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Carisbrooke Castle is a historic motte-and-bailey castle located in Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, where Charles I was imprisoned.
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Carisbrooke Castle is a historic motte-and-bailey castle located in Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, England. Charles I was imprisoned at the castle in the months prior to his trial and execution. Previously the site of Carisbrooke Castle may have been occupied in pre-Roman times. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that Wihtgar, cousin of King Cynric of Wessex, died in AD 544, and was buried there. The Jutes may have taken over the fort in the late 7th century. An Anglo-Saxon stronghold occupied the site during the 8th century. Around 1000, a wall was built around the hill as a defence against Viking raids. The Richard de Redvers' family occupied, and over the next two centuries descendants improved the castle with stone walls, towers and a keep. In 1293 Edward I purchased it thenceforward governance was entrusted to wardens as representatives of the crown. In 1377 the castle was unsuccessfully attacked by the French, saved by local hero Peter de Heyno who shot the French commander. Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales, later Earl Rivers, obtained a grant of the castle and rights of Lordship in 1467. He was responsible for the addition of the Woodville Gate, now known as the Entrance Gate (pictured). Italian engineer Federigo Giambelli (or Genebelli) made more substantial improvements to the defences, constructing a modern trace Italienne fortification, a squat rampart and ditch supported at intervals by powerful bastions, completely surrounding the old castle and bailey. Charles I was imprisoned here for fourteen months before his execution in 1649. Afterwards his two youngest children were confined in the castle, and Princess Elizabeth died there. From 1896–1944, it was the home of Princess Beatrice, daughter of Queen Victoria, as Governor of the Isle of Wight. It is now under the control of English Heritage. Carisbrooke was the strongest castle on the Isle of Wight. The name of the castle is echoed in a very different structure on the other side of the world.
Location: Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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Aerial image of Carisbrooke Castle, a historic motte-and-bailey castle, Carisbrooke, near Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Carisbrooke Castle motte and bailey castle Isle of Wight. Gateways and Keep circa 1850
Entrance Gate internal view, Carisbrooke Castle, Carisbrooke, nr Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK, GB.
Carisbrooke Castle is a historic motte-and-bailey castle located in the village of Carisbrooke
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The entrance gate of Carisbrooke Castle a motte and bailey castle near Newport Isle of Wight England UK
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Carisbrooke Castle is a historic motte-and-bailey castle located in the village of Carisbrooke (near Newport), Isle of Wight, England. The keep was added to the castle in the reign of Henry I, and it was surrounded by additional fortifications in the reign of Elizabeth I, when the Spanish Armada was expected in 1583. Substantial improvements to the defence were made in 1600. Charles I was imprisoned here for fourteen months before his execution in 1649, the illustration show the window from which he attempted to escape.
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Chris Martin, band member of Coldplay, appears on the Italian television show, 'Che tempo che fa' Featuring: Chris Martin Where: Milan, Italy When: 13 Nov 2016 Credit: IPA/WENN.com **Only available for publication in UK, USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerla
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Member of the band Coldplay, from left to right, John Buckland, Guy Berryman, Chris Martin and Will Champion, pose during the Super Bowl 50 half time show press conference in San Francisco on February 4, 2016. The Denver Broncos will play the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday, February 7. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Member of the band Coldplay, from left to right, John Buckland, Guy Berryman, Chris Martin and Will Champion, talk about their upcoming half time performance for Super Bowl 50 during a press conference in San Francisco on February 4, 2016. The Denver Broncos will play the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday, February 7. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
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SOS Children's Village Rourkela
SOS Children's Villages has been present in India since 1963, our work developed rapidly all over the country and we started our activities in Rourkela in 1999 when a cyclone destroyed the lives of many in the area. We set up an emergency relief programme to provide immediate support to those affected, and this then developed into a permanent programme which continues to reach vulnerable children and their families.
One third of Rourkela's population lives in slums
Colouring in together with friends! (photo: SOS archives).
The city of Rourkela, home to an estimated 700,000 people, is situated in the north-west of India, in the state of Orissa. It is an important industrial centre, mostly involved in the iron and steel trade.
The state of Orissa remains amongst the poorest in the county, and the rate of poverty reduction has also been slower than elsewhere in India. An estimated 40 per cent of the state's urban population lives in poverty. In spite of various government programmes, the high level of unemployment remains a concern. It is estimated that around one third of the total urban population of Rourkela lives in slums. Over 90 per cent of those living in slums have no access to decent housing or basic infrastructure.
Children are the first victims of the deprived social and economic situation. Malnutrition is common, and Orissa has a higher-than-average infant mortality rate - 73 per 1000 births. Many of these children die from waterborne diseases such as cholera. Their deaths could be prevented by the provision of clean drinking water, sanitation facilities and timely medical treatment. Girls in particular face discrimination. For example, girls are more likely than boys to drop out of school. Although the average literacy rate stands at a relatively high 75 per cent, there is a big difference between the male rate - 81 per cent - and the female rate - 69 per cent.
The majority of parents living in poverty in Rourkela struggle to make a living and often find it hard to meet the emotional and material needs of their children. Many of these children do not go to school but can be found on the streets during the day, begging or hawking to contribute to the family income. They are very vulnerable, and in recent years, not only has the number of crimes committed against children risen, but there are numerous reports of children being kidnapped and trafficked to other Indian states.
Working closely with the community, aiming for self-sufficiency
The area was severely affected by the 1999 cyclone. At first the SOS Children's Villages' emergency relief programme focused on providing medical aid to people living in the area. Many children lost parental care and although we worked hard to find their living relatives, or to place them in foster care, it soon became clear that there was a need for us to provide additional family-based care. Today, we work closely with local agencies and community-based organisations in order to identify families who are in need.
What we do in Rourkela
A woman from our family strengthening programme now sells vegetables to make a living (photo: SOS archives).
A central part of the work that SOS Children's Villages carries out in Rourkela is related to supporting children and families near where our organisation is based. Our SOS Social Centres run a family strengthening programme which offers a comprehensive package of services to enable families to stay together and take good care of their children. In addition to providing day-care we aim to raise awareness of hygiene and child rights and give guidance on parenting skills. We provide families with food, as well as educational support and medical treatment. In order for families to generate income, we offer them vocational training, career counselling and advice. If self-help groups do not exist, we enable their creation. Some of the people we have worked with now make a living by keeping pigs, goats or poultry.
When children can no longer stay with their families, they can find a loving home with one of the fifteen SOS families, where they grow up with their sisters and brothers. The children attend the local kindergartens and schools, thus making friends with children from neighbouring families and integrating into the community. When young adults are ready to leave their SOS families they can join our SOS Youth Programme. With the support of qualified professionals they are guided through this new stage of their lives, as they start vocational training courses, attend higher education or look for work. The young people are encouraged to develop perspectives for their future, learn to shoulder responsibility and increasingly make their own decisions.
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Cold case probe into historic..
Cold case probe into historic sexual assaults
Detectives are making a renewed push to find a sex offender who attacked two women in the 1980s armed with a screwdriver and a pitchfork.
The first attack occurred in Caulfield on Thursday 1 April 1982.
A 21-year-old woman was threatened by a man with a screwdriver before being dragged into a car about 7pm.
She was taken to an unknown location where she was sexually assaulted.
The second incident occurred in Mulgrave on Tuesday 3 May 1983.
An 18-year-old female had been to a milk bar on Police Road when she was approached by a man on Albany Drive about 7.50pm.
The man was armed with a pitch fork and threatened her before dragging her into a nearby van.
She was driven to another location in Mulgrave where she was sexually assaulted before being released on Singleton Drive.
It is believed the man in the distinctive van had also followed another woman prior to the sexual assault in Mulgrave.
He spoke slowly with an Australian accent and had rough hands.
The distinctive van he was driving has been described as a white transit/Bedford van with a red and yellow stripe curving from the top rear of the van to the front.
It had a rectangular bubble window at the rear passenger side and two doors at the rear of the van with no windows.
There was also green canvas and dirt on the floor of the van.
More than 30 years on, an image has been released of the suspect and the van in the hope that someone may be able to help solve the cold case.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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Braşov, Transylvania
March 13, 2019 Reformation
On this episode, we have our third and final visit to the unlikely places where the Reformation took hold. Our third destination is Braşov, Transylvania, or Romania. In German, Braşov is known as Kronstadt, so you could call it Braşov, Romania, or Kronstadt, Transylvania, or any combination thereof.
The story of the Reformation here has Johannes Honterus playing the lead role. Honterus is also sometimes simply known as Honter. He was born in 1498 and he died in 1549. He left behind a book with a very straight-forward title, The Reformation Booklet for Kronstadt. It was about the Reformation, as the title says. It was a booklet, as the title says, and the audience of this booklet was the people of Kronstadt, as the title says.
Well, who was Johannes Honter? He was famous enough in Romania that in 2007 he appeared on a postage stamp. He first studied at Vienna and then he had to go to Regensburg. It had something to do with an invasion of that city and then he ended up at Basel. Basel was a famous Reformation city. This was the home of none other than Johannes Oecolampadius, one of the most brilliant Old Testament scholars probably of the entire Reformation. Luther said that he owed everything he knew about understanding the Old Testament to Oecolampadius.
Basel was also a great printing center. This is where Erasmus published his Greek text with the Greek on one side and the Latin on the other side because the printers at Basel were among the best in the business. In addition to being a churchman and scholar, our friend Johannes Honterus was also a cartographer. For the few years that he was in Basel, he not only learned theology and biblical studies, but he also applied his skills as a cartographer. He published a few celestial maps including what has come to be a very famous map— the first map of Transylvania.
In 1533, he went home to Braşov and there he set about bringing the Reformation. The first thing he did was set up a printing press. He had learned much while he was in Basel and so he set up a printing press that would roll these books off of the press and promote the Reformation. He also established a school that is functioning to this day. In fact, it is one of the landmarks of this city of Braşov in Romania.
He was also entrepreneurial. He helped establish a paper mill that not only supplied paper for the press there at Braşov but supplied paper to other printing presses that were popping up all along Eastern Europe. In addition to publishing these Reformation books and hymnals, he also helped publish Bibles, and he published what may very well have been the first geography textbook. He called it Rudimenta Cosmographica. He actually wrote it in rhyme so that he could help students remember their geography. It consisted of thirteen maps which altogether represented the known world at the time.
Honterus was not alone in his Reformation efforts. One person in particular who joined him was Valentin Wagner. Wagner had studied at Wittenberg, especially under Melanchthon. He was a total scholar in Greek, and he actually wrote books in Greek. Sadly, Wagner never fully embraced the doctrines of the Reformation. He didn’t quite articulate justification by faith alone. He believed that it was faith and a virtuous life that would get us to heaven.
Honterus didn’t agree with that. He believed in that wonderful Reformation principle of justification by faith alone, and he brought that to the people of Braşov, Transylvania, and he did it in the sixteenth century.
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For Kamala Harris, America Is the ‘Scene of a Crime’
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, February 22, 2019
There’s an old joke involving the Lone Ranger and Tonto that reflects a profound truth about the nature of identity and teamwork. The duo is trapped, with a group of wild Indians bearing down on them. “Looks like we’re in trouble, Tonto,” says the Lone Ranger to his faithful friend. “What do you mean ‘we,’ paleface?” replies Tonto.
The Lone Ranger joke came to mind when watching Democrat presidential candidate and media favorite Kamala Harris speak about American history. She recently declared that Columbus Day should be changed to “Indigenous Peoples Day”:
People did not want to deal and accept and most importantly admit that we are the scene of a crime when it comes to what we did with slavery and Jim Crow and institutionalized racism in this country, and we have to be honest about that. If we are not honest, we are not going to deal with the vestiges of all of that harm, and we are not going to correct course, and we are not going to be true to our values and morals.
One wonders what the senator means by “we.” Kamala Harris has no connection to the historic American nation she so casually disowns. Neither of her parents was born in America, with one from India and one from Jamaica. Both came to this “crime scene” in the 1960s. Senator Harris spent much of her childhood in Canada and attended both Hindu and Christian religious services growing up. Her roots in the country she aspires to lead and transform are very shallow.
Her background is like that of former president Barack Obama, whose “black” identity and experience was very different from that of African-Americans descended from slaves. Just like “Barry” Obama did with blacks in Chicago, Senator Harris is associating herself with a history to which she has no real connection. Her participation in a late-night skit in which she declared “Wakanda Forever” when Black Panther premiered was cringeworthy pandering. Her identity is a political front, as illustrated recently when she said she supported marijuana legalization because she was Jamaican. In response, her own father denounced the “travesty” of the family’s “proud Jamaican identity” being used “in the pursuit of identity politics.”
February 21, 2019 – Kamala Harris attends lunch with Al Sharpton. (Credit Image: © Lev Radin/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
The senator’s comment in her speech about “a lot of work to do” is a trope among politicians who constantly tell us America hasn’t quite reach the promised land of multicultural tolerance despite all the programs, payments, and indoctrination. There is no end to such “work.” If the goal is racial equality, the goal will never be reached. Ritual invocations about “work to do” are justifications for programs designed to redistribute wealth and opportunity from whites to non-whites, programs that have no end.
More ominous is what “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” really represents. The late Sam Francis wrote that the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday serves to:
[L]egitimize the radical social and political agenda that King himself favored and to delegitimize traditional American social and cultural institutions—not simply those that supported racial segregation but also those that support a free market economy, an anti-communist foreign policy, and a constitutional system that restrains the power of the state rather than one that centralizes and expands power for the reconstruction of society and the redistribution of wealth.
“Indigenous Peoples’ Day” is the next step. It delegitimizes the arrival of the European settlers who eventually created the Republic. The logical premise of “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” is that whites’ very presence in North America is illegitimate and they should be stripped of sovereignty and political control. This argument has already been made by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who declared that since America is simply “stolen land” and Hispanics—in her view—are “indigenous,” they deserve exemption from immigration laws and have more of a right to America than whites do. Kamala Harris’ comments echo this argument, especially her reference to those unnamed “people”—presumably reactionary whites—who don’t want to consider their country a crime scene.
When she declared her candidacy, Senator Harris said she was a “proud American.” If she thinks America is a “crime scene,” it’s unclear why she is proud. She may have been referring to the “values” and “morals” she invoked when talking about “Indigenous Peoples Day.”
Senator Harris’s “values” seem to be a collection of cliches, if her kickoff speech of the 2020 campaign is any indication:
The American dream and our American democracy are under attack and on the line like never before. We must answer a fundamental question: who are we as Americans? So let’s answer that question—to the world, to each other, right here, right now. America, we are better than this.
Of course, this isn’t an answer. Senator Harris’s answer to the problem of American identity is simply to attack President Trump without naming him. “We have leaders who lie, bully, attack a free press, and undermine our democratic institutions,” she said. This doesn’t tell us “who we are”; it simply tells us who “we” are not. American identity is defined by opposing the president.
Yet this strategy only works if President Trump can be linked to something definitively not American, preferably a foreign enemy. Senator Harris has been among the most alarmist politicians protesting Russia’s supposed interference in the 2016 election. She has accused President Trump of taking “Putin’s word over that of our intelligence community” and says her “highest priority” is protecting Robert Mueller’s investigation. Twitter is already banning “trolls” that criticize Senator Harris, and her most fervent supporters refer to her Twitter critics as Russian agents. Vanity Fair is among those amplifying a similar theory, with a sensational article entitled “Is Russia Already Messing With The 2020 Election?” Author Eric Lutz quotes several “experts” claiming the Kremlin is targeting Kamala Harris, among others. Vladimir Putin wants to divide Americans, the article warns, concluding that “under a president who has helped further those divisions, it seems the nation is as vulnerable as ever.” Of course, this suggests that America is not “strong” because of its cultural, racial, and ethnic divisions, but weak. A foreign adversary can easily take advantage of the fault lines within America’s diverse continental empire.
Senator Harris seems to admit this on occasion. In comments on August 1, 2018, during a hearing on Russian disinformation efforts, Senator Harris implied that Russia’s efforts were enabled by America’s inherent divisions:
[W]e have issues and fissures that are legitimate and run deep, and provoke potent reactions. We have a history of slavery in this country. We have a history of Jim Crow, of lynchings, of segregation, and discrimination. And indeed, we have a lot to do to repair and to recover from the harm of the past and some harm that continues today.
Nonetheless, she suggested Russia had interfered with America’s “diverse family” and “tried to turn us against each other.”
On February 5, she put out a remarkable tweet that suggested diversity is America’s “Achilles heel”:
Russia was able to influence our election because they figured out that racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and transphobia are America’s Achilles heel. These issues aren’t only civil rights—they’re also a matter of national security. We have to deal with that.
The next day, she declared: “The strength of our union has never been found in the walls we build. It’s in our diversity and our unity—and that is our power.” This seems like a contradiction of what she said the day before, which implied that diversity can be exploited by foes. Yet what Senator Harris is doing both with her comments on Columbus Day and on Russia and national security is transforming the traditional idea of national security.
Usually, a nation’s history and heritage are sources of strength, reasons to sacrifice for the state and fight against foreign enemies. However, in Senator Harris’s view, the country is a crime scene that must repent of its history. America’s new defining mythos is not about the Revolution or the settlement of the West, but the conquest of its own past. The main enemies in the “battle against inequality” are domestic. Foreign adversaries can exploit the “racism” or “transphobia” of certain elements of the American population, making their loyalty suspect. During her candidacy announcement, Kamala Harris said America is in a time “when we have foreign powers infecting the White House like malware.” President Trump himself, by defending traditional American history and appealing to nationalism, is suspect.
A candidate opposed to immigration law enforcement decrying the influence of “foreign powers” sounds absurd. One illegal immigrant on American soil constitutes more foreign meddling than all the Russian “disinformation” put together. Yet Kamala Harris is putting forward a new conception of the American national identity. America is to be defined by non-white immigration and a hopeful vision of racial egalitarianism. Those who identify with Christopher Columbus, the Confederacy, and to some extent, the Founding Fathers, are now less American than those who identify with the American Indians. Linking the seemingly disparate subjects of Russia and racism allows her to dismiss opposition to multiculturalism or mass immigration. Opposition to Kamala Harris’s program of cultural transformation becomes not legitimate dissent, but a dangerous disruption of national unity that foreign foes are sponsoring.
Luigi Persico’s Discovery of America was featured prominently at the U.S. Capitol from 1844 until 1958.
Under Senator Harris’s program, white Americans who don’t want their country remade become foreigners in their own country. Like aristocrats in revolutionary France, those who oppose cultural change are being accused of being in league with foreign powers, in this case Russia, home of the “Alt-Right International,” as a 2016 article in The Atlantic put it. Kamala Harris’ project of remaking American identity and her ominous talk about the supposed national security dangers of “racism” and “transphobia” are preparing the groundwork for treating white advocates like an internal threat. Nationalist whites, it seems, will not be part of America’s “diverse family.” If mass immigration proponents such as Kamala Harris get their way, America will belong to every group except whites—and whites won’t just be a despised minority, but the enemy within.
Topics: Featured, Non-Whites in Charge, Race and Politics
About Gregory Hood
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Mr. Hood is a staff writer for American Renaissance. He has been active in conservative groups in the US.
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The Sardine Run, South Africa
by Kaushik Monday, November 17, 2014
Every year, between the months of May and July, massive schools of sardines travel north from the cold southern oceans off South Africa's Cape Point to the warmer waters of Kwa-Zulu Natal, hugging the shore as they make their way up along the coastlines, in what is commonly known as the annual Sardine Run. These famous sardine shoals travel in seething masses stretching for up to fifteen kilometres in length, three and a half kilometres wide and nearly forty metres deep. The enormous number of sardines attract hundreds of predators who arrive en mass to partake in a feeding frenzy, creating a spectacle as spectacular as East Africa's great wildebeest migration.
The Sardine Run occurs during the winter months when a cold south to north-flowing current develops off the east coast, moving inshore and counter to the Aghulas current. The sardine population follows this narrow band of cool water north to Port Edward, swimming up between the coast and warm Aghulas current. North of Port Edward the cold current is restricted by the narrowing continental shelf and the shoals become concentrated in a narrow inshore band of water, as far as Mozambique where it then leaves the coastline and goes further east into the Indian Ocean. What prompts the sardines to migrate is still poorly understood.
The number of sardines taking part in the annual migration vary from year to year, and it is only considered a "run" when the shoals are big enough to be visible at the surface. Occasionally, sardines would fail to run. This may be either because of abnormal water temperature or other hydrographic barriers, or the migration may occur farther offshore and possibly deeper where they couldn’t be detected by coastal observers.
The sardine run is eagerly awaited by predators of the sea, including sharks, whales, dolphins and birds. The hunting strategy employed by the dolphins is particularly worth watching. Like sheepdogs working in the field, the dolphins round up the sardines into densely packed masses called “bait balls”, 10–20 metres across. Working together underwater the dolphins drive the bait ball toward the surface, whirling, twisting and swimming below the shoal. Once the sardines reach the surface, the dolphins then pounce on the tiny fishes while birds plummet out of the sky to pillage from above. Occasionally sharks and sometimes whale also take advantage of the opportunity. In areas where the sardines swim very close to the coast, fishermen wade into the water and secure their share.
Sources: Sardinerun.com / Wikipedia / Wikitravel
If you liked these pictures, you will also like these animal migration stories.
The Sardine Run, South Africa Reviewed by Kaushik on Monday, November 17, 2014 Rating: 5
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April 16, 2019 / Rachel Zyzda
Way back in 2017, shortly after ANCHR was just starting, I talked to the duo Ben Moorhouse and Leo Duncan of Ten Fé over a spotty FaceTime audio connection in honor of their first full length album, Hit The Light. During our first conversation, I learned about their early days of busking in the London Underground, who some of their favorite bands were at the moment, and how they collaborate together.
Recently, Moorehouse and Duncan, along with their bandmates Johnny Drain, Greg Katsantonis, and Rob Shipley, made their first stop ever in Chicago to perform to a sold out Schubas Tavern. I sat down with the full band this time to catch up face-to-face and chat everything from their newest album Future Perfect, Present Tense to performing on JBTV and what they do to stay entertained on the road. For all that and more, catch up with Ten Fé below!
Ten Fé is Ben Moorhouse, Johnny Drain, Leo Duncan, Greg Katsantonis, and Rob Shipley (Left to Right, from standing to sitting)
You just put your second album, Future Perfect, Present Tense out at the beginning of March, so first of all, congrats on that! What would you say are some of the biggest differences stylistically or as far as the process goes between this one and your first record?
Leo: The biggest difference is we did the first record completely just me and Ben. Rob played on a bit of it [the first one]. It was mostly me and Ben and then when we came to do this one, it was the five of us, although we had a different drummer. Greg’s just joined us. The process was different because it became more about capturing five people’s energy you know? Sometimes that works and sometimes we had to work in a way that we’d done on the first record. I think stylistically we wanted to make it a lot more rootsy and honest and less electronic, and break down any distance between the listener and us. I don’t know, can you tell that?
Yeah, I think so! This past week I was listening to Hit The Light and the new record, and I can definitely see that. Anyone else have anything to add about their mindset or stylistic goals going into this second album?
Ben: Yeah, I think we had just come back from tour, sort of what Leo was saying. We were back from tour and thinking of that in the time we had as a band and playing on the stages and the sound we were making. I think we were sort of excited by that and the prospect of then doing it again and making it grow and getting bigger. I think that was quite a driving force behind this album. We wanted it to sound more live and more kind of visceral I think. It’s like, it feels like it’s an ongoing thing is we want it to get more live and rootsy. We’re still sort of developing that now.
Yeah, there’s definitely that energy of being together and playing live that comes across. What would you say was your favorite moment or memory during the process of recording or writing this new record? Anything you look back on with a fond heart?
Leo: There’s been plenty of highs and lows during the making of it. We ran out of money. I lost my voice totally. So it hasn’t been the easiest to make, but the highs definitely outweigh the lows. My favorite memory probably is during the summer when we were coming to the end of it in London. We finished it in London and we collected everybody in our studio in Tottenham and we recorded a choir of about twenty of our friends. The football was on, it was the World Cup, and we had the BBQ on the roof the studio. Then we all went downstairs to record the vocals of the song “Superrich.” There’s loads of people singing on that song in the chorus, sort of a hard knock life style singalong. That just felt really good. It was a very hot day.
Nice! Then this is actually your first time in Chicago right? How has Chicago been treating you so far?
Rob: Well we haven’t had much time to explore. We sort of skimmed Chicago on the way up to Milwaukee. We went to Illinois state beach is it? It was coming down from Milwaukee about half way to Chicago, there’s like a strip of green and you get right up to the shore on Lake Michigan. Which was pretty wicked, we don’t really get horizons like that-- well you’ve got to go to the sea. That was pretty special. Last night we didn’t really have that much time to explore. We just sort of had to grab moments when we can.
Leo: We went to Greek Town. We went to a really nice restaurant. Greg is Greek.
Greg: Yeah we had really nice Greek food. I approved.
Then today you played JBTV in the afternoon, which is a staple in the music community here! How’d you like Jerry and the experience?
Leo: So cool man! It just seems like he’s got this thing that he believes in. And he’s just surrounded by all these interns, you know. He was saying he hasn’t been well lately, but he’s got so much energy. It’s just unbelievable so that’s amazing to see.
Yeah, he’s still always there despite having cancer. He’s a fighter!
Rob: Yeah he said he had his operation two weeks ago. He’s bouncing around still.
I know, his energy is great. So the show tonight is also sold out, which is pretty great for a first show here!
Leo: It’s amazing! To come so far away from home and have it sold out is the best feeling.
Do you have anything special planned for this show or this tour that people can look forward to?
Leo: Like Ben was saying, it’s a real process still. You know, it’s hard work but it’s also exciting. We’re really trying to do more with the vocals on this tour. It’s taking a bit of time to get it as right as we want it to be, but hopefully that will come through.
How was the rest of the tour been going so far? Have there been any other stand out shows?
Leo: Montreal was a real favorite of mine. It was like an oasis in a desert of America and Canada. But all the shows have been wicked in their own way.
How have you guys been staying entertained on the road? Any favorite podcasts or albums or shows you’ve been watching or listening to?
Greg: I’ve been watching loads of “Only Fools and Horses.” I don’t know if you know what that is. It’s a British sitcom.
Leo: Yeah, “Only Fools and Horses” has been keeping Greg happy, and the rest of us are just trying to keep--there’s a big bag of prunes in the back of the car. We’re trying to avoid eating too many of them.
So then the last time I interviewed you, which was just over two years ago, you talked about how you’re into Kevin Morby and Twin Peaks and some other Chicago bands. Are there any other new bands that have been on your heavy rotation lately?
Leo: Amen Dunes has released a great album. We listened to Delicate Steve’s new album in the car. The same people really, there’s no one really new that’s come along that I can think of. Kevin Morby, Whitney--
Oh some of the guys from Whitney were here yesterday for Stella Donnelly’s show.
Leo: Stella Donnelly played here last night? No way! Ewan Pearson, the person who mixed our first album mixed her album as well. That’s mad! So she’s touring the states at the moment?
Yeah, just missed her! It was a sold out show last night too, so a good weekend at Schubas.
Leo: Did you see her?
Yeah I was here! It was really good. It was one of the best shows I’ve been, so you have a lot to live up to. You know how you can get jaded, or maybe it’s just me, from going to shows all the time? But her show was so great, I just forgot about being tired and it being long week and the mood of the room was just so positive.
Leo: Oh so we’ll blame Stella if you haven’t got any energy tonight. But how come there seems to be a lot of bands [coming out of Chicago], like Whitney, Twin Peaks…?
Yeah there’s something in the water in Chicago. There’s just so many bands coming out of Chicago that might not be at the level of Whitney or Twin Peaks yet but they’ll sell out shows here and a bunch that went down to South By.
Leo: Oh can you give us a few names so you can check them out?
Well so I actually put on an ANCHR Magazine showcase at SXSW, so a few on that were Blue Dream, The Evening Attraction, Thompson Springs, Uma Bloo….I’ll just send you guys the flyer. There’s a lot of great local bands that play here at Schubas too. So wrapping up, anything else you guys are looking forward to this year or hoping to accomplish on this album cycle?
Leo: Stay in one piece by the end of this tour!
Don’t eat all the prunes in one day?
Leo: Finish all the prunes by the time we reach the west coast!
Rob: Hopefully we’ll be back out here in the autumn. We’re still quite early on with this new album. We’ve got this tour, we’ve got another big tour straight off the back in Europe. Then we’ll hopefully be back here as soon as possible.
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tags / Ten Fe, Interview, A Chat With, Schubas
A Chat With: Ten Fé
February 01, 2017 / Rachel Zyzda
London based duo Ben Moorhouse and Leo Duncan (AKA TEN FÉ) are set to release their debut album, Hit The Light, in just two days. The album feels like a long time coming, as the pair have been making music together for years. For the past few months, Ben and Leo have been steadily cranking out unique and dynamic earworms, like the single "Twist Your Arm" with its climactic introduction and relatable lyrics, or "Overflow" with its nostalgic synth sounds. In support of the album, the guys will tour the UK and Europe in the spring, and they've even been announced to play Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee. Prior to the album release and what's sure to be a great year for TEN FÉ, we chatted with Ben and Leo about their early days of house boats and tube stations, their influences, and some of their favorite bands at the moment.
Ben Moorhouse and Leo Duncan
ANCHR Magazine: Can you tell me a little bit about how you met and started making music together?
TEN FÉ: We met a long time ago, many, many years ago. We ended up living on a boat together on the Thames for summer. Whilst we were there, we were very poor, so we needed to busk on the underground to make money together. And um, we started busking then and found out it actually made us quite a lot of money. So for a long time, we didn’t really write songs together, we just busked on the underground and played other people’s songs. Old rock n’ roll songs, really, cause we both love that kind of music. Elvis, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and early kind of Stones and Beatles stuff. Then after we’d been in relatively quite a lot of separate bands, we just came together and started playing each other our songs and realized that there was something really special going on. We quit the bands that were in and started this one.
It’s taken a fair while, but we’ve kept the faith through out.
AM: Very cool, so what was your favorite tube station to busk in?
TEN FÉ: That’s a good question! We always used to start at this station called Ravenscourt Park. It’s got a great sort of little waiting room that’s heated during the winter. We’d sort of start strumming in there and kind of warm up, get the fingers moving. That was always good. We once filmed an acoustic video in that station with a friend of ours for one of our early singles.
Official video for "Elodie"
AM: Where did the inspiration for your name come from?
TEN FÉ: Um, I think like any band, it’s torture finding a name. But it came to do with what we’d been doing a long time, through thin and thin, through not having much at all. We wanted something to show that, you know, that we’d kept going. The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan, you know that album? There’s a song on there called “Santa Fe.” We were called Santa Fe for a while, then Fe. We just liked the meaning of having faith. We kept the faith, you know? [“Ten Fe” translates to “have faith” in Spanish]
The world’s in such an interesting place at the moment. To have a job that allows you to go out and travel through it is just something else.
— TEN FÉ on their upcoming tour
AM: Very cool. So who else would you consider your influences? Is it pretty much the bands that you guys would play when you were busking?
TEN FÉ: Yeah, we’ve always...those busking songs, we’ve been playing for so long. And we still play them, so we’ve still got just like you know...we’re quite close to a lot of that music. Even these days. Then there are others. The band was founded probably on a night we spent watching U2 and The Cure live videos on YouTube...a night of passion.
AM: Haha, cool. So talking a little bit about your debut album, which is almost out, so congrats on that! How are you guys feeling now that it’s so close to being out there?
TEN FÉ: We’re feeling really good, really good. As we say, it’s the product of lots of good, solid work. I mean, what it really means is that we get to tour it...play it live. We get to tour it now for the next few months. That’s really what we live for, that’s our favorite thing. We’ve got a great band who we play with. It really is well exciting for that reason alone. It’s a bonus, a great bonus, that people seem to like it...the responses have been really positive.
AM: Yeah, I mean I definitely love everything you guys have released so far, so I can’t wait to hear the whole thing. So going into the recording process, did you produce it yourselves and where did you record?
TEN FÉ: Well we wrote all of the songs for the album, the two of us. By kinda working on our recording equipment, [we] made like demos of the songs. Which when we went to record the album, we met up with Ewan Pearson and he basically, he really liked the demos, and was sort of up for kind of taking them as a good basis for what we did with him. So we went and recorded in Berlin [with him]. You know Compact Records?
AM: No, actually, I’m not aware of them
TEN FÉ: They’re the electronic dance label that Ewan is signed to, so we were recording a lot of the pre-production in his studio there. Cause we’re not really, we don’t have much experience of electronic music ourselves. We’re kind of wood and guitar strings, rather than that. That was great meeting those people.
AM: Cool, so talking a little bit more about tour, which you mentioned you’re really excited to do, what are some of the cities that you’re most excited to play in?
TEN FÉ: Anywhere! Absolutely all of them. That’s the reason why we’re musicians...to see the world. All of them really, and we’re not just saying that. We keep going on about how long it’s been, and it hasn’t been that long, but we’ve been looking forward to it for a while. Everywhere in Europe and obviously America. I mean the world’s in such an interesting place at the moment. To have a job that allows you to go out and travel through it is just something else.
AM: Speaking of America, I saw you’re on the Bonnaroo lineup. Did you get a chance to look at any of the other bands playing, and is there anyone you’re hoping to check out while you’re there?
2017 Bonnaroo Lineup
TEN FÉ: Other than U2 obviously, we noticed that we’re almost within arm’s reach on the line up of a guy that we got really into the last six months, Kevin Morby. Is he from Chicago? He’s from that area...he’s mates with like Twin Peaks. We love all those bands. There’s a lot of bands coming out of Chicago right now!
AM: Yeah, definitely. I’ve been interviewing a lot of up and coming Chicago bands lately. Have you heard of Post Animal? They’re opening for Twin Peaks for some of their shows.
TEN FÉ: Oh, wicked!
AM: Yeah, check them out. So other than those bands, any bands that you’re really into lately?
TEN FÉ: The Delicate Steve album! That’s wicked. Do you know Delicate Steve? He’s an American...from New Jersey. He’s wicked, absolutely wicked, you should check him out. He actually did some work with Paul Simon this year. He’s just a guitarist, he hasn’t got any words, and he does a guitar sound exactly like George Harrison. I don’t know how he does it! He’s amazing, and he just released something last week.
AM: Very cool, I will definitely check him out. Other than that anything else you want to say about the album or anything to your fans?
TEN FÉ: Keep listening!
Well, you heard the guys...keep listening to them by checking out their complete Spotify playlist below. You can also pre-order Hit The Light here. UK and Europe folks, make sure you grab tickets to the upcoming gigs, yeah? You can see all of the dates here.
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[Deal Alert] Use Promo Code "BIGTHANKS" To Take £10 Off Any Order Over £50 On Amazon UK
Rita El Khoury
2016/01/22 7:29am PDT Jan 22, 2016
Amazon UK is thankful. The company was ranked number one in the customer satisfaction index in the UK and to celebrate, it has decided to raise satisfaction even more. Today only, Friday January 22, users can enter promo code BIGTHANKS at checkout to take £10 off any order over £50. That includes single items or multiple items that total more than £50.
Amazon's rules explain that the code is valid once per customer and only applies to items that are shipped and sold by Amazon (ie those that show up as fulfilled by Amazon or Amazon Marketplace aren't eligible). Other items that don't count are baby formula, digital goods, gift cards, Amazon Pantry products, and shipping and handling charges.
[Update: Listing Removed] Google Nexus Player Is Coming To The UK On March 26th According To Amazon UK Listing
Jacob Long
2015/03/23 6:17am PDT Mar 23, 2015
Nexus Player
Update 1: 2015/03/23 9:08am PDT
Amazon UK has removed the listing.
Google's Nexus Player listing on Amazon UK claims that the set-top box will be released to British customers on Thursday, March 26th. Further, the price will be £79.99, assuming Amazon is at least correct on that aspect. Why the uncertainty? Well, Amazon listings are not always the most reliable indicators of release dates. Still, this is a good sign for those in the UK that have been planning to buy a Nexus Player.
For its part, Google has not given any indication that Nexus Players are about to drop in Britain.
Samsung Galaxy SIII 16GB Now Available For Pre-Order For £499.95 From Amazon UK
Abhiroop Basu
2012/05/08 3:42am PDT May 8, 2012
Update: It looks like Amazon Germany also has the device up for pre-order for the slightly lower price of EUR 588.90 ($766.34). There is no release date indicated, but the earlier press release suggests it will be available from May 29th, 2012.
Samsung's next flagship smartphone finally launched last week and we spent many paragraphs proffering our opinions on it. Most of us cannot wait to get our grubby hands on it, but it looks like UK customers will be getting it pretty soon, as the Galaxy SIII has gone up for pre-order on Amazon UK.
The 16GB version of the Galaxy SIII in Pebble Blue or Marble White will retail for £499.95 ($806.67) and will be available from the expected release date of May 30th, 2012.
Amazon UK Releases Android App
Artem Russakovskii
The UK branch of one of the largest retailers in the world - Amazon.com - came out with an Android app today, dedicated to the UK market. The app is very similar to the U.S. version and offers convenience and speed of a locally installed application over browsing amazon.co.uk and having to keep track of your logins. Barcode scanning, 1-click ordering, prime membership, wish lists, recommendations, customer reviews, order tracking and modification are all supported.
If you're in the UK, you can download the Amazon UK app by scanning or clicking the following QR code:
Note: The app is geo-coded and therefore not available in Markets outside the UK.
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ID - Predator - Chapter 58. Protection of Natural Resources (wolf declaration) I.C. § 67-5801 - 5807 ID ST § 67-5801 - 5807
The purpose of Chapter 58 is to provide an orderly, comprehensive plan for the protection of the natural resources of the state and for the suppression of dangers or threats. Section 5806 the Idaho legislature finds and declares that the state's citizens, businesses, hunting, tourism and agricultural industries, private property and wildlife, are immediately and continuously threatened and harmed by the sustained presence and growing population of Canadian gray wolves in the state of Idaho. The legislature states that "a disaster emergency is in existence as a result of the introduction of Canadian gray wolves, which have caused and continue to threaten vast devastation of Idaho's social culture, economy and natural resources."
Trager v. Thor 516 N.W.2d 69 (Mich.,1994) 445 Mich. 95 (Mich.,1994)
In this Michigan case involving an action for damages after personal injury, the father of the dog’s owner was visiting his son's home when he agreed to supervise the dog while his son and daughter-in-law went shopping. The n eighbor’s child was subsequently bitten by the dog, which had been put by defendant into a bedroom. This court held that the defendant, as a temporary caretaker of the dog, could not be held to the strict liability standard of an owner keeper, but could be liable under theory of negligence. Thus, a genuine issue of material fact remained as to whether the father was negligent in fulfilling his duty of care in supervising the dog, which precluded summary judgment in a negligence action.
Humane Soc. of U.S. v. Lujan 768 F.Supp. 360 (D.D.C.,1991)
This case was brought the Humane Society of the United States and various coalitions of homeowner/citizens against the United States Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service to prevent the implementation of defendants' decision to permit limited public deer hunting on a national wildlife refuge in Fairfax County, Virginia. On cross motions for final judgment on the record, the District Court held that the suit under Endangered Species Act was precluded by failure to give proper presuit notice. The court stated that the ESA clearly states that “written notice” of the violation must be given to the Secretary and to the violator as a condition precedent to suit. The court also found that the FWS's decision took account of relevant factors and thus was not arbitrary or capricious.
State v. Newcomb 359 Or 756 (2016) In this case, the Supreme Court of Oregon reviewed a case in which defendant accused the State of violating her constitutional rights by taking a blood sample of her dog without a warrant to do so. Ultimately, the court held that the defendant did not have a protected privacy interest in the dog’s blood and therefore the state did not violate defendant’s constitutional rights. Defendant’s dog, Juno, was seized by the Humane Society after a worker made a visit to plaintiff’s home and had probable cause to believe that Juno was emaciated from not receiving food from plaintiff. After Juno was seized and taken into custody for care, the veterinarian took a blood sample from Juno to confirm that there was no other medical reason as to why Juno was emaciated. Defendant argued that this blood test was a violation of her constitutional rights because the veterinarian did not have a warrant to perform the test. The court dismissed this argument and held that once Juno was taken into custody, defendant had “lost her rights of dominion and control over Juno, at least on a temporary basis.” Finally, the court held that because Juno was lawfully seized and Juno’s blood was “not ‘information’ that defendant placed in Juno for safekeeping or to conceal from view,” defendant’s constitutional rights had not been violated. Case
US - Meat Inspection - Labeling (Historical) 9 C.F.R. 317 These former Federal Meat Inspection Act regulations detail the law surrounding labeling, marking, and containing packaged food prior to 2014. Read an Animal Welfare Institute petition to amend section 317.4 of labeling regulations under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). The new regulations went into effect in 2014. Administrative
US - Horses - Sale of Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros PL 108-447
These amendments to the Wild Horses Act, 16 U.S.C.A. § 1333, amended by Public Law 108-447, allow for the sale of animals for commercial purposes in some circumstances, specifically when the excess animal is more than 10 years old, or has been unsuccessfully offered for adoption on at least 3 occasions. Once the excess animal is sold, it will no longer be considered a wild free-roaming horse or burro according to this Act.
Demeo v. Manville 68 Ill.App.3d 843 (1979) 386 N.E.2d 917 (Ill.App. 2 Dist., 1979)
This is an Illinois' small claims action involving the death of plaintiffs' show dog. Plaintiff alleged that defendant ran over the dog while it was tied up near the driveway. Defendant denied plaintiff’s allegations that defendant ran over the dog and used a cover-up story. The court upheld an award of five-hundred dollars although the purchase price was two-hundred. Plaintiff testified that he paid $200 for his dog when it was a puppy, but it had appeared in four shows, winning first prize in each. Evidence was considered for commercial value and special qualities in that case.
Brower v. Evans 257 F.3d 1058 (2001)
The district court held that the Secretary's Initial Finding, triggering a change in the dolphin-safe label standard, was not in accordance with the law and constituted an abuse of discretion because the Secretary failed to (1) obtain and consider preliminary data from the congressionally mandated stress studies and (2) apply the proper legal standard to the available scientific information. We affirm.
Sierra Club v. Morton 405 U.S. 727 (U.S.Cal. 1972) 92 S.Ct. 1361, 3 ERC 2039, 31 L.Ed.2d 636, 1 Envtl. L. Rep. 29,001, 2 Envtl. L. Rep. 20,192 (U.S.Cal. 1972)
The Petitioner, the Sierra Club, brought this action for a declaratory judgment and an injunction to restrain federal officials from approving an extensive skiing development in the Mineral King Valley in the Sequoia National Forest. The Sierra Club did not allege that the challenged development would affect the club or its members in their activities, but rather argued that the project would adversely change the area's aesthetics and ecology. The District Court granted a preliminary injunction. The Court of Appeals reversed, holding that the club lacked standing and had not shown irreparable injury. On grant of certiorari, the Supreme Court held that the Sierra Club, which asserted a only special interest in conservation of natural game refuges and forests, lacked standing under Administrative Procedure Act to maintain the action because it could not demonstrate that its members would be affected in any of their activities or pastimes by the proposed project.
U.S. v. Gibert 677 F.3d 613 (4th Cir. 2012) The primary question in this appeal was whether Congress exceeded its power under the Commerce Clause in enacting a criminal prohibition against animal fighting. Defendants were indicted, in violation of the Animal Welfare Act, for their roles in organizing, operating, and participating in “gamefowl derbies,” otherwise known as “cockfighting.” Upon the 4th Circuit’s review of the parties' arguments, it held that the animal fighting statute was a legitimate exercise of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause. It also held that the statute did not require the government to prove the defendants' knowledge regarding the particular venture's nexus to interstate commerce. Accordingly, the district court’s decision was affirmed. Case
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Anthology Clients Dominate 41st Annual AMA Marketer of the Year Competition Winning Best of Show and Four Gold Awards
Anthology Marketing Group clients enjoyed another year of strong showings at the 41st annual American Marketing Association of Hawai‘i Marketer of the Year Awards. The awards ceremony was held on April 5 at the Prince Waikiki hotel, with the biggest names in the industry turning out to celebrate the top marketing campaigns of 2017.
Anthology clients won top Gold Awards in four of the competition’s six categories. Hawaiian Airlines, an Anthology client, took top overall honors for Marketer of the Year for the second consecutive year and a Gold Award for Best Product Launch.
Hawaiian Airlines - Premium Cabin
Hawaiian Airlines was recognized with AMA Hawai‘i’s top honor for the introduction of its Premium Cabin, where guests on the air carrier enjoy “the highest level of comfort” and are “immersed in an exceptional level of relaxation.”
Premium Cabin amenities include lie-flat seats and interior surroundings inspired by Hawai‘i’s environment, alongside in-seat power, premium in-flight entertainment, exclusive amenities by local designers and world-class cuisine prepared by top local chefs. The contemporary, Island-style design of Hawaiian Airlines’ Premium Cabin, accented by the air carrier’s renowned Hawai‘i-style hospitality, is crafted to give guests a feeling of arriving in the Islands the moment they settle in for their flight.
International Market Place was awarded a Gold Award for Best Event Marketing for the one-year anniversary celebration of its fully reimagined reopening in 2016. The 345,000-square-foot, open-air shopping center offers Hawai‘i’s first Saks Fifth Avenue store, as well as a world-class lineup of restaurants and retailers. As part of the center’s anniversary celebration, a one-of-a-kind bronze statue commemorating legendary Hawai‘i entertainer Don Ho was unveiled on August 13, 2017, which would have been his 87th birthday. Hundreds of admirers gathered beneath the International Market Place’s iconic 160-year-old banyan tree, alongside members of the Ho family, to celebrate the unveiling.
Island Energy Services
Island Energy Services was awarded the Gold Award for Best Rebrand Marketing for its efforts to reintroduce the Texaco brand to Hawai‘i and rebrand all of its Chevron service stations statewide. The new branding emphasized that Texaco stations in Hawai‘i were still being operated by the same staff, offering the same rewards and benefits formerly found at Chevron stations, and, most importantly, were providing the same high-quality gasoline with the Chevron-developed fuel additive Techron. The rebranding assured customers that despite exterior changes from the blue of Chevron stations to the red of Texaco stations, the company would, in ways that matter most, remain the same one they knew and trusted.
Kapi‘olani Health Foundation
Kapi‘olani Health Foundation was honored with a Gold Award for Best Nonprofit Marketing for its 2017 efforts to increase overall donation revenue. A nationally recognized not-for-profit medical center, Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women and Children relies on community support to fulfill its mission of creating a healthier Hawai‘i. In 2017, the medical center had a critical need of donations supporting a campus expansion that included a new Emergency Department. Initiatives focused on a website redesign simplifying the donation process, a high-end fundraising event attracting new and past donors to support the expansion, the annual Children’s Miracle Network radiothon, and a holiday-giving themed social media campaign. As a result of the medical center’s marketing efforts, revenue from online donations on its website increased by 58 percent, its fundraising event raised 12 percent more than a donor event two years prior, and the radiothon exceeded its goals.
Last but not least, Anthology Marketing Group won a Silver Award for Best Event Marketing for creative work celebrating our 10th anniversary in 2017. The work included a weeklong celebration in June where specially designed and branded Anthology swag – including T-shirts, beverage mugs, tote bags, wine glasses and more – greeted (and surprised) staff at their desk each day. In addition, the celebration included a series of ads in Hawaii Business magazine, sponsorship on Hawai‘i Public Radio, and special Lunch and Learn events featuring top Hawai‘i business leaders speaking to the Anthology team. Our 10th anniversary celebration culminated with a company party at Vino Italian Tapas and Wine Bar.
The AMA Hawai‘i Marketer of the Year Awards program is open annually to entries from all Hawaii-based businesses, organizations and professionals. Entries are scored according to their insight, objectives, strategies, tactics and results.
The largest marketing association in the U.S., the AMA is a professional association for individuals and organizations involved in the practice, teaching and studying of marketing worldwide. It serves as an everyday source for marketers in search of information, resources, education, training and professional networking. AMA’s Hawai‘i chapter was established in 1970.
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'I Think We're Alone Now': Peter Dinklage and Reed Morano discuss their latest film
Stephanie Cherng, AOL.com
Sep 18th 2018 3:55PM
Emmy-winning director and cinematographer Reed Morano, best known for her work on "The Handmaid's Tale," stopped by BUILD Series alongside actor Peter Dinklage, from HBO's hit show "Game of Thrones," to discuss their upcoming film "I Think We're Alone Now."
The science-fiction film explores the concept of solitude amongst the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic world. Dinklage plays Del alongside castmate Elle Fanning, who plays Grace, as survivors of the post-apocalyptic world.
Coming off of "The Handmaid's Tale," Morano was interested in exploring a new world and a different concept. She said that directing "I Think We're Alone Now" allowed her to explore human behavior and relationships.
"It felt different enough from 'The Handmaid's Tale,' like a totally different world. Kind of a different tone and weirdly more like a realistic scenario of what would happen. I just like any story where you can examine human behavior, and I thought it was an interesting psychological study of two people who are very different and what would you do and how would you connect," Morano explained.
It was the script of "I Think We're Alone Now" that motivated Dinklage to join the film.
"It always starts with the script," he said. "I got hold of the script luckily enough and wanted to put a team together. I talked to Reed and I knew Elle from another movie I had worked on a couple years ago, and we all thought it would be great to make a movie together."
Peter Dinklage and Reed Morano
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 13: Actor Peter Dinklage visits Build Series to discuss the film 'I Think We're Alone Now' at Build Studio on September 13, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Desiree Navarro/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 13: Director Reed Morano visits Build Series to discuss the film 'I Think We're Alone Now' at Build Studio on September 13, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Desiree Navarro/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 13: Actor Peter Dinklage and director Reed Morano visit Build Series to discuss the film 'I Think We're Alone Now' at Build Studio on September 13, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Desiree Navarro/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 13: Director Reed Morano and Peter Dinklage visit Build Series to discuss the film 'I Think We're Alone Now' at Build Studio on September 13, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Desiree Navarro/Getty Images)
When Dinklage was asked whether or not he was aware that he's a captivating actor, he revealed that acting is still a mystery to him and credits working with other talented actors that bring out his acting abilities.
"I don't know what acting really is, it's a mystery still," Dinklage responded. "It's really who you work with. You're only as good as the actor you're working with, and I've been lucky enough to assure myself with very talented actors and Elle is top of the list. She's one of the most gifted actresses I've ever worked with, and she's such a professional for somebody so young."
Dinklage also revealed what attracted him to play this character specifically.
"No one wants to be lonely. We're all creatures of the pack. There are millions of people and we surround ourselves with them and enjoy that for the most part and he comes to understand that through this young woman. I just love unconventional love stories," Dinklage adds.
In terms of the storytelling power of filmmaking, Morano believes that it's important to break from traditional standards and allow viewers to observe characters in different environments that reflect real life.
"I love this story because, once the crazy stuff goes down, you're not expecting it because you're so comfortable and that's what life does to you, just when you least expect it. I like making anything that makes people uncomfortable," Morano explained.
The obsessiveness with solitude foreshadows a darker intent in the film.
"The whole idea is, no matter how meticulous you are and how organized you are, in the end chaos will find you," Morano told the audience.
"I Think We're Alone," starring Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning, hits theaters on September 21.
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Denis Meikle
For some of those involved, Hammer Film Productions’s dedication to “terror and disgust” (as the dictionary defines horror) was never acknowledged as such. Peter Cushing: “I do not like the word horror; I think fantasy is a much better word.” Christopher Lee: “I prefer to call them ‘films of fantasy’ — particularly the ones I have made.” Director Terence Fisher: “I object to my films being called ‘horror pictures.’ I prefer my work to be known as macabre.” But the public thought differently. They were not concerned with such fine distinctions. To them, Hammer Film Productions made horror films, pure and simple. And so, for twenty-one years, horror was to be Hammer Film Productions’s stock-in-trade.
In that time, the company produced more than sixty features tailored for or sold to the horror-thriller market. Of these, the majority were set in a dislocated but quintessentially Victorian Gothic hinterland: hybrid period pieces that more or less evolved a distinctive generic style of their own.
