identification string. This identification string MUST be
SSH-protoversion-softwareversion SP comments CR LF
Since the protocol being defined in this set of documents is version
2.0, the 'protoversion' MUST be "2.0". The 'comments' string is
OPTIONAL. If the 'comments' string is included, a 'space' character
(denoted above as SP, ASCII 32) MUST separate the 'softwareversion'
and 'comments' strings. The identification MUST be terminated by a
single Carriage Return and a single Line Feed character (ASCII 13 and
10, respectively). Implementors who wish to maintain compatibility
with older, undocumented versions of this protocol, may want to
process the identification string without expecting the presence of
the carriage return character for reasons described in Section 5 of
this document. The null character MUST NOT be sent. The maximum
length of the string is 255 characters, including the Carriage Return
and Line Feed.
The part of the identification string preceding Carriage Return and
Line Feed is used in the Diffie-Hellman key exchange (see
Section 8).
The server MAY send other lines of data before sending the version
string. Each line SHOULD be terminated by a Carriage Return and Line
Feed. Such lines MUST NOT begin with "SSH-", and SHOULD be encoded
in ISO-10646 UTF-8 [RFC3629] (language is not specified). Clients
MUST be able to process such lines. They MAY be silently ignored, or
MAY be displayed to the client user. If they are displayed, control
character filtering discussed in [SSH-ARCH] SHOULD be used. The
primary use of this feature is to allow TCP-wrappers to display an
error message before disconnecting.
Both the 'protoversion' and 'softwareversion' strings MUST consist of
printable US-ASCII characters with the exception of whitespace
characters and the minus sign (-). The 'softwareversion' string is
primarily used to trigger compatibility extensions and to indicate
the capabilities of an implementation. The 'comments' string SHOULD
contain additional information that might be useful in solving user
problems. As such, an example of a valid identification string is
SSH-2.0-billsSSH_3.6.3q3<CR><LF>
This identification string does not contain the optional 'comments'
string and is thusly terminated by a CR and LF immediately after the
'softwareversion' string.
Key exchange will begin immediately after sending this identifier.
All packets following the identification string SHALL use the binary
packet protocol which is described in Section 6.
5. Compatibility With Old SSH Versions
As stated earlier, the 'protoversion' specified for this protocol is
"2.0". Earlier versions of this protocol have not been formally
documented but it is widely known that they use 'protoversion' of
"1.x" (e.g., "1.5" or "1.3"). At the time of this writing, many
implementations of SSH are utilizing protocol version 2.0 but it is
known that there are still devices using the previous versions.
During the transition period, it is important to be able to work in a
way that is compatible with the installed SSH clients and servers
that use the older version of the protocol. Information in this
section is only relevant for implementations supporting compatibility
with SSH versions 1.x. For those interested, the only known
documentation of the 1.x protocol is contained in README files that
are shipped along with the source code. [ssh-1.2.30]
5.1 Old Client, New Server
Server implementations MAY support a configurable "compatibility"
flag that enables compatibility with old versions. When this flag is
on, the server SHOULD identify its protocol version as "1.99".
Clients using protocol 2.0 MUST be able to identify this as identical
to "2.0". In this mode the server SHOULD NOT send the carriage
return character (ASCII 13) after the version identification string.
In the compatibility mode the server SHOULD NOT send any further data
after its initialization string until it has received an
identification string from the client. The server can then determine
whether the client is using an old protocol, and can revert to the
old protocol if required. In the compatibility mode, the server MUST
NOT send additional data before the version string.
When compatibility with old clients is not needed, the server MAY
send its initial key exchange data immediately after the
identification string.
5.2 New Client, Old Server
Since the new client MAY immediately send additional data after its
identification string (before receiving server's identification), the
old protocol may already have been corrupted when the client learns
that the server is old. When this happens, the client SHOULD close
the connection to the server, and reconnect using the old protocol.
5.3 Packet Size and Overhead
Some readers will worry about the increase in packet size due to new
headers, padding, and Message Authentication Code (MAC). The minimum
packet size is in the order of 28 bytes (depending on negotiated
algorithms). The increase is negligible for large packets, but very
significant for one-byte packets (telnet-type sessions). There are,
however, several factors that make this a non-issue in almost all
o The minimum size of a TCP/IP header is 32 bytes. Thus, the
increase is actually from 33 to 51 bytes (roughly).
o The minimum size of the data field of an Ethernet packet is 46
bytes [RFC0894]. Thus, the increase is no more than 5 bytes.
When Ethernet headers are considered, the increase is less than 10
percent.
o The total fraction of telnet-type data in the Internet is
negligible, even with increased packet sizes.
The only environment where the packet size increase is likely to have
a significant effect is PPP [RFC1134] over slow modem lines (PPP
compresses the TCP/IP headers, emphasizing the increase in packet
size). However, with modern modems, the time needed to transfer is
in the order of 2 milliseconds, which is a lot faster than people can
There are also issues related to the maximum packet size. To
minimize delays in screen updates, one does not want excessively
large packets for interactive sessions. The maximum packet size is
negotiated separately for each channel.
6. Binary Packet Protocol
Each packet is in the following format:
uint32 packet_length
byte padding_length
byte[n1] payload; n1 = packet_length - padding_length - 1
byte[n2] random padding; n2 = padding_length
byte[m] mac (Message Authentication Code - MAC); m = mac_length
packet_length
The length of the packet in bytes, not including 'mac' or the
'packet_length' field itself.
padding_length
Length of 'random padding' (bytes).
The useful contents of the packet. If compression has been
negotiated, this field is compressed. Initially, compression
MUST be "none".
random padding
Arbitrary-length padding, such that the total length of
(packet_length || padding_length || payload || random padding)
is a multiple of the cipher block size or 8, whichever is
larger. There MUST be at least four bytes of padding. The
padding SHOULD consist of random bytes. The maximum amount of
padding is 255 bytes.
Message Authentication Code. If message authentication has
been negotiated, this field contains the MAC bytes. Initially,
the MAC algorithm MUST be "none".
Note that the length of the concatenation of 'packet_length',
'padding_length', 'payload', and 'random padding' MUST be a multiple
of the cipher block size or 8, whichever is larger. This constraint
MUST be enforced even when using stream ciphers. Note that the
'packet_length' field is also encrypted, and processing it requires
special care when sending or receiving packets. Also note that the
insertion of variable amounts of 'random padding' may help thwart
traffic analysis.
The minimum size of a packet is 16 (or the cipher block size,
whichever is larger) bytes (plus 'mac'). Implementations SHOULD
decrypt the length after receiving the first 8 (or cipher block size,
whichever is larger) bytes of a packet.
6.1 Maximum Packet Length
All implementations MUST be able to process packets with uncompressed
payload length of 32768 bytes or less and total packet size of 35000
bytes or less (including 'packet_length', 'padding_length',
'payload', 'random padding', and 'mac'). The maximum of 35000 bytes
is an arbitrarily chosen value larger than uncompressed size.
Implementations SHOULD support longer packets, where they might be
needed. For example: if an implementation wants to send a very large
number of certificates, the larger packets MAY be sent if the version
string indicates that the other party is able to process them.
However, implementations SHOULD check that the packet length is
reasonable for the implementation to avoid denial of service and/or
buffer overflow attacks.
6.2 Compression
If compression has been negotiated, the 'payload' field (and only it)
will be compressed using the negotiated algorithm. The
'packet_length' field and 'mac' will be computed from the compressed
payload. Encryption will be done after compression.
Compression MAY be stateful, depending on the method. Compression
MUST be independent for each direction, and implementations MUST
allow independently choosing the algorithm for each direction. In
practice however, it is RECOMMENDED that the compression method be
the same in both directions.
The following compression methods are currently defined:
none REQUIRED no compression
zlib OPTIONAL ZLIB (LZ77) compression
The "zlib" compression is described in [RFC1950] and in [RFC1951].
The compression context is initialized after each key exchange, and
is passed from one packet to the next with only a partial flush being
performed at the end of each packet. A partial flush means that the
current compressed block is ended and all data will be output. If
the current block is not a stored block, one or more empty blocks are
added after the current block to ensure that there are at least 8
bits counting from the start of the end-of-block code of the current
block to the end of the packet payload.
Additional methods may be defined as specified in [SSH-ARCH] and
[SSH-NUMBERS].
6.3 Encryption
An encryption algorithm and a key will be negotiated during the key
exchange. When encryption is in effect, the packet length, padding
length, payload and padding fields of each packet MUST be encrypted
with the given algorithm.
The encrypted data in all packets sent in one direction SHOULD be
considered a single data stream. For example: initialization vectors
SHOULD be passed from the end of one packet to the beginning of the
next packet. All ciphers SHOULD use keys with an effective key
length of 128 bits or more.
The ciphers in each direction MUST run independent of each other.
Implementations MUST allow the algorithm for each direction to be
independently selected, if multiple algorithms are allowed by local
policy. In practice however, it is RECOMMENDED that the same
algorithm be used in both directions.
The following ciphers are currently defined:
3des-cbc REQUIRED three-key 3DES in CBC mode
blowfish-cbc OPTIONAL Blowfish in CBC mode
twofish256-cbc OPTIONAL Twofish in CBC mode,
with 256-bit key
twofish-cbc OPTIONAL alias for "twofish256-cbc" (this
is being retained for
historical reasons)
twofish192-cbc OPTIONAL Twofish with 192-bit key
aes256-cbc OPTIONAL AES in CBC mode,
aes192-cbc OPTIONAL AES with 192-bit key
aes128-cbc RECOMMENDED AES with 128-bit key
serpent256-cbc OPTIONAL Serpent in CBC mode, with
256-bit key
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serpent192-cbc OPTIONAL Serpent with 192-bit key
arcfour OPTIONAL the ARCFOUR stream cipher
idea-cbc OPTIONAL IDEA in CBC mode
cast128-cbc OPTIONAL CAST-128 in CBC mode
none OPTIONAL no encryption; NOT RECOMMENDED
The "3des-cbc" cipher is three-key triple-DES
(encrypt-decrypt-encrypt), where the first 8 bytes of the key are
used for the first encryption, the next 8 bytes for the decryption,
and the following 8 bytes for the final encryption. This requires 24
bytes of key data (of which 168 bits are actually used). To
implement CBC mode, outer chaining MUST be used (i.e., there is only
one initialization vector). This is a block cipher with 8 byte
blocks. This algorithm is defined in [FIPS-46-3]. Note that since
this algorithm only has an effective key length of 112 bits
([SCHNEIER]), it does not meet the specifications that SSH encryption
algorithms should use keys of 128 bits or more. However, this
algorithm is still REQUIRED for historical reasons; essentially, all
known implementations at the time of this writing support this
algorithm, and it is commonly used because it is the fundamental
interoperable algorithm. At some future time it is expected that
another algorithm, one with better strength, will become so prevalent
and ubiquitous that the use of "3des-cbc" will be deprecated by
another STANDARDS ACTION.
The "blowfish-cbc" cipher is Blowfish in CBC mode, with 128 bit keys
[SCHNEIER]. This is a block cipher with 8 byte blocks.
The "twofish-cbc" or "twofish256-cbc" cipher is Twofish in CBC mode,
with 256 bit keys as described [TWOFISH]. This is a block cipher
with 16 byte blocks.
The "twofish192-cbc" cipher. Same as above but with 192-bit key.
The "aes256-cbc" cipher is AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
[FIPS-197], in CBC mode. This version uses 256-bit key.
The "aes192-cbc" cipher. Same as above but with 192-bit key.
The "serpent256-cbc" cipher in CBC mode, with 256-bit key as
described in the Serpent AES submission.
The "serpent192-cbc" cipher. Same as above but with 192-bit key.
The "arcfour" is the Arcfour stream cipher with 128 bit keys. The
Arcfour cipher is believed to be compatible with the RC4 cipher
[SCHNEIER]. Arcfour (and RC4) has problems with weak keys, and
should be used with caution.
The "idea-cbc" cipher is the IDEA cipher in CBC mode [SCHNEIER].
The "cast128-cbc" cipher is the CAST-128 cipher in CBC mode
The "none" algorithm specifies that no encryption is to be done.
Note that this method provides no confidentiality protection, and it
is NOT RECOMMENDED. Some functionality (e.g., password
authentication) may be disabled for security reasons if this cipher
is chosen.
Additional methods may be defined as specified in [SSH-ARCH] and in
6.4 Data Integrity
Data integrity is protected by including with each packet a MAC that
is computed from a shared secret, packet sequence number, and the
contents of the packet.
The message authentication algorithm and key are negotiated during
key exchange. Initially, no MAC will be in effect, and its length
MUST be zero. After key exchange, the 'mac' for the selected MAC
algorithm will be computed before encryption from the concatenation
of packet data:
mac = MAC(key, sequence_number || unencrypted_packet)
where 'unencrypted_packet' is the entire packet without 'mac' (the
length fields, 'payload' and 'random padding'), and 'sequence_number'
is an implicit packet sequence number represented as uint32. The
'sequence_number' is initialized to zero for the first packet, and is
incremented after every packet (regardless of whether encryption or
MAC is in use). It is never reset, even if keys/algorithms are
renegotiated later. It wraps around to zero after every 2^32
packets. The packet 'sequence_number' itself is not included in the
packet sent over the wire.
The MAC algorithms for each direction MUST run independently, and
implementations MUST allow choosing the algorithm independently for
both directions.
The value of 'mac' resulting from the MAC algorithm MUST be
transmitted without encryption as the last part of the packet. The
number of 'mac' bytes depends on the algorithm chosen.
The following MAC algorithms are currently defined:
hmac-sha1 REQUIRED HMAC-SHA1 (digest length = key
length = 20)
hmac-sha1-96 RECOMMENDED first 96 bits of HMAC-SHA1 (digest
length = 12, key length = 20)
hmac-md5 OPTIONAL HMAC-MD5 (digest length = key
hmac-md5-96 OPTIONAL first 96 bits of HMAC-MD5 (digest
none OPTIONAL no MAC; NOT RECOMMENDED
The "hmac-*" algorithms are described in [RFC2104]. The "*-n" MACs
use only the first n bits of the resulting value.
The hash algorithms are described in [SCHNEIER].
6.5 Key Exchange Methods
The key exchange method specifies how one-time session keys are
generated for encryption and for authentication, and how the server
authentication is done.
Two REQUIRED key exchange methods have been defined:
diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 REQUIRED
diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 REQUIRED
These methods are described in Section 8.
Additional methods may be defined as specified in [SSH-NUMBERS]. The
name "diffie-hellman-group1-sha1" is used for a key exchange method
using an Oakley group as defined in [RFC2409]. SSH maintains its own
group identifier space which is logically distinct from Oakley
[RFC2412] and IKE; however, for one additional group, the Working
Group adopted the number assigned by [RFC3526], using
diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 for the name of the second defined group.
Implementations should treat these names as opaque identifiers and
should not assume any relationship between the groups used by SSH and
the groups defined for IKE.
6.6 Public Key Algorithms
This protocol has been designed to be able to operate with almost any
public key format, encoding, and algorithm (signature and/or
encryption).
There are several aspects that define a public key type:
o Key format: how is the key encoded and how are certificates
represented. The key blobs in this protocol MAY contain
certificates in addition to keys.
o Signature and/or encryption algorithms. Some key types may not
support both signing and encryption. Key usage may also be
restricted by policy statements - e.g., in certificates. In this
case, different key types SHOULD be defined for the different
policy alternatives.
o Encoding of signatures and/or encrypted data. This includes but
is not limited to padding, byte order, and data formats.
The following public key and/or certificate formats are currently
defined:
ssh-dss REQUIRED sign Raw DSS Key
ssh-rsa RECOMMENDED sign Raw RSA Key
pgp-sign-rsa OPTIONAL sign OpenPGP certificates (RSA key)
pgp-sign-dss OPTIONAL sign OpenPGP certificates (DSS key)
Additional key types may be defined as specified in [SSH-ARCH] and in
The key type MUST always be explicitly known (from algorithm
negotiation or some other source). It is not normally included in
the key blob.
Certificates and public keys are encoded as follows:
string certificate or public key format identifier
byte[n] key/certificate data
The certificate part may have be a zero length string, but a public
key is required. This is the public key that will be used for
authentication. The certificate sequence contained in the
certificate blob can be used to provide authorization.
Public key / certificate formats that do not explicitly specify a
signature format identifier MUST use the public key / certificate
format identifier as the signature identifier.
Signatures are encoded as follows:
string signature format identifier (as specified by the
public key / cert format)
byte[n] signature blob in format specific encoding.
The "ssh-dss" key format has the following specific encoding:
string "ssh-dss"
mpint p
mpint q
mpint g
mpint y
Here the 'p', 'q', 'g', and 'y' parameters form the signature key blob.
Signing and verifying using this key format is done according to the
Digital Signature Standard [FIPS-186-2] using the SHA-1 hash.
The resulting signature is encoded as follows:
string dss_signature_blob
The value for 'dss_signature_blob' is encoded as a string containing
r followed by s (which are 160 bits long integers, without lengths or
padding, unsigned and in network byte order).
The "ssh-rsa" key format has the following specific encoding:
string "ssh-rsa"
mpint e
mpint n
Here the 'e' and 'n' parameters form the signature key blob.
Signing and verifying using this key format is done according to
[SCHNEIER] and [RFC3447] using the SHA-1 hash.
string rsa_signature_blob
The value for 'rsa_signature_blob' is encoded as a string containing
s (which is an integer, without lengths or padding, unsigned and in
network byte order).
The "pgp-sign-rsa" method indicates the certificates, the public key,
and the signature are in OpenPGP compatible binary format
([RFC2440]). This method indicates that the key is an RSA-key.
The "pgp-sign-dss". As above, but indicates that the key is a
DSS-key.
7. Key Exchange
Key exchange (kex) begins by each side sending name-lists of
supported algorithms. Each side has a preferred algorithm in each
category, and it is assumed that most implementations at any given
time will use the same preferred algorithm. Each side MAY guess
which algorithm the other side is using, and MAY send an initial key
exchange packet according to the algorithm if appropriate for the
preferred method.
The guess is considered wrong, if:
o the kex algorithm and/or the host key algorithm is guessed wrong
(server and client have different preferred algorithm), or
o if any of the other algorithms cannot be agreed upon (the
procedure is defined below in Section 7.1).
Otherwise, the guess is considered to be right and the optimistically
sent packet MUST be handled as the first key exchange packet.
However, if the guess was wrong, and a packet was optimistically sent
by one or both parties, such packets MUST be ignored (even if the
error in the guess would not affect the contents of the initial
packet(s)), and the appropriate side MUST send the correct initial
packet.
A key exchange method uses "explicit server authentication" if the
key exchange messages include a signature or other proof of the
server's authenticity. A key exchange method uses "implicit server
authentication" if, in order to prove its authenticity, the server
also has to prove that it knows the shared secret K, by sending a
message and a corresponding MAC which the client can verify.
The key exchange method defined by this document uses explicit server
authentication. However, key exchange methods with implicit server
authentication MAY be used with this protocol. After a key exchange
with implicit server authentication, the client MUST wait for a
response to its service request message before sending any further
7.1 Algorithm Negotiation
Key exchange begins by each side sending the following packet:
byte SSH_MSG_KEXINIT
byte[16] cookie (random bytes)
name-list kex_algorithms
name-list server_host_key_algorithms
name-list encryption_algorithms_client_to_server
name-list encryption_algorithms_server_to_client
name-list mac_algorithms_client_to_server
name-list mac_algorithms_server_to_client
name-list compression_algorithms_client_to_server
name-list compression_algorithms_server_to_client
name-list languages_client_to_server
name-list languages_server_to_client
boolean first_kex_packet_follows
uint32 0 (reserved for future extension)
Each of the algorithm name-lists MUST be a comma-separated list of
algorithm names - see Algorithm Naming in [SSH-ARCH] and additional
information in [SSH-NUMBERS]. Each supported (allowed) algorithm
MUST be listed in order of preference, from most to least.
The first algorithm in each name-list MUST be the preferred (guessed)
algorithm. Each name-list MUST contain at least one algorithm name.
The 'cookie' MUST be a random value generated by the sender.
Its purpose is to make it impossible for either side to fully
determine the keys and the session identifier.
kex_algorithms
Key exchange algorithms were defined above. The first
algorithm MUST be the preferred (and guessed) algorithm. If
both sides make the same guess, that algorithm MUST be used.
Otherwise, the following algorithm MUST be used to choose a key
exchange method: Iterate over client's kex algorithms, one at a
time. Choose the first algorithm that satisfies the following
+ the server also supports the algorithm,
+ if the algorithm requires an encryption-capable host key,
there is an encryption-capable algorithm on the server's
server_host_key_algorithms that is also supported by the
client, and
+ if the algorithm requires a signature-capable host key,
there is a signature-capable algorithm on the server's
client.
If no algorithm satisfying all these conditions can be found,
the connection fails, and both sides MUST disconnect.
server_host_key_algorithms
A name-list of the algorithms supported for the server host
key. The server lists the algorithms for which it has host
keys; the client lists the algorithms that it is willing to
accept. (There MAY be multiple host keys for a host, possibly
with different algorithms.)
Some host keys may not support both signatures and encryption
(this can be determined from the algorithm), and thus not all
host keys are valid for all key exchange methods.
Algorithm selection depends on whether the chosen key exchange
algorithm requires a signature or encryption capable host key.
It MUST be possible to determine this from the public key
algorithm name. The first algorithm on the client's name-list
that satisfies the requirements and is also supported by the
server MUST be chosen. If there is no such algorithm, both
sides MUST disconnect.
encryption_algorithms
A name-list of acceptable symmetric encryption algorithms (also
known as ciphers) in order of preference. The chosen
encryption algorithm to each direction MUST be the first
algorithm on the client's name-list that is also on the
server's name-list. If there is no such algorithm, both sides
MUST disconnect.
Note that "none" must be explicitly listed if it is to be
acceptable. The defined algorithm names are listed in
Section 6.3.
mac_algorithms
A name-list of acceptable MAC algorithms in order of
preference. The chosen MAC algorithm MUST be the first
acceptable. The MAC algorithm names are listed in Section 6.4.
compression_algorithms
A name-list of acceptable compression algorithms in order of
preference. The chosen compression algorithm MUST be the first
acceptable. The compression algorithm names are listed in
This is a name-list of language tags in order of preference
[RFC3066]. Both parties MAY ignore this name-list. If there
are no language preferences, this name-list SHOULD be empty as
defined in Section 5 of [SSH-ARCH]. Language tags SHOULD NOT
be present unless they are known to be needed by the sending
first_kex_packet_follows
Indicates whether a guessed key exchange packet follows. If a
guessed packet will be sent, this MUST be TRUE. If no guessed
packet will be sent, this MUST be FALSE.
After receiving the SSH_MSG_KEXINIT packet from the other side,
each party will know whether their guess was right. If the
other party's guess was wrong, and this field was TRUE, the
next packet MUST be silently ignored, and both sides MUST then
act as determined by the negotiated key exchange method. If
the guess was right, key exchange MUST continue using the
guessed packet.
After the KEXINIT packet exchange, the key exchange algorithm is run.
It may involve several packet exchanges, as specified by the key
exchange method.
Once a party has sent a KEXINIT message for key exchange or
re-exchange, until is has sent a NEWKEYS message (Section 7.3), it
MUST NOT send any messages other than:
o Transport layer generic messages (1 to 19) (but SERVICE_REQUEST
and SERVICE_ACCEPT MUST NOT be sent);
o Algorithm negotiation messages (20 to 29) (but further KEXINITs
MUST NOT be sent);
o Specific key exchange method messages (30 to 49).
The provisions of Section 11 apply to unrecognized messages.
Note however that during a key re-exchange, after sending a KEXINIT
message, each party MUST be prepared to process an arbitrary number
of messages that may be in-flight before receiving a KEXINIT from the
other party.
7.2 Output from Key Exchange
The key exchange produces two values: a shared secret K, and an
exchange hash H. Encryption and authentication keys are derived from
these. The exchange hash H from the first key exchange is
additionally used as the session identifier, which is a unique
identifier for this connection. It is used by authentication methods
as a part of the data that is signed as a proof of possession of a
private key. Once computed, the session identifier is not changed,
even if keys are later re-exchanged.
Each key exchange method specifies a hash function that is used in
the key exchange. The same hash algorithm MUST be used in key
derivation. Here, we'll call it HASH.
Encryption keys MUST be computed as HASH of a known value and K as
o Initial IV client to server: HASH(K || H || "A" || session_id)
(Here K is encoded as mpint and "A" as byte and session_id as raw
data. "A" means the single character A, ASCII 65).
o Initial IV server to client: HASH(K || H || "B" || session_id)
o Encryption key client to server: HASH(K || H || "C" || session_id)
o Encryption key server to client: HASH(K || H || "D" || session_id)
o Integrity key client to server: HASH(K || H || "E" || session_id)
o Integrity key server to client: HASH(K || H || "F" || session_id)
Key data MUST be taken from the beginning of the hash output. 128
bits (16 bytes) MUST be used for algorithms with variable-length
keys. The only variable key length algorithm defined in this
document is arcfour). For other algorithms, as many bytes as are
needed are taken from the beginning of the hash value. If the key
length needed is longer than the output of the HASH, the key is
extended by computing HASH of the concatenation of K and H and the
entire key so far, and appending the resulting bytes (as many as HASH
generates) to the key. This process is repeated until enough key
material is available; the key is taken from the beginning of this
value. In other words:
K1 = HASH(K || H || X || session_id) (X is e.g., "A")
K2 = HASH(K || H || K1)
K3 = HASH(K || H || K1 || K2)
key = K1 || K2 || K3 || ...
This process will lose entropy if the amount of entropy in K is
larger than the internal state size of HASH.
7.3 Taking Keys Into Use
Key exchange ends by each side sending an SSH_MSG_NEWKEYS message.
This message is sent with the old keys and algorithms. All messages
sent after this message MUST use the new keys and algorithms.
When this message is received, the new keys and algorithms MUST be
taken into use for receiving.
The purpose of this message is to ensure that a party is able to
respond with a SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT message that the other party can
understand if something goes wrong with the key exchange.
byte SSH_MSG_NEWKEYS
8. Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
The Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange provides a shared secret that
can not be determined by either party alone. The key exchange is
combined with a signature with the host key to provide host
authentication. This key exchange method provides explicit server
authentication as is defined in Section 7.
In the following description (C is the client, S is the server; p is
a large safe prime, g is a generator for a subgroup of GF(p), and q
is the order of the subgroup; V_S is S's version string; V_C is C's
version string; K_S is S's public host key; I_C is C's KEXINIT
message and I_S S's KEXINIT message which have been exchanged before
this part begins):
1. C generates a random number x (1 < x < q) and computes e = g^x
mod p. C sends "e" to S.
2. S generates a random number y (0 < y < q) and computes f = g^y
mod p. S receives "e". It computes K = e^y mod p, H = hash(V_C
|| V_S || I_C || I_S || K_S || e || f || K) (these elements are
encoded according to their types; see below), and signature s on
H with its private host key. S sends "K_S || f || s" to C. The
signing operation may involve a second hashing operation.
3. C verifies that K_S really is the host key for S (e.g., using
certificates or a local database). C is also allowed to accept
the key without verification; however, doing so will render the
protocol insecure against active attacks (but may be desirable
for practical reasons in the short term in many environments). C
then computes K = f^x mod p, H = hash(V_C || V_S || I_C || I_S ||
K_S || e || f || K), and verifies the signature s on H.
Either side MUST NOT send or accept e or f values that are not in the
range [1, p-1]. If this condition is violated, the key exchange
fails.
This is implemented with the following messages. The hash algorithm
for computing the exchange hash is defined by the method name, and is
called HASH. The public key algorithm for signing is negotiated with
the KEXINIT messages.
First, the client sends the following:
byte SSH_MSG_KEXDH_INIT
The server responds with the following:
byte SSH_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY
string server public host key and certificates (K_S)
mpint f
string signature of H
The hash H is computed as the HASH hash of the concatenation of the
string V_C, the client's version string (CR and NL excluded)
string V_S, the server's version string (CR and NL excluded)
string I_C, the payload of the client's SSH_MSG_KEXINIT
string I_S, the payload of the server's SSH_MSG_KEXINIT
string K_S, the host key
mpint e, exchange value sent by the client
mpint f, exchange value sent by the server
mpint K, the shared secret
This value is called the exchange hash, and it is used to
authenticate the key exchange. The exchange hash SHOULD be kept
The signature algorithm MUST be applied over H, not the original
data. Most signature algorithms include hashing and additional
padding - for example, "ssh-dss" specifies SHA-1 hashing. In that
case, the data is first hashed with HASH to compute H, and H is then
hashed with SHA-1 as part of the signing operation.
8.1 diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
The "diffie-hellman-group1-sha1" method specifies Diffie-Hellman key
exchange with SHA-1 as HASH, and Oakley Group 2 [RFC2409] (1024bit
MODP Group). This method MUST be supported for interoperability as
all of the known implementations currently support it. Note that
this method is named using the phrase "group1" even though it
specifies the use of Oakley Group 2.
8.2 diffie-hellman-group14-sha1
The "diffie-hellman-group14-sha1" method specifies Diffie-Hellman key
exchange with SHA-1 as HASH, and Oakley Group 14 [RFC3526] (2048bit
MODP Group), and it MUST also be supported.
9. Key Re-Exchange
Key re-exchange is started by sending an SSH_MSG_KEXINIT packet when
not already doing a key exchange (as described in Section 7.1). When
this message is received, a party MUST respond with its own
SSH_MSG_KEXINIT message except when the received SSH_MSG_KEXINIT
already was a reply. Either party MAY initiate the re-exchange, but
roles MUST NOT be changed (i.e., the server remains the server, and
the client remains the client).
Key re-exchange is performed using whatever encryption was in effect
when the exchange was started. Encryption, compression, and MAC
methods are not changed before a new SSH_MSG_NEWKEYS is sent after
the key exchange (as in the initial key exchange). Re-exchange is
processed identically to the initial key exchange, except for the
session identifier that will remain unchanged. It is permissible to
change some or all of the algorithms during the re-exchange. Host
keys can also change. All keys and initialization vectors are
recomputed after the exchange. Compression and encryption contexts
are reset.
It is RECOMMENDED that the keys are changed after each gigabyte of
transmitted data or after each hour of connection time, whichever
comes sooner. However, since the re-exchange is a public key
operation, it requires a fair amount of processing power and should
not be performed too often.
