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About The X Factor (album) : The X Factor is the tenth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden . It is the first of two albums by the band to include Blaze Bayley, formerly of Wolfsbane . The album title came about at the start of the recording . Producer Nigel Green: "We all felt that the new album really would have that extra quality, that 'X Factor' This became the working title for the album and we liked it, so we kept it." The cover art, depicting Eddie undergoing another lobotomy, was created by Hugh Syme . Due to the cover's "lifelike" style, the band were forced to release the album It had a contribution from notable artists like Bruce Dickinson. It had an affiliation to bands - The X Factor. Its music is influenced by genres - heavy metal.
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Qui veut faire l’ange fait la bête
"But while it shocks Americans to hear it, the central challenge in the poorest countries is not that sweatshops exploit too many people, but that they don’t exploit enough."
Where Sweatshops Are a Dream
Before Barack Obama and his team act on their talk about “labor standards,” I’d like to offer them a tour of the vast garbage dump here in Phnom Penh.
This is a Dante-like vision of hell. It’s a mountain of festering refuse, a half-hour hike across, emitting clouds of smoke from subterranean fires.
The miasma of toxic stink leaves you gasping, breezes batter you with filth, and even the rats look forlorn. Then the smoke parts and you come across a child ambling barefoot, searching for old plastic cups that recyclers will buy for five cents a pound. Many families actually live in shacks on this smoking garbage.
Mr. Obama and the Democrats who favor labor standards in trade agreements mean well, for they intend to fight back at oppressive sweatshops abroad. But while it shocks Americans to hear it, the central challenge in the poorest countries is not that sweatshops exploit too many people, but that they don’t exploit enough.
Talk to these families in the dump, and a job in a sweatshop is a cherished dream, an escalator out of poverty, the kind of gauzy if probably unrealistic ambition that parents everywhere often have for their children.
“I’d love to get a job in a factory,” said Pim Srey Rath, a 19-year-old woman scavenging for plastic. “At least that work is in the shade. Here is where it’s hot.”
Another woman, Vath Sam Oeun, hopes her 10-year-old boy, scavenging beside her, grows up to get a factory job, partly because she has seen other children run over by garbage trucks. Her boy has never been to a doctor or a dentist, and last bathed when he was 2, so a sweatshop job by comparison would be far more pleasant and less dangerous.
I’m glad that many Americans are repulsed by the idea of importing products made by barely paid, barely legal workers in dangerous factories. Yet sweatshops are only a symptom of poverty, not a cause, and banning them closes off one route out of poverty. At a time of tremendous economic distress and protectionist pressures, there’s a special danger that tighter labor standards will be used as an excuse to curb trade.
When I defend sweatshops, people always ask me: But would you want to work in a sweatshop? No, of course not. But I would want even less to pull a rickshaw. In the hierarchy of jobs in poor countries, sweltering at a sewing machine isn’t the bottom.
My views on sweatshops are shaped by years living in East Asia, watching as living standards soared — including those in my wife’s ancestral village in southern China — because of sweatshop jobs.
Manufacturing is one sector that can provide millions of jobs. Yet sweatshops usually go not to the poorest nations but to better-off countries with more reliable electricity and ports.
I often hear the argument: Labor standards can improve wages and working conditions, without greatly affecting the eventual retail cost of goods. That’s true. But labor standards and “living wages” have a larger impact on production costs that companies are always trying to pare. The result is to push companies to operate more capital-intensive factories in better-off nations like Malaysia, rather than labor-intensive factories in poorer countries like Ghana or Cambodia.
Cambodia has, in fact, pursued an interesting experiment by working with factories to establish decent labor standards and wages. It’s a worthwhile idea, but one result of paying above-market wages is that those in charge of hiring often demand bribes — sometimes a month’s salary — in exchange for a job. In addition, these standards add to production costs, so some factories have closed because of the global economic crisis and the difficulty of competing internationally.
The best way to help people in the poorest countries isn’t to campaign against sweatshops but to promote manufacturing there. One of the best things America could do for Africa would be to strengthen our program to encourage African imports, called AGOA, and nudge Europe to match it.
Among people who work in development, many strongly believe (but few dare say very loudly) that one of the best hopes for the poorest countries would be to build their manufacturing industries. But global campaigns against sweatshops make that less likely.
Look, I know that Americans have a hard time accepting that sweatshops can help people. But take it from 13-year-old Neuo Chanthou, who earns a bit less than $1 a day scavenging in the dump. She’s wearing a “Playboy” shirt and hat that she found amid the filth, and she worries about her sister, who lost part of her hand when a garbage truck ran over her.
“It’s dirty, hot and smelly here,” she said wistfully. “A factory is better.”
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Research Analysts Issue Forecasts for Edison International’s Q1 2021 Earnings (NYSE:EIX)
Edison International (NYSE:EIX) – Equities researchers at KeyCorp issued their Q1 2021 earnings per share estimates for Edison International in a research report issued to clients and investors on Tuesday, January 12th. KeyCorp analyst S. Karp forecasts that the utilities provider will earn $0.64 per share for the quarter. KeyCorp has a “Overweight” rating and a $70.00 price target on the stock.
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Edison International (NYSE:EIX) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 27th. The utilities provider reported $1.67 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.43 by $0.24. Edison International had a net margin of 3.23% and a return on equity of 10.57%. The business had revenue of $4.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $3.96 billion. During the same period last year, the business earned $1.50 EPS.
A number of other equities research analysts have also recently issued reports on EIX. Wells Fargo & Company raised shares of Edison International from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and lifted their price target for the company from $65.00 to $71.00 in a research note on Wednesday, January 6th. Barclays lifted their price target on shares of Edison International from $57.00 to $69.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 18th. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Edison International from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $63.00 target price on the stock in a research note on Thursday, October 22nd. Mizuho lowered their target price on shares of Edison International from $67.00 to $63.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, September 25th. Finally, Morgan Stanley lowered their target price on shares of Edison International from $75.00 to $69.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, December 15th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company. Edison International currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $70.40.
Edison International stock opened at $63.20 on Thursday. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $62.30 and its 200 day moving average price is $57.14. Edison International has a 1 year low of $43.63 and a 1 year high of $78.93. The stock has a market capitalization of $23.92 billion, a P/E ratio of 63.84, a P/E/G ratio of 4.40 and a beta of 0.51. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.21, a quick ratio of 0.63 and a current ratio of 0.68.
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Sunday, January 31st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 31st will be issued a dividend of $0.6625 per share. This represents a $2.65 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.19%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 30th. This is a positive change from Edison International’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.64. Edison International’s payout ratio is currently 56.38%.
A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. IFP Advisors Inc grew its holdings in Edison International by 3.8% in the third quarter. IFP Advisors Inc now owns 5,032 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $255,000 after purchasing an additional 183 shares during the last quarter. Berman Capital Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of Edison International by 68.3% during the third quarter. Berman Capital Advisors LLC now owns 510 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $25,000 after acquiring an additional 207 shares during the last quarter. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC boosted its stake in shares of Edison International by 2.9% during the third quarter. Steward Partners Investment Advisory LLC now owns 8,278 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $421,000 after acquiring an additional 235 shares during the last quarter. GSA Capital Partners LLP boosted its stake in shares of Edison International by 7.0% during the third quarter. GSA Capital Partners LLP now owns 4,005 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $204,000 after acquiring an additional 261 shares during the last quarter. Finally, First Commonwealth Financial Corp PA boosted its stake in shares of Edison International by 6.5% during the third quarter. First Commonwealth Financial Corp PA now owns 4,357 shares of the utilities provider’s stock valued at $222,000 after acquiring an additional 264 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 78.53% of the company’s stock.
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Edison International, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in the United States. The company generates electricity through hydroelectric, diesel/liquid petroleum gas, natural gas, nuclear, and photovoltaic sources. It supplies electricity primarily to residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, and other customers, as well as public authorities through transmission and distribution networks.
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Samsung’s S-Pen – The ultimate guide
Joe Hindy / @ThatJoeHindy
The Samsung Galaxy Note phones are among the most popular and powerful Android devices every year. We are in the eighth generation with the Galaxy Note 9 — remember, Samsung skipped the Galaxy Note 6 and went straight from the Note 5 to the Note 7. Each device has come with a variant of the S-Pen, an included stylus the software in the OS supports.
This is no ordinary stylus. Each generation has added functionality. Thus, we focused primarily on the S-Pen from the Galaxy Note 9. Most of this stuff is also available on older Note devices to a certain extent. Let’s get right into this.
Check out the history of the Note and the S-Pen here!
The evolution of the Samsung Galaxy Note S Pen
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About the S-Pen
The clicky part does little more than help you remove the S-Pen from the Note.
Let’s start out with some quick specs about the S-Pen itself — specifically the one that came with the Galaxy Note 9. Some of these specs carry over from previous generations and some are brand new. Of course, we expect the Galaxy Note 10 S-Pen to improve upon these specs as well.
This year’s S-Pen connects to the phone with Bluetooth, a new feature in 2018. Of course, it still lives within the body of the device unlike most of its competitors.
It gets power from a super-capacitor battery instead of the classic lithium-ion batteries of the Microsoft Surface Pen or the Apple Pencil. Samsung claims a full charge takes only 40 seconds.
A full charge allows for up to 30 minutes of usage time or 200 button clicks. Users get a notification when the battery is at 20 percent to remind them to charge.
It uses a wireless charging method while resting within the body of the device to charge. It is different than the Note 9’s’ wireless charging method. Thus, you cannot charge an S-Pen with the phone’s wireless charger.
Samsung estimates it uses 0.5mAh per full charge. In other words, S-Pen shouldn’t affect your battery life at all, even if super-capacitors slowly lose charge over time. For reference, 0.5mAh is 1/8000th of the 4,000mAh battery in the Note 9.
The S-Pen still works without a charge. You just lose the remote capabilities until you recharge the S-Pen again.
The tip of the S-Pen is 0.7mm thick. It also registers up to 4,096 pressure levels. This is on par with the Microsoft Surface Pen 2 and most Wacom tablet styli.
The 2018 S-Pen is available in four colors — yellow and ocean blue, lavender, black, and brown. Hit the links to check them out on Amazon. They range in price from $40 to $50. They also determine your primary writing color, but we’ll talk about that later.
The S-Pen operable distance with Bluetooth is 30 feet.
A little-known feature of the S-Pen is its multiple tips. Every recent Galaxy Note device comes with a little puller tool you can use to remove the S-Pen’s tip, which you can then flip. The default is a soft rubber tip, but you can flip that for a hard plastic tip. The puller tool should be in the box your Galaxy Note came in.
Direct Writing Input is exactly what the name says it is.
This is Air View showing you the remote control options in Google Chrome.
PENUP is a social network and drawing app for S-Pen owners. It’s okay.
Screen Off Memos can be saved as regular notes or left there for future reference.
S-Pen comes with a variety of basic features. These work basically all the time, and you can toggle them on and off in the settings menu.
Air View – Air View allows you to glean quick information by hovering the stylus close to bits of information. It works best in Samsung’s calendar and gallery apps. We haven’t seen it work well with third party apps, like Google Calendar or Google Drive.
Direct Writing Input – This lets you fill out text fields on your phone with actual writing. Simply hover over a blank text field until the icon pops up. Click it and you can start writing stuff out instead of typing it in.
Screen Off Memo – A classic Note feature. You can take notes on your device without unlocking the screen. Simpy remove the S-Pen while the screen is off and follow the on-screen prompts to use the feature. You can save these notes to Samsung’s note app, record multiple notes, erase what you wrote, and even change the thickness of the digital ink.
PENUP – This is a social network of sorts for Samsung Note owners. You can create drawings, color in existing drawings, and share your artwork across the collective. It comes stock on the device, but you can uninstall it if you don’t want it. It is also available in the Google Play Store if you change your mind.
Change S-Pen ink color – You can, in fact, change the color of the digital ink for your device. Unfortunately, your only two options are the pen’s actual, physical color and white. You can buy additional S-Pens in different colors if you must. However, this is only an issue in apps that don’t let you change colors, like the screen-off memo feature. Samsung Notes itself lets you change the color, as do most other apps with stylus functionality. It’s lame, but also not a huge deal.
Visible Pointer – You can set the device to show a pointer graphic when the S-Pen is close enough to the screen. This is an old feature and on by default.
Air Command features
Click this button in the Air Command menu to access S-Pen settings quickly.
This is Air Command, the main UI for most of S-Pen’s functionality
Screen Write takes a screenshot and then lets you write all over it.
Air Command – This is the native interface for using all of the various functions. It appears by default by removing the S-Pen from the device while the screen is on. There is a rotary UI with all of the options. You can disable this in the settings if you really want to, but we can’t imagine why you would since many of these functions aren’t available elsewhere in the UI.
Notes – It’s a Galaxy Note device, so of course you can take notes. There are two Air Command functions for note taking. The first creates a new note and the second opens the Samsung Notes app to view previous notes. Notes sync across devices via your Samsung account in case you buy a new Note device later.
Screen Write – Screen Write takes a screenshot of the entire screen. It immediately opens an interface where you can write on the screenshot. From there, you can save it, share it, or stylize it in other ways.
Smart Select – Smart Select is our favorite way of taking a screenshot. You can use the S-Pen to draw a shape anywhere on the screen and the phone will screen shot just that portion of the screen. This is so much better than taking super tall screenshots and cropping it down when you just need a little extra information. There is also an option to capture animation within a defined area. Smart Select turns it into a GIF for easy sharing. Seriously, Smart Select is awesome.
Translate – A useful, but somewhat niche function. You hover the S-Pen over a word in a foreign language and Translate, well, translates it. It uses Google Translate, and we appreciate Samsung using something tried and true. You can also listen to the word with the small sound icon next to the translation.
The Magnify function is super useful for those who can’t see well.
Live Message creates GIFs. It’s not productive, but we love it.
This is what Bixby Vision looks like while using S-Pen.
Magnify – This is another useful, but niche feature. Hover over basically anything and Magnify can make it bigger and easier to read. This is a decent accessibility feature. You can magnify things by 150 percent, 200 percent, 250 percent, and 300 percent. There is also a toggle to slightly change how the area is magnified, but we couldn’t tell much of a difference. The magnification window is also a decent size.
Glance – Glance is an excellent tool for multi-tasking. It basically makes any app work in picture-in-picture mode. Open an app, engage Glance, and the app becomes a small thumbnail. Hover over the thumbnail to view the app again in full page mode. Simply move the little box with the S-Pen to put it back in Glance mode.
Live Message – Live Message is a fun little feature that debuted a couple of years ago. Write out a missive or draw a simple picture and your Note device will turn it into a GIF. The GIF is shareable basically anywhere and works wherever GIFs work. This has no productivity value whatsoever, but it is fun. This also works with Samsung’s AR Emoji feature and you can write on images you have on your Note device already as well.
Bixby Vision – This one is a bit polarizing. Bixby Vision is meant identify things on your phone screen and show you information about it, like shopping links. It’s extremely hit or miss and frankly does not work all that well. Its best use is for extracting text from an image with OCR or scanning a QR code. The rest of its functions simply aren’t ready for prime time yet.
Add your own – Air Command lets you add your own apps to the rotary wheel of S-Pen goodness. We recommend adding apps you use the stylus with a lot. For our testing, we even added the game Draw Something since we use the stylus a lot with that game.
Access S-Pen settings – Once Air Command opens, you can click the cogwheel in the top left corner to access all of S-Pen’s various settings. It’s the quickest way to get to those settings.
The S-Pen remote menu is also the best place to check out the battery levels of the S-Pen.
If your S-Pen disconnects from the Note, prepare to see this screen.
Many apps have individual S-Pen remote functions.
You can have S-Pen open any app by holding the remote button.
There are some extra little hardware features. This section used to be rather boring, actually. However, the addition of a battery, Bluetooth, and remote capabilities added a lot more stuff to this category with the Samsung Galaxy Note 9.
Alarm when lost – This is the one hardware feature from older versions of the S-Pen. When it is removed from the device and separated from it, the Galaxy Note will constantly remind you it is missing until you put it back. It’s a good way to avoid losing it — it’s an expensive accessory, after all.
Power Saver mode – This is enabled by default. The Galaxy Note won’t try to detect the presence of your S-Pen while it is in the phone. This preserves valuable battery life by not running a redundant task. You can disable this if you really want to in the settings menu.
Sound and Vibration – You can set the Galaxy Note to make an audible sound and vibrate slightly when you remove the S-Pen from its holster. Both of these settings are set to on by default.
Unlock with S-Pen – You can set your device to unlock with the S-Pen instead of a PIN, passcode, fingerprint scanner, and so on. It’s a neat trick, but we don’t recommend it. It’s not a good idea to keep the key with the lock, so to speak.
Here are the Alarm and Power Saver Mode options for S-Pen.
You can unlock your Note with the S-Pen if you want. However, we think keeping the key with the lock is a bad idea.
Here are the Sound and Vibration settings. We recommend just leaving those alone.
Remote Capabilities – The Galaxy Note 9 variant of the S-Pen introduced remote capabilities. This is usable in two ways. The first is allowing the S-Pen to perform tasks inside of certain apps. It works with many apps such as Microsoft Office, Google Chrome, and many others. You can view the available controls in the settings menu. They will automatically show up for any app you have that can use them.
Change Remote Capabilities – You can also customize any app that uses remote capabilities. Each app can have up to two functions with a single press and a double press of the S-Pen button. These are customizable in the S-Pen remote settings. Popular examples include going forward in a presentation with a single click and backwards one slide with a double click. I have my tester device set to have a single click go back a page in Google Chrome and forward a page if I double click.
Open apps with the remote – You can also set the S-Pen to open an app with a long press of the remote button. Unlike the actual remote function, you can open any app you want with this setting, but only one at a time. The stock Samsung camera app is the default.
Controls aren’t restricted to just one app – Every app that can use the remote control functionality works. You can switch from the camera app to PowerPoint and then over to Chrome without any hiccups. All apps compatible with S-Pen will work unless you turn it off.
Remote Master Controls – The S-Pen has master controls for cameras and music playback. These should work in all apps with a camera function or music playback functionality. Even though it doesn’t have official support, a click to take a picture works in Snapchat. Music playback remote control worked in all of the music and podcast apps I tried (Samsung Music, Pulsar, Google Play Music, YouTube, and even Pocket Casts). You can turn these off, but you can’t configure them very much.
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The S-Pen has stayed relevant over more than half a decade of smartphone innovation. People love it now as much as they did back then. It can do a bunch of neat stuff and we can’t wait to see what Samsung has in store for this neat little stylus.
If we missed any great features, tell us about them in the comments!
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That's genius
MetroPCS is now Metro by T-Mobile, new unlimited plans include Google One
The $60/month unlimited plan also comes with Amazon Prime.
Joe Maring
T-Mobile, one of the most disruptive wireless carriers in the U.S., is completely refreshing its pre-paid subbrand MetroPCS with a new look, name, and more feature-rich plans.
Starting next month, MetroPCS will be rebranded as Metro by T-Mobile. The prepaid wireless provider will keep its existing 2GB and 5GB plans (although 5GB is now doubled to 10GB) that are the most affordable of the bunch, but its new unlimited options will be upgraded across the board.
The $50/month unlimited plan still comes with just 5GB of LTE mobile hotspot, but now you also get Google One included for free. That means you get upgraded Google Drive storage, expert help, Play credits, and more at no extra cost. If you upgrade to the $60/month unlimited plan, you'll get 15GB of LTE hotspot, Google One, and a full Amazon Prime membership.
And, just like before, all taxes and fees are included in the prices that Metro advertises.
Metro by T-Mobile is the first wireless carrier to bundle Google One with its plans, but just last month, Sprint also announced that its Unlimited Premium $90/month plan comes with Amazon Prime.
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Rob is a senior automotive counsel in the firm’s Automotive Industry Group.
The Automotive Industry Group has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leader in the category Transportation: Road (Carriage/Commercial). Rob’s practice focuses on regulatory issues in the automotive industry, with a special emphasis on complex retail sales and finance regulatory requirements.
Rob regularly advises some of the largest dealers and dealer groups in the country on a variety of operational matters including: sales, finance, and leasing compliance; titling issues; sales tax concerns; disclosures; consumer claims; class action avoidance; advertising compliance; identity theft prevention; and, privacy and information sharing practices. Rob has drafted many of the consumer disclosure forms used by thousands of auto dealers across the country. He provides high-level consulting related to California dealership licensing requirements and helps clients navigate the confusing array of federal and California-specific sales and finance requirements. Rob also helps national clients develop compliance programs and litigation defense strategies.
Rob is the president of Auto Advisory Services (AAS), a leading compliance consulting company specializing in compliance audits, and offering comprehensive sales, finance, advertising, and DMV compliance services. AAS has a client base of nearly 500 motor and recreational vehicle dealerships.
Rob has previously served as the general counsel for Motor Vehicle Software Corporation, the company that developed DMVdesk. Rob was one of the original designers of DMVdesk, the automotive industry’s first comprehensive vehicle registration management system.
Rob is a founding director and past-president of the National Association of Dealer Counsel (NADC), former editor of The Defender (the NADC newsletter) and has been published in Ward’s Dealer Business, Orange County’s Business Journal, and F&I Management and Technology. He is a frequent speaker and trainer on a wide range of subjects pertaining to dealership sales and finance compliance. Rob is also a member of the American Bar Association.
Publications, Presentations & Recognitions
Rob’s published works include:
“Auto Dealer Law, The Definitive Legal Guide to the Purchase, Sale, and Operation of Vehicle Dealerships,” Auto Advisory Services, 2011
“Automotive Dealership Privacy, Information Safeguards & Identity Theft Red Flags Manual,” Auto Advisory Services, 2010
“Automotive Dealership Red Flags Guidebook,” Auto Advisory Services, 2008
“Vehicle Finance and Compliance Documents Guide,” Auto Advisory Services, 2006
“A Dealership’s Guide to the California Car Buyer’s Bill of Rights,” Auto Advisory Services, 2006
“Defender Article: Avoiding Hidden Finance Charges,” NADC, June 2008
“Transmission Article: Best Credit Application Practices,” Auto Advisory Services, July 2007
“The Truth About Trade Allowances,” F&I Management and Technology, November/December 2005
“Watch What You Say!,” Ward’s Dealer Business, January 2005
“FACTA: What it Means for California Dealerships,” Auto Advisory Services, December 2004
Rob’s speaking engagements include:
"Session 8: Sales and Finance Litigation Update," 2013 NADC Fall Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2013
“Top Legal Trends for 2011,” NADA Conference, San Francisco, CA, February 2011
“Compliance Exposure That Can Crush Your Dealership,” NADA Conference, San Francisco, CA, February 2008
“Common But Potentially Dangerous F&I Practices,” NADA F&I Workshop, Baltimore, MD, November 2006
“Changes for 2007,” Reynolds and Reynolds University Online, November 2006
“F&I Matters,” NADC Member Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2006
“Car Buyer’s Bill of Rights Training,” California (multiple sessions), May-June 2005
“Negative Equity Disclosure,” NADC Member Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 2005
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Warranty Reimbursement Rates Under the New California Law
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Power and presence.
Elegant appearance, dynamic power development, high-quality interior – the Audi S7 Sportback carries conviction with its external and internal qualities. Experience the latest technology for assisted driving and infotainment with our sporty coupé.
Elegant and emotional
The design of the Audi S7 Sportback matches elegant aesthetics with the progressive S character. In profile, its sharp lines define the sporty coupé-like outline, while the adaptive air suspension lowers the vehicle and further adds to its road presence.
Powerful and dynamic
The Audi S7 Sportback is powered by a sporty yet efficient V6 engine, delivering 331kW of power and 600Nm of torque from 1900rpm right through to 5000rpm. With power going down to the road through the standard quattro all-wheel drive, the S7 Sportback races from standstill to 100km/h in just 4.6 seconds and boasts an agility that belies the car’s size and luxurious appointment. Those looking for even higher levels of handling can choose the optional sport differential on the rear axle, which further improves the vehicle’s positioning when cornering at high speed.
High quality and personalised
The aesthetic and sporty coupé design is continued seamlessly in the interior of the Audi S7 Sportback. From the illuminated aluminium door panels with the S emblem to the S sports seats, every detail has been meticulously considered and crafted. Even the flat-bottom, multi-function leather steering wheel complete with paddle gearshifts, wears the coveted S emblem.
Digitalisation in focus
A pioneering operating concept, a large range of infotainment options and Audi connect plus services further enhance the whole Audi S7 Sportback experience. In the high-resolution 12.3-inch display of the Audi virtual cockpit, you will find all important vehicle information such as the tachometer, speedometer, fuel level and remaining range. In addition, technologies such as the Audi smartphone interface for Android Auto and wireless Apple CarPlay directly display approved apps in the MMI display for greater ease of use.
The Audi S7 Sportback is equipped with the MMI Navigation plus infotainment system with MMI touch response. Here the upper display is used to control the infotainment functions. The operation is carried out intuitively by touching and pressing as with a button, each action accompanied by acoustic and haptic feedback. Other gestures such as swiping or scrolling are also recognised by the display, and while on the road, the driver can conveniently control the MMI using voice commands which understand commonly used speech. The system also allows you to configure up to six personalised profiles, so that if another person uses the vehicle, the profile can be easily switched. The lower display is used mainly for controlling on-board comfort settings such as climate control.
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Flow hive wins major copycat battle.
Flow hive wins major copycat…
The Australian manufacturers of the revolutionary Flow Hive that provides a continuous flow of honey on tap have won a major legal battle with a copycat product.
Father and son duo Stuart and Cedar Anderson have manufactured, and mostly exported, more than 50,000 of their bee hives in the past three years after a crowd-funding campaign helped them commercialise their product.
Now Fairfax reports the pair were forced to defend their product against Tapcomb after it made similar product claims in the market.
BeeInventive Pty Ltd of Bangalow in NSW, which makes the Flow Hive, has patents in every corner of the world and trademarks in a number of markets.
“It was extremely frustrating to have to focus on shutting down a copycat instead of focusing on fulfilling the growing number of orders for our product from around the world,” Cedar told Fairfax.
While legal letters were initially ignored, the parasite brand completely withdrew from the market in August this year.
“Just as quickly as they entered the market, they have now disappeared.”
Flow Hive’s website says that the original $13 million raised has been use to develop manufacturing, marketing and logistics processes.
“The company now generally dispatches orders within 24 hours.”
BeeInventive is an extraordinary community-based business that sees its business not only in the local area, but in beekeeper globally.
‘Its website says: “(Flow Hive is) about creating community, educating people about the importance of bees, and empowering beekeepers both old and new to make a positive change to help protect these important little creatures. Bees are tiny environmental champions!”
The company’s community focus ranges from supporting beekeeping groups in its markets to using its crowdfunding community to provide emergency aid to those in need.
The company developed a second product, used to propogate and create new bee communities, and gives 100 per cent of the profits to pollination support projects.
In 2015 the company raised $133,885 to assist the victim’s of a massive earthquake in Nepal, one of the world’s poorest countries.
The company website says it is involved in such work because it believes in doing “doing business in a regenerative, ethical and sustainable manner, whilst also creating a positive impact on big picture conservation and community outreach programs.”
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Launch Delayed! Harley-Davidson Pan American and Bronx launch delayed
Harley Davidson Pan America
Harley-Davidson has Postponed the launch of its Adventure Motorcycle Pan America and Streetfighter styled the Bronx to 2021.
Both Pan America and Bronx were supposed to be launched in 2020. The launch is delayed due to Harley-Davidson's 'Rewire' program which was launched in April 2020. The 'Rewire' program is organised to address the impact of Corona Virus. As the name, Harley-Davidson has rewired its operating model and set to focus on profitability rather than introducing the brand to a new set of riders.
We can expect the launch of Pan America and Bronx by the end of this year or the start of 2021 when riding season in most of the countries will take place. Harely-Davidson is also likely to launch 'high-performance custom model' along with its electric bike sometime next year.
Harley Davidson Pan America will have a 1250cc engine and is likely to be priced at Rs 17 lakh.
Mercedes-Benz GLE 450 Petrol launched in India at ₹ 88.80 Lakh
Toyota Fortuner Facelift Likely to be Unveiled on June 4
Datsun Redi-GO Facelift Launched at ₹ 2.83 Lakh
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Footballing Bible FourFourTwo Investigates Team Chemistry
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Athlete Assessments Sport DISC Behavioral Profiles An Essential Step In Understanding Team Chemistry
When the world’s biggest football magazine, FourFourTwo, took a look at team chemistry, writer Ben Welch spoke to premiership winning players, like Crystal Palace midfielder Yohan Cabaye and Celtic’s Musso Dembele for their insight into the unbreakable bonds that build team chemistry. He also spoke to Arsenal’s premiership winning Coach, Arsene Wenger and Micky Adams, the Cottages Player Manager who credits the communal struggle or hardship through training with bonding his teams. Adams also warned of dressing room politics. Welch researched the science behind the subject, examining the role of biochemistry, hormones and neurotransmitters, he spoke to biological anthropologist Dr Helen Fisher. SyncStrenght said they’re working on an algorithm which predicts team chemistry and Ben also spoke to Bo Hanson, International Coaching Consultant for Athlete Assessments about personality combinations and their contribution to team chemistry. This is Hanson’s account of the interview.
Late on a Friday afternoon, Ben called. I knew the call was coming and I was scheduled to talk to Ben for 10 minutes. He was writing an article about the much mythologized quality of “Team Chemistry”. Ben found out about us while he was researching other stories and from articles we’ve written demystifying the topic and helping Coaches to approach team chemistry using our Sport DISC Behavioral Profiles.
The 10 minute conversation turned into 40. I enjoyed it because Ben had clearly done a lot of research and consequently asked excellent questions.
He also gave me an insight into what other top-level football Coaches believe is important about creating team chemistry. What I learnt was further confirmation that most Coaches still believe team chemistry is something that magically emerges some seasons and just as easily disappears the next.
I was able to share information with Ben about how we help our clients create sustained and successful team chemistry and associated team culture that flows on from one year to the next. I spoke to Ben several weeks ago and I’ve now had the opportunity to see his article published and it’s a great read. My comments are well interpreted but it’s really useful to read other Coaches comments too.
It was no surprise to hear stories about the old way of building team chemistry in football teams; cold winter practices followed by long nights at the local pub drinking too much beer which led to hilarious incidents that players recalled for years after these infamous sessions.
I must admit, I can relate to some of this, although as a rower, these sessions were few and far between. But still, spending time with your team members and letting your guard down in an environment outside of the normal athletic environment certainly does allow team members to interact less formally and to deepen their knowledge of each other.
What’s changed today though, is that there’s no room in high performance sport to have a “drinking” culture in your team and certainly, when it comes to college teams, most team members aren’t even the legal drinking age! So as a Coach, you have to create other options for “bonding” your team together. This is where we use our DISC Behavioral Profiles and small unique activities to challenge team members to interact and develop a better understanding of each other. But, team chemistry goes beyond this as well.
We’ve found that team chemistry is the result of a productive team dynamic. The term ‘team dynamic’ means; the way in which different team member personalities or as we call them, DISC Behavioral Styles, interact with each other.
We’ve studied more than 2,000 teams across 40 different sports, tracked and listened to their unique challenges over the space of their varying seasons. What we’ve found, is that there are some points of commonality amongst the teams who not only win more often, but also claim to have great team chemistry.
Coaches uncover their athletes’ DISC Style by using our online service. It produces the most accurate profile available anywhere in the world from a sport specific perspective.
There are certain percentages of the DISC Profiles that work in teams because each style contributes important behaviors toward creating productive team bonds. There are also normally occurring percentages of each of the four DISC Styles within a normal population of people. Where sport is concerned, we don’t track exactly to a normal population like the breakdowns found in the business world, but we’re not that far off either.
When you have oversupplies or undersupplies of each profile percentage, it impacts how the overall dynamic blends together.
For example, imagine being in a kitchen where the old saying of too many chefs spoil the broth rings true. It’s the same in sport. We’re referring to the D (Dominant Style) profile and how they like to take charge, tell others what to do and be in a leadership role. You only need about 15% of your team with this behavioral preference. Too many and there’s a lack of cohesion, support for team goals and co-operation for the benefit of the team. This isn’t a rule but it always happens in my experience, too much D style direction and you have conflict and disharmony which equates to poor team chemistry.
The I Profile in the DISC Model stands for Interactive and is the type of athlete who is energetic, enthusiastic and loves to talk, build team connections and socialize. They make up roughly 25% of the successful teams we’ve worked with. Too many and the team struggles to focus narrowly on task related goals, not enough and the team lacks energy.
The S Profile in the DISC Model stands for Steady and is the type of athlete who is calm, composed, emotionally stable and relatively quiet. Often thought of as the quiet achiever who goes about their work without fanfare or need for constant praise. This profile needs to be at least 35-40% of the team. When this drops below this level, the team lacks the selflessness to do the necessary team related behaviors which often means the “little” things go missing. Too much S behavior and you can have a case of too much harmony and perceived Team Chemistry. It looks like the team gets along great as they don’t argue or conflict. In reality, this dynamic means the athletes rarely speak their mind and don’t question or challenge others. The team falls into mediocrity and is rarely as successful as their talent suggests they could be.
The final Profile in the DISC Model is the C Profile and this stands for Conscientious. These athletes follow rules, love game plans and will stick to them. They are fact driven and task focused. They’re not concerned about being friends at the expense of doing things technically correct and executing plays according to the game book. The C’s need to be around 20-25% of a team. This is because sport is a very structured environment and most Coaches rely on a foundation of structure to achieve results. Too much C is a problem though as C’s don’t do well in chaotic environments where plays have broken down or the opposition team is great at disrupting your style of play. Not enough C and you get the common complaint from Coaches that their team can’t stay focused or is easily distracted.
Managing team chemistry starts with understanding team dynamics.
It’s easy to measure existing team dynamics, but, it’s not so easy to always have the perfect DISC percentages. Knowing your team make up though, helps you identify roles on the team, positions are which need to be recruited and how to better guide your team to that elusive yet productive team culture. The article Ben wrote gives great insight into how Coaches think about team chemistry and I was very happy to be included in the conversation and give our perspective on how to achieve what we as Coaches all desire and need.
At Athlete Assessments, we’re experts in the people side of sport. We know sport and live high performance every day. Our reputation and proven success at the elite level speaks for itself. The results that our National, Olympic, Professional and Collegiate team clients achieve directly reflects their focus on getting the people side right.
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Where so many other factors in sport, across sports programs and organizations are very similar, managing the ‘people side’ well differentiates the mediocre and truly great. DISC Profiling will take your team’s performance to the next level, allowing you to get ahead and stay ahead.
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Axios Sneak Peek
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Welcome to Sneak Peek, our weekly lookahead for both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, plus my best scoops. I'd love your tips and feedback: jonathan@axios.com. And please urge your friends and colleagues to join the conversation by signing up for Sneak Peek.
1 big thing: Scoop — Skirmish over the nuclear football
The president and first lady arrive at the Great Hall of the People. Photo: THOMAS PETER/AFP/Getty Images
I can't believe this story hasn't gotten out, and neither can the very very few people who know about it.
On Thursday Nov. 9, when President Trump and his team visited Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Chief of Staff John Kelly and a U.S. Secret Service agent skirmished with Chinese security officials over the nuclear football.
I've spoken to five sources familiar with the events. Here's what happened, as they describe it:
When the U.S. military aide carrying the nuclear football entered the Great Hall, Chinese security officials blocked his entry. (The official who carries the nuclear football is supposed to stay close to the president at all times, along with a doctor.)
A U.S. official hurried into the adjoining room and told Kelly what was happening. Kelly rushed over and told the U.S. officials to keep walking — "We're moving in," he said — and the Americans all started moving.
Then there was a commotion. A Chinese security official grabbed Kelly, and Kelly shoved the man’s hand off of his body. Then a U.S. Secret Service agent grabbed the Chinese security official and tackled him to the ground.
The whole scuffle was over in a flash, and the U.S. officials told about the incident were asked to keep quiet about it. Trump's team followed the normal security procedure to brief the Chinese before their visit to Beijing, according to a person familiar with the trip — but somebody at the Chinese end either didn't get the memo or decided to mess with the Americans anyway.
I'm told that at no point did the Chinese have the nuclear football in their possession or even touch the briefcase. I'm also told the head of the Chinese security detail apologized to the Americans afterwards for the misunderstanding.
2. The truths about Kelly
Kelly testifies before Congress in July. Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Anyone who claims to have gnostic wisdom about John Kelly's future in the White House should prepare to be embarrassed. Not even Donald Trump knows what will happen.
That said, I've chatted with people close to every part of this saga. And I've learned four facts that I hope will help you make sense of all the messy reporting, gossip, innuendo, and Beltway speculation about the president’s chief of staff.
1. Privately, Trump is always looking for excuses to bash Kelly. Trump has long chafed at Kelly's efforts to control him. He genuinely resented Kelly's claim to Fox News’ Bret Baier that Trump had “evolved” on immigration. So Kelly's bungling of the Rob Porter disaster just cemented a view the president would have held regardless.
"If he's so good, if he knows all this stuff, well how come the first time he gets a problem like this he doesn't know what to do?” Trump told one associate of Kelly. “He wants to handle me, but doesn't know how to handle problems like this."
2. Trump hasn’t made an ask. People very close to Kevin McCarthy, Gary Cohn and Mick Mulvaney — the top three contenders to replace Kelly — tell me definitively that the president has not broached the subject with them. There's a sense among their allies that the president may want them to come to him and ask for the job, which would be in character for Trump. However, I doubt any of them would do so, because if they did they'd have to take the job on Trump's terms.
Trump has been asking third parties about these men: "What do you think about Kevin?", "What do you think about Mick?", "What should we do about Gary?" Trump values the advice of all three men. He views Cohn as "a total killer" who's "done it all on Wall Street" even though he's a "globalist." Trump regularly asks Mulvaney for his thoughts on matters ranging far beyond his Budget portfolio, including immigration, healthcare, and what he thinks of certain White House officials. Same with McCarthy.
3. Kelly has lots of enemies in the building. Many White House staff feel Kelly walked in the door with a condescending "daddy's here now" attitude. Based on leaks I've received from inside the building, the chief of staff has lost the support of a good number of his subordinates. Several senior staff have privately questioned his honesty. Several officials told me they believe he lied about how he handled the Rob Porter disaster (His story directly contradicts the story the White House press shop told the media in real time.)
Bottom line: Trump resents Kelly, and no longer gives him the benefit of the doubt. But he hasn’t decided what to do about that.
3. What to watch on guns
A senior administration official tells me he expects Congress will "take another look" at background check legislation that John Cornyn pushed late last year.
Flashback — per the Texas Tribune:
"U.S. Sen. John Cornyn announced the release of bipartisan legislation Thursday aimed at strengthening the federal background check database following the recent mass shooting in Sutherland Springs.
"The Texas Republican’s bill, known as the Fix NICS Act, tries to ensure federal and state authorities accurately report relevant information, including criminal history, to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System."
Bottom line: Cornyn's bill won't come close to satisfying gun control advocates, but it may be all that's politically possible under a Republican-controlled Congress.
4. Midterm migraines
Democrats have more midterm anxiety than you might think, given most pundits are confidently predicting Republicans will lose the House.
Two sources with direct knowledge tell me that at the recent Democratic Senate retreat at Mount Vernon, they invited a focus group of voters to discuss the issues they care about and the political landscape.
What the voters kept saying: "Republicans have the wrong agenda; Democrats have no agenda."
A Senate aide told me leadership is acutely aware of this problem, and hopes immigration will fill their agenda gap. Another top Senate aide, however, told me their messaging will highlight a broader set of issues, including pensions, opioid funding, child care, and student loans. They will boast that they moved the ball forward on these issues with the budget deal.
Their toughest challenge: keeping this message from being totally drowned out by coverage of the President’s alleged affairs, the Russia probe, the Robert Porter domestic violence cover-up, and other wild stories. Democrats are aware that cable news producers would much rather air segments on Stormy Daniels than pension reform.
By the way: Hillary Clinton had this problem too. Her campaign staff always bemoaned the fact that the national media showed infinitely more interest in Trump’s JFK conspiracy theories than her white papers on Alzheimer’s.
On top of that: Several top Hill Democrats told me they worry too many of their colleagues think they can flip the House just by bashing Trump and talking about Russia. If the focus groups at the retreat showed them anything, it’s that that won’t be enough.
5. Headwinds for paid family leave
Donald and Ivanka Trump at a White House meeting last week. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Ivanka Trump continues to advocate internally for a paid family leave policy — though conservatives inside the administration have told me she's getting some high-level blowback.
In conversations with associates, John Kelly has dismissively described paid family leave as one of Ivanka's "pet projects" and said he doesn't understand how it fits into the White House's agenda.
What's next: A White House official told me this tension came to a head a few weeks ago. The official told me the issue is being "hammered out internally" and Kelly approved a policy process to work through the issue.
To be fair to Ivanka, paid family leave is not a rogue endeavor, even though much of the White House considers it a non-starter. I'm told she coordinates any meeting she has on Capitol Hill with the White House's Office of Legislative Affairs.
And while the idea looks dead on arrival to me, some conservatives on the Hill have left the door ajar. When the ultra conservative House Freedom Caucus chairman, Mark Meadows, says he doesn't rule something out, then it's probably unwise to do so. Some other conservatives, including high-profile senators Mike Lee, Marco Rubio and Joni Ernst, have also come out in support of paid family leave.
6. Sneak Peek diary
The House and Senate are on recess this week. President Trump's schedule, per a WH official:
Monday: Trump expected to return to D.C. from Mar-a-Lago.
Tuesday: The president will receive his intelligence briefing, have lunch with Defense Secretary Mattis, and will host the public safety "Medal of Valor" awards ceremony.
Wednesday: Trump will receive his intelligence briefing and host a "listening session" with high school students and teachers.
Thursday: Trump will receive his intelligence briefing and meet with state and local officials on school safety.
Friday: Trump will make a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The president and the First Lady will host at the White House the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Trump will also meet with Rex Tillerson.
7. 1 gun thing: Washington's new signs
Because of a court order, people with concealed-carry permits can now take their guns into D.C. restaurants, the Washington City Paper reports, unless those restaurants have "No Guns Allowed" signs.
Some D.C. restauranteurs are looking for tasteful ways to display these signs without frightening customers, according to the paper.
Quote of the year: "We’re doing it on a chalkboard so it’s integrated into our space," the Cork Wine Bar & Market co-owner, Diane Gross, told the paper. "There’s a balance because you don’t want people to be scared."
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See: Kitchman / Schmidt release new video for Anne Briggs inspired ‘Lowlands’
Jim F — September 30, 2020
Out on November 27th is the new album from Jazz/Folk guitarist James Kitchman and vocalist Sylvia Schmidt – ‘As Long As Songbirds Sing’, and ahead of it, the pair have released their debut single, the Anne Briggs inspired ‘Lowlands’.
On the origins of their version of the song – which Briggs sung on her seminal Topic Records EP The Hazards of Love (1964), they say “We were particularly inspired by the Anne Briggs version which restored the ballad character of the song”, with Sylvia continuing, “’Lowlands’ has always felt very personal and relevant to me. Having experienced mental health issues in the past, I felt connected to its depth of darkness. The song evokes not only the loss of a loved one, it also speaks to a loss of self and one’s vision of the future. I hope our re-working of the song will compel people to connect with it, as they have done for centuries.”
It’s difficult to know what is the most engaging part of the pairs version – Kitchman’s rolling electric soundscapes, which bleed into eachother as they sparkle and weave, before melting into a darker place, or Schmidts emotive, resonant and beautiful vocal, as she tells the story of a ghostly sailor who seeks out his lover in a dark dream to foretell his death. Either way, it’s lovely stuff.
Check it out, here, alongside the beautifully shot accompanying visuals.
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TRACK: Valley Maker – ‘No One Is Missing’
Lorenzo Righetto, January 15, 2021
TRACK: Panteon – ‘Waking Waiting’: lighter-than-air alt.folk explores the void at the end of the affair
PREMIERE: Ted Barnes and Sarah Johns Music Party – ‘Arrangements’: theatrical delicacy from returning Clayhill prodigal
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Late for Work 11/23: Ravens Are Fighting for Their Playoff Lives
Joe Schiller
Time to Panic About the Ravens?
If the postseason started today, the Ravens would be on the outside looking in. They've lost three of their last four games and Sunday's 30-24 overtime loss to the Tennessee Titans put them in chase mode.
"The Ravens are now 6-4 and in third place in the AFC North," The Athletic's Jeff Zrebiec wrote. "They'd be officially eliminated from the division race with a loss to the Steelers on Thursday night, but that's a formality anyway. The Ravens now have to worry about even making the playoffs and trying to figure out why they blew their second double-digit lead in their last four games."
Is it time to panic about the Ravens? ESPN's Dan Graziano says that's not an overreaction.
"Last season, the Ravens went 14-2, Lamar Jackson was the MVP and they appeared to be set up for continued greatness in 2020," Graziano wrote. "We were doing TV segments in the offseason in which people wondered if they could go 16-0. Man – life comes at you fast.
"Baltimore blew a 10-point lead and lost to Tennessee on Sunday to drop to 6-4. The Ravens are in third place in the AFC North, four full games behind unbeaten Pittsburgh and a game behind the Browns. They play at Pittsburgh on Thursday. As in, three days from now. Jackson was, at one point, 21-0 in his career in games in which his team led by 10 or more points. In the Ravens' past three such games, they are 1-2. They were 6-1 against teams with winning records in 2019; they're 1-4 against them this year."
Right now, the Ravens are far from the team we saw last season and pundits don't have much confidence that issues on both sides of the ball can be fixed in the next six games.
"If it was only one or two flaws, perhaps you'd have more faith in this team's ability to get them fixed and go on a run," Zrebiec added. "Their schedule over the final month of the season is plenty forgiving. However, there are issues in many areas. The same flaws that were apparent in September are still prevalent now. They've multiplied, too. After Sunday, add tackling to that list. The Ravens tackling, particularly from the defensive backs, was horrid."
Added The Baltimore Sun's Daniel Oyefusi: "With a 6-4 record and a quick turnaround before playing the 10-0 Steelers on Thanksgiving, the Ravens are officially fighting for the playoff lives."