The first of them was ‘The Curse of Frankenstein’. That it marked a watershed — perhaps the watershed in the history of the horror film — is now beyond dispute, but the stylistic unity they all shared would come to be appreciated the world over and designated by the eponymous sobriquet of “Hammer Horror.”
In terms of a body of work being so identified with one company or individual that the two become entirely indivisible, only the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock have been the recipients of a similar accolade.
Critics of the time hated everything that Hammer Film Productions did and stood for. When it introduced blood into its films, they complained about the blood; when it introduced sex, they complained about the sex.
And when — unpalatably — it mixed the two, then the end of civilization as we knew it was deemed to be at hand. It was the same reaction that greeted Matthew Gregory Lewis’s Gothic splatter-piece ‘The Monk’ some 160 years before.
Despite this, Hammer Film Productions’s would grow to be one of the most successful British film companies of its day, be the first to receive the Queen’s Award to Industry, become the subject of numerous retrospectives — including a 1971 “Tribute” at London’s National Film Theatre — sire countless international fan clubs, and foster a devotional following around the globe.
It would live to take its rightful place second only to Ealing in the ranks of the great postwar British independents, while its legacy continues to be felt in everything from the recent BBC Television revival of its sci-fi series Doctor Who to stop-motion studio Aardman Animation’s affectionate 2005 feature-length homage, ‘Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’.
As for myself, I grew up with Hammer Film Productions. Not in the way that I grew up with the Beatles, or “flower power,” or Old Labour in its Wilsonian heyday — not in the way that such broader cultural upheavals affect one’s character, or social or sexual development, or perceptions of the changing world — but in the way that Hammer Film productions’s films were an almost integral part of my everyday sphere of existence, like the “funny papers” in the Daily Express that introduced James Bond to a wider readership, and the musical conservatism of the Light Programme, and the cultural stranglehold of the British Broadcasting Corporation in general.
It was just there, as though it had always been there — and yet Hammer Film Productions had been born, officially, in the same year as I: 1947. It took its first stumbling steps when I did, learned the way of things when I did, reached puberty as I did, spread its wings and reached out to embrace the world in the mid-sixties as all we “baby-boomers” did — only to be disillusioned and disenfranchised a decade later, as I was.
I grew up with Hammer Film Productions, and Hammer Film Productions grew up with me — though Hammer Film Productions was aware of that in less personal terms: I was merely one of the juvenile audience for its B-movie crime capers, from ‘Break in the Circle’ to ‘A Man on the Beach’. I was the pubescent who had discovered Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton, and who turned to Hammer Film Productions to see the former, at least, realized in Technicolor on the big screen.
I was the adolescent thrillseeker who sneaked surreptitiously into its “X”-rated examples of a new artistic freedom. I was the teenage pleasure-seeker who fed off its big-budget extravaganzas. And I was the wiser and sadder young adult who ultimately left it behind, when the relationship grew tired, and stale, and habitual — when Hammer Film Productions itself had begun to think that simply “being there” was enough. I grew up with Hammer Film Productions, and it with me. And a first love remains in the memory always, with affection, and a modicum of bitter-sweet nostalgia. Thus, in the end, this memento — this collective reminiscence — of gilded youth: my own, and that of the British horror film in bloom.
First, a word about the British Board of Film Censors (as it was called during Hammer Film Productions’s period of operations). Since this book was published in 1996, examining, for the first time, Hammer Film Productions’s relationship with the BBFC in some detail, much has been expanded upon elsewhere about the company’s often fraught dealings with the Board.
Indeed, it would be true to say that had it not been for the many and various interventions of Board secretaries (notably John Trevelyan, who joined in 1951 after a career in education), Hammer Film Productions’s product — perhaps even its entire history — might have turned out very differently.
However, it is all too easy at this remove, and with lack of context, to view the demands made upon Hammer Film Productions by the BBFC as archaic — arcane, even, when it came to the application of particular principles of censorship. But it should be remembered that at a time of unprecedented liberalization of the arts, the BBFC was acting, for the most part, to stave off what it perceived to be the potential for outrage in certain sectors of British society.
Such outrage was manifested against other areas of the arts during the 1960s, and had the Board not acted in the way that it did — mediating between the outraged and the studios and deflecting the push for censure — legislation almost certainly would have been introduced to stem the excesses of horror film producers.
The desire on the part of some to bring films into the remit of the Obscene Publications Act (1959) was real and permanently threatening; only the Board stood between the crude commercial interests of filmmakers and the prospect of legal control over the medium. (Such legislation was subsequently enacted against films on videocassette in 1984, more than two decades after Hammer’s most significant confrontations with the British censor.)
This is not to say that the actions, or attitudes, of the BBFC in relation to Hammer Film Productions were at all times altruistic — to the contrary, they often betrayed the same narrow-minded prejudices from which invariably it was at pains to protect the industry.
And while it would profess to keep pace with changes in public opinion, it could be as guilty as any other reactionary element of society of actively delaying the progress of such change. It was, like Hammer Film Productions itself, subject to the whims and tastes of its own employees — “examiners,” in the Board’s case — and the very act of creation of a censor board is always something of a self-fulfilling prophecy: notionally censorable material then has to be found or its very existence can be called into question.
For all that, and while the prohibitions placed on Hammer Film Production by the BBFC might seem curious (if not downright inexplicable) to those who have grown up with the “anything goes” attitude of the horror film producers of today, the fact remains that much of what Hammer Film Productions sought to introduce into its films in the fifties and sixties, in terms of themes, plot points, and individual sequences and shots, was simply unacceptable in the climate of the times.
It is fallacious to imagine that had it not been for the BBFC, Hammer Film Productions’s horrors might have taken on stronger form. The opposite is the case: they might have taken no form at all — instead, they might have been legislated out of existence, and the courts would have become the final arbiters of what was and was not fit for British screens.
No one who lived through this turbulent time for the arts, in general, would have considered that the preferable alternative. As to the idea that America, in the same period, took a more liberal view of Hammer Film Productions’s output — the truth is that the films were cut every bit as drastically in the United States of America as they were in Britain; they were different cuts, is all.
The cinema of Hammer Film Productions was one of castles and crypts, of blushing virgins and blood-lusting vampires, of fanatical scientists and rapacious aristocrats, of ascetic savants, and of vengeful spirits from beyond the grave.
It was a cinema rich in opulent décor and steeped in romantic extravagance, and it lay in direct line of descent from the literary tradition established by the more morbid fancies of Horace Walpole, Charles Dickens, and M. R. James. From Wilkie Collins’s ‘The Woman in White’ (1860) to Susan Hill’s ‘The Woman in Black’ (1986), the wheel turns full circle. Yet despite a total of 157 feature films and a Queen’s Award to Industry to its credit, no full-length biography of the ‘House that Horror Built’ existed before this one.
In its original form, this chronicle aimed to correct that omission and, in so doing, to provide insight into a thematic collective which has proved to be both unique in British cinema and singularly influential on fantasy cinema throughout the world.
Now in this greatly expanded revision, much information has been appended that was unavailable to me in 1996, some small errors of fact have been corrected, and the text as a whole has been liberally seasoned with further revealing details about the company’s colourful history.
All of this adds weight to the claim in the first edition that what follows is the untold story of the modern Prometheans who brought “Hammer Horror” into being.
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The Eyes of the Dragon
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
The Kingdom of Delain is at stake when King Roland is murdered and his son and rightful heir, Peter, is framed for the crime. Plotting against him is the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. Yet with every plan there are holes - like Thomas's terrible secret. And the determined Prince Peter, who is planning a daring escape from his imprisonment.
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By jston on 03-19-16
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Reviewed: 06-28-19
This was my 1st Stephen King book & it will always be my favorite.
Fantastic performance by Bronson Pinchot.
Alien: Echo
By: Mira Grant
Narrated by: Kate Marcin
Olivia and her twin sister, Viola, have been dragged around the universe for as long as they can remember. Their parents, both xenobiologists, are always in high demand for their research into obscure alien biology. Just settled on a new colony world, they discover an alien threat unlike anything they’ve ever seen. And suddenly, the sisters’ world is ripped apart. On the run from terrifying aliens, Olivia’s knowledge of xenobiology and determination to protect her sister are her only weapons as the colony collapses into chaos.
Truly cringe worthy and not in the traditional alien manner
By zack Smitley on 05-16-19
Too YA for me/Lackluster narration
When I started this book, I was unsure how someone could/would write a YA novel set in the ALIEN universe. After listening, I now know the answer to that question and it's unsuccessfully.
I'm a HUGE fan of the ALIEN series (books & movies) and I'm a fan of Mira Grant's other series' Newsflesh & Parasitology, but this book did absolutely nothing for me. It's too YA to be an ALIEN book and it's also not thrilling enough to be an ALIEN book. Obviously, since it's YA, there is very little graphic violence - it's all assumed or overheard by the characters, it's never described in any detail - which is great for a YA book but not for a book in the ALIEN series. Also, it was just too "juvenile" for me. I know it's YA, but I've also read Harry Potter and the Hunger Games and the Divergent series, among others. Those were YA but definitely not juvenile in the way this book is. There's just too much "teen hormone drama" for me. The storyline for pretty much the entire 1st half of the book is taken up by the main character pining away over a classmate - no Xenos to be found! And when they do finally show up, it's all just so BLAH!
If all that isn't bad enough, the narration could have been better. Throughout the entire book, it was very difficult to tell the difference between a character's inner thoughts and actual spoken dialog. For most of the book, I was unsure if the characters were actually speaking out loud to each other or just in their own heads. There was no differentiation in the narrator's inflection. It was extremely distracting and kept taking me out of the (weak to begin with) story.
Overall, I was completely underwhelmed.
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The Rise of the Black Centipede
By: Chuck Miller
Narrated by: Chris Grall
The first volume in an epic tale of heroes, villains, murder, and madness. Follow the birth and growth of one of the strangest characters in new pulp fiction to date, The Black Centipede, as created by Chuck Miller!
More pulp than an unfiltered glass of OJ
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Audiobook was provided for review by the narrator.
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I was given this book in exchange for an honest review. Honestly, I'm not a fan of this particular genre. I tried, but I just could not get into this book. That's not to say it was bad or good, just that I didn't particularly care for it. I know this is a very unhelpful review, but there it is.
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How this pharmacist's refugee experience turned her into an activist
The pharmacy co-owner has come a long way since fleeing Cambodia
By Heather Saxena
Pharmacist Veronica Nou can’t say for sure where she was born.
Veronica Nou. Photo: Matt King
Her family were fleeing Cambodia after it became clear their lives were in danger after the Vietnamese occupation.
“Technically speaking, I don’t know when or where I was born,” says the proprietor of two Sydney pharmacies.
“I was born in the middle of my parents trying to get away from Cambodia to Thailand in 1980.”
By the time Ms Nou and her parents fled, nearly every one of the 70 people in her extended family had been killed by the Khmer Rouge.
On her mother’s side, only her grandmother, an aunt and uncle survived. Together they fled for a refugee camp in Thailand.
Ms Nou’s father was a trainee neurosurgeon who had to hide his identity during the Khmer Rouge occupation, as the family were well-known supporters of the previous government.
When the Vietnamese took over, he was “lulled into a false sense of security” and began training others to help treat the overwhelming number of people in need for urgent medical care.
His efforts were not appreciated by the Vietnamese regime. Each member of her father’s staff was assigned a soldier, who was ordered to follow them around at all times. One day, the soldiers received orders to execute their charges.
Ms Nou’s father was not there at the time, and the family managed to flee.
They eventually reached Australia via New Zealand, but they were living in abject poverty, even after Ms Nou’s father successfully repeated his medical training and became a GP.
They moved to Sydney in 1991. Ms Nou’s father practised from home, and the family all slept in a single bedroom.
Ms Nou’s academic prowess earned her a scholarship at a private girl’s school, although the family were still “incredibly dirt poor”,
she says.
“In four years of going to that school, I literally never changed my school shoes. I wore the same shoes from year 7 to year 10. We just couldn’t afford to change them,” she recalls.
But over time things improved.
Ms Nou now co-owns the Morris Care & Advice Pharmacy in Oxley Park and is sole proprietor of the Colyton Centre Pharmacy
in Colyton.
But she is acutely aware that not all refugees have a doctor for a father and get to enjoy the same opportunities she did.
So when comments about Nauru and “queue jumper” asylum-seekers started popping up on the news feed of her pharmacy’s Facebook page, she felt compelled to respond.
“It bothers me to hear things that are said which I know to be blatantly false.”
Ms Nou received some backlash, with some people online accusing her of hating Christians and trying to “bring terrorists into the country”.
Some threatened to call the pharmacy “and let your boss know what you are up to”.
“I’d say, ‘yes, go ahead, here is the phone number, be my guest.’”
But Ms Nou does not confine her activism to social media.
She now spends at least two hours a day providing practical help as a national convenor for Mums 4 Refugees, which sprang up from a playgroup where the mums just wanted to do some good.
They started by inviting parents from a refugee background to come along and practise their English.
The group now has more than 38,000 Facebook members. Working groups in capital cities and regional areas provide practical help to refugees, such as furniture and food vouchers and information on public transport. Members also lobby for political change, such as getting kids on Nauru out of detention.
An important part of Ms Nou’s work is spreading the message that refugees are not a threat and supporting them is the best way to promote harmony.
Her pharmacy has also donated to the Season4Justice campaign run by Mums 4 Refugees over the last two Christmas–New Year periods.
Each campaign raised around $140,000 to help fund lawyers from law firm the National Justice Project, who take legal action to get the Federal Government to review decisions involving detainees, says Ms Nou.
“It looks like we will be doing it a third year running; the difference they have made is truly invaluable.
“It’s amazing the number of cases that don’t need to even go into court. Literally, you’ll be at the door of the courthouse and they’ll give
in. But you have to take them that far and that’s expensive.”
The case that helped drive the first Season4Justice campaign, and one that particularly affected Ms Nou, involved a boy who broke his arm in detention. Legal action was needed to secure his transport to Australia to have plates inserted.
“A year later, his hand had become deformed; he couldn’t flex fingers,” says Ms Nou.
A second court case was necessary to ensure the plates were removed, despite clinical practice dictating this should be done around six months after surgery.
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David C. Krock
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Mr. Krock graduated from the University of Toledo College of Law in 1982 where he was a member of the law review. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association. He is an Ohio Certified Public Accountant (non-practicing) and was formerly a tax senior at Arthur Young & Co.
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Sheryl O'Loughlin Biography
(July 2018) In 2017, Sheryl O'Loughlin introduced her first book, Killing It: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Head Without Losing Your Heart. The book has garnered attention from many media outlets, including Fortune, Conscious Company, Inc., Forbes and the Huffington Post.
Sheryl is the CEO of REBBL, the first plant-based, super herb adaptogen beverage company. In partnership with Not for Sale, a non-profit dedicated to eliminating human trafficking, REBBL works to create regenerative and just supply chains. At REBBL, Sheryl leads the development of a new beverage that uses ancient wisdom confirmed by science to help modern-day, busy people adapt to stress.
Earlier in her career, Sheryl served as the CEO of Clif Bar and Company. There, she led the concept development and introduction of Luna, the first whole nutrition bar for women, which became a $70 million business in three years and continues to be a core brand in the Clif Bar and Company portfolio. She then went on to co-found and serve as CEO for Plum, Inc., a healthy, organic food company that aims to nourish kids “from the high chair to the lunch box.” In 2013, Plum was successfully sold to Campbell Soup Company.
Following her time at Plum, Sheryl was the executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and she held a faculty position at Sonoma State University, where she taught hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs and other professionals.
Sheryl currently serves on the board of directors for Once Upon a Farm, an organic family food company. She is an advisory board member of The Harvest Summit, an annual gathering of innovators working to solve the biggest world challenges, and an advisor to Conscious Capitalism-The Global Diversity and Inclusion Initiative. She is a member of the Forbes San Francisco Business Council and One Step Closer to a Sustainable Community (OSC2,) whose mission is to address the toughest sustainability problems by building new regenerative businesses. In OSC2, she co-leads a diversity, equity and inclusion initiative. Previous boards include Zuke’s, thinkThin, Sugar Bowl Bakery and Gardein.
Sheryl earned her Bachelor of Business Administration from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and her Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She lives in Santa Rosa with her husband, Patrick, and their two sons.
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50 Cent Defends DJ Mister Cee After Controversial Arrest
4/6/2011 by Jason Lipshutz
The hip-hop gossip mill went into overtime this past weekend when Mister Cee, a veteran hip-hop producer (Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ready To Die") and DJ at New York's Hot 97, was arrested for misdemeanor public lewdness and indecent exposure. According to a police report published by the Smoking Gun, Mister Cee (real name: Calvin Lebrun) was caught performing a sex act with a 20-year-old male in a car in Manhattan.
Although the news has surprised many -- and even resulted in some throwing homophobic slurs his way -- one of New York's biggest rappers, 50 Cent, is defending Mister Cee and saying that he would "make him my DJ any day."
"It's only entertaining because he means that much to hip-hop culture," 50 Cent tells Hot 97 personality Miss Info in an audio clip posted on her blog. "I recognize Mister Cee as the guy who offered us Biggie, so he means that much to the culture. And a lot of the kids that hear the radio don't see him the same way."
50 Cent says that he respects Mister Cee so much that he has played each of his full-length albums for the DJ before they were released. He also believes that the arrest shouldn't slow down Cee from doing what he does best.
"Who is to judge you when there's an audience -- that is probably one of the strongest audiences, if you look at Lady Gaga's career -- that says that that's fine?" says 50, speaking about the gay community. "If you say it's not fine, you're gonna get attacked. You're gonna write apology notes."
In her blog post, Miss Info writes that video of the 50 Cent interview is coming soon.
What do you think of 50 Cent's reaction to Mister Cee's arrest? Sound off in the comments.
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Chronicles Of Fire
by J.P. McneillJ.P. Mcneill
Jake Wadsworth had never heard of The Elementals. He appeared to be an ordinary seventeen-year-old who attended Greenville High School, had a girlfriend, and was captain of the fencing team, but what Jake didn't know was that he himself is an Elemental. He is able to create and control fire. The only person who knows the truth is his mother, but Jake has never met her.
Jake learns the startling truth on his eighteenth birthday when he is given a scroll, which was discovered with him when he was found abandoned as an infant. The scroll warns of an ancient cult, known as the Order. Eighteen years previous, the Order had successfully murdered all of the Elementals... or so they thought. Jake, is the only one that remains.
Now Jake is all that stands in the way of the Order's evil scheme to resurrect their dark mistress from her ancient prison.
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Rise of the Elementals
By J.P. McNeill
Copyright © 2011 J.P. McNeill
Grandpa stood at my door. His mouth was moving, but I couldn't hear any words coming out. I could only hear the monotonous voice in my headphones. I pulled them off. "What's up?" I asked.
"Whatcha listening to?"
"Just a book for school."
Grandpa rolled his eyes. "You know, back in my day, we actually read the books instead of having someone read them to us."
"Didn't you also walk five miles to school, up-hill both ways?"
Grandpa chuckled at my remark. "That's right. Just like you're going to be. In five more minutes."
I looked at the small clock sitting on my dresser and realized that he was right. "Crap it's 7:30 already?"
"You got it. I came to tell you that Ben called and said he would be here in a few minutes." With that, he turned and left my room. I could hear his heavy work boots announcing his presence with every step down the hall towards the kitchen. I tossed my iPod in my pack and darted down the hall. Grandpa and Grandma were sitting at the small metal folding table in the center of the kitchen, each with a steaming hot cup of coffee, focusing intently on the seven, small wooden tiles sitting in a rack in front of them; each tile had a letter on it. The game of Scrabble had been a favorite past time for them since before I was born. Grandma always won.
I had asked my grandfather about this when I had been younger. With a hearty laugh and a twinkle in his eye, he told me "It's better to lose to her in a game and let her think she won, than to beat her and have her sore at me for the rest of the day." That was my grandfather, Mr. Chivalry.
"Well, good morning, Jake!" my grandmother sang in her raspy voice, her eyes never breaking the concentration from her game pieces.
"Good morning," I replied.
"MAP" Grandpa announced, in triumph. "That's double word score, which is fourteen points." He continued, obviously very pleased with himself.
"Nice play," my grandmother said, not even phased. "You better get going, kiddo, or you and Ben will be late, tell Ben we said hello."
"I will," I promised as I headed out the door, grabbing my old letterman jacket from the pegs holding it suspended by the door. As I was slipping on my sneakers, I heard my grandmother shout, "ZIPPER!" I wheeled around in enough time to see my grandfather's face of victory disappear into a face of despair.
"Ha-ha, that's a triple letter score and a double word score on a Z that's a total of 78 points." Grandpa just gave me a reassuring look and then winked at me."
"See you later," I called as I headed out the door.
"Bye. Love you," they called in unison.
"Ditto, I'll see you tonight."
"Hey man, hurry up or we are going to be late," Ben called from his yellow Mustang. It had been a sweet-sixteen birthday present from his parents, and what a birthday gift it had been! Within the first week of receiving the car, Ben had been pulled over and ticketed for speeding. He had been clocked going thirty over in a sixty-five zone. Of course his parents got him out of trouble and footed the bill.
"I don't think that is possible, not the way you drive."
Ben throttled the engine in agreement. It was only a five-minute drive to the school when Ben was behind the wheel. I threw my backpack and duffle bag into the back seat of the car and got in. No more than a second from the moment the door was closed we had taken off down the street. "So, are you ready for practice today?"
"You don't have a chance, if that's what you're asking."
"I don't think you're going to beat me," Ben was unable to hide the anticipation in his voice. "My instructor taught me a new series of moves which should keep you on the defensive, allowing me to obliterate you."
I wasn't going to worry about it; Ben was without a doubt one of the best fencers on the team. His parents had hired a former Olympic trainer to assist him in his technique, but he still couldn't touch me.
We arrived at school five minutes before the morning bell rang and headed off to our separate classes. Probability and Statistics was my first class of the day, and it felt like a trip to the dentist. Mrs. Craven, the teacher, was a woman of small stature; she had a voice that could shatter glass. Her high-pitched shrill reminded me of nails on a chalkboard.
"Everyone, take your seats," The Craven, as the student body had nicknamed her, screeched. I grudgingly moved to my desk. Mathematics was my Achilles heel and as a senior I was required to take an elective math course. When Ben had selected calculus, I thought he had finally gone over the edge. I had picked probability and statistics, even though it was math, I had to admit that it kept me interested. For the past week we had been learning about the probability of receiving a high card or a low card in the game of blackjack.
"How are you?" Ellen asked.
"I'm good," I replied in a whisper so I wouldn't draw The Craven's attention.
"So you ready for the match?" I could barely hear Ellen over the shrieking of Mrs. Craven describing the odds of cards dealt in poker.
"I think so." In truth I hadn't given much thought to tomorrow's fencing match against the Littleton Knights.
"What do you mean, you think so?" The question was loud enough that it caught The Craven's attention.
"Do I need to separate you two?" Mrs. Craven asked.
"No, Mrs. Craven," I quickly replied. "Ellen had asked me to explain the rules of poker to her." I lied.
Mrs. Craven stared at each of us for a moment, she wasn't buying it. "Ms. Marks, there is a diagram on the back of the handout that lists the hands in poker,"
"That was close." Ellen whispered.
For the rest of the class period, Ellen and I sat, listening to the odds of receiving specific hands in poker. When bell finally sounded, Ellen and I quickly rushed out of the room to meet up with Ben by our lockers.
"We've been practicing for the past two months for this match and you are with out a doubt the best with the épée and you say you "think" you're ready!"
"I'm not the best ... and besides you mop me up with the saber every time." Her eyes lit up at the compliment. It was true. When it came to the curved, dull, slashing weapon. I was mincemeat before her. Ellen was the only girl on the team, but she held up her end. The team hated it when the coach paired them up to spar with her because it meant that when they lost, they would be the targets of ragging until a new person fell before her blade.
"Hey guys," Ben shouted over the roar of lockers slamming and conversations of hundreds of students at Cavern High. Ellen and I snaked our way through the crowd to where Ben stood. "You two look cute enough to be a couple."
Ellen thrust a sharp jab into Ben's right shoulder. "Ouch, okay, I was just kidding," Ellen just shot him a wicked look. The three of us had been friends since freshman year. We spent so much time together, both fencing and hanging around at Ben's "Estate," as we called it, that the town had dubbed us the three musketeers.
"So, Ben thinks that he's going to beat me in practice today."
"You have a better chance of sprouting wings and flying," Ellen choked out in between laughs. "You haven't even scored more than four points on Jake in the last twelve bouts,"
"I guess it'll be a pretty good show when I beat him, then," Ben snapped. Ellen's comment had obviously struck a nerve.
"I'm just kidding, Ben. I'm sure it'll be a good show."
The four-minute warning bell suddenly sounded over the hysteria. "Well, I'll see you two in lunch." I snatched my government book and homework and tossed it into my backpack.
"Lunch, my favorite class!" Ben said.
"Yeah, we'll see you later." Ellen began pushing Ben towards their Spanish class. "Don't think I haven't forgotten about your comment, Ben. Tonight it's going to be just you and me at practice." I couldn't help imagining the look on Ben's face after she had mopped the floor with him in front of the rest of the team.
When the lunch bell finally rang, I was relieved. Government class was normally interesting; but today Mr. Thompson forced the entire class to watch "School House Rock" and sing the "I'm just a Bill" song.
When I got to the cafeteria, I began looking around for Ben and Ellen. There wasn't a trace of them anywhere. That wasn't unusual. Ms. Kensington, the Spanish teacher, often wouldn't let certain students leave the classroom until they had described a picture or some object in the room entirely in Spanish; knowing Ben, that could take a while.
I decided to just get my food and meet Ben and Ellen at our usual table.
"Hey, Jake, you ready for the match Friday?" I turned around to see Cory Walker, a freshman of small stature, both physically and socially. His appearance didn't help any. Cory was a military brat and it showed. He wore thick, military issue glasses that gave him the appearance of a geek, his flat top haircut made his head look like a square.
I was annoyed with the topic. "Sure." I hoped the conversation about the competition would just end there, but it didn't.
"There's going to be, like a dozen teams there, including the Knights. The Knights are the number one ranked team in the state." Cory rattled on.
"It's no big deal," It wasn't that I was overconfident in myself, I just didn't care. I had other things on my mind. Homecoming was quickly approaching and I still hadn't worked up the courage to ask Ellen. I bought my burger and fries and headed over to the lunch table. Cory trailed behind.
By the time I reached the table, Ben and Ellen had arrived. Ben's face burned with frustration; and by the look of Ellen's terrible attempt to contain her laughter, I could tell that Ben had a difficult time with Ms. Kensington in Spanish.
"How can you expect me to know the capital of Mexico?" Ben asked. "Do I look like I live in Mexico?"
At this point Ellen lost control and started rolling with laughter. "I even told you the answer," she said. At this point she was on the verge of tears.
"No, you just said a city in Mexico," his face was now a bright shade of red. I was having a hard time keeping myself from laughing. Cory was completely lost. A blank look of frustration showed on his face.
"What's so funny?" Cory finally asked.
"I had told Ben the answer was Mexico City, but in Spanish when directly translated, it comes out to be the city of Mexico, and it took Ben a whole five minutes to figure it out," Ellen managed to stammer in between laughs.
"Yeah, and as I sat there trying to figure it out, Ms Kensington and Ellen just sat there laughing uncontrollably at me," At that point both Cory and I lost it and started laughing as well. "We'll see who's laughing at practice tonight," Ben announced. Cory's face suddenly turned sheet-white and grim, thinking about the last time he had gone toe to toe with the big senior. It was now Ben who enjoyed a good laugh.
Lunch carried on in this fashion until the sound of the bell. Ben, Ellen, and I said our goodbyes to Cory and headed to our next class.
"See you at practice, Squirt," Ben had given Cory the nickname after his first match. Each time Cory had tried to lunge to strike Ben in practice, he had to raise his arm over his head to come even close to hitting Ben on the chest.
"Hey, Ben, could you let Cory at least get one hit on you today in practice? I think it would really make him feel better about this coming match if he thought that he could get a point on you." Ben's smile vanished.
"Come on, Jake, don't ask me to do that, Why don't you do it?"
"Because if Cory scored on Jake, everyone would know that Jake did it on purpose," Ellen said. Ben, seeing the reasoning in the argument, dropped the subject. I didn't have to ask for confirmation if he would do it. I could see in his eyes that he thought it was a good idea as well.
"If you do it, Jake might let you score on him once." I could see the seriousness return to Ben's face.
"You better not do that to me, Jake! If I get a point off you, I want to earn it."
"I won't," So much for that idea; Ben really knew me too well.
"Come on, take your seats," Mr. Harrison said as he ushered stragglers to their seats. "Ben, stop making faces or it's going to stick that way,"
Somehow Mr. Harrison had seen Ben reenacting my tragic downfall at the tip of his sword for Ellen's and my own amusement. Ben froze at the comment, and the entire class burst into laughter. I don't know how he did it, but I swear if anyone had eyes in the back of his head, it was Mr. Harrison.
Mr. Harrison was without a doubt my favorite teacher. He had been my English teacher since I was a freshman; and ever since that year, I requested every class I could with him. Mr. Harrison was possibly the best-dressed teacher in all of Cavern High school and I don't think I could remember a time that he wasn't wearing his tweed jacket.
"All right class, now if we can avoid any more distractions," he paused and looked at Ben for a few moments before continuing. "... we can get started." For the rest of the class period Mr. Harrison described Homer's The Iliad. He personified me as Achilles, Ben as Hector, and Ellen as a servant girl with whom Achilles falls in love with and who later causes his downfall. When Mr. Harrison mentioned us as a couple, Ellen gave me an uneasy glance and then rolled her eyes.
Great, I thought to myself. So much for asking her to homecoming. At the sound of the bell, the school day officially ended for the three of us. Our fourth block of instruction was a study hall.
"Let's get ready to rumble," Ellen said. She was grinning from ear to ear. Our coach had convinced the school to allow the three of us the extra time during our study hall to warm up before practice. "I'll see you two ladies on the strip," challenged Ellen as she walked of to the girl's locker room.
Ben looked directly at me. "I am so dead,"
"Yes, yes you are," I agreed.
"En Garde," Ellen said.
Even with all the protective clothing that he worn, I was sure that Ben was shaking. When it came to fencing with sabers, Ellen was a force to be reckoned with.
"Come on Ellen! It wasn't that big of a deal, was it?"
Ellen didn't answer Ben. In a lightning fast series of movements, she had lunged and struck Ben. The score was fourteen strikes to three, favoring Ellen, of course.
"Touché," I announced.
Ben stumbled a couple paces back and ripped off his mask. Ben's face was a brilliant shade of red. "Dude, she's killing me."
"No, you still have a chance."
Ben didn't seem to find my words comforting. Ellen had complete control, and she knew it. Ellen removed her mask and shook out her brown hair and brushed it over her shoulder. There were no signs of exertion or even rapid breathing. If she was tired, she was hiding it like a pro.
"You surrender?"
"You're better than I remember."
"Quit changing the subject. Do you surrender or do we continue?"
This was killing Ben. He was already dead; she was just poking him with a stick now. I couldn't help but laugh.
Ben glared back at me. Several moments passed, Ben's stare was never broken. Abruptly, his expression changed, he was smiling.
Why is he smiling? The answer to my question was something I could have lived without.
"All right, I'll surrender to you, but on one condition."
"You are hardly in any position to be setting terms, but I'm feeling somewhat merciful today. What are your conditions?"
"Just let me speak with Jake first before I tell you." Ben put his arm around my shoulder and we walked a couple paces out of hearing distance. "All right, Jake. The terms are these: you have to duel Ellen with any weapon of her choice. First to three hits wins. You have to also make the wager that if you win, Ellen will attend homecoming with you."
"Why would I agree? It's your butt in the sling, remember?"
"Cause, I'm tired of watching your petty attempts to ask her to the dance. I don't get it. You'll face fencing champions without a moment's hesitation; but when it comes to asking a girl to a simple dance, you're more afraid than a cat is of water. Either ask her or I am going to tell her."
He had me. Ben had the perfect blackmail. My first thought was how long my sentence in prison would be after I killed him.
"Jake, are you okay?"
I took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
"We'll talk about this later, both on the strip and off it!" I stormed off towards Ellen. I saw no other alternative to what I was being forced to do. Ben had won.
Excerpted from Chronicles of Fire by J.P. McNeill Copyright © 2011 by J.P. McNeill. Excerpted by permission of AuthorHouse. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Prologue....................ix
Chapter One The Musketeers....................1
Chapter Two Practice....................9
Chapter Three The Match....................17
Chapter Four Darkness....................29
Chapter Five Dr. Roan Orbit....................39
Chapter Six The Order of Darkness....................47
Chapter Seven Homecoming....................55
Chapter Eight Birthday....................65
Chapter Nine Truth....................75
Chapter Ten Fire and Snow....................85
Chapter Eleven Elemental....................99
Chapter Twelve Final Farewell....................109
Chapter Thirteen In Plain Sight....................115
Chapter Fourteen The Librarian....................127
Chapter Fifteen An End....................137
Chapter Sixteen Lost Love....................143
Chapter Seventeen Taken....................149
Chapter Eighteen Desperate Attempt....................159
Chapter Nineteen Elemental Stones....................167
Chapter Twenty Reunion....................173
Chapter Twenty-One Avenging the Fallen....................181
Chapter Twenty-Two Rise of the Elementals....................187
Chapter Twenty-Three Epilogue....................197
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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 5: The Last Hieroglyph: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 5
by Clark Ashton SmithClark Ashton Smith
The fifth of five volumes collecting the complete stories of renowned “weird fiction” author Clark Ashton Smith.
“None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer.” H. P. Lovecraft
Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape “weird fiction” in the early twentieth century, alongside contemporaries H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, drawing upon his background in poetry to convey an unparalleled richness of imagination and expression in his stories of the bizarre and fantastical.
The Collected Fantasies series presents all of Smith’s fiction chronologically. Authorized by the author’s estate and endorsed by Arkham House, the stories in this series are accompanied by detailed background notes from editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, who in preparation for this collection meticulously compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s own notes and letters. Their efforts have resulted in the most definitive and complete collection of the author’s work to date.
The Last Hieroglyph is the fifth of five volumes collecting all of Clark Ashton Smith’s tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. It includes all of his stories from "The Dark Age" (1933) to "The Dart of Rasasfa" (1961).
Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Series , #5
The fifth and final volume in this definitive collection (following Red World of Polaris and The Maze of the Enchanter) reveals Smith in the twilight of his career. As the editors note, Smith, "A stranger in a world he never made nor lived in happily or comfortably," excelled at creating vivid, phantasmagorical worlds, from the rugged Hyperboria of "The Seven Geases" to the lush post-apocalyptic setting of "The Dark Age." Ordered chronologically as they were composed, these works also reveal recurring themes, like deadly obsession in "The Treader of the Dust," "The Garden of Adompha," and "Nemesis of the Unfinished." Heroes strive but fail against power-hungry sorcerers in "The Death of Malygris," "The Seven Geases," and "Necromancy in Naat." Alternate worlds claim the unwary in "The Primal City," "Symposium of the Gorgon," and "The Great God Awto," while "The Chain of Aforgomon," "Double Cosmos," and the title story draw readers into recursive realities worthy of Borges. Readers seeking dense, ornate fantasies will enjoy these classic stories knit from flickering shadows, dark secrets, and twisted magic.
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I heartily endorse this fifth and last volume of the series that collects Smith's fiction and present it in the order of composition. Fans of Smith and those who have the rest of the series will definitely want it.Those who are not Smith fans, though, will want to pass this one up. A Rendezvous in Averoigne: The Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith is a better introduction to Smith. This volume covers a much longer period of time than the others in the series. Its first story was finished in May 1933 and its last in July 1961. That period saw some of his best work but also a marked drop in the quantity and quality of his work after February 1935. Perhaps the demands of caring for his aging parents explain this decline or perhaps their death mitigated the need to sell fiction or the escape writing may have offered Smith.Smith of beautiful, poetic prose is here as are entries in his Hyperborean and Zothique series. Because the quality varies so much after 1935 with some stories really only of interest to Smith completists, I won't review each story.The stories, in order, are:"The Dark Age" (1933), gloomy post-apocalypse story"The Death of Malygris" (1933), good installment in his Atlantean series"The Tomb-Spawn", (1933), stylish Zothique story"The Witchcraft of Ulua", (1933), amusing, erotic Zothique story"The Coming of the White Worm", (1933), haunting classic"The Seven Geases", (1933), tale of cosmic indifference"The Chain of Aforgomon", (1934), poetic story on the dangers of gaining a lost love"The Primal City", (1934), Lovecraft admired this tale of archaeological exploration"Xeethra", (1934), Zothique story of dissatisfaction"The Last Hieroglyph", (1934), a fine story about a not so competent astrologer"Necromancy in Naat", (1935), masterful, poetic Zothique story"The Treader of the Dust", (1935), Smith's contribution to the collection of blasphemous tomes"The Black Abbot of Puthuum", (1935), Zothique story of sexual predation"The Death of Ilalotha", (1937), Zothique story of poisonous sexual obsession"Mother of Toads", (1937), lewd and ghastly Averoigne story"The Garden of Adompha", (1937), Zothique tale with Smith at his grotesque, decadent, poetic best"The Great God Awto", (1937), Smith's faux-archaeological satire on the automobile"Strange Shadows", (1940), Unpoetic tale of a man who sees shadows revealing people's true nature"The Enchantress of Sylaire" (1940?), Smith's last Averoigne story"Double Cosmos", (1940), one of Smith's not entirely successful science fiction stories about an odd drug"Nemesis of the Unfinished", (1947), Smith's only true collaboration, about a writer confronting his unfinished stories"The Master of the Crabs", (1947), Zothique story about two sorcerers competing for a pirate's treasure"Morthylla", (1952), Zothique story about a man's love for a lamia"Schizoid Creator", (1952), the Devil gets psychoanalyzed"Monsters in the Night", (1953), one of Smith's most anthologized stories"Phoenix", (1953), Smith's last great story, a science fiction piece"The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles", (1957), last Hyperborean tale, a heist story"Symposium of the Gorgon", (1957), somewhat jokey story of Greek gods, Medusa, and cannibals"The Dart of Rasasfa", (1961), Smith's last and, unfortunately, not a very good story
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Thousands brave rain for Lord Mayor's Show
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Image caption Dr Andrew Parmley becomes the 689th Lord Mayor of London
Thousands of people braved the rain in London to watch the annual Lord Mayor's Show on Saturday.
The pageant, which is in its 801st year, saw about 7,000 people take part.
The procession marks the first public engagement of the new Lord Mayor, Andrew Parmley.
It sees the Lord Mayor travel from the Guildhall past St Paul's cathedral to the Royal Courts of Justice where he swears allegiance to the Crown.
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Image caption Participants of the Lord Mayor's Show parade down Ludgate Hill
Dr Parmley becomes the 689th Lord Mayor of London. He is currently principal of the private Harrodian School in Barnes, and has experience in the creative industries, education and music.
The Lord Mayor's Show began in 1215 as a river pageant on the Thames.
The show continued on the Thames for more than 400 years until the Corporation of London handed over responsibility for the tidal Thames to the Thames Conservancy in 1857.
The pageant involved members of the armed forces, while the London Fire Brigade took part in in the parade to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
The end of the day saw a fireworks display between Blackfriars and Waterloo bridges.
Magna Carta copy paraded at Lord Mayor's Show in London
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'Extreme concern' for missing man who may have had train ticket to Blackpool
Police are "extremely concerned" about a man who may have caught a train to Blackpool.
Officers have appealed for the public's help in finding Mark Miles, 49, from Cheshire.
He could be heading to the resort as officers "think he had a train ticket" to travel here, the force said.
Mr Miles was last seen in Runcorn on Monday.
He was described as white, with short grey hair, and was believed to have been wearing a black jacket, black trainers, and black shoes.
Information can be reported by calling 101 and quoting log number 883 of November 2.
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Big Merger Deals Signal Restored Confidence
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
A flurry of mergers in the last month suggest that the most senior ranks of corporate America may have a more optimistic outlook on the economy than some people thought.
The corner office is getting a bit more bullish about the economy.
While investors have been bidding up shares in the stock market for months, many chief executives and boards had privately remained skittish about their own businesses — until recently.
In a signal that confidence — and perhaps a bit of executive swagger — may be returning to the business world, two large mergers were announced on Monday, adding to a flurry of deals in the last month. First, Abbott Laboratories, the drug maker, agreed to acquire a unit of Solvay of Belgium for $6.6 billion, and then Xerox agreed to buy Affiliated Computer Services, an outsourcer, for $6.4 billion.
Neither merger compares in size to the double-digit billion-dollar deals that took place just two years ago at the height of the buyout boom.
But taken in the context of what has been a merger drought — in the wake of the financial crisis, deal-making is still off by more than 50 percent from last year — the transactions suggest that the most senior ranks of corporate America may now have a more optimistic outlook on the economy than some people thought.
“Will you see us move with a lot of acquisitions over this next year? You betcha,” John Chambers, the chief executive of Cisco Systems, said in a recent meeting. “Especially if it plays out economically the way that I think.”
For nearly two years, mergers plunged along with the markets as executives grappled with trying to understand how best to survive. At this time in 2007, $1.28 trillion in takeovers in the United States had been announced; so far this year, only $491.8 billion have been announced, according to Thomson Reuters.
And with stock prices fluctuating sharply after falling for many months until the spring, buyers were anxious about overpaying and sellers were nervous about shortchanging themselves. But as the markets have rebounded and leveled off, companies are more confident about their prospects, so they are dipping their toes into the deal waters. The takeovers, in turn, helped lift the stock market on Monday, which had stalled recently.
“The psychology has changed. This is sign that things have stabilized,” said Boon Sim, Credit Suisse’s head of mergers and acquisitions for the Americas, who suggested that deals were a lagging indicator to the stock market. “I don’t think the floodgates are opening up,” he continued, “but C.E.O.’s are now beginning to say, ‘If I don’t buy it now, it’s only going to get more expensive in the next 12 or 18 months.’ ”
What Wall Street hasn’t seen, of course, is the return of the biggest buyers in recent years — the private equity firms that propelled much of the merger mania during the debt-fueled bubble.
And that may be good news. The big deals announced recently are strategic deals, in which one company buys another to make it an integral part of its business, and they require the buyer to take on mounds of new borrowing to pay for the acquisition.
In contrast, many of the takeovers for the last five years were based on little more than financial engineering, with lax lenders providing low-interest debt to help private equity firms buy companies that they often planned to resell quickly in hopes of pocketing a fast profit. That has left many companies struggling to make interest payments, making it harder for them to invest in new products or more efficient manufacturing methods.
A number of those takeovers are already underwater and some have turned sour. Just one example: Simmons, the mattress maker, was bought by the private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, or THL, in 2003, largely with borrowed money. Last week, THL said that Simmons — whose immense debt burden from the takeover was hampering its prospects — would be put into bankruptcy proceedings and sold. But the sale price for Simmons is so low that bond investors will lose around $500 million.
At Xerox, Ursula M. Burns, the company’s chief executive, said that she pursued the deal for Affiliated Computer Services only because she finally felt more comfortable with the performance of her own business. “We’re confident that our base business will rebound when the economy does — and in Q2 saw the right trends in this direction,” she said. “So, all factors played to our favor. At the end of the day, in tough times, strong companies look to invest in their future.”
While the recent mergers may represent a positive sign for the economy, Alexander Roos, a partner at the Boston Consulting Group, is less inclined to believe that we are about to see a burst of activity. In a study to be published on Tuesday, he said, his analysis of a sample of companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index shows that about 20 percent are “predators,” ready to take on the risks of a deal, while another 20 percent are “prey.”
“We expect a window of opportunity offering attractive takeover prospects to open soon,” Mr. Roos said. “We have already seen some of our smarter clients making preparations in recent months.”
The greatest concentration of deal-making appears to be in the health care and technology sectors. Warner Chilcott made a $3.1 billion deal for Procter & Gamble’s drug business last month, for example, and Dell bought Perot Systems, a technology services company, for $3.9 billion. But deals are also being made in other sectors, like food; Kraft’s $16.7 billion unsolicited bid for Cadbury, which was rejected but remains a possibility, is the largest outstanding offer to date.
“If you’re healthy, it’s a great time to acquire inexpensively,” adds Ted Rouse, a head of Bain & Company’s global mergers and acquisitions practice. “But it’s an awful time for two weak companies to merge.”
While the return of corporate mergers may be a good sign for the economy, a bigger question may be whether it is such a good thing for companies. Most deals sound great at the time, but in the end, not all of them work out as well as planned.
Mr. Rouse said, “Before the recession, Bain’s research on M.&A. showed that approximately 55 percent of acquisitions failed to deliver expected shareholder returns after one year — worse than flipping a coin. The odds only get worse as the size of the acquisition increases and the target is further from the acquirer’s core business.”
Let’s hope the odds are better this time around.
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"The Biggest Loser" Season 10 Week 6 recap: Botch the vote
Jen Wielgus @jenwielgus
Oct 26, 2010 at 12:01 AM Oct 26, 2010 at 11:19 PM
Well, that didn't go well.
Having declared myself a staunch supporter of the Blue team on Season 10 of "The Biggest Loser," it kind of stunk to see every decision they made this week backfire.
In the case of the elimination vote, it seemed as if they didn't make a decision at all. They allowed themselves to get stuck in a tie and -- worst case scenario -- left their fate in the hands of the Black team.
That's the last thing viewers wanted to see, after all the ugly Black team drama of the last two weeks. We did not want to see Brendan, Frado and Patrick getting any more drunk with power.
But that's how it went, thanks to the Blue team's disorganization, miscalculation...OK, I'll say it: stupidity. Three Blue team votes went for Jessica -- whose measly 4-pound weight loss sent the team to the elimination room in the first place -- and three votes went for Adam -- a weight-loss machine who still had the 3-pound (and growing) trump card he earned in a challenge a few weeks back.
Take a wild stab at who the Black team chose to send home.
Yep. That's one less HUGE threat to the Black teamers. I guess it's also one less threat to the Blue teamers, but if Jessica and Lisa hope to hang around much longer, they'd better hope like hell that Mark, Jesse and Aaron don't have any bad weeks. And they'd better get their voting strategy straight from now on.
My reaction to Adam's elimination is softened by his amazing Transformation Moment -- he's down to 264 pounds and looks almost as hot as his college football-playing little brother. Clearly, he was ready and able to go home and kick ass on his own.
Still, I'm pissed the Black team won the weigh-in and got to kick Blue while they were down. I was totally digging how Blue was working together this week, and Black was acting like preschoolers fighting over Legos.
To explain the Blue team's second bad decision, we have to back up and explain this week's big twist.
Only one player's weight counted for each team this week, and that person was chosen by the opposing team. Blue picked Elizabeth, and Black picked Jessica. But because the Blue team won the challenge, they had the opportunity to block Black's decision and make them pick again. They turned down that opportunity, and it backfired.
Everyone except Jessica would have beaten Elizabeth at the weigh-in, and thus, the Black team would have gone to elimination instead.
Finally, Adam didn't use his 3-pound advantage coupon, which was a bad decision because if he had, he would have brought his weight loss to 16 pounds and beaten Mark for the highest percentage on the team -- immunity.
Sigh. Oh well. Let's get to the particulars.
WEIGH-IN: BLACK -- Only Elizabeth's weight counted (5 lbs.), but the rest of the team weighed in, too. Anna lost 3 pounds (286 to 283), Ada lost 4 pounds (215 to 211), Brendan lost 11 pounds (313 to 302) after losing 2 pounds last week, Patrick lost 9 pounds (346 to 337), Frado lost 14 pounds (308 to 294), and Elizabeth lost 5 pounds (218 to 213).
BLUE -- Only Jessica's weight counted (4 lbs.), but here's the rest: Jesse lost 9 (305 to 296), Mark lost 16 (352 to 336), Adam lost 13 (335 to 322), Lisa lost 8 (252 to 244), Aaron lost 9 (407 to 398) and Jessica lost 4 (248 to 244), despite needing to lose 5 to beat Elizabeth.
Jessica pointed out this was the first time she'd fallen below the 5-pound mark in her time on the ranch, saying, "It was just a bad week to have a bad week." Oops. I guess I should have included that in the Quotes of the Week. It's THE Quote of the Week.
FOOD CHALLENGE: Aided, only verbally, by celebrity chefs Curtis Stone (Blue) and Lorena Garcia (Black) -- they weren't allowed to actually touch the food -- certain members of each team had to prepare an appetizer, entree and dessert. Then, their teammates had to judge which dish they liked better, without knowing who prepared it.
The prize was a 10-second advantage at the physical challenge.
It was a tie, and for the tiebreaker, the teams had to guess the calorie count in their respective desserts. The Black team got caught up in arguing (of course) and it cost them. The Blue team's guess of 100 calories was 9 calories off, while the Black team's guess was off by 40 calories. Blue wins!
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE: A dragon boat race. Black vs. Blue, of course. Prize was a chance to block the other team's choice at the weigh-in.
The Blue team used every bit of its 10-second advantage and pulled off a big win.
And now for the Week 6 Bloggy Awards...
Pissing contest award: Brendan and Frado, who couldn't have a civil discussion during the food challenge and turned a calorie-guessing exercise into...well, a pissing contest. At one point, Jesse commented how he could hear them yelling curse words at each other across the Four Seasons dining room. Classy...
Burn those life vests! award: The Black team, which went bare-chested under their vests during the boat race. As Twitter pal @TVReviewProgram wrote, "There is WAY too much skin showing in the black team boat." Couldn't have said it better.
Conspiracy theory award: Brendan. Rick said in his "exit interview" last week that the way to tell if Brendan threw the Week 5 weigh-in was to look at his Week 6 number. His Week 6 number was 11, after pulling a 2 the week before. Justing throwing it out there, because I'd be remiss not to.
Bad driver award: Jessica. What, were you texting while steering that dragon boat? Ali was moved to say in her narration, "The Blue team is all over the map!"
Homesickness award: Lisa, who offered to go home for the second time in six weeks. I think it's time to just commit to this thing, because no one considers you a threat, and as the mom of a daughter with body image issues, you need to take advantage of all the help they can give you on the ranch.
Ashley Johnston Memorial Award: Frado, for -- what else? -- falling off the treadmill.
Morning Glory Award: Jesse, who snuck into Jessica's room to wake her up and get her down into the gym. At least that's all the cameras showed us. Heh heh.
Quotes of the Week: "Frado's a pain in the ass, man. He's like the Godfather. He's the master manipulator in the house." -- Jillian.
"It's do or die. And we're gonna do." -- Lisa, during the cooking challenge.
"Mother Fudger." -- Chef Curtis Stone, also during the cooking challenge.
"I'm a Latina woman who doesn't cook. That's a walking contradiction." -- Elizabeth. Don't worry, hon. I'm a woman who doesn't cook, and my in-laws think that makes me a freak of nature.
"What is WRONG with you two? You have the biggest egos in the house!" -- Ada, to Brendan and Frado.
"From now on, it's your fault!" -- Jillian, teaching Elizabeth to stop being a "survivor" of an abusive relationship with low self esteem and start being a fighter who takes control of her own life. I think we all can benefit from thinking this way, no matter our circumstances.
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This community college dropout went from working at Chick-fil-A to making $90,000 as a computer programmer after 6 months of 'coding bootcamp'
Nathan McAlone
Jul. 20, 2015, 4:35 PM
Google+/Jordan Collier
In 2012, something happened that would eventually push Jordan Collier from working at Chick-fil-A to a computer programming job that paid him $90,000 a year — he and his wife had a baby.
At the time Collier, now 22 years old, was making a half-hearted attempt at community college and just trying to pay the bills. He was studying nursing while working full time, but eventually dropped out of school without earning his associate degree. He had simply lost interest.
Collier had started working at Chick-fil-A because it provided a steady paycheck, but he knew he hated the food business. When people are hungry, they can get angry, he says. And though he needed to work to support his child, he wanted to provide for his family financially in a way Chick-fil-A just wouldn't allow. Collier was looking for a way out.
That's when he was approached by Alex Williams, a friend he'd met through martial arts in high school. Williams is a self-taught coder who has risen to the level of senior programmer at just 20 years old. Williams invited to pay for Collier's $250 ticket to Rocky Mountain Ruby, an annual Colorado conference for Ruby programmers.