More application data may be sent after the SSH_MSG_NEWKEYS packet
has been sent; key exchange does not affect the protocols that lie
above the SSH transport layer.
10. Service Request
After the key exchange, the client requests a service. The service
is identified by a name. The format of names and procedures for
defining new names are defined in [SSH-ARCH] and [SSH-NUMBERS].
Currently, the following names have been reserved:
ssh-userauth
ssh-connection
Similar local naming policy is applied to the service names, as is
applied to the algorithm names. A local service should use the
PRIVATE USE syntax of "servicename@domain".
byte SSH_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST
string service name
If the server rejects the service request, it SHOULD send an
appropriate SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT message and MUST disconnect.
When the service starts, it may have access to the session identifier
generated during the key exchange.
If the server supports the service (and permits the client to use
it), it MUST respond with the following:
byte SSH_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT
Message numbers used by services should be in the area reserved for
them (see [SSH-ARCH]) and [SSH-NUMBERS]. The transport level will
continue to process its own messages.
Note that after a key exchange with implicit server authentication,
the client MUST wait for response to its service request message
before sending any further data.
11. Additional Messages
Either party may send any of the following messages at any time.
11.1 Disconnection Message
byte SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT
uint32 reason code
string description [RFC3629]
string language tag [RFC3066]
This message causes immediate termination of the connection. All
implementations MUST be able to process this message; they SHOULD be
able to send this message.
The sender MUST NOT send or receive any data after this message, and
the recipient MUST NOT accept any data after receiving this message.
The Disconnection Message 'description' string gives a more specific
explanation in a human-readable form. The Disconnection Message
'reason code' gives the reason in a more machine-readable format
(suitable for localization), and can have the values as displayed in
the table below. Note that the decimal representation is displayed
in this table for readability but that the values are actually uint32
Symbolic name reason code
------------- -----------
SSH_DISCONNECT_HOST_NOT_ALLOWED_TO_CONNECT 1
SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR 2
SSH_DISCONNECT_KEY_EXCHANGE_FAILED 3
SSH_DISCONNECT_RESERVED 4
SSH_DISCONNECT_MAC_ERROR 5
SSH_DISCONNECT_COMPRESSION_ERROR 6
SSH_DISCONNECT_SERVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE 7
SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_VERSION_NOT_SUPPORTED 8
SSH_DISCONNECT_HOST_KEY_NOT_VERIFIABLE 9
SSH_DISCONNECT_CONNECTION_LOST 10
SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION 11
SSH_DISCONNECT_TOO_MANY_CONNECTIONS 12
SSH_DISCONNECT_AUTH_CANCELLED_BY_USER 13
SSH_DISCONNECT_NO_MORE_AUTH_METHODS_AVAILABLE 14
SSH_DISCONNECT_ILLEGAL_USER_NAME 15
If the 'description' string is displayed, control character filtering
discussed in [SSH-ARCH] should be used to avoid attacks by sending
terminal control characters.
Requests for assignments of new Disconnection Message 'reason code'
values (and associated 'description' text) in the range of 0x00000010
to 0xFDFFFFFF MUST be done through the IETF CONSENSUS method as
described in [RFC2434]. The Disconnection Message 'reason code'
values in the range of 0xFE000000 through 0xFFFFFFFF are reserved for
PRIVATE USE. As is noted, the actual instructions to the IANA are in
11.2 Ignored Data Message
byte SSH_MSG_IGNORE
All implementations MUST understand (and ignore) this message at any
time (after receiving the protocol version). No implementation is
required to send them. This message can be used as an additional
protection measure against advanced traffic analysis techniques.
11.3 Debug Message
byte SSH_MSG_DEBUG
boolean always_display
string message [RFC3629]
All implementations MUST understand this message, but they are
allowed to ignore it. This message is used to transmit information
that may help debugging. If always_display is TRUE, the message
SHOULD be displayed. Otherwise, it SHOULD NOT be displayed unless
debugging information has been explicitly requested by the user.
The 'message' doesn't need to contain a newline. It is, however,
allowed to consist of multiple lines separated by CRLF (Carriage
Return - Line Feed) pairs.
If the 'message' string is displayed, terminal control character
filtering discussed in [SSH-ARCH] should be used to avoid attacks by
sending terminal control characters.
11.4 Reserved Messages
An implementation MUST respond to all unrecognized messages with an
SSH_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED message in the order in which the messages were
received. Such messages MUST be otherwise ignored. Later protocol
versions may define other meanings for these message types.
byte SSH_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED
uint32 packet sequence number of rejected message
12. Summary of Message Numbers
The following is a summary of messages and their associated message
SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT 1
SSH_MSG_IGNORE 2
SSH_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED 3
SSH_MSG_DEBUG 4
SSH_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST 5
SSH_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT 6
SSH_MSG_KEXINIT 20
SSH_MSG_NEWKEYS 21
Note that numbers 30-49 are used for kex packets. Different kex
methods may reuse message numbers in this range.
13. IANA Considerations
This document is part of a set. The IANA considerations for the SSH
protocol as defined in [SSH-ARCH], [SSH-USERAUTH], [SSH-CONNECT], and
this document, are detailed in [SSH-NUMBERS].
This protocol provides a secure encrypted channel over an insecure
network. It performs server host authentication, key exchange,
encryption, and integrity protection. It also derives a unique
session id that may be used by higher-level protocols.
Full security considerations for this protocol are provided in
[SSH-ARCH].
15.1 Normative
[SSH-ARCH]
Lonvick, C., "SSH Protocol Architecture",
I-D draft-ietf-secsh-architecture-21.txt, February 2005.
[SSH-USERAUTH]
Lonvick, C., "SSH Authentication Protocol",
I-D draft-ietf-secsh-userauth-26.txt, February 2005.
[SSH-CONNECT]
Lonvick, C., "SSH Connection Protocol",
I-D draft-ietf-secsh-connect-24.txt, February 2005.
[SSH-NUMBERS]
Lonvick, C., "SSH Protocol Assigned Numbers",
I-D draft-ietf-secsh-assignednumbers-11.txt, February
[RFC1950] Deutsch, L. and J-L. Gailly, "ZLIB Compressed Data Format
Specification version 3.3", RFC 1950, May 1996.
[RFC1951] Deutsch, P., "DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification
version 1.3", RFC 1951, May 1996.
[RFC2104] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M. and R. Canetti, "HMAC:
Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104,
February 1997.
[RFC2144] Adams, C., "The CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm", RFC 2144,
[RFC2409] Harkins, D. and D. Carrel, "The Internet Key Exchange
(IKE)", RFC 2409, November 1998.
[RFC2434] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434,
[RFC2440] Callas, J., Donnerhacke, L., Finney, H. and R. Thayer,
"OpenPGP Message Format", RFC 2440, November 1998.
[RFC2693] Ellison, C., Frantz, B., Lampson, B., Rivest, R., Thomas,
B. and T. Ylonen, "SPKI Certificate Theory", RFC 2693,
[RFC3066] Alvestrand, H., "Tags for the Identification of
Languages", BCP 47, RFC 3066, January 2001.
[RFC3280] Housley, R., Polk, W., Ford, W. and D. Solo, "Internet
X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and
Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile", RFC 3280,
[RFC3447] Jonsson, J. and B. Kaliski, "Public-Key Cryptography
Standards (PKCS) #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications
Version 2.1", RFC 3447, February 2003.
[RFC3526] Kivinen, T. and M. Kojo, "More Modular Exponential (MODP)
Diffie-Hellman groups for Internet Key Exchange (IKE)",
[RFC3629] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, November 2003.
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"FIPS PUB 186-2, Digital Signature Standard (DSS)",
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Standard (DES)", October 1999.
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protocols algorithms and source in code in C", 1996.
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128-Bit Block Cipher, 1st Edition", March 1999.
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[RFC0894] Hornig, C., "Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams
over Ethernet networks", STD 41, RFC 894, April 1984.
[RFC1134] Perkins, D., "Point-to-Point Protocol: A proposal for
multi-protocol transmission of datagrams over
Point-to-Point links", RFC 1134, November 1989.
[RFC2412] Orman, H., "The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol",
RFC 2412, November 1998.
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tarball ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/security/login/ssh/
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Home » Software » ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE » Norton 360 Deluxe Review
Norton 360 Deluxe Review
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Not the most lightweight or innovative suite around, but when it comes to protection Norton can’t be faulted. Read our Norton 360 Deluxe Review.
Symantec keeps on tinkering with the name of its flagship security suite: last year it was Norton Security, but now it’s been rebranded as Norton 360. The water is further muddied by the fact that it’s offered in Standard, Deluxe and Premium editions, which cover one, three (or five) and ten devices. The feature sets are the same, though, except that the single-device licence doesn’t include the parental control module – which is fair enough, as kids will presumably be using a separate device anyway.
Uniquely. Norton includes a cloud backup module. You’ll need to be selective about what you back up. as the Standard and Deluxe licences come with a fairly tight 10GB and 25GB of storage (50GB if you buy the five-device version), while the Premium licence gives you just 75GB shared between your ten devices. Still, assuming you already have a first-line backup regime in place, Norton adds a helpful extra level of off-site protection for your personal files.
Norton also distinguishes itself byincluding a full VPN with unlimited access to 31 servers worldwide – a far cry from the cut down services offered by its rivals. Don’t get too excited: we found the VPN wasn’t able to unblock Netflix US, and our browsing speeds were slashed from 108Mbits/sec to just 39Mbits/sec even when using a UK-based server. However, for the occasional bit of privacy protection, it’s a definite plus point for Norton, especially when you compare the price of a dedicated VPN.
It’s good to sec that the bundled parental controls aren’t hobbled, cither. The Deluxe and Premium packages include full category based website blocking, time limits and activity monitoring for Windows devices, plus location tracking for Android and iOS devices.
Beyond these big features, there’s not a lot more to the suite. At first glance, the interface looks like it’s full of tools and functions, but this is partly down to a muddled design that duplicates features across the “My Norton” and ‘‘Device Security” windows. Click around and the only other significant components you’ll find are the SafeCam feature – which lets you grant or deny webcam access to specific applications – and Norton’s free Safe Search and password manager extensions for Chrome and Edge. There’s no ransomware-specific protection, though the backup service could save your bacon if you get hit.
The final core security component isn’t shown in the main interface, but is buried in the Settings menu. This is Norton’s firewall, which lets you configure application and protocol- specific rules, and set policies for dealing with subjective cases such as “uncommon protocols” and “low risk applications”. It seems a bit odd that Symantec doesn’t make more of this feature, but that perhaps reflects the reality that only the most meddlesome of advanced users will want to adjust the default settings.
A couple of system tools fill out the feature list: the disk defragmenter and file clean-up tools replicate functions that are built into Windows, but the Startup Manager gives a useful insight into whether individual startup items on your PC are commonplace among Norton users or suspiciously rare.
Norton 360 can also boast of one achievement that only one rival this month can match: a 100% protection rating from
ABOVE A muddled front-end makes the feature set seem bigger than it really is
“Norton includes a full VPN with unlimited access to 31 servers worldwide – a far cry from the cut-down services offered by rivals”
both AV-Comparatives and AV-Test. Trend Micro managed the same, but blotted its copybook with 20 false positives, while Norton only fell for a more forgivable seven.
The user experience is better than you’d expect, too. The performance figures suggest that Norton has a significant impact on system responsiveness, but AV-Test noted that the slowdown was most obvious
while installing new apps, while AV-Comparatives found that Norton primarily affected launch speed when apps were run for the first time. Those aren’t things you’ll be doing all that often, and when it comes to opening and using your everyday applications, Norton had a much lesser effect.
The last thing to talk about is the price. Officially, Norton 360 Deluxe costs £ per year, but the Symantec website almost always seems to be a sale on – right now it’s reduced to £, and if you shop around you’ll find the full five device product online for just £. As usual, look out for automatic renewals: make sure you cancel before your initial 12 month licence expires, or you’ll be billed the full RRP for your next year’s subscription.
With its built-in backup and VPN services, Norton stands out from the crowd, and even if those features aren’t high on your priority list, the suite’s low price and protection rating make it worth considering.
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Ontario parents will get another $200 payout to help with education costs
Colin D'Mello Queen's Park Bureau Chief and Videojournalist, CTV News Toronto
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Published Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:51PM EST Last Updated Friday, November 6, 2020 11:40AM EST
TORONTO -- Ontario families with young children will soon be getting another COVID-19 cheque from the provincial government, designed to help offset the costs of the pandemic.
The Ford government says parents of children aged 12 and younger will be able to receive a one-time payment of $200 per child, and $250 for a child 21 or younger with special needs.
This is the second payment being sent to families during the pandemic, money which the government said would provide "a measure of relief" for those affected by outbreaks in schools, and those who chose to learn from home.
The payments were outlined in the Ontario government's budget tabled on Thursday afternoon my Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips.
"We have heard from parents that new expenses to support their kid's education in this COVID-19 era are straining their pocketbooks," Phillips said in the legislature.
The government will spend $380 million on the second round of payments, on top of the $378 million for the first batch of payments, which Phillips said was "money well spent."
The cheques are expected to be issued by Christmas.
Ontario set to add $100B in new debt over next three years, with premier blaming COVID-19
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Home Airshows HERE’S ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE 2018 CF-18 DEMONSTRATION HORNET PAINT SCHEME
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HERE’S ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE 2018 CF-18 DEMONSTRATION HORNET PAINT SCHEME
by Dario Leone Jan 19 2018
written by Dario Leone Jan 19 2018
RCAF selects a theme for each year for its CF-18 air demonstration team and 2018 will feature the 60th Anniversary of NORAD
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) has unveiled 2018 CF-18 Demonstration Hornet paint scheme.
According to the RCAF press release, the service selects a theme for each year for its CF-18 air demonstration team and 2018 will feature the 60th Anniversary of NORAD.
The design: Elements from NORAD’s logo – lightning bolts, a north-pointing sword, the globe, and silver stylized wings that evoke both the northern lights and radar sweeps. Taken together, the motif is undeniably symbolic of NORAD’s ongoing commitment to the protection and defence of North American airspace, and the RCAF’s role in guaranteeing Canadian sovereignty.
Throughout the year, NORAD will hold several events aimed at highlighting the importance of honouring the past, guarding the present, and protecting the future.
NORAD is a combined, bi-national military command established by an agreement in 1958 between Canada and the United States to monitor and defend North America. NORAD is supported in Canada by the Canadian NORAD Region (CANR), headquartered in Winnipeg, Man., and the Canadian Air Defence Sector (CADS) at 22 Wing North Bay, Ontario. CANR maintains CF-18 aircraft on standby at 3 Wing and 4 Wing along with CC-130T Hercules air-to-air refuellers operating from Winnipeg, in support of the NORAD mission.
“As the Commander of the Canadian NORAD Region, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase the important NORAD mission and our important bi-national partnership through the 2018 National CF-18 Demonstration program,” said Major-General Christian Drouin, the commander of 1 Canadian Air Division/Canadian NORAD Region. “The men and women of NORAD work diligently to keep watch over our countries and to protect the air sovereignty of North America. Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, no matter what – we have the watch.”
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Home Cold War Era The Egyptian Air Force First Phantom Killer That Never Was
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The Egyptian Air Force First Phantom Killer That Never Was
by Dario Leone Dec 5 2018
written by Dario Leone Dec 5 2018
‘Then my leader yelled, “Break, break, we have two aircraft behind!” So, I forgot about the smoking Phantom and turned away. I left him southeast of Suez, and the jet crossed into Sinai. I think the F-4 crashed on the way home …,’ Ahmed Atef, Egyptian Air Force MiG-21 Pilot
The reason the Israeli Air Force (IAF) worked so hard to obtain the F-4 in the late 1960s, and relied on it for so much, is clear. The big jet’s range, payload, and bombing accuracy were superior by orders of magnitude to anything they had operated up to that time.
In fact after having been acquired in 1969 the F-4 Phantom fighters quickly became the backbone of the IAF.
Within three months of their delivery, Israeli casualties in the War of Attrition were reportedly at their lowest since the onset of hostilities, and Egyptian air defences were supposedly ‘neutralised’. As explained by Tom Cooper and David Nicolle, with Lon Nordeen, Patricia Salti and Martin Smisek in their book Arab MiGs, Volume 4, in the hope of scoring more points in the arena of public relations, Israel launched a campaign of supersonic ‘booming’ of Egyptian towns. Together with newly delivered F-4Es, Mirages flew at supersonic speed and low altitude, breaking windows all over Egypt. Egypt reacted by further increasing their pressure upon Israeli positions on the Sinai. On Dec. 9, 1969, four Su-7BMKs delivered such a slashing attack on the HAWK SAM site near Baluza that the Israelis did not manage to fire a single missile in response, and even the Mirages were late to scramble. The Israelis attempted to pursue the withdrawing Sukhois to the west of the Suez Canal, but were then jumped by MiG-21F-13s flown by 1st Lts Ahmed Atef and Munir. The two young and bold Egyptian pilots attempted to correct the mistake of their GCI – which vectored them in front instead of behind the enemy formation – by delivering a head-on cannon attack on the two Mirages. Without waiting to see the results of their attack, and having completed their task of protecting the fighter-bombers by forcing the Israelis to withdraw, both pilots then disengaged without further incident. Later in the afternoon, the IDF/AF returned to pound eight SAM sites at Abu Suweir, and between Ismailia and Cairo, and the same two Egyptian pilots were scrambled again, as described by Atef:
`We had scrambled from Inchas and joined four other MiG-21s from Kom Awshim. Once in the air, the GCI informed us about the situation. The Israelis were flying a reconnaissance with Mirages in the direction of Bani Suweif. The first four MiG-21s went to intercept the two Mirages that were under way at low level, but could not reach them because the Mirages were flying too fast. So the MiGs went back to their base, and we were to protect their landing. Then the GCI told us that there were eight Phantoms approaching us over the Gulf of Suez, at an altitude of 6,000m [19,685ft]. Four other MiGs had scrambled from Inchas to support us and they were soon about 15km [9.3 miles] behind us. The GCI continued feeding us information about the situation, then ordered us to get to maximum speed, release belly tanks, go to afterburner on, climb to 10,000m [32,808ft], and advised us that the target was at 35km [21.7 miles] at 11 o’clock (I have the tape-recording of this engagement).
‘The first flight of F-4s was distributed in two sections of two, and the second flight was further way. After I made my combat turn, I saw the number three and four Phantoms, and my leader confirmed he had two aircraft in sight. Then we saw a missile in flight – an Israeli air-to-air missile. It passed through our formation but did not hit anything. The leader of the Israelis then made a very smooth turn, but his nu-ber 2 delayed a little and my leader went after the number 2. When the Israeli saw the two MiGs approaching, he made a quick turn to the right and forgot about his leader He escaped, making a very good egress, and was gone to the coast.
`I looked around and saw another Phantom about 5km [3.1 miles] away, but my leader said that these were approaching MiGs. I looked again and saw their noses were black: all our aircraft had green noses – the Su-7s, MiGs – all had green noses. So I went after him. Now I knew he was a poor pilot; he made some turns but could have gotten away if he had dove down and run. I was flying a MiG-21F-13 and could not have caught him if he did this. We manoeuvred, and I reached a position around 200m [656ft] behind him and opened fire with my cannon. He made a very gentle turn, and put his afterburners off, so that I fell back to around 1,000-1,200m [3,281-3,937ft] behind him. I believe he could not see me. We were at low level, and I knew that below 500m [1,640ft] altitude the Atoll would go into the ground if I fired down at the target. I dropped below him to make the Phantom the only heat source in the sky.
`This was my first time to shoot an Atoll. I was on vacation when the squadron shot Atolls in training. I remember the speed was 1,250km/h [777mph], which was outside the limits of the MiG-21F-13 at that altitude, but I did not care. I had a tone from the missile, and I launched it. The missile went for the F-4 and the explosion was below the aircraft. Nothing happened, just a bang, smoke, and the Phantom was still flying. So I fired another missile. There was another explosion below the F-4, and I think the left engine started to smoke, but it was still flying. I couldn’t believe what was going on, so I changed to the gun and approached the jet. He was slow-ing down, and I didn’t want to open fire until I had him. in my lap. Then my leader yelled, “Break, break, we have two aircraft behind!” So, I forgot about the smoking Phantom and turned away. I left him southeast of Suez, and the jet crossed into Sinai. I think the F-4 crashed on the way home …’
At least according to available Israeli publications, no F-4 was lost on this day, and thus although Ahmed Atef subsequently became known as ‘FFK’ (for ‘First Phantom Killer’) among his fellow pilots, he probably became the first eyewitness to the built-in survivability of what was then the finest fighter-bomber in production in the US.
Photo credit: SSGT Bill Thompson / U.S. Air Force, Bukvoed and Real.Egyptian via Wikipedia and Israeli Air Force
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Home/Regions/Africa/Safe Boda founder, Uganda’s biggest motorcycle SACCO, Ricky Papa Honored by Egyptian President
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Patrick Jaramogi March 21, 2019
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Egyptian President Honors Safe Boda founder, Ricky Papa in Cairo on Sunday
Cairo, Egypt: Boda Boda’s (Motorcycles) have been blamed for many accidents across the country, with some gangs making use of bikes to make quick getaways after committing crimes.
But the trend seems to be changing and things are getting better as the riders get organized under SACCOs and cooperatives. Some who have missed out on the “cash bonanza” from the president are now rushing to get organized so as to benefit from the ‘cash donations’ for the jobless youths.
Right on track is Safe boda, one of the country’s most recognized and most organized motorcycle SACCOs. Others like Taxify, Uber are following suit. But with over 10,000 riders on their books, Safe Boda still leads the pack.
Its founder, Ricky Papa Thomson, a former Ascari, boda rider turn entrepreneur is already beginning to get continental accolades for his efforts. Last year he started a similar outfit in neighboring Kenya and its already doing wonders. Ricky, Maxime Dieudonne, and Alastair Sussock joined together to start the safe boda in 2014 in a small slum suburb in Kyebando, in Kampala.
To add to the accolades, Ricky Papa was on Sunday among the few entrepreneurs from Africa and the Middle East that were honored by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, at the 2019 World Youth Forum. The awards were the climax of the events that kicked off on March 16th, 2019.
This years’ World Youth Forum was attended by a wide range of participants, including Heads of States and Government, International young leaders, inspiring youth in various fields, prominent international figures and youth groups from around the world.
Ricky Papa was among the youth from the globe who were honored for their role in helping shape the future of the youth.
Ricky Papa says now they have opened an academy to train boda-boda riders in traffic rules, entrepreneurship skills and saving for the future through groups as a factor for better livelihoods
Through this Arab and African Youth Platform, participants get a chance to discuss various topics that are of concern to both Arab and African youth, with the aim of fostering the Arab and African cooperation.
Owing to the success of previous conferences, President Sisi urged for more conferences, at least every three months, and announced the launch of an academy to train youths in different skills.
“Holding periodic youth conferences have provided successful results and has been a great communication platform among the world’s youth,” he said.
President Museveni has always urged Boda boda operators to form savings and credit cooperative societies (SACCOs) as part of efforts to bring sanity to the sector and to benefit from the presidential donations
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ABC Intermountain Theatres opened the Regency Theatre on 19 July 1972. The $750,000 cinema featured 780 seats and a curved Tecnikote XR 171 screen measuring 50 feet wide by 22 feet high. Red curtains from R. L. Grosh & Sons rotated behind the screen instead of gathering at the sides. The booth featured dual Century 35/70mm projectors with Christie CHF xenon consoles and 3,000-watt bulbs. Cineplex Odeon relegated the Regency to dollar theater service on 6 June 1989, then closed it permanently on 25 March 1990. The former theater was later remodeled into a three-story office building.
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Sensory processing problems in autism: Mice reveal brain mechanisms, treatment potential
Posted on August 28, 2014 June 28, 2017 by Parizad Bilimoria
Posted in Diagnostics
More On: autism spectrum disorder, neurodevelopmental disorders, neuroscience, sensory processing
(Image courtesy Nadine Gogolla)
Families of children with autism spectrum disorder have long noted sensory processing difficulties such as heightened sensitivity to noise, touch or smell—or even specific foods or clothing textures—earning sensory processing a place in the official DSM-5 description of the disorder.
“A high proportion of kids with autism spectrum disorder will have difficulty tolerating certain kinds of sensory inputs,” says Carolyn Bridgemohan, MD, co-director of the Autism Spectrum Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. Others, she adds, are less sensitive to certain stimuli, showing a higher tolerance for pain or excessively hot or cold temperatures.
A study published last week in Neuron uses mouse models to shed new light on the brain mechanisms that underlie sensory processing abnormalities in autism. Led by Takao K. Hensch, PhD, of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard and the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children’s, researchers examined how the brain integrates sound and touch information in a deep brain region called the insula. In several studies of people with autism, the insula has come up as an area of abnormal activity or connectivity.
In normal laboratory mice, the insula’s response to simultaneous sound and touch is often stronger than the sum of its responses to each stimulus separately. However, in four separate mouse models of autism, Hensch and colleagues found that the insula’s response to sound and touch together was actually less than the sum of its parts. This abnormality in sensory integration correlated with an imbalance in “excitatory” versus “inhibitory” signaling between neurons in the brain—and it could be prevented when the excitatory-inhibitory imbalance was corrected early with medication.
“Despite ample evidence in humans that the insula is deeply involved in hallmarks of the social brain, such as empathy, pain and urges, this is the first attempt to characterize its development in an animal model of autism,” says Hensch, also a member of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard and director of the Conte Center at Harvard, focused on developmental origins of mental illness.
Scientists often think of the insula as a “hub” in the brain that is important for the normal functioning of emotion, cognition and perception, says Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University whose research focuses on emotion. “The insula sits within many different networks and allows networks to talk to one another,” she explains.
Quantifying sensory integration
Nadine Gogolla, PhD, in Hensch’s lab, now at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, designed a system for visualizing and quantifying sound-touch integration in the mouse insula, using a strain of mice called BTBR with autistic features. While presenting the mice with tones of various frequencies and air puffs aimed at their forepaws, she imaged changes in their neuron activity.
In addition to the lack of sound-touch integration, the team found that certain inhibitory circuits in the insula were weakened—ones already suspect in autism and other psychiatric disorders.
As it happens, the drug diazepam is known to strengthen the activity of inhibitory circuits. When the researchers gave it to the BTBR mice soon after birth, problems in sensory integration did not develop. But given to adults, the same drug proved ineffective. To Hensch, this suggests that the insula develops sensory integration capabilities during a biological “critical period” in brain development.
Kimberly Boullard, MS, OTR/L, an occupational therapist at Boston Children’s, says this finding resonates with her three decades of experience working with children with sensory processing difficulties. The importance of early diagnosis and intervention in neurodevelopmental disorders is something that she knows well, but lacks the neurophysiology data to explain.
Intriguing questions
The mouse studies of sensory integration could be the start of a better understanding of the core pathology in autism and could potentially lead to novel therapies or early diagnostic markers. They also raise interesting questions about a possible link between sensory processing difficulties and restricted or repetitive behaviors in autism.
Specifically, the “autistic” BTBR mice were hyper-responsive to sound, but their insula response was weaker when sound was paired with touch. So Hensch wonders if the excessive grooming behavior of these mice—long viewed as pathologic—is actually an adaptive response. Could the tactile stimulation of self-grooming be relieving distress in these animals by dampening the insula overreaction to sound or other challenging stimuli? If so, one could speculate that abnormal or self-injurious behaviors in people with autism are their way of trying to deal with their brains’ sensory integration challenges.
This line of thought also piques the curiosity of clinicians such as Bridgemohan and Boullard, who often face practical questions on what to do when a child with autism seems over-stimulated. “Does persisting and providing children with multiple stimuli help eventually, or is it better not to do that?” Bridgemohan asks.
Boullard notes that many occupational therapists already operate under the theory that input through one sensory system can be used to override discomfort in another sensory system. For instance, sound or deep pressure touch is employed to try to interfere with chronic pain signals in the nervous system. And autism advocate Temple Grandin has long written about the potentially calming effects of deep pressure touch.
But there is still much to understand about the biological basis of sensory issues in autism or how effective sensory-based therapies are long-term.
“There is no evidence currently of long-term changes in kids’ neurology or long-term improvements from [sensory-based] treatment,” Bridgemohan stresses.
Along with new findings come many new questions. Just as the insula is a node through which countless brain networks pass, the present study brings together many big themes in autism research—sensory issues, socialization, repetitive behaviors, timing of interventions and the excitatory-inhibitory balance in the brain, just to name a few. While some threads in this tangle are starting to come free, they cannot yet be tied up in a neat bow.
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Plugging the Patriotism Gap
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Barack Obama yesterday kicked off a week of patriotic speeches. It's much more than the normal politician's July 4 oration - it's Obama's answer to a crucial test.
After all, millions of Americans have seen the tapes of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - Obama's longtime pastor - damning America, painting our nation as the world's villain. So voters have a right to wonder how pro-American Obama really is.
A question on such an existential level is unusual in politics - but so is Rev. Wright.
Obama's first "patriotism" speech yesterday struck just the right notes in articulating his love of America. If he keeps it up, it will go far toward easing voters' concerns.
The candidate included the usual anti-war rhetoric and noted our failings ("ongoing racial strife," "perversions of our political system," "the wrenching poverty of the Mississippi Delta") - but also paid due homage to the nation that is giving him the opportunity to become its leader.
More, he let us know he understands that America is the leading force for good in the world - referring to his "gut instinct that so many of us have, that America is the greatest country on Earth."
He praised "the joys of American life and culture - its vitality, its variety, its freedom" and noted that they had "always outweighed its imperfections." He said that what "makes America great has never been its perfection, but the belief that it can be made better."
The president is the high priest of our secular religion. From that pulpit, Ronald Reagan affirmed his belief that God placed us as a unique nation between two oceans to offer a beacon of liberty and hope to the world. Abraham Lincoln called the United States the "last best hope of Earth."
Does Obama embrace this secular faith ardently enough to be its priest? The question lingered after Wright's expostulations.
Obama made it worse by dealing defensively with patriotism - attacking those who questioned his and wondering aloud if wearing a flag in his lapel was a form of pandering. These musings left us in doubt that he really disagrees with Wright, and really embraces the idea that America is exceptional.
But his "patriotism offensive" shows that he's learning how to assuage those fears.
