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The Storm is Just Beginning
By : Ziad Abdelnour| 17 December 2020
Listen up people…if you’re waiting for things to return to normal, you better wake up!
This storm is just beginning and things are about to turn completely upside down. 2020 the year of vision has definitely made one thing clear. We are living in a world of total corruption. Now that this has clearly been exposed, there is no turning back.
The Democrat Party are on their last leg in history and will become an insignificant party of hatred and death by 2024. The Republican Party runs a close second to their own death warrant as a new party will emerge. The corruption in both parties has become evident to the world, and the new move by the United Nations to salvage corruption and deceit will fail.
It’s evident that the American people don’t know who they can trust. Of course they are confused, that’s what decades of brainwashing will do to you. But, now more than ever, people are starting to snap out of the mental trance that they have been in for so long and become real free-thinkers. And as the free-thinkers of this world, it is really up to us to redraw the American economic map and put our foot down and no longer stand for the lies we have been fed.
For instance, it’s time to question why we are trying to push vaccines for the masses after many experts have testified and provided solid evidence that Covid-19 is not as dangerous and deadly as the media has made it seem. Especially considering the fact that the vaccine creation and approval process usually takes many years, yet somehow this vaccine was crafted, tested and approved in about “9 months.” Either a) this vaccine was already in progress because they anticipated this “plandemic” or b) the vaccine has not been sufficiently crafted and tested. Either way this is alarming to your safety.
Or, why is it anytime experts speak up and present real facts that contradict what the media has tried to put into our heads, they are silenced. They’re taken off of all social media platforms, they’re blackballed from YouTube, they mysteriously disappear. It’s clear that someone doesn’t want the truth to get out. So much so, that they are willing to trump over people’s rights to free speech in order to shut them up.
Also, why aren’t more people questioning the connection between Biden and “Kill” Gates? It’s no secret that Biden and Gates are in cahoots and it’s no coincidence that Pfizer is the first of the vaccines to be approved for immediate use. Pretty soon the Mark of the Beast system will be going life worldwide. People are already being put down like dogs in the name of Covid-19. And Satan Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum who also basically ran Bilderberg.
The scary truth is that things are taking a turn for the worst and it’s not because of Covid-19. It’s because we are being terrorized by the very people that we are supposed to trust to lead this country. No one is safe and willful ignorance will be our downfall if people don’t wake up and see what’s happening right before them. We can’t continue to live with the wool over our eyes or else it will come back to bite us in the ass. Get out there, do your own research. Take in the FACTS and make the right decisions for yourself and your family. As the free-thinkers of this world, we can come together and put a stop to this madness.
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Grants Across the Country Aim to Keep People and Pets Together
A partnership between Mars Petcare and the Humane Society of the United States awarded $200,000 in grants to more than 20 organizations
FRANKLIN, Tenn., Sept. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — More than 20 animal welfare organizations across the United States received extra support this summer thanks to a partnership between Mars Petcare and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). In total, $200,000 in grants was awarded to municipal and public shelters, rescues and animal welfare organizations. Funding for the grants was generated by the HSUS’s highly successful “Rock the House for Animals!” livestream, which featured a $100,000 match from Mars Petcare.
“Throughout the pandemic, many people have turned to pets as a source of comfort and companionship,” said Mark Johnson, president of Mars Petcare North America. “With our BETTER CITIES FOR PETS grants, we hope to provide much-needed support to the animal welfare community who work tirelessly to help pets in need, and keep people and their pets together during these tough times.”
Since 2018, Mars Petcare has offered grants through the BETTER CITIES FOR PETS™ program to help cities create or expand programs that provide more welcoming places for people and pets. This year, the focus was on keeping pets in homes, knowing the unprecedented challenges facing families during the pandemic.
With financial and health stressors affecting many people, some pet owners may be required to surrender their pets – something Mars Petcare hopes to help avoid.
With the grants, the company is helping the animal welfare community in cities across the United States in their tireless work to help pets in need and keep people and pets together.
Answering a Critical Need
“With this generous donation, Mars Petcare’s BETTER CITIES FOR PETS program brings great relief to some of the most vulnerable animals on the planet – the dogs and cats who depend on caring people to give them the love, protection and sustenance they need to survive,” said Humane Society of the United States president and CEO, Kitty Block.
“Pets provide comfort, loyalty and affection, qualities that are especially important during these difficult times,” she added. “As the world grapples with the tragic effects of the pandemic, Mars Petcare funds answer a critical need to help dogs and cats, whether they have been displaced because their human family can no longer afford to care for them or they have lost their caretaker to this deadly virus. We cannot thank Mars Petcare enough for being heroes for these animals who have no other hope.”
Recipients of the BETTER CITIES FOR PETS Grants
The recipients of grants through the BETTER CITIES FOR PETS program include:
Animal Welfare League of Alexandria | Alexandria, Va.
City of Southport Animal Protective Services | Southport, N.C.
Dallas Animal Services | Dallas, Texas
Humane Rescue Alliance | District of Columbia
Humane Society of Manatee County Inc. | Bradenton, Fla.
Independence Animal Services #1 | Independence, Mo.
Memphis Animal Services | Memphis, Tenn.
Miami Veterinary Foundation | Miami, Fla.
Monroe County Humane Association | Bloomington, Ind.
Pet Pal Rescue, Inc. | St. Petersburg, Fla.
Pima Animal Care Center | Tucson, Ariz.
The Arizona Pet Project/Friends of Animal Care and Control | Phoenix, Ariz.
The Pet Project for Pets, Inc. | Wilton Manors, Fla.
Recipients of the Match Grants
These additional recipients were awarded grants from donations raised in response to Mars Petcare’s match.
Animal Protective Association of Missouri | St. Louis, Mo.
Association of Humane Societies | Newark, N.J.
Charm City Companions | Baltimore, Md.
Companion Animal Alliance | Baton Rouge, La.
Gabriel Foundation | Elizabeth, Colo.
Hearts Alive Village | Las Vegas, Nev.
Lifeline Animal Project | Atlanta, Ga.
Louisiana SPCA | New Orleans, La.
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This year’s grants provided through the BETTER CITIES FOR PETS program are part of multiple initiatives in 2020 to help prevent pet homelessness and assist pet parents in this difficult time. Others include:
FOSTER TO FOREVER™, which encourages adoption. With help from celebrity advocates in May, Mars Petcare raised awareness of the need for pet adoption. In June and July, FOSTER TO FOREVER kits were given to 1,000 pet parents who opted to give a forever home to their foster pet.
DOGS ON ZOOM, a program from Mars Petcare’s PEDIGREE® brand, which has helped potential adopters meet and adopt dogs via video chat.
PEDIGREE Foundation, which was created by the makers of PEDIGREE food for dogs and has awarded $175,000 in grants to help shelters and rescues across the U.S. that are struggling due to the pandemic.
Mars, Incorporated made a $1 million donation to Humane Society International for its programs to care for dogs and cats affected by the COVID-19 pandemic around the world.
Grants awarded through the BETTER CITIES FOR PETS program in 2018 and 2019 were provided in partnership with the U.S. Conference of Mayors. See a list of prior grant recipients here.
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When cities are pet-friendly, they support a happy, healthy world for everyone. The BETTER CITIES FOR PETS program encourages and helps cities to be pet-friendly so more people can enjoy the benefits of pets, from companionship to exercise to social connections. The program was created by Mars Petcare, the world’s leading pet nutrition and health care business, in partnership with experts in city planning and key government stakeholders. It includes a playbook for cities, city certification program, best practice research, policy advocacy, grants and free online resources. Learn more at BetterCitiesForPets.com
Part of Mars, Incorporated, a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love, the 85,000 Associates across 50+ countries in Mars Petcare are dedicated to one purpose: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS. With 85 years of experience, our portfolio of almost 50 brands serves the health and nutrition needs of the world’s pets – including brands PEDIGREE®, WHISKAS®, ROYAL CANIN®, NUTRO™, GREENIES™, SHEBA®, CESAR®, IAMS™ and EUKANUBA™ as well as the WALTHAM Petcare Science Institute which has advanced research in the nutrition and health of pets for over 50 years. Mars Petcare is also a leading veterinary health provider through an international network of over 2,000 pet hospitals and diagnostic services including BANFIELD™, BLUEPEARL™, VCA™, Linnaeus, AniCura and Antech. We’re also active in innovation and technology for pets, with WISDOM PANEL™ genetic health screening and DNA testing for dogs, the WHISTLE™ GPS dog tracker, and LEAP VENTURE STUDIO accelerator and COMPANION FUND™ programs that drive innovation and disruption in the pet care industry. As a family business and guided by our principles, we are privileged with the flexibility to fight for what we believe in – and we choose to fight for: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.
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Left to right: Dr. Cynthia Spitler, Hayley Landers, Dr. HeeSoon Lee, Rachel Suzor, Amanda Burtch, Kali Pugh, Dr. James Ciesla
By Kayelyn Robinson, '20
The Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (CURS) encourages undergraduate students to participate in meaningful research in all fields of study. Each year, they host the Undergraduate Symposium for Research and Scholarship where students can present their findings. At the 2019 event, nearly 200 presentations were given. Last month, four winning presentations were announced- including two from groups in the College of Health and Human Services.
Hayley Landers, a senior Gerontology major, was among the winners of the symposium with her presentation ‘Occupational Therapy Success in Assisted Living Facilities’.
“Our research was on the success rates of occupational therapy in nursing homes. We asked different questions like ‘Can you tell us the rates of improvement that you see within your residents that are doing occupational therapy in their activities of daily living?’ and ‘What’s your discharge to home rate?’ and ‘How many of your patients have the goal to go home?’” she explained.
Landers was able to identify similarities between multiple patients and nursing homes.
“We found most showed some signs of improvement,” she said. “One thing that was common across the board was that everyone had the goal to go home. It was really cool to see that.”
Landers intends to pursue Occupational Therapy after graduation which inspired her research and helped her decide to have Dr. Cynthia Spitler, a Gerontology professor at BGSU, serve as her faculty mentor.
“Dr. Spitler was interested in doing something with older adults, and I wanted to look into that more and get to know the field I’ll be going into better,” Landers explained.
As her faculty mentor, Dr. Spitler helped support Landers throughout the research process.
“What impressed me was her motivation and ambition. She was taking 18 credit hours and had a lot of other things going on as well,” Dr. Spitler said.
The process of conducting their research, however, did not come without its challenges.
“Finding nursing homes that had occupational therapy was not easy. It was a little bit upsetting and kind of defeating when fifteen out of the twenty places we reached out to ignored us,” Landers said.
In the end, they were able to overcome their obstacles and learn from the trials they faced in the process.
“I think the most valuable thing I took out of the Symposium was that in the future when I am in the position of an occupational therapist and students are coming to me, I know how it feels to be on the student end of that. I know how to act, because I know how tough it can be,” Landers said. “So, I think the most valuable thing for me was learning what I can do in the future to help those students.”
Rachel Suzor, Kali Pugh and Amanda Burtch, seniors majoring in Social Work, participated in the Symposium to fulfill a requirement for Dr. HeeSoon Lee’s Research Methods course. Dr. Lee also served as their faculty mentor. They were not anticipating their presentation, ‘The Effects of PTSD on Family and Social Relationships among Post-Deployed Men,’ to be one of the winning research projects.
“We were just trying to fill a class requirement, but now we have this award! It was really validating that we actually did a good job,” Suzor said.
Their research involved surveying veterans experiencing PTSD to better understand their symptoms and how this impacts the relationships in their lives. “We found that a lot of the individual’s relationships were effected. Some were divorced or not in a relationship,” Burtch explained. “We also found that of those who were experiencing PTSD symptoms, only one was diagnosed."
Additionally, their research looked at what those facing PTSD did to manage the side effects.
“We found veterans that had PTSD had effective coping strategies. Many of them said they would remove themselves from stressful situations, weight lift or use social support,” Pugh said.
In the end, their research found that veterans working to handle their PTSD had better interpersonal relationships than those who reported not having any coping strategies.
Their experience participating in the symposium helped them gain valuable research and presentation skills. “It helps with public speaking and interacting with people,” Suzor said. “It wasn’t just the judges you were presenting to, but anyone who came up and wanted to know more. Their questions made you think on your feet.”
The College of Health and Human Services being represented by these two winning groups shows what the students and faculty have to offer.
“I think it shows that the College of Health and Human Services has a lot of leaders. We’re putting ourselves out there, we’re knowledgeable and we know how we do research,” Pugh said.
The students were honored and recognized for their accomplishments on Monday, October 21st, 2019 where they were given a specially design trophy to commemorate their accomplishments. In addition to faculty mentors Dr. Cynthia Spitler and Dr. HeeSoon Lee; Dr. Cordula Mora, director of CURS; Dr. Joe Whitehead, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; and Dr. James Ciesla, Dean of the College of Health and Human Services also attended to honor the winners.
The College of Health and Human Services is proud of the students and faculty awarded and encourages others to participate the Undergraduate Symposium for Research and Scholarship. The next symposium is scheduled for April 18, 2020.
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Obama Needs a Firm New Mideast Policy
By Bob Maginnis
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President Obama will deliver a speech on Thursday announcing his new Middle East policy. It must avoid certain topics and set a clear course on four critical issues.
History-changing Middle East events have unfolded in rapid succession during the last few months. Uprisings have toppled dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, ignited an ongoing civil war in Libya, and sparked harsh government crackdowns in Syria, Bahrain and Yemen. The Palestinian Authority’s Fatah organization and its terror partner Hamas have embraced a reconciliation agreement that could lead to statehood, which might seed a new Mideast war. And two weeks ago, the world’s most wanted terrorist, al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden, was shot dead by American commandos in a raid at a Pakistani compound.
These events are piled atop the winding-down war in Iraq and ongoing fighting in Afghanistan. At the same time, the atomic weapon-seeking Iran fuels regional tension, using its Revolutionary Guards and terrorist proxy Hezbollah.
No wonder President Obama has decided to revise his Mideast policy, which for two years myopically focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the expense of other boiling issues. Let's hope after two tough years, the President appreciates the region’s complexities and the need for a comprehensive, clear-headed new Mideast policy.
In June 2009, Obama traveled to Cairo, Egypt, to pitch his current Mideast policy, which was interpreted by many in the West at the time as pandering to the Muslim world. This time Obama will introduce his new policy in Washington, and the President should avoid the references to Allah, Islamic theology, and how well Muslims are doing in America that he made in his Cairo speech.
Rather, this speech should focus like a laser on American policies and how they collide or complement our Mideast partners’ views on at least four security issues: the ongoing war against transnational terrorists, the Arab uprisings, Israeli-Palestinian peace, and Iran.
First, President Obama will likely mention the death of bin Laden, linking that killing to his “necessary” war in Afghanistan. But he should then explain that the terrorist’s death won’t stop transnational threats by illustrating the ongoing terrorist problem with a fresh example.
Last Friday, Taliban fighters attacked a police training center in Charsadda, Pakistan, taking 80 lives. The attackers claimed to be taking revenge for America’s killing bin Laden, but as the President should say, revenge is an excuse for an operation that was likely already planned. The terrorists’ real motive is seizing state power, a danger for all peace-loving nations.
America’s policy, Obama should explain, is to partner with all cooperative countries in the long war against Islamic extremists.
Second, the President should praise the populist movements sweeping across the Arab world and commit his support to those leading to more representative governments. However, he should warn insurgents against encouraging radical Islamist elements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and he should clarify his inconsistent policy regarding Libya and Syria.
Obama should also warn the Egyptians about treading on dangerous ground by normalizing relations with the terrorist group Hamas and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Then he should praise them for promising to hold elections this September, but encourage Egyptians to elect only representatives who will promote stability.
Obama must understand that Amr Moussa, probably Egypt’s next president, is a threat to stability. Moussa told the Wall Street Journal that Egypt obtained nothing from peace with Israel, and then he “described a political landscape in which the Muslim Brotherhood … is dominant. It is inevitable, he said, that parliamentary elections in September will usher in a legislature led by a bloc of Islamists, with the Brotherhood at the forefront.”
Juxtapose that comment with a report in London’s Financial Times that quotes Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie. He said that once the Brotherhood is the largest bloc in Egypt’s parliament, it will propose “an end to normalization [with Israel], which has given our enemy stability, an end to [Egyptian] efforts to secure from infiltrators the borders of the Zionists, the abolition of all [joint] economic interests, such as the Qualified Industrial Zones Agreement and the [end to the] export of Egyptian gas to Israel.”
Obama should also outline his policy regarding the crises in Libya and Syria. He will likely repeat an earlier statement reported by Reuters: The U.S. “supports protesters’ democratic aspirations, but will take military action only in concert with allies.”
Last week, James Steinberg, deputy secretary of state, testified, “We would not stand by as [Libya’s Muammar] Gaddafi brutalized his own people.” That’s why the U.S. led a coalition against Gaddafi, Steinberg said. The President should then explain why America attacked Libya but watched from the sidelines as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed 800 and wounded thousands of protesting citizens.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave the administration’s only explanation for the policy inconsistency. “Nobody believed Gaddafi would do that [reform],” Clinton said. She then said, “People do believe there is a possible path forward with Syria.” Thus, Obama’s policy is based on his perception that Assad can kill hundreds because we believe he will reform, and we will kill Gaddafi’s troops via air strikes because we don’t believe he will reform.
Third, last year Obama pushed Israel and the Palestinian Authority into direct peace talks that went nowhere. Last month, Clinton promised new talks, but then pressure increased for action after the announcement of a reconciliation deal between the mainstream Palestinian Fatah faction and its rival, the Islamist Hamas movement.
The Fatah-Hamas agreement is a front to earn international recognition as a state without first making peace with Israel. The agreement allows the Palestinian Authority to claim to be the legitimate representative of all Palestinians, because it now rules both the West Bank and Gaza Strip. That forces Obama to launch new peace talks or face the real prospect of the Palestinians earning the United Nations' blessing for a Palestinian state in September without recognizing Israel.
The confluence of the Fatah-Hamas agreement, the growing radicalization of Egypt, and Obama’s new Mideast policy prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to request an opportunity to address the U.S. Congress. He speaks on Capitol Hill next week.
Netanyahu is expected to call on the U.S. to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority because of its association with Hamas, a State Department-identified terrorist organization. That association makes it illegal for the U.S. government to continue its association with the Palestinian Authority, and this should torpedo new U.S.-sponsored peace talks.
Obama may call for new peace talks anyway, but the Israelis understand that with Hamas at the table, real peace is not possible. However, the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation may earn international recognition for Palestinian statehood, which might then spark a new intifada, the latest in an ongoing string of Palestinian uprisings.
Finally, Obama needs to outline a new Iran policy. Tehran continues to enrich uranium in spite of three rounds of international sanctions. Its leaders spew deadly threats against the U.S., Israel and others. It violently oppresses its people, sponsors terrorists and interferes in the internal security of neighbors including Iraq and Afghanistan to target American armed services members.
Clearly Obama’s Iran policy of talk and sanctions has failed. Tehran is growing stronger every day, which has spurred a Mideast arms race and regional consternation. What does Obama intend to do to stop the mad mullahs?
President Obama’s speech must present an unambiguous Mideast policy that addresses the aforementioned issues in order to encourage friends such as Israel, put enemies such as Iran on notice, and secure American interests in the region.
U.S. Steps Up Pressure On Syria With Sanctions - NPR
Obama administration in full court press ahead of Middle East speech - Foreign Policy
Iran says Bushehr nuclear power plant becomes operational - Xinhua
Mideast Cautious Before Obama Outreach - Voice of America
White House denies draft of Obama speech was leaked - Jerusalem Post
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Home » One Day You'll Burn (Paperback)
One Day You'll Burn (Paperback)
By Joseph Schneider
"A brilliant first novel. Joseph Schneider's contemporary writing evokes some of Hollywood's most classic crime stories, from Chinatown to LA Confidential."--Dick Wolf, creator of Law & Order
An incredible debut from up-and-coming author Joseph Schneider. Detective Tully Jarsdel may not be a typical Los Angeles cop--but he's the only one who can solve this case
A body so badly burned that it could be mistaken for a movie prop... except for the smell. That's not something California law enforcement finds lying on the street every day. And when Detective Tully Jarsdel is called to the scene, it's clear to him that something about the placement of the corpse is intentional, even ritualistic. Jarsdel isn't a classic noir detective, but his former career in academia seems to finally be coming in handy, rather than serving as material for jokes from his partner, Morales.
But nothing Jarsdel learned in school can prepare him for the deep evil behind this case, which appears to be as hopeless as it is violent. As Jarsdel and Morales attempt to settle their differences and uncover the motive behind the horrendous crime, they find themselves dragged into the underbelly of a city notorious for chewing up and spitting out anyone dumb enough to turn their back on survival.
One Day You'll Burn is a shimmering debut that captures the glitz and squalor of Los Angeles while introducing an unforgettable detective readers will rank among the best in the genre.
The first in the LAPD Detective Jarsdel series, this detective mystery is: For readers who love murder mysteries and police proceduralsPerfect for fans of Michael Connelly and Lawrence BlockFor fans of the T.V. series Bones and C.S.I
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Publication Date: February 4th, 2020
Compact Disc (February 18th, 2020): $59.99
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Staid Microsoft gets a viral gift from TikTok
4 August 2020 By Gina Chon Follow @GinaChon
The least cool tech giant has outperformed most of its rivals to reach a $1.6 trln value. Owning the popular video app could finally bring buzz and ad dollars. There are political risks, and buying only part of TikTok may be messy. But potential financial gains make up for it.
President Donald Trump said on Aug. 3 that the U.S. government deserves a “big percentage” of the proceeds from a potential sale of TikTok’s U.S. business to Microsoft. He also said he wouldn’t mind if Microsoft or another American company acquired the video app and said it would be shut down if a deal couldn’t be reached by Sept. 15.
Microsoft said on Aug. 2 it would continue talks to purchase TikTok in the United States after Satya Nadella, the software maker’s chief executive, spoke to Trump. The president had previously threatened to ban TikTok's service. The app is owned by ByteDance, based in Beijing.
Microsoft is in talks to acquire the app’s business in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Microsoft may invite other U.S. investors to take a minority stake.
Source: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
A person holds a smartphone as Tik Tok logo is displayed behind in this picture illustration taken November 7, 2019.
Reuters: Trump says China or Microsoft should pay U.S. a share of any TikTok sale proceeds
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Prince William Heartbreak: Duke Condemns 'Abhorrent' Murder Of Park Rangers In Africa
Prince William commits to working hard to stop poachers from doing more damage to animals and killing more humans. (Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool/File Photo)
Prince William has released a statement condemning the violent and unnecessary death of six park rangers at the Virunga National Park in Congo, Africa, on Jan. 10, 2021.
In a statement from Kensington Palace, the Duke of Cambridge said that the rangers have been doing important conservation work at the national park. Prince William said that they should have never been in a situation where they had to risk their lives.
Police reports stated that the rangers did not have the chance to defend themselves from the attackers. The sneak attack also left one of the rangers seriously wounded and still fighting for his life. The authorities tagged the local Mai-Mai group as the ones responsible for the attack.
Virunga National Park, established in 1925, is home to species like the eastern lowland gorilla, the mountain gorilla, and the eastern chimpanzee. Poachers have been targeting the park for decades, claiming over 200 human lives.
But this wasn't the first time William has been vocal about attacks on park rangers. During a royal event with the Royal African Society in 2018, the Duke of Cambridge said he wanted to take part in the conservation efforts not just to save animals but to curb the human impact of illegal wildlife trade.
William said that he is committed to putting a stop to this global problem as the patron of the Royal African Society. The Duke of Cambridge is also the United for Wildlife president, an anti-poaching advocate that was founded in 2014.
In June 2020, William spoke of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic in the work of the United Wildlife Taskforces. At the virtual conference, the second in line to the British throne said that the salaries of the rangers are at risk since tourism revenue has "dried up." He also expressed despair as poaching activities at national parks have escalated amid the global health crisis.
William also released his conservation documentary Prince William: A Planet for Us in October 2020. It chronicled his efforts to protect wildlife for the future generation. One of the scenes highlighted William's anger after seeing thousands of poached rhinoceros tusk confiscated from illegal traders in Tanzania.
Meanwhile, in January 2019, William launched the EarthShot Prize, an initiative that aims to reward people with excellent ideas on saving the planet. Within 10 years, the Duke of Cambridge hopes to find solutions to a glaring crisis that environmentalists warned will befall the world and will be worse than the impact of COVID-19.
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Bulatlat Contributors March 1, 2014 anti-cybercrime law, Benigno Aquino III
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld We’ve heard this tune before, for example whenever Benigno Aquino III is accused of not doing anything about extrajudicial killings and the killing of journalists (he claims the latter’s “not serious”), decorates and promotes police and military officers involved in torture and illegal detention, or simply ignores…
Shrink’ US Army to pre-WW II level?
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Cases of violence against women and children increasing – Center for Women’s Resources
Anne Marxze Umil March 1, 2014 Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act, typhoon yolanda
Alarming is the fact that more women and children are falling prey to trafficking and violence because of the devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda.
Women struggling to cope, fighting against high prices
Anne Marxze Umil March 1, 2014 Center for Women's Resources
Poor families developed terms to cope with the hunger such as memorize or imagine, practice, peking duck, altanghap and piso-piso.
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Now That Everyone Has Sweatpants, What Else Do They Want to Buy?
By Tamison O'Connor August 13, 2020 05:30
Everyone knows that loungewear is having a moment. BoF breaks down three other booming, fashion-adjacent categories — and how the industry is moving to capture some of the spend.
Cecilie Bahnsen cushions | Source: Courtesy
NEW YORK, United States — People are shopping again.
In the US, consumer spending is down just 6 percent compared with the start of the year, before the pandemic forced stores to close worldwide and shut down international travel, according to Opportunity Insights, which analyses credit and debit card transactions. At the peak of the lockdowns, in early April, spending had plunged by one third.
But buying patterns have changed, in some cases potentially for the long term.
In-store restaurants and pop-up dining experiences, a mini-trend for luxury brands pre-Covid-19, are out. Restaurant, bar and hotel spending is down 31 percent from January, according to Opportunity Insights. And though LVMH is moving ahead with a hotel project on Los Angeles' Rodeo Drive, the travel category is moribund right now. In the US, spending on flights has plunged 87 percent, according to analytical intelligence firm 1010data.
Brands are scurrying to reallocate their creative energies and marketing dollars toward categories that are still growing — hence the avalanche of sweatsuits for sale. But there are other places to look for new customers besides loungewear. BoF explores three categories where sales are up year-on-year, looking at how fashion is benefitting from the boom.
As gyms closed, people took up exercising at home, investing in Peloton bikes and Bala Bangles to maintain exercise routines during lockdowns. Online sales of exercise equipment in the US were up 183 percent year-on-year in June, according to 1010data.
Biking, in particular, saw a huge uptick: safety concerns around using public transport and a desire to exercise amid gym closures sent the popularity of bicycles surging around the globe. In the UK, sales were up 60 percent in April following advice from the British government to avoid public transport, reported the Guardian. Electric-powered bike sales doubled.
Moncler x Mate.bike collaboration | Source: Courtesy
For Moncler, which added Copenhagen-based start-up Mate.bike to its Genius roster of collaborations in February, just before the pandemic swept Europe and the US, the timing could not have been better.
Searches for the tie-up spiked in early May and again in mid-July across the US, UK, Germany and Canada, according to Google Trends data. That’s well before the expected November release of a limited run of 1,000 bikes, priced at £3,549 ($4,625) and upward.
It was in many ways a great match, as Mate.bike’s branding was poised to capture the attention of the typical luxury consumer.
“We always wanted to make a cool design, a product with an aspirational universe,” said Mate.bike co-founder Julie Kronstrøm Carton. Previously, marketing around e-bikes had focused on health concerns and environmental impact. Kronstrøm Carton’s aim was to “show an aspirational lifestyle, of fun, freedom and empowerment.”
Kronstrøm Carton also thought strategically about distribution, aligning the brand with luxury stores around the world, from The Webster and Neiman Marcus in the US to Harrods and Selfridges in the UK. The brand counts celebrities like Kanye West, Kendall Jenner, Katy Perry and Miguel as fans.
Mate.bike is currently in talks with other luxury and streetwear brands around future collaborations.
At the height of lockdown, consumers everywhere were suddenly spending more time at home than ever before. No wonder attention turned to home makeovers. Plus, Zoom time increased exponentially, and even as lockdowns around the world ease, many offices are still relying on remote working, giving the whole office a look inside your home.
Online home improvement spend in the US increased 64 percent year-over-year in June, while home furnishings e-commerce sales were up 110 percent, data from 1010data shows.
Luxury shopping service Threads Styling, where personal shoppers connect with clients and sell luxury fashion via social media and mobile messaging platforms, said it has seen sales at its interiors business grow 82 percent in the second quarter, a rate that has carried over into the third quarter.
Cecilie Bahnsen homewares | Source: Courtesy
Recently, Threads Interiors sold art pieces by Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Pablo Picasso. The personal styling service has also seen designer glassware spike — Baccarat’s collaboration with Virgil Abloh was particularly popular — and high demand for mirrors from Gustaf Westman and Ettore Sottsass.
The spending shift has hit the resale market too. The RealReal saw demand for homewares spike immediately as lockdowns hit, and stay about 20 percent above previous levels throughout the spring, according to Patricia Stevens, director of home at the resale site. Art demand was also up 26 percent year-on-year during that period, with sculpture, mixed media and photographs particularly popular.
Fashion has had skin in the homewares game for decades, with brands like Fendi and Ralph Lauren boasting successful homewares businesses. Retailers like Moda Operandi and Matchesfashion have entered the market, often partnering with luxury designers to create exclusive capsule collections.
Cecilie Bahnsen had dipped her toe in the interiors space before, teaming with bedwear designer Magniberg and glass artist Nina Norgaard for retail installations at Dover Street Market. But it was during the pandemic that the Copenhagen-based designer transitioned into creating her own pillows and throws to sell directly to her fans.
In June, the designer launched a capsule drops concept, dubbed “Encore,” using deadstock fabrics to create new limited edition pieces.
“And as we couldn’t get hold of other fabrics [due to the pandemic], you have to be creative,” she said.
Her new limited-edition pieces were a way to capture the consumer purchasing zeitgeist of the pandemic while introducing a new entry-level price point (for her brand, at least; a cushion, for example, retails at €550, whereas a dress in the same fabric costs €2,025).
“Interiors really allows [us] to elevate the brand and a new way of seeing what we stand for,” Bahnsen said.
Browns’ buying director Ida Petterson said the store has seen a sharp increase in demand for fine jewellery and watches during the pandemic.
“People are looking for investment pieces, and they’re also being more conscious when it comes to longevity, so that quality and craftsmanship [is important],” she said.
Watches, in particular, have been a growing business for Browns since they launched the category a year and a half ago, but over the last few months “we’ve seen this spike,” she said.
Eva Fehren jewels | Photo: Herring & Herring
In the secondary market, people are gravitating toward classic pieces. At the RealReal, sales of Cartier earrings are currently up 40 percent month-on-month, while sales of gold necklaces have surged with 72 percent month-on-month growth.
Moda Operandi’s fine jewellery sales have increased 35 percent since the pandemic. Indie fine jewellery businesses report similar results. Emerging designer Marla Aaron has seen sales over this period up 20 to 25 percent; while Jenna Blake saw sales of her vintage-inspired jewels rise 300 percent year-on-year throughout April, May and June, with average basket value up 60 percent.
“I think that's essentially someone choosing to invest in, you know, in forever pieces,” said Moda Operandi buying director Lisa Aiken.
New-York based Eva Fehren found a significant uptick of clients coming directly to the brand through social media, prompting requests for private sales and custom designs to spike 40 percent year on year during March and June.
“We were selling some large pieces — I expected we were going to be selling more of a lower price point [during this period],” said Fehren, whose dainty designs can reach tens of thousands of dollars.
Fehren said the category is at an advantage because purchasing jewellery is such a personal experience.
“It can be so emotional and sentimental and meaningful to people who wear it,” she said. “People, if they’re going to spend money, they want it to be something that holds value and holds real meaning to them, and feels like a good investment both emotionally and financially. There is something about jewellery that possesses those qualities.”
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Delhi govt dismisses irregularity charge in onion procurement
New Delhi, September 21, 2015
Delhi govt claimed that onions were procured through Small Farmers Agri-Business Consortium, at Rs 32.86 per kg and, after adding transportation and other charges, the total cost came to Rs 40 per kg.
PM Modi readies rescue package for power utilities
Tommy Wilkes, Frank Jack Daniel
In total, utilities owe $66 billion. The government has identified about $22.7 billion of debt held by financially stretched utilities as most at risk.
Increase bed strength by 10-20%: Delhi govt to hospitals
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain held a news conference to inform about the initiatives taken by Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party government to curb the spread of dengue.
Power tariff likely to go down further, says Delhi CM
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that there are companies who are ready to provide electricity at Rs 2.50 per unit instead of Rs 5.50 per unit.
Delhi's hotels have to get food safety licence in 1 month
New Delhi, September 9, 2015
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said the government has decided to adopt a \"zero tolerance policy\" against those involved in food adulteration and will come down hard on the violators.
Free Wi-Fi facility in DTC buses soon, says Kejriwal
Several leading Internet and telecom sector companies, including Google, Facebook and Ericsson, held discussions with the Kejriwal led-Delhi government, regarding its ambitious city-wide free Wi-Fi project last Friday.
Allow us to cancel power deals: Arvind Kejriwal to PM
New Delhi, August 30, 2015
\"We have come to know that many power companies are ready to supply power at Rs 2.5 to Rs 3 a unit. When we can get electricity at this rate, why should we buy it for Rs 5 or Rs 5.50 a unit\", he said.
Arvind Kejriwal's sops fail to end Delhi's garbage woes
Mail Today Bureau
Garbage woes continue to trouble Delhiites even though Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced that his government is releasing Rs 868 crore for East and North Delhi Municipal Corporations.
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The Delhi government will release Rs 500 crore to the capital's civic bodies to clear salary arrears of its municipal corporations' employees, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday.
'How the AAP's incredible victory has redefined Indian elections'
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Both Ashutosh's and Saba Naqvi's books on the Aam Aadmi Party experiment - while riveting - suffer from being too close to the subject, writes Sandip Ghose.
Delhi govt to closely monitor content of all news channels
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Politicians should gauge the impact before loosely commenting on a businessman. If they find any misdoings, it should be handled legally, rather than thrown up for public debate.
Farmer from Rajasthan hangs himself at AAP rally
Heena Kausar and Ankur Sharma
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The rally was going on as planned when Gajender Singh, who had lost his crops in last month's unseasonal rain, hanged himself from a tree in public view at Jantar Mantar, barely one km from Parliament House.
Delhi govt seeks Singapore's help for setting up wi-fi facility
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Arvind Kejriwal aborts women's helpline number 181
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New Delhi, April 7, 2015
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal relaunches anti-graft helpline
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Are There More 1D Feuds To Come?
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By Jaclyn Anglis
Zayn Malik may have quit One Direction on amicable terms, but there is someone who is certainly not on good terms with the band right now — Malik's new record producer, Naughty Boy. Louis Tomlinson began feuding with Naughty Boy on Twitter, after Naughty Boy retweeted a video claiming that he "saved Zaughty" and "Zaughty will rise."
After Naughty Boy retweeted the video on March 30, Tomlinson was quick to respond. Tomlinson said, "Wow @NaughtyBoyMusic you're so inconsiderate pal, seriously how f---ing old are you? Grow up!" In response, Naughty Boy implied that he thought Tomlinson was upset over a tweet he posted back in 2012 that reads, "Louis, what a d**k." So Naughty Boy tweeted, "@Louis_Tomlinson calm down. was talkin bout Louis Walsh cuz he didn't let someone through on X factor. Look @ the date of the tweet." But Tomlinson clarified what he was talking about in another tweet so that there would be no confusion: "@NaughtyBoyMusic I was talking about the video you tweeted. Clearly trying to wind the fans up! Well you succeeded anyway."
It is a shame to see that there is already One Direction related drama brewing so soon after Malik made his exit from the band. Hopefully, this will not lead to bad blood between Malik and the band members who are still part of One Direction.
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After all, this feud comes not even a week after Malik made the official announcement that he would be leaving 1D. It is hard to believe that Naughty Boy would be completely oblivious as to how his retweeted video could be taken by the One Direction members. Also, considering Naughty Boy debuted Malik's brand new solo song as part of the feud, the retweeted video does seem like an attempt to engage a response of some sort before the debut. If that's what Naughty Boy was going for, Tomlinson definitely took the bait.
It's a tough situation either way, since One Direction is still currently on tour continuing to perform as a foursome as this drama starts to unfold. The fans likely still have a lot of questions about Malik's departure and what it will mean for the band's future. So this must be causing some level of stress for the band mates still part of the group. It is really not surprising that one of them snapped.
Malik, for his part, has yet to comment on this feud. He did open up about his former band mates' reaction to his departure on March 27: "My band has been really supportive. They've been cool about it. And they understand that, you know, it's not real to me anymore." Hopefully the group is still supportive of him — and vice versa — if this is really what is best for the band. We will have to stay tuned.
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‘World is watching’: Tech giants to pay for news
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says digital news laws being introduced to parliament imminently will deliver “world-leading reform”.
by Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
8th Dec 2020 2:32 PM
Australia is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to force multibillion-dollar tech giants Facebook and Google to pay for the news they use after the Federal Government confirmed it would introduce digital news laws into parliament tomorrow.
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg today confirmed the news code would deliver a "huge reform" to Australia's media landscape when passed, and said the "world is watching" the nation's progress.
However, the Government has not yet revealed the finer detail of its proposal and it is unclear how Google and Facebook will respond after both companies publicly campaigned against the reforms, and Facebook threatened to remove all news content from Australia if it came into force.
The news bargaining code - first recommended after an 18-month investigation into digital platforms by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - will see Google and Facebook required to negotiate to pay Australian media outlets for the content they use.
If the parties cannot reach a commercial agreement, they will be forced into "final offer arbitration," also known as baseball negotiation, to reach an agreement.
But the Government's proposal is unlikely to become law this year and, in concessions to the tech giants, neither YouTube nor Instagram will be included and the companies will be given credit for the online traffic they provide to news organisations.
Public broadcasters ABC and SBS will also be included in the law despite being excluded initially.
Mr Frydenberg said the news bargaining code would be "world-leading reform" that would make a big difference to Australian media companies, from TV and radio broadcasters to newspapers and online outlets, who had taken a financial hit from an uneven playing field.
"This is comprehensive legislation that has gone further than any comparable jurisdiction in the world," he said.
"This is the product of three years of work, and it is a very significant development and it will ensure that or media landscape is more sustainable and more viable than otherwise would have been."
Mr Frydenberg said the ACCC's Digital Platforms report proved tech giants now dominated digital advertising spending by such a huge margin that Australian firms could no longer compete.
"As the market stands today, for every $100 of online advertising spend, $53 goes to Google, $28 goes to Facebook, and $19 goes to other participants," Mr Frydenberg said.
"And as a result of this concentrated market, these digital platforms were unavoidable trading partners for traditional news media businesses."
Mr Frydenberg confirmed digital outlets YouTube, Instagram and Twitter would not be included in Australia's news bargaining code, though the law would allow for the Treasurer to "designate" other services if an "unequal bargaining position" arose in future.
The draft law will be introduced to parliament tomorrow but, with only two sitting days left in the year, is unlikely to become law until 2021.
News Corp Australasia executive chairman Michael Miller welcomed the proposed news bargaining code and said it represented "a significant step forward in the decade-long campaign to achieve fairness in the relationship between Australian news media companies and the global tech giants".
"As a result of their lobbying, the tech platforms have won concessions and there should be nothing stopping them now from reaching fair commercial agreements," Mr Miller said.
"Ultimately, this code will benefit Australian consumers by helping sustain Australian news from Australian media companies."
But Peter Lewis, director of the Australia Institute's Centre for Responsible Technology, said the laws were desperately needed after "waves of closures and job cuts" at local news organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic, but warned Australians should brace for more vocal opposition from Facebook and Google.
"We know the big tech companies have been working hard to stop these changes and we can expect more threats over the summer," he said.
News Corp Australasia executive chairman Michael Miller said the code would benefit Australian consumers. Picture: Steve Pohlner
Federal Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Labor supported laws forcing Facebook and Google to pay for Australian journalism in principle but criticised the Government for delays in introducing its plan, and delivering another announcement without details.
"We are prepared to support in principle efforts to ensure that the playing field is levelled between the tech platforms and the news media organisations," he said.
"We do want to see quality journalism properly paid for in this country."
Shadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said she concerned about how Facebook and Google would respond to the forthcoming law as it "would be a detrimental thing for Australian consumers to lose" access to news content on the popular digital platforms.
Facebook and Google have been contacted for comment.
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How can cities help national governments create a long-term, low carbon vision?
The following brief has been co-authored with the 2050 Pathways Platform to understand how cities can contribute to the deliverables mandated to national governments by the Paris Agreement.
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In the wake of the UN Secretary-General's Climate Action Summit, cities led by Mayor of Paris & Chair of C40 Cities, Anne Hidalgo and Lord Mayor of Copenhagen & Host of C40 World Mayors Summit, Frank Jensen, urge all national governments to join them and act on climate.
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Our shared planet is facing a climate emergency. The science is clear that, without urgent action, sea levels will rise further, extreme temperatures will become the norm and climate-related disasters will inflict even greater damage. We are making historic investments to prepare and adapt our cities to the inevitable consequences of emissions already released into the atmosphere.
Translating Climate Science Into Action
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In our cities, we know how crucial it is to limit global heating to 1.5°C. If we fail to adequately address the climate crisis, we will face rising sea levels, rising temperatures, and dangerous storms. We also know that the impacts of climate change will not be experienced equally. Around the world, the poorest and most vulnerable will bear the burden of the most severe impacts.
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Architecture Student Fellowships and Awards
Architecture Students
A number of opportunities are available for Mississippi State University architecture students to receive funding through fellowships and awards. Some of these opportunities are by application, and others are opportunities presented in studio based on design work.
Aydelott Travel Award [$20,000]
Trussell Travel Award [$5,000]
Method Studio Undergraduate Research Fellowship [$3,000]
Michael Barranco Memorial Endowed Travel Fellowship
The Aydelott Travel Award and the Aydelott Prize were established by Memphis architect Alfred Lewis Aydelott, FAIA (1916-2008), and his wife Hope Galloway Aydelott (1920-2010) to encourage students to “become proficient in the art of architectural analysis” by enabling them to conduct firsthand in-depth observation, research, and analysis of four unique buildings.
Beginning in spring 2016, one Aydelott Travel Award will be presented each year to one architecture student at Mississippi State University; the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Auburn University; and the University of Tennessee. Each student will also receive an award of $20,000 to fund their travel to analyze four buildings. Upon completion of research and submission of final reports, one of the four Aydelott Travel Award recipients whose report is determined by a jury to be the best of the four, will be awarded the Aydelott Prize and $5,000.
Architecture students enrolled in the third year of the Mississippi State University Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) program during the fall semester are eligible to submit proposals for the Aydelott Traveling Award.
Please refer to Aydelott Program Information and Proposal Form for detailed requirements, review criteria, award conditions and the proposal form. Please note, the submission deadline for the program is Friday, February 7.
Aydelott Program Information & Application Form
(Use the documents below when filling out your proposal. The PDF link above contains all of these documents plus additional information but may not be editable on all machines).
Aydelott Proposal Form [DOC] Aydelott Proposal Budget Form Sample [XLS]
The following is a list of questions and answers about the Mississippi State University Aydelott Travel Award and Aydelott Prize. If you have additional questions, please send them to aydelott@caad.msstate.edu.
1. The PDF form has limited editing tools. May I receive a Word version of the form so that I can develop my proposal in Word? May I submit a hard copy with the same information required in the form?
All proposals must be submitted using the current PDF Aydelott Program Information and Application Form that is available on the School of Architecture website. In order to enter information and work in the PDF, you must download it from the School of Architecture website and save it to your computer.
Since the PDF form has limited editing functions, we encourage you to develop your proposal in a Word document so that you can edit, spell check, save it more easily. You can then cut and paste the final text into the PDF proposal form fields. We also strongly recommend that you save a copy of your final PDF proposal, and, if you compose it in Word, save a Word file of the proposal text for your records.
Proposals must consist of the completed PDF Aydelott Program Information and Application Form with attachments: Excel file of the budget spreadsheet (attached as an Excel file), PDF of the budget, (attached as a PDF), PDF of your Banner transcript (attached as a PDF), and a PDF of your resume (attached as a PDF). The combined PDF Aydelott Program Information and Application Form and attachments must be submitted by email.
2. The proposal form does not have any minimum or maximum word counts for each question. Do I need to fill the entire space for each question?
No. There are no minimum word counts; however, the field has an established font size, which limits the amount of text. You may not alter the font size. There is no expectation for your answer to fill each entire field. The fields were established to provide sufficient space for a complete answer. In many cases a well-developed, concise response to the question may be effective.
3. How do I download the budget form? How do I attach my final budget?
The budget Excel spreadsheet is attached to the PDF Aydelott Program Information and Application Form that is available on the School of Architecture website.
Once you have downloaded and saved the PDF Aydelott Program Information and Application Form, open the PDF to open the Excel file. Select the paperclip icon, “Attachments: view file attachments,” on the left hand side of the PDF window. You will see the icon for the Excel file. Open the file, and save it to your computer.
Once you have completed and saved your budget, save your budget as a PDF. To attach the PDF of your budget, under “Tools” select “pages,” then select “Insert from File,” and then select your PDF budget to replace the sample budget. You may then delete the sample budget. To attach your Excel file budget, under “Tools” select “Attach a file,” and then select your Excel file budget.
The combined PDF Aydelott Program Information and Application Form and attachments must be submitted by email.
4. How precise should the budget be? Once the recipient is determined, will modifications to the budget be allowed?
At this level of review, the budget should be organized in weekly periods to corresponding with the itinerary. Please keep in mind that, if awarded the Aydelott Travel Award, you will develop the budget in more detail as you obtain more concrete cost estimates and finalize your itinerary during the spring semester with input and direction from the faculty mentor.
5. Are there any expectations on how the award funds should be allocated between different travel costs? Do I have to use the full award amount?
There are no specific directions or expectations to allocate specific portions of the total award amount for specific travel costs or for any particular travel segments. Costs will vary depending on a variety of factors (e.g., building locations, travel mode) and you should develop a realistic budget accordingly. Your budget should demonstrate that you are effectively using the award amount to achieve the goals of the Aydelott Travel Award and the Aydelott Prize.
6. Should my itinerary be for the entire summer period?
Your itinerary does not have to be the entire 14-week period between the end of the spring semester and the beginning of the fall semester. However, similar to the budget, your proposed itinerary should demonstrate how you propose to use available time during that period to achieve the goals of the Aydelott Travel Award and the Aydelott Prize.
7. Once the recipient is determined, will modifications to the itinerary be allowed? Will modifications to the itinerary be possible after travel has started?
Your itinerary should be organized in weekly periods with the understanding that, if awarded the Aydelott Travel Award, you will develop the itinerary in more detail as you obtain more concrete cost estimates and finalize both your itinerary and budget during the spring semester with input and direction from the faculty mentor. Modifications to the itinerary will be possible only if approved in advance by the faculty mentor and the School of Architecture.
8. How close do the itinerary and the budget have to be?
Both the itinerary and the budget should be developed in comparable weekly periods. The purpose of both is to demonstrate that your proposal is realistic and feasible in terms of the constraints of your proposal (i.e., distances, building locations) and for the main categories identified (e.g., transportation, lodging, meals).
9. How will the faculty mentor be determined?
The faculty mentor will be determined in relation to the focus of your proposal.
10. I would like to include attachments that provide more information about the four buildings. May I include additional pages with more information?
No. Other than the budget (PDF and Excel file), resume (maximum two-page PDF) and transcript (PDF), you may not attach or include additional pages or files to the PDF Application Form.
11. May I include graphic images of the buildings I would like to analyze in the PDF?
No. Graphic images are not allowed. Your responses should focus on effectively communicating an answer to the question in order to support your proposal.
12. May I include hyperlinks within my proposal?
No. You may not include hyperlinks. All information must be within the PDF Application Form.
13. What resources does the university, the college, and the school provide for preparing a proposal?
There are a variety of resources available across the University and within the College and the School:
The Bob and Kathy Luke Library is an excellent resource
The Mitchell Memorial Library has a variety of workshops (http://lib.msstate.edu) as well as online writing resources
The Writing Center offers online and in person support and workshops to help students with writing skills
The Learning Center offers a variety of programs to focusing on academic performance and lifelong learning
We encourage you to take advantage of these as well as the expertise of faculty and staff members within the School of Architecture and the College of Architecture, Art and Design and within the university at large. Since the expertise of each group and resource may be unique, we encourage you to refer to resources for their specific areas of skill and knowledge in order to increase the benefit to your proposal (e.g., knowledge of buildings, research resources, writing skills).
Also, the School of Architecture will offer two workshops specifically focusing on proposal development and preparation. These will be open to all students. We encourage you to attend both workshops:
Workshop 1, Wednesday, January 13, 12:00-1:00 PM, Fazio Jury Room, Giles Hall (Please confirm these dates and times before attending.)
14. Are there any specific requirements for the four buildings? Does there need to be a relationship between them? Should they be the same building type or in the same country? Must they have been designed by the same architect? Does the architect have to be living? Does the building have to have been designed by an architect?
There are no specific requirements for the building(s) and related elements (e.g., building type(s), building location(s), architect(s) other than the four buildings must support the goals of the Aydelott Travel Award and the Aydelott Prize.
15. May I propose to visit other buildings in addition to the four buildings I am proposing to research and analyze? May I propose to visit other sites in addition to the four buildings?
You may propose to visit other buildings and sites as well as resources (e.g., architects, building professionals, specialists, libraries) in addition to the four buildings as long as each of these supports your overall proposal for research and analysis of four buildings. It is important that you clearly explain how these additional visits increases the value of your proposal to research and analyze the four buildings and achieve the goals of the Aydelott Travel Award and the Aydelott Prize.
16. How is eligibility for the 2016 Aydelott Travel Award determined? Who is eligible to submit a proposal to the 2016 Aydelott Travel Award.
At Mississippi State University all students who are currently enrolled in the third year of the School of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) program and in good standing are eligible to submit a proposal. For the purpose of 2016 Mississippi State University Aydelott Travel Award, a “third year student” is defined as a student who has taken ARC 3536 Architecture Design IIIA (regardless of final grade).
17. Why are transcripts required? Is GPA a criterion?
Transcripts are required to confirm academic standing, a criterion identified by Alfred L. Aydelott. While academic standing and GPA are important, you are encouraged to focus on developing a competitive proposal since the strength of proposals in fulfilling the goals of the Aydelott Travel Award and Aydelott Prize is critical.
18. May I submit more than one proposal?
No. Each student may submit only one proposal.
19. May two or more students submit a joint proposal and share the award amount or complete their analysis as a team?
No. Each proposal must be authored by and submitted by one individual student. The award amount must be used by one student for an individual project and may not be divided among students.
20. May I make revisions to my proposal once I submit it? Can it be returned so I can revise it?
Proposals will not be returned; however, you may submit a revised proposal as long as it is received before the deadline. If you submit a revised proposal, the latest proposal or the proposal with the last date stamp will be accepted as your final proposal; earlier proposal(s) from the same student will not be reviewed.
We strongly recommend that you save a copy of your final PDF proposal for your records. If you compose your proposal in Word, we also recommend that you save a Word file of the proposal text.
21. Will late proposals be accepted?
No. Late proposals will not be accepted. We recommend that you submit your proposal well before the deadline in order to avoid any last minute unforeseen problems or unexpected delays.
22. Will my proposal for the 2016 MSU Aydelott Travel Award compete against students from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Auburn University; and the University of Tennessee?
No. Each university will conduct an individual Aydelott Travel Award program, and each university will award one Aydelott Travel Award to a student at their university. Your proposal will compete only against proposals from other Mississippi State School of Architecture third year architecture students.
Once each of the four Aydelott Travel Award recipients has completed travel and analysis of their four buildings, each recipient’s final report will be reviewed to determine which is the best of the four, and one student will be awarded the Aydelott Prize and $5,000.
23. Are the Aydelott Travel Award and the Aydelott Prize annual programs? When will the next program be announced? Will it be the same program?
Yes. The Aydelott Travel Award and the Aydelott Prize are annual programs. The schedule for the MSU Aydelott Travel Award and the Aydelott Prize will be announced in fall.
2019-2020 Award Recipient
Nada Abdel-Aziz's proposal included some of the world’s most renowned buildings in Sweden, Egypt, Italy and Japan. Her itinerary includes studies of architects Erik Gunner Asplund’s and Sigurd Lewerentz’s Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, Sweden; Hassan Fathy’s New Gourna Village in Luxor, Egypt; Carlo Scarpa’s Castelvecchio Museum in Verona, Italy; and Tadao Ando’s Water Temple in Hyogo, Japan.
