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Friday’s for future Calgary
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The school strike for the climate, also known variously as Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate, Climate Strike or Youth Strike for Climate, is an international movement of school students who take time off from class to participate in demonstrations to demand action to prevent further global warming and climate change.
Climate strike every Friday outside Calgary City Hall
Publicity and widespread organising began after Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg staged a protest in August 2018 outside the Swedish Riksdag, holding a sign that read “Skolstrejk för klimatet”. A global strike on 15 March 2019 gathered more than one million strikers. Around 2200 strikes were organised in 125 countries. On 24 May 2019, the second global strike took place, in which 1600 events across 150 countries drew hundreds of thousands of protesters. The events were timed to coincide with the 2019 European Parliament election.
Every week, dozens of Calgarian youth and other concerned citizens gather outside City Hall to protest. How long this will last only time will tell, however, at the moment a large contingent of noisy students demonstrate every Friday starting at noon.
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The FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, stoking fears of more bloodshed after last week’s deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol.
An internal FBI bulletin warned that, as of Sunday, the nationwide protests may start later this week and extend through Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration, according to two law enforcement officials who read details of the memo to The Associated Press. Investigators believe some of the people are members of some extremist groups, the officials said. The bulletin was first reported by ABC.
“Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20 January, and at the U.S. Capitol from 17 January through 20 January,” the bulletin said, according to one official. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
The FBI issued at least one other bulletin — they go out to law enforcement nationwide on the topic — before the riots last week. On Dec. 29, it warned of the potential for armed demonstrators targeting legislatures, the second official said.
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Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts world-class performances from the stages of Lincoln Center into homes across America. The pioneering series has sought to democratize the performing arts, making luminaries ranging from Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills to Emma Thompson and Nathan Lane available to hundreds of millions of viewers, collecting 17 Emmy and 2 Peabody Awards.
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Hạ Long Bay named one of most popular attractions in Asia
Hạ Long Bay in Quảng Ninh Province is one of the most popular attractions in Asia, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper. VNA/VNS Photo
HCM CITY — Hạ Long Bay in the northern province of Quảng Ninh is one of the most popular attractions in Asia, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP) based in Hong Kong.
The newspaper said the UNESCO World Heritage site in the northern province of Quảng Ninh came in fifth among the top 10 most popular Asian gems, which was topped by the Great Wall of China.
Around 5.2 million foreigners visited Hạ Long Bay last year, up 22 per cent from a year ago, accounting for 30 per cent of the 15.6 million foreign tourist arrivals to Việt Nam.
The boom in foreign tourists in Hạ Long Bay is attributed to major infrastructural improvements that have made it easier for foreigners to visit the world-famous bay, according to SCMP.
Mount Fuji in Japan came in second on the top 10 list, followed by China’s Forbidden City and India’s Taj Mahal. The rest were Mount Everest in Nepal and Tibet; Angkor Wat in Cambodia; Komodo Island in Indonesia; The Grand Palace in Bangkok; and Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai. — VNS
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Missouri Life Magazine honors four Independence attractions
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Missouri Life Magazine has named four Independence attractions winners in the publication’s inaugural “Discover the Best of Missouri Life Awards.”
In the November-December 2019 edition of the magazine, the Vaile Mansion is named the Best Victorian Home in the state, Winefest is named Best Kept Secret in the Imbibe category, 3 Trails Brewing is awarded best Brewery, and Ophelia’s earns top honors for its weekend buffet.
The Discover the Best of Missouri Life Awards aimed to draw attention “best-kept secrets and surprises around the state in eight different categories, such as culture, destinations, food, lore and legend, and more.” Missouri Life says it received greater than 800 nominations and more than 35,000 votes.
“It’s so exciting for Independence to be featured like this in Missouri Life,” Mayor Eileen Weir said. “There is no shortage of exciting places to visit in Missouri, but we’re happy to celebrate with those who call Independence home. As we prepare to transition to a new year, we look forward to building on these accolades to show others what makes Independence so special.”
Several other Independence attractions earned runner-up honors in the other categories, including the Bingham-Waggoner Estate and 1859 Jail, Marshal’s Home & Museum. You can find the full feature online.
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California May Become the First State to Ban Animal Dissection
The Replacing Animals in Science Education Act aims to update science education in schools across the state by replacing animal dissection with more humane teaching methods.
A bill recently introduced to the California State Assembly proposes a ban of animal dissections at all California schools. The Replacing Animals in Science Education Act (AB 1586) aims to update science education in the state by replacing animal-dissection activities with humane teaching methods that align with industry standards and best practices. The bill was introduced by Assembly Member Ash Kalra and co-sponsor advocacy groups Social Compassion in Legislation, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. “Advancements in educational technology have expanded access to this important scientific instructional methodology without having to rely on animals,” Kalra said. “With the development of technological alternatives, virtual and computer-based science teaching practicum offer more humane teaching methods that help to better prepare students for higher education and careers in science.” Last month, another bill introduced in California would help schools become even more vegan-friendly by providing extra funding to schools that add or increase the number of vegan entrées and plant-based milks on their menus.
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Find 2000 Infiniti G20 Tires
2000 Infiniti G20 Tires Sizes, Speed Ratings, and Inflation
Not sure about your Infiniti G20 tire size? Use the following chart to find information on tire size, speed rating, and inflation.
Trim Level
Inflation in PSI F/R
2000 Infiniti G20 Base Shop P195/65R15 H 32 PSI/29 PSI
2000 Infiniti G20 T Shop P195/60R15 H 32 PSI/29 PSI
2000 Infiniti G20 Base
- Size: Shop P195/65R15
- Speed Rating: H
- Inflation F/R: 32 PSI/29 PSI
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Trump just angrily insulted his former aide over tell-all book while he was on live TV. His response is perfect
By Natalie Dickinson
It seems that just about every Trump official who jumps ship ends up signing a book deal to write up a firsthand count of the circus of incompetence and idiocy that is and always has been the Trump administration. The latest to do so is Cliff Sims, a former Trump White House communications aide and former Trump campaign aide whose book “Team of Vipers” has been receiving a lot news coverage in recent days.
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In one excerpt, Sims penned a scathing description of the administration.
“This is the story of a ragtag band of political outsiders who stormed the White House, and of staffers who couldn’t seem to decide whether serving their country meant serving their President or undermining him,” the book reads.
This morning, Trump took to Twitter attack Sims, calling him a “low-level staffer” who he “hardly knew” and accused him up fabricating stories to sell his book. He claims Sims is just pretending to have been an insider at the White House but that he was really just a “gofer.” The president raged that Sims is in violation of a non-disclosure agreement and said he is a “mess.”
Now, if Sims were really a nobody Trump most likely wouldn’t care about his book in the first place. The fact that it’s prompted such an angry tweet response lends credence to it being an accurate account of his time in the administration. Trump’s trotting out of NDA violation allegations also indicates there is probably a lot of truth behind Sims’s book.
A low level staffer that I hardly knew named Cliff Sims wrote yet another boring book based on made up stories and fiction. He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer. He signed a non-disclosure agreement. He is a mess!
Now, Sims himself has responded to the tweet. While giving an appearance on CNN, host Alisyn Camerota read the tweet to Sims. He immediately laughed off the president’s frothing message.
“There it is! I knew this was a possibility when I wrote this book. You know what I said? My identity is not wrapped up in being a Trump staffer, my identity is wrapped up in my faith,” he said, visibly amused. He added that he didn’t mind being called a gofer “one bit.”
Sims soon followed up his response with a tweet mocking the president’s choice of word.
"Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House" is out today, written by the most famous "gofer" in the world! Enjoy! https://t.co/Eovn8jMVhk pic.twitter.com/V013bIe0r2
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) January 29, 2019
Watch the video below.
Clearly, this is a man who has seen President Trump working up close, and has little respect for him or his preferred method of communication. It seems that nobody in the Trump administration respects the man they work for, a clear as sign as any that he’s unfit for office.
Natalie Dickinson
Natalie is a staff writer for the Washington Press. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2010 and has been freelance blogging and writing for progressive outlets ever since.
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C programming, cryptography, and anything else I want to talk about
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When I was writing this blog four years ago I wanted to write cross-platform C code that was simple to build. At the time I settled on a dual approach of using a make file for non-windows and a set of Visual Studio 2010 projects and solution files for Windows building. I’ve never liked the dual approach but at the time I did not have anything better.
These days I use CMake as my build system. To be technically correct CMake is not a build system, it is a builder of build systems. This is what makes it great. Rather than being locked into a particular system, you write all your build files and dependencies in a language separate from the build system. CMake then will generate the build files for your chosen build system.
Something that CMake is particularly good at is building “out-of-source” builds. Something that Visual Studio is awful at by default. The standard method of Visual Studio is to scatter all the build artefacts throughout your source tree. This is particularly annoying for source control (you end up with tons of rules in .gitignore to avoid committing binaries and temporary files), and also makes it hard to have a clean build as you never know for sure what left overs may be lurking around affecting the build. With CMake you can just delete your build tree at anytime and generate a new one. You can also have many build trees in parallel. For example you may wish to build using Visual Studio and MinGW.
By default CMake will generate files with the most obvious builder it can find on your system. So if you are running Windows and have Visual Studio it will use that. If you are on Linux it will probably choose gcc and make. However you can tell it to generate a specific build system, and there is a large list of supported ones. In particular for Linux and MacOS I typically like it to build using Ninja which is lightning fast compared to make. Occasionally I get it to generate Xcode projects for MacOS.
Something else I particularly like about CMake is the concept of Toolchain files that can be specified on the command line using the (not especially elegant) syntax of:
-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=
It will this run this file first before attempting to locate the compilers for your system. With this you can setup cross-compilers or other custom settings you want without cluttering up your in source CMake files. Also you don’t want to put hard coded paths and settings into your actual project that you are planning to share.
So for example I like to keep my CMakeLists.txt files as simple and clean as possible and put all my custom stuff in my dev environment outside of the source trees. So if someone builds one of my projects it should always work with their system as it will just use the defaults. For example if they are using Visual Studio it will build it using fairly standard Visual Studio settings. I don’t actually like Visual Studio default builds, in particular I don’t like its dependent on its own C runtimes that you then have to distribute. So I use a toolchain file that builds using WinDDK 7.1 which links to MSVCRT.DLL. I also have other toolchain files for building on all the other platforms I want to do, including MinGW, Linux, MacOS, and even a Big-Endian mips Linux system!
I have made a sample “Hello World” project that can be built with CMake. A zip file containing the source is here
Assuming you have CMake installed and in the path then simply open a terminal at the root of the sample directory and run the following
cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=bin
cmake --build build --target install
This will create the build system and build the binaries and place them in the subdirectory bin
The first command generates the build system for your platform. In Windows this will probably be Visual Studio, in Linux this will probably be gcc and make. The parameter -H. says “source file starts here”. -Bbuild says “put the build system into the subfolder build“. The -CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=bin says “When building with --target install, make the directory the subfolder bin”
The second command says “build using the build system in subdirectory build and place the executables in the install location specified before (bin)”
It is highly recommended to always perform an “out-of-source” build. You can however build “in-source” with the following simpler commands:
cmake .
cmake --build .
This will however places the builds files all over the place in the directory and is generally considered messy. However if you are just wanting to get the binaries build with the least fuss, and are not planning to actually to use the source files for coding then this is the quickest way. In this example we did not specify the install location. The binaries will be built in the source tree and not copied to the install location.
I have since converted all my previous projects to using CMake. I will soon be publishing a newer version of CryptLib that uses CMake (and also has the new AES and AES-CTR cipher in it).
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AES as a stream cipher in counter mode (AES-CTR)
In the previous article I introduced the AES block cipher. This, however, is not too much use on its own. AES encrypts a single 128 bit (16 byte) block. In almost every situation there will be a requirement to encrypt a much larger amount of data. This is solved by using AES in a “mode of operation”.
Several modes exist for using AES block cipher on larger data sets. Several of these have been specified by NIST as standards. The first and most obvious one is known as AES-ECB (Electronic code book). This should really not exist as a standard as it is a terrible idea to use in every situation. Basically it just divides the larger data set into 16 bytes chunks and encrypts each block. The problem with this is that any time the same block of input appears, exactly the same output will be produced. For example if you had a file with large runs of all zeros in it, then you would see a repeating pattern on 16 bytes recurring in the output. So never use ECB, there are plenty of good modes to choose from.
Today I am going to talk about AES-CTR (AES in “counter” mode). This is actually my favourite mode. It turns AES into a stream cipher which is very easy to work with, it can be used on any sized data. It is also more convent to use than RC4 because you can jump to any offset within the output stream and start from there. With RC4 you would have to “spin” through all the previous stream to get to a specific point.
AES CTR is very simple mode. Basically you have a counter which you store in a 128 bit block and you then encrypt that block with AES, that is your first 16 bytes of stream output. You then increment the counter and encrypt to produce the second block, and so on. To add another level of convenience and speed the counter block is also used as an “Initialisation vector” (iv). This allows someone to create an entirely new stream without having to reinitialise the AES key (this is a somewhat expensive procedure).
NIST don’t actually specify how you should combine an IV and the counter, but suggest a few ways. The method I like best is to split the block into two halves. The first half is the 64bit IV. The second half is the 64bit block counter (store in big endian form). This is the method that openssl uses, and the method I chose to use. The advantage of this method over xoring the IV and counter together is that it is guaranteed that you will never “overlap” by having particular chosen IVs and counters. Remember that this is a stream cipher and just like RC4 if you ever reuse the stream you have removed all security. However with AES CTR it is only necessary to have the a unique set of BOTH Key and IV. Therefore the same Key can be reused with unique IVs. Similarly you may not want to bother with the IV at all and only use unique keys. Personally if I am in a situation where I will be generating new keys for each use, I will generate a key 64 bits larger than AES needs and use the last 64 bits as the IV.
Public Domain source code for AES-CTR
CryptLib_AesCtr.h
CryptLib_AesCtr.c
These depend on the AES block cipher files:
CryptLib_Aes.h
CryptLib_Aes.c
I have made a simple program called AesCtrOutput that takes a key and and IV in hex form and produces the specified number of bytes out in hex on stdout.
AesCtrOutput.c
The syntax for this program is pretty simple
AesCtrOutput <Key> <IV> <NumBytes>
<Key> - 128, 192, or 256 bit written as hex
<IV> - 64 bit written as hex
<NumBytes> - Number of bytes of stream to output
>AesCtrOutput.exe 0102030405060708a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8 b1b2b3b4b5b6b7b8 48
7f1e34c4f33ee8dc162af7fbed6f317aa5806d244dd86557268be2296708ef7327aa4e5ed5780a3c070209ea2db04d79
This result can be confirmed as being the same as openssl by using the following command:
> openssl enc -aes-128-ctr -K 0102030405060708a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8 -iv b1b2b3b4b5b6b7b8 -in zero.bin -out output.bin
If zero.bin is a file contain 48 zero bytes then output.bin will be created as 48 bytes with the same bytes as in the AesCtrOutput.exe example.
I have made a .zip file containing all the source for AES and AESCTR along with those two sample programs and a unit test set. The root of the folder contains a CMakeLists.txt file for building with CMake.
AesCtr.zip
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
AES Block Cipher
One of the things I meant to do when I started the WaterJuice blog 4 years ago was to build up library of Cryptographic functions. I got as far as putting in some of the common hashes of MD5, SHA1, and SHA2. And I also had RC4 encryption in there. But then got no further. I always meant to put in block ciphers. So today finally I add AES.
AES is a block cipher that operates on 128 bit blocks. A block cipher is a keyed permutation on a block. Every possible value of a 128 block is mapped with a 1-1 correspondence to another block for any given key. AES takes 3 sizes of keys: 128 bit, 192 bit, and 256 bit.
AES was announced by NIST at the end of 2001, this was after a five year process in selecting the new cipher to replace DES which was woefully inadequate by this time. AES is a subset of the Rijndael cipher which was of several algorithms that competed to become the new standard. NIST did not make any changes to Rijndael except to restrict the possible set of key sizes and block sizes. Rijndael works on block sizes and key sizes between 128 and 256 bit that are multiples of 32bit. AES formalises a single block size and 3 key sizes.
In this article I will introduce public domain C code for encrypting and decrypting a block using the AES cipher. This is a basic build block for many other operations. In general AES on its own is not terribly useful as the chances are you’ll want to encrypt something far larger than a single block, however I will talk about modes of operation in a subsequent article. For now I will just present the block cipher primitive.
Before proceeding I’d like to answer the question “why use AES?”. The best answer for that is because it is a safe bet. As the saying went “no one got fired for choosing IBM”, the same can be said about choosing AES. Because it is the standard, it is also the most scrutinised algorithm, and it is is still standing strong 16 years later.
Public domain C source code for AES
The following is a sample program that uses that code to encrypt or decrypt a single block specified by hex on a command line.
AesBlock.c
This has a simple syntax of:
AesBlock [-D]
HexKey must be 128, 192, or 256 bits long, and HexBlock must be 128 bits long. If the -D flag is specified then decryption is peformed
waterjuice$ AesBlock.exe 2b7e151628aed2a6abf7158809cf4f3c 6bc1bee22e409f96e93d7e117393172a
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REACTION: HBO’s The Young Pope
I have now seen two episodes of the new HBO (etc.) series The Young Pope. It has already run across the Pond.
It is visually rich, cynical, creepy, weird, unpredictable, sacrilegious and clever.
Try to get your head around Fellini’s Roma morphed by Quentin Tarantino (who belongs in jail) with House of Cards.
The production values are high. There is some gratuitous nudity and a bit of sex. Flashbacks are important. I think there are lots of little symbols and cues. For example, during a flashback you see the main character as a boy, who has as a label on his jeans an American flag superimposed by the letters UFO: he’s an known object from America, flying by the seat of his pants, as it were.
I suspect that part of the underlying motives for making the show is to mock the Church. The major motive, however, was probably the desire to make a surreal show with intrigue against a truly gorgeous backdrop.
I wonder also if this is a bit of a reaction to Pope Francis. It is both a “thank God for Pope Francis” and a “we need less of Pope Francis” show. There is tension of modern and traditional. The episodes seem to say, “Thank God we don’t have anything like this guy” and, at the same time, “Maybe we could use a little more of this guy”.
The filming locations were well chosen and they have enough elements to recall the real thing. Although for someone who lived in Rome as long as I did and worked in the Vatican, it is a little distracting to see people occasionally going the wrong way or to see impossible things. Also, there are moments when locations are nearly perfectly reproduced. Amazing.
Frankly, I share some of the goals of this weird fictional Pope. On this blog I have often mentioned that once We are elected Pope we will disappear into the Apostolic Palace for lengths of time so long that people shall wonder if We are still alive. The idea is that the Church has given in to the world too much. It is time to recover, Church-wide, a sense of mystery and that “the world” is still one of the three perpetual enemies which we all battle. I cheered the creepy fictional Pope’s decision to recover the tiara that Paul VI sold and which is now in Washington DC. I also very much like the fact that he sacked the Prefect for Clergy for being homosexual and said that he it is unacceptable that a homosexual be in charge of training priests. Hurray! And he sacked the Secretary of State with real style.
There are some great one liners. It helps to be well-read to follow it. Also, since it was made by Italians, they capture well the ecclesio-babble that only Italians can accomplish.
There are memorable speeches, such as when he met the cook for the first time, changed the Vatican’s marketing policy and, of course his first speech to the world from the balcony of San Pietro. That speech, which the first two episodes built up to, was marvelously monstrous, gloriously brutal, falsely true and, truly, false. It is on YouTube. Don’t watch it if you don’t want spoilers. I don’t like spoilers so I won’t post it or the link.
The next episode will be the moment when I decide whether I will continue to watch it or not.
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40 Responses to REACTION: HBO’s The Young Pope
Huber says:
We need another warrior pope willing to fight and lead the Church to God…
A pope that would make the world’s ears pop by the sudden pressure change from filling the theological and spiritual vacuum that is currently the Vatican…
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Caesar says:
I wonder if this didn’t take a little inspiration from Baron Corvo’s novel Hadrian the Seventh, where a previously obscure Englishman is chosen to succeed Leo XIII, upending the curia and completely changing Church and world affairs.
Fr. Vincent Fitzpatrick says:
Pius XII smoked. There have been worse Popes.
I watched both episodes of the “Young Pope” and am interested to see how the series continues. Long before the series began, I watched on YouTube the new pope’s address to the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. Not surprisingly, I found myself cheering his speech. Those who continue to watch the series will soon find out what I’m referencing.
That said, I think the motives of the show go beyond simply embarrassing the Church. Given the excesses the show projects about the fictional Pius XIII, I feel its goal is as much to discredit traditional Catholicism and anyone who might chose the papal name Pius XIII in the future. As has long been the case, a caricature can overtake reality. So if for instance a Cardinal was elected pope and chose the name Pius XIII, many in the press will quickly reference Jude Law’s representation as suggestive of what is to come.
That said, I doubt anyone who takes the name Pius XIII will be all that concerned with the press.
acardnal says:
I, too, am not sure what to make of this series nor am I sure I will continue watching it. It’s weird. I can’t make up my mind if Pope Pius XIII, (Jude Law) aka Lenny Belardo, is a good guy or a bad guy. You characterized it very well, Fr. Z, when you said: “It is visually rich, cynical, creepy, weird, unpredictable, sacrilegious and clever.”
Curiously, the show also stars James Cromwell who portrayed Pope Pius XII in another eponymous docudrama movie but in this show is a Cardinal! And the show also stars Diane Keaton who plays a nun who raised Pius XIII in an orphanage and now resides with him in the Papal palace.
Charles E Flynn says:
I was impressed by the originality of the line spoken by the young pope when he made his confession. It made me wonder just what inspired the script writer:
“My only sin is that my conscience does not accuse me of anything. “
JonathanTX says:
Keep going, it gets better. There’s only 10 episodes total anyway.
Andrew D says:
Please don’t watch it and don’t promote it by mentioning it here. HBO does not have the Church’s best interests at heart – the exact opposite is true. Anything they and the rest of the mainstream media (cable and otherwise) produce is designed to mock and marginalize our Holy Mother Church. The more people that watch, the more chatter on the net, the more the metrics people at HBO and the Neilson ratings systems justify their hitman content a success. Ignore this garbage, pray for the destruction of our country’s pornographic culture and conversion home to the Catholic Church and ALL OF HER TEACHINGS through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Stephanus83 says:
Father, I’m looking forward to your follow up after the next episode. I’ve been waiting for some Catholic reviews to come out before I decide to watch or not. So far, your review seems positive. I’ll wait until your follow up for sure.
SaintJude6 says:
Have to say I am quite disappointed that you are watching HBO trash.
Grant M says:
I saw an ad for this program entitled Pius XIII, and thought “That’s interesting. They’ve made a series about Lucian Pulvermacher, and how an eccentric priest, disturbed by post-conciliar turmoil, opts for a cure worse than the disease. Could be fun to watch.”
Actually my satellite package doesn’t include the channel hosting this series, and I don’t feel like paying extra just to see it. So I’ll stick to the YouTube clips.
Probably no gratuitous nudity in the Indonesian version- just gratuitous blurriness.
Louis Tully says:
“It’s time for my snack.”
Everything else aside, that moment cracked me up.
kurtmasur says:
I too have only seen just the first two episodes and I agree that certaim inaccuracies can be distracting, such as calling the speech from St. Peter’s balcony a “homily”, although elsewhere it is referred to as an “address”.
Considering the current climate of fear at the Vatican under a grumpy and vindictive Pope Francis, I feel that this series helps to put things into perspective of what’s going on at Sancta Marta, and the Vatican in general regarding rivalries, politics, etc.
todayspilgrim says:
Great review Father, I’m 3 episodes in. It’s entertaining, and I think faithful Catholic’s will enjoy the inside jokes.
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Peter in Canberra says:
… so few hours …
Papabile says:
Stato is absolutely hilarious and his descripton of power is much like what happens in politics, though not in such a transactional way (e.g. Mons. Who has alcohol problem).
Unwilling says:
It takes learning, prudence, and fortitude to escape the harms (or pain) from exposure to such contivances. Thank you for undertaking the perilous task for us. It is now without regret on my Index prohibitorum.
padredana says:
Does everyone who works in Rome really smoke that much?
Badger Catholic says:
I was very interested to read your thought Father, lots of chatter on the interwebs and you pretty much summed up what I think the many have said. I will be interested to see if you continue with it.
jazzclass says:
I think that it gives an interesting view of the goals and state of The Church. We’re very bipolar, with one side so traditional, another very liberal, another side very political, and yet another ignorant of it all.
Gus Barbarigo says:
Fr. Z, please let us know if this show gets your “imprimatur”. Also, if you would pardon an un-asked-for suggestion, it would be great if you would (please) compile a list of Fr. Z-approved TV/web shows now on DVD. Thanks for keeping us aware of pop culture.
Eliane says:
An intriguing coincidence is found in the script of The Young Pope at approximately 15 minutes into Part 2, where the pope informs the Vatican PR woman that the most successful artists, such Sallinger in fiction and Kubrik in movie-making, remain invisible enigmas. For an artist example the PR woman suggests that the greatest of the day is Marina Abramovi? – she of “Pizzagate” fame for sharing “food,” “art” and whatever else with the Podesta brothers in a social group that reaches out to include Hillary Clinton herself.
Now, given that The Young Pope premiered last October in Italy, it has to have been filmed many months before alt-news broke the Pizzagate story, which elevated Abramovic from a somewhat well known weird performance artist to a now world famous figure who might even be a lynchpin that could take down the U.S. government.
So what delicious (no pun on Abramovic’s “cooking” intended) irony of Abramovic’s name coming up in the pope’s justification for his insistence upon remaining invisible. If the writers had only known, at the time of writing, the full significance of that little piece of dialogue….
magistercaesar says:
Really loved the show. I was basically cheering for him as the series went on and I am looking forward to the second season.
AgricolaDeHammo says:
I (and a number of my young illiberal catholic friends) have seen the season in its entirety. I have no idea what HBO was thinking when they went ahead with this but I’m so glad they did.
NB (spoiler free)
– anyone who’s read FR Rolfe’s Hadrian VII will notice a number of similarities though both young popes are decidedly different characters.
– this season takes the Church seriously and will dismay the likes of Fr. James Martin and other liberal squishes. I have no idea what S02 will bring though, so I’m prepared for a volte-face.
– Sorrentino has an odd record as a filmmaker: The Great Beauty is magnificent (see Thomas Aquinas College grad Matthew Lickona’s 5 star review ) Yet his latest, Youth is a boring, uninspired mess. The Young Pope Season 1 is a return to form.
– trads will note the show pays more attention to a e s t h e t i c s than to crusty old encyclicals or liturgy. However, note that all Masses, whether said by heroes or villains, are ad orientum.
– There is some very brief regrettable nudity/sex in maybe 4 of the 10 episodes. These scenes serve to demonstrate the virtue of certain characters in contrast to the sin and corruption that surrounds them. There is a wonderful conversation at one point about how sex is unnecessary to man’s fulfillment.
– Some of the theology and doctrine that is touched on is treated haphazardly but in the long run there’s nothing too scandalous there.
– Yes, the young pope is not a perfect character; he has a flaw or two, maybe even an achilles heel; but the number of times I chuckled at him confounding progressives or just jumped out of my seat in joy as he cleaned up corruption make this show a must watch.
The Egyptian says:
only watched YouTube clips so far, really liked his speech to the cardinals, but then all of a sudden Jude Law does that thing with his tongue and eyes and shivers run up my spine, is he good or satanic.
Particularly enjoyed the scene where he asks the pedophile cardinal to select where in the USA he wishes to retire and the cardinal points to San Fransisco on the huge lit globe. Pious exclaims Barrow Alaska, good choice
sml says:
I have been a daily viewer of this blog for years. I knew I could come and here the truth about what is going on in the church and society.
Shame on you Fr. Z for posting, and therefore condoning this filthy show.
As you tell us – Go To Confession.
[I guess that’s a “No” vote, then.]
I watched several episodes. It left me rather confused. I wasn’t sure what the overall point of the series is supposed to be. Is the Pope a modern Borgia? A modern saint? Can’t tell…
[Interesting observation. I refer you to the possibility I raised in the top entry. Time will tell. I’ve seen only two.]
I am with the no vote, especially as a hear a future episode will depict an orgy scene between a cardinal, another man, and a very naked woman. ( I have never been to the Vatican so I am not sure if that is a realistic depiction of what goes on there or not)
As we are continually being asked to GO TO CONFESSION, I believe it is equally important to avoid the near occasion of sin. If a positive review of this show endangers souls by possibly leading them to lustful thoughts over what can only be described as a pornographic scene(and as I understand this will far from be the only such scene) then it is worth me trying to discourage the watching of the show to whatever extent I can. Shows like this, it is my belief, deceive us into compromising our faith and morals by watching scenes we would never otherwise seek out just to follow a good storyline.
CradleRevert says:
The show intrigued me when I first heard about it, but given that it airs on HBO, I don’t have the slightest desire to actually watch it. Every show on HBO is basically soft pornography with a large budget, and I’ve heard that this show is no exception.
un-ionized says:
Dan, that’s why I gave up TV completely, I frequently got a sense that Jesus was sitting next to me and getting ready to push the popcorn bowl in front of my face so I wouldn’t see and turning off my hearing aids. At first I missed the weather radar but my iPad solves that with a hotspot. Now I can hear myself think (and pray!).
That would be one advantage of viewing the series in Indonesia then: the orgy and the nudity will certainly be replaced by jump cuts and blurriness.
OK. I am transfixed by a clip on YouTube when the Pius enters the Sistine Chapel: Sedia Gestatoria, Flabelli, Triple Tiara, the works…But I have no context for it, not having seen the series.
If this was a video made Protestant fundamentalists, it would mean “Behold the triple tyrant, the man of sin, sitting in God’s temple, and making himself a god.” If it was a trad video, it would mean “See what we have lost through our ecumanical efforts to appease Protestants.” But what does it mean in the context of this series? I’m intrigued.
“I am with the no vote, especially as a hear a future episode will depict an orgy scene between a cardinal, another man, and a very naked woman.”
That was a rather unfortunate and over-the-top scene, though what happened later proved that sin has its consequences.
Grant, blurriness is your friend!
tradition4all says:
“Anything they and the rest of the mainstream media (cable and otherwise) produce is designed to mock and marginalize our Holy Mother Church.”
I would like to counter this. As Catholic apologist Vin Lewis has pointed out, the so-called entertainment industry actually has a love-hate relationship with the Catholic Church. In any movie or TV show where a serious character seeks God, he does so in a Catholic Church. How many cop shows have one or more scenes per season where a character goes to Confession, or prays in a very traditionally decorated, dimly lit church with votive candles and crucifixes and statues? The recent Hollywood movie “Hail, Caesar” seems to be favorable to Catholicism, despite some scenes that seem to suggest to the contrary, and which don’t really fit in with the rest of the movie.
When artists, including Hollywood directors, need to portray a morally serious character, they make him Catholic. When they need to evoke the transcendental and the sublime, they set the scene in a Catholic church. When Hollywood directors decide to portray evil *as* evil, they do so using tropes borrowed from Christian iconography and tradition. Even people who might hate the Gospel feel compelled (as the Hollywood movie “The Exorcist” says, “The power of Christ compels you!”) to concede the aesthetic superiority of the Catholic Faith.
And, from what I’ve seen in YouTube scenes, the writers of this show might not be traditionalists, but it would be hard to write the character of the “Young Pope” if you didn’t have *some* fascination for or attraction to traditional Catholicism. Some of the character’s most reactionary lines are written and delivered with obvious glee. (Sort of like the movie “Doubt.” For all I know, the people who made that movie intended it to attack the Church. Yet anyone who watches sympathizes with the very conservative nun and sees right through the evil liberal pedophile priest.)
Is it (mainstream media depiction of Catholicism) all good? Absolutely not. Is it admixed with error? Sure. Is it worth viewing by serious Catholics? Maybe not. But to just dismiss all Hollywood depictions of Catholicism as ill-willed is false and doesn’t do justice to Catholicism. One of the proofs of our Faith is that the secularists of Hollywood, when they “get serious,” get Catholic.
I recall the wise words of an apparently elderly Italian priest of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, who staffed the confessional at the St. Francis Chapel in the Prudential Center, Boston, some years ago, during the summer:
“The Catholic Church teaches authoritatively, has always taught authoritatively, and always will teach authoritatively, that the visual arts (dramatic pause) are a grey area.”
From http://decentfilms.com/articles/decentfilms :
This is not to say that that The Mission couldn’t possibly present anyone with an occasion of sin. Certain people may be more vulnerable on this point than others — for example, adolescent boys, who can be so combustible that they might find prurient interest even in National Geographic, or in the Renaissance wing of an art museum. But for most viewers, the nudity in The Mission shouldn’t present any particular moral obstacle to viewing the film.
@Geoffrey “That was a rather unfortunate and over-the-top scene, though what happened later proved that sin has its consequences.
Herein lies the deception. The characters themselves are fictional, a fictional character cannot sin, and when there are fictional consequences they do not matter. What we shouldn’t lose sight of is that there are men and women more frequently, real people with real souls, who for whatever reason; money, fame, acceptance? Place themselves into objectively sinful, objectively sexual situations. What of the soul of the young women who was compelled to remove her clothing and place herself into that very real sexual situation for the entertainment of many thousands. It might not have been as real as was fictionally depicted but was none-the-less very real to her, the actor.
As Charles E Flynn points out the scene will at the very least become a moral obstacle for many teenage men, and a poor example for many young women. Maybe at this point the many Priests that read and post here can call to mind the confessions they have heard of young many (and not so young men) then ask yourself if this material presents a real risk to souls?
Sexual situations in cinema are a far cry from violence, or other fictional situations, when someone is shot in the head in a movie chances are the actor was not asked to actually be shot in the head. An actor in a sexual situation is actually asked to place themselves into that situation on some level, and if you were to google in many films the situation is VERY real.
The people being asked to do this, with nothing really added to the story line by making it so graphic, we can’t forget are actual people. A drawing is not an actual person, an artist can paint anything without actually asking a person to put their soul at risk to portray it. A story in a book, or even in a script is not dangerous to anyone unless it tempts the reader it doesn’t force anyone into sin. Film and TV are very different.
I find the debate in this post very interesting, I recall some comments on the movie Silence, how we should not watch the film because it seems to justify the compromises made by Fr. Rodrigues in his head even to the point of suggesting Christ would be OK with apostasy in certain situations. Yet, what do we compromise and how do we justify this film? Because it is more entertaining or because the decisions are better concealed?
Pez says:
I just finished watching all 10 episodes. I could have done without the gratuitous nudity and sex scenes. There was one scene in particular where my reaction was, “Seriously? Could you not have conveyed the meaning of that scene without it?” Putting that aside, I really did enjoy watching this series, and I’ll probably watch it again. I found myself rooting for Pope Pius XIII. I think I’m going to change my morning breakfast to a Cherry Coke Zero in his honor! :-)
I didn’t see TYP as a hit piece on the Church at all. It would have been very easy for the director, Paolo Sorrentino, to have painted a caricature of the Church where the pope and the cardinals are just a bunch of power hungry hypocrites who don’t even believe what they say they believe, but he didn’t do that. Instead, Sorrentino does a very good job portraying the jumbled mess of contradictions that are within each character. Take for example the character of Cardinal Angelo Voiello, the cardinal secretary of state. Another theme I noticed throughout the series is that sin has consequences.
This series also introduced me to a singer and song I had never heard before – Senza Un Perché by Nada. That song definitely sticks in your head. I have it on my mp3 player now.
acerun87 says:
Fr. Z – have you given your final verdict on watching “The Young Pope”? – Thanks!
[Sorry, I have some catching up to do. Maybe today.]
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Broadway’s Ciara Renée Joins The Arrow/Flash Spinoff Series
According to Deadline, Broadway star Ciara Renée has been cast as Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl in the upcoming ‘Arrow/The Flash’ spinoff series.
Character description:
“Kendra Saunders is a young woman who is just beginning to learn that she has been repeatedly reincarnated over the centuries. When provoked, her ancient warrior persona manifests itself, along with wings that grow out of her back, earning her the moniker…Hawkgirl.”
Renée joins a cast that includes Brandon Routh, Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Victor Garber, Caity Lotz.
Renée has appeared in the Broadway production of Big Fish and Pippin, and made her first TV debut on an episode of Law & Order: SVU.
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Publications: A Grammar of the Gujarátí Language. 2+175 p. Bombay 1847 (for the use of missionaries).
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Presenting To You... Poodle's Fun Facts!
by Waggymeal Happy Customer Team December 27, 2017
Poodles, known for their stylish hair look and long legs, this breed is popular when it comes to the fashion world, even featured in movies like Zoolander. These dogs are also known as the models of the doggy world. So what else about them? Here are the 10 fun facts about Poodles!
Fun Fact #1 : Their Origin
The origin of the poodle is disputed. Encyclopedia Britannica traces the origin of the poodle in Germany, where it was known as the "Pudlehund". The word "Pudel" is derived from the Low German verb meaning "to splash about", and the word Hund (dog). The Federation Cynologique Internationale holds that the poodles descend from the French dog Barbet and might have been crossed with the Hungarian water dog. The French name "Caniche" comes from the word cane (the female of the duck) since this type of breed was used as a water retriever mainly for duck hunting thanks to its swimming ability. Due to the breed's popularity in France, it became established as a national breed.
Fun Fact #2 : Bred For Hunting
Say what? Yes! The name Poodle comes from the German "pudel," or puddle and refers to dogs splashing in puddles of water. The Poodle was originally bred to fetch waterfowl while out on hunting trips. The first Poodles were all larger dogs weighing from forty up to seventy pounds. We now know this size Poodle as the Standard Poodle.
Fun Fact #3 : Hyperallogenic Dogs
The Poodle may be a high class pooch, but it's also great for people who suffer from dog allergies. Even better, they shed very little of their fur. Also, for those with sensitive noses, Poodles tend to be odorless. Cancel the Febreze order!
Fun Fact #4 : Cross-Breeding Programs
Its unique fur has become the reason of numerous cross-breeding programs. The Poodle has been mated to such widespread breeds as the Cocker Spaniel, Labrador Retriever and Golden Retriever, Wheaten Terrier and English Pointer in order to produce hypoallergenic hybrids.
Fun Fact #5 : The Geniuses
Poodles are one of the smartest breeds, second only to the border collie in rankings of canine intelligence. Their smarts make them extremely easy to train and a favorite of circuses. In the 1800s, they were often dressed in miniature human clothing and trained to act out elaborate scenes.
Fun Fact #6 : Quite the Athlete
This dog is an excellent athlete. It’s endowed with all characteristics of an ultimate four-legged companion, including moderate size, charming look and quick mind. Additionally its small yet agile and sturdy body is designed for motion so it becomes a first-rate hunter and retriever. In fact the Poodle was originally developed to retrieve water fowl and has so-called "soft mouth" (it can very carefully draw the dead or wounded bird from the water).
Fun Fact #7 : Elvis's favourite
The King loved dogs and had quite a collection at Graceland. When he was stationed in Germany, he had a poodle named "Champagne". He also gave away many poodles to the women he loved: A toy poodle named "Little Bit" went to a girlfriend, and he gave a poodle named "Honey" to his wife Priscilla.
Fun Fact #8 : Don't Spoil Them
If Poodles are too spoiled, they are likely to assume that they are the alpha dog of the family. So even if your pooch won’t be performing under the big tent, make sure to implement some sort of obedience training. Obedience training is also essential to keeping your pooch’s mind active. You know the saying about idle hands…or in this case…paws? Basically, a bored Poodle is a badly behaved Poodle.
Fun Fact #9 : All-Poodle Sled Team
In 1988, a musher named John Suter entered the race with an all-poodle sled team. They didn't do so well courtesy of matted fur and cold paws, many of the dogs had to be dropped off at checkpoints. This struggle led to a new rule that dictated only northern breeds like Siberian huskies and Alaskan malamutes are allowed to race. This measure ensures the safety of breeds that aren’t cut out for the extreme cold.
10. Nala, The Teacup Poodle
Nala the teacup poodle was never trained to operate an elevator, but she somehow figured it out and uses it to visit the residents at a local nursing home where her owner works. The small dog can navigate the hallways all by herself and bring comfort to those around her. "She'd rather ride it alone than with people, because she knows where she's going," her owner said. "If she could, she would push the button herself."
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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. Votes: 6
The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down. Votes: 6
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse. Votes: 6
The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not. Votes: 6
Robert Foster Bennett
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. Votes: 6
I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing. Votes: 6
At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games. Votes: 6
Vladimir Kramnik
It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope. Votes: 6
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union. Votes: 6
Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question. Votes: 6
Gilles Duceppe
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. Votes: 6
I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen. Votes: 5
Walid Jumblatt
The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure. Votes: 5
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War Votes: 5
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall. Votes: 5
Boris Yeltsin
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases Votes: 5
We had the Berlin Wall; we had walls everywhere. But we always looked at the wall as kind of like the outside of the wall is the enemy. Are we looking at Mexico as the enemy? No, it's not. These are our trading partners. Votes: 5
"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming down. I'm not sure who will come up with a better term to describe art, but I think contemporary art is actually done for. Votes: 5
Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb Votes: 5
Valerie Plame
You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you. Votes: 5
Bob Dole
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism. Votes: 4
The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others. Votes: 4
It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. Votes: 4
His mouth is a no-go area. It's like kissing the Berlin Wall. Votes: 3
I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved. Votes: 3
Lucy Walker
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field. Votes: 3
The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it. Votes: 3
There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now." Votes: 3
Matthew Specktor
Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it. Votes: 3
I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed. Votes: 3
After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be. Votes: 3
Brad Thor
I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity. Votes: 3
It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights. Votes: 3
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War. Votes: 3
I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen. Votes: 3
From the beginning, we failed to overcome Europe's division. The Berlin Wall fell, but invisible walls were moved to the East of Europe. This has led to mutual misunderstandings and assignments of guilt. They are the cause of all crises ever since. Votes: 3
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. Votes: 3
In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba. Votes: 3
I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Invasion' or 'fall of the Berlin Wall' of our generation... the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there. Votes: 3
Pete Hegseth
I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Invasion' or 'fall of the Berlin Wall' of our generation... the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there." Votes: 3
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist? Votes: 3
The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter. Votes: 3
Serge Schmemann
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in 1992. The intent was to save socialism in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the predictable bankruptcy of the welfare state in the West as well. Votes: 3
Vladimir Bukovsky
So at last the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement and took over Greenpeace so that my friends who founded it left within a year because they'd captured it. Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. Votes: 3
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world. Votes: 3
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, Victory, and walked off the field. Votes: 2
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun. Votes: 1
Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of anti-Semitism. Votes: 1
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I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. Votes: 6 Graham Coxon
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. Votes: 6 Eleanor Roosevelt
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Lewis, Harry. 2012. "Weird" Harvard Students. Cambridge, MA: harry-lewis.blogspot.com.
Liptak, . 2012. Race and College Admissions, Facing a New Test by Justices. October 8. New York, NY: The New York Times.
MacLeod, Scott. 2014. Agenda item to WUaS's open monthly business meeting on Saturday, April 12th to postpone WUaS seeking our first matriculating undergraduate class in English from autumn 2014 to autumn 2015. March 29. (See, too: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/03/naaskelnokk-tonu-ling-avocet-in.html). Canyon, CA: worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/03/agenda-item-to-wuass-open-monthly.html
McGrath, Marilyn. 2011. Milestones. September 28. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
New, Jake. 2013. MOOC students to be identified with webcams. Bethesda, MD: ecampusnews.com.
