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Share this Story: Amazon taps Quebec firm to add to electric vehicle fleet
Amazon taps Quebec firm to add to electric vehicle fleet
Amazon could use them to transport products between distribution centres
Financial Post Staff
The inside of an Amazon fulfilment centre in 2019. Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters files
Amazon.com Inc. is tapping a Quebec-based electric bus and truck manufacturer to provide it with 10 battery-powered delivery vehicles as part of the e-commerce giant’s climate pledge to eliminate CO2 emissions by 2049.
Amazon announced in a short tweet on Wednesday that it would be rolling out vehicles produced by The Lion Electric Company. No other details were released and neither Lion Electric nor Amazon replied to multiple requests to comment.
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Lion Electric is predominately known for manufacturing electric school buses. It currently lists three online — the LionA, the LionC and the LionD. The company also lists a minibus and a truck, the Lion8, for sale. A company presentation also shows plans for the Lion6, another tractor truck scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2020 and a boom truck and ambulance scheduled for 2021.
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Lion Electric chief executive officer Marc Bedard told Quebec City newspaper Le Soleil that Amazon’s order was for 10 Lion6 trucks. Each one, he said, is made for heavy duty deliveries of up to 26,000 pounds. Bedard explained that Amazon intends to primarily use them to transport products from one distribution centre to another.
“Our goal is that this is a first order that will be followed by others,” he told Le Soleil.
Bedard said Amazon had been testing Lion Electric’s vehicles for over a year. In January, the Quebec press reported that Amazon executives visited Lion Electric’s facilities. Amazon has been looking to aggressively reduce its emission footprint, and recently purchased 100,000 electric delivery trucks from Michigan-based startup Rivian.
The Amazon news comes on the heels of Lion Electric announcing that it had secured its largest ever order at the end of August. The company will be producing 50 electric trucks for Canadian National Railway for intermodal use between its terminals in urban zones, according to a press release. CN has its own strategy to reduce emissions and said the trucks will allow it to remove 100 tons of greenhouse emissions from the road on an annual basis.
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Patients records to go digital by 2015
Patients will be able to access their own health records electronically and book appointments with GPs online by 2015.
Patients will be able to access their own health records electronically and book appointments with GPs online by 2015, the Department of Health has said in long-awaited Health Information Strategy.
The department has also committed to patients being able to renew prescriptions online and being able to communicate with their GPs electronically.
Giles Wilmore, senior responsible owner of the strategy, said this timeframe should enable GPs to upgrade systems where necessary. The department is working with the Royal College of GPs to support practices in the move.
Speaking to Computer Weekly he said: “The health service has not moved as fast other parts of public life in providing online services. This does happen in some places and where it does makes people are more proactive in managing their own healthcare. It’s more efficient and costs less to do e-consultation rather than face-to-face – where that isn’t necessary.”
Around 50% of GP practices already have the technological capability to allow patients to access their own records under the widely-used EMIS software, but fewer than 2% are offering that service, said Wilmore.
“This isn’t a technology challenge but a cultural one in the working practices of GPs and also the public. People accept online banking as a [normal service] but if they want to see a GP they have to phone up and can’t book online. We ought to be better at demanding a more responsive service and GPs need to be more consumer focused in the service they offer,” he said.
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Density of Geometric Objects Video Lessons
Concept: When given the mass of a geometric object you can relate it to its volume and density.
Example: The density of silver is 10.5 g/cm3. What is the mass (in kilograms) of a cube of silver that measures 0.56 m on each side?
Problem: A cube of osmium metal 1.500 cm on a side has a mass of 76.31 g at 25 oC.What is its density in g/cm3 at this temperature?
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Photos: Marshall basketball wins season opener over Arkansas State
Marshall takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Obinna Anochili-Killen (25) throws down a dunk as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Sholten Singer | The Herald-Dispatch
Marshall basketball fans take in the season opener against Arkansas State on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall’s Taevion Kinsey (32) drives to the rim against Arkansas State defender Marquis Eaton (23) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall’s Jarrod West (13) shoots a three-point shot over an Arkansas State defender during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
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Arkansas State's Christian Willis is treated for a cut after colliding with Marshall's Taevion Kinsey during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall’s Andrew Taylor (0), Jannson Williams (3) and Obinna Anochili-Killen (25) defend against a shot attempt by Arkansas State’s Caleb London (24) during an NCAA basketball game on Nov. 27 at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Sholten Singer | HD Media
Marshall's Jarrod West (13) collides with Arkansas State defender Caleb London (24) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall’s Darius George (21) throws down a dunk as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Photos by Sholten Singer | HD Media
Marshall's Taevion Kinsey (32) works the baseline as he is guarded by Arkansas State's Christian Willis (5) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Jarrod West (13) drives to the rim past Arkansas State defender Keyon Wesley during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Darius George (21) grabs a rebound over Arkansas State's Caleb London (24) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Jarrod West (13) dribbles up the floor against Arkansas State defender Caleb Fields (0) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Andrew Taylor (0) drives to the rim as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's David Early puts up a shot as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall’s Mikel Beyers (31) attempts a shot over Arkansas State defender Keyon Wesley during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
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Marshall's Obinna Anochili-Killen (25) jumps for the opening tip against Arkansas State's Keyon Wesley (22) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Andrew Taylor (0) plays defense on Arkansas State's Christian Willis (5) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall’s Jarrod West (13) cuts across the floor as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's David Early (23) makes a pass as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Jannson Williams, right, attempts a shot over Arkansas State's Tim Holland Jr. (12) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's David Early (23) defends against Arkansas State's Marquis Eaton during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Jarrod West looks to make a pass as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Jannson Williams puts up a shot as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Mikel Beyers signals to a teammate as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Obinna Anochili-Killen (25) attempts to throw down a dunk as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Obinna Anochili-Killen (25) drives baseline against Arkansas State defender Keyon Wesley (22) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Taevion Kinsey (32) puts up a shot over Arkansas State's Christian Willis (5) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall's Marko Sarenac (15) attempts a shot over Arkansas State defender Caleb Fields (0) during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Marshall freshman Obinna Anochili-Killen throws down a dunk in warm-ups as the Herd takes on Arkansas State during an NCAA basketball game on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.
Herd hoops surges past Arkansas State, 70-56, in opener
Marshall reserve forward Darius George scored 11 of his 15 points during a 20-5 run to fuel the Herd's 70-56 win over Arkansas State in the men's basketball season-opener at Cam Henderson Center on Friday afternoon.
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The Royal Albert Hall: Here’s What to Look Forward To
Culture / 8 months ago
The Royal Albert Hall has temporarily closed its doors
The Royal Albert Hall might be temporarily closed, but there is plenty to look forward to. We highlight the upcoming concerts and events for 2020 to put in your diary. In the meantime, you can enjoy an array of live-streamed artist performances via Royal Albert Home, featuring the likes of Katherine Jenkins, Jack Garratt and Alfie Boe.
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Look Forward: What’s On at the Royal Albert Hall?
From musical spectacles, to sporting events, concerts, live film screenings, awards shows and more, you’ll find an array of spectacular events and performances taking place at South Kensington’s iconic The Royal Albert Hall. Here’s what to look forward to…
Beethoven’s Ninth
Join the spectacular London Philharmonic Choir and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for a magical evening dedicated to world-renowned composer Beethoven. Expect an enchanting rendition of the artist’s final symphony, first performed in Vienna back in 1824.
Billy Ocean: One World Tour
For an unforgettable night out at the Hall, it has to be Billy Ocean’s One World Tour. The internationally renowned British soul and R&B artist will provide an evening of endless entertainment, performing his greatest hits – ‘When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Gets Going’, ‘Caribbean Queen’, ‘Love Really Hurts Without You’ and so on – and those featuring on his forthcoming album One World.
Discover space like never before – immersed within music at the Albert Hall auditorium. Gustav Holst’s stunning orchestral suite Planets will be performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Choir for a one-afternoon-only unforgettable music spectacular.
Cliff Richard: The Great 80 Tour
Join in with Cliff Richard’s 80th birthday celebrations as the British singer takes to the stage with the ‘Great 80 Tour’.
Films in Concert
Delight in an array of movie classics live in concert with the Royal Albert Hall’s fantastic ‘Films in Concert’ series. From Harry Potter to Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Superman, each large-scale film screening is accompanied by a live orchestra to musically enhance the movie magic.
Whilst You’re There…
Make an occasion of it by booking into CODA by Eric Chavot, the Royal Albert Hall’s fine dining restaurant and bar. Michelin star-awarded chef Eric Chavot has created a menu of seasonal, French-inspired dishes to delight RAH ticketholders, who now make a ritual of heading there for an early supper before the evening’s entertainment.
You can even order dessert and drinks which will be prepared in time for the first interval, so there’s no rush. With beautiful views of Kensington Gardens, the restaurant is located on the Rausing Circle and decked out with accents of lilac and grey, making it an elegant spot for a glass of pre-show champagne – but it’s worth taking the time to dine there. The prix fixe menu is extremely reasonable considering the quality of the cuisine. Highlights include the refreshingly tart sea bream ceviche to start and a delicately seared piece of Brill atop squid ink linguine in a mustard velouté. 2 courses for £37.
For full event listings and further information, please visit royalalberthall.com
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EVANSVILLE — For the casual high school basketball fan, deciding which games to circle on the calendar was easy the past few years. Just pull up New Albany’s schedule to see when Romeo Langford was coming to town.
But look through Division I rosters, and you’ll see that this area produces its fair share of talent. Evansville Harrison is tied for the state lead with five players at the highest collegiate level. OK, maybe that’s cheating since three of the five are the Duncan brothers at mid-major power Vermont. But it doesn’t stop there and plenty more are on the way.
Prospective talent is always a good place to start when planning a few games to hit up. Impress your friends (or creep them out) by saying that you saw “that guy” in high school in the next few years when he’s on national television. Along the way, you’ll find some enjoyable teams to watch – some with potential to be in the state finals in February.
So, what are some of the marquee games to attend? Here are a handful to get you through until the new year.
(All times are 7 p.m. CST unless noted.)
Jeffersonville at Bosse, 6:30 p.m.
Tre Coleman and the Red Devils come to town following a 20-win season. Coleman, a three-star junior guard/wing, will lead his team against the new-look Bulldogs. Bosse features 2020 rising prospect Kiyron Powell, whose offers include Georgetown and Xavier, as well as sharp-shooting North transfer Kolten Sanford. Jeff also visits Castle on Feb. 22.
Princeton at Bosse, 7:30 p.m.
This was a barnburner last year, a 69-68 win for the visiting Bulldogs. It officially signaled that Princeton was for real, and it went onto improve by nine wins from the previous season. The Tigers return Army commit Matt Dove, a 6-10 senior who could be an interesting matchup with the 6-9 Powell of Bosse.
Southridge at Tell City
It’s a decisive Pocket Athletic Conference game that features some standout individual players. Sophomore phenom Colson Montgomery and the Raiders travel to face senior Braeden Beard and the Marksmen. This was a thriller last year, as Beard — the reigning C&P area player of the year — scored a season-high 28 points and grabbed 10 boards in a 53-51 road win.
Barr-Reeve vs. Memorial at Ford Center
The most anticipated game of the inaugural River City Showcase. It will be fun to see the Vikings’ 6-8 junior Keegan O’Neill battle against Memorial’s 6-9 senior/Austin Peay commit Sam DeVault. It’s a Saturday night game at a D-I arena with two supportive fan-bases.
Bosse at Memorial
Thanks to all-time city scoring champion Mekhi Lairy (now at Miami of Ohio), Bosse has posted seven straight wins over their neighborhood rival. Could Memorial’s experience have the upper hand this year, or have the Bulldogs simply reloaded with transfers? We’ll find out soon enough.
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Reitz at Castle
The Southern Indiana Athletic Conference's best senior in Castle's Alex Hemenway will host Reitz and the state's top underclassmen in sophomore Khristian Lander. Both guards could matchup against each other quite a bit in this one. Hemenway is committed to Clemson while the five-star Lander will basically get to pick any school in the country in two years.
University Heights (Ky.) vs. Reitz, 8:30 p.m. at Bosse
Every year, the Bosse Winter Classic brings it, and this is another top-notch showdown. Dekeyvan “KyKy” Tandy, a Xavier commit and four-star guard, and the Blazers face off against Lander and the Panthers. Grab some popcorn, sit back and enjoy.
Memorial at Heritage Hills
Start your holiday break early with this anticipated non-conference showdown. It will be a litmus test for the Patriots, who may have their best team in decades. They’ll want to prove it against a Memorial team that handed them two of their four losses last season — one of which was in the first round of the tournament. The top prospect showdown is DeVault against Heritage Hills' sophomore Blake Sisley.
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Bill Would Allow Police to Confiscate Guns on Accusation Alone
California’s AB 1014 labeled most draconian gun control legislation in the country
A draconian gun control bill set to be voted on by the California legislature would allow police to confiscate a person’s firearms solely on the basis of an accusation made against the gun owner by a family member or a health professional.
Although the bill was amended after an onslaught of complaints, the legislation is still being labeled as the harshest gun control law in the country.
AB 1014, authored by Assemblymembers Das Williams and Nancy Skinner, would create ‘gun violence restraining orders’ that would allow police to proactively confiscate firearms and hold them for one year with no due process merely based on an accusation made by an immediate family member, a law enforcement officer or a health professional.
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“This bill would allow a search warrant to be issued when the property or things to be seized are a firearm or firearms or ammunition that is in the custody or control of, or is owned or possessed by, a person who is the subject of a gun violence restraining order and who is presently known to have in his or her custody and control or possession, or to own a firearm or firearms or ammunition,” states the bill.
The accusation against the individual has to meet the standard of evidence, “to believe that the subject of the petition poses a significant risk of personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having under his or her custody and control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm,” states the bill, although the nature of this evidence is not properly defined.
The bill has drawn fiery criticism from gun rights advocates who see the legislation as an onerous assault on the Second Amendment.
“If for example, person A goes to a judge and files a complaint about person B, person B can have his/her guns and gun rights taken away without any idea why or even have the chance to plead their case. Only after law enforcement searched person B, their family, friends, place of work, and anywhere else police might have thought person B hid guns would that person have the right to defend themselves. Guilty until proven innocent,” writes Yehuda Remer.
“This bill goes too far,” Sean Doherty of California Assn. of Federal Firearms Licensees told a Senate panel. “AB 1014 shreds the right of privacy and right of property that has been jurisprudence for decades.”
Even David Warren, of Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety (a group that normally supports gun control legislation), spoke out against the bill, stating that it had “significant constitutional deficiencies” and would not be enforceable.
Having been passed by the California Senate Public Safety Committee, the bill now heads to the legislature for a full vote.
Editor’s Note: Please notice the striking similarities between this bill and the “Pause for Safety Act” being pushed at the federal level by Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (among others).
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ShapeShift Exchange Revolutionizes Industry With Zero Trading Fee Feature
David Cox Follow on Twitter January 2, 2020Last Updated: February 12, 2020
Trading fees play an important role when it comes to the selection of a cryptocurrency trading platform. At present, the market is flooded with an array of crypto exchanges which promise to offer the best facilities to their clients. While some crypto exchanges manage to earn the name from a majority of investors with their high standards of security and trading features, on the other hand, some exchanges fail to grab the confidence of the clients.
One prominent name in the digital currency exchange arena is ShapeShift, which has become a promising player in the race of top exchanges in the global economy. Launched in 2014, ShapeShift has managed to establish itself as an innovative exchange that fosters instant trading of cryptocurrencies with utmost security and transparency. ShapeShift takes pride in being the only non-custodial virtual currency trading platform studded with unprecedented features like zero commission trading and multiple self-custody wallet solutions.
Earlier in 2015, during the launch of the ShapeShift app for iOS, the exchange handled 13,000 trading orders over a month. However, within a period of three years, the figures rose to 10,000 transactions per day. This makes ShapeShift evolve as one of the best crypto exchanges present in the industry at present.
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The exchange of one cryptocurrency to another involves a lengthy process that is not just time-consuming but also quite complicated as exchanges require the fulfillment of certain conditions before initiating the swap. Interestingly, with ShapeShift, it takes merely 10 seconds to conduct a successful conversion. A person needs to fill in the details of the cryptocurrencies to be swapped in the input and output boxes to start the conversion process.
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One of the prime features of ShapeShift is its free crypto trading facility with FOX tokens. It offers comparable rates, top-tier liquidity aided trading engine, accurate real-time market statistics, etc. The platform does not add hidden commission charges or trading fees for the transactions. The users enjoy access to over a thousand crypto exchange pairs with a single account which streamlines the operations in a big way. Also, as the exchange follows a non-custodial model, the owners are always in charge of their holdings at all times.
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ShapeShift allows its investors to utilize three reputed hardware wallet solutions, namely Ledger, Trezor, and KeepKey. The exchange platform teamed-up with Portis software wallet to foster the creation of a new wallet in no time.
It offers support to an array of well-known and trusted cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin, Dogecoin, Darkcoin, Namecoin, Blackcoin, Feathercoin, etc. Such wide offerings spoil the users for a choice of currency during the conversion.
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It is essential for a cryptocurrency exchange to offer the best customer support services to clients to gain their trust. ShapeShift understands this and so has a live chat option which helps the investors in getting quick solutions to the issues.
It will not be wrong to consider ShapeShift’s technology as innovative and revolutionary. The exchange aims to streamline the conversion processes through its high-grade ecosystem designed while keeping in mind the requirements of the customers. So, anyone who wants to enjoy seamless crypto trading for free of cost can surely head towards the ShapeShift crypto exchange!!
David is a finance graduate and crypto enthusiast. He projects his expertise in subjects like crypto and Blockchain while writing for CryptoNewsZ. Being from Finance background, he efficiently writes Price Analysis. Apart from writing, he actively nurtures hobbies like sports and movies.
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Greater New Haven towns confront Lamont ‘public vote’ order on budgets
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By Brian Zahn March 23, 2020 Updated: March 23, 2020 5:41 p.m.
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The novel coronavirus that is spreading across Connecticut has unemployment claims soaring and local small businesses closing for an indeterminate period of time, but municipal officials still must ensure local budgets for the next fiscal year are adopted.
Over the weekend, Gov. Ned Lamont waived a rule — to ease the burden of passing municipal budgets — by eliminating a requirement that the public vote to approve the annual budget in the roughly two-thirds of municipalities that do so. Earlier than that, he had extended budget deadlines by 30 days for municipalities.
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In his full executive order Lamont said municipalities must “take all reasonable steps to publicize the draft municipal budget for said fiscal year and to receive public comment thereon, including but not limited to publishing draft budgets on the website and providing an email address or other means for the public to submit timely comments on the proposed budget.”
Guilford First Selectman Matthew Hoey said the town has yet to make a definitive decision as to what it will do with its budget. “We’re going to meet as a Board of Selectmen to decide that at our regular, standing meeting on Monday,” April 6. “It’s possible a decision will be made at that point.”
Guilford votes on its budget by machine ballot, so at the annual Town Meeting, “all we do is vote to run it to machine ballot,” Hoey said. At this point, the boards of education, selectmen and have all approved budgets, he said.
Orange First Selectman James Zeolo also said that town has not made a decision on how it will proceed.
Madison First Selectwoman Peggy Lyons and Branford First Selectman Jamie Cosgrove did not immediately return calls for comment. Branford has a Representative Town Meeting form of government.
The board of educations in Branford and East Haven already have approved and forwarded their budgets to their respective towns.
East Haven Mayor Joe Carfora said he was not entirely sure how Lamont’s executive order will affect the town, which has a Town Council form of government., with the mayor presenting a budget that the Board of Finance, which then reviews it before passing it on to the Town Council for final review and approval.
“We’re working through those details now,” Carfora said Monday. “We’re going to sit down tomorrow in a conference call and see what we need to do. Probably tomorrow afternoon I’ll have some better answers for you.”
North Haven First Selectman Michael Freda pushed out the original budget schedule an extra 30 days, as allowed by the governor, to have a document approved in June, but Freda said even then, he’ll likely deliver his budget presentation virtually.
“Right now, this could change, what we’re planning is probably having a Board of Finance meeting teleconference, toward the end of April, and I’ll present it in public on live TV, because there’s a provision for it,” Freda said.
Freda is planning to present a tax rate decrease in next fiscal year’s budget.
The town will provide the budget document online and if the pandemic continues to worsen, the final vote will be done by a Board of Selectman teleconference, not by the usual referendum, he said.
The meeting would be televised, but would show only Freda on a conference call with the two other members — William Piper and Sally Buemi.
“The governor’s executive order allows us this flexibility and is designed to support the public health and safety aspect of this,” Freda said.
In New Haven, voters do not vote to approve the budget; the final say rests with the Board of Alders.
The board is required to hold two public hearings on the budget — the first after the mayor submits his budget proposal to the alders and the second before the budget’s approval. On March 11, the aldermanic Finance Committee held a public hearing at James Hillhouse High School, where three members of the public asked questions. Another finance committee meeting is scheduled for March 30.
Gary Doyens, a budget watchdog in New Haven, said he believes the hearings can go on with social distancing practices in mind.
“At the first hearing, which I attended, three spoke — a number of other taxpayers were there and most of the city staff stood at the back of the room. Maintaining a social distance is not difficult and could be easily accomplished with a microphone and a podium. It could also be accomplished with live technology,” he said.
He said that anything that diminishes the public voice sets a bad precedent, “health crisis notwithstanding.”
“Written testimony has far less impact, is by nature, a less passionate media and doesn’t provide an opportunity for alders to ask questions. It also robs the taxpayer of his or her limited ability to personally confront those who rule us with direct appeals, advice and advocacy,” he said.
During Mayor Justin Elicker’s first year submitting a budget, Doyens said he believes the mayor is reacting in a necessary way to decisions made during the last administration — such as the refinancing of debt — but he still has criticisms he hopes to voice.
Dennis Serfilippi, a civic-minded former alder candidate for Ward 25, said he believes there are a lot of moving parts and pieces to New Haven’s budget, which sets it apart from smaller towns that don’t require as much discussion around their budgets.
“I sent a list of recommendations before the pandemic on how the city could improve the process during this budget season,” he said. “Things like how the budget hearings be broadcast live via Facebook, that people making public comment be in a position so they can see the audience while they speak, that the Board of Alders put up a projector, that they fix the audio system in the chambers which is notoriously inadequate and that they allow people who do attend to sit closer to the board of alders and to allow public comment remotely so people can participate from home.”
More urgent than the budget in Serfilippi’s mind is his belief that the alders have by and large vanished during a period of crisis.
“There’s a separation of duties here. I haven’t seen any announcements from the Board of Alders. Where are they? These are supposed to be our leaders,” he said.
Neither Alder Evette Hamilton, chairwoman of the finance committee, nor Alder Adam Marchand, vice chairman of the finance committee, immediately returned a request for comment Monday.
In Middletown, the city charter requires the Common Council adopt a budget by April 1.
Although the governor extended all municipal deadlines by one month, Mayor Ben Florsheim doesn’t believe Middletown will need the extra time. “We’re more or less ready to go,” he said.
He’s been speaking with council members on ways to make sure residents can have their say before officials adopt the FY 2020-21 spending package.
“I would still like to make it as much a public process as we can. It doesn’t really change much for me as far as wanting to have public input into the budget. It will obviously take a little bit of a different shape than we were imagining it in the initial phases, but there will still be interest. People will maybe be more engaged now than they would otherwise be,” Florsheim said.
Lamont’s extension is more relevant for those towns that send the budget to referendum or a town-wide vote, he explained. “If we wanted to take that loophole, we probably could under the executive order. More public input is better for the budget, so we’ll be trying to think of creative ways to make that happen with the push-back deadline, and even with all the changes we’re going through.”
Middletown Press Managing Editor Cassandra Day, reporters Emily Olson, Clare Dignan, Mark Zarestsky and Pam McLouglin contributed to this story.
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Florida State shoots 70.7% in 105-73 win over N.C. State
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Rayquan Evans scored a career-high 24 points, M.J. Walker added 19 and Florida State made 70.7% of its field goals in beating North Carolina State 105-73 on Wednesday night.
Evans was 9 of 11 from the floor and Walker 6 of 7 as Florida State finished 41 of 58, including 12 of 18 from 3-point range, to set a program best for shooting percentage in an Atlantic Coast Conference game. It was the program's fifth-best percentage, spanning all contests, behind a 72.7% shooting performance against Minnesota in the 1979–80 season.
Florida State trailed 9-8 before scoring 31 of the next 37 points to take control. Ten different Seminoles scored during the stretch — led by Nathanael Jack's five points. The Seminoles made 20 of 28 field goals (71.4%) in the opening 20 minutes, going 7 of 10 from 3-point range.
Jack missed just one of his eight field goals and finished with 18 points for Florida State (6-2, 2-1), which also made all 11 of its free throws.
Florida State hadn’t played since losing to Clemson on Dec. 29 because scheduled games against Duke (Jan. 2), Syracuse (Jan. 9) and Pittsburgh (Jan. 13) were postponed. The Seminoles have won 19 consecutive ACC games at the Donald L. Tucker Center, and host North Carolina on Saturday.
Thomas Allen scored 16 points with four 3-pointers for N.C. State (6-4, 2-3). Devon Daniels added 14 points and Jericole Hellems had 12 points and six rebounds.
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As Canada's Lucara Diamond seeks new mines, tech fuels growth
Published: Thursday, 02 May 2019 17:00
Lucara Diamond Corp, which has recovered two of the largest diamonds in recent history, is turning to technology to ensure growth in an industry where new mine acquisitions remain elusive.
For the Vancouver-based junior miner, that means using advanced technology like sorting based on atomic density to boost value from its Karowe mine in Botswana, and also diversifying away from mining into an online diamond sales platform.
"Diamond mines are extremely rare… we haven't been able find the perfect asset, but we continue to look," Lucara Chief Executive Eira Thomas said in an interview. "In the meantime, we thought it was important to establish a growth agenda."
X-Ray transmission (XRT), which Lucara began using in 2015, enabled record diamond recoveries last year, including 33 stones over 100 carats
While bigger companies like Anglo American's De Beers AK Alrosa PAO invest in advanced technologies, Lucara is "by far the industry leader" among the remaining smaller miners, said independent analyst Paul Zimnisky.
"Lucara has one depreciating and depleting asset, so they do need to look long term," Zimnisky said. "They're carving out a unique niche for themselves."
X-Ray transmission (XRT), which Lucara began using in 2015, enabled record diamond recoveries last year, including 33 stones over 100 carats.
It measures ore's atomic density to identify diamonds early, allowing recoveries of larger stones, while traditional mining requires multiple crushing and concentration stages.
"Previously, we could see the diamonds were broken… but we had no idea what the value loss associated with that was," Thomas said. "Did we break a 50-carat diamond or a bunch of 10-carat diamonds? We really couldn't tell."
When Lucara began production at Karowe in 2012,it estimated the diamonds would be worth $200 to $250 a carat, Thomas...
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Hero Wipes®, the Most Proven-Effective On-Site Decontamination Wipe Brand for Firefighters, is now EWG VERIFIED™
Chino, CA – March 5, 2018 – Hero Wipes®, the most effective on-site decontamination wipe for firefighters, has announced today that it is now EWG VERIFIED™ by the Environmental Working Group. EWG VERIFIED™ means that Hero Wipes avoids EWG’s ingredients of concern, is committed to full transparency and operates under good manufacturing practices (cGMP).
Effectiveness and safety are the hallmarks of a product that is designed to remove toxic, cancer-causing carcinogens from the skin of firefighters before they leave the scene of a fire as part of their safety regimen. Hero Wipes was tested and found to effectively remove 83 percent of Benzopyrene, commonly found in soot, from a simulated skin in just one swipe across the surface. Now, the additional step to become EWG VERIFIED™ underscores Hero Wipes’ continued commitment to the rigorous criteria required to join this exceptional safety program.
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Through their brave work, firefighters encounter countless chemicals and carcinogens that are linked to cancer. In fact, according to a study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, firefighters have a 9 percent higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer and a 14 percent higher risk of dying from cancer than the general US population. In order to fight the harmful immediate and long-term effects these chemicals and carcinogens present, firefighters wear more than 40 pounds of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) and also engage in a myriad of safety protocols ranging from how they decontaminate right after a fire to the care of their PPE.
Hero Wipes is an on-site decontamination wipe that is used to clean the vulnerable skin of firefighters after they exit a fire. More importantly, Hero Wipes is the only decon wipe to be studied and proven to effectively remove carcinogens, as the decontamination protocol is designed to do.
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Home » Vision » How to Fight the Rising Tide of Glaucoma
How to Fight the Rising Tide of Glaucoma
By Doctors Health Press Editorial Team - February 15, 2013
A new study says there are 22% more people with glaucoma in the United States than there were a decade ago. This disease targets your vision, damaging the eye’s optic nerve and slowly progressing to blindness. But here I lay out for you some supplements that might take glaucoma down.
Most glaring is a statistic that says 50% of people with glaucoma don’t even know they have it. These stats came out last month from the group Prevent Blindness America, coinciding with National Glaucoma Awareness Month (January).
Older adults and those with a genetic link to glaucoma are at highest risk for glaucoma. Treatments are few and far between, and even effective alternative remedies are scarce. But at the same time, a brand new health breakthrough occurred for one herbal cure in particular.
And that would be ginkgo biloba. One small study was very promising, as it found that taking 120 milligrams of ginkgo a day for two months winded up significantly improving vision in people with glaucoma. It’s believed that the ancient herb enhances circulation, which leads to improved vision.
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A small double-blind, placebo-controlled trial found that use of ginkgo extract at a dose of 120 mg daily for eight weeks significantly improved vision in people with glaucoma.
Some other supplements have some preliminary evidence behind them, though it remains too early to recommend them. They are vitamin C, melatonin, and omega-3 fatty acid, all of which may reduce pressure in the eye that contributes to glaucoma. Some recent evidence points to cod liver oil (rich in omega-3s) as being a potentially great way to reduce risk for glaucoma.
Sources for Today’s Articles:
Quaranta, L., et al., “Effect of Ginkgo biloba extract on preexisting visual field damage in normal tension glaucoma,” Ophthalmology 2003; 110: 359-362.
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Srinidhi Naidu
A Leader Committed to Elevating Wisdom
Srinidhi Naidu, a valiant soul, her mind and heart comprising of an empathy towards individuals willing to learn beyond imagination, she aims to encourage an independent learning platform to make people conversant through her unique teaching-learning saga, her emotional connect with her passion to shoot up the educational qualities of the society, her desire fuelled by her unremitting hard-work and dedication has led her to become a dynamic alleyway Director of EduconIndia, as an efficient CEO of the knowledge purveyor firm since the last 15 years. Her mindset principally spun around interior designing and architecture. She even shadowed her father’s footprints and fused with his striking interior designing and construction firm. But deep down somewhere, while working, she realized that she did not belong here. She had now become very sure of her passion being something else and that undefined passion was pulling her away from her perpetual job to make her realize her true worth.
Srinidhi Naidu was like a simple, ordinary girl as a youngster. Her journey from being ordinary to extra-ordinary is overwhelming. Her journey to fulfill her passion after she discovered it, was no less than an adventurous journey through a raging thunderstorm of setbacks, difficulties and moments of failures. But it only resulted in making her more strong and capable to handle and surpass hurdles with broader perspectives and perseverance. From being a consultant herself to running a consultancy, the road only got smoother with her dire efforts to bridge the knowledge gap prevailing in the society. While working under the role of being a consultant, she figured the gap in the medical consultation vertical and took it upon her to fix it. The mere thought of being ‘the right mind’ for the many medical students who aspire to fly across with progressive results excited her to devoting her soul for progress such as aspiring learners.
Motivation- A Word That Defined Success for EduconIndia
“Being motivated is always the secret keep to keep you going, not just going but getting closer to achieving dreams,'' says Naidu, who pioneered the vast domain of EduconIndia to build a better and developed version of an educated community. She was sped up by the fact that the most reliable and strongest form of motivation comes from within. The fact that kept her going despite critical problems was her will power to face glitches with a determined attitude which arouse from persistent self-motivation. Her stubborn decisions in the process to fabricate the new generation with quality education came out from concluding the fact that the education system itself has collapsed, which puts students in a predefined list of universities and not where they deserve. She then decided to overcome these shortcomings of the traditional education system and commemorate a new learning system, which would be new dawn to the intellectual development of the society.
Talking of the fond memories of the successful individuals that were born from the womb of EduconIndia, Srinidhi cites that what stays closest to her heart is her first student whom she offered consultation. She remarks that at times, getting to watch his success stories fills her with virtuous refinement. He is one among the most illustrious doctors overseas and it gives her the utmost pleasure to have steered him precisely.
She recites a mantra that fuels her to keep going: “A river cuts through the rock, not because of its power but its persistence”. She makes a way out of distress by repeating these lines to herself as she believes that the solution to every problem is remembering your passion and keeping yourself motivated by your visions to pioneer a change.
The Classic EduconIndia - Who Assembled and Instituted the Intellects
Today, EduconIndia is distinguished to be the unicorn of medical educational consultancies. It visualizes and pitches in to create a tomorrow with no enticing promises. The firm provides the students with opportunities keeping an understanding of the preeminent aptitudes. It strives and thrives to conduit the slit between the medical universities abroad and the ambitious doctors of tomorrow. It empowers and encourages the students to adopt their ways of learning while we monitor their performance graph. The timely updated study materials, the assessment tests, and the live interaction made accessible between the student and tutors aimed to boost the erudition process and do a farfetched job in assisting the learners. The institution conquers the most obvious fears of their apprentice and comforts them with options, ways, and approaches to acquire and win over the obstacles. Along with discrete learning, the corporation distinguishes and understands the students to make them contented and resolute and does everything conceivable to get away from the dreary, ordinary and obsolete customs of coaching. Srinidhi, shortly, with her treasured team, aspires to shape EduconIndia as an inevitable spring for triumph stories, linking reveries and realism together.
EduconIndia is a consultancy privileged with a PAN India license. EduconIndia has made itself a unique, unmatched spot among the numerous overseas consultancies. It has a reputation for setting standards for the excellent coaching and student guidance. Briefing it, the organization is a progressively booming professional association that offers Overseas Educational consultancy services to its students who are passionate about studying abroad. EduconIndia has a peculiar recognition for its Student Training and consultancy Program methods targeting Global Professional Entrance Examinations including GMAT, USMLE, GRE, IELTS, and TOEFL. From getting hands-on the initial application process to the student’s final oversees settlement, EduconIndia provides the best ever-reliable features. They have a unique curriculum including exclusively hosting Kaplan, bringing down faculty from the US for benefit of the students, customizing the study material and the learning processes, best fit to serve a sure exam-qualifying shot. The digital material, online resources, question banks, and assessment test quicken the mastering of subjects.
In-Person, Live-Lectures is their key to connecting students and subjects. They bring down the award-winning medical science faculty from abroad and ensure to hold a batch of aspiring students preparing to meet their futuristic goals of cracking their medical examination. The institute is no doubt a hot spot to cracking USMLE!
Hindrances That Shot the Success Too High
Unveiling her determination despite obstructions, Srinidhi quotes, “Obstacles tease your confidence but when you set your mind onto something, ensure that it entangles your goal completely. They will transform to only grow your confidence with time and tide.” The company faced many tribulations in its process to transform the world into a better place. To make EduconIndia the most reputed place as an education hub, she had to do an in-depth homework of all the prevailing educational practices that led to the undermining of the students as a whole. It was her responsibility to set up the groundwork and plan the future works and bring the company to everyone’s notice. Obstacles had been many for her as a woman; ranging from various folds of life. It could be with setting up and waving the organizational flag across the skies and with the responsibilities that followed setting up a business, the ultimate settlements and compromises made to make the teaching-learning innovation a reality or maybe more. But her undulating attitude to solve each of them with enriching wit and wisdom, she blossomed her dreams into the ripe flowers of reality by growing one step wiser and closer to achieving and declaring her next milestone. She recollects about how her team had very little time to spread the word around. Luckily, she met this team of young digital marketers, Binesh Gaddam- the founder of ‘VHonk Digital Media and Marketing’ who worked rigorously to reach out to the targeted crowd. She soon had a class-filling batch willing to work their ways to win their dreams.
EduconIndia made news for the right reasons. Its success saga was on the media, newspapers, blogs, and articles for the progress the company made and the career goals it set. Recent accomplishments include- 2019’s one among the most reliable consultancies, the firm got featured in the renowned business magazines like Knowledge Review, Silicon India, Start-up city and a few others. In their 13 years of passionate service, EduconIndia has tutored over 10000 students through 200 batches undertaken. They have taken the quality of the institute to the next level by initiating tie-ups with renowned internationally acclaimed universities and thus compromising nowhere to provide world-class tutoring to the students. The institute has developed a tradition of hosting professors from renowned institutes like Kaplan.
The “In-Person Live-Lectures” is their key to connecting students and subjects. They bring down the award-winning medical science faculty from abroad and ensure to hold a batch of aspiring students preparing to meet their futuristic goals of cracking their medical examination.
Apart from the media coverage, their accomplishments are the success stories of their students, the badges they wear with the bride all the smiles of students accomplishing their dreams through the institute.
A Vision to Activate an Intellect-Prone Society
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ADA Update Allegedly Used To Deny Service Dog
by Shaun Heasley | September 18, 2012
When federal officials clarified what qualifies as a service animal, they were looking to cut down on people exploiting the law. Now, a girl with autism may be an unintended casualty.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice issued new regulations outlining what does and does not qualify as a service animal. Under the changes, animals that merely provide comfort don’t qualify for protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Now, officials at the George West Independent School District in Texas are using the new rules to prohibit Colleen Molohon, 17, from bringing her Australian cattle dog, Chili, to school, the girl’s mother says.
Molohon was accompanied by Chili starting in the ninth grade. But at the beginning of last school year the district determined that under the new Justice Department rules the dog was a “comfort animal” and officials said Molohon could no longer bring Chili to class with her.
This week, school officials stood by their decision and said the dog would not be allowed for Molohon’s senior year.
Molohon’s mother insists that Chili qualifies as a service animal and is filing a federal civil rights complaint, reports the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times. To read more click here.
View this article online at https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2012/09/18/ada-update-deny-dog/16469/
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Hedge Witches Lonely Hearts Club: Book Two
Sometimes love is flashier than magic.
On the surface, Alex Kennedy is unremarkable: average looks, boring accounting job, predictable crush on his handsome playboy boss, Simon Reddick.
But he’s also a witch.
Business powerhouse Simon goes for flash and glamour… most of the time. But something about Alex makes Simon wonder what’s underneath that sweet, gentle exterior.
Alex could probably dance around their attraction forever… if not for the spell gone wrong tearing apart his haunted cul-de-sac. When a portal through time and space swallows the dog he’s petsitting, only for the pampered pooch to appear in the next instant on Simon’s doorstep, Alex and Simon must confront not only the rogue magic trying to take over Alex’s coven, but the long-buried passion they’ve been harboring for each other.
Love is a high-stakes game.
A century and a half ago, Ante Novak died on a Croatian battlefield—and rose three days later as a vampire. Now he haunts Las Vegas, stealing blood and money from drunken gamblers and staying on the fringe of the powerful vampire organization known as the Shadows. His existence feels empty and meaningless until he meets beautiful Peter Gehrardi, who can influence others with his thoughts.
An attraction flares instantly, bringing a semblance of life to Ante’s dead heart. But the Shadows want Peter too, and they’re willing to kill to get him. As Ante and Peter flee, they learn more about themselves and each other, and they discover that the world is a stranger place than either of them imagined. With enemies at their heels and old mistakes coming back to exact a price, how can Ante and Peter find sanctuary?
Calculated Magic
By SJD Peterson
Never too late for love.
Three-hundred-and-fifty-year-old warlock Tikron must find his true love or forfeit his immortality. But if he hasn’t found his ideal mate in all these centuries, the prospects don’t look too bright.
That is, until he sees mathematician Richard Beaumont. It’s love at first sight and Tikron’s future just go a whole lot brighter.
Except Richard doesn’t believe in love at first sight. He doesn't believe in love at all. He certainly doesn’t believe in magic. His life is ruled by statistics and logic, and they tell him a relationship with Tikron has only a 10 percent chance of success. That’s unacceptable—even if the attraction between them is off the charts.
With his powers waning and the clock ticking down, Tikron’s last hope is showing Richard the true meaning of magic.
Camp H.O.W.L.
By Bru Baker
A Camp H.O.W.L. Novel
Moonmates exist, but getting together is going to be a beast….
When Adrian Rothschild skipped his “werewolf puberty,” he assumed he was, somehow, human. But he was wrong, and he’s about to go through his Turn with a country between him and his Pack—scared, alone, and eight years late.
Dr. Tate Lewis’s werewolf supremacist father made his Turn miserable, and now Tate works for Camp H.O.W.L. to ease the transition for young werewolves. He isn’t expecting to offer guidance to a grown man—or find his moonmate in Adrian. Tate doesn’t even believe in the legendary bond; after all, his polygamist father claimed five. But it’s clear Adrian needs him, and if Tate can let his guard down, he might discover he needs Adrian too.
A moonmate is a wolf’s missing piece, and Tate is missing a lot of pieces. But is Adrian up to the challenge?
Chasing Thunderbird
By j. leigh bailey
Shifter U
A Shifter U Tale
A legendary love.
Ornithology professor Simon Coleman’s reputation is at risk, and the only way to save his name is to prove thunderbirds are more than creatures of Native American myth. Grad student and part-time barista Ford Whitney has a lot on his plate, but it’s also his duty to make sure the resident bird nerd doesn’t discover shape-shifters—like himself—live on campus.
When a series of incidents related to Simon’s search put him in harm’s way, Ford’s instincts kick in, and they become closer than is strictly proper for student and teacher. Ford is forced to reveal his secrets to Simon, and their relationship is put to the test—Simon must choose between salvaging his reputation and protecting the man who protected him….
Devouring Flame
By E.J. Russell
Enchanted Occasions
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An Enchanted Occasions Story
Reunited and reignited.
While cutting through the Interstices—the post-creation gap between realms—Smith, half-demon tech specialist for Enchanted Occasions Event Planning, spies the person he yearns for daily but dreads seeing again: the ifrit, Hashim of the Windrider clan.
On their one literally smoldering night together, Smith, stupidly besotted, revealed his true name—a demon’s greatest vulnerability. When Hashim didn’t return the favor, then split the next morning with no word? Message received, loud and clear: Thanks but no, thanks.
Although Hashim had burned to return Smith’s trust, it was impossible. The wizard who conjured him holds his true name in secret, and unless Hashim discovers it, he’ll never be free.
When their attraction sparks once more, the two unite to search for Hashim’s hidden name—which would be a hell of a lot easier if they didn’t have to contend with a convention full of food-crazed vampires on the one day out of the century they can consume something other than blood.
But if they fail, Hashim will be doomed to eternal slavery, and their reignited love will collapse in the ashes.
Luckily Smith is the guy who gets shit done. And Hashim is never afraid to heat things up.
By M.A. Church
To be loved by a dragon is to be treasured.
A hundred years ago, werewolf Alpha Montgomery took a risk driven by desperation—he borrowed money from the ancient dragon Warwick Ehecatl, putting up the pack lands as collateral. Now the debt is due, and dragons don’t forget—or forgive. Warwick demands Montgomery’s son, Avery, and three businesses as compensation. As an Omega, Avery knows he is basically useless to his pack, so he might as well agree. He soon has second thoughts, though. Warwick is fearsome, and he’s free to do as he likes with Avery.
Warwick knows his race’s reputation, and he even admits some of it is deserved. But he’d rather cut off his tail than let his innocent mate’s light go out. It won’t be easy, but buried deep, there’s something between them worth safeguarding.
Finder's Keeper
By Shira Anthony
A Heart's Gate Story
The truth might ruin his dreams—or make them come true.
When Zane moves into an old gothic brownstone, he discovers the house comes equipped with a caretaker—Kit, who lives in the basement. Zane is immediately drawn to the charming and attractive Kit. But Kit is much more than he seems. He is a two-hundred-year-old half-human, half–red-fox spirit who guards a Gate between the mortal and spirit worlds—a fact Zane should recognize, but doesn’t.
Orphaned at a young age, Zane never learned he comes from a long line of mystical Keepers. Kit needs Zane’s help to protect the Gate, but how can he tell Zane of his legacy when that will crush Zane’s dreams of traveling the world? If he takes up the mantle, Zane will be bound to the Gate, unable to leave it. But when Zane realizes Kit’s true nature, and his own, he’ll have to make a choice—fight to protect Kit and the Gate, or deny his destiny and any chance of a future with Kit.
By Ari McKay
Asheville Arcana
The magic touch.
Ever since Harlan Edgewood was bitten by a possessed werewolf, his monthly shifts have been agonizing. When he meets Whimsy Hickes—a mage who specializes in transformation—the attraction is mutual. But Harlan believes his curse is too great a burden to inflict on any romantic partner.
Fortunately, Whimsy thinks he can help.
When Harlan is provoked into an unexpected change, Whimsy uses his magic to help ease Harlan's pain, but with an unexpected consequence. While he's shifted, Harlan's wolf claims Whimsy as his mate.
As they draw closer, suspicious events in the Asheville magical community escalate. Shifters are disappearing, others are murdered, and Harlan's curse makes him an obvious target. It will take all of Whimsy's magic to force back the rising evil—and if he fails, Harlan will lose not only his life, but his very soul.
Hex and Candy
By Ashlyn Kane
True love’s kiss can break the curse. But then what?
Cole Alpin runs a small-town candy store. He visits his grandmother twice a week. And sometimes he breaks curses.
Leo Ericson’s curse is obvious right away, spiderwebbing across his very nice body. Though something about it worries Cole, he agrees to help—with little idea of what he’s getting into.
Leo is a serial monogamist, but his vampire ex has taken dating off the table with his nasty spell, and Leo needs Cole’s companionship as much as his help. When the hex proves to be only the beginning of his problems, Leo seeks refuge at Cole’s place. Too bad magic prevents him from finding refuge in Cole’s arms.
Cole’s never had a boyfriend, so how can he recognize true love? And there’s still the matter of the one responsible for their troubles in the first place….
Happily ever after is right under their noses.
Harris has been keeping a big secret for years—his unrequited mate bond with his best friend, Jackson. He’s convinced himself that having Jackson in his life is enough. That, and his work at Camp H.O.W.L., keeps him going.
