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(MINSK, Belarus) — Protests calling for Belarus’ leader Alexander Lukashenko to step down took place again in the capital Minsk on Wednesday, but for the first time in a week riot police reappeared on the streets as authorities seemed to take steps to regain momentum against the protests.
The hundreds of protesters calling for an end to Lukashenko’s 26-year rule sought to gather outside the Interior Ministry in central Minsk, but were met by a large number of riot police deployed to block them.
It came on the same day as Lukashenko ordered police to clear the streets, though in the end, police did not move against protesters, instead just blocking their path to the ministry.
“There should no longer be any disorder in Minsk of any kind,” Lukashenko said in a meeting with senior officials, as reported by state news agency Belta. “People are tired. People demand peace and quiet.”
The demonstrations went ahead despite the threat of a crackdown, moving instead to Minsk’s central Independence Square. But it was the first day that there was a significant police presence since last week and the historic protests over the weekend that saw an estimated over 100,000 people take to the streets. Since those protests, police had all but vanished from the streets.
The protests have sought to keep the pressure up on Lukashenko. But after the euphoria of the vast crowds of Sunday, by Wednesday an unease and a sense of fragility had appeared among some protesters, aware Lukashenko’s grip on power has not been broken and mass defections of security forces or government workers have so far not materialized.
The authorities appeared to have recovered some of their footing. In the morning, police dispersed protesters outside a Minsk factory where they have been encouraging a strike, arresting some, though they did not use the extreme violence that was seen at the start of the protests.
The announcement of a wave of strikes at some of Belarus’ largest manufacturing plants last week produced some of the momentum to the protests that culminated in Sunday’s massive demonstrations in Minsk, viewed as a signal that the workers long considered Lukashenko’s base were also turning on him.
But in the past few days, authorities and management at the factories have turned up the pressure on workers and by midweek the strikes appeared to be struggling.
A walkout by workers from the Minsk Tractor Factory last week was taken as a sign of the protests’ ballooning support. But on Tuesday when ABC News reporters visited the factory — a vast complex with 16,000 staff — workers supportive of the protest said the numbers willing to strike had shrunk dramatically.
Workers said they were unsure how many people were striking in the factory, but that it had fallen from around 10,000 on the first day to far less — perhaps less than 2,000.
A 38-year-old woman who worked at a stamping press wept as she said she couldn’t strike because she had been threatened with firing.
“I have two children,” she said, saying she preferred not to give her name because of the risk of reprisal. “People are afraid.”
A crowd of protesters wearing red and white energetically cheered on workers as they emerged from their shift. Some of the workers flashed the V-sign that has become a symbol of the protests. But most stared passively straight ahead, while a small number angrily grabbed the flyers demonstrators held out and tore them up.
Yulia, a young employee at the Minsk Truck Factory, struggled to hold back tears as she said there were now only a few hundred workers striking.
“On Friday there was a lot more, and yesterday there was a lot more,” said Yulia, 26, who asked ABC News not to use her last name. “It’s very small. We wanted better, but I don’t think our government will change.”
A number of workers said they thought the lack of clear leaders for the protests was stopping many from joining them.
The movement against Lukashenko had lined up behind an opposition candidate in the election, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. Tikhanovskaya, who was a stay-at-home mother until a few months ago, ran against Lukashenko after her husband, a popular blogger, was jailed and prevented from being a candidate.
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HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF INTERVIEW: ‘LOOK OUT MAMA’ SOUNDS LIKE HOME (NEW ORLEANS) TO ME
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With their UK tour fast approaching and new release ‘Look Out Mama’ set for release there was never a better time for Fame to meet up with the lovely Alynda from US band ‘Hurray For The Riff Raff’.
Firstly exactly how did ‘Hurray For The Riff Raff’ form?
Hurray for the Riff Raff started as a project for me to write original songs, the band has a taken on many different forms but as of now, it’s
Yosi Perlstein and myself with Sam Doores, Dan Cutler (of Sam Doores and the Tumbleweeds) and Casey MaCallister joining us to perform our more rockin’ songs.
I met Yosi when I just turned 19, at that point I had not really spent much time writing songs or performing them, we travelled together for a short stint and when he moved to New Orleans we were drawn to each other musically.
We have a great connection, he really understands where I’m coming from.
Sam Doores and I have been best friends since we met 5 years ago, he’s slowly joined the band and is a great force in helping me get out of my comfort zone and try to write some music that will make people dance. I’m lucky to play with such great musicians.
We would describe your music as country-folk with a modern spin. Would you agree with that and is that the genre you enjoy playing?
I think that all Rock and Roll derives from classic country and blues so I’d be just fine being in that category.
I would say we have some rock and roll in us, we try to add some of the attitude and rhythm of cajun tunes Yosi has learned, we also have a lot of the current New Orleans music scene in us.
I would say a similarity between all of my peers in the New Orleans music scene is an appreciation for music that’s come before us. We want to learn it, study it and turn it into something new.
I think that’s what The Band did, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch, all the best have learned from the old records.
You have a much anticipated UK tour coming up soon, what can UK fans expect from your live show?
You can expect a lot of songs from the new record, ‘Look Out Mama’. We’ll be the four piece that’s on the record which I’m excited about.
There’s some new songs I’ve written that I’m really into playing right now as well.
I guess we’re gonna try to blend that acoustic sound we have with some of the electric aspects of the record. We’re traveling light so some of these songs will be more stripped down, I like em that way personally.
Your debut album received some wonderful reviews in the UK (and of course further afield), how does it feel to be on the receiving end of such praise?
It’s exciting to get any attention abroad, it’s a dream come true to be able to travel so far playing music. We all know how lucky we are to get this opportunity just by playing songs, it’s magic really.
If our research is right we hear you as band play many small club/pub venues on a regular basis. Do you enjoy more intimate venues better than larger ones?
Haha, we don’t really know too much about the larger ones! All I know is a good show for me is just as much about the audience reaction and
participation as it is about us playing well up there.
I feed off the audience, so if they’re being responsive and encouraging it can be a show to ten people and I’ll feel great afterwards.
Does your new album ‘Look Out Mama’ cover any new ground for the band musically?
Thanks to the collaboration between me and Sam Doores, our goal was to capture some sounds that have inspired the two of us from our favorite
bands and records of the 1960’s. I really wanted a record that felt old and new at the same time.
I wanted to push my writing so that I could tell stories (ode to john and yoko), and explore the ability to write good pop songs that also has an underlying melancholy or fear of the times we live in. (lake of fire) I think my favorite track is Look Out Mama, because it sounds like home (New Orleans) to me.
Can you describe the process you have when creating a new track?
It changes all the time, but normally I’m alone and I write some bare bones song. I bring it to someone in the band and we flesh it out and
try to build on it.
Do you as a band use social media to monitor feedback from fans and interest in your work?
I think the main reason people are interested in bands using social media is because we all want to feel close to the artist we enjoy.
I try not take it too seriously, but also interact with it as just that, a way to let people see what I am actually like as a person, what i’m
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I sometimes post articles I think are important or share a worthy cause someone i know is trying to raise money for. It’s really sweet when people write encouraging comments, of course I appreciate that.
What is next for you after the UK tour and album release?
We’re gonna tour Germany afterwards, then Sam Doores and I will be heading to France and Italy for a duo tour. I can’t wait!
Was there a master plan when the band formed, did you have any targets to achieve with your musical career? if so have you achieved them yet?
Yosi and I concocted our master plan recently on tour, we want to help bring on a feminist revolution. It’s not here quite yet, but it’s coming to a town near you.
Finally what artist/artists do ‘Hurray For The Riff Raff’ listen to when they are relaxing after a gig?
Shovels and Rope!! I listen to them on repeat. They are my favorite group right now. Besides them, alot of Otis Redding, Dolly Parton, Townes Van Zandt, Karen Dalton, The Carter Family, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and of course a lot of Beatles.
When we’re in New Orleans we can go see any of our friends play which is a real great part of living there.
Folks like King James and the Special Men play every monday at a neighborhood bar BJ’s which is a great night of dancing, Tuba Skinny plays some awesome traditional New Orleans Jazz, and on tour we get to listen to folks like Morgan O’Kane, Spirit Family Reunion and of course our longtime tour buddies Sam Doores and the Tumbleweeds.
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Fight4thePJM Forum Index » 1st News, Latest PJM and Campaign News and Progress! » Our Legal Eagle's View is that You Can Wear it with Honour!
Our Legal Eagle's View is that You Can Wear it with Honour!
You do it. We do it. Four star officers do it (and they do it in the presence of royalty - as have we!).
Even the civil servants encourage us to do it.
But is it 'etiquette'?
Well, from us to you, here is the answer to that question:
We have sought, and obtained an independent legal opinion from a lawyer who specialises in military matters. Here are some summary extracts:
To ensure that every reader, including those in Whitehall and Great Smith Street, can read this important information, it is currently stuck on the front door to the Fight4thePJM web site at http://www.fight4thepjm.org:
Re: Our Legal Eagle's View is that You Can Wear it with Hono
The independent legal Opinion confirms your legal right, as an eligible recipient, to wear the PJM. Less formally, the Opinion also confirms that it is etiquette to wear the medal that you have been given permission to receive so long as you are eligible under the London Gazette Notice, i.e. not in Crown Service when the medal was conferred in January 2006. If anybody, e.g. a civil servant or parade marshal, endeavours to stop you wearing your PJM, or suggests that a rule exists that prevents you from legitimately wearing the medal without restriction, then they are almost certainly breaking the law.
But please note: This latest development, whilst reassuring in the sense that we now have an independent view that we are adopting correct etiquette and protocol by wearing the PJM, is not the end of the matter.
The civil servants have refused to acknowledge the demands of Parliament that they should amend the record that they created and that they administer. Until they do so, the stigma that they created still applies to your Malaysian medal. Only an official clarification from the Government will rectify the damage done by the flawed and incongruous 2006 Ministerial Statement. We have been promised (in writing) that that will one day happen. And we have also been promised that this situation will not be allowed to happen to other ordinary men and women.
Until those changes happen … the fight goes on.
mcdangle
As our dear departed friend Jock Fenton would say - the liars have now been refuted by lawyers.
We are legally entitled to wear the PJM because we have a Royal Warrant under Royal Sign Manual published in the London Gazette of 3rd. May, 1968, and to withhold this right through lies, prevarication and obfuscation, is in breach of the integrity of the Honours system which the HD Committee admit they try to preserve.
Even an independent professional legal eagle of some renown who has no interest in the PJM states that the FCO are not legally entitled to make rules which they expect British private citizens to comply with.
The new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the FCO has stated in a recent letter that the advice of the HD Committee is not legally binding and the case of permission to wear the PJM relates to a matter of etiquette. But it is a legal matter. Breaching our democratic right to freedom of dress and privacy in our public lives, (and our human rights) ARE a matter of legal protection to citizens, and to try and weazle out of their incompetent decision to suggest that the PJM cannot be worn without taking into account the London Gazette Royal Warrant, shows that our parliament must take urgent consideration of this breach by an unelected, and in their own admission, non-parliamentary committee of civil servants, who have no authority whatsoever over private citizens.
So now we have a matter of etiquette. Is etiquette being breached by wearing a medal which has been approved by the Queen and authorised for unrestricted wear by Royal Warrant. No it isn't. It is only a committee of numpties who cannot, or will not, accept that they have been wrong right from the start and are only compounding their error with martian speak and trash.
The fight is not over until the PJM is recognised OFFICIALLY for unrestricted wear and our Parliament ensures that this shameful breach of citizens rights is never ever repeated by unofficial civil servants.
John Feltham
Location: Townsville, North Queensland
Re: Legal Opinion
mcdangle wrote:
We are legally entitled to wear the PJM because we have a Royal Warrant under Royal Sign Manual published in the London Gazette of 3rd. May, 1968,
The LG notice of 3rd May 1968 has not been rescinded. Though there are now attempts by senior civil servants of the Cabinet Office to say that it has been rescinded or overridden.
These senior civil servants are and have been clutching at straws.
A long time ago we told them the story about digging holes.
These discredited civil servants are still digging.
Merdeka, Merdeka, Merdeka,
from the HD Committee and its decision.
The PJM worn with honour!
I thought you would like to see this August 2009 photograph of a medal bar. It isn't just any medal bar. It is a distinguished medal bar which belongs to a distinguished retired member of the Special Air Service. He is a Fight4thePJM supporter who must remain anonymous.
He fought in WW2 behind enemy lines. He fought in Malaya. He was very well known in the Regiment and would never do or say anything that contravened his integrity or that of the SAS. And so he wears his PJM with honour ... as we all should.
The civil servants who try to say they have stopped the PJM being worn will be very disappointed by this image. They have absolutely no idea what it took this man to earn those wings or the 11 medals on his bar.
So, our legal eagle states the statutory, this piccie reflects the salutary ... and they both tell us what we must do. Fight on ....
Can the Honours and Decorations Committee, very kindly direct us to the new London Gazette entry, under sign manual, which rescinds the previous entry. If they cannot, then the hole in their arguement, seems to have widened exponentialy.
It would appear that the straws that they are clutching at, are in fact, lead lifebelts.
GLOman
I do not believe for one minute that the wearing of the PJM on medal bars, including mine, is a breach of etiquette.
The matter of etiquette arises from the rules imposed after it was accepted by HM vide the London Gazette of 3rd May 1968 which also permitted its wearing.
John F writes that they are trying to rescind the London Gazette. No way! I would hardly believe that they would risk the whole thing blowing up in their faces in asking Her Majesty, with the sign manual, to rescind the LG of 1968 and beg questions from her as to why it was necessary.
I was informed some time ago in a letter signed by Marion Moore, replying to my letter to the PM of the 12 July 2007, that "You may like to know that the statement in the [London] Gazette of 3 May 1968 was clarified in 1969 by a regulation on the merging of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that stated "these regulations do not relate to awards of campaign or commemorative war medals" . No reference as to the title or date of the "clarification" was given. Fair enough. It wasn't a war in either case *48 -60 or 63 - 66. The PJM is a Service to Malaysia Medal - it is neither a campaign medal or a war commemorative medal. It is not a matter of the choice of words . The meaning is quite plain. Whatever "clarification" she is talking about does not affect the status of the PJM.
I believe that we have been offered another review susequent to the Conservatives attaining power. Fine. But, I do not see a guarantee of change, therefore I shall believe it when it happens, hopefully after the review. Having said that I remain cheerfully optmistic.
Incidentally, remember that a number of families who's members died during these conflicts and who were not awarded the GSM with the appropriate bar, are disqualified from receiving the Elizabeth Cross through the actions of all the civil servants involved, in denying us the right to wear the PJM, to which the families of the fallen are entitled and which would entitle them to receive the Elizabeth Cross. Is this not a slight on HM by the HDC?
*this indicates the duration of the conflicts and not the dates of eligibility.
Paul Alders
I have tried many times to get certain Senior Civil Servants inc Sir Gus (AKA GOD) to admit that the PJM is not a Campaign or a War Commemorative Medal, they never answer my letters or emails on this question.
BUT I do have an email from Tanya of the FCO stateing that it is up to the Malaysians to classify the PJM as it is their medal and that is good enough for me.
So if any suit writes to you stateing that the LG Notice does not apply to Campaign or War Commemorative Medals agree with them then tell them the FCO states that the PJM is a Service Medal.
Where in the London Gazette entry, does it preclude, campaign medals, or, commemorative medals.
As with all directives, they must be clear, concise and unambiguous. In this case, it is abundantly clear.
Due due the lack of moral rectitude on behalf of the Civil Serpents, they can put any interpretation (spin) they like on it.
Like the law, making so many laws and in some cases conflicting laws, it then becomes difficult to establish which law to apply.
Take the case of all males, having to fire five arrows from their longbows on the village green, on Sunday. It's still on the statute books as a law, but we would more than likely be arrested for carrying and discharging a weapon in a public place.
The law makers really have excelled themselves with this one. On an interesting note, who were we actually serving, Great Britain PLC, or Malaysia. You cannot serve two masters at once, as the saying goes. Otherwise, complete chaos. Does anyone see the similarity here.
There are two files relating to the LG Notice which between them contain over 140 pages, too many to publish here and I'm not sure if we can without permission.
But let me asure you it is correct the LG Notice does not apply to Campaign or War Commemorative Medals but as we have in writing from the FCO it is up to the Malaysains to clasify the PJM and it is a Service Medal.
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Clarification by Malaysia to the FCO should, therefore, designate the PJM as a Service medal and not a Cornflake box trinket. I certainly felt that I was "serving" in Malaya 1957-59 and had the distinct feeling that I was in a war, not an emergency, whatever that might have meant to a boy who had spent many of his childhood nights in an Anderson Shelter with Heinkels overhead dropping bombs, while his dad was in N Africa and Italy maybe "playing" at being a soldier. Said dad came home with the right to wear six medals. I came home with a GSM with Malaya bar and am now in the 4th year of trying to make sense of why I am supposedly not allowed to wear a medal honourably "offered" and graciously accepted from a grateful Commonwealth nation.
Totally confused, I rest my case.
Thanks for the corroboration, Paul and Mike.
Rechecking the wording on the Malaysian (cornflakes) box, containing the PJM, it clearly states, SERVICE TO MALAYSIA.
It does not not state that it is 1.commemorative or 2. campaign medal. I mean, three words are not difficult to understand in this day and age. Which of those words do they have difficulty with?
Not being able to attend any rememberence day parades last year, due to personal reasons, I saw the event on the TV. The many PJMs being worn was gratifying to see. And can anyone tell me, whether they were approached by police or a member of the civil service, requiring the recipient to remove the offending item.
They haven't got the guts. Think of the public outrage in trying to obtain a conviction in court, of the proud bearer of this award. The government would not be able to hush that up, especially when the full weight of the fight4 bolsters our arguement.
Always ready to corroborate, Arthur, even if it means repeating myself. After all we have repeatedly been lied to or just ignored by the serpents for years. My dad, mentioned in my above post, was a damned difficult bloke and due to his 5 years abroad I never really got to know him, or him me. He died in 2006 aged 93 and I only just managed to get to his hospital bed in order to say cheerio before the final coma. We did it like old soldiers, no kisses and no mention of the word love. We had been in touch by phone and he knew about my PJM fight. He allowed me to wipe his head with a towel and before he began to slip away he asked how the struggle was going. I think I said, "We live in hope," or some such, and his reply was...."Keep at the sods."
While clearing his house I found his six gongs with a bill for being quite recently mounted for the first time. Along with them were his fathers Pip Squeak and Wilfred, thanks for the whole of the Gallipoly debacle, being wounded there and, twice more in Belgium and France. I kept the original ribbons from those and paid for their re-mounting. My PJM was delivered a year after dad died, and there is no doubt that I shall...."Keep at the sods," for as long as it takes.
Semengo13
And so shall I Mike.
Your story demonstrates why we will not give up.
Glad you got there in time.
Pingat Kami - Hak Kami
651 Signal Troop,
Semengo Camp,
Kuching.
We will all keep at the xxxxxxxs Mike.
It's nice to know that there are many of us that boast a long family line in 'the business', and have the medals as a permanent reminder of the sacrifices that were made.
I say this, in the light of the many who are first generation military. Their service is no less diminished, by being new to the game.
My neighbour, former RAF Regiment, is proud as punch that his eldest son has joined the family business. He has finished his training and will be going to Afghanistan in January of next year. It would be nice to see him with his Afghan medal on.
Back to the story. Do you think this constant change of civil serpents, is due to the nervous breakdowns of said reptiles? I mean to say, if they cannot stand the pace
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TODAY'S TRUE HORROR MOVIES AND YESTERYEAR'S "GOTHIC FANTASIES" Opinion by David Rosler
Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy and their ilk from a day long gone by, but with an imagination and style that appears will endure forever, remain firm in the culture consciousness. How amazed I was a month or so ago to walk into a store in downtown Nashville and find a 20-something girl with a sprawling, unusually colorful tattoo portrait of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein from 1931 taking up a good portion of her forearm. We have been trained to call these movies, populated by such characters, "horror movies". But when was the last time you were actually horrified by one?
Kelly in Nashville wears her love for these characters not just on her sleeve, but under it!
These are not horror movies that are beloved by the fans, and these movies are not terror movies, a perhaps much more accurate phrase coined by Boris Karloff who played Frankenstein's Monster and innumerable other parts in that genre. So if they are not those things, then what are they?
Let me coin my own term for these excursions into the visually flamboyant macabre: "Gothic Fantasies".
Even as a child of 8 or 9, in fuzzy images coming over the TV, broadcast out of New York City (cable had not been invented, let alone the internet), when they came out of the darkness, I was not scared by these movies. Like all my friends, I thought they were fascinating. No one hid their eyes.
This was a different time when the effect of such movies could be much more frightening. Outside the windows even in the early evening from Autumn until the Spring all was darkness, and the very presence of the night could be a frightening thing and it did frighten humankind for most of recorded history, as recorded history makes clear.
In a time with no security cameras and the like, when the TV stations blinked off in the late of night and early hours, one after another, of the few that were broadcast, leaving behind static test patterns and the whine of the dead signal, even in a home with sleeping parents and siblings, it was more than possible for a kid to feel terrifyingly alone. When will a face show itself at the window? That could be frightening. But to many of us, probably a majority if social media is any indication, such characters as Frankenstein and his pals were old friends. They were so impossible and yet so magnificently realized that what kid with half a heart and an optimistic imagination would not love them? And millions of "monster kids" from that day to today still do.
Gothic Fantasies, filled with characters who invariably had their sympathetic aspects; Frankenstein's Monster was plainly played initially for pathos as much as alarm; the Wolfman was a sad, cursed character who never deserved his fate; the Mummy initially only wanted to be reunited with his 2,000-year-old love. Perhaps only cold-blood Dracula was truly the only evil one of the bunch, and yet he was just an Hungarian in a tuxedo and a cape. Still, we loved them all. These were not horror movies. The were and are "Gothic Fantasies".
Today's horror movies tend to be truly horrific and unfortunately made not to entertain, but to disturb, and this is probably a pretty bad recipe for a future society. And their initial entrance onto the stage in the late 1980's may explain a lot about today. But even those are tame compared to true horror movies.
True horror movies are now happening around us, and we call them the "Nightly News"; in Chicago, last weekend alone, there were 130 riot shootings that left 14 dead including some kids, all for an illogical explosive reaction to a single sick cop murdering a single criminal suspect, and so, the apparent logic goes, cities must burn and countless innocent must die while the power brokers in shadowy, mafia-like dens of control manipulate thoughtless and pawn-like foot-soldiers who mindlessly put themselves in harm's way while the power brokers themselves, as is always the case with troublemakers, who puppet the pawns, remain safe in their darkened dens of command. A true horror movie is the grainy 16mm film of the 1960's showing naked Asian kids in Vietnam running while screaming in their deaths, on-fire from napalm. A horror movie is the Islamic terrorist video of the beheading of Jewish Nick Berg strangling in agony on his own blood while the man with the knife pulled hard to separate Berg's screaming head from his spinal cord. I made the mistake of watching that myself, and each exposure shears away a thin slice of your soul. Those are horror movies. A true horror movie is the video of the remains of MS-13 victims, their scattered body parts desecrated with vulgar graffiti. A true horror movie is the greatest nation on earth, which birthed those great, beloved, imaginative silver screen characters of old, being torn to pieces so fast and so violently that the rest of society remains inactive from their own confusion; desperately trying to figure out the simple answer to a basic question: are those criminals morally and ethically justified in killing the innocent and destroying a nation because they have been brainwashed into believing that they're doing good?
Those old classic movies, by contrast, burned bright in their silver screen style and then vanished because studio executives confused the incorrect concept of a fickle audience whose tastes had changed with the reality that the studios just weren't making those movies very well, anymore, toward the end. The audience hadn't gotten bored, the studio executives had gotten bored, as would later be the case at CBS television in the mid-1960's, which was still riding high with several rural comedies; the first, The Beverly Hillbillies, still in third place. The then-new CBS management decided it was beneath the Network's artistic dignity to continue to be successful, so they scrapped all those shows and in so doing sent the CBS Television Network into a decade-long tailspin into the bottom of the network ratings.
NYC Horror movie host from the late 1950's through the early 1960's, Zacherle, made the imaginative chills fun.
At the same time, Zacherlie's Los Angeles counterpart, Vampira, made waves on the West Coast.
But, maybe, if sanity rules, our old friends from the silver screen can come back, and come back the way they were. People would accept a Frankenstein movie in black and white today if done with real style. Absolutely. Especially if the theater experience was in 3D.
So thank God for Bela and Boris, Pierce and Whale, of Rains and Lon and all the rest flickering back at us from black and white works of genius of which none of us can or will ever tire. These are not horror movies, they're momentary, welcome and necessary escapes from true horror movies.
They're Gothic Fantasies, a significant foundation of our motion picture heritage, and we can never let them vanish into extinction from fads, assumptions or irrational, destructive violence.
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Mystics make it six in a row, Atkins has 26 in win over Dallas
The Washington Mystics and Dallas Wings were on two different types of streaks coming into today's game. Washington had five game win streak while Dallas was on a seven game slide. Both of those streaks continued by the end of this one, Washington is now 20-11 on the year after a 93-80 win this afternoon. The Mystics were led by rookie Ariel Atkins (Pictured Above) with a game-high 26 points, 23 from Elena Delle Donne and Kristi Toliver's 17. The Wings were led by Skylar Diggins-Smith's 17 points, 15 from Azura Stevens, and Kayla Thornton's 14 points.
Toliver addressed the crowd before the game, video courtesy of Amber Dodd of Hoopsfeed.
Washington Mystics’ guard Kristi Toliver delivered a speech before they took on the Dallas Wings in relation to this year’s Unite the Right rally today. The controversial rally is occurring just miles away from the game’s location at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC. pic.twitter.com/LcnzyCFIXc
— Amber Dodd, AD (@amberdodd97) August 12, 2018
Washington got out to a hot start, their defense fueling the way. The Wings stayed in courtesy of 13 first quarter points from their rookie in Stevens. She took advantage of pick and pop situations, Washington's big's didn't get out to contest in time and she got on a roll. Toliver started hot for Washington with nine of her own, but the Wings stepped it up defensively on their run to close the quarter. Dallas had taken control of the game with that run it seemed, ending the quarter tied at 20.
Aerial Powers came in the game and once again immediately made an impact. She stole a couple of inbound passes and put pressure on the her former team by attacking the basket. That seemed to spark the Mystics and they took off, they regained their footing on defense. That resulted in five Dallas turnovers. Washington was getting to the line and knocking down the three ball. Delle Donne has struggled offensively against the Wings this season, on two occasions she finished the game without reaching double figures in scoring. That trend didn't continue as she scored 13 points in the period on five-of-six shooting from the floor. She was definitely feeling it, all three of her triples were of the walk up variety. Powers scored all eight of her points in this quarter, six of which came from the line. The Mystics held a 51-37 lead at the half, they were shooting a blistering 54% from beyond the arc while holding the Wings to 32% shooting from the floor.
The Wings didn't go down without a fight, they won the third quarter 26-24. Natasha Cloud found a rolling LaToya Sanders on a screen/roll for two to push the lead to 18. Dallas called a timeout with 5:27 left in the period, at the moment they were down by 22. From that point on, it was all Dallas. Theresa Plaisance had yet to score in the game, in that stretch to close the quarter she scored all 11 of her points. The sharp shooter knocked down three triples, Diggins-Smith also got going. She scored eight points in the Wings rally that cut the 22 point deficit to just 12 heading into the fourth quarter.
Atkins continued to show why she's such a special rookie. After scoring 12 points in the first half, she poured in 14 in the third quarter when her team was reeling a bit. She provided timely baskets time and time again, that said she took a scary fall in the fourth quarter. She drove the lane and got hammered by Cayla George. At that time, Dallas had cut the lead to seven. Ariel hit the floor hard and stayed down for several minutes before being helped up and walking gingerly off the floor.
The Mystics had to rely on their defense from that point on, it's been a point of emphasis all season. It's also the sole barometer for their results night to night. When they compete hard on that end of the floor, they are one of the better teams in the league. When they don't, they struggle to be who they are. They've seemed to accept that defense is a key part of their identity and a requirement going forward. As Natasha Cloud has shared recently, that "come to Jesus" meeting they had about that end of the floor has fueled this winning streak.
Three minutes left, it was an eight point game. The Mystics showed their improvement on that end and a glimpse of who they can possibly be in the postseason. They played outstanding defense on each and every possession down the stretch, the exceptions being when they fouled and a few of those were questionable.
Kristi would hit a huge triple with 1:31 left, the proverbial dagger that ended hopes of winning for the Wings. Washington continues to roll and defense has been a huge part of it. They will officially embark on the last week of the regular season by hitting the road before returning to host the Sparks on Friday.
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Florida man accused of stalking Trump supporter, calls them 'Nazi's'
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. - A Volusia County man has been arrested for harassing a woman who had a President Trump flag hanging outside of her home.
The victim told deputies that on Wednesday, she heard a man honking his horn and yelling outside of her residence. When she looked at her Ring doorbell camera, she says she saw a man stopping in front of her home and screaming 'F**k you Nazi mother f***ers.'
The woman says she exchanged words with the man, identified as 56-year-old Thomas Frost, and he took off. That's when she contacted authorities.
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Moments later, however, deputies say Frost returned, gave the woman the middle finger and continued yelling. When the deputy attempted to stop Frost, they said he sped away.
After some time, authorities say Frost contacted authorities to turn himself in but inquired about why he was being arrested, saying with "all the things going on in the world" law enforcement should have better things to do, according to an arrest report.
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Frost reportedly said he stopped in front of the woman's home because "he hated them" and when asked if he knew them, he said no but that he knew "they were Trump supporters."
"Frost pointed out that all Trump supporters are Nazi's and are ruining this country," the arrest report stated.
He is charged with stalking and fleeing and eluding police.
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School administrators sued for using permanent marker on boy's head
By FOX 26 Houston staff
PEARLAND, Texas (FOX 26) - A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Sunday against Pearland ISD, a school discipline clerk, head principal at Berry Miller Junior High Tony Barcelona, and teacher Jeanette Peterson after Peterson used a Sharpie to draw on a student’s head at the end of last school year.
Peterson allegedly told Juelz Trice, a seventh-grade student, that the design in his haircut violated Pearland ISD’s dress code policy. Juelz was not given a choice to avoid the punishment. It was either have his hair colored in, or go to In School Suspension.
"You give a 13-year-old the option of basically being humiliated, embarrassed, or going to ISS, that is a hard choice to make without calling your parents, or letting them know what's going on," his mother, Angela Washington said.
School officials did not call Juelz’ parents or hold any hearing as required by law.
Since the incident, Pearland ISD changed their dress code hairstyle policy.
MORE: Administrator uses permanent marker to color in student's hair design
Despite public outcry, the assistant principal was promoted as head principal where Juelz is now in the eighth grade.
The district also kept the discipline clerk and Peterson in their current positions, after Peterson was placed on administrative leave following the incident.
After several attempts by the Juelz’ parents and their lawyer to resolve the issues with no response, the plaintiffs initiated the instant litigation for training and compensation.
"They could have just called us," said Dante Trice, Juelz' father. "If you called and said he's out of dress code, we'd come get him, it's that simple."
The way the situation was handled has taken a toll on Juelz and his family.
"Everyone's been talking about it, and making memes," Juelz told FOX 26 in April 2019. "A student at my school made a post about me being a thug and unintelligent."
Juelz's parents, his lawyer and the public are holding a press conference to discuss why they have filed this lawsuit Monday afternoon.
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Hurricane Florence has forced these businesses to halt operations
By Julia LimitoneFOXBusiness
Hurricane Florence's impact on business in Carolinas
FBN's Gerri Willis on the businesses that have closed down operations in North Carolina and South Carolina due to Hurricane Florence.
Hurricane Florence made landfall on the North Carolina coast early Friday morning, bringing a potentially catastrophic storm surge, and torrential rains that are expected to last for days.
The gigantic, slow-moving storm has caused many businesses in its path to close its doors, including a number of big automakers and retailers.
FOX Business took a look at the impact the Category 1 storm has already had on some of these businesses operating in the Carolinas.
The drugstore closed about 100 locations in mandatory evacuation areas in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
The full list of closed stores can be found here.
With many employees at risk, Novartis said it has temporarily stopped pharmaceutical production at their Wilson, North Carolina site.
Volvo closed its new plant in Charleston, South Carolina, which employs 1,000 people who make the company’s S60 sedan.
Boeing’s South Carolina complex that assembles the 787 Dreamliner has more than 6,000 employees. The aerospace company suspended operations following evacuation orders.
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Mercedes-Benz in Charleston suspended operations. The plant just opened last week.
Other companies that closed down because of weather include Dow DuPont, Nucor and Chemours.
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Beginning on 10/19/18, Class C shares held for 10 years or more will automatically convert to Class A shares. Thereafter, Class C shares held for 10 years or more will automatically convert to Class A shares on a monthly basis. This conversion allows shareholders to take advantage of the lower expenses offered by Class A shares. Please see the prospectus supplement for more information. If you have any questions, please contact your financial advisor or call Franklin Templeton.
Effective 9/10/18, certain sales charges and commissions paid to dealers on Class A and A1 shares of our mutual funds changed. Please see the prospectus supplement for more information. If you have additional questions, please contact your financial advisor or call Franklin Templeton.
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Franklin Mutual Quest Fund has changed its September distribution date from early September to early October. This change will allow the fund to more accurately capture necessary distribution data. The fund will also continue to make distributions in December. For more information, please contact your financial advisor or Franklin Templeton Shareholder Services.
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Since InceptionInception 09/26/1980
Fund without Sales Charge (%) (NAV)
-2.12 0.56 4.76 5.39 11.27
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-2.12 12.14 -7.36 6.95 16.04 -5.85 3.11 25.61 12.21 -2.10
-7.53 5.99 -12.45 0.83 9.38 -11.27 -2.83 18.40 5.77 -7.72
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Spider-Man PS4 1.06 Update Patch Notes: What’s Changed in the New Update?
Alleef Ashaari Tuesday, September 25, 2018
The Spider-Man PS4 1.06 update has gone live earlier today. This is quite a big one, arriving with a size of around 1.9 GB. Developer Insomniac Games has not provided any official patch notes for the new update. All of the information below comes from the Spider-Man PS4 update history, which can be checked by everyone by pressing the “Options” button when they’re on the game’s tile on the PS4 home screen. Read on for the Spider-Man PS4 1.06 update patch notes below.
Spider-Man PS4 1.06 Update: New Features
Although the Spider-Man PS4 1.06 update seems to be quite large, it only adds one new feature to the game. According to the patch notes, the developer has added the option to invert the camera horizontally. That’s essentially the only new feature arriving with the new update.
Spider-Man PS4 1.06 Update: Bug Fixes and Improvements
The bulk of the update seems to have been to fix bugs and other issues in the game. Several game-breaking problems have been addressed in the Spider-Man 1.06 update, including an issue where the game would freeze when loading a saved game. Additionally, a number of issues afflicting Research Stations locking incorrectly have also been fixed, alongside a bug where players could get stuck inside the spire of the Empire State Building.
Other bug fixes include issues related to progression stoppers on two occasions: when completing Demon Bases and quitting out at the end, when knocking Mr. Negative out of the arena during his boss fight, and last but not least, during the point launch tutorial. An issue with puzzles getting locked out of the lab after investigating an audio recorder has also been fixed.
Other than those bug fixes, the update history patch notes only state “further improved stability,” as well as addressing various UI issues, animation pop issues, and additional unspecified issues.
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Home Around the Globe India’s Reliance Industries, Ambani penalized for ‘manipulative trades’
India’s Reliance Industries, Ambani penalized for ‘manipulative trades’
Sat, 2 Jan, 2021 By Backend Office, Desk Reporter
India’s markets watchdog fined Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) $3.42 million and its chairman Mukesh Ambani $2.05 million for what it said were fraudulent trades while selling a stake in a subsidiary in 2007.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) alleged that the oil-to-telecoms conglomerate used manipulative trading in the shares of Reliance Petroleum (RPL), which was merged with Reliance Industries in 2007.
SEBI, in its 95-page order, said in November 2007, RIL and several other entities closely associated with it simultaneously traded in RPL in the cash and derivatives segments to profit from it. The order said that “any manipulation in the volume or price of securities always erodes investor confidence in the market when investors find themselves at the receiving end of market manipulators.”
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The latest ruling follows a 2017 order for Reliance Industries to surrender about $0.615 billion plus 12 percent annual interest for what the regulator said were unlawful gains from that deal. It also barred Reliance and some third parties from trading in derivatives for one year.
At the time, Reliance Industries said the trades examined by SEBI were “genuine and bona fide transactions” and that SEBI had “misconstrued the true nature of the transactions and imposed unjustifiable sanctions”. The group is awaiting a Supreme Court appeal hearing against the 2017 ruling.
Reliance is one of the most profitable companies in India and is engaged in energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, and telecommunications businesses. It is the largest publicly traded company in India by market capitalization. The company is ranked 96th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s biggest corporations as of 2020. It’s owner, Mr. Ambani is the second richest man in Asia.
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Planning a Zoom Thanksgiving?
Jefferson Graham USA TODAY
So you're skipping the travel and planning a virtual Thanksgiving dinner to include the whole family. How to tech it up and keep the family connected? We've got a slew of ideas.
What are you thinking? Put a laptop next to the turkey and move it around during the dinner? Place an iPhone near the cranberries? A webcam by the stuffing?
Esther Yoon, a marketing manager for Zoom, the most popular video meeting service, says consumers will no doubt mostly put their laptops on the table, because "so many homes have them," but that there are better choices.
And remember that lighting is going to be a real issue (if the room is dark, how will people see you virtually?) and sound is of utmost importance because if they can't hear you, the dinner won't be much fun.
So let's go down the list and look at the tools you'll need. All the devices listed work with not just Zoom, but other video meeting services, like Google Meet, WebEx and Microsoft Teams. ICYMI: Zoom has eliminated its 40-minute time limit for free users on Thanksgiving.
1. Virtual Thanksgiving: Video displays
Love or hate Facebook, you can't get over the fact that the Portal is hands down the best video calling device on the market, and nowhere would it be more useful than the Thanksgiving table.
The Portal is a dedicated video unit, designed for video calls that has a fantastic camera that somehow can follow you as you move around. So if you're at the table, you start the dinner conversation, and then move down the row to the other members, the Portal will follow them as well. In other words, you'll have less need to pick the unit up and pass it around.
Portal cut a deal this year with Zoom to allow calls via the most popular video meeting service on Portal. Rival Amazon, with its Echo Show and Google's Nest Hub Max said they too would offer Zoom by the end of the year, but it's yet to happen. (Portal users can also, naturally, do video calls on Facebook Messenger and What's App.)
Yoon says she already bought several Portals and sent them to relatives for Thanksgiving Day. "This really is the perfect device for the holiday," she says. (If you're wary of Facebook tracking you on the device, the social network bends over backwards insisting that it respects your privacy rights on its website. Info is stored on the device, not on Facebook servers. "Portal’s camera does not use facial recognition and does not identify who you are," Facebook says.)
The Portal comes in three sizes: the 8-inch Mini ($129), 10-inch Portal ($179) and giant-size 15-inch Portal+ ($279.) The $149 Portal TV, which connects to the television for video chat, doesn't connect to Zoom.