As Graziano noted, the schedule remains a source of optimism. But that doesn't guarantee a playoff berth.
"The reason for optimism is that, even with 10-0 Pittsburgh staring them in the face this week, the Ravens have the easiest remaining schedule of any team in the league, according to ESPN's Football Power Index," Graziano added. "After the Steelers game (and the ensuing 10 days off), they play the Cowboys at home, the Browns on the road, the Jaguars at home, the Giants at home and they finish the season in Cincinnati. Even if they drop to 6-5 on Thursday night, the schedule still affords them a chance to finish 11-5, which would surely get them into the postseason. But even if they do get there, it's going to be hard to expect greatness when we just haven't seen it from them this year."
Red Zone Struggles Prove Costly
One of the Ravens' biggest offensive strengths last season led to their downfall against the Titans.
After finishing with the fourth-best red zone touchdown scoring percentage last season, Baltimore ranks 15th in that department this year. The Ravens finished 1-of-4 in the red zone Sunday, and those missed opportunities proved to be the difference.
"Against a Titans defense that ranked 28th in the league in red zone defense, the Ravens reached the red zone four times but scored just one touchdown, a 2-yard run by J.K. Dobbins," Press Box's Bo Smolka wrote.
Instead, the Ravens settled for three Justin Tucker field goals against a defense that was allowing teams to score touchdowns on 74 percent of their drives inside the 20-yard line. All three drives ended on the 12-yard line or closer.
Tucker's 29-yard field goal with 28 seconds left sent the game to overtime, but the drive leading up to it felt like the Ravens were going to find the end zone for a touchdown.
Baltimore Beatdown's Frank Platko said the game felt similar to the Week 8 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. This time, it wasn't turnovers that plagued the Ravens.
"In both games, they outplayed their opponent for the first three-and-a-half quarters and led by double digits in the second half," Platko wrote. "And in both games, they failed to close the deal and wound up losing.
"The Ravens were well-positioned to win this contest. The Titans were fortunate to get a field goal before halftime, thanks to a miraculous fake punt conversion and a roughing the passer penalty that gifted them 15 yards, and only be trailing by four points at intermission."
Defense Can't Contain Derrick Henry
With a running back like Derrick Henry, you can slow him, but it's nearly impossible to stop him.
One of the biggest questions for the Ravens coming into Sunday was how they would contain Henry with their top two interior run defenders in Brandon Williams and Calais Campbell out with injuries.
For most of the game, they did just that. On the Titans' first drive, Marlon Humphrey met Henry in the backfield for a 5-yard loss. On the ensuing drive, Malik Harrison dropped Henry for a 1-yard loss. DeShon Elliott, who's quickly become one of the league's hardest-hitting safeties, also laid the wood on Henry.
Derrick Henry off to the sideline and meeting w/ the trainers after this hit from DeShon Elliott
haha nevermind he's back. tough fella pic.twitter.com/7TjT3fBa6R
— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) November 22, 2020
Hard-hitting Ravens football. 😤 @OfficialShon_4 pic.twitter.com/Wfa5N7QbzM
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) November 22, 2020
"Over the game's first three quarters, [Henry had] been limited to just 44 yards on 18 carries, hemmed in by a Ravens defense missing Campbell and Williams," The Baltimore Sun's Jonas Shaffer wrote. "Tannehill (22-for-31 for 259 yards, two touchdowns and an interception) had been the offense's biggest weapon."
Whether it was as a ball carrier or pass catcher, the Ravens made a concerted effort to limit the big plays from Henry. But containing one of the NFL's best running backs for four quarters is a tough task for any defense, and Henry ultimately broke free.
It was on a 29-yard touchdown run in overtime as the Titans were in field goal range. Henry started left, then broke free down the middle for the game-winning touchdown. He finished with 133 yards on 28 carries and the touchdown.
Derrick Henry Game-Winning 29-yard TD
Expected Rushing Yards: 6
Yards Over Expected: +23
Touchdown Probability: 1.1%
FINAL - @Titans 30, @Ravens 24 pic.twitter.com/n2TY1xLxI5
— Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) November 22, 2020
"In the fourth quarter and in overtime, he had 10 carries for 89 yards and a touchdown." Zrebiec wrote.
"They're a tough defense," Henry said. "They're physical. Got a lot of guys that fly around to the ball and got a lot of guys that play this game at a high level with a lot of experience. But as we get our momentum and guys get some blocks, us getting downhill and continuing to move the ball downfield, that wears on any defense."
The Tennessean's Erik Bacharach noted that 100 of Henry's 133 yards came after contact. Tackling was an issue across the board for the defense and they struggled to take down the 247-pound Henry late in the game and wide receiver A.J. Brown bullied his way through four defenders to give the Titans a late-game lead.
It's the second straight game the Ravens have allowed a 100-yard rusher and the run defense will be tested again on a short week against James Conner.
Absence of a Deep Threat Receiver Remains a Concern
The lack of big passing plays has been a concern this season, and outside of Mark Andrews, that continues to be the case.
"Contrast that with the Ravens' top two wide receivers: Marquise Brown went without a catch on three targets, and Willie Snead had three catches for 23 yards," Smolka wrote. "The leading wide receiver for the Ravens in this game was Dez Bryant, who had an expanded role in his second game as a Raven and finished with four catches for 28 yards.
"The Ravens' passing game has many issues right now, but among them is the fact that the wide receivers are not making enough impact."
"The outside vertical passing game does not exist," CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora wrote. "Over the middle, where they do their best work, it's all Andrews or Snead."
Andrews had one of his best games of the season. He finished with five catches for 96 yards and a 31-yard touchdown, but was the only pass catcher to provide any big plays.
Tennessee was allowing the fifth-most passing yards per game (277.4) and was without its top pass rusher in Jadaveon Clowney.
"Brown's midseason slide continued against the Titans and bottomed out, as he failed to catch any of his three targets," Platko wrote. "Brown was targeted on a would-be first down early in the first quarter but dropped the pass despite being wide open.
"Since catching six passes for 77 yards and a touchdown against the Bengals on October 11, Brown has a total of 10 receptions and 112 yards over the past five games. This simply won't cut it for a supposed-to-be WR1, let alone any starting receiver. 'Hollywood' has more talent and potential than any other wideout on the roster, but it's clearly not clicking."
WR1, WR2 for the Titans:
Davis 5-113
Brown 4-62, would-not-be-denied TD
WR1, WR2 for the Ravens:
Brown 0-0
Snead 3-23
— Bo Smolka (@bsmolka) November 22, 2020
Yannick Ngakoue Makes His Presence Felt
One of the defensive standouts in the eyes of pundits was a player the Ravens acquired before the trade deadline.
Yannick Ngakoue finished with two tackles and a sack-strip in his strongest game since coming to Baltimore.
"Tennessee did a better job in the second half, frequently stationing a running back in Ngakoue's path to impede his progress after he beat the initial block," Walker wrote. "But if he commands that level of attention, he'll free up the Ravens' other pass rushers, especially after Campbell returns from a calf strain.
"The guy we saw in the first half was the difference-maker the Ravens sought when they acquired Ngakoue from the Minnesota Vikings. A few more strip sacks from him could loom large in what's shaping up as a tense playoff race."
It's encouraging for a defense that's struggled to generate pass rush at times this season. The front office traded for Ngakoue with the hope he'd provide a game-changing impact and Sunday showed that potential.
In case you missed it, check out the tribute to Mo Gaba and the legacy he left for Baltimore sports.
Mo Gaba, who battled cancer and was blind, became part of the fabric in the Baltimore sports community and made a lasting impact on the Ravens.
Mo died on July 28, 2020, but his legacy continues to carry on. pic.twitter.com/5y1g6G0XDf
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) November 22, 2020
Baltimore’s @OfficialShon_4 is playing in the wrong era. He should have been standing across from me, Troy, Ike, Pot Dawg and next to Ed, Ray, T Sizzle because he fit our style, our mindset. Dude brings it every snap and never makes a business decision. Love it bruh!
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) November 23, 2020
They don't have a WR1. They haven't for a while. So I really don't obsess over who is the No.1, the No.2, the No.3. Brown's lack of impact has been one of the season's biggest disappointments.
— Jeff Zrebiec (@jeffzrebiec) November 23, 2020
🙏🏾 https://t.co/D7C21FGppt
— Lamar Jackson (@Lj_era8) November 23, 2020
#Titans WR A.J. Brown after the OT win: "(The #Ravens) kind of set the bar real high when we came in. The coaches -- not even the players -- the coaches came at us, so it was like, 'We see what type of game it is.' It was going to be a big-boy fight." pic.twitter.com/QyHoT5qHDQ
— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) November 22, 2020
Ravens lose: 3 personnel problems sticking out (via @footballman58) #TENvsBAL #Ravens #RavensFlock https://t.co/awVHUMHHGf
— Ebony Bird (@Ebony_Bird) November 23, 2020
Ravens vs. Titans final score recap: Top stars, quotes, and more https://t.co/a3yqdaaHbb
— The Ravens Wire (@TheRavensWire) November 22, 2020
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Home » 2019 Election , Atiku Abubakar , Bukola Saraki , Nigeria Decide 2019 , PDP » Kwara ACPN suspends national chairman, adopts Atiku, Saraki, Atunwa
Kwara ACPN suspends national chairman, adopts Atiku, Saraki, Atunwa
BetaNaijaBlogFebruary 21, 2019 No comments
ILORIN— Kwara State chapter of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN, has dissociated itself from the adoption of President Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate, saying it has suspended its national chairman, Alhaji Ganiyu Galadima..
The ACPN chairman in the state, Kuti Kayode, announced the suspension of Galadima at a news conference in Ilorin. Kuti claimed that the national chairman of the party took unilateral decision in adopting Buhari of All Progressives Congress, APC, as the official presidential candidate of their party.
He also announced the decision of ACPN members in the state to pitch their tent with Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forthcoming general election.
He said: “The Kwara State chapter, which is the stronghold of ACPN in the country, has decided to pitch its tent with Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. We adopt the presidential candidate of PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; Razak Atunwa as Kwara State governor; Dr Bukola Saraki as Senator representing Kwara Central and all other PDP candidates in the state.
“Furthermore, our candidates are willing to work with the PDP candidates across the board. We have held meetings with our members across the 16 local government areas of the state and they are on the same page with us in our decision to adopt all PDP candidates for elective offices in the general election.“
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Water From the Rock
1 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
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And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
At the LORD ’s command, the whole community of Israel left the wilderness of Sin and moved from place to place. Eventually they camped at Rephidim, but there was no water there for the people to drink.
What does Exodus 17:1 mean?
And all the congregation of the children of Israel
journeyed from the wilderness of Sin
Where they had stayed some time, at least a week, as it should seem, from the gathering the manna there six days, and resting on the seventh:
after their journeys:
first from the wilderness of Sin to Dophkah, and from Dophkah to Alusb, and from Alush to Rephidim, as appears from ( Numbers 33:12-14 ) their two stations at Dophkah and Alush are here omitted, nothing very remarkable or of any moment happening at either place:
according to the commandment;
or "mouth of the Lord" F4, who, either with an articulate voice out of the cloud, ordered when they should march, and where they should encamp; or else this was signified by the motion or rest of the pillar of cloud or fire, which always went before them, in which the Lord was:
and pitched in Rephidim;
which was a place on the western side of Mount Sinai: according to Bunting F5, Dophkah was twelve miles from the wilderness of Sin, and Alush twelve miles from Dophkah, and Rephidim eight miles from Alush: and Jerom says F6, according to the propriety of the Syriac language, it signifies a remission of hands: and to which the Targum of Jonathan seems to have respect, adding,
``the place where their hands ceased from the precepts of the law, wherefore the fountains were dried up;''
and it follows:
and there was no water for the people to drink;
being a sandy desert place.
F4 (yp le) "super ore", Montanus, "ad os", Vatablus.
F5 Travels, p. 82.
F6 Epist. ad Fabiolam de 42 mansion. tom. 3. fol. 15. B.
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Charts tracking the price of bitcoin dominate six buzzing monitors in the third floor office of a rotting, centuries-old tower block in the heart of Kiev. A pattern emerges among the shifting forms and shapes, and Brian – a 33-year-old trader who asks we use only his first name – reacts swiftly, punching his extemporaneous analysis into a chatbox on the messenger app Telegram. He has identified the distinctive downward twist of a “falling wedge formation.” To those in the know, that means: The price is going down at a diminishing rate, and should presently head moooooonwards.
A succinct bulletin summarizing this prognosis flashes on the cellphone screens of the roughly 300 traders in Brian’s VIP-only cryptocurrency trading group, “WhaleTank.” Each of these members is paying big bucks to hear Brian’s informed, round-the-clock insights and – quite literally – follow his every move. For the knockout price of 0.1 percent of a bitcoin per month (roughly $90, at time of writing), WhaleTank’s members are able to program their algorithm-enhanced “trading bots” to copy Brian’s trades, riding in the slipstream of each rollicking Fibonacci curve. He is the rising tide that lifts all boats … or, if he messes up, the whirlpool that pulls them under.
Mercifully, he is a “very good trader,” says one follower known only as “Adrenalin.”
Brian belongs to an underground, largely anonymous collective of high-octane cryptocurrency traders who seek their fortunes in the scantily regulated – and heavily manipulated – crypto markets. While large funds dominate the broader sweeps in bitcoin’s price, thousands, if not millions, of traders exist at the fringes, working from Miami beach townhouses, grim Glaswegian bedsits, tricked-out studios in Kiev, a world apart from Wall Street. Instead of holding the asset long-term and praying for a windfall, they trade the twists and turns, profiting when it goes up and profiting when it goes down. If you’re a talented trader, why bother with an investment bank or a hedge fund or even a crypto hedge fund, when you can trade 100X leverage (read: very dangerous) on BitMEX, and get all of your trading tips from Discord?
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The normal rules do not apply in the world of cryptocurrency. In the stock market, traders make predictions by peering into “fundamentals,” the reality behind a company’s valuation. They can check the news, call up the CEO, sleep with the intern. You can’t do that with bitcoin, or the embarrassingly unregulated “altcoin” markets, where useless money-grabs with names like “morguecoin” are minted ad infinitum. The controversial belief among many traders is that price movements in these markets rarely conceal a deeper reality – they reveal only the frantic movements of the traders themselves.
“Nobody can look at the P and L of ‘The Bitcoin Company’”, says Scott Melker, a 43-year-old DJ turned trader who goes by the name “Wolf of all Streets” on Twitter, where he has more than 70,000 followers. Cryptocurrencies go up and down because people buy them and sell them, he says. And why do people buy them and sell them? Because other people buy them and sell them. “It’s the ultimate self-fulfilling prophecy,” he says.
Reduced to raw numerical data, that wild rondelay of buying and selling begins to form predictable patterns, which can be understood through “technical analysis” – or TA, the practice of reading charts. Melker is an avid fan: every evening, after a day of comparatively normal life – doing the rounds on the cryptocurrency conference circuit (now largely relegated to Zoom), writing newsletter entries, shitposting on Twitter, relaxing with his children – he will pull up a chart on his computer and begin to search for patterns, specifically those which alert him to the “visitation of human emotions on traders – where are they going to be greedy, where the smart money is going to prey on their fear.” It could be any old coin, he doesn’t care. “They could be curing cancer or I could be trading stuff that could be giving cigarettes to children in Africa,” he laughs. “I wouldn’t know.”
Traders exist at the fringes, working from Miami beach townhouses, grim Glaswegian bedsits, tricked-out studios in Kiev, a world apart from Wall Street.
He’ll look through Discord, Twitter, Reddit, hunting for signals. If you’ve spent time on “Crypto Twitter,” you’ll have seen the sort of stuff he trawls through each day. Frenetically superimposed scrawlings on charts bearing names that sound like military tactics: “moving wedge formation,” “double top,” “cup and handle formation.” Maybe the odd parody formation, like “vomiting camel.”
When he spies an opportunity – let’s say “Thorecoin” is eyeing a bullish increase past its $0.00034 support price – he’ll plan a trade and set an alarm. Sometimes he’ll take a chart’s predictions at face value, if he trusts the source. But he’s not normally one for the astrological stuff. (“The pattern doesn’t work because it’s the ‘natural flow of nature,’” he says. “Those patterns work because everyone is watching them.”) Most likely, he’ll engage in a sort of meta-play: making predictions based on the credulity of those who do believe TA speaks to some sort of ineffable cosmic principle. If everyone’s watching the same line on a chart, he says, “it becomes a thing, and the price breaks out, and you go, ‘Oh my God! Technical analysis works so well.”
The “Vomiting Camel” parody by Katie Martin, The Financial Times
If he’s lucky, he’ll then cash out — in USD.
“My interest isn’t to have tens of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin,” says Melker, who believes in the technology’s promise but is hardly an evangelist. “I have to sell my bitcoins for actual dollars. A lot of people think they’re professional traders but they’re not taking profits in dollars. The most essential part of being a trader is, you have to ring the cash register, you know?”
Melker, trading only ten minutes a day as he does, lives life a little more fully than certain other traders. Consider the case of “Young Tilopa,” a pseudonymous trader based in Glasgow, who, every day, rises at 7 a.m., showers, walks his dog, slams down a coffee, pulls up an app called “Sierra Charts” and proceeds to gaze unblinkingly at charts for pretty much the rest of the day, doing very little else. Most of the charts are black or dull grey, streaked through with wild white zig-zags that pulse arrhythmically, like blips on a heartbeat monitor.
“It’s kind of a lame profession,” he says, noting that many of his fellow traders are single, fairly lonely males in their twenties and thirties. (Many of them are students enrolled in his trading course, one of his few respites from … trading.) Traders are often super smart and razor sharp, he says, but in that tragicomic internet way – their jokes belie the essential bleakness of their lives. “Essentially, you’re an independent trader sitting in your room all day, staring at charts, and sometimes you think, ‘What the f— am I doing?’” he says. “It’s sometimes meaningless – you’re not interacting with anyone.” (COVID-19, as you can imagine, has not made much of a difference.)
Named after an 11th century Buddhist monk, Tilopa takes a singularly Zen-like approach to trading. He analyses “technical events,” market shifts determined by idiosyncrasies in trading platforms (that is, exchanges). Unlike other traders he doesn’t merely predict: He seeks to understand “market microstructure, how the market moves,” he says. The atomic, subatomic order of things. Suppose you’re trying to figure out whether a car will stall: it’s the difference between observing the actions of the driver – a flashing indicator; a rightward pull on the wheel; a foot on the accelerator – and checking the engine.
From a promotional video for Young Tilopa’s trading course.
For years, Tilopa did exactly that, inhaling volumes of academic papers on market dynamics. One of his favorite “technical events” to exploit involves a “stop loss.” When a trader activates a stop loss, he is effectively saying to the exchange, “Hey, if the price dips below X, sell all my holdings! I’d sure prefer to not be wiped out if the market craters!” It is a purely technical thing – a command to an algorithm. But the use of stop-losses, says Tilopa, betrays a certain amount of greed: in a time of cautious optimism, traders hungry for profits will edge their stop-losses lower and lower, as if playing chicken with themselves…and then, if it’s their unlucky day and the markets lurch into freefall, the stop-losses will trigger and their worldly assets will be sold off.
Whereas Tilopa merely surfs the riptides churned up in the wake of these movements, “whales” lurk in the deep, making tremors. They are immensely wealthy, capricious, and anonymous. They have accrued such a large share of the market that they can effectively bend it to their will. Word is, many of them exist in a criminal underworld, and use a dollar-denominated cryptocurrency called “Tether” because they cannot access real dollars. And they prey on the weak. Spying a large gathering of stop-losses, for instance, a whale may deliberately crash the market below the stop-losses’ threshold – profiting from the ensuing rout. This move is known as the “stop-loss hunt.” Predatory indeed.
With whales at large, traders are advised to remain vigil. Joe McCann, a Microsoft strategist who moonlights as a cryptocurrency trader, knows that letting his guard down could cost him. By way of defense, he has designed and coded a labyrinthine, fully automated risk management system, which “monitors my positions off-exchange,” he says. “If my account ever gets blown up, then it’s 100% my fault.”
I met my trading master in a forum in 2016. I never knew his name. And in 2017, he simply did not reconnect to the chat.
In cryptocurrency trading more generally, discipline is key. “The best way to know what techniques to use is to patiently study your character, emotions and ways of thinking,” says the Venezuela-based Luis J. Sarmiento, the 23-year-old co-founder of AltSignals, a Telegram trading group which charges $107 per month to its over 40,000 members. Sarmiento claims to have generated profits of 529 percent since early 2018, and learned The Way from an old hand who, once training was over, simply vanished into thin air, like Yoda. (“I met my trading master in a forum in 2016,” he said. “I never knew his name. And in 2017, he simply did not reconnect to the chat.”)
For the few who are sufficiently disciplined/lucky – an increasingly small number of people, as traders point out – the sheer weirdness of the cryptocurrency markets can also make for a thrilling, if financially lethal, day-to-day. Traders speak especially fondly of what they call “crypto native” opportunities, trades that would be impossible in the mainstream financial markets. McCann, for instance, is intrigued by cryptocurrency-based “flash loans” which are instantly originated and repaid. A confident enough trader can conceivably take one out, trade it to profit, then immediately pay it back with no loss incurred. Such a thing is inconceivable in the mainstream financial markets.
Picture it: You borrow, say, $1 million from Wells Fargo. You blow it all on the stock market and then, somehow – in the space of mere milliseconds – you’re able to generate enough money to pay it all back, and keep a massive surplus. Impossible. Yet, in crypto, a trader actually pulled this off, sucking $350,000 from decentralized exchange “BZX,” in a matter of seconds. The wildest part? Had the trade fallen flat, the loan would have never happened. The blockchain just … wouldn’t have recorded it.
Joe McCann (Credit: Joe McCann)
“There’s really no real world analogue” to flash loans, notes Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures. “Which is maybe why people are so fascinated by them.”
While cryptocurrency trading is a risky business, to some it’s simply … business. Clad in a crisp, white shirt and creaseless trousers, Brian rocks up to a literal office every day, in Kiev. Working around the clock with his fleet of analysts, he makes use of complicated statistical models built up from a variety of sources: historical data, arcane predictive “indicators,” tabs kept on rival traders. (Even second-rate traders can offer valuable “counter-signals,” he says. “Those who want to be as accurate as possible must take every single factor into account, and analyze every single indicator.”)
The walls of the office are yellowing and worn; a six-screened, 3.60 gigahertz hydra of a computer stares the traders down, flashing with to-the-nanosecond updates. Harvesting as much raw data as exists on this material plane is Brian’s secret sauce, and he boasts of an astonishing prediction rate, of well over 90 percent. “Our price predictions are not only correct, but accurate to the dollar,” he says. His analysis “goes much deeper than your everyday trader – we go way back in time into the chart, years, decades.”
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The highs are high, the lows are low. Brian recalls a bumper week in which he turned $15,000 worth of Bitcoin into $60,000. “I nailed every single trade that week,” he recalls. (Although, he adds, he “managed to lose it all months after.”)
Sometimes it doesn’t quite pan out. Once he let $200,000 shrink to $30,000 in a matter of days, although this, he explains, was well before bitcoin’s legendary hockey-stick swerve to $20,000 in 2017, when people mostly bought and held the asset. That left them at the mercy of market forces, he says. “We were just holding Bitcoin as believers – I wasn’t as immune as I am today.” (Although the record shows that people were doing bitcoin technical analysis at least as early as 2011.)
Now, Brian plays the market – obsessively. Although he is operating his business at an 100 percent loss (roughly $10,000 a month in revenue, $20,000 in expenses, much of it on marketing), he trades as close to 24/7 as humanly possible. Passion propels him – and unlike in traditional stocks, the markets never close. “To get such good results, you must be in love with the asset and follow it through 24/7,” he says. “Bitcoin is something many have fallen in love with, and they open the bitcoin chart every 10 minutes. You won’t ever see something like that with the traditional stocks.”
Currently, Brian is working on an uber complex trade relating to the breathlessly anticipated May 11 “halving” event. That event, which will see the supply of new Bitcoin’s precipitously drop, is expected (well, hoped) to cause a huge surge in demand, and a long-term price boost thereafter. Believers support their conviction by drawing on elaborate theories of supply and demand, and point out that similar rallies have followed previous halvings. And it’s looking pretty hopeful: Bitcoin’s price has been climbing steadily over the past few days, as if excitement is steadily mounting…
Scott Melker, aka the Wolf Of All Streets, who also works as a DJ (Credit: Scott Melker)
Brian, regrettably, has looked at the charts and arrived at a very different conclusion. It’ll probably be a case of “buy the rumor, sell the news,” he imagines: a brief, self-fulfilling frenzy – caused by people buying into what they think will be a fundamentals-driven rally – followed by a quick plummet as the winners cash out. Not only does the data on previous halvings support this, he says (at 3 a.m. on a Wednesday), but the patterns on the charts tracking Bitcoin’s current, prodigious rise don’t bode well either.
He delivers to me his jargon-larded, fully incomprehensible prognosis. “I got bearish divergences on 4H charts, overbought on the 1D chart … And the ichimoku cloud is only going to give us that bullish cross once the price corrects itself, and it breaks out of the cloud … Therefore I can say we are to correct ourselves, most likely to 0.3fib…”
To translate: Brian is referring to two different timeframes on the chart, one which staggers the price movements into four-hour batches (4H) and another which staggers them into one-day batches (1D). Each of these timeframes gives a different sense of the trajectory: The 4H timeframe displays a “bearish divergence,” evidence that the price rally isn’t going as well as expected, and could be in for a prompt “reversal.” The 1D timeframe signals that the rate at which the price is increasing is actually too fast compared with historically successful rallies. That’s what “overbought” means: a surfeit of people have bought in, and the uptick may not last long.
After parsing these signals, Brian plotted the two lines together and colored in the shape subsequently formed. If the price trends below that shape – known as the “Ichimoku cloud,” after the Japanese journalist who invented it in the 1930s – he expects any emerging “bullish” trend to be short-lived. Which, unfortunately, is the case now. But crucially, he also has a hunch that for this halving, the fundamentals are stronger than usual – that is, the real-life changes behind the price movements are tangible enough that mere chart-reading could be insufficient. For once, Bitcoin is subject to a readily visible, quantifiable change in its supply. That has caused Brian’s predictions to falter more often than usual in the past few weeks, implying external forces are at play.
This all goes to show how TA is far from infallible. Traders acknowledge the discipline is better understood as a “risk management tool,” a way to avert the more dramatic losses. And treating chart-reading as an exact science, in general, is controversial. “Hard” scientists stress an epistemic distinction between the financial models that crypto traders employ and those employed by physicists or chemists. That latter group build predictions based on carefully controlled models intended to approximate the structure of reality. TA advocates, by contrast, can only use “pure induction,” assumptions based on past trends whose future results cannot be guaranteed: Just because a well-placed Golden Cross formation resulted in an “upside rally” the last twelve times doesn’t mean it’ll happen again.
It’s like driving your car “using only the rear-view mirror,” as one person put it on Reddit.
Writer and former options trader Nassem Taleb, in his book “Fooled by Randomness,” argued that people who use TA are in thrall to the vicious, circular logic of “survivorship bias”: they declare it useful because it works for them. And those for whom it doesn’t work? They’re not doing it properly! Alas, it comes as a mighty shock when they, too, wind up destitute. Writes Taleb, “Option sellers, it is said, eat like chickens and go to the bathroom like elephants” – tiny gains, immense, ruinous losses. Similarly, Brian notes the prevalence of “confirmation bias” among traders. “It’s easy to find both bearish and bullish signals in the charts, and traders often choose whichever aligns with their emotions,” he says.
Worse, through the very process of trading, crypto traders often end up disrupting the very systems they are trying to observe. Their own interventions — unlike those of scientists – can’t be controlled, and they ripple out into a chaotic system that responds to the very act of trying to predict them. How can you predict a thing that’s being manipulated before your very eyes?
These are criticisms that largely ricochet off the thick skins of cryptocurrency traders; indeed, there is a broad recognition that although these diagnoses are legitimate, they are hardly terminal. As with much in the cryptocurrency world, the very elements of cryptocurrency trading that make it so attractive to speculators – wild volatility, theoretically unsound underlying principles — also make it attractive to the ethically challenged. Melker gives an example of a particular fraud he’s observed, endemic to paid Telegram groups. “There are players who literally draw the charts with their orders,” he says. “A [Telegram group] leader would be like, ‘I’m watching this coin, it’s about to break out. And then it breaks out – because he bought it.”
“It’s guaranteed money, every single time.”
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Two years after shootings, recovery continues for Quebec City’s Muslims
QUEBEC — Almost two years after being hit by seven bullets in Quebec City’s biggest mosque, Aymen Derbali says the nightmares have finally stopped.
The 42-year-old was one of more than 50 people attending evening prayers when a shooter opened fire on Jan 29, 2017, killing six people and wounding several others including Derbali. He was left paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair to get around.
After a long and painful recovery, Derbali said he’s now in a better place.
Last summer, he was able to move out of the rehabilitation centre where he’d lived since the shooting and into a new wheelchair-accessible home that was bought for him after a fundraising campaign raised more than $400,000.
While his own plans are unsure, he said he is grateful for the support he has received, and grateful he’ll be able to watch his three children grow up.
“My future is for them now,” he said in a recent interview.
The mosque shooting claimed the lives of six men: Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42, Abdelkrim Hassane, 41, Khaled Belkacemi, 60, Aboubaker Thabti, 44, Azzeddine Soufiane, 57, and Ibrahima Barry, 39.
Alexandre Bissonnette pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder last March.
For Said Akjour, who was shot in the shoulder, recovery has been a slow process.
He remembers everything: crouching in an alcove with his “brothers,” watching Derbali get shot, the bullet that pierced his own left shoulder “like an arrow,” and the fear in the eyes of the responding police officers.
“There were many bullets, and time was like an eternity, even if it’s only two minutes,” he said.
Akjour had to undergo a year of physiotherapy, and his arm still bothers him sometimes as he carries out physical tasks at the seniors’ care facility where he has returned to work part-time.
He has also struggled with feelings of shame, helplessness and guilt.
“Why didn’t I do more?” he said. “It was a feeling that was present. It was changing between gratitude at being alive, but at the same time, brothers were dead.”
Akjour, 46, said his recovery was made easier by writing Arabic poetry and by the solidarity he felt from colleagues, family, and the public.
He briefly considered moving to Ontario, but decided to stay, in part because he feels it’s his responsibility to talk about what happened. “In 10 years, will there be (the victims’ children) coming to ask me about how their father died?” he said. “I will be here to pass on memories.”
Mohamed Yangui, a former president of the mosque, is worried about the message broader society is sending to Muslims.
He feels let down by the new provincial government’s plan to ban religious face coverings for public servants in positions of authority, which he said targets Muslim women. And he is troubled by the rise of right-wing, anti-immigrant sentiment.
“We haven’t yet found a way of bringing together people who have lived here 20 years with those who have lived here 50 years, or two centuries,” he said.
After guiding the mosque through the tumultuous year following the shooting, he said he’s too tired and sad to go back to a place that is haunted by painful memories.
Another former president of the mosque is hopeful things are slowly “returning to normal” at the Islamic Cultural Centre.
The bullet holes in the wall remain, and some people are still fearful no matter how many new security measures are brought in. But Mohamed Labidi said hateful incidents directed at the mosque have declined significantly in the last year, and the community continues to receive messages of solidarity from across Canada and the world.
“It’s still a trauma for the community, and there are people who have been weakened,” he said in an interview at the mosque. “But there is a big dose of resilience in our lives, in our principles. It is a fundamental part of our religion.”
Labidi said the Feb. 8 sentencing of Bissonnette will be an important moment in the community’s recovery. The killer faces a potential prison term of 150 years before being eligible for parole if a judge decides the six life sentences should be served consecutively.
Labidi said the community is “waiting for justice” and is “almost unanimous” in believing that a 25-year sentence would not be enough, considering six lives were taken. “Each life is important,” he said.
Labidi said the mosque is slowly moving from a recovery phase towards creating a legacy for the victims. The rooms in the building are being renamed, one for each of the six men who died.
And the administration has worked with the city on a new, more permanent memorial to be announced in the coming days. It has also spoken out in support of the province’s new long-gun registry and called for stronger background checks for those seeking gun permits.
Some of the other victims’ loved ones have begun initiatives of their own. The Quebec Guinean Association began a fundraising campaign to dig wells in the African hometown of the two Guinean victims, Mamadou Tanou Barry and Ibrahima Barry, according to association member Souleymane Bah. So far, the $36,000 project is about half funded.
And Labidi said the mosque is still committed to outreach, both hosting and attending events designed to build bridges with other communities.
“Everything we do is to show that from this bad, we will germinate good,” he said, “not just for us but for all of society, for Quebec and for Canada.”
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Jamie Dornan's special Christmas message as he urges donations for NI charity close to his heart
The 50 Shades of Grey star lost his mother Lorna Dornan to the disease when he was just 16
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As patron of the Northern Ireland Pancreatic Cancer Society (NIPanc) the Co Down native has urged the public to dig deep if they can and support the charity.
The 50 Shades of Grey star lost his mother Lorna Dornan to the disease when he was just 16.
Speaking in the video, he said: "This year NIPanc which is the Northern Irish Pancreatic Cancer charity of which I am a patron are running a draw for a quilt of hope.
"The quilt is a real quilt which has been made by seamstresses in Northern Ireland, it is a beautiful thing and I will have signed it. There is a link here at the bottom of this video where you can donate to help find a cure for this awful illness that is very close to my heart for tragic reasons.
"I will also try and arrange a zoom call with the winner of the draw so please click on the link below and donate to help us out. Merry Christmas."
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Speaking previously about his mother's tragic death, he said: "It's immeasurable, really, I don't really know how to quantify it.
"It kinda of feels like a bit of a blur now when I think back.
"It has a lasting impact that affects me daily in a way that I probably don't even know. Especially now having kids myself, we talk about my mum a lot so that her name and her spirit is kept alive."
Reflecting on becoming a patron for the charity, he told the Phil Reynolds Lockdown podcast: “I wanted to put my name into something that had a personal impact on my life and NIPANC was just that, it’s raising awareness of pancreatic cancer in Northern Ireland and beyond and I lost my mother when I was 16 to pancreatic cancer.
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"It is one of those cancers sadly that is very hard to treat but it’s getting better with the likes of NIPanC and other cancer charities it’s getting more awareness and giving some more hope but the death rate with it is unacceptably high.”
He added: “Whatever I can do to help that and spread the word I will do. Losing mum was something that had an unimaginable effect on my family so to be able to stand side-by-side with dad and be proud of the fact that we are raising the profile of people knowing about this illness. It’s sort of a lovely thing but it’s sort of a bittersweet thing, the circumstances that bring us to this point but it’s still a nice thing to be able to do with my dad.”
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Michael Jordan: The $1 Billion Man
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He's been retired for a decade now, but Michael Jordan is once again in the headlines.
According to Forbes, Jordan has become the first athlete in history to be worth at least $1 billion.
"Jordan is in a league of his own," Darren Heitner, founder of the Sports Agent Blog, told Benzinga. "He had the requisite patience and foresight to structure deals that certainly paid well at and around the time there were executed, but also contained provisions that ensured him money for years after retirement."
Jordan's annual earnings total about $90 million. and Forbes reports it was Jordan's increased stake in the Charlotte Hornets -- a franchise he has held at least a partial stake in since 2006 -- that put him over the edge. He became controlling owner in 2010.
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Forbes' Mike Ozanian said sources familiar with the Hornets told him Jordan has increased his stake in the basketball team from 80 percent to 89.5 percent over the past several months.
"Our net worth figure for Jordan uses the $600 million figure," wrote Ozanian. "The Hornets have $135 million of debt, which makes Jordan’s equity in the team worth $416 million. After subtracting all the cash Jordan has invested in the team, we estimate his net worth outside of the Hornets to be $600 million."
Heitner said that increased stake is just one of multiple revenue sources for Jordan.
The Jordan Brand
The six-time NBA Champion earned a total of $94 million during his 15-year playing career. He was the first NBA player to earn $30 million in one season (1997-1998), his last with the Chicago Bulls. He also starred in a brief comeback attempt from 2001-2003, with the Washington Wizards.
Any basketball fan or television viewer can attest that Jordan's reach has gone far beyond the court. As Heitner said, "Jordan ensured that his brand was incorporated in many of his deals and continues to receive royalties based on same."
Since his arrival in the league in 1984, Jordan has become the prototype for marketing athletes. Nike's (NYSE: NKE) Air Jordan brand is perhaps the most popular shoe line of all time. The shoe broke barriers on the court and the bank: in 2006, while in retirement, the Air Jordan brand earned $500 million in sales and finished the year with record profits and sales.
Nike released the 28th shoe in the Jordan franchise in 2013, at a retail price of $250. The company continues to release retro versions of the franchise with an average selling price of $130 to $150.
Over the years, Jordan has been enormously successful pitchman for Gatorade, Ball Park Franks and McDonald's. More recently, Jordan can been seen with his long-time endorsement partner, Hanes.
Who Will Join Him?
LeBron James, who already has more on-court earnings than Jordan did, may be the next player to join the list. James reportedly earned $30 million "in cash and stock in the Beats sale after he had struck a deal to get a small stake in the company at its inception in 2008 in exchange for promoting its high-end headphones."
James earned over $19 million for the 2013-2014 season and is set to make at least $20 million the next two seasons.
"A comparison can be made to LeBron James," said Heitner. "Compensation elements in contracts are not just about 'pay me now' clauses, but can be even more rewarding if the athletes believe in the companies and take an equity interest in them."
Cristiano Ronaldo, Tiger Woods and Floyd Mayweather -- just named the highest-earning athlete in the world ($105 million) -- could also, one day, reach that billion-dollar plateau. However, the business successes of Jordan and Magic Johnson may also lead star players to start thinking about life after retirement sooner than later.
"I am positive that other former players will continue to seek an ownership interest in professional sports franchises," stated Heitner. "It can be a lucrative venture and keeps them attached to the games they love."
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Exceptionalism and Necropolitical Security Dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Author: Margit Ystaneshttp://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8376-4748 1 and Tomas Salemhttp://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6270-8811 2
1 Volda University College, Norway margit.ystanes@hivolda.no
2 University of Bergen, Norway tomas.salem@uib.no
Brazil; gender; Olympics; racialization; security
For more than a decade, urban development in Rio de Janeiro was driven by the urgency of preparations for mega-events such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. During these years, Brazilian authorities used the mega-events to create a state of exception that legitimized a broad range of state security interventions across the city. While Brazilian authorities presented the events as an opportunity to create a modern, dynamic, and socially inclusive city, this special section argues that the security interventions implemented in Rio during the years of Olympic exceptionalism intensified racialized and gendered inequalities and reproduced historical patterns of necropolitical governance that has sought to render black life in Brazil impossible.
Mega-events and Securitization during the Pink Tide in Brazil
When thinking back to the period when Rio de Janeiro prepared to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, international audiences may remember images of military police invading favelas and the demolition of favela homes to make space for the Olympic infrastructure. The news stories coming out of Rio's favelas during this period alerted many to the underbelly of mega-event hosting but, simultaneously, often came cloaked in a narrative about security, urban development, expanding citizenship, and social inclusion. For countless favela residents, however, these interventions reasserted old patterns of authoritarian state governance toward their communities. Favelas are self-built neighborhoods that play an important role in the social, cultural, and economic development of Brazilian society yet are excluded and underserved by authorities in numerous ways.1 Throughout history, political elites have considered these neighborhoods locations of immorality, crime, and disease and a threat to public security and health (Chalhoub 1993; Garmany and Richmond 2019; Magalhães 2019; Valladares 2000). Therefore, urban planning and public security efforts in Rio have frequently involved repressive interventions that aim to expulse favela residents, control their movement in the city, or render their life conditions altogether impossible.
The normalization of death in the favelas and the pervasiveness and intensity of racialized state violence toward favela residents have engendered scholarship that critically examines the postcolonial dynamics of favela-state relations in Rio and other Brazilian urban centers. Often, these employ Achille Mbembe's (2003) necropolitical framework to account for how the favelas are governed through a politics of death (see, e.g., J. Alves 2018; F. Cardoso 2018; Saborío Rodríguez 2018; see also Salem and Bertelsen; Ystanes and Magalhães, this issue). According to these authors, the urban landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and other big Brazilian cities have historically been shaped by the literal and figurative destruction of Afro-Brazilians and their cultural expressions, and their expulsion to the urban margins. As necropolitical formations then, Brazilian cities are characteristically anti-black (J. Alves 2018; see also Nascimento 1989, [1978] 2016; Rocha 2012; Vargas 2012b).
Like past interventions, the state policies implemented in the favelas in the years leading up to the Olympics decimated many favela residents’ sense of security and belonging. They were exposed to the militarization of their neighborhoods, racialized and gendered police violence and death at police hands, clashes between police and traffickers, racial profiling, and a favela removal policy that violently expulsed residents from their homes (CPCORJ 2015; Silva 2012; Vargas 2013). In response, many favela residents organized and engaged in forms of activism defending their right to exist in the city (Magalhães 2019; Ystanes 2018).
While Rio prepared to host the mega-events, the left-leaning Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party—PT) governed the country through successive election periods from 2003 to 2016. It is noteworthy that federal authorities in the course of this period supported the local implementation of security interventions that to such a degree were based on the violent repression, control, and expulsion of the urban poor. This points to fundamental tensions in Brazilian society that were not resolved during the Brazilian pink tide.2 While the PT governments oversaw considerable efforts to reduce poverty and inequality among the population, their policies failed to challenge foundational inequities such as those produced by the concentration of landownership on a few hands, a taxation system favoring the wealthy and the influence of private corporate interests in state politics (Costa 2018; Gold and Zagato 2020; Saad-Filho and Morais 2018).
In 2018, after a tumultuous period marked by the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff (PT) on dubious grounds and the political imprisonment of former President Luiz Ignáco Lula da Silva (PT) as he ran for reelection, the Brazilian electorate voted the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro into office.3 This relatively sudden turn from a popular and lauded left-leaning government during the 2000s to a far-right president in the 2010s—elected on promises to overturn PT policies and restore traditional hierarchies of race, gender, and sexuality—was harrowing for many Brazilians. During the 2018 election campaign, activists on the left tried to counter the vitriolic rhetoric unleashed by Bolsonaro's campaign by promoting instead a politics based on “love” (amor) and “affection” (afeto).4 In these resistance narratives, opposition to discrimination based on gender, race, and sexuality constitute an important part of the framework.
The far right, on the other hand, opposed what they characterized as “gay propaganda” and “destruction of the Brazilian family,” and promoted the politicization of the national school curriculum on gender and sexuality with the aim of halting further change from below. Promising to reinforce social hierarchies that the left-leaning governments of Lula da Silva and Rousseff had started to weaken, Bolsonaro's election campaign rejected the use of quotas for Afro-Brazilians to reduce racial inequalities, announced new limitations to the rights of indigenous people to their ancestral lands, and created an atmosphere of impunity for police and radical right-wing violence.
While there were considerable concern and disbelief among left-leaning Brazilians that such a platform could gain sufficient support to win the presidency, the contributions to this special section show that hierarchies based on race and gender were shaping Brazilian politics also during the PT's tenure. They point to the foundational anti-blackness and patriarchy of the Brazilian state (J. Alves 2018; Vargas 2012b), expressed in the historical experiences with racialized and gendered security governance built on socially established political fears (Furedi 2006). Anxieties about social change, loss of privilege, and the erosion of hierarchies with roots in settler colonialism and slavery were at the heart of security interventions in Rio's pre-Olympic period.
The contributions to this special section explore the continuity between security policies implemented during Rio's mega-event period and historical articulations of racialized and necropolitical modes of governance in Brazil. This introduction offers a historical contextualization for the dynamics described in the individual articles and suggests that the security interventions implemented during the years of “Olympic exceptionalism” (Vainer 2011) in Rio must be understood in continuity with the periods that came before and after. This implies that we consider the Olympic exceptionalism to be a rhetoric applied by the authorities to legitimize contested interventions and undemocratic decision-making, rather than a clear rupture with former modes of governance. What connects different historical moments in this regard is the continuity of anti-black necropolitics as fundamental to the Brazilian state. Thus, we seek to challenge narratives that present the emergence of Bolsonaro as a radical break with a former, democratic state order. Instead, we suggest the recent turn to the right in Brazil should be interpreted as a weaponization of already existing discourses of security and an intensification of necropolitical modes of governance that have been active throughout Brazilian history. We contribute to critical urban security studies by emphasizing the importance of context sensitive analysis that attend to social and historical processes as they play out in concrete locations. When doing so, past and present concerns related to racialized and gendered hierarchization emerge as crucial elements for understanding securitization in Rio's mega-event moment. Hence, it is our intention to contribute to the understanding of how Rio's mega-event moment intensified necropolitical modes of governance, as well as to methodology and analytical frameworks in critical urban security studies.
The period that concerns us here spans roughly from 2007, when Rio was awarded the hosting rights to the 2014 FIFA World Cup, to the celebration of the Olympics and Paralympics in 2016. These years marked the final stage of a period when international mega-events such as the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, the 2007 Pan American Games, and the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and visit by Pope Francis profoundly influenced urban development in Rio de Janeiro. Events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics contributed to the deployment of public security interventions on an unprecedented scale. These were accompanied by monumental infrastructural and urban development projects. Importantly, the mega-events allowed authorities in Rio to govern through a state of exception (Agamben 2005) that made it possible for them to move political decision-making away from regular democratic processes, ruling instead through the management of emergencies. This means that persons whom local authorities considered experts, rather than elected representatives, were called on to make decisions (Vainer 2011; Ystanes and Magalhães, this issue). As the contributions to this special section show, these processes mirror historical states of exception in Brazil's recent past, and reinforced the colonial legacy of racialized and gendered hierarchies in the present moment.