"He knew it would change my life," Collier says. "He wanted to see my family happy and he knew it would impact us in a powerful way." Collier was blown away by what he saw at the conference. The programmers were so humble, and seemed willing to teach you anything if you wanted to learn. As Collier was driving away from the conference, he knew he would do whatever it took to be part of that community.
At first Collier considered a self-taught route, similar to Williams. Williams and his dad invited Collier to stay with their family in Arkansas, where he could wake up every day, coding from dusk till dawn, without the distractions of his family.
Collier discussed it with his wife, and though it would be tough, she agreed to support his coding journey for a year. Collier's wife is a ballerina and ballet teacher. "She took on a ton of extra hours," Collier says. And with his wife's blessing, Collier headed to Arkansas.
But he only lasted a month.
"It was very hard on me," he says. "I missed my family." So he decided to go back home and try another way. Collier had received an email about Galvanize Full Stack, a coding bootcamp that promises to turn students from novices into "full stack" developers in just six months. Galvanize reports 98% job placement rates and $73,000 exit salaries for its students.
10 of Collier's friends had applied for the program and not gotten in. It's a rigorous process and only one in eight applicants even gets an interview. "It's tough," Collier says.
But the truly tough part came after Collier was accepted, and faced the realities of a one and a half hour commute from his home in Colorado Springs to Denver, and a schedule that saw him starting class at 9 a.m. and going to bed at 2 a.m. Collier would drive down from Colorado Springs every Monday and stay with a teacher during the week, only returning to his home on weekends.
"Talk about breaking yourself," he chuckles. "It's the hardest thing I've ever done." But the hard work paid off, and before Collier had even left the program, he'd gotten a job offer from Allstate to make $90,000 a year helping build one of their projects with three other programmers.
His new employer was particularly impressed with Collier's experience in "partner programming," pairing a junior and senior developer, something Galvanize stresses. Knowing how to interact and communicate with other developers is increasingly necessary when coding in a business setting — contrary to the image of a programmer alone in a dark room tapping away at unending lines of code, Collier explains.
There's no doubt that Collier's story is inspiring, but how do you know if his path is right for you?
Collier thinks it's mostly tied to passion. It's probably not for you if "you don't love coding, and don't get excited about learning difficult things," he says. He thinks the ones who succeed are the ones that become obsessed when they begin to learn what code can actually do. "They'll cut out video games and everything just to get their hands on more code," he says. He counts himself among this group.
As for worrying about payment, though programs like Galvanize don't come cheap, there are financing options available. Collier says he paid $20,000 to $21,000 for the program, $18,000 to $19,000 of which was paid for with a loan from a company called Earnest. He says if he pays back his loan over the course of three years, it comes at around 8% per year, but that if he pays it back in one, it's only around 5%. Those terms are certainly not predatory, especially when you compare them to standard student loan interest rates.
And if you do decide to try to replicate a version of Collier's journey, he has one big piece of advice: Find a mentor. Alex Williams not only (literally) bought Collier his first ticket into the coding world, but also supported him any time he hit a speed bump and didn't have anyone else to turn to. "Having a human person instead of Google" is a huge help, Collier says. "And you need someone to cheer you on."
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DEATH OF EX-GB COACH
Former Great Britain coach Barry Merrick, who also coached the successful Leamington Spa team in the former men's National League, has died, aged 79.
Barry lived and worked in Leamington all his life and played for Leamington with the likes of Roger Hargreaves, Keith Tallet, Bob and Paul Jelfs, Jim Shekhdar, David Hunt, Colin Commander and John Staniland.
He took charge of GB in the early 1970s, travelling to Hungary to study coaching methods there. A strong GB squad, including players such as Martyn Thomas, Graham Bernard, Roddy Jones, skipper Terry Benstead, Andy Lench, Phil Howden and Jim Shekhdar, narrowly failed to qualify for the 1972 Olympics at a tournament in Munich, but went on to compete in the World Championships in Belgrade.
By the mid-1970s, Barry had developed the Leamington team (which included a youthful David Edwards, still playing in BWPL for Cheltenham Spartans) into one of the strongest in the country. They won the ASA KO title in 1975 and the following year finished runners-up in the National League as well as competing in the LEN Trophy in Athens.
The Leamington club eventually folded due to the closure of their home pool but Barry maintained an active interest in water polo, helping to coach at Warwick School and being instrumental in founding the Warwick club, who are new to BWPL this season.
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Amy Lynch
Amy Lynch is a veteran writer and editor specializing in design and decor, health and wellness, travel and culture. Her work has appeared on Brit + Co, Refinery29, The Hairpin and Collective Quarterly, just to name a few. Her background also includes work in content production for Fortune 50 brands, startups, and government agencies. Ms. Lynch lives, works, and plays in the weird, wild heart of Austin, TX.
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Home » Blog » New Process for Products: LEGO
New Process for Products: LEGO
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Late last year, I wrote a couple of posts about an emerging “new process for product“. I’m not claiming to have come up with the idea, or even to be the first to observe the phenomenon, but I wanted to bring it to the attention of the BPM community.
The basic idea of Kickstarter, and the like, is to raise commitment money from buyers before beginning the first production run. This works particularly well for niche manufactured products, which often require risk capital before demand is secure (in order to get a production run going, etc.).
It turns out even some of the big players can get in the game – though they can afford to go about it in a different way. Lego has released 2 products from its crowdsourced Cuusoo project.
That’s because of Cuusoo, Lego’s recently enhanced foray into crowdsourcing. Launched in Japan in 2008, but only opened to global beta this past October, Cuusoo invites users to submit–and vote for–ideas for new Lego sets. When an idea crosses the 10,000-vote threshold, it gets a formal internal review and a shot at production. If produced, the creator of the project will receive a 1% royalty on the net revenue from the set, not to mention serious bragging rights at the next BrickCon. The first Cuusoo project hit Japanese shelves almost a year ago–a limited-edition version of the Japanese deep sea submersible, the Shinkai 6500. The second, a Japanese asteroid reconnaissance spacecraft called the Hayabusa, is scheduled for release on March 2nd.
It looks like more products are on the way. Lego has had tools for designing projects available for some time (for example), so maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that it is creating its analog to “Thingiverse” and of course, letting the best ideas go to production. The main difference in the models – crowd-sourced vs. crowd-funded – is that it looks like “voting” is free in Lego’s crowd-sourced model, whereas in the crowd-funded model, voting is done when you commit dollars to the project.
Matt Kronsberg (of Fast Company) concludes:
From the outside these may almost look like two different companies at work: Industry Leader Lego is a blockbuster machine, with Friends, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings. Meanwhile “Quirky Startup Lego” expands the public’s notions of the brand with ReBrick, Architecture, Life of George, and Cuusoo. At the core though, they’re both motivated by the same two things; first, encouraging play and creative expression by as many people, in as many ways, as possible.
Perhaps this will be another proof point behind the “lean” concept as it applies to product design and development. Its still a bit early to call it a success, but given the success of other crowd-sourced and crowd-funded models, it seems like a shoe-in.
Somewhere the six-sigma guys have to be happy to see “Voice of the Customer” so explicitly integrated with a product design process, as it is essentially the start of it.
Tags: Kickstarter, Lego
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2015 Caloundra Music Festival
2015 Caloundra Music Festival, News
Get in FAST for Music Festival tickets If you’re planning on heading to this year’s Caloundra Music Festival and haven’t bought tickets yet, HOP TO IT ! Festival Director Richie Eyles said this Saturday was already a sell-out, but ticket…
A five-piece rare alternative/folk outfit, sticking to their southern stomp roots. Their journey is to develop and spread an Australian folk/roots sound, never to be pigeon holed. Fuelled by fiddle and strong rhythm their music is bound to invoke! An exciting year looms for The Settlement in 2015, with constant festival gigging, and the release of their debut album.
The Chontia Robinson Trio
"The Chontia Trio are a dynamic lineup that plays contemporary, acoustic folk, rock and blues. Chontia Robinson, Parris Macleod (Grand Piano) and Nik Davey (Double Bass) are the Chontia Robinson Trio. Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist Chontia is blessed with powerful edgy vocals. The trio have recently recorded and release there first album, "Silence Broken" Silence Broken is an album of beautifully crafted and emotive songs with masterful musicianship". The album is available through www.ihearmusic.com. Chontia has performed at many festivals throughout Australia including the last 3 Woodford festivals with Andrew Clermonts supper Club. Before arriving on the Sunshine Coast she was one of the hardest working and most booked solo performers in Sydney and the Central Coast. Chontia is fast becoming recognised as an extremely talented and exiting singer songwriter within the music industry. Here songs are delightfully written and convey a message of love,hope and unity. She has a stunning voice which is pitch perfect. She takes the audience on a journey with her amazing versatility and dynamics..... ..emotional and angelic pulling at heart strings through to her powerhouse songs,soulful, bluesy and infectious.
The David Flower Band
Australian musician with blues, funk, roots and reggae influences. His songwriting and performing ride on his catchy acoustic guitar feels and grooves along with his exciting dynamic vocals, harmonica hooks and a good dose of wah wah on top. Add some conga rhythms, violin, flute, drums, harmonies and its always a good time with the "Flower band" as they hit the stage in soulful style, entertaining and beautifully spontaneous with a fun and humorous banter between them. David has three releases to date and a new single. 2015 sees david touring from Tasmania to Black Mountain, Europe to Vietnam travelling with his songs high in rhythm and groove, a sound emanating coastal living in Australia and most of all good to dance to.
Mustered Courage
Mustered Courage’s steady rise and insatiable work ethic caught the attention of Lost Highway Records (Universal Music Australia) who went on to sign them to a worldwide record deal. While the ink dried, the two celebrated their new relationship by releasing a rootsy cover of Seal’s iconic “Kiss From a Rose” with the original instrumental B-side “Candle Creek.” These two tracks showcase the best of a sound that has Rhythms Magazine raving, “The four-part harmonies are right on the money. And the string picking, whether lightning fast or mellow and relaxed, is incendiary.” While the former received praise from Seal, himself, “Candle Creek” further cemented the band’s place in the alt-country music scene by bringing home the Golden Guitar for Instrumental of the Year at the 2015 awards.
Casey Barnes
Casey’s music has made an impact around the world. He’s had hits in Europe, written songs in America, appeared in a top-rating TV show in Australia, and played alongside many international stars including both Mariah Carey and Bryan Adams. Casey started his singing career in his home state of Tasmania, before relocating to the Gold Coast, which he now calls home. Casey’s songs are honest and heartfelt. The emotions are genuine. This was evident on his previous album ‘Jet Trails’, released September 2012 and spawned a string of well received singles. This album was Casey’s first association with Aussie hit-maker Rick Price (Not a Day Goes By, Heaven Knows) after a chance meeting in Nashville led the pair to become life long friends and songwriting partners.
Dear Willow
Dear Willow is a solo project from 21 year old Sunshine Coast singer-song writer EmJ France. The name comes from when she was little and used to look at her reflection, and she would see a girl much braver than herself, so she would call her Willow, the girl that EmJ wanted to be. Based on blues, folk and acoustic music, her music is filled with rich harmonies and melodies that make you sing along. EmJ has been singing and songwriting since she could talk, often being made to sing at any family gathering. After being involved in numerous choirs and vocal groups, EmJ took her love for music further by teaching herself guitar from age fourteen. She has since been involved in local song writing competitions and community performances. After school, EmJ pursued her love of music and began to play music professionally at local bars, restaurants and cafes, as well as local charity gigs. She also completed a Diploma of Music at the Sunshine Coast Tafe in 2014. EmJ has been focusing on original song writing in the last few yeara, growing her love for folk/indie music featuring rich melodic content and catchy lyrics. Dear Willow�s music is influenced by The Jezebels, Gabrielle Aplin, Thelma Plum, Fleetwood Mac and City and Color. Recent highlights for Dear Willow include winning the Bulcock Busking Festival and playing at The Caloundra Music Festival, opening numerous events around the Sunshine Coast including Eumundi Goes Acoustic at The Green Room and The Festival of Music at The Kings Beach Tavern, opening for Boy in the Moon's EP launch and countless gigs throughout the year. Dear Willow has plans to release a single in late March/early April since recording at Heliport Studios and is currently working on film clips to be released as well. She also plans to record and release an EP later in 2015. Catch her live around the place playing on bigger events and venues around South East Queensland in the coming months. For any further information contact David Dean from Hostile Entertainment on 0418466623
Diana Anaid
Where many have come and gone this staunchly independent artist (Kathy McCabe), continues delivering authentic, original music- in her own indomitable style, and on her own terms. With influences ranging from Joni Mitchell to Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain, Anaid's acoustic songs have always been recorded with a progressive rock sound; forthcoming release My Queen is no exception. With 5 ARIA nominations, accolades long and gracious, chart topping success and countless performances, our rebellious songstress and truly talented singer / songwriter (The Music Network), who is also an activist and mum to Stone, is a favourite of the Aussie music scene.
Allday
Allday is leading a new era in Hip Hop for Australia. Having dropped out of art school to focus full time on music, he successfully lived off stolen sachets of microwave rice for months on end. Oh, and managed to drop multiple mixtapes, slide into triple j’s world famous Hottest 100 Poll with ‘So Good’, debut an EP at #1 on the AIR chart (and #18 in the ARIA Charts), and play a whole bunch of sold out shows and festivals around Australia. Which brings us to 2014, where the first two singles from Allday’s debut album, ‘Right Now’ and ‘You Always Know the DJ”, have found a place on the airwaves and into the hearts of many. Sold out national tours, supports for Lily Allen, and huge festival spots have ensued. Allday’s debut album “Startup Cult” is a blend of broad influences and personal stories. Thousands joined the cult and helped Allday debut at #3 on the ARIA Album Charts, and #1 on iTunes Hip Hop Charts. A massive national tour sold out within days, months ahead of the shows themselves. The album was nominated at the AIR Awards as one of the best hip hop releases of the year, and won the hip hop category at the Fowler’s Live Awards. With a swag of summer festivals to come, US College Radio picking up on Allday and the album sitting the CMJ charts, Allday’s cult is spreading far…
The Kitty Kats
"The Kitty Kats"... Bringing booty back! Three of the Sunshine Coast's most loved performers have united to form the all-female powerhouse trio, "The Kitty Kats". With inspiring and electrifying songs, and incredible five piece band, they are proud to be "bringing booty back". Featuring renowned performers Michelle Brown, Renae Suttie and Susanne Campbell, "The Kitty Kats" will have you dancing, crying, singing, and laughing out loud.
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Points of View: Global Markets
Global equity markets have tracked downwards over the last few months and suffered a further bout of weakness last week in light of growing concerns over US-China trade frictions and the potential for this to damage economic growth.
Alongside this, the ramifications of tighter monetary policy around the world and other political risks such as a disorderly Brexit are also weighing on sentiment.
Despite President Trump's announcement that a ceasefire had been agreed at the recent G20 summit, US-China tensions have again been stoked following the arrest last week of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. The arrest was made while she was in transit in Vancouver, following a US extradition request that is based on accusations of breaking US sanctions on Iran. Over the weekend, China demanded her release and investors are concerned that this could mark the start of further disagreements between the two superpowers.
Closer to home, the difficulties in agreeing a Brexit deal continue despite apparent progress being made on the draft agreement announced last month. In the latest setback, Theresa May has been forced to abort a parliamentary vote on her Brexit plan at the eleventh hour.
The broader context to the recent equity market weakness is that it follows a period of strong gains throughout 2016 and 2017. Fundamentally the global economy continues to perform robustly, especially in the US, where the recent rises in interest rates represent a pre-emptive policy decision by the Federal Reserve to manage growth and control inflationary pressures. Over the long term, we remain convinced that global growth will continue to be dragged upwards thanks to rising populations, continuing innovation and productivity improvements. In turn, this should help equities to continue to deliver attractive long term returns - despite volatility in the short term.
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Bathtubs Over Broadway
Friday, December 7 – Thursday, December 13
(2018) dir Dava Whisenant w/Steve Young, Jello Biafra, Martin Short, Chita Rivera, Susan Stroman, Florence Henderson, David Letterman [87 min; DCP]
A lighthearted yet surprisingly multi-layered documentary that chronicles one man’s immersion into the world of industrial musicals. That man is former Late Show with David Letterman writer Steve Young, who discovered the strange, hidden world of Broadway-style musicals written about car sales, beer distribution, fast food management, bathroom fixtures, and more while working on a comedy bit. These shows were never meant for exposure to the general public – living their brief lives at conventions – but, thanks to souvenir recordings, they have gained a cult status among record collectors. These were not hack jobs; they were often written, directed, choreographed, and performed by real Broadway professionals. The tunes are catchy (if often unintentionally hilarious) and some of the shows achieve a true, bizarre kind of brilliance in their ability to make the mundane spectacular.
As the movie unfolds, Steve tracks down the people responsible for these productions as well as the collectors who love them, befriending many of them in the process. The filming also coincides with Letterman’s retirement and Steve finding himself on the job hunt after a lengthy career. At this point, the documentary becomes a story of self- as well as artistic discovery ending with a heartfelt message about taking chances in life. There’s even a fun cameo from one of our favorite places in the film! Staff Pick: Alissa
“Dava Whisenant’s endearing documentary is a portrait of hobby turned obsession, a chronicle of a little-known subgenre of musical theater and an elegy for a period in midcentury America when company loyalty was, well, fun.” – New York Times
“It’s a chronicle of an obsessive quest to compile an unknown history that combines a music nerd’s love of esoterica with a detective’s love of following leads down interesting detours.” – Rolling Stone
“The most charming documentary you never knew you wanted to see… An ode to a forgotten genre and a charming look at the unbridled enthusiasm of true fandom.” – mxdwn
“Ridiculously entertaining… a fascinating picture of optimism and corporate loyalty in mid-20th-century America.” – Now Toronto
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satellite of Jupiter
Alternative Title: Jupiter III
Ganymede, also called Jupiter III, largest of Jupiter’s satellites and of all the satellites in the solar system. One of the Galilean moons, it was discovered by the Italian astronomer Galileo in 1610. It was probably also discovered independently that same year by the German astronomer Simon Marius, who named it after Ganymede of Greek mythology.
Jupiter's moon Ganymede, a natural-colour view derived from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft on June 26, 1996. The surface of the satellite shows distinct dark and light patches, consisting of older and newer terrain, respectively. The numerous impact craters—the younger ones visible as bright spots—indicate that the satellite has been relatively stable geologically for most of its history. JPL/NASA
Jupiter: Ganymede
Unlike Callisto, Ganymede, an equally icy satellite, reveals distinct patches of dark and light terrain. This contrast…
Ganymede has a diameter of about 5,270 km (3,275 miles), which makes it larger than the planet Mercury. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of 1,070,000 km (665,000 miles). Ganymede’s relatively low density of 1.93 grams per cubic cm indicates that its composition is roughly half rock and half water ice by mass. Spacecraft investigations of its gravity field reveal that the interior consists of a dense, iron-rich core with a radius of 1,500 km (930 miles) surrounded by a rocky lower mantle, which is wrapped with a layer of ice some 700 km (430 miles) thick. The iron core produces a magnetic field that is 1 percent as strong as Earth’s. Above the ice layer is likely a subsurface ocean possibly 100 km (60 miles) deep. The top layer of the satellite is an icy crust about 150 km (90 miles) thick.
Ganymede was observed at close range in 1979 by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and by the Galileo orbiter beginning in the mid-1990s. Previously, in addition to water ice, spectroscopic observations of Ganymede from Earth had detected molecular oxygen and ozone trapped in the ice. Spectra obtained by Galileo’s instruments showed evidence for hydrated minerals resembling clays; solid carbon dioxide; traces of hydrogen peroxide probably produced from the ice by photochemical reactions; sulfur compounds, some of which may have come from Jupiter’s volcanically active satellite Io; and organic material that may have been deposited by impacting comets. The polar regions are lightly frosted with fresh ice and are crowned by flickering auroras produced by subatomic particles following the satellite’s magnetic field lines. (Ganymede is the only solar system satellite with a magnetic field.)
The surface comprises two principal types of terrain, one dark and one bright. The dark terrain is present in broad, roughly polygonal regions that are separated by bands of bright terrain. Both terrains have impact craters. The density of craters is higher in the dark terrain, indicating that it is the older of the two types. Craters of a given diameter on Ganymede are generally much shallower than comparably sized craters on rocky bodies like the Moon or Mercury, suggesting that they have become partially filled in through cold viscous flow of the icy crust.
Close-up of a region of diverse terrain about 90 km (55 miles) long in Ganymede's southern hemisphere, recorded by the Galileo spacecraft on May 20, 2000. The finely striated, more lightly cratered band cutting through the centre of the image is the youngest terrain. It divides the oldest terrain in the area (right) from a grooved, highly deformed terrain intermediate in age (left). NASA/JPL/German Aerospace Center/Brown University
The bright terrain is covered with complex patterns of long narrow grooves. The grooves are typically several hundred metres deep and may be hundreds of kilometres in extent. They often lie in parallel sets, with adjacent grooves spaced about 5–10 km (3–6 miles) apart. The bright terrain in the grooves probably formed during a period of tectonic activity in which internally generated stresses disrupted and fractured the crust. The exact time at which this activity occurred is not known, but the density of craters in the bright terrain suggests that it was early in Ganymede’s history. That history must have included some intense internal heating in order to produce the internal differentiation into the metallic core and rock and ice layers that are observed today. The best current hypothesis for the necessary source of energy is a form of tidal heating ultimately driven by Jupiter’s gravitational field.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Erik Gregersen, Senior Editor.
Unlike Callisto, Ganymede, an equally icy satellite, reveals distinct patches of dark and light terrain. This contrast is reminiscent of the Moon’s surface, but the answer to which terrain came first—dark or light—is exactly reversed. In contrast to the Moon, the dark regions on…
eclipse: Eclipses, occultations, and transits of satellites and other objects
Europa, and Ganymede) disappear into the shadow of Jupiter at each revolution, though the fourth (Callisto) is not eclipsed every time. Because of the sizable dimensions of these bodies, some minutes elapse between first contact with the shadow and totality. The orbits of the Galilean moons lie…
celestial mechanics: Tidal evolution
Jupiter’s satellites Io, Europa, and Ganymede, where the orbital periods are nearly in the ratio 1:2:4, maintain Io’s orbital eccentricity at the value of 0.0041. This rather modest eccentricity causes sufficient variation in the magnitude and direction of Io’s enormous tidal bulge to have melted a significant fraction of the…
Europa but also Ganymede and Callisto—as well as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, might have long-lived liquid oceans under their icy outer skins. These oceans can be kept warm despite their great distance from the Sun because of gravitational interactions between the moons and their host planet, and they might…
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Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. All four are named after mythological figures with whom Jupiter fell in love. He and Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei both claimed to have discovered them, about 1610, and it is likely both did so independently. A dispute over priority resulted in unwarranted…
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Waianae Range
mountains, Hawaii, United States
Alternative Title: Wai‘anae Range
Waianae Range, Hawaiian Wai‘anae, mountain range forming the western coast of Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. The range is the oldest area of volcanic activity on the island. It is 22 miles (35 km) long and 9 miles (14 km) wide and is composed of three lava groups. The original caldera, 3 miles (5 km) wide and 5 miles (8 km) long, was at the head of Lualualei Valley (near Kolekole Pass) but was buried through submergence and erosion.
Waianae RangeWaianae Range, western coast of Oahu island, Hawaii. Joel Bradshaw
Composed mainly of basaltic rock, the range is heavily eroded. Its western slopes are steep and precipitous and indented by deep valleys such as the Nanakuli, Lualualei, Waianae, and Makaha. Its eastern slopes are more gradual and approach the central Schofield Barracks with small, narrow valleys. The range’s northern part ends in steep coastal cliffs (750 to 1,000 feet [225 to 300 metres]), while its southern slopes have an even gradient as they near the coastal plain. Mount Kaala (4,025 feet [1,227 metres]), the highest point on Oahu, is at the head of Makaha Valley; it has a flat swamp-filled semicircular plateau 1 mile (1.6 km) in diameter. Several peaks in the range exceed 3,000 feet (900 metres). The area along the coast west of the range is the driest segment of Oahu. Kolekole Pass (constructed 1937), 3 miles (5 km) south, is an important link between the west coast and the fertile central plateau.
Oahu, island, Honolulu county, Hawaii, U.S. It is separated from the islands of Kauai (northwest) and Molokai (southeast) by the Kauai and Kaiwi channels, respectively. Oahu, which is of volcanic origin, is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands, occupying an area of 597 square miles (1,546 square…
Hawaii, constituent state of the United States of America. Hawaii (Hawaiian: Hawai‘i) became the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959. Hawaii is a group of volcanic islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The islands lie 2,397 miles (3,857 km) from San Francisco, California, to the east and 5,293 miles…
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Oceania, collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in its widest sense, embraces the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas. A more common definition excludes the Ryukyu, Kuril, and Aleutian islands and the Japan archipelago. The most…
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Alternative Title: maze
Labyrinth, also called maze, system of intricate passageways and blind alleys. “Labyrinth” was the name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to buildings, entirely or partly subterranean, containing a number of chambers and passages that rendered egress difficult. Later, especially from the European Renaissance onward, the labyrinth or maze occurred in formal gardens, consisting of intricate paths separated by high hedges.
Pliny the Elder mentions the following as the four famous labyrinths of antiquity:
1. The Egyptian, of which a description is given by Herodotus and Strabo, was situated to the east of the Lake of Moeris, opposite the ancient site of Arsinoë, or Crocodilopolis. According to Egyptologists, the word means “the temple at the entrance of the lake.” According to Herodotus, the entire building, surrounded by a single wall, contained 12 courts and 3,000 chambers, 1,500 above and 1,500 below ground. The roofs were wholly of stone, and the walls were covered with sculpture. On one side stood a pyramid about 243 feet (74 m) high. Herodotus himself went through the upper chambers but was not permitted to visit those underground, which he was told contained the tombs of the kings who had built the labyrinth and the tombs of the sacred crocodiles. Other ancient authorities considered that it was built as a place of meeting for the Egyptian nomes, or political divisions; but it is more likely that it was intended for sepulchral purposes. It was the work of Amenemhet III, of the 12th dynasty, who reigned from 1818 to 1770 bc. It was first located by the Egyptologist Karl R. Lepsius to the north of Hawara in the Fayum, and in 1888 Flinders Petrie discovered its foundation, the extent of which is about 1,000 feet long by 800 feet wide (300 by 250 m).
2. The Cretan, said to have been built by Daedalus on the plan of the Egyptian, is famous for its connection with the legend of the Minotaur. It is doubtful whether it ever had any real existence. By the older writers it was placed near Knossos, and it is represented on coins, but nothing corresponding to it has been found during modern excavations, unless the royal palace was intended. Later writers, such as Claudian, place it near Gortyna, but some winding passages and chambers close to that place are, in reality, ancient quarries.
3. The Lemnian was similar in construction to the Egyptian, with 150 columns.
4. The Italian was a highly intricate series of chambers in the lower part of the tomb of Porsena at Clusium. This tomb is said to be recognizable in the mound named Poggio Gajella, near Chiusi.
During the Middle Ages a maze or labyrinth was frequently indicated on the floors of French cathedrals, and the names of the architects were often incorporated in its designs. No satisfactory explanation of the purpose of these medieval mazes has yet been given.
In gardening, a labyrinth or maze means an intricate network of pathways enclosed by hedges of which it is difficult to find the centre or exit. It is a descendant of the old geometrical style of gardening. The more common kind consists of walks, formerly called alleys, kept to an equal width by parallel hedges, which should be too close and thick for the eye readily to penetrate them. The task is to get to the centre, marked in some conspicuous way, then to return; but even those who know the key are apt to be perplexed. Sometimes the design consists of alleys only, with no centre. A design published in 1742 showed “six different entrances, whereof there is but one that leads to the centre, and that is attended with some difficulties and a great many stops.”
The maze in the gardens at Hampton Court Palace, one of the finest examples in England, was planted in the reign of William III. It is constructed on the hedge-and-alley system and was, it is believed, planted with hornbeam, which was replaced by hollies, yews, and so on. The key to the centre is to go left on entering, then, on the first two occasions when there is an option, go right, but thereafter go left.
Navigating through an intricate maze had become a popular form of recreation in parts of Europe and in Japan by the late 20th century, and various commercial mazes were built at amusements parks for use on a paying basis. Commercial mazes in Europe tended to use hedges, while those in Japan were more complex and were constructed of movable wooden plank walls whose configuration could be periodically changed.
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Amenemhet III
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April 11, 2019 by Editor
Updated: 12:48 PM, April 11, 2019
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Health officials confirmed Thursday that an outbreak of Hepatitis A is spreading across Broward County.
Heptatitis A is a contagious liver infection that causes inflammation and can last a few weeks, but up to several months. The virus is spread through contaminated food or drinks that have been exposed to the fecal matter of someone who has the virus.
The virus can also be picked up by eating raw shellfish from water that has been polluted by sewage.
Symptoms of Hepatitis A include:
Doctors recommend thoroughly washing hands after using the bathroom or changing diapers.
https://www.local10.com/health/hepatitis-a-outbreak-declared-in-broward-county
Categories Health, NEWS Tags Broward County, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis A outbreak
12 Reasons Bicycling Will Continue to Soar in Popularity
For too long biking has been viewed skeptically as a white-people thing, a big city thing, an ultra-fit athlete thing, a twenty-something thing, a warm weather thing or an upper-middle-class thing. And above all else, it’s seen as a guy thing.
But guess what? The times, they are a-changin’. More than 100 million Americans rode a bike in 2014, and bicycles have out-sold cars most years in the U.S. since 2003.
Read more… https://www.ecowatch.com/bicycling-soar-popularity-2515406297.html
Categories Environment, Health Tags EcoWatch News Feed, Environmental News
More toxic chemicals allowed in Florida waterways
July 29, 2016 July 29, 2016 by Editor
Florida regulators voted to approve new water quality standards Tuesday that will increase the amount of cancer-causing toxins allowed in Florida’s rivers and streams under a plan that the state says will protect more Floridians than the current standards do.
“The Environmental Regulation Commission voted 3-2 to approve a proposal drafted by state regulators that would impose new standards on 39 chemicals not currently regulated by the state, and revise the regulations on 43 other toxins, most of which are carcinogens.”
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article91979107.html
Categories Environment, General, Government, Health Tags Florida water quality
Who voted for Fracking in Florida
July 29, 2016 by Editor
A list of Florida representatives who voted in favor of Fracking on Wednesday. Let’s vote these people out of office this November!
read more… http://imgur.com/50TWQUN
Categories Government, Health
State Officials Determine Non-Travel Zika Cases in Miami-Dade, Broward Are Likely Result of Local Mosquitoes
The Florida Department of Health announced Friday it had determined four Zika cases in the state were likely transmitted by local mosquitos, the first not linked to travel outside the U.S. mainland.
Read more… http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/State-Officials-Determine-Non-Travel-Zika-Cases-in-Miami-Dade-Broward-Are-Result-of-Local-Mosquitoes-388664242.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_MIBrand
Categories Environment, Health Tags Broward, Miami-Dade, Zika
A graphene patch that monitors and possibly treats diabetes
May 17, 2016 March 28, 2016 by Webmaster
Diabetes is growing into a global public health crisis, one that places enormous economic burdens on many nations. Once thought of as a disease that typically strikes affluent adults, type 2 diabetes has quickly spread all over the world, indifferent to socioeconomic status or age.
Treatment of type 2 diabetes requires patients to control their blood sugar levels through a mix of dietary restrictions and medication. Unfortunately, following the progress of these efforts is not as easy as it sounds. Glucose-monitoring devices available on the market typically require the user to obtain a small blood sample that can be read to quantify the level of the sugar. A minimally or non-invasive alternative would probably help many patients stay on top of their health.
Categories Health Tags Diabetes, Google News Feed, Health
Register your team for Walkerz Against Diabetes
Pictured are the walk committee, from left, Eloy Cuevas, Watermill Express; Stacy Morgan Mora, Tamez and Ortegon Law Office; Nancy Garcia, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance and RGVDA Board Member; Alma Cortez, Walmart.; Melissa Martinez, Navy Army Community Credit Union. Not shown; AJ Garcia and So…
Pictured are the walk committee, from left, Eloy Cuevas, Watermill Express; Stacy Morgan Mora, Tamez and Ortegon Law Office; Nancy Garcia, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance and RGVDA Board Member; Alma Cortez, Walmart.; Melissa Martinez, Navy Army Community Credit Union. Not shown; AJ Garcia and Sofia Hernandez, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance.
Posted: Sunday, March 27, 2016 3:00 pm
Special to the Monitor
The Rio Grande Valley Diabetes Association “Walkerz Against Diabetes” committee member are busy signing up teams of the upcoming 5k walk/run. This fun filled event will be held Saturday, April 30, at Edinburg Municipal Park in Edinburg.
Registration for the 5k walk/run begins at 7:30 a.m. Along with our awareness walk/run, the RGVDA is hosting health screenings, such as blood glucose check, foot screening, eye screening, as well as general diabetes information.
If you are interested in supporting the RGVDA and its cause we are in need of teams and/or individual walkers as well. Teams consist of 10 individuals or more, each team member or individual participate are asked to donate $25, with will include the official Walkerz Against Diabetes T-shirt. All proceeds will go to maintain the free services RGVDA offers for the residents of the Rio Grande Valley.
We encourage all walkers and runners to support the RGVDA while we promote the importance of physical activity as an essential part of a healthy lifestyle; whether it is to manage your diabetes or to prevent the onset of diabetes. If you are just starting an exercise regime or are an experienced runner we ask that you come out and show your support as well as bring awareness to a health epidemic that is growing in the Rio Grande Valley at unprecedented rates. One out of every four individuals has diabetes in the Rio Grande Valley, and many more are at risk. Exercise along with a healthy diet is vital in the prevention of Type 2 iabetes.
The RGVDA is a local non-profit organization, founded in 2006 by area professionals in order to bring awareness on this a growing health epidemic to one of the hardest hits areas in the country-Hidalgo County. All the funds generated by the RGVDA stay in the Rio Grande Valley to be used exclusively for educational purposes providing not only awareness but also, diabetic management classes, in school presentations, support groups among other services for adults and children.
The RGVDA would like to thank all its sponsors of Walkerz Against Diabetes; Walmart, Channel 5, Navy Army Community Credit Union, Rudy’s Country Store BBQ, Taco Palenque, Watermill Express.
For more information on Walkerz Against Diabetes or the RGVDA, call the RGVDA office at (956) 782-1900.
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Sunday, March 27, 2016 3:00 pm.
Atom-Thin Patch Could Help Control Diabetes–without Needles
A wearable, graphene-based patch could one day maintain healthy blood glucose levels in people by measuring the sugar in sweat and then delivering the necessary dose of a diabetes drug through the skin (Nat. Nanotech. 2016, DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2016.38).
The device takes scientists a step closer to the “coveted prize” in diabetes care: a noninvasive method to monitor and control blood glucose levels, writes Richard Guy of the University of Bath in a commentary about the new work.
Currently, most diabetic patients keep track of their blood glucose levels by pricking their fingers and testing a resulting droplet of blood. For people who must monitor their levels regularly, this can be a literal pain. “There are a lot of people who don’t like sticking things in their skin,” Guy says.
About 15 years ago, the Food Drug Administration approved a noninvasive glucose-monitoring device called the GlucoWatch Biographer. Patients wore it on their wrists, and it extracted glucose from interstitial fluid in the skin using a small current. It didn’t catch on, in part because it wasn’t user friendly, Guy tells CEN.
For the new patch, the researchers, led by Dae-Hyeong Kim of Seoul National University, decided to detect glucose in sweat because previous studies had shown that levels of the sugar in perspiration match those in blood. Other groups have also developed devices that can analyze biomolecules in sweat (CEN, Feb. 1, 2016, page 11).
The new device uses layers of the fluoropolymer Nafion to absorb sweat and carry it toward the device’s sensors, which are built on modified graphene. The team doped the graphene with gold atoms and functionalized it with electrochemically active materials to enable reactions needed to detect glucose.
In the patch’s glucose sensors, the enzyme glucose oxidase reacts with the sugar and produces hydrogen peroxide, which, through an electrochemical reaction, extracts current from the doped graphene. This produces an electrical signal proportional to the amount of glucose present. The patch also contains pH and temperature sensors that help ensure that the glucose sensor’s signals accurately reflect the sugar’s concentration in sweat.
When two healthy volunteers wore the patch, the measured glucose levels—including spikes after meals—matched those from a commercial glucose meter. To monitor the levels, the patch sent its sensor signals to a device that analyzed them and then wirelessly relayed the data to a smartphone.
The drug delivery half of the patch consists of an array of 1-mm-tall polymer microneedles that pierce the skin. Each needle is made from a mixture of the diabetes drug metformin and a dissolvable polymer, polyvinyl pyrrolidone. And the needles are coated with a layer of tridecanoic acid. A gold and graphene mesh sits on top of the needle array and serves as a heater that can melt the coatings. Once the tridecanoic acid melts, the needle dissolves in the skin and releases its drug payload.
When researchers applied just the drug-delivery component to the stomachs of diabetic mice, they could deliver enough metformin to lower the animal’s elevated blood glucose levels by more than 50% in 6 hours.
Guy thinks the sensor portion of the patch is closer to real-world use than the drug-delivery component. To make the drug-delivery system practical, he says, the researchers must make the microneedle array as small as possible. That means they must find a drug that’s effective at low doses.
As for the glucose-detection half of the device, Guy wonders how often a user would have to calibrate the sensors to ensure accurate readings.
Still, he calls the patch an impressive proof of concept.
This article is reproduced with permission from Chemical Engineering News (© American Chemical Society). The article was first published on March 24, 2016.
Dr. Phil on Type 2 diabetes: I should have talked about it before
Dr. Phil McGraw is known for doling out advice on mental health on his talk show, but now the daytime host is also focusing on physical health with his new campaign about managing Type 2 diabetes.
Though the TV personality has struggled with Type 2 diabetes for more than two decades, he only recently decided to open up and talk in-depth about his personal experience living with the disease.
Why did you decide to partner with AstraZeneca to talk about Type 2 diabetes?
This is a real passion project for me. We’re talking about Type 2 diabetes and that was something I was diagnosed with over 25 years ago, and so I’ve been managing this disease for a long, long time. This is one of those diseases that has a real stigma to it because people judge that population as being lazy and out of shape and not taking care of themselves. When you talk to that population, they struggle with feeling judged, so I welcome the opportunity to deal with all of that.
Tell me about how it’s been for you to live with Type 2 diabetes.
A lot of people didn’t know what was going on with me. There are 28 million people in America that are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and another 86 million that are estimated to be at risk. That number is probably way low. I was one of those people that didn’t know I had it.
When I went to the doctor, it was because I was really having trouble losing weight no matter what I did, and I was having huge fluctuations in energy. They said you have Type 2 diabetes and your blood sugar is really out of control. I was not at all happy to be told I had a disease, but on the other hand, I was glad to finally have an answer.
What is the project you’re working on to raise awareness about Type 2 diabetes?
AstraZeneca was really interested in working with me to talk about dealing with how to manage diabetes because I deal with the psychological aspects of it. The disease is not curable and it’s not going away, so I’m going to focus on what now? What do you do with it now? They were completely willing and interested to say, “Let’s be responsible corporate citizens and help people understand how to manage this,” so we did this really exciting campaign called the On It campaign. It lives on OnItMovement.com, and I have put together six steps that I think cut across managing the disease for all Type 2 diabetes.
The six steps are very doable. You don’t have to be rich or have every resource at your fingertips. The first is what I talked about before: Move forward and get past the shame and judgment about Type 2 diabetes because it’s not your fault. Get educated and understand what this disease is all about. There’s lots more info on the website.
You’re known for covering health on your show. Why did you wait until now to talk more openly about your struggle with diabetes?
I’ve talked about it before, but I never focused on it. Frankly, I should have. I never put together and organized a plan or call to action for people. I should have. I just wasn’t putting enough emphasis on it, but I am now and I’m glad that I am.
You have an app, Doctor on Demand. How do people use it?
It’s a telemedicine app. It’s something that allows you to use your smartphone, laptop or desktop to get information with a board-certified physician, usually with the wait time of under 45 seconds. You don’t have to sit in a waiting room where everybody’s sick — if you weren’t sick, you’ll get sick before you leave — and it’s been an amazing, disruptive force in medicine. It’s a highly efficient way to get healthcare and I suspect the more you accessible you make healthcare, the more you’ll see a dent in these 86 million people who are at risk for diabetes.
Phife Dawg’s Death a Reminder to Take Diabetes Seriously
The death at 45 of Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor of A Tribe Called Quest shines a glaring spotlight on blacks’ vulnerability to diabetes, the condition he battled for decades, and which ultimately claimed his life.
African American adults are “80 percent more likely” than white adults to have been diagnosed with diabetes, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services, which also found in 2013 that African Americans were twice as likely as to die from the disease.
Black celebrities reported to have the condition include Blackish star Anthony Anderson; singer, Patti LaBelle; actress Sherri Shepherd; former American Idol judge Randy Jackson; Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin; Grammy winner Chaka Khan; entrepreneur Damon Dash; NBA legend Dominique Wilkins; and actress and former Miss America Vanessa Williams. Eating healthy, getting fit, taking proper medications, tracking glucose levels, and getting a twice yearly A1c test to track glucose levels over time are believed to be among the best ways to control the disease.
Taylor made his long-running battle with Type 2 diabetes public in the 1993 song “Oh My God,” rapping, “When’s the last time you heard a funky diabetic?” His condition was aggravated, by an uncontrolled sweet tooth, he admitted in Beats, Rhymes and Life, a 2011 documentary about the history of Tribe, where Taylor said: “Like straight-up drugs. I’m just addicted to sugar.”
Unchecked, diabetes can lead to dire health outcomes, including blindness, limb amputation, and kidney failure. The disease was a primary cause of kidney failure in 44 percent of new cases in 2011, with blacks suffering from kidney failure at a rate three times higher than whites.
Taylor’s condition worsened to the point that he received a kidney transplant from his wife in 2008, while still in his 30s. An All Hip Hop article from that year reported that Taylor was first diagnosed with diabetes in 1990, and went on dialysis in 2000, during which time he had difficulty performing and dropped considerable weight.
It’s a strain on me as far as going where I want to go, doing what I want to do,” he told Diabetes Forecast. “When I was on dialysis the first time, my stepson was playing basketball [and] I couldn’t practice with him. I wanted to go out and run with him and things of that nature, but I didn’t feel good.”
Though his prospects appeared to look up with the new kidney, four years later he was reportedly back on the waiting list for yet another one, and then on March 22 he succumbed to complications from diabetes.
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Taylor initially formed A Tribe Called Quest with high school classmate Q-Tip in 1985. The group later grew with the addition of Jarobi White and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, releasing five albums together between 1990 and 1998, and in 2015 reissuing their debut, People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm to mark its 25th anniversary. They also reunited on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon to perform that album’s chart topping single, “Can I Kick It?”
Diabetes affects how your body uses blood sugar, a source of fuel for the cells in muscles, tissues and the brain. People with diabetes have a glut of glucose in their blood. Type 1 is considered to be a more severe form of the disease, where the person is dependent upon insulin to control it. It’s sometimes called “juvenile” diabetes, because it typically develops during childhood or teen years. The most common form, Type 2, is non-insulin dependent diabetes, and usually develops after 35. While those who have it are able to produce some of their own insulin, it’s usually not enough. Often, Type 2 occurs in people who are overweight and/or sedentary. There’s also prediabetes, where blood sugar is high, but hasn’t yet developed into type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes, which can occur during a pregnancy.
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HHS Says Diabetes Prevention Program Will Save Medicare Money
There’s been considerable debate as to whether identifying people with prediabetes could have health benefits.
A diabetes prevention program being tested by the YMCA of the USA has proven successful at reducing the risk of developing the disease, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
So the Obama administration wants Medicare to pay for the services for beneficiaries at high risk of developing diabetes.
The program “improves health care quality while reducing health care costs,” HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said at a press conference at the Anthony Bowen YMCA branch in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. “We found that the enrollees lost about 5 percent of their body weight, enough to substantially cut their risk of the disease.”
One of every three Medicare dollars is spent on patients with diabetes, according to HHS, and the prevention effort saved Medicare about $2,650 per participant over 15 months. That’s more than the cost of the preventive program.
The program was developed with an $11.8 million innovation grant under the Affordable Care Act and piloted at YMCA centers across the country. The goal was to work with people with prediabetes, which is characterized by risk factors including higher-than-normal blood sugar, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, to prevent the condition from progressing to full-on diabetes.
Participants met with a lifestyle coach each week and learned about diabetes risks, healthy eating and the value of increased exercise. The YMCA says the 42,000 participants in 45 states lost an average of 5.5 percent of their body weight after one year.
It’s the first program to meet requirements under the Affordable Care Act to gain Medicare coverage, HHS says, including undergoing an independent audit to confirm that it’s effective and saves money. HHS will propose rules this summer that would allow Medicare to pay for the preventive services.
“Expanding Medicare coverage for these evidence-based programs is a significant step toward lowering the burden of chronic disease in a way that improves lives and reduces Medicare spending,” said Lisel Loy, director of the prevention initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Burwell says she hopes employers and insurance companies will also offer the program to their workers and customers.
Skin patch shows promise for pain-free diabetes testing
An experimental device might one day literally take the pain out of managing diabetes, Korean researchers say.
The new invention uses a patch to monitor blood sugar levels via sweat, and delivers the diabetes drug metformin through the skin with microneedles.
“Diabetics are reluctant to monitor their blood glucose levels because of the painful blood-gathering process,” said study author Hyunjae Lee, from Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea. “We highly focused on a noninvasive monitoring and therapy system for diabetics.”
The findings were published online March 21 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The study team was led by Dae-Hyeong Kim, at Seoul National University. Funding for the study was provided by the Institute for Basic Science in the Republic of Korea.
Currently, people with diabetes have two options for monitoring blood sugar (glucose) levels, said Richard Guy, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal. He’s a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.
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One option is a blood glucose meter that requires a finger stick to draw out a drop of blood for testing. The other option is continuous glucose monitoring, which requires that a sensor be placed underneath the skin and worn constantly. Both of these options are invasive and can be painful.
Previously, a less invasive product called GlucoWatch pulled fluid through the skin to the device to measure blood sugar levels. However, that device was never commercially successful and was taken off the market, Guy said.
The Korean research team used a substance called graphene to develop a thin, flexible patch. Graphene conducts electricity, and can be transparent, soft and very thin, the researchers explained.
The patch also contains a variety of sensors that detect humidity, sweat glucose levels, pH and temperature, the researchers said. In addition, the patch contains heat-sensitive microneedles.
The patch uses sweat to determine “sweat glucose,” which can be used to figure out blood glucose levels. Lee said the accuracy of the sweat glucose sensor is similar to that of home blood glucose meters in the United States.
Guy pointed out that someone who sweats a lot might pose a challenge for the patch.
But the researchers said they’ve already taken this into consideration. “We integrated a humidity sensor in the diabetes patch to check how much sweat is generated. So the person who perspires heavily wouldn’t affect the sensing,” said Tae Kyu Choi, another study author from Seoul National University.
Likewise, Choi said, the researchers accounted for someone who perspires very lightly.
The researchers tested the glucose-sensing ability of the patch in two humans and found the device was able to accurately measure blood sugar levels.
In the current version of the patch, the researchers used microneedles to deliver the diabetes drug metformin to mice. Over six hours, the drug — delivered through the skin — was able to drop blood sugar levels from 400 milligrams per deciliter to 120 milligrams per deciliter, the researchers said. For someone without diabetes, a normal blood sugar level taken randomly would generally be under 125 milligrams per deciliter, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Insulin — the hormone necessary to lower blood sugar for people with type 1 diabetes — wasn’t used because it’s a protein that would be difficult to deliver through microneedles because it’s large, and it would be vulnerable to the heating process that allows the drug to be delivered through the skin, the study authors explained.
But, Guy said he expects that should this system go forward in development, other drugs that can lower blood sugar more effectively might be considered. “I think metformin was chosen as an example of a drug used in diabetics for the illustration of proof-of-concept,” he said.
The researchers said they believe the device could be used by either type 1 or type 2 diabetics.
However, Dr. Joel Zonszein, director of the Clinical Diabetes Center at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, said the cost of the device might make it very impractical for people with type 2 diabetes. And, he said, people with type 2 diabetes don’t have to know what their blood sugar levels are as often as people with type 1 diabetes.
“They have proved the concept — that a sweat patch can do the monitoring and can deliver a drug transdermally [through the skin]. Trying to do something like this noninvasively really is the holy grail of diabetes. So, there may be a future for this, but there are many barriers to be overcome,” Zonszein said.
The researchers said their next step is to improve the long-term stability and accuracy of the blood glucose sensor. Lee and Choi estimated it would be at least five years before they could solve any remaining obstacles and commercialize the device.
“The promise of a transdermal, minimally invasive glucose monitoring device is coming closer to fruition. I’d hope we’d see a new effort to bring a skin-based monitoring device for glucose to the market in the next few years,” Guy said. “In contrast, such as system combined with drug delivery is, in my opinion, much further away.”
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Angelina Grace Sansone Leonard
BOURNE — Angelina (Little Angie) Sansone Leonard of Bourne, formerly of Norwood and Plymouth, Mass. died, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, after a period of failing health at the age of 88.
She was the wife of the late George Henry Leonard Jr. of Norwood and Bourne. She was also the sister of the late Charles Sansone and Dorothy Sansone Slaney Pollara of Norwood.
Born in Norwood, Mass., she was the daughter of the late Paul and Grace (Salvo) Sansone of Norwood, Mass. She was raised in Norwood, graduated from Norwood High School and resided there until 1984. After graduation, she attended the Gillis Business School and then worked as a broker/secretary for Marsh and Rice Real Estate in Westwood, Mass., for 15 years. While in her twenties, Angie sang with an all male band.
She was a member and past president of the ladies auxiliary, Norwood chapter, of the American Legion, active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary in Bourne, the Bourne Women's Club and the Bourne Seniors.
Her favorite past time was knitting. She donated many afghans, baby outfits, and hat and mitten sets to various organizations.
Angelina is survived by her daughter Cheryl Morse of North Easton; three grandchildren Amy Byrne-Lipscomb of Temple, Texas, Sandra Morse of North Easton, Mass., and Jonathan Morse of North Easton, great granddaughter Caroline Lipscomb of Temple, Texas; many cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.
A graveside memorial service will be held at the National Cemetery in Bourne, Mass. The procession will gather at the Nickerson-Bourne Funeral Home, 40 MacArthur Boulevard (Route 28) Bourne, Mass., on Monday, Febr. 28, 2011, at 10:15 a.m., for the 11 a.m. service.
Gifts in her memory may be made to the New England Home for Little Wanderers, Development Office, 271 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115.
www.nickersonbournefuneralhome.com
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Anna Stork
LuminAID
2012 Finalist for North America
Cartier really helped us share our idea and get more invested in it
Cartier experience helps Chicago start-up LuminAID shine a light on disaster areas
Interview conducted in Chicago, United States
When Anna was a North American finalist for the Cartier Women’s Initiative in 2012, she received networking opportunities she says helped make her company the success it is today.
Her company LuminAID was in a state of relative infancy that year. Anna and business partner Andrea Sreshta had recently completed their graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City and just raised $50,000 in a crowdfunding campaign to launch their company, which creates portable, inflatable solar-powered lights for disaster relief, humanitarian aid and recreational outdoor use. The money raised online paid for the company’s first distribution run. As a result, both partners were kept busy completing orders from all around the world.
But Anna says even with that early success, they still “weren’t actually sure what would come out of it.”
“We knew we had a good idea but weren’t sure if we could reach the right customers and what the end result would be,” she says. “Cartier really helped us share our idea and get more invested in it.”
Anna, 30, traveled to Paris where she met the other finalists, an experience she says helped create a community of likeminded social entrepreneurs who, in the years since, helped serve as reliable mentors. The startup DayOne Response, for example, a company that distributes water and sanitation products globally to relief organizations, proved valuable in helping answer distribution questions and even sharing customer lists. “It ends up being a really small world,” she says. “Every entrepreneur does things slightly differently, so it’s really interesting to learn the process about how they are growing and what steps they are taking so you can figure out how to work that into your growth.”