Getting ready:Here's the tech gear you need to have for a virtual Thanksgiving
As of this writing, Facebook had enough stock to promise delivery by Thursday/Friday, so we suggest you get in orders now.
And as for the rivals, Nest Hub Max, which has a similar camera to the Portal, works with Google's Meet, and the Echo Show can connect to other Echo Show devices or any phone or tablet with the Alexa app.
2. Thanksgiving by tablet
An iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab is a lot easier to pass around the table than a laptop and has a big screen that everyone can see, so it would make a great second choice after the Portal. May I recommend a $20 accessory to make the experience better? A tablet stand will make it easier. You don't want to put your greasy hands all over that shiny iPad, do you? Amazon has plenty of them to choose from. I like this Ontel Pillow, as it could double as a smartphone stand as well.
3. Setting up a smartphone
Let's assume for a moment that you never got around to ordering the Ontel Pillow or the Portal, but that smartphone is sitting in your pocket, ready for Thanksgiving. And you want to use it as your webcam for the Zoom meeting. Not a problem. But make sure it's fully charged first. You can place your phone (in horizontal mode, which puts more video on the screen) in the same Ontel Pillow, or buy an inexpensive table-top tripod for $20 or so. Remember, you'll also need one with a smartphone adapter to fit the phone.
4. Trying a laptop to connect
Yoon suggests placing the laptop at the head of the table, to try to fit in as many of the participants as possible, or to give it its own unique table. Just remember that you'll need to put it atop a set of books to get the webcam camera looking at you, not up your nose.
5. Keep it eye level
This tip goes for all the products, from laptops to phones, tablets and even the Portal. You look best when you're eye level with the digital camera, and that's a hard trick to master, since we're looking at other people on the screen, down below Larry Becker, the author of the "Great on Camera," book, suggests putting sticky notes next to the camera to help train your eye to look that way. A set of books or whatever you can cobble together to stick under the devices can help get the camera, which generally looks up your chin, to come closer to your eyes.
6. What about using the TV?
Wouldn't it be cool if we could Zoom from the dinner table, and see our family members on the TV? No TV we know of has a built-in webcam, but with the addition of just one accessory, Apple's Apple TV streaming box ($179 or $199) you can pull it off. Apple has a really cool feature called AirPlay, which lets you beam images, video and the like from iPhones, iPads and Mac computers to other devices. Connect the Apple TV to your TV via AirPlay to bring Zoom to the really big screen. Several TV manufacturers also have new sets that work with AirPlay as well, including Samsung, LG, Sony and Vizio, and won't require the need for an additional set-top box like Apple TV.
7. Think about the audio, too
Face it, when the whole gang is talking over themselves at the dinner table ("You cut the turkey!), audio can be an issue. One solution: Have a Bluetooth speaker laying around? The Amazon Echo Dot has been the best-selling overall product item for Amazon over several holiday promotions. If you have one at home, why not put it to work to both amplify the sound of your meeting guests, and everyone's voices at the table, per the Dot. It doesn't only amplify the sound, you can make use of the seven microphones in the unit.
8. Don't forget the lighting
And finally, if you're the type who likes to have their Thanksgiving dinner in moody low lights, remember to save that for next year. You'll need to up the intensity to be seen by your guests. Many experts this year recommended buying a Ring light to improve their video calls, but that won't cut it for groups.
The best idea: Pick up some cheap table or wall lamps at Target or Walmart and place them strategically around the room. That should go a long way. Or, have Thanksgiving lunch instead of dinner when the available light is richer.
9. And if you want to cook together...
Thanksgiving dinner is the key moment, but for many, it's the prepping of the dinner itself that is a family highlight. "I always thought that cooking together was the best part of the day," says Yoon. These same devices we've talked about for the dinner table will function just as well in the kitchen. Zoom there as well with a pre-show.
Just remember to have it at eye level, please.
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Why You Should Start Measuring VOC Levels
by GDS Team | Jul 10, 2020 | VOC Sensors, Volatile Organics
Within many types of industrial work environments, one of the biggest hazards faced by workers is volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Highly-regulated due to their potential to inflict harm on humans and the environment, these VOCs are organic substances that can cause a variety of problems for those exposed to them over a period of time. Health effects resulting from exposure can include irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat, headaches, nausea, loss of coordination, and in extreme cases damage to a person’s liver, kidneys, or central nervous system, which in some instances can lead to death.
To ensure workers are kept as safe as possible from VOC emissions, companies are investing more and more in technology that can monitor facilities and provide information that is accurate and reliable. Let’s take a closer look at reliable VOC detectors and how you can best use them to keep your workplace safe.
What are Volatile Organic Compounds?
VOCs are defined as organic compounds that participate in atmospheric photochemical reactions and are often present at industrial plants, offshore platforms, laboratories, and other industrial settings, Common substances that qualify as VOC include benzene, acetone, hydrocarbons, and gasoline or exhaust produced by the use of fossil fuels during the manufacturing process. Since most of these compounds evaporate into the surrounding air, it is critical to have monitoring systems in place that can detect dangerous levels of VOCs and alert nearby workers.
Pro Tip: Long term exposure to low levels of VOCs can increase health risks and possibly cause injury or even death. Many are considered carcinogens and have strict EPA exposure limits.
Versatile Detection Capabilities
Because VOC can be found in many different work settings, it is important that monitors and sensors used in these facilities have versatile detection capabilities.
Confined Space Monitoring
To learn more about what a VOC detector is, it is important to know as much as possible about confined space monitoring. Whether it is a laboratory at a university, an offshore drilling platform in the middle of an ocean, or a chemical processing plant in an industrial park, numerous indoor environments have numerous confined spaces that require careful monitoring for VOC concentrations.
To accomplish this, many companies purchase portable VOC detectors, which can work in conjunction with fixed monitoring systems to help protect workers from unexpected buildups of these dangerous substances. By using portable detectors that can be clipped to belts or clothing, engineers and technicians can closely monitor VOC levels while repairing or installing equipment. Along with this, all data from the air quality monitors is transmitted in real-time to on-site safety engineers and also off-site analysts at monitoring centers, allowing for instant analysis in the event an emergency occurs.
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Top 5 Points Of Interest In Tohoku Region Japan
Tohoku is a region of stunning natural beauty found just to the north of Tokyo. Made up of 6 prefectures (Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata), Tohoku is bursting with hot springs, snowy mountains, ancient castles and precariously-perched mountain temples. To help discover these little-known gems, I’ve pulled together my top 5 places to visit in the Tohoku Region Japan.
Best Things To Do in Tohoku Region Japan
Onsens In The Snow
Among the mountains of Aomori and Akita you can enjoy the once-in-a-lifetime experience of bathing in outdoor hot springs as the snow falls on the trees all around you. In an area known as Nyuto Onsen-kyo (or Nyuto Onsen Village) there are 7 onsens that offer a range of traditional outdoor and indoor pools for bathing. For an onsen experience soaked in history head to Tsurunoyu Onsen, the oldest in the region, which is famed for its milky outdoor pools and samurai lodges that now provide guest accommodation.
Onsen Etiquette – Tips For Visiting A Japanese Public Bathhouse
Hirosaki Castle & Cherry Blossom
Hirosaki Castle is a fascinating example of 17th century architecture, particularly as the long-standing castle has faced challenges including fire and earthquakes. The castle was originally built with 5-storeys but after being struck by lightning had to be rebuilt with just 3-storeys as 5 had become prohibited. Today the castle stands some 70 metres from its original location as the foundations are presently being reinforced. The castle will be painstakingly replaced in its original position by 2023!
Hirosaki Castle is also famed for its cherry blossom; an incredible 2,600 cherry blossom trees bloom all around the castle grounds in the springtime. With some of the pink-leafed trees aged more than 300 years old the Japanese Government have named the castle one of the 100 best spots for cherry blossoms in Japan. Photography enthusiasts in particular will enjoy capturing the castle and Gejobashi Bridge in a floral frame.
Yama-dera Mountain Temple
In the Yamagata prefecture you can visit the unique Risshaku-ji (or Yama-dera) Mountain Temple. Built in 860 by the Buddhist Tendai Sect, the temple is perched on the side of a stunning mountain and can only be reached by climbing 1000 steps. It’s an incredibly scenic and rewarding climb though as more than 40 shrines line the way and you’ll discover incredible views of the valley from Godaido Hall at the top.
Yama-dera also made an impression on respected poet Basho who wrote a haiku about the stillness and silence of the area. You can find a copy of it inscribed in a rock on the lower temple grounds.
Explore A Samurai Village In A Kimono
To really feel like you have stepped back in time you must visit the traditional Samurai village of Kakunodate in Akita. Many of the houses in Kakunodate (known as ‘Little Kyoto’) are owned by descendants of Samurai warriors and 6 of them are open to the public so that you can learn more about the lives of these families.
To look the part as you wander these fantastic preserved buildings women can wear kimono and men the elegant robes of Samurai. It’s quite an intricate procedure to be dressed in a traditional kimono, even with 2 ladies dressing you it takes at least 15 minutes to get the layers just right. Once on, however, you immediately feel more elegant, perhaps because you can’t help but stand more upright with all the weighty fabric wrapped around your waist!
The Temple of 500 Disciples in Morioka
Morioka, the capital city of Iwate Prefecture, has a whole street of temples that were built as part of a defence strategy. Hoonji Temple, known as The Temple Of 500 Disciples, stands out because of the interesting tales about its occupants. The 500 disciples are a collection of wooden statues, arranged in various poses and grimaces, that line the walls of the temple, but if you were to count them you would discover only 499. Where the last one went no one knows. Perhaps it is us visitors who are intended to make up the numbers?
This post was originally written for the JNTO website.
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Bridging the Gap: Addressing Barriers to Women in Leadership
By EverwiseNovember 28, 2017
The mission of EverwiseWomen is to engage emerging women leaders through a tailored learning experience. In “7 Ways to Support Women’s Advancement to Leadership Roles,” Elizabeth Borges, Senior Manager at EverwiseWomen, shared insights gathered from researching the experiences and impact felt by the hundreds of women who have completed the program.
Most programs supporting women’s advancement to leadership tend to be “one and done” and “one size fits all.” More often than not, they fail to provide ongoing development, to acknowledge that all women are different and therefore require customized support, and to foster the connection that is so critical for individual professional growth.
Below are the seven individual and organizational barriers that Everwise identified for women seeking leadership positions and steps to take in order to begin addressing them:
“I doubt myself and feel like an imposter”
Many women participating in EverwiseWomen comment that they don’t feel like they are “supposed” to be in leadership roles and like they got there because they “pretended.” This lack of confidence among women – feeling like being themselves is not enough to earn a leadership position – can have a significant impact on their actions through “expectancy behavior,” the concept that beliefs motivate behavior, and behavior shifts outcome.
How to Help: Confidence Building
Providing actionable feedback is a key technique to build confidence among women. Borges noted that women statistically receive more vague feedback (if they get any feedback at all), and this makes it hard to know what to continue, what to change, and how to change it. Creating peer networks and training women on foundational leadership skills ensures that they have the potential to be leaders. In fact, Google has found that when women attend seminars on “how to seek out promotion,” it validates their desire to pursue career progress and they advance more often.
“I feel uncomfortable asking for raises and promotions”
When it comes to developing careers, women feel particularly uncomfortable asking for raises and promotions. Part of this comes from internal lack of confidence, and the other part comes from external signaling. Borges cited the statistic that when women have the confidence to ask for a raise, they are 25% less likely to receive it than men.
How to Help: Negotiation Model
EverwiseWomen has found the most effective approach is to come at the issue from two directions. First, train women on negotiation techniques; second, train managers about bias in order to remove structural barriers. Developing an organizational structure for performance management and career planning, including clear and measurable criteria for advancement, will create a culture that provides a more even footing for men and women seeking promotion.
“I don’t see leaders who look like me”
When there are no female leaders in an organization, this sends a message to women that they do not fit as a leader in that enterprise. When there are only one or two, it sends a different but similar message: there are just a small number of ways to become a leader as a woman. Either of these messages can be detrimental to women’s aspirations.
How to Help: Role Models
The role organizations play to address this barrier is straightforward but easier said than done: diversify leadership teams. Diverse leadership will enable women to see that different leadership styles are possible and encourage them to pick the one that fits best for them. One step in this direction can be to host fireside chats with any women who are in a senior position in order for junior female counterparts to ask questions they might otherwise be uncomfortable asking. Alternately, it might be necessary to connect women with female leaders outside the organization – this is where programs like EverwiseWomen can be very effective.
“I don’t feel like I can be my authentic self”
While many women in EverwiseWomen say that they are comfortable when surveyed – 71% said they feel their organizations have inclusive cultures –subsequent conversations poke holes in this statistic. Women often struggle with being both warm and confident: when they act like strong leaders, they feel like they are perceived as less likeable.
How to help: Develop an Inclusive Culture
Building a holistic diversity and inclusion strategy drives organizational accountability for everyone operating within it. Recent research from HBR found that culture is the biggest barrier to women’s success: men and women aren’t actually behaving or engaging with senior leaders differently; it is the perception of women (among both men and women) that drives the gap between men and women in leadership.
How can a company develop an effective D&I strategy? Start with self-assessment (individually and organizationally): document current biases and identify key metrics to intervene. Then implement metric goals – does the organization want to increase retention? The percent of women in leadership roles? Track progress against these metrics and then reassess and iterate.
“I don’t know if the trade-offs are worth it. I’d have to sacrifice my life.”
More than half (51%) of women joining EverwiseWomen believe the balance between their personal and professional life is not sustainable. And if women don’t feel like what they are doing now is sustainable, they will be unlikely to want to do more.
How to help: Support Work-Life Priorities
By developing flexible workplace policies, organizations support women as they think about taking on a leadership role. It is important to understand that women do not want flexibility at the cost of visibility. Publicly recognizing that working remotely is simply a different way of working – not “stepping out” – can help reinforce that people leveraging flexible workplace policies take their career just as seriously as those coming into the office every day. Providing visibility to employees on teams in remote offices is particularly important in global companies.
“I don’t have anyone rooting for me”
Who professionals are connected to and who they learn from matters. While a mentor can provide guidance, a sponsor is an advocate within an organization. When people have someone in their organization pulling for them, that goes a long way in terms of career progression. Men are 46% more likely than women to have a sponsor. On top of that, women’s mentors tend to hold less senior roles. This imbalance is particularly acute for women of color.
How to help: Pathways for Sponsorship
The primary way that organizations can support women in their quest for leadership positions is to establish formal sponsorship programs. This is a big ask for leaders, but it is one of the most effective ways to address this barrier because it creates an even footing to form connections within an organization.
Sponsorship is a 2-way relationship: from sponsors’ points of view, how their protégés perform matters tremendously because their performance impacts the sponsors’ reputations. Organizations can address the hesitancy that might come from this dependency by setting clear expectations and guardrails.
“I don’t know where I want to go next”
At the end of the day, people must take ownership of their career trajectories. Women want to succeed and grow but many are not sure what that looks like: 46% of EverwiseWomen participants weren’t sure of their next steps when they entered the program. There is no one right path for everyone, but it is important to have some semblance of a plan.
How to Help: Develop Clear Career Paths
There are several ways to help women develop blueprints for their careers. One is to match women with individualized mentors who can help them determine goals and steps to achieve them. Another is to provide continuous learning opportunities, which help women identify what makes them tick. Between identifying their intellectual and professional passions and leveraging the resources mentioned above, women will be able to make their leadership ambitions a reality.
With all of the above it is critical to think about how to bring men into this conversation. Getting them involved is necessary, because for the most part, men are still in charge: only 5% of CEO’s are women in the S&P 500. Sharing the insights discussed above can lay the foundation to engage all stakeholders in this conversation and pave the way for women to take concrete steps to the boardroom.
Everwise found that 89% of women who enter EverwiseWomen identify as being ambitious, but this is not translating into leadership roles because of the seven barriers above. Addressing these issues will turn the ambition that lies within women into action. While not every women wants to be a C-suite executive, addressing these barriers to leadership will drive diversity in the boardroom and allow every woman equal access to the professional goals she aspires to.
Everwise connects employees with the people, resources and feedback they need to be more productive and successful at every stage of their career. Request a Demo: https://www.geteverwise.com/requestdemo/
Women in Leadership Allies in the Workplace: Engaging men in the conversation By EverwiseMarch 15, 2018
Women in Leadership #MentorHer – Supporting Women in the Workplace By EverwiseMarch 5, 2018
Women in Leadership Creating a Women’s Development Program By EverwiseFebruary 13, 2018
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Innovation Is Dead, Long Live Innovation
The pursuit of innovation has become the Holy Grail, but how do you put something real and effective out into the world?
Viktor Venson
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The pursuit of innovation has taken over pop culture as the Holy Grail every organization should strive for. From big tech, consumer electronics, and automotive, to fashion, and even food, everyone is gunning for innovation. Often perceived as "think tanking"—dreaming up solutions and ideating in multicolored Post-Its—innovation is a necessity to compete in the marketplace. The "soft innovation" and strategy process is the preliminary part of that, yes. But the hardest, most valuable, and elusive bit is the execution and integration with, often times archaic, systems.
<p> Two years ago the inaugural <a href="http://www.rightbrainsare.us/">No Right Brain Left Behind</a> innovation challenge asked the creative industries to dream up solutions that could help the creativity crisis in the United States' education system. In seven days, the challenge yielded 300 concepts from some of the top creative companies in the nation.</p><p> However, when it came to integrating our solutions within the educational system, it soon become clear that we didn't have a clue what we were doing. We did not have the infrastructure, educator support, or resources to generate any measurable impact. Looking at the praise, engagement, and participation we received, the challenge was a huge success. When it came to making an impact on the ground, we failed.<br/><br/> SLÖJD is our latest addition to NRBLB programming, and is a focused exercise in "hard innovation" that tackles an epic problem. This past May, we invited nine designers to prototype a breakthrough product that would empower educators and enhance creative development in students. Sure there were some Post-Its on walls, but the main emphasis was to build, get student and educator feedback, and present to a panel of guest critics for feedback and next-step iteration.<br/><br/></p><p> The goal was to put something real and effective out into the world. Was it a finished product in six days? No. But we shipped, learned plenty along the way, and were fortunate enough to win the <a href="http://www.la2050.org/my-la2050/the-salamander-project/">LA2050 grant</a>, which gave us some seed funding to pilot the product at Locke High School in Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood.<br/><br/> The above video will give you a deeper look into our world and our process, and tell you what SLÖJD means. We welcome your feedback and ideas, and look forward to sharing what we learn as we move forward at Locke.<br/><br/></p><p> <em><a href="http://www.good.is/posts/download-and-share-this-free-design-thinking-for-educators-toolkit">Click here</a> to add downloading or sharing this Design Thinking For Educators toolkit to your GOOD to-do list.</em></p>
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National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study
The statutory programmes of study and attainment targets for mathematics at key stages 1 to 4.
Last updated 6 July 2020 — see all updates
National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study - key stages 1 and 2
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National curriculum in England: mathematics programme of study - key stage 3
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These are the statutory programmes of study and attainment targets for mathematics at key stages 1 to 4. They are issued by law; you must follow them unless there’s a good reason not to.
All schools maintained by the local authority in England must teach these programmes of study from September 2016.
Further guidance is available to accompany the mathematics programme of study at key stages 1 and 2.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 13, 2021)]
[Page 2721]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-00478]
[[Page 2721]]
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
[Docket No. FD 36377 (Sub-No. 2)]
BNSF Railway Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--Union Pacific
BNSF Railway Company (BNSF), a Class I rail carrier, has filed a
verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7) for its
acquisition of restricted, local, trackage rights over two rail lines
owned by Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) between: (1) UP milepost
93.2 at Stockton, Cal., on UP's Oakland Subdivision, and UP milepost
219.4 at Elsey, Cal., on UP's Canyon Subdivision, a distance of 126.2
miles; and (2) UP milepost 219.4 at Elsey, and UP milepost 280.7 at
Keddie, Cal., on UP's Canyon Subdivision, a distance of 61.3 miles
(collectively, the Lines).
Pursuant to a written temporary trackage rights agreement, UP has
agreed to grant restricted trackage rights to BNSF over the Lines. The
purpose of this transaction is to permit BNSF to move empty and loaded
unit ballast trains to and from the ballast pit at Elsey, which is
adjacent to the Lines. The agreement provides that the trackage rights
are temporary in nature and are scheduled to expire on December 31,
2021.\1\
\1\ BNSF states that, because the trackage rights are for local
rather than overhead traffic, it has not filed under the Board's
class exemption for temporary overhead trackage rights under 49 CFR
1180.2(d)(8). Instead, BNSF has filed under the trackage rights
class exemption at 1180.2(d)(7). BNSF concurrently filed a petition
for partial revocation of this exemption to permit these proposed
trackage rights to expire at midnight on December 31, 2021, as
provided in the agreement. The petition for partial revocation will
be addressed in a subsequent decision.
The transaction may be consummated on or after January 27, 2021,
the effective date of the exemption (30 days after the verified notice
was filed).
As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the
acquisition of the trackage rights will be protected by the conditions
imposed in Norfolk & Western Railway--Trackage Rights--Burlington
Northern, Inc., 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in Mendocino Coast
Railway--Lease & Operate--California Western Railroad, 360 I.C.C. 653
If the notice contains false or misleading information, the
exemption is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49
U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed at any time. The filing of a petition to
revoke will not automatically stay the effectiveness of the exemption.
Petitions for stay must be filed no later than January 19, 2021 (at
least seven days before the exemption becomes effective).
All pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 36377 (Sub-No. 2), should
be filed with the Surface Transportation Board via e-filing on the
Board's website. In addition, a copy of each pleading must be served on
BNSF's representative, Peter W. Denton, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, 1330
Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036.
According to BNSF, this action is categorically excluded from
environmental review under 49 CFR 1105.6(c)(3) and from historic
preservation reporting requirements under 49 CFR 1105.8(b)(3).
Board decisions and notices are available at www.stb.gov.
Decided: January 7, 2021.
By the Board, Allison C. Davis, Director, Office of Proceedings.
Eden Besera,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2021-00478 Filed 1-12-21; 8:45 am]
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By Andy Costigan
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For almost the entire season and especially since the Anfield derby the form of Everton has, at best, been patchy and at worst downright embarrassingly awful, and this has led to an increasing number of questions over the capabilities of the manager Marco Silva.
Now this article hasn’t been written with the outright intention of adding further fuel to the fires of discontent that burn in certain quarters and are reaching wildfire proportions in others in wanting to see Silva ousted, it’s an offering of how the appointment of key staff like a head coach or manager could/should be handled.
A little over two years ago, during the ill-fated Koeman/Walsh era, I published a couple of articles related to player recruiting, and somewhat ironically, Steve Walsh wrote in similar vein barely a couple of weeks later. With the benefit of hindsight and somewhat tongue in cheek on my behalf, perhaps he might have been well advised to read those articles and put the principles into practise, rather than Koeman and he adopting a scattergun, ‘look at the size of our chequebook’ approach to their squad building.
Now though, let’s return to the present and a situation that may befall Marcel Brands if results and performances don’t improve between the resumption of play at Cardiff a week on Tuesday and the end of the season.
Opinion is split between whether we stick with Marco Silva and give him time to work with the players for the rest of this season and through the summer into next season or… if the worryingly similar trends of his time at Hull, Watford and to date with Everton cannot be rectified quickly, whether to end his tenure and start again?
Nobody really wants Everton to be a club associated with constantly changing managers, knee-jerk reactions and having a distinct lack of patience, but modern day Premier League football is very much a results business. And if the results aren’t forthcoming, and for many Evertonians there needs to be a quality performance as well as three points, then changes are almost inevitably going to occur.
For the Director of Football then, there needs to be a strategy, a process by which suitable head coach/manager candidates are identified, researched and vetted before we actually get down to the serious business of offering a contract.
In both theory and practise it’s a relatively simple process. Football is a global game, and as such it’s probably asking too much of any individual to have his finger on the pulse of every market from where a new head coach or manager could be sought.
Marcel Brands will have built up, over a number of years, a considerable ‘black book’ of contacts around the world, and it’s these contacts who you turn to on two fronts. Firstly to suggest that a position may be or is coming available for prospective candidates and secondly to hone in on people already known about.
When names are offered or clearly identified, then the most diligent and thorough research must be undertaken. No stone should be left ignored or unturned. Everything needs to be explored and thoroughly dissected. Every aspect of a candidates history in and out of the game should be considered. You talk to the candidates, and not just once or twice, but several times and at odd times of the day to see how they react and handle themselves.
References must be taken and very importantly, not just those offered by the candidate, because they’re nailed on to speak glowingly… nobody offers a reference who would badmouth them would they?
So you go about finding your own references and not just one or two, but as many as possible. Players who have played for them, coaches who have worked with them and coached against them, and importantly other Directors of Football or club General Managers who have worked with them previously.
It’s an exhaustive process and not one to be undertaken hastily or lightly. And it can be and perhaps should be a constant process. Nobody knows when a change may be needed and to suddenly and quickly have to make a key change without having such a procedure in place can prove dangerous and, in this day and age extremely expensive if it goes pear-shaped.
In much the same way as good managers and Directors of Football have a scouting system for players, there should, to my mind, be exactly the same research and scouting system for coaches and potential managers.
Football is way too expensive and dangerous a business these days to make hasty appointments of the flavour of the day, the first out of work name that springs to mind, or to leave things to chance and hope for the best.
If we were to be in any way critical of where Everton are at present, we could suggest that the appointment of Ronald Koeman was made largely on his undoubtedly stellar playing career in Holland and Spain and for the Dutch national team. His previous managerial stints particularly with PSV Eindhoven, Valencia, AZ Alkmaar, Feyenoord and Southampton were at best functional.
The appointment of Sam Allardyce in the wake of Koemans’ demise was a safety-first, guarantee us Premier League survival move and whilst Allardyce achieved what was asked of him, he did so with a total lack of ambition to do more, lack of charm, disregard for the supporters, lack of grace and an appalling style of football completely alien to the traditions of Everton Football Club. Twelve months on, his tenure as manager of Everton remains regarded as an indelible stain on our history.
And that brings us to the current manager Marco Silva, who came with a reputation for improving players technically, an important factor if the focus for the long term is on youth. After a reasonable start and fledgling signs of a style Evertonians could get on board with, the wheels have somewhat come off the wagon, and he will surely accept that there needs to be a dramatic upturn in what remains of this season.
Whether we make another change rests, I’d suggest, not only on the results but also on the nature of the performances between now and the end of the season.
My hope therefore is that Marcel Brands has a head coach/managerial appointment strategy similar to that I’ve suggested… because we can’t afford to get it wrong again.
For those interested, here are the links to the articles I published just over two years ago…
Recruiting, the need for character
Building a squad…
Originally published on my personal blog – andycostigan.wordpress.com
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Tesla Competitor Lucid Motors Receives $1 billion Investment from Saudi Arabia
Matthew Fiala
An electric vehicle company in Silicon Valley just got a $1 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Lucid Motors, the recipient of the Saudi funding, and future competitor of Tesla is located next door to Tesla’s Fremont headquarters in Newark, California.
The luxury electric vehicle brand announced the cash infusion this week saying it would use the funding to move forward with its Lucid Air, expected to launch in 2020. Lucid Motors is expected to build its factory in Casa Grande, Arizona.
If this story sounds familiar, it’s because last month a deal was struck with the Saudi fund to buy 5 percent of Tesla for almost $2 billion. The company almost went private with the new infusion of funding, however, that part of the deal fell apart and didn’t happen.
Saudi Arabia seems intent to be on the cutting-edge of electric vehicles, no matter where it takes them. Lucid has been around for a decade, with the Lucid Air debuting at the Los Angeles auto show two years ago.
About the Lucid Air
The Lucid Air base model will start at $52,500, with the more expensive model costing over $100,000. The fully loaded car has a 1,000 horsepower all-wheel drive twin-motor, 400-mile range battery, panoramic glass canopy, leather trims, 21-inch wheels, 29-speaker audio system, two “executive” rear seats that recline up to 55-degrees, and a massager built into the front seats.
The base model will come with a 400 horsepower rear-wheel drive single motor and 240-mile range battery. Also, the base model comes with an aluminum roof instead of glass, the back seats don’t recline, the wheels are 19-inch, and the sound system only has 10 speakers.
Visit https://lucidmotors.com/ for more information about Lucid Motor and to reserve your Lucid Air!
The Future in Electric Vehicles
With Saudi Arabia infusing the notably private company with nearly as much cash as it invested in Tesla, we must ask:
Is there enough space on the road for two Electric Vehicle Manufacturers?
[via Mashable]
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We Only Do Positive Respect Handbook
Gareth Southgate Shows Support for FA Respect Campaign
England Manager has led the contributions to a new 'We Only Do Positive' Handbook
Gareth Southgate has called upon parents and coaches to support The Football Association's Respect campaign, having led the contributions to a 'We Only Do Positive' handbook highlighting best practice for youth football
Research from The FA has shown that 90% of young players perform better with positive encouragement and the insight has shaped the Respect campaign's new mantra - 'We Only Do Positive'.
The campaign aims to improve touchline and on-pitch behaviour in youth football across the country by raising awareness and the importance of Respect among a new generation of parents, coaches, volunteers and players.
Released to grassroots youth coaches across the country to reinforce the importance of the campaign, the 'We Only Do Positive' handbook focuses on Gareth Southgate's five positive principles of coaching:
• Create the right environment
• Lead by positive example
• Understand your players
• Build a positive team around you
• Instil an 'anything is possible' attitude
Grassroots youth coaches are encouraged to implement the principles in order to benefit the development of young players on and off the pitch. The book features four youth team coaches in boys' and girls' football who successfully implemented 'We Only Do Positive' at their clubs.
This season's Respect campaign has coincided with impressive results in affiliated youth football across the country with nine in 10 club officials stating that on and off-pitch behaviour is a positive match-day experience for players, spectators and coaches, based on data captured at 114,000 fixtures from U7 to U18 clubs in September to November.
The 'We Only Do Positive' handbook was launched with a mock press conference held at St George's Park. The England manager fielded questions from eight to ten-year-old children from Willesley Primary school.
Gareth Southgate said: "I'm hugely supportive of The FA's 'We Only Do Positive' mantra as I'm a big believer that positive encouragement is vital to young people's development. As coaches, our job is to help give young people confidence, the same is true for parents. Youth football has to be about fun and enjoyment. It is so important that children are encouraged to develop, flourish and grow their love for playing football. That should be the priority for all coaches."
Parm Gill, head coach at Guru Nanak Under-14 girls' from Kent and a contributor to the handbook said: "I'm proud to feature in such a positive and encouraging handbook for youth coaches around the country. Our role as grassroots coaches is extremely important in ensuring we are encouraging youth players to fulfil their potential on and off the pitch., so it's great to see the positive impact that The FA's wider Respect campaign is having on grassroots football clubs."
Richard Drake, Hertfordshire FA Designated Safeguarding Officer and Respect lead said: "Creating a positive environment is vital both to a young players enjoyment of the game and to developing their skills. We are here to support any club or league that wants to embed Respect into what they do, ensuring children have great experiences throughout their football journey."
You can view and download the 'We Only Do Positive' handbook by following the link below.
DOWNLOAD THE HANDBOOK
For more information about the Respect campaign and how you can play your part, including Codes of Conduct for different roles in the game, visit our Respect page.
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Dominican street food comes to Central Avenue
Tom Hanchett
I didn’t expect much when a restaurant called Three Amigos opened recently on Central Avenue at the edge of Plaza Midwood. With that clichéd “American” name, it couldn’t possibly have interesting eats, right?
Wrong-o.
Three Amigos really is run by three friends, from El Salvador, Mexico, and leader Dalton Espaillat from the Dominican Republic. They chose Mexican food because Mexicans are Charlotte’s largest immigrant group and it’s also a cuisine that American customers like. Thanks to cook Alejandra Lopez, who brings fresh regional flavors from her birthplace in central Mexico, the fourteen tables regularly fill up with a mix of eager Latino and non-Latino eaters.
Success convinced Espaillat to take a chance. “I miss the street food from the Dominican Republic. Coming out of a bar late at night, grabbing a chimi-churri or an empanada from a street cart.”
So now, from 10pm til 4am on Friday and Saturday nights, Three Amigos offers a special menu of Dominican street treats.
What’s that chimi-churri? No relation to the Argentine steak sauce of the same name, it’s a hamburger with specially marinated meat that carries big flavor. The empanada? Seasoned – but not spicy – ground beef in a pastry pocket.
There’s also a riki: ground beef and grilled cabbage on a fluffy roll that is pressed like a Cuban sandwich.
And at the bottom of the menu is quipe (“KEE-pay.”) Order it and you get a meatball with bulgur wheat, quickly deep-fried, to produce something like a bun-less sesame-seeded hamburger. “It’s like kibbeh in the Middle East. Lebanese immigrants brought it to Dominican Republic,” explains Espaillat.
Now a Dominican immigrant brings it to Charlotte.
10:30am – 10pm Monday – Thursday
10:30am – 4am Friday and Saturday
10:30am – 10pm Sunday
2917 #A Central Ave
Charlotte NC 28205
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Mother Kills Daughter, Covers Up By Claiming Toddler Shot Herself With a Gun
(Photo : Pixabay/MasterTux) A mother from Knoxville who told several conflicting narratives about the shooting death of her daughter has been prosecuted for multiple charges.
A Tennessee mother who narrated numerous conflicting stories about the September murder of her 5-year-old daughter has been arraigned for multiple charges. One particular charge is felony murder.
Thirty-seven-year-old Robin Howington is prosecuted for a 6-count presentment returned on the 1st of July 1 on the indictment that includes severe child neglect, tampering with evidence, attempted tampering with evidence, and filing a false report.
Destiny Oliver, her daughter, was gunned to death in their Fountain City house.
For tampering with evidence, she was indicted following investigators' claim that she altered her narrative many times as to what transpired, reported Khou.
The crime was first alleged to an unidentified man who broke into their house, next the daughter's father, and eventually her toddler son.
Police officials responded to the shooting incident in north Knoxville before 9 PM on the 14th of September, according to Crime Online.
Oliver was discovered with a gunshot wound by Knoxville police.
Howington was dubbed as the "world's worst mom" by Knewz.
Upon renouncing her right to a preliminary hearing, Howington was last present in court in December.
Arrest warrants displayed that she wiped and hid the gun and repositioned other items at the scene of the crime the night her daughter was gunned.
She declined to give her phone for investigators' inspection. According to investigators, Howington placed her phone underwater in hopes of demolishing it. Documents indicate that she was concerned her phone would have the backing of drug sales.
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Her daughter was transferred to the University of Tennessee Medical Center where she was declared dead.
Howington was prosecuted Wednesday on a $500,000 bond.
Knoxville police officials responded on Sept. 14, 2019 to their Balsam Drive home.
When police officials discovered a handgun concealed in a bush near the house, she said that her boyfriend named Daniel Hensley, not Destiny's father, stowed the gun in the said place. However, a neighbor's surveillance video displayed Howington concealing the gun, which altered her narrative.
She then went far as to accuse her daughter's killing on her two-year-old toddler son.
The mother the detectives that she concealed the gun in the bushes following her son shooting the girl in the chest.
According to a witness, Howington attempted to give her phone to her and offered her money to take the phone due to its documented drug sales.
Overall, Howington allegedly told police officials at least 3 varying versions of events that resulted in her daughter's death.
According to Hensley, he saw the mother pull the gun on Destiny's father in the shooting incident.
The girl's father, per the boyfriend, grabbed the gun away from her.
Knoxville police took Howington into custody a week after the crime and arraigned her with tampering with evidence, but she was released on bond that very day.
The indictment indicated that the grand jury found that Howington "did unlawfully kill (Destiny Oliver) during the perpetration of aggravated child neglect."
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Convicted Kidnapper Ascends to Power in Landslide Victory as New Kyrgyzstan President
(Photo : Wikimedia Commons/ http://kremlin.ru/catalog/keywords/23/events/64385/videos (1:03:07)) The landslide victory winner of the presidential election, Sadyr Japarov, got 80 percent of the vote, and also more than 80 of the voters
Triggered by a popular uprise against the previous government, a populist politician and convicted kidnapper won via a landslide victory on Sunday in a snap presidential election in Kyrgyzstan.
According to the central electoral commission of the country, the landslide victory winner of the presidential election, Sadyr Japarov, got 80 percent of the vote.
In addition, more than 80 of the voters also supported the proposal made by Japarov to redistribute political power away from Parliament into the hands of the president.
Convicted for Kidnapping a Governor
The 52-year-old, Japarov, was still in jail in September, as he is still serving a long term for orchestrating the kidnapping of a provincial governor, but it is a charge that he denounced as politically motivated.
However, a violent upheaval that erupted in October of 2020 over a disputed parliamentary election sprung Mr. Japarov from a prison cell to the seat of the prime minister.
He assumed the interim presidency a few days later before resigning to run for the said office.
The main investigative body of the country canceled right away the conviction of the now Kyrgyzstan president, Japarov, The New York Times reported.
Criticized by his detractors as a corrupt nationalist with links to organized crime, Japarov tried to consolidated society behind his campaign.
As of late Sunday, reports of voting irregularities scattered, and at the time the election authorities mentioned that the turnout was estimated at 39 percent.
During a news conference on Sunday night in the capital, Bishkek shared that Kyrgyzstan needs political stability now most of all.
The Kyrgyzstan President also shared during the news conference, that he calls on opponents to unite and the minority should submit to the majority.
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The landslide victory winner also added that he came to power during challenging times as there is a crisis everywhere, The Associated Press reported.
A Central Asia expert based in Moscow, Arkady Dubnov described Japarov as a populist Robin Hood figure who came to power on the promise of giving the public a quickie relief.
When he spoke on Sunday to a Russian radio station, Ekho Moskvy, Dubnov emphasized that more upheaval was inevitable in Kyrgyzstan.
The Central Asia expert also shared that the way how the whole system of power in Kyrgyzstan was whipped and uprooted in just 48 hours shows the instability of the government institutions in the country.
A landlocked former Soviet republic and home of 6.3 million individuals, Kyrgyzstan has suffered recurrent political strife as three of its presidents, which includes the current Kyrgyzstan president Japarov, and its predecessor Sooronbay Jeenbekov, have been toppled in violent revolts since the independence of the country from Moscow in 1991, AFP reported via MSN.
During the most recent political turmoil, protesters have captured the main government building that houses Parliament and the offices of the president.
Triggered by credible allegations of widespread vote-buying in the parliament election last fall, a violent mob stormed through the infrastructure which left piles of debris behind.
After the said protests, the Russian President, Vladimir v. Putin shared that the main problem of the country, Kyrgyzstan, was that its elites were trying to fit their domestic policy into the mold of a number of Western countries.
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The best way to prevent and slow down transmission is be well informed about the COVID-19 virus, the disease it causes and how it spreads. Protect yourself and others from infection by washing your hands or using an alcohol based rub frequently and not touching your face.
The COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes, so it’s important that you also practice respiratory etiquette (for example, by coughing into a flexed elbow).
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Coordinated Entry- A First Step
Coordinated Entry is the process to access supportive housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Supportive housing resources are extremely limited. Because of this, individuals and families with the highest vulnerability, most significant service needs, and longest history of homelessness are prioritized. Housing is not guaranteed through this process.
