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Norcroft Royal Enfield V-twin project roars back to life
Back on the road again: the Norcroft V-twin Royal Enfield.
Before there was a Musket, Bill Hurr and Richard Hurst of the UK built their own Royal Enfield V-twin. Their 2004 effort went as far as a running prototype. Now Paul Crowe reports in The Kneeslider blog that their Norcroft V-twin project has been revived.
There's a new website, with pictures of castings — made in India — for the bottom end of a new motor. The website suggests production would be in India, where there certainly would be huge demand for it.
The hope of Hurr and Hurst had been to build a classic British V-twin. Bore and stroke of the Royal Enfield Bullet matched that of the iconic Vincent Black Shadow.
The prototype proved the soundness of their engineering, but financial constraints and "increasingly stringent legislation" put plans for limited production on hold.
With new backing and a production connection in India, Norcroft now hopes to go forward.
There's a clever video, shot in December 2013, of the prototype on the road. It ends with "To Be Continued."
It's worth a look:
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May 21, 2008 Music » Music Etc.
By Gilbert Garcia
Playback generally refrains from nosing around in celebrity bedrooms, figuring that’s a job best left to TMZ and Rob Lowe’s ex-nanny. But we couldn’t help but notice last week’s announcement that country-pop superstar Shania Twain and her husband of 14 years, Robert “Mutt” Lange, are calling it quits.
As we all know, sham marriages have been all the rage in Hollywood for years, and, really, you’re nobody in that town until you’ve been through at least one. But for all the conjecture that accompanied Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the nuptials of Shania and Mutt always seemed like the shammiest of all.
Here’s the back story: Shania released her debut album in 1993, to a collective yawn from the country-music intelligentsia. But Mutt, a veteran producer best known for taking AC/DC and Def Leppard to multi-platinum glory, saw her early videos, sensed something in his manhood stirring, and began to stalk her in that charming, legally-acceptable way that music bizzers sometimes do: He wrote her gushing fan letters, said he wanted to meet her, and popped up at a Nashville fan fair.
Within a few months, they were a songwriting team, a production juggernaut, and a married couple. Mutt’s fine-tuned canine ears enabled him to take Shania to levels of popularity never imagined by a female country singer. And Shania’s too-sexy-for-Nashville looks and major-league pipes made Mutt relevant again.
Only one suspicious thing about the romance: Mutt’s a big old weirdo, a veritable Howard Hughes of shlock pop. We know he’s an old dude, but there’s little visual confirmation of this fact, because he hasn’t allowed himself to be photographed in decades. And he’s refused to appear in public with Shania or participate in any interviews. Hell, the only aural proof that the guy really exists is his “Gunter glieben glauchen globen” intro on Def Leppard’s “Rock of Ages.”
The Muttster is also famous/infamous for his ridiculously controlling perfectionism in the studio. During the recording of Pyromania, he drove Joe Elliott to tears by forcing him to endlessly recut his vocal parts, and spent months pushing drummer Rick Allen (at a time when he still had two arms!) to perfect one measure of music.
By all accounts, Shania is no afternoon at the paleta cart, either. Maybe these two ruthless, driven people meshed perfectly for years, until Shania woke up one morning and realized that she was sharing the pillow with grandpa. In any case, if the whole thing was nothing but a marriage-of-convenience sham, you’ve got to admire them for keeping up appearances for 14 years.
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February 20, 2007 News » News Etc.
The Mashup
NEW YORK — George W. Bush claims that Iran has been shipping weapons, including bombs used against U.S. military convoys, to Shiite militias in Iraq. I believe him. Iranian leaders would be idiots to sit out a war whose outcome will affect them for decades to come.
Bush denies that he’s about to go to war against Iran. Again, I believe him. After all, we don’t have enough money or troops to invade, much less occupy, a nation three times bigger than Iraq.
Apparently I’m the only person in America who thinks Bush can tell the truth — er, a truth. Or two.
Granted, the Administration’s j’accuse! press conference was reminiscent of the phony aluminum tubes and mocked-up anthrax bottles presented during the pre-Iraq War propaganda blitz. The only things missing from this set of metal tubes were “Compliments of the Ayatollah” stickers. As a result of Bush’s ham-fisted replay of 2002, the objectively obvious observation that Iran is arming its proxy militias in Iraq has been greeted with what The New York Times called “a healthy dose of skepticism” by Democrats and Republicans.
Even General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, refused to take Bush at his word.
Democratic Senator Chris Dodd sums up Bush’s lost credibility: “This Administration has attempted in the past to cook the books to serve their policy goals … I’m getting uneasy that they are trying to set a premise for some future broader military action in Iran.”
Such irony! When Bush told twisted, impossible tales that defied logic, history, and common sense, everyone believed him. Saddam Hussein, the secular socialist targeted for death by Islamic fundamentalists, was bin Laden’s best friend. The CIA, which repeatedly warned that Iraq probably didn’t have WMDs, was responsible for a “failure in pre-war intelligence” that led to the debacle. People who torture aren’t torturers. All obvious B.S., all accepted at face value.
Now that Bush is finally telling the truth, we assume he’s lying as usual. “For the umpteenth time, we are not looking for an excuse to go to war with Iran,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates begged us to believe.
Trouble is, the Bushists made identical statements during the run-up to the Iraq War. The Iran lie, however, happens to be true.
It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for Bush — to whatever extent a genocidal maniac who will be responsible for a million deaths by the time he leaves office in 2009 deserves pity.
Public distrust of the Bush Administration in particular and government in general dwarfs the cynical peaks of Watergate. A Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll finds that 36 percent of Americans believe that federal officials took part in 9/11 or sat on their hands, deliberately allowing the attacks to occur “because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East.” One out of six think the Twin Towers were brought down by planted government bombs, not hijacked passenger jets.
How did 9/11, the backdrop for Bush’s “steaming pile” speech at Ground Zero in New York and the blank check he cashed to wage two wars, turn into yet another subject of paranoia and contempt?
Our failure to find WMDs in Iraq after Bush and his top henchmen said we were absolutely certain to find them is leading previously sheepish citizens to question the entire narrative of the post-2000 era, to the point of embracing outlandish theories supported by little to zero evidence.
All politicians lie. Bush’s rhetorical Rubicon was his certitude. He could have avoided our wrath by saying something like: “There’s significant evidence that Saddam Hussein may possess some weapons of mass destruction.” When the Iraq War turned ugly, he probably still would have lost some support. But he wouldn’t have suffered anything close to the near-total, irreversible contempt that has reduced him to one of history’s most reviled presidents. Of course, anything less than a statement of total certitude wouldn’t have convinced the public or Congress to invade in the first place.
Bush is fighting the lies that started the last war, resorting to an improbable blend of waffling and smug certitude that brought us such classics as Donald Rumsfeld’s “We know where `Iraq’s WMDs` are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.”