Sarah Hoing's proposal included studies of architect Santiago Calatrava’s City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain; Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church in Rome, Italy; and Norman Foster’s City Hall in London, England. Her research will focus on communication through natural light and rawness of structure in 21st-century architecture.
Faculty Advisor: Associate Professor Hans Herrmann.
Maria Ory’s itinerary included studies of Casa Batllo by Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Spain; Palace Portois & Fix by Max Fabiani in Vienna, Austria; Cuadra San Cristobal by Luis Barragan in Mexico City, Mexico; and Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl in Beijing, China. Her research focused on how these architects integrate color into their designs, which she also will document through paintings, among other methods.
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Andrew Reed Tripp.
Daniel Smith studied the São Paulo Museum of Art designed by Lina Bo Bardi located in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Neue Nationalgalerie designed by Mies Van der Rohe located in Berlin, Germany; Church of Saint-Pierre designed by Le Corbusier located in Firminy-Vert, France; and the National Assembly Building designed by Louis Kahn located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Faculty Advisor: Assistant Professor Fred Esenwein
2015-2016 Award Recipient: Lara Lynn Waddell
As MSU’s first recipient, Lara Lynn Waddell traveled to Atlantida, Uruguay; Rome, Italy; Muuratsalo, Jyvaskyla, Finland; and Havana, Cuba, to study four unique buildings.
Faculty Advisor: Emeritus Professor Michael Fazio
The Trussell Travel Award (funded by alumnus Ted T. Porter) is awarded to the second-place recipient of the Aydelott Travel Award (since 2016). Candidates must have a minimum MSU 2.5 GPA (based on a 4.0 scale), be hard working and can demonstrate financial need. These travel funds are to be used for a ‘planned specialized trip’ (in the U.S. or abroad) in order for the student to experience architecture, art, and urbanism. Travel plans must be approved by the director’s office.
2019 - 2020: John D. Spraberry
2018 - 2019: Kaitlyn Breland
2017 - 2018: Charles “Trey” Box III
2016 - 2017: Emily Turner
The Method Studio Undergraduate Research Fellowship was established by the award-winning architecture and design firm Method Studio to facilitate the development of young design students in architectural research.
As a Method Studio Fellow, students assist Method Studio in its mission of “exploring architectural research as a project and market-based endeavor, aimed at constructing designed solutions utilizing innovative techniques and critical discourse”. Students are under the direct supervision of Professor Jacob Gines and are expected to devote a maximum of 20 hours per week to research fellowship activities.
Minimum qualifications to apply
3rd or 4th-year Mississippi State architecture student
Submission Materials
Completed Method Studio Undergraduate Research Application Form [PDF]
2-3 page portfolio and letter of interest
To apply, submit application to the Director’s Office, School of Architecture (c/o Pandora Prater) by 5 p.m. on January 17. Selection will be made by the S|ARC Scholarship & Awards Committee. The committee may choose to interview individual students as part of the selection process.
Fall 2020: Alysia Williams
Spring 2020: John Spraberry
Fall 2019: Grace Sheridan
Spring 2019: Avery Harmon
Fall 2018: Eric Hughes
Spring 2018: Jake Gartman
Fall 2017: Christopher Kyle Murphy
Fall 2016 and Spring 2017: Omkar Prabhu
Spring 2016: Edward Holmes V
Fall 2015: Maria Degtyareva
Michael Barranco Memorial Endowed Travel Fellowship [varies]
The Michael Barranco Endowed Memorial International Travel Fellowship was established in memory of Michael Barranco, a 1985 graduate of the School of Architecture. Michael had a passion for the importance of travel to an architecture student’s education.
The fellowship is open to students who are participating in school-sponsored travel programs with a focus on experiencing significant works of architecture.
2019: Brandon Burton, Sarah Hoing, Caleb Shaw
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Revamped Scarborough subway plan would eliminate 2 of 3 planned stations
City staff are proposing the elimination of two of the three stops on the proposed $3.5-billion Scarborough subway line.
Fewer stations would take $1 billion off the cost of $3.5-billion plan
CBC News · Posted: Jan 20, 2016 2:30 PM ET | Last Updated: January 20, 2016
City staff are planning to revamp the Scarborough subway plan by eliminating two of the three stops and offering a direct route along McCowan from Kennedy to Scarborough Town Centre.
Staff are set to release a report Thursday that outlines the proposed changes, sources told CBC News.
The new plan — which would offer a direct route from the Kennedy stop to the Scarborough Town Centre stop along McCowan Rd. — would mean $1 billion in savings and not take away potential ridership from Mayor John Tory's proposed SmartTrack line, according to sources.
SmartTrack will 'look similar' to original plan, but changes likely, Tory says
Council votes against sending Scarborough subway questions to executive
Close vote shows Scarborough subway divisions
Those savings would be invested in a new proposed Malvern LRT, envisioned as an extension of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, which would run northeast from Ellesmere Rd. to the Malvern Town Centre, sources said.
"There's a plan coming forward that will deliver more transit for more people in Scarborough and do it in the existing funding envelope. The mayor will have more to say about it tomorrow," Amanda Galbraith, the mayor's director of communications, told CBC News in an email.
At a news conference Wednesday, Tory wouldn't confirm that subway stops were being removed but said there "will be
substantially more transit for Scarborough."
Two Scarborough-area councillors are excited about Thursday's report.
"The lifelong dream of many people in Scarborough to get a subway into the heart of Scarborough will come true and will be supported 100 per cent by city staff," Glenn De Baeremaeker, the councillor for Ward 38, told CBC News.
"Out in Scarborough, we've been saying, 'We deserve to have access to the subway system just like everybody else in the city.' and I think, finally, with the help of John Tory it's on its way," De Baeremaeker said.
Michael Thompson, councillor for Ward 37, said he was "pleased with the compromise that has been brought forth."
"While two stops have been eliminated, there is expanded ability into the heart of Scarborough for more residents to be able to have greater, efficient transit which is extremely important to them," Thompson said.
In Oct. 2013, council voted to extend the TTC's Bloor-Danforth line in Scarborough. The Scarborough Subway Extension would replace the aging Scarborough Rapid Transit (SRT) line with the understanding the province would contribute a minimum of $1.48 billion, the federal government would invest up to $660 million, and city council would commit $910 million.
The city would raise its portion of the funding through a combination of development charges and property tax hike.
That decision meant the subway would be extended three stops from its current eastern terminus at Kennedy Station to Sheppard Avenue East.
It also meant the scrapping of a seven-stop LRT line, fully funded by the province, that had previously been planned to replace the SRT.
Close vote shows Scarborough subway divisions
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Trails & Access - Connecting with Nature
Geyer's biscuitroot
Trails & Access Sub Menu
Lomatium geyeri
Scientific Pronunciation
loh-MAH-tee-um gey-er-i
Plant Origin
Typical Bloom (varies by elevation)
Additional Common Names
Geyer's desert-parsley
Geyer’s biscuitroot is often the first flower seen in the spring, blooming as early as February. It is easily identified by the tiny white flowers growing in umbrella-like clusters called umbels. Stems can be green or red, and its leaves attach to the stem at or below the ground surface. The dark-green, very narrow, divided leaves give off a strong, rather unpleasant, parsley-like odor. Biscuitroots typically bloom on a short stem which greatly elongates as the fruits ripen, growing two to three times the height of the initial stalk. This species grows to a final height of six to twelve inches.
Biscuitroot stores energy as starch in a fleshy, tuberous or bulb-like, root just a few inches below the ground. This root was a significant portion of the local Native American diet. The root was collected, eaten fresh, baked like a potato, or dried and then ground into flour. The roots were dug only after seeds set to avoid a taste like turpentine.
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The IHL OMS Market Guide
OMS vendors in the spotlight: Read the IHL Order Management Market Study
Covid-19 has forced many retailers to quickly re-think their order management strategy. Services such as Click & Collect and Ship from Store have been the hero for many brands during this crisis and will continue to be as we begin to re-open our stores and adapt to a new way of retailing.
Retailers looking to invest in an Order Management System (OMS) will find a wealth of information in this analytical report from IHL Group.
This report can be used to:
Understand the stakes behind OMS and why this is no longer an option
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Access analyst advice on different solutions available according to their organisation’s needs
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About The IHL Group
IHL Group is a global research and advisory firm helping retailers select the best possible technology for their needs. This report is a valuable resource for retailers progressing with digital transformation, towards being fully omnichannel and able to operate unified commerce across their businesses.
“OMS has quickly become THE CORE system that allows for Unified Commerce to be successful.”
In order to succeed in omnichannel and manage stock and fulfilment efficiently, retailers are investing in the latest Order Management Systems.
Before the pandemic, IHL predicted retailer spend on this software would grow 63% from 2018 to 2023 to reach a value of US$1.16b in annual sales. The majority of growth would be in SaaS implementations which were expected to grow 182% during the period.
During and after the lockdown, we observed that retailers that already had omnichannel services in place coped better with the situation that those who did not. Based on this, investing in an Order Management Solution will likely remain a top priority for brands as they accelerate their digital transformation.
According to the IHL report:
“Cegid are one of the leaders with regards to retail specific OMS installs, with over 300 of them, and over 1,000 retail clients.”
“Cegid support the most diverse set of architectural delivery models and has one of the quickest installation times.”
“Of all the vendors we queried about their global OMS footprint, Cegid was a leader with installations in 50 countries worldwide.”
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Simon Properties to Offer 350kW Charging Stations
Electrify America will install charging systems at Simon locations nationwide, including 17 other centers in California.
Simon Property Group has partnered with Electrify America to open 10 DC fast chargers at San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore Valley for public use. The installation marks California’s first location for electric vehicle charging systems featuring fast recharging speeds up to 350 kilowatts (kW).
The charging site at San Francisco Premium Outlets consists of eight 150kW and two 350kW. The 350kW chargers are capable of recharging an electric vehicle at 20 miles per minute, providing 200 miles of vehicle driving range in just 10 minutes. In addition, the 10 Electrify America chargers are co-located with 20 Tesla Superchargers, which makes San Francisco Premium Outlets one of the largest multi-standard fast charging sites.
“We are delighted to be the first location in California to offer EV owners the fastest charging option available in the U.S.,” Jamal Porter, west regional vice president of management for Premium Outlets, said in a prepared statement. “Our customers expect a premium experience and these fast chargers offer the latest technology to provide a convenient, reliable and quick recharging experience.”
Electrify America will install charging systems at Simon locations nationwide, including 17 centers in California. While these preparations reflect Simon’s interest in the practical reality of the EV market, the cars that can use the 350kW chargers aren’t here yet. Porsche’s Mission E project is anticipated to arrive no sooner than 2020, while the existing Audi E-Tron cannot handle more than a 150kW charger.
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Rising Channel Powerhouse Ahead Acquires Platform Consulting Group
Platform Consulting Group founder and President Chris Birtwhistle—who has an extensive background running global professional services teams for VMware, Pivotal Software and Dell EMC—will lead Ahead’s Cloud Applications and Platforms practice.
By Mark Haranas January 07, 2020, 10:50 AM EST
Fast-growing channel powerhouse Ahead, which recently merged with fellow channel star Data Blue, has purchased its third solution provider over the past six months by acquiring Platform Consulting Group Tuesday in a move to boost its cloud-native application capabilities and Dell Technologies expertise.
Chicago-based Ahead, ranked No. 75 on the 2019 CRN Solution Provider 500, plans to bring Platform Consulting Group’s cloud-native application development expertise to its professional services organization. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“Platform’s expertise in software development will accelerate our ability to deliver transformational outcomes through application modernization and migration,” said Ahead Chief Technology Officer Eric Kaplan in a statement.
Ahead is a top Dell Technologies partner while also winning Cisco’s 2019 Enterprise Partner of the Year award for the U.S. central region. The company also is a premier consulting and authorized public sector partner for Amazon Web Services while also holding Gold Cloud Platform Competency with Microsoft Azure.
[Related: 5 Things You Need To Know About VMware’s Acquisition Of Pivotal]
Denver-based startup Platform Consulting Group provides services to enterprise customers focused on cloud-native applications and modern development frameworks.
Platform Consulting Group’s president and founder, Chris Birtwhistle, will lead Ahead’s Cloud Applications and Platforms practice. Birtwhistle has an extensive background running global professional services teams for VMware, Pivotal Software and Dell EMC, all of which fall under the Dell Technologies umbrella.
Prior to founding Platform Consulting Group in 2017, Birtwhistle held roles including vice president of global services for Dell EMC and global head of cloud application consulting for VMware.
“We’re thrilled to join Ahead and offer our clients a full range of support up and down the technology stack,” said Birtwhistle in a statement. “Applications are the essential element of today’s CIO agenda, and connecting Platform’s strengths in cloud-native development with Ahead’s exceptional track record in transforming infrastructure will instantly create an industry leader with true end-to-end capabilities.”
Over the past six months, Ahead has acquired solution providers Link Solutions Group and Sovereign Systems.
Founded in 2007, Ahead excels at engineering enterprise cloud infrastructure by leveraging automation and analytics to streamline operations. With the purchase of Platform Consulting Group, the company will now add modernizing and migrating applications at scale to its portfolio.
Ahead was acquired by New York-based Court Square Capital Partners in 2015 for undisclosed terms. Court Square has been a major player in the IT market, acquiring a number of solution providers. Following the merger with Data Blue, Ahead now has 16 locations and 600 employees.
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Changes to the IRA Charitable Rollover
By: Jordan Richardson, CAP®
Director of Charitable Giving
The IRA Charitable Rollover, also known as the Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD), has been a frequent topic of conversation over the last few years. It’s a great strategy for anyone over the age of 70 ½, but it’s particularly powerful for individuals that don’t itemize deductions, as the IRA Charitable Rollover offers an alternative to a charitable deduction. Rather than taking a deduction, the individual can make the required (and otherwise taxable) distribution tax-free.
As if that wasn’t incentive enough, IRA Charitable Rollover gifts made to a charitable giving fund at the Community Foundation may also be eligible for the Endow Iowa Tax Credit. Not only does the individual get the benefit of a tax-free IRA distribution, but they also receive a 25% state tax credit to be used on their Iowa tax return.
The rules around the IRA Charitable Rollover seem to change every few years, and last year was no exception. Late in 2019, Congress passed the SECURE Act. Within the act are three key changes and considerations for charitable giving related to IRAs.
First, the required beginning date for mandatory distributions increased from age 70 ½ to 72. While this effects the requirement to make distributions, it has no bearing on past legislation around IRA Charitable Rollovers. The minimum age for IRA Charitable Rollovers remains at 70 ½, meaning an individual can give charitably from their IRA before they are required to make distributions.
Second, the act repeals the maximum age for IRA contributions. The ability to contribute beyond age 70 ½ could affect the tax-free nature of future charitable distributions. Since contributions are eligible for a deduction from gross income, the legislation provides a caveat to prevent double-dipping with a tax-free distribution, stating that the cumulative total of contributions into the IRA after 70 ½ will be reduced from future tax-free charitable distributions.
Finally, the act includes a provision for inherited IRAs, stating full distribution must occur within ten years for most non-spouse beneficiaries. This makes for interesting estate planning conversations that could result in an increased tendency towards naming charities, rather than individuals, as IRA beneficiaries.
Let’s talk further about these changes and the opportunities available through IRAs at the Community Foundation. Contact me at (515) 244-0020 or richardson@desmoinesfoundation.org.
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What’s best for Court Avenue?
Five development teams submitted bids earlier this month to redevelop a city-owned parking lot at 420 Court Ave. The City Council is expected to pick a proposal Feb. 24.
a glance at five key proposals
HUBBELL REALTY has proposed a five-story mixed-use building and a parking garage. The two buildings would include 160 apartments, 20,350 square feet of retail space and 363 parking stalls.
KNAPP PROPERTIES AND HY-VEE have proposed a 35,000-square-foot grocery store with 60 apartments above. The store would feature a bakery, bank, florist, post office and a Hy-Vee Market Grille. There would be 406 parking stalls between a garage and a surface lot.
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Summer Associates FAQs
1. How do I apply for a summer associate position?
Debevoise recruits on campus at about 25 law schools and job fairs. For a complete listing, please see the 2016 On-Campus Interview Schedule. If your school is not on this list, please feel free to submit a resume and transcript to our legal recruiting department at recruit@debevoise.com.
2. What should I bring to my interview?
Please bring copies of your resume and transcript to the interview. Writing samples and references are not required.
3. How long will the interview last?
Your interview at Debevoise will last half a day. During that time, you will meet with three partners, counsel or senior-level associates, which will be followed either by lunch or afternoon coffee with two junior-level associates.
4. What expenses does the firm reimburse?
For call-back interviews, we reimburse all reasonable travel, meal and hotel expenses. Debevoise has an in-house travel department that can assist you with these arrangements.
5. After interviewing, when will I find out if I have received an offer?
We try to make offer decisions as soon as possible after receiving the interviewers’ evaluations. Our hiring committee meets frequently to review files. You should expect to hear from us within 3-5 days after your interview.
6. Is there a minimum or maximum number of weeks summer associates spend with the firm?
The minimum and maximum number of weeks is set in the Spring of each year. Historically, our minimum number of weeks has been six and we expect it to remain at six weeks for the summer of 2017.
7. What is the dress code?
The year-round dress code at Debevoise is business casual. We do recommend, however, that you keep a suit in your office should you attend a client meeting or have the opportunity to make a court appearance.
8. Do summer associates travel for work?
Students interested in working in one of our international offices during the summer are encouraged to express their interest during the recruiting process. Selection for a stint in one of the international offices is based on international office needs, experience, background and language skills. International office stints are confirmed in the spring. In addition, summer associates occasionally have the opportunity to travel for work based on particular assignments on which they are staffed.
9. Will I be able to work on pro bono matters?
Debevoise has a long-standing and widely recognized commitment to pro bono work. We strongly encourage both summer associates and full-time lawyers to become involved in pro bono projects.
10. Will I have a mentor during the summer?
Each summer associate is assigned both a partner advisor and an associate advisor. These contacts provide insight into different practice areas and allow you to learn more about the people who make up Debevoise. Additionally, you will have plenty of other opportunities, both formal and informal, to ask questions and to learn about the firm.
11. When are associate offers made?
Each summer associate is hired with the expectation that we will be able to extend an offer to her or him to return as a full-time associate. Summer associates will be informed of our decision on their last day at the firm in the summer.
12. Will I be working in one practice area or will I be rotating?
Debevoise does not have a formal rotation system for summer associate work assignments. Each week, a member of the recruiting department will contact you regarding the status of current work assignments and ask what types of assignments you would like to work on next. Because interests may change during the course of the summer, you will be able to update your interests and find work assignments in the areas you would like to explore.
13. What types of social activities are offered to summer associates?
Debevoise offers a wide range of activities over the summer. A party at the Central Park Zoo, Shakespeare in the Park, a cooking class and baseball games just to name a few. Partners also host dinner parties at their homes throughout the summer.
14. What is the salary for summer associates?
We offer a competitive summer associate salary. Summer associates in our 2016 class were paid $3,500 weekly.
15. What if I still have questions after receiving an offer?
We invite you to return to the office to meet with additional lawyers. If you are unable to make a return visit, we would be happy to put you in touch with lawyers who will be able to answer your questions.
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Do parks boost long-term mental health?
Do parks boost long-term mental health?January 7, 2014Conservation This WeekOff
Imagine that you’ve just moved from a dreary, concrete-filled neighborhood to an area near a lush park. Most likely your mood would improve — but for how long?
According to a new study, the positive effects of living near green space don’t wear off after awhile. Instead, the authors say, greenery offers “sustained mental health gains” that last at least a few years.
Being in nature can reduce stress, and previous research has suggested that people who move to greener areas enjoy a big improvement in life satisfaction. But the study authors wanted to find out whether those changes had staying power. For example, marriages and promotions tend to boost happiness only temporarily. Other positive life changes, such as receiving therapy for depression, improve long-term mental health.
The team examined survey data from 1,064 people in the UK who had moved between 1991 and 2008. About half had moved to a neighborhood with more green space such as parks and gardens, and the other half had moved to a less green area. The data included participants’ evaluations of their moods for two years before and three years after the move.
The lucky people who moved to a greener area had better mental health in the three years following the move, the team reports in Environmental Science & Technology. “What we’ve found suggests that the mental health benefits of green space are not only immediate, but sustainable over long periods of time,” said co-author Mathew White of the University of Exeter Medical School, UK, in a press release. For urban planners, that means that building parks could be a sound long-term investment in the community’s happiness.
Oddly, people who moved to less green areas didn’t suffer from more negative moods after the move. Instead, their mental health worsened the year before the move, then bounced back to its previous level once they had settled into their new home. Scientists will need to do more research to figure out why that’s the case, the authors say. — Roberta Kwok | 7 January 2014
Source: Alcock, I. et al. 2013. Longitudinal effects on mental health of moving to greener and less green urban areas. Environmental Science & Technology doi: 10.1021/es403688w.
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Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story Developer Interview
Justin Ortiz-Burrow
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with SUZAKU, the studio behind the successful Kickstarter campaign for Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story. After raising over six times the original goal, I thought I’d shoot them few questions about what to expect from the upcoming horror title, as well as how they felt about their experience with crowd-funding. Enjoy.
Console Monster: First off, thanks so much for taking the time to sit down with me today! Let’s start off with some of the basics; Who are you and what do you do?
Benjamin Widdowson: My Name is Benjamin Widdowson, I am the co-founder and director of SUZAKU, a new game studio making Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story. I am a an experienced concept artist and game developer with 18 released titles, while my wife and co-founder of the studio was until recently going to LCAD for 3d environment art.
CM: You’re based in New York, correct? How would you describe the company, and has your location influenced your games in any way?
BW: Top Hat Studios is in New York, yes. They are our publisher. SUZAKU is currently in process of setting itself up in Hong Kong, but presently we are in Southern California. I am not sure that our location has affected our game development in any meaningful way outside of California being too expensive and unfriendly to small business for us to survive in, haha.
CM: Your upcoming release, ‘Sense’, is a cyberpunk ghost tale (which sounds amazing by the way); can you tell us a little more about the title?
BW: Thank you! That is the exact reaction I wanted early on. I knew the game needed a hook, as we are small and have no other games under our studio’s belt, and horror within the cyberpunk genre is a very fresh and unique idea.
Sense is a classic Asian ghost story with a cyberpunk bloodstream. The story follows Mei-Lin Mak, a young woman at the nexus of two curses which draw her into the reach of 14 spirits that have waited 100 years for their story to be told.
The most important aspect of the game is that we are focusing on the aspects of Hong Kong and Cantonese culture, folklore, and supernaturalism. The game will of course be steeped in science fiction, but it will be authentic and respect it’s influences.
CM: Your campaign recently ended with just over six times the funding requested. How did your team feel after the amazing support?
BW: I can only speak for Kay and I, but I do know that Andy, Al, and Joe were just as excited as us. I think biggest feelings were exhaustion and gratitude. Crowdfunding is kind of an emotional rollercoaster, and our crazy level of success especially so. I am personally beyond humbled and thankful that people believed in me and my vision.
CM: Was your experience with crowdfunding what you expected, and would you use it again in the future?
BW: I try to go into new things without expectations, or at least the expectation of failure, so that I can more closely pay attention to where I can adjust on the fly. When we first attempted the Kickstarter in November of last year we were just not ready. The vision wasn’t well communicated, the demo was not good enough, and we had no real understanding of how this stuff works. This time we were way more prepared.
CM: While Clocktower and Fatal Frame are obviously influences, have any other games sparked ideas or inspiration for Sense?
BW: Of course, I try to play any game that may even just provide an interesting piece of the wider puzzle. Haunting Ground, Kuon, Silent Hill, Corpse Party, Shiin, Creeping Terror, and most recently (thanks to backer recommendations) The Coma: Recut and Detention. With those last two playing them is more about seeing what they do so that we can avoid getting too close to them in any way. Sense MUST stand on it’s own in gameplay and design, as well as narrative.
CM: Has the team drawn inspirations from any other sources? Film, books, etc.
BW: Absolutely. I read a lot, and watch a ton of movies. For film; Juon, Ringu, Kairo, the 100 tales of terror series, House (1977), the Troublesome Night series, Rigor Mortis, The Thing, the list is really huge honestly. I’d also be remiss if I ignored the amount of “real ghost footage” videos I watch on YouTube.
For books, including manga; Junji Ito’s work, a lot of Lovecraft, Rose Red, a bit of Murakami, Shigeru Mizuki, United States of Japan, a lot of books on the paranormal and ghost hunting, a lot of Philip K Dick.
CM: Of horror titles in general, which would be the overall team favorite and why?
BW: I’m not sure about the team as a whole, everyone gets different things out of different stories so having a cohesive opinion on that wouldn’t necessarily be helpful in my mind. For me, Yotsuya Kaidan is my all time favorite ghost story, be it told over a campfire, inked panels by Shigeru Mizuki, or any of it’s amazing film renditions. It is a perfect ghost story.
CM: With the huge Kickstarter success, the game will be hitting nearly every platform correct? What are some of the difficulties and/or benefits of working with different hardware? Will the Switch, PS4, and Vita’s varied features be utilized?
BW: Yes, we are trying to get the game on every platform possible, as long as there is a clear demand. PSVITA was a personal goal of mine, and PS4 was an obvious decision. A PC release is an easy, go-to option as well, so only the Switch release was a real question. We were surprised and happy to see a lot of support and excitement for that.
That said, in order for the experience to be the same across all platforms we probably won’t be doing specific gameplay for each platform, unless it is something simple to add and more like an easter-egg. It’s honestly a bit too early to say for sure though!
CM: What does the future hold for yourself and your team?
BW: Lots of games. Sense is a franchise, not a single title. I also have 4 future titles lined up in very early stages. My long-term goal with SUZAKU is to challenge the AAA industry and compete with them from outside the lines. Sense is just a baby step towards any of that. Also, potential fans of our fledgling studio might want to look into a VR headset.
CM: Speaking of other games, what are some of the current favorites of the you and team?
BW: Fatal Frame (waiting on that announcement for Fatal Frame 6)!
CM: Thanks for taking the time to answer some of our questions, and best of luck with ‘Sense‘. It looks to be mixing everything I love together.
We’ll be sure to cover any future news, and hopefully even a full review once the game launches.
If you’d like to keep up with the development of Sense, be sure to follow their campaign and Twitter.
Introduced to video games when he was only five, after dying somewhere around four thousand times while playing Star Tropics, he never looked back. Some of his favorites range from titles like Shenmue and Metal Gear Solid 3 to Half-Life 2, Manhunt, and the Dark Souls series. Justin has a passion for vinyl records, and loves to collect video game memorabilia. If he had one wish, it would be to travel back to 1984 Miami.
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Public Safety Realignment
In 2011, the California Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law the Public Safety Realignment Act (Assembly Bill 109), which transfers responsibility for supervising specific low-level inmates and parolees from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to counties. Assembly Bill 109 (AB 109) took effect on October 1, 2011 and realigns three major areas of the criminal justice system. On a prospective basis, the legislation:
Transfers the location of incarceration for lower-level offenders (specified non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offenders) from state prison to local county jail and provides for an expanded role for post-release supervision for these offenders;
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Topic: Katie Hopkins joins forces with anti-LGBT muslim protesters at primary school.
Author Topic: Katie Hopkins joins forces with anti-LGBT muslim protesters at primary school. (Read 7945 times)
Kryton
Disregard the Constabulary
Katie Hopkins joins forces with anti-LGBT muslim protesters at primary school.
What a twist! It seems Katie has turned a new leaf and now despises the idea of LGBT issues being taught at school more than she despises muslims.
As council bans are in place to prevent the protesters (who seem to be mainly but not exclusively from the muslim community) from rallying outside the Birmingham school (who have taken a large disliking to LGBT equality being taught to young children), it seems Katie Hopkins has jumped on board to erm... Team up with them.
In a tweet posted earlier today, anti-Islam activist Hopkins shared a photo of her in the home of Shakeel Afsar and alongside Amir Ahmed, who have both voraciously led protests challenging LGBT equality education at Anderton Park Primary School in the city.
Officially against multiculturalism, Hopkins also described refugees and migrants fleeing war zones as “cockroaches” and a “plague of feral humans” who should be stopped using “gunships” in a column featured in The Sun in 2015. The UN’s human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein attacked the Sun newspaper for publishing Hopkin’s piece, branding her use of the word “cockroaches” to describe migrants as reminiscent of anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda.
She has also been criticised for attacking the trans community on a number of occasions, including mocking the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/26/birmingham-anderton-park-primary-muslim-protests-lgbt-teaching-rights
These are the same protesters who pelted pro-LGBT parents and children with eggs a few weeks ago and intimidated other parents (both muslim and non-muslim) with chants of "“If you take your kids to school today, you’re not a Muslim and you’ll burn in hell.”
What lovely people eh?
So not only are kids being presented rightly or wrongly with this type of education* (which may be confusing but is probably meant to be at least portrayed in a positive, educational manner), they are now being confronted by religious dickheads, intimidation, scuffles, a police presence and now the fucking parasite called Katie Hopkins.
What age bracket should children be taught about LGBT stuff?
What age bracket should children be indoctrinated into religion?
Should these protests have been allowed?
Edit: * which apparently accounts for 0.5% of the annual timetable.
imitationleather
"The French... are famous... for their kissing"
Re: Katie Hopkins joins forces with anti-LGBT muslim protesters at primary school.
Katie Hopkins was a lot better when she was all strung out on ketamine and unable to speak or operate any internet-connected technology.
Hateful bigot spoilt for choice of who to hate... great
Pingers
Basic human
In the land of the bald, the follicled man is king
It's way past her dead time
She wouldn't get away with half the stuff she does if she wasn't such a sexy cunt.
Johnny Yesno
Perfume of a critic's burning flesh
Quote from: Cloud on June 05, 2019, 09:20:54 PM
It's taken her a while to figure it out, though, hasn't it? Her ideas board must have been groaning under the weight of all those post-it notes.
Darles Chickens
Quote from: Kryton on June 05, 2019, 09:14:44 PM
When my daughter was six, she told us that they'd been talking about different types of families in school: kids with no mother or father or neither, and kids with two mothers or two fathers. This is in Spain. For her it was just matter-of-fact stuff, which is exactly how it should be. Why not raise awareness of it at a young age - it's just part of life.
I don't have any interest in religion, but, particularly in Spain (amongst the older generation at least) it's quite a big deal. We were allowed to choose between 'religion' and 'ethics', and chose ethics, but in hindsight probably would've chosen religion, just because it forms a part of the culture of the country. The ethics classes make a point of skipping anything related to the Bible, presumably to accommodate kids of all faiths. It's not indoctrination; I think it's worth knowing a bit about this stuff just for a balanced education. I learnt all the Christian stories at school and didn't grow up to be a bible basher.
Quote from: Darles Chickens on June 05, 2019, 09:49:41 PM
It's not indoctrination; I think it's worth knowing a bit about this stuff just for a balanced education.
Poor choice of words, apologies.
Are you so blind that you cannot see?
This is like a local mental case doing something mental in your area.
Yeah, I wasn't having a go - just thought it was worth clarifying. Those are the kind of words that Hopkins and her ilk will broadcast to the world to make something innocent seem much more ominous. Indoctrination into LGBT? Oh the humanity!
Zetetic
I wasn't supposed to be around this long, so…
Not outside the school, but they should be mandatory and in the fish section of the Wholesale Markets.
You know, you have to admire Katie Hopkins for her sheer dedication to hatred of every hue.Just how dead inside is she? Very dead indeed, I'd say. Yet she embraces it! Embraces her inner death! Seems positively celebratory about her soul having shrivelled up like a burnt crisp packet, and fucked off a long time ago!
Whatever else anyone says about are brave Katie, you've got to hand it to her- she's a hateful cunt ! : -)
I want to kill myself out of shame for a lot less than she should feel. So for that, she deserves a grudging respect or a bucketload of pity.
Quote from: bgmnts on June 05, 2019, 10:25:20 PM
I want to kill myself out of shame for a lot less than she should feel. So for that, she deserves not an ounce of pity, and to be kicked in the cunt for all eternity.
FTFY.
Flouncer
See ya on the other side, ya goddamn cracker ass!
The opposition to this is so out of proportion to what is actually being taught: the way they're carrying on you'd think the kids were being shown slideshows about bum sex and fingerblasting, when it's actually just extremely benign stuff as you've described. This opposition is largely religious in nature (mainly Muslim in this case but I'm sure the Christian schools aren't mad about this stuff either) and the bottom line is that they don't want their kids to come home thinking it's acceptable to be gay because it's forbidden by their religion. This is ultimately a question of how far we're prepared to go as a country in catering to religious bigotry. Allowing any cunt to set up a nutty faith school hasn't helped in this regard either.
madhair60
My girlfriend ran into Katie Hopkins in the Oxford Union toilets the other week. Mental
Quote from: madhair60 on June 05, 2019, 10:30:07 PM
I hope she ran into her so fast that she knocked all the wind out of her lungs.
No but apparently there was genuine fear in the eyes of Hopkins. Not because my gf is a basin-class munter before anyone fucking wises off
dallasman
Quote from: Zetetic on June 05, 2019, 10:13:09 PM
"7-11", surely? The voices in my head are quite insistent that "7-11" somehow works, and they do have sushi now, so I am going to have to post this.
Tommy Robwatson
What a time we live in when it takes Katie Hopkins to defend religious freedom.
Must irk some that she’s more principled than spineless failure Jeremy Corbyn.
Noonling
Fuck does Cuno care?!
Incidentally, was anyone taught about The Gays before or after Section 28? It started in 1988 and was repealed in 2003 (God that seems so late) when I was 14, but I don't remember hearing about The Gays after that either.
phantom_power
Why should there be an age bracket? You can talk about LGBT stuff without mentioning sex. There is no age bracket for teaching kids about heterosexual love or flowers or potatoes.
I was at secondary school from 80 to 85 and I don’t remember much about it in sex ed. It was probably mentioned in a scientific bland way in passing. Nothing about bisexuality and absolutely no chance of transsexuality.
Quote from: phantom_power on June 05, 2019, 10:45:47 PM
You can talk about LGBT stuff without mentioning sex.
Boring though.
>80% of the world doesn’t have SSM. Hardly anywhere panders to the mental illness known as Trans. The UK are extremists. Katie Hopkins is fighting extremism. No wonder you identity politicking clowns are losing. Enjoy your virtue signalling. Identity politics will be repelled like the virus it is.
Stop forcing your ideology on migrants. Welcome the other. Let parents decide you racist fucks.
Democracy’s coming home.
Wasn't there a Black Mirror episode about this cunt?
Nah she deserved the mob
Quote from: Tommy Robwatson on June 05, 2019, 10:54:54 PM
From where? Are you suggesting it's been on holiday? Or are you suggesting that for a small amount of time we didn't have democracy but it's suddenly returned? At which point in time was democracy absent?
Can you narrow down this time period? From which point was democracy abroad?
Don’t feed the troll, please.
BritishHobo
That is a really reductive impression
What a big surprise. When it comes down to it, Hopkins shares the ideology. The only thing she objects to is it coming from scary coloured faces. Same for your Robinsons and Farages. The 'British values' these cunts swear to protect have always contained violent homophobia and misogyny, exactly the things they've always used to tell 'SJWs' that they ought to hate Muslims too. Birds of a feather.
marquis_de_sad
yes🔍
I for one am shocked that known cunt Katie Hopkins is a cunt.
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The Cutest and Most Unlikely Pairs of Animal Pals on the Internet
November 18, 2020 | Erika Burch
That Lucky Dog
This gorgeous bear cub found himself making inter-species friendships when he was adopted by a human family in Slovenia, after they saw him wandering around their yard without his mother. But Lucky didn’t just get to meet humans for the first time, he also immediately made a connection with the family’s dog, a German Rottweiler. Even though Lucky was doing great at his new home, as a cub, the family realized that they wouldn’t be able to keep him as he grew into an adult brown bear.
While they discussed options for where they could possibly send Lucky, he ended up vanishing before they made a decision. The family notified the authorities, who thought that Lucky had been stolen. Luckily for Lucky, he was eventually picked up and taken to an orphanage for bears, so that they can care for him properly until he is old enough to return to his home in the wild.
Tiger Babies and Their Chimpanzee Mom
These gorgeous white tiger babies were uprooted from their home after it was flooded in the middle of a huge storm, and unfortunately, this caused them to split up with their mom. But an animal caretaker with a huge heart and a spunky little chimpanzee named Anja decided to take them in. Anja believes that she has adopted the cubs, and she cares for them like they are her own children.
Anja the chimpanzee is incredibly sweet, and she absolutely adores looking out for her two new tiger children. Since Anja’s caretakers rescue all sorts of animals, this isn’t the first time she has stepped in to help out, but there is something special about her relationship with the big kitties.
This Deer Friendship
Tanja Askani, a wildlife photographer, spends her days looking for charming moments just like this. But she never imagined that she would stumble upon such an adorable animal bond. But this moment wasn’t just a one-time deal. Tanja has captured these animals together on multiple occasions – grazing, lazing around and nuzzling each other, as is the case in these photos.
Seeing these incredible photos is like staring at a real-life version of a Disney movie. All that’s missing is a princess standing behind them! Here’s to hoping Tanja isn’t planning on retiring anytime soon!
Bittersweet Joy
This unlikely animal pairing had a beautiful, love-filled friendship for nearly eight years of their lives, on the ground of their home at an Elephant sanctuary in Tennessee. Tarra the elephant and Bella, the dog, were the best of friends, spending their days by each other’s sides after the dog happened to stumble in to the sanctuary. There was one year during this friendship when Bella needed to go through an intensive surgery, and Tarra waited for her friend, expressing anxiety about missing her.
But in the year of 2011, everything changed when Bella’s body was found following some type of wild animal attack. The caretakers noticed that Tarra had blood on her trunk and came to the conclusion that she had moved her late friend’s body to a safer area.
This Fox and His Hound Buddy
This dog, Tinni, literally stumbled into a friendship with his bestie, Sniffer, one day. Tinni was walking through the woods in his home in Norway with his owner, Torgeir Berge. Berge is actually a photographer himself and happened to take this very photo. Unfortunately for Sniffer the fox, Norway is riddled with fox fur trading. But because of his best friend’s new companion, Berge is actively working to take it down.
After Tinni and Sniffer met, they became the greatest pals, and Sniffer always comes to hang out with him when he and his master take their strolls through the woods. Berge found the entire thing so adorable that he films the furry friends doing the oh-so-cute things that they do together, like chasing each other through the trees. He also plans to release a book about the real-life fox and hound.
Best Buddies Hector and Manuka
Hector the house cat was in for quite a surprise, when his human mom Jane Croft decided to bring home a new and interesting addition to their family – Manuka, a micro pig. Manuka and Hector’s relationship started off wary and formed into a full-fledged sibling bond. This picture clearly displays the kind of childlike loving relationship that these two have. And while Manuka may sometimes get on Hector’s nerves, they absolutely love each other and get along incredibly well at most times. But Hector and Manuka aren’t the only two animals getting along in the Croft house.
The pig and cat also have five more micro pig brothers and sisters, as well as a dog friend. Croft says that the animals love spending time together, and always share their meals, nap time and playtime. And, although she says that it can be a bit overwhelming dealing with so many animals at once, it’s also totally worth it!
The Lion, the Tiger and the Bear
This trio of big beautiful friends were all rescued from an evil drug dealer who abused and neglected them in the most awful ways. Baloo the bear was taken into surgery during his rescue, to remove a harness that had grown into his skin and needed removed. The trauma that these three poor animals endured at the hands of this heartless human have bonded them together for life.
Luckily, these three pals are now living the wonderful lives they deserve at an animal sanctuary in Georgia. Leo the Lion, Khan the Tiger and Baloo are always by each other’s sides, living happily and healthily in their new, comfortable forever home at the Noah’s Ark Animal Sanctuary. The people who rescue animals and ensure their safety and happiness deserve all of the medals!
The Kitten and the Guardian Crow
The year is 1999, the setting – Massachussetts – your nam is Ann Collito, and you’re planting flowers in the backyard of your house that you share with your partner, Wall, when all of the sudden you set eyes upon this kitten’s face, staring up at you from behind a bush. That’s just what happened to Ann Collito when this stray kitten showed up out of the blue one day. The Collito’s didn’t see a collar, so they began to leave food out for the animal, and they named her Cassie. But these humans weren’t the only one’s watching out for her, as they noticed that this crow had appeared in the yard and brought worms to her when it thought she was hungry.
The crow, which the family named Moses, has even been seen on video pecking at the couple’s backdoor for his young kitten, which he started to do nearly every day. And every time, Cassie gladly runs to play with him, and they spend their time together all day in the yard.
Strength Through Unity
These two pals spin another tale of the type of bond that can be formed after a sad and traumatic experience. Meet Owen, the hippo. When Owen was only one year old, rescuers found him alongside of the Indian Ocean, totally dehydrated and alone. The lonely little hippo was sent to Mombasa, where he was placed in a sanctuary for wild animals. It was in this sanctuary that he met his new best friend, Mzee.
Mzee is a giant male tortoise, whose name means “old man” in Swahili. Staff members weren’t entirely sure why these two hit it off, but they suspected it may have had something to do with the fact that they had coloring that sort of looked alike, which may have made them feel more comfortable around each other. Mzee became protective of Owen, sort of acting like parent he seemed to need. Once Owen grew older, caretakers decided to place him with Cleo, a female hippopotamus who needed the company.
If you’ve ever seen the show Animal Odd Couples on PBS, you may recognize this darling duo from their cameo on the show. Riley coyote and this handsome lion, Anthony, met when the animals were right around one month old. They were introduced at their home in Arizona, at the Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary, and they became friends right off the bat.
These cute critters have become so indivisible that if they are unable to see each other, they experience anxiety from the separation. Because of this, when Anthony required surgery and needed to go visit an off-site doctor, the caretakers brought Riley along with him! These guys can always be seen together at the sanctuary, having a blast and hanging out.
This Monkey and Her Terriers
Meet Mubi. Mubi is a part of an endangered species of monkeys, known as drill monkeys. When Mubi was first born into this world, at her home in an Animal park close to Canterbury Kent, something unfortunate happened. The infant monkey’s mother wouldn’t take care of her, so Simon Jeffery, a zookeeper in the park, adopted her and brought her home with him.
Mubi spends her days hanging out with other monkeys in the park, but at night, Jeffery brings her back to his house, where his two young Jack Russel terriers Daisy and Lane live. Mubi and the puppies have been getting along great and love to play together each night.
Canines and felines have a notorious reputation for always being at each other’s throats, and not being able to get along. But, these two are here to prove that anything is possible. Unfortunately, this is a bittersweet tale about a friendship that blossomed from heartache and trauma. This mama cat had delivered a kitten that didn’t make it, and the puppy was orphaned after his mother was struck with a vehicle.
Even though these furry friends went through a lot before they met, they would find happiness again in each other. In fact, since the cat wanted to be a mother and the puppy needed a mother, they adjusted into those roles for each other. The cat started to take care of the puppy, which includes nursing him. Never say never, as this story is proof that stereotypes are not always right!
Cheetahs and Chew Bones
Manti, this golden lab, has led quite an interesting life. Manti grew up in Tampa, at Busch Gardens, alongside of Kasi, this gorgeous cheetah. Dogs are often used with cheetahs because they keep them calm and help them to adjust to their life around humans. So, Manti and Kasi were raised together and basically grew up as siblings. But unfortunately, like so often happens with humans, as Kasi matured, he had less of an interest in hanging out with his “brother,” and more of an interest in mingling with females.
However, even though Kasi grew up and devoted some of his energy to nabbing himself a cheetah girlfriend, he and Manti still have a strong bond. Kasi and Manti tour around together, visiting events and taking pictures with their fans and supporters. Their loving relationship is evident in both pictures!
The Turtle and the Cow
This cow, who is hilariously named Simon Cow-ell, found himself in the need of a rescue situation in 2016, when he unfortunately had to have a part of his back leg amputated. After his initial recovery, Simon Cow-ell was transferred to Thailand’s WFFT Wildlife Center. At first, the cow was placed in a large field at the rescue center, in hopes that he would mingle with a couple of other cows.
However, Simon ended up making an unlikely friend in Leonardo, the giant tortoise. The two animals became so close that caretakers decided it would be best to give them their very own living space, which they still inhabit to this day. The friends can be seen strolling around together and even laying together to sleep.
The Cat and Mouse
These little furry pals are the real-life version of Tom and Jerry. Pumpkin the cat lives her best life as the resident feline in an animal shelter in Tennessee, so she sees her fair share of rescues. Batman the rat probably didn’t have too many cat friends before he was rescued, but he and Pumpkin immediately hit it off and became fast friends. Pumpkin is a total sweetheart, who is known for being kind-hearted and helping newcomers out, so it’s no surprise that she took a liking to Batman.
Batman was brought into the shelter by animal control, and the staff just knew that he and Pumpkin would get along. In fact, one day when they were cleaning out Batman’s cage, Pumpkin decided to stroll on in and introduce herself, and that’s how they became pals! It’s so good to know that cats and mice can get along.
This Lucky Duck and his Lab
Fred the lab is not only this duck, Dennis’, friend, but also sort of his fairy god doggo. When Dennis was a baby, his mom was scarfed down by a fox. The baby duck was strolling around aimlessly, lost and terrified in the woods when Fred and his owner, Jeremy, came upon him. Fred took an instant liking to the little duckling and Jeremy felt compelled to help the animal. So, Dennis made his way to his new home with his dog and human family members.
This isn’t the first time that Jeremy has rescued an animal, either. Fred has also been the companion to a baby deer that was taken in not long before they met Dennis. The dog and duck duo love to hang out, and Dennis likes to climb Fred and use him as a means of transportation. Onward, Doggo!
An Extremely Unlikely Friendship
This story is one that comes about from a tragic tale of the dog-eat-dog world, or in this case, lion-eat-antelope world. This lioness, in pursuit of her lunch one day, ended up killing this small antelope’s mom. After making her move and eating the other animal, the female lion strolled over to a shady area in the bushes to take a nap, when the young antelope emerged from behind the shrubs.
Incredibly, rather than leaving the antelope to fend for itself without its mother, this lioness opted to adopt him. Not only did the lioness take the antelope under her wing, to care for it in the absence of its mother, but it ensured his status as a member of her pride! Yet another incredible story of animals not acting the way we’re conditioned to believe they do. However, we wonder how long the friendship will last when the antelope is grown, and the lioness is ready for her next meal!
The Fox and Meow
This photo is as mysterious as it is adorable and was taken shoreside of a lake in the country of Turkey. Locals aren’t entirely sure of the story of these two animals, as no one seems to know who owns this cute little cat, but there are some speculations. Most seem to think that the fox lives right near the lake, and the cat lives in a house nearby.
The white cat probably gets let out a few times a day (or runs out on his own,) and comes to hang out with his little red friend. Luckily, someone happened to catch them being buddy-buddy on this particular day. No matter how it came to be, this is one seriously darling friendship!
Momma Monkey
Anna the chimp has a lot more in common with humans than some may think. After all, primates are very close to humans, as far as genetics are concerned. But it isn’t just her genetics that makes Anna so…humanlike, but also her interest in puppies, and the joy that she seems to exhibit whenever she is around them. Anna happens to live alongside of several puppies, among other domesticated animals, at an animal park in England.
From the first moment caretakers saw Anna interact with the puppies, they knew they were witnessing something truly special. In fact, Anna is always around, ready to assist, anytime a new litter of puppies arrives in the park. The chimp’s natural motherly tendencies seem to arise, and she just loves to hold them and protect them, which means keeping them safe from any strangers that may be around at the time.
JoeJoe the Capybara – Internet Star
You may recognize this adorable furry face from oh…anywhere on the internet! Why? Because JoeJoe the Capybara is internet famous, of course! JoeJoe has his own YouTube channel where you can see him hanging around with all kinds of other animals. JoeJoe is very easy going and he gets along with everyone.
The capybara can be seen cuddling with cats and dogs, taking a swim with ducks, or playing with his chickling roommates. Capybara’s are known for being super sweet, so while it’s no surprise that JoeJoe has an abundance of interspecies friendships, we’re still very glad we get to share the moments with him!
Hoo-Hoo, Who’s Got the Remote?
When one imagines animal besties, they probably don’t consider the unlikely bond that may develop between a dog and a bird, such as the case with this dog, Torque, and his owl buddy, Shrek. When Shrek was a baby, he found himself in an unfortunate situation, and rescuers feared that his mother was going to try and eat him, which often happens in those cases. Shrek was taken out of the stressful situation and moved to his new home with his four-legged pal.
The two became fast friends and now, they hardly ever leave each other’s sides. We hear that they can be found most evenings watching Netflix and sharing a bowl of popcorn. Torque is a lucky dog to have such a unique friend!
Fur and Feather Friends
When Andre Cost, a biologist in Brazil, found a baby owl while he was out one day, he knew that he wanted to take it in. However, Cost already had his cat Cleo at home, and he wasn’t exactly sure if the small owl and house cat would get along. But when he brought the owl home, both animals completely surprised him with how well they got along!
The biologist ended up naming the bird Forbi, and nowadays – Forbi and Cleo are always side-by-side, palling around and posing for ridiculously cute photos.
Mama Hound
It may seem strange to hear that a foxhound has nursed foxes – but that’s exactly what “Mama” did. When four fennec foxes lost their mother and arrived at the LEO Zoological Center in Connecticut, staff members scrambled to find a surrogate to nurse them and keep them alive. Mama ended up seeming like the perfect candidate, so she was sent on a journey across the country, from the Carolina’s to Connecticut.
Mama literally saved the lives of her puppies, keeping them safe, cleaning them and nursing them as needed. Caretakers at the Zoological center were amazed at how well Mama responded to her temporary role. It seemed as though they had made the perfect choice in selecting Mama – hey, her name says it all!
Friends Through it All
These charming little buddies have each been through their fair share of hardships in life. Roo, this two-limbed chihuahua, was left disabled and alone in a ditch, on the side of the road. Luckily, he was rescued and taken to an animal hospital in Duluth, GA. It was at this time that Roo met his new mom, Alicia Williams, who was working as a receptionist at the clinic. When Roo got to his new forever home, he met Penny, the Silkie chicken, who Williams had saved from a lab that tests on animals.
This adorable, yet unlikely animals, formed a strong bond and started to cling to each other for support and friendship. Roo, who happened to be born without two of his legs, even gives Penny rides around the yard. These two just love to play and can often be seen hanging out with one another around Williams’ house. Aww!
Far Apart, But Close by Heart
Pippin the deer had an interesting life when she was a baby. Isobel Springett adopted the young deer into her family, which included Kate, the Great Dane. Kate and Pippin hit it off almost immediately and loved to play and hang out with each other. But Isobel knew that she couldn’t keep Pippin when she grew into an adult deer, so she released her into the forest, not too far from her home.
Kate missed her “deer” friend at first, but Isobel takes her to visit Pippin and her new family in the woods. Pippin still comes to greet her canine friend each time, and the pair will always have a special bond.
Manni the Piglet and Candy the Doggo
Manni, this boar piglet, was rescued from a fate of starvation, in a field in Germany. Members of the kind-hearted Dalhaus family found the hungry little animal and brought him home to care for him. When he got to his new home, Manni was introduced to this Jack Russell Terrier, Candy, and the pair became fast friends. Manni has fully recovered and is now very happy and healthy.
The family is still trying to decide whether or not they should keep him at their home or release him to a wildlife park. We know that they will end up doing whatever is best for the piglet, but we hope he gets to live at home with his friend!
The Lion and the Wiener Dog
Milo the dachshund leads a pretty exciting life, compared to a lot of other dogs around the planet. Why? Well, Milo’s best friend is this five-hundred-pound lion, Bonedigger. Bonedigger was diagnosed with a bone disease that has rendered him disabled when he was a baby, so Milo decided to care for the cub. The little dachshund stayed by his friend’s side throughout the days, and they can always be seen hanging out and laying out side-by-side. But Milo isn’t Bonedigger’s only doggo pal, as the lion has two more canine companions named Angel and Bullet.
We’re so glad that this big kitty has it made, and enjoys a life filled with so many friends! Of course, Bonedigger may sound scary based on his name, but he’s really just a very large, very sweet cat.
This Good Doggo and Her Elephant Friend
Bella the black-lab doesn’t hang out with the typical dog crowd. In fact, she has an unlikely friendship that not many creatures across the Earth can claim. This is because Bella’s best friend is an African Elephant named Bubbles. Bella was introduced to her pal when the man that used to own her brought her along to his contracting job installing a pool at Bubbles’ home in South Carolina, at the Myrtle Beach Safari.
He was having trouble looking after her and keeping up with his job, so he asked the wonderful humans at the Safari to take her in, and of course, they accepted! Bubbles herself ended up at the Safari when she was a young Elephant, rescued soon after her mom and dad were murdered by poachers in Africa. But as unfortunate as the circumstances that brought the two together may be, they couldn’t be happier now, and they’re living their best lives together at the Safari!