LuminAID launched as a response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, an event that produced the need for portable light in tent cities during the ongoing relief efforts. Since then, the company’s products have served relief workers during Hurricane Sandy (2012), Typhoon Haiyan in Southeast Asia (2013) and the recent earthquake in Nepal (2015). In 2012, the company donated 2,000 lights to relief agencies; by the end of last year it has donated more than 25,000 lights to organizations around the world.
Going into the Cartier experience helped us grow very quickly
While the company will continue to serve disaster relief, it has been recently focusing on expanding its retail channel where it markets its lights as a camping or first aid accessory. So far, both L.L. Bean and the Container Store carry their products, and Anna says she hopes major retailers will be on board in coming years. In 2015, company sales were ten times what they were in 2012 and today, LuminAID offers its products in more than 60 countries. The company is based in Chicago and has a total staff of five people.
The growth can be directly traced back to Anna’s immersion as a finalist in Paris.
“Going into the Cartier experience, we didn’t know what our business model would be and how we would split our different sales channels,” she says, “We’ve grown very, very quickly.”
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The RCVS’ Disciplinary Committee – An Unusual Standard of Proof
A veterinary surgeon was found guilty of animal cruelty and ordered to pay over £4,500 in costs to the RSPCA, court charges and a victim surcharge earlier this year. The surgeon, who had previously been made an MBE for outstanding services to veterinary medicine, was sentenced after failing to X-ray or give adequate pain relief to a foxhound that had been brought into her practice after being hit by a car. At a previous hearing of the RCVS' Disciplinary Committee, the surgeon had been removed from the register following her own request, and had made an undertaking not to apply to be restored to the register.
In another RCVS case heard in recent months, a veterinary nurse was removed from the register after the Disciplinary Committee found that she was in possession of a number of veterinary medicines without lawful authority. The Committee also said she failed to give any or any sufficient regard to the animal welfare of six animals at a wildlife and rescue centre. The nurse had previously received a conditional discharge from the Magistrates' Court disqualifying her from keeping sheep, goats, pigs and equines as a result of the same facts.
It is noteworthy that the criminal courts were previously involved in these cases. The RCVS' Disciplinary Committee is unusual in that, unlike fitness to practise committees of most other healthcare regulatory bodies, it 'must be satisfied so that it is sure' that the alleged facts have occurred before it can move onto the next stage and decide whether the facts amount to disgraceful conduct. Requiring a court to be sure is the highest standard of proof in civil law, which equates to the criminal standard of 'beyond reasonable doubt'. Indeed, in criminal courts, this standard is often explained to juries as requiring them to be 'sure' before they find a guilty verdict.
On the other hand, Committees investigating the fitness to practise of other health professionals such as nurses, midwives, pharmacists, occupational therapists and (since 2008) doctors do not need to be 'sure'. They need only find that it was more likely than not that the allegations took place for them to be found proven, which is known as 'the balance of probabilities'. This is the standard applied for the majority of non-criminal courts and tribunals.
Although the higher standard of proof is undoubtedly beneficial to veterinary professionals appearing before the Disciplinary Committee, an interesting question arises as to why these healthcare professionals are treated differently to others. The question may also be asked, bearing in mind the change to the lower standard of proof for doctors in 2008, as to how long the status quo is likely to last for vets and other veterinary professionals.
The healthcare regulatory team at Charles Russell Speechlys has extensive experience in acting for healthcare professionals at disciplinary hearings and are able to provide guidance and support at each stage.
This article was written by Andrew Sweetman.
For more information please contact Andrew on +44 (0)20 7203 5044 or andrew.sweetman@crsblaw.com.
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Explosive experts and police search the former garden of jail bomb-plotter Liam Lyburd
Police had begun the search after being warned of "two potentially harmful items" in the jailed teenager's former front garden in Hamilton Place
Hannah Graham
Explosive experts and police have been searching the garden at the former home of Liam Lyburd, the teen jailed for plotting to commit mass murder at Newcastle college.
On Wednesday afternoon, officers, along with members of the bomb squad, were called to the address on Hamilton Place, in the west end of Newcastle.
A police spokesperson said officers had been informed that “two potentially harmful items may be buried in the garden”.
The current resident of the house was evacuated, but when the search began, no one living near by was initially affected.
Specialist officers from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team were seen combing the front garden of Lyburd’s former home using spades and metal detectors, with neighbours and members of the public looking on from a close distance.
At around 4.45pm on Wednesday, when an alarm began to sound in the garden, officers quickly retreated from the house, and onlookers were urged to move further back for their own safety.
Shortly after that a cordon was set up encompassing the whole of Hamilton Place, and residents were seen leaving their homes.
Police and an army bomb disposal unit at Hamilton Place Arthur's Hill
More military vehicles and personnel were drafted in, followed by extra police officers and members of the fire service. At around 7pm, police were spotted unloading what appeared to be sandbags and taking them into the house.
One resident of Hamilton Crescent, adjacent to the cordoned-off street, said he was also leaving his home while the investigation took place, after speaking to a police officer.
Bomb squad in Newcastle RECAP: Garden of Liam Lyburd's former home in West End searched
One neighbour told the Chronicle: “We’ve no idea what’s happening, but they must think there’s something buried in the back garden.
“There’s lots of rumours about what it might be. I’m hoping its just a hoax.”
This isn’t the first time people living in and around the cul de sac have been forced to evacuate.
Police and an army bomb disposal unit at Hamilton Place, Arthur's Hill where they have been searching the former garden of jail bomb-plotter Liam Lyburd (left)
In November 2014, more than 50 residents were rushed from their homes after concerns had been raised about Lyburd.
On searching the home he then shared with his mother and sister, officers found a deadly cache of weapons, including five pipe bombs, with nails attached, two handmade explosive devices, a 9mm Luger Calibre Glock gun, 94 jacketed hollow point expanding bullets, CS gas and a “kill bag”.
The teenager, who was 18 when he was arrested, was found guilty of possessing various explosives and a firearm with intent to endanger life.
Explosive experts at the former home of Newcastle teen bomber: What we know so far
He had planned to use them to carry out a lethal attack on Newcastle College, where he had been a student before being booted off his course due to “shocking” and disruptive behaviour in class and poor attendance.
He was handed a life sentence in September 2015.
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First Amendment, Last Priority
Customs and Border Protection targets journalists
Illustration by Darin Connolly
Ever get that eerie feeling that somebody is watching you? So did a number of activists, lawyers and journalists whose work has focused on Central American asylum seekers.
It wasn’t until this month they found out the government had been compiling a concerning number of personal details on them.
An anonymous source from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leaked the agency’s database to San Diego NBC, revealing the identities of 56 individuals it is monitoring. This intrusion of privacy takes the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine the free and fair press to a disturbing new low.
The watchlist, compiled by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency under “Operation Secure Line,” includes individual’s “country of commencement”, and whether they have had a flag placed on their passports. Each person is labeled media, instigator, organizer or lawyer. It focuses on those who arrived at the southern border last October to report on or offer aid to asylum seekers.
In the months leading up to the leak, several journalists and photographers ran into complications attempting to cross the U.S./Mexico border for work, but couldn’t prove anything illicit was going on.
By creating the watchlist, CBP doesn’t have to worry about the Fourth Amendment, which covers unreasonable searches and seizures. However, prior restraint, meaning any attempt to censor ideas before they are published, is still unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
A journalist’s work often deals with sensitive information, and these searches are a huge invasion of privacy. Up until January 2018, when CBP issued a directive on the search and seizure of electronic devices, the searches were unconstitutional.
Depriving journalists of their right to autonomy is a staple in the authoritarian toolkit. When watch dogs are muzzled, democracy suffers.
Beginning in December 2018, international photojournalist Ariana Drehsler was pulled in for additional questioning every time she attempted to reenter the U.S. The agents asked her invasive questions about asylum seekers, with the excuse that she had access to valuable intel they didn’t.
On one occasion, agents instructed her to leave her camera outside of the interrogation room. Drehsler was not able to find evidence that her photos had been examined, but according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 20 journalists had reported having their devices searched, some without warrants. While this is not illegal, searches like these target those who are involved in migrant aid, and agents don’t give further reasoning.
According to the source from the DHS, creating dossiers on people does not fall under the jurisdiction of the agency. The source told NBC that it was “an abuse of the Border Search Authority.”
The implications of this watchlist and the increase in policing the press are worrying. We already know that Donald Trump has it out for the media. He has gone so far as to tweet that the press are the “enemy of the American people.”
Using interrogation and intimidation tactics to harass journalists infringes their First Amendment rights. Press freedom means news media are not subject to censorship by the government, which includes not being bullied and intimidated into giving up information about a story.
Having the independence to report and publish anything is central to the concept of journalism. Currently, only 13 percent of the world is allowed freedom of the press. The U.S. prides itself on democracy and being a free country. Without complete freedom of the press, there is no democracy.
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Tsing Ma Bridge
With an overall length of 2km and a main suspended span of 1,378m, Tsing Ma Bridge is the world’s longest spanning road and rail bridge; with a duel 3-lane highway on the upper deck and a twin track high speed railway (as well as two emergency roadways) on the lower deck. Kvaerner in joint venture with Mitsui and Costain won the £550m contract in 1992 to build the bridge in just five years with structural completion in only 50 months. This was done to budget and programme despite the project’s massive scale, short timeframe and the exposure to typhoon risk.
Cleveland Bridge were responsible for the construction of the superstructure comprising the saddles (3000t), span cables (28,000t), suspension system, suspended deck and approach spans. This was shared with Mitsui in part (50% of fabrication and offsite assembly in joint venture), but Cleveland were responsible for all the construction engineering, most of the superstructure procurement, and for erection on site with up to 800 men. This required a strong head office team for the engineering and world-wide procurement, as well as a substantial site team to ensure successful completion of the project, prior to its opening date on April 27, 1997.
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Maine Voices: PUC, LePage Spurn Consumers While Granting Gas Industry’s Pipe Dream
… What has happened to the Maine Public Utilities Commission? It used to be a respite from politics, relying on a strong staff, expert opinion and transparent analysis to guide Maine’s energy policy. But recent decisions show that our current PUC has little regard for its staff or the opinions of the expert consultants it…
The Risky Natural Gas Pipeline Mainers Don’t Know They’re On The Hook For
… Conservation Law Foundation attorney Ben Tettlebaum joins the Beacon podcast this week to discuss the decision by the members of the Maine Public Utilities Commission to ignore the recommendations of their own staff and potentially allow fossil fuel companies to bankroll a new, risky gas pipeline with public funds. “The fossil fuel industry hoodwinked the PUC…
Maine Regulators Approve Natural Gas Pipeline Expansion, Rejecting Staff Recommendation
… That’s because the Conservation Law Foundation has argued that the state doesn’t have legislation authorizing one. “If Massachusetts cannot move forward than that presents a substantial obstacle to Maine actually going forward with the contract because they constitute a significant portion of the load in the region,” Tettlebaum says. Read more here…
Disclosure of Maine Offshore Wind Bid Means the PUC Got it Right
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Earlier this month debate was sparked when Maine Aqua Ventis (MAV) submitted a proposal, to develop an offshore wind farm, to the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC). MAV, a University of Maine consortium, sought to keep the terms of its proposal confidential unlike previous bids for the project. Seeing this confidentiality as unfair, CLF and…
After Delay, Maine Approves Offshore Wind Farm
On Thursday, January 28, 2013, Maine’s Public Utility Commission (PUC) approved, by a 2-1 vote, the terms of a long-term contract for the first floating turbine offshore windfarm in Maine. After a few months of negotiation, this is good news for the state, and for renewable energy. This vote clears a major hurdle toward Statoil…
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On June 26, 2011, Governor Chafee signed into law the “Distributed Generation Standard Contracts Act.” The bill had passed both houses of the General Assembly unanimously. The “distributed generation” in the title of the law refers to small, local renewable energy projects. The new law was designed to do three things: (1) increase the number…
Saving Money and Electricity in Rhode Island: The Benefits of Decoupling
This week Rhode Island’s dominant utility, National Grid, made its first-ever filing with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) under Rhode Island’s newly enacted “revenue decoupling” statute. Grid’s filing resolves once and for all a debate that has been swirling around the environmental community in Rhode Island (and the rest of New England) for years – an argument over whether decoupling is a rip-off of utility rate-payers. CLF (and other environmental advocates) have argued for years that there are important environmental benefits to be reaped from decoupling. Opponents, including some ratepayer advocates, argued that decoupling would be bad for rate-payers because it would inevitably lead to unjustified rate hikes.
CLF Defends its Standing in Deepwater Wind Case
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In response to a February 21 order by the Rhode Island Supreme Court, the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) today filed a brief defending its legal standing in the Deepwater Wind case and issued the following statement:
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Earlier today in Rhode Island, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved the Deepwater Wind/National Grid Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the construction of an eight-turbine wind farm in Block Island Sound, denying CLF’s Motion to Dismiss. Here’s what CLF’s Rhode Island Advocacy Center Director Tricia Jedele had to say about the decision: Today’s ruling was…
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Family: Snake bit boy at Disney park, leading to grandma's death
January 29, 2016 / 9:14 AM / CBS/AP
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An Alabama family says an escaped snake at Disney's Animal Kingdom dropped from a tree and bit a boy, which led to the death of the boy's grandmother.
The family's attorney, Matt Morgan, said Thursday that the family plans to sue Disney World.
He says the grandmother saw the snake bite the boy, went into cardiac arrest and died a short time later.
Disney spokeswoman Jacquee Wahler says the allegations mischaracterize what happened.
Disney confirmed to CBS affiliate WKMG that the boy was bitten by a snake at the park but said it was a wild, nonvenoumous snake and not part of the park's collection.
Disney also says after the boy was treated with a Band-Aid, the family returned to the park.
First published on January 29, 2016 / 9:14 AM
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Bruce Lisker: A life in photos
Bob and Dorka Lisker had everything. He was a successful Hollywood attorney. She was a film cutter for Hollywood movies.
Unable to have a child of their own, one day Bob came home and presented Dorka with a baby boy that one of his clients had put up for adoption. They named their son, Bruce.
"48 Hours Mystery:" The Whole Truth
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Bruce's doting parents spoiled their young son.
Bruce Lisker and his Little League teammates pose with their trophies. Years later, Bruce's trophy would be a murder weapon used to kill his mother, Dorka.
There are few pictures of Bruce Lisker in his teenage years. He was only 11 when he began a long and destructive romance with drugs. As his drug use escalated, so did the fights with his mother.
"By the time I was about 15, 16, I was smoking pot or drinking every day," he tells "48 Hours Mystery."
Bruce Lisker and his friend, Mike Ryan, shown, became roommates once Bruce dropped out of high school and his parents rented him an apartment near the family home. Bruce says he believes that it was Mike Ryan who murdered his mother.
Detectives discover a brutal crime scene inside this quaint home in Sherman Oaks in the City of Los Angeles. Dorka Lisker, 66, had been brutally assaulted. She died at the hospital before anyone could interview her.
Dorka Lisker, 66, was beaten with her son, Bruce's, baseball trophy.
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Dorka Lisker was also stabbed in the back with both of these steak knives.
Inside the front door to the Lisker home is the bloody rug where Dorka Lisker's body lay. That night, Det. Andrew Monsue and Bob Lisker threw away the bloody rug, crucial evidence that was lost forever.
LAPD Det. Andrew Monsue's reflection is captured in this evidence photo of the living room window. Prosecutors used the photo to discredit Bruce Lisker's story that he discovered his mother lying injured when he peered through windows in the rear of the house.
At trial, prosecutors implied this bloody shoe print on the bathroom floor matched Bruce Lisker's. Years later Sgt. Jim Gavin of the LAPD had it analyzed and demonstrated it did not match - indicating another person was at the scene of the crime.
At age 17, Bruce Lisker was sentenced to 16 years to life for his mother's murder. The years passed, the teenager became a man, and all of his appeals failed. But, he says, proving his innocence consumed all of his time.
In California's overcrowded prisons, there are not enough cells for inmates. Bruce Lisker was assigned this bunk, where he displayed his www.freebruce.org towel and a picture of Marilyn Monroe by his pillow.
Crowded with inmates, there are no trees on the "yard" at Mule Creek State Prison, Bruce's long-time home.
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On Aug. 13 2009, Bruce Lisker walked out of Mule Creek State Prison a free man for the first time in 26 years. His conviction was overturned based on the finding that most of the evidence used to implicate him in the crime had been seriously undermined or proved false.
He faced the press with Private Investigator Paul Ingels, who worked tirelessly for 10 years to win Bruce's release from prison.
"It was really pretty cool, you know," an emotional Paul Ingels, right, tells "48 Hours." "[Bruce] was standing under a tree, and he's staring at this tree and I looked over at him and I said, 'Bruce, you look really weird looking at that tree.' He goes, 'I haven't seen a tree in 26 years.'"
Bruce Lisker speaks during a news conference after being released from Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. Lisker was released a week after a judge overturned his murder conviction, citing false trial evidence and sloppy defense work. Lisker, 44, had been behind bars since his mother, Dorka, was beaten and stabbed at her home in March 1983. He was convicted two years later and got 16 years to life.
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Bruce Lisker departs the prison after being released from Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009.
Bruce Lisker waves after leaving Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., in Ione, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009.
Bruce Lisker's freedom was at stake again, as prosecutors sought to reopen the case and have him returned to prison. A judge rejected that motion.
Will Lisker return to prison on a technicality?
Bruce Lisker and fiancee, Kara. They are getting married on Aug. 13, 2011, the second anniversary of his release.
Bruce Lisker and his fiancee on a romantic getaway to Pasadena.
Bruce Lisker and Kara on a boat ride off of Point Fermin, Calif. Says Lisker, "This is where the Neptune Society distributed both my murdered mother's and my late father's ashes after they were cremated. So it was an emotional pilgrimage for me, and Kara came along for support."
Bruce Lisker and his fiancee, Kara, sport big smiles and "I voted" stickers after California's gubernatorial election on Nov. 2, 2010. "We'd just voted, each of us for the first time! She, a new citizen, and me, well, a new citizen!" he says.
Read more: The Lisker Chronicles
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Super dangerous movies
"Roar"
Making movies can be a dangerous business. In fact, many actors and crew members have been injured on-set over the years. Some have even died. The list of titles at fault might surprise you.
The 1981 film "Roar" is widely considered to be the most dangerous film ever created. In fact, its official poster reads, "No animals were harmed in the making of the film. 70 cast and crew members were."
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The film "Roar," created by Tippi Hedren and her manager-husband Noel Marshall, was an unprecedented 11-year project inspired by the pair's recent trip to Africa.
Casting their family members -- including daughter Melanie Griffith -- in various roles, the couple brought 100 lions, tigers and other exotic cats to their California ranch and lived among them there. The project resulted in 70 animal attacks, facial reconstructive surgery for Griffith and the dissolution of Hedren and Marshall's marriage.
Now, nearly 35 years later, the film is set to roar back into theaters again.
"Mena"
Two crew members were killed and a third seriously injured, when a small plane crashed in the Colombian Andes on September 11, 2015, while filming the upcoming Tom Cruise movie, "Mena."
Prolific American film pilot, Alan Purwin, was among those killed in the crash. His film credits include "Transformers," "Pearl Harbor," and "Pirates of the Caribbean." The Piper Aerostar-600 in which he died appears to be the same aircraft that Cruise, a trained pilot, arrived in to begin filming on August 20.
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"The Conqueror"
In 1956, "The Conqueror" was filmed on location in St. George, Utah, just 137 miles away from a Nevada test site where the United States had conducted above-ground nuclear weapons testing three years before. In the years that followed, many of the film's principal actors and crew members came down with various forms of cancer.
The film's director Dick Powell was diagnosed in 1963. Mexican actor Pedro Armendariz was diagnosed in 1960. And the film's stars Susan Hayward, John Wayne and Agnes Moorehead all died of cancer in the 1970s.
Of the film's 220 cast and crew members, 91 developed cancer and 46 ultimately died of the disease.
"Rocky IV"
While filming "Rocky IV" in 1985, Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundren agreed to legitimately spar with one another to give the movie's climactic boxing match a sense of authenticity. As a result, Stallone suffered an intense blow to the chest and had to be airlifted to St. John's Hospital in Santa Montica, California for treatment.
Stallon spent eight days in the ICU there, while doctors worked to reduce excessive blood pressure and swelling in his heart. Talk about a rocky start to production.
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"The Wizard of Oz"
You wouldn't guess it by watching the film, but several injuries occurred on the set of "The Wizard of Oz" (1939).
Margaret Hamilton who played the Wicked Witch of the West, for example, was badly burned after a trapdoor malfunctioned during a scene in which her character was meant to vanish in a burst of flame and smoke, leaving her exposed to an active pyrotechnic device. Her stunt double was also injured while filming a scene with a smoking broomstick. And the role of the Tin Man had to be famously recast after actor Buddy Ebsen suffered a severe allergic reaction to the character's makeup, resulting in a collapsed lung and lasting breathing issues.
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"A Clockwork Orange"
While filming the famous brainwashing scene in Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange," Malcolm McDowell suffered temporary blindness and a scratched cornea from having his eyes propped open for so long.
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"The Interview"
Seth Rogan and James Franco's controversial comedy, "The Interview", about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ignited terrorist threats from the so-called Guardians of Peace and led to a cyberattack on Sony Pictures.
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"The Passion of the Christ"
While playing the role of Jesus in Mel Gibson's 2004 film "The Passion of the Christ," actor Jim Caviezel suffered numerous injuries, including gashes on his back from scripted whippings, hypothermia and a separated shoulder after carrying the cross.
He and the film's assistant director Jan Michelini were also struck by lightning.
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Several actors were injured while shooting the famous sinking scene in "Titanic" (1997) after they fell and struck parts of the ship. The injuries suffered ranged from broken bones to ruptured organs.
Kate Winslet then came down with pneumonia after filming her water scenes without the help of a wetsuit under her dress. Additionally, she almost drowned while shooting a scene inside in the sinking ship when her coat snagged on a gate she was running past and pulled her under the water.
Lastly, on the final night of shooting, eighty cast and crew members were hospitalized after pranksters spiked their food with PCP.
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"The Hobbit"
While no cast or crew members died during the production of this film, it is said that as many as 27 animals were killed, leading to a global protest against the film initiated by PETA.
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"The Dark Knight"
Cameraman Conway Wickliffe was killed on the set of "The Dark Knight" in 2007 after the moving truck from which he was filming failed to make its scheduled turn and crashed into a tree.
It has also been rumored that the role of the Joker took a toll on actor Heath Ledger's psyche.
Ledger once told reporters that he "slept an average of two hours a night" while playing "a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy ..." I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going." Prescription drugs didn't help, he said.
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"The Twilight Zone"
In 1982, star Vic Morrow and two child actors -- 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen -- were killed by a helicopter on the set of "The Twilight Zone: The Movie."
The helicopter, which was flying low at just twenty-five feet above the ground, became entangled in pyrotechnics and consequently crushed Chen. Morrow and Le were then decapitated by its tail rotor. The six people aboard the helicopter were also injured, though not fatally, when the machine went down near Six Flags Magic Mountain Amusement Park.
The crash sparked one of the most prolonged lawsuits in film history, resulting in major changes to filming codes as well.
"The Hangover Part II"
When you think of the "Hangover" franchise, you probably think of laughs, not danger. However, Australian stuntman Scott McLean suffered severe head trauma while filming a scene from "The Hangover Part II" in Bangkok.
McLean was leaning out of the window of a taxi when it failed to dodge another vehicle, causing his head to collide with it. McLean then had to be placed in a medically induced coma while doctors treated his brain and physical injuries.
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"First Blood"
While filming "First Blood," Sylvester Stallone broke several ribs after filming three takes of a scene in which his character John Rambo jumps off a cliff and uses a tree to break his fall.
Stallone also sustained serious injury to his back after filming nineteen takes of a scene in which his character is clubbed with a nightstick in jail.
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"Shark!"
While filming the 1969 thriller "Shark!" in Mexico, a stuntman was mauled to death on camera by a shark that was supposed to have been sedated.
The film's director Samuel Fuller later quit after the production company used this death to publicize the movie.
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"Midnight Rider"
An assistant camerawoman, Sarah Jones, was killed by a train while shooting the Gregg Allman biopic, "Midnight Rider" in 2014.The accident occurred on a train trestle over the Altamaha River in Georgia and injured seven other crew members as well. Production on the film has been suspended ever since.
Director Randall Miller was sentenced February 20, 2014 to two years in jail after pleading guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass in Jones' death. He was also sentenced to eight years probation afterwards and is banned from directing for ten years.
Here, people gather at the International Cinematographers Guild national offices during a candlelight walk and memorial for Jones.
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"The Sword of Tipu Sultan"
The largest number of on-set deaths in film history occurred during the production of this Indian made-for-TV movie.
Sixty two extras and crew members were trapped inside the film studio and died when it tragically caught fire one day. The film's director and star Sanjay Khan survived, but spent thirteen months in the hospital and underwent seventy two surgeries for the burns he suffered during the blaze.
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"The Viking"
While on a voyage to obtain additional footage for this 1931 film about an actual seal-hunting ship, producer Varick Frissell and twenty six members of his film crew were killed when dynamite aboard their ship accidentally detonated.
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'The Expendables 2"
While filming the 2012 action film "The Expendables 2," one stuntman was killed and another left critically injured after a staged explosion on a rubber boat went awry.
Additionally, two of the film's stars -- Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger -- required shoulder surgery after the film's production wrapped.
"Heaven's Gate"
Much like "The Hobbit," numerous incidents of animal cruelty were reported on the set of the 1980 Western film "Heaven's Gate." These included actual cockfighting, the decapitation of several chickens, a horse being blown up with dynamite and the intentional bleeding of steer so that their blood might be used by actors in the film.
After the American Humane Association led a widespread boycott of the film, the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers were moved to action; contractually authorizing the AHA to monitor the use of animals in all filmed media going forward.
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Pretty much all Jackie Chan movies
In 1976, Chan was knocked unconscious while filming "Hand of Death." In 1978, he nearly lost an eye while filming a fight scene for "Drunken Master." That same year, Chan's arm was slashed by a sword and one of his teeth was knocked out during the filming of "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow." In 1980, he injured his throat and consequently nearly suffocated filming a stunt scene for "The Young Master." In 1985, he dislocated his pelvis and suffered third-degree burns on his hands while filming the famous pole sliding scene in "Police Story."
As if that wasn't enough, Chan then broke his hand filming "The Protector" later that year. In 1986, Chan fractured his skull on a rock while filming "Armour of God." A fragment of his skull even cracked off and lodged in his brain, leaving him with hearing loss and a permanent hole in his skull requiring a plug. Chan then dislocated his sternum while shooting the film's sequel "Armour of God II" in 1991. And his legs were crushed between two cars while filming a stunt scene for "Crime Story" in 1993.
Unbelievably, that's the abridged list.
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Contact Brother Wayne
Wayne Kramer
Wayne Kramer is a Musician.
He was born on Friday April 30th 1948, in Detriot, Michigan, USA,.
With a Personal Lucky Number 1, Wayne Kramer will find his luck derived from 1 strongest when he is facing new beginnings.
The 1 will also bring Brother Wayne good fortune when he is in a leadership role.
Kramer's #1 may not serve him as well when dealing with established financial or romantic situations.
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Wayne Kramer's Personal Lucky Number does not change. This number will be lucky for him during his entire life.
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Malan fires CSNI into next round
Johnny Morton (News Letter)
An exceptional 145 from Andre Malan helped CSNI progress to the Irish Senior Cup quarter-final with a 14-run DLS victory over North Down at The Green.
Having won the toss and elected to bat under stand-in captain Gary Wilson, CSNI posted a total of 244-6 with Malan crashing his score from 141 balls, including 14 fours and two sixes.
The South African has started the 2019 season off in superb fashion, picking up where he left off last year, and looked comfortable from the very first ball on what wasn’t an easy wicket to bat on.
His innings is even more incredible when you take into account the shoulder injury he sustained last week against Instonians which meant he couldn’t bowl when CSNI took to the field to defend their total.
“It’s always good to contribute to a win - especially against a team like North Down,” said Malan. “They were a little bit on top of us this season after beating us in the league game and in two Twenty20s, so it was good to come out as winners once.
“For the club, going into the next round of the Irish Cup is always special.
“I am just glad for the team and our supporters.”
He put on a stand of 108 for the third wicket with Wilson (28) and the overseas professional says it’s great to be able to share the field with a player of his calibre on a regular basis.
“Gary is so important to the club and very special to the club as well,” he added. “Everyone was ecstatic that he was coming back from his County career in England.
“It’s wonderful to have him back not just for the runs he scores, but the experience and calm mindset he brings to the team.”
In reply, North Down had Jamie Magowan ran out without a run on the board and that was further compounded when Nathan Burns was caught behind off the bowling of Graeme McCarter.
McCarter, who has arguably been the best bowler in the NCU this season, picked up three in total including the crucial scalp of Ruhan Pretorius (58) before North Down were 15 short when the second deluge arrived in Comber.
“I made a joke with him earlier because last year he couldn’t bowl here and now this year I’m the one that couldn’t bowl!” Malan said of McCarter. “I’m glad he picked up a few wickets and he’s bowling extremely well this season.
“It’s great to have him for the whole season as well.”
When a club brings in an overseas professional, they hope that they will make a big impact in key games, and that is something Malan has done on a consistent basis.
He scored over 900 runs last season and took in excess of 30 wickets, and the 27-year-old is getting more familiar with conditions after a campaign under his belt.
“I’m happy with my form,” he added. “I’m more used to the league now having played last season and got used to the pitches.
“Last season was a very new experience, but now I’m trying to be patient to leave myself more time at the end of innings whereas last year I chucked away my runs a little bit.
“We are just halfway through the season, so hopefully the second half can go as planned.”
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Written by Conservation Careers
Podcast: Dominic Jermey OBE | ZSL
Are you working in something totally unrelated to conservation and dreaming of switching into a career helping wildlife to flourish? Well that’s exactly what today’s guest has done successfully, and right in at the top.
Dominic Jermey OBE worked as a senior British diplomat for over 20 years in countries such as East Timor and the United Arab Emirates, ultimately serving as British ambassador to Afghanistan. From there he switched careers and moved into wildlife conservation as the director general of the Zoological Society of London.
Now ZSL is an international conservation charity with a vision of a world where wildlife thrives. They’re working every day to achieve this with science-fuelled conservation around the world, and by engaging millions of people at their two world-class zoos, ZSL London and ZSL Whipsnade.
In this fascinating discussion we talk about his career journey and highlights, and decision to move from diplomacy into conservation. We also discuss his role as director general and how he’s shaping ZSL as it approaches its 200th anniversary.
Finally, Dominic shares his careers advice and insights for people working in an unrelated role to conservation but looking to switch into it. As always, if you enjoy our podcast, please let us know and do leave us a review, we read them all and they really help us to get in front of more people.
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DOMINIC: I’m Dominic Jermey and I’ve been the director general head of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) for just over a year and we are an extraordinary organisation that has two zoos, a science institute and a global portfolio of conservation projects, and we’re about making this a world where wildlife thrives.
NICK: Fabulous. So you’ve been in place for just over a year or so. Prior to that, and we’re gonna talk about your career in a while, you were working as a diplomat outside of conservation. Have you always had an interest in wildlife and conservation, and where did that start for you?
DOMINIC: So I’ve always had an interest in wildlife as an amateur as a kid, I’ve enjoyed going to zoos, I’ve enjoyed going out into the countryside in the UK and just spending nights camping, getting to know the sounds and sights of the woods and the forests insofar as we had them in the south-east of England where I was brought up, and then through my professional career I’ve enjoyed taking the opportunity of a pretty global career to see conservation in action, and also to get a sense of some of the threats to conservation around the world. And the last trip that I went on with my family before leaving my previous employer was in fact to Sabah and to spend a few days really getting our fingernails dirty in the jungle there, and that was the most enormous privilege and a terrific backdrop for coming and engaging professionally on conservation for the first time.
NICK: Sounds really exciting, did you get to see any orangutans in Borneo?
DOMINIC: We did indeed and I’d like to say that we saw orangutans absolutely in the wild and we were the only people to see them there, but that wouldn’t be true. At a rescue centre we saw orangutans but we counted, I think it was 76 different species, we managed to see as we wandered around being ecotourists in the jungle there, which was quite something, although the backdrop to that concentration of species is because of the growth of the palm oil industry there, so there’s an extent to which the wildlife is being pushed into a narrower and narrower strip around the main rivers there, and one of the things that I really like about ZSL is that not only is it directly involved in conservation but it also kind of gets involved in conversations with people who are in activities, have real impact on wildlife, so ZSL produces something called the SPOTT guide which is about how you use transparency to encourage businesses to behave in a sustainable way, in particular around palm oil but also now timber, looking at pulp, rubber, other commodity productions.
And so it’s helping businesses to be better than they otherwise might be for the planet, and on the whole, if you have the right conversation with people, they actually respond positively to that. They certainly do when their shareholders are also asking the same questions, which is one of the reasons for producing this cut-down of research.
NICK: Really interesting. You mentioned there about how that family trip to Sabah was after your previous employment, let’s put it that way. Can you just provide a bit of a brief history of your career to date prior to ZSL? I’m aware that you were working as a diplomat in many different countries, could you just give us a bit of a run-down, an overview of your career prior to where you are now?
DOMINIC: So I started off in an investment bank doing what they call mergers and acquisitions. I moved fairly rapidly to join the Foreign Office and thought in my late 20s that being paid to learn Urdu would just be a lot of fun. I was taught Urdu and the reason why I was learning that was to go and work in Pakistan, in particular with opposition groups, fixing on human rights and what was happening with Islamist groups in the south of Asia at the time, and I just thought that was the most fascinating thing to do. I then found myself attracted across the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan, at that time there was a civil war in Afghanistan and the United Kingdom was supporting a UN peace process led by a very famous Algerian diplomat called Lakhdar Brahimi to try and bring the warring factions around the table and I had the enormous privilege of being pretty much the only OECD or western diplomat stationed in Afghanistan and so would go in representing the permanent five members of the Security Council and others in support of the United Nations to meet the different faction leaders.
From there, a number of other postings in Kosovo and East Timor focusing on peace negotiations and peace and reconciliation, and then moving back a bit to my original banking roots working in Spain as the ambassador in supporting inward investment from Spain into the UK, and then I was working for an organisation called UK Trade Investment that does a lot of that investment support and works with lots and lots of different companies in the UK trying to export, and I was British ambassador in the United Arab Emirates and then most recently in Afghanistan.
NICK: Gosh, it’s been quite a career to date! Have there been any particular memorable moments or things you’re particularly proud of when you look back? You’ve already touched on a few there already, but are there any moments that particularly stand out that you might tell your grandchildren about in the future?
DOMINIC: I suppose there are two from Afghanistan that spring to mind, one with wildlife rather than people. And that was in the late 1990s when the Taliban had just taken control of Kabul, I would travel around Afghanistan quite a lot and I would go to Kabul and visit Kabul Zoo and bring food and money for the keepers there who were trying to… struggling to keep the space open. And it was a pretty grim environment for wildlife, it was though the only place that I saw in Kabul where families actually came together.
Because all the trees had been cut down etc. etc. for firewood, it was one of the very few natural spaces in any way, not terribly natural but that had anything and there was this three-legged one-eyed lion called Marjan the lion, I supposed to go and visit Marjan and this lion was a kind of an icon for… of Kabul Zoo and I used to find money and things for feeding Marjan the lion and I remember going back in the early 2000s after the Taliban had been defeated and civil war, all this kind of stuff, big changes and going and seeing Marjan the lion and just thinking, you know, leaders come and go, diplomats come and go, etc. etc. but somehow Marjan survived and lived on for a number of years and died of old age in the mid 2000s.
So seeing Marjan alive was great fun and then on the people front, that sense that there were people in that conflict who might have survived because of what we were doing, because of what I was doing – there was a little trick I used to do, when I would meet one of the warring faction leaders, I would bring my camera and I would ask to meet their prisoners and I would meet their prisoners and the civil war was pretty brutal and had a poor track record of looking after people and I would just take out my camera and take photographs. And it didn’t matter there was film in them or not, just the simple act of having a foreigner who they knew would go off and talk to the ICRC and the UN taking photographs meant that people I’m told behaved just a little bit better than they might have done otherwise and so it’s just possible that there are people alive today who maybe because of the political work that we were doing then, maybe just because of having their photograph taken, survived that awful war.
NICK: Absolutely, yeah. Did you ever fear for your life during your career so far? It sounds like you’ve been in some really intense situations, have you always felt safe or have there been moments where you were fearful for what might happen?
DOMINIC: Like anything in life, you take a pretty hard look at the risks before you go ahead really, and you can’t mitigate all the possible things that might go wrong but you try really hard to do that, and so for example in Afghanistan I worked very much within a UN envelope of security and so I tried to take well-judged risks and actually, no I didn’t ever fear for my life but there were some things that, in retrospect, I would do a little bit differently if it was somebody reporting to me who was asking to take those risks today.
NICK: Absolutely. Or if it was a member of your family or someone much closer, right. Interesting you mentioned Kabul Zoo there because I read recently, in fact this morning when I was reading up in preparation for the podcast, that you had some visitors from Kabul Zoo recently to ZSL, that’s right? Looking to see how you do things at London Zoo in terms of animal care and welfare standards that they could take back with them. That seems quite a nice kind of closing of the circle there for you.
DOMINIC: Yeah, it was an absolute delight to me that one aspect of ZSL’s impact on the world is engaging with a lot of conservationists around the world, a lot of zoos, a lot of scientists around the world involved in wildlife, and so ZSL had for years been working to help zoos across the world to raise their game using gosh, we have nearly 200 years of experience of that, and so very soon after 9/11, after 2001, ZSL went out to Kabul and looked to see how it could support the transformation of Kabul Zoo from a pretty bleak place and help them with their animal husbandry.
And so Saqib’s, the director’s, trip to us only a few weeks ago was part of that professional training and part of that networking, and in fact at roughly the same time I was in India where we’re working with the Wildlife Institute of India to support the professional development and training of wildlife vets from across India who work both in zoos, in wildlife reserves and actually out in the middle of the bush, so-called, and from other countries in east Africa and south Asia and it’s one of the things I just think is really neat about how ZSL works with other organisations, about raising the professional standards across the world, across the community, by helping to give key educational input at different points.
And so, as we, you know, as we look at the future of ZSL, we have this philosophy that runs from pre-school from professor so if you want to come in to zoos with scuffed knees aged two or three, or five probably with scuffed knees, or if you want to work with us on a project or to be a citizen scientist just after you’ve retired from your main role and you’re in your 70s or 80s, there are different ways of engaging on that lifetime learning journey in support of helping people to do more for wildlife.
NICK: Sounds fantastic. And as director general, as you now are, and you say you’ve been in the role for just over a year, you’re responsible for ZSL’s goal of achieving global conservation of animals and habitats, and you start to kind of provide a bit of an overview as to how you go about doing that as an organisation. What particularly attracted you to the job and the role when you were presumably in Kabul and thinking about what next and you saw or heard about this job, what was it that drew you towards it, you know, why did you choose to apply?
DOMINIC: I wanted a role that would let me change the world. That’s what I was trying to do in Kabul, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do as a diplomat for many years, but I wanted to move into an area that I’ve always really, really cared about bringing the skills I had, the skills I have around leadership but also around you know, thinking internationally, thinking globally, to a sector that is enormously strong on those kind of professional and technical skills of conservation. But when I look for example at the Living Planet Index that ZSL produces that charts biodiversity decline since 1970 to 2016 as the most recent data, and it shows more or less a 60% decline over that period of population sizes, I can’t help thinking that we as a global community, we as conservationists, are just not winning the argument, are not winning the fight for space in the minds of the public or of global leaders, policy makers or of corporate decision makers, the people who can really make a difference by what they do, either at the kind of mass democratic level or at a leadership level, and it takes something like David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II to make people sit up and think about plastics, but the plastics story is not new.
So as I thought about that and thought about what cut-through looks like, I felt that there was some things that I could contribute from my diplomatic influencing background combined with an awful lot of people who know vastly more about conservation and conservation science than I do to see if we can have an impact on the world, and that’s what really excited me about coming to ZSL, it’s an organisation that knows what it wants to do, it wants to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wild animals going extinct, there is a sense in the organisation as we put together our new strategy that we could do that much better, and with more impact, if we think really purposefully about where we’re gonna play, how we do that as a society and how we do that at the heart of a network of contacts and partners in the UK and all around the world, and pulling all that together, bringing all that together and bringing that direction, purpose and impact I just found incredibly exciting.
NICK: You’re obviously optimistic about the future and making a change and turning things around, and I think a lot of conservationists listening will probably feel the same, that there’s a lot of skills and knowledge within the industry but we’ve not quite turned that to our advantage yet in terms of species and habitats that are still in decline. Where do you see are the biggest opportunities for doing things differently, to turn things around and how do you feel ZSL and your 200 strategies… sorry, your 200 anniversary which is coming up in seven years’ time, you know, how do you feel that you can actually change things to start to kind of bring those declines back and start turning them into positive index?
DOMINIC: Well I think that there are things that individuals can do and organisations can do. At ZSL we’ve decided to focus on three areas; wildlife and people, which is in particular how we inspire nearly 2 million zoo visitors to think about wildlife, but it’s also how we work with companies, how we work with organisations, how we work with 150,000 formal school groups coming into the zoos every year and the other schools that we go out to, and how other organisations do that as well, to get wildlife on the agenda and we’ve seen plastics get on the political agenda in the UK and into public consciousness in the last 18 months in a way that simply hasn’t happened before, so that really is possible.
We also are focusing, our second area of focus is wildlife health, and there are collaborations happening now facilitated by international partnerships, by better communications, that are tackling some of the really difficult health issues facing wildlife, and that’s somewhere where I think at a technical level we can really play and we want to do that with different partners, we’re in a partnership with the Royal Veterinary College and University College London that we’re really proud of and looking to develop, to see how we can have an even more important global impact on wildlife health. And then our third area of focus is on wildlife… bringing wildlife back from the brink, and there we’re already involved in leading something called the Evolutionary Distinct Globally Endangered Listings of Wildlife, and this is based on the IUCN Red List but it looks at the species where if you lost that species then you lose an entire branch of the tree of life, and sometimes it’s really neat.
You uplift a species to that edge list and without doing any conservation ourselves, we uplifted the Mary River turtle, which is this extraordinary critter with a Mohican hair, clotted algae on its head and it breathes through its genitals, it was the most sensational media hit and 4,000 media stories later, the government of Queensland decided that it would put in a conservation programme for this turtle that wasn’t gonna happen otherwise. So there is direct conservation that we as conservationists can do, but there’s also catalysing public opinion, catching the public vibe where you can, or a political one, and making change that way. So we see at ZSL all sorts of ways in which change can be brought about, and we also see the importance of sustaining change so next year, 2020 is a big year for global thinking about a bunch of things, but in particular on conservation the Aichi targets come in, there’s the 2020 look at the UN sustainable development goals which focuses in particular to 2021 and so on biodiversity and conservation, there is CBD, the Conventional Biodiversity meeting in China, it’s great to have the Chinese involved in that, there’s the UNFCCC, God there’s a whole spaghetti soup, alphabet soup of acronyms here.
So there’s a lot going on politically and so there are different ways people can play, whether they are technical conservationers or whether they are activists who want to get into this space and who want to, you know, write to their MP or become citizen scientists and then talk about it on their social media posts. So yeah, we’re optimistic and we think there’s lots that people can do that can help change things.
NICK: Yeah, and it sounds like providing a role for people, mobilising support, showcasing the spotlight of things that need to change and inspiring people to make those changes is what good organisations and good leaders like yourself are all about doing. I’m interested in the start of your tenure, you started I think it was in November 2017? And you’ve moved across various leadership roles in your career so far. And I hear, you know, and I’ve read about online that, you know, as CEOs and director generals, people talk about their first 100 days in role, you know, their priorities over their first, you know, two to three months, say, something like that – how did you approach the start of your tenure when you got your feet under the desk in November 2017, how did you set your priorities, what did you do over the first 100 days to help focus your efforts and start to kind of, you know, focus your vision?
DOMINIC: Well the short answer is I met a lot of people and met a lot of wildlife. But…
NICK: So you got up to speed, that’s right, and started to understand the DNA of your organisation?
DOMINIC: That was beautifully put, thank you. I certainly did that, and that was a key thing. But actually what I said I would do on day one was, this is an organisation that has nearly 200-year-old history but it needed a strategy to work out what it’s gonna be for for the next 10-20 years as we go up to and beyond our bicentenary in 2026. So I said that I would lead ZSL in getting a strategy in place in six months and that we’d set out that road map for us. With my leadership team, that is exactly what we did.
And in order to do that, there were a whole bunch of things that I needed to learn, there were discussions that we as a team needed to have internally, externally so that really set the agenda for my first six months in the job.
NICK: What do you most enjoy about your job? Focusing on your job day-to-day, you know, when you kind of reflect back over the last couple of months or so, you know, what are some of the things that you enjoy doing as director general of an organisation like ZSL?
DOMINIC: I have the most fun meeting the people and the animals, so one of the great things that I’ve been privileged to do, actually, has been to go around my organisation and ask the really basic questions that go along the lines of, hey I’m passionate about conservation but I’ve never done it professionally, you know so much, come and tell me stuff.
And sometimes that’s with master students, sometimes it’s with zookeepers who’ve been in the role for 50+ years in some cases, and sometimes it’s with volunteers that we have who come in and volunteer as citizen scientists counting seals or eels on the River Thames or they volunteer as learning and support people in our zoos, telling the story of the animals that we have there, asking all those questions has been such fun. But I tell you what, one of my highlights was when I leave lengthy discussions, meetings of our order committee or doing some of the detailed stuff that you gotta do as a boss from time to time, you wander into the zoo and you go and meet baby tamandua that’s just cool.
NICK: I bet! I was gonna ask you actually if you do get a brief hour off, you know, obviously you work, you know, within London Zoo, where do you go, what animal do you go and see and maybe you’ve just answered that, I don’t know?
DOMINIC: Well I particularly like London Zoo’s rainforest exhibit which is a lot of fun, and particularly that at dusk when the bats start flying around in the most amazing ways, terrific mixed exhibit with all sorts of pearls in there. When I’m in Whipsnade, I like to run around Whipsnade lunchtime, which is a great way of meeting people but also seeing what’s going on there, I don’t think they’ve got quite used to having a director general in lycra, which is funny and then the other thing that’s just enormous fun is as I mentioned, we have teams doing some extraordinary conservation projects around the world, ranging from angel sharks to seahorses to tigers and rhinos and everything in between, and visiting some of those teams in some of the really remote spaces where wildlife are now flourishing because of the intervention and support that ZSL and our partners there were able to do, that is just the most enormous privilege.
NICK: Yeah and seeing and feeling the impact of you and your organisation’s work must give you a real sense of career pride I would think, yeah. So I’m interested in your, in the strategy as I say, seven years until ZSL is 200, celebrating your 200th anniversary which will be an astounding achievement for any organisation. In order to achieve that strategy and the goals set out within that, you obviously need to attract people and talent into your organisation who currently don’t work for you. What are the types of people that you need within your organisation now to work within the modern conservation age?
DOMINIC: We need people with very diverse ranges of skills so from the technical conservationists, people who know how to manipulate data, the scientists who have backgrounds in particular wildlife health issues, veterinarians, the people who either want to get or have the zookeeping qualifications, ranging to the people who are perhaps a little bit more like me, who are passionate about conservation but have different skills, the media folk, the retail purchasing, the people who really understand how to drive great experiences for our visitors at the zoos to colleagues with a background in accounts, in fundraising. So right across the whole area of ZSL, you know, there is just a broad, broad range of skills.
And just going back to something we touched on earlier Nick about education opportunities from pre-school to professor; we teach and we learn so we have a lot of PhD and masters students studying with us, a lot of students coming in with their school groups, a lot of people on MOOCs with us or engaging on necropsies that we do, of citations online, engaging as citizen scientists so there are ways in which we, as it were, formally teach but we also really learn. And one of the things that a lot of people working at ZSL love is that opportunity to learn outside of what they know, so I’ve met really experienced conservationists who by virtue of joining ZSL understand, you know, they’re used to being in the field in Kenya, in Cameroon etc., but they really understood for the first time how an outstanding zoo can contribute to conservation, and also how it can contribute as an organisation to changing a political agenda and this was just something that they perhaps had no exposure to, and so looked for opportunities to get involved, as it were, outside of their previous area of expertise. And that’s pretty good fun too.
NICK: Yeah. Which is very similar to the career that you’ve had, in a way, having switched out from outside of conservation into conservation and there’s lots of people out there in the world nowadays that perhaps mid-career are doing something, you know, which perhaps they enjoy or not, but their passion is in wildlife conservation and would love to work professionally in wildlife conservation too.
DOMINIC: I would say, don’t be shy. So as I looked at ZSL from afar and thought, gosh that director general job looks really interesting and that would really speak to my values and perhaps I could bring something to it, I was a little held back a bit by thinking, ah but they wouldn’t want anybody who didn’t have a professional conservation background for that. And then actually I looked at what was relevant, what the organisation was looking to do and to have some conversations with the people involved and decided, you know what? I could really add value here.
And I think for anybody who has an interest in conservation and knows they have particular skills that they can offer, it is always worth having that conservation. Don’t hold back, don’t self-censor, would be my advice and I’m really glad I didn’t.
NICK: Fantastic, that’s great advice I think for people. I think people do undervalue the experiences they have already, particularly what we call, I guess, transferrable skills, you know, all these things that you accumulate through your career which conservation as a professional sector, you know, really values nowadays, it’s not just about the science and I think you’re proving that really successfully.
DOMINIC: Well thank you, and what I would say is ZSL has job opportunities coming up a great deal, and so if there are people listening to the podcast who would like to be part of ZSL’s vision, a world where wildlife thrives, then please do take a look at our website, www.zsl.org/careers, and see what’s bubbling along if you’ve got that passion.
NICK: That’s great advice and we’ll link that in the notes, thank you. So just some final open questions then as we kind of start to wrap things up. We talked about ZSL and your 200-year strategy, seven years out now; cycling forward seven years into the future, where do you hope to have got to at ZSL, what would be different about the organisation, what do you feel you might have achieved by then?
DOMINIC: I think we would have achieved three things. I think there will be species solidly alive on the planet, stably alive on the planet that are looking wobbly at the moment, and that’ll be as a result of our interventions and our work with partners on their conservation. I think that we will be in a transformative partnership on wildlife health, in particular focusing on zoonotic diseases that… looking at a wide range of wildlife issues that certainly neither we nor the RBC nor UCL have had the academic bandwidth to reflect on up till now and that will produce answers to some of the most pressing issues facing wildlife at the moment from a health perspective.
And then finally and most importantly, we will have engaged with an ever-increasing number of people to get them to think about wildlife and in particular through our zoos, and in London Zoo we are positioning London Zoo as a city zoo that is international in outlook, and we’re positioning Whipsnade Zoo as a wild space for adventure with wildlife, and those are very different experiences and I think people will respond really well to those experiences and to engaging with wildlife as a result. So that’s what the future looks like.
NICK: It sounds bright, and I wish you and your team all the very best in achieving those goals. My final question would be, if I could somehow make you a global tsar for the day, so you could make any changes you saw fit, you know, on this little precious planet of ours, what would you do that would have the most impact, do you feel? If you could make one change, enact one big motion, what would you seek to achieve?
DOMINIC: I would seek to stop the clock for a minute and for the world, a bit like Earth Hour, for the world to take time-out and think of the impact of what we do on wildlife and think about what the world would look like if that wildlife wasn’t there and then just reflect, right so how can I make that impact an impact for the good, not an impact for the bad?
NICK: Fantastic. And I think on that, that’s probably a great place to wrap up. Dominic Jermey, thank you so much for your time today and coming and speaking to us and our audience here at Conservation Careers, it’s been so nice having you on the podcast. If people wanted to find out a little bit more about ZSL, where should we point them?