To be eligible for a housing assessment in Ramsey County, households must meet one of the following homeless definitions:
HUD Homeless - staying in shelter, outside, or in other places not meant for human habitation; exiting an institution where person/household resided for 90 days or less and who resided in shelter or other place not meant for human habitation prior to entering the institution; and/or fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence.
Long Term Homeless (LTH) - lacking a permanent place to live continuously for a year or more or at least four times in the past three years. Time spent in an institutional care or correctional facilty (if longer than 90 days) shall be considered "excluded time" and does not count toward length of time a household has been homeless. Episodes of homelessness can include time doubled-up or couch-hopping. Doubled-up or couch-hopping is considered homeless if that arrangement has persisted less than 12 months.
For Youth (ages 24 and younger) ONLY: Minnesota Homeless - any unaccompanied youth or youth aged heads of households that is without a permament place to live that is fit for human habitation.
To read more Ramsey County Coordinated Entry System (CES) Policies and/or the Policy Manual: Please Click Here
To access the Ramsey County CE Grievance, Transfer and Appeals form: Please Click Here
To become a Ramsey County CE Assessing Agency, please contact: Loni Aadalen, CoC Coordinator, at [email protected].
Family Housing Crisis
Seeking Emergency Shelter:
Shelter space is reserved for Ramsey County families with minor children. To determine eligibility, call the United Way at 651-291-0211, for a prescreen. If a family is currently unsheltered, they can also call the Ramsey County's Homeless Services Team directly during business hours (Monday - Friday, 8am to 5:15m) at 651-266-7818.
• Space for Ramsey County homeless family emergency shelter is limited and beds are not immediately available. Completing an intake with Ramsey County shelter staff is the only way to be placed on the shelter waitlist. Please contact Jacqueline Harden at 651-266-7838 (Monday - Friday, 8am to 4:30pm) and/or Tim Martin at 651-266-7753 (Tuesday - Friday, 7:00am to 5:15pm).
• Intakes are completed over the phone.
For those experiencing domestic violence, Day One Services may be able to help find a safe place for families while fleeing abuse. Call Day One Services at 1-866-223-1111.
Seeking Coordinated Entry (housing assessment):
Families who are sleeping in a place not meant for human habitation (streets, car, camping, public transit, etc.) or staying at a domestic violence shelter and are only looking for supportive housing (not shelter) can call Catholic Charities at 651-215-2262 for a housing assessment.
Coordinated Access to Housing and Shelter Brochure
Single adults who are 22 years or older and seeking immediate shelter can call Catholic Charities - Higher Ground (formerly the Dorothy Day Center) at 651-647-2350 - option #7 or Union Gospel Mission at 651-292-1721 (Shelter for men only). Catholic Charities - Higher Ground has a daily lottery for their shelter beds; people can call or show up in-person daily from 9am to 3:30pm (starting 9/7/2020). Names are then drawn through a lottery system at 4pm each day (starting 9/7/2020). Additional shelter beds are available at Safe Space emergency shelter (these beds are by referral only).
Single adults seeking to access the Ramsey County emergency hotel shelter referral leads can email the Adult Hotel Shelter team at [email protected]
Seeking Coordinated Entry:
Single adults who are 25 years or older, currently experiencing homelessness and staying in a shelter, will need to complete a housing assessment via coordinated entry (CE) to determine long-term housing options. Contact the Catholic Charities - Higher Ground housing assessor at 651-647-2350 - option #5, or by calling 651-647-2377 for an assessment over the phone.
Single adults who are 25 years or older, currently experiencing homelessness and not staying in shelter, will need to complete a housing assessment via CE to determine long-term housing options. Single adults not staying in shelter can contact Caroline with Minnesota Community Care. All assessments are being done over the phone currently.
Phone: 651-602-7549 Email: [email protected].
Unaccompanied Youth
If you are experiencing homelessness and want to access supportive housing, the first step is to complete a Coordinated Entry Assessment. There are several ways to access Coordinated Entry for youth (16-24 year olds):
Drop-in Center – Assessments are completed at SafeZone on Friday afternoons from 1pm to 5:30pm for 16-24 year olds, which includes parenting youth ages 16 to 17 years old. SafeZone Drop-In Center for Homeless Youth: 130 East 7th Street, St. Paul, MN 55101 – (651)-224-9644
Resource Line: Youth (ages 12-24) who are homeless or at-risk may also contact the Youth Resource line through the YMCA. The Youth Resource Line is a free message line where YMCA staff will assist in problem-solving information on community resources and referrals; resources include food shelves, housing, employment, legal services, education, and health care. The Youth Resource Line is available from 8am - 8pm, 7 days a week by calling 763-493-3052
Outreach: Youth between the ages of 16-24 who are currently homeless but not staying in a shelter can find out if they are eligible for Coordinated Entry by meeting with a StreetWorks Outreach Worker. Outreach Workers schedules and contact information can be found at YSNMN.org.
Shelters: Shelters have trained assessors for participants in their program. For live, up to date shelter availability for youth, you can visit ysnmn.org. You can also call the Ramsey County youth shelter line at 651-444-5757.
Parenting Youth (ages 18-24)
Parenting Youth ages 18-24 connect with Coordinated Entry for Families (CAHS) in Ramsey County by calling 651-215-2262. If you are staying in a shelter, let your shelter staff know that you are interested in completing a Coordinated Entry for housing assessment.
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Emergency Shelter Program for Families with Minor Children
When all community family shelter space is full, the Emergency (Cold Weather) Shelter Program is available for homeless families with minor children residing in a place not meant for human habitation who are on or need to be added to the waiting list to get into Ramsey County Family Emergency Shelter. A family must have an unsheltered status within the last seven (7) days and the unsheltered homeless status must be verified by a third-party professional (ie: case manager, school counselor, outreach worker, police officer, etc.). Any families that are residing in a plce not meant for human habitation may contact the Ramsey County Homeless Services Office directly at 651-266-7818. This program operates with the St. Paul School Calendar dates of September through early June.
Prevention Assistance
RAMSEY COUNTY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE/EMERGENCY GENERAL ASSISTANCE (EA/EGA)
Help with rent/mortgage back payments and utilities shutoffs. Emergency Assistance/Emergency General Assistance (EA/EGA) funds can help with housing, such as past due rent, a damage deposit, or to stop foreclosure. EA/EGA can also help pay for utilities when there is a threat of disconnection. Utilities include electricity, heat, and water. To apply for help, call 651-266-4884 or apply online at applymn.dhs.mn.gov or at www.ramseycounty.us/emergencyassistance
More information available online here: https://www.ramseycounty.us/residents/assistance-support/assistance/financial-assistance/emergency-assistance
FAMILY HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION AND ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (FHPAP)
Family Homelessness Prevention and Assistance Program (FHPAP) funds is an on-going grant that Ramsey County receives through Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (MN Housing) to fund four different service models within Ramsey County: street outreach, prevention assistance/homeless assistance, rapid rehousing and coordinated entry. FHPAP funds target single adults, youth ages 24 and younger, and/or families with minor children that are at risk of homelessness (ie: past due rent, mortgage or utility disconnection) or already experiencing homelessness (staying outside and/or with friends).
Prevention assistance can assist households with late rent and/or utility shut off payments. Homeless Assistance is to assist households with a one-time deposit and/or 1st month's rent payment to move into new housing if the household is already homeless and not eligible for Coordinated Entry (CE). Households seeking rapid rehousing (RRH) programs must have a housing assessment via coordinated entry (CE) and be placed on the priority list for Coordinated Entry (CE).
Please click on the link below to obtain a contact list of the currently funded FHPAP providers in Ramsey County or, to access the prevention providers only, please click on the attached pdf further below.
2019-2021 Ramsey County FHPAP Sub Grantee Contact List
EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT (ESG)
Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) is available to St. Paul residents through Ramsey County via a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) with the City of St. Paul. ESG funds can be used for street outreach, operational costs of emergency shelters, rapidly rehouse homeless individuals and families (through Coordinated Entry), and/or to prevent individuals/families from becoming homeless (ie: late rent assistance and/or utility shut off assistance). For more information on ESG funds or to receive a list of funded agencies, please refer to the attachment below "FY2019 ESG PROVIDERS".
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If you are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness in the other Metro Counties, please access the following links to learn more about where to find help in each County.
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Linkedin will now secretly inform recruiters you need a new Job
October 7, 2016 by Oluwatobi Allen
Looking for a new job when you already have one could be a little tricky, but LinkedIn might now be able to make it a little easier by allowing you to notify prospective recruiters of your intentions while keeping your current employer in the dark.
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Linkedin is rolling out a new feature that allows you to tell recruiters you’re interested in changing jobs without your current employer finding out.
When you opt in to this new feature, called Open Candidate, recruiters are able to see that you are interested in potential opportunities they could offer. At the same time, LinkedIn will do its best to block your information from appearing to recruiters at your company or its subsidiaries.
When you opt in to this new linkedin feature, you can select a few available options about what type of job you would like, what city you want to work in, other important preferences and also write a short message to potential recruiters.
“It’s really a way for a person to signal to the recruiting community that they’re on the market and share a few things about what would be compelling to them,” says Dan Shapero, director of product management for LinkedIn Careers.
Though LinkedIn does its best to hide your information from recruiters at or affiliated with your company, Shapero noted that they can’t guarantee that it won’t be seen. Still, he says that early testing of the feature has been successful on all sides: so-called “open candidates” are more likely to be contacted by recruiters and recruiters are more likely to hear back from them.
Open Candidate is available to all LinkedIn users and can be turned on in the preferences section of your account.
As far as common sense is concerned, this new feature is at the BETA stage and still opened to a lot of improvements so it is advisable not to expect complete efficiency but you can be sure of having it fully efficient as time goes.
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National Portrait Gallery - Opening hours, Address, Tickets, What's On
About the National Portrait Gallery
The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist.
The collection includes photographs and caricatures as well as paintings, drawings and sculpture.
One of its best-known images is the Chandos portrait, the most famous portrait of William Shakespeare.
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1. National Gallery
2. Canada House Gallery
3. Benjamin Franklin House
4. British Council London
5. Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
6. Mall Galleries
7. Household Cavalry Museum
8. Banqueting House
9. London Transport Museum
10. Courtauld Institute of Art
11. Somerset House
12. Churchill War Rooms
13. Museum of Freemasonry
14. Southbank Centre
15. Spencer House
16. Jewel Tower
17. The Photographers' Gallery
18. Royal Institution (inc Faraday Museum)
19. Sir John Soane's Museum
20. Twinings Museum
21. The British Museum
22. Florence Nightingale Museum
23. The Building Centre
24. Cartoon Museum
25. Guards Museum
26. Handel House Museum
27. Pollock's Toy Museum
28. Novelty Automation
29. Wiener Library
30. The Queen's Gallery
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Outlander season 2: Sam Heughan teases 'climax' and 'surprises' in finale
By Ruchinka Upadhyaya
June 4, 2016 12:42 BST
Claire and Jamie Fraser are trying to change the course of history, but the show has already shown that the Frasers will fail in their attempt. In the opening scene of season 2's premiere episode, Claire is back in the 20th century with Frank, and we learn that the Jacobites have been defeated by the British in the Culloden battle.
Season 2's finale episode is titled Dragonfly In Amber, which will inadvertently end with Claire in the 1940's, but how those events will play out is the twist. Actor Sam Heughan, who plays Jamie, has teased "climax" and "surprises" in the season 2 finale. He told IGN, "Ultimately the show has always been about relationships. Not only is that the climax of history, but it's also the climax of the relationships that are happening at the time. It's all doomed, and we can't stop history from happening," Heughan said of the upcoming finale.
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"[Season 2] certainly has a climax. [Showrunner Ron Moore] has also got some surprises," the actor added.
Meanwhile, Outlander returns with all new episode this Saturday, where Jamie continues to train men in their impending war against the British, while Claire is haunted by the memories of WW2. Episode 9 is titled, Je Suis Prest, which will air on 4 June at 9pm ET/PT on Starz network.
The official synopsis reads as follows:
Claire and Jamie reunite with the Lallybroch and MacKenzie men during training; Jamie and Claire wage personal battles; an Englishman arrives in camp with new information.
Click here to watch the episode live stream. Alternately, you can watch the episode online by clicking here. You can also watch the episode by downloading the Starz app on your phone.
How will Claire end up in the 1940's? To know more keep watching Outlander every Saturday on Starz.
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Sigma Pi fraternity members charged in Ohio University freshman’s death
By Lucas Sullivan, Mike Wagner and Sheridan Hendrix / The Columbus Dispatch
Nine people, including seven members of the recently expelled Sigma Pi fraternity at Ohio University, have been indicted by an Athens County grand jury in the death of Collin Wiant.
Some of the charges include involuntary manslaughter, hazing and trafficking and drugs.
Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn announced the indictments today after a grand jury approved charges.
The indictments come after The Columbus Dispatch published a six-part investigation called “Broken Pledge.” The project detailed in text and audio podcasts the severe hazing and death of pledge Collin Wiant at the Epsilon Chapter of the Sigma Pi fraternity at Ohio University.
Those indicted include:
‒ Joshua T. Androsac, 20, of Lewis Center, Ohio, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony; permitting drug abuse, a felony of the fifth degree; hazing, a fourth-degree misdemeanor; and two counts of trafficking in harmful intoxicants, a fifth-degree felony.
‒ Saxon Angell-Perez, of Columbus, indicted for permitting Drug Abuse, a felony of the fifth degree; trafficking in cocaine, a fifth-degree felony; and hazing, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
‒ Dominic A. Figliola, of Athens, indicted for drug trafficking, a fourth-degree felony; permitting drug abuse, a felony of the fifth degree; hazing, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
‒ Corbin M. Gustafson, 22, reckless homicide, a third-degree felony.
‒ Zachary Herskovitz, 22, of Coraopolis, PA, permitting drug abuse, a felony of the fifth degree; hazing, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
‒ Cullen W. McLaughlin, 20, two counts of drug trafficking, both fifth-degree felonies.
‒ Elijah R. Wahib, 22, of Westlake, was charged with tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; obstructing justice, a fifth-degree felony; permitting drug abuse, a fifth-degree and hazing, a fourth-degree misdemeanor, misdemeanor assault and failure to comply with underage alcohol laws, an unspecified misdemeanor.
‒ James Dylan Wanke, 25, who works at the Silver Serpent store in Athens that sold the “whippits” was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, first-degree and third-degree felonies; two counts of trafficking in harmful intoxicants, both fifth-degree felonies; distributing nitrous oxide, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
Wanke will be arraigned Wednesday in Athens County Common Please Court at 9:15 a.m.
‒ Stephan B. Lewis, 27, is charged with trafficking in harmful intoxicants, a fifth-degree felony; improperly dispensing or distributing nitrous oxide, a fourth-degree misdemeanor
“We know this is an important day in the process of making change, to change behavior and make sure this doesn’t happen to any other families,” said Kathleen Wiant, Collin’s mother. “We’re out to save lives and to do that we need to make sure that we bring justice... but especially today we understand that there are no winners and that is heavy on our hearts.”
Ohio University was thrust into the national spotlight after Wiant, an 18-year-old freshman from Dublin, died after collapsing on the floor of an unofficial, off-campus fraternity house on Nov. 12, 2018.
A coroner ruled that Wiant died of asphyxiation due to nitrous oxide ingestion after he inhaled a canister of the gas, also known as a “whippit.”
Listen to Broken Pledge: An investigative series on fraternity hazing
The Athens Police Department, which continues to investigate Wiant’s death, declined to comment.
Sigma Pi pledges were beaten with belts, punched and forced to play tackle football resulting in a significant head injury for one pledge, according to documents and interviews related to the investigation.
Pledges also reported that they were forced to consume alcohol and clean campus bars where Sigma Pi members worked, and Wiant told his brother and former girlfriend that they made him use cocaine.
Gov. Mike DeWine said local law enforcement and prosecutors need the stiffer penalties to serve as a real deterrent for those who continue to use hazing practices in fraternities and sororities, marching bands, athletic teams and other organizations.
The governor said any anti-hazing legislation should not only increase the penalty but also expand the actual legal language of the hazing statute to give prosecutors more leeway to charge someone with a hazing crime.
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, echoed some of DeWine’s thoughts and said Wiant’s death was avoidable and tragic.
“No family should have to endure the pain the Wiant family went through in losing their beloved Collin to hazing,” Portman said in an email response to The Dispatch. “There is no place for hazing in our society and that’s why I am proud to support the bipartisan END ALL Hazing Act.
The act is a federal bipartisan proposal that would require colleges and universities to post incidents of hazing that took place on campus or within a student organization on their website.
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Drouillard History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The name Drolet comes from the French word "drôle" which means funny. The name was originally given as a nickname to a person that was thought to be funny or entertaining. [1]
Early Origins of the Drouillard family
The surname Drouillard was first found in Languedoc, where the family held a family seat from ancient times.
Early History of the Drouillard family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Drouillard research. Another 235 words (17 lines of text) covering the years 1402, 1450, 1500, 1696, 1610, 1681 and 1643 are included under the topic Early Drouillard History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Drouillard Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Drolet, Droley, Droler, Drollet, Drollais, Drollaie, Drollée, Drollé, Druillet, Drolais, Drolaie, Drolée, Drolé, Droley, Drollais, Drollay, Drolley, Droller, Druilhet, DeDruillet, deDruilhet, Droulet, Droulette, Druilet, Druilette, Druillet, Druillette, Drolette, Rollet, de Rollet, Rolet and many more.
Early Notables of the Drouillard family (pre 1700)
Another 47 words (3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Drouillard Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Drouillard migration to the United States +
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Drouillard Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
Bernard Drouillard, aged 7, who settled in America, in 1895
Mrs Drouillard, aged 35, who landed in America, in 1904
Mrs. J.P. Drouillard, aged 24, who landed in America, in 1906
Mrs. H.K. Drouillard, who immigrated to the United States, in 1910
James P. Drouillard, who landed in America, in 1910
Florence Jane Drouillard, aged 30, who immigrated to the United States, in 1911
... (More are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)
Drouillard migration to Canada +
Drouillard Settlers in Canada in the 17th Century
Marie Drouillard, aged 20, who arrived in Canada in 1657
Miss Marie Drouillard, French settler travelling to Canada to work for François Peron, arriving on 10th April 1657 [2]
Ms. Ann Drummond U.E. who settled in Carleton [Saint John City], New Brunswick c. 1784 [3]
Contemporary Notables of the name Drouillard (post 1700) +
David Wilson "Dave" or "DW" Drouillard (b. 1950), American vocalist, songwriter and musician
George Drouillard (1773-1810), American interpreter on the Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery, eponym of Mount Drouillard, Montana
Roger Drouillard (b. 1952), French professional footballer
Clarence Joseph "Clare" Drouillard (1914-1986), Canadian professional NHL ice hockey player for the Detroit Red Wings
^ Dionne, N.-E., Origine Des Familles Canadiennes-Français. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969. Print.
^ Debien, Gabriel. Liste Des Engagés Pour Le Canada Au XVIIe Siècle. Vol. 6, Laval University, 1952. (Retreived 24th May 2018). Retrieved from https://lebloguedeguyperron.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/130-liste-des-contrats-dengagement-pour-la-nouvelle-france-releves-a-la-rochelle-entre-1634-et-1679/
^ Rubincam, Milton. The Old United Empire Loyalists List. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1976. (Originally published as; United Empire Loyalists. The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada. Rose Publishing Company, 1885.) ISBN 0-8063-0331-X
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Mini-Murals make a big impression across Houston
By Allison Bagley, Correspondent May 21, 2019 Updated: May 23, 2019 6:39 p.m.
1of3One of the traffic light boxes in Houston that has been transformed by Mini MuralsPhoto: Mini Murals
2of3One of the Mini Murals that have appeared around Houston on traffic-light boxes.Photo: Mini Murals
3of3Mini Murals can be found on traffic-light boxes all over HoustonPhoto: Mini Murals
Rex and Isabella Quiles play a game when they’re in the car running errands with their parents. The 8- and 10-year-old siblings challenge one another to see who can spot the most Mini Murals.
The Quiles’ parents, Noah and Elia Quiles, founded Mini Murals in 2015, a public art project that taps local artists to paint traffic signal control boxes with colorful murals.
There are now about 220 Mini Murals (minimurals.org) throughout Houston. The project recently expanded to Austin, with the first four Mini Murals in the state capital being completed this month.
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“It’s sort of like a treasure hunt,” Noah Quiles says of a self-guided tour families can take to find Mini Murals. “If we happen to be in a community that has a lot, we literally shout them out. It’s like a game who can see them first — the best is finding one we haven’t seen before.”
Last fall, the Quiles released free maps for download that detail the location of Mini Murals in areas including downtown, Northside and East End. The maps make it easier for a family to cover an area by foot, bike or car to take pictures with their favorite Mini Murals, Elia Quiles says.
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On their quest, a family will find utility boxes painted to resemble a music speaker, mosaic tiles, papel picado, a rocket ship, book-lined shelves and a light switch.
Many of the murals are a nod to things found in nature, including a series of four boxes near the Houston Zoo covered with a zebra, frog, eagle and elephant.
Others depict recognizable figures, including Martin Luther King Jr., Frida Kahlo and Malala Yousafzai.
The Willie Nelson mural by GelsonD.Lemus (also known by the artist name asw3r3on3), located at 34th and Ella, is the mural most often posted on Instagram, Noah Quiles says.
The Quileses were inspired to start the mural project after becoming aware of utility-box art in Auckland, New Zealand, and Dublin, Ireland. The project is about “creating art in unexpected places,” Noah Quiles says.
The most recent Mini Mural was unveiled this month. In partnership with District C, a box at West 43rd and West T.C. Jester in Oak Forest is a tribute to the late first lady Barbara Bush.
Keeping an eye out
Jill Jarvis, mom of four, says her kids keep their eyes peeled for traffic-box murals when they’re in the car “because they know I will stop.” The murals make for a fun photo op, she says.
“You can find them everywhere you go,” she says. “They take something boring, or even ugly, and make it beautiful.”
Currently, the family’s favorite is a Lego character traffic light mural in the Westchase District. The mural is not part of the Mini Murals project.
Local artist Anat Ronen has painted several Mini Murals. The process usually takes about two days, she says, and when she’s painting, drivers honk and shout to “show their appreciation.”
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Ronen, a full-time artist who primarily paints large-scale murals, says a utility-box mural can be as “daunting” as a mural that covers an entire exterior wall of a building. The level of detail is more time-consuming when the “canvas” is smaller, she says, because the art will be encountered from up close and from afar.
When she completed a Mini Mural on South Gessner with a wood-grain background and a raccoon peering out of a dark hole, the scene was so realistic she heard accounts of minor fender benders.
“They went nuts for it,” she says. “It really does its job.”
Her utility-box murals that “have a little bit of interaction and humor” are the biggest draw for children, she says, including one that looks like an open box of crayons, which she says was inspired by Houston’s diversity.
Another of her favorites is located at Bissonnet and Wilcrest and makes viewers feel they are peering through the glass of an aquarium.
“I enjoy the fact that’s it’s a close encounter with the public,” she says of the small work that she describes as “approachable.”
“It’s a great way to spread public art or art period,” Ronen says. “It’s art in the open. Art for everybody.”
Allison Bagley is a Houston-based writer.
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In his latest post to our firm's Virginia (VA) Trucking Accident blog, my colleague John C. highlights the importance of the so-called "move over law" for protecting police officers and emergency responders whose jobs require them to work on the shoulders of often dangerous roads and highways. John was prompted to write when details emerged of an incident in which the driver of a tractor-trailer hit and severely injured a Virginia senior state trooper who was engaged in a reckless driving stop on I-664 in Chesapeake near the Bowers Hill interchange.
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REC 3
REC 3.8 Financial and other information
REC 3.8.1R 01/04/2013 RP
A UK recognised body must give the FCA1:
a copy of its annual report and accounts; and
a copy of the consolidated annual report and accounts:
of any group in which the UK recognised body is a subsidiary undertaking; or
(if the UK recognised body is not a subsidiary undertaking in any group) of any group of which the UK recognised body is a parent undertaking;
no later than the time specified for the purpose of this rule in REC 3.8.2 R.
The time specified for the purpose of REC 3.8.1 R is the latest of:
four months after the end of the financial year to which the document which is to be given to the FCA 1relates; or
the time when the documents described in REC 3.8.1 R (1) or REC 3.8.1 R (2)(b) are sent to the members or shareholders of the UK recognised body; or
the time when the document described in REC 3.8.1 R (2)(a) are sent to the shareholders in a parent undertaking of the group to which that document relates.
Where an audit committee of a UK recognised body has prepared a report in relation to any period or any matter relating to any relevant function of that UK recognised body, the UK recognised body must immediately give the FCA 1a copy of that report.
A UK recognised body must give the FCA 1a copy of:
its quarterly management accounts; or
its monthly management accounts;
within one month of the end of the period to which they relate.
REC 3.8.5G 01/04/2013 RP
A UK recognised body is not required to provide quarterly and monthly management accounts in respect of the same period, but management accounts (whether quarterly or monthly) should be submitted for all periods. A UK recognised body may choose whichever method is the more suitable for it, but where it intends to change from providing monthly to quarterly management accounts (or from quarterly to monthly management accounts), it should inform the FCA1 of that fact.
a statement of its anticipated income, expenditure and cashflow for each financial year; and
an estimated balance sheet showing its position as it is anticipated at the end of each financial year;
before the beginning of that financial year.
Where the accounting reference date of a UK recognised body is changed, that body must immediately give notice of that event to the FCA 1and inform it of the new accounting reference date.
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Well House Tavern
2.8 miles from Pinhoe, UK-D4
It is said that a monk and a nun engaging in a love affair killed themselves at this location. Robed figures are seen, perfume scents are picked up, and alarms are known to go off by themselves. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Exeter Cathedral
A monk and a nun are thought to have fallen in love and then chose to commit suicide to remain together. Both spirits are seen here, long after their deaths in circa 1400. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
The Well House
People claim to spot women in black gowns who suddenly vanish. The odor of perfume, lights flickering, and alarms going off are also common activity here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
A friendly monk is reported here, but the guests don't mind him. Another figure dressed as a Royalist soldier has been seen in different bedrooms. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
The Ley Arms
Pinhoe, Devon
A negative presence is usually felt in the restaurant area and by the toilets. Doors will sometimes open and slam by themselves and the scent of cigarette smoke can also be picked up. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Powderham Castle
Pinhoe, England
A mother and her child were walled up alive and are still felt here. A Grey Lady walks between the castle and the church; her appearance is said to be a bad omen. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Exmouth Rugby Club
Exmouth, England
CCTV caught a bar bell ringing by itself. Guests and workers have also noticed muffled voices despite the building being empty. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Fisherman's Cot Inn
This historic inn is notorious for the ghostly laughter of a young woman that has been heard by guests. There are also reports of a headless horseman riding past the inn at a certain time every night. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Trout Inn
This thatched cottage has been converted to an inn, and is believed to be haunted by a hovering shade that has been known to materialise in the closets of guests. A former owner recalls having witnessed this apparition on several occasions when the building was a private residence. (Submitted by Callum ...
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Sidholme Hotel
Sidmouth, England
10.5 miles from Pinhoe, UK-D4
A Victorian woman recently was caught on photograph. She is said to be the wife of the owner from 142 years ago. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Kennaway House
A young girl named Charlotte is reported here. Occurences became so frequent, one room is now called the Charlotte Room (where she is frequently seen). She is said to also move heavy objects and give guests the sense of not being alone. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
A medium was called here after employees kept experiencing items falling off of their racks, noises were unaccounted for, and voices were heard. Some people reported seeing a Victorian granny inside of here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
New Look Boutique Store
This boutique store in this quaint seaside town is reportedly haunted by the apparition of a woman named Gladys, a former tenant of the building. Staff reportedly heard loud noises, disembodied footsteps and whispering noises. I myself visited this store after the local newspaper ran an article, and experienced the ...
Three Crowns Hotel
Chagford, England
The spirit of Sidney Godolphin is allegedly here. He is said to wander the premise and even manifest right in front of people, then retreats by walking through a wall. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
The Old Church House Inn
19 miles from Pinhoe, UK-D4
A phantom monk is said to be here. Footsteps, keys rattling, voices, breathing, and loud banging noises can be heard here. One account that took place in Room 1 involved a phantom arm pointing towards a nearby church. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Church House Inn
In Room 1, a woman said she saw a disembodied hand pointing toward the nearby church. Other activity involves a monk's apparition, the sound of keys jangling, footsteps, and voices of unseen people. Submitted by Chris Berglund
The Stables Bed and Breakfast
Kilmington, Devon
I stayed in this historic barn conversion which was a former stable back in the eighteenth century, and experienced a great deal of paranormal activity. Throughout the night, I thought I heard sounds similar to the whinnying of a horse, even though there were none present. I also heard disembodied ...
The Oxenham Arms
South Zeal, Devon
Two figures are reported here: a monk and a lady. Footsteps and a dragging noise are also reported here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Bay Horse Inn
Ashburton, Devon
The upper floor of this public house is believed to be haunted by several young children. Staff have reported hearing babies crying, running footsteps and ghostly laughter. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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A friendly monk is reported to be here. His presence is usually a sign that danger is near and can be prevented. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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Be on the look-out for Margaret Pomeroy (also known as the White Lady). She was held captive in these dungeons and starved to death; she likes to wave at tourists. The Blue Lady is said to the daughter of one of the former Norman Lords who became pregnant after being ...
Tors Hotel
This family run hotel is haunted by an angry poltergeist that slams doors on the upper floors of the building. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Dartington Hall
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Among the figures people claim to see are a lady in white (usually in the garden), two other women in one of the bedrooms, and a horseman outside of the building. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Royal Lion Hotel
This historic inn dates back to the early seventeenth century, and is believed by many to be haunted. Witnesses have reported a ghostly most that materialises in the hotel hallways and the sounds of disembodied footsteps. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Churston Court
Pinhoe, Torbay
Monks are seen here walking around the grounds and even through the walls. One monk in particular is said to be in the kitchen. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Okehampton, Devon
The voice of a child name Peter can be heard at times. He is said to play with other children who come and visit. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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A famous legend here surrounds a woman named Mary Howard. While Mary was a well-to-do woman, in the afterlife, she has been confused with a woman named Lady Frances Howard, who murdered four of her husbands. It is said that Mary is carried in a carriage made of bone and ...
The Choughs Hotel
Chard, Somerset
An inscription by the fireplace has a reputation for being unphotographable using flash; anyone who attempts to will have the camera malfunction, photo show up blurry, or not even show up at all. Upstairs, a knight has been seen, by the fireplace, an evil-looking old man has been spotted, and ...
Watermans Arms
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The Highwayman Inn
The ghost of a man named Sam has been reported wearing green and a feathered cap. He is said to have died in a battle somewhere around it. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Royal Castle Hotel
Dartmouth, England
At night, the sound of James II exile can be heard. Guests will hear the sounds of horses on cobblestone followed by people exiting or entering a stagecoach, the door of the coach slamming, and then the carriage will take off, followed by three bell chimes. Other spirits reported here ...
Bettiscombe Manor
A businessman named Azariah Pinney had a slave who requested to be buried back in his homeland; after the death, Pinney didn't satisfy the demands and opted to have the slave buried at the local cemetery. Unfortunately, a terrible scream would roar through until the body was taken back to ...
Dartmouth Castle
Dartmouth, Devon
The ghosts of several men (positive and negative energies) are reported in the Victorian gun gallery and the old tower. Also in the tower, a young lady is reported as well as a child. Poltergeist activity has been reported in various areas, loud banging noises are heard, and emotions can ...
Clock House Inn
Pinhoe, Dorset
There are reports of various people sighting the apparition of a friendly young woman standing on the car park of the sixteenth century inn. Witnesses say she appears to have no legs. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
After a motorcyclist died near this patch of road in the 1920's it is said that he will sometimes prevent accidents from occurring by taking control of the car or motorcycle (usually, the driver will see his pair of hands steering). There is also a belief that the hands are ...
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This historic farmhouse is well known for its produce; and the entity that resides there. The apparition of an grey haired man in a red soldier's uniform allegedly haunts the cheese cellar underneath this house. If spoken to, he is known to disappear backwards into the cellar wall. (Submitted by Callum ...
Bull Hotel
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The upper floor of the hotel is reputedly haunted by children, who screams and cries have been heard by staff and guests. The apparition of a lady in a tweed outfit has been seen seated in the downstairs lobby. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Beaminster, Dorset
The ghost of a murdered schoolboy named John Daniel has been seen here since the time of his death in 1728. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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A playful girl, around aged 7, and a man with a grey beard have both been seen here. A coachman is also reported to wander around the restaurant area. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Guildhall Building
Barnstaple, Devon
This historic building is uses as both council offices and as a function hall. Staff have reported sighting two long dead council members wandering the premises after hours. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Pilchard Inn
A smuggler named Tom Crocker made this island his safe haven for some time. After his death centuries later (on the porch of this location), he is said to wander around the island (especially around the anniversary of his death). (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Sinai House
Lynton, Devon
45 different ghosts are here. Outside of the property is a tree that was once used to hang witches; some people who walk near the tree begin to feel emotionally distraught without knowing the knowledge of it. Inside of the premises, monks, soldiers, dark, malevolent shadows, and other full-bodied apparitions ...
Braunton Inn
Braunton, Devon
The spirit of a man named Barnard remains here. Not much is known about him. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Acorn Inn
Evershot, Dorset
This sixteenth century inn was a former coaching house, and is now home to the spectre of a murdered highwayman. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
Minerva Inn
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A tunnel system inside of here was used to send customers to the docks where they were placed on warships. A variety of ghostly women have been seen here including a woman with Elizabethan garb. Another spirit is said to be that of an angry man who yells at guests, ...
Poltergeist activity is common here. Guests and employees report hearing footsteps in the upper rooms despite no one occupying them, as well as seeing figures that vanish quickly. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
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In an era of increased reliance on private regulatory bodies and globalised economic activity, standardisation is the field where politics, technical expertise and strategic behaviour meet and interact. International standard-setting bodies exemplify the rise of transnational governance and the challenges that it brings about relating to institutional choice, legitimacy, procedural and substantive fairness or transparency. This book takes a more empirical-based approach focusing on the mechanics of international standard-setting. It constitutes a multidisciplinary inquiry into the foundations of international standard-setting, an empirically under-researched yet important area of international informal lawmaking. Contributors expertly examine the peculiarities of international standardisation in selected issue-areas and legal orders and shed light on the attributes of international standard-setters, allowing comparisons among standard-setting bodies with a view to identifying best practices and improve our understanding about standardisation processes.
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You are at:Home»Blog»A new approach to the piano
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A new approach to the piano
By IAM contributor on March 23, 2018  Analysis Blog
Chad Lawson on why he believes modern technology can inspire new audiences to engage with the piano
The piano. A beloved staple in the world of music. From the concert stage before thousands to the family living room, the piano has played its way into our hearts for over 300 years. And while the instrument went through several early modifications, its architecture has remained much the same for the last 100 years.
Yet, what about the piano as of late? Around 105,000 new pianos were sold in the US in 2000. Fast-forward almost 20 years and that number drops to roughly 19,000 new pianos sold last year. What happened? Is the piano dead? With modern technology creating everything faster, newer, better – and in every colour – has the piano been left behind?
While some may attribute its demise to anything with an “i” in front of it, iPads, iPhones and iBook’s aren’t necessarily to blame. Maybe it’s not the piano that needs the adjustment; maybe it’s us.
I tour the world as a concert pianist and play at festivals where numerous genres are represented. Recently, I’ve noticed a common pattern: there are now more iPads than pianos on stage. Most of these iPad artists are in their 20s or 30s, and create work solely from an iPad or similar device. Albums have been released, successfully I might add, recorded entirely on an iPhone.
So perhaps it’s not lack of interest, but lack of exposure. We’re a product of our environment and for many the landscape is surrounded by smartphones, not stringed instruments.
Instead of reminiscing about the old days and how things have changed for the worse, I decided to change my approach. How could I connect with an audience who viewed a piano as antiquated but an iPad as second nature?
I decided to record an album, pairing the traditional (piano) with the modern (iPad). I used the piano as my instrument and the iPad to create loops, effects and layers. Doing this turned my entire process upside down.
Up until now I had recorded every album within one to two days. Yet, with re:piano, there was no such speed. Striking the final note five days later, I emerged from my studio drained yet with a feeling of excitement. My previous habit of writing down a few chords then crafting a melody no longer applied.
re:piano
For example, I often said “I have to hear this differently”. I’d then setup a simple pattern soaked in a ping-pong delay, which would serve as the bedding for the next looped phrase. And while I had an overabundant reservoir of delays, distortions and colours at my disposal, I had to remain judicious in my selection. Too much was overkill, not enough meant just another piano album. Restraint was key, giving space to each new element.
As with the studio, so to the stage. This generation knows an iPad inside out. My 4 year old effortlessly commands coding games on his iPad while I sit in awe, wondering how to even begin. Again, it’s all about exposure.
So, with my upcoming European tour, I’ve decided to take something young people are completely comfortable with (technology) and present it alongside something unfamiliar (the piano).
The iPad offers not only a new sonic world, but also a strong visual statement. In an age of ‘saw it all on YouTube’ there’s not much of a wow factor when someone walks on stage, sits down and plays the piano. Yes, they may have mastered a Rachmaninoff concerto, but that seems so unobtainable – foreign almost.
However, seeing someone walk on stage with an iPad and use it to turn the piece of furniture grandma has into an exciting world of sounds – that could have them hooked. Visually they are witnessing a creative process right before their eyes. “I can do that”, they imagine.
This triggers curiosity, and I hope my audience members will be asking their grandmothers if they can have the piano no-one plays anymore. Am I dreaming? I’m a blue-sky kind of guy but, as a pianist, we have to start somewhere. Why not here?
This is not the first such experiment I’ve conducted. In 2014 I took a similar risk by introducing the Spotify generation to Chopin through new arrangements. Rearranging the poet of the piano was no simple task and guaranteed criticism from traditionalists. But I felt this was an angle that hadn’t been explored, and could introduce classical music to an audience that had never heard a concerto.
The results were impressive: The Chopin Variations reached number one on iTunes classical chart, number one on Billboard Classical and number one on Amazon across all genres. The album was created because I was curious about whether a modern non-classical audience would appreciate the music of the great Polish composer. It worked – it truly worked.
Better yet, not only did the album garner strong sales but I was also flooded with emails from fans saying how they had never listened to Chopin before and were now interested in his original works. I also heard from parents who were inspired to enrol their children in music lessons because the album reminded them of their youth and the joy playing an instrument brought.
The reoccurring message of all this is exposure. This generation and the ones to follow, through no fault of their own, simply aren’t aware of classical piano music. We don’t know what we don’t know. The surge in vinyl record sales, for instance, hasn’t been a comeback: it’s new to them.
My hope is to inspire this generation, the one where 70% of their music is listened to on a mobile device, into realising how interesting the piano can be.
I’ve been invited to participate in Piano Day 2018 (29 March) and on 26 March I head to out for a three-week tour. And while the traditionalist in me would prefer to remain ‘un-plugged’, the optimist in me believes that inspiring the next generation is only a touchscreen away.
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Updated: 12 May 2012 5:40 pm
Posted: 23 Jul 2008 4:00 pm
Hercules is set to return to the big screen, with Hancock helmer Peter Berg developing a fresh take on the mythical strongman.