Things get complicated when Jackson applies for a high-ranking Tribunal job in New York City—far from Camp H.O.W.L. The position requires he relinquish all Pack bonds… and that’s when his wolf decides to choose a mate. Suddenly Jackson sees his best friend in a sizzling new light.
Their chemistry is through the roof, but they're setting themselves up for broken hearts—and broken bonds—if Jackson can't figure out a way to balance his career and the love that’s just been waiting for him to take notice.
Kiss Me Forever
By M.J. O'Shea
Forever is too long to be alone.
Professor Avery Cook has spent his career researching the mysterious side of New Orleans. Superstitions, legends, and lore—Avery has an academic explanation for all of them….
Until one night when he walks into a bar and his life changes.
In a sea of impossibly beautiful people, Tyson stands out, and he sweeps Avery off his feet with his old-world charm and romanticism. But there’s a darkness in Tyson too, and Avery discovers Tyson is part of a world he thought existed only in books and stories—the paranormal tales he studies at the university.
Tyson’s been lonely for a long time, and he’s falling in love with Avery. But his past is a long one, and it’s full of enemies and danger. The best way to keep Avery safe is to push him away….
Lover Behind Enemy Lines
By Liv Olteano
A Dreamcatchers Tale
True mates, together at last.
Claw—fearless leader of Seattle’s Team 32—has faced many dangers during more than a century and a half as a dreamcatcher. Yet nothing has ever scared him more than his obsession with Nathan Gallagher. Tormented by visions and dreams about the man ever since he first laid eyes on him, Claw now has to deal with living under the same roof with the object of his most ardent desires. And Nathan is so much more than a simple crush.
Brother of the caster who’s been plaguing Team 32’s area and less-than-willing houseguest of the team after a strange break-in attempt, Nathan may hold the key to finally apprehending his sister and putting a stop to the havoc she’s wreaking on Queen Anne…. Meanwhile, Nathan’s wreaking some havoc of his own on Claw’s heart.
Lover, Lover
Twin souls reunited.
Drew’s always been a fighter: first in martial arts competitions, and now as a dreamcatcher—keeping the people of Seattle safe from spaga attacks that would drain their life force in their sleep. All he has to do to become a full member of Team 32 is complete his first mission.
But the first person he must defend is his ex, Angelo… the only man Drew ever loved, even if he was the one to leave. Drew never got over Angelo, and it seems Angelo might feel the same, despite the heartbreak he suffered at Drew’s hands.
As the chase after a powerful and resourceful caster hits close to home, old feelings resurface. But if Angelo learns of the dreamcatchers, he’ll be a target for the spaga. And how can he trust Drew now that Drew’s keeping bigger secrets than ever?
Nudging Fate
Not exactly a match made in Valhalla.
Half-norn event planner Anders Skuldsson is under strict orders from Asgard not to meddle with Fate. But with Enchanted Occasions’ latest booking—a competition for the hand of Faerie’s one true prince—crashing around his ears, it’s really difficult to toe that particular line. But if Andy pretends to be a contender for the prince…. It’s only temporary, so Odin can’t blame him. Right?
Conall of Odstone’s half-brother, Prince Reyner, was supposed to choose a mate before being crowned and wed. But the idiot left Con to impersonate him. Again.
When Con meets Andy, his anger turns to desire… and despair. Even if Andy forgives him for his imposture, how could someone eligible for a prince’s hand settle for the court outcast? And the double-deception isn’t their only obstacle. Unless Andy makes the right choice, their fates could be sealed by…well… Fate.
By Sebastian Black
Can love set a mage free?
Former chef Jasper Wight has been magically ensnared in his apartment for over three months. Cabin fever doesn’t begin to cover it. All he can do to pass the time is indulge in his hobby—painting portraits of his neighbors. But once a handsome new man moves into a swanky nearby penthouse, Jasper is no longer content merely to watch. Following his gut, he reaches out through astral projection….
Finn Anderson is the CEO of a food app funded by his parents, but he struggles to believe in the dream. When a mysterious someone starts leaving messages on his mirror, he learns the world holds more possibilities than he ever imagined.
When a chance encounter brings Finn to Jasper’s door, the pair are soon as enamored with each other as Finn is of the magic he’s just discovering. But navigating a relationship that spans two worlds is only the tip of the iceberg. They still have to figure out how to free Jasper from his apartment, how to make Finn’s business into a success, and whether an outsider can be trusted with the secrets of the magical world.
In their differences, they’ll find strength—and love.
Alpha werewolf Eli Hammond returns from a fishing trip to discover a nasty surprise—five members of his pack murdered and the rest missing. He needs help locating and rescuing his pack mates, but the supernatural council in Asheville, North Carolina, turns him away.
Except for one man.
As they work together, Eli is stunned—and not especially thrilled—to discover half-elf Arden Gilmarin is his destined mate. But as Arden and his friends struggle to help Eli in his quest, Eli surrenders to the demands of his body—and his heart. They’ll need to bond together, because the forces opposing them are stronger and more sinister than anyone predicted. The evil has its sights set on Arden, and if Eli wants to save his mate and the people he is entrusted with protecting, he’s in for the fight of his life.
Quenched in Blood
Will love mean rebirth… or death?
In the course of his work with the Asheville Paranormal Council, reclusive three-hundred-year-old vampire Julian Schaden discovers young Thomas Carter, the heir to a long line of demon hunters—a legacy Thomas knows nothing about.
He also knows nothing about the supernatural world or the danger he’s in. As Julian convinces him and later agrees to train Thomas to use his abilities, he struggles against unexpected feelings. Thomas is too young and innocent to become involved with Julian, but opposites attract, and this is one battle Julian is fated to lose….
Julian and Thomas grow closer as the demonic menace advances. A prophecy from a dying mage comes with a bleak warning: to save Thomas’s life, Julian might have to give up the only man he’s ever loved.
Rome and Jules
Two werewolf households, both alike in dignity….
Rome Siracusa, youngest son of the alpha of the nouveau-riche Siracusa pack, wants to be a faithful son and pack member, but he’s got two big secrets. One, he’s blessed with enhanced hearing, vision, strength, and the ability to shift at will. Second, he’s gay, a fact he can’t admit to his deadly homophobic father.
Rome crashes a party at the mansion of his pack’s greatest enemy, the ancient, pure-blooded Havillands. Jules, the gay son of the drunkard alpha, is being married off to a rich entrepreneur. Smitten and moved by the beautiful male’s plight, Rome tries to find a way to save Jules—while digging himself deeper into pack politics and navigating his own arranged marriage. Secrets climb out of the caves as the werewolf gods speak through the mouths of their children, and the two great families clash, suffocating the hopes of star-crossed lovers.
Shortbread and Shadows
Hedge Witches Lonely Hearts Club | Book One
Hedge Witches Lonely Hearts Club: Book One
When a coven of hedge witches casts a spell for their hearts’ desires, the world turns upside down.
Bartholomew Baker is afraid to hope for his heart’s true desire—the gregarious woodworker who sells his wares next to Bartholomew at the local craft fairs—so he writes the spell for his baking business to thrive and allow him to quit his office job. He’d rather pour his energy into emotionally gratifying pastry! But the magic won’t allow him to lie, even to himself, and the spellcasting has unexpected consequences.
For two years Lachlan has been flirting with Bartholomew, but the shy baker with the beautiful gray eyes runs away whenever their conversation turns personal. He’s about to give up hope… and then Bartholomew rushes into a convention in the midst of a spellcasting disaster of epic proportions.
Suddenly everybody wants a taste of Bartholomew’s baked goods—and Bartholomew himself. Lachlan gladly jumps on for the ride, enduring rioting crowds and supernatural birds for a chance with Bartholomew. Can Bartholomew overcome the shyness that has kept him from giving his heart to Lachlan?
Song and Key
By Alix Bekins and Connie Bailey
A Men From GLEN Mission
So-called monsters won’t hold these spies back!
For two secret agents on a mission to a secluded Romanian village, the toughest fight they face may not be against the folktale monsters lurking in the foggy mountains and old ruins, but against their unlikely attraction to each other.
Keller Key is the top operative at the covert Global Law Enforcement Network—and boy does he know it. Sexy half-Ukrainian, half-Korean Sevastyan Song is a close second. When the agents go undercover to investigate an old friend’s suspicious death, it soon becomes clear something sinister is afoot in the ancient forest and decrepit abbey. If an evil organization doesn’t spell the end of them, the angry locals might. But if they’re going to conquer their enemies, they need to keep their hands off each other and their minds on the case, in a rivals-to-lovers paranormal mash-up that gives new meaning to spy-on-spy action.
Stalking Buffalo Bill
A smitten coyote isn’t the only one stalking Buffalo Bill.
A buffalo walks into a cafe. Sounds like the start of a bad joke, but for coyote shifter Donnie Granger, it’s the beginning of an obsession. Donnie is a little hyperactive and a lot distractible, except when it comes to William. He finally works up the nerve to approach William but is interrupted by a couple of violent humans.
While William—don’t call me Bill—is currently a professor, he once worked undercover against an international weapons-trafficking ring. Before he can settle into obscurity, he must find out who leaked his location and eliminate the thugs. He tries keeping his distance to protect Donnie, but the wily coyote won’t stay away.
It’ll take both Donnie’s skills as a stalker—er, hunter—and William’s super-spy expertise to neutralize the threat so they can discover if an excitable coyote and a placid-until-pissed buffalo have a future together.
Star-Crossed Lover
A love worth crossing the stars for.
Taka has been a dreamcatcher and part of Team 32 for over six decades, but nobody has tempted him like Ginger—a dancer at club Zee. Too bad dreamcatchers aren't allowed to have meaningful relationships with regular people. His willpower proves a finite resource, though, when a mission at the club means spending much more time around Ginger.
Ginger’s infatuation with Taka is unwavering. When he proves to have some paranormal skills of his own, he earns himself a place on the team—if he wants it. His decision will change his life—not to mention Taka’s—irrevocably.
But living in the now could prove an issue for a man who has as much history as Taka. Can Ginger’s determination help him make his way into Taka’s heart?
Stealing His Heart
Connoll Pack
Love sneaks in like a thief in the night.
Danny’s parents raised him to believe his wolf was a curse. He’s part of the wealthy and powerful Connoll Pack, but only nominally. He abandoned that world to volunteer with supernatural kids, and he isn’t looking for a mate….
Max is a shifter who is also a detective. He’s working a case that could make or break his career. Danny’s caught up in the case he’s on, and he’s also irresistible. They’re a bad match—Max, an Alpha having trouble with his new powers and Danny, who trusts Alphas as far as he could throw one. But they can’t get enough of each other, and they might bond before they even see it coming.
They could be amazing together, but they have to get past a few obstacles—especially since someone close to Danny might be involved in the thefts Max is investigating.
The Charlatan’s Conquest
By Vivien Dean
A Phantom Fixers Story
With love and ghosts, the challenge is figuring out what’s real.
Software engineer Cruz Guthrie needs money for his sister’s cancer treatments. He needs it so badly he’s willing to stand in for a ghost hunter friend and investigate a millionaire’s supposed specters. It should be an easy gig—after all, nobody thinks the haunting is real.
Neurological researcher Brody Weber is furious that Cruz would take advantage of Brody’s father. But his mind changes when spirits manifest—and he realizes Cruz genuinely wants to help. When they learn the paranormal activity centers on Brody, Cruz is willing to fight to free Brody from the entities determined to make his life miserable. With a little help from friends and family—both living and dead—they must figure out why Brody is attracting spirits and how to banish them. Only then can they pursue a future together.
The Gryphon King's Consort
By Jenn Burke
Golden Kingdom
A Golden Kingdom Novel
Love takes flight.
The sudden death of the Gryphon King throws the kingdom of Mythos into uncertainty, and Crown Prince Luca rushes both his coronation and an arranged marriage to a man he’s never met. Eirian is young and idealistic, and while they both want what’s best for their people, their philosophies couldn’t be more different. While Luca believes in honoring tradition, Eirian is determined to infuse modern values into their kingdom of magical creatures. When given the choice between loyalty to his husband and his own crusade, Eirian makes a decision that might doom their marriage.
Still, Luca is committed to making their union work, and that means forgiving his brash consort. But when Eirian becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy, Luca must act fast—or forever lose the chance to explore their burgeoning love.
The Night Owl and the Insomniac
Long nights lead to intrigue… and infatuation.
Chronically ill with a mysterious condition, Yusuf “Joey” Franke escapes his smothering family and doctors by moving halfway across the country to enroll in Cody College. Not long after arriving on campus, some of his symptoms disappear, only to be replaced by debilitating insomnia. Joey spends his nights wandering the halls of his dormitory and hanging out with gregarious and affable Owen, who works the night shift.
When he suddenly shifts from a sick college kid to a massive Asiatic lion, Joey discovers another side to Cody College—it’s a haven for shifters like himself… and like Owen, a part-time great horned owl. And being a shifter is hereditary, which means his parents have some explaining to do.
When Joey and Owen investigate, they discover more than they bargained for—a family deception, a dangerous enemy with international connections, and a love that might be too new to survive the backlash.
Under a Blue Moon
Once in a blue moon, opposites find they’re a perfect match.
Nick Perry is tired of helping people with their marriages, so when a spot opens up to work with teens at Camp H.O.W.L., he jumps at it. He doesn’t expect to fall in lust with the dreamy new camp doctor, Drew Welch. But Drew is human, and Nick has seen secrets ruin too many relationships to think that a human/werewolf romance can go anywhere.
Happy-go-lucky Drew may not sprout claws, but he’s been part of the Were community all his life. He has no trouble fitting in at the camp—except for Nick’s stubborn refusal to acknowledge the growing attraction between them and his ridiculous stance on dating humans. Fate intervenes when one of his private practice patients threatens Drew’s life. Will the close call help Nick to see a connection like theirs isn’t something to let go of?
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How Prior DUIs Impact Current Charges
By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry, Inc.
If you were previously convicted of DUI (driving under the influence), new charges could result in serious consequences because the state enhances penalties for second and subsequent DUI convictions.
The penalties for a California DUI increase if you have one, two, three or more prior convictions on your record. A fourth DUI can even be charged as a felony, with a state prison sentence if you are convicted.
In Orange County, a DUI suspect faces the possibility of probation, fines, AA classes, attending a MADD impact panel, an Ignition Interlock Device (IID), and course a criminal record, which would haunt him or her for years to come, affecting everything from employment, to auto insurance, to housing.
The court does not typically hand down harsh sentences or require jail for first offenders, though this may vary depending on the facts of the case. For example, if someone else was injured or killed, the driver would face enhanced penalties, such as incarceration and a felony charge.
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For a DUI suspect who has a prior DUI on their record, the penalties are stiffer, and they increase for each subsequent offense. A second DUI in California is punishable by 3 to 5 years of informal probation, fines and other penalties of up to $2,000 and 96 hours to 1 year in county jail.
An average sentence may range from 45 to 90 days, though this can often be converted to home confinement or Caltrans. A driver may also face a mandatory 18 to 30-month drug/alcohol program, AA classes and community service.
For a third DUI, a driver may face a minimum sentence of 120 days in jail. The driver may also face fines and penalties totaling around $2,800 and a mandatory 30-month drug/alcohol program. At this point, the driver may also have an ignition interlock device (IID) installed in his or her vehicle.
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Home » Long-time local MP Jim Abbott has died
Long-time local MP Jim Abbott has died
A local Conservative Party icon has died.
Wasa resident and former long-time Kootenay-Columbia MP James Abbott died Sunday, July 26. He was 77.
First elected in 1993 as a member of the Reform Party, Jim served Kootenay-Columbia proudly for 18 years, stepping aside in 2011. His first three terms were as a Reform Party MP and his final two terms in office were with the Conservative Party of Canada following a merger of the two parties.
A tireless and dedicated Member of Parliament, Abbott was a runaway winner in all five elections he took part in, with 52% to 67.8% vote ranges.
“We lost a giant today. It is with a heavy heart that I received the news of the passing of The Honourable James Abbott,” stated Rob Morrison, current Kootenay-Columbia MP. “Jim represented this area with a distinguished level of service and was respected at the highest levels of Government. On October 15, 2007 he was sworn in as a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, and with it received the title of “Honourable”. A fitting title for a leader who embodied the very definition of the word. He represented our area with a gentle spirit and was guided by an unwavering commitment to his Constituents. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.”
“Jim Abbott was as fine a gentleman as you would ever meet. A fierce politician, a loving husband, father and grandfather and a man with a strong belief in God. When I became MP in 2011 he mentored me and ensured that I got good people to work with in Ottawa. He was in Ottawa the day I was sworn in and we stayed in touch with each other often. I am proud to have him as a friend,” said David Wilks, District of Sparwood Mayor and former Kootenay-Columbia MP.
A local politician who came close to Abbott in terms of time in office and success in elections, retired BC Liberal Party MLA Bill Bennett, noted on Facebook today, “I have known no finer human being than Jim in my lifetime. He was so honest and caring. A wonderful family man, a true gentleman and a great MP. Beth and I send our sincere condolences to Jeannette and family.”
Lead image: Former BC Premier Christy Clark was pleased to see former multi-term Kootenay-Columbia MP Jim Abbott at a 2016 Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Ian Cobb/e-KNOW file photos
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SUM OF THE PARTS
PROG ICONS REUNITE TO TELL THEIR HISTORY WITHIN AND OUTSIDE GENESIS
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BBC and Eagle Rock Entertainment
Editors: Helen Wickham & Matthew Longfellow
Edit Producer: Alan Ravenscroft
Assistant Producer: Laura Hartley
Supervising Producer: Peter Worsley
Executive Producers: Terry Shand & Geoff Kempin
Directed and Written By: John Edginton
Made with the full co-operation of the band, the programme tells the story of one of the most successful British bands in rock history reuniting Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford for the first time since 1975, to tell their story.
Genesis: Sum Of The Parts is a feature-length documentary – from its first beginnings as a band of songwriters in the late 1960s to its final incarnation as a rock giant in the 1990s – via full-blown theatrical progressive rock in the mid-1970s and the stadium pop of the 1980s – Genesis could perplex and enrage the die-hards, whilst exciting and exhilarating newer disciples.
The film recounts an extraordinary musical story, exploring the band’s songwriting as well as emotional highs and lows, alongside previously unseen archive material and rare performance footage from across their entire career.
Image Courtesy of Gelring
© Eagle Rock Film Productions
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Argentina and the hold-outs
Crunch time approaches
Americas view
by H.C. | BUENOS AIRES
ARGENTINA has tried hard in the past few months to show it is ready to make its peace with international capital markets. It has belatedly recognised several decisions by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an arbitration body; it agreed a compensation deal with Repsol, after the Spanish firm’s stake in YPF, an oil firm, was expropriated in 2012; and just last month it reached a deal on its outstanding debts to the Paris Club, a group of official creditors. But on June 16th, the United States Supreme Court threw a large spanner in the works when it decided against Argentina in two separate cases related to the country’s “hold-out” bondholders.
The Supreme Court declined to hear Argentina’s defence against NML Capital, a "vulture" investor that bought up distressed bonds following Argentina’s 2001 default and has been chasing payment of full principal plus interest instead of accepting a debt exchange, as 93% of bondholders did in two restructurings in 2005 and 2010. Citing a clause in the original bond documentation called pari passu, NML argues that the holders of these restructured bonds should not be paid if they, the hold-outs, are not also remunerated. This view was supported by a district court in New York—the bonds were mostly issued under New York law--and then upheld by an appeals courts. Argentina itself then appealed to the Supreme Court to hear the case.
The Supreme Court’s rejection of the case today means that the original district-court order, which says that Argentina should pay NML the full $1.3 billion it claims, is likely to come into effect in the next few days. Argentina could technically ask the Supreme Court to rehear its case, but that is unlikely given that the court virtually never accepts such requests. To make matters worse, the court today also ruled in favour of NML in another case against Argentina, which will allow the investment fund to locate assets the country might have ferreted away across the globe.
Its legal options exhausted, only unpleasant choices remain. First, Argentina could pay NML the $1.3 billion it demands. But that would also open it up to similar claims by other hold-out bondholders, who were not involved in the litigation but would surely like the same treatment. Argentina has estimated the value of these claims to be $15 billion; NML guesses they’re more like $6 billion. Either way, such claims would stress Argentina’s foreign-exchange reserves, which stand at less than $29 billion.
Second, Argentina could negotiate with NML. The investment fund has expressed its willingness to haggle, but Argentina has so far refused. The country has claimed that the Right Upon Future Offers (RUFO) clause included in the restructured bonds preclude it from offering the hold-outs a better deal than the one it extended to the bondholders who accepted the 2005 and 2010 debt exchanges. NML rubbishes that argument. The RUFO clause only prohibits Argentina from “voluntarily” offering to exchange or purchase the hold-out bonds, it says. Since the New York courts have ordered Argentina to pay the hold-outs, even an extrajudicial settlement could be interpreted as involuntary. NML adds that if Argentina truly believed the RUFO clause impeded negotiation, they could request that the holders of restructured bonds waive that provision in order to ensure a resolution and avert default.
The problem with the negotiation option is political. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her lackeys have railed against NML, avowing never to pay or negotiate with them. Ms Fernández’s political base seems to have shrunk to a core that will support her blindly, come what may. But past form suggests she will find it hard to eat her words, even if negotiation seems the best option.
Rumours are flying that Argentina may try to continue paying its exchange bondholders without paying the hold-outs by somehow transferring the restructured bonds out of US jurisdiction and reconstituting them under Argentine law. But this move is a complex one to pull off, and time is pressing: Argentina’s next payment on its exchange bonds is due on June 30th. If a stay on the district-court decision is lifted, as expected, Argentina will either have to pay NML or reach a settlement before that date to avoid a default.
Defaulting on all its bonds is Argentina’s final option. A leaked memo from its lawyers at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, made public before today’s decision, spelled out the logic as follows: “Argentina wants to continue paying its restructured debt. The courts, however, have put it in a terrible position. In a position that, save that the Supreme Court revises the issue, would seem to be obliging Argentina to fall in default, since no other option resolves the dilemma created by the courts when they gave each one of the hold-outs the power to interrupt the payment of the rest.” Default would crush Argentina’s hopes of returning to international capital markets, however. It would be best if Argentina could reach a settlement with the hold-outs. But Argentina does not always make the best choices.
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Lifestyle Sex and Relationship 13 Dec 2018 Sex once a fortnight ...
Lifestyle, Sex and Relationship
Sex once a fortnight secret to happiness in 70s, says study
Published Dec 13, 2018, 7:25 pm IST
Updated Dec 13, 2018, 7:25 pm IST
The key to contentment in later life may be as simple as having sex every fortnight.
For men, having sex at least twice a month can lead to happiness, while women are more interested in kissing and the emotional closeness of sleeping with their husband. (Photo: Pixabay)
A new study now suggests that life is actually more enjoyable if one has an active love life, even in the 70s.
For men, having sex at least twice a month can lead to happiness, while women are more interested in kissing and the emotional closeness of sleeping with their husband or partner.
According to the research led by Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, experts found older people were far happier if they had made love in the last 12 months, which could be down to feelings of post-coital 'bliss' or the benefits of the exercise involved.
Speaking about the study, lead author Dr Lee Smith, an exercise expert at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, said that there is a misconception that older people are not interested in sex, but it is important and can reduce their risk of heart problems and early death. She added that the study found sex can improve people's enjoyment of life.
The research is based on questionnaires given to 6,879 people over the age of 50 about their sex lives over the past year.
Tags: elderly have sex, sex every fortnight, kissing, emotional closeness
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Hollywood Be Damned, the 'Netflix for Pirated Movies' Just Launched an iOS App
Popcorn Time found a way around Apple's vetting process.
By Matt Patches
Popcorn Time is an inspiring bit of programming. Whereas, in the past, someone scooping up a humongous torrent would sit, wait, and pray for the download to go uninterrupted, Popcorn Time locates all the versions of the file across the web, pieces it together bit by bit, and even streams the downloaded elements, in the case of television episodes or movies. It's easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, and it works. It's a great product.
Whether it's the most legal application in circulation is a question Hollywood, Internet lawmakers, and the programmers behind Popcorn Time will figure out as the Netflix-like service continues to evolve and proliferate.
Today, the folks at Popcorn-Time.se released an iOS installer that allows non-jailbroken iPhones and iPads to run the all-too-perfect application, opening up a wealth of content to those without technical know-how. The move is a huge step for outsiders looking to bypass Apple's merciless App Gestapo that keep unapproved software from reaching its users' fingertips. Through the installer, any app can weasel its way on to an iPhone, if the owner so desires. Per the site's instructions, "All a user will need to do to get Popcorn Time on a non jailbroken iOS device is to download the 'iOS installer' to his desktop computer, connect his iOS device to the computer with a USB cable, and then just follow simple instructions that will download the app on the iOS device."
When Popcorn Time launched in 2014, it encountered immediate pushback from the Motion Picture Association of America, who saw its torrent-reaping ways as a threat to traditional business practices. Onlookers dubbed the service the "Netflix for Piracy." Which was tough, but fair—Popcorn Time culled from shows and movies illegally obtained by torrent users. Despite confidence that the system's mere existence didn't break laws, Popcorn Time threw in the towel that March. In a farewell blog post, the creators wrote, "We got articles on Time Magazine, Fast Company, TechCrunch, TUAW, Ars Technica, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Yahoo Finance, Gizmodo, PC Magazine and Torrent Freak, just to name a few ... and they were not chastising us. They were cheering for us. We became the underdog." Piracy, in their minds, was not the entertainment industry's problem, but an answer to the problem. "Popcorn Time is shutting down today. Not because we ran out of energy, commitment, focus or allies. But because we need to move on with our lives."
Within a few months, Popcorn Time's open source code was "forked" by independent developers who saw the service's clean browsing experience as essential. Today, they're launching an app that will, inevitably, send Apple into attack mode.
"The installer guys have no doubt that this will be a long journey, playing 'cat and mouse' with Apple that probably won't like them breaking their closed eco-system," the current Popcorn Time developers tell Torrent Freak. "But seeing their work now and future updates for the installer they're already working on, we're sure they're ready for any obstacle Apple will throw their way."
As Popcorn Time awaits Apple's retaliation, the new installer opens the floodgates for a 21st century-brand of piracy. And it is piracy. Movies and television shows stolen from servers, screeners, or movie theater computers are illegal, regardless of Popcorn Time's innovations. Users embrace the technology at their own risk. Popcorn Time tells you the same thing:
But yar, seems the enterainment be sailin' in to ye iPhone, one way or another.
[h/t Business Insider
Matt Patches Senior Writer Patches is a Senior Writer at Esquire.com.
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Essling Expansion in exclusive negotiation with SPVIE Assurances
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Paris, February 12, 2020
Essling Expansion, Essling Capital’s Small & Lower-Mid Cap fund, has entered into an exclusive negotiation with SPVIE Assurances, a multi-channel insurance brokerage group.
Since 2015, SPVIE Assurances has invested heavily to develop a differentiating digital offering that facilitates insurance brokers’ commercial path and customer experience. Thanks to its efforts, the company has experienced exponential growth in recent years.
The arrival of Essling Expansion will provide SPVIE Assurances with new resources to support its ambitious development plan, strengthen the group’s organisation and seize significant external growth opportunities.
“This transaction gives us the opportunity to welcome a solid and ambitious long-term partner,” said Jérémy Sebag, Chairman and Co-founder. “We are very pleased to welcome Essling Expansion, which will help us accelerate our development strategy,” added Cédric Pironneau, CEO and Co-founder.
“We are delighted to support a dynamic and talented management team that has succeeded in establishing SPVIE Assurances as a key player in its market,” said Rémi Matuchansky, Co-Manager of Essling Expansion.
“We share the same ambition and vision as the managers of SPVIE Assurances, which are at the core of Essling Expansion’ strategy whose investment focus is on strong growth companies in the digital and healthcare sectors,” said Bertrand Fesneau, Co-Manager of Essling Expansion and Charles Bourgain, Associate.
With this operation, the Group will benefit from a funding envelope of more than 70 million euros. The transaction is expected to be completed by mid-March.
About Essling Expansion – Essling Expansion is a Small & Lower-Mid Cap fund dedicated to high-growth companies in the digital, healthcare and business services sectors. It is managed by Essling Capital, an independent investment firm specializing in alternative assets. The company manages and advises more than €1.3 billion in France, in Europe and abroad. Essling Capital is certified by the AMF.
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What Is ElderLaw
What Is a Trustee?
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A trustee is the person or institution appointed to manage a trust. A trust is a legal arrangement through which a trustee holds legal title to property for another person, called a “beneficiary.” The trust document will name the trustee.
Being a trustee is a big responsibility. Trustees must act in the best interests of the trust beneficiaries at all times. A trustee’s duties include locating and protecting trust assets, investing assets prudently, distributing assets to beneficiaries, keeping track of income and expenditures, and filing taxes.
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About UsFamily Service is a nonprofit counseling and human service agency that has been rooted in Chester County, Pennsylvania since 1947. Our original founders were a group of individuals and social welfare professionals with a mission to support Chester County residents struggling with family life, changing societal norms, shifts in the work place, and other challenges at the end of World War II. Today, more than 63 years later, Family Service has evolved into a diverse, community-based human service agency. We provide professional counseling to people of all income levels and operate programs to address some of our community’s most pressing issues, including: child abuse young adults and alcohol use families and divorce financial self-sufficiency HIV/AIDS community engagement among retired and senior adults We also provide our services at a low rate—and in many cases, for free—to any Chester County resident in financial need. We do not require health insurance. We believe in eliminating financial barriers to professional care. We do not turn anyone away.
ProgramsFamily Service brings programs to the Chester County community that serve families, individuals, people living with HIV/AIDS, young adults, retired and senior adults, and many others in need of personal support during difficult times in life. Exchange Club Family Center: In the early 1990s, Family Service began a partnership with the West Chester Exchange Club to establish a child abuse prevention program based on the National Exchange Club Foundation’s model of in-home, parent mentoring. Known as our Exchange Club Family Center, we help 25 to 30 families across Chester County each year to strengthen their homes, protect their children, meet their basic needs, and improve their relationships. Project ONE: Project ONE is the only comprehensive case management program of its kind for people living with HIV/AIDS in Chester County. Began by Family Service in the 1980s with one man who came to Family Service for counseling, Project ONE now combines medical case management, counseling care, support groups, and resource coordination for housing, food, transportation, and emergency financial assistance to as many as 170 HIV-positive people in our community a year. Retired and Senior Volunteer Program: RSVP at Family Service is a local division of the nationwide Retired and Senior Volunteer…
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VolunteerAre you seeking an opportunity to support Family Service and our programs in a personal, hands-on way? At Family Service, volunteers are valuable members of our agency and community. As a volunteer, you can directly benefit the families and individuals in our care through the ways listed below: Transportation Volunteer to drive Project ONE clients living with HIV/AIDS to and from doctor’s appointments. Encourage and talk with clients one-on-one as you travel together. Learn more. Project ONE Office Support Greet clients with HIV/AIDS at Project ONE’s office in the Coatesville Center for Community Health. Provide light administrative support and learn first-hand about HIV/AIDS case management. Learn more. Volunteer Parent Aide Provide one-on-one mentoring to a family in the Exchange Club Family Center. Help parents with children (ages 0-12) prevent abuse, strengthen family functioning, and develop safe and healthy homes. Learn more. Adopt-a-Family Take a low income family in the Exchange Club Family Center “under your wing” for a year. Donate clothing, holiday food, gifts, and other items needed by the family. Learn more. Retired and Senior Volunteer Program For adults age 55 and older. Serve critical community needs at a wide range of nonprofits, schools, libraries, hospitals, arts and culture organizations, and community…
Contact UsFor general inquiries about Family Service, or for specific questions about our programs and services, we welcome you to contact us. You may submit this form, call us at 610-696-4900, or email us directly at info@familyservice.us [contact-form 2 “Contact Family Service of Chester County”]
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Family Service is a nonprofit counseling and human service agency that has been rooted in Chester County, Pennsylvania since 1947.
Our original founders were a group of individuals and social welfare professionals with a mission to support Chester County residents struggling with family life, changing societal norms, shifts in the work place, and other challenges at the end of World War II.
Today, over 73 years later, we are one of Chester County’s most trusted providers of counseling and specialized support programs for families and individuals. We place a special emphasis on serving people of all ages, backgrounds and income levels.
We provide professional counseling to people of all income levels and operate programs to address some of our community’s most pressing issues, including:
Family support and child abuse prevention
Mental health (counseling, divorce, etc)
Financial self-sufficiency
Homelessness and housing insecurity
We also provide our services at a low rate—and in many cases, for free—to any Chester County resident in financial need. We do not require health insurance. We believe in eliminating financial barriers to professional care. We do not turn anyone away. We believe in creating a community where people can enjoy healthy, safe and productive lives. We believe in diversity and inclusivity in all areas of life. We would love to have you part of the Family Service family. If you have questions feel free to reach me at any time.
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Can the MCU Finally Give the Fantastic Four the Movie They Deserve?
If anyone an save them, it's Marvel.
By Catherine Santino
Jul 21 2019, 1:39 PM
This weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con has been chock-full of exciting news. In addition to Natalie Portman taking on the role of Thor and brand new Blade series, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige announced that the Fantastic Four are getting another movie.
Though the Fantastic Four are beloved comic-book characters, the attempts to bring them to the big screen have been notoriously unsuccessful. In 2005, the first film series based on the characters was a box office flop, despite all-star cast Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis. The follow-up, Fantastic Four; Rise of the Silver Surfer was equally disappointing. Another Fantastic Four film was attempted in 2015, directed by Josh Trank and starring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell. Sadly, this version was even more poorly received. It currently has a rating of 9 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Yikes.
The casting and release date for the forthcoming adaptation has yet to be revealed, but fans have high hopes that Marvel can do it justice. In case you’ve forgotten (or blocked out the films from your consciousness), the Fantastic Four is an, obviously, four-person superhero team: Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards), can stretch and contort; Invisible Woman (Sue Storm), can, you know, make herself invisible; the Human Torch (Johnny Storm), who can turn himself into flames; and the Thing (Ben Grimm), who’s made entirely of a rock-like substance and possesses superhero strength.
Hopefully, Marvel can lift the apparent curse of the Fantastic Four franchise and bring fans the film adaptation they deserve.
.@Marvel announced a #FantasticFour reboot. Who do you want cast as the roles of Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm? 🔥 pic.twitter.com/p1DtX8FMlt
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How to Have Fun With a Boring Baby (And, Yes, Babies Can Be Boring)
There are several weeks where babies aren’t really doing anything particularly interesting on the surface. That’s the time to explore.
By Patrick A. Coleman
Parents who have passed the adrenaline peak of infancy may suddenly realize that their two-month-old baby is kind of boring. This weeks-long lull occurs after routines have been established but the cascade of social-media friendly developmental milestones, like rolling over and crawling, are still on the horizon. It’s an easy phase for parents to start establishing “phubbing” behavior instead of making an active effort to have fun. But that’s likely due to a parents misunderstanding of the resilience and flexibility many babies possess.
“Our lives rotate around our kids but we don’t recognize we have a lot more flexibility than it seems,” explains positive psychologist Dr. Robert Zeitlin, author of Laugh More, Yell Less: A Guide to Raising Kick-Ass Kids. He notes that parents often feel like they’re trapped by a baby’s schedule, or may worry too much about their child’s fragility. “There’s a way to explore and expose our baby to fun things in different surroundings. And at the same time expose them to a different part of us that’s having fun.”
How to Have Fun with a Boring Baby
Connect with other dads who are getting out with their babies.
Shake off the worry and get out of the house.
Look for outdoor activities or those that you enjoy and can be done safely with a baby in tow
Work on intentionally connecting and communicating when at home, rather than picking up a phone.
Talk to a friend with more than one child. They will happily explain that by the time child two or three comes along, any semblance of careful adherence to a strict schedule and cloistered babyhood goes out the window. It’s not that the second baby is any different. New parents have just relaxed a little.
“We get in these silos, but there are opportunities for alliances across fathers to get insights and different perspectives,” Zeitlin says. “Find a father who recognizes that babies are a little bit more portable and hardy than we think and can nap in different places.”
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But specifically, Zeitlin notes, that this does not mean parents need to head straight to a Mommy and Me class or the local Gymboree to rub elbows with other parents. In fact, the whole idea is to take a baby places where parents specifically find joy and fulfillment. (Within reason, of course. Don’t take the kid to the champagne room.)
“Go to places that interest you and light you up,” explains Zeitlin. “There’s a way to be more present doing things that interest us.” Particularly, he says, if those places are outdoors and accommodate babywearing activities. Who knows, strapping on a baby might actually improve your golf swing.
But while going out might help a parent relieve the boredom, there’s a greater challenge for parents engaging a baby at home. But rising to that challenge with a specific intention to connect with a kid can ameliorate the boredom.
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“One of the cool things about babies is that you have someone there for whom life is quite simple,” explains Zeitlin. “It gives you an opportunity, if you want to do the work, to practice being a little more simple in your approach to things.”
That means being present and offering focus to a child. It means speaking with them, reading to them, and singing to them, even if it appears that the effort isn’t yielding entertaining results. It’s important to understand that this focused interaction will pay dividends down the road.
“It’s a hard thing to do and something that is worth the effort,” Zeitlin explains. “They are, at some level, needing connections and trying to make connections. It might not be a fun time, but it’s a very important time to be present.”
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Mum, Mum, Mum
Argentina 2020, Sol Berruezo Pichon-Riviére, 1h 5m
26. Nov - 06. Dec
Available from 26. Nov
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It's summertime, and a veil of sadness hangs in the air. 12-year-old Cleo and her cousins are left to deal with the grief on their own after the death of Cleo's sister. While the adults are paralyzed by grief, and a growing sense of anxiety fills the house. The young girls use the opportunity to explore their own budding sexuality and femininity. They share secrets and perform rituals.
Mamá, mamá, mamá is a beautiful portrait of a tragic event which seems to have frozen time, and create poetic and atmospheric images with a nostalgic feeling. In just 65 minutes, director Pichon-Riviére manages to evoke strong emotions by telling the story through the perspective of the children.
Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad
Sol Berruezo Pichon-Riviére (b.1996) is an Argentinian film director and scriptwriter. She works with photography and music. Pichon-Riviére studied directing at the University of Cinema in Buenos Aires. Mamá, mamá, mamá is her first feature film, and was presented at the Berlinale in the Generations section.
This film is part of
New Voices Audience Award
Country Argentina
Director Sol Berruezo Pichon-Riviére
Screenplay Sol Berruezo Pichon-Riviére
Cinematography Rebeca Siqueira
Producer Laura Tablón
Cast Siumara Castillo, Chloé Cherchyk, Camila Zolezzi
Runtime 1h 5m
Subtitles English
Format DCP
Age limit 9
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11657892/
This film is in competition for the Audience Award.
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Fever - Interview
Fever might only be two singles into their career as a band but they've already picked up significant attention from the likes of This Feeling and both singles have been released via Blossoms' Very Clever Records label. We caught up with Joe for a chat as they prepare to go out on the road in March to support their label bosses on their UK tour.
Your name is a fairly simple one. Where did it come from and did you consider how difficult it might be to find you online with such a common word as your name?
It is, but it's difficult as every possible band name under the sun has already been taken at this point. We just wanted a rather blanket name that didn't give off too many preconceptions regarding the sound of the music and that we could make our own. Also, we didn't want to pick a name that might stand out more, but that we'd be embarrassed by in a year or two's time. Although Fever might be a fairly common word to find online, we're very much of the mindset that if the music's good enough, over time people will find us. Best man wins sort of attitude!
Things have happened pretty quickly for you. With one single under your name you were announced to support Blossoms on their big UK tour that's coming up. Has it surprised you how quickly it has happened?
It has and it hasn't really! What most people don't realise is that our singer, James, actually gigged with Blossoms four or five years ago with his previous band. He'd kept in touch with their drummer, Joe Donovan, and has been sending our demos across to him as far back as October 2018. Once we actually had some 'proper' studio recordings ready, they made the offer that we could release it through their label Very Clever Records. We've now put out a couple of singles (Jungle Man and Money Love) through their label and I guess the tour support is just the next step. We definitely don't take it for granted though, as they really didn't have to take the chance on us. It's just great that they're able to provide a platform for new bands like ourselves, in a way that most other bands don't!
And how are you preparing for such a big event so early in the band's career - it'll be very different from the size of gigs you're used to?
It's more the logistical side of things which is a bigger step up for us, more so than the gigs at this point. Obviously most bands who are touring at this sort of level usually will have a manager, tour manager, booking agent etc, where as we're still very much managing it ourselves at this point, with the help of Jordan Garner of Very Clever Records / SJM.
In terms of the gigs though, sure it'll be a step up but it's definitely the sort of venues we want to be in. Three fifths of the band have been on the local music scene in Hull for over ten years now, so we've definitely cut our teeth playing live, it's just been under the radar. We've also got a run of five shows in February for This Feeling to get us match fit in the lead up to the Blossoms tour!
You recently released your second single Money Love. Could you tell us a little about what the song is about?
Money Love is basically about being skint in a relationship, when all the other person is interested in is cash and materialistic items. Sound-wise, it's a little heavier than our previous single Jungle Man, but we felt like the music needed to reflect the subject matter. Hopefully it shows that there are a few different sides to the band which we'll look to continue going forward!
You only formed last year, which isn't long ago in band terms. How many songs have you written in that time - and are there any particular ones we should look out for as future singles or live favourites?
Although we only released the first single in October 2019, we've been in the rehearsal room for probably just under a year before that, so say October/November 2018. As a band we've probably made fourteen or fifteen tracks, of which only two have been binned and that's not because they were bad, they just didn't fit with the rest of the set.
One of our live favourites is a track called Electric which all being well will be released not long after the Blossoms tour finishes. There's also a track called Honesty that we close the set with and which everybody seems to buzz about after shows. Hopefully that'll be our big summer festival release!
How do you write songs - do you have one or more main songwriters or is it a more collaborative effort?
James is always writing, but it's more that he'll bring in a germ of an idea, say a verse/chorus and then we'll flesh it out together as a group. Everyone is such unique players in their own way, that I think it only really works when we trust each other to add our contribution! Jungle Man is the only song I can think of where James came in with the fully finished version with specific parts for everyone, but that was purely because that's the only song he demoed prior to the band starting!
You've come out of the Hull music scene. There's some great venues there like The Welly, The Adelphi and The Polar Bear How vibrant is the scene there at present and has the opening of the Bonus Arena affected that, giving local bands a hometown arena to target playing?
The scene in Hull is really strong at the moment, with the likes of The Polar Bear providing a platform for new bands with 'The Sesh', which is a free entry night every Tuesday. The New Adelphi Club is still a stalwart of local music community after thirty-five years, we also played an amazing sold out show there last month. This night is actually documented in our new video for Money Love!
In terms of The Welly, we'd love to be able to build ourselves up to be able to sell that out by the end of 2020. We're also really excited about the reopening of what used to the old Fruit space, which is now going under the name Social. This place is still held dear to a lot people in Hull and it's where a lot of us in the music crowd saw some of our most formative gigs such as Miles Kane, Mystery Jets, Royal Blood etc. So it'll be great to see its doors back open in April. With regards to The Bonus Arena, although it's still a pipe dream for us and most other bands local bands at this stage, it's great to be finally able to have a space that can house the likes of Blossoms, Courteeners, Noel Gallagher etc without having to travel to Leeds or Sheffield
And are there any Hull bands you know or who you've played with who you'd recommend us checking out?
There's always been ace music coming out of Hull, it's just never got the attention it deserves, but thankfully that seems to be changing. Obviously there's LIFE and The Hubbards who have both been doing great stuff and flying the flag for a few years now. In terms of newer stuff, there's the likes of Low Hummer & Slowdaze who have been getting airplay on Radio 1 and 6 Music respectively, through to up and coming artists such as Aimée Duncan, Downtown Kayoto and Mercy (technically from Howden and now lives in London, but we'll let her off!)
You're supporting Fuzzy Sun after the Blossoms tour. What plans do you have for the summer and beyond?
Yeah we can't wait for the show with Fuzzy Sun at Manchester Academy 2. We'd been saying for a while that it would be cool to do a show with another act on Very Clever, so this is perfect. In terms of the summer, so far we've got Stockton Calling, Live At Leeds & Liverpool Sound City all pencilled in, but we're hoping to be able to announce a few more in the upcoming weeks. In-between these festival dates we're looking at getting an EP recorded, which we'll hopefully be looking at releasing around September/October time. We figure the more songs people know, the better the shows. Saying that we've not had a bad gig yet, although we're still only on show number seven to be fair.
If you had to describe Fever to someone who had never heard of you, where would you start?
I guess that's most people at this point then eh! In all seriousness though, we always describe the sound as lending from the classic pop song writing sensibilities of The Beatles, The Coral, The La's etc but then crossed over with our love of big guitar bands such as The Strokes & The White Stripes. We think 'Jungle Man' & 'Money Love' are a great place to start, as they're both immediate and show two totally different sides to the band, but still within the same ball park. Hopefully we'll expand on this with the next single 'Electric' and definitely with the EP. The aim is just to not stand still basically!
Fever play Nottingham Chameleon (February 13), Birmingham Sunflower Lounge (14), Rhyl The Front Room (15), Scarborough The Tipi Venue (29) before supporting Blossoms on their UK tour at Norwich UEA (March 7), Margate Winter Gardens (8), Nottingham Rock City (10), Sheffield O2 Academy (11), Bath Forum (12), Exeter University (14), Bournemouth Academy (15) and London O2 Kentish Town Forum (17). They then support Pacific at Manchester Gorilla on April 3 before playing Stockton Calling (11), Liverpool Sound City (May 1-3), Live At Leeds (2) and supporting Fuzzy Sun at Manchester Academy 2 (May 29).
Fever are on Facebook and Twitter.
Photo credit - Patrick Mateer
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Emily and I got together to talk about Laurie´s character arc and how it is missing from every-single-Little Women adaptation.
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Hello friends and welcome to Small Umbrella In The Rain. A podcast series on all things Louisa May Alcott and Little Women. This is a special episode. A collaboration between me and booktuber Emiloid. Emily and I discovered that we have lots of similar opinions and thoughts about Little Women and our first conversation actually lasted four hours! We had so much fun that we are probably going to do more collaborations in the future. I hope you guys enjoy this. This is Small Umbrella In The Rain: The Laurie Problem.
Emily: Hello I am Emily. I am also known as Emiloid. I run a booktube channel by the same name and I am also a big fan of Little Women the novel and also a great fan of discussing the adaptations as well.