Fox and Moose
Meet Juniper, the incredibly cute little rescued red fox. If you ask Juniper, she will probably tell you that this handsome Australian Shepherd, Moose, is her boyfriend. Juniper and Moose’s human mom’s name is Jessika, and she absolutely adores all of her rescues, but she has a special place in her heart for these two. Moose and Juniper do literally everything with each other.
They can often be seen cuddling at nap time, giving each other baths, playing, and even eating their meals together! You may have seen a video of Juniper using Moose’s head as a chair, as she does a lot, but Moose doesn’t care, because he loves his foxy friend!
The Doggo and the Galago
Meet Judy. Judy is a sweet, black dog that spends her days roaming her home at a zoo in Staffordshire, England. Judy used to feel somewhat alone, but that all changed when she met this furry little creature – the bush baby. Bush babies are members of the primate family who, in order to survive, need to be held close to their mother’s bodily warmth constantly. But this bush baby almost didn’t make it, as his mother rejected him after he was born.
Zookeepers panicked as they tried to find an animal that might be able to help the baby stay warm. But then they thought of Judy. Caretakers at the zoo coached Judy and trained her on what she needed to do for the infant Galago. Judy took a liking to her new role, and became not only a foster mom, but a friend to the little bush baby, too.
These Kittens and Their “Momma” Koko
You may have heard a thing or two about Koko the Gorilla before today, as she has become world-famous due to her spectacular sign language abilities. But even though Koko was gaining attention from humans, she craved a connection with other animals, and found herself becoming lonelier ever day she spent alone at her home in Woodside Hill, California.
When Koko found herself turning 44, her caretakers decided to surprise her with something that would change everything for the Gorilla –a litter of adorable kittens! Koko was so happy with her new little fur-balls that she communicated to her caretakers via sign language that they were her babies now.
Joey and J’aime
When J’aime arrived in 2017 at the Orphanage for Rhino’s in South Africa, she was unfortunately still too little for caretakers to have placed her with the other, adult rhinos. J’aime spent a couple of months keeping to herself and hanging out with the humans who cared for her before she met Joey, the lamb. Joey was brought to the orphanage after being left by her mother when she was just days old.
Joey took an immediate liking to J’aime, and J’aime seems to love having her lamb friend around, too. This odd but charming couple can now be seen having meals and walking together every day. The orphanage recently brought in another young lamb, Penny, who is now friends with both J’aime and Joey, too!
This Chicken and Her Puppies
Meet Mable. Mable is one very lucky chicken. You see, Mable had an accident in her home, which was outside of her owner’s home. The accident caused her to injure her foot, which in most cases for a chicken, would mean being turned into chicken noodle soup. But Mable’s owner had a soft spot for her, and he decided to bring her in and keep her as a pet.
This was an entirely new experience for the chicken, who not only got to live indoors for the first time in her life, but she also got to meet these puppies. When the doggo’s mom would be preoccupied, Mable would often roost on the puppies, who seemed to absolutely love it. Now, Mable and the puppies cuddle often. Awww!
From Blah to Baa-ah
When Themba, this elephant, arrived at his new home at the Shamwari Rehabilation center, he was just a baby at six months old. Caretakers at the rehab center decided to place Themba in Albert the sheep’s enclosure. Neither of the animals seemed too sure about the arrangement, at first, and Themba even followed Albert around the enclosure intimidatingly.
But when it was feeding time in the morning and the humans arrived, they noticed that something miraculous had happened overnight – Albert and Themba were now inseparable! As it turns out, the elephant and sheep have become the best of friends.
The Neck Connection
Visitors of Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay Florida are lucky enough to spot this unlikely pair together on a regular basis! Wilma the Ostrich and Bea, the Giraffe, have become fast friends at their home in Florida. It isn’t as if these two are friends simply because they live in close quarters – because they really don’t! In fact, the enclosure that these long-neck friends share is over 60 acres.
However, these two can almost always be spotted hanging around together near the water. Some of the animal caretakers at Busch Gardens jokingly speculate that the two have formed a friendship because of their neck-length similarity. Whatever the case may be, we’re glad that they met, because this friendship is just way too cute!
This Orangutan and His Dog Buddy
One day in Myrtle Beach, SC, 2009, Dr. Bhagavan Antle and some other caretakers at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, were out for a walk with Suriya, the orangutan. Dr. Antle noticed that this Blue Tick Hound looked sad and alone as he followed behind them. The Doctor decided to take him back to the institute, where he and Suriya became the best of friends.
And, even though Roscoe doesn’t exactly fit the bill for the kind of animal the institute takes in, he’s now a part of the family, and there is no way Suryia is letting him go! The orangutan and her doggo love being by each other’s sides, and they are always off doing something together.
Lonely but Loved
This beautiful image of this cat and monkey was captures from inside of the Lopburi Monkey Temple in Thailand. The cat was a former stray who wandered around for a year before finding her way into the temple. The kitty and the monkey both share a common story of abandonment, as their owners left them to fend for themselves, which meant condemning them to a life of solitude for over a year, before they were rescued. Now, this cat and monkey couldn’t be any happier. They are the best of friends and share in a (somewhat) symbiotic relationship.
The cat enjoys cuddling with the monkey and staying warm in its arms, and the monkey enjoys picking parasites off of the cat. Okay, we don’t know if he actually enjoys it, but we’re pretty sure that’s what monkeys like to do. Both animals are just happy to have each other, these days!
Let's Nuzzle
This sweet little wild pig was spotted sidling over to this resting baby deer. The little deer seemed to be chilling in the sun, when all of a sudden it was greeted by this little piggy's snout kiss.
It's hard to tell what drew the little hog to this bambi, but by the looks of it, these two have quite the connection.
I'm Trying to Hug You
Outside the house of this 'Ozzie' family, the cameras caught some endearing friendship action when a kangaroo hopped over the fence to greet their dog. The dog, generally would scare off any intruders, seemed quite happy when this bouncy mate came in for a hug.
As you can see, Kangaroo Jack is seemingly trying to hug the dog, and the dog seems pretty excited over his unexpected friend. Looks like they're having some trouble with all those mismatched limps though.
This aging ram and pig became the best of buds. It all happened when the hog noticed ol' ram was being bullied buy its fellow farm furries. McDuff, the sad old ram drifted away from the herd, living his life in solitude, when all of a sudden the pig noticed him sadly ambling around the fields.
The wild pig approached McDuff the sheep, and the two instantly hit it off. These days you can spot the two roaming the farm as best friends or cuddling under the sun.
This Bobcat kitten found the perfect friendship with this 3 day old fawn. The two found each other after the wild fire disaster back in 2009 in Santa Barbara. The event displaced so many animals, forcing many them to roam around and seek new homes.
These two were a little luckier than others. Not only did they find a new home, but they found safety in each other's arms. These two are now the cuddliest of creatures, making their family's hearts melt every time.
Sheldon and Sundae
Sheldon and Sundae found each other on a quaint little Dutch farm. The farm owner, Annette Hagemeijer, who breeds these types of pigs (they're called Kunekune pigs) says she started noticing how her little ginger cat, Sheldon, would always wonder off to visit the pigs. She clearly had her eyes on one pig in particular.
Farm workers always see them snuggling up together on the grass.
Somewhere in the English countryside, doppelgangers and friends were spotted walking side by side. The Newfoundland dog was walking with what seemed to be his twin brother, a little Shetland pony.
Someone put these two fluff-balls on cute alert!
This little baby doe-eyed kangaroo became besties with this squinty eyed wombat named Peggy. These two became great friends and even shared a pouch at the Wildlife Kilmore Rescue Centre in Victoria, Australia.
Anzac was rushed to the center after a rescue at just 5 months old. A joey should be in the mother's pouch for roughly eight months before it can walk, but Anzac was abandoned a few months before he was to be on his own. Luckily he found his wombat buddy.
It's not everyday a marmoset and an iguana cross paths, let alone become friends, but being in the zoo, these two were clearly fated to meet. Generally marmosets are incredibly curious creatures, which is why it wasn't surprising when he approached the most unlikely fellow in the zoo, an iguana.
The German zoo is home to these two, where they can be seen giving each other loving pecks on the nose and cheeky little nibbles. Somehow the friendship manages survive throw the sharp claws and scaly skin.
Love and Odour
Despite being sworn enemies in the wild, these two overcame all obstacles against them and became quite the duo. Little lion cub siblings Annabelle and Lester took in the abandoned baby skunk, peanut at just 6 weeks old.
The trio of youngsters joyfully play together at the Animals of Montana, an animal reserve where mountain lions are bred in captivity.
A Lizard and a Cat
Charles, the bearded dragon, and Baby the cat formed the oddest of friendships. Owner Cheyenne March was at first quite worried when she brought Charles the lizard home with her. Her cat, Baby, could have quickly gobbled up the poor thing right away.
Luckily for her (and Charles!), the two got along perfectly and are constantly cuddling up with one another. One would never think a lizard and a cat could ever be friends!
The Dog and the Duck
Barclay the Golden Retriever met his now best friend Rudy the duck in some odd circumstances. The dog would sneak into Rudy's coop and steal his duck chow. The four year old Pekin duck would scare it away every time. But slowly, over rather long period of time, the two began to form a strange little friendship. Soon, every time Barclay would visit, Rudy would get excited.
Pam Ishiguro, the owner told Daily Mail “When they are together, somebody is always chasing or jumping on someone else, but when they are apart, they’re always calling for each other.” What a match.
Champy and Morris
Animal lover Jennifer Boyle has always had an affinity for horses and cats. While all of the animals live in harmony, never did she imagine them to become best friends. That was until Champy and Morris met each other.
Jennifer adopted her cat, Morris at about 9 months. Before that he was just living in shelters. Having grown up in shelters, Morris never knew what it was like to have a real home. Everything changed when Jennifer took him home and introduced him to her most prized horse, Champy. The two clicked in an instant.
Friendship to the Rescue
This lucky rescue chicken found in loving home in California. While she was incredibly happy to be saved by a caring family, this chicken wasn't the best around company, especially other animals. The owners had no idea that such a loving friendship would form between these two creatures. Especially considering the fact that this chicken, along with some others they rescued, had been through some tough traumas.
Now their favorite pit bull and their most beloved little chicken have become the closest of pals and the friendship has done wonders for this little chicken.
Roo and Penny
Here's a weird little duo. A two-legged dog and a rare type of chicken called a Silkie. These two are also rescues and were adopted together by a lovely Georgian native named Alicia Williams. This feisty little pooch named Roo found his best friend in Penny, the Silkie chicken. Roo, who is in a wheelchair still has tons of energy to play with is new friend.
Alicia said told her local paper that the pair "love playing and Penny sometimes rides on Roo's back when he scampers outside using a specially made wheelchair." "The first time Roo met Penny Chicken, we placed him in a bed on the floor and she wandered over to check him out." Looks like its been true love ever since.
Woodland Pals
This badger and otter befriended one another in the English animal sanctuary in Somerset. The place that is aptly named, the Secret World Wildlife Rescue, is home to this unlikely friendship between a baby otter and baby badger. The center took in these two young ones around the same time, so naturally they took to each other instantly.
The goal of the rescue sanctuary is to ultimately train these creatures and send them back into the wild. Since these two were practically raised together it might be a bit tough to part. We hope that no matter what, these two find each other.
A Dog's Best Friend
It's an unlikely match but for centuries now, dogs and horses have always gotten along. These two creatures can love each other dearly, even with the countless differences they have. If you're lucky enough to own a dog and a horse, it's likely that you've witnessed these two at play.
Keep in mind that horses can be quite highly strung, so if you have your dog around, best keep him or her on a leash. You might startle the poor horse!
Cham Chi and Dobee
Cham Chi and Dobee have made quite the name for themselves. These best friends have gone viral on the internet when their owner filmed them playing in the backyard. Cham Chi- a pig, and Dobee - a dog live together in the idyllic village in Kalotaszeg, Transylvania. In the short 50 second clip, you can see the two simply having a ball.
According to the owners, Cham Chi loves giving Dobee massages using his snout and Dobee couldn't be happier. Fun fact, “Cham Chi” is a name meaning “hard worker” in Vietnamese and “munching” in Hungarian.
Study Buddies
University is certainly the place where most life-long friendships are formed. This kitten and a duckling are no exception. Alumni and students have spotted these two on the Tecnologico De Monterrey campus in Monterrey, Mexico, and they are just too cute. They are constantly approached by passersby and admired over their unlikely friendship.
The two can be spotted hanging outside the campus library, snacking by the pond or even studying for their finals on the grass. Jokes aside, these two are completely inseparable.
Sammy and Patterson
A donkey and a cat. Now that's unusual. On the other hand, both these animals are stubborn and pretty independent, so maybe it makes sense that they would find each other. These furry friends first encountered each other on a county road. Patterson, the donkey was actually left in a field from his previous owner. Sammy the cat spotted him in the distance and led his owner to the donkey's rescue.
Needless to say, Patterson found his family and a new loving home. The two roam around the farmlands and are always snuggling up under trees. Patterson is one super lucky donkey.
Saved by Friendship
Another heartwarming friendship that was formed from a rescue. Wesley, a tall, dark and handsome cow didn't always have it so good. A couple years ago, he ran away from his farm. On his journey for safety, he encountered a Chance the dog. This dog, aptly named, would change his fate completely.
As 'chance' would have it, the dog led Wesley to safety. In the end they were found by rescuers from the Sunrise Sanctuary in Ohio. The two friends were taken in together presently remain closer than ever before.
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Barcelona promise to drop Cesc Fabregas bid, insists Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood
By Sportsmail Reporter
Updated: 16:52 EST, 14 April 2010
Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood claims Barcelona have promised not to make a move for Cesc Fabregas this summer.
The Gunners have been angered by constant reports from Spain that the European champions want to bring Fabregas back to the club where he started his career.
And Hill-Wood has revealed that a high-level secret meeting between the two clubs was held when they met in the Champions League quarter-final.
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'There was a private conversation that took place in the boardroom and assurances have been made at the highest possible level,' Hill-Wood told EPSN Soccernet.
'Arsenal do not expect those to be broken. They said to us they are not interested (this summer).'
Emirates boss Arsene Wenger has previously lashed out at how the pursuit has been carried out by leaks to the Catalan media and Hill-Wood admitted that the Gunners confronted Barca about the headlines.
'Subsequent to the conversation, if they are interested at any time in the future, they would come to us direct,' he said.
'However I'm not sure they are going to do that, because they told us they are pretty happy with what they have got and are pretty happy with their current players.
'If you want my opinion, I'm not sure he would even get in their team. Do they need him? I'm not sure that they do. We hope he stays with us for a very long time.'
However, the assurances could count for little if, as expected, the Barca board are replaced in the summer.
Joan Laporta has to relinquish his presidency in June and the man currently favourite to replace him is an outsider with links to Fabregas.
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Sandro Rosell is heavily odds on to win the presidential poll and his former role as a Nike director brought him into contact with the 22-year-old.
His closeness to Fabregas and his perceived ability to pull off the signing is one of the businessman's biggest selling points.
Technical secretary Txiki Begiristain, who currently shapes Barca's transfer policy, is also expected to leave along with Laporta.
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92-Test Wallaby set for shock French defection
Wallabies and Waratahs great Kurtley Beale is set to join Racing Metro in the Top 14. Picture: Mark Kolbe/Getty
by Jamie Pandaram and Julian Linden
6th Mar 2020 7:30 AM
Kurtley Beale is set to defect to French rugby after this year, ending his Super Rugby career but not necessarily his time in the Wallabies jersey.
Beale is tipped to sign with Top 14 club Racing Metro, along with Melbourne Rebels backrower Luke Jones, while fellow Rebels teammate Matt Philip will sign with Pau.
Having played 92 Tests for the Wallabies, Beale can still be recalled for Wallabies duties in 2021 under the 60-Test Giteau Law.
Beale began his Super Rugby career as a teenager in 2007, and just this week was given his first shot at captaincy - he'll lead the Waratahs against the Chiefs in Wollongong on Friday night.
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Jones returned from France to play with the Rebels last year in a bid to make the Rugby World Cup but was ultimately left out of Michael Cheika's squad for Japan, and will head back to the Top 14.
Philip's departure further depletes Australia's lock stocks. RA had hoped former Waratah Will Skelton would return after his English club Saracens was penalised for salary cap breaches but he is set to join French club La Rochelle.
DUAL INTERNATIONAL BACKS PONGA'S ABS SWITCH
Kalyn Ponga has the tools to crack the All Blacks' 2023 World Cup squad after just one season of Super Rugby, code-hopper Karmichael Hunt believes.
Himself a former Queensland State of Origin fullback who successfully transitioned to international rugby, Hunt described Ponga as a "one of a kind" footballer.
Ponga is reportedly weighing up a contract extension offer from NRL club Newcastle Knights that would allow him to switch to rugby in 2023 in a bid to play for his native New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup in France.
The Knights reportedly tabled Kalyn Ponga a flexible deal. Picture: Tony Feder/Getty
"Kalyn played at Churchie (Anglican Church Grammar, Brisbane) so he's got schoolboy experience, he's not just a running threat, he can play the ball as well," Hunt said.
"He wanted to transition to No.6 last year but they ended up pushing him back to fullback.
"His game, from a league perspective, he will likely transition from No.1 to No.6 and be a predominant ballplayer, which if you translate to rugby, if he's got the ability to play the ball as well as run, you can slot him at fullback with his running, kicking and ball-playing ability, but he can also play in your midfield as well."
Sir John Kirwan has been among those who've said one season will not be enough for Ponga to learn the finer points of rugby to crack the All Blacks, and while Hunt agreed it would be extremely difficult, the triple-code star is not going to write off the young gun.
"I don't like putting limits on people, they can surprise you," Hunt said.
Kalyn Ponga in action for the Maori All Stars. Picture: AAP/Dave Hunt
"Kalyn's a remarkable talent and I don't want to put any limits on him, because from what I've seen from him in the few years he's been in football, he's one of a kind."
The opposite mooted switch of All Black Ardie Savea to the NRL is virtually no chance of happening.
Savea revealed recently he wanted to play league, but the financial reality will see him re-sign with NZRU and become one of the top three paid All Blacks alongside Beauden Barrett and Brodie Retallick.
NRL clubs would only be able to afford half of Savea's projected $1.2 million annual salary.
GITEAU LAW IGNORED AT RA AGM
Rumblings about changing the Giteau Law are growing stronger, however there will be no discussion about this at the Rugby Australia AGM on March 30.
That would be ludicrous given the move would devalue Super Rugby at the same time RA is trying to sell the competition on the open broadcast market.
However, some inside RA are convinced that the 60-Test, seven years of continual loyalty model needs to be tweaked to fend off foreign raiders and keep the Wallabies strong.
There's no doubt rugby will head down football's path in the next decade, with the best southern hemisphere stars playing in the rich north and returning for international duty.
For the near future, a smart fix would be to change the Giteau Law to no minimum Tests, but around six years of continual loyalty to Super Rugby.
This would ensure that foreign clubs think twice about poaching players in their prime, who could be called back for Wallabies duty at any time under World Rugby's regulation 9 rule.
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Carnival to ignite love of netball in the Maranoa
READY, NET, GO: A pass in play at the Maranoa mixed netball fun day which was held in October last year.
lucy rutherford, lucy.rutherford@westernstarnews.com
lucy rutherford
13th Mar 2020 6:00 AM
Netball: One of the fastest growing sports in the Maranoa will play hosts to an Inter District Netball carnival, which is expected to bring significant sporting and economic benefits to the community.
With the Maranoa Netball Association (MNA) hosting the carnival on April 25 and 26, president Wendy Steinhort said the carnival is a great opportunity to give young players exposure to the pathways netball offers in our region.
“We’ve got four teams from Maranoa playing this year. Last year there were over 500 players at each carnival, and we are expecting more this year so it’s going to be a great day,” she said.
“It’s a fantastic experience for them to enjoy working in a team environment, making new friendships and participating in a fun filled day.”
Ms Steinhort said her team are excited that Origin is getting involved and supporting the barbecue for hundreds of players, after Origin Energy and Netball Australia recently announced a new community three-year partnership that will see Origin investing in all levels of the game as community partner for Netball Australia.
Origin’s General Manager, Spring Gully and Denison Asset, Dave Atkin, said he was proud to work for an organisation who supports Australian kids achieve their potential through education, sport and other opportunities.
“Origin’s sponsorship of Netball Australia is a powerful message to everyone that we continue to work hard to identify ways of meaningfully connecting with our communities in which we live and work,” he said.
“We’re working with Netball Australia to support the players, coaches, umpires and volunteers that are the lifeblood of the sport,” CEO of Origin Energy, Frank Calabria said.
Ms Steinhort approached Council for their assistance to provide two temporary courts as to be eligible to host an Inter-District Netball Carnival, the committee must provide a minimum of ten courts at one venue.
The request was supported by Council 8-0, with the costs associated with the provision of temporary line marking and installation of four sleeves for installation of netball posts estimated at $6,000.
The report noted that with netball a fast growing sport in the Maranoa, it is a great opportunity to showcase the magnificent new netball precinct and provide economic stimulus to local businesses.
Ms Steinhort said carnivals like this one are a great platform to ignite the love of netball.
“The sportsmanship of players and the great community atmosphere of a carnival is great. We can’t wait and want everyone to get involved,” she said.
There will be games across all age groups from U12s to Open teams, with all teams and spectators welcome.
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Leighton Meester and Adam Brody expecting first child
Adam Brody and wife Leighton Meester Bang Showbiz
LEIGHTON Meester and Adam Brody are expecting their first child together.
The 'Gossip Girl' actress is reportedly pregnant with her and her husband's first child after being spotted showing off her growing baby bump while out and about on the weekend.
According to the website Popsugar.com, the brunette beauty and 'The O.C.' actor were enjoying a lunch date in Los Angeles when her bump could be clearly seen through her tight fitting T-shirt.
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The couple tied the knot in a secret ceremony in January 2014 after first meeting on the set of their 2011 film 'The Oranges'.
A source said at the time: "Leighton and Adam got married in Northern California by the ocean a couple of weeks ago. It was a very small and intimate wedding with close family and friends. It was beautiful."
The 29-year-old star first hinted she and her 35-year-old beau were trying for a baby during a recent magazine interview.
She said: "Most people I know are starting to get married. It'll be kids next. I like the grown-up stuff. I like having a house. I've got dogs.
"I started [Gossip Girl] when I was so young. And once it was over, I wanted to do things that were exciting and challenging and more me - more my adult taste."
Meanwhile, Adam previously joked he is hoping to have a very big family with Leighton.
Asked how many children they were planning on having, he said: "I say twelve. And I decide."
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Popular Western Downs event cancelled
Another popular Western Downs event cancelled in light of coronavirus
Emily Jarvis, emily.jarvis@dalbyherald.com.au
Emily Jarvis
14th Mar 2020 12:45 PM
ANOTHER popular Western Downs event has been cancelled in light of coronavirus.
The Jandowae and District Show Society released a statement via their Facebook page expressing the tough decision.
“The decision has not been made lightly,” the statement reads.
“After evaluating the developments of the coronavirus announcement from the Federal Government about the non-essential gathering of over 500 people, we have decided to cancel.”
The committee are still pending a decision which will be made Monday afternoon, about whether or not to continue the horse events.
Show committee member Sarah Shaw, said that the decision came under duty of care.
“We looked at our volunteers and most of them are over the age of 60, while it is early days we do not want to put anyone at risk.”
The last time the Jandowae show was cancelled was over 70 years ago due to the area being flooded.
This decision comes after the Western Downs Regional Council announced the cancellation of the Big Skies Festival yesterday afternoon.
So far, 35 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Queensland, including one in Rockhampton, and one in Kingaroy.
More cancellations are expected following Mr Morrison’s announcement.
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Global population boom of squid, octopuses and cuttlefish
Cade Mooney/The Daily
THE world's squid, octopuses and cuttlefish have been going through a massive, 60-year population boom, a new study has found.
Published yesterday in Current Biology, the study shows a continued rise in population numbers of cephalopods since the 1950s.
It also reveals the boom has happened in 35 species of cephalopods - covering six families - around the globe.
Earlier research has found cephalopods, which are highly adaptable to changing environments, may be benefiting from a combination of climatic changes, including global temperature rises.
University of Adelaide researcher Dr Zoe Doubleday led the study and found that despite anecdotal reports indicating a "boom and bust" cycle in cephalopod populations, since 1953 there had been a sustained increase.
The data used in the study also showed population rises whether the data was sourced from fisheries or other information sources, including environmental monitoring.
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Trans-Tasman comp set to erase Super Rugby forever
A trans-Tasman competition could soon be the norm for Australia and New Zealand. Picture: AAP/Darren England
by Wayne Smith
New Zealand is becoming resigned to the fact that Super Rugby in its existing form is dead and that next year's competition, based on a trans-Tasman series of some description, could become the permanent norm, Rugby Australia chairman Paul McLean believes.
McLean spoke to his New Zealand Rugby counterpart Brent Impey on the weekend and in between discussions about the World Rugby elections - both Australia and NZ, as SANZAAR members, are supporting Argentinian Gus Pichot, who looks increasingly likely to unseat sitting chairman Bill Beaumont of England - talk turned to how Super Rugby or its replacement might shape up next season and beyond.
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Super Rugby may be no more. Picture: AAP/Lukas Coch
"I can't see and they can't see South Africa and Argentina being involved anywhere in the short term along the way," McLean told The Australian.
But what might start out as a short-term solution could become an entrenched feature of southern hemisphere rugby if, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes increasingly difficult and expensive to include South Africa or Argentina.
New Zealand's bond with South Africa, which goes back 99 years at Test level, has been nearly unbreakable but, as in everything else, the coronavirus is forcing new ways of thinking.
"I think they know that the competition next year may be the competition they sell to their broadcasters (long-term)," McLean said. "Everyone is in the same boat and their broadcasters are under the same pressure as ours, I suspect - like everyone around the world."
No dates were set for a resumption of Super Rugby but New Zealand and Australia have been holding talks about each country starting up its own domestic competition initially and then, if border restrictions are relaxed, marrying up the two national series at some later stage of the season.
Scott Johnson, Rugby Australia's director of rugby, said on Sunday that rugby would not be pushing any societal norms in seeking a date for the resumption of games, but he was hoping for a one-month runway to allow footballers to get fully into the swing of training before matches were played. All indications are that the target dates set by the Queensland Rugby Union for a June 1 resumption of training ahead of a July 1 clearance to play would be adopted nationally.
There still is some hope, Johnson said, that the two-Test series against Ireland, which was to have been played in July, might still be staged this year, although it could be pushed back, possibly as late as December.
"There are that many plans," Johnson explained. "The longer the clock goes, one or two options drop off the table. There is genuine talk of a global season for the very first time and we may get to align the (southern and northern hemisphere) calendars. So this opportunity might be a really good thing."
McLean, meanwhile, indicated he would spend what time he has left as RA chairman pushing for a restructure of Australian rugby's governance structure, possibly aiming at a rugby equivalent of the AFL Commission.
"So I think what we would do - and this is just me talking - we would certainly have a look at what's happening in the NRL and the AFL in their governance structure, but the overlying difference is that rugby has an international dimension," McLean said. "But that's fine. All things are on the table and if we're to make some changes, some meaningful changes, then now is the time."
Australia’s Director of Rugby Scott Johnson. Picture: Ian Hitchcock/Getty
McLean is hoping to use fellow director Brett Godfrey's expertise to enlighten the board on the workings of the AFL Commission.
"Godfrey worked for the Tasmanian government on getting a Tasmanian team into the AFL, so he has good knowledge of that," he said.
He is uncertain whether a Rugby Australia Commission would replace the existing RA board or whether the two bodies would operate in unison, but clearly he believes there should be the member unions represented on it, along with the Rugby Union Players Association.
His idealised version does not sound markedly different to the Australian Rugby Review Board proposal put forward by the 10 dissident Wallabies captains, although McLean believes that it shouldn't just be the captains who figure on such a body. "I think the Classic Wallabies should be the entity at the table," he said. "They embrace all Wallabies."
He said other stakeholders and sponsors should also have a say.
RA will formally sever ties with former CEO Raelene Castle this week, paying out what her contract says she is entitled to. Whether that also includes the $114,000 bonus the board decided she had earned has yet to be discussed.
As for whether any senior RA executives could be told to pack their bags, McLean, who expects to continue the role of executive chairman for a couple of weeks, said he had "no view" on that.
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Who is Albert Williams Dating Now?
Albert Williams
Nicaraguan Baseball Player
Albert Hamilton Williams
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David Havel
Visual Director, CG Artist, Animator, Blender
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During a years 2012-2015 David Havel join MIRACLE FILM production company, where he help co-develop, produced a distribute short and feature films.
David was hire by owner of MIRACLE FILM, by Nelly D. Jenčíková as the Supervisor of a animated stop-motion feature Little from the Fish Shop /Malá z rybárny, 2015 Czech Republic and Slovakia/.
MIRACLE FILM production studio was founded in 1994 to provide services to foreign film companies as well as to develop and produce TV projects, commercials and feature films, both local and foreign production. With over 25 years of experience, the company pays great attention to researching and optioning quality literary materials for its own production, as well as closely following issues of international co-production financing and marketing of films produced in Czech majority. Currently, the company primarily focuses on the development and realization of their own cross-media projects.
A significant place in the company portfolio belongs to animated projects, designed for both children and adults. Miracle Film currently produces an animated puppet feature film directed by Jan Balej “Little from the Fish Shop”, two feature films – a crime comedy “Senior Quintet” and a romantic comedy “Play It Cool”.
The upcoming projects are an animated feature film and TV series “Arnie and his Friends” based on the successful book series of “technical fairy tales“ by Martin Sodomka, a puppet film and TV series “Flapper” produced in co-production with an Academy Award winning Polish puppet studio Se–Ma–For, and a short puppet film “Under the Apple Tree” by Erik van Schaaik (NL), and an animated puppet / CGI feature film “The Rottentodds” based on successful book series of “scary fairy tales” by a German author Harald Tonollo.
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Punch Quest Packs A Heckuva Punch For A Pocket-Sized Game [Review]
By Luke Dormehl • 12:10 am, February 13, 2014
Punch Quest by Rocketcat Games
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Released at the end of 2012, Rocketcat Games’ Punch Quest isn’t the newest game to hit the App Store. However, as a former Flappy Bird player (yes, I admit it!) I was interested to see what else Apple’s recommender algorithms would suggests to me in terms of a substitute constant runner requiring precision-tapping.
Following those recommendations brought me to Punch Quest.
Punch Quest is pretty much a quest where you punch things. Like so many successful iOS game it basically takes a video game premise/paradigm — in this case a platformer — and strips it down to its most essential elements — in this case running and punching. Your left hand controls jumping, your right does the bulk of the punching, and the running is automatic — as if the action takes place on a giant treadmill, although you can choose to speed up or slow down within this setup.
There are a metric ton of upgrades and power-ups for you to take advantage of on your, err, punching quest.
There’s not a whole lot more to it but, in fairness, there doesn’t need to be. As a longtime fan of platformers, one of my big problems with efforts to translate the games to iOS devices — without the aid of an iOS controller — is that the multi-touch screen, while great for a whole lot of things, isn’t best suited for games which require D-pads. Too often what we end up with are awkward floating virtual buttons, which take what should be an intuitive playing experience and turn it into an overly-fiddly effort. Punch Quest solves a lot of those problems. There are thankfully no virtual buttons in sight, and what initially sounds — or seems — like a 2-D game in the “lacking any kind of depth” sense turns out to have a surprising amount of it.
While it’s certainly possible to play Punch Quest as a button masher, the further you get the more you realize that to maximize points and effectiveness you’re going to need to master pinpoint accuracy and a surprising amount of tactics. Despite only having two buttons (the aforementioned right thumb/left thumb) combo, Punch Quest lets you string together attacks in a range of inventive ways. The combo system, for example, lets you launch enemies into one another — while Supermoves can be unlocked by fulfilling certain criteria.
“The combo system … lets you launch enemies into one another.”
Visually the game is pretty stunning, with a variety of detailed backgrounds and enemies — everything from walking skeletons and ghouls, to dinosaurs — that never let you get bored. This is perhaps best played in short bursts, but these are nonetheless short bursts that will have you returning to the game. There are plenty of entertaining power-ups and available upgrades, too, and one of the advantages of Punch Quest now being a couple of years old is that more and more has been added to it in its various updates. (The most recent one being 12 December last year.)
If you always thought Flappy Bird could do with a few more bouts of fisticuffs, this might just be the game for you.
Oh, and did I mention it’s free?
Game Name: Punch Quest
The Good: Inventive, action-packed, and with an unexpected amount of depth, Punch Quest comes highly recommended.
The Bad: So long as the game concept appeals to you, it’s difficult to think of too much to criticize.
The Verdict: Punch Quest comes top of its class. It may be over a year old by this point, but it still qualifies as a must-have for iOS gamers.
Buy from: App Store
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Founder of Image de France, George Manoly studied and immersed himself in architecture and interior design from a young age. Graduating from Architecture College, Cairo in 1979 was only the beginning of his fruitful career. After more than 30 years experience in the industry, George has achieved ground-breaking results including the running of his own architecture/interior design practice in Hawthorn for more than 13 years.
Growing up in Egypt, he was inspired by the strong influence of the classical French furniture culture, which embodies more than 200 years of expert timber craftsmanship. It’s a design phenomenon that was introduced when Napoleon arrived in Egypt in 1798 with his army of academics, scholars, artists and furniture artisans. They worked with groups of Egyptians to manufacture furniture in the traditional French style. As a result, these Egyptians became pioneers, introducing influences that would lead to a new era of design culture. George effectively embraces both the quality and production standards of history, using the same old-fashioned methods for creating hand-crafted pieces of furniture. His work displays the exquisite design potential of timber, magnificent finishing and fine details. Timber is an inspirational material for George; not only does he love the feel of it, he is very fond of the colours, grains and the natural warmth it adds to a space.
Applying old methods for finishes and gilding, he uses 18- or 24-carat-gold paper, sterling-silver leafs, and timber. “The amazingly fine leafs and flowers carved with exquisite detail in wood take my breath away,” says George. “I feel these pieces can last hundreds of years and people will still admire them.” As a designer, George believes that by directing your life and training your eyes, “you will have the eye for the beauty of any object you see”. He adds that “designing doesn’t become just a job, it becomes a way of living and an appreciation for life”. It’s obvious that George’s work is his muse. “I love my job, it’s my passion and it’s inspiring my life.”
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Microsoft updates Windows 10, gets an earful from users about OneDrive changes
Testers call OneDrive sync changes in Windows 10 'stupid,' 'big step backwards'
Mark Hachman
Microsoft yesterday rolled out the next update to its Windows 10 Technical Preview, just three weeks after the previous version arrived.
But one change that Microsoft trumpeted -- an alteration to how OneDrive, the company's cloud-based storage service, synchronizes files -- got a big thumbs down from users.
The update, tagged "Build 9879," followed the Oct. 21 release of Build 9860, which came 20 days after the initial Technical Preview.
So far, Microsoft's cadence for Windows 10 has been faster than what analysts anticipate will be the practice when the new operating system publicly launches in mid-2015. Then, updates will ship as often as monthly for consumers, while businesses will be able to choose between that and two additional tempos that Gartner has tagged "near-consumer speed" and "long-term servicing." The former will roll up the "consumer-speed" updates every four to six months to versions that fast-acting enterprises will test and deploy, while the latter will remain feature- and UI-static for as long as two to three years, receiving only security updates.
In the technical preview, customers have an update frequency choice of only "Fast" or "Slow," with the former representing the final's consumer speed while the latter will probably have no corresponding cadence.
"If you're in the Slow ring, you won't receive the build right away -- we'll publish to Slow after we see how everything goes with the Fast ring," said Gabe Aul, the engineering general manager for Microsoft's operating system group, in a blog post yesterday.
Microsoft is using the Technical Preview to not only show customers what Windows 10 will include, but also to test the faster release pace. Build 9879, however, is a full, in-place upgrade, and not one of the smaller updates that next year will include only changes since the last version.
Aul touted several changes to Windows 10 in the latest build, including one that users bashed as a step backwards.
"We're also introducing changes to how OneDrive syncs your files in this build," Aul wrote. "In Windows 8.1, we use placeholders on your PC to represent files you have stored in OneDrive. People had to learn the difference between what files were 'available online' (placeholders) versus what was 'available offline' and physically on your PC."
In other words, OneDrive on Windows 8.1 did not automatically place actual copies of all files in the cloud storage service on a device, but instead showed placeholder icons, what Microsoft calls "smart files," that included a thumbnail image of the file -- useful when searching through photographs -- and searchable metadata. When clicked, the placeholder/smart file kicked off a file download to the local device. That was counter to, say, Dropbox's method of everything-is- available-locally-on-every-device, but also saved local storage space and the bandwidth necessary to download and synchronize large OneDrive collections.
With Windows 10, OneDrive will use what Aul called "selective sync" in that users choose which files are synched with actual downloads. Other files remain on OneDrive, but do not show up in File Explorer, Windows 10's file management tool. To see everything in OneDrive, users must instead open a browser and comb through OneCloud's online interface.
Users hated the change.
In comments appended to Aul's blog, on a short thread on Microsoft's support discussion forum, and also in a much larger collection of complaints on Microsoft's Windows Feature Suggestion Box, customers gave Aul a piece of their minds.
In nearly 60 comments linked to the feature request, "Add an advanced option to restore showing ALL OneDrive files in Explorer, synced or not," Windows 10 Technical Preview users lambasted the OneDrive change.
"Stupid to remove a perfectly working and very useful feature," said Asbjarn today. "And how does this square with the recently announced unlimited storage for OneDrive? Or perhaps that is the real reason. Theoretically unlimited storage, but in practice limited by the storage capacity of your smallest device."
"The change to OneDrive is unbelievably stupid in this release," echoed one of several anonymous commenters.
"I was about to get a subscription for Office 365 Home Premium just for the OneDrive space -- but if this will be the way it works in the future it offers me zero advantage over Dropbox or Google Drive," added Kyriakos Ktorides.
"OneDrive has reverted back to how it was in Windows 7, big step backwards," complained Øystein Johnsen. "Unusable now."
"Yeah, you guys screwed the pooch on this change," said Nate Laff. "I get what you were trying to do..., but I just uploaded my entire family photo collection to OneDrive in the last week (200+ GB). Obviously it's impossible to sync that entire folder down to each device."
Mary Branscombe, a freelance writer who has blogged for ZDNet and written for CITEworld -- the latter, like Computerworld, is operated by IDG -- was the one who kicked off the request to restore the Windows 8.1 smart files functionality in Windows 10.
Branscombe reached out via Twitter to Omar Shahine, the partner group program manager for OneDrive, to ask if Microsoft would reconsider.
"It was a tough change to make," Shahine replied on Twitter. "It is certainly the future but there were significant issues with the model that required change."
In a tweet a little later, Shahine said, "Yes. It's a huge change. Not denying it. Yes it is worse in some ways. But it was necessary."
Late Wednesday, Shahine added that Microsoft would be posting a response to the outcry on the feedback thread. As of mid-day today, the promised reply or explanation had not appeared.
Shahine did not immediately reply to a request for more information on Microsoft's position regarding the OneDrive changes in Windows 10.
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H.Res.1470 - Honoring the life, achievements, and distinguished career of Chief Justice William S. Richardson.111th Congress (2009-2010)
Rep. Djou, Charles K. [R-HI-1] (Introduced 06/23/2010)
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07/20/2010-6:52pm Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
07/20/2010-6:52pm On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5788)
07/20/2010-6:44pm DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Res. 1470.
07/20/2010-6:44pm Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5787-5788)
07/20/2010-6:44pm Mr. Scott (VA) moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution.
06/23/2010 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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07/20/2010 On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5788)
07/20/2010 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H. Res. 1470.
07/20/2010 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5787-5788)
07/20/2010 Mr. Scott (VA) moved to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution.
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Mining mayhem
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Published: Tuesday 28 February 1995
The mining of manganese ore by the government-owned Mysore Minerals Ltd and a private Goa-based mining company has "resulted in massive degradation" in the Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka, says Anantha Hegde Ashisar, convenor of the Vriksha Raksha Andolan, a local environment movement. On January 27, a massive demonstration against indiscriminate mining was held in Sirsi town in the district.
Mysore Minerals Ltd has been granted a mining lease in a large tract of the Bisgod forest in the district. About 10,000 tribals depend on the forests for their livelihood, and activists fear that mining, which has been carried on uninterrupted for 10 years, could lead to desertification of the forest area.
Already, deposition of laterite soil has filled at least 10 irrigation wells, hundreds of acres of agricultural land and dried Anehonda lake, worshipped by the local people. Landslides triggered off by mining activity, claim locals, damaged an areca plantation in Hosmane village during the monsoons last year, causing farmers a loss of Rs 50 lakh. Mining companies refused to pay compensation.
Landslides have caused excessive silting in the Kali river, which could render useless 2 hydroelectric projects. Even the Karnataka environment report of 1993 declares that mining has endangered the forest's biodiversity. Local protests have been ineffective so far, with Mysore Minerals, for instance, being allowed to continue operations, although its mining license expired in 1989.
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4 Reasons Why Men Don't Care About Their Families (so it seems)
The Challenge: What “Runs in the Family”
If you could take any aspect from the family you grew up in and bring it into the family you have created, what would it be? A certain holiday tradition? The way your home was always filled with visitors? The friendship and affection your parents had for each other? Or maybe even the tough, but refining love they showed you?
What would you obliterate, if you could? The alcoholism? The sting of abandonment? Strict rules and unfair punishment? Short tempers?
Your answers to these questions may reveal more than you think. Even though it’s true that history has a tendency to repeat itself – especially along bloodlines – every generation has the opportunity to add to, or to take away from the list of things that “run in the family.”
Scripture makes it clear that the way we live has a profound affect on the lives of those who come after us. In fact, there are many passages about blessings being passed from the righteous to their children, grandchildren and beyond. There are also many passages that point out how sinful actions committed by one generation often have consequences for generations to come.
For example, Exodus 20:5-6 says:
“I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected – even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.” Ask the children of an alcoholic and they will tell you of the pain they continue to experience from their childhood; sons and daughters of abusive parents will often share their struggle in attempting to free themselves from repeating the same horrible behavior they experienced at the hands of their moms or dads.
The reality is that our negative actions, attitudes and bad habits are all too easily transferred to our children, who in turn, unknowingly also often transfer them to their children. It’s sobering to think about our decisions having such an extreme negative effect on people who don’t even exist yet. Do you have a propensity to lie? To be dishonest? To spout off in anger? Chances are, your children will too.
But, thank God, equally as powerful is this beautiful passage from Psalm 103:15-18:
“Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die. The wind blows, and we are gone – as though we had never been here. But the love of the Lord remains forever with those who fear him. His salvation extends to the children’s children of those who are faithful to his covenant…”
Praise God that He allows an escape from the negative, evil and horrible things from our past!
Since it is true that our days on earth are like grass, since we all wither and die as quickly as flowers of the field, then shouldn’t we make a pointed effort to seize the opportunity to break any chain of abuse or negativity that we might unwittingly be passing down to the generations to follow? And, as importantly, since God’s blessings last forever – since his mercy and his love are enduring – we must grab the moments we have to pass on His lasting blessings to our own flesh and blood; to be intentional and deliberate about blessing them forever!
Now is the time to ask ourselves two critical questions: “What can I do today to help create a beautiful legacy for my children to enjoy here on Earth?” And, more importantly, “What can I do today to help instill in my children the eternal blessings that come from having a personal relationship with Christ?”
The Hope: Lasting Legacy
Dr. James Dobson is a hero of millions of families all around the world, including ours. His life’s work has been to strengthen the bonds between mothers and fathers with their sons and daughters - and all of them with each other. No one has affected more families and individuals within those families for the good than Dr. Dobson. Countless couples will tell you how he helped them strengthen their marriages – to discover the beauty and deep, abiding peace and love that comes when you give sacrificially to each other – fully committed as partners in marriage. And the letters that continue to arrive at his offices every day at his newest ministry, Family Talk, testify how lives are enjoyed to the full here on Earth when moms and dads intentionally practice behavior that brings joy to their households and children. But most impressive are the many letters that have arrived over the years from children who share how the faith of their mom or dad caused them to place their own faith in Jesus Christ – and what an enduring difference that has made. We know about these letters, because Rebecca serves on the board of directors of Family Talk.
Now, Dr. Dobson has a new book entitled, Your Legacy: Your Greatest Gift, that shares this truth: No matter what stage you are in as a parent, you can leave a lasting spiritual legacy that can serve to help equip the ones you love with an unshakeable heritage of faith in Christ.
When our dear mother and grandmother lay dying, we were both privileged to be with her for her final days. We sang and prayed as we wiped her brow, and just loved on her. As “Mamma Doc” hovered between Earth and Heaven in the last hours of her life, Kristin – still quite young – was sleeping peacefully in a chair at the foot of the hospital bed. Rebecca whispered words of encouragement and love to her beloved mom, as she reflected on her fleeting life. Our “Mamma Doc” loved beautiful things. Flowers, clothes, jewelry – you name it. If it was beautiful, she loved and prized it. But as Rebecca sat lovingly stroking her arm and praying softly, releasing her into the arms of Jesus, she pondered over the reality that Mamma could not take one thing with her. Not even the smallest or most prized possession.
Or could she? The presence of God’s presence was suddenly so powerful that is was nearly tangible as Rebecca suddenly realized, yes, Mamma Doc could take something to Heaven – the one something that really matters: The people who accepted Christ as a result of her testimony will one day go there too! How utterly hopeful and beautiful and powerful!
The only “possessions” scripture says we will see in heaven are the friends and family members who come to know Jesus as their Lord. In his letter to the Thessalonians, Paul wrote:
“What gives us hope and joy, and what will be our proud reward and crown as we stand before our Lord Jesus when he returns? It is you! Yes, you are our pride and joy.”
When we are told in Matthew to store up treasures in heaven, where moth and rust cannot destroy, we are being told to win people to Christ by the way we live. Our relationships are our greatest treasures here on earth and the only earthly treasures that will last for all eternity.
There is no better opportunity to inspire a love for Christ in others than through our families - the people we know most intimately. Dr. Dobson’s book provides ways to do that. Through very personal and moving stories from his own family, he shares the secrets to the joys that we and our own children can experience when we take the time to deliberately build a lasting legacy. What more could you want for your children than for them to love their Creator and live confidently believing that He loves and approves of them?
Dr. Dobson also shares his personal stories about his own journey, outlines strategies for the spiritual training of children, gives guidelines for reaching out to family members and focuses on teaching how to build generational faith into your family.
No matter your age or the age of your children – whether they be infants or adults with children of their own – as long as there is breath in you, it is not too late.
“The love of the Lord remains forever… ”
What kind of legacy will you leave behind?
Rebecca and Kristin are a mother/daughter writing team. They are two women from different generations and perspectives who share a belief in timeless, biblical principles. They can be reached at Rebecca @hopeforeverygeneration.com and [email protected]
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Dubai Golden Visa – How to Apply, Eligibility and Requirements: Dubai Golden Visa had been one of the very trending issues among Dubai and United Arab Emirates residents because they first announced it in May 2020. The decision has sent waves of aspiration to all people who want to settle and grow in UAE. The golden visa strategy is introduced to embrace the ability and attract investments that may drive the UAE’s future growth.
Dubai govt has offered an upgrade on 15 November 2020 about the golden visa. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, declared on Sunday 15 November 2020, that the committee has decided to enlarge the record of professionals qualified for the ten-year golden residency visas.
What’s a Dubai Golden Visa?
In the United Arab Emirates, a standard employment visa is provided for two years. It may be revived unlimited times so long as the individual has active employment status. A golden visa is a long term residency visa provided to a specific category of individuals like investors, professionals, physicians, scientists, artists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and outstanding students.
A complete list of classes eligible for a golden visa is offered below. Unlike a standard home visa, a Golden visa allows a foreign investor to fully have a business in the United Arab Emirates without having a sponsor.
Kinds of Dubai Golden Visa:
There are two kinds of golden visas -10 years and five years.
Each type has its eligibility standards and requirements—a list of professions now contained in the golden visa strategy.
Ph.D. degree holders
Researchers/Scientists
Engineers from the fields of computer engineering, electronics, programming, electricity, and biotechnology
Any other unique talents from the field of engineering, science which recognized and certified by world-renowned organizations.
Outstanding students/ graduates
Professional Requirements for Eligibility
Ph.D. degree holders should be holding a Ph.D. degree from one of the world’s top 500 universities.
Doctors specializing in viral epidemiology.
Engineers in computers, electronics, programming, electric, electronics, active technology, AI, and big data.
Scientists/researchers licensed by the Emirates Scientists Council or the holders of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Medals for Scientific Excellence. Top graduates out of United Arab Emirates accredited universities with a Grade point average of 3.8 and above.
Inventors: A patent of value-added to the state economy and accredit the Ministry of the Economic.
Creators of culture and art: The creator must be licensed by the Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development.
Exceptional abilities have to be documented by scientific research printed in a top-notch journal.
Executives should be owners of leading and internationally recognized business or holders of high academic accomplishment and position.
Foreign investors who’ve invested Dh10 million or above may also apply for the golden visa. This investment can be in the shape of a deposit in an investment fund, establishing a company, or investment in real estate or any other strategic sectors.
Entrepreneurs should be having an existing project with a minimum capital of Dh500,000, or those who have the approval of an accredited business incubator within the country.
Outstanding students with a minimum grade of 95 percent in public and private secondary schools university students within and outside the country having a distinction Grade point average of at least 3.75 once graduated. The long-term visa includes families of outstanding students.
Specific Requirements for Investors
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Establishing a corporation in the United Arab Emirates with a capital of not less than AED 10 million
Partnering in an existing or a brand new company with a share value of not less than AED10 million
The total investment of not less than AED 10 million in all areas mentioned and investment in real estate isn’t less than 60 percent of the total investment.
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The investment should be retained for at least three years
There should be financial solvency up to AED 10 million
Visa can be expanded to include business partners, on the condition that each partner contributes AED 10 million
The long-term visa may consist of the spouse and kids and one executive director, and one advisor
The way to make an application for the golden visa from outside of the UAE
People outside the United Arab Emirates and wish to avail United Arab Emirates golden visa shall first apply for the particular entry permit to enter the country and complete the golden visa procedures in the United Arab Emirates. This entry visa can be used online at the federal authority ICA website. A single or multiple entry visa for six months will be provided.
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Dubai Golden Visa facility extends to the spouses and kids. In the case of investors, the visa advantage can be expanded to one executive director and one advisor, in addition to the family of the investor. All people are required to have a valid employment contract to avail the golden visa.
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Tommy Boy includes a little bit of everything on each volume of it's Greatest Beats series – from the early Soul Sonic Force classics and dance tracks up through the latest hits, but there's still a lot of hard-to-obtain 12" versions of Tommy Boy classics. This one includes Afrika Bambattaa & Soul Sonic Force "Planet Rock", "Renegades of Funk 12" mix" and "Unity featuring James Brown", De La Soul "Plug Tunin' 12" remix", Naughty By Nature "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", Latifah "Ladies First", Planet Patrol "Play At Your Own Risk 12" mix", Stetsasonic "Sally", Club Nouveau "Lean On Me", Force MD's "Tears", Choice MC's "Gordy's Groove", Digital Underground "Dowhutchalike", and more. © 1996-2021, Dusty Groove, Inc.
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Featuring "C-Beam Dreams" by Roc Marciano, "Providing This Vibe" by Flee Lord, "Backtrack" by Eto, "Tell Me" by Maxo and Pink Siifu, and "Better Run" by Masta Ace, Kool Keith, AG, and Sadat X! LP, Vinyl record album
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Kool Keith adds Black Elvis to his always expanding collection of personalities. This time, two tracks produced by Kut Masta Kurt and the rest produced by Kool Keith. Maybe as a way of making up for saying "I don't neeeed Zapp, I don't neeeed Roger Troutman," on a record a few years ... LP, Vinyl record album
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The G-Unit heavy soundtrack to 50's semi-autobiographical film debut. Tracks include "Hustler's Ambition", "Window Shopper", "Talk About Me", "When It Rains It Pours" and "Best Friend" by 50 Cent, "Things Change" by Spider Loc feat 50 ... LP, Vinyl record album
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Distinctive, bedroom studio-made hip hop from Kweku Collins – doing his own thing in both style and practice – and delivering one of the best independent hip hop records of the mid teens! There's a lot of layers here you could pick apart, and find something brilliant in each one. In ... LP, Vinyl record album
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The classic self-titled debut LP from Run-DMC – one that not only changed hip hop, but much of modern pop and rock forever! There's little we can add to the canon for this record, but the way Run-DMC ushered in a new era in contemporary urban culture, a harder hitting style of rap that ... LP, Vinyl record album
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Preacher's Son
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After Ahmad spent the 60s playing mellow acoustic piano, he turned into a great jazz artist on the Fender Rhodes – and this album is one of the best he ever made in that genre. The record has some great orchestrations by Richard Evans, and Ahmad's tone is very rich and full, with a great ... LP, Vinyl record album
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Edinburgh bartenders running half marathon to fundraise for coronavirus-hit hospitality workers
Bar staff from across the UK will set out on a 21km run at the same time from their doorsteps in solidarity with fellow workers affected by the pandemic
Claire GallowayDigital Journalist
Ellie, 23, is running in solidarity with bartenders across the UK tomorrow
Among the industries hit the hardest by the deadly coronavirus outbreak is the hospitality sector, with over 500,000 jobs already thought to be lost in the wake of the pandemic.