According to Variety, Berg will produce and develop to direct Hercules: The Thracian Wars, an adaptation of Steve Moore's recent five-issue comic of the same name. Ryan Condal has been charged with the task of adapting the series.
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The most recent film version of the legend was Disney's 1997 animated effort, while Arnold Schwarzenegger played the character in the impossibly bad 1970 feature Hercules in New York.
Hercules is a live-action adaptation of Steve Moores's Hercules: The Thracian Wars. The film stars The Rock.
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HomeFAQsMaritime Injury ClaimsShould my husband return to work after an injury?
Should my husband return to work after an injury?
Your husband should return to work after maritime injury only if he can resume his work-related duties at full capacity. Returning to work too soon may jeopardize his right to recover fair compensation permanently in an injury claim. This is true even if your husband later discovers his injuries had not yet fully healed, and he once again must cease working.
How Returning to Work Too Soon May Undervalue an Injury Claim
A large portion of your husband’s maritime injury claim may hinge on his loss of earning capacity and future wages. For instance, say your 35-year-old husband made $90,000 a year working on an offshore oil platform and suffered an on-the-job accident that resulted in debilitating back injuries. His injuries limit him to onshore work netting only $25,000 a year, resulting in a loss of earning capacity of $65,000 a year. The value of that loss may be multiplied by 15 to 25 years to determine your husband’s diminished earning capacity. This can account for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a claim.
Bear in mind, this portion of the injury claim is based on the assertion that your husband is unable to return to full-duty working/earning capacity. An early attempt to return to work contradicts this assertion. This is true even if your husband discovers after a few days or weeks that he was not physically ready to resume his duties.
Employer Tactics – What to Watch out for During the Healing Process
Your husband’s employer – and its lawyers and insurance company – fully understand maritime law. These parties can use that knowledge to get your husband to inadvertently ruin any future injury claim.
How do they do this? Your husband may feel pressure from his employer to return to work as soon as possible. This may be an unfortunate sign that your husband’s company is taking steps to minimize its liability in a potential maritime claim. By strong-arming your husband into returning to full, unlimited work duty, his employer may be able to avoid having to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost earning capacity.
Remember: Your husband first must receive a full-duty medical release before returning to work after injury. This physician’s statement can be used as evidence against your husband’s right to compensation.
Determining a Safe Time to Return to Work
Your maritime injury lawyer may advise your husband to return to work only if he is 100 percent certain he can do so at a full, unrestricted working capacity. This means assuming all of his previous job duties, which often includes heavy manual labor. Only then can your husband feel confident that he has returned to his full earning capacity and will not suffer future financial loss due to his injury.
Is your husband unsure of what his next steps should be after a maritime injury? Arm yourself with free information to help protect your husband’s potential claim. Request a free copy of “Secrets to Maintenance and Cure Laws Your Company May Not Want You to Know.” For personalized advice, schedule a free case evaluation by calling (866) 938-6113.
First, we recommend you download the “Maintenance & Cure Worksheet“.
Next, you can visit our Maintenance & Cure Blog to further educate yourself.
You can also request a hard copy of our book “Paying Your Bills & Getting Medical Treatment: How Maintenance and Cure Laws Protect You After a Maritime Injury“.
Lastly, if you have any questions, you can always feel free to call us: toll-free at (866) 938-6113.
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Multiple Flutes
Flute of the Bumble Bee!
Arranged by Charles Peter Lynch
Great for teachers
Rimsky-Korsakov was originally a sailor, though he did take piano lesons in St Petersburg with Balakirev. Even when he was later appointed Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire there, his theoretical knowledge was usually only a couple of steps ahead of his pupils. Despite this limitation, he is regarded as one of the great masters of orchestration – on a par with Berlioz, Wagner and Ravel.
He later had a nervous breakdown, during which time he felt a temporary antipathy to music. He had meanwhile been made Director of the Conservatoire, but was later dismissed for political reasons. This caused such a storm of protest, however, that he was soon reinstated. Rimsky-Korsakov was influenced by Wagner and his most important pupil was Stravinsky.
Although he is best known for Scheherezade and the Italian Caprice, Rimsky-Korsakov composed many other works. The Flight of the Bumble-Bee is an extract from his opera of 1900, which rejoices in the grand title The Legend Of The Tsar Saltan, His Son, The Famous And Mighty Prince Guidon Saltanovich And The Beautiful Swan Princess. The present arrangement thankfully has the title appropriately abridged.
As ever, musical interest has been thoughtfully (!) distributed, though the first flute inevitably has most of the action and the bass least. Useful advice for practice, rehearsal and performance is included with the score, including a few alternative fingerings.
Performance duration (approx): 1'20
Difficulty guide: 5-8
Difficulty level, roughly compared to ABRSM exam grades. 0 is beginner, 9 is advanced (beyond grade 8).
Part 1: Flute
Part 4: Flute or Alto Flute or Bass Flute
Part 5: Flute or Bb Clarinet
Category: Flute Quintet Music
Publisher: FlutePlay
Publisher's reference: CD145
Our Stock Code: 1112658
Media Type: Paperback - Score and parts (5 pages [score])
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Knights of Columbus St Joseph Council 3814
St. Joseph Council 3814 Email: kofc3814@gmail.com
K of C St. Joseph Council 3814
199 River Road New Milford, NJ 07646, United States
St Joseph Council #3814 of the Knights of Columbus was founded in 1954. Our council hosts many activities throughout the year for the church, youth, family and our community. St. Joseph Council supports St. Joseph Parish in Oradell and Ascension Church in New Milford Our Council is located on 199 River Road, next to the Ambulance Corps, in New Milford, NJ.
HALL RENTAL INFORMATION
WHO ARE THE KNIGHTS?
PLACEMAT ADVERTISEMENTS
Knight of Columbus St. Joseph Council 3814
St Joseph Council #3814 of the Knights of Columbus was founded in 1954. From the beginnings of a small group to the council hall today, we are very proud of our history and how it happened. This section is dedicated to some of the bits and pieces of our history and things that started here.
Coogan Hall
Our beautiful Coogan Hall was made possible by the selling of bonds to our members. As of 2011, we are proud to say we paid the interest on our last outstanding bond.
Tootsie Roll Drive
Bishop Doughtery Scholarship
Knights of Columbus Council #3814 Catholic High School Scholarship Fund
In the beginning of 2011, we completed the drafting of a scholarship for 8th Grade Boys and Girls looking to go to a Catholic High School. The Scholarship awards $500 to an incoming freshman based on a criteria of merit, extra curricular activies, volunteer work, recommendations from their peers and a written essay based on the Knights virtures of Charity, Unity, Fraternity and Patriotism.
Council-based membership is the best way to experience the Knights of Columbus. Prospective members who sign up online can join local councils just as they always have. Click HERE to go to the NJ KofC site to get more information about the KofC, membership benefits, and to sign up today.
2020 8th Grade Scholarship Application Form
2019 Free Throw Entry Form
Bishop Doughtery Scholarship Application Form
Newark Archdiocese
Future Degree Dates
Knights of Columbus New Jersey State Council
Knights of Columbus Supreme Council
The Vatican - Holy See
St. Joseph Council No. 3814 Knights of Columbus:20...
Knights of Columbus Coogan Hall Rental Tour
KofC #3814 St. Joseph Council
The hall can be rented during the week or on the weekend for $475 for a four-hour event. The hall has a seating capacity of 120 people and it is handicapped accessible. Tables are 30"x96" that seats up to 10 people. You can bring in a DJ, food and drinks, including alcohol. There is a full kitchen available for food preparation (not for commercial use). There are dedicated men's and women's bathrooms. We have a parking lot on premises, street parking, and an adjacent lighted municipal parking lot for overflow located 100ft north of the hall. An availability calendar is located on the top of our site to see if a date is available. To book or for more information, leave a message on our council phone at 201-262-9722 or email us at kofc3814@gmail.com
Charity, Unity, Fraternity and Patriotism
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Brad Downey across all Media
Brad Downeys statue “Melania” is all over the media since it’s inauguration on 4.7.2019. Please read more about the film.
2019, Sevenica, Slovenia Digital video
“Brad Downey’s new ongoing project ”Melania” is a documentary film consisting of several parts about the construction of a monument of Melania Trump, carved into a tree that is still rooted in her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia.
The current First Lady of the USA was born on April 26, 1970 in Novo mesto in the then Yugoslav republic of Slovenia.
The sculpture of the president’s wife is made by a local pipe layer and amateur chainsaw sculptor named Maxi. Both Maxi and Melania were born on the same year in the same hospital, but their lives have taken drastically different directions.
For the film, Downey and his team spent several months filming interviews with Maxi along with locations around the town. The result is a personal portrait of Maxi and his thoughts about Slovenia, the USA, Europe, immigration and class division. Through these interviews the film attempts to capture the spirit of Slovenia, which seems to be mirrored in Maxi’s interactions with his family, environment and his feelings about art, God, love, and country. By focusing on one working class man’s portrayal of a public and internationally known personality, the film offers insights on local and global problems and policies illuminated by the USA and Europe and beyond.” thanks: Aljaž Celarc , Miha and Jaka Erjavec
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Will Caligari found that he was waking up every morning when the heater kicked on to pee. The sound of the heat coming on is barely noticeable, there must be some subconscious connection between this noise and his bladder springing to attention.
Will did not like this. Not one bit.
What it meant, to him anyway, was that while he was sleeping, someone else was at the helm.
He immediately got the image of a night watchman. A man who looks vaguely like him and has the largest key ring hanging off his belt that you can imagine. Walking up and down the longest hallways you can imagine. The sound of jangling keys echoing down the halls with every stride. The sound of footsteps, leather soles squeaking on marble. Passing, every now and then, a man using one of those big floor scrubbers. A man that looks vaguely like an older version of himself. A man that always gives him a smile as he passes.
Maybe now you can appreciate why Will didn’t like the idea of some stranger making critical decisions on his behalf.
The same guy, no doubt, who was fumbling through a zillion keys every time Will wanted to remember something. Sometimes he found the key to unlock the memory in a few tries, sometimes it would take months. Sometimes Will would be out with friends at a social function when all of a sudden the key would turn and “Aha!” he would remember something.
“I’ll pee when I’m good and ready to pee” he would mumble to himself under the covers, but his bladder would be good and ready and he could never fall back to sleep until he emptied it. The noise of the pee hitting the porcelain reminding him of jangling keys. Occasionally his stomach would rumble like the noise a floor scrubber makes and he’d close his eyes and see the long hallway whether he wanted to or not.
Maybe now you can understand why Will didn’t like the idea of calling this night watchman a night watchman or even (and especially) a stranger. Add to that growing list that Will didn’t like that everyone walking those long hallways looked vaguely like him.
What the hell is going on as he sleeps?
If he turns off the heat before drifting off will he pee the bed?
“Not on my watch” says a voice in his head.
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10 Best Apps for BlackBerry 10
By Daniel P. Howley - LAPTOP Senior Writer 20 March 2013
BlackBerry is getting ready to officially launch its new BlackBerry 10-powered Z10 smartphone here in the U.S., and to help make sure you get the most out of your new phone, we've compiled a list of the 10 best BlackBerry 10 apps on the market. From cross-platform messaging and photo editing to gaming and file syncing, these apps cover nearly all of your smartphone needs.
News Republic (Free)
News Republic is a news aggregator app similar to the popular Pulse app for iOS and Android. Users create a custom home screen complete with news feeds they want to follow ranging from World news to Sports to specific news items. The app also lets you share stories via Facebook, Twitter, text message or email. If a particular story knocks your socks off, you can write about how it affected your mood and share it via Facebook.
TuneIn (Free)
TuneIn gives you access to your favorite radio stations from your BlackBerry 10 device. Enable your phone's GPS function and you can search stations by your location. So when you're on the road, you can quickly find the kind of tunes you like. You can also browse talk radio, sports and news stations. The app will also continue to stream songs when minimized to an Active Frame, so you can keep checking email and surfing the Web while jamming out.
N.O.V.A. 3 ($6.99)
Who said you can't play mobile games on your BlackBerry? N.O.V.A. 3 is a sci-fi-based first-person shooter that pits gamers against wave after wave of enemies. The game's graphics are impressive and gameplay is razor sharp. If you want to move your game to a larger screen, you can connect your BB10 device to your television via its HDMI connection and blast away at baddies from your couch.
More: 5 Reasons Why the BlackBerry 10 Bashers are Wrong
Box (Free)
The Box app for BlackBerry 10 lets users sync their photos and videos with their PCs from the road. Once you create an account, and enable the app's sync function, all of the photos and videos you take will be synced to the cloud whenever you connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot. Box also lets you sync over your data connection, although, as the app warns, that can get expensive over time.
ESPN ScoreCenter (Free)
ESPN's ScoreCenter gives you constant updates on the top teams, the biggest sporting events and match ups and headlines from around the world of sports. Sign up for a free ESPN account to track your favorite teams including scores and news. And with Gamecast, you can follow the action live from your BB10 smartphone.
More: 14 Essential BlackBerry 10 Tips
Flixster (Free)
Flixster is a mashup of IMBD and Fandango. The app, which is powered by Rotten Tomatoes, lets users check whether movies are fresh or rotten, look up actors' filmographies, and see what's playing in nearby theaters. If that's not enough, the app also gives you a list of recent DVD releases, so you can see if you'd rather stay in or head to the theater.
Angry Birds Star Wars (Free)
The birds are back and this time they're taking over the Star Wars universe. Angry Birds takes all of your favorite birds and blends them with your favorite Star Wars characters to create an all new experience that will have you burning through your BlackBerry's battery in no time. Better still, the birds gain new powers including Force Push and the ability to wield lightsabers.
More: Rumor: BlackBerry Q10 Might Come to T-Mobile This May
WhatsApp (Free for First Year)
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform messaging app that lets BB10 users talk with contacts across different services. The app runs on either your phone's data connection or Wi-Fi and offers features like group chat, voice notes, share location, send photos and more. The first year of use is free, after which you'll pay just $0.99 a year.
Accuweather (Free)
BlackBerry 10's native weather app is powered by AccuWeather, but it doesn't offer nearly the level of functionality of Accuweather's own app. The native app, for example, can't check the upcoming forecast without having to exit to the BB10 Browser. Accuweather's app also offers satellite maps, 10-day forecasts, barometric pressure and more. If you tire of that, you can check out videos of wild weather events and lifestyle forecasts that let you know if you should go biking today or climbing on a particular day.
More: Lenovo CEO: Acquiring BlackBerry 'Could Possibly Make Sense'
PicShop Lite (Free)
BlackBerry 10's Camera app gives you some great editing features, but if you want to get a bit more out of your photos, PicShop Lite is the app you want. Users can edit photos saved on their device, download them from Facebook or take them using the app and make edits ranging from red eye reduction to adjusting the image's focal point. Upgrade to the full version of PicShop for $3.99 to save 8-megapixel photos, get access to hundreds of unlocked features like meme maker and image layers.
14 Essential BlackBerry 10 Tips
BlackBerry Z10 (AT&T) Review
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Kevin Breen
What Authors Can Expect From a Developmental Edit
Deciding when to enlist an editor’s help can be a tough call. Many authors must determine when feedback will be most impactful, especially when they are paying for professional support. This article will demystify the developmental editing process by describing what developmental editors (DEs) focus on, when authors can benefit from a developmental edit, and what outcomes they should expect.
What is the focus of a developmental edit?
Developmental edits focus on the “bones” of a manuscript, or the essential and foundation elements of storytelling. That means developmental editors are attentive to things like narrative arcs, long lines of tension, character development, tone, pacing, and structure. A developmental editor may consider whether the manuscript’s narrative approach—like first-person or third-person omniscient—aids or hinders the overall story. They can identify places where the manuscript’s pace accelerates too quickly and skims over important scenes. They may also point out underdeveloped characters, or even minor characters who get more “airtime” than they should. Ultimately, developmental editing encourages consistency, depth of storytelling, and often results in extensive rewriting.
When do authors benefit most from developmental editing?
Because developmental edits often result in extensive rewriting and revision, it is best to go through a developmental edit before more granular editing, such as line editing or copyediting. A developmental edit is usually conducted at the completion of a manuscript, though “completion” means different things to different authors. Some authors may want professional feedback right after clicking “save” on their first full, book-length draft. Many writers will revise their book-length manuscript first, then seek out a developmental edit once they’ve taken it as far as they can. Still other authors have a network of beta readers—from their writing group, book club, or graduate program—who are willing to read and provide suggestions before a DE gets involved. No matter which kind of writer you are, it is important to advance your draft—in quality and thought—as far as possible. That way, you aren’t paying for suggestions you could’ve simply identified during a careful re-read.
What should authors expect from a developmental edit?
Most often, developmental editors provide authors with an editorial letter once they’ve completed the developmental edit. Editorial letters at this stage often identify the strengths of the manuscript, as well as habitual issues within the writing. DEs will also propose remedies to these issues. For example, if a developmental editor identifies a novel’s minor plot line that seems purely anecdotal, they may suggest ways to increase its relevance, or encourage the author to cut it altogether. For a memoir, DEs might point out places where the narrative lags, then suggest ways to remedy that.
Authors can expect the editorial letter to be ambitious, but also realistic and achievable. A murder-mystery author may not aspire to write like Shakespeare; their DE, then should not encourage them to rewrite their manuscript in iambic pentameter. An editorial letter’s suggestions should correspond to the author’s goals for their project. While this stage can result in a long to-do list, editorial letters should ultimately leave the author feeling heartened and excited about the prospect of revising.
Sometimes DEs will also include line comments as a means of pointing out developmental issues within the manuscript. But even if DEs do not offer line comments, editorial letters should be specific and include examples; that way, the author is clear on the issue being identified as well as the proposed remedy for it.
No matter your project—be it a genre novel, a collection of essays, or a work of literary fiction—developmental editors can help you see the bigger picture. It can be hard to see the proverbial forest through the trees after months and years of writing (and rewriting). Your developmental editor, then, can help clarify what’s most important to your book, and suggest deft strategies for realizing your literary goals as you head into revision.
If you think your book might be ready for a developmental edit, then please contact our team at editor@latahbooks.com and share a bit about your project. Latah Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping authors publish meaningful, well-crafted books.
What's the Difference Between Line and Copy Editing?
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2012 Dickinson State University Softball
2/24 - 2/25/2012 - Dickinson State University Blue Hawks open their 2012 softball season with six games at College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID. Friday's games were against Eastern Oregon University, with Saturday and Sunday's games against College of Idaho. 2/24/2012 Friday - The first game didn't go so well for us, but the second game (after we warmed up) was great! Game 1 @ 1:00 pm - DSU 1 @ Eastern Oregon 4 - Photos 1 - 103 Game 2 @ 3:00 pm - Eastern Oregon 2 @ DSU 6 - Photos 104 - 192 2/25/2012 Saturday - The first game was delayed mid-game for 20 minutes due to snow. I've never seen a softball game played in 37 degree weather, with 40 mph wind gusts, and SNOW! Game 1 @ 12:00 pm - DSU 2 @ CI 11 - Photos 193 - 266 Game 2 @ 2:00 pm - DSU 6 @ CI 10 - Photos 267 - 341 (1) Erika Nowack, (2) Taysia Kaufman, (3) Vanessa Adame, (5) Janell LaRont, (7) Britney Miller, (8) Danielle Benito, (10) Lindsay Sullivan, (16) Regan Lawrence, (21) Jessica Huseby, (22) Claudia Torres, (24) Kristy Ortiz, (25) Tiffany Morgan, (27) Cherstin Dahlin, (33) Nicole Bertolacci, (44) Aubrey Ayala.
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Praying with greater wonder
POST BY RStyles
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - 16:52
Bob Styles SJ, Laudato Si, climate change, Creation
Harvest thanksgiving celebrates not only God’s seasonal gifts of crops for sustenance, but has become a more general celebration of thanksgiving for his gift of all the rich and interdependent diversity of life on earth. We are increasingly aware of the fragility of the intricate balance that sustains such a rich diversity of life on our unique planet, and of the fragility of the conditions required for any life to continue on earth at all.
Early in the last century with so many boasts of ‘scientific progress’ there was confidence life might be found in the solar system. But our hopes of finding extraterrestrial life have dwindled as we discover more about the extraordinary improbability not only of the emergence of life itself but also of the peculiarities of our own human evolution. These combine to emphasise scientifically and politically, as well as spiritually, our increasingly lonely human responsibility of acting as stewards for the support and sustainability of all life on our small planet.
This is not in itself to be seen as proof of the existence of God. But our care for our natural environment is important enough for Pope Francis to make it his first pastoral priority for his time in office. And we are beginning to see the sheer human folly of following leaders whose aggressive greed blinds them to their vital moral responsibilities for their own nations and for the whole living planet.
Our need for a genuinely global response to the dangers of climate change meets with a number of serious difficulties. Unfortunately the timescale of the data for effects believed to be exclusively caused by human activity can only be argued in terms of degrees of probability. Dealing with the causes of global warming inevitably involves unpopular decisions likely to create too many local resentments for governments to be able to sustain the international cooperation needed for long term climate reversal. Even without the global warming caused by atmospheric pollution, we know the earth is still in a natural process of warming after the last ice age.
The second problem is the degree of international cooperation needed to make our response sufficiently effective and fair. Cooperation of so many nations is likely to be more verbal than real, simply because nations are competing selfishly for economic advantage. The British government’s delay in reducing car pollution is an example of how democratic governments tend to undertake only short-term decisions which will gain them wide enough political support for the next elections. The United Nations is too weak, divisive, unpopular and politically unreliable to provide anything more than rather ineffective general resolutions. The only governments able to take the kind of long-term political decisions are autocratic states, who are unlikely to take decisions that will limit their control or threaten their own political interests.
The only feasible strategy to change lifestyles is therefore widespread public education about climate change, and how an individual can make a difference. Universities, schools, the internet, and religious bodies can and already do much to educate us in the political and economic values required to achieve real change. The Church can do much as long as it ensures that its message is fully supported and endorsed in an ecumenical and interreligious context as far as possible.
A specifically Christian and Catholic perspective can relate environmental care and concern to the intrinsic value of God’s creation. We marvel at the cave art of our primitive ancestors. We can marvel at the way in which they recapture the beauty and movement of the vanished creatures hunted in the ice age. Anthropologists believe these images in some way also invoked animistic worship of the spirits within them, worship clearly inspired by wonder at the natural world in which they live. This wonder and response is still reflected in the lives of primitive peoples all over the world.
Wonder at the natural world still inspires us, and many of us find we can pray with greater wonder among mountains and hills, under starlit skies, along a deserted seashore, before beautiful sunsets. The real power of nature is in its extraordinary delicacy, intricacy, and beauty. While fewer of us now encounter animals in the way our cave dwelling ancestors did, we nevertheless all tend to wonder at the devotion in the eyes of our dog, the clear song of the blackbird, or joyful leaps of dolphins at play. We mourn the gradual loss of familiar species by our neglect and careless destruction of habitats and natural means of livelihood. How did the once common sparrow come to decline?
All this has vivid meaning for Christians who believe God entered his own creation. By his incarnation and sacramental presence God has revealed the true value of his creation with his presence as the Word made flesh in earthly as well as human form. For the Christian (like St Francis of Assisi) the natural world sings of its Creator, the complexity and wonder of its interdependence.
The whole natural world is experienced by the Christian as sacramental by disclosing the presence of God. For example a place like a holy well, or a wayside shrine, made sacred by a formal blessing, a miraculous event, or by its association with a saint or pilgrimage route. It does not matter whether its story is accurate, as long as it implicitly represents the presence of Christ and his love and grace for his people. It is only our wonder and joy that gives us its true value, like the beloved toy of a small child. The sacramentality of God’s creation depends only on the genuine recognition and veneration of his people. Like Socrates, who in a grove of great beauty, spilled a drop of wine to honour the unknown god or spirit of the beautiful place, we should try to be still in veneration whenever we find ourselves in the presence of great natural wonder and beauty.
May we always find and discern His presence in the wonder and beauty of His creation.
Easter - the Christian Pasch
Dogma - “an arrogant declaration of opinion”
Why does God allow such suffering?
Feasts and Saints
Godtalk
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Paul O'Reilly SJ
Peter Gallagher SJ
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Farm St Church
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Peter Knott SJ
Manchester Universities Catholic Chaplaincy
David Stewart SJ
apostleship of prayer
Campion Hall
St Ignatius
Nostrorum
General province
St Beuno's
Dominic Robinson SJ
Dermot Preston SJ
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Commentary - Neuropsychiatry (2017) Volume 7, Issue 5
The Psychomotor Retardation, a Marker of Response to rTMS Treatment in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder?
Thibault Deschamps1,*, Anne Sauvaget2,3, Samuel Bulteau2 and Véronique Thomas-Ollivier1
1University of Nantes, Laboratory “Movement, Interactions, Performance” (EA 4334), Faculty of Sport Sciences, Nantes, France
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Now more than ever, let us continue to develop personalized medicine to improve the remission rate for treatment resistant depressed patients. Recent findings about psychomotor retardation - a core symptom of depression - provide new insights into the predictive efficiency of personalized treatments, such as rTMS.
Psychomotor retardation, Depressive disorder, rTMS treatment, Cognitive and behavioral therapies
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a therapeutic option often used in routine care plans for patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), especially for those who do not respond to treatment with medication or cognitive and behavioral therapies. Although clinically safe and quite efficient for medication-resistant major depression [1], this noninvasive neurostimulating technique is not without a certain cost [2]. In view of budget constraints related to healthcare strategies, providing attending psychiatrists with robust treatment moderators (i.e. patient’s baseline characteristics with high predictive power of effectiveness of any specific treatment) may optimize the personalized treatment selection for MDD patients [3,4].
In this context of examination on specific dimensions of depression that can guide treatment selection, our current proposal is to advocate, or perhaps even better to reclaim the psychomotor retardation (PMR) - a core symptom of depression – whose importance in diagnostic, prognostic and personalized therapeutic issues is often understated, or even skipped. Not so much by its lack of relevant value in psychiatry, but mostly through the inconsistency of research evidence addressing these purposes. Here is the opportunity to shine light on the recent findings about PMR driving new insights into the predictive efficiency of personalized treatments, such as rTMS.
The PMR concern has been around for quite some time. From Widlöcher [5], this clinical symptom is considered to play a crucial role in depression. This “seniority” has resulted in the clinical use of interviewer-rated scales based on observations of behavior, such as the retardation item of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale [6] and the Salpêtrière Retardation Rating Scale (SRRS) [5,7]; yet only few studies focused upon the prognostic dimension of PMR. Perhaps quite as rare, but more recent is the research examining the neuroanatomical substrates and the cortical mechanisms underlying depression-related PMR [8]. One reason can probably be ascribed to different methodological issues, starting with those related to the very nature of clinical scales and their relative sensitivity to subtle changes and robust prognostics. Besides this approach based on depression-focused questionnaires requires that MMD patients have reasonable insight into their symptoms. Yet there may be physical (motor), psychological (cognitive) or other changes that the patient is not aware of. That brings us to our first point to consider: a scientific and clinical interest for better characterization and independent outcomes measures of the PMR.
Based on the well-established definition, including many motor and cognitive components [9], the first step aimed to investigate the feasibility of a comprehensive battery of tests (e.g. 3-Meter Timed Up and Go test, dual-tasking postural control assessments, the handgrip strength test or verbal fluency tasks) assessing PMR for MDD patients after a 3-week protocol of rTMS. All these measures not only were feasible, free of adverse effects, and well tolerated by the MDD patients in naturalistic conditions before or after the rTMS protocol, but a preliminary insight emerged from improvements in some psychomotor assessments following the intervention, especially in balance performance [10]. Be that as it may, once this pre-requisite has been validated, the prognostic potential of PMR is ready to produce scientific evidence. That is our challenging conviction.
In that respect, we argue that the limited application of the PMR as a relevant treatment moderator in precision medicine can be explained not only by the few studies available in the literature about the neurostimulationrelated effects on PMR in MDD patients, but also by their divergent results. Clearly, some studies have shown that rTMS significantly decreased PMR [11], whereas others found that rTMS did not influence PMR [12]. No firm conclusion could be drawn at this stage. Note also that these studies quantified the PMR either with one specific scale, or with only one item of a specific depression scale, but no cognitive, motor and behavioural assessments were specifically recorded. To overcome this second issue, Deschamps, et al. [13] recently investigated the interplay between the PMR scores and balance performance in MDD patients. The standing postural sway, particularly through the analysis of the center-of-pressure (COP) velocity based parameters, was easily measured by using a force platform during trials, with or without vision, and while backward counting (dual task). As a striking result, significant positive correlations were found between the PMR scores and the velocity-based COP variables, especially in the dual-task conditions. Hence, the study showed for the first time that the posture-cognitive dual tasking performance can be a good and reliable hallmark of depression-related PMR. In addition, some other explanatory results strongly suggest that this initial postural instability may be a consistent moderator that could predict positive outcomes in MDD patients after an rTMS intervention, such as significant improvements in PMR scores, depression (decrease in MADRS scores) and postural instability [13]. A more efficient postural control to rTMS stimulation marks substantively the motor component of PMR, even if an improved dual task performance is likely indicative of improvement in cognitive efficiency (i.e. lower attentional demands).
All else being equal, it’s really time to produce neuroscientific evidence of these promising findings. We believe that this potential “dual postural moderator” deserves to be taken into consideration and specifically examined in a double-blind, shamcontrolled trial to determine a prediction model, and if appropriate, to validate its clinical relevance on an independent cohort. Be convinced, and let us collectively enable this ambition.
As the last argument from these perspectives, far from being specific to neuropsychiatry, devising common and standardized measurements to assess motor-cognitive interactions may influence the future knowledge of the underlying mechanisms that can affect pathways to disability in mental disorders. Undoubtedly, the cognitive and motor aspects of everyday life for all human beings share behavioral and etiological factors that can drive new insights into (the best) treatment selection for individual patients. In that way, PMR-related dual postural performance seems to be a suitable candidate, by considering the cognitive and mobility dysfunction in MDD patients as a common problem. Mechanistically, changes in PMR-related brain networks probably arise from the alteration of limbic signals, at the interface of emotion, volition, higher-order cognitive function, and movement control [8]. Combined with positive effects of rTMS treatment on the limbic system, a reduction of attention and cognitive deficits in MDD patients can be found [14], with positive impact on fine motor outcomes [15] and postural control [10,13]. However, a great deal of research still is needed to increase this functional anatomical specificity of PMR.
The potential benefits of evidence linking cognition/motor interaction in MDD patients may be clinically crucial. It may offer a reliable prognostic tool for detecting patients who are more likely to remit based on their response to rTMS treatment.
Acknowlegments
The research was supported by grants from the Region of Pays de la Loire, France, for the project ‘‘Longévité, Autonomie, Mobilité’’. The sponsor had no role in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
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The authors express appreciation to Professor Sylvia Law for her helpful comments on early drafts. This maleness, some say, afforded her a certain amount of power and liberty.
Issues of gender, sexuality and role-reversal were all tangled up within the confines of the ballroom. Method failure occurs when the product fails due to an inherent defect, while user failure is the result of incorrect or inconsistent use. One did not need to follow the usual restraints of everyday life.
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Sex education too must recognize that sexually mature and maturing adolescents are entitled to accurate and honest information that respects their sexual needs and rights. This is because minors enjoy constitutional rights, albeit with some limitations, related to access to and decisionmaking about contraception and abortion, as well as other important health matters. The health needs of American soldiers during several world wars was one of the many influences that led health educators to recognize the value of practical preventive information as opposed to merely instilling fear.
Endnotes 1. The masquerade provided an "unusual opportunity for erotic experimentation and release" [15]. The eighteenth-century masquerade was inextricably linked to an erotic atmosphere.
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This second cjrious may be taken because proponents of abstinence-only sex education worry that comprehensive education dilutes the abstinence message. An informed teenager can make informed procreative and related choices; an ignorant adolescent can take it upon him or herself to become educated.
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Rust v. There are well-established limits to the authority of the government to control adolescent procreative rights generally. Sullivan acknowledges that such limitations likely exist. In the space of the masquerade, women could carve out identities that they were not supposed to live in their real lives [6].
After all, a young person will very likely view a teacher working under the auspices of a program funded by the federal government as reliable and honest. Thus, a simplistic message of abstinence leaves students curiouw to make sound judgments about engaging in many forms of sexual exploration other than intercourse. Cross-dressing was a common form of disguise at masquerades Sexually. Schofield, Mary Anne. First, we expect the schools to acculturate children to Our authoritative meanings.
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The Dress Worn at Masquerades in England to Historically, there was no prolonged identifiable developmental period between childhood and adulthood, and among many non-Western cultures, there still is none.
Although sex education is conceptually different than medical treatment, it touches upon similarly private concerns related to autonomy. Moreover, state laws generally allow mature minors to make their own choices regarding, among other things, contraception, prenatal care, treatment of STDs, and adoption.
At best, it deprives students of the knowledge necessary to manage their own sexual health. Munns, Jessica. Thus, by teaching abstinence as the only effective method to prevent disease and pregnancy, eSxually curricula necessarily fail those adolescents who will hear, but not completely heed, that message. Finally, at the same time, the period of training and education for young men, especially, grew longer.
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The hospital has brought in extra measures after a baby died aged just seven days following a bleed on the brain.
Rufus Mycock appeared to be ‘perfectly normal’ following a ‘difficult’ birth at Macclesfield Hospital on October 18, 2014, an inquest at Macclesfield Coroner’s Court heard. But the baby took a turn for the worse at home five days later and was taken to Macclesfield Hospital where a scan revealed he had a bleed on his brain. He was transported to Manchester Children’s Hospital to undergo emergency surgery but died on October 25.
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Rufus’s parents Matthew and Hazel, from Leek, and family have raised £20,000 for the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital charity since his death and are continuing to raise funds.
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MACCLESFIELD'S run of away victories was extended to five with their win at Cleckheaton on Saturday, but they had to show their mettle during an extensive period of pressure from the home side in the second and third quarters of the match.
They survived, and then broke out to totally shatter the home team with three tries in five minutes towards the end of the game.
The score did somewhat flatter the visitors, but it did prove that to be successful in Division Three a team has to keep going for the full 80 minutes. The Blues have now scored ten tries in their last two away games to confirm their position in the league.
Director of Rugby Steve Rule said: "It was an extraordinary game, ebbing and flowing throughout. We had total control in the first 30 minutes when we should have had the game won.
"Then we let Cleckheaton back in, who gained confidence and then we ended up clinging on by the skin of our teeth. Then in the final ten minutes we ran away with it.
"Class teams are about taking opportunities when they arise and five tries to nil says something in that respect today, but although it looks like an emphatic victory, we all know that this was a really, really close game."
Macc began positively and pushed Cleckheaton back into their half, but it was the home side who had the first opportunity, but Macc's defence held firm. After ten minutes, good work from the forwards produced quick ball for fly-half Mike Newell to spot the gap and ease his way through to score his first try of the season and the convert to give Macc the lead.
The Blues forwards were showing some dominance with surging drives into their opponents half and when Cleckheaton lost lock John Dudley to the sin-bin, Macc took full advantage after seventeen minutes, with player-coach Dave Muckalt forcing his way over the try-line to make it 12-0.
Macc then eased back a little and allowed the home side to get back into the game through some poor kicking and frequent turnovers.
Cleckheaton put on a good deal of pressure with good ball retention and some strong running, but could only show a Glen Boyd penalty for all their efforts when the half time whistle was blown.
The second half saw the home side continuing where they left off putting Macc under intense pressure for long periods, but the Blues defence was outstanding, in spite of being on the back foot.
Indeed, a break from winger Mark Frost looked the most likely place from where a score would come, but Cleckheaton continued to plug away but rarely got close to Macc's line. Then prop Rob Bieniasz was sin-binned for handling in the ruck and Boyd kicked the penalty to close the gap to 12-6.
The pressure continued but when a Cleckheaton penalty struck the top of the upright, and bounced out, the game changed in Macc's favour. With only ten minutes left, the Blues were to run in three tries.
The first came from a lost Cleckheaton ball which was kicked forward, then picked up by Peter Allen, moved to Steve Campbell, who was tackled, but able to feed Newell who cantered in for his second try. The second saw Campbell intercept a miss pass move, and sprint at least 50 metres to score and Newell converted to make it 26-6. Finally, excellent approach work, followed by a Cleckheaton error saw Ben Coulbeck score his first try of the season when he got over in the corner.
MACC: S Goodfellow, P Allen, R Bieniasz, I Lear, J Bostock, D Muckalt, R Jones (capt), J Keep, A Rice, M Newell, S Campbell, T Howcroft, B Coulbeck, M Frost, B Whiting. Bench: D Taylor, N Pearson, And C Williams. G Muckalt.
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Liverpool have made a £9.5m bid for the Udinese midfielder Piotr Zielinski but face competition from Napoli for the Polish international.
Liverpool made the bid on Saturday with Jürgen Klopp also speaking to the 22-year-old midfielder on the phone to reassure the player he would have an important role to play at Anfield next season and beyond.
Udinese want £12m for the player, who has spent the past two seasons out on loan at Empoli. Napoli have offered £8.7m plus add-ons with the club’s president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, saying on Sunday: “Liverpool have made a bid for him and Zielinski wants to join them but we are trying to convince the player to join us, because we have an agreement with Udinese.”
Zielinski played for the the current Napoli manager, Maurizio Sarri, at Empoli and the latter is keen to work with the player again. The Polish midfielder had struggled in Italy before Sarri took over at Empoli and transformed the young player into a complete box-to-box midfielder.
Midfield maestro, a typical No10, a position which Poland doesn’t really employ but can switch to at anytime. Like Salamon, Glik or Szczesny, Zielinski moved abroad as a teenager. Had his moments at Udinese but has really struck form this season at Empoli where he has scored four goals and made six assists. Rumoured to be on his way to a bigger club, with Napoli and Liverpool mentioned.
The Polish international would become Klopp’s fourth summer signing after the arrivals of the Serbian midfielder Marko Grujic, the Cameroonian defender Joël Matip and the German goalkeeper Loris Karius.
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Midwives Make Home Births Safer for Babies
By Rachael Rettner 10 February 2012
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Babies born at home are at increased risk for health problems immediately after birth compared with babies born in hospitals, according to a new study.
However, a certified midwife may make a difference in the health of babies born at home, the study found.
In the study, babies born at home were more likely to have a neonatal seizure and low Apgar scores at five minutes after birth. Apgar scores assess the health of newborns based on the baby's breathing, heart rate, muscle tone, reflexes and skin color, with low scores indicating the baby needs medical attention.
But when a certified midwife was present, it seems babies born at home may fare as well as those born in hospitals, said study researcher Dr. Yvonne Cheng, an obstetrician and gynecologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
"It's not just about where you deliver, but perhaps who you deliver with," Cheng said.
Home births are known to be associated with fewer obstetric interventions — that is, women in labor at home receive fewer epidurals and less pain medication.
Women must weigh the benefits of home births against the risks to make an informed decision about where to give birth, Cheng said.
"It's a trade-off," Cheng said. "I think that women should be aware that there may be some risks associated with home birth," Cheng told MyHealthNewsDaily.
The findings are based on an analysis of more than 2 million births in the United States in 2008. Of these, 12,433 (or 0.54 percent) were home births.
Babies born at home may be at increased risk for health problems because monitoring may not be as rigorous, compared with at a hospital, and any problems the baby has may not receive medical attention as quickly, Cheng said.