Pinola, Melanie. 2014. Harvard Admissions Advice: Develop an Interesting Personality. lifehacker.com/harvard-admissions-advice-develop-an-interesting-perso-1606668802.
Perez-Pena, Richard and Jenny Anderson. 2012. As a Broader Group Seeks Early Admission, Rejections Rise in the East. January 13. New York, NY: The New York Times.
Perez-Pena, Richard and Jenny Anderson. 2014. Best, Brightest and Rejected: Elite Colleges Turn Away Up to 95%. April 8. New York, NY: The New York Times.
Princeton University’s Statement on Early Action Deadline. 2013. Princeton University’s Statement on Early Action Deadline. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
SALLES, JOAQUIM MOREIRA. 2014. This Country Just Abolished College Tuition Fees. OCTOBER 1. thinkprogress.org/education/2014/10/01/3574551/germany-free-college-tuition/.
Waldron, Travis. 2012. Study: Nearly Half Of America’s College Students Drop Out Before Receiving A Degree. March 28. Think Progress.
Yale College Course Selection in Freshman Year. 2013. Course Selection in Freshman Year. New Haven, CT: yalecollege.yale.edu/content/course-selection-freshman-year.
Yale College Distributional Requirements by Year. 2013. Distributional Requirements by Year. New Haven, CT: yalecollege.yale.edu/content/distributional-requirements-year.
Yale College Distributional Requirements by Year. 2013. Thinking Ahead about a Major. New Haven, CT: yalecollege.yale.edu/content/thinking-ahead-about-major.
Zurier, Steve. 2012. Students and Parents Facing Rising Postsecondary Costs Will Drive Change: Expert panel at Information Technology and Innovation Foundation event focuses on how technology can transform higher ed. Vernon Hills, IL: EdTech.
Select Search Engines
Prospective students get the red carpet treatment during Admit Weekend. 2014. Prospective students get the red carpet treatment during Admit Weekend 2014. Stanford, CA: news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/admit-weekend-slideshow-042514.html.
Select Theses, Dissertations, Papers, etc.
Select Twitters
Adams, Susan. 2013. Harvard Pranks Yale With Hilarious Fake Admissions Tour. November 22. New York, NY: Forbes.com.
Andrews, Erinn. 2011. Erinn Andrews, Former Stanford Admissions Officer, Video Case Study #2. hyperinkvideos Youtube channel.
Anything Could Happen at Harvard. 2013. Anything Could Happen at Harvard. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Youtube channel.
Convocation 2013. 2013. Convocation2013 1080p BS iTunes cc. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Youtube channel.
Duke University Student Chat - Academics and Research. 2013. Duke University Student Chat - Academics and Research. Durham, NC: Duke University.
Duke University Student Chat East Campus. 2012. Duke University Student Chat East Campus. Durham, NC: Duke University.
Ito, Joi. 2012. Joi Ito's Deep Dive. Cambridge, MA: MIT Media Lab.
Normandin, Ryan. 2014. How to Get into MIT. Cambridge, MA: Ryan Normandin Youtube channel.
Normandin, Ryan. 2014. How to Graduate from MIT. Cambridge, MA: Ryan Normandin Youtube channel.
That's Why I Chose Yale. 2013. That's Why I Chose Yale. ("An introduction to undergraduate life at Yale College. The project was an independent collaboration between Yale undergraduates and recent alumni working in the admissions office. All filming, editing, and vocal recording was done on Yale's campus exclusively by Yale students. www.yale.edu/admit"). New Haven, CT: Yale Campus Youtube Channel.
Select Video Conferences
Select Videocasts and Podcasts
The Common Application. 2014. The Common Application. (The Common Application is a not-for-profit membership organization that, since its founding over 35 years ago, has been committed to providing reliable services that promote equity, access, and integrity in the college application process. We serve students, member institutions, and secondary schools by providing applications that students and school officials may submit to any of our over 500 members. Membership is open to colleges and universities that promote access by evaluating students using a holistic selection process). commonapp.org.
Degreed. 2013. Degreed Scores Your Lifelong Education. (Degreed is a free service that scores and validates your lifelong education from both accredited (i.e. Harvard) and non-accredited (i.e. iTunesU, Lynda.com, Khan Academy, etc.) sources). San Francisco: degreed.com.
Useful Handouts and Study Strategies. 2013. Useful Handouts and Study Strategies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
WUaS Accreditation Plans
WUaS Accreditation Plans in English
Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (state of California) (BPPE). Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) Application for Approval to Operate for an Institution Non Accredited. West Sacramento, CA: bppe.ca.gov.
Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Washington, D.C.: detc.org.
Friends Council on Education (FCE). Friends Council on Education (FCE). (as Quaker online I.B. MIT OCW-centric high schools). Philadelphia, PA: friendscouncil.org.
International Baccalaureate Online Program (IB). International Baccalaureate Online Program (IB). Bethesda, MD: ibo.org/diploma/development/dponline/index.cfm .
MacLeod, Scott. 2013. RFC - REQUEST FOR COMMENT about WUaS Organizational and Management Structure for BPPE forms, Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Mandarin, Wiki, Like Wikipedia with MIT OCW (not endorsed by MIT). October 5. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/10/octopi-and-chromatophores-rfc-request.html .
MacLeod, Scott. 2014. Verified, Signature and Proctored courses, MIT OCW, edX, Coursera and WUaS, Range of $30-$100 per course for verified certificate, WUaS will probably engage something like these verification systems for matriculated students, especially with our focus on students in the developing world, and plans to offer FREE (since C.C.), MIT-centric, WUaS university degrees. January 29. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/01/maine-atlantic-salmon-verified.html.
MacLeod, Scott. 2013. Tatra mountains: Network and accredit with these Quaker schools around the world, and especially vis-a-vis the countries they are in?, Haven't been able yet to find Quaker schools where the language of learning is Russian, Mandarin (Chinese), French or Spanish, in the main United Nations' languages, (Friends House Moscow - http://friendshousemoscow.org/?page_id=55 ... Hong Kong Meeting - http://www.friends-hk.org/ ... France Yearly Meeting - http://fwccemes.org/fam/?mg=6), Quaker schools really care for students as individuals (vis-a-vis the 'light within' young people), creating an ethos around this, that's centuries old, and many students love Quaker schools, long after they've graduated. November 16. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com .
MacLeod, Scott. 2013. WUaS accrediting in Spanish in Spain and accrediting in Mandarin Chinese in China from a Stanford Law - Peking Law School conference at Stanford. May 11. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/iberian-lynx-wuas-accrediting-in.html .
Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC senior). Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC senior). Alameda, CA: wascsenior.org .
WUaS Accreditation Plans in Arabic
MacLeod, Scott. 2013. Collaborating with 'Friends School in Ramallah' (which began in 1869), now an International Baccalaureate high school + which is taught in both English and Arabic, and explore how Quakerly to network WUaS with them in developing the online MIT OCW-centric WUaS, I.B. schools, first in English?. November 4. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/11/annona-reticulata-seeds-red-custard.html .
WUaS Accreditation Plans in French
WUaS Accreditation Plans in Mandarin (Chinese)
WUaS Accreditation Plans in Russian
WUaS Accreditation Plans in Spanish
Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA). 2013. Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA). Madrid, ES: aneca.es/ANECA .
Select Writers, Researchers, etc.
Subjects' Social Networking Sites
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/
Wikiquotes
Wikiquotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikisource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikivoyage: https://www.wikivoyage.org/
Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_%26_Used)_at_WUaS
Honor Principle at World University: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Honor_Principle_at_World_University
Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, Greatest Universities-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.
Digital and Print catalog
Career counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Career_counseling
... in a virtual world
Brainwave device / Headset
Broadcast to radio frequencies
Broadcast to TV / television
MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/
MIT OCW Audio Video Courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/
(beginning with United Nations' languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)
(Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)
3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/
Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com
Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/
Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net
Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/
Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html
ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010
Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/
Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/
OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)
Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/
Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/
Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php
Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).
SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/
Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.
SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/
There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/
Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar
Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/
WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/
World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage
Global ID and Multiple IDs - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system
Teach and Learn using free Social Networking software to share what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....
About Me - World University and School - http://about.me
Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 ('This group may be archived').
Good Reads - http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/99021-worlduniversityandschool
Google + Profiles - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - Scott MacLeod - https://plus.google.com/115890623333932577910/
Google + Profiles Company page - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - World University and School - https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts
LinkedIn's World University and School - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/World-University-School-4024337
Quora - http://www.quora.com/
Research Gate - http://www.researchgate.net/
Wer Kennt Wen - World University and School - http://www.wer-kennt-wen.de/
World University & School 'subject page' group
Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts
Free video conferencing
Free, group video conferencing
AnyMeeting - http://anymeeting.com/homepage/
Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/
Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection
ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx
Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com
sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/
Tokbox | OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok
Vyew - http://vyew.com/
Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/
Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/
Universal Translator at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator
Google Translate language:
Sugar Labs: Translation System language:
The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School
The "Universitian" Newspaper at WUaS
Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wikifoundry.com/
Wikidata / Bots
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots
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All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International (CC BY-SA 3.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ .
The World University and School program is not endorsed by MIT or MIT OpenCourseWare.
Frequently Asked Questions at World University & School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions
LANGUAGE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE
MUSEUM TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/MUSEUM_TEMPLATE
NATION STATE TEMPLATE: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE
WUaS's Guidestar.org listing - https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx .
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Once A Term Cooking – Meal Plan Like A Boss!
Mum of three and primary school teacher Rebekah Freeman is no stranger to planning a term in advance, now she does it with the family cooking as well!
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By Justin RouillonTuesday 1 Oct 2019
For primary school teacher Rebekah Freeman, the nightly chore of dinners was beginning to weigh heavy after a long day in the classroom.
Listen to Rebekah’s story in the audio player above.
The mum of three was also struggling with a debilitating condition known as hemiplegic migraine, which left her in a similar condition to someone suffering from a stroke.
“My body will mimic a stroke, and it can come on very quickly, and I don’t know how long it’s going to hit me for. I would often get sick at the end of a long day, and we were relying more and more on cheese toast for dinner.”
Rebekah & Darren Freeman with their three children.
To try and counter-act the unknown arrival of another migraine, Rebekah decided to engage her planning skills honed over years as a primary educator. And with that Once A Term Cooking was born.
“It’s the same as teaching, I plan for a term at a time. I plan out all the meals, and do all the prep and cooking over two and a half days.”
Rebekah told 96five that the key to preparing 10 weeks’ worth of meals in a few days comes down to the initial detailed meal plans.
“I sit down with a cup of tea, my iPad and some cook books and work out what we’re going to eat for the term. But to do that I try to stick to ingredients that will work well within different meals, and things that I can buy in bulk.”
Supplies build ahead of another epic cook-off!
Rebekah also said that some routine can also assist in the planning stages before the marathon cook up!
“I try to stick to having one roast a week, we have one chicken dish per week alongside one soup, one fish dish, one vegetarian meal, and something that is super quick to prep like tacos. We also plan for one spare a week which allows you to go out for dinner or have leftovers.”
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Even though the concept of once a term cooking can be quite daunting, Rebekah reckons that like anything, it’s easier to start small and build from there.
“You start small, cooking double or triple batches and then freezing the extra meals. Then plan for a week and once you can do that double it. Then you can do a fortnight, and from there double that and plan for a month.”
You can also plan for snacks and desserts like Rebekah’s lemon and coconut bliss balls, chocolate bliss balls, muesli slice and nutty choc slice.
Rebekah’s Once A Term Cooking Facebook group has now grown to almost 6000 followers, after she sent friend and Quirky Cooking author Jo Whitton a photo of her kitchen that was full of ingredients.
“She put it up on her blog and it just exploded. Along with Instagram, Facebook and the website, we’re looking at starting an online store to accommodate those who are getting into bulk cooking.”
96five’s Iso-Kitchen
Easy recipe for homemade hummus
Strawberry Creme Easter Eggs
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How Can We Use Mindfulness to Pave the Way for Authenticity?
Article created in collaboration with podcast participants and AcornOak Tribe.
Pass the Mic Podcast Series is an unscripted group discussion born out of AcornOak’s belief in the power of many voices.
Each episode begins with one expert - an open-minded and passionate individual who has spent a great deal of time investigating and researching a certain topic. During our hour, a small group of 4 to 6 people explores complex and difficult concepts with curiosity, uncertain beliefs and the willingness to objectively listen and learn from the shared insights of others.
Our nine episode discusses the topic of authenticity with an attempt to dive deeper into the ways authenticity translates in our daily lives.
As the podcast host, Virginie Glaenzer paved the way for this conversation led by Melissa Nadia Viviana, an existentialist author and Beat Philosopher.
Welcoming Our Guests
We were honored to welcome our panel of special guests eager to discuss how mindfulness encourages self-awareness of our natural “stages of being” and provides updated context to our past and future selves.
Melissa Nadia Viviana is an existentialist author and Beat Philosopher who writes satire, memoir, philosophy of the mind, and existentialism. She spent the past 8 months traveling through the U.S. with her Dalmatian and hosts two brand new podcasts: “The Beat Philosopher” which discusses memoir, psychology, and philosophy of the mind, and “Calm AF Existentialist” which explores Eastern Philosophy and wisdom.
Jim Spivey, Partner, Mazzi Partners. Jim brings his experience as a former technology business executive and life coach to his work at a consulting firm focused on awakening change. He is inspired by prolific author, Peter Block, to change his own attitude toward aging and lead by example to change the world.
Misty W Gilbert is a transformational coach, blogger, writer, and speaker with a passion to encourage, support, and inspire others to create the life that they want by choosing to Intentionally Live. Misty is also a TEDx speaker on The Art of Authenticity, and vulnerably shares her horrific story of how she lived hiding in fear, hating her life, and ruled by the pain of her abusive past.
Ashok Zaman, currently living in Shanghai, Ashok Zaman is a post-traditional yogi, long-time meditator, philosopher, and casually alarmed observer.
Aaron Force is a researcher exploring ego and its impacts on humanity. Author of “What is Transpersonal Extropy,” Aaron usually describes his life as Before Awakening and After. In 2015, he experienced an awakening experience which led him to explore consciousness and help others discover their highest human potential.
Listen to the tour de table introduction of our participants.
Key Shared Insights & Perspectives
What is Authenticity?
Melissa started the discussion by exploring the definition of authenticity, according to Donald Woods Winnicott, an English pediatrician and psychoanalyst. Winnicott developed several theories and concepts that helped shape the way in which psychoanalysis is practiced today.
For Winnicott, authenticity starts with the understanding of the expression of the true and false selves. He believed that the false self was a mannerly, orderly, external self that enabled a person to fit into society. The true self, he asserted, was the self capable of creativity. He thought the act of playing was an important path by which clients could gain awareness into their true, authentic, emotional selves.
Listen to Melissa sharing her definition of authenticity.
How Do You Express Authenticity?
Misty Gilbert provided another way of looking at how to express our authenticity. She explains that there is another side of authenticity, which is spontaneity.
To be spontaneous requires us to be vulnerable in the moment by being just who we are. In this context, Misty defined authenticity as being open, real, raw and vulnerable.
From childhood, we’ve been conditioned to care about how others might perceive and receive us and to behave accordingly. We’ve been taught to put a mask on our personality, depending on our environment.
The true journey toward authenticity begins when we don't allow our environment to control how we respond. When we choose to show up regardless of who's on the call or who's in the room, then we are 100% ourselves. It enables us to channel the raw, vulnerable energy inside us as we communicate and relate to those around us.
Listen to Misty W Gilbert sharing her definition and her experience expressing authenticity.
What Are the Roles We Play?
The roles we play with our family, our partner and at work can all be very different and we can notice a shift when we go from one to the other, or a conflict when they get mixed up.
When we embody our roles too strongly or become unconscious of them, we are in danger of losing our authentic self.
When we remove the masks for those roles we play, when we can no longer rely on them to define who we are, we are faced with the question: Who am I really?
What’s left after peeling away the false layers is more truthful and genuine, even if it’s an unknown quantify,
Listen to Ashok Zaman sharing his view on the idea of roles we identify.
How Can You Cultivate Authenticity?
Practicing mindfulness seems to be one road to cultivate authenticity. The panel shared their own tools for developing authenticity:
Purposely focus on the present and just being through meditation.
Answer the call to experience truth by purposely removing our masks.
Observe, separate, and own the thoughts that are subconsciously running us without judging them, then surrender them which leads to being free.
Find your core values are and align with them regardless of others’ perceptions
Allow yourself to come unprepared and be vulnerable in the moment .
Lean into loneliness, whether physical or mental.
Individual Take-aways
As we came to the end of the hour, our group ended the discussion in the same way we started, with a tour de table. Each participant had the opportunity to reflect on what they heard and share their take-aways from the conversation.
Listen to the last 10 minutes of the episode.
Final Thoughts to Consider
Authenticity is the ability to maintain an individual “you” state of mind in the present moment despite pressures and obligations to conform to society, the past, the future, our families, our culture, and friends.
In a complex, globalized world that gives you access to information and stimulation around the clock, it feels more and more like authenticity isn’t something you can choose to have once.
It has to be something you choose to mindfully have on a daily basis and it starts with deeply understanding your core values.
What is it that matters to you? And are you living in alignment with it internally and externally?
These questions are the foundation to living your life authentically with your true self leading the way. The answers can give you the inspiration to face the consequences of being vulnerable and refusing to conform to self-imposed or external expectations.
If this short summary resonated with you, go to YouTube to view the entire discussion or listen on iTune, Spotify, Speaker or SoundCloud.
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The Women's Center for Creative Work
Jumpsuit Making Workshop
Make Your Own Jumpsuit with the Rational Dress Society
This is a Two-Part Workshop:
July 16th, 6:00pm-9:00pm
July 17th, 10–6 pm
$55 WCCW Members / $60 Regular
Join the Rational Dress Society for a two day workshop in which we learn to make JUMPSUIT, an ungendered monogarment to replace all clothes. During the workshop, participants will learn to sew their own JUMPSUITS using the pattern designed by the RDS. What if you never had to pick out an outfit again? What bonds might be formed between JUMPSUIT-wearing individuals? Make a JUMPSUIT and find out!
Participants should bring a working sewing machine, scissors, and three yards of non-stretch fabric in a color or pattern of their choice.
Learn more about JUMPSUIT, the Rational Dress Society, and their unique sizing system that accommodates 248 individual sizes, at www.jumpsu.it
Bios:
The Rational Dress Society is a counter-fashion collective founded by Chicago-based designer Abigail Glaum-Lathbury and Los Angeles-based artist Maura Brewer. Together, they make JUMPSUIT, an ungendered monogarment to replace all clothes. JUMPSUIT has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago and in the Dome of Visions in Copenhagen. The Rational Dress Society are recipients of the 2015 Creative Economic Development Fund Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation in Los Angeles. Recent press includes The Guardian, the New York Times, and Surface Magazine.
Abigail Glaum-Lathbury is a Chicago-based designer, and Assistant Professor of Fashion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For the past ten years, she has produced ready-to-wear collections under her labels Elmidae and Abigail Glaum-Lathbury. She has participated in many juried markets and showrooms, selling her collections internationally.
Maura Brewer is a Los Angeles-based visual artist. She received her MFA from UC Irvine in 2011, and was a 2014-2015 Whitney Independent Study Program fellow. Her videos and performances have been exhibited internationally in Vienna, Los Angeles and New York. She teaches at The University of Southern California and Art Center College of Design.
WCCW Member $55.00 USDRegular $60.00 USD
While most WCCW programming is free or donation-based, with no one turned away for lack of funds, we do offer some workshops that have fees associated. This covers materials and allows us to pay the leaders of these workshops for their time and expertise, and to put a small percentage back into WCCW. This income, in addition to memberships, is what lets us keep the doors open and the lights on. We want to make programming as accessible as possible to anyone who is interested though, so we also offer volunteer opportunities and free community tickets to each event or workshop (number varies depending on capacity of the class). Email info@wccw.us for more info or to find out more about this opportunity for a specific event.
Women’s Center for Creative Work is made possible through support from our members, generous donations from individuals, the WHH Foundation, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, LA County Arts Commission, the California Arts Council, The Parson’s Foundation, and the Wilhelm Family Foundation.
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Cyberspace, secret of Chinese internet censorship?
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The delicate States Index, an annual file published by way of America think tank the Fund for Peace and the magazine Foreign Policy, defines a fragile state as one “whose vital authorities is so weak or ineffective that it has little sensible control over a good deal of its territory; non-provision of public offerings; sizable corruption and criminal activity; refugees and involuntary motion of populations and sharp financial decline”.
Some, but now not all, of this, maps smartly directly to our on-line world. There may be, in an instance, no central government that has effective control over the community’s “territory” (even though the USA, for true motives, has had more effect on it than any other country, a good deal to the annoyance of the Russians and the Chinese). In truth, one of the vital troubles posed using the community is that it is a global gadget in a Westphalian global of sovereign states and local laws.Web Posting Reviews
Our quandary is that even as the future of our on-line world is unknowable, we need to reflect consideration on it because it impacts us all. The usual approach that large organisations and governments use for this cause is with the aid of imagining a fixed of viable futures or situations and assessing the implications of each one. The purpose isn’t to “are expecting” the future, however, to attempt to comic strip the range of possibilities that we would cope with.
As some distance as cyberspace is involved, the maximum thrilling set of eventualities I’ve seen come from a US think tank, the Atlantic Council. Its analyst, Jason Healey, sets out five applicants:
• Reputation quo: a continuation of what we now have. “our on-line world is commonly a safe place in which to do enterprise and to speak with others, despite the fact that criminals preserve to have interaction in multimillion-dollar heists and scouse borrow thousands and thousands of people’s personal info; countrywide Foreign intelligence groups poke and prod for army and industrial secrets.”
• Warfare area: an extrapolation of the militarisation of cyberspace that we already see – a world wherein cyber warfare becomes not unusual.
• Balkanisation: cyberspace has damaged into political fiefdoms: There’s no single internet, just a series of countrywide internets.
• Paradise: cyberspace turns into an overwhelmingly sheltered area in which espionage, conflict and crime are rare. Chinese are ahead in that game.
• Cybergeddon: our on-line world degenerates into a digital failed state with all that that means. Suppose current-day Mogadishu.
Some these are greater fantastic than others. Healey’s “paradise” scenario is a natural fable. And the power of internet groups – plus the attain and dominance of country full intelligence groups inclusive of the NSA – recommend that A few form of the (likely repressive) order could be restored lengthy before “cybered on” could be reached.
So we’re left with real opportunities – Some combination of Balkanisation and inter-state Battle, both extrapolations of tendencies that we can already have a look at.
If that is certainly how things pan out, I recognise one scholar, a prominent professor of international relations, who won’t be inside the least amazed. 16 years in the past, in a conversation about the internet, he requested me if I sincerely believed that the web represented an essential challenge to mounted energy systems. I answered vehemently in the affirmative – due to the fact, in my techno-utopian fervour, I did agree with. He smiled but stated not anything, and so sooner or later I asked him what he thought. “We’ll see, dear boy,” he responded. “We’ll see.”
He’s still around, as wise as ever. And I’m an improving utopian.
In case you ever want to annoy Western policymakers or politicians, then here’s a surefire way to do it. Inform them that the only authorities in the global that is familiar with the internet are the Chinese communist regime. And If you want to feature a killer punch, upload the announcement that nearly the whole lot we Think we recognize about Chinese language control of the internet is either banal (all that stuff about the splendid firewall, paranoia about key phrases such as “Falun Gong”, “democracy”, and so forth) or simply simple wrong. Having, therefore, lit the fuse, retreat to a secure distance and enjoy the ensuing outburst of righteous indignation.
For the avoidance of doubt, this is not an apologia for the Chinese language regime, that’s as nasty and intolerant as they arrive. But it’s good to have a realistic view of 1’s adversaries. China’s leaders have invented a new manner of walking society. It’s been christened “networked authoritarianism” by way of Rebecca MacKinnon, a cited student of these items. President Xi Jinping and his colleagues are fans of Boris Johnson in as a minimum one recognise: they accept as true with that it’s far viable to have one’s cake and eat it too.
They want to modernise and energise and cyberspace China so that it may fulfil its future as a world energy. For that, they need it to transform their united states into a hyper-networked society. But however, they do no longer want democracy, with all its attendant nuisances together with human rights, governments sure by using the rule of thumb of regulation, transparency, responsibility and so on, and that they fear that the internet might also supply residents thoughts above their station. So they are determined to have the net, however also to control it. And this they may be doing with astounding success.
Most of what we recognise approximately how this networked authoritarianism works come from a smallish group of students. The brightest star in this specialised firmament is Gary King, who’s director of the Institute for Quantitative Social, technological know-how at Harvard. Years in the past, he and his colleagues posted a groundbreaking examine, published in the journal Science, which for the first time discovered how a way of the government censors Chinese social media.
The observe showed that, contrary to common Western knowledge, Chinese language social media is as raucous and chaotic as it’s far anywhere else, so the Daily Mail’s concept of a rustic full of timid, faceless human beings with most useful banal reviews is baloney.
The study additionally revealed, although, that these outlets are ruthlessly however astutely censored: what gets taken down, aside from the usual suspects which include Falun Gong, pornography, democracy and so on, are any posts that could conceivably stimulate joint motion, even when the posts are beneficial towards the authorities. You could say extra or less what you like in China, in different words, so long as not anything you assert might have the impact of getting people out onto the streets.
An obvious implication of this research became that the Chinese regime, aware of the difficulty of running a largely united state without the comments loops provided via democracy, is the use of the net to provide that feedback. It enables it to preserve a finger at the pulse of the society, as it were. If There may be central public situation about the corruption of neighbourhood officers in Some godforsaken province, as an instance, then tracking social media affords the centre with one kind of early caution machine.
There has been, but, one thing of Chinese language internet control that King’s have a look at did no longer touch, particularly the widespread perception that, in addition to passive tracking and censorship, the regime additionally employed legions of component-time bloggers and social media customers (maybe as many as 2 million) to submit stuff on the net that turned into beneficial to the government or refuted its critics. This becomes the “50c military” (these humans are supposedly paid 50 cents – or yuan equal – per put up). Now, in a brand new paper (forthcoming in the American Political Science Evaluation), King and his colleagues have turned their searchlight in this phenomenon.
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Once again, their studies upend traditional knowledge. The 50c Navy does exist, they locate, however it’s no longer an element-time operation, and it’s greater resourceful than most people notion. King and co estimate that the Chinese language government fabricates and posts about 448m social media comments a year. But Additionally, they show that the underlying approach is to keep away from arguing with critics of the celebration and the authorities and to no longer even discuss debatable troubles. They, also, argue that the goal of this massive, undercover operation is, alternatively, “to distract the public and change the difficulty, as a maximum of these posts contains cheerleading for China, the modern records of the Communist celebration or other symbols of the regime”.
Sounds acquainted? In case you wanted a hashtag for the method, then #MCGA would do properly. It stands for “Make China terrific Again”. If Trump eventually falls out with Putin, he might locate A few kindred spirits in Beijing.
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Nike's World Cup tactics smarter than any 'ambush'
Nike's colorful new boots have been conspicuous at the World Cup in South Africa. (AFP/Getty)
London, England (CNN) - With the sheer number of Nike ticks seen on the clothes and the shoes of the footballers, you could be forgiven for thinking the American sportswear giant is an official corporate sponsor of this year’s World Cup in South Africa.
Of course, it’s Adidas and the famed three stripes that are supposed to catch the eye. It’s the German company's ball that's being used for all matches, and its name that appears on the boarding, along with some of the kits of teams such as Spain, Germany, France and Argentina (spare a thought for Nike-owned Umbro, which supplies England).
But, oh those bright orange and silver Nike Elite series of boots that so many players are wearing! It can be no coincidence that Nike’s latest shoe is so easy to see from far away. Many of those players wearing Adidas clothes are wearing Nike Elite. It worked. I noticed.
Don’t call it ambush marketing, though. This is a far cry from placing beautiful models wearing orange-colored clothes in the stands to promote a Dutch beer brand that is not a sponsor.
Nike is simply fulfilling a right to sign any player or team to a kit contract. Players have the right to wear what they want when it comes to critical equipment, like boots and baseball gloves, no matter who is the event's sponsor.
And you can’t blame Nike for people referring to its pre-tournament TV commercial (which is called "Write the Future") as “Nike’s new World Cup ad.” Though, as an aside, it's worth noting that all the players featured in it have already been knocked out of the tournament.
What Nike cannot do is link itself to the World Cup. Go to its website and you would never know that the most important sporting event in the world is taking place.
This is not a mild issue, of course. In order for big events to sign big-time sponsors, governments have to pass laws and make ambush marketing illegal (read South Africa’s law here).
That is why South African prosecutors could have filed criminal charges against the two Dutch women accused of being behind the beer stunt. The matter was dropped by soccer's governing body FIFA, though, after the beer company agreed to not do it again while Budweiser is the official beer of the tournament through 2022.
Then there are the "exclusion zones" around the stadiums where only official merchandise and drinks can be sold. Brands spend millions of dollars for the right not to have to compete with rivals who have not paid.
I was in Turin for the 2006 Winter Olympics, and people there had to be be reminded that Italy had passed such a law and that it was illegal to profit from the Olympics if you had not paid up first.
I also overheard Coca-Cola people making sure athletes did not bring the "wrong" water to press conferences, as they indicated had happened in the past.
Nike hasn’t had to worry about these things. It just had to make sure its players where brightly-colored shoes. Though at $400 a pair, I will not be buying them.
Posted by CNN Business Correspondent, Jim Boulden
WHAT?!?!? NIke world cup has become a flop!! more column inches to it cursed advert. More goals scored in adidas footwear and more teams in 3 strips through.
Nike has 5 boot to adidas 3's and adidas has more goal!!
Nike has more play paid to wear their boot then adidas and still behind in goals.
The simple adidas yellow and black boots show class compared to sporting billboards technicolor nike boots.
1st their write the future ad was highlights of achievements adidas wearing football players.
Cristiano Ronaldo is immortalized on a statue in front of the nations fans in the nike ad. But alas this first happened to Zinedine Zidane in 1998 when France won the world cup. Zidane's image was projected onto the Arc de Triomphe and the French public called for him to be made president.
Do’h!!! or rather adidas star Zidane was also referenced in a real episode of The Simpson too and come to think of he also was in a Family Guy episode too. All down to the Zidane head butt going viral on the Internet after the 2006 world cup. Going viral that’s in the nike ad too, but its already happened to an adidas star.
What else?? Oh there Cristiano Ronaldo life story becoming a Hollywood movie. D’oh again! This was an adidas star first too. Any one seen the movie Zidane a 21st century portrait? No? or how about The Clint Eastwood moive Invictus? Where Matt Damon plays South African rugby star François Pienaar. Yep Francois rocked adidas and won the world cup in rugby at the sametime… You must of seen this film of an adidas wearing player Bend it like Beckham!!!
Oh and everything that happens to Wayne Rooney in the nike ad all happened to David Beckham. The good and the bad in the tabloid press and the honor by the queen.
Not to mention the curse of nike has hit many of the nike players that featured in the ad. What class!!
Bavaria paid perhaps $100k total to get 10-15 pretty girls to travel to SA. This includes fines and compensation for their prison time. In return they got the attention from all media (even CNN) for a couple of days in a row, and in Holland the term 'Bavaria Babe' has become part of culture.
How much did Nike pay to sponsor these players? I have no solid estimate but it must be millions. What did they get in return? Most World Cup viewers probably couldn't tell you which sponsor their national team has and which brand of shoes their favorite player wears.
The strength of ambush (or guerilla) marketing is that you get a lot of publicity for a small budget. Ask Nike (or Adidas) what the ROI of their world cup was.
Here's a better one....Look at the actual facts. Nike is STILL the worlds undefeated supplier of Sporting Goods. Nike has always had and will continue to have the highest sales. That's because Adidas is European and in Europe the biggest sport they have is Football, where as in the USA we have much more sports that are equally big and important to us. So football teams is adidas' biggest cllients while Nike has many other sports and athletes to sponsor!
At the end of the day it's Nike who still claims the undisputed title as the king of sports wear.
Who cares if this Bavarian brewery made a quick, cheap publicity stunt...Just shows you how cheap they are. The only thing cheap, publicity gets you is 15 minutes of fame then it's like, where are they now?
Oh and Budweiser (American) is still the beer of the world cup until 2022....Hahahaha....Eat that you haters from Europe, Fake Americans!!!
Everybody knows NIKE makes better everything, shoes, balls, sportswear, etc. Adidas will always be second string to Nike's dominance!!!
speaking of sponsors.....did anyone notice that the uruguay players are now wearing "PUMA" as supposed to "ADDIDAS" which they wore during their previous matches? did they suddenly decided to get new sponsor?
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Nike have at last recognized that to be successful in anything you must be present in everything. The body, the mind and the soul must be as one. Nothing is as it seems but is always as it appears. Nike can tick the box for this one!
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If you have a son or daughter and they play soccer, ask them what soccer footware they want....
8 out of 10 will say, "the orange footware that Ronaldo wears on TV"
Job done....
Nike is dfa worlds best product.nothing like it.da person who is up-to-date and who uses nike product will always be successful in life luv it.
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hey rhea yur right ,nike is da best
nike is the world ,we r da children
same goes for the Coca-Cola vs Pepsi..
Pepsi aren't sponsors, yet they created a huge football campaign with many of the star players, the likes of Kaka, Messi, Lampard, Drogba, Torres and Ballack..Such a campaign overshadowed that of sponsoring company Coca-Cola..there are certain market approaches that are good enough and ethical for the sake of the competition, not always ambush marketing..
I wonder why a small countrie never wins the world cup. Does Nike want to invest merchanedise in a country with just 16 miljoen people? I must be mistaken, i dont think the world is such a incorrputed place, mabye Spain was just better....
@Joel – right on brother. I'm from the Beaver state, long live Nike, best fitting shoe I've every owned and I use their soccer, running, aqua, hiking, mtn biking, windsurfing, and casual shoes. Tried a Adddidas and it felt like a tooth extraction, blindfolded, sitting in a chair with my hands tied behind my back 😉
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20 years After ‘Black Hawk Down,’ US Military Back In Somalia
U.S. troops from the Quick Reaction force supported by a Cobra helicopter conduct a search operation near Mogadishu’s Medina hospital 27 July 1993.
AFRICANGLOBE – The US military has sent a small number of “uniformed trainers and advisers” to Somalia for the first time since 1993, when two US helicopters were shot down and 18 Americans were killed during the ‘Black Hawk Down’ mission.
A small cell of less than two-dozen US military personnel has been stationed in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, since last fall in an effort to advise and coordinate with African troops fighting Al-Shabab, a terrorist militia with ties to Al-Qaeda, three US military officials told The Washington Post.
Last summer and fall, US military officials indicated the Pentagon will become more involved in Somalia. The Pentagon’s top policy official in Africa, Amanda Dory, told Congress in October the US military would “increase our presence in Mogadishu in tandem with the State Department” but did not elaborate.
Three anonymous US military officials told reporters that US Africa Command sent a small amount of advisers to Mogadishu in the fall to coordinate the cell with Somali security forces and a regional coalition of African troops.
The Pentagon declined to comment on the plans.
The clandestine deployment ends two decades of America’s unofficial policy that prohibited any long-term US military presence on the ground in Somalia despite the country being considered a failed state and teeming with pirate and terrorist organizations.
Yet the informal policy has not kept the US from actively participating in Somali affairs. President Barack Obama’s administration runs surveillance drones out of neighboring country Djibouti, occasionally using the unmanned aerial vehicles to conduct airstrikes from Somali skies. In addition, elite Special Operations forces have entered Somalia for swift counter-terrorism raids and hostage situations.
The Central Intelligence Agency has also operated a base in Somalia for some time, financing Somali forces fighting Al-Shabab and other entities. Journalist Jeremy Scahill has documented the CIA’s secretive movements in Somalia. In 2011, he revealed the existence of the CIA’s counterterrorism center at the Mogadishu airport. He also reported on a secret prison in the US-funded Somali National Security Agency, which according to his sources, was used by the US to interrogate prisoners.
In response to The Washington Post’s story Friday, he tweeted, “US has had military ‘adviser/trainers’ in Somalia for years. Not new.” According to an ABC report US personnel have gone into Somalia, but the latest deployment is the first permanent posting since 1993.
The US finally recognized the federal government of Somalia in 2013 and reestablished diplomatic ties for the first time since the Somali government collapsed in 1991. Yet the State Department does not have a permanent presence in Mogadishu.
It has been known for years that the US operates a secret prison in Mogadishu
In October 1993, a task force of US Army Rangers and Delta Force commandos engaged in a fierce battle with Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed’s fighters in Mogadishu. The US was there in support of a United Nations humanitarian mission. The failure of the operation prompted a quick US withdrawal and a reticence in Washington to engage in new conflicts there.
In recent years, the US has spent over US$500 million to train and arm an African Union security force of over 18,000 soldiers amid ongoing chaos and famine in Somalia. Most of the forces are trained outside Somalia by US contractors and uniformed military advisers. The US has also spent around $170 million to boost the often-ineffective Somali national army.
The African Union forces control most of Mogadishu, though Al-Shabab still holds most of the country. Al-Shabab has led insurgent efforts in Somalia, against the country’s Western-backed leaders, in recent years. It announced a merger with Al-Qaeda two years ago, though how much of a threat they pose to the US is disputed by American analysts.
Al-Shabab has pulled off successful terror plots in East Africa, including the siege of a shopping center in Kenya in September that resulted the death of 67 people.
Despite The Washington Post’s report that “fewer than two-dozen troops” were sent to Mogadishu, ABC News reported later Friday that “less than” five US advisers are now stationed there, according to a Department of Defense official. ABC News also tweeted “advisers were sent to Mogadishu after [Secretary of Defense Chuck] Hagel received request from Somali gov’t & [African Union Mission in Somalia].”
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AFRICANGLOBE – Last week, I was shocked to read an article by Dambisa Moyo titled-China HELPS Africa to Develop. It was the most frustrating and patronizing article I have ever read about Africa’s development.
Nevertheless, the article prompted me to reflect once more about Africa’s development. What has gone wrong with the most naturally enriched continent? Why is the most endowed continent also the most patronized, the poorest in reality, and the most fed with AID. Something must have gone wrong.
Three questions are inevitable. What is missing in Africa’s development process that made her vulnerable to slavery, “legitimate trade”, colonial exploitation, exploitation by multinational companies, massive capital flight, and now further exploitation and humiliation by China? What is common among the present and past exploiters of Africa? What differentiates China from these external invaders/exploiters that made people like Dambisa Moyo to now refer to China as African Helper?
According to Jeffery Sachs – before industrial revolution, the whole world economy was relatively at par. No part of the world was far richer than the other, and none was poor or underdeveloped in relation to others as we know it today. In other words industrial revolution was the game changer. But game changer for who, when and how?
Even Karl Marx agreed that industrial revolution that transformed scientific knowledge to technology led to the creation of massive capital. Since industrial revolution in 18th century, we now know that technology tills the land, builds the roads, bridges, rails, (infrastructure); extracts and processes natural resources; and confers power to rule, dominate, exploit, and expropriate on any group, or nation that cares to embrace it. “Technological innovations often fuelled by governments, drive industrial growth and
help raise living standards”.
Most nations/continents realised this simple but complex fact on time, and have adopted, adapted, downloaded and even stole all the technological apps and manuscripts emanating from industrial revolution in England. These nations further redeveloped the magic of the steam engine.
First, nearly all the countries in Europe copied from England; then the great diffusion of technology manuscripts to USA. Asian countries including the ones normally referred as tigers followed. They include India, Singapore, South Korea, and Hong Kong. Mr. Deng Xiaoping, the reformist Chinese leader, made sure that China was not left out, hence in 1978, steered China towards a techno market economy. The result of Deng’s efforts changed the world power balance. China became a political economic monster, with huge capital ready for re-investment and exploitation of places like Africa.
Chinese Industrial revolution now accords China the power to exploit and dominate and not to HELP. This is why China is in Africa. Africa represents the only world’s continent available and ready to be exploited because her leaders have refused to neither join the league of down loaders of technology apps and manuscripts, nor create the right environment for their people to do so. So China is not in Africa to HELP Africa. She is in Africa to do to Africa what Europe and America have always done to Africa. China is neither a friend, foe, nor partner in development with Africa. She is simply obeying the rules of techno- capitalism- exploit and dominate.
The history of world’s political economy is the history of exploitation and domination. There is no country or continent that uses its technology generated capital to HELP another. Techno Capitalist dictionary has no HELP in it. This is not how the game works. Capital is always re-invested for greater exploitation, and the aim is always to re-invest in countries/continents that have shown hopelessness, inability, impotence, and lack of will to help themselves.
Unfortunately, the only CAPITAL being invested by Africa in other continents are her billions of dollars stolen by her dubious leaders.
China is in Africa to exploit Africa’s natural resources, as Africa fails to download available appps and manuscripts that would have helped her to extract and process her own resources. It is not just about what is happening in Africa via China, but about the revolution and change still taking place right inside China. China overtook United States as the World’s highest Co2 emitter in 2005. In 2010, while China emitted 8,286,892.0 KT of Co2, USA emitted 5,433,056 Kt of Co2; (2,853,836 Kt) more than USA. “Carbon dioxide emissions are those stemming from the burning of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement. They include carbon dioxide produced during consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels and gas flaring” (World Bank). This further tells the whole story. China needs African solid, liquid, and gas fuels, to fuel her industries back home, and not in Africa to HELP Africa. This is not rocket science.
The only revolution still waiting to happen in the world is the African industrial revolution. This is the revolution that will keep every continent to itself, or get them to collaborate on equal basis, mutual respect, and partnership. While Africa is not being detected in the world technology radar, she is very visible in every corruption index.
The most worrying bad news is that Africa (especially, south of the Sahara) is not making any serious efforts to endogenously create her own tech manuscripts and apps to pull her from subservience. Out of the 4,075,279 trade mark applications filed in the world in 2012 not a single one emanated from Africa South of the Sahara; and out of the 2,170,132 patent applications filed in same period throughout the world, none came from Africa South of the Sahara. How will Africa find its footing in world’s techno-political economy with this level of progress?
Until African leaders begin to download western technological applications and manuscripts, she will continue to be subservient to others. African leaders should start creating Africa’s tech zones, start speeding up the catch up and diffusion, and commence adopting, adapting tech apps and manuscripts. If they don’t, even other Asian tigers like Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Malaysia would start trying their hands on the sleeping giant.
Chinese presence in Africa is for exploitation and expropriation-period.
By: Austin Aneke
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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / September 2, 2020 / Gaucho Group Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB:VINO), a company with a growing collection of experiential luxury assets including the premium wines of Algodon Fine Wines, a high-end leather accessories and fashion label Gaucho - Buenos Aires, as well as real estate holdings, today announces the addition of VinPorter to the wine retailer network of Algodon Fine Wines.
VinPorter Wine Merchants (https://vinporter.com/) is an e-commerce platform designed to introduce hand-picked and curated fine wines to their customer base. They have selected high-quality vintages from over 12 Countries, in varying grape varieties and price points. VinPorter makes buying wine a less intimidating task for the average consumer, walking the customer through the sales process with an intuitive, user-friendly interface.
"We're thrilled to announce this addition to our ambassador initiative in the U.S." said Scott Mathis, Algodon Fine Wine's CEO & Chairman. "VinPorter is a state-of-the-art platform with a curated collection of excellent products. Our team is very excited about this new initiative and what it means to Algodon Fine Wine's reach and sales, as we continue to grow our brand."