Coming out of the primaries, Obama had separate female and male problems. The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on guns likely solves his woman problem - worries about preserving Roe v. Wade should now bring female voters flocking back.
But Hillary Clinton's male voters will be a harder sell. In the extreme, their worries about Obama's patriotism even leave some fearing that he could be a sleeper agent sent to the US to destabilize our system. He needs to soothe them at a very fundamental level.
If he keeps striking the same notes as yesterday, Obama can do that. He'll still face attacks on his plans to raise taxes to intolerable heights or to wreck our health-care system by covering 15 million illegal immigrants - but that's normal politics.
At least we'll know that the next president of the United States, should it be Barack Obama, actually likes us.
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New study suggests firefighters are at a greater risk for heart attacks from inhaling TOXIC fumes
Firefighters are at an increased risk of suffering heart attacks due to intense heat and exertion, a new study reveals. To assess this, researchers randomly chose 19 non-smoking, healthy firefighters to participate in two fire simulation exercises. During the activity, the firefighters had to rescue a dummy victim from a two-story structure with temperatures reaching more than 752 degrees Fahrenheit (400 degrees Celsius). The participants wore blood pressure and heart rate monitors at 30 minutes before the activity and at 24 hours afterwards. The monitors constantly kept track of the participants’ heart rate and heart rhythm, as well as the strength and timing of electrical impulses passing through the heart.
Researchers found that the participants’ core temperatures rose about two degrees Fahrenheit (-16 degrees Celsius) on average during the fire simulation exercises. The firefighters’ core temperatures remained high for three to four hours after the activity. The participants also exhibited lower blood pressure immediately after the activity. However, researchers attributed this to possible dehydration and increased blood flow to the skin to help regulate the body’s temperature.
Study data also showed that the firefighter’s blood became stickier and had a 66 percent increased risk of forming potentially dangerous clots. Researchers also found that the participants’ blood vessels did not relax properly despite medication. A combination of perspiration-related fluid loss and inflammatory response to heat may have caused the blood to be more concentrated and more susceptible to clotting.
“Studies from the USA have shown that nearly half of all firefighters who die on duty are killed by heart disease. Our study has shown a direct link between the heat and physical activity levels encountered by firefighters during the course of their duties and their risk of suffering a heart attack. However, we’ve also found that there are simple measures, such as staying well hydrated, that firefighters can take to reduce this risk,” said lead researcher Prof. Nick Mills, as reported on BBC.com.
The findings are published in the journal Circulation.
Toxic chemicals contribute to higher heart attack risk in firefighters
The recent study is only one of the many research that demonstrate a higher heart attack risk in firefighters. A report from the U.S. Fire Administration showed that 45 percent of deaths among firefighters who died in the line of duty were associated with cardiovascular events, with heart attack being the most common incident.
Previous research and case studies have also suggested that exposure to toxic chemicals during a fire may contribute to increased risk of heart disease in firefighters. A 1998 study showed that firefighters were consistently exposed to various hazardous chemicals during a fire. These chemicals include combustion byproducts of burning materials such as carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen cyanide, and benzene. Researchers also noted other toxic chemicals such as hydrogen chloride, dichlorofluoromethane, aldehydes, and particulates. Study data showed that exposure to many these chemicals was associated with increased odds of cardiovascular, respiratory, or neoplastic diseases. The findings were published in the British Journal of Industrial Medicine. (Related: Know more about the effects of toxic chemicals on human health on Toxins.news)
An interim report by the Illinois Fire Service Institute also found that most modern buildings today use materials and methods that contain polymer-based furnishings. At the event of a fire, these compounds spur more rapid fire growth, increased heat release rates and additional chemical exposure to firefighters, according to the report. These factors were found to worsen cardiovascular strain in firemen, researchers stated.
An archived report by the Daily News Express has also pointed at chemical exposure as a possible cause of heart attack and death of a Bronx-based firefighter. According to the report, the firefighter was exposed to fumes from a heavily incinerated elevator that featured heavily-varnished wood panels. Fire officials speculated that the fumes may have triggered the fireman’s heart attack.
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Staff : Ms. Amy Otis-De Grau
Following is information for Ms. Amy Otis-De Grau:
Ms. Amy Otis-De Grau
otis@hope.edu
About Ms. Amy Otis-De Grau:
Amy Otis-De Grau is the Director of International Education. She is a 1996 Hope grad who has been working in the Fried International Center for the past 15 years. Raised overseas, Amy is very familiar with crossing borders and adjusting to new cultures. She works with study abroad programs, international students, and with short-term programs from Japan and England.
Over the years she actively was involved in advising the Hope Asian Perspective Association (HAPA), Mortar Board, and the International Christian Fellowship (ICF). Amy currently serves on the City of Holland International Relations Commission and on the Academic Council of IES Abroad and sits on the boards of the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance and the Phelps Scholars Program. In her free time, Amy enjoys biking, reading, backpacking, camping, traveling and hanging out with the international and third culture students.
During the 2001-02 academic year she was granted a year's leave of absence and studied at the Torchbearer Bible School in Holsbybrunn, Sweden. In 2007 Amy completed the MA in Conflict Transformation and Peace Studies from the School for International Training.
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Situated on Florida's Atlantic coast, just 15 miles from downtown Jacksonville, Neptune Beach is a perfectly equipped destination for a holiday with the pets. Whatever brings you to the area, you and your furry companions can stay in one of the local pet-friendly hotels. Although Neptune Beach has limited accommodations in town, the neighboring towns of Atlantic Beach and Jacksonville offer plenty of coastal alternatives within a 20-minute drive.
Stay in Neptune
For visitors set on staying right in Neptune Beach, the only pet-friendly option is the Days Inn Neptune Beach Mayo Clinic NE (daysinn.com). Guests can bring up to two dogs per room, provided they weigh less than 80 lbs. Expect to pay a nightly pet fee. All rooms have complimentary wireless Internet access, cable TVs, free local calls, clock/radios, coffee makers, microwaves and refrigerators. The hotel amenities also include an outdoor swimming pool, truck and bus parking, meeting space, a business center with copying and faxing services, a safe deposit box, a market for sundries, free access to a nearby fitness center and a shuttle to Mayo Clinic. A complimentary continental breakfast and guest laundry also are provided
Atlantic Beach Alternatives
Atlantic Beach, just minutes north of Neptune Beach, is home to two pet-friendly accommodation options. At One Ocean Resort Hotel and Spa (oneoceanresort.com), guests may bring up to two dogs or cats for a nightly fee, charged per pet. The weight limit is 25 lbs. per pet. At the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Jacksonville Mayport/Beach (hiexpress.com), pets are welcome for a nightly fee, charged per pet. Keep in mind that you cannot leave pets in the guest rooms unattended.
Jacksonville Beach Rooms
By heading to Jacksonville Beach, you increase your options for pet-friendly rooms. The Quality Suites Oceanfront (qualityinn.com) allows pets weighing up to 40 lbs. for a nightly fee. You cannot have more than two pets per room. If you plan to pay cash, expect to pay a refundable deposit, as well. At The French Bull Beach House (thefrenchbull.com), pets may stay for a one-time fee. The Jacksonville Beach-Mayo Clinic location of Holiday Inn Express (hiexpress.com) also accepts pets for a fee.
Inland Accommodations
By staying slightly inland from Neptune Beach, you can find still more pet-friendly lodging choices. You're also well-poised to divide your visit between the sands of Neptune Beach and the sights of Jacksonville. The Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel (starwoodhotels.com), just west of Highway 9A, permits up to two dogs of any size, without any pet fees. At Homewood Suites By Hilton (homewoodsuites1.hilton.com), you're just east of 9A. There you can bring two dogs of any size for a one-time pet fee.
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iTunes and SAP Digital Boardroom are coming to the Windows Store
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Last week at its education event, Microsoft announced Spotify and Office were coming to the Windows Store. At its Build 2017 developer conference, the company added to that momentum by saying iTunes and SAP Digital Boardroom were also on their way.
Terry Myerson, executive vice president for Microsoft’s Windows and Devices Group, made the announcement onstage. SAP Digital Boardroom, a progressive web app, will arrive sometime this month, while iTunes, a Win32 app, will arrive by the end of the year.
The move is part of Project Centennial, which lets desktop developers package and publish their existing .NET and Win32-based Windows applications to the Windows Store. The app type was first unveiled at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in April 2015, but the first apps only started arriving in September 2016.
For developers, the Windows Store is another channel for distribution and sale. For users, it means a clean way to install and update apps and games.
Last year at Build 2016, the company said it hoped to bring the 16 million existing Win32 .NET applications to the Windows Store. So far, the company has only managed to get about 1,000 Win32 apps into the store.
Windows S, announced earlier this month and shipping this summer, only allows apps from the Windows Store. If this streamlined edition of Windows 10 aimed at the education market is to succeed, Microsoft will need to keep pushing Win32 developers to use the Windows Store. Convincing Apple and SAP to play ball is an important step in that effort.
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American Polo Association, LLC v. Elizabeth Scripps
File No: 92066032
Date Issued: 2018-08-01
Type of Case:
Citable:
TTAB Panel:
Heasley [Opinion
Party: American Polo Association, LLC v. Elizabeth Scripps
Applicants: POLO GIRLS [for entertainment services, namely, participation in the sport of polo; organizing and conducting polo sporting events for the purpose of fundraising; entertainment services, namely performing and competing in polo sports events; entertainment in the nature of ongoing television programs in the field of polo sports events, and polo lifestyle, in Cl.41]
Opposers: AMERICAN POLO GIRL [for various entertainment services related to the sport of polo, in Cl. 41].
Original Trademark Case
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PRECEDENT OF THE P.O. Box 1451
TTAB Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
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General Email: [email protected]
MW August 1, 2018
Cancellation No. 92066032
American Polo Association, LLC
Elizabeth Scripps
Before Shaw, Hightower, and Heasley,
Administrative Trademark Judges.
By the Board:
On May 1, 2017, American Polo Association, LLC (Petitioner) filed a petition for
cancellation of the standard character mark POLO GIRLS for Entertainment
services, namely, participation in the sport of polo; Organizing and conducting polo
sporting events for the purpose of fundraising; Entertainment services, namely
performing and competing in polo sports events; Entertainment in the nature of on-
going television programs in the field of polo sports events, and polo lifestyle, in
International Class 41.1 As grounds for cancellation, Petitioner alleges (1) nonuse in
1 Registration No. 4017392 registered on the Supplemental Register on August 23, 2011.
Registrant claims April 1, 2009 as the date of first use anywhere and November 5, 2009 as
the date of first use in commerce.
commerce; (2) abandoment; and (3) fraud.2 In her answer to the petition, Elizabeth
Scripps (Respondent) denies the salient allegations in the petition and asserts
several affirmative defenses.
This case now comes before the Board for consideration of Petitioners motion
(filed February 12, 2018) for summary judgment and Respondents cross-motion for
summary judgment. The motions are fully briefed.
The Board presumes the parties familiarity with the pleadings, the history of the
proceeding, and the arguments and materials submitted in connection with the
subject motions. The Board has considered the arguments and evidence submitted in
connection with the motions, but does not repeat or discuss all of the arguments and
submissions, and does not address irrelevant arguments. Guess? IP Holder L.P. v.
Knowluxe LLC, 116 USPQ2d 2018, 2019 (TTAB 2015).
In support of its motion for summary judgment, Petitioner argues that the
involved registration is void ab initio because the only three clips of audio visual
content produced in discovery by Respondent are not representative of a bona fide
ongoing television show in view of the length and content of the clips. With respect to
organizing events for the purpose of fundraising, Petitioner argues that Respondent
has not produced any evidence that shows meaningful commercial-scale use of the
mark, 6 TTABVUE 11, and that Respondent has declined to produce documentation
referring to any fundraising. Regarding the remaining services, namely,
2The electronically generated cover sheet for the petition for cancellation also identifies
Trademark Act Section 4, 15 U.S.C. § 1054, as a ground for cancellation. However, Section 4
merely applies the provisions of the Trademark Act to collective marks and certification
marks.
participation in the sport of polo and performing and competing in polo sports
events, Petitioner argues that Respondent has not provided any evidence of use of
her mark in connection with the services in response to Petitioners discovery
With respect to the abandonment claim, Petitioner argues that Respondent did
not provide evidence of use of her mark in commerce in connection with the services
for at least three years prior to the commencement of this proceeding and that
Respondent did not produce any documentary evidence suggesting that she was still
shopping her television show during the abandonment period. Petitioner further
argues that there is no evidence of use of the involved mark to identify Respondent
as the source of the fundraising services. Petitioner asserts that, at most, the evidence
of Respondents activities supports common law use with respect to blogging and
providing a public awareness campaign about the sport of polo.
In her response to Petitioners motion for summary judgment, Respondent argues
that she has produced evidence of use of her mark in connection with each of the
services and that whether the evidence demonstrates use of the mark in commerce
under the Lanham Act is a factual determination[ ] that must be reserved for
trial
. 8 TTABVUE 11. In support of her cross-motion for summary judgment,
Respondent argues that Petitioner cannot establish its nonuse claim as a matter of
law because Petitioners discovery requests only sought documents and information
prior to November 5, 2009, the claimed date of first use, not her application filing date
of March 3, 2011.3 In addition, Respondent asserts that she has produced evidence of
her use of the mark in connection with each of the services prior to the filing date of
the application. With respect to Petitioners abandonment claim, Respondent argues
that she has produced evidence of use of the mark in connection with each of the
services during Petitioners asserted abandonment period.4 Finally, Respondent
argues that Petitioners motion for summary judgment is moot with respect to the
fraud claim because the claim was not adequately pleaded in the petition for
cancellation.
In its combined reply in support of its motion for summary judgment and response
to Respondents cross-motion, Petitioner argues that Respondents evidence of use
prior to the filing date of the application fall[s] short of proving use in commerce. 11
TTABVUE 5. In addition, Petitioner argues that Respondents uncorroborated
assertions in her declaration supporting her motion are insufficient to refute that she
abandoned the mark.
I. The Pleadings
As an initial matter, because a party may not obtain summary judgment under
Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a) on a claim or issue that has not been properly pleaded, we have
reviewed the pleadings to determine the sufficiency of the claims and defenses. See
Omega SA (Omega AG) (Omega Ltd.) v. Alpha Phi Omega, 118 USPQ2d 1289, 1291
3 According to the proceeding schedule in the Boards Notice of Institution, discovery in the
proceeding closed on January 11, 2018. 2 TTABVUE 3.
4 Petitioner identifies the Abandonment Period as at least the three years prior to the filing
of the petition for cancellation; specifically, April 30, 2014 to April 30, 2017. Petitioners
motion p. 14, 6 TTABVUE 15.
n.2, 1292 (TTAB 2016) (applicant may not obtain summary judgment on unpleaded
defense); Asian & Western Classics B.V. v. Selkow, 92 USPQ2d 1478, 1480 (TTAB
Upon review of the petition for cancellation, we find that Petitioner has pleaded
sufficient facts which, if proved, would establish Petitioners standing and its claim
of nonuse. In addition, Petitioner has pleaded a legally sufficient claim of
abandonment based on nonuse of the mark for at least three consecutive years. See
Trademark Act Section 45, 15 U.S.C. § 1127. However, we find that Petitioner has
failed to plead a legally sufficient claim of fraud under Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) and In re
Bose Corp., 580 F.3d 1240, 91 USPQ2d 1938 (Fed. Cir. 2009). A legally sufficient
pleading of fraud requires allegations that Respondent knowingly made specific, false
representations of material fact in connection with its application with the intent of
obtaining (or maintaining) a registration to which it is otherwise not entitled. See In
re Bose Corp., 91 USPQ2d at 1941. Intent to deceive the USPTO is a required element
of a fraud claim which must be pleaded. Id. at 1942. Here, Petitioner bases its fraud
claim on an allegation that Respondent knew or should have known that it was not
using the mark POLO GIRLS in connection with all the services identified in the
application.5 Pursuant to the Federal Circuits decision in Bose, a fraud claim may
not be based on a knew or should have known standard. Id. at 1941. Further,
Petitioner fails to allege Respondents intent to deceive the USPTO into issuing the
involved registration. Finally, Petitioner has not alleged particular facts in
5 Notice of Opposition at ¶ 10, 1 TTABVUE 5.
accordance with Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) that would support the allegation that
Respondent committed fraud in the filing of the use-based application.
Because Petitioner has failed to sufficiently plead the fraud claim, Petitioners
motion for summary judgment on the claim is moot. See Asian & Western Classics
B.V. v. Selkow, 92 USPQ2d at 1480. Further, in view of foregoing, we sua sponte
dismiss the fraud claim from the petition for cancellation. See NSM Res. Corp. v.
Microsoft Corp., 113 USPQ2d 1029, 1039 n.19 (TTAB 2014) (Board may sua sponte
dismiss any insufficiently pleaded pleading).
Turning to Respondents answer, Respondent denies the salient allegations in the
petition for cancellation and asserts three Affirmative Defenses. Upon review of the
pleading, we find that Respondent has failed to sufficiently plead any defenses that
would prevent Petitioner from prevailing on its claims. In her First Affirmative
Defense, Respondent alleges that any period of nonuse since March 3, 2011
constitutes excusable neglect.6 The defense is insufficiently pleaded because it does
not include any supporting facts that would provide Petitioner with fair notice of the
basis for the defense. See Ohio State Univ. v. Ohio Univ., 51 USPQ2d 1289, 1292
(TTAB 1999); see also TBMP § 311.02(b) (2018) (the pleading should include enough
detail to give the plaintiff fair notice of the basis for the defense).
Under the Second Affirmative Defense, Respondent asserts that Petitioner is
barred by the doctrine of unclean hands because, when Petitioner filed its pleaded
application and the amendment to allege use, Petitioner knew of Registrants prior
6 Answer, p. 3, 5 TTABVUE 4.
use of the POLO GIRLS mark in association with [the services in the registration].7
Respondent alleges that Petitioners sworn declaration attesting that no other person
has the right to use the mark in commerce constitutes a material misrepresentation
and a fraud on the Office.8
A defense of unclean hands must be supported by specific allegations of
misconduct by plaintiff that, if proved, would prevent the plaintiff from prevailing on
its claim. See Midwest Plastic Fabricators, Inc. v. Underwriters Labs. Inc., 5 USPQ2d
1067, 1069 (TTAB 1987). In addition, the misconduct must be related to the plaintiffs
claim. See Tony Lama Co. v. Di Stefano, 206 USPQ 176, 179 (TTAB 1980); 6 J.
Thomas McCarthy, McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition § 31:48 (5th ed.
Respondents unclean hands defense is predicated on its assertion that Petitioner
committed fraud on the USPTO by signing the application declaration with the
knowledge of use by others. Such an allegation must be accompanied by particular
facts which, if proven, would establish that: (1) there was in fact another use of the
same or a confusingly similar mark at the time the oath was signed; (2) the other user
had legal rights superior to the applicants; (3) applicant knew that the other user
had rights in the mark superior to applicant’s, and either believed that a likelihood of
confusion would result from applicant’s use of its mark or had no reasonable basis for
believing otherwise; and that (4) applicant, in failing to disclose these facts to the
Patent and Trademark Office, intended to procure a registration to which it was not
7 Id.
8 Answer, pp. 4-5, 5 TTABVUE 5-6.
entitled. Qualcomm Inc. v. FLO Corp., 93 USPQ2d 1768, 1770 (TTAB 2010);
Intellimedia Sports v. Intellimedia Corp., 43 USPQ2d 1203, 1205-06 (TTAB 1997).
In this case, Respondent has not pleaded with particularity any of the elements of
fraud based on signing the application declaration with knowledge of another use.
See Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b). In particular, Respondent has failed to allege any facts
supporting her claim of use of a confusingly similar mark prior to Petitioners filing
date or her superior legal rights in the subject mark.9 Further, Respondent has failed
to plead the third element of fraud based on the application declaration. A sufficient
pleading of the third element must include particular facts which, if proven, would
establish that, as of the filing date of its pleaded application, Petitioner believed that
Respondent had superior or clearly established rights and that a likelihood of
confusion would result from Petitioners use of its mark. Intellimedia Sports, 43
USPQ2d at 1207.10 In view of the foregoing, we find Respondents unclean hands
defense insufficiently pleaded.11
9Respondents ownership of a registration on the Supplemental Register does not establish
proprietary rights in the mark. See Otter Prods. LLC v. BaseOneLabs LLC, 105 USPQ2d
1252, 1255-56 (TTAB 2012); see also In re Bush Bros. & Co., 884 F.2d 569, 12 USPQ2d 1058,
1059 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 1989) (Registration on the Supplemental Register is not evidence of
ownership, validity, or the exclusive right to use).
10The application verification is phrased in terms of a subjective belief; thus, fraud based on
the declaration is difficult to prove. See 6 J. Thomas McCarthy, McCarthy on Trademarks
and Unfair Competition § 31.75-76 (5th ed. 2018); see also, e.g., Daniel J. Quirk, Inc. v. Village
Car Co., 120 USPQ2d 1146, 1149 (TTAB 2016) (Fraud will not lie against an applicant who
holds an honest, good faith belief in its right to register a mark and signs an application with
the statutorily prescribed ownership statement, which is phrased in terms of subjective
belief.). We also note that the petition for cancellation is based on Petitioners claim that
Respondent did not use the mark and abandoned any rights in the mark, which is contrary
to the third element of the fraud defense.
11In her brief, Respondent also asserts that Petitioner is barred by the doctrine of unclean
hands because Petitioner was not using its mark in connection with each of its recited
Finally, Respondents Third Affirmative Defense is not an actual defense but
merely an attempt to reserve the right to plead additional defenses. The assertion of
the right to put forward additional defenses or counterclaims is an improper
reservation under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. See FDIC v. Mahajan, 923
F. Supp. 2d 1133, 1141 (N.D. Ill. 2013) (reservation of right to add affirmative
defenses at a later date is improper under the Federal Rules). The proper way to plead
additional affirmative defenses or counterclaims is to file a motion under Fed. R. Civ.
P. 15. Id.
Because Respondent has failed to plead any legally sufficient affirmative defenses,
we sua sponte strike the defenses from the answer. See NSM Res. Corp. v. Microsoft
Corp., 113 USPQ2d 1029, 1039 n.19 (TTAB 2014) (Board may sua sponte dismiss any
insufficiently pleaded pleading).
II. Standing
Standing is a threshold issue that must be pleaded and proven by the plaintiff in
every inter partes case. See Empresa Cubana Del Tabaco v. Gen. Cigar Co., 753 F.3d
1270, 111 USPQ2d 1058, 1062 (Fed. Cir. 2014); Ritchie v. Simpson, 171 F.3d. 1092,
50 USPQ2d 1023, 1025-26 (Fed. Cir. 1999); see also Sinclair Oil Corp. v. Kendrick, 85
USPQ2d 1032, 1037 (TTAB 2007). In order to demonstrate standing, a plaintiff must
show that it has a real interest in the proceeding and a reasonable basis for his
services when it submitted its Amendment to Allege Use on June 6, 2017. 8 TTABVUE 25.
However, in addition to not submitting any evidence to support this defense, Respondent did
not plead this defense it its answer. Moreover, even if Respondent can prove these assertions,
the defense would not defeat Petitioners standing. See Trademark Rule 2.76(f), 37 C.F.R. §
2.76(f) (amendment to allege use may be withdrawn prior to approval for publication).
belief of damage. Empresa Cubana Del Tabaco, 111 USPQ2d at 1062 (citing Ritchie
v. Simpson, 50 USPQ2d at 1025-26. In this case, Petitioner has submitted with its
motion a copy of its pleaded application and the Office Action refusing registration to
Petitioner based on a likelihood of confusion with Respondents registration.12 In view
thereof, Petitioner has established its standing to bring this proceeding. See, e.g.,
Yazhong Investing Ltd. v. Multi-Media Tech. Ventures, Ltd., 126 USPQ2d 1526, 1532
(TTAB 2018); ShutEmDown Sports Inc. v. Lacy, 102 USPQ2d 1036, 1041 (TTAB
2012) (evidence of record showing petitioners pending application refused
registration based on respondents registration).
III. Summary Judgment
Turning to the parties motions, summary judgment is an appropriate method of
disposing of cases in which there are no genuine disputes as to any material facts and
the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a). In
reviewing a motion for summary judgment, the evidentiary record and all justifiable
inferences to be drawn from the undisputed facts must be viewed in the light most
favorable to the non-moving party. See Lloyds Food Prods. Inc. v. Elis Inc., 987 F.2d
766, 25 USPQ2d 2027, 2029-30 (Fed. Cir. 1993); Olde Tyme Foods Inc. v. Roundys
Inc., 961 F.2d 200, 22 USPQ2d 1542, 1546 (Fed. Cir. 1992). We may not resolve
disputes of material fact; we may only ascertain whether a genuine dispute regarding
a material fact exists. See Lloyds Food Prods., 25 USPQ2d at 2029; Olde Tyme Foods,
22 USPQ2d at 1544.
12 See Exhibits S and Y, 6 TTABVUE 112-18 and 6 TTABVUE 151-57.
A party moving for summary judgment has the burden of demonstrating a
particular fact is not disputed by citing to the record, including affidavits or
declarations, admissions or interrogatory answers; or showing that the cited
materials do not establish the absence or presence of a genuine dispute, or that the
adverse party cannot produce admissible evidence to support the fact. Fed. R. Civ. P.
56(c)(1). See generally Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 323 (1986). When the
moving party has supported its motion with sufficient evidence that, if unopposed,
indicates there is no genuine dispute of material fact, the burden of production shifts
to the non-moving party to demonstrate the existence of a genuine dispute of material
fact to be resolved at trial. Enbridge, Inc. v. Excelerate Energy LP, 92 USPQ2d 1537,
1540 (TTAB 2009).
A. Petitioners Motion for Summary Judgment
In support of its motion for summary judgment, Petitioner relies primarily on
Respondents discovery responses and document production. Petitioner submitted
copies of the discovery requests and responses, including documents produced by
Respondent, with its brief. However, as noted by Respondent, many of Petitioners
discovery requests are flawed in that they request information regarding
Respondents use the subject mark prior to the alleged date of first use in commerce,
not the application filing date.13 Further, in addition to producing some documents,
Respondent responded to each of Petitioners discovery requests with numerous
13 See Interrogatory Nos. 1, 8, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 23, 6 TTABVUE 34-47.
objections.14 While we find Respondents objections improper under Fed. R. Civ. P.
33(b)(4) and 34(b)(4),15 the responses do not indicate that Respondent has provided
all information or documents in response to the requests or that Respondent cannot
produce additional evidence in defense of the claims at trial.16 See, e.g., Linville v.
Rivard, 41 USPQ2d 1731, 1733 (TTAB 1996) (objections that discovery requests are,
for example, ambiguous or burdensome, are not of a nature which would lead
propounding party to believe that the requested information does not exist and party
should have filed motion to compel), affd, 133 F.3d 1446, 45 USPQ2d 1374 (Fed. Cir.
In view of the foregoing, we find that Petitioner, as the party moving for summary
judgment, has failed to carry its burden of demonstrating that Respondent cannot
produce admissible evidence of use of her mark prior to the filing date of the
application or during the alleged abandonment period.
B. Respondents Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment
In support of her cross-motion for summary judgment, Respondent submitted the
declaration of Respondent, Elizabeth Kofmehl (formerly Scripps) attesting to her use
14 See 6 TTABVUE 61-79.
15A party responding to interrogatories should either answer the interrogatory or state
specifically the grounds for the objection. In addition, it is incumbent on a party objecting to
a document request to state whether it is withholding documents based on a specified
objection. Fed. R. Civ. P. 34 Committee Notes on Rules 2015 Amendment (an objection to
a Rule 34 request must state whether anything is being withheld on the basis of the
objection); No Fear Inc. v. Rule, 54 USPQ2d 1551, 1555 (TTAB 2000).
16To the extent that Petitioner found Respondents responses or objections inadequate or
improper, the burden was on Petitioner to file a motion challenging the sufficiency of the
responses. See H.D. Lee Co. v. Maidenform Inc., 87 USPQ2d 1715, 1719 (TTAB 2008) (party
that receives response it believes inadequate but fails to file a motion to test sufficiency of
response, may not thereafter complain about its insufficiency).
of the mark in connection with the services in the registration. In addition,
Respondent has submitted Exhibits consisting of, inter alia, web page snapshots from
her social media pages and other web pages, articles from third-party publications,
press releases and advertising flyers. Initially, we note that most of the Respondents
supporting evidence has not been properly authenticated.17 See Trademark Rule
2.122(e), 37 C.F.R. § 2.122(e); TBMP § 528.05(e) (2018). However, Petitioner has not
objected to the evidence on the basis that it cannot be admissible at trial. Instead, in
its reply brief, Petitioner states that it accepts as true the evidence consisting of
documents produced by the parties
and the declaration of Elizabeth Kofmehl
(formerly Scripps), and all of the exhibits thereto, which were filed concurrently with
Petitioners motion and Respondents opposition and cross motion. 11 TTABVUE 4.
Thus, we have considered the evidence. See also Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c)(2) (Advisory
Committee notes) (2010 amendment) (allowing a court to consider unauthenticated
documents on summary judgment).
We turn first to Respondents claims of use of her mark in connection with
entertainment services in the nature of on-going television programs in the field of
polo sports events, and polo lifestyle. In her declaration, Respondent states the
I created and produced an ongoing television program titled POLO GIRLS. The
first program was produced in Miami Florida around April of 2009 .
I sent the POLO GIRLS program to several production companies and
networks and ultimately entered into a created by/executive producers
agreement with High Noon Entertainment
.
17For example, many of Respondents web page snapshots and Internet publications do not
include the date they were accessed and their source (URL). See Safer, Inc. v. OMS Invs.,
Inc., 94 USPQ2d 1031, 1039 (TTAB 2010).
In an effort to further promote the POLO GIRLS brand, and to publish
video content I have produced, I created a branded YouTube page as
PoloGirlsSociety.
I published the first video to my branded YouTube page
on March 2, 2011
. An additional video was published on October 24, 2012
.
Both of these videos have remained publicly accessible since their date of
An additional television program was produced under the POLO GIRLS
mark in 2012 with a new producer.
In January of 2014, I tried an unconventional approach in an attempt to get
television networks[] attention for the POLO GIRLS television program by
tagging them in a Facebook post regarding my POLO GIRLS television
program, and I included a screenshot of the POLO GIRLS logo included in the
program in the posting.