Niina: I am Niina. Hello everyone and I am a blogger on YouTube and I have a channel called Small Umbrella In The Rain. I do gender studies on Little Women and been lately focusing mostly on the male characters.
Emily: Great
Emily: I am relatively well-known for my channel for a review I did on the newest Little Women adaptation.
Niina: Which was a really good review.
Emily: To say the least. Openly critical of the film and Niina reach out to me because we have lot of the same perspectives on the book and the films. I am very honored. I am really flattered that you asked me because I had literally found your blog when I was preparing for my video.
Niina: So nice because it was a really big surprise for me how many people reached out after I published it. You always learn new things when people reach out to you like that. They share their views and it´s been a pleasure.
Emily: I had lots of people reaching out to me ”wow I am so grateful that you have reflected my views on this film” and it feels like they finally got presented. Before I even knew you I remember thinking about your blog post, ”wow this person agrees with me” because you really love professor Bhaer and this film did not have professor Bhaer in it, pretty much. You know, they didn´t have our professor Bhaer in it.
Niina: Yeah, where is our professor Bhaer?
Emily: where is this beautiful relationship?
Emily: Today you wanted to discuss Laurie.
Niina: Among other things, yes.
Emily: Yes, among other things.
Emily: So we are going to do one video on this channel. On Niina´s channel and then one video on my channel, where we will be discussing Jo and professor Bhaer but you will probably find that our discussions will go on different tangents.
Niina: Very likely.
Emily: We have lots of feelings about these adaptations and this book.
Emily: Alright, how about we start out talking about the Laurie model. By the way I literally just watched the 2017 series last night.
Niina: oh you did?
Emily: I think I agree with a lot what you said about it. I like what they expanded but the ending is very rushed.
Niina: It is. I felt that the writer should have had four episodes to do it properly.
Emily: Somehow they managed to expand on some things but somehow the ending was just really rushed. I was so surprised at the end.
Niina: It did not build enough for the two couples. That really bothered me.
Emily: They didn´t really thought through the whole process for Jo and professor Bhaer and suddenly the school is established and they don´t build up on that. It was a bit weird. You sent me a bunch of articles and blog posts about this subject and you clearly had done very deep dive into his character.
Niina: I think my biggest problem with all Laurie´s presentations in the films is that it never follows the book´s narrative. This is something that really reflects to the way people read Little Women. I find it very problematic to say the least.
Emily: I know I remember you said that basically Laurie has to go through a whole growth process in the book, I guess we should preface it by saying that lot of the adaptations idealize him. What you said in your blog post. He is kind of this young, pretty guy who is in love with Jo. We are supposed to feel bad for him but what the adaptations leave out is how immature he really is and actually how horrible he is sometimes.
Niina: One of my blog readers, they wrote a very eye -opening review about Little Women, how Jo and Laurie, the ideas that they feed to each others, they actually end up harming each others on a long run and that is something that people constantly ignore.
Emily: Yes! I think a big example is, remember when Laurie was like ”Ah I don´t want to go to university" and Jo is like just run away, you don´t have to go to the uni and Meg is like ”No, don´t tell Laurie, not to go to uni. You need to do it”. At that point I was like wow these two are not good influence on each other at all.
Niina: Laurie was that kind of character that he always did what he was told to do. He always wants to do what he is told not to do and he has this constant inner conflict because of it.
Emily: That is true. He kinda reminds me of bit of me, I don´t think he really appreciated lot of the privilege he had at the start because he is like ”I don´t like uni” because he is expected to fit into a certain mold in the society what he doesn´t really properly appreciate. He was a party boy in college and messes around and everything. He doesn´t really know how to be a productive member of society. He doesn´t really understand what that means.
Niina: When Jo gets older, it really starts to bother her, that he doesn´t take responsibility of himself. She is like a little mother for him. She is always taking care of him and it is quite sad, the way Jo feels bad that he has all these privileges that she doesn´t have.
Emily: He represents lot of the things that she can´t have but he really takes for granted. I think you might have pointed this out in your blog post but Jo is very much taking care of him because he is really looking for a mother. He really kind of falls in love with her, or he thinks, because he is really looking for this character who is going to nanny him.
Niina: People forget that Laurie is an orphan. He doesn´t really have a stable parental figure until Jo arrives.
Emily: He is always envying that really idyllic view of the March family. All the sisters and their relationship with Marmee and Marmee essentially becomes his secondary mother in away. I think you also pointed out, despite of craving this maternal figure in his life, he and Jo like to make fun of very feminine girls. They have really mutually negative forcing views on femininity and masculinity as well. I was surprised when I re-read the book and I was like wow! Laurie was actually …am I allowed to swear on your channel?
Niina: Go ahead.
Emily: He is a fuckboy.
Niina: Indeed.
Emily: He is really a fuckboy but then he turns around and talked bad about these girls to Jo and I am like Wow, this is exactly the kind of guy I would have tried to avoid back in uni. He is quite misogynistic. I wonder what you think because you pointed out that Jo is disappointed with Laurie but I think also Amy is as well. I think Amy even if she doesn´t have the same kind of relationship with Laurie also really steps in and is the one to say ”Hey, you are really not being productive person and you are really idle” and she taps his hand. She is like, your hands, they have never done days work and I´m wondering if you could talk about your view on Jo and why Jo is kind of his mother but isn´t able to build that kind of relationship with him that Amy is somehow able to come out. Give him the same kind of talk but then isn´t really his mother and is actually able to get through him.
Niina: There is a theory that Amy already had a crush on Laurie when she was 12. When I read the book like that it makes sense because there is the scene where Laurie goes to cheer her up when she is staying at aunt March and all that.
Emily: Yes.
Niina: I always liked that chapter but when I read Little Women last time what I noticed was that Laurie always behaves a lot better with Amy than he does with Meg or with Jo. With Meg or with Jo he always seems to have this idea that he is somehow above them but that doesn´t really happen with Amy. It´s really interesting.
Emily: Do you think it is because they are both younger siblings of Jo and Meg and they kind of are able to reach some sort of equal footing that way?
Niina: They are all just very different people. There is that chapter where Laurie forges letters in John´s name and then he is catfishing Meg and then Jo wants Meg and Laurie to get together. To keep Laurie in the family. She doesn´t really see how harmful that is to Meg´s reputation and Laurie doesn´t see any kind of harmful elements in his actions.
Emily: He is just kind of having fun but it really is a mean joke to play at somebody. Especially when one of them involves his teacher, who he really does not appreciate enough.
Niina: He really takes Mr Brooke for granted.
Emily: I think I read this on your blog and this really resonated with me. He is also quite toxic towards Jo especially when he wants to be in a relationship with her. He is saying ”I am going to kill myself over you”.
Niina: There is lots of mental blackmailing and it´s quite hard to read sometimes.
Emily: I think you quoted somebody who said, Laurie is a ”nice guy”. He is one of those nice guys who expect to get what he wants because he is so nice to that person.
Niina: He doesn´t really see Jo as an actual person at that point. He wants to marry her because he is expected to marry someone. When there is that time period when he is in Vienna and he is trying to compose. It is like he doesn´t really care who he is going to marry or who is this romantic woman that he is composing these operas for. It doesn´t really matter at that point because he has this idea that this is what a man is supposed to be like.
Emily: I think he writes about how he has this phantom of a woman in his mind and it is not really vague. He is not really thinking about Jo´s characteristics or anything like that. He just have this sort of Goethean idea of a woman. What we know doesn´t resemble Jo at all.
Niina: It is this phantom princess who is waiting for a prince to arrive, from an opera or a ballet. It´s really not Jo March and it is really not Amy either but when he starts to have deeper feelings for Amy, this phantom it starts to look more and more like Amy. It is one of those things that is never included
in the adaptations.
Emily: I am surprised. You are absolutely correct. No one gives Laurie this arc. Nobody delves into his feelings about the March girls. People even cut out that kind of toxic behavior that he has.
Niina: It is really weird. Very odd.
Emily: You know how these days we are talking about Twilight. Twilight is so toxic because Edward stalks Bella and is so possessive and I am just like, well you know, here is this nice guy who is very toxic towards the person he wants to be with and is no better. It really bugles my mind. That even a grown-up reader could go back to this character and be like ”oh Laurie should have been with Jo” and I don´t know if you saw but I think they are even coming out a book called ”Jo and Laurie”.
Niina: I heard about it. I am not going to read it. It´s going to make me angry.
Niina: I know better!
Emily: I don´t want to read it either. If you want to write fan fiction, fine, but I can´t believe people are actually publishing this stuff.
Niina: It´s ridiculous.
Emily: Buy this narrative that they should have been together. I really can´t believe it.
Niina: What it comes to Louisa, the whole premise of Little Women was to write a book for girls about how to marry someone who you can actually live with for the rest of your life and she really does this very well when you think about it because she especially crafted Friedrich´s character for Jo and then he is based on men who Louisa was in love with.
Emily: As we pointed out before, we don´t have lots of full characterizations of Laurie in the films. I am wondering, did you expect the 2019 film to do a better with his character?
Niina: I read very early interviews of Greta Gerwig who talked about the way Jo and Laurie have this relationship that is not romantic and that gave me hope but then I read the movie guide for the new film and then she takes it back. I think she is a Jo and Laurie shipper. Which is why Laurie doesn´t have an arc. What I have seen in Little Women circles with some of the people who I have talked with and interviewed for my articles, is that there are lot of people now who think that Laurie is very immature in that film and they are glad that Jo ended up with the professor. So it is some kind of improvement but he is still a million times more idealized in that movie than he is in the book.
Emily: The really dreamy Timothee Chamalet.
Niina: He doesn´t have a character arc. They did a pretty good job with Amy in that movie.
Emily: Yes, yes.
Niina: But it doesn´t work without Laurie´s arc. That is the problem.
Emily: That is very true. I was hoping to discuss this with you. Despite my very critical review of the new film. I think they were doing okay with Amy and Laurie. For up until the Europe part because I think setting up their relationship is pretty good. I think I said before in my review. I didn´t like how they contrived that with Amy´s painting being the set up for that because I think that is actually a very awful scene that is supposed to be a scene or righteous anger and I didn´t like that it was made to be comical. I liked that they did some work on establishing their relationship beforehand. I´d be okay with this and in Europe they have that discussion. Amy gives him talk and then Amy also doesn´t want to play second to Jo. I was like okay, this was fine. But then you noticed how Laurie doesn´t have to do any work for Amy?
Niina: That´s true.
Emily: I always found this to be a very crucial part of their arc. Amy even encourages him to be a productive member of society but then he never does any of that. That aspect of their story is left hanging and just incomplete and then it´s back to Beth´s death to speed up their relationship instead of him actually putting work in, which really sat badly with me.
Niina: That is something that really bothered me in the film and that kind of reflected into Jo´s character because she was not given a character arch either.
Emily: She is not. I said in my review her arc is flat without professor Bhaer.
Niina: If we compare that to the 1994 film, Jo has a full arc there. That is the way it goes in the book.
Emily: Yes she does. Despite Laurie not having much of a characterization, maybe not much more in the 1994 film. I liked that they actually acknowledged that he went away to actually better himself before coming back to Amy.
Niina: It doesn´t really build up their relationship as much as the 2019 film but Laurie has some sort of arc in that movie.
Emily: Now that we are talking about the film. I think you said in your blog post we don´t get a sense of his temper and how he would clash with Jo which is why we don´t always buy that they would kill each other.
Niina: That is the same with all adaptations. Louisa makes a really big effort in the book. She describes that Laurie has a temper and that he has these violent outbursts and Jo has them as well.
Emily: You get this sense that Laurie is butting heads with Jo, what he kind of is, but he also clashes with her in other ways but they never really represent that. I think in 1994 Christian Bale is really wonderful for the character that they wrote but I guess a lot of people have accused the film of making that relationship with Amy creepy. Underdeveloped maybe, but I never found it creepy particularly.
Niina: I think it´s because Amy is 12 in the first part and Laurie is 16 but it´s just a four years age difference and they are not romantically together in that way but then people also say that Jo and Friedrich are creepy but Jo is 24 when they meet. I never saw that creepy.
Emily: They are both adults.
Niina: It was written in the 19th century. Most marriages were marriages with age gaps and Louisa had a thing for older guys.
Emily: Back then it was super common.
Niina: For most people there was an age gap in the marriages or in relationships in general.
Emily: Because families generally wanted their daughters to marry established gentlemen. Who already had a living and generally it would take time for a guy to actually establish his career and when he did at that point he would marry somebody. So it is not shocking at all that you would have age gaps like that.
Niina: If you think about some of the recent films. For example the new Emma. In the original Jane Austen´s Emma, Knightley´s and Emma´s age difference is 19 years. In the new film, Knightley´s actor is much younger looking. They do that nowadays. The male lead is hired to be a young-looking guy, even if the actor is actually a bit older in reality.
Emily: It´s funny you know, in the 2019 film they did that with professor Bhaer. They were not going to do the proper arc anyway but they made him younger too.
Niina: The actor is actually 36 so his age is really close to the book Fritz but he looks much younger. It´s just Hollywood the way it does it but then if I think about Amy and Laurie in the 1994 film, I don´t think it´s creepy but if you think about how people could actually avoid that why can´t they actually hire a 16-year-old guy to play Laurie but people are going to complain about everything, it doesn´t matter who we are going to cast to play Laurie.
Emily: In the 2019 film I felt that it had an issue with Florence Pugh looking older in all of her scenes when Laurie just looked young in all of his scenes.
Niina: The actors are the same age.
Emily: They are the same age. It´s just that, you could not quite buy Amy or Florence Pugh as a child and you could never buy Timothee Chamalet as an adult. Whatever their real-life age is. It just doesn´t work in the sense of that visual contrast. I mean people have pointed out to me that Christian Bale was only 20 when he played Laurie but he is able to transition from being a teenager into an adult. Sometimes you know, even if the real age matches, that is the thing about casting, you need certain people to pass of different ages. It is weird because I haven´t seen the 1933 film but I noticed that both 1949 and 1994 don´t pay that much attention to Amy´s and Laurie´s arc. In fact,I think 1949 less so. It is not even there.
Niina: No. There is this scene before Laurie goes to propose Jo and Amy is looking at Laurie with a sad expression on her face. I think that is the only scene with them together and then there is the end when they end up together. That is their arc. Laurie´s proposal is extremely romanticized in that film and it´s really romanticized in 1933 film and 1994 film. 2019 film did better but then it completely erased Friedrich´s character so it kind of sucks.
Emily: Laurie in the 1949 film. I recall his proposal being pretty angry and I think that was the only time we could ever really buy into his character having a temper.
Niina: It is the same in the 1933 film. Laurie has a bit of a temper in it but after that, t is just really flat in the next adaptations.
Emily: I have watched the proposal scene in the 1933 film with Katherine Hepburn. At least he has that line ”I can´t believe you, you don´t know what you want”. Jo in 1949 was probably my least favourite. She never really handles scenes like that with much sensitivity. I don´t recall her being very in-depth about emotions in it with Laurie. My problems with that film are that they had no balls to do at of things. Amy´s canning, they come up right against it and back down from it, remember that. When she gets her hand beaten for having limes. They have the teacher almost hit her hand and then he doesn´t do it.
Niina: I really like Elizabeth Taylor as Amy but the problem with that movie is that they make her the butt of the joke and I don´t like that because that is not something that the book does so it kind of brings out this Amy against Jo positioning again. It should´t be there. It romanticizes Laurie the same way as it does with Mr Bhaer´s character so it becomes Laurie versus Fritz and then Amy versus Jo and it´s just not the way the book goes. The book makes it very clear that Amy is really perfect for Laurie, and Fritz is perfect for Jo. I still haven´t seen an adaptation that does it the way the book does.
Emily: Yeah that´s true. I think they did professor Bhaer pretty well in 1949 film.
Niina: They actually build up that relationship pretty well.
Emily: I appreciated that.
Niina: He is Italian, but I´m going to overlook that.
Emily: We should probably save this for the professor Bhaer video.
Emily: I like it when the adaptations build up that relationship. I guess some people will argue and say. Oh, you can´t really develop some of these scenes because or run-time. Because there isn´t really time to do these things but I feel like there is not really an excuse sometimes. When you have the really incomplete arcs for everybody. The 2019 film tried to do this with Meg´s arc, dealing with poverty in her marriage, but then they just kind of slapped on a happy ending on that and they were just like we are not going to explore it. We are not going to have any sort of conclusion.
Niina: It was left half-developed but I think that happens a lot with Meg´s character.
Emily: In the beginning,I liked that they were trying to do something with her. They ended up not really properly deal with her in a way that I would like. First of all Emma Watson, as we´ve discussed can´t carry on that kind of quiet strength that Meg has. When you bring something like a marital issue, a serious marital issue, I don´t think you should be like ”Oh I am just going to sell it! Get rid of the silk” you didn´t make the issue go away.
Niina: There was an older version of the script. One of the older versions where her melt-down was included but it wasn´t added into the movie and I heard that it was because of Emma Watson´s performance and that James Norton had to carry out many of the scenes. It goes back to the casting I guess.
Emily: We discussed this before, casting Emma Watson was very much based on her other accomplishments other than acting. Because she plays the same character in every film she is in. I do admire her as an activist but I have not been impressed with her since Harry Potter. Having recently watched the 2017 film..mini-series. Did you think they did any better with Laurie´s arc or no? Because I don't think he really put in much work either. What did you think?
Niina: I think he was very idealized in that version once again. He is a very melancholic character there. Laurie in the books, he can be very uplifting and very funny sometimes.
Emily: As I said, his interactions with Amy, they were able to build up that relationship a bit more. They acknowledged his musical side. Which is an improvement? I think they tried to get in some of his clashes with Jo. When their characters bummed up their heads sometimes. I think they do a bit of that. When he ends up with Amy and they come together. We don´t see Amy getting him to put his life in order. I feel again, that is such an important part of their story. Amy is the one to get him to be a productive person.
Niina: Amy´s portrayal in that series it is really a villainization. It was once again putting Amy against Jo. For once they adapted my favourite chapter, which is Calls. She gets to go to Europe and Jo doesn´t get to go to Europe because Jo is actually really rude towards aunt March.
Emily: Absolutely.
Niina. In that particular version, it was framed that we should admire Jo for being rude to aunt March and Jo is like a feminist hero because of that and then Amy is quite happy that Jo doesn´t get to go. Then in the book, it is the opposite. Amy is really horrified by Jo´s actions and she feels ashamed by it. It is not something that she is secretly glad about and when she finds out that she is chosen and Jo is not chosen. She is really sad for Jo. She really feels bad for her. I think 2019 film had that part done much better.
Emily: Jo and Amy rivalry, the problems I had with 2017 I had similar issues with 2019 where I felt like Amy and Jo were somehow in competition over Laurie, which I don´t like that dynamic.
Niina: That doesn´t happen in the book because Jo never wants to be with Laurie romantically. She is very clear about it since the beginning.
Emily: The only reason she would ever consider accepting Laurie is that´s because she was lonely and that was really the only reason. I think in 2017 when I saw Jo is like ”oh she is engaged to Laurie what! And I was like ”No” they are not supposed to be in competition over this guy. That is not how it works.
Niina: It really has to do a lot with the scriptwriter and how they feel about the characters because I read an interview from Heidi Thomas who wrote that show and she was not a big fan of Amy. So you can really see how that reflects in the film. Jo doesn´t really have an arc and Amy doesn´t really have an arc. It´s all just a mess.
Emily: I did feel some of the weaknesses in the writing. I don´t know if it is the issue with that actress who plays Jo but sometimes she can´t always pass off Jo´s lines in a believable way. I liked other aspects of that series. The civil war. They included a lot of elements of that which I appreciated. There is a lot more of Marmee and their father.
Niina: That was something that I really liked about it and they developed their characters a bit more and it was a new take so it was refreshing.
Emily: I am always a fan of a strong Marmee because Marmee has to deal with so much. She has to mother the four girls. She is kind of a secondary mother to Laurie. She has to give him addressing down at some point and she has to run a household that is financially struggling. So you need a very substantial Marmee and I love what they did with her in that mini-series. That´s an issue I had with 2019 film. She is so overly happy about everything.
Niina: It was a bit strange and they didn´t really put that much effort to show the struggles that were going on. In the opening of the film, I think there was a quote from Louisa ”I write happy stories because of my tragic life” or something like that. You don´t really see any of that tragic life. That was something that bothered me because you see that in Little Women, the book itself.
Emily: I know, the whole point of Little Women is about people getting over their struggles and to find happiness despite the unhappiness. That is why I don´t like the framing device of the 2019 film. ”Oh well the childhood was so simple and warm and happy and now this dark time and adulthood is so complicated” I am just like ”No, it wasn´t that happy even when they were kids. They were poor and they had to struggle. They had to work very hard from a young age. It was not that simple. It is very pessimistic too because the whole point is that you are supposed to build up into adulthood and you know to find your happiness there as well. That thematic bent on it I did not agree with it at all.
Niina: What it comes to Amy´s character and her relationship with Laurie, the dilemma against Amy´s character is that some people say she is really vain, or that she marries for money, but then if you actually read the book, she says that she wants to marry…what was the name of the rich guy she was dating?
Emily: Fred Vaughn
Niina: Fred Vaughn! Because she wants to provide a good life for her family. So she is thinking it is some kind of a sacrifice that she must make. That she is not going to marry for love but marry for convenience.
Emily: I don´t think she loves the idea of marrying for money. She always has her family in mind. I think the book burning incident sends a t of people against Amy and I think that incident always makes Amy seem like an anti-Jo in away but she is also a kid at that point. Later on, we are supposed to see her become this really mature person and eventually is able to set the guy she marries stray, so she does marry for love and it works out very well for her. She is incredibly mature character. She has a sense of social graces. She actually genuinely cares about Jo.
Niina: Yes, she does.
Emily: 2019 film really keeps setting up Amy and Jo even with their artistic pursues. Did you notice that? Amy being like ”I am always in the shadow of Jo” implying that even artistically she is in competition with her.
Niina: If you read the first part of Little Women before the whole book burning accident Jo is really making fun of Amy constantly and she is bullying her. There is a whole episode of Jo being a mean big sister. It is pretty normal what it comes to siblings that you fight with them. Especially when you are younger and they both have high tempers. It is when Amy wants to become a lady. She starts to work on her flaws. She starts to control herself. She sees that she can be better and then the whole premise of Little Women is that all the sisters want to improve themselves somehow. With Jo, her biggest issue is her anger and she is very aware of that and Amy thinks that it is her vanity that is the problem. If you actually read the book. She is not really a vain person. It´s in her head.
Emily: The vanity is more about her desire to fit into certain circles of society.
Niina: They are a very poor family and Meg has the same problem, that she wants to fit into society. To the world of the young girls. Then she thinks it is vain for her wanting to do that because she comes from a different social class but the Marches they used to be part of the higher social class and they fell down. Meg is the one who still remembers what it was like.
Emily: It really hits harder for her because she remembers the days when her family was still living comfortably.
Niina: It is not wrong for her for wanting to be that again but she makes it a big deal for herself and that is quite sad but I think it also has a t to do with 19th century Christian morals and all that. We can´t really fully understand that because we live in 2020.
Emily: It is hard for us now to really identify with that Christian perspective that novel really has because when I read it this time around ”wow there is a lot of Christianity in this book”. They structured their entire lives around these ideals. Of course, can understand why they would now try to tone it down in the adaptations but I am not really a fan how they totally wash that out because that played such a big part in how they viewed their labour in life.
Niina: It also explains at of the things that people struggle nowadays to understand in Little Women. I think it would be important to talk about it more.
Emily: I think so. I think that the Christianity, transcendentalism aspect of the story is very important and I liked that the 1994 film actually acknowledged that intellectual circle that they were part of.
Niina: That´s one of my favourite things about that film.
Emily: They got lots of nice historical, context in that film. The philosophical discussion I love it. But definitely Christianity it´s such a huge thing and why Little Women is also such fundamentally American novel is that ideal. You work hard and things will be okay.
Niina: That´s a very important part of American literature in general.
Emily: You can really understand our current ideals about personal responsibility, personal development when you really delve into this book and it plays out with all the characters. About being able to grow up and become productive and give back. I think, you know, people are always so upset about Jo not becoming a famous writer. You know she finds joy in being productive.
Niina: She does become a famous writer but people just don´t read the sequels.
Niina: She is very famous in Jo´s Boys. She is so famous she is really annoyed by her fame. When do we get Jo´s boys adapted?
Emily: I confess to not reading Jo´s Boys but I have read summaries of the book and people are like ”oh she doesn´t become famous” and I´m like, she does become famous in Jo´s boys.
Niina: It took Louisa a long time to become a famous writer. It´s the same with Jo. It doesn´t happen in one night. It takes work.
Emily: It does! Art is work. Jo, he had to go through a lot failures to get into that point. Art is hard. I know that to be true. I feel like we are heading into Jo discussion now.
Niina: Okay, back to Laurie.
Emily: Back to Laurie!
Niina: In the book when he is in Vienna, he really goes through that process of self-discovery, self-growth and self-understanding. I have this thing when I read Little Women I always get really frustrated by Laurie because I don´t understand his character, his actions and it is not until there is that chapter when he is in Vienna I start to understand who he actually is. It´s really interesting and it happens after Amy´s lecture. She is the first one he actually listens and I think the difference between Amy and Jo is that Laurie took Jo for granted. He doesn´t take Amy for granted. I don´t think Laurie was even in love with Jo. He was in love with the idea of being in love. He was afraid to grow as a person so he was clinging on to Jo so that he doesn´t need to grow and so that he doesn´t need to take responsibility for his life. Amy actually tells Laurie the truth. This is the way it is and you need to do something about it. In away Amy´s character is similar to Friedrich, in that sense, Friedrich tells Jo the truth. This is the way it is. You can improve yourself or you can stay at the same level you have been. This is what is missing in the adaptations. That whole sequence of Laurie in Vienna and the way he actually decides to be useful for the society. Do a favour for himself. He is about 24 at that point. He has been living in a bubble for most of his life. Very privileged, young, aristocrat life. I just love that scene when Amy and Laurie are rowing the boat together and that has never been adapted either.
Emily: I feel like it is so important to his story because lots of young people could probably identify with that now. A lot of people come from that privileged circle and they have these dreams that may take a little bit longer to process. ”I am just going to be an artist” you know. ”I am just going to live this bohemian life” and then it´s like ”oh well I didn´t really contribute anything and these are all just fantasies. Naturally, am just going to get into work now”. It is funny in our culture because I don´t know if I am wrong but I feel that lot of us really want that ideal ”oh no be an artist, follow your dreams”. For some people, t is only talking and what they really need to do is to get a job”
Niina: He doesn´t even really know how to be an artist. He hasn´t really done that work-in-process that it takes to get into that level that he wants to be.
Emily: He hasn´t worked on his art the same way as even Jo has because Jo gets that it is work.
Niina: It is the same with Amy when she comes to the realization that she is not going to be a great artist. She continues doing art but then at the same time she combines that with her other passions, like charity work and supporting young artists. She finds a different way to approach her passions.
Emily: I found a recent YouTuber who reviewed the new film and they were almost like ”oh I didn´t like that in the book, that everyone is just married”
Niina: What a misunderstanding!
Emily: Not married in the exclusion of everything else. I mean sometimes it´s just a reality for people. Sometimes they can´t make it so sometimes they need to channel their passions in different ways. That is the reality of life. That is what Louisa May Alcott understood.
Niina: That is what I like about Little Women is that you can have it all. You can have a good career and you can have a relationship with a person that respects you. It´s such a win-win situation really.
Emily: I can not for the life of me understand why people find that unsatisfactory. It is even a promise for people who don´t even feel like they could find someone that they could marry. Even if you would feel like couldn´t be with anyone. Then you can find somebody. It is something that I don´t think the 2019 film really understood. I think they really wanted to push that whole independent woman narrative and I just really don´t like what that film seems to misunderstand about that book. They at least did a ce job with Amy and her speech about marriage being an economic proposition. That´s a pretty good scene actually. That´s a scene I didn´t hate.
Niina: In the 19th-century marriage was an economical proposition. It was really interesting when I did my research on Louisa and especially on Friedrich´s character. She was part of the movement, where it became more important than love and romance was part of marriage and not just money. That is something that Louisa is promoting in all of her novels. That is something that people are not aware these days. We don´t like to bother ourselves with historical facts about the author but there is lots of misunderstandings about Louisa as a person that is reflected in the way we read Little Women. It´s been really interesting to do research about her.
Emily: She is a real feminist in a t of ways and I think people have these very contradictory ideas about her and I don´t know if it is because Little Women has been around so long that our interpretations are changeable in a t of ways because we are like ”oh she was a feminist” I think they kind of understand that but then ”oh no but Louisa would have been on board with these other notions now, she didn´t really want marriage she forced her characters into it”. They want to force Little Women to conform to their own modern narrative when you really can not do that. That is the problem, in the adaptation if you do that.
Niina: This idea that Louisa was forced to marry her characters, it is really the opposite. She puts lots of effort to explain why these marriages work and why it should be this way. These character arcs they are really beautifully crafted in the book and the way these characters, the way they complement each other and it is really the same in all of her novels. I have been reading quite many of Louisa´s novels recently and I always surprised the way she does that. It is something that she is really into.
Emily: Jo´s story really doesn´t work, I mean none of them really work essentially without their partnerships, not because they are nothing without their partnerships but because being able to share a life with somebody, she saw that as being able to achieve harmony in your life. To be able to form your own circle, your own family.
Niina: In many ways that fits with the transcendentalist idea of romance. There is this quote from Louisa, well not a quote, but something she had highlighted from her favourite book, how the character evolves, person transcends with another person. She is very fond of this idea.
Emily: That is a very Christian idea, to form a union with the person that you marry. It is not that you are not your own person, just that you build something better with another person, that is bigger than both of you.
Niina: I think that was something that was a very radical idea in the 19th century and nowadays we take that for granted.
Emily: It is a real shame that so much of Little Women has been worked overtime by our modernizing world. Like I said before, we seem to have the desire to form Little Women into our modern world, into our modern ideals when really we are just restoring the work.
Niina: It is difficult to understand Little Women if we don´t know the historical context of it.
Emily: That´s very true. I really admire adaptations that try to put the story into its historical context. I think that context is everything. You might have heard me criticizing the costuming in the new film, for instance, they are like ”we are trying to make it sort of you know pseudo-modern and we are trying to make it relatable and we are trying to do this and that to make it more relatable to the audience” and I´m just like ”are you saying that you need to strip away that context in order to make it relatable. Are you saying we can´t relate to Civil War? Or anything from that era? Is that what you are saying?” That seems very condescending.
Niina: It takes away from the story itself when we are being distracted by the modernism in away or post-modernism in this case. Or the post-modern ideas which are not part of the story itself.
Emily: We touched a bit the Amy rivalry with Jo. You felt that they had kind of villainization of Amy in the 2017 show. They expanded her character a bit more in 2019. How do you feel about how they expanded Amy´s character and that rivalry? Because I think they really lean into it remember when Jo is flashing back to Amy falling in the lake and she burned the book and she is like ”oh Amy finds a way to get out of easy situations, get out of hard situations” which took me back because it was like ”No, she was called to be with aunt March, she was travelling with aunt March. In that other situation, ´d say, she was very ashamed of what she did and she almost died. I don´t understand where you are coming from when you say that she gets out of situations.
Niina: That is a very weird way to look at Amy. In the book, she feels humiliation. She really regrets some of the things that she does. Jo also regrets things that she has said to Amy. Jo regrets some of her behaviour patterns. But I think that the 2019 film did okay in that sense it showed that Jo and Amy were sides of the same coin. They are very similar and when they realize that they are actually very similar they become much closer. That is an improvement what it comes to Jo and Amy and understanding their relationship. One of the biggest problems in all the adaptations is really idealizing Jo a lot and not really see her as a full character. Really as a human being who actually does regret sometimes the things that she says. Things that she does.
Emily: She is very flawed.
Niina: Yeah, she is very aware that she is flawed. We live in this culture where we are supposed to idealize people who are adamant and don´t want to change or are rude or aggressive. That´s just not the way Little Women is written to be. Jo sees that her actions are harming other people and that is one of the reasons why she doesn´t want to be with Laurie or hang out with him on the second part because she sees that they are feeding each other with these toxic ideas.
Emily: I don´t know how much young adult fiction you read but it is a common trend to have this female protagonist, you even see that in Star Wars where we have this female character who can do no wrong. Is very spunky and we are supposed to admire that. I think our culture has become a bit adverse to what we are trying to get off from Little Women. Jo is supposed to soften out. She is trying to not harm people with her behavior and it is a good thing for her because she becomes a more compassionate person. That is what becoming more tender means. That is how her father puts it. She has become a more tender person because she is just are a compassionate individual. That is also what happens with Amy as well. She also wants to be a productive person. She also gets to understand that all these things you get in life, you have to work for them as well.
Niina: Amy is very compassionate and she is a very kind person. I really like that in the books. She cares about other people.
Emily: You noticed even when Fred Vaughn asked her to marry him, she is like ”it´s not fair for either of us”. She has to think herself and this other guy and, it wouldn´t be kind to either of them. I really respect her character a lot.
Niina: I think Amy was really the one in the family who really loved aunt March. They really ruined aunt March for me in the 2019 adaptation because she was way too kind in it. It is Amy who makes her a bit softer in the book. Meryl Streep is great don´t get me wrong but aunt March is a tough person to get along with.
Emily: She is a very tough lady. She is a very crusty lady because she has lived alone for a while. Her kid died. Her husband died. She has got a little bit bitter over the years. You can´t really blame her and Jo was like ”oh I am just so done with this gig, reading to this lady” Amy is the only one who is really able to properly connect to aunt March. Aunt March in her heart she loves these girls. She loves them all.
Niina: She does. She loves her nephew as well but she is not impressed by his way of being.
Emily: Sometimes when she was like ”oh you made this really awful decision I can´t believe it” sometimes I feel that way about other people in my life ”oh I can´t believe you did that in your life what are you doing?”
Niina: She is quite relatable in the end.
Emily: Yeah she is really relatable. I mean isn´t that what adulthood is eventually, relating to aunt March.
Niina: The part of her losing her child, I didn´t realise that until last time I read the book. Somehow it had slipped off. I had a talk about in Louisa May Alcott group on Facebook with some people and we were all thinking about what was the back story of aunt March and this child and her husband.
Niina: That would make a really interesting story for someone to write. It seemed that they had a very loving relationship based on the book, it must have made her bitter to lose it.
Emily: Somebody write the aunt March book. She is that sort of person you need to come to her level and when you do, she´ll be nice to you. She will do things for you. Amy is really capable of doing that. She doesn´t even take aunt Marches belongings. Aunt March gives her a turquoise ring. She is like ”I am not going to always wear it, it wasn´t just for the material possessions that I worked hard”. I think they wasted Meryl Streep in the 2019 film. They did not do enough of her at all. I think her job was to be like ”well you know as a woman you are supposed to marry well” and that was it for her character. There is a lot more dimensionality I like, that other adaptation add that on.
Niina: I love her in the 1994 film. She is one of my favourite characters. Very much like in the book.
Emily: You have to have that kind of element of toughness and also those nuances as well. I love Angela Landsbury as her in 2017 series.
Niina: She was very good.
Emily: She is very good.
Niina: I liked the way that version developed her relationship with Jo.
Emily: That final scene between the two of them.
Niina: It didn´t really do that well with Amy and aunt March because it didn´t do that well with Amy but there is always something that seems to be missing.
Emily: Little Women, it is so hard to adapt, so hard to get all these elements.
Niina: There are elements that I like in all adaptations and there are things that I don´t like in all the adaptations.
Emily: That is true. I am so critical about the 2019 film and there are things that I like in it, referring to comments on my video ”why did you hate it? Why did you say that?” ”well I did like this aspect of the film like I didn´t like these ten other things”.
Niina: We are talking about a book that was written 150 years ago. We are allowed to be critical about the adaptations and we are allowed to talk about the things that are missing, like Laurie´s arc.
Emily: We should.
Niina: Things don´t move forward if we don´t talk about these things and the way we approach the book.
Emily: I think we should have these discussions. To some extend a lot of people are too afraid to talk about against the 2019 film because I got that sense from a lot of my comments ”I didn´t like this all that much but I couldn´t really validate why I didn´t like it until I saw your video” and so many people were so up and arms against when I criticized it and I´m just like ”well if you are really that upset with me then go find these other people that talk other ways”. I even appreciate it when people talk about some aspect that in the 1994 film that doesn´t work as well which I also acknowledge. You are adapting 500+ page book there are things you are not going to get. I get that Amy and Laurie's relationship isn´t that developed and I would have liked it if Meg would have had more screen time after she got married. I do appreciate those things.
Niina: Laurie is connected to all of this.
Emily: He is a side-character but he plays different roles to different people.
Niina: When I started to do my research on Laurie´s character specifically I began to understand him better when I started to pay more attention to the way he has this emotional turmoil because when I was younger I used to be very much the same. I wish that we would see that more in the adaptations because that is the part that is always missing and people misunderstand it because they see that something romantic. We don´t see Laurie´s struggles. He is really a creep sometimes. If we would see that we wouldn´t have the TeamBhaer/TeamLaurie debate. Especially if you are hardcore TeamBhaer like you and I are if you really like Amy as well and you actually have read the book many many many times. It just puzzles my mind how people can misunderstand the book so terribly.
Emily: I feel that even the fans of the book who have also read it many times still have this view on Laurie and these characters which still feels such a surface level interpretation of the book.
Niina: Feels like they haven´t really paid that much attention to what they have read. That´s all in the book and they still don´t seem to understand it. That was one of the reasons why I wanted to do an in-depth study on Laurie and Friedrich as well. It really surprised me that it was really difficult to find unbiased views on Laurie that weren´t about Jo or Amy but Laurie himself as a character, his actions and his behaviour.
Emily: In a sense, we are no better when people first read ”Young Werther” by Goethe. People looked at Werther and were like ”Oh my God, we should all die suicide for love and I think Goethe was ”No, don´t do that, this was not about that”.
Niina: Yeah, he was criticizing himself and his own behavior as a young person. For those of you who are new here. Louisa based Laurie´s character arc to young Werther which is Goethe´s novel from the 18th century Germany. Just a little side note, and Friedrich is based on Goethe on one-level. We will get into that.
Emily: Yes. In the other video. I read Werther in German. It´s a lovely read but you also see some of the ridiculousness of that kind of romantic vision because he really relates to these big storms, these thunderstorms. It signifies his emotional events and it really makes fun of that and people at the time didn´t get that and people also don´t seem to get that now.
Niina: It is very harmful when suicide is being romanticized in general or trying to blackmail someone for ”romantic” reasons that are really harmful and that is something that is still not recognized fully enough.
Emily: Like I said before if we are criticizing that behavior in books now, in fiction that is coming out now, then why can´t we change the way that we see this character. I wonder if people decide how they see him because of the films.
Niina: I´v been thinking about this a lot. The films they tend to include the same scenes. Then there are those scenes that are being dismissed. Laurie, he is idealized and romanticized. His flaws are downgraded and with Amy, it is the opposite.
Emily: Which is why some people get angry when they get together. You are missing all that nice context. I think really Little Women needs a proper show. Not even just a mini-series. We need a show. Otherwise you don´t pick up on all these really great scenes that add dimensions to these characters. I really liked that exploration you did based on Goethe because I hadn´t really seen that character that way before. More discussions like these need to happen.
Niina: I just love this. This is great.
Emily: I am having a lot of fun.
Niina: Next people who are going to adapt Little Women, have a good listen of these talks we are having.
Emily: I hope so. I really hope so.
Niina: Both me and Emily are definitely available to be consultants on these matters and we know people who can help you more.
Emily: Hollywood needs to head us up. That´s our discussion on Laurie and Amy also on different films as well. Of course we went on different tangents on different characters because all these things are connected. I hope you enjoyed our discussion of Laurie.
Niina: Thank you for listening guys.
Emily: Thank you.
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Second-Parent Adoption: A Trip to DC
After being home with our two baby girls, Lily and Mia for almost two months, it’s hard to feel anything other than total elation. We were dreaming about this for so long, wondering how it could all work out, and now our twin baby girls are here. While a little bit tired, we are overjoyed!
The stress of our trip to D.C. and lack of sleep, and the confusion that came with our newfound motherhood are all so minor compared to the overwhelming joy that our babies have brought us. Our family is perfectly healthy and happy. Our support system of friends, family and neighbors has been more compassionate and caring than we ever could have imagined. This part of our adventure is just beginning, but the story of deciding to be lesbian parents in Virginia started long before we traveled to D.C. last month where my wife, Desiree, gave birth.
We committed to the risks and the costs because, for us, it was a step we could take to protect our girls. When all is said and done we will have paid nearly $10,000 in travel, attorney’s fees and the two adoptions; not to mention the emotional cost of being away from our friends and family, with an unfamiliar hospital and doctor, more than two hours from home. But the return from those costs is even greater: our girls will have both of us as their legal parents.
Read more at Equality Virginia!
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Focus East Africa Tours » Attractions in Kenya » Ruma National Park
Ruma National Park
Ruma national park is one of Kenya’s most beautiful places to encounter nature, the park is endowed with wild and over 400 species of birds it’s a terrestrial national park situated in Nyanza province in Lambwe valley.it’s also a Sanctuary for the endangered Roan antelope
Ruma national park covers an area of 120 kilometers squared of mosaic landscape, golden grasslands, acacia, magnificent cliffs, balanitistrees and riverine woodlands the park was mainly established to protect Kenya’s only Roan antelopes
Ruma national park is bordered by the Kanyamwa escarpment to the South East, Ruhi hills in the North, South West of Home bay
Ruma valley national park was first established as Lambwe valley reserve in 1966, it was later renamed as Ruma as requested by the locals, Ruma was one of Kenya’s most powerful wizard, the much feared god Gor Mahia who lived around the park.
The park is surrounded by small scale cultivation and pasture grasslands, positionedten Kilometers to the shores of Africa’s largest inland lake with black cotton clay soils
Activities at Ruma national park
Ruma national park boats with a number of wildlife apart from the endangered Roan antelopes, other animals are: black rhinos, giraffes, rothchilds, Oribis, impalas, cape buffalos, lewels hartebeest, vervet monkeys, bush pigs, burchells zebra, honey badgers, topi, hyenas, Jackson hartebeest, olive baboons, bohor reedbucks and many others
Ruma national park is birding destinations for birds enthuasts over 400 species have been recorded examples are blue swallow,
Tourists can enjoy camping at park in one of the camping sites private or public. The Nyati campsite is a special campsite while he public campsites is fig tree campsite this have camping facilities that will suit your stay at the park.
Tourists can enjoying packed lunch at an historical site known as Korlango, this site used to be an escape site by the kalenjin during colonial time when fighting for freedom. They used to be brought to the Lambwe valley to die due to resistance of colonial rule. Twiga picnic site is also another magnificent site in the middle of the park where you can dine with striking view of game.
Best time to visit.
The park can be visited all year round but he best time from June to October and January to February
Its located 425 kilometers west of Nairobi, 42 kilometers from Home bay and 140 kilometers from Kisumu town. The park can be accessed by fly fax flights to Home bay. The parks entrance is 42 kilometers from Home bay the parks gate are Kamato and nyatoto
Tourists can stay in Oribis guest house which is within the park. Other places near the park are Karibuni cottage, hotel hippo buck, rusinga island lodge, bimoss hotel, tausi hotel, Lake Victoria safari lodge among the rest.
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HISTORY OF SCHOOL FOOD RESCUE & SHARE TABLE GUIDELINES IN THE U.S.
Note: This history is intended to document polices only, not participating schools. Many schools participated in school school food rescue programs prior to formal guidelines being written specifically for schools.
CHAPTER 1 : Indiana
Indiana Becomes First State to Have Departments of Education and Health Write Guidelines For School Food Rescues and Share Tables
In June of 2015, the first state guidelines in the U.S. were written by the Indiana Department of Health and Indiana Department of Education for school food rescue policies for student "tray to trash" solutions via share tables and donations. Indiana became the first state to publish state guidelines in collaboration with Food Rescue.
Great work by Green Umbrella with a document for Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.
CHAPTER 2: VERMONT
In May of 2016, Vermont became the 2nd state to school food rescue guidelines in collaboration with Food Rescue and using Indiana's guidelines for student tray to trash solutions via share tables and donations as a starting point.
CHAPTER 3: USDA
June , 2016
On September 16, 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the United States’ first-ever national food waste reduction goal, calling for a 50-percent reduction by 2030 (USDA News Release No. 0257.15). This student food waste audit guide is intended to help educate students about the amount of food they waste in their school cafeterias and to encourage them to reduce waste and eat more of the nutritious foods provided through USDA’s school meals programs or brought from home.
In June of 2016, the USDA produced historic share table guidelines for K-12 schools, representing a fantastic step that should be the catalyst to end the practice of requiring students to feed landfills with unopened and unpeeled food from their trays that they choose not to eat. Even more stunning, the USDA allows certain unopened food served on the trays of students to be re-served though the lunch line if they place it on a "share table"and it goes uneaten. But more incredibly, it can be counted as a reimbursed meal from the National School Lunch Program.
To be clear, the same food the USDA says can be re-served to paying student customers to save schools money is the exact
same food that some local and state health departments claim is not allowed to be donated to children and families in need via food pantries. Truth is often stranger than fiction!
CHAPTER 4: New York
New York Bill (S854) has been introduced and has passed the senate in the middle of 2016, directing various state agencies to write similar guidelines. The New York Assembly and Governor approval are still needed.
Update: Nov. 9th, 2017 this bill was passed.
CHAPTER 5: Alaska
SFSP 15-2016 – The Use of Share Tables in Child Nutrition Programs.
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development have collaborated on guidance for implementing food recovery at school-aged child nutrition programs including schools, outside school hour programs, and summer feeding programs.
CHAPTER 6: Iowa
Food Donations and Sharing Tables in School Meals Programs
Policy: Food service employees and teachers/school staff may work together to ensure that unused food from child nutrition program is not wasted.
The Use of Share Tables in Child Nutrition Programs – SP41
More Iowa School Food Waste Guidance
CHAPTER 7: Washington
March, 2017
Washington School Food Share Program Toolkit.
washingtonschoolfoodshare5087717_a__3_.pdf
tacoma_health_dept_food_rescue_in_schools.pdf
CHAPTER 8: Wisconsin
Reducing Food Waste in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
New Richmond Middle School brings back ‘Share Tables’ during lunch.