Here he goes again:
“I can say with certainty that the Quds Force, a part of the Iranian government, has provided these sophisticated IEDs that have harmed our troops,” he said. “And I’d like to repeat, I do not know whether or not the Quds Force was ordered from the top echelons of the government. But my point is, what’s worse, them ordering it and it happening, or them not ordering it and it’s happening?”
We Americans used to find his addled cowboy act bold and compelling. For a short time, watching one of the stupidest humans to have appeared on a television screen insult our intelligence became mildly amusing. Now that he’s pissed us off, he’ll find us impossible to get back.
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Single-Use Flow Sensor for Proximal Measurements in Ventilation
10/25/2016 | Press Release
Sensirion, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality sensors and sensor solutions for the measurement and control of humidity, temperature, and gas and liquid flow, will be at the COMPAMED 2016 trade fair to present the SFM3300-D, its single-use mass flow meter for gases, for the first time. This single-use sensor offers high accuracy, robustness and an extremely short signal processing time. Developed for proximal flow measurement in medical applications such as ventilation or anesthesia, it is also suitable for other applications that require a disposable solution.
Sensirion is launching the SFM3300-D mass flow meter, a single-use sensor for proximal flow measurements. The digital SFM3300-D is extremely accurate and robust, and has a short signal processing time. It is fully bidirectionally calibrated and measures flow rates up to 250 slm. The special design of the flow channel results in minimal dead space and the slightly increased pressure drop ensures very high stability in varying inlet conditions. Furthermore, the sensor can be connected via medical cones for the pneumatic connection to the respiratory cycle, and has a mechanical interface for a user-friendly electrical connection. Thanks to these features, the new mass flow meter is particularly suitable for proximal flow measurements in medical ventilation and other respiratory applications.
Like all Sensirion’s sensors, the new SFM3300-D flow sensor features theinnovative CMOSens® Technology, which allows the integration of sensor and signal processing circuitry on a single tiny CMOS silicon chip. The result is an ultra-precision system that offers long-term stability for sophisticated and cost-sensitive applications. In addition, the technology is also highly resistant to environmental influences.
The SFM3300-D mass flow meter completes Sensirion’s comprehensive SFM3xxx platform for flow measurements, whichnow comprises six sensor products and covers all gas flow measurement in medical technology. The sensors can be used in a wide range of medical applications, such as ventilation or anesthesia, inhalers, drug delivery and metabolic measurements. The SFM3000, SFM3100 and SFM3200 mass flow meters are suitable for inspiratory flow measurements; the SFM3200-AW, SFM3300-AW and SFM3300-D mass flow meters are the first choice for expiratory or proximal flow measurements.
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By Emily Gravett
Illustrated by Emily Gravett
What do wolves really like to eat? It isn't little girls in red hoods.
Rabbits shouldn't believe what they read in fairy tales, but this book has the facts.
(This book follows the National Carroticulum.)
Photo Credit: Mark Hawdon
Emily Gravett is the author and illustrator of many children’s books, including Matilda’s Cat, Again!, Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears (winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal), Meerkat Mail, Tidy, and Old Hat. Her first book, Wolves, was the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Award for Illustration. Her second book, Orange Pear Apple Bear, was a Quills Award finalist, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and on the shortlist for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Emily lives in Brighton, England, with her partner, their daughter, and the family dog. Visit her at EmilyGravett.com.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (August 1, 2006)
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by Shona Husk
Shona Husk's sexy new adult series about emerging rock band Selling the Sun concludes this month with a story about a woman who doesn't want to connect, a man who's forgotten how and the friendships that save our lives.
Dan Clarke knows he doesn't have a problem, regardless of whatever his band members, his friends, his family and everyone else thinks. Drinking isn't keeping him from doing what needs to be done, and it helps keep the anger and pain of his ex–girlfriend's betrayal at bay. If only she would stay away as well, but, since the band's return to Fremantle, she's everywhere–on the phone, in his apartment, at his parents' house–begging for another chance, reminding him of how good they had been together, holding him hostage to the past. It's no wonder he needs a beer now and again.
Indigo Matthews is all about control: she trains hard, she works hard and she plays hard. Men are for fun, not forever, and she will never end up like her mother, trapped and miserable. A huge Selling the Sun fan, Indigo knows when Dan wanders into her bar that he is a conquest that she has to make. But their connection is stronger than just sex, and regardless of her credo Indigo finds herself going back for more. Then truths about Dan's life start to emerge, and Indigo finds herself in the one position she swore she'd never find herself.
A DUI, a drunk one night stand and an ultimatum from the band bring Dan's life to a halt. Picking up the pieces is something he can't do alone, and there's only one person that he trusts to give a damn. The one person that he hurt the most. Indigo.
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What is the cheapest way to get from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND)?
The cheapest way to get from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) is to drive which costs $1 - $3 and takes 15 min.
What is the fastest way to get from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND)?
The quickest way to get from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) is to taxi which costs $35 - $45 and takes 15 min.
Is there a direct bus between Orléans and Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND)?
No, there is no direct bus from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND). However, there are services departing from Orléans 2C and arriving at Montréal / Bradley via Blair I. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 43 min.
How far is it from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND)?
The distance between Orléans and Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) is 13 km. The road distance is 15.2 km.
How do I travel from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) without a car?
The best way to get from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) without a car is to line 39 bus and line 7 bus which takes 41 min and costs .
How long does it take to get from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND)?
It takes approximately 41 min to get from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND), including transfers.
Where do I catch the Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) bus from?
Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) bus services, operated by OC Transpo, depart from Orléans 2C station.
Where does the Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) bus arrive?
Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) bus services, operated by OC Transpo, arrive at Montréal / Bradley station.
Can I drive from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND)?
Yes, the driving distance between Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) is 15 km. It takes approximately 15 min to drive from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND).
Where can I stay near Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND)?
There are 644+ hotels available in Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND). Prices start at $125 CAD per night.
What companies run services between Orléans, ON, Canada and Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND), Canada?
You can take a bus from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND) via Blair C, Blair O-Train West / Ouest, St-Laurent O-Train West / Ouest, and St-Laurent D in around 41 min.
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Bus from Place D'orléans - Park & Ride 4A to Blair C
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Taxi from Orléans to Ottawa Gatineau Airport (YND)
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Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). As of 2016, Ottawa had a city population of 934,243 and a metropolitan population of 1,323,783 making it the fourth-largest city and the fifth-largest CMA in Canada. In June 2019, the City of Ottawa estimated it had surpassed a population of a million. - Wikipedia
Things to do in Ottawa
The Canada Aviation and Space Museum (French: Musée de l'Aviation et de l'Espace du Canada) (formerly the Canada Aviation Museum and National Aeronautical Collection) is Canada's national aviation history museum. The museum is located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport.
ByWard Market (sometimes called By Ward Market, Byward Market or simply The Market, Marché By in French) is a district in Lower Town (Ottawa, Ontario) located east of the government and business district, surrounding the market buildings and open-air market on George, York, ByWard and William Streets.