VinPorter is the latest addition to the distinct network of Algodon Fine Wines retailers; including Sherry-Lehmann, Spec's, Le Boutellier, The Noble Grape, as well as Vivino Online.
"We're excited to have the opportunity to represent these amazing wines from Argentina and carry on their tradition of class and quality. The Algodon family of products is not something to be missed!" said, Jared Clevenger, VinPorter - Chief Porter
Algodon Fine Wines, founded in 2007 and with vineyards dating back to 1946, is one of the most exciting and dynamic wine brands emerging from Argentina. Located in San Rafael, Mendoza, Algodon produces a full range of premium wines from land holdings that include noted parcels of pre-phylloxera vineyards dating back to the 1940s. Algodon's premium wines have received a number of top awards and ratings from the world's foremost tasting competitions including Gold Medals from the prestigious Global Masters Wine Competition, comprised of master sommeliers. Algodon's Black Label Reserves represent the best selection from Algodon with 100% microvinified blends whose low yield produces full concentration of fruit and flavor. Algodon Fine Wines are imported to the U.S. by Seaview Imports.
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Algodon Fine Wines are produced at Algodon Wine Estates, a boutique Mendoza winery located in the beautiful foothills of the Sierra Pintadas, in the southernmost region of Argentina's wine capital. Fed by the purest meltwater from the glacial Andes, our 325 acres of vines go back as far as 1946 and produce exceptional fruit on sandy and clay loam. Algodon wines are handcrafted by the brilliant winemaker Mauro Nosenzo, who is advised by Master of Wine, Anthony Foster. Our goal is to produce premium wines utilizing ecofriendly, organic inspired approaches, combined with the best modern winemaking technology. Brought together by Scott Mathis and his partners, Algodon Wine Estates' renowned winemakers bring decades of experience, as well as craftsmanship and tradition that have been passed down for generations. Visit AlgodonFineWines.com for more information. Algodon Fine Wines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gaucho Group Holdings, Inc., which also owns and operates a growing collection of luxury assets including Gaucho - Buenos Aires, an e-commerce luxury leather accessories and fashion brand that offers buyers around the world some of Argentina's best quality leather goods and accessories. Gaucho Group Holdings, Inc. is headquartered in New York City.
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The Love Boat Slot Machine
Fans of The Love Boat TV show from the late 1970s beware. The author of this review is completely unfamiliar with the series and thus is unqualified to say whether the slot machine bearing the same title is in any way loyal to the feel of the source material for the game. Disclaimer out of the way, let’s look at Playtech’s homage to the piece of classic television from the most objective of standpoints.
The game itself is played across five reels and three rows. There’s 25 fixed win lines and a maximum main game jackpot of 3,000x the line bet. There are some great side games that players can unlock. These have clearly been inspired by the TV show, although the specific references are lost on me. Even without knowing a thing about the original content, The Love Boat slot machine is an enjoyable, modern title with a lot to offer the casual and seasoned gamer alike.
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Theme: The Love Boat
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Great game features. Several different bonus stages keep the action varied.
Potential for a massive jackpot win off any sized spin.
Not suitable for the very highest rollers around. When some machines offer £2,000-£2,500 per spin, the £625 of The Love Boat seems a little small.
Very low return-to-player rating. Being just below 92% makes this game one of the least fair we’ve played for a long time.
The highest pay outs on The Love Boat slot machine are awarded for hitting five-of-a-kind of one of the larger value symbols across a single win line. These symbols have been inspired by the classic TV show and most are characters from it (thank you IMBD for clarifying this for me). Hitting five-of-a-kind of each will pay the following:
Ship “wild” = 3,000x the line bet.
Captain Merrill Stubing = 1,000x the line bet.
Dr Adam Bricker = 400x the line bet.
Vicky Stubing = 300x the line bet.
Bartender Isaac Washington = 200x the line bet.
Gopher Smith = 150x the line bet.
One of the areas in which The Love Boat shines is with its bonus features. It offers several, as well as a special £10,000 jackpot game.
The Matchup Bonus
Landing three ship’s telegraph “bonus” symbols anywhere on reels one, three, and five simultaneously will trigger the Matchup Bonus. During this side game, players must match the “dudes and the chicks” for a cash prize and multipliers. They first pick a female from the group on the right for a cash prize, and then a man from the group on the left for another. The total prize pre-multiplier will be the sum of both picks.
After making their selections, players sit back and let the “love-o-meter” test the match to see what multiplier their prize will receive. We’ve listed the potential outcomes below:
“Let’s just be friends” = 1x multiplier.
“You’re smoking hot” = 3x multiplier.
“It’s my one true love” = 5x multiplier.
Note: This bonus feature is available during the main game only.
The Love Doctor Free Games
Landing three or more of The Love Boat “scatter” symbols anywhere on the reels will trigger The Love Doctor Free Games. During the free spins, landing the Doctor symbol on the reels causes the “love meter” at the right-hand side of the reels to increase. The higher it reaches, the more features are unlocked. These prizes can include freezing wilds, more free spins, and additional multipliers.
The Dream Cruise Jackpot
Players can win tickets to a recurring jackpot draw when playing The Love Boat slot machine. Landing the “Dream Cruise Ticket” symbol anywhere on reel five will award a random amount of tickets to the draw. A jackpot total is shown on the side bar at the right of the main game screen.
An onscreen countdown will appear a few seconds prior to the start of the draw. As the draw begins a ticket window will appear. This shows all the player’s participating tickets. The winning number is revealed one digit at a time at the top of the screen.
The player who holds the winning ticket will be awarded with a total of £10,000.
During the game, it’s possible to view current tickets as well as a history of tickets awarded by clicking on “My Tickets” on the jackpot side bar.
In a break from the traditional playing cards used to denote lower prizes, The Love Boat slot machine uses a different set of symbols. The ones chosen all reference the show in some way and players will receive the following pay outs for hitting five-of-a-kind:
Glasses, or life ring = 100x the line bet.
Heart = 75x the line bet.
Smaller life ring or clip board = 50x the line bet.
Players have only one option to adjust the size of their bet on The Love Boat slot machine. They can either raise or lower the line bet and that is all. This is because the number of lines remains fixed at 25. Therefore, the minimum possible bet is 1p across all lines. This equals a total of 25p. Meanwhile, a bet of £25, makes the cost per spin a more sizeable £625.
Despite having little to no idea what The Love Boat was before playing the machine, it was rather enjoyable. It’s a modern looking game with a great array of features and side games to play. Each of these can be lucrative but pale in comparison to the Dream Cruise Jackpot.
That alone makes this title worthy of playing, even if all the references are before your time. Players should beware however; the slot is particularly stingy when it comes to its return-to-player rating. It offers a paltry 91.98%, which is the lowest we’ve seen for a long time.
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A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé.
The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways -- glossing over misogyny while omitting the seeds of feminist resistance. Many of today's harmful practices, like school dress codes, exploitation of the environment, and rape culture, have their roots in the ancient world.
But in Antigone Rising, classicist Helen Morales reminds us that the myths have subversive power because they are told -- and read -- in different ways. Through these stories, whether it's Antigone's courageous stand against tyranny or the indestructible Caeneus, who inspires trans and gender queer people today, Morales uncovers hidden truths about solidarity, empowerment, and catharsis.
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ASSOCIATION for
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Welcome to APECS
APECS exists to ensure that in a complex world, executives and their organisations are able to benefit from executive coaching and supervision to deliver ethical and sustainable development globally. It does so by pursuing excellence through setting high standards, accrediting and certifying members against these standards, creating a strong community of practice and encouraging systemic awareness of the wider concerns of business and society.
We are a not-for-profit organisation providing:
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Professional membership for those who have been significantly involved in Executive Coaching, Team Coaching or Supervision in the past and are not currently significantly involved with these yet wish to remain in contact with the profession
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Please click this link for membership categories and criteria guidelines.
And, for more on the history of APECS click here.
Use our interactive map to find our APECS Members and read their profiles.
(Please note we're continually adding members to our map and look forward to having a full complement very shortly)
Founded in 2004, the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS) is the top level membership professional body for executive coaching and supervision. APECS uses a capability based framework (as opposed to competencies) to evaluate and acknowledge an executive coach’s level of professional standing.
Executive Coaching differs from other forms of coaching in that it is primarily concerned with the development of the executive in the context of the needs of their organisation.
APECS defines "Executive" as a person who has a level of leadership responsibility (financial / operational / people) and/or responsibility for policy formulation and/or who makes a significant business critical individual contribution to the organisation.
APECS is a not-for-profit organisation which accredits executive coaches and supervisors working within the context of coaching and leadership who attain its standards. Our aims are:
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Bath night in our recreation of a typical miner’s cottage
Explore the area’s rich industrial and social history through the varied exhibits in our museum. From the formation of coal to the last working mine in Staffordshire, we visit the Romans, Victorians and the ordinary people who lived locally.
The area’s history can be traced back to the Romans who built a fort and settlement in nearby Chesterton. Our Roman display, including part of a large important 1st century building revealed at nearby Holditch in 1998.
The Heritage Centre’s site was once a working coal mine and so of course we have an impressive collection of mining artefacts. Our collection includes a mine rescue van, a detailed model of a drift mine, tools, mine lamps, maps, photographs and the personal belongings of the miners. Mining was a dangerous activity and so we also remember three notorious local disasters including the Minnie Pit Disaster.
Our miner’s cottage evokes a fascinating insight into everyday family life in the past. The miner’s kitchen and scullery have recently been complemented by a yard area complete with outdoor loo and coal shed. And we go a bit more upmarket with a later parlour.
In addition the museum is pleased to host a small selection of locomotives and rolling stock from the Moseley Railways Trust’s extensive collection. Appropriately this includes a mining locomotive that once worked in Calverton Colliery, near Nottingham.
The museum is open on Saturday and Sunday from 10:30pm to 4pm and entry is free, although we do appreciate a contribution in our donations box. To visit outside these times please contact us.
Canary in a cage with resuscitator
Bellows and Helmet – early breathing apparatus
Mine Rescue van
Colliery Locomotive
Plaque from Chesterton Miners Hall
Mine lighting
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Travelling in Style with Blockchain
Asia Blockchain Review
In recent years, Blockchain has been a huge transformational topic that some may or may not be aware of; but are keen to explore somewhere or another. As a distributed system – centralised or decentralised, information can be shared across all continents through the networking system of technology that is being built under the solid frame of Blockchain. But, how does it change the standpoint of the travel industry? ABR is ready to explore the whole movement of the new era of future technology.
Choosing a location to visit is already an exhausting phase where one can have a hard time deciding where to end up. But, once that is sorted; everything else follows through. The next step is to secure a plane ticket, and then utilising the choices we have to pick the best option there is to exist, and coordinate what we can explore around. Last but never the least; would come down to finalising the option and making the process simpler, direct and transparent. However, where does Blockchain lie around to assist in the travelling space?
Data and Information Passover
Personal data is restricted information that we shall never allow anyone to keep for their own goodwill, but mainly on the importance of the need for the information. With blockchain, the security rank is top-notch as the system will NEVER go offline or be accidentally deleted or cyber-attacked maliciously; this is because everything is traceable and transparent from every angle you could ever think of. There is no possible way to erase, edit or even develop a new system to amend with one’s personal interests especially when it is on the public side of transparency: centralised ledger system.
As travel agents help to assist by being the middle person of every single process; especially the one that connects from one party to another; the advanced technology of Blockchain will even further transform the way things are being accessed, delivered and shared across various accounts of every single thing. This means, there is no way for one to “cheat” the system through one way or another. Transparency is definitely at its finest.
Ultimate Application in the Travel Industry
As we have dived into the details of the basic structure of Blockchain and it is developing in the Travelling industry, the final keylock to it is the actual application of it in the current processes. Hospitality and travelling industry mostly utilises the human force with everything that is required. With blockchain, data of luggage tracking can be captured, identification of services, security and traceable payment and last but never the least; the loyalty schemes for consumers.
Everything now comes to the point that humanising technological development will combat fraud and allow loyalty to be earned and valued by various entities. As the usage of Blockchain in the travelling industry or more is adapted; loyalty to authenticity can be captured, simplified. In the end, Blockchain is a cherry on top of the cake, and that is being acquired to be utilised in various industries.
Source: revfine
About Asia Blockchain Review
Asia Blockchain Review is the largest initiative for media and community building in Asia for blockchain technology. We aim to connect all blockchain enthusiasts on a regional scale and facilitate the technological foundation of blockchain through a range of group discussions, technical workshops, conferences, and consulting programs.
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The Original Will: Can It Be Located?
Anchin Private Client CenterApril 30, 2019
E. Richard Baum, Tax Partner, Anchin Private Client
In a world that is increasingly paperless, many people are becoming accustomed to conducting a variety of transactions digitally. When it comes to one’s Last Will and testament, however, only an original, signed document will do.
A photocopy is not good enough.
Many people mistakenly believe that a photocopy of a signed Will is sufficient. In fact, most states require that a deceased’s original Will be filed with the probate court. If the deceased’s will cannot be located, there is a presumption in most states that it was destroyed by the deceased with the intent to revoke it. This suggests that the court will generally administer the estate in question as if a Will had never been written.
It is possible to overcome this presumption — for example, if all interested parties agree that a signed copy reflects one’s wishes, they may be able to convince a court to admit it. Nonetheless, to avoid costly, time-consuming legal headaches, it is best to ensure that the original Will can be located by the family when needed.
There is no perfect place to store a Will — it depends on the individual’s circumstances and comfort level with the storage arrangements. Regardless of the physical storage location, it is critical that it be stored safely, and that the family knows how to find it. Options include:
Having an accountant, attorney or another trusted advisor hold the Will and ensuring that the family knows how to contact him or her, or
Storing the Will at one’s home or office in a fireproof lockbox or safe and ensuring that a trusted individual knows where it is and how to retrieve it.
Storing a Will in one’s safe deposit box is not a good idea since banks typically seal these boxes denying access until an executor is appointed. This clearly becomes a problem since the executor cannot be appointed until the Will is offered for probate.
Storing an original Will and other estate planning documents safely —and communicating their location to one’s family — will help ensure that the wishes are carried out. For further discussions regarding estate plans and security, contact your Anchin Relationship Partner or E. Richard Baum, a Tax Partner in Anchin Private Client, at info@anchin.com or 212.840.3456.
E. Richard Baum
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Is new FSA shelf-life guidance an opportunity for smart labels?
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Is new FSA shelf-life guidance an opportunity for smart labels? | 22-12-2020 |
Shelf-life guidance for vacuum and modified atmosphere packed (VP/MAP) chilled fresh beef, lamb and pork has been updated by the FSA. According to a spokesman for AIPIA this could be a real opportunity to roll out more smart condition monitoring labels for the proteins packaging market. The new guidance document will be available for reference on the FSA website from Monday 14 December 2020, but is effective immediately.
From now on, food business operators (FBOs) can choose a safe shelf-life for these specific products in line with their existing food safety management systems. Moving away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach will benefit both consumers and industry and will continue to ensure high food safety standards and unnecessary food waste is reduced. The decision has been taken based on a combination of evidence that includes expert microbiological advice, epidemiological information on the occurrence of botulism, and international data over many years on meat products.
Commenting, a AIPIA spokesperson said, “This is a real opportunity for retailers and fresh meat producers and packers to consider using condition monitoring labels to give consumers a real, evidence based, method of knowing their meat is safe and fit for consumption.”
Last month, a public consultation into options to change the previous 10-day maximum shelf-life best practice guidance for these products concluded. Rebecca Sudworth, FSA director of policy, explained, “Food businesses will be able to follow existing industry guidance to ensure that an appropriate shelf-life is applied to these products, while support will be provided to smaller businesses, who may not have this capability, by setting a modified 13-day limit.
“We are confident that food businesses in the UK will continue to put standards and safety at the heart of everything they do, so consumers can be confident their interests come first” she added.
Industry representatives on a joint FSA and industry working group welcomed the FSA’s decision. David Lindars, co-chair of the working group and technical operations director of the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA), said, “I welcome this decision, which represents modern evidence-based regulation, and has been reached thanks to excellent joined up working between industry and regulator. We are confident that this is a proportionate outcome that will benefit consumers and food businesses and help reduce food waste, whilst not compromising food safety.”
While larger businesses are expected to be able to put into practice their own guidance immediately for these products, the FSA recognizes that small and medium-sized food businesses may not have the suitable resources or expertise. Therefore, they will be able to use the new ACMSF recommendation for these products and can apply a shelf-life of a maximum 13-day period without further activity.
“We hope BMPA and Retail organizations such as BRC will now reach out to us or our members to discuss implementation of technology which can add value to their product as well as confirm that the highest standards of food safety are maintained. We are ready to talk at any time,” said AIPIA.
This review applies only to VP/MAP chilled fresh beef, lamb and pork without added ingredients or further processing beyond cutting, packing, chilling, freezing and quick-freezing. It does not apply to any beef, lamb or pork that is subject to further processing such as mincing, cooking or mixing with any other ingredients such as herbs, spices or curing salts.
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‘It’s just cuckoo’: state’s latest data mishap causes critics to cry foul
In the latest bungling of tracking data for the novel coronavirus, a recently posted bar chart on the Georgia Department of Public Health’s website appeared to show good news: new confirmed cases in the counties with the most infections had dropped every single day for the past two weeks. In fact, there was no clear downward trend.
Coronavirus Outbreak: Data | May 19, 2020
By Willoughby Mariano - The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionJ. Scott Trubey - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Where does Sunday take place twice a week? And May 2 come before April 26?
The state of Georgia, as it provides up-to-date data on the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the latest bungling of tracking data for the novel coronavirus, a recently posted bar chart on the Georgia Department of Public Health's website appeared to show good news: new confirmed cases in the counties with the most infections had dropped every single day for the past two weeks.
In fact, there was no clear downward trend. The data is still preliminary, and cases have held steady or dropped slightly in the past two weeks. Experts agree that cases in those five counties were flat when Georgia began to reopen late last month.
» NEW: The AJC's redesigned COVID-19 data dashboard
DPH changed the graph Monday after more than a day of online mockery, public concern and a letter from a state representative. Gov. Brian Kemp’s office issued an apology and its spokespeople said they’d never make this kind of mistake again.
"Our mission failed. We apologize. It is fixed," tweeted Candice Broce, a spokeswoman for the governor.
This unforced error — at least the third in as many weeks — is confounding observers who have noted sloppiness in case counts, death counts and other measures that are fundamental to tracking a disease outbreak. Georgians check the data daily to decide whether it's safe to reopen their businesses or send their children to daycare. Policymakers use it for decisions affecting the health of more than 10 million Georgians.
The x axis was set up that way to show descending values to more easily demonstrate peak values and counties on those dates. Our mission failed. We apologize. It is fixed.
— Candice Broce (@candicebroce) May 11, 2020
In recent weeks, DPH data issues caused confusion over whether novel coronavirus deaths had topped 1,000 — they are now more than 1,490. The agency erroneously posted at least twice that children died.
Some of these errors could be forgiven as mistakes made during a chaotic time. But putting days in the wrong order, as the recently withdrawn chart did, makes no sense.
» COMPLETE COVERAGE: Coronavirus in Georgia
“It’s just cuckoo,” said state Rep. Scott Holcomb, D-Atlanta, who sent the letter outlining his concerns to the governor’s office on Monday. The bar chart that stirred the latest controversy was revised shortly afterwards. “I don’t know how anyone can defend this graph as not being misleading. I really don’t.”
A spokeswoman for DPH told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the chart was incorrect because of an error in how it sorted dates. An aide to the governor told Holcomb that a software vendor caused the problem, Holcomb said. A tweet from a Kemp spokesman said the data team behind the chart published it because they thought it would be “helpful.”
Kemp spokeswoman Broce said the office does not dictate what data DPH publishes.
“We are not selecting data and telling them how to portray it, although we do provide information about constituent complaints, check it for accuracy, and push them to provide more information if it is possible to do so,” said Broce.
Dr. Kathleen Toomey, commissioner of Georgia Department of Public Health, speaks as Gov. Brian Kemp looks during a press briefing to update on COVID-19 at the Georgia State Capitol on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. HYOSUB SHIN / HYOSUB.SHIN@AJC.COM
Others worry the data is being portrayed in a way that favors Kemp’s early easing of restrictions. A separate graph on DPH’s page has led readers to think that cases were dropping dramatically, even though lower case numbers were the result of a lag in data collection.
“I have a hard time understanding how this happens without it being deliberate,” said State Rep. Jasmine Clark, D-Lilburn, who received her doctorate in microbiology and molecular genetics at Emory University. “Literally nowhere ever in any type of statistics would that be acceptable.”
» RELATED: 'Confused and scared': Georgians frustrated over shifting virus data
» MORE: New changes to state's virus data confuse experts, residents alike
Wrong information about Georgia's battle against COVID-19 is already shaping the way the public sees the state. A Friday column in The Wall Street Journal dubbed Kemp's controversial decision to begin reopening, "The Georgia Model."
It said the state is experiencing “a welcome trend of declining new cases and deaths.”
In fact, seven-day rolling averages of cases show only a slight decline over two weeks. Deaths appear to have plateaued, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of daily DPH reports. The impact of reopening Georgia's economy is still too early to measure for both new infections and deaths because of the lag time between an infection, testing, diagnosis and, potentially, death.
The latest flubbed chart lists case counts from the most recent 14 days, but data collection lags and a quirk in the state’s method of recording cases mean that counts for recent dates are often a fraction of what they turn out to be when the data is more complete.
“You really don’t want to be using very recent data to make decisions, given those delays,” said Benjamin Lopman, an infectious disease epidemiologist and an expert on using statistical analysis and other tools to address public health issues.
"It's just cuckoo. ... I don't know how anyone can defend this graph as not being misleading. I really don't." —State Rep. Scott Holcomb, D-Atlanta
Interpreting data needs to be done with caution, especially now that DPH assigns the date of a new case in two different ways on its site, experts said.
When the pandemic began, the agency assigned a date to a case based on the day results came into its office. Starting in late April, DPH added charts that date a new coronavirus case back to the day a patient said symptoms started. If that data isn’t reported, DPH substitutes the date the test sample was collected or when it was received results.
But because it can take weeks for case information to come in, the new method always appears to show that cases are declining, even if they are not. The charts that used it stirred suspicion and confusion, and ran afoul of principles for communicating during a public health crisis, experts said.
Leaders must craft their messages carefully at a time like this, noted Professor Joseph Cappella, an expert on public health communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.
“They need to be clear, they need to be consistent, they need to be credible and they need to be apolitical,” Cappella said.
Mistakes harm credibility
DPH has made some improvements in recent days by apologizing and updating its online status report.
But among certain observers, the damage is done. Dr. Harry J. Heiman, a clinical associate professor at the Georgia State University School of Public Health, called the most recent mix-up “criminal” and said DPH has shown a pattern of reporting misleading data.
One example is a map of Georgia cases and infection rates that colors counties in shades of blue or red based on local rates of infection. In recent weeks, DPH raised the bar on how high an infection rate needs to be before a county is colored red.
“Based on the (key) they were using a couple weeks ago, a good third to a half of our state would show up as red right now,” Heiman said. “Because they keep moving the goalposts, if you will, it doesn’t look that way.”
The data reporting problems continue.
On Monday morning, DPH reported about 2,400 more confirmed cases than actual tests performed, said J.C. Bradbury, an economics professor at Kennesaw State University. Bradbury isn’t an epidemiologist, but he regularly tracks the DPH dashboard and is accustomed to processing large data sets.
The error was quickly fixed, but it should have never happened.
“It looks like you are doing something funny when you are just catching a mistake,” Bradbury said.
On Tuesday, DPH updated its charts again with clearer labeling that some of its most recent data is preliminary. But one chart for cases and deaths uses such a large numeric key, the number of deaths appear to be almost zero.
Gov. Brian Kemp walks to the podium before he speaks during a press briefing to update on COVID-19 at the Georgia State Capitol on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. HYOSUB SHIN / HYOSUB.SHIN@AJC.COM
DPH may need to present its data more clearly, but it is improving at the urging of lawmakers, said State Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick, R-East Cobb, a physician who recovered from COVID-19 and is part of Kemp’s coronavirus task force.
She said she does not believe the state is acting in bad faith.
“I don’t feel there’s any intention … to mislead anyone or present (the data) in a way other than how they are,” Kirkpatrick said.
DPH’s epidemiology division is not political. It is chronically understaffed, said Dr. Melanie Thompson, principal investigator of the AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta who has worked with the state epidemiology team for 30 years on the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
“I think they’re trying to do something that they think represents the epidemic,” Thompson added. “I think it ends up being extremely confusing to the average person.”
DPH can recover from any loss of credibility by providing more information about its current data reporting procedures and showing why its leaders think the new approach is a more accurate and responsible way of reporting, Cappella said.
The agency can also reassure the public by reporting case and death counts consistently across its public site, and conveying information thorough a person who is not a politician.
“I don’t think you can repair credibility overnight,” Cappella said.
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Below is a list of bars, restaurants, and establishments that offer video slot machines to customers in Spring Grove, Illinois. Video games provide a source of entertainment for players and also provide a source of revenue to the town. Awesome Hand Gaming is a proud provider of Illinois video slot machines to establishments in Spring Grove and surrounding areas. Looking for video games for your restaurant, bar, or establishment? Contact an expert at Awesome Hand Gaming.
Home to Chain O’Lakes State Park is the scenic town of Spring Grove, Illinois. This beautiful town was once home to the indigenouos Potawatomi tribe as well as a few other native tribes. In 1834, as a result of a signed treaty, these tribes were forced off the land and replaced with English settlers. The new inhabitants loved the tall, flowing prairie grasses because it reminded them of their homeland. They quickly came up with the town name ‘English Prairie,’ but the name didn’t hold the test of time. Scenic groves of trees and natural springs that are prominent in the area provided the inspiration for the current town name of Spring Grove. Originally established for farming and agriculture in the late 1830s, the first North American vertical silo was built.
The silo helped to keep the corn dry and unfrozen, making for fatter cows, which meant more milk production. As witness to the expansion throughout the area, Spring Grove became a part of the railroad system, helping with passenger commute and freight travel. In 1902, the town became incorporated, putting Spring Grove on the map.
The early 1900s Spring Grove’s local businesses were booming, and it even had its own dairy processor, which has since moved out of Spring Grove and been renamed Borden Dairy. The town is now thriving and continues to look for new ways to improve itself. Video slot machines are one of the factors contributing to the town’s recent success.
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1st Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct Charges Stopped
In this case our client was being investigated for CSC 1st Degree. 25 year minimum. Shortly after being contacted by local detective regarding the allegations, this client retained Barone Defense Firm partner Michael Boyle. Previously, our client had already scheduled a polygraph with law enforcement, but he wanted to be sure he was protected and was doing the right thing by agreeing to the polygraph.
The complainant in this case was an underage minor as well as the daughter of family friend. Shortly after being retained, Mr. Boyle called the Detective and immediately cancelled the scheduled polygraph (see below). Thereafter, he began his own investigation. This investigation started with Mr. Boyle meticulously reviewing, with the client, the transcript from a police interview that the client had previously given before retaining the Barone Defense Firm. Mr. Boyle also researched and investigated the child who was making the allegations. Mr. Boyle also visited and photographed the scene where the alleged criminal sexual act had taken place. Finally, Mr. Boyle extensively interviewed potential witnesses.
Armed with all of the evidence collected during this thorough investigation, Mr. Boyle then had multiple conversations with the lead detective, and also reached out to the County Prosecutor's Office. After extensive discussions and negotiations, Mr. Boyle was able to successfully persuade the County prosecutor not authorize any charges.
As a result, no polygraph was conducted, and no charges were ever brought against this client. This despite the fact that child initially seemed credible to the police who were proceeding as if a crime had actually occurred. Our client was overjoyed with the news that he would not be prosecuted.
Polygraph Examinations: Regarding polygraphs, it is well known among defense attorneys that law enforcement often use the polygraph procedure as a way to encourage either a full confession or to collect additional information they can use to make their case better, stronger and more complete. At the Barone Defense Firm it is generally our opinion that a person accused of a crime should never agree to submit to a polygraph without first speaking with a lawyer. Even where, as here, we believe that the client is fully innocent, a polygraph can nevertheless result in charges being brought, even when there was insufficient evidence before the polygraph is conducted.
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Greenspan calls "Offsides!" and the market loses yardage
Aug. 30, 1999 12:01 am ET
I nvestors sent the Dow long downfield well before the Fed said "Hike!" Tuesday, but by the end of the week the index was pulled back behind the original line of scrimmage.
In a stock-market version of an offsides play like those seen on campus gridirons this weekend, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan donned the black-and-white striped referee's jersey himself to officiate. He did this not so much by delivering the expected quarter-point increase in short-term interest rates. Rather, in a speech Friday morning, the central-bank boss termed stocks' advance over the past five years "extraordinary" and "inexplicable," while vowing that attention to equity-market moves would play a larger role in Fed policy.
That led the Dow by Friday to give up all and more of the 199 points it had gained Monday, as well as those it had tacked on later; the benchmark average leaped Wednesday to an all-time high of 11,326. Friday's close of 11,090 made for a slim weekly loss of 10 points.
The Nasdaq Composite index, however, managed to sustain the early-week strength far better, climbing 110 points to end at 2758, though that's still almost 4% below its July high-water mark. The perception that interest rates will remain at bay for a while emboldened investors to seek out those high-growth, highly valued technology stocks that turn the lights on at the Nasdaq every morning. Nasdaq kingpin Microsoft provided plenty of muscle behind the index, jumping 9 7/8, to 93 1/4, after a new executive hire renewed hopes for a possible deal to unlock its Internet assets. The stock's move more than made Chairman Bill Gates whole during a week in which he made a $6 billion charitable donation to fund vaccinations.
Even when stocks were galloping Monday in advance of the Fed's action, the market's bearing was unconvincing to some, who found it lacking in discernible conviction for leading sectors, hobbled by tepid trading volume and unable to lift a broad majority of names. The action Monday had the look of a mechanical marking-up of prices, without the volume and resolve that would indicate torrent of cash being put to work.
These characteristics, present for most of August, are certainly attributable in part to the languid pace of late summer. But observers also wondered whether -- in the absence of much corporate news and with the Fed seemingly out of the market's sights for now -- investors are pausing to measure a market that, occasional fireworks aside, essentially has been in a trading range since April.
The calendar -- so says history -- is becoming unfriendly: September is, through the years, the worst month of all for S&P 500 performance, trumping the headline-grabbing October, according to Yale Hirsch's Stock Trader's Almanac .
A look at how stocks tend to behave following two straight Fed hikes, such as have occurred this year, offers a more mixed intermediate-term view. The strategy team at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette notes that in the 12 times over the past 50 years that the Fed has bumped up rates twice, the S&P, on average, has been flat after three months and up a mere 4% one year out. The bulls at that firm are accentuating the case of 1988, during which the market moved 23% higher after a couple of hikes.
The best sectors to be in during one of these periods have been consumer staples (such as food and tobacco) and computer software, while consumer cyclicals such as autos have struggled. As might be expected, banks rank at the lower end of that sector list.
Financial stocks some time ago gave up their market leadership position. As the Dow notched new records last week, the broad bank sector indexes were 12% below their April peak, and brokerage stocks are even further off their best readings of the year.
And then, late Tuesday, just as investors were hearing an all-clear on interest rates for the balance of the year, Bank One lobbed a mortar shell of an earnings shortfall. The big Midwestern bank said that profits for the year should fall 7%-8% short of already-trimmed expectations, owing to a steep drop in profits from its First USA credit-card division. The bank blamed fierce competition for charge-card customers and a marketing stumble in trying to deal with it.
Investors -- not fully over their suspicions about Bank One management's ability to execute through a couple of huge mergers -- put a powerful hurt on the stock, driving it down 23% Wednesday alone and chopping it by 13 1/4 on the week. It closed Friday at 42 1/8 . The scornful treatment seems to stem in part from the fact that the acquisition of First USA was intended to be an import of database-driven marketing genius. And indeed First USA was becoming the platform for much of the consumer-chasing and customer-retention activities across the span of the $250 billion-asset bank. So this apparent gross marketing miscue calls a lot of the bank's strategy into question.
Now the debates rage: Does the current stock price offer a fair re-entry point to bet on a turnaround? And how many of Bank One's problems are of its own making, rather than the product of industry-wide troubles?
One lauded value investor who can for now count Bank One among his rare miscalculations is doubling down. Legg Mason Value Trust's Bill Miller, who's beaten the market eight years running, told an assembly of analysts Thursday that he's buying more to rebuild his Bank One position to the 2.6% slug of his portfolio that it amounted to before.
Another selling point is that, as Barron's noted in a positive article last spring, Bank One may "get" the Internet more than any of its rivals, as evidenced by its high-profile launch of its all-online WingspanBank.com unit.
But here's a forceful counterpoint from Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Mike Mayo, who months ago went negative on the bank stocks he once loved. He even slapped a sell recommendation on Bank One in May, when the stock was at 60.
"This is a realization of the kind of earnings cleansing the company needs," he says -- but he adds that it's also the sort of thing many in the industry will require. "This is more of an industry problem than is commonly perceived. This is an increasingly competitive environment that compels banks to spend more and more just to retain existing customers." He points out that each time a bank disappoints -- as First Union and State Street did earlier -- "everyone says management's not getting the job done." Perhaps a tougher competitive climate is making it harder for most banks to deliver on their promises, regardless of their managers' efforts.
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Kathleen Stephansen
Advisor, BCG Henderson Institute
Kathleen Stephansen is an advisor to the Boston Consulting Group Henderson Institute Center for Macroeconomics. She was previously chief economist at Huawei Technologies, chief economist at AIG, and senior investment strategist and global head of sovereign research at AIG Asset Management. Before that, Kathleen served as chief economist at Aladdin Capital Holdings, as well as Credit Suisse’s head of global economic research and Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation’s co-head of fixed income economic research and chief international economist.
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2 Samuel 23:1
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David’s Last Words
1 These are the last words of David: “The inspired utterance of David son of Jesse, the utterance of the man exalted by the Most High, the man anointed by the God of Jacob, the hero of Israel’s songs:
2 Samuel 22:51 2 Samuel 23 2 Samuel 23:2
Read 2 Samuel 23:1 Using Other Translations
Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
These are the last words of David: “David, the son of Jesse, speaks— David, the man who was raised up so high, David, the man anointed by the God of Jacob, David, the sweet psalmist of Israel.
What does 2 Samuel 23:1 mean?
Now these [be] the last words of David
Which refer not to the psalm in the preceding chapter, but to what follows; not the last words he spoke, for he said many things afterwards; for the advice he gave to Solomon, and the instructions to him about building the temple, were delivered after this time; but these were the last after he had finished the book of Psalms; or the last that he spoke under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, or that he delivered out by way of prophecy; though the Jews F6 will not allow him to speak by the spirit of prophecy; they own he spoke by the Holy Spirit, which they distinguish from prophecy; but the Targum calls these words a prophecy, and takes them to be a prophecy of the Messiah, and of things to come, as undoubtedly they are, paraphrasing them thus;
``these are the words of the prophecy of David, which he prophesied concerning the end of the world, concerning the days of consolation that should come;''
this is observed to excite attention, the last words of dying men being usually regarded and remembered:
David the son of Jesse said;
he began with his descent, which was comparatively mean, in order to illustrate the distinguishing goodness of God to him in his exaltation:
and the man [who was] raised up on high;
from a low estate to an high one, from the sheepfold to the throne, to be king over all the tribes of Israel, and a conqueror, and head of the nations round about him:
the anointed of the God of Jacob;
who was anointed king by Samuel by the order of the God of Jacob; and which was an instance of his being the God of Jacob or Israel, and of his care of them, and regard unto them, that he anointed such a man to be king over them, as well as it was an honour to David:
and the sweet psalmist of Israel;
who composed most of the psalms and hymns of praise for the people of Israel; invented and set the tunes to them to which they were to be sung, and the instruments of music on which they were sung; and appointed singers to preside, and lead them in that part of divine worship, singing psalms and hymns; and very sweet were the psalms he composed as to the matter of them, and very sweet and delightful to the ear was the music in the manner of singing them: it may be rendered, who was "sweet" or "pleasant [in the] songs of Israel" F7, his warlike exploits and victories being the subject of them, ( 1 Samuel 18:6 1 Samuel 18:7 ) ;
said;
as follows; for all that goes before are the words of the penman of this book, drawing the character of David; in which he was a type of Christ, a branch out of the root of Jesse, highly exalted, and chosen from among the people, anointed to be prophet, priest, and King; and who sweetly expounded the psalms concerning himself, and ordered them to be sung in the churches, and of which he is the subject, and may be said to be sweetly held forth in them, see ( Luke 24:44 ) .
F6 Maimon. Moreh Nevochim, par. 2. c. 45.
F7 (twrmz Myen) "jucundus psalmis", Montanus; "suavis in canticis", Vatablus; "amoenus psalmis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
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Health benefits of baking soda and lemon juice
Published: Thursday, 07 March 2019
Updated: Friday, 22 March 2019 22:22
Baking soda and lemon juice combinations have become a popular home remedy. Some people claim that baking soda and lemon juice can improve the skin, treat pyrosis, and white dentition.
Several scientific studies have examined the health benefits of baking soda and lemon juice individually, but there is not much research to support the combined personal effects of these two ingredients.
This article discusses some of the potential health benefits of overwhelming baking soda and lemon juice mixtures.
A note about pH
The idea of combining baking soda and lemon juice draws on basic principles of acidity and the pH scale.
Scientists use the pH scale to measure the acidity of a solution. A solution can have a pH level between 0 and 14.
The lower the pH, the more acidic the solution, so:
pH levels below 7 indicate an acidic solution
pH levels above 7 indicate an alkalic, or base solution
neutral solutions, so much as pure water, have a pH of 7
Baking soda, besides best-known as Na hydrogen carbonate, is a base. This means that when people dissolve baking soda in water, it forms an alkalic solution. For example, a 0.1 molar solution of baking soda has a pH of around 8.3.
Lemon juice contains acid acid and has a pH of around 3. Adding baking soda to lemon juice will raise the pH to produce a more neutral solution.
Excess stomach acid can cause uncomfortable symptoms, so much as pyrosis, vomit, and dyspepsia.
Many people with excess stomach acid take over-the-counter (OTC) antacids to relieve their symptoms. overwhelming baking soda and lemon juice together may besides neutralize stomach acid in a similar fashion as an antacid.
A 2017 study examined the antacid personal effects of various foods. The authors of this study created artificial stomach acid with a pH of 1.2. Although lemon juice by itself had about no effect, Na hydrogen carbonate with success neutralised the synthetic stomach acid.
Many OTC antacids contain Na hydrogen carbonate and acid acid. Lemons and other citrus fruits are rich sources of naturally-occurring acid acid.
When a person mixes lemon juice and baking soda, the acid acid reacts with the Na hydrogen carbonate to produce a buffer called Na citrate. A buffer refers to a weak acid or base that prevents forceful pH changes. Although lemon juice does not neutralize stomach acid, it may help stabilize the pH level inside the stomach.
Using baking soda and lemon juice to combat excess stomach acid may be a good home remedy, as effective OTC antacids contain similar ingredients.
Nevertheless, mix the correct proportions of baking soda and lemon juice can be difficult.
Overwhelming a mixture with too much baking soda may cause diarrhoea and gas, whereas too much lemon juice could trigger acid reflux and make symptoms worse. buying an antacid at the drug store is often much safer.
Other home remedies for reducing excess stomach acid include:
avoiding or reducing acidic foods and beverages
limiting caffein intake
limiting alcohol consumption
eating littler meals
getting enough sleep
People with severe or persistent acid reflux or pyrosis should speak to a doctor or gastroenterologist.
Baking soda contains Na hydrogen carbonate, which is an active ingredient in some medications, so much as antacids, and can possibly act with other medications. People who intend on regularly overwhelming baking soda for health purposes should speak to a doctor first.
People who have excretory organ illness or high blood pressure must avoid Na hydrogen carbonate because it can increase Na levels in the blood.
Side personal effects of Na hydrogen carbonate can include:
nausea and vomit
excess gas
swelling of the lower limbs
Lemons contain galore essential nutriment and minerals. Lemon juice besides contains compounds that have beneficial antibacterial drug and inhibitor properties.
Nevertheless, lemon juice is acidic and exploitation too much can cause side personal effects. These can include:
enamel loss
Baking soda and lemon juice mixtures are popular health hacks, with people exploitation them for property that include skin care, dentition whiteing, and treating pyrosis and dyspepsia. nevertheless, there is limited scientific evidence presently to support the health benefits of these mixtures, making it difficult to draw definitive conclusions.
Both baking soda and lemon juice possess several health benefits on their own. nevertheless, combining these two ingredients without specific dose or usage guidelines may cause adverse side personal effects.
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Meet Michael D. Smith and CommWealth
Michael D. Smith was raised in the Northeast and the Chicago area, before moving to Texas to attend Rice University, where he began developing as a writer and visual artist. In addition to exhibiting and selling paintings and drawings, he’s completed fifteen novels.
Smith’s writing in both mainstream and science fiction genres uses humor to investigate psychological themes. On his blog, he explores art and writing processes, and his web site contains further examples of his writing and art. He is currently Technology Librarian for McKinney Public Library in McKinney, Texas.
CommWealth is his first novel published by Class Act Books.
Character Interview:
Allan: I’m Allan Larson, the leader of the Forensic Squad theatrical troupe in CommWealth . The other actors pretend I’m not really the leader and they say Steve Constantine, who owns the coffee shop where we put on our plays, is really the leader, but really, he’s just like a business manager, he knows zilch about the theater. I write the plays, I motivate the actors, everyone knows it’s me.
Allan: Right here in Linstar, this fictional town on the Texas coast south of Houston that our dear author has milked before in at least one other novel. That’s another reason I’m the leader, because I know this town and what makes it tick. When I was a kid this place had maybe 20,000 people, now it’s grown insanely to something like 180,000. I’ve seen this place grow up, like a teenager who has to get bigger and bigger shoes every couple weeks. It’s an off-balance, frantic, immature sort of town, and I’m right at home here.
Allan: We have it set as just contemporary America. Turns out that dear author used the 2017-2018 calendar just to keep his facts straight, like December 14 falls on a Thursday, you know, but all the characters made him not use any actual year dates, because we wanted to keep this thing timeless.
Allan: See, I starred in this long involved dream the author had a while back and I was such a fascinating character that he knew he had a novel practically already written from this dream. So I’m playing the part of anti-hero in this dream, but you know that even though the author claims that he was somehow observing the Allan dream character from afar, you know how the psychological Shadow works and so obviously when I’m playing the anti-hero in this novel there’s Shadow stuff of the author’s going on. Anyway, in the dream I play this supercilious guy who’s really adapted well to this new property-less society that’s just been set up, and I grab cars, computers, everything I can, and bring all my loot back to this cool mansion I’ve claimed. Meanwhile I’m writing all sorts of obscene poetry and betraying my girlfriend and all that sort of crap. Shadows have to do that sort of thing, you know. There were more parts to the dream, like I get ordered to work in Australia as a detective on a murder mystery case, and later I get sent back to the U.S. because I’m supposed to be emotionally shattered and all that, but those two parts weren’t used because the whole premise of the property-less society in part one was more than enough for a novel. There’s so much stuff about Shadow, paranoia, hoarding, human sexual manipulation, and raw survival, and it’s all centered on me . So dear author had no choice but to write my story.