Brazil's Contested Racial Hierarchy
The entanglements between urban development and public security that took place during the years of Olympic exceptionalism in Rio targeted the favelas and their populations. These interventions illuminate political fears and tensions, as well as the racialized and gendered configuration of Brazilian social hierarchies. Thus, we analyze a broad range of racialized and gendered state practices associated with the mega-events, including policing practices, forced evictions, and demobilization of local activism, to explore how the governing classes conceptualize Brazilian society. In particular, we analyze how these processes speak about social hierarchies and processes of othering. Our work builds on a tradition of feminist and black Brazilian scholarship that critically examines how colonial legacies shape the contemporary Brazilian social order. Central to this tradition is the work of Brazilian intellectuals such as Abdias do Nascimento (1989, [19878] 2016) and Lélia Gonzalez (1988) who, inspired by the work of Frantz Fanon and other postcolonial scholars, forcefully reject the Brazilian myth of racial democracy often used to negate the existence of racism in Brazil. In their work, this myth is foundational for the ideology of white domination in the country. It acts to conceal, or to “camouflage” (Pauschinger, this issue), racism in Brazil through a discourse of miscegenation and assimilation (C. Cardoso 2014: 969; Nascimento [1978] 2016).
Both Nascimento and Gonzalez are especially critical to arguments that cast colonial projects as beneficial to the colonized, for example, through development. Rather, they argue that historical attempts to “whiten” the population through interracial relations, immigration policies, the assimilation and repression of Afro-Brazilian culture and religions, and the murderous violence and torture against black people in Brazil is part of a genocidal project that seeks to eradicate blackness from the modern Brazilian nation and render invisible its African cultural history. In this regard, Nascimento is particularly critical of the white left. Its exclusive emphasis on class struggle has failed to acknowledge the importance and pervasiveness of racial inequalities in Brazil and the Americas, which have kept Afro-Brazilians marginalized from a working class mainly composed of people of European immigrant descent.
More recent work on Brazilian racial dynamics includes work that critically explores the role of the state security forces in policing the country's racialized social order. We find the special issue on gendered anti-blackness that Jõao Costa Vargas (2012a) edited for Cultural Dynamics to be of particular relevance for our purposes here. The issue explored “the imminently corrupt character of the dominant Brazilian social and ideological project,” and critiqued how the predominance of Eurocentric, white, and privileged perspectives in Brazilian academic research has contributed to the concealment of racialized hierarchization (Vargas 2012b: 3). Some years later, one of the authors in the special issue, Jaime Amparo Alves (2018), followed up this work with The Anti-Black City. Alves's book is an ethnographic account of police terror and black urban life in São Paulo that draws actively on Mbembe's (2003) postcolonial framework to show how the Brazilian metropolis is imagined in a way that is fundamentally hostile to black life. Both Vargas’ and Alves’ work have informed our understanding of how racial and gender relations are produced through and are productive of urban security governance.
A Brief History of Necropolitical Governance in Brazil
Since colonial times, Brazilian social dynamics have been shaped by a pervasive racialized social imaginary imposed by the elites, who considered white identity and culture synonymous with progress, civility and reason, and black and indigenous identity and culture as associated with darkness, danger, and emotions (Gonzalez 1988; Larkins 2017; Nascimento [1978] 2016; Oliveira Filho 2016; Salem and Bertelsen, this issue). Throughout history, the elites have engaged patriarchal male violence to repress the perceived threat from black and indigenous communities (Schwarcz 2019; Sørbøe, this issue). For centuries, this imaginary has legitimized state violence against groups racialized as black or nonwhite in the attempt to produce a white Brazilian modernity. Such genocidal violence has taken on many forms, ranging from pacification and slavery during colonial years to eugenic “whitening” projects in the imperial and republican periods; the successive “wars” on subversives, crime, and drugs; and the repression of black cultural expressions (Nascimento [1978] 2016).
After the arrival of the first Portuguese colonizers, one of the earliest configurations of racialized necropolitical governance can be observed in the settlers’ attempt to “pacify” the indigenous population. The military and the Catholic Church joined forces to resettle and “civilize” the groups they displaced through colonization. In colonial pacification, the military violently uprooted indigenous communities and forcibly relocated them to Catholic missions, where those who survived the violence and disease brought by the colonists were converted to Christianity and made to work in the newly established European towns and villages. Often, converted indigenous persons were enrolled in the military forces and thus made to participate in the colonization of their people. However, as many resisted religious conversion, the Europeans believed them to be particularly susceptible to the influence of the devil. Therefore, they required strict and continuous control and supervision and were both seen and treated as children, cementing the base for a racialized paternalism that has been recurrent throughout Brazilian history (Marinato 2008; Oliveira Filho 2016: 324; Schwarcz 2019).
With the decimation of the native population and the emergence of the labor-intensive sugar cane plantation system, the Portuguese colonists turned to the Atlantic slave trade to procure enslaved persons from Africa. The outcome was a multifaceted hierarchy, where the opposition between persons racialized as white and black, Europeans and Africans, constituted a foundational principle. An important aspect of this hierarchy was also the privileging of the patriarchal, heterosexual family (Schwarcz 2019). Slaveholders assumed that the formation of families and kinship relations were not compatible with captivity and that affective and sexual relations among enslaved Africans, therefore, would not conform to acceptable norms. These assumptions were part of a dehumanizing narrative that contributed to legitimizing slavery even as the process of turning captives into slaves took advantage of the captives’ human need to form community and kinship ties with each other (Florentino and Góes 2017). In the present, the legacy of these processes is reflected in myths about black promiscuity and absent black fathers. The invisibility and silencing of black families, and in particular black fathers, must be understood against this backdrop (see Braathen; Gilsing, this issue).
The landowners at the plantations exercised great local authority through relations of patronage and held sovereign power as slave owners. Throughout the colonial period, landowners were free to punish slaves and workers on their estates and surrounding areas as they pleased. In lack of an institutionalized police force, they often had close relations with the military, and in many cases, they held military degrees. During these years, a Brazilian form of authoritarianism called Coronelismo consolidated, with the landowner, both patriarch and patron, at the apex of the social hierarchy (Schwarcz 2019).
When the Portuguese crown settled in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the nineteenth century, they established a formal state apparatus, including the Royal Guard, which is the predecessor to the contemporary police forces. The Portuguese colonizers had fresh in mind the experience of the Haitian Revolution, a series of events between 1791 and 1804 in which enslaved blacks successfully rebelled against the French colonial power. Hence, the principal assignment of the state and the police was to safeguard the interests of the European elite and protect them from any revolt by black slaves—who made up roughly half the population in Rio at the time. If not stated explicitly, there were no doubts concerning the task of the newly founded police force. In the historical archives of the police, there are no registered arrests of white Europeans during the first decades of its existence (Holloway 1993; see also Salem and Bertelsen, this issue).
This mirrors how the Spanish crown upheld the privileges of peninsulars and criollos (persons born in the colonies to parents of European ancestry) in their colonial territories. In eighteenth-century Ecuador, for example, members of the European elites could claim poverty and appeal to the crown for economic support should they no longer be able to maintain a lifestyle considered suitable for their status, such as running a household with servants. The purpose of this arrangement was to preserve a white, European elite in the colonies (Milton 2007). In this way, European colonial regimes established modes of producing and upholding racialized inequality in the Latin American colonies. After independence, new state formations continued this role in the production of inequality by numerous means.
In Brazil, state institutions were shaped according to the needs of the urban elites and powerful landowners, consolidating the patrimonial functioning of the state also following the installation of the First Brazilian Republic in 1889 (see Schwarcz 2019). The preceding year, more than a hundred years after the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was founded in Britain in 1787, Brazil had abolished slavery as the last country in the Western Hemisphere. The new republic did not formally have racial segregation such as the United States and South Africa, but in the absence of legal discrimination, hierarchical racial relations were enforced through the ideological narrative of “racial democracy” (Freyre [1933] 1946). Within this framework, narratives about “miscegenation” rendered invisible black cultural forms, structural economic inequalities, the exclusion of black people from the emergent Brazilian worker class, and the unequal application of the law according to social status (see, e.g., C. Cardoso 2014; DaMatta 1991; Gonzalez 1988; Holston 2009; Nascimento 1989).
Historian Brodwyn Fischer argues that weak legal status has always been an important component of urban poverty in Brazil and that this situation originates from “an unusually radical misfit between Brazilian law and the people and communities it governed” (2008: 5). This inconsistency is popularly expressed in the idiom “Do you know who you are talking to?” by which members of the elite can activate their privileges in encounters with the law (DaMatta 1991; Holston 2009). Consequently, to understand legal inequality in Brazil, we must look not to the law itself but rather to the assumptions underlying them and the processes that enforce them (Fischer 2008: 5). Security interventions and policing are crucial parts of the enforcing of intentions, and hence contribute to—and speak about—the conceptualization and enforcing of hierarchy.
In twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro, the securing of privilege and policing of inequality also extended into the area of urban planning in ways that merged concerns related to public health with projects of modernization. During the republican era, these efforts were imbued with racialized anxieties about the status of the new nation, and urban development interventions often aimed to contribute to “whiten” the population (Chalhoub 1993; Garmany and Richmond 2019; Stepan 1991; Valladares 2000). Among the earliest interventions in Rio were demolitions of cortiços (low-income tenements) in central areas, where enslaved and free Africans lived together with newly arrived European immigrants. As contagious and deadly illnesses such as yellow fever spread easily in the crowded conditions of these tenements, they were seen as damaging to Rio's reputation as an attractive destination for European immigrants. This, in turn, was considered an obstacle to the project of “whitening” the population through immigration (Chalhoub 1993; see also Nascimento [1978] 2016).
Rio's political elites legitimized the demolition of cortiços by merging racialized hierarchical sentiments with moral concerns. These tenements were not only considered home to a largely black population but also as locations for malandragem (roguery) and crime. Hence, the city's elites came to see cortiços as threats to social and moral orders in multiple ways (Valladares 2000: 7). Among these interventions are Mayor Francisco Pereira Passos’ (1902–1906) belle époque urban reforms (Carvalho 2016: 23). This period is perhaps most famous for consolidating Rio's reputation as a modern and marvelous city. However, while this happened, poor, disproportionally nonwhite residents were pushed out of central areas and out of view (Carvalho 2016: 21–22, 24; see also Carvalho 2013). This entanglement between urban planning and concerns of public health and security has been termed higienização (hygienization), and continues to inform contemporary urban development processes (Garmany and Richmond 2019; see also Ystanes and Magalhães, this issue).
During the Cold War, members of the Brazilian Armed Forces, with the support of the United States, overthrew President João Goulart in a 1964 coup d'état. This marked the beginning of a military dictatorship that would last until the restoration of democracy in 1985. Throughout this period, military leaders engaged the state's security forces to persecute their political opponents. In Rio, paramilitary extermination groups performed “purges” of supposed criminals in poor and black communities. Brazil's military leaders saw themselves as the protectors of the country's moral order. They associated the liberalization of norms for gender roles and sexuality with communism and made a concerted effort to subdue social change and conserve traditional patriarchal and racialized hierarchies (Cowan 2016). During the years of military rule, local authorities also continued the expulsion of urban poor, who as a group are racialized as black or nonwhite, from central and attractive areas of the city (Brum 2013; Perlman 2010). Meanwhile, the national security doctrine penetrated and influenced local police forces, who increasingly understood their work as a war against internal enemies: criminals, the unemployed, addicts, and eventually black drug dealers in the favelas.
After the reintroduction of democracy in 1985, this conceptualization of internal enemies continued to undergird the activities of the police and federal security forces. Strongly influenced by the United States, the Brazilian state embarked on a war on drugs that intensified in the following decades. Absent the communist “subversive,” the war on drugs provided the authorities with a new rhetorical device that legitimized the application of the state's security apparatus against favela residents. The advanced weaponry of drug traffickers contributed to strengthening the discourse of intervention, even though traffickers often bought these weapons from members of the armed and police forces. In the context of favela-based drug trafficking, armed confrontations between police and traffickers were often a form of violent negotiation over profits (Lessing 2015), and a way for an otherwise beleaguered state to assert its efficiency through spectacular displays of power (Larkins 2013). Importantly, police brutality was a way to assert police authority and impose Brazilian social hierarchies in the favelas. In the decades following the return of democracy, Brazilian police officers executed collective punishment in the form of massacres, kidnapping, torturing, and killing favela residents to such an extent that they became known as the world's most lethal police force (see, e.g., J. Alves 2018).
As has also been the case in the United States, where the war on drugs was conceived, this strategy for combating crime is profoundly marked by gendered and racialized dynamics (see, e.g., Goffman 2014). In contemporary Rio de Janeiro, the effort to subdue drug trafficking in the city's favelas has resulted in processes that critics have characterized as a “genocide of black youth” (Duarte 2013; Puff 2014; Ramos 2012) and as “criminalization of poverty” (Insurgencia 2014; Vaz 2014). While the institution of slavery lay the foundations for a society where black people were not considered part of humanity, the war on drugs provided a powerful narrative through which black people, especially those from the favelas, were recast as subjects that Giorgio Agamben (1995) refers to as bare life: they can be killed by the police (or others) without consequences. It is telling, in this regard, that the violent death of a black person in a favela is normalized, and rarely produces anger or a sense of injustice among Brazil's dominant white classes (Vargas 2013).
Olympic Exceptionalism in Rio de Janeiro
Racial anxieties and the preoccupation with the erosion of the social hierarchies we have described so far were at the center of the securitization processes experienced in Rio de Janeiro during the decade of Olympic exceptionalism. The empirical material that the contributions to this section analyze is derived from fieldworks exploring the racialized and gendered dimensions of these interventions. The studies show that despite political promises of social inclusion, urban development, and expanding citizenship promoted to the public as part of the Olympic legacy, a historical legacy of necropolitical governance articulated through the logics of security were central to the Olympic-exception framework.
Taken together, the security interventions of this period produced a hyper-militarized urban landscape with spectacular security measures implemented in and around enclaves for the privileged. In these urban enclaves, or Olympic fortresses, persons racialized as black are excluded and expulsed (Pauschinger; Ystanes and Magalhães, this issue), silenced (Gilsing, this issue), and intensely controlled by the state (Braathen; Salem and Bertelsen, this issue). Security practices with a long history in Rio de Janeiro are central to these processes, for example, through the policing of patriarchal hierarchies and masculine gender norms anchored in the capacity to exercise violence (Sørbøe, this issue), as well as racial and moral hierarchies that shape the way and extent to which different populations are policed and controlled (Gilsing; Salem and Bertelsen, this issue).
Most notably, Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora (Pacifying Police Units—UPPs) were established in select favelas, through highly mediatized police operations staged as a reconquering of these territories from the control of drug traffickers (Larkins 2015; Vargas 2013). While the rhetoric of proximity policing promised to bring peace, development, and social inclusion to the populations in the favelas, the UPPs were articulated through the same logic of war that has permeated the military police through its history, especially following the years of military rule (Sørbøe; Salem and Bertelsen, this issue). Celina Sørbøe in this section traces the hypermasculine formation of the warrior ethos not to the situation of intergroup violence in the favelas (cf. Gripp and Zaluar 2017; Zaluar 2010) but to the subjective production of anti-communist guerilla warriors in American militaries during the Cold War era (Cowan 2016). Sørbøe notes that the brutality of Rio's military police forces follows patterns configured around colonial structures of inequality and traditional gender norms. Highlighting the continuity between colonial and contemporary pacification, she points to the painful paradox that the very population that is targeted by necropolitics is also involved in its execution.
Meanwhile, also through a focus on the inner workings of the police, Tomas Salem and Bjørn Bertelsen show how policing at the UPPs, despite its rhetoric of social inclusion, mirror colonial patterns of pacification, especially as pertains to the relationship between militarization and a moral civilizing discourse fueled by religion. By examining the moral dimensions of policing, Salem and Bertelsen also add complexity to the police's operationalization of racial hierarchies in the favela. They show that the police do not conceive of the favelas as homogeneous black spaces but rather differentiate between people and areas according to the level of acceptance of police authority. Among police officers, the success of pacification is measured by the level of support for the police, that is, to the adherence to the state order that is imposed on local communities. Together, these contributions highlight the racial dynamics of the religiously infused gendered performances that have been elevated to the top of the national political system in recent years with Bolsonaro's ascendance to the presidency.
In their discussions of the police's politics of morality in the favelas, several of the contributions also show that when favela communities are not physically expelled and excluded from the city, they are included in the urban landscape in an anti-black manner, through assimilation to cultural forms and expressions that historical and social processes have racialized as white (see Nascimento [1978] 2016; Vargas 2012b). For example, Dennis Pauschinger in this section shows how people racialized as black were excluded from areas close to the Olympic venues but were often found competing on the sports playing field. Dynamics of inclusion and exclusion according to racialized logics are also evidenced in the prohibition of funk parties in the favelas and moral condemnation of funk music (Gilsing, this issue), in the moral value attributed to Christian religious expressions (Salem and Bertelsen, this issue), in the resistance to favela evictions by demonstrating adherence to middle-class tastes and values (Ystanes and Magalhães, this issue), and in the demobilization of grassroots favela activism and strengthening of patrimonial and clientelist dynamics through infrastructural projects in the favelas (Braathen, this issue).
Furthermore, historical associations between favela territories and populations as security risks became reinforced in the mega-event context and were applied to justify the eviction of residents from numerous favelas throughout the city (Brum 2013; Magalhães 2019). Margit Ystanes and Alexandre Magalhães in this section argue that the use of favela evictions as part of the preparations to host the 2014 and 2016 mega-events cannot be considered a mere clearing of space for new infrastructure or investment: it is also integral to the security measures of these events, as well as a concerted effort to turn the Olympic neighborhood Barra da Tijuca into an elite enclave (Watts 2015). Ystanes and Magalhães also address the underlying logic of these interventions in light of historical entanglements between public health and security policies with urban planning. Building on the logic of a city partially populated by a threatening population, the authorities deployed state security forces, including the armed forces, throughout the city's urban landscape. Furthermore, the city invested in advanced surveillance technology, implemented broad bureaucratic reforms to integrate security efforts across the city, and adopted traditional lockdown strategies that isolated urban areas around the Olympic venues (Pauschinger, this issue).
The contributions to this special section do not ask how any particular groups of people experience racial or gender discrimination but rather explore how racialization and gender norms inform securitization. The authors approach this topic from a variety of points of view. Sørbøe, Pauschinger, and Salem and Bertelsen focus on the perspective of different police forces operating in the city as part of the Olympic security measures. Gilsing, Braathen, and Ystanes and Magalhães, on the other hand, examine the efforts of different communities to cope with and resist the violent and disruptive interventions enforced on them in the name of public security. Through these analyses, we aim to contribute to current debates on how securitization is racialized and gendered, both in the Brazilian context and beyond. This effort builds on recent work about how such processes unfold in Brazil (J. Alves 2018; Cowan 2016; Gripp and Zaluar 2017; Oliveira Filho 2016; Vargas 2012b, 2013; Veillette and Nunes 2017), as well other locations (see, e.g., Diphoorn 2015; Gressgård 2018).
The racialized and gendered dynamics that this special section explores are not limited to Brazil but have been integral to the emergence of global capitalism (see, e.g., Brown 2010). In colonial times, they undergirded the supposition that European imperialism contributed to spreading civilization and progress to other continents (Nascimento 1989; Santos 1993). The ideas of equality and freedom from slavery that philosophers and others debated during the European Enlightenment did not extend beyond white men and hence were not seen as contradictory to colonialism and black slavery (see, e.g., Buck-Morss 2009; Trouillot 1995). As the newly independent colonies looked to Europe for inspiration and acceptance even as they forged new national identities (Stepan 1991), they reproduced colonial hierarchies. The contributions to this special section show that these processes continue to influence ongoing projects of social engineering.
It is important to underscore that it is not our intention to construct an artificial contrast between Brazil as a place that has been stuck in brutal colonial logics, and Europe as a place that has moved on to more humanistic sensitivities. Europe is still a continent profoundly marked by hierarchical distinctions between an “us” and “others” (Said 1979), and where racialized processes of securitization and necropolitical governance are evident in national and EU responses to migration and the racialized articulation of the war on terror (see, e.g., Bendixsen 2017; Gressgård 2018). Indeed, the exclusion and repression of racialized “others” is a colonial structure that Europe keeps reinventing, and that hinders the formation of nonviolent social orders.
As a group of mostly Northern scholars, we write from positionalities that are implicated in these postcolonial racialization processes. In the Norwegian context, for example, Sandra Fylkesnes (2019) has shown how, in indirect ways, education policy and curriculum documents aiming to promote social justice nevertheless produces a pedagogy that is blind to the current workings of race and racism among the population. Such “pedagogical amnesia” is not unique to Norway but is currently contested by an increasing number of scholars around the world, who call for the decolonization of knowledge and research methodologies (see, e.g., Colombres 2012; Davis and Todd 2017; Salinas 2020; Smith 2012; TallBear 2014; Todd 2018; Vargas 2012b). Hence, writing in the context of this debate, and with the conviction that we all share a responsibility to untangle how racialization informs knowledge production and undergirds social injustice, we find it important to acknowledge that the composition of our group reflects these structural injustices that mark academic knowledge production. Our identities and backgrounds have shaped how our fieldworks unfolded, and the insights they produced. For example, while Jaime Amparo Alves (2018) and Keisha-Kahn Perry (2013) write about how their own experiences of racism in the Brazilian context inform their analyses, many of us have instead conducted fieldworks marked by the comforts of white privilege. In the context of securitization in particular, we have experienced how whiteness can work almost like a protective shield. In Pauschinger's contribution, for example, he describes how he, as a white, middle-class man, could easily circumvent the complex security system in place outside Olympic venues. The use of racial profiling as a security technique means that white persons are rarely considered dangerous and therefore rarely become targets of violent security measures or exclusions that nonwhite persons frequently suffer. Therefore, we have also had experiences of strangers being willing to extend their trust to us in situations that have illuminated some of the ways security measures are racialized.5
We finalize this work while the COVID-19 pandemic is working its way around the globe, leaving persons and societies in profound and multifaceted crises. Although many hope to return to the world they knew before the pandemic, others are calling for us to take this liminal phase as an opportunity to think about the kind of world we would like to inhabit. The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the Black Lives Matters protests that followed in its wake forcefully demonstrate the urgent need to dismantle white, patriarchal supremacy as part of this effort. As a contribution to this work, we would like to end by drawing attention to the more loving world conjured up by the new wave of black, queer, and gendered activism currently unfolding in Rio and Brazil. Drawing inspiration from critical black Brazilian scholarship such as the work of Abdias do Nascimento and Lélia Gonzales, this movement was already gaining momentum when the black, queer councilwoman Marielle Franco, who was from a favela in Rio's underserved northern zone, was assassinated by two former policemen on 14 March 2018. With her explicitly anti-racist, feminist, and queer political work, Franco represented hope for the possibility of grassroots democratic reconstruction in Brazil (N. Alves et al. 2018).
While the intention behind the assassination may have been to intimidate and subdue the movement, the opposite happened; Franco's murder amplified its message (see Braathen; Gilsing, this issue). In the 2018 elections, held in October, just a few months after the murder, several black women candidates whose campaigns referred to Franco's legacy were elected into positions for the Socialism and Liberty Party, which Franco also represented. This movement also constituted a crucial base for resistance to Bolsonaro's candidacy. The articulation of such resistance through the life and political labor of Marielle, as she is affectionately known among supporters, a black, queer woman from an underserved favela, expands the possibilities for political mobilization around more inclusive, pluralist, feminist, queer, and explicitly anti-racist identities. This movement is also building alliances with indigenous activists and the political left, forming a broad coalition that can potentially find common approaches for resisting the authoritarian and anti-black undercurrents that Bolsonaro's presidency represents. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare that inequality exacerbates crises and devastates personal and societal security—and the most severely affected are persons in precarious living, social, and economic conditions. As we contemplate how to address the devastation left in the wake of this crisis, the inclusive society promoted by Brazilian black, queer, and gendered activism can serve as an inspiration for everyone interested in exploring how we can conceptualize societies where all citizens can be secure.
We are grateful to Randi Gressgård and Iselin Åsedotter Strønen for their generous contributions to the two workshops held in Bergen in 2018 that made this special section possible. We would also like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback to an early version of this manuscript. Their insightful comments contributed significantly to improving our analysis.
Favelas are often referred to as informal neighborhoods, but here we have chosen to use the term self-built instead. This is inspired by Kathleen Millar's work (2018) on the life and labor of catadores, who collected items for recycling from Rio's now defunct Jardim Gramacho garbage dump. Millar shows that relationships, materials, and resources considered to belong to the formal and informal sectors also find their way into the other. This interconnection makes the distinction between formal and informal complicated. Many favela residents are, for example, employed in the formal economy, and formal businesses as well as state entities are present in favelas. The concept of “informal” does not capture this complexity, and we have therefore chosen to describe favelas by referring to them as self-built and underserved. This aims to capture the residents’ active role in creating and developing favelas and the insufficient provision of public services to these areas.
The pink tide refers to when, between the late 1990s to the mid-2010s, several Latin American countries voted in left-leaning governments after a period marked by neoliberal politics. The pink tide governments made notable advances in reducing poverty and inequality yet failed to significantly challenge entrenched inequalities (see, e.g., Ystanes and Strønen 2018).
This petition to free Lula from imprisonment, signed by numerous scholars, outlines the circumstances behind his arrest in detail (GSBD 2020).
These resistance narratives can be accessed in social media via the hashtag #elenão (#nothim), which activists and other voters used to express their opposition to then presidential candidate Bolsonaro.
Relationships of trust are racialized also in other postcolonial contexts (see, e.g., Ystanes 2016).
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MARGIT YSTANES is Associate Professor at Volda University College. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Guatemala and Brazil, and her current work critically investigates the use of sporting mega-events as a tool for urban and economic development in Rio de Janeiro. She is the coeditor of Trusting and its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust (with Vigdis Broch-Due, 2016) and The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change (with Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, 2017). ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8376-4748 | Email: margit.ystanes@hivolda.no
TOMAS SALEM is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He holds a master's degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen and in Societal Safety from the University of Tromsø. His research interests include urban security and gender, and he has carried out ethnographic research on the Pacifying Police Units and the process of reforming the Military Police in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics. ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6270-8811 | Email: tomas.salem@uib.no
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2018 Mazda CX-5 Diesel: Increased Efficiency for the Lovable CX-5
If you're looking for a fun-to-drive diesel, it'll likely be this one.
BRIAN WILLIAMS , THE MANUFACTURER
What It Is: A compression-ignition middle finger to the masses of virtually identical life-ends-with-children mobiles. Should also come with the bonus of meaningful steering feel and impressive road manners.
Why It Matters: If the CX-5 diesel works as it should, it could offer segment-leading fuel economy and performance. According to a Mazda representative, the company’s most recent attempt at bringing a diesel stateside in the Mazda 6 ended with a tough decision. “It could be made to drive the way we wanted or it could meet U.S. emissions, but not both,” he said. “We wouldn’t accept that.” Mazda says it has solved that problem here. And so, with VW out of the TDI game, if you’re looking for a fun-to-drive diesel, it’ll likely be this one.
Platform: Mazda mildly altered the CX-5’s platform for the 2017 model year, providing a marginally lower center of gravity. An additional 0.4 inch of track width increases stability.
Powertrain: A urea-injected version of Mazda’s Europe-market sequentially turbocharged 2.2-liter diesel four-cylinder mates exclusively to the company’s existing six-speed automatic transmission. Revisions to the engine’s injector design and injection strategy will help the 2.2 exceed the 173 horsepower it makes in the rest of the world. Drivability and NVH also will be improved over that engine, which chugs out 310 pound-feet of torque.
Competition: With VW’s presumably permanent diesel stop sale, Mazda could win buyers who can’t resist a modern oil burner. Kia’s Niro hybrid will offer similar or greater efficiency at the cost of slightly reduced cargo space and far less driver involvement. The rest of the crossover sea roils with choices lacking this CX-5’s efficiency, driving character, or both.
What Might Go Wrong: Though it’s unlikely Mazda will screw up its second run at a U.S. diesel, the EPA’s scrutiny of these powerplants has only increased since Dieselgate. Delays are possible.
Estimated Arrival and Price: Mazda says to expect the diesel-powered CX-5 no sooner than fall. No definitive word on pricing yet, but if the diesel engine is available in lower trim levels, a sub-$30,000 version is possible.
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Pandemic drives dramatic increase in SME borrowing
Gross lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the first three quarters of 2020 reached £54 billion driven by coronavirus (COVID-19) loan schemes, according to figures from trade body UK Finance.
That represents more than double the annual total of borrowing reached by SMEs in 2019, UK Finance said.
Nationally, UK lenders have issued 229 Bounce Back loans via the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) and ten Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) facilities for every thousand businesses, dwarfing loan approval volumes seen in previous years.
Since the extension of government support from November 2020, UK Finance estimates that £600 million in funding has been made available through the topping-up of existing BBLS facilities.
Commenting on the data, Stephen Pegge, Managing Director of Commercial Finance at UK Finance, said: '2020 was a challenging year with the disruption of COVID-19 restrictions and uncertainty ahead of the end of EU transition.
'While the business community in aggregate does not appear overindebted with liquidity reserves and capacity to provide finance strong overall, many individual businesses and some specific sectors are facing significant and much more extended disruption and may find themselves in financial difficulty in 2021.'
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Today we have a story that will speak to the sandwich lover and/or the history lover in you.
It’s about a man in Illinois, a president of the United States, and the sandwich that’s a link between them.
The story starts 60 years ago this week in the community of Sullivan, in central Illinois.
Then-Vice President Richard Nixon, who was running for president against John F. Kennedy, came to Sullivan to campaign at a cookout.
He met with some of the locals, sat down to take a few bites from a Buffalo barbecue sandwich and then left the table to give a campaign speech.
(We don’t know whether Nixon disliked the sandwich or was only eating a little because he was working. If it had been up to him, though, the meal probably would have been different. Fun fact: Richard Nixon loved to snack on cottage cheese with ketchup.)
Among the attendees at the cookout was a young Boy Scout named Steve Jenne.
While everyone else at the picnic saw a half-eaten sandwich, Jenne saw history.
As Jenne told the Decatur Herald & Review, he walked over to the table, grabbed the sandwich, and rode home to ask his mother to keep it in the freezer.
She put it in a glass jar, where it’s stayed pretty well ever since, a frozen souvenir from the 1960 presidential campaign.
In the 1980s, Jenne even brought the sandwich to “The Tonight Show,” where then-host Johnny Carson gave him another half-eaten sandwich. (Fellow guest Steve Martin threw in an autographed paper plate, which he said he’d used earlier to eat some chicken salad.)
Jenne has collected half-eaten items from other celebrities over the years, but he says the centerpiece of his collection is still the Nixon sandwich, still in the glass jar, and hopefully without any new bites taken out of it since the day it was served to Richard Nixon 60 years ago.
For those still staying at home, missing the outside world, there are lots of soundscapes you can use to remember the places you used to go, like restaurants, coffee shops, even the sounds of the public library.
For those who actually miss going into the office, with all those cubicles and conference tables, Stéphane Pigeon has created Calm Office, the sounds of clicking computer keys, fax machines, and people in the background gossiping about that coworker that always manages to reply all on the company email.
Watch now: Richard Nixon ate a sandwich in Sullivan 60 years ago. Here’s the story of the man who kept it. (Decatur Herald&Review)
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Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 3 (libro en Inglés)
Compartir el libro Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 3 (libro en Inglés)
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What's left of humanity lives in fear of their lives in this exciting, terrifying new manga that's a number one bestseller in Japan. Humankind is down to just a few thousand people who live in a city surrounded by three concentric walls. The walls protect them from their enemies, the ravenous giants known as the Titans. The Titans appear to have only one purpose: to consume humanity. Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 3 is an oversized collection of volumes 11–15 of the Attack on Titan manga series. Weighing in at a massive 944 pages and a 7-inch by 10.5-inch trim, Colossal Edition 3, like its predecessor, contains the same material as the original volumes but is bigger and printed on higher-quality paper.
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New Audi S3 saloon is sleek, quick and stylish
Audi has expanded its already popular A3 line-up with new a new cabriolet version and S3 Saloon, writes Paul Healy.
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The quattro four-wheel drive system in Audi's new S3 Saloon ensures there is no issue transmitting all 300hp Bavarian thoroughbreds to the tarmac below.
At 1,002 metres above sea level, the Col de Braus is not the highest mountain pass in southern France - but with tight, 180-degree hairpins in abundance over its 10.3-kilometre serpentine length, it is easily one of the most demanding.
Owing to its proximity to Monte Carlo, the road also features in the Monte Carlo Rally, one of the events on which the Audi Quattro built its legend. The ideal location, then, to launch a road-going...
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Hundreds Of Protesters Delayed An NBA Game After Sacramento Police Shot An Unarmed Black Man
The protest came a day after Sacramento police released video of officers fatally shooting 22-year-old Stephon Clark in his backyard.
By Michelle Broder Van Dyke
Michelle Broder Van Dyke BuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on March 23, 2018, at 1:20 a.m. ET
Posted on March 23, 2018, at 12:09 a.m. ET
Hundreds of protesters incensed by the recent police shooting of an unarmed black man marched through the streets of Sacramento on Thursday, forcing the shut down of a major interstate at rush hour and blocking admission to an NBA game.
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
Demonstrators marched from Sacramento City Hall to the Golden 1 Center, where they blocked thousands of ticket holders from entering the arena, delaying the Kings vs. Atlanta Hawks game.
The protest came a day after police released video of officers fatally shooting 22-year-old Stephon Clark in his backyard. Officers said they thought Clark had a gun, but no weapon was found at the scene.
Police were responding to a neighbor's call about a possible car burglary when the shooting took place.
Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn told the Sacramento Bee that he believes Clark was the man a neighbor reported breaking car windows.
The protest started in the afternoon at City Hall, where demonstrators chanted and held signs, including a Black Lives Matter banner. They called for the arrest of the two officers involved in the shooting.
"A phone is not a gun," protesters chanted.
Lemor Abrams @LemorAbrams
Protestors chanting inside city hall #Sacramento #StephonClark
The protest then moved to Interstate 5 — the main artery linking Northern and Southern California — at the height of rush hour.
The protest temporarily shut down the freeway, snarling traffic.
Then around 6 p.m., protesters descended on the arena.
KTVU @KTVU
.@kcranews in #Sacramento reporting protesters have linked arms outside the @Golden1Center before @NBA. No one can get in or out #BlackLivesMatter demands justice for #StephonAlonzoClark https://t.co/GHvhvBI4YM https://t.co/DWcL79f6Ps
Protesters were heard chanting "What's his name? Stephon Clark!" as they surrounded the Golden 1 Center.
stevelarge @largesteven
SacPd mounted patrol now on scene of Golden One Center and officers forming line around L Street entrance. Crowd chanting “What’s his name?Stephon Clark.” https://t.co/3fICi3mFW5
Arena doors were blocked by protesters and the start of the NBA game was delayed at least 20 minutes.
Frances Wang @FrancesWangTV
A birds-eye view of the protest for #StephonClark outside the @Golden1Center. Fans have been told the game is delayed but many think it wil be canceled. https://t.co/KSFOOECZmZ
Sacramento Police announced no one else would be allowed in the arena and refunds would be offered "at a later time."
Captain Norm Leong @NormLeong
No one else being allowed into the game tonight. Kings will offer refunds at a later time.
Spokespersons for the Sacramento Police and California Highway Patrol told BuzzFeed News there were no injuries or arrests made during the protests.
The Kings said they would refund the thousands of ticket holders who could not enter the arena for the game.
Jason Jones @mr_jasonjones
Team statement:
For the few fans who were in their seats when the game started, arena staff invited them to sit closer to the floor and offered free drinks and snacks, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Rich Pedroncelli / AP
Barbara Mitchell, a Kings season ticket holder who was unable to enter the arena, told the Sacramento Bee she wasn't upset about the protest.
"I am appalled by what happened to the young man," Mitchell said. "It was a travesty. So as much as I love basketball, it’s OK. I’m not angry. I admire them for taking the time to protest an injustice."
After the game, Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé addressed the crowd and "expressed his deepest sympathies" to the family of Clark.
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Kings owner and chairman @Vivek addresses the crowd following tonight’s game.
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Brigadier Intercepts 46 Grams of Gold per Tonne Over 1 Metre in First Ever Diamond Drill Hole at Picachos
Trench Sampling returns 15.5 grams gold per tonne over 1.6 metres at San Agustin Vein
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / November 24, 2020 / Brigadier Gold Limited (the 'Company' or 'Brigadier') (TSXV:BRG), (OTC:BGADF), (FSE:B7LM) is pleased to announce assay results for the first three diamond drill holes ('DH-BRG-001, 002 and 003') of a 5000 metre, 40-hole program at its Picachos Property, El Rosario, Sinaloa Mexico ('Picachos'). In addition, assays have been received for surface rock-chip channel samples (trenches) across the San Agustin Vein.
The drill program is currently active on hole number 18 having completed approximately 2158 total metres. The first 14 holes of the program tested approximately 225 meters of strike length in the San Agustin vein, with holes with 15 - 18 now testing Los Tejones, approximately 1 kilometre northeast of San Agustin on the same regional east-northeast trending Cocolmeca shear zone. A steady flow of samples continues to be shipped to SGS Labs in Durango with additional assays expected imminently.
'I'm pleased that the vision I had when assembling this project over many years is starting to take shape,' said Michelle Robinson, Picachos Chief Geologist. 'As good as the assays were in BRG-001 the drill appears to have cut through old underground workings reducing the potential reported overall width of mineralized material. With 40-holes and 5000 metres of drilling in this program, I'm confident we will continue to add significant value to the project'.
The 3,954 hectare Picachos Gold-Silver Property is centered over the historic 'Viva Zapata' National Mineral Reserve, Sinaloa, Mexico, approximately 4 hours by road from the city of Mazatlan. Picachos features over 160 historic mines and workings, and at least 46 veins including San Agustin.
'We are very encouraged with the early success of the inaugural diamond drill program at Picachos,' remarked Ranjeet Sunder, President and CEO of Brigadier Gold. 'To confirm high grade gold mineralization in a vein system totaling 8 kilometres in length, within a property that hosts multiple of these systems is exciting and points to further discovery potential within the project. Given Michelle's intimate knowledge of Picachos, combined with a robust historical data set, we are confident that the prospective targets we have chosen will continue to yield strong results'.
All of the first three diamond drill holes intercepted the mineralized fault contact between thickly laminated graphitic and pyritic argillite in the hangingwall and intermediate pyroclastic rocks correlated to the Tarahumara Formation in the footwall. Mineralized portions of the fault are brecciated, and higher precious metal grades are evident in cockade quartz breccias and crustiform quartz veinlets that occur both in argillite and in the volcanic rocks. Collectively, these holes tested up to 170 metres below surface. All results are reported in Table 1, below. The objective of this fence of holes was to tightly constrain the orientation of the structure for exploration along-strike and down-dip outside the immediate mine area.
Prior to drilling, Brigadier completed due-diligence surface and underground rock chip channel sampling on exposed parts of the San Agustin Vein. On surface, the contact between the volcanic and metamorphic rocks is sheared and leached due to weathering, nonetheless, anomalous values of 0.39 g/t Au and 53 g/t Ag across 7 metres were determined for trench BRG-93958, and clearly imply the presence of a major structure below surface. Similarly, values of 3.21 g/t Au and 184 g/t Ag across 1 metre were assayed for BRG-93976, located 150 metres northeast of BRG-93958. Underground, approximately 15 metres north of BRG-93958, chip-channel sample line BRG-120604 was cut 20 metres below surface from a historically mined surface shaft (Pozo Mojonera) and contains 7.53 g/t Au and 113 g/t Ag across 1.5 metres. A second underground sample line, BRG-120601, was cut from 23 metres below surface. This result was 15.49 g/t Au and 109 g/t Ag across 1.55 metres. The central portion of this sample line contained the most gold, with values of 66.36 g/t Au and 99 g/t Ag across the central 0.35 metres. Finally, approximately 220 metres northeast of Pozo Mojonera, there is a surface trench that follows the San Agustin Vein for approximately 20 metres. A series of 1 metre wide chip-channel samples across the face of the trench yielded an average result of 4.89 g/t gold and 67 g/t Ag across 5 metres in trench BRG-104705.
National Instrument 43-101 Disclosure
The technical information in this press release has been reviewed by Michelle Robinson, MASc., P.Eng., a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ('NI 43-101'). Core and sample handling procedures are documented in the Company's press release dated October 22, 2020. Standard pulps, field duplicates, pulp duplicates and blanks are inserted into the sample stream. The samples were analyzed by SGS Laboratories in Durango using fire-assay methods for gold, and ICP methods with a 4 acid digestion for silver and base metals. SGS is an accredited laboratory. It is the Qualified Person's opinion that the technical information disclosed in this press release is reliable.
About Brigadier Gold Limited
Brigadier was formed to leverage the next major bull market in the natural resource sector, particularly precious metals. Our mandate is to acquire undervalued and overlooked projects with demonstrable potential for advancement.
Led by a management team with decades of experience in mineral exploration and capital markets development, we are focused on advanced exploration opportunities in politically stable jurisdictions.
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Ranjeet Sundher, Chief Executive Officer
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Bristol University students left in tears after M4 coach 'journey from hell'
The driver allegedly drove along the motorway with the door open and repeatedly used his phone at the wheel
Richard Mills
Sarah TurnnidgeSenior Reporter
Students claim coach driver was on phone and his driving made them feel unsafe during 'journey from hell' (Image: Francesca Corbett)
Bristol University students were left in tears after a coach 'journey from hell' last month, and have slammed the alleged actions of the diver who was reportedly on his phone at the wheel.
Passengers on the journey described the turbulent trip between Gatwich Airport and Somerset as including near-misses, veering between lanes, and driving along the M4 with the door open.
More than 60 fifth-year Bristol University veterinary students were on the coach journey to Congresbury, Somerset, in June, Somerset Live reports.
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Francesca Corbett, one of the trip's organisers, said the students used a 52-seater coach and a separate minibus, courtesy of Sparrow Travel, to get to and from Gatwick for a trip to Crete to celebrate the end of exams.
She said the coach driver on the way there on June 5 was fine but the driver of the accompanying minibus was on his phone while driving and those inside the vehicle felt 'unsafe'.
On the return leg on June 13, when the drivers of the coach and the minibus switched, a myriad of problems plagued the ride home for everyone on board the coach.
Problems from the start
Pixelated image of the driver that the students claimed made them feel 'unsafe' (Image: Francesca Corbett)
Francesca told Somerset Live : "It was the journey from hell - I am never using them [Sparrow Travel] again.
"We booked to be picked up from the airport at 1.30am but we did not leave until 45 minutes later.
"We were delayed because the bus driver did not have a permit to park at the airport.
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"My friend ended up paying £30 for a permit so that we could finally leave. Sparrow should have sorted that but they did not.
"Then when we were putting the luggage in the coach, two people ended up getting trapped inside and had to be let out."
'Veering across the road' and door 'partly open' on M4
The students claim the driver kept this coach door open on the M4 to de-mist the windscreen (Image: Francesca Corbett)
The fears increased when the journey back home from Gatwick began for Francesca and her fellow students, she says.
"When we finally got going, the driver was frequently on his phone as he did not have any idea where he was going.
"A lot of people were feeling worried so I went and sat right by him to tell him that I would direct him with the phone because it was not safe.
"I saw him struggling to stay in the lanes and he was veering across the road as well.
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"He nearly hit a sign, he got lost and we nearly hit into a van.
"The coach door was partly open on the M4 for a good five miles too."
Students paid for expensive taxis to escape 'unsafe' journey
The students claimed the windscreen misted up badly and the driver used his hat to clear it (Image: Francesca Corbett)
Francesca added: "Eventually I got him to give me his phone but by that time the front screen was misting up badly.
"He was using his hat to clear the misty screen. He also opened the window which left lots of people very cold.
"When I asked about it he reacted quite aggressively and said the heater was not working.
"But it later turned out that he didn't know how to turn it on."
For around a dozen students, these mounting concerns proved too much for them.
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When the coach stopped at the Reading Services, those students, many of whom were crying, called taxis at around 4.30am as they felt so unsafe because of the driver.
"He said he was too tired so he wanted to pull over at Reading services to get 30 minutes of sleep," said Francesca.
"People were crying and were very scared. There were a lot of tears.
"The students who ended up getting taxis refused to go back on.
"I think the taxis were £180 or so.
"They waited for nearly an hour but they chose to do that and go all that way (nearly 100 miles), rather than get back on the coach.
"Another person almost had the luggage hold door hit them as they removed their suitcase as well.
"The minibus did not have any problems and we did not get back home until several hours after them."
'We have tried to complain but they just ignored us'
This was the coach that the university students went on during their 'journey from hell' (Image: Francesca Corbett)
The coach set off again at around 5am but then stopped once more at the Leigh Delamere M4 services at around 6.30am so the driver could get an energy drink.
The coach did not arrive into Congresbury until 8.30am.
What should have been a three to four hour journey ended up being a near-seven hour one.
"I felt I let the team down. It was definitely the worst journey I had ever been on," Francesca said.
"We have tried to complain to them (Sparrow Travel) since but they have just ignored us.
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"Someone in our group called the police on 101 on the way back from Reading.
"They said they would send a car out to look for the coach to check the driver had a licence.
"I've tried getting in touch with the person who rang but he has not got back to us.
"I think the people who paid for taxis should be compensated and my friend who paid £30 for the coach permit should too.
"This put a downer on the holiday. The holiday itself went pretty smoothly. Everyone had a good time but at the final hurdle it was so unsafe."
What other students said about 'unsafe' journey
Fifth-year vet students Suzy Newton and Ellie Cole were equally critical of the driver.
Suzy said: "I have zero trust in this driver's capabilities, the journey felt completely unsafe.
"When he was on his phone he barely had his eyes on the road, and he should have known the route, which was so unprofessional.
"We did complain to the police during the journey.
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"My advice is to never go back to Sparrow Travel. We deserve full refunds and compensation for the taxi journeys and airport permit."
Ellie said: "I found the journey extremely distressing. I did not feel I could trust the driver in any way to get us home safely.
"I would like to ensure that he doesn't endanger anyone else in the same way in the future."
Francesca said she was considering contacting the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).
What did Sparrow Travel say?
Somerset Live contacted Sparrow Travel for comment.
The phone number on its website, 0121 748 6645 , is invalid.
When the firm's mobile number was dialled someone from the company said a statement would be provided on Thursday (June 20).