Rideau Hall
Rideau Hall (officially Government House) is, since 1867, the official residence in Ottawa of both the Canadian monarch and his or her representative, the Governor General of Canada. It stands in Canada's capital on a 0.36 km2 (88 acre) estate at 1 Sussex Drive, with the main building consisting of approximately 175 rooms across 9,500 m2 (102,000 sq ft), and 27 outbuildings around the grounds. Rideau Hall's site lies outside the centre of Ottawa, giving it the character of a private home.
The Canadian War Museum (CWM) (French: Musée canadien de la guerre) is Canada's national museum of military history. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, the museum covers all facets of Canada's military past, from the first recorded instances of death by armed violence in Canadian history several hundred years ago to the country's most recent involvement in conflicts. It includes major permanent exhibitions on wars that have been fought on Canadian soil, the total wars of the twentieth century, the Cold War and peace support operations abroad, and Canada's history of honouring and remembrance. There is also an open storage area displaying large objects from the Museum's collection, from naval guns to tanks, from motorcycles to jet aircraft. The exhibits depict Canada's military past in its personal, national and international dimensions, with special emphasis on the human experience of war and the manner in which war has affected, and been affected by, Canadians' participation.
Places to stay in Ottawa
Downtown Bed and Breakfast
Simply Luxury Stays
Homewood Suites by Hilton Ottawa Downtown
Byward Blue Inn
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Northrop Grumman to build America’s next-gen ICBM
US aerospace giant Northrop Grumman appears set to build the next generation of US intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), as it was the only bidder.
Last Updated: 14 April 2020 Published: 18 December 2019
The US Air Force has confirmed it only received one proposal, from Northrop Grumman.
“The Air Force will proceed with an aggressive and effective sole-source negotiation. We remain on track for a contract award in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020,” said USAF spokeswoman Ann Stefanek.
The project is termed Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) and will replace US land-based nuclear missiles.
The current US land-based ICBM force comprises 450 LGM-30 Minuteman 3 missiles located at USAF bases in Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. Through the GBSD program, these will be replaced by some 650 missiles.
The Minuteman missile arose from development in the 1950s with first generation missiles entering service in 1962.
Significantly, Minuteman was powered by solid fuel rocket motors, a major advance on earlier liquid fuelled ICBMs that needed to be fuelled immediately before launch and were at increasing risk of loss in a surprise first strike.
Current missiles date from the 1970s and have been steadily upgraded with a range of new systems including replacement rocket motors, improved guidance and more reliable safety systems.
Rather than the multiple warheads of earlier missiles, each Minuteman now lofts a single W78 or W87 warhead.
Northrop Grumman has long looked like the sole contender for the enormous project, worth an estimated US$63 billion over the 20-year program.
The company’s substantial advantage came through its acquisition of Orbital ATK and its solid rocket propellant business in June 2018.
The US Air Force initially released its request for proposal for GBSD in 2016, outlining that the new missiles would be phased in over a decade, starting in the late 2020s, and remaining in service to around 2075.
Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman all put their hands up and in August 2017, the USAF awarded three-year development contracts to Boeing and Northrop Grumman.
But in July, Boeing announced it was bowing out because of NG’s dominance of the solid fuel rocket motor market.
In September, Northrop Grumman announced its sub-contractor team, which includes Aerojet Rocketdyne, the US’ only other solid fuel rocket manufacturer, along with BRPH, Clark Construction, Collins Aerospace, General Dynamics, Honeywell, L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, Parsons and Textron Systems.
Boeing did approach Northrop Grumman about presenting a joint bid, which it declined.
“Boeing is disappointed we were unable to submit a bid to the GBSD solicitation,” it said after the decision was announced.
This decision to proceed with a sole source acquisition hasn’t impressed some US politicians, who have predicted it will result in higher costs.
However, the USAF said it had acquired good cost information from the earlier stage of the program when Northrop Grumman and Boeing presented competing proposals.
“The competitive technology maturation and risk reduction phase has provided the DoD with an unprecedented amount of technical and cost knowledge,” Stefanek said.
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Rocket Lab prepares for first launch mission of 2021
Airbus-built CSO-2 French military Earth observation satellite launched
Aerojet Rocketdyne powers ULA NRO payload
Arianespace ready for lift off with OneWeb satellite mission
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About Ed Walker
So far Ed Walker has created 33 blog entries.
SpaceDC becomes the first OCP Ready facility and colo solution provider in APAC
7th July 2020 - The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announced today that Singapore-based data center provider SpaceDC Pte Ltd has achieved OCP Ready™ certification for their new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This is the first data center in Asia to receive this OCP certification and demonstrates the growing awareness
Ed Walker2020-11-26T14:34:47+08:00July 7th, 2020|Announcement, News, Press Release|
Green Data Centers: Crucial Business Critical Partners for Sustainability in the Digital Age
by Carolyn Harrington 16 June 2020 ‘Data centers built with sustainability in mind are the solution to cost efficiency and competitiveness.’ In this day and age, a few quick taps on the screen of your smartphone is all it takes to hail a ride, make digital purchases, or
Ed Walker2020-11-26T14:40:52+08:00June 15th, 2020|Milestones & updates|
Green Data Center Innovations
by Carolyn Harrington 10 June 2020 'What makes SpaceDC’s data center even more energy efficient and resilient is its use of onsite gas generators as opposed to relying on the local electric grid as a power source, which is the traditional energy source for most Indonesian data
Ed Walker2020-11-26T14:41:00+08:00June 9th, 2020|Milestones & updates|
Carolyn Harrington, COO of SpaceDC, has been recognized by Data Economy as one of the world’s top 50 most influential marketers
We’re pleased to announce that Carolyn Harrington, COO of SpaceDC, has been recognized by Data Economy as one of the world’s top 50 most influential marketers. This acknowledgement is due to all the work Carolyn has undertaken in launching and creating a strong brand awareness across the globe for SpaceDC. Read more: https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=97390a15-64ef-4f4e-8a52-18e52fa76ca3 #spacetogrow #dataeconomy
Ed Walker2020-11-26T14:35:39+08:00June 4th, 2020|Announcement, News, Press Release|
There is growing demand for local data centers in Southeast Asia: SpaceDC CEO
SpaceDC’s CEO Darren Hawkins says having secured, low latency data centers helps local startups connect customers to services that are increasingly deemed essential. Watch here: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/06/01/there-is-growing-demand-for-local-data-centers-in-sea-spacedc-ceo.html
Ed Walker2020-11-26T14:35:47+08:00June 3rd, 2020|Announcement, News, Press Release|
Indonesia’s fastest growing digital economy
In the past 5 years alone, Indonesia has gained 102.7 million new internet users, equivalent to the entire population of Vietnam. It’s a big reason why the country is so exciting for #datacenter providers like SpaceDC. For more eye-opening insights on the world’s fastest growing digital economy, access the full @DataReportal Digital 2020 Indonesia report
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Tech Talk – HYPERSCALING ENERGY EFFICIENCY
It is important to be energy efficient in a data centre. Today, most international companies have an agenda to reduce their carbon footprint. A data centre running on clean energy supports customers’ drive to reduce their carbon footprint. We speak to Darren Hawkins, CEO of SpaceDC to talk about how Hyperscale data centre design innovations
Why Indonesia is in dire need of reliable data infrastructures
Indonesia has one of the fastest-growing mobile user bases in the world – the archipelago is home to 260 million people and is the largest economy in Southeast Asia. Around 65 percent of the population are active Internet users, making it a rich untapped resource for e-commerce giants and global financial institutions. While the sheer
Ed Walker2020-11-26T14:36:12+08:00May 4th, 2020|Announcement, News, Press Release|
Building a hyperscale data center in Indonesia
Digital infrastructure is very much in demand, with cloud demand jumping and data centers fast-tracked as businesses switch to remote working. But with the pandemic forcing billions to stay home, what impact is it having on data centers that are currently being constructed? Singapore-based SpaceDC is currently building a central campus in Indonesia which will
Ed Walker2020-11-26T14:36:21+08:00April 30th, 2020|Announcement, News, Press Release|
Asia Pacific’s top 50 leaders for data centers and cloud services.