Allan: Well, I’m a creative guy, and really, everything I do in this novel is in furtherance of my playwriting and acting career. Like, if I’m going to write a play about fast cars, I need a twelve-car garage full of ’em, you know, and so I need a really big mansion to store ’em in. So while everyone thinks I’m just a Hoarder, which is against the law and which I would never, never do even though the author thinks otherwise, really all I’m doing is trying to survive on a day to day basis. And of course I miss my fantastic relationship with Lisa Arlington and when she won’t get back together with me, really I have no choice but to invoke the laws of CommWealth and demand her to be my sex slave for the next thirty days. I mean, it’s a test case for CommWealth laws and really I don’t know why everyone’s so upset about it. In any case it didn’t work out and that was fine with me, because I never guessed Lisa was so psycho. That was definitely a major stressor for yours truly, by the way. She almost murdered me!
Allan: Well, for one thing, just to keep my life flowing right for my art, I need to stay a step ahead of this CommWealth inspector who’s investigating me for Hoarding. He has me pegged wrong but issues all these legalistic threats against me. And everyone comes unglued when I bust my chops to get Richard Stapke’s entire literary output published. Sure I didn’t get his permission beforehand but I think he was secretly pleased, and anyway the world needed his art whether he wanted it out there or not. And trying to get Forensic Squad to calm down and concentrate on getting my play Cabaret done is a major headache, because they keep resisting my leadership and meanwhile Richard and Jill are having this affair and Jill’s husband Steve finds out and I’ve got to keep everyone happy, you know, so we can get on with the play.
Allan: All I can do is just keep exercising my leadership talents, directing the play and all. But then Steve goes off the deep end after learning about Jill and Richard, saying he wants to start this revolution against CommWealth, which anybody can see is flat-out suicide. So I have to exercise my leadership talents there as well, because the only reason I seem to go along with Steve–no matter that dear author supposes it’s just because I have no place to go after Lisa dumped me outside my own mansion at gunpoint, me with no clothes on the middle of a freaking thunderstorm –anyway, the only reason I go along with Steve’s crazy plan is to calm him down, stop this stupid revolution talk, and get everybody in Forensic Squad focused on the important thing, which is my play Cabaret . I still don’t know why people can’t just see that basic fact.
Allan: Yeah, people get the wrong idea about me. Okay, so I’m supposed to function as the anti-hero in this thing. I get that, but I do feel the author has constantly mispresented me as some snivelling coward manipulator, or that I have these head problems everyone has to tiptoe around. I admit our dear author quoted me correctly in the novel–my lawyers have advised me to say this–because after all anyone can order the book right off Amazon and read all my lines right there–but I still feel it’s all, like, out of context or something. Sure, when the cops opened fire on us when we were holed up in the farmhouse, that was stressful, but really, to make me out to be such a coward about it? C’mon, I have leadership talents, I wouldn’t really start freaking out like that, would I? So my lawyers are talking to the author right now. He’s resisting writing any sort of sequel to CommWealth, but we just might have to force him to do it to set my character straight.
Anyway, any jury would see the author’s bias against me. He painted the cover of the book and although I’m front and center, he made me look like I’m about to throw up. And in this illustration he did on his website he makes me look nasty and petty: http://sortmind.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/AllanLarson-Larger.jpg . Look, guys, I’m an actor, playing the part of an anti-hero, I’m really a talented playwright leader of a great theatrical troupe. Why can’t people see that?
Blurb for CommWealth:
The CommWealth system, has created a society in which there is no legal claim to any kind of private property. Any object from your house to the clothes you’re wearing can be demanded by anyone, to be enjoyed for thirty days before someone else can request it. As actors in the Forensic Squad theatrical troupe attempt to adapt to this chaos, their breaking of the Four Rules sustaining the system, as several members navigate betrayals, double agents, and murder to find themselves leading a suicidal revolution.
Excerpt for CommWealth:
Rule One – You are free to enjoy the chosen object for thirty days. During this period no other person may request it.
Rule Two – The requestor is untouchable for thirty days by the person asked. Attempts at retaliation, such as demanding unusually large quantities from the original requestor after the thirty-day period, carry stiff penalties.
Rule Three – Once you ask somebody for something, you can never ask him or her for anything else again.
Rule Four – You can never ask for the same thing back from the person who got it from you, not even after his or her thirty days of enjoyment.
Allan shivered at the reflection of his black overcoat and his striding legs on the wet sidewalk. Up ahead someone with a DreamPiston Electronics bag opened a shiny red Porsche glistening with thousands of water beads.
“Okay,” Allan said, “I’ll take your car here.”
The mustached little twerp looked up. “Ahhh, crap…”
“C’mon, don’t give me any trouble. Gimme the key.”
“Look, it’s raining. And I just got these MP3 players and the new Fappy tablet—”
“Not my problem. Fork the damn key over.”
“Look, my umbrella’s in the car—can I just get my umbrella so my stuff—”
“Forget it. The umbrella’s part of the car as far as I’m concerned. Anything in the car. Besides, I just lost my umbrella a couple blocks back. I’m soaked.”
“C’mon, I just got this car the other day!”
“Don’t hand me that. The sticker on the plate says you got it a month and a half ago. You’re overdue, buddy. Now hand me the key.”
“Dammit! Dammit!”
“Got trouble there?” A bright blue City of Linstar police car idled in the rain. “Got a Hoarder there?” a huge officer grinned.
“Uh, no… not at all…” said the twerp. “I just—I just can’t find the key—”
“Yeah, right—you just unlocked the damn car with it,” Allan said, turning to the policeman. “He is giving me a lot of crap about it.”
“C’mon, sir, you know better than that.” The officer’s name tag read BARCLAY.
“Dammit!” the twerp snarled. He separated the Porsche key off his key ring, thrust it at Allan, then spun around and fastened on a man coming down the sidewalk. “Give me that umbrella! Right now!”
“Goddammit…” the man grunted, surrendering his umbrella to the twerp, who grabbed it and hoisted it above his DreamPiston bag.
“We really got the Christmas spirit here, don’t we?” Barclay said.
“Really,” Allan said. “Some people…” He examined the Porsche key in the rain. “Thanks for your help, officer.”
“Oh, I’m sure it wasn’t really necessary. People are basically good, you know. Give ’em time to adjust and all, that’s what I say.”
The twerp leapt into traffic with his new umbrella and his bag, waving his free arm. A little green car skidded to a halt. The twerp ran to the window and pounded on it. “Give me this car! Right now! Damn you!”
“Jesus…” Allan said. “What a bastard!”
Barclay was out of his patrol car in a second, hand on his hand on his holster. “Sir, that’s not the right way to go about it. We need to be respectful. That’s the CommWealth way.”
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Bids invited for 1.5km Lithuanian rail bridge
Tendering is under way for construction of a major rail bridge that will cross the River Neris near Jonava in Lithuania.
Contract awarded for Romanian cable-stayed bridge
The construction contract has been signed for a 640m-long cable stayed bridge in Romania.
Contract signed for Tallinn swing bridge
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'Swan' design picked for Estonian bridge
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Designers picked for Estonian rail bridges and viaducts
Contracts have been awarded for the design of more than 200km of railway in Estonia, including almost 80 bridges and viaducts.
360° virtual tour of the Polcevera Viaduct replacement project
Take a guided tour of the site of the 1,067m-long bridge being fast-tracked as a replacement for its predecessor, which collapsed in 2018.
First visualisations unveiled for Rail Baltica’s infrastructure
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Contracting JV picked for multi-bridge Serbian motorway project
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Construction contract awarded for Spanish footbridge
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Landslide brings down section of Italian motorway bridge
A section of motorway bridge in Italy has collapsed following a landslide caused by exceptional rainfall.
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Winning design for Tallinn rail terminal doubles as a bridge
The winning design for the Estonian terminal of the planned 870km-long Rail Baltica line combines the roles of a major transport hub and a bridge.
Preferred design unveiled in Vilnius bridge design contest
The panel judging a design competition for a new bridge in Vilnius, Lithuania, has chosen a preliminary winner.
Contracting alliance appointed for Helsinki’s Crown Bridges
A contractor-led consortium has been chosen to develop plans for the Crown Bridges project in Helsinki, Finland.
Lifting operation installs 2,100t link bridge at a height of 120m
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Construction contract awarded for Helsinki bridge
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Arrests made as part of Genoa bridge collapse probe
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Prague picks contractor to replace collapsed bridge
The contractor has been chosen for the construction of a new footbridge to replace one that collapsed in 2017 in the Czech capital Prague.
Winner announced in Latvian footbridge design contest
The winning entry has been chosen in the design competition for a new footbridge in Gauja National Park in Latvia.
Contract award
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Ardingly village stands in an area of outstanding natural besuty and is home to the famous public school, Ardingly College. Just outside of the village lies the Ardingly reservoir where you will find watersports, nature trails and picnic tables.
58 Results In Or Near Ardingly
The Cider House (B&B)
1.0 miles from the centre of Ardingly
The Cider House is a beautiful, luxurious self-contained guest suite on two floors, providing the combination of high tech and traditional comfort within an ancient building. Recently renovated by the owners to a high standard, it is a charming property and the perfect escape for a week's break in the country. Upstairs is the stunning vaulted double bedroom with a pretty en-suite loo and basin. Downstairs, enter the fabulous bathroom and delightful sitting room which has a double sofa bed....
Wakehurst Place (Garden)
Wakehurst Place gardens, in the beautiful High Weald of Sussex, is an outstanding botanic garden and conservation area, managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens. A mild, friendly climate, a high rainfall and moisture-retentive soils, allows many important groups of plants, unable to be grown successfully at Kew, to flourish here. In the woodlands, there are trees from the temperate zones of the world. The planting styles range from formal walled gardens by the Mansion, through expansive specimen ...
The Priest House & Gardens (Garden)
The Priest House Gardens, in the grounds of Priest House, is a formal herb garden with over 150 culinary, medicinal and household herbs. Visit the Priest House for a wonderful collection of historical curiosities, showcasing farm heritage and fascinating historical household items.
The Priest House (Historic House)
Built in the 15th century, The Priest House has been open as a museum since 1908. Its furnished rooms contain a fascinating array of 17th and 18th century domestic furniture, needlework and household items. Outside a formal herb garden contains over 150 culinary, medicinal and household herbs.
The Priest House (Museum Gallery)
Owned variously by Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves, Mary I and Elizabeth I, The Priesthouse, sitting on the edge of the Ashdown Forest in Sussex, is a 15th century Wealdon Hall house laid out and furnished in 17th and 18th century style. Period furniture and domestic objects set the scene inside while outside the garden is planted with 170 culinary, medicinal and household herbs. Take a tour with the resident curator to find out all about this fascinating building (picnics are welcome in the groun...
Borde Hill Garden (Garden)
Borde Hill is a beautiful Grade II* English Heritage listed garden set in 200 acres of parkland with magnificent views in the High Weald. Created by Colonel Stephenson Robert Clarke from seeds gathered by the great plant hunters of the early 1900's, it is renowned for its rare shrubs and trees.
The Bellflower Twyford (Self Catering)
The Bellflower Cottage was built around 1630 and still retains much of it is original features. In 2016 the cottage undertook a major restoration to allow its authentic charm to shine through into the 21st century. It has 3 bedrooms sleeping 6 and 2 bathrooms including a ground floor bedroom and wetroom There is a comfortable lounge with underfloor heating and an inglenook with a wood burning stove, there is a newly fitted kitchen with stone floors, the dining room can seat at least six...
Twyford Farm Birchgrove (B&B)
Situated on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, this bed and breakfast is nestled in the countryside just 45 minutes away from London. The 17th century farmhouse ha
Alexander House & Utopia Spa (Hotel)
Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa is a five-star hotel set within 120 acres of glorious countryside and woodlands in West Sussex. The hotel is Rosette awarded
Alexander House & Utopia Spa (Restaurant)
This 17th-century mansion set in 175 acres of Sussex parkland was once home to the poet Shelley. He'd hardly recognise the place now with its trendy “Reflections” brasserie and al fresco dining “Flames” courtyard. He might feel more at home in the elegant fine dining restaurant with its well spaced tables covered with linen and calming views of the grounds. The modern menu takes its inspiration from across Europe and might include a French-style starter of orange scented diver scallops with b...
Alexander House & Utopia Spa (Spa)
The Utopia Spa at Alexander House is an award-winning spa nestled in the heart of West Sussex. The spa holds a five luxury bubble rating
Alexander House & Utopia Spa (Wedding Venue)
The perfect setting for your dream wedding. The hotel is brimming with history, acres of beautifully manicured lawns, fantastic cuisine & service to match.
Ockenden Manor Hotel & Spa (Hotel)
Ockenden Manor Hotel & Spa is set in pretty Cuckfield, West Sussex. An elegant and charming Elizabethan manor house with an award-winning restaurant and spa. There is plenty of space to relax; an inviting sitting room overlooking the garden and a cosy wood-paneled bar.
Ockenden Manor Hotel & Spa (Spa)
Nobody does eco-spa quite like Ockenden Manor Spa, a modern retreat built respectfully, and to the highest spec, inside a 19th Century walled garden in West Sussex. Step inside and find yourself surrounded by contemporary finishes of soft fabric sofas, floor-to-ceiling windows and a curved reception, blended with natural elements and textures of wood, stone and bamboo alongside relaxing woodland imagery. Recoup on the stylish curved ergonomic loungers, finished in dark wood and topped off wit...
Ockenden Manor Hotel & Spa Restaurant (Restaurant)
Set in nine acres of beautifully maintained grounds, the Elizbethan period Ockenden Manor feels a world away from everyday life. In fact, you're just a few yards from Cuckfield Village High Street and a short drive from Gatwick. With its views across the gardens towards the South Downs National Park makes a romantic setting for acclaimed chef. Stephen Crane's highly accomplished French cooking. Inventive starters might include honey roast wood pigeon with crispy apple beignets, foie gras parf...
High Beeches Garden (Garden)
High Beeches Garden is a woodland garden of many glades which has been sensitively planted with many beautiful rare trees and shrubs to enhance the natural High Weald landscape. The ancient wildflower meadow is one of the best in the country, attracting vast numbers of butterflies and pollinators. The autumn colour is spectacular.
The Coach & Horses (Restaurant)
A splendid maple tree overlooks an adult only sun terrace and attractive gardens provide wonderful views of the South Downs at this nineteenth-century country p
Standen (Garden)
Discover the beautiful Standen House and Gardens Standen House and Gardens are a love song to the Arts and Crafts movement and tell the tale of 1920s family life through all manner of artefacts and furniture. The hillside gardens that surround the house are under restoration to return to the design created by Mrs Beale, the owner of Standen. Staff use her diaries to recreate the lost garden features and historic plant collections of the past, the result being a garden that is brought ...
Standen (Historic House)
Discover the beautiful Standen House and Gardens Standen is a family house built in the 1890s, a showpiece of the Arts & Crafts Movement designed by Philip Webb and decorated throughout with original William Morris carpets, fabrics and wallpapers. On display are contemporary paintings, tapestries, furniture and many of the original light fittings in a 1920's style. The terraced garden has fine views over the Sussex countryside.
Nymans (Garden)
Retreat to the tranquil gardens at Nymans Nymans beautiful extensive gardens developed throughout the 20th century by the Messel family, reflect the character of the founder and creativity of the plant hunters who explored worldwide. Indulge the senses with a spring visit to enjoy the blossom and carpets of delicate flowers, then return for the summer borders - a riot of colours and scents. The walled garden contains yellow and blue herbaceous borders, a huge wisteria pergola, a colle...
Nymans (Wedding Venue)
There are hundreds of wedding venues in the South East to choose from and after a while, they all blend into one. This is not the case with Nymans. Weddings at Nymans take place in our outstanding gardens with breath-taking views across Sussex. Our stunning location makes a fabulous backdrop for intimate ceremonies making your day memorable, stylish and unique. When you discover Nymans, you will see that it is easy to lose yourself in the peaceful country setting. With hundreds of fa...
Tilgate Forest Golf Club (Golf Course)
Tilgate Forest is a hidden beauty. With a par 72 18 hole Championship course, nine hole lay-out and 35 bay floodlit driving range, it has everything you could want. Noted for tree-lined fairways, tough doglegs and well-guarded greens, it's said the challenge at Tilgate begins at the 433-yard par four left hand dog leg fourth which needs a long drive to the marker post leaves a 200 yard plus approach to a two-tier green, but beware the 513 yard par five 17th which has a narrow target off the t...
Ashdown Park Hotel & Country Club (Wedding Venue)
Ashdown Park, a luxury country house hotel, enjoys a spectacular setting. Almost as if intended to be a secret, the hotel nestles in the lush green folds of the Sussex countryside, surrounded by the captivating Ashdown Forest. The hotel's 186 acres encompass manicured lawns, secret gardens, carp filled lakes and woodlands, offering a variety of breathtaking photographic backdrops.
Sheffield Park & Garden (Garden)
Explore fantastic displays at Sheffield Park Sheffield Park´s magnificent, informal landscape garden was laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown and further developed in the early years of the 20th century by its owner Arthur G Soames. The original four lakes form the centrepiece. There are dramatic shows of daffodils and bluebells in spring, and the rhododendrons, Ghent azaleas and the stream garden are spectacular in early summer. Autumn brings stunning colours from the many...
Ashdown Park Hotel & Country Club (Spa)
Ashdown Park Spa, located in a gorgeous English country house hotel, has a wide range of Health and Beauty treatments available. All the treatments are individually tailored to your needs. Prescription facials, aromatherapy massages, body and heat treatments, solarium, manicures, pedicures and make-overs are all on the menu and the professional therapists are always on hand to help and advise on the treatments best suited to you.
Ashdown Park Hotel & Country Club (Hotel)
Ashdown Park Hotel and Country Club sit gladly inside 186 sections of land of the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, home of Pooh Bear. Flaunting 106 rooms and suit
The Griffin Inn (Restaurant)
The 16th-century Griffin Inn oozes old world charm with low beamed ceilings and uneven floorboards. Guests are greeted with blazing log fires in winter or can enjoy the attractive terrace in the warmer months, where they can also watch lamb and steak roasting in the wood burning oven. The bar serves comforting food which is a step above regular pub grub such as char-grilled Fletching pork chop with roasted celeriac, pancetta, fennel and salsa verde. The restaurant offers a more tranquil se...
Old House Inn (Pub with Rooms)
With a focus on great & quick service and a growing reputation for serving superb food in luxurious but relaxed surroundings.
The Old House Inn (Restaurant)
With its latticed windows, wonky ceilings and oak-beams, the Old House Inn is a 16th century converted farm worker's cottage has been recently renovated and is
Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens (Garden)
Leonardslee Lakes and Gardens is considered to be 'The Finest Woodland Gardens in England'. First planted in 1801, the Grade I Listed gardens on the 240-acre
Mannings Heath (Wedding Venue)
Mannings Heath is the ideal setting for beautiful weddings throughout the entire year. The amazing seventeenth century manor flaunts dazzling perspectives over the Sussex countryside, giving the most astounding background to appreciate on your big day. Once a family mansion, the venue now offers a number of elegant reception rooms and award-winning food for the perfect wedding day.
Mannings Heath Kingfisher Course (Golf Course)
The 9-hole Kingfisher golf course at Mannings Heath is set in an area of outstanding natural beauty. This picturesque par 36 course, measuring 3314 yards (3030 meters) offers breathtaking, panoramic views across the South Downs of Sussex.
Mannings Heath Waterfall Course (Golf Course)
Designed by the great Harry Colt, this ultra-exclusive par 72 course is a hybrid, a mix of heathland, downland and parkland. The Waterfall is a scenic and challenging course that demands accuracy from the tee and presents a fair test of golf for every calibre of golfer.
Restaurant Interlude (Restaurant)
Michelin Star Restaurant Interlude is a contemporary restaurant set within the historic woodland gardens of Leonardslee Estate. Chef Jean Delport and his team a
South Lodge (Hotel)
South Lodge is a luxury hotel in Sussex offering the best in relaxation. With breathtaking views of the South Downs, and award winning spa.
South Lodge (Wedding Venue)
South Lodge is a luxury hotel in Sussex offering the best in relaxation with breathtaking views of the South Downs, and an award winning spa.
The Camellia at South Lodge (Restaurant)
The smart, chandeliered restaurant with its pristine napery opens out onto the terrace of this magnificent lodge with its beautifully maintained gardens.
Botanica (Restaurant)
Botanica draws on the South Downs as a larder its ingredients. The menu feature's a plethora of plant -based plates influenced by Mediterranean dishes.
The Spa at South Lodge (Spa)
The Spa at South Lodge is a 44,000 sq. ft. award wining luxury spa with a state-of-the-art facilities including 3 pools and home to the Botanica restaurant.
Clayton Wickham Farmhouse (B&B)
A warm welcome awaits you at Clayton Wickham Farmhouse B&B in this beautifully restored 14th century farmhouse with masses of beams and huge inglenook in the drawing room. Set in three acres of splendid gardens with tennis court and lovely views. Enviably quiet and secluded, yet conveniently situated for all transport facilities and places of interest. Rooms, including one four poster en-suite, are generously equipped. There is the offer of room service for early morning tea. The genial hosts...
Brookhill House (B&B)
Brookhill House was built in about 1843 by the Borrer family. It is surrounded by lovely peaceful gardens and is close to the South Coast and many of the beautiful Sussex and Kent gardens. There is also easy train access to Central London.
Langshott Manor (Wedding Venue)
At Langshott Manor Hotel we believe in making your wedding day absolutely perfect. Your wedding day should be an occasion filled with treasured moments, feelings of absolute joy and an ease of knowing that the only thing you have to worry about is saying 'I Do.' We appreciate that every bride is unique and not every couple want the same experience, which is why they pride themselves on being able to help you create a wedding day that is distinctive from any other. This stunning country house ...
Langshott Manor (Hotel)
Built in the late 1500s and with many original features still intact, Langshott Manor sits at the end of a country lane in Surrey and is a perfect hideaway
Ghyll Manor Hotel & Restaurant, Rusper (Hotel)
A stunning 17th-century country house, nestled in the heart of West Sussex. With 29 ensuite bedrooms, a luxury restaurant & beautiful gardens.
Buxted Park Hotel (Hotel)
Set within 312 acres of private parkland yet only 35 minutes from the M25 Buxted Park is an idyllic location for celebrating and relaxing.
Buxted Park Hotel (Restaurant)
The Dining Room is a two AA Rosette restaurant situated in the heart of Buxted Park Hotel in East Sussex serving modern British favourites.
Hever Castle & Gardens (Place to visit)
12.8 miles from the centre of Ardingly
Discover the fascinating past of Hever Castle, childhood home of Anne Boleyn Hever Castle, a romantic 13th-century moated castle, was the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII´s second wife - inside there are prayer books signed and inscribed by Anne Boleyn. In 1903 the estate was bought by American William Waldorf Astor, who spent large amounts of money, and time restoring the castle. Collections of Tudor portraits, furniture, tapestries and other fine works of art are in displ...
Hever Castle & Gardens (Garden)
Discover the gardens of Hever Castle, childhood home of Anne Boleyn The spectacular Edwardian gardens at Hever Castle were laid out between 1904 and 1908 by Joseph Cheal & Son. One of the most magnificent areas of the gardens is the Italian Garden, which was designed to display William Waldorf Astor´s collection of Italian sculpture. The garden is only now reaching its full maturity and includes the colourful walled Rose Garden which contains over 3000 roses. There are many water fea...
Hever Castle & Gardens (Historic House)
Discover the fascinating past of Hever Castle, childhood home of Anne Boleyn Hever Castle, a romantic 13th century moated castle, was the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII´s second wife - inside there are prayer books signed and inscribed by Anne Boleyn. In 1903 the estate was bought by American William Waldorf Astor, having changed hands many times, who spent large amounts of money, and time restoring the castle. Collections of Tudor portraits, furniture, tapestries and othe...
Nutfield Priory Hotel & Spa (Hotel)
Nutfield Priory hotel, which dates back to 1872, is an idyllic country mansion set in over 40 tranquil acres high on Nutfield ridge with stunning views.
Nutfield Priory Hotel & Spa (Restaurant)
It's not just the views you will want to feast on at Nutfield Priory – the Head Chef is a taste perfectionist and sources the best local and seasonal produce.
Nutfield Priory Hotel & Spa (Spa)
The spa at Nutfield Priory is a haven for taking some time out for relaxation and wellbeing. Choose from a range of ELEMIS treatments.
Lewes Castle & Barbican House Museum (Museum Gallery)
If you've never visited the pretty town of Lewes, which sits within the glorious South Downs just a few miles from bustling Brighton and the coast, a trip to Lewes Castle and Barbican House Museum is a great way to familiarize yourself with this historic part of Sussex. Lewes Castle's construction began soon after the conquest of 1066 (at the behest of William The Conqueror's brother-in-law) and stands apart from other castles of its era thanks to its two mottes (only Lincoln shares this trai...
Anne of Cleves House (Museum Gallery)
Henry VIII and his wives have fascinated the British for generations so it's little wonder that Anne of Cleves' House, tucked away in rural Sussex, is such a popular visitor attraction. Anne was given the house in 1541 as part of her divorce settlement from the king and this timber-framed Wealdon hall-house now has a large collection of interesting local artefacts. The house's interior (which by the way wouldn't look out of place today on a chic boutique hotel website), with its timber beams ...
Anne of Cleves House Museum (Historic House)
Hartsfield Manor (Restaurant)
Hartsfield Manor offers a spectacular location for any lunch, dinner or afternoon tea. The Terrace Restaurant serves a la carte dinner every evening with locally sourced, fresh ingredients cooked to perfection. Lunch & afternoon teas are served daily in the Bar or Lounge and in summer enjoy them on the terrace whilst enjoying views of the rolling Surrey countryside. Hartsfield Manor also has a number of impressive private dining rooms for special occasions.
Hartsfield Manor (Wedding Venue)
Hartsfield Manor is a 19th century home, nestled in 16 acres of stunning Surrey countryside, and it's the perfect setting for that special day. Whether by horse-drawn carriage or vintage car, arriving up the oak-lined drive never fails to impress and the magnificence of this Victorian stately home is sure to enchant.
Hartsfield Manor (Hotel)
Set in 16 acres of tranquil Surrey countryside and surrounded by lawns and garden terrace, Hartsfield Manor combines Victorian grandeur with modern comfort.
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The Wall, BBC1
To make this US format work for a BBC1 audience, we first had to find the perfect host and then make sure all the key elements were right, from the giant set to the music, says Richard Hague
Production company Remarkable Television
Commissioners Kate Phillips; Rachel Ashdown
Length 6 x 45 minutes
TX 12 October, BBC1
Executive producer Richard Hague
Series producer Stephen Lovelock
Production executive Sarah Boyce
Director Richard van’t Riet
Post House Suite
Original format producers SpringHill Entertainment; Glassman Media; Universal Television Alternative Studio
“Drop ’em!” were the words I could hear blaring out of the gallery speakers in an OB truck parked outside the studio on a cold February morning. They were being said by EastEnders’ finest, Danny Dyer.
He was hosting the pilot for our new gameshow The Wall and it was obvious he was a natural.
Jump forward six months and we are on the same stage with Danny making the series for real. The set is four storeys high, with 18 cameras capturing everything from the balls flying down the wall to the highs and lows of the contestants and, of course, our host Danny.
The Wall was first shown on NBC in the US in 2016 and has been a big hit – it has sold to 24 territories – so we were keen to get it on British TV. Hopefully, it can be something truly big, exciting and compelling to shake up Saturday nights.
We pitched it to the BBC early last year. The execs loved its scale and drama but finding the right face to front the show – the eternal problem – meant we were on hold. We were all keen to get someone who didn’t normally front this type of show, and when we met with Charlotte Moore, Kate Phillips and Rachel Ashdown at the BBC, Danny’s name came up.
The sign of a great, compelling drama is when the unpredictability of the action means you have to keep watching – you’re drawn in and you don’t notice the actors nor the set, you’re just immersed in the story. A great gameshow is exactly the same. The Wall is definitely unpredictable and, I hope, will be viewed as dramatic, warm and compelling entertainment.
Getting that perfect mix isn’t easy. Elements such as the pace, the jeopardy, what is and isn’t said, and how the music plays with the emotions of the viewers all need to be right. But there isn’t a magic formula – there is just a certain something you can’t quite put your finger on that gels it all together and makes it work.
When you get that, there’s nothing better. Gameshows can look easy to produce but sometimes the simpler they appear, the more complex they are to put together. The Wall is no exception. Making this gargantuan set come to life and keeping it alive show after show is no mean feat.
When the show gets under way, the fun begins – after all, this is entertainment and you have to enjoy the ride if you want to make the best programme you can. Having a team fully prepared for every eventuality and a very supportive broadcaster puts you in the best position to make the show.
It’s about the butterflies that fill your stomach, the adrenalin and the anticipation. The twists and turns and the highs and lows mean you are on the edge of your slightly cramped seat in the OB truck, and hopefully that same feeling will be felt by the viewers when they watch the shows months later.
Rachel Ashdown, our commissioning editor and champion of the show, worked closely with us across the production. When the studio shoot was over, we jointly had to decide what would be our first show. Stephen Lovelock, the series producer, then had the fun job of getting the shows down to time in the edit.
Richard Hague - My tricks of the trade
Know your format inside and out. Keep running through it until you and your key team know every nuance. Then get your host in.
Don’t over-rehearse your host if they are nailing the format and what they need to do. Keep them fresh for the actual shows.
Do plan for every eventuality. You have an expensive studio with a huge team: don’t waste precious studio time with indecision. There is no excuse if you know your show inside and out.
Enjoy it.
There’s a lot going on in The Wall so getting the pace right, letting it breath and working fast through the exposition is key.
The long-line cut from the studio is a guide only – in the studio, we record 14 steams from the 18 cameras filming the series, which enables us to rebuild the show how we want in post-production. Then we format the show with key shots, graphics, sound FX and music and fine cut it to make sure that every shot says something.
This is a drama, after all.
CAPTURING UNPREDICTABLE ACTION
Richard Van’t Riet, series director
As a large-scale show, shot in 360 degrees, with unpredictable gameplay to contend with and more gear than you can point a lens at, The Wall threw up plenty of tech and co-ordination challenges.
With a set that almost touches the roof, bringing all the manual and automated systems together is a challenge as you never want the tech to hold up the flow of a record. Fortunately we had a great crew who had the set-up well rehearsed, so there were few hold-ups.
PLENTY OF CHOICES
The majority of gameplay is facing the wall itself and camera-wise, we had plenty of choices to cover the essentials and get across the scale and excitement of the event. To film each show, we used two Technocranes, low tracking wides, six peds, a JitaCam (an upside down jib), a Flycam, several hand-helds and four DSLR minicams.
There were several options for shooting the ball drops. However, the route the balls would take and which money chute they would land in were totally random. We felt it was best to keep it simple and chose a shot that enabled us to clearly see the ball’s journey. Hopefully, the viewer will be yelling just as much as the contestants and we were.
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Holly Cudbill
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Holly Cudbill speaks with pragmatic confidence that gives confidence in her solutions.
Holly is an experienced employment lawyer who uses her technical expertise and academic legal knowledge to find pragmatic and commercial solutions for clients.
Holly works in all areas of employment law, including contentious and non-contentious, as well as working with our Corporate team on the employment aspects of sales and acquisitions. Holly’s particular areas of expertise include:
Handling Employment Tribunal cases from initiation of proceedings through to hearings, including preparation of responses, witness statements and bundles of documents and conducting settlement negotiations. Holly has particular expertise in discrimination, unfair dismissal and employment status claims.
Carrying out due diligence and advising SMEs and large multi-national companies on drafting and negotiating employment-related terms in BPAs, SPAs and warranties in corporate acquisitions.
Providing day-to-day advice on employment relations, including managing sickness absence, performance improvement, dealing with disciplinary matters and grievances.
Holly acts for all types of employers, from family-run and owner-managed businesses to SMEs and global organisations with tens of thousands of employees. Holly has particular expertise in the media sector and has also worked with employers in the private and third sectors, along with schools and housing associations.
After studying law at Oxford University, Holly qualified as a solicitor in 2003 and has specialised in Employment Law since qualifying. Holly relocated to Southampton in 2007 and joined Blake Morgan in 2017.
Employment Lawyers Association
Significant Experience
Successfully defending the most-visited English-language news website in the world against claims of unfair dismissal, race discrimination and harassment on the grounds of race, including conducting the advocacy over the 4 day Hearing.
Advising a well-known international app-based food delivery organisation on the decision to close a subsidiary, including attending the premises on-site for three days in order to liaise with the appointed administrator, employees and delivery agents.
Carrying out a full redundancy collective consultation with 65+ employees of an independent school, including holding staff meetings with all employees, three rounds of consultation with representatives of 5 trade unions and handling all communications. No claims were issued against the employer.
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Holly has specific experience in Data Protection, having previously held the role of Data Protection Officer; liaising with HR and staff and providing training to ensure compliance with Data Protection.
Holly is experienced in practical HR having working as in-house employment and HR support, so she is used to implementing her own advice and conducting difficult meetings with employees.
Holly has appeared on various BBC television and radio programmes to provide expert commentary on employment law related news stories.
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Holly Cudbill is noted for her expertise in unfair dismissals, diversity and discrimination issues, employment contracts and compromise agreements. Clients appreciate her "pragmatic, straightforward advice with a clear focus on the business requirements.
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Tuningwerk BMW M235i RS produces 444 hp
Home » Models » 2 Series » Tuningwerk BMW M235i RS produces 444 hp
June 19, 2014 / 1 minutes read
German tuner Tuningwerk reveals the full details behind their BMW M235i RS model.
Compared to the stock model, the M235i RS gets a large front splitter, a new rear diffuser and a a racingrear wing, all to improve the downforce. Carbon fiber parts are used all around the car, starting with the side mirror caps, rear diffuser and roof.
The wheels measure 18 inches and are made from a special lightweight allow.
The engine was tuned to now produce 444 horsepower, a significant boost compared to the 320 hp of the stock car. Torque was also increased to 600 Nm (442 lb-ft).
To cope with the added power, the cooling system was also upgraded alongside a new oil pan (made of aluminum). A new exhaust system was also fitted to the car.
Inside, you’ll find Recaro sport seats, a sport steering wheel, roll cage and the works to keep you safe on the race track. The 0-100 km/h (62 mph) sprint is now done in 4.3 seconds, 0.5 seconds faster than the stock M235i.
The total cost of the M235i RS is 65,000 euros.
[Source: WCF]
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Song Hye-Kyo and Chaumet are a match made in style heaven
Bilateral ties
Text: Karishma Tulsidas
It's been a good run for Korean actress Song Hye-Kyo. Not only was she the lead character in super-hit TV show Descendants of the Sun, she also tied the knot with her on-screen lover and bona fide hottie Song Joong-Ki. Earlier in March, she became the first-ever celebrity to be enlisted by beauty behemoth Sulwhasoo to be its new brand ambassador. And in November, her new drama series, Encounter, where she plays the lead character alongside Park Bo-Gum, was released.
Ending the year within another bang, she has recently joined the Chaumet family as its new ambassador for Asia. In fact, the French jeweller also made her diamond-studded Bee my Love wedding band. With an eye for delicate but intricate jewels, Hye-Kyo knows how to pick the best styles to suit her petite demeanour and striking features. Swipe through the gallery below to emulate her jewellery style.
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The rupee has lost half its value since 2008. And the descent does not seem to be over yet.
Anand Adhikari | Print Edition: July 21, 2013
Sanjay Bhatia, Managing Director at Hindustan Tin Works, is a worried man these days. The exporter of tin cans says business environment has turned for the worse in recent months because of a steep drop in the rupee. Isn't a weak local currency good news for exporters such as Hindustan Tin? Usually it is. But not if they also import. Like Hindustan Tin does. The New Delhi-based company with annual revenue of Rs 300 crore says it is reducing imports of tin plate, its main raw material, and increasing local sourcing.
Besides, customers are putting pressure to cut prices as they know the company gains from a weak rupee. This is hurting its margins. "Stability is critical for business planning," says Bhatia. "Unstable situations like this disturb my cash flows." Bhatia is one of several exporters who haven't benefited much from the rupee's drop to record lows against the US dollar.
Government data show exports for the April-May period were little changed at $48.67 billion compared with $48.57 billion a year earlier. Importers have suffered too, as they need to pay more rupees for every dollar. The local currency has dropped nearly 7 per cent in June alone to breach the psychological barrier of 60 to a dollar, as foreign funds pulled $7-8 billion from the country's equity and debt markets.
The rupee's sharp slide is not a sudden development. It has lost half its value since touching a record high of 39.13 to a dollar in October 2007 on the back of massive foreign inflows. While net foreign direct investment in 2007/08 doubled to $15.89 billion, net foreign institutional investment jumped four times to $27.43 billion.
The rupee started falling in 2008 when the global economy went into a tailspin. By March 2009, the local currency had slipped to 52 versus the greenback. It strengthened over the following year as India managed to avoid the worst of the global turmoil. The bullish sentiment didn't last long, and the rupee resumed its downward trend in the second half of 2011 as the economy began to slow and the current-account deficit widened.
Anil Peshawari, Managing Director, Meenu Creation
Anil Peshawari
Managing Director, Meenu Creation
EXPORTS: Readymade garments
KEY MARKETS: Spain, France, UK
Company revenue: Rs 185 crore
'A weak rupee impacts positively in the short term'
Depreciation's impact on business:
A weak rupee impacts positively in the short term. The biggest advantage is the country becomes more competitive. In the past three years, the rupee has dropped about 25 per cent while the yuan has risen nine per cent. So, some Indian products are cheaper than Chinese goods. If I can reduce prices by 10 per cent due to a weak currency, I stand a good chance of getting an order.
Challenges posed by a weak rupee:
India will pay more for oil imports. As diesel prices go up, the cost of raw material, overheads, transportation, chemicals, and processing of fabrics rises.
Stable rupee and global growth versus depreciation and global economic uncertainty:
As an exporter I would prefer global uncertainty and a weak rupee. Our rivals’ currencies are either going to appreciate or remain stable, whereas the rupee can fall by 10 per cent in a matter of one month.
Exchange rate likely on January 1, 2014: Around Rs 64
As told to Sarika Malhotra
To be sure, the rupee is not the only emerging-market currency that is weakening. The Brazilian real, the Korean won and the Russian ruble have dropped, too. The rupee is more vulnerable because of India's high current-account deficit - the excess of imports over exports of goods, services and private transfers. The gap was 4.8 per cent of gross domestic product in 2012/13, or almost $88 billion, fuelled by higher imports of crude oil and gold.
India funds this deficit with the help of foreign inflows. But investors have pulled money from India in recent months as the local economy slows and they bet on a US economic revival after the Federal Reserve said it will gradually withdraw its stimulus package.
"We are more susceptible to knee-jerk reactions because of heavy reliance on foreign inflows in both equity and debt," says Ajay Srinivasan, CEO, Aditya Birla Financial Services Ltd. "We have no domestic sources of savings to counter a sudden outflow of funds from our financial markets."
Analysts and bankers say that currency traders have overreacted and that the government's efforts will soon support the rupee. "Global developments seem to have overshadowed many structural steps taken by the government to increase dollar inflows," says Krishnamoorthy Harihar, India treasury head at South African lender First Rand Bank. Lalit Kumar Jain, President, Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India, agrees. "It (the drop) is more of a panic reaction. I see the rupee stabilising at 55 to a dollar by the end of this year," he says.
Over the past year, the government has eased foreign direct investment rules in sectors including aviation and retail. It is looking to relax foreign investment rules in defence, media and telecommunications sectors.
Capital-markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India has eased norms for foreign institutions to invest. And the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has lifted control over interest rates on nonresident deposits. This boosted remittances to $65 billion in 2012/13 from $43.5 billion in 2007/08.
The central bank has also relaxed rules for external commercial borrowings (ECB) in several sectors including low-cost housing and aviation. This has helped companies raise funds overseas at lower interest rates, pushing up the ratio of ECBs to total debt to more than 30 per cent in 2012 from less than 20 per cent seven years before. The pitfall is that these loans could put more pressure on the rupee at the time of repayment.
M. Srinivas, CEO, Opto Circuits (India)
EXPORTS: Medical monitors, digital thermometers
KEY MARKETS: US, Europe
COMPANY REVENUE: Rs 2,357 crore
'Without stability, exports will suffer'
We bill in dollars mostly and in euros in some cases. It is a good time to convert foreign currency into rupees. To pay for imports, we can keep this money in Exchange Earners Foreign Currency accounts.
It is a tough call. If we have more exports than imports, then we don't have to worry much. We stand to gain. Stable rupee and global growth versus depreciation and global economic uncertainty: We prefer a stable rupee and global growth. Without stability, exports will suffer.
Exchange rate likely on January 1, 2014: Rs 50-52.
As told to K.R. Balasubramanyam
Some bankers and analysts feel the RBI has remained a mute spectator to the rupee's steep fall. "The RBI's hands are tied," says a banker on condition of anonymity. They say the RBI should have strongly intervened in the foreign-exchange market to support the local currency.
The central bank's stated position is that it intervenes in the foreign-exchange market only to reduce extreme volatility and not to defend the rupee at any particular level. Deputy Governor H.R. Khan said in late June the RBI will take all necessary steps to protect the rupee.
Still, the RBI has sold dollars on several occasions to prop up the local currency. This is evident from a fall in India's foreign exchange reserves.
Manish Gulati, General Manager (Exports), HEG
EXPORTS: Graphite electrodes
KEY MARKETS: Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa
COMPANY REVENUE: Rs 1,600 cr
'A stable environment is always better'
Apart from helping us stay afloat, there isn't much gain because we also import raw material used for manufacturing graphite electrodes. Challenges posed by a weak rupee: Not many. It is just exports minus imports.
Volatility is not welcome at all. It makes predictions very difficult. A stable environment is always better.
Exchange rate likely on January 1, 2014: Can't say.
As told to Taslima Khan
Since 2007/08, the reserves have dropped almost $20 billion. More importantly, the reserves are now sufficient to meet the country's import bill for only seven months. Five years ago, the reserves were enough to cover imports for more than 14 months. While there is still some cushion, some analysts have pointed to the similarities of the current situation with the 1991 crisis when India was left with barely enough reserves to cover imports for less than a month.
BT RETRO
Business Today has been continuously tracking the rupee's fall. In a July 7 story 'Painful Tumble' , BT said the slide will likely hurt India's economic recovery
Finance ministry officials deny such similarities. They say the government has taken steps to boost exports and curb imports, especially of gold, to control the current-account deficit and ease pressure on the rupee.
Gold is India's second-biggest import item after crude oil, and the government has increased the import duty on the yellow metal four-fold to eight per cent in the past two years to restrict purchases.
These measures are not enough, though, to control the rupee's slide. The solution lies in improving governance and policy making as well as introducing structural reforms in critical sectors. The moot question, says KPMG India Director Kuntal Sur, is whether India is in a position to attract foreign direct investment given the problems in land acquisition for most projects.
Some suggest selling sovereign bonds overseas to support the rupee, though the government has denied any such possibility. "A sovereign bond has the potential to create speculation that all is not well with the currency. The timing may not be right," says a treasury head at a bank. KPMG's Sur says even if the government issues sovereign bonds to raise $5 billion, it will make little difference given the massive currentaccount deficit.
So, where is the rupee headed?