CHAPTER 9: Arizona
Considerations for use of sharing tables:
CHAPTER 10: Texas
Texas joined the fight in November of 2016: Texas has started its process with Food Rescue's Texas State Director of Student Leadership, 10yr old Yash Semlani, a 5th grader appointed by Mayor Turner as Houston's Inaugural Young Ambassador . Yash started the program in his school district and when he found that his state had no clear guideline like other states did, he started his effort with the Governor's office to get Texas to write guidelines for all districts to follow. He is also in contact with various ISD's who are implementing "share tables" in their districts. He is also supporting TX Rep. Diego Bernal for his HB367".
The bill was approved and Hunger Free Texans produced a great school tool kit in September of 2017, featuring a photo from one our our national student leaders, Nick Iannone of Connecticut.
hft-food-donation-in-schools-tool-kit__4_.pdf
CHAPTER 11: North Carolina
Sadly, the North Carolina Public Health Department clarified in a December of 2016 memo that was distributed to many local health departments that only unserved food is allowed to be donated, mandating that unopened milk for example be fed to landfills instead of children and families in need in the community. This clarification of policy can likely be attributed to the advocacy of a North Carolina High School student, Hanna Wondmagegn, who started a Food Rescue program in her high school, delivered a Ted Talk, and ultimately spoke to the school board, in the Charlotte Mecklenburg County school district, where she received a standing ovation. Shortly after Hanna began to pursue both district and state wide policy adoption of school food rescue policies, and her efforts were thwarted by the memo.
Guidance has been requested regarding the donation of food.
Food Rescue National Director of Student Leadership in NC, Hanna Wondmagegn, Wrote A Student’s Guide to Start a Food Rescue Program , Edited By Food Rescue
CHAPTER 12: Connecticut
The Connecticut State Department of Education, after consulting with the Connecticut State Department of Health, sent out the following memo very similar to North Carolina, essentially leaving no path for TCS (Temperature Controlled for Safety) and PHF (Potentially Hazardous Food) to be donated, despite the USDA guidelines that lay out a path for such donations. In short, unopened milk or unpeeled whole apples served to students that they choose not to eat are required to be fed to landfills instead of children and families in need in the community.
The Use of Share Tables in Child Nutrition Programs
Listen To NPR HERE AND NOW Interview
ct-school-food-donation-resource__2_.pdf
CHAPTER 13: Massachusetts
On Jan. 23 2017, Bill S.292 was referred to the Education Committee for review. Shortly after, the Massachusetts Department of Education produced written guidelines for the safe use of Share Tables.
Bill S.292 in Massachusetts: Bill S.292 SECTION 1. Chapter 69 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 1C the following section:-: The board shall develop guidelines for the voluntary implementation by school districts of programs that encourage and facilitate the ability of school districts to donate excess, unconsumed, and edible food and beverages from meals served at such educational facilities to local food assistance programs including, but not limited to, community food pantries, soup kitchens, and other community and not-for-profit organizations that distribute food to the poor and disadvantaged. Such guidelines may include but are not limited to a methodology to provide information to educational institutions and local voluntary food assistance programs of the provisions of such guidelines, notification to educational institutions of their ability to elect to donate excess, unconsumed, and edible food and beverages to local voluntary food programs, and the provision of information and technical assistance on the manner of how to best donate excess food in a safe and sanitary manner.
Moving Food Waste Forward
North Andover Superintendent Video
CHAPTER 14: Ohio
ohio_guidelines_on_share_tables_-_dec-8-2016.pdf
ohio_department_of_health_and__department_of_agriculture_share_table_guidance__1_.pdf
school-food-donation-pilot-project-for-osu-food-waste-conference-mohring-2fx3po0.pdf
Great work by Green Umbrella with a document for Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.
CHAPTER 15: New Jersey
new_jersey_bill_4632_i1.pdf
https://pix11.com/2018/02/16/nj-kids-have-recipe-to-resolve-165-billion-food-waste-problem/
CHAPTER 16: California
www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/sn/mbcnp032018.asp
county_deh_-_share_tables_at_schools.pdf
oakland_usd_food_donation_guide.pdf
oakland_usd_food_share_table.pdf
alameda_county_food_share_table.pdf
ousd_schoolfooddonation_memo.pdf
September 26th, 2017 Governor Brown signs law allowing schools to donate their unopened food from the trays of students. Meaning California schools are "allowed" to do what the USDA already says they can in chapter 5.
CHAPTER 17: Arkansas
Arkansas Food Recovery Project: Tremendous document about share table guidelines: Melissa Terry and Dr. Nicole Civita
CHAPTER 18: Georgia
http://helpinghandsendinghunger.org/dph-memorandum.html
http://helpinghandsendinghunger.org/doe-memorandum.html
CHAPTER 19: Florida
Orange County (article in Orlando Sentinel) 11-17-17
Boca Raton (article in Sun Sentinel) 11/21/17
Florida School Food Recovery: Elaine Fiorie of Broward County Presentation: See Here Late 2018: Not policy, but a success story
Florida Dept of Agriculture and Consumer Services Promotes K-12 Food Rescue: See Here 9-30-19
Lee County And Harry Chapin Food Bank Team up To End School Food Waste: See Here 9-30-19: Not policy, but a success story
CHAPTER 20: Illinois
https://southsideweekly.com/scraps-to-sustenance-cps-food-waste/
September 30th, 2019: Not policy, but a success story
Monticello Elementary
February 2016: Not policy, but a success story
Mindful Waste
CHAPTER 21: West Virginia
New Bill Proposed
CHAPTER 22: New Mexico
https://www.billtrack50.com/BillDetail/938724
CHAPTER 23: Pennsylvania
http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/06/bills_to_take_on_food_insecuri.html
Sept. 30, 2019
https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-senate-panel-hears-testimony-on-school-food-waste-accessibility/article_b9f59c32-e376-11e9-94e9-e7f098af131c.html
CHAPTER 24: Kentucky
Great work by Green Umbrella with a document for Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana featuring the nation's first guidelines written by the Indiana Departments of Health and Education.
CHAPTER 25: Minnesota
Fantastic work by Jonathan Bloom and the Minneapolis Public School with the "True Food, No Waste, Action Plan
CHAPTER 26: Rhode Island
www.ecori.org/government/2018/4/16/food-waste-at-schools-getting-attention
rhode_island_guidance_for_schools.pdf
Chapter 27: Maine
https://www.nrcm.org/our-maine/publications/school-food-recovery-handbook/
https://www.journaltribune.com/articles/front-page/new-law-aims-to-reduce-food-waste-in-maine-schools/
CHAPTER 28: Michigan
According to K-12 Food Rescue student leaders in Michigan, standards for rescuing dairy, milk, and TCS (temperature controlled for safety) food items are still more stringent than the USDA guidelines for rescuing the same items.
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Myanma Timber Enterprise "not worried" about EIA corruption report
Myanma Timber Enterprise responds to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency alleging widespread corruption in the teak trade.
By KYAW YE LYNN | FRONTIER
Myanma Timber Enterprise has told Frontier it rejects many of the claims of high-level corruption made by a London-based environmental watchdog in a report about the trade in Myanmar’s valuable teak wood
An account of the report by the Environmental Investigation Agency, which focused heavily on a Hong Kong man named Cheng Pui Chee who later obtained Thai citizenship under the name Chetta Apipatana, was published by Frontier on February 20.
EIA said a two-year undercover investigation found that Cheng, who died in April last year, had conspired with senior military and government officials and had established a secret off-the-books system for fraudulent trade in the best quality teak.
“This was run in parallel to, and within, the official legal trade administered by the MTE,” it said, referring to the state-run Myanma Timber Enterprise, which operates under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation.
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Frontier sat down with MTE deputy general manager U Khin Maung Kyi on March 6 to discuss the report.
The EIA report said Cheng Pui Chee, aka Chetta Apipatana, was the mastermind of a corrupt operation involving Myanmar teak. Did you ever meet him?
I’ve never seen him. I’ve never met him in person. But I’ve heard of his name. He’s a merchant who continually bought teak from Myanmar. That’s all I know.
When Cheng died in 2018, MTE placed condolence notices in state-owned newspapers. Was that because there was a close relationship between MTE and Cheng?
To tell you the truth, I did not notice the letters of condolence in state-owned papers. I only know about it because of the EIA report. I haven’t asked which section of MTE put the letters of condolence [in the state-owned papers]. Putting condolences in the papers is just a normal practice. As he was a client who was buying timber from the auctions of the Myanma Timber Enterprise, when he died, putting a condolence notice in the papers was a social [etiquette] matter.
The EIA report alleged that Cheng earned millions of dollars through the illegal trade in Myanmar teak and was able to do so because he bribed senior members of the junta and top officials at MTE.
I can’t comment on the bribery allegations because I don’t know about [the circumstances]. MTE has been operating in accordance with the rules laid down by the government […]. EIA needs to be more exact. It must say exactly which MTE officials took bribes, when they took them and how much they took. The report sort of accused all the officials concerned. In Myanmar, you can be charged with defamation, but because [EIA] is an international organisation it has not been charged. If it provided names and dates I’m sure that the current government would take action against the culprits.
EIA says the timber trade businesses founded by Cheng, including those established under his Thai name, are still operating. Is that true?
Whatever the accusations, which are simply allegations, they concern the situation under the former military government. Although Cheng’s businesses continue to exist, a system operating through bribery as alleged [by EIA] does not exist now.
Four companies established by Cheng are currently operating. These are Cheung Hing Corp Ltd, Northwood Co, Thai Sawat Industry Ltd and Pacific Timber Enterprise Co Ltd. Of these, only Pacific Timber Enterprise extracts timber.
Cheng’s companies are currently authorised to buy 5,602 tons of wood, all teak. They have been authorised to buy since 2012. Piles of logs have been stored at the logging yards at Dagon Myothit (South), Nwe Gway and Wartayer. They have already paid for it, and MTE has already issued delivery orders for 1,500 tons.
What is your response to the EIA’s call in the report for the reform of timber trading in Myanmar?
Most of the data in the report is about events that occurred about 30 years ago, when General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh was commander-in-chief of the Thai army. After Thailand banned logging in 1989, Thai logging companies were authorised to harvest timber in Myanmar. At the time the [Myanmar] military government was experiencing difficulties due to international sanctions and it needed the revenue. Much of the information in the report is not new.
[MTE] has been carrying out reforms for several years and this report will have no impact on that process.
Does that mean the report will have no impact on Myanmar’s timber extraction sector?
I’m not concerned. EIA accused us in 2017 of permitting private companies to harvest wood as sub-contractors of MTE, a practice called the timber sharing system. In fact, we had started reforms, making a decision not to hire any private companies for timber harvesting from the 2016-17 financial year onwards.
The [natural resources and environmental conservation] minister asked me to explain the reforms to EIA and I invited Faith Doherty [senior campaigner at EIA] to come to Myanmar. I think they came in September and I explained the situation.
Under the military government we had to do what it asked and we had to extract a lot more than the AAC [Annual Allowable Cut]. We had to extract however much the government wanted. This is what I explained to EIA.
I think the report is pushing the world, especially Europe, to sanction MTE and Myanmar teak. It’s a political blow. They are making accusations related to logs sold in 2012-13.
However much they try for sanctions, we are not worried. We are using a system that can trace the logs we extract and export and European countries are still buying our timber. We are still exporting.
When the 2015-16 stockpiles were exported to Europe, [MTE’s] extraction department issued 1,827 certified letters for source of origin, and 77,199 tons of teak and 632 tons of hardwood were exported. The European Union took all the teak.
Myanmar or MTE is not worried about the report. There’s nothing new about the EIA fighting against us. The EIA has continuously fought against MTE.
Kyaw Ye Lynn
Kyaw Ye Lynn is a Myanmar journalist based in Yangon. Prior to joining Frontier, he worked as a freelance journalist and fixer. He began his career at the Popular News weekly journal in 2011.
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Making Ontologies Work for Resolving Redundancies Across Documents
By Livia Polanyi, Martin H van den Berg, Daniel G Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi, Richard Crouch, John Everett, Reinhard Stolle and Valeria di Paiva
Communication of the ACM, February 2002. Volume 45 Number 2. 55-60.
Feb February 1, 2002
Design, Experiences, and User Preferences for a Web-based Awareness Tool
By Alison Lee and Andreas Girgensohn
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 56, pp. 75-107
We describe our experiences with the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of a Portholes tool which provides group and collaboration awareness through the Web. The research objective was to explore how such a system would improve communication and facilitate a shared understanding among distributed development groups. During the deployment of our Portholes system, we conducted a naturalistic study by soliciting user feedback and evolving the system in response. Many of the initial reactions of potential users indicated that our system projected the wrong image so that we designed a new version that provided explicit cues about being in public and who is looking back to suggest a social rather than information interface. We implemented the new design as a Java applet and evaluated design choices with a preference study. Our experiences with different Portholes versions and user reactions to them provide insights for designing awareness tools beyond Portholes systems. Our approach is for the studies to guide and to provide feedback for the design and technical development of our system.
Signature Random Fields for Accommodating Illumination Variability
By Matthew Cooper, Keith Doolittle and Michael Miller
In Workshop on Identifying Objects Across Variations in Lighting: Psychophysics & Computation, Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition 2001.
Dec December 12, 2001
In this paper, we document an extension to traditional pattern-theoretic object templates to jointly accommodate variations in object pose and in the radiant appearance of the object surface. We first review classical object templates accommodating pose variation. We then develop an efficient subspace representation for the object radiance indexed on the surface of the three dimensional object template. We integrate the low-dimensional representation for the object radiance, or signature, into the pattern-theoretic template, and present the results of orientation estimation experiments. The experiments demonstrate both estimation performance fluctuations under varying illumination conditions and performance degradations associated with unknown scene illumination. We also present a Bayesian approach for estimation accommodating illumination variability.
Work/place: mobile technologies and arenas of activity
By Elizabeth Churchchill and Alan Munro
ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, Volume 22, Issue 3, Pp3-9, Publisher ACM Press, New York, NY, USA
Dec December 8, 2001
The increasing number of wireless, portable devices has led inevitably to lyrical rhetorics of business cost-cutting and increased efficiency as workers can be productive while on the and offices become streamlined areas of efficient activity. In this short paper, we raise a number if issues that have been appearing in common discourses the (most) modern office, and the impact of wireless technologies thereupon. We also present an overview of a workshop held at ECSCW in Bonn in September of 2001 on this topic, giving an overview of the comments and discussions that took place at the workshop.
Framing Mobile Collaborations and Mobile Technologies.
By Elizabeth Churchchill and Nina Wakeford
In B. Brown, N. Green, R. Harper (Eds.) Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of Wireless Technology, London, UK: Springer-Verlag.
Recent years have seen a marked increase in the production and promotion of portable, wireless communication devices: mobile phones with internet access, wireless PDAs such as the Palm VII and smart pagers such as RIM's 850 and 950. Some claim the presence of such devices in the hands, bags and pockets of so many people heralds a new world of work in which people can be reached and information accessed "anywhere, anytime". Whether or not access to information in itself can promote new working practices, individuals whose lives revolve around movement between work sites have been singled out as an obvious market for such portable wireless communication devices. Using these devices such “mobile workers” can be in touch with colleagues, collaborators and clients "24/7", and still sustain non-work social relationships due, apparently, to their constant connectedness whilst mobile. In this chapter we have two goals. The first is to address the design of mobile technologies. This second is to illustrate our design approach, wherein we consider local practices of technology use, but also the broader cultural context in which technologies are designed, produced, bought, sold, used and redesigned. Our ultimate design aim is to build upon existing practices, but also to consider possibilities for the development of innovative technologies that enable new, complementary, practices.
A probabilistic room location service for wireless networked environments
By Paul Castro, Patrick Chiu, Ted Kremenek and Richard R Muntz
In Proceedings of UBICOMP 2001, Atlanta, Georgia. September 30-October 2, 2001. (9/30/2001)
From Desktop to Phonetop: A UI for Web Interaction on Very Small Devices
By Jonathan Trevor, David Hilbert, Bill Schilit and T. K. Koh
The 14th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interfaces Software and Technology (UIST 2001), ACM Press, 2001.
Scene Boundary Detection Via Video Self-Similarity Analysis
By Matthew Cooper and Jonathan Foote
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece. October 7-10, 2001.
In this paper, we present a novel framework for analyzing video using self-similarity. Video scenes are located by analyzing inter-frame similarity matrices. The approach is flexible to the choice of similarity measure and is robust and data-independent because the data is used to model itself. We present the approach and its application to scene boundary detection. This is shown to dramatically outperform a conventional scene-boundary detector that uses a histogram-based measure of frame difference.
Building an Intelligent Camera Management System
By Y Rui, L He, A Gupta and Qiong Liu
Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2001, Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 5, 2001.
Given rapid improvements in storage devices, network infrastructure and streaming-media technologies, a large number of corporations and universities are recording lectures and making them available online for anytime, anywhere access. However, producing high-quality lecture videos is still labor intensive and expensive. Fortunately, recent technology advances are making it feasible to build automated camera management systems to capture lectures. In this paper we report our design of such a system, including system configuration, audio-visual tracking techniques, software architecture, and user study. Motivated by different roles in a professional video production team, we have developed a multi-cinematographer single-director camera management system. The system performs lecturer tracking, audience tracking, and video editing all fully automatically, and offers quality close to that of human-operated systems.
Panoramic Video Capturing and Compressed Domain Virtual Camera Control.
By Xinding Sun, Jonathan Foote, Don Kimber and B. Manjunath
Proc. ACM Multimedia 2001, Ottawa, CA, Oct. 2001.
FlyAbout:Spatially Indexed Panoramic Video.
By Don Kimber and Jonathan Foote
Proc. ACM Multimedia 2001, Ottawa,CA, Oct. 2001.
We describe a system called FlyAbout which uses spatially indexed panoramic video for virtual reality applications. Panoramic video is captured by moving a 360° camera along continuous paths. Users can interactively replay the video with the ability to view any interesting object or choose a particular direction. Spatially indexed video gives the ability to travel along paths or roads with a map-like interface. At junctions, or intersection points, users can chose which path to follow as well as which direction to look, allowing interaction not available with conventional video. Combining the spatial index with a spatial database of maps or objects allows users to navigate to specific locations or interactively inspect particular objects.
Panel: New Directions in Music Information Retrieval
By Roger Dannenberg, Jonathan Foote, George Tzanetakis and Christopher Weare
Proc. International Computer Music Conference, Habana, Cuba, September 2001.
Visualizing Musical Structure and Rhythm via Self-Similarity
By Jonathan Foote and Matthew Cooper
Proc. International Conference on Computer Music (ICMC), Habana, Cuba, September 2001.
This paper presents a novel approach to visualizing the time structure of musical waveforms. The acoustic similarity between any two instants of an audio recording is displayed in a static 2D representation, which makes structural and rhythmic characteristics visible. Unlike practically all prior work, this method characterizes self-similarity rather than specific audio attributes such as pitch or spectral features. Examples are presented for classical and popular music.
Keyframe-Based User Interfaces for Digital Video
By Andreas Girgensohn, John Boreczky and Lynn Wilcox
IEEE Computer, 34(9), pp. 61-67
Sep September 1, 2001
To meet the diverse needs of business, education, and personal video users, the authors developed three visual interfaces that help identify potentially useful or relevant video segments. In such interfaces, keyframes-still images automatically extracted from video footage-can distinguish videos, summarize them, and provide access points. Well-chosen keyframes enhance a listing's visual appeal and help users select videos. Keyframe selection can vary depending on the application's requirements: A visual summary of a video-captured meeting may require only a few highlight keyframes, a video editing system might need a keyframe for every clip, while a browsing interface requires an even distribution of keyframes over the video's full length. The authors conducted user studies for each of their three interfaces, gathering input for subsequent interface improvements. The studies revealed that finding a similarity measure for collecting video clips into groups that more closely match human perception poses a challenge. Another challenge is to further improve the video-segmentation algorithm used for selecting keyframes. A new version will provide users with more information and control without sacrificing the interface's ease of use.
Recording the Region of Interest from FlyCam Panoramic Video
Proc. International Conference on Image Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2001.
A novel method for region of interest tracking and recording video is presented. The proposed method is based on the FlyCam system, which produces high resolution and wide-angle video sequences by stitching the video frames from multiple stationary cameras. The method integrates tracking and recording processes, and targets applications such as classroom lectures and video conferencing. First, the region of interest (which typically covers the speaker) is tracked using a Kalman filter. Then, the Kalman filter estimation results are used for virtual camera control and to record the video. The system has no physical camera motion and the virtual camera parameters are readily available for video indexing. The proposed system has been implemented for real time recording of lectures and presentations.
The Beat Spectrum: A New Approach to Rhythm Analysis
By Jonathan Foote and Shingo Uchihashi
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2001 (ICME), Tokyo, Japan. August 22-25, 2001.
Aug August 25, 2001
We introduce the beat spectrum, a new method of automatically characterizing the rhythm and tempo of music and audio. The beat spectrum is a measure of acoustic self-similarity as a function of time lag. Highly structured or repetitive music will have strong beat spectrum peaks at the repetition times. This reveals both tempo and the relative strength of particular beats, and therefore can distinguish between different kinds of rhythms at the same tempo. We also introduce the beat spectrogram which graphically illustrates rhythm variation over time. Unlike previous approaches to tempo analysis, the beat spectrum does not depend on particular attributes such as energy or frequency, and thus will work for any music or audio in any genre. We present tempo estimation results for a variety of musical genres, which are accurate to within 1%. This approach has a variety of applications, including music retrieval by similarity and automatically generating music videos.
On Building Automatic Camera-Management System for Online Lecture Broadcast
By Qiong Liu
In Proceedings of Conference on Modeling and Design of Wireless Networks (ITCOM2001), Denver, Colorado, August 23-24 August 2001.
This paper reports our design, and implementation of an automatic lecture-room camera-management system. The motivation for building this system is to facilitate online lecture access and reduce the expense of producing high quality lecture videos. The goal of this project is a camera-management system that can perform as a human video-production team. To achieve this goal, our system collects audio/video signals available in the lecture room and uses the multimodal information to direct our video cameras to interesting events. Compared to previous work--which has tended to be technology centric--we started with interviews with professional video producers and used their knowledge and expertise to create video production rules. We then targeted technology components that allowed us to implement a substantial portion of these rules, including the design of a virtual video director, a speaker cinematographer, and an audience cinematographer. The complete system is installed in parallel with a human-operated video production system in a middle-sized corporate lecture room, and used for broadcasting lectures through the web. The systemÃ*s performance was compared to that of a human operator via a user study. Results suggest that our system's quality is close to that of a human-controlled system.
SPOKEN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION VIA HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
By Qiong Liu, T S Huang, Y Wu and S E Levinson
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2001), Tokyo, Japan, August 22-25, 2001.
The impact of text browsing on text retrieval performance
By Richard C Bodner, Mark Chignell, Nipon Charoenkitkarn, Gene Golovchinsky and Richard W Kopak
Information Processing and Management 37 (3) pp. 507-520
The results from a series of three experiments that used Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) data and TREC search topics are compared. These experiments each involved three novel user interfaces (one per experiment). User interfaces that made it easier for users to view text were found to improve recall in all three experiments. A distinction was found between a cluster of subjects (a majority of whom were search experts) who tended to read fewer documents more carefully (readers, or exclusives) and subjects who skimmed through more documents without reading them as carefully (skimmers, or inclusives). Skimmers were found to have significantly better recall overall. A major outcome from our experiments at TREC and with the TREC data, is that hypertext interfaces to information retrieval (IR) tasks tend to increase recall. Our interpretation of this pattern of results across the three experiments is that increased interaction with the text (more pages viewed) generally improves recall. Findings from one of the experiments indicated that viewing a greater diversity of text on a single screen (i.e., not just more text per se, but more articles available at once) may also improve recall. In an experiment where a traditional (type-in) query interface was contrasted with a condition where queries were marked up on the text, the improvement in recall due to viewing more text was more pronounced with search novices. Our results demonstrate that markup and hypertext interfaces to text retrieval systems can benefit recall and can also benefit novices. The challenge now will be to find modified versions of hypertext interfaces that can improve precision, as well as recall and that can work with users who prefer to use different types of search strategy or have different types of training and experience.
Expanding the Horizons of Location-Aware Computing (Guest Editor's Introduction)
By Roy Want and Bill Schilit
Computer, Vol. 34, No. 8, August 2001, pp. 31-34.
Aug August 1, 2001
R. Want and B. N. Schilit
How to Teach Speech to an Autonomous Robot through Human-Robot Interaction
By Qiong Liu, S E Levinson, Y Wu and T S Huang
Proceedings of the 5th world multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, vol. III, pp. 34 - 39, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 22 - 25, 2001.
m-Links: An Infrastructure for Very Small Internet Devices
By Bill Schilit, Jonathan Trevor, David Hilbert and T. K. Koh
The 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM 2001), Rome, Italy, July 16-21 2001, ACM Press, 2001, pp. 122-131.
In this paper we describe the Mobile Link (m-Links) infrastructure for utilizing existing World Wide Web content and services on wireless phones and other very small Internet terminals. Very small devices, typically with 3-20 lines of text, provide portability and other functionality while sacrificing usability as Internet terminals. In order to provide access on such limited hardware we propose a small device web navigation model that is more appropriate than the desktop computers web browsing model. We introduce a middleware proxy, the Navigation Engine, to facilitate the navigation model by concisely displaying the Webs link (i.e., URL) structure. Because not all Web information is appropriately "linked," the Navigation Engine incorporates data-detectors to extract bits of useful information such as phone numbers and addresses. In order to maximize program-data composibility, multiple network-based services (similar to browser plug-ins) are keyed to a links attributes such as its MIME type. We have built this system with an emphasis on user extensibility and we describe the design and implementation as well as a basic set of middleware services that we have found to be particularly important.
Robot Speech Learning via Entropy Guided LVQ and Memory Association
Proceedings of the INNS-IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 3, pp. 2176 - 2181, Washington DC., July 14-19, 2001.
The goal of this project is to teach a computer-robot system to understand human speech through natural human-computer interaction. To achieve this goal, we develop an interactive and incremental learning algorithm based on entropy-guided learning vector quantisation (LVQ) and memory association. Supported by this algorithm, the robot has the potential to learn unlimited sounds progressively. Experimental results of a multilingual short-speech learning task are given after the presentation of the learning system. Further investigation of this learning system will include human-computer interactions that involve more modalities, and applications that use the proposed idea to train home appliances.
Large-Scale Collection of Usage Data to Inform Design
By David Hilbert and David Redmiles
The Eighth IFIP TC.13 Conference On Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2001). Tokyo, Japan, July 9-13, 2001.
The two most commonly used techniques for evaluating the fit between application design and use - namely, usability testing and beta testing with user feedback - suffer from a number of limitations that restrict evaluation scale (in the case of usability tests) and data quality (in the case of beta tests). They also fail to provide developers with an adequate basis for: (1) assessing the impact of suspected problems on users at large, and (2) deciding where to focus development and evaluation resources to maximize the benefit for users at large. This paper describes an agent-based approach for collecting usage data and user feedback over the Internet that addresses these limitations to provide developers with a complementary source of usage- and usability-related information. Contributions include: a theory to motivate and guide data collection, an architecture capable of supporting very large scale data collection, and real-word experience suggesting the proposed approach is complementary to existing practice.
Home Video Editing Made Easy - Balancing Automation and User Control
By Andreas Girgensohn, Sara Bly, Frank Shipman, John Boreczky and Lynn Wilcox
In Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '01), IOS Press, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 464-471
Hitchcock is a system to simplify the process of editing video. Its key features are the use of automatic analysis to find the best quality video clips, an algorithm to cluster those clips into meaningful piles, and an intuitive user interface for combining the desired clips into a final video. We conducted a user study to determine how the automatic clip creation and pile navigation support users in the editing process. The study showed that users liked the ease-of-use afforded by automation, but occasionally had problems navigating and overriding the automated editing decisions. These findings demonstrate the need for a proper balance between automation and user control. Thus, we built a new version of Hitchcock that retains the automatic editing features, but provides additional controls for navigation and for allowing users to modify the system decisions.
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Montreal, QC, Canada, October 27, 2011 - Genetec™, a pioneer in the physical security industry and a leading provider of world-class unified IP security solutions, was recently awarded the 2011 North American Application Development Partner (ADP) of the Year by Axis Communications. The award was presented to Genetec at the sixth annual Axis Channel Convergence Conference (ACCC) held in Boston, Massachusetts from October 10-12. Genetec was selected as this year’s ADP award winner for the committed efforts made to develop joint opportunities, initiate training and marketing programs and continue ongoing product integrations and development with Axis.
“Genetec is truly deserving of this award. They made a concerted effort to improve and enhance our collaborative business relationship for the benefit of our mutual partners and customers,” says Rob Muehlbauer, business development manager, ADP Program, North America, Axis Communications. “Not only have they increased joint marketing activities in the form of case studies and projects with our integrator partners, but they made great investments in both development workshops and internal training.”
Genetec was also honoured with the first-ever Canadian Application Development Partner of the Year award during the inaugural Axis Canadian Partner Summit at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, in September.
The IP video surveillance market has seen significant growth in the last few years and with that so has the relationship between Genetec and Axis. Genetec has been an Axis ADP since 2004 and through the program has benefited from development tools, documentation and support necessary to ensure that customers are always able to benefit from the most current and reliable product integrations.
“Having been recognized as the 2011 North American Partner of the Year by one of the market leaders in network video is a true honour and a testament to the strong working relationship we have with Axis,” says Morgan Pasnon, Senior Technology Alliance Manager, Genetec. “Plans for more joint offerings and business development are ongoing so that we can continue to offer our mutual customers reliable and effective IP security solutions.”
Beyond mere product integrations, Genetec and Axis have also worked together on developing innovations that led to releases such as Genetec’s Video Trickling feature. Genetec’s video surveillance system, Omnicast, leverages the edge-recording capabilities of select Axis network cameras to offer a feature that not only stores video on the edge, but that also allows segments of video to be hand-selected for long-term storage on Omnicast’s Archiver. This provides customers with added flexibility and reliability in their video storage requirements.
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A CNBC article, written by Noah Higgins-Dunn, titled "The U.K. Has Identified a New COVID-19 Strain that Spreads More Quickly. Here's What They Know" reported that a new variant of the COVID-19 virus has been identified by the U.K. after the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, revealed their findings during a press briefing last Saturday.
According to Johnson's statement and the data from the Public Health England (PHE) organization, this new variant could be 70% more transmissible than the original COVID-19 strain and is the main cause of more than 1,100 COVID-19 cases recorded since last Sunday.
Following the reports of similar mutations in other parts of the continent, the newest strain of the virus was first revealed by the British government on December 14th, 2020. According to England's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, it shows "a significant, substantial increase in transmissibility" to the point that it is possibly becoming the virus's dominant variant. While there is still no evidence linking the strain to higher death rates, everything indicates that it has been spreading around London and the Southeast of England since mid-September, having caused the surge in cases that was reported last week. As of now, the U.K. is facing an average of 24,061 new cases per day.
Whitty goes on to say that "…the vaccine response should be adequate for this virus." but clarifies that more conclusive results will likely have to wait for further evaluations.
As U.K. authorities continue analyzing the available data to understand this new variation of the COVID-19 virus, Johnson has ordered new restrictions to protect the public during the Christmas season.
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Avast! Free Antivirus 8 has been released
by Martin Brinkmann on February 28, 2013 in Security - Last Update: February 28, 2013 - 19 comments
The new Avast! Free Antivirus 8 has been released a couple of minutes ago and is now available for download from the developer website or via automatic update. It is necessary to pay attention to the installation dialog, as it includes an offer to install Google Drive on the computer system by default. Make sure you select custom install in step 2 and uncheck the Yes, install Google Drive box to avoid this from happening.
Custom installation also ensures that you can select the components that you want to install on your PC. The program makes available two profiles and a custom option. It is recommended again to select custom from the options to uncheck the items that you do not want to install on your system.
The available components are divided into three groups:
Real-time shields: File shield, Mail shield, Web shield, P2P shield, IM shield, Network shield, Script shield and Behavior shield
Components: Browser protection, Avast! gadget, Avast! remote assistance, Browser cleanup, Software updater
Existing Avast! users may have spotted new features in Avast! Free Antivirus 8 already based on the list of components listed above.
This is a new component in all versions of Avast! 8 that scans installed software on the system to find out if updates are available. It works similar to SUMO and Slim Cleaner in this regard. The updater works manually in the free version, while it runs automatic in all paid versions of Avast! 8. In Avast! Premier, it even installs updates silently if possible.
The component scans programs such as Flash Player, Java, web browsers and media players as well as other popular programs that many Windows users have installed.
The Software Updater displays a system rating, from 0% critical to 100% good which tells you right away how well - or not - your system software is up to date. Each program is listed with its name and status, and fix now buttons are available for each program that is not up to date.
What is interesting here is that a click on the Fix now button will trigger the installation right away. Other programs usually redirect you to a website where the program needs to be downloaded before it can be installed manually. A great time saver.
What's not so good is that it does not warn you if the latest available version of a program, Java for instance, is not secure. This can give you a false sense of security.
Browser Cleanup
The Browser Cleanup module is another new feature that Avast! has build in to its products. I have reviewed this extensively here already. Only this much. You can use it to uninstall toolbars that are installed on your system. It is available as a standalone product or in Avast under Tools > Browser Cleanup.
All you need to do is click on a button to start the program. It will automatically scan the system for toolbars giving you options to remove those that you do not want to remain on it.
Note that the tool is currently only supporting stable browser versions and not beta or development versions.
Remotely control a computer
You can use the free version of Avast Antivirus to remotely control a computer but not to configure the computer to be remotely controlled. For that, you need avast! Premier, a new commercial product that goes beyond what Internet Security has to offer.
So, you do need Avast Premier on the PC you want to control remotely, and any version of Avast on a remote PC that you want to use to control the other PC.
The feature is linked to the Avast account and can be protected with a second password for additional security. It goes without saying that both PCs need to be online for this to work.
New Interface
Avast! 8 ships with a new professional looking interface.The main page displays seven symbols and a menu on top only. Avast displays the system's status here, as well as options to run a scan, the software updater or overall statistics. The remaining three icons lead to commercial offerings, upgrades to add a firewall for instance to the system.
The front page displays the status of each installed component and whether cloud intelligence is working without issues.
You can click on any item here, or open the Antivirus group on the left, to display real-time information about a component's activities on the system. Here it is possible to stop any component directly or open its settings to configure it extensively.
The File System Shield alone makes available a large amount of settings, from configuring the auto-sandbox behavior of the program over when files are scanned on the system and file exclusions to whether archives should be unpacked during scans and the heuristic sensitivity.
Minor Changes
The following components have been improved as well by the team:
Behavior Shield: now communicates with Avast!'s virus lab for preciser detections.
Streaming Updates: to transfer updates sooner and faster to users.
Improved Reporting: displays more and better information about false positive urls.
Full Support for IPv6
Difference between Avast! Internet Security and Avast! Premier
Avast! Premier contains all features of Internet Security plus the following three features exclusive to the program:
Data Shredder to securely delete files on a system.
Software Updater can now run in automatic mode so that updates are installed silently as soon as they are released.
AccessAnywhere for making available the PC via remote connections.
While it is too early to tell how well Avast will perform in antivirus labs - the last version did well in most tests but not in all - it is the software updater that sets it apart from the majority of free antivirus solutions out there. There have been so many reports about vulnerabilities in third party software like Java or Flash that is exploited by malware creators that it is quite puzzling that the majority of security software producers have not started to integrate software checkers and updaters into their programs yet.
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Sophisticat said on February 28, 2013 at 12:49 pm
@martin
DId you know techcat is plagiarizing your articles verbatim without a linkback?
http://technology.automated.it/2013/02/28/avast-free-antivirus-8-has-been-released/
Martin Brinkmann said on February 28, 2013 at 12:55 pm
Hi, no I did not know that. Will contact them asap.
Andy Powell said on February 28, 2013 at 5:33 pm
All the links were intact there were numerous links to ghacks – right at the bottom of the article there were 3 links back to gHacks. The article was clearly linking to back to gHacks original article. There was no plagerism at all, plagerism involves ‘passing off’ – ie pretending to be the author. It’s pretty obvious that this wasn’t taking place. Not only did you miss the multiple links to gHacks, you also seem to misunderstand what plagerism is.
EuroScept1C said on February 28, 2013 at 3:25 pm
Every year they just redesign their interface and they compete each other who has the uglier… What happened to simple Windows native themes, damn… I always appreciate a program that has a well-made, solid, native windows UI.
Nebulus said on February 28, 2013 at 6:11 pm
Thanks for the review, Martin. I will try Avast 8 in a virtual machine later.
Mon said on March 1, 2013 at 2:18 am
Hello Martin,
In the screenshot above there is AutoSandbox and Sandbox, what is the difference between the two?
Are these sandboxes similar to Sandboxie?
Dwight Stegall said on March 1, 2013 at 8:51 am
I have used many free antivirus programs. The best one I found is Avira. It found malware even Norton 360 didn’t know existed. I also love Superantispyware.com. It removes all trojans and adware tacking cookies, not just the easy ones like other scanners do.
Ficho said on March 1, 2013 at 10:58 am
Browser Cleanup Tool is not that good.It shows WebRank Seo IE Toolbar as bad addon and it is
perfectly fine.I agree that not many people are using it,but it is rated with 5 stars at Softpedia,Download.cnet.com and IE gallery.Versions for other browsers are all rated with 4 or 5
stars.Also,AdwCleaner didn’t find anything.Who is rating toolbars and addons in Browser Cleanup?I also hate Avast reputation service with annoying messages for good installers like
beta versions of PotPlayer and Icaros.I guess Avast community behind reputation service are
using “normal” staff like turbo spyware Google Chrome and Google Toolbar for IE.
Old Red said on March 2, 2013 at 7:28 am
And if you are running Windows XP, be prepared for a disastrous installation. I spent all day recovering my computer after 3 attempts to install Avast 8.
26Dolphins said on March 2, 2013 at 9:45 am
Could you please elaborate on “disastrous installation”?
Old Red said on March 2, 2013 at 10:24 am
After installing avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe ver 8.0.1482.45, I got the following: BSOD; PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA; Technical information: STOP: 0x00000050 (0xB509B000, 0x00000001, 0x8058AD45, 0x00000000). This has happened on 3 attempted installations. My Operating System :Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.01.2600 Service Pack 3 (32-bit)
Does anyone know if one can import their previous settings if they do a clean install?
joebatch said on March 3, 2013 at 11:36 am
Old Red, Thank you for your comment about the problems you had installing avast if you have Windows XP. You saved me a lot of grief. I will not be using this.
26Dolphins said on March 4, 2013 at 2:47 pm
@Old Red
Thanks, that does sound like a “disastrous installation”.
Looks like one more dev moving away from proper support for Win XP.
I guess I have to see if there’re more reports like this and if the problemd will be addressed.
Ficho said on March 9, 2013 at 1:11 pm
New Avast is behaving crazy.I’ve changed UI language and suddenly I was from Avast Free in
Avast Pro Trial mode.I didn’t know how to downgrade to free version again.There was no button
that used to be there.Also trial of 30 days expired within few minutes and I was unprotected.
I’ve tried to restart Windows 7 and I still was unprotected and Avast version was 7 .That was
weird.I had to uninstall version 7 and install version 8.0.1483.One more thing,before this crazy
stuff started I received notification about new version 8.0.1455 although I had latest version installed-8.0.1483.Sorry about my English.
d said on March 17, 2013 at 7:54 pm
Like Ficho, I am having problems with avast. After installing and registering for the free version I then rebooted and now it insists that i pay for it, allowing me a 30 grace trial period. if i go to maintainance>subscriptions there is no option other than to select various paid for versions, not little “i just want to continue with the free version” button/text
Kali said on March 20, 2013 at 8:57 am
Same problem. WTF ?
Nikos said on April 13, 2013 at 2:03 pm
Avast 8 free is an ideal solution for protection! I ‘ve tried many, but I always come back to Avast. I ‘ve used it for 3 years without problems; I mean it, it’s not the case someone says this and there are lots of malware that the user is unaware of them. And it’s free!!
Get it from here (directly from Avast) and you won’t regret it :D
http://www.avast.com/get/LWmhzYTn
Moe_joe said on August 7, 2013 at 5:04 am
still nott as good as a kaspersky, norton & co. …
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Soulcalibur IV
Game » consists of 14 releases. Released Jul 29, 2008
The fifth installment in Namco's Soul series of weapon-based fighting games, Soulcalibur IV is the first to be released on seventh-generation consoles and the first online entry in the series. It's known for its use of Star Wars characters as guest fighters.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Lightsaber Duels
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The fourth 3D spin-off of the 2D Samurai Shodown series brings a colorful cast of new combatants and a new gameplay style reminiscent of the SoulCalibur series. It was developed for the series' 15th anniversary.
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Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
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The fifth main installment of Sega-AM2's signature fighting game series, using PC-based arcade hardware to deliver the most advanced graphical capabilities of video games at the time. It's also known for its numerous updates and major revisions (spanning all the way up to 2015, nearly 10 years after the original game's release).
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
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As relations between humans and the Zoanthropes grow sour, a new breed of Zoanthropes brawl in an all-out war in the second installment of the Bloody Roar series of 3D fighting games.
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Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact
The second iteration of Street Fighter III, updating the original game while adding three new combatants and a new gameplay mechanic ("EX Special Moves").
Street Fighter III: New Generation
After numerous iterations of Street Fighter II (and its spin-off Street Fighter Alpha series), Capcom continues its classic fighting game series with a new cast of fighters, a higher-quality graphical style, and revamped gameplay mechanics (introducing the "parry" and "Super Art" systems).
Midway's first entry into the 3D fighting game scene mixes Mortal Kombat gameplay with a dark and bizarre tale of immortals.
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Mr Michelotti Retirement Gift
£1,145 raised of £250 goal
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Philip Hehir is organizing this fundraiser.
By demand, we have set up this fund raiser for anyone who wishes to give a token of appreciation for Mr Alain Michelotti as he ascends into retired life.
Alain has been a practising chiropractor for 40-years, 30 of those were at The Guildford Chiropractic Centre. He trained as a Physiotherapist 10-years prior to that, and as such has benefitted from that dual qualification bringing an array of skills to his clinical practice.
Alain has been the point of call for thousands of patients in his career and many have benefited from his kind, caring and professional manner. He will be sorely missed by many of his patients and his colleagues alike. We wish Alain all the very best in his retirement.
In addition, please feel free to leave a comment below to send him your best wishes.
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Season Five of Modern Warfare, including Warzone, will receive a mid-season update as well as herald the launch of the Call of Duty Games of Summer global seasonal event
For the first time in Call of Duty franchise history, community members from around the world – both those who own Modern Warfare and free-to-play Warzone – will be able to represent their country in easy-to-play, hard-to-master, single-player Trials of skill. Games of Summer begins on August 28 and runs until September 7.
Season Five Reloaded also introduces a new map and game modes in Modern Warfare and Warzone. Gunfight Tournament returns to Modern Warfare, on a new map that takes place on the pitch level of Stadium.
A new Ground War mode variant called Ground War Reinforced will have Modern Warfare players fighting for flags in order to respawn downed teammates.
Warzone players will be able to jump into a new game mode called King Slayer, which is a large-scale Team Deathmatch on Battle Royale where teams fight to earn points by defeating hostile players. But in this mode, the circle doesn't collapse, rather it moves around the map for an agile battle on the go. Eliminating one of the enemies' top five scoring players (Kings) will award players additional points and a free killstreak.
Modern Warfare and Warzone players will also have a new weapon to look forward to - the FINN LMG. An agile, mobile, and hostile tank of an LMG, the FiNN’s ultra-light and open-bolt design is uniquely paired with advanced recoil controls. This all adds up to a weapon with exceptional full-auto accuracy while still being lightweight, allowing for a unique playstyle that further blurs the line between assault rifle and LMG.
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ING Financial Partners Securities Attorney
The securities attorneys of Gana Weinstein LLP represent clients in investment claims against their brokers and brokerage firms, such as ING Financial Partners Inc. (ING). Investment related misconduct includes many different types of business activities ranging from unsuitable investment advice to Ponzi schemes, securities fraud, and failure to supervise. Our attorneys can analyze your account statements and correspondence and uncover evidence of misconduct that caused investment losses.
The ING Group is a Dutch company engaged in multinational banking and financial services. ING’s primary businesses unites are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, and insurance. ING stands for International Netherlands Group. In 2012, ING was the world's largest banking and financial services and insurance conglomerate by revenue. In 2009, ING had over 85 million individual and institutional clients in more than 45 countries.
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FINRA v. ING Financial Partners, Inc., et al, AWC No. 2012031270301 - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) fined five affiliates of ING $1.2 million concerning allegations of failing to retain or review millions of emails. The five firms are indirect subsidiaries of ING Groep N.V., include Directed Services, LLC; ING America Equities, Inc.; ING Financial Advisers, LLC; ING Financial Partners, Inc.; and ING Investment Advisors, LLC. FINRA found that the firms failed to properly configure hundreds of employee email accounts to ensure that emails were retained and reviewed between 2004 and 2012. In addition, FINRA alleged that four of the firms failed to set up systems to retain certain types of emails. FINRA concluded that as a result of these failures emails were not subject to supervisory review.
FINRA v. ING (Aug. 9, 2006) – NASD fined four ING broker-dealers $7 million concerning allegations of receipt of directed brokerage in exchange for preferential treatment for certain mutual fund companies. The four broker-dealers involved in the regulatory action are Financial Network Investment Corporation, Inc. - fined over $3.4 million; ING Financial Partners Inc. - fined nearly $1.3 million; Multi-Financial Securities Corporation, Inc. - fined over $1.2 million; and Prime Vest Financial Services, Inc. - fined over $1 million. The NASD charged that the conduct by the four ING broker-dealers violated the Anti-Reciprocal Rule prohibiting arrangements where brokerage commissions are used to compensate firms for selling mutual fund shares. The rule is designed to ensure portfolio transactions are guided by "best execution" and not by other considerations.
FINRA v. ING (Oct. 3, 2005) – The NASD fined ING Funds Distributor (IFD) $1.5 million concerning allegation of permitting improper market timing in ING funds and related market timing violations. The NASD also ordered IFD to pay $1.4 million in restitution to the affected mutual funds, imposed a $25,000 fine, and 30-day supervisory suspension.