I also produced and distributed an additional television program under the
POLO GIRLS mark to production companies during early 2015.18
Respondent has submitted screenshots of the videos she produced and screenshots of
webpage where the videos were uploaded.19 In addition, Respondent has submitted
multimedia copies of the first video produced in 2009 and the program produced in
Initially, we note that Respondent attests to producing only one video and
uploading it to www.youtube.com prior to the filing date of the involved application.
The second video was published on the website over one and one-half years later.
In addition, Respondent does not state that any of the videos were ever broadcast by
the networks or distributed by the production companies. Upon review of the
foregoing evidence, including the copies of the videos, we find that Respondent has
18 Kofmehl Declaration, ¶¶ 5-9 and 11, 8 TTABVUE 30-31.
19 Exhibits 5, 8, 9, 10 and 12, 8 TTABVUE 56-63, 172-79 and 182-86.
20Exhibits 4 and 11, submitted on DVD. Submissions to the Board by external storage media
or devices are not permitted, but exhibits to declarations consisting of video recordings may
be transferred to DVD for submission. See Trademark Rule 2.126(a), 37 C.F.R. § 2.126(a);
TBMP §§ 106.03, 528.05(b) (2018).
failed to demonstrate that no genuine dispute of material fact remains regarding her
use of the mark in commerce in connection with an ongoing television program prior
to the application filing date or during the alleged period of abandonment.21 See, e.g.,
S. Cent. Cmty. Servs., Inc. v. Wood, Cancellation No. 92048239, 2011 WL 3871950, at
*3 (TTAB 2011) (not precedential) (postings of short video clips on the Internet did
not demonstrate use of mark in connection with an ongoing television program).22
With respect to services consisting of organizing and conducting polo sporting
events for the purpose of fundraising, Respondent attests that she held several
events for fundraising purposes from June, 2010 through February, 2015, including
two events prior to the application filing date.23 In addition, Respondent submitted
documents in connection with each of the events.24 We find Respondents statement
that she held fundraising events vague and unclear as to Respondents role in the
events. In addition, Respondents supporting evidence identifies POLO GIRLS as
merely participating in many of the events identified and not as the organizer of the
polo events. Upon review of Respondents statements and the evidence submitted in
connection therewith, we find that Respondent has failed to demonstrate that no
21 For example, the multimedia copy of the video Respondent refers to as a television
program (submitted as Exhibit 11) is merely 30 seconds long and appears to be a promotional
22Decisions of the board not designated as precedent are not binding on the Board, but may
be cited for whatever persuasive weight to which they may be entitled. TBMP § 101.03 (2018).
23 Kofmehl Declaration, ¶ 12, 8 TTABVUE 31-32.
24See 8 TTABVUE 89, 90, 100-01, 104, 125-27, 134-35 (Exhibit 6), 200-02 (Exhibit 17), 205
(Exhibit 18), 211 (Exhibit 19), and 213 (Exhibit 20).
genuine disputes of material fact remain regarding Respondents use of the mark in
connection with organizing and conducting polo sporting events for the purpose of
fundraising prior to the filing date of the application and during the alleged period of
abandonment.
With regard to the remaining services in the registration, in paragraph 13 of her
declaration, Respondent attests that the POLO GIRLS polo team competed or
participated in polo sporting events under the mark on April 30, 2009, April 22, 2010
and August 6, 2010, prior to the application filing date.25 Respondent further states
that she competed in polo matches under the POLO GIRLS mark on May 30, 2014
and on July 19, 2014.26 We find Respondents testimony and the supporting evidence
sufficient to establish use of the mark in connection with participation in the sport
of polo and performing and competing in polo sporting events prior to the
application filing date and during the alleged abandonment period. See, e.g.,
Liqwacon Corp. v. Browning-Ferris Indus., Inc., 203 USPQ 305, 316 (TTAB 1979)
(oral testimony may be sufficient to establish both prior use and continuous use when
the testimony is proffered by a witness with knowledge of the facts and the testimony
is clear, convincing, consistent, and sufficiently circumstantial to convince the Board
of its probative value). Thus, the burden of production shifts to Petitioner to
demonstrate that a genuine dispute exists for trial regarding Respondents use of the
25 Kofmehl Dec., ¶ 13, 8 TTABVUE 32-33, 83-84, 86-89.
26 Kofmehl Dec., ¶ 13, 8 TTABVUE 34, 140-41.
mark in connection with the services. See Enbridge, Inc. v. Excelerate Energy LP, 92
USPQ2d at 1540.
In its reply brief, Petitioner does not question the veracity of statements made in
Respondents declaration.27 Instead, Petitioner attacks Respondents documentary
evidence as insufficient on its face to prove use in commerce. 11 TTABVUE 5. In
short, Petitioner argues that the supporting documents do not go beyond advertising
and promotion and do not show that the events ever occurred or that the services
were rendered. We find Petitioners arguments insufficient to demonstrate that a
genuine dispute of material fact exists for trial with respect to Respondents use of
the mark in connection with entertainment services, namely, participation in the
sport of polo and entertainment, namely, performing and competing in polo sports
events prior to the application filing date and during the alleged abandonment
II. Decision
Based on the record herein and the applicable law, we find that, at a minimum,
genuine disputes of material fact remain with respect to Respondents use of the mark
prior to the application filing date and during the alleged abandonment period in
fundraising and Entertainment in the nature of on-going television programs in the
field of polo sports events, and polo lifestyle. Accordingly, Petitioners motion for
summary judgment and Respondents cross-motion for summary judgment on the
27On the contrary, as noted above, Petitioner has accepted as true the declaration of
Respondent.
asserted nonuse and abandonment claims are DENIED, in part, with respect to the
foregoing services.28
In addition, we find that no genuine disputes of material fact remain for trial
regarding Respondents use in commerce in connection with entertainment services,
namely, participation in the sport of polo and entertainment, namely, performing
and competing in polo sports events prior to the application filing date and during
the three years prior to the petition for cancellation. Accordingly, Respondents cross-
motion for summary judgment on the asserted claims of nonuse and abandonment is
GRANTED, in part, with respect to the services.
Proceedings are resumed. Discovery is closed. Disclosure, trial and briefing dates
are reset as follows:
Plaintiff’s Pretrial Disclosures Due 8/30/2018
Plaintiff’s 30-day Trial Period Ends 10/14/2018
Defendant’s Pretrial Disclosures Due 10/29/2018
Defendant’s 30-day Trial Period Ends 12/13/2018
Plaintiff’s Rebuttal Disclosures Due 12/28/2018
Plaintiff’s 15-day Rebuttal Period Ends 1/27/2019
Plaintiff’s Opening Brief Due 3/28/2019
Defendant’s Brief Due 4/27/2019
Plaintiff’s Reply Brief Due 5/12/2019
Request for Oral Hearing (optional) Due 5/22/2019
28 The fact that we have identified only certain genuine disputes as to material facts should
not be construed as a finding that these are necessarily the only disputes which remain for
trial. In addition, the evidence submitted in connection with a motion for summary judgment
or opposition thereto is of record only for consideration of that motion. Any such evidence to
be considered at final hearing must be properly introduced in evidence during the appropriate
trial period. See Levi Strauss & Co. v. R. Joseph Sportswear Inc., 28 USPQ2d 1464 (TTAB
In each instance, a copy of the transcript of testimony, together with copies of
documentary exhibits, must be served on the adverse party within thirty days after
completion of the taking of testimony. Trademark Rule 2.125.
Briefs shall be filed in accordance with Trademark Rules 2.128(a) and (b). An oral
hearing will be set only upon request filed as provided by Trademark Rule 2.129.
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‘The Library’ Quotes
305. The Library
Jerry is called to the library over a library book that's been overdue since '71 by tough, library detective (guest star Philip Baker Hall). Meanwhile, George runs into the mean, former gym teacher he got fired.
Elaine: Boys are sick.
Jerry: Well, what do girls do?
Elaine: We just tease some one 'til they develop an eating disorder.
Jerry: What's amazing to me about the library is that here's a place where you go in, you can take out any book you want, they just give it to you and say bring it back when you're done. It reminds me of, like, this pathetic friend that everybody had when they were a little kid who would let you borrow any of his stuff if you would just be his friend, you know. That's what the library is. A government-funded pathetic friend. And that's why everybody kind of bullies the library. I'll bring it back on time, I'll bring it back late. Oh, what are you going to do? Charge me a nickel?
Jerry: Oh, I'm glad you're here, so we can get this all straightened out. Would you like a cup of tea?
Lt. Bookman: You got any coffee?
Jerry: Coffee?
Lt. Bookman: Yeah, coffee.
Jerry: No, I don't drink coffee.
Lt. Bookman: Yeah, you don't drink coffee? How about instant coffee?
Jerry: No, I don't have-
Lt. Bookman: You don't have any instant coffee?
Jerry: Well, I don't normally-
Lt. Bookman: Who doesn't have instant coffee?
Jerry: I don't.
Lt. Bookman: You buy a jar of Folger's Crystals, you put it in the cupboard, you forget about it. Then later on when you need it, it's there. It lasts forever. It's freeze-dried. Freeze-dried crystals.
Jerry: Really? I'll have to remember that.
Lt. Bookman: You took this book out in 1971.
Jerry: Yes, and I returned it in 1971.
Lt. Bookman: Yeah, '71. That was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abbie Hoffman telling everybody to steal books. I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella.
Jerry: Look, Mr. Bookman. I--I returned that book. I remember it very specifically.
Lt. Bookman: You're a comedian. You make people laugh.
Jerry: I try.
Lt. Bookman: You think this is all a big joke, don't you?
Jerry: No, I don't.
Lt. Bookman: I saw you on T.V. once. I remembered your name from my list. I looked it up. Sure enough, it checked out. You think because you're a celebrity that somehow the law doesn't apply to you, that you're above the law?
Jerry: Certainly not.
Lt. Bookman: Well, let me tell you something, funny boy. You know that little stamp, the one that says "New York Public Library"? Well, that may not mean anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole hell of a lot. Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before: Flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. What's this guy making such a big stink about old library books? Well, let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world. But what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and The Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't he deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or: maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld. Maybe that's how you get your kicks. You and your good-time buddies. Well, I got a flash for ya, joy-boy. Party time is over. You got seven days, Seinfeld. That is one week!
Jerry: Any day that you had gym was a weird school day. You know what I mean? Because it started of kind of normal. You have, like, English, Geometry, Social Studies... And then suddenly you're, like, in Lord of The Flies for 40 minutes. You know, you're hanging from a rope. You have hardly any clothes on. Teachers are yelling at you, "Where's your jock strap?" You know, and kids are throwing dodge balls at you, you're trying to survive. Then it's history, Science, Language. There's something off in the entire flow of that day.
Jerry: Anyway, I hope there's no hard feelings. [hands over a check]
Lt. Bookman: Hard feelings? What do you know about hard feelings? You ever have a man die in your arms? You ever kill somebody?
Jerry: What is your problem?
Lt. Bookman: What's my problem? Punks like you, that's my problem. And you better not screw up again, Seinfeld, because if you do, I'll be all over you like a pitbull on a poodle. [exits]
Jerry: That is one tough monkey!
Jerry: It's George. Wait 'til he hears we're going to the library.
Kramer: You know, I never got a library card.
Jerry: [over intercom] I'm coming down.
Kramer: It's all a bunch of cheapskates in there anyway. People sitting around reading the newspaper attached to those huge wooden sticks. Trying to save a quarter, ooh.
Jerry: This woman's completely ignoring me.
Kramer: Look at her. This is a lonely woman looking for companionship.. A spinster. Maybe a virgin. Maybe she got hurt a long time ago. She was a schoolgirl. There was a boy. It didn't work out. Now she needs a little tenderness. She needs a little understanding. She needs a little Kramer.
Jerry: Then she'll need a little shot of penicillin.
Marion: Mr. Bookman's not here.
Jerry: Not here? Why was I told to come down here?
Marion: He'll be out all afternoon on a case.
Kramer: He's out on a case? He actually goes out on cases?
George: Listen. Just because I got the guy fired doesn't mean I turned him into a bum, does it?
Elaine: What did he do?
George: He purposely mispronounced my name. Instead of saying, "Costanza", he'd say, "can't stand you."
"Can't stand you". Remember, he made me smell my own gym socks once.
Jerry: I remember he made you wear a jock on your head for a whole class. And the straps were hanging down by his...
George: Okay, okay. I never even had him for gym.
Jerry: I had him for Hygiene. Remember his teeth? It was like from an exhumed corpse.
George: Little baked beans.
George: He gave me a wedgie.
Jerry: He got fired the next day.
Elaine: Why do they call it a wedgie?
George: Because the underwear is pulled up from the back until it wedges in.
Jerry: They also have an atomic wedgie. Now, the goal there is to actually get the waistband on top of the head. Very rare.
Kramer: You know, the library is kind of a cool place when it's closed.
Marion: Oh, yeah. You don't have to be quiet. Listen to the echo... Hello!
Kramer: Hello!
Marion: Hello!
Lt. Bookman: [emerging] Hello!
Marion: Mr. Bookman.
Lt. Bookman: I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: Kindly, discreet, unattractive. We didn't know anything about her private life. We didn't want to know anything about her private life. She didn't have a private life. While you're thinking about that, think about this: The library closes at five o'clock, no exceptions. This is your final warning. Got that, kewpie doll?
George: Well, it's definitely him.
Elaine: Him? Him who?
George: Him who? Hayman him.
Elaine: Hayman, the gym teacher? You found him?
George: Oh, I found him. He was sitting on the steps of the library. I sat down next to him. He smelled like the locker room after that game against Erasmus
Jerry: That was double overtime.
George: So I said, "Mr. Hayman, It's me George Costanza, JFK, '71." He doesn't move. So I said uh, "Can't stand you'", "Can't stand you'" He turns and smiles, the little baked bean teeth. I get up to run away, but something was holding me back. It was Heyman. He had my underwear. There I was on the steps of the 42nd St. library , a grown man, getting a wedgie.
Elaine: At least it wasn't atomic.
George: It was. [pulls out ripped underwear]
Jerry: Does it seem to you that the ventriloquist dummy has a very active sexual, social life? He's always talking about dates and women he knows, and bringing them back to the suitcase at night. There's always a sawdust joke in there somewhere, you know. He says kinky things because he's made out of wood, and he can spin his head around. We're somehow expected to believe because the face is so animated that they think we're not noticing that the feet are just swinging there. The dummy feet never look really right, do they? They're just kind of dangling there. Always kind of askew, you know. You always just a see an ankle, you know. Those little thin, fabric ankles that they have, you know. I don't think this thing is real.
Jerry: [on the phone] Are you kidding me? Let me speak with the head librarian. Because it's absurd. An overdue book from 1971? This is a joke right? What are you? From a radio station? Okay, you got me I fell for it. All right, okay I can be down there in, like, a half hour. Bye.
Kramer: What's the problem?
Jerry: This you're not going to believe. The New York Public Library says that I took out Tropic of Cancer in 1971 and never returned it.
Kramer: Do you know how much that comes to? That's a nickel a day for 20 years. It's going to be $50,000
Jerry: It doesn't work like that.
Kramer: Well, if it's a dime a day it could be $100,000
Jerry: It's not going to be anything. I returned the book. I remember it very vividly because I was with Sherry Becker. She wore this orange dress. It was the first time I ever saw her in a dress like that. In noticed since ninth grade she was developing this body in secret under these loose clothes for, like, two years. And then one day... That orange dress is burned in my memory
Kramer: Oh, memory burn.
Jerry: I wonder what ever happened to her.
Kramer: How did they ever find you?
Jerry: Oh, computers. They're cracking down now on overdue books. The whole thing is completely ridiculous.
Kramer: The Dewey Decimal System, what a scam that was. Boy, that Dewey guy really cleaned up on that deal.
Jerry: Where's George?
Man: Shh.
Kramer: [scoffs] Trying to save a quarter.
Jerry: I kinda like those sticks. I'd like to get them for my house.
Marion: Yes?
Jerry: Yes, I called before. I got his notice in the mail.
Marion: Oh, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller. Uh, this case has been turned over to our library investigation officer, Mr. Bookman.
Kramer: Bookman? The library investigator's name is actually, Bookman?
Marion: It's true.
Kramer: That's amazing. That's like an ice cream man named, Cone.
Marion: Lt. Bookman has been working here for 25 years so I think he's heard all the jokes.
George: Did you see the homeless guy on the library steps screaming obscenities and doing some calisthenics routine?
Kramer: Yeah.
George: I think that's Mr. Hayman. The gym teacher from our High School.
Jerry: [whispers] Are you sure?
George: He's older, completely covered in filth, no whistle, but I think it's him.
Jerry: George got him fired. He squealed on him.
Kramer: Ooh, tattle tale
George: I didn't tattle!
Kramer: What did this guy do? What happened?
George: There was an incident. I'd rather not discuss it.
Kramer: Oh come on, You can tell me.
George: Some other time.
Kramer: What, tonight? You know, I never figured you for a squealer.
Jerry: Oh, he sang like a canary.
Jerry: Come on lets go
George: Let's see if it's Hayman.
Kramer: Hey, uh, I'll see you boys later. [to the librarian] So uh, what's a guy got to do around here to get a library card?
Elaine: Where's Karen?
Receptionist: She went to pick up lunch.
Elaine: She didn't ask me what I wanted.
Receptionist: She must have forgot.
Elaine: How could she forget? I've been ordering lunch every day here for three and a half years? Is there something you're not telling me because I'm getting a really weird vibe. Is Lippman getting rid of me? It's OK, I won't say anything.
Receptionist: I don't know anything.
Elaine: Ah, you don't know anything. You see, "I don't know anything" means there's something to know. If you really didn't know anything you would have said, "You're crazy."
Elaine: I'm telling you something is going on. He never likes anything I recommend. And then that lunch thing.
Jerry: So they forgot to get your lunch. Big deal!
Elaine: What do you know? You've never worked in an office. See, you've worked in an office, George. You understand. Jerry thinks I'm over reacting but you understand lunch.
George: I don't understand lunch. I don't know anything about lunch.
Kramer: What's wrong?
Marion: It's Bookman the library cop.
Kramer: So I didn't do anything wrong.
Marion: I'm supposed to be at work. I could get fired. I shouldn't have come here.
Kramer: Why don't you leave?
Marion: I can't. [goes into kiss Kramer]
Jerry: There's no way I'm paying that! I returned that book in 1971. I have a witness Sherry Becker. She wore an orange dress. She gave me a piece of Black Jack Gum. I said, "Licorice gum. What will they think of next?" I remember it.
Sherry: Kevin went to a public school, he's the 14 year old. We were gonna send Marsha to a private school, cause in some way they don't learn enough ... I think.
Jerry: So, Sherry, what do you remember about that day at the library?
Sherry: I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a Friday afternoon. I wore a purple dress.
Jerry: Purple? You sure it wasn't orange?
Sherry: Positive. And I was chewing Dentyne. I always chewed Dentyne. Remember Jerry? Dentyne?
Jerry: No Black Jack?
Sherry: Uck. Licorice gum? Never!
Jerry: What else?
Sherry: We were reading passages to each other from that Henry Miller book,
Jerry: Tropic of Cancer.
Sherry: No, Tropic of Capricorn
Jerry: Tropic of Capricorn?
Sherry: Remember? "What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience is sexual intercourse."
Jerry: Wait a second. Wait a second. You're right. I had both of them. We read from Tropic of Capricorn. I was all set to return Tropic of Cancer. And then...
[flashback to high-school age Jerry giving the book to George in the locker room]
Sherry: Where you going?
Jerry: It was nice seeing you again. I just remembered something. I've got to go. [to an old man] It was George!
Elaine: Lippman want's to see me in his office. See me! That can't be good.
Jerry: [o.s.] Maybe you're getting a raise.
Elaine: Maybe I'm getting a wedgie.
Kramer: [sobs]
Elaine: Are you OK? What? What?
Kramer: [sobbing] It's Marion's poetry. I can't take it. [exits]
Elaine: [loudly] Remember that biography I recommended? My boss hated it.
Jerry: [enters] I'm right here.
Elaine: Remember that Columbus book?
Jerry: Columbus? Euro trash.
Jerry: So you were saying?
Elaine: Oh? So, I took your suggestion and I gave my boss Marion's poems. The ones that affected Kramer so much.
Jerry: Oh, beautiful did he like them?
Elaine: No, he didn't! No, he didn't.
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When democracy with a flawed electoral process is deliberately used to camouflage the criminalizing of society, should one give blind adherence to the Constitution while it is being subverted blatantly by the greedy rulers?
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Pakistani prime minister’s secretariat in Islamabad from where Prime Minister runs his embattled government.
Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani was so upset at Musharraf leaving the country, he asked Parliament to amend the Constitution and undo Article 6 pertaining to treason “since it had not only failed to protect the Constitution but parliament and democracy as well”.
Treason is defined as either “the betrayal of one’s own country by waging war against it or by consciously or purposely acting to aid its enemies” or as “the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the State to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign’s family”. Musharraf’s imposing emergency rule and suspending the Constitution (in 2007) was not right but the precedent was set by the Honorable Judges of the Supreme Court (SC) after 1999 giving him carte blanche to do pretty much what he pleased in making amendments to the Constitution (ended up making more than 100).
Corruption levels are very high in Russia, to quote a report in 2013 titled “Corruption in Russia: Time to Take Decisive Action” by Kirill Kabanov, the head of Russia’s National Anti-Corruption Committee. “Corruption can be said to be the worst form of treason and anyone who indulges in it or abets it in any way must be held accountable and be given the same punishment that is given for treason”, unquote. Reduction in corruption would make a massive difference in the government’s ability to meet its socio-economic responsibilities towards housing, health, education, etc. Can anyone deny that corruption is a very real and direct threat to Pakistan’s national security?
Many good investigation companies in the world have the forensic expertise necessary to find the details of offshore accounts and whether funds passing through them had been taxed at the origin. As a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council (GAC) for “Anti-Corruption and Transparency” and also the WEF’s “Partnering Against Corruption Initiative” (PACI) for many years, I have repeatedly urged OECD through them to request the UK authorities whether they enquired into, as per their anti-money laundering laws in place, from where the money in the accounts of Pakistani-origin persona was taxed at origin?
Author Nicholas Shaxson (“Treasure Island” that examined the role of offshore and tax havens says “London is the epicentric of so much sleaze in the world.” More than a dozen times I have written that the square mile around Hyde Park in London has, along with legitimate businessmen, some of the biggest crooks in the world residing in apartments, where is the fail-safe line separating them except full disclosure? Leading the charge to try to make Panama’s financial transactions more transparent, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Secretary General Angel Gurria who supports WEF’s PACI said: “The ‘Panama Papers’ revelations have shone the light on Panama’s culture and practice of secrecy. Panama is the last major holdout that continues to allow funds to be hidden offshore from tax and law enforcement authorities.”
Why does Raza Rabbani look away from Zardari and his dishonest cronies, this man of conscience tacitly condones violation of the Constitution. Consider the blatant hypocrisy in a headline stating “PPP concerned about uptil flight of capital from Pakistan.” Wholesale corruption morphes into organised crime which sponsors terrorism, willingly or unwillingly. Those using their official powers to “cover up” the crimes are guilty of violating the Constitution. Corruption being anti-state is treason, akin to betraying one’s country.
In my article of Sept 17, 2015 titled “Rooting out Pervasive Corruption” I wrote, “Only organized crime can deliver huge sums derived from corrupt dealings into major bank centers or real estate in off-shore havens. Corruption surged to new levels after Musharraf’s black National Reconciliation Order (NRO) institutionalized it, this led to our misfortune of having the most corrupt rulers in the history of Pakistan,” unquote. Even worse was the courtroom drama stayed by former CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry making the NRO illegal but conveniently leaving its beneficiaries in place. With a fair number of our politicians, bureaucrats, supreme court judges, etc involved in corruption in varying degrees, there is practically no political, administrative and/or judicial will to combat corruption. What do you expect from the holier-than-thou in Parliament with most of them guilty of being corrupt, or of aiding and abetting corruption by shamelessly looking the other way?
The “Panama Leaks” set off a furore in Pakistan. Offshore companies is a means of tax avoidance by exploiting loopholes in the tax laws, while it is essentially legal, it is unethical at best and can be manipulated for illegal dealings. Offshore accounts of offshore companies can be used for money-laundering and tax evasion but those not owned by off-shore companies are almost invariably meant for hiding of illegal wealth, tax evasion, money laundering, etc. The best defence being offence, one can be clownish to the absurd represented by Rana Sanaullah (“Pajama Leaks”) and Pervez Rashid, to the unnecessary bad-tempered belligerent and measured, represented by Daniyal Aziz and Musaddiq Malik respectively, in defending the PM’s family. The focus of enquiry is being cleverly shifted away from offshore accounts. Only a forensic audit can reveal the truth about the offshore accounts that the attention is being deliberately diverted from.
Even though “Auntie” Tahmina has used the opportunity to get her own back at the family that has ostracized her (can one expect “My Industrial Lord” soon?), the money trail in will be interesting. Maryam Nawaz’s signatures are prima-facie that of a shareholder and Director of an offshore company, making the authenticity of her denials of ownership controversial. The poor girl is a “non-filer” in Pakistan because she has no money and lives with her father the Prime Minister, who also has very little money and lives with his mother. Purely on moral grounds, can Mian Sahib ask anyone to invest in Pakistan when his children don’t seem to?
When democracy with a flawed electoral process is deliberately used to camouflage the criminalizing of society, should one give blind adherence to the Constitution while it is being subverted blatantly (in turns) by the greedy rulers? Moral and ethical precedents must symbolize governance, it is an outright hypocrisy to take refuge in verbatim interpretation of the words of the Constitution. Raza Rabbani talks about failing to protect the Constitution (and Parliament and democracy), but as day turns to night and might turns to day our rulers (both in government and opposition) know (and fear) that those who can do will do what is ethically and morally right for the nation and the people, and that will certainly not be treason.
The writer is a leading defense and political analyst of Pakistan. He can be contacted at ikram.sehgal@wpplsms.com
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Before there was Napa, there was Meiomi.
According to Wagner, Meiomi means “coastal” in Wappo, the language spoken by the indigenous people of Northern California. Wappo is also the name of their tribe.
Have you thanked a grandmother today?
Meiomi was born from Belle Glos, a single-vineyard Pinot Noir label named for his grandmother, Lorna Belle Glose. Today, Belle Glos Clark and Telephone Pinot Noir retails for $50 a bottle and rakes in top rankings.
Wagner is a genius. He was in the right place at the right time. Stop, you’re both right.
On the one hand, Wagner created a label that is accessible and reliable. It offers bright, berry-rich sweetness, which Americans historically love, plus balance and food-friendliness. That said, Wagner happened to bottle an affordable California Pinot Noir at exactly the time when everyone in America wanted affordable California Pinot Noirs.
He maybe owes Thomas Haden Church a drink.
“Sideways,” the 2004 film in which two middle-aged white guys drink wine and reevaluate life against a picturesque backdrop of the Santa Ynez Valley’s rolling hills, made California Pinot Noir a national obsession. Launched in 2006, Meiomi sold 90,000 cases by 2010 — not bad for a label less than five years old. But by 2015, Meiomi sold 700,000 cases annually. “Nobody cared about Pinot Noir [before ‘Sideways’],” Wagner said. “After its release, all bets were off and you couldn’t make enough Pinot. [It] changed the dynamics of the industry for Pinot Noir.”
If you like sunshine and puppies, you’ll probably like Meiomi.
Meiomi’s Pinot Noir is easy-drinking, with Bing cherries and other red fruit for sweetness, plus a healthy oak balance and very palatable price point (the 2016 retails for $24.99). It regularly wins over haters — as in this Corkscrew Report review, which convincingly compares Meiomi’s undeniable runaway commercial success to the “Fast and Furious” franchise, and calls its 2015 Pinot Noir “the kind of wine we’re prepared to hate from the outset, but we’ll be damned, it’s such a likable and pleasant Pinot that’s so easy to drink we can’t even pretend to write it off.”
Conventionally handsome twins who know a lot about cheese also love Meiomi.
Charlie and Michael Kalish, known to Food Network fans as the “Cheese Twins,” won the seventh season of that network’s Great Food Truck Race by devoting themselves to portable grilled cheeses. Now, in addition to their cheese consulting business (cough: dream job), the twins are Meiomi brand ambassadors, giving tips and pairing advice to everyone from Martha Stewart to the Dallas Morning News.
It might just be the brightest constellation in the sky.
How successful is Meiomi? Its parent company, Constellation Brands, reported $35.3 million in sales of Meiomi in its first three months, according to figures shared by Decanter. Meiomi reportedly constituted close to two-thirds of its parent company’s 8 percent annual growth in wine and spirits.
There’s more to Meiomi than Pinot.
Meiomi’s Pinot Noir may have launched a thousand ships, but the company also bottles a rosé and a Chardonnay. The latter was a silver medalist at the 2017 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition and has notes of citrus, baking spices, and butterscotch on the nose, followed by a clean palate and slight minerality. Meiomi’s rosé is of the mineral-driven, ballet-pink variety, with fruity aromas and a dry finish.
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Story By: Anastasia Smirnova, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder,Agency: Central European New
Video Credit: CEN/SvetlanaSpirina
This is the incredible four-year-old Russian boy who knows the alphabets from 46 different languages including Hebrew, Japanese, English, Greek and Arabic.
Wonderkid Tamerlan Spirin, from the city of Kazan in the western Russian republic of Tatarstan, has shown an interest in alphabets since he was 10 months old, according to local media.
His nanny Anastasia said: “He talks about letters all day long and it is impossible to make him do something else if he doesn’t want to.”
Picture Credit: CEN/SvetlanaSpirina
His father Ayrat Spirin told local media: “He has been surrounded by letters since birth. When he was a baby, I bought him a rug with the alphabet on it and then we got him lettered building blocks.”
In an exclusive interview with Central European News (CEN), the bright boy’s TV presenter mum Svetlana Spirina, who works for Tatarstan Business Channel, said: “He did not have anything apart from the alphabet rug and a bookshelf with classical literature, including works by Turgenev, Pushkin, Yesenin and Akhmatova. That was it.”
She said that he started developing a love for alphabets on his own and family members encouraged his unusual passion.
Svetlana told CEN: “We started giving him new alphabets that we printed off the Internet. Now he does that by himself.”