When Boris Johnson took the decision to close entertainment venues over a month ago, Kate Nicholls, chief executive of trade association Hospitality UK, said it was "catastrophic for businesses and jobs".
However, hospitality workers across the country are coming together to raise thousands of pounds for fellow workers who have been worst affected by the crisis by running a half marathon from their doorsteps.
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Organised by Reyka Vodka to raise money for The Drinks Trust, over 250 bartenders from Aberdeen to Cornwall and everywhere in between will take on the challenge next week on 17 May.
This social-distancing marathon will see participants set off alone, from their doorstep, to run 21km in a loop as their daily exercise.
Spearheaded by the brand's ambassador Fabiano Latham, the initiative first began in January in a bid to encourage bartenders to promote mental and physical wellbeing within the sector.
Now, in a time of great uncertainty, it has become a supportive community for those involved - who have collectively run the equivalent distance of London to Reykjavik in just over four months.
The Reyka Runners are on a mission to raise funds for fellow hospitality workers
These "hospo-heroes" will set out at 11am next week on Sunday to do their 21km run in solidarity for bartenders affected by COVID-19.
William Grant & Sons, the parent company of Reyka Vodka, has vowed to triple funds raised up to £5,000 with the hope of raising £15,000- you can donate via the Just Giving page here.
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Ellie Raeside, 23, who has worked as duty manager the capital's Tonic bar for over a year, is one of those taking part in the half marathon.
She said: "The half marathon is to raise money for hospitality staff that are struggling just now due to being out of work, including those who are on furlough or possibly don't have any work at all. It's just a way of showing our support.
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"The group of people involved are all in the same boat, it's a really good community that's been built up across the UK."
"At Tonic we've been very lucky and well looked after but have all been furloughed, we're just keeping our fingers crossed that things will eventually go back to normal.
"I can get very demotivated with it all and I go through phases and if I didn't have that group then I probably wouldn't be going out and running as much as I am.
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"It gives you that drive to get up and go out instead of just sitting in", she added.
Fabiano Latham said: “I’m bowled over by the amount of signups we’ve had! From keen runner beans to complete newbies willing to give this challenge a go for an immense cause.
"Our page has been shared in places like Australia and the US with some extremely generous donations coming from friends and family members of the runners involved. I foresee a very emotional virtual finish line for all of us and I can’t wait."
If you are a bartender and would like to sign up to run, you can do so via the Strava app by searching Reyka Runners.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, walks with President Donald Trump as they board Air Force One upon arrival at Valley International Airport, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Harlingen, Texas, after visiting a section of the border wall with Mexico in Alamo, Texas.
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House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass., right, joined at left by Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., welcomes panel members as he leads a hearing to consider a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to activate the 25th Amendment to declare President Donald Trump incapable of executing the duties of his office, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, an ally of President Donald Trump, passes through a metal detector as he enters the House chamber, new security measures put into place after a mob loyal to Trump stormed the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Democrats are set to pass a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke constitutional authority under the 25th Amendment to oust Trump.
Hundreds of National Guard troops hold inside the Capitol Visitor's Center to reinforce security at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. The House of Representatives is pursuing an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump for his role in inciting an angry mob to storm the Capitol last week.
The Latest: House records enough votes to impeach Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the fallout from the attack of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump loyalists.
House records enough votes to impeach Donald Trump
A majority of the U.S. House has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time, just a week after he encouraged loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results and a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
The House vote on an article of impeachment for incitement of insurrection was still underway Wednesday, but the Democratic-led House had secured enough votes to impeach Trump. Some Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach the president.
During debate before the vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Republicans and Democrats to “search their souls.” Trump is the first American president to be impeached twice.
The impeachment proceedings came one week after a violent, pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol, sending lawmakers into hiding and revealing the fragility of the nation’s history of peaceful transfers of power. Five people died.
Trump has taken no responsibility for the riot.
Newly elected Michigan Republican votes for impeachment
Newly elected Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer says that “with a heavy heart” he will join some other Republicans in supporting impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Meijer announced he would vote to impeach Trump in a statement released Wednesday as the House was debating the proceedings. He said the vote “isn’t a victory for my party, and isn’t the victory Democrats might think it is.”
But after a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol last week in an effort to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win, Meijer says it’s a step “for us to reflect on these events and seek ways to correct them.”
Meijer said impeaching Trump will likely exacerbate division and set precedent. But he ultimately concluded it is a “meaningful” way to hold Trump accountable for the “seriousness” of his actions.
House begins voting on 2nd Trump impeachment
Voting is underway in the House on impeaching President Donald Trump over the violent siege at the U.S. Capitol last week by a mob of his supporters.
Lawmakers are voting Wednesday on impeaching Trump on a single charge, incitement of insurrection. If it passes, Trump would be the first president to be impeached twice.
The riot has forced a reckoning among some Republicans, who have stood by Trump throughout his presidency and largely allowed him to spread false attacks against the integrity of the 2020 election.
While Trump’s first impeachment in 2019 brought no Republican votes in the House, at least seven House Republicans were breaking with the party to join Democrats this time.
Trump has taken no responsibility for the riot, suggesting it was the drive to oust him rather than his actions around the bloody riot that was dividing the country.
By ALAN FRAM and ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday rejected a Democratic attempt to swiftly call the Senate into emergency session to hold an impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, all but assuring that those proceedings won't occur until after Trump leaves office.
The decision came even as a GOP strategist said the Kentucky Republican has told people he thinks Trump perpetrated impeachable offenses. McConnell also sees House Democrats' drive to impeach Trump as an opportune moment to distance the GOP from the tumultuous, divisive outgoing president, said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
McConnell's souring on Trump is significant because as Washington's most powerful Republican once Democrat Joe Biden is inaugurated next week, his view could make it easier for other GOP lawmakers to turn against the outgoing president. The New York Times first reported McConnell's view on Tuesday.
The Senate is currently in recess and isn't scheduled to return to hold a business session until Jan. 19, the day before Biden's inauguration. By law, the Senate can be summoned to return for an emergency session if the two party leaders, McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., agree to do so.
Schumer has called for an emergency Senate meeting so it can remove Trump from office before his term expires, citing potential, unpredictable problems that Trump could cause.
A McConnell spokesman confirmed Wednesday that McConnell aides had told Schumer's office that McConnell would not agree to an emergency session. The spokesman offered no explanation of McConnell's reasoning.
The Democratic-led House was moving Wednesday toward certain approval of an impeachment article accusing Trump of inciting insurrection, an unprecedented second impeachment of his clamorous presidency. Trump exhorted a throng of his followers to march on the Capitol last Wednesday, where they disrupted Congress' formal certification of Biden's win in a riot that resulted in five deaths.
The Republican strategist said McConnell hasn't said if he'd vote to convict Trump when the Senate holds an impeachment trial. Nonetheless, McConnell's thinking — and the certainty that modest but significant numbers of House Republicans were ready to vote to impeach Trump — underscored how the GOP's long reflexive support and condoning of his actions was eroding.
Last weekend, McConnell spoke to major Republican donors to assess their thinking about Trump and was told that they believed Trump had clearly crossed a line, the strategist said. McConnell told them he was finished with Trump, according to the consultant.
McConnell is looking out for his party's long-term future, but the short-term political pain for Republican senators is clear, said a GOP aide granted anonymity to discuss the situation. The aide called a Senate vote on removing Trump a big risk for Republican senators, with many of them almost certain to face challenges in GOP primaries.
It is unclear how many Republicans would vote to convict Trump in a Senate trial, but it appears plausible that several would do so. So far, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has said she wants Trump to resign and Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., has said he would "definitely consider" House impeachment articles.
Complicating GOP thinking about Trump's second impeachment is the fact that Republicans will be defending 20 of the 34 Senate seats up for election in 2022. Thanks to Democratic victories this month in two Georgia runoffs, Democrats are about to take control of the chamber by 50-50, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking votes.
Speaking out against impeachment Wednesday was Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. A once-bitter Trump foe, Graham became one of his closest allies during his presidency, then lambasted him over last week's Capitol invasion but has since spent time with Trump.
Impeaching Trump now would "do great damage to the institutions of government and could invite further violence," Graham said in a statement. He said Trump's millions of backers "should not be demonized because of the despicable actions of a seditious mob," but he did not specifically defend Trump's actions last week.
"If there was a time for America's political leaders to bend a knee and ask for God's counsel and guidance, it is now. The most important thing for leaders to do in times of crisis is to make things better, not worse," Graham said.
When the Senate voted against removing Trump in February after the House impeached him for pressuring Ukraine to provide political dirt on Biden, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, was the only Republican who cast a vote to oust him.
With the House in session to debate impeachment on Wednesday, the Capitol increasingly resembled a heavily defended compound as law enforcement braced for the possibility of more attacks by armed Trump supporters. The Capitol and nearby office buildings were surrounded by seven-foot-tall fencing and armed National Guard troops patrolled its grounds.
Trump has falsely insisted that November's presidential election was stolen from him by fraud. Those allegations have been rejected by state officials of both parties, state and federal courts and members of his own administration.
AP congressional correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's call to action distorted in debate by CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House impeachment debate on Wednesday heard a distorted account of President Donald Trump's remarks to his supporters a week ago when he exhorted them to "fight like hell" before they swarmed the Capitol.
REP. GUY RESCHENTHALER, R-Pa.: "At his rally, President Trump urged attendees to, quote, unquote, peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. There was no mention of violence, let alone calls to action."
THE FACTS: Trump's speech was a call to action — a call to fight and save the country.
"Our country has had enough," he told those who went on to stage the violent siege of the Capitol.
"We will not take it anymore and that's what this is all about. To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal."
Reschenthaler accurately quoted a line from Trump, when the president told supporters "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
But throughout his remarks, Trump spoke of the need to "fight," to be angry, to stop President-elect Joe Biden from taking office.
— "We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."
— "We want to go back, and we want to get this right because we're going to have somebody in there that should not be in there and our country will be destroyed, and we're not going to stand for that."
— "Nobody knows what the hell is going on. There's never been anything like this. We will not let them silence your voices. We're not going to let it happen. Not going to let it happen." The crowd repeatedly chanted "Fight for Trump!" "Thank you," Trump said.
He assailed "weak," "pathetic" Republicans who were not standing with him in his push to overturn the election results, and said "there'd be hell all over the country" if Democrats had been robbed of an election win.
"But just remember this," he went on. "You're stronger, you're smarter. You've got more going than anybody, and they try and demean everybody having to do with us, and you're the real people. You're the people that built this nation. You're not the people that tore down our nation."
—"We will not be intimidated into accepting the hoaxes and the lies that we've been forced to believe over the past several weeks."
He told his refuted stories of "ballot harvesting" and thousands of dead people voting.
—"And we got to get rid of the weak congresspeople, the ones that aren't any good, the Liz Cheneys of the world, we got to get rid of them. We got to get rid of them."
He perhaps meant challenging Republicans like Rep. Cheney of Wyoming in primaries, telling the crowd "in a year from now, you're going to start working on Congress." But he did not say exactly what he meant by getting rid of people.
"So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue," he concluded after more than an hour.
He didn't walk, but they did, bearing Trump flags, overwhelming police and occupying the Capitol in an hours-long melee that left five people dead and exposed Trump to the impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection.
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President Donald Trump says he opposes violence in a statement read on the House floor as members debate impeaching him for his role in fomenting the violent insurrection at the Capitol last week.
Trump's message was read Wednesday by GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Trump says in a statement: “In light of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind.” Trump adds: “That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers.”
Trump is on the verge of being impeached for a second time in a fast-moving House vote, just a week after he encouraged loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results and then a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Five people died, including a U.S. Capitol Police officer.
The president falsely claimed widespread voter fraud cost him the election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FALLOUT FROM THE RIOTING AT THE CAPITOL:
The House plans the unprecedented vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time. The move comes one week after he encouraged a mob of loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results and the Capitol became the target of a deadly siege.
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The number of people arrested on criminal charges related to last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol has exceeded 100.
The count by The Associated Press resulted from a nationwide review of court records and announcements of arrests issued by law enforcement agencies. The charges range from misdemeanor curfew violations in the District of Columbia to federal felonies related to the assault of law enforcement officers, theft of government property and possessing firearms and explosives.
Federal prosecutors and the FBI said this week they are pursing dozens more suspects who have been identified through photos and videos from the Jan. 6 melee and tips from the public.
Those newly arrested Wednesday include 56-year-old Robert Keith Packer, of Newport News, Virginia. His mugshot appears to match the bearded man photographed at the Capitol wearing a hoodie emblazoned with “Camp Auschwitz” and the phrase “Work Brings Freedom,” a translation of the German phrase from the gates of the Nazi concentration camp where more than 1.1 million Jews and others were murdered during World War II.
Rep. Dan. Newhouse of Washington has added his name to the short list of Republicans supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
He said Tuesday on the House floor that the article of impeachment is flawed, but he will not use process as an excuse to vote no.
He says, “There is no excuse for President Trump's actions.”
Newhouse says the president took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Yet he says when there was a “domestic threat at the door of the Capitol,” the president “did nothing to stop it.”
He says he will vote for impeachment “with a heavy heart and clear resolve.”
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy says President Donald Trump “bears responsibility” for last week’s storming of the Capitol by his supporters.
McCarthy, a close Trump ally, says the president “should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.”
But McCarthy also says he believes it would be a mistake to impeach Trump in such a short time frame. Trump leaves office on Jan. 20 when Joe Biden is inaugurated.
The House is set to vote later Wednesday on impeaching Trump, accusing him of rallying the violent mob.
McCarthy says “a vote to impeach would further divide this nation, a vote to impeach will further fan the flames, the partisan division.”
The California lawmaker is calling instead for a fact-finding commission and censure resolution.
The Capitol Police’s inspector general is opening an investigation into the department to look into events surrounding last week’s riot at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths, including a Capitol Police officer.
That’s according to a House aide with knowledge of the investigation. The aide was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonynmity.
Michael A. Bolton is the inspector general and he will lead the review. It will focus on security preparations for the Jan. 6 congressional vote to certify the presidential election, as well as the department’s response.
Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund resigned in the wake of the riot, as did the top security officials in the House and Senate. Assistant Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman is now the acting chief.
The department is facing intense scrutiny after its lackluster response to the riot, poor planning and failure to anticipate the seriousness of the threat drew widespread condemnation.
— By AP writer Matthew Daly
If the House impeaches President Donald Trump, a Senate trial on whether to convict him of inciting insurrection seems all but certain to have to wait until President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated.
That’s the word from a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The spokesman says aides to the Kentucky Republican have told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s staff that McConnell won’t agree to invoke powers calling senators into emergency session.
That means the Senate almost certainly won’t meet again until Jan. 19. That’s the day before Biden’s inauguration.
The House is set to vote later Wednesday on impeaching Trump, accusing him of rallying a violent mob of supporters to attack the Capitol last week.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is suggesting that President Donald Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting Arab-Israeli peace.
Pompeo’s suggestion, made on his official Twitter account, comes as the House is set to vote later Wednesday on impeaching Trump, accusing him of rallying a violent mob of supporters to attack the Capitol last week.
Trump and many of his allies have made no secret of their desire to see him honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, which is one of the world’s most distinguished awards.
Their campaign on his behalf has raised eyebrows because self-promotion for the prize is considered unseemly.
Pompeo tweeted a photo of Trump waving from a White House balcony with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior officials from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and copied the Nobel committee.
The photo was taken in September last year when Israel normalized relations with the UAE and Bahrain under the so-called Abraham Accords, which were negotiated by Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. Since then Morocco and Sudan have also agreed to recognize Israel.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump represents a “clear and present danger” to the nation and must be impeached.
Pelosi says in a House speech that members of Congress and the country as a whole “experienced the insurrection that violated the sanctity of the people’s Capitol and attempted to overturn the duly recorded will of the American people″ in the presidential election.
She says “we know that the president of the United States incited this insurrection this armed rebellion against our common country. He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.″
Pelosi says Trump has “repeatedly lied” about the outcome of the election that he lost to Democrat Joe Biden and Trump has “sowed self-serving doubt about democracy and unconstitutionally sought to influence state officials to repeat this armed rebellion against our country.″
The House is set to vote Wednesday afternoon on impeaching Trump, accusing him of rallying a violent mob of supporters to attack the Capitol last week.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says the impeachment effort being pushed by House Democrats could “do great damage to the institutions of government” and he's warning his GOP colleagues not to support it.
Graham is a frequent ally of President Donald Trump. Last week, Graham condemned the violent mob of the president’s supporters who invaded the Capitol. After that siege and after Trump had pushed the unconstitutional argument that Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the election results, Graham said to count him out and that “enough is enough.”
Still, Graham has stayed in touch with the increasingly isolated president.
And Graham's message to fellow Republicans on impeachment is that those “who legitimize this process, you are doing great damage not only to the country, the future of the presidency, but also to the party.”
He says the millions of people who have supported Trump and his agenda "should not be demonized because of the despicable actions of a seditious mob.”
At least five GOP House members have said they will support impeachment, and two Republican senators have called on Trump to resign. Another GOP senator has said he will take a look at the articles of impeachment when they are sent to the Senate.
The debate is heated almost from the start as the House sets up a vote to impeach President Donald Trump.
Democrats and a few Republicans say Trump must be removed immediately after he egged on a violent mob of supporters a week ago who then stormed the Capitol. The insurrection happened as some of Trump’s GOP allies were challenging his election defeat, echoing the president’s false claims that there was widespread fraud in his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Most Republicans are saying impeachment is divisive. They’re not mentioning the president.
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is one of Trump’s most vocal defenders. Jordan blames Democrats for objecting to previous election results and he’s repeating baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
But Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts says Democrats haven’t pushed conspiracy theories that a president won in a landslide when he actually lost — which is what happened to Trump.
McGovern is looking back at the deadly Capitol siege and saying “people died because of the big lies that were being told.” And he says that’s enough to merit impeachment.
Democratic lawmakers have opened the historic impeachment effort in the House by saying that every moment Donald Trump is in the White House the nation is in danger.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., says the debate is taking place at an “actual crime scene and we wouldn’t be here if it were not for the president of the United States.”
The House is considering impeaching Trump for the second time after last week’s riots at the Capitol as lawmakers met to certify the election results. McGovern says it was Trump and his allies who were stoking the anger of the violent mob.
He says Trump told the crowd to march to the Capitol and “the signal was unmistakable.”
Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma said Jan. 6th would live in his memory as the darkest day of his service in the House. But Cole says the Senate could not even begin to consider impeachment until after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in.
He says he can think of no action the House can take that would further divide the American people than the actions being taken Wednesday. He says “it’s unfortunate that a path to support healing is not the path the majority has chosen today.”
As the House opens its impeachment hearing, the District of Columbia National Guard says it has been authorized to arm troops assigned to security duty on the U.S. Capitol grounds.
The Guard said in a statement that the authority was requested by federal authorities and approved by Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy as of approximately 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Up to 15,000 Guard members are expected to be on duty in coming days in the district to support law enforcement in connection with the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Authorities are concerned about threats of violence, following the insurrection at the Capitol last week.
The House has opened its proceedings Wednesday, poised to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time exactly a week after his supporters stormed the Capitol to protest his election defeat.
At least five Republicans have said they will join Democrats in voting to remove Trump from office. The article of impeachment charges the president with “incitement of insurrection.”
The House chaplain opened the session with a prayer for “seizing the scales of justice from the jaws of mob-ocracy.”
A vote is expected by the end of the day.
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger is predicting more Republicans will join him in voting to impeach President Donald Trump.
The House is set to vote Wednesday afternoon on impeaching Trump for a second time, accusing him of rallying a violent mob of supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol last week. If that isn’t an impeachable offense, Kinzinger said, “I don’t know what is.”
Several other Republicans are backing impeachment, including No. 3 GOP leader Liz Cheney.
“This is one of these moments that transcends politics,” the Illinois lawmaker told “CBS This Morning” in an interview ahead of the vote.
Besides Kinzinger and Cheney, other Republicans backing impeachment are John Katko of New York, Fred Upton of Michigan and Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington.
Kinzinger wouldn’t say how many more GOP lawmakers might vote to impeach, but said, “there’ll be more than the five you’ve seen so far.”
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Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius added fire power to its roster by inking combo guard Marius Runkauskas to a one-year deal on Monday. Runkauskas (1.89 meters, 29 years old) arrives from CSU Asesoft Ploiesti, where he averaged 13.1 points on 43.4% three-point shooting and 92.6% free throw accuracy in 16 Eurocup games last season, helping his team reach the Last 32. He helped Asesoft lift the Romanian League trophy this season. Runkauskas has also played for Neptunas Klaipeda and Marijampole Suduva-Arvi of Lithuania, Quimper UJAP of France and ASK Riga of Latvia. He helped Klaipeda reach the Lithuanian League final in 2014.
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A Trevallyn family is the latest to claim a lack of support from Housing Tasmania as black mould continuously reappears in their bathroom, fearing it could have spread further throughout the house causing health problems. The Kearnes family has lived in the house for several decades, seeing the mould reappear after cleaning repeatedly and repainting the bathroom. Opening windows appeared ineffective, they claim. Emily Kearnes said repeated attempts to have the mould damage inspected further were declined. Then last month, they received a notice that the rent was increasing $50 per week. "We call them and call them because the mould keeps coming back. It happens so often that there's got to be something behind the walls as well," she said. "My dad has suffered really bad blocked sinuses for as long as we can remember. "They tell us to paint over it, keep the windows open, and we do that. Housing say 'that's your problem, not ours'." In March, a Devonport family finally got Housing Tasmania to inspect behind walls in their bathroom after six years of complaining only to find mould had unknowingly spread in the hallway and a bedroom, allegedly causing respiratory problems for a child. The house required an almost total rebuild. A spokesperson for Housing Tasmania said "mould is a tenant responsibility to manage" under the Residential Tenancy Act and it was up to the Kearnes family to manage it. "If it is identified that the mould has been caused by a structural issue, HT will arrange for it to be repaired," he said. "In this case from the information provided by the tenant there was no suggestion it was anything other than tenant related. "When tenants contact HT in regard to mould issues general advice is provided which includes making sure the property is dry and well aired i.e. open doors and windows, and using some readily available household products, including white vinegar, as an inexpensive and practical product to kill mould. "The tenant was made aware of their responsibilities on numerous occasions." He said rent increases occurred when the household's income rose. The Kearnes family disputed these claims, and Ben Bartl from the Tenants Union of Tasmania said Housing Tasmania had to ensure there was "appropriate heating and ventilation" under the Act, which appeared lacking in the Trevallyn case. Mr Bartl said public housing properties in Tasmania were in "poor condition", causing Housing Tasmania to transfer more of its stock to community housing like Anglicare and the Salvation Army. Once in community housing, rent assistance could be provided. Mr Bartl said it appeared Housing Tasmania was hopeful that once they had transferred properties, the rent assistance could be used to improve the condition. "Housing Tasmania appears to be thinking, 'how can we improve the housing stock when we don't have enough money?' They then decide to provide community housing with houses to get the rent assistance, and hopefully with that money they will use it to improve the condition of the property," he said. "They are mostly transferring the management of the properties, but in the last few years they have been transferring ownership as well. "If they own the properties, community housing providers would look to leverage off that ownership to take out bigger loans." Any tenants - in private or public housing - can take their maintenance concerns to the Residential Tenancy Commissioner which has the power to order landlords, including Housing Tasmania, to carry out repairs.
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July 7 2019 - 7:00PM
Mould in public housing: Trevallyn family seeks action claiming repeated calls for support go unanswered
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David and Taylor Kearnes inspect the mould that has spread around the bathroom of their Housing Tasmania house in Trevallyn, which reappears regularly despite their best efforts. Picture: Phillip Biggs
A Trevallyn family is the latest to claim a lack of support from Housing Tasmania as black mould continuously reappears in their bathroom, fearing it could have spread further throughout the house causing health problems.
The Kearnes family has lived in the house for several decades, seeing the mould reappear after cleaning repeatedly and repainting the bathroom. Opening windows appeared ineffective, they claim.
Emily Kearnes said repeated attempts to have the mould damage inspected further were declined. Then last month, they received a notice that the rent was increasing $50 per week.
"We call them and call them because the mould keeps coming back. It happens so often that there's got to be something behind the walls as well," she said.
"My dad has suffered really bad blocked sinuses for as long as we can remember.
"They tell us to paint over it, keep the windows open, and we do that. Housing say 'that's your problem, not ours'."
In March, a Devonport family finally got Housing Tasmania to inspect behind walls in their bathroom after six years of complaining only to find mould had unknowingly spread in the hallway and a bedroom, allegedly causing respiratory problems for a child.
The house required an almost total rebuild.
A spokesperson for Housing Tasmania said "mould is a tenant responsibility to manage" under the Residential Tenancy Act and it was up to the Kearnes family to manage it.
A Devonport family had to be relocated after builders found mould eating away at the structure of their Housing Tasmania house. Pictures: Brodie Weeding
"If it is identified that the mould has been caused by a structural issue, HT will arrange for it to be repaired," he said.
"In this case from the information provided by the tenant there was no suggestion it was anything other than tenant related.
"When tenants contact HT in regard to mould issues general advice is provided which includes making sure the property is dry and well aired i.e. open doors and windows, and using some readily available household products, including white vinegar, as an inexpensive and practical product to kill mould.
"The tenant was made aware of their responsibilities on numerous occasions."
He said rent increases occurred when the household's income rose.
The Kearnes family disputed these claims, and Ben Bartl from the Tenants Union of Tasmania said Housing Tasmania had to ensure there was "appropriate heating and ventilation" under the Act, which appeared lacking in the Trevallyn case.
Condition of public housing deteriorating: Tenants Union
Mr Bartl said public housing properties in Tasmania were in "poor condition", causing Housing Tasmania to transfer more of its stock to community housing like Anglicare and the Salvation Army.
Once in community housing, rent assistance could be provided.
Mr Bartl said it appeared Housing Tasmania was hopeful that once they had transferred properties, the rent assistance could be used to improve the condition.
"Housing Tasmania appears to be thinking, 'how can we improve the housing stock when we don't have enough money?' They then decide to provide community housing with houses to get the rent assistance, and hopefully with that money they will use it to improve the condition of the property," he said.
"They are mostly transferring the management of the properties, but in the last few years they have been transferring ownership as well.
"If they own the properties, community housing providers would look to leverage off that ownership to take out bigger loans."
Any tenants - in private or public housing - can take their maintenance concerns to the Residential Tenancy Commissioner which has the power to order landlords, including Housing Tasmania, to carry out repairs.
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Dr. Robert Reuschlein, Empire and Climate Expert
From the US Presidency to the media to academia Military Keynesianism is strong and alive even today. The establishment, even in a recent large conference in Berlin on military budget reductions, consistently looks at military spending as either money or jobs. Nobody seems to understand that military spending is much more than that, it is lost capital investment and lost manufacturing and lost manufacturing productivity. This lost economic growth opportunity is far more costly to society than any other aspect of military spending and is rarely understood or researched at all. This "changes everything", to recognize the economic stagnation and socio-economic decline of empire and manufacturing that directly results internally with high levels of military spending, indeed, at any level of military spending. This is what I mean by the "Peace Economics" difference, a term I invented in 1986 and has been stolen and misused by the Italians and Code Pink among many others. Inevitably, when others use the term, they mean money and jobs only, not the engines of economic growth in the terms manufacturing, investment, and productivity. There is a widespread false equivalency assumed between the military economy and the manufacturing economy. The fact that one is economically a dead end and the other leads to economic progress is lost on almost everyone, including almost all peace studies people.
Peace Movement Compromised
Forty-five years ago, in the middle of the 1980s decade, I picked up a copy of the Peace Resource Handbook. That source listed 5000 peace organizations located in the fifty United States. In the eleven former Confederate States the number of peace organizations is unusually low. Everywhere else, the number of peace organizations per capita by state is 90% correlated with the military spending per capita in that state. Hence the peace movement is strongest in California and Massachusetts. Hence the peace movement is compromised by its close association with the high military spending states. Military Keynesianism thrives under such circumstances, the false notion that military spending is just money and jobs. This interpretation does not recognize the lost opportunity cost that is the essential recognition of Peace Economics. I have witnessed firsthand many times how the presence or absence of military spending colors a local community. Therefore I worry about the compromise entailed in locating the peace and justice (PJSA) headquarters in Georgetown University, the number one source of CIA and Foreign Service students among all colleges. Memories include the "Gays in the Military" phone saturation protest in DC on Clinton inauguration day 1993 and driving through Utah listening to the glories of the aircraft carrier on a long radio broadcast.
Evidence of Stubborn Resistance
While the field of peace studies barely existed prior to 1970, it grew steadily after the Vietnam War. In January 1986 I visited the offices of the Progressive Magazine and discussed my research with someone who called himself Matt Centrowitz, who eventually threw me out of the office because I did not read the New York Times and had not yet figured out the paradox of how military spending can lead to local economic growth even while it inhibits national economic growth. It must have been Matt Rothschild, who worked at the Progressive since circa 1983 and became editor from about 1990 to 2014.
In the Fall (October) of 1987 as I was teaching my second course of Peace Economics at the University of Oregon, I met Seymour Melman, the leading author of economics of peace books like Pentagon Capitalism. I presented my Peace Economics in a conference held at Oregon State University in Corvallis while Melman was the keynoter. There he was answering questions when he got one, I knew the answer to but was sure he didn't. So I answered explaining why the economics of military spending had not really caught on in the peace movement. That was because peace was in two fields at the time, the anti-nuke environmentalists and the anti-interventionists of the human rights field. Neither main group was interested in economics.
Next, I met Alexander Cockburn who boasted he had a socialist column in the Wall Street Journal. I gave him a copy of my Peace Economics (1986) book explaining how military spending hurt the economy, but the next month he wrote a column reaffirming the Military Keynesian economic orthodoxy.
In 1990 at a Eugene Oregon conference I explained the paradox of how military spending can be non-productive and yet defense contractors contribute to the calculation of manufacturing productivity. The answer is that the weapons contractors are suppliers to the military machine, hence they are heavy machinery suppliers like those who create the assembly line machinery in a normal factory. Hence the military "factory" is light manufacturing and takes inputs from the heavy manufacturing weapons industry.
Modern Economists
Paul Krugman, Nobel Economics Laureate and New York Times columnist still clings in his books to the idea that World War II brought the US out of the Great Depression. He does not recognize that the war bonding deficit and massive consumer sacrifice really brought us out of the Depression despite the war spending drag on the economy, which clearly shows up when you correlate the annual economic growth rates with the net military spending. Net military spending is the difference between the federal deficit and military spending, which largely offset each other during the war years. From 1941-48 the NET military spending explains the economic growth rate with 97% accuracy.
Joseph Stiglitz, Bill Clinton's economist, comes closest to the most accurate military spending perspective, almost a Peace Economist. But he fears the military industrial complex, so he hints around in British newspapers and one page in his book Three Trillion Dollar War. I've seen him on TV explaining World War II in Peace Economics like terms, preferring to hint rather than state things straight out.
Larry Summers, Obama's economist, lambasted the great Seymour Melman when he spoke at MIT. He is an old-fashioned Military Keynesian. His belief in military economics lead Obama astray when he tripled the 30,000 troops in Afghanistan to 90,000 even as he withdrew from Iraq. This kept military spending high and delayed the recovery from the Great Recession until the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq.
When the last three Democratic Presidents start military buildups in their last year in office leading to three Republican wins in the presidency, clearly the Military Keynesians are in charge, believing in the military economy despite the negative national economic growth and manufacturing recessions produced. Despite the clear empirical record, military Keynesianism rules the day, thanks to the murkiness of social science thinking. While the basics were nailed down in 1986, many nuances have added to the understanding in recent decades and especially since my 2009 doctorate.
Definitive 64-year proof of Peace Economics in US economic history:
https://www.academia.edu/7632773/PROOF_of_Peace_Economics_11_pages_1986
Please cite this work as follows: Reuschlein, Robert. (2020, January 29), "More Than Money and Jobs" Madison, WI, Real Economy Institute. Retrieved from: https://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/More-Than-Money-and-Jobs,2019207808.aspx
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Icy Bodies
Small chunks of dry ice jet and swirl across a liquid surface.
Like comets, these chunks of dry ice slowly disintegrate as they move, leaving a visible trail of condensed water vapor.
Where: Fisher Bay Observatory Gallery 6, Mezzanine
Exhibit Developer: Shawn Lani, 2005
Comets are massive chunks of ice, frozen gases, and dust that orbit the Sun. As they near the Sun, these lonely travelers begin to give off gas, gradually shrinking and forming glowing tails that can stretch for millions of miles.
In this mesmerizing artwork meant to evoke the quiet beauty of comets, frozen carbon dioxide—better known as dry ice—slowly sublimates, transforming from a solid state to a gas as it slides and spins across a water surface.
Real comets, often referred to by astronomers as “dirty snowballs,” contain a mixture of rock, dust, and water ice, along with frozen carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, and ammonia.
Dry ice has a surface temperature far colder than ordinary ice: -109° Fahrenheit, or -78.5° Celsius. For this reason it’s preferred over water ice for shipping perishable goods, with the added advantage that it leaves behind carbon dioxide gas (instead of a soggy wet mess) once its cooling work is done.
Phenomena: Change of State, Condensation, Evaporation, Fluid Mechanics, Melting, Turbulent Flow, Sublimation
Keywords: carbon dioxide, comets, complexity, condensation, evaporation, spinning
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LOTTE Arai Resort Wins World Ski Awards — “2020 Japan’s Best Ski Resort”
by FinancialNews November 29, 2020, 11:04 pm 981 Views
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — LOTTE Arai Resort was selected as Japan’s Best Ski Resort 2020 by the World Ski Awards, which marked its eighth anniversary this year.
The World Ski Awards is granted by the World Travel Awards, which is recognized globally and called the “Oscar of the travel industry.” It is the biggest event in ski tourism that attracts the attention of ski enthusiasts around the world every year.
This year, the best ski resort was selected by an online vote held on the World Ski Awards website for 16 weeks from June 5th to September 25th. Ski enthusiasts and experts in the ski industry from around the world participated in the vote to pick the best ski resorts and the best ski hotels in a total of 26 countries, including the United States, Canada, Japan and South Korea.
The selection of LOTTE Arai Resort this year is more meaningful in that it won the honor only three years after its opening, beating Hokkaido’s largest ski resort “Rusutsu Resort,” which had been named the best ski resort in Japan for three straight years until last year.
LOTTE Arai Resort has a slope area of 15.7 million square meters, a maximum slope length of 5.2 kilometers, and 951 meters of altitude difference between the highest and the lowest slopes, which provides 15 ski courses and eight free-riding courses efficiently earmarked for the beginners, intermediate and advanced levels. The highest snowfall, powder snow which is light yet does not harden easily, and the longest ski season in mainland Japanlasts six months from December to May, which captivates the hearts of skiers around the world.
In commemoration of the award, LOTTE Arai Resort offers a promotion consisting of one night’s stay in the Superior Room, breakfast for two, ski lift tickets for two and a bottle of wine from November 23rd. The stay period is from December 12th to March 14th.
Meanwhile, LOTTE Arai Resort won four gold medals at the “2020 Ski Asia Awards” in June for the second consecutive year. It was named “Japan’s Best Ski Resort,” “Japan’s Best Powder Snow,” “Japan’s Best Snow School” and “Japan’s Best Family Ski Resort.”
* LOTTE Arai Resort’s official websitehttps://www.lottehotel.com/arai-resort/ko.html/
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People Share The Wildest Reactions To Rejection They’ve Ever Seen
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As anyone who’s ever been through it knows, rejection hurts. When we put all of our efforts and aspirations into winning over the boy or girl of our dreams, only to come up short, it can be very hard to control our emotions. Nevertheless, it turns out that most of us are angels when it comes to dealing with rejection—at least compared to some others out there.
Some people have so much difficulty dealing with being turned down for a date or broken up with that they act in ridiculous ways—which almost always only make their bad situation exponentially worse than it needed to be. But if it’s any consolation, at least these folks usually leave their would-be partners feeling pretty confident that they made the right decision!
Here are 42 of the wildest and craziest reactions to rejection that some of us have ever seen.
42. Nice to Who?
I’m a sailor. I was in New York one time during fleet week, in my uniform with my group, waiting to cross the street.
Drunk girl comes up to me, grabs me and says she’s always wanted to be with a sailor. I gently stiff arm and let her know I’m happily married, but point out my young single shipmate in the group.
“But I waaant youuuuuu.”
Her friends have arrived by this point. She told them I was being mean because I said no, and started crying. The friends confronted me:
“It’s her birthday though.”
“Your wife isn’t even here, just be nice.”
FrigateSailor
41. One Track Mind
This one girl couldn’t take “no” for an answer. Every conversation progressed at some point to “do you want to go out?” or “why don’t you want to date me?” It got old pretty quick. I tried being nice and letting her off easy, but she wouldn’t stop. So I ended up just cutting her out of my life. The last thing she told me before I blocked her was “I’ll wait for you.” I’m not even that good looking…
40. Is There a Problem Here, Officer?
My sister got followed home by a dude she rejected. He went up to the house and started talking to her kids and telling them he was their new dad.
Luckily, their real dad came out—in his police attire. Put an end to that real quick…
SmallScreamingMan
39. Trouble Down Under
In high school, I turned a guy down. Naturally, he responded by going around spreading rumors that he tried to have sex with me, but couldn’t because I had a physical deformation down there. He spent the rest of the year talking about how nasty this non-existent aspect of my body was to all of his friends.
Sometime about five years ago, he tried to add me on Facebook and I blocked him. Screw that guy.
imnotacrazyperson
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38. I Guess Your Perception of Him Was Accurate…
I turned down a guy who was known for being the “popular guy” because I thought he was full of himself. When he tried to kiss me, I turned my head the other way, said I wasn’t interested and walked off. He grabbed my hand, spat in my face, and said I missed the best opportunity in my life and that the only reason he tried to kiss me was because he pitied me.
onehalfasian
37. Make Yourself at Home
I came home from work to find her naked on my bed. This was about a week after we broke up. She went into complete denial about the breakup and, for months, would tell people we were still dating and would show up at my house.
taylaj
36. History Repeats Itself
I rejected three different girls in a two-month span. All three subsequent conversations went the exact same way:
Them: “What, are you gay?”
Them: “So I’m ugly?”
Me: “I didn’t say that…”
Word for word, this exchange happened in all three incidents.
heraclitus33
35. Lying By Omission
I turned a guy down for a date and he then posted a long snap story about how much he loves his WIFE. He had never mentioned a wife before, which means he was either planning on tricking me into cheating with him or he was making it up to make me jealous.
SpaceAgeUnicorn
34. A Tough One to Swallow
I know a guy who flipped out and bit a girl when she rejected him. They had only ever talked once on Facebook, and after that, he would just find her at football games and sit behind her without saying anything. Somehow or the other, things went real far south and he bit her.
huggiesdsc
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33. Won’t Take No For an Option
I’d gone out with a guy once that I’d met through a dating site, and we just didn’t click. I told him exactly that, was very respectful of his feelings and wished him the best. He was NOT receptive. At all. He called me names and said he was going to find out where I lived so he could come by and push me into oncoming traffic. He wouldn’t stop texting me about how horrible I was and, at one point, he even said he hoped that someone assaulted me. I blocked his number, reported him on the dating app, and thankfully never heard from him again. It was legit one of the scariest things ever. Dude was unhinged.
Mandee87
32. This is a Special Kind of Crazy
There was a messed up story in the news about twelve years ago that has to be the ultimate horrible reaction to rejection story of all time. The guy was initially rejected by his crush when he was young. He took offense to this and decided to fix himself up and get his act together enough to win over the girl. Eventually, they got married and, a few years later, they had a kid.
He gave mother and child enough time to bond before he killed the kid as revenge against the woman for initially turning him down. This had been his plan ever since she first rejected him.
pdatt
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31. Temper Tantrum
Not me, but my best friend in school. She came onto him hard, in public. There were about a dozen people around. He was startled and turned her down. She then started screaming, stamping her feet, and crying. High school was weird.
RuinEleint
30. Logical Fallacy
I rejected a guy, so he decided to call me promiscuous and said no one would ever want to sleep with someone as ugly as me. He didn’t like when I asked how it was possible for both of those things to be true at the same time…
Singingpineapples
29. No Laughing Matter
I was the guilty party in this story. I have a nervous laugh that always seems to come out whenever I’m put into an awkward, sad, depressing, or serious situation. I just automatically react by laughing lightly and putting on an awkward smile.
So just imagine being in the girl’s shoes who rejected me. She’s trying to hold back tears and telling me she is sorry but doesn’t think we can be together, while I’m just sitting there smiling and laughing lightly. She didn’t like this. Her mood went from sympathetic to unruly, fast. She gave me the old, “So you think this is funny!” spiel, and I told her “No, I don’t, I’m sorry.”
x4everendeavorx
28. I Know You Are But What Am I?
I’m a guy and when I was younger, this other guy asked me over to his house to study. When I got there, he started playing adult videos and making sexual passes at me. I rejected him and told my mom to come get me. He persisted the whole time. From then on at school, every time he saw me, he very loudly called me gay to everyone around him.
I am not into dudes and he was in the closet. Honestly, I just smiled and ignored him every time and he eventually gave up. I think he came out two years later and was one of the four gay dudes in school in revolving relationships with each other.
unsilentninja
27. Two for One Loneliness
A guy who got rejected at a party climbed onto the roof of the apartment building and was threatening to jump in the middle of the party. People came and got me and I talked him down, but I’ll forever be pissed cuz I was about to get with a sexy girl that I’d been working on for a long time.
That suicidal jerk!
I_Looove_Pizza
26. Tragic Ending
He chased my car down the city’s major street as I drove away, running after me until he collapsed in the road. He then called me dozens of times, eventually blaming everyone from my little brother to my dentist for breaking us up, then flew to his hometown the next day and committed suicide.
I felt terribly guilty for years.
HardRockDani
25. Her Nose is Growing Now
She cried and wailed about how this must be happening because she was ugly, and specifically because she had a big nose.
I told her that was not true, and that it was all me.
She later told people that I had been creepily attracted to her nose.
boredasshitrightnow
24. Pool Shark
A guy asked me out during an Uberpool ride. I told him I wasn’t interested and he started moving closer and asking me why I wasn’t interested and what was wrong with him. It was…uncomfortable, to say the least. My Uber driver, for some reason, just thought it was hilarious to see me pressed against the door to try and get away from this random guy invading my personal space.
Iamp0tat0
When I broke up with my ex of five years, she told me she was disgusted with me physically and that is why we did not have sex anymore (it was a nasty breakup). Well, me being the irrational person that I am, I decided to prove to her in a ridiculous manner that I was, in fact, not disgusting. I began a year and a half long campaign to hook up with all of her past and present friends. I mostly succeeded, being able to get with about 75% of them.
22. Return to Sender
I once had a guy send me hundreds of text messages calling me all kinds of names, cursing me out and threatening me because I didn’t have sex with him after our entirely lackluster first and last date. I didn’t even bother reading beyond the first 50. Just let him go on and on until I blocked and mass-deleted. It was nuts.
flyingsmallplate
21. When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling
Me and this Irish chick hooked up and enjoyed spending a few great nights together. I soon realised, though, that our 20 year age difference is gonna lead us nowhere together in the long run. I break this to her, and she promptly walks over to the parking lot and burns my pickup truck to the ground. Not even the aluminum rims survived this. She was arrested for arson, but I laid no charges against her. I got a new truck thanks to the insurance. Stay away from psychos, folks.
Uzidoesit357
20. The Guilt Trip
A girl who had gotten rejected by my friend told all her friends that she would commit suicide. They tried to guilt my friend with that into changing his mind, but he managed to shrug it off. The whole thing blew over in three days.
19. Tipping Point
My alcoholic ex-wife had become very unfaithful and abusive towards me. One night, she crossed the line and went completely off the rails in front of our small children and I just knew that I could no longer live like that. I had just returned home from a week-long business trip and hadn’t unpacked my bags yet. So I grabbed those, took one last look at my nice home and my family and left. As I walked out I knew full well that all of the things I didn’t grab were probably gone for good. But I needed to be as well, or I would either end up in jail or dead.
She blew my phone up for the next couple of weeks. At least 60 text messages a day, all hate-filled and incredibly vile. I tried to call her a couple of times when off of work to talk about how we could best separate our finances and try to move on amicably, but she would just scream and accuse me of cheating (something cheaters often do).
The last time we talked before the divorce, she threatened to file a false police report accusing me of harming her four-year-old son. She didn’t specify whether the allegation would be physical or sexual in nature. That didn’t really matter though—neither had ever happened, and either accusation would instantly end my career and my freedom. I cut off all contact.
IntlMysteryMan
18. Sounds Like a Disaster Waiting to Happen
He called me “roofie bait” and then followed me around campus for a couple months.
RelephantElephants
17. Head to Toe
A girl at work started playing some “aggressive footsie” with me at work. When I pushed her foot away and gave her a look, she went on to tell me I’m not as attractive as I think I am and that I should start dating girls “in my own league.”
free_my_ninja
16. Double Rejection
My ex-wife’s reaction to my reaction to getting divorce papers takes the cake.
She just happened to be home when the divorce papers were served to me. I politely thanked the guy who served them and he left. She then flipped out, saying that me not flipping out when I got them was proof to her that I didn’t love her and justified her filing for divorce from me in the first place.
Azzizzi
15. Plan B
When I was a nanny, I was walking around with a baby and we visited a bookshop. A man in there started talking to me, and then asked me out. Keeping my father’s advice in mind about being kind when I have to reject men, I very kindly said that it was a very nice offer, but my boyfriend might not be too keen on it.
His response to that was to lean in and try to kiss me on the spot. I told him to get the hell off me. He then exploded with rage and started screaming in my face. I was saved by the bookstore employee, and the man stormed out of the shop. I spent the next few hours shaking like a leaf.
What a champion.
JaniePage
14. Working His Way Back Into the Family
After I broke up with my high school boyfriend of 3.5 years, he asked my parents to seriously consider adopting him. We were 17.
chamomile_tea
13. Bringing Down the House
I tried to get my ex-wife served with divorce papers, only to learn she had vandalized and abandoned our former home in response to my leaving.
I went over to find almost all of my clothes had been bleached, along with our new living room set. The new dining room table and chairs had been gouged. Weeks worth of trash and raw food had been left out. The refrigerator had been turned off, leaving hundreds of dollars worth of food to rot. The whole place smelled like death.
She had also taken all of the electronics (probably to hawk), my passport with stamps in it from around the world, and the painting I had inherited from my beloved grandfather who had passed away (she knew this would hurt me the most).
All said and done, there was $7,000 in property damage and another $1,500 in stolen property. I filed a police report but sadly, not much was done about it.
12. Finding His Way Home
He was 15 at the time, and although the rejection happened over the phone, he was so irate that he illegally drove a car to the nearest place he could to the neighborhood he knew I lived in. He waited there demanding I give him more accurate directions to my house.
In retrospect, I probably should have been more terrified than I was.
youcancallhimAl
11. Hunger Strike
I dated this one guy who was extremely emotional and super attached. We only dated maybe a month and I couldn’t take it anymore so I had to end it. At the time, I worked in a large shopping mall, and he would meet me after work in the parking lot.
We were sitting in his car and I told him I couldn’t be with him anymore. Being the super emotional person he was, he began to cry hysterically and started banging his head on the headrest in the car. He yelled about how I was such a horrible person and wanted to know how I could “break his heart like this.”
He abruptly stopped crying, looked me square in the eyes, picked up the McDonald’s food he had just bought, rolled down the window and said “If you don’t want my love, you don’t get to eat!”—and promptly threw the bag out the window. He continuously stared at me with glaring eyes the whole time this was going down. I am almost never at a loss for words, but this time I was truly speechless.
dtnwhiteswan
10. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
A guy I rejected photoshopped nude pictures of another girl, cropped her face out, and showed them to everybody saying it was me.
baw2797
9. Bad Table Manners
She stabbed me with a fork about 15 seconds after I told her I didn’t want to be with her.
Jashuggah
8. Breaking and Entering
He broke into my house and chased me into my bedroom, then spent ten minutes shouting through my locked bedroom door that I should come out and have a reasonable conversation with him, adult to adult.
Red_Mischa
7. Cruel and Unusual Punishment
When I broke up with this one girl, she began falsely claiming that she had become pregnant and intended to keep the kid. We had always practiced safe sex, but condoms have a non-zero failure rate, and there’s no good way to tell someone who says they’re pregnant that they’re wrong, so I took her at her word. After three weeks of her stalling on showing me any kind of proof beyond her word, she just told me “it wasn’t going to be a problem.”
I was beside myself with stress until then. Meanwhile, I’m figuring out if I need to lawyer up—I take responsibility for myself, so being a deadbeat dad wasn’t an option, but child support was going to throw a huge wrench into my financial plans. I was in the middle of moving to a new city as well. All in all, it sucked. I didn’t find out till months later that she had just made up the whole thing. Near as I can tell, her goal was simply to inflict stress and pain. She succeeded.
Miposian
6. Watch for Slow Traffic
He stopped his car in the middle of an intersection and just kept slamming his fists on the steering wheel repeatedly.
Existentialist
5. Driving Her Crazy—Literally
My friend lived about 40 minutes away from this crazy woman he had been dating. One night, after four years, he decided it was time; he was gonna break it off. He goes over after class at like eight or so and says his business. He tells her why he is no longer interested and everything, and she’s all sad and crying and begging him not to leave. It takes him two hours to get her calm enough to let him leave.
So he’s driving down the interstate at like 10-10:30 and these lights come flying up next to him. It’s her—she’s hanging out the window and screaming when, all the sudden, her car swerves across the median and she flips her car three times. This is the point where he calls me losing his mind, thinking it’s his fault that she died.
It turns out she just ended up with a broken thumb and a new therapist.
devilinblue22
4. Business Before Pleasure
I dated a girl from work. After a few dates, I didn’t see it going much further, so I ended it.
The girl then decided to spread rumors around saying that we had sex in the office. We didn’t. I ended up having to change jobs about 12 months later after every application for promotion from that point on was given to someone else despite myself having way more experience. She single-handedly destroyed my entire career path with that company.
Lesson: Don’t date someone in your office!
X573ngy
3. Calculated Disaster
A guy pretended he was killing himself on the spot after I rejected him.
He said goodbye, and then very convincingly and emotionally and turned his phone off/stopped picking up or answering any texts.
I quickly phoned his dad, whom I knew from the past, and sent the screenshots of the messages to him. Everyone was absolutely hysterical and worrying that he was in a gutter somewhere. HOWEVER, it was very quickly discovered, by his LIVID father, that he was actually over at a mate’s smoking weed, and that this whole thing had been a plot to try and get a “pity shag.”
What a complete and utter twat.
Petite_rouge_gorge
2. I’m a Bar-B Girl
This girl I dated in high school for over a year was all kinds of manipulative and crazy. I finally broke up with her after she cheated on me, in her room at her house (so I could leave rather than try to get her to). When I said it, without even thinking about it, she grabbed her jewelry box and chucked it at her window. The glass shattered, and she started grabbing chunks of broken glass and throwing them at me. Two hit me: one in the shoulder, one in the face. I ran from that house and made a point to avoid her at all costs at school. Thought I was finally done with the situation.
Nope! A few days later, she came to my house in the middle of the night with a friend and threw a freaking barbecue through my bedroom window! That resulted in police action, which I now find hilarious in hindsight.
ContemptSlot
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1. An Eye for Fashion
We went on one date and I declined a second. A couple of days after that, he called me and told me what I had been wearing that day. This went on for a couple of months. I’d literally never see him but at least three times a week he’d know exactly what I wore and call to inform me. Weird…
hippotus
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Tokio Hotel guitarist Tom Kaulitz told a German newspaper on Friday he fell ill after taking too many Viagra tablets and could not see straight for days.
Kaulitz, 20, told Bild newspaper that someone offered him a Viagra tablet during a concert tour of Asia. After first turning down the offer, Kaulitz said he decided to try one. He said a little later he took a second one and fell ill.
"I first asked the seller 'Do I look like someone who needs help with that?'" said Kaulitz, whose brother Bill is the group's lead singer. "He said 'no' -- but that I should nevertheless try...