Bank of America and India Forex Advisors, a foreign-exchange and treasury consultancy, predict the rupee could touch 62 if it sustains above 60 for some time and there are no serious efforts to strengthen the currency. Also, if the rupee remains at elevated levels, it will be difficult for the RBI to cut interest rates despite inflation easing.
"But monetary tightening is equally unlikely given its adverse impact on the economy," Irene Cheung, Asia forex strategist at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, said in a recent report.
Not everyone is painting a grim picture. Credit rating firm CRISIL Ltd says the rupee will likely appreciate to 56 to a dollar by the end of March 2014. The recent capital outflow, it says, is a short-term phenomenon due to the withdrawal of stimulus measures by the US.
Clearly, estimates vary widely. The rupee's trajectory in coming months is anybody's guess. And people like Hindustan Tin's Bhatia will have to live with the uncertainties in the near future.
Prashant Sabharwal, Director, Pacific Global Exports
EXPORTS: Leather garments
KEY MARKETS: Europe, Australia
COMPANY REVENUE: Rs 7 crore
'Raw material imports are severely affected'
About 80 per cent of our expenditure is on imports of raw leather. We have cut imports in the past two months. Also, foreign trips for participating in exhibitions have become costlier. If we cut down on exhibitions, we will not get any business.
A falling rupee will be a dampener as raw material imports are severely affected.
We cannot plan our expenditure in procuring raw material unless the rupee is stable.
Exchange-rate projection: By next month, the rupee can fall to 61-61.5 to a dollar.
Additional reporting by Sanjiv Shankaran and Suprotip Ghosh
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Washougal gymnast embraces different vault
Sophomore Katie Stevens is reaching new heights as a Panther pole vaulter
By Wayne Havrelly | April 18, 2019 5:30 am | comments
Washougal sophomore Katie Stevens competed at the state tournament in gymnastics this year and now hopes to pole vault her way to state in track and field.
(Wayne Havrelly/Post-Record)
Washougal High sophomore Katie Stevens has discovered a lifetime of gymnastics has prepared her well for pole vaulting. Stevens has set personal records at every meet this year, including the John Ingram Twilight Meet at Columbia River High School on April 12.
Washougal junior Gracie Dolan takes off for the triple jump competition. Dolan finished second in the long jump, hitting 16 feet after recovering from a nagging back injury.
The Panthers' Aurora Espinoza-Chaney runs the 200-meter race at Columbia River High School on April 12. Chaney won the 100-meter race with a time of 12.90.
Washougal High sophomore Katie Stevens may be relatively new to the sport of track and field, but her natural ability in the pole vault already has her soaring to the top of the standings in the 2A Greater St. Helens League.
Stevens vaulted 10 feet 3 inches — 13 inches higher than the second-place finisher — to win first place in the pole vault at the John Ingram Twilight Meet at Columbia River High School on April 12.
“Before last year, I didn’t even know what pole vaulting was,” Stevens said.
That all changed when Washougal head track and field and football coach Dave Hajek approached Stevens and her family.
“Her brother played football for me and I know her parents, so I talked them into having her try the pole vault,” Hajek said.
Stevens had already proved her athleticism as a gymnast, competing for 10 years in that sport and earning first team league honors this year and qualifying for the 2A gymnastics state meet in vault, beam and floor.
“He (Hajek) told me gymnasts are really good at the pole vault because they have good upper body strength, so I tried it last year and liked it because I was pretty good at it,” Stevens said. During her freshman year, Stevens went 8 feet in the pole vault. This year, as a sophomore, she is already at 10 feet 3 inches, a mark that is third best in school history. The Washougal record is 10 feet, 7 inches.
“She improves at every meet, so we are hoping she can break the school record by the end of this season,” Hajek said.
In pole vaulting, gymnasts have a leg up on the competition
Many aspects of pole vaulting can relate to gymnastics, according to Hajek.
“They (gymnasts) have that body control where they know just when to swing their legs out and up, and it really helps,” Hajek said.
Stevens views the pole vault as a combination of the uneven bars and the vault.
“Pole vaulting is very similar to hurdling onto the springboard (on the gymnastics vault) and the bars are similar because of the swinging motion, which just happens to be the exact body position you need to pole vault,” Stevens said.
One thing Stevens is still working on is overcoming the fear that surrounds the challenging sport of pole vaulting.
“It’s a bit scarier than gymnastics because on the bars all you have to do is flip and land, but with this (pole vaulting) you are holding onto something and you have to think about when to let go. And if your hands slip, that’s not good. And the pole bends so your body goes down and then up again, there is so much to think about,” Stevens said.
Stevens is not the only local gymnast turned pole vaulter. Grace Gordon, a champion balance beam gymnast from Columbia River High, placed third in the pole vault — just behind Stevens.
Panther girls win John Ingram Twilight Meet
Joining Stevens with wins at the Columbia River meet was senior distance runner Amelia Pullen, who earned a personal best time of 10 minutes, 59.84 seconds in the 3,200 meters — the second fastest time in the 2A division this season.
Aurora Espinoza-Chaney also joined winning Panthers in the 100 meter sprint, with a time of 12.90. Long jumper junior Gracie Dolan finished second in the long jump, going 16 feet even after coming back from a back injury.
“I’m finally getting back into the groove. It’s nice to be back in the 16s,” Dolan said.
The Washougal girls took home the first-place trophy.
On the boys side, Gabriel Dinnell ran a personal best to win the 1,600 in 4:29.45. In the 3,200, Dinnell already has the fastest time among Washington state 2A schools this season. Senior Jackson Keyser won the 3,200, and Koy Chaston crossed the line first in the 800.
The Panthers’ top sprinter, Ryan Davy, didn’t participate at Columbia River because he was invited to the Willamette Falls Invitational in Oregon City, Oregon, where he finished fourth against some of the best sprinters in the region from 42 different schools. Senior Kiara “KiKi” Callie also made the trip to Oregon City and finished third in the 100-meter hurdles and the 400-meter hurdles.
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Grey's David Patton appointed global president at Y&R
by Kate Magee October 20, 2016
Grey EMEA boss David Patton is joining sister WPP agency Y&R as global president to help rejuvenate the creative network.
At Grey since 2007, Patton has been EMEA president and chief executive since 2010, overseeing 45 agencies across the region. He was instrumental in turning around Grey’s London office in particular.
In the new role, which he will take up in January, Patton reports to Y&R global chief executive David Sable and will run the network’s ad agency outside the US.
Sable will continue to oversee the ad agency in the US alongside other group agencies, including VML (digital) and Labstore (shopper).
Patton’s first priority is likely to revitalize the network’s London office, Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/ Y&R, which lost Marks & Spencer in August after a 16-year relationship. He is expected to relocate to New York within the next two years, which suggests Patton is being lined up as Sable’s successor.
Sable said: "Our global boutique strategy is driven by the principle that a network’s strength must be rooted in the uniqueness of each local market. Strong local offices resonate globally when they are unified by shared values, technology and tools. In bringing David Patton on board, we assure the strength and integrity of both sides of the equation. And I can think of no one better than he to lead this charge forward."
He added: "I know that his enormous intellect and instincts make him a valued partner to clients and an inspiration to all who work with him. He knows how to bring the best out of people and his innovative mindset always anticipates what we need to do to meet the challenges our clients will face in the future. He is focused, fearless and passionate."
Patton has experience working both agency and client side. Prior to Grey, he was a senior marketer at Sony, where he bought the iconic "Balls" and "Paint" ads from Fallon. He has also worked at Nintendo.
Patton said: "The Y&R brand is iconic in the industry, and it has continued to build on its legacy, becoming one of the top-ranking creative networks in the world and achieving this standard of excellence with offices from all around the network. I look forward to working closely with David and the regional leaders."
Grey’s global chief executive Jim Heekin said: "It is the second time this year an outstanding Grey alum has been put in a top leadership position at one of WPP's largest advertising agencies," referring to Tamara Ingram, who Patton replaced when he first joined Grey, and who took the helm of J. Walter Thompson in March after a few years as a senior exec at WPP.
"Both appointments are a remarkable complement to Grey's ascendancy and success. They underscore the deep bench of talent our network possesses," Heekin added.
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Sky Sports GAA
The brief.
For the uninitiated – Gaelic Football and Hurling are the two national sports in Ireland. And Sky Sports has been covering both of them for the past 7 years. But how do they compete with RTE the national broadcaster, who broadcasts the lion’s share of the games and in many households is something of an institution?
The strategy.
While RTE is beloved by die-hards, many fans agree that Sky’s coverage is more insightful and gives you a fresh perspective and a deeper understanding of the modern games. It effectively gets them closer to the action.
The solution.
We used point-of-view footage, combined with stories from behind-the-scenes to demonstrate to the viewer that Sky really does show you the game from an exciting and completely unique perspective. It gets you so close to the action, that you almost feel as if you’re inside the game yourself.
For Sky Creative
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2023 BMW M3 Touring wagon coming to Australia – UPDATE
Ben Zachariah
The BMW M3 Touring is on its way to Australia, with the brand teasing the new performance wagon across social media.
UPDATE, 4 December 2020: The BMW M3 Touring has been teased by the company in a new video posted to YouTube.
The short film imagines a city full of BMW M car owners and enthusiasts, who rush to see the release of the latest alloy wheel design, in what is a parody of the hype which often surrounds new sneaker launches.
Called 'The Drop – A BMW M Town Story', the film shows a man – who we strongly suspect is BMW M boss Markus Flasch – reading a 'Lap Times' newspaper for a short moment while he sits under the open tailgate of BMW's future M3 wagon.
Markus Flasch has been active in the introduction of the M3 Touring, using his personal Instagram account to confirm the model to the world (see earlier updates below).
While initial rumours pointed to a 2023 release, the semi-regular teasers from the brand suggest the long-roof model could be in showrooms earlier than expected.
The following frame then shows a construction worker installing an electric vehicle charger, adorned in BMW M tri-colour livery – a nod to the sub-brand's move towards electrification.
UPDATE, 31 August 2020: BMW M has provided the clearest images yet of the M3 Touring, with a video posted to Facebook showing the wagon in camouflage (see below).
The car appears to share a similar grille to the polarising 2021 4 Series Coupé, despite this feature being omitted in early renders.
UPDATE, 13 August 2020: BMW M boss Markus Flasch has confirmed the division is developing an M3 Touring. A shadowy picture shown on his personal Instagram account revealed the prototype M3 wagon, along with the hashtag 'erlkönig' – a label typically reserved for camouflaged prototype models.
A spokesperson for BMW Australia has told CarAdvice: "We plan to introduce the M3 Touring and will advise arrival timing closer to the launch date".
No official details have been shared at this point, but with the release of the M3 Touring expected in 2023, the new performance wagon may align with the anticipated facelift of the current 3 Series range.
11 August 2020: BMW's M division may be developing a wagon variant of the upcoming 2021 M3 performance sedan.
According to a report from BMW Blog, a "trusted source" confirmed the performance wagon – to be known as the M3 Touring – has been given the green light for a 2023 launch.
The above render from @zer.o.wt provides a convincing look at what we can expect if the rumours prove to be true.
Rumours of a BMW M3 wagon have run hot and cold for many years, with the boss of BMW M, Markus Flasch, saying as recently as September 2019: "Touring estates are not part of our M plan".
This would be the first M3 wagon to make it to production, despite the German car manufacturer playing with the idea of an E46 M3 Touring back in the day.
An E46 M3 Touring prototype was developed for testing, but the project was discontinued.
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Institute for Experimental and Translational Cardiovascular Imaging
Our Mission: developing imaging biomarkers that guide treatment
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The Institute for Experimental and Translational Cardiovascular Imaging is part of the medical faculty of the Goethe University. It performs its clinical services as part of the University Hospital Frankfurt in close collaboration with Cardiology and Radiology. The department is dedicated to translational clinical research of cardiovascular imaging biomarkers bringing the best imaging methods into clinical practice to improve patient outcomes. This undertaking was made possible through a substantial support from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (www.dzhk.de) and Ministry of Science of Hesse.
We are developing, validating and translating novel imaging techniques and measures to support the clinical management of cardiovascular disease
High-end, patient-centred cardiovascular imaging service (CMR and CT) is provided in interdisciplinary fashion with University Departments of Cardiology and Radiology
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Why Invest in Carly Holdings
APPENDIX 4C – DECEMBER 2019 QUARTERLY REPORT
ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
DECEMBER 2019 QUARTERLY REPORT AND BUSINESS UPDATE
Collaborate Corporation Limited (ASX:CL8) is pleased to present its consolidated cash flow report and business update for the quarter ended 31 December 2019.
Collaborate concluded the December 2019 Quarter recording a 20% increase in Receipts from Customers compared to the September 2019 Quarter, attributable to growth of Carly vehicle subscriptions and growth in rideshare rentals. Strong growth was achieved in all key revenue and booking metrics for Carly and rideshare rentals.
During the quarter, a total of $2.24 million of funding was raised from a strategic investment by the SG Fleet Group (ASX: SGF / “SG Fleet”) and the exercise of employee options. An initial batch of vehicles from SG Fleet were added to the Carly fleet in December 2019.
An agreement with Hyundai, Australia’s third largest car brand, was signed for the launch of a market-first subscription proposition that will enable Hyundai’s 172-strong dealer network to benefit from an additional subscription revenue stream. The Carly car subscription opportunity was introduced to a number of Hyundai dealers during the quarter and expressions of interest have been received from a significant proportion of the network.
The Collaborate Board was strengthened by the appointment of two non-executive directors – Todd Hunter, CEO of Turners Automotive Group, and Robbie Blau, CEO of SG Fleet.
20% increase in Receipts from Customers vs. the September 2019 Quarter, the fourth consecutive quarter of growth
22% increase in Rental Transaction Value vs. September 2019 Quarter and 20% increase vs. December 2018 Quarter
34% increase in Gross Revenue vs. September 2019 Quarter and 22% increase vs. December 2018 Quarter
53% increase in Gross Profit vs. September 2019 Quarter and 59% increase vs. December 2018 Quarter
21% increase in Net Rental Days Realised vs. September 2019 Quarter and 32% increase vs. December 2018 Quarter
36% increase in Carly Rental Transaction Value vs. September 2019 Quarter
42% increase in Rideshare (Uber) Rental Transaction Value vs. September 2019 Quarter
39% increase in Rideshare (Uber) Gross Revenue vs. September 2019 Quarter
42% increase in Rideshare (Uber) Net Rental Days Realised vs. September 2019 Quarter
44% decrease in Corporate and Admin costs vs. the September 2019 Quarter
$1.46 million increase in cash on hand vs. the September 2019 Quarter
12% decrease in net cash used in operating activities vs. the September 2019 Quarter reflecting higher revenue and continued effective cost control.
Consolidated Cash Flows
Receipts from Customers increased by 20% in the December 2019 Quarter, the fourth consecutive quarter of growth, as the new vehicle subscription revenue stream was supported by Carly’s continued growth and the strong performance of the rideshare rental product. Despite the growth in revenue, Advertising and Marketing Costs only increased by 2%, reflecting the optimisation of campaigns and the higher return on marketing investment from the Carly and rideshare rental channels.
The 40% reduction in Administration and Corporate Costs forecast in the September 2019 Quarterly Report was bettered, with actual costs in the December 2019 Quarter decreasing 44% vs the September 2019 Quarter.
$2.24 million was raised during the December 2019 Quarter from a strategic investment by SG Fleet and the exercise of employee options.
Collaborate announced on 14 November 2019 that it raised $1.74 million through a placement to a strategic investor, SG Fleet Management Pty Limited, a subsidiary of SG Fleet (Placement), with a further $0.46 million invested upon conversion of options received under the Placement. The strategic investment from SG Fleet follows the Company’s March 2019 launch of Carly, Australia’s first flexible vehicle subscription service. SG Fleet is one of Australia’s leading specialist providers of fleet management, vehicle leasing and salary packaging services. SG Fleet has a presence across Australia, as well as in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. The company employs approximately 700 staff and has approximately 140,000 vehicles under management.
In addition to the Placement, SG Fleet committed to provide an initial batch of 100 vehicles to the Carly marketplace, with a significant number of additional vehicles to be supplied subject to demand and economic returns. The initial portion of the first batch of 100 vehicles was provided for Carly in mid-December 2019 and the balance is expected to be supplied through the March Quarter. The vehicles will be provided on commercial terms similar to those that apply to existing providers to Carly. Collaborate and SG Fleet will work together to accelerate the growth of Carly’s consumer demand channels for car subscription and leverage SG Fleet’s significant experience and relationships in the business and government markets and realise the substantial opportunity in this area by allowing these customers, their clients and their staff to access car subscription via Carly.
On 1 October 2019, Collaborate welcomed Mr Todd Hunter to its Board as a non-executive director. Todd has been appointed to the Board by Turners Automotive Group following their strategic investment of $1.0 million via placement in June 2019. Todd has been Group CEO of Turners since July 2016. Todd is a strong and experienced senior executive, with a background in marketing, sales and accounting in both large global and domestic businesses (Ernst & Young, Microsoft and New Zealand Post).
On 10 December 2019, Collaborate also welcomed Mr Robbie Blau to its Board as a nonexecutive director. Robbie has been appointed to the Board by SG Fleet Management Pty Limited, a subsidiary of SG Fleet following their strategic investment of $2.2 million via placement and conversion of options in November 2019. Robbie was appointed CEO of SG Fleet in July 2006 and has significant experience in the fleet management and leasing industry. He was appointed to the SG Fleet Board as an Executive Director in January 2014. Robbie has overall responsibility for the strategic development of SG Fleet and manages its relationships with financial services partners.
Cash Balance at Quarter End and Funding
At the end of the December 2019 Quarter, the Company maintained a cash balance of $3.165 million, an increase of $1.462 million from the September 2019 Quarter.
The Directors closely monitor cash flows and funding requirements and are assessing all funding alternatives, which may include a placement to strategic and/or high-net-worth investors to ensure that the Company can continue to pursue the growth opportunities of the businesses. The Company acknowledges its cash position at the end of the quarter and its estimated cash flows for the March 2020 quarter. It is important that shareholders note that the estimated cash outflows do not include the cash receipts from customers.
Vehicle Revenue Streams
Given the scale of the car subscription opportunity and the significant ongoing negotiations with manufacturers, dealers and other parties seeking to partner with Carly, limited metrics will be reported so that the existing competitive advantage in the subscription market is preserved. This is in line with the limited, if any, metrics reported by other providers in the car subscription market.
Rental Transaction Value (RTV) increased 22% vs. the September 2019 Quarter, largely as a result of growth in Carly subscription revenue and rideshare rental revenue. The December Quarter typically produces strong results due to holiday period demand. However, as the focus of the business shifts from rental to subscription, this seasonality will be less pronounced going forward. As planned with the strategic focus of ensuring vehicles being available for Carly subscriptions, DriveMyCar rental revenue was flat vs. the September 2019 Quarter, while Carly RTV increased 36% and rideshare rental RTV increased 42%. The subscription and rideshare rental revenue streams are more predictable, and demand can be more effectively influenced by marketing activities, thus giving Collaborate more control of revenue growth in the future. The lifetime value of a customer for a Carly subscription or rideshare rental exceeds the value of a traditional rental customer.
Gross Revenue increased 34% vs. the September 2019 Quarter, supported by growth in RTV and fees earned from the Hyundai subscription project. Gross Profit increased 53% for the same period as revenue increased without a corresponding increase in costs. Net Days Realised increased by 21% vs. the September 2019 Quarter. Despite delivering strong revenue growth, Advertising and Marketing Costs only increased by 2%, reflecting the benefit of campaign optimisation and the lower cost customer acquisition channels for subscription when compared to rental.
By the end of the December 2019 Quarter, the supply of dealer and ex-lease vehicles, from providers including Suttons Motor Group and SG Fleet, increased by 10% compared to the end of the September 2019 Quarter. The number of corporate vehicles rented/subscribed increased by 22% vs the September 2019 Quarter, reflecting higher vehicle utilisation and return for owners. These suppliers and vehicles have been identified as being crucial for the long term growth of Carly. Access to additional vehicles from existing providers and new providers such as Hyundai and its dealer network and I-Motor dealers remain the focus of business development efforts. Material agreements for the supply of additional vehicles will be announced via the ASX.
On 18 October 2019 Collaborate announced that an agreement had been signed with Hyundai Motor Company Australia (Hyundai) to launch an industry first vehicle subscription proposition that will enable customers to subscribe via Carly to vehicles provided by Hyundai dealers in Australia. Hyundai is the third largest automotive manufacturer by volume in Australia (VFacts Sep 2019 YTD). Hyundai’s partnership with Carly marks a significant step forward for the car subscription industry in Australia:
Hyundai is the first manufacturer to support a vehicle subscription service in Australia across multiple models in its new vehicle range and the Hyundai dealer network is the first to deliver a subscription service to enable customers to subscribe to use Hyundai vehicles.
Carly is the first manufacturer-led subscription service to enable the Hyundai dealer network to earn subscription revenue from vehicles whilst retaining long term ownership and eventual resale opportunities. Carly and Hyundai have jointly initiated a dealer signup and onboarding campaign to engage Hyundai network dealers in the subscription program.
Carly has developed a Hyundai mini-site to showcase the Hyundai vehicles available for subscription which utilises geo-location functionality to display the vehicles available at dealers located in closest proximity to the subscriber. Carly will manage a digital marketing campaign, to be funded by Hyundai, to drive subscriber acquisition across various channels including search, web display and retargeting, Facebook and Instagram. Carly has completed development work for the proposition and it is now ready for rollout by Hyundai to their dealer network.
Subsequent to the end of the December 2019 Quarter, on 14 January 2020, Booran Dandenong Pty Ltd signed an agreement for its dealerships to offer vehicles for subscription via Carly. In addition, the Booran dealerships will utilise the Car Subscription Solution developed by Carly and I-Motor that enables a ‘subscribe’ option to be added to vehicles listed on dealer websites, making it easy for customers to sign up online for a car subscription that is facilitated by Carly (www.Carly.co).
The Car Subscription Solution enables automotive dealers to seamlessly introduce a new revenue stream to their dealership and provide their customers with the opportunity to subscribe to a vehicle whilst viewing it on the dealer website. The Car Subscription Solution leverages web traffic already landing on the dealer website and therefore requires no additional marketing expenditure. Digital marketing is an area of great focus for automotive dealers, despite the challenges of converting web traffic into foot traffic in the dealership and eventually into the sale of a vehicle. The Car Subscription Solution helps solve these challenges by enabling the customer to complete the subscription process entirely online and by offering a lower commitment alternative to outright purchase of a vehicle, a loan or a long-term lease.
On 16 January 2020 Collaborate agreed terms with Turners Automotive Group (ASX:TRA; NZX:TRA) for the launch of the Carly vehicle subscription service in New Zealand. The agreement follows a $1 million strategic investment from Turners Automotive and an exclusive negotiating period for the launch of a joint vehicle subscription service in New Zealand announced on 2 July 2019. The investment and launch of www.Carly.co.nz is in line with Turners’ strategy to invest in opportunities adjacent to its core automotive business. Carly’s aggregator-based model provides an opportunity for Turners to add value to its existing business models, deliver significant benefits to its customers and address the changing way consumers are thinking about vehicle access and ownership. Turners has committed to supply 200 vehicles to the Carly NZ fleet within six months of launch; sourced from their own stock and partners including automotive dealers, manufacturers and fleet managers. Carly is expected to launch in New Zealand in late March 2020. Carly will generate income from a platform licence fee based on subscription revenue, custom technology development and for the provision of customer service.
Collaborate continues to direct its resources and strategic focus towards its mobility strategy owing to the large number of opportunities resulting from significant changes in the automotive industry and rapid evolution of the ways that consumers wish to access vehicles. Car subscription, which Frost & Sullivan has forecast to account for 10% of new car sales in USA & Europe in 2025, is an area of significant opportunity for Collaborate. Carly has been launched to capitalise on the opportunity in the current $60 Billion p.a car sales market in Australia. DriveMyCar continues to pursue opportunities in the car rental market including private and rideshare rentals and both Carly and DriveMyCar leverage the operations expertise, technical platform and industry relationships established by DriveMyCar.
In light of the significant opportunities in the mobility sector, Collaborate has reviewed the available resources and potential of the Mobilise platform and decided to cease operations as of today. This closure will free up resources to focus on DriveMyCar and Carly. There will be no material impact on revenue or the carrying value of assets on the balance sheet. The future focus for the MyCaravan business is also the subject of further review.
Authorised by:
Chris Noone
CEO and Director
Collaborate Corporation Limited
E: shareholder@collaboratecorp.com
About Collaborate Corporation Limited
Collaborate Corporation Limited is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:CL8). It is Australia’s leading listed company focused on providing innovative mobility solutions for consumers and the automotive industry. Collaborate operates www.DriveMyCar.com.au Australia’s leading peer-to-peer car rental business, and www.Carly.co, Australia’s first flexible car subscription service, supported by our proprietary PeerPass trust and reputation platform.
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Regular Bettors Gambling More Frequently During Pandemic Lockdown – Poll
Posted on: April 27, 2020, 07:36h.
Last updated on: April 27, 2020, 10:58h.
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Expertise: Crime, Regulation, Retail betting.
Thirty-eight percent of Brits who class themselves as “regular gamblers” said they were betting more during the coronavirus lockdown, according to a new poll by Survation.
BetStars parent The Stars Group said earlier this month it had seen an increase of online slots and poker activity in March. (Image: The Stars Group)
The results of the study — the first on the habits of gamblers during the coronavirus pandemic — will compound fears that social isolation and the wholesale cancellation of sports have created a “perfect storm” that will fuel problem gambling, as bored bettors turn to “riskier” gaming products like online slots.
This has led to calls from politicians for online gaming operators to cap daily spending at £50 during the crisis. The UK Gambling Commission said in February it would consider the proposal. Some European countries, such as Sweden, Portugal, and Belgium, have already introduced such measures.
“We urgently need measures to protect people gambling more than they can afford to lose, a stop to the ubiquitous advertising and marketing, and a comprehensive review of the Gambling Act of 2005,” said Matt Gaskell, clinical director for a network of NHS gambling disorder clinics, told The Guardian Monday. “Forget self-regulation – we need the government to step forward.”
More Gambling Less
However, while some groups reported that they were gambling more often, the poll, which surveyed 1,000 online respondents, suggested that people in general were gambling less during lockdown.
While 32 percent of all respondents said their gambling habits remained the same as before, a further 36 percent said they were either gambling less or much less frequently.
In the regular gamblers group — defined as those who place bets at least once a week — 34 percent said they were gambling less frequently. This group represented just over a third of total respondents.
That chimes with industry body the Betting and Gaming Council’s (BGC) assertion last week that there has been a fall in gambling during the coronavirus crisis.
Migration to Casino?
In a letter to UK Sports Minister Nigel Adams, the BGC said it and its members were fully committed to working with the government to safeguard potentially vulnerable customers.
“Whilst there has been a significant drop in total gambling with no live sport, and with all betting shops, bingo halls, and casinos closed, our members are already stepping up safer gambling messaging, interventions, and initiatives to ensure that any customers betting online are doing so safely,” the organization wrote.
While operators with a large exposure to sports betting have announced dramatic profit warnings, others that generate most of their revenue from online casino games have been more sanguine about their ability to weather the economic storm.
Companies like 888 and The Stars Group have reassured investors their lower reliance on sports betting has put them in a good position to ride out the pandemic. The Stars Group said in mid-April that activity around its online poker and slots products were up 44 percent in March, year on year.
The Survation poll found that 41 percent of bettors had opened a new online account during lockdown, which could represent the migration of sports bettors to online casino games.
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Home International News President Trump refuses to get tested for coronavirus, bans all Europeans from...
President Trump refuses to get tested for coronavirus, bans all Europeans from coming to America
Lee Nyathi.
As several aides of US President Donald Trump self-quarantine, the White House has insisted that the president is in the all clear.
Several lawmakers in Trump's inner circle have been in close proximity to someone with the deadly coronavirus, including his new chief of staff Mark Meadows.
What's more, two of Trump's aides have had direct contact with the president.
Trump, who flew back to Washington after a weekend golfing at his Florida resort and having dinner with Brazil's right-wing president, has spent weeks dismissing the seriousness of the threat.
But a dramatic run on stock market prices on Monday robbed him of one of his main talking points when touting his successes ahead of the November presidential election. The Dow Jones closed 7.8% lower in the worst session since 2008.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
In a televised address, he said travel from 26 European countries would be suspended for the next 30 days.
But he said the "strong but necessary" restrictions would not apply to the UK, where 460 cases of the virus have now been confirmed.
There are 1,135 confirmed cases of the virus across the US, with 38 deaths.
"To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe," Mr Trump said from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening.
"The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight," he added. The travel order does not apply to US citizens.
Mr Trump said the European Union had "failed to take the same precautions" as the US in fighting the virus.
A Presidential Proclamation, published shortly after Mr Trump's speech, specified that the ban applies to anyone who has been in the EU's Schengen border-free area within 14 days prior to their arrival in the US.
This implies that Ireland is excluded from the ban as it is not one of the 26 Schengen countries. Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania are also EU members without being part of the Schengen area.
Mr Trump spoke just hours after Italy – the worst affected country outside China – announced tough new restrictions on its citizens. It will close all shops except food stores and pharmacies as part of its nationwide lockdown.
He said the travel suspension would also "apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo" coming from Europe into the US. But he later tweeted to say that "trade will in no way be affected" by the new measures.
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What were the results of recent special testing events in our region?
During the past 10 days community testing events at Adams State University, in Saguache County, and in Costilla County, a total of 2,211 test samples were taken. Of those, so far 82 community testing participants have been confirmed to have the virus that causes COVID-19.
How many cases have we had in our region?
If we add the community testing results to the cases identified through our ongoing testing providers, there have been a total of 312 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the past 2 weeks. As a region, we have had 1,349 confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
Do we have more cases because we are doing more testing?
No. Testing identifies existing cases. It does not create them. Testing helps prevent the spread of the virus by letting people know when they should isolate or quarantine. Although we have continued to see new cases, the added testing has helped our positivity rate go down. Two weeks ago, 11.3% of our tests were positive for the virus. Today, our regional positivity rate has been brought down to 5.9%. Our goal is to be below 5%.
Aren’t most people recovering fine from COVID-19?
Most people recover from COVID-19 without needing to be hospitalized. For many, symptoms are mild or even absent. However, there are also reports from many young, otherwise healthy people that they continue to experience the effects of COVID-19 for weeks or months. This is one area where scientists need more time and study to understand this illness better.
What is the status of deaths and hospitalizations?
Unfortunately, deaths and hospitalizations have increased recently. We are sorry to report that there have been 4 COVID-related deaths in the San Luis Valley in the past week (1 in Alamosa County, 1 in Costilla County, 1 in Conejos County, and 1 in Rio Grande County). Since the pandemic began, there have been 24 COVID-related deaths of San Luis Valley residents. Our hearts go out to every family who has lost someone to this virus. Hospitalizations for COVID-19 were very low in August and September, but they began to rise in October. We have had 93 local COVID hospitalizations so far, with 24% of those just in the past 2 weeks.
Where does this end?
The good news is that vaccines are on their way. We are hoping and planning to receive a small number of doses sometime in December. Like all vaccines, a COVID-19 vaccine must meet safety and effectiveness requirements set by the Food and Drug Administration. Healthcare workers with highest risk of exposure will be first to have the opportunity to be vaccinated. We anticipate vaccines will become more widely available in the first half of 2021. In the meantime, we need to stay vigilant and interrupt the spread of the virus by wearing masks, physical distancing, and avoiding gatherings.
The SLV currently has 252 known active COVID-19 cases.
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Hospitalized COVID-19 patients have a greater risk of dying if they are men or if they are obese or have complications from diabetes or hypertension, according to a new study conducted by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers.
Study lead author Katherine E. Goodman, JD, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UMSOM, and right, study corresponding author Anthony D. Harris, MD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UMSOM.
In a study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, the researchers evaluated nearly 67,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 613 hospitals across the country to determine the link between certain common patient characteristics and the risk of dying from COVID-19.
Their analysis found that men had a 30 percent higher risk of dying compared to women of the same age and health status. Hospitalized patients who were obese, had hypertension or poorly managed diabetes had a higher risk of dying compared to those who did not have these conditions. Those ages 20 to 39 with these conditions had the biggest difference in their risk of dying compared to their healthier peers.
“Predicting which hospitalized COVID-19 patients have the highest risk of dying has taken on urgent importance as cases and hospitalizations in the U.S. continue to surge to record high numbers during the month of December,” said study corresponding author Anthony D. Harris, MD, MPH, professor of epidemiology and public health at UMSOM. “Knowledge is power in many ways, so I think understanding which hospitalized COVID-19 patients are at highest risk of mortality can help guide difficult treatment decisions.”
For example, higher-risk patients may be given the drug remdesivir earlier in their hospitalization to help prevent severe complications or may be considered for closer monitoring or ICU admission. Health care providers may also want to consider these risks when determining which COVID-19 patients could benefit the most from the new monoclonal antibody therapies that, if given in the first few days of the infection, can reduce the risk of hospitalization.
Age remained the strongest predictor of mortality from COVID-19. Overall, nearly 19 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients died from their infection with the lowest mortality among pediatric patients, which was less than 2 percent. Mortality rates increased with each decade of life with the highest mortality, 34 percent, among those ages 80 and older.
“Older patients still have the highest risk of dying, but younger patients with obesity or hypertension have the highest risk of dying relative to other patients their age without these conditions,” said study lead author Katherine E. Goodman, JD, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UMSOM. “Doctors may want to be paying extra attention to these younger patients when they’re hospitalized to ensure they detect any complications quickly.”
The researchers also found some good news in their study findings. Death rates among hospitalized patients have fallen dramatically since the early weeks of the pandemic in April. This is likely due to the availability of new treatments and more knowledge in the medical community on how to properly manage and care for hospitalized patients.
“As we head into what may be the darkest weeks of the pandemic, it is reassuring to know that our researchers are continuing to make important advances that could help guide the decision-making skills of health care workers in the field,” said E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, executive vice president for medical affairs, University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and dean of UMSOM. “I am incredibly proud of our faculty and what they have accomplished to help save the lives of COVID-19 patients as we eagerly await a vaccine.”
About the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Now in its third century, the University of Maryland School of Medicine was chartered in 1807 as the first public medical school in the United States. It continues today as one of the fastest-growing, top-tier biomedical research enterprises in the world — with 45 academic departments, centers, institutes, and programs; and a faculty of more than 3,000 physicians, scientists, and allied health professionals, including members of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and a distinguished two-time winner of the Albert E. Lasker Award in Medical Research. With an operating budget of more than $1.2 billion, the School of Medicine works closely in partnership with the University of Maryland Medical Center and Medical System to provide research-intensive, academic, and clinically based care for nearly 2 million patients each year. The School of Medicine has more than $563 million in extramural funding, with most of its academic departments highly ranked among all medical schools in the nation in research funding. As one of the seven professional schools that make up the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus, the School of Medicine has a total population of nearly 9,000 faculty and staff, including 2,500 student trainees, residents, and fellows. The combined School of Medicine and Medical System (“University of Maryland Medicine”) has an annual budget of nearly $6 billion and an economic impact of more than $15 billion on the state and local community. The School of Medicine, which ranks as the eighth-highest among public medical schools in research productivity, is an innovator in translational medicine, with 600 active patents and 24 start-up companies. The School of Medicine works locally, nationally, and globally, with research and treatment facilities in 36 countries around the world. Visit medschool.umaryland.edu
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Type 80 Desk Lamp
Kenneth Grange for Anglepoise
The new Type 80 Desk Lamp is designed by Sir Kenneth Grange for Anglepoise, characterised by its unique 'halo' light-escape feature which brings a striking, graphic dimension to the classic shade design. Read More
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Anglepoise Sir Kenneth Grange Task Lamps Bedside Lights Task Lamps
The new Type 80 Desk Lamp is designed by Sir Kenneth Grange for Anglepoise, characterised by its unique 'halo' light-escape feature which brings a striking, graphic dimension to the classic shade design.
Precision engineered to deliver a refined solution to low light environments, the desk lamp features an integrated shade push switch, spring joint mechanism, and discreet wiring to maintain the clean lines of the contemporary design.
Prior to taking the helm as Design Director of Anglepoise in 2003, Sir Kenneth Grange's illustrious career has included designing some of the most iconic industrial products of the last 50 years, for household brands such as Kenwood, Parker and Kodak. Grange's new Type 80 collection for Anglepoise offers streamlined lighting for both domestic and commercial settings, in keeping with the tradition of the world-renowned lighting brand.
Requires 1 x Max 10W E27 bulb (included).
Shade: 14.5cm (d) x 16cm (h)
Max Reach: 70cm
Base: 17.5cm (w) x 12.5cm (d)
An all-new collection for Anglepoise designed by Sir Kenneth Grange
Features an integrated shade push switch, spring joint mechanism, and discreet wiring
Boasts a statement 'halo' light-escape for additional impact
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Sunder Katwala: You get what you pay for with immigration control. Voters want more – which means higher spending
By Sunder Katwala
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Sunder Katwala is the Director of British Future.
The latest round of net migration statistics – with numbers stubbornly remaining more than three times over the headline ‘tens of thousands’ target – will have reminded many voters why they have lost confidence in the system.
While the EU referendum wasn’t only about immigration, it certainly played an important role. The majority vote to leave did represent a vote of no confidence in how governments have managed immigration, and frustration that concerns about the impacts of rising immigration on public services and housing seemed to be dismissed.
Nobody can yet be sure how much impact Brexit will make on immigration. It will depend on the Brexit negotiations, and how the Prime Minister handles the balancing act between economic demands for maximum market access and the referendum message that free movement cannot continue unrestricted. There will be major administrative challenges in the transition away from EU membership – and the Home Office will need proper resources to implement them.
Once the free movement rules change, more people will be subject to immigration control. There is almost universal political support for securing the status of 3.5 million EU nationals resident in the UK, but there is going to be a lot of additional paperwork to process. And the number of visitors to the UK is likely to continue its upward trend: there were 36.1 million visits to the UK last year, five per cent more than the previous year. These issues will put greater pressure on Home Office resources that are already stretched.
Immigration consistently ranks alongside the economy and NHS among the public’s chief concerns for the country. That is not reflected in public spending. There has been a year-on-year cut in revenue spending on visas, border control and enforcement since 2011.
In the UK, we spent £28 per head on border control in the 2015-2016 financial year. Moreover, it is planned that borders and immigration will be a fully self-funded system by 2019-2020 – by using income from fines, visas and other fees.
These plans seem increasingly unrealistic, given the extra resources that will be needed to deal with new administrative pressures. The government should postpone those plans, and instead task the Migration Advisory Committee with calculating how much revenue and capital funding is needed for the Home Office to fulfil its immigration control function efficiently and fairly.
The need for extra resources will not go down a storm with Philip Hammond at the Treasury. But if we want a system that is effective, fair and trusted by the public, we should resource it accordingly. And it will be important to meet the additional administrative challenges without impeding the message that post-Brexit Britain remains very much open for business.
So, on this issue, the Home Office may have the whip hand. The 2015 election result showed once again that the Conservatives are most trusted to run the economy. Yet the referendum result just a year later showed how six years of the net migration target has damaged its credibility on running the immigration system. Theresa May will surely want to restore its reputation on her watch.
The Brexit settlement will provide a ‘Reset moment’ on immigration: a chance to implement a system that responds to legitimate public concerns about the pressures of immigration and is trusted to manage immigration fairly and competently. That won’t come for free but for a Prime Minister looking to show that she has heard the message of the referendum, it could offer great value.
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Can Stormy Weather Give You a Migraine?
The truth about the connection between barometric pressure and headaches
By Sari Harrar
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Are migraine headaches more likely to strike when the barometric pressure drops, as it does before an impending storm?
A lot of migraineurs—the term for people who experience these painful and sometimes debilitating headaches—certainly think so.
For example, according to a 2013 survey of migraine sufferers by the National Headache Foundation, nearly 75 percent said they consider weather or barometric changes a trigger.
In a study of 916 headache sufferers by the Atlanta Headache Center, published in the journal Cephalalgia, more than half said weather set off migraine attacks for them at least occasionally. Only stress, hormone changes, and skipping meals were more common triggers.
If you suspect that weather may play a role in your migraines, here's what you need to know.
What the Science Says
Some studies over the years have suggested a link between migraine and fluctuations in weather, while others have not. It's been hard for researchers to draw clear conclusions because most studies on migraine and weather are small and involve self-reported symptoms.
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But it’s safe to say that shifts in barometric pressure can set off headaches for some people, says neurologist Orly Avitzur, M.D., Consumer Reports’ medical director.
And anecdotal evidence suggests that changes in wind and temperature may do the same.
Just why and how the actions of the weather may lead to migraine pain is uncertain.
“We don't know exactly how weather, or for that matter, other triggers of migraine, actually exert their effects,” says Lawrence C. Newman, M.D., a professor in the department of neurology and director of the headache division at NYU Langone Preston Robert Tisch Center for Men's Health in New York City.
However, it may be that migraine triggers, including weather changes, may alter levels of serotonin, a brain chemical that can make blood vessels constrict.
Triggers may also directly affect the way the brain perceives pain.
And researchers have noted that people who experience migraines are often more sensitive to environmental factors—which may include weather, odors, light exposure, and more—than those who don't experience the headaches.
Storms, Wind, Temperature, and More
Changes in barometric pressure—the weight of the air as it presses on objects—are perhaps the most frequently mentioned weather issue related to migraine pain.
But other weather factors have also been the subject of some interesting research, though none of it is definitive.
For instance, the arrival of Chinook winds—warm, dry breezes that blow east from the Rocky Mountains—boosted the likelihood of migraines by 19 percent in a Canadian study of 75 people, published in the journal Neurology.
In another study published in Neurology, a temperature rise of roughly 10° F increased the odds of migraine by 11 percent in 7,054 people who went to a Boston emergency room with the headaches.
In addition, research from the University of Cincinnati on 90 migraine sufferers, published in the journal Cephalalgia in 2013, suggested that lightning may play a role in migraine onset.
The Ohio researchers found that chronic headache sufferers had a 28 percent increased risk of migraine on the days when lighting struck within 25 miles of their ZIP code.
Preventing the Problem, Easing the Pain
You can’t control the weather, but you may be able to reduce its ability to set off a migraine by taking control of your other triggers, says Avitzur.
“Some people develop migraines when there’s the perfect storm of triggers—perhaps a bad night’s sleep, a stressful day, and a glass of red wine together lower your threshold," she says. "One more trigger could lead to pain."
Take, for example, the findings from a study published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology in 2015, which looked at the frequency and intensity of migraines in 100 people over 12 months.
According to the study authors, while weather may increase headache risk for some people, "other factors may be required to trigger the attack.”
So, in addition to avoiding known triggers, carrying migraine medications with you, especially when a weather change that seems to affect you is predicted, is a smart move.
Take them as directed, usually at the first sign of discomfort, Dr. Newman says. “We now know that migraine specific agents like the triptans have a better effect if taken within the first 40 minutes of pain onset,” he says.
Sari Harrar
Sari Harrar is an award-winning freelance journalist and regular contributor to Consumer Reports On Health and Consumer Reports on topics of health, medicine, and science. She is a recipient of a CASE/Harvard Medical School Journalism Fellowship and the founding writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer's Kid's Health blog.
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Northern Access Works for the North London Heat and Power Project (NLHPP) - AWARD
Published date: 13 September 2019
Closing: 6 August 2018
Sheet piling - 44212410
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North London Waste Authority (the Authority) is seeking a contractor to carry out works to construct a northern access to the Edmonton EcoPark.