We’re proud to announce that Darren Hawkins, Founder and CEO of SpaceDC, has been recognised by Data Economy as Asia Pacific’s top 50 leaders for data centers and cloud services. #spacedc #lowcarbon #greendatacenter #spacetogrow
Ed Walker2020-11-26T14:36:28+08:00April 23rd, 2020|Announcement, News, Press Release|
Data centers for a post-pandemic world
Covid-19 accelerated growth of the digital economy
Rolls-Royce supplies power solutions for SpaceDC’s first Indonesian green focused data center facility
Bridging the digital divide
The 8 layers of security your data center must have
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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
by Silverstein
Album: Arrivals and Departures (2007)
This song was written about the drummer from Bayside, John "Beatz" Hollohan, who died when Bayside, Aiden, Silverstein, and Hawthorne Heights were on the "Never Sleep Again" tour. Bayside's van hit an ice patch and flipped over, killing Hollohan. The entire song is saying that they won't forget how great of a person he was. >>
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Stand By MeBen E. King
"Stand By Me" hit #4 in the US when it was released in 1961, then went to #9 in 1986 when it was used in the movie of the same name.
Walking In MemphisMarc Cohn
"Walking In Memphis" isn't so much about Memphis, as it is The Hollywood Cafe in Mississippi, where Marc Cohn encountered an old woman named Murial playing piano.
Killing An ArabThe Cure
"Killing An Arab" by The Cure was inspired by Albert Camus' book The Stranger.
Invisible TouchGenesis
The Genesis song "Invisible Touch" was inspired by the Prince-written Sheila E. track "The Glamorous Life."
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)Eurythmics
The Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" came top of a 2013 Spotify poll to find out which songs music fans most commonly hear people singing incorrectly. Many believe Annie Lennox is singing: "Sweet dreams are made of cheese, who am I to disagree?"
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When he was playing Ozzfest with Black Label Society, a kid told Zakk he was the best Ozzy guitarist - Zakk had to correct him.
Graham ParkerSongwriter Interviews
When Judd Apatow needed under-appreciated rockers for his Knocked Up sequel, he immediately thought of Parker, who just happened to be getting his band The Rumour back together.
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For songwriters, Johnny represents the American man. He has been angry, cool, magic, a rebel and, of course, marching home.
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About the Author Shanna Fuld
Shanna J. Fuld is a journalist specializing in the cannabis market. Fascinated by the industry's growth, she quickly started making contacts in the cannabis world internationally and loves writing about the nuances of the field. The former NY1er worked as a videographer, assignment editor and writer for the beloved local news channel before joining the TipRanks team.
Too Many Connections for Aphria (APHA) “Hostile Bid” To Actually Be Hostile
January 2, 2019, 11:13 AM EDT
Aphria (APHA), the Canadian cannabis company, has been under the heat lamps after a new scandal seems to be arising every which way we turn. First was a lengthy short report detailing shady business operations that seemed to have non-functional set-ups in Latin America in addition to documentation that seemed to show leadership paid a lot less money for those farms and offices than was documented and shown to investors. Now, the company is dealing with a hostile takeover offer from Green Growth Brands (GGB). The company is private in the U.S., but in November became listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange. The bid, according to Hindenburg Investment Research (HIR) is a “highly irregular deal” and is also a “desperate attempt to manufacture the appearance of demand.” (To watch HIR’s track record, click here)
HIR suggests that since nearly all of APHA management has been “caught with their hands in the cookie jar,” the ideal solution would be a buyout with a change of control, which would help leadership exit with their reputations intact. However, HIR suggests if a company would have no organization to save it, staging such an event would be a good way to create demand, while hoping a more credible option rolls in. The blogger even refers to the bid as a “fakeover.”
“We find it to be a remarkable coincidence that Aphria holds a major stake in its own ‘hostile’ bidder through a fund that is advised by its own CEO. A further review of Green Growth Brands’ SEDAR filings show other remarkable coincidences. A filing from just 1 month prior to the reverse takeover transaction shows the directors at the time. Two stand out in particular. Let’s start with Shawn Dym. If the name sounds familiar, that is because he is a current Aphria director,” HIR explains.
HIR continues to spot relations between the two companies, which is supposed to be a hostile bid, meaning the bidder goes straight to shareholders instead of confronting management first. GGB’s main backer had a recent joint venture with Aphria and its key insiders. Additionally, the blogger connects that recent GGB board members concurrently served on the board of Aphria or had numerous historical dealings with those who held essential positions in Aphria. HIR concludes with “We think Aphria is making a mockery of the capital markets […] With so much attention on Aphria and its irregular dealings we simply find it to be brazen that this deal has even been put on the table.”
As if making a business out of the first emergence of legalized marijuana as an industry wasn’t shaking it up enough, APHA has continued to make it interesting. What’s next? TipRanks analytics shows that out of 11 analysts who are focused on the stock, 9 are bullish, 1 sidelined and 1 bearish. The consensus price target of $10.50 shows a near 68% upside. (See APHA’s price targets and analyst ratings on TipRanks)
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Leicester City 2-2 Manchester United: Player Ratings from entertaining draw | Premier League 2020-21
Manchester United dropped their first points on the road this season
Aaditya Narayan
Manchester United drew 2-2 with Leicester City at the King Power Stadium on Saturday, as their perfect away league record this season came to an end.
Marcus Rashford gave the Red Devils the lead in the first half with a calm finish past Kasper Schmeichel. United's lead didn't last long though.
Bruno Fernandes was caught dwelling on the ball in midfield by Wilfred Ndidi, before the ball eventually found its way through to Harvey Barnes who lashed a left-footed shot past David De Gea from outside the box.
Fernandes got his goal in the 79th minute though, after he was played through on goal by a beautiful pass from Edinson Cavani.