Quotes :)
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"The only relationship they [Bill, Georg & Gustav) have is a very intimate relationship with their right hand or their left hand, or even both. Georg likes to play “the stranger”. So he sits on his hand for about 15 minutes and then masturbates himself, so he feels like it’s another person. I actually learned that game. I started when I was about 6 years old."
" I have it on my arm, and also on my penis" - About the tattoo"
"That’s just because my ass got bigger…"(laughs) - About his new style
"There’s no point in dressing up and not being comfortable with what you’re wearing."...
Has Tom got a new girlfriend?
posted by rawrr-doll
I found myself pondering over this yesterday, and I've come to the conclusion that this might just be one of Tom's many one night stands. But, who knows? You can never be 100% sure.. maybe this is the start of Tom's 2009 love affair with Chantelle Paige. I dunno, but I know there's a picture, and here it is.
Also, how much does he look like Bill now? Good lord, they are finally identical twins again! And it looks like the rumour about the piercing was true too, cos I've seen a few pics with him wearing one, and it doesn't look photoshopped. Personally, I'm loving Tom's new style, but I don't think I like his "girlfriend". She looks really bitchy, like the kind you see in hip hop videos, yes? But if he's happy, it's all good. As long as Bill's still available XD
Chantelle and Tom was organized!
I only became a member of this site so I can let you all now that the thing between Tom and Chantelle is F A K E.
They pretended to hook up so the group chantelle is in (don't remember the name) would be more noticed in europe.
They had arranged for a german gossip magazine BILD to be there to take the pictures, the kiss the date, everything was fake.
Can't believe you peeps didn't know that.
Tom & chantelle is NOT a couple, never have been.
I got this from Soul_ladie
She told to 'spread the word' - And i did!
And it would be nice, if you'll do that too? :-i
They move to LA.. But still live in Germany!
Always a little slow on the news, the latest edition of Bravo features a small article on Bill and Tom’s planned move to LA.
Goodbye Germany! That’s not only the name of the TV docu-soap – this is also the new motto of the Tokio Hotel-Twins Bill and Tom (21). They will move to Los Angeles in November. What are they doing there? Their producer David Jost lives for more than a year in California. They will work on new songs together. But don’t worry, Bill and Tom will come back. David confirmed: “They will still keep their home in Germany.” Puuuh!
Tom Kaulitz Quotes.♥
posted by -Darkness-xo
"Pluck the bass? Is that code for jack off?"
"And Bill's tattoo...I mean, what is that thing? A jizz dartboard?"
"My 'third leg' is longer than my two other legs and that's why I wear such big baggy pants."
"Georg has a lot of nicknames, hobbit, chicken Georg. Ya look like a chicken."
"I've been a fan of me ever since."
"Bill may be taller but everything else I have is bigger!"
"Honestly, I have as much clue about cooking as Georg has about playing bass, but I'm definitely good at sandwiches."
"I prefer bread to be lightly toasted... certainly not too dark. When it's too dark it always causes cancer....
Tom: ''I'm so lonely''.
Is such a thing possible? Bravo seems to think so! Tom Kaulitz, notorious playboy, seems to be tired of the lifestyle and wants to find love!
He already had myriads of romances! But deep in his heart the Tokio-Hotel-star wishes for love.
Everyone would immediately sign this sentence: “I would love to find the big love.” But when Tom from Tokio Hotel says this, then it’s a total surprise. After all the 20-year-old skip any opportunity in the past to show off with his one-night-stands! But the rocker doesn’t enjoy the quick pleasures for one night anymore: “It doesn’t fulfill me anymore,...
She was in the shower. Tom entered and walked into shower corner. He grabbed her for hips and sharply pushed her on the wall. He pressed on her back. While he was stroking her ass with his cock and kisses her neck. She felt his excited breath on her neck and heard his silent moaning. He turned her, wanted look at her eyes. He smiled to her and then his hand slowly slipped into her wet lap. She leaned her head back, and took his excitement into her hand. She stroked it up and down and he started growing. He, in return, grabbed her boob and started munch her nipple with fingers.
Fingers of second...
Tom kaulitz(new)
posted by twilight76
Trade Mark:
His dreadlocks.
Twin brother of Bill Kaulitz, a member of Tokio Hotel.
Was born 10 minutes before his twin brother, Bill.
Is an avid Hip Hop fan. His favorite artist to listen to is German Hip Hop singer Samy Deluxe.
His favorite subject in school was Art.
Received his first guitar when he was 9, by his step-father.
His step-father owns a music school called, "Rock's Cool".
Enjoys partying, hip hop, music, girls and graffiti.
Favorite food is pasta.
Favorite drinks are Cola and Strawberry Nesquick.
Owns about 17 guitars.
He has one luggage...
Tom kaulitz ¿Fake?
posted by laonis
We imagine that we all know a Kiss, the legendary American band formed in 1972 whose members made up and costumed act shaping characters that over time have become the watchword of Rock'N'Roll. In 1983 the group decided to park his comic image and start a new stage without makeup. Years later, to please the fans who missed the first stage, the band returned to its origins with the costumes.
The release of Tokio Hotel as a band was a very studied. Possible to speak of the last major musical projects in Europe the new century. At the time of creating the foundation, the Management was aware that...
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Tom's Official List Of Ways To Annoy Bill.
"1. ‘Accidentally’ call him a girl in public.
2. Laugh hysterically every time he says the word ‘what’.
3. Steal all his eyeliner and begin drawing strange pictures all over his walls. When he asks what you are doing turn your back to him and mutter something about Georg.
4. Sing very loudly and very off-key to any Green Day song he might be playing.
5. At 4:27 in the morning, jump on his bed and scream “The leprechauns are attacking! The leprechauns are attacking! Run for your life!”
6. Rename him Phillip Johnny Bob and refuse to call him by any other name.
7. Give away the ending...
She woke, turned around in the bed, to say good morning to her man. But he was already awake. She went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face. She was feeling weird. She have been dreaming about that she had a little show for her man, and that she have been teasing him to the absolute limit, and that they had the best fuck ever.
Now she knew it, she was horny. Then, a great idea came to her mind, she should dress up sexy, and bring him back to bed, and have a little show for him.
She took a quick shower, and started putting on makeup and found some sexy clothes. She pulled out...
posted by kelsie1322
hotty
tom kaulitz is the hottest of the group no doubt about it. Bill is just a freak and needs to change his look.i dont care about the other two because they are not cute.the only thing wrong with tom is that he smaokes and he has sex to many times for only being 19. besides that he is perfect. i love tom!!!!!!!!! he is so talented and he can sing well too. i can't wait until their next album comes out in english. i dont speak german and i still like one of their songs that is in german. i love the song sacred and i never thought i would like a german band but tom made me check them out because i saw a picture of him and he was just so cute so i tried out their music. i turned out to love them thanks tom. keep rockin
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Chicken Donation Supports Families at Ronald McDonald House
LONDON, ON – Chicken Farmers of Ontario (CFO) is pleased to provide over 1000 servings of chicken to the Ronald McDonald House Charities in London. The donation was made through the CFO Cares program, which enables Ontario chicken farmers to raise and donate safe, healthy, nutritious, locally-grown chicken in support of local families in need.
Ronald McDonald House Charities Southwestern Ontario (RMHC-SWO) supports families when a child is seriously ill and requires the family to travel far from home for required medical care. RMHC-SWO provides welcoming home environments that give families emotional and physical comfort and support as they stay close to.
“The support we have received from Chicken Farmers of Ontario has been a tremendous help during COVID-19. As the pandemic was declared, Ronald McDonald House Southwestern Ontario had to cancel all of our daily volunteer dinner groups, who would donate and prepare meals for our Guest Families. The donation of chicken was graciously received by staff and families and was transformed into home cooked casseroles, chicken fajitas, hearty soups and more. The generosity of the Chicken Farmers of Ontario warmed hearts and allowed us to continue to provide warm and nutritious meals for families after long days spent in hospital,” said Tracey Keighley-Clarke, Chief Executive Officer of Ronald McDonald House Charities Southwestern Ontario.
Launched in 2015, the CFO Cares program is a collaborative initiative that enables farmers to donate up to 300 locally-grown chickens. This year, nearly 500 Ontario family farms are participating in the program and donating fresh, healthy, locally-grown chicken to Ontarians in need.
“Ontario’s chicken farmers are community leaders, volunteers, and families that take pride in helping our neighbours by giving what we can, when we can,” said Murray Opsteen, 1st Vice-Chair of CFO and Chair of the CFO Cares Working Group, “We’re delighted to be able to provide this donation of chicken to Ronald McDonald House Charities Southwestern Ontario on behalf of the hundreds of Ontario chicken farmers that participate in the CFO Cares program to support local charities and food banks each year.”
As COVID-19 has challenged many aspects of Ontario’s economy, and things are certainly not business as usual, Ontario chicken farmers are reminding Ontario families that it is still chicken as usual. Ontarians can continue to count on a stable and reliable supply of fresh, safe, healthy, locally-grown chicken.
This donation of chicken to Ronald McDonald House Charities Southwestern Ontario is one example of how Ontario chicken farmers are committed to continuing to provide premium Ontario chicken to Ontario families in need.
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The United States has experienced an escalating crisis of opioid addiction and misuse. While the number of deaths related to overdose have steadily increased over the past two decades, treatment has not advanced at the same pace. Medication for Addiction Treatment (MAT), which utilizes opioid agonists to support detoxification, has been a staple of opioid addiction treatment for decades. However, public perceptions and legislation have hindered its access and application. Methadone, an opioid agonist first created in the 1930s, has been shown to be more effective at retaining patients in treatment, decreasing days of opioid use, and decreasing mortality compared to placebo. Newer on the medical scene is buprenorphine which is a partial opioid agonist with a different pharmacokinetic profile than methadone. As it is a partial agonist, buprenorphine has a “ceiling effect” that makes it more difficult to misuse than other opioids. The most common form of buprenorphine actually comes in combination with another drug, naloxone, and is known as suboxone. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist, so it binds opioid receptors and prevents other opioids such as oxycodone or heroin from binding thereby preventing or dampening the “high” of these drugs.
While we have these drugs available, access to MAT can still be difficult. Methadone treatment is difficult to administer because it must be administered from a specialized methadone clinic or a medical facility that has a methadone clinic associated with it, and it must be prescribed daily. This is a large logistical undertaking for patients as they have to have transportation to get to methadone clinics and have time every day to do so. Understandably, compliance becomes an issue. The driving force behind methadone’s legal hoops is concern for abuse. Buprenorphine on the other hand, has lower propensity for abuse due to its pharmacokinetics, and so it can sometimes be prescribed at longer intervals. However, prescriber restrictions still exist for buprenorphine. In order to prescribe the medication the prescriber must have a DEA X-Waiver, and even with a waiver the number of patients they can prescribe to is limited.
To increase engagement in treatment medical providers have been strategizing new programs and outreach to increase access to MAT. One area of focus has been emergency departments (EDs). For many patients who misuse opioids, EDs are an important point of engagement with the medical system, which makes it a prime location to engage patients in treatment. There have been a number of randomized controlled trials to evaluate the efficacy of initiating patients on buprenorphine while in the ED. The first such trial, performed at Yale, showed that patients who received buprenorphine in the ED and were referred to a 10-week treatment course of buprenorphine in the community were more likely to be engaged in treatment at 30 days and report fewer days of opioid use. Other studies also saw increased retention in treatment after ED-initiated buprenorphine. This approach to treatment has also been shown to be more cost effective than referrals to community centers alone.
Based on the knowledge that ED-initiated buprenorphine treatment can be an effective way to engage patients with MAT, many emergency departments across the United States have begun programs where patients in opioid withdrawal can be initiated on buprenorphine with the goal being to transition to longer term treatment. First doses of buprenorphine are administered during their ED visit and they can be prescribed a short-term course to bridge them to outpatient treatment –as long as the provider is X-waivered. It is important to note that an X-waiver is not required to order and administer buprenorphine within the ED; it is only needed in order to prescribe. This is a common point of misconception and often prevents the initial administration of buprenorphine. While Yale was likely the first academic center to begin a buprenorphine program, many other institutions have followed. California alone has over 50 emergency departments participating in buprenorphine treatment through the CA Bridge program. Many large academic centers including Harvard, Penn, Cornell, and Oregon Health & Science University are also following suit. Recently, the NIH has launched a $945 million initiative HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) which will investigate implementation of buprenorphine and the efficacy of different implementation strategies including ED initiated therapy.
While large initiatives such as HEAL are in their early stages, it is reassuring to see that research into opioid use disorder is receiving the attention it needs. Due to the difficulties of treatment including frequent visits for prescriptions and high incidence of relapse, opioid use disorder will remain a large and prevalent issue within the medical community, and our society as a whole. Hopefully with more innovative approaches like ED-initiated buprenorphine, the medical community can better connect with and provide treatment to those in need.
To have an X-waiver, an 8-hour course is required. Medical students that complete this course through ACEP are eligible to apply for a DEA X number when they obtain their DEA license.
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Their rule was based out of fear by those they were supposedly tasked with serving.
Watkins was tasked to fast-track the Digitot Project within the Conlog organisation.
In the early 80‘s back at Genie, I was one of the junior traders tasked with the.
That carrier may in turn be tasked to provide air cover to the forward enemy armada.
He was tasked with taking over the kingdom and all of the mess left by the time of war.
All he was yet tasked with was the finding of the alien vessel that had landed offshore.
He tasked out the responsibility of changing them to us, whenever we would come up to visit.
Neither I, nor Walker – still at the NAMA site - were tasked yet with monitoring his signal.
He had been tasked with gathering intelligence, as he was the only one familiar with the area.
Two man were tasked with directing the vehicles to the parking area, while two or three others.
Our destination will be Oslo, which we are tasked to defend along with its airfield at Fornebu.
My friend has told me that scrambled eggs can be formed their professional organisations tasked with.
Three Angels–The three angels that are tasked with revealing and destroying the three parts into.
He still could not believe he had been tasked with the sacking of Pyr, and if it came to that, its razing.
One device I recognized as the device I had been tasked to find on this little jaunt into the monster’s lair.
He also tasked me to try in combat a number of tactics and doctrines imported from the future by Nancy Laplante.
I’ve been here ever since assisting and helping as I can those tasked as guardians, who have come to this place.
What technical work are you tasked with? The Elf wondered what she'd be expected to account for if questioned.
Before you go to your rooms, I have something else from the Cardinal: he tasked me with bringing you your back pay.
The only rule, which Mark Cisco was tasked to enforce if need be, was that consent had to be mutual and between adults.
Recall Clintons midnight pardons? Thank Eric Holder for bypassing the attorneys who were tasked with administering the process.
The FBI is so overwhelmed by Jimmy Carter’s visit to Nashville that every last agent has been tasked with ensuring his safety.
Lieutenant Herman Norrell, who was tasked with going to the southwest end of the town with his four tanks, smiled at those words.
Clearly thinking only in the moment, Cheryl was now tasked with the job of cleaning the scene and hiding what was left of Tynice.
Don’t worry! I can tell you JORN is not resourced or tasked to conduct surveillance operations 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week.
He was uncaring of the loathsome burdens with which he tasked the apprentices, and he was shamelessly obsequious to his superiors.
Deadly Inheritance A murder thriller featuring Dave Pritchard who has been tasked with finding the remaining heirs to a large fortune.
They had been tasked to produce irrefutable evidence that would exonerate Gary David from the crime of causing the deaths at Wightport.
Leo is coordinating his old organization and all of the ex-military into a team that is now tasked with the process of nation building.
Air patrols of long range amphibians were already tasked to support them by signaling in advance the approach of any new Japanese force.
First Sergeant Morris here is tasked with filming the release and climb sequence, when my SPS-10A will shoot up past this transporter.
Homicide Squad in the force was the body of detectives which was specifically tasked with investigating murders anywhere in the territory.
That afternoon he had a visitor in the form of another of the couriers who had been tasked to talk to him and quietly get the whole story.
The five claimed to be part of a ‘Special Branch’ of the Narcotic Control Board tasked with suppressing Burmese labourers in Thailand.
The road checkpoint was manned by six Afghan policemen, supplemented by two policewomen from the Shouz patrol tasked to search women and children.
But if you two think that he could do more for the veterans community by being tasked over to the veteran organization, I will support the move.
I’ve been cursed and blessed, been married and assassinated, fallen madly in love, been gifted with fortunes and tasked with great responsibility.
Corporations and investors are tasked with the tremendous burden of forecasting their businesses and investments twenty or thirty years down the road.
In the UK private firms have been tasked with public services such as education, health and transport – under regulation by government authorities.
I watched the incendiary missile slam into the base of the tower followed by several others from the other two companies tasked with taking the tower.
She had just stopped in front of the door she was tasked to guard when a samurai in full armor and leading six ashigaru came up the staircase at a run.
I have just tasked one of our P-3 maritime patrol aircraft out of Naha to go investigate: it should be over the Senkaku Islands in two and a half hours.
The Mossad was in fact ready to torture her for that and had already tortured one of our CIA agents in Israel that had been tasked to follow that person.
The Judenrat was tasked by the Germans to run the day-to-day administration of the Ghetto and enforce via the Jewish Ghetto police their rules and directives.
The residents of Needless have joined together in overt mockery of those here tasked in capturing Windowmaker and Wayne, making their jobs a bit more difficult.
Well I think Pte Mack has summed things up nicely and with that in mind we have been tasked by Brigade to send out a recce patrol and locate a source of water.
Talaric could be held inside prisoner and beyond that father had tasked me with its capture and I wasn’t about to either disappoint him or fail to rescue my brother.
Then Pitman said, The committee, which could be called HUD-VET, would be tasked with keeping you in the know about anything that affects veterans as it relates to HUD.
Having arrived in the country only that morning, he’d already taken command of the Secret Service team tasked with providing security for the American secretary of state.
She now had the information she had been tasked to find and she was thus going to send it to Tehran via the Internet, using the encryption program hidden inside her laptop.
At the time I had a woman on my staff named Lori Rubin and she was tasked with getting all the details and arrangements in proper order and it seemed everything was on target.
She was tasked with the instruction of everyone holding the rank of captain or above in spiritual matters, with an emphasis on the importance of inner exploration and inner peace.
It also is tasked to document history, which was poorly understood until recently due to the massive destruction of worldwide archives and museums during the nuclear holocaust of 2052.
Apparently Marcus Dumond was starting to be affected by the pressure of the job he’d been tasked with and Nash felt that dragging him up to the seventh floor would make matters worse.
These weren't menial servants to the Naud, these were tasked to maintaining the essential services: galley workers, lab techs, and most obviously as the personal sex slaves of the officers.
To be made responsible for imprisoning people is surely, to many guards, an unsettling experience, especially when they are tasked with depriving their prisoners of the most basic necessities.
Makgrygair had tasked his 1st and 3rd Brigade with the actual assault, with 2nd Brigade in reserve, and they’d begun their preparation over a month earlier, out of sight of Fairkyn’s defenders.
While the size of his home had the ability to obscure them, it was unheard-of for him to travel its full length without at least a glimpse of the people tasked with keeping his household operating.
The first wave of that armada consisted of no less than twelve F-15J fighter-bombers tasked with clearing the skies over the Senkakus of any Chinese plane and with sinking any Chinese ships nearby.
I won’t bore you by rehearsing all the facets of the case, as you are familiar with the facts surrounding Professor Barclay, and the reasons that you tasked Section 11 to look after his security.
Guess who are tasked with stopping the riots? And who are blamed for every one of the rioters shot dead, and will be now and forever in the future? It seems that we have learned nothing from history.
Since people, who are tasked in selecting potential candidates for the jobs they posted, also are pressed for time, then in most cases, they only take about a few seconds in checking out your resume.
Camp Kisarazu was the base of the 1st Helicopter Brigade, which was tasked to transport them to the Senkaku Islands after a first stop aboard the helicopter carrying destroyers of the Senkaku Task Force.
The Time Patrol, which is tasked by the Global Council to prevent illegal time travel and protect history from irresponsible tampering, reacted to the Imperium raid, shooting down two of the raiding ships.
Now, she was asked to go get prisoners while commanding a female unit under direct ground attack, and this after being tasked to plug a hole in the frontlines caused by the debacle of a male infantry unit.
Before you ask why my wing got a preferential treatment, the reason is simple and straightforward: I was tasked by General Arnold to develop new air doctrines and tactics in the context of joint operations.
Colonel Dows, you are as of today the designated commander of the Ninth Tactical Air Command in England, which is tasked with providing tactical air support to our First Army for our future invasion of France.
The old man grunted his assent and then added, The secrets the Ta’lont family protects were tasked to us alone to safeguard and not to outsiders, which has made him ncreaseingly jealous over the years!.
Oh how Maria wanted to! All she wanted was to be near Elon experiencing life with him, but he had tasked her with the responsibility of keeping the door and obediently her hands remained on the handles behind her back.
As much as possible, they released the mortars to specific rifle companies or even platoons, ready to put fire where it was requested by the units they were tasked to support but never firing in anyone else’s support.
Were these anonymous Twitter trolls hand in glove with the BJP party machinery? A BJP insider admitted to me that there was a ‘media watch’ group of party volunteers who were tasked to ‘take down’ Modi’s critics.
Once a group of men has carried out a specific task, it will be disbanded, and although individuals may be tasked with other aspects of the operation later, no-one will be able to link the two as part of a larger operation.
Is winning the thing in itself, the now that is sought, that only occurs not in the process of, but in the actual moment of having won? One of my over tasked multi-presences asked the question of Job in the glow of Weal.
Last year, her expert leadership in commanding an air group tasked with supporting our troops in Guadalcanal resulted in heavy enemy casualties and, eventually, the withdrawal of the surviving Japanese soldiers on that island.
In this statement, he noted that ‘I deem it neither prudent nor proper for me to comment particularly where the Public Protector has had access to a range of Ministers and officials properly tasked with this responsibility’.
The executive branch, which consists of the president of the United States, the vice president of the United States, the Executive Office of the President, and all of the cabinet departments, is tasked with enforcing those laws.
The last report we got on her, thanks to American newspapers and radio stations, was that she had been tasked to form an all-female air unit, following the edict from their president authorizing the enlistment of women in their army.
Besides the 531st being on alert for the coming activities in the War Zone C area, other USAF squadrons in South Vietnam would be tasked by the Frag Order, already being tapped out on secure teletype, to provide air at specified times.
The moment brought back to her the souvenirs of some of her more exciting times as a young French Resistance girl, when she had been tasked to watch German installations and note the number and positions of the German sentries guarding them.
She will have two main tasks.
Resolution of all tasks had.
Expect to have several tasks.
We set about our summer tasks.
DID IT completes their tasks.
We assigned ourselves new tasks.
One of the main tasks of group.
Group tasks by type and location.
One of the tasks included shaving.
He had two main tasks; to prompt.
Indeed, his tasks at the Abbey in.
Do this with the rest of your tasks.
These are tasks (or action items).
People had stopped doing their tasks.
Next a preliminary list of tasks was.
Federation used it to do a lot of tasks.
Tasks no one else could see to success.
I'm running out of tasks to give her.
Dad is taking care of a few tasks here.
P1, p2, p3= processors or tasks of jobs.
Tasks are completed as per the priority.
This was one of many tedious tasks that.
Re-allocate tasks to suit the strengths.
Let’s say you have a list of tasks to do.
With these two bunny-hill tasks, you can.
Identify those tasks that are truly urgent.
What is easier to do the tasks and business.
Forever, our tasks worked out in the shadows.
Hilda was there there to set her to her tasks.
Remind yourself of those tasks that you’ve.
They have more than enough tasks on their to.
She asked him how he had accomplished his tasks.
Why does Baldur always get the pleasant tasks?
I work always on tasks that are important, to me.
One of its tasks is to further the development.
They said nothing but returned to their own tasks.
In the night he felt the men rush to unseen tasks.
You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks!.
Think of deploying and focusing your team on tasks.
Jin Song and that Li Laosao doing their usual tasks.
You probably should start with small, everyday tasks.
Final y when they had finished their tasks ,hayley.
In addition to the basic, daily tasks for the upkeep.
They are the long-range nanoeyes and have many tasks.
Lately, his most grueling tasks had involved deskwork.
Gavin sets impossible tasks to all of his assistant.
Captain Hawes had many tasks to complete prior to the.
The next morning, they set off to carry out their tasks.
We are sure to face more challenging tasks on the morn.
Female users showed no impairments on any of the tasks.
The simple tasks around the farm became more difficult.
Marcus had also proved useful on several special tasks.
It shows him being trained how to do the simplest tasks.
In this tenure, I have exposed to variety of tasks and.
He had many tasks to perform and he asked to be excused.
When he’s finished we can test it then allocate tasks.
When our daily tasks seem dull or tedious, identifying.
These menial tasks fitted in between the practical and.
The officers divvied up the tasks involved in the killing.
As you learn to do this, the number of tasks you finish.
Therefore, when al ocating tasks and procedures to team.
With these key tasks completed you can now practise your.
But Syed shows that in almost every arena in which tasks.
Rather, they have to do with accomplishing specific tasks.
For week-to-week money tasks, this all works like a charm.
And they are therefore equipped very well for those tasks.
In the Tasks sections, click on Advanced system settings.
The others left to handle the menial tasks while Darek and.
These two tasks, hop turns and the wedge-swing hop, are a.
Thus in the main path of life it is true that two tasks are.
There’s a good chance you‘ve heard of outsourcing tasks.
Passively performing complicated tasks, to progress mankind.
To troops out of the war arising, they the tasks I have set.
Try to find meaning in the tasks that you have to accomplish.
PDP-11-a machine considered fit for only small tasks by most.
Remember, these tasks are listed pretty much in the order of.
One of their regular early morning tasks was to milk the cows.
What about the avionics and other tasks? Tom looked at Sue.
It has been known for me to leave unpleasant tasks closer to.
The dwarves and Terranoids set themselves to the tasks at hand.
Some tasks affect, or are affected by, one or more other tasks.
A good plan of action can involve putting other tasks on hold.
There needs to be a new policy for tracking intelligence tasks.
The early apostles found spirit-filled men to do the tasks of.
For tasks that are repetitive our typical autopilot operation.
Another proposal is to focus on those tasks we know we have to.
The combination of parenting duties and student tasks were, I.
Okay, there are just a couple more tasks I want to offer these.
But there are developmentally appropriate tasks that even the.
The coach should set weekly or short-term tasks that will lead.
They spent the remainder of the day allocating individual tasks.
So on he ploughed with the current top tasks on the problem list.
Other techniques of djana-yoga are beyond the tasks of this book.
They had to work in groups and delegate all tasks within their.
You have one or more helpers who can be trained to do those tasks.
Readings come with interactive comprehension questions and tasks.
While Midge was resting between tasks, Monica studied her closely.
Let's move on to two nifty little tasks that are indeed difficult.
Of course, knowing all these things that lead to postponing tasks.
As they returned to their tasks, Tom had the nagging feeling that.
Synonyms for task
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Task definitions
1. A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
2. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
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- The Lakers won their 17th NBA title last night by beating the Miami Heat 106-93.The team has postponed their victory parade until after the coronavirus pandemic ends. Vanessa Bryant tweeted: “Go Lakers! Congratulations Uncle P [Rob Pelinka, Kobe’s former agent and current Lakers VP]. Congrationations @lakers. Kobe was top, RP! ‘Stay the course, Blockout the Noise.’ Wish Kobe and Gigi were here to see this.”
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- NBC says Apple has added a new Emoji for their gadgets. The yellow Emoji has smiling eyes and a coronavirus mask
- Totally the Bomb says Dollar General is opening a new chain called Popshelf where everything is going to be less than five dollars. Most of the stores will open in 2021 and will compete with Five Below.
- The NY Post says Versace is selling a $250 pool float. The inner tube is black and gold and is sold out on Versace's website. Fashion Week Daily writes: “Because those flamingo pool floats that were all over Instagram last Summer are très basic.”
- Naughty Gossip says Jennifer Aniston has adopted a rescue dog named Lord Chesterfield. She posted a picture of him passed out with a bone in his mouth.
Hooray for Hollywood: Here are this past weekend's box office results.
The War With Grandpa—$3.6 million (CINEMA SCOOP ... The movie cost $24 million to make)
Tenet — $2.1 million
Hocus Pocus—$1.2 million
The New Mutants —$685k
Unhinged — $660k
Coco — $603k
Honest Thief—$364k
Infidel — $205k
Possessor Uncut—$164k
Yellow Rose —$150k
The Globe claims Brad Pitt and Nicole Poturalski have allegedly talked about having children.A source tells the magazine, “She’s young and there’s no reason why she couldn’t have one or two kids in quick succession. Their kids will be gorgeous. Brad’s friends are already placing bets they’ll have twins. Twins do run in his family. Pitt has assured Poturalski she isn’t a Summer fling and he’s committed for the long term. He wants another kid if not several more and he would’ve had more with Angie had their relationship continued.''
NBC saysTiger King star "Doc" Antle has been charged with wildlife trafficking and animal cruelty.The Virginia Attorney General's office spent months investigating Doc's wildlife park. They discovered that he was allegedly trafficking lion cubs between Virginia and South Carolina. Two of Doc's daughters were also indicted in the investigation for animal cruelty and violating the Endangered Species Act.
Mickey magazine, citing OK! magazine, claimsJessica Biel is allegedly keeping a close eye on Justin Timberlake while they are quarantining.A source tells the news outlets, “Justin is bored as hell and wants to start recording, but she’s having none of it. Everyone knows she’s afraid Justin will go back to his old habits. Justin is feeling claustrophobic and untrusted, but given his past behavior, you can’t blame Jessica. She doesn’t trust his friends, either. Jessica feels their family is more important than a paycheck. But Justin is bored as hell and eager to get back to work”
OK! magazine claimsGoldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are allegedly having relationship problems.A source tells the magazine, “Goldie and Kurt have been bickering nonstop since lockdown started. Kurt did something that made Goldie mad and she let him have it. She was so steamed that she stormed off to a separate room and stayed there. They were talking about getting married not long ago, before their annual holiday trip to Aspen, but that’s not happening now. Instead, Goldie’s planning a girls’ trip later in the year to lift her spirits. In the meantime, Kurt’s got some work to do to get back in her good graces!”
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Many renowned centers of product distribution for noteworthy companies, namely, Target, Mercedes-Benz, Avery Dennison, Toyota, and many more are based in Fontana.
Fontana is famed as a host of the Fontana Days Run marathon, the downward slope here makes it fastest half marathon.
The ever-bootlegger and mobster, Al Capone once resided in Fontana.
The American Agriculture Department lab, during the period from 1928-1965 was the very first in the US was based in Fontana. It's mission was to take care of rabbits and their breeding, .
Fontana is also fondly called "Fontucky" also.
The largest branch of the San Bernadino County Library system-, Lewis Library and Technology Center is based in Fontana.
Fontana Horseshoe Pitching Club stands amongst one of only 21 official horseshoe pitches nestled in Southern California.
National Arbor Day Foundation honored Fontana with 'Tree City USA designation' 15 years in a row to acknowledge its active tree management plan.
The city was founded by Azariel B. Miller in 1913.
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Fontana is the second-most populous city situated in San Bernardino county and the 20th largest in California.
Fontana has no city charter. It is known to be a general law city.
A council-manager form of government governs the city.
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Iron Mountain Inc (IRM) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
IRM earnings call for the period ending July 30, 2019.
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Aug 1, 2019 at 4:23PM
Iron Mountain Inc (NYSE:IRM)
Aug 1, 2019, 8:30 a.m. ET
Good morning and welcome to the Iron Mountain Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please note this event is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Greer Aviv, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Greer Aviv -- Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
Thank you, Kate. Good morning and welcome to our second quarter 2019 earnings conference call. The user controlled slides that we will be referring to in today's prepared remarks are available on our Investor Relations website along with the link to today's webcast, the earnings press release and the full supplemental financial information.
On today's call, we'll hear from Bill Meaney, Iron Mountain, President and CEO, who will discuss second quarter performance and progress toward our strategic plan; followed by Stuart Brown, our CFO, who will cover additional financial results and our outlook for the remainder of the year. After our prepared remarks, we'll open up the lines for Q&A.
Referring now to Slide Two of the presentation, today's earnings call, slide presentation and supplemental financial information will contain forward-looking statements, most notably our outlook for 2019 financial and operating performance. All forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. Please refer to today's press release, earnings call presentation, supplemental financial report, the Safe Harbor language on this slide and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for a discussion of the major risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ from those in our forward-looking statements.
In addition, we use several non-GAAP measures, when presenting our financial results and the reconciliations to these measures as required by Reg G are included in the supplemental financial information.
With that Bill, would you please begin.
William Meaney -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you Greer, and thank you all for taking time to join us. We are very pleased with the continued durable revenue growth across our businesses in the improved operational execution in line with our previous outlook. Some of the highlights of the quarter included total organic storage revenue growth of 2.4% and total storage growth of 4.6%. We continue to make good progress in identifying new storage opportunity, while organic volume increased 40 basis points in our Global Records Management business.
Good momentum driving improved operational efficiencies across the organization and data centers delivering strong organic growth. We have leased 7 megawatts through the second quarter, in line with our full year expectation of 15 megawatts to 20 megawatts. Moreover in Q3 is getting off to a strong start with 6 megawatts leased signed in Northern Virginia.
Starting with the review of our financial and operating performance in the quarter, total revenue increased 3% year-over-year on a constant currency basis to $1.1 billion. This growth was driven by an almost 5% increase in storage revenue, partly offset by lower service revenue growth, reflecting lower recycled paper pricing, which I will touch on in a few minutes.
The cost issues we experienced in Q1 were fully corrected during the quarter, which is evident in the sequential adjusted EBITDA margin expansion of 210 basis points above the high end of the 150 to 200 basis points margin expansion we guided to on our last call, despite some one-time cost. As you saw from our press release this morning, we have tightened our guidance ranges, given we are halfway through the year and there has been less variability in FX rates than we expected, when we provided our initial guidance.
We now expect revenue to increase between 2% and 4% year-over-year and adjusted EBITDA to increase between 2% and 5% year-over-year on a constant currency basis, remaining within our initial guidance ranges. We remain focused on successfully executing in the second half, despite some external headwinds with a strong finish to the year anticipated setting us up to enter 2020 in a good position.
Turning back to Q2 performance. We also continued to see good organic growth with organic storage revenue growth up 2.4% for the second quarter and 2.2% year-to-date, reflecting continued strong growth from data center, the other international segment, adjacent businesses and stable performance in Western Europe and North America. Revenue management, particularly in North America is trending ahead of our expectations.
Total organic service revenue growth was negative 2% for the quarter and roughly flat year-to-date due to lower recycled paper prices. We expect this to remain a headwind for our service business for the remainder of 2019, as we cycle over record pricing a year ago. It should be noted, however, the headwinds from paper price on a year-over-year basis amount to $20 million to $30 million on what was last year $115 million of revenue from the sale of paper. The actions we have taken are more than enough for us to manage this headwind and maintain our profit goals, given it is less than 1% of the revenue in the overall business, albeit a little less than 2% of the profit.
Turning to business performance. We continue to see good growth in the alternative storage categories including adjacent businesses, consumer and other. Volume in consumer and other grew more than 760,000 cubit feet sequentially, or 31% in part reflecting strong demand for high touch consumer storage during the peak season.
In our Records Management business, we organically added roughly 3 million cubit feet of net record storage volume worldwide over the past 12 months, representing 40 basis points of growth and increasing trend driven by both new sales and lower destructions. More specifically developed markets organic volume declined by about 60 basis points, a slight improvement from Q1, organic volume growth in the other international segments continues to grow at a faster clip, increasing 3.4% driven by an increase in new sales of 9.7% and modestly lower destructions. We are encouraged by the consistent performance of our global records management business and continue to see a solid commercial pipeline.
Shifting to our digital solutions business, we continue to support our customers' evolving needs by providing a number of digital solutions. To this point, our Information Governance and Digital Solution team or IGDS had a very good Q2 with a number of wins and a healthy pipeline that is expected to deliver strong double-digit revenue growth this year. In conjunction with our federal team, IGDS was awarded a nearly $13 million contract from General Dynamics Information Technology. Under a sub-agreement Iron Mountain will perform work as part of a digital transformation initiative for a government agency.
As it relates to our Iron Mountain InSight platform in partnership with Google, we continue to see good momentum for this innovative solution, which is powered by existing Iron Mountain products and services, adding even more value to our portfolio of digital solutions. In Q2, we signed a deal with a large financial services customer for a comprehensive solution to manage the document work flow process of auto loans. In addition to providing this customer with scanning and secure storage of loan documents InSight extracts and validates the data, verifies the signatures and certifies authenticity of the loans in associated collateral.
We decided this quarter to evaluate alternatives with regards to the infrastructure supporting select offerings within our Iron Cloud portfolio. We generally approach our digital solutions based on a hybrid model in terms of what we developed internally and who we can partner with for best-in-class technology solutions for the right cost. This evaluation has led us to a shift in partnership approach from some of our Iron Cloud solutions such as object store in resulted in a one-time drag on our reported results this quarter, which Stuart will discuss in a moment.
Finally, as mentioned earlier, our data center business continues to build leasing momentum in conjunction with the build out of our platform. As mentioned earlier, in early July, we signed a 6 megawatt deployment in Northern Virginia, which is expected to commence later this year. I want to congratulate the data center team for the successful execution of this deal. It's a great accomplishment and should add significant value to our campus ecosystem.
Looking at data center leasing activity in Q2, we signed 3 megawatts of new and expansion leases, primarily driven by enterprise demand. Year-to-date, including the new lease in Northern Virginia just mentioned, we have leased 13 megawatts with clear line of sight to achieving the high-end of our annual target of 15 megawatts to 20 megawatts. Furthermore, we continue to demonstrate the strengths of our customer relationships, when winning retail sales focused on large enterprises, building private cloud infrastructure.
Consistent with the first quarter activity, approximately 40% of our leasing pipeline was generated by our non-data center sales team. Cross-selling opportunities like this will continue to help us realize synergies, as the data center business grows. As it relates to development activity, we are on track to deliver the first phase of new capacity at our Phoenix Campus expansion with grand opening scheduled for August 15th and an additional 5 megawatts of capacity scheduled to be delivered across three international markets in Q3.
In summary, Q2 was a strong quarter that demonstrates the durability of Iron Mountain with continued improvement in global storage organic revenue and volume growth, enabling us to continue to invest in new growth areas to support our long-term business model. We are encouraged by the momentum we see in our data center business and we'll continue to expand that platform and drive further synergies across the business, while our digital services and solutions are helping our customers to solve new business challenges.
With that, I will turn the call over to Stuart.
Stuart Brown -- Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Thank you, Bill. And thank you all for joining us to discuss our second quarter 2019 results. As Bill mentioned, we are pleased with our second quarter performance with revenue of nearly $1.1 billion. Total revenues increased 0.6%, or 3.1% excluding the impact of the stronger dollar. Our storage rental revenue increased 4.6% on a constant currency basis, driven in part by growth in our data center, emerging markets and adjacent businesses. Total service revenue increased 0.7% at constant currencies.
As you can see on Slide Six, total organic storage rental revenue growth accelerated to 2.4% in Q2, reflecting results from revenue management and global volume growth. More specifically, developed markets organic storage revenue growth came in at 1.3% for the quarter, reflecting continuing contributions from revenue management and volume trends.
In the other international segment, we achieved continued healthy organic storage revenue growth of 3.7%. Year-to-date, organic storage revenue growth was 2.2% and with a strong commercial pipeline and a modest decrease in records destructions, we now expect full-year organic storage revenue growth of 2.2% to 2.8%. This underscores the consistency and durability of our high margin storage business and strength of our commercial teams
Organic service revenue, however, declined 2% in the second quarter, as we cycle over growth of 7.6% a year ago. This mainly reflects the swing in paper prices, which were record high as last year and currently about 20% below the five-year average, driven in part by two large paper mills in North America that were offline in Q2, and lower pulp prices, leading to an oversupply of paper for recycling.
Assuming prices stay at these low levels, the year-over-year impact of revenue and adjusted EBITDA is about $25 million and assumed in our current outlook. Given this and lower destruction service revenue, we now expect service organic revenue growth to be flat to down 50 basis points for the full year, and therefore, total organic revenue growth to be in a range of 1.3% to 2% in 2019.
While reported service revenue was lower than we anticipated, remember that many of our services provide important support to our core storage business promote deeper customer relationships and are increasingly designed to solve our customers problems, managing and analyzing both physical and digital assets. Our digital services are growing nicely, and we continue to evaluate test and grow them to enhance our business and grow new lines of revenue over time.
Lastly, as it relates to organic revenue growth, we generate some of our best returns on capital from acquisitions of customer relationships, which are not dissimilar from paying commissions to our sales teams, as we pay a local competitor for the customer contracts and integrate with our existing business. We include the revenue, as well as the investment as part of our organic growth, given the similarity to competitive takeaways, the timing can be a bit lumpy. To give perspective, over the past three years, annual investments of range from $30 million to $70 million. These low risk, high return, sales-enabled acquisitions are part of our core growth strategy, particularly in developed markets. Year-to-date, they have contributed about 60 basis points of the 2.2% total storage organic growth.
Now turning to our data center business. We are very pleased with the leasing progress and momentum. The data center business delivered organic revenue growth of around 6% in Q2 and signed 3.2 megawatts of new and expansion leases. Churn during the quarter was a more normal 1%, but this will vary over time, given the size of our data center portfolio and will tick up again in Q3.
Additionally, we agreed with one of our customers to shorten leases in two of our markets and exchange for higher rental income during the remainder of their modified term. While this will generate elevated turn in the first quarter of 2020, this was a strong positive for our data center business as it freed up capacity in Northern Virginia, enabling us to win the 6 megawatt deployment that Bill mentioned.
As you can see on Slide Seven, SG&A, excluding significant acquisition costs grew by $8 million from a year ago. This was primarily caused by higher compensation expense related in part to the consolidation of acquisitions and our investment in a global operation support team, as well as by increased technology expense.
Our adjusted EBITDA declined $17 million year-over-year, a 5% to $351 million. Excluding the impact of currency changes, adjusted EBITDA declined $9 million or 2.6%. As Bill mentioned, there were some -- there were several one-time items that impacted adjusted EBITDA by approximately $10 million in the quarter. These included a $4 million charge related to our Iron Cloud infrastructure and the remainder for charges related to building damage that occurred during the quarter. AFFO in the second quarter was $210 million compared to $228 million a year ago. This decrease reflects the stronger dollar and other changes impacting adjusted EBITDA, as well as somewhat higher interest expense in quarterly cash taxes, partly offset by lower non-real estate investments.
Slide Eight details the adjusted EBITDA margin performance by business segment. The North America RIM margin resumed year-over-year expansion in the quarters, we address the cost issues experienced in Q1. Excluding the change in lease accounting, which reduced margins in the segment by about 20 basis points compared to a year ago, the EBITDA margin in the segment expanded 30 basis points.
The North America Data Management margin declines continue to be driven by lower volumes as well as product mix. Revenue management is helping to offset some of the declines and support healthy margins. In Western Europe, Q2 margins contracted 20 basis points, reflecting higher temporary facility costs and professional fees for process improvements. Some of our recent acquisitions of customer relationships in the region are operating at lower margin until we can fully synergized.
Other International margins were up 30 basis points in the quarter, despite a 75 basis point impact from the adoption of the new lease accounting standard, reflecting the increased scale of geographies and continuous improvement initiatives. In the Global Data Center segment, adjusted EBITDA margins were 44.4% in the second quarter, partly reflecting the acquisition of EvoSwitch in the Netherlands last May, which operates at lower average margins and the impact from churn that occurred in Phoenix in Q1.
As you have seen in our release, we have had an immaterial restatement of our prior period results. During the quarter, we received a notification of assessment from tax and customer authorities in the Netherlands related to value-added taxes on specific business-to-business customers activity performed by our bonded business, which we acquired in 2017, and as part of Entertainment Services. As a result, we have made an immaterial restatement of our prior period financial statements, which can be seen in our 10-Q to be filed later today.
Turning to Slide Nine, you can see that our lease adjusted leverage ratio remains in line with other REITs and was flat with Q1. We are on track with our plans to generate $100 million plus of capital recycling proceeds this year from the sale of real estate and we continue to explore options for a JV investment partner for our Frankfurt data center development. And therefore, we expect our leverage ratio to decline in the second half of the year.
Also, we are encouraged by the recent momentum we have seen by the REIT coverage teams at the rating agencies. As we mentioned in Q1 [Phonetic] S&P revised our outlook from stable to negative. Similarly, Moody's revised our outlook to stable in June based on the strength and diversification of our business model, with strong cash flows from our core storage business. Our balance sheet remain solid and we continue to invest and grow the business at very attractive return to low risk.
Turning to outlook. You can find the details and underlying assumptions in the appendix or in our Q2 supplemental. Given these -- given the investments we've made to improve efficiencies, coupled with the operational improvements implemented in Q2 and additional initiatives under way, adjusted EBITDA should continue to ramp through the back half of the year.
AFFO and adjusted EPS guidance ranges have been adjusted to reflect the revised EBITDA guidance and for earnings per share also for higher depreciation. We have also updated our expectations around capital allocation. Given the increase in leasing activity, we now expect data center investments to be about $50 million higher this year, but have reduced our outlook for business acquisitions, due to the expected timing of closings of deals in the pipeline. As a result, we are reducing our expectation for M&A capital to $100 million from $150 million previously.
In summary, Q2 reflects healthy and consistent revenue performance from our storage business. While the paper price environment is a headwind, we have been taking steps to mitigate its impact on profitability. Our actions to improve margin performance from Q1 levels are evident in our results and we are confident in further improvement in the back half. We are excited about the leasing activity and pipeline in our data center business and remain pleased with the solid and sustainable revenue growth our teams are delivering.
With that, I will turn the call back over to Bill for some additional comments before opening up the line for Q&A.
Thanks Stuart. Before we open up the call to your questions, I wanted to take a step back from the quarterly detail and remind you of our long-term business model, which is supported by the durability of the records management business. As an organization, one of the biggest assets we have is the extremely deep and long-lasting customer relationships, which provide us access to 950 of the Fortune 1000. These relationships are built on decades of trust and delivering best-in-class storage and value-added services. Having earned the reputation of trusted guardian of our customers' assets allows us to leverage these relationships to identify cross-selling opportunities in drive significant synergies across our growing data center platform, particularly among enterprise customers, establishing a private cloud infrastructure and looking for a secure and reliable IT environment.
A second key asset that Iron Mountain possesses is our durable developed markets record management business, which has allowed and will continue to allow us to consistently deliver strong organic cash flow, enabling us to fund future data center growth, scale our emerging markets footprint and invest in innovative solutions to meet our customers' needs. These two significant assets underpin our overall financial strategy and continue to support and grow our very strong customer relationships.
The resulting sustainability of the core business and growth in the data center business will support our target of achieving consistent 5% plus organic adjusted EBITDA growth, flowing through to AFFO growth and generate returns above our cost of capital. We will remain very disciplined in our capital allocation decisions, balancing investments that will create value for shareholders, while providing more solutions to our customers.
With that operator, please open up the call to Q&A.
Questions and Answers:
We will now begin the question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) The first question is from Sheila McGrath of Evercore. Please go ahead.
Sheila McGrath -- Evercore ISI -- Analyst
Yes, good morning. Bill, at first quarter, you did have some impact from excess labor that impacted margins. It looks like you right at the ship better than your guidance in second quarter. I was just wondering if you could update us on cost optimization initiatives, how they're progressing and if you have any change in how you expect the margin improvements to play out for the second half of the year?
Thanks, Sheila. So yeah, we were pleased as you noted that we were above our guidance in terms of sequential EBITDA margin improvement. We updated the guidance by actually tightening the range and what we do, we will see is continuing stepped up of the margin over the course of the year. In other words, there will be a ramp in the second half of the year, but we feel really good about the line of sight that we have to be able to finish up the year in strong shape. So, the improvements that we made in Q2 more than offset the change things structurally that more than offset that, that miss on the labor in the first quarter. So, we feel really good in terms of the incentive for the second half, but there will be a ramp.
Okay, great. And I just wanted your view on the market is not giving you credit clearly right now for the premium, dividend yields, given where shares are just you're like bigger picture thoughts on either bringing in the capital partner on some of the data centers. So, to create liquidity to maybe buy back shares at these levels.
Well, I think we're -- I think you'll probably appreciate we're not going to talk about back on the call. From a capital allocation standpoint as a Board, we look at everything about in terms of where we invest money and how we deploy that, that includes everything from how we give money back to the shareholders, whether that through a dividend or share buyback. So, everything is always on the table, when we look at it, but at these dividend yields at some point our share will become pretty good value. But we're not -- we look at the full range of options.
Right now, we really like the capital allocation decisions we have in terms of growing the data center business and also building out our business, our traditional business in emerging markets and some of our new digital solutions and we're seeing the growth. And I'm always the optimist. I feel that at some point our dividend yield reflects probably a lack of appreciation for what we're doing as a company and eventually gravity does reinsert itself and that is self-correcting as the share price goes up.
Okay, great. Thank you.
The next question is from Nate Crossett of Berenberg. Please go ahead.
Nate Crossett -- Berenberg Capital Markets, LLC -- Analyst
Hi, thanks. Good morning, guys. I just wanted to follow-up on that margin improvement question. I think on the last call, you kind of guided to 600 basis points ramp by the year-end. So, I know you said that's going to ramp through year-end, but is that 600 give or take still in place?
Hi, Nate. This is Stuart. Yes, if you look at the ramp in the margin that's implied, I think, the way to look at it, right, if you think about sort of Q2 normalized EBITDA adjusting for the $10 million that we talked about, Q2 normalized EBITDA was about $361 million. So, guidance of the 14.40 of the 14.80 by just backing into what the second half EBITDA growth is, implies an EBITDA growth of 765 to 805, but on that range. So, that's a ramp from Q2 normalize about $20 million to $40 million per quarter. And you think about even just the first quarter, we improved $35 million from the first quarter.
So, the ramp in EBITDA margins, you should continue to see and the benefits that we get as we move through the year, we talked about in the last quarter call, right. We've got revenue management and most of our pricing takes place in Q2. Actually, more of it takes place in Q3, so you get the benefit as we move through the year of pricing and then the continuous improvement initiatives that Bill touched on, led by the global operations support team, which really continues to focus on improved labor productivity, particularly in things like Latin America service margins focused on fleet utilization and a number of other areas. We've got initiatives under way to meet the guidance.
Okay, thanks. And then on just the organic growth number, I appreciate your comments on how much customer acquisitions effects that number. And so I just want to be clear that if you take the 2.2% and you subtract 60 basis points, is that 1.6, a true same-store metric by real estate standards or?
I don't think you can compare it to real estate standards because real estate, the REIT industry does NOI on a building-by-building basis. You've got to remember the nature of our business is, that we store our customers records and information, they don't care, which building it is. So, it's not a building-by-building basis, I think about for an office building or warehouse. So, that's why it's organic growth and not sort of the same-store growth.
Okay. And then just one last question on the noble [Phonetic] lease, I'd be curious to get a little more color on how you won that deal because some of the other guys have been saying that Northern Virginia is very competitive and, there is pricing pressures and so I just be curious on how you won that?
Yeah, I think, yeah, look, we continue to see our down selects ahead of where we have capacity deployed. And I think it's partly because of the brand and I mentioned the cross-selling and the fact that we, in the last two quarters have been consistent about getting 40% of our lead generation from the other side, the traditional side of the business. And our focus on those customers that are heavily regulated to have very high requirements, which is mainly financial services, government and healthcare.
I mean, not that all our customers are in those categories, but that's kind of our focus. So, we continue, we look at Northern Virginia, I totally take your point, there is a lot of capacity in Northern Virginia. It is the largest data center market globally. So, just also a lot of absorption. But that focus, I think it's allowed us to build a pretty good pipeline. So, we feel really good about the pipeline, we have for Northern Virginia right now.
Okay. Thanks guys.
The next question is from Eric Luebchow of Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.
Eric Luebchow -- Wells Fargo -- Analyst
Hi, thanks for taking the question. I just wanted to follow-up on the Northern Virginia lease. I know we've heard from some of your competitors that pricing and returns have been kind of compressed there. So, I'm just curious if for some of these larger scale leases, if you're underwriting kind of a lower return, but a longer contract duration, or how you kind of look at that balance, particularly as you sign these larger scale leases in data centers?
It's a good question, Eric. So, let me answer the question in two different ways. So, we actually had quite a bit of leasing activity in Northern Virginia in Q2 and that we see those the kind of normal rates, when I'm talking about the retail -- where I'd call retail contracts or leases. On the specific 6 megawatts that is a hyperscale lease. So, we are seeing kind of the 8% to 9% cash on cash returns, which is where we've built our business model.