By the time he was one year old, Tamerlan already knew three alphabets: Russian, Tatar and English.
When talking about Tamerlan’s first words, his mother, who works as a presenter on regional television, said: “I heard him saying Turgenev’s ‘Otsi i Deti’ (‘Fathers and Sons’). Then it turned out that he read it on the back of the book.”
Svetlana said that her son is now able to read and write the alphabets from 46 different languages: Abkhaz, Avar, Albanian, English, Armenian, Arabic, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Glagolitic (the oldest known Slavic script), Greek, Georgian, Danish, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Khmer, Chinese, Latin, Macedonian, Mari, German, Norwegian, Ossetian, Persian, Portuguese, Serbian, Tajik, Tatar, Udmurt, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Urdu, Chechen, Czech, Chuvash, Finnish, Phoenician, French, Croatian, Swedish, Estonian, Japanese Katakana and Japanese Hiragana.
Little Tamerlan is reportedly fluent in Russian and Mandarin and knows a lot of words in English, Armenian, Bashkir and Tatar. He also attends a specialised polylingual nursery, according to local media.
Svetlana said: “What he is interested in are alphabets, how they are written, how they are spoken, phonetics. He is interested in analysing the alphabets rather than learning the language.”
According to his mum, the boy has spent 90 minutes every evening for two and a half years researching different alphabets on the internet.
She told CEN: “We are a simple family. I am a journalist, his father is a local official and neither of us is gifted with what he has.”
Svetlana stresses that it is too soon to talk about his possible future career and notes that her son always says he will simply be Tamerlan when he grows up.
She added: “I don’t know if he will become a polyglot or cryptographer, I can’t tell. Many people reckon he may help to decode an ancient message in the future.”
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Piauí: translation
/pyow ee"/, n.
a state in NE Brazil. 2,188,148; 96,860 sq. mi. (250,870 sq. km). Cap.: Teresina.
▪ state, Brazil
estado (state) of northeastern Brazil, bordered on the east by the states of Ceará, Pernambuco, and Bahia, by a very small part of Tocantins on the south, by Maranhão on the west, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the north. The state capital is Teresina, located at the confluence of the Parnaíba (Parnaíba River) and Poti rivers. The state's small Atlantic coastline is only about 40 miles (64 km) long.
The settlement of Piauí in the 17th century came with the expansion of cattle ranching in the backlands of the interior, setting that area apart from the sugarcane agriculture of the coastal lowlands. The settlers arrived from the east, moving up the valley of the São Francisco River in Pernambuco and onward in a westward direction into Piauí. One of their leaders was Francisco Dias d'Avilla, who fought bloody battles with the Indians. Piauí was a part of the captaincy of Maranhão from 1718 until 1811, at which time Piauí became a separate administrative unit. Piauí became a state in the Brazilian republic in 1889.
The Parnaíba River runs along the western boundary of the state, linking the Atlantic port of Parnaíba with the inland cities of Teresina and Floriano. As one moves away from the river and the coastal area toward the south and east, the land rises gradually in a series of plateaus edged by cliffs. On the border of the state of Ceará, the plateau is broken by a gap through which the Poti River runs.
Temperatures show little variation, averaging about 79 °F (26 °C) in the northern part of the state and a few degrees less in some of the higher elevations in the south. Annual rainfall is about 59 inches (1,500 mm) in the north, but, in the drier east and southeast, it averages about 20 inches (500 mm) a year. The dry months are in winter and spring.
The vegetation of the south and east is that of Brazil's semiarid northeastern backlands: a thorny, deciduous scrub woodland known as caatinga. This gives way in the north to deciduous forests interspersed with areas of palms and cocoa trees.
Piauí is sparsely populated. Many of its inhabitants are of mixed Indian and European ancestry, but Afro-Brazilians predominate in the northeastern coastal zones (where the colonial sugar plantations once employed many African slaves) and constitute a decided majority of the state's population. The largest city is Teresina, the capital. Other towns include Parnaíba, Floriano, Campo Maior, Picos, and Piripiri. The principal economic activities are the raising of livestock, the harvesting of cashew nuts, and the production of seeds, oil, and wax from the carnauba and babassu palm trees (see photograph—>).
Standards of living in Piauí are among the lowest in Brazil. The infant mortality rate is higher than the national average, largely because of infectious and parasitic diseases. Hospital clinics reach only a fraction of the population. The national government, however, is engaged in programs to control malaria and other endemic diseases.
Piauí had a few thousand primary schools in the late 20th century. The state also had newspapers, radio stations, one theatre, and numerous cinemas.
Piauí is a somewhat isolated state, lacking good communications even with neighbouring states of the northeast. Teresina has rail connections across the state of Maranhão on the west to the port of São Luis; another railroad runs from Teresina northward through Campo Maior to the state's port of Luís Correia. One good all-weather federal highway runs from Teresina northeastward to Sobral in the state of Ceará. Several important new highways were under construction in the late 20th century by the federal government, including one from Teresina to Picos, another from Fortaleza in Ceará to Picos and southward toward Brasília, and an east-west trans-Amazonian road that will pass through Picos. Area 97,116 square miles (251,529 square km). Pop. (2006 est.) 3,036,290.
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School of Legal Studies (SLS)
The School of Education endeavours to provide quality education to meet the global challenges of school education and to prepare teachers as instruments of social change, in order to achieve high ideals of social justice and a democratic society. A significant feature of the School of Education is its extensive education programmes. The School organises workshops and in-service training programmes for school teachers to update their knowledge and skills.
Life Institutional Member of All India Association of Educational Research (AIAER) and Indian Association of Teacher Educators (IATE)
Prof. A.K. Sharma
Former Director, NCERT
Prof. J.S. Rajput
Shri. J. Veeraraghavan
Former Secretary, MHRD and Culture,
Govt. of India, Former Director,
Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan
Prof. K. Sudha Rao
Member Secretary, Karnataka Knowledge
Commission, Former Vice-Chancellor,
Karnataka State Open University
Prof. Sudhanshu Bhushan
Head, Dept. of Higher Education, NUEPA
Prof. Vimla Veeraraghavan
Professor Emeritus, IGNOU
Prof. SVS Chaudhary
Former Professor & Head, School of Education, IGNOU,Former Vice Chairman, NCTE,New Delhi
Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) (NCTE Approved)
B.A. B.Ed / B.Sc. B.Ed Integrated Programme (NCTE Approved)
PhD in Education
Programme Features
The School offers a balanced mix of theoretical and practical training, which enables students to apply the learning to solve real-time problems being faced by the current academic structure.
Growth Oriented
Enhances students’ ability to judge, analyse, design alternate modules and spearhead the implementation process, thereby, paving a gradual yet steady path to varied leadership positions in respective verticals.
Know and Network
The School provides students an opportunity to learn and share a professional platform with a number of academicians from varied backgrounds and institutions from all over the country.
Internship & Placement
Teaching internship for all B.Ed students and placement in reputed schools for deserving graduates.
Laboratories & Workshop Facilities
Psychology Resource Centre
Equipped with a variety of psychological tests andinstruments with multiple sets, portraits of leading psychologists, computer terminals and conducive sitting arrangement for doing experiments.
ICT Resource Centre
Equipped with latest computers having internet facility,language learning software, cameras, audio-visual players, projectors and dish antenna.
Science Laboratories
Separate labs for Physics, Chemistry and Biology subjects.
Curriculum Laboratory
Equipped with visual aids and models for teaching mathematics and social sciences, textbooks of classes VI-XII of CBSE and Haryana School Board, national curriculum frameworks for school education and teacher education, education policies, curriculum of select universities, distance learning materials, programmed learning materials, catalogues of reputed publishers.
Art and Craft Resource Centre
Equipped with materials related to making of visual aids, clay work, models, puppetry and masks. It has also Performing Arts’ equipment like harmonium, tabla, manjira, digital music system and costume kits.
Physical and Health Education Resource Center
Equipped with all types of indoor and outdoor games, materials for athletics and yoga practices and a modern gymnasium.
Students have the opportunity to record their microteaching and peer-teaching lessons in the university studio and participate in radio programmes.
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Any position which requires graduation as eligibility
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United Religions Initiative North America
URI North America promotes interfaith cooperation in the United States and Canada to support peace, justice and healing around the world.
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You could be headed to the United Nations!
The United Religions Initiative has a longstanding relationship with the United Nations and this year we are proud to sponsor URI North America members to travel to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City to celebrate World Interfaith Harmony Week!
To apply to participate, fill out the form below or click here.
Continue reading “You could be headed to the United Nations!”
Vital Elements Community Welfare Services celebrated International Day of Peace by coming together in community
Vital Elements Community Welfare Services in Toronto, Canada, celebrated International Day of Peace on Sept. 23.
Peace loving people must become agents of peace.
This was the focus of the celebration on International Day of Peace by Vital Elements Community Welfare Services in Toronto, Canada on Sept. 23.
The celebration started with releasing three “peace doves,” one by a child, one by a woman and the final by a man in representation of the three important links of a family.
President of “A Better Community For All Canada” Yuel Bhatti introduced the theme of the day “Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for all.” The theme for International Day of Peace is established by the United Nations every year.
“There is great need to spread the message of (United Religions Initiative) in multicultural regions of Canada to create more peace and harmony,” Bhatti said. He thanked the participants of Canadian, Indian and Pakistani cultures who were there to participate in International Day of Peace.
Together, attendees sang songs of peace, worshiped and lit a peace candle.
“Peace can be found within and without: within ourselves, within our neighborhoods and communities, but most importantly, without discrimination, hate and disrespect,” said Sylvia Ghori, CEO of Vital Elements Community Welfare Services.
President of Vital Elements Jasper Ghori said during his speech that for peace to really happen, people need to seek the “source of peace,” rather than looking to into the source of a conflict.
Tony Zekveld of Hope Centre in Toronto said that sustainable peace will come when we accept “the Kingship of our Creator God.”
Other speakers included Nadia Atif, women Coordinator of “A Better Community For All Canada,” who recited poetry and Jay Banerjei.
Interfaith peace service held in Nashville
In Nashville, on September 18, the URI Nashville Cooperation Circle (URI NCC) held an interfaith service to commemorate United Nation’s International Day of Peace.
“It is with great joy that I recall the beauty of citywide interfaith peace service followed by a reception. The service and reception were committed to building bridges between peoples and transforming hate into hope and love with prayers for peace by URI NCC members from eight world religions and spiritual paths.” Joyce Wilding, Founder URI NCC.
Congresswoman shares International Day of Peace message
In honor of International Day of Peace, Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard sent to following letter to be read during the International Day of Peace Celebration hosted by the Interfaith Roundtable of Kauai, a Cooperation Circle member of the United Religions Initiative.
We can all share the goal of worldwide peace
Mahalo nui loa to the Interfaith Roundtable of Kauai, and the many volunteers and community members who have helped to make today’s International Day of Peace Celebration here on the Garden Isle a reality.
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Peace Pole erected in Charlotte, commemorating International Day of Peace
The Charlotte Red Bench Garden Cooperation Circle, a member of the United Religions Initiative commemorated the International Day of Peace with the erection of a Peace Pole on September 21.
Galilee Ministries of East Charlotte, located at 3601 Central Avenue, Charlotte, NC, hosted the event in September 21, 2017 at 11:00 am in partnership with Charlotte Red Bench Garden, Central Piedmont Community College, Refugee Support Services, Charlotte Community Kitchen, Catholic Charities, Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry, and Cross Cultural Counseling; the residents of St. Andrews Homes and the Merry Oaks Community.
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Sun Devils Are Better Together to Celebrate International Day of Peace
Tempe, Arizona – Sun Devils Are Better Together (SunDABT), a member of the United Religions Initiative global interfaith network, will celebrate the 38th anniversary of the International Day of Peace with a general meeting focusing on storytelling around heritage, migration and the unknown over a cup of coffee and tea. The meeting will take place on September 18 at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus. The International Day of Peace, observed annually on Sept. 21, was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence for commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace within and among all nations and people.
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Preparing for International Day of Peace 2017!
International Day of Peace is just around the corner!
Every year on September 21st, people around the world celebrate the United Nations’ International Day of Peace (IDP), a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples. Activities and events range from events planned just for the occasion to recognitions of the day being added to existing activities. In previous years, celebrations have ranged from peace walks to concerts, and include art showcases, community outreach, and peace education programs.
Will your Cooperation Circle/Affiliate join the millions of people around the world celebrating this day?
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Bringing Recognition of International Day of Peace to Your Local Community
Nashville Cooperation Circle holds a community service where nine people from different religious traditions discuss peace.
Around the world, a minute of silence will fall at 12 p.m. in each time zone on Sept. 21, as people gather together for meditation and prayer for global peace.
International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by a United Nations resolution that devoted a day to “commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples.” United Religions Initiative (URI) has been a partner of International Day of Peace since it was established in 2000. The minute of silence in recognition of this day begins on Sept. 21, when the Secretary General rings the Peace Bell at the UN Headquarters.
Continue reading “Bringing Recognition of International Day of Peace to Your Local Community”
URI member visits the UN to share International Day of Peace fundraising project
URI member Rik Yeames visited the United Nations earlier this month to share about a fundraising opportunity for the International Day of Peace and attend the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda.
Yeames, is a member of the Greater Concord Interfaith Council, one of URI’s newest Cooperation Circles and the first in New Hampshire. Yeames met with URI’s representative to the United Nations, Monica Willard, to talk about “A Piece of Pizza for Peace” an International Day of Peace fundraising project. International Day of Peace is marked by hundreds of thousands of people every year on September 21.
Rik Yeams at a United Nations commemoration for the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda.
Rick came to UN on Friday April 7 to share his International Day of Peace Project, Piece of Pizza for Peace. He attended the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, a beautiful ceremony that remembered the 800,000 killed in 100 days in the genocide against the Tutsi. After the program he met Mr. Dieng and Amb. Nga. We also got to shake hands with the Secretary-General and VP of General Assembly.
His project invites local pizza restaurants to use the International Day of Peace to stand for peace by contributing a percentage of their profits for that day to peace organizations. He wants to have three International Day of Peace organizations for people to choose from. Last year his shop sent $1,500 to Peace One Day. He wants to get hundreds of pizza shops around the world to participate. I think he is really dedicated to making this a most successful project for IDP and for URI!
The 2017 theme of the International Day of Peace is “Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All.” If you are looking for ideas for how to commemorate the day check out the Program Bank to see what others have done in previous years. You can also learn more about how to use the day to raise fund for peace through A Piece of Pizza for Peace here.
Cooperation Circles Celebrate International Day of Peace
URI North America Cooperation Circles and Affiliates are ready to celebrate International Day of Peace (IDP) 2016! The theme for IDP this year is “The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Building Blocks for Peace.” Our network is building off of these blocks for peace by creating moments of #TangibleHope that strengthen the ideals of peace, both within and among their diverse communities.
Click through this slideshow to see what they’re up to! You can also check out the URI North America IDP Program Bank to find inspiration for IDP celebrations in your community for years to come. If you have an event to report, click HERE to submit it and qualify for a trip to the United Nations for World Interfaith Harmony Week!
URI North America Celebrates International Day of Peace
Rothko Chapel Cooperation Circle
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United Religions Initiative UN Cooperation Circle
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URI at the United Nations
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University of Rochester Interfaith Chapel
URI – Northeast Tennessee Cooperation Circle
Abbey of Hope
You can also check out events happening all around the world, hosted by URI CCs and others, on this map produced by URI Cooperation Circle UNIFY.
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Destination Budapest
Ruins and rooftop terraces: Budapest's best bars
Nathan Kay and Mary Novakovich, CNN • Updated 3rd January 2019
(CNN) — People from all over the world descend upon Budapest each year, with the Hungarian capital's unique drinking venues acting as one of its top draws.
There are plenty of stand out watering holes dotted right across the city, with the 6th district boasting some of the best bars, pubs and clubs in Europe.
From ruin bars and bistros, to high-end bars and rooftop venues, there's something for everyone.
We've put together an ultimate guide to the best bars in Budapest to help you narrow it down...
Ruin bars
It's funny that they call them "ruin bars" -- because for their founders, the venues generally lead to good fortune.
It started around 2001, so the story goes, with a bunch of young men looking for cheap places to drink. From their thirst and shallow pockets, some of the most lively and stylish places to drink in Budapest were born -- the so-called ruin bars.
Derelict buildings and unused outdoor spaces have been transformed into friendly, pleasingly chaotic bars where you can still get a large beer for less than $2.
Szimpla Kert
Szimpla Kert was the city's first Budapest ruin bar -- and remains iconic.
Courtesy Jorge Franganillo/Creative Commons/Flickr
Szimpla Kert was the first ruin bar and remains iconic, it moved around before settling into its home in the Jewish Quarter of Budapest's 7th district in 2004.
It hosts a regular farmers' market and flea market, while live music and film screenings are also a regular feature.
Delicious pizzas served from a wood-fired oven are available at very reasonable prices.
Szimpla Kert has classic ruin pub traits: willfully mismatched furniture that's seen better days, artwork that some annoying customers have a habit of taking home without and a garden where you can catch the sun during the summer months.
Unlike other ruin pubs, Szimpla Kert has an old Trabant car in the garden that doubles as a table and chairs
Cigarette smoke takes up the place of the exhaust fumes and the ambience harks back to an era when the bloc was under communist times.
Szimpla Kert, Budapest, Kazinczy u. 14, 1075; +36 20 261 8669
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Racskert
Just a few minutes' walk away is one of the area's more recent ruin pubs, Racskert.
A big, ramshackle garden bar in a disused parking lot -- it's a plain spot, with none of the artful disorder of Szimpla.
Water cisterns recycled as lamps provide the illumination, while a mobile burger van serves snacks from the Bosnian Serb owner's homeland.
Racskert, Budapest, Dob u. 40-42, 1072; +36 70 428 1517
Ellato Kert & Taqueria
There's a Mexican feel to Ellato Kert & Taqueria, a large garden filled with brightly painted tables -- helped, no doubt, by the tacos and tortillas on the menu.
Ellato Kert & Taqueria, Budapest, Kazinczy u. 48, 1075; +36 20 527 3018
Instant and Fogas
Popular ruin bars Instant and Fogas have teamed up to create the ultimate party venue.
Once one of the more popular ruin bars in Budapest, the old Instant bar situated on Nagymező street was bulldozed in 2017 to make way for a new apartment block.
The venue then teamed up with Fogas club to form the largest ruin bar complex in Budapest.
Now situated in Akácfa utca, it opens until 6 a.m. each morning and is always full of partygoers and clubbers, who can alternate between the many bar and dance areas within its large building.
Instant and Fogas, Budapest, Akácfa u. 49-51; +36 30 123 4567
Anker't
One of the most popular party venues in the city, Anker't is essentially a large courtyard surrounded by bars, dance rooms and a snack area.
Often packed with partygoers, the bar has themed nights on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with a great DJ to party the night away.
Anker't, Budapest, Paulay Ede u. 33, 1061; +36 30 360 3389
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Budapest's 360 Bar is one of the best places to experience, you guessed it, a 360-degree view of the city.
Accessed via Andrassy Avenue, it's a popular spot throughout the year, especially in the summer months.
Top cocktails and bar snacks fill the menu, while a whole host of friendly staff are on hand to ensure you have the best time possible.
360 Bar, Budapest, Andrássy út 39, 1061; +36 30 356 3047
High Note SkyBar at the Aria Hotel
The Aria Hotel plays host to one of the more spectacular rooftop bars in the city.
Nestled in the heart of the 5th district, the High Note SkyBar provides direct views over the nearby Basilica building and is a great spot for taking pictures.
High Note SkyBar at the Aria Hotel, Budapest, Hercegprímás u. 5, 1051; +36 1 445 4055
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St. Andrea Wine and Skybar
Accessed via Vörösmarty Square, this rooftop bar is a fabulous drinking spot in both the summer and winter months.
With an array of cocktails on the menu as well as delicious Irish coffees, you'll likely find yourself staying far longer than intended.
St. Andrea Wine and Skybar, Budapest, Deák Ferenc utca 5, 1052; +36 30 300 3930
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High-end bars
The Bar and Lobby Lounge at the Four Seasons
The bar at the Four Seasons is one of the places to be seen at this exclusive Budapest hotspot.
Most celebrities stay at this hotel while filming is taking place in the city, so you could spot Jennifer Lawrence or Jude Law sipping a cocktail at the bar.
The Bar & Lobby Lounge, Four Seasons Budapest, Budapest, Széchenyi István tér 5, 1051; +36 1 268 6000
Kupola Bar at The Ritz-Carlton
The menu at Kupola Bar at The Ritz-Carlton features local wines and innovative cocktails.
Courtesy Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
Relatively new on the Budapest bar scene, the interior of this cocktail bar has been given a five-star makeover.
The cocktails available range anywhere from a Tom Collins to a Moscow Mule, and if you can't find what you're looking for, the barman can rustle it up for you.
The Ritz-Carlton, Budapest, Erzsébet tér 9-10, 1051; +36 1 429 5500
Blue Fox The Bar at the Kempinski
Blue Fox The Bar is based at the Kempinski in downtown Budapest.
Courtesy Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest
Blue Fox The Bar at the Kempinski is one of the more quirky high-end bar experiences in Budapest.
Popular with tourists,it offers up a selection of delicious cocktails and bar snacks, accompanied by moody lighting, and is a cool place to chill with friends.
Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest, Budapest, Erzsébet tér 7, 1051; +36 1 429 3777
Mid-range bars
Boutiq' Bar
Boutiq' Bar has been voted among the top 50 cocktail bars in the world and is certainly one to try while visiting Budapest.
This stunning bar offers an interesting selection of drinks and cocktails, accompanied by a devilishly red interior that will leave you feeling mischievous enough to delve into the menu.
Boutiq' Bar, Budapest, Paulay Ede u. 5, 1061; +36 30 554 2323
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Farm Gastrobar
This cute city hideaway serves impressive cocktails and bar snacks.
With a cozy courtyard area teamed with two bar and seating areas serving bespoke cocktails and reasonably priced jugs, it's a fantastic hangout spot in both the summer and winter months.
Farm, Budapest, Ó u. 14, 1066; +36 30 622 7500
Brody Studios
More shabby than chic, this once exclusive club is considered past its prime, but you might be lucky enough to spot a celeb or two when film crews are in town.
Although most nights are quiet, some Friday or Saturday evenings can pull in crowds.
Keep a close eye on the website though, as the venue is often closed during the summer months and other key tourist holidays.
Brody Studios, Budapest, Vörösmarty u. 38, 1064; +36 1 266 3707
Maláta Bisztró
One of the more quirky budget bars in the city, Maláta Bisztró always has a great atmosphere along with ridiculously cheap drinks -- many are less than $2.
Heaving throughout the year, this place gets especially busy in the summer months when the crowds spill out onto the street, creating a cool party vibe.
Maláta Bisztró, Budapest, Mátyás Utca 11., 1097; +36 70 630 8107
Hauzol Café
While it's a pretty basic bar, Hauzol Café is extremely popular with locals, expats and especially students.
The drink prices here are very reasonable and the vibe is pretty good, although the interior is a bit dated.
Hauzol Café, Budapest, 1073, Erzsébet krt. 26, 1073; +36 30 653 2965
Cheers Pub
One of the cheapest bars in Budapest, Cheers Pub is situated near the end of the popular Nagymező street, one of city's main party spots.
At around $1.50 a pint, you can't go wrong here.
Cheers Pub, Budapest, Nagymező u. 35, 1065, +36 70 660 0812
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The Past, Present, and Future of D.C.’s Panda Gourmet
The famed Chinese restaurant tucked into a Days Inn has plans to expand in 2021.
by Katherine Zhao January 6th, 2021 January 7th, 2021
Panda Gourmet at the Days Inn Credit: Katherine Zhao
When Panda Gourmet opened in December 2012, it followed several other restaurants that occupied the Days Inn at 2700 New York Ave. NE. The motel, once described as having “a Tom Waits, ‘Jockey Full of Bourbon’ vibe,” housed Chinese laborers building the Chinese Embassy from 2006 to 2008 and until recently, families experiencing homelessness.
Before Panda Gourmet came Joe’s Noodle House, Sammy’s Restaurant Steak & Buffet, and other restaurants serving Chinese or Asian food that shuttered in succession. After the closure of a Vietnamese pho place, Sammy Xie, who manages the Days Inn and hails from China’s Fujian province, turned to his friend Joseph Huang to gauge his interest in opening a restaurant. The pitch, according to Panda Gourmet’s manager Mei Lai, was that having a restaurant as part of the motel, rather than leaving the space vacant, would be better for business. There would be a proper place for a meal on site.
In the early part of the last decade, many people traveled from China to D.C. or ventured from the U.S. to China because, according to Lai, “relations were good between the two countries.” There was a fresh population—students, researchers, travelers, and others—who had experienced Chinese food in China, she notes.
Huang’s thought was to bring food—the “Rouga Mo” Chinese burger (roujiamo) and cold steamed noodles (liangpi)—from his home province of Shaanxi to D.C. as comfort food for some and adventurous eating for others. He added Sichuan food, Lai says, because both “Americans and Chinese like eating spicy food” and because if he only served Shaanxi food, “not a lot of people would understand it.” Lai explains that D.C. had around 20 or 30 Chinese restaurants at the time, not to mention the chain Panda Express, but none served food quite like what Panda Gourmet was cooking.
Huang would import ingredients directly from China through a supplier in New York because he wanted the food to taste like it would in China. Using the example of roujiamo, Lai says it takes about 200 ingredients to make the dish. “And then you have to put the meat into a pot and cook it for several days in order for it to taste good,” she says. Panda Gourmet’s other manager, Xu Xiaolong, was originally based in Shaanxi and also sourced ingredients for dishes like liangpi from the region.
Lai explains that local diners started sampling the more traditional dishes after peering at the plates in front of Chinese students from the University of Maryland and Georgetown University. Diners would ask questions and change their orders on subsequent visits. Other customers had traveled to China, including parts of Shaanxi or Sichuan, and came back craving the food they tasted abroad.
Panda Gourmet is now a D.C. landmark and appears in a scene in George Pelecanos’ latest novel, The Man Who Came Uptown, but its first three years were challenging. Lai says it was tough to get the word out. She joined the staff in August 2015 and even then, business was slow. She credits reviews from the Post and word-of-mouth for finally drawing diners to a part of town not known for its restaurant scene.
Another strategy was adding Americanized Chinese dishes to the menu to appeal to a broader audience. Lai says these dishes, like General Tso’s chicken, account for about 20 percent of orders. Sometimes patrons come in for such items only to be drawn in by pictures of other options like liangpi. “Sometimes they begin to only order from the ‘authentic’ menu,” Lai says with a laugh.
Nowadays, Panda Gourmet is grateful for its customers. When the pandemic first hit D.C. last March, the restaurant’s operations were limited to takeout. “Many customers called to see if we were still open [at all],” Lai relays. Some area Chinese restaurants closed altogether, even though they’re adept at takeout. The support has been heartwarming, Lai says, adding that delivery drivers also thanked them for being open so they could have a source of income.
Panda Gourmet felt the impact of the pandemic the most in the first month, Lai says, noting that sales dropped by around 50 percent because they no longer had a dine-in option and because COVID-19 was new enough that people were nervous about ordering takeout. That initial trepidation eroded as it became more clear that the virus isn’t transmitted through food handling and consumption.
More customers were willing to place to-go orders, though revenue remains below pre-pandemic levels. At the same time, Lai explains, business is at a point where Panda Gourmet has a good chance to survive. She hopes to reopen the restaurant for dine-in service once it’s safe and people have been vaccinated.
Panda Gourmet credits third-party delivery services like Uber Eats and Hungry Panda with helping them stay afloat. They appear on seven or eight delivery apps and have used technology solutions that bundle delivery services into one platform to allow for easier processing of orders.
In 2017, Panda Gourmet decided to partner with Uber Eats based on the suggestion of a representative from the Mayor’s Office of Asian and Pacific Island Affairs who liked their food. Huang thought working with Uber Eats would be a good move for the future, even though the 30 percent commission fee Uber Eats charged at the time was steep.
The strategy proved prescient in 2020. Because Panda started to use Uber Eats several years ago, they were prepared when an influx of orders streamed in early on in the pandemic.
While delivery services have been helpful, Panda Gourmet has been looking for a second location—likely near downtown or Georgetown—that would offer only take-out. This “ghost restaurant” would allow Huang to reach customers who fall outside of their current delivery range. An outpost would also allow Panda Gourmet to recoup a portion of their pandemic-related losses and expenses, including rent on an idle space that increased by 3 percent last year.
Panda Gourmet may be Huang’s first restaurant, but as Lai observes, Huang “is from Shaanxi, and has ideas.”
And in case you were curious, the characters in Pelecanos’ novel ordered scallion pancakes, roujiamo, cumin lamb on sticks, spicy vermicelli, and dumplings with hot sauce. “The food was righteous,” Pelecanos concludes.
Note: City Paper conducted interviews in Mandarin and translated the responses for publication.
Tagged: Chinese Food, Days Inn, Ghost Restaurant, Joseph Huang, Mei Lai, Panda Gourmet
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Beauty & Inspiration: Legacy Gardens of Provence and the French Riviera
A tour of gardens in the south of France is every gardener’s dream. If you haven’t yet had the opportunity (or if you have and would like to relive that experience), you’ll love Nan’s illustrated tour of the legacy gardens of Provence and the French Riviera.
This tour takes you to a dozen gardens, starting at La Louve, French designer Nicole de Vesian’s fabulous country home and garden. We stop at La Chaboude, designer Philippe Cottet’s modern interpretation of a 15th century farmhouse and garden. Further south, we visit Jardin Exotic, the 85 year-old succulent gardens on the cliffs overhanging Monaco, and Lawrence Johnston’s Serra de la Madone (where Johnston retreated after selling Hidcote, the garden designed in England). There are more public gardens, private gardens, historic gardens, and iconic gardens, ending at Monet’s Giverny. Though it is not in Provence or the French Riviera, every garden tour to France should include Giverny!
Container Gardening How-To
Not everyone has room for an entire garden but everyone has room for a container garden.
Container gardens are just like gardens in the ground, just smaller. They have exactly the same requirements – light, water, and soil. In this demonstration, Nan discusses the best uses for different types of containers and how to match plants to pots and pots to plants. She’ll demonstrate container-planting methods, how to combine plants, how to find the right spot for container gardens, and so on. She’ll share some of her best tips for making container gardens instant successes. Focus can be on edibles or ornamentals, depending on the audience.