Once again, though, they didn't keep their lead for long, as an Axel Tuanzebe own goal meant that the points were shared. Ayoze Perez played a nice cut-back from the by-line, and Jamie Vardy's shot trickled in off the young defender, who could do little about it.
Here's how each player fared in the game.
Leicester City Player Ratings
Kasper Schmeichel - 7/10
The Leicester captain made a stunning save in the second half to deny Rashford from point-blank range. There was little he could've done about either goal, though.
James Justin - 6/10
Justin defended well for most of the game. However, he blew a few crossing opportunities when he got into good positions. Shaw defended well against both him and Albrighton.
Wesley Fofana - 7/10
Fofana was once again superb at the heart of the Leicester defence. He defended magnificently to stop Daniel James from putting Fernandes through on a counter-attack, in a move that really should have ended with United scoring.
Jonny Evans - 5/10
For both the Manchester United goals, Evans was the man to play the attackers onside. He also got caught once too often in possession, which put Leicester under pressure.
Timothy Castagne - 6/10
The left flank was certainly the one that was bringing Leicester more joy when they attacked. Castagne was the perfect foil for Barnes, as he was steady when the ball broke on that flank.
Wilfred Ndidi - 6/10
Ndidi had an effective game in midfield for most of the time against Fernandes. It was also his tackle on the Portuguese that won the ball for Leicester for Barnes to score their first equaliser.
Youri Tielemans - 7/10
That Leicester controlled possession for large periods of the game was down to Tielemans's composure and quality on the ball. He had a chance to win them the game in stoppage time, but lashed at a left-footed shot from outside the area.
Marc Albrighton - 4/10
Albrighton had a poor game. He did provide cover for Justin on the defensive side, but his quality with his crossing was non-existent.
James Maddison - 4/10
Like Albrighton, Maddison's quality deserted him on the day as well. He could've made amends with a free-kick in the second half, but couldn't get it past Rashford in the wall.
Harvey Barnes scored a superb goal for Leicester City
Harvey Barnes - 8/10
Barnes was superb on the left flank. He ran at Victor Lindelof when he had the chance, and was a menace. He capped his day off with a sensational goal from outside the box as well.
Jamie Vardy - 6/10
Vardy worked hard and tried to get into positions to threaten United, but Leicester didn't get the ball to him enough. He will also be miffed that the second equaliser was registered as a Tuanzebe own-goal. It was great movement from him though, as he stood still in the box to receive the cut-back from Perez.
Ayoze Perez - 7/10
Perez made a big impact after coming on to replace Albrighton. He played the telling pass for the second equaliser, and looked a lot more threatening than Albrighton did at any point of the game.
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WWE SummerSlam 2020
Top 5 / Top 10
10 WWE Superstars and their real names
How many real names of WWE Superstars do you know?
Israel Lutete
Modified 19 Aug 2019, 10:15 IST
Click to see the real names of your favourite WWE Superstars!
WWE Superstars portray fictional characters on TV and to match the character they play in the ring, they have ring names that distinguish their real-life personality to that of their character we see them play on TV every week. The Undertaker, the most feared entity in WWE history, wouldn't have been as mythical as he is if he was billed by his real name "Mark Callaway" in WWE. The same goes for other popular figures such as Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
It's quite rare for WWE Superstars to break character on-screen and be referred to by real name. It's also rare for a Superstar to call another Superstar by their real name if they're using a fake name. So many Superstars spent their entire career in WWE wrestling under their real name. Some of the most popular Superstars to do so are John Cena, Brock Lesnar, Kurt Angle, Randy Orton (sort of) and Mickie James.
Most of the time, WWE changes a Superstar's name before they make their debut so that get full control over the name and they can sell merchandise under that name or use it for branding. Here are the ten real names of your favorite WWE Superstars:
#10 Thomas Pestock (Baron Corbin)
Baron Corbin is currently the biggest heel in WWE
The first Superstar on our list is none other than the man you look forward to seeing the least in WWE, Baron Corbin. He is currently the biggest heel and the most despised man in WWE. The man behind the villainous character is a man called Thomas Pestock. Pestock plays his character so well that some fans even hate him in real life.
Under the ring name Baron Corbin, Pestock competed in NXT where he scored quick victories over his opponents. He made his main roster debut at WrestleMania 32 where he last eliminated Kane in the Andre the Giant Battle Royal to win the match and the trophy. Corbin later went on to win the Money in the Bank contract and contested for the Universal Championship multiple times.
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Los Angeles Theater Review: ST. JUDE (Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City)
by Jason Rohrer on September 27, 2013
in Theater-Los Angeles
HEAVENLY SAINTS PRESERVE US
Ten days after opening night, Luis Alfaro still wasn’t off-book for his one-man confessional work-in-progress. This matters because the moment when he leaves his lightly comic, heavily clichéd script, and whirls himself into performance-art dervish, it is transporting and beautiful; but there is only one such occasion in an hour and change that feels much longer. Mr. Alfaro covers territory so common to one-man shows (I grew up gay; I grew up a minority; I have a passionately ambivalent relationship to the churches that shaped me; I was molested; I’m an addict; I love the family that never really “got” me; I’m a middle aged man whose parent is dying) that one might get the impression he’d never seen one and didn’t know how picked-over this territory is. The respected playwright and avant-garde performer, here directed by Robert Egan with lights up/lights down off-handedness, repeatedly pricks his finger and bleeds onto an overhead projector as a substitute for the kind of stagecraft and soul-expression one might have expected. When Mr. Alfaro mentions that he once performed naked in a cathedral in Mexico City, audiences may wish they had been there instead of here.
photo by Craig Schwartz
Center Theatre Group and RADAR L.A.
Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City
scheduled to end on October 6, 2013
for tickets, visit http://www.centertheatregroup.org
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£2.2 million Sports Centre Extension Underway
Exciting plans to build a £2.2m extension to Stamford College’s Borderville Sports Centre is now underway once again despite initially being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The refurbishment is approved and jointly funded by both Stamford College and Greater Lincolnshire Enterprise Partnership, and will extend and upgrade the centre’s already impressive facilities, providing six additional classrooms, a specialist sports laboratory and a fitness studio.
Janet Meenaghan, Principal at Stamford College, reflected on the new plans: “Stamford College are really pleased to see these plans coming to life. We’re very eager to see the project boost Stamford’s educational and fitness offer further and look forward to watching our students enjoy the new facilities.”
The project team, including the GLLEP and Stamford College, have been delighted to receive strong support from the Stamford College Board with regard to ring-fencing 50% of the required investment from college reserves.
Clare Hughes, Skills Manager at the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership, said,
"The Greater Lincolnshire LEP is delighted to be supporting this exciting development with £1.12m of grant funding.
"The scheme will not only deliver 21 new training courses for local students to help them prepare for work, and an apprenticeship programme focused on sports, public services health and social care, it will also provide much needed dedicated training space for our defence sector."