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Flowers laid for killed Albert Park swan as reward for information reaches £1,250
Social media users have been adding to the £500 reward offered by an Eaglescliffe business last week :: The swan was killed overnight on Tuesday
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A reward to find the culprits behind the shocking Albert Park swan attack has been increased to £1,250.
Social media users have added to the £500 reward offered by businessman Darren Strafford last week. Flowers have been laid at the lake where Sidney was brutally attacked and killed.
As the hunt for the culprits continues, the reward for information that leads to a conviction has passed £1,000.
The death of Sidney and smashing of swan eggs at Middlesbrough’s Albert Park sparked outrage across Teesside.
Sidney was killed sometime overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday, in an attack which left his mate Shona in a serious condition .
The thugs responsible possibly used an iron bar to carry out the attack.
Shona and Sidney, who were attacked at Albert Park (Image: Middlesbrough Council)
Mr Strafford, MD of Eaglescliffe surface coatings company Yorchem, said his company would offer the reward in exchange for information to catch the perpetrators.
And kind-hearted strangers have added to Darren’s £500 reward with the pot reaching £1,250.
People have been encouraged to message the Facebook page “News and Incidents on Teesside” to be added to a list of contributors.
Calls have come to invest the money in the protection of wildlife at the park.
One person said: “It’s amazing to see everyone come together to find the person responsible. It’s lovely to see everyone appreciating and respecting this beautiful birds life.”
A swan's nest at Albert Park which has now been smashed up by vandals (Image: Handout)
Another said: “Please let us know what we can do to protect the birds. Someone has mentioned pontoons previously. Are volunteers needed to get something actually done in the park? Lots of people will pull together on this.”
And a further £500 has been pledged to the Great Ayton RSPCA when the culprit is caught.
Flowers left at the nest of a swan at Albert Park (Image: Ian Cooper)
Derek Whiting, from Stokesley, wrote to The Gazette expressing his disgust at the lack of respect for the birds.
He said: “The report and pictures of the cruelty to the Albert Park swans has spoilt my many happy memories of childhood days spent playing in the park.
“What are the chances of this person being caught and what will be the derisory punishment be? I am willing to donate £500 to the Great Ayton RSPCA, for the pleasure of seeing this person(s) sent to jail.”
The £1,250 reward will be given to anyone with information that leads to the conviction of those responsible for the swan’s death.
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Dumbarton – man arrested and charged over alleged attempted murder
A 23-year-old is in custody after a 55-year-old was attacked in broad daylight outside a pub last week
Christina O'NeillDigital Journalist
The Captain James Lang pub on Dumbarton High Street (Image: Google Maps)
A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the attempted murder in Dumbarton .
The 23-year-old is in custody after a 55-year-old man was left seriously injured outside the Captain James Lang pub on High Street on Thursday June 20 – when one of them assaulted the other.
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Emergency services attended after the attack at around 2pm and he was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where medical staff describe his condition as critical.
The suspect is due to appear in court today.
A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.
For more breaking news and all that's going on in your city, head to the Glasgow Live homepage - or you can check us out on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram .
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COVID Is Not the Threat
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Theme: Science and Medicine
Covid is a real virus. It is a threat to a small minority of the population—primarily people with poor immune systems and comorbidities.
There are inexpensive ways of boosting immune systems with supplements, such as zinc, vitimans C and D3, Beta Glucan, and NAC. But public health officials have not educated the public about the value of supplements in the Covid battle. The reason is that so-called public health officials are shills for Big Pharma’s profits, and Big Pharma regards good immune systems as a hindrence to profits.
There are also two effective, safe, and inexpensive cures for Covid. One is the combination of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), azithromycin, and zinc. The other is the combination of ivermectin, azithromycin, and zinc. See this.
The use of these known cures has been blocked by public health officials, such as Tony Fauci of the National Institute of Health. Again, the reason is Big Pharma’s profits. The use of these effective cures negates the profit opportunity of a new vaccine.
So many have died by denying treatment while we wait for a vaccine that some experts worry will be more dangerous than Covid— see this.
Keeping Covid alive as a threat serves other harmful purposes. As I wrote on November 13, the main threat from Covid is not the disease— see this. When Covid subsides as a threat, the increased powers of government over citizens will remain.
In Europe and in parts of the US, it is clear that the people understand that the lockdowns and mask rules are a bigger threat to them than Covid. In Germany there have been mass protests, which are spreading elsewhere in Europe— see this.
Klaus Madersbacher says Germans have memories of where the use of arbitrary power leads. Unlike the American “anti-fascist” Antifa and BLM movements which conduct kristallnachts against white businesses, a real anti-fascist movement in Germany fights against the lockdown: see this.
In Huntington Beach, California, there were protests early Sunday morning against the Democrat governor’s curfew— see this.
Sheriffs in five California counties with a population of 17,250,000 people refuse to enforce the nutty governor’s curfew— see this.
Even the police, who welcome any excuse to exercise power, are backing away from enforcing ineffective but intrusive Covid rules. Just as the California sheriffs are declining, the police chief in Leipzig, Germany, said that there is no point in using the police to fight a pandemic.
The only reason that the “pandemic” continues is that Western public health officials are financially tied in one way or another with Big Pharma, and public health officials are using their positions in the interest of these financial connections.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts writes on his blog site, PCR Institute for Political Economy, where this article was originally published. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
Featured image is by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay
Copyright © Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research, 2020
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Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?
By Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold
Theme: Intelligence, US NATO War Agenda
Israel used all four years of Trump’s presidency to entrench its systems of occupation and apartheid. Now that Joe Biden has won the U.S. election, the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, likely by Israel with the go-ahead from the US administration, is a desperate attempt to use Trump’s last days in office to sabotage Biden’s chances of successful diplomacy with Iran. Biden, Congress and the world community can’t let that happen.
On Friday November 27, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated in the Iranian city of Absard outside of Tehran. First, a truck with explosives blew up near the car carrying Fakhrizadeh. Then, gunmen started firing on Fakhrizadeh’s car. The immediate speculation was that Israel had carried out the attack, perhaps with the support of the Iranian terrorist group the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (MEK). Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted that there were “serious indications of [an] Israeli role” in the assassination.
All indications indeed point to Israel. In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified this scientist, Fakhrizadeh, as a target of his administration during a presentation in which he claimed that Israel had obtained secret Iranian files that alleged the country was not actually abiding by the Iran Nuclear Deal. “Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh. So here’s his directive, right here,” Netanyahu said.
Fakhrizadeh was far from the first assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. Between 2010 and 2012, four Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated—Masoud Alimohammadi, Majid Shahriari, Darioush Rezaeinejad and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan. Though Israel never took official credit for the extrajudicial executions, reports were fairly conclusive that Israel, working with the MEK, were behind the killings. The Israeli government never denied the allegations.
The assassination of Fakhrizadeh also follows reports that the Israeli government recently instructed its senior military officials to prepare for a possible U.S. strike on Iran, likely referring to a narrowly averted plan by President Trump to bomb Iran’s Natanz nuclear site. Furthermore, there was a clandestine meeting between Netanyahu and Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman. Among the topics of conversation were normalization between the two countries and their shared antagonism towards Iran.
Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear activities are particularly galling given that Israel, not Iran, is the only country in the Middle East in possession of nuclear weapons, and Israel refuses to sign the International Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Iran, on the other hand, doesn’t have nuclear weapons and it has opened itself up to the most intrusive international inspections ever implemented. Adding to this absurd double standard is the intense pressure on Iran from the United States—a nation that has more nuclear weapons than any country on earth.
Given the close relationship between Netanyahu and Trump, and the seriousness of this attack, it is very likely that this assassination was carried out with the green light from Trump himself. Trump has spent his time in the White House destroying the progress the Obama administration made in easing the conflict with Iran. He withdrew from the nuclear deal and imposed an unending stream of crippling sanctions that have affected everything from the price of food and housing, to Iran’s ability to obtain life-saving medicines during the pandemic. He has blocked Iran from getting an IMF $5 billion emergency loan to deal with the pandemic. In January, Trump brought the US to the brink of war by assassinating Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, and in an early November meeting with his top security advisors, and right before the assassination of Fakhrizadeh, Trump himself reportedly raised the possibility of a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
After the news broke of the assassination, Trump expressed implicit approval of the attack by retweeting Israeli journalist and expert on the Israeli Mossad intelligence service, Yossi Melman, who described the killing of Fahkrizadeh as a “major psychological and professional blow for Iran.”
Iran has responded to these intense provocations with extreme patience and reserve. The government was hoping for a change in the White House and Biden’s victory signaled the possibility of both the U.S. and Iran going back into compliance with the nuclear deal. This recent assassination, however, further strengthens the hands of Iranian hardliners who say it was a mistake to negotiate with the United States, and that Iran should just leave the nuclear deal and build a nuclear weapon for its own defense.
Iranian-American analyst Negar Mortazavi bemoaned the chilling effect the assassination will have on Iran’s political space. “The atmosphere will be even more securitized, civil society and political opposition will be pressured even more, and the anti-West discourse will be strengthened in Iran’s upcoming presidential election,” she tweeted.
This assassination will have a chilling effect on Iran’s political space; the atmosphere will be even more securitized, civil society and political opposition will be pressured even more, and the anti-West discourse will be strengthened in Iran’s upcoming presidential election.
— Negar Mortazavi (@NegarMortazavi) November 27, 2020
The hardliners already won the majority of seats in the February parliamentary elections and are predicted to win the presidential elections scheduled for June. So the window for negotiations is a narrow one of four months immediately after Biden’s inauguration. W. What happens between now and January 20 could derail negotiations before they even start.
Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, said that US and Israeli efforts to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program “have now morphed into Trump & Netanyahu sabotaging the next US President. They are trying to goad Iran into provocations & accelerating nuclear work—exactly what they claim to oppose. Their real fear is US & Iran talking.”
US & Israel efforts to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program have now morphed into Trump & Netanyahu sabotaging the next US President. They are trying to goad Iran into provocations & accelerating nuclear work-exactly what they claim to oppose. Their real fear is US & Iran talking
— Jamal Abdi (@jabdi) November 27, 2020
That’s why U.S. members of Congress, and President-elect Joe Biden himself, must vigorously condemn this act and affirm their commitment to the US rejoining the nuclear deal. When Israel assassinated other nuclear scientists during the Obama administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced the murders, understanding that such illegal actions made negotiations infinitely more difficult.
The European Union, as well as some important US figures have already condemned the attack. Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy pointed out the risks involved in normalizing assassinations, how the killing will make it harder to restart the Iran Nuclear agreement, and how the assassination of General Soleimani backfired from a security standpoint. Former Obama advisor Ben Rhodes tweeted that it was an “outrageous action aimed at undermining diplomacy,” and former CIA head John Brennan called the assassination “criminal” and “highly reckless,” risking “lethal retaliation and a new round of regional conflict,” but rather than putting the responsibility on the U.S. and Israel to stop the provocations, he called on Iran to “be wise” and “resist the urge to respond.”
I have not yet been briefed on this incident, but: Every time America or an ally assassinates a foreign leader outside a declaration of war, we normalize the tactic as a tool of statecraft. The risk is that the security benefit can be very short lived. https://t.co/vn3mbEWmhB
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) November 27, 2020
This is an outrageous action aimed at undermining diplomacy between an incoming US administration and Iran. It’s time for this ceaseless escalation to stop. https://t.co/ix6LpeVpcQ
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) November 27, 2020
This was a criminal act & highly reckless. It risks lethal retaliation & a new round of regional conflict.
Iranian leaders would be wise to wait for the return of responsible American leadership on the global stage & to resist the urge to respond against perceived culprits. https://t.co/0uZhyBTM3S
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) November 27, 2020
Many on Twitter have raised the question of what the world response would be if the roles were reversed and Iran assassinated an Israeli nuclear scientist. Without a doubt, the U.S. administration, whether Democrat or Republican, would be outraged and supportive of a swift military response. But if we want to avoid escalation, then we must hope that Iran will not retaliate, at least not during Trump’s last days in office.
The only way to stop this crisis from spiraling out of control is for the world community to condemn the act, and demand a UN investigation and accountability for the perpetrators. The countries that joined Iran and the United States in signing the 2015 nuclear agreement —Russia, China, Germany, the UK and France—must not only oppose the assassination but publicly recommit to upholding the nuclear deal. President-elect Joe Biden must send a clear message to Israel that under his administration, these illegal acts will have consequences. He must also send a clear message to Iran that he intends to quickly re-enter the nuclear deal, stop blocking Iran’s $5 billion IMF loan request, and begin a new era of diplomacy to dial back the intense conflict he inherited from Trump’s recklessness.
Medea Benjamin is cofounder of CODEPINK for Peace, and author of several books, including Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. She is a member of the writers’ group Collective20.
Ariel Gold is the national co-director of CODEPINK and runs their Peace with Iran campaign.
Copyright © Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold, Global Research, 2020
Articles by: Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold
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The Best Volcanic Experiences in Iceland
For many tourists, the volcanoes of Iceland are one of the biggest reasons for visiting. Shaping the young and primal landscapes, across the entire country you can see the aftermath of eruptions. From lava flows to canyons carved out by glacial floods, the volcanic energy in the country is incredible to witness.
There are a few reasons why Iceland is so volcanically active. The first is its location over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the seam that runs between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates. Iceland is one of the few places where you can see this rift above sea level. As the tectonic plates slowly tear apart each year, magma escapes from below, erupting through the volcanoes and rifts scattered across Iceland’s volcanic zone. The second reason is thanks to Iceland’s location over a hot spot in the Earth’s mantle, feeding even more volcanic energy into the country. On average, a volcanic eruption occurs every 3–4 years in the country.
While witnessing an eruption would be an incredible experience, chances are that while you’re in the country it won’t happen. And if there is one, you shouldn’t be headed in that direction anyway. Luckily, there are plenty of other spots where you can see the aftermath of eruptions, explore some dormant volcanoes, and other incredible geological features. Here are the 8 best volcanic experiences in Iceland.
Inside the Volcano Tour
The ‘Inside the Volcano’ tour is the only place in the entire world where, you guessed it, you get to explore the inside of a volcano. Thrihnukagigur is a dormant volcano close to Reykjavik, which last erupted around 4,000 years ago. Tours descend into the giant magma chamber, whose lava mysteriously vanished. Experts speculate that it either absorbed itself into the walls or drained back underground as if someone pulled the plug in a sink. Whichever is true, there’s no arguing that it’s a once-in-a-lifetime kind of opportunity to get inside a volcano. The magma chamber is special to behold, and the entire experience gives you an unrivalled insight into volcanoes in Iceland.
Tours begin with a 45-minute hike across incredible landscapes before arriving at the volcano itself. Here, an open cable lift lowers down 120 metres into the magma chamber. Once you’re at the bottom, explorations of the giant chamber begin, which could easily fit the entire Statue of Liberty inside.
The Fimmvörðurháls Hike
Nearly everyone who comes to Iceland will have heard of the famous Eyjafjallajökull eruption. In 2010, the volcanic underneath the glacier erupted, releasing an incredible amount of ash into the air which put a halt to air traffic over Europe. Many travellers will want to get up close and personal to where this all happened. And the closest you can get to this volcano (without joining a helicopter tour and landing on top) is by hiking the Fimmvörðurháls Pass.
Located in South Iceland, Fimmvörðurháls is the mountain pass that separates the small village of Skógar in the south with the Thórsmörk valley. Since Thórsmörk is an incredible hiking destination in the country but notoriously hard to get to. A lot of people opt to spend a day hiking over the mountains to get there. The route is one of the most scenic in all of Iceland, leading directly between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull. Along the way, hikers will pass by the lava field Goðahraun. This is the newly formed lava flow from the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. Detours also lead towards Móði, a newly formed crater. It’s not often in Iceland you get to see such recently formed volcanic features – especially from such a famous eruption.
Read: Hiking Fimmvörðurháls With a Campervan
Askja Volcanic Caldera
In the explosive northern highlands above the glacier Vatnajökull, there’s an awesome volcanic caldera that needs to be seen to be believed. Askja is without a doubt one an enchanting and powerful Icelandic landscape. This large volcano rises out of the Ódáðahraun lava field, but it’s the caldera itself that demands attention. Created when the magma chamber beneath could no longer hold the weight of the volcano above, the entire thing collapsed to cause the depression you see today. It has since filled with brilliant blue water and is now Iceland’s deepest lake at 220m.
There’s also a crater lake immediately adjacent to the larger lake. This has filled with a milky blue water like that of the Blue Lagoon, which averages a temperature of 25°C. Not overly warm, but worth a dip thanks to the location alone.
But while it is spectacular, it’s also spectacularly difficult to get to. The F-roads in this area are rough. If you’ve got yourself one of our 4x4 campers, we recommend taking F905 and then F910 (you can see a detailed map of the route here). Otherwise, day tours leave from Akureyri or Reykjahlíð. For the extreme adventurers, hiking there takes anywhere between 3-5 days.
Read: The 5 Best Multi-day Hikes in Iceland
Krafla Volcanic Caldera
More accessible than Askja, the Krafla volcanic caldera is home to a series of volcanic vents northeast of Lake Mývatn. Feeding these vents is a large magma chamber, only 3km beneath the ground. There have been two explosive eruptions here in recent times. The first was the Mývatn Fires, which occurred between 1724 and 1729. The second is closer in history; known as the Krafla Fires, these eruptions took place over 9 years between 1975 and 1984. This is an active place, and one of the best spots for volcano tourism in the country.
There are two main spots to explore here. The first is the area surrounding Mt. Leirhnjúkur. Here you can follow trails through the lava fields, where steam still rises from the latest lava from 1984 (the darkest rocks are the youngest). There’s also plenty of hot spring activity here, with the mud pots, steaming vents, and minerals interacting colourfully in the ground. Further east is where you’ll find another crater called Víti (not the crater found at Askja with the same name). This crater was formed in 1724 when the first eruption happened during the Mývatn Fires. It has since filled with a milky blue water, but unlike the water at Askja, it’s still steaming hot – don’t touch and stick to the trails. A gentle walk loops around the crater, taking about an hour.
Eldfell Volcano and Museum, Westman Islands
Another of Iceland’s famous eruptions happened on the Westman Islands, off the south coast of the mainland. Residents of Heimaey awoke during the early hours of January 23, 1973, and found a red glow coming through their windows as a flow of lava oozed towards town. The Eldfell volcano had erupted. The damage to the small town of Heimaey was immense – lava buried over a third of houses, and an incredible amount of ash covered the entire island. Officials declared the eruption over on July 3 of that year, and the clean-up began.
Although the town has since rebuilt, today visitors to the island can still explore the area where lava engulfed the houses. There’s also a spectacular museum on the island that investigates the history of the eruption, showing pictures, media, and recounting tales from the locals. It’s an incredible place, and one that gives you a feeling for the resilience of the Icelandic people.
Read: The Ultimate Guide to the Westman Islands
The Lava Centre, Hvolsvöllur
A new museum in the country, the Lava Centre in Hvolsvöllur is another great addition to the volcanic tourism in Iceland. Positioned between a lot of the country’s active volcanoes, Hvolsvöllur is the perfect place to learn about how they work. Nearby is Hekla, Eyjafjallajökull and Katla to the north, and the Eldfell Volcano on Heimaey to the south. An explosive location!
The aim of the exhibition is to give a hands-on look at the science behind volcanoes. Visitors can explore the different rooms, touching different types of lava, learning about the hot spot underneath Iceland with a massive display, and about the incredible eruptions that have happened in this area throughout history.
Also attached to the Lava Centre in Hvolsvöllur is the Lava Show further south in Vik. Entry to this show allows visitors to see molten lava – an incredibly rare experience that you can only have in a few places around the world. The organisers of the show have gone to great pains to bring this to life. Collecting the lava rocks from around the coast, they burn them up at great temperatures, once again turning the rocks into molten lava. Afterwards, it pours into a long bowl, in the middle of a room with chairs set up on all sides. Here, the man behind the show manipulates it with a long rod, showing how it works. Feeling the heat from the small amount of lava is intimidating, and watching it cool into a solid again is an awesome experience.
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Clara was a loving mother, sister, grandmother, and friend. In her old age her son Terrence lived with her and took care of her every need. Her health declined towards the end of last year, but it was ultimately covid that she contracted just days before that caused her passing.
Since October Clara has been struggling with health complications that had her in and out of the ER and nursing home. It began with intestinal pain and mental illness brought on by a uti leaving her confused and in pain. She had surgery to have a feeding tube set up and then had to spend some time in a nursing home. It was early December that family got to see her last.
Clara had been in a Nursing Home for about a month plus. She was supposed to be released on Mon Jan 4th but had to be quarantined because her roommate tested positive for covid on the 2nd. She was rushed to the ER for a blood transfusion because her hemoglobin was low and it was there that she experienced early symptoms for Covid including a fever and cough. She tested positive but was coherent, just very scared and alone. On the 6th she needed help breathing and had to have 15% oxygen support. Just a few hours after getting the initial call about needing oxygen support the condition had escalated to where she required over 100% oxygen support to breathe. We all prayed for her to make it through, but there were complications and she ended up passing that night at 9:35pm from cardiac arrest.
Clara turned 88 just last week. She lived a long and full life and we are only sorry that due to covid restrictions she had to die alone without family in the room to hold her hand through the pain. The hospital and nursing home staff worked hard to do their best to save her but in the end it was her time to be with her husband and other family members and pets that have passed in eternal peace.
Our next move as a family is to pack up the home that her and her son Terrence shared as it is no longer in our family name after her passing and to prepare for her cremation/funeral services. All monies collected from this go fund me will go to helping to fund her funeral services, pay off medical bills, and help in the relocation move.
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Adventures in the Wyoming Wilderness: Not Every Hunt Ends in a Harvest
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By: Randy Tucker
Green Mountain in southeastern Fremont County, Wyoming is claimed to be one of the best kept secrets in elk hunting in the Rocky Mountain region. For this hunter at least, it can remain a secret, not a well-kept one, but a secret nonetheless.
In 2018, I drew one of these highly sought after tags.
In Wyoming, there are two seasons for hunting big game: an early archery season and a later rifle season. Some areas even have special black powder seasons for deer, antelope, and elk.
We had the entire season to hunt. My son Brian is an excellent archer, taking a pronghorn on a stalk with his compound bow the first time he tried. Since then, he’s taken a few mule deer as well with his bow.
I’ve never been a great archery hunter.
My first attempt at bow hunting came long ago on the Laramie River west of the town that bears the same name.
My friend Frank and I both had a couple of old Ben Pearson recurve bows and a handful of wooden shaft broadheads in our quivers.
We set out one afternoon, west of Laramie on the Snowy Range Road, intending to hike into an area about five miles off the highway. As we walked north through the foothills of the Snowy Range, the scenery changed abruptly. It was akin to the John Denver song “Rocky Mountain High,” only it wasn’t the Rockies that caught our eye, but the three-foot tall cannabis plants growing on a half-acre or so of pristine BLM land.
Realizing we found someone’s personal growing stash, we hot footed out of the area quickly, looking at nearby hills to make sure no one was sighting in on us.
We slept on the ground that night in an area clearly marked by recent deer bedding down. In the morning, we awakened to the sound of mule deer does stomping their feet and barking at us, trying to get us to leave.
We spotted one cagey buck, and I lost an arrow taking a wild 65-yard shot that sailed a foot or so over his back. That was my only experience with a bow until 38 years later.
Green Mountain rises above the surrounding plain of high desert just east of the mining ghost town of Jeffrey City.
I’ve camped up there, caught a few brook trout on the streams that flow off the ridges, and even cut corral poles and logs for pole barns, but I’d never hunted it for elk before the 2018 season.
My son Brian and I drove up to set up our camp on a very hot fall afternoon. As we drove up the gravel road from the highway, it gradually changed to dirt, with a few well-worn ruts.
Herds of wild horses were everywhere, wandering in off the nearby Red Desert. They found water and better grazing on the mountain than in the drought-stricken plains below.
A few mule deer dotted the meadows as we continued our climb – a promising sight, we thought.
We set out to hunt an hour after sunrise on opening day, but to our surprise, every campground, wide spot or flat area on the mountain had a trailer, wall tent, or nylon tent set up on it. It looked more like a KOA campground than it did a pristine wilderness area.
Brian is adept at calling in elk, using one of those long flex tube calls. If you’ve never heard them, elk make a unique, high-pitched nasal sound. It’s not what you’d expect from a large member of the deer family, exceeded only by moose in North America as game animals, sort of a Mike Tyson style surprise voice, only it’s in the animal kingdom, not the boxing ring.
We set up on a trail at least a mile from the nearest camp, hoping all the humans would chase the elk our way. It almost worked.
As Brian patiently went through a mix of calls, we heard a bull answer off in the distance. He kept calling, and by the sound of the return call, we could tell the elk were moving our way.
I don’t shoot a recurve, or a compound bow anymore, but I did have a great crossbow to use that week.
The elk moved closer; I notched a bolt in the crossbow, and my pulse began to pick up.
We estimated them at about 150 to 200 yards by their last call. An estimate is all we ever got that day.
Two clowns on 4-wheelers roared up behind us.
“You guys bow hunting?” the first one asked as he shut down his machine.
“We were,” we both said simultaneously.
“Oh, sorry guys,” he said, and they both roared off.
We didn’t get that close the rest of the season with either bow or rifle.
With just two days left in the season, we finally spotted a bull and about 10 cows a half-mile away on the desert just south of the mountain.
My daughter-in-law Katelin dropped us off, and we began a stalk up a long series of draws to where we thought the elk would be. “Thought” is the operative word. When we slowly crawled up a hill to glass the area, we spotted the little herd as it trotted across the ridgeline about two miles away.
The hunt was over, with not a single shot fired. The only damage I was able to do during the entire seven days we hunted that season was to the right front bumper on my GMC truck. I managed to find a big rock one morning driving through a foot of new fallen snow, and the plastic gave way.
Not every hunt ends in a harvest. I never fired my .308 that week. The 180 grain bullets were just as new as they’d been when I loaded the magazine. Still, it was a wonderful experience out in the vastness of the Wyoming wilderness.
Will I put in for another Green Mountain tag? Probably not – I’ll leave that to everyone else.
Randy Tucker is a retired history teacher and freelance writer from western Wyoming. He has a lifetime of experience in farming, ranching, hunting and fishing in the shadow of the Wind River Mountains. Contact him at ratucker@wyoming.com.
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New helicopter model enters production for Russian military
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Rostvertol and Russian Helicopters, part of the Russian state corporation Rostec, produced the first of the new Mi-28UB helicopters. The primary purpose of this new model is for flight instruction and training personnel.
“The Mi-28 proved its efficiency, so we are expecting that its training version will be of great demand [for] armies,” said Andrey Boginsky, CEO of the Russian Helicopters.
After passing state tests, the Mi-28UB entered batch manufacturing in 2016 at a plant in Rostov, Russian. Designed for the Russian Aerospace Forces, the company is planning to deliver eight of these helicopters, also nicknamed Night Hunters, by the end of the year.
This model is a dual control helicopter, which Boginsky said will break new ground for training flight personnel in this type of machine. There lies the difference between this and the traditional Night Hunter, the Mi-28NE. The duel control system allows for two simultaneous pilots, one from the command cockpit and the other the operator’s cockpit.
Other improvements include enhanced ergonomics with energy-dampening seats in the cockpit, which increases shock absorption in the event of a crash landing, and new airborne avionics and communication tools to increase the helicopter’s reliability, safety and performance.
Mi-28 helicopters are designed for military tasks, day or night, to provide fire support for ground forces and anti-tank defense.
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iPhone 6 to include relocated sleep/wake button and larger, higher resolution display
Cody Lee on April 10, 2014
Last night, KGI Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo sent out a monster research note to investors with a timeline of when he thinks Apple will release their new products this year. He also offered details on each product, which he’s learned from his supply chain connections and other sources.
We’ve already covered Kuo’s iWatch predictions, which called for a “fashionable” smartwatch with advanced features like biometric sensors and wireless charging, and now it’s time to look at his iPhone forecasts. The analyst sees two Apple-branded smartphones launching this year…
Again, Kuo agrees with previous speculation that Apple is building two different handsets: a 4.7-inch and a 5.5-inch model. They’ll have the same internals though—just like the iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display—including an A8 processor, 1GB of RAM, and of course Touch ID.
Display-wise, the analyst believes the 4.7-inch model will feature a 1334×740 Retina display (326 ppi) and the 5.5-inch a 1920×1080 display (401 ppi). Admittedly, the resolutions are odd, but it looks like both panels have the same aspect ratio as the iPhone 5—meaning no need to redesign apps.
iPhone 6 concept via MacRumors
As for appearance, Kuo expects both phones to have slimmer bezels around the screen (10-20% narrower) and thinner profiles of just 6.5-7.0mm. He also thinks that Apple will move the iPhone’s sleep/wake button from the top to the side, in an effort to make the larger devices easier to operate.
Finally, Kuo calls for an NFC chip in both smartphones—a technology that Apple has thus far avoided in its mobile products. Keep in mind, though, that the company has filed several NFC-related patents over the years, and is believed to have pulled NFC chips from the iPhone 5 at the last minute.
The 4.7-inch iPhone is expected to go into production as early as May, ahead of a likely September launch, while the 5.5-inch model is believed to be slated for a later Q4 debut. Kuo sees Apple ending production on the iPhone 4 and 4s, with the 5s and 5c rounding out Apple’s smartphone lineup.
It’s worth noting again that all of this intel came from an analyst report, and despite his track record, nothing is certain. But should Kuo’s predictions pan out, what would you think of the new iPhone(s)?
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Family worries 18-year-old’s murder case going cold
Family worries 18-year-old?s murder case going cold
By: Winnie Wright, FOX13Memphis.com
Updated: February 22, 2020 - 12:57 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It has been 11 weeks since an 18-year-old man was shot and killed outside an east Memphis hotel.
Tylor Finnie’s family told FOX13, they’re worried Memphis Police have allowed this case to run cold.
Our Winnie Wright spoke to Finnie’s family exclusively when he was killed back in December.
She caught up with them again Saturday with why, this time of year, is particularly hard.
“This is where the incident happened with Tylor, where he was killed,” said Talisha Alexander, Finnie’s cousin.
We spoke with her outside the hotel where her cousin lost his life Dec. 8.
FOX13 protected her identity, out of respect for her fear that Finnie’s killer is still on the run.
Her son told her he and Finnie were at Embassy Suites that night to pick up some girls.
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The pair came out to the parking lot to hang out, when her son told her, a car started to circle them in the parking lot.
Her son told her Finnie got out of the car to ask the people in the car what was going on. That’s when he says the suspects shot Finnie, killing him.
Friday would have been Tylor Finnie’s 19 birthday.
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“It was hard,” Alexander said. “It was hard.”
Alexander told us, since Finnie’s death, she and his mother have tried extensively to get ahold of MPD detectives for information on the case.
“I feel like they’re not giving us what we need,” she said. “As a matter of fact, a couple of days after the detectives got the case, he went on vacation, and had no one to look after the case.”
After the shooting, MPD reported the suspects were in a white Mercedes with tinted windows.
However, Alexander said, officers now tell her it was a 2018 Nissan Maxima.
“We lost a lot of time,” she said. “We could have been looking for this car instead of that car.”
Alexander said she understands Memphis Police are busy, and have a lot on their plates, but her family struggles without answers.
“A text message or call, letting us know they’re concerned about what we have going on or what’s going on, it would make a big difference,” Alexander said. “It would help calm or soothe the situation.”
FOX13 has made multiple attempts to get more information from MPD about this case.
We haven’t received a response.
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Suspect in shooting of Chicago officer, bike attack charged
This undated photo provided by the Chicago Police Department on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 shows Michael Blackman. Authorities say Blackman, suspected of shooting and wounding a Chicago police officer and of being the bicyclist who shot a woman in broad daylight near downtown days earlier is facing attempted murder charges. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi announced the update Monday, Sept. 23 on Twitter, saying Blackman faces a total of four counts in Saturday’s shooting of the officer and Wednesday’s shooting of the bicyclist. (Chicago Police Department via AP)
CHICAGO (AP) — A former fast-food delivery worker suspected of shooting a Chicago police officer and of being the bicyclist who shot a woman in broad daylight downtown days earlier was charged Monday with five counts of attempted murder.
Michael Blackman, 45, faces one count of attempted murder in the woman’s shooting that happened Wednesday, one count for the Saturday morning shooting of the officer and three counts for shooting at other officers later Saturday, police said at a news conference Monday.
Investigators identified Blackman as a suspect in the woman’s shooting after piecing together surveillance footage and after the Itasca Police Department, about 27 miles northwest of Chicago, identified Blackman as the man appearing in still photos that Chicago police released. The suburban department said he was wanted for burglary there.
Authorities say Blackman shot the officer in the leg and groin around 8:30 a.m. Saturday as police sought to arrest him, then fled. Officers eventually tracked him to a nearby railyard. Blackman was arrested after a shootout in which he was injured.
Blackman, the officer and the woman are expected to recover.
In his food delivery job, Blackman had confrontations with security in a building where the woman worked, and it’s possible that was at least part of his motive for shooting her, Deputy Chief Brendan Deenihan said Monday.
“Security always had a problem with him at that building,” Deenihan said. “He didn’t have any confrontations with her.”
Blackman was well enough to talk at the hospital, but he wouldn’t answer investigators’ questions, Deenihan said.
It wasn’t immediately known if Blackman had a lawyer to comment on his behalf.
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Our wheelchair GMs make their choice
The 2020 NHL Entry Draft will take place. We just don’t really know when. Or how. But we do know that it will happen at some point … right?
The NHL discussion on the progression of the draft in early June led the media, screening agencies and NHL teams to really improve their content and preparation. We at Hockey writers are no different, as we have published profiles, features, rankings and – (pause for dramatic effect) – fictional versions.
Related: 2020 NHL Draft Guide
We have an annual tradition of bringing our writers together for one of the most entertaining times of the year for us internally, the THW Writers’s Mock Draft. Our staff members choose teams and then make their choice for that respective team. Then they explain why they think the team would take this player.
The lottery has not yet taken place, but the most likely scenario at this point seems to be the classification based on the percentage of points at the time of the season break, so this is what we have used here while keeping the existing selections via the trades.
There is only one rule: no trading choice.
We also did something differently this year. Similar to what Corey Pronman does in The AthleticThe authors laugh at the draft, this year, I gave my opinion on the writer’s choices. I’m not giving another selection, just my thoughts on what if this team took on this player. (From: “NHL Mock Draft: Beat writers preview the 2020 draft lottery” – The Athletic – April 9, 2020).
1) Detroit Red Wings: Alexis Lafrenière
THW writer: Tony Wolak
Who else? Alexis Lafrenière is the best real and consensus player available in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. He is now ready to join the Detroit Red Wings and will play in his top six next season. Lafrenière’s skating is already explosive, it protects the puck and shoots very well, and has an elite vision to start. In other words, Lafrenière is a key player who will have an immediate impact with the Red Wings.
BOISBRIAND, QC – NOVEMBER 23: Alexis Lafrenière in action in a QMJHL match between the Rimouski Océaniques and the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada on November 23, 2019, at the Bell Center in Montreal, QC (Photo by Vincent Ethier / CHL)
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Just like Tony says, who else? Lafrenière is the best player in this draft class, and it looks very likely that he will enter the NHL directly next season. It’s a dominant offensive force that will immediately improve the Red Wings. Imagining Lafrenière and Dylan Larkin together should excite Detroit fans.
2) Ottawa Senators: Quinton Byfield
THW Writer: Ben Fraser and Dayton Reimer
With the second choice overall, the Ottawa Senators choose Quinton Byfield. Even if they miss Lafrenière’s draw, they win an excellent consolation prize. He is tall, powerful, can score goals and already has a fine defensive game. He could probably end up in the NHL next season, and with Brady Tkachuk, the Senators’ best unit will be the one to be reckoned with.
Related: Is Quinton Byfield Underrated?
Byfield is the only player in my mind that I can see overtaking Lafrenière for the first place (he won’t do it). He is a dynamic player who brings speed, strength and one of the best skills in this class. Senators have a number of centers in their system and several very good prospects. Byfield will be the best by far. I don’t think he’ll make the leap into the NHL next season, but he’s not far behind. Fans of the senators, you have your future number one centreman.
3) Ottawa Senators (Via SJ): Jamie Drysdale
Although some may see this choice as a litter, Ottawa can acquire the best draft D-man immediately after selecting the best draft center in Byfield. Jamie Drysdale’s skating ability is nothing short of elite. His agility and balance are incredible to watch, and he can instantly resume play using this ability. Even more impressive is his hockey IQ. He is one of the most intelligent defenders I have seen in years. This will help his transition to the NHL, because the decision-making skills are already there.
Erie Otters Jamie Drysdale (Photo by Terry Wilson / OHL Images)
Although he may not be ready in the NHL for 2020-2021, another year with the Erie Otters will only benefit him, especially at 18. The Senators get a legitimate number one defenseman, whose puck skills, hockey IQ and skating will make him a force to be reckoned with upon entering the NHL.
There are two specific positions that the NHL teams covet the most: a number one center and a number one defender (especially right-handers). With this selection, the Senators have a chance for both of this draft. Drysdale has the skating ability, excellent vision and puck skills that you can only dream of with a defender. Have it on your backend, with Thomas Chabot and Erik Brännström? The points that this defensive unit could set up are terrifying.
4) Los Angeles Kings: Tim Stützle
THW Writer: Nick Abramo
Tim Stützle is creating a ton of offense and is the type of player the Los Angeles Kings could really use, especially with the many threats to the goal that come up in the system. I see his shot is not as deadly as some others, but he can still bury it.
Related: Tim Stützle, The Best Hope In The European Draft, Talks About His Climb To The Top
Before the draft, there is no question that the Kings have the best prospect pool in the league. The Senators could challenge this now with Byfield and Drysdale, but the Kings landing Stützle is incredible. He is an excellent playmaker, with a great offensive conscience. It was used in the center and on the wing, so it would be interesting to see how kings use it. With Alex Turcotte in the ranks, and I still think he can be the number one center, I would probably say that Stützle would go to the wing.
5) Anaheim ducks: Alexander Holtz
THW Writer: Anthony Ciardelli & Eddy Jones
There is no doubt that the Anaheim Ducks have many needs to relaunch their reconstruction. There is a gaping hole on the right side of the defense, but the Senators picked up Drysdale to scrape it until later. However, with some exceptionally talented attackers left on the board, it’s time to meet another need: scoring. The Ducks have finished 29th in goals per game this season and what better way to fix it than by arguably picking the best shooter in the draft.
Alexander Holtz, Djurgarden (Photo ERIK SIMANDER / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP via Getty Images)
It was a difficult decision between Alexander Holtz and Lucas Raymond, and personally I think there is not much difference between the two regarding the best player available. So, we went with the sniper. Holtz fits the mold of what general manager Bob Murray is looking for. At the Ducks Hot Stove event in March, he said, “We will be looking for shooters in the draft. Some of our guys just can’t film it once, it confuses me. ” It seems to me a good choice. Also, how could we pass up a Trevor Zegras / Holtz combo.
Let this last line penetrate for a minute. Your future is Zegras in the center, arguably the best prospect in the NHL right now, and Holtz on the wing, arguably the best shooter in this draft class. Could this be the second coming of Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry? That’s exciting. I wouldn’t say it’s the best player choice available, but it does fill a huge need for the Ducks and he’s one of the best players left on the board.
6) New Jersey Devils: Lucas Raymond
THW Writer: Alex Chauvancy
It was a bit of a surprise to see Raymond available outside the top five. Fortunately, this benefits the New Jersey Devils. He’s a dynamic winger who is an absolute beast on the first test. He is still chasing the puck and wreaking havoc for opposing defenders. And when he has possession of the puck in the attacking zone, he feeds on his game and his ability to establish scoring chances. His shooting might require a little work, but that’s not a drawback. It should also come with age, as it gains mass of 165 pounds. He is arguably Europe’s best hope and perhaps a winger who can carry his own line in the NHL. The Devils are therefore robbed with their first choice.
Related: Lucas Raymond: The Next Swedish Superstar
Alex says it beautifully. Raymond is still one of the top three players in this draft in my eyes, and the Devils jumping at him at six are like our first draft of the draft (don’t worry, there are more to come). Last year, the Devils won Jack Hughes’ first choice. Say what you want from his 2019-20 season, he’s elite. Now, are you adding an elite wingman to that? Don’t worry about Devils fans, it looks like your time is coming sooner than later.
7) Buffalo sabers: Marco Rossi
THW Writer: Jordan Deshane
The Sabers would be delighted to add the qualified Austrian with the seventh choice. Marco Rossi is a dynamic playmaker with a big shot but also plays with an advantage. Don’t let its small size fool you. He is built like Sidney Crosby from waist to toe. It is hard on the puck and cannot be knocked over easily. In addition to his elite attacking game, Rossi plays hard in the defensive zone and has a solid presence while playing at the limit like the beloved Brad Marchand.
Marco Rossi of the Ottawa 67 (Credit: CHL Images)
A natural center, it can start on the wing in the NHL but has all the tools to be an excellent second line center. In addition, he will not return to the Ottawa 67’s next season and will play in the NHL or abroad. Many experts believe he can play in the NHL next season and have an impact.
Related: Marco Rossi Could Be The Best Austrian Ever
The Sabers do not have the largest pool of prospects after the first round of 2019 Dylan Cozens. Landing Rossi is an immediate upgrade to this system. It would be very interesting to see how they use it, as Jack Eichel is the undisputed number one in Buffalo, so Cozens and Rossi would fight for this number two spot, but it’s likely one will slip to the wing – I would assume Rossi. That being said, at number seven, it’s a great choice, and it will certainly add to Buffalo’s goal differential in the near future.
8) Montreal Canadiens: Cole Perfetti
THW Writer: Trege Wilson
Cole Perfetti is an excellent puck manager with excellent hockey IQ, level of competition and skill. He finished second in scoring in the Ontario League and had a great Hlinka / Gretzky tournament. It was not only BPA, but it also addresses a need to score among the top six for Canadians.
Related: Cole Perfetti Talks About His Game and His Draft Season
We’re still dealing with elite leads, and we’re almost out of the top 10. I’m not sure if I’m taking Perfetti over someone above, but it still looks like theft. He has to improve his skating to really make an impact at the next level, but he has the potential to be something big. With him and Cole Caufield earning the nickname “Goal”, it would be an exciting duo to watch. Perfetti has also shown his elite playing ability this season, which makes this duo even more intriguing.
9) Chicago Blackhawks: Yaroslav Askarov
THW Writer: Peter baracchini
Since the Montreal Canadiens drafted Carey Price fifth in 2005, no other goaltender has been selected from the top 10, let alone the top five. There are too many risks, as you will never know how the goalkeeper’s outlook will unfold. In the case of Askarov, he deserves to be among the top 10. With an aging Corey Crawford and his health problems, there is so much uncertainty around the situation of Blackhawks goalkeepers. Askarov will be their starter and the answer this franchise needs. The 18-year-old girl has high-end vision, movement and reflexes, which makes backups the most difficult easy. It meets a potential need, and it’s extremely difficult to find.
The Russian team Yaroslav Askarov (Hockey Russia / FHR.RU)
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As you see with many simulation projects, Askarov and the Blackhawks seem to be a perfect match. Not only does Askarov become the best goalkeeper hope, but he becomes the best hope in the system and the best goalkeeper hope in the league. The Blackhawks are close to three Stanley Cups, and they have accumulated some incredible prospects in the past two years. Askarov reinforces this considerably.
10) New Jersey Devils (via ARI): Anton Lundell
The Devils don’t need a center. But with Askarov and Perfetti off the board, Lundell would be the best player available with the 10th pick. He spent this season with HIFK in Liiga and collected 28 points in 44 games. There is nothing flashy about his game, but he excels at both ends of the ice. He is an exceptional defender and has an incredible hockey IQ. His attack may fall behind some of the other top hopefuls in this category. But it has enough offensive potential to be a very effective two-way center in the NHL. And that would leave the Devils in the middle of the years to come with him, Jack Hughes and Nico Hischier.
So the Devils draft Raymond and now Lundell. Wow. It would be another interesting player to see how they could integrate him with Hughes and Hischier because I don’t really see Lundell going to the wing and I think he’s better than a third line center. Lundell is a great two-way player and although he needs to improve his skating, I think he is a very promising player. His vision and skill at both ends of the ice are excellent. It is always said that you should take the best player available in the draft, and Lundell.
11) Minnesota Wild: Hendrix Lapierre
THW Writer: Justin haddad
This can be considered as a “litter” at this stage of the project with health problems concerning the future of Hendrix Lapierre. Before injury, however, he was essentially a lockdown for being in the top 15 as he had just finished a 45 point season and won the title of offensive rookie of the year in the QMJHL. This selection may not have been “Best Player Available,” but he could have the highest cap of almost any first-round pick. That’s exactly the kind of draft pick the Wild need with aging veteran centers and a low forward ceiling on their team (outside of Kevin Fiala). This sets the team up well in the middle with highly touted hopefuls Kirill Kaprizov and Matthew Boldy waiting behind the scenes and ready to join the Wild for the next two seasons.
Hendrix Lapierre, player of the Chicoutimi Saguenéens (Credit: André Emond)
Our first scope of the project! Where is it? In fact, I really like that choice for the Wild. Justin is right in that I don’t think he’s the best player available based on his history with concussions and neck injury, but depending on the potential, it’s just on the nose. He showed his skills at the 2019 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, and this is the level he reaches when he is healthy. He adds a ton of skill to the Wild’s prospect pool and if he can stay healthy he could turn out to be theft.
12) Winnipeg Jets: Dylan Holloway
THW Writer: Ryan Goethals
Selecting Dylan Holloway for 12th was an easy decision. He is a big two-way striker who will bring grain and alignment resistance. He has dynamism, determination and a will to play in difficult areas of the ice while retrieving pucks and driving the piece. His ability to play both center and left wing will greatly contribute to the development of his career in the NHL and with his size, skating and hands, I do not see why Holloway could not become one of the top six center / winger of the Winnipeg Jets at one point on the road.
Say what you want from Holloway season, this guy has something. He has the speed and skill to be among the top six players in the NHL. Let’s not forget that the University of Wisconsin has had team challenges this season, the NCAA is one of the toughest leagues in the world and Holloway was one of the youngest players in the league. It’s a great choice for the Jets with Ville Heinola’s first-round defensive pick last season.