Attempts have also been made to reach the company by email and text but it did not respond in time for publication.
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Police 'despair' as Bristol walkers drive to Wales to climb mountain
'Now is not the time to come to the national park for a walk'
Alexander Brock
All roads deserted along the A470 near Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales (Image: Ben Birchall/PA Wire)
Bristol walkers have been handed fines by police for driving to Wales to climb Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons.
Welsh police tweeted yesterday (Sunday, April 27) that two people from Bristol were stopped on the A470 before they attempted their ascent up the highest peak in the national park.
Wales Online reports they both were told to return to their home address in Bristol after being issued Covid-19 fines.
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A spokesperson for the Brecon Roads Policing Unit said: "Two persons stopped on the A470 attempting to walk Pen Y Fan.
"Covid-19 tickets were issued and both were advised to return to their home address in Bristol."
In a separate incident, officers also stopped 10 people in two separate cars who had driven from London to climb Snowdon, Wales' highest peak.
In a statement, North Wales Police said: "We despair - we really do... Please, please, please stay home.
"The coronavirus is affecting every part of the UK, nowhere is immune to it.
"Now is not the time to come to the national park for a walk. The beautiful mountains will still be here and we will gladly welcome you all back once this is all over."
Snowdonia National Park Authority has closed the busiest mountains in Snowdonia including Snowdon, Cader Idris, Aran Benllyn, Aran Fawddwy and those in the Ogwen Valley.
Police forces across Wales say most people are following advice to stay home to avoid the further spread of coronavirus.
However, they previously said a "a small minority" had "selfishly put others at risk" and had been fined.
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During the winter, after the outdoor bowls season has finished, we play Short Mat bowls in our beautiful 1930's clubhouse. This runs all through the winter from September until the start of April and is open to everyone, regardless of if you bowl outdoors or not. We have members of the Short Mat section who play outdoors, don't play outdoors and many who used to play outdoors but find they haven't the strength to play the green anymore. Short Mat is a fun and very social game and many find it a welcome distraction from the wind and rain of the long winter days.
What is Short Mat Bowls?
Short mat bowls is similar to outdoor bowls in some ways but also a very different game in many other ways. Like outdoor bowls the aim of the game is still the same, get as close to the jack as possible with as many shots as you can. Instead of playing on a green, it is played indoors on a mat roughly 40 feet in length with a wooden block in the centre of the mat at the halfway mark. You must bowl around the central block to get to the jack, which is trickier than it sounds as you cannot bowl off the edge of the mat or touch the block. The weighted jack is not bowled, but placed at varying lengths decided by the skip, on a centre line at the other end of the mat. The position you bowl from is fixed and your feet must be kept inside a specified area in front of the mat. Like outdoor bowls, there is a ditch area at the end of the mat that woods must stay out of unless they are a touching wood or the jack. Games can be played at singles, pairs, triples and fours.
Short mat is a very social game, arguably more social than outdoors given that it is played in a close and intimate environment. It is a great way to keep your hand in over the winter months and for some people is their main bowling game. Either way, a lot of fun is had and everyone is always welcome.
We run 3 weeks of free special introduction sessions on Sundays to teach prospective new players how to play Short Mat. If you are interested feel free to come to the Short Mat meeting (dates found in the news section) and ask for more details, or otherwise contact the Short Mat Captain and they will be happy to advise you.
Social Bowling
Social bowling takes place every weekday and is open to players of all abilities.
Details of session times can be found here
League Bowling
We run 1 team in the Dorset Short Mat League called the Broadstone Kites and they are in Division 3, having been promoted 2 years in a row. The team consists of a fours and triples rink and matches are normally played at home on a Friday evening starting at 7pm.
Why not come along and have a go – you will be made most welcome.
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The Oracle will reveal the mystery behind everything...the past, the present, current events, even what is yet to come Open the seven doors of revelation--and prepare to be blown away
Jonathan Cahn, author of the New York Times best sellers The Harbinger, The Mystery of the Shemitah, The Book of Mysteries, and The Paradigm, now unveils The Oracle, in which he opens up the Jubilean mysteries and a revelation so big that it lies behind everything from the rise and fall of nations and empires (even America), to the current events of our day, to the future, to end-time prophecy, and much more.
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Jonathan Cahn takes the reader on a journey to find the man called the Oracle. One by one each of the Jubilean mysteries will be revealed through the giving of a vision. The Oracle will uncover the mysteries of The Stranger, The Lost City, The Man With the Measuring Line, The Land of Seven Wells, The Birds, The Number of the End, The Man in the Black Robe, The Prophet's Song, The Matrix of Years, The Day of the Lions, The Awakening of the Dragon, and much more.
The reader will discover the ancient scrolls that contain the appointed words that have determined the course of world history from the onset of modern times up to our day. The revelation is so big that it will involve and open up the mysteries of everything and everyone from Mark Twain to Moses, from King Nebuchadnezzar to Donald Trump, from the fall of empires to the rise of America, from a mystery hidden in a desert cave to another in an ancient scroll, from the palace of the Persian Empire to the US Senate, from the Summer of Love to the Code of Babylon, and much, much more.
Ultimately the Oracle will reveal the secret that lies behind end-time prophecy and the mystery of the end of the age.
As with The Harbinger and The Book of Mysteries, Cahn reveals the mysteries through a narrative. A traveler is given seven keys; each will open up one of seven doors. Behind each door lies a stream of mysteries. The reader will be taken on a journey of angels and prophetic revelations waiting to be discovered behind each of the seven doors-the ancient secrets that lie behind the world-changing events of modern times-and revelations of what is yet to come.
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Jonathan Cahn caused a worldwide stir with the release of his explosive first book, The Harbinger, which became an instant New York Times best seller and brought him to national and international prominence. His next three books were also New York Times best sellers, The Mystery of the Shemitah, The Book of Mysteries, and The Paradigm. He was named, along with Billy Graham and Keith Greene, one of the top forty spiritual leaders of the last forty years to have radically impacted the world. Called the prophetic voice of this generation, Cahn is a much-sought-after speaker and has been highlighted in the New York Times as well as in many national and international media. He has spoken on Capitol Hill, at the United Nations, and to millions of people around the world. Cahn is known for opening the deep mysteries of Scripture and bringing forth messages of prophetic import. He leads Hope of the World ministry, an international outreach of teaching, evangelism, and compassion projects for the world's most needy. He also leads the Jerusalem Center/Beth Israel, a worship center made up of Jews and Gentiles, people of all backgrounds, just outside New York City, in Wayne, New Jersey.
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Our curriculum is unique to Wadebridge Primary Academy in that it is specifically tailored towards the needs and interests of our children. Through the curriculum, we aim to prepare pupils for the opportunities, experiences and responsibilities of adult life and to lay a firm foundation for future learning. We seek to provide a broad, balanced differentiated curriculum and offer a wide range of exciting, challenging activities and experiences to all pupils irrespective of ability, background, ethnic origin or gender.
We acknowledge that people learn in many different ways and we recognise the need to develop strategies that allow all children to learn in ways that suit them. Opportunities are planned to cater for a range of different learning styles to ensure that all children can access the curriculum and learn in a way that is best for them. Our commitment to a creative approach, empowers our children and promotes opportunities deeper learning, imagination and ingenuity.
So how do we organise learning?
In the Foundation Stage we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage EYFS curriculum, which comprises three prime areas: communication and language, physical development and personal, social and emotional development. We also support children in four specific areas, through which the three prime areas are strengthened and applied. The specific areas are:
Literacy; mathematics; understanding the world; and expressive arts and design.
We teach this framework through topics that excite the children; we gather their ideas through mind-mapping and plan according to their needs and interests a variety of structured play and practical activities to help them develop in the prime and specific areas of learning.
Where pupils move into Year 1 without having achieved the Early Learning Goals, they may continue to be taught in line with the Foundation Stage Curriculum. Transition to the Year 1 curriculum can therefore happen when pupils have reached that stage in their development.
From Year 1 to Year 6 we organise learning through the 2014 Primary Curriculum under the curriculum areas of:
Personal, social, health and emotional development and citizenship
Understanding English, communication and languages
Languages (currently French)
Physical education; Art and design
Religious Education (delivered through Cornwall’s agreed syllabus)
Key Stage 1 and 2
We recognise the importance of reading, writing and maths for all children. We have a comprehensive and thorough approach to the teaching of reading across the school including, daily phonics lessons in Reception and KS1. All phonics in Reception and KS1 is taught following an order similar to Letters and Sounds. The best elements of Jolly Phonics and RWI are used to support the children's phonics learning. Daily lessons follow the structure of Revisit and Review, Teach, Practise and Apply in a creative manner. All adults that deliver phonics in EYFS and KS1 have a phonics folder containing the same support material of the order of teaching, red warning words, best practice guide and a range of effective resources. Guided reading is taught daily and systematically across the school, in banded groups according to reading level. Writing is taught through a topic-based approach, as much as possible, in order to provide purpose and audience for the children. Grammatical accuracy is embedded in the teaching of writing but also as a discrete element of the English curriculum alongside spelling and handwriting.
The Mathematics curriculum aims to ensure that all pupils become fluent in the fundamental of Mathematics including the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately. Children at Wadebridge are taught to reason mathematically, solve problems and apply their mathematical skills in a variety of real life contexts.
In addition to English and Mathematics, children are taught to develop their skills, understanding and creativity in Science, Computing, History, Geography, Design Technology, Music, Art, Physical Education and Religious Education. Additionally, French is taught from Year 3 onwards. These subjects are taught with a cross curricular approach, making links between learning. We provide children with purposeful experiences that are meaningful for them and work towards real life outcomes with appropriate audiences. High quality ICT equipment and software also means digital technology is an integral part of many teaching and learning experiences.
PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) forms an integral part of the curriculum at Wadebridge Primary Academy. It helps to give pupils the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active, responsible citizens. All members of staff are committed to encouraging in our children, a knowledge of right and wrong and to take responsibility for their own behaviour.
Children are taught about the community in which they live and are encouraged to work in co-operation with other members of the school community. Supporting charities, both local and further afield, is encouraged. All children are expected to undertake appropriate responsibilities within the class and school, e.g. caring for the classroom environment, participating in class assemblies and participating in out of school activities.
We aim to develop children’s enjoyment, confidence and competence in physical activity and introduce them to the pleasures of sport to help develop active children who benefit from a healthy lifestyle. Through a multi-skills approach in Key Stage one, children develop their skills in locomotion, manipulation and stability which they can then apply in a range of sporting and competitive contexts. In Key stage two these skills are applied to more formal settings and rules in sports and activities such as: football, netball, hockey, tennis and cricket as well as athletics, gymnastics, dance and outdoor adventurous activities. Due to our unique location and proximity to the coast all children receive 5 hours of coached swimming and water safety every year so as to develop their confidence and awareness in the water.
We enhance and enrich the curriculum through a variety of activities including educational visits, school performances, visitors to school including artists, craftspeople, actors, musicians, support of parents and other stakeholders, after school clubs and links with our local cluster schools and secondary school.
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Amtrak On-Time Performance Trends and Hours of Delay by Cause
table_01_73_090420.xlsx
As of 2017 Amtrak no longer records On-Time Performance for "Short disance (<400 miles)" or "Long Distance (>=400 miles)" and instead records three new categories of "Northeast corridor," "State supported," and "Long distance."
Host railroad is a freight or commuter railroad over which Amtrak trains operate for all or part of their trip.
Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.
All percentages are based on Amtrak's fiscal year (October 1–September 30).
Amtrak trains are considered on time if arrival at the endpoint is within the minutes of scheduled arrival time as shown on the following chart. Trip length is based on the total distance traveled by that train from origin to destination:
Trip length (miles) Minutes late at endpoint
0–250 10 or less
251–350 15 or less
> 551 30 or less
KEY: N = data do not exist.
a Routes outside the Northeast Corridor and under 750 miles in length.
b Routes over 750 miles in length.
c Amtrak changed its method for reporting delays in 2000. Therefore, the data for 2000 and following years are not comparable with prior years.
d Includes all delays that occur when operating on Amtrak owned tracks and all delays for equipment or engine failure, passenger handling, holding for connections, train servicing, and mail/baggage handling when on tracks of a host railroad.
e Includes all operating delays not attributable to Amtrak when operating on tracks of a host railroad, such as track and signal related delays, power failures, freight and commuter train interference, routing delays, etc.
f Includes delays not attributable to Amtrak or other host railroads, such as customs and immigration, law enforcement action, weather, or waiting for scheduled departure time.
1980: Amtrak, National Railroad Passenger Corporation Annual Report (Washington, DC: 1981).
1985-99: Ibid., Amtrak Annual Report, Statistical Appendix (Washington, DC: Annual Issues).
2000-19: Ibid., personal communications, Oct. 2010, Oct. 2011, Dec. 2012, Feb. 25, 2016, Jul. 25, 2017, May 30, 2019, and Aug. 31, 2020.
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SSPX Cone of Silence
News: World News
by Christine Niles • ChurchMilitant.com • May 11, 2020
Refusing to answer questions
Fr. Frédéric Abbet, SSPX, convicted and sentenced
to prison for abusing boys at the SSPX academy in Brussels
The Society of St. Pius X is refusing to answer questions about its complicity in sex abuse.
In a statement issued two weeks ago (but since taken down), the SSPX promised "transparency" in the face of documented cases of abuse and cover-up reported in Church Militant's April 22 Spotlight investigation.
Contrary to this promise, the SSPX has offered only silence in the face of multiple media queries.
On April 30, Church Militant wrote to Bp. Bernard Fellay, superior general of the SSPX for 24 years (1994–2018), who presided over a number of the abuse cases highlighted in our exposé.
Church Militant asked him questions specifically regarding the case of SSPX priest Fr. Frédéric Abbet, a convicted pedophile sentenced by a Belgian court to five years in prison for abusing boys at an SSPX academy in Brussels.
Letter from Fr. Christian Thouvenot, secretary general,
detailing 2006 restrictions on Fr. Frédéric Abbet
Abbet never would have been able to abuse boys in Brussels had Fellay not assigned him to live under the same roof as boys at L'École de Notre Dame — in spite of Fellay's knowledge of prior abuse allegations in Valais, Switzerland.
In fact, an SSPX tribunal in 2006 imposed a 10-year ban on Abbet from being around children unsupervised — a ban almost immediately violated by Fellay, who announced Abbet's transfer to the Brussels priory of Christ the King — under the same roof as the boys dorms — only two months after this ban was issued.
Church Militant obtained a copy of the letter detailing Abbet's restrictions in 2006, which reads in part:
Nevertheless, by prudence and given that a suspicion of crime remains, the judge felt it necessary to restrict the future ministry of Fr. Frédéric Abbet with the following measures, issued by decree on June 6, 2006 and communicated to the interested party on July 27, 2006.
Among the restrictions was a 10-year ban on internet usage — which Fellay lifted — as well as a 10-year ban on being around children unsupervised — which Fellay also violated within two months.
Fellay has stayed at the same priory multiple times, so he was well aware that any priest there has direct and easy access to the boys dorms, day or night. It would have been an impossible task to supervise his movements.
The second page of the letter (shown below) notes that Fellay — without explanation — lifted the ban on Abbet's use of the internet.
It also says of the restrictions: "These measures were communicated to the interested party as well as to his superiors, Fr. [Jurgen] Wegner [former district superior of the BeNeLux region] then [Fr. Benoît] Wailliez. I myself sent on Jan. 21, 2009 to Fr. Benoît Wailliez, his superior, the written list of these measures, and I had the occasion of telling them to him on July 1, 2010."
Page 2 of the letter from Secretary General Fr. Christian Thouvenot making clear
the restrictions on Fr. Abbet were communicated to Fr. Jurgen Wegner and Fr. Benoit Wailliez
In spite of knowing about the restrictions and about Abbet's track record in Switzerland, neither Wegner nor Wailliez supervised Abbet. As the victim's family told Church Militant, both men should have been troubled to know that Abbet was being transferred to their priory. They should have voiced their concerns and refused the assignment, for the safety and welfare of the children in their charge. Neither did so, nor did they exercise adequate supervision over Abbet (an impossible task, as already noted).
Fr. Jurgen Wegner, former district superior
of BeNeLux region, now district superior in US
Church Militant asked Fellay several pointed questions, including:
Why did you ignore the ban imposed on Fr. Frédéric Abbet not to be around children for 10 years, and immediately assign him to the Brussels priory, where he would live under the same roof as boys — whom he went on to abuse?
Do you take responsibility for your part in endangering children in this matter?
Have you ever issued an apology to the victims and their families devastated by the abuse Abbet perpetrated on them?
Did you discipline either Fr. [Jurgen] Wegner for failure to supervise Fr. Abbet, as you ordered him to do, or Fr. [Benoît Wailliez] for placing a man he suspected of being a sexual predator in charge of the boys' dorm, as well as withholding incriminating evidence against Fr. Abbet for six years?
Where is Fr. Abbet now?
Fellay never responded.
Ten days later, Church Militant sent a follow-up email asking further questions:
Bishop Fellay,
It is now 10 days since I've written you and still have yet to receive a response. Is this the sort of "transparency" the public can expect from the SSPX?
Fr. Benoît Wailliez, former prior of Brussels chapel
I've learned from speaking with the victims' families that Fr. Abbet roams free in Switzerland and appears never to have served his time in prison.
I understand the SSPX has since expelled Fr. Abbet from the Society.
Will the Society help the [victim's] family locate the current whereabouts of Fr. Abbet? As you are in Switzerland and have many connections, surely you can easily track him down and perform this act of aid to the victims.
Critics say you are above all most culpable in the abuse of these young victims, because it is you who violated the ban by placing Fr. Abbet in a priory with direct access to boys, knowing very well it would be impossible to supervise his every move.
Are you willing to admit responsibility, issue a public apology to the victims and resign for what some say is your criminal negligence?
Does it trouble your conscience that boys were harmed by Fr. Philippe Peignot, whose ban you also lifted and whom you allowed to be around boys and lead scout camps?
Why did you transfer Fr. Pierre Duverger to the United States after his sex scandal in France involving another woman?
Why did you fail to notify the police as soon as you learned of the rapes committed by Fr. Christophe Roisnel? Failure to report is a violation of French law, as you well know.
Will the SSPX publish a list of all credibly accused clergy, current or past, in an act of transparency?
We know of many other priests involved in sex scandals whom you transferred to another assignment. Do you think it's correct to be transferring and reassigning accused sexual predators to new locations, where they often go on to abuse again? Is this the accepted modus operandi of the SSPX?
Church Militant awaits answers to these questions.
See our complete SSPX coverage
Criminal Negligence by the SSPX
Countering the SSPX Narrative
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Another Taylor Swift Stalker Has Been Arrested
Will Ashton
Published: Apr. 17. 2018 11:06 AM
Taylor Swift is dealing with another stalker situation. As it is being reported today, the pop singer has found another obsessed fan arrested after they traveled across several states in order to reach Swift's Beverly Hills mansion. As you can imagine, this incident isn't the first Swift stalker situation.
TMZ reported on this newest stalker story. On Saturday, law enforcement officers were called to Taylor Swift's residence after security noticed a suspicious man in front of the musician's property. Once the police reported on the scene, the stalker was revealed to be a 38-year-old gentleman who drove all the way from Colorado to meet the pop star. Apparently, the "Look What You Made Me Do" chart-topping singer wasn't home at the time. When the police searched the man's car and later interviewed him, the authorities had enough probable cause to arrest him and charge him with felony stalking. As of this reporting, the arrested stalker currently remains in custody. Additionally, the authorities are issuing an emergency protective order to keep him away from Taylor Swift.
As it was noted earlier, this scary stalker situation isn't the first Taylor Swift has been forced to deal with in recent months. Earlier this month, another stalker was sentenced to three days in jail -- along with three years of probation -- after he attempted to scale the wall of Taylor Swift's spacious mansion. It is, evidently, a stressful month for the pop singer -- at least, when it comes to some of her... shall we say, more persistent fanboys of late. If that weren't enough drama, there was also another guy a few months back who believed he was her husband. To make it worse, that particular stalker had a gun too. Very scary stuff.
Of course, while Taylor Swift is dealing with some fans who love her maybe a little too much, the pop singer is also still dealing with some haters too. That is mainly referring to Katy Perry. While Perry has tried to bury the hatchet between the two superstars, it still seems like there's some, ahem, bad blood between them. At least, that's what Katy Perry suggested on a recent episode of American Idol when Katy threw some major shade at T. Swift. If that weren't enough, Swift might've gotten on the bad side of Lorde too, though it's worth noting that Lorde apologized for her remarks towards Taylor.
There's also, you know, that feud between Kanye West/Kim Kardashian West too. If that weren't enough, Swift apparently inspired a villain character in Blade Runner 2049. As good as that acclaimed sci-fi blockbuster was, that's not exactly something you want to hear about yourself. But who knows?
In any case, it's never a dull day in the (mostly) glamorous life of Taylor Swift. Hopefully, however, she's learning to deal with all her dangerous stalkers.
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Airlines call on federal government to delay rollout of pre-departure COVID-19 tests
Just days before the government is set to roll out mandatory pre-departure COVID-19 testing for travellers returning to Canada, the CEOs of the country's largest airlines are calling on Transport Minister Marc Garneau to delay the rollout until later this month, CBC News has learned.
'Minister, we have very serious concerns,' says a letter from airlines and industry associations
Ashley Burke · CBC News · Posted: Jan 05, 2021 12:03 PM ET | Last Updated: January 5
Airlines are pushing back against the timing of the government's plan for pre-departure COVID-19 testing for travellers returning to Canada. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)
The heads of Air Canada, WestJet, Air Transat and Sunwing — along with two major trade associations, the International Air Transport Association and National Airlines Council of Canada — recently sent a letter to Garneau warning him that the federal government's timeline for implementing the testing protocol isn't feasible.
The carriers are proposing that the new rules — due to take effect on Thursday — should instead kick in on January 18.
"Minister, we have very serious concerns about the feasibility of successfully implementing such a significant measure in the extremely short time[frame] announced, without consultation or a coordinated plan," reads the letter to Garneau, obtained by CBC News.
The government announced the new testing regime last week, following multiple reports of individual Canadians — including political figures — travelling abroad for the holidays in defiance of government advisories against non-essential travel.
New COVID-19 testing rules for air travellers kick in Jan. 7
Air travellers entering Canada must soon have a negative COVID-19 test before arriving, Ottawa says
The new requirements could discourage travel at a time when the airline industry is struggling with a dramatic drop in traffic. The rules that come into effect on Jan. 7 say that travellers five years of age or older must receive a negative result on a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test — the standard nose swab test for detecting active COVID-19 infections — within 72 hours of boarding a flight to Canada.
Airlines say they weren't consulted about the new policy before it was announced. In their letter to Garneau, they argue the new rules create a "real risk that Canadians will now be stranded abroad" and say they've heard from thousands of Canadians alarmed by the possibility.
"With the current timeframes and lack of clarity and detail, we must note particular concern over the very real prospect of Canadians of all ages being denied boarding and stranded at destination, in the current context of significantly reduced flight frequencies and over‐stretched airline, government and consular resources due to the pandemic," said the letter.
Some Canadians can still board planes without COVID-19 tests
Garneau said last week, however, that if travellers can show they couldn't obtain COVID-19 tests abroad, they can still board flights home — but they'll need to quarantine in a federally-regulated facility in Canada.
Travellers in countries where testing is available are required to show documentation of a negative test result to airlines prior to boarding a flight to Canada, said Garneau.
In a statement today, the minister's office reminded Canadians that travel restrictions and measures can change on short notice. The office said Garneau plans to implement the changes as planned on Jan. 7 at 12:01 am ET as an "additional layer of protection for Canadians."
"We are reaching dangerous case numbers in areas across the country and we cannot afford to stop the important work being done to protect the health and safety of Canadians," said Garneau's press secretary Allison St-Jean.
"Despite a challenging environment, airlines have played an important role since the beginning of the fight against COVID-19 and we are confident they will continue to do so."
The airlines say in the letter that they were "perplexed that airline and tour operators were not consulted" first, since they'll be expected to implement the new rules and they only have draft guidance from the federal government on how to proceed.
"Minister, at the time of writing this letter, mere days before going into force, the Interim Order elaborating the new measure has yet to be finalized and only preliminary draft guidance material is available," says the letter.
Transport Minister Marc Garneau is being warned by the airline industry that the federal government's rapid introduction of airport testing risks stranding Canadians abroad. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
Airline industry called for testing at Canadian airports for months
The new rules come after the airline industry spent months calling on the federal government to conduct COVID-19 testing at airports in Canada.
"... our industry has invested in and publicly advocated for rational testing protocols, such as arrival testing in Canada where the quality and consistency of testing can be properly regulated and controlled," said the letter.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc told CBC News on Dec. 30 that other provinces have spoken to the federal government about duplicating a pilot project in Alberta. The program — a partnership between Alberta and the federal government — allows eligible international travellers to take a COVID-19 test at one of two border crossings in the province: the Calgary International Airport and the Coutts land border crossing.
Travellers whose tests come back negative can leave quarantine as long as they remain in Alberta for 14 days. They also must obtain a second test six or seven days after arrival at a participating community pharmacy.
LeBlanc said the federal government doesn't have enough data from the pilot yet to determine whether a shortened quarantine period is sound health policy.
Ashley Burke
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Taylor Swift awarded $1 in groping trial
Updated on: August 14, 2017 / 8:44 PM / CBS/AP
Taylor Swift wins groping lawsuit
Taylor Swift wins groping lawsuit 02:43
DENVER -- Four years after Taylor Swift tried to handle her groping allegation against a radio station DJ quietly, the pop superstar got a very public victory Monday with a jury's verdict that she hoped would inspire other women.
Jurors in U.S. District Court in Denver deliberated fewer than four hours to find that ex-radio host David Mueller assaulted and battered Swift during a pre-concert meet-and-greet in June 2013. Per Swift's request, jurors awarded her $1 in damages -- a sum her attorney, Douglas Baldridge, called "a single symbolic dollar, the value of which is immeasurable to all women in this situation."
Mueller sued the Swifts and their radio handler, Frank Bell, seeking up to $3 million for his ruined career.
After the verdict was issued, Swift hugged her crying mom. She also issued a statement Monday thanking her legal team for fighting for her and anyone else affected by sexual assault.
"I want to thank Judge William J. Martinez and the jury for their careful consideration, my attorneys Doug Baldridge, Danielle Foley, Jay Schaudies and Katie Wright for fighting for me and anyone who feels silenced by a sexual assault, and especially anyone who offered their support throughout this four-year ordeal and two-year long trial process," Swift said.
Meanwhile, Mueller's attorney Gabe McFarland said Monday, "My only statement at this point is that I'm disappointed for Mr. Mueller, but respect the jury's decision."
The six-woman, two-man jury also rejected Mueller's claims that Swift's mother, Andrea Swift, and radio liaison Frank Bell cost him his $150,000-a-year job at country station KYGO-FM, where he was a morning host.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge William Martinez dismissed similar claims against Taylor Swift, ruling Mueller's team failed to offer evidence that the then-23-year-old superstar did anything more than report the incident to her team, including her mother.
Mueller, who was seeking up to $3 million, denied Swift's allegation from the start and maintained his innocence after the verdict.
"I've been trying to clear my name for four years," he said in explaining why he took the singer-songwriter to court. "Civil court is the only option I had. This is the only way that I could be heard."
By the time Swift took the stand Thursday, she was more than angry. She was on a mission to eliminate any doubt about what happened, and she refused to sugarcoat her experience.
During an hour of testimony, Swift blasted a low-key characterization by Mueller's attorney, Gabriel McFarland, of what happened. While Mueller testified he never grabbed Swift, she insisted she was groped.
"He stayed attached to my bare ass-cheek as I lurched away from him," Swift testified.
"It was a definite grab. A very long grab," she added.
Taylor Swift seen in court on Thu., Aug. 10, 2017. Jeff Kandyba
Mueller emphatically denied reaching under the pop star's skirt or otherwise touching her inappropriately, insisting he touched only her ribs and may have brushed the outside of her skirt as they awkwardly posed for the picture.
That photo was virtually the only evidence besides the testimony.
In the image shown to jurors during opening statements but not publicly released, Mueller's hand is behind Swift, just below her waist. Both are smiling. Mueller's then-girlfriend is standing on the other side of Swift.
Swift testified that after she was groped, she numbly told Mueller and his girlfriend, "Thank you for coming," and moved on to photos with others waiting in line because she did not want to disappoint them.
But she said she immediately went to her photographer after the meet-and-greet ended and found the photo of her with Mueller, telling the photographer what happened.
Andrea Swift testified that she asked Bell to call Mueller's employers. They did not call the police to avoid further traumatizing her daughter, she said.
"We absolutely wanted to keep it private. But we didn't want him to get away with it," Andrea Swift testified.
Bell said he emailed the photo to Robert Call, KYGO's general manager, for use in Call's investigation of Mueller. He said he didn't ask that Mueller be fired but that "appropriate action be taken."
First published on August 14, 2017 / 7:47 PM
© 2017 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Proclaiming Christ Crucified
When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. 2For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 4My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
The True Wisdom of God
6 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. 7But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the human heart conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. 13And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.
14 Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny.
“For who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
9. As it is written, “What eye hath not seen.” All are agreed that this passage is taken from Isaiah 64:4, and as the meaning is at first view plain and easy, interpreters do not give themselves much trouble in expounding it. On looking, however, more narrowly into it, two very great difficulties present themselves. The first is, that the words that are here quoted by Paul do not correspond with the words of the Prophet. The second is, that it seems as though Paul had perverted the Prophet’s declaration to a purpose quite foreign to his design.
First then as to the words; and as they may be taken in different senses, they are explained variously by interpreters. Some render the passage thus: “From the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived with their ears, and eye hath not seen any god beside Thee, who doth act in such a manner towards him that waiteth for him.” Others understand the discourse as addressed to God, in this manner: “Eye hath not seen, nor hath ear heard, O God, besides thee, the things which thou dost for those that wait for thee.” Literally, however, the Prophet’s meaning is: “From the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor have they perceived with the ears, hath not seen a god, (or O God,) besides thee, will do (or will prepare) for him that waiteth for him.” If we understand אלהים (God) to be in the accusative, the relative who must be supplied. This exposition, too, appears, at first view, to suit better with the Prophet’s context in respect of the verb that follows being used in the third person; 118118 “Assauoir, Fera, or Preparera;” — “Namely — He will do, or He will prepare.” but it is farther removed from Paul’s meaning, on which we ought to place more dependence than on any other consideration. For where shall we find a surer or more faithful interpreter than the Spirit of God of this authoritative declaration, which He himself dictated to Isaiah — in the exposition which He has furnished by the mouth of Paul. With the view of obviating, however, the calumnies of the wicked, I observe that the Hebrew idiom admits of our understanding the Prophets true meaning to be this: “O God, neither hath eye seen, nor hath ear heard: but thou alone knowest the things which thou art wont to do to those that wait for thee.” The sudden change of person forms no objection, as we know that it is so common in the writings of the Prophets, that it needs not be any hindrance in our way. If any one, however, prefers the former interpretation, he will have no occasion for charging either us or the Apostle with departing from the simple meaning of the words, for we supply less than they do, as they are under the necessity of adding a mark of comparison to the verb, rendering it thus: “who doth act in such a manner.”
As to what follows respecting the entering of these things into the heart of man, though the expression is not made use of by the Prophet, it does not differ materially from the clause besides thee For in ascribing this knowledge to God alone, he excludes from it not merely the bodily senses of men, but also the entire faculty of the understanding. While, therefore, the Prophet makes mention only of sight and hearing, he includes at the same time by implication all the faculties of the soul. And without doubt these are the two instruments by which we attain the knowledge of those things that find their way into the understanding. In using the expression them that love him, he has followed the Greek interpreters, who have translated it in this way from having been misled by the resemblance between one letter and another; 119119 The word made use of by Isaiah is מחכה, which is a part of the verb חכה, to wait for, and Calvin’s meaning most probably is, that the “Greek interpreters had (from the resemblance between ב and כ) been led into the mistake of supposing it to be a part of the verb חבב, to love, while the corresponding part of the latter verb — מחובב, manifestly differs very widely from the word made use of by the Prophet. There appears, how ever, to have been an oversight, in this instance, on the part of Calvin, as the word in the Septuagint version is not the word made use of by the Apostle — ἀγαπῶσιν, “them that love” (him,) but (corresponding to the word made use of bythe Prophet ὑπομένουσιν, “them that wait for” (him.) It is not a little singular, that Clemens Romanus (Ep. ad Cor. Sect. 34.) quotes the words of Isaiah precisely as Paul quotes them, with the exception of the last clause, which he gives as follows: ὅσα ἡτοιμασε τοις ὑπομένουσιν αὐτὸν — “which he hath prepared for them that wait for him.” Some have supposed the citation to have been taken from one or other of the two Apocryphal books, entitled, “The Ascension of Esaiah,” and “The Apocalyps of Elias,” in both of which this passage was found, but, as is justly observed by Horne in his Introduction (volume 2,) “it is so near to the Hebrew here both in sense and words, that we cannot suppose it to be taken from any other source, nor in this case would the Apostle have introduced it with the formula of quotation — as it is written.” In accordance with Calvln’s remark, that “though the words are not the same, there is no real difference of meaning,” it is well observed by Poole in his Annotations, that “waiting for” God is “the certain product and effect of love to him.” — Ed but as that did not affect the point in hand, he did not choose to depart from the common reading, as we frequently have occasion to observe how closely he follows the received version. Though the words, therefore, are not the same, there is no real difference of meaning.
I come now to the subject-matter. The Prophet in that passage, when mentioning how signally God had on all occasions befriended his people in their emergencies, exclaims, that his acts of kindness to the pious surpass the comprehension of human intellect. “But what has this to do,” some one will say, “with spiritual doctrine, and the promises of eternal life, as to which Paul is here arguing?” There are three ways in which this question may be answered. There were no inconsistency in affirming that the Prophet, having made mention of earthly blessings, was in consequence of this led on to make a general statement, and even to extol that spiritual blessedness which is laid up in heaven for believers. I prefer, however, to understand him simply as referring to those gifts of God’s grace that are daily conferred upon believers. In these it becomes us always to observe their source, and not to confine our views to their present aspect. Now their source is that unmerited goodness of God, by which he has adopted us into the number of his sons. He, therefore, who would estimate these things aright, will not contemplate them in their naked aspect, but will clothe them with God’s fatherly love, as with a robe, and will thus be led forward from temporal favors to eternal life. It might also be maintained that the argument is from the less to the greater; for if man’s intellect is not competent to measure God’s earthly gifts, how much less will it reach the height of heaven? (John 3:12.) I have, however, already intimated which interpretation I prefer.
10. But God hath revealed them to us. Having shut up all mankind in blindness, and having taken away from the human intellect the power of attaining to a knowledge of God by its own resources, he now shows in what way believers are exempted from this blindness, — by the Lord’s honoring them with a special illumination of the Spirit. Hence the greater the bluntness of the human intellect for understanding the mysteries of God, and the greater the uncertainty under which it labors, so much the surer is our faith, which rests for its support on the revelation of God’s Spirit. In this, too, we recognize the unbounded goodness of God, who makes our defect contribute to our advantage.
For the Spirit searcheth all things This is added for the consolation of the pious, that they may rest more securely in the revelation which they have from the Spirit of God, as though he had said. “Let it suffice us to have the Spirit of God as a witness, for there is nothing in God that is too profound for him to reach.” For such is the import here of the word searcheth By the deep things you must understand — not secret judgments, which we are forbidden to search into, but the entire doctrine of salvation, which would have been to no purpose set before us in the Scriptures, were it not that God elevates our minds to it by his Spirit.
11. For what man knoweth? Two different things he intends to teach here: first, that the doctrine of the Gospel cannot be understood otherwise than by the testimony of the Holy Spirit; and secondly, that those who have a testimony of this nature from the Holy Spirit, have an assurance as firm and solid, as if they felt with their hands what they believe, for the Spirit is a faithful and indubitable witness. This he proves by a similitude drawn from our own spirit: for every one is conscious of his own thoughts, and on the other hand what lies hid in any man’s heart, is unknown to another. In the same way what is the counsel of God, and what his will, is hid from all mankind, for “who hath been his counselor?” (Romans 11:34.) It is, therefore, a secret recess, inaccessible to mankind; but, if the Spirit of God himself introduces us into it, or in other words, makes us acquainted with those things that are otherwise hid from our view, there will then be no more ground for hesitation, for nothing that is in God escapes the notice of the Spirit of God.
This similitude, however, may seem to be not altogether very appropriate, for as the tongue bears an impress of the mind, mankind communicate their dispositions to each other, so that they become acquainted with each other’s thoughts. Why then may we not understand from the word of God what is his will? For while mankind by pretenses and falsehoods in many cases conceal their thoughts rather than discover them, this cannot happen with God, whose word is undoubted truth, and his genuine and lively image. We must, however, carefully observe how far Paul designed to extend this comparison. A man’s innermost thought, of which others are ignorant, is perceived by himself alone: if he afterwards makes it known to others, this does not hinder but that his spirit alone knows what is in him. For it may happen that he does not persuade: it may even happen that he does not properly express his own meaning; but even if he attains both objects, this statement is not at variance with the other — that his own spirit alone has the true knowledge of it. There is this difference, however, between God’s thoughts and those of men, that men mutually understand each other; but the word of God is a kind of hidden wisdom, the loftiness of which is not reached by the weakness of the human intellect. Thus the light shineth in darkness, (John 1:5,) aye and until the Spirit opens the eyes of the blind.
The spirit of a man Observe, that the spirit of a man is taken here for the soul, in which the intellectual faculty, as it is called, resides. For Paul would have expressed himself inaccurately if he had ascribed this knowledge to man’s intellect, or in other words, the faculty itself, and not to the soul, which is endued with the power of understanding.
12. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world He heightens by contrast the certainty of which he had made mention. “The Spirit of revelation,” says he, “which we have received, is not of the world, so as to be merely creeping upon the ground, so as to be subject to vanity, or be in suspense, or vary or fluctuate, or hold us in doubt and perplexity. On the contrary, it is from God, and hence it is above all heavens, of solid and unvarying truth, and placed above all risk of doubt.”
It is a passage that is most abundantly clear, for refuting that diabolical doctrine of the Sophists as to a constant hesitancy on the part of believers. For they require all believers to be in doubt, whether they are in the grace of God or not, and allow of no assurance of salvation, but what hangs on moral or probable conjecture. In this, however, they overthrow faith in two respects: for first they would have us be in doubt, whether we are in a state of grace, and then afterwards they suggest a second occasion of doubt — as to final perseverance. 120120 The reader will find this subject treated of at greater length in the Institutes, volume 2, p. 143. — Ed. Here, however, the Apostle declares in general terms, that the elect have the Spirit given them, by whose testimony they are assured that they have been adopted to the hope of eternal salvation. Undoubtedly, if they would maintain their doctrine, they must of necessity either take away the Spirit of God from the elect, or make even the Spirit himself subject to uncertainty. Both of these things are openly at variance with Paul’s doctrine. Hence we may know the nature of faith to be this, that conscience has from the Holy Spirit a sure testimony of the good-will of God towards it, so that, resting upon this, it does not hesitate to invoke God as a Father. Thus Paul lifts up our faith above the world, that it may look down with lofty disdain upon all the pride of the flesh; for otherwise it will be always timid and wavering, because we see how boldly human ingenuity exalts itself, the haughtiness of which requires to be trodden under foot by the sons of God through means of an opposing haughtiness of heroical magnanimity. 121121 “Fondee en vne magnanimite heroique;” — “Founded upon a heroical magnanimity.”
That we may know the things that are given us by Christ. The word know is made use of to express more fully the assurance of confidence. Let us observe, however, that it is not acquired in a natural way, and is not attained by the mental capacity, but depends entirely on the revelation of the Spirit. The things that he makes mention of as given by Christ are the blessings that we obtain through his death and resurrection — that being reconciled to God, and having obtained remission of sins, we know that we have been adopted to the hope of eternal life, and that, being sanctified by the Spirit of regeneration, we are made new creatures, that we may live to God. In Ephesians 1:18, he says what amounts to the same thing —
“That ye may know what is the hope of your calling.”
13. Which things also we speak, not in the learned words, etc. He speaks of himself, for he is still employed in commending his ministry. Now it is a high commendation that he pronounces upon his preaching, when he says of it that it contains a secret revelation of the most important matters — the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, the sum of our salvation, and the inestimable treasures of Christ, that the Corinthians may know how highly it ought to be prized. In the meantime he returns to the concession that he had made before — that his preaching had not been adorned with any glitter of words, and had no luster of elegance, but was contented with the simple doctrine of the Holy Spirit. By the learned words of human wisdom 122122 “A similar rendering is given in some of the old English versions of the Scriptures. Thus, Wiclif’s version, (1380,) it is rendered “not in wise wordis of mannes wisdom:” in Tyndale’s version (1534) — “not in the connynge wordes of mannes wysdome: and in Rhemls version (1582) — “not in learned wordes of humane wisedom.” — Ed. he means those that savor of human learning, and are polished according to the rules of the rhetoricians, or blown up with philosophical loftiness, with a view to excite the admiration of the hearers. The words taught by the Spirit, on the other hand, are such as are adapted to a pure and simple style, corresponding to the dignity of the Spirit, rather than to an empty ostentation. For in order that eloquence may not be wanting, we must always take care that the wisdom of God be not polluted with any borrowed and profane luster. Paul’s manner of teaching was of such a kind, that the power of the Spirit shone forth in it single and unattired, without any foreign aid.
Spiritual things with spiritual Συγκρινεσθαι is used here, I have no doubt, in the sense of adapt This is sometimes the meaning of the word, 123123 “Es bons autheurs;” — “In good authors.” (as Budaeus shows by a quotation from Aristotle,)and hence συγκριμα is used to mean what is knit together or glued together, and certainly it suits much better with Paul’s context than compare or liken, as others have rendered it. He says then that he adapts spiritual things to spiritual, in accommodating the words to the subject; 124124 Beza’s view is substantially the same — “Verba rei accommodantes, ut, sicut spiritualia sunt quae docemus, neque sinceritas doctrinae caelestis ullis humanis commentis est depravata, ita spirituale sit nostrum illius docendae ghenus: — “Accommodating the words to the subject, so that as the things at we teach are spiritual, and the purity of heavenly doctrine is not corrupted by human contrivances, our mode of teaching it may in like manner be spiritual.” — Ed. that is, he tempers that heavenly wisdom of the Spirit with a simple style of speech, and of such a nature as carries in its front the native energy of the Spirit. In the meantime he reproves others, who, by an affected elegance of expression and show of refinement, endeavor to obtain the applause of men, as persons who are either devoid of solid truth, or, by unbecoming ornaments, corrupt the spiritual doctrine of God.
14. But the animal man. 125125 “Or l’homme naturel. A le traduire du Grec mot a mot, il y auroit l’homme animal;” — “But the natural man. Rendering the Greek literally it means the animal man.” By the animal man he does not mean (as is commonly thought) the man that is given up to gross lusts, or, as they say, to his own sensuality, but any man that is endowed with nothing more than the faculties 126126 “Les facultes et graces;” — “The faculties and gifts.” of nature. 127127 Beza’s definition of the term is much similar — “Homo non alia quam naturali animi luce praeditus;” — “A man that is not endowed with anything more than the natural light of the mind.” — Ed. This appears from the corresponding term, for he draws a comparison between the animal man and the spiritual As the latter denotes the man whose understanding is regulated by the illumination of the Spirit of God, there can be no doubt that the former denotes the man that is left in a purely natural condition, as they speak. For the soul 128128 “Anima“ “the soul” corresponds to the Greek term ψυχη, and the Hebrew term נפש, while spiritus (spirit) corresponds to πνευμα and רוח; but Calvin employs the epithet animalis (animal) as a derivative from anima, (the soul,) and as designating the man whose soul is in a purely natural state — without supernatural illumination — in other words, the man of mere mind. — Ed belongs to nature, but the Spirit is of supernatural communication.
He returns to what he had previously touched upon, for his object is to remove a stumblingblock which might stand in the way of the weak — that there were so many that despised the gospel. He shows that we ought to make no account of a contempt of such a nature as proceeds from ignorance, and that it ought, consequently, to be no hindrance in the way of our going forward in the race of faith, unless perhaps we choose to shut our eyes upon the brightness of the sun, because it is not seen by the blind. It would, however, argue great ingratitude in any individual, when God bestows upon him a special favor, to reject it, on the ground of its not being common to all, whereas, on the contrary, its very rareness ought to enhance its value. 129129 “D’autant qu’il est fait a peu de gens, d’autant doit-il estre trouue plus excellent;” — “The fewer it is conferred upon, it ought to be accounted so much the more valuable.”
For they are foolishness to him, neither can he know them. “The doctrine of the gospel,” says he, “is insipid 130130 “Et n’auoir point de goust;” — “And has no relish.” in the view of all that are wise merely in the view of man. But whence comes this? It is from their own blindness. In what respect, then, does this detract from the majesty of the gospel?” In short, while ignorant persons depreciate the gospel, because they measure its value by the estimation in which it is held by men, Paul derives an argument from this for extolling more highly its dignity. For he teaches that the reason why it is contemned is that it is unknown, and that the reason why it is unknown is that it is too profound and sublime to be apprehended by the understanding of man. What a superior wisdom 131131 “O quelle sagesse!“ — “O what wisdom!” this is, which so far transcends all human understanding, that man cannot have so much as a taste of it! 132132 “Vn petit goust;” — “A slight taste.” While, however, Paul here tacitly imputes it to the pride of the flesh, that mankind dare to condemn as foolish what they do not comprehend, he at the same time shows how great is the weakness or rather bluntness of the human understanding, when he declares it to be incapable of spiritual apprehension. For he teaches, that it is not owing simply to the obstinacy of the human will, but to the impotency, also, of the understanding, that man does not attain to the things of the Spirit. Had he said that men are not willing to be wise, that indeed would have been true, but he states farther that they are not able. Hence we infer, that faith is not in one’s own power, but is divinely conferred.