The project addresses Greater Lincolnshire’s Local Industrial Strategy, supporting economic growth and increased productivity through high quality technical education for our local communities. This enables New College Stamford to meet student growth, help address local skills gaps and meet employer needs in key sector priorities with higher level, digitally enhanced training, including the Air and Defence College initiative which Stamford College delivers in partnership with RAF Lincolnshire.
The site received a visit from Grantham and Stamford MP, Gareth Davies, last Friday. Gareth Davies MP has supported the project since its initial stages and is excited to see the investment progress and deliver on key targets and ambitions for the area.
The visit and ongoing support from Gareth Davies MP shows the considerable benefit to the community that this project will have. After his site visit last week, Gareth Davies MP commented:
“The Borderville project offers an exciting new investment to Stamford and I am pleased to see the progress that has been made on site. It will no doubt offer an excellent return to the people of Stamford, providing outstanding educational facilities to students and enhanced health and fitness benefits to the community. I am excited to watch the project take shape and fulfil its potential here in Stamford.”
Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government Simon Clarke MP also added:
“We want to get building to help fuel our economic recovery, improve our infrastructure and create the jobs we need to get communities back on their feet.
“That is why I am delighted to see work is now underway at Stamford College’s Borderville Sports Centre.
The build is being expertly managed and completed by local contractors at Lindum Group, who won the contract through a competitive tender conducted in 2019. Lindum are making excellent progress despite the exceptionally challenging circumstances that prevail, and are well on track to open the doors to students in January 2021.
General Manager of Lindum Peterborough Darren King said work on the project was going very well.
“As a construction company we are acutely aware of the skills shortage in the local economy. We are also a home-grown Lincolnshire business and we have offices in Peterborough, less than 20 miles from the site. For these reasons it’s fantastic to be involved with a project that will leave a legacy beyond the completion of the building.
“We have previously worked closely with Peterborough College and we have developed a good relationship with New College Stamford during the short time we’ve been here. We hope that successful completion of this building will lead to further partnerships in future.”
Borderville Sports Centre is a shared enterprise between Stamford College and Stamford Football Club, and also enjoys great relationships with many local sporting clubs and teams such as Stamford Athletic Football Club, (represented by its Chairman, David Whitby) who have been fully behind the project from day one and are also keen to secure further health and fitness benefits for the local community.
Since its opening in September 2014 Borderville Sports Centre has been a hub of the community, and as the expansion project focuses upon skills development across several sectors, alongside the support of local businesses, the College will be able to continue involving employers in the development of its curriculum, supporting business innovation through new business models and use of emerging technologies, as well as developing new flexible and distance learning options.
Already, the College anticipates this will allow for the delivery of an additional ten qualifications at the centre by 2021/22, including six university level qualifications and Higher Apprenticeships, particularly in Health and Social Care.
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We’re excited to announce the appointment of Elaine Brophy as our Director of UK Operations. In her new role, Elaine will lead our strategic initiatives and operations from our European headquarters in London.
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“I am pleased to say my network of amazing contacts led me to SullivanStrickler where I immediately felt I should be. CEO, Brendan Sullivan introduced me to the team, who are a group of amazing and talented individuals and have made me feel very welcome,” Elaine shared. “I’ve seen for myself the solutions, facilities, and processes along with the passion that created them. Everyone knows they have a job to get done, but still has a good time and keeps smiling. I am so excited to be starting with a new purpose and energy, helping grow the UK footprint of SullivanStrickler.”
Elaine has joined SullivanStrickler as the Director of UK Operations because she saw it as a company bringing great innovation and technology in the area of managing unstructured data. Brendan Sullivan shared his excitement about the new addition to his Senior Leadership Team.
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Basement Jaxx set for Standon Calling
November 18, 2018 December 16, 2014 by Summer Festival Guide
After two sell-out years Standon Calling returns for a tenth birthday celebration like no other. One of the most intimate festivals of the summer, Standon has always punched above its weight by securing the biggest acts around and 2015 will be no different. Fresh from their recent Grammy nomination for Never Never, electronic music heavyweights Basement Jaxx are the first act to be revealed for the festival. Known for their incredible live performances and hot off their recent tour, Grammy Award nomination and Guardian citing as at the 'live peak of their career’, the spectacular show featuring costume changes and incredible dancers will close Standon Calling in true style on the Sunday evening.
Speaking about today's announcement Felix of Basement Jaxx said: "It's great to end the year with a Grammy nomination and our tour finale at the O2 in London. Looking forward to 2015, we're excited to announce a headline slot at the brilliant Standon Calling festival on Sunday August 2nd".
Standon Calling will celebrate its 10th birthday in 2015. What started as a birthday BBQ and DJs with a handful of friends has become the perfect summer escape for festival-goers, offering renowned and upcoming acts, art, comedy, fancy dress and of course its own heated outdoor swimming pool. Next year will see an innovative new day-to-night programme that will see the festival embrace its dual persona of packed out fun for all by day and then more mischievous side as a myriad of hedonistic surprises are unveiled for when the sun goes down.
A very small number of early bird tickets tickets are available at £97 and tier 1 tickets for Standon Calling 2015 are expected to go on sale any day from £117 from www.standon-calling.com with discounts available for group bookings.
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The Luxury League’s aim is to promote creativity: Ritu Beri
Our Correspondent
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Q. Tell us the idea behind The Luxury League.
A. The Luxury League is established to promote and market Indian luxury and initiate the concept of “Branding India Globally”. Our aim at The Luxury League is to be a rallying point for those who believe that strengthening commercial ties among nations is not only important for business, but good for global living standards and for peace. The main goal of The Luxury League is to promote dynamism, creativity and innovation in the luxury industry. It aims at creating a consortium internationally by targeting decision makers, luxury brands influential personalities and designers. One of the missions of The Luxury League is to make the world aware of the wealth of knowledge contained within the workshops of companies as well as create career opportunities for the youth of India, besides supporting & promoting creation. The Luxury League also provides support in specific areas like training for employment.
Q. The Luxury League believes that the essence of luxury lies in our heritage. Please elaborate.
A. I always try to bring design elements from our heritage in my creations. For example, khadifor me still is an effective and powerful symbol of the futility of ‘Western imitation’ and the need for a revival of local textiles. This gets me back to the idea of ‘khadi’ as more than just a mere cloth but something that always brings us back to our history and heritage which is luxury.
Q. How has the idea of luxury in India changed over the years?
A. In India today, luxury is no longer the preserve of the royals. When India opened up to the world in 1990, luxury also began entering a new generation of a consumer class which consisted of a large population of a young workforce, making serious money with increased international travel and real brand awareness. Hence, lifestyle and the habits of Indians have shifted from austerity to complete self-indulgence. Indians are now unapologetic about spending lavishly on luxury goods.
The purchasing power of Indians has indeed also gone up, boosted by a healthy economic growth. For the consumer, wants have become necessities. The marketing pitch is further bolstered by imagery, events, packaging which helps identification of a real brand.