Women planning to give birth at home should know what kind of training and experience the person who is going to deliver the baby has, and should have a back-up plan — a way to quickly get to the hospital if they need to, Cheng said.
The findings were presented today (Feb. 10) at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting in Dallas, Texas.
Pass it on: Home births are associated with an increased risk of neonatal seizures and lower scores on tests of health immediately after birth.
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Today. Maximum daytime temperature: 16 degrees Celsius; Minimum nighttime temperature: 3 degrees Celsius. Sunny intervals. Sunrise: 08:10; Sunset: 18:15. UV: Moderate;
Tuesday 19 January. Maximum daytime temperature: 16 degrees Celsius; Minimum nighttime temperature: 6 degrees Celsius. Clear changing to cloudy by early evening. Sunrise: 08:10; Sunset: 18:16. UV: Moderate;
Clear changing to cloudy by early evening.
Wednesday 20 January. Maximum daytime temperature: 19 degrees Celsius; Minimum nighttime temperature: 11 degrees Celsius. Partly cloudy changing to sunny intervals in the afternoon. Sunrise: 08:09; Sunset: 18:17. UV: Moderate;
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Thursday 21 January. Maximum daytime temperature: 18 degrees Celsius; Minimum nighttime temperature: 12 degrees Celsius. Clear. Sunrise: 08:09; Sunset: 18:18. UV: Moderate;
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The 9 Best Antioxidants For Glowing Skin — Science-Approved
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Medical review by Keira Barr, M.D.
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In the ever-advancing world of skin care, there is one ingredient category whose benefits will never fall out of favor: antioxidants. There's a reason doctors, derms, and registered dietitians all tell you to use them (be it topically or via supplementation). Research continues to prove how powerful these little workhorses are for your skin: they help manage free radical damage, fade fine lines and dark spots, and even support collagen and elastin.* Basically, antioxidants can do it all. And each type of antioxidant posits specific and unique benefits—here, we're breaking them all down:
"Vitamin C is one of the few active ingredients that can benefit all skin types," Elizabeth Tanzi, M.D., board-certified dermatologist and associate professor of dermatology at George Washington University Medical Center, previously told mindbodygreen. This antioxidant has been proven to have a host of skin benefits: Things like fading hyperpigmentation, brightening, supporting collagen production, and even taming rosacea (thanks to its anti-inflammatory properties).*
Well, research has found that when skin is excessively exposed to external aggressors (unprotected UV exposure and pollution, for example), its natural reserves of vitamin C become depleted. It makes sense, then, that replenishing vitamin C levels in the skin can lead to a seemingly endless list of protective and restorative benefits. It's important to find a stable, well-formulated topical serum, as the vitamin turns ineffective easily. You should also consider vitamin C supplementation, which has been shown to promote collagen production in the skin.*
2. Astaxanthin
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Cellular beauty has arrived with this revolutionary formula, featuring the powerful antioxidant astaxanthin.*
This powerful antioxidant belongs to the carotenoid family. Quick refresher: Carotenoids are a subgroup of antioxidants (others include flavonoids and polyphenols), and these substances are responsible for the bright red and orange hues of certain foods (like carrots). Among them, another antioxidant called beta-carotene typically takes all the glory—even though research has found that astaxanthin is a whopping five times more potent. Benefits of this topical include preventing skin damage caused by sun exposure, in turn making it a healthy-aging powerhouse. When taken as a supplement, it protects the skin's collagen layer, supports UV protection, helps reduce fine lines and age spots, and supports skin hydration.*
Oil-soluble antioxidant vitamin E works on an even deeper level in the skin than vitamin C—although these two topicals become even more potent when used in tandem. In addition to helping skin manage the affects of photodamage, vitamin E is known to promote cellular restoration, thereby strengthening the skin barrier when used topically or ingested as a supplement.*
4. Curcumin
The active ingredient in turmeric, curcumin is a powerful anti-inflammatory that has long been used internally and externally. The ingredient is thought to manage inflammation at the cellular level by blocking a particular molecule that can work its way into your cells and turn on genes that lead to inflammation.* Essentially: It circumvents the inflammation process before it starts, rather than trying to manage it later.*
5. Reservatrol
Reservatrol is a naturally occurring polyphenol with antioxidant properties, and these micronutrients are also responsible for giving certain foods—such as grapes, raspberries and red wine—their deep-colored hues. Research has found that when used topically, this polyphenol has anti-aging benefits, namely preserving collagen levels and taming skin inflammation. Additionally, reservatrol has been shown to have a lightening and brightening effect on skin tone.
6. Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)
You may not have heard of this antioxidant (yet), but its research-backed ability to preserve collagen levels in the skin are well documented. The technical term for this antioxidant is ubiquinone, and it's naturally present in all human cells wherein it scavenges free radicals, protects our mitochondria, and prevents DNA from oxidative stress. CoQ10 is also naturally present in the skin—though our natural reserves steadily decline with age, and also after unprotected UV exposure. This is precisely why reserach as concluded that applying CoQ10 topically has serious skin-aging benefits.
7. Vitamin A—aka retinol
Retinol, perhaps the most well-known and sought-after topical ingredient to stave off skin aging, is actually vitamin A, and it's also a potent antioxidant. Topically, retinol works to speed up skin cell turnover rate, thereby improving tone and texture, treating UV damage, fading fine lines, and even clearing up acne. You'll find many types of retinoids both OTC and in prescription form, which can make picking out the right one feel very overwhelming (see: what you need to know about retinol for more).
8. Polyphenols
Another subgroup of antioxidants, polyphenols are plant-based micronutrients that are jam-packed with antioxidant power. In the skin care world, you'll find polyphenols derived from things like green tea, pomegranate, and red wine.
Studies have found that topical application of polyphenols can help repair skin, protect it from sun damage, and even reverse signs of skin aging (like dark spots, fine lines, and wrinkles). When used in combination with sunscreen, green tea polyphenols, specifically, have has been shown to have an ultraprotective effect against UV rays and subsequent photodamage.
9. Soy
Extracted from soybeans, studies ave found that soy has antioxidant abilities that can help fade hyperpigmentation, boost skin elasticity, and prevent photodamage to the skin. For those with acne-prone and/or naturally dry skin, soy extract can also simultaneously moisturize the skin and curb oil production. What's more, unlike other antioxidants that can increase skin's sensitivity to the sun (ahem, retinol), the healthy aging benefits of soy extract are suited for daytime wear, according to research.
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Costa Mesa, CA (April 28, 2020) — QSC is proud to announce the premiere of QSC@Home, a comprehensive online launch point dedicated to users’ success across a vast range of solutions and applications. Through its “Connect, Learn and Experience” architecture, QSC@Home visitors are treated to unique collection of online training, tutorials, certification, webinars, entertainment and live online support from company experts, all of which is constantly curated and updated. QSC@Home is a valuable tool for everyone from systems contractors, integrators, A/V IT technicians, A/V consultants, musicians, artists, djs, live sound engineers, recording pros, HOW musical directors, cinema technicians, cinema dealers and end users at all levels of expertise.
QSC@Home programs are offered completely free-of-charge and are available in a variety of time zones and languages. Here are just a few of those initiatives:
QSC Work at Home Webinar Series features live interactive webinars covering system installation topics across the Q-SYS™ Ecosystem, all in a small, virtual classroom setting to allow maximum individual user benefit. Topics include AEC best practices, conference room configuration, Zoom™ Rooms integration, networking and more.
Q-SYS Training Final Design Office Hours is a brand-new program designed to allow those Q-SYS Level 1 and Level 2 students to review their final design requirement with a live Q-SYS trainer. These one-on-one, 30-minute sessions provide a unique opportunity for students to get actual live feedback to bring them finish line for their certification.
QSC Fresh Bytes, a series of live, online training sessions dedicated to live sound, led by a team of QSC experts. These intimate interactive sessions allow students to ask questions live as well as interact with colleagues. Recent topics include: Sweeten your Mix! A deep dive into the TouchMix effects and TouchMix for Recording!
QSC is also presenting Play Out Loud at Home, an extensive schedule of live “edutainment” streams on Facebook each day where QSC friends, artists and product specialists share their music, conversation and professional advice on a wide range of topics.
QSC Cinema customers can benefit from QSC@Home offerings including Q-SYS Level 1 Certification for Cinema with more topics to follow.
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Government funding for research centers and a data management center for ME/CFS has been made public, and the amount of funding allocated is infuriatingly small.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) plans to issue two Requests for Application (RFAs) in January to fund 2-3 collaborative research centers and a data management center for ME/CFS. The RFAs will provide a total of $30 million over the next 5 years, or approximately $6 million per year. It is not yet clear how the funding will be allocated between the research centers but, if spread evenly, the funding amounts to approximately $2 million per year per center – about the size of many NIH individual investigator awards.
The earliest that funding would begin is in September 2017.
Dr. Vicky Whittemore announced the funding for the RFAs at the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) meeting last week. Whittemore is a program director for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the NIH, and a member of the Trans-NIH ME/CFS Working Group.
Activist Jennie Spotila welcomes the five-year commitment, but says the dollar amount is grossly inadequate because people with ME/CFS have suffered for decades while NIH refused to invest in research into the cause and treatment of the disease.
“When you are starving to death on a cup of rice a day, the addition of another cup of rice sounds like a banquet, but you are still going to starve to death.”
Scientists and activists have long called on the NIH to issue RFAs in order to attract researchers driven away by the stigma and lack of funding. RFAs come with set-aside funding. The last time NIH issued an RFA for ME/CFS was in 2005.
NIH has indicated that the total funding for ME/CFS research in 2017, including the new RFAs, will be about $15M. This level of funding is far below what would be expected based on the disease burden of people with ME/CFS, and it is far less than other disease groups receive.
In November 2015, during a call with patients and advocates, NINDS Director Walter Koroshetz said the RFA for ME/CFS research centers would be comparable in size to RFA’s establishing other research centers. A look at other similar initiatives in recent years shows malaria research centers receiving $14 million per year, autism research centers receiving $100 million over 5 years, and Fragile X research centers receiving $35 million over 5 years for a condition far less prevalent than ME/CFS.
Six million dollars per year for ME/CFS is not comparable to other recent research center initiatives.
The Open Medicine Foundation “wants to raise at least $5 million a year for research. An actual center will cost $10 million a year at least,” said foundation president Linda Tannenbaum.
Thus NIH’s proposed funds for the RFAs will not even pay for one center, let alone multiple research centers and a Data Management and Coordinating Center.
The ME community is tired of false starts. Director of NIH Francis Collins said in an interview with NPR in 2015 that funding for ME/CFS will be substantially greater than the current five or six million a year,” and that “we are going to ramp this up.” The expected $15 million in 2017 research funding is far below the NIH funding levels seen in other diseases of similar disease burden and also far below the $188 million per year that a recent paper estimated would be commensurate with ME/CFS’s burden.
Terri Wilder, a New York ME activist, is frustrated with the RFA dollar amount. “How much longer do we have to wait for our disease to be taken seriously? 30 years? 40 years? 100 years? While the RFA announcement is a step in the right direction, the dollar amount is crumbs compared to what we really need to uncover the basic science of this disease. This is exactly why the average American has a negative view of the government. We are let down at every turn.”
Meanwhile, Collins will continue as director of the NIH under the Trump administration for the time being, but it is not clear for how long, according to Science Magazine.
ME activists will continue to demand that the NIH fund research at a serious level and will fight louder and harder in 2017.
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We should demand more and will demand more but look at this in context.
Malaria is one of the scourges of the world – there’s no surprise it’s getting $100 millon over five years to research it. Fragile X affects many fewer people than ME/CFS and its already getting $40 million. Our research centers will be getting roughly the same amount of funding as Fragile X syndrome funding.
This is not at all to state that the amount given was enough but t simply acknowledge where we are. We’re not a well-known disease like malaria; we’re not close to Fragile X Syndrome in funding. Our researchers are hardly submitting any grants for ME/FS funding at all (@15 a year). We don’t the name recognition or the huge advocacy network that autism has. Comparing us to these diseases is like comparing apples to oranges.
Is it enough? Of course not. We should be getting 20 times what we’re getting. In the end, however, Francis Collins did significantly increase ME/CFS funding (it about doubled).
I think we should face the music about funding – it’s going to take years to get ME/CFS funding to where it should be. As much as we would like it to the NIH is not going to immediately pump $50 or $100 million into this disease. If we keep the pressure up in a couple years, though, we could be at $20 million and then $30 million and so on.
(I doubt that the NIH is going throw any real money at a disease where its researchers are only apply 15 grants a year, which is why we need a general RFA – not just for research centers – but look at how long it’s taken to get this one.).
That kind of rapid increase in funding would actually be quite rare for the NIH. It will take strong advocacy to get there. It’s obviously a very conservative Institution.
If there’s a real breakthrough things could happen more quickly but this will take a long term commitment and we shouldn’t expect otherwise.
So far as I can tell only in very rare situations does the NIH suddenly throw a lot of money at a disease. Maybe we will be the exception – I hope so. It certainly could triple our funding without spending a lot of money…
Mary Dimmock
In response to Cort’s comments…
I agree – lets not compare apples and oranges. The denial and neglect of this disease for thirty years is outrageous. Patients have lost decades of their lives, left to suffer from not only the terrible debility of the disease but the disdain and disbelief of their doctors and the public at large. Have these other diseases experienced that? Is the ecosystem of researchers, pharma, and medical providers that drives new treatments and clinical care in this country as broken for those diseases as it is for ME?
Fixing the hole that ME is in today in a timescale that matters to patients is going to require a far greater commitment in funding and focus and a much greater sense of urgency from top leadership at both NIH and CDC than we have seen to date.
I disagree that we have to “face the music on funding.” ME patients have been ignored and mistreated long enough. They should not have to wait for the slow crank of incremental change to dribble out a bit here and a piece there just because ME patients are too disabled to create a stink about it. Its time that the response of our government reflects both the awful debility of this disease and the damage done by HHS’ own neglect and stigma for many years. We can not accept any less.
Brilliantly stated, Mary!
I concur 100% with everything you said. Thank you for speaking out, as many of us are too sick to respond so articulately.
Samuel Wales
The NIH is fiddling while Rome burns.
I believe this will continue until we, the broad huge community that we now are, force it to stop. NIH behavior is only plausibly consistent with fiddling-until-forced as firm, de facto policy that they have no intention of fixing. If I’m wrong, please feel free to send me email.
There are doubtless many good people within NIH who have little influence on this policy. We can best empower them by pushing the top leadership HARD from outside.
Agreed. Look at autism. I imagine that autism advocacy has full time staffer and lobbyists working for them. That’s how they got their funding and that’s what we have to do.
Mary Gelpi
It may seem insane or unrealistic to expect that a conservative institution like the NIH would suddenly throw 25 x the amount of its annual funding toward a specific disease, but me/cfs is unprecedented in a lot of ways. Cort is right, there’s no way to compare it equally with things like malaria. I think me/cfs is not an apple or orange, but an entirely tropical fruit that basically no ones has ever tried. (I’m not great with metaphors sorry) The fact is though, this disease and the way it’s been handled, or mishandled– the outright looking the other way for so long, the neglect, the misappropriation of funds, the proactive crusade by psychiatrists and “medical historians” STILL to this day trying to prove that it’s not even an actual disease while millions continue to suffer– it’s all unprecedented. No disease has been drug through the trenches like this one has, and that’s why I think we might stand as the exception and not the rule when it comes to adjustment of funding. It will have to be dramatic if it’s going achieve what we need it to. Our best scientists having to rally for Public charity on the weekends because the federal government doesn’t really buy this disease is just madness. We have to demand better. And maybe we’ll have eyes rolled at us the whole way, but I’m not giving up on continuing to ask for dramatically more research funds from the NIH, even if such a hike in allocated dollars is unforeseen. Nothing about this disease has been close to normal, and neither do I expect, will the movement for change be or the results we finally see in the end. I know I won’t stop until the number is much higher, or at least until it’s enough to get the job done. And to Mr. Trump, a cool 100 mil isn’t so much to ask for, right? 🙂 It will require us all to fight, and I think that we can do it.
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Prescription Meds Common in Pregnancy; Maybe Too Common
Lara C. Pullen, PhD
Although most physicians acknowledge the complexity of prescribing drugs to pregnant women, they nonetheless prescribe them frequently. More than four of five (82.5%) pregnant women were prescribed at least one medication, and 42.0% were prescribed a drug that is potentially harmful to the developing fetus, researchers found in a large, population-based study.
The study, which details the type and timing of medications prescribed to pregnant Medicaid patients, presents a disturbing pattern, according to Kristin Palmsten, ScD, from the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, and colleagues. The authors published the results of their cohort study online July 31 and in the September issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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Dr Palmsten and colleagues found that the most commonly dispensed medications are those used to treat infections. They also report that dispensing is more common for younger pregnant women and white women.
The researchers examined data for women enrolled in Medicaid before pregnancy (n = 1,106,757), using 2000 to 2007 Medicaid Analytic eXtract data for prospectively collected medication information. The analysis included over-the-counter medications dispensed by a pharmacist, but excluded medications purchased over the counter directly or prescribed during hospitalizations.
The most commonly dispensed medications were nitrofurantoin (21.6%), metronidazole (19.4%), amoxicillin (18.0%), azithromycin (19.9%), and promethazine (13.5%). Other frequently dispensed medications include promethazine cephalexin and codeine with acetaminophen.
Compared with women older than 35 years, younger women (<20 years) were more likely to receive nitrofurantoin (23.9% vs 15.4%), metronidazole (20.7% vs 12.0%), and azithromycin (21.1% vs 11%).
The investigators also note that nine of the 20 most commonly dispensed medications are rated as having limited to fair data quality and quantity to inform human teratogenic risk assessments by the Teratogen Information System.
Drugs That May Cause Harm
Dr Palmsten and colleagues also found that 42.0% of pregnant women filled a prescription for a former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) category D or X drug during pregnancy. Category D medications are associated with evidence of human fetal risk based on adverse reaction data. The top five most commonly prescribed category D medications were codeine (11.9%), hydrocodone (10.2%), ibuprofen (4.9%), sulfamethoxazole (4.0%), and hydrocortisone (4.0%). The authors note that some of those agents are considered category B or C drugs, depending on the circumstances of use.
Class X medications have been tested in animals or humans and found to cause fetal abnormalities. The five most commonly prescribed category X drugs were hormonal contraceptives (4.9%), temazepam (0.11%), atorvastatin (0.07%), simvastatin (0.04%), and warfarin (0.04%).
Moreover, the researchers note that many of the most commonly dispensed medications have limited or low-quality data available regarding safety during pregnancy. “Lack of unambiguous safety information may lead to the use of medications with potential to cause adverse pregnancy outcomes, whereas beneficial medications may be avoided,” they write.
Many opioids are category N, meaning the FDA has not classified the drug. An accompanying commentary by Mallory E. Kremer, MD, and Kavita Shah Arora, MD, MBE, from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, described the clinical, legal, and ethical considerations associated with treating pregnant women who are addicted to opioids.
They conclude that "obstetricians must be clear: addiction is a chronic disease and not a moral failing. Criminally targeting women for chronic health conditions in pregnancy is medically and ethically inappropriate and reinforces societal stigmas. Surreptitious legal encroachments on women's autonomy highlight their continued vulnerable role in society."
New Labeling From the FDA
Although the solution to the complex problem of drug use by pregnant women is not clear, the FDA has made a change that is designed to better inform healthcare providers and patients about the risks of drugs. As of June 30, 2015, the FDA has changed the way it labels human prescription medications and biologic preparations for use in pregnancy and lactation. The new labels will include a summary of the risks of the drug during pregnancy.
"The articles in this issue, coupled with awareness of recent federal changes that affect our prescribing habits in pregnancy, will improve the quality of care our patients receive when medications are needed or are misused," write Nancy C. Chescheir, MD, editor-in-chief of Obstetrics & Gynecology, in an accompanying editorial.
The Pharmacoepidemiology Program at the Harvard School of Public Health (with which several of Dr Palmsten's colleagues are affiliated) is partially supported by training grants from Pfizer, Takeda, Bayer, and Phrma. The other authors have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:463-478. Article abstract, Editorial extract
Cite this: Prescription Meds Common in Pregnancy; Maybe Too Common - Medscape - Aug 07, 2015.
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Disclosure: Lara C. Pullen, PhD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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Faith once separated, now joins pastoral couple
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From left, Maite, Beatriz, Daniel, Denis and Santiago Escobar enjoy some family togetherness. Photo by Don Rheinheimer.
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RIOBAMBA, Ecuador (Mennonite Mission Network) — After 30 years, Beatriz and Daniel Escobar are singing together the songs of faith that once incensed Daniel. And they are learning to lead the 1-year-old Riobamba Mennonite Church in the Andean mountains of Ecuador.
Until three years ago, the idea of serving in a pastoral role together would have been unthinkable for the couple. Although the Escobars have always had a loving home, they were quietly at odds over religion for most of their 36 years of marriage.
Beatriz Escobar, who grew up in an evangelical Christian milieu, said that before her husband’s conversion, church attendance meant little to Daniel beyond being a national pastime – something one did on holidays, like going to a bullfight.
“I was critical of both Catholic and Protestant hierarchies,” Daniel Escobar said. “When my wife brought up church or faith, I was very stern and resistant.”
Many factors contributed to Daniel Escobar’s conversion, but the patient faith of his wife – scientist, teacher, singer and poet – is what finally convinced him.
“Before my conversion, things that interested me were cultural, such as poetry and fiestas, or fun times with friends; but also I was always working for the rights of the poor,” said Escobar, speaking of the days when he poured his best energies into academia and his law practice.
Escobar repeatedly told his wife to destroy the poems and songs of faith she composed. As a result of Daniel Escobar’s aversion to all things related to the church, he and Beatriz rarely discussed faith.
“Out of respect for Daniel, I didn’t argue with him or even attend church much.” Beatriz Escobar said. “I prayed for Daniel, that Christ would save him and our household.”
She waited and prayed for more than three decades.
In May 2007, a brain tumor turned Daniel Escobar’s world upside down. Though surgery was scheduled, the doctor cautioned Escobar that death on the operating table was a possible outcome.
Facing the end of life, Escobar began to imagine a new beginning. When a pastor came to pray with him, Escobar committed himself to the way of Christ, citing Beatriz’s faith as part of his inspiration.
“I was the happiest woman in the world,” Beatriz Escobar said.
During a long recovery period, the couple, newly united in faith, studied the Bible together. Daniel Escobar found that Jesus shared his passion to serve the poor.
“I would tell Beatriz, ‘Underline the parts that have to do with action.’ I had a desire to be part of a church that was active … a church that reflects the way of Jesus Christ in the world,” Escobar said.
But where to find such a church?
“We went from place to place,” Beatriz Escobar said. “We prayed, we cried, we read the Bible, and we left. Nothing more. [The Christian culture we encountered] was egoism rather than service to others, a sense that faith is between God and me. Daniel would say, ‘Where’s the action?’“
Then they were invited to a Friday night Bible study that discussed Anabaptist theology and practice. The Escobars found inspiration there and began attending regularly. The Bible study group grew and in March 2009 became Riobamba Mennonite Church with regular attendance of about 30.
The Escobars have become associate pastors, working alongside short-term mission workers Don and Jan Rheinheimer. The Rheinheimers, members of Hopedale (Ill.) Mennonite Church, arrived in Riobamba in 2008 through the Ecuador Partnership, where Central Plains Mennonite Conference, the Colombian Mennonite Church and Mennonite Mission Network minister collaboratively.
Daniel and Beatriz Escobar attended Mennonite World Conference in Paraguay last year and describe it as a powerful experience of global unity. They also feel this connection that defies national barriers in the Ecuador Partnership.
“There is a feeling of brotherhood, that we are not alone but a part of a larger body of people in many places,” Daniel Escobar said. “When I found the Mennonite Church, I felt, this is incredible. I had a compatibility with this church already.”
The Escobars’ hope for the church in Riobamba is that it would be established solidly as a local part of the church universal. However, the couple also expresses openness to a missionary calling.
“If God permits us, maybe we would even travel to another country for mission, following the example of Don and Jan,” Beatriz Escobar said.
Don and Jan Rheinheimer are returning to the United States in September. Colombia Mennonite Church is interviewing candidates to serve as pastoral mentors to the Escobars and Riobamba Mennonite Church.
Holly Blosser Yoder was one of the nine members of Central Plains Mennonite Conference to visit Ecuador in March. She has served in Ethiopia, Lesotho and Zambia, is currently advising director for University of Iowa honors program and a member of her conference’s outreach and service committee.
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Japan's new emperor scores open-top Toyota Century as official car
Viknesh Vijayenthiran May 2, 2019 Comment Now!
A new Emperor of Japan was sworn in on Wednesday, 59-year-old Naruhito, who is expected to continue the legacy of his father by modernizing the imperial family to help maintain its relevance in contemporary Japan. However, he won't be cutting all bonds with tradition, at least when it comes to his official car.
Naruhito is set to receive a Toyota Century, a large sedan that retails for $175,000, or more than a fully loaded Lexus LS. The Century nameplate dates back more than 50 years and previous generations have also served as the official car of Japanese emperors.
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Naruhito will receive the latest version of the Century, introduced in 2017. However, he will receive a unique open-top version, The Wall Street Journal reported a week ago. The car is expected to debut at a parade in October.
It isn't clear if the car will be a proper convertible like the Lincoln Continentals of the 1960s, or whether Toyota will go with a Landaulet design like we saw on an open-top Lexus LS delivered to Prince Albert II of Monaco in 2011, where only part of the roof was removed. The latter is more likely given the size of the Century. At 210 inches in length, the car is 3.5 inches longer than a Mercedes-Benz S-Class.
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Under the hood of the latest Century is a 5.0-liter V-8-based hybrid powertrain sending drive to the rear wheels. Despite electrification, owners should expect to fill up frequently. The car gets around 32 mpg under Japan's lenient fuel economy test cycle. This would translate to the low 20s if measured by the EPA.
If Naruhito is the type of emperor we'd be, then he'll have already called up Toyota President Akio Toyoda and requested the same GRMN modifications that feature on the Toyota chief's own Century. Emperors can be car guys, too, no?
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HitFilm Express is free video editing software that’s ideally suited to beginners. With over 100 hours of free video tutorials and an intuitive interface, it’s easy to use. But there are plenty of features for more advanced users too, including 419 powerful effects, animation tools, composite shot enhancement, and unlimited video and audio tracks. You can add standalone upgrade packs to your experience from $9.99, turning your videos into something truly professional. There’s even a dedicated support team, online forum, and reference manual if you get stuck.
It’s free to use.
The software is available for Windows and Mac.
It couldn’t be easier to get started.
There’s an intuitive interface.
You’ll get free support and over 100 hours of video tutorials.
There are loads of effects and animation tools to choose from.
You can buy standalone add-ons as you become more advanced.
There’s no Linux version.
Customer support is only available on weekdays.
Standalone add-ons
Built-in voice recorder
Over 410 effects and presets
Full 2D and 3D composting
Editing and VFX tutorials
Price: free download, with add-ons from $9.99.
Blender is a free, open-source 3D creation suite for Windows, Mac, and Linux that’s ideal for those new to video editing for YouTube. As well as editing, it can be used for modeling, sculpting, rendering, and more. You can perform basic actions like splitting and video cuts, right through to complex tasks like color grading and video masking. Features include up to 32 slots for video, images, audio, effects, etc, live preview mode, speed control, and a range of filters and transitions.
It’s cross-platform software.
It’s free to use, even commercially.
Skilled programmers can change the code according to their needs, as it’s open-source software.
There are plenty of basic and more advanced features available.
It’s ideal for beginners.
The interface is easily customizable.
You can use the software for other tasks like modeling or sculpting.
Because it’s free and open-source, there’s no support available.
If you encounter any issues using the program you might struggle to resolve them.
The interface isn’t intuitive.
Frequent updates may make things seem unfamiliar for beginners.
Chroma vectorscope
Luma waveform
Adjustment layers
OS: Windows, Mac, Linux.
Price: free.
Magisto is an A.I.powered video editor and YouTube video maker that’s designed for business use. You can sign up for a free 7-day trial and access the software on your Mac or Windows desktop computer or through the iOS or Android app. Magisto has a native player and a library of pre-set editing styles and soundtracks to choose from, plus an online help center and video marketing insights to help you see how your videos are performing. After the free trial, there are three subscription levels to choose from: Premium, Professional, and Business, but it’s worth noting the maximum video length you can create is 10 minutes, regardless of your plan. To access features like the stock photo and video library or HD downloads, you’ll need the Professional plan.
There’s a free 7-day trial.
You can access it on your desktop or through the iOS or Android app on-the-go.
It has a native player.
It offers video marketing insights.
It uses A.I. powered technology to make smart editing decisions for your videos – ideal for beginners.
There’s a huge library of editing styles and soundtracks to choose from.
There are three subscription plans available.
The online help center answers the most frequently asked questions.
You’ll find you have less control over the final look of your videos compared to some other programs, due to the A.I. element.
The editing styles and soundtracks are limited, and decisions are often made for you.
For HD downloads and access to stock photos and videos, you’ll need a Professional subscription.
You can only make videos up to 10 minutes in length.
Powered by A.I.
Native player
Video marketing insights
Library of editing styles and soundtracks
OS: Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.
Price: free 7-day trial, then a choice of three subscription levels, starting from $4.99 per month, billed annually.
AVS Video Editor enables users to perform the full cycle of video editing. This video editor app for YouTube offers fairly basic features and controls aimed at beginners editing videos at home. Your video can be customized in a wide range of different ways, such as applying filters and effects, adding your own narrative, fixing shaking video, and many more. You can also edit videos for DVD and Blu-Ray players by adding menus and other features and there is multi-threading support which speeds up the editing process and can be used on multi-core PCs.
It has a straightforward interface that’s easy to navigate.
It offers excellent help resources.
It works fast because of multi-threading support and video caching.
There is the option to get video from various devices including VHS cameras.
You can burn a video onto a disc.
The features and controls are fairly standard and not aimed at professional users.
You can’t save videos in .mkv, .ogg, and some other formats.
There is only a single video editing track available.
Transfer video from DV/HDV cameras, webcams, or VHS cameras
Integrated video cache technology
OS: Windows only.
Price: from $39 for a one-year subscription or $59 for unlimited access.
IceCream Video Editor
IceCream Video Editor is free editing software for Windows that’s easy to use. Those looking for good video editing software for YouTube will love that it allows you to easily crop videos, set output video quality and ratio, and add transitions, titles, backgrounds, effects, audio, and more. There’s an easy sharing feature to make it simple to share your creations, and it supports most popular video and image formats including MP4, AVI, MOV, JPG, etc. You can create videos up to 5 minutes long and 10 timeline scenes with the free editor, or upgrade to Pro for unlimited length videos and an unlimited number of timeline scenes, as well as priority support and a lifetime license for two PCs.
It’s totally free to use.
The interface is intuitive and simple to learn.
There’s a wide range of visual effects, titles, and backgrounds to choose from.
It supports most popular formats.
It’s compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10.
You can create videos up to 5 minutes in length and up to 10 timeline scenes for free.
Sharing your videos is easy with the share feature.
You can upgrade to Pro by paying an affordable one-time fee.
You’ll need to upgrade to Pro to send non-watermarked videos over 5 minutes long.
There’s no version for Mac.
Support can be slow and is via an online form only unless you upgrade to Pro.
Some of the features may be basic for anybody who is a more advanced user.
Single timeline
15 scene transitions
Wide range of effects
Add music soundtrack or voiceover
Set output video aspect ratio
Price: free download, or upgrade to Pro for $29.95.
DaVinci Resolve is aimed at professionals, but more than suitable for amateur use at home too. It may not be the best video editor for YouTube for beginners as it can be tricky to master and resource-intensive. It offers features such as drag and drop editing, automatic trim cursor, easy clip marking, and dozens of titles, effects, and transitions to choose from. It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux and is free to use, although to access more advanced features you’ll need to upgrade to the Pro version.
It’s available on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
There are dozens of 2D and 3D titles, effects, and transitions to choose from.
The modern interface is easy to use.
It supports drag and drop editing.
The automatic trim cursor makes editing faster.
The software supports teamwork.
It is good at color correction.
Beginners might consider it difficult to master.
The free version lacks some useful effects.
The Pro version seems expensive.
There have been reports of it crashing due to how resource-intensive it is.
The interface can be confusing.
Metadata based “slate” view with bin dividers lets you organize and find footage faster
Smart reframings
Zoomed waveforms for audio editing
Live effect previews
Pinnacle Studio is powerful video editing software that’s available only for Windows, and one of the best video editors for YouTube. With features like Advanced Keyframing, MultiCam Editing, Screen Recording, Stop Motion, and DVD authoring, it’s ideal for amateurs or professionals alike. Choose from hundreds of creative effects and tools and customize workflows to suit your needs. Pinnacle Studio is also compatible with many third-party plugins. You can select three versions: Studio, Studio Plus, or Studio Ultimate – and some features are only available with Plus or Ultimate.
The software is ideal for amateurs and professionals.
There are three versions to choose from depending on the features you need.
The software offers customizable workflows.
You can author DVDs.
It’s compatible with many third-party plugins.
There is a wide range of advanced features, effects, and tools.
There’s no information available about whether or not there’s a free trial.
There is no Mac version.
Some features like Color Grading are only available in the Ultimate version.
It’s not suited to beginners.
Enhanced Keyframe controls
Color-correction tools
Basic color grading
Multi-camera editing
Price: choice of three tiers starting at $59.95 one-time fee.
Lightworks is an excellent video editing program aimed at amateurs through to professionals. It features a clean, intuitive interface and an extensive library of royalty-free audio and video content and effects. With hours of tutorial videos and an active online community, you’ll be up and running in no time, and you can download Lightworks for a free 7-day trial on Windows, Mac, or Linux. After the trial, you can register to continue using the free version or upgrade to Pro, which removes restrictions on exporting formats and gives you access to other exclusive features. Lightworks supports a wide range of file formats, allows for easy timeline editing and trimming, and makes it easy to export videos up to 4K.
It works on all popular platforms.
It has a simple and intuitive interface.
There are a 7-day free trial and a free version for home use.
There are many timelines to edit video parameters separately.
There’s a library of royalty-free video and audio content.
It offers real-time audio and video FX.
You can choose from monthly, annual, or lifetime payments when upgrading to Pro.
The full version seems expensive compared to other apps.
The trial version’s functionality is limited.
There are restrictions on exporting formats in the free version.
Lo-res proxy workflows for 4K
Easy timeline editing and trimming
Up to 32bit GPU precision and histogram tool
Royalty-free audio and video content
Wide file format support
Price: free 7-day trial, then free for home use or from $24.99/month, $174.99/year, or $437.99 for a lifetime license.
Cyberlink PowerDirector
CyberLink PowerDirector is ideal for amateur and pro users, offering a great combination of ease of use and functionality. When it comes to the best video editing software for YouTube, it has all the features you need, like trimming a clip, adding effects, such as moving titles, changing audio tracks, and more. This app also works well with 360° video editing. The program isn’t difficult to work with, so even beginners can use it. It offers a huge library of stock images, titles, transitions, and more, and its Action Camera Centre makes it easy to quickly apply speed effects and one-click enhancements to your videos.
There is a free trial.
You can choose from a monthly or annual subscription when upgrading to the Pro version.
It works with Windows and Mac OS.
The software is good at compressing videos.
There’s a wide range of titles, stock images, transitions, and sound effects to choose from.
It offers a range of professional effects such as sketch animation overlays and green screen editing.
Users have complained about tech support.
There have been reports of frequent crashing.
It is resource-intensive and you’ll need a good graphics card to use it.
Advanced mask tools
Dynamic Keyframe controls
Customizable Motion Graphic Titles
Stop Motion, Freeze Frame, Zoom, and Pan
Price: free trial, then from $19.99/month or $51.99/year.
FinalCut Pro
Final Cut Pro is an Apple product that’s oriented towards professionals. Available for Mac only, it is the go-to tool for professionals editing video on Mac – yet its interface is simple enough for users of all levels. This video editor app for YouTube uses a modern Metal engine that accelerates tasks like real-time effects, rendering, and exporting by up to 20% on a MacBook Pro and up to 30% on an iMac Pro. Its magnetic timelines let you easily move and trim clips without sync problems or collisions, it supports 360° editing, there’s Multicam mode which lets you automatically sync up to 64 angles of video and powerful noise reduction tools for professional results. You can try the software for free after which you’ll need to purchase to continue using it.
You can try it out for free before deciding to purchase.
It can work with 360° video.
It supports resolution up to 8K.
It can synchronize a video from up to 64 cameras.
It offers a magnetic, trackless timeline.
It includes organization tools like libraries, tagging, and auto analysis for faces and scenes.
It offers fast performance.
There’s support for iPad Sidecar and MacBook Touch Bar.
It’s optimized for the new MacBook Pro.
It may be expensive for some compared to a monthly or annual subscription.
It doesn’t work with Windows.
There is limited support for high-resolution images.
The interface might seem complicated if you’re new to Mac.
Pro editors may not like the nontraditional timeline editing.
There is no motion tracking or stabilization for 360-degree video.
Advanced color grading, HDR support, and ProRes RAW
Magnetic Timeline
Compound Clips bundles separate clips into a single moveable package
Auditions let you try out multiple takes in the timeline
Multicam editing
OS: Mac only.
Price: free to try, then $299.99.
As can be guessed from the name, Vegas Pro is software for pros who need advanced video processing features like superior video stabilization, motion tracking, complete HDR color support, and a wide range of special effects to choose from. Vegas Pro is a YouTube video maker that’s only available on Windows. Beginners will most probably find the program overwhelming, while experienced users will appreciate the fact new features are regularly added. It is possible to try Vegas Pro for free before you decide to purchase.
There’s a free trial.
It’s not resource-intensive.
There are built-in tutorials and YouTube videos to help you learn how to use the software.
It’s ideal for professional video editing.
The built-in effects are suitable for professional use.
A wide range of free and paid plugins are available.
It has powerful, easy frame-by-frame editing.
It is expensive for beginners and amateurs.
There’s no Mac version.
It doesn’t work with .svg.
There are limited options for transitions and titles.
Planar Motion Tracking
Nested timelines
Flicker control and denoise filter
Unified color grading workflow
Price: free trial, then from $299 for Vegas Pro Edit, $399 for Vegas Pro.
👩💻 What Do YouTubers Use to Edit Their Videos?
There are lots of programs capable of editing videos for YouTube. Here’s a list of examples:
MAGIX Video Easy
Adobe Premiere Pro CC
VSDC Free Video Editor
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VideoPad
🖥 What Is the Best Video Editing Software?
Everything depends on what you want the software to do with your videos. It is worth checking several apps to see what suits you best. Follow the link below to read our article about the best free video editing software and how to choose a video editor for your purposes.
Best free video editing software
💻 What Is the Easiest to Use Video Editing Software?
Having no experience in video editing doesn’t mean you can’t make great videos from your footage. There are many programs with a clear interface that even a beginner can use without efforts. Click the link below to read about the top 10 apps that are easy to use.
Top 10 easy video editing software for beginners
📽 What Do Professional Video Editors Use?
Professional video editors value functionality, and video editing software has to meet their needs. Consider checking the list below: we hope it will help you to find a useful app.