Don’t Plant This! Avoid the Plants You’ll Later Regret
Ever ask a gardener about the plants they wish they’d never planted? Nan talks about a bunch of them that reproduce too freely, swallow up a house in a season, are prone to disease, attract unwanted “visitors” to the garden, invade nearby native habitats, are impossible to train, or will be in the garden forever, whether wanted or not. Be forewarned! Be forearmed! Don’t plant this!
Expand Your Palette: California Gardening with South African Plants
If you were to visit California from the southern tip of South Africa you may not feel a little out of place, but if you were a plant, you would feel right at home. The two region’s climates and terrains are surprisingly similar.
South African plants are a major component of the Mediterranean plant palette; proteas with their odd looking flowers, their cousins the cone bushes, magical aloes, and sunny daisies are mainstays when it comes to low water, low maintenance California gardens.
Optional demonstration with live plants.
Expand Your Palette: Garden Gems from the World’s Mediterranean Climates
The world’s five Mediterranean climates (including California) cover only 2% of the earth’s surface, yet are home to 205 of the world’s plant species. For gardeners, that translates to an enormous palette of low water, low maintenance, and beautiful plants. This talk presents the best of the best of those plants, along with examples of how to use them in a home garden.
Optional demonstration with live plants
Expand Your Palette: Garden Treasures from Arid Mexico and the Southwest
Expand your garden’s palette with colorful and hardy plants from arid Mexico and the southwest deserts. If you think those plants are all cacti, think again. You’ll be amazed at the vast options of plants that don’t resemble cacti in the least! These plants are graceful, have fantastic textures, and add year-round interest to low water gardens.
Expand Your Palette: Low Water Australian Plants for California Gardens
Imagine a garden filled with colorful flowers, fantastic foliage and hummingbirds. You are imagining a garden with plants from our sister climate down-under. From kangaroo paws to acacias, plants from Australia include some of the most unusual and fascinating low water, low maintenance plants for our gardens.
Expand Your Palette: Mediterranean and Desert Plants For Low Water Landscapes
So many communities, property owners, even landscape maintenance companies want to swap out existing landscapes for something new, something more waterwise, easier to care for, and simply more up to date. The problem is, they don’t know where to start or what to ask for. In this talk, Nan covers a wealth of plant options that meet these needs. She also talks about the infrastructure necessary to support them, how to make the conversion, and how to manage them over the long term.
Expand Your Palette: Native Plants for California Native Gardens
Native plants began falling out of fashion in the early 1900’s when new and exciting exotics from around the world became available to California gardeners. That trend continued pretty much until today. Now, California gardeners are rediscovering the beauty and diversity of our native flora. And it’s about time. Native plants are the absolute best-suited plants for California gardens. They are low/no water, low maintenance, and are very easy to grow, once you discard everything you thought you knew about keeping a garden. In this talk, Nan discusses what makes a native plant native, the habitats that native plants come from, native plants that are easiest to grow in California gardens, how to grow them, how to use them in the garden, and how to mix them with plants from other Mediterranean climates.
Five Minute Garden Design
On a beautiful Saturday you are ready to replace your thirsty, high maintenance garden. Drive to the nursery, park the car and as step through the entry, you stop. Overwhelmed. Not sure what to look at or what to choose….
In this class, Nan demonstrates how to make beautiful combinations of water-wise plants in five minutes (okay, maybe 10 minutes). Some combos are based on color schemes; others are themes such as native plants, succulents, edibles, and so on. In the process, Nan talks about:
How to shop for plants in a nursery
Where to look for a nursery’s waterwise selections
What to prepare before shopping
What low-water plants look like and what makes them low water
How to read plant labels
From Sticks to Stems: Propagate Plants from Cuttings
Starting new plants from cuttings is truly amazing. Lop off a branch, stick it into some potting soil and soon it’s an entire plant! And truthfully, it is almost that easy after participants know some of the tricks that propagators use. Once they see and understand the process, they can propagate almost anything, from the shrubs coveted in a neighbor’s garden to that new perennial on sale at the nursery (though not if it is a patented variety).
This demonstration covers some of the basics making and potting cuttings, how to care for them, and how to transplant them once they are ready to go!
From Sustainability to Stewardship: New Insights from Old English Gardens
New garden trends still originate in old England! Even in that historic region, resources are becoming more precious. Private gardens and public gardens like Sissinghurst, Great Dixter, RSH Wisley, and Hidcote are among those refocusing on stewardship, far beyond sustainability. They integrate wildflowers and grasses into formal gardens as an acknowledgment that attracting beneficials is as important as beauty. Habitat borders alongside edible gardens attract pollinators to ensure fruit production. Traditional perennial borders now serve double duty – both as beautiful spaces for people to enjoy as well as places for birds and other animals to find food and shelter. They promote home gardens that survive on rainfall in order to conserve precious potable water, and they plant trees to ensure that centuries old forests are sustained for the benefit and enjoyment of future generations – human and otherwise.
Feeding people, feeding animals, using resources wisely while maintaining the beauty, history and legacy of English gardening are elements of a new English stewardship beyond sustainability and lessons for us all.
Plant a Jewish Garden
Planting, growing, and harvesting are fundamental to Judaism. Agriculture ties Jews to the seasons and to the land, through holidays and life cycle events. In this presentation, you’ll learn about connections between Judaism and fruits, vegetables, herbs, grains, trees, shrubs, and more.
Nan will talk about traditions and practices that easily translate to home gardens. She will discuss how easy it is to grow most, if not all, of the plants mentioned in the Torah and many more that have come to play a role in the traditions of more modern times. Nan will even talk about some ancient traditions that deserve to be revived.
Raise Your Vegetables in Bed
Grow more per square foot, with less water, less back stress, fewer pest problems and an extended growing season, even in the worst soil in the world! How? By growing vegetables in a raised bed. Nan presents different examples of raised beds, including a time-proven method for easy-on-the-back (and easy for small children) wooden raised beds.
The talk includes construction diagrams for building these favorite raised beds, a 90 second time-lapse video demo that shows how to build beds, and some tips and tricks Nan has learned in her years of raised bed gardening.
Spotlight on the Gardens of the Netherlands and Belgium: Much More than Tulips!
Join Nan Sterman on a virtual journey to the gardens and landscapes of the Netherlands. You might think of Dutch landscapes as being all about tulips, and there are tulips for sure, but there is much, much more. We visit fantastic garden vignettes at Appletern, designed by 200 of the best and brightest Dutch designers. Visit a secluded 17th century garden behind a classical canal home in Amsterdam. Watch the goings on at the world’s largest flower auction at Aalsmeer (imagine flower filled bumper cars). Take a side trip to the Keukenhof garden, famous for its over-the-top springtime bulb displays. Visit the operations of a third generation bulb grower, hybridizer, and exporter. And see Floriade, the once-a-decade horticultural and agricultural World’s Fair that celebrates plants and displays from across the globe. Experience this breathtaking tour from the comfort of your chair – and without having to go through airport security!
Sprout! Start your Vegetable Garden from Seeds
Seeds are magical little things – pieces of dried out “wood” that, when watered, suddenly come alive to make tall redwoods, bright red poppies, even delicious tomatoes and eggplant. Starting from seed allows gardeners to try varieties of plants seldom seen in the nursery – especially herbs and vegetables.
This presentation covers everything a hoping-for-green-thumb needs to raise a summer full of vegetables, fruits, and herbs, including seed starting secrets Nan’s developed from years of starting her own garden from seed and testing seeds for Organic Gardening Magazine.
In the hands-on workshop, participants take home hundreds of dollars worth of seeded plants that will produce several hundred dollars more worth of vegetables. They also gain the knowledge to produce that same value every year.
The Path to Sustainability Starts at Home
Sustainability is a path, rather than an endpoint. And, if it follows the pattern of other cultural shifts, sustainability starts at home. From there, it spreads to workplaces, businesses, and our communities at large. So, how do we make our homes – our home landscapes in particular — more sustainable?
This presentation inspires participants with images of residential projects that take a pass on lawns, swimming pools, and other high-resource features. Nan focuses on appropriate plantings, soils, hardscape materials, composting, maintenance, and irrigation approaches that move these gardens along the path towards sustainability.
For professional audiences, Nan discusses ways to communicate the advantages of sustainability to clients as well.
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Two-Step Verification is easier than you think and will give you more than just peace of mind
Pete Hoff
Companies often think they have the necessary security tools to protect their users working in the cloud. Malware protection, anti-phishing solutions, and geolocation tracking are great tools, but they may not be enough.
A security nightmare: hackers bypassing multiple layers of expensive security tools
I’d like to share a common example of what can happen when multi-factor authentication is not implemented. A company was targeted by a foreign attacker. The hackers focused on the accounting team and chose an accounts payable clerk with a healthy online presence on social media. For this story, we’ll call her Susan. Susan received an email with an invoice attached and an urgent note stating the vendor needed the payment sent to a new bank routing number. Working quickly, Susan thought she recognized the name and email address, and overlooked the misspelled domain. When she clicked on the attachment, a malicious payload installed a key-logger on her computer. From there, the attackers were able to capture her email login credentials and began sending and responding to emails within the company, posing as Susan. The hackers logged into the email system from all over the United States, France, and Nigeria. They successfully persuaded the internal accounting managers to authorize a wire transfer to a new, fraudulent bank account. In the end, the company wired over $100K to the fraudsters. Spoiler alert, the company was able to recover the money, but not without significant impacts to the business.
Susan’s company had several security features in place to prevent this from happening. The company used Microsoft’s logon monitoring solution for monitoring suspicious logins and added Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) provided for their O365 email and office application solutions. The company also had a third-party security monitoring vendor watching for alerts from these systems. Like many companies, they thought they were getting an effective solution intended to protect users from any location.
A breakdown of how the existing security solutions failed
How could all these layers of Microsoft security tools fail to protect Susan’s company from a scam?! Let’s analyze what went wrong.
The first security alert should have come from phishing protection from the O365 email monitoring with the misspelled domain. Instead, it did not capture the email and, according to the solution provider, didn’t understand why it was not blocked. Through multiple steps, Susan’s company could increase the intensity of the email settings to block more emails, but this would impact the flow of mail for the business.
Second, the malware protection in the ATP solution and on the desktop should have captured the malicious payload in the attachment. Albeit, new malware enters the wild daily, and it’s very difficult to rely on just this one protection to stop malware.
Third, the suspicious login monitoring should have noticed the logins occurring from Nigeria and flagged and blocked those at a minimum. It should be noted that Susan is located in San Francisco, California, and is not traveling outside of the country at the moment (especially since we’re in a global pandemic.) Suspicious login blocking should have captured the logons from unknown sources.
An alternative and simpler approach to security
While none of the security solutions the company was using should be removed, they can add one piece to their toolkit that would have easily prevented the issue. Multi-factor authentication provided by one service provider, as Google offers, is the best defense against an attack like this.
Multi-factor authentication, Two-factor authentication, and Two-Step Verification – what’s the difference?
Before we dive into how to use multi-factor authentication (MFA), let’s discuss what it is and the different names it goes by.
MFA is when a system uses multiple checkpoints or factors to verify a user’s identity before allowing that user to access information, resources, or applications. MFA is one of the best security tools that an organization can enforce and should always be used in cloud accessible systems. It is possibly one of the best security tools that an organization can enforce to avoid account hijacking and credential theft. MFA is also known as Two Factor Authentication (2FA) by some providers and is generally the same technology. Not all companies offer the exact same solutions, quality, or pricing for authentication offerings.
Google’s version of MFA/2FA is called Two-Step Verification and includes a secure application for users. Today’s implementations include geo-blocking and intelligent tools to identify suspicious authentication that may be bot-based or from systems that are not authorized.
Google’s Two-Step Verification provides the most necessary features for security and is available with Google’s most basic offerings, Google Workplace; even users with free Google offerings can access Two-Step Verification. Compared to authentication offered at companies like Microsoft, Google’s offering is more affordable and includes everything needed to keep you and your coworkers safe.
Two-Step Verification setup is easy
Some companies are hesitant to enforce verification or authentication because they believe it will add time to worker’s schedules or increase support tickets because users will be locked out of their accounts. This is simply not true.
Setting up Two-Step Verification typically does not increase support tickets submitted or troubleshooting by end-users; in fact, it significantly decreases troubleshooting time for the company because security threats are being combatted, saving time that would be spent retroactively resolving security attacks. The two steps to sign-in require something the user knows (their password) and something they have (another device to access a verification code.) This process takes a matter of seconds. I’m surprised how many companies do not implement this throughout their organization. Some departments or groups may implement (or may be asked to implement it) but a majority of users do not. With all that’s going on, the one, simple thing you can do is turn on Two-Step Verification.
With the new year coming, now is a great time to get a gut-check on the security health of your organization. Wursta offers complimentary security reviews to see what steps you’re already taking and where you could tighten security.
If you have any questions or would like to schedule a complimentary security review for your company, let’s connect.
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Summer means Asian Films Are Go. The New York Asian Film Festival will present its wild selection of the most recent and most curious films culled from the current crop of Asian pop cinema.
In one of his most straightforward magazine articles, “True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail,” science fiction legend Harlan Ellison signs up with a dating service—Great Expectations—which in the 1970s, was both technically cutting edge, and a cultural throwback. Utilizing five-minute video interviews, people were able to anonymously size up potential lovers and safely set up dates.
Franco Piavoli’s films, praised by greats such as Bertolucci, Brakage and Tarkovsky are unique, falling somewhere between Italian Neo-Realism and extreme formalism. Virtually free of dialogue, and sans subtitles, Piavoli draws the viewer into his world with images of nature-turned-abstract through his experimental editing techniques and eye for the fantastic. Humans are merely a cameo in Piavoli’s universe, and his perception of the earth is bountiful with details most never see, magnifying them and taking them to another realm. Though all very different, Blue Planet, Nostos: The Return, Voices Through Time and At The First Breath of Wind are all unmistakably marked with Piavoli’s triumphant style.
A lot of dress-up, a lot of live-blogging, a lot of build up. People have had the Sex and the City: The Movie boner for like, three months now. And suffice it to say, in the end, the spunk was funky. It may well have been the worst sex of our lives.
There’s no two ways about it: Werner Herzog has become an old poot. A Wagnerian, Nietzschian old poot, but an old poot nonetheless. Werner rails—old poot-like—against ‘tree-huggers and whale huggers’ and describes as ‘an abomination’ the fact that workers living in the no nighttime summer of the McMurdo Center in Anarctica practice yoga and aerobics. He sounds like Grandpa on The Simpsons.
There are two types of people who went to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on opening weekend. There are those who love the trilogy, and those who love action movies. If you possess unconditional love for Indy that surpasses that a mother feels for her child, you will like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. You will laugh. You will reminisce. You’ll feel warm and fuzzy.
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WWF Veteran Explains Why Asuka Might Lose In Her Debut Tonight At TLC 2017
By AG
During a recent edition of “The Taz Show” podcast, WWF Veteran Taz gave his predictions for tonight’s TLC 2017. Taz went on to make a bold prediction of Asuka losing her WWE main roster debut tonight.
Below is Taz’s conversation with co-hosts Seth & Dennis:
Taz: Then we get to the match everyone’s talking about and the match where I made a prediction that some people think that I might be out of my mind. Asuka is gonna make her debut on the main roster and she’s gonna wrestle Emma. Emma earned the right to be in this match and I made the bold prediction that Emma will defeat Asuka in her WWE debut this Sunday.
I know it’s a bold prediction and I’m not just doing it to be different. I’m doing it because I believe it’s gonna happen. And I think that WWE has shown stuff with Emma that they’ve been building her the right way. It’s not about pushing Emma and that’s why Emma will beat Asuka.
It’s to make Asuka human – meaning in the company because you there’s a point in time where you got to get humbled and you got to earn your stripes. And she’s had this big push in NXT and earned it. And she was great, a great champion and she was undefeated forever. She’s never lost under contract with WWE.
I think that needs to end quick. I think that Vince McMahon wants it to end quick. And that doesn’t mean they’re not gonna push Asuka. That doesn’t mean Asuka is not gonna end up being a Women’s Champion. That doesn’t mean any of that. What it means is it gives Asuka a reason to be even more intriguing.
If you have Asuka just go and defeat Emma, everybody is expecting that. That’s the obvious, simple thing to make a prediction – Emma’s gonna lose. It’s obvious. You know….they’re building Asuka. The money’s invested in Asuka…and that’s all true.
But in the loss, what happens is Asuka gets made more. Because the next day, in my opinion, on Raw, what you do is you put the rocket on Asuka and have her be a complete tyrant, angry, violent woman just destroying, running roughshod as some would say.
That’s my prediction. I didn’t just say Emma’s gonna win. I’m giving reason why I think she’s gonna win.
Seth: You convinced me. And the more you think about it, it makes sense because Emma is not one of the top three or four women on the roster so if Asuka was in with one of them, you’d say – oh maybe one of them would beat her. But Emma’s down. It makes a lot of sense. You convinced me.
Taz: I think you you make a great point Seth. It solidifies it more for me. I mean maybe I’m just convinced to myself. I mean, look if I end up being wrong. I’ll be the first to admit that I was wrong.
Dennis: To disagree with both of you, I think Asuka comes in and overtakes. They showcase her NXT ability on the main roster. You’ve said a countless amount of times that casual fans aren’t necessarily tuned in to NXT. So they’ve done a good job packaging Oscar showing these video packages and what not and really building up the the undefeated streak.
Now let’s see what you can do on the main roster. Give her somebody like Emma where Seth said she’s not the Alexa Bliss, the Charlotte Flair. She’s just a notch below. So you feed her that. And then I think she’s gonna chase Bliss. And Bliss is gonna do everything she can to avoid Asuka. So Asuka is gonna run through the women’s division.
Taz: You’re dead wrong. The thing is you have someone like Asuka where, like I said it’s so obvious, it’s totally obvious that she’s gonna just beat this girl Emma. This TLC card this Sunday for the Raw brand for WWE is extremely predictable card. So I do think that one of the things that people will walk away with after Sunday night’s event is – Holy Cow! I can’t believe it, Asuka lost! And again there’s a way and WWE knows how to do this.
In the loss while that loss happens to push the one who lost, it’s all in the way the announcing is done. The wind for Emma in my opinion is just… it’s a win. It’s just a footnote for her to say it. She’ll brag about it as a heel but she don’t have a big voice meaning they don’t push her a lot. So she’ll always be able to say that.
It’s just like The Miz. Miz is a former WWE Champion, correct? No one talks about that. And he kind of stopped doing that. Because they wanted to. Because no one even remembers him being WWE Champion. And I think that’ll be the same thing over time with Emma where, if I’m right, and Emma wins, she could boast about it, brag about it for a couple of months – Hey I’m the one who defeated Asuka.
And the first thing you do, so you have Emma win the match on Sunday and then what you do, the next night on Raw you have Emma come out and cut a promo or have a backstage bragging about how she did this. And within 30 seconds of the promo – Boom! Here comes Asuka from behind, attacks her and beats the living daylights out of Emma.
That’s the best way to do it. And now she goes from female to female to female. Within those three hours you sprinkle Asuka in the show on Raw the next night attacking everybody that she can. And you’re telling me she won’t be made?
That loss won’t mean anything. The loss pops the TLC, the pay-per-view itself. It gets more people, maybe, to buy the WWE Network because then Michael Cole and his team can go on the air on Monday and say – “if you didn’t subscribe to the WWE Network by now, then you don’t know what you’re missing. Oh my god, Emma defeated the undefeated Asuka”.
If they do the predictable and have Asuka win the match, does that mean it’s not a good opportunity to push Asuka? I’m not saying that. I’m not even implying that. I’m just saying that the opportunity to get a couple things to happen here – where you get a little nice pop for Emma and you pop the show big time and you give Asuka a reason to go crazy and you make her human amongst that locker room and it’s easier push for her behind the scenes. That I can assure you.
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By Airman 1st Class Nick Faddis, 117th Air Refueling Wing, Public Affairs / Published October 23, 2020
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Members of the 117th Air Refueling Wing paricipate in water survival training at Oak Mountain State Park, Pelham, Alabama, Oct. 18, 2020. Water survival keeps the members prepared in the event of a plane crash over water. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Nicholas Faddis)
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Airmen from the 117th Air Refueling Wing participated in water survival training at Oak Mountain State Park on October 18, 2020.
The training consisted of a short classroom style discussion before moving to a more hands on approach, entering a raft and setting up a canopy for water collection, sun protection and more.
According to Tech. Sgt. Justin Bruce, an Air Crew Flight Equipment Specialist, the training benefited both the trainers and the trainees, more specifically Pilots, Boom Operators and Crew Chiefs.
“You have to stay mission ready,” Bruce said, “We have to be knowledgeable on the equipment to train the air crew to get them out of bad situations in case they need it.”
Due to the colder water temperatures, they had to forgo the portion of the training where the airmen would swim to the raft and climb in.
“We did all the classroom portions up there where we had some shade, then we did all our demonstrations that’s required in our lesson plans,” Bruce said. “The water was a little cold, but we worked around it. It went very well.”
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An AI backed by Elon Musk just ‘evolved’ to learn by itself
By Matthew Griffin Intelligence and the Senses 12th April 2017
True unsupervised learning, that allows AI’s to learn by themselves, will represent a quantum leap in AI development and begin pushing it to the next level.
Most of today’s artificial intelligence (AI) systems rely on machine learning algorithms that can predict specific outcomes by drawing on pre-established values, but now researchers from OpenAI, a company funded by no less than Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who are trying to democratise AI for “human good” just discovered – literally – that a machine learning system they created to predict the next character in the text of reviews from Amazon evolved into an unsupervised learning system that could learn how to read sentiment. By itself. That’s a pretty big deal, and it’s also something that, at the moment, even the researchers themselves can’t explain.
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“We were very surprised that our model learned an interpretable feature, and that simply predicting the next character in Amazon reviews resulted in discovering the concept of sentiment,” said OpenAI in a blog.
According to the post OpenAI’s neural network was able to train itself and analyse sentiment accurately by classifying Amazon’s reviews as either positive or negative – and it then generated follow on text that fit with the sentiment.
The AI the team used was what’s known as a multiplicative long short-term memory (LSTM) model that was trained for a month, processing 12,500 characters a second using Nvidia Pascal GPU’s – which Nvidia’s own CEO gifted to Elon Musk last year – with “4,096 units on a corpus of 82 million Amazon reviews to predict the next character in a chunk of text.”
After training it the researchers then turned the model into a sentiment classifier using a linear combination of these units. When they noticed that their model was using just a few of the learned units, rather than all of them, they discovered that there was a single “sentiment neuron” with a highly predictive sentiment value.
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The diagram below represents the character-by-character value of the sentiment neuron, displaying negative values as red and positive values as green. Note that strongly indicative words like “best” or “horrendous” cause particularly big shifts in the colour.
So far the sentiment analysis capabilities of their new AI has surpassed every other approach used in the Stanford Sentiment Treebank, which is a small, but extensively studied, sentiment analysis data set, and the OpenAI teams AI was 91.8% accurate, which beat the previous record of 90.2%.
So far every AI researcher I’ve ever met seems to dream of the day they finally manage to make a breakthrough and create an unsupervised learning system – where the AI just learns by itself without any help and that eliminates the need to feed it huge tomes of training data, and it looks like OpenAI’s mLSTM has achieved that, or is at worst very close to achieving that – depending on your view. That said though the researchers also recognise that it might not be the only machine out there at the moment that can perform unsupervised learning:
“We believe the phenomenon is not specific to our model, but is instead a general property of certain large neural networks that are trained to predict the next step or dimension in their inputs,” they said.
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ASUS launches Zenfone 3 series with Laser, Deluxe and Ultra in India starting from 18,999 INR to 62,999 INR
by Cosmic Paladin
in Android, News
Computex 2016 happened sometime back where ASUS launched its trademark gadgets, especially the flagship range of Zenfone series and have been fairly good in terms of bringing the flagship range phones to here in India in August. The Zenfone 2 series was highly successful and also popular especially in the Indian market given the fact that it was much easier to purchase it as compared to the infamous flash sales or invite systems adopted by other OEMs. While it is a good thing that ASUS is bringing the phones already to the Indian market in a launch event that had way more flamboyancy than we expected it to, it is rather shocking to see the pricing strategy as its all much more than what they’re selling in other markets. General trend is to keep the pricing lower or on par at best but ASUS seems to have disappointed many in here. Let’s take a look at the phones released, their pricing and our initial thoughts on the same.
Zenfone 3 –
This is the lowest of the three variants and when compared to the Zenfone 2, has a totally different design. While its predecessor was infamous for being heavy and bulky, this one has narrow bezels, a very slim and compact body adding to its appealing looks. It comes with a 5.2″/5.5″ Full HD screen packing 1920 x 1080 pixels and is curved at all of its edges thus being a 2.5D glass which is also protected by Corning Gorilla Glass.
Under the hood the Zenfone 3 is powered by the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 625 Octa-Core processor, the first ever phone to use this SoC which is also the first one in the 600 family to use a 14nm FinFET technology. With 3/4GB of RAM accompanying the processor, the phone has 32/64GB of internal memory that can also take in 128 GB of additional memory via a hybrid slot that also takes in 2 SIMs.
The phone is powered by a 2650/3000mAh battery that can be charged via a USB Type-C port and we are told that this should easily last a day for the Zenfone 3 that runs on the custom Zen UI 3.0 built off Android Marshmallow.
The camera department is where it gets heavy – on the rear it sports a 16 megapixel shooter which is essentially a Sony IMX 298 sensor with f/2.0 aperture, laser auto focus support, PDAF support and dual tone LED flash. The highlight will be the 4 Axis OIS that will allow for some stunning low light pictures and videos. The front shooter is a 8 MP one with wide angle for selfies.
Coming with a fingerprint scanner, the 5.2″ variant with 3GB RAM and 32GB ROM is priced at 21,999 INR and the 5.5″ variant with 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM is priced at 27,999 INR.
Zenfone 3 Laser –
The Zenfone 3 Laser comes with a 5.5″ 1080p display and 2.5D glass with Gorilla Glass 3 protection on top of it. Under the hood is a Snapdragon 430 Octacore processor clocked at 1.2 GHz coupled with an Adreno 505 GPU and 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory that can be bumped upto 128GB. All of this will be powered by a 3000 mAh battery and Android Marshmallow flavoured Zen UI.
The highlight of the phone will be the 13MP primary Sony IMX214 camera that comes with f/2.0 aperture, dual-tone LED flash, laser auto-focus and 3-axis EIS and the 8MP front shooter that comes with f/2.0 aperture.
The phone comes in gold and silver variants and is priced at 18,999 INR.
Zenfone 3 Deluxe –
The Deluxe variant comes with 5.7″ Full HD Super AMOLED display and also goes full throttle with 100% NTSC color gamut that makes for an amazing viewing experience. The screen also have Gorilla Glass 4 protection.
Under the hood, the Deluxe comes with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 / 821 SoC coupled with Adreno 530 GPU making the Zenfone 3 the first ever phone to make use of the 821 SoC. With 6GB of RAM and 64GB/256GB internal memory which can also be expanded upto 256GB via micro SD slot, the Deluxe provides a whooping power when it comes to providing memory.
The Deluxe is powered by a 3000mAh battery that supports Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 3.0 and ASUS’s own BoostMaster Fast Charging made possible via USB Type C port and Zen UI 3.0 OS built off Android Marshmallow.
On the camera front, it sports a 23MP rear Sony IMX318 camera built off 6 pieces Largan lens, with f/2.0 aperture, Laser auto focus and has a 4 axis OIS and 3 axis EIS. The front shooter has a 8MP camera with f/2.0 aperture that has wide angle shooting support.
Now for the pricing, hold on to your seats! The 64GB variant with SD 820 is priced at 49,999 INR and the 256GB variant with SD 821 is priced at a whooping 62,999 INR! No matter what angle one looks at this, its truly overpriced considering how ASUS priced the Zenfone 2 series.
Zenfone 3 Ultra –
As the name indicates there is something big, very big about the device – its the screen. A massive 6.8″ Full HD screen packing the same amount of pixels as the Zenfone 3 base variant, but comes with Tru2Life+ video technology that is supposed to deliver an experience that is close to 4K screens/displays. It has 95% NTSC color gamut for an immersive viewing experience. Though the phone is big, ASUS has ensured it is still slim and has a unibody design with slim bezels like its younger sibling.
Under the hood, it is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 Octa-core processor and Adreno 510 graphics, accompanied by 4GB of RAM. A massive screen meant it needed a massive battery and that is what ASUS has done here by adding a 4600mAh battery which also has the ability to charge back other devices that may be plugged into it. Thankfully, it also comes with Quick Charge 3.0 that ensures a rapid charging of the phone. A 64GB worth of internal memory that can be bumped upto 128 GB will ensure you can store as much media as you wanted to be consumed on the big screen.
The phone packs a 23MP rear camera with a 8MP front shooter and is priced at 49,999 INR. We’ve seen how well the Snapdragon 650 performs and this 652 should be nothing short of it.
So that was the Zenfone 3 series that were launched in India and their pricing. Yes the design has taken an overhaul to be beautiful, yes the specs under the hood are great, yes they may come with awesome cameras and fingerprint scanners but what drops our jaws is the pricing where ASUS gave everyone a shock. The Zenfone and Zenfone 2 series did so well given their pricing but now ASUS seems to be changing their strategy. The phones go on sale in most of the eCom sites and also offline stores from September. We will have to wait and see how the new Zenfone series does given how companies like Xiaomi, LeEco, Coolpad and even Samsung have so many offerings with much better specifications. If one were to pay such high prices they might as well buy one of them Samsung Galaxy S7 or go a little beyond to buy iPhones! Let us know what you think.
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Cosmic Paladin
Cosmic Paladin is a Tech Enthusiast and a Gadget Freak! From Nokia 3310 from back in the day to OnePlus One today, he has used tons of devices and has dived deep into the nuances of what it takes to make a good phone. As a Product Manager building enterprise mobile and web apps, his passion is music, photography and tech blogging!
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Mehul Boricha says:
Eagerly waiting for the devices to launch. If it comes with jio VoLTE support then it would be a perfect device 😉
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Old Gold & Black • April 13, 2017 • https://wfuogb.com/3731/sports/2018-recruiting-class-looks-like-clawsons-best/
2018 recruiting class looks like Clawson’s best
Charlie Engel
Dave Clawson and his staff are off to a hot start on the recruiting trail for the class of 2018.