Q. The idea of luxury differs from person to person. What’s your idea of luxury?
A. Luxury isn’t simply a product; it is a lifestyle, one that defines quality and involves a pampered buying experience. For me true luxury is exclusive, unique and that which is not easily accessible.
For a brand to be identified in the luxury segment, it has to have all factors, because you cannot afford to sell an exquisite craftsmanship at a low cost, and exquisite craftsmanship comes naturally to a brand that has artistic history!
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STARTER: Ntirelang Berman
Watching Ntirelang ‘NT’ Berman’s slight frame playing his acoustic guitar and sing on stage, explains why he is one of Botswana’s most written about young musicians, but, yet to release an album. Berman’s raw style of singing makes for his rousing performances.
The 26-year-old self-taught guitarist has completed an 8-track album that draws from his Selete culture, and while traditional music currently enjoys status as Botswana’s most popular music, Berman hopes to bring variety to the mix.
“Currently, the traditional music that is recorded is dance driven,” Berman states. “Not that it’s a bad thing. I, however, draw from Selete music which has a slow tempo ebile o diretswe go lapolosa maikutlo (and relaxing).”
As I spoke to Berman, he sat beside a guitar that had two strings missing. “This represents the Setswana 4-string guitar,” he explained. Most of the recorded Setswana guitar folk music played on RB1’s Sunday program, Dipina le Maboko, is played on such tuned guitars. The tone is different.
“You are probably never going to get the same sound playing (local folk guitarist) Stampore’s music on a 6-string guitar, there are songs that I have composed and recorded with the 4-string guitar such as Mmampudi.”
Mmampudi is a narrative song about the trials and errors of three women. It borrows its name and chorus from a children’s folk ditty.
“I have not released the album yet,” Berman says. “I am trying to figure out who to release it with.
“Since my expression of traditional music is different from the norm, it should be presented as it is and then we can see how Batswana respond to it.
Berman believes this could be the beginning of a sub-genre in the traditional music industry. “I want to create music that will be unique to Botswana, I know it is not going to be easy.”
The thespian’s singing style has its roots in poetry. His very first act was a poem written by his teacher in Standard 4.
“I joined traditional dance troupe at school, reciting poetry as part of the choreography,” he says. “As a dancer and poet, I then joined Baruuakgodumo, a Ramotswa based drama group.
“Mme nne ke hela tota,” (I however sang off-key, terribly) he laughs, “I did not sing at all in the traditional dance troupe or drama group. Instead, I created vocal soundscapes and played the whistle. Along the way, I also enjoyed acting.”
Berman’s turning point was when his drama group introduced musical instruments to traditional dance.
Though he particularly enjoyed the marimba, he found out that they swallowed his poetry.
“There came a time when I wanted to do my poetry as a solo performance, because with Baruuakgodumo the poems were in the context of dance.”
He started searching for an instrument that would accompany him
“I tried segaba, setinkane and keyboards. The keyboards sounded too western, the segaba and setinkane too quiet. Finally, I found the guitar which I found to be nearest to the marimba sound, and which sustained sound longer.
“I ended up singing my poetry rather than reciting it.”
Berman’s creative experimentation has not been without hiccups. While sharing ideas with other performers, Berman says, Kgaladua, another recorded poet, snatched his style.
“The way he sings and recites poetry, that was how I did it before. I had to reconsider my delivery because people would see me as imitating Kgaladua and, ironically, I have learnt my shortcomings from listening to him.”
“I want to create my own voice so that if, for example, I should collaborate with another traditional act, our styles must be eminent. It will give Batswana an edge in world music.”
Ntirelang Berman brings music to life in Tswana inspired play
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Kim Kardashian West shares tribute to ‘soul mate’ son Saint on fifth birthday
He is the reality star’s oldest son.
Kim Kardashian (Ian West/PA)
By Laura Harding, PA Deputy Entertainment Editor
Kim Kardashian West has told her son Saint “you will always be my baby boy” as she celebrated his fifth birthday and revealed she interviews her children every year.
The reality star shared a gallery of photos on Instagram of herself kissing and cuddling her little boy ahead of a drive-by party.
She wrote: “My baby Saint turns 5 today. One of my life’s soul mates.
“Every year I interview my kids and ask them the same exact questions about life. Saint- I can’t wait to see how you’ve grown and how you answers these questions as a 5 year old and show them to you when you’re big.
“I know a drive- by party isn’t ideal but it’s our times and you are so excited!
“You are always so joyful and bring so much joy into my soul every single day.
“You will always be my baby boy. Enjoy your golden bday this year Sainty! #5onthe5th!!!”
Kardashian West and her rapper husband Kanye West are also parents to daughters North, seven, and Chicago, two, and son Psalm, one.
The TV star recently sparked controversy after celebrating her own 40th birthday with a trip to Tahiti with her friends and family in the midst of a global pandemic.
Her mother Kris Jenner also shared a tribute to Saint for his birthday, writing: “Happy birthday to my sweet angel boy grandson Saint!!! You are such an incredible sweet soul and such a huge piece of my heart and I am so very proud of you!
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“I can’t believe you are five years old today and another reminder of how fast time goes by and how blessed I am to have such a big beautiful family and to be able to share life with you and your sweet smile and tender heart and amazing attitude.
“You are such a beautiful example to all of your cousins and your brother and sisters and I can’t wait to see you grow up!
“I love you Sainty more than you will ever imagine . You are my sunshine. I love you! Lovey xoxo.”
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President Donald Trump's effort to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from being counted in the process for divvying up congressional seats was dealt another blow Wednesday when the Census Bureau's director indefinitely halted an effort to gather data on the citizenship status of every U.S. resident.
Bureau workers laboring to comply with the Trump order were instructed to "'stand down' and discontinue their data reviews," Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham said in a memo.
A review indicated problems with the data that would require additional work, Dillingham said.
Dillingham's memo came after the Office of Inspector General reported Tuesday that bureau workers were under significant pressure from two Trump political appointees, Nathaniel Cogley and Benjamin Overholt, to figure out who is in the U.S illegally, using federal and state administrative records. Bureau statisticians worried that any citizenship figures they were forced to produce would be incomplete, misinterpreted and tarnish the statistical agency's reputation, the inspector general said in a memo.
Dillingham had set a Friday deadline for bureau statisticians to provide him a technical report on the effort, the inspector general's memo said, though Dillingham said in a response that the request had come from another bureau official.
Trump two years ago ordered the Census Bureau to use administrative records to figure out who is in the country illegally after the Supreme Court blocked his administration's effort to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire. Information about citizenship status could be used to implement another Trump order seeking to exclude people in the country illegally from the count used for divvying up congressional seats and Electoral College votes, as well as the annual distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending, among the states.
An influential GOP adviser had advocated excluding them from the apportionment process in order to favor Republicans and non-Hispanic whites. Trump's unprecedented order on apportionment was challenged in more than a half-dozen lawsuits across the U.S., but the Supreme Court ruled last month that any challenge was premature.