13) New York Rangers: Rodion Amirov
THW Writer: Jeb Biggart
I’m not going to beat around the bush, Holloway was my favorite choice in 13th place. The Rangers need centers and it seems to be perfectly suited to the organization. However, when he was going to the Jets at 12, I had to turn. Rodion Amirov is very close to Holloway and fills a big hole in the Rangers perspective system. In addition to Chris Kreider and Artemi Panarin, the Rangers have a shallow left, both in the NHL and at the prospect level. Like Vitali Kravtsov in his draft year, Amirov dominated MHL and VHL, but struggled to produce in the KHL regular season due to limited ice time and inexperience.
Rodion Amirov of Team Russia (Vincent Ethier / QMJHL)
He showed a lot of promise, playing a 200-foot game despite his small size. It is balanced with and without the puck, has excellent board play in all three areas and is very difficult to reach in tight spaces. With a little development in his shooting and acceleration, Amirov could become everything the Rangers need in a two-way winger. It will be interesting to see what he can do in the KHL next year.
I really like this choice for the Rangers. Amirov is a guy who could honestly be in the top 10, but probably won’t. He has skill at both ends and joins a very good young group that New York has built. The Rangers fill up on skills in each position with the repechage, and Amirov fits in perfectly. I could see him as one of the best two-way attackers out of this project.
14) Florida Panthers: Noel Gunler
THW Writer: Tyler Halsey
The Florida Panthers have shown a willingness to swing for the fences with their first round picks, and Noel Gunler is no exception. The supremely skilled but polarizing forward is a great choice in the Florida prospect pool. An infusion of high-end skills is very necessary on the wings – after Grigori Denisenko and Owen Tippett, there is a crying need for wingers in the organization. Gunler is the most skilled player available at this point and coupled with organizational need, he is perfect for the Panthers.
Related: Noel Gunler Learns From Adversity
The Panthers draft a guy who was ranked in the top 10 in the second round, but I think it’s a great place for Gunler. He’s a very offensive player, but don’t put too much weight in rumors he can’t defend – he can. He is one of the best shooters in this class, but brings a full arsenal to Florida here. It could end up being theft.
15) Columbus Blue Jackets: Jake Sanderson
THW Writer: Mark scheig
At this stage of the project, the mentality should always be to take the best player available. Sanderson being available here, that’s exactly it. When you are compared to Seth Jones, Zach Werenski and Charlie McAvoy when it comes to your advantage, it shows what many people think of his talents. Sanderson is a great defenseman who has no problem adding offense.
Jake Sanderson, United States NTDP (Credit: Rena Laverty)
He would give a much-needed boost to the team’s defensive depth and could potentially open the door for the Blue Jackets to approach the position ahead by reaching an agreement involving a current defender. Sanderson’s father Geoff passed the first hat trick in the history of the CBJ, so there’s an obvious connection here. The Blue Jackets could not be more excited to add a player like Sanderson to the fold.
Related: Jake Sanderson: Playing for More Than His Country
This could be the biggest flight in our model. The choice before that, I imagine Mark rubbing his hands impatiently to add Sanderson. Mark says it well in his description, that he is an excellent player who will strengthen the Blue Line of the Blue Jackets. Connecting with his dad getting the first hat trick is also a good idea. It’s a big addition to the Blue Jackets, and Mark wasted no time picking it up.
16) Calgary Flames: Jack Quinn
THW Writer: Mathieu Sheridan
Jack Quinn makes sense for the Flames as they could use another high profile player to complete their top six. With likes of Sean Monahan, Johnny Gaudreau and Elias Lindholm on one line, Quinn would fit in well on the other wing playing alongside Matthew Tkachuk.
Quinn’s scoring abilities are something any franchise would like to have. Playing for the Ottawa 67’s OHL, Quinn scored 52 goals in 62 games. He can finish anywhere and would easily find success in the Flames power play. With a little more development, I have no doubt that Quinn will have a major impact in the NHL in the future.
This is roughly where I can see Quinn going, but it’s a little higher than I would take it. Remember that Quinn is one of the oldest players in this class and was part of a stacked team from Ottawa 67. That being said, the step he took when asked gave the opportunity can not be ignored and its high-end shot is real. He could be a great addition to the Flames system as they search for goals.
17) New Jersey Devils (via VAN): Seth Jarvis
One of my favorite players in this class is Seth Jarvis, and I even considered taking him to Lundell with the 10th pick. He finished with 98 points in 58 games in the Western League, ranked second in the league and first among players eligible for the draft. There are a few things that stand out in his game. For starters, he is a flawless skater and is generally the fastest guy on the ice. The second is his ability to play, which is elite and among the best in this class. He has scored 42 goals this season, so his shot is also correct. It is only 5 feet 10 inches and 172 pounds, but it has ample space to inflate. It was tempting to take a defender with this choice. But Jarvis was too good to pass up because he has the potential to be a front-line right winger for the Devils.
Portland Winterhawks Seth Jarvis. (Megan Connelly / Portland Winterhawks)
Raymond, Lundell and now Jarvis for the Devils. It should be considered a robbery there – I was very surprised to see it fall. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it among the top 12 or 13 choices. The Devils leave like bandits, completely filling the cupboard in terms of before. It would be difficult not to add a defender with a third first round, but in terms of the best player available, New Jersey succeeded. With Hughes last year and those three this year, the Devils have a very significant trend.
18) Nashville Predators: Connor Zary
The Nashville Predators would love Connor Zary to fall to them at 18, as it would be perfect for their system. He has been remarkable in the Western League this season with 38 goals, 48 assists and 86 points. Zary compares himself to Bo Horvat stylistically because he plays a 200-foot game, plays in special teams and can be a great presence in front of the net. The Predators seem to be in an endless search for the top six centers, and with Philip Tomasino and Zary in the pipeline, they could be safe in the middle of the next few years.
Another player who could very well be in the top 15 is a great addition to the Predators. Zary doesn’t always seem to get the love he deserves, but Nashville is able to take advantage of that. He was one of the most attacking players in the Western League and for a team that had midfield goals per game, the attack is a welcome addition.
19) Carolina Hurricanes (via TOR): Dawson Mercer
THW Writer: Matthew Zator
The Carolina Hurricanes will need someone to succeed Justin Williams because he is not getting any younger. The Canes also need more skills on the right wing to potentially align with dynamic Andrei Svechnikov. Dawson Mercer does the job because he has a high engine, great puck recovery and great play ability. He can also play in the center of the ice, which will make him even more valuable on the road. Adding the fact that it can have an impact on programming even without producing is a skill in itself, as evidenced by his performance at the World Junior 2020. Canes fans will be very satisfied with this choice.
Dawson Mercer of the Drummondville Voltigeurs (Drummondville Voltigeurs)
Related: Dawson Mercer: Family, Hockey and the Draft
My honest opinion is that Dawson Mercer is one of the most underrated prospects that will be taken in the first round. Let’s not forget that he teamed Canada for the 2020 Junior Worlds and it’s not an easy task in a player’s draft year for the Canadian team. He’s one of those guys who never gives up and always fights for the puck. He looks like he could be one of the top six, and this choice continues the Hurricanes’ tendency to grab very good players, as evidenced by 2019.
20) Edmonton Oilers: Jacob Perrault
THW Writer: Kevin Armstrong
It is very unlikely that the Oilers will have the 20th choice overall. Ken Holland will be busy at the draft. He talked a lot about creating a program through cartoonists. But he was stuck in the paradox of winning now to continue building when he traded a few choices on the trade deadline. Expect him to negotiate to acquire later choices.
However, if the Oilers won the 20th selection, they would be delighted to land Jacob Perreault of the Sarnia Sting. The son of longtime NHL player Yanic Perreault, Jacob is an offensive threat who, during his rookie year, was up there with Byfield, Rossi and Perfetti. He was stuck in a horrible Sting team, but always managed to shine without much help around him. Imagine if he had a Connor McDavid or Leon Draisaitl in a hurry with him.
Perrault had a very quiet 70 point season in the OHL. I think it could be a very welcome addition to the Oilers top six. He would probably go to the wing for this group, but to imagine him with McDavid, Draisital or even Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is very exciting. He has a great attacking instinct that should suit the Oilers. I could see him racking up goals in Edmonton, being a welcome addition to this group. Après avoir pris deux défenseurs au cours des deux derniers tours, un attaquant semble probable en 2020.
21) Sénateurs d’Ottawa (via NYI): Jan Myšák
THW Writer: Ben Fraser et Dayton Reimer
À la 21e sélection, les Sénateurs ont saisi l’ailier gauche Jan Myšák des Bulldogs de Hamilton. Pour moi, il était le meilleur joueur disponible, et avec la franchise toujours dans la douleur croissante d’une reconstruction, c’était le choix clair. Il a une expérience internationale et a passé un certain temps dans la ligue tchèque pour hommes avant de rejoindre l’OHL. Il n’y a vraiment pas grand-chose à dire contre lui, et le voir tomber à 21 ans pourrait être un vol pour les Sens.
Jan Mysak de HC VERVA Litinov (HC VERVA Litinov)
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Ce n’est un secret pour personne que Myšák est l’un de mes espoirs préférés dans ce repêchage, et je l’ai parmi les 15 meilleurs. Les Sénateurs ont déjà ajouté Byfield et Drysdale, saisissant maintenant Myšák avec le choix des Islanders? Oh mec. Le bassin de prospects déjà formidable reçoit un coup de pouce massif au premier tour du repêchage de la LNH 2020. Les partisans des Sénateurs seront très satisfaits de cette première ronde, et ils ont encore quatre choix dans la seconde.
22) Stars de Dallas: Mavrik Bourque
Les Stars de Dallas ont besoin de plus de compétences d’élite tout au long de leur formation, et Mavrik Bourque apporte cela à la pelle. Bien qu’il soit un homme du centre dans un bassin de prospects fort au milieu, vous ne pouvez jamais avoir trop d’attaquants droitiers qualifiés dans votre système. C’est un joueur sournois et créatif avec le potentiel d’être quelqu’un qui peut faire sortir les fans de leurs sièges avec un jeu flashy. Malgré sa taille insuffisante, il ira dans les zones difficiles et créera le chaos le long des planches. S’il peut consolider certaines incohérences dans son jeu, il pourrait devenir un joueur très productif pour les Stars à l’avenir.
Bourque est un joueur parmi les 20 premiers dans ce repêchage dans mon esprit, et les Stars l’atterrissant au 22e rang sont une grande victoire pour l’organisation. Il entrerait parmi les meilleures perspectives du système, rejoignant Ty Dellandrea et Thomas Harley très prometteurs. C’est un joueur qui peut conduire l’offensive, créer des opportunités et les fans des Stars vont l’aimer.
23) Rangers de New York (via la RCA): Justin Barron
Écrivain THW: Jeb Biggart
Initialement projeté comme un choix de repêchage parmi les 10 premiers, Justin Barron possède la boîte à outils pour devenir un défenseur d’arrêt au niveau de la LNH, mais la chance n’a pas été de son côté. Son impressionnante deuxième saison de 41 points en 68 matchs semblait être le début d’une perspective de haut niveau en préparation, mais sa saison 2019-2020 a déraillé avant de pouvoir recommencer. Des caillots de sang l’ont tenu à l’écart pendant trois mois et ses Mooseheads de Halifax étaient l’une des pires équipes de la LHJMQ.
Justin Barron des Mooseheads de Halifax (Photo: Halifax Mooseheads)
Malgré les blessures et le manque d’aide, Barron a réussi 19 points en 34 matchs. Cependant, son attaque n’est pas le facteur «wow» du jeu de Barron. Il ne sautera pas de la page avec sa manipulation de bâton ou sa créativité, mais fera toujours le jeu sûr et intelligent. Il bat rarement devant le filet et apporte une tonne de physique. Il n’y a aucune raison pour que Barron ne puisse pas se racheter et retourner à son ancien pedigree. Sans oublier, il aura de l’aide en cours de route de la perspective actuelle du Ranger et de son frère aîné, Morgan Barron.
Il semble fou que ce ne soit que le troisième défenseur du plateau et que nous soyons au milieu des années 20. C’est certainement intéressant. Le plafond de Barron semble très prometteur, mais avant d’être retiré de la programmation, je voulais en voir plus. Cela étant dit, il est possible que le caillot de sang ait pris en compte ses difficultés de début de saison. Il fut un temps où Barron était largement considéré comme l’un des meilleurs défenseurs de cette catégorie, et cela pourrait très bien être le cas. Les Rangers pourraient ressembler à des génies ici si Barron atteint ce potentiel.
24) Vegas Golden Knights: Braden Schneider
THW Writer: Devin Little
Je veux commencer par dire que ma préférence pour les Golden Knights à cet endroit serait d’échanger. Étant donné qu’ils n’ont pas de choix de deuxième tour et qu’il y avait encore beaucoup de joueurs de qualité sur le plateau, je pense que les Golden Knights ont une excellente occasion de récupérer certains actifs de draft tout en ajoutant des joueurs de qualité. In the case of Schneider, I see a defenseman who could make a realistic push for an NHL roster spot starting next season. By my estimation, he still needs another year to marinate in the CHL, but the opportunity to snag a two-way, impact defenseman at 24 was too good to refuse. He could potentially make a great partner for Shea Theodore in the future.
Bell’s Take
Now the defenders start to roll and the Golden Knights land a guy that many believe could step right into the NHL. After stealing Peyton Krebs in the first round last season, the Golden Knights turn their attention back to the blue line and land one of the better two-way defenders in this class. He can throw his body around and provide some offence. He could be a great fit with Vegas.
25) Minnesota Wild (Via PIT): Marat Khusnutdinov
The name of the game for the Minnesota Wild is upside. This team is in dire need of high ceiling centers and Marat Khusnutdinov fits the bill. There will be a lot of teams that will shy away from him because of his small 5-foot-9, 165-pound frame, but his stature is deceptive on tape because of his highly competitive nature and aggressive style of play on both ends of the ice. He has an air of confidence about him which is evident on film with his high hockey IQ, fantastic vision, and creativeness. The Wild need to replenish their depth at center in the prospect pool and they do just that with both Lapierre and Khusnutdinov in the first round.
Marat Khusnutdinov of Team Russia (Russia Hockey/FHR.RU)
The Wild take another great forward here with Khusnutdinov and add to an incredibly growing forward corps in Kirill Kaprizov, Matthew Boldy, Adam Beckman, and Lapierre from the 11th pick. Marat brings in an extremely high compete level that he brings every shift. He’s a very in-your-face player that I’m convinced will be a fan favourite. He’ll likely take some time to reach the NHL, but this is a great pickup by Minnesota.
26) Philadelphia Flyers: Ridley Greig
THW Writer: Johnny Berman
With Nolan Patrick’s future uncertain and a need to add more depth at center, the Flyers reach for Ridley Greig. The 17-year old is coming off a strong season of 26 goals and 34 assists with the Brandon Wheat Kings of the WHL. His 1.07 points per game rate were highest on the team. Interestingly, the last Wheat King to be drafted by the Flyers was Nolan Patrick in 2017. This time, they will hope for better luck. Greig has also represented Team Canada on the international stage during the 2018 U-17 World Hockey Challenge. He is the son of former NHL player, Mark Greig, who is now a scout for… the Philadelphia Flyers.
This might be one of biggest surprises of our first round, but you know what? It works. As Johnny points out, Greig’s dad is a scout for the Flyers and I think it’s safe to say that he would have seen his son play. I see him more of a second-round pick, but he’s definitely the type of player that could sneak into the first. He’s a guy that does it all, working the power play, the penalty kill, scoring, and defending. I really don’t think he’s that far off from making an NHL roster.
27) Washington Capitals: Martin Chromiak
THW Writer: Jack Dawkins
Martin Chromiak really sticks out as a potential top-six complementary forward. It’s hard to deny that Shane Wright’s production improved once Chromiak was added to his wing. If that’s a thing that Chromiak is able to do, it makes his value to an organization like the Caps higher than it might be to another team. In a few years, both Evgeny Kuznetsov and Jakub Vrana will still be in their primes while Connor McMichael will be up and coming. Chromiak is a good enough player in his own right, but as a cog in Washington’s machine, I think he’s more valuable than he might be elsewhere.
Martin Chromiak of the Kingston Frontenacs (Kingston Frontenacs)
For the majority of the season, Chromiak was underrated. But similar to Myšák, he came over from Europe and excelled in the OHL. He put his high hockey IQ on display and became one of the most productive players in the league before the season was cancelled. Keep in mind that he’s one of the younger guys in this class. This is a very promising young player.
28) San Jose Sharks (Via TB): Vasili Ponomaryov
While the San Jose Sharks could use a defenseman to increase their prospect depth, adding a strong, two-way player like Vasili Ponomaryov will bolster their centre position. He plays with a high level of intensity, plus his drive and attitude are what make him a great prospect to have. It’ll be great for him to learn under captain Logan Couture and Joe Thornton who possess the same qualities as he does. He’s a complete-package player you want in a centre.
Ponomaryov is another guy that brings a high compete level to his play. He never gives up and the team that lands him will be very happy that they did. The Sharks prospect pool is in need of a boost in offensive potential and this selection does that with a player that also brings a strong defensive game. He’s a well-rounded prospect that will likely slide into the top-six. After Ryan Merkley, Ponomaryov likely comes in as the next best prospect.
29) Colorado Avalanche: William Wallinder
THW Writer: Chris Haddad
William Wallinder’s a puck-moving defenseman with plus size who was the third-highest under-18 scoring defenseman in the Swedish Elite Under 20 League (U-20 SuperElit) in 2019-20 (21 points in 25 games). He’s a strong first-round talent in a weak defensive class with a good shot at making the NHL and could replace Erik Johnson with the Avalanche as a middle-tier defender. Ranked as the 14th top European skater, Wallinder could be gone by the time the Avalanche draft, but I suspect that he’s on Sakic’s short-list.
This first round has not been kind to defenders not named Drysdale and it continues here. Wallinder could very well be a top-20 or 25 pick in this draft. While the Avalanche are likely going to lean towards a forward with this pick with Cale Makar and Bowen Byram leading the defensive prospects, if Wallinder fell to them, this might be a player Sakic can’t say no to. He’s a great skater, that will still take some time to develop but has a great deal of potential. I think the Avs would likely go forward here, but Wallinder is a great young prospect and the team could have a very dangerous defence in a few years.
30) St. Louis Blues: Ryan O’Rourke
THW Writer: Ethan Carter, Colleen Flynn, and Stephen Ground
The St. Louis Blues have both big, powerful defensemen as well as playmakers, but a solid two-way, gritty D-man like Ryan O’Rourke is just what they need. O’Rourke’s bulldog style and modeling of Duncan Keith will play heavily in favor for the Blues to stir up the opposing teams. He’s ahead of his game and will develop quickly to be at the NHL level sooner than later.
Ryan O’Rourke of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. (Photo by Terry Wilson / OHL Images)
Related: Meet the Steal of the 2020 NHL Draft
As Mark Scheig would say, this could be the steal of the 2020 NHL Draft. O’Rourke is a very mature defender, playing well above his age. He’s able to be used in all situations, shutting down opponents top lines or chipping in offence. For a Blues prospect pool dwindling from trades and calls to the big club, O’Rourke could be the club’s top prospect immediately.
31) Anaheim Ducks (Via BOS): Shakir Mukhamadullin
Defense is still a significant position of need for the Anaheim Ducks. Eddy and I had settled on Swede William Wallinder before the Avalanche took him at No. 29. We decided to go with a defender that had a similar style of play and body type but was a bit more of a risk. According to scouts, Shakir Mukhamadullin has a strong all-around game. He’s a good skater with great size and physicality. He’s got a rocket shot from the point which the Ducks need. He has poise with the puck and makes smart passes out of his zone. He’s also been described as a “crease clearer,” which is something the Ducks need badly.
When COVID-19 paused the 2019-20 season, the Ducks ranked No. 28 in high-danger chances against, one spot better than they finished last season. Mukhamadullin has the potential to finally keep opposing forwards from sitting directly on top of John Gibson and steer high-danger chances away from goal. Though Mukhamadullin isn’t particularly offensive-minded right now, he’s got the tools to develop a good offensive game while his strong in-zone play will be important for the Ducks.
Ah, Mukhamadullin. I’ve talked about how he’s not my favourite prospect, but I know that some are fairly high on him. His potential comes largely in the back end right now, but he did win the gold medal for Team Russia at the World Junior A Challenge with a goal in double overtime. There are mixed feelings toward him. Some cite the fact that he’s playing in the KHL already, is a versatile defender and can read the play well, while others say that he struggles in his own end and with the puck. The Ducks are drafting for upside, of course, but we’ll see what happens with Mukhamadullin.
There were definitely a few surprises in The Hockey Writers’ first-round Mock Draft, and there’s a ton of high-end talent left on the board. At both forward and defence, the top of the second round looks set for some potential steals, just like it was in 2019.
The fact that the Senators are walking away from night one with Byfield, Drysdale, and Myšák while the Devils land Raymond, Lundell, and Jarvis likely make them the big winners early on. I’m not sure which trio I like more – it’s too hard.
It’s also interesting that two teams with multiple picks in this round took chances on the players who suffered from injuries this season. The Wild scooped up Lapierre, and the Rangers nabbed Barron. That might very well be the case for these two players that are first-round talents but have had their stock affected by their injured seasons.
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The Keg Royalties Income Fund Announces July 2013 Cash Distribution
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - (Marketwired - July 11, 2013) - The Keg Royalties Income Fund (the "Fund") (TSX:KEG.UN) today announced that its July 2013 distribution of $0.08 cents per unit has been declared and is payable to unitholders of record as at July 21, 2013. The July 2013 distribution will be paid on July 31, 2013.
The Fund is a limited purpose, open-ended trust established under the laws of Ontario. The Fund indirectly owns certain trademarks and other related intellectual property used by Keg Restaurants Ltd. ("KRL") in its Keg Steakhouses & Bars. In exchange for the use of those trademarks, KRL pays the Fund a royalty equal to 4% of the sales of all Keg restaurants in the royalty pool.
About Vancouver-based Keg Restaurants Ltd
Vancouver-based Keg Restaurants Ltd. is the leading operator and franchisor of steakhouse restaurants in Canada and has a substantial presence in select regional markets in the United States. KRL continues to operate The Keg restaurant system and expand that system through the addition of both corporate and franchised Keg steakhouses. Keg Restaurants Ltd. has been named one of the "50 Best Employers in Canada" by Aon Hewitt for the past ten years. For more information on our brand visit www.kegsteakhouse.com.
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www.kegincomefund.com
Keg Steakhouse & Bar
The Keg Steakhouse & Bar is the undisputed Steakhouse leader in Canada, with an ever-growing presence in the United States.
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Coach Richie Cranny is presented with the first IMMAF Black Belt in Australia.
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"A moment in time I feel honoured to share".
Since leaving the UK in 2003 I’ve always missed being a part of a martial arts family as I also left behind my own coach, training partners and federation in Pro Mai MMA. I’ve always felt being a Mixed Martial Arts Coach here in Australia especially in the early days you were viewed as almost a renegade with no roots, history or community behind you.
Wimp 2 Warrior changed that in some ways as I built a new family of mixed martial artists and coaches which started as dozens which then became hundreds and is now in the thousands which I of course feel very blessed to be part of. But until I was introduced to IMMAF only last year I still felt as an MMA Coach that I was walking a path somewhat alone, still learning and evolving but without other coaches I could learn from, lean upon and grow with.
Now that has all changed, our sport has a world governing body which I’m proud to say I am a big part of and helping grow both here in Australia but also overseas. All the things I once missed are now readily available at hand. I get to work with world class coaches, officials and athletes, I have the opportunity to further education and improve myself as do those I work alongside and also offer the highest level of competition to those who wish to challenge themselves and compete on the domestic and even International stage. It’s an amazing time to be a part of the sport of mixed martial arts and I once again feel very blessed.
The picture attached below represents something I of course cherish today but this isn’t about being graded as a Black Belt by the world federation of MMA, this to me is recognition of a 25 year journey and commitment to my sport and my induction into a family of men and women I could never imagined possible in our sport just a couple of years ago.
I’m honoured to be presented as the first IMMAF Black Belt in Australia but also privileged to be intrusted with helping dozens more of amazing Australian Coaches and Athletes who will also be recognised by IMMAF in the coming months and many more beyond.
Thank you to all the amazing coaches, students and athletes that have shared and helped me on my journey to date and I look forward to working with hundreds more in the coming years as build this amazing sport of ours around the world and one day celebrate our inclusion in the Olympic games.
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An open-label trial of memantine in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder
Ajay Kumar Bakhla1, Vijay Verma1, Subhas Soren2, Sujit Sarkhel3, Suprakash Chaudhury4
1 Department of Psychiatry, Ranchi Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Allied Sciences, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
2 Ranchi Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Allied Sciences, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
3 Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
4 Department of Psychiatry, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed University), Rural Medical College, Loni, Maharashtra, India
Date of Web Publication 21-May-2014
Suprakash Chaudhury
Department of Psychiatry, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed University), Rural Medical College, Loni - 413 736, Maharashtra
Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is often refractory to treatment. Glutamatergic neurotransmission modulating agents like memantine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor open channel blocker (antagonist), has been reported to be beneficial in OCD. Materials and Methods: Twelve subjects of OCD who had been on various medications for over 5 years, but were poor responders, were enrolled for a 12-week open-label trial with fixed dose trial of memantine as an augmenting agent. The OCD symptoms and adverse effects of the drug were monitored. Results: Out of 12 subjects, eight had clear benefit, with reduction of 25% or more on Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, and there were no side-effects with the medication, Conclusion: Memantine may be beneficial for treatment-resistant OCD as an augmenting agent.
Keywords: Glutamatergic modulation, memantine, obsessive compulsive disorder
Bakhla AK, Verma V, Soren S, Sarkhel S, Chaudhury S. An open-label trial of memantine in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. Ind Psychiatry J 2013;22:149-52
Bakhla AK, Verma V, Soren S, Sarkhel S, Chaudhury S. An open-label trial of memantine in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. Ind Psychiatry J [serial online] 2013 [cited 2021 Jan 18];22:149-52. Available from: https://www.industrialpsychiatry.org/text.asp?2013/22/2/149/132930
Recent literature strongly implicate disrupted neurotransmission of glutamate within the cortico-striato-thalamocortical circuitry in the pathogenesis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). [1],[2] Based on this, drugs modulating glutaminergic neurotransmission like Riluzole [3] - a glutamatergic neurotransmission modulating agent and memantine [4],[5],[6],[7],[8] are being used in treatment of OCD. These case reports and open-label studies have shown the beneficial effect of memantine in case of OCD even in refractory and pediatric OCD. In view of available literature, we planned this open-label trial using fixed dose memantine in few OCD patients as augmenting agent, who were not responding to standard routine pharmacotherapy.
The study was conducted at Ranchi Institute of Neuropsychiatry and Allied Sciences, Ranchi. The Institutional Review Board of the institute approved the protocol. The sample consisted of a total of 13 patients, who gave informed consent for participation in the study. All subjects had at least moderately severe symptoms of OCD with Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) [9] scores above 25. There was persistence of symptoms for at least 5 years, despite having been put on at least two adequate trials (both in terms of dose and duration) of different Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors or anti-obsessional medications with or without augmentation by any antipsychotic medications or exposure and response prevention therapy. The exclusion criteria were presence of any medical or psychiatric co-morbid conditions. Memantine was started at 5 mg/day, hiked up to 10 mg/day at the end of 4 weeks and this dose was kept constant throughout the study period [Table 1]. The subjects continued previously prescribed medications throughout the study period, but did not initiate new medications, nor did they engage in any new psychotherapy. The severity of OCD was assessed with Y-BOCS at baseline and after that every week until completion of 12 weeks of memantine use. Subjects were also assessed weekly for adverse effects with the Udvalg for Kliniske Undersøgelser (UKU) side-effect rating scale. Memantine was continued after the end of the 12 weeks if desired by subjects.
Table 1: Demographic characteristics Y‑BOCS scores of treatment resistant obsessive‑compulsive disorder patients
Data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.0. Normality of distribution of the data was assessed using Shapiro Wilk test, which revealed that the data were normally distributed. Descriptive statistics was used for socio-demographic and clinical variables. Independent samples t-test was used to compare treatment responders with non-responders across various socio-demographic and clinical variables. Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to compare the Y-BOCS scores at baseline and 12 weeks after treatment.
One patient was dropped from the study for stopping her medications in between; rest 12 patients participated in the augmentation for 12 weeks. Mean age of the sample was 30.33 years (SD = 6.84) and the mean duration of illness was 94.5 months (SD = 22.17). Response was defined as 25% or more reduction in Y-BOCS scores within 12 weeks. There were eight responders and four non-responders. Among responders, mean baseline Y-BOCS score was 29.25 (SD = 3.37), which reduced to a mean of 16.37(SD = 3.07) at the end of 12 weeks, i.e., 44% improvement from baseline. When the responder group was compared with the non-responder group in terms of age, duration of illness and baseline Y-BOCS scores, no significant difference was found between the two groups (P>0.05).
Wilcoxon signed-rank test revealed a significant difference in Y-BOCS total scores between baseline and week 12 (P<0.002). Similarly, the mean Y-BOCS obsession and Y-BOCS compulsion scores at baseline and at week 12, are showed a significant difference (P<0.003 and 0.002) [Table 2]. There were no significant side-effects reported for the study period as measured with UKU side-effects rating scale.
Table 2: Characteristics of non‑responders and responders to memantine augmentation and change
in Y‑BOCS ratings at 12 weeks compared to baseline
The response to currently available treatments in OCD is about 40% to 60% in terms of reduction in Y-BOCS scores, [10] which remains a major concern for clinicians and morbidity for patients in our day-to-day clinical practice. Based on earlier reports about the mechanism and improvement reported by memantine, we carried out this open-label trial. This study, though of small sample size, supported the role of NMDA receptor and Glutamate in OCD and showed significant improvement with memantine. This is in accordance with a few previous studies. [4],[5],[6],[7],[8] We found good result in eight patients with mean Y-BOCS reduction of 44% in good responders as compared to 14% in non- responders and for the total sample, it was 37.4% improvement. This is in accordance to previously reported rates of 40.6% [6] and 27%. [5] Although the duration of 12 weeks was the same as of our study, previous studies used higher dose (20 mg/day) of memantine in comparison to 10 mg/day in our study [Table 3]. This may be attributable to specific profile of Indian population, and we also plan a higher dose up to 20 mg/day in non-responders of this study. There was no significant side-effect found in this study, which may again be attributed to a lower dose selection. Thus, if equal efficacy can be established in further studies with a lower dose of memantine, it would help in reducing the potential for adverse effects in the patient population.
Table 3: Comparison with earlier studies using memantine as augmenting agent in treatment‑resistant obsessive‑compulsive disorder patients
One of the patients stopped all her previous medications on her own and continued with memantine alone, and she found good response at 5 th week, but her obsessive compulsive (OC) symptoms reappeared by 9 th week, we dropped this case from the final analysis. Almost all of the patients were satisfied with the inclusion of memantine and were willing to continue with it beyond the study period.
Future studies should involve randomized controlled trials for more definitive evidence of the efficacy of memantine as an adjunctive treatment in resistant OCD as well as looking for clinical predictors for response with adequate sample size.
Memantine augmentation was beneficial in resistant OCD and was well-tolerated in this open-label trial.
1. Wu K, Hanna GL, Rosenberg DR, Arnold PD. The role of glutamate signaling in the pathogenesis and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2012;100:726-35.
2. Pittenger C, Krystal JH, Coric V. Glutamate-modulating drugs as novel pharmacotherapeutic agents in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. NeuroRx 2006;3:69-81.
3. Coric V, Taskiran S, Pittenger C, Wasylink S, Mathalon DH, Valentine G, et al. Riluzole augmentation in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: An open-label trial. Biol Psychiatry 2005;58:424-8.
4. Pasquini M, Biondi M. Memantine augmentation for refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2006;30:1173-5.
5. Stewart SE, Jenike EA, Hezel DM, Stack DE, Dodman NH, Shuster L, et al. A single-blinded case-control study of memantine in severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. J Clin Psychopharmacol 2010;30:34-9.
6. Feusner JD, Kerwin L, Saxena S, Bystritsky A. Differential efficacy of memantine for obsessive-compulsive disorder vs. generalized anxiety disorder: An open-label trial. Psychopharmacol Bull 2009;42:81-93.
7. Aboujaoude E, Barry JJ, Gamel N. Memantine augmentation in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: An open-label trial. J Clin Psychopharmacol 2009;29:51-5.
8. Poyurovsky M, Weizman R, Weizman A, Koran L. Memantine for treatment-resistant OCD. Am J Psychiatry 2005;162:2191-2.
9. Kim SW, Dysken MW, Pheley AM, Hoover KM. The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: Measures of internal consistency. Psychiatry Res 1994;51:203-11.
10. Goodman WK, Ward HE, Kablinger AS, Murphy TK. Biological approaches to treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder. In: Goodman WK, Rudorfer MV, Maser JD, editors. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Contemporary Issues in Management. London, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2000. p. 333-69.
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Man Allegedly Threatens To Cut Throat Of Off-Duty Muslim NYPD Cop
12/05/2016 08:56 am ET Updated Dec 06, 2016
"Go back to your country," suspect told Aml Elsokary after shoving her son, cops say.
By Ron Dicker
The New York City Police Department arrested a man Sunday for allegedly threatening an off-duty Muslim NYPD officer who was wearing her hijab, CBS New York reported.
Christopher Nelson, 36, of Brooklyn, was charged with menacing as a hate crime and aggravated harassment, according to media reports.
Aml Elsokary was parking her car in Brooklyn Saturday evening when she spotted someone shoving and yelling at her 16-year-old son, according to a police report cited by outlets.
The unarmed Elsokary confronted the suspect, who allegedly told her, “ISIS (expletive), I will cut your throat go back to your country.” During the encounter, Elsokary did not identify herself as an officer, Associated Press noted from a police account.
The suspect fled the scene. However, cops apparently identified him on surveillance video.
In a Facebook entry posted Sunday, the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned the attack.
The incident follows a recently released Southern Poverty Law Center report that hundreds of hate crimes have been committed since Donald Trump was elected president.
The NYPD Muslim Officers Society called the threat on Elsokary “a very sad moment [that] an officer who risked her life while saving a baby was subjected to such horrific treatment.”
In 2014, Elsokary was praised for her courage after she carried a 1-year-old girl from a burning apartment building.
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<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ilhan-omar-elected-to-minnesota-legislature_n_58228c5be4b0aac624882078">Ilhan Omar</a> was born in Somalia and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 12 after spending four years in a refugee camp in Kenya. On Nov. 8, she became the first Somali-American Muslim woman elected to a state legislature, with a <a href="http://www.startribune.com/ilhan-omar-will-be-nation-s-first-somali-american-legislator/400478961/" target="_blank">victory in Minnesota</a>. The 34-year-old campaigned on a progressive platform, advocating for affordable college, criminal justice reform, economic equality and clean energy.<br><br>“It is the land of liberty and justice for all, but we have to work for it,” Omar <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pccc-candidates-2016-election_n_5813b435e4b0990edc3143d7">told The Huffington Post</a> in October. “Our democracy is great, but it’s fragile. It’s come through a lot of progress, and we need to continue that progress to make it actually ‘justice for all.’”
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Bishop O.C. Isom, Jr. 643 North Crystal, Benton Harbor, MI 49022
Phone: (269)934-8326 Pastor Isom
Word Up Ministries ~ "Taking people into the presence of God."
Calvary Tabernacle 606 North Elm Street, Three Oaks, MI 49128
Phone: (269)756-9301 Pastor Bradford C. Payne
Calvary Tabernacle is an apostolic church located in Three Oaks, Michigan. It's worship is liberating and Christ-centered and it's preaching and teaching are bible-based and life changing! EVERYONE is welcome at CALVARY!
Pentecostal Apostolic Faith Peace Temple 686 Territorial Road, Benton Harbor, MI 49022
Phone: (616)927-3862 Pastor Authur Bullocks
Come worship with us for Sunday School at 10:00 am, morning worship 12:30 noon.
Central Assembly of God 6801 Ryno Road, Coloma, MI 49038
Phone: (616)468-8422 Pastor Dwayne Goodale
We are a warm friendly growing church that believes in ministering to the whole family. There is ministry available for everyone and room for growth to all who seek more of Christ. Please visit us soon!
Harvest Assembly of God 602 West Upton, Reed City, MI 49677
Phone: (231)832-4855 Rev. Ron Pinc, Pastor
Our Vision: Bringing a Spirit-Filled message to our community through worship, preaching and serving. Sundays: 9:00am, 11:00am & 6:00pm. Wednesdays: 6:30pm
Lake Michigan Christian Center 9955 Church Street, Bridgman, MI 49106
Phone: (616)465-5337 Connie Glaske (church secretary)
Lake Michigan Christian Center is a church called to impact the Southwest Michigan region. We are a training center that equips and releases believers into their gifts, and a ministry center that raises them up in the Word and Spirit.
The Harbor Community Church 300 East Napier, Benton Harbor, MI 49022
Phone: (269)925-2631 Pastor Mike Brower
We are a new Assemblies of God pentecostal church with the focus on worship, discipleship, and prayer. We are family oriented with Children and Youth ministries to serve you. Come - you belong! We are a multi-cultural church.
Bible Baptist Church 7 E. Clay St., New Buffalo, MI 49117
Sunday school 9:45am. Children's church 10:45. Sunday worship service 10:45am and 7pm. Wednesday services 7:30pm. Rev. George Mackey.
Hopewell Baptist Church 756 Highland Avenue, Benton Harbor, MI 49022
Phone: (269) 925-0939 Rev. Lee Jones, Pastor
St. Mary's Catholic Church 211 South Lincoln, Niles, MI 49120
Phone: (616)683-5087 Rev. Marion Kencik
Please call for times of service and directions.
St. Mary\'s of the Lake Catholic Church 718 West Buffalo Street, New Buffalo, MI 49117
Phone: (269)-469-2637 Father Jim Morris
Weekend Schedule: Saturday: Confessions at 4:30 PM, Mass at 5:30 PM; Sunday: Masses at 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM. Weekdays: Mon, Tue, Wed: Mass at 8:30 AM; Friday: Mass at 5:00 PM.
Lakeshore Christian 5565 Washington Avenue, Saint Joseph, MI 49085
Phone: (269)429-1793 Mark Wade
Contemporary, Relevant, Unconventional. We are Simple Christians following the
bible without being chained with tradition. Church was meant to be Fun!
Lakeside Christian Center P.O. Box 435, Stevensville, MI 49127
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Sunday Service: 10:00am & 6:00pm. Many cell groups and meetings take place throughout the week. Please contact the church for additional information.
Benton Harbor Church of Christ 1495 East Empire Avenue, Benton Harbor, MI 49022
We invite you to visit our services. Visitors are always honored guests! Call for a free Bible study at your convenience in your own home. Sunday Bible Study @ 9:45am, Sunday Morning Service @ 10:45am, Sunday Evening Service 6:00pm, Wednesday Bible Blass
Baroda Church of God 1117 Hinchman Road, Baroda, MI 49101
Phone: (269)422-1492 Wanda Schmidt
Two Sunday morning services 8:30AM and 11:00AM with Sunday school 9:45AM to 10:45AM and Wed.night Bible studies and children's program.
Lighthouse Village Church of God 18459 West US 12, New Buffalo, MI 49117
Phone: (269)469-3441 Rev. Anthony M. Fields
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m., Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 a.m., Sunday Evening Service: 6:30 p.m., Thursday Bible Study: 7:30 p.m.
Church of God - Anderson, Indiana Affiliate
First Church of God 2627 Niles Avenue, Saint Joseph, MI 49085
Phone: (616)983-1524 Greg Gordon
First Church of God is a dynamic, growing congregation of about 900 worshippers. Founded in 1906, the congregation has had nearly a century of ministry in Berrien County. Our strong children's ministry, youth ministry and women's ministry is a major plus.
Trinity Episcopal Church 9 South Fourth Street, Niles, MI 49120
Phone: (616)683-6060 Father Rocky Schuster
Serving Southwest Michigan and Northern Indiana in the name of the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit.
Evangelical Free Church of America
The Chapel 4250 Washington Avenue, Saint Joseph, MI 49085
Phone: (616)429-1041 Pastors Phil Bubar, Shay Roush, and Kurt Trucksess
A group of believers who seek to glorify God and seek to spread his message of salvation to the world.
Saron Lutheran Church - ELCA 510 Main Street, Saint Joseph, MI 49085
Phone: (269)983-1273 Pastor Phillip Nordstrand
Serving Southwest Michigan since 1875, Saron's Sunday worship is at 8:30am and 11:00 am with church school at 9:40 for preschool through adult. Summer worship is at 9:30 am. At Saron we celebrate the Gospel with joy!
Watervliet Free Methodist 7734 Paw Paw Avenue, Watervliet, MI 49098
Phone: (269) 463-8280 Pam Horton
Giving Living Water. Come join us, we welcome all people who need a friend or want to be a friend. If you are thirsty for living water COME! Sunday School @ 9:15am and Morning Worship @ 10:30am.
St. John's Evangelical Luthern Church 9193 Cleveland Avenue, Baroda, MI 49101
Phone: (269)422-1449 Rev. Kenneth S. Babcock
Sunday Worship Schedule: 8:00am & 10:30am, Wednesday Evening Casual Worship:7:00pm, Learning Centers: 9:15am. Summer Worship: 9:30am. Holy Communion is celebrated at all services. St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church mission is to b
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod - LCMS
Prince of Peace Lutheran 1615 East Buffalo, New Buffalo, MI 49117
Sunday school 9:15am. Sunday worship service 10:30am. Pastor David Sidwell.
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church (LC-MS) 275 Marvin Street, Coloma, MI 49038
Phone: (616)468-6567 Rev. Mark Steinke
Our Sunday Worship Services are 8 & 10:30 AM, Wednesday Evenings at 7PM. We have Bible Study Sundays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. We also have a Christian Preschool.
St. Paul Evangical Lutheran Church 212 West Front Street, Buchanan, MI 49107
Phone: (269)695-9061 Rev. Thomas Nowak
OUR MISSION: To Know God. To Know God More Fully. To Make God More Fully Known.
Trinity Lutheran Church - Berrien Springs 9123 George Avenue, Berrien Springs, MI 49103
Trinity Lutheran Church offers three worship opportunities per weekend--Thursday at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday at 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. Our air-conditioned school is Pre-K to Eighth grade. Come and see!
Lutheran Church Wisconsin Synod
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church 7185 North Elm Street - P.O. Box 277, Eau Claire, MI 49111
Phone: (269)313-WORD Pastor Paul Nolte
Through Jesus we are heaven-bound, despite our sins! Sunday service at 9:30AM. Been baptized? Need a K-8 or 9-12 Christian school? Got a problem? Let's talk. Synod sites: whataboutjesus.com / wels.net
1st Web Church 250 Franklin Lake Circle, Oxford, MI 48371
An internet-based church for those who have lost touch, or maybe never got in touch, with the major organized religions. We welcome everyone who feels "there must be something more to life!"
New Harvest Church of Watervliet 4865 North M-140, P.O. Box 691, Watervliet, MI 49098
Phone: (616)463-7533 Stanley Carr, Assistant Pastor
Independent Charismatic Church. Sunday worship 11:00 a.m. (with Sunday school for ages K-12 during sermon). Nursery provided. Bible study on Tuesday 7 p.m. Prayer Meeting on Friday 7 p.m.
Pentecostal Church of God 330 South Pleasant, Watervliet, MI 49098
Safe Harbor Church - Sodus 3552 South Pipestone Road, Sodus, MI 49126
Phone: (269) 925-3887 Pastor Don Parton
We seek to be a truly welcoming and dynamic Christian community where people can connect with God, with others, and with opportunities to make a difference in our world. Sun. 9:30 Christian Ed; 10:30 Worship: Wed. 7:00.
Straight Gate Pentecostal Power Church 466 Pipestone, Benton Harbor, MI 49022
Come worship with us.
Presbyterian-Evangelical
First Presbyterian Church of Niles 13 South Fourth Street, Niles, MI 49120
Phone: (616)683-7600 Rev. Dr. Ronald Wakeman
Come join us this Sunday!
St. Joseph Catholic Church 109 Linden Street, Saint Johns, MI 48879
The United Church of Christ
St. John United Church of Christ 200 West Buffalo Street, New Buffalo, MI 49117
Sunday worship service 10am. Teen class 10am every other Sunday.
Arden United Methodist Church 6891 U.S. 31 North, Berrien Springs, MI 49103
Phone: (616)429-4931 Jeremy Williams
Is this the small country church you're looking for? Warmest, friendliest church anywhere. Find out about our plans, our pastor, worship, Sunday School, music, joint programs with other churches, and more!
Berrien Springs United Methodist Church 310 West Mars Avenue, Berrien Springs, MI 49103
Come grow with us! Here's information about worship, nursery and Sunday School, upcoming Bible studies, seasonal events, the many ways you can be involved. Check our big plans for the future, meet our pastor, and more!
Faith United Methodist Church ~ Bridgman 9156 Red Arrow Highway ~ P.O. Box 414, Bridgman, MI 49106
Phone: (269) 465-3696 Becky Chaffee
God's Family Living the Joyous News of Jesus Christ.
First United Methodist Church 24 South Whittaker Street, New Buffalo, MI 49117
Sunday worship 11am. Sunday School 11am. Rev. Brad Bartelmay.
First United Methodist Church 132 South Oak Street, Buchanan, MI 49107
A friendly church in Buchanan since 1861. The historical red brick church is adorned with beautiful stained glass windows and holds Sunday services at 9 a.m. (contemporary) and 11 a.m. (traditional), with nursery Sunday School and nursery provisions.
United Pentecostal Church International
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SSP snaps up new head of delivery for insurer division
Mr Webb - who was previously head of transaction banking development at Misys - has been charged with improving the team's software delivery to SSP's 130 insurer division customers.
He will report to Steve Lathrope, managing director of the insurer division.
Mr Webb boasts more than 20 years' experience in project and IT-related positions, and has also spent more than 15 years in senior IT delivery roles at Lloyds TSB.
Speaking about his new role, Mr Webb said: "I'm especially pleased to be
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AMII chairman confirms Bupa trade body return
Last August, the health insurance giant stunned the market with its decision to stop offering some of its business-to-consumer (B2C) products through the broker channel.
However, AMII chairman Wayne Pontin told Insurance Age that Bupa has "made its intentions clear" about re-entering by offering its products through the trade body's members.
It has emerged that in recent months Bupa has partnered with a "small group" of brokers to test a new model offering B2C cover.