As BloggerSoDear said, this class is currently ranked ahead of Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide, with Wake Forest ranking 20th in the nation per 247sports.
Not bad for the Demon Deacons, a program that last year that brought in a 66th ranked class in the eyes of the same recruiting website.
Although there is still plenty of time for many elite recruits to commit and decommit to programs, Wake Forest is poised to make a strong case to make this one its best in program history. Recruiting metrics are helpful, but, as the famous coaching saying goes, “the film doesn’t lie.”
These are some of the Wake Forest commits that look great on film.
Sam Hartman, Quarterback: The Davidson Day pipeline is the gift that just keeps giving to Wake Forest football, as this is an athlete that proves to be ideal for Clawson’s spread offensive attack. This is the 2018 class’ earliest commit, and it might be the biggest commit so far. Hartman separates himself from other Clawson quarterback recruits through his ability to scramble out of the pocket and deliver accurate darts to receivers downfield. Many quarterbacks on Hudl, the most widely-used football highlight website, can boast long completions by making intermediate passes and benefiting from long runs after the catch by wide outs. Hartman is unique in comparison due to his ability to throw for 40-45 yards in the air to hit a receiver in stride down the sidelines. If Hartman were two inches taller, he would likely have offers from many of the bigger programs in the country. Instead, he’s Clawson’s hidden jewel that Wake Forest should enjoy for years to come. You can find his highlight tape on Rivals, and it is well worth the watch.
The elusiveness to escape a collapsing pocket, combined with above-average arm strength and accuracy could give the Demon Deacons the athlete behind the center that has not been there in the early years of the Clawson era. Despite a modest height of 6’1”, Hartman offers the complete package quarterback that can allow Wake Forest to thrive in the ACC.
Peyton Woulard, Safety: Offers from Duke, Minnesota, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt are amongst the 18 the Georgia native has received. Measuring in at 6’1”, Woulard compliments his good size for the safety position with great football instincts. His high school program, Collins Hill, plays him at receiver in addition to safety, and the speedy Woulard has catching ability to read the quarterback and break for the ball and disrupt plays. These instincts translate to his open field tackling ability as well. Woulard can contain running backs who are trying to beat him to the sideline and turn up-field. There are instances where his instincts, speed and tackling ability allow him to make touchdown-saving tackles, an essential quality for success at the college level for a safety. A recruiting side note: Peyton has a good relationship with fellow Georgian and 4-star cornerback Jaycee Horn, who recently included Wake Forest in his top-7 list.
Zion Keith, Safety: Keith, like Woulard, plays both receiver and safety for his high school program, Wilson. Keith is a recruit that has flown under the radar in comparison to some other 2018 Wake Forest recruits, but he’s a talent that should not go unacknowledged due to his potential. The 6’1” Keith runs a 4.49 40-yard dash, per 247 sports, and is an athlete that can make plays. On the day Zion committed to Wake Forest, Jay Sawvel, the newly hired Defensive Coordinator, tweeted, “Happy Defensive Coordinator tonight — excited about our newest commit!!!”
There’s no doubt in my mind why, as this is the type of project that Sawvel has had success in developing throughout his career. An example would be Jaylen Myrick, a player he coached at Minnesota who is shorter than Keith (5-10), but shares similar explosive athletic ability and is now a mid-round NFL draft prospect. Fans should keep Zion on their radars because he can make plays and has the athletic ability to benefit under Savel’s tutelage.
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Laurens, South Carolina
Laurens (surname)
Laurens may refer to:
Laurens County, Georgia
Laurens, Iowa, a city
Laurens (town), New York
Laurens (village), New York
Laurens, South Carolina, a city
Laurens County, South Carolina
Fort Laurens, an American Revolutionary War fort in what is now Ohio
Laurens, Hérault, commune in the Hérault département, southern France
Laurens Peninsula, Heard Island, Indian Ocean
Cape Laurens, on the Laurens Peninsula
Laurens (given name)
USS Laurens (APA-153), a World War II attack transport ship
Laurens Railroad (1854-1881), a railroad in South Carolina
Laurens Railway (1881-1894), successor of the Laurens Railroad
Lawrence (disambiguation)
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Laurens is a city in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 9,139 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Laurens County.
Located in the Upstate region of South Carolina, the city of Laurens is named after Henry Laurens of Revolutionary War fame. It is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The small town of Laurens, South Carolina was established by an act of the General Assembly on March 15, 1785 as a location for commercial activities. It was one of the six counties created for the original Ninety-Six Districts of South Carolina. Laurens was originally named Laurensville. On December 15, 1845, a charter was issued with the name of Laurensville. The first appearance of the town named Laurens was in an 1873 charter. The town of Laurens was chartered in 1900 and in 1916. The town was named in the honor of Henry Laurens, the South Carolina statesman.
The first inhabitants of Laurens were the Cherokee Indians. They used the land as their hunting and fighting ground. There has been evidence of broken potsherds, weapons, and a mound found linked to Cherokee culture on land now called Laurens. There were many treaties made with the Cherokee Indians over the land known as Laurens County dating back to 1721. Before the America Revolution thousands of immigrants, mainly from Scotland and Ireland, settled in Laurens County. Later Laurens developed into a major intersection of commerce in the colonial America. In the Battle of Musgrove Mill, Laurens witnessed intense fighting.
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Laurens is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
André du Laurens (1558–1609), French doctor and gerontologist, and physician to King Henry IV of France
Guillemette Laurens (born 1957), French opera singer
Henri Laurens (1885-1954), French sculptor and illustrator
Henry Laurens (1724-1792), American political leader and diplomat
Henry Laurens (scholar) (born 1954), French historian specialising in the Arab-Muslim world
Henri Joseph Du Laurens (1719-1793), French novelist
Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921), French painter and sculptor
John Laurens (1754-1782), American soldier and statesman
Jonathan Laurens (born 1977), Venezuelan football striker
Jules Laurens (1825-1901), French artist
Leo Laurens, Belgian retired darts player
Rose Laurens (born 1953), French singer-songwriter
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'Laurens' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Pesten is niet oké de film (2013)
Actors: Ben Bevaart (actor), Thomas Boef (actor), Elvaro Kouwenberg (actor), Sam van Hagen (actress), Moreno Koning (producer), Moreno Koning (producer), Femke Tommel (writer), Moreno Koning (director), Moreno Koning (editor), Ben Bevaart (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Boef (miscellaneous crew), Moreno Koning (miscellaneous crew), Elvaro Kouwenberg (miscellaneous crew), Sam van Hagen (miscellaneous crew),
Achtste Groepers Huilen Niet (2012)
Actors: Reinout Bussemaker (actor), Genio de Groot (actor), Lucas Dijker (actor), Adri Doppenberg (actor), Bram Flick (actor), Mattijn Hartemink (actor), Alex Hendrickx (actor), Patrick Mölleken (actor), Loek Peters (actor), Xander Straat (actor), Bram van der Hooven (actor), Manuel Venderbos (actor), Nils Verkooijen (actor), Jacques Vriens (actor), Amin Belyandouz (actor),
Plot: Adaptation of one of Benelux most famous children's novels. Tough prime school girl Akkie loves soccer and can be a real bully. Love is the only thing she's scared of. When Akkie is diagnosed with Leukemia, she has to fight for her life. On the verge of going to high school, Akkie has to allow love to enter her life, and thus gain courage to accept the inevitable.
Keywords: cancer, death, fighting, first-kiss, leukemia, school, soccer
Genres: Drama, Family,
Nova Zembla (2011)
Actors: Arend Brandligt (actor), Robert de Hoog (actor), Jan Decleir (actor), Arjan Duine (actor), Herman Egberts (actor), Juda Goslinga (actor), Bas Keijzer (actor), Teun Kuilboer (actor), Derek de Lint (actor), Joshua Tsukasa MacDonald (actor), Victor Reinier (actor), Semmy Schilt (actor), Jochum van der Woude (actor), John Visser (actor), Angie Andradóttir (actor),
Plot: This fact based drama chronicles the last journey of Willem Barentsz and Jacob van Heemskerk on their search for a new passage to the Indies. Due to icy waters, they are stranded on the island of Novaya Zemlya and have to spend the winter there. The story is told through the eyes of Gerrit de Veer, an officer on the same voyage, and is loosely based on the famous diary he published in 1598 after his safe return.
Keywords: 1500s, church, cold, falling-off-a-cliff, freezing-to-death, keelhauling, polar-bear, sea-voyage, ship, torch
Genres: Drama, History,
Gooische vrouwen (2011)
Actors: Daniël Boissevain (actor), Arnoud Bos (actor), Treyshawn Boutisma (actor), Iwan Dam (actor), Maik de Boer (actor), Ron de Groen (actor), René Froger (actor), Wilfred Genee (actor), Winston Gerschtanowitz (actor), Paul Groot (actor), Floris Haverkate (actor), Kees Hulst (actor), Ferdi Janssen (actor), Alex Klaasen (actor), Oscar Aerts (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Oh, Deer! (2009)
Actors: Pierre Bokma (actor), Juda Goslinga (actor), René van 't Hof (actor), Tom Jansen (actor), Lucas van Erk (actor), Monic Hendrickx (actress), Eva van de Wijdeven (actress), Melissa Nieveld (producer), Sander Verdonk (producer), Luuk van Bemmelen (writer), Joris Oonk (composer), Arne Toonen (director), Nils Rensen (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,
Mütter Väter Kinder (2007)
Actors: Pascal Bertram (actor), Matthias Brandt (actor), Simon Licht (actor), Alexander Löffler (actor), Josef Ostendorf (actor), Janek Rieke (actor), Heinrich Schafmeister (actor), Caroline Erikson (actress), Nadine Fano (actress), Lotte Flack (actress), Katja Flint (actress), Ulrike Grote (actress), Julia Jäger (actress), Victoria Trauttmansdorff (actress), Gisela Trowe (actress),
Genres: Comedy,
General George Washington (1992)
Actors: Hugh Dignon (actor), Dennis Edwards (actor), David Kelly (actor), Ben Livingston (actor), Ben Livingston (actor), Ben Livingston (actor), Dion Luther (actor), Joe Lynch (actor), Joe Lynch (actor), Joe Lynch (actor), Joe Lynch (actor), Herbert Newcomb (actor), Herbert Newcomb (actor), Brian Nissen (actor), Mark Dawson (actor),
Plot: The young George Washington has to do much to take care of his family. Good with math and numbers, Washington becomes a surveyor. As a youth, Washington was close to his half-brother Lawrence. When Lawrence dies, George inherits Lawrence's land and home at Mount Vernon. George Washington is elected to the Continental Congress, and when fighting breaks out between England and the colonies at Lexington, the Congress names Washington commander of the new Continental Army. Washington is not sure he is up to the task, but he loyally accepts the Commission. At first the British win easy victories over the colonial army and capture New York City. But Washington turns into a great leader. He rallies his troops, and takes his army across the Delaware River on Christmas Eve, surprising the British and winning important victories. All through the long war, Washington shows discipline, persistence and courage, inspiring his soldiers, even in the desperate days of winter encampment at Valley Forge. At this lowest point he thwarts a plan by Inspector General Conway to have him removed as head of the army and and keeps his men motivated and unified for final victory. That ultimate success is assured by the arrival of troops and equipment from France. The combined French and American forces under General Washington finally defeat the British at Yorktown. The new nation will survive.
Keywords: american-history, character-name-in-title, george-washington, independent-film
Genres: Animation, Biography, Family, History, Short,
Rerun (1992)
Actors: Jasper Faber (actor), Victor Reinier (actor), Eleanore Merrill (actress), Ruud Schuurman (producer), Stephan Brenninkmeijer (writer), Ruud Schuurman (writer), Wiebe de Boer (composer), Bart Jilesen (composer), Stephan Brenninkmeijer (director), Stephan Brenninkmeijer (editor), Ellen-Alinda Verhoeff (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: ,
Een scherzo furioso (1990)
Actors: Hans Dagelet (actor), Johan Ooms (actor), Joke Tjalsma (actress), Will van Kralingen (actress), Marianne Dikker (writer), Loek Dikker (composer), Marianne Dikker (director),
Mijn idee: Het schilderij (1986)
Actors: Hein Boele (actor), Lex Goudsmit (actor), Johan Leysen (actor), David Rijks (actor), Peter Römer (actor), Annelies Balhan (actress), Truus te Selle (actress), Boris van der Ham (writer), Karst van der Meulen (director), Hans Walther (editor),
Genres: Fantasy,
Lauren Filmography
Karaoke Heaven
2009, role: actor , character name: Lauren
The Truth, Lurrenz
Go Ahead Now, Lurrenz
You Always Deliver, Lorenzo
Betcha He Don't, Lorenzo
I like the you hold me
I like the things you told me
I like the way you touch me
You are yummy, ami yami
I like the way you kiss me
I like the way you tease me
I like the way you feel me
You, I
I, you
All my girls (I love you)
All my babes (I miss you)
I miss you too
Signorita you look so good
An hour with you was so good
It must be your lips and the sexy way you look
It must be your pretty eyes and the way you look
I love your pretty eyes and the way you kiss me ha ha
Pretty girls you can't blame me
You can't blame me for the things that I did
You can't blame me for kissing like this
You can't blame me for touching like that
You can't blame me for feeling like this
You ccan't blame me for loving like that
Oh Lurrenz dada I will never let you go
Ha ha I love it when you call me Dada
All yee out there (echo)
All yee in here (echo)
Never mind the way I treat my girls
I give them what they want cos I gat what they want
I give them flashy cars, flashy cribs, flashy life
There was Linda she was so hot
I gave her a house in VGC when she saw it she said oh my God!
Then come Cynthia she was so good
I gave her another in Abj
When she saw she said Oh my God!
Cherie and Marie two hot little twins
Rich parents and rich lifestyle
They really thought they've seen it all
See what I did when I got to New York
Bought them a house in seven figure zone
When they saw it they said Oh my God!
Yeah, that's how I treat them girls
Fine boy how can we win your heart?
Ha ha after the commercial break
Listen girls this is what it takes to win me
I want the way you laugh to make me ha ha
The way you walk to make me gaga
The way you dress to make me baba
The you dance to make me lala
Booboo baba uba yaya
The manicured fingers and pedicured toes
The way your legs move and the way your waste rolls.
I'll be
That that.
That girl that will make you panting
Right now I'm getting ready for ya
Pick me up by 11pm
I'll be waiting by the red BM
OREVA my name yeah¦ that's my name
I'll do my hair and paint my nails
I'll touch my lashes and my lips
When you see me you'll say oh yeah
When I touch you you'll ask for more
Yeah that's how pretty I am
I'm O.R with magic fingers
I'm L.U with magic something
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Surprising losses
I listened to the last part of the audio feed, and I hated to hear Cal lose. They had been undefeated before going down to TCU at home tonight, and it had been fun riding the Cal train. I hope they’ll use this as motivation for future games, and I hope they don’t fall too far down in the rankings.
Maryland also bit it again, getting blown out by Pittsburgh 86-57. They sure are inconsistent this year – and quiet. You don’t hear much from them. What happened to the spirit of the 2006 championship team? Like the Seattle Storm, it makes you wonder if it was just a mistake.
The last upset tonight was Bonaventure’s victory over Michigan State, who had been ranked 24.
Tomorrow both Baylor and Rutgers play, but I will be on the road, as my schedule is busy this week.
Monday I’m heading to the Redondo Union tournament to check out Washington Prep and whomever else I want to see; Tuesday I’m catching the Southwest CC-Pasadena CC game; Wednesday it’s the View Prep game; Thursday no live action, but Tennessee action; Friday it’s Dorsey-Crenshaw day. If Prep makes it to the championship game, I’ll have to go back to Redondo Saturday.
I wore my Santa hat that’s orange with black lines like a basketball to the UCLA game today. One of my daughters from another mother said I think basketball 24/7.
UCLA 62, Nevada, 47
The Bruins finally played an athletic, solid team who beat a ranked opponent last week – and beat them. So that might shut up some of the naysayers for 45 seconds.
But I’m hung up on the number 54 right now. Because today, for the third game in a row, UCLA pulled down 54 rebounds.
I’m like my role model Pat Summitt; I understand why she reached down into that toilet a decade ago to pull out the lucky penny. So I wonder what is up with the number 54 – que significa? I’m sure we’ll find out eventually.
Nevada played the Bruins tough today: they were physical, and played some serious defense. In fact, they shut down all UCLA post play early in the game by keeping them from getting inside. Coach Nikki Caldwell acknowledged that in her post-game interview.
“I challenged them at halftime to get the ball inside, and they responded,” she said.
Despite the difficulties, UCLA lead comfortably throughout the first half, but in the second half, Nevada went on a mini-run and closed the gap 33-27. Thanks to sophomores Darxia Morris and Christina Nzekwe, however, the Bruins went on their own run.
Morris, who ended the day with 10 points and six assists, unleashed some jumpers. Nzekwe, who posted four steals, six rebounds, five points and one block she wasn’t credited for, played some amazing defense. At times she completely shut down her opponent. The Bruins, who had been turnover-happy in the first half, cut them down to almost nothing. Forward Chinyere Ibekwe also pitched in 12 boards and eight points on the day.
“They don’t start slow anymore,” my seatmate Daniel said.
Nope, and it’s nice to see. This team is growing extremely fast.
The only fault I’d find with them today was their shooting percentage: 29.7 for the first half and 48.1 for the second for a total average of 37.5. Their free throw shooting also still needs work. Caldwell noted some things too at a first-half timeout. From my seat, I could hear her tell the team, “Offensively, we’re better than them, but we’re bailing them out. Quit fouling!”
They have an entire week before their next game, so I’m sure Caldwell has several things in mind for practice this week.
Every game, the crowd gets bigger and bigger. Daniel and I are very encouraged. And Caldwell took the time to thank the band, the cheer squad and the fans during her post-game time at the mic. Daniel also noticed that the coaches seem to recognize some of the regular fans now; relationships are being built!
Tennessee fans will appreciate that Caldwell has a small stool to sit on during timeouts that looks a lot like Summitt’s special stool, except that it’s blue. I wonder if she’ll take it on the road with her the way her mentor does.
Below are some photos from an earlier game this season. I thought non-LA residents might appreciate seeing what the team huddle and the Caldwell post-game interview look like from my point of view.
PS – Happy birthday, Briana Bass!
UCLA leads, USC falters, and Vanderbilt!
In each of their first six counting games this year, UCLA has outrebounded their opponents by an average of 49.7 to 29.5. The Bruins have garnered 50 or more rebounds in four games: CSU Bakersfield, Cal State Northridge and Cal State Fullerton, all 54, and 50 vs. Pepperdine. Senior Chinyere Ibekwe has led UCLA in rebounding in five games, posting two double-digit totals (14 vs. CSUF and a career-high 15 vs. CSUN). As of Dec. 1, UCLA has the best rebounding margin in the nation at 18.4 and the best in the Pac-10 at 48.8. UCLA is also the conference leader in offensive rebounding at 20.8 per contest. Ibekwe ranks second in the conference in rebounding with an average of 10.8. The Bruins dominated the boards against CSU Bakersfield, outrebounding the Roadrunners 54-25, including 29-3 on the offensive end.
USC, on the other hand, posted a surprising loss last night to Utah Valley State at the Hukilau Invitational in Hawaii. They repeated their misfortunte tonight with a one-point loss to BYU. What the heck is going on? True the team has been plagues with injuries the last few years, but they’ve also been consistent underachievers. Some on the message boards are saying Coach Mark Trakh is not cut out for the job. I guess time will tell, but in the meantime it’s unfortunate that the Trojans again seem headed toward a disappointing season in the senior years of three good players.
Cal beat Princeton handily tonight, and Arizona State did the same with UC Irvine. Washington State beat Long Beach State last night. All of this has resulted in the following current Pac-10 standings:
2008-09 WOMEN’s BASKETBALL
Team Conf. Pct. Overall Pct.
California 0-0 – 7-0 1.000
Stanford 0-0 – 6-1 .857
UCLA 0-0 – 5-1 .833
Oregon State 0-0 – 4-1 .800
Arizona State 0-0 – 5-2 .714
Washington State 0-0 – 4-2 .667
USC 0-0 – 4-3 .571
Oregon 0-0 – 3-3 .500
Washington 0-0 – 3-3 .500
Arizona 0-0 – 3-4 .429
I anticipated all of those placings at this point in the season except Oregon State. I admit they have surprised me, and pleasantly so.
UCLA plays Nevada tomorrow, and I’m not scurred.
UC Riverside beat Vanderbilt tonight, 50-47. I can’t say I’m surprised. They struggled so hard to beat Fullerton the other night, and I agreed with the first pack of people who said they were overrated. They’re a very good team, but I don’t necessarily see them as SEC champs. That position is currently wide open for hire.
The other upset tonight was Arkansas-Little Rock over #17 Oklahoma State.
Sagittarians
I’d like to say happy birthday to two of my favorite basketball players. Both of these young women have given me much basketball joy the last few years. Have a great day, ladies.
Shannon Bobbitt
Vanderbilt 83, Cal State Fullerton 67
When Vanderbilt almost got beat by Love and Basketball in a pre-season exhibition game, there was talk that the Commodores had been overrated in polls that predicted they’d win the SEC Conference. When Michigan beat Vanderbilt almost two weeks ago, that talk surfaced again.
Last night was my first time seeing the Commodores play in person, so I’m not an expert on the team. And having seen Fullerton play already this season (against UCLA), I noticed they put on an unusually good show. So I’m not sure what the truth is.
What I do know is that it took Vandy, currently ranked 16th, until late in the second half to establish a solid run that put Fullerton away. And this was despite stellar performances by three of their starters.
Vanderbilt came out pressing, but Fullerton responded with their own press and a quick three by junior guard Jasmine Scott, who proved to have the hot hand of the night.
Commodore forward Hannah Tuomi scored her team’s first bucket, and proved to be instrumental as she was so effective in the paint. On a team that lists no centers, Tuomi fills that role, and Vanderbilt’s performance began to decline in the first half when Coach Melanie Balcomb took Tuomi out. With 12:55 to go, Fullerton was up 18-12.
Fortunately for Vandy, Christina Wirth jumped in and hit her first of six three-pointers (she was 6-6 for the night) from deep in the left corner. She nailed another one a few minutes later from the top of the key, but Fullerton seemed like they couldn’t miss a shot. At 8:47, the Titans were still up 24-22.
Then Tuomi came back in. She blocked a shot and scored inside. Senior guard Jennifer Risper, whose huge family from nearby Moreno Valley was sitting right behind me (we were all behind the Vandy bench) screaming, stole the ball and went coast to coast for the score. Vanderbilt was up 26-24 at the 7:21 mark. The teams traded baskets before the Commodores went on a small run. Then Fullerton crawled back, scoring 6 in the last few minutes to Vandy’s 2. It was 38-34 Commodores at the half.
My favorite play came early in the second half on a transition. Wirth was already on the right high block and received a quick pass. She held it and held still for about 1.5 seconds – so that a streaking Tuomi could place her body perfectly right in front of the ball. Pass, swish.
But again, the Titans wouldn’t go away. Besides Scott, sophomore guard Lauren Chow was going off. She hit a few baskets, and the score was knotted at 49 with 15:04 to go. Then Vanderbilt went on a run to put them up 56-49 at 12:32. A Risper steal and layup made her family go nuts, but the Titans’ Scott hit another three. It was 62-56 Vandy with about 10 to go. That’s when the Commodores finally started their run. They got it up to 67-58 with 7:25 to go, and despite some mistakes, they were able to hold the lead and build it. At 3:59, it was Vandy 73, Fullerton 62. They never looked back from there.
For whatever reason, Fullerton felt the need to do a weird back court press on their opponents in the last 10 seconds. Maybe it was just to prove a point, but they didn’t need to do that. They played Vanderbilt tough, and I was impressed.
Tuomi scored 17 points in 20 minutes of play. Wirth had a career high 27 points that included her six three-pointers. And Risper scored a season-high 14 points. For the Titans, Chow ended with 20 and Scott had 19. I was very impressed with all of their performances, but especially Tuomi’s; she’s only a sophomore.
Side notes:
– Vanderbilt travels with a huge entourage. When I first walked in, I saw all these people sitting on their bench and wondered why they let fans sit there before the game. It turns out that besides Balcomb and three assistant coaches, there were five other people. That’s a lot.
– One of those people was a 40-ish water girl. She insisted on having the water cart directly in back of the bench, which would block the view for me, so I moved to the right. It’s a good thing they didn’t care where you sat at Fullerton.
– It was kind of annoying not to be able to keep track of player points, but Fullerton has a pretty small gym and facility, so I guess that precludes a good scoreboard.
– Vanderbilt players and coaches are real big on leaning on one another and putting a hand on a teammate’s shoulder or waist.
Final thought: both teams are better than they played. If Fullerton had played like that against UCLA, they would have given the Bruins a better run. Vanderbilt has a ton of skill, and it shouldn’t have taken them that long to dominate the Titans.
Win, Lose, Repeat
All my adult life I’ve felt that life here on Earth is really just a movie. That fiction is pretty much unnecessary for all the crazy, insane crap that goes down. And that also includes so-called “coincidences” and “deja vus,” which I believe are only metaphors for the Universal law that cycles repeat themselves. Fewer places is that more apparent than in basketball.
Yesterday I visited Washington Prep High School to talk with the women’s basketball coach and check out what they’re up to, for a story I’m writing. While Coach Ricky Blackmon and I were talking, the infamous semi-final game of Feb. 23, 2007 against Dorsey came up. Dig this: Blackmon used to play for Dorsey High School. When he was a junior (like Mykiea) in 1993, Dorsey beat Washington in the semi-final for the city championship by three points, due to a last-second shot.
Too freaky for words. But there are other instances like that.
On April 6, 2008, Tennessee and LSU were battling in the NCAA semi-finals, with the winner to go to the championship. Alexis Hornbuckle made an incredible put-back shot at the buzzer for the one-point win.
Fast forward to Sept. 27, 2008 and the LA Sparks and the San Antonio Silver Stars are battling in the semi-finals of the Western Conference championships. The Sparks, which include two Tennessee players who played in the LSU semis last year, lose because of a crazy last-second shot at the buzzer. I’m sure most basketball fans can think of a similar “deja vu” or two.
A wise woman told me once, “remember, we’re all just down here wearing a clown suit.”
UCLA 104, Cal State Bakersfield, 57
And I thought the Northridge game was a blowout.
The Bruins put such a whoop on CSB last night that it was hard to believe. Before the Roadrunners (great name, huh?) made their last basket, UCLA was up by 50 points.
The Bruins are starting to look consistent, which is what every coach strives for.
Like Sunday, the Bruins shot about 46 percent for the game last night, including 45 percent for both halves instead of just one. And once again, strangely, they grabbed 54 boards and saw four players in double figures. All 12 players scored for the second game in a row, and the scoring was so balanced that no player scored more than 13 points last night. (Christina Nzekwe was one of those players, bettering the career-high she pulled down last weekend). Not coincidentally, no player was in the game for more than 22 minutes.
UCLA set or tied season-highs in points scored (104), rebounds (54), three-pointers made (seven), blocks (five) and assists (23). This is the Bruins’ best start since the 2004-05 season. Color me very impressed.
Coach Nikki Caldwell looked like a model last night in her scoop-neck sweater and large gold necklace. Bakersfield is to be commended for bringing a large contingent of fans and cheerleaders.
Sitting in front of us were three little girls. During a timeout, Chinyere Ibekwe was making faces at one of them. The kid said her auntie, Noelle Quinn, used to play for the Bruins. That said a lot about the closeness of the team that players would still know the relatives of former players.
There aren’t as many details to report of late because blowouts tend to go smoothly. But Sunday’s game against Nevada might pose a challenge for UCLA, as that team beat Louisville recently. I actually would like some kind of a game, because while I’m very happy the Bruins are gelling, blowouts are kind of boring.
UCLA 96, Northridge, 53
By now everybody knows that yesterday the Bruins won by their largest margin in six years, that they had 22 steals, forced 32 turnovers, had 54 rebounds and had a shooting percentage of over 40 percent for both halves, and not just one. That Erica Tukianien and my girl Christina Nzekwe each had career-high point totals. That four players scored in double figures and two had eight rebounds each, and that all 12 players scored.
So I’ll provide the between-the-lines stuff.
The Bruins look better with each game, and yesterday they were a 35-minute team. They would have been 40 if there wasn’t a little lapse in the very first part of the game, where they’d built a lead and then let Northridge catch up. But once UCLA made a run, there was no looking back.
Their defense was excellent throughout the game. For example, in the first half Doreena Campbell and Allison Taka trapped a player right in front of their bench, forcing a turnover.
The boxing out clicked with a few minutes to go in the first half, and stayed solid throughout most of the rest of the game. Players were also scoring that don’t usually, like Taka. Looking at the box score (http://uclabruins.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/stats/2008-2009/csunucla.html) there’s a lot of balance in the scoring, and that’s such a good sign.
The Bruins had good ball movement, too. Gone was any sluggishness Coach Nikki Caldwell had been after them for in previous games; they were passing, dishing and running that ball along. They were also getting it into the paint to score and not settling for dumb outside shots. I think that made me the happiest of all.
It’s a pleasure to see Darxia Morris back, and she is apparently happy to be there too. She got hot late in the second half, reeling off two shots in a row. With 3:40 to go, she drove into the key, and when a defender started to lunge for her, she did a neat head fake and took one more step to put the jumper in clean. She backed away and stood by herself at half court for a moment, grinning. It was funny.
After the game, Caldwell said the team “makes it a point to generate their own energy,” and that they do that with defensive play. (Ah, I hear “Rocky Top” in the background). Caldwell said the Bruins have to play with intensity no matter who they’re playing.
“We want to be a part of March Madness,” she said.
I want them to be in there, too, and they have a good chance. I predict they’ll finish no lower than fourth in the Pac-10, and maybe as high as third behind Cal and Stanford.
I see the Bruins like a car that finally got to get out of the garage at the beginning of the season. They spent some time driving down the road towards the interstate. Now they’ve turned onto the on-ramp and are just about ready to blast down the freeway.
Another bright spot yesterday was the attendence, which was up. Caldwell has been getting out and hustling to get people to come to games. How great is that? I love her even more now.