So, that will when you start seeing that come through, you'll see that at a lower rate, but it's in -- but we think it's very consistent, not just with Northern Virginia, globally we expect those kinds of cash on cash returns, when we sign up hyperscale customer. You're obviously getting bigger deployment, so when you actually look at the overall returns and the returns on the campus, as we said, I think previously on calls, as we think that to maximize or optimize return on a campus the size of Northern Virginia. We expect to have somewhere between 40% and 50% of the leases in those kind of 8% to 9% cash and cash returns, when the site is fully built out and it's consistent -- consistent with that. But I would say, the pricing on that 6 megawatts is less to do with Northern Virginia, just to do with the returns have better in the market for those types of customers.
Okay, thanks. That's helpful. And then just one more for me. Given that you took data center development CapEx up $50 million. Curious how that impacts your leverage outlook for this year and into next year versus previously? And then could you talk about potentially your ability to recycle more of your industrial real estate portfolio above the $100 million that -- $100 million plus you have in your guidance?
Yeah. Thanks, Eric. Yeah, as we said over the last couple of quarters, we see ourselves landing lease-adjusted leverage around 5.5 times at the end of the year. If you look at sort of how it's going to come down from where it was at the end of Q2. Right we benefit really from three things. First of all, increasing EBITDA year-over-year, right, the leverage is calculated on a trailing 12-month basis.
Second, the capital recycling under way. We've got a sale leaseback portfolio in the market now of industrial properties and a second property, we're about to start marketing. So, we feel very confident in the $100 million plus that was built into our guidance currently. We could do more. There is a lot of demand out there for industrial real estate. We're trying to be prudent in sort of putting the portfolio the right way.
The third thing to call out is the data center leasing, because the way our covenants work in our credit facility, as we get credit, because it's a trailing 12-month basis, on development properties, we get credit for leases that have been signed. So, because you put capital out to develop it upfront, so you get all 12 months of EBITDA credit related to those leases. So, that also helps get to the around 5.5 times.
Okay, great. That's helpful. Thank you.
The next question is from George Tong of Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.
Blake Johnson -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Good morning. This is Blake on for George. Thanks for taking my question. It looks like organic volume growth in Other International was supported by growth in new sales in the quarter. Can you discuss specific storage volume trends that impacted new sales in other International. Are you seeing increasing demand in emerging markets or anything else there would be great?
Good morning, Blake. Thanks for that. Yeah, no, I think we -- I think overall, not just I would say in emerging markets, but if we look at our commercial pipeline in our records management business globally, it's still -- it's very healthy, because obviously that's what we look for to give us our confidence going forward into -- for the quarter. So, it's just generally, I would say across the globe, we have a pretty good commercial pipeline over the next 12 to 18 months.
Specifically on emerging markets, yes we continue to see that and it's usually in markets like India for instance, where there is still a very large, what I call unvended opportunity. I think I might have mentioned previously, there is a specific customer in India that we just want to part of their business. Historically it was all in-house and it was over 20 million cubic feet. This is single customer in India.
So, if you think about North America, which is 500 million cubic feet in total. There is a single customer in India that has over 20 million cubic feet in-house. So, that just gives you the scale of the type of pipeline that we're building a line of sight to future demand that we have in some of these market. So, we continue to be quite encouraged by what we are, what we're building.
Great. Thank you for that. Also previously you discuss specific initiatives of the global operations team, including transportation cost efficiencies. Can you discuss progress on these initiatives and what are your expectations are for the remainder of the year?
Yeah, Blake. I guess it's built into our guidance. I don't want to talk about specific result of the initiatives. But yeah, we've got a number of initiatives going on both to improve efficiency in North America transportation, when we look at our Data Management business and fleet in the Records Management business -- efficiencies on the labor side, particularly focused in Latin America, where labor productivity, we think we've got some improvements there, as we take some of the labor standards that we've employed here.
In North America some of the efficiencies, where just to give you a specific example. In Latin America, we've traditionally staffed each project team separately, where in North America we sort of cross-trained people better and we can use them across projects. We're putting that same initiative in place in Latin America, which will help Latin America service margins as well. So, there are number of things going on. I think we've got if we total up each initiative from the global operation support team, I mean there is well worth -- well north of 50 different things that they're working on to keep taking costs, as part of our continuous improvement initiative. I think having a global now let's just really cross-breed ideas of faster and implement them faster across the organization.
Great, very helpful. Thank you.
The next question is from Andrew Steinerman of JPMorgan. Please go ahead.
Andrew Steinerman -- JPMorgan Chase -- Analyst
Good morning. Looking at Slide 14 bullet one, are you raised your organic revenue growth, a storage range from a quarter ago, it was 1.75% to 2.5% and now it's 2.2% to 2.8%. What factors give you confidence to take up the range? Meaning what are the most important factors to take up the range? Is it lower destruction, higher revenue management, higher backlog. Just give us a relative sense of what are the most important factors that improved over the last quarter?
Andrew, good morning. You almost answered the question for me. It's pretty much three of your four. So, if you think about it, first of all, we are looking at the commercial pipeline, when we move these ranges. So, really like in terms of the pipeline that the -- and we look at what stage they are in the pipeline in terms of how long we've been speak to the customers. So, that's one aspect.
Destructions are ticked down slightly. So, last year I think they were up -- destructions were up. So, if you look at this year, they are trending back to what I would call more normal levels. I wouldn't say they're down unusually, but they've come down from last year. So, that's the second aspect.
And the other thing is, we're getting, especially in North America, we're getting more joy from our pricing initiatives that we've actually rolled out pricing initiatives to customers, where we were a little bit shy more and those seem to be sticking pretty, pretty well. So, it's a combination of revenue management especially specifically in North America. And then looking at destruction levels going back to kind of what I would call more norms. And then looking ahead at the commercial pipeline.
Great. And could you just give a reason why you feel like destructions are normalizing now, what gives us confidence that that's going to stick?
Well, first of all, these are relatively small movements, but they have sizable impact, right because you're talking about small movements. If you just on a business of 700 million cubic feet. So, a little bit of change in that can make big differences. I think last year we all have our own hypothesis, we speak to customers all the time, but many times of our customers aren't crisp in their response. But I think last year probably it was a combination of some of the GDPR cleanup, people were going into bring themselves into compliance and destroying a lot of their documentation rather than trying to bring it into compliance. And then the other aspect is, we did get some legal holds that got released in the financial service industry.
So, I think those two things alone probably attracted a bit of it and it's the best feedback we're getting from our customers at this point. So, our expectations that will kind of trend at the more what I would call usual levels pretty last year and you can see that kind of bleeding through this year.
The next question is from Shlomo Rosenbaum of Stifel. Please go ahead.
Shlomo Rosenbaum -- Stifel Nicolaus -- Analyst
Hi, thank you very much. Can you delve a little bit more into the pricing in North America. You said I think you described it, Bill, as getting more joy over there. What exactly is it, are there charges there and put through, straight off contracts? Is it something that you feel as a sustainable thing that you could do on a regular basis. If you could just give us just a little sense of that?
Okay. Good morning, Shlomo. So, I think that kind of two aspects. I mean, one is watching the story is about two-thirds of our pricing actions come in the second half of the year versus the first half of the year. So, we have that normal uptick, but specifically what's different this year than last year, it is that quite frankly as we start rolling out revenue management, ones you're always shy of is your largest customers, right, because there, if there's any elasticity, obviously you feel it in volume in larger dimensions.
I think the last couple of years have given us confidence as a team and specifically more in North America that we are able to roll-out the same kind of revenue management or pricing discipline to our larger customers, as we kind of our mid-sized customers. And that was built on the confidence with the mid-sized customers and as we've gone into this year in the first half of the year, we've seen that we have been able to actually achieve that. So, in a lot of this, I think, I've mentioned before on pricing, a lot of it is change management internally. In other words, giving our folks the confidence that, that they can charge the right price for the service that we're delivering.
Okay. And then if you could just, in the supplemental Slide Nine, on the Records Management in developed markets. So, there is a trend that seem to be going on from like 4Q, where the volumes were declining sequentially, you bucked a trend in 1Q ticked up and then is down again in 2Q. Why is that trending down even if destruction seem to be moderating. I'm just trying to get a handle as, is the trend continuing downwards? Or are we stabilizing, just trying to get a sense of what's going on there?
Yeah, I think it's more of a stabilized trend. I mean if you look at the, specifically on the developed markets the chart that you're referring to, is if you go down into the detail, I'd say a, yeah, moderation in terms of new sales in Q2. But if you kind of look at over 12-month basis, it goes up and down. So, when we look at that and we look at giving our projections going forward, as we look at the commercial pipeline.
So, I think it is developed markets will be, as we said, it will be more on the negative side of neutral, so to speak, it will be slight downward tick more than offset by revenue management. So, we build that into our projections and at the end of the day, what we're delivering is total organic revenue sales or organic storage sales, feel really comfortable with that. But in terms of looking at the volume that your question that you're asking is, we then look forward at the commercial pipeline and we think it's going to be kind of in that range kind of up and down.
Okay. If I could just sneak in a last one, the 20 million cubic feet customer in India. When -- is that already rolling in now? When is that supposed to roll in it sounds like, it's actually a pretty big deal.
I wish it was the whole 20 million. They are not outsourcing everything that they have and they actually split it between two of us. Actually we got more than half. So, we've got the bulk of it. So, they didn't outsource the whole 20 million. I think over time they will. And that's already starting to flow into our Indian operation.
Okay, great. Thanks.
The next question is from Andy Wittman of Robert W. Baird. Please go ahead.
Andrew Wittman -- Robert W. Baird & Co. -- Analyst
Okay. Thanks for taking my question guys. Stuart, I appreciate your comments on the acquisition of customer relationships, otherwise known in the industry as the pick-up and move business. I guess, as I look at this, I wanted to understand a little bit more, I guess, last year you guys spent about $60 million. This year you're on track for about $90 million for these types of customer relationship acquisitions.
You mentioned that you pay a sales commission anyway and so there is cost either way. What is the delta in cost, if you look at it on a per box basis or some normalized basis between the two as you compare them. I mean $90 million this year, I mean, it's clearly driving growth you said 60 basis points of volume. But how does that compare it seems like it's more expensive than the sales commission, but why don't you help us understand that a little bit more?
Yeah. I think it's actually -- it's actually not very complicated. So, on average we spend, I think probably at $60 million a year and this year, I would expect is to be sort of around that as well. And that includes mostly box it mostly in the developed business in the developed markets, some of it -- a little bit of it in the shred business as well. So, it could sort of spread between the two. And as we said before, typically we will bring in 3 million to 4 million cubic feet a year in tuck-in.
When you're comparing the cost between bring it in, through a salesperson, you typically get a number of different cost because when you're bringing into sales person depending upon if it's at the customers today or the competitors, you get some different costs. So, we've got the sales commission, you have to pay, which right, it is a portion of it. If its at a competitor, you're often reimbursing the customer for their permanent withdrawal fees as they have got to pay for the competitor, right, which can be pretty substantial.
And so you compare that to a [Indecipherable] we are typically paying around three-times revenue, you actually you don't get that much of a difference. But you get the volume benefit and efficiency benefits of doing it and moving in one-time efficiently and once you fully integrated and synergized you are at about a 90% margins of the flow through. That's really good. So, you've got a payback of less than four years with integration costs, which has given you a cash-on-cash return of 25%. So, our goal is to be transparent about it. We view it as organic and because it is like sales or some other competitive takeaway, we will provide the information to investors, but it is part of our organic growth and we think about it that way part of our organic capital spend as well.
Okay, that's super helpful. So, in there, I heard that you're expecting actually $60 million for customer relationships. So, I'm sorry to misquote you. And my question there, where it is $90 million. So, that implies that not the -- the difference between the $90 million that's in your Slide 15 in the
$60 million you mentioned there is the customer inducements, which are basically those perm out withdrawal fees. Is that the right way to think about it?
Correct. Yeah, that's correct.
Okay, cool. That's what I wanted to understand. Thank you for your help.
The next question comes from Marlane Pereiro of Bank of America Securities. Please go ahead.
Marlane Pereiro -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst
Hi, thank you for taking my question. I just had a quick question regarding, can you talk about funding the $395 million of incremental capital for investments, and getting leverage to around 5.5 times by year-end?
Yeah. I think I touched already. There is a couple of different ways to look at it. I mean I touched on the leverage change from year to year end both from the capital recycling. I think the thing to remember, Marlene, is that as EBITDA grows right, that allows you to borrow against that and still reduce leverage. So, if our EBITDA grows $100 million organically per year, you can theoretically at five-times borrow $500 million and still reduce leverage from where we are at the mid-five level. So, you can do both at the same time and fund those capital needs.
Great. So, just to be clear, you do expect as communicated last quarter that you expect leverage to kind of to get down to roughly that 5.5 area?
Yeah, which is, and I repeated that in my opening remarks as well.
Yeah. Yeah, great. Thank you.
(Operator Instructions) The next question is from Kevin McVeigh of Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.
Kevin McVeigh -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Yeah. Can you hear me? Hey Bill or Stuart. Nice job on the margin sequentials. The paper headwind weren't as much as what we had modeled. Can you help us understand, what you're using for the spot price kind of where that came in the quarter, and then how we should think about that over the balance of the year?
Yeah, Kevin, and just -- yeah, I appreciate the question, because there's been a number of questions about it.
Let me start off with, I mean, our initial guidance already assumed the paper prices would be declining. So, our initial guidance we assume the paper prices would decline about $10 per ton from 2018 and on a price per ton basis $10 per ton equates to about $6 million of EBITDA. So, if you sort of say, OK what's now inherent in our current assumptions and Bill touched on his remarks and I did as well.
If paper prices stay at current levels and that's down about $40 per ton from a year ago, by that $40 per ton is about $25 million impact year-over-year, right. And so we think about it versus guidance that's about $20 million headwind, relative to our guidance. Other thing just for people to remember as well. But we have really high quality sort of office paper. So, when we go into market to sell, we do sell it at a higher price and what people may be saying in the index.
That's helpful. And then just, hey Stuart, what was it that kind of helped the margin recovery? I mean I know in the first quarter was kind of, there were some unexpected cost around labor, things like that. What were you able to put in place, that kind of help boost the sequential and then the improvement that we'll see over the balance of the year?
And remember that despite the $10 million of headwinds that we booked as well.
And again, I mean, we came out of, when we talk about in the first quarter call, we came out with a lot of confidence in terms of our ability to recover the fact was, is it the labor issue that we had in first quarter was late in the quarter, we could have recovered in the quarter. And again, I think for me from an execution from our operations teams out there around the world, they're the ones, who really get the credit both Bill touched on the revenue management programs we've got in place cost take out. There's a lot of work we have to do, right. There is a lot of opportunities for us in terms of leverage in the company to move margins and to get more efficient and we work on delivering those every day.
Got it. But was that maybe I guess -- can you give us some examples, was it like maybe lower bonuses to drivers or was it just any thoughts on kind of--
Absolutely not. We're not taking this out of the backs of our, of the mountaineers out there, who are serving our customers every day.
It is -- if you look, you can see a labor efficiencies, our labor actually year-over-year as a percentage of revenue is down. There is some price flow through, all again most of that will come through in the back half of the year and then efficiencies and just other cost of sales, as well around transportation in some of the other areas.
Got it, OK. Thank you.
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Deputies: Garland County man shoots alleged burglar, 3 other suspects arrested
Posted: Apr 25, 2019 / 09:33 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 25, 2019 / 09:33 PM CDT
GARLAND COUNTY, Ark.- Deputies say a burglary suspect was injured and three other suspects are in custody after an attempted break-in and shooting.
The Garland County 911 Communication Center received a call about a possible burglary in progress at the 1300 block of Thorntown Ferry Road around 6:30 Wednesday morning.
The caller told authorities that multiple people were trying to break-in through the back of the house, according to a news release. The caller also told officials her husband had exchanged gunfire with the suspects.
Officials say Kevin Coleman, 22, is the burglary suspect that was injured in the shooting.
Garland County deputies later found Justin Quindt, 24, Andrew Heatherington, 33, and James Freet, 25, near the crime scene.
Freet, Quindt and Heatherington are being held in the Garland County Jail, and each face Aggravated Residential Burglary.
Coleman was taken to a hospital, and will also be charged with Aggravated Residential Burglary.
The investigation is still ongoing. If you have any information, call the Garland County Sheriff’s Department at 501-622-9660.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Police are investigating a shooting incident in southwest Little Rock Sunday evening that investigators say may have injured two people.
Officers responded to the area of the intersection of John Barrow Road and Colonel Glen Road around 6:45 p.m.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An Arkansas State Police sergeant is recovering after being injured last night while taking a man into custody.
15-year veteran Sergeant Nick Brown suffered impalement injuries on a wrought iron fence.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- As of Sunday, 976 more Arkansans have been added to the lists of those who have contracted COVID-19 during the pandemic.
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Paulo Dybala “tests positive for coronavirus four times in six weeks” with return of training from nearby Juventus – The Sun
PAULO DYBALA tested positive for coronavirus for the fourth time in just six weeks, according to reports.
The Juventus striker was among the first Serie A players to contract Covid-19 alongside teammates Daniele Rugani and Blaise Matuidi.
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Paulo Dybala reportedly still has coronavirus, more than five weeks after the first positive testCredit: Instagram @paulodybala
Juventus striker seems to keep morale high with TikTok videos alongside girlfriend Oriana SabatiniCredit: Instagram
On March 21, he confirmed to his 37.9 million followers on Instagram that he and his girlfriend Oriana Sabatini had contracted the disease.
But Spanish program El Chiringuito said Dybala has had four tests in the past six weeks and the last one has been positive again.
It is not known when each of these tests took place, whether Sabatini was also tested as regularly or whether any of them still show symptoms.
They appear in a good mood, however, with Dybala’s Instagram story showing the striker working out at a home gym, then the couple doing a TikTok dance together, a few days after welcoming the dog Kaia into the family.
The reports come just days after Juventus contacted their players who had returned to their home countries for the lockdown.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Douglas Costa were among those to be recalled to Turin as Juventus attempted to resume training, as did teams in Germany and England.
But these stars who return to Italy will have to quarantine themselves for two weeks before they can find their teammates on the training ground.
Serie A teams can resume individual training on May 4 and team training on May 18.
It was after Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the first steps to lift the country’s foreclosure.
Italy was the first European epicenter of the virus and saw 202,000 confirmed cases with 27,359 deaths.
In early April, Sabatini revealed that she had a test that came back with a “false negative”, but another test showed that she still had Covid-19.
Dr Hilary on the FOURTH positive Dybala test for the coronavirus
It has always been thought that the virus is no longer active when you have recovered from your symptoms other than the symptom of dry cough which can last quite a long time.
Normally, the virus does not persist for more than a few days afterwards and is considered to be non-communicable.
However, we see a good number of cases of people who continue to have positive tests.
We do not know if the virus is still present, if it has been reactivated, or if it is a new infection due to immunity that did not occur.
It’s very interesting. Most people do not continue to have a positive test, but some do.
We believe it is likely that the virus is still present or that particles of the virus are still present but the virus is no longer active or able to transmit.
We don’t think [it would be contagious at this stage].
Don’t forget that some tests give false positive results, we have also seen it. This is one of the many unknowns that we have with this particular virus.
Symptoms can last long enough. Fatigue, exhaustion, shortness of breath, and dry cough may continue for some time – even weeks – after the virus has apparently disappeared.
The reason we have 14 days of isolation from people with symptoms is that by the time they get out of the 14 days – when they have no symptoms other than dry cough – we think they are not able to transmit the virus. “
She said to subscribers, “I’m updating you because many ask me. On March 21, my boyfriend and I tested for coronavirus. We tested positive.
“Three days ago, they tested again and it was negative. Yesterday morning I did another test.
“I have tested positive. So I still have a coronavirus. “
Argentinian model and singer Oriana went on to reveal that this proves not only that she does not understand the killer virus, but no one else either.
She continued, “I don’t really know how it works, I don’t even know why it was negative first, then positive.
“I think I heard that if you get a coronavirus and get tested, it could be a false negative. For this reason, take another one to make sure it is 100% negative.
“It just goes to show how little we know about this virus because we thought we got infected from my boyfriend’s contact with his teammate [Rugani] which was positive.
“But it seems strange to me because the 15 days in which we are sick have already passed, so it is not logical that we should continue to have it. “
It is not unique that someone tests positive, then negative, then positive again.
This happened to Atalanta Marco Sportiello’s goalkeeper, who still had a coronavirus one month after his initial diagnosis, although he did not show any major symptoms.
The most likely next step for Dybala would be a blood test to see if he has developed antibodies to the virus in his system, and if so, how many of them.
Dybala spoke of the difficulties of having a coronavirus and said that he felt “dead tired” after five minutes of exercise.
But at the time, in late March, he added that he and Sabatini felt “good” and that the symptoms had passed.
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He told reporters, “I’m fine, much better after some strong symptoms than I had a few days ago – now I have no symptoms.
“I can move better by walking and trying to train.
“When I tried a few days ago I ran out of air and after five minutes I was tired, my body was heavy and my muscles were aching. Now Oriana and I are fine. “
On Wednesday morning, Dr. Hillary of GMB explains how Dybala could have tested positive four times for Covid-19.
He said, “It was always thought that the virus is no longer active when you have recovered from your symptoms other than the symptom of a dry cough that can last long enough.
“However, we are seeing a number of cases of people who continue to show positive results.
“We do not know if the virus is still present, if it has been reactivated or if it is a new infection due to immunity that did not occur.
” It’s very interesting. Most people do not continue to be positive, but some do.
“We think it is likely that the virus is still present or that particles of the virus are still present but the virus is no longer active or able to transmit. “
His girlfriend Oriana Sabatini confirmed on April 3 that a follow-up test had always shown him that she was positive at Covid-19Credit: Instagram @paulodybala
Dybala checked his Instagram story to show that he was still exercising while lockedCredit: Instagram
Juventus scheduled to resume individual training on May 4Credit: EPA
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MLB Betting: World Series Futures Rundown
Players are starting to roll into spring training to shake the rust off, which means baseball (and spring) are right around the corner. The regular season officially begins on April 2. Before we move up to Opening Day, here is an early look at the World Series futures.
The defending champion Chicago Cubs are tied with the Boston Red Sox as the favorites at +450. Both teams lost major players as Dexter Fowler left Chicago to sign with the rival St. Louis Cardinals and David Ortiz retired despite having a phenomenal 2016. However, both teams have a lot of players that can step in for those players with the Cubs counting on Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant to keep progressing, and former Cy Young winner Jake Arrieta leading a formidable staff.
For the Red Sox, Mookie Betts was a revelation last year but the revival of Pablo Sandoval could replace some of Ortiz' production. Early reports is that he is in better shape. The Red Sox also added Chris Sale to the rotation, which means they now feature three former Cy Young winners in their starting five.
The next tier has the Cleveland Indians who come in at +800, the Washington Nationals and the Los Angeles Dodgers at +1000, the San Francisco Giants at +1200 and the Houston Astros at +1400. The Indians' run to the World Series was overshadowed by the Cubs, but they added another bat by picking up Edwin Encarnacion from Toronto. Offense was seemingly the only thing that held them back last postseason, so they're hoping to have addressed that.
The Nationals and Dodgers are both perennial contenders, but both have failed to deliver in the playoffs. The Nationals need Cy Young winner Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg to stay healthy, and Bryce Harper has to be more consistent at the plate. The Dodgers could be on the downside unless Clayton Kershaw has another Cy Young season in his arm. The Giants have a monster of a pitching staff led by Johnny Cueto and Madison Bumgarner, and they're well managed by Bruce Bochy, so they're expected to be neck-in-neck with the Dodgers. And the Giants seem to show up as a World Series contender every other year, so after falling short of the playoffs last season, they will be on the radar in 2017.
The Astros struggled late last year, but they're a relatively young team, led by Jose Altuve. They added a number of veterans like Carlos Beltran, Brian McCann and Josh Reddick to supplement a young roster, so the expectations are high.
The New York Mets are the only other team inside of 20/1 as they're posted at +1800. They're followed by the Toronto Blue Jays at +2000, St. Louis Cardinals at +2500, New York Yankees at +2500 and Texas Rangers at +2800. The Mets need their star pitchers to stay healthy, and need to find a way to generate more offense. They ranked 26th in the Majors last year in runs scored.
Speaking of offense, the Blue Jays lost Encarnacion, but Jose Bautista is back and they still have former MVP Josh Donaldson. But Bautista is fading and the loss of Encarnacion could really hurt. The Blue Jays led the Majors in runs scored in 2015 but tapered off to ninth place in that category last season. Another dip could put a lot of pressure on the pitching staff.
The Cardinals had a down year in 2015 by their standards, but they should be back to challenge the Cubs, led by a quality pitching staff. The Yankees are reloading but figure to have an excellent bullpen with the re-addition of Aroldis Chapman. However, they need to be more efficient at the plate as their .252 team batting average ranked them 20th in the Majors last season.
Finally, the Rangers are the defending American League West champs, but Houston is hot on their heels and Texas might have overachieved last year. They'll be banking on big ticket free agents like Andrew Cashner, Tyson Ross and Carlos Gomez paying off, but most experts view those moves as gambles.
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Military and Veterans Disability System:
Pilot Has Achieved Some Goals, but Further Planning and Monitoring Needed
GAO-11-69: Published: Dec 6, 2010. Publicly Released: Dec 6, 2010.
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Since 2007, the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) have been testing a new disability evaluation system designed to integrate their separate processes and thereby expedite veterans' benefits for wounded, ill, and injured servicemembers. Having piloted the integrated disability evaluation system (IDES) at 27 military facilities, they are now planning for its expansion military-wide. Part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 required GAO to report on DOD and VA's implementation of policies on disability evaluations. This report examines: (1) the results of the agencies' evaluation of the IDES pilot, (2) challenges in implementing the IDES pilot to date, and (3) whether DOD and VA's plans to expand the IDES adequately address potential future challenges. GAO analyzed data from DOD and VA, conducted site visits at 10 military facilities, and interviewed DOD and VA officials.
In their evaluation of the IDES pilot as of February 2010, DOD and VA concluded that it had improved servicemember satisfaction relative to the existing "legacy" system and met their established goal of delivering VA benefits to active duty and reserve component servicemembers within 295 and 305 days, respectively, on average. While these results are promising, average case processing times have steadily increased since the February 2010 evaluation. At 296 days for active duty servicemembers, as of August 2010, processing time for the IDES is still an improvement over the 540 days that DOD and VA estimated the legacy process takes to deliver VA benefits to members. However, the full extent of improvement of the IDES over the legacy system is unknown because (1) the 540-day estimate was based on a small, nonrepresentative sample of cases and (2) limitations in legacy case data prevent a comprehensive comparison of timeliness, as well as appeal rates. Piloting of the IDES has revealed several implementation challenges that have contributed to delays in the process, the most significant being insufficient staffing by DOD and VA. Staffing shortages were severe at a few pilot sites that experienced caseload surges. For example, at one of these sites, due to a lack of VA medical staff, it took 140 days on average to complete one of the key features of the pilot--the single exam--compared with the agencies' goal to complete this step of the process in 45 days. The single exam posed other challenges that contributed to process delays, such as exam summaries that did not contain sufficient information for VA to determine the servicemember's benefits and disagreements between DOD and VA medical staff about diagnoses for servicemembers' medical conditions. Cases with these problems were returned for further attention, adding time to the process. Pilot sites also experienced logistical challenges, such as incorporating VA staff at military facilities and housing and managing personnel going through the process. As DOD and VA prepare to expand the IDES worldwide, they have made preparations to address a number of these challenges, but these efforts have yet to be tested, and not all challenges have been addressed. To address staffing shortages and ensure timely processing, VA is developing a contract for additional medical examiners, and DOD and VA are requiring local staff to develop written contingency plans for handling surges in caseloads. However, the agencies lack strategies for meeting some key challenges, such as ensuring enough military physicians to handle anticipated workloads. They also do not have a comprehensive monitoring plan for identifying problems as they occur--such as staffing shortages and insufficiencies in medical exams--in order to take remedial actions as early as possible. GAO is making several recommendations to improve DOD and VA's planning for expansion of the new disability evaluation system, including developing a systematic monitoring process and ensuring that adequate staff is in place. DOD and VA generally concurred with GAO's recommendations and provided technical comments that GAO incorporated into the report as appropriate.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: We reviewed the integrated disability evaluation system (IDES) in 2012 after the IDES had been implemented at all sites. We continued to find difficulties with ensuring adequate staffing of military physicians to complete medical evaluation board (MEB) determinations (GAO-12-676).
Recommendation: To ensure that the IDES is sufficiently staffed and that military treatment facilities are prepared to house personnel in the IDES, the Secretary of Defense should direct the military services to conduct thorough assessments prior to each site's implementation of the IDES of the adequacy of staffing of military physicians for completing medical evaluation board (MEB) determinations at military treatment facilities; contingency plans should be developed to address potential staffing shortfalls, for example, due to staff turnover or caseload surges.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: DOD addressed the concern about housing of servicemembers undergoing the IDES by issuing an exception to policy authorizing military departments to process initial trainees through the legacy disability evaluation system, rather than the IDES process. In the action memo authorizing this exception, DOD said that this change was intended to address the issue of housing and other issues, due to the additional time that servicemembers remain on active duty when processed through the IDES as compared to the legacy system. The policy exception states that trainees who are processed through the legacy disability evaluation system will be enrolled in the Benefits Delivery at Discharge/VA Quick Start programs to ensure that that they begin receiving VA benefits shortly after separation from military service. DOD officials said that since the policy exception was issued, the military departments have not reported concerns with the capacity to house servicemembers in the IDES.
Recommendation: To ensure that the IDES is sufficiently staffed and that military treatment facilities are prepared to house personnel in the IDES, the Secretary of Defense should direct the military services to conduct thorough assessments prior to each site's implementation of the IDES of the availability of housing for servicemembers in the IDES at military facilities; alternative housing options should be identified if sites do not have adequate capacity.
Comments: DOD addressed the concern about military units' ability to absorb servicemembers undergoing the IDES by issuing an exception to policy authorizing the military departments to process initial trainees through the legacy disability evaluation system, rather than the IDES process. In the action memo authorizing this exception, DOD said that this change was intended to address challenges of command and control, housing, and other issues, due to the additional time that servicemembers remain on active duty when processed through the IDES as compared to the legacy system. The policy exception states that trainees who are processed through the legacy disability evaluation system will be enrolled in the Benefits Delivery at Discharge/VA Quick Start programs to ensure that that they begin receiving VA benefits shortly after separation from military service. DOD officials said that since the policy exception was issued, the military departments have not reported concerns with the ability to absorb servicemembers in the IDES.
Recommendation: To ensure that the IDES is sufficiently staffed and that military treatment facilities are prepared to house personnel in the IDES, the Secretary of Defense should direct the military services to conduct thorough assessments prior to each site's implementation of the IDES of the capacity of organizational units to absorb servicemembers undergoing the disability evaluation; plans should be in place to ensure servicemembers are appropriately and constructively engaged.
Comments: DOD contracted with the Logistics Management Institute (LMI) to conduct a study on differences in diagnoses in response to our recommendation. In October 2011, LMI completed the study entitled "Diagnostic Differences in the DOD-VA Integrated Disability Evaluation System."
Recommendation: To improve their agencies' ability to resolve differences about diagnoses of servicemembers' conditions, and to determine whether their new guidance sufficiently addresses these disagreements, the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs should conduct a study to assess the prevalence and causes of such disagreements.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Comments: VA updated the Veterans Tracking Application (VTA) in June 2012 to allow it and DOD to capture information on diagnostic disagreements. DOD subsequently provided training instructing PEB liaison officers to document disagreements using VTA's corrective action function. This information is used to generate weekly summaries, which can be used to spot trends in disagreements and adjust IDES processes and training accordingly. Before documenting diagnostic disagreements, the Army-which accounts for the majority of servicemembers in the IDES-has instructed its physicians to attempt to resolve disagreements with VA physicians. VA believes this has reduced the incidence of diagnostic disagreements.
Recommendation: To improve their agencies' ability to resolve differences about diagnoses of servicemembers' conditions, and to determine whether their new guidance sufficiently addresses these disagreements, the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs should establish a mechanism to continuously monitor disagreements about diagnoses between military physicians and VA examiners and between physical evaluation boards (PEB) and VA rating offices.
Comments: Since our report was issued, the IDES monitoring report was revised to include more detailed information, including case processing times of individual VA rating offices. VA also developed an IDES Performance Dashboard, which tracks performance data at the local level for portions of the IDES for which VA is responsible. With regard to timeliness of VA exams, VA developed a report to identify IDES exams exceeding the timeliness goal. Senior VA leadership hold biweekly videoconference calls to discuss how to remedy outliers. As for sufficiency of exam summaries, VA added capabilities to the Veterans Tracking Application system to identify exam sufficiency issues, and DOD is using this data to determine how often insufficient exam summaries occur, in what types of medical conditions, and the length of time it takes to identify and address them. DOD and VA also hold meetings on a biweekly basis to share lessons learned, problem solve, and keep sites aware of future program changes and activities.
Recommendation: To enable their agencies to take early action on problems at IDES sites postimplementation, the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs should develop a system-wide monitoring mechanism to identify challenges as they arise in all DOD and VA facilities and offices involved in the IDES. This system could include: (1) continuous collection and analysis of data on DOD and VA staffing levels, sufficiency of exam summaries, and diagnostic disagreements; (2) monitoring of available data on caseloads and case processing time by individual VA rating office and PEB; and (3) a formal mechanism for agency officials at local DOD and VA facilities to communicate challenges and best practices to DOD and VA headquarters offices.
Comments: Since our report, DOD has revised its monitoring report to include more information, including information on case processing times of individual VA rating offices and PEBs. DOD also created an MEB Watchboard and PEB Watchboard to provide case management information, workload status, and the ability to monitor data integrity at local installations. DOD and VA have also revised the VTA tracking system to identify insufficient exam summaries. DOD has developed a method to use the data to determine how often insufficient exam summaries occur, in what types of medical conditions, and the length of time it takes to identify and address them. DOD and VA senior leadership also continue to hold meetings on a regular basis to discuss the status, progress, and future actions regarding the IDES. These include the Joint Executive Council, the Benefits Executive Council, the DES Improvement Working Group, and data summit sessions.
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The speaker agenda was full at the Freightos annual FreightTech event in Barcelona between Feb. 3-4, as industry leaders, along with freight and tech visionaries discussed the integration of technology in the daily operations of freight work spaces.
About 85 industry leaders attended the event between Feb. 3-4, including heavyweights like Maersk, MSC, KLM, DSV/Panalpina, Perry Ellis, Electrolux, and others. Freight Right’s founder and CEO, Robert Khachatryan was among those to attend this two-day event, where speakers enlightened the guests with insight and direction.
The speaking professionals defined their observations and expertise on how companies can fuse advanced analytics systems to create digital platforms that will serve both, their customers and businesses.
The China-U.S. Trade War was also featured in the speaker-series, as Dean Croke of FreightWaves highlighted some of the newer emerging import trends as a result of this integral economic barrier— which has not only affected the United States and China —but also other countries in close trade relations.
Jeffrey Cronkshaw of Lancia Consulting shared his experience of transforming businesses with the help of technology. New advancements and the adoption of modern equipment like AI, Drones, and Clean Tech, was also made clear by Céline Hourcade of Change Horizon.
In addition to invited speakers, some logistics professionals were also asked to speak to the attending crowd about their experience in this fast-growing business arena.
Freight Right’s Khachatryan described some of the advancements that the industry has seen in the past years, along with some of the difficulties that companies are often faced with.
"One of the main concerns of freight digitization leaders is that their own companies are fighting the changes. It is understandable because these ideas are often disruptive to incumbents’ businesses,” said Khachartryan, as he pointed out some common issues within the industry. “Not so for smaller, nimbler forwarders like Freight Right. We actively seek out disrupters and constantly test new technologies and platforms.”
Janan Knust, whose company, K Logistics is leading freight digitization with a state-of-the-art homegrown platform for booking and visibility, also spoke about the lack of interest of North American LogTech in the Latin American market.
Some other topics of interest during this two-day event were the standardization of global logistics; trends, and tech drivers; the shift in air cargo technologies; new approaches to customer service; The State of M&A and Investment in Global Logistics, and others.
Overall, the FreightTech event uncovered a scope of technological advancements that the global logistics industry has yet to see. This served as an important stepping stone that broke the barriers between the old and new; and the outdated and innovative.
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We continue to profile a raft of research, initiatives, new standards, technologies and announcements being made around mid-rise construction and tall timber buildings. It’s good news for the industry, for the environment and of course, for wood. New Zealand is now finally starting to gain momentum after North America, Europe and Australia have led the way. Innovatek has run three very successful Changing Perceptions of Engineered Timber in Construction events in New Zealand showcasing the advances being made in this space to the country’s architects, engineers, developers, quantity surveyors and building consent officials. An ambitious and well-funded new programme was also launched late last year that’s aimed at boosting mid-rise building construction in New Zealand using engineered and panelised framing timber.
And now, the first of NZ Wood’s design guides has just been launched. It’s one of a number being planned. It’s anticipated that this first booklet Design for Fire Safety will be complemented by numerous other guides which will be produced over the next 18 months. They’re aimed at promoting the uptake of prefabricated timber components and engineered wood products as well as helping medium-rise timber buildings to be confidently specified. Details of the release of subsequent guides will follow and will be available on the WPMA website.
A number of forestry careers videos and links to videos with a careers component have also just been uploaded to the www.forestrycareers.nz website that we profiled in this newsletter a couple of weeks ago. They’ve also been built into the story below. These can be used on your own company and organisation’s website to direct enquiries relating to future career prospects in our industry. Information on a number of resources that can be used and ordered for local careers initiatives is expected to be uploaded onto the website in the next couple of weeks. This means a raft of modern eye-catching and up-to-date careers collateral including banners, artwork, brochures …can now be ordered for future school visits, careers days and expos up and down the country.
This week unfortunately we had news of two well-known forestry identities that have passed away. Thomas Song, the founding Managing Director of Ernslaw One, passed away following a sudden illness while on business in Malaysia. Thomas moved to New Zealand with his family from Sarawak in 1990 following the purchase of state forests by the Malaysian based Tiong family. Then through a succession of purchases and development of new forests, he built up Ernslaw One to become one of the largest forestry companies in New Zealand. In Australia, John Gay, the long-time former Managing Director of timber company Gunns, also recently passed away, aged 75. John rose from a humble sawmilling background and will be remembered for building the Tasmanian based company into one of the largest hard-wood sawmillers in the Southern Hemisphere.
And finally, details on the eagerly awaited two-yearly tech update for sawmilling companies around the region have just been released. Most exhibition stands have already been taken up in both New Zealand and Australia. The line-up of technical and industry expertise being brought into the region is impressive. WoodTECH 2019 runs in Rotorua on 11-12 September and then again in Melbourne on 17-18 September. The programmes have just been added to the website. You can check them out now. Further details will be released and sent out to wood processing companies in upcoming weeks. That’s it for this week. Enjoy your Easter break.
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This week we have for you:
Call for NZ foresters to vote
NZ Timber Design Guides launched
Sawmilling global tech series, September 2019
Replacing 1300-year old timber challenging
Vale Thomas Song
AFPA launches Growing Your Future campaign
Additional resources for forestry careers
Australia's fire forests might be changed forever
Chinese log imports reach another high
Former fire chiefs warn Australia unprepared
Local students showcase why they love forests
NZ timber exporter signs big Saudi deal
Australian Paper welcomes ADC findings
Former MD of Gunns passes away
... and one to end the week on ... vagaries of the English language!
The Chair of New Zealand’s Forest Growers Levy Trust, Geoff Thompson, says a positive vote in the current levy referendum is vital to maintain the support of government funding for the industry.
Forest owners are currently voting whether to renew the Commodity Levies Act Order which expires later this year after operating for the past six years. Voting closes this Saturday, April 20th.
Geoff Thompson says feedback from forest owners has been enthusiastic in support of renewing the order. “We’ve run meetings and conducted a formal survey of farm foresters’ opinions on how they regard the investment we’ve put mostly into forest research, but also harvest mechanisation, safety, industry recruitment, forest health and biosecurity.
That feedback has been pretty keen. All we need now is the vote to support that enthusiasm.” Geoff Thompson says he is well aware of recent lack of support in other industries for a levy.
“For our part we’ve worked hard to make sure potential levy payers know how the levy money has worked to benefit them. We’ve been transparent and gone to great lengths to get the message out there. We even broadcast a ten-week television series to inform farm foresters of the levy work progress.”
“However, unlike most other levy funded organisations in the primary sector, the forest industry doesn’t know who most of the levy payers are until they sell their harvest once every few decades. Most industries have levy payers who contribute at least once a year and so there is a direct line of communications from then on.”
Geoff Thompson says foresters need to know that not only is the levy invested in ways to help secure higher returns and lower costs at harvest, but that the levy is often paired up with government or other investment.
He says the just announced partnership of levy funds with government support is a NZ$29 million example. Te Mahi Ngahere i te Ao Hurihuri – Forestry Work in the Modern Age Partnership is a project to bring automation and robot technology into tree felling and log handling, which anticipates saving harvest and transport supply chain costs by nearly NZ$10 a tonne by 2030.
“This is a hugely important project which will benefit small scale woodlot owners by offsetting the size of their forests by clever use of technology. I would hate to see such development in our industry jeopardised by a small turnout of voters.”
Eligibility to vote is restricted to anyone who owns at least four hectares of trees planted at least ten years ago. Geoff Thompson says this restriction is because those who would be paying the levy are the ones who have the right to vote for it.
“The voter needs to have trees old enough to mature for harvest sometime in the next six years of the new levy order,” Geoff Thompson says.
Source: Forest Growers Levy Trust
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Following a one-day conference that discussed why wood manufacturing matters, especially in our regions, NZ Woods’ Timber Design Guide Manager Andy van Houtte launched “Design for Fire Safety,” the first of NZ Wood’s design guides in booklet form.
The guides are aimed at architects, engineers, developers, quantity surveyors, building consent officials and other professionals to enable them to better understand the advantages of modern engineered wood products and timber systems, confident that recommendations are in line with all current applicable Standards.
Mr van Houtte pointed out that the majority of New Zealand’s technical timber research organisations and developers had pooled their resources and expertise to produce these. The guides were originally envisioned as a series of five booklets but have become at least 54 (pending funding), expected to be rolled out over the next 18 months and funded by contributions from forestry, wood processing, research and timber technology groups.
It’s hoped the guides will promote the uptake of prefabricated timber components and engineered wood products in New Zealand’s construction sector, and help medium-rise timber buildings to be confidently specified.
This is an exciting time for timber, he believes. “Timber construction is becoming accepted for commercial and multi-storey buildings, and as a preferred material for prefabrication. Its seismic resilience properties are well proven, and it has strong environmental credentials.
“The guides should ensure good design, accurate costings and easy consenting,” he said. “With timber’s whole of life and proven recycling attributes, a more sustainable built environment can result as well.”
Timber expert Professor Andy Buchanan explained that these guides will update the more familiar “pink book” for engineering and architecture professionals, and will demonstrate the careful science behind the facts contained in the guides – which will be able to refute any spurious claims made by competing structural material proponents.
Dr Helen Anderson, Chair of BRANZ, Scion and MBIE’s Building Advisory panel, agreed with this analysis. “Good quality information needs to be readily available to professionals, so misapprehensions about timber’s structural integrity can be quickly dispelled,” she said. “At another recent conference, a UK speaker blamed timber in part for the Grenfell Tower fire of 2017 rather than the aluminium cladding and insulation. Such attitudes urgently need to be challenged.”
Science proving timber’s increased resistance to fire is one reason the Fire Safety Guide was the first to be released. Second will be the “Designing for Prefabrication Guide,” expected to be available in May.
Ultimately, Mr van Houtte would like to see a cloud-based, searchable library available through a dedicated timber design centre, although the guides will be available individually through www.wpma.org.nz in the meantime.
Mark the dates into your diary – if you’re a sawmiller. Two years ago – over two weeks – the WoodTECH conference series run by the Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) achieved a record turnout of sawmilling companies. They were drawn from throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Over 400 delegates from all major sawmilling companies in the region in addition to leading technology providers from throughout Australasia, North America and Europe converged on Melbourne, Australia and Rotorua, New Zealand.
Two years later, in September 2019, WoodTECH 2019 will again be attracting scanning, sawing, saw and mill maintenance technology specialists, innovators and leading practitioners from around the world to this region.
The two-day independent programme will again provide New Zealand and Australian sawmills a unique opportunity to learn about the very latest in technologies and operating practices from around the globe. “This will be achieved through a series of tailored presentations, practical workshops and on-site exhibitions that have been set up with industry”, says FIEA Director, Brent Apthorp.
Planned Programmes
The two-day programmes have just been completed. They can now be viewed on the WoodTECH 2019 website. For ready reference, click here for the NZ Programme and Australian Programme. They run in Rotorua, New Zealand on 11-12 September and Melbourne, Australia on 17-18 September.
Who’s involved. The list is comprehensive. It’s one of the largest gatherings of international sawmilling and tech providers seen at any WoodTECH event in this region. Companies involved in either presenting or exhibiting at this stage include;
USNR, USA/Canada, ScanMeg, Canada, Optimil Machinery, Canada, LMI Technologies, Sweden, Nicholson Manufacturing, Canada, JoeScan, USA, EWD/Linck, Germany, IWT-Moldrup Asia Pacific, Singapore, TS Manufacturing, Canada, SiCam Systems, Canada, GCAR Design, Canada, Lewis Controls, USA, Taqtile, Singapore, TimberSmart, NZ, Timberlink, Australia, Precision Machinery, Canada, Williams & White, Canada, Simonds International, USA, Winsaw Mill Services, NZ, Holtec, NZ, KeyKnife, Braford Industries, Australia, Andritz, NZ, ILS, NZ, Pacific Sawmill Engineering, NZ, Supply Services, NZ, High Duty Plastics, NZ, Modern Engineering, Australia, Thode Knife & Saw, NZ, Tui Technology, NZ, Checkmate Precision Cutting Tools, NZ, Saito, NZ, HewSaw, Australia, Stinger World, Australia, Automation & Electronics, NZ, AKE Sales Tech, Australia, Accurate Group, Australia, Indufor Asia Pacific, NZ, The Lean Hub, NZ, Fagus Grecon, Germany, Prodetec/Firefly, Australia, Phoenix Sawmill Supply, Australia
Further details on the tech series will follow. Registrations to both events in the series are now open and can be accessed via www.woodtech.events. So, if you’re involved in sawmilling in either country, now’s the time to look at options to get your production teams through to either of the two major events being planned for September.
Some 400 firefighters rushed to save one of Europe’s great historical and architectural symbols. The blaze, the cause of which remains unknown, raged for 12 hours, toppling Notre Dame’s 13th Century center spire in the process. The Paris Police Force deemed it extinguished on Tuesday morning, noting that the stone structure of the cathedral had been saved.
Even though “the worst has been avoided,” as President Emmanuel Macron said Monday night, early reports of the damage are devastating. They indicate that the cathedral’s roof and the frame that supports it are gone. That will pose a particular challenge to efforts to rebuild the 856-year-old church, which Macron has vowed to do. As the oak frame met its end, so too did remnants of Europe’s dwindling ancient forests.
The wood for the soaring cathedral was first felled around 1160 to 1170, with some of it coming from trees thought to be 300 to 400 years old at the time they were chopped. That puts the oldest timber in the cathedral at nearly 1,300 years old.
Replacing those beams with comparable oak is simply not an option, said Bertrand de Feydeau, vice president of the preservation group Fondation du Patrimoine. Trees that supplied the roof’s frame came from primary forests—forests that are largely untouched by human activity, he said, according to the AP. He surmised that the huge trees associated with primary forests are gone too.
Notre Dame’s official website notes that even in the 12th century, when the cathedral was being built, human activity was already a concern for French forests, with urbanization and land clearing making it difficult to source wood large enough for the design of the cathedral.
Since then, the impact of human activity on primary forests has only become more pronounced. Only 4% of Europe’s remaining woodland is primary forest, according to a study published last May, with none larger than 500 square kilometers outside of Russia or Northern Europe.
While forest covers nearly a third of mainland France, just 0.01% of it is untouched, containing trees around 200 to 400 years old, said Dr. Francesco Maria Sabatini, a lead author on the study and a researcher at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research.
“Primary forests are small, fragile and precious for biodiversity,” he said. “They represent ‘pearls’ or ‘islands’ that survived intensive logging thanks to their remoteness or historical accidents.”
Based on the AP’s translation, de Feydeau associated a tree’s size with its primary forest origin. That’s not necessarily accurate, Sabatini said; the oldest trees aren’t always the largest ones when we’re measuring a tree’s age in centuries. It’s borderline impossible to visually tell the difference between a living tree 100 years old and one that’s 400 years old, he said.
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It is with deep sadness and regret that we advise that Thomas Song, the founding Managing Director of Ernslaw One, has passed away following a sudden illness while on business in Malaysia.
Thomas moved to New Zealand with his family from Sarawak in 1990 following the purchase of state forests by the Malaysian based Tiong family. He then through a succession of purchases and development of new forests built up Ernslaw One to become one of the larger forestry companies in New Zealand.
He was also instrumental in assisting the Tiong family to purchase a number of other businesses in New Zealand through Oregon Group Ltd including the land development company The Neil Group and Winstone Pulp. He later successfully promoted the restructure of the NZ Salmon industry through the formation of NZ King Salmon Ltd which is now listed on the NZX and the ASX.
Thomas developed a reputation for being a strategic thinker and pragmatic in business. He was commercially astute and built high quality enduring business relationships. He invested confidence in his management teams and was held in high regard by the many employees of the businesses that he had oversight of.
Thomas became regarded as a leader in the forestry industry and gave wood processing his best shot. He pioneered carbon markets in the early days of the NZ ETS. His passing will represent a huge loss to the business interests of New Zealand.
Thomas is survived by his wife, Leh Sieng, his son Steven and his daughter Swee Sing and two grandchildren.
Some of you caught up with Thomas at the 50th Jubilee of the NZ Forest Owners Association in Wellington only 3 weeks ago or at the 25th Jubilee of Ernslaw One back in 2015. Thomas was in very good heart on those nights. Let’s remember him that way.
It's likely that there will be a remembrance service for Thomas in Auckland in the near future.
The Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA) yesterday launched ‘Growing Your Future’, a Federal Election Campaign targeted at planting more timber production trees in the right places and securing the future of native forest industries, Chief Executive Officer of AFPA, Mr Ross Hampton said today.
“AFPA has developed ‘10 Actions for Growth’; policy requests totalling more than AU$80 million, designed at securing the long-term needs of Australia’s forest industries across the full value chain,” Mr Hampton said. The ‘10 Actions for Growth’ and underpinning policy ‘asks’ can be found the campaign website: growingyourfuture.com.au.
“This suite of policies is designed to unleash growth across forest industries, from the businesses that grow and manage trees, to the processors of timber, pulp and paper manufacturers and emerging businesses in the bioenergy space.
“Australia’s forest industries are responsible for 120,000 jobs across the full value chain, and are worth AU$24 billion to the Australian economy annually. It’s vital that politicians, candidates and political parties take notice of what our industries need. This applies especially to candidates in electorates where forest industries are prominent in the economy.
“AFPA has developed electorate briefs, providing a snapshot of industries in individual electorates across Australia. They can be found here on the Growing Your Future Website.
“We are launching this campaign in Tasmania today, because we recognise how vital forest industries are to Tasmanians and the state’s economy. A poll conducted earlier this week for AFPA, shows 8 in 10 voters in the electorate of Bass regard forest industries as either very important or important to the economy.
“However, the Growing Your Future campaign is a national one, with billboards, advertising and advocacy across the country. It will also include a forest industries debate, in Launceston on 1 May. “I look forward to spending the next four and half weeks speaking to candidates, MPs and political parties, and convincing them to support our policies for growth,” Mr Hampton concluded.
Source: AFPA
In the 29 March issue, we highlighted a new web portal - forestrycareers.nz – that had been launched in mid-March by the Forest Growers Levy Trust (FGLT). The portal is a comprehensive starting point for anyone in New Zealand interested in forestry education, training and careers. It’s also providing much needed information and directing users to other relevant websites and sources of information.
A new generic forest careers and training video (see below) has just been produced to go with the other resources that have just been developed and can be used by forestry companies, industry associations, training and careers advisors and Wood Councils.
For your information and use, the Forest Owners Association have also provided other links, YouTube editions of the television commercials that are currently being run on TVNZ, some with a training and careers component.
1. https://youtu.be/fN35TXFgCUQ
2. https://youtu.be/bAZ1DWwe16s
3. https://youtu.be/_TC9jWJzVbQ
4. https://youtu.be/9_6amKS_x_o
5. https://youtu.be/1Qc1477cK_M
Also, see also the forest career profile videos, under ‘Industry Videos’ at; http://nzfoa.org.nz/ Please go to https://www.forestrycareers.nz/resources-2/ to download these videos for use.