DOMINIC: You should, please point them at the website, www.zsl.org/careers and you should encourage them to come and visit us. And we have nearly 2 million people who come and do that every year in London and Whipsnade and it would be great to see them, it’s a very good way of learning a bit about who we are. And we also have lectures and scientific talks on conservation, on conservation science, on a regular basis, at least monthly, open to the general public and I’d encourage people to look at the website to see what’s coming up and to come along.
NICK: Great, so whatever age you are, whether you’ve got grazed knees or you’re a retired professor, get involved, right?
DOMINIC: Absolutely, we’d love to have you join the partnership.
NICK: Right. Well thank you again Dominic, I really appreciate your time. Take care.
DOMINIC: And you, thanks Nick. Bye.
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Digital Games for Special Needs; Special Needs for Digital Games
GAME. The Italian Journal of Game Studies
n. 7/2018 – Edited by Enrico Gandolfi, Kaybeth Calabria and Richard E. Ferdig
There are two disparate ways to describe the relationship between digital games and special needs (i.e., physical, cognitive and even socio-cultural conditions than require specific interventions in everyday life routines, learning activities, and general accessibility). On one hand, it can be argued that the sector is becoming more inclusive. For instance, assistive technologies are gaining a foothold in the game industry with innovative hardware (e.g., the Microsoft Adaptive Controller), focused efforts of researchers and practitioners (e.g., the IGDA game accessibility interest group or the Games For Health conferences), increased customization interfaces and input systems (e.g., those offered in the games Overwatch or Uncharted 4), and focused funding initiatives (e.g., AbleGamers Charity and Special Effect). Conversely, one could also argue that the concerns of individuals with special needs represent an overlooked area. For example, toxicity and disruptive behaviors across game audiences (e.g., “Gamergate”) represent additional sources of biases, games are not accessible to all players, and the literature about special needs and gaming is scarce (with some notable exceptions). Additional research is required to respond to these opposing perspective as well as to further impact policy and practice. There are least four reasons to justify such a claim: 1) Video games are at the forefront of technological adoption; 2) Video games and interactive media shape society and culture; 3) The combination of technical and cultural perspectives can effectively support two leading approaches to individuals with special needs; 4) Videogames can potentially support special education and learners with disabilities, from improving physical and social skills to facilitating communication and self-organization. The goal of this special issue of GAME is to provide insights and guidelines for realizing and responding to this potential.
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St Petersburg International Economic Forum
Oligarchs and billionaires hit by Ukraine sanctions
Published Thu, May 22 2014 1:38 AM EDT Updated Fri, Oct 2 2015 9:02 AM EDT
Alice Tidey@AliceTidey
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As tensions between Ukraine and Russia escalate following the ouster of the Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, a number of Western countries have started to impose sanctions on Russian individuals.
Accusing Russia of destabilizing the political landscape in Ukraine, the U.S., EU, U.K. along with Japan, Canada and Switzerland targeted Russian and Ukrainian individuals and corporations.
Overall, nearly 150 names have been targeted as separate countries, led by their own interests, did not punish the same people.
Click ahead for some of the most high-profile individuals hit by the measures.
By CNBC's Alice Tidey.
Sergey Glazyev
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One of the first seven individuals sanctioned by the U.S. on March 17, Sergey Glazyev is a presidential adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
However, his relationship with the president was not always rosy. Glazyev was once a member of one of the first opposition party in the country. In 2007, he announced his retirement from politics saying that elections were controlled by the president's staff and were therefore useless in influencing the state's policy. Since then, Glazyev has been a member of the Russian Academy of Science as well as the executive secretary of the Eurasian Economic Community customs union – an economic union of former Soviet States.
Viktor Yanukovych
The ousted Ukrainian president was also one of the first to be sanctioned by the U.S. for threatening the peace, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine as well as undermining Ukraine's democratic institutions. Furthermore, the U.S says the former president called upon Russia to send troops into Ukraine.
After his ouster from power, Yanukovych fled to Russia. The Ukrainian authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest on mass murder grounds and have asked Russia to extradite him. Both his sons have also been sanctioned.
Serhiy Kurchenko
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The 29-year old self-made billionaire is a media mogul, soccer club owner and the founder of "Gas Ukraine 2009", a group of companies that controls nearly a quarter of the liquefied gas market in Ukraine.
In late March, a Ukrainian prosecutor issued a warrant for his arrest stating that Kurchencko is suspected of stealing assets from a state enterprise.
Since his EU asset freeze in February, his whereabouts have been unknown.
Igor Sechin
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Currently CEO of Rosneft – an oil company majority-owned by Russia – Sechin was sanctioned by the U.S. for being a member of Vladimir Putin's "inner circle."
Like the president, Sechin is a former Soviet intelligence officer and he is one of Putin's long-standing allies, having also been his deputy chief of staff. According to Forbes, who ranked him 60th on its list of Most Powerful People, he's even been called "Putin's Shadow."
Vladislav Surkov
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Sanctioned by the U.S. for his role as presidential aide to Vladimir Putin, Vladilav Surkov brushed off the sanctions, saying that the only thing he liked about America is Tupac and that he doesn't need a visa to listen to rap music.
A businessman and politician, he has occupied several positions in the administration, and is credited with creating Russia's modern political system. Since September 2013, his role has been to advise the president on foreign policy pertaining to the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which Russia recognized as independent following its conflict with Georgia in 2008.
Dmitry Rogozin
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The Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Rogozin is Putin's special envoy and also heads the Russian Military-Industry Commission and the Russian team of the Russian-Syrian Intergovernmental Commission.
Prior to taking on these roles, he was also the Russian envoy to NATO and vetoed Ukraine and Georgia's entry to the Membership Action plan, back in 2008, saying that other NATO countries "will not invite these bankrupt scandalous regimes to join NATO…more so as important partnerships with Russia are at stake."
Sergei Chemezov
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A powerful businessman, Chemezov is CEO of Rostec – a state-owned corporation created to further the development, manufacture and export of high-tech products – but he also sits on the board of about a dozen other Russian companies, including Rosneft.
Chemezov is also a politician, occupying the position of Supreme Council for the ruling United Russia party. In the late 1990s, he worked in the administration as head of foreign economic relations.
Gennady Timchenko
Worth $14.4 billion, according to Forbes, Timchenko is a long-time friend to Vladimir Putin and the owner of the Volga Group, a privately-held investment firm that holds interests in a variety of assets, mainly in energy, transportation and infrastructure development.
Currently Russia's sixth richest man, Timchenko sold his 43 percent stake in commodity trading company Gunvor to his business partner the day before the U.S. imposed sanctions on him.
The Rotenberg brothers
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and billionaire Arkady Rotenberg (R) attend the funeral of his former judo trainer Anatoly Rakhlin on August 9, 2013 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Finno-Russian brothers, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg were both hit by sanctions.
Together, they own SMP Bank as well as one of Russia's biggest construction contractors in the energy field, SGM, which they built by acquiring subsidiaries of Gazprom from 2008.
They're also keen sports fans, a passion that helped forge their friendship with the president as the three of them were judo sparring partners in their youth.
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This Mom’s Open Letter to the Model Who Body-Shamed a Woman at the Gym Is Going Viral
Playboy model Dani Mathers recently posted a nude photo of a woman in her gym’s locker room on Snapchat. Her caption: “If I can’t unsee this, you can’t either.” The offensive post launched a firestorm online, with online commenters accusing her of body-shaming and bullying.
Dani posted an apology video, but the damage was done. The backlash led her to delete her Instagram and Twitter accounts, the gym (LA Fitness) banned her from all of its locations, and she was fired from her job. Now, Christine Blackmon—a mother of two and veteran—has come forward with her own outraged reaction towards Dani’s hurtful post, and it’s going viral.
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She shared a censored nude photo of herself in her closet. In the caption, she reveals that her husband took the picture of her about a month ago, and Christine initially wanted him to delete it. “I hated it, all I saw was lumps and bumps,” she wrote in her Facebook post. “He simply smiled and softly said ‘I think it’s beautiful.’ So I let him keep it,” she writes in the caption. After Dani’s post, Christine started to see the photo she once hated in a different light.
Not all of us work out to be “hot,” some of us work out simply to honor the bodies we were given. That’s all that woman was trying to do and you violated her. Shame on you.
Christine closed the post with by saying she hopes that other women would join her in being proud of their bodies, and share their own photos. “I bet I could get 100s of women to post their beautiful bodies and regardless of size, shape or color, they will ALL be more beautiful than the ugliness you showed in that post,” she wrote.
Her photo has since been shared over 40,000 times and has received over 1,000 comments, many including photos. Christine took to Facebook again to express how floored she was by the reaction. “I’m so very grateful to all of you. The next time I’m feeling not so pretty, I won’t have far to go for a reminder of what true beauty is,” she wrote.
(h/t Today)
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Video: Boston Globe Tweets About Controlled Explosion Before It Happens
On the day of the bombings during the Boston Marathon, The Boston Globe tweeted “Officials: There will be a controlled explosion opposite the library within one minute as part of bomb squad activities.”
As of now, one apparent suspect has been killed and the other aprehended for an event officials were committing as well or knew was going to happen? Questions to ask ourselves: Is it a coincidence again that officials happened to be running drills of the exact same events that would occur later in the day?
Alternative media outlets and others who are paying attention to what’s actually happening are not the only one’s seeing the clear pattern and odd coincidences the mainstream media seems to avoid talking about for the moment. Former Congresswomen Cynthia McKinney made several tweets on the day of the event, even she has suspicion about the coincidences that exist. Cynthia’s Tweets.
I cannot comment on precisely what happened because I do not know and I’m not sure who does at this point. All I am able to tell you is what I have been able to find in my own research and from what I am seeing here, it is all very similar to previous “false flag” attacks that have occurred in the past. When it came to 9/11, 7/7 London bombings and others, the media was leaving out all details regarding very large and telling coincidences. Are they meaningless? Who knows, but the full story is not being told in the least bit.
What benefit would there be from leaving out the fact that there is the existence of identically mirrored drills being run at the exact same time as the “terrorist” incidents themselves? Not to mention the drills being run were remarkably identical to the incidents that ended up playing out. While the answer to this question might seem obvious to some, to others it simply is not being looked at.
Further, why is it that every time suspicious terrorist activity occurs in the United States, there is little to no degree of separation between government, three-letter agency- personnel and the suspected perpetrators? Across the street the CIA is doing one thing while “the terrorists” are doing the exact same thing a block away, only for real. How many times does the same thing need to happen over and over again before we start asking questions?
We have to ask ourselves ‘who are the terrorists?’ We are always hearing of troubled kids or muslim radicals conducting these events yet there is often not much solid evidence to link them to it before we make harsh claims. However, it is indisputable that the FBI is actively engaged in carrying out bomb plots in the United States, then halting them at the last minute to “catch the terrorists.” This has even been covered in the New York Times, and other publications.
Below is a video that examines what took place. It is a simple look into the events and timing of what happened. All we’re suggesting here is to ask questions.
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The recent case against Jeffrey Epstein, who is being charged with child sex trafficking, has opened up the idea that 'higher powers' like the Royal Family might be involved in this type of thing, along with other political "VIPs."
Is this really a surprise? If we look at our world and our 'leaders,' our actions are truly a reflection of their psychopathic behaviour. The involvement of high ranking people in ritual sex abuse, if you think about it, shouldn't be a surprise.
Child sex abuse among the global elite is extremely rampant. This no doubt makes those who aren’t really aware of it wonder: Why is this not more well-known? Well, the answer to that is simple, it’s the same reason why so many other ‘happenings’ on planet Earth go virtually unknown, and that’s because we have been relying on a small group of very powerful and wealthy people and the corporations they run for information about what is happening on our planet. We are constantly being spoon-fed lies by mainstream media. There are a number of examples to choose from, and multiple award-winning mainstream media journalists have been blowing the whistle with regards to what really goes on behind the scenes for years. All information that comes from mainstream media is given to them in the form of instructions from big corporations, government, and intelligence agencies. This is evident by documents that’ve been released via the Freedom of Information Act as well.
Furthermore, media outlets providing access to alternative information using credible sources that go against the narrative and interests of these big corporations and the government have been completely censored and demonetized.
Information like what’s discussed in this article has been made out to be a ‘conspiracy theory’ by the mainstream, but it’s now becoming so obvious that the mainstream has no choice but to start reporting on it.
The latest example is the case of Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire who has close connections to the Clintons and people like Prince Andrew of the Royal Family. He is a registered sex offender, and apart from that, a number of his victims have come forward over the years claiming that he abused them, many of whom are under age. One example is Virginia Roberts Giuffre, pictured here with Prince Andrew. She claims that she was loaned out by Epstein to people like Prince Andrew as a young teenager.
The latest news regarding Epstein was that he was arrested and taken into federal custody for the sex trafficking of children. Specifically, it deals with the sex trafficking of minors in both New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005. He is expected to appear in court tomorrow. The arrest was made by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force, and it comes almost 12 years after Epstein didn’t receive any penalty except a slap on the wrist for supposedly molesting and raping children in Florida.
Here is the information coming from a Miami Herald article titled ‘With Jeffrey Epstein locked up, these are nervous times for his friends, enablers’:
Jeffrey Epstein, 66, was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey shortly before 4 p.m. Saturday, July 6th as he arrived on his private jet from Paris.
It should be noted that the Department of Justice has said that it is not rescinding the plea deal Jeffrey Epstein got in his previous conviction even though it has been determined to have been illegal.
Although details of the case remain undisclosed, there are indications that others involved in his crimes could be charged or named as cooperating witnesses.
The fact that others involved in his crimes could be charged is quite significant, since it indicates that law enforcement and the judiciary are not shying away from proving a CONSPIRACY in this case. This is quite different from his earlier conviction in Florida in 2008, which was ‘soliciting an underage girl for prostitution.’
According to the Daily Beast:
Several of the billionaire’s employees and associates allegedly recruited the girls for Epstein’s abuse, and some victims eventually became recruiters themselves, according to law enforcement. The girls were as young as 14, and Epstein knew they were underage, according to details of the arrest and indictment shared by two officials.
Why are these people always connected to and have close relationships with the global elite? What’s even more eye-opening is that this is not the only example that’s leaked into the mainstream. It’s become impossible for the world to ignore as of late. For exmaple, Smallville actress Allison Mack was ‘outed’ for being a member of a sex cult and working in a management capacity. Apparently, Mack’s job was to lure women into the program under the false pretence of female empowerment and self-help workshops. They were then convinced to sign up for a more “advanced program” called Dominus Obsequious Sororium, which required these women to basically turn their lives over to the leader, Keith Raniere. Dominus Obsequious Sororium is a quasi-Latin phrase that roughly translates to “Master Over The Slave Women.”
You can read more about that here.
Raniere owns a company called NXIVM, which supposedly offers executive success programs, but clearly, that’s not the case. Raniere was also arrested, along with Mack, in March 2018 in Mexico on charges of sex trafficking. He stands accused of raping girls as young as 12 years old, imprisoning a woman for 18 months, child pornography, and more. He has been kept in federal custody in New York, but has now been found guilty on all charges.
This group also has strange connections to the powerful elite, as Billionaire Clare Bronfman was indicted on racketeering charges. These charges were connected to her role as “Operations Director” for NXIVM. Clare Bronfman is the daughter of Charles Bronfman, a Canadian/American businessman and philanthropist. The Bronfman family has been referred to as the “The Rothschilds of the New World” by author Peter C. Newman, a well-known Canadian journalist and writer. The Bronfman family has also been in business with the Rothschild family for quite some time. One of many examples is their wealth management company, Bronfman Rothschild, which began in 1997 as Virchow Krause Wealth Management.
Bronfman’s brother, Stephen, was one of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s biggest funders. Trudeau was also very close to Peter Danglish, a high-ranking UN sex-offender mentioned below. I mention this because I came across more strange ties to the Trudeau family, like the Pierre Elliott Trudeau foundation symbol, as you can see, is the same symbol used by pedophiles to identify sexual preference.
Just like with the Epstein case, the Clinton’s are mentioned with regards to NXIVM as well.
The Rolling Stone reported:
“There are strange political connections as well. Mark Vicente, a documentary filmmaker and former high-ranking member of the group, testified at the trial of NXIVM head Keith Raniere that Clare Bronfman, the billionaire Seagram’s heiress and alleged benefactor of the organization, approached him and a few other members of the group to help her make a contribution to a Clinton campaign.” (source)
Pretty weird stuff, isn’t it?
Let’s not forget about Sir Jimmy Savile, a BBC children’s television presenter feted by the Royal Family and Downing Street, abused 450 victims, mostly boys and girls as young as eight over 50 years. While Savile had long been seen as odd, the scale of his offenses shocked the country. He was even allowed special access to hospitals, and the authorities laughed at or ignored his victims before he died a national hero. He was very close with the Royal Family.
This kind of thing has been floating around out there for decades. For example, a member of the Royal family was claimed to be part of a suspected pedophile ring under investigation by the police in the late 1980s, a former police officer has said. The former Metropolitan Police officer said he was told by a detective sergeant that the investigation into the ring, which was also claimed to include an MP, was shut down for national security reasons. “I was in a car with two other vice squad officers … The detective sergeant said he had just had a major child abuse investigation shut down by the CPS regarding a royal and an MP,” he told the Sunday Mirror newspaper. “He did not mention names, but he said the CPS had said it was not in the public’s interest because it ‘could destabilise national security’.”
We even have whistleblowers when it comes to this issue, like Steve Pieczenik, a former United States Department of State official and a Harvard trained psychiatrist with a doctorate in international relations from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He’s been openly talking about this type of thing in elitist circles. You can view an example of him talking about the Clintons here. Here’s another one of him implicating Bush Sr.
Peter McKelvie, a former child protection chief in the UK, gained attention when he claimed that senior politicians, military figures and even people linked to the Royal Family were among the alleged abusers. While working in Hereford and Worcester, he helped to convict notorious child abuser Peter Righton, who was once one of the country’s most respected authorities on child care. This highlights a great point, and something that I’ve come across multiple times in my research. Many people who work for national child care protection programs are directly involved in this type of thing. McKelvie is one of many who told the world that these types of powerful VIP pedophile rings have been running in secrecy for multiple years. (source)
The same types of scandals take place here on our side of the pond as well.
Congress is now looking at a bipartisan bill to stop employees from sharing child porn on Department of Defense computers. Yes, it’s a real problem, which begs the questions: Where are these kids coming from? Who is making these kids ‘perform,’ who is filming them, and where are these high-ranking people getting this from?
“The notion that the Department of Defense’s network and Pentagon-issued computers may be used to view, create, or circulate such horrifying images is a shameful disgrace, and one we must fight head on.” – Abigail Spanberger (D-Virginia), spoken in a statement as she and co-sponsor Mark Meadows (R-N. Carolina) introduced the End National Defense Network Abuse (END Network Abuse) Act in the House.
As The Hill reports, “The Pentagon’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service subsequently identified hundreds of DOD-affiliated individuals as suspects involved in accessing child pornography, several of whom used government devices to use and share the images.”
You can read more about that and see some more disturbing connections between high ranking powerful people and this type of activity here.
It doesn’t stop there, and it goes all the way up into the Vatican.
What I’ve Discovered From My Research: This Is Ritualistic In Nature
It was only a few years ago when the information cited above was considered a conspiracy theory, but we here at Collective Evolution were creating awareness about it in a credible way. Based on our research, this doesn’t just involve the rape and trafficking of children. It also involves murder and ritualistic satanic abuse of children who are used for various ceremonies, sacrifices and rituals. In some cases, it even deals with cannibalism.
The term “ritual” hasn’t been mentioned in the mainstream. On November 12, 2012 the former Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, set into motion a Royal Commission to inquire into institutional responses to child abuse. Five years later, in December 2017, the Royal Commission presented its final report to the government, an absolutely damning indictment against institutions that dealt with children, including the Catholic Church. As a result, the current Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, delivered a public apology on October 22, 2018. You can read more about that story here.
“The crimes of ritual sexual abuse happened in schools, churches, youth groups, scout troops, orphanages, foster homes, sporting clubs, group homes, charities, and in family homes as well.” Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison
Our Interview With A Survivor
Anneke Lucas is an author, speaker, advocate for child sex trafficking victims, founder of the non-profit organization Liberation Prison Yoga, and creator of the Unconditional Model.
Her work is based off her 30-year journey to restore her mental and physical wellbeing after surviving some of the worst atrocities known to humankind before the age of 12. Sold as a young child into a murderous pedophile network by her family, she was rescued after nearly six years of abuse and torture.
We recently conducted an interview with her. Below is a clip from the four part series, as it was a very long and detailed interview. You can access the full interview HERE on CETV, a platform we created to help combat internet censorship and allow us to continue to do our work and get the word out about various issues and topics.
There is so much evidence showing that the global financial elite (various members of big politics, corporations, hollywood, Royal Families, and people in positions of great power, the Vatican, etc.) are engaged in psychopathic behaviour. But are you really surprised? Look at the world and its systems and all aspects that surround humanity… It’s truly a reflection of psychopathic ‘leaders.’ And it’s a reflection of us being totally oblivious to it as a result of mass brainwashing. Still, in many cases, we support and stand up for these systems, and accept no other way. We refuse to acknowledge things that any fairly intelligent person should be able to see with a bit of investigation.
If you watch the Anneke interview, you will see how there is a very positive and uplifting message that comes out of all of this, despite the disheartening subject matter. Human trafficking and child abuse represent the most untold stories of our generation, as they hurt millions of souls every year, many of them being children. The International Tribunal For Natural Justice (ITFNJ) is one of many organizations to bring awareness to child sex trafficking. You can read more about that here, especially if you are feeling hopeless about this issue.
We are slowly coming to terms with the fact that this happens at elite levels, done by some of the most ‘prominent’ and powerful people. It’s time to talk about it, and it’s time to ask more questions. Let’s keep disclosure coming.
Why I Haven’t Paid Much Attention To “Q Anon”
We are living in some very interesting times. Amidst all of the mass brainwashing we’ve received from establishment mouthpieces (mainstream media), the birth of alternative media brought to light information that simply wasn’t being presented by the mainstream media. Prior to the mass popularity that alternative media garnered, global media was completely owned by a handful of corporations. It still remains a vital tool for this small group of powerful people to completely control the perception of millions of people across the world.
The owners of these outlets did not like how their viewers were wandering off to alternative media, so they’ve used their power to create massive amounts of censorship, but the truth can’t really be stopped. This is why we’ve seen the persecution of Wikileaks, for example, and the demonization of alternative media outlets simply because their beliefs don’t fit the accepted framework of knowledge. Alternative media outlets have been demonetized and censored, and multiple award-winning mainstream media journalists have called out mainstream media and how these networks are slaves to their masters–their masters being big corporations, governments, and intelligence agencies.
Truth doesn’t come from mainstream media, so it’s no mystery why millions have flocked to other sources of information that provide evidence instead of a news anchor simply talking, since these networks do nothing but push propaganda and put out false information.
Our world is and has been experiencing a shift in consciousness for a very long time, and a big reason the global elite started to deem certain information and credible sources as ‘fake news’ and subject them to extreme amounts of censorship was simply due to the fact that this type of information is extremely threatening to several corporate, political and elitists agendas, so much so that freedom of information and speech continues to be censored.
In the midst of all this, along came “Q Anon.” For reasons I am completely unaware of, I never took an interest in Q Anon, and still haven’t. Perhaps it was the predictions being made that didn’t come to light, although many did, or perhaps it’s the fact that it could be anyone speaking. Nevertheless, I simply don’t know why I never took an interest.
The thought crossed my mind that collective consciousness has shifted so much, and so many people have awakened to so many different things, that the only way to capture and deceive this segment of people, who represent the majority in my opinion, would be to develop a character like Q. I don’t really believe this, it was just a thought that crossed my mind.
The thought also crossed my mind that Q could be legit, given the fact that they’ve put out information and predictions that have come to light. Q has a good track record for that and appears to be a team of people who are in or have access to the “inside.” In this sense, Q seems very legit at times.
Furthermore, Q could represent Donald Trump and another faction of the ‘Deep State.’ I believe there are governments within governments, and they are constantly fighting for power, but always remain at the top. This is evident by the fact that all presidents and politicians always followed the will of their masters, they’ve all had ties and close relationships with corporations and the elite and made policies that benefited certain corporate interests and elitist agendas.
What turns me away from Q is its religious-like following. What Q preaches is never questioned by them, and a lot of information and claims are put out there simply based on nothing. Q is not really needed, there are more than enough whistleblowers, documentation, etc. to really seek out the truth and present it in a credible way that will reach the masses.
That being said, Q has no doubt been an awakening trigger forcing and encouraging people to think for themselves, connect the dots, and do their own research.
Trump is also not questioned by many and is seen as a saviour in some cases. People are giving away their own critical thinking, they’re giving away their own brain to another entity without questioning it. Regardless of whether or not Q is legit, or represents another side of the ‘deep state’ or not, this is dangerous.
There have also been some shady claims, just as there have been some legit claims made by Q. One of them was when Q claimed the arrest of Julian Assange was to free him from his poor conditions, and that we should simply just “trust the plan.” This was far from the truth, and this is one of multiple examples that raised red flags about Q in my mind. At the same time, there are many things Q has put out that have been credible and that suggest Q is part of or has deep connections to the inside.
I don’t think that this is a larper… This is way beyond, this is someone who is, I don’t think it’s possible to say the things that Q has been saying without being a true insider. So it’s someone that is real, it’s someone that truly believes that Trump is working against the deep state for the good of the American people, that’s their perspective. The real question is how accurate are they, and I don’t really have an answer to that. – Richard Dolan (source)
When it comes to Trump, it’s quite clear and easy to see, in my opinion, that he represented a disturbance to some very powerful elite that use people like Hillary Clinton to represent them. Trump represented, and still does in many ways, an ‘outsider.’ Looking at politics with no opinion or bias and without a “republican” or “democrat” point of view, it’s easy to see how, during Trump’s campaign, the powerful elite did everything possible to ensure a victory for Clinton. This included not only swaying the Democratic party (which previously played dirty pool against Bernie Sanders), but the entire mainstream media machine, the financial community, the EU, and even the Republican party itself.
Since Trump’s campaign, we have been told that Trump is a racist, sexist, xenophobe, liar, cheat, and narcissist. It’s reminiscent of the concerted media attack against Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, which culminated earlier in 2016 in her impeachment and removal from power. It’s important to understand why Trump is demonized, and that’s because he is a disruptor, and his disruption falls squarely against the two key pillars of the American ruling elite’s ideology: neoliberalism and neoconservatism.
During Trump’s campaign, he was quite vocal about pharmaceutical corruption, the US government funding terrorist organizations, vaccine safety, and he even called out Bill Clinton and his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, in some instances, he seems to have changed his views on a few matters, which goes to show that he could have been compromised by the deep state, or the other side of the deep state, if you will.
“So a person is elected, he comes with his ideas. Then people with briefcases come to visit him, well dressed, in dark suits, kind of like mine. Except instead of a red tie it’s black or navy. And then they explain what to do, and the whole rhetoric changes, you see? This happens from one administration to the next.” – Vladimir Putin, providing one of many examples of politicians around the world and within the US speaking up about this hidden power that controls the presidency. (source)
I’d like to leave you with this thought-provoking quote from Catherine Austin Fitts, former Commissioner of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, who recently said:
“In the Red Button Problem, everybody wants their check and they want to pretend that they are good. So it’s very important that politicians come up with this story of ‘good’. The story of ‘I’m good,’ doesn’t have to make sense, but it has to be good enough so that I can just take my check and feel good and not have to do anything. It’s a way of being free to stay on my couch and do the things that I love instead of being bothered with the responsibility of being a citizen.”
So Q is the new story of, ‘I am good,’ because, ‘I can just trust the plan, and these covert operators are going to get their thing done.’ So I’ve been nice because I know some very intelligent, capable people who buy this whole thing hook, line, and sinker. It has been really frustrating for you and me. I took FASAB 56 to these Q believers, and they said, ‘You need to trust the plan.'”
It appears that people are becoming too engaged with the Q narrative that it is blinding them from the truth of what Q is actually representing. Instead of viewing Q as right or wrong, what steps does it represent in our awakening process? Is the narrative truly creating a world where humanity thrives? Or is it perhaps only taking us a step forward, if at all?
We can’t let Q do all thinking, we must continue to do what got is here in the first place, that’s think for ourselves. It’s ok to peak and take a look at Q, but to hang on to and live and die by everything Q says, and to constantly push the idea that whatever Q says is correct is a little troublesome to me.
Related CE Article: Is The Q Narrative Providing False Hope? Catherine Austin Fitts Weights In
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IRS Issues New Form 990 For Tax-Exempt Entities
October 20, 2008 DBL Law
In 2009, tax-exempt organizations will have a new Form 990 to complete for tax year 2008 and subsequent tax years. Many tax-exempt organizations already file a yearly informational tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to maintain their tax-exempt status. The informational return is the Form 990. Form 990 has not been substantially revised since the late 1970s. Information reported on the Form 990 is available to the public.
The new Form 990 is designed to make the operations of tax-exempt organizations much more transparent than in past years. It is intended to offer the IRS and the public a much clearer picture of how tax-exempt entities operate.
The IRS has also issued revised instructions for the new 2008 Form 990. The revised instructions are supposed to make it easier for tax-exempt entities to complete the new form. The revised instructions are also supposed to promote uniform reporting practices by tax-exempt organizations.
The new Form 990 consists of an eleven-part base form. Tax-exempt organizations are required to report information regarding their mission, current and prior year’s financial results, new, ongoing and discontinued exempt achievements, as well as other information. Some of the most noteworthy changes to the new Form 990 involve organizational governance and the compensation of officers, directors, trustees and key employees. Part VI of the new Form 990 requires certain disclosures about an entity’s governance policies and disclosure practices. Part VII of the new Form 990 requires broader disclosure of compensation paid to the five highest compensated employees of a tax-exempt organization. Beginning with tax year 2008, all organizations that file the new form must disclose such information.
The new Form 990 also contains sixteen schedules. Each entity filing the new form must determine in Part IV of the base form, which of the sixteen schedules it must complete. The schedules require disclosure of information relating to an entity’s public charity status, contributions reported as revenue, political campaign activities, supplemental balance sheet information and activities conducted outside the United States. Other schedules require disclosure of information relating to compensation for current and former officers, directors, trustees and certain key employees as well as transactions with interested persons.
Form 990-EZ, the Short Form Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax, can still be used by certain tax-exempt entities. The IRS did not redesign the Form 990-EZ for 2008, but there are some changes as to how certain information is reported on the Form 990-EZ. Tax-exempt entities that file the Form 990-EZ will now have to review the instructions for the 2008 990 Schedules A, B, C, E, G, L and N to determine whether they must report information on such schedules. Organizations using the Form 990-EZ will not be required to complete any other 2008 Form 990 schedules other than those identified in the preceding sentence.
Revised instructions for the 990-EZ will be available from the IRS in the near future. The new Form 990, its instructions and schedules, as well as the Form 990-EZ are available at www.irs.gov.
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Alissa Leinonen of Gourmondo Co. Named Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2019 Award Winner in the Pacific Northwest Region
United States, Washington, Seattle – 06-20-2019 (PRDistribution.com) — Leinonen joins ranks of exceptional entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest
EY has announced that Founder & CEO Alissa Leinonen of Gourmondo Co. received the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2019 Award in the Unstoppable category in the Pacific Northwest Region. As the world’s most prestigious business awards program for entrepreneurs, Entrepreneur Of The Year recognizes entrepreneurs excelling in areas such as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities, while also transforming our world. Leinonen was selected by an independent panel ofjudges, and the award was presented at a special black-tie gala event at King Street Ballroom & Perch on June 14, 2019. “I’m profoundly grateful to have received the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year award for the PNW region, and honored to be included in such an exceptional line-up of entrepreneurs,” said Leinonen. “To be recognized in the Unstoppable category was particularly meaningful for me, given the 23-year entrepreneurial journey I have been on. If there’s one thing I have learned in business it’s that it doesn’t matter how smart, educated, or experienced you are, or even how much money you have, what matters is that you believe in yourself, that you are willing to take risks, and that you never ever ever ever give up.” Gourmondo opened as a 470 square-foot cafe in Pike Place Market in 1996 and is now Seattle’s largest and longest running woman-owned, full-service catering and gourmet box lunch Company. A leader in the PNW catering industry, Gourmondo is a bustling operation of talented chefs and an exceptional team of over 250 people bringing authenticity and creativity with every meal that is prepared. Leinonen strategically and thoughtfully expanded her company to offer full-service social and event catering, a retail line of gourmet salad dressings, and a successful Corporate Café division. Leinonen launched Gourmondo with the vision of creating a business that offered high-quality, fresh, local ingredients from the best purveyors while infusing her deep personal and professional commitment to family and to the importance of giving back to her employees and to the community.Their newest café is slated to open July 2019 in Seattle, WA, maintaining what they are known for with a selection of fan favorites and fresh local ingredients. Their variety of partnerships including baguettes delivered daily from Le Panier bakery, custom spice blends from World Spice Merchants, artisan pastas from Lagana Foods, and fresh WA-grown produce from farmers across the state, will all be a part of the new location. As a Pacific Northwest award winner, Alissa Leinonen is now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 National Awards. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced at the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 16, 2019. The awards are the culminating event of the Strategic Growth Forum®, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies. Videos: Alissa’s inspirational video vignette and acceptance speech are available for viewing and download.
About Gourmondo Co.
Gourmondo is one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier catering companies, offering full-service social and event catering, gourmet box lunches, a retail line of gourmet salad dressings, and a successful Corporate Café division. Back in 1996, Founder and CEO Alissa Leinonen had a dream that she turned into a reality by refinancing her car and opening a 470 square-foot, four table café. Gourmondo has since grown extensively, tripling the size of the company in the last three years. They serve between 3,000-4,000 guests per day across all divisions and employee more than 250 individuals. Alissa is known for building her business around the working parent model, having led by example for many years raising her two children. The award winning company has received accolades locally and across the country. https://www.gourmondoco.com/ About Entrepreneur Of The Year®Entrepreneur Of The Year®, founded by EY, is the world’s most prestigious business awards program for entrepreneurs. The program makes a difference through the way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global awards program of its kind, Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 145 cities in more than 60 countries. ey.com/eoy Media Contacts: Lesa Linster, 206.550.1200, [email protected]Lisa Willis, 617-968-2979, [email protected]
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Amazon’s bio-domes bring a touch of science fiction to Seattle
A plan to create a futuristic trio of spherical bio-domes, designed by architecture firm NBBJ, has been given the go-ahead in downtown Seattle.
The shape of the structure resembles a cluster of rounded bubbles, with the largest in the centre and two smaller bubbles clinging to each side of it.
The impressive five-storey glass domes, which are around 95 feet tall at their highest point, will form an unusual work environment inside headquarters currently being constructed for the online retail giant Amazon.
The Seattle Design Board had previously called for the initial plans to be redrawn, after residents had complained that there was not enough public access space or environmental consideration.
The new design includes both public and private spaces, which means the citizens of Seattle can experience the trio of bio-domes for themselves. The revamped plans show retail space, offices and areas for meeting, dining and relaxing. Outside of the three glass spheres, an open field will be created to echo the lush green interior of the development. A dog park and a walkway will also be added to this exterior space for locals to enjoy.
For firms or individuals planning modern building developments in North Wales, some minor elements from these incredible bio-dome designs could be used for inspiration. At the simplest level, glass areas suitable for growing plants indoors could be integrated into buildings and a qualified architect in North Wales should be able to come up with workable proposals.
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Activism Amid Disappointment: Women’s Groups and the Politics of Hope in Egypt
Activism Amid Disappointment: Women’s Groups and the Politics of Hope in Egypt Allam, Nermin 2018-10-23 00:00:00 In this paper, I provide preliminary answers to two main questions, namely: How did the politics of disappointment unfold among female activists after the 2011 Egyptian uprising and specifically under the current regime? And what were the effects of the strong sense of emotional disappointment on women’s activism and collective action? The study is situated within the literature on emotions and contentious politics. Utilizing the rich theoretical tools found in the literature, I argue that disappointment did not mark the end of politics and activism among women’s groups in Egypt. The data for this paper was gathered from semi-structured interviews with female activists, protestors, and leaders of women’s rights groups. The data gathered was analyzed within the prism of critical discourse analysis in an attempt to empirically investigate how activists move both forward and backward as they navigate their own emotions in addition to a crippling political system. It is true that the situation is complicated and activism is restricted in Egypt, however, the essence of this research is ignited by participants’ affirmation that their experience in the uprising has changed them, and that “things cannot go back to the old days,” notwithstanding their disappointment over the turn of events. A focus on hope and disappointment places the experiences of activists squarely in our analysis. It allows researchers to reclaim the voices of female activists in explaining the challenges and opportunities that developed post the uprising and how these developments influenced and shaped their experience, movement, and mobilization. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Middle East Law and Governance Brill http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/activism-amid-disappointment-women-s-groups-and-the-politics-of-hope-gfDWki5J9z
Allam, Nermin
Middle East Law and Governance
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In this paper, I provide preliminary answers to two main questions, namely: How did the politics of disappointment unfold among female activists after the 2011 Egyptian uprising and specifically under the current regime? And what were the effects of the strong sense of emotional disappointment on women’s activism and collective action? The study is situated within the literature on emotions and contentious politics. Utilizing the rich theoretical tools found in the literature, I argue that disappointment did not mark the end of politics and activism among women’s groups in Egypt. The data for this paper was gathered from semi-structured interviews with female activists, protestors, and leaders of women’s rights groups. The data gathered was analyzed within the prism of critical discourse analysis in an attempt to empirically investigate how activists move both forward and backward as they navigate their own emotions in addition to a crippling political system. It is true that the situation is complicated and activism is restricted in Egypt, however, the essence of this research is ignited by participants’ affirmation that their experience in the uprising has changed them, and that “things cannot go back to the old days,” notwithstanding their disappointment over the turn of events. A focus on hope and disappointment places the experiences of activists squarely in our analysis. It allows researchers to reclaim the voices of female activists in explaining the challenges and opportunities that developed post the uprising and how these developments influenced and shaped their experience, movement, and mobilization.
Middle East Law and Governance – Brill
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Allam, N. (2018). Activism Amid Disappointment: Women’s Groups and the Politics of Hope in Egypt. Middle East Law and Governance, 10(3), 291-316.
Allam, Nermin. "Activism Amid Disappointment: Women’s Groups and the Politics of Hope in Egypt." Middle East Law and Governance 10.3 (2018): 291-316.
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EAACI - Allergopharma Research Award 2018
EAACI Allergopharma Award 2019
The EAACI Allergopharma Research Award was first established in 2000 on the initiative of Allergopharma Joachim Ganzer KG in collaboration with the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. It is intended that the award should recognise scientific achievement of young scientists working in the field of allergy and encourage their engagement in further research. Therefore, the award is open to EAACI Junior Members who have conducted their research in a European centre.
The award is valued at EUR 10,000 and will be granted to the institution or research organisation the awardee primarily conducts the research for.
The awardee will be presented with the EAACI Allergopharma Research Award during the Opening Ceremony of EAACI’s annual congress, EAACI Congress 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. Registration, travel and accommodation to the congress will be supported by the grant.
Any EAACI Junior Member Assembly (JMA) may apply for the award via an online system which will be available on our EAACI website starting from 1 October 2018 until 31 December 2018 at 24:00 CET.
1. Motivation letter/Executive summary: A summary of the applicant’s major accomplishments highlighting their impact on the field
2. A complete curriculum vitae
3. List of up to three individual articles that support the quality and originality of the research clearly identifying the concept(s) developed
4. Upload of 1 to 3 most relevant publications in PDF format
5. A complete bibliography of publications with key publications identified. In case of multiple authors, the applicant’s specific contribution to the publication should be briefly discussed
6. Cumulative citation factor and Impact factor
7. At least two supporting letters, at least one of which should be provided by a supporter outside the applicant’s institution. The letters should specifically support the significant accomplishments of the applicant justifying why the applicant should receive this recognition.
1. The received complete applications will be reviewed by EAACI’s independent scientific award committee.
Please note: For reasons of industry compliance, Allergopharma will not be involved in any way in the selection process.
2. The EAACI Executive Committee selects the awardee in February 2019
3. Notification of the winner is in late February and the official announcement is during the Opening Ceremony of EAACI Congress 2019, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal from 01 - 05 June, 2019. The prize money will be paid to the winner’s home institution by the end of July 2019.
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June 19, 2019 News & Opinion » Seven Days
Libby Schaaf vs. Donald Trump, Round Two
Mayor responds to president's latest Twitter threat with tough-sounding response.
Talking back to the Donald has been a good look for Libby.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tossed out the first pitch at Monday's night A's game with a looping strike. A half-inning later, Schaaf threw a brush back pitch at President Trump, implying in a tweet, that she would blow the whistle again on any U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, if any are planned for Northern California.
Trump tweeted Monday night that the agency would begin next week "removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States." Based on interviews with agency officials, it is not clear whether the president's vow is actually planned or aspirational.
More than an hour later, Schaaf implied she would warn undocumented immigrants of an ICE raid, if she receives credible information of any impending actions, she tweeted at the president.
"@RealDonaldTrump If you continue to threaten, target and terrorize families in my community ... and if we receive credible information ... you already know what our values are in Oakland — and we will unapologetically stand up for those values."
In February 2018, Schaaf made national headlines when she alerted undocumented immigrants in the region that she had knowledge that raids were imminent. She turned out to be correct. The administration claimed to have targeted 1,100 undocumented immigrants. Just 200 were arrested by agents.
Thomas Homan, the then-acting head of the agency, equated Schaaf with a "gang lookout" and Trump asked his U.S. Attorney General at the time, Jeff Sessions, to prosecute Schaaf for obstruction of justice. "The Libby Schaaf Act of 2018″ was later introduced by Rep. Steve King to threaten jail time for officials disclose ICE raids to the public. But the mayor's warning played well among her Oakland constituents.
Scott Haggerty Will Not Seek Reelection
Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty, who has served portions of the Tri-Valley and Fremont since 1996, announced that he will not seek re-election to his Board of Supervisors District 1 seat.
Haggerty's legacy as a supervisor will likely be cast around his work in transportation and taking part in an era of financial stability at the county level. In the midst of a changing economy and one of the most debilitating recessions in U.S. history, the county maintained reserves and never cut a single county job despite record annual deficits. Haggerty also worked tirelessly to alleviate constant traffic congestion on Interstate 580 and pushed for the completion of the Warm Springs BART station in Fremont, while advocating for BART to Livermore. He also voiced strong support for the Alameda County Sheriff's Department.
The sudden announcement is certain to shake-up the East Bay's political landscape. An open seat on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is rarely in play and attractive for aspiring candidates because of its steady pay and stability. The seats have no term limits, and no member of the board has lost a re-election campaign in generations.
Prospective candidates interested in Haggerty's seat do not have much time to contemplate a campaign for the open seat. The primary for this race is Mar. 3, 2020.
On the same day long-time Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty announced he will not seek re-election for a sixth term, state Sen. Bob Wieckowski said he will run to replace him next year in the District 1 seat.
The Alameda County supervisorial race now includes Wieckowski and Fremont Councilmember Vinnie Bacon, who had planned on challenging Haggerty in the primary. Bacon announced his campaign last February.
Among the names rumored to be interested in joining the race is former Assemblymember Catharine Baker, a Republican; Ohlone Community College District Trustee Sue Chan, also a former Fremont councilmember; and Fremont Mayor Lily Mei.
Harris and Swalwell to Debate Biden, Sanders, and Others
Two Democratic presidential candidates with ties to the East Bay will join the second night of two much-anticipated debates on June 27-28. Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Eric Swalwell will be featured together in the debate on Thursday, June 28.
The second debate is seen as the more glamorous of the two since it includes four of the five candidates routinely topping the polls. Former vice-president Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, and Harris head the marquee in Miami for the Thursday night debate on MSNBC.
For Swalwell, who has struggled to make much of an impact since officially joining the race on April 8, the larger spotlight afforded by the debate could either overshadow him or give him an opportunity to seize the greater attention provided by the field's top contenders.
By contrast, Wednesday night's field of Democratic presidential candidates has significantly less star-power, although, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is believed to be surging in the polls recently, along with Sen. Cory Booker, and Beto O'Rourke.
San Leandro Cannabis Tax to Stay Put
San Leandro's cannabis industry has failed to gain a foothold nearly four years after the city approved its first medical cannabis dispensary. The first dispensary to open, actually the third permit given by the city, only opened earlier this year. Three years ago, voters gave the city permission to begin taxing cannabis sales and a schedule was approved by the City Council setting the rate six percent, starting last year and due to increase to seven percent on July 1.
But without much activity on the sales front, the San Leandro City Council turned back the clock on the tax schedule. San Leandro's tax schedule was set to plateau at 8 percent in the third year. Under the proposal approved by the council Monday night, the city will hit the eight percent tax rate in July 2022, instead of 2021.
The move comes at a time when other cities across the state have faced growing concern from the cannabis industry that their business is being overtaxed.
In Other News ...
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland's largest employer, wants to transform disparate lots on Telegraph Avenue near BART into one of the biggest buildings in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The new building would serve as Kaiser's headquarters, house 7,200 employees, and cost $900 million. ... The City of Berkeley sued U.C. Berkeley last Friday alleging the university failed to appropriately assess the impact on city services of an influx of new students by 2022-23, Berkeleyside reported. ... A motorist traveling westbound on Highway 24 was shot while driving through the Caldecott Tunnel, Bay City News reported. ... East Bay Municipal Utilities District customers will see their water bills increase by 12.75 percent over the next 2 years, BCN reported. ... Max Harris, one of the Ghost Ship defendants, testified that he was not an authority figure at the Ghost Ship, just someone who received free rent for cleaning the warehouse collective, KQED reported. ...
The California Democratic Party is considering letting non-citizens vote on party matters, Capital Public Radio reported. ... Bombadier, the Canadian company creating BART's new rail cars, is opening a plant in Pittsburg, the Chron reported. This means much of BART new fleet will be assembled in the East Bay. Meanwhile, BART is phasing out paper tickets by the end of this year. ... Anthony Gomez, 56, was fatally shot by San Leandro Police last week after mistaking a piece of wood in Gomez's hand for a firearm. Gomez's mother disputes that he was wielding a machete beforehand and exposing himself to children before the shooting, the Chron reported. ...
The Toronto Raptors closed out the last game at Oracle Arena by winning the NBA championship in Oakland. Meanwhile, the architect of the Raptors rise to glory, team president Masai Ujiri was charged with misdemeanor battery against an Alameda County sheriff's deputy following the game's conclusion. ... Cal women's head basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb was hired by the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. ... The Raiders will be the subject of Hard Knocks, the HBO reality series chronicling the pre-season highs and lows of an NFL team.
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DFAT Interviews: Nathan Kelly writer and creator of indie comic book, DREXLER
by Casey Bowker | Mar 28, 2018 | Comics, Interviews | 0 comments
Nathan Kelly is the man behind the Kickstarter-funded, guns-a-blazing, kickass new comic, Drexler. I had the opportunity to chat with Kelly as he talks about the comic, his teaming up with writer Bob Salley, and why he decided to go to Patreon to continue the adventures of the comic.
DFAT: Let’s let the readers know what the comic is all about. Give me the elevator pitch for Drexler.
Nathan: A man ostracized by his community becomes its last hope when something sinister starts stalking the residents in the darkness. Sometimes it takes a “monster” to kill something worse…
DFAT: I love it! Certainly enough of a pitch to get a reader interested in the book. What inspired you to write a story like this?
Nathan: The concept for Drex evolved from my love of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy and Eduardo Risso’s work on 100 Bullets. Those two creators have had the biggest impact on me as an artist. So if Hellboy and 100 Bullets were thrown in a blender with a Sci-fi twist, that’s kinda how DREXLER as a concept came about.
DFAT: Two of my favorite comic series mashed together, great idea. With Black Panther being so popular right now, what’s it like being a creator of color in the comic book climate?
Nathan: I’m really happy to see how well Black Panther has performed. If it opens a few more doors for minorities (of any race or ethnicity) well that’s progress! I think the growing diversity in comics is a beautiful thing and I’m thrilled to see that representation out there in more and more stories and an increasing involvement in the industry!
DFAT: It’s a beautiful thing that so many voices can be heard right now with independent comics. It’s opening a lot of doors for all people to go out there and create. Speaking of creating, you recently made the move to Patreon. What was the reasoning behind using that platform?
Nathan: I’m not the quickest artist by any stretch and that’s largely due to how much time I can really devote to drawing during the week. So I thought the best way to keep this book relevant and potentially grow an audience was to switch the format to a web comic and make it free to read. Patreon seemed like the natural choice to help fund the continued production of the whole four part series rather than cash grabs on Kickstarter per issue. So far thou, it’s been much harder to win over patrons in comparison to getting the funds necessary on Kickstarter… But I’m up for the challenge and I think I have much more to offer folks on a continued basis via Patreon rather than vice versa. My plan, at the moment, is to use Patreon to fund the production of the series and then use Kickstarter to print the trade, but we’ll see…
DFAT: Looking over the Rewards that you offer and the interactivity with the fans, I think you’ll find it to be a success. So, I know your’e the artist behind the comic but you actually teamed up with Bob Salley (Shelter Division, Salvagers) to write the comic correct?
Nathan: Yea! Bob and I had been discussing working together on something for a long while prior to DREXLER. I had actually written and drawn just about a complete issue of DREXLER before Bob jumped on board. I’m not a natural writer and had given him my script and notes to get some feedback… After some discussion Bob agreed to just write this thing and we scrapped everything and got to work. He’s helped narrow the focus of the story and is building the foundation for who Drex is (at his core) as a character, something that I think he’s great at from reading his other work. Its been a fantastic experience working with Bob and I’ve learned quite a bit about his writing approach and lessons he’s learned in the industry! He’s an all-around great guy and I’m thankful he joined the team!!
DFAT: Everything that I’ve read that he’s written has been pretty fantastic. I loved what you guys did with the first issue and I’m happy the collaboration turned out so well. So, what’s next for Drexler?
Nathan: We’ve got plenty of story to tell on this first arc of DREXLER! We’ll dig into his history with the town of Marvin a bit in this next chapter, plus continue where we left off from chapter one! This series was initially supposed to be a three part mini but Bob and I have since extended it to four (for the first arc)! I have a loose outline for the next arc as well, but that’s a long way off from now. I do have something else, something brand new brewing in addition to DREXLER… But it’s a bit too premature to talk in depth about it yet. All I’ll say is stay tuned…
We can’t wait to find out what happens next with Drexler and thank Nathan so much for chatting with us about this kick-ass comic. Make sure you read the first issue HERE and keep up to date with everyone on the Facebook page.
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2018 - HURRICANE FLORENCE BEACH RESTORATION
DRC was mobilized for a beach restoration project in Surf City and Topsail Island, North Carolina immediately following Hurricane Florence. The storm system displaced large amounts of sand off the beaches and into the right-of-way. DRC used a variety of equipment to scrape the sand, screen it to remove particulates and debris, and then redistribute it along the beach. The screening equipment removed undesirables like wood and trash at a rate of 80 – 100 cubic yards per hour. The pure beach sand was then loaded into dump trucks and distributed along the shoreline to rebuild dunes and contour the beaches. DRC had contracts and equipment in place before the storm hit the east coast, ready to bring this beautiful beach back to normal.
2018 - HURRICANE FLORENCE DEBRIS REMOVAL
DRC Emergency Services is the country’s largest disaster and emergency response company. DRC mobilized in Wilmington, North Carolina before Hurricane Florence made landfall in September 2018. DRC worked with city officials before, during, and after the storm, implementing plans for debris removal and getting the city back to normal.
2018 - PINELLIS COUNTY FISH KILL CLEAN UP
DRC was contracted by Pinellas County, Florida in early September 2018 to clean up dead fish resulting from a 1 million acre red tide algae plume out in the gulf. DRC implemented equipment and technology to gather the dead fish before they ever reached the shoreline. Using shrimp boats, skimmer boats, Weedoo boats, pontoon boats and support boats in the inlet areas, DRC’s crews were able to remove the fish before they washed ashore, keeping the beaches clean and viable for visitors.