The best free professional video editing software
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FFXIV Three-Year Anniversary 14-Hour Broadcast and Fan Festival 2016 in Las Vegas Activities Page Updated
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FFXIV Three-Year Anniversary 14-Hour Broadcast
The third anniversary of FINAL FANTASY XIV is coming soon. And to commemorate this momentous occasion, the official will be hosting a special 14-hour broadcast! The live stream will feature the thirty-first Letter from the Producer LIVE, appearances by special guests, and much more! You won’t want to miss all the fun and excitement during the weekend celebration!
l Schedule:
From Friday, August 26, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. (PDT)
l Program Details:
8:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Yoshi-P’s Room
Yoshi-P sits down to talk with the developers as they commemorate FFXIV’s third anniversary.
9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. - Letter From the Producer Live Part XXXI
Catch a glimpse of what’s to come in the next patch with Patch 3.4 Preview Part 1
11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. - Adrenaline Rush TV
A special program for PvP enthusiasts.
1:00 a.m. - 2:30 a.m. - NGC's FINAL FANTASY XIV (Season 2)
A special program featuring hosts Edosan and Fumiichi, sponsored by Alienware and NVIDIA GeForce.
2:30 a.m. - 3:30 a.m. - Community Stream Part 13
A closer look at the community team and what they do.
3:30 a.m. - 4:30 a.m. - Yoshi-P’s Room Part 2
Yoshi-P talks with special guests about FFXIV and more.
5:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. - Hello? This is ooo
Having been so well received after last year’s anniversary event, viewers will have another opportunity to speak with Yoshi-P live via Skype! This year we’d like to hear from engaged or married couples who were brought together by FFXIV. To the lovebirds of Eorzea: we’re waiting for your call!
(Due to technical limitations, we can only accept calls from Japan-region callers.)
6:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m. - A Stroll with Yoshi-P
Yoshi-P takes a leisurely trip to a random World in FFXIV.
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Developers versus Yoshi-P
A special talk session with Yoshi-P and the developers.
Fan Festival 2016 in Las Vegas Activities Page Updated
The Activities page of the Fan Festival 2016 site has been updated with a brief overview of all the exciting activities the official will be hosting! Whether you’re checking out various panels, adventuring through the live quest, or taking part in the special Fan Festival battle, there is a wealth of fun to tap into at the event!
l In-Game
Fan Festival 2016 is back with great in-game activities once again! This is the perfect opportunity for FFXIV fans to gather together and play on the same team, in the same room, for great fun in a variety of unique in-game activities! Strategize with your fellow players, outline your battle plan, and emerge victorious in a number of specialized challenges throughout the event!
Players can try their hand at a number of exciting activities including:
Special Fan Festival Activity
What brand-new challenge awaits Fan Festival 2016 attendees? You’ll have to wait until the event to find out!
Trial Roulette
The Trial Roulette is back! Join a team of 8 of your fellow attendees and try your luck on the official trial roulette wheel, which not only chooses which trial you’ll face, but what handicap will put your skills to the test!
You’ve tried your hand at the first and second season of The Feast, but are you ready for the ultimate challenge? Sharpen your fangs and claws because the official is holding The Feast matches right at Fan Festival. Meet up with your fellow allies and bring out your inner wolf on the show floor!
Please note that in-game activities are subject to change.
l Live Activities
Events such as Fan Festival provide the opportunity to offer various types of fun that aren’t limited to in-game challenges. This year’s Fan Festival will feature a number of ways to live the adventure, which includes Live Quest and several mini-games. Everything has been created with the spirit of Eorzea in mind!
Live Quest
Form a group with fellow adventurers to undertake a real-life quest that involves solving fun puzzles and other interactive elements all while enjoying everything the Fan Festival has to offer!
Experience what it means to be an adventurer by testing your hand at challenges brought to life based on various activities found in Eorzea.
All live activities are subject to change.
l Stage Events
Fan Festival 2016 kicks off with a bang featuring a keynote delivered by producer and director Naoki Yoshida, and will play host to various panels that feature a number of development team guests.
That’s not all! After you’re done getting your fill of behind-the-scenes information straight from the development team, you can enjoy live music as well as stage content that involves fan participation!
Please note that stage events are subject to change.
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OnePlus announces competition to design next OxygenOS feature, here’s what the winner gets
By Sagar Bakre On Feb 5, 2019
OnePlus has a pretty good reputation when it comes to connecting with its community and listening to what its users want. Well, OnePlus has once again proved that it listens to its community by announcing a competition that gives you the opportunity to design the next OxygenOS feature.
OnePlus has announced the Product Manager Challenge as a part of which you can send in your ideas to OnePlus about the next OxygenOS feature. However, you don’t just talk about this new feature by posting a comment on OnePlus’ official forums. You have to go through a simplified version of the process that’s used by OnePlus’ product managers every day to pitch new features.
If you have a feature in mind that you think is worthy of being the next OxygenOS feature, you can participate in this contest by submitting a PRD (product requirements document) here before February 22. This PRD should include answers to the following questions:
Who are the users?
What is the proposed function?
What is the user value?
If there are existing comparable functions in the smartphone industry, how is your proposed feature superior?
In addition to that, you are also required to explain the logic behind this new feature and how you want it to be implemented. Besides, you also have to include sketches and prototype design (see images below) to explain the flow from screen to screen.
Click on image to enlarge it
What does the winner get?
OnePlus will announce the winning feature by mid-March and its software team will start working on it immediately. Once the feature is ready, the winner will get a new OnePlus device (might be the OnePlus 7) as well as a trip to the nearest OnePlus launch event where this new feature will be launched.
Click here to know more about this contest.
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Astoria is known for having the best restaurants in the borough of Queens. It’s no wonder, and a walk down Ditmars Boulevard will score you a seat at some of the greatest Greek and Middle Eastern restaurants in the city. Astoria’s greatest attribute is its sense of community and ethnic diversity that it still holds on to. In spite of recent development, this neighborhood has undergone positive changes, but they have not affected its feel as a working class neighborhood. Astoria is home to the Museum of the Moving Image, Bohemian Hall (NYC’s oldest beer garden), and Steinway & Sons piano factory.
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2017 ROCKVILLE
2017-04-29 thru 2017-04-30
The initial band lineup has been announced for Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville, Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30, 2017 at Jacksonville, Florida's scenic Metropolitan Park along the St. Johns River. Rock legends Soundgarden (Saturday headliner), Def Leppard (Sunday headliner), and A Perfect Circle lead the music lineup for Florida’s biggest rock experience, which features over 40 bands on three stages, including a tremendous list of talent with The Offspring, Mastodon, Chevelle, Seether, Papa Roach and many more.
Check out the official Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville video announcement HERE!
Specially priced tickets as well as hotel and VIP packages for Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville will be available starting Tuesday, December 6 at Noon EST at WelcomeToRockvilleFestival.com.
The current music lineup for Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville is as follows: Soundgarden, Def Leppard, A Perfect Circle, The Offspring, Mastodon, Chevelle, Seether, Papa Roach, Three Days Grace, Pierce The Veil, Coheed and Cambria, Alter Bridge, The Pretty Reckless, Amon Amarth, Eagles of Death Metal, Highly Suspect, Dillinger Escape Plan, In Flames, Gojira, In This Moment, Motionless In White, All That Remains, Nothing More, Rival Sons, Beartooth, Every Time I Die, Attila, Starset, Dinosaur Pile-Up, I Prevail, Kyng, Crobot, Volumes, Sylar, Fire From the Gods, As Lions, Badflower, Goodbye June, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Cover Your Tracks, The Charm The Fury, and more to be announced.
Here are comments from some of the festival artists:
"Without a doubt we can't wait to throw down with our rock and metal fans at Welcome To Rockville fest! Ever since the beginning for us, we've seen how absolutely amazing and rabid you guys can get in Florida! You keep us on our toes; hell yes, we'll see you there!" -- Pete Loeffler / Chevelle
"This is Vic from Pierce The Veil and we can't wait to hit the stage and kick off the World's Loudest Month in Florida at Rockville festival! See you all at the show!" – Vic Fuentes / Pierce The Veil
"We’re stoked to be kicking off the World's Loudest Month at Rockville with Alter Bridge. It's gonna be epic so don't miss it!" -- Myles Kennedy / Alter Bridge
"Welcome To Rockville has grown from a single day event into Florida's biggest rock festival experience of the year. The 2017 lineup is a celebration of all things rock, with legends like Soundgarden, Def Leppard, A Perfect Circle and The Offspring balanced with the best of what's current and hot in rock and metal culture. This is a greatest hits celebration for all ages," says founder and producer Danny Wimmer of Danny Wimmer Presents.
Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville kicks off the annual World’s Loudest Month festival series and will also feature a variety of unique activations and secondary entertainment options including Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Row, The Music Experience, FYE Fan Experience, Monster Energy Experience, along with incredible food and beverage offerings and other onsite experiences.
Specially priced tickets as well hotel and VIP packages will be available starting Tuesday, December 6 at Noon EST. Fans are encouraged to buy early and save. Discounted online hotel rates are also available through Curadora. Visit WelcomeToRockvilleFestival.com for details.
Initial ticket prices will be as follows:
Weekend General Admission: starting at $89.50 + fees
Weekend VIP: starting at $250.00 + fees
Single Day General Admission: starting at $70.00 + fees
Single Day VIP: $140.00 + fees
VIP tickets include: a VIP entrance to venue; access to VIP lounge area featuring dedicated bar, beverage and food service; viewing of main stages; seated area with shade for dining; private restroom facilities; and a VIP guest laminate.
As in the past, General Admission ticket discounts will also be available for active military through Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville partner GovX.
Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville is Florida’s biggest rock experience. Tickets have sold out for the past three years, and there were over 50,000 in attendance at the 2015 and 2016 events.
Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville is fueled by Monster Energy. Additional 2017 sponsors include: Bud Light, Jack Daniel’s, The Music Experience, Zippo, MetroPCS, and more to be announced.
Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, a producer of some of the biggest rock festivals in America, including Rock On The Range, Monster Energy AFTERSHOCK, Monster Energy Fort Rock, Monster Energy Carolina Rebellion, LOUDER THAN LIFE, Northern Invasion, Chicago Open Air, Monster Energy Rock Allegiance, and more.
For more information on Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville, visit:
Website: WelcomeToRockvilleFestival.com
Facebook: Facebook.com/welcometorockville
Twitter: @RockvilleFest
Instagram: @welcometorockville
Apr 29 to Apr 30, 2017
2017 ROCKVILLE:
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The Mid-Tier Melee Shakeup
There are monumental moments in every sport that serve as defining demarcation points for the game. Once they happen, the reverberations are felt around the competitive field, as everyone realizes: the game has changed.
For Melee, the past few months saw two of these moments, back to back. First, the Floridian multi-game master Wizzrobe took home the gold at Smash and Splash, making him the first Falcon main to win a Major tournament in over a decade. Before the community had time to catch their breath, the game caught fire again when beloved Pikachu main Axe finally surged to a first-place finish at Smash Summit VI. In an era where tier lists seemed cast in stone and the thin list of Major winning players was less and less character-diverse, these two men shattered the preconceived notions of top-level Melee.
Wizzrobe’s win represents the power of a community of players, a group effort chipping away at a massive problem, piece by piece, until the path to victory is finally opened. After famed Midwest Falcon “Darkrain” slowed down his competitive efforts, Aziz “Hax” Al-Yami switched from Falcon to Fox, and S2J hit a plateau, a consensus was forming: Falcon just wasn’t in the running for a top tier character any longer. The once formidable main was relegated to a role of flash, showing up in “10 most hype” compilations, but rarely reaching the podium of major tournaments. In fact, the last time a Falcon had won a Major was nearly 15 years ago!
But down in sunny Florida, a revolution was brewing. A cadre of Falcon mains had set out to fight the prevailing sentiment and shift the paradigm. Though led in theory by Gravy and Gahtzu, the star of the movement quickly came to the front: Justin “Wizzrobe” Hallett. While others were coming up with brilliant theoretical punishes and new combos to maximize Falcon’s potential, Wizzrobe was the one who could take the theoretical and put it into practice.
“When I saw his run at GOML and the way he was playing after such a hiatus, it became clear to me that he had acquired a new level of play. To me he always had the highest reaction time of any player, so it was only a matter of time before he figured out how to conquer brackets.”
-Hungrybox
Wizzrobe would accelerate at a lightning pace through 2018 and 2019, taking wins over every Melee God, and scores of W’s over the next tier of players. Each passing tournament saw labbed techniques refined and applied with regularity. With a sharp wit, rigid practice routine, and the lab developments of the 20GX movement, this Florida Man was on a mission.
At SnS5, Wizzrobe put on a show — here was Falcon at his peak. Wizzrobe showed what a half decade’s worth of concerted group effort could do, walking through every opponent and every viable main in the game. Tech chases, innovative combos, brilliant edgeguards, patient neutral, all came together to show a well-rounded character, viable at this absolute pinnacle of Melee.
HE'S DONE IT!! @Wizzrobe is your #SnS5 #Melee CHAMPION!! pic.twitter.com/J8tmfzKt6Q
— VGBC @ #evo2019 (@VGBootCamp) June 2, 2019
Axe’s struggle was more in the vein of a David and Goliath story, one man against the massive forces of the world. While Falcon had his defenders, Pikachu had long since been abandoned by the Melee institution. There was no movement, no dedicated lab group, no glimmer of hope in scattered regional tournaments. All that he had behind him was his own grit, determination, and tens of thousands of hours of analysis and practice.
Though many were bearish on Pikachu, it’s not hard to be bullish on Axe. He showed a consistent openness to adapt his playstyle to include whatever new Pikachu techniques were floating to the top. Several Gods had given him props and said that with his understanding of the game, it was only a matter of time before he had his perfect run.
That run was presented to him at Smash Summit VIII. Axe was up against a bevy of top tier talent, but with a thin slice of characters to face, and a history of player-specific training, young Walgreens Drake saw only opportunity. Each match was a case study in hyper-focused development on minutiae, with Axe identifying weaknesses in his opponent, and embracing different aspects of Pikachu’s potential (varied neutral approaches, combo potential, speedy platform movement) to pick his opponents apart bit by bit.
An emotional victory for @TempoAxe as he claims his first #SmashSummit title. Congratulations! ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/mcoWMksMsw
— Beyond the Smash (@BTSsmash) June 17, 2019
When placed side-by-side, these seemingly separate events are one. Two wins from what were once considered sup-optimal characters show that the game still has depths that have yet to be explored. Though some will point to the fact that these wins are an outlier, it belies the point. A trend can only form once the first event has occurred.
Already, the speculation is beginning around which character will be the next to crack through the ideological wall of 20XX and the rigid tier list. Already, several players are quick to point out aMSa’s wins over multiple top players. In this way, the Japanese Yoshi bears a strong resemblance to Axe, with a singular effort yielding consistent, steady results, waiting for a miracle run to string it all together.
“I think that it’s only a matter of time before aMSa wins an event with Yoshi. I could also see Duck pushing Samus to new heights.”
Here, we see another example, this one more in the vein of Wizzrobe. Duck is at the forefront of Samus’ development, often bringing lab developments to the main stage. With multiple players pushing forward the meta for their respective mains, the old guard have to stay on their toes. There is no ability to rest on the laurels of good frame data any further.
“A lot of people always ask me if ’X-character’ is viable and even if I think a lot of them are not viable from a point of winning super majors I really do think players like Axe/Wizzrobe & even aMSa to a big degree have showed the world that with enough work & dedication you can make it super far so if you are a player struggling in your local scene, regardless of character you play I hope you can find motivation & hope in these players and their success”
-Armada
The quest for mid-tier viability is a sign of the rapidly increasing field of competition in Melee. As the pool of viable characters and top contenders grows, the quest for the .1% edge over your opponents gets ever harder. Expanded avenues of information sharing, wider access to technical tools, the removal of the physical barrier with Netplay, and a more robust tournament scene have led to a golden age of training and growth.
“I honestly think the ‘era of the gods’ is very far behind us.”
Fans are in for an amazing new period of Melee, as a new era of opportunity dawns on the game. In 2015, the Summer of Smash had five viable contenders. In 2019, the door is wide open to easily a dozen players to take home a title.
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Unearthing Medieval Dartmoor
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A month-long celebration of Widecombe’s medieval past has just reached its conclusion with the end of the final season of excavation at North Hall Manor. The project was kick-started with a series of walks and talks by the Moor Medieval project’s Dr David Stone and members of the DTRG. Guided walks to explore Challacombe, Hutholes, Jordan, Houndtor and Dunnabridge gave participants the opportunity to explore, and learn more about, Dartmoor’s medieval past and attracted over eighty people.
As part of the programme of activities in the run-up to the excavation, MTMTE’s Andy and University of Exeter’s Imogen Wood worked with sixty pupils at Widecombe Primary School and local artist Yasuharu Tajima-Simpson, to create medieval-inspired sgraffito tiles. This was supported with funding from the Devon Guild’s Free Hand craft education programme. Andy supported the school with their summer term school wide topic to learn more about medieval life enabling them to visit Higher Uppacott medieval longhouse and their end of term production about Robin Hood of Yarner Wood!
The excavation took place from Monday 9th until Saturday 21st July, led by Marc Steinmetzer of Oakford Archaeology and DNPA’s Andy Crabb, with a team of local volunteers, returning for a final time to the site. Previous excavations revealed wall footings, boundary works and pottery suggesting the presence of a high status medieval building and one of only a handful of moated medieval manor houses in Devon. This year’s dig added to this knowledge and shed more light on the site’s earlier timber-phase, later construction and location of part of the moat.
The community dig involved almost thirty volunteers each day with students from South Dartmoor Community College taking part over their Enrichment Week, work experience students from colleges from across Devon as well as undergraduate students from Leicester, Exeter and Sheffield. As well as students, many of our regular volunteers took part, some from Widecombe History Group and other’s from further afield.
Two primary school days were held with a further sixty children attending. With frequent visits from members of the public, tourists and friends from other projects, no two days were the same!
A home-education day saw almost sixty local families take part in calligraphy workshops, excavation and finds processing. For many, it was their first time on an archaeological site and there was an abundance of enthusiasm from even the youngest members!
The open day on Saturday 21st, which attracted over 400 visitors, was an opportunity for visitors to explore the archaeological remains, meet re-enactors and take part in wet-felting and medieval-inspired foraging workshops.
Huge thanks to all those involved – Margaret and Michael for hosting us, Marc and Jon from Oakford Archaeology, Peter Rennells and Widecombe History Group, our DNPA colleagues, local colleges and schools and to our multitude of fantastic volunteers. We couldn’t have done it without you all!
Read more about North Hall Manor and presentations from our previous medieval seminar on the Moor Medieval page
Emma Stockley
Moor Medieval Lending Library open for business!
Community Heritage Officer, Emma Stockley has set up a Moor Medieval Lending Library, largely due to generous donations of books from study group members. There are a number of books relating to all aspects of medieval Dartmoor as well as some general texts on archaeology, landscape and historic buildings. There is also a small reserve collection including;The Place Names of Devon, Vol VIII Part 1 – English Place Name Society, The Place Names of Devon, Part 2 – English Place Name Society, Domesday Book Devon Part One – General Editor: John Morris, Domesday Book Devon Part Two – General Editor: John Morris, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Volume 1 – The East – Jeremy Butler , Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Volume 2 – The North – Jeremy Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Volume 3 – The South West – Jeremy Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Volume 4 – The South East – Jeremy Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Volume 5 – The Second Millennium BC – Jeremy Butler. The books are housed at our Princetown office but arrangements can be made to deliver them to Parke. If anyone would like to borrow a book or make an enquiry, please contact Emma directly emma@moorthanmeetstheeye.org or call 01822 890 904.
Trowels, toothbrushes and tiles - an archaeological test pit training day in Bovey Tracey
On a beautiful, sunny day in April, members of the Moor Medieval Study Group gathered in Bovey Tracey for an archaeological test pit training event. The day, part of the Moor than meets the eye Moor Medieval project, led by Historic Buildings Officer Keith McKay, took place in a garden in Bovey Tracey, thought to contain the remains of a Medieval building.A test pit is a small-scale archaeological excavation, usually consisting of a 1m by 1m square trench. Groups of test pits are used to sample the range of artefacts present in the topsoil across an area. Each pit is dug methodically in ‘spits’ or layers around 10 cm deep with the finds from each layer being kept separate and carefully recorded. Comparing the results of multiple test pits can indicate the type of archaeology which may lie buried beneath the soil. Programmes of test pits can be combined with historical research or different types of field survey to provide a powerful tool for the investigation of the past enabling archaeologists and historians to understand the development of sites, hone research questions and target future work more effectively. Dr Lee Bray, National Park archaeologist started the day’s training by explaining how to set up a test pit, remove and store turf, and excavate in spits. Due to the large group size, four test pits were opened in various locations around the garden and orchard and digging began in earnest.
Study group visit Headland Warren
Fourteen members of the study group met at Headland Warren on a spectacularly clear and sunny day for a guided walk around Headland Warren and it’s surrounds. The group was led by Lee Bray, Archaeologist, Dartmoor National Park Authority and the although the main focus of the walk was to look for evidence of medieval tin mining, the group viewed a wide variety of archaeological features such as pillow mounds, ancient vermin traps, mining remains from across history and even a stone row! The Whortleberries were in full flavour and delayed progress slightly but a good walk and an interesting time was had by all. If you would like to find out about forthcoming fieldtrips as part of the Moor Medieval Study Group, please contact Community Heritage Officer, Emma Stockley and ask to be put on the mailing list. emma@moorthanmeetstheeye.org
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Lauren Marie Announces Vibrant New Single ‘Regress’
Posted on February 25, 2020 by Music Talks
A partnership between Ellen Hodges, Omayya Atout, and Sarah Burnett, Lauren Marie draws from moody electronica and new R&B to make their own brand of forward thinking pop. Their newest single ‘Regress’ is a perfect introduction to the group, highlighting everything they do best.
The magic of ‘Regress’ comes from the contrast between sugary sweet melodies and dense claustrophobic atmospheres. Their mastery of tension and release creates a rollercoaster of emotions.
“The future’s kind of boring,” Hodges sings in a sarcastic drawl. The industrial beats suggest a dystopian vision, but the uplifting chorus always returns just in time to keep things from getting too dark. With its conflicted optimism, ‘Regress’ is a song that perfectly captures the mindset of its time.
LINKS TO LAUREN MARIE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurenmarieband/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/laurenmarieband
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfGs3f6ph1JfPsEW5XvUS_A?app=desktop
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/laurenmarieband
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Deanna Devore Releases Smooth Mouth Watering Neo-Soul Single ‘Lately’
Posted on January 24, 2020 January 28, 2020 by Music Talks
Deanna Devore is a Chicago and Toronto based multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer. Her music beautifully blends downtempo electronic beats with organic instrumentation, creating emotionally captivating music that has been resonating with audiences across the globe. Devore’s polished musicianship, modern production techniques and compelling songwriting emanates a maturity and sophistication that spans across downtempo electronic, R&B, neo-soul, jazz and orchestral territories.
Following the success of her highly acclaimed EP half and half, Devore is unveiling her new release ‘Lately’, featuring a mystery vocalist who cannot yet be announced. Thematically the single narrates the insecurity and ups and downs of a relationship, detailing how love can often feel like an emotional rollercoaster until it finally comes to an end. Its mellow grooves and smooth lo-fi beats cook up a mouth-watering release, oozing with seductive melodies and velvety vocals, which highlight the featured singer’s impressive vocal range. Emitting a sensuous flowing cadence, delicately layered harmonies and a pulsating rhythm, ‘Lately’ provides an alluring neo-soul track, showcasing Devore’s unique and fresh production.
Devore’s inspiration sparks from a sonic level – the feeling and emotions that certain chords and melodies provoke. Her songwriting is built around the result and impact it will have on the listener.
“Lyrically I delve into the darkness and light of love and life”, reveals Devore. With influences partially rooted in the soul, R&B and jazz field, Devore doesn’t allow any limitations to her sound and her music includes elements of a multitude of genres. It’s this genre-blending sound which has allowed the musician to create music without boundaries. She shares, “I hope my music can bridge the gap for fans of all genres and be appealing to a variety of people”.
Devore has seen success performing to sold-out venues and festivals across the map, such as Summerfest, CMJ, NXNE, and 80/35. She has also had the pleasure of opening for renowned artists including Jamie Cullum, Bonobo and SG Lewis, as well as Raveena, Mother Mother and Yoke Lore. The composer has recently explored more commercial work, where her work can be heard in podcasts, feature films and even a Starbucks ad.
Self-produced and performing all of the instruments on the track herself, Devore wishes to encourage other female artists to take a lead in their music,
“I’d love to inspire other songwriters and other female multi-instrumentalist/producers. There aren’t many of us out there it seems, so I’d love to inspire more female musicians to self-produce”.
Devore continues to be celebrated for her remarkable musicality and ‘Lately’ is another indication of what to expect in 2020.
Deanne Devore Releases Smooth Mouth Watering Neo-Soul Single ‘Lately’
LINKS TO DEANNA DEVORE
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deannadevoremusic/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deannadevore/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Deannadevore
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/33ZWQlxgrQJGHCo82XqhWJ
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Multi-Talented 19 Year Old SongStress Breana Raquel Releases Q&A
Posted on December 3, 2019 December 4, 2019 by Music Talks
19-year-old songstress Breana Raquel returns with the release of ‘Q&A’, a catchy slice of sizzling R&B, setting the young songwriter in a league of her own. Having built a loyal online following over the last year, which currently stands at over 30,000 followers on Instagram and over 10,000 on TikTok, Breana is making huge waves right now, making ‘Q&A’ her biggest release to date.
Best known for her guest-star role on Criminal Minds, as well as her recurring role on CBS’ Seal Team, Breana Raquel is an actress that is taking over televisions around the US. The multi-talented star is taking advantage of every opportunity that comes her way and her success has not gone unnoticed.
The Maryland native has been quietly building an organic buzz with golden R&B sensibilities over the last year, with the release of her debut EP ‘Beginners Love’ back in February.
When asked about the new single, Breana stated:
“I wanted to release a song that was closer to the style of music I listen to now. I wrote a lot of the tracks on my EP when I was 16/17, and I wanted to introduce everyone to the 19-year-old Breana Raquel.”
The tracks addictive melody and catchy lyrics definitely warrants a repeat. With this being Breana’s second release, the singer-songwriter proves she’s only setting up to scale greater heights.
LINKS TO BREANA RAQUEL
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breanaraquel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BreanaRaquelOfficial/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/breanaraquel
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/breana-raquel
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breanaraquel/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGoMCCeNverzy_JXrU4nM3Q
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Give It All Up For the Funky Soulful Groovy Danny Toeman
Posted on November 11, 2019 by Tracey Arbon
Danny Toeman
“Give It All Up” (Mr Showtime)
Quickly, someone turn up the volume!! What a surprise blast this track is. A funky groove that couldn’t get me to stay still in my chair; how could you not move with such a funky soulful track. Admittedly, this funky soul groove is where my heart lies, and with those vocals by Danny Toeman clearly shows he is a true professional.
If you like funky soul bands such as Kool & The Gang or The Average White band, then you’re going to fall in love with the cool groove high energy soulful style of ‘Give It All Up’ (Mr Showtime)
Danny Toeman is obviously a seasoned performer and artist with his own seven piece band that is as tight as……well let just say it’s pretty damn tight. Danny’s vocals ooze rugged emotion that sours with ease throughout, from the sexy spoken lower end of his range, flying into a high falsetto as smooth as a well aged whisky. (not saying he is old)
The backing vocals can’t go without being unnoticed. The simple and remarkable BV’s are tight and clear while the production most certainly has a vintage and funky contemporary style.
Give It All Up has a feel good vibe that is so unforgettable, you’ll be singing it for hours after as the chorus spins around between your ears!
Danny has an album and live shows on the horizon, and if he came to Australia, I’d be there in a flash.
Seriously great music. Now go get those dancing shoes on.
I’m giving it all up for Danny with 5 stars!
Verdict: 5/5 Hearts
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Funky RnB Rock Fusion New Single You Have To Hear from Blackelvis
Posted on October 23, 2019 October 23, 2019 by Music Talks
BLɅCKƎLVIS(BLACKELVIS), A South-Wales based band who have created a monstrous stir across the music scene within just 3 months of their first debut show at Tiny Rebel Cardiff in May 2019.
The bands infancy has included headline bookings at six of the most renowned venues in and around Cardiff, which have consistently generated rapturous “always-wanting-more” crowds each time without fail – in addition to numerous support bookings across the region.
BLɅCKƎLVIS has just released their latest single, Gimme Ya Luv and is about the frustration of being an artist in this world (in a fun and enjoyable way). It’s about asking for the people’s love and appreciation so that we can make something of our lives and hopefully do good for others along the way. The main premise of the song is; if you give us your love, we won’t waste it. We’ll transform that love into something great!
Gimme ya Luv has been supported by BBC Radio Wales (Janice Long, Bethan Elfyn and Adam Walton) and Kerrang! Radio (Johnny Doom) amongst hundreds of other radio shows all over the globe
Their music has been described as a fusion of wavy funk rock blended with reggae and hip-hop rhythms and R&B/soul vocals whilst retaining an element of powerful, heavy grooves, provided by their uniquely individual rhythm section. The members of BLɅCKƎLVIS come from very different musical backgrounds;
Frontman LEVi Tyrell Johnson has been gigging for several years as a solo artist playing acoustic or using live loops and beat-boxing as a base to build upon his Prince style vocals and beautiful guitar melodies. LEVi is no stranger to the stage as he comes from a long line of artists and performers. LEVi has been performing or creating art someway all his life. Dreamer and visionary.
Lead Guitarist Ruben Kingman is a fourth generation musician and is steeped in lifetimes of musical heritage and exploration. His dad Simon Kingman is a master of the instrument and plays as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist in the sophisticated roots rock group Zervas & Pepper as well as writing on his own accord. With Ruben’s instrumental background, he has been described as ‘Epic’ by the South-African Blues-Rock Maestro Dan Patlansky. He is certainly one to watch in the future.
Bassist AndyExilded has played in many bands over a 20 year musical career, including Blues rock band We Are The AfterGlow, ska punkers WolfPunch & Skate punk band Not Since The Accident. His playing has been likened to a mix of Matt Freeman from Rancid & Flea of RHCP. Andy has shared a stage with many punk legends during his career including The UK Subs, Sham 69, Stiff Little Fingers, CONFLICT and many more. During his time living in Liverpool his band at the time were supported by acts such as The Coral, The Zutons & Miles Kane, He is a genuine musical heavyweight.
Behind the drums is C.J Collins, an astoundingly hard hitting yet versatile player who has been playing alongside bands and artists for over 15 years. Having a long history of playing in various groups, ranging from big band Jazz & Gospel, to Metal, Rock and Hip-Hop, a definitive arsenal of different rhythmic styles can be heard throughout his performances. Over the years C.J has been likened to a blended style of John Bonham, Chad Smith and Mitch Mitchell.
Playing live
23rd October Porters, Cardiff
Steam Gimme Ya Luv
LINKS TO BLɅCKƎLVIS
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Blackelvisband/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/blackelvisdiff/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackelvisband/
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Uplifting Afro-Pop RnB New Music from Toby Octave
Emerging hip-hop artist Toby Octave returns with an uplifting, melodic, and melancholic EP ‘Strings Attached’. The six-track EP features rich guitar riffs, driving beats, uplifting instrumentation, and powerful lyricism by Toby Octave.
The uplifting energy featured throughout the EP adds a unique style. Moreover, ‘Strings Attached’ radiates an intimate, emotional vibe.
The arrangements in ‘Strings Attached’ are unique and different from each other making the entire EP one of a kind. The EP spotlights the Toby Octave’s vocal abilities as well. Undoubtedly, the EP has the ability to impact the listener as it contains a unique style and sound that gives each track an identity on top of the powerful lyricism. The uplifting production and deep lyricism of the EP will take the listener into a musical journey. The EP has the ability to resonate with any pop/afrobeat fan as it has every element to deliver a message, be impactful, and catchy. The entire EP is written and produced by the talented Toby Octave.
About Toby Octave
Toby Octave is an emerging singer-songwriter, guitarist, percussionist, pianist, and producer hailing from Lagos, Nigeria. The now Maryland-based afro-pop/R&B artist seeks to leave his footprint in the music scene. At a young point in his career, Toby Octave earned the nomination for the “Best Upcoming Act”, which he won. With a special talent in composition, Toby Octave is as versatile as an artist can get. Fusing, working and writing different genres Toby has developed his own unique sound and style. EPs like “Mixed Feelings” and “Grateful” showcase his versatility as an artist, and his unique, uplifting sound. With a dynamic sound, Toby Octave is an artist to keep an eye and ear out for as he is set to keep rising in the music scene.
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LINKS TO TOBY OCTAVE
Website: http://www.tobyoctave.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tobyoctave
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobyoctave/
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Remember to register to vote or request your absentee ballot for the 2020 election
By MyCG Staff
Sept. 25, 2020 —
Under the U.S. Constitution, every U.S. citizen has the right to vote. Every voter must have the opportunity to register and vote whether that is in person or by absentee in any election that they are eligible. To vote in U.S. elections, Coast Guard members and their eligible dependents must be registered in their state of legal residence.
As a federal voting year, all eligible voters are encouraged to vote. If members or their voting-eligible dependents do not expect to be present in their state of legal residence to vote, they may do so by using an absentee ballot. COVID-19 has created a significant demand for absentee voting, so members and their eligible dependents are highly encouraged to request their absentee ballots as far in advance as possible. For members and eligible dependents who reside in their state of legal residence, but are unwilling to vote in-person due to COVID-19, should contact their local election officials.
Eligible voters who wish to register and vote absentee should do so by completing the Federal Post Card Application (FPCA). Please note that each state has their own deadline to receive of absentee ballot requests and can be up to 21 days prior to the election.
You can complete the FPCA (SF-76) online at the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) website. The website has an automated assistant to help members complete, save, and print the FPCA. The FPCA is postage-paid within the U.S, and members can print a pre-paid envelope template for submission by mail for the Postal Service system, including APO and FPO addresses. Many states and territories allow return of FPCAs by fax. Please keep in mind that each state or territory has specific instructions for completing and submitting to local election offices.
Due to the ongoing global pandemic, FVAP has a limited supply of printed forms and voting material, which is why members are encouraged to visit their website. If you are interested in assisting members at your unit with their voting options and opportunities, please consider becoming a unit voting assistance officer (UVAO). Units are required to have UVAOs. To learn more and how to become registered and trained UVAO with the FVAP, please visit the website.
If you have any questions. Please email the Coast Guard's Service Voting Action Officer.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Click the image below to view Master Chief Vanderhaden's message on Facebook.
Hi. Master Chief Vanderhaden here. I’m talking with some of my shipmates and we are in Salasaw, Oklahoma and we are talking about voting. As you know it’s not too late to request and register for the 2020 election. The deadline is approaching so don’t delay. Head on over to www.fvap.gov to request your ballot. With the interest in absentee voting this year, it is more important than ever that you stay Semper Paratus and mail your vote home. So – GET OUT AND VOTE.
Voting Materials link
How to become a UVAO link.
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Mozilla Firefox 'Australis' now available on Aurora testing channel
By John Callaham Neowin @JCalmn · Feb 9, 2014 20:42 EST · Hot! with 63 comments
The next major update to Firefox, code named "Australis", has now graduated out of the Nightly testing channel and into the latest Aurora build. The new version, Firefox 29.0a2, is now available to download.
As we have reported before, the changes that will be made to Firefox via Australis will include a new user interface. In a post on the Mozilla blog, the company said:
Tabs have a new fluid and streamlined shape and non-active tabs blend into the background to make it faster for you to find and focus on the tab you want. A new menu contains the most popular features including copy, paste, zoom, as well as add-ons all in one spot with easy to identify visual icons.
As you can see from the image above, the UI looks very similar to the one employed by Google's Chrome browser. The Australis version of Firefox also allows for faster menu, tab bar and tool bar customization by just dragging the buttons and icons around.
In addition to the UI and customization changes, the new build on Aurora adds Firefox Accounts to the browser. It allows users to sign into a single account to bring their bookmarks, history, and any open tabs to any Firefox supported devices, including the mobile version of the browser and smartphones running FirefoxOS.
Mozilla has had a very busy week for news. It also launched the touch-based version of Firefox for Windows 8 to its beta channel this week and introduced plans for an Android Launcher that will be released in the near future.
Source: Mozilla
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Firefox 84.0 released for download
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Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of Dolce & Gabbana are celebrating the legendary and fierce Naomi Campbell’s 25 years in the fashion industry. The $200 shirts go on sale at the Dolce & Gabbana’s Madison Avenue boutique during Fashion’s Night Out on Friday. Dolce & Gabbana described Naomi as “an icon rather than a model” when explaining why they decided to celebrate Ms. Campbell. There will be a series of 14 limited-edition t-shirts with each image consisting of a famous shot of Naomi photographed by world renowned photographers such as Steven Meisel and Patrick Demarchelier. The shirts will be sold in a tour Naomi will make with Domenico and Stefano to various cities around the world. The proceeds will go to the Fashion for Relief, a charity started by Ms. Campbell for the victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake.
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The Persistent Marquess
by Susan Payne
Pub Date: 06 Jul 2020 | Archive Date: 31 Jul 2020
elaine h, Educator
Thank you net galley for the advance reader copy of this novel. This was a historical fiction set in regency era. This wasn't my favorite read as the character interactions didn't seem a natural thread.
Angel H, Reviewer
This was a decent read. It was quick and easy. The characters were both likable. A nice way to divert time. I recommend.
**I voluntarily read and reviewed this book
Librarian 505034
Such a disappointing read, I was not impressed with the writing at all. The plot was the standard aristocratic man, doesnt believe in romantic love, but is drawn to an innocent wallflower, they are compromised into/find themselves married and then they fall in love. I've read this trope thousands of times and a marriage of convenience is my favourite trope, but this was just very poor in terms of the writing and execution.
I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this book and all opinions are my own.
Helena R, Reviewer
Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This was a disappointing historical romance. Daisy is hiding behind a plant to avoid the gossip about her family at a ball when she meets William, a marquees. He is intrigued by their brief conversation and decides to pursue her. One thing leads to another and they are found in a compromised position. To avoid public ridicule they agree to marry despite the fact that William does not believe in a loving marriage. Daisy's persistentance that he love her makes for very awkward conversations and moments. Although he grows to love her, his initial rejection causes a lot of unnecessary drama and hurt. I honestly did not feel drawn to either character and felt their character development was one dimensional.
Jill L, Educator
This book felt very rushed to me. There was not much character development and what we did know about the characters seemed very repetitive ie- she loved the country, he wants to have sex. I found the most interesting character in the story was Lady Reynolds. She had strength and a backbone.
Maria M, Librarian
I read this ARC for an honest review
All thoughts and opinions are mine
A new author to me and I did enjoy the book but there was nothing greatly outstanding about it, for me.
I read fairly quickly so I got through the book in an afternoon
I did like the characters and the story but felt there could have been a little more exciting and have a bit more escapism for me
ellie c, Reviewer
So we have a young and innocent girl who is compromised – we’ve read this story before – and has to marry someone she loves from afar. He doesn’t love her, initially, but then falls for her gentle ways etc etc.
Her parents have a love match – and unexpectedly find themselves expecting another child having been childless since our young heroine’s birth and this has meant that she has gone to stay with her grandmother – who of course, wants her to marry well, but they are not in the right circle by birth.