North London Waste Authority is a statutory authority whose principal responsibility is the disposal of waste collected by the seven north London boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest. The Authority predominantly manages its waste arisings through its waste management contract with LondonEnergy Limited (LEL), a private company which is wholly owned by the Authority. LEL operates an existing Energy from Waste facility at the Edmonton EcoPark which is due to be replaced by the Authority's North London Heat and Power Project (NLHPP).
Under the NLHPP, the Authority will develop a new Energy Recovery Facility at the Edmonton EcoPark pursuant to a Development Consent Order granted to the Authority on 24 February 2017. The construction of a northern access to the Edmonton EcoPark is part of the preparatory works for the NLHPP.
The northern access works will provide access to the Edmonton EcoPark from the north via Deephams Farm Road, off Ardra Road.
Further details of the required works are set out in the Memorandum of Information, forming part of the procurement documents.
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Shenyang Guide
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Introduction to Shenyang Imperial Palace (沈阳故宫)
Mukden Palace is former Imperial Palace for Qing Dynasty. It is first built in 1625 for Nurhachi, and inherited by his son Abahai (Huang Taiji). Mukden Palace is one of two royal complexes existent in China today. It features the splendid and distinctly ethnic Manchu architectural style. There are Dazheng (Grand Politics) Hall, Shiwang (Ten Princes) Pavilion, Chongzheng (Golden Chimes) Hall, Fenghuang (Phoenix) Chamber and Qingning (Pure Tranquility) Pavilion. All of them are still in perfect shape.
This fascinating palace contains many fine details. You will be impressed by the exquisitely handcrafted detailed carving and painting, which are still clear after four centuries. The throne room in Chongzheng Hall has incredibly detailed scrollwork -even the columns circled by the watchful dragons and on the throne. The palace also shows a significant influence from the Manchu and Mongolian heritage of its builders.
Located in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province, the Mukden Palace was the palace of the early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) emperors before moving their capital to Beijing. It was built in 1625 and home to the first three Qing emperors.
The Mukden Palace was built to resemble the Forbidden City in Beijing. However, the palace also shows hints of Manchurian and Tibetan styles. The palace has now been converted into a museum conveniently called the Shenyang Palace Museum. The museum has more than 300 Manchu-style buildings, covering an area of 60,000 square meters, and boasts more than 10,000 relics. In 2004, it was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List as an extension of the Imperial Palace site, or the Forbidden City, in Beijing.
No.171 Shenyang Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang
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Admission Fee: 60 Yuan
1. Take buses 17, 118, 132, 140, 213, 222, 228, 257, 276, 287, 290, 292, 294 or 296 getting off at Gugong Station.
1. Try to avoid visiting Shenyang Imperial Palace during the summer holidays and Golden Week in October as it will be extremely crowded.
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New Cloud Native Computing Foundation to drive alignment among container technologies
AT&T, Box, Cisco, Cloud Foundry Foundation, CoreOS, Cycle Computing, Docker, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Google, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Kismatic, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Switch SUPERNAP, Twitter, Univa, VMware and Weaveworks join new effort to build and maintain cloud native distributed systems
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 21, 2015 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
This new organization aims to advance the state-of-the-art for building cloud native applications and services, allowing developers to take full advantage of existing and to-be-developed open source technologies. Cloud native refers to applications or services that are container-packaged, dynamically scheduled and micro services-oriented.
Founding organizations include AT&T, Box, Cisco, Cloud Foundry Foundation, CoreOS, Cycle Computing, Docker, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Google, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Kismatic, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Switch SUPERNAP, Twitter, Univa, VMware and Weaveworks. Other organizations are encouraged to participate as founding members in the coming weeks, as the organization establishes its governance model.
“The Cloud Native Computing Foundation will help facilitate collaboration among developers and operators on common technologies for deploying cloud native applications and services,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “By bringing together the open source community’s very best talent and code in a neutral and collaborative forum, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation aims to advance the state of the art of application development at Internet scale.”
Cloud native application development allows Internet companies to practically scale their businesses. Today this work is resource intensive, requiring companies to assemble a team of experts that can integrate disparate technologies and maintain all of them. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation intends to ease this process for developers and businesses by driving alignment among technologies and platforms.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation plans to create and drive the adoption of a new set of common container technologies driven and informed by technical merit and end user value and that is inspired by Internet-scale computing. This work seeks to improve the overall developer experience, paving the way for faster code reuse, improved machine efficiency, reduced costs and increases in the overall agility and maintainability of applications.
The Foundation will look at open source at the orchestration level, followed by the integration of hosts and services by defining API’s and standards through a code first approach to advance the state-of-art of container-packaged application infrastructure. The organization will also work with the recently announced Open Container Initiative on its container image specification. Beyond orchestration and the image specification, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation aims to assemble components to address a comprehensive set of container application infrastructure needs.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation will be responsible for stewardship of the projects, fostering growth and evolution of the ecosystem, promoting the technologies and serving the community by making the technology accessible and widely adopted. The Foundation will include a Technical Oversight Committee and an End User Advisory board to ensure alignment of needs between the technical and end-user communities.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Collaborative Projects are independently supported software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems. By spreading the collaborative DNA of the largest collaborative software development project in history, The Linux Foundation provides the essential collaborative and organizational framework so project hosts can focus on innovation and results. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects span the enterprise, mobile, embedded and life sciences markets and are backed by many of the largest names in technology. For more information about Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects, please visit:http://collabprojects.linuxfoundation.org/
For more information about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, please visit https://cncf.io
Comments from members
“AT&T sees tremendous value in these initiatives,” said Toby Ford, assistant vice president of Cloud Technology, Architecture and Planning at AT&T. “We are very interested in helping to shape the container standards and architecture of the next-generation ecosystem that will deliver on the promise of cloud-enabled software. We are fully committed to this technology direction, as demonstrated by our Domain 2.0 initiative to migrate 75% of our targeted network onto a software defined network directed cloud.”
“Cloud native applications are critical for companies that want to scale their business quickly and successfully,” said Dave Ward, CTO and Chief Architect, Cisco. “Efforts designed to simplify and improve the overall developer experience, such as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, are a great step forward. We’re excited to be a part of this community initiative to enable new technologies and innovation for developers, as well as our continued commitment to enable users by Open Source.”
Cloud Foundry Foundation
“Cloud Foundry is a platform explicitly designed for cloud native applications. Advances in containers, automation, and orchestration are important only if they serve the needs of those applications,” said Sam Ramji, CEO, Cloud Foundry Foundation. “Our users and members need collaborative innovation in orchestration, networking and storage across their cloud infrastructures. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation will be an important venue for that work and a timely extension to the Cloud Foundry community’s work on cloud native application portability with members including Intel, IBM, Huawei, and VMware.”
“As the company behind Tectonic, the first commercial distribution of Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is providing a collaborative place for the Kubernetes ecosystem to grow,” said Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS. “We believe Kubernetes will become the standard for distributed infrastructure and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is an important step towards making that a reality.”
Cycle Computing
“Since our founding, Cycle has operated off of the simple premise that easier access to computing and storage resources increases innovation by decreasing the time it takes to solve compute challenges. Our participation in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is a logical step, we are honored to be a part of it,” said Jason Stowe, Cycle Computing CEO. “Containers and Kubernetes will help increase access to compute for big data, analytics and batch computing, and we look forward to collaborating with the community to remove the barriers to resources that analysts, engineers and scientists depend on.”
The Open Container Initiative announced last month at DockerCon establishes a foundation for container-based computing, with a common image and runtime format for containers. At the orchestration layer of the stack, there are many competing solutions and the standard has yet to be defined. Through our participation in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, we are pleased to be part of a collaborative effort that will establish interoperable reference stacks for container orchestration, enabling greater innovation and flexibility among developers. This is in line with the Docker Swarm integration with Mesos, which we demonstrated at DockerCon one month ago,” said Ben Golub, CEO of Docker.
“At eBay, we have been leading and innovating in building and operating one of the largest open private clouds in the world. The emerging landscape of containers and datacenter OS are creating unique opportunities for infrastructure providers and developers who want to seamlessly deliver cloud-first applications. We are excited to join Kubernetes foundation and lead the project in an open and community driven manner to help accelerate the pace of innovation and broad adoption of Kubernetes,” said Debashis Saha, Vice President of eBay Cloud Services.
“Google is committed to advancing the state of computing, and to helping businesses everywhere benefit from the patterns that have proven so effective to us in operating at Internet scale. We believe that this foundation will help harmonize the broader ecosystem, and are pleased to contribute Kubernetes, the open source cluster scheduler, to the foundation as a seed technology,” said Craig McLuckie, Product Manager, Google Corporation.
“We believe the foundation will drive standards and integrate common technologies, such as container and container orchestration, into an advanced end-to-end open source solution that promotes business adoption. By being part of the foundation, we hope we can lead and contribute in creating open standards and solutions. This is a continuation of our open source strategies. We continue to build advanced communication and information technologies based on open standards and solutions for solving our customer problems in moving to the cloud,” said Ying Xiong, chief architect of PaaS, Huawei.
“Growing, maintaining and rapidly expanding container and micro-service based applications across multiple clouds is a challenge without standards,” said Dr. Angel Diaz, IBM vice president of Cloud Architecture and Technology. “The creation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation reaffirms IBM’s long standing commitment to community driven open source answers to tough problems and we look forward to making contributions in support of containers and other open technologies as we deliver class leading container services through our Bluemix infrastructure.”
“Cloud native application development offers the promise of workload portability across stacks, and standardization helps drive full portability.” said Jonathan Donaldson, vice president of Software Defined Infrastructure at Intel. “Intel is committed to helping lead the Cloud Native Computing Foundation towards delivery of standards that ensure that enterprise developers can build cloud native applications with the confidence required to move this innovative delivery model forward.”
Joyent
“The Cloud Native Computing Foundation represents the next step in the evolution of open source software, in that it provides a mechanism for complementary projects to come together as a single and harmonized solution architecture,” said Scott Hammond, CEO of Joyent. “We are excited to be part of CNCF as a founding member and to begin working with our peer companies to make container-native computing broadly accessible.”
Kismatic
“I’m excited for the Kubernetes community as the creation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation fortifies Google’s commitment to open standards now orchestration is owned by the world consuming it vs. one corporate entity,” said Patrick Reilly, founder and CEO, Kismatic.
“At Mesosphere, we see a major industry transformation underway, driven by the new class of technologies for managing containerized workloads, including Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, and the Mesosphere DCOS,” said Florian Leibert, Co-Founder and CEO at Mesosphere. “By collaborating as an industry foundation we will accelerate customer adoption and help enterprises achieve scale plus true portability between clouds and their private data centers. Mesosphere’s vision is to make it possible for thousands of stateful and stateless services to run multi-tenant on the same clusters, simplifying operations, and maintaining proper access controls and security isolation between workloads. These are the new requirements for modern datacenters and the target of much of the innovation happening on the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS).”
“The rapid ascent of Linux containers and complementary technologies like Kubernetes shows that the future of enterprise application is not based in proprietary code; rather, these applications are born in the cloud and driven by open innovation,” said Lars Herrmann, general manager, Integrated Solutions Business Unit and Container Strategy, Red Hat. “We are pleased to be a founding member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and will look to continue driving open standards around these technologies in order to foster even great enterprise adoption.”
Switch SUPERNAP
“These are exciting times in the evolution of more agile IT environments and Switch is dedicated to ensuring the industry adopts the most innovative standards to operate by. We are thrilled to be partnered with the other members of the Foundation to advance the building and operations of cloud native applications and services.” – Jason Mendenhall, EVP of Cloud, Switch SUPERNAP.
Univa
“Univa is excited to participate as a founding member of the new Cloud Native Computing Foundation,” said Gary Tyreman, CEO of Univa Corporation. “Enterprises want to capture the power and benefits of containerization and the industry is stepping up to the challenge. We look forward to sharing our extensive experience in workload optimization and resource management with the CNCF community.”
“Customers will benefit from the community’s collaboration via the Cloud Native Computing Foundation which will help to define common cloud native computing APIs, tools and frameworks,” said Kit Colbert, vice president and CTO, Cloud-Native Apps, VMware. “We are excited to work with the community to extend VMware’s software-defined data center offerings to support open technologies resulting from the foundation and beyond.”
Weaveworks
“With CNCF, container technologies will quickly become ubiquitous in application development, deployment and management. By focusing on the needs of all IT shops and not just an elite, the CNCF will drive rapid developer-led adoption. By enabling standard distributions, the CNCF will remove the need to hire armies of engineers to piece together a mosaic of ever-changing components. And by delivering interoperability, the CNCF simplifies almost any use case from web and data apps to distributed systems,” said Alexis Richardson, CEO, Weaveworks.
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Music preview: The Head and the Heart charts its own course
The Head and the Heart's success can be attributed in part to band members like drummer Tyler Williams ignoring the former in favor of following the latter.
The Head and the Heart�s success can be attributed in part to band members like drummer Tyler Williams ignoring the former in favor of following the latter.
Prior to joining the Seattle folk-rock collective in 2009, Williams was living in Richmond, Virginia, and contemplating careers far outside of the music industry.
�I�d been in bands forever, and I always wanted to make a life out of it, but it was getting to the point where I was working in restaurants and they didn�t want to hire me because I was always on the road,� said Williams, who joins his bandmates for a concert at LC Pavilion on Thursday, Dec. 11. �I was feeling the pressure of, �Well, what if I go back to college? What if I go into engineering?��
Around this time, the drummer received a rough demo of early Head and the Heart song �Down in the Valley� from longtime friend Jonathan Russell, whom he�d played with in the short-lived Richmond band Silent Film Star, accompanied by an invite to join the nascent crew in Seattle.
�[�Down in the Valley�] was more mature than anything I�d heard John do before,� Williams said. �I knew he had talent, but this was just on a different level. The honesty in the lyrics was pretty special, and the arrangement and chord changes weren�t typical, yet it still flowed properly, which I appreciated. It was something that really connected with me.�
Yet for months following the move, Williams was gripped with a thought frequently uttered by members of the Bluth clan on �Arrested Development�: �I�ve made a huge mistake.� The Virginia native struggled to find his footing amid the modern sprawl of Seattle, and a band situation he thought might offer a degree of stability remained, for a time, tenuous at best.
�They didn�t have a practice schedule, and it felt more like a pastime to some people at first,� Williams said. �For those first three months � I was pretty sure I would be moving home to Virginia.�
What the band did have, however, was a trio of skilled songwriters � Russell, Josiah Johnson and Charity Rose Thielen � and a belief in the quality of the music. It�s a belief that paid off in a big way when the Head and the Heart�s self-titled debut topped 300,000 in sales following its 2011 release.
Even so, Williams said the only pressures the bandmates felt while recording their sophomore album, Let�s Be Still, which surfaced last fall, were internal.
�We knew we needed to up what we�d done in the past, and get deeper and more complex � both musically and emotionally,� he said. �But we never felt any outside pressure. Even now we just do what we do, and if people like it they do.�
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Advent Acquisition Of Forescout Back On, Price Cut By $4 Per Share
The $29-per-share deal comes just five days before the scheduled start of a Delaware Court of Chancery trial over Advent International’s attempt to walk away from the Forescout acquisition back in May.
By Michael Novinson July 15, 2020, 11:24 AM EDT
Advent International and Forescout have called off their dueling lawsuits and agreed to move forward with an acquisition for $4 per share less than the deal initially proposed in February.
The Boston-based private equity firm will buy San Jose, Calif.-based cybersecurity vendor Forescout for $29 per share, down from the purchase price of $33 per share, or $1.9 billion, agreed to five months earlier. The deal comes just five days before the scheduled start of a Delaware Court of Chancery trial between Forescout and Advent over Advent’s attempt to walk away from the deal.
“We believe revising the terms of the previously announced transaction is the best path forward for Forescout because it removes the significant ongoing distraction of the pending litigation and delivers immediate and certain value to Forescout’s shareholders,” Theresia Gouw, chair of Forescout’s board of directors, said in a statement.
[Related: Merlin: Forescout Channel Stuffing Allegations Are ‘Entirely False’]
Forescout’s stock surged $3.85 (15.38 percent) to $28.88 per share in trading Wednesday morning. The company’s stock had bottomed out on May 20 at $19.84 per share after Forescout indicated that it was taking Advent to court. Advent subsequently countersued. The amended acquisition agreement between Advent and Forescout was announced before the market opened Wednesday.
The deal will inject much of Symantec’s former brain trust into Forescout thanks to Advent teaming up with private equity team Crosspoint Capital Partners as an adviser. Nicholas Noviello, who served as Symantec’s CFO from December 2016 to January 2019, will take over as Forescout’s chief operating officer, while Greg Clark, Symantec’s CEO from August 2016 to May 2019, will join Forescout’s board of directors.
“As a private company and with the resources, expertise and support of Advent and Crosspoint Capital Partners, we will remain committed to helping customers solve their most pressing security challenges while applying greater focus to our strategic cloud transformation and our transition to a recurring subscription business model,” Forescout CEO Michael DeCesare said in a statement.
Two events over the past week may have brought the two sides closer to a deal. First, Forescout reported on July 8 that revenue for the quarter ended June 30 was expected to come in between $78 million and $82 million, well above Seeking Alpha’s consensus estimate of $70.4 million.
Then on July 10, Advent’s lawyer asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to adjourn the July 20 trial because the original lenders for the Forescout deal had terminated their debt commitment. Advent said it had contacted alternate lenders with no luck and was willing to agree to an extension on the deal termination date. Forescout objected to Advent’s motion the very day it was filed.
“The fundamental strengths that first attracted Advent to Forescout—its differentiated technology, record of innovation, talented employee base and relentless focus on its customers—continue to make this business a compelling platform and critical player in the cybersecurity ecosystem,” Bryan Taylor, head of Advent’s technology investment team, said in a statement.
The rupture first began May 15 when Advent told Forescout that it wouldn’t be closing the acquisition three days later as had been scheduled. Advent’s attempt to walk away came a week after Forescout announced revenue for the quarter ended March 31 had fallen 24 percent on a year-over-year basis to $57.2 million due to the impact of COVID-19 on large-size deals and new perpetual licenses.
Then on May 20, Forescout sued Advent in Delaware Court of Chancery for allegedly violating the terms of the acquisition agreement by claiming that a “material adverse effect” had occurred at Forescout. Forescout argued that the acquisition agreement called out the risk of any impacts from the coronavirus pandemic, and that Advent was therefore obligated to close the transaction as scheduled.
Advent took a different view, arguing that Forescout experienced a disproportionate effect on its business relative to its direct peers, most of which reported strong financial performance in the current COVID-19 environment. Advent alleged that Forescout would lack the ability to meet its financial obligations as they became due based on its expected post-closing financial condition.
During the legal proceedings, Advent subpoenaed Merlin International, No. 129 on the 2020 CRN Solution Provider 500, after a whistleblower email accused Merlin of engaging in a “channel stuffing scheme” with Forescout. Advent said a May 5 email from forescout.whistleblower@protonmail.com alleged that Forescout involved Merlin in the scheme during the fourth quarter of 2019.
Forescout said the whistleblower’s allegation was without merit, and related to an ordinary course transaction for which Forescout had been paid in full. Merlin said the allegations made by the whistleblower about its agreement with Forescout are “entirely false,” and said it was disappointed that its name and reputation had been unfairly dragged into the legal fight between Advent and Forescout.
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Reports: Seachange Actor Tom Long Dead Aged 50
By Kieran Simpson
Australian actor Tom Long has reportedly died at the age of 51 after a lengthy battle with cancer.
The star had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow in 2012.
The great Tom Long has left us. One of the finest actors Australia has ever been lucky to see. My heart goes out to his family. pic.twitter.com/MLkmnN7lCk
— The Curb (@TheCurbAU) January 4, 2020
Movie site The Curb tweeted early on Sunday that Tom had died.
Tom was best known for playing Angus on Australian drama Seachange.
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UK Markets Watchdog Bans Sale of Crypto Derivatives and ETNs to Retail Investors
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The UK’s markets watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives and exchange-traded notes (ETNs) to retail investors.
In an announcement, the FCA reveals it considers crypto derivatives and ETNs to be “ill-suited for retail consumers due to the harm they pose.” The regulator added that these products “cannot be reliably valued” by retain investors because of several factors, including the inherent nature of the underlying cryptocurrencies.
A “prevalence of market abuse and financial crime” in the secondary market, along with “extremely volatility” in cryptoasset prices and “inadequate understanding of cryptoassets by retail consumers” were also cited. To the FCA, there’s a “lack of legitimate investment need” for retail investors to invest in crypto derivatives and ETNs.
The regulator added these features would mean retail consumers might suffer harm from “sudden and unexpected losses” if they invested in these products. The FCA reiterated that firms carrying out activities in the crypto sector should be authorized by it. It added:
To address these harms, the FCA has made rules banning the sale, marketing and distribution to all retail consumers of any derivatives (ie contract for difference – CFDs, options and futures) and ETNs that reference unregulated transferable cryptoassets by firms acting in, or from, the UK.
The markets watchdog estimated retail investors will save around £53 million ($68.5 million) from the crypto derivatives and ETNs an. Sheldon Mills, interim Executive Director of Strategy & Competition at the FCA, said the ban reflects “how seriously we view the potential harm to retail consumers in these products.”
The ban is set to come into effect on January 6, 2021. UK consumers were advised to be on alert for cryptocurrency derivative investment scams, as the FCA warned that “any firm offering these services to retail consumers is likely to be a scam” after the ban comes into effect.
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The US$550 million megayacht concept that looks like a shark
Tamara Hardingham-Gill
Lazzarini Design Studio has unveiled a series of renderings of a new yacht design that's been devised to resemble a shark. (Lazzarini Design Studio / CNN)
Just weeks after unveiling an upcoming yacht concept that resembles a swan, Lazzarini Design Studio are pushing the boundaries even further with a brand new design that's shaped like a shark.
Measuring a staggering 153 metres, Prodigium is to be made of carbon fiber and aluminum, and has an estimated market price tag of just under US$550 million.
The megayacht concept is equipped with its own port with enough space for a second yacht measuring up to 30 metres, as well as three swimming pools.
Its exterior design features ancient Roman influences, with two stately columns holding up its upper structure in grandiose fashion.
While an ocean predator and Roman architecture might not seem like obvious design influences to incorporate into a futuristic vessel concept, this is to represent the shark as the "emperor of the seas," according to the design team.
KILLER CONCEPT
Consisting of six decks, Prodigium's enclosed upper level, which houses the main living area, has been devised to mimic the teeth and nose of an ocean predator.
Both sides of the vessel are to be equipped with two huge extendable fins that can serve as additional terrace space.
Prodigium, which has three jet engines and twin electric center line engines, is capable of reaching an estimated cruising speed of about 22 knots, according to the Lazzarini Design Studio.
The luxury yacht can accommodate around 40 guests at a time, and with three helicopters hangers and two garages filled with water toys on board, there's plenty to keep them entertained.
All the suites are based in the down hull area, along with a gym, and at least one enclosed pool.
Prodigium is the second of six new concepts inspired by nature that are currently being developed by Italian designer Pierpaolo Lazzarini -- the first being the swan-shaped Avanguardia concept.
ANCIENT ROMAN INFLUENCE
While this project is still in the early phases of the design process, Lazzarini estimates the vessel would take at least 28 months to construct if or when it's picked up by a shipyard.
This latest concept comes as demand for superyachts continues to grow -- the global fleet jumped from 3,906 crafts in 2009 to 5,646 in 2019, according to the Superyacht Group.
The market is projected to reach a value of $10.2 billion by 2025 as an increasing amount of yachts measuring longer than 24 metres are ordered, and designers are going all out to ensure their concepts are bigger and better than the competition.
"The days of all big yachts looking the same are long gone," Boat International editor Stewart Campbell told CNN Travel last year.
"Owners are really pulling out all the styling stops and challenging shipyards and designers to come up with boats that are truly unique."
Recent examples include Ultra2, a new 95-metre superyacht from Berlin-based T.Fotiadis Design that has its own on-board safe room.
Meanwhile, Red Yacht Design and Dykstra Naval Architects have teamed up to devise Ice Kite, an eco-friendly superyacht concept that can be pulled along by a 1,700-square-foot kite.
Made of carbon fiber and aluminum, it's equipped with three large swimming pools and can accommodate around 40 guests. (Lazzarini Design Studio / CNN)
According to the team at Lazzarini Design Studio, Prodigium is capable of reaching an estimated cruising speed of about 22 knots. (Lazzarini Design Studio / CNN)
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Fantastic Fest 2020 – The Boy Behind the Door Review
Lindsay Traves
Score: 8 / 10
Stories of friendship don’t usually evoke thoughts of dark thrillers, but The Boy Behind the Door, a pitch black film reliant on suspense, is one of the more pure explorations of the relationships we have with the people we choose.
Bobby and Kevin are best buds. Playing with their baseball one day, the two are kidnapped. Bobby (Lonnie Chavis) wakes up in the trunk of a car and uses everything around him to escape. On his way out, he hears Kevin (Ezra Dewey) shouting for help. The two are on opposite sides of a locked door, and Bobby can’t leave his best friend behind.
Not for the faint of heart, this one tackles the kidnapping of two young boys, suggesting what horrors are associated with such an act. It does the service showing great restraint, never portraying the horrors the boys could face, understanding that the mere suggestion is powerful enough. It opts to, instead, skip right to the tension of the escape attempt.
The Boy Behind the Door wastes no time launching into a grizzly game of cat and mouse. Bobby, with a touch of freedom and the benefit of being undiscovered, sneaks around the house desperately seeking ways to liberate his friend. The film relies mostly on action and Bobby’s face. Chavis does a lot of heavy lifting here and he absolutely kills it. There’s a distinct lack of dialogue, and the action is the movie. The camera follows Bobby, an industrious and savvy kid who is just that, a kid. He slips, he gets scared, he explores, and he makes a mess. Chavis sells every part of this, forcing the audience to experience his every thought. We’re made to feel everything he does, driven home in the camera angles resisting showing us faces that Bobby can’t see and ignoring the ones he might ignore.
The Boy Behind the Door
The camera work and direction are absolutely stellar. Bobby makes his way around the house and the same areas are shot and reshot various ways to convey the changing emotion and stakes. Again, this isn’t a dialogue heavy movie, it’s a chase, so the acting and cinematography really have to shine, and do. There are a couple moments where the kidnapper doesn’t act consistently, unnaturally lowering the stakes, but it’s easy to ignore as Bobby’s intense tour through the house is unrelenting and suspenseful enough to let you disregard any missteps.
First time filmmakers, David Charbonier and Justin Powel, don’t try to hide their influences. I won’t spoil the fun, but the two opt to pay homage to a very different film which really works to bring the old classic into the world of the new generation.
There’s a moment where Bobby finds a car that boasts a “Make America Great Again” bumper sticker. It’s a throwaway, but as the twists are revealed, you’re forced to consider if there’s a broader statement on the kidnapper underestimating the young Black boy. It’s a simple white knuckle thriller that might sit atop a deeper story on the power of the forgotten but relentless boy who will do everything to save the other victim, a position he shouldn’t have to be in at all.
That this is a first feature is a massive feat. Charbonier and Powel are no doubt ones to watch as they created a film that feels ready to take a spot beside some of the best thrillers, in the crowded sub-genre of kidnapping dramas. By exercising the restraint they did to keep this a simple tale, never bothering with too many characters, added horrors or deeper motivations, they created a truly excellent slice of cinema that will leave your knuckles glowing white.
The first feature from this writing/ directing duo isn’t just impressive, but cements them as ones to watch. The use of sound, light, angles, action and acting level this simple cat and mouse story up to a near flawless thriller.
Director(s): David Charbonier and Justin Powel
Cast: Lonnie Chavis and Ezra Dewey
Studio: Whitewater Films
Running Time: 1hr 28minutes
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Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet (PlayStation 4) Review
A Step Forward For SAO
Remington Joseph
Score: 7.5 / 10
I’ve always had somewhat of a strained relationship with the Sword Art Online franchise. I’ve always felt that although the concepts behind the series were interesting, the execution always left a lot to be desired. This has been especially true when it comes to games based on the series. Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet, however, is a major step in the right direction for Sword Art Online games, despite its minor flaws.
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet – image for this review provided by Bandai Namco.
Unlike most stories set in the Sword Art Online universe, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet is one of the few that doesn’t follow series protagonist Kirito. Instead, you play as your own customizable character who is playing their first virtual reality MMO called Gun Gale Online alongside their childhood friend. Most of Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet’s story is spent setting up for a new update coming to the game, meaning it’s a slow burn until the game’s plot really picks up. Despite this, it was refreshing to be able to see a Sword Art Online story from viewpoints other than Kirito’s or his friends, who all take on the roles of supporting characters this time around. It’s also worth noting that fans who have only watched the anime may be a little confused by the appearance of certain characters. The Sword Art Online games take place in their own universe where certain events play out differently and new characters are added. While Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet does briefly go over the series original plot, it never mentions any of its changes which leaves it up to players to piece things together themselves.
In most cases, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet’s visuals are average. The game’s character creator offers a good deal of variety, allowing for some unique character designs. Fatal Bullet also gives players a chance to see a bit more of the world of Gun Gale Online than what’s shown in the anime, although most of it is still just destroyed cities and barren landscapes. While I never ran into any slowdown during my time with the game, the game’s constant load screens did start to hinder the experience. Switching areas will always leave you waiting at least ten to fifteen seconds and sometimes the game would even hang at the end of a cutscene. there were a few instances where textures on outfits would take a few seconds to pop in. As with all the Sword Art Online games, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet lacks an English dub which may disappoint some fans. It can also cause some unfortunate issues during gameplay when characters shout out warnings that aren’t subtitled.
The easiest way to describe Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet’s gameplay would be to call it a single player MMORPG. Everything from the game’s HUD to its quest and loot system gives off the feeling of a typical MMO. Players can party up with three other characters, go out into the game’s world and shoot down monsters to complete quests. There are even PVP quests which have players take on AI controlled characters acting as other players within Gun Gale Online. Beyond all of this, what really makes Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet feel like a proper MMORPG is the way you can build your character. Everything from stats, skills, weapons and equipment can be fully customized and tailored to your own playstyle. Players can bring two weapons into battle with a set of four selectable skills paired to each. Players can also bring four rechargeable items called gadgets, which includes things such as frag grenades or a first aid kit. As if that weren’t enough, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet also gives you a second, fully customizable character. Known as an ArFA-sys, this second character exists as an AI assistant to the player and has its own unique features such as a bank that can build the player’s savings over time. Overall, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet offers a great amount of depth that can almost completely change your experience depending on how you choose to build your character. Those looking to play with actual people will be happy to know that the game does feature multiplayer, allowing up to four players to raid dungeons along with their ArFA-sys partners. While it’s also able to play against other players competitively, I couldn’t connect to a single match no matter how many times I tried.
Rather than playing as a first-person shooter like it did in the anime, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet changes its perspective to third-person. Players can dash, crouch and roll to dodge incoming fire. It’s likely that because of the game’s speed, Dimps included an optional auto aim assist mode. The auto aim won’t always hit but it can help to greatly reduce the frustration that would otherwise be caused by more agile aerial enemies. While combat works great when using guns, melee weapons are more of a mixed bag. Not only is there no aim assist when using swords in Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet, but there’s no targeting mechanic at all. This often results in attacks not connecting at all and makes the weapon much harder to use on a target that moves.
A bigger problem that hurts Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet is clipping. Parts of characters will sometimes take damage even when they’re behind cover due to being to close and clipping through it. This can also tie into characters getting caught on pieces of the environment, resulting in them freaking out as they try to escape. A constant trigger for these collision detection issues is a weapon called the fiber gun. Like a mechanic found in Dimps’ PlayStation Vita title Freedom Wars, the fiber gun allows players to grapple hook their way around the game’s overworld. It’s finnicky and rarely works the way it should without somewhat careful planning.
Like most games in the series, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet is a great concept that could benefit from some extra polish. Unlike past titles, however, its obvious flaws are much less prevalent this time around. The fast-paced action gameplay is thoroughly enjoyable, and the insane amount of depth only adds to it. If you can look past the constant loading screens and the occasional sluggish movement issues, there is a lot of fun to be had with Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet.
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Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet is a fun action RPG with technical flaws holding it back from true greatness.
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
Developer: Dimps, Bandai Namco Entertainment
Played On: PlayStation 4
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
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Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
Lowcountry Food Bank
The Lowcountry Food Bank serves the 10 coastal counties of SC & distributes more than 14 million pounds of food a year to more than 190,000 families, children & elderly suffering from food insecurity.
LTTG Fund for the Needy Inc
LTTG Fund for the Needy Inc is a 501 c (3) charitable organization established to eradicate hunger.
MANA Nutrition
MANA produces a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) that is used to treat children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition.
MANNA FoodBank
Involving, educating and uniting people in the work of ending hunger in Western North Carolina since 1983
Manna on Main Street
Manna on Main Street is committed to ending hunger in the North Penn region of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Marion Polk Food Share
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a non-profit organization leading the movement to end hunger in Maryland.
Masters Table Community Meals Inc
We offer free community meals, emergency food bank, community assistance for groceries, gas, clothing and disaster assistance for clothing, food, furniture
MATSU FOOD BANK
Matanuska Susitna VALLEY IN Alaska FOOD BANK
Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach
Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach serves the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of Lincoln's working poor and homeless through outreach, advocacy, education and the provision of food and shelter.
Maui Food Bank
Meals On Wheels of Tarrant County
Meals On Wheels, Inc. of Tarrant County is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. We provide hot, nourishing meals to homebound elderly & disabled persons who are unable to prepare meals for themselves.
Meds & Food for Kids
Meds & Food for Kids is dedicated to saving the lives of Haiti’s malnourished children and other nutritionally vulnerable people.
Mendocino Food & Nutrition Program
Mercer Street Friends Food Bank
MicroLoan Foundation USA
The MicroLoan Foundation is an international development organization that reduces poverty and inequality by providing microfinance services to poor women living in remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
Mid-Columbia Community Action
MID-Nebraska Community Action Partnership
Mid-Ohio Foodbank
Working to end hunger one nourishing meal at a time and co-create a sustainable community where everyone thrives.
Mid-South Food Bank
Ministry With Community
The mission of Ministry with Community is to empower people to make positive life changes.MwC is Kalamazoo's only drop-in daytime shelter and resource center for individuals experiencing crises.
Mississippi Food Network
Modest Needs Foundation
Founded in 2002, Modest Needs is a non-profit providing responsible financial assistance to those who work and live just above the poverty level, and to veterans transitioning back to civilian life.
Monroe County Opportunity Program (MCOP)
Montana Food Bank Network
Montana Food Bank Network's mission is to end hunger in Montana through food acquisition & distribution, education & advocacy.
Montgomery Area Food Bank, Inc.
Montgomery County Food Bank
Mountaineer Food Bank
Nashville Food Project
The Nashville Food Project brings people together to grow, cook and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city. We serve 3K nutritious meals/mo.
Neighbor Impact
Neighborhood Food Pantries@Real Life Site
We are a food pantry that gives out all food and some personal items. We give emergency assistance.
New Hampshire Food Bank
North Country Food Bank, Inc.
North Texas Food Bank
Northeast Iowa Food Bank
Northern Arizona Food Bank
Northern Arizona Food Bank provides food and material aid to our neighbors in need. NAFB also provides firewood during the winter months, and professionally processed game meat through FHFH AZ01
Northern Virginia Family Service
Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS) empowers individuals and families to improve their quality of life, and promotes community cooperation and support in responding to family needs.
Northwest Arkansas Food Bank
NORWESCAP Food Bank
Aid in the relief of hunger by providing food and support to non-profit charitable organizations in Hunterdon, Warren, and Sussex counties in New Jersey.
Nourishing USA
Your registration through this site helps Nourishing USA a not-for-profit, 501 (c)(3), nationwide hunger advocacy program that strives to achieve “nutrition for all” in America.
Ohio Association of Foodbanks
Our mission is to assist Ohio's 12 Feeding America foodbanks in providing food and other resources to people in need and to pursue areas of common interest for the benefit of people in need.
OPERATION: Sack Lunch
OSL is a multifaceted organization currently serving 1200 meals daily, and more than 4 million meals since our inception in 1989.
Opportunity International
Opportunity International provides microfinance services- small business loans, savings, insurance and training- to over two million people working their way out of poverty in the developing world.
Your local community food bank, as part of a nationwide network securing and distributing more than 3 billion meals each year throughout the United States, in the fight against hunger.
OUAGANET INC
OuagaNet is a 501-c-3 nonprofit which operates in rural areas of Burkina FasoWe empower women with goats to raise, fight hunger by creating gardens and donating seeds to the villagers to plant.
Outreach United Resource Center, Inc.
We help people move toward self-sufficiency by unifying community resources.
Ozarks Food Harvest
Ozarks Food Harvest is the Feeding America food bank for southwest Missouri, serving more than 200 organizations across 28 Ozarks counties, providing more than 15 million meals annually.
Paamonim
Paamonim has offered an effective alternative to charity since 2002 by focusing on long-term, comprehensive solutions to debt and poverty. At over 55 local branches situated throughout Israel, families referred to Paamonim receive individualized all-encompassing assistance, guidance, and support in learning how to improve their financial circumstances and maintain financial stability.
Peoria Area Food Bank
Philabundance
Feeding the hungry in the Delaware Valley.
Pine Tree Legal Assistance provides free civil legal assistance in cases where it can make a difference in meeting basic human needs or in enforcing basic rights.
Placer Food Bank
Porchlight Community Services Inc
The mission of the Porchlight Community is to relieve hunger, eliminate waste and increase the self-sufficiency of individuals.
Positive Planet US
Positive Planet in the US promotes inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent work for all.
The POWER Connection has existed since 2003 "Providing Opportunities for Work and Education Retraining". We have a food pantry, resale store and forklift and computer classes.
Project 100 Inc.
To Promote, Produce, and Provide the support needed to create Productive Citizens of our community.
Project Self-Sufficiency
Project Self-Sufficiency assists low-income single parents in becoming financially independent through personal capacity building, further education, and removal of barriers. Larimer County, Colorado.
Public Advocates in Community re-Entry (PACE)
We believe everyone deserves a second chance. We provide a variety of services to persons previously incarcerated & their families to help them lead productive & responsible lives in their community.
Rahima International Foundation
Rahima International Foundation strives to feed the hungry, assist the financially insecure, and support students in their educational journey.
Rebuilding Together Philadelphia
The mission of Rebuilding Together Philadelphia is to bring volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.
Redwood Empire Food Bank
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
Rhode Island Community Food Bank
The Rhode Island Community Food Bank works to end hunger in our state by providing food to people in need.
River Bend Food Bank
River Valley Regional Food Bank
Roadrunner Food Bank
Roots in the Community Market Foundation
Nonprofit Full Service Grocery store seeking to ensure access to healthy food is not a luxury
Rosie's Place
Rosie’s Place is a sanctuary for poor and homeless women. We provide meals, shelter, groceries, health care, advocacy, education, employment opportunities and more to thousands of women each year.
S.E.R.V.E., INC
S.E.R.V.E. is an emergency food pantry located in Stafford, VA that operates on volunteer efforts and local donations to help support local families during times of need.
Sacred Heart Southern Missions
Serving the poor in five north Mississippi counties.
Salvation Army Acton Service Unit
Operating in Acton, Massachusetts, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Ada Service Unit
Operating in Coal & Pontotoc, Oklahoma, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Baldwin County Service Unit
Operating in Baldwin County, Georgia, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Barren County Service Unit
Operating in Barren County, Kentucky, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Berkeley County Service Unit
Operating in Berkeley County, South Carolina, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Charleston County Service Unit
Operating in Charleston County, South Carolina, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Chatham County Service Unit
Operating in Chatham County, North Carolina, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Clayton and Fayette County Service Unit
Operating in Clayton and Fayette County, Georgia, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Coolidge Service Unit
Operating in Coolidge, Arizona, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Crossville, TN Service Unit
Operating in Crossville, Tennessee, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Dorchester County Service Unit
Operating in Dorchester County, South Carolina, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Dunn Service Unit
Operating in Dunn, North Carolina, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Greenwich Service Unit
Operating in Greenwich, Connecticut, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Hardin County Service Unit
Operating in Hardin County, Tennessee, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Los Banos Social Services Unit
Operating in Los Banos, California, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Lowndes County Service Unit
Operating in Lowndes County, Georgia, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Marianna Service Unit
Operating in Jackson County, Florida, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Marlin Service Unit
Operating in Marlin, Texas, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Milford Service Unit
Operating in Milford, Connecticut, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Minerva Service Unit
Operating in Minerva, Ohio, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Muscogee County Service Unit
Operating in Muscogee County, Georgia, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Naples Area Social Services Unit
Operating in Naples, Florida, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Natick Service Unit
Operating in Natick, Massachusetts, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army New Stanton Service Unit
Operating in New Stanton, PA, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army of Jessamine County Service Unit
Operating in Jessamine County, Kentucky, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Port Clinton Service Unit
Operating in Ottawa County, Ohio, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Service Unit Berkeley County
Salvation Army Somerset Service Unit
Operating in Somerset, PA, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Stevens County Service Unit
Operating in Stevens County, Minnesota, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Thomas County Service Unit
Operating in Thomas County, Georgia, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Tyrone Service Unit
Operating in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Upper Bucks Service Unit
Operating in Upper Bucks County, Compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army Wilton Service Unit
Operating in Wilton, Connecticut, compassionate community volunteers provide practical services for families and individuals affected by such circumstances as unemployment, sudden illness, traffic accidents or natural disasters. About Service Units: operating in specific geographic regions, often a rural county where there is no Salvation Army Corps Community Center. Some service units operate in densely populated suburban areas to provide additional services.
Salvation Army, Salem, MO - KSMO AM
To help the less fortunate in Dent County, Missouri with past due bills, prescriptions, shelter and emergency needs.
San Antonio Food Bank
SE Ohio Foodbank
As a division of Hocking Athens Perry Community Action, we provide food and other essential items to member agencies (pantries, soup kitchens, etc.) in 10 Appalachian counties of Southeast Ohio.
Second Harvest Community Food Bank
Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee
Second Harvest Food Bank is leading the effort to feed East Tennessee’s hungry and to engage our community in the fight to end hunger.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee
Our mission is to feed the hungry by securing and distributing food and grocery products to non-profit agencies that provide services to the needy in the eight-county region of Northeast Tennessee.
Our Mission - To provide essential food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.
We are one of the nation’s largest, most efficient and most innovative food banks delivering millions of meals to over 1,000 partner agencies serving 59 counties in Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
Second Harvest Inland Northwest
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank
Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank
Second Harvest of South Georgia, Inc
Selma Area Food Bank
SF-Marin Food Bank
Our mission is to end hunger in San Francisco and Marin, where 1 in 4 residents is in need of food assistance. This year we will distribute 47 million pounds of food to the community.
Shalom Farms
Our mission is to work with communities to ensure access to healthy food and the support to lead healthy lives.
Share Food Share Love Food Pantry
Providing emergency food for residents of Brookfield, Illinois and the surrounding communities.
Shared Harvest Foodbank
Shasta Senior Nutrition Program
Sister Carmen Community Center
Sister Carmen Community Center, a non-religious agency, provides basic needs and family centered services to over 9,000 East Boulder Residents per year.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul Galveston-Houston
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul Galveston-Houston is a grassroots, volunteer-based, direct-aid organization helping people in need get back on their feet.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Council of Los Angeles
Provides programs and services for children, the homeless and the poor, free of charge regardless of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, handicap or national origin.