But Mr Pontin revealed that
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Trash Talking: Permit Condition Not Backed By Proof Of Nexus And Proportionality Is Illegal Exaction
We don't often post trial court orders, but this one, Chiquita Canyon, LLC v. Cnty of Los Angeles, No. BS 171262 (Cal. Super. July 2, 2020), from the California Superior Court, is worth reading for you land use and exactions mavens.
It's a long order, so we won't go into great detail, but the short story is that the petitioner (a landfill) administratively challenged 22 of the 130 conditions and fees the County imposed on a Conditional Use Permit. Some of the conditions violated the trash law (California's Integrated Waste Management Act) because they discriminated against out-of-area trash.And the condition requiring the landfill to support the state's waste management goals? Compelled speech (no trash talk required!).
But you Nollan/Dolan mavens will really like the part about California's Mitigation Fee Act, which essentially is a codification of the same exaction standards which the U.S. Supreme Court adopted in those cases. You know, nexus and rough proportionality. For example, the court ruled invalidated a condition that mandated that at the termination of the permit, the landfill pay for the conversion to a park, and convey it to the County. No can do, the court held, because the County didn't make findings supporting any connection between the use (landfill) and the condition:
Petitioner contends that Board did not make nexus or proportionality findings for Condition 111. (OB 27-28.) The court agrees. In its decision, Board found that that it was "necessary" for Petitioner to dedicate the Landfill site as a park or other public recreation use. However, Board did not elaborate or make any findings that connect an impact from the Landfill to a requirement to convey hundreds of acres of private property and develop a park at a cost of up to $2 million. (AR 191116.) Nor did Board make any individualized determinations of the rough proportionality between Condition 111 , including the $2 million fee, and Landfill impacts.
Slip op. at 47. Importantly, the court looked at the record (and not at the County's arguments about nexus alone), and held that the County had not overcome the lack of evidence in the record on which it could base a nexus and proportionality argument. That's an important point: it's not so much whether there is, in fact, nexus and proportionality, it's whether the agency imposing the conditions had a factual basis at the time it imposed the conditions. Lacking proof of that, the condition is an illegal exaction.
Decision on Petition for Writ of Mandate: Granted in Part and Denied in Part, Chiquita Canyon, LLC v. Cnty...
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2020 is slowly coming to a close, for better than worse. Despite the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S launching in November alongside several new titles, December has quite a few big games in store. Here are 10 of them to look forward to and play during the holidays, starting with the long-awaited…
After numerous delays, Night City Wire episodes and seemingly insurmountable hype, Cyberpunk 2077 is definitely, assuredly, 99.9 percent for sure releasing this month. We hope. There’s a lot to look forward to, whether it’s choosing one of three Life Paths and pursuing the story or simply cruising around Night City, completing Scanner Hustles and interacting with the citizenry. There’s an extensive arsenal of weaponry, cyberware and daemons to experiment with, not to mention an entire world of Braindance to get lost in, all while conversing with Johnny Silverhand played by Keanu Reeves. Cyberpunk 2077 releases for Xbox One, PS4, PC and Google Stadia on December 10th. Hopefully.
Out of the Blue’s first person adventure title arrives next month, following the tale of Nora as she travels to a strange island in the South Pacific to locate her missing husband. Inspired by the works of Lovecraft, Call of the Sea focuses more on a dreamy and ethereal atmosphere as opposed to horror. Players explore locations, solve puzzles and take in the sights while piecing together the truth. Releasing on December 8th for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC, Call of the Sea will also be available on Xbox Game Pass at launch.
Before one was traveling to different dimensions and dodge-rolling with firearms, there was the labyrinth. Set before Remnant: From the Ashes, Chronos: Before the Ashes sees players venturing into said labyrinth and defeating the evils within. The twist is that dying results in expulsion, which means returning a year later. Thus do players begin their journey as a spry, Souls-like adventurer before having to rely on their wits and magic to survive as they mature over the years. Chronos: Before the Ashes is out on December 1st for Xbox One, PS4, PC, Google Stadia and Nintendo Switch.
Travel back in time to the Prohibition era, where syndicates and mob bosses battled it out for reign over Chicago. As a strategy title, Empire of Sin is all about recruiting gang members and expanding an empire, dipping into all kinds of illegal activities while evading the law. Other gangs will want a piece of you though, and when negotiations and deception fail, a turn-based strategy combat system lets you deal threats. With numerous perks and traits for characters, resource management and gang warfare, Empire of Sin looks to be a nice change of pace for publisher Paradox Interactive. It’s out on December 1st for Xbox One, PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch.
Developed by a separate team at the Life is Strange studio, Twin Mirror is ultimately a tale of mystery and duality. It sees Sam, an investigative journalist, returning to his hometown in Basswood, West Virginia. Things aren’t what they seem though, and the player will interact with various towns-folk, deciding who to trust, while dealing with The Double, Sam’s “inner voice.” That also means investigating different events and piecing together clues with the unique “Mind Palace” while questioning the truth. Twin Mirror is out on December 1st for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond
In the midst of new IPs, Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond is a familiar sight for long-time fans. Developed by Respawn Entertainment, it’s a VR title for Oculus Rift and Steam VR that sees players venturing through Europe at the height of World War 2. Afterwards, it may be worth watching interviews with veterans who experienced the conflict and learning more. Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond could be a dark horse when it launches on December 11th.
In the midst of more “serious” offerings like Watch Dogs: Legion and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Immortals Fenyx Rising is much less heavy material for Ubisoft. It sees a Greek soldier named Fenyx washing ashore off the Golden Isle and battling the titan Typhon to rescue the Pantheon. While exploring the lush, colorful world and battling mythical foes, players will also deal with Prometheus and Zeus as narrators, each offering their own take on events and humorously clashing. Immortals Fenyx Rising is out on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, Google Stadia, PC and Switch on December 3rd.
A co-op RPG about two lovers exploring a strange world isn’t quite what you’d expect from the team behind the twitch-based Furi. Nevertheless, The Game Bakers’ Haven has looked appealing since day one, focusing on the struggles of Yu and Kay as they scavenge for parts, battle the local wildlife and cook meals. Will their quest for freedom and love ultimately win out? We’ll find out when Haven launches December 3rd for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC and Switch.
With many of the big-name racers out of the way this year, MXGP 2020 looks to round things out in its usual fashion. Sporting bikes and riders from more than 110 brands, while offering a track editor and dedicated servers for online play, the title is certainly looking to improve on past experiences. If previous games are any indication, it could end up being another solid racing title. Releasing on December 16th, MXGP 2020 is coming to previous and current gen consoles along with PC.
Big mech battles are back with Override 2: Super Mech League. It features 20 robots with all kinds of over-the-top abilities and customization for players to mess around with. A new Career Mode allows for earning influence for one’s Club and taking on all challenges. Local and online multiplayer for up to four players also returns with modes like Free for All, Xenoswarm, King of the Hill and more. Battle it out on December 22nd when Override 2 launches on Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
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Loyalist career criminal Malcolm McKeown killed in Co Down shooting
Killing may be linked to gangland drugs feud in the Lurgan-Portadown-Banbridge area
Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 13:54 Updated: Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 20:11
Gerry Moriarty
Forensics examining the scene outside a petrol station in Co Down where a murder investigation has begun. Photograph: David Young/PA Wire
The victim of the shooting in Co Down on Monday night has been named formally as 54-year-old Malcolm McKeown, a well-known career criminal with loyalist paramilitary connections.
He is one of a trio of brothers who were implicated in Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) activities in the mid-Ulster area. His brothers, Trevor and Clifford, were convicted of separate LVF sectarian murders.
All three were closely connected with the LVF leader Billy Wright, known as King Rat, who was murdered by INLA inmates in the Maze prison in 1997.
Mr McKeown was discovered dead in his car at the rear of a filling station in the village of Waringstown on Monday night.
PSNI Detective Chief Inspector Peter Montgomery said, “Mr McKeown, who was a father of three, was shot in cold blood in broad daylight and I have now launched a murder investigation.”
Det Chief Insp Montgomery said his investigation was at an early stage and that he was keeping an “open mind” as to the motive for the murder.
“I know that Mr McKeown entered the shop at Dewarts Garage at approximately 7.15pm on Monday and when he came out he walked to his vehicle parked to the side of the garage. It was around this time that the gunman or gunmen shot him,” he said.
He added that a blue coloured car was seen leaving the scene and subsequently a VW Passat, registration VRM RK62 PLX was found burnt out on the Glenavon Road in Lurgan later on Monday night.
The officer appealed to anyone with information about the killing to bring it to the police.
Malcolm McKeown, according to security, political and local sources, was heavily involved in the drugs trade in the Lurgan-Portadown-Banbridge area of mid-Ulster, and his murder may be linked to that activity.
He faced trial in 2012 charged with the murders the previous year of Hugh McGeough and his wife Jacqueline in Co Armagh.
It was alleged that the McGeoughs also were involved in drug dealing and that Mr McGeough issued a death threat to Malcolm McKeown over a £13,000 debt. It was claimed that he ordered the double murder as a result of that, although Malcolm McKeown did not carry out the actual shootings.
The following year the case against him and an associate named James Carlisle were dropped.
In March 2016, Carlisle was shot a number of times in a drive-by shooting close to the gates of St Brendan’s Primary School in the Moyraverty area of Craigavon. He survived the attack which was believed to be part of a gangland feud in the mid-Ulster area.
Clifford McKeown was convicted of the murder of Catholic taxi driver Michael McGoldrick in Lurgan. He was shot dead during the Drumcree Orange Order parade standoff near Portadown in July 1996. His trial heard that Clifford McKeown described the murder as a “birthday present” for Billy Wright.
The same trial heard that Clifford McKeown had spoken of an initial plan by Wright to abduct and murder three Catholic priests but that this plan was abandoned because Wright feared the IRA would kill Protestant clergymen in retaliation.
Trevor McKeown was convicted of the 1997 murder of 18-year-old Catholic Bernadette Martin. She was shot four times in the head at point-blank range as she lay sleeping with her Protestant boyfriend at his family home in Aghalee in Co Armagh.
Clifford and Trevor McKeown received lengthy prison sentences but both were released early under the terms of the Belfast Agreement.
Politicians said that people were shocked at the murder of Malcolm McKeown.
Sinn Féin MLA John O’Dowd said the community was “appalled”.
“A PSNI investigation is now underway and that must be allowed to proceed. I would encourage anyone with information on what happened to bring it forward to the police,” he said.
SDLP MLA Dolores Kelly said: “The local community is in shock after the violent murder of a man in a shooting in Waringstown. This is a quiet, settled village and people are appalled that violence has been brought on to their streets.”
Ulster Unionist Party councillor Kyle Savage in condemning the murder said “zero tolerance” was required to deal with “these criminal gangs”.
“Resources must be given to the police to tackle criminality within society,” he added.
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Say Goodbye To Being Shy In Five Simple Steps
By Megan Roantree
Whether it's speaking up in class or flirting with the person you fancy, we've got you covered!
It’s one thing to feel slightly nervous when you’re the centre of attention, it’s another to want to be sick if someone even looks at you sideways. If your shyness is stopping you from enjoying your life, it’s time to start looking at things slightly differently…
Most people (even those who might look confident) have to deal with shyness as they grow up. It’s the way that you confront it that ultimately helps you overcome it. If you find yourself instinctively and immediately tackling your shyness and not letting it get in the way of achieving something, then it’s unlikely you have a problem. You luckily have enough confidence to realise that life is all about facing your fears and conquering on. If however, your shyness rules your life and you actually consider it to be the bane of your life, then Houston, we could have a problem. It’s time to knock this shyness son it’s head. But before we even begin to do this, there is one thing you must do first. You need to accept that you aren’t as outgoing as perhaps you would like to be. There, that’s the first hurdle over with, admitting that you just need to believe that you’re well able to do things that would normally bring you out in cold sweat. All you need is a little courage! Now, read on to discover how to be a more outgoing version of you.
Take inspiration
The trouble with shy people is that they tend to be very self-critical and think that if they draw attention to themselves then everyone will zone in on their (imaginary) flaw. In reality though, people are normally too caught up in their own little worlds to really notice anyone else! Just check out someone who you think has oodles of confidence in action. Ciara*, 16 was used to tagging along behind her outgoing BFF Orla* and happy to stay in the background while Orla did all the talking. “I really used to be terrified of chatting to people and would gladly let Orla do all the work. Then I started to observe how she acted with people. I realised that she wasn’t trying o be outrageously funny or smart, she was relaxed and just being herself.” Ciara admits that it wasn’t easy but she followed Orla’s lead. “I know for a fact that Orla isn’t 100% sure of happy about herself all the time but she’s not afraid to put herself out there. I kinda took the attitude, ‘if she can do it, why can’t I?’.” You see, being sociable isn’t rocket science, it’s about just being friendly. So, look to your more outgoing pal and watch how easy it can be.
There’s no harm in taking inspo from your more confident friend, just remember to still be yourself
You don’t slap your friend when she bugs you, do you? So why do you constantly beat yourself up? By always putting yourself down, stressing and imagining worst-case scenarios all the time, you’re doing yourself a world of damage! No one can be intelligent and witty all the time so stop putting so much pressure on yourself. Susan*, 16, was so shy that she used to make excuses not to meet her best friend, Ali*, when she was with her boyfriend and his friends. “Don’t get me wrong, I really liked Ali’s boyfriend Karl* but the thought of meeting up with his gang of mates nearly made me sick. They were really loud and funny so I felt too intimidated to say anything. I thought that they’d think I was a total loser.” Susan convinced herself that Karl’s friends didn’t like her and started avoiding them like the plague. “I had a row with Ali and I told her how I felt. She said that I was being silly – the lads didn’t think that at all, which now I know is totally the case.” When you’re very shy it’s easy to convince yourself that you’re not as ‘good’ as everyone else. Give yourself a break and remember no-one is as hard no you as you are.
Whilst the more confident among us relish the idea of meeting new people, for shy people the prospect of going into unfamiliar territory is enough to make them feel faint with fear. Anna*, 17 knows this feeling only too well. “I was doing my after school Spanish class for one term when Tom*, the guy I fancied said he was having a party and invited the whole class.” As much as Anna liked her class, she didn’t know any of them that well and the thought of going without her best mates in tow freaked her out. “I immediately thought there was no way I could go. After talking to my best friend Ais*, I realised that if I didn’t I might never get to meet Tom outside of class again, and it’s good to get to know the other girls in my class too.” Anna nearly backed out, but when it came to it she realised she had nothing to lose. “I copped on that I kind of knew some people going and if I wasn’t enjoying it, no one would force me to stay.” As it turned out, she actually had a great time and even went out with Tom for four months after, and got to know some great new friends.” However, if Anna hadn’t pushed herself to go, she never have had a great time, met new people and gone out with Tom. Putting yourself in a situation you wouldn’t normally feel confident in is the best way to build yourself up. When you find yourself outside of your comfort zone, rather than protected in your safety net, you have the bonus of feeling proud of yourself.
Okay, so you’re outside your comfort zone and you’re starting to regret it. In fact, you’re eyeing up the front door like a crazed animal planning a breakout. Stop! Think before you do that legger! Just because you don’t feel that confident at the moment, doesn’t mean it won’t pass. In fact, all you have to do is fake it for the moment and watch everything change. Start by adopting the mannerisms of those more outgoing people around you. This may mean changing your body language to give the impression that you’re at ease. Emma*, 15 decided to change her unfriendly stance. The girls used to slag her because she’d stand there with her arms crossed. They also reckoned she had a bit of a scowl on her face. “They made me realise that my body language was pretty unapproachable but it was just down to nerves. Once I was away of it, I was able to unfold my arms and my brow and make eye-contact and smile at people when I wanted to start chatting to people.”
Now, after all is said and done, we’re not for a minute suggesting you’re going to instantly transform from being a shy Sally to having the self-assurance of Kylie Jenner or Lizzo! It takes time and practice to build up confidence and become more relaxed in different situations. Just don’t give up if you don’t overcome shyness overnight! Clara*, 16, can testify to this. “I wasn’t able to approach shop assistants to ask for something in my size, I was that shy! I’m still not as outgoing as I’d like to do but now I’m constantly surprising myself by doing stuff I never would have dreamed of doing before!”
*names have been changed.
If you’d like to chat to us for a feature email megan@KISS.ie
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Salvador Perez leads Royals over Yankees
Hosmer adds towering homer to help KC pad lead
Updated: 5:40 AM CDT Jun 8, 2014
Whenever a Royals pitcher has issued a walk lately, the runner has usually scored. So when Ned Yost's own guys worked a pair of walks against the Yankees on Saturday night in the sixth inning of a tied game, the often-dour manager had an optimistic thought."Let's turn it around this time," Yost said.Salvador Perez did just that.The big catcher belted a three-run homer into the bullpen in left field, and Eric Hosmer added a solo shot later in the game, sending Kansas City to an 8-4 victory over New York."I've said all along, I thought we have home-run power," said Yost, whose team has hit just 26 homers - by far the fewest in the majors. "It'll manifest itself in time."Alex Gordon, Lorenzo Cain, Alcides Escobar and Nori Aoki drove in a run apiece as the Royals bounced back from an offensively inept performance in a 4-2 series-opening loss Friday night.Aaron Crow (3-1) retired one batter in the sixth in relief of starter Danny Duffy, and breezed through the seventh to earn the victory. Kelvin Herrera and Michael Mariot finished it off.David Phelps (1-4) allowed seven runs on 10 hits and two walks in 5 2-3 innings."Frustrating is the PG-rated word for it," he said. "I was pitching decent going into later parts of games, but it's tough to win ballgames when you give up four runs in the sixth and seventh inning. It's frustrating."Yangervis Solarte drove in a pair of runs for New York, and Carlos Beltran - who's been bothered by an ailing elbow and is still relegated to designated hitter duty - got an RBI with his first hit since coming off the disabled list Thursday."It's like starting over for me," Beltran said. "One day, two days is not going to do it, any difference. Basically you have to play every day and with playing time that will come. I cannot tell you (when). I wish I could know."The Royals struck first when Billy Butler and Gordon led off the second inning with back-to-back doubles, and Cain and Escobar provided run-scoring singles for a 3-0 lead.It took the Yankees until the sixth to answer.Derek Jeter started the rally with a single and Mark Teixeira kept it going with a two-out walk. Beltran followed with an RBI double against his former team, and Solarte tied the game 3-all when his sinking liner to center field dropped just beyond Cain's outstretched glove.Duffy, who appeared bothered by lengthy waits for television breaks between innings, was eventually removed after allowing three runs on five hits and three walks in 5 2-3 innings.The Royals made sure to pick him up.Butler and Gordon worked walks to start the bottom half of the sixth, earning Phelps a visit from Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild. It didn't do any good. Two pitches later, Perez sent a no-doubt homer into the bullpen in left field to restore the Royals' three-run lead."We needed that," Perez said. "It's not been easy, but it's coming."Cain tripled later in the inning, and Aoki's RBI single knocked Phelps from the game."We just scored three runs. That's the worst kind of team error right there," Phelps said. "To go out and we have all the momentum right there and in nine pitches gave it right back."It was another poor outing by the Yankees right-hander, who moved from the bullpen into the rotation last month. Phelps has lost four straight decisions, allowing 16 runs in the last three.Hosmer's homer leading off the seventh was his first since May 5, a span of 130 at-bats, and Brian Roberts tacked on a run off Mariot in the ninth inning that proved to be moot."You've got to keep battling back," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "We're still fighting."
Whenever a Royals pitcher has issued a walk lately, the runner has usually scored. So when Ned Yost's own guys worked a pair of walks against the Yankees on Saturday night in the sixth inning of a tied game, the often-dour manager had an optimistic thought.
"Let's turn it around this time," Yost said.
Salvador Perez did just that.
The big catcher belted a three-run homer into the bullpen in left field, and Eric Hosmer added a solo shot later in the game, sending Kansas City to an 8-4 victory over New York.
"I've said all along, I thought we have home-run power," said Yost, whose team has hit just 26 homers - by far the fewest in the majors. "It'll manifest itself in time."
Alex Gordon, Lorenzo Cain, Alcides Escobar and Nori Aoki drove in a run apiece as the Royals bounced back from an offensively inept performance in a 4-2 series-opening loss Friday night.
Aaron Crow (3-1) retired one batter in the sixth in relief of starter Danny Duffy, and breezed through the seventh to earn the victory. Kelvin Herrera and Michael Mariot finished it off.
David Phelps (1-4) allowed seven runs on 10 hits and two walks in 5 2-3 innings.
"Frustrating is the PG-rated word for it," he said. "I was pitching decent going into later parts of games, but it's tough to win ballgames when you give up four runs in the sixth and seventh inning. It's frustrating."
Yangervis Solarte drove in a pair of runs for New York, and Carlos Beltran - who's been bothered by an ailing elbow and is still relegated to designated hitter duty - got an RBI with his first hit since coming off the disabled list Thursday.
"It's like starting over for me," Beltran said. "One day, two days is not going to do it, any difference. Basically you have to play every day and with playing time that will come. I cannot tell you (when). I wish I could know."
The Royals struck first when Billy Butler and Gordon led off the second inning with back-to-back doubles, and Cain and Escobar provided run-scoring singles for a 3-0 lead.
It took the Yankees until the sixth to answer.
Derek Jeter started the rally with a single and Mark Teixeira kept it going with a two-out walk. Beltran followed with an RBI double against his former team, and Solarte tied the game 3-all when his sinking liner to center field dropped just beyond Cain's outstretched glove.
Duffy, who appeared bothered by lengthy waits for television breaks between innings, was eventually removed after allowing three runs on five hits and three walks in 5 2-3 innings.
The Royals made sure to pick him up.
Butler and Gordon worked walks to start the bottom half of the sixth, earning Phelps a visit from Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild. It didn't do any good. Two pitches later, Perez sent a no-doubt homer into the bullpen in left field to restore the Royals' three-run lead.
"We needed that," Perez said. "It's not been easy, but it's coming."
Cain tripled later in the inning, and Aoki's RBI single knocked Phelps from the game.
"We just scored three runs. That's the worst kind of team error right there," Phelps said. "To go out and we have all the momentum right there and in nine pitches gave it right back."
It was another poor outing by the Yankees right-hander, who moved from the bullpen into the rotation last month. Phelps has lost four straight decisions, allowing 16 runs in the last three.
Hosmer's homer leading off the seventh was his first since May 5, a span of 130 at-bats, and Brian Roberts tacked on a run off Mariot in the ninth inning that proved to be moot.
"You've got to keep battling back," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "We're still fighting."
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Kent coronavirus: The grim reality of a pub trip on Zoom
When you can't go to the pub you may as well turn your webcam on and drink at home - right?
This is what a pub trip on Zoom looks like
It's now been a week and a bit since the pubs closed and if we're being honest we're all missing them terribly.
Everything has moved slower since their doors shut for the foreseeable, even the clocks going forward didn't make the days go any quicker, such is life without the pub.
Over the course of the weekend, thousands of people up and down the country turned to new ways of communication to keep up with their friends.
And out of the ashes of social contact, one video app in particular has risen to prominence.
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Zoom is a no thrills webcam chat system which allows multiple users to meet up and chat.
In the past week, it's become the go to application for meeting your mates online but is it actually any good?
We sent our reporter on a virtual pub trip to find out.
It's a crazy idea
By the weekend, I, like every other person in the county was desperate for a drink but my options were limited to non-existent considering the lockdown.
Without pubs, the fabric of the weekend is lost as there's nowhere to meet your mates and therefore nowhere to socialise.
This is where the concept of a virtual pub comes in.
The science is simple.
Arrange to call your friends at a set time and stock up on enough alcohol to simulate a normal night at the pub.
The theory goes that after a couple of drinks you're enjoying each others company so much you forget you're on webcam.
It was a crazy idea, but it just might work.
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Sound quality is an issue
'You may not like it mum, but this is the new normal'
We arranged to meet at 4pm managed to set up our accounts and all join the right meeting with minimal fuss.
However, once we were all settled the first problem reared its head.
As anyone who's ever called in to a work conference knows, the quality of microphone varies enormously in every laptop.
This is all fun and games when you're in a work environment of course, but when you're actually interested in what's being said it becomes quite irritating.
Regardless after we'd adapted to the fact none of us were in the same room we began to settle into our evening.
The conversation was flowing
The mood was jovial and the conversation relatively organic.
"Wow, I'm starting to enjoy myself", I thought to myself, "This is a bit like the pub!"
Suddenly the chat ended.
It transpired that although Zoom is free to use it bears a cumbersome caveat.
Each free meeting on the service only lasts 40 minutes which means no matter how flowing your conversation is you're destined to be regularly jolted out of it.
Of course, if you pay for Zoom this setting disappears but I certainly wasn't going to do that no matter how long lockdown lasted.
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The person with the fastest WiFi wins
The guys over at Kahoot have rigged the game in their favour
When we eventually managed to get back online, we decided to liven things up a bit by playing a virtual pub quiz.
We used one called Kahoot, though I'm sure there are others you can find if quizzing is your thing.
Players download an app and compete against each other with points being awarded for correct answers and the speed at which you answer.
The idea behind it is a solid one and we did have several tense rounds but unfortunately it had some gaping flaws.
It quickly became apparent that the only thing you needed to win was faster internet than your opponents.
This enraged me as I'm not blessed in the WiFi department but know for a fact I was first to answer the majority of the questions as I'm blessed with the reflexes of a cat.
I tried to argue this point, but was told to, and I quote 'Shut up'.
Needless to say I lost the round.
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Never forget you're drinking alone
The night trickled on and as we whittled down our supply of beer a sullen observation overcame all of us.
As nice as it is to see friends and catch up, all of us are fundamentally drinking alone.
I turned to look at the mountain of cans that had built up around me and was filled with an intense feeling of shame and regret.
We said our goodbyes and disconnected.
It was 8pm, what could I do with my weekend from here?
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Will Supervisor Leticia Perez run for re-election?
by: Amber Frias
Posted: Oct 15, 2019 / 05:16 PM PDT / Updated: Oct 15, 2019 / 05:44 PM PDT
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Time is running out for candidates to file for public office and we still have no indication whether Supervisor Leticia Perez will be running for re-election.
Perez represents the fifth supervisorial district and she’s up for re-election in 2020. She needs to make a decision before mid-December whether to file her papers for candidacy.
While Perez has not said if she will run for re-election, the Kern County elections office has confirmed Perez’s 2020 campaign was terminated in December of 2017.
The fifth district supervisor has also stopped filing financial reports for her campaign. According to the county elections office, these reports are required for an active run, but no longer required from non-active campaign committees.
We asked democratic political analyst Neel Sanappa about Supervisor Perez’s campaign termination.
“She’s likely busy deciding with her family if she’s running again or do something else and I think she’s just keeping her cards close to the chest for now, but I think we’ll find out soon enough whether she’s running for office again,” said Sanappa.
As we’ve reported, Perez is facing two misdemeanor charges relating to voting on a marijuana issue that her husband, cannabis lobbyist Fernando Jara, was allegedly receiving financial compensation for.
If convicted, Perez could face up to a year in county jail, a $10,000 fine, and could be prohibited from holding elected office for four years. Her next court date is scheduled for next Tuesday.
Perez still has time to file for re-election. December 6th is the deadline.
We’ve called Perez several times today for comment but she has not returned our calls.
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ARVIN, Calif. (KGET) – The City of Arvin saw four fires this past week - one on Tuesday, one on Friday, and two this morning. The fires were all located around the city's main road - Bear Mountain Blvd. They threatened local businesses nearby.
Arvin Mayor Olivia Trujillo visited the aftermath of the fires today.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- Strong winds and blowing dust are expected to hit Kern County starting Monday.
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District is warning that the Valley portion of Kern County is expected to be impacted beginning late Monday and lasting through early Wednesday. Other counties will also experience high winds and dust over the next few days, including Fresno and Kings counties.
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Only 2 California Republican House members voted against Electoral College objections
Updated: 10:18 AM PST Jan 7, 2021
By Eric Ting , SFGATE
KATELYN: AS SHE JUST MENTIONED, PENNSYLVANIA WAS ONE OF ONLY TWO STATES TO HAVE ITS VOTES CHALLENGED BY BOTH A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE. SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT, REPUBLICAN SCOTT PERRY WHO REPRESENTS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, RAISED THE OBJECTION ALONG WITH REPUBLICAN SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY OF MINNESOTA AND 80 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE INCLUDING A MAJORITY OF REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN FROM PENNSYLVANIA. THE HOUSE AND SENATE DEBATED THE CHALLENGE FOR TWO HOURS BEFORE BOTH CHAMBERS VOTED DOWN THE ATTEMPT TO DISQUALIFY ALL OF PENNSYVLANIA’S VOTES AND THEY WERE OFFICIALLY DECLARED FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT
Of the 11 Republican members of the House of Representatives from California, only two voted against objections to Electoral College votes in Arizona and Pennsylvania.The House held full roll call votes on objections to both slates of electors on Wednesday night. Here's how each vote went down:ArizonaVoting to reject electors:— Rep. Ken Calvert (Corona)— Rep. Mike Garcia (Santa Clarita)— Rep. Darrell Issa (Vista)— Rep. Doug LaMalfa (Richvale)— Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Bakersfield)— Rep. Devin Nunes (Tulare)— Rep. Jay Obernolte (Big Bear Lake)Read MoreVoting to affirm electors:— Rep. Tom McClintock (Elk Grove)Did not vote:— Rep. Michelle Steel (Surfside)— Rep. Young Kim (La Habra)— Rep. David Valadao (Hanford)Steel and Valadao did not vote after testing positive for COVID-19 over the past five days and going into quarantine. Kim missed the Arizona vote to do a rapid COVID-19 test after potential exposure, but later returned for the Pennsylvania vote.Valadao said in a tweet he would have voted to affirm the Electoral College, writing, "It is not the role of Congress to choose who the states certify. Only states have the authority to appoint electors. Choosing to ignore the facts for the sake of party power is damaging to the American people’s confidence in the Electoral College and sets an unwise precedent for future elections."Steel has not said how she would have voted had she been present.PennsylvaniaVoting to reject electors:— Rep. Ken Calvert (Corona)— Rep. Mike Garcia (Santa Clarita)— Rep. Darrell Issa (Vista)— Rep. Doug LaMalfa (Richvale)— Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Bakersfield)— Rep. Devin Nunes (Tulare)— Rep. Jay Obernolte (Big Bear Lake)Voting to affirm electors:— Rep. Tom McClintock (Elk Grove)— Rep. Young Kim (La Habra)Did not vote:— Rep. Michelle Steel (Surfside)— Rep. David Valadao (Hanford)When it was all said and done, only Kim and McClintock cast votes to certify Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. McClintock's votes may come as a surprise to some since he signed an amicus brief in support of the Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the results in four states.McClintock joined a group of House conservatives who stated that Congress does not have the power to override states in choosing slates of electors."To unconstitutionally insert Congress into the center of the presidential election process – would amount to stealing power from the people and the states," the lawmakers state in a letter. "It would, in effect, replace the electoral college with Congress, and in so doing strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant."
Of the 11 Republican members of the House of Representatives from California, only two voted against objections to Electoral College votes in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
The House held full roll call votes on objections to both slates of electors on Wednesday night. Here's how each vote went down:
Voting to reject electors:
— Rep. Ken Calvert (Corona)
— Rep. Mike Garcia (Santa Clarita)
— Rep. Darrell Issa (Vista)
— Rep. Doug LaMalfa (Richvale)
— Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Bakersfield)
— Rep. Devin Nunes (Tulare)
— Rep. Jay Obernolte (Big Bear Lake)
Voting to affirm electors:
— Rep. Tom McClintock (Elk Grove)
Did not vote:
— Rep. Michelle Steel (Surfside)
— Rep. Young Kim (La Habra)
— Rep. David Valadao (Hanford)
Steel and Valadao did not vote after testing positive for COVID-19 over the past five days and going into quarantine. Kim missed the Arizona vote to do a rapid COVID-19 test after potential exposure, but later returned for the Pennsylvania vote.
Valadao said in a tweet he would have voted to affirm the Electoral College, writing, "It is not the role of Congress to choose who the states certify. Only states have the authority to appoint electors. Choosing to ignore the facts for the sake of party power is damaging to the American people’s confidence in the Electoral College and sets an unwise precedent for future elections."
Steel has not said how she would have voted had she been present.
When it was all said and done, only Kim and McClintock cast votes to certify Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. McClintock's votes may come as a surprise to some since he signed an amicus brief in support of the Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the results in four states.
McClintock joined a group of House conservatives who stated that Congress does not have the power to override states in choosing slates of electors.
"To unconstitutionally insert Congress into the center of the presidential election process – would amount to stealing power from the people and the states," the lawmakers state in a letter. "It would, in effect, replace the electoral college with Congress, and in so doing strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant."
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Rwanda Puts Restrictions on Firearms Possession
byDaniel Sabiiti May 28, 2018 at 6:46 pm 2
Firearms at a RDF Military Camp
Rwanda Parliament – lower chamber has passed a revised law that provides for citizens to apply for gun ownership on conditions of a clean criminal record and background check.
While in the USA one can purchase a gun from a gun shop or dealer by showing an Identity card, the Rwandan draft law, if approved by two remaining authorities as it was passed by lower chamber, will require the applicants to be mentally fit and not sentenced to jail for six months and more.
In evaluating ones mental stability (health) a person will be required to get a certificate from one government psychiatrist, be classified as a person of integrity, but some Lawmakers pushed for a holistic history review of the applicants and more than one health experts’ approval.
“It is very hard to know if someone has had mental problems in the past. You can never know how someone may act with a gun in their hands. So that is why we need to evaluate one’s life history as a requirement,” said lawmaker Elisabeth Mukamana.
The law has a new provision that gives Rwanda Police full responsibility in procedures of acquiring, control and use of the arms.
It states that police will be in charge of gun registration, recovering in case of abrupt death of the owner, revoking a gun license from its owner- who will have to sign a contract with the police before acquiring the arms.
On mental health certificate and one’s integrity, State Minister for Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Evode Uwizeyimana said that there is a lack of health experts in mental health and limiting to one expert was based on benchmarking.
“We don’t have enough medical specialists in Rwanda but Police will have responsibility and discretion to vet the applicants because guns are not like buying a knife in the market, and police can assess one’s integrity to avoid any network of armed groups,” Uwizeyimana said during the first presentation on May 24, 2018.
For more than one and half hours the lower house on May 24, 2018 picked a lot of interest in the law with debates on safety, procedures and monitoring during a plenary session which was postponed on time basis with only 45 articles discussed.
The draft law Nº 33/2009 of 08/11/2009 on fire arms has since 2017 been discussed in parliament with 36 articles out of 75 articles needing correction but the law was totally overhauled as a result of an African heads of state decree on fire arms in February 2018 – allowing states to review their laws on firearms possession.
The revised law also defined terminology of firearms as any ammunition, ranging from guns, grenade, explosives, and nuclear, biological, chemical or toxic weapons.
Mutimura Zeno, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Security
The proposed law allows civilians to possess firearms for hunting, sports, or for self-defense purposes if they meet the conditions described in the law.
Today Parliament resumed voting on the firearms possession. The parliament passed the 74 articles draft law unanimously (by the 55 votes of the lawmakers present.)
MPs agreed that the new law should provide for the national police to be directly responsible for taking care of handing over gun permits and retrieving the weapons.
The law also opened doors for arms dealing which has not been existent in the private sector, however debate arose on what happens if fire arms are illegally brought or passed through Rwanda.
Minister Uwizeyimana said that “for the sake of the country’s integrity, such arms will be destroyed and cannot be put within other official arms.”
While the last Police report in 2016 shows that no Rwandan has applied for a firearm, Zeno Mutimura, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Security which presented the law, said that individual owners and arms dealers will all have to secure a license for the firearms.
Steven Katurebe says:
Ariko have these people forgotten our history? Have you (deputies) ignored the fact that many people still harbor Genocide ideologies&would use such guns to ruin each other’s lives?
How about the costs of ensuring their usage? Uweziyimana’s reasons for arms purchase&possession are self defense.What’s RNP &RDF’s roles? Not defence of the masses?,
Hunting: Has the costs of such acts to biodiversity been considered?
Sports: Which sport is that and where is its ground in Rwanda?
Has the Lower Chamber also thought about the climatic impact of arms use?
Do we have industries manufacturing them in Rwanda or it’s gonna be another sort of Caguwa taking our capital from us to Nations where those weapons are manufactured.
Birababaje cyane kandi bigaragaje uburyo abantu twizeye nk’abaduhagarariye bashobora kutita kubibazo by’ingutu imyanzuro imwe bafata yateza mugihe kiriho n’ikizaza.
Guns are losing market in the US and gaining them here in Rwanda?
Do not make Rwanda hell. One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
Ntarugera Deo Koya says:
DO YOU KNOW HOW AND WHY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RESOLVED TO HAVE A LAW ALLOWING EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY TO CARRY GUNS? TO PURCHASE FIRE ARMS JUST AS YOU PURCHASE GROUND-NUTS ON STREETS?
DO YOU NOT REMEMBER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CRYING HOT TEARS ON T.V. FOR PRECISELY BEING INCAPABLE, AS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A., TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST GHASTLY CONSEQUENCES OF FREE HANDLING OF FIRE ARMS FOR ALL? … WHAT HAS CHANGED, SINCE THE 1994 GENOCIDE, IN THE PSYCHE OF RWANDANS THAT HAD FREE ACCESS TO FIRE ARMS. RWANDAN PRISONS DO REGULARLY OPEN THEIR DOORS TO RWANDANS CONVICTED OF “GENOCIDE IDEOLOGY” MANIFESTING ITSELF IN MERE WORDS. IF GENOCIDE-FRIENDLY RWANDANS THAT WE HAVE IN PARLIAMENT, IN GOVERNMENT, IN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, ON THE THOUSAND HILLS, ARE TODAY OFFERED THE LEGAL OPTION TO CARRY GUNS, THE NORMAL COURSE OF ACTION WOULD BE TO LINK UP WITH THE DIE-HARD NETWORKS OF BLOODTHIRSTY FOLKS IN AND AROUND RWANDA … AND EMBARK ON KILLING SPREES OF 24 YEARS AGO!
POSTGENOCIDE RWANDANS OUGHT TO PICK LESSONS FROM HISTORY. BE NOT SHORTSIGHTED GRANDEES!
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Blind Woman Challenges Women Leaders in front of First Lady Jeannete Kagame
byDaniel Sabiiti November 10, 2019 at 12:03 pm 0
The chairperson of the Rwanda Union for the Blind (RUB) Donatile Kanimba, yesterday stole the show during women leaders in global health, challenging policy makers to rethink about disability in gender mainstreaming.
After standing for over five minutes with her hand raised during a Q&A session on 25years of women after Beijing, Donatile Kanimba was disappointed that the moderators and master of ceremony couldn’t see her.
It took a group of over 15 women in the conference to verbally shout to the MC to stop her from closing the afternoon session until Kanimba was given chance to speak.
“She is blind and she needs to be given the chance to say something,” one of the WLGH conference participants shouted forcing the MC to give out an exceptional opportunity after hearing these words.
Facing away from the panel, which she couldn’t see, Kanimba made sure her voice and that of other disabled persons is heard far and beyond in a session that was attended by First Lady Jeannette Kagame.
“I have been standing for all this time hoping to speak but you couldn’t see me. Are you not able to see me because I am not able to see you?” Kanimba asked.
However, Kanimba, who sounded tensely upset, excused herself before Mrs Kagame saying the she was sorry to express her anger in the presence of the First Lady of Rwanda.
“I am sorry to be upset in front of the First Lady but getting angry is human and indeed it has happened, ” She said sending the fully packed conference hall into silence and expressions of regret for the mishap.
“Don’t try to be sorry because that is what happens, even when we (disabled) talk to donors – they say sorry but the fact is that I stand here to remind you that the disabled have been left out from the Beijing declaration,” she said.
The panel session on ’25 years after Beijing’, of which Kaninba followed for two hours, had serious discussions on how less has been achieved especially in fighting gender discrimination and violence against women and abuse based on culture practices like the customary laws.
Kanimba stated that not only women have been left out but worse more is disabled women.
“Who is going to speak for us to be included in the Beijing declaration gender mainstreaming, who is going to defend the disabled woman who is impregnated only to add on or make her burdens worse, who is going to make sure there is gender mainstreaming for the blind like us,?” Kanimba decried sending Mrs Kagame and the conference into silence.
After concluding her comments, Kanimba was slowly guided to her seat by her aide but no sooner had she sat than the crowd stood up and appluaded her for the brave remarks.
Though Mrs Kagame did not comment in the session, she had ealier in the opening session eluded on the need to the current trends of gender equity to change towards empowering women to take up leadership role and be agents of change.
This call did not only inspire Kanimba but also the Ethiopian Proffessor Senait Fisseha, the Director of International Programs at the Buffett Foundation who asked that women should make some noise if there has to be change.
“We need angry women, disappointed women and loud women to talk about some of then issues like abortion, which on our community are seen as taboo,” Fisseha said.
Such comments fired inspiration for women like Kanimba to cry out loud but participants at the session were disappointed that the session moderators and panel did not respond to Kanimba’s cry out for action for the disabled.
“If we really want to make sure no one of left behind, we have to listen to everybod’s voice. I think her remarks would have received a minute of response from the conference panelists,” said Dr. Stephanie Gregarious, a German Advisor of the GIZ sector project inclusion of persons with Disabilities.
On a positive note, Kanimba was the lady of the day. Despite being visually impaired, other women leaders lauded her outside the conference room for being able to make her voice heard.
She also got a chance to voice iut practical measures and how to mainstream disability in gender equity during the next and final session on “Innovations in Global Health”-where each comment she made came with applauses.
The two day WLGH conference, which was opened by Mrs Kagame in Kigali yesterday, is expected to see women come up with concrete measures of pushing the gender equity agenda beyond movements like MeToo, She4He or He4She especially mainstreaming gender issues with inclusivity.
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Local hunters react to elk herd shootout in White Sulphur Springs
By: Alexie Aguayo
An incident occurred on October 25th, 2020, involving about 100 hunters shooting at a herd of elk. According to Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP), violations were given out, but the community seemed more upset about the incident than the legal matter
“There's a lot of people that don't like hunting in general and what does this say for the people that enjoy this? It's giving us a bad name and it's giving ammunition for those people that want to restrict hunting rights," says David Sterner, a 30-year hunter. Specifically in Montana, he’s been hunting for about 15 years.
The Montana hunting community is not only shocked, but angry to learn fellow hunters surrounded a herd of elk, shooting consistently, killing 50 of them.
FWP says the incident occurred in White Sulphur Springs in a block management area. Six violations were given out including shooting from a road and not having an updated hunting license, but FWP says all was legal, just not so ethical.
“Unethical actions by hunters, in a circumstance like this, gives hunting as a activity, a real black eye,” explains Greg Lemon, FWP Spokesperson.
Other hunters vented their frustration after learning about the incident.
“They don't see, you know, the value in an ecosystem, they don't see the value in the beauty of what our Earth has to offer,” explains Joe Sterner, a 10-year hunter and son of David Sterner. “We need to be on top of it and if we see people who are doing that, they need to be punished and they need to know that this can't happen."
Among those frustrated is Bill Galt. His brother owns the land where the incident took place. Bill says himself and his brother are disgusted by the incident.
“Truthfully, you really want to just vomit, when you hear it,” says Galt, owner of Galt Ranch. “I mean, it makes you sick to your stomach and I think the community, in general, is that way. It's just like somebody punched in the belly when you see that happening or hear about that happening."
Out of the 50 elk that were killed. One was found unclaimed, and two were confiscated for violations.
The three elks were donated to a food bank. After the incident, the Galt brothers are in talks about possibly reviewing whether they should keep their block management areas.
The Montana Conservation Voters also responded to the incident.
The Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund is calling on Montana's next governor to "prioritize adequate and sufficient funding for law enforcement officers" following "troubling news out of Meagher County about an elk-hunting incident that raises more questions than answers."
"As strong supporters of Montana’s public lands and the outdoor traditions they support, we of course take no issue with responsible, regulated, ethical hunting," says Aaron Murphy, Executive Director of the nonpartisan Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund, in a letter sent to all three of Montana's gubernatorial candidates. "Whatever happened on the evening of Sunday, October 25, appears to be exactly the opposite."
The MCV Education Fund sent its letter to Congressman Greg Gianforte, Lieutenant Governor Mike Cooney, and Lyman Bishop. The organization says it's important to fully fund law enforcement officers to protect "Montana’s laws and strict codes of traditional hunting ethics, and to bring justice to violators."
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Lenovo ThinkPad T470s Review
By Andrew E. Freedman 29 April 2017
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The Lenovo ThinkPad T470s is a thin computer with strong performance and a wonderful keyboard, but competitors offer lower weight or longer battery life.
Little bloatware
Solid performance
Thin and light
Below-average battery life
Poor screens on lower-end models
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Light, slim and packed with ports, Lenovo's ThinkPad T470s ($1,124 to start; models tested range up to $2,102.99) offers the strong performance, great keyboard and overall versatility of Lenovo's popular ThinkPad T470, but it weighs a much lighter 2.9 pounds. Unlike its big brother, the T470s is available with a 2K screen and a choice of a silver or black chassis. This $1,124 laptop ($1,571 as tested) is pleasant to carry and work on, but below-average battery life and dull displays (on the 1080p models) hold it back.
While all ThinkPads have a similar design, I'm still wowed by just how small the T470s is. The carbon-fiber chassis is black (or silver, if you like change), with the ThinkPad logo in the top-left-hand corner of the lid. When you lift the lid, you'll be greeted by a 14-inch display, an island-style keyboard, a red pointing stick and another ThinkPad logo -- this time, in the bottom-right corner of the black deck.
At 13 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches and 2.9 pounds, the T470s cuts a sleek profile that doesn't take up too much room on a desk or in a bag. It's significantly lighter and smaller than the regular T470 (3.5 pounds, 0.8 inches thick). Although the ThinkPad X1 Carbon weighs a mere 2.49 pounds and is only 0.6 inches thick, it costs $200 to $300 more than the T470s, depending on the configuration. The Dell Latitude 5480 is much heavier (4 pounds, 0.9 inches thick), while Apple's 13-inch MacBook Pro is 3 pounds and a sleeker 11.97 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches.
Despite its slender frame, the ThinkPad T470s has enough ports for peripherals and monitors. The left side features the power jack, a USB 3.0 port, a headphone jack and an SD card slot. On the right are an optional smart-card reader, a Thunderbolt 3 port, a pair of USB 3.0 ports, HDMI output, an Ethernet jack, a SIM card slot (for the optional 4G modem) and a space for a Kensington lock.