The plume originated in Lee County, Florida (Sanibel Island) and moved north through Sarasota and Manatee Counties. The other affected counties were handled by competitors with beach hand rakes. Pinellas County was the first municipality to use DRC’s methods of offshore fish removal. DRC’s innovative methods focus on retrieving as many dead fish as possible before reaching the shore, mitigating the effect on tourism and beach cleanup in Pinellas’ crown jewel, Clearwater Beach.
DRC crews, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard, monitored the red tide plume’s movement by helicopter, coordinating with the Florida Wildlife Commission as to the migration and effect of the algae.
2018 - CALHOUN COUNTY TORNADO
DRC was responsible for the debris management and DMS site in Jacksonville, Alabama. The debris is from Calhoun County and the City of Jacksonville (a city in Calhoun County), generated by an EF-3 tornado that hit the area on March 19, 2018. Calhoun County activated DRC under our ACCA Region 6 Contract (Alabama County Commissioner's Association). As of April 18, when these images were taken, there was approximately 200,000 yards of debris at the site.
2017 - PRESENT: HURRICANE IRMA
In early September 2017, Hurricane Irma made history as the most intense Atlantic hurricane to strike the United States since Katrina in 2005. Hurricane Irma made landfall on the Florida Keys as a category 4 storm and triggered one of the biggest blackouts in U.S. history leaving over 13 million people without power.
DRC met with the Florida Department of Transportation prior to Hurricane Irma’s landfall and was pre-staged with Project Managers within 18 Counties including Taylor, Madison, Dixie, Levy, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Suwannee, Hamilton, Columbia, Union, Alachua, Bradford, Baker, Nassau, Duval, Clay, Putnam and St, Johns County. Following Irma, DRC simultaneously activated 8 PUSH contracts within these counties. Additionally, DRC provided food services to Palm Beach Gardens and Coconut Creek, prior to and after landfall.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, FEMA designated 48 counties within Florida as federal disaster areas. The majority of debris created by Hurricane Irma is vegetative debris. To date, DRC has removed over 27,000 hazardous trees within the Cities of Miami and Fort Lauderdale and has reduced over 650,000 cubic yards of vegetative debris, in both jurisdictions combined.
DRC was activated in 26 jurisdictions simultaneously while managing 13 debris management sites.
2017- PRESENT: HURRICANE HARVEY
In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey hit southeast Texas as the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Charley in 2004. Cities on the Southeast Coast of Texas, such as Aransas Pass and Port Aransas, took the brunt of the initial impact of this tremendous storm. DRC provided food, cots and logistical needs to Jefferson County, the City of Pasadena, and the City of Port Arthur prior to landfall and in the initial aftermath of the storm. Seventy-two hours before the storm made landfall, DRC personnel were stationed in Aransas Pass working with officials to form a plan of action. Within 12 hours after the storm hit, DRC was mobilized. In a little over two months, DRC is 90% complete and the project is coming to a close.
As the first major hurricane (Category 3 or above) to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Wilma in 2005, Hurricane Harvey poured more than 19 trillion gallons of rainwater on the State of Texas causing FEMA to designate 41 counties within Texas as federal disaster areas. According to FEMA, the Houston area experienced 51.88 inches of rain – the largest amount of rainwater to ever be recorded in the continental United States from a single storm. To date, DRC has recovered and reduced over 1,500,000 cubic yards within Harris County and the City of Houston. Additionally, DRC has removed over 15,000 hazardous trees and counting.
DRC was activated in 17 jurisdictions following Hurricane Harvey including the City of Texas City, Port Neches, Nederland, Groves, Humble, Taylor Lake Village, Cleveland, Bellaire, Piney Point Village and Waller County. Additionally, simultaneously ran more than 16 debris management sites during this activation.
2016 - BATON ROUGE FLOOD EVENT
The flood that affected South Louisiana in August of 2016 caused severe damage to thousands of homes and businesses. DRC Emergency Services mobilized contracts in East Baton Rouge Parish, Lafayette Parish, St. Martin Parish, Ascension Parish, Iberville Parish, Tangipahoa Parish and the Town of Baker La. This event required the use of over three hundred hauling vehicles collecting and processing and/or recycling over 2.5 million cubic yards of construction and demolition debris, over 250 tons of household hazardous waste and thousands of white goods. Many of the projects involved extended R.O.W. work requiring the use of R.O.E. documentation and procedures. In East Baton Rouge, two temporary Debris Management Sites (DMS) were opened and operated to compact and recycle C&D debris prior to haul out for final disposal. These sites operated with such efficiency that FEMA and the USACE filmed the operation to use in training sessions.
2016 - MULTIPLE SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS
The severe weather in March resulted in flooding in all of Louisiana followed by April flooding in Texas. DRC responded to its standby customers in the City of Houston and Harris County, Texas while simultaneously working in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. In Louisiana, the widespread flooding was mapped and prioritized from the air. DRC’s crews provided immediate relief to impacted residents by removing water-soaked construction and demolition debris quickly and efficiently. Electronic waste, household hazardous waste and white goods were collected and processed separately.
Tornadoes ravaged Texas and North Carolina in late April and early May. DRC was called upon for debris collection, processing and disposal in Smith County, Texas via a TXDOT contract and in New Hanover, N.C. by way of a “standby” contract.
2016 - SNOW STORM JONAS
The days of January 22nd through the 24th 2016 saw a blanket of snow across the Mid -Atlantic States primarily in areas unaccustomed and ill-prepared to deal with such massive quantities. Many areas experienced an accumulation in excess of three feet which caused a suspension of municipal services and massive cancellations of business operations.
DRC’s response team established operations in Washington D.C. on the evening of the 22nd and began mobilizing equipment and manpower in assistance to the Maryland Highway Authority, the Maryland Department of General Services, Prince Georges County, Maryland, the City of Baltimore and Loudoun County Virginia. Operations continued twenty-four hours per day for ten days which required two operators per piece of equipment and around the clock management and support personnel. As a result of DRC’s quick response, a long term contract was secured with one of the tasking jurisdictions.
2015 - LOUISIANA STORM EVENT
Following the April 2015 event, DRC was activated in response to Straight line winds affecting the City/Parish of East Baton Rouge. In as little as 30 days, crews had scoured the city and returned it to its pristine state. All of the debris collected was quickly processed by grinding and ultimately recycled and used as fuel. DRC emergency Services also responded with adequate resources to Ascension Parish for an efficient and timely debris removal and recovery process.
2015 - TEXAS FLOOD EVENT
DRC was activated under its existing City of Houston “Standby” contract to collect approximately 250,000 cubic yards of mostly construction and demolition debris. Additionally, DRC was tasked with tracking this debris from “cradle to grave” with an emphasis on recycling.
The City of Bellaire also activated DRC under an existing Standby contract in response to the historic floods in May of 2015. While the volume produced in Bellaire was not significant, DRC mobilized rapidly to return the city to a normal state. Additionally, DRC responded to the needs of the Texas Department of Transportation by performing tree and debris removal with the Houston District as required by the department.
DRC has nearly 30 years of experience - for additional project information, please contact us.
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South Side man dies after being struck in head
Aug 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM Aug 12, 2008 at 11:19 AM
A man struck in the head during a fight at a South Side party early Saturday has died.
Adam Messmer, 20, was trying to break up a party at 2928 Palisades Ave., where he lives with two roommates, a friend said. Messmer was punched and his head hit the concrete street, the friend said.
Messmer was taken to Grant Medical Center. He died today after being removed from life-support. He was a student at Columbus State Community College and worked at Auto Zone, the friend said.
Franklin County Coroner Brad Lewis said an autopsy will be done on Tuesday. Police did not report any arrests.
tdecker@dispatch.com
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by Steven Wallander, Marcel Aillery, and Glenn Schaible
California has a highly variable climate, and severe droughts occur there with considerable frequency. The current 4-year drought is, by almost any measure, the most severe since detailed recordkeeping began in the late 1800s. Given such severe shortages in surface-water availability, agricultural production in California is currently heavily focused on the shortrun challenge of finding the right mix of planted acreage reductions, deficit irrigation, and increases in groundwater withdrawals on the State’s 7 to 8 million irrigated acres.
While the shortrun water shortages of this drought are surprising, sort of like a bad role of the dice, California farmers also face water scarcity as a longrun challenge. The latter challenge, which generally receives less attention than the current drought, stems from a combination of rising competition from other water uses, reduction in groundwater supplies, and climate change. Putting the response to the current drought in perspective requires information on how the longer run challenge continues to reshape irrigated agriculture in California. In this article, we examine long-run change in California’s irrigated agriculture by using data from the USDA Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey as well as USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) crop acreage and yield reports.
During a drought in California, the shortfalls in water for irrigation come primarily from reductions in off-farm surface-water supplies (e.g.: rivers and reservoirs). Over the long run, total use of off-farm surface water for irrigation is declining, from about 14 million acre-feet in 1984 to about 12 million acre-feet in 2013. Part of this is due to increased competition from other uses—urban demands, cooling water for electricity power generation, and environmental uses such as in stream flows for endangered or threatened aquatic species. Also, water usage varies a great deal from year to year. Irrigators in California applied over 16 million acre-feet of off-farm surface water in 1997, which was possible because of above-average precipitation in the State, including snowpack in the Sierra Mountains, from 1995 to 1999. In contrast, the prolonged drought from 2007 to 2010 made off-farm surface water highly scarce, and so farmers in California applied less than 10 million acre-feet of off-farm surface water in 2008. However, an important facet of irrigation in California is that surface water and groundwater are, to a large degree, substitutes. When off-farm surface water use goes down, groundwater use usually goes up, and vice versa (fig. 1). There is also some adjustment from onfarm surface water—mostly local precipitation captured in small ponds and reservoirs—which is not a particularly large potential source of water compared to the Sierra snowpack, Federal and State reservoirs, or the major aquifers.
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One response by California farmers has been to increase investment in more-efficient irrigation systems, such as low pressure sprinkler and micro-irrigation systems that reduce water lost to evaporation, runoff, and deep percolation, thereby increasing the share of applied water that is beneficially used by the crop. Over the past 30 years, the share of irrigation water applied using the (typically) less-efficient gravity systems has declined while that applied by micro-systems has increased.
Over both the long run and the short run, California farmers have also reduced irrigated acreage in response to water scarcity. This reduction has not been equal across crops, however. Higher value perennial crops with high capital costs, such as nut and fruit orchards, have actually increased in irrigated acreage. Lower value crops, such as cotton and hay, which may be more water intensive, have decreased in irrigated acreage.
Of course, scarce water is only one factor driving these acreage shifts. The net effect of a complex mix of economic, policy, and environmental factors, including commodity price changes, has been a regional shift in irrigated production. While total acres irrigated have decreased in California, other regions—most notably the Mississippi Delta and the Northern Plains—have seen significant expansion in irrigated acreage over the past two decades. Extended periods of severe drought in California raise questions about whether greater shifts in irrigated acreage in response to regional water-supply differences are likely, possibly to more humid areas such as the Southeastern United States. However, the relative comparative advantages of regional production remains an important consideration. For example, not all of the increases in other regions’ irrigation acreage reflect a relocation of crops from California. Much of these increases have been in soybeans and corn for grain; soybeans are not a major crop in California, and most of the corn in California is grown for silage (fermented, high-moisture stored animal feed) for dairy cattle. While California agriculture faces increasingly extreme periods of water scarcity and greater competition for water, it continues to benefit from an abundance of high-quality soils and favorable weather conditions. This is evidenced in a comparison of irrigated yields for crops grown both in California and in the Southeastern United States. In most cases, the irrigated yields in California are 30 to 100 percent higher. In addition to differences in productivity, groundwater management and overdraft are concerns in both California and the Southeast.
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Irrigation & Water Use , by Marcel Aillery, USDA, Economic Research Service, April 2019
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Etihad Airways' first residence guest revealed
Etihad Airways' first residence guest Mr. Gino Bertuccio
Etihad Airways today revealed that the most exclusive ticket in aviation history – the inaugural flight in The Residence by Etihad™ – has been booked by Miami-based businessman and aviation enthusiast, Mr. Gino Bertuccio, who will be the first person ever to experience the world’s only private multi-room cabin on a commercial passenger aircraft.
The Residence, which features an exclusive three-room private cabin, including a Living Room, Double Bedroom and Ensuite Shower Room, is a ground-breaking concept unique to Etihad Airways and will be available on the airline’s incoming fleet of Airbus A380 aircraft. Mr. Bertuccio will have a dedicated Savoy Academy-trained butler on call throughout the duration of his flight, which is part of the unique experience for guests who book The Residence.
Well before Etihad Airways’ first A380 inaugural flight takes off from Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) for London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR) on 27 December, 2014, a dedicated Concierge team will ensure all aspects of Mr. Bertuccio’s experience are handled with the utmost personal attention, dedication and care.
Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways’ Chief Commercial Officer, said: “We are delighted to welcome Mr. Bertuccio on board The Residence by Etihad. On December 27, he will become part of aviation history as the first member of an elite group of Etihad Airways guests to enjoy the world’s most luxurious and exclusive hospitality and service experience in the air.”
Mr. Bertuccio who runs Ligi Import Corp said: “I have followed Etihad Airways and I have always admired the products the airline has launched. There are going to be many firsts on this inaugural flight – new amenities, services and other innovations to try. I am excited to experience them all, though I am particularly fascinated by the butler concept.”
Mr. Bertuccio, who booked the inaugural flight on etihad.com, has been passionate about flying since a very young age. A true connoisseur with deep expertise and knowledge of air travel, Mr. Bertuccio flew on his first inaugural 25 years ago and has since traveled on 22 inaugural and final flights in premium class cabins. He is an avid collector of airline memorabilia with nearly 2000 model airplanes, as well as albums filled with boarding passes, certificates and photos from past flights.
“For the first time in my flying experience, I really don’t know what to expect but I do know that flying in the Residence by Etihad will be a truly unique adventure, the top of luxury. I have huge expectations. My only wish is that the flight was longer,” said Mr. Bertuccio.
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Public Release: 1-Mar-2004
Memories light up the corners of our minds
fMRI shows certain brain areas 'light up' as we learn
Memories do indeed light up the corners of our mind, just as the songwriter said.
Scientific evidence for this notion comes from studies using magnetic resonance imaging to examine the living human brain. These studies show that certain brain areas "light up" as an individual is learning information.
Scientists had previously established that people remember emotionally charged events and facts better than neutral ones. Now researchers at MIT have discovered that memories with an element of arousal or excitement are remembered by a different area of the brain--the amygdala--from memories of a calmer nature, which are remembered by the prefrontal cortex. These findings, published in the journal PNAS Online on Feb. 23, are an important step in understanding how the brain makes memories. Scientists hope this information will one day lead to a treatment for memory loss and learning impairments.
For the study, Elizabeth Kensinger, a researcher in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Suzanne Corkin, professor of behavioral neuroscience in the same department, asked 14 men and 14 women to "learn" 150 words related to events, while the participants brains were being scanned in an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) procedure. Some of the words represented arousing events, such as "rape" or "slaughter." Others were nonarousing, such as "sorrow" and "mourning."
They then tested the participants to see which of the words they remembered having been shown. Kensinger and Corkin found that on average, people remembered more of the arousing words than the others. They also discovered that the hippocampus was active while all the words were learned, but the amygdala and prefrontal cortex were active only for learning the arousing and nonarousing words, respectively.
"This result suggests that stress hormones, which are released as part of the response to emotionally arousing events, are responsible for enhancing memories of those events," said the researchers. "We think that detailed cognitive processing may underlie the enhanced memory for the nonarousing events."
The next steps in this research will be a similar study using words denoting positive events, both arousing and nonarousing, and a study to examine the fate of emotional memory in aging.
The researchers used the brain scanning facilities at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, a collaborative research center founded by MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Aging funded the Kensinger and Corkin study.
Denise Brehm
brehm@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice
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Public Release: 10-Aug-2017
Attitudes on human genome editing vary, but all agree conversation is necessary
MADISON, Wis. -- In early August 2017, an international team of scientists announced they had successfully edited the DNA of human embryos. As people process the political, moral and regulatory issues of the technology -- which nudges us closer to nonfiction than science fiction -- researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Temple University show the time is now to involve the American public in discussions about human genome editing.
In a study published Aug. 11 in the journal Science, the researchers assessed what people in the United States think about the uses of human genome editing and how their attitudes may drive public discussion. They found a public divided on its uses but united in the importance of moving conversations forward.
"There are several pathways we can go down with gene editing," says UW-Madison's Dietram Scheufele, lead author of the study and member of a National Academy of Sciences committee that compiled a report focused on human gene editing earlier this year. "Our study takes an exhaustive look at all of those possible pathways forward and asks where the public stands on each one of them."
Compared to previous studies on public attitudes about the technology, the new study takes a more nuanced approach, examining public opinion about the use of gene editing for disease therapy versus for human enhancement, and about editing that becomes hereditary versus editing that does not.
The research team, which included Scheufele and Dominique Brossard -- both professors of life sciences communication -- along with Michael Xenos, professor of communication arts, first surveyed study participants about the use of editing to treat disease (therapy) versus for enhancement (creating so-called "designer babies"). While about two-thirds of respondents expressed at least some support for therapeutic editing, only one-third expressed support for using the technology for enhancement.
Diving even deeper, researchers looked into public attitudes about gene editing on specific cell types -- somatic or germline -- either for therapy or enhancement. Somatic cells are non-reproductive, so edits made in those cells do not affect future generations. Germline cells, however, are heritable, and changes made in these cells would be passed on to children.
Public support of therapeutic editing was high both in cells that would be inherited and those that would not, with 65 percent of respondents supporting therapy in germline cells and 64 percent supporting therapy in somatic cells. When considering enhancement editing, however, support depended more upon whether the changes would affect future generations. Only 26 percent of people surveyed supported enhancement editing in heritable germline cells and 39 percent supported enhancement of somatic cells that would not be passed on to children.
"A majority of people are saying that germline enhancement is where the technology crosses that invisible line and becomes unacceptable," says Scheufele. "When it comes to therapy, the public is more open, and that may partly be reflective of how severe some of those genetically inherited diseases are. The potential treatments for those diseases are something the public at least is willing to consider."
Beyond questions of support, researchers also wanted to understand what was driving public opinions. They found that two factors were related to respondents' attitudes toward gene editing as well as their attitudes toward the public's role in its emergence: the level of religious guidance in their lives, and factual knowledge about the technology.
Those with a high level of religious guidance in their daily lives had lower support for human genome editing than those with low religious guidance. Additionally, those with high knowledge of the technology were more supportive of it than those with less knowledge.
While respondents with high religious guidance and those with high knowledge differed on their support for the technology, both groups highly supported public engagement in its development and use. These results suggest broad agreement that the public should be involved in questions of political, regulatory and moral aspects of human genome editing.
"The public may be split along lines of religiosity or knowledge with regard to what they think about the technology and scientific community, but they are united in the idea that this is an issue that requires public involvement," says Scheufele. "Our findings show very nicely that the public is ready for these discussions and that the time to have the discussions is now, before the science is fully ready and while we have time to carefully think through different options regarding how we want to move forward."
Caroline Schneider, caroline.schneider@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3172 This work was supported by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation).
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GCHQ and NSA Collaborate to Steal the Keys to Your Cellphone
By Dia Kayyali
Anyone interested in privacy and security should think twice about their cell phone dependence right now. That’s because today, The Intercept revealed that British spy agency GCHQ led successful efforts to hack into the internal networks of Gemalto, “the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications” made on the world’s largest telecommunications carriers, including “AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and some 450 wireless network providers around the world.”
In other words, for millions or even billions of users around the world, global cellular communications are about as secure from GCHQ and NSA as an FM radio broadcast.
Here’s how it works. As The Intercept explains:
The privacy of all mobile communications — voice calls, text messages and Internet access — depends on an encrypted connection between the cellphone and the wireless carrier’s network, using keys stored on the SIM, a tiny chip smaller than a postage stamp, which is inserted into the phone. All mobile communications on the phone depend on the SIM, which stores and guards the encryption keys created by companies like Gemalto.
So, under normal circumstances, when a mobile call, text, or other communication is made, that communication is encrypted as it travels through the air from a mobile device to a carrier’s tower. At that point, even if the communication was intercepted by a third party (like the NSA or Iran or the local mafia), it would be encrypted and (generally speaking) indecipherable. But anyone who has obtained the encryption key (known as a Ki) for a particular wireless user could use it to decrypt that communication.
To make matters worse, because of how Kis operate, any previously obtained encrypted communications can be decrypted later once anyone obtains the correct Ki. As the Intercept notes,
if an intelligence agency has been “passively” intercepting someone’s communications for a year and later acquires the permanent encryption key, it can go back and decrypt all of those communications.
This type of interception leaves “no trace on the wireless provider’s network” or on an individual users device. In short, GCHQ and NSA have obtained the master keys—literally and figuratively—to unlock millions, if not billions, of the world’s mobile devices.
While today’s disclosure is bad news for global privacy, there is still some good news. As The Intercept article points out, there are alternatives to relying on Ki encryption. And if you’d like to install them, EFF has created easy-to-use guides as part of our Surveillance Self-Defense project:
Signal for iPhone, and it’s Android counterpart RedPhone, are free mobile phone applications that allows users to make phone calls using end-to-end encryption using their data connection. It works much like the normal call interface users are familiar with.
TextSecure for Android is a messaging app for Android that allows users to send messages with their mobile phone using end-to-end encryption. It can replace your phone’s native SMS program. While TextSecure is only for Android, Signal will be expanded this year to allow iPhone users to also send encrypted text messages.
These are just two of the many tools available for secure messaging. Our Secure Messaging Scorecard examines dozens of messaging technologies and rates each of them on a range of security best practices.
Of course no method is foolproof. But, as documents published by Der Spiegel in December show, it appears that, as of 2012, the NSA had yet to crack the encryption provided by these technologies. And that, at least, is good news.
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This Video Of Joe Biden Comforting Meghan McCain About Her Dad's Cancer Is So Emotional
By Thea Glassman
Get the tissue boxes out, ASAP. The View got extra emotional on Dec. 13, and you're really going to need to wipe away a boatload of tears for this one. This video of Joe Biden comforting Meghan McCain about her dad's cancer diagnosis will pluck at pretty much every single heart string you've got.
Biden dropped by the talk show to promote his new book Promise Me, Dad, a memoir about his son Beau's battle with cancer. Things got emotional when The View co-host Meghan McCain brought up her father, John McCain, and his ongoing struggle with glioblastoma, the same brain cancer that killed Beau in 2015.
McCain started weeping, and said it was too difficult for her to finish reading Biden's book. She said,
I think about Beau almost every day, and I was told, I’m sorry, that this doesn’t get easier, but you cultivate the tools to work with this. I know you and your family have been through a tragedy that I haven’t conceived of.
The former vice president moved over to sit next to McCain, took her hand, and tried to console her.
“There’s a lot of things happening, there’s breakthroughs that are occurring now, it could happen tomorrow," Biden told her. “So there is hope. And if anyone can make it, your dad — her dad is one of my best friends.”
John McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer this past July. At the time, he told CBS that the diagnosis was "very, very serious," and the doctors called the disease "a very poor prognosis." The 81-year-old has continued to serve in the Senate, and memorably voted against repealing the Affordable Care Act in Sept. 2017.
This might come as quite a shock to many of us, but it turns out that John McCain and Joe Biden are actually good buddies.
"You may remember when you were a little kid, your dad took care of my Beau," Biden said to Meghan McCain. "Your dad ... became friends with Beau. And Beau talked about your dad’s courage — not about illness — but about his courage.”
Sen. McCain and then-Vice President Biden were awarded Prize for Civility in Public Life from Allegheny College in 2016, and both men showed up to accept their awards together, which is quite possibly the whole concept of #friendshipgoals personified. During his acceptance speech, John McCain recalled a time when he was the Navy’s Senate liaison, and was forced to carry Biden's bags onto a plane.
“That was almost 40 years ago, and by God, I still resent it,” the senator quipped.
Biden added on The View that — despite all of their differences — John McCain is one of his closest friends. He said,
Her dad goes after me, hammer and tong. We’re like two brothers who were somehow raised by different fathers because of our points of view. But I know — and I mean this sincerely — even when your dad got mad at me and said I should get the hell off the ticket — I know if I picked up the phone tonight and called John McCain and said, ‘John, I’m at 2nd and Vine in Oshkosh and I need your help,’ he’d get on a plane and come.'
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"We gotta keep moving like this is gonna happen. It is gonna happen. This is why I set up the [the Biden Cancer Initiative]," he said. "Because I swear, guys, we are gonna beat this damn disease. We really are."
Here's to John McCain's hopefully speedy recovery, and so, so many more lovely, heartwarming videos featuring Joe Biden.
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Black diamonds are very popular in jewelry and fine jewelry. They allow making jewelry of a new and very contemporary style when they are mounted on pink gold, brown gold or blackened gold for example, with colored stones (emerald, sapphire, ruby, ...) that they put particularly in value or with colorless diamonds for a very fashionable black-and-white contrast. Most of the time, they are small diamonds called "scrums" used in paving. Black diamonds have undeniably contributed to the rise of mixed and masculine jewelry. Their sober and discreet sparkle on gold or silver is particularly popular with men and the younger generation of women and men. Often set on simple, modern and more accessible jewelry, the black diamond is also highly appreciated as it brings a truly innovative style with striking color contrasts.
The black gems
Black diamonds are black gems with extraordinary beauty, but we still know a lot about their origins. White or colored diamonds are found in the deepest layers, but black diamonds are found almost in the upper layers almost below the surface of the earth. The nickname of the black diamond was Chop during the first discovery by the Portuguese who lived in Brazil in the mid-18th century. They chose the name because the black diamond looked like coal.
The black diamond is so hard that it takes 20 tons of hydraulic press to solve it. Some people argue that it is impossible to cut black diamonds because of this extraordinary violence. Black diamonds are mainly found in Brazil and the Central African Republic. Its dimensions vary from nano to micrometer.
There is no consensus on the formation of black diamonds. Some believe it is the result of the affiliation of some ore below the earth's crust, but its carbon isotope composition shows that this black diamond was formed by the impact of a meteorite. Several explanations have been raised about the formation of these stones and their higher hardness than standard diamonds. The last is a unique structure formed from crystals while diamonds have a structure with a complex woven consisting of several thousand small crystals.
The origin of black diamonds
There are 2 popular theories about the appearance of black diamonds. The first considers that this stone was formed by the impact of meteorites, while the second claims that it is the result of a chemical reaction with the presence of coal on the ground. Scientists at the University of Miami have been studying black diamonds for years. The latest findings show traces of the impact of meteorites.
One of the essential characteristics of this stone is that it does not diffuse light, because of its black color. Indeed, any collection black-diamond is composed of a multitude of microscopic inclusions of graphite or hematite that absorb the light and give the stone its unique luster.
Black diamonds are a current trend and anyone who is serious about making many people dazzled should not ignore them.
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Why Utah Matters To Virgin, Amazon, And LeBron James
The Foundry, a Salt Lake City training ground for entrepreneurs, is challenging some long-held notions about how startup incubators should work–and captivating everyone from Armenian businessmen to Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.
By Ryan White 7 minute Read
OF INNOVATION
New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights
All around the country, Americans are dreaming big. Their boldest ideas are changing their communities–and having a ripple effect throughout the world.
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Two years ago Scott Paul was taking evening MBA classes at the University of Utah while holding a day job at a tourism site when he kept noticing lackluster racks of brochures (for deals on local ski tours and the like) in hotel lobbies. It was April of 2010 and the iPad had just arrived on the scene. Paul had an idea: “Why not slap these iPads into hotel lobbies and have them be digital concierges?”
Today, his company, Armor Active, makes iPad kiosks, point-of-sale systems, and kiosk-friendly apps for some of the biggest brands in the world. The company has sold more than 20,000 units and is on track to hit $3 million in revenues this year. The ballooning customer roster is a virtual who’s who of the corporate world: Estee Lauder, Virgin, ING, Amazon, and BMW, to name a few. Guests signing in at Macworld’s 2012 iWorld show in San Francisco did so on iPads sheathed in Armor Active’s enclosures, and LeBron James’s new high-design Unknwn sneaker store in Miami features 45 iPads, all housed in the company’s Evolve kiosks.
The Foundry is disproving assumptions that starting a business is inherently a fail-prone endeavor.
The company is one of a host of new ventures to emerge from the Foundry, a University of Utah-sponsored peer-based training ground for entrepreneurs that’s challenging some long-held notions about how business incubators should work. University of Utah post-doc Rob Wuebker and the program’s other founders believe they’ve hit upon a method of fostering entrepreneurs that is not only dirt cheap and easily replicable but–crazy as it sounds–also has the potential to catalyze urban redevelopment and foster the growth of the creative class in places with fledging hipness quotients, from Salt Lake City to Armenia. Recently, the Foundry even caught the eye of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, who wants to build his own incubator in Las Vegas. “My
MBA would’ve been a complete waste without meeting Rob and his team,”
Paul says. The Foundry gave him “the tools to make the idea a reality.”
See more about why Salt Lake matters to Virgin, Amazon, and LeBron James here.
According to Bill Schulze, “The Foundry came together really as an experiment.” Schulze is chair of the Department of Management at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business and part of the Foundry’s brain trust. “Our fundamental premise was that we wanted to create entrepreneurs,” he says. “We weren’t interested in creating companies, we wanted to create entrepreneurs.”
Wuebker says the Foundry is disproving stale assumptions that starting a business is inherently a hard, risky, fail-prone endeavor. The free program is open to university students and community members alike (about a quarter of particpants come from outside the university). Since it was founded in May 2010, the Foundry has produced 64 revenue-generating companies and 75 jobs, generating about $12 million in revenues, Schulze says. And that’s without any seed money from the program: The Foundry provides a modestly furnished office space in a university-leased downtown building, whiteboards, Internet access, coffee, and pizza. The university has invested less than $100,000 in the entire program, Schulze says.
So what’s the secret? The founders say it has a lot to do with social capital: Students form a tight-knit cooperative network, and as the number of viable business ideas dwindles over the course of a semester, they hire each other. This is in stark contrast to the typical incubator, where a competitive zero-sum-game vibe dominates. Participants remain accountable to the group by filing weekly reports, which they upload to Dropbox at least 24 hours before the peer-led weekly meeting at 7:30 a.m.–yes, 7:30 a.m.–Monday morning. In lieu of plodding lectures, students digest the basics of entrepreneurship via bite-sized YouTube videos, so they can spend their Monday meetings helping each other problem-solve. When it works the way it’s supposed to, the instructors are relegated to pouring coffee.
When it works the way it’s supposed to, the instructors are relegated to pouring coffee.
A relentless focus on testing, tweaking, and retesting business ideas maximizes a product’s likelihood of surviving in the economic wilds, and keeps risk low–spending money is considered a last-ditch step, when there’s no other way forward. “What’s different about the Foundry is they use a scientific method based on data,” says Ben Hadley, a Vail-based corporate development exec
who mentors Foundry students. “I’ve never seen that methodology brought to the notion of business discovery.”
The ventures aren’t limited to technology. Board-game enthusiast Phil Kilcrease launched his company 5th Street Games on his bike, pedaling his creations to game shops as far away as Provo and Ogden. He’s since successfully leveraged Kickstarter to raise nearly $37,000 and expand his lineup. Redflower Inc.’s Patrick Duke-Rosati launched a line of bottled aguas frescas drinks and has secured an agreement with Whole Foods. Erik Larsen’s cupcake-delivery business Heaven Cupcake made it onto Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars.” Power Practical founder David Toledo just raised over $126,000 on Kickstarter for his PowerPot, a cooking pot that turns cooking heat into an electrical charge.
Here’s where the urban-redevelopment part comes into play: Such a diversity of business models bodes well for the Salt Lake economy and the city’s attempts to revivify gritty urban neighborhoods like the light-industrial Granary District (where the municipal redevelopment agency subsidizes the Foundry’s rent). “You could have a lawn-cutting business, a coffee cup business, a restaurant idea and the Foundry will help you,” says Hadley. “That is really key to urban renewal.”
Wuebker, a Santa Monica native, dreams of establishing in Salt Lake the kind of trendsetting “creative class” better associated with places like San Francisco, L.A., or Austin.
“My interest is in contributing to GDP, job growth, and making a difference inside the ecosystem,” Wuebker says. “What I think is happening is that we’re creating a significant creative core of entrepreneurs who are both vibrant and capable. They’re choosing to stay here, and build their businesses here.”
It doesn’t hurt that Utah has one of the most business-friendly climates in the country. Relatively low operating costs, a low corporate tax rate, above-average employment, a growing population, and a burgeoning tech sector led Forbes to label Utah the “Best State for Business and Careers” in the magazine’s annual 2010 and 2011 surveys. In Salt Lake, the University of Utah was ranked no. 1 in creating startups based on university research in 2009 and 2010, topping powerhouses such as MIT and CalTech, according to the annual survey by the Association of University Technology Managers.
Wuebker sees the Foundry as “a regional development engine in a box,” though it’s worth pointing out that it is an engine still being unboxed. The city’s Granary District remains a far cry from San Francisco’s Mission District or Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, and Scott Paul says the crew at Google Ventures still laugh at him when he calls the area Silicon Slopes. “I’m always wondering, ‘Should I be leaving?’” he says. “There’s a huge pull now to go to San Francisco and start your team there.”
Perhaps the more immediate measure of the Foundry’s method, however, is the extent to which it’s being imitated by similar programs at places such as George Mason University in Washington, D.C., and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. There’s a budding Foundry-style incubator in the Armenian capitol Yerevan of all places, launched with help from visiting Salt Lake students. Lately, the Foundry has captivated Zappos CEO-turned-urban renewal champion Tony Hsieh. Hsieh has a $350 million project aimed at building a vibrant urban core in downtown Las Vegas, where his online shoe company is headquartered. Wuebker says he is scheduled to meet with Hsieh and his team in a few weeks to share ideas–Hsieh’s Vegas Tech Fund plans to dole out seed money to community-minded tech startups and, à la the Foundry, spur the growth of a downtown creative class.
“Rob’s created a pirate ship,” says Ben Hadley, who introduced Wuebker to Hsieh. “I wanted the guys in Vegas to know about this pirate ship in Salt Lake City. You know you’re onto something when Tony opens an attachment and says, ‘This is very good.’”
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Ryan White is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. He writes about the environment, health, technology, and culture.
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How “5 to 7” Director Victor Levin Went From Writing Jell-O Ads To Making Indie Films
Victor Levin talks about what he learned at Y&R and writing for Mad About You, and how it all led him to his new film, 5 to 7.
Berenice Marlohe (Arielle) and Anton Yelchin (Brian) in Victor Levin’s 5 TO 7 [Photos: Walter Thomson, courtesy of IFC Films]
By Nicole LaPorte 9 minute Read
When Victor Levin was 27, he traveled to Paris with his girlfriend and stayed with a couple who had a rather interesting marital arrangement. Or at least a very French one. Both the husband and wife each had respective paramours, neither of whom was a secret. In fact, everyone was friendly with one another. “It was holiday time, and the husband was there, and the wife was there, and the girlfriend was there, and the boyfriend was there, and they’re all in the same room,” Levin recalls. “And I was like: What is this? I’m a middle-class kid from suburban New York, and this was not on the menu.”
The cinq à sept relationship, as it’s known in France–referring to the hours set aside for maritally blessed extramarital interludes–has largely faded from tradition, but the memory remained alive in Levin’s mind. Now, nearly 30 years later, it’s the subject of his new film, 5 To 7, which the former TV producer wrote and directed. The movie stars Anton Yelchin (Like Crazy) as a young, aspiring novelist in New York who meets an intriguing, slightly older French woman played by Bérénice Marlohe (Sky Fall) smoking on the sidewalk one afternoon. Despite her status as a wife and mother of two, a love story ensues, one that is both conventional (champagne-soaked afternoons at the St. Regis Hotel; leisurely strolls in Central Park) and not. The film’s ending, in particular, does not neatly solve the problem of what to do when Mrs. Robinson and Romeo and Juliet collide.
Levin’s own career has its own share of unconventionality. He got his start writing Jell-O and Dr. Pepper commercials for Young & Rubicam in the 1980s, before moving to Los Angeles in 1990 and writing on series like The Larry Sanders Show and Mad About You. He’s also written screenplays, such as Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!. With 5 to 7, he made the leap to independent filmmaking, a process that he calls “a marathon, not a sprint,” referring to the amount of time it took he his producers to package the film–which he wrote back in 2007–get investors on board, and cast it. “I am not a patient person by nature, but you have to tell yourself to take the long view or you will go out of your mind,” he says.
Levin spoke to Co.Create about his career trajectory and how all of his various writing jobs have taught him lessons that he applies to his work today.
The Whole Egg
When Levin graduated from Amherst in the early ’80s, he knew he wanted to be a writer, but he also needed to support himself. This dilemma was solved when he was offered a job at Y&R.
“Ed Ney, who was running Young & Rubicam, was an Amherst grad, he later went on to be Ambassador to Canada. He used to hire a bunch of kids from Ivy League and Little Ivy schools to come in and work for $13,500 a year as trainee copywriters. And I thought that was great. Somebody was going to pay me–I had no idea how little money that was, even then.
“I shared an apartment with the late (TV producer) Alan Kirschenbaum, my dear friend from New York, where we had grown up around the block from one another. We lived on the Lower East Side at 475 FDR Drive in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union Housing, which we were in because his aunt had connections. We were the youngest people in the building by 75 years. I mean, you would get off the elevator and there would be ear-splitting smoke alarms because the residents couldn’t hear it!”
Levin describes the atmosphere at Y&R back then “a later iteration of what you see in Mad Men,” a show that he’s written for. “Merger mania was going on, things were becoming a lot more corporate and a lot less rebellious. Y&R had huge clients. I worked on a lot of packaged goods and big service businesses like United States Post Office. I worked on Jell-O pudding, I worked on Dr. Pepper. These were not small clients. So business was being done. It was a pretty grown-up place. But there were a lot of other people in my position and we became this sort of band of kids wandering around this fantastic building, 285 Madison, which was 26 stories. It was like a college campus. You knew where everybody sat, you knew where the pretty girls were. You knew how to ride the elevators to flirt with them. I mean it was really like being in college except somebody gave you a paycheck.”
The biggest lesson from those days, he says, was “to be accountable for your writing. It’s one thing to make it look good on the page and make it read really well. That’s hard. But it’s only half the battle. You have to be sure that when it gets on a screen, it works. Y&R had a philosophy at the time which they called ‘the whole egg.’ I do not know why they called it that. But what it meant was, the writer had to carry through the production from start to finish. Now on a commercial, let’s say it’s a comic commercial, which is most of what I wrote, maybe you’ve got one joke. If it doesn’t work, it’s a bad commercial. And there’s nothing worse than sitting in the daily trailer and realizing the joke isn’t funny. So you learn to not just be a writer and write things that seem nice on the page, but also to continue to work with those things until they are funny in actual, filmed life. And I think that’s a big divide, I really do. You need to be accountable, particularly for your comedy, but also for your drama. Does it feel real? Does it move me? Being able to do it not just on the page but also before the lens, that’s the biggest lesson.”
Glenn Close (Arlene), Frank Langella (Sam), and Anton Yelchin (Brian) in Victor Levin’s 5 TO 7
Even as he was promoted from copy writer to creative director at Y&R, Levin dreamed of writing for television. And so he spent nights and weekends diligently cranking out spec scripts.
“Of course, these scripts were terrible. I had to write 10,000 or 20,000 bad pages before what I was doing was even respectable. That’s not false modesty. It was bad. I didn’t know anything about story structure. I was very young in my point of view. There was absolutely no wisdom to my pages. The comedy was not sophisticated. And I’m not saying the comedy is sophisticated now or everything is wine and roses now, but it was bad then. You have to go through this Malcolm Gladwell period of just trying to get good at something.
“I was disciplined, I did have that. I wrote every night and most weekends. And then Alan got a job writing for TV in Los Angeles. And now it’s 1990, so it’s three years after that French trip. So the phone rings and Alan says I’m working on this show, Baby Talk, I’m running it for Ed Weinberger. I think I can get you a job if you want to drop everything and move out here. So I did.
David Remnick in Victor Levin’s 5 TO 7.
Learning To Stay Out Of The Way
Levin quickly worked his way up the TV ranks in Hollywood, landing a gig on The Larry Sanders Show and then hit ’90s sitcom Mad About You, where he says, “I really grew up” as a writer.
“The thing that you rapidly learn is that the most important thing you have is your cast. I mean, we worked very hard on the scripts for Mad About You. But if the show worked it was because of the way Helen (Hunt) and Paul (Reiser) blended together, because of their onscreen chemistry and their immense talent. We would send the script to the stage and if the script was good, the show would be very good. And if the script was very good, the show would be fantastic, and the reason was them.
“We did an episode in season 6, by which time I was running the show, which was a one shot, a one-take episode–“The Conversation,” in which the couple “Ferberizes” their crying baby–which meant that not only did Helen and Paul have to learn 22 1/2 minutes of material, but they also had to perform it plus or minus 10 seconds in length. And you can’t forget a line, if you do, you’ve got to do that just on instinct, because it’s before a live audience. And they did it on the first take.”
Levin says that with the right performers a writer and director’s job is to give them the tools to do their job and then step aside. This applies to 5 to 7, in which he says, “there are so many long takes where the camera stays wide and the actors and the words are allowed to do what they do. The audience is smart, they know where to look. My job is to make a beautiful frame with my DP, Arnaud Potier, if I possibly can. And be invisible. And let the actors and the words and the actions do what they’re doing. Let the story work. Let the comedy work. Let the drama work. Stay out of the way. And every time I cut when I don’t have to, I’m reminding you that you’re watching a movie and not real life. I don’t want to do that. I want you to be in this world for a couple of hours.”
Letting Life Provide The Answers
After his Paris trip, Levin says he “filed away” the experience “as a great obstacle for a story if only I could figure out the rest of it. Because when you’re writing romances, the most important thing its he obstacle. So when you find an obstacle that you think is interesting, it stays with you. But it takes time to figure out what the story is because these things don’t present themselves in a three-act structure.
It wasn’t until he was much older and further along in his career that he figured out how the obstacle would resolve itself in a way that felt truthful. “I didn’t want to have them ride off happily in the sunset. I didn’t believe it. I didn’t think that was going to happen. And I need to have enough experience in my own life to know that even being in love with someone is not a guarantee of a future. So what is the version of the ending that feels true but also honors love? That was a tough question for me. How do you make it so that the audience understands how much they love each other but also understands that they can’t be together?
“Well, for one thing it helps to have children of your own. I have two girls. One was born in 2000 and one was born 20 months later. This is the first time I’ve ever answered that question, but I can bet you that I didn’t figure out the ending until I had my kids. Because then I had a reason why she would not leave (her husband) no matter how much she loved him. And then I was good to go. Then the rest of the pieces fell into place.”
Nicole LaPorte is an LA-based senior writer for Fast Company who writes about where technology and entertainment intersect. She previously was a columnist for The New York Times and a staff writer for Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Variety
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The Google Earth Of Radio Lets You Listen To Any Station In The World
Browse the world’s radio stations, just by spinning a globe.
By John Brownlee 1 minute Read
Ever since the first commercial station–Pittsburgh’s KDKA–began broadcasting on November 2, 1920, radio has functioned as a powerful cross-pollinating medium, capable of bringing new culture and ideas across even the most impenetrable borders. And in the internet age, a radio signal can reach clear to the opposite side of the Earth, if only you know where to look.
Created by Amsterdam’s Studio Puckey and Moniker, Radio Garden is a gorgeous, Google Earth-style browser for the world’s radio stations. No matter where a station is–from Reyjkavik’s Kiss FM to Radio Frïa FM in Ushuaia, Argentina, which might be the only station you can listen to with a transistor radio in Antarctica–Radio Garden makes it easy for you to tune in. All you do is rotate the 3D globe and then click on the station you want to listen to.
First and foremost, the site is a fascinating way to be a fly on the wall in cities around the world, whether you tune into some obscure station in the middle of nowhere or some major station in an urban hub. For example, in Nome, Alaska, KICY is located so close to Russia that it’s non-stop broadcast of proselytizing Christian pop music almost seems like it is aimed straight across the Bering Strait. Similarly, as I write this, WBRT in Bardstown, Kentucky, has some guy shredding on the fiddle; Radio ZP 30 seems to be playing Paraguayan Pop 20; and two Bangladeshi gentleman are shouting at each on Radio Shongi.
Outside of just a great way to listen to the world’s radio stations, though, Radio Garden has a broader purpose: it was commissioned by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision as a way to show the way radio crosses borders. Consequently, there are no geopolitical demarcations on the Radio Garden’s globe–just tens of thousands of glowing lights scattered around the world, showing everywhere the planet’s “ON AIR” signs are lighting up.
It’s true what they say. You just can’t stop the signal. Check out Radio Garden here.
John Brownlee is a design writer who lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. You can email him at john.brownlee+fastco@gmail.com.
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Clarification on Living Wills and the "Orderly Liquidation Process"
I believe Allan Sloan and I were talking past each other when he interviewed me for his column (Wall Street Living Wills Doomed to Fail, June 15, 2011). Perhaps that's because we spoke on a Sunday evening after dinner and a long work week. In any event, I want to make absolutely clear that I view resolution plans as a vital part of ensuring that the largest financial companies can be resolved in an orderly way, consistent with the process and tools the FDIC has long used to close insured banks. As part of this resolution planning, there may be a need for corporate simplification and restructuring or even divestiture, in order to achieve a viable, credible resolution plan. I understand the sentiment — which he clearly reflects in his column — that we should just "break them up" now, but that is not realistic. However, we do have the tools to make these complex behemoths simplify and rationalize their legal structures with their business lines so that if and when they get into trouble, their individual business units can be quickly broken apart and sold off into the private sector.
I agree that it will take courage on the part of the federal regulators to force structural changes now that will assure smooth resolutions down the road. But I believe both the FDIC and FRB are resolute in ending taxpayer bailouts for good. Dismissing living wills and the "orderly liquidation process" under Dodd–Frank undermines the efforts of the FDIC and other regulators to end Too Big to Fail and provides fodder for the naysayers that have an interest in perpetuating bailouts.
Sheila Bair
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8000 - Miscellaneous Statutes and Regulations
Transactions by Unregistered Investment Companies
Sec. 7. (a) No investment company organized or otherwise created under the laws of the United States or of a State and having a board of directors, unless registered under section 8, shall directly or indirectly--
(1) offer for sale, sell, or deliver after sale, by the use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, any security or any interest in a security, whether the issuer of such security is such investment company or another person; or offer for sale, sell, or deliver after sale any such security or interest, having reason to believe that such security or interest will be made the subject of a public offering by use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce;
(2) purchase, redeem, retire, or otherwise acquire or attempt to acquire, by use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, any security or any interest in a security, whether the issuer of such security is such investment company or another person;
(3) control any investment company which does any of the acts enumerated in paragraphs (1) and (2);
(4) engage in any business in interstate commerce; or
(5) control any company which is engaged in any business in interstate commerce.
The provisions of this subsection (a) shall not apply to transactions of an investment company which are merely incidental to its dissolution.
(b) No depositor or trustee of or underwriter for any investment company, organized or otherwise created under the laws of the United States or of a State and not having a board of directors, unless such company is registered under section 8 or exempt under section 6, shall directly or indirectly--
(1) offer for sale, sell, or deliver after sale, by use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, any security or any interest in a security of which such company is the issuer; or offer for sale, sell, or deliver after sale any such security or interest, having reason to believe that such security or interest will be made the subject of a public offering by use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce;
(2) purchase, redeem, or otherwise acquire or attempt to acquire, by use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, any security or any interest in a security of which such company is the issuer; or
(3) sell or purchase for the account of such company, by use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, any security or interest in a security, by whomever issued.
The provisions of this subsection (b) shall not apply to transactions which are merely incidental to the dissolution of an investment company.
(c) No promoter of a proposed investment company, and no underwriter for such a promoter, shall make use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, directly or indirectly, to offer for sale, sell, or deliver after sale, in connection with a public offering, any preorganization certificate or subscription for such a company.
(d) No investment company, unless organized or otherwise created under the laws of the United States or of a State, and no depositor or trustee of or underwriter for such a company not so organized or created, shall make use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, directly or indirectly, to offer for sale, sell, or deliver after sale, in connection with a public offering, any security of which such company is the issuer. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection and of section 8(a), the Commission is authorized, upon application by an investment company organized or otherwise created under the laws of a foreign country, to issue a conditional or unconditional order permitting such company to register under this title and to make a public offering of its securities by use of the mails and means or instrumentalities of interstate commerce, if the Commission finds that, by reason of special circumstances or arrangements, it is both legally and practically feasible effectively to enforce the provisions of this title against such company and that the issuance of such order is otherwise consistent with the public interest and the protection of investors.
(e) DISCLOSURE BY EXEMPT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS.--Each fund that is excluded from the definition of an investment company under section 3(c)(10)(B) of this Act shall provide, to each donor to such fund, at the time of the donation or within 90 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, whichever is later, written information describing the material terms of the operation of such fund.
[Codified to 15 U.S.C. 80a--7]
[Source: Section 7 of title I of the Act of August 22, 1940 (Pub. L. No. 768; 54 Stat. 802), effective November 1, 1940; as amended by section 2(b) of the Act of December 8, 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104--62; 109 Stat. 683), effective December 8, 1995]
Registration of Investment Companies
Sec. 8. (a) Any investment company organized or otherwise created under the laws of the United States or of a State may register for the purposes of this title by filing with the Commission a notification of registration, in such form as the Commission shall by rules and regulations prescribe as necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors. An investment company shall be deemed to be registered upon receipt by the Commission of such notification of registration.
(b) Every registered investment company shall file with the Commission, within such reasonable time after registration as the Commission shall fix by rules and regulations, an original and such copies of a registration statement, in such form and containing such of the following information and documents as the Commission shall by rules and regulations prescribe as necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors:
(1) a recital of the policy of the registrant in respect of each of the following types of activities, such recital consisting in each case of a statement whether the registrant reserves freedom of action to engage in activities of such type, and if such freedom of action is reserved, a statement briefly indicating, insofar as is practicable, the extent to which the registrant intends to engage therein: (A) the classification and subclassifications, as defined in sections 4 and 5, within which the registrant proposes to operate; (B) borrowing money; (C) the issuance of senior securities; (D) engaging in the business of underwriting securities issued by other persons; (E) concentrating investments in a particular industry or group of industries; (F) the purchase and sale of real estate and commodities, or either of them; (G) making loans to other persons; and (H) portfolio turnover (including a statement showing the aggregate dollar amount of purchases and sales of portfolio securities, other than Government securities, in each of the last three full fiscal years preceding the filing of such registration statement);
(2) a recital of all investment policies of the registrant, not enumerated in paragraph (1), which are changeable only if authorized by shareholder vote;
(3) a recital of all policies of the registrant, not enumerated in paragraphs (1) and (2), in respect of matters which the registrant deems matters of fundamental policy;
(4) the name and address of each affiliated person of the registrant; the name and principal address of every company, other than the registrant, of which each such person is an officer, director, or partner; a brief statement of the business experience for the preceding five years of each officer and director of the registrant; and
(5) the information and documents which would be required to be filed in order to register under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 all securities (other than short-term paper) which the registrant has outstanding or proposes to issue.
(c) The Commission shall make provision, by permissive rules and regulations or order, for the filing of the following, or so much of the following as the Commission may designate, in lieu of the information and documents required pursuant to subsection (b):
(1) copies of the most recent registration statement filed by the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 and currently effective under such Act, or if the registrant has not filed such a statement, copies of a registration statement filed by the registrant under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and currently effective under such Act;
(2) copies of any reports filed by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
(3) a report containing reasonably current information regarding the matters included in copies filed pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2), and such further information regarding matters not included in such copies as the Commission is authorized to require under subsection (b).
(d) If the registrant is a unit investment trust substantially all of the assets of which are securities issued by another registered investment company, the Commission is authorized to prescribe for the registrant, by rules and regulations or order, a registration statement which eliminates inappropriate duplication of information contained in the registration statement filed under this section by such other investment company.