See also Episode 3 of Forest Call, which was an episode dedicated to training and careers; http://ondemand.facetv.co.nz/category.php?cat=Forest-Call
Source: Forest Owners Association
Murdoch University scientists say parts of our climate change impacted forests may never be the same again. Hounded in the last decade by increasing frequencies of drought, heatwaves, insect pests, disease and fire, trees are often more dead than alive with their regrowth vulnerable to further climate change-caused impacts, the researchers say.
In a series of papers, the researchers have examined the recovery of the Northern Jarrah Forest in South-West Australia following the drought and heatwaves of 2010-11. Around 16,000 hectares suddenly collapsed after the disturbances.
They found that many of the jarrah and marri trees affected underwent a profound structural change when they began to regrow, from tall open stands, to short, multi-stemmed individuals with large dead trunks standing over the regrowth.
These younger, shorter trees are far more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, especially increased fire threat because of their thin bark and inability to resprout, the scientists say.
In the latest published work, the scientists found that the dead trunks represented a significant carbon loss and it was unlikely impacted areas of the forest would regain their carbon storage in the future. Forests play an integral role in the carbon cycle, absorbing approximately one-third of the carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels every year.
Researcher Lewis Walden said the team visited areas of forest from Brookton Highway to Dwellingup five times over the course of two years to document regrowth and measure dead and live pools of carbon, finding encouraging signs of recovery.
“But many of the stands that experienced die off are likely to be burnt by either wild fire or planned burns before they have completely recovered, so it’s unlikely these areas of the Northern Jarrah Forest will regain or increase their carbon storage,” Mr Walden said.
Researcher Dr Joe Fontaine said the Northern Jarrah Forest was fighting back, but it may not get the time it needs to fully recover. “We want resilient forests for many reasons, not least to continue to mitigate climate change,” he said. “But the next die off caused by heatwaves or fire could make the full recovery of some sections of forest unlikely - research is showing that such disturbances are occurring more frequently in our changing climate.
Unfortunately, there will be no silver bullet to ‘save’ our forests from climate change impacts. But by understanding the complexities of the forest, we can help to inform management practices that helps to retain our south-western forests for future generations.
Source & Photo: murdoch.edu.au
China is continuously exploring new sources of softwood logs around the world. Minor log exporters, such as Japan, Poland, Chile and South Africa all expanded their shipments to China in 2018, reports the WRQ. Of the major log supplying countries, only Russia and Canada reduced their exports to China, while New Zealand, the US and Uruguay all increased their shipments year-over-year. Log imports to China reached another record high in 2018, with New Zealand supplying 44% of the volume, reports the WRQ.
China had another record year of softwood log imports in 2018, when over 40 million m3 of logs landed at Chinese ports. This was the third consecutive year of year-over-year- increases, with 2018 volumes being up 37% from 2015. Although import volumes fell slightly from the 3Q/18 to the 4Q/18, the December numbers were the second highest monthly imports on record.
Over the past five years, import volumes have declined from the key supplying regions of Russia and Canada, while they have increased from New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand continues to expand its market share, supplying 44% of the total import volume in the 4Q/18, up from 30% just three years earlier, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ).
The biggest decline in market share has been that of Russia, which has fallen from 36% to 18% in the past three years. The only other major change the past few years has been an increase in pine log shipments from Uruguay. These have increased from just a few thousand m3 in 2016 to almost 2.5 million m3 in 2018, making the country the fifth largest log supplier to China last year.
The average log import price fell three percent from the 3Q/18 to the 4Q/18, mainly because of lower costs for logs originating from New Zealand and the US. The total average import price has gone up for three consecutive years. Although the prices have trended upward over the past few years, they are still lower than import prices in 2013 and 2014, when high-cost suppliers in the US and Canada had a larger market share.
Another interesting development is that Japan, the sixth largest softwood log importer in the world, has almost tripled log exports to China over the past few years, from just over 300,000 m3 in 2014 to almost a million m3 in 2018. Other smaller log supplying countries that have increased shipments to China in 2018 include Poland, Chile, South Africa and Germany.
Source: Wood Resources International
More than 20 former fire and emergency chiefs from multiple states and territories say Australia is unprepared for worsening natural disasters from climate change and governments are putting lives at risk.
In a statement issued before the federal election, 23 former emergency services leaders and senior personnel have called on both major parties to recognise the need for “national firefighting assets”, including large aircraft, to deal with the scale of the threat.
The signatories include: Greg Mullins, the second-longest serving fire and rescue commissioner in New South Wales and now a Councillor with the Climate Council; Neil Bibby, a former chief executive of Victoria’s Country Fire Authority; Phil Koperberg, a former NSW rural fire service commissioner and former Labor MP and NSW environment minister.
The document calls on the next prime minister to meet former emergency service leaders “who will outline, unconstrained by their former employers, how climate change risks are rapidly escalating”.
The group also wants the next government to commit to an inquiry into whether Australia’s emergency services are adequately resourced to deal with increased risks from natural disasters caused by climate change.
They said some large firefighting aircraft were prohibitively expensive for states and territories and leased from the northern hemisphere, and access to them was becoming more restricted as fire seasons started to overlap.
“I started firefighting in 1971 and the bushfire seasons were extremely predictable,” Mullins said. “They’d start in Queensland and move south progressively. You knew when there was a bad season coming because there was an El Nino and drought. In the 90s, I stopped being able to predict it.”
Australia’s emergency resources were still equipped for “what was happening in the 1970s to the 1990s”. Last year, in Australia alone, the NSW fire season began in early August, a heatwave led to fires in rainforest areas of Queensland in early December, and forest in Tasmania’s world heritage area caught fire in January, Australia’s hottest month on record.
“We know the problem, and the only way to get politicians to do something about these things is put their jobs on the line” Bibby said. “An additional concern was that Australia relied so heavily on volunteers during natural disasters. As extreme weather becomes more frequent, and fire seasons longer, that would put strain on the system and volunteers helping their communities were at risk of burnout”.
There needed to be a review of the methods used to tackle large fires, cyclones and floods that was backed by research from experienced people working on the ground. “We’re doing the same old things when things are getting worse. We need to find new ways to tackle this problem,” Bibby said.
Source: The Guardian
The videos are in, the votes have been counted and it is fair to say there are some very talented young people across the Limestone Coast, South Australia who just love forests!
The team at OneFortyOne have been overwhelmed by the response to their International Day of Forests competition, with 36 students from across the region submitting their one-minute videos answering the question “Why are our local forests and trees important to you and your community?”
OneFortyOne’s Estate Manager, Andrew Matheson said “We were blown away by the calibre and quality of the videos put forward. It was obvious to us that all the students had put a lot of hard work in and were passionate about the importance of forests and timber industries.”
The entries were assessed for their originality, creativity and relevance to the theme. Judges were delighted to see clear and well-informed opinions and ideas coming through, of just how important forests are for the environment, responding to climate change, regional jobs and fun for anyone visiting them!
“The videos were so good, that we couldn’t pick just one winner. Watching these videos has been a real highlight – reminding us all why we love forests, and that the future of our industry is very bright, and in very safe hands”, said Mr Matheson.
Major prizes were awarded to 4 students and their schools, along with prizes to the 3 runners up. The videos can be found on OneFortyOne’s Facebook page.
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A Kawerau saw miller has signed a deal with a Saudi Arabian customer to more than double its exports to the Middle East country and potentially ship around 1500 containers of processed wood products annually, its chief says.
David Turner, executive director of Tauranga-headquartered Sequal Lumber, said the "significant" deal could result in that business vastly increasing its exports to the Middle East country and the world's largest oil exporter.
But he emphasised arrangements were at a very early stage and he could not name the customer due to commercial sensitivities. "We have exported into Saudi Arabia for some time and been working the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise who have introduced us to a lot more customers around the globe and in particular in Saudi Arabia," Turner said.
"This new customer could take around 1500 container loads of timber annually which would more than double the amount we send there," he said. The deal was signed in November and would move to its next level this year.
"Our first trial shipments were in January and since then, the relationship has grown and I've arranged to meet the CEO in Germany in May. Now, we take the base relationship and build on it," Turner said. More >>.
Source: NZ Herald
Australia’s only local office paper manufacturer has welcomed the decision by the Minister for Industry, Science & Technology to accept the Anti-Dumping Commission’s (ADC) final recommendations relating to the dumping of A4 copy paper in the Australian market. The ADC confirmed that Finnish, Russian, Korean and Slovakian exporters of A4 copy paper have been selling dumped paper into Australia.
Mr Peter Williams, Chief Operating Officer Australian Paper said, “We thank the ADC for their commitment in conducting a rigorous investigation into the dumping of A4 copy paper into the Australian market, and the Minister for accepting these recommendations. By imposing dumping duties on imports from these four countries under investigation, the ADC has confirmed the ongoing threat of damage to local manufacturing from dumped copy paper.
“The Australian copy paper market has been impacted for a number of years by the importation of dumped product that not only puts Australian jobs at risk but brings into question the social responsibility of parties engaged in this activity. The ADC’s findings are an opportunity to restore fairness to the market enabling Australian Paper’s continued investment in the future of Latrobe Valley manufacturing,” Mr Williams said.
Mr Williams added that industry and the ADC must continue to keep a close eye on imports coming into Australia to ensure dumping measures are not circumvented allowing copy paper to enter the market below the injurious pricing level.
“Given the prevalence of this activity in recent years, the ADC should remain ready to investigate and take appropriate action to maintain fair competition in the Australian market. Importers should also be discouraged from sourcing copy paper from new countries willing to sell into our market at dumped prices.
“Australian Paper will continue to monitor the Australian market into the future to secure the paper manufacturing industry and local jobs. We encourage consumers to consider the country of origin and the damage caused by imports sold into our market at dumped prices when buying paper,” said Mr Williams.
Australian Paper supports more than 5,700 jobs through its operations in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley where it has been established for more than 80 years and is one of the region’s leading employers.
John Gay, the long-time former managing director of timber company Gunns, has died aged 75. John was born into a third-generation sawmilling family in Deloraine in 1943. After attending boarding school in Hobart, he went to work at his father's sawmill at the age of 15. He was operating his own mills at Oatlands and Bridgewater by the age of 21.
Mr Gay joined Gunns in 1974 to manage its Waverley and Summerhill plants. A decade later he was Managing Director of the publicly listed company. Under the direction of Mr Gay, Gunns exploded onto world markets in 2000, with takeovers of the state's biggest woodchip company, North Forest Products and Boral's forestry division. It doubled the size of the company and made it one of the largest hardwood sawmillers in the Southern Hemisphere.
Former Tasmanian premier Robin Gray said his friend of 54 years had been a great Tasmanian who would be missed. "He made a great contribution to our state, and a great contribution to northern Tasmania," Mr Gray said. “He worked hard to look after his employees, to create jobs, to create economic wellbeing, and to manage the forest industries that he was responsible for in the best way. We will miss John, the likes of him probably won't be seen again in the north of Tasmania."
Mr Gay is survived by his wife Erica and two children.
Source: abc
And a few more before you head away for your Easter break.
Ever wonder why the word funeral starts with FUN?
Why isn't a Fireman called a Water-man?
How come Lipstick doesn't do what it says?
If money doesn't grow on trees, how come Banks have Branches?
If a Vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a Humanitarian eat?
How do you get off a non-stop Flight?
Why are goods sent by ship called CARGO and those sent by truck SHIPMENT?
Why do we put cups in the dishwasher and the dishes in the Cupboard?
Why do doctors 'practice' medicine? Are they having practice at the cost of the patients?
Why is it called 'Rush Hour' when traffic moves at its slowest then?
How come Noses run and Feet smell?
Why do they call it a TV 'set' when there is only one?
What are you vacating when you go on a vacation?
And on that note, enjoy your long Easter weekend. Cheers.
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Junction Food & Drink to Open in Denver’s Colorado Center on October 7
Junction Food & Drink is set to open at 2000 S. Colorado Blvd. in Denver’s Colorado Center on Wednesday, October 7.
When the one-of-a-kind, chef-driven food hall makes its highly-anticipated debut, it will feature an eclectic collection of six artisanal food stalls in addition to Denver-based Sonder Coffee and Tea and its signature, 40-foot, indoor/outdoor Junction Bar. Guests will have the opportunity to select from a wide array of inspired creations from both locally and nationally renowned chefs, including:
Big Wave Taco Shop – Denver-based TAG Restaurant Group, founded by Chef Troy Guard, is bringing nachos, quesadillas, tacos and more to Junction.
Ebisu Ramen and Sushi – Chef Soon Choi, head chef at Sushi Den, will showcase sushi rolls, sushi bowls, ramen and a selection of innovative small plates.
Mr. Miner’s Meat and Cheese – Chase and Melissa Devitt’s stall will offer beautifully cured meats and fine cheeses in addition to salads, sandwiches and a variety of shareables.
Paciugo Gelato – Rob Prange still makes his gelati and sorbetti the traditional Italian way, with the freshest fruits and all-natural ingredients. The result is a light, unbelievably smooth frozen dessert with 70% less fat than ice cream.
Pete’s-A-Pie of Denver – Longtime DC pizza operator Joel Mehr will introduce Denverites to his chef-driven New Haven-style pizza – by the slice and whole.
Shawarma Shack – Guests will have a front-row seat to unique food theater with Chef Yaser Khalaf’s mesmerizing slow-cooked meats roasting on spits in the window. Sure to be an instant favorite among vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free guests.
Shortly after the grand opening, four additional food stalls led by some of today’s most cutting-edge local and national chefs will open, adding even more variety to the culinary lineup, including:
Bird on a Wire Southern Chick’n – The Garner Brothers are bringing Southern favorites like their Nashville Southern Fried Chicken Sandwich, Chicken Tenders and Southern Smoked Wings with tasty sides like Mac & Cheese, Fried Pickles, Waffle Fries and Coleslaw.
Grind and Grill Burger – Restaurateur Dave Garner and his sons will serve up fresh, made-to-order burgers – with unique twists – hand-cut fries and extraordinary shakes at their family-owned stall.
Lazo Empanadas – François Saber’s Lazo Empanadas are traditional Argentinian, farm-fresh pockets of perfection, created to bring out the empanada fanatic in everyone!
Smok Barbeque – Bill Espiricueta and the Smok team focus on classic barbecue from across the country with special notes from Kansas City and Austin, Texas. The house-smoked meats, shared plates, creative sides and sauces are both nuanced and forthright in flavor, color and texture.
Junction’s culinary variety and innovation doesn’t stop there. The eye-catching indoor-outdoor Junction Bar will serve an array of featured cocktails, beer and wine that will pair perfectly with Junction’s international food lineup. Spanning 40-feet, Junction Bar is sure to become a frequent hot spot as it’s the unique link between the food hall and a vast 4,000-square-foot outdoor patio, perfect for socially distanced gatherings. Once virus-related restrictions are lifted, the patio will hold up to 160 guests, and the combined indoor and outdoor seating will accommodate over 400 guests.
“It has been a long time in the making, and we couldn’t be more excited to finally open and start serving all of the workers, residents, light rail users, foodies, and University of Denver students and faculty throughout this bustling area,” says Pat Garza, CEO of National Food Hall Solutions. “There’s no other place in southeast Denver where you can find such a wide variety of elevated food options made by renowned chefs, all under one roof. Plus, we have a plethora of parking and you can easily keep your distance from other guests in the 12,220-square-foot indoor-outdoor food hall. We look forward to serving everyone starting on Wednesday!”
In addition to dine-in service, Junction will offer curbside pickup and delivery through DoorDash and Grubhub. Guests can also easily order online directly from Junction Food and Drink, park in the designated spaces and have their food safely brought out curbside to their car.
Of course, the safety and well-being of its guests and team members are paramount at Junction Food & Drink. In addition to adhering to all federal, state and local guidelines, Junction has implemented enhanced sanitization measures to ensure that recommended standards are exceeded. Some of its current procedures include:
Team members are required to wear masks at all times.
Guests are required to wear masks when they are not eating or drinking.
Cleaning staff size has been doubled from original plans. These team members are dedicated to diligently cleaning all surfaces from the doors to the sink faucets and everything in between.
Guests can order using a QR code at their table to limit contact and receive a text when their food is ready to be picked up.
Junction will initially be open Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sonder Coffee and Tea will open at 7 a.m., and Junction Bar and the other stalls will open at 11 a.m.
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Super Nintendo Saturday – Big Sky Trooper
Carl HoughtonJan 20, 2018Features, Retro Gaming News, Uncategorized0
Now here’s a game that felt different at the time of its release. Developed by Lucasarts and released in 1995, Big Sky Trooper was a game that had Lucasarts written all over it. Playing like a mix of Zombies Ate My Neighbours and Addams Family Values it incorporated various gameplay facets that for its time you wouldn’t normally find combined together.
Pure Lucasarts gear
Space-ship combat was a task you would have to undergo each time you approached an inhabited planet. Think Asteroids, but cartoony and you’d know what to expect. After this, you’d head down to the planet to start kicking slug ass. Using your trusty zapper-like weapon, it becomes a fairly generic shooter as you’re running around taking out the bad guys. You’ll come across ship parts, and parts which help to upgrade your character, so at least it throws something a little different your way.
I’ve got no idea
The game has a nice sense of humour about it, again, very exemplary of Lucasarts at the time. Whether it’s the 3 ‘gruelling’ tasks at the start of the game which include entering your name, or the cartoony visuals which have a certain charm about them, it has a familiar feel for those fans of Lucasarts adventure games. The dialogue in the game is especially wicked, and has that biting wit you’d expect from the studio
The obligatory ice level
Graphically, it’s an excellent looking game. Definitely showing that it is a later SNES release, there’s a lot of hard work gone into the details of this game. Had this been a release title, it may have been regarded extremely highly after all these years, instead of being largely forgotten by the mass gaming public. If a sequel suddenly got announced, I’d mark out like hell but God only knows where the licence for this sits now.
The big fat evil green slug bastard king himself
It may seem I’m waxing lyrical about the game, but it’s not without it’s faults. The soundtrack is fairly unforgettable and the sound effects are extremely generic. It definitely feels repetitive after a while, continuously finding planet after planet in which to eradicate the evil slugs but it still all feels ‘different’. It’s a hard one to put your finger on exactly. It played a small part in my Nintendo childhood and I appreciated it for its time. If you’ve not tried, it’s definitely worth a try, even if only to broaden your horizons to some of the SNES’s lesser known titles. Big Sky Trooper ladies and germs.
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80sNostalgia Classic TV Reviews
November 25, 2011 November 25, 2011 AnotherCraigThoughts
80sNostalgia, one of my other sites, is undergoing a huge revamp. It is moving servers for the first time in 6 years and, to celebrate it becoming a teenager, (2012 marks it’s 13th year online!) I thought I would treat it to brand new additional content.
The 80s was a huge decade, for TV especially, with hundreds of shows airing or making their début. Because it was so huge, I haven’t always been able to find the time to add new content to 80sNostalgia as often as I would like. If you look through the Classic TV section, for example, there are so many missing descriptions of Classic TV shows. I just haven’t got the time to write about them all.
So I have decided to open up a huge section of 80sNostalgia to you, fellow fans of the 80s.
If you would like to contribute your memories of 80s TV, by writing a description of a show and see your name in websitey lights, then please have a look through the list of shows below. It isn’t a definitive list of every 80s TV programme, as there are far more 80s programmes than I have listed, but it is a list of the most searched for programmes on here. Adding details to the programmes listed here first will be of more instant help to the majority of visitors.
If you would like to contribute:
Take a look at the list below. If you would like to write the description for any programme, please email me first (reviews@80snostalgia.com) to say which one(s) you would like to write a description for. Emailing and getting the confirmation that you are the only author first ensures that you are guaranteed to have your writing published. Without this system, if 5 people instantly write and email me great descriptions for the same programme, I will only be able to publish one of them, meaning 4 people will have written descriptions for nothing. This seems the fairest way of deciding whose articles to publish.
If you would like to write more than 1 description, please list the shows you would like to write about in your email, up to a maximum of 5. Whichever shows you are confirmed as writing about will be reserved for you for 2 weeks from the date of the confirmation email. If you do not submit a review for a show you have been confirmed for within 2 weeks, it will go back into the pool and someone else may become the author.
Only claim the shows that you genuinely have time and knowledge to write about. If you would like to claim more after writing and submitting your first ones, you are very welcome to! Doing them in batches of no more than 5 ensures you don’t take on more than you can deal with in 2 weeks, AND leaves other people a choice too.
If you have written anything for any other websites in the past, please forward a link to your work in your email. You don’t HAVE to have written anything online before to have your descriptions published here, but if more than one person asks to write about the same show it will help me to decide who to allocate that show to.
PLEASE use proper full English words and correct grammar in your descriptions. The people you are writing descriptions for are around the 30 – 45 year old mark. IF they are anything like me, they won’t understand abbreviated slang words or TXT spk. It will also please my friends, the Internet Search Engines.
The description should include a brief synopsis of the show, maybe talk about the characters in it, an overview of the plot lines, when it aired from and to, any memorable moments in it, and can be written in an amusing way if you like. There should be no bad language, nothing libelous, and no descriptions that could be seen as insulting – I’m often in contact with people who worked in TV in the 80s, and arranging interviews or competition prizes is quite hard if reviews on my site slander their work.
On average the descriptions already on 80sNostalgia are around 500 words. There are usually a few paragraphs, and a few pictures. If you can find the time to write the descriptions, I will add all the images.
If you can also include a link to the intro to the programme on YouTube, that would also be an immense help. It isn’t necessary, but it would help.
So have a look through the list below, and if you see anything you like (things with lines through are already written,) and would like to take part, just let me know via reviews@80snostalgia.com
The Adventure Game
Basil Brush
Batfink
Button Moon
Captain Pugwash
Charlie Chalk
Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers
Chorlton and the Wheelies
Count Duckula
Crystal Tipps And Alistair
The Clangers
Dastardly & Muttley
Dempsey and Makepeace
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
Dreamstone
The Double Deckers
Family Ness
Fantastic Max
Fingerbobs
Fred Basset
The Flumps
Going Live!
Grange Hill
The Get Along Gang
The Hair Bear Bunch
Hi-De-Hi
Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
Hong Kong Phooey
Huxley Pig
Inch High Private Eye
James The Cat
Jamie and the Magic Torch
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Jimbo And The Jetset
Jossys Giants
Kissyfur
Mary, Mungo And Midge
Moondial
Moschops
Mr. Benn
Mysterious Cities Of Gold
Noah and Nelly
Not the Nine O’Clock News
Orm and Cheep
Penelope Pitstop
Poddington Peas
The Raccoons
The Raggy Dolls
Real Ghostbusters
Rentaghost
Roland Rat : The Series
Roobarb and Custard
Space Sentinels
Star Fleet
Stoppit and Tidyup
Storybook International
Super Ted
Super Gran
T-Bag
Telebugs
Terrahawks
The Trap Door
The Tripods
Touche Turtle
The Village With Three Corners
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
What-a-Mess
Willo The Wisp
Wizbit
Worzel Gummidge
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Part of Chapter Two from my new release The Pirate and His Omega Thief
Captain Dagger “Cutthroat” Crowe stood behind his helmsman proudly smiling. He watched as his crew members steered the Beauté Noire away from the crumbling ship that once belonged to the Spanish armada.
He chuckled, hearing the captain screaming obscenities at him and his crew. They had just raided and plundered the ship, taking everything that wasn’t battened down. It was an easy raid. The Spanish captain and his crew gave up quicker than he was expecting. So quickly, he had thought they would be ambushed. Considering that they didn’t put up a fight there wasn’t a reason for Dagger or any member of his crew to lose their life or take one. He didn’t need to prove why he was given the name Cutthroat. He never second-guessed himself when he separated a head from a man’s body.
Dagger loved the sea. Living free on the wide blue was the life for him. The mistress of the sea had become his everything. She was his guide and compass, never steering him in the wrong direction. Without her, his chest would never be filled with gold, silver, and beautiful gems. Even with it all he wasn’t satisfied, he wanted more, and his mistress would sate his hunger. He could never stay away for a long time. She was like a siren, always calling him back to her side.
As a boy Dagger knew his life belonged to the sea, much to his parents’ dismay. Born as a part of the upper crust of the French society, he was expected to mate with an equally noble omega and produce heirs to continue the family line. His parents feared he would turn out like his uncle who was a pirate who disappeared just after Dagger was born. His mother was a duchess and a born native of the Jamaican islands. His father was a duke and the fifteenth cousin to the current queen to France.
At one point, Dagger was on the very track his mother and father laid out for him. He’d joined the Crown’s army and served dutifully, simply to make his parents happy. But after his parents’ death, something inside of him changed. They had gotten sick from a deadly plague that had taken over Europe, killing millions of souls in its wake.
It was two years after their death when Dagger heard the siren of the sea calling to him. Not wanting to be associated with French royalty, he relinquished his birth name along with his rank from the army as Lieutenant Mickael Beauregard, choosing the name Dagger Crowe. In his younger and misguided youth, he joined with the privateers’ ship. Under the protection of the king and queen of France, their goal was to hunt down pirates, claiming their gold and collecting the bounty that was placed on them. Even back then Dagger wasn’t settled and wanted more.
He had become bored with his life and hated taking orders from a man who seemed afraid of his own shadow. There was a point in time Dagger had thought about leaving the sea life after he’d joined The Rift. He would have gone home to France and reclaimed his name and title of duke, and possibly find an omega mate of noble echelon, but it was as if the mistress knew of his internal distress and was sent a savior named Captain Andrews. When his privateers’ ship was taken over by pirates.
Dagger remembered the feeling of elation, as if he was rescued from a life that was not his own. He was tied up and watching the crew of The Rift take all of their food and supplies. Captain Tomas Andrews didn’t need to threaten, his name was widely known for his ruthlessness and his hulking stature. It was once rumored that Andrews hung the head of one of the British queen’s most trusted and loved captains from his ship's bowsprit. Later during their time together, Dagger asked Tomas why he did it in such a manner.
“Never let a man think he is above you,” Tomas told him. “The queen sent her dogs after me because I went against her order. But what she forgot was I am my own man, and I bow to no woman or man.”
Tomas was a great teacher and friend. Thinking back, he recalled the first words he spoke to the rugged captain who later became his friend and mentor.
“Take me with you,” he’d yelled out to Tomas standing in front of the privateers’ captain, Captain Auch.
Dagger wasn’t sure why the hell he’d said it. He wasn’t a pirate, he chased and arrested them. But seeing how Captain Tomas handled Auch and his crew it was as if he was the captain of the privateers’ ship. In truth the crew didn’t regard him as the captain, they were in it for the money and recognition they got from the king and queen. They bragged and marked off the notches on their belts for killing a few pirates legally, but it didn’t amount to anything. The only reason he stayed with the privateers’ crew as long as he had was his desire to be one with the sea.
Tomas had asked him if he was sure that was what he wanted to do. He walked over to him and cut him loose. Being free to do as he will, Dagger ran to his cabin and grabbed the only things important to him, his family crests. He gave up his name but couldn’t forsake his blood. Without a backward glance he crossed the line over to The Rift, that he later renamed Beauté Noire, and became one of its crew members. And a beauty she was, with three masts, a square rig, and three large decks.
Dagger looked away from the map in his hand and turned when he heard boisterous laughter coming from the crew members. He couldn’t help but chuckle when Clive a new crew member tripped and dropped one of the chest of gold, landing on his ass. He laughed along with the rest of his crew when three of his men began chasing after the gold pieces that spilled from the chest. Seeing his men happy made him wished Tomas was still a part of their crew. He missed his former captain, the man taught him everything he knew on how to be a pirate with morals, and how to be feared by only his name.
The life of a pirate was not only to steal and plunder the seas because they owned it. Tomas considered himself a man that robbed from the rich and gave it back to the poor. Tomas was both loved and feared. That’s how he’d lived his life. With every treasure he and his crew found, he required each man to add a coin to donate to a children’s boarding house. Tomas had a soft spot for children and believed they should be taken care of, Dagger did too. The hordes of children that had died in the plague still hurt his heart, and each time he thought about his parents and their deaths did as well. As a tribute, Dagger carried on the tradition.
Tomas had found his mate on one of their port stops, quickly giving up his life as a pirate. An action Dagger could not see himself doing. He loved and lived freely on the sea. The only thing Dagger wanted was to find a bed partner in any port they stopped in before moving onto his next adventure.
He’d been with both men and women, omegas and gammas. He was not exclusive to one gender or took things like hierarchical status as something of importance. He was pulled out of his thoughts when his quartermaster Mister Smiths walked over and stood beside him.
“How long do you think they will be stranded out there?”
Dagger smirked. “I don’t think that long, I’m quite sure another ship will be along to save them,” he answered. “So, where are we off to, Mister Smiths?”
“Port Royal, Captain. We need to dock in the next port to fix the damages to the ship and restock our supplies. The little we got off the Spaniards’ ship won’t last long. And the men could use a good bit of fun and a romp with a sweet supple body for a couple of days.”
Dagger burst out in laughter, hitting the man on his shoulder lightly. “Maybe it’s time the men think about getting a matelotage and give the poor pegboy a much-needed rest.”
“Aye. Jacob is a good lad but no need for the men to tire him out,” Cooper, his helmsman, said.
It wasn’t a secret among the crew that the man had a crush on Jacob but feared the men would rebel if he took the pegboy for himself. Dagger shook his head at Cooper who hadn’t stopped staring at Jacob who had resumed his position on his peg. All Cooper needed to do was ask, and as captain, Dagger would make the boy his.
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Ashlyn hastily threw his meager belongings in his sack, running around his rented room above the bar he was staying in.
He needed to get the hell out of town before Vandal Dingle found him. The man had become a pain in his arse in a matter of days when they bumped into each other accidentally. It grated on his every last nerve how the man kept following him around town, like a stray dog begging for scraps.
Vandal Dingle wasn't good looking to say the least. But even if he was, Ashlyn was not interested in the man. Vandal was tall, with a large stomach that took up every part of his frame. He was bald with a scar on the left side of his face that went from his ear to his lips, down to his chin. He was missing a few of his teeth and he had the worst body odor known to man.
For goodness’ sake that’s why the bloody sea exists for a reason. He cannot be an alpha like he claims.
He froze when he heard the loud pounding on his door.
“Fuck,” he cursed and pressed his back against the wall and held his breath praying to the sea god the alpha would leave him alone.
I can’t believe the man fancies himself a pirate. He gets seasick at the sound of a bucket being filled.
“Come on out, little love, I can smell you hiding in there. I just want to make you mine.”
How can you smell anything over your own body odor?
“Not on your bleeding life,” he whispered, knowing the man on the other side of the door couldn’t hear him.
Slowly he reached into his pocket and pulled out his potion, downing the entire thing. He had just returned back from the local town’s witch, Talia, or that’s what they called her. Yet, she was the one they went to when they have an ailment. Talia fancied herself a doctor of witchcraft but makes an elixir that seemed to slow down his omega heat.
I hate I was born an omega. I wish I was born an alpha instead and didn’t have to deal with all this heat shite.
Ashlyn was a loner and had no place to call home. As an omega, he felt he was cursed in life by the deities. Each month his body went into an omega heat and he would need to find an alpha to calm his raging hormones. He was born into a lower-class, large family and was the third oldest out of a brood of twelve.
Both of his parents were born in Britain but traveled to the islands when Ashlyn was but a newborn. His family was poor, and it seemed they had more kids than food. When he was thirteen, he left with only the clothes on his back and never looked back. He doubted his parents even realized that he was gone.
It didn’t help that one reason they were poor was because his sire, Keaton, kept incurring gambling debts. They kept getting kicked out of every hovel they found to live in. Ashlyn hated that Abel, his bearer, never argued about being moved from one home to another, or never having food on their table. But always seemed to turn up pregnant and was happy about it.
Ashlyn despised the loyalty his bearer showed. He saw Able Tuesday as a doormat, making a vow to himself that he’d never be like his bearer. He wanted much more out of life. He didn’t want to struggle for his next meal. As much as he hated being an omega, he realized there were both advantages to his status and disadvantages. He was told often that his exotic beauty was unlike any other omega’s. His bright blue eyes, light brown skin, and dark twisted locks made most men and women weak in their knees.
After leaving home and realizing that men wanted him for being an omega and his beauty, he used it to his advantage. It didn’t happen right away. It took time for him to understand what his scent, beauty, and body did to not only alphas, but betas and maybe some gammas. Before that he would hide away and prayed no one would find him. After leaving, he stole, and in some cases begged, for food; depending on the kindness of strangers to feed him.
Ashlyn made it a point not to stay in one place too long. When he was eighteen he had gone through his first heat phase. He had no clue what was wrong with his body, when all he wanted was to rip his clothes off and jump in the sea just to cool off. He was thankful that no alpha was around when it’d happened. When it happened every month, he knew something was wrong, but he wasn’t sure who to ask.
He’d never seen his sire go through a heat cycle. It also didn’t help he and Able never talked about the facts of life. He never seemed to have the time with all the babies he kept having. Then one day Calista came into his life. She was an omega like him and explained that each month on or around the same time his body went through a heat cycle. Even knowing what to expect Ashlyn hated that his inside hurt so badly he wanted to die. He did not know what was happening.
According to Calista being an omega was a passage through life that distinguished alphas, betas, gammas, and omegas. Omegas were the beautiful humans in the world and pirates considered them to be sea sirens who beguiled them with their beauty. Betas were everyday people who did not have to worry about finding a mate or heats.
Gammas were one level below betas in status, they could also mate with and get pregnant by betas. Calista told him that omegas were given a gift thanks to the deities to bear children. Then how would the gods explain gammas? To Ashlyn, gammas were lucky with the fact that they did not go through a heat cycle as omegas did.
However, society dwelled little on the beta and gamma dynamics the way they did with alphas and omegas. Gammas also bear one child every five years whereas an omega could get pregnant each heat cycle.
A gamma and beta pairing or mating was not as structured, or loyalty based as an alpha and omega. If they so choose, a gamma could have more than one beta mate. Alphas and omegas are mated for life. Society believes that an omega is fragile and needed the protection of a strong alpha to take care of them.
Who comes up with this shit?
Ashlyn had been taking care of himself since he was thirteen and needed an alpha to rescue him. He knew well that Calista was looking for a mate. No one liked being lonely, and admittedly he got lonely sometimes. But each time he thought of finding a mate, he broke out in a cold sweat, and got nauseated. To Ashlyn having a mate sounded like a life sentence. The desire to be loved by an alpha mate sounded great, but the part about bearing the alpha’s child did not sound all that great for him.
He wanted to choose his own path in life. I need no man or child to hold me back from my goals. And why would I want to ruin my beautiful figure?
Since discovering that he was an omega he stayed away from people out of fear that an alpha would pick up his scent. During the other times, he pretended that he was a gamma most days. And since he loved women’s clothing no one questioned Ashlyn on his beauty or his true status in society.
With Vandal still beating down his room door, he was glad at that moment that he’d changed into leather trousers when he went to visit Talia for his one-year supply of elixirs. The bottles were small enough he could shove most in his pockets and wouldn’t weigh him down while he traveled.
He’d traveled a lot since he left home. Mostly by horse and carriages. But no matter wherever he went, he always seemed to come back to the town of Duns Fall. It was because Talia lived there, but, it used to be a quiet little town he saw himself one day settling down in. That was until pirates found his sweet little haven. The pirates were loud and brash, who believed that everything they touched belonged to them on land and sea.
Ashlyn made it a point not to get close to anyone, especially pirates. He also never stayed in one place too long even his beloved little town of Duns Fall. Talia and Calista were the exception, they pushed their way into his life even when he kept pushing them back. If an alpha or anyone else suspected that he was an omega he would leave town before they could catch up to him. Except for Vandal “The Stubborn” Dingle who didn’t know how to take no for an answer.
If Vandal was really a pirate, he was definitely a crappy one who seemed to have given up chasing booty for Ashlyn’s arse. The banging on his door became insistent. What the bloody hell is this fucker’s problem? There were many other beautiful men on the island, but it seemed he had only eyes for Ashlyn.
He didn’t understand the other man’s fascination when they’d bumped into each other at the local market. Ashlyn was looking at a white silk scarf that would have looked charming with his midnight blue gown he’d bought the previous day. After saying their apologies, Ashlyn went on about his business, apparently, Vandal took a liking to him.
They’d run into each other the entire week. Vandal tried buying him drinks and dinner for the past few nights and each time he declined the man’s offer. It was his way of courting the omega into his arms, Ashlyn heard him tell another pirate who told him it wouldn’t work. Ashlyn had gone so far as to tell Vandal he was already mated and was simply waiting for his mate to join him in two days. Rightfully so, the other man didn’t believe him.
He’d have left Duns Fall days ago, but he had to wait for his elixir to be finished. If only Talia was really a witch.
“Come on, pretty, open the door and let me in so that we can talk,” Vandal said on the other side of the door.
“Fuck no,” Ashlyn whispered.
Stuffing the small bottle into his pocket he picked up his sack from the bed and walked over to the open window. He froze when the floorboards squeaked and held his breath, wondering if Vandal had gotten smart and left. The pounding on the door stopped, and he prayed he was right about Vandal leaving. The man was large enough he could break the door down without breaking a sweat if he wanted to. When nothing happened, Ashlyn snuck over to the window and was about to open it when he saw Vandal standing on the terrace looking in the window.
How the fuck did he get out there so fast?
Turning, Ashlyn ran out of the room and down the stairs into the bar. It was packed with patrons, mostly pirates drinking their fill of grog. Some stopped to look at him as if he had lost his head for a few seconds before going back to what they were doing. Others paid him no attention. His heart was thundering in his chest, it was only a matter of time before Vandal burst in the room. Ashlyn scanned the room quickly, hoping someone could be a patsy for him in a pinch.
He spotted a group of pirates sitting in the back of the room. They were loud and rowdy, knowing it should be easy to spot the captain among them. He would be the only one with a large tanker of grog. Other than that, all the men sitting at the table with him would be vying for his attention. He looked out the window and saw Vandal about to push the pub doors open. Thinking quickly, he ran over to the group of pirates and sat in the man’s lap and smashed their lips together before the man could object. He ignored the pleasurable shiver that coursed down his back.
“Oi, get your hands off my mate. That’s my man,” Ashlyn heard Vandal roar.
Both Ashlyn and the pirate, he assumed was the captain, stopped kissing and turned to look at Vandal. Their cheeks lovingly pressed against each other.
“Your man?” the sexy man asked. The man’s voice was a deep whisper that close to his ear.
“Aye,” Vandal responded.
The stranger laughed along with the other men at the table as if they were all in on the joke. Ashlyn’s body however, was responding in ways it never had before to anyone since their kiss. He prayed that the man whose lap he was sitting on didn’t notice. A finger touched his chin then lightly turned his head to meet light gray eyes connecting with his blue. He also didn’t miss the devilish smile causing his cock to respond even more in his trousers.
Fuck, I need to get away from this man, now.
“Are you his?” Ashlyn shook his head no. But I can be yours if you want me to. What the fuck? His eyes widened at his thoughts. Where the hell did that thought come from?
“Lies,” Vandal said loudly.
“Are you calling my beauty a liar?” He never took his eyes away from Ashlyn.
“You bet your bloody arse, I am,” Vandal roared.
“I told him I was waiting for you,” Ashlyn offered up.
“Always, my loyal beauty,” he said as the tips of his fingers brushed against Ashlyn’s lower lip that still burned from their kiss.
Ashlyn turned and looked at Vandal, he was boiling mad. His face was red, and it was as if he could see steam coming out of his ears. Vandal went to lunge forward but was stopped when the captain stood up instantly, putting Ashlyn behind him with one hand and a cutlass in the other.
“We don’t want any trouble now do we?” the other pirate asked.
“This is a proper establishment. So be a good gentilhomme and be on your way now.”
Ashlyn looked over the stranger’s shoulder and looked at Vandal, the tip of the sword was at his throat ready to strike if need be.
“This isn’t over, Ashlyn,” Vandal vowed.
He stepped in front of the other man to address Vandal. “Just give up. Just please stop following me. I’ve told you before that I’m not yours. I belong to someone else.”
He turned and looked at the handsome pirate whose arms circled his waist and pulled him tighter against him. He wasn’t looking at Ashlyn but at Vandal, but the smirk on his sexy lips made Ashlyn’s heart thump faster in his chest.
Vandal tsked then looked at Ashlyn’s savior. “Watch yourself, I never forget a face.”
“And I never back down from a challenge.”
Vandal nodded and backed away before Ashlyn released the breath he was holding. His body was finally under control and he wasn’t emitting any pheromones thanks to the potion. He wasn’t sure how it worked or what was in it, but Talia was a lifesaver.
“Now, my beauty, mind telling me what all that was about?”
“Not really,” Ashlyn said bending down to pick up his sack. “But I must thank you ever so much for your gracious help.”
He went to step by the man but was stopped with a hand around his waist. He gasped when a muscular chest was pressed against his back. His body was reacting in ways it shouldn’t have, especially since he’d drunk the entire bottle of potion.
“Now, petit, where do you think you’re running off to? I can take you back to my ship for a bit of fun.” The pirate’s deep voice whispered in his ear. His warm breath ghosting over his ear, and the scent of rum on his breath made him hold back his whimper.
When the man’s hand slowly drifted down the front of his trousers Ashlyn stepped away, his hand held out, touching the other man’s chest.
Fuck, I shouldn’t have done this.
The man’s skin was warm even through his shirt, and Ashlyn could feel the muscles under the tips of his fingertips. He might be an omega, but he wasn’t interested in sleeping with just anyone. Hell, he’d never slept with anyone but his hands on a lonely night.
“Look, I appreciate your help, but I cannot stay.”
“No need to rush off after I just helped you.”
He stepped closer to Ashlyn and was about to wrap an arm around him, but he stepped much further back. He could hear snickers coming from the men with the captain.
“I would love to stay, but I have things I must attend to.” He wasn’t lying. He was running low on funds and he knew the perfect patsy to con a few coins from to hold him off for a few days. Talia might be his friend, but she still charged him an arm and a leg for the elixirs.
“You are a proper little thing. I like you already. So, what do you say, petit, be a member of my ship?”
“Sorry, the pirate’s life isn’t for me,” Ashlyn said and was off before his savior could say another word.
Ashlyn was running out of the pub, hoping his body would calm down the further he got away from the pirate. He prayed never to run into the man again but knowing his bad luck, it was bound to happen.
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By Haley Brettschneider and Reese Wolfe
“drivers license” by Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo held nothing back in her new single, “drivers license,” as she shades Joshua Bassett and Sabrina Carpenter. Her song is already trending and is next to the legend Taylor Swift on the iTunes trending chart.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are Reportedly Quitting Social Media
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced that they would be stepping down as England’s senior royals early last year; however, it looks like the couple is nowhere near done making significant changes to their lifestyles. In an interview with The Sunday Times Markle stated that the couple had “no plans” to utilize social media in the launch of their new Archewell Foundation, or to even return to their personal accounts. The couple is reportedly in need of a break from the mental-health-diminishing world that social media can become.
ELLE Guide to Georgia Voting in 2020
Georgia for the first time since 1992, became a blue state in the 2020 presidential election. Additionally, Raphael Warnock is projected to be Georgia’s first black senator along with Jon Ossoff, a Jewish senator also elected for the peach state. Be sure to check out the ELLE Guide to learn all about these new senators and Stacey Abrahms, the woman who made this all possible.
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Milap Singh v. Union of India
113 (2004) DLT 91; 2004 (76) DRJ 126
Judgment Details
Decision and Reasoning
Court: High Court - Delhi
Health Topics: Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals
Tags: Access to treatment, Emergency care, Heart disease, Private hospitals, Public hospitals, Reimbursement, Secondary care, Tertiary care
Milap Singh, the Petitioner, underwent an emergency heart bypass surgery at Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre (EHIRC). He was a retired government employee and also a member of the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), a government medical care scheme. On submitting his medical bills, full reimbursement was denied to the Petitioner. The Union of India, the Respondent, on the ground that reimbursement could only be up to the amount specified in package deal mentioned in the office memorandum of 11.06.1997.
The Petitioner filed the petition before the Delhi High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution (original writ jurisdiction of High Courts) praying to the Court to direct the Respondent to reimburse the full amount.
Sh. Balram Sharma v. Union of India
K. Mani v. Secretary of Government
Sarojini Sawhney v. Punjab University
K.S. Mathew v. Union of India
Laxmi Chand v. Comptroller and Auditor General.
M. Ramabhadra Rao v. Government of Andhra Pradesh
T.V. Rajagopala Rao v. Additional Director of the Central Government Health Scheme
Shri O.N. Chhibber v. Union of India
A.B. Colaco v. Coffee Board
Shri Prithvi Nath Chopra v. Union of India
As to whether the Respondent should reimburse the amount in full, the Court held that the Respondent should reimburse the full amount. It held that the right to health was integral to the right to life and therefore the Respondent was under a constitutional obligation to reimburse the full amount. The Court further held that full reimbursement of expenses incurred during treatment in a specialty hospital approved by CGHS cannot be denied. It, therefore, directed the Respondent to pay the remaining amount to the Petitioner within a month of the judgment.
“If the respondents have any grievance about the quantification of the amounts charged, it is for the respondents to take up the matter in issue with the…Hospital. But that cannot deprive the petitioner of full reimbursement of the amount as charged by the recognized…Hospital.” Para. 14.
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Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer – in what European countries are they the most popular?
Chrome was the most popular web browser in the analysed region in April 2018. On average, 58 per cent of PC pageviews were generated in the Google browser. Firefox was the second browser in terms of the number of pageviews (18 per cent on average). Internet Explorer landed third in the ranking with average 9 per cent share of views among the analysed countries.
CEE: Most hits from Chrome
Computer versus smartphone and tablet. How do we browse websites?
The most popular browsers in selected countries in Europe
Technological development enforces new approach to websites
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ATK to Buy Gun Manufacturer for $315M Cash; Mark DeYoung Comments
Ross Wilkers May 13, 2013 Contract Awards, News
Mark DeYoung
ATK (NYSE: ATK) has agreed to purchase the parent company of hunting rifle and shotgun manufacturer Savage Sports Corp. for $315 million cash as ATK seeks to grow its commercial and security ammunition business.
The acquisition of the Caliber Company is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions and ATK expects the transaction to close by the first quarter of its 2014 fiscal year, the company said Monday.
ATK plans to finance the transaction with cash on hand and funds under its existing credit facility and expects the deal to increase its fiscal year 2014 earnings per share.
Mark DeYoung, ATK President and CEO, said the company is acquiring Savage for its sales distribution channels and manufacturing expertise, among other areas.
Savage, comprising of nearly 600 employees, has been a portfolio company of Minneapolis-based investment firm Norwest Equity Partners since January 2012.
ATK intends to integrate Savage into its sporting group upon completion of the transaction.
Savage designs and builds centerfire and rimfire rifles, shotguns and shooting range systems for hunting as well as competitive and recreational target shooting.
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William Conley, chief technology officer of Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY), has been named to the board of directors for the National Defense Industrial Association's Central Georgia chapter. He will serve as a board member for a term of up to six years, Mercury Systems said Thursday.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a request for proposals for its indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Data Center and Cloud Optimization contract worth potentially $3.35B over 10 years.
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Embattled umrah operator arrested
VOC News has learnt that an embattled Johannesburg travel operator has been arrested. The matter relates to alleged umrah and hajj fraud. It’s believed the woman was arrested with her husband at her Lenasia home this morning. She’s currently being held at the Lenasia police station. A source has confirmed she was arrested on fraud and theft charges.
It’s alleged that the well-known travel operator has failed to refund customers who had booked and paid for umrah packages last year, which did not materialise. Muhammad Mayet, a Johanessburg businessman representing these mu’tamireen, said she owes her clients about R5 million in refunds and loans.
“We have been in touch with the investigating officer and he informed us of the arrest. She has a right to apply for bail, but we will vehemently oppose bail, bearing in mind she owes us 5 million rands,” he said.
Attorney Fazlodien Abrahams, who is representing five disgruntled clients from Cape Town, said his clients lodged criminal complaints at the Grassy Park and Athlone Police station in December and February respectively. Along with the 30 Johannesburg clients, they are hoping legal recourse will lead to refunds for the pilgrims.
Mayet added: “We as the clients will run with a criminal matter, in the hope that it will yield more results than a civil matter.”
Lenasia police spokesperson Hector Netshivodza says she is expected to appear in court soon.
“We have arrested a 62-year-old lady after she was charged with fraud and corruption in Lenasia. She is facing a charge of fraud and corruption after she defrauded a lot of people and she also tried to bribe the organization that deals with travelling.”
Source: https://www.vocfm.co.za/embattled-umrah-operator-arrested/
Annual Hajj pilgrimage put on hold for SA Muslims amid Covid-19 pandemic
Well Known Travel Operator Arrested for Allegedly Defrauding Muslim Clients
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Beastie Boys ‘Ill Communication’
October 12, 2019 hallymustang Leave a comment
I always thought the Beastie Boys were New York frat boys with way too much energy, a musical mish mash of rap and distorted guitars, they never quite fitted in to any style or created a wave of influence as so many artists in the 90’s seemed to do but apparently that’s just the way they liked it.
They never wanted to be labeled, the music they created fitted your own taste, rap, pop, funk, punk, jazz or rock, it was the musical salad that catered for anybody, with a few samples thrown in. By the time of ‘Ill Communication’ the Beastie Boys were already fifteen years and three albums in, starting with 1986’s ‘Licensed to Ill’, which spawned the party hits ‘No sleep till Brooklyn’ and ‘Fight for your right to Party’.
Rolling Stone magazine in its review of ‘Licenced to Ill’ somewhat gave them a backhanded compliment, which stated ‘three idiots create a masterpiece’, darlings of the critics they weren’t. But three Jewish boys from wealthy middle class New York families couldn’t care less, they were too busy navigating lawsuits from their previous record label Def Jam and weathering the heat from various social groups who claimed their lyrics were sexist and violent, which seemed par for the course in the 90’s, see Manson and Nine Inch Nails.
I did buy this CD in the late 90’s but it rarely got played, dust turned out to be its best friend. About a year ago I was surfing youtube one night after too many wines and discovered a clip of the Beastie Boys playing ‘Sabotage’ live on the David Letterman show in 1994.
It’s energy and rawness literally slapped me across the face, the next day I rifled through my cd collection and found ‘Ill Communication’ and another disc ‘Hello Nasty’ from 1998, I cleared the dust and played those discs for days non stop, I then downloaded ‘Check your head’, the 1992 album, ‘Paul’s Boutique’ and the ‘Hot Sauce…’ album. I was now officially addicted to the Beastie Boys.
‘Ill Communication’ debuted at number one on the Billboard charts in 1994, that was the year they headlined Lollapalooza with the Smashing Pumpkins, they were at the peak of their powers, especially when MTV had the ‘Sabotage’ music video on heavy rotation, that clip and its parody of 1970’s cop shows became a classic.
With all the instrumentals on this record you can tell that they’re a band that just love to jam, imagine them in your garage just going at it, they wouldn’t look out of place. Beastie Boys are the people’s music, unpretentious and workman like, albeit with great rhythm and confidence in each other.
I just love the transitions on this record, from the groove of ‘B-Boys makin with the freak freak’ to the tribal drumming on the instrumental ‘Bobo on the corner’, you just never know what you’re going to get, which brings me to ‘Heart Attack Man’, it’s 2 minutes 15 seconds of raw power, which shows the variety that keeps ‘Ill Communication’ alive after so many years.
The Beastie Boys would only go on to make four more albums, the last being ‘Hot Sauce…’ in 2011, the following year bassist Adam Yauch would die of cancer and the band disbanded shortly after but I’m so glad I rediscovered the Beastie Boys and ‘Ill Communication’.
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QuickBooks Online vs Desktop: Which Is Better For Field Service Business?
Posted by James Griner
Whether your home-service business is just getting off the ground or if you’ve been operating for years, a proper accounting system is essential to ensuring the fitness of your finances. By using the right tool to monitor your company’s money, you can quickly track your income, see what you’re spending, and find out whether your customers are paying their bills on time. And although the modern software marketplace is overrun with accounting programs, when it comes to small businesses, there is perhaps no bigger name than
For more than two decades, QuickBooks has been the de facto accounting software for small businesses across a vast number of industries. From restaurants to retailers and plumbers to painters, professionals in nearly every line of business have benefited from QuickBooks. And while for many years QuickBooks was limited to desktop computing environments, there now exists an alternate version of the software that’s accessible from any internet-connected device.
QuickBooks Desktop (QBD)
QuickBooks Online (QBO)
offer two distinct approaches to small business accounting, each with its own set of strengths and weaknesses. Yet this division between the traditional QBD software and the cloud-based QBO solution leads many home-service professionals to wonder which version of the software might be a better fit for them. And, indeed, it can be confusing if you’re not familiar with each flavor of the accounting software and what it has to offer.
So how do QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online compare, and which version is better suited for home-service companies like yours? This comprehensive comparison of the features — and limitations — of QBD versus QBO will help you understand what each of these options can bring to your business.