Because they are spiritually discerned That is, the Spirit of God, from whom the doctrine of the gospel comes, is its only true interpreter, to open it up to us. Hence in judging of it, men’s minds must of necessity be in blindness until they are enlightened by the Spirit of God. 133133 “The reader will find the Apostle’s statement respecting the “natural man” commented upon at some length in the Institutes, volume 1. — Ed. Hence infer, that all mankind are by nature destitute of the Spirit of God: otherwise the argument would be inconclusive. It is from the Spirit of God, it is true, that we have that feeble spark of reason which we all enjoy; but at present we are speaking of that special discovery of heavenly wisdom which God vouchsafes to his sons alone. Hence the more insufferable the ignorance of those who imagine that the gospel is offered to mankind in common in such a way that all indiscriminately are free 134134 Calvin obviously does not mean to deny that “all indiscriminately” are invited and warranted to “embrace salvation by faith.” He says in the Harmony, volume 3, “For since by his word he [God] calls all men indiscriminately to salvation, and since the end of preaching is, that all should betake themselves to his guardianship and protection, it may justly be said that he wills to gather all to himself.” His meaning is, that the will requires to be set free by the Spirit of God. — Ed. to embrace salvation by faith.
15. But the spiritual man judgeth all things. Having stripped of all authority man’s carnal judgment, he now teaches, that the spiritual alone are fit judges as to this matter, inasmuch as God is known only by his Spirit, and it is his peculiar province to distinguish between his own things and those of others, to approve of what is his own, and to make void all things else. The meaning, then, is this: “Away with all the discernment of the flesh as to this matter! It is the spiritual man alone that has such a firm and solid acquaintance with the mysteries of God, as to distinguish without fail between truth and falsehood — between the doctrine of God and the contrivances of man, so as not to fall into mistake. 135135 “En cest endroit“ — “In this matter.” He, on the other hand, is judged by no man, because the assurance of faith is not subject to men, as though they could make it totter at their nod, 136136 “Pour estre ou n’estre point selon qu’il leur plaira;” — “So as to be or not to be, according as it shall please them.” it being superior even to angels themselves.” Observe, that this prerogative is not ascribed to the man as an individual, but to the word of God, which the spiritual follow in judging, and which is truly dictated to them by God with true discernment. Where that is afforded, a man’s persuasion 137137 “Et foy;” — “And faith.” is placed beyond the range of human judgment. Observe, farther, the word rendered judged: by which the Apostle intimates, that we are not merely enlightened by the Lord to perceive the truth, but are also endowed with a spirit of discrimination, so as not to hang in doubt between truth and falsehood, but are able to determine what we ought to shun and what to follow.
But here it may be asked, who is the spiritual man, and where we may find one that is endowed with so much light as to be prepared to judge of all things, feeling as we do, that we are at all times encompassed with much ignorance, and are in danger of erring: nay more, even those who come nearest to perfection from time to time fall and bruise themselves. The answer is easy: Paul does not extend this faculty to everything, so as to represent all that are renewed by the Spirit of God as exempt from every kind of error, but simply designs to teach, that the wisdom of the flesh is of no avail for judging of the doctrine of piety, and that this right of judgment and authority belong exclusively to the Spirit of God. In so far, therefore, as any one is regenerated, and according to the measure of grace conferred upon him, does he judge with accuracy and certainty, and no farther.
He himself is judged by no man. I have already explained on what ground he says that the spiritual man is not subject to the judgment of any man — because the truth of faith, which depends on God alone, and is grounded on his word, does not stand or fall according to the pleasure of men. 138138 “N’est point suiete au plaisir des hommes, pour estre ou n’estre point, selon qu’ils voudront;” — “It is not subject to the pleasure of men, so as to be, or not to be, according as they shall choose.” What he says afterwards, that
the spirit of one Prophet is subject to the other Prophets,
(1 Corinthians 14:32,)
is not at all inconsistent with this statement. For what is the design of that subjection, but that each of the Prophets listens to the others, and does not despise or reject their revelations, in order that what is discovered to be the truth of God, 139139 “La pure verite du Seigneur;” — “The pure truth of the Lord.” may at length remain firm, and be received by all? Here, however, he places the science of faith, which has been received from God, 140140 “Mais yci il establit et conferme la science de roy, laquelle les eleus recoyuent de Dieu;” — “But here he establishes and confirms the science of faith, which the elect have received from God.” above the height of heaven and earth, in order that it may not be estimated by the judgment of men. At the same time, ὕπ ᾿ οὐδενός may be taken in the neuter gender as meaning — by nothing, understanding it as referring to a thing, and not to a man. In this way the contrast will be more complete, 141141 “Et expresse;” — “And exact.” as intimating that the spiritual man, in so far as he is endowed with the Spirit of God, judgeth all things, but is judged by nothing, because he is not subject to any human wisdom or reason. In this way, too, Paul would exempt the consciences of the pious from all decrees, laws, and censures of men.
16. For who hath known? It is probable that Paul had an eye to what we read in the 40th chapter of Isaiah. The Prophet there asks,
Who hath been God’s counselor? Who hath weighed his Spirit, 142142 The expression made use of by Isaiah is, Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord? Our author, quoting from memory, seems to have had in his eye an expression that occurs in a preceding part of the same passage, “and weighed the mountains in scales.” — Ed. (Isaiah 40:13,)
or hath aided him both in the creation of the world and in his other works? and, in fine, who hath comprehended the reason of his works? Now, in like manner Paul, by this interrogation, designs to teach, that his secret counsel which is contained in the gospel is far removed from the understanding of men. This then is a confirmation of the preceding statement.
But we have the mind of Christ. It is uncertain whether he speaks of believers universally, or of ministers exclusively. Either of these meanings will suit sufficiently well with the context, though I prefer to view it as referring more particularly to himself and other faithful ministers. 143143 Calvin, when alluding to this passage, as he evidently does in his Commentary on Romans 11:34, views the expression, We have the mind of Christ, as applicable to believers universally — “Nam et Paulus ipso alibi, postquam testatus erat onmia Dei mysteria ingenii nostri captum longe excedere, mox tamen subjicit, fideles tenere mentem Domini: quia non spiritum hujus mundi acceperint, sed a Deo sibi datum, per quem de incomprehensibili alioqui ejus bonitate edocentur;” — “For even Paul himself, in another place, after testifying that all the mysteries of God far exceed the capacity of our understanding, does nevertheless immediately add, that believers are in possession of the Lord’s mind, because they have received not the spirit of this world, but that which has been given them by God, whereby they are instructed as to his otherwise incomprehensible goodness.” — Ed. He says, then, that the servants of the Lord are taught by the paramount authority of the Spirit, what is farthest removed from the judgment of the flesh, that they may speak fearlessly as from the mouth of the Lord, — which gift flows out afterwards by degrees to the whole Church.
118 “Assauoir, Fera, or Preparera;” — “Namely — He will do, or He will prepare.”
119 The word made use of by Isaiah is מחכה, which is a part of the verb חכה, to wait for, and Calvin’s meaning most probably is, that the “Greek interpreters had (from the resemblance between ב and כ) been led into the mistake of supposing it to be a part of the verb חבב, to love, while the corresponding part of the latter verb — מחובב, manifestly differs very widely from the word made use of by the Prophet. There appears, how ever, to have been an oversight, in this instance, on the part of Calvin, as the word in the Septuagint version is not the word made use of by the Apostle — ἀγαπῶσιν, “them that love” (him,) but (corresponding to the word made use of bythe Prophet ὑπομένουσιν, “them that wait for” (him.) It is not a little singular, that Clemens Romanus (Ep. ad Cor. Sect. 34.) quotes the words of Isaiah precisely as Paul quotes them, with the exception of the last clause, which he gives as follows: ὅσα ἡτοιμασε τοις ὑπομένουσιν αὐτὸν — “which he hath prepared for them that wait for him.” Some have supposed the citation to have been taken from one or other of the two Apocryphal books, entitled, “The Ascension of Esaiah,” and “The Apocalyps of Elias,” in both of which this passage was found, but, as is justly observed by Horne in his Introduction (volume 2,) “it is so near to the Hebrew here both in sense and words, that we cannot suppose it to be taken from any other source, nor in this case would the Apostle have introduced it with the formula of quotation — as it is written.” In accordance with Calvln’s remark, that “though the words are not the same, there is no real difference of meaning,” it is well observed by Poole in his Annotations, that “waiting for” God is “the certain product and effect of love to him.” — Ed
120 The reader will find this subject treated of at greater length in the Institutes, volume 2, p. 143. — Ed.
121 “Fondee en vne magnanimite heroique;” — “Founded upon a heroical magnanimity.”
122 “A similar rendering is given in some of the old English versions of the Scriptures. Thus, Wiclif’s version, (1380,) it is rendered “not in wise wordis of mannes wisdom:” in Tyndale’s version (1534) — “not in the connynge wordes of mannes wysdome: and in Rhemls version (1582) — “not in learned wordes of humane wisedom.” — Ed.
123 “Es bons autheurs;” — “In good authors.”
124 Beza’s view is substantially the same — “Verba rei accommodantes, ut, sicut spiritualia sunt quae docemus, neque sinceritas doctrinae caelestis ullis humanis commentis est depravata, ita spirituale sit nostrum illius docendae ghenus: — “Accommodating the words to the subject, so that as the things at we teach are spiritual, and the purity of heavenly doctrine is not corrupted by human contrivances, our mode of teaching it may in like manner be spiritual.” — Ed.
125 “Or l’homme naturel. A le traduire du Grec mot a mot, il y auroit l’homme animal;” — “But the natural man. Rendering the Greek literally it means the animal man.”
126 “Les facultes et graces;” — “The faculties and gifts.”
127 Beza’s definition of the term is much similar — “Homo non alia quam naturali animi luce praeditus;” — “A man that is not endowed with anything more than the natural light of the mind.” — Ed.
128 “Anima“ “the soul” corresponds to the Greek term ψυχη, and the Hebrew term נפש, while spiritus (spirit) corresponds to πνευμα and רוח; but Calvin employs the epithet animalis (animal) as a derivative from anima, (the soul,) and as designating the man whose soul is in a purely natural state — without supernatural illumination — in other words, the man of mere mind. — Ed
129 “D’autant qu’il est fait a peu de gens, d’autant doit-il estre trouue plus excellent;” — “The fewer it is conferred upon, it ought to be accounted so much the more valuable.”
130 “Et n’auoir point de goust;” — “And has no relish.”
131 “O quelle sagesse!“ — “O what wisdom!”
132 “Vn petit goust;” — “A slight taste.”
133 “The reader will find the Apostle’s statement respecting the “natural man” commented upon at some length in the Institutes, volume 1. — Ed.
134 Calvin obviously does not mean to deny that “all indiscriminately” are invited and warranted to “embrace salvation by faith.” He says in the Harmony, volume 3, “For since by his word he [God] calls all men indiscriminately to salvation, and since the end of preaching is, that all should betake themselves to his guardianship and protection, it may justly be said that he wills to gather all to himself.” His meaning is, that the will requires to be set free by the Spirit of God. — Ed.
135 “En cest endroit“ — “In this matter.”
136 “Pour estre ou n’estre point selon qu’il leur plaira;” — “So as to be or not to be, according as it shall please them.”
137 “Et foy;” — “And faith.”
138 “N’est point suiete au plaisir des hommes, pour estre ou n’estre point, selon qu’ils voudront;” — “It is not subject to the pleasure of men, so as to be, or not to be, according as they shall choose.”
139 “La pure verite du Seigneur;” — “The pure truth of the Lord.”
140 “Mais yci il establit et conferme la science de roy, laquelle les eleus recoyuent de Dieu;” — “But here he establishes and confirms the science of faith, which the elect have received from God.”
141 “Et expresse;” — “And exact.”
142 The expression made use of by Isaiah is, Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord? Our author, quoting from memory, seems to have had in his eye an expression that occurs in a preceding part of the same passage, “and weighed the mountains in scales.” — Ed.
143 Calvin, when alluding to this passage, as he evidently does in his Commentary on Romans 11:34, views the expression, We have the mind of Christ, as applicable to believers universally — “Nam et Paulus ipso alibi, postquam testatus erat onmia Dei mysteria ingenii nostri captum longe excedere, mox tamen subjicit, fideles tenere mentem Domini: quia non spiritum hujus mundi acceperint, sed a Deo sibi datum, per quem de incomprehensibili alioqui ejus bonitate edocentur;” — “For even Paul himself, in another place, after testifying that all the mysteries of God far exceed the capacity of our understanding, does nevertheless immediately add, that believers are in possession of the Lord’s mind, because they have received not the spirit of this world, but that which has been given them by God, whereby they are instructed as to his otherwise incomprehensible goodness.” — Ed.
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End manipulations on the number of victims of the NATO bombing
Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies, 29.2.2016.
The Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies strongly condemns the constant trend of abuse of the number of civilian and armed forces casualties during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
The latest example is the assessment of Nenad Popović, president of the Serbian People’s Party, presented in the Blic daily under the heading “FOR OR AGAINST – Should Serbia join NATO”, that “thousands of our citizens lost their lives during the bombing”.
Similar arbitrary assessments are almost regularly put forward by all Serbian high officials, especially during commemorative manifestations on occasions marking the start of the bombing. Thus, on the occasion marking the fifteenth anniversary the Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić stated: “It would be easier for us if we had, alongside of the names of thousands of innocent victims we mention and mourn, a name of at least one convicted executioner”. The Serbian Prime Minister at the time, Ivica Dačić, also spoke on the occasion of “more than 2.000 people”.
The website of the Russian Federation in Serbia states, in an article published regarding the commemoration of the fourteenth anniversary of the bombing, that the bombing saw “at least 2.500 people killed”, and similar assessments could be heard from other Russian officials as well.
Unfortunately, such arbitrary assessments can be heard from many other actors of public life too, and the media mainly report them as unquestionable.
CEAS reminds that the Humanitarian Law Center, based on comprehensive research conducted based on more than 31,000 documents, statements of witnesses, family members, photographs and other sources came to the following, unambiguous data, published in 2015, available at the following web address: http://www.hlc-rdc.org/?cat=282
In Serbia (excluding Kosovo) and Montenegro, 275 persons lost their lives in the NATO bombing, namely: 180 civilians, 90 members of the Yugoslav Armed Forces, five members of the Ministry of Interior of Serbia. Aside from three Chinese citizens, all others were FRY citizens.
In Kosovo, 484 persons lost their lives, namely: 267 civilians (209 Albanian and 58 non-Albanian) 171 members of the Yugoslav Armed Forces, 20 members of the Ministry of Interior of Serbia and 26 members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (19 out of these 26 KLA members were killed in the NATO bombing of the Dubrava penitentiary near Istok).
Furthermore, since the start of 1998, until the end of 2000, 13.500 persons lost their lives in clashes in Kosovo, out of which approx. 10.800 Albanians, 2.200 Serbia and around 500 Roma and other non-Albanians. This context is rather more sidelined in Serbia, despite mass graves of Kosovo Albanians discovered on the territory of Serbia proper, for which almost no one has been indicted before domestic courts.
Given these data that is now available to everyone, whose collection methodology has been verified by world-renowned demographers and forensic experts on the one hand; as well as the approximation of early elections expected to see campaigns overlapping with yet another NATO bombing anniversary, and that Serbia-NATO relations are now a more frequent and more heated topic in our public on the other; CEAS appeals for an end to unnecessary increases in the numbers of alleged victims, as actual numbers are shocking enough as they are. Any further disclosure of inaccurate data will be a sign of disrespect for the victims, hidden aspirations, manipulation of the public, media and public irresponsibility, which has nothing to do with paying respect to the dead.
Belgrade, February 29, 2016
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Our weekly Kenilworth & Warwick Markets will remain open for essential stalls during the National Lockdown
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The monthly farmers’ market in Leamington is relaunching in March with a new monthly date
The market usually takes place on the fourth Saturday of each month, but following a drop in stall numbers over the last 12 months the organisers are trying every attempt to keep the market alive. With permission from the Council the new date will hope to breathe new life into the regular farmers market, which will now take place every second Saturday of the month from 9 March.
The market usually takes place on the fourth Saturday of the month, however this clashes with other high profile farmers' markets within the region.
Jamie Walker of CJ's Events Warwickshire said: 'Leamington farmers' market has been one of our markets we have struggled with over the past 12 months. With the slightly out of town position, restrictions on who we can have attend & other larger farmers' markets within the region, it has caused our stall numbers to drop. We had to move from the Pump Room Gardens late last year due to the works and are now outside the Town Hall, this has helped footfall slightly, but we still have work to do in both attracting new traders & footfall.'
He added: 'Being able to buy fresh, locally produced food is really important and we have some fantastic food & drink producers within the district, now we can move the monthly market, we can revitalise the farmers market to help support them in offering their products to the public.'
The operators hope the new monthly date will now mean more traders will be interested in trading, which will give the market a bigger presence in the town.
The market will now take place on the second Saturday of the month from 9 March outside Leamington Town Hall between 9am and 2pm.
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Audiobook TDY
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AUDIOBOOK: Understanding the War Industry
SEEKING TRUTH IN A COUNTRY OF LIES
NARRATED BY DOUGLAS VALENTINE
CIA thriller based on a true Vietnam War story
This novel by Douglas Valentine, author of the nonfiction bestseller The CIA as Organized Crime, is based on a true story, one told to him by a Vietnam veteran, and barely, yet grippingly, fictionalized here.
In early 1967, a bored, adventurous photojournalist on an Air Force base in Texas is offered a Temporary Duty (TDY) assignment somewhere overseas. The mission is steeped in secrecy, but Pete is promised a large bonus and hazardous duty pay. The mission that unfolds is terrifying beyond anything Pete ever imagined.
“I read it in suspense and found the last revelations after the mission even more disturbing.” —OLIVER STONE
“As no other writer, Doug Valentine has been to the heart of darkness in American foreign policy and come back with stories of historic moment. His brilliant, courageous work is revelation, prophecy, wisdom. It will stand as a singular mark of our saving capacity to learn. ” —ROGER MORRIS, author of Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America
“The elements of this book fit together like the layers of an onion, each one surrounding and making opaque the layers beneath. It’s like a detective story, a Vietnam War version of Chinatown, the impact of which depends on twists which are part of protecting the secrecy of the mission and the ignorant innocence of the American public.” —BILL TREMBLAY, Dissident Voice
“I immediately related to protagonist Pete’s description of his TDY saga in Southeast Asia where I had been TDY as well, depressingly experiencing the US war as a corrupt, lying murder machine… This compelling story will keep you on edge throughout… It painfully educates the reader on the grotesque deceit, greed, ruthlessness, rampant corruption, and moral issues intrinsically inherent in war and secrecy.”—S. BRIAN WILLSON, author, Don’t Thank Me For My Service
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This novel by Douglas Valentine, author of the nonfiction bestseller The CIA as Organized Crime, is based on a true story, one told to him in his youth by his father, and barely, yet grippingly, fictionalized here.
In early 1967, a bored, adventurous photojournalist on an Air Force base in Texas is offered a Temporary Duty (TDY) assignment somewhere overseas. The mission is steeped in secrecy, but Pete is promised a large bonus and hazardous duty pay. So he agrees.
He and a small group of photojournalists, each with a special skill, are isolated on a Special Forces base where they are kept under constant surveillance by a group of highly trained and menacing soldiers. The small band of twelve men is flown overseas on a transport plane large enough for 120 men. They are never told where they are going, until they arrive. And when they finally reach their destination, the mission that unfolds is terrifying beyond anything Pete ever imagined.
TDY tells how “black operations” are organized and conducted. Meticulous in detail, and accurate in every aspect of “over the fence” missions deep into enemy territory, it reveals for the uninitiated the skill, determination, and self-sacrifice of American soldiers.
In stark contrast to the honor and commitment of these soldiers, TDY reveals the unimaginable duplicity and corruption of powerful men for whom American soldiers and civilians are pawns in a ruthless game.
Written in sparing prose, TDY is a story of Pete’s journey through the underworld and his awakening to the reality of the Vietnam War and the CIA role in Southeast Asia.
Douglas Valentine is an American journalist and author of four works of historical non-fiction: The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program, The Strength of the Wolf (winner of the Choice Academic Library Award), and The Strength of the Pack. His articles have appeared regularly in CounterPunch, ConsortiumNews, and elsewhere.
Portions of his research materials are archived at the National Security Archive (both a Vietnam Collection and a separate Drug Enforcement Collection), Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Center, and John Jay College. He provided expert testimony at the King v Jowers trial on the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination at the request of the King family.
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Online ExclusivesIndustry News: December 2018
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Browns Mailbag
Browns Mailbag: Is everything on the table at No. 10?
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We've made it. We've finally made it.
Happy Draft Eve. The anticipation makes it almost as good as Draft Day, doesn't it?
We're riding the wave of that excitement while answering five of your questions on this lovely Wednesday in Northeast Ohio.
Hey Andrew, my favorite uni combination is still the white on white, which is a big time classic look from back in the 60s. That combination wasn't shown in the primary release photos, so I need you to tell me that we will still be seeing them in the future. -- Chris P., Hemet, California
Yes, that will be an available combination. How could we not? We had that look featured in our main image upon release and you can check out a few shots of it in our photo gallery of the new uniforms.
We need a stronger D. Get Malik Harrison from the Buckeyes!! What are the chances? -- Jon S., Marysville
Well, I hope you enjoyed my latest seven-round mock draft, which has the Browns taking Harrison in the fourth round. Does that mean it's going to happen? Of course not. But Harrison is an intriguing player for a Browns team that boasts one of the league's youngest linebacker rooms. NFL.com's Lance Zierlein compares Harrison to Seahawks veteran K.J. Wright and sees him as a potential future starter on the inside for a team that utilizes a 4-3 defense. Harrison is strongest against the run, and that's an area where the Browns need to improve, especially when you consider the division in which they play. In his latest seven-round mock draft, The Athletic's Dane Brugler projects Harrison to be selected late in the third round.
What right guards do you think Andrew Berry and Paul DePodesta have targeted on their draft board, and what round do you think they will select one to hopefully start for the Browns this year? -- Gary B., Butler, Pennsylvania
Some of the best guard prospects in this year's draft include Netani Muti (Fresno State), Jonah Jackson (Ohio State), Damien Lewis (LSU), Cesar Ruiz (Michigan) and Tyler Biadasz (Wisconsin). They're all very good, are projected as late-first or second-rounders and likely will become starters wherever they land. Here's the thing, though. The Browns aren't in a position where they have to draft their future starter at right guard.
There are a handful of options on the current roster led by Wyatt Teller, who started the bulk of the games during the second half of the season. His progress throughout the year was noticeable and he earned the respect of his teammates, who watched him work behind the scenes to pick up Cleveland's offense after landing with the Browns in a late preseason trade from Buffalo. There's also Drew Forbes, the former sixth-round pick who shined near the end of preseason last year before suffering a knee injury. He's certainly in the mix to compete at that spot, too.
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Any chance the Browns trade (maybe 3rd rounder) for Trent Williams on draft day and then slide up in the first round to grab LB Isaiah Simmons? What, in your opinion, would that take to do? -- Craig H., Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania
I'm not in the business of predicting what kind of trades the Browns could make on Draft Day, or really any other time because that's the kind of information I'm simply not privy to. So I can't answer the first part of your question. What I can do, however, is throw out an idea of what it would take to move up to ensure landing a player like Simmons or anyone else who is projected to land somewhere in the top 10.
Let's toss three potential moves out there, depending on how the board might fall.
The first: Moving from 10 to 7, where the Panthers sit. Back in 2016, the Bears traded up from 11 to 9 to land DE Leonard Floyd. All it took was a fourth-round pick to pull it off.
The second: Moving from 10 to 5, where the Dolphins sit with their first of three first-round picks. A similar type of move was made in 2018, when the Bills went from 12 to 7 to land QB Josh Allen. That essentially required the Bills to part with two second-round picks.
The third: Moving from 10 to 3, where the Lions sit and where many believe the draft "truly starts" after the expected selections of QB Joe Burrow and DE Chase Young. Let's go back to 2014 for this comparison, as the Browns traded down from No. 4 to No. 9 with the Bills, who selected WR Sammy Watkins. The Bills parted with their 2015 first-round pick and 2015 fourth-rounder to make it happen.
If we stay at pick No. 10 in the first round, should we consider selecting anyone (such as WRs Jerry Jeudy or CeeDee Lamb) other than the top four offensive tackles (Tristan Wirfs, Mekhi Becton, Andrew Thomas, and Jedrick Wills) and all-around defensive dynamo Isaiah Simmons? -- Nick D., Wayne, West Virginia
That line of thinking has been made pretty clear in recent conference calls by Andrew Berry and Paul DePodesta. The Browns did a lot of work this past month shoring up the roster and addressing a number of areas of perceived weakness. Though there isn't a clear starter at left tackle at the moment, the Browns aren't in a position where they HAVE to select a player from that position at No. 10. On the flip side, Cleveland isn't in a position to feel like it's set with what it's got anywhere on the field, meaning it won't pass up a talented player who ranks as the best player available just because there are a couple of other good players on the roster who play the same position.
"Our outlook with the draft has really been to scout and evaluate as if you have an expansion roster. That is really the case every year," Berry said. "We do not really go into a fall or spring and just say, 'Hey, look, we are just going to hone in on these specific positions.' Again, the draft is more about maximizing the amount of talent and the long-term talent on your team as opposed to filling needs. Very few rookies come in and hit the ground running and play at a Pro Bowl-caliber level in their first year. I think that is the wrong focus."
Berry said he and his group have worked through a number of different scenarios in the days leading up to the draft. If the board falls one way, they'll act one way. If it goes another, they'll do something different. That's how it's supposed to work when you aren't drafting specifically to fill a need.
"I really don't anticipate us being pigeon-holed into any specific direction or any specific side of the ball," Berry said. "We are going to go into it more with the approach of maximizing the overall talent that we can add to the roster [as opposed to having to fill needs]."
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Press Releases Fujifilm to Acquire MSD BioManufacturing Network
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Fujifilm to Acquire MSD BioManufacturing Network
Fujifilm Corporation and Merck, known as MSD outside the US and Canada, have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement by which Fujifilm will acquire the Merck BioManufacturing Network, a leading provider of contract manufacturing and development
services for the biopharmaceutical industry and wholly owned by Merck.
“Fujifilm continues to build upon its ongoing commitment to delivering pharmaceutical business,” said Shigetaka Komori, president and chief executive officer of Fujifilm Corporation. “This acquisition provides an important addition to our pharmaceutical business with diverse
capabilities and technical expertise in production of protein therapeutics.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Fujifilm will purchase all of the equity interests in two Merck subsidiaries (Diosynth RTP and MSD Biologics) which together own all assets of the Merck BioManufacturing Network comprising facilities located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (Diosynth RTP) and Billingham, UK (MSD Biologics); and including manufacturing contracts, business support operations and a highly skilled workforce. As part of the agreement with Fujifilm, Merck / MSD has committed to certain continued development and manufacturing activities with these two companies. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
“When Merck / MSD combined its biopharmaceutical manufacturing services businesses in the US and UK, into the Merck BioManufacturing Network, we established one of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing organisations,” said Willie A. Deese,
executive vice president and president, Merck Manufacturing Division. “With this transaction, Merck / MSD becomes a key customer that will continue to benefit from the expertise and experience of the combined businesses in biologics development and manufacturing.”
The effectiveness of the agreement is subject to the expiration or earlier termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, if applicable, as well as other customary closing conditions.
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Axelar AXL-003 demonstrates efficacy in second line treatment of lung cancer patients
1st April 2013 (Last Updated April 1st, 2013 18:30)
Swedish biotech company Axelar has reported preliminary interim results of its Phase II study indicating AXL-003's efficacy as a second-line treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Swedish biotech company Axelar has reported preliminary interim results of its Phase II study indicating AXL-003’s efficacy as a second-line treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
The randomised open-label study compares AXL1717 with docetaxel in patients with previously treated, locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC.
The primary endpoint is progression free survival (PFS) after 12 weeks.
"The randomised open-label study compares AXL1717 with docetaxel in patients with previously treated, locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC."
Axelar CEO Dr Carl Harald Janson said AXL1717 demonstrated a positive impact in the difficult-to-treat patient population.
"The encouraging trial data provides a platform for the further development of AXL1717. I look forward to finalising this trial and preparing for the next step in development," Janson said.
According to preliminary analysis, AXL1717 rate of PFS is similar to docetaxel after 12 weeks. The most frequent serious adverse events include cases with neutropenia occurring in both treatment regimes.
The company finalised the trial to have 100 patients instead of the planned 140, on the basis of the interim data.
97 patients who were previously enrolled will be continue treatment and will be monitored in the study.
Karolinska Development CEO Dr Torbjörn Bjerke said; "Based on these interim results, we believe that AXL1717 has the potential to become an important part of future treatment options available to clinicians as well as a valuable asset for Karolinska Development."
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London Drugs to create ‘Local Central’ aisle for small businesses to sell products
Small businesses in Western Canada are invited to immediately submit products for consideration
Apr. 29, 2020 11:45 a.m.
A retail giant is reaching out to the little guy, offering to give small businesses a boost during the COVID-19 pandemic.
London Drugs announced Tuesday that space will be set aside in select stores, and small businesses that have been forced to shut their doors will be able to sell their products on London Drugs shelves.
“This is a really hard time for many small businesses, and we are in a unique position where we can really help out,” said London Drugs President and COO Clint Mahlman. “As a 75-year-old Canadian owned and operated company we have always supported fellow Canadian businesses and now is the time more than ever, to come together.”
The program is first being targeted at Vancouver and Victoria stores but small businesses across the province are invited to apply.
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The retail giant also said its flyers will continue running in more than 80 local newspapers across B.C.
“We know printed flyers are crucial for community newspapers especially during these challenging times,” a blog post from the company stated.
“London Drugs knows that for many people in our smaller communities especially, these publications are an essential source for news and information and something residents look forward to.”
The company plans to turn centre aisles in select stores into ‘Local Central,’ and small businesses in Western Canada are invited to immediately submit products for consideration.
“Whether you sell coffee, local honey, or your restaurant’s graphic T-shirts, London Drugs is here to help,” Mahlman said.
Small business owners can apply online and must meet a handful of restrictions including:
– Must have a valid Canadian business license or permit.
– Business must be based in Western Canada (B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba).
– No alcohol, cannabis or tobacco products.
– Products must be physical items (cannot be service-based).
– Businesses deemed essential services (e.g. grocery stores) that are operating at full capacity do not qualify.
– Products must not require refrigeration or freezing.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business reports that only 21 per cent of small businesses in Canada are fully open due to the COVID-19 global pandemic and 50 per cent have reported that they are unsure if their business will survive.
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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 21, 2021?
10 free events take place on Thursday, January 21 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!
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Film | The Pulse of Time: Documentary, Explore Artworks from Various Civilizations (virtual, streaming for 24 hours)
Louvre Abu Dhabi presents The Pulse of Time, a captivating story of humanity through a film inspired by the museum's artworks. It offers a poetic narration of the stories of masterpieces from the museum's collection and loaned works that will spark your imagination and curiosity and show that we, as humans, have more in common than we know. The film can be watched anytime of the day and night.
Slide Lecture | 500 Years of Raphael: Extraordinary Genius (virtual)
Explore Raphael's short but beautiful life, extraordinary genius and influence on artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Last year marked the 500th anniversary of the death of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, painter, architect, and indisputable genius of the High Renaissance. It was said that Raphael's brushwork could give flesh and life to anything from complex theology to a flirtatious baker's daughter. He rose to the rank of confidant to the Renaissance's most powerful popes, Julius II and Leo X, who entrusted him with providing the paintings, architecture, and archaeology to reconcile Catholic Rome with its pagan past. Presented by art historian Alard von Rohr-Demmin.
Classical Music | Renowned Violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman, Alan Gilbert, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (virtual)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor; Frank Peter Zimmerman, violin Program Ravel Une barque sur l'ocean R. Schumann Violin Concerto in d minor Lili Boulanger D'un matin de printemps Albert Roussel Bacchus et Ariane Suite No. 2 Please note: the event can be watched on the date and time indicated in the listing, not before.
Classical Music | Masters of the Baroque (music)
Instrumental virtuosos of the Baroque period perform. Musicians: Daphna Mor, recorder Martha McGaughey, viola da gamba Arthur Haas, harpsichord Daniel S. Lee, violin
Book Discussion | Sanctuary: Author and Trinity Lutheran Church Pastor Talks about her Book (virtual)
Heidi Neumark, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church on 100th Street in Manhattan will disclose the multiple ways the church and its members have early seized and grappled with the issues of our times, from AIDS to gentrification to a changing population and neighborhood, to providing sanctuary for LBTGQ youth. Heidi's just-published book Sanctuary tells many more of these stories. Neumark's other books include Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx and Hidden Inheritance: Family Secrets, Memory and Faith.
Workshop | High-Intensity Interval Workout (virtual)
This high-intensity interval ("HIIT") class will keep your body moving and the sweat dripping! This class will incorporate combinations of 20 seconds of work + 10 seconds of rest; 30 seconds of work + 15 seconds of rest; and 40 seconds of work + 20 seconds of rest. No equipment needed; mat and towel are optional. All fitness levels welcome!
Classical Music | Songs by Rachmaninoff, One-Act Opera and More (virtual)
Pianist Clipper Erickson and soprano Holly Gash perform David Finko's tour de force one-act opera, The Diaries of Maria Bashkirtseva. Written in 2018, it captures the emotional turmoil of the Russian painter and diarist as she faces death from tuberculosis at age 25. Immerse yourself in the drama alongside songs and preludes of Rachmaninoff and the premiere of Finko's latest piano sonata (2020).
Staged Reading | A Black and White Cookie: Post-Pandemic Drama (virtual)
In the funny post-pandemic drama, Harold Wilson, a gruff, conservative African American senior, has finally reopened his East Village newsstand following the coronavirus lockdown. Then an exorbitant rent increase forces him to close after 30 years and reluctantly retire to Florida with his niece. Enter Albie Sands, an eccentric 1960s Jewish radical, who persuades Harold to fight the landlord. Overcoming their many differences, Harold and Albie form a powerful and unlikely friendship to confront corporate greed - and prejudice. Written by Gary Morgenstein Directed by Joan Kane Cast: Morry Schorr, Roslyn Seale, Julie Pham, Mansoor Najee-ullah, Chris Collins
Discussion | Playwrights Horizons: The Meaning of Public Art and Public Space (virtual)
Join Playwrights Horizons's Artistic Director Adam Greenfield in conversation with street and subway artist Jilly Ballistic, artist, activist, and writer Avram Finklestein, and Joy Episalla, interdisciplinary artist and core member of the lesbian feminist art collective "fierce pussy," to discuss the function of art in public space and in times of crisis, as well as the driving ideas of Ballistic's newest piece, created to inaugurate Playwrights Horizons' new public art series. The art is to be displayed on the front of the company’s 42nd Street building, beginning on January 19th.
Concert | Schubert, R. Strauss, and More: Soprano, Piano and Cello (virtual)
Soprano Allison Charney presents her innovative classical concert and conversation series PREformances(TM). This seven-episode series provides an intimate and personal glimpse into top-level artists' practices along with her signature "un-Google-able" insights - all with a focus on the series' theme of hope. In this episode, Allison Charney is joined by The ARK Trio to discuss and perform works by living composers Michael Ching and Kim D. Sherman who also appear to talk about their compositions. Program Sei mir gegrusst - Schubert/Michael Ching DIE Forelle - Schubert/Michael Ching Rastlose Liebe - Schubert/Michael Ching Recipe - Kim D. Sherman Prairie Dawn - Kim D. Sherman Evening Song - Kim D. Sherman Transformation Song - Kim D. Sherman Zueignung - Richard Strauss New episode airs each Thursday at 7 pm.
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Intelligent automation: redefining employment relationships
George Zarkadakis
10 May 2018 • by George Zarkadakis
What does the future working world, enabled by automation, look like - and how can you reshape your organisation accordingly?
We are at the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is characterised by the convergence of technologies blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres. It is now possible for organisations to deconstruct jobs into component tasks and choose among many emerging options for completing these tasks, including AI and robotics, machine learning and talent on a platform.
To capture the opportunities in this new world of work, you will need an understanding of the enablers of automation as well as a framework to guide your decision making as you redefine employment relationships and organisational boundaries.
Enablers of automation
In this new world of work, it is critical for employers to understand which tasks might best be completed using intelligent automation versus other options. Three key automation technologies are particularly important:
Robotic process automation (RPA): Organisations use RPA to automate high-volume, low-complexity, routine business processes. RPA is especially effective where data needs to be updated and/or transferred from one software programme to another.
Cognitive automation: This emerging practice, which includes AI and machine learning, is used to supplement or replace humans in non-routine complex tasks. Because cognitive systems have the ability not only to quickly sift through massive amounts of data but also to reason and form hypotheses, their expertise in different areas improves over time and adds to an organisation’s knowledge base.
Social robotics: Social robotics involves the combination of physical equipment, AI and sensors, resulting in machines that interact with humans. The classic example is a driverless car or truck.
A decision-making framework
But to capture the opportunities, you need to think about work differently. With traditional employment, work is “constructed” into jobs, collected at a point and space in time, and executed through an employment relationship. The organisation is self-contained, detached, insular and protective, and has a rigid shape. The reward package is permanent, collectively consistent and uses traditional elements (e.g. money, hours, working conditions).
In a future world, work is deconstructed into tasks, dispersed in time and space, and executed through many virtual and market relationships other than traditional employment.
The organisation is permeable, interconnected and collaborative, and can change in shape. The rewards are impermanent and individually defined, and use imaginative elements (e.g. game points, reputation, mission).
Start experimenting
To get started on this journey, your company should experiment by selecting a few jobs to deconstruct. First, you might want to identify jobs in areas where your organisation is having difficulties attracting talent. Once these jobs are deconstructed into tasks, evaluate the speed-to-capability, risk and cost implications of different work options. You might then find that your best option is to access world-class talent via a talent platform for tasks requiring highly sought-after skills.
Alternatively, identify areas where work has been done in the same way for a long time and where you suspect that the work might be done faster or cheaper. For example, an organisation might decide to deconstruct a job that’s been done the same way for 20 years and use RPA to complete some of the routine tasks and hire someone on a talent platform to tackle the non-routine tasks.
Finally, it will be essential for an organisation to communicate their plans to all stakeholders — leaders, managers and employees — who will need to understand this new way of getting work done.
Deconstructing jobs and making decisions as to how best to complete the work using resources inside and outside of the organisation can confer significant competitive advantage. Analysis by Willis Towers Watson shows that when companies deconstruct jobs and distribute the work using the most efficient and effective means can typically realise savings in the 60% to 80% range. This is a significantly greater savings than the 30% typically achieved through outsourcing.
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The last retort
By David Jones2008-02-27T08:52:26+00:00
How can an atomic system (like you or me) be conscious?
How can an atomic system (like you or me) be conscious? Atoms only have mass and charge, and no aggregate of them should be ever aware of anything.
Chemists used to evade this argument by invoking ’vital force’, an enigmatic component of once-living matter. Then in 1828 W?hler discredited vital force by making an organic substance (urea) from an inorganic one (ammonium cyanate).
Since then, we have all had to wonder how any chemical system can be conscious - for human brains certainly are. And in that wonderful film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C Clarke portrayed a conscious computer, Hal. Sadly, conscious computers continue to evade technology. At the moment only living chemical machines, like ourselves and the higher animals, can claim to be conscious.
Suppose we assume that a material object becomes conscious by making some sort of weakly-coupled contact with a spiritual world, which occupies the same space as the material one. What happens if we investigate this theory scientifically? Our world is warm, at something like 300K, but the spiritual world may be much colder (which is why a ghost cools the room). My own guess couples the spiritual world to the cosmic microwave background of about 3K. I recall the zeroth law of thermodynamics, which is far too fundamental to come up in any scientific course of lectures. It merely says that everything has a temperature - and asserts that any two objects in ’thermal contact’ should equilibrate to a common temperature. No temperature-difference at all can exist between them.
So here’s an experiment. Imagine an object with some sort of spiritual content. It might be a holy relic, or a brain biochemical; but it will be slightly coupled into the cold spiritual world, and will conduct heat into that world. So if you attach it to a purely material reference object, it will be a bit colder. The two-fold specimen would persistently maintain a small difference of temperature and would disobey the zeroth law of thermodynamics. Now we chemists are used to measuring small differences of temperature - depressions of freezing-point, elevations of boiling point, heats of reaction and so on. Indeed, the classic Beckmann thermometer (Chemistry World, December 2007, p73) was invented for just this job. Good modern instrumentation should be able to spot an even tinier difference in temperature.
According to this theory, which chemical substances are most likely to disobey the zeroth law of thermodynamics? The first ones to try would be chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide, alcohol - intoxicants and anaesthetics all, but mentioned in William James’s 1902 classic, Varieties of religious experience, as possibly opening the door to the theological domain. We should also study peyote, produced by an American cactus, a substance which has a whole church devoted to its spiritual effects. And brain biochemicals, neurotransmitters and the like, deserve a scan. Yet many effective mental agents, such as the tranquillisers iproniazid and chlordiazepoxide, were discovered by sheer accident. It might be best to study organic substances pretty much at random, but to follow up any worthwhile lead. The ideal agent would have little anaesthetic effect, but would challenge the most hard-boiled materialist by a sudden exposure to the spiritual world. Once again, as with the invention of anaesthetics and tranquillisers themselves, biochemistry would transform human life! The product might be called Theological Prozac.
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Numetal raises loan defaults by firms of Lakshmi Mittal's brothers
Ispat Profiles, it asked, had unserviced debt in excess of Rs 2,000 crore and if L N Mittal was either a promoter, director or shareholder of the company.
The IBC bars promoters of delinquent firms from bidding for stressed assets.
Russia's VTB Group-backed Numetal Ltd Monday upped the ante against rival bidder ArcelorMittal, raising alleged loan defaults by firms owned by brothers of its promoter Lakshmi N Mittal, an act it said disqualifies him under the law. Numetal and ArcelorMittal are locked in fierce takeover battle of Essar Steel and two are in the Supreme Court over bidding qualification.
Numetal in a letter to the Resolution Professional conducting auction of Essar Steel to recover over Rs 49,000 crore of unpaid bank loans, and State Bank of India Monday raised loan defaults by Gontermann Peipers, Ispat Profiles India Ltd Chhatisgarh Energy Ltd, Balasore Alloys Ltd and GPI Textiles Ltd - firms associated with Pramod Mittal and Vinod Mittal -- brothers of L N Mittal.
In the letter, reviewed by PTI, Numetal asked if Gontermann Peipers was a non-performing account for more than a year at the tie of commencement of insolvency of Essar Steel in August last year and if L N Mittal was either a promoter, director or shareholder of the company.
Similar questions were raised on Chhatisgarh Energy, Balasore Alloys and GPI Textiles Ltd.
"Please confirm if these facts have been disclosed by ArcelorMittal and if the same has been disclosed - in what manner has the same been taken into consideration by the Committee of (Essar Steel) Creditors," it wrote. "We request you to confirm whether (these) facts have been verified by you to determine the eligibility of ArcelorMittal India Pvt Ltd as a Resolution Applicant under Section 29A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code."
The company further stated that Pramod Mittal is alleged to have caused over Rs 2000 crore loss to state-owned State Trading Corp (STC) and is facing cheating and fraud charges.
"Please verify if disqualification of ArcelorMittal on account of the same has been verified," it wrote.
Numetal said Vinod Mittal has been disqualified to act as a director under Companies Act 2013. "As a result, his brother LN Mittal, promoter of ArcelorMittal is disqualified under Section 29A(e) read with 29A(j). Please confirm if this fact has been disclosed by ArcelorMittal and if the same has been disclosed - in what manner has the same been taken into consideration by CoC.
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Home Entertainment Movies SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE and BLACK PANTHER free at drive-ins theaters this...
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE and BLACK PANTHER free at drive-ins theaters this Summer!
There is no better time to celebrate these inspired films...
Celebrating multi-cultural voices in film, Amazon Studios plans to host the Summer Drive-In series, double-features curated by Michael B. Jordan and his newly formed marketing arm 8788 and Outlier Society. Starting Wednesday, July 1, select theaters nationwide will be playing these films every other week through the end of August.
Proposed by Michael B. Jordan and Outlier Society, Head of Amazon Studios, Jennifer Saike, said, “We instantly agreed there was no better time to celebrate these inspired films featuring diverse stories while bringing communities together to share in the experience.” Drive-in theaters will allow for the communal experience of enjoying movies on a big screen while maintaining safe social distancing.
“Now more than ever, amplifying Black and Brown stories means engaging culture to speak to hearts and minds about the world we live in,” said Jordan, Principal of Outlier Society. “As we use this opportunity to reimagine community and proximity, I am excited that these films will be shared and celebrated all across the country.”
Each week will feature titles that focus around a specific theme:
Movies to make you fall in love:
Love & Basketball (Warner Bros. / New Line)
Crazy Rich Asians (Warner Bros.)
Movies that make you proud:
Black Panther (Disney)
Creed (Warner Bros.)
Movies to inspire your inner child:
Hook (Sony Pictures)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
Movies to make you open your eyes:
Do The Right Thing (Universal)
Get Out (Universal)
Movies to make you laugh:
Coming to America (Paramount Pictures)
Girls Trip (Universal)
Attendees will also receive refreshments provided by Black and Brown owned businesses Path Water, Pipcorn Popcorn, and Partake Cookies.
For information on locations, showtimes, and ticket information for the summer drive-in series, visit ANightAtTheDrive-In.com.
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With extra thin bezels, edge-to-edge display, a pin-hole camera and no ugly notch, the Samsung Galaxy S10 is a gorgeous looking handset jam-packed with cutting edge tech. In terms of colour options, you can pick from Prism Black, Prism White, Prism Green variants.
Stand-out features include an in-display fingerprint scanner that sits beneath the phones screen where the home button used to sit and a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor.
The phone's screen is also protected by durable Gorilla Screen Glass too, so its extra tough as well as nice to look at.
Here are some more of the phone's key specs and features:
Display - at 6.1 inches, the Samsung Galaxy S10 screen is a fair size, and it's Dynamic AMOLED display will make watching films and playing games a joy. But If you really like a big display, you'd be better off taking a look at the S10 Plus.