(e) If it appears to the Commission that a registered investment company has failed to file the registration statement required by this section or a report required pursuant to section 30(a) or (b), or has filed such a registration statement or report but omitted therefrom material facts required to be stated therein, or has filed such a registration statement or report in violation of section 34(b), the Commission shall notify such company by registered mail or by certified mail of the failure to file such registration statement or report, or of the respects in which such registration statement or report appears to be materially incomplete or misleading, as the case may be, and shall fix a date (in no event earlier than thirty days after the mailing of such notice) prior to which such company may file such registration statement or report or correct the same. If such registration statement or report is not filed or corrected within the time so fixed by the Commission or any extension thereof, the Commission, after appropriate notice and opportunity for hearing, and upon such conditions and with such exemptions as it deems appropriate for the protection of investors, may by order suspend the registration of such company until such statement or report is filed or corrected, or may by order revoke such registration, if the evidence establishes--
(1) that such company has failed to file a registration statement required by this section or a report required pursuant to section 30(a) or (b), or has filed such a registration statement or report but omitted therefrom material facts required to be stated therein, or has filed such a registration statement or report in violation of section 34(b); and
(2) that such suspension or revocation is in the public interest.
(f) Whenever the Commission, on its own motion or upon application, finds that a registered investment company has ceased to be an investment company, it shall so declare by order and upon the taking effect of such order the registration of such company shall cease to be in effect. If necessary for the protection of investors, an order under this subsection may be made upon appropriate conditions. The Commission's denial of any application under this subsection shall be by order.
[Source: Section 8 of title I of the Act of August 22, 1940 (Pub. L. No. 768; 54 Stat. 803), effective November 1, 1940; as amended by section 1(14) of the Act of June 11, 1960 (Pub. L. No. 86--507; 74 Stat. 201), effective June 11, 1960; section 3(c) of the Act of December 14, 1970 (Pub. L. No. 91--547; 84 Stat. 1415), effective December 14, 1970]
Ineligibility of Certain Affiliated Persons and Underwriters
Sec. 9. (a) It shall be unlawful for any of the following persons to serve or act in the capacity of employee, officer, director, member of an advisory board, investment adviser, or depositor of any registered investment company, or principal underwriter for any registered open-end company, registered unit investment trust, or registered face-amount certificate company.
(1) any person who within 10 years has been convicted of any felony or misdemeanor involving the purchase or sale of any security or arising out of such person's conduct as an underwriter, broker, dealer, investment adviser, municipal securities dealer, government securities broker, government securities dealer, bank, transfer agent, credit rating agency, or entity or person required to be registered under the Commodity Exchange Act, or as an affiliated person, salesman, or employee of any investment company, bank, insurance company, or entity or person required to be registered under the Commodity Exchange Act;
(2) any person who, by reason of any misconduct, is permanently or temporarily enjoined by order, judgment, or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction from acting as an underwriter, broker, dealer, investment adviser, municipal securities dealer, government securities broker, government securities dealer, bank, transfer agent, credit rating agency, or entity or person required to be registered under the Commodity Exchange Act, or as an affiliated person, salesman, or employee of any investment company, bank, insurance company, or entity or person required to be registered under the Commodity Exchange Act, or from engaging in or continuing any conduct or practice in connection with any such activity or in connection with the purchase or sale of any security; or
(3) a company any affiliated person of which is ineligible, by reason of paragraph (1) or (2), to serve or act in the foregoing capacities.
For the purposes of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection, the term "investment adviser" shall include an investment adviser as defined in title II of this Act.
(b) The Commission may, after notice and opportunity for hearing, by order prohibit, conditionally or unconditionally, either permanently or for such period of time as it in its discretion shall deem appropriate in the public interest, any person from serving or acting as an employee, officer, director, member of an advisory board, investment adviser or depositor of, or principal underwriter for, a registered investment company or affiliated person of such investment adviser, depositor, or principal underwriter, if such person--
(1) has willfully made or caused to be made in any registration statement, application or report filed with the Commission under this title any statement which was at the time and in the light of the circumstances under which it was made false or misleading with respect to any material fact, or has omitted to state in any such registration statement, application, or report any material fact which was required to be stated therein;
(2) has willfully violated any provision of the Securities Act of 1933, or of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or of title II of this Act, or of this title or of the Commodity Exchange Act, or of any rule or regulation under any of such statutes;
(3) has willfully aided, abetted, counseled, commanded, induced, or procured the violation by any other person of the Securities Act of 1933, or of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or of title II of this Act, or of this title, or of the Commodity Exchange Act, or of any rule or regulation under any of such statutes;
(4) has been found by a foreign financial regulatory authority to have--
(A) made or caused to be made in any application for registration or report required to be filed with a foreign securities authority, or in any proceeding before a foreign securities authority with respect to registration, any statement that was at the time and in light of the circumstances under which it was made false or misleading with respect to any material fact, or has omitted to state in any application or report to a foreign securities authority any material fact that is required to be stated therein;
(B) violated any foreign statute or regulation regarding transactions in securities or contracts of sale of a commodity for future delivery traded on or subject to the rules of a contract market or any board of trade; or
(C) aided, abetted, counseled, commanded, induced, or procured the violation by any other person of any foreign statute or regulation regarding transactions in securities or contracts of sale of a commodity for future delivery traded on or subject to the rules of a contract market or any board of trade;
(5) within 10 years has been convicted by a foreign court of competent jurisdiction of a crime, however denominated by the laws of the relevant foreign government, that is substantially equivalent to an offense set forth in paragraph (1) of subsection (a); or
(6) by reason of any misconduct, is temporarily or permanently enjoined by any foreign court of competent jurisdiction from acting in any of the capacities, set forth in paragraph (2) of subsection (a), or a substantially equivalent foreign capacity, or from engaging in or continuing any conduct or practice in connection with any such activity or in connection with the purchase or sale of any security.
(c) Any person who is ineligible, by reason of subsection (a), to serve or act in the capacities enumerated in that subsection, may file with the Commission an application for an exemption from the provisions of that subsection. The Commission shall by order grant such application, either unconditionally or on an appropriate temporary or other conditional basis, if it is established that the prohibitions of subsection (a), as applied to such person, are unduly or disproportionately severe or that the conduct of such person has been such as not to make it against the public interest or protection of investors to grant such application.
(d) MONEY PENALTIES IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS.--
(1) AUTHORITY OF COMMISSION.--(A) IN GENERAL.--In any proceeding instituted pursuant to subsection (b) against any person, the Commission may impose a civil penalty if it finds, on the record after notice and opportunity for hearing, that such penalty is in the public interest, and that such person--
(i) has willfully violated any provision of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, or this title, or the rules or regulations thereunder;
(ii) has willfully aided, abetted, counseled, commanded, induced, or procured such a violation by any other person; or
(iii) has willfully made or caused to be made in any registration statement, application, or report required to be filed with the Commission under this title, any statement which was, at the time and in the light of the circumstances under which it was made, false or misleading with respect to any material fact, or has omitted to state in any such registration statement, application, or report any material fact which was required to be stated therein;
(2) MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF PENALTY.--
(A) FIRST TIER.--The maximum amount of penalty for each act or omission described in paragraph (1) shall be $5,000 for a natural person or $50,000 for any other person.
(B) SECOND TIER.--Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), the maximum amount of penalty for each such act or omission shall be $50,000 for a natural person or $250,000 for any other person if the act or omission described in paragraph (1) involved fraud, deceit, manipulation, or deliberate or reckless disregard of a regulatory requirement.
(C) THIRD TIER.--Notwithstanding subparagraphs (A) and (B), the maximum amount of penalty for each such act or omission shall be $100,000 for a natural person or $500,000 for any other person if--
(i) the act or omission described in paragraph (1) involved fraud, deceit, manipulation, or deliberate or reckless disregard of a regulatory requirement; and
(ii) such act or omission directly or indirectly resulted in substantial losses or created a significant risk of substantial losses to other persons or resulted in substantial pecuniary gain to the person who committed the act or omission.
(3) DETERMINATION OF PUBLIC INTEREST.--In considering under this section whether a penalty is in the public interest, the Commission may consider--
(A) whether the act or omission for which such penalty is assessed involved fraud, deceit, manipulation, or deliberate or reckless disregard of a regulatory requirement;
(B) the harm to other persons resulting either directly or indirectly from such act or omission;
(C) the extent to which any person was unjustly enriched, taking into account any restitution made to persons injured by such behavior;
(D) whether such person previously has been found by the Commission, another appropriate regulatory agency, or a self-regulatory organization to have violated the Federal securities laws, State securities laws, or the rules of a self-regulatory organization, has been enjoined by a court of competent jurisdiction from violations of such laws or rules, or has been convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of violations of such laws or of any felony or misdemeanor described in section 203(e)(2) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940;
(E) the need to deter such person and other persons from committing such acts or omissions; and
(F) such other matters as justice may require.
(4) EVIDENCE CONCERNING ABILITY TO PAY.--In any proceeding in which the Commission may impose a penalty under this section, a respondent may present evidence of the respondent's ability to pay such penalty. The Commission may, in its discretion, consider such evidence in determining whether such penalty is in the public interest. Such evidence may relate to the extent of such person's ability to continue in business and the collectability of a penalty, taking into account any other claims of the United States or third parties upon such person's assets and the amount of such person's assets.
(e) AUTHORITY TO ENTER AN ORDER REQUIRING AN ACCOUNTING AND DISGORGEMENT.--In any proceeding in which the Commission may impose a penalty under this section, the Commission may enter an order requiring accounting and disgorgement, including reasonable interest. The Commission is authorized to adopt rules, regulations, and orders concerning payments to investors, rates of interest, periods of accrual, and such other matters as it deems appropriate to implement this subsection.
(f) CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS.--
(1) AUTHORITY OF THE COMMISSION.--If the Commission finds, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that any person is violating, has violated, or is about to violate any provision of this title, or any rule or regulation thereunder, the Commission may publish its findings and enter an order requiring such person, and any other person that is, was, or would be a cause of the violation, due to an act or omission the person knew or should have known would contribute to such violation, to cease and desist from committing or causing such violation and any future violation of the same provision, rule, or regulation. Such order may, in addition to requiring a person to cease and desist from committing or causing a violation, require such person to comply, or to take steps to effect compliance, with such provision, rule, or regulation, upon such terms and conditions and within such time as the Commission may specify in such order. Any such order may, as the Commission deems appropriate, require future compliance or steps to effect future compliance, either permanently or for such period of time as the Commission may specify, with such provision, rule, or regulation with respect to any security, any issuer, or any other person.
(2) HEARING.--The notice instituting proceedings pursuant to paragraph (1) shall fix a hearing date not earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days after service of the notice unless an earlier or a later date is set by the Commission with the consent of any respondent so served.
(3) TEMPORARY ORDER.--
(A) IN GENERAL.--Whenever the Commission determines that the alleged violation or threatened violation specified in the notice instituting proceedings pursuant to paragraph (1), or the continuation thereof, is likely to result in significant dissipation or conversion of assets, significant harm to investors, or substantial harm to the public interest, including, but not limited to, losses to the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, prior to the completion of the proceeding, the Commission may enter a temporary order requiring the respondent to cease and desist from the violation or threatened violation and to take such action to prevent the violation or threatened violation and to prevent dissipation or conversion of assets, significant harm to investors, or substantial harm to the public interest as the Commission deems appropriate pending completion of such proceedings. Such an order shall be entered only after notice and opportunity for a hearing, unless the Commission, notwithstanding section 40(a) of this title, determines that notice and hearing prior to entry would be impracticable or contrary to the public interest. A temporary order shall become effective upon service upon the respondent and, unless set aside, limited, or suspended by the Commission or a court of competent jurisdiction, shall remain effective and enforceable pending the completion of the proceedings.
(B) APPLICABILITY.--This paragraph shall apply only to a respondent that acts, or, at the time of the alleged misconduct acted, as a broker, dealer, investment adviser, investment company, municipal securities dealer, government securities broker, government securities dealer, or transfer agent, or is, or was at the time of the alleged misconduct, an associated person of, or a person seeking to become associated with, any of the foregoing.
(4) REVIEW OF TEMPORARY ORDERS.--
(A) COMMISSION REVIEW.--At any time after the respondent has been served with a temporary cease-and-desist order pursuant to paragraph (3), the respondent may apply to the Commission to have the order set aside, limited, or suspended. If the respondent has been served with a temporary cease-and-desist order entered without a prior Commission hearing, the respondent may, within 10 days after the date on which the order was served, request a hearing on such application and the Commission shall hold a hearing and render a decision on such application at the earliest possible time.
(B) JUDICIAL REVIEW.--Within--
(i) 10 days after the date the respondent was served with a temporary cease-and-desist order entered with a prior Commission hearing, or
(ii) 10 days after the Commission renders a decision on an application and hearing under subparagraph (A), with respect to any temporary cease-and-desist order entered without a prior Commission hearing,
the respondent may apply to the United States district court for the district in which the respondent resides or has its principal place of business, or for the District of Columbia, for an order setting aside, limiting, or suspending the effectiveness or enforcement of the order, and the court shall have jurisdiction to enter such an order. A respondent served with a temporary cease-and-desist order entered without a prior Commission hearing may not apply to the court except after hearing and decision by the Commission on the respondent's application under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.
(C) NO AUTOMATIC STAY OF TEMPORARY ORDER.--The commencement of proceedings under subparagraph (B) of this paragraph shall not, unless specifically ordered by the court, operate as a stay of the Commission's order.
(D) EXCLUSIVE REVIEW.--Section 43 of this title shall not apply to a temporary order entered pursuant to this section.
(5) AUTHORITY TO ENTER AN ORDER REQUIRING AN ACCOUNTING AND DISGORGEMENT.--In any cease-and-desist proceeding under subsection (f)(1), the Commission may enter an order requiring accounting and disgorgement, including reasonable interest. The Commission is authorized to adopt rules, regulations, and orders concerning payments to investors, rates of interest, periods of accrual, and such other matters as it deems appropriate to implement this subsection.
(g) For the purposes of this section, the term "investment adviser" includes a corporate or other trustee performing the functions of an investment adviser.
[Source: Section 9 of title I of the Act of August 22, 1940 (Pub. L. No. 768; 54 Stat. 805), effective November 1, 1940; as amended by section 4 of the Act of December 14, 1970 (Pub. L. No. 91--547; 84 Stat. 1415), effective December 14, 1970; section 28(6) of the Act of June 4, 1975 (Pub. L. No. 94--29; 89 Stat. 166), effective June 4, 1975; section 102(l) of title I of the Act of October 28, 1986 (Pub. L. No. 99--571; 100 Stat. 3220), effective July 25, 1987; section 609 of title VI of the Act of December 4, 1987 (Pub. L. No. 100--181; 101 Stat. 1261), effective December 4, 1987; section 301 of title III of the Act of October 15, 1990 (Pub. L. No. 101--429; 104 Stat. 941), effective October 15, 1990; section 205(a) of title II of the Act of November 15, 1990 (Pub. L. No. 101--550; 104 Stat. 2718), effective November 15, 1990; section 222 of title II of the Act of November 22, 1999 (Pub. L. No. 106--102; 113 Stat. 1401), effective May 12, 2001; section 4(b)(2)(B) of the Act of September 29, 2006 (Pub. L. No. 109--291; 120 Stat. 1337), effective September 29, 2006; sections 985(d)(2) and 929P(a)(3) of title IX of the Act of July 21, 2010 (Pub. L. No. 111--203; 124 Stat. 1934 and 1863), effective July 21, 2010]
Affiliations of Directors
Sec. 10. (a) No registered investment company shall have a board of directors more than 60 per centum of the members of which are persons who are interested persons of such registered company.
(b) No registered investment company shall--
(1) employ as regular broker any director, officer, or employee of such registered company, or any person of which any such director, officer, or employee is an affiliated person, unless a majority of the board of directors of such registered company shall be persons who are not such brokers or affiliated persons of any such brokers;
(2) use as a principal underwriter of securities issued by it any director, officer, or employee of such registered company or any person of which any such director, officer, or employee is an interested person, unless a majority of the board of directors of such registered company shall be persons who are not such principal underwriters or interested persons of any of such principal underwriters; or
(3) have as director, officer, or employee any investment banker, or any affiliated person of an investment banker, unless a majority of the board of directors of such registered company shall be persons who are not investment bankers or affiliated persons of any investment banker. For the purposes of this paragraph, a person shall not be deemed an affiliated person of an investment banker solely by reason of the fact that he is an affiliated person of a company of the character described in section 12(d)(3)(A) and (B).
(c) No registered investment company shall have a majority of its board of directors consisting of persons who are officers, directors, or employees of any one bank (together with its affiliates and subsidiaries) or any one bank holding company (together with its affiliates and subsidiaries) (as such terms are defined in section 2 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956), or any one savings and loan holding company, together with its affiliates and subsidiaries (as such terms are defined in section 10 of the Home Owners' Loan Act), except that, if on March 15, 1940, any registered investment company had a majority of its directors consisting of persons who are directors, officers, or employees of any one bank, such company may continue to have the same percentage of its board of directors consisting of persons who are directors, officers, or employees of such bank.
(d) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b)(2) of this section, a registered investment company may have a board of directors all the members of which, except one, are interested persons of the investment adviser of such company, or are officers or employees of such company, if--
(1) such investment company is an open-end company;
(2) such investment adviser is registered under title II of this Act and is engaged principally in the business of rendering investment supervisory services as defined in title II;
(3) no sales load is charged on securities issued by such investment company;
(4) any premium over net asset value charged by such company upon the issuance of any such security, plus any discount from net asset value charged on redemption thereof, shall not in the aggregate exceed 2 per centum;
(5) no sales or promotion expenses are incurred by such registered company; but expenses incurred in complying with laws regulating the issue or sale of securities shall not be deemed sales or promotion expenses;
(6) such investment adviser is the only investment adviser to such investment company, and such investment adviser does not receive a management fee exceeding 1 per centum per annum of the value of such company's net assets averaged over the year or taken as of a definite date or dates within the year;
(7) all executive salaries and executive expenses and office rent of such investment company are paid by such investment adviser; and
(8) such investment company has only one class of securities outstanding, each unit of which has equal voting rights with every other unit.
(e) If by reason of the death, disqualification, or bona fide resignation of any director or directors, the requirements of the foregoing provisions of this section or of section 15(f)(1) in respect of directors shall not be met by a registered investment company, the operation of such provision shall be suspended as to such registered company--
(1) for a period of thirty days if the vacancy or vancancies may be filled by action of the board of directors;
(2) for a period of sixty days if a vote of stockholders is required to fill the vacancy or vacancies; or
(3) for such longer period as the Commission may prescribe, by rules and regulations upon its own motion or by order upon application, as not inconsistent with the protection of investors.
(f) No registered investment company shall knowingly purchase or otherwise acquire, during the existence of any underwriting or selling syndicate, any security (except a security of which such company is the issuer) a principal underwriter of which is an officer, director, member of an advisory board, investment adviser, or employee of such registered company, or is a person (other than a company of the character described in section 12(d)(3)(A) and (B)) of which any such officer, director, member of an advisory board, investment adviser, or employee is an affiliated person, unless in acquiring such security such registered company is itself acting as a principal underwriter for the issuer. The Commission, by rules and regulations upon its own motion or by order upon application, may conditionally or unconditionally exempt any transaction or classes of transactions from any of the provisions of this subsection, if and to the extent that such exemption is consistent with the protection of investors.
(g) In the case of a registered investment company which has an advisory board, such board, as a distinct entity, shall be subject to the same retrictions as to its membership as are imposed upon a board of directors by this section.
(h) In the case of a registered management company which is an unincorporated company not having a board of directors, the provisions of this section shall apply as follows:
(1) the provisions of subsection (a), as modified by subsection (e), shall apply to the board of directors of the depositor of such company;
(2) the provisions of subsections (b) and (c), as modified by subsection (e), shall apply to the board of directors of the depositor and of every investment adviser of such company; and
(3) the provisions of subsection (f) shall apply to purchases and other acquisitions for the account of such company of securities a principal underwriter of which is the depositor or an investment adviser of such company, or an affiliated person of such depositor or investment adviser.
[Codified to 15 U.S.C. 80a--10]
[Source: Section 10 of title I of the Act of August 22, 1940 (Pub. L. No. 768; 54 Stat. 806), effective November 1, 1940; as amended by section 5 of the Act of December 14, 1970 (Pub. L. No. 91--547; 84 Stat. 1416), effective December 14, 1970; section 28(5) of the Act of June 4, 1975 (Pub. L. No. 94--29; 89 Stat. 165), effective June 4, 1975; section 213(c) of title II of the Act of November 12, 1999 (Pub. L. No. 106--102; 113 Stat. 1398), effective May 12, 2001; section 401(c) of title IV of the Act of October 13, 2006 (Pub. L. No. 109--351; 120 Stat. 1973), effective October 13, 2006]
OFFERS OF EXCHANGE
Sec. 11. (a) It shall be unlawful for any registered open-end company or any principal underwriter for such a company to make or cause to be made an offer to the holder of a security of such company or of any other open-end investment company to exchange his security for a security in the same or another such company on any basis other than the relative net asset values of the respective securities to be exchanged, unless the terms of the offer have first been submitted to and approved by the Commission or are in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Commission may have prescribed in respect of such offers which are in effect at the time such offer is made. For the purposes of this section, (A) an offer by a principal underwriter means an offer communicated to holders of securities of a class or series but does not include an offer made by such principal underwriter to an individual investor in the course of a retail business conducted by such principal underwriter, and (B) the net asset value means the net asset value which is in effect for the purpose of determining the price at which the securities, or class or series of securities involved, are offered for sale to the public either (1) at the time of the receipt by the offeror of the acceptance of the offer or (2) at such later time as is specified in the offer.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any offer made pursuant to any plan of reorganization, which is submitted to and requires the approval of the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding shares of the class or series to which the security owned by the offeree belongs.
(c) The provisions of subsection (a) shall be applicable, irrespective of the basis of exchange, (1) to any offer of exchange of any security of a registered open-end company for a security of a registered unit investment trust or registered face-amount certificate company; and (2) to any type of offer of exchange of the securities of registered unit investment trusts or registered face-amount certificate companies for the securities of any other investment company.
[Source: Section 11 of title I of the Act of August 22, 1940 (Pub. L. No. 768; 54 Stat. 808), effective November 1, 1940; as amended by section 6 of the Act of December 14, 1970 (Pub. L. No 91--547; 84 Stat. 1417), effective December 14, 1970]
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Pat's Corner
12 August 2016 12:58
Autonomous Driving at Formula Student Germany 2017
Category: Competition, General
FSG once again leads the world of Formula Student with a new competition class, Formula Student Driverless (FSD)
2017 will be driverless. The 12th Formula Student Germany (FSG) is waiting with the next big thing for the international teams of students. For the first time in the history of the engineering design competition, there will be a driverless competition class; Formula Student Driverless (FSD).
The new, future-oriented competition fronts students with a completely new challenge. They are to develop a race car that can run without a driver in autonomous mode, or with a driver in a manual mode. The vehicles must meet the technical requirements of the two existing classes of the competition, Formula Student Combustion (engine) or Formula Student Electric (electric motor).
Which driverless car will win the new competition will not only be decided on basis of pure autonomy. As usual with FSG, the overall performance of the students in all aspects is critical to winning. As in the existing competition classes, the combines static and dynamic events are what counts.
“Formula Student Driverless is a competition which has never existed before. Like the electric motor, we are once again the international pioneer for this new competition class. We are very excited to see what the teams will develop“ says Tim Hannig (Chairman of FSG) excitedly.
The cars must be built with the usual high technical requirements of FSG. “As with the other two classes of the competition, safety is paramount and the cars will be tested to the same standards. To minimise any risks, the autonomous race cars will compete in a secured, person-free test area, said Hannig.
At this year’s FSG, the teams were invited on a voluntary basis to submit a concept for how FSD could look. 31 teams responded, concentrating on the three main subjects “Safety and Security, “Environment and Track Appearance“ and the “Competition“.
With the introduction of FSD, we want to attract students from other fields who in the past have been foreign to FSG. These include areas such as informatics and robotics. We also want to give the teams new challenges for the future. “The introduction of FSD is the consequent further development of the competition and is ideal in order to prepare students for the continuously changing requirements of working life. Networking, software and teamwork are also fundamental ““said Hannig.
Link to the first draft of the FSD rules https://www.formulastudent.de/fsd/documents/
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Danny Dietz Memorial Day Classic honors the fallen, J.J. Watt
May 29, 2018 by Donna Hill
J.J. Watt with the Gold Star Wives (from the left) Keri Mills, Jessica Riley, Watt, Patsy Dietz, Charlotte Ange, Donna Lewis, Tracey Tapper and Jen Robinson. (Submitted photo)
When Patsy Dietz took to the stage at the start of the Danny Dietz Memorial Day Classic, she read a heartfelt letter from the wife of Senior Chief SEAL Kyle Milliken, killed in Somalia a year ago this month.
Gathering with veterans, friends and family at the Redneck Country Club in Stafford, Dietz finished her speech by focusing on the final line of the letter written to Dietz and the Navy SEAL Foundation, who provide ongoing support and assistance to the families of fallen veterans.
“I will never be able to repay the kindness to the American people to my family and my friends,” Dietz read.
Dietz said her reason for sharing the note from Milliken’s widow, was for people to understand the true meaning of Memorial Day.
“It’s about people who gave up their lives in the service of this country,” she said.
She then introduced the most “amazing, strong women who have been my rock in my darkest hours.” Joining her onstage were the Gold Star wives, the spouses of fallen SEALs, who were there for Patsy when she lost husband Danny Dietz, a Navy SEAL killed in 2005 during Operation Red Wings.
Dietz’s story was retold in the book and subsequent movie “Lone Survivor.” Since then, Dietz, a veteran herself, and the daughter of a veteran (her dad was a member of a SEAL team), has been actively involved with Navy SEAL Foundation.
“Everybody steps in to make sure the families could focus on grieving; basically take care of everything so they wouldn’t have to worry about anything else around them. We have grief counseling so wives can talk about the different stages of grief, and counseling for their kids, where they can interact with other SEALS and know that these guys are there for them, even though their father is gone.”
Houston Texans player J.J. Watt, who was presented with an Honorary Texan award at the Friday night event for his support, said “I may not be from here, but you sure make me feel like family.” Watt is originally from Wisconsin.
Having met Patsy Dietz and learning about the foundation during his rookie year with the Texans, Watt gratefully acknowledged the strength and courage of the families of the fallen heroes. Texas Ranger Joe W. Harrelson, who presented the award to Watt, said he was not only proud of the people who put the event together, “but also proud of the community who turn out for the event as well.”
“Part of what we are doing here is to bring back the meaning of Memorial Day. So many people forget that,” said Danny Quinlan, event organizer. With the help of director Erica Molina, both will continue to focus on ways to help fallen veterans and their families.
At the fairgrounds in Rosenberg, the Danny Dietz Memorial Day Classic continued throughout the weekend with concerts, cattle roping, barrel racing, a car show, silent auctions, a barbecue cookout, Cowboy Church with Trey Johnson, and an Honorary Texas ceremony featuring guest speaker Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL and Republican candidate for U.S. Congress for Texas’s 2nd congressional district.
“It really is a time to memorialize those who were lost, seek out those who have lost somebody, and tell them that you want to remember them,” Crenshaw said. “It means a lot to those who are still serving. And by those who are still serving, I mean the Gold Star families. Because they’re serving forever and ever. It never stops.”
For more information, visit www.dannydietzmemorial.com or www.navysealfoundation.org.
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Reaction concerning the French Conseil d’Etat’s decision on regulated tariffs for the sale of electricity in France
By GDF Suez
In GDF Suez
ENGIE acknowledges the Conseil d’Etat’s decision, announced today, judging that regulated tariffs for the sale of electricity do not comply with the European law, due to the absence of a mechanism allowing for a periodic re-examination of the tariffs in addition to their overly broad application englobing private and professional customers.
ENGIE welcomes this beneficial decision for professional consumers who will have a real choice through more competitive prices and easier access to innovative offers proposed by suppliers such as ENGIE.
ENGIE nonetheless regrets the Conseil d’Etat’s analysis which diverges from its viewpoint dating back to 19 July 2017 when it considered, for different reasons, that the pursuit of regulated tariffs for natural gas did not comply with the European Law, after having called upon the European Union’s Court of Justice.
ENGIE will therefore be attentive to the periodic re-examination of regulated tariffs for the sale of electricity to private customers enabling alternative suppliers to provide competitive offers and efficiently compete with the historic operator.
Indeed, the Group considers that the pursuit of regulated tariffs for the sale of electricity to private customers would prolong a deep distortion of competition which exists on the energy markets, where the same actors are active, excessively reinforcing the dominant position of France’s historical electricity operator.
It will belong to the European authorities and Courts, which were not questioned on the matter, in contrast with regulated tariffs for the sale of natural gas, to express their point of view.
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ENGIE starts operations of Kathu, a 100 MW Concentrated Solar Plant and one of South Africa’s largest renewable energy projects
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ENGIE joins the employee shareholding index, Euronext FAS IAS
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ENGIE scores CDP’s A list for climate change
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Launch of the 4th ENGIE Innovation Week Nine days dedicated to innovation in energy
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Wally Uihlein to retire after 41 years at Acushnet
FAIRHAVEN, Mass. (AP) Wally Uihlein, one of the most influential executives in the golf equipment industry, is retiring at the end of the year after 41 years at the parent company of Titleist.
Uihlein, the president and chief executive officer, has told the board at Acushnet Holdings Corp. that he will step down effective Jan. 1.
He joined Acushnet in 1976 as a regional sales representative in its Titleist Golf Division and has been the company’s senior golf executive since 1995. Among the Acushnet brands are Titleist, FootJoy, Vokey Design and Scotty Cameron. The company is best known for Titleist being the top golf ball on professional tours for more than a half-century.
Acushnet says David Maher, the chief operating officer, will succeed Uihlein as president and CEO. It announced the moves Monday.
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Guangdong-Hong elastic band wristbandsKong cross-boundary private cars to use HZMB on trial basis
All The Single People: Meet Your Future Spouse At A Music Festival Palm Springs is hosting a block party and you"re invited. The open-air concert event, Tachevah: A Palm Springs Block Party, takes place April 17, 2013 at 5 p.m. and stars indie band, Passion Pit. With the Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival in full swing, more than 7,500 people are expected to attend the block party that will feature two beer gardens and 10 vendor booths. The Cadieux Cafe played a role in the band"s early years as a part of the venue"s Mussel Beach festival wristbands in 2001. They have come a long way since and suffered some hardship and line-up changes along the way. In late 2001, bass player DeNardo experienced a serious stroke which left his right arm paralyzed. After a great deal of local outreach to fund his physical rehabilitation and an ingenious solution to keep him up front with the band, he now performs his bass-lines on a keyboard system. He"s back in fine form. Right now it"s a whirlwind of excitement for me. I"m painting all the time and have ideas come to mind 24/7. This has been the longest stretch sport wristbands of having my artist mojo in well forever. I hope the future brings new exhibit opportunities, increase in orders for custom work, I hope for a few sales, and I can"t wait to see what I learn. Hopefully I will be able to show on a smaller scale and maybe even put on a show myself. Instead of limiting ourselves with what we think exercise should look like, and what constitutes an "official work out", let"s expand our views to incorporate movement. Once your date has come to draw for the raffle, collect the boxes and take them home, do the drawing and contact the winner. Now that your drawing is over you have possibly hundreds of new leads for not only customers but recruits. For all of those who stated they would like more information on becoming a representative or getting their products at a discount, this is your opportunity to contact them and tell them all about the AVON opportunity. You may even plan to set up a time for all of those interested to get together with you for a seminar event wristbands where you can go over everything with everyone at the same time, answering questions, and giving ideas! This is about the big picture of creating a healthy, happy lifestyle here. It"s not always going to look exactly the way we think it should. As long as it"s healthy overall, then cool it with the stress and guilt. That kind of thinking will create its own negative health consequences. In summary, you should learnhow to trade credit spreads as they are a great strategy for options traders, but you need to understand all the risks first and also how to manage and adjust the trade. It is an intermediate level strategy and not one that I would recommend for beginners.
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HONG KONG -- Guangdong-Hong Kong cross-boundary private cars issued with relevant permits will be allowed to use the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) to travel between Hong Kong Port and Zhuhai Port on a trail basis, said the Transport Department of China"s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) on Tuesday.
To ensure smooth traffic at Hong Kong Port of HZMB and in the vicinity of Hong Kong International Airport and surrounding area, the Transport Department implemented temporary special traffic arrangements during the initial commissioning of the HZMB, only allowing Guangdong-Hong Kong private cars under respective quotas and permits to drive across the HZMB to Zhuhai.
Considering the smooth traffic flow in recent days, the department would, in accordance with the arrangement agreed by the Guangdong and Hong Kong SAR governments, allow dual-plate private cars under the quotas of other crossings to use the HZMB. The trial would be implemented for two years.
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The Biology of Fall Leaves: It’s all about Chemistry
Paul Schaberg
Northern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service
October 22nd, 2015 at 5:45PM
Forests become a veritable garden in the fall, presenting a riot of color in national forests as well as on the streets where we live.
But what exactly is going on in those leaves? How – and why – do leaves change color, and why is there so much variety? It boils down to chemistry.
Pigments are the chemicals in leaves that produce the colors we see. Some of these pigments, like chlorophylls that appear green, and carotenoids that appear yellow, are a natural component of healthy leaves during the growing season. Chlorophyll is instrumental in photosynthesis, the process by which energy from sunlight combines with water and carbon dioxide to make sugars that fuel plant growth and protection. During the summer months, when the tree is growing, chlorophyll is continually replaced but it begins to break down over time.
Autumn’s shorter days and colder temperatures are less conducive for growth, and photosynthesis is reduced. Chlorophyll continues to deteriorate during this time, and at this point not as much is replaced. The first frost triggers a dramatic increase in the breakdown of chlorophyll and the yellow and orange carotenoids are “unmasked” and become the dominant color seen in the leaves of many tree species.
Tree species found in northern landscapes, such as red and sugar maples, have an even broader color palette. These species also have red and purple pigments called anthocyanins that develop in late summer and fall and are largely a response to external stress, such as the first frost. The more anthocyanins produced, the more brilliant the red. Shades of red are influenced by how anthocyanins interact with other factors in the leaf, including the acidity and mineral content within leaf cells.
Depending on the magnitude and timing of environmental cues like fall frosts, and the mix of tree species present, forests can become a mosaic of green, yellow and red pigments across the landscape. Exploring and tracking these shifts in leaf color across time and space is a tradition enjoyed by the many “leaf peepers” in the northeastern U.S. and elsewhere around the world every fall.
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Home » Endo What? Wales Premiere Cardiff
Endo What? Wales Premiere Cardiff
Thursday, March 24th 2016, marked the start of a sea-change in the way endometriosis and its sufferers are treated in Wales.
Part of a global awareness programme, director Shannon Cohn trekked across the Atlantic to bring her ground-breaking film Endo What? to the UK. FTWW was very proud to be part of this campaign, facilitating the Welsh premiere of Endo What in Cardiff. In addition, we held a North Wales Screening on the 25th of May, so that NO women in Wales missed out on what could be a hugely significant opportunity for self-empowerment. Exciting new collaborations were proposed, find out more here.
The film aims to help both patients – and decision-makers (including politicians and doctors) understand the TRUTHS about this disease, and recognise that current strategy in its treatment is just not working – for the economy, for society, for families – and women themselves.
This film has the potential to be an enormously powerful tool in re-educating people, and making the world a lot better for women struggling with endometriosis.
The evening’s events here in Cardiff’s Park Inn Radisson Hotel were very well-received. We had a good turn-out; food and cake were eaten; hugs were exchanged, and the atmosphere was hugely positive and uplifting. Shannon and FTWW answered questions from the floor, and we’d like to think that everyone left the event feeling more supported and less isolated than ever before. Many myths were busted, and only facts disseminated.
FTWW now hopes to continue working with Shannon and the Endo What? team to make this film part of a package of educational materials and resources to go out to schools and medical facilities in Wales. FTWW is developing a strategy to deliver these information packages / sessions in the very near future.
In the meantime, if you missed seeing the film Digital Downloads, and copies of the DVD are available from the Endo What? website. Online screenings and forum chats, ideally involving expert panelists, are also being discussed – so watch this space. The Endo What? team also hope to have a copy of the DVD in every public library at some point in the future.
The KEY is to have as many women see this film as possible: the more who see it, the louder our voices; the louder our voices, the more chance of us being heard; the more we are heard, the better the future for all of us.
More photos of both events on our FTWW Instagram page!
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Kid's Science Project Reveals That Invasive Lionfish Can Survive in Freshwater
By Phil Bourjaily
A sixth-grader is credited with making an important discovery about lionfish with a science project. Lauren Arrington's work has been peer-reviewed and cited in a scientific journal. It has also changed management strategies for dealing with the invasive lionfish that are becoming a serious threat to native fish in Florida.
Arrington, who had spotted a lionfish while fishing in the Loxahatchee River, became curious how the saltwater fish could survive in the brackish river, which is less salty than the ocean. Arrington captured several lionfish with the help of her father, took them home, and observed them in an aquarium as she lowered the salinity in the tank. Eventually she found that lionfish can survive in fresh water.
Recently, the state of Florida has banned the importation of lionfish and expanded the areas where lionfish can be speared. Researchers are now looking for lionfish in freshwater and saltwater.
Originally found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the striped lionfish is a popular aquarium fish and it has spread in great numbers to the western Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and Mediterranean, where it preys on native species voraciously. Now, thanks to Arrington’s science project (which only placed third in her science fair) we know they are a threat in fresh water as well.
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NASA launches new anti-harassment policy for employees
Washington | Published: February 4, 2018 4:41:46 PM
Taking a firm stand against workplace harassment, NASA has launched a new campaign for its employees saying that the space agency will not tolerate any kind of harassment.
The new campaign requires all current and new members of NASA to undergo anti-harassment training by the end of 2018. (AP)
Taking a firm stand against workplace harassment, NASA has launched a new campaign for its employees saying that the space agency will not tolerate any kind of harassment. “Harassment, including sexual harassment, has no place here at NASA and will not be tolerated. It’s not consistent with our values, our employee engagement, and our high-performance culture. It’s wrong and it’s not acceptable,” Robert Lightfoot, Acting NASA Administrator, was quoted as saying in a video message released at the space agency’s YouTube channel this week. Lightfoot outlined the procedures for all NASA employees and contractors to report harassment of any kind. He also encouraged all NASA members to be “vigilant and immediately report any inappropriate conduct” in helping towards preventing and stopping workplace harassment.
“All reports will be treated appropriately, with a prompt, impartial and thorough investigation. Individuals reporting harassment will have their identity kept confidential,” Lightfoot said. The new campaign requires all current and new members of NASA to undergo anti-harassment training by the end of 2018. Besides, NASA will also partner with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to learn about current developments in anti-harassment. “We need to provide a safe workplace so that our workforce is effective,” Lightfoot said.
In October 2017, media reports emerged about Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s numerous sexual misconduct accusations, following which several victims of harassment worldwide united and shared their stories under the social media hashtag #MeToo. According to space.com, Lightfoot’s message comes after the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology requested that the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate anti-harassment practices at science-based federal agencies.
The GAO letter, signed by Chairman Lamar Smith and Ranking Member Eddie Johnson, asked several agencies (including NASA) to report how many cases of harassment were there at each agency, what anti-harassment policies existed and how grant recipients learn about anti-harassment policies, among other requests.
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Publisher MPS (formerly Von Holtzbrinck Publishing)
Author Miguel Syjuco
Miguel Syjuco
WINNER OF THE 2008 MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River. Gone, too, is the only manuscript of his final book, a work meant to rescue him from obscurity by exposing the crimes of the Filipino ruling families. Miguel, his student and only remaining friend, sets out for Manila to investigate.
Buy Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco at Fully Booked online and at Fully Booked branches in the Philippines.
“Winner of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize while still in manuscript form, Ilustrado is a hip and secure first novel about the urgency of art and regret. Confident and quirky, with passages that recall early Phillip Roth and a structure not unlike the best M. Night Shyamalan films, the book actively seeks to provoke its audience with bathroom humor and sexist stabs at superficial melodrama. Such scenes are bookended by passages of profundity that somehow manage to always say something about life as well as literature.”
– Roberto Ontiveros, The Dallas Morning News
“Ambitious . . . In a daring literary performance, Syjuco weaves the invented with the factual . . . Ilustrado is being presented as a tracing of 150 years of Philippine history, but it's considerably more than that . . . Spiced with surprises and leavened with uproariously funny moments, it is punctuated with serious philosophical musings.”
– Raymond Bonner, The New York Times Book Review
“A dazzling and virtuosic adventure in reading . . . The narrative is organised with immense confidence and skill . . . The author's post-modernist bag of tricks also contains a whip-crack narrative skill that's as reminiscent of Dickens as it is of Roberto Bolaño . . . There's a capaciousness that makes the book richly attractive to wander into . . . [This] novel . . . fizzes with the effervescence a large book can have when its author is in total control of the material. This isn't a story; it's the unfolding of an entire world, a mirror-land that seems familiar but is always ineffably strange . . . Syjuco is a writer already touched by greatness . . . This is a remarkably impressive and utterly persuasive novel. Its author . . . may one day succeed with the Nobel committee.”
– Joseph O'Connor, The Guardian
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East Meets West As Arabic Becomes The Second Most Popular Language In Sweden!
October 8, 2017by Nehal Amer0
It may come as a surprise to many that the second most common language spoken in Sweden is, in fact, Arabic.
Located in Northern Europe and known for its icy temperatures and blonde-haired, blue-eyed inhabitants, Sweden has a population of just 10 million people and seems an unlikely place to hear the Arabic language.
For over 1000 years, Finnish was the second most common language in Sweden – something that comes as no surprise as the two countries are just 552 km apart across the water but now Finnish has been shunted to third place as Sweden’s population of Arabic speakers grows.
Noble intentions from a Nobel nation (this is a play on words as Sweden is famous for the Nobel prize)
In 2015 alone, Sweden welcomed 165,000 migrants and refugees, many of them from Arabic-speaking nations – an astounding figure when you consider Sweden’s small population.
The fairly recent influx of Arabian refugees and those fleeing wars in their countries could be expected to have taken a serious and negative toll on the Scandinavian country but, largely, this has very much not been the case. Many Arab immigrants in Sweden have gone on to set up businesses, restaurants and cafes, adding a new vibrancy and cultural diversity to formerly conservative cities such as Malmo and Stockholm. Many Swedish nationals see this new diversity as a welcome breath of fresh air to a country with many conservative ideals and strict laws on alcohol and other social behaviours.
Football player Moubarak explains how it is that he came to live in Sweden, “We had escaped from a refugee camp in Chad. It was dark when we sneaked out of the hotel. The last night of the tournament. We took a taxi, gave the driver all the money we had. We were lucky. We were notified that we could stay in Sweden a few days before Christmas Eve. Now we want to live in a house together, practice football, sleep and eat together. Life will be good.
So now Darfur United, the football team that was started in the refugee camp in Chad, has moved to Sweden, since we all fled to here.”
Moubarak is not alone in his success story with respect to his immigration to Sweden – many Arabian athletes, business people and former politicians have embraced life in the small Scandinavian country. Renowned for their generosity and kindness of spirit the Swedish people have, in turn, welcomed this new part of their new population – indeed, the Swedish government actively encourages the welcoming of the Arabic people whilst still keeping control of immigration figures stating that Sweden has in no way lost control over its territory and immigrants remain at the mercy of national asylum and immigration laws.
Building communities through shared language
One beneficial side effect of this Arabic influx into the Swedish community is a boom in the language and translation industries. As the numbers of Arabic speakers increase, it is vital that reliable and accurate translation services are available, particularly within the medical sector where communication is of paramount importance. With experts predicting that Arabic may, eventually, even become the first most common language in Sweden, expert translation will possibly become the country’s greatest asset.
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Dr. John Thomas in 10 quotations
Enjoy these favourite words of wisdom from the pen of Dr. Thomas…
1. Humanity
“His heart is evil; and, left to its uncontrolled impulses, he becomes licentious, merciless, and more cruel than the fiercest beast of prey. … His propensity is to obey the lust of his nature; and to do its evil works.” Elpis Israel (4th ed.) p1-2
2. God’s plan
“…It is a mere conceit the idea, that God wills the immortalization and glorification of every member of the human family. He has purposed no such thing. His design requires only the separation from the nations of a sufficient number of men and women to occupy the globe when constituted on an eternal basis, without sea, be that many or few. ‘What a paltry, contemptible, few,’ exclaims one, ‘compared with the immense mass of human flesh and blood, which will have existed on the earth for 7000 years!’ Granted; but what is needed more than a sufficient population for the renovated earth? If this immense mass of corruption and sin, living and dead, had listened to the voice of reason; if it would have believed God and obeyed Him; an adequate provision would have been made for them; but they would not, and the consequences inevitably follow.” Elpis Israel (4th ed.) p183
3. War
“Peace is to be deprecated as a calamity by the faithful... War is not displeasing to God any more than a rod is displeasing to him that uses it for correction. … It is a divine institution for the punishment of the transgressors of His law; and a most beneficent one too: for all the little liberty the world enjoys is attributable to the controversy of the tongue, the pen, and the sword.”
Elpis Israel (4th ed.) p113-114
4. Peace activists
“Surely ye are incorrigibly demented.”
Elpis Israel (4th ed.) p117
5. Suffering
“Sin and evil are as cause and effect. God is the author of evil, but not of sin; for the evil is the punishment of sin. … The evil then to which man is subjected is the Lord’s doing. War, famine, pestilence, flood, earthquake, disease, and death, are the terrible evils which God inflicts upon mankind for their transgressions. … Evil is the artillery with which He combats the enemies of His law, and of His saints.” Elpis Israel (4th ed.) p128-129
6. Politics
“The saints who understand the word will keep aloof from politics. None are more interested in them than they; but they will mix themselves up neither with one party nor another; for God regulates them all: therefore to be found in any such strife, would be to contend in some way or other against Him.”
Elpis Israel (4th ed.) p66
7. Praise and prayer by non-Christadelphians
“Is it not, then, preposterous to invite the clergy and their followers, or the sinners of the world to sing songs of praise, and to pray – to offer up personally, or by proxy, their “abominations?” … Prayer and praise, and thanksgiving are spiritual worship, when offered “in spirit and in truth;” and can only be so offered by those who are intelligent in the truth. Under any other circumstances, they are the mere mutterings of unreasoning animals…”
The Christadelphian, Vol. 23 Bd. 23, c1886
8. Women
“We hear much in some parts of the world of the political rights and equality of women with men; and of their preaching and teaching in public assemblies. We need wonder at nothing which emanates from the unenlightened thinking of sinful flesh. … Men do not think according to God’s thinking, and therefore it is they run into the most unscriptural conceits; among which may be enumerated the political and social equality of women. … Preaching, and lecturing, women, are but species of actresses, who exhibit upon the boards for the amusement of sinful and foolish men. They aim at an equality for which they are not physically constituted; they degrade themselves by the exhibition, and in proportion as they rise in assurance, they sink in all that really adorns a woman.”
9. Killing babies
“The destruction of ‘infants and sucklings’ is especially commanded in divers parts of scripture. Not because they were responsible transgressors; but, on the same principle, that men not only destroy all adult serpents that come in their way, but their thread-like progeny also; for in these is the germ of venomous and malignant reptiles. … It is a law of the flesh that ‘like produces like.’ Wild and truthless men reproduce themselves in their sons and daughters.”
10. Us and them
“Human governments have all been opposed to God’s truth, and have made war with that class of people in their several countries who are entitled scripturally to the designation of the Saints. You cannot make peace between them. That is the reason why we who advocate the doctrine of God's Saints are in hostility to the world. Those on our side who would make peace with the enemy are not fit to be on our side. It is war to the knife between the powers that be and all Christadelphians. We accept no truce; we will consent to no compromise. Either they must conquer us or we must conquer them – by argument now, but when the time for argument is passed away and the Lord has come with power and great glory, His Saints will take the sword and conquer the world, whether the world likes it or not.” The Book Unsealed (1870), p13
And in a final irony, he said of other denominations:
“The people begin to flag. The masses take no interest in their preaching. Their churches are cold, formal, and deathlike.”
It reminds me of something, I just can’t think what.
Readers are welcome to suggest additions to this list.
Published: Tuesday, August 21, 2018
PileDriver August 21, 2018 at 1:12 PM
I wonder if references could be adding to the quotes, and perhaps a downloadable/printable PDF. I would like to "bill" my local Christadelphians with it, and "invite" them to discuss the matters contained within...
PileDriver August 22, 2018 at 12:53 PM
Could we have the one from his letter where he describes slaves of African descent as "The Everlasting (n-word)"?
Phynnodderee August 22, 2018 at 5:05 PM
References added.
The quotation you're thinking of comes from a letter to Robert Roberts in 1865, which you can read in full here. The relevant passage is:
"We have a great many speculators in the faith on this side the Atlantic. Mere theorists, who are a sort of amalgam made up of a little Storrism, a little Adventism, a little Campbellism, and a hodge-podge of traditions, of which water, pork, alcohol, tobacco, salt, leaven, raisins, and “the everlasting nigger,” are the prolific “head-centres.” But of believers, intelligent in “the unadulterated milk of the word,” by which they have grown into “young men” and “fathers” in Christ, we have very, very few."
He is basically having a go at other nonconformist believers who didn't share his religious views. If you're wondering what the pork and tobacco are all about, in a comment elsewhere on this blog, former editor Corky explained that "He was talking about the hodge podge of health doctrines held by the COGGC and the COG-7th day churches. The COGs were against slavery - therefore, the good doctor must have been for slavery - else, why mention black people in such a derogatory way?"
Rather than a targeted racist gibe as such, I think Thomas was saying "This everlasting fuss about slavery, why do people keep banging on about it - as if it even mattered!" The impression I get is of a man so lacking in compassion that he didn't regard any form of human suffering - whether it was due to war, poverty, enslavement or anything else - as important. After all, it was the will of God and we worthless humans deserve no better. I suspect he simply regarded slavery as a non-issue - and great minds like his had loftier things to think about.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if he did harbour racist views (in keeping with his general ignorant backwardness), but to me this quotation says more about his callousness than anything else.
Mancott August 23, 2018 at 6:02 PM
So (quotation 5), "the evil to which man is subjected is the Lord`s doing. War, famine, pestilence, flood, earthquake, DISEASE (my capitals), and death, are the terrible evils which God inflicts upon mankind for their trangressions".
I wonder what those CD`s (and their loved ones and relatives), who are subject to various diseases, think of the God, whom Dr JT has said, "inflicts" these diseases upon them?
Jon Morgan August 25, 2018 at 11:28 AM
I like Homo Deus's take on it:
"For generation after generation humans have prayed to every god, angel and saint, and have invented countless tools, institutions and social systems but they continued to die in their millions from starvation, epidemics and violence.
Many thinkers and prophets concluded that famine, plague and war must be an integral part of God’s cosmic plan or of our imperfect nature, and nothing short of the end of time would free us from them.
Of course, these problems have not been completely solved, but they have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. We don’t need to pray to any god or saint to rescue us from them. We know quite well what needs to be done in order to prevent famine, plague and war – and we usually succeed in doing it. True, there are still notable failures; but when faced with such failures we no longer shrug our shoulders and say, ‘Well, that’s the way things work in our imperfect world’ or ‘God’s will be done’. Rather, when famine, plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up a commission of inquiry, and promise ourselves that next time we’ll do better. And it actually works. Such calamities indeed happen less and less often.
For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined. In the early twenty-first century, the average human is far more likely to die from bingeing at McDonald’s than from drought, Ebola or an al-Qaeda attack."
The Value of Elpis Israel:
"Firstly, let every candidate for immersion be requested prior to immersion
(preferably), but definitely after, to read in conjunction with his daily
portion of Scripture, Elpis Israel. All whom God has privileged to bring
out of Gentilism into Christ, and who desire their work to withstand the
fire of Christ's scrutiny, have a a definite duty to perform. Babes in Christ
should receive parental control until they can walk safely alone. Thus,
the reading and study of Elpis Israel will build them up and establish
them in the general ethics of God's Word, placing them on a more solid
foundation, guarding them against false doctrine, stimulating them to
withstand the darts of the evil one." — R. Roberts.
The establishment of a cult....to be continued.