AP’s new rankings came out today:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/rankings?pollId=1&seasonYear=2009&weekNumber=4&seasonType=2
I’m still pondering it, but I don’t understand how Rutgers didn’t play last week at all. That’s weird to me.
And Texas in the top 10? Wow. Coach G is on fire.
But like I said, still pondering.
On the sad side, the Houston Comets folded today. One of the league’s pioneers, and its champions for the first four years of its existance.
I know another team will eventually rise again, but it’s disheartening to see one of the originals go. I hope Tina Thompson finds a team that’s good for her.
College games and a little girl
Perhaps the biggest upset of the season so far was Wisconsin’s win last night over seventh-ranked Baylor, 59-58. What happened? Baylor’s been steamrolling, and Wisconsin isn’t supposed to be a very good team.
In other upsets, Nevada defeated eighth-ranked Louisville, and nineteenth-ranked Arizona State fell to Florida. That parity thing is just spreading like a virus.
As for Pac-10 teams Saturday night, California stayed unbeaten in their defeat of Iowa, and Oregon State continued to surprise. They beat Arkansas Friday night, and came very close to defeating North Carolina the next night, 78-82. Could the Beavers finally be for real? Daniel and I think they are. I’ve been wanting the Oregon schools to show up for a while, so this is good news to me.
And speaking of Oregon, I’m happy to say that the Ducks beat Wyoming tonight, 51-45. Let’s go, Bev Smith!
One of the five Pac-10 teams that wasn’t in some kind of holiday classic this weekend was UCLA. They beat Cal Poly Wednesday, and must have chilled and gone shopping because their first game back is today, against Cal State Northridge. Game report later, of course.
Changing gears, by now many have seen the video of the five-year-old girl from Northern California dribbling two and then three basketballs at once. She is both skilled and adorable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEmzewBMaaE
Milan Simone Tuttle has been getting tons of press for this video, which originally appeared on pro baller Rod Benson’s blog. Here’s one feature:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_11083726?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com
She’s also been on TV:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6527524
The day before Thanksgiving, Milan was a guest on the Ellen DeGeneres show, which is now on youtube.
I’m writing a story on her and on the place where she got the training, Triple Threat Academy of San Leandro, CA, for fullcourt. Today I talked to Milan’s mother, Renee Tuttle, and I was as impressed with this woman as I was with her daughter.
Renee and her husband Jon encourage their kids to do what they want instead of pushing them into sports and other activities. They are being incredible sticklers about completing school work before anything else, and it’s already instilled in their kindergartener. They also insist she remain humble, because “we still have to go home, and I have to go to work and you have to go to school,” Jon Tuttle said.
Could we just get these people to parent all the young ballers of America? Life for us teachers and coaches would be so very much more simple.
Mykiea Russell: Don’t Believe the Height (Part 3)
Mykiea Russell is the new point guard for the Umpqua Community College women’s basketball team. She began showing what she was made of the moment she got there.
In a scrimmage against Linn-Benton CC a couple months ago, Mykiea scored 19 points and collected nine steals. As the team has begun their regular season, she has usually been the second-leading scorer.
Her coach, Dave Stricklin, wrote in her team profile that at 5’0″, Mykiea is the shortest player to ever don a Riverhawks uniform, but she might also be the quickest. He predicted she is “destined to be a UCC fan favorite.” Similarly, a reporter for the Roseburg News-Review noted her “knack for getting to the basket” in a recent story.
But why is Mykiea there? Because some coaches believed the height.
“As we talked to (college) coaches last year, some had an issue with my height,” Mykiea said. “They were worried about me getting posted up on defense.”
Her longtime club ball coach Michael Brox called up a well-respected coach he knew – Stricklin – and told him about Mykiea. Stricklin came to Los Angeles last March for a ceremony inducting him into the California JCC hall of fame (he coached there before going to Umpqua). During that trip, he paid Mykiea a visit at her home.
“We just hit it off right away,” Stricklin explained.
Right after Labor Day, Stricklin got a call from Mykiea.
“‘I’m coming up,'” Stricklin recalled her saying. “I said, ‘for a visit?’ and she said ‘no, I’m coming up to stay.'”
Mykiea arrived the first weekend in September, about three weeks before school was to start, and before any of her teammates. Stricklin did the only thing a coach could do: he put her up at his house with his family. And it wasn’t long before she “became part of the family.”
In fact, Mykiea fit in so well with Stricklin’s teenaged children that when he took her along when registering one for school, the secretary thought he was also enrolling Mykiea.
All last-minute notifications aside, to understand the sheer bravery involved in Mykiea’s move, first consider that the population of Roseburg is 20,117, and the number of people in Los Angeles is 9,948,081. Then, realize that the area where Mykiea went to high school is virtually all African-American and Hispanic, while Roseburg is 93.56 percent white and .3 percent African-American.
Unsurprisingly, Mykiea discounts those differences, and scoffs at the notion the she is brave.
“I don’t see it like that,” she said.
Indeed, Stricklin told her what to expect on his visit.
“I told Mykiea about the non-racial diversity, and she said ‘I don’t care,'” he said. “I also told her that Roseburg is not a party house. That if you’re looking for a wild atmosphere, this isn’t the place.”
Mykiea has adjusted the way any evolved inner-city kid would: she is jonesing for her Christmas visit home, but she likes where she is going to school, likes her team, and is cool with where she is right now.
“Roseburg is the most boring place on Earth, but on the other hand I don’t have to worry about what I’m wearing, and there are no distractions,” she said.
Culturally, though, Mykiea has had to make some adjustments. Roseburg is populated with older people – many of whom are lifelong Roseburg residents. Mykiea said she has felt, at times, that some residents “have never seen a black girl in their lives.”
“I’ve had to answer questions – a lot of questions,” she said.
For her fortitude, Mykiea finds herself in one of the most successful junior college programs in the Northwest. Stricklin, with a 586-112 record in 21 years, has produced 12 regional championship teams. Every year the goal is the same: win another championship.
“Practice is so hard – oh my goodness,” Mykiea said. “The first practice he told us we were going to go as hard as Tennessee.
“He wants 100 percent the whole three hours, and nothing less. Even if you mess up, you have to mess up going hard.”
Stricklin said he and assistant coach Linda Stricklin – his wife – also keep player’s futures in mind.
“We work so hard to get them to the next level,” he said.
Mykiea said she might not have ever thought of a junior college as a possibility if it weren’t for one of the most famous graduates from JC ranks – Tennessee’s Shannon Bobbitt. Mykiea called Bobbitt, who is also infamously short, “my inspiration.”
While playing ball, Mykiea is taking a full class load and majoring in film – the other love of her life. Stricklen also set her up with a work-study job, so she has some extra money in her pocket. Life is good, although the weather is a little colder in Oregon than what the young baller is used to.
Mykiea doesn’t consider herself brave, but I am old enough to be her mother, and I know better. I teach high school in South Central Los Angeles, and not many kids there would pick up and go to a place they’ve never been to, that is so different from what they’ve known. Indeed, most only go as far as Southwest Community College, just down the road from Mykiea’s alma mater, Washington Prep High School.
And most kids with Mykiea’s skill level – who had made the LA All-City first team two years in a row – that couldn’t get to a D1 school simply because of their height, would be at least a little depressed or bitter.
Not Mykiea. She is positive, optimistic, hopeful. She laughs a lot. And she is working hard.
“I just finally, really got in shape,” she said last week. “So I’m going to stay in shape.”
I know she will. And I have no doubt that she is kicking ass at the Clackamas Tournament in Portland this weekend. I just wish JCCs got more love and it was easier to get scores and stats from up there.
In the meantime, I’m going to keep being a Mykiea fan. Stricklin said he’ll send me an Umpqua CC women’s basketball T-shirt and team poster when they’re ready, and I’ll happily wear the shirt around Los Angeles.
Go on with your bad self, young lady. You remind me why I’m a women’s basketball fan in the first place.
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Aaron Judge is still feeling pain in his injured wrist
CHICAGO — The Yankees’ hopes that Aaron Judge could begin taking dry swings this week in Chicago won’t be fulfilled.
“He is not [ready] yet,’’ manager Aaron Boone said of Judge, who is on the DL with a fractured right wrist. “With Aaron, it’s going to be one of those things [where] the pain has to be all the way out of there.’’
What that means about when Judge returns to the lineup can’t be assessed until the pain subsides. When Judge suffered the injury on July 26, the Yankees felt he would miss at least three weeks. Tuesday was Judge’s 11th day on the shelf. Since he won’t dry swing on Wednesday, that’s almost two weeks without even taking swings with no impact.
Even though Boone doesn’t know when the pain will exit Judge’s wrist, the manager thinks Judge will progress quickly.
“Once [the pain is out], I think it goes fast potentially because he is in great shape and has been able to do all his conditioning, lower body and even upper body,’’ Boone said. “Once that’s out of there, I would expect it to go pretty fast, but we are going to be and Aaron is going to be smart about making sure he is pain free when he is making those movements throwing and obviously swinging the bat.’’
Gary Sanchez’s second stint on the DL, due to a strained right groin he suffered on July 24, started with his average at .188 and his defense not much better than a year ago. But he did have 14 homers and 42 RBIs in 66 games. Yet, GM Brian Cashman and Boone said on Tuesday the Yankees have missed a quality player.
“We think he is a great player, and obviously when he is not available to us we miss him,’’ Cashman said of Sanchez, who isn’t expected back until the end of this month or the beginning of September.
Boone echoed his boss.
“We miss what we know his production will be over the long haul, which is probably the best hitting catcher in the sport,’’ Boone said of Sanchez, without whom the Yankees were 6-7 going into Tuesday night’s game against the White Sox.
“Even though he obviously has his ups and downs, you know a guy of his stature over the course of a long season can do all kinds of damage. Even this year, he has had some struggles, he still managed to be pretty productive.’’
According to Boone, J.A. Happ was scheduled to throw a bullpen session in Yankee Stadium on Tuesday. If that went well, the lefty was slated to come off the DL and start Thursday night against the Rangers at Yankee Stadium. Happ, who has made one start for the Yankees, is on the DL with hand, foot and mouth disease.
When Austin Romine wasn’t in Tuesday night’s lineup for the second straight game, Boone was asked if there was a physical problem with his first-string catcher.
“We ran Ro out there five days in a row — I knew he would need another day at some point. I just felt like two in a row might be a good thing,’’ Boone said. “Nothing more than that.’’ …
Kyle Higashioka started for the second straight game behind the plate. …
Boone said that Clint Frazier (concussion) hit on the field Monday, and while he still has some symptoms “he is feeling better.’’
Brattan in hospital after FFA Cup clash
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Januzaj impressed by Di Maria and Rojo but yet to meet Falcao
Adnan Januzaj has become one of Manchester United’s forgotten men during the 2014/15 campaign.
After lighting up Old Trafford with his dazzling performances during a dire 2013/14 campaign, the Belgian international has been resigned to the bench this season despite a bright spell against Swansea City on the opening day but will get his opportunities as the season goes on.
TIn an interview with Squawka, the teenager has been speaking about the prospect of playing with some of United’s new stars and the 19-year-old has been impressed by Angel di Maria so far in training.
“I have trained with Di Maria, Falcao I am still waiting for,” he told Squawka.
“I like him [Di Maria], he’s very good technically and he is a very good passer. He’s a clever player. [I have also seen] Rojo. He’s a very good player. He is a good defender because he is really relaxed on the ball.”
Januzaj also spoke about his preference to play the No.10 role at the club but with Wayne Rooney and Juan Mata at the club, Januzaj may continue to find more success and more game time on the wing for the time being.
In the current 3-5-2 formation Januzaj has more of a chance if Rooney plays up front and Mata’s indifferent form continues but if van Gaal switches to his preferred 4-3-3 formation, the likelihood of Januzaj playing in his preferred spot is even less so, especially given the fact United will rely on having two top quality wingers with the Belgian certifiably more talented than Ashley Young and Antonio Valencia.
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Trajal Harrell's postmodern harlem drag
By VALERIE GLADSTONE | January 8, 2013
A half-naked dancer gallops wildly around the stage, squealing and grimacing while another dressed in drag suggests to audience members that they have sex with "the uglies." A third sings plaintively, "Don't you know you have your daddy's eyes?" These are just a few of the provocative moments that electrify choreographer Trajal Harrell's evening-length Medium (M), also known as (M)imosa, one of the pieces in his multipart work Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church, which will be performed at the ICA January 17 and 18. (M)imosa had its premiere in New York in 2011.
A collaboration with the dancers Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, and Marlene Monteiro Freitas, the larger work was inspired by Harrell, a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and a 2012 New York Dance and Performance Award winner, asking himself the daunting question: "What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the drag-ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmodern choreographers at Judson Church?" In response, over the last 10 years, he has produced a series of dances that includes seven sizes, from extra small (XS) to extra large (XL). Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at Judson Church (S) was presented at the ICA in 2010.
"Trajal — like Matisse, who used black to paint light — uses stillness, like no other dance-maker I know, to choreograph motion," says Richard Colton, founder /director, with Amy Spencer, of Concord Academy's Summer Stages Dance. "I love his combination of demonic and angelic qualities."
(M)imosa brings together two very different worlds of dance, the ascetic and purist postmodern, which eschewed spectacle and virtuosity, and the mock and extravagantly theatrical Harlem balls of the '80s, a product of gay black and Latino culture, celebrated in the 1990 documentary, Paris Is Burning. "The source material helps me understand the historical imagination," says Harrell in a phone conversation from his family's home in Georgia, after three months in Europe, where he has won a devoted following. "I'm looking at what is underneath the work. I honored Judson but didn't know what should come next. I was bored with conceptual dance, but I didn't want to simply embrace virtuosity. Then I saw how voguing related to Judson's insistence on authenticity. It's taken a long time to articulate to others and myself, but I now know what I'm doing and understand how they work together."
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Lang Tombong & Co appeal against death sentence
Dec 7, 2010, 12:37 PM | Article By: Sainey M.K. Marenah
The jailed former chief of defence staff Lt. Gen Lang Tombong Tamba and seven others convicted with him on Monday appeared at the Gambia court of appeal, before which they had filed an appeal against the death sentence imposed on them by the High Court in Banjul.
The other appellants are Brigadier General Omar Bun Mbye, Colonel Lamin Bo Badjie, Lt Colonel Kawsu Camara, former Deputy Inspector General of Police Modou Gaye, former diplomat Gibril Ngorr Secka, Abdoulie Joof, a businessman, and Youssef Ezzideen alias Rambo, also a businessman.
The appellants, who all appeared before the appeal court judges amidst tight security, are being represented by Pap Cheyassin Ousman Secka, Sheriff M Tambedou and R. Thomasi.
It would be recalled that the High Court presided over by Justice Emmanuel Amadi, on 15th July 2010, convicted and sentenced all the appellants to death after the court found them guilty of treason.
During yesterday’s proceedings, the Director of Special Litigations (DSL) at the Attorney General's Chambers, Daniel O. Kulo, told the court that the state had served the appellants with the motion.
PC Secka, the counsel who led the team of lawyers for the appellants, then said: "My lord, what I have seen is a motion dated 1st December 2010. It was served to my clients at the State Central Prisons at Mile 2. We will also file in an affidavit in opposition."
He told the court that the said motion was served to his clients personally and, therefore, they are seeking for an adjournment so that they could also file a reply to the state's respondent motion.
"My Lord, I went to Mile 2 and received the copies served to my clients on 3rd December 2010," he told the court.
"In view of that, we respectfully apply for an adjournment so that we can file in an affidavit in opposition, since some legal issues have been raised," he added.
DSL Daniel O. Kulo again rose, and told the court that the state was opposing any adjournment on the grounds that the appellants' counsel in his application did not advance any reason absolutely to file a counter affidavit.
DSL D.O. Kulo then cited Order 21 of the Court of Appeal rules, which he read in court to further strengthen his objection to the application for adjournment.
"My Lord, we have filed in our motion on 1st December 2010, and it is three days now. From the day the motion was served to the appellants up to today, there is no explanation on what the appellants' counsel did with respect to the filing of a counter affidavit from Friday 3rd December to today 6th December," submitted DSL D.O. Kulo.
He further submitted that if the counsel had taken diligent steps to file a counter affidavit, this court could even understand, but counsel failed to do so, he went on, while further urging the court to refuse the appellants' counsel's application for an adjournment, because he failed to advance any tangible reasons.
PC Secka again rose, and told the court that the fact known was that the appellants are being represented by counsel, adding that the three clear days have not, in fact, expired.
He cited section 32 of the Interpretation Act, which he read in court in support of his application for an adjournment, adding that there is no need to rush as the defence needs time for justice to be done.
Justice Wowo, the president of the Gambia Court of Appeal, subsequently adjourned the appeal to today. Other members of the court of appeal are Hon. Justice B. Kalaile and Hon. Justice Aminata Ngum.
It would be recalled that the convicted persons were charged with three counts of treason. The indictment stated that, between January and December 2009, they procured arms, ammunition, equipment and mercenaries from Guinea Conakry and other places to stage a coup and overthrow the democratically-elected government of The Gambia.
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Kevin Harvick finally closes on a victory at Pocono Raceway
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LONG POND, PA –– Coming into the Pocono Organics 325 on Saturday afternoon, Kevin Harvick was 0-for-38 in finding victory lane at Pocono Raceway in the NASCAR Cup Series.
It took a little longer than anyone would have hoped due to a few weather delays before hand, but when it was all done, Harvick finally closed the deal and claimed the victory.
Harvick only led the final 17 laps on the day, but it came from out-pitting his teammate, Aric Almirola on the final round of green flag pit stops, and from holding off Denny Hamlin during that final run to the finish.
“We weren’t where we needed to be to start the race, and lost a bunch of track position, but we came back and made some great strategy calls to get in clean air and get out front and make some good laps,” Harvick said post-race. “It is great to finally check Pocono off the list.”
There was no celebratory burnout for the No. 4 Busch ‘Head for the Mountains’ Ford, and on Sunday, Harvick will start back in the 20th spot, but for now, Harvick and his team can hold their heads high having finally closed the deal on a Tricky Triangle win.
Saturday started off pretty wet. It was supposed to be the first of two doubleheader race days, with the NASCAR Gander RV and Outdoors Truck Series scheduled to go off at 12:30 pm ET on Saturday, but that was postponed to Sunday morning due to the inclement weather.
The NASCAR Cup Series race was also affected by the weather, originally delaying the start of the Pocono Organics 325 by almost an hour. The drivers were just about to take the initial green, but a few pop-up sprinkles delayed it even further, but the cars never had to come back down pit road again, and finally, the race went green.
Aric Almirola started on the pole by virtue of the random draw, and led early and often. A competition caution at lap 13 switched up the strategy early, and that became the theme throughout the majority of the event.
A quick caution for a Quin Houff spin in the tunnel turn brought the field back together one last time before the stage end, and this time, Joey Logano was able to seize the opportunity, taking the lead on the restart and taking the Stage 1 victory.
Logano, Almirola, and a few others opted to continue staying out through the stage break yellow, and on the ensuing restart, Almirola took the advantage back.
Many of the non-pitting cars had to come early in the second stage, including Almirola and Logano, and that gave control over to Martin Truex Jr.
Denny Hamlin, on the same strategy as Truex Jr., eventually took the lead from his teammate, but the lead was short-lived, as a debris caution threw a wrench into all of the differing strategies.
Many opted to pit here, but track position was king throughout the day. Almirola cycled back to the lead, and after a final restart following an incident involving Tyler Reddick and Erik Jones, Almirola outlasted Logano this time to take Stage 2.
The final stage began, and Almirola was still up front. It didn’t take long though for his Stewart-Haas Racing teammate, Kevin Harvick, to finally show up to the dance. Harvick moved into second, and the pair moved away from the field.
On the final round of pit stops, Harvick was able to gap Almirola by a couple of seconds. Hamlin rejoined the battle for the lead, but clean air was king. Harvick outlasted Hamlin, Almirola, and the rest of the field to claim his third victory of the 2020 season.
Sunday introduces a new challenge, a triple-header raceday at the same venue. Never before has there been a NASCAR Truck, NASCAR Xfinity, and NASCAR Cup Series race on the same day at the same track, but due to the postponement of the NASCAR Truck race scheduled for Saturday, weather permitting, race fans will be able to enjoy three Pocono Raceway events on Sunday.
The weekend was already unique in the fact that there would be two NASCAR Cup Series races back-to-back this weekend, and now it has become even more unique with having the triple-header.
The Pocono Organics 150 Truck Series race is rescheduled for 9:30 am ET.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series Pocono Green 225 is scheduled to start at 12:30 pm ET.
Finally, the second leg of the NASCAR Cup Series double-header, the Pocono 350, is scheduled to start at 4:00 pm ET.
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It’s only Tuesday and it feel like a month. With the brouhaha over the Squatter’s latest criminal threats to the Georgia Secretary of State, the double Senate run-off with control of that body on the line and rumors of violence by MAGAts for delusions too many to enumerate, we need a laugh as we wait for the election results in Georgia. Our Late Night host have returned from Winter vacation to keep our spirits up.
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We welcome back Late Night with Seth Meyers who takes a Closer Look at the purpose of that infamous phone call.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live based in Los Angeles where the CoVid-19 pandemic has once again spiked forcing everyone to hunker down at home.
Donald Trump Makes Another Perfect Phone Call
Jimmy talks about doing the show at his house again due to the virus taking up permanent residence in Los Angeles, the New Year’s Eve bash at Mar-A-Lago with Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani & Vanilla Ice, Donald Trump’s pathetic phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State, a new show on NBC starring our dear misleader, the premiere episode of “The Bachelor,” and Jimmy’s wife Molly gives her Bachelor picks with help from their six-year-old daughter Jane.
As with Jimmy, The Late Late Show with James Corden is based in LA which has James, once again, doing his show from his garage.
Trump Tried to Shakedown Some Georgia Fellas
James Corden kicks off 2021 back in his garage as a safety precaution with COVID-19 cases surging in Los Angeles and he dives into the recording of President Donald Trump and Georgia election officials, in which Trump pressures them to change the outcome of the election. And James finds his limit with the inclusion of “Amen and A woman” at the end of an opening prayer to swear in the new Congress.
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actOUT! Kitchener-Waterloo Children’s Drama Workshop
Producing theatre by and for children of the Waterloo Region of Ontario, actOUT! is a board driven registered charity serving children 5-18.
(226) 339-8633 @actoutkw www.actoutkw.com
ActOUT! was founded in 1995 as the KW Children's Drama Workshop in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada by Leslie Gail Hill. Ms. Hill retired as Artistic Director in 2009. From 2009-2016 the organization was managed under the direction of Ms. Deanne Bingleman. In 2017, Todd Vercoe took over the reigns as Artistic Director.
Formed to promote and educate the public's appreciation of the talents and abilities of children in the dramatic arts by providing children's drama workshops culminating in live performances in the Kitchener-Waterloo Region. A creative home and theatre training centre for young bodies, minds and spirits, actOUT! has grown from serving a handful of students to over 500 a year.
ActOUT! productions was formed for aspiring and skilled actors 5-17 years of age. The company evolved to allow skilled, talented and developing young actors opportunities to perform in professional quality productions. ActOUT! has now staged over 60 productions.
In summer 2018 we were honoured to be invited to supervise the official children's musical theatre camp at the Elora Festival producing a staging of the classic Willy Wonka KIDS at the Elora Centre for the Arts.
The coming 2018-2019 season will continue our excellence in theatrical training for young minds and bodies.
Our Winter Musical this year will bring a school edition staging of the classic Les Misérables at the Registry Theatre in Kitchener. December 12-15, 2018
Our spring musicals will feature the mini-kids (Ages 6-10) of Disney's AristoCats KIDS a playlet to be performed at the Kitchener Waterloo Little Theatre April 8-9, 2019.
The musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Jr. will walk the boards of the Cambridge Arts Theatre June 4-8, 2019
The former 'Senior Intensive' has been re-branded as 'Advanced Actors' this season and will feature 12 Angry Jurors at the Kitchener Waterloo Little Theatre February 27-March 2, 2019
ActOUT!’s continues the success of last season's Shakespeare-in-the-park: A Midsummer Night’s Dream this year with The Tragedy of Macbeth to be performed May 15-18, 2019 at the Waterloo Park Bandshell.
Now in it's tenth season our March Break Drama Camp, Scene it on Stage X, will be a draw for students looking to tune their performing chops. And we will reprise our Summer drama and theatrical camps again in the summer of 2019. Perhaps with a new summertime twist. Look for more news early in the new year for details.
Phone Number (admin): (226) 339-8633
Contact Email: info@actoutkw.com
Annual Budget: $120,000
Season Starts: September
Season Ends: June
Affiliations & Memberships (other than PACT): Theatre Ontario, Elora Festival, Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators
First and foremost, actOUT! is a teaching theatre. We maximize stage time for the performers by providing opportunities to portray multiple roles.
We double-cast our shows giving greater opportunity to the company. What this means is that from our company of actors we will create two different castings of the show. This gives us an opportunity for performers to play multiple roles in a production to encourage them to learn. Each version of the play will perform several times in production weeks.
The actOUT! double-casting system also allows each actor to have a partner playing the same role to compare notes, to assist in lines to assist in development etc. Peer mentorship is a foundation of the actOUT! rehearsal culture.
While we need to stage familiar titles for children, we have tried to stretch with our own adaptations of Shakespeare, Lewis Carrol, Alexandre Dumas, and others.
Festivals & Special Events:
Elora Festival Drama Camp Provider
Senior Staff:
Todd VercoeArtistic Director
Rental Information:
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Venue rentals: no
Solicitation Information:
Playwrights:
Accept unsolicited scripts: yes
Policies: We are open to accepting and considering new work intended to be performed by and for children. Best to inquire first by email. Large cast (25+) pieces encouraged.
Accept Resumés: no
Policies: actOUT! is mandated to keeping cast to ages under 18. We do not pay our performers.
Production staff:
Accept Resumés: yes
Contact name: Todd Vercoe
Contact Title: Artistic Director
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ICYMI: CONOR BENN TAKES BIG STEP UP ON POVETKIN VS WHYTE 2 UNDERCARD!
Posted on October 18, 2020 in Latest news // 0 Comments
Conor Benn faces the toughest test of his career on Saturday November 21 when he clashes with former IBO Welterweight World Champion Sebastian Formella on the blockbuster Alexander Povetkin vs. Dillian Whyte 2 undercard, shown live on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK.
Benn (16-0, 11 KOs) scored two big knockout wins in 2019, firstly obliterating Jussi Koivula with a brutal second-round stoppage in his first headline fight at York Hall in June, and then explosively knocking out Steve Jamoye in four rounds at The O2 in October.
Formella (22-1, 10 KOs) went on a 22-fight winning streak, picking up the IBO Welterweight crown against Roberto Arriaza in January earlier this year, before taking two-time World Champion Shawn Porter the distance in hist first career defeat in August.
“Formella is a world level operator,” said Benn. “His only loss came against two-time World Champion Shawn Porter. I know a win here will make a huge statement on the world scene. I feel the critics have a lot of unanswered questions and now I have the opportunity to answer them in a globally recognised fight.
“From the outside this may look like a big step up but I have prepared extremely hard behind closed doors, working on my craft and climbing the ranks for a fight like this! It’s now time to carry the Benn name back to where it belongs and this will be another step closer to the top. Make no mistake, I’m going into this fight to destroy Formella, I want to win in true Benn style.”
“Conor is a strong undefeated man who likes to box at home,” said Formella. “This will not be an easy fight. But it makes me very proud to fight in the UK this year after my debut in the USA. Of course a fight with spectators would have been even better, but to box in the UK at all is great.
“I am looking forward to this challenge. We will have a good tactic to leave the ring as the winner. We will use the short time optimally.“
Promoter Eddie Hearn added: “This is a huge fight for Conor and a monumental step up. We saw Formella tough it out with Shawn Porter a few months ago and he didn’t stop trying for 12 rounds and showed a great chin and a lot of heart.
“I have to give Conor a lot of credit, although he has been inactive, he hasn’t left the gym and feels that after all he has learned, now is the time to take that big leap. This is the fight that can make him a genuine World level contender – it’s sink or swim time November 21!
Benn vs. Formella lands on the undercard of the blockbuster rematch between Alexander Povetkin (36-2-1, 25 KOs) and Dillian Whyte (27-2, 18 KOs).
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Mykal Fox takes on Anthony Mercado in main event on Friday, May 11th at The SugarHouse Casino in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Penn. (April 13, 2018)–Undefeated junior welterweight Mykal Fox will continue his towards being a top contender when he takes on Anthony Mercado in the eight-round main event of a card that will take place on Friday, May 11th at the SugarHouse Casino in Philadelphia.
The card is promoted by King’s Promotions.
In the eight-round co-feature, junior welterweight’s Tyrone Crawley, Jr. will take on Zack Ramsey
Fox of Forestville, Maryland has a record of 16-0 with four knockouts.
The 22 year-old Fox is a four-year professional, who has been a min event fighter for the better part of two years.
Fox is coming off an eight-round unanimous decision over Ricardo Garcia (14-1) on February 13th in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Mercado of Arecibo, Puerto Rico has a record of 11-3 with 10 knockouts.
The 23 year-old Mercado is a six-year professional, who is coming off a 3rd round stoppage over Crawley (7-0) in a bout that took place on March 2nd at The SugarHouse Casino.
Crawley of Philadelphia has a record of 7-1.
The 32 year-old son of former world title challenger Tyrone “Butterfly” Crawley is a six-year professional, who will be looking ti get back in the win column after being forced to retire in his bout with Mercado with a wrist injury.
Ramsey of Springfield, Massachusetts has a record of 8-3 with 4 knockouts.
The 28 year-old Ramsey is a six-year professional who has wins over undefeated fighters Edwin Soto (9-0-2) and Divante Jones (9-0).
Ramsey is coming off being stopped by Josue Vargas on March 10th in Brooklyn, New York.
In a six-round heavyweight bout, undefeated heavyweight’s Colby Madison (6-0-2, 4 KOs) of Owings Mills, Maryland takes on Michael Coffie (2-0, 1 KO) of Brooklyn, New York.
Returning to the ring will fighter-turned ring announcer, Alex Barbosa (5-3-1, 1 KO) of Philadelphia in a four-round super bantamweight bout.
Also scheduled to appear will be bantamweight Romuel Cruz (1-0, 1 KO) in a four-round bout.
A full undercard will be announced shortly.
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