Battery - no one likes shoddy battery life. Thankfully, due to the phone's powerful chip-set, the S10 sports a 3,400mAh battery that’s built to last all day.
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Zac Langdon-Pole, exhibition view of ARS VIVA prize 2017/18 at S.M.A.K. Ghent, 2018. Photo: Dirk Pauwels. Works courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.
Zac Langdon-Pole, and soon the landscape lost all variety, 2018. The work involved a 10
min walk from the museum
to a designated location. Photo: Dirk Pauwels. Works courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.
Zac Langdon-Pole, Paradise Blueprint, 2018. Non-woven wallpaper based on a cyanotype photogram of the removed legs of a bird of paradise. Photo: Dirk Pauwels. Works courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.
Returning to the front desk of S.M.A.K. I’m given a leaflet of instructions for Langdon-Pole’s last work, and soon the landscape lost all variety, (2018) - a site-specific, choreographed walk that passes through time as well as space. Starting at the S.M.A.K. museum, visitors are threaded between monuments whose salience becomes clear only in retrospect: two lions tearing apart their unfortunate prey and a goddess upon a dais setting forth a cascade of flowers. The walk concludes on a street corner adorned by a florist.
Inside the florist visitors are handed a newspaper. It features the date 09/02/2018 but, sitting quietly opposite the heading “Club Brugge gaat rascistische fans zelf vervolgen” 3, is an item from many decades ago that Langdon-Pole has printed in coordination with the newspaper. ‘The Algerian’s Flowers’, penned by novelist, screenwriter and journalist Marguerite Duras in 1957, is here translated to Arabic, French, Dutch and English. Her journalistic account concerns another florist, in another time, on another street corner.
A "miserably dressed" 4 Algerian man of twenty years is anxiously attending a pushcart of flowers at the intersection of rue Jacob and rue Bonaparte in Paris. He is accosted by plainclothes police officers. “Papers?” No. The plainclothes knock over his cart, spilling his flowers across the road. Before he can be taken away, a succession of women pick up a flower each, paying the young man.
The walk is retrospectively rendered in the strange, familiar hues of déjà vu. The past is revealed within the present, statues emerge from memory endowed with new feeling. There and then, here and now: the plaincloth lions and their prey, flowers bequeathed by a marble goddess piled all around. and soon the landscape lost all variety 2018 draws visitors into the world beyond the museum, making them self-conscious bodies in public space. It is only beyond the confines of the art-institution, enveloped in the inharmonious thrum of the ‘real world’ that they can participate in this elaborate act of remembrance. 5
Where is the artwork located within this constellation of objects, events, perceptions and memories? Might it be this sheaf of newsprint in your hand, the walk itself, or the directives that led you through it? I don’t think the artwork is distilled within any discrete element, nor do I feel it is the sum total of all these parts. As is so often the case in Langdon-Pole’s work, something remains undefined and irretrievable, embedded, as we are, in a matrix of relations.
How did the young Algerian feel about the actions of those women? Would it have provided any solace to know his mistreatment was to be memorialised in this way by one of France’s famous femmes de lettres? He’d be in his eighties now. What would the old Algerian think of Langdon-Pole’s work? Would it amuse, bewilder or elate him to know his story was printed in 200,000 copies of Belgium’s De Gentenaar newspaper 60 years after his flowers were knocked across the street? How would he feel about the international, intergenerational network of solidarity and collaboration that retrieved and restaged his past - the translators, the museum, the paper, Duras’ publishers, the smiling florists, the artist, the writer herself, the women and their gentle resistance?
I ask the artist what value one can attribute the poetic gesture of the women, because the redemption they offer is the same as that offered by art - symbolic. Langdon-Pole responds, “The fact that the Algerian is still incarcerated reflects the truth of the matter, that no single event, artwork, or set of gestures will bring closure to systemic injustice. Only multiple and unending actions can dismantle systemic injustices within both the symbolic and actual order of things. Like a chronic illness, the work should embed itself inside the body of a system, and transform it recurrently in multiple directions at once.” 6
Langdon-Pole explores varied and complex relationships: man and animal, property and freedom, authority and ‘other’, past and present. Through these prisms we glimpse an ambiguous, multivalent reality. The work both exposes and responds to this reality, articulating a polyphonic politics of responsibility: to ourselves, to others, to the environment and those we share it with. The artist advances his moral agenda without resorting to didacticism - the efficacy of these works relies upon our powers of observation, our capacity to discern the symbolic and actual order of things.
1. The prize was inaugurated in 1953 and is awarded annually by a jury appointed by Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V (the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of German Industries). More here.
2. Conversation with the artist, March 2018
3. “Club Brugge will prosecute racist fans”
4. The Algerian’s Flowers, Marguerite Duras (1957)
5. The artist paid for an advertising space (half a page) for the edition of the paper printed the day before the opening of the exhibition. This edition was stockpiled and kept at the florists for dissemination to visitors from the museum. In this sense, the piece technically unfolded in two stages: first to the public (many of whom were reported as being somewhat startled to find Arabic in their local newspaper) and later to the museum audience.
6. Conversation with the artist, April 2018
Carter Imrie-Milne was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1996. He currently lives in Granada, Spain.
Zac Langdon-Pole was born in Auckland, New Zealand, 1988 and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In 2010 he graduated with a BFA (Hons) from Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts. From 2014-15 he studied and graduated from the class of Willem de Rooij at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. In 2016 he was awarded the Charlotte Prinz Scholarship in Darmstadt and in 2017 was awarded the Ars Viva prize, an internationally acclaimed achievement that celebrates the work of leading emerging artists living in Germany. Presented by Michael Lett at Art Basel Hong Kong 2018, he was shortlisted for the BMW Art Journey, the winner of which is to be announced in mid June, 2018.
Recent exhibitions include: Loose ends don’t tie, PS120, Berlin, Germany (2018); emic etic, Between Bridges, Berlin, Germany (2018); Ars Viva 2018, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium (2018) and Kunstverein Munich (2017); Sleeping Arrangements, The Dowse, Lower Hutt, New Zealand (2018); Trappings, Station, Melbourne, Australia (2017); Le Grand Balcon, La Biennale de Montréal, Canada (2016); Oratory Index, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand (2016); grammars, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand (2016); On the Shoulders of Giants, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany (2016); Four Practices, CCA, Singapore (2016); and Ecologies of the Everyday, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany (2016).
Langdon-Pole will open a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Darmstadt on the 1st of June, 2018. And in July he will be on residency at Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland, Canada.
In a conversation with the artist over Skype, he tells me he has lived in Europe for nearly five years. Having completed his Bachelors at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland, he moved to Frankfurt, Germany, to undertake further study at the highly regarded Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He graduated in 2015 and moved to Berlin, where he is currently based. Living and working in Europe has broadened his perspective, allowing him to "become more alert to how histories, ideologies and people are interrelated across vast distances and cultures.. [Relocating to Europe] has been a generative charge for the work that is being produced now.” 2
But Langdon-Pole's work is not confined to the investigation of cultural difference and exchange, nor is it limited to exclusively human affairs. Assimilation Study 2017 runs the breadth of two perpendicular walls. The severed wings of a mallard duck, a ring-necked parrot and a pigeon, interspersed with casts of the human scapula, are lined up in a single row at shoulder-height. The alternating human-bird arrangement establishes a sort of equality, enabling a consideration of our inter-species similarities. Removed from their respective contexts, the forms of wing and scapular are not so dissimilar as one might expect.
The similarities extend beyond the morphological. As humans have become exponentially more mobile, we’ve come to share a transcontinental tendency with our feathered counterparts. However, our expansive inclinations and their corollaries - urban development and climate-change - have disrupted ancient patterns of avian migration. An illustrative example: for thousands of years white storks have made the journey from Europe to Southern Africa for the winter. Now, many of them prefer to travel to Madrid, Spain or Rabat, Morocco where they feast on junk food in our landfills. Half of the world’s human population lives in cities, and animals - not just birds - are increasingly joining them. Sometimes they’re motivated by McDonald’s. In many cases, it’s because their natural habitats are no longer capable of supporting them or have simply ceased to exist.
The birds selected for Assimilation Study 2017 populate various human environs. Mallard ducks often make their homes in lakes and parks (including Citadel Park, where the S.M.A.K. museum is located) as opposed to their natural wetland habitats in which they’re often hunted for sport. Pigeons scavenge in the streets of countless cities - perhaps the most successful of urbanised animal populations. Parrots are a staple pet, admitted to our homes (usually at a caged remove) and set to task mimicking the human voice for our entertainment. These birds, willingly or otherwise, partake in complicated and contingent relationships with humans.
Take a moment to imagine this arrangement in the British Natural History Museum. Though the work reports a literal phenomenon, I find it impossible to envision it within those walls - institutions of that nature are too well wedded to delineation. Their exhibitions are bent towards the prosaic by rigorous categorisation in service of anthropocentrism. Birds remain in the avian section in perpetuity. The BNHM and its ilk are by no means wrong-minded or irrelevant - these are places full of valuable scholarship and enchanted children. Their legions of curators, conservators, scientists and writers bring encyclopedic knowledge, sophisticated methodologies and honest passion to their analyses and exhibitions. But Langdon-Pole makes a strong case for the auxiliary role that art has to play in enlarging our understanding of the natural world.
Some might scoff at this idea (Dürer’s rhinoceros, for all its artistic merit, is marvellously wrong), but the natural world is not a series of facts. Or not just a series of facts - much as we might pretend it is. Although the denizens of this planet are endlessly subjectable to categorisation, their essence emerges truly only in relation. And we can only understand ourselves truly in relation to those we share our environment with. The curatorial approach deployed by the artist ameliorates a certain narrowness of perspective, disclosing the multifaceted associations buried beneath our systematisation of ecology. Elsewhere - in emic etic, for example - his interrogation of the symbolic provenance of a diverse array of objects problematises our defining civilisational narratives. Langdon-Pole’s works confound in part because they do not seek to resolve our understanding but to unresolve it.
Zac Langdon-Pole, Argonaut (Arrested Star), 2017. Iron barbwire-fence stretching tool, part replaced with Seymchan meteorite (iron pallasite, found: Seymchan, Russia). Photo: Dirk Pauwels. Works courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.
It’s been a busy year for Auckland-born artist Zac Langdon-Pole. He’s exhibited in five countries on three continents and garnered a great deal of international attention in the process. On the strengths of work shown during this time, he’s received the Charlotte Prinz Scholarship in Darmstadt, Germany, been shortlisted for the soon to be announced BMW Art Journey Prize and won the prestigious ARS VIVA prize.
The latter is an accolade bestowed annually upon 'young artists living in Germany whose works are distinguished by their pioneering potential.' 1 Langdon-Pole was selected from a group of 57 nominees, alongside compatriot Oscar Engberg and Anna-Sophie Berger of Austria. It’s worth noting that the selection of two New Zealanders is unprecedented and bespeaks the high calibre of our young artists abroad. The three winners received individual prize money, residencies at Fogo Island Arts in Canada and the opportunity to exhibit in Germany and abroad. Kunstverein Munich hosted the first exhibition in 2017. This year, the artists restaged their exhibition in slightly augmented form at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium. I was promptly dispatched when it opened in February.
Zac Langdon-Pole, emic etic, 2018. Aluminum tool travel case, cast iron calf weaner, Buckingham Palace Pearl Tiara. Photo: Dirk Pauwels. Works courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.
The exhibition is divided into three parts, with two rooms allocated to each artist. In the first room of Langdon-Pole’s exhibition, I find a throng of chuckling children regarding something that has been placed on the floor. They’re helmed by a rose-cheeked woman who is cheerfully (but unsuccessfully) attempting to bring order to the proceedings. The children clear out, still giggling, revealing a tool travel case that contains two objects: a well worn antique calf-weaning tool and a pearl tiara from the Buckingham Palace Royal Collections Jewellery Shop.
Calf weaners were developed during and subsequently facilitated the industrialisation of farming practices. The ring and it’s radiating spikes are affixed to a calf’s nose so that any attempt to feed will violently prick the mother’s tender underbelly, imposing a physical and psychological separation that expedites the farming process: the successfully weaned calf is sold on faster so more milk may be harvested from the mother. The brute economy of the object is determined by its profitable role in torture. Its aesthetic inverse sits timidly in proximity. Luminous and fragile, the tiara would be beautiful if its companion didn’t make it look so frivolous. Combine these radically different forms of cranial adornment and you get something like a crown of thorns. Both objects originate in the 19th century. The modern tiara is a neo-classical revival, fancifully adopted by the royal families of colonial powers expanding their territories across the globe. The industrialisation of farming during this period is entwined with the history of this expansion - it’s hardly incidental that these objects have been brought together in a tool travel case.
The title of the work, emic etic 2018, contrasts two methods of anthropological investigation. The emic approach emphasises perspectives from within the culture itself while the etic gives precedence to the opinion of the anthropologist. There are long-standing debates within the field about the relative weight of these perspectives - should we credit local categories, explanations and interpretations, or those of their ‘impartial’ observer? Langdon-Pole proposes a synthesis. Presented alongside each other, we’re able to make our individual determinations as to which better reveals the essence of colonial empire: delicate ornamentation or savage farming equipment. Later, in response to my query, the rosy-cheeked woman tells me that the kids were laughing in response to a precocious suggestion from within their midst that we ought to put the tiara on the calf and the weaning tool on the queen.
Zac Langond-Pole, Punctatum (longcase clock), 2017. Anobium Punctatum (woodworm) ridden longcase clock from New Zealand, restored with 24ct. gold. Photo: Dirk Pauwels. Works courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.
Zac Langond-Pole, Punctatum (longcase clock), 2017; Punctatum (music shelf), 2017; Punctatum (letter desk), 2017. Photo: Dirk Pauwels. Works courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.
I encounter a handsome assembly of antique furniture in the second room of Langdon-Pole's exhibition. Standing back to back, a longcase clock, a music shelf and a letter desk:, Punctatum (longcase clock) 2017, Punctatum (music shelf) 2017, and Punctatum (letter desk) 2017. These stately characters have been shipped to Europe from Langdon-Pole’s parental home in New Zealand to provide testimony concerning the unintended consequences of human migration.
It was as accidental stowaways in wooden furniture that the much-maligned 'borer beetles' made their way to our remote islands in the 19th century. Female borers lay their eggs in cracks and crevices, end-grain timbers and old borer holes. Upon hatching, the larvae proceed to eat the surrounding timber, indiscriminately drilling unsightly tunnels, transforming even the loveliest wooden furnishing into the domestic equivalent of a termites nest. These holes are ubiquitous in New Zealand, where the soft sap-wood of our native tree species perfectly accommodates the appetites of these imported pests.
These items were acquired from second-hand shops in the 1980’s to furnish the artist’s childhood home. Though they were not spared infestation, no holes remain now: Langdon-Pole fumigated them and inlaid the borer holes with 24ct pure gold. His alchemical restoration is an intriguing response to the damage wrought by the invasive species, invoking a nuanced reading of our own migration as well as that of our unwitting passengers. Langdon-Pole highlights our role in introducing the borer beetles to these virgin lands while also disclosing overlooked similarities. Gold motivated many of the people who originally bought their furniture (and the borer beetles) to New Zealand. Once here, they dug and drilled, turned our rivers inside out in pursuit of the precious substance. We are also an invasive species, we are also borers.
In any case, the simple fact of these items being in Europe provokes interesting considerations - a ‘re-presencing’ of a different nature. The journey here simulates a colonial return, a ‘migration’ that evokes the continuous movements of people and their chattels around the world. Considering the great effort and expense lavished upon the predecessors of the items that stand before me, I wonder why people in the 19th century went to such great lengths to bring their furniture halfway around the world. Wood for carpentry was in abundant supply at their destination - as these native productions attest. Why didn’t settlers simply commission a set like this upon arrival? I suspect the furniture in which the borer beetles travelled to New Zealand was brought less to furnish homes than to furnish the memory of home. These works serve a parallel function, originating as they did in the artist's familial home in Grey Lynn, Auckland.
Zac Langdon-Pole, Assimilation Study, 2017. Right wing Mallard Duck, left human scapula model, left wing
Ringneck Parrot, right human scapula model, right wing Pigeon, left human scapula model, left wing Mallard Duck, right human scapula model, right wing Ringneck Parrot, left
human scapula model, left wing Pigeon, right human scapula model. Photo: Dirk Pauwels. Works courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.
Within the context of this exhibition, this tendency towards ‘unresolving’ is perhaps best represented by Argonaut (Arrested Star) 2017. The work features a sturdy tool for stretching barbed-wire fences. Its robust body and muted cast-iron pallor cut a strange contrast with its cohabitants - taxidermied wings and gold-studded furniture. But its commonness is illusory; the artist has replaced an integral component with a hand-carved meteorite.
I imagine using a meteorite that has travelled unimpeded from the distant reaches of space to stretch a barbed wire fence and find the fence-stretching enterprise cast in a somewhat farcical light. Recalibrating our perspective to a cosmic scale undermines the justifications we make for dividing our world into parcels of property, fenced off and adorned with grave warnings: ‘Trespassers Beware’. Safe to say that the concept of trespassing is an exclusively earthly phenomenon and that the meteorite didn’t get it’s passport checked on the way here.
Like the calf weaner, barbed wire has its origins in the industrialisation of farming. It was invented in 1867 in Illinois as a cheap alternative to the costly, lumber-intensive fences then in-use. In the intervening 150 years, barbed wire has been deployed in trench warfare and concentration camps. Now it rings the perimeters of refugee camps and runs thousands of kilometres along the border zones between the Middle East and Europe.
What are we to make of this implement? It is an object with a heavy history, retired from its functional role dividing space, enclosing property and prohibiting free movement. Now it serves as a philosophical and political provocateur. The title of the work aptly recalls Theseus’ Ship (the Argos), which was the protagonist in one of the many mystifying thought experiments to come out of ancient Greece. The famous ship is said to have had all of its parts replaced, one by one. May we still call it Theseus’ Ship after this renovation, or is it a new entity? This question forms the foundation of a whole branch of philosophy concerning definition and identity. Appropriately, this artistic intervention calls the identity of the object into question: the implement’s cosmic makeover somehow un-defines it. If a retired fence-stretcher is hung in a museum and augmented such that it serves to undermine the rationale for stretching fences, may we still call it a fence-stretcher?
In this work, the insertion of the meteorite fragment is a simple action that generates effects of disproportionate magnitude, disrupting our preconceptions and stimulating their reevaluation. Judicious interpositions such as these are typical of Langdon-Pole’s approach to artmaking. Though the artist’s projects emerge from intensive research, the final works themselves seem almost effortless, close cousins of the ready-made. It is with a subtle touch that he coaxes objects into revealing - and vexing - the histories and ideas that they embody.
The Symbolic and Actual Order of Things, Zac Langdon-Pole at S.M.A.K.
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The responsibility of leading a group in devotions is always a significant one, but especially so in a time of anxiety and crisis. What passage to pick? What to say – or not say – in prayer?
Public prayer differs from personal prayer. It is, after all, spoken out loud and others present are invited to eavesdrop. The task, as I understand it, is to attempt to put into words what the entire group might be feeling. Form and detail should be appropriate to the familiarity and purpose of the listeners. To publicly lead in prayer is to express to God the shared feelings and sentiments of the people on whose behalf you are praying.
These thoughts were on my mind this morning as I prepared to lead devotions for a Cardus staff meeting. Given the highly unusual times, this was not one of our regular staff meetings. It was done over Zoom remote video conferencing because, like virtually every workplace in Canada, our 30-plus staff members have been working from home for the better part of a week. One of our staff has an immediate family member who is awaiting test results after exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Many have family members who are crossing borders or having other complications.
We are a work community. But though we are divided between two offices in two cities, we care for each other as colleagues and are used to sharing the details of our families and personal circumstances with our co-workers.
We are a public organization, with a calling to speak into the public square with wisdom and leadership that might be helpful to those who read and hear our words.
We are a charity, dependent on the support of our donors and while no one has answers, it would be unnatural for any of us not to think about what this economic restructuring means for our organization and our long-term future.
We are ordinary human beings, who have all of the fears and anxieties that come with the daily count of a virus that is continuing to grow and has the potential for devastation if the curve is not flattened.
So what to say? I began by reading Psalm 46, those inspired words that God’s people have turned to throughout history when they were in trouble. It is a confession that “God is our refuge and our strength, our ever-present help in trouble. God does not need to be reminded of that. He is sovereign whether we acknowledge Him or not. But in the midst of our anxiety and questions, especially at times like this, it is something we need to be reminded of over and over and over again.
But what to pray? Social media had drawn my attention to a prayer used last Sunday at St. Paul’s Presbyterian church in Orlando, which spoke to me. Separated as we were in 30-plus different locations, I wanted a prayer which included a corporate response so that we could hear each other’s voices and enhance the bonds which Zoom thankfully could provide us, with the limitation technology places on incarnational reality.
So, I borrowed these words, adapted them to the circumstances as best I could. Convivium’s editor asked me to introduce and share that prayer with our readers. I do so hoping that readers may find comfort and strength in reading this, and that the Sovereign God who hears and answers prayer, may be pleased to answer these petitions.
Our Father in heaven, as the world faces a global health crisis, we praise and adore you because you reign for us in your crucified and risen Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who not only “took our illnesses and bore our diseases” (Matthew 8:17), but also “abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Timothy 1:10).
O Lord, you reign!
Even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death…
You command us not to be anxious about anything, but in everything — by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving — to make our requests known to you (Philippians 4:6).
We thank you for Jesus who, during his earthly ministry, healed so many people that “all who had disease pressed around him to touch him” (Mark 3:10)
And we come before you now with thanksgiving, asking for the healing hand of your Son, our great Physician, the Lord Jesus, to touch us and our world today.
Have mercy upon us and bring this virus to an end.
Have mercy upon the 204,000 plus individuals who have been infected by the virus.
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Have mercy upon us and comfort the families of the 8,269 fatalities that are recorded as of this morning. Help us to show compassion to those mourning loss, recognizing that every life is not just a statistic but of a created image-bearer of God who has dignity and worth and whose lost will be felt by loved ones. We pray for those who are grieving in these circumstances where ordinary funerals and means of comfort from loved ones are not available. Grant them special divine hugs and embrace them with our love.
Help us to honor the elderly and to protect the most vulnerable from infection.
We pray for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that you would give the authorities wisdom and discernment to make wise decisions.
We pray for the leaders and the peoples of countries that have been hardest hit. Have mercy on the people of China, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Italy, France, Spain and those in the path of this virus.
We pray for the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals the world over. We pray for our Prime Minister, the Premiers, all of the mayors and those cabinet ministers who carry special responsibilities at this time. We pray for all our public health officials, both those in leadership roles but especially those on the front lines who are risking their own safety and comfort to serve others.
We pray for each other as Cardus colleagues, that each of us and our families may be kept safe. We pray especially for our colleague’s son as he awaits the results of his test, and any others that are near to us of whose circumstances we are not aware. Even as we are now separated physically, may we none-the-less continue to care for each other as colleagues.
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Give us wisdom so that the words we speak and publish may be upbuilding, encouraging, and helpful to a confused world that is looking for wisdom. We pray for our supporters and donors who so generously provide the resources on which we rely daily – protect and bless them Lord, even as we know they seek to responsibly steward the blessings with which you provide them. And through it all, free us as an organization from anxiety and encourage us to trust in you for our every need.
We pray for other charitable organizations and churches. We pray for missionaries and relief workers in dangerous areas where there have been large outbreaks. We pray for those who continue to work daily in order to keep the supply chain going so we can access the daily provisions on which we rely.
Have mercy upon us and help us as your people to seize this moment of crisis to be salt and light, to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly, to be obedient to the Great Commission, and to seek first you kingdom.
Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from the fear (which makes too much of this virus) and foolishness (which makes too little of it).
Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from the even greater sickness of our sin which has infected every single one of us and plagues our world.
Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from arrogant and irreverent babble, boasting, blame shifting, and slander that spreads like gangrene and plagues our sin-sick world.
We thank you because you forgive all our iniquity and you heal all our diseases (Psalm 103:2).
May your peace that surpasses all understanding guard our hearts and our thoughts in Christ Jesus for it is in his name that we pray. Amen.
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The Rap Up: Doing "The Ricky Bobby" With B-Hamp
Pete Freedman
Pete Freedman | October 24, 2008 | 4:09pm
The latest game-changer in Dallas' obsession with hip-hop dance crazes is area rapper Brandon Hampton, aka B-Hamp, whose ridiculously popular song, “Do the Ricky Bobby,” has been burning up the airwaves in recent weeks on 97.9 The Beat, K104 and even Kiss FM, and is currently listed at No. 78 on Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song even earned a write-up in last week's issue of Entertainment Weekly.
And, yes, that's a pretty big deal for an area rapper, let alone an indie.
So how'd he get here, to this point? When his former group Texas Made disbanded in 2006, Hampton decided to keep his rap dreams alive by working on a concept for a dance song that could put him on the map. And while watching Talladega Nights, one evening, the idea for the Ricky Bobby dance was born. (The video on how to do the dance after the jump.)
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And with the recent success of the songs, B-Hamp's gig schedule is arguably a regional tour—he's got something popping off just about every day. Last night, he was at Carson's; tonight, Purgatory; tomorrow, Bryan College Station and the K104 Harambee Festival where he'll share the spotlight with other hood stars like Lil' Will, Big Tuck and Fat Bastard.
Talk about a whirlwind success.
The cool thing is that he hasn't let it go to his head—even with grown-ups, kids, babies and our “suburban homies” doing the Ricky Bobby. Check out our Q&A with the man himself after the jump.
It looks like you came onto the scene with a dance at the right time. How long was this in the works before the rest of us caught on? It didn't take long. As soon as I put the song out, people was feeling it. So I guess you would say it was an overnight blessing.
How did you first get people to start taking notice (YouTube, MySpace, or something else)? Word of mouth and Myspace and YouTube--and shout out to all my fans that help me get where I am.
There are a lot of hungry rappers out there who are dying to get some airplay. What can they learn from you so they can get on the radio? Stay humble and grind 'cause there is never an ending.
A lot of artists are almost cursed by the success of a really popular song. What will your second single be? I have a lot of hot tracks done, but the label hasn't choose what track they want to do yet.
You have a gig almost every day. How do you stay focused and maintain the energy you need to keep that kind of pace? Without a gig, I get distracted. I get my energy from my fans.
What do you want the public to know about B-Hamp—on top of being that dude with the hot song? I'm the same Brandon that I was four months ago. It's just more people know me now. But I'm not just into music--I have other likes: clothes and cars and shoes and acting.
What do you feel has changed in the Dallas music landscape that's allowed for so much support for homegrown talent, lately? DFW has always been hot, but now you got more people coming together instead of everyone on they own.
What other area artists are you working with? Tum Tum, Tekniq, Lil Won, Trap Squad, G-spot and many more.
Have you gotten any attention from the majors yet? Yea, but I'm not allowed to speak on that.
When should we look for the album? Around late December or early January. But you can hit that iTunes and amazonmp3.com for "The Ricky Bobby," And don't forget to request it on K104, 97.9, and 106.1 Kiss FM. --Quia Querisma
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Golden State Killer suspect Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., whose murder victims included a Dana Point couple, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder on Monday, June 29.
The hearing was held in a makeshift courtroom within a ballroom at Sacramento State University to accommodate the victims and loved ones with social distancing. DeAngelo, as well as attorneys and sheriff’s deputies, could be seen in the broadcast wearing face shields and face masks.
Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was identified in 2018 as the “Golden State Killer” suspect.
A string of rapes, murders and burglaries in the 70s and 80s went unsolved for decades until investigators announced they had named DeAngelo as the suspect using DNA from a genealogy website in 2018.
DeAngelo, now 74 years old, is a former police officer. He was arrested April 24, 2018 in Sacramento on a warrant issued from Ventura County on two counts of murder with special circumstances, including murder during a rape and murder during a burglary. DeAngelo, who is suspected of being responsible for more than a dozen murders, more than 50 rapes and 120 burglaries in the state of California beginning in 1974, suddenly vanished in 1986. The investigation had remained open ever since.
Tony Rackauckas, who was the Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) at the time of the arrest, spoke at a Sacramento press conference.
“Joseph James DeAngelo has been called a lot of things, but today, we are proud to call him … defendant,” Rackauckas said.
On Monday, OCDA Todd Spitzer read aloud the circumstances of the killing of Patrice and Keith Harrington of Dana Point.
On Aug. 19, 1980, the defendant struck in the middle of the night, allegedly raping Patrice Harrington and then bludgeoning both Patrice and her husband Keith to death in their Niguel Shores home on Cockleshell Drive. The couple, who had only been married for three months, had recently moved into their new home, owned by Keith’s father.
“Keith was a 24-year-old, fourth-year medical school student,” Spitzer said. “Patrice as a 28-year-old, pediatric trauma nurse. They were newlyweds, only having been married for three months.”
DeAngelo entered the home with the intent to commit rape, murder and theft, Spitzer said. Both Patrice and Keith Harrington died from brain contusions due to massive skull fractures and blunt force trauma to the head.
“DeAngelo’s decision to kill Patrice and Keith Harrington was willful, deliberate and premeditated as evidenced by the nature and extent of the fatal injuries inflicted and the fact that the defendant at the time had already committed numerous other killings in a similar fashion,” Spitzer said.
On Aug. 21, Keith’s father discovered the couple murdered in their bed.
Spitzer stated that the DNA recovered from the scene of the crime matched DeAngelo’s DNA, which was obtained earlier this year. Spitzer also read aloud the circumstances of killings of Manuela Witthuhn and Janelle Cruz, both in Irvine.
Bruce Harrington, Keith’s brother, was instrumental in the research, financial funding and shaping of California Proposition 69, which requires DNA samples from all felony arrests in the state, as well as some misdemeanors.
California voters in November 2004 passed Proposition 69, the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, to expand and modify state law regarding the collection and use of criminal offender DNA samples and palm print impressions.
Bruce began his pursuit of Proposition 69 in the mid-1990s when DNA became available, and now more than a decade later, has come full circle as DNA evidence was crucial in the arrest of his brother’s alleged killer.
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I was 10 years old and used to fish at Dana Point harbor after school. The day of the murder I was walking through the parking lot of the harbor and he was standing at the back of his car and he approached me and tried to kidnap me but I got away and remember the look on his face as demonic and without a soul. I’ve actually been carjacked and kidnapped and the guy that did it to me also looked possessed but nothing like this Golden State dude. I remember he also got super pissed that he couldn’t grab me but I was 10 and agile. I hope he spends eternity in the 10th gate of hell because he belongs there
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And to All a Dark Knight: Six Essential Batman Christmas Stories
And to All a Dark Knight: Six Essential Batman Christmas...
By Rosie Knight Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and that means it's the perfect time to revisit some of our favorite festive Batman stories.
Festive stories? Starring the Dark Knight? Oh yes! Bruce Wayne's alter ego and his over-the-top sensibilities are a surprisingly good match for the Christmas season. In fact, we've picked out six of our favorite holiday Bat-stories for you to enjoy on these cold dark nights. Whether you want animated adventures, blockbuster movies or classic comics, we've got you covered. So, holla at your butler for a hot cocoa and some vichyssoise (remember, it's supposed to be served cold), and get ready to make merry with the jolliest hero in Gotham. (Admittedly, the bar’s set pretty low there.)
An oft-overlooked Christmas gem, Batman Returns is one of the best holiday movies ever made. From the sweeping opening shots of a snowy Gotham Zoo to the ice-capped cityscape to the Penguin's Christmas-trimmed crime gang, this gothic classic is stuffed full of festive treats. With not one but two rogues to contend with, Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne is torn as he tries to track down the mysterious Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) and discover the truth about Oswald Cobblepot (Danny DeVito), the new mayoral candidate of his hometown. For those want something a little darker during an often-saccharine season, this horror-tinged tale is a wonderful addition to your Christmas watch list.
Batman: The Animated Series, “Christmas With the Joker”
One of the earliest entries (it’s episode 2 of the first season) of the beloved animated series, this Christmas-themed offering is a complete delight. The episode follows Batman and Robin as they leave the coziness of Wayne Manor on a frosty evening. Their mission? To catch the Joker, who's escaped from Arkham Asylum with the help of a giant rocket hidden inside of a Christmas tree. Filled with Christmas cheer, stuffed teddy bears and even a rendition of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from The Nutcracker (by the Joker himself no less), this cartoon has everything you need to get into the festive spirit.
Batman #27, “A Christmas Peril”
If you're looking for a Bat-flavored twist on the classic "A Christmas Carol," then you are in luck! This Golden Age gem sees the Caped Crusaders take on a wealthy young orphan running a Christmas tree racket, causing prices to skyrocket. But $7 trees aren't acceptable to Batman and Robin, so they decide to teach the young scamp a lesson...by kidnapping him! Through a bizarre It's a Wonderful Life /"Christmas Carol" mashup, the Dynamic Duo show this cad the impact of his greedy and morally questionable actions while thwarting the terror of Christmas-tree inflation.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold, “Invasion of the Secret Santas!”
Batman: The Animated Series isn't the only awesome animated adaptation of the Caped Crusader. Luckily for festive fans, Batman: The Brave and the Bold also has a great holiday offering. "Invasion of the Secret Santas!" (episode 5 of the show's first season) has everything you could dream of from a Bat-tastic Christmas episode. Here, our hero teams up with Red Tornado—who's searching for his holiday spirit—to take down the maniacal Fun Haus, who wants to ruin the season with his army of evil toys! If you're looking for something fun, fresh and fantastically freaky this festive season, look no further.
The Brave and the Bold #148, “The Night the Mob Stole Xmas!”
In this classic late '70s offering, Batman has to save Plastic Man, Gotham and of course, Christmas from a nefarious cigarette-smuggling gang. Holy smokes, Batman—we've gotta protect Gotham from people making cigarettes harder to come by! It's a wonderfully strange, noirish-yet-mundane tale we might never get to see in today's world. If that's not enough to sell you, then how about the fact that the crooks steal a famed Gotham Christmas decoration and then go on the run to Florida where Plastic Man and the Bat have to thwart them? Yes, it's just as good as it sounds.
Detective Comics #826, “Slayride”
If you’re looking for a story that eschews the cheer in favor of some holiday chills, look no further than this Paul Dini-written standalone tale from 2006. In the midst of the holiday season, Robin inadvertently flees from some assailants into an idling car driven by the Joker, who then takes him on a homicidal drive down unsuspecting streets while the Boy Wonder can do little but watch and try to escape. Gripping, relentless and darkly humorous like any good Joker tale (and this is a great one), it’s a glimpse into both the way the Joker operates and how the members of the Bat-Family deal with him that gets bonus points for the way it incorporates the Marx Brothers classic line about how “there ain’t no Sanity Claus.” That it also ends with one of the most brutally honest truths about holiday wishes cements this taut tale as a true underread classic.
The Neal Adams-penciled classic "The Silent Night of the Batman" in Batman #219 and the Len Wein-scripted classic "The Man Who Murdered Santa Claus!" in Justice League of America #110. Both are wintry and wonderful.
As one can see, there are a whole bundle of holiday stories centered around Gotham's most famous son. Though his gloomy glare and monochromatic suit might imply otherwise, he's apparently a big fan of this festive season. And he's not the only superhero—as DC has a rich history of brilliant holiday anthologies, unexpected Christmas cartoons, and awesome seasonal gifts that can charm even the grouchiest of Grinches. Happy holidays from all of us here at DCComics.com!
A version of this article originally ran on DC Universe. Be sure to subscribe to DC Universe Infinite for unlimited access to more than 24,000 comics from every era of publishing, plus original titles, special fan events and more!
Rosie Knight writes about comics, movies and TV for DCComics.com, Nerdist, IGN and The Hollywood Reporter. Follow Rosie on Twitter at @RosieMarx.
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Weak Aside – Forward Into Darkness – CD
Weak Aside – Forward Into Darkness – CD – FDA Records
Submerge (Intro)
Until You Died
Royal Blood Dethroned
We’re All Condemned
In The Deep There Is No God
Poison Gas
Germany is more known for their Thrash Metal, but they do have some great Death Metal bands, and WEAK ASIDE is a fairly unknown Death Metal to the world, releasing their 3rd full length album after a decade since their inception. The album starts with a mid-tempo atmospheric guitar driven 1 min instrumental song in “Submerge”. “Until You Died” continues where “Submerge” ends. Its groovy old school styled Death Metal. The vocals by Tom Zorn are in-your-face thick growling Death Metal vocals, just the way I like it in this genre. I am not the biggest fan of the bass instrument, but as is the case with most Death Metal bands, the bass is really utilized very intelligently here and its utility and impact can be felt here. “Royal Blood Dethroned” is a train wreck but doesn’t have the chaos and brutality of Brutal Death Metal genre, so it still feels old school and just about right for what the band is trying to achieve here. The sound of soldiers marching and the tempo building and the guitar solos add so much more to the song in the latter half of the song that it is sure to leave the listener asking for more. “We’re All Condemned” is like a dance track, but with the sound of Death Metal.
It has great groovy feel to it. The drums are just about perfect with their fast blast beats, and not to forget the occasional surprise package of guitar solos. One of the things that I need to mention here is that the sound of WEAK ASIDE sounds very catchy and memorable for a Death Metal band. “Contact” continues where “We’re All Condemned” ended, and has some great blistering drum beats combined with some cheesy guitar solos. “Violence” feels like a disappointment, only due to the lack of variety with respect to some of the previous songs. The cheesily titled “In The Deep There Is No God” is one of the better songs of the album, with its eerie guitar solos, and really loud drum beats. “Face Down” clearly illustrates what duel vocals can bring to the genre of Death Metal. Its unique, it’s beautiful, it could have been a hit or a miss, but this time, it’s a hit. “Poison Gas” runs like a wheel less horse cart in the open field. The riffs are juicy, groovy and beautiful and work greatly with the growling vocals, making you headbang at every riff. The aptly titled “The End” is much more milder compared to some of the heavier songs on this record, but still packs some great thick juicy riffs and some emotional growling vocals in there.
With ex members from DEW-SCENTED, DAWN OF DISEASE, OBSCENITY ; WEAK ASIDE has packed some great songs in this album for the joy of Death Metal fans. It’s not as much as innovation and variety as how good the band does what it promised to do. Barring few songs and the bland artwork, this should be in the wishlist of all Death Metal fans.
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Exence -Tabula Rasa – CD
Garroter – Identity – CD
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Defenceman Tanner Faith
Faith returned to Kootenay Ice
Veteran defenceman Tanner Faith was assigned to the Kootenay Ice from the Minnesota Wild on Monday
Taylor Rocca
Defenceman Tanner Faith is headed back to the Kootenay Ice.
Faith, a fifth-round pick (139th overall) of the Minnesota Wild at the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, was assigned to major junior as the club reduced its training camp roster on Monday.
A native of Wilcox, Sask., Faith has battled shoulder injuries throughout his WHL career, limiting him to only 29 games over the past two seasons with the Kootenay Ice.
Faith represents one of seven overagers remaining with the Ice heading into the team’s regular season opener Friday night against the Calgary Hitmen.
It is expected the team will stretch out the bulk of decision making regarding its overage players until closer to the Oct. 16 deadline.
Teams are permitted to carry more than three overagers up until Oct. 16, but only three overage players are permitted to play on any given night.
Tough competition remains for the three overage slots with goaltender Wyatt Hoflin, defencemen Tyler King and Tanner Lishchynsky, centre Luke Philp, and right wingers Jaedon Descheneau and Jon Martin all still in the mix.
Philp remains with the Philadelphia Flyers on a tryout, while Descheneau, a fifth-round selection (124th overall) of the St. Louis Blues, remains with his NHL club.
King, who underwent off-season knee surgery, is out indefinitely.
The Kootenay Ice open the 2015-16 WHL regular season Friday (7 p.m.) at Western Financial Place when the Calgary Hitmen visit Cranbrook.
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McCrann’s Solly Lew Conversion
Crikey has put together a stack of Terry McCrann's first pars from the Herald Sun from 1995 and 2002. See if you can spot the difference in his pre and post millennium coverage.
Crikey has put together a stack of Terry McCrann’s first pars from the Herald Sun from 1995 and 2002. See if you can spot the difference in his pre and post millennium coverage.
PHILIP BOWMAN has ripped the scab off the running sore which has plagued Solomon Lew for six years since he saw his opportunity – and grabbed it – to take control of Australia’s premier retail group Coles Myer. At the very least, when the chief finan…
COLES MYER and its newly appointed executive chairman Solomon Lew have a very simple choice. They can continue down the lacerating path of the past six years, lurching from one controversy to the next. Or they can resolve to end the points of confli…
COLES Myer yesterday was urged to clear up any doubts about its dealings or risk its reputation as the Australian Securities Commission launched an inquiry into the company. The warning came despite Coles Myer’s revelation that a Queen’s counsel had …
YANNON – the mystery company at the centre of the shock departure of Coles Myer’s chief financial officer Philip Bowman – was part of a $40 million bailout of Coles Myer chairman Solomon Lew in 1990. In late-1991, at the annual meeting of Premier Inv…
COLES Myer’s finance chief Philip Bowman was sacked for “serious and wilful misconduct” and was suing Australia’s biggest retailer to extract an exorbitant payout, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. The latest allegations in the intriguing corporate …
SOME time in July 1989 then-chairman of Coles Myer Brian Quinn picked up the phone to call current chairman Solomon Lew. And set in train the events which led to this week’s eruption around the company. And in particular, to the so-called Yannon tra…
THE Goldberg report has taken the monkey off the back of Coles Myer – and replaced it with a big, hairy gorilla. Inadvertently, it damns the executive chairman Solomon Lew, the chief executive Peter Bartels, and the head of the company’s so-called co…
DAY TWO of the Goldberg report, and you wouldn’t want to be trying to sell it in a fish market. Alan Goldberg is a highly respected Melbourne QC with a reputation of impeccable integrity. But he has made a huge mistake in participating in the events…
SOLOMON LEW spent Tuesday digging himself into a deeper and deeper hole, and dragging Peter Bartels and Will Bailey in behind him. In the wake of his own comments about the `Lew Affair’ it becomes even more untenable for him to remain chairman of Col…
YANNON – and chairman Solomon Lew – continue to hang over Coles Myer like a huge black cloud at an utterly key point in the company’s history. Yesterday’s profit report should have signalled a seminal turning point; broad confirmation that the countr…
COLES MYER. And now for something NOT completely different – Ampolex and the vexed issue of its convertible notes. Not completely different, because of a 10-letter word that needs to be burned into the soul of every company director in the land. D-I…
THE role of investment bank CS First Boston in Coles Myer’s now notorious Yannon transaction deserves considerable scrutiny – and probable condemnation. For CS First Boston made the whole exercise `work’ in putting it together in August 1990. On two…
COLES Myer chairman Solomon Lew today dimissed the call by Coles family members for him to step aside. Mr Lew said the Coles family no longer carried any weight in the company. He said they were a “very nice bunch of people but the ancestors would ha…
AN extraordinary war of words erupted between Rupert Murdoch and Solomon Lew yesterday after the media mogul accused the Coles Myer chairman of “thuggish” behavior. The News Corporation chief claimed Mr Lew had threatened to cancel almost $90 million…
COLES Myer chairman Solly Lew went public in a big way yesterday. Mere journalists have had trouble flushing out comments from Mr Lew for many months, but a word or two from newspaperman Rupert Murdoch on Sunday found the normally reticent retailer …
Solomon Lew’s latest barrage in the Coles Myer row is a fizzer, says TERRY McCRANN. There is no media conspiracy Yannon would not have come to light SOLOMON Lew’s allegations about me and Rupert Murdoch are outrageous, and more simply, plain wrong. …
HOW far will Paul Keating go to achieve his newly stated desire – shared with Coles Myer chairman and Reserve Bank board member Solomon Lew – for breaking up the Coles Myer colossus? Will he deliver his `advice’ directly to the major institutional sh…
SOLOMON Lew’s long-standing bete noire, Laurence Gruzman, has come up with an interesting proposal to make last week’s `deal’ to restructure the Coles Myer board of directors `work’. That’s `work’ in terms of actually addressing, and hopefully solvin…
SOLOMON Lew dumped a parcel of shares on which he was losing $6 million into the publicly listed Premier Investments after the stockmarket crash in October 1987. This secret deal, which we reveal today for the first time, was highly improper, breache…
IT IS extraordinary that a business columnist in a `quality’ newspaper should choose to defend Solomon Lew’s secret 1987 deal to dump a parcel of shares in his then newly listed Premier Investments. At a more basic level, it is astonishing that any j…
JUST under six years ago, in mid-February 1990, Rodney Adler woke up with a hundred million dollar headache. The 30-year-old’s first big deal since he took the reins of the FAI Insurance group on the death of his father Larry, barely a year earlier, …
SOLOMON Lew was intimately and personally involved in negotiations over a $40 million parcel of shares which ultimately led to the infamous Yannon transaction. His involvement is shown in a series of confidential faxes and letters between him and Rod…
THE story so far in Solomon Lew’s countdown to Yannon: In July 1989 Lew makes an audacious play for control of Coles Myer. He spends $450 million to buy a 10 per cent stake in the giant retailing group. The shares go into his listed investment vehic…
THE confidential Solomon Lew letters indicate he was on a financial knife-edge right through 1990 after committing $450 million to buy a strategic parcel of Coles Myer shares. He was unable to deliver on his secret promise to Rodney Adler, the chief …
COLES Myer yesterday failed in its final court bid to have claims for wrongful dismissal against it by former finance chief Philip Bowman struck out. The blow came as the latest revelations about Solomon Lew’s apparent knowledge of the Yannon transac…
IN SEPTEMBER seven years ago, Philip Bowman publicly ripped the scab off the running sore which had secretly plagued Australia’s premier retail group, Coles Myer, for half-a-dozen years or more. Yesterday, the chairman of Coles Myer Stan Wallis showe…
SOLOMON Lew and Stan Wallis are at war. They will meet in head-to-head combat, across the board table, inside `Battlestar Galactica’ in suburban Tooronga, at three o’clock today. If there’d been any doubt after Wallis’s bizarre exit on Monday, that w…
COLES Myer’s normally secretive boardroom battles yesterday turned into a nasty public spat as war was openly declared between two directors. Insiders believe there will be further fireworks today. A boardroom meeting at the group’s Tooronga headqua…
THE overwhelming majority of directors of Coles Myer have revealed themselves as a bunch of corporate rabbits frozen in the glare of the spotlight. They seem to think they have cleverly doused the beam, so they can scurry back to their burrows. In tr…
THE battle inside the Coles Myer boardroom will now settle into a “phony war”. But only for two weeks — three at the outside — as the next formal board meeting at the start of October sets something of a deadline. By then the all-important notice…
THE behaviour of Coles Myer over the past week has been absolutely appalling and completely unacceptable. The company has treated shareholders as proverbial mushrooms, keeping them totally in the dark. The only `saving grace’ is that it can’t be accu…
THE bitter boardroom brawl which has suddenly erupted at Coles Myer can be traced back to a bizarre drawing of lots at the board meeting on August 22. The names of three directors were placed in a hat — actually, a more practical if less traditional…
DAVID Knott’s timely intervention in the Coles Myer boardroom brawl made a powerful — and importantly, forward looking — statement. Simply, shareholders must be informed — not only about the brawl, but what it signifies for the future of their com…
THE governance at both Coles Myer and the AMP staggers from bad to worse, and on to the utterly surreal. The decision to appoint Andrew Mohl to the CEO’s position at AMP was exactly right — but he might not be the right person for the job. Worse, we…
ON Wednesday the board of Coles Myer voted 8-2 to elect Rick Allert chairman, in succession to Stan Wallis. Wallis in turn announced he would step down as chairman next Thursday, the date of the next board meeting, and not, as he originally announced…
THE Coles Myer board meeting descended into high farce yesterday — and farce extended through the morning, the afternoon and into the evening. And unlike a late sitting of a parliamentary upper house, to shovel through dozens of bills before a sessi…
THE brawl that has erupted over the Coles Myer discount card raises further serious questions about the behaviour of CEO John Fletcher and former chairman Stan Wallis. The more easily led sections of the financial media have been, well, led to focus …
IT IS absolutely unacceptable for a CEO to campaign to sack a non-executive director, as John Fletcher is doing with Solomon Lew at Coles Myer. If Rick Allert as the new chairman, doesn’t understand that — and it would appear, he does not — perhaps…
GARY Weiss, aka Solomon Lew (with Afro), made Coles Myer chairman Rick Allert an offer he had to refuse; and he promptly did. However, that cannot – and won’t be – the end of the matter. Coles Myer must make full disclosure of the circumstances of P…
A STATEMENT of the obvious: 1995 was then, and this is now. A statement, though, apparently not obvious to certain institutions like the AMP and QIC; the Myer Family; or certain commentators with a stunning ability to see things only in simplistic te…
FINALLY the story behind Australia’s most explosive boardroom split can be told. A lacerating nine-page, no-holds-barred letter from Solomon Lew to Coles Myer’s then chairman Stan Wallis, sent in May, appears to have sparked the board battle. Mr Lew …
SOLOMON Lew’s letter to Stan Wallis — importantly, back at the start of May, not rewriting history in November — raises some fundamental issues. Issues that can no longer be pushed under the table under the cover of `board confidentiality’. And wh…
RICK Allert’s refusal to tell Coles Myer shareholders what has been going on inside the company is appalling, if understandable. David Knott’s refusal was just silly. And embarrassingly so. Now Allert, as chairman, is hardly likely to want to releas…
SOLOMON Lew has lost the battle, but will almost certainly win the war, if he’s prepared to spend the money. Assuming he is, my prediction is that John Fletcher won’t be CEO at next year’s annual meeting, and Rick Allert probably won’t be chairman. A…
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One-sided coverage goes with the Territory
Relations between the Country Liberal Party government in the Northern Territory and the local meeja used to be just the sort of case study wonks dream of. Why, it even had sex and violence – or incest and standover tactics, anyway. Now, of course, that the CLP is gone and the Territory has its first […]
Relations between the Country Liberal Party government in the Northern Territory and the local meeja used to be just the sort of case study wonks dream of.