The story felt stilted and the characters seemed 2 dimensional. Whilst there was some length to the story, I didn’t feel the need to keep reading.
Margaret M, Reviewer
An accidental meeting behind a potted palm ensnares the attention of the Marquess of Ashton for the young Daisy Vincent. A first season debutant, Daisy doesn't want to have anything to do with the ton and their vicious gossip. Honest to a fault, she gives her opinions to William with no apologies. He is infatuated and is soon in a position to make Daisy his marchioness. A very charming romance of a young lady who teaches her husband about love.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book.
rainnbooks F, Reviewer
Many thanks to Net Galley, The Wild Rose Press and the author for a chance to read and review this book. All opinions are expressed voluntarily.
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Delightful🤩🤩🤩
The Persistent Marquess by Susan Payne is an absolutely enjoyable and entertaining read that was perfect for a lazy Sunday.
The debutant, Daisy Vincent, is brimming with honesty, cheer and a bright outlook to life in general, can’t abide by the social norms followed by society at large and seems to consider the ton superfluous.
The Marquess, William Ashton is the quintessential hero too jaded and too cynical to believe in love or happily ever after.
They meet of all places hiding behind a potted palm and Daisy’s open honesty strikes a chord with William and he sets about helping her avoid the pitfalls and meander thru them with her chin held high. But when a scandal becomes inevitable, William offers for her hand and lo and behold, the lady in question doesn’t want anything to do with his chivalrous offer.
Daisy is young and naïve to William’s 32 and throughout the story her doubts and insecurities plays a significant role in the story. Her uncertainty in being a marchioness gives her grief and she intensely believes that only utter devotion to the better half can save a marriage else there’s no point in a wedding. The discovery to love and commitment was beautiful which also included a steamy sex scene. I loved the author’s easy writing that entices the reader and brings a smile to one’s face.
Fans of historical romances can surely rejoice❤️
This review will be published in my blog https://rainnbooks.com/ and also in Goodreads, Twitter and Amazon India.
candy b, Reviewer
William, Marquess of Ashton, is thirty-two and still single. He is at a ball and meets a girl behind the potted plant, he always hides behind it when he is here, at the Duke of Westland's home. He meets a young lady by the name of Miss Daisy Vincent. Her father is the Viscount of Weatherly, and her mother is pregnant with her sibling. They are still very much in love with each other and that is what Daisy wants.
I loved the story. It is so well written. It flows easily and the characters are amazing. The two of them are so cute together he does not believe in love and she does.
I received this ARC from the author and have volunteered a review.
Betsy S, Reviewer
I enjoyed reading this book but felt that it was nothing out of the ordinary. If you enjoy marriages of convenience stories, you will enjoy this one.
Daisy, our heroine is in London for her first season with her grandmother, as her mother is expecting a child. For some reason, this is scandalous given her age and the fact that she is still in love with her husband (and he with her). It's hard to believe that Daisy and her grandmother are gossiped about and shunned as a result.
Daisy and the hero Ashton have a meet cute behind a potted plant at a ball. and he dances with her to bring her into fashion-.he is a marquess after all. They are later compromised when Ashton follows her to a terrace and gives her his coat when she appears cold. Ashton tries to do the honorable thing but Daisy refuses his proposal as she wants a marriage like her parents-where her husband loves and is devoted to her and she with him. And Ashton believes " love is overrated when it came to marriage."
Ashton spends a lot of thought lusting after Daisy and fantasizes about having sex with her before and after marriage. It got a bit tiring.
They end up married after all, and Ashton breaks it to Daisy that she is to stay in the country and he will return to London when she becomes pregnant. I enjoyed meeting Daisy's parents. But this being a romance, true feelings of love are recognized and there is a happy ending.
I received an ARC from the publisher via Net Galley but I have provided an honest review and any opinions expressed are my own
Sabrina A, Reviewer
I love historical romances and I love this author writing style.
I've read every book in this series, and I can honestly say that this is mine second favorite.
I like the characters and their romance story.
I'll most definitely be reading more of this author in the future.
Mystica V, Reviewer
Our marquess and our debutante are definitely different and not run of the mill people of the period. This is what made the story different.
A lighthearted romance culminating in a marriage brought about by flouting of convention! Nice read which ended very happily and with a touch of sexual play as well.
Good reading.
Amy M, Reviewer
Wonderful sweet romance. I really enjoyed this book; it made me smile and cry at points. Very well written quick read.
Paige T, Reviewer
First off, the history behind this story is great! I love reading about how people lived “back then” as opposed to the luxuries and things we have now. This is a sweet love story that has you wondering how it will end. It was slightly graphic in the love department, as a heads up, but it as tasteful and only once had me second-guessing reading it. (Just putting that out there from a gal who typically reads books that have zero graphic content.) This really is a good read!
Mina V, Reviewer
I loved this book. I just wish it was longer. The characters live and pull you in. You can feel their joys and sorrows, and will be happy when love finally conquers all.
Angela S, Reviewer
This is not a long book, but a lot sure does happen! I liked the story of a marriage between two relative strangers that becomes a much deeper connection. My problem with this story is that I didn't connect with the characters or their story much. I'm not really sure what either character liked about the other.
#ThePersisentMarquess #NetGalley
J H, Reviewer
Okay book, I felt that there were not really any ummph enough in the book. I could put the book down, come back to it a few hours later, and not be too excited to read it.
Reviewer 689929
I think it's safe to say I love Susan Payne. The Persistent Marquess was a sweet read. It's so rare to see a good marriage romance and this eats the cake.
I especially appreciate the fact that the heroine did not want to lose herself in her husband and still retains her goals for marriage despite getting married for other reasons.
Marianne D, Reviewer
I liked this story. It took me s while to warm up to Daisy. She seemed a bit spoiled and didn't want to work to make her marriage good. I'm glad that she and William were finally able to put aside their attitudes and see each other as wonderful people.
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Kerala's KK Shailaja tops as women dominate top 10 of Prospect's 'thinkers for the COVID-19 age' list
Kerala continues to be an inspiration in the management of the coronavirus pandemic at the international level. In the latest, a monthly British magazine 'Prospect' has announced that state Health Minister KK Shailaja has been selected as the world's top thinker for the Covid-19 age. She has been selected from a list of 50 personalities which include Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand; philosopher Cornel West; historian of slavery Olivette Otele among others.
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Kerala govt announces Rs 20,000 crore special package to tackle coronavirus; highlights
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the package aims to revive the economy and bring solace to various sectors which are reeling under COVID-19 scare.
published on : 20th March 2020
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These 10 steps will strengthen Canada's economy and climate
By Mike Moffatt & John McNally | Opinion | May 5th 2020
Photograph from Pexels.com
The current health crisis has proven disruptive for every Canadian industry. For manufacturers, this disruption has been especially tough.
Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME) recently forecast an overall decline in output of 5.7 per cent this year, making 2020 the worst year for domestic manufacturers since the 2008-09 recession. Although most expect growth to rebound next year, a slower global return to growth would hit Canadian manufacturers and exporters especially hard.
Yet while the forecasts are grim, Canadians have also borne witness during this pandemic to the critical role Canada’s manufacturers play in our economy. Global shortages of medical equipment have caused local manufacturers to pivot from making hockey supplies, education tools and plastic moulds to producing personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators and hand sanitizer to support the COVID-19 fight. Guelph-based Danby has converted from manufacturing home appliances like refrigerators to making ventilators for Canadian hospitals. CCM Hockey in Quebec is making PPE for medical professionals. Craft distilleries from Nova Scotia to B.C. are now famously churning out hand sanitizer.
Manufacturing goods in Canada can support our resilience in times of crisis, and plays an important role in supporting jobs, communities and our economy.
The same can be said for Canada’s homegrown clean technology manufacturers. Once the COVID-19 crisis has passed, these homegrown manufacturers will once again be generating local jobs, building Canada’s resilience to climate change, and tapping into the fast-growing global markets for low-carbon and green solutions. We want Canadian clean technology manufacturers to win this prize, and so governments should take steps today to support them. But supporting a growing sector may mean little if Canada’s overall trade policy turns protectionist.
As supply chain vulnerabilities are exposed and the value of self-reliance becomes clearer in a crisis, it is smart policy to support our domestic manufacturers. The risk is that we do it in the wrong way: By pushing others away to reduce our exposure to crises. In a lower-carbon, more digitized future, this would only hurt Canadian businesses and consumers. Canada’s economy will need access to the world market to thrive. We can use this crisis as an opportunity to help ensure we grow the right way moving forward that will make us both safer and stronger.
“Made-in-Canada”: The good way and the bad way
Countries are now more aware than ever of the vulnerability of global supply chains. It is now painfully clear that most of what we buy comes from elsewhere, including the medical and protective equipment front-line workers desperately need. Governments and companies have begun to consider what steps to take to reduce the risks of this level of disruption occurring again.
From this discussion, notes Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne, two schools of thought have emerged that take their own lessons from the crisis. The first is “be better prepared.” The second is “be less open.” The latter is based on the view that our open economy has increased our exposure to being affected by world events like pandemics and natural disasters. The solution is therefore to become less open; to rely more on domestic production and less on the world.
Protectionism is a bad idea in the best of times. When the going gets tough, it offers even worse prospects. This holds more truth in a low-carbon future. One reason why is that Canada’s clean technology manufacturing sector, the backbone of our future prosperity in a cleaner economy, would be especially hard-hit. The development of Canada’s clean technology industry will require greater economies of scale and more competition. Economies of scale allow for manufacturers to learn by doing, which lowers prices and develops expertise in areas like solar panel, wind turbine and battery manufacturing. Competition creates the push to make better products, which fuels innovation.
Zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) demand has grown exponentially with the rise of Tesla and BYD, pushing other auto manufacturers to design and build their own ZEVs, and increasing supply enough to allow governments to set ambitious, but realizable, ZEV-purchasing targets.
"There is still an urgent need for policies to support the growth of Canadian manufacturers in a way that maintains our access to world markets and helps build Canadian clean-tech champions."
Becoming less open to trade makes it more difficult to take advantage of these forces and grow our clean-technology manufacturing sector. Our domestic market is not large enough to help a high volume of companies reach the scale needed to achieve the benefits of learning by doing. It is also not large enough to support the number of competitors needed to fuel the innovation required to build world-leading clean-technology companies.
Without access to world markets, Canada’s forecasted rate of investment in clean technology will slow, hurting job creation and increasing the cost for Canadians to meet our climate targets while growing our economy.
Making a stronger, cleaner economy
Protectionism isn’t the answer to supporting domestic clean technology manufacturers. However, there is still an urgent need for policies to support the growth of Canadian manufacturers in a way that maintains our access to world markets and helps build Canadian clean-tech champions.
Here are 10 recommendations for non-protectionist solutions the government can consider in the coming months to build a stronger foundation for a cleaner, safer economic future.
Stop doing counter-productive things
1. Abolish import tariffs on clean-technology manufacturing inputs. A recent analysis by the Toronto Board of Trade identified that elimination of 29 tariffs on clean-technology inputs would save manufacturers tens of millions of dollars in compliance costs every year, along with the $37 million in tariffs they paid to import those inputs.
2. Identify internal trade barriers that impair the clean-tech sector. There are obvious candidates. One is a lack of a true national securities regulator. Another is the many interprovincial barriers to trade. This is an opportunity for the federal government to continue to work with provinces to align efficiency and regulatory standards, similar to work started by the Regulatory Reconciliation and Cooperation Table.
Helping companies “Make-in-Canada”
3. Make Canada the most attractive place to start and grow a clean-tech business. The federal government should expand the use of investor tax credits and flow-through shares for clean-technology companies. They should also lower the corporate tax rate by 50 per cent for zero-emission solutions manufacturers, as promised in the Liberal government’s 2019 election platform.
4. Ensure Canadians have the skills needed to work in the clean-tech sector. Skills training is critical to ensure Canadian workers are the ones building a cleaner economy. Skills training programs can be particularly helpful right now for one demographic: Women under 25, who have been unemployed in this crisis at higher rates than any other demographic. Programs to increase the number of women in the skilled trades, who made up only 14 per cent of apprenticeships in 2018, should be prioritized.
Helping companies “Buy-from-Canada”
5. Help large businesses adopt clean technologies. The federal government should expand the use of Accelerated Cost of Capital Allowances (ACCA) for all firms making clean-technology investments. This could also be coupled with a small tax credit for firms, to encourage even faster adoption of clean technologies.
6. Help SMEs adopt clean technologies. The major barriers for small- to medium-sized companies to adopt clean technology is a lack of financing, and a lack of internal capacity to spend time applying for government programs that offer it. The federal government should boost existing loan-guarantee programs to support adoption of clean-tech across sectors, and ensure funding is allocated through third-parties, like regional development agencies, local electricity and natural gas utilities, and industry associations that can work directly with companies and entrepreneurs to get money where it is needed quickly.
7. Help consumers adopt clean technologies. The use of income or purchase tax credits are great incentives to support clean technology adoption, and are already successfully used for ZEVs across Canada. Creating federal tax credits for home-heat pumps, energy-efficiency retrofits and new energy-efficient appliances are all examples of smart extensions of successful policies.
8. Use government procurement to support demand. Government procurement at every level can be a powerful demand driver for domestically produced clean technology. The federal government can give loans to support municipalities in electrifying their corporate and public transit vehicles, help provinces electrify school buses, and help local utilities invest to modernize their electricity grids. The key will be pairing adoption measures with manufacturing incentives to ensure the high-quality clean tech used to decarbonize Canada is built by Canadian workers.
The enabling role of climate policy
9. Set out a clear path for increasing the carbon price. Carbon pricing helps grow the market for clean technology by adding in the negative impacts of climate change. It also sends a long-term market signal that helps companies plan their future investments. One of the best ways the federal government could support domestic clean-technology manufacturing is by laying out a path today for future carbon price increases that are currently set to stop at $50/tonne in 2022. This would offer price certainty for businesses to help them plan for the transition, and support a shift of investment and workers into sectors with more favourable long-term growth prospects.
10. Set out a clear path for all other climate policies. The same is true for all other emission-reduction regulations: Companies can’t support a transition if they don’t know where the country is going or how fast it intends to get there. Policy certainty around ZEVs has been supported with purchasing mandates that have helped businesses plan asset purchasing and stock turnover rates for corporate fleets. Clearly laying out what will happen with regulations like fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles and methane standards for oil and gas would have similar effects, and would help companies know in advance what the rules of the market will be moving forward.
Canada’s future as a domestic clean-technology giant cannot happen if we turn inward. Protectionism hurts Canadian businesses and workers and slows the market forces that are necessary to help the country meet its climate targets. For Canada to thrive in a low-carbon future, we must maintain both the spirit of community shown in this crisis and our dedication to an open world to benefit workers, communities and our shared low-carbon future.
Mike Moffatt
@MikePMoffatt
John McNally
@johngmcnally
In the middle of a pandemic, renewables are taking over the grid
By Emily Pontecorvo | News | May 4th 2020
Earth Day 50 is over, so how do we get to Earth Day 100?
By Jens Wieting | Opinion | May 1st 2020
Let this crisis teach us that we must be prepared for the next
By Jane McDonald & Anne Hammill | Opinion | April 23rd 2020
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By Barnabe Geis & Jeanette Jackson | Opinion | April 14th 2020
“Protectionism is a bad idea
Edd Twohig | Tue, 05/05/2020 - 13:33
“Protectionism is a bad idea at the best of times”. There is no evidence to support this statement. Canada’s manufacturing sector grew with protection and shrank without. And look at China’s growth through tariffs and other import restrictions..
Step 1 There should be tax on all imports at least equal to the level of tax on production of goods and services in Canada. Which is all cost of Government.
Step 3 All Canadian businesses should tax the distribution of earnings but not earnings reinvested in the business. No other incentives would be necessary.
Step 4 Stop financing education bureaucracy and finance tuition of
students studying economically necessary skills.
Step 5 See comment on Step 3
Step 9 Eliminate all income and point of sale taxes and raise the carbon tax on domestic and foreign produced goods.
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Blackhawks Place Brandon Davidson, Jason Garrison on Waivers
Davidson hasn't played since mid-November, and Garrison has not suited up for Chicago
By James Neveau • Published January 2, 2019 • Updated on January 2, 2019 at 3:34 pm
The Chicago Blackhawks made a pair of roster moves on Wednesday, placing two defensemen on waivers.
Jason Garrison, who was acquired from the Edmonton Oilers in a trade that sent Brandon Manning to the club, was placed on unconditional waivers by the team, paving the way for his release if he is not claimed.
Garrison is a free agent at season’s end, and is making $650,000 this season.
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The Blackhawks have also placed defenseman Brandon Davidson on waivers. Davidson has not played since mid-November, and will likely be sent to the Rockford IceHogs if he clears waivers.
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September 14, 2020 by Marion Hopkins
CSULB Design – Following the Rabbit Hole
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I speak here does anyone hear me no okay okay how’s it going everyone thanks for being here thank you for the introduction Wesley and yes my name is Cindy and as I was getting together all my ideas for the talk I really realized that the variety of experiences I’ve had was kind of like a series of rabbit-hole how I went from behavioral therapy and psychology to stand in front of you delivering a design lecture so we’re gonna play into the theme of following the rabbit hole and really what that looked like for me and my undergrad career was asking a series of questions I always really liked asking why and it’s incredible when you actually get to that level with just like you ever have a conversation with someone and you’re just like oh why is that and then they give you a response and then you go oh why is that and you end up getting a series of pattern out of that answer to really understand what the motivation is so German der grad I studied human behavior and social influence and I asked a lot of these questions and it seems kind of like a random conglomerate and how that’s all together but I asked you know does birth order affect temperament and that’s basically the idea of you were the first born child middle born child youngest child how does that affect your decision-making process how are your coping mechanisms how does that lead into the decisions that you have later on in life another fun one and I’ll go into this deeper if we have time at the end our facial expressions innate or socially learned now we’re very social beings and we’re constantly gathering information from our environment to kind of communicate what it is that we mean so that’s a really fun one that’s been debated over and over there’s still is no finite answer I should add and then the last one that I really want to go into deeply with you guys is how do humans conceptualize abstract and motions so playing on this idea of love right when we think about love everybody has a different definition for what that looks like I feel like right now there’s a good colloquial going around of love language so everyone communicates what love means to whoever it is they’re trying to talk to you whether it’s through gifting or acts of kindness or physical affection there’s different ways that we express how we can understand that emotion so most of what we do is our highest most sophisticated thoughts are actually rooted in a lot of physical bodily functions and so there’s this idea called embody metaphors where it’s basically like idioms and sayings that basically try to capture this abstract idea where we can step into it so it takes something that is so vast and hard to define and makes it more tangible so that we can empathize with it so when you think about love there’s all these different things that come up two peas in a pod I’m head-over-heels in love with this person we’re going our separate ways right they’re all very physically oriented things in which you can see your body set in and do and so it conveys this idea especially for going separate ways you know two people were together and Olson they’re not and they’re not going in the straight path anymore they’re going separate and it takes this thing that you know you may not exactly understand what it is they’re going through specifically but the idea is so strong because it’s a physical phenomenon and so what happens is abstract emotions end up being like symptoms so you have something like the common cold one person can have sniffling and sneezes and another person may have coughing and a sore throat but you all fit under this umbrella of the common cold right it’s the same diagnosis and that’s what happens with emotions as well same thing with anger sadness with happiness especially going back to anger you know we have different ways of expressing that as well you can see people who physically exert kind of like this cathartic release or you have people who just keep to themselves and really internalized so we all process these things in different ways but for us to have that mutual understanding we can communicate it through embodied metaphors so I was talking about this with my housemate the time and I was like yeah it’s crazy you know love is it’s a four-letter word it’s so simple but I loved watching the sunset I love my mom I love my cat and those are all very different ideas of what love may mean but it communicates this level of passion right like I really really care about all those things I just listed so she was like well you know love is just one word but seven words for love and I was like woah you mean to tell me that this whole time I think we were probably in our early 20s at this point you’ve had love plus seven other ways to categorize all the different ways you can understand what it is you’re feeling so then it posed this question do when we go back a little bit I’ll show you all the examples so the first one is eros romantic passionate love and that’s something you probably would feel with a romantic partner there’s fewer there’s intimate authentic friendship ludos it’s playful flirty Suslov stork unconditional familiar love right that’s what I would use talk with my mom and flusha self love which is a term that’s I think an emerging more an hour colloquial in this generation right this idea of self love we can instantly think about okay that’s something that I do for myself to recharge whether it’s reading or taking a walks or whatever it is there’s a more well-defined concept and if you take self out of it it’s pretty abstract but then you add the self in there and suddenly it communicates this very clear method in which you’re going to communicate that love committed compassionate love is pragma and then agape is empathetic Universal love so seven different buckets for this very very big umbrella emotion right so it made me wonder if she grew up with each of these buckets right so categorized one thing as an English speaker that I know of she’s seven different options so when she’s going through each of experiences surety has that predisposition of options to say oh you know what I’m feeling this and so I started to ask do people with multiple language skills have higher emotional intelligence if you speak more than one language and there’s different ways for you to express that feeling does that mean that you you know have a better idea than somebody who has less of those options so it turns out that’s some very very smart people have already pondered this phenomenon and they call it linguistic determinism so this idea is basically what language you predominantly speak has huge effects on how you shape the concepts that you experience in the world so that makes a lot of sense right it’s kind of like this idea of trying to translate poetry it never quite gets there or listening to music that’s been translated to or even like dubbed movies right something’s always a little bit off but does it really get across so it’s really important that this at the crux of language is how we experience things around us and when it comes down to design there’s some really really important things that people should have thought about when it comes to language so these are some examples of ad campaigns that have failed horribly because they’ve got lost in translation I don’t know if you’re familiar which HSBC they basically were the number-one drug smuggling bank for the cartel you should look it up if you don’t know anything about that there’s a really good dirty money episode on it it’s super interesting so it’s a good grounds for rebranding right and they ended up translating to do nothing which is terrible and similarly with Pepsi and KFC the Chinese translation doesn’t really quite get there right so you get a lot of things that are lost and you’re losing the ability to capture your target market if you were to understand that you know language comes down to the key communication of whatever it is you’re running I think that they would have approached it a lot differently so after my undergrad I like seeing people’s reactions because I didn’t put any context to this but I’ll get into so after my undergrad I was asking a series of questions you know what it is that I want to research next and I ended up going to a fungus night at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco so they had all these really wonderful experts all over the fungi world you know people growing just really insane mushrooms and using it to cure cancer and that uh so there’s this woman named Jeremy Lee who runs a company called Co yo and it’s a startup company that’s based in Mountain View and what you’re looking at is their product which is a cotton burial shroud so when you die you can get wrapped in the shroud and it’s embedded with mushroom spores and it will eventually decompose your body and your bones and recycle all those nutrients back into the living organisms around you pretty far out everyone it’s like quiet like whoa what is that yeah it is a really really revolutionary product and what’s interesting is there’s not a lot of product development in the funeral business it’s just it’s a monopoly you know you’re not really getting people who are competing with the next funeral home saying hey we have better deals and it’s such a sensitive topic especially in Western culture so topics of taboo don’t often get that target market addressed and so what I did for this company is I did a lot of psychographic of research so I conducted a series of interviews of people who were already participants I’m using the shroud whether it was for humans or for pets and then I investigated what the phenomenon was in the funeral home business what it was like to be a funeral home owner and to provide the products that people select so what I found is it’s a very tricky thing to tackle you know the target market here is people who are dead but those aren’t the people making the decision for what they’re going to be buried in and a lot of times you really have it written in your will or maybe based on religion or a tradition there’s something that’s already preset so it’s kind of hard to engage in a target market and try to get them to convert to using a new product especially something that needs a lot of explanation and challenges really old ideologies so that was really interesting that was kind of just like a fun fact so after I did that I ended up going to be careful therapy I got my license and applied behavioral therapy in the shorthand for that as a BA and the foundation of that form of therapy is really to understand what is the function of our behavior every behavior is trying to communicate something so if we’re able to identify what that is you can address the need a lot sooner and this is something that as designers is kind of like the first stage of ideation right you’re trying to serve a need to a very specific group of people and you have to understand and really empathize with what that looks like so what I wanted was that humans are really malleable beings across the cognitive scale but what I did was I did one-on-one therapy specifically with clients on the autism spectrum in between the ages of 3 and 15 typically and whenever we found a behavior that was maladaptive or disruptive we had to design programs to get them to re learn how to ask for that behavior so the four functions of behavior under ABA the first one is sensory so this is if you’re doing something because it really just feels good to do if you’ve ever gone to the market and just like stuck your hand in a bag of beans or digging your toes in the sand you’re just doing it because it physically feels good to do the second one is escape so if you are in a really awkward situation someone’s making you feel comfortable you want to remove yourself from that right simply that’s undesired I’m gonna leave attention literally the reason why babies cry they don’t know any words yet and they’re just crying because they need something they need your attention to come and dress it and the last one is access to tangibles and my favorite example of this is like the kid that’s throw a tantrum in the chocolate aisle because they’re paired just said no I’m not gonna buy you a chocolate bar so that is pretty much how ABA has bucketed the reasons why we do things okay so I’m gonna take a pause there because a lot of people understand that humans are valuable beings we’re constantly influenced on a daily scale especially now with how fast technology is accelerating and we’re susceptible to a lot of outside influence and so it’s really gotten our ways of consumerism to be faster and faster there’s overproduction over consumption and a great deal of waste to deal with so I’m pretty sure a lot of you are familiar with those two ideas right and those are the things that are driving this accelerated number of acquiring 64 to 68 new pieces of clothing a year half of which are all worn just three times or less which creates an immense amount of waste and that 80 pounds of clothing sorry 18 tons of clothing every three days that ends up going to the global south or then their debt they’re meant to deal with our waste and they go into resale market after resale markets but the truth of the matter is we’re creating things that don’t last that are trendy so they inherently can’t last much longer that perceived obsolescence and they end up going to the landfill but they go overseas somewhere else where we can’t see and that’s kind of the problem of the cycle is that this kind of information is not apparent in that materials economy it’s drawn out like a linear path when really it should be something that is cyclical so I would really recommend watching that video in your spare time it’s a really good use of your time and she goes through a number of ways where you can actually intercept like so if you just bought one used item this year instead of a new one it would save six pounds of co2 emissions which is equivalent to removing half a million cards off the road for a year that’s pretty significant so there’s two ways that I can see us participating in it and oftentimes I get stuck in the struggle of the burden of knowledge right it’s a lot to take on it feels like it’s a system that has been in tradition for so long where are we supposed to make them so from the bottom up the number-one rule is just to five less slow down and really consider the things that you are consuming ask yourself is this something that I can see myself having for five years for ten years and then of course shopping secondhand and that doesn’t mean you know just with your clothing you can buy a lot of the other hard goods that you need in your daily life and through many other resources I’m happy to share all of them and then talking about this kind of stuff with people around you and asking people why do you choose to shop the way you do it starts really good conversation then you can keep asking what and the second is from the top down which the most effective way I see it is legislation reform and we all know that politics is a really long hard game so the part that we as designers can play into it is systems reform how do we make things differently how do we really understand what it is we’re putting out into the world now the woman that I worked for eschewed Young Burton who started a plot she had an entire career in industrial design before starting this brand and the first thing she said to me upon me getting hired was you know I never actually really understood what was happening with my products I would make the design I’d send it out and I’d get it back and that was all I really knew and that I never cared to ask and so there’s many points of intervention here and I really like what any Leonard says about seeing all the connections to the big picture and the rest of this presentation is really gonna focus on how we can all work together to unify these systems instead of having them broken down in these linear chunks how do we get it to all revolve and work with each other where one person’s waste becomes another person’s resource so is anyone familiar with how garment is made raise your hand if you have an idea what what’s your opinion are like what how do you think clothing is made yeah wow that was a really really nice response I was more than I was expecting so yeah you actually got it pretty spot-on but there’s all these little factors that go into how and how many it’s the garment industry makes so we start with a pattern a pattern is basically the blueprint for all the components that go into a piece of clothing so if I were to take my coat and chop this little off and then cut it in half and lay it flat that would be a pattern so all those pieces laid out on a piece of paper is called the marker and the mercury is used as a stencil to guide the cutting process and the marker has all these pattern pieces laid out flat and then it’s laid on top of piles of fabric so that it can all be cut out at the same time so this is a CAD of what a garment industry pattern marker might look like you can see that it’s all separated by sizes based on the colors so extra small all the way to extra large and the reason why it’s beneficial for it to be separated like this is so you can clearly see all the corresponding components that go into a certain size now if you looked at this corner right here the program tells you how much of that fabric is actually utilized so that means out of this entire surface area that you see all the colored pieces only make up 61% of what you see all the negative space around it that’s white is 38% that’s all the stuff that’s going to landfill so that’s almost that’s 40% 40% is pretty close to 50% so what that’s like half of the fabric that’s just getting discarded through this process now a lot of people ask well can’t you puzzle it differently to make it more efficiently and you can’t this is what it would look like if you maximize your surface area now it doesn’t say it down here but this is probably close around 10% maybe less than 10% waste which is really good 10% is a really good number to aim for that is significantly lower than average waste however you see all the pattern workers now are scattered the sizes like you see large some over here some over there and it makes it really hard to actually account for how many pieces you’re going to get if you print out this marker and you cut out all these pieces you’re going to get an equal ratio across all the sizes right the reason why most industries separated by sizing is because you’re doing changes right medium might be a more popular size and extra large or extra small so you’re gonna pile more sizes on to this production skew rather than the ones at the Umbrella edge so that makes it really difficult for people because when you do it like this even when you’re conserving fabric you can’t just say okay I’m gonna cut more of the meeting pieces because the fabric is going across the whole entire sheet so there’s no way to really compartmentalize your sizes and that’s why this ends up being the industry standard now as wesley mentioned earlier I work for a company right now called a plot we’re located in San Francisco were very lucky to be across the street from the factory where we produce at which we have a great intimate relationship that we foster to kind of change this pattern system so we make zero waste bags for culinary for wine for bread and produce as well as garden this is a little bit of a product run through so this is the plot hope it’s meant to carry your Bulls your dishes horizontally going to picnics or potlucks we have a line of zero waste pan covers and dish covers to eliminate single-use saran wrap and foil we make wine carriers for a single bottle double bottle bread and storage bags for the same reason as the covers but actually storing your bread and produce in organic cotton preserves them for a lot longer it lets the vegetables breathe while absorbing the moisture that oftentimes is what makes it well faster especially for leafy greens or mushrooms this is our garden collection and all the denim that you see we actually sourced from local surplus rolls so what happens is a company like Levi’s for example they go through a production under five thousand pieces now at the very end they have 40 rolls of fabric for 40 yards of fabric left which sounds like a lot but in the scale of 5000 pieces you actually can’t make anything that you’re actually going to sell so those leftover rolls end up going to trash and we rescue a lot of that back and extend their product lifecycle and this is our flower tote which actually is the first product that launched the brand shoe is actually gifting flowers to a friend and when she got the bouquet back it was wrapped in this plastic cellophane she thought this is terrible contrast to honoring something that comes from the planet so she ended up going home and drafting this up and shortly after that within a few hours she had the entire product line and this happened recently which was cool actually uh I showed my boyfriend this and he was just like who is that I’m not gonna explain if you don’t know so as makers we understand that we have a choice right and our choice here is to really take responsibility for the part that we play in pre-consumer waste if we have a way to manage the waste that we create then that is our ultimate goal and how we achieve this is by using origami principles I’m using golden ratios and geometry what that means it’s basically taking one sheet much like you do a piece of paper and building folds through volume and the golden ratios plays into it because when you try to do a zero-waste marker it’s kind of like Tetris thing everything together and it works best when all those rectangle dimensions are ratio to one another one second okay so this piece that I’m holding up makes this product this product and this product so we’re able to take one rectangle and fold it into three different things to maximize the use of just one simple marker so like I mentioned before the key is in the marker and this is a photo of what our marker looks like my day-to-day job as an operations manager here is to be in the factories and work really closely with the production line so and that starts mostly in the CAD stage of the marker now you may think you have rectangles and squares why does it take so much time well it’s because like I mentioned earlier the demand is always changing so based on how many units we want to yield you always have to shift what goes on the piece of paper and so you really it’s a very complicated process to explain but I think the visuals are really help this is an example of what our CAD marker looks like it’s five rectangles I can show you a bunch of other ones so this is for the redline but you get the point right it’s all right angles and straight edges that line up and that’s the only way you can get virtually close to zero because you have things that totally match with clothing it’s really hard because it’s organic shapes right we have curves butts elbows aren’t armpits so it’s nearly impossible to really use this method when it comes to clothing unfortunately so I’ll give it a second it’s all over the place so this is basically what the process of laying down fabric looks like you start with pretty much like a 20 foot long table and this roll is on one cylinder that goes back and forth and back and forth and each of those layers of fabric we lay down is called a ply and every time the fabric comes back to fold we call that the return so the reason why we do so much work a pan in the marker is that you’ll always yield some kind of waste in those returns so again this is the stack right here the more markers you have the more returns you’ll have right if you have three different pieces now all of a sudden you have 6 – per piece so what we do is we try to fit everything on one big long marker so that there’s only just two at the very end and unfortunately there’s always waste that comes from that because when you actually make the cut with the guide you have to cut off access to make sure that everything lines up so what we’ve done is because we don’t have any packaging for our products we use those ribbons to tie our products for retail and at the very end I’m going to just play this again so you can see after he lays down all the different colors he’s gonna go and put the marker on top you’re probably seeing about 50 plies or so of fabric it’s pretty thick and then the next slide I’ll show you how he cuts that out okay he has this really fun yardstick that he kind of like goes through and smacks it all down and then there’s these big weights that go across the markers so that the stacks are all flat without wrinkles so you can kind of see that’s what the table looks like when it extends out and he’s using basically a bandsaw to cut through it it’s a really cool thing and I feel like you hardly ever get to see behind the scenes of this process mostly because it’s out of respect to the clients that are out the factory but I feel like this is just really important for you all to see because it’s hard to conceptualize what the process really looks like if you don’t have an example so this is the only product we make that doesn’t have right angles or straight edges then it’s our cover’s collection they’re all bowls so what we’ve done is we fit squares and triangles into the negative space and those become party garlands probably notice I’m in the majority of these photos you wear a lot of hats when you work for a small business and you probably noticed in here there’s these tiny little slivers that RVs and they come out to be about this big in person that unfortunately we can’t do anything with so what we do is we upcycle it with a company called Phoenix fibers in Arizona what they do is they collect cotton and denim pre-consumer waste which is all the waste from production depth doesn’t that is not seen by the consumer crowd they take all of that and they upcycle it into different insulation material for walls automotives and a lot of prison mattresses as well so it’s super super cool so we’ve accounted for this entire cyclical system of our materials economy and we’re really trying to do is close the loop in this production cycle because it doesn’t have to be something that is linear and it starts with our design process right those two products that you saw the bull covers and flags they were designed at the same time the waste was never an aftermath for us to deal with when we’re in the initial prototyping stage we think about all the things that are going to go into what that product yields so we see the waste before actually is waste we try to do something with it ahead of time we also don’t use any hardware’s so no zippers no buttons which really helps elongate the life cycle um and also makes it easier for repair which is something that we’re trying to establish towards maybe this summer we’re gonna launch a series of workshops for people to come and have skills to be able to repair a lot of their items not just their applause stuff but home goods backpacks anything like that and we’re hoping to also launch an artist residency program so I’ll tell you more about that at the end so this is kind of an idea of how fabric bio degrees right now we’re using 100% organic cotton and with the right composting it can actually be gone in a week to five months which is really really cool and as you go down the list these are all-natural organic materials right linen comes from a flax wool comes from sheep bamboos self-explanatory so forms so these are the common products that we actually used to use in our clothing back in our grandparents generation so this is a really awesome resource from closed-loop economy and it basically goes through how organic fiber interacts with man-made fiber and so what you have over here are some of those fibers that I listed on the page before you have your proteins which is material that’s harvested from some kind of livestock and then you have the plant-based stuff up there which is you know your hemp jus flax cotton and then on the red side is all man-made materials so that’s anything from rayon polyester to nylon all these different things that basically are petroleum and oil based which is one of the largest polluting industries in the world so this is what polyester looks like on a chemical level when thermoplastic which means it can be heated up to be reshaped it’s hydrophobic which means it is not absorb any water it takes about two hundred years soozee compose okay so earlier before the lecture started I asked a few students in the front to share with me your fabric contents the people that I asked could you raise your hand and also share with well about this time okay 90% cotton okay mix blends um what about you right 100% polyester okay so I started asking working the factory every day how come we can’t get the garment clients who also share a factory to be able to upcycle a lot of their fabric well it’s because most of the fibers they use are mixed so you get a lot of the synthetics that are mixed with natural Cotton’s that usually could decompose but now all the sudden because it’s inter woven with something that is man-made you’ll never be able to separate it it’s like if you’re using red and blue to make purple once you get to purple you can’t go back to either of those colors right and it’s the same idea it’s woven into a thread which then is woven into the fiber which becomes the fabric for the clothing so there’s really no industrial process to separate a lot of this so that’s why a lot of this just ends up going to landfill because people don’t really have a system for properly separating it yet so I started asking well then where does it all go right because every single day we see bales and bales of fabric moving out it’s all from the pre consumer cuts from these garment industries and so in San Francisco our waste management system is called for ecology Recology is probably one of the most state-of-the-art waste management systems definitely in North America and what they’ve done is basically revolutionized the way that our city thinks about waste now I was really lucky to run into the PR manager there his name is Robert Reed and he has an impressive history in journalism and he’s been with ecology for 19 years and so I started asking all these questions right because I’m a rabbit hole person and I was like hey Robert I’m just wondering when you pick up this fabric what happens to it and you pretty much gave me the same answer he was like you know what I’m gonna tell you a smart person tries to recycle fabric a wise person avoids it altogether and so it was kind of a dead ended thing because he basically said you know we don’t how to figure it out because it’s a problem that keeps persisting and Recology does all kinds of collections not just on a residential level but they go around to commercial spaces like hotels restaurants all of which have a variety of different fabric ways that often has hardware so there’s buttons at first strings all kinds of things that you don’t really know what to deal with so right now at the moment I think he ensued it’s going to landfill I haven’t really confirmed it and that literature isn’t available so that’s my disclaimer but I ended up asking more questions you know what else are you guys doing with the waste and so he was able to tell me some really really incredible things about where ecology does every single day of ecology picks up 650 tons of recycling 80% of which is all fiber material which means it’s cardboard and paper that can be recycled back into new products so there is an industry that exists with taking waste and rikka modifying it and making it resources for a new product what Recology has revolutionized is 800 tons of compost a day which is 150 tons more than recycling which is 800 tons more that’s leaving landfills and going to a different cause and so composting is something that’s mandated by our city and every single house whether there is residential or commercial spaces is required to have cantos which is why they have such a great yield and asked him how did you get such a great number because this program was only launched within the last 10 years and he said the big part was we got city legislation on board after the mandate happened we just put out so much literature we gave people free bins resources to really understand it and then we have a purpose for people to actually compost for what Recology has done is they’re working with all the vineyards in Sonoma County to grow mustard as cover crops now what happens when you go through a typical harvest season is that you’re planting all these things that you want to be nutrient dense because a lot of those things are things we’re gonna put back at our own bodies so you put the best of the materials into the plant food the plant eats and then we eat the plant and so after harvest season the soil has to be completely dedicated of all those nutrients and you plant winter cover crops so that those nutrients can be resold into the ground so right now what Sonoma County is doing is they’re growing rows of mustard in between all the vineyards and mustard is a magic cover crop it absorbs so much co2 emissions that have said that it could probably help with 20% reduction in California submissions alone annually what happens as mustard roots can actually grow to be about six feet deep just taller than most of us and the deeper the roots the deeper that I can so that co2 which is great because plants love carbon dioxide it also pulls nitrogen back in and those two components are the most important for plant nutrients so a lot of that is the biomass which is the food source for these plants to really thrive but additionally the mustard is kind of a symbiotic thing with the vineyards because what happens is you get these soil-borne pests and they’re basically these worms called nematodes and nematodes basically end up eating the thing that you want to eat and so because mustard is so high in by finnegans it’s kind of like a spicy repugnant taste to these worms and the worms leave it alone so now you have a pest problem that is being handled without using any kind of herbicides or pesticides and you’re feeding your plants and you’re taking all of that resource that originally came from someone else’s waste which is incredible and California actually has vowed to be carbon neutral by 2045 and so there’s an immense amount of funding that’s going into motivating California agriculture to basically plant as many cover crops as they can to try to reduce co2 emissions this is a picture of my friend Scott he and I taught a permaculture class together at UC Santa Cruz and this is his farm this is the pictures from his first season he uses a compost from ecology and those are his chrysanthemum flowers as well as golden greens and those are really great cover crops for him going throughout this and these are a variety of Asian heritage vegetables he grows for Asian restaurants and markets in Marin County and this is slide ranch which is a wonderful educational farm that’s pretty close to Stinson Beach on Highway one so you get all this local waste that’s coming from one mystery being married and riku modified to help another industry and I think that’s really what auntie Leonard was getting down to you about unifying and seeing all the connections along the way and as designers we play a huge part in this because we’re the ones now putting things out into the world and we have the power to also redefine systems and how we make those products Recology system was designed by somebody so what I’m hoping you’ll do is maybe you can get together with the folks at your table and kind of go off of the information that I given you about how ecology works with compost and cover crops and think about what that would mean in Long Beach I found out earlier that Long Beach doesn’t have a mandated composting system but that the campus has been trying and so I want to use I want you guys to use the marker pads to just drop down some quick visuals with the facts that you learn and I can go back a few sheets but why should the Long Beach community care about composting yeah so take a few minutes talk to the people at your tables and I’ll go back to the mustards page so you can see so I don’t miss anyone up there okay cool so you guys can keep talking but I’m just gonna summarize a little bit of what I heard as I was popping around most of the berries that were identified were lack of education whether that’s you’re not really sure what can be composted and what’s not there’s some kind of discretion there and the second one was time and resource right Long Beach doesn’t have a composting pick up so a lot of times when you’re composting at home the questions come up so you where do you actually take it the smell the time it takes for it all to break down so these are all really good things to take into account too and what I collected in my data surveying is that this stuff has been designed into your ecology system and so what you guys all just helped me realize is coming from San Francisco we live in a bubble where our behavior has been trained to really understand composting as like a second impulse right it’s the same way that we don’t really think about separating and recycling anymore we’ve been doing it for so long that we don’t really have to stop and ask this question and that five-second delay makes a really big difference for whether you’re motivated to sort it or not so yeah that was definitely something that was super interesting just talking about composting and realizing like what compost material actually is what is the process of compost breakdown and then where does it go afterwards so what’s interesting is because I never realized I live in a bubble until I leave San Francisco because everyone in San Francisco is all trained on the same system right or college you’ve got it like watered down and so for us it’s like oh yeah cover crops this and that and the reason why I had you guys write all the sound is because Robert read a tree ecology they’re really trying to expand their branch I was telling Leslie earlier that they’ve gone up to San Rafael which is the county that’s directly north of the bay and they’ve gone down to the peninsula and San Mateo County as well and they’re really trying to launch some stuff down in Southern California and so I’m gonna collect all these sheets and hopefully feed it back to him and give him some feedback about what kinds of stuff needs to be done so thank you guys very much for participating and a study okay so I wanted to end it with kind of closing out this talk with questions that I want you guys to continue asking the best piece of advice I ever got when I was going through figuring out what I wanted to do with my efforts was what do I think about when I don’t have anything I have to think about and that’s a really interesting question because I don’t know if it’s automatic for us to track where our mind wanders but I’m posing this question because if you follow that you’ll really get to the core of what your true passions are and if you just keep asking questions and track and catalog those questions for yourself you’ll really understand what you want to move towards and that will really help for your design process and guide you to the stuff that you want to go what’s really important you guys are all really talented and you have so many resources more than people in the generation the island or the people above us had when we were your age and you’re the next generation of problem solvers and so along the way you’re going to be the touch point of all these systems that really need our help whether it’s through a product or for an actual systems design so try to write to yourself this is a fun study too so there was a study that was done on college students and the control group basically was asked to write a journal entry for 15 minutes a day for just seven days about what events happened external in the world so the weather was nice today and the news this happened I learned this in class that’s it and the variable group was asked to write all those things but then reflect on how those external factors made them feel internally so the weather was nice today so it lifted my mood cuz I’m happier when the Sun is out this happened in the news and it made me sad because it made me realize that this is the state of the world that were in so those two groups even though they’re talking about the same things one process is how those factors made them feel and then they tested how many times the students went to the Student Health Center over the course of a semester and they found significant decreases in the students that wrote about external matters and reflected internally about how and made them feel so this communicates that we’re able to process and have this phase of reappraisal which is thinking about something that we experienced and trying to recontextualize it we can really start to shape the way that we initially felt that I think it’s like if someone spilled coffee on me because they’re in a rush I get really upset because now I show up to a presentation I’m about to give and I’m covered in coffee but then later on you know I get over it change my clothes and I’m like that wasn’t a big deal I’m not mad anymore maybe that person was in a rush or whatever it was and we’ve learned to let it go and so why we’re not constantly mad right we’re we’re adjusting the way that we see the world and it’s really important to do that with writing when you do that you can really start to get to the core of your own behavioral pattern so that is what I leave you all with and if you guys have any questions is now a good time with me okay [Applause] guys don’t happening and okay hey oh we were looking on your company’s website and we notice a lot of the products that you sell are really expensive so how do you overcome the boundary of the cost mm-hmm yeah that’s a really good question so as she was mentioning our products are probably based in between $30 to 50 the highest price point we have is a hundred for the big market tote and that actually is a huge barrier we run into all the time people want to support the products that we have but the financial incentive is kind of hard and being in San Francisco it’s kind of a too affluent community that can afford some of those products but when you take it outside of that community again leaving the bubble that financial matter really becomes a barrier so what we’ve done is try our best to communicate the values in which we operate our design process by we can explain to people and get them to really understand this is the amount of time that goes into making this product this is the amount of money that goes into getting a resource that was harvested in the United States this is what happens when you actually make your products across the street from where you work in San Francisco and that is the true cost so our cogs are hired because we make all these choices and I think the best we can do is communicate the value of why we make those choices [Music] we just challenge keyboard top down I think personally and also because I’ve gathered some of the responses I think the best way would be from top down because the main barrier is you could have a compost but what do you do with it afterwards right if there is no waste management facility that’s actually coming through and helping you collect that waste it doesn’t really provide an incentive right it creates more labor for people which is not really a driver so I think that if Recology were to approach it or if I were to approach it on a personal level it would be trying to get the city on the same page you can actually participate in a lot of like local legislation groups and you can sign petitions I say you know we want this to be mandated if you get enough tips signatures that will get on a ballot people can vote on it and then things will change so that’s a really nice spot I’m up level that I think a lot of people overlook participating local politics is something that you’ll probably have the biggest effect on what directly touches you these prosthetics and also talk about the holding workshops regarding their parents building towards it because I feel like one time versions this guy you think it’s kind of like a business selling yeah it’s the ultimate Dulwich sort right we want people to buy less stuff and we want to make it really well so it lasts forever so yeah we make a pretty big challenge for ourselves because we’re constantly reaching out to new customers which you know you get across your values but then you figure out okay what are the other things that I need to address right there’s this concept called wicked problems and it’s basically a problem that has so many different facets that if you change one it’ll ultimately create a problem somewhere else and so it kind of is like a domino effect where you can’t kind of you can’t really fix the problem all at once unless you you know erase the whole thing and start over which isn’t really how the world works so yeah by choosing those as our values were then now focusing a lot of our energy on different kinds of campaigns community engagements new customers constantly [Music] using tools that create incense more ways but in a way too [Music] to fix your create this team a lot of sightings here even though you are like okay I want to go back to how you started that question which was 3d printing creates waste so if you’re creating a part that is a component for fixing another thing it’s an additive process also why 3d printing is awesome is it’s an additive process and most things like garment production or wood cutting it’s all reductive you start with something that’s finite and you reduce it to the dimension you actually want 3d printing is awesome because it’s the full opposite of that you build to what you need so you actually don’t really have a waste especially if you’re making that for something else did I get your question [Music] 3d prints yeah yeah if you guys are ever in New York cooper-hewitt has a wonderful exhibit I’m this entire there’s this really cool industries that’s taking off where they use repurposed materials like you can 3d print with algae yeah it’s really cool and I think adidas launched something recently where they take a lot of their old Souls and they’ll basically convert it into the thing the material whatever it is I don’t know what it’s called then it’s like it was plastic petroleum but then it gets converted something else but yeah I definitely think there’s a lot of people out there who are doing alternative material resourcing and that is a super cool thing to get into that’s probably the future yeah um none that I can name off the top of my head but algae fully compostable right that’s a biomaterial yeah there’s all kinds of things there’s people who extract silkworm enzymes and then they mix it with like moon jelly DNA and they can make like glow-in-the-dark material the 3d print from that it’s super cool [Applause]
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Both the markets and oil prices continue to firm up and, on the company front, it’s been an interesting first half to the week. I’m sure there will be more to come, which I’ll report upon at the weekend.
Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) announced its final results. No surprises in those, but rather disconcerting that they’re converting £1.535 million of the notes at 1.27p per share, when the market price was standing at nearly 3p. The company will proceed to issue a further 120,866,141 new ordinary shares and continue on its path of dilution for the reward of certain undisclosed “investors.” People appear to have been misled into thinking Bahamas Petroleum is now fully financed for the drill and have been buying these new 1.27p shares at up to nearly three times that price. Unfortunately, it’s not.
Independent Oil & Gas (IOG) announced the award of the Phase 1 Well Management Contract. They’ve appointed Petrofac, who look like a good choice. Phase 1 comprises the development and production of the Southwark, Blythe and Elgood fields in the UK Southern North Sea through a total of five wells, with gas transported onshore via the Thames Pipeline.
Columbus Energy (CERP) and Predator Oil & Gas (PRD) announced the start of Phase 2 of their CO₂ Pilot Project in Trinidad. The aim is to increase oil production and they will be building up to continuous injection in the coming weeks. The results are awaited with interest.
Empyrean Energy (EME) announced that an extension has been agreed with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation for the first phase at Block 29/11, offshore China. The company now has until 12 June 2022 to drill its first well. They hope to do that sooner, though, as soon as it is practicable and safe to do so. It should be an interesting one.
Ascent Resources (AST) announced the Administrative Court of the Republic of Slovenia has ruled that an EIA is required for their planned work. No surprises there. The Slovenian environmental agency has been saying that all along. It really is a joke of a company and, as for the new “in-house lawyer,” unless they’re fluent in both Spanish and Slovenian, and expert in both Cuban and Slovenian law, I doubt they’re going to be able to help much at all. As I’ve said before, it’s just a lifestyle company for the Board, so the “news” doesn’t really matter anyway, since nothing of value will ever be achieved for the shareholders, as at the other companies of which they have previously been or still remain directors.
For balance, I should say that these types of shares can occasionally perform, but only on organised ramps where you risk getting spiked. These ramps also generally presage a heavily discounted placing. Overall, if you hold, you will inevitably lose money. Just take a look at some historic charts and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
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Pantheon Resources (PANR) announced the spudding of the Talitha #A well on the North Slope of Alaska. PANR estimates the well will target in the region of a billion barrels of recoverable oil potentia
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First full week of the New Year and some interesting announcements. 88 Energy (88E) continued its usual pre-spud run, moving up to 0.55p (the placing was at 0.33p) on the back of announcements that sn
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Into 2021 now and we’ll see what that brings, but first, to tidy up, there were a few interesting announcements in the last two weeks of 2020. Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) announced commencement of
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A ballot was sent to each member last week with questions on the following two issues: (1) whether to increase the amount of our two annual OCBA scholarships to $2500 each, and (2) whether to appoint Mr. Terry Adkins to fill the at-large vacancy on the Board of Directors.
If you have not voted yet, please do so here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeT_dnSjNF8Jd8LilXuvaW79cDUThTbkU6ZLIuCDUpp-6wEGw/viewform?usp=sf_link
Voting will remain open until 11:59 p.m. on December 8.
The results will be announced at our member meeting this Friday, December 11.
The second vote on whether to increase the OCBA scholarships to $2500 each will be conducted by electronic vote between the December and January member meetings.
Speaking of our member meeting, the December meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. this Friday, December 11, on Zoom.
Special guest Zoe Cantu will instruct us on how to make her seasonal Bourbon Mary cocktail.
The ingredient is attached below.
The agenda, treasurer's report, and minutes are available here: https://www.olmstedbar.com/news1/documents-for-december-11-2020-member-meeting.
Be sure to wear your favorite ugly holiday sweater or other appropriately ugly seasonal apparel!
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The attorneys and staff of Patterson Dahlberg are pleased to announce that Michael T. Patterson has joined the practice as an associate attorney. Michael is a graduate of Mitchell Hamline School of Law and the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he graduated with a B.S. in Political Science and a minor in Philosophy. During law school Michael worked at Heacox Hartman, P.A. in downtown St. Paul, and Peterson, Logren & Kilbury, P.A. in Rosemount. During undergrad at UMD, Michael was a member of the Duluth Men’s Lacrosse team and was the team’s 2015/2016 Vice President. We are pleased to welcome him to our practice, and to the OCBA.
The MSBA is seeking volunteer judges to work on this year's High School Mock Trial program, which will be conducted via Zoom.
Roughly 1,500 students statewide will be competing.
There are 257 rounds and 773 judging positions that need to be filled.
The MSBA is offering a 1.5-credit CLE for judge training on Friday, December 11, 2020.
Please contact Kim Basting at kbasting@mnbar.org for more information or visit the Mock Trial webpage here: https://www.mnbar.org/public-resources/mock-trial/judges-information .
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Offshore photo exhibiton coming to ONS 2018
Have you ever wondered what it is like to work offshore? Photojournalist Marie Von Krogh spent over two years documenting the life of offshore workers, both at home and at sea. In August her work will be displayed in the ONS Exhibition.
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Photojournalist Marie Von Krogh
Marie Von Krogh moved to Stavanger as a student nearly 20 years ago. She became fascinated by all the families that adapt to an offshore/onshore routine as a natural part of life.
Over the years she did several press tours to platforms and rigs, covering ministerial visits and other happenings. However, she knew nothing
about the people working at sea. Krogh wanted to learn their stories and how their life was affected by the intense working periods offshore and the weeks off, with their families and everyday life at home.
– It has been interesting to see how individuals behave when they are on an isolated and thoroughly regulated workplace out at sea. The constant shifting between offshore, with its detailed instructions and safety procedures, and the unconditional freedom on land. This is a story about how an occupation can shape a dualistic lifestyle. But most of all about who you are as a person over and above what it says in the job instructions, Krogh says.
Krogh’s exhibition “Oljeliv / Offshore ID” is displayed in the Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger. The exhibition, that opened in January, is a collaboration with filmmaker Sigmund Trageton and consists of 41 photographs, a documentary, a VR-movie, sound recordings and essays.
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Defence won us the game: Taylor
Martin Gabor
Sun 3 Jul 2016, 08:34 AM
Wests Tigers coach Jason Taylor has credited his side's resolve in defence for their crucial 34-26 win over the Penrith Panthers on Saturday night.
A quick glance at the final score doesn't do the Tigers' defence any justice as the black and golds repeatedly held out their higher-ranked opponents before conceding two tries in the final few minutes.
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The Tigers made more tackles, had less possession and received fewer penalties but that didn't stop them for registering their seventh win of the season to move within two points of the top eight.
Their desperation and scramble without the ball didn't just stifle Penrith's options in attack; it also led to points at the other end with two goal-line interceptions in the first half resulting in tries.
"We won the game with our defence," the proud Tigers coach said after the game.
"Penrith had a lot of sets at our line. They had something like 27 plays in our 20 [metre zone] compared to us having eight in theirs.
"We won the game because we defended that really well. We got some points that we needed, but it was about defence and we're really pleased with that.
"After 20 minutes, they'd had 70 per cent of the possession and we'd had 30. That slowly came back our way from that point but the game still finished at a point where they had 56 per cent of possession and we had 44 per cent.
"We got two penalties to eight and they just had so much footy, and we just defended and defended and defended, and it was really impressive."
Taylor acknowledged the importance of last week's fightback against the Melbourne Storm as the confidence boost his side needed to win a game he thinks they would have lost 12 months ago.
The Tigers trailed 26-0 at the break at AAMI Park last Sunday before limiting their opponents to just three points in the second half.
"I think it's a game we probably would have lost not that long ago," he said.
"We've been working really hard on it; we're making great improvements.
"Our defensive approach last week in Melbourne – albeit they got those four tries really early – we took a lot of encouragement out of that. We were really excited about how we did that and it was there again tonight.
"There's some real positivity around the way the guys are defending and it's great progress for us as a club."
Tigers prop Ava Seumanufagai told NRL.com that Saturday's win could prove crucial in the side's hunt for a spot in this year's finals series.
Like his coach, the Tigers prop said defence was the biggest thing to take out of the contest; especially their ability to handle Penrith's 25 offloads.
"I think they're the top offloaders in the competition so we did a lot of video on that throughout the week," the try-scoring front-rower said.
"That was something we needed to work on and I think the boys did really well tonight to stay committed up in the line.
"It's a really close competition this year so any two competition points we can get are crucial. It's important that we set ourselves up for the back end of the year because it's anyone's game once you make the eight."
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MOONCRAFT is launched at the Cool Docks, which was originally a grease factory in the Shiliupu era on No. 505 Zhongshan South Road.
The branding of MOONCRAFT integrated all the design elements as one identity. From the bar’s name to its logo, as well as the architectural and interior design, they share the same concept throughout. Imagine the full moon hanging above the Huangpu River, together with the river’s geometry that forms a glass that hold some of the richest history of the city with the yellow lunar gradually dipping into the glass, form the logo of MOONCRAFT.
MOONCRAFT is zoned according to three key functions and features - hand-crafted beer bar, whiskey bar, and the robotic bartender. o&o studio designated a U-shaped bar counter to associate the spatial relationship between the two bars and also “absorb” the existing sheer wall. The concept of the façade is a dockside warehouse inspired weathering steel portals that plugged into the two façade openings which offer much needed depth to the slim brick wall.
At the backside of the bar counter, a champagne s.s. steel portal framed an orderly line of beer taps. Towards the end at the mirror wall, o&o studio also incorporated a half of the Chinese word “Cool”, making use of the mirror to complete its entirety, escalating the joy at MOONCRAFT.
MOONCRAFT, a place that fills with time and stories, for one to sense and embraced with a tipsy and emotional moment.
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Home Fossil Energy Equinor awards $123M Troll A platform deal to Aker Solutions
Equinor awards $123M Troll A platform deal to Aker Solutions
Norway’s Aker Solutions has secured a contract valued at over NOK 1 billion (over $123 million) from Equinor (formerly Statoil) to deliver a module for the Troll A platform that will help increase output at one of Norway’s largest natural gas fields.
The engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract is the company’s latest award for work at phase 3 of the Troll development. Aker Solutions in January won work to provide the subsea production system and services for the field. Integrating the company’s capabilities in both subsea and topside installations can help optimize the development and lower costs, Aker Solutions said.
“We’re delighted to extend our work at Troll, a field that will help maintain Norway as a major gas exporter for decades to come,” said Aker Solutions’ Chief Executive Officer Luis Araujo.
“Working on these two significant sections of the development allows us to bring efficiencies across the project,” he added.
500 workers
The EPCI work for the module is an option on the front-end engineering and design work Aker Solutions won in September 2017.
The module will receive and process gas from the Troll West field, before it is piped to the onshore Kollsnes gas processing facility near Bergen, Norway.
According to Aker Solutions, at peak, the contract will provide work for as many as 500 employees in Bergen, Egersund and offshore Norway and in Mumbai, India.
The Troll field, located about 65 kilometers west of Kollsnes, contains about 40 percent of Norway’s offshore gas reserves. Production from the field is expected to continue beyond 2050.
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Bitcoin Ransom Demand Rumours Circulate in South African Kidnapping Case
by Rick Delafont
A manhunt is currently underway for a businessman that was kidnapped near his offices in Cape Town. According to some sources, a ransom of 50 Bitcoin has been demanded for the man’s return.
Police Reluctant to Confirm Rumours of Bitcoin Ransom Demands
According to a report in News24, Liyaqat Parker was kidnapped by five armed men at around 09:10 on Monday from his business in Parow, Capetown. Since then, rumours have circulated that a ransom has been made for his return.
The reports come from second local news source. Netwerk24 have reported that the ransom demand was made via email on Tuesday.
However, local police are reluctant to comment on the demands of 50 Bitcoin due to the “highly sensitive” nature of the case. Walid Brown, family spokesperson and lawyer, commented:
“I don’t have such information although I also saw the rumour.”
A spokesperson for the Western Cape police, Captain FC van Wyk added:
“This case is also investigated by our provincial detectives. Please bear with us as we cannot divulge details of the investigation that has yet to be presented before a court of law.”
Parker, 65, is a successful businessman in the Western Cape area. He is a founding member of the Food Property Group, as well as a member on the board at Al-Amien Foods. The kidnap victim also holds a high position at Brimstone Investment.
Family members made a heartfelt statement for their relative’s safe return on Tuesday afternoon:
“Our father and brother is an elderly man, so we also appeal to those who may be involved or know persons who may be connected with this crime, to just please release him unharmed before his health deteriorates.”
The plea continued, highlighting Parker’s commitment to his businesses, as well as local philanthropic causes. The statement mentioned his long-term involvement with the Children’s Hospital Association.
The Parker case isn’t the first incident of kidnapping involving a Bitcoin ransom in South Africa. In May of this year, NewsBTC reported on the case of 12-year-old Katlego Marite. In this example, those responsible demanded 15 Bitcoin be paid for the safe return of the youth. He was later returned to his family. Local police did not divulge the details of his return, however.
Elsewhere, crypto exchange employee Pavel Lerner was taken from outside his office in Kiev, Ukraine late last year. The demands of over $1 million in Bitcoin were met and Lerner was released three days after his ordeal began.
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Based in Europe, Rick has written about the cryptocurrency industry since 2016. He was first drawn to Bitcoin as a means of payment but quickly became fascinated by its wider potential implications. His interests lie in the political, economic, and social impact of the unfolding digital asset revolution.
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CEO: Sterling Staying on a 'Disaster' for Clippers
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Coach Doc Rivers has said he'll resign from the Los Angeles Clippers if Donald Sterling remains owner, the team's interim CEO testified, saying such a move would be a "disaster" for the franchise.
"If Mr. Sterling continues as owner, he does not want to continue as coach," Richard Parsons said in court Tuesday, recounting recent conversations with Rivers.
His testimony was a rare foray into the basketball side of the Clippers at a probate-court trial that has focused on the narrow question of whether Sterling's wife, Shelly, can sell the team for $2 billion to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as the NBA looks to force Donald Sterling from the league over racist statements.
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Shelly Sterling is scheduled to return to the stand Wednesday as the final witness, with the two sides returning for closing arguments next week.
Parsons, a former chief executive at Time Warner and Citigroup who took over leadership of the Clippers in May during the media blitz surrounding the banishment of Sterling, said under questioning by Ballmer's lawyer that the departure of Rivers would "accelerate the death spiral" of the Clippers.
"If Doc were to leave, that would be a disaster," Parsons said. "Doc is the father figure, the one who leads."
Team representatives said Rivers had no comment on the testimony.
Parsons said he fears there would also be an exodus of key players, including team captain Chris Paul, who heads the NBA players union.
The judge stopped Parsons from giving an account of his conversations with Paul when an NBA lawyer objected over privacy issues.
Parsons said corporate sponsors and season ticket holders would likely be the next to leave.
"If your coach leaves, if your players don't want to play with you, what do you have?" Parsons asked. "If your sponsors leave and the fans leave, it's going to spiral down and down."
Parsons also said he doesn't believe that anyone will offer as much money for the team as Ballmer. That opinion was seconded by witness Anwar Zakkour, an investment banker who helped broker the deal for Ballmer's purchase and said he never expected a bid so big.
Explaining why Ballmer would have bid over the value of the team, Zakkour said, "It was a trophy asset."
"This is the highest price ever achieved for a sports team," he said. "However way you count it, this is an amazing price that anyone should be satisfied with."
Parsons and Zakkour said that if the NBA seized the team and put it up for auction, the price would drop because there would be less certainty about the team's future.
Outside court, Sterling's lawyer, Bobby Samini, said the billionaire would persist in his opposition to the sale because "he feels he was wronged" by the NBA.
"He has no desire to destroy the team," Samini said. "He is fighting to protect his rights."
Later Tuesday, Sterling fired off another legal volley, filing a new lawsuit against his wife, the NBA and league Commissioner Adam Silver that alleges fraud, breach of contract, unfair business practices and infliction of emotional distress. He claimed, among other things, that he was tricked into being examined by psychiatrists to establish whether he was mentally competent.
The NBA declined to comment on the new lawsuit.
Shelly Sterling's attorney called it a "frivolous, last ditch act of desperation" in a statement.
"This action shows once more how obsessed he is with ruining a record-setting $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers," attorney Pierce O'Donnell said, "a sale that would solve the problems his racist rant started three months ago."
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"Destruction of Leviathan." 1865 engraving by Gustave Doré.
The Leviathan is a Biblical sea monster, a mythical creature referred to in sections of the Old Testament, and while a popular metaphor in both Judaism and Christianity, the creature nonetheless is viewed differently in each religion. The creature can either be seen as a metaphor for the sheer size and power of God's creative abilities, or a demonic beast. In this context, the Leviathan is regarded as the monster of the waters, while the Behemoth and the Ziz are regarded as monsters of the earth and the air, respectively. Outside of religion, leviathan has become synonymous with any large sea creature, particularly whales.
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Picture of Leviathan often found in grimoires, by an unknown artist.
The term Leviathan comes from the old Hebrew name לִוְיָתָן, Livyatan, or Liwyāṯān, which means "Twisted; coiled".[1] When the Old Testament was translated into the Greek it meant the word "dragon." However, in English the original Hebrew word has been transliterated into Leviathan. In Modern Hebrew, it simply means "whale."[2]
Descriptions of the Leviathan vary according to each cultural source. Almost unanimously it is said to be a sea-creature of immense size. Some report that its body resembles that of a whale, with a thick, cylindrical body and fins. Sometimes it is depicted as more of a dragon-like creature, covered in a body of scaly armor, sharp claws, rows of razor teeth, the ability to breath fire, and a thinner, more serpentine body.
Leviathan, Behemoth and Ziz
The Biblical references to Leviathan appear to have evolved from the Canaanite Baal cycle involving a confrontation between Hadad (Baal) and a seven headed sea monster named Lotan. Lotan is the Ugaritic orthograph for Hebrew Leviathan. Hadad defeats him. Biblical references also resemble the Babylonian creation epic Enûma Elish in which the storm god Marduk slays his mother, the sea monster and goddess of chaos and creation Tiamat and creates the earth and sky from the two halves of her corpse.[3]
Such sea creatures are common to nearly all the ancient civilizations, particularly those that were geographically close to water. Even during the later time of Greek and Roman seafaring, the oceans were a dangerous and mysterious place, in which humans could hardly penetrate to discover what lurked below. Sightings of whales, squid, and other large water animals more than likely fueled the mysterious belief in sea monsters.
In the Book of Job, both Behemoth and Leviathan are listed alongside a number of other animals that are clearly mundane, such as goats, eagles, and hawks, leading many Christian scholars to surmise that Behemoth and Leviathan may also be mundane creatures. The animal most often proposed for Leviathan is the Nile crocodile, which is aquatic, scaly, and possesses fierce teeth. Others suggest that the Leviathan is an exaggerated account of a whale. This view faces some difficulty, however, as early Jewish people in the Near East would not have likely encountered whales in such a warm region. During sea-faring's Golden Age, European sailors saw Leviathan as a gigantic whale-like sea monster, usually a sea serpent, that devoured whole ships by swimming around the vessels so quickly as to create a whirlpool.
The Leviathan may also be interpreted as the sea itself, with its counterparts Behemoth and Ziz being the land and the air respectively. Some scholars have interpreted Leviathan, and other references to the sea in the Old Testament, as highly metaphorical references to seafaring marauders who once terrorized the Kingdom of Israel. Others liken the mention to Tiamat and other similar monsters who represented the sea as a foe to the gods in myths of nearby cultures.
In the Talmud, the Leviathan is mentioned a number of times. For example:
Avoda Zara (3b): "Rav Yehuda says, there are twelve hours in a day. The first three hours God sits and learns the Torah, the second three hours he sits and judges the world. The third three hours God feeds the entire world... the fourth three hour period God plays with the Leviathan as it is written: "the Leviathan which you have created to play with."
Moed Katan (25b): "Rav Ashi said to Bar Kipok: what will be said at my funeral? He answered: "If a flame can fall a cedar, what hope does a small tree have? If a Leviathan can be hooked and hauled to land, what hope has a fish in a puddle?"
According to a midrash, the leviathan was created on the fifth day (Yalkut, Gen. 12). Originally, God produced a male and a female leviathan, but lest in multiplying the species should destroy the world, He slew the female, reserving her flesh for the banquet that will be given to the righteous on the advent of the Messiah (Baba Bathra 74a). Famed Rabbi Rashi believed differently:
According to legend this refers to the Leviathan and its mate. God created a male and female Leviathan, then killed the female and salted it for the righteous, for if the Leviathans were to procreate the world could not stand before them.[4]
The festival of Sukkot (Festival of Booths) concludes with a prayer recited upon leaving the sukkah (booth):
May it be your will, Lord our God and God of our forefathers, that just as I have fulfilled and dwelled in this sukkah, so may I merit in the coming year to dwell in the sukkah of the skin of Leviathan. Next year in Jerusalem.
A commentary on this prayer in the Artscroll prayer-book (p. 725) adds:
The Leviathan was a monstrous fish created on the fifth day of Creation. Its story is related at length in the Talmud Baba Bathra 74b, where it is told that the Leviathan will be slain and its flesh served as a feast to the righteous in [the] Time to Come, and its skin used to cover the tent where the banquet will take place.
There is another religious hymn recited on the festival of Shavuot (celebrating the giving of the Torah), known as Akdamut, wherein it says: "...The sport with the Leviathan and the ox (Behemoth)...When they will interlock with one another and engage in combat, with his horns the Behemoth will gore with strength, the fish [Leviathan] will leap to meet him with his fins, with power. Their Creator will approach them with his mighty sword [and slay them both]." Thus, "from the beautiful skin of the Leviathan, God will construct canopies to shelter the righteous, who will eat the meat of the Behemoth [ox] and the Leviathan amid great joy and merriment, at a huge banquet that will be given for them." Some rabbinical commentators say these accounts are allegorical (Artscroll siddur, p. 719), or symbolic of the end of conflict.
In a legend recorded in the Midrash called Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer it is stated that the whale which swallowed Jonah narrowly avoided being eaten by the Leviathan, which generally eats one whale each day. In a hymn by Kalir, the Leviathan is a serpent that surrounds the earth and has its tail in its mouth, like the Greek Ouroboros and the Nordic Midgard Serpent.
Legend has it that in the banquet after the end of conflict, the carcass of the leviathan will be served as a meal, along with the behemoth and the ziz.
The word "Leviathan" appears six times in the Bible:
Isaiah 27:1: "In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea."
Psalms 74:14: "Thou didst crush the heads of the Leviathan, thou didst give him for food to the creatures of the desert." NIV
Psalms 104:25,26: "O Lord, how manifold thy works, in wisdom you have created them all. So is this great and wide sea... there go the ships and the Leviathan which you have created to play therein" (AV);
Book of Job 3:8: "May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan ";NIV
Book of Job 40: 24-32, 41:1-24: "Can you draw out a Leviathan with a hook or press down its tongue with a cord? Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a bridle ring? Will he make many supplications to thee? Will he speak soft words to thee? Will he make a covenant with thee? To take him for thy servant forever? Will thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy girls? Will the tradesmen heap up payment for him?... Lay thy hand upon him, thou will no more think of fighting. Behold the hope of him is in vain, shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?...Who can open the doors of his face? His teeth are terrible round about. His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. One is near to the another, that no air can come between them. They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered. By his [sneezing] a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of morning. Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth....His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone....He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble....He maketh the deep to boil like a pot....he is a king over all the children of pride."
The Christian interpretation of Leviathan is often considered to be a demon or natural monster associated with Satan or the Devil, and held by some to be the same monster as Rahab (Isaiah 51:9).
Some interpreters suggest that Leviathan is a symbol of humankind in opposition to God, claiming that it and beasts mentioned in the books of Daniel and Revelation should be interpreted as metaphors.
Leviathan also appears in the Apocryphal Book of Enoch, giving the following description of this monster's origins there mentioned as being female, as opposed to the male Behemoth:
And that day will two monsters be parted, one monster, a female named Leviathan in order to dwell in the abyss of the ocean over the fountains of water; and (the other), a male called Behemoth, which holds his chest in an invisible desert whose name is Dundayin, east of the garden of Eden. (1 Enoch 60:7-8)
Leviathan is also sometimes said to have been of the order of Seraphim. According to the writings of Father Sebastien Michaelis, Balberith, a demon who allegedly possessed Sister Madeleine at Aix-en-Provence, obligingly told the priest not only the other devils possessing the nun, but added the special saints whose function was to oppose them. Leviathan was one devil that was named and was said to tempt men into committing sacrilege. Its adversary was said to be St. Peter.[5]
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, Leviathan is the demon of envy and the demon who is first in punishing the corresponding sinners.
Leviathan in literature
William Blake's painting The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan, in which the monster is a symbol of military sea-power controlled by Nelson.
Leviathan is the title of Thomas Hobbes' seminal work on the social contract and the creation of an ideal state—the Commonwealth. In Paradise Lost, Milton uses the term Leviathan to describe the size and power of Satan. The term "Leviathan" is often used as a generic term for anything large and all consuming.
Partly due to the influence of Herman Melville's classic, Moby-Dick, the Leviathan has come to be associated by many with the sperm whale. An example of this is in Disney's depiction of Pinocchio's being swallowed (a la Jonah in the Bible) by Monstro, a sperm whale, despite the fact that in the original Italian book, Pinocchio was swallowed by a "Pesce-cane," translated as "dog-fish" or "shark."
The Leviathan appears as a fairly major character in the 1975 science-fiction story The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. It is the remnant of the original single-celled life form on the planet. After the first cellular division, one part continued to divide and eventually became the progenitor of all life on earth while the other remained unicellular and grew to monstrous proportions and intelligence, becoming Leviathan.
In his book, In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, cryptozoologist Karl Shuker suggested the Leviathan might be a myth inspired, at least in part, by sightings of a Mosasaur-type sea monster. Bernard Heuvelmans, in his book In the Wake of Sea Serpents (Dans le sillage des monstres marins) considered the entity to be of the "Marine centipede" type.
↑ Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Press, 1971 ISBN 019861117X).
↑ "The Leviathan Is A Dragon" A True Church, 2006. Retrieved February 29, 2008.
↑ "Leviathan: Dragon of the Sea" Lady Gryphon's Mythical Realm, 2006. Retrieved February 29, 2008.
↑ Rashi, "Traditional with Rashi and Rashbam" Retrieved February 29, 2008.
↑ Heather Changeri, "Baalberith", 2007. Retrieved February 29, 2008.
This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
Ellis, Richard. 2006. Monsters of the Sea. The Lyons Press. ISBN 978-1592289677
Heuvelmans, Bernard. 1968. In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents. Hill and Wang Publishing. ISBN 978-0809058150
Shukar, Karl. 1996. In Search of Prehistoric Survivors: Do Giant `Extinct' Creatures Still Exist? Blandford Press. ISBN 978-0713724691
Baba Bathra 74 Retrieved February 29, 2008.
All links retrieved July 3, 2018.
Enuma Elish (Babylonian creation epic)
Philologos concordance page
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History of "Leviathan"
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Parents urged to have children vaccinated against flu
As schools return after their closures due to the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS is writing to parents and guardians of eligible children urging to protect them against flu.
This year, two- and three-year olds, all primary school children, and children in school year 7 will be offered the free flu vaccination through the NHS.
For most children the vaccine is a quick and easy spray up the nose, making it quick and painless.
Flu can be a very unpleasant illness in children causing fever, stuffy nose, dry cough, sore throat, aching muscles and joints, and extreme tiredness. This can last several days or more.
Some children can get a very high fever, sometimes without the usual flu symptoms, and may need to go to hospital for treatment. Serious complications of flu include a painful ear infection, acute bronchitis, and lung disease, including pneumonia and bronchiolitis.
Dr Kiren Collison, clinical chair at Oxfordshire CCG, said: “Flu spreads easily and by getting your child vaccinated you will be protecting them and those around them. The flu vaccine for children is a quick and painless nasal spray.”
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust’s school nurses will be vaccinating around 68,000 children in the county this autumn and winter.
In a co-ordinated programme with primary and secondary schools, the team will start administering nasal vaccines to children in reception to Year 7 from Monday, October 5.
Fiona Singleton, immunisation team leader, said: “It’s really important, this year particularly, that children have their immunisation against influenza. They can be super-spreaders of the virus and while they can get very poorly with flu, they can also quickly infect other household members.”
Schools have been sending consent forms to parents for the nasal vaccine and Fiona urges them to return the forms as soon as possible.
Professor Meghana Pandit, chief medical officer at Oxford University Hospitals, said: “Getting a flu vaccination is one of the best ways of protecting you and your family ahead of the winter season.
“As children continue to attend school, getting them vaccinated is a quick and easy way to keep them safe.”
Some parents are concerned that coronavirus and influenza have similar symptoms. Parents should keep their children at home and request a coronavirus test if they have a continuous cough, high temperature, or loss of or change in sense of taste or smell. Schools have received guidance on signs and symptoms, and this should have been shared with parents.
Children with health conditions, even if well managed, are at higher risk of severe complications if they get flu. It is especially important that these children are vaccinated. Parents can contact their GP surgery to arrange an appointment.
Parents should receive an invitation for their two- and three-year olds to have the flu vaccination at their GP surgery before the winter. If they have not heard from their GP by early November, they should contact the practice they are registered with directly to make an appointment.
Vaccination sessions will be held at schools during the autumn term for primary school-aged children and those in Year 7 at secondary school. Children who do not attend school will be invited to an alternative local venue. Please wait until an invitation and/or consent form is received and follow the instructions provided.
As schools return after closures due to the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS urges parents and guardians to protect children against flu.
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