Socio-Economic Empowerment through Democracy Development Group, Inc.
SEED Development Group, Inc., develops and implements programs that significantly improve the standard of living - and life - for those who barely exist within disadvantaged communities.
South Coast Food Share
South Plains Food Bank
South Texas Food Bank
Southeast Alaska Food Bank
Southeast Missouri Food Bank
We are the only Food Bank serving 16 Southeast Missouri counties. Our mission is to end hunger and leverage the power of food to build a healthy community.
Southeast Texas Food Bank
SponsorMe - Christian Children's Fund of Canada
We reach out around the world to children in need, families and communities of all faiths. SponsorMe online provides immediate support for food, water, health care and education for a child in need.
St Cyprian Ecumenical Food Pantry
SCEFP
St Vincent de Paul, Frisco, TX
St. Vincent de Paul is a social services organization dedicated to providing material assistance to people in the Frisco, TX area who are in need, regardless of race or religion.
St. Louis Area Foodbank
St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance
St. Vincent de Paul - St. Gabriel Chapter
Feed, clothe, house and heal the needy.
St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin
The St Vincent de Paul Society provides basic assistance and serves free meals to people from all walks of life, including senior citizens, the unemployed and the homeless.
St. Vincent Meals on Wheels
St. Vincent Meals on Wheels prepares and delivers nutritious meals daily to homebound seniors. We serve anyone in need regardless of age, illness, disability, race, religion or ability to pay.
Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world.
Suncoast Harvest Food Bank
We provide the needy with 1. Financial Assistance, for housing, utilities, heating fuel 2. Food Pantry 3. Clothing Center.
Sunnyvale Community Services
Sunnyvale Community Services is an independent, nonprofit emergency assistance agency that works to prevent homelessness and hunger.
Tarrant Area Food Bank
Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank
The Life You Can Save
Founded by Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save inspires people to donate to charities that save or improve the most lives per dollar.
The River Fund New York
The River Fund's mission is to feed and empower those we serve to move beyond the lines of poverty.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is dedicated to serving the poor and providing others with the opportunity to serve. The Society has been assisting central and northern Arizona families since 1946.
Our mission is to deliver food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty, or natural disaster.
Three Square Food Bank
Three Square’s mission is to provide wholesome food to hungry people, while passionately pursuing a hunger-free community.
THRIVE Peninsula
THRIVE provides rent and utility assistance to prevent homelessness and utility cut-off coupled with 1-on-1 financial coaching sessions. We have a large food pantry, and other supportive services.
Tiny Hearts of Hope
Tiny Hearts of Hope is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children. We bring necessities such as food, bedding, and education.
Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank
Tri-Lakes Cares
For more than 30 years, Tri-Lakes Cares has been providing emergency, relief and self-sufficiency services in northern El Paso County, Colorado.
Tri-State Food Bank, Inc.
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Doorman fighting for life after being struck on head with a brick outside Coventry pub
Police are appealing for witnesses and information after the attack in the early hours of the morning
Josh Layton
The Oak Inn in Gosford Street
A pub doorman is fighting for life in hospital after being hit on the head with a brick while working in Coventry.
The 28-year-old man was attacked in the early hours of this morning (August 23) outside the Oak Inn in Far Gosford Street.
The assailant got out of a grey Seat Leon with missing number plates which had pulled up outside the venue before throwing the brick.
The unnamed doorman is currently in hospital having undergone emergency surgery.
Detective Sergeant Aman Hundal, of West Midlands Police, is appealing for witnesses to the attack, which took place at around 12.45am.
Det Sgt Hundal said: “The victim has suffered a serious head injury…we need to find the men responsible for this violent assault.
“We have seized CCTV which shows the offenders arriving and leaving in a grey Seat Leon which had the number plates removed.
“There were quite a few people nearby and I really need them to get in touch to tell me what they saw. And I would also ask taxi drivers and other motorists in the area to check dash-cam footage to see if they have caught the offending vehicle on camera.
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“There will be people in Coventry who know who is responsible for this.
“People who were on a night out last night and have access to a grey Seat Leon.
“The victim is fighting for his life in hospital and I would urge those people to do the right thing and contact me.”
A spokesman from the Oak Inn said: "We are cooperating and working with the police. It's an ongoing matter and we're not able to further comment at this time."
Anyone with information can call West Midlands Police 101 or message via Live Chat on the force’s website. Please quote crime ref 20CV/201054N/20.
Alternatively, you can speak to the charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111. You won’t be asked for your name and calls cannot be traced.
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Swamy Vivekananda’s 158th birth anniversary celebrated in big way
From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network
Bengaluru, Jan 12: The 158th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, who has been appropriated as the Hindutva icon, was celebrated in a big way by different organisations including the State Government and Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
A newly built Swami Vivekananda Bhavan in Raj Bhavan premises was inaugurated by Governor Vajubhai Vala and Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa.
Both the Governor and the Chief Minister jointly unveiled a statue of Swamy Vivekananda and also released a book, ‘’A Visual Ode to Karnataka,’’ brought out by Raj Bhavan.
The Chief Minister later participated in the Swami Vivekananda Jayanti organized by the State Higher Education and Technical Education Department.
Yediyurappa also released ‘Yuvaspandana’ book published by the State Higher Education and Technical Education Department.
Deputy Chief Minister and Higher Education Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayaan, Additional Chief Secretary Dr Shalini Rajneesh, Chief Minister’s Additional Secretary Dr E V Ramana Reddy and Higher Education Department Additional Chief Secretary Kumar Nayak were among the dignitaries who participated in the function.
The Chief Minister inaugurated the National Youth Day organized by the Bharat Scouts and Guides, Karnataka Central office as part of the Swami Vivekananda Jayanti.
State Commissioner of Bharat Scouts and Guides P G R Sindhia, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Administrator Gaurav Gupta and BBMP Commissioner Manjunath Prasad were among the dignitaries who attended the function.
The Chief Minister started the day by offering flowers to Swamy Vivekananda picture in his Home Office, Cauvery, in the morning.
BJP MLA and former Minisrer Murugesh Nirani was present.
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WorldPride 2014 moving to new weekend
Toronto incapable of hosting two large events: Tourism Toronto
By Andrea Houston Jan 25, 2012, 7:00 PM EST
Toronto Pride 2011. Credit: Xtra file photo
If you’ve already made plans for Toronto’s WorldPride in 2014, you may want to cancel them.
Rather than first consult the community, Pride Toronto (PT) instead hastily changed the dates of WorldPride 2014 because another international event is already booked on the same weekend.
A board source tells Xtra that the change was made swiftly at the last PT board meeting. Board members chose between two sets of dates. They decided to hold the event from June 20 to 29 rather than from July 11 to 20.
“Why wasn’t this brought to the community first?” asks the PT board member who asked not to be named. “Which was what was in the [Community Advisory Panels] report.”
WorldPride was initially scheduled to run from June 27 to July 6.
Board chair Francisco Alvarez confirmed the date change. He says PT was advised by Tourism Toronto that there would not be enough hotel rooms available during the originally proposed dates.
Tourism Toronto wanted PT to move the date to avoid conflict with the Lion’s Club International conference, set for July 4 to 8.
“WorldPride is very important to the community and the global community,” the board member says. “We really can’t fuck this up.”
Alvarez says the Lion’s Club conference is an early booking. He says there was no way for PT to have predicted the conflict.
“When there are people with money to put down, they can make a booking,” he says. “So they got the 6,000 hotel rooms that we were prepared to book. Essentially, the Lion’s Club booked the whole town. I guess there isn’t the capacity for two events.”
Alvarez says PT hasn’t yet started to create promotional materials for WorldPride.
The new date for WorldPride has the green light from InterPride, the international association of Pride organizers, he says.
WorldPride committee chair Luka Amona says Tourism Toronto explained that there are “challenges” to hosting two international events during the same weekend in Toronto. “The Lion’s Club also has a parade,” he says, so there would be a strain on city resources and services. “Plus, we really wanted to keep it as close to the Stonewall dates as possible.”
Amona says PT still hasn’t estimated how many people WorldPride will bring to Toronto.
Representatives from Tourism Toronto or the Lions Club could not be reached for comment.
Loreen Lalonde, director of sales and marketing for the Marriott Courtyard, at Yonge and Alexander streets, says the change is welcome news for the hotel industry.
“You need a good section of the major downtown properties available for guests,” she says. “Toronto would never want to host an international convention if we can’t do it properly. We need to have a substantial number of rooms downtown to be able to accommodate people.”
Pride moved the celebration to the first weekend of July in 2010 in part because Toronto was hosting the G20 summit of world leaders on the final weekend of June that year. It has kept the event on that weekend since, hoping to take advantage of increased tourism from Canadians and Americans enjoying the long weekend.
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Recorded sound falls under mechanical licensing, usually lined by a complicated patchwork of state laws; most cover variations are licensed through the Harry Fox Agency. Performance rights may be obtained by both performers or the performance venue; the two major organizations for licensing are BMI and ASCAP. Two on-line sources for public area music are IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) and Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL).
Indian music has primarily three types of classical music, Hindustani, Carnatic, and Dhrupad kinds. It has additionally a large repertoire of styles, which involve solely percussion music such as the talavadya performances famous in South India. In spite of some worldwide copyright treaties, figuring out which music is within the public area is difficult by the number of national copyright laws that may be relevant.
According to Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, in their guide Wikinomics, there has been a shift from a traditional consumer position to what they name a “prosumer” position, a client who both creates content material and consumes. Manifestations of this in music embody the manufacturing of mashes, remixes, and music movies by fans. Technology has had an affect on music since prehistoric times, when cave people used simple tools to bore holes into bone flutes 41,000 years in the past. In the 19th century, music expertise led to the development of a extra powerful, louder piano and led to the development of latest valves brass devices.
Another impact of the Internet arose with online communities and social media web sites like YouTube and Facebook, a social networking service. These websites make it easier for aspiring singers and amateur bands to distribute movies of their songs, join with other musicians, and gain viewers curiosity. Professional musicians additionally use YouTube as a free publisher of promotional materials. YouTube customers, for instance, no longer only download and hearken to MP3s, but additionally actively create their own.
And you’ll share your artwork with enthusiastic audiences at Juilliard, at different famend venues in New York City and around the globe. Bob Boilen’s Playlist What the creator of NPR Music’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts is listening to proper now. In the coronavirus era musicians, longing to attach with pals and neighbors, and wanting to follow their art, have taken to their porches, patios, driveways and yards to play for passersby.
Five units of video performances by Solomon Mikowsky and 47 of his piano students, in honor of Manhattan School of Music. Manhattan School of Music is one of the world’s premier music conservatories for classical music, jazz, and musical theatre. Nominees embody a number of distinguished composers, sound mixers, and music editors for a variety of packages. Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s 50 diploma-granting music applications offer musicians targeted, conservatory-style coaching that has been reimagined for 21st-century artists. Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s leading theater applications provide a trademark combination of acting, voice, and motion training that prepares students for a life in the arts.
Music ranges from strictly organized compositions—such as Classical music symphonies from the 1700s and 1800s—via to spontaneously performed improvisational music similar to jazz, and avant-garde styles of probability-primarily based contemporary music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Indeed, all through history, some new varieties or kinds of music have been criticized as “not being music”, together with Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge string quartet in 1825, early jazz at first of the 1900s and hardcore punk within the 1980s.
The Luther College Department of Music is dedicated to the study, development, and practice of the musical arts in the lives of our students and in the community the place we serve.
There are many forms of music, together with popular music, traditional music, art music, music written for non secular ceremonies and work songs corresponding to chanteys.
Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s graduate string packages prepare musicians for versatile careers through specialised efficiency training and centered research in audition method, profession growth, and entrepreneurship. Boethius (c. 480–524), was properly suited to the wants of the church; the conservative aspects of that philosophy, with its fear of innovation, have been conducive to the maintenance of order. The function of music as accent to words is nowhere extra clearly illustrated than in the history of Christianity, the place the primacy of the textual content has all the time been emphasised and typically, as in Roman Catholic doctrine, made an article of faith. In the kinds of plainchant, melody was used for textual illumination; the configurations of sound took their cue from the phrases. Plato was a stern musical disciplinarian; he saw a correspondence between the character of a person and the music that represented her or him.
Performers were expected to know tips on how to add stylistically acceptable ornaments to add interest to the music, such as trills and turns. A Baroque flute player would possibly add mordents, that are short notes which might be played earlier than the principle melody observe, both above or below the primary melody notice.
Research on this subject and its subfields are primarily empirical; their information tends to advance on the basis of interpretations of information collected by systematic observation of and interaction with human participants. In music, an ornament consists of added notes that present ornament to a melody, bassline or different musical part. The element included explicitly in the music notation varies between genres and historical intervals. In common, artwork music notation from the seventeenth through the 19th centuries required performers to have a great deal of contextual information about performing styles. For example, within the seventeenth and 18th centuries, music notated for solo performers sometimes indicated a easy, unadorned melody.
Earthly music, nonetheless, is suspect; Plato distrusted its emotional power. Music must due to this fact be of the best type; the sensuous qualities of certain modes are harmful, and a strong censorship have to be imposed. Music and gymnastics within the correct steadiness would represent the desirable curriculum in training. Plato valued music in its ethically accredited forms; his concern was primarily with the results of music, and he due to this fact regarded it as a psychosociological phenomenon. Indian music, for instance, is among the oldest and longest residing kinds of music, and is still broadly heard and performed in South Asia, in addition to internationally (especially for the reason that 1960s).
In the Laws, Plato declared that rhythmic and melodic complexities were to be prevented as a result of they led to despair and dysfunction. Music echoes divine harmony; rhythm and melody imitate the movements of heavenly bodies, thus delineating the music of the spheres and reflecting the ethical order of the universe.
Cognitive musicology is a branch of cognitive science involved with computationally modeling musical data with the goal of understanding each music and cognition. The use of pc fashions offers an exacting, interactive medium during which to formulate and check theories and has roots in synthetic intelligence and cognitive science. Modern music psychology goals to explain and perceive musical conduct and expertise.
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Jan. 15: Health Recommendations and Requirements Update
Dear DePauw Students and Employees,
We are truly excited to begin another term as Tigers and welcome many of you back to Greencastle. The COVID-19 Task Force, in collaboration with the Health and Safety Pod, has updated the Health Recommendations and Requirements for winter and spring terms. In particular, we hope the updated information provides clear expectations of campus life while providing a bit more flexibility for ‘life to return to campus.’ While we know the virus that causes COVID-19 is more pervasive and widespread than last term, the Student Academic Life team and all student-facing offices are dedicated to working within our guidelines while providing important student services and social opportunities. Read more.
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On Wednesday, December 30, Putnam County, home to DePauw University, moved into a Red status for COVID-19 cases, as referenced on the ISDH website. Because a county must remain at a lower weekly two-metric score for two consecutive weeks to move down to a lower advisory level, Putnam County will remain in Red until at least January 13. Read more.
Dec 21: Spring Health and Safety Information
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We are excited to welcome you to campus! Below (and attached) is very important information about your return to campus, specifically related to the influenza vaccination and our return to campus health protocol. I ask you to please read this email thoroughly, and print the attachment. There are lots of details but my hope is that this information will guide you to a successful and on-time return to campus. Your entire DePauw family is here to help and support you. Read more.
Dec. 7: Move in information, testing details for Spring
Dear DePauw Students,
In preparation for spring term, I write to share several reminders and high-level items for you all as a result of COVID-19 and Student Academic Life planning. While I know this is not an ideal week to receive detailed information and you are finding yourselves preparing for finals and papers, I felt it important to provide this update. We are certainly excited to start a term anew with many of you on campus, though I recognize your need for a nice long break. Read more.
Nov 20: COVID-19 Travel: Before You Go
As you look toward travel over the next several weeks, either leaving campus or for other reasons, we want to remind you of the COVID-19 mitigation measures highly suggested by the CDC and state health departments. As of yesterday, the CDC is now recommending against travel for the Thanksgiving holiday. Read more.
Nov 5: COVID-19 Spring Term Update and Preparing for Campus Departure for Fall
Please read below for reminders for wrapping up this term on campus and preparing for next term. Read more about what was sent to students here.
Oct 23: Spring Residence Preference Form
As we begin to inch closer to the close of the fall term, I know you are eager to begin planning for spring in your decisions about both living and learning. I certainly understand that this has been a very unusual time regardless of the learning option that you selected and want to thank each of you for working with us in our effort to keep everyone healthy and safe. As President White indicated, we are eager to welcome all students who choose to live and learn on campus for the spring term. Read more.
Oct. 9: Spring Term Update
Dear DePauw Students, Faculty and Staff,
Now that the October meeting of the Board of Trustees concluded earlier today, and discussions have been held throughout campus with staff members who are part of DePauw’s COVID-19 operations team, faculty, students and health officials, I am happy to share that for spring term we will welcome all students who choose to live and learn on campus. Read more.
Sept 18: Changes to On-Campus Health Practice Recommendations and Requirements
Given the current health of our campus, and due to the care of each of you who continue to take appropriate safe actions and maintain the health and safety protocols required by campus, the COVID-19 Operations Task Force, Health and Safety Pod and DePauw Student Government have made recommendations to President White regarding changes to our current on-campus policies. Below please find the details of the approved changes; implementation dates will be shared on the individual pages. Read more.
Sept 16: Employee Asymptomatic COVID-19 Testing Program
Dear DePauw Faculty and Staff,
As we welcome our students this academic year in these unprecedented times, we again want to thank each of you for your individual and collective efforts in doing your part in following University health and safety protocols as we seek to minimize the risk of this virus to our campus community. This is the ultimate TigersTakeCare moment! Read more.
Sept 15: Dashboard Updates, Quarantine and Isolation
Dear DePauw Faculty, Staff and Students,
With thanks to our ongoing planning teams working daily on testing, mitigation and health and safety surrounding COVID-19, we have some updates for your information below. Read more.
Sept 7: DEADLINE: On Campus, Commuter, Remote Status Change
As many of you have now had several weeks to become accustomed to your living and learning situations, we know that some individuals have already had a need to find new living arrangements for various reasons. With the unusual circumstances of this year, some students have opted to change their campus residency and status between commuter, on-campus and remote. Read more.
Sept 3: What does it mean to quarantine or isolate?
Dear Parents and Guardians of on-campus students,
It was such a thrill to see many of you on campus as you helped your students move in and get settled for our new school year. As we begin to engage with each other on campus in new ways, we have seen the great care our students have for each other and their community. Our current COVID-19 motto, Tigers Take Care, can be felt across our community and we will continue to count on your support in helping it ring true. Read more.
August 24: Welcome, Safety Guidelines, and Expectations
Dear Students:
A warm welcome to the class of 2024, and a welcome back to the fall term to the classes of 2023, 2022, and 2021. We have missed your active engagement with the campus and our faculty and staff! We are excited to get this academic year started, as I’m sure many of you are also. Read more.
July 31: Updated FAQ, Student reminder to fill out live/learn form
Dear DePauw Students, Faculty, Staff and Families,
With this email we wanted to provide you with a few updates and reminders:
As a reminder, all students should fill out this Google form by July 31 at 11:59pm (Eastern) indicating their preferences for where they will learn and live this fall. Read more.
July 25: Important Update Regarding Fall 2020
Dear DePauw Students, Families, Faculty and Staff,
For several months, our faculty and staff have worked diligently on plans to allow all of our students who want to live and study on campus this fall to do so. Despite our best efforts, preparations and hopes, however, we now know that to safeguard the health of our DePauw and Greencastle communities in the face of an alarming resurgence of COVID-19 in our state and nation, we must limit the number who are living on campus at any one time. Read more here.
July 8: Revised class meeting times for fall 2020
We are writing to share information about revisions to the fall 2020 class time banks, which have been designed by the Course and Calendar Oversight Committee, working in consultation with the Fall 2020 Academic Planning Pod. We also received valuable feedback from Bon Appétit and the Greek Community Board regarding lunch service in Hoover Hall and in Greek Chapters respectively. Read more.
July 2: Change to Return to Work Date and Reminder of Health Policies
With approval from Dr. White and her Cabinet, we are writing with two important updates from the COVID19 Task Force to share with you before we go into the extended holiday weekend. Read more.
June 30: Reminders and and Update Re: Off-Campus Programs and Winter Term
Thank you for continuing to engage with us as we plan and make additional decisions regarding the university’s response to the virus that causes COVID-19. Read more.
June 24: Student Email: Response Required: decision on where you will learn/live for Fall 2020
We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work through the process of developing plans for the upcoming academic year. A number of students, faculty and staff have been working hard to prepare for our return to campus while also providing options for students who want to live remotely. Read more.
June 24: COVID Ops Team Update to Faculty and Staff
I’d like to provide an update on some of the ongoing work of the COVID-19 Operational Task Force over the last two weeks. While the below does not encompass all of the Task Force’s work, I will continue to provide updates such as these to provide actionable and important information, so please be on the lookout for regular emails regarding milestones in our work. Read more.
June 17: Universal Mask Policy Update
As a follow up to our June 5 email, please find new details at this link regarding an updated universal mask policy for DePauw’s campus that has been approved by the DePauw cabinet and will go into effect Monday, June 22, 2020. Please also note that any updates to the COVID-19 webpage will now be housed in an updates section at the top of the page, and any questions and clarifications regarding COVID-19 fall planning and/or the Health Practice Recommendations and Requirements can be directed to covid19@depauw.edu.
Julia Sutherlin Proctor, Associate Dean, Chair, COVID-19 Operations Task Force
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June 5: COVID-19 Plans, Academic Calendar, Work-Return Update
Thank you for your patience as we continue to plan for the fall term. This email serves as an update on a number of areas that impact our community, so please read each section carefully. All of this information is also being sent to students, but without the employee-related return-to-work information. Read more.
May 8: DePauw's Fall Planning and New Leadership Course
The end of the spring term has been difficult for everyone on multiple fronts, requiring us to change every aspect of our lives. What hasn’t changed is our longing to be back on campus with one another, which is a testament to the close-knit community we have built.
This shared desire has been a driving factor during our comprehensive fall planning efforts the past few weeks. After careful consideration, we plan to begin the fall term in August, in person and on campus, with significant health and safety precautions implemented to protect the health of our students, staff, faculty and the broader community. Read more.
April 15: Updates for students, faculty and staff
Dear students, faculty and staff,
With just over three weeks of classes remaining in the spring term, we wanted to check in with each of you and provide updates on the work of the Cabinet, CIMT, and many others across campus.
Student Academic Life sent their first newsletter, SAL-utations, yesterday to all students. The email is a weekly check-in from the division and offers additional ways to stay connected while we are away from campus. Students should expect SAL-utations in their inboxes each Tuesday. Seniors and senior families will receive an update regarding Commencement tomorrow, and we will forward this information to employees as well. Read more.
April 6: On-Campus Summer Programs
As you plan for the remainder of the spring term, we wanted to update you regarding May Term and summer on-campus programs. Due to the continued threat of the virus that causes COVID-19, we have regretfully decided that there will be no on-campus summer programs. This includes on-campus faculty-student summer research, on-campus internships and student employment, and on-campus summer camps. May Term travel courses were cancelled previously. While no on-campus May Term courses will be offered, we will offer several May Term courses that will be taught remotely. Details will be posted in the Schedule of Classes soon. Read more.
April 3: Extended Stay at Home Order, Community Notification Reminder
As of this afternoon, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb has extended the stay at home order for the State of Indiana due to the virus that causes COVID-19. The executive order is extended for two more weeks through April 21. Holcomb has also extended Indiana’s public health emergency declaration through May 1. Read more.
March 23: Indiana Governor Executive Order to Stay at Home
Today Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb has issued a stay at home order for the State of Indiana due to the virus that causes COVID-19. The executive order takes effect at 11:59pm on Tuesday, March 24.
The health and safety of our students, faculty and staff remain our highest priority and the CIMT and Cabinet have been preparing for such a scenario. We want to assure you that much of DePauw’s services will continue to operate. As such, as of 11:59 pm on Tuesday, March 24, we will suspend all on-campus operations with the exception of those that are essential and cannot be conducted remotely. Read more.
March 17: Services and Hours, visitors to campus, notification update
As we adjust to a new environment, we thank you for your continued flexibility as we make changes to our current operating procedures. The health and safety of our students, faculty, staff and the Greencastle community are of the utmost importance to us. Read more.
March 16, 2020: Shuttles, boxes and office hours for today
Thank you to all the students that moved out of their housing units yesterday. This was a unique day at DePauw, and CDC recommendations continue to evolve. As of last night, the CDC released additional recommendations of no gatherings of more than 50 people for the next eight weeks. I appreciate all of the kindness and care students are showing one another as you adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, I am very grateful for the large number of staff and faculty that came to campus yesterday to offer support and resources to our students. Read more
March 15, 2020: Students Must Leave Campus Housing by 5 pm Monday
Dear DePauw students, faculty, staff and parents,
As you know, we have been monitoring the evolving COVID-19 situation while planning and preparing for its potential impact to our campus. The CDC has now declared a Global COVID-19 outbreak, which means that the U.S. is on a level 2 travel advisory.
There are currently no presumptive positive or suspected cases of COVID-19 on campus. We will update the community immediately if that situation changes.
However, all students who are not already approved to stay and are not still awaiting a response to a previous submitted petition must leave campus at latest by Monday, March 16 at 5 p.m. Read more.
March 13, 2020: Faculty Staff Update
Before we share information specific to faculty and staff work concerns, we would like to express how grateful we are for those who continue to respond and react to this rapidly evolving situation – and for doing so with the health and safety of our community as our shared goal. Without question, the decisions announced Wednesday evening pose significant challenges, which we will work together to resolve. Read more.
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March 13, 2020: Departing Campus ASAP, Funding Resources
As you are wrapping up classes, it is urgent that you depart campus as soon as you are able. Once you leave campus, you are not allowed to return to campus until further notice.
Indiana’s Governor, Eric Holcomb, last night announced new steps to protect the public from COVID-19 in the state of Indiana, which includes limiting non-essential gatherings and social events, and encouraging employers to allow employees to telecommute. Although campus will be open, we need to reduce the number of students physically on campus and make decisions in the interest of community health. Read more.
March 12, 2020: Student Academic Life follow up re: spring term
Many of us have been members of the DePauw community for a number of years and we have greatly valued the continued focus on students and community that this University has had throughout the duration of our time at DePauw. We recognize how difficult this time will be for you and your families. The health, safety and welfare of all members of our campus community are vitally important. Read more.
March 11, 2020: Coronavirus Update: suspension of in-person courses
As we continue to monitor Coronavirus (COVID-19) developments, including its designation today as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization, it is increasingly clear that we need to take further action to protect the health of our campus and Greencastle community.
Although there are no suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19 on DePauw’s campus or in Greencastle, the number of cases in Indiana, the U.S. and across the globe continues to rise. Though unpredictable, the virus is known to be highly infectious and recommendations to slow transmission such as social distancing are challenging to achieve on our residential campus. Read more.
March 9, 2020: Coronavirus Updates: Suspension of in-person classes March 19, 20; travel restrictions; on-campus athletic events attendance; local community service; and precautions
After consultation with the Critical Incident Management Team and the Course and Calendar Oversight Committee, the Vice President for Academic Affairs has asked DePauw faculty to use the two days leading up to spring break (Thursday 3/19/20 and Friday 3/20/20) to prepare to shift to online instruction at a future date should that be needed. While in-person classes will not meet on these days, students may be expected to participate in virtual instructional activities and to complete assignments. Staff will continue to work their regular schedule. The University will remain open on these dates and students will be fully supported. Faculty have received detailed information about resources for preparing for online instruction. Read more.
March 6, 2020: Coronavirus Update
Dear DePauw students, faculty, staff, parents and guardians,
We are writing to update you regarding COVID-19. The first positive case of COVID-19 has been identified in Marion County, Indiana, near Indianapolis. The individual is an adult who recently traveled to Boston, has a mild case of the virus and followed recommended protocols. Although Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb has declared a public health emergency, the individual is currently in isolation and the Indiana State Health Commissioner stated that there is no ongoing risk to the public.
There are currently no confirmed cases at DePauw and no suspected cases. Public health officials continue to advise that it is safer to remain in place and avoid large events or gatherings rather than travel elsewhere. Read more.
March 4, 2020: Travel Safety Advisory
This message is a follow up to the message shared with the DePauw University community on March 2, 2020.
Travel restrictions implemented
14-day Self Quarantine before returning to campus after travel to CDC level 2 and 3 COVID-19 areas
DePauw Traveler Information Form
Supporting our students and scholars overseas
As Spring Break approaches, we want to provide an update to our Jan. 24 message regarding precautionary health measures to take for Coronavirus COVID-19. Separately, the DePauw International Risk Assessment Committee, Critical Incident Management Team and Cabinet have been meeting to finalize a series of recommendations regarding international travel safety and preparedness, on which we will update you within 48 hours. Read more.
Jan. 24, 2020: DePauw Update on Wuhan Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Dear DePauw Community,
There is a new virus that has been identified in Wuhan, China, Hubei province that the US Centers for Disease Control is monitoring.
There are currently NO cases in the DePauw campus community. Read more.
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Death Notices (updated) - Thursday 24th October 2019
Derry News
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BRACKEN, Gabrielle (Gay), nee Devine - 24th October 2019 (peacefully) at Altnagelvin Hospital, beloved wife of the late Bruce, loving mother to Elizabeth, Helena, Aileen and the late Richard and Claire, devoted grandmother to Emilie, Eve, Rosa and Annie, dearly loved and will be sadly missed by the entire family circle. Funeral leaving her home, 53 Aberfoyle Crescent, on Saturday 26th October at 9:40am to St. Patrick's Church, Pennyburn for Requiem Mass at 10:15am. Interment afterwards in the City Cemetery. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on her soul.
Our Lady of Lourdes, intercede for her.
DUDDY, James (Jim) - 24th October 2019, beloved husband of the late Margaret, loving father of Karl, Brenda and James, father-in-law of Carol, much loved grandfather of Donna-Marie and Niamh and dear brother of Nora, Frances, Beatrice and the late Patricia. Funeral from his home 3 Stradowen Drive, Strathfoyle, on Saturday at 10.30am for 11 o’clock Requiem Mass in St Oliver Plunkett’s Church, Strathfoyle. Interment afterwards in Ballyoan Cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations in lieu of flowers, if wished, to Friends of Altnagelvin (Ward 41), c/o Mr Brian Moran, WHSCT, Altnagelvin Hospital, PO Box Mdec, Glenshane Road, Derry, BT47 6SB. Jim's remains will leave W J O'Brien & Son's Funeral Home, 110 Clooney Road, Eglinton at 6.00pm today. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on his soul.
MARTIN, Charlie - 24th October 2019, beloved husband of the late Grace, loving father of Helen, Mary, Gerard, Cecelia and John and a much loved grandfather. Funeral from his home, 103 Doneybrewer Road, Eglinton on Saturday at 11.30am for 12 o’clock Requiem Mass in Star of the Sea Church, Faughanvale. Interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations in lieu of flowers, if wished, to St Vincent de Paul, Co W J O'Brien & Son's Funeral Directors, 110 Clooney Road, Eglinton, BT47 3PU. Charlie's remains will be removed from W J O'Brien & Son's Funeral Home today at 5 pm. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on his soul.
McCARTNEY, Sean (Bellaghy - 23rd October, beloved husband of Susan (Sue), son of the late Marie and John, and dear brother of Jamesie, Betty (Campbell) and the late Colm. Funeral from his home, 28 Ballydermott Road on Saturday (26th October) at 10.15am for 11.00am Requiem Mass in Church of St Mary, Bellaghy, interment afterwards in adjoining cemetery. Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on his soul. Deeply regretted by his sorrowing wife, brother, sister, nephews, nieces and extended
McGLYNN, Frank (Claudy)- at Dean field Nursing Home, (formerly of Legahurry, Claudy) beloved son of the late Francis and Sarah Ann, and dearly loved brother of Pat, George and the late Mary (Quigg) and Bella (Coyle). RIP Frank will repose at his late residence, 53 Faughan View Park, Claudy from approximately 4.30pm today (Thursday 24th October) until funeral to St Patrick's Church, Claudy for Requiem Mass tomorrow (Friday) morning at 11.00am. Interment in adjoining cemetery immediately after. Deeply regretted by his sorrowing brothers, nieces, nephews and family circle. Family Flowers only, please.
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Mentor Dr. AnaMaria Correa and Mentee Kimberly Pereira
Editor's note: Each year Dance/USA matches early-career dance leaders with established dance professionals for the Dance/USA Institute for Leadership Training. Learn more about the program here.
By Lisa Traiger
As Miami City Ballet’s chief community engagement officer, Dr. AnaMaria Correa leads a team that works to build and nurture “forever-partnerships” rooted in equity and access to bring ballet and dance into communities especially those systemically marginalized.
She is completing her second year at Miami City Ballet (MCB) and came to the dance world through theater, first as a performer then via work in the arts-in-education field. “I was going into classrooms, working with teaching artists, implementing programs, teaching the arts to students, combining arts as a way of enhancing educational content areas,” she explained. Her arts-in-education work took her to Henry Street Settlement House, Dancing Classrooms and Ballet Hispánico, all in New York City. Most recently Correa completed her doctorate in urban education at The Graduate Center/CUNY. “As a leader, I bring a confluence of experiences that inform my practice: my raced identity, gendered experience, my work as a performing artist, and pedagogical training,” she said.
Yet, she noted that throughout her career, “I did not have mentors along the way. I’m a woman of color and … often, depending on race and class, you don’t have those [formal or informal] networks. I certainly worked with fantastic leaders and I’m a reflective leader, but I didn’t … even understand what that systemic mentorship was.”
When Dance/USA’s executive director Amy Fitterer reached out to Correa to ask if she would mentor Kimberly Pereira as part of the Dance/USA Institute for Leadership Training (DILT), the answer was an enthusiastic “yes” — on both sides. Pereira, education manager at Charlotte Ballet, said she specifically wanted to work with a woman, preferably someone of color. “I wanted a female who could relate and share her experiences on navigating career paths, specifically in the field of community engagement and education within dance. While I’ve been fortunate to work with amazing individuals, I really felt like I needed a female perspective as a female navigating this path.” She also wanted someone with expertise in education and engagement because, she noted, it’s an ever-evolving field as curriculums change frequently. “I wanted a leader who was well versed in that field … [AnaMaria] was a perfect match.”
Mentoring Can Enhance Equity by Reaching Young Arts Leaders of Color
Correa added, “When I was invited to be part of the mentorship program, I was very clear that I was interested in mentoring a young professional of color because I recognized that persons of color in leadership positions in arts administration are underrepresented … because there’s no mentorship pipeline” specifically for aspiring arts leaders of color.
Correa noted that the programs she creates “disrupt and enhance equity for anyone who wants access to this art form.” The ballet’s community engagement department represents 3 percent of its $11 million annual budget and its community engagement programs for the public are always free. Additionally, Correa said, Miami City Ballet “serves as a leader and voice for classical ballet, which is [presently] being invited to really think about social responsibility.”
Pereira and Correa initially connected via email and then Skype (this was pre-pandemic, prior to the Zoom boom). “I really wanted Kimberly to dictate the direction we were going to go together,” Correa explained. “She is extremely organized and purposeful in her work, so she had already thought about how to make the best out of this situation …. On our call, we got to know each other [then] Kimberly put together a Google document to track everything we discussed and any questions she had for our next session.”
One of the richest and most rewarding experiences for Pereira was her site visit to MCB, where she spent a week shadowing her mentor and others on staff. Correa designed a full 360-degree introduction to the ballet company: “Kimberly got to see performances, community engagement work. She shadowed my [engagement] staff. She interviewed leaders in the organization — the marketing director, the artistic administrator, the executive director, and the marketing manager.” Then the pair spent one-on-one time debriefing.
Working With a Mentor Helps Young Leaders Gain Fresh Perspectives
“I saw AnaMaria’s programming in action,” Pereira said, “whether that was Ballet for Young People or her Ballet Bus program or making new connections with potential community partners. AnaMaria centers it around the partnership. I went with her to a potential community-partner meeting and saw her genuinely explain her programming and her vision of how the engagement department can work together with that potential community partner.” Pereira said, “It was really lovely to have that time to see AnaMaria working in her element, then to talk about each program with her.” Pereira also noted that sitting in the audience for a community-engagement program offered her a fresh perspective: “Normally I’m behind the scenes and don’t get to see our audiences’ full interactions with our programming.”
At this point, both MCB and Charlotte Ballet have revamped their community-engagement and education programming for the virtual environment. And while the official DILT mentorship period has concluded, Pereira and Correa remain in touch. “I feel like I’ve had AnaMaria in my career forever,” Pereira said, “even though it’s only been a year.”
She continued: “My growth has been significant. I look at engaging within community as fully putting the partner at the center of the work that I do …. Seeing the way AnaMaria walked into a brand-new community partnership and the brilliance of watching her describe the potential engagement has changed the way that I present our education and community engagement departments to other partners.”
“I’m truly thankful for this mentorship,” said Pereira, “and I want to continue giving back through mentorship as well because the time and the effort that you put into an individual helps both the mentee and mentor. It’s a beautiful exchange.”
For further information on Dance/USA Institute for Leadership Training, visit the website here.
Lisa Traiger edits From the Green Room, Dance/USA’s online journal, and writes frequently on dance and the performing arts for publications including Dance, Dance Teacher and Washington Jewish Week. An award-winning arts journalist, she is a former co-president of the Dance Critics Association and holds an MFA in choreography from University of Maryland.
Photo top: Kimberly Pereira (left) and Dr. AnaMaria Correa, courtesy Kimberly Pereira
Photo bottom: Courtesy L. Traiger
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During the current worldwide crisis, we all have to make sacrifices and we need to adapt to the new normal. As there currently is no solution in sight, and a vaccine or cure is still in early development, we tell ourselves to settle with our new way of living. From a business perspective, it will probably continue to evolve for the worse, before we can speak of business as usual. One of the important measurements governments take is to advise people to do as much remote work as possible. Of course not in every sector it will be feasible to realize such a work habit. But if we are honest, most work will continue perfectly in remote teams.
With remote work, the rules have changed. We spend more time behind screens, the boundaries between work and home disappear, and we need to comply our daily tasks with these new rules. In order to find the right balance between work and home, we have to stick to some of the old rules. But reshape them to match the new environment.
Pay attention to your routines. They create boundaries between work and home. Stick to a daily schedule, and find a way to define the transition between your work and your family life.
Manage your pace. What it means is that you need to find a sustainable balance between the energy you need to do your work, and the tasks that give you the energy to continue.
Set a good workspace. It can be anywhere in your home, but make it feel like a workplace.
Now that you are working from home, don’t underestimate the importance of your work/life balance. It still exists even though it might not always feel that way. Accept that your family asks for your time and your attention. Don’t rely on template work schedules you find online, but work out your own. Find the best moments for video conferences, for doing independent tasks, and for hobbies or household chores. It’s by investing in your personal wellbeing, you will have a higher chance to evade a burnout.
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Study: Common Pesticides Linked to Attention Deficit Disorder
80beatsBy Andrew MosemanMay 17, 2010 9:30 PM
Add one more to the list of environmental factors that could contribute to the rise in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): pesticides. A new study out in Pediatrics argues that there's a connection between high exposure to common pesticides and increased risk for children developing ADHD. Maryse Bouchard and colleagues looked at more than 1,100 children aged between 8 and 15. All of them had been sampled by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) between 2000 and 2004, and 119 had been diagnosed with ADHD. Bouchard's team studied their urine samples for chemicals called dialkyl phosphates, which result from the breakdown of organophosphate pesticides used to protect fruits and vegetables.
For a 10-fold increase in one class of those compounds, the odds of ADHD increased by more than half. And for the most common breakdown product, called dimethyl triophosphate, the odds of ADHD almost doubled in kids with above-average levels compared to those without detectable levels [Reuters].
According to the researchers, there are about 40 organophosphate pesticides in use in the United States, the most famous of which is malathion
. It was heavily sprayed in California
in the early 1980s to try to kill the Mediterranean fruit fly, and also about a decade ago to try to stop the spread of West Nile virus
In 2008, detectable concentrations of malathion were found in 28 percent of frozen blueberry samples, 25 percent of fresh strawberry samples and 19 percent of celery samples, a government report found [MSNBC].
Using the large sample of children from NHANES allowed the researchers to adjust for location, race, and other factors that have confounded studies like this trying to link an environmental factor to a particular condition. However, the scientists admit, the weakness of their study is that using NHANES data allowed them to see just one urine sample taken at one point. Thus, they couldn't determine the source of contamination, nor could they see how levels of the chemicals in question built up over time. And since that buildup over time is what would spur the potential neurochemical changes that would increase ADHD risk, Bouchard and colleagues write, their study shows correlation but not causation.
Bouchard's analysis is the first to home in on organophosphate pesticides as a potential contributor to ADHD in young children. But the author stresses that her study uncovers only an association, not a direct causal link between pesticide exposure and the developmental condition. There is evidence, however, that the mechanism of the link may be worth studying further: organophosphates are known to cause damage to the nerve connections in the brain — that's how they kill agricultural pests, after all [TIME].
So there's a lot left to be proven. But Bouchard's study is another reminder in favor of the old stand-by: wash your fruits and vegetables thoroughly. Related Content: DISCOVER: Vital Signs: There's Hyperactivity... And There's Hyperactivity
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Manifesting – A Beginner’s Guide
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Silver City MVD in 1876 Highway 180 East
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There are different options to renovate the driving license. The first option is to do it via Internet, to do it online, the applicant must possess the plates license and the last five digits of the vehicle Identification Number; in case of a vessel or boat you will need the Hull Identification Number, and the smog certification; last, you will need to have the renewal notice with your current home address.
At the moment of the renewal the applicant must not have any doubt or infraction. Once the applicant has processed the renewal, he or she will receive a sticker within the next 5 days with the renovated plate.
The second option is through a DMV auto service terminal (Department of Motorized Vehicles), there you can have the new sticker instantly. Apart from the registry renewal, you can operate other formalities from there, like paying the restitutio fare for suspension of the vehicle plate, present or renew the affidavit of a non-used vehicle, among others.
These kinds of terminals help to avoid waiting lines and to make more efficient and fast transactions, you may use these terminals for all kinds of vehicles,pickups, motorcycles, house trailers and commercial vehicles that don't need a commercial plate.
The last option for registry renewal is through the BPA (Business Partners Automatization program). The DMV allows that business partners have the chance to process and issue license plates, enabling decals and plates among others.
The titling of a vehicle establishes an individual person or a business, as a legal operator of the Vehicle, and every State of USA possesses different procedures to obtain this kind of certification.
When a sale/purchase of a vehicle happens, the titling of it must be transferred to the new owner, unless there is a financed purchase, in which case, the owner remains the same until the payment is complete, that way, the titling is transferred to the new owner. When this documentation is lost, the owner can apply for a copy in the State where the title had been issued.
The data that we can find in this documentation are: Identification Number, brand of the vehicle, year of production, plate number, owner details and, in case there is a doubt at the moment, the data of the person to whom the money is owed.
In the States, the plates or vehicle plates generally possess between 5 to 7 characters, depending on the State where the plate is being issued you can find different alphanumeric combinations.
These are usually assigned in ascending order except some exemptions, therefore, someone who is familiarized with this can determine approximately in what moment the plate was issued.
In some States, the last two digits of the plate inform its expiration date.
Right now, the style of these plates may vary according to the State, but most of them show the name and the design from the State where it was issued, and the alphanumeric code over a reflective plate.