Why, it even had sex and violence – or incest and standover tactics, anyway.
Now, of course, that the CLP is gone and the Territory has its first Labor Chief Minister, Clare Martin – a former ABC journo herself – everything is different. Right? Er…
They could hear the laughter as far away as Adelaide when copies of the Weekend Australian magazine with Nicholas Rothwell’s profile of Martin finally arrived in the top end.
That was probably a reaction to the florid language Rothwell used – and an initial response to the content. Things probably got nastier the further Territorians pressed on.
The Northern Territory business community (no, it’s not a misnomer nowadays) has very little confidence in Labor’s handling of the economy.
Yes, the CLP and business were cuddling up in much the same way as Sir Joh and the white shoe boys used to before Labor came along, but they still form a more reliable barometer for coming political storms than glossy puff pieces.
Rothwell failed to mention the Territory Government’s spectacular cave in on pool fencing laws in the middle of last month. OK. The weekend lift outs have longish lead times – but if the article was written before Martin changed her mind, it should have been amended as the issue has been running hot in NT politics for a long time.
The backflip, when it came, was not only gymnastics par excellence. It will cost taxpayers several million dollars – big money in terms of the Territory budget. All Clare Martin got out of that was a damned good claim to an entry in the Guinness Book of Records as the pol who said “sorry” the most times in one press conference.
The Weekend Australian Magazine does say Martin can be tough. It tell how “she sacked a female Cabinet colleague with pointed public brutality at the end of last year”.
That’s a polite reference to former health minister Jane Aagaard – generally regarded as an absolute disaster. An absolutely disaster who survived for much longer than she deserved and much longer than was good for the government, thanks to Martin.
Indeed, when Martin finally announced a cabinet reshuffle, she couldn’t even bring herself to admit that Aagaard had been a failure. Spinning like a tip, she simply said the minister was just a “poor communicator”.
History like that has got locals really wondering about Rothwell’s claim that Martin is a “fair bet to win another term in office”. Really?
Some would say she’s got no chance – and that exercises in self-delusion like this article are one of the key reasons why.
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Decades behind? Mining chief might be right on productivity
Is the Australian mining sector really decades behind on productivity improvement? There's something to incoming Anglo American chief Mark Cutifani's alarming comments.
Myriam Robin
The incoming chief of the world’s fifth largest miner, Anglo American, told analysts on Tuesday night that all it took to make a good mining manager was a good mineral deposit.
“In the mining industry, we’re some 20 to 30 years behind other more progressive sectors in terms of productivity and business practises,” Mark Cutifani said. “We’ve got to go beyond that and make sure we’re working our assets, the engine room, as hard as we can.”
In business and political circles, productivity is on everyone’s lips. Since the global financial crisis, productivity has improved across many industries, but at a slower pace. In mining, productivity has actually gone backwards. Why are other industries powering ahead while mining falls in the productivity stakes?
Necessity is the mother of invention, and many high-employment industries have had to radically improve their productivity just to survive in a globalised world. In manufacturing, things like automation and just-in-time production (where goods are made immediately before being sold) have helped some manufacturers in developed countries survive into the 21st century. Other less productive manufacturers have relocated, outsourced or shut down all together. In services, casualisation and a reduction in staffing levels have also cut down on costs.
Mining on the other hand has experienced a sellers’ market. The rapidly developing economies of the world have been paying top dollar for the commodities that fuel their expansion. With the money rolling in, it’s unsurprising the sector remains relatively inefficient.
Additionally, labour costs have generally comprised a small part of the total costs of mining, which means raising productivity in mining is difficult to do in the same way as in many other sectors. Not to mention investment lowers productivity in the short-term, as costs per unit of output rise. There’s been plenty of mining investment in recent years.
As commodity prices taper off and caution gripes the minds of mining executives, there have been moves to do something about the sector’s productivity problem. At Chevron’s $US52 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project, Leighton Contractors in December responded to a 40% cost blowout by issuing a prescriptive series of policies to its policing, among other things, how long their presumably well-paid employees can spend walking around the site.
In another effort to cut costs and get things moving on time, big miners Rio Tinto and BHP, as well as minnows like Fortescue, have all recently announced cost-cutting initiatives.
“Labour productivity in the mining sector is an absolute disaster,” wrote BIS Shrapnel economist Adrian Hart in a report released late last year. “It is now 60% off its peak in 2000/01 — when miners had to respond to the Asian financial crisis and then a global downturn — and is at its weakest level since 1987.”
Steven Gosarevski, a research economist at the forecaster who helped write the report, says they’re currently preparing a more detailed look at productivity in Australian mining. But it’s a complicated task.
“One thing we’ve noticed is that a lot of construction workers who’ve been involved in the construction of large projects have been included as mining sector employees,” Gosarevski told Crikey. “We’re trying to get to the bottom of that.”
Given the research is ongoing, Gosarevski declines to give firm figures on mining productivity in Australia — but he expects it to rise. “A lot of the big miners are currently rolling out labour-saving technologies; Rio Tinto with their automated trucks and trains, for example. That’s a trend we expect to see continue,” he said.
BIS Shrapnel also says the Australian mining boom is reaching its peak. This could improve productivity in the sector, as a fall in investment could deliver a boon to productivity levels
*This article was originally published at LeadingCompany
Media Reporter @myriamrobin
Myriam was Crikey’s media reporter. Before that, she was a business journalist with sister site SmartCompany, covering economics and corporate strategy.
Mark Cutifani
productivity agenda
The mining industry is swimming in money — and it’s all going back to investors
Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer
Business bites: Woolies’ red ink … Dick Smith sinks … miners on the brink …
Business bites: cheese trough … no more cough … Barbie drops off …
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Purge at the ATO? ... Oz and ABC are all loved-up ... Stop Tony Meow knobbled ...
Purge at the ATO? A tax type is concerned about changes at head office, following on from our story yesterday about the ATO haranguing people with a very scary letter for not submitting tax returns up to 13 years ago (they might send you a letter threatening large fines or prison):
“It’s ironic reading today about the ATO’s heavy-handed non-lodgement letter to individuals. Right now, the ATO’s legal/technical areas are buzzing with indignation and rumour as some of our most senior and most respected (internally and externally) leaders are being gently pushed out the door, or if they can’t be encouraged to retire, quite blatantly shunted into sidings to make way for up to a new hand-picked SES team. These will be, as we understand it, more ‘flexible’ — particularly with large taxpayers. Those being eased off the stage are, we’re told, not capable of ‘communicating the message of change’. Enough of the legal/technical people round the traps were already angry or depressed about the discrepancy between our treatment of large and small taxpayers. No one seems optimistic that this will improve over this Commissioner’s tenure.”
So, the ATO is finding it easier to target small taxpayers who didn’t file a tax return in 2003, when they were 14, rather than large taxpayers with very expensive lawyers, who can be so very troublesome? Tips also heard from a well-regarded accountant from a southern state, who told us this:
“The tone of this letter is offensive and intimidatory. We assume this is a new approach for 2014. I have had suggestions from ATO staff, unattributable of course, that the ATO will be taking a much tougher line on unpaid tax to help fix Joe Hockey’s testosterone problem. No more Mr Nice Guy from the ATO auditors.”
Crikey wants to find out more about what the ATO is up to. If you’ve received the letter or know more about what’s going on inside the ATO, let us know or comment on the story.
You’ve gotta be kitten me. The Stop Tony Meow plugin for web browsers Chrome, Safari and Firefox we mentioned in yesterday’s Tips has well and truly gone viral. In case you missed it, the plugin uses a script to replace all images of Tony Abbott (i.e., images with “Tony Abbott” in the image alt tags) with pictures of cute kittens. This morning, one of its co-creators tweeted that the Liberal Party is trying to remove all image alt tags to outsmart the plugin. A number of public servants are saying the plugin isn’t working on their work computers, but that’s probably to do with the strict IT network settings on all government-owned computers, rather than deliberate censorship by the Coalition government. For what it’s worth, the Liberal Party’s official site is still an Abbott-free-zone when viewed from computers in the Crikey bunker:
ABC / Oz all loved up. Next week’s Four Corners promises to be interesting. It’s an investigation into how the Israeli army treats children in the West Bank. And get this: it’s a joint investigation between Four Corners and The Australian. The Oz’s Middle East correspondent John Lyons travelled to the West Bank to investigate the story. The Oz has been railing against perceived ABC bias and inaccuracy of late, so let’s hope this piece is an olive branch. And can we expect senior Australian journo Nick Leys to collaborate? He’s heading to the ABC soon to be a spinner, so he’s perfectly placed.
IT workers sacked? We’ve heard a rumour that some staff at the NICTA Victoria Research Lab — an ICT research program funded by the federal and Victorian governments, among others — have lost their jobs. Sounds like there are some ill feelings around. We’ve put that claim to NICTA but haven’t heard back yet.
Reef debate. Conservationists were not happy when the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority recently approved a plan to dump dredge spoil from the expansion of Queensland’s Abbot Point coal port into the marine park. A reader suggested we ask some questions about a relationship between two people who work in the field. We can confirm that someone quite senior at the authority is married to someone who works for oceanographic consultancy RPS/Asia-Pacific ASA (again, in quite a senior role). According to its website, “RPS is providing ongoing survey services” for the commercial projects that will increase the size of Abbot Point. RPS has done work relating to “onshore storage and processing facilities and the offshore loading components” of the port.
So is this a conflict of interest? The authority told us it was satisfied that the manager who works there “has declared all relevant conflicts of interest,” and also said that the decision to approve the disposal of dredge material had been made at a general manager level (the person in question is not at that level). A spokeswoman for RPS said she was unable to comment due to contracting arrangements. We asked both organisations if the people in question had worked on the process to approve dumping dredge spoil in the marine park, but those questions were not answered.
There is therefore no evidence of a conflict of interest affecting the decision to approve the project, which is why we have not named the people involved. But thanks to the reader who alerted us to the situation, as these queries are worth looking into.
Anyone missing an arm? Tips has been running your pics of interesting graffiti, signs etc. We enjoyed this one from a reader — “I took this one with my iphone in Ulmarra in NSW, and had great difficulty getting a tree into the picture.”
“Beware of trees” indeed. Although readers of Seven Little Australians may wish Judy Woolcot had seen such a sign …
Who’s the primitive? Alarming to read this Twitter contribution from David Oldfield, who worked for Tony Abbott before helping Pauline Hanson set up One Nation in the 1990s (he was a radio broadcaster till fairly recently, if you’ve missed him). As his Twitter bio states, he’s “still fighting for our Nation” …
David Oldfield
Stop Tony Meow
$15 billion stimulus, $25,000 handouts
The latest chapter in Australia’s war on whistleblowers
Kishor Napier-Raman
Australia records hottest, dirtiest summer ever
Could I get a plugin for TV so that whenever rAbbott pops up he’s replaced by Kermit the Frog? Better yet, get Kermit and rAbbott to swap jobs.
Electric Lardyland
Do you reckon that the people who did the Stop Tony Meow plugin, could also a Cory Bernadi one? I was thinking that it may be appropriate, if Mr Bernadi was constantly replaced by nice pictures of animals, engaging in the sort of activity, that leads to a new generation of little animals.
zut alors
The Meow plugin is displaying the wrong end of the cat.
I like cats.
Yes, zut, and perhaps for one of the more spiritual members of the front bench, like Kevin Andrews, this image could be displayed.http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18qo1hwto00mfjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg
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Marriage Alliance and the Spam Act ... ACTU courts the young'uns ... what are they hiding in there? ...
Marriage Alliance co-opts Shorten. One of the many shadowy groups set up to campaign against marriage equality has used a statement by Bill Shorten to call for donations to their campaign. The Marriage Alliance, headed by former Liberal campaigner Sophie York, told its followers:
“This week, the debate on religious freedom in this country has taken a stunning turn for the worse.
“The Leader of the Labor Party, Bill Shorten, has just said unequivocally that, should a Liberal government introduce exemptions for businesses to refuse services for gay weddings, Labor would repeal them. Shorten said that under no circumstances would he allow for religious freedoms to be considered if the Marriage Act were to be redefined in Australia to include same-sex marriage.
“In a direct attack on people of every faith in this country, the Labor Party has sent a very clear message — we do not respect your views, we do not respect your values, and we will make them illegal.””
But the email didn’t just go to their followers, with many people who had not signed up to receive emails from the Marriage Alliance finding it in their inboxes. Some on Twitter alleged that the email had been sent to people on the New South Wales branch of the Liberal Party’s database. Crikey emailed York to ask how the Marriage Alliance found email addresses for its database but didn’t hear back by deadline.
Kids these days, part one. Political campaigning has found a new frontier, with YouTube comedy channel Friendlyjordies releasing a video sponsored by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. The five-minute video encourages young people to enrol to vote in order to keep the Liberal Party out of power. Friendlyjordies is a popular YouTube channel created by Sydney comedian Jordan Shanks (ably assisted by a ragtag bunch of mates). While many of Shanks’ videos are Jackass-crossed-with-Monty-Python silly, many of his most popular have had a clear political lean to the left. Made in the Friendlyjordies’ trademark style, at the very end of the video it includes a disclaimer that the video was approved by Dave Oliver, secretary of the ACTU. It has already had more than 139,000 views on Facebook:
y U need 2 bug ur friends 2 enrol Be a champ and enrol online here! http://aec.gov.au/enrol/
Posted by Friendlyjordies on Monday, April 4, 2016
New policy from Turnbull? It’s only a little thing, but recent comments by pollster Gary Morgan got us thinking about different meanings of prorogation. On Monday evening, Roy Morgan issued a poll result accompanied by Gary Morgan’s usual analysis, which explained that an improved result for the LNP reflected well on the Prime Minister’s double dissolution ploy — “Turnbull ‘pro-rogued’ the Australian Parliament, including a reluctant Senate, to come back and sit for three weeks from mid-April,” said Morgan.
“Pro-rogue”? We wondered if this was a novel interpretation of the word to suggest that it showed Turnbull as favourable to mavericks, perhaps a rebel himself, a bloke in the great Aussie tradition of larrikins. Sadly, the intriguing hyphen has since vanished from the online copy, although the word remains, inexplicably, in quotes, as though it’s not quite a real word, despite being in the constitution.
It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to. Westpac has a grand soiree on in Sydney this afternoon to celebrate its bicentenary. It will be a rather difficult celebration after the bank was alleged by ASIC to have participated in rigging a key money market indicator rate (and there are a couple of choice transcripts of phone conversations that have raised eyebrows). But Westpac is not the Bank of NSW as it was established 199 years ago — it is a sort of very distant relative. Officially, the Bank of NSW started in 1817 and found it had a problem in 1821 with a serious loss that crippled the bank when it was discovered that the bank’s chief cashier had stolen half its subscribed capital, none of which was ever recovered. In 1974, in the credit crunch in the Whitlam years, the bank had problems with finding money as a credit squeeze gripped the markets — a point later acknowledged by former CEO Bob White. And in the early 1990s Westpac was rescued by what was then called the AMP Society, which took a 15% stake and provided much-needed cash after Westpac went on an unchecked property lending spree from it and its partly owned finance arm, AGC, with the two companies rarely telling each other who they were lending to. Without the AMP’s support, Westpac would have collapsed under the weight of these huge debts. That point of Westpac history is not acknowledged in its history, only that it had a record $1.6 billion loss in 1993. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is speaking at the event, but we’re sure he will find a way to spin all that into the most exciting time to be a bank.
More ministerial diaries go walk-about. Crikey‘s latest attempt to get hold of a minister’s diary to see who our ministers have been meeting with has been thwarted yet again. We filed a freedom of information request for then-trade minister Andrew Robb’s diary late last year. Between then and now, Robb announced his retirement and acted as an envoy to get new Trade Minister Steve Ciobo ready for the role.
Naturally the office of the new minister — despite working with Robb during a transition period — is now claiming it doesn’t know anything about Robb’s diary and doesn’t have access to it. This is despite it being potentially in breach of the Archives Act for not retaining Commonwealth records. This, after Communications Minister Mitch Fifield’s office declared releasing his diary was not in the public interest. What are in all of these diaries that is so secret?
Dispatch from Mackellar. A tipster tells us:
“Marcus Blackmore hosted a drinks function for Bronwyn Bishop last Monday night so Bronny could unveil her campaign strategy. You’ve gotta admit it’s a novel sales pitch: It seems her losing the preselection would be a disaster for the oldies because it would leave only four parliamentarians over 65 in the house, so said the 73-year old. Reading that with her previously stated need to stay in parliament ‘to keep us all safe’ we now know Bronny will be campaigning to keep the oldies safe from terrorists … and 40-year olds to busy to look after the older generation. Nice one, Bronny.”
Kids these days, part two. A budding young reporter in the US has hit back at her critics, recording a video of herself reading the abusive and explicit comments she’s been sent online. Nine-year-old Hilde Kate Lysiak is the editor and publisher of Orange Street News, and last week beat the local paper to report on an alleged murder in her hometown of Selinsgrove in Pensylvania. When some thought she should get back to playing with dolls, she recorded this video:
marriage alliance
Scott Morrison considers rational approach
Weapons down? Maybe, but there is plenty to fight about. Here’s a list of friction points
Georgia Wilkins
A question of trust: can unions, the government and business all stay friends?
Norman Hanscombe
There was some interesting material here, so it’s a shame it was sandwiched between such thick slices of trivial nonsense.
michael dwyer
The deal between AMP and Westpac in the early 1990s may not have helped Westpac. AMP had been involved in a banking venture which was not going according to plan. Westpac had got into life insurance- probably with middling success.
The deal was for Westpac to take over the AMP banking venture, and AMP to yake the Westpac life insurance operation.
The fullness of time suggests that AMP was by far the greatest beneficiary of the deal.
Westpac may have been technically insolvent in 1992, but was too big to be allowed to fail. It was allowed to trade its way out of the trouble.
Westpac was not the only bank to get into serious trouble through a finance subsidiary. Think of Bank of Adelaide, State Banks of Victoria and South Australia come to mind.
Oh, Sophie York of the Marriage Alliance… I feel your pain… I’m sure there are plenty of racist business owners who’d love to have the “freedom” to ban services to indigenous people, asians or muslims…. or whoever. They should have the “religious” freedom to put up “no blacks” signs in their shop windows.
You may attempt to dress up bigotry by calling it “religious freedom” but it is still bigotry, and harmful bigotry as well.
If, by some sick joke, businesses get the right to deny service to gay people, or people of various racial or religious groupings then they should be required by law to display a “no gays” sign in their window or website so that the community can avoid these places if they so desire. Perhaps Sophie York is unaware that most people have at least one gay family member and may boycott such bigotted businesses even if they’re planning a “straight” wedding.
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Public warned over landslip on north coast of Cornwall
The cliffs are on the move
The Carbis Bay Crew shared this image (Image: The Carbis Bay Crew,)
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Walkers have been warned about a landslip in an area south of Porthtowan on the north coast.
The Carbis Bay Crew, a group of cavers, mine explorers, divers and climbers, took to Facebook to issue the warning.
“Heads up, it’s been noticed whilst on an exercise walk that the cliffs south of Porthtowan are on the move, no surprise there,” the group said.
“Unfortunately, one of the falls has taken out the route to the Wheal Metal cliff workings.
“It looks like the workings are still intact but the "goat track" has been swept away.”
Dog falls off cliff near Portreath after escaping from elderly owner
Sunny spring weather in Devon and Cornwall expected to last until the end of April
Coastal erosion has become one of the most worrying issues for residents in Cornwall.
Research has highlighted the increasing risk that many coastal residents are facing, to the point where some are ultimately looking at losing their homes over the coming decades.
The ongoing retreat of the shoreline will cause around 7,000 homes in the UK to disappear into the sea by the end of century, experts warned — unless more action is taken.
PropertyRobbie Williams rumoured to have bought £1.6m 'cruise ship' penthouse in CornwallThere have been rumours that Robbie Williams bought one of the penthouses
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Getting the Ball Rolling
By Jessica Hulett
Today I finally got the chance to present my three big ideas to Nate. He was out again yesterday, and when I mentioned it to him this morning, he said, "Oh, was today the day for that?" Here they are:
Odd Jobs: In a struggling economy, some strange ways to make money. My examples, mock juror, earthworm farmer, rodeo clown, fruit sprayer.
Teen Runaways: Numbers rising because of economic woes.
TSA Screenings: A history of changes in airline security based on threats, and how successful they've been.
When I got done with my spiel, he sat there, staring off and rubbing his chin. Did he hate them all? I wondered. Is he regretting giving me this task?
"I like all of them, K.," he said, finally, and I exhaled. "And I especially like that you did your research, and gave me concrete examples. And they're all timely, but with the right script, they could be evergreen as well. I want to go with the TSA screenings, though, because it's something that everyone's thinking about in terms of their own travel. We'll talk about the other two, but let's get the ball rolling on that."
I waited for him to tell me just what needed to be done in terms of getting the ball rolling, but instead he started whistling. I think it was Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance."
"So, should I... get the ball rolling? Or will you?" I finally asked.
"Oh!" he said, seeming surprised that I was still there. "I'll announce it in tomorrow's meeting and we can get everyone brainstorming and discuss contacts. But in the meantime, you can start making some phone calls -- see if we can get anyone from the TSA to talk to us. If we use them on film, we'll hide their identity."
I spent the rest of the day getting shot down by everyone I came into contact with, which I completely expected. Next step: find someone who used to work there who will talk to us, and mine that person for contacts.
When I got home to a once-again empty apartment, I called Jenna.
"Move back and be my roommate," I begged. "I have a backyard!"
"Are you nuts?" she asked, but I could hear the smile in her voice. "I love it here. You should move here."
"Now you're nuts. I'm not leaving my job. I sure could use some new friends, though."
"Take a class," she suggested. "That's how we met."
She had a point. I made a mental note to start looking for something that I wanted to learn about. After that, conversation shifted to Sarah, and what a weirdo she's being, Jane being completely overwhelmed by motherhood, and finally, our love lives. She's dating a divorced florist with a 5-year-old son, but as a pretty spontaneous person, she's having a hard time with the fact that they can't just go away on a whim, or stay out until the wee hours in the morning. We discussed whether giving up those things was just part of growing up, or whether she'd be better suited with someone more like her. The verdict: it's a tough call.
Also a tough call on the discussion list: the Zach situation. Hopefully I'll have more insight after tomorrow's date.
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50 YEAR EVENTS
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Archives and Afterlives: Panel Discussion
Panel discussion on ‘Archives and Afterlives: Literary Studies Now’ was held on 8 January 2021 via Zoom. It was moderated by Baidik Bhattacharya. The panelists included Aakriti Mandhwani, Teja Verma Pusapati & Vinayak Das Gupta.
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This panel brings together some of the new and most exciting voices in contemporary literary studies in India to reflect on the nature of literary archives and the way such archives shape research imaginations for our times. Drawing on their innovative works across different archives and locations, and through diverse media, the three speakers will discuss the status of literary studies now, with some speculations on its future itinerary.
Aakriti Mandhwani is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Shiv Nadar University. Her research interests include book and magazine history, popular literature, Hindi literature and literary history, and the history of libraries in South Asia.
Teja Varma Pusapati is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Shiv Nadar University. Her new project on Victorian imperial periodicals has been awarded a Curran Fellowship by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.
Vinayak Das Gupta is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Shiv Nadar University. His research focuses on the analysis of historical photographs using visual theory and computational methods.
Baidik Bhattacharya is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. He works at the crossroads of literary studies, social sciences, and philosophy.
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Brisbane - International Women's Day 2021
Date: Friday, 5 March 2021
Where: Sofitel Brisbane Central, 249 Turbot St, Brisbane
Time: 10:45am until 1:00pm (Brisbane time)
In person attendance: $50 (Julie is broadcast live from Sydney, followed by drinks and canapes for 1 hour)
Virtual Ticket: $30
Watch the keynote presentation and participate in Q&A in real time via Zoom.
Gender parity won’t happen overnight, but the good news is that women and organisations worldwide are making positive gains, day by day. There’s a growing global movement of awareness, support, activism and advocacy. But we can’t be complacent. Now more than ever, there’s a strong push for action to progress gender parity.
Together, let’s #ChooseToChallenge and be resolute in accelerating gender parity.
On March 5th, CFA Societies Australia is proud to host a live presentation with guest speaker, the Hon Julie Bishop to celebrate success and raise awareness of various issues affecting women locally and globally such as education, health and job opportunities.
The presentation by the Hon Julie Bishop will be in person in Sydney and broadcast live to other locations.
The Hon Julie Bishop
Chancellor Australian National University
Foreign Minister of Australia 2013-2018
Read more about Julie here.
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Dubai sets a high goal for driverless cars
By Bruce Brown April 26, 2016
The leader of Dubai plans for 25 percent driverless car rides by 2030 https://pixabay.com/en/users/fsHH-1451325/
My father often told me it was better to fall a little short of a big goal than to fall short of a small goal. Perhaps that’s the message Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum got from his dad, too. He announced this week that by 2030 fully 25 percent of trips in Dubai United Arab Emirates will be made by driverless cars, according to the Associated Press.
Sheikh Mohammed’s goal, announced without a lot of detail, may actually be possible. In many ways, Dubai could be a perfect early city site for driverless car adoption. Dubai already has many new roads, the oil-rich country isn’t lacking for funds, and the leadership is in charge. The concept of driver-free transportation won’t be new for Dubai citizenry, either, because of familiarity with a driverless rail system that last year had 178 million riders.
In Dubai, highest end luxury and sports cars are common and many of those vehicles now have driverless or driver-assist features, so for those owners the leap won’t be all that great. Sheikh Mohammed, by the way, drives himself around the city in a Mercedes Benz G-Class with license plate No. 1.
“Today, we lay down a clear strategy with specific goals for smart transportation to form one of the key drivers for achieving sustainable economy in the UAE,” said Sheikh Mohammed. He stated that the project, which would be undertaken by Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority and the Dubai Future Foundation, would lessen accidents and save money.
The plan does not only encompass private passenger cars, but also buses, taxis, and cable cars. While the financials of the plan were not laid out, one safe assumption is that at least some of the savings would come be from the money paid taxi drivers. Six large taxi companies in Dubai employ many drivers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other Asian countries who would be out of work if taxis are driverless.
The Roads and Transport Authority is already in talks with numerous companies developing driverless vehicles and plans to start testing on Dubai’s roads as soon as possible. As a test bed Dubai has some unique characteristics. In addition to its new roads, some of which are up to 12 lanes wide, the country regularly gets very hot. There is little rain but seasonal, thick fog is often to blame for massive collisions.
With the money and authority to make things happen, there’s no discernible reason that Shiekh Mohammed’s big goal isn’t in reach after all.
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Year-Round Ice Skating Rink Proposed for Uptown Playground
By Carla Zanoni | March 15, 2012 7:57am
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City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez has proposed that the Parks Department convert a storage building in the playground into a year-round children's recreation center.
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UPPER MANHATTAN — Despite this year’s unseasonably warm winter, City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez is thinking up ways for kids to have fun uptown when the cold weather returns.
The Councilman has proposed the Parks Department refurbish a former storage building in Anne Loftus Playground into a year-round children’s recreation center, complete with activities for kids to stay warm and entertained.
And for children who are feeling a bit more adventurous, Rodriguez would like to see the department install an ice skating rink in the center of the playground, which now has spray showers in place of a former wading pool.
Rodriguez said he would like to see a rink just like the ones in Central or Bryant Park.
“We need to bring more winter activities uptown, and I think by doing something like this we could bring more people outside during the winter,” Rodriguez told DNAinfo.
The plan is in a preliminary discussion stage with the Parks Department, which presented Rodriguez with a sketch of possibilities for layout inside the children’s recreation center.
The stone building sits at the southern end of the playground, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., son of the co-designer of Central and Prospect Parks.
“It would allow for more space within the existing building for programming during colder weather,” Parks spokesman Phil Abramson wrote in an email, adding that the department is looking into the feasibility of adding a rink at the location.
Rodriguez said he has committed to allocating “whatever amount" of capital funding is needed for the project, but said the projected budget was yet undetermined.
The storage space in the playground, which sits at the northern edge of Fort Tryon Park on the border of Washington Heights and Inwood, was previously used by the New York Restoration Project, the nonprofit started by Bette Midler.
The group now uses space in its Swindler's Cove location at Sherman Creek in Inwood.
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Sun, 23 Dec 2018, 10:18 AM
Wing Thing Part One
By Steve Reyes
Photo copyright 2018 Steve Reyes
It would be about fifty-five years ago that I decided to be a big-time photographer in the world of drag racing. Since then, I have done okay in my chosen profession and had a lot of fun in the process. Early in my career, I had a pretty good idea what a race car (a.k.a. dragster, roadster and gasser) should look like. For me, wings belong on an airplane and not on a race car. Back in my early day, hanging a wing on a race car was just plain silly. The first wing I saw on a race car was the one Garlits bolted on top of the engine of one of his 1960s Swamp Rat Fuelers at the NHRA Winternationals in 1963.
I don't think the NHRA officials knew what to think about the Garlits winged thing at their Pomona, California, season opener. Maybe it was a fad or experiment, only Garlits knows for sure and he's not talking. Anyway, the first "real wing" that I saw on a top fuel dragster would have been in early 1965 when Rick Stewart and the Bay Harbor Chrysler AA/FD made the tow run from Los Angeles to Fremont so they could race against NorCal's AA/FD's.
The car was beautiful, painted in multi-hues of blue and bolted on the front axle was this beautiful translucent mini-wing. I thought that was the coolest accessory ever on a top fuel dragster. Very soon after their appearance at Fremont, mini-wings started to adorn some Northern California AA/FD's.
Some of NorCal's AA/FD's removed their funky metal style front spoilers for the light weight aluminum mini-wing. For me, that is how the wing thing started in Northern California. This first part features one of my favorite classes in drag racing, the fuel altered. A fuel altered with a wing? I bet the car that comes to mind is Willie Borsch in the Winged Express.
I believe those guys, Harrell, Borsch, and Muse started the wing thing in the AA/FA class. The original Winged Express was built in 1960 and was one of, if not the first ever AA/FA to grace the 1320. The monster wing was added in 1963 and the true Winged Express was born with Wild Willie Borsch one handing the car down the race track.
Hey, if a wing works on Borsch's ride, why not on others in the AA/FA Class. From about 1967 on, wings appeared on AA/FA's; some small, some medium and of course larger wings. A few cars even had their wings built into the body. All of this was a hit or miss science as no one had access to a wind tunnel for air flow under or over wings.
Many a race team sought out still photos of their car at speed to see how their wings were helping or hindering the car's performance. In the early days, it was trial and error with the hope of finding the correct setting on their winged things...
Here is a photographic journey in the winged wonders in the AA/FA class. Enjoy the voyage back in time! Our next venture will be into the winged wonders of the AA/FD class.
If you wish to purchase prints of the photos below or any others, they may be obtained by contacting us at breyes@reyesontour.com. Other photos for purchase may be viewed by following the links at www.reyesontour.com.
Northern California's own version of a Winged Express came in the form of
Steve Wood's nitro burning 392 Hemi-powered winged four door Anglia Prefect.
For me this was one of the coolest cars to race down Fremont drag strip in 1967.
When Woods debuted the Anglia, it had no wing and handled like it wanted to
crash on every run. A visit to San Jose Speedway to watch the winged modifieds
race and the next thing you know there was a super modified wing atop Wood's
nitro burning Anglia. The wing did help stabilize the car but it still proved to be a handful.
Butch Pipins piloted the Pipins and Green AA/FA at Irwindale in 1967.
Bolted on the front axle is one of the translucent mini-wings. I never heard
if it worked but it looked very cool. Then in 1967, the original Winged Express
did its winged thing at Lodi, California. Two years later, Borsch crashed the car
at Martin, Michigan, while on tour. Willie flipped the car and the wing flew off
onto the return road. A couple of rabid race fans jumped the fence, grabbed
the slightly bent wing and headed toward the exit, never to be seen again.
The new version of the Winged Express debuted in 1970 with a rather small wing atop
the roll bar. When the small wing didn't pan out, a larger wing was put in its place in 1971.
Just before Don Green went funny car racing in 1972, his original Rat Trap AA/FA
sported this rather strange two wing set-up. Back in Northern California, Nick Otto
and Frank Pitts added a small wing to the front of the Warlock AA/FA. I don't know if it did anything but the Drag News decal looked great on it. Over in the Lone Star
State of Texas, Delmar Hines and his Die Hard AA/FA had a mini wing bolted on his
AA/FA roll bar. Maybe he put it there to shade the driver on those sunny Texas days?
Now for AA/FA's with wings built into the Fiat bodies. There was Gary Southern
driving the Red Baron Fiat AA/FA at Pomona, California. As you can see the car's
body was built to be one big air foil. This Fiat was a handful and Southern is the
only driver I ever saw make a full run in the Hippo powered AA/FA. In 1977, this
was the new look - The Mob AA/FA - gone were the roadster/roadster pickup bodies,
it now sported a built-in air foil Fiat body. Driver Ed Moore was always fun to watch
drive and The Mob AA/FA and this one was no exception!
Mack McCord, Mitch King and Louis Sweet started the new age AA/FA's movement.
McCord's The Gorilla was lower, longer, with a huge wing high above the cage.
The wing was high to catch clean air for a better down force. The Gorilla also featured
a custom wing on the front and built in min-wings on either side of the body.
Mitch King's AA/FA also featured a high in the sky wing over the cage and a slant board
style wing in the front. Louis Sweet's Sweet Thrills AA/FA featured a monster wing
in the sky and a custom nose piece that covered the fuel tank, front axle, and front wheels.
Not many fans got to see Dave and Lynn Hough's Winged Nanook AA/FA when
it debuted at Irwindale. The wing was only run for a very short time and then
discarded because of its weight.
So how about the Wing-less Express at Irwindale in 1970? Yes, Borsch did a
burnout and the wing broke off. An alert crew member removed the broken
wing and Willie brought the now wing-less AA/FA to the starting line. The tree
went green and the car charged down the Irwindale quarter mile, well not really
a quarter mile, about 300 feet. At the 300 feet mark the car decided to search for
a place to go. Willie had to shut off, maybe that wing did help stabilize the AA/FA?
Before the Lawce Brothers and Gunn shipped their AA/A to a new owner in England,
they added a wing to their Division 7 based AA/A. This did help stabilize the car at
high speed and also helped to keep the front end on the race track.
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About Paul Buhle
Paul Buhle is working, with Mari Jo Buhle and dozens of DSAers, on the third edition of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. His latest book is Ballad of an American, the first graphic biography of singer and anti-racist giant Paul Robeson, drawn by Sharon Rudahl.
Is There a Socialist Re-awakening?
November 8, 2020 by Paul Buhle
West Philly reacts to Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania by dancing in the street, of course pic.twitter.com/WBuipfLydN
— Ellie Rushing (@EllieRushing) November 6, 2020
Any estimation of socialist prospects in the United States must include the defeat of Donald J. Trump, the election of the Biden-Harris ticket, and… dancing in the streets. Was it Socialist Dancing? We would surely like to think so. Such a massive outburst of joy brought by the defeat of racism, misogyny, and nativism will mean much to DSA, and should turn our careful attention to the subject of socialist possibilities. Cue author John B. Judis and his new book, The Socialist Awakening: What’s Different Now About the Left.
This compact and useful little book offers a mostly optimistic prognosis for the revival of socialist ideas and also an optimistic version of a contemporary policy savant’s own turn of mind. Judis, a key drafter of the formulations for the first issue of the journal Socialist Revolution (1970), drifted away, as he told viewers of a recent dialogue with E.J. Dionne, but has come back to socialist faith in a new way. This time, it’s not Marxism, but it has a lot in common with Bernie Sanders and even the recent growth of DSA. Judis believes that if socialists can stay away from wild rhetoric and third party experiments, they may become a decisive lever for progress.
Judis makes a strong case for the advance of socialistic ideas, often without the label, especially from the New Deal onward. Insisting upon the progress of a “socialism without capitalism” suggested long ago by Karl Polanyi and elaborated in recent times by Thomas Piketty and others. These steps seem to him a foreshadowing of more and better, within the guise of the Democratic Party mainstream. In order to become victorious, he argues, they must be combined with a clear and positive claim of national identity. Socialism will be American socialism, perhaps even American something-else that adds up, in time, to socialism.
Here, some conceptual difficulties kick in. Judis’s otherwise convincing themes and arguments put race, war and the clash of empires aside. These giant and depressing features that toppled the socialist movement early in the twentieth century still haunt us today. Within Judis’s political lifetime, they halted the Great Society and arguably cost Hillary Clinton the 2016 election.
How is the circle to be squared? One of Judis’s strongest arguments draws upon a Bernie Sanders discussion, made even better by famed leftwing historian Eric Foner, in response to a Nation editorial of 2015. In that seemingly distant time, Bernie suggested, and the Nation editors echoed, the value of Scandinavian successes in creating a modern, relatively egalitarian welfare state. Foner, in a provocative open letter to Sanders, argued that it might be better to look at Tom Paine, Frederick Douglass, the Second New Deal and the Second Bill of Rights proposed by FDR in 1944. Pressed by the Congress of Industrial Organizations, crucial in Democratic victories that year, a dying Franklin Roosevelt promised a new slate of fundamental rights. These were not to be delivered by Harry Truman or any other subsequent president, and we are still waiting.
Judis also looks usefully at major experiments in social reform, most persuasively by the British Labour Party’s introduction of the National Health Service (NHS) following the Second World War. His description of this Labour history touches upon one of the book’s strongest arguments:, the ways in which the argument was made for an advanced welfare system in the name of national, in this case British, achievement.
The victory of the Left within the Labour Party in 2017, answering the humiliations of neoliberal, war-mad Tony Blair, seemingly offered a way forward. But Brexit proved an issue hugely difficult to handle in 2019, and he argues that Labour’s leadership made the wrong tactical choice, i.e., neither for nor against leaving the EU. Judis does not, however, offer a convincing argument that a bitterly divided Labour Party could have made any better choice without ripping itself apart. It was a no-win situation custom made for Boris Johnson. If the election had been held even six months later, who knows?
Coming back home, Judis suggests in the strongest terms that DSA has the opportunity to do what Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters could not do, but only by jumping into the Democratic Party with both feet, arms and other body parts. It’s a good argument as we anticipate a Biden-Harris administration.
Is this the road to socialism? None of the legitimate U.S. reform heroes actually argued for socialism, raising once more the old problem of socialism sneaking into the polis described as something else, something more ‘American,” definitely less frightening. And yet it has been precisely the rebranding of “socialism” by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in particular, that draws the attention and devotion of young people and not only them.
A legitimate and popular socialist movement is not likely to arise without a serious consideration, indeed reorientation, around issues of race, empire and war, all of them causes of the climate crisis already at hand. But Judis makes his case well, and we should be listening.
The Socialist Awakening: What’s Different Now About the Left
Columbia Global Reports, 129 pp, $15.99.
By John B. Judis
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[HISTORY: Adopted by the County Board of McLean County as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Article I Adoption of Code
[Adopted 2-17-2015]
In accordance with 55 ILCS 5/5-29001 et seq., the ordinances and certain resolutions of McLean County, Illinois, as codified by General Code, LLC, and consisting of Chapters 1 through 350, together with an Appendix, shall be known collectively as the "McLean County Code," hereafter termed the "Code." Wherever reference is made in any of the ordinances and resolutions contained in the McLean County Code to any other ordinance or resolution appearing in said Code, such reference shall be changed to the appropriate chapter title, chapter number, article number or section number where such legislation appears in the Code, as if such ordinance or resolution had been formally amended to so read.
The provisions of the Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of the 1986 Code and ordinances and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of the 2015 Code by this resolution, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and resolutions and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior ordinance or resolution. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the County Board of McLean County, and it is the intention of said Board that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reaffirmed as it appears in said Code. Only such provisions of former ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated according to the provisions of § 1-3 below.
Only those ordinances of a general and permanent nature of McLean County in force on the date of the adoption of this resolution, which are both inconsistent with the provisions contained herein and which are not contained in the Code or recognized and continued in force by reference herein, are hereby repealed from and after the effective date of this resolution unless otherwise saved from repeal or not affected per § 1-2 above or § 1-4 below.
The repeal of ordinances provided for in § 1-3 of this resolution shall not affect the following classes of ordinances, rights and obligations, which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
Any right or liability established, accrued or incurred under any legislative provision of McLean County prior to the effective date of this resolution or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of such right or liability.
Any offense or act committed or done before the effective date of this resolution in violation of any legislative provision of McLean County or any penalty, punishment or forfeiture which may result therefrom.
Any prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other proceeding pending or any judgment rendered prior to the effective date of this resolution brought pursuant to any legislative provision of McLean County.
Any agreement entered into or any franchise, license, right, easement or privilege heretofore granted or conferred by McLean County.
Any ordinance of McLean County providing for the laying out, opening, altering, widening, relocating, straightening, establishing grade, changing name, improvement, acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way, easement, street, road, highway, park or other public place under the County's jurisdiction or any portion thereof.
Any ordinance of McLean County appropriating money or transferring funds, promising or guaranteeing the payment of money or authorizing the issuance and delivery of any bond of McLean County or other instruments or evidence of the County's indebtedness.
Ordinances authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property or any lawful contract, agreement or obligation.
The levy or imposition of special assessments or charges.
The annexation or dedication of property.
Any ordinance relating to salaries, compensation or establishing a pension plan or pension fund for County employees.
Any ordinance amending the Zoning Map or providing for variances or planned development approval in accordance with the County Zoning Ordinance.
Any ordinance relating to or establishing a pension plan or pension fund for County employees.
Any ordinance or portion of an ordinance establishing a specific fee amount for any license, permit or service obtained from the County.
Any ordinance transferring funds between funds in the County budget.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to the effective date of this resolution.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article, chapter or part of this resolution or of any ordinance or resolution included in this Code now or through supplementation shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article, chapter or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
In accordance with 55 ILCS 5/5-29007, a copy of the Code shall be made available for public review and inspection in the office of the County Clerk.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to any of the ordinances and resolutions known collectively as the "McLean County Code" or any new ordinances or resolutions, when enacted or adopted in such form as to indicate the intention of the County Board to be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the Code shall be understood and intended to include such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements. Whenever such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Code shall be enacted or adopted, they shall thereafter be published and, as provided hereunder, included in the Code as amendments and supplements thereto. Nothing contained in this resolution shall affect the status of any ordinance or resolution contained herein, and such ordinances or resolutions may be amended, deleted or changed from time to time as the County Board deems desirable.