Why I Think The Christadelphians Are Wrong
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Airport Renovation is Complete: New Name and New Terminal
The airport, formerly known as Port Columbus, has been officially renamed as John Glenn Columbus International Airport in honor of the Ohio legend, former senator, aviator and astronaut. In 1962, Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth aboard Friendship 7. In 1974, he was elected to the U.S. Senate (D-Ohio) and served four consecutive terms. Glenn, who turns 95 in July, became the oldest person to fly in space in 1998 at the age of 77 when he lifted off on the Space Shuttle Discovery. He has received numerous aviation accolades including NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award in 2006 and a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012.
Nearly 150 flights depart John Glenn International each day and travel to 33 destinations on Air Canada, American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, United and Vacation Express. Approximately 7 million passengers traveled through the airport in 2015.
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In 2013, the airport completed a $140 million runway improvement that enabled simultaneous takeoffs and landings on the north and south runways, increasing air traffic volume to meet the demands of Columbus' growing population.
In March of 2016, completion of a three-year, $80 million terminal renovation and modernization program positions John Glenn International for future passenger growth, allowing the airport to maximize airport operations within the existing footprint of the airport property. The program incorporated a major facelift for the ticket lobby, baggage claim and Concourses A, B and C as well as extensive mechanical, technological and security upgrades. The upgraded terminal provides a contemporary, comfortable and convenient facility that delivers a positive passenger experience. Extensive terminal-wide renovations include adding local restaurants, unveiling one of the nation's fastest airport Wi-Fi systems, enhancing natural lighting, and comfortable seating and upgrading restrooms. The program also allowed the opportunity to incorporate more art displays and visual elements in the terminal.
The decor in the terminals has been improved as well, in such a way that as soon as visitors step off of an airplane they will get a sense of Columbus. Both the jet ways and baggage claim areas have been wrapped with photos depicting the city's attractions and major businesses headquartered in Columbus, such as Nationwide and Victoria's Secret. John Glenn International will be many visitors' first introduction to Columbus and it is now designed to be a true "front door to the community."
As of August 2016, cleaner air is expected outside of John Glenn International thanks to a program that eliminates the need for fuel-powered equipment at airline gates. Using a $2.7 million Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) grant awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in September 2015, all gates at John Glenn International are equipped with pollution-fighting units. The VALE program, created to reduce sources of airport ground emissions, allowed for removal of heating and cooling generators on the ground that burned fuel. The new units are projected to result in a total emission reduction of 207.1 tons of carbon monoxide over a span of 20 years.
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Retinal Vein Problems
Retinal vein occlusion is an eye condition commonly seen by retinal specialists. It is second only to diabetic retinopathy as a cause of visual loss due to retinal vascular disease. There are two forms of retinal vein occlusion, branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) and central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). While there are similarities in the pathogenesis and clinical nature of these two events, each has unique etiologies, differential diagnosis, management, and prognosis.
Color photograph showing segmental intraretinal hemorrhage of a branch retinal vein occlusion.
A branch retinal vein occlusion is essentially a blockage of the portion of the circulation that drains the retina of blood. The arteries deliver blood to the retina. The red blood cells and plasma then course through the capillaries and eventually into the venous system, beginning with small veins and ending with larger ones, and eventually reaching the central retinal vein. With blockage of any vein, there is back–up pressure in the capillaries, which leads to hemorrhages and also to leakage of fluid and other constituents of blood. Usually, the occlusion occurs at a site where an artery and vein cross. The occlusion site determines the extent or distribution of the hemorrhage, ranging from a small vein branch to a quadrantic occlusion involving one-fourth of the retina to a hemispheric (hemi–retinal) occlusion involving one half of the retina to an occlusion of the central retinal vein, which involves the entire retina (when the central vein is involved, this is called a central retinal vein occlusion which is discussed below).
Branch retinal vein occlusions are by far the most common cause of retinal vascular occlusive disease. Males and females are affected equally. Most occlusions occur after age 50, although younger patients are sometimes seen with this disorder (in this age group it is often called papillophlebitis). The highest rate of occurrence is in individuals in their 60s and 70s. The risk factors for this disorder are similar to those for vascular occlusive disease elsewhere in the body such as stroke and coronary artery disease. Specifically, aging, high blood pressure, diabetes, and smoking are all risk factors. Glaucoma has also been identified as a risk factor in some studies. There are less common conditions which may put a patient at risk for developing a vein occlusion including blood clotting abnormalities such as hyperhomocysteinemia, activated protein C resistance (Factor V Leiden), protein C and S deficiency, anti–phospholipid antibodies and diseases which cause sludging of the circulation or so-called hyperviscosity. Inflammatory and infectious conditions which cause vasculitis such as sarcoidosis and tuberculosis are also risk factors for vein occlusion. In general, unless there is a reason to suspect these less common conditions (such as young age, history of previous thrombophilia, or history suggestive of inflammation or infection), exhaustive laboratory testing is usually not indicated. Most patients are referred to their internist for the appropriate medical evaluations.
The diagnosis of a retinal branch vein occlusion poses little difficulty to an ophthalmologist who will detect dilated blood vessels, hemorrhages, and swelling (edema) in the distribution of the vein. It appears that the more complete the blockage, the more intense the hemorrhages and the edema. In fact, the blockage may be so dramatic that the involved capillaries cease to function and close off (ischemia or capillary non–perfusion). About 10% of patients suffering from a branch vein occlusion will experience a branch or a central vein occlusion in the fellow eye in the future.
There are three complications of branch retinal vein occlusion which threaten vision: macular edema, macular ischemia (non–perfusion) and neovascularization (growth of new abnormal blood vessels).
When the distribution of the vein involves the center of the retina (macula), bleeding and exudation or leakage occurs there, producing symptoms. Leakage in the macula causes macular edema in which a patient will have blurred vision and loss of portions of the field of vision (corresponding to the distribution of the obstructed vein). Basically, the edema damages the architecture of the retina, causing these symptoms. These visual changes can be monitored with an Amsler grid. A fluorescein angiogram and OCT may be useful in evaluating macular edema and determining whether treatments with laser or pharmacological therapies are necessary (see below).
OCT showing macular edema from a
branch vein occlusion.
In the first three to six months after the occurrence of the branch vein occlusion, there is often significant intraretinal hemorrhage that involves the macula, making it difficult to predict the clinical course and visual outcome. After the first few months, it may be useful to do a fluorescein angiogram and OCT. Fluorescein angiography is helpful in analyzing the retinal circulation, particularly the capillaries which may manifest abnormalities such as leakage or macular ischemia (non–perfusion: closure of blood vessels which supply the retina with oxygen and other nutrients). OCT is useful for detecting retinal swelling (edema).
If the fluorescein angiogram indicates that capillary non–perfusion is the cause of the vision loss, it is unlikely that the vision will improve significantly over time. However, if the poor vision is due to edema or swelling, laser photocoagulation or pharmacological therapies, such as steroids or anti–vasogenic drugs (eg. Avastin), may be useful in sealing leaking capillaries to enhance the resolution of the edema for stabilization and improvement of the vision. Intraocular steroids, which are commonly used as a treatment for macular edema, increase the chance of cataract formation and elevation of intraocular pressure (steroid-induced glaucoma).
Sometimes in venous occlusive disease, scar tissue can form on the surface of the retina. This condition, which is called a macular pucker or an epiretinal membrane may result in distorted vision (metamorphopsia) which is not improved with laser or pharmacologic treatment. Vitrectomy surgery may be indicated for the removal of a macular pucker.
The most devastating potential problem in a vein occlusion is that of neovascularization. The neovascularization may develop in 40% of those cases where branch vein occlusions produce large areas of capillary non–perfusion. This retinal neovascularization generally develops in the first 6 to 12 months after the occlusion. Unless laser treatment is performed, at least 60% of the patients with neovascularization will experience episodes of vitreous hemorrhage. In severe cases of neovascularization, retinal detachment can occur from pulling by these vessels and associated scar tissue on the retina (traction detachment).
Laser photocoagulation treatment is a proven therapy for neovascularization in vein occlusions. Indeed, laser treatment can cause stabilization or, at times, regression of the vascular growth. This treatment, while important in helping to prevent further visual loss, is not usually associated with improvement in vision. As vein occlusions evolve, some normal vessels may dilate to compensate for the obstructed vein. Sometimes, these collateral vessels may be difficult to distinguish from neovascularization on clinical examination. A fluorescein angiogram may be useful in this determination.
Recently, the intraocular injection of anti–vasogenic drugs, that tell blood vessels to stop growing, has shown promising results in the control of retinal neovascularization. These treatments have not yet been assessed in prospective clinical trials but may be used on an off-label basis. One particular medication that has been increasingly utilized for this purpose is Avastin, a drug that is approved for the intravenous treatment of colon cancer. Intraocular injections of Avastin have shown promising early results, and an excellent safety profile, in the control of retinal swelling and neovascularization due to a variety of retinal conditions. Avastin lasts about 6 weeks in the eye after a single injection and may need to be repeated if the disease reactivates. Although an injection into the eye sounds painful, it is simple to perform, relatively painless, and very well tolerated by patients.
There is no known medical treatment for retinal branch vein occlusion. Anti–coagulants such as heparin, coumadin, and aspirin have not been shown to be of value in preventing branch vein occlusion or managing its complications. Because anti–coagulants may be associated with systemic complications, they are prescribed only in specific clinical circumstances, for example for patients with known clotting abnormalities.
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The 01955 Area Code ( Dialling Code)
The 01955 area code is a 4 digit geographical dialling code (excluding the zero) used in telecommunications for the area.
The local telephone numbers within the 01955 are 6 digits long.
The correct format in which to write a telephone number from the area code is (01955) [x][x][x][x][x][x].
Where is the 01955 Area Code?
The 01955 dialling code is situated in the county of Caithness in the Scotland Region of the UK.
When do I need to use the 01955 dialling code?
You will need to use a dialling code if you are calling from a mobile phone or a landline outside of the 01955 dialling code area. If you are calling a local number within the same area code with a landline telephone you do not need to use the 01955 dialling code.
Phoning the 01955 Dialling Code from Outside of the UK
If you are calling from outside of the UK. You will need to add the code for dialling internationally. This varies country to country, followed by the UK country code (44) followed by the area code without the initial zero (1955).
International Prefix
United States and Canada 011 44 1955
Europe 00 44 1955
Australia 0011 44 1955
Origins of the 01955 Area Code
Before the 16th April 1995 known as PhONEday which changed telephone area codes by inserting a 1 at the beginning. The area code was .
the historic mnemonic code for the 01955 area was WK5. The first two characters are taken from the letters W and K in WicK. On an old rotary dial telephone this was entered by dialling the numbers 9, 5 and 5.
An old rotary dial for the Wick area code.
Map of the 01955 dialling Code Area
The shaded area on the map represent the estimated extent of the 01955 phone area code.
The blue icons on the map represent the locations of telephone exchanges serving the 01955 area. Click on an icon for more details
Map of the Wick area code and surrounding areas
Towns and Villages within the 01955 dialling Code
Known Telephone Exchanges within the 01955 dialling Code
WICK TE & TRS (NSWIC)
GILLOCK UAX (2) (NSGIL)
JOHN O'GROATS UAX (NSJOG)
KEISS UAX (NSKSS)
LYTH UAX (2) (NSLYT)
THRUMSTER UAX/TRS (NSTHR)
WATTEN UAX (2) (NSWTT)
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Working on a solution for Portreath
Recently George Eustice, Member of Parliament for Camborne and Redruth met with members of Portreath Parish Council, Cornwall Council, and the Environment Agency to discuss what more can be done to protect Portreath and the surrounding towns from the devastating effects of flooding.
The meeting came after it was announced in the summer that Portreath was to benefit from extra funding for flood protection. Across the country 13 flood schemes will benefit from £40 million of additional funding which will unlock flood defence schemes and help support economic growth and regeneration in areas that have suffered flooding in recent years.
The additional funding, first announced in the budget, adds to millions of pounds of government grant-in-aid already allocated to these projects and partnership funding already secured. It will help leverage an additional £24 million from other sources, enabling the flood schemes to go ahead. In total, more than 7,000 properties will be better protected against flooding, including over 5,000 homes. This additional money is part of our £2.6 billion investment from 2015 to 2021 to fund 1,500 flood defence schemes which will better protect 300,000 homes across the country.
George said, "This was a very productive meeting and whilst more work will have to be completed before a final decision is made on how best to address the issue, it was great to have everyone in the room and discussing the issues at hand. I would like to thank the Parish Council and the Environment Agency for setting the meeting up and I will continue to monitor developments closely and update constituents when a final decision has been taken. This is positive news for people living in and around Portreath."
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Wilmington folk singers
Folk Singers are a fun entertainment option for those looking to stick to particular ethnic traditions. Whether it’s those of European, Asian, Middle Eastern, or Latin American decent, GigMasters has a number of Folk Singers in the Wilmington, DE area for you to choose from.
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Top Folk Singers Near Wilmington, DE
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Anders Hyatt
Booked 9 Days Ago!
Acoustic Guitarist from Philadelphia, PA (38 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Quality Sound. Expansive Song List. Pleasing Live Entertainment. A Hard-working & Honest Professional. As an experienced solo artist, Anders brings a friendly and inviting energy to every event, and is capable of captivating his audience while making them feel immediately at home. Whether it be a special ceremony, a rousing sing-along, or the background ambiance for a party, Anders knows how to play to the mood. His strong guitar playing offers the perfect backdrop for rich, warm vocals that... (more)
Singer Guitarist from Philadelphia, PA (25 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Ryan Cook does music for a living. You'll be hard-pressed to find better entertainment for your wedding or event anywhere in the Tri-State area. Think of the difference that you get when you find someone that does their craft all the time as opposed to someone that does it on occasion - it is same difference between professionals and amateurs. Keep this in mind when making a decision on who to hire for your event. When making a living as a musician gets difficult amateurs will hedge their... (more)
Michele Mountain
Harpist from Hamilton, NJ (56 miles from Wilmington, DE)
When Michele Mountain plays the harp, it can be hard to tell where she stops and the music begins. That's what happens when you combine over 30 years as a working harpist with the sheer gratitude of someone who loves their work. Michele has played at hundreds of weddings, churches, hospices, senior centers, corporate events, historical period events, coffee shops and book stores on both the East and West Coasts. She has also taught for over a decade to students ranging from the very young... (more)
Caryn Dixon Music
Caryn Dixon is an acoustic singer-guitarist and pianist. She travels across the country to perform for corporate events, weddings, cocktail hours, receptions, private parties, festivals, clubs, colleges and theaters. Her set includes classic pop songs from several decades that she has reinvented into an Indie-Folk-Pop sound, reminiscent of artists like Mazzy Star, Joni Mitchell, First Aide Kit, Sarah McLaughlin, and Natalie Merchant. She is comfortable performing for a wide range of... (more)
J. Alex Wash
Top 40 Pianist from Philadelphia, PA (38 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Hi, I'm Alex Wash, rock'n'roll club pianist since 2011, running a cover band and dueling piano show in Texas, Kansas City, Charlotte, and currently, Philadelphia. I'm experienced with interaction, sing-a-long piano, and performance pieces. I'm a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist, with a BA in Music from Millersville University. I currently have a rep of 500+ tunes from the 1960s to present day. I've got the experience and training to roll with the punches for any event. (more)
Country One Man Band from Keyport, NJ (86 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Thomas James is a blues and folk singer, songwriter, guitarist and violinist who is deeply rooted in traditional music. Extremely bluegrass and country influenced, a strong passion for blues and folk, and hints of rock. VIOLINIST - CLASSICAL AND FIDDLE/COUNTRY For More info on Thomas James please visit Thomasjamescountry.com For song lists please contact me. For violin samples please contact me Thomas James is a talented singer, songwriter and musician with a passion for... (more)
Jeff Herbert Bagpipes, Guitar, Vocals
Bagpiper from Rockville, MD (97 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Jeff Herbert is an in demand BagPiper and Singer/Guitarist with over 15 years bagpipe experience and over 30 years guitar/vocal experience. In addition to his solo career, he is a charter member of the Washington DC Fire Department Pipes and Drums Band. Jeff has performed solo at many high profile events, including The Vietnam War Memorial, Arlington National Cemetary, The Birchmere, The City Winery, Dc., the Irish Embassy and before members of Congress on Capitol Hill. He frequently plays... (more)
Matt Hartke Music
Singer Guitarist from Jersey City, NJ (104 miles from Wilmington, DE)
"Refreshing Heart & Soul Music, 10 out of 10!!" Matt is a award-winning singer/songwriter located in New York City. You can currently hear his song 'Gold' as millions have, spinning on SiriusXM The Coffeehouse. Known for his ability to create the perfect atmosphere for any special occasion, Matt's live performance comes across with a natural ease, creating a joyful and upbeat environment. Weddings, Corporate and Private Events are a specialty; Blending an array of music of your... (more)
Tiphanie Doucet
On any given weekday, you can hear Tiphanie Doucet's voice echoing over the Hudson and East rivers. Equipped with only an acoustic guitar, a microphone and a tiny mixer, the French songstress delivers hushed and intimate performances for passengers aboard Spirit Cruises, set against the backdrop of an idyllic Manhattan skyline. Doucet's set list meanders seamlessly between Top 40 staples like Cindy Lauper and The Weekn'd, while discreetly inserting the odd Gallic classic and, of course, a few... (more)
Frank Persico
Singer Guitarist from Ozone Park, NY (110 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Resident singer of NYC Resorts World Casino; Leadoff artist for JetBlue Jams 2018 Summer concert series at JFK's T5 performance venue; Performer on the FOX 5 TV show "New York's Star of the Day" Frank Persico is truly in a class all his own. Frank's unique soulful feel adds the perfect touch of class to cocktail parties, wedding ceremonies, intimate celebrations or any other type of party or event. His experienced is unmatched. For something truly unique have Frank perform one of his... (more)
Marie Mazziotti
Pop Singer from New York City, NY (108 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Marie's cover version of David Bowie's Modern Love debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in Jean Claude Van Damme's 2008 movie "JCVD". Marie Mazziotti: Born to Perform. With her smoky voice and sparkling showmanship, Marie captures the crowd. Her extensive repertoire, which features more than 1,000 cover songs and 30 originals, appeals to music lovers of all tastes and generations. One minute, Marie croons classics like "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "The Way You Look Tonight." The... (more)
Courtney Dowe
Top 40 Singer from Washington, DC (98 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Growing up with a musically gifted mother, Courtney Dowe began writing songs from a very early age. She has performed in places as humble as subway stations and as legendary as The Filmore in San Francisco. Her interest in human rights has inspired "protest songs" ranging from the subject of police brutality in the United States to the persecution of Falun Gong by the Communist Regime in China. Her music has been featured on BBC radio and she has toured with the well-loved major recording... (more)
Tyler Miroe
Pop One Man Band from Monroe, NY (131 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Hello, I'm a singer songwriter & one man band. I perform original ballads as well as LITE ROCK, FOLK, & EASY LISTENING songs of the 60-80's. I perform with my 12 & 6 string guitars,harmonicas, and or professional playback. If you like Gordon Lightfoot and Elvis...I think you should contact me! I have performed on my guitars at coffeehouses, halls, bars, weddings, bar & bat mitzvahs, schools, corporate parties, birthday parties, backyard barbecues, ski resorts, festivals, Las Vegas casinos,... (more)
Singer Guitarist from Morgantown, WV (235 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Tom O'Donnell is a singer-guitarist who lives in both West Virginia, USA and Northumberland, England. He has brought his unique blend of Americana, Roots, Folk and Country music to audiences in America, England and Europe for years. Featuring stunning vocals and complex and intricate acoustic guitar stylings, Tom's songs range from thoughtful to hilarious, brooding to joyful, but always beautiful and reflective, whether they celebrate the hardness and resilience of the American heartland,... (more)
Joe Greaney
Acoustic Guitarist from Walpole, MA (278 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Performing a range of material spanning generations, Joe Greaney can entertain and gratify a diverse spectrum of audience. His musical style is perfect for wedding cocktail hours, rehearsal dinners, corporate events and private parties. With over twenty years of experience playing guitar and singing, Greaney has used his talent to inspire others to enjoy themselves no matter what the event or occasion. As Greaney puts it, "I find enjoyment in evaluating an audiences musical tastes and... (more)
Pete Kilpatrick
Acoustic Guitarist from Portland, ME (384 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Hey All, My name is Pete Kilpatrick and I'm an acoustic singer/songwriter from Portland,Maine. I have been writing and gigging professionally for over ten years and have performed over 1,200 concerts across the country. I have shared the stage with artists such as Dave Matthews Band, David Gray, Ray Lamontagne, The Barenaked Ladies, Guster, and O.A.R. My sound is comparable to the Fray, Coldplay, Matt Nathanson and Mat Kearney. I have released seven studio albums and my music has... (more)
Joshua Robert
Singer Guitarist from Willoughby, OH (333 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Joshua Robert is one of the up and coming young entertainment professionals in the Northeast. -He is an Acoustic Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter -Full Time Musician with 10+ Years Experience -3 Years Spent in Nashville entertaining thousands of people -Performs over 100 Gigs a year -Can Perform any song on short notice -Uses a Professional Sound System that is both clear and dynamic -Is available 7 days a week Highlights: Tootsies Orchid Lounge, Broadway... (more)
Sam Chase
Singer Guitarist from Braintree, MA (292 miles from Wilmington, DE)
- REVIEWS - PRIVATE PARTY - AUGUST 2017 We hired Sam for my 40th bday party and honestly we could not have been happier with his performance. We sent him 7 to 10 songs we love and not only did he learn them, but he NAILED them. He also stayed late and played for an extra hour. Truly can't say enough about how awesome he was and you are CRAZY if you don't hire him. At the end of the night we did something really cool. We started singing a song we wanted and he just flowed right along and... (more)
Giles Ponticello
Acoustic Guitarist from Columbus, OH (401 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Giles Ponticello - a well polished performer- guitarist and vocalist who has a lengthy and diverse repertoire of folk, jazz, blues, originals, country rock, rock and roll-- performs solo or with band at colleges, festivals, bars, restaurants, hotels, weddings, parties, coffee houses, and more. A perfect choice for all musical occasions, 20 years experience. (more)
Catherine Backus
Booked 1 Day Ago!
Singer Guitarist from Roanoke, VA (291 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Catherine is an award-winning singer-songwriter who often draws comparisons to Gillian Welch and Kathleen Edwards. A classically trained music therapist, she has an encyclopedic knowledge of American music from bluegrass to jazz standards to 90's pop. She plays just about anything with frets (and the trumpet). Catherine is comfortable in settings both formal and casual, and has a knack for learning material quickly and competently. She has over a decade of experience recording, performing,... (more)
Ryan Thomson / Captain Fiddle
Fiddler from Lee, NH (329 miles from Wilmington, DE)
I'm a multi-instrumentalist who has performed full time for over 20 years on violin, fiddle, celtic wooden flute, banjo, accordion, pennywhistle, ukulele, and piano. I specialize in lively ethnic music: celtic, cajun, zydeco, bluegrass, Irish, Scottish, French Canadian, and more. I enjoy playing everything from back ground music for business functions, for weddings, and main stage performances with a band. My music is suitable for family audiences. I can perform solo, as a duo with my... (more)
Shady Rill - Tom Mackenzie And Patti Casey
Americana Singer from Adamant, VT (353 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Patti and Tom are two of central Vermont's musical gems. Separately they have been entertaining folks around the country as members of many different groups. Together they explore everything from French Canadian dance tunes, to Tin Pan Alley, to Old Time Country, and a healthy dose of originals. Patti is an award winning songwriter and her voice will melt your heart. Tom's Banjo and voice are a perfect compliment, as the two of them weave their way through the many styles of... (more)
Ron Moore - one man band
Singer Guitarist from Charlotte, NC (426 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Ron Moore Bio Ron Moore is a popular world-traveled performer, singer/songwriter, and comedian. With outstanding guitar and vocals, and many years of experience, his performances combine folk rock and folk covers and originals. Ron is a true professional, with his own sound system provided, and is easy and pleasant to work with. Available for Corporate Events, Weddings, Private Parties, House Concerts, Colleges, Schools, Church events and more. Ron's originals are acoustic rock... (more)
Daniel Meyers
Bagpiper from Somerville, MA (294 miles from Wilmington, DE)
I have been playing the uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes) since 1999, and have performed in a variety of venues in Ireland, the UK, and the US. I am a professional, conservatory-trained musician with a Master of Music degree from the Longy School of Music; I have also studied with some of the finest pipers in Ireland including Eamonn O Broithe, Mick O'Brien, Neillidh Mulligan, and Kevin Rowsome. The uilleann pipes are quieter than the Highland (Scottish) pipes and have much greater range... (more)
Singer-songwriter Jay Fry
Acoustic Guitarist from Ann Arbor, MI (458 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Professional, versatile, and fun! Jay Fry plays a wide variety of material and can play many different types of events. He will play acoustic and/or electric guitar depending on the client's interest, and sing as well. He plays covers and originals in the styles of Rock, Folk, Jazz, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B, and Americana. He has played all over the Midwest, going solo and with his band "Chirp". He will take song requests prior to and during gigs. Jay Fry likes to play tunes that people... (more)
Bill Foley
Singer Guitarist from Reynoldsburg, OH (382 miles from Wilmington, DE)
EXPERIENCED FULL TIME PROFESSIONAL: Nationally Touring Singer/Acoustic Guitarist. SOLO, TRIO or 4 PIECE BAND. Specializing in the music of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Early Rock & Roll Classics, 'One Hit Wonders', Folk, Country and Original music. INCLUDING THE MUSIC OF: James Taylor, John Denver, Buddy Holly, Jim Croce, Sam Cooke, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, The Eagles, Neil Young, America, Bread, Chuck Berry and many, many more. PERFORMS WITH: Gibson, Epiphone, Guild, Gretsch, Takamine,... (more)
70's Hits Acoustic Guitarist from Raleigh, NC (314 miles from Wilmington, DE)
Hi! I have been performing since 1975. I play acoustic guitar and sing. I know over 200 songs, so I'm sure I can play something you like. I also have a rhythm machine for bass and drum backup. I also double on mandolin and banjo. I have played at Aexander's (Raleigh), Cafe 99 (Charleston), Cat's Cradle (Chapel Hill), Eno River Festival (Durham), Famous Door (New Orleans), Halby's (Durham), Hole in the Wall (Austin), Latta Plantation Folk Festival (Charlotte), New Orleans Jazz Fest, New... (more)
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Over 112,000 people reside in Indian River County which includes the five incorporated towns of Vero Beach, Indian River Shores, Orchid, Sebastian and Fellsmere. Vero Beach is part of the Treasure Coast region of eastern Florida. Vero Beach is a popular choice for buyers looking for Treasure Coast real estate. It is the largest municipality and the county seat for Indian River County and has approximately 17,500 residents.
Why is Vero Beach real estate so desirable? Vero Beach was rated "Best Small Town in Florida and 12th in the Nation" and named one of "The 100 Best Art Towns in America". Vero Beach has been described by the Wall Street Journal, who said it was an "unsung Florida getaway". Vero Beach is also recognized as "The Citrus Capital of the World" with its domestic market and worldwide export of delicious Indian River citrus.
Known as the "Gateway to the Tropics," Vero Beach's residents and visitors enjoy its casual elegance, lush tropical climate, high quality of life, and abundance of recreational activities. Vero Beach golf, tennis and boating in particular are incredibly popular.
Indian River County is located at the northern border of Florida's warmest thermal belt. Yearly rainfall in 2000 was 47 inches. September is usually known as the rainy month, with June, October and August following next in order. The period of least rainfall usually occurs from November to April. The average year round temperature is 82 degrees. Summer averages 89 and winter 74.3.
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Challenging the Blockade: Canadian Humanitarian Boat To Gaza
By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
Region: Canada
In-depth Report: PALESTINE
Montreal, August 20, 2010 – The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is encouraging Canadians to send mail to Gaza aboard a Canadian boat to be sent there in the fall under the humanitarian Canada Boat to Gaza project. The Israeli government is currently preventing other countries’ postal services and the Palestinian Postal Service from dealing with each other directly. It announced on July 20 that it would not allow international postal service to Gaza. Gazans have been without international mail since then. So far, Canada Post has failed to find an alternative route to deliver Canadian mail to Gaza, which is surrounded by a 40-foot iron wall with only three entry points, two controlled by Israel and a third by Egypt.
The union’s statement has drawn considerable response from the public. According to union sources, 80 to 90 percent of the comments support the union’s position. However, in an August 19 article, the Toronto Sun -long hostile to Canada’s unions – implied that CUPW’s position contradicted its campaign to insist that national postal services, rather than private companies, be the ones to handle international mail. CUPW President Denis Lemelin disagrees, saying “we are still defending public mail services. This boat is sponsored by the public, which is aware that the people of Gaza are already suffering, and that the cutting off of international mail only intensifies that suffering.” Lemelin urges people around the world to pressure Israel to stop blocking postal service to Gaza, saying “restoring international mail service to Gaza should be the first step in lifting the blockade completely.” Faced with international criticism, Israeli authorities are now claiming that they are blocking mail service to Gaza because the Palestinian Postal Service has not yet appointed a replacement for the chief of mail transfers. He was recently arrested by Israeli forces.
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) welcomes CUPW’s position. “It is heartening that a Canadian union is raising its voice against this cruel interference with Gazans’ postal service,” says CJPME President Thomas Woodley. He notes that international law stipulates that people in an occupied territory have the right to communicate with the outside world.
Canada Boat to Gaza is being supported by dozens of Canadian human rights groups, CUPW, CJPME, as well as individuals such as Kevin Neish – a Canadian survivor of the May 31 Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara aid ship – and retired US colonel Ann Wright, a Freedom Flotilla survivor.
Copyright © Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, Global Research, 2010
Articles by: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
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The True Cost of Owning an Electric Vehicle
Before you buy an electric car, make sure you understand all of the major costs involved.
By Lia Sestric March 16, 2017 Auto Loans 101
There was a time when seeing an electric vehicle on the roadway was far and few between. Now, they're everywhere.
U.S. electric vehicle sales jumped 37 percent in 2016, reports Forbes, indicating a growing interest in electric cars. And auto manufacturers are providing consumers with more choices than they did in the past, such as the Tesla Model S, Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf and Ford Fusion Energi.
Many people trade in their gas-guzzling automobile for an electric vehicle to save on fuel, particularly due to its fickle cost and environmental consequences. But as glorious as these features seem, there are other costs — beyond the price tag — that come with an electric vehicle.
If you're debating whether to switch to an electric vehicle, you'll want a realistic picture of how much you can expect to pay beyond the sticker price. Here's a rundown of the costs involved so you can make the smartest decision when buying a car.
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Consumers now have more options for electric vehicles with over 30 battery and plug-in hybrid offerings in the U.S., according to automobile expert Matt Teske. Unlike traditional vehicles where you can cover a lot of roadway on gas, electric vehicles run on battery, which ultimately drives cost and determines the miles you can drive, he said.
Sure, some of the most expensive cars are electric vehicles and can cost you six figures. For example, you might pay over $100,000 for some Tesla models. However, you can find electric cars for around $30,000, such as the Nissan Leaf. In fact, the average transaction price of electric vehicles was $34,026 in February 2017, according to Kelley Blue Book. That's an 11 percent decrease in price from last year.
According to Teske, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) — like his Chevrolet Volt — are a great option for consumers who want to drive using electricity for everyday needs but still need to have long range as an option. The 2016 Volt has an EPA-rated electric range of 53 miles but can also use gas for longer trips, giving it a total range of 420 miles.
But the new Chevrolet Bolt EV should also be considered when shopping electric vehicles, said Teske. The vehicle gets an EPA-estimate 238 miles-per-charge and is available for under $40,000.
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To get the best deal on your car, make sure your car loan rate is low. Although many factors can impact the rate for your electric car loan, Teske — who has both owned and leased an electric vehicle — said that "the process has been no different than buying a gas-powered vehicle."
There is one difference that could lower the cost to own an electric vehicle, however. Some banking institutions and credit unions offer special financing discounts and incentives for customers who choose fuel-efficient vehicles.
For example, U.S. Bank offers a "Green Auto Rate Loan Discount," which reduces your U.S. Bank auto loan rate by half a percentage point when you finance your car purchase. The vehicle can be new or used, just as long as it's an EPA-Certified SmartWay Vehicle — many of which are electric vehicles.
Learn More: How to Save Money With These 5 Car-Buying Incentives
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Fuel Costs and Charging the Vehicle at Home
People hungry to get rid of their gas-guzzlers might forget that electricity can be more variable than gasoline. The cost to power an electric vehicle can depend on several factors, including current electric rates.
On average, however, it costs half as much to drive an electric vehicle when you compare fueling an electric vehicle to a gasoline-powered car, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. At Energy.gov, the eGallon tool compares the two by state, using average gas prices and residential electricity prices.
There are states where you can power an EV for under a dollar. Oregon happens to be one of them, according to the eGallon tool. Jeff Allen, executive director of DriveOregon, an initiative that promotes electric mobility in the state, said most electric vehicle drivers in Oregon spend less than $30 per month on fueling their EVs. You can expect to pay $40 a month if you drive the national average mileage, according to Consumer Reports.
One expense to consider when determining the true cost of an electric vehicle is the charger itself. Many homeowners purchase a home charging unit, which can vary in price. You can purchase one for under $1,000 from retailers such as Home Depot or Amazon.
Some energy providers also offer rebates. For example, Alliant Energy offers Wisconsin and Iowa customers up to a $500 rebate for purchasing and installing a Level 2 home charging station.
Find Out: 30 Ways to Slash Your Car Costs
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Maintenance Costs
Car maintenance for a gasoline-operated vehicle can be costly and a lot of work. Electric vehicles, on the other hand, are typically easier to keep running smoothly as they don't have all the moving parts that go with a gasoline engine. So, you might find that you can save money on car maintenance if you go with an electric vehicle.
With regular vehicles, you have oil changes and miscellaneous part replacements that go bad overtime. With an electric vehicle, you'll never have to worry about replacing the timing-belt or head gasket, as they do not need these components to operate, said Teske.
"One of the most interesting savings in maintenance costs with an electric vehicle is the brakes," he said. "An electric vehicle can use the electric motor to slow itself down, reducing the need to use a traditional brake pedal. This extends the life of the brake pads and rotors on an electric vehicle. A gas-powered car simply cannot do that." This process is known as regenerative braking.
Don't be mistaken, though — electric vehicles will require some maintenance costs that you're familiar with, such as fixing windshield wiper blades and tire rotation. Depending on the electric car, you might be able to purchase a maintenance plan. Tesla, for example, offers three- or four-year maintenance plans, which cost roughly $1,500 to under $3,000.
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Electric vehicles can equal savings in many areas, but insurance might not be one of them. Depending on the insurance company and other factors — such as your driving history — your auto insurance rate could increase when you purchase an electric vehicle.
But Teske said he has not seen a difference in price to insure his Chevy Volt. In fact, he said safety features that some electric models have could make insurance cheaper in some instances.
In the past, for example, the Tesla Model S has received some of the best safety ratings, "which some insurance companies reference when gauging a vehicle's safety and cost to insure," said Teske.
There's another factor to consider with auto insurance. According to Allstate, the installation of a vehicle charging station may alter your home insurance policy. For example, Oregon and California require some homeowners and condo owners to have liability coverage.
Find Out: 8 Things You Need to Know About Car Insurance
If you've ever sold an old car, you know that some have higher resale potential than others. The resale and trade-in value is still a bit murky for electric vehicles, as they are fairly new to the auto marketplace. But it's possible that some people might be reluctant to buy your electric vehicle because they don't want to replace a battery — which can be costly.
The battery for an electric vehicle does have a limited lifespan and could cost thousands of dollars, according to the Green Car Reports. Whether you're considering a new electric vehicle purchase or used, it would be a good idea to know the battery warranty and its stipulations before purchasing the vehicle.
Another deterrent, according to Autotrader, is the costly repair for collisions. Furthermore, new models entering the market with better features have made resale prices tumble, according to a 2015 Wall Street Journal report.
Before you buy an electric, do your research to see the potential resale value. For example, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV has the best resale value this year, according to KBB. Its resale value at 36 months is 29.5 percent and 17.5 percent at 60 months.
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Bus builder named Business of the Year
Robina-headquartered bus manufacturer Transit Australia Group has been named the Gold Coast's Business of the Year. The company was named the winner of the major annual title before a Who's Who list of the business community at the Gold Coast Business Excellence Award gala dinner held at Jupiters Hotel and Casino on Saturday night.
Frosty Boy melts judges' hearts
A former Brisbane soft service ice cream company which moved its headquarters to Yatala last year has enjoyed the sweet taste of success in its first bid to win a Gold Coast Business Excellence Award. Frosty Boy, which now manufactures the equivalent of two million serves of soft serve ice cream per day, was named the winner of the Retail, W...
Mediterranean deli dishes up sweet award win
A business which has grown and thrived since its origins as a very small delicatessen in Carrara 21 years ago has secured a Gold Coast Business Excellence Award. The popular Isle of Capri-based Manolas Bros café and delicatessen had the winning recipe to secure the Retail, Wholesale and Distribution Award in September for the Gold Coa...
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Goof: “God’s Plan” is new North Korean anthem
Jonah Selom, North Korean Spy
Disclaimer: This story is a part of out April Fool’s edition, The Goofordian. This story was created by Guilfordian Staff and is not based in fact. “God’s Plan” to be made new North Korean national anthem, provokes U.S. response On March 21, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un announced the hit ...
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“SYRE” gives new music, but nothing notable
DaeQuan Fitzgerald, Managing Editor
Jaden Smith gave us Jaden Smith. Quite literally, considering his debut album, “SYRE,” is one of his middle names. The album met expectations, yet failed to exceed any. Within several songs are forced pseudo-philosophical, conspiracy-influenced lyrics, mixed with an idea of struggle from the prodigal...
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“Laila’s Wisdom” is Rapsody’s prime
Nate McManus, Staff Writer
This year’s continued success of impactful and artistic rap albums appears to be nowhere close to slowing down with the 2017 release of “Laila’s Wisdom” from North Carolina’s own Marlanna Evans. Guilford staff and students may be familiar with Evans, better known by her stage name Rapsody,...
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Sampha Debuts First Full Album, “Process”
Mae Wood, Staff Writer
You have been cordially invited by Sampha to embark upon a journey of meditative growth and self-discovery through his euphonious vocals, piano, striking lyrics and the marriage of electronic, soul and R&B music. After years of maintaining a low profile in the public eye, Sampha Sisay premiered...
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MTV Video Music Awards impresses viewers
Praveena Somasundaram, Staff Writer
On Aug. 28, 6.5 million people tuned in to watch performances and celebrity soliloquies during the MTV Video Music Awards. The star-studded event attracted everyone from fashion critics to enthusiastic fans alike. The night was filled with excitement for the anticipated performances. Rihanna performed...
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Schools in Maine
Art Schools in Maine
Art Schools in Waterville, ME
With an overall population of 15,605 and a student population of 2,835, approximately 1,838 of Waterville students attend one of Waterville's schools that offer art programs.
The largest art school in Waterville, by student population, is Colby College. In 2010, approximately 6 students graduated from the Art program at Colby College.
A total of 13 students graduated with credentials in art from art schools in Waterville in 2010.
You should also anticipate spending about $700 for art related books and supplies every year.
Art Salaries and Career Outlook in Waterville
If you plan on staying in Waterville after graduating from art school, you should know that job prospects for artists in Waterville, which is the most popular art profession, are not very good. In 2010, 1 out of every 1 artists in Maine were working in the greater Waterville area. The government projects that the number of artists in Waterville will decrease by -11% by the year 2018. This projected change is slower than the projected nationwide trend for artists.
The average salary you can expect to earn as an artist in Waterville is $30,980 per year. This is the same as the state-wide average salary for artists.
Art Degree in Waterville
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Elementary Education Schools
Elementary Education Schools in New York
Elementary Education Schools in Purchase, NY
If you decide that you want to get an elementary education degree, then you might want to consider attending one of the 2 elementary education schools in Purchase, New York.
Of the 2 elementary education schools in Purchase, the largest elementary education school, by student population, is Manhattanville College. In 2010, Manhattanville College graduated approximately 52 students from its elementary education program.
A reported 54 students graduated with credentials in elementary education in Purchase in 2010. If you decide to attend a elementary education school in Purchase, you can expect to pay an average yearly tuition of $32,760.
You should also anticipate spending about $800 for elementary education related books and supplies every year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $13,500 per year, on average, for room and board. If you live at home, you can cut this cost down to approximately $35,860.
Elementary Education Salaries and Career Outlook in Purchase
If you plan on staying in Purchase after graduating from elementary education school, you should know that job prospects for elementary educators in Purchase, which is the most popular elementary education profession, are average. By the year 2018, the number of elementary educators is expected to increase by 10% in Purchase. This anticipated change is slower than the projected nationwide trend for elementary educators.
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Online Liberty University OnlineMore Info
1 Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase St, Purchase, New York 10577
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LIU/Westchester Campus, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York 10577-1400
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The Next Chapter for Gordon: A New Academic Model
Home > About Gordon College > The Next Chapter for Gordon > The Next Chapter for Gordon: A New Academic Model
As Gordon takes proactive steps to ensure its longevity, three key values drive our decisions: making a Gordon education more affordable and adaptable while staying firmly anchored in Christ. Our vision for an updated academic model will soon offer options for shorter completion times, concurrent education, more flexible global experiences and expanded digital opportunities, and strengthen certain areas of study by integrating some majors—all of which will retain Gordon’s commitment to the core values of a Christian liberal arts education while making it more accessible to more students. Learn more about Gordon’s commitment to the liberal arts ➔
Here's what's changing.
Building on the interdisciplinary strength of a liberal arts education, select majors will be bundled into joint departments. This keeps Gordon’s academic resources from being spread too thin across too many individual majors and supports the cross-disciplinary nature of the liberal arts. Regardless of modifications, all current students—those who will be sophomores, juniors and seniors as of fall 2019—will be able to graduate in their major (or any major/minor that was offered when they began at Gordon). Any major of study that may not be offered in the same format to future students will still be able to be completed by current students over the next three years. If changes are made to their fall schedules, students will be contacted after June 1, 2019—when the fall schedule will be revised—to make necessary adjustments.
Read the detailed summary of changes in the academic division ➔
Here's where we're heading.
Our three key values—affordable, adaptable, anchored—have guided the formation of a vision for three distinct educational tracks, which will expand the accessibility of a Gordon education for more students in the future and represents a significant step forward for the College as a liberal arts institution in the 21st century. Think of these tracks as three different modes or means of accessing a Gordon education:
Traditional—still the definitive way to obtain a Gordon education, this is Gordon as you know it: a four-year, residential college with a core liberal arts foundation and campus experience.
Essential—by breaking out of the traditional model, a fast-track pathway will allow for three-year completion, saving time and money and launching students into their careers or graduate programs sooner.
Global—moving beyond a mainly undergraduate model, this will expand graduate programs and introduce more flexible options, like certificates and stackable credentials.
Learn more about the "three tracks" concept ➔
Here's what we've already been doing.
These new opportunities will expand on recent innovative programs that have already begun breaking out of the mold and adding value to a Gordon education.
Career and Connection Institute: In 2018, Gordon launched the Career and Connection Institute to guide students through a holistic process of professional development.
Nursing partnership: Gordon announced a new partnership with Curry College in 2019 to offer a dual-degree nursing program that pairs the best of a liberal arts education with technical training for the healthcare field.
Gordon Plus: Introduced in 2017, Gordon Plus allows students to take master’s level courses as undergraduates in order to save on Gordon graduate degrees.
GoCo Labs: An innovative, practical opportunity for computer science students to imagine and deliver technology solutions to improve aspects of their college experience.
GCTS partnership: Beginning in 2017, Gordon built on a longstanding partnership with Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary to offer an accelerated Master of Divinity track for biblical studies and Christian ministries majors. This partnership will be expanded in the coming year to offer Gordon undergraduates advanced standing for Gordon-Conwell’s Master of Arts in Global Leadership and Master of Arts (Christian Studies).
Work Ahead: Launched in 2019, Work Ahead: Ready for 2030 leverages the expertise of thought leaders to envision the workplace of the future and ensure that students are prepared for the changing landscape.
And here’s where it fits in the big picture of Gordon.
This isn’t the first time Gordon has opened a new chapter. Over the past 130 years, the College has strategically made big changes to respond to or get ahead of challenges.
One of the more significant shifts occurred just 15 years after the school’s founding. In the early 1900s, the original vision of a missionary training institute had run its course, and the school’s mission was re-envisioned to better align with the times. As more young people were opting to pursue post-secondary education, free-form institutions were compelled to reconfigure and standardize in order to remain relevant. For a short time, Gordon aligned with Newton Theological Seminary as it expanded its vision and moved toward a more articulated curriculum and credit system.
Decades later, after continuing to adjust along the way, Gordon transitioned from a Bible college to a liberal arts college. This move expanded Gordon’s view of Christian vocation and set the trajectory for the College’s next chapter.
Gordon is once again making necessary adjustments to respond to the market realities of today that demand greater affordability and adaptability. The next chapter not only retains the core Christian liberal arts foundation, but makes it more accessible and relevant for what students and families want from college and what employers want from graduates.
Learn more about the changing market for higher education ➔
Current Students & Families Incoming Students & Families Alumni
Please direct questions and comments to questions@gordon.edu.
The Next Chapter for Gordon
The Next Chapter for Gordon: Retaining a Commitment to The Liberal Arts
The Next Chapter for Gordon: Detailed Summary of Academic Changes
The Next Chapter for Gordon: The Three Tracks Concept
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Cyanobacterial Research
Topics & Resources
Genome driven discovery of new natural products
Natural product structural chemistry
UHCC culture collection
Antifungal and anticancer compounds from cyanobacteria
Biodiversity of Brazilian cyanobacteria and bioactive compounds
Blue & Green – Marine Biotechnology twinnig project
Nordic Center of Excellency
Cyanobacteria Research Group /Topics & Resources /
Much of the natural product chemical diversity observed in nature is attributed to versatile non-ribosomal peptide synthase (NRPS) and polyketides synthetase (PKS) biosynthetic pathways. We have shown that cyanobacterial genomes encode a huge diversity of these biosynthetic pathways (Shih et al. 2013, Wang et al. 2011, 2012, 2014, Shih et al. 2013). Likewise, ribosomal gene clusters, recently shown to produce complex peptides through the post-translational modification of short precursor proteins, are very common in cyanobacterial genomes (Leikoski et al. 2010, 2013). However, the end-products of the vast majority of these pathways are currently unknown (Calteau et al. 2015, Dittmann et al. 2015). Our genome mining studies at the phylum level have demonstrated the unexpected widespread distribution and biological diversity of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (Shih et al. 2013, Wang et al. 2014, Calteau et al. 2014).
We carry out genome driven discovery of new bioactive peptides from cyanobacteria (Wang et al. 2014). Through the use of genome sequences we discovered new families of protease inhibitors and antifungal peptides, new enzymatic machinery for making cyclic peptides (Vestola et al. 2015, Shishido et al. 2015). However, the lack of genetic system and slow growth times of cyanobacteria and most other bioactive compound producing organisms is a bottleneck in natural product discovery and slows the pace at which research can be carried out (Dittmann et al. 2015). We are developing methods to overcome these limitations and accelerate the discovery of new natural products from cyanobacteria. We are also interested in understanding how cyanobacteria make natural products and in understanding how the enzymatic machinery for producing peptides functions. Biochemical investigations shed light on how these enzymes work together to create cyclic peptides. We use phylogenetic analyses of the biosynthetic machinery to show how natural products evolve in nature and this ultimately may provide clues to how cyanobacteria can be rewired to make new natural products (Calteau et al. 2014, Dittmann et al. 2015).
Nonribosomal peptides
Several cyclic, branched, or linear bioactive peptides of bacteria and lower eukaryotes are produced non-ribosomally by multidomain peptide synthetases, employing a thiotemplate mechanism. Different domains of peptide synthetases act as independent enzymes whose function is to join one amino acid to the growing polypeptide chain and make possible modifications. The specific order of the domains forms the protein template that defines the sequence of the incorporated amino acids. Our genome mining studies conducted at the phylum and domain level have demonstrated that peptide synthetase genes are common in cyanobacteria (Wang et al. 2014, Calteau et al. 2014, Dittmann et al. 2015). One hepatotoxic strain, Anabaena 90, isolated from a Finnish lake, Vesijärvi, was selected as a model strain to study the peptide synthetase system. Three classes of cyclic peptides have been isolated and characterized from Anabaena sp. 90: two types of heptapeptides, microcystins and anabaenopeptilides, and one type of hexapeptides, anabaenopeptins. The microcystin, anabaenopeptilide, anabaenopeptin, hassallidin and anabaenolysin synthetase gene clusters have been characterized from Anabaena sp. 90 or other Anabaena strains in our group (Rouhiainen et al. 2000, 2004, 2010, Vestola et al. 2014, Shishido et al. 2015). Peptide synthetase gene clusters from Nostoc sp. 152 (Fewer et al. 2011, 2013) and Nodularia spumigena CCY9414 have also been characterized (Fewer et al. 2009, 2013, Liu et al. 2015). We have also studied non-ribosomal peptides with cytotoxic and antimicrobial effects from other cyanobacteria. Information about genes involved in the synthesis of these compounds, occurrence of these genes and production of these compounds are investigated. Through phylogenetic analysis it is possible to analyze the distribution of the genes among distant or close related cyanobacterial strains (Wang et al. 2014, Calteau et al. 2014). Eventually, bioassays trying to solve the ecological role or analysis of mechanism of action of these compounds will be performed.
Ribosomal peptides
Cyanobactins are small cyclic peptides recently described from cyanobacteria (Sivonen et al. 2010). They are formed through the proteolytic cleavage and post-translational modification of short precursor proteins and exhibit anti-tumor, cytotoxic or multi-drug reversing activities. Novel cyanobactins, anacyclamides, piricyclamides and linear aeruginosamide and viridisamide were recently found to be common in various cyanobacteria (Leikoski et al. 2010, 2012, 2013). Our future research will focus on biosynthesis and detection of new cyanobactins in cyanobacteria through genome mining. Bacteriocin gene cluster were found to be common in cyanobacteria (Wang et al. 2011, Shih et al. 2013). Our work has shown that ribosomal peptide biosynthetic gene clusters are very common in cyanobacteria (Wang et al. 2011, Shih et al. 2013). However, the vast majority of these biosynthetic pathways have no known end product associated with them. Work is now underway to unravel the complex distribution of ribosomal peptides in cyanobacteria and develop novel methods to express silent gene clusters in heterologous hosts. This work has led to the discovery of novel peptide with unusual posttranslational modifications and antimicrobial bioactivities.
We have sequenced a number of model toxin producing cyanobacteria from Finnish lakes and the Baltic Sea from our culture collection. We have sequenced the complete genome of microcystin producing Anabaena sp. 90 in collaboration with the Beijing Genomics Institute, China (Wang et al. 2012). This strain was isolated from Lake Vesijärvi and produces microcystins. The whole genome of anatoxin-a producing Anabaena strain 37 was initiated in collaboration with Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Italy. The akinete forming Anabaena strain ITU33S10, anabaenolysin producing Anabaena strain XSPORK 2A, XPORK13A andXPORK15F are currently being sequenced. These genome projects will provide further insights into the proliferation of cyanobacteria in Finnish lakes and the production of bioactive compounds by cyanobacteria. We were also involved in the genome project of Nodularia spumigena CCY9414 which was isolated from near Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and produces the hepatotoxin nodularin (Voss et al. 2013). The genome project was initiated by Lucas Stal at NIOO in Holland and sequenced at the Craig Venter Institute in the US as part of the Moore Foundations Marine Microbiology initiative. We have now obtained genome sequences for 60 further strains from benthic and planktonic environments of the Baltic Sea and Finnish lakes. Analysis of these genome sequences have provided new insights into the ecology of these organisms, how they are adapted to their environment and the types of bioactive compounds they produce (Wang et al. 2012, Voss et al. 2013, Leikoski et al. 2013, Calteau et al. 2014, Vestola et al. 2014, Shishido et al. 2015).
Updated: 25.1.2018
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