A Quick Look at QuickBooks Desktop
QuickBooks Desktop (formerly known as simply “QuickBooks”) is a version of the accounting software that is installed on an individual desktop computer and primarily used by one person. Businesses have relied on QuickBooks Desktop for decades, and many professional accountants are intimately familiar with the program. Updated versions are released each year, with new features and functionality added annually.
— Overall, QBD offers a more robust set of features than its online counterpart.
— With QBD, businesses pay for the software once, and it’s theirs to use forever.
— Your account can only be accessed from one computer unless you pay extra.
— Live telephone support is available at a rate of $89 for 90 days.
Pros and Cons of QuickBooks Desktop
Here’s a look at the biggest advantages and potential drawbacks of using QuickBooks Desktop for your home-service business.
Includes an extensive set of features
Doesn’t require an internet connection
Supports multiple types of inventory control
Better for businesses with complex needs
24/7 customer support costs extra
Can only be accessed from one computer
Software should be upgraded every 2 years
A Quick Look at QuickBooks Online
Unlike QuickBooks Desktop, which exists on a physical computer, QuickBooks Online lives in the cloud, allowing your account to be accessed from any device with an internet connection.
— QBO offers some functionality unavailable in the traditional desktop version.
Monthly Pricing
— Instead of a big, up-front fee, QBO is based on a subscription model.
— With your username and password, log into your account from any device.
— All QBO plans come with unlimited around-the-clock support.
Pros and Cons of QuickBooks Online
Here’s a look at the biggest advantages and potential drawbacks of using QuickBooks Online for your home-service business.
Offers a few functions not found in QBD
24/7 customer support comes with every plan
Accessible anytime and from anywhere
Easy to share access with an accountant
Lacks several features included with QBD
Not ideal for all businesses that sell products
Why Use QuickBooks Desktop?
There are a few situations in which QuickBooks Desktop might make more sense for your home-service business than QuickBooks Online would. One scenario would be if your company offers an extensive array of products and services, and your finances aren’t nearly as straightforward as those of a smaller business. In this case, your business could benefit from the rich selection of features included in QBD.
Here are three more instances in which it might make more sense for your business to use the desktop-based version of QuickBooks:
1. You sell physical products.
QBD includes an assortment of inventory management tools whereas QuickBooks Online only supports one method.
2. You want to use advanced, industry-specific features.
QBD has evolved substantially over time and now includes solutions for specific types of businesses.
Why Use QuickBooks Online?
While QuickBooks Desktop has been many business’s accounting software of choice dating all the way back to the late 1990s, in the modern era, the online version of the tool can be a far better way to go. The inherently mobile nature of QBO can be transformative for home service professionals who detest spending time at a desk, and the ability to share access with others can likewise be beneficial for smaller companies without an in-house accountant.
Here are three additional scenarios reasons why QuickBooks Online might be a better fit for your business.
1. Multiple team members need access.
If you share accounting responsibilities with other members of your business, QBO allows individuals to use unique logins.
2. You need real-time numbers.
QBO provides up-to-the-minute info about your finances, rather than making you wait for transactions to reconcile at the end of the day.
3. You want to add and edit transactions from anywhere.
If you want to be able to create and access your finances from anywhere, QBO gives users that option.
QuickBooks Desktop vs QuickBooks Online Features
To make it even easier for you to determine whether QuickBooks Desktop or QuickBooks Online is a more suitable solution for your home-service business, here’s a breakdown of which features they each offer.
Generate Invoices
✅ ✅
Track Sales and Expenses
Manage Accounts Payable
Manage Sales
Download Tax Reports
Schedule Automatic Invoices
Accessible from Any Device
Additional fee ✅
Share Access
$40 per user per month ✅
Integrates with Other Apps
- ✅
Software Install Required
✅ -
$299-$1155 annually $17-$760 per month
$299 annually Occur automatically
$89 for 3 months ✅
Multiple Methods First-in First-out Only
Industry-specific Tools
Syncs with a Bank Account
$10-$15 per month ✅
Encrypted Backups
$9.99 per month ✅
Limited by what your computer has Bank level 256-Bit Encryption
Customizable Reports
Industry Specific Reports
Easy To Add Features
Graphs of Key Finances
Must Have Internet to Use
Which Is Better for Home-Service Businesses?
For many home-service businesses, QuickBooks Online is the obvious choice. This is especially true for smaller companies, which don’t have an in-house accountant tied to a desk but that do have employees who are always on the go. QBO is more affordable and agile than the desktop version of the software, and its inherent mobility and unlimited support make the cloud-based version of QuickBooks even more attractive. You have the ability to function and use it anywhere and have the freedom to integrate with third-party apps like
. There is an ecosystem of over 250 apps that can be integrated with QBO, and this number is still growing.
On the other side, if you spend the entire day in the office instead of out in the field, have an in-house bookkeeper, and can be fully serviced by the functionality directly in QuickBooks, then QuickBooks Desktop is the better choice.
Getting Started with QuickBooks Desktop
Despite the many advantages offered by QuickBooks Online, for some business, QuickBooks Desktop might make more sense. If you’re interested in getting started with QBD, head over to
and pick the plan that’s most appropriate for your business.
Depending on how many users you want to share access among (3 or 5), you’ll either select the Pro or Premier plan. (The Enterprise version is overkill for the majority of home-service businesses.) From there, you’ll be prompted to download and install the software before importing your company’s financial information.
Getting Started with QuickBooks Online
If QuickBooks Online seems like an appropriate solution for your home-service business, it’s easy to get started. Begin by visiting the
QuickBooks Online signup page
and choosing the plan that meets your needs.
Depending on how many people you want to share access with — as well as whether or not your business sells physical products — you’ll likely end up choosing between the Essentials and the Plus plans. Each of these options includes a free, 30-day trial and unlimited live support. Once you’ve selected the plan that’s right for your business, finish creating your account and uploading your existing financials.
QuickBooks Update
Let’s now take a look at QuickBooks online in 2021, a program for years looked at as being incomplete and not being fully functional is growing by the month with new features. QBO was primarily frowned upon for not offering as much customization, being able to automatically send invoices, have job costing abilities, or provide the same security as Desktop. All of which has changed over the past few months to provide more functionality and make the system better and easier to use.
Back then, you couldn’t pull industry-specific reports and could only access mildly customized reports within the system. Now, customization has increased on the internal reports and more reports are added now, with over 60 reports included in QBO Plus without even looking at job costing reports, payroll reports, or other add on options.
Sending Invoices
As for automatically sending out invoices, all we need to do here is simply create a recurring template to occur automatically, and your invoices will be sent automatically for you after only having to set up the process once. Moreover, you can now send multiple identical invoices at once with QBO Advanced, and I’ll let you in on a secret: this is coming to QBO Plus also.
Five months ago, you could only use QBD if you wanted to do job costing, and we know that In the field service industry, job costing is very common. After the updates though, now we can track labor costs even if we don’t use QBO for our payroll. We can track job supplies, job time, purchases, and anything directly related to income or expense to a particular job. So what about our indirect cost? The hours of our office employees, rent, electricity for the building and anything like that? Well, QuickBooks is now working on an extension to job costing, which will ultimately make job costing in QBO much more robust than it is in Desktop.
Misconception #1:
you might think that since QuickBookscloud-based, security is an issue. Your data is hosted on a company’s server, which could be a potential target for hackers.
First, QBO is secured by 256-bit encryption, which is bank level, military-grade data encryption, also the most advanced on the consumer market. Second, your data isn’t just stored on one server at one time, it’s stored all over the world on multiple servers and is only parsed together when you confirm the login through email or text message.
Misconception #2
: big companies are much more likely to get hacked because they have more information, and the hackers will get a bigger bang for their buck.
Small businesses have become the biggest target for hackers, more so than individuals. Why? Because they have more information with records, customer files, payment methods, employee information, and money than individuals. The hackers don’t simply get your information, but they also get your customers and employee information too. Hackers know that small businesses tend to have fewer security features, so it’s easier to get past one antivirus program or a single firewall. QuickBooks also has a security team of people monitoring 24/7, and they can shutdown a server quickly when an intrusion is sensed.
Common QuickBooks Online Complaints
So why do so many people, accountants included, say QuickBooks Online sucks? It is hard to pinpoint as there are many reasons, but we will address a few of the most common ones:
1. Accountants are most commonly against it because QuickBooks Online is a new system, and it functions the same but looks different. The job of an accountant is now to advise you on how to grow your business from those financials and business experience in a specific field. With that being the case, an accounting solution designed for the end user is better so that you can get the most out of your accounting.
2. QBO was designed to be user-friendly to the end user not to the accountant. The screens an accountant is used to seeing are still there but hidden and not as easy to find. This means it’s “harder” to use because QBO is honestly more complicated than QuickBooks Desktop.
3. QuickBooks Online is a new program that you have to take the time to learn.
4. Early adopters saw what QuickBooks Online was like 5 or 10 years ago and were appalled by it and may still be burned by how it works.
In conclusion, is Online the same as Desktop? Absolutely not, it never will because Desktop was designed in the 90s and still looks relatively similar to that. Whether you’re searching for an ideal accounting solution to help your new business get off the ground, or if your an experienced professional thinking about switching away from your current software, one of these QuickBooks solutions can likely deliver exactly what you’re looking for. But based on the nature of your business and its unique needs, one of these programs is likely to be of more benefit to you than the other.
Housecall Pro’s
integration with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop
empowers our Superpros to securely import their customer list, invoice history, and price list data to Housecall Pro — all with a single click. And once a job is completed, each of the line items and charges that appear on an invoice will automatically sync to your QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop account.
If you’re interested in getting started with the QuickBooks integration,
now. And if you’re new to Housecall Pro and would like to learn more about our all-in-one dashboard designed specifically for home-service businesses, start your
James is the owner of Waterford Business Solutions and along with his team focuses on providing high-quality modern bookkeeping to home service pros. James has worked closely with Housecall Pro as a certified partner helping pros to clean up, setup, transfer data and understand how to use Quickbooks and Housecall Pro. Please visit
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HUD No. 20-093
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HUD SECRETARY BEN CARSON DESIGNATES THE RENAISSANCE WEST COMMUNITY AS A HUD ENVISION CENTER
The location will be the 46th EnVision Center to be named
Charlotte, NC - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson Thursday traveled to the Renaissance West Community in Charlotte, North Carolina and designated it as an EnVision Center. During the visit, Secretary Carson hosted a roundtable with local leaders to discuss the EnVision Center Initiative and how the community can benefit from the services provided at the Renaissance West Community facility.
“I am proud to designate the Renaissance West Community Center as a HUD EnVision Center today,” said HUD Secretary Ben Carson. “EnVision Centers were conceived from the idea that HUD’s true measure of success is not how many individuals we can get onto our assistance programs, but how many we can lift out of government assistance and set on the path to self-sufficiency. EnVision Centers work to achieve this goal of empowering all people to fulfill their potential by providing the tools they need to succeed, all located in one centralized hub.”
The Renaissance West Community serves residents in the community by providing a series of supportive services. In the past year, the employment rate of the Renaissance West community has risen from 46% to 64% and the families following the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program have increased their average income from $13,100 to $22,600.
A national initiative, HUD's EnVision Centers coordinate with federal partners and local organizations to empower all people to fulfill their potential by providing the tools needed to succeed.
HUD's mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.
More information about HUD and its programs is available at www.hud.gov and https://espanol.hud.gov.
For information about Opportunity Zones visit: https://opportunityzones.hud.gov/
You can also connect with HUD on social media and follow Secretary Carson on Twitter and Facebook or sign up for news alerts on HUD's Email List.
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07/09/2020 8:17 AM AEST
Novak Djokovic Out Of US Open After Hitting Line Judge With Tennis Ball
Djokovic inadvertently hit the judge in reaction to losing a point to Pablo Carreno Busta.
Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, reacts after inadvertently hitting a line judge with a ball after hitting it in reaction to losing a point during the fourth round of the US Open tennis championships on Sunday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Top-seeded Novak Djokovic was defaulted from his fourth-round match at the US Open after he accidentally hit a line judge with a tennis ball Sunday.
It was a stunning end to Djokovic’s bid for an 18th Grand Slam title and his 26-0 start to this season.
Djokovic had just lost a game to his opponent, Pablo Carreno Busta, to fall behind 6-5 in the first set.
Djokovic checks a the linesman after hitting her with a ball in reaction to losing a point to Pablo Carreno Busta.
As he walked to the sideline for the changeover, Djokovic smacked a ball behind him. The ball hit a female line judge, who dropped to her knees at the back of the court and reached for her neck.
After a discussion of several minutes with officials on court, including tournament referee Soeren Friemel, Djokovic walked over to shake hands with Carreno Busta. Chair umpire Aurelie Tourte then announced the default.
It seemed clear Djokovic did not intend to hit the line judge; there was concern written on his face as soon as he realised what happened. But players who hit a ball out of anger and make contact with an on-court official have been defaulted in the past.
Djokovic’s mood had soured over the preceding few minutes. In the prior game, he wasted three consecutive break points and after the last, which Carreno Busta won with a drop shot, Djokovic whacked a ball off a courtside advertising sign.
Djokovic shakes hands with Pablo Carreno Busta after defaulting the match.
Then, on the second point of what would become the last game at this year’s US Open for Djokovic, he stumbled while chasing a shot and fell to the ground, clutching his left shoulder.
Play was delayed for a few minutes while a trainer checked that shoulder.
On the second point after they resumed, Carreno Busta hit a passing winner to break Djokovic’s serve. That’s when Djokovic got himself into trouble.
His departure means there is no man remaining in the field who previously has won a Grand Slam singles title. Whoever emerges as champion will be the first first-time major trophy winner in men’s tennis since 2014, when Marin Cilic won the US Open.
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06/30/2014 09:00 am ET Updated Dec 06, 2017
14 Ways 3D Printing Has Changed The Art World
By Katherine Brooks
A 3D-printed portrait of President Obama dominated a few headlines last week, as the Smithsonian Institution welcomed the three-dimensional sculpture like no other into its presidential collection. The boom in additive art has been building for several years, capped off now by a major art museum's acceptance of the art-meets-science medium. In fact, it seems no corner of the art world remains untouched by 3D printing's growing influence, from architecture to dance to painting to music.
"[3D printing] is so disruptive," Developing Dreams' Kati Byrne stated in a video for the "Break the Mould" 3D printing art project. "It has the potential to change the way we create." With that in mind, here are 14 ways the technologies of 3D printing have already twisted and transformed the ways artists make.
1. 3D-Printed Masterpieces: Rob and Nick Carter's Replica of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.
Vincent van Gogh is well known for his sunflowers, as well as his uncanny ability to capture their glowing color and beautiful decay. That must have been what artists Rob and Nick Carter were thinking when they opted to 3D print the post-Impressionist hero's flora. And they're not the only ones with a desire to reproduce the imagery of classic figures. Dutch researcher and art enthusiast Tim Zaman developed a 3D photographic scanning system to do just that.
2. 3D-Printed Instruments: Joseph Malloch and Ian Hattwick's Wearable Instruments
McGill University researchers Joseph Malloch and Ian Hattwick created a series of 3D-printed, wearable instruments that employ advanced sensing technologies to transform movement, orientation and touch into music. We can only hope this is what some of the symphonies of the future will look like.
3. Sculptures Of All Sizes: Ioan Florea's 1971 Ford Torino
Ioan Florea, a Romanian-born artist, uses 3D-printed plastic molds to shape liquid nano-metals into massive sculptures, everything from a car to a covered wagon. He's inspired by economist Jeremy Rifkin, who foretold the current age of mass customization.
4. 3D-Printed Public Art: Ji Lee's "Mysterabbit"
Designer Ji Lee began "Mysterabbit" in 2013, a street art project involving 10,000 tiny bunny statues hidden in random spots across the world. From South Korea to Iceland to the United States, the small sculptures appear to be meditating and are meant to serve as miniature public artworks for passersby everywhere. Oh, and they're 3D-printed. As we previously reported, you can download a blueprint for the tiny bunnies and create Mysterabbits of your own (with access to a 3D printer, of course).
5. 3D-Printing Sound: Gilles Azzaro's Sculpture of Obama's State of the Union Address
French digital artist Gilles Azzaro turned soundwave into sculpture when he 3D printed a sprawling visualization of Barack Obama's State of the Union address. The piece is aesthetically intimidating -- it looks like a contained mountain chain of dark masses -- as well as sonically intriguing. Admirers of the sculpture can actually listen to the 39-second sound bite and watch as a laser follows the peaks and valleys of the complex work. (Not into the State of the Union? Try this Joy Division-inspired 3D sculpture.)
6. 3D-Printed Interior Design: Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger's "Digital Grotesque"
Architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger 3D printed an entire room, creating a 16-square-meter cube covered in unbelievable ornamentation ripped straight from the interiors of an alien house of worship. Titled "Digital Grotesque," the style of architecture is meant to defy "classification and reductionism," turning algorithms into tangible design.
7. 3D-Printed Stop-Motion Animation: "Bears on Stairs"
Yup, 3D printing has penetrated the world of stop-motion animation. "Bears on Stairs," from the London-based studio DBLG, involved 50 small, 3D-printed sculptures photographed over a period of four weeks to produce a beautifully simple two seconds worth of moving beauty.
8. 3D-Printed Garments: Xuedi Chen and Pedro Oliveira's "x.pose"
Xuedi Chen and Pedro Oliveira created "x.pose," a "personalized wearable data-driven sculpture" that links to a wearer's smartphone to determine how much metadata is being collected at any given point. The 3D-printed dress then adjusts to that data, exposing skin as you expose yourself online.
9. 3D-Printed Artifacts: Adam Lowe's Replica of King Tut's Tomb
British artist Adam Lowe spent five years making a perfect replica of the tomb of King Tut. And guess how he did that? Three-dimensional printing. “Every bit of micro bacteria is in its place, every crack, every flake of paint. It’s effectively like a portrait, or a performance, of the tomb from when we recorded it in 2009," he explained to National Geographic. (You can see an actual image of the 3D-printing feat here.)
10. 3D-Printing Food Art: A Sugar Sculpture And A Saltygloo.
Artists employing the wonder of 3D printing do not have to confine themselves to plastic and metal media. Sugar Lab has printed sculptures made entirely of sugar, while design studio Emerging Objects created an igloo crafted from salt panels.
11. Handheld 3D-Printers: LIX 3D Printing Pen
This captivating pen allows you to doodle in three dimensions, crafting "sketches" of sculptures that can serve as the blueprints for larger projects. Or, the minimalist 3D drawings can amount to finished products in their own right. The best part? This tool fits in your pocket. Imagine what Alexander Calder or Louise Bourgeois would have done with such a machine.
12. 3D-Printed Self-Portraits: Lorna Bradshaw's "Replicants"
Lorna Bradshaw channeled her obsession with sci-fi into a strangely dystopian project titled "Replicants," consisting of three 3D-printed self-portraits produced using varying digital processes. From pixelated blobs to quasi-mummified remains, the facial studies are a surreal take on portraiture that pushes an ancient form into the 21st century.
13. 3D-Printed Anatomical Self-Portraits: Joshua Harker's Sculptural Self-Portrait
We gave you deconstructed 3D self-portraits, now we'll raise you to 3D anatomical self-portraits based on CT scans of skulls. Such is the macabre work of Joshua Harker, who makes custom printed masks based on 3D facial scans.
14. 3D-Printed Artists?: Diemut Strebe's 3D Print of Vincent Van Gogh's Ear
We doubt good ol' Vinnie could have foreseen the ways in which he would affect the trajectory of 3D printing. Just this year, Diemut Strebe debuted his 3D-printed replica of van Gogh's infamous left ear -- you know, the one he chopped off with a razor back in 1888. Who knows, one hundred or one thousand years from now, artists might be 3D printing other artists. Why produce a masterpiece, when you can recreate an old master?
Deputy Enterprise Editor, Culture, HuffPost
On Our Radar Art Arts 3 D Printer 3d Printing
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Early in 1968, a group of young British musicians, born from the ashes of various failed regional bands gathered together in hunger, destitution and modest optimism in Luton, North of London. With a common love of Blues and an appreciation, between them, of various other music forms, they started to win over a small but enthusiastic audience in the various pubs and clubs of Southern England. The breakthrough came when they were offered the Thursday night residency at London’s famous Marquee Club in Wardour Street, Soho.
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The early Jethro Tull released their first Blues-oriented album, This Was, in the latter part of 1968 before moving on to more home-grown and eclectic efforts in 1969 with Stand Up and a flutter of single releases, including Living In The Past, in the UK market.
Benefit, Aqualung, and Thick As A Brick followed and the band’s success grew internationally. Various band members came and went, but the charismatic front man and composer, flautist and singer Ian Anderson continued, as he does to this day, to lead the group through its various musical incarnations.
Jethro Tull were, by the mid-seventies, one of the most successful live performing acts on the world stage, rivalling Zeppelin, Elton John and even the Rolling Stones. Surprising, really, for a group whose more sophisticated and evolved stylistic extravagance was far from the Pop and Rock norm of that era.
With now some 30-odd albums to their credit and sales totalling more than 50 million, the apparently uncommercial Tull have continued over the next three decades to travel near and far to fans across the world.
After forty years at the bottom, at the top and various points in between, Tull are still performing typically more than a hundred concerts each year. Ian Anderson and Martin Barre remain at the centre of a group of sometimes changing but highly capable _ indeed excellent _ musicians. Currently, Doane Perry, veteran Tull drummer of some 24 years experience, together with John O’Hara on piano and accordion, and David Goodier on bass guitar are to be found in the line-up, delighting audiences and continuing the legacy of Tull’s music with its rich variety and depth of expression wherever fans, young and old, want to hear Rock, Folk, Jazz and Classical-inspired music for grown-ups.
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HCM People: David Burns
Our road map is to manage leisure facilities, developing them into community hubs and ensuring the most in need get the most support
Burns migrated to Australia from the north-east of the UK
What’s the purpose of Collective Leisure?
To enable ‘wellbeing without boundaries’. This means no matter who you are, where you’re from or what your background is, you should be able to access education, services and opportunities to enable your wellbeing and reach your potential.
We intentionally trade to tackle chronic disease, build resilient communities and provide access to employment and training for people from marginalised communities, using a systems approach.
We work in communities with communities by following a set of values and principles, including:
1. Distributed leadership – the power of self-responsibility, taking the initiative and collaborating at all levels.
2. Resilience – cultivating resilient communities through building strong relationships.
3. Inclusivity – fostering diversity and helping to build inclusive communities.
4. Vitality – serving with energy and optimism.
5. Leading with empathy and compassion.
What activities do you engage in?
We consult to local government to help them deliver service excellence to their communities.
We design and deliver wellbeing and sports programmes for educational establishments and community groups to help disadvantaged communities, such as asylum seekers and refugees, and those from lower socio-economic groups and people with disabilities.
We combine these services with human potential coaching and consulting to help people work through what prevents them from realising their true potential and a fulfilled life.
Our road map is to manage leisure facilities, developing them into community hubs - ensuring the most in need get the most support.
How is the organisation funded?
Collective Leisure is privately owned. I co-founded the organisation with my fiancé, Jennifer Barker.
Which outcomes have been most meaningful?
We were only established a little over a year ago, but two projects spring to mind at different ends of the system. Setting policy and delivering programmes.
The first was the development of a best practice contract specification, focusing on social outcomes and strong governance, for the City of Sydney’s new Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation Centre.
The facility, designed by Andrew Burges Architects in association with Grimshaw and TCL, will be an exemplar for access and inclusion and is the biggest aquatic complex built in Sydney since the 2000 Olympics. You can find out more at www.gunyamapark.com.au
The second project was delivering a wellbeing programme for Bankstown Senior College, based around Collective Leisure’s ‘wheel of wellbeing’ to refugees aged 18-22-years from war-affected countries, such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. This has been really rewarding and has led to us becoming the official wellbeing partner of the Australian College of Physical Education.
We’ve also been working on the New South Wales Inclusive Schools Programme where we’ve partnered with Special Olympics Australia to deliver sports sessions on their behalf to children with learning disabilities and autism. We’re also employing people from asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds.
How do you measure success?
We’ve partnered with Substance in the UK to use the Views impact measuring platform to measure our service delivery. We are the exclusive distributor of the platform in Australia.
What are your dreams for the future?
Collective Leisure is becoming a leisure facilities operator. From there we’ll provide service excellence with inclusion being not just an initiative, but a mindset.
I strongly believe the social challenges we face (COVID-19 included) can only be solved when people and organisations work together across sectors, boundaries, and cultures, ie, when we take a collective approach. There is an opportunity for greater collaboration in the industry.
Australia is a long way from England but there’s a big opportunity to share our collective intelligence for the betterment of our sectors and local communities. I aspire to be a conduit for this.
I also dream of a world where the playing field is levelled – where the most in need get the most support and everyone gets an opportunity to fulfil their potential.
What can be learned from the work you’re doing? What lessons are transferable?
As we’re all part of the bigger system, Collective Leisure decided to align with goals much bigger than its own.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all members of the United Nations, has at its heart 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These are an urgent call for action by all countries in a global partnership.
Collective Leisure is tackling these global priorities at a local level, focusing on three specific SDGs: good health and wellbeing, quality education and reducing inequality.
Finding a pathway to align local and global priorities is critical if we want to change the systemic problems of our time.
The principles of systems thinking are not new, but are so powerful. I would encourage anyone in the industry to practice systems thinking, which is an ongoing journey of learning for us all.
Our own personal practice can become the strongest influence in how we understand and see the system. We believe that to manage others we must first learn to manage ourselves and then lead with compassion.
What’s holding you back – if anything?
It’s going to be a bumpy road ahead for the sector, with government budgets reduced and consumer confidence low. Pressure to meet operational efficiencies in running leisure facilities has the potential to decrease service levels, resulting in widening inequality.
What have you learned this year?
We talk about the benefits of physical activity, but we’ve got a long way to go from simply knowing about these benefits to translating this knowledge into action to reduce incidences of chronic conditions.
It’s taken a pandemic for the focus to shift from viewing health as the absence of illness, to a new awareness of the value of cultivating wellbeing.
There’s momentum growing behind the idea of developing a public health system based on prevention rather than cure, but we need whole system thinking to make sure no one is left behind.
David Burns CV highlights
• MSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Science from Teesside University
• Early career dedicated to sports development and inclusion – using sport to break down barriers in disadvantaged communities
• Created a Sportability Club and coached children and young people with disability in Middlesbrough
• Worked in grassroots football for the North Riding County Football Association as a football development officer
• Kick-started a 10 year football development programme tackling crime, unemployment, health and education for Hartlepool Council, as social inclusion football development officer
• Moved to Australia, worked in the aquatics leisure industry as a contract manager for local government, overseeing the City of Sydney’s aquatic leisure facilities and as a regional manager overseeing aquatic leisure facilities in the private sector, with Belgravia Leisure
• Founded Collective Leisure with fiancé, Jennifer Barker
• Launched a weekly show called ‘Part of the system’ on social media, interviewing people from organisations across all relevant sectors www.HCMmag.com/burns
• Currently four subjects into a masters degree in social impact
leisure management social enterprise
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that the state would begin reporting probable coronavirus deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention based on new guidelines as the nation grapples with how to count the mounting death toll while there is still very limited testing.
Cuomo said the state would “rationalize those new reporting requirements with local governments and get that information out as soon as we can.”
The state will also get in contact with nursing homes and facilities to find out whether there were other people who died from COVID-19, the disease associated with the coronavirus, who were not necessarily in hospitals or nursing homes at the time, he said.
“There is a sense that there may be additional people who have passed away and they weren’t included in the count because they weren’t in a hospital, they weren’t in a nursing home, so we’ll be going through that,” he said.
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There were more than 213,000 known positive cases of coronavirus in the state as of Wednesday, with more than 11,500 confirmed deaths thus far. But that does not include thousands of probable deaths that New York City started reporting this week.
The city said that as of Tuesday evening, it had more than 111,400 known cases, with 6,840 known deaths and 4,059 probable deaths.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that he thought reporting the number of probable deaths was important “to portray the larger reality” and “sheer totality” of the crisis.
The city also released data showing that from March 11 to April 13, there were 8,184 deaths that were not known to be confirmed or probable coronavirus cases.
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Asked about the numbers Wednesday, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, commissioner of the city Health Department, said the “unfortunate reality is there have been people who have died either directly because of COVID or indirectly because of COVID.”
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Barbot said that it was important to take the number of more than 8,000 and compare it to the number of deaths during the same period last year — and that there were “roughly 3,000 deaths above what would have been anticipated.”
Barbot said only time would tell what that number really meant. Some deaths, for example, could have been registered as having been caused by heart attacks because people had not yet developed coronavirus symptoms, when they should have been counted as probable COVID-19 victims, she said.
“I don’t know that we will ever be able to answer that question fully,” she said.
The city said a death was classified as probably due to the coronavirus if the deceased had no known positive laboratory test for the virus but the death certificate listed the cause of death as “COVID-19” or an equivalent.
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A death was classified as not known to be confirmed as or probably coronavirus-related if the deceased had no known positive lab test and the death certificate did not list COVID-19 or an equivalent as a cause of death.
In a statement to NBC News on Tuesday regarding the probable death count, Barbot said, “We are focused on ensuring that every New Yorker who died because of COVID-19 gets counted.”
“While these data reflect the tragic impact that the virus has had on our city, they will also help us to determine the scale and scope of the epidemic and guide us in our decisions,” she said.
As the crisis continues, state data regarding deaths and probable deaths are likely to be available more quickly than national data because of all of the coordination involved, said Dr. Jason Farley, a professor of nursing and a nurse practitioner in the division of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University schools of nursing and medicine.
There were more than 632,800 confirmed cases in the United States, with 27,850 known deaths, according to data from John Hopkins.
In terms of probable deaths, clinicians would have to decide whether a patient was positive and had another health issue and whether the virus contributed to the patient’s death, Farley said.
When it comes to reporting deaths to the CDC, medical professionals have to make a decision at a patient level, then report at a facility level, then at a city and/or state level and then eventually to the CDC, he said.
“All of those steps have to occur in order to get us what we appear to believe to be national death or mortality related to COVID,” he said
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Farley said case fatality rates were a “moving target” and would continue to be uncertain until more testing was available.
He said current death percentages could be skewed, as only patients with known symptoms were being tested. In addition, people may be tested late in their symptom spectrums or too early and test negative, but they could have still had the disease, he said.
Another challenge would be analyzing potential indirect deaths related to the coronavirus, such as those of people who were not able to get treatment until late into their health complications.
“Because it’s hard to monitor, ‘Is this a ripple effect of the current pandemic?’ is an extremely important question,” he said.
“We know that late presentation to care for serious, chronic illness can result in increased both morbidity and mortality,” he said.
Farley said that to successfully combat the virus and begin to reopen the economy, antibody testing would need to be “widely available” to the public.
“We just need to make this testing available to as many people as possible,” he said.
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Henbury residents may recall our article a couple of months ago about the threat to a recently-planted area of trees in Henbury, due to the proposed development of former Greenbelt land opposite the Cock Inn.
Indeed, many residents wrote to support the request for a Tree Preservation order, submitted to Cheshire East Council by one of our Parish Councillors (and Tree Warden) Simon Browne.
Unfortunately, Simon has now been informed that the site is not deemed suitable for a TPO. Simon commented "A big issue to me is that the site was submitted to the Cheshire East Local Plan with the trees being retained, and once accepted the trees were then removed".
Cheshire East response is below:
Thank you for your email requesting the protection of trees located on land off Chester Road, Henbury. I can confirm that a site visit was carried out on 19thOctober and an amenity evaluation assessment undertaken to assess the value and visual prominence of the new planting which was the primary area of concern for the messages in support of a Tree Preservation Order.
The Assessment has concluded that the quality and significance of this planting is deemed relatively low and on this basis it is considered that a Tree Preservation Order would not be deemed appropriate in this instance. It is considered that the loss of the trees would be relatively insignificant in terms of impact on the wider amenity of the area and that such losses which could be replaced elsewhere within the site and in a relatively short time frame. As you're aware the area is a Strategic Site (LPS 18) identified in the adopted Cheshire East Local Plan and that site specific principles for the site do make provision for new planting and to improve the greenbelt boundary through tree planting and landscaping
Alternative methods of evaluating the value of the trees and appropriateness for a TPO were carried out at this site, however all these evaluations brought the site out as having a low score, below that of what would be required for a TPO.
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A Light Filled Adobe Embraces Nostalgia and California Cool
By Siobhan Murphy Updated May 28, 2019
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Who: Meghan Phillips
Where: Sacramento, California
Style: California ranch-style adobe
For Meghan Phillips, the neighborhood and house she now lives in with her family was a match made in heaven. She's the founder/CEO of Honey, a design, marketing, and strategy company. Her husband Christopher is chief counsel for the Cannabis Control Appeals Panel for the state of California. They both loved the idea of living just close enough to their jobs in the urban core but still in a nook of Sacramento that has an almost rural, small town feel. "It's full of peacocks and chickens running wild, horse properties, and even a small farm the kids love," Phillips says.
As they pulled up to see the ranch-style adobe three years ago, it was love at first sight. The couple both grew up in the Sonoma area, so the four-bedroom, three-bathroom home immediately brought on waves of nostalgia and a feeling of being right at home. Phillips was in. "The house had soul exuding from it, and we knew we could bring it to life with our family in it," she recalls.
At first they really had no idea how much handcrafted labor and history came with it. "We felt it was well-loved by the family selling it, and you could tell many memories were shared here, but we knew it needed some immediate work to honor all of this," Phillips shares.
They quickly discovered their 90-year-old neighbor's father had built the adobes in the area and when he was 19 years old, he hand carved the home's front door. "It's still one of our most treasured pieces." For a short time, the house was even used as an elementary school for the neighborhood and orchard workers.
"The largest changes we've made so far have been to celebrate the adobe and the home's storied history," Phillips says. Each adobe brick in the home was hand formed on location during the original construction. But when they bought the house, all the interior walls were painted apple red. "It took six coats of paint to get the bricks back to adobe white."
When it came time to design the interior space, Phillips turned to the team at Design Shop. "We embraced an Ojai-style design paired with a neutral, bohemian feel," she says.
For Phillips this meant bringing in local art and textiles throughout the home but remaining practical. "There is something about a nice pillow and couch that will stand the test of two kids and two dogs."
The first room they tackled was the living room. Huge windows open up to the backyard allowing natural light to fill the space, accentuating the bricks, beams, and artwork.
For decor, they love turning to local resources like Kechmara for rugs and textiles, Public Land for art, cactuses, and succulents, and the Verge Art Auction, which they attend every year and find work from local emerging artists.
Design Shop also has a brick and mortar store where a lot of inspiration was found. Phillips loves to find art and other treasures online at Leif and Furbish.
Some of the home's favorite elements are very personal.
Both of the kids' beds are from Meghan and Chris' childhoods. "I love that they sleep where we slept as kids," Phillips says.
The desk in her son's room is from the '40s and belonged to her father-in-law. "It's the perfect size for him!"
They also worked with Oliver John Partners to create a more native California feel in the landscape both out front and in their backyard, where the family spends lots of time together under a back patio area.
As for what's next on the list of home improvement projects, Phillips muses the timeline will be forever. Like the company she started, the house continues to evolve. She says that Honey is a genuine reflection of passion. "It's intimate and real work. Human connection is everything and it makes for better design." She still wakes up every day passionate about what she does and every client she supports, from the most recognizable wine labels in the world, to the smallest prune farmer just outside of Sacramento, "All of it matters."
You can see how this approach is reflected in their home. "Great design is a soul connection," Phillips shares. "Whether it's between an artist and a client or a house and a family. Dig deep and bring out the genuine. Our home is not the flashiest on the block, but it's full of honest character."
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Architecture: "Sacramento has some of the most incredible murals from artists locally and around the world. Wide Open Walls is a project each year that activates artists. I love walking through our city and seeing such diverse and powerful art."
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When people come visit, I would take them to: The American River Parkway — "We have 32 miles of uninterrupted trail along the American River!" | Tres Hermanas — "For tacos and margaritas!"
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Turkey, Russia to discuss trade on agricultural products in Sochi
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Turkey and Russia will discuss ways to enhance trade on agricultural products as the former expects the lifting of all sanctions imposed on Turkish food supplies amid an acceleration in the normalization of bilateral ties between the two countries.
Turkish Agriculture Minister Faruk Çelik will meet Russian counterpart Alexandr Tkachyov on Nov. 18 in Sochi on the sidelines of an international agriculture fair with the participation of a large delegation from both sides.
Russia has lifted some of the trade sanctions it imposed on Turkish products after Ankara expressed its regret for the downing of a Russian warplane on Nov. 24, 2015.
The Turkish and Russian presidents, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin, have held three separate meetings since July and signed the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline as well as agreed to further develop ties in the field of economy, trade, transportation and tourism. However, there are still some restrictions imposed on the Turkish export of agricultural products to Russia.
“In our meeting in Sochi, we’ll discuss all these issues,” Çelik told the Hürriyet Daily News on Nov. 17 in an interview. “Sanctions will be lifted but it will take some time. Our geography and our agricultural products are indispensable for Russia. They have to import our tomatoes and citrus products.”
Russia imported some of its needs from other countries while it imposed sanctions on Turkey but talks to be held between the two countries would open the doors of the Russian market to Turkish products, the minister said.
However, the agenda of the two ministers will not be limited to the lifting of sanctions. Russia recently proposed exporting red meat to Turkey in order to supply the needs of the Turkish market. “It’s no secret that we have a deficiency in red meat, and we need to import it. Our need is around 150,000 and 200,000 tons. And they are proposing to supply a part of it,” Çelik said.
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Another important project is to promote organic agriculture, the minister stated, underlining that they had designated four provinces for completely organic agriculture. “We recently had a meeting and we will declare Gümüşhane, Bayburt, Rize and Artvin as towns where only organic agriculture will be conducted. That’s what we are planning for tea production. There will be no use of any chemical fertilizers,” he said.
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City on a Hill: S01.E01. “The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice”
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Screen Capture: A scene from the Michael Cuesta-directed City on a Hill episode ‘The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice.’
Did you see Kevin Bacon’s return Friday, 7 June 2019 with the series premiere of City on a Hill? Based on an original idea by Ben Affleck and Chuck MacLean, inclusive of Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Amanda Clayton, Kevin Dunn and Jill Hennessy, the new Showtime series features an extraordinary assemblage of television talent. While the series premiere was made available to online viewers Friday, 7 June 2019, the televised viewing will not take place on Showtime until nine days later, Sunday, 16 June 2019.
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What is City on a Hill About?
City on a Hill, set in Boston during the early 1990s, is a period crime drama. As period dramas go, City on a Hill is quintessentially an American production. Except for possibly North & South, City on a Hill does not have all the fanciness one typically associates with period pieces produced across the pond.
During the 1990s, Boston was synonymous with a violent criminal element. It was not as much encouraged but emboldened by certain law enforcement agencies. Until everything changed, corruption and tribalism within the agencies were a way of life for many Bostonians.
The idea, having come from both Affleck and MacLean, is a fictional interpretation of Operation Ceasefire. Operation Ceasefire, a problem-oriented policing initiative which was implemented in 1996 specifically designed to target the growing youth gun violence issues Boston was facing, is best known as the Boston Miracle.
After District Attorney Decourcy Ward (Aldis Hodge) arrives in Boston, the Brooklyn attorney forms a seemingly unlikely alliance with FBI veteran Jackie Rohr (Kevin Bacon). Rohr, a corrupt but somewhat venerated FBI agent, has a stake in maintaining the status quo.
Together, when Ward and Rohr take on the Ryan family, the two men find they have common ground. The Ryan family, Frankie Ryan (Jonathan Tucker), Jimmy Ryan (Mark O’Brien) and Tommy Hayes (James Michael Cummings), is a formidable family armoured car robbers from Charlestown. As a result, with significant growth to the case, the backdraft eventually encompasses the entirety of Boston’s criminal justice system.
The Series Premiere
With the song ‘Feel I’m goin’ back to Massachusetts’ playing as the backdrop, the Michael Cuesta-directed episode ‘The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice’ begins with the captions:
In October 1989, a white man – Charles “Chuck” STUART – killed his wife, wounded himself and then claimed the killer was black.
During the investigation, the Boston Police Department used intimidation and coercion, eventually charging a black man.
But then Stuart’s brother told the truth, leading Stuart to commit suicide… and all hell broke loose.
Screen Capture: Kevin Bacon and Michael O’Keefe as Jackie Rohr and Agent Clasby, respectively, in the Michael Cuesta-directed City on a Hill episode ‘The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice.’
Quickly transitioning to a scene of a funeral, we find FBI agents Jackie Rohr (Kevin Bacon) and Clasby (Michael O’Keefe) arriving to pay their ‘respects.’ Considering their conversation on entering the reception hall, for what was expressed, ‘respects’ is too strong a word. There is no evidence of ‘respect’ in the words Rohr uses for Stuart. What would one expect? This is a guy that had an innocent man arrested, charged and sent to prison for his wife’s murder and then committed suicide because his brother revealed the truth. Rohr is seemingly upset because “it’s a civil place to live now.” Clasby is right. It’s not 1983 anymore. Society is changing.
Getting Coffee
Screen Capture: Aldis Hodge and Jere Shea as Decourcy Ward and Hank Signa, respectively, in the Michael Cuesta-directed City on a Hill episode ‘The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice.’
The first time we see Decourcy Ward (Aldis Hodge) is when he is getting coffee with a reporter. On entry to the coffee shop, two cops immediately see the district attorney at the coffee shop counter. Because of Ward’s work, one of the cops takes offence by the DA’s presence and deliberately knocks into Ward. Ward’s coffee spills down his coat. If this were anyone else, there is a good chance the DA would have simply walked out of the premises without a word said. Ward does not take kindly to the cop’s attitude. As far as Ward is concerned, he was only doing his job.
Ward believes cops should be held accountable for their actions. The DA walks up to the counter and stares directly at the cops for a moment. Ward catches the attention of the person behind the counter and tells him, “Their coffee is on me. Keep the change.” Ward turns to the cop that knocked his coffee from his hand and thanks the officer for his service.
This scene marks the end of the pre-opening credits sequence. Introductions to the two principal characters, Rohr and Ward, have been made.
A Search Warrant is Being Typed
The opening scene of the series premiere begins with a search warrant being typed on a typewriter. If anything screams period drama, it is the use of a typewriter rather than a computer to complete a search warrant. Who uses a typewriter to complete search warrants anymore? No one, probably, but it’s not a contemporary drama. It’s set in the 1990s. In the period in which the drama is set, the likelihood of individuals processing a search warrant via a computer is remote. Even though computers were a thing, the old tried and true methods were still in operation.
Going In…
Screen Capture: Kevin Chapman as J.R. Minogue in the Michael Cuesta-directed City on a Hill episode ‘The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice.’
J.R. Minogue (Kevin Chapman) and his team execute a search warrant but enter the wrong apartment. Instead of entering 217, the door to apartment 127 is kicked down. On entry to the apartment, police officers find two men watching an animated television series. In the confusion, Stevie Burke (Owen Burke) is shot in the leg and one of the men bolts from the apartment via the French windows. Minogue is not quick enough to stop him from escaping.
Ward is not amused by Nathan Rey (Kevin Dunn) assigning him to prosecute the Roach case. Even though Burke was shot, from a prosecutorial perspective, the police executed their search warrant on the wrong apartment. This is a significant problem. Consequently, it should not be the “slam-dunk conviction” Rey thinks it is. No judge in their right mind would allow the way the search warrant execution went down to pass without serious investigation. While Rey tells Ward he’d “better not f*** it up,” anyone with a modicum of intelligence will recognise the police already sc***ed the pooch by incorrectly executing the search warrant.
The Bar is Closed
Screen Capture: Jonathan Tucker as Frankie Ryan in the Michael Cuesta-directed City on a Hill episode ‘The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice.’
As soon as Frankie Ryan (Jonathan Tucker) arrives at the bar, Mac The Bartender (Tommy Cummings) immediately tells everyone else in the premises the bar is closed. Despite disgruntled sounds coming from the bar patrons, they leave the premises without too much fuss. Shortly thereafter, a shifty group of guys enters the premises. They are unquestionably up to no good. They are there to acquire guns and ammunition. Inclusive of an AK-47, guns and ammunition is what the trio got.
In the Cells
Screen Capture: Kevin Bacon as Jackie Rohr in the Michael Cuesta-directed City on a Hill episode ‘The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice.’
Rohr goes to the cells to see why Clay Roach (Rory Culkin) is locked up. Roach is one of Rohr’s informants. Rohr correctly tells Roach he should not have been in the area when the police raided the apartment. It apparently does not matter to the FBI agent that the police raided the wrong apartment. The thing that matters is that he was there. Consequently, unless Rohr can pull some strings with the district attorney’s office, Roach is facing a court appearance.
An Unwelcome Discovery
Ward is referenced by one of his colleagues (Lewis D. Wheeler) as being “an affirmative action” hire. Affirmative action was around in the 1990s. The British terminology associated with the same phenomenon is ‘positive discrimination.’ The 2010 Equality Act firmly establishes the principles of equality and their respective implementation but that is in the United Kingdom, not these United States.
Because Ward was on the Sinclair Commission, it is thought Rohr and the district attorney would be immediately butting heads. Rohr likes the status quo because it keeps things simple for him. Will Rohr work with Ward?
The Ryan Family Begin to Execute Their Plan
Switching out number plates is a clear indication something is going down which requires speed, stealth and subterfuge. In this case, it’s an armoured car robbery. A Commonwealth armoured car is being protected individuals (Michael Malvesti, Thomas Kee and Patrick M. Walsh) completely unaware they are being targeted for a robbery by the Ryan family. Nothing unexpected happens to prevent them from getting what they want.
As well as making off the armoured car, the Ryan family kidnapped the driver and security detail assigned to protect whatever it was they were transporting. During a scuffle in the back of the vehicle, one of the guards is shot in the head. Consequently, the individual driving the vehicle temporarily losses control of the truck but eventually gets it back on the road.
Because the armoured car guards saw one of the robbers without his mask, it places the boss in a difficult situation. Frankie is not sure what he’s going to do. After removing his mask, and pausing for a moment, Frankie shoots the remaining two guards. The robbers dispose of the bodies in oil drums and roll them into the driver.
When Frankie finally returns home, we discover he is every bit the family man the men he shot were. His daughter, Kick Ryan (Blake Baumgartner), awoke when her father was not home. She is apparently scared because of his absence.
Rohr and Ward Meet
Screen Capture: Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge as Jackie Rohr and Decourcy Ward, respectively, in the Michael Cuesta-directed City on a Hill episode ‘The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice.’
Their first meeting did not go well. Ward saw through Rohr like the pain of glass he is. Rohr thinks he can talk to Ward like he is some green fresh out of law school type attorney. That does not fly with Ward. The district attorney knows what he’s doing.
After a brief conversation between Rey and Rohr, Rey goes to Ward wanting him to drop the case against Roach. Ward can see what Rey is doing. Neither Rey nor Rohr has any respect for Ward. They only see him as an affirmative action hire. Just because Ward is African American, it does not automatically make him an affirmative action hire.
Because of Rohr’s interest in seeing Roach let off the hock, Ward investigates the FBI agent. He wants to know why Rohr would put himself out for an informant.
Rohr Enjoying Himself with a …
Sexual content is common in Showtime productions. Consequently, no one should be surprised to see Rohr or any of the other principal characters engaging in such behaviour. It reflects life as it is rather than how certain people believe in should be. If conservatives had their way, much of reality would not have a reflective presence on television. Rohr is a philanderer. He says he cares about his wife but that does not stop him from seeking sex elsewhere.
When Rohr returns home, he discovers his daughter crouched over the toilet throwing up. Rohr tells her she is fortunate that it was not her mother that discovered her in such a state.
Minogue has No Respect for Rohr
Ward goes to speak with Minogue about the case. Even though it is evident Minogue does not respect Ward, he has even less respect for the FBI agent. Minogue somehow has a sense of decency. “That c***s**k*r offends Minogue.
Rohr tries and succeeds in using Minogue’s brother against the police detective to get him to tank the Roach case. Ward is surprised to find the judge telling him he should have let Roach walk when he discovered he was an informant for an FBI agent.
Ward goes after the Armoured Car Case
Ward is interested in pursuing the armoured car case. Even though it is possibly the last thing he wants to do, Ward speaks with Rohr. Ward tells Rohr about the armoured car case. The guards, according to Ward, are still missing. He does not realise they are dead. The guards are rotting in oil drums at the bottom of the Charles River.
Rohr, an alumnus of DC Law School, is a law school graduate. He graduated in 1968. This surprised Ward but there must have been something about the FBI agent that made the bureau want him on the team. The two men have found common ground. It looks like they will be able to work together.
The Tail End of the Episode
At the end of the episode, we see the Ryan family going after a second armoured car. Even though the previous job ended with Frankie killing the guards, it seems they have grown a liking for the more violent kinds of robbery.
In the final seconds of the episode, we discover Rohr has an informant within the Ryan family’s midst.
Typically, when one thinks of period drama, what immediately springs to mind is such British productions as Upstairs, Downstairs; Brideshead Revisited and Downton Abbey. These productions revolve more around the British aristocracy than they do the average Britons of the period. If you are looking for an accurate depiction of middle and working-class British life, one would be better served by watching North & South and or Call the Midwife. Despite the numerous British productions fitting the period drama genre, these United States is every bit as much capable of producing quality period productions as that seen by either the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and or Sky.
What constitutes period-drama? Contemporary drama is set in the present day. City on a Hill is set in the late twentieth century. It’s Boston in the late 1990s. Consequently, the Showtime series can be considered a period production. Having been born in the early 1970s, and living through both the eighties, nineties, the noughties (British term) and the twenty-tens, I can honestly say a 1990s set drama being considered period makes me feel old.
City on a Hill: S01.E01. "The Night Flynn Sent the Cops on the Ice"
In early '90s Boston, FBI agent Jackie Rohr (Kevin Bacon) works within the corrupt culture. But Decourcy Ward (Aldis Hodge), the new Assistant D.A., wants to uproot the system. After an armored car robbery, the two men find themselves in a possible alliance.
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“Appearance is everything” a North County News Editorial
by Site Admin on May 1, 2008 • 12:09 pm No Comments
“Remember when you were a little kid and your mom would fawn over you before
you left the house; making sure your hair was combed, you had on a clean
shirt and there were no holes in your socks?
You may have hated it, but Mom knew what she was doing. She knew that how
you appeared to the world was important. She may have known deep down that
her little kid was a slob at heart, but she wasn’t about to let anyone find
out. Keeping up appearances was important to her.
Appearance is everything. Just ask those that run Major League Baseball. In
1919, it endured a major scandal when the Chicago White Sox were caught
throwing the World Series after being paid off by gamblers. MLB banned
eight White Sox players from the game for life and established a rule that
anyone even associating with known gamblers would face the same
castigation. And they were serious. Just ask Pete Rose.
The problem MLB officials were facing was appearances. They knew that if
the integrity of their game was to remain intact, they needed to maintain a
zero tolerance policy when it came to gambling. There could not even be an
appearance of impropriety (games being thrown) because even the slightest
amount of suspicion from the fans would ruin the sport forever.
This is a concept that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, by extension,
Entergy, does not seem to understand.
As part of a safety review, the NRC asked Entergy, owners of the Indian
Point Nuclear Facility, to form an “independent” panel of industry experts
to perform the review of the plant. While it’s not exactly like having the
fox guard the henhouse, it’s not far off.
It’s a matter of credibility. Entergy hand selected each panelist and will
compensate them for their work. If this isn’t a conflict of interest, then
that concept doesn’t even exist. Most logical people would wonder, and
rightly so, if these panelists would be willing to bite the hand that is
feeding them.
Again, it all comes down to appearances. The panel that Entergy has
assembled is certainly an august body, a veritable who’s who in the nuclear
energy industry. We have no evidence that any member is or has engaged in
unethical behavior regarding this issue. But because of how this panel was
put together, there will always be the perception that something untoward
is afoot. Once there is an appearance of impropriety, then anything the
panel says or does will automatically be tainted with suspicion.
In fact, before the panel could even take its first, tentative steps this
week, people were already calling for its dissolution.
Manna Jo Green, the environmental director of Clearwater, told the panel
this: “Public policy would require a true independent safety analysis and I
don’t think this is, so I request that all of you consider resigning to
preserve your integrity.”
In other words, just by serving on the panel, says Green, these individuals
are risking their integrity.
The critics may be wrong. The panel may conduct itself with the utmost
integrity and do a thorough, unbiased safety assessment. But because so
much doubt lingers, we will truly never know. We need to be able to embrace
the veracity of their findings, or the panel is moot before it even begins.
Consequently, the NRC and Entergy need to go back to square one and take
the necessary steps to put together a truly independent panel that the
public can believe in.
It’s all about appearances. Just ask Mom.”
This editorial originally appeared in the North County News
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