When preparing a supplement to this Code, the codifier (meaning the person, agency or organization authorized to prepare the supplement) may make formal, nonsubstantive changes in legislation and parts of legislation included in the supplement, insofar as it is necessary to do so to embody it into a unified code. In no case shall the codifier make any change in the meaning or effect of material included in the supplement or already embodied in the Code. For example, the codifier may:
Organize the material into appropriate subsections;
Provide appropriate headlines, headings and titles for sections and other subdivisions of the Code included in the supplement, and make changes in such headlines, headings and titles;
Assign appropriate numbers to sections and other subsections to be inserted in the Code and, where necessary to accommodate new material, change existing section or other subsection numbers;
Change the words "this ordinance" or words of the same meaning to "this chapter," "this article," etc., as the case may be, or to "§§ _________ to _________" (inserting section numbers to indicate the sections of the Code which embody the substantive sections of the material incorporated into the Code); and
Make other nonsubstantive changes necessary to preserve the original meaning of sections inserted into the Code.
Copies of the Code, or any chapter or portion of it, may be purchased from the County Clerk, or an authorized agent of the Clerk, upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution of the County Board. The Clerk may also arrange for procedures for the periodic supplementation of the Code.
Any person who, without authorization from the County Clerk, changes or amends, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the McLean County Code or who alters or tampers with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the legislation of McLean County to be misrepresented thereby or who violates any other provision of this resolution shall be guilty of an offense and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for each offense.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances and resolutions for publication as the McLean County Code, no changes in the meaning or intent of such ordinances and resolutions have been made. In addition, certain grammatical changes, administrative changes, and other minor nonsubstantive changes were made in one or more of said pieces of legislation. It is the intention of the County Board that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances and resolutions had been previously formally amended to read as such.
In addition, the amendments and/or additions as set forth in Schedule A, attached hereto and made a part hereof, are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective date of this resolution. (Chapter and section number references are to the ordinances and resolutions as they have been renumbered and appear in the Code.)
This resolution and the Code adopted hereby shall be in full force and effect upon adoption as provided in 55 ILCS 5/5-29004.
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NUS Enterprise’s start-up incubator, Blk71, received the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Republic of Costa Rica His Excellency Manuel González Sanz on 10 March. The Minister was in Singapore from 9 to 12 March on an official visit.
Mr González was hosted by NUS Enterprise CEO Dr Lily Chan, who gave a presentation on Blk71’s inception and the entrepreneurial programmes conducted by NUS Enterprise. She also highlighted initiatives such as Modern Ageing Singapore and InnovFest Unbound.
Two guest speakers — Mr Evan Cheah, Director of the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise; and Mr Chong Choon Leong, Senior Manager of ITE Education Services (Middle East, Africa and Latin America) gave the Costa Rican delegation an overview of their respective organisations.
Mr Cheah explained how the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise has helped governments worldwide as a “one-stop shop” for those wanting to tap on expertise found within Singapore’s public sector. Mr Chong presented on the ways ITE Education Services has enabled other countries to develop innovative vocation-based training modelled on Singapore’s Institute of Technical Education system.
During the short question-and-answer session following the presentations, the Costa Rican guests were keen to know about the educational landscape in Singapore and the tertiary-level options available. They also wanted to find out how Singapore had identified the industries it should develop.
Costa Rica recognises the leadership of Singapore and how it has developed a diversified and knowledge-based economy, said Mr González. The Central American country, like Singapore, also relies on human capital as a pillar of its economy.
“Until now, we don’t have much experience...in start-ups or creating the entrepreneurial mindset. We need to have our young people being not just job seekers but job creators,” explained Mr González.
The visit ended with a tour of Blk71 facilities including Plug-In@Blk71, which is jointly hosted by NUS Enterprise, Media Development Authority Singapore and Singtel Innov8.
Mr González subsequently gave a lecture at Yale-NUS College titled “Costa Rica: Disarmed Democracy and the Rule of International Law” on 11 March.
Published by NUS: http://news.nus.edu.sg/highlights/10155-costa-rican-minister-visits-blk71
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Home » Daily » No anger in America
No anger in America
Shocked? Horrified? Grief-stricken? Determined? Yes, Boston residents who voiced those feelings passed through the media filters and were interviewed on camera.
But angry? Deeply angry at what happened at the Marathon and ready to give vent to it? The screeners took a pass.
I wrote about this subject after the Sandy Hook murders, and it applies to the Aurora massacre as well.
The sober sepulchral tones of media anchors, and their extreme deference to FBI, police, and politicians, form a hypnotic induction for viewers…and these leaders don’t want to break the spell, which is exactly what anger does.
Therefore, it’s a no-go.
Anger is a spark that fires up and spreads. So dampen it. Ignore it. Don’t show it on television news. Instead, say this: “Step back, everybody, huddle in your homes, let the pros do their job, they’ll catch the killers, look at the photos they want you to look at, remain calm, depend on designated officials.”
This is the new American dream.
If you don’t show anger on the television news, it doesn’t exist. Out of sight, out of mind.
Then, once in a while, media can point to an angry group they want to defame: “See, look at those people. They’re angry. They’re the only people who are. So there must be something wrong with them. They’re dangerous. What they stand for must be a threat to all the rest of us…because they’re angry.”
Suppose, right after the killings in Boston, the major networks interviewed 50 people who were in a rage. Viewers would start to wake up. That’s not permitted.
This engineered absence of anger dovetails perfectly with the “have a nice day” philosophy. It’s all about “thinking positive thoughts” and immediately lapsing into a passive invisible state.
A culture of “anger-is-destructive” has made enormous inroads on American life. We even have so-called experts issuing phony statements about the deleterious physical effects of “negative emotions.”
This is preposterous idiocy, at best. The key distinction here is between mindless outrage and anger directed at those who deserve to be exposed for their crimes. It’s also a distinction between bottling up, out of naked fear, such specifically directed outrage, and expressing it.
Unless you believe the American Revolution was fought by smiling troops who strolled into battle like glazed donuts sporting muskets.
Read Tom Paine’s Common Sense, the pamphlet that shook the Colonies and forced the Declaration of Independence. If you see no anger there, you’re dead.
In these modern massacre ops, the media formula works like this: “See, the perpetrators were brought to justice; it worked; the citizenry was kept in the background; nothing negative was expressed; and all’s well that ends well.”
Keeping citizen anger off the front pages and off the television-news screens is a purposeful pose. It’s really an emotional lockdown of the country.
The police not only act as an armed physical surrogate for the people, they also effect an emotional transfer. “You folks don’t have to get angry, give us your feelings, we’ll do the job, and we never hate. We’re efficient.”
This contributes mightily to the sense that we’re living in a land of androids.
Television is the universal teacher. Communities and cities learn how to react, should a crisis suddenly descend on them, from having watched how it worked in other places—as television showed it, as television selected it.
“This is how you’re supposed to feel, this is when you feel it, this is the sequence, these are the words you use.”
In this artificial ballet, the last people who are going to doubt the law-enforcement bosses are those who learn from television.
The rule of television coverage operates in another way as well. Suspects in these massacres, if they survive, rarely if ever speak before cameras to a national and world audience, before trial.
The police don’t permit it, and if they did, a defendant’s attorney wouldn’t allow it, on the grounds that prosecutors could use his client’s statements against him in the courtroom. So the accused are buffered off from the public, kept in a tight cocoon.
This contributes to an overall air of extreme caution. The wheels of the machine are grinding; no humans appear to be present. The only officials who speak before cameras are trained to emit bureaucratic blather.
The public accepts this. They buy the presentation—idiot pseudo-scientists using techno-speak to analyze some species of insect, while also throwing off gaseous generalities about the nation, the life of communities, and the coming together of good citizens.
From the earliest days of television, the vaunted anchors who shaped the role for later generations—Ed Murrow, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite—gods to the American audience—affected the air of a reformed drunk who was always walking close to the edge of doom and needed to enunciate his concerns carefully, lest he fall into a pit of actual human experience where he would drown.
This became the rhythm, sound, and tempo of truth.
Now, Brian Williams, and Scott Pelley, the keepers of that flame, are practicing in the same school of understatement, are doing their slow tap dance around the rim of the cliff, assuring viewers they are taking them as far as humans can go without encountering details too sordid for civilized exposure.
Among those omissions are the words and outraged feelings of citizens who demand justice and know there is a great con in progress, a charade.
The lesson was learned in 1963. After that piece of television coverage, the monarchs of media struck out on a different path. Americans actually saw Lee Harvey Oswald, after he was arrested. They saw his anger. They saw him say, “I’m just a patsy.” They saw his disgust and growing hour-by-hour understanding that he was going to his end. They saw he knew he was going to be swallowed up and disappeared. And finally they saw Jack Ruby shoot him in an underground garage.
Guilty or innocent, Oswald transmitted a disquiet that was corrosive to the public consciousness. That had to stop.
Television could not do this anymore. It was too strong, too real. No one individual could come across that way again.
The government and its media machine would have to build a castle and surround it with armed force in layers of protection. It would have to develop a new kind of language to pretend to a humanity that was on the way out.
That’s what they did, and it worked. It worked, at bottom, because it created a new audience that came to expect and demand three-dollar bills, one after another, standing in for the real thing.
In some humans, when you open their souls, you see fierce joy, oceanic energy and imagination. In others, you see dust, and a machinery that pretends to these things.
Knowing the difference makes all the difference in the world. The dust-and-machine people can voice the highest ideals and thoughts, but it’s all prerecorded.
Like media.
Especially when it’s live.
“I’m sick in my heart
But I’m not a fool anymore,
I know the charade is over.
The schemers and liars brought us to this house
In the middle of the night
And told us what the world was.
The sellers and the buyers brought us to our knees,
But this is the end of the trance
That told us what the world was.
“Between the clouds, the moon comes,
Between the clouds, the moon races,
New boiling rivers rush down from the mountains again.”
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Doctor on call for major disasters needed in struggling A&E department
A DOCTOR on call for major disasters was sent to a crisis-hit hospital emergency department after severe bed shortages led to patients being treated in corridors.
By Sarah Westcott
PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sat, Apr 18, 2015 | UPDATED: 16:47, Sat, Apr 18, 2015
A medical incident officer has to help beleaguered staff after months of problems
The Worcestershire Royal Hospital’s A&E department was under so much pressure West Midlands Ambulance Service had to send in its medical incident officer to help beleaguered staff after months of problems.
Unions said it was “totally unacceptable”, adding that its members were “furious”.
The Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, apologised but said the circumstances were “less than ideal”.
Pressure on beds had been “a constant issue” for more than a year. It simply could not discharge patients quickly enough, resulting in a backlog.
We took a decision to offload patients into A&E
A spokesman
The trust said the issues were “a national problem, not just a local one”.
A spokesman added: “Other hospitals don’t let patients out of the ambulances and you have queues of ambulances building up outside.
“We don’t do that. We took a decision to offload patients into A&E.”
The trust said no patients had come to any harm.
The crisis came as national figures from NHS England showed it has missed the four-hour waiting time target for the 28th week in a row.
The proportion of patients seen within the Government maximum of four hours at A&E departments fell below the target of 95 per cent.
Hospital nurses too busy to FEED patients fear more neglect scandals across NHS
Fury as granny Louisa Sabey, 91, dies after 16 hours on a trolley in A&E
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Battlefield V Won’t Support Nvidia’s DXR at Launch
By Joel Hruska on November 8, 2018 at 2:27 pm
When Nvidia launched the RTX family, it did so with a promise of future ray tracing support in games. That ray tracing support has been slow to materialize — we’re now nearly three months past the GPU family’s launch event, two months past commercial availability, and there’s no support in shipping games. That state of affairs is likely to continue for at least a little while post-launch, with DICE confirming that Battlefield V won’t ship with Day 1 RTX support. The update should be available within a week, if the text below is accurate.
A new note from DICE states:
DirectX Raytracing (DXR) – DXR enables realistic real-time ray traced reflections in Battlefield V for players with NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards including the GeForce RTX 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti. An early release of DXR will be available in an upcoming patch, near the Battlefield V Deluxe Edition release window. EA, DICE, and NVIDIA will also continue to optimize this implementation and deliver regular updates after its release.
This isn’t necessarily a problem, since the Windows October update also required for RTX support hasn’t been released yet, either, but the fact that RTX owners are waiting for two different companies to drop necessary product updates in order to use features they paid premiums to use isn’t a great look for the GPU family.
There’s no doubt that the RTX effects shown off in Battlefield V and embedded below are amazing — the visuals are a leap beyond anything we’ve seen in shipping titles — but the most critical question on gamers’ minds is whether or not those visuals are going to be attainable by anyone without an RTX 2080 Ti. The performance demos we saw in August (still our sole point of analysis) pointed to the RTX 2080 Ti struggling to maintain 60 FPS in 1080p. They said nothing about the expected performance of the RTX 2070 and 2080, and the rumor referencing continued optimization post-release seems to suggest there are performance concerns on these cards as well.
The silence from Nvidia on this topic is deafening. It’s reminiscent of the company’s silence during the latter part of Maxwell and early Pascal ramps, when Nvidia didn’t want to talk about anything related to asynchronous compute or DirectX 12-related, and therefore didn’t. Even at the Pascal launch event, the references to DX12 were few and far between; Nvidia spent much more time on its new VR demos and showcases than it did on DX12 or async compute. Faced with a situation in which it didn’t have much to say about performance or a specific feature, the company simply didn’t talk about it. But the situation in that case was quite different — async compute was not a feature Nvidia had been pumping and DX12 support was a question that each GPU vendor was free to address as they chose. RTX and ray tracing are features that Nvidia created and is specifically attempting to use to market a GPU family.
With a 7nm GPU refresh almost guaranteed to happen in the next 12-15 months, the 2xxx RTX family is already more likely than not to be a short-lived product. AMD has already stated that Navi is coming in 2019 and Nvidia is unlikely to let AMD sit on a new process node for months without a performance response of its own. It’s possible that the company could lead with a 7nm midrange card and a 12nm high-end stack, but Nvidia’s historic tendency has been top-to-bottom refreshes, not partial ones. All of this suggests the RTX could be a short-lived product family in the first place, with a replacement cycle coming in 2019 or early 2020. That doesn’t automatically mean you shouldn’t buy it, but it does mean Nvidia has a relatively limited window for these chips to prove themselves in the first place. That window closes month by month, and we’re already two months in without a single game to claim for support.
Now Read: Re-Evaluating the RTX 2070 at Its Proper $500 Price Tag, Nvidia RTX Ray Tracing Is Incredibly Expensive in Remedy’s Northlight Engine Demo, and Nvidia RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Review: You Can’t Polish a Turing
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Trailer: The Shaolin Kid
Andre, an eight year old American boy has just one dream: to be a Kungfu master. When he is offered the chance to enter the legendary Shaolin Temple, his father must take the heartbreaking decision to leave the mother behind and follow his son to China.
Andre, an eight year old American boy has just one dream: to be a Kungfu master like Jackie Chan. When he is offered the chance to enter the legendary Shaolin Temple, his father must take the heartbreaking decision to leave the mother behind and follow his son to China. While father and son face the unknown together, the mother must now face life without her family. Watch this real-life drama unfold as an American family takes on China’s elite Kungfu schools!
All three members of the family, husband, wife and son now face their own unique set of challenges along this martial arts journey. A journey that follows an american boy struggling to be a Kungfu master at the Shaolin Temple while learning to how to live in China. The boy Andre or his family could not imagine the outcome… that they would make China their permanent home many years later.
When Andre arrives at the Shaolin Temple he quickly realizes that to survive he will need more than his martial arts skills. Back in the United States Andre was already earning a reputation as a great martial artist but as the only foreigner among 5,000 Chinese kungfu students he must now learn to speak Mandarin … and fast! Even more frustrating, Andre was a winning Kungfu competitor in America while in China he is now placed at the bottom and must work his way back to the top! Can he make the grade and literally fight his way to the top of his class? As months turn into years, the parents strength and resolve to make their son’s dream come true is tested daily. Meanwhile, Andre is facing his own challenges as each day brings long hours of Kungfu training at the hands of the tough Shaolin monks. But his biggest challenge still awaits him… the supreme test of his skills to graduate from China’s elite martial arts school in Beijing – the very school that produced the martial arts superstar Jet Li. Do not miss this real life drama as an American family take on the might of China’s elite Kungfu schools!
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The Best Worst Town in Greece
“This isn’t coffee,” Rich said, glaring into his cup. “It’s gasoline.”
“No, there’s definitely some coffee in it because I have grounds stuck in my teeth.”
We set down the cups of revolting brew and stared around us at Kalamata, Greece: gloomy sky, empty street, silent men hunched over scattered tables under two giant trees. I could almost hear the blood from Rich’s leg wound dripping onto the paving stones underfoot. It was a low point in a day that had started with a setback and gone downhill from there.
We’d awakened that morning 50 kilometers to the south in Agios Dimitrios to discover the village was in the grip of a power outage and a sirocco. Fierce, sand-laden winds that blow up from the Sahara, siroccos turn the Mediterranean sky a gritty gray and (they say) drive people mad. During the Ottoman era, if you murdered someone during a sirocco, you got a lesser sentence due to extenuating circumstances. Rich and I managed not to go berserk, even when we realized without electricity we couldn’t make coffee.
Our route through Crete and the Mani Peninsula to Kalamata.
The landlord of our rental apartment gave us a lift to the bus stop, conveniently located in front of the café run by Freda, widely known as the village’s most resourceful resident. She didn’t fail us now. Working with a car battery and a gas-powered burner, she produced French-press coffee for us and our friends, Jackie and Joel. Many of you know Jackie from TravelnWrite, her lively blog about expat life in Greece. After corresponding for years, we finally met IRL (in real life), and not only had she and Joel generously spent days showing us around, they came to see us off on the bus — a bright spot in the morning.
“Does the sirocco always knock out the electricity?” Rich asked.
“Oh no, this is a planned outage,” said Jackie. “They must be fixing something.”
The outage and the sirocco extended all the way up the coast to our next stopping point, the city of Kalamata. After the picturesque charms of Crete and the rugged magnificence of the Mani Peninsula, our first glimpses — and frankly, our second and third glimpses as well — suggested that Kalamata was a soulless wasteland of shabby, crumbling concrete.
Our first stroll through Kalamata was somewhat less than picturesque.
We were too early to check in, so our Airbnb hosts kindly directed us to their favorite café, just around the corner under a pair of huge trees. Stepping into the deeper gloom below the branches, Rich immediately walked into a low metal table, gashing his shin. As he hobbled to a chair and began sopping up the blood with his handkerchief, I ordered coffee — the only item on offer. They were likely heating the water with kerosene, which could account for the taste.
“I gotta tell you,” said Rich. “I am not warming to this town.”
The café where the fight took place between the little table and Rich's shin.
Disinclined to linger at the café, Rich tied his handkerchief around the wound and we set off to reconnoiter. Hours of walking took us past closed shops, lightless windows, and a few shadowy restaurants serving coffee. Suddenly Rich’s sniffer went on high alert.
“Do I smell food cooking?” he said.
We followed our noses into the steamy warmth of a café, where a gas cooker had produced an array of hearty dishes. In a matter of moments we were seated before heaping portions of moussaka, green beans, and chicken "mincemeat." We sighed with pleasure and tucked in.
Having missed breakfast due to the power outage, we were thrilled to find a place serving a hot lunch.
Ten minutes later the lights came on and the sun came out. Leaving the restaurant, we found ourselves surrounded by bright, inviting shops and cafés with abundant charm and originality. Our apartment turned out to be even pleasanter than it looked in the photos. Rich grudgingly agreed the town might have some redeeming features.
The next morning we took a food tour, and our guide, Fotini, introduced us to local characters as well as local cuisine. Tourists are relatively rare creatures in Kalamata, and everyone seemed delighted to spend time with us. The Economakos family gave us slivers of their famous salted pork and cups of homemade wine as they showed us a picture of the sausage plate that won first prize the 1999 trade fair. We nibbled and sipped our way through the morning, shaking hands, kissing cheeks, promising to come back one day.
Kalmata’s world-famous olives were mentioned only in passing, and I asked Fotini why there wasn’t more fuss about them. She shrugged. “When you’ve been eating something since ancient times, it is just a part of everyday life.” I asked if there were any special dishes we should try while we were in town.
“Gourounopoula,” she said. “Roast pork with plenty of skin and fat. Back in the days of the Ottoman empire, we used it to plan a revolution. When we had feasts, we of course had to invite our Ottoman neighbors. But being Muslims, they didn’t eat pork, so when we served gourounopoula, they stayed away. And we could plan our revolution, right under their noses.” Thanks to gourounopoula — and a few other factors, of course — the Greeks gained independence in 1829 after 400 years of Ottoman occupation.
Where we should try this famous pork? Fotini led me to the corner and pointed. “There. That café with the two giant trees.”
“No way,” said Rich.
“Oh, man up,” I said. “Let’s see if that little table is ready for a rematch.”
“I want a second opinion.”
When we asked at the tourist office, the woman at the desk sighed ecstatically.“Ah, gourounopoula,” she said. “Yes, you must try it. The best is here.” She pointed at the map. “At Barbayiannis.”
We set off, hampered only by the fact most streets weren't marked, and the few that were didn't seem to match any of the names on our map. Eventually I noticed a window displaying the remains of a pig, with a severed head and a meat cleaver. We had found Barbayiannis!
I did a doubletake. "Hey, this is the place we had lunch the first day!" What are the odds?
Gourounopoula was comfort food at its finest: a crispy outer layer of roasted fat covering meat tender enough to cut with a fork. I didn’t even try to talk my way into the tiny kitchen during the lunchtime rush, but I did the next best thing and looked online for a recipe. Ideally you roast the pig whole on a spit, but when that's impractical, this video shows how to create the same effect with a pork shoulder roast and a few other simple ingredients in your home oven.
“I can’t believe I’m saying this,” Rich told me. “But I actually think Kalamata is my favorite stop so far.”
“You’re just saying that because you’ve stopped bleeding and have a belly full of roast pork.”
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Content Marketing Offers Multiple Options: How BrandVoice is Making Money
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If you’re a publisher, content marketing is a constant conversation these days. Naturally, the majority of that conversation focuses on your content. But, if you’re not talking about how advertising fits into your body of content, you might be missing a lucrative opportunity.
We know that the nature of advertising is evolving to meet digital demands and content marketing is one response to those changes. What can be challenging is sifting through all the terms people are using to describe the types of advertising that fall under the category of content marketing.
What’s interesting is that some people talk about content marketing as if it’s exclusive to advertising. As a publisher, you know that content marketing is much more than that—it’s a strategy for building readership and revenue, but where does advertising fit?
Part of the problem is that everyone is defining things their own way and sometimes using terms interchangeably. It’s the same sort of conundrum we ran into with social media.
Some of these terms are pretty straightforward:
Sponsored Content, for instance, refers to when an advertiser pays to have their name associated with specific content or types of content on a publisher’s site. (If an advertiser wants to sponsor specific topics, consider creating Topic Pages with a taxonomy system that automatically associates all content based on semantic tagging.) The content is still editorial, in that the advertiser doesn’t have any control over it.
Brand Content on the other hand, is content developed and published exclusively by a brand, and presented on their own distribution channels. Think individual brand YouTube channels. Yes, some brands are becoming publishers, in a way.
Things start to get a little cloudy when you talk about native advertising and advertising content.
A simple definition describes native advertising as an ad bought and displayed on one platform. So, in these terms, native advertising can be a form of advertising content.
Advertising content is content appearing on a site that advertises for a brand—it’s different from more traditional forms of advertising in that it’s not a banner or display ad. It is always differentiated from editorial content in some way, but it’s content nonetheless . . . and an advertisement.
That all seems clear until you talk to Forbes. The publication has been blazing trails in the world of digital publishing, particularly since Meredith Levien came on board. Levien is responsible for turning the company around in the last five years and with Lewis D’Vorkin, the two made Forbes a leader in the move to advertising content—but they don’t call it advertising content, they call it native advertising.
This begs the question: if they are a leader in the movement, then shouldn’t they be one of the defining bodies? D’Vorkin, who heads up BrandVoice, their sponsored content engine, has attempted to clarify:
“A good way to look at the thing called a native ad is this: a paid-for placement on a digital screen or within a content stream that promotes a brand’s content marketing much the same way editorial content is promoted. That positioning, consistent with a given site’s consumer experience, makes the native ad a discovery mechanism for marketing content that lives on the publisher’s site, not the marketer’s. Contrast this to the display ad, which is disruptively placed and transports consumers away from the site they came to visit in the first place. On Forbes.com, the native ad is effectively a news headline, always clearly labeled as written by the marketer, that points to one of that marketer’s posts on our site.”
Regardless of what you call it and whether or not you agree, what Forbes is doing demands the attention of other publishers. With BrandVoice, advertisers essentially use a blogging platform (the same tools that the Forbes staff use) to create their own content under the Forbes logo.
There are those who argue that Brandvoice is blurring the lines between ads and editorial content, but for Forbes, it’s a moneymaker, with 20 or so marketers paying a total between $50,000 and $75,000 a month.
D’Vorkin addresses the controversy by talking about market realities and what they are doing and seeing with BrandVoice. For example, two metrics they use for consumer reaction, recall and favorability, score notably higher for BrandVoice posts than for traditional display ads. Additionally, Forbes will soon introduce a new article page that enables tracking of BrandVoice headlines and additional native ad placements across their platform.
They’ve also got their eyes on relevant trends:
D’Vorkin calls attention to the development of Native Ad Networks. Essentially, there are publishing tools that enable marketers to deliver native content to multiple websites.
And then, there’s mobile. D’Vorkin argues that marketers need to come to grips with it, because the value placed on the content is NOT based on the viewing device, and mobile, as we know, is growing exponentially.
But what does all this mean for you? D’Vorkin is giving you a head’s up:
“To quote my colleague, Mark: “As publishers look to these new forms of monetizable ad units, those who haven’t built out a strong content strategy for what type of native content will appear will start to accept anyone’s content, breaking one of the main rules of native: it must add value for the user, it must add value to the marketer by building a deeper more meaningful relationship with the users.””
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Men's Team suffer a big defeat at Huddersfield GC
On 4th August, the Men's Team, weakened by the absence of senior players, Alan Wright, Rich Webster and Leigh Gawley, faced a Halifax & Huddersfield Union Team fielding nine current or past members of the host club and were roundly beaten.
A last minute substitution of 13year old Luke Thornton (Hessle) for the injured Gawley saw probably the largest ever age difference in a foursomes pairing, as he set out in the final morning match with Phil Scott, 43 years his senior. Unfortunately, they were up against a Huddersfield duo with hot putters and despite a rally early in the back nine, they lost by 4&3.
All the other foursome matches were also lost, three of them on the final green, leaving East Riding with little hope of taking anything from the match, other than their self-esteem.
Foursomes score: Halifax & Huddersfield 12, East Riding 0
In the top singles match, the Huddersfield Club Champion, Josh Morton, who had shot 66, 71 the previous day for the title, continued in the same vein by beating level par, Luke Robinson, by 3&2. Next up was Matt Raybould who, having missed a curly three footer on the 17th to go 1 down, produced an amazing 8 iron from 185 yards on the last to pin high and holed out for eagle and a hard-earned half.
Jack Maxey struggled to match his opponent's game and finally succumbed by 4&3 but then the next three games went East Riding's way to give some respectability to the scoreline. Andy Lockwood had a tight game to win by 3&1, whilst Nick Raybould powered his way to a 5&4 victory. But the biggest cheer was for Hornsea's Tom Broadley who, standing 1 down on the 17th tee, nestled a six iron close enough for a birdie 2 and followed it with an approach from 170 yards to three feet at the last for an eagle 3 and the match.
The last six games all went to the home team with the exception of Andy Woodhead's match, which finished all square.
Singles score: Halifax & Huddersfield 16, East Riding 8
Overall score: Halifax & Huddersfield 28, East Riding 8
With so few win points, the Order of Merit is little changed with Nick Raybould increasing his lead to 5 points over Luke Robinson with Leigh Gawley and Tom Duck still in contention.
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F5 Labs Launches Application Protection Research Series, Adds Education Content
F5 Networks’ security threat intelligence research team, F5 Labs, has launched a new portal for one of its most popular topics, the Application Protection Research Series. While everything Labs researches is related to application security—reflecting applications’ evolving role as the focal point of the Internet and the most commonly attacked asset—the Application Protection Research Series is oriented around long timeframes, identifying patterns, and the big-picture threat landscape.
Putting Consumable Information in Context
As a follow-up to the widely-cited 2018 Application Protection Report, F5 Labs Principal Threat Research Evangelist Ray Pompon envisioned both a wider scope and an accelerated cadence of publication. This will allow readers to consume and act upon intelligence while maintaining the broad perspective needed to put emerging threats in context. For this reason, the report has evolved into a research series, with each episode focusing on specific tiers of the App Stack attack surface model that Pompon developed in 2018 with the F5 Labs Director, Sara Boddy. F5 Labs will publish a final 2019 report containing each of the episodes as well as overarching conclusions and recommendations for security programs.
A recurring theme of 2019 findings has been the difficulty of maintaining visibility within their application environments. While situational awareness in security has always been a problem, it is particularly relevant now, in the context of rapid and foundational changes in how information systems are designed and run. Many disparate but linked developments, such as DevOps, microservices architectures, the growth of APIs, third-party web functions, and heavy use of cloud storage have transferred complexity from code bases to environments and business models. The result is that maintaining awareness of systems has become more difficult. Because of this, the tactics that attackers are finding most fruitful are, for the most part, not new or particularly sophisticated, but rather new incarnations of tried-and-true techniques such as injection or phishing.
One of the takeaways from analyzing hundreds of public breach notices has been correlations between successful attack tactics and organizations’ business models. Organizations whose operations hinge on processing financial information over the Web are likely to experience web hacks, whereas organizations that store their valuable data deeper in their networks are more likely to experience social engineering or other attacks against access controls. In addition to their tactical value for defenders, actionable findings such as these also validate threat intelligence as a critical component of a risk-based security program. F5 Labs’ overarching purpose is to give the initiative back to security professionals, enabling them to proactively address new tactics before they are targeted. As the research series continues, the Labs team looks forward to dissecting trends, identifying anomalies, and delivering intelligence to their audience with the greatest combination of perspective and detail.
Connecting Emerging Insights with the Basics
F5 Labs has also rolled out a new series focused on foundational concepts in information security, such as the CIA triad, DDoS attacks, and how controls fit into a security program. These educational pieces are designed to help fill in gaps for people new to security or interested in exploring a different niche in what is undoubtedly a niche-filled field. As the threat research continues, Labs will continue to flesh out the EDU series to show how all the concepts (and yes, jargon) presented there fit together into a more comprehensive whole.
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With returns in public markets stretched, private markets are where investors get real returns. But how should investors, like family offices, access private equity? Should they do it through a fund, which isn’t particularly transparent, or directly, which is usually very expensive?
London-based Rockpool Investments believes it has a middle way to gain good returns in private companies. It’s a method that keeps the integrity of doing it directly without the enormous costs involved. It also gives investors much greater transparency with their investments.
Family offices are taking note, especially the ones not wanting the headache of employing expensive private equity investment staff and those looking for more control than they would get with a fund.
At Rockpool, investors are likely to realise a 300%-plus return on their investments over five years. Add in the tax advantages of investing in private companies, and the ability to diversify these returns, Rockpool offers a very compelling opportunity for family offices and private individuals
“Rockpool provides outsourced, direct private equity,” says Matt Taylor, Rockpool’s Managing Partner. “It’s a personal service, you almost have your own investment director, without the human resource headache of employing them directly.”
He adds: “Our ideal investor is someone who has made an allocation decision and says: ‘I want to allocate £1 million to private equity each year for the next three years. I see Rockpool as a way of diversifying that £1 million with say five direct deals a year, with £200,000 in each deal. And after three years, I would have 15 companies and £3 million deployed. I can stop the program at any time. but won’t be able to get my initial investment back as private company investments are illiquid’.”
Taylor says Rockpool, founded eight years ago, was set up to break the traditional private equity fund model. “We launched at a time when there wasn’t really a deal by deal approach to investing in private equity. The fund model was pretty much the only option for private investors and family offices.”
While Taylor and Rockpool were determined to break the traditional private equity model, the appetite to invest directly in private companies was multiplying. The rates of return on traditional investments and even many alternative investments have been squashed, making private equity more appealing, says Taylor.
“So there’s a hunger among investors for real returns, which is happening at the same time there is an increasing understanding of private equity. More and more investors have felt comfortable with private equity and that trend is rising,” he adds.
Another trend affecting the private equity world in the last ten years has been the rise of family offices. And with that rise has developed a greater desire from family offices to have more control over their investment returns, particularly in private markets. But, although there were more family offices and more of them wanting to do direct deals, there also arose a dilemma – how to go about investing in the asset class.
“How does a family office decide to deploy capital to private equity? Do they do it directly themselves, or through funds,” says Taylor, who held senior positions at private equity houses 3i and Foresight Group, as well as Morgan Stanley, before setting up Rockpool.
“If the decision was to do it directly themselves that is going to cost serious money to hire in-house private equity experts. That’s human resources, expensive human resources.
“So the question always used to be whether you take on the human resource headache, or whether you go the traditional fund route, and suffer from issues like transparency and lack of control. Now there’s a hybrid route. Our approach gives you transparency and control (deal by deal), but you don’t have the human resources headache of employing private equity staff.”
Another vital part of Rockpool’s offer to investors is its access to some of the best private equity deals in the UK. Rockpool’s sweet spot for deals is businesses with experienced management teams and annual revenues of £5 million to £30 million. Typically, these businesses aren’t big enough to attract traditional private equity funds or strategic buyers, but they are ready to step up to be these businesses.
“A big decision for pretty much all these businesses will be to get a corporate advisor to help them bring in capital to grow and professionalise,” says Taylor. “Most worthwhile deals have a corporate finance advisor, and their job is to find the right partner – someone who will follow through. They want reliable people who will follow through on the deal.”
He adds: “All the corporate finance houses around know who we are; they know we’re reliable and have integrity. Most of the deals we get aren’t going to be shown to family offices, because they might not have a reputation for being reliable. And if they’re doing only one deal a year, that’s going to interest corporate financiers a lot less than a firm doing multiple deals annually.”
Rockpool started doing more transformative-type deals in 2014. This year, the private equity specialist will deploy around £50 million in deals. Around six to eight deals are done a year, with an average of 100 investors in each transaction. Since 2013, Rockpool has invested £400 million in 77 private businesses and returned investors £140 million, including a 6x return on one of the 2019 exits.
Rockpool’s portfolio companies usually are either sold on to middle-market private equity firms or sold to other companies.
The other bit of the Rockpool investor-focused proposition is the personal side, which means investors have pretty much their own investment director. On top of that, Rockpool has invested heavily in a client-focused IT platform, which gives clients access to a rich and detailed amount of information on each company they have invested in. That helps to maximise greater transparency for clients’ investments at Rockpool.
Giving our investors a truly personal service is so important, says Nick Shephard, who heads up Rockpool’s Relationships Team. “We are constantly in touch with investors, helping them understand the current deals and monitor their portfolios. It’s very different from the traditional fund management operation where I worked before,” says Shephard.
“Here, investors have full transparency at the individual company level.”
At Rockpool, investors are likely to realise a 300%-plus return on their investments over five years. Add in the tax advantages of investing in private companies, and the ability to diversify these returns, Rockpool offers a very compelling opportunity for family offices and private individuals to access private equity.
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26 Stories By Contemporary Writers And How They Work
An anthology of stories edited by Andrea Barrett and Peter Turchi
In a splendid display of show-and-tell, 26 writers tell a story and lift the curtain to reveal how they did it.
This big, beautiful anthology of short fiction is for readers, writers, and anyone curious about the mysterious processes of literary minds. All contributors have been recent faculty members of the prestigious Warren Wilson Low Residency Program, including such literary favorites as Margot Livesey, Charles Baxter, Robert Boswell, Jim Shepard, Antonya Nelson, David Shields, and the editors themselves.
Each writer was asked to submit an original story, accompanied by an essay describing the challenges of the story and how they were met. Since writers resist herding, the editors were happily surprised by the wide range of essays—"fiction writers, when given the space, think about their work very differently." We learn about the genesis of a story, how story evolves, what was eventually relinquished and why, and how a story—surprisingly—might "insist" on changing.
Arranged alphabetically by author, and beginning with Richard Russo's cogent introduction, this volume is a treasure throughout.
Genre: General Fiction
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Title: The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work
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The newest novel in the Jack Reacher Series!
I was pleasantly surprised to see the newest entry to the Jack Reacher series, The Sentinel by Lee Child and Andrew Child, available on Barnes and Noble. The Jack Reacher series is one of my favorite book series. In this novel, it seems #1 New York Times Bestselling author Lee Child teamed up with his brother, who is also a fellow thriller writer. It sounds like an exhilarating thriller novel.
As stated on the Barnes and Noble website, the summary for The Sentinel is:
"It is close to midnight on a Saturday night when Jack Reacher gets off a bus at the Greyhound station in Nashville. Reacher is in no hurry. He has no appointments to keep. No people to see. No scores to settle. Not yet anyway.
But in the early morning hours, under particular circumstances, a familiar thought will be snaking through his sharp, instinctual lizard brain:
A voice in his head telling him to walk away.
Of course, this wouldn’t be the first time he listened to his gut instead.
Meanwhile, seventy-five miles south and west of Music City is a sleepy little town where a recently-fired guy nurses a grudge that will fester into fury—and a desire for payback. But who is watching him, standing guard over a long-buried secret, ready to strike before it can be revealed?
If you don't have a sense of the danger you're in, then it's best to have Reacher."
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THE TULSA COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE JOINS THE SAFETY AND JUSTICE CHALLENGE TO REDUCE THE RATE OF FAILURES-TO-APPEAR AND INCREASE CONNECTIONS TO SOCIAL SAFETY NET RESOURCES Tulsa, Okla. (October 24, 2018) – The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced that Tulsa County is one of 12 additional jurisdictions joining the Safety and…
F&CS awarded $4M federal grant to expand behavioral health services
Mental Health, NEWS, ShowcaseBy F&CS Staff October 17, 2018
Family & Children’s Services (F&CS), Oklahoma’s largest Community Mental Health Center, has been awarded a $4 million federal grant from The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to establish a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) – a new national model of care which increases access and integrates physical care with expanded mental…
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Mipcom 2021 will be back in October in Cannes
Reed Midem announced that MIPTV the 58th Spring International Television Market – will take place online in April 2021 as will MIPDoc and MIPFormats. Details of the all-new Digital MIPTV 2021, including enhanced, personalised one-to-one business meeting tools allowing the international entertainment content business community to connect, will be announced in the coming weeks.
The decision to hold MIPTV 2021 online is due to the ongoing uncertainty over Covid-19. Reed MIDEM has maintained the reservation of its scheduled dates at the Palais des Festivals during the MIPTV week and, if conditions improve sufficiently by early 2021, our ambition would be to hold a small, in-person screenings-based event in Cannes to complement the digital edition. CANNESERIES Season 4 will take place in the Palais des Festivals in Cannes from April 9-14, 2021.
MIPCOM – the 37th World’s Entertainment Content Market – along with MIPJunior, the Kids Programming Market the weekend before 9-10 October, will move forward as a combined live gathering in Cannes on the scheduled dates of 11-14 October 2021, welcoming the global distribution and production community back to the Palais des Festivals venue for the first major international television event since MIPCOM 2019. A digital complement will run alongside the physical market.
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Today, Boyce Trusts and Four Lakes Task Force (FLTF) signed a $9.4 million purchase agreement for the acquisition of Wixom, Sanford, Secord and Smallwood Dams and lake bottoms. The purchase agreement is a major milestone in maintaining the legal level of all four lakes in accordance with the Circuit Court order and Part 307 of the Michigan Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act. The sale of properties will occur over the next two years, with a final close for all properties in January 2022.
“This is an important step forward in bringing control of the lake levels and dams to the communities,” said Dave Kepler, chairman, FLTF. “We are grateful for the assistance and support from state and county leaders, township officials and lake residents. There is still a great amount of work to do before the closing in early 2022, including the implementation of the Special Assessment District (SAD) and conducting dam maintenance and repairs, but we are confident about this strong path forward.”
Circuit Court Judge Stephen Carras legally established the SAD May 28, 2019, for the purpose of financing the acquisition, repairs and Part 307 order requirements. Major repairs and improvements will occur on all four dams over the next three years with an engineering estimate to be completed by the end of 2020. The current estimate is that a lakefront property owner will pay an annual assessment of $350 and a backlot property owner will pay $88. After a public SAD hearing, FLTF will calculate and finalize the assessment by early 2021. Property owners can expect to see the first assessment on the winter 2021 tax bill.
In addition, Four Lakes Operations (FLO) will acquire the power assets from Boyce for $6.6 million to produce hydroelectric energy. This amount is in addition to the purchase of the dams and lake bottoms and is expected to be financed by revenue from power generation. FLO is a separate corporation formed to find a new private power generation operator and to manage the renewal of the power generation licenses awarded by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Consumer’s Energy Power Agreement. This investment in the power generation assets is intended to keep the long-term cost of dam ownership for the community as low as possible.
In January 2020, FLTF will turn over operations oversight of the four dams to FLO, however, Boyce will continue to operate the dams through January 2022 as financing of the project completes.
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M-39 still closed at Outer Drive as water reached nearly 14 feet
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (FOX 2) - The Southfield Freeway at Outer Drive at the Allen Park and Dearborn border remains under water Thursday morning.
The water is about half way up to the top of the overpass right now. You can see live footage from the FOX 2 drone here.
The Southfield Freeway in that area has been closed since Wednesday morning.
Throughout Wednesday evening FOX 2 watched as Wayne County crews at their pump station tried to keep up with the flooding. Normally three pumps work to send water back to the Detroit River, but two extra were called in.
We're told crews made progress overnight and pumped about 4 feet of water from the area. Diane Cross with MDOT says this is the last freeway closure still in effect from Wednesday's rain.
"All energy is put toward this to try and get M-39 reopened," she said. Once it's dry, debris will still need to be cleared before the road can be reopened. We're told when the water's pumped out, it's taken to a treatment plant.
Three inches of rain fell early Wednesday, flooding countless basements and streets and submerging dozens of cars.
More rain is expected Thursday late afternoon, early evening. A flood watch is in effect for southeast Michigan until 10 a.m. on Friday. A flood watch means potential exists for flooding.
You can keep an eye on the rain and the radar with your FOX 2 weather app.
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Family of missing Austin man pleading for answers
By Bridget Spencer, FOX 7 Austin
Twenty-five-year old Martin Gutierrez was last seen in the Rainey Street entertainment district early Monday between 1:00 and 2:00 am, after a night out with friends.
“They said they had gone home early. they had to work in the morning as well. Martin stayed back to get a ride and everything,” said Mitchell Gutierrez, Martin’s brother.
Mitchell says his brother's last known location was the Alibi Bar on Rainey.
“I tried to track his phone it was off, there was nothing we could find there. I tried getting into his Uber to see if maybe he got a lift home or to a friend’s, credit cards, debit cards,” said Gutierrez.
Austin police are leading the search, with the help of the parks and lake patrols, plus the Travis County Search and Rescue Team. “We are looking everywhere, anywhere out here whether it's land or sea we're looking at it. Right now we don’t have a suspicion of foul play. We don’t have a true understanding of what happened that night,” said Det. Brad Herries, Austin Police Department.
Police say Martin was wearing a black Patagonia fleece or jacket, a light green shirt, blue jeans and grey Vans sneakers. “He's got really big dimples, a wonderful smile, a scar over his right eye,” said Gutierrez, identifying traits of his brother.
The family is also offering a reward for any information that can help ease the pain of each passing minute without knowing where Martin is. “Money I feel like is no option at this point. My brother's life is priceless and we are willing to pay anything,” said Gutierrez.
If you have any information call 9-1-1 or the APD Missing Persons Unit at 512-974-5250.
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Colorado regulators say Denver gay bar discriminated against man in drag by denying him entry
A popular Denver gay bar discriminated against a man when a bouncer denied him entry last year because he was dressed in drag, Colorado regulators said in a decision that could become more common as anti-discrimination laws increasingly include gender identity.
The civil rights division of the state's Department of Regulatory Agencies ordered the Denver Wrangler to resolve the dispute with Vito Marzano, a 27-year-old gay man who was wearing a dress, makeup and a wig when he went to the bar on Aug. 31, 2013.
A bouncer said he turned Marzano away because his appearance didn't match his driver's license, and he was following a policy designed to thwart underage drinkers from entering the club. But regulators determined the bar illegally discriminates against effeminate men because its dress code bars high heels, wigs, "appearance-altering makeup" and strong perfume, according to the decision issued last month and obtained Monday.
"In other words, a female with a masculine gender presentation would be permitted to enter, whereas, a male presenting as a female would be denied entry," civil rights division Director Steven Chavez wrote. He said the Wrangler wrongly favors bisexual and gay men who embrace a hypermasculine image and shun interaction gay men who "exhibit effeminacy."
General Manager Phil Newland told The Associated Press that the decision "contains many errors and equally as many disturbing opinions. The Denver Wrangler does not deny entrance to anyone, including women and those who identify as transgender."
Newland said the bar's identification policy stems from state liquor laws. The Wrangler denied Marzano entry partly because he was aggressive and drunk, Newland told state regulators.
Kenneth Upton, senior counsel for Lambda Legal, which pursues litigation on LGBT issues nationwide, said the case could signal a growing trend.
"Now that gender is starting to be respected in a wider variety of ways under non-discrimination ordinances, you're going to see more of these cases, and they're confusing," Upton said.
Businesses will have to strike a difficult balance between catering to a niche market as part of a business strategy and making sure they don't break laws against discrimination, he said.
Marzano, who led a boycott against the bar, which included a Facebook group with 241 members, said he hopes the decision will protect others.
Gay people "face enough hatred and discrimination from the outside world," he said. "We do not need it from our own."
Follow Sadie Gurman on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sgurman .
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