The ThinkPad T470s also has Lenovo's proprietary docking port on the bottom -- something the X1 Carbon lacks.
Durability and Security
The ThinkPad T470s is built to protect your data and take a few knocks. Lenovo put a touchpad on the palm rest, which easily lets you log in to your computer with a single tap thanks to Windows Hello. That biometric data is protected by a TPM chip, and every configuration with a compatible CPU (Core i5-7300U or Core i7-7600U) also offers vPro for remote maintenance.
The laptop is MIL-STD-810G tested, meaning it should survive extreme temperatures, humidity, vibrations and shocks.
Lenovo offers three different 14-inch screens on the ThinkPad T470s, and they differ wildly. Our favorite is the high-end 2560 x 1440 display, which is far more vivid than the alternative 1080p touch-screen and non-touch-screen options. When I watched a 1080p trailer for "The Circle," the bright reds on the company's computer software popped off of actress Emma Watson's screen, and it was sharp enough to see all of her freckles. The grass on the company's campus was verdant and vibrant. On the 1080p display, the trailer looked slightly brighter, but the colors were a bit off. The 1080p touch display, by comparison, was extremely dark.
The WQHD (2560 x 1440) version of the ThinkPad T470s covers 118 percent of the sRGB color gamut (68.1 percent for the 1080p version and 76.9 percent for the touch-screen 1080p version). That's above the ultraportable category average (96 percent), and it tops the MacBook Pro (113 percent), the X1 Carbon (104 percent), the ThinkPad T470 (73 percent) and the Latitude 5480 (71 percent).
The T470s with a 2560 x 1440 display scored 2.2on the Delta-E test for color accuracy. (Zero is ideal.) With a Delta-E score of 2, the 1080p version was less accurate, as was the full-HD touch-screen version, which had a Delta-E of 0.9) were both lower. The average is 2.5, and the ThinkPad T470 (2.1), the Latitude 5840 (1.6) and the MacBook Pro (1) were all lower.
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All of the T470s' displays are dimmer than the average ultraportable average of 294 nits. The WQHD panel measured 253 nits, the 1080p non-touch-screen version reached 245 nits and the touch-screen version registered a dismal 216 nits. The original T470 (234 nits) and the Latitude 5840 (a poor 202 nits) also were dimmer. The X1 Carbon (275 nits) and the MacBook Pro (with its 495-nit display) were more luminous.
Keyboard, Touchpad and TrackPoint
It's always a pleasure to type on a ThinkPad keyboard, and the T470s continues that tradition. With 1.7 millimeters of travel and 70 grams of force required to actuate, the keys on the T470s are clicky and responsive. I reached 108 words per minute on the 10fastfingers.com typing test, barely beating my usual 107 wpm while maintaining my standard 2 percent error rate.
The 2.2 x 3.9-inch touchpad is smoother than some ThinkPads of late, and I appreciate the new feeling (there's far less friction). It's certified as a Windows Precision Touchpad and is very receptive to gestures.
If you like the accuracy and convenience of a pointing stick, you'll appreciate that Lenovo's TrackPoint provides extremely precise navigation without making you lift your hands off the home row.
The speakers on the T470s produce balanced audio; I just wish it were a little louder. When I listened to Lorde's "Green Light," the sound barely filled our lab. I could easily distinguish the vocals, keys, drums and synth beats, but I couldn't get the volume to a point where my toes started tapping along. There are some sound settings in the Lenovo Settings app, but I found the default options were best.
We reviewed one ThinkPad T470s with a 2.8-GHz Intel Core i7-7600U CPU, 12GB of RAM and a 512GB PCIe NVMe solid-state drive. Two other models we reviewed had an 2.6-GHz Intel Core i5-7300U CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB PCIe NVME SSD (but different screens). All three could handle 35 tabs in Chrome, including one streaming a 1080p episode of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver."
The T470s with Core i7 notched a score of 6,214, and the Core i5 model hit 5,807. The average is 5,879, and the regular T470 (6,699; Core i5-7200U), X1 Carbon (8,571; Core i7-7600U) and Latitude 5480 (8,530; Core i7-7600U) outperformed it.
It took 13 seconds for the T470s with Core i7 to copy 4.97GB of mixed media files,for a rate of 391.5 MBps, and the Core i5 model took 17 seconds, for a rate of 299.4 MBps. Both are faster than the average (190.1 MBps) as well as the X1 Carbon (242 MBps) and the Latitude 5840 (137.6 MBps). The ThinkPad T470 reached 267.8 Mbps, and the MacBook Pro had a blazing rate of 508.9 MBps.
The Core i7 T470s paired 20,000 names and addresses in our OpenOffice spreadsheet test in 3 minutes and 59 seconds, while the Core i5 version was slightly behind, at 4:04. The average is 5:47, the MacBook Pro took 4:39, the original T470 finished in 4:01, the X1 Carbon completed the test in 3:22 and the Latitude was done in 3:12.
It's unsurprising that these ultraportable business laptops aren't ready for gaming. With integrated Intel HD Graphics 620, the i7 and i5 models of the T470s hit 51,955 and 47,856, respectively, on the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited test. The average is 54,383, and the original T470 with the same GPU earned a score of 62,912.
While some of the ThinkPad T470s models we tested lasted longer than others, they all had significantly shorter battery life than competitors. The configuration with a Core i7 CPU and a 2560 x 1440 display lasted the longest, at 8 hours and 1 minute on the Laptop Mag Battery Test (continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi), while the Core i5 version with a 1080p display lasted 6:43. On the touch-screen model, that time dropped to 6:17.
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In contrast, the ThinkPad T470 lasted a whopping 17:25 with its six-cell battery, and 8:39 with its three-cell unit on board. The X1 Carbon conked out after 12 hours and 21 minutes. The average for ultraportables is a longer 8 hours and 18 minutes, while the MacBook Pro endured for 9:50, and the Latitude survived for 11:37.
The T470s' 720p webcam takes usable photos, but the colors are a tad off. In a picture I took at my desk, I could make out individual hairs on my head and the silhouette of my colleague's Spider-Man figure on a monitor behind me. But everything appeared a bit pale, with washed-out navy-blue headphones and a dull-brown sweater. All of the lights behind me were completely blown out.
The ThinkPad T470s stayed cool during our heat test. After we streamed HD video from YouTube for 15 minutes, the laptop measured 82 degrees Fahrenheit on the touchpad, 86 degrees on the center of the keyboard and 94 degrees on the bottom of the laptop. All of those temperatures fall below our 95-degree comfort threshold.
Software and Warranty
Lenovo continues its trend of offering just a few useful utilities on the ThinkPad T470s. It comes with the Companion app, which makes it easy to run system updates and check warranty status, and Lenovo Settings for controlling various aspects of the system, including the sound, webcam and battery.
Although the company didn't add its own bloatware, the ThinkPad T470s still comes with all of the junk that's built into Windows 10, like Candy Crush Soda Saga, Drawboard PDF, Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition, Facebook, Twitter and Sling.
Lenovo sells the ThinkPad 470s with a one-year warranty by default, with various options up to three years at an extra cost. See how Lenovo performed on our Best and Worst Brands ranking and Tech Support Showdown.
Lenovo sells several different configurations of the ThinkPad T470s at third-party retailers, and allows you to configure the laptop to order at Lenovo.com. The base model goes for $1,124 and features a Core i5-7200U CPU; 4GB of RAM; a 128GB SSD; and a nontouch, 1080p screen.
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We tested three configurations of the ThinkPad T470s. The most powerful model costs $2,102.99 and boasts a 2.8-GHz Intel Core i7-7600U CPU, 12GB of RAM, a 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD and a 2560 x 1440 display.
The $1,571.99 base model comes with a 2.6-GHz Intel Core i5-7300U CPU, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD and a 1920 x 1080 screen. For $1,619, you can get a configuration that's nearly identical to the base model but adds a touch-screen display.
The Lenovo ThinkPad T470s is an ultraportable business notebook that delivers solid performance and a comfortable, responsive keyboard. There's very little bloatware on the machine. However, its battery life is below average, and the only screen we can recommend is the high-end QWHD panel.
If you can spend around $200 more and don't need the proprietary docking port or a built-in SD card reader, consider Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which is lighter and lasts much longer. Or, if you're looking for long battery life and don't mind carrying a noticeably heavier laptop, another option is the regular ThinkPad T470, which costs less and lasts more than twice as long as the T470s on a charge.
However, if you can live with its trade-offs, the ThinkPad T470s will offer you a strong combination of performance, usability and portability.
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Lenovo ThinkPad T470s Specs
CPU 2.8-GHz Intel Core i7-7600U CPU
Card Slots Secure Digital, SD memory reader
Company Website lenovo.com
Display Size 14
Graphics Card Intel HD Graphics 620
Hard Drive Size 512GB
Hard Drive Type SSD
Highest Available Resolution 2560 x 1440
Native Resolution 2560 x 1440
Ports (excluding USB) Smart Card Reader, Ethernet, Thunderbolt 3, HDMI, USB 3.0, Headphone/Mic, Kensington Lock, SD card slot, SIM card
RAM Upgradable to 24GB
Size 13 x 8.9 x 0.7 inches
Touchpad Size 2.2 x 3.9 inches
USB Ports 4
Warranty/Support 1-year warranty
Wi-Fi Model Intel 8265 ac, 2x2 + BT4.1 Intel
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Xochitl Torres Small, Yvette Herrell meet in 1st debate in close House race in New Mexico
Russell Contreras
RIO RANCHO — Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small and Republican challenger Yvette Herrell have finally gone head-to-head in a televised debate in southern New Mexico’s closely watched U.S. House race after failing to debate during their 2018 contest.
During Sunday’s KOAT-TV/Albuquerque Journal-sponsored debate, Torres Small stressed “bipartisanship” and challenging her own party while Herrell tried to link the Democrat to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Herrell said she would be a “conservative voice” and pointed to her “Christian values” following a bruising GOP primary where she tried to portray herself as a stronger supporter for President Donald Trump than her two Republican opponents.
“I am unashamedly pro-God, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-business and pro-family,” Herrell said.
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Torres Small repeatedly highlighted her votes on oil and gas that bucked the Democratic Party’s positions. She brushed off Herrell’s criticism that she voted to impeach Trump and said she would vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden even though she disagrees with him on some energy policies.
“Common sense solutions don’t come with a party label,” Torres Small said.
After the debate, the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC dedicated to electing Republicans to the U.S. House, circulated a Washington Examiner story that falsely said Torres Small was charged with driving without a license in Hobbs and had an outstanding bench warrant for four years. Super PACs are political action committees that can take unlimited contributions from wealthy donors, but they may not coordinate with the campaigns.
“Lying about her criminal history to voters. You can’t trust Xochitl Torres Small,” Congressional Leadership Fund spokesman Will Reinert said in an email.
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But the Xochitl Torres cited in the story was born 10 years before the congresswoman and was a different person with the same name.
“The story did not meet the Washington Examiner’s editorial standards and has been retracted. Links to the story have been disabled,” the conservative-leaning newspaper wrote Monday. “The Washington Examiner apologizes to our readers and to Rep. Xochitl Torres Small.”
The Torres Small campaign said Torres is a common name in the American Southwest. “It’s deeply disappointing that the same people who have been consistently pushing misleading claims in their TV ads did not take the time to determine whether they were talking about the correct person before pushing another false claim,” the campaign said.
The race is a rematch of the 2018 campaign, where Torres Small won by less than 4,000 votes and flipped the traditionally Republican-leaning district. However, Herrell avoided televised debates at the time and faced criticism for failing to campaign in heavily Hispanic areas.
Herrell has campaigned this time in Hispanic-majority Doña Ana County and has challenged Torres Small to multiple debates.
State numbers show that new GOP voter registrations outpaced Democrats in the 2nd Congressional District this election cycle by 10,000 — more than twice the margin of victory in 2018.
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Herrell campaign manager Michael Horanburg said those numbers show there is “energy and momentum” among Republicans to recapture the seat.
The Torres Small campaign said the Las Cruces Democrat has worked with Republicans, Democrats and President Donald Trump on various proposals and has cited support from some Republicans.
Republicans have challenged Torres Small over her voting record, though she has voted with Republicans on some issues like minimum wage and trade. She has clashed with some of the more liberal members of Congress.
The sprawling district is home to a lucrative oil region but also has some of the most impoverished communities in the U.S.
The district has the highest percentage of Hispanic voters in New Mexico, which is the state with the highest percentage of Hispanic residents.
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Gladys Schmidt, born in Latrobe, PA 8-31-30 to August and Katharine Skuba, died 11-19-20 in Northbrook, IL at the age of 90. She married Gunther Schmidt (d. 2013) on May 31, 1952 in Chicago, IL. They were a good pair! She loved her work as an X-ray technician at Ravenswood Hospital, then excelled as a full-time homemaker and later had a business, Skuba Products, with her mother. Gladdie was a great woman, beloved by all who were blessed to know her. She was a woman of faith. By nature cheerful and giving, she loved to cook for and feed people. A clean and orderly house brought her joy. She was devoted to and delighted in her family. She is survived by her daughter Carol (Mark) Mazur, grandchildren Kevin (Loubna) Mazur and Mandy (Joe) Schoenfeldt, great grandchildren Safi Amine-Mazur and Sylvie and Ondine Schoenfeldt, and sister Kathleen (Irwin) Kossack. Her brother Keith (Joan) Skuba predeceased her. A celebration of her life is planned for the Spring. Her cremated remains will be scattered in Latrobe, PA as she wished. Memorial contributions may be made to By the Hand Club at bythehand.org/give. Perhaps honor Gladdie by performing a random act of kindness to leave the world a better place.
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Electric Brixton
1 Town Hall Parade, Brixton Hill, Brixton, London SW2 | 3 minutes walk from Veranda
With a long-standing live music heritage Electric Brixton has hosted The Clash and the Smiths, The Pet Shop... More
Ritzy Picturehouse
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Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW2 | 4 minutes walk from Veranda
If the Ritzy were a cat, it would have used up most of its nine lives. The cinema started life in 1910 as the Electric... More
211 Stockwell Road, Brixton, London SW9 | 7 minutes walk from Veranda
This former cinema with its art deco interior, proscenium arch and 140ft dome is London's most celebrated venue for live music, winning Best Live Venue... More
Landor Pub Theatre
70 Landor Road, Brixton, London SW9 | 8 minutes walk from Veranda
You're never more than three rows away from the action at the Landor Theatre where the audience never exceeds 60. Focussed on producing musical theatre... More
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95 Effra Road, SW2 | 9 minutes walk from Veranda
Hootananny Brixton is the sister venue to one of the Scottish Highlands' most successful venues, Hootananny in Inverness. Revamped and refurbished, it's fast-establishing itself as... More
Clapham Comedy Club @ The Bread & Roses
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Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor Street, SW4 | 16 minutes walk from Veranda
Resident comperes Leanne Scott and Sion James host monthly shows (usually on the first Thursday of every month) in this wonderfully friendly and intimate comedy... More
Omnibus Theatre
1 Clapham Common North Side, SW4 | 19 minutes walk from Veranda
An independent theatre in Clapham, South London, Omnibus is a welcoming space in the old library on Clapham... More
Above The Stag Theatre
Arch 17, Miles Street, Lambeth, London SW8 | 30 minutes walk from Veranda
Above the Stag Theatre, one of London's most successful small theatres, re-opens in a brand new venue on 29th November 2013, in a renovated... More
The Battersea Barge
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Riverside Walk, Nine Elms Lane, Nine Elms Lane, Vauxhall, Battersea, London SW8 | 32 minutes walk from Veranda
In the shadow of the Battersea Power Station, the Battersea Barge is a unique venue that's open daily for food, drink... More
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The pub - if it still fits within the confines of that definition - has a vast outdoor space that is semi-covered with... More
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC)
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Carrying many of London's best fringe productions, the Battersea Arts Centre is one of the best off-West End theatres and art venues in the capital.... More
Banana Cabaret
77 Bedford Hill, Balham, SW12 | 35 minutes walk from Veranda
It's worth venturing all the way to Balham for this comedy club - it's a class act. The legendary Banana Cabaret has run every Friday... More
Rise of the Idiots @ The Exhibit
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Based at The Exhibit Pub in Balham, the Rise of the Idiots Comedy Club runs monthly nights (last Sunday of each month) showcasing the very... More
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What Is a Jumper?
A jumper is a removable wire or small plastic or metal plug whose absence or placement on a piece of hardware determines how the hardware is to be configured. It works by opening or closing part of a circuit.
For example, if a jumper on a hard drive is in "Position A" (we made this up), it may mean that the hard drive is to be the primary hard drive on the system. If the jumper is in "Position B" it may mean that the hard drive is to be the secondary hard drive in the computer.
Jumpers have all but replaced an older hardware configuration mechanism called a DIP switch. Even jumpers are rare on most newer hardware today because of automatic configurations and software-controlled settings.
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Important Facts About Jumpers
The device you're changing the jumpers on should be powered down. With the device on, it's too easy to accidentally touch other pieces of metal or wires that may then result in damages or unwanted changes to the device's configuration.
Just like when dealing with other internal computer components, it's also always important to wear an anti-static wrist strap or some other electric discharge equipment to prevent transferring electricity to the components, which can damage them.
When a jumper is considered "on," it means that it's covering at least two pins. A jumper that's "off" is attached to only one pin. An "open jumper" is when none of the pins are covered with a jumper.
You can usually just use your fingers to adjust a jumper, but needle-nose pliers are often a better alternative.
Common Uses for Jumpers
In addition to computer hardware like a hard drive, a jumper can be used in other devices, too, like modems and sound cards.
Another example is in some garage door remotes. Those types of remotes have to have jumpers in the same positions as the jumpers in the garage door receiver. If even one jumper is missing or misplaced, the remote won't understand how to communicate with the garage door. Similar is a ceiling fan remote.
With these types of remotes, changing where the jumpers are usually adjusts the frequency of the remote so that it can reach the device that's listening on the same frequency.
More Information on Jumpers
The biggest benefit of using jumpers is that a device's settings can be changed only with a physical change of the position of the jumper. The alternative is that firmware changes the settings, which makes the hardware less likely to always comply because the firmware is easily affected by software changes like unintentional glitches.
Sometimes, after installing a second IDE/ATA hard drive, you may notice that the hard drive won't work unless the jumper is configured correctly. You can usually move the jumper between two pins that will make it a secondary or primary drive—another option is moving it to cable select.
Older computers might use jumpers to reset BIOS settings, clear CMOS information, or even set the speed of the CPU.
A group of multiple jumper pins that are collected together is often called a jumper block.
Plug and Play eliminates the need to adjust jumpers on a device. However, some devices do come with instructions for manipulating the jumpers if you want to customize the settings—it's just not required like it is with lots of old hardware.
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6 Common Myths About Glaucoma
Glaucoma is an eye disease in which increased pressure causes progressive, permanent vision loss and even blindness. Unfortunately, many misconceptions about the disease can leave you misinformed. Below we sort fact from fiction by debunking 6 of the most common glaucoma myths.
Glaucoma Facts vs. Myths
MYTH 1: Glaucoma is a single disease
Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases; the most common ones are open-angle glaucoma (OAG) and angle-closure glaucoma (ACG).
In open-angle glaucoma, the drainage structure in your eye (called the trabecular meshwork) doesn’t allow the fluid inside the eye to flow out as it should, causing an increase in internal ocular pressure that damages the optic nerve. OAG develops slowly, and usually by the time people perceive symptoms, such as peripheral vision loss, they already have optic nerve damage.
In angle-closure glaucoma, the eye doesn’t drain fluid as it should because the drainage channel between your iris and cornea becomes too narrow, causing increased eye pressure. This pressure damages the optic nerve, leading to vision loss. ACG can occur suddenly or gradually.
MYTH 2: Only the elderly suffer from glaucoma
Although it’s true that people over 60 are at a greater risk of developing open-angle glaucoma compared to people in their 40s, there are other types of glaucoma that can affect people aged 20 to 50 and even young infants (due to abnormal ocular development).
In addition to age, those with a higher risk of developing glaucoma include:
African Americans and Hispanics
Individuals with a family history of glaucoma
Patients with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or sickle cell anemia
Those who have previously sustained an eye injury
People taking steroid medications over the long term
MYTH 3: Glaucoma shows symptoms early on
The most common form of glaucoma, open-angle glaucoma, shows virtually no signs or symptoms until its later stages when vision loss sets in. Despite what people may think, the increased eye pressure causes no pain. And since peripheral vision is the first to go, you may not recognize vision loss until your vision has become significantly impaired. The only way to detect glaucoma is to undergo a comprehensive eye exam.
MYTH 4: Nothing can be done once you have glaucoma
While there's currently no cure for glaucoma, many effective treatment options exist: eye drops, oral medications, as well as laser and surgical procedures that can help slow glaucoma progression. Each treatment option is used to get the fluid to flow properly out of the eye, reducing pressure inside the eye and decreasing damage to the optic nerve.
MYTH 5: Testing for glaucoma is painful
Actually, testing for glaucoma is practically painless. One of the tests includes a non-contact device that blows a gentle puff of air into each eye to test the intraocular pressure. The sound of the puff may be startling, but it’s over in a second and is painless. With the Goldmann applanation tonometry test, an anesthetic eye drop is inserted into each eye, which may cause a stinging sensation for a few seconds. Your eye doctor will then use a blue light to quickly and gently touch the cornea to precisely measure intraocular pressure. The most accurate of all, however, are visual field testing and OCT (optical coherence tomography), non-invasive imaging, both of which are also painless.
MYTH 6: You can’t prevent glaucoma
Regular eye exams are the only way to prevent glaucoma, as blindness or significant vision loss can be prevented if the disease is diagnosed and treated in the early stages. That's why routine comprehensive eye exams which include glaucoma testing are so important.
Getting your eyes checked regularly can ensure that any existing eye problems are detected early enough to prevent or slow ocular damage. Contact Magna Family Eyecare in Magna to book your comprehensive eye exam today!
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Magna Family Eye Care - Located at 3665 S 8400 W, Ste 100, Magna, UT 84044 Phone: (801) 250-5745 www.magnafamilyeyecare.com
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A-lamp - The incandescent lamp most commonly used in North American households. The "A" designation refers to the lamp's bulbous shape. ballast - A device required by electric-discharge light sources such as fluorescent or HID lamps to regulate voltage and current supplied to the lamp during start and throughout operation. bi-level switching - Control of light source intensity at two discrete levels in addition to off. compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) - A family of single-ended fluorescent-discharge light sources with small-diameter [16-millimeter (5/8-inch) or less] tubes. continuous dimming - Control of a light source's intensity to practically any value within a given operating range. tri-level switching - Control of light source intensity at three discrete levels in addition to off. indirect lighting - Light arriving at a surface after reflecting from one or more surfaces (usually walls and/or ceilings) that are not part of the luminaire. lamp - A radiant light source. luminaire - A complete lighting unit consisting of a lamp or lamps and the parts designed to distribute the light, to position and protect the lamp(s), and to connect the lamp(s) to the power supply. (Also referred to as fixture.) correlated color temperature (CCT) - A specification for white light sources used to describe the dominant color tone along the dimension from warm (yellows and reds) to cool (blue). Lamps with a CCT rating below 3200 K are usually considered warm sources, whereas those with a CCT above 4000 K usually considered cool in appearance. Temperatures in between are considered neutral in appearance. Technically, CCT extends the practice of using temperature, in kelvins (K), for specifying the spectrum of light sources other than blackbody radiators. Incandescent lamps and daylight closely approximate the spectra of black body radiators at different temperatures and can be designated by the corresponding temperature of a blackbody radiator. The spectra of fluorescent and LED sources, however, differ substantially from black body radiators yet they can have a color appearance similar to a blackbody radiator of a particular temperature as given by CCT. direct light - Light emitted by a luminaire in the general direction of the task to be illuminated. The term usually refers to light emitted in a downward direction. halogen lamp - An incandescent lamp that uses a halogen fill gas. Halogen lamps have higher rated efficacies and longer lives than standard incandescent A-lamps. active power - the system input power (in watts) for a lamp-ballast combination. color rendering index (CRI) - A rating index commonly used to represent how well a light source renders the colors of objects that it illuminates. For a CRI value of 100, the maximum value, the colors of objects can be expected to be seen as they would appear under an incandescent or daylight spectrum of the same correlated color temperature (CCT). Sources with CRI values less than 50 are generally regarded as rendering colors poorly, that is, colors may appear unnatural. efficacy - The ratio of light output (in lumens) to input power (in watts), expressed as lumens per watt (LPW). illuminance - The density of luminous flux incident upon a surface. Illuminance is measured in footcandles (lumens/square foot) or lux (lumens/square meter). One footcandle equals 10.76 lux. lamp life - The number of hours at which half of a large group of lamps have failed when operated under standard testing conditions. lumen (lm) - A unit measurement of the rate at which a lamp produces light. A lamp's lumen output rating expresses the total amount of light the lamp emits in all directions per unit time. metal halide lamp - A high-intensity discharge (HID) lamp that uses mercury and several halide additives as light-producing elements. Metal halide lamps have better color properties than other HID lamp types because the different additives produce light distributed over more visible wavelengths, resulting in a more complete spectrum. Metal halide lamps are available with CCTs from 2300 to 5400 K and with CRI values from 60 to 93. Efficacies of metal halide lamps typically range from 75 to 125 LPW.
What are the alternatives to halogen torchieres?
Manufacturers have introduced a number of compact-fluorescent-lamp (CFL) torchieres and at least one metal halide torchiere that offer similar light output and better energy efficiency than halogen torchieres and greatly reduce concerns about fire and explosion. Incandescent (A-lamp) torchieres are another alternative to reduce the risk of fire, although they are not necessarily more efficient than halogen torchieres. Alternative products are becoming available at retail outlets, online, and through mail-order catalogs (see "Where are they available?" for more information).
Incandescent-lamp torchieres
Many stores now offer torchieres with 100- or 150-watt (W) incandescent A-lamps. Like halogen lamps, incandescent lamps can be dimmed, and these torchieres are usually available with either continuous or trilevel dimming. Incandescent lamps are cooler than halogen torchieres, but they achieve lower temperatures primarily through reduced light output. They are about as efficacious as halogen lamps. Incandescent lamps are the least expensive of the lamps discussed in this report.
CFL torchieres
CFLs require a ballast to regulate starting voltage and operating current. The ballast increases the weight of the torchiere, although CFL torchieres are still lightweight and compact enough to be moved easily.
Several CFL torchieres include bilevel or trilevel switching, a few offer continuous dimming. Dimming generally increases the correlated color temperature (CCT) of CFLs, making their color appear cooler (unlike halogen and incandescent lamps). CFL torchieres are available in a number of lamp configurations containing the CFLs shown below. These CFLs are available in a range of CCTs with color-rendering indexes (CRIs) of at least 82, with efficacy ranging from 60-86 lumens per watt (LPW).
Metal halide torchieres
Like CFLs, metal halide lamps require a ballast to regulate starting voltage and operating current. The metal halide torchiere tested by NLPIP uses a 68-W metal halide lamp. Two 25-W (or lower wattage) incandescent A-lamps are included in the torchiere to provide light during the time needed for the metal halide lamp to reach full light output. The A-lamps can be turned off separately. The 68-W metal halide lamp has a CCT of 3200 with a CRI of about 75. The metal halide lamp is also more efficacious (at 88 LPW) than CFLs. However, it cannot be dimmed.
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Highest number of people who listen to my music come from New Zealand and Australia – KiDi
By Christian Danquah
Lynx Entertainment signed artiste, KiDi, has indicated that the digital space has had a positive impact on his music. He said this has enabled his music to go beyond the shores of Ghana.
According to KiDi, the highest number of people that normally stream and listen to his music the most are not even Ghanaians.
Speaking in an interview on the Max Morning Show on Max TV, KiDi said “In 2018, could you believe that the people in the whole world that listen to my songs the most weren’t even Ghanaians.”
The “Say Cheese” hit maker indicated that the highest number of people who listen to his music come from New Zealand and Australia.
“Yea, there were people from New Zealand and Australia. Most of my highest streams come from New Zealand. All these people listen to my songs more than Ghanaians. You could think it is Ghanaians but the most stream I get is from New Zealand. So you can track that from digital, you can go to the Sportifys, the YouTubes and know where they are listening to your music from. So when you are making music you have to have them in mind as well because now you have fans there so you don’t have to make it for the international market,” he said.
He said “With the digital space now it is good for music, now people are actually able to track how well their song is doing and where in the world you are listening.”
KiDi has songs such as Mr Badman, Say You Love Me, Enjoyment, Say Cheese, Thunder, Sugar Daddy, Adiepena among many others.
Watch the full interview with KiDi on the Max Moring Show below :
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EU CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE
Commission approves €110 million Czech rent compensation scheme to support businesses affected by the coronavirus outbreak (SA.59118) - Midday Express
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Commission clears the acquisition of joint control of Pioneer UK Midco 1 Limited by Kohlberg, Mubadala and Partners Group (M.9967) - Midday Express
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Management of Bilateral Trade Issues in DG Trade – 03 November 2020
Report of the 33rd round of negotiations on the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment – 27 October 2020
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Self-harm in Teens: Rapid Response With Novel Behavior Therapy
Liam Davenport
A behavioral therapy that teaches coping skills, used in conjunction with psychotherapy, not only significantly reduces self-harm among adolescents but also more rapidly leads to recovery from suicidal ideation and depression than enhanced usual care (EUC), a Norwegian study suggests.
Following 19 weeks of dialectical behavior therapy adapted for adolescents (DBT-A), self-harming adolescents were significantly less likely to self-harm than those who underwent EUC, a difference that persisted up to 1 year.
In addition, patients who underwent DBT-A experienced improvements in suicidal ideation, hopelessness, and depression, as well as global functioning, earlier than did EUC patients, with the latter catching up by the final follow-up.
The team says: "This study suggests that DBT-A is associated with greater long-term reduction in self-harm and more rapid clinical improvements in suicidal ideation, depression, and borderline symptoms than usual care. These findings indicate that DBT-A may be a favorable treatment alternative for adolescents with repetitive self-harming behavior."
The article was published online January 27 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Public Health Problem
Lead author Lars Mehlum, MD, PhD, the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway, explained that self-harm constitutes a public health problem in most of the developed world.
Speaking to Medscape Medical News, he said that in the general population, 8% to 10% of adolescents aged 14 to 17 years report that they have self-harmed. This figure rises to approximately 25% among individuals seen in child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient units, regardless of their diagnoses.
"Not all of those who report this...are equally disturbed or are having a lot of problems, but other studies have shown that it's possible to find a gradient of risk factors associated with self-harm out in the general population," said Dr Mehlum.
"The more it is repetitive and the more it is combined with suicide attempts, the more we are talking about a very disturbed and an at-risk population of youngsters who are in need of treatment," he added.
For the study, researchers randomly assigned 77 adolescents from Oslo (mean age, 15.6 years) who reported at least two prior episodes of self-harm to receive 19 weeks of either DBT-A or EUC.
EUC consisted of standard care plus no less than one weekly therapist-led treatment session per patient throughout the course of the trial. This was intended only for the 19-week treatment period but could last longer, depending on the therapists' assessment of patients' needs.
The DBT-A used in the study was an adaptation of standard DBT and comprised four modules, the first of which consisted of 1 hour of weekly psychotherapy with an individual therapist.
The second was a skills training seminar, led by two therapists, in which adolescents and their parents or care providers were invited to participate. From three to six family groups took part. In the seminiar, the families learned new skills and participated in brief rehearsals that demonstrated the relevance of the new skills and how they could be used. Homework was also assigned.
The third module consisted of telephone-based coaching. Individual therapists were available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the adolescents to call to discuss feelings that would ordinarily lead to self-harm. Follow-up calls were made 20 minutes after completion of the sessions.
The fourth module, which was termed "consultation team," consisted of a once-weekly session for the therapists to meet together. The purpose was to keep the therapists motivated and on track for treating patients without becoming burned out, demotivated, or hopeless.
Motivation Part of Treatment
At the end of the 19-week treatment period and at 1-year follow-up, the adolescents underwent assessments of self-harm, suicidal ideation, depression, feelings of hopelessness, borderline symptoms, and global level of functioning. Data on hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and other mental health care interventions were recorded.
All 77 adolescents completed the treatment period; 75 returned for the 1-year follow-up.
No suicides occurred in either group. EUC patients reported a 44.9% reduction in self-harm episodes between the 19 weeks of treatment and the 1-year follow-up, from 22.5 to 14.8 episodes. This compared with a 55.9% reduction with DBT-A, from 9.0 to 5.5 episodes, respectively. The between-group difference was significant at both time points (P < .05).
Levels of suicidal ideation, hopelessness, and depressive or borderline symptoms and global level of functioning were all lower in the DBT-A group at the 19-week assessment. However, these differences disappeared by the 1-year follow-up, largely as a result of significant improvements in the EUC group. The participants were unchanged.
Two patients from each group were hospitalized during follow-up. Outpatient treatment was received by 38.9% of EUC patients vs 10.8% of DBT-A patients. However, 12.1% and 22.1% of EUC and DBT-A patients, respectively, visited emergency departments during follow-up. The difference was not significant.
Dr Mehlum said the findings show "that it is possible within a rather limited time period to reduce self-harm but also to increase the quality of life and reduce the number of mental ill-health factors that are associated with this self-harm practice."
He believes that it would be possible to roll out this treatment into standard clinical practice. Because it lasts for only 4 months, it is "feasible to offer it to larger groups of patients than previous treatments that range from 12 months to up to 3 years, which is forever for a teenager but also very resource-demanding."
The team is also examining ways to apply components of DBT-A to child protection services and general medical practices.
"At the moment, we are working with adaptations like that, because we know that some patients will never come to child and adolescent psychiatric services," he said.
"They won't do it and/or that service won't be available, or there might be one million other factors [related to] the patients, their families, but also in the system and in society."
One issue that the authors raise in their article is that compliance with treatment services among adolescents who self-harm has typically been low. Dr Mehlum explained that, previously, a patient's motivation for treatment and therapy was considered a prerequisite for starting therapy.
"I would say that we need to define making our patients more motivated and compliant as a very important part of the treatment in itself," he said. He explained that DBT-A defines motivation as part of the treatment process.
"You need to be challenged, but also validated for all of the hard work you are doing, and sometimes the pain you are feeling when you are going in treatment," said Dr Mehlum.
Rapid Response Important
Commenting on the findings for Medscape Medical News, David A. Brent, MD, Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies and professor of psychiatry, pediatrics, epidemiology, and clinical and translational science, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, said that the study was "well-constructed."
The rapid response seen with DBT-A in comparison with EUC is "really important."
"The longer someone has high levels of depression or suicidal ideation, the longer that person is at risk to attempt or complete suicide. The differences are meaningful, and will be especially so if the authors choose to do cost-benefit analyses, which may show better improvement per unit cost of treatment in DBT-A," he said.
Dr Brent added that once the findings have been replicated in further studies, he would like to see DBT-A become more widely available. However, there is a need to compare DBT-A with other available treatments, especially insofar as the time-intensive nature of the therapy means that "many people eschew participating."
The study was funded by grants from the Norwegian Directorate of Health, the South Eastern Regional Health Authority, the ExtraFoundation for Health and Rehabilitation, and the University of Oslo. The authors have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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Dressed in a truly stunning dress and sporting a delicate bolero matching the tradition and sophistication of the ceremony, Kelly floated down the aisle like she was always meant to be a bride. With her blonde hair styled in a classic up-do (with an edgy modern twist), sparkly earrings that perfectly complemented her gown, and her proud, doting father Craig on her arm, Kelly strode confidently towards her handsome husband-to-be to the soft sounds of Eva Cassidy’s Songbird. Never have the words ‘to you I would give the world’ meant as much as they did when Kelly and Adam first laid eyes on each other that special day.
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The ceremony progressed without a hitch, with the bride and groom beaming throughout. Even during the first kiss, the camera caught both of them with upturned lips as they celebrated their first moments as husband and wife. During the signing of the register, where Kelly’s sister Julie and Adam’s grandmother Daphne acted as witnesses, the newly betrothed looked so calm and serene (almost as if being husband and wife was completely natural to them) as if it was their destiny. However, this harmonious, peaceful, tranquil ceremony was coming to an end, to be replaced by one of the most animated spirited parties I’ve ever had the pleasure of attending.
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, President and Chief Executive Rod Beckstrom, left, and Kurt Pritz, Senior Vice President speaks on expanding the number of domain name suffixes during a press conference, London, Wednesday June 13, 2012. Proposals for Internet addresses ending in “.pizza,” ”.space” and “.auto” are among the nearly 2,000 submitted as part of the largest expansion in the online address system. Apple Inc., Sony Corp. and American Express Co. are among companies seeking names with their brands. The expansion will allow suffixes that represent hobbies, ethnic groups, corporate brand names and more. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced the proposals for Internet suffixes â the “.com” part of an Internet address â in London on Wednesday. Among the 1,930 proposals for 1,409 different suffixes, the bulk came from North America and Europe. (Tim Hales/AP Photos)
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The word sucks is now a protest word and it s up to people to give it more meaning.
— Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, in a commercial promoting the .sucks domain.
John Berard of Vox Populi, which owns the .sucks generic top-level domain (gTLD), says: We think it can have value for companies, especially in terms of being able to deliver customer service, build customer loyalty, and even R&D. When you look at it that way, $2,499 is well priced. That s right, starting March 30, companies will have the chance to pay Vox Populia $2,499 a year to register a .sucks domain — lucky them. Quartz points out: If they don t, someone else will.
Can you imagine? Starbucks.sucks. Walmart.sucks. Apple.sucks. At least these companies can actually afford to scoop up those domains. But for smaller companies that don t have deep pockets, it could get expensive to try to avoid being targeted.
Most Internet users know about the following top-level domains: .com, .net, .org and more. But all that is so five minutes ago. Hundreds of new gTLDs are popping up after ICANN approved a great Internet real estate expansion, as Michelle Quinn wrote last year. Among them are .app (Google bought it for $25 million), .email, .social, .democrat.
But .sucks is among the most attention-getting and controversial gTLDs. I wrote last year that Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va, said .sucks has little or no socially redeeming value, and that he was worried it would lead to a predatory shakedown scheme.
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Play moves between the three lanes, working from the top to the mid to the bottom lane in turn. Once the bottom lane turn has ended, the action moves back to the top lane once again and the cycle continues (although there's a pause between rounds to buy combat-enhancing items).
Although these boards will act as independent entities for the most part, certain heroes can influence boards other than the one they currently occupy. More on that in the heroes section further down the page.
Each of the three lanes has its own Mana resource pool, which controls the cards you can play at any given stage of the game. Each lane's Mana pool begins at three and increases by one point as each turn plays out.
Note that it is possible to use special spells to accelerate this rate of resource gain - Hearthstone Druid fans will be very familiar with this concept, of course.
Unlike the individually targeted action of Hearthstone minions though, combat in Artifact is largely automated. Your playable units will attack the enemy directly ahead of them or to the diagonal left and right position. There'll be an element of randomness to the targets that are chosen as well, although we've heard reassuring noises that RNG is very limited in the game.
Finally, there are no limits to the number of minions you can have active in any given lane. If your board presence is wider than the screen real estate allows, then you'll be able to scroll left and right to view any action that's currently obscured. Have no doubt this is a deeply complex game that will require you to manage a lot of information at any given time!
Some of the terms in the game can be quite confusing. If you're struggling, take a look at our comprehensive Artifact Glossary which covers keywords, terms and mechanics.
Artifact: Heroes
Alongside the 280 core cards, there are 44 heroes to take into battle in Artifact. Here's the lowdown on what we know about them so far:
Hero overview
Hero characters are separated into four distinct categories known as “suits”:
Black - Heroes that are capable of interacting with other boards in sneaky ways.
Blue - These are your more mage-like characters, which become more powerful later on in the game.
Green - Support heroes that help restore and empower other combat characters.
Red - Tough, warrior-like heroes designed for a melee-focused offensive.
Each hero has a so-called Signature Card. Think of these as particularly powerful cards that synergise well with the hero, and are almost always part of your strategy when the hero is in your deck.
When building a deck in constructed play, you will be able to choose heroes and cards from a maximum of two suits, and you can have up to five heroes in any given deck.
If a hero dies in Artifact, it returns after an absence of two turns and can be deployed to a lane of your choosing. Note, however, that certain Green heroes can sometimes return faster than this, thanks to a special resurrect ability that brings them back into play on the next turn.
The “land” system in Artifact is quite interesting as well. Your heroes each have their own associated spells, and you won't be able to cast those spells on a given game lane unless you have a hero of the corresponding colour in place.
There are some exceptions to this rule, however. Certain cards (Black) can be used to affect game boards other than the one the hero in question is currently sitting on.
It'll be interesting to see how this affects the overall strategy of the game over time, and as with all sections of this guide we'll have more for you just as soon as we can get our hands on the info!
Hero item slots
Heroes will each have three item slots. One of these slots is for equipping a weapon, the other is for a piece of armour, and the final slot is for a health boost of some kind. You choose the items that you'd like to put it in your deck.
You can buy new items for your hero once a three-lane-turn has concluded, and you'll earn currency by destroying creeps and heroes (and certain cards will actually allow you to accrue Gold at a faster rate as well).
This purchasing window happens at the end of the bottom lane turn, and before the game cycles back up to the top lane once again.
Something to be aware of is that if a hero dies, they retain all of their equipment when they return to the game board. You don't need to worry about losing any of your awesome gear you've invested in them, and falling behind in terms of resourcing as a result!
We have an Artifact Item Shop guide which contains a detailed breakdown of all items available during the shopping phase.
Artifact: Game Modes
There are a number of different games modes available in Artifact:
Gauntlets require you to win a certain number of matches before you're knocked out due to incurring too many losses. As standard you can win a maximum five games, but are eliminated if you lose two.
There are a number of different Gauntlets available at launch. Some of them are free and offer no rewards, while others have an entry cost but provide prizes depending on your performaance (see the next section in our guide for a cost breakdown).
Casual [Free] Gauntlets
Call to Arms Preconstructed - Limited to the six decks players tested out at events such as PAX this year. Note that in this special example you're eliminated after one loss and there's no cap on the win-streak potential.
Casual Constructed - Take your best personal deck creations and try them out against the community's own lists.
Premium [Expert] Gauntlets
Expert Constructed - Take your Casual Constructed decks (see above) and put some money on the line.
Phantom Draft - Create a deck from a series of random card choices, but note that you do not keep the cards after your run has ended.
Keeper Draft - As above, except you get to keep all the cards you drafted once you hit either five wins or two losses.
We highly recommend reading our Artifact: Drafting guide if you want a better understanding of this initially complex system.
Once you've created a deck using any of the cards in your collection, you can take it to the wider playerbase in the Constructed mode.
There may be multiple formats to get stuck into within Constructed at launch. Some might limit the number of heroes you can have in a deck, for example, while others might place limitations on how many copies of each card can be included.
A special event will accompany the game's launch called Call to Arms. Here'll you be able to take part in a couple of game modes that will be completely free to play after your initial buy-in of Artifact.
Full details of the launch event are available in our Artifact: Call to Arms guide.
Artifact launches with an in-game tournament system that will allow you to create your own competitions. You can set parameters such as duration and card rarity restrictions if you're hosting a tournament, and make it open to the public or limited to friends if you wish.
We have a dedicated Artifact: Tournament guide if you'd like to learn more about this system in greater depth.
Artifact: Cost
The initial cost to buy Artifact is $20. For this you receive:
10 x Card Packs
5 x Event Tickets
2 x Starter Decks (see the next section for deck guides)
Event Tickets - These are required if you want to take part in the Expert - or premium - Gauntlets that we outlined earlier on in this guide, and which provide rewards. If you want to buy more Event Tickets, they cost $4.95 for a bundle of five.
Our Artifact Gauntlet guide contains more information about the entry costs for each Gauntlet type, and the rewards you'll receive for reaching certain win milestones.
Card Packs - Additional card packs can be purchased from the Steam Marketplace for $1.99 and contain twelve random cards from the Call to Arms Set. You're guaranteed to receive one hero, two items and at least one card of the highest rarity in each pack.
Individual Cards - You can also trade individual cards with other players for real money on the Community Market.
Artifact: Decks and Deck Guides
As we've mentioned elsewhere in this guide already, a number of decks used at PAX this year will feature as part of the Call to Arms launch event.
You'll also receive two other preconstructed decks with the $20 purchase bundle. We're in the process of putting together guides to playing each one right now - expect many updates to these once the beta is underway and we've had more hands-on experience.
Call to Arms Preconstructed Decks
1. Aggro Black / Blue - Artifact: Black / Blue Aggro deck list guide
2. Econ Ramp Green / Black - Coming soon!
3. Control Blue / Red - Coming soon!
4. Armored Cleave Red / Green - Coming soon!
Premade Purchase Decks
1. Red / Green Brawler - Artifact: Red / Green Brawler deck list guide
2. Blue / Black Control - Coming soon!
Artifact FAQ
What's the release date for Artifact?
Artifact will be released for PC and Mac on November 28th 2018, with the mobile version to follow towards the middle of 2019.
What engine does Artifact run on?
Artifact has been created using the Source 2 engine. Valve enthusiasts may recall that this is the engine that Dota 2 was ported to a few years ago. In other words, expect some seriously pretty gameplay when Artifact lands on your PC!
When is Artifact coming to iOS and Android?
On the subject of the game's engine, it's intriguing to note that Artifact will be making its way to iOS and Android platforms towards the middle of 2019. This will be the first use of Source 2 on mobile devices, and we're intrigued to see how well it scales on these weaker devices.
Will Artifact have Workshop support?
Unlike other Valve games that facilitate modding, there will be no Workshop support for the game at launch. Whether that changes over time is something we'll just have to wait and see on.
Is there going to be an Artifact beta?
An Artifact beta has been confirmed for November 19th 2018.
That's the end of the fifth edition of our Artifact guide. If there's anything you think we've missed, let us know in the comments so we can add it in with the next update.
Comments on this article are now closed. Thanks for taking part!
Bedders #1 2 years ago
@Vielxian Hi, thanks for commenting. Are you asking if it's possible to replace an item you've given a hero, perhaps with a better one, during the next shopping phase?
If so, I have to say I don't have that answer but I'd like to do some digging around to clarify.
Vielxian #2 2 years ago
Can you replace or change the item from the one that already be use on any heroes with another item in description of better item?
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