There are also different Special diplomatic plates, issued by the State Department to those who are entitled for it. Those plates can count with a letter (that represents the State where it is issued), two more letters (that represent the country code), and then, three or four random numbers. Or well, four numbers, two letters to identify the country and another letter to identify the State where it is issued.
This is the case for the identification of plates issued for the ONU vehicles.
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Мурманская областная Дума
Murmansk Regional Duma (Murmansk Regional Parliament) is a permanent acting legislative and representative body of state power of the Murmansk Region.
Regional Duma considers legislative proposals and adopts Charter of Murmansk Region and Regional Laws including laws on Regional Budget, structure, procedure of forming and activity of Regional Government, as well as laws on Local Government issues.
Regional Duma makes up regional election legislation, including laws regulating the procedure of elections of Regional Duma members, mayors and municipal councils' members and the procedure for regional and local referendum.
Regional Duma approves regional programmes of social-economic development, imposes number of taxes and duties, fixes the procedure of their collection, establishes the procedure of administration of regional property and the procedure of land and natural resources use.
Regional Duma gives approval to the candidatures of First Vice-Governors, nominates Chairman,Vice-Chairman and auditors of Regional Audit Chamber and members of the Regional Election Commission.
Regional Duma is entitled with the powers to control budget execution, designation and spending of credit resources and appropriations from federal budget; administration of the regional public property In order to execute the control powers in 1997 the Regional Audit Chamber which is the permanent acting body of the financial control was formed by Murmansk Regional Duma. The Chamber once every three months informs Regional Duma about the process of budget execution.
Murmansk Regional Duma was established in December 1994. It consists of 32 representatives (members) who are elected by the population for a term of five years. The latest elections were held in September 2016. Half of members were elected in single-seat constituencies (electoral districts), the rest 16 – in the unified regional electoral district in proportion of the number of votes cast for regional lists of candidates nominated by political parties.
There are four party groups in Regional Duma: "United Russia" political party faction consists of 25 members, "Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia" parliamentary group has 4 members, "Communist Party of Russian Federation" parliamentary group consists of 2 members and "Just Russia" political party group includes 1 member.
9 profile committees are formed in Duma. Committees prepare the maters for final consideration at the Duma's plenary sessions. The main form of Duma's activity is a session. Duma convenes in sessions once a month, as a rule.
Duma’s role is to provide the legislative support and effective interaction between authorities of local, regional and federal levels. Duma’s members pay a very close heed to the regional development. We are working to establish the regional regulatory and legal framework. It includes the tax legislation, legislation which ensures the environmental security, the bills which stimulate the production, investments and innovations, the laws which could create conditions for attraction and training of highly qualified labor force.
For working out the regional laws we conduct the parliamentary hearings with participation of federal and regional authorities, municipalities, businessmen, experts and non-governmental organizations.
On the issues which are out of our regional competence we cooperate with profiled committees in the Federal Parliament. We are able to introduce the draft bills of federal laws using our power to introduce legislation in State Duma.
The tool for interaction with local authorities is Coordinative Body for municipals councils which were established in the Murmansk Regional Duma. Duma’s members have rather good interaction with voters in the constituencies, all Duma's members regularly visit their constituencies, meet people and try to solve their problems.
Murmansk Regional Duma has good links and interaction with other regional parliaments in Russian Federation, especially in the North-West Russia. We are members of the Parliamentary Association of the North-West Russia which unites 11 regional parliaments of the North-West Federal District.
Murmansk Regional Duma takes an active part in international cooperation within the framework of inter-parliamentary organizations such as Nordic Council, Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, Conference of the parliamentarians of the Arctic Region and others.
We develop our dialogue with our colleagues at the regional level, with regional politicians of Norway and Finland. We conducted very positive meetings with members of the Regional Council of Lapland and Troms County Council. Murmansk Regional Duma hosted the Conference for regional politicians of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council.
Murmansk Regional Duma of the 6th assembly (2016—2021)
Speaker: Mr. Sergey Dubovoy
First Vice-speaker: Mr. Vladimir Mishchenko
Vice-speakers: Ms. Natalia Vedishcheva
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Budget, Finances and Taxes Mr. Boris Pishchulin
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Issues of Security, Military-Industrial Complex, Military Personnel and Closed Administrative-Territorial Communities Affairs Mr. Mikhail Il'inykh
Labour, Migration and Employment Issues Mr. Aleksandr Makarevich
Legislation and Local Self-Government Mr. Vladimir Mishchenko
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Serf City: Life is Feudal
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Haven't you always wanted to be king? Indulge your fantasy in the world of the The Settlers. You alone determine how your kingdom will be formed, how large it will be, whether to limit your ambitions to agriculture, breeding of stock, and fishing or whether you want to start an industrial revolution.
You decide where and what to build, where and how to plan your roadways, where to mine for mineral resources, and where and when you want to attack your opponents. Your subjects fell trees, work in mines, produce weapons and tools, and transport building materials.
Your goal is to build up a well-functioning and successful settlement, with which to conquer land and opponents. That may sound simple but it isn't. For instance, to conquer your opponents, you must destroy their castle. But to destroy an enemy’s castle, you must have well-equipped and highly-motivated knights, and to accomplish that you need gold for their morale and for their weapons you need iron, coal, and smiths to forge the weapons. But they all must eat and for that you must supply them with food, and that means you need fishermen and farmers, who then in turn need buildings in which to work, and which in turn means your going to need building material and people who can construct those buildings.
Create your own kingdom, consisting of many thousands of tiny subjects, and make sure you look after their welfare-who knows what it might lead to.
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Egypt most concerned nation about terrorism
Egypt enjoys most improved consumer confidence in the region in Q3, due to confidence in the new regime in terms of social justice and freedom.
Egypt Business Directory | 13.11.2013
Egyptians are slowly but surely going back to enjoying life a bit more, as spending on luxury, leisure, holidays and entertainment have increased in the third quarter of 2013, according to Nielsen. In the Middle East, Egypt reported the biggest increase in consumer confidence in the region of six index points compared to the previous quarter.
The Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions, established in 2005, measures consumer confidence, major concerns, and spending intentions among more than 30,000 respondents with Internet access in 60 countries.
“In line with confidence findings and the current events, it is not surprising to see that Egyptians consumers are using a big portion of their spending for their leisure, holidays and entertainment,” said Tamer Elaraby, Managing Director of Nielsen Egypt. “Egyptians are in fact ranked the seventh across the 60 countries surveyed who spend on out-of-home entertainment.”
Nielsen information shows discretionary spending intentions increased across most categories measured in Q3 2013 compared to intentions from the previous quarter. Plans to buy new clothes (35%) have increased two percentage points than last quarter and eight points compared to a year ago. Egypt comes in the seventh country globally that uses spare cash to buy new clothes. Spend on out-of-home entertainment (30%) witnessed a four points increase compared to last quarter and 11 points compared to a year ago. Spending intentions for holidays/vacations (21%) also marked five points increase compared to last quarter and also a year ago.
Intentions to buy new technology products (17%) increased three percentage points compared to Q2 2013 and down six points compared to Q3 2012.
Yet, Terrorism is found to be the highest concern among Egyptians (47%) registering an increase of 40 percentage point compared to the last quarter. This ranks Egypt as the most concerned nation about terrorism globally. It is noteworthy that the concern about terrorism started after the "Fight against Terrorism" was initiated a couple of months ago in a reaction to the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
The second concern among Egyptians is the economy (33%) dropping from 39 in Q2 2013. Political stability is also one of the top concerns (31%) and is also found to be the highest globally.
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Chapter 1 Summary and Analysis
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Edna Pontellier
Leonce Pontellier
Robert Lebrun
Mademoiselle Reisz
Style, Form, and Literary Elements
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When Edna returns to her cottage at nine o’clock, Adele, who has been watching the children, tells Edna that Etienne, the younger of Edna’s sons, would not go to sleep. Edna sits in the rocker with him and soothes him to sleep. Leonce, after being dissuaded from fetching Edna back earlier, has gone to Klein’s.
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Robert leaves and goes for a solitary walk after Edna points out that they have been together the whole day. Edna, too, stays alone, in the cottage, rather than join the others. She realizes that she has changed since last summer and that in fact she is different than she has ever been before.
She wonders why Robert has not stayed, and wishes that he had. She begins singing a song that he had sung to her on the boat.
Discussion and Analysis
Edna is very loving and attentive to her children when she returns from Cheniere Caminada because she is feeling good about herself. This is part of her central conflict. She can love them when she’s not feeling repressed by them.
Leonce, as usual, is not around. His role as husband is merely that of provider. He feels no responsibility to help around the house or spend time with his wife.
While Edna is awaiting Leonce’s return, she realizes that she is beginning to change; she just doesn’t understand the significance of the change yet. Although she is waiting for Leonce, she spends the time thinking about Robert.
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Sense and Sensibility (Critical Survey of Contemporary Fiction)
Sense and Sensibility (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
Last Updated on May 9, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: 1000
Jane Austen wrote this novel during an important transition in English cultural history when the sensible eighteenth century enlightenment ideas were giving way to the more sensitive romantic ideas of the nineteenth century. In Sense and Sensibility, she creates the two Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, to embody the extremes of relational and romantic personality. The story may sometimes seem to fit a predictable formula, in which common sense is pitted against emotional sensitivity, but Austen also makes keen observations about the way to go about attaining happiness.
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The cool, rational elder sister, Elinor, falls deeply in love with her sister-in-law’s brother, quiet, reserved Edward Ferrars. Elinor’s sister-in-law Fanny regards Elinor as too poor for her wealthy brother, but he scorns his family’s expectation that he marry a rich heir. Edward loves Elinor and he avoids her only because he secretly and foolishly engaged himself to Lucy Steele. This longtime clandestine engagement pains him when he realizes that he never loved Lucy. His gentleman’s code of conduct, however, does not allow him to break his engagement, so he expects to have to marry Lucy even after he falls in love with Elinor. Elinor for her part is resigned to the prospect of often meeting Edward and Lucy as a married couple.
Lucy is a brilliantly portrayed character: a charming, intelligent, but completely heartless young woman who uses Edward to secure a position in upper-class society. As soon as Edward is disinherited by his angry mother and his brother Robert has better financial prospects, she shifts her affections and hopes to Robert.
Only because Lucy abandons honorable Edward does he become free to propose to Elinor. These lovers, who were guided by prudence and respect for social conventions, are finally united and win the happiness they desire because they honored the sensible values of society.
Meanwhile, the passionate, sensitive Marianne plunges into love with handsome, charming John Willoughby after he gallantly rescues her when she falls down a steep hill. He seems to be the perfect romantic hero. Everyone who sees them together agrees they seem perfectly matched in taste, values, and temperament. The two ignore rules of social conduct by spending many hours together and disregarding others. Marianne visits his home without a chaperone, and their ardent behavior misleads others into believing they are engaged even when they are not. After Marianne is abandoned by her seemingly ideal lover, it is long before she can accept what Willoughby did. Her first response is to become depressed and dangerously ill, and only slowly does she regain her health and will to live.
Courtship is the theme of all Austen’s novels, but in Sense and Sensibility, the young ladies and gentlemen in love face dangerous challenges. Both Elinor’s and Marianne’s love affairs are threatened by mercenary forces intent on destroying their prospects of marriage. The obstacles to a marriage between reserved, sensible Elinor and Edward are his family’s greed and pride as well as his earlier indiscretion in engaging himself. Passionate, romantic Marianne and Willoughby, after an intense attraction that causes them to ignore the barriers between them, suffer and end up bitterly regretting their behavior. Willoughby regrets having abandoned Marianne, “his secret standard of perfection in women,” while she regrets having indulged her impulsive, irrational feelings for him.
Certainly, Austen is commenting on the relative value of sense and sensibility in the face of crisis, and clearly she prefers sense. The story vindicates sensible Elinor as a thoughtful, considerate person who, even while suffering from her own disappointed love, nurses and consoles her sister. Even while suffering, she can have the satisfaction of acting correctly, whereas Marianne is forced to condemn herself harshly for her past thoughtless self-absorption, her rudeness to others, her neglect of the rules of good conduct, and her self-destructiveness. Only after coming to this realization can Marianne find happiness with sensible Colonel Brandon, a steady, rational, kind older man.
In this novel, Austen critically examines the changing social values of England in the early nineteenth century. As Great Britain’s colonial empire and Industrial Revolution created greater wealth and power in the early nineteenth century, traditional country values gradually gave way to newer, more cosmopolitan values. In the novel, plain-speaking, old-fashioned characters such as Sir John Middleton and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jennings, seem at first rather vulgar and naïvely cheerful in their teasing about romance and enthusiasm for dinners and dances. In crisis situations, however, they prove to be good friends who care for the feelings of others and offer valued help to those in need. Mrs. Jennings’s true affection for Elinor and Marianne becomes clear when she nurses Marianne through her serious illness.
In contrast to these simple, countrified types, Edward’s mother, the elegant, sophisticated, and wealthy Mrs. Ferrars, and her daughter, Mrs. Fanny Dashwood, seem coldly calculating and cruel in their relations with others. They break promises and cast off needy relatives. Those aspiring to the wealth and sophistication of the Ferrars, such as Lucy Steele and Lady Middleton, also act in needlessly cruel and thoughtless ways. By contrasting old-fashioned manners with newer ones, Austen suggests that traditional ways are more trustworthy in times of need. She herself preferred life in a small country village and detested living in the elegant resort town of Bath, where sophisticated, leisured people gathered.
Austen’s style adds a dramatically ironic dimension to the novel. Key characters reveal themselves in crisp, natural dialogue, at the same time showing readers that they do not completely understand themselves and their own values. Early in the story, Marianne declares to Elinor, “I have not known [Willoughby] long, indeed; but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world, except yourself and mamma.” Austen observes, “Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.”
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Scott Disick Eyes Mark Wahlberg's $12.4 Million Mansion for Next Investment: Tour the Sprawling Property
By Emily Mae Czachor Sep 09, 2019 3:00 AMTags
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Thought the Entourage manor had seen its last hurrah?
The sprawling Beverly Hills mansion that inspired more than a decade of pop cultural content—last owned by Mark Wahlberg, who executive produced the long-running comedy franchise and no, that's not a coincidence—set the stage for Sunday's finance-focused and increasingly high-stakes episode of Flip It Like Disick. Development at the team's Jed Smith house had screeched to a halt (ever since Scott Disick got carried away with a bulldozer outside the Hidden Hills property, not knowing at the time that contractor Miki Mor had yet to secure an outdoor construction permit with HOA), and Scott was on the lookout for new business ventures.
Fortuitously, he found one in friend and fellow real estate developer Ilan, who was spearheading a large-scale remodel on Wahlberg's former home and invited Scott to tour the 11,000-square-foot site as a possible investment opportunity. Not long after he stepped foot on the $12.4 million premises, Lord Disick was already positing renovation suggestions for what Ilan hoped would ultimately amount to a $30 million project. Pro tip: the modern homeowner probably doesn't need a cavernous grotto (a "full-blown eighties pit," per Scott) winding down the landscape of their ultra-luxurious and very expensive backyard.
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Ilan was ready to strike up an official partnership right then and there, but the Talentless founder needed a little bit more time to mull things over.
"For Ilan to take my money on this investment, it would allow him to take some of his money and put it into another property," Scott explained, before going on to say that this type of shareholding move is pretty much "the name of the game" in real estate. "But with a house that might sell for around $30 million, the investment Ilan's going to want from me is probably pretty hefty."
In the end, the two decided they'd chat more about it over a dinner that did not play out during this week's episode. And while the profits of this potentially exciting new expenditure did seem promising after Scott's initial walk-through, the amicable house-flipper wasn't sure Ilan's offer was still on the table less than a month later.
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Thanks to some serious nudging on Miki's part and an eventual green light from HOA, work steadily resumed at the Jed Smith house after an unintentional three-week hiatus. But when a proximate bout of inclement weather continued to stall progress, an apprehensive Scott started second-guessing the project (which he reasoned cost him something like $750 a day "for [the house] to just stand still") altogether.
"There's no way this house is gonna be done in three months," he observed worriedly, referencing the team's original timeline for the flip during a visit to the home's mostly-empty lot. "There needs to be more people working."
And re-enter: established mansion mogul Ilan, who pulled up to the Jed Smith house one afternoon with a dozen extra hands to help get the project back on schedule. It was a near-perfect solution to an otherwise difficult problem, one that promptly fell apart once Scott's current business partners found out about it.
"Your guy is pissed," Ilan told Scott after a territorial run-in with Miki (by then, ruminating nearby alongside an equally peeved Benny Luciano) left him feeling sort of confused about how exactly he was supposed to be of assistance here. "I brought in all my guys and he's like, 'No, no, no. No one steps foot on my site.' We're just trying to help. They got a little butt hurt I think."
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Some earlier comments from Benny to interior designer Willa Ford suggested the team's issue with Ilan's involvement wasn't really about hurt feelings—though they probably would've preferred to hear about the additional hires from Scott ahead of time rather than in the moment.
"We don't need Ilan to tell us that more workers at Jed Smith is gonna get [the project] done faster. That is not our business model," the car dealership owner said plainly. "Our business model is that we want to make a lot of money. So, to make a lot of money, we have to have less people to pay. That's why we're doing it this way. Money." Capisce?
Sounds straightforward enough, assuming Benny's quest for additional cash didn't just cost Scott his new investment offer.
Check out the two-story home gym at Wahlberg's ex residence—and see how Benny's office redesign turned out—in the full recap video above! And for an even closer look at the estate, scroll through the photos below.
Bird's Eye View of the 2-Acre Property
The 11,000 Square Foot House
Intricate Landscaping Details
Backyard Grotto
Personal Tennis Court
One of the Estate's 10 Bathrooms
Massive In-House Theater
Decked-Out Home Gym
Professional-Grade Boxing Ring
Check back next week for an update on Scott's future business endeavors!
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Meghan Markle Makes First Solo Royal Appearance at Art Exhibit Opening
Duchess of Sussex attended her first official engagement without Prince Harry or his family members on Tuesday
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Meghan Markle left Prince Harry at home to attend her first solo royal engagement on Tuesday.
The Duchess of Sussex, donning a black Givenchy dress, arrived at the Royal Academy of Arts in London on Tuesday evening for the opening of the new Oceania art exhibit. This is the first time Meghan has stepped out for an official engagement without other members of the royal family.
Meghan's first solo engagement comes four months after she tied the knot with Harry at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, wearing a Givenchy design. For Tuesday's milestone event, Meghan paired her Givenchy dress with Aquazzura heels and a Givenchy clutch.
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Following Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal wedding in April 2011, the Duchess of Cambridge made her first solo appearance six months later at a formal dinner event for the charity In Kind Direct.
Next month, Meghan and Harry will go on a royal tour of Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji. During her visit at the Oceania exhibit, which marks the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy, Meghan will reportedly be shown art from the four countries she'll soon visit.
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"Working on this project for the past nine months has been a tremendous labor of love," she said. "I had just recently moved to London and I felt so immediately embraced by the women in the kitchen, your warmth, your kindness and also to be able to be in the city and to see in this one small room how multicultural it was. On a personal level, I feel so proud to live in a city that can have so much diversity. It's 12 countries represented in this one group of women—it's pretty outstanding."
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Alabama Responders Find Loyal Dog Protecting Missing 4-Year-Old Girl After She Disappeared For 48 Hours In The Woods
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When a 4-year-old girl from Alabama disappeared for 48 hours, a faithful pal protected her and made sure she was safe in the woods.
Vadie Sides
The girl had disappeared on Wednesday and was found less than a mile from where she wandered off on Friday afternoon. She was safe and sound in the company of her faithful dog.
Vadie Sides had gone missing after she wandered away from a babysitter who is in her 70s, while in the backyard.
Vadie hails from the small community of Loachapoka, west of Auburn, and was found in the woods by authorities who had bee searching for her.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers from multiple agencies were helping in the search for the little girl along with drones and horses.
Her dog was still with her but ran off as rescuers approached. ‘One of the volunteers that was probably 50 yards to my right … heard a dog bark,’ one rescuer said. ‘The dog was actually kind of spooked and came at the man a little bit and then saw the line of about 30 of us, and the dog turned around and went down the hill.’
Volunteers followed the dog who was rescued after Vadie. ‘Praise God Vadie was there, she popped her head up, we saw her little red hair,’ one rescuer said. ‘I’ll tell you what, she was scratched up on the knees and the forearms but otherwise in great spirits, she was just talking like ‘no big deal’ … it’s truly a miracle.’
Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said the girl was with a dog at her side after spending 48 hours in the woods. Authorities said the girl wandered away from a sitter while in a backyard.
Vadie’s family were delighted to meet her as soon as she was found. ‘I’m so happy and grateful to God for watching over my beautiful granddaughter and bringing her safely back to us,” said Vadie’s grandmother, Harriet Sides.
Lee County sheriff’s officials too shared their joy of finding Vadie safe and sound, ‘No words are capable of describing everyone’s relief,’ Sheriff Jay Jones said.
‘We are just, ecstatic might be a good word. She is in good shape, she is responsive, she is talking, she’s alert. She is in good physical condition, and the best part is she is with her mama.
Sheriff Jones said all the volunteers were there to help find the little girl. ‘Our thanks just don’t seem like enough, but they have our sincere and heartfelt thanks for the sacrifices they made,’ Jones said.
‘Several volunteers said this is such good news at a time when we need it’ Jones said, ‘…and I couldn’t agree more. This was really good, solid, positive news in a time when I think people need it the most, with all the medical concerns going on.’
The dog wasn’t present when Vadie was found, but later came home on its own.
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How to Use Your Smartphone If You Have Retinitis Pigmentosa
Smartphones allow us to easily stay in touch with loved ones, listen to music, view entertainment, and manage finances — all with the touch of a finger. But for a person with vision loss due to retinitis pigmentosa (RP), using a smartphone can be challenging. Fortunately, by using low-vision aids and the phone’s accessibility features, people with RP can continue to use a smartphone no matter the extent of their vision loss.
What is Retinitis Pigmentosa?
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic eye disease that causes the light-detecting cells in the retina (light-sensitive lining at the back of the eye) to break down. The symptoms of RP include reduced peripheral vision and night-blindness and sometimes a loss of central vision. In its later stages, people with RP find it difficult to read, drive and engage in many other activities.
An estimated 1 in 4,000 individuals are affected by this sight-threatening condition, and about half of the people who have RP have a family member with RP as well.
Though there is currently no cure for RP, a low vision optometrist can provide low vision aids and devices to help patients with RP continue to function at the highest level possible. If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with RP, contact Dr. Colleen Mulhall, for a low vision consultation.
How Can a Person with Retinitis Pigmentosa Use a Smartphone?
Many people with RP can benefit from a smartphone’s features — by utilizing low vision aids and the phone’s accessibility features.
There are several low vision aids and devices that can help one to read the screen of a smartphone; Dr. Colleen Mulhall can help you navigate the differences of each and recommend which low vision aids best suit your needs.
Some low vision aids and devices that can help those with RP use a smartphone and see other objects close-up include:
Bioptic telescopic glasses
Low vision magnifying reading glasses
Prismatic reading glasses
Telemicroscope glasses
Reverse telescopic glasses
Custom-made optical systems
Digital magnifiers or close circuit television (CCT)
Hand-held magnifiers
Turn On Your Phone’s Accessibility Features
Most smartphones on the market have built-in software that makes their functionality accessible to the visually impaired.
Apple products tend to be popular among those with visual impairments, as all of them come with accessibility features that make the phone’s functionality not dependent on sight. Android products also have accessibility features, but not as fine-tuned as Apple’s.
By activating “VoiceOver” (on Apple products) or “TalkBack” (on Android products), you’ll be able to use your phone without needing to look at it. These settings can read all incoming messages and texts on the screen and allow the user to perform various tasks using tapping motions.
In the early stages of retinitis pigmentosa, when vision loss is at a minimum, a smartphone’s settings can be adjusted to:
Increase the contrast between your wallpaper and your icons. Simply put, a busy wallpaper can make it difficult to locate and differentiate between app icons. A solid-color wallpaper can be the solution.
Change font size and brightness on your phone.
Use “voice assistants” and “text-to-speech” features to write out text.
Learning to live with vision loss can be difficult, but we are here to help. If you or a loved one suffers from impaired vision due to RP, we can offer the best low vision aids to enable you to use your smartphone and continue to do the things you love and maintain your independence. Please contact us with any inquiries or to schedule an appointment with Dr. Colleen Mulhall.
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Nitanic’s revolutionary AI’s evolve and battle for gamers loyalty
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Traditional marketing, where marketers create and distribute content, is being automated by AI. This is the future of marketing – automated, viral, and intelligent. Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go, have announced that they’re going to be using a “thought provoking campaign” that “uses AI...
Traditional marketing, where marketers create and distribute content, is being automated by AI.
This is the future of marketing – automated, viral, and intelligent. Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go, have announced that they’re going to be using a “thought provoking campaign” that “uses AI to market and relaunch” their Augmented Reality (AR) game “Ingress” as “Ingress Prime.” In other words their Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents are going to go and produce their own marketing material and propaganda, post it online and on social media, and recruit players. And as we see AI create more content and more adverts, like the one for Lexus, it’s increasingly looking like in time these increasingly sophisticated “propaganda” AI’s will replace marketing teams.
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In Ingress Prime, one of the first actions a player takes is to choose a side. Rather than sticking with the traditional good guy bad guy dichotomy, the game instead asks players to align themselves philosophical worldview, choosing to join the Enlightened or the Resistance, and here’s how it works.
The AI says: Pick a side
Ingress Prime players who choose to visit the AI section of the ingress site will be able to train one of two AI agents, either ADA or JARVIS, each of whom represent the player’s chosen faction and whose sole mission is to recruit more players from the outside world. While this isn’t a required aspect of the game, it’s a bonus for committed players, as well as a provocative way of connecting the game’s story – of two factions vying for power using their own mysterious technology – with the real world.
Then, in something not too distant from the autonomous bots that are pushing out fake news and messing with people’s head on Facebook and Twitter ADA and JARVIS will then create their own marketing material and propaganda in order to push their own agenda and recruit new players.
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They’ll also learn from regular interactions with players on the site with each one building an increasingly sophisticated arsenal of techniques as time goes on – from memes, to posters, to videos, all of which they’ll post on line in order to recruit new players.
They’ll also start to take on their own unique personalities too. Teach ADA to be angry, and her recruiting posters will take on an aggressive tone, teach Jarvis to be nice, and he’ll try to catch flies with honey, and other odd things… And as these AI’s personalities evolve Niantic say that the players in the game will “be able to watch them as they grow into something resembling sentience.” And if that sounds a little creepy, that’s the point.
In creating ADA and JARVIS and allowing players teach them to mimic human behaviour Niantic are intentionally tapping into today’s social landscape – one where we’re constantly interacting with increasingly sophisticated AI’s and algorithms trying to sell us something, political propagandists of dubious origin, and “AI spies” who know us better than our own mothers.
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So are ADA and JARVIS just super sophisticated AI marketing tools, or are they something more sinister? Ingress Prime’s designers hope that by asking these questions, they’ll encourage people to begin to question the nature of the world around them – and then sign up to play the game.
Blurring the line between science fiction and reality is nothing new for Ingress. Since its initial 2013 launch, players in the location based, augmented reality game have explored the real world while participating in an ongoing, open ended fictional narrative unfolding all around them. Now, with the Ingress Prime relaunch, the game has been retooled with a rebooted story, but the real question is – will their autonomous AI agents be able to recruit you and convince you to play their game? Let the battle commence.
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Hannah Taylor competes for national FFA office
OFFICER CANDIDATE: Hannah Taylor of Poynette will represent Wisconsin as a candidate for one of six national FFA officer positions at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis the end of October.
The Poynette, Wis., native was a 2016-17 state FFA officer.
Ethan Giebel | Sep 13, 2017
Six college students from around the nation are selected each year to represent more than 600,000 FFA members nationwide as national FFA officers. They travel more than 100,000 miles attending state conventions, leadership workshops and partnership visits to meet with students, educators, politicians and industry leaders. The Wisconsin Association of FFA has selected Hannah Taylor as its candidate to seek a national FFA officer position.
Taylor is the daughter of Todd and Lynnette Taylor of Poynette, Wis. Her agricultural education instructor and FFA advisor is Kessa LaBlanc.
An excitement and interest in agriculture came to Taylor early, as she grew up on a sheep farm with a flock of more than 300 head. Her father is the shepherd for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Sheep Research Farm. Firsthand experiences and learning from her father led to her development of a Supervised Agricultural Experience program in the area of sheep entrepreneurship.
“In third grade, my parents allowed me to select a breed of sheep that I would be able to develop and show on my own,” Taylor says. “After research and watching national shows we would travel to, I selected Southdowns. During high school, my project had grown to a flock of 20 registered Southdown breeding sheep. I focused my program on improving genetics in the flock in order to market seedstock to commercial producers.
“As my project progressed, I began to mentor young sheep showman, teaching them how to feed, train and care for their animals,” Taylor says. “I would help them get ready for shows and instruct them on showmanship. My goal throughout this work was to increase the amount of interest in the sheep project in my area.”
Taylor’s whole family has been engaged with FFA. At a young age she already knew that she wanted to be a member. Being a member of the state FFA band has been a highlight of her FFA career, as well as serving as a 2016-17 state FFA reporter.
EXPERIENCE: Hannah Taylor served as a 2016-17 Wisconsin FFA officer.
“Throughout my time in FFA, I’ve had many opportunities to speak with people who knew very little about agriculture, especially at county and state fairs,” Taylor explains. “It was during these conversations that I realized how much I love teaching the public about agriculture. I hope to use my agricultural communications degree to obtain a career where I can advocate for agriculture. Ideally, I would love to be an agriculture broadcaster or work in public relations with an agricultural company so that I can help people understand the practices farmers are using to produce food.”
Taylor attends Kansas State University, studying agricultural communications and journalism.
In preparation for the weeklong interview process that comprises the national FFA officer selection, Taylor will complete several formal trainings and take on an enormous amount of study in the topics of agriculture, agricultural education and FFA. She also will meet twice weekly with two coaches who will lend support and direction leading up to the National FFA Convention, which is in late October in Indianapolis.
“If elected as a national FFA officer, I want to pay it forward and make an impact on FFA members both directly and indirectly,” Taylor says.
Giebel lives in Baraboo, Wis.
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Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles
9 mAnd he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, 2 nand he sent them out to oproclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. 3 pAnd he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, qno staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.1 4 And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. 5 And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town rshake off the dust from your feet sas a testimony tagainst them.” 6 uAnd they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.
Herod Is Perplexed by Jesus
7 vNow wHerod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that xJohn had been raised from the dead, 8 xby some that Elijah had appeared, and xby others that one of the prophets of old had risen. 9 Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And yhe sought to see him.
Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
10 On their return zthe apostles told him all that they had done. aAnd he took them and withdrew apart to a town called Bethsaida. 11 When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he bwelcomed them and cspoke to them of the kingdom of God and ccured those who had need of healing. 12 Now dthe day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, e“Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place.” 13 But he said to them, f“You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than gfive loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.” 14 For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.” 15 And they did so, and had them all sit down. 16 And taking the five loaves and the two fish, hhe looked up to heaven and isaid a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. 17 And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.
Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ
18 jNow it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” 19 And they answered, k“John the Baptist. But others say, lElijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.” 20 Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, m“The Christ of God.”
Jesus Foretells His Death
21 nAnd he strictly charged and commanded them to tell this to no one, 22 osaying, p“The Son of Man must qsuffer many things and rbe rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on sthe third day be raised.”
Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus
23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him tdeny himself and utake up his cross vdaily and follow me. 24 For uwhoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. 25 wFor what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? 26 For xwhoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed ywhen he comes in zhis glory and the glory of the Father and of athe holy angels. 27 But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not btaste death cuntil they see the kingdom of God.”
28 dNow about eight days after these sayings he took with him ePeter and John and James and fwent up on the mountain to pray. 29 And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was galtered, and hhis clothing became dazzling white. 30 And behold, two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah, 31 who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure,2 which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. 32 Now Peter and those who were with him iwere heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake jthey saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. 33 And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good that we are here. Let us make three ktents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”—lnot knowing what he said. 34 As he was saying these things, ma cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. 35 And ma voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, nmy Chosen One;3 olisten to him!” 36 And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. pAnd they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.
Jesus Heals a Boy with an Unclean Spirit
37 qOn the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him. 38 And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for rhe is my only child. 39 And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him. 40 And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but sthey could not.” 41 Jesus answered, “O tfaithless and twisted generation, uhow long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.” 42 While he was coming, the demon threw him to the ground and convulsed him. But Jesus vrebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and wgave him back to his father. 43 And all were astonished at xthe majesty of God.
Jesus Again Foretells His Death
yBut while they were all marveling at everything he was doing, Jesus4 said zto his disciples, 44 “Let these words sink into your ears: zThe Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.” 45 aBut they did not understand this saying, and bit was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
Who Is the Greatest?
46 cAn argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest. 47 But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side 48 and said to them, d“Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and dwhoever receives me receives him who sent me. For ehe who is least among you all is the one who is great.”
Anyone Not Against Us Is For Us
49 fJohn answered, “Master, we saw someone gcasting out demons in your name, and hwe tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.” 50 But Jesus said to him, “Do not stop him, ifor the one who is not against you is for you.”
A Samaritan Village Rejects Jesus
51 When the days drew near for jhim to be taken up, khe set his face lto go to Jerusalem. 52 And mhe sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of nthe Samaritans, to make preparations for him. 53 But othe people did not receive him, because phis face was set toward Jerusalem. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell qfire to come down from heaven and consume them?”5 55 But he turned and rebuked them.6 56 And they went on to another village.
The Cost of Following Jesus
57 As they were going ralong the road, ssomeone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” 59 To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 60 And Jesus7 said to him, “Leave tthe dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and uproclaim the kingdom of God.” 61 Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, vbut let me first say farewell to those at my home.” 62 Jesus said to him, w“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two
10 After this the Lord appointed xseventy-two1 others and ysent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 zAnd he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. aTherefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 3 Go your way; bbehold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. 4 cCarry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and dgreet no one on the road. 5 Whatever house you enter, first say, e‘Peace be to this house!’ 6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, fit will return to you. 7 And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for gthe laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house. 8 Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. 9 Heal the sick in it and say to them, h‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 10 But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, 11 i‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that jthe kingdom of God has come near.’ 12 I tell you, kit will be more bearable on lthat day for Sodom than for that town.
Woe to Unrepentant Cities
13 m“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in nTyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 oBut it will be more bearable in the judgment for nTyre and Sidon than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, pwill you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to qHades.
16 r“The one who hears you hears me, and sthe one who rejects you rejects me, and tthe one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
The Return of the Seventy-Two
17 uThe seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, veven the demons are subject to us in your name!” 18 And he said to them, w“I saw Satan xfall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you authority yto tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of zthe enemy, and anothing shall hurt you. 20 bNevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that cyour names are written in heaven.”
Jesus Rejoices in the Father’s Will
21 dIn that same hour ehe rejoiced fin the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, gLord of heaven and earth, that hyou have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and irevealed them to little children; yes, Father, for jsuch was your gracious will.2 22 kAll things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is kexcept the Father, or who the Father is kexcept the Son and anyone lto whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
23 Then turning to the disciples he said privately, m“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! 24 For I tell you nthat many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”
25 oAnd behold, a plawyer stood up to qput him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to rinherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” 27 And he answered, s“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and tyour neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; udo this, and you will live.”
29 But he, vdesiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” 30 Jesus replied, “A man wwas going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a xpriest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise xa Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a ySamaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. 34 He went to him and zbound up his wounds, pouring on zoil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 And the next day he took out two adenarii3 and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’ 36 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” 37 He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”
38 Now as they went on their way, Jesus4 entered a village. And a woman named bMartha cwelcomed him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called bMary, who dsat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are eanxious and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is necessary.5 Mary has chosen fthe good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
11 Now Jesus1 was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, gas John taught his disciples.” 2 And he said to them, h“When you pray, say:
i“Father, jhallowed be kyour name.
lYour kingdom come.
3 mGive us neach day our daily bread,2
4 and oforgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And plead us not into temptation.”
5 And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? 8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything qbecause he is his friend, yet because of his impudence3 he will rise and give him whatever he needs. 9 And I tell you, rask, and sit will be given to you; tseek, and you will find; uknock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 11 What father among you, if his son asks for4 a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, wwho are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father xgive the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Jesus and Beelzebul
14 yNow he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled. 15 But some of them said, “He casts out demons zby Beelzebul, the prince of demons,” 16 while others, ato test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven. 17 bBut he, cknowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. 18 And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. 19 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, dby whom do eyour sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 20 But if it is by fthe finger of God that I cast out demons, then gthe kingdom of God has come upon you. 21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe; 22 hbut when one stronger than he attacks him and iovercomes him, he takes away his jarmor in which he trusted and kdivides his spoil. 23 lWhoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
Return of an Unclean Spirit
24 m“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through nwaterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ 25 And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order. 26 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And othe last state of that person is worse than the first.”
True Blessedness
27 As he said these things, pa woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, q“Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” 28 But he said, r“Blessed rather are those swho hear the word of God and tkeep it!”
The Sign of Jonah
29 uWhen the crowds were increasing, he began to say, v“This generation is an evil generation. wIt seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. 30 For as xJonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. 31 yThe queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and zcondemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, asomething greater than Solomon is here. 32 bThe men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and zcondemn it, for cthey repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, asomething greater than Jonah is here.
The Light in You
33 d“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. 34 Your eye is ethe lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is fbad, your body is full of darkness. 35 eTherefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. 36 If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, gas when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”
Woes to the Pharisees and Lawyers
37 While Jesus5 was speaking, ha Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table. 38 The Pharisee was astonished to see ithat he did not first wash before dinner. 39 And the Lord said to him, j“Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of kgreed and wickedness. 40 lYou fools! jDid not he who made the outside make the inside also? 41 But mgive as alms those things that are within, and behold, neverything is clean for you.
42 o“But woe to you Pharisees! For pyou tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect qjustice and rthe love of God. sThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For tyou love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. 44 Woe to you! uFor you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”
45 One of vthe lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.” 46 And he said, “Woe to you wlawyers also! For xyou load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 yWoe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48 zSo you are witnesses and you aconsent to the deeds of byour fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 Therefore also cthe Wisdom of God said, d‘I will send them eprophets and apostles, fsome of whom they will gkill and persecute,’ 50 so that hthe blood of all the prophets, shed ifrom the foundation of the world, may be jcharged against this generation, 51 from the blood of kAbel to the blood of lZechariah, who perished between mthe altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be jrequired of this generation. 52 Woe to you nlawyers! oFor you have taken away the key of pknowledge. You qdid not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”
53 As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things, 54 rlying in wait for him, sto catch him in something he might say.
Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees
12 In the meantime, twhen so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, u“Beware of vthe leaven of the Pharisees, wwhich is hypocrisy. 2 xNothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. 3 Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in yprivate rooms shall be proclaimed on zthe housetops.
4 “I tell you, my friends, ado not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him bwho, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell.1 Yes, I tell you, fear him! 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?2 And cnot one of them is forgotten before God. 7 Why, deven the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; eyou are of more value than many sparrows.
Acknowledge Christ Before Men
8 “And I tell you, feveryone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge gbefore the angels of God, 9 but hthe one who denies me before men iwill be denied gbefore the angels of God. 10 And jeveryone who speaks a word kagainst the Son of Man lwill be forgiven, but the one who mblasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. 11 nAnd when they obring you before the synagogues and pthe rulers and pthe authorities, qdo not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, 12 rfor the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
The Parable of the Rich Fool
13 sSomeone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 But he said to him, t“Man, uwho made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” 15 And he said to them, v“Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” 16 And he told them a parable, saying, w“The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, x‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my ybarns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up zfor many years; relax, aeat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, b‘Fool! zThis night cyour soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, dwhose will they be?’ 21 So is the one ewho lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
22 And he said to his disciples, f“Therefore I tell you, gdo not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 hConsider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. iOf how much more value are you than the birds! 25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his jspan of life?3 26 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,4 yet I tell you, keven Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, lO you of little faith! 29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor mbe worried. 30 For nall the nations of the world seek after these things, and nyour Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, oseek phis5 kingdom, qand these things will be added to you.
32 r“Fear not, little sflock, for tit is your Father’s good pleasure to give you uthe kingdom. 33 vSell your possessions, and wgive to the needy. xProvide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with ya treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34 zFor where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
You Must Be Ready
35 a“Stay dressed for action6 and bkeep your lamps burning, 36 and be like men who are cwaiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and dknocks. 37 eBlessed are those servants7 whom the master finds eawake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, fhe will dress himself for service and ghave them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. 38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! 39 hBut know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour ithe thief was coming, he8 would not have left his house to be broken into. 40 You also must be jready, for kthe Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
41 Peter said, “Lord, lare you telling this parable for us or for all?” 42 And the Lord said, “Who then is mthe faithful and mwise nmanager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? 43 oBlessed is that servant9 whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 Truly, I say to you, phe will set him over all his possessions. 45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master qis delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and rget drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come son a day when he does not expect him and sat an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. 47 tAnd that servant who uknew his master’s will but vdid not get ready uor act according to his will, will receive a wsevere beating. 48 xBut the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, ywill receive a light beating. zEveryone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
Not Peace, but Division
49 a“I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! 50 bI have a baptism to be baptized with, and how cgreat is my distress until it is accomplished! 51 dDo you think that I have come to give peace on earth? eNo, I tell you, but rather division. 52 For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, ffather against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Interpreting the Time
54 He also said to the crowds, g“When you see ha cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it happens. 55 And gwhen you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be iscorching heat,’ and it happens. 56 You hypocrites! jYou know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
Settle with Your Accuser
57 “And why kdo you not judge lfor yourselves what is right? 58 mAs you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison. 59 I tell you, nyou will never get out until you have paid the very last openny.”10
Repent or Perish
13 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood pPilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, q“Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3 No, I tell you; but unless you rrepent, you will all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in sSiloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you rrepent, you will all likewise perish.”
The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree
6 And he told this parable: “A man had ta fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. 7 And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. uCut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ 8 And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. 9 Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”
A Woman with a Disabling Spirit
10 Now vhe was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And behold, there was a woman who had had wa disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” 13 And he xlaid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she yglorified God. 14 But zthe ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus ahad healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, b“There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! cDoes not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? 16 And ought not this woman, da daughter of Abraham whom eSatan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” 17 As he said these things, fall his adversaries were put to shame, and gall the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
The Mustard Seed and the Leaven
18 hHe said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? 19 It is like ia grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”
20 And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? 21 jIt is like leaven that a woman took and hid in kthree measures of flour, until it was lall leavened.”
The Narrow Door
22 mHe went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and njourneying toward Jerusalem. 23 And someone said to him, “Lord, owill those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, 24 p“Strive qto enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 rWhen once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, s‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, t‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, u‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I tell you, tI do not know where you come from. vDepart from me, all you workers of evil!’ 28 wIn that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see wAbraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but wyou yourselves cast out. 29 And wpeople will come from east and west, and from north and south, and xrecline at table in the kingdom of God. 30 And behold, ysome are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
Lament over Jerusalem
31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from zhere, for aHerod wants to kill you.” 32 And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day bI finish my course. 33 Nevertheless, cI dmust go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that ea prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ 34 fO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that gkills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! hHow often would I have igathered jyour children together kas a hen gathers her brood lunder her wings, and myou were not willing! 35 Behold, nyour house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, o‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
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