The ability to implement Trump's apportionment order is in jeopardy since the processing of the data is not scheduled to be done until early March because irregularities discovered during the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census need to be fixed, Trump administration attorneys said Monday.
That revised deadline dealt another blow to the apportionment order because it is weeks after Trump leaves office and President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in Jan. 20. Biden has said he opposes the effort, and Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, which had challenged the apportionment order, urged Biden on Wednesday to rescind it when he takes office.
"President Trump tried and failed throughout his entire presidency to weaponize the census for his attacks on immigrant communities," Ho said. "It appears he has failed yet again."
After the release of the inspector general's memo, a coalition of civil rights groups called for Dillingham's resignation, saying he was undermining the statistical agency's standards for data quality to comply with Trump's order, which was "motivated by partisan objectives."
"We do not lightly come to the conclusion that he should resign," leaders of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Asian Americans Advancing Justice and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights said in a statement on Wednesday, before the director announced the halt to the citizenship effort. "Dillingham's order to divert precious staff time away from producing the apportionment count and into producing data on citizens and noncitizens for political, partisan purposes is a betrayal of the mission of the Bureau."
Census Bureau directors have five-year terms and Dillingham's tenure isn't done until the end of the year. The appointments of Cogley and Overholt last year were highly criticized by statisticians, academics and Democratic lawmakers, who worried they would politicize the once-a-decade census.
Whistleblowers told the Office of Inspector General that the Census Bureau has not set rules for categorizing the citizenship status of U.S. residents. Bureau statisticians also do not fully understand the data since portions came from outside the bureau and they are worried incomplete data could be misinterpreted, they said.
"One senior Bureau employee went as far to say that this work is statistically indefensible," the inspector general's memo said.
In his response, Dillingham said there was no pressure placed on bureau workers to comply with the presidential order.
"Presently, the Census Bureau's highest priority is to successfully complete 2020 Census data processing in order to produce a complete and accurate count for the nation," Dillingham said.
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Steve Borrill, Scunthorpe based physiotherapist and sports injury specialist, has been selected out of hundreds of applicants to help athletes at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Steve will be working with athletes from all over the world, volunteering at a number of venues across London, including the Olympic stadium. "The interview was quite a long drawn out process. Because I was volunteering for something so specific required a lot of interviews and training to make sure you were fully qualified." he said.
"It feels great to have been chosen as so many people applied."
Steve studied at Birmingham University and then his masters in Specialist Sports Injuries in Sheffield and this selection has been his career goal throughout. "When I qualified in 2009 I always knew that I wanted to work at an event like this." Although the bigger Olympic teams at the games such as Team GB and USA will have their own medical teams available at the venues, the smaller teams will not be able to have medical staff available across all of the venues, so this is where Steve will offer his physiotherapy services. Steve says the Olympics provide a massive opportunity for him and he appreciates how important his specialist sports injury and prevention treatments will be. "The athletes have been training really hard for four years for the Olympics so for them to get an injury would be massively disappointing."
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Data Breach Alert, March 2017
Tax Season is Spear Phishing Season
As the weather warms in the mid-Atlantic and accountants’ thoughts turn to taxes, so too do the phishers. Scammers who specialize in tax refund fraud have returned to a favorite trick from 2016: spoofing emails from C-suite executives at target organizations, requesting human resources and accounting departments for employee W-2 information by email, then using that information to file false tax returns. A type of attack like this, where the apparent source of the email is a prominent individual within the recipient’s own company is known as “spear phishing,” a variant on the ever-popular fake emails from “trusted” sources that ask you to provide confidential information.
Employees in human resources and accounting departments are normally identified by the fraudsters through social networking sites such as LinkedIn. While the scammers rake in their stolen money, the target organization is left to contend with the aftermath, which inevitably involves state (and sometimes federal) data breach laws and having to rebuild trust with its employees and customers. This problem is widespread – the IRS issued an alert in late January warning companies that payroll and human resources departments are again being targeted by criminals this year seeking W-2 information.
The success of spear phishing depends upon three things: the email “sender” must appear to be a known and trusted individual, there is information within the message that supports its validity (e.g., that the CEO is working on a benefits package for employees), and the request the individual makes seems to have a logical basis. The best weapon in the fight against these scammers is education and awareness. Employees should be educated on phishing fraud with a special attention to authority-based requests that call for the transmittal of confidential information by email or request password information.
Education, in the context of all types of phishing fraud, typically focuses on several areas of security awareness: (a) having a healthy skepticism about email; (b) being able to identify the difference in a reply-to address from the spoofed address of the apparent sender (after all, the phisher cannot capture the information unless it is set to an address he controls); (c) the importance of taking extra precautions to safeguard confidential information (experience shows that picking up the phone and making a call to verify the email would often have prevented the breach); and (d) support from the organization’s information security and information technology departments to work to prevent spear phishing messages from reaching employee mailboxes.
Last, if your company experiences a spear phishing attack, it is important to move quickly to minimize losses. Engage counsel immediately to guide you through the murky waters of reporting obligations, law enforcement notification, possible forensic investigation and employee notification.
Phishing campaigns can happen at any time, but are on the uptick during tax season. Alert your staff now that all emails requesting confidential information for employees should be verified. Be careful out there!
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Warehouses are the next HOT investment triggered by the digital transformation of the supply chain
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Those being purchased by BREIT are in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Chicago, central Pennsylvania, Atlanta and south and central Florida, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. A recent article in Bloomberg suggests that warehouses are now becoming one of the hottest investments in the market, based on recent moves by the Blackstone Group LP, who are betting $18.7 billion on the shift towards e-commerce. MORE
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Which States are Making the Grade in Logistics?
The state also is home to the Fort Worth Alliance Airport, which is a public-use airport located 14 miles north of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The 2018 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card , conducted by Conexus Indiana for the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research, rates U.S. MORE
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Flatbed Markets Continue to Boom
Last week, flatbed volumes surged 10% higher, led by Houston, Fort Worth and Cleveland. The oil industry has also fueled the Texas markets: Rates were higher last week out of Dallas and Fort Worth , while Houston held firm. While the van markets might be showing signs of heating up, flatbed has been hot all winter long, and getting hotter. The national average flatbed rate for April was $2.65/mile, the highest it's ever been in DAT Trendlines. MORE
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5 Ways to Ignite Your Employees’ Passions
CH Robinson Transportfolio
Robinson employees, we’re proud of what we do in our roles as general manager of the Fort Worth office and as director, global forwarding admin, out of Grapevine, TX. This post was coauthored by Paul “MO” Moline, general manager, Fort Worth, TX, and Jim Round, director, Global Forwarding Admin, Grapevine, TX. 5 Ways to Ignite Your Employees’ Passions.Transportfolio. As C.H. MORE
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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Winners for July 11, 2016 Contest
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Robert Hurley of Bayer and Roger Mancion of Fort Worth, TX Take Home the Prize MORE
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What Happens To Your Freight During A Natural Disaster?
Freight Center
Air shipments were re-routed through surrounding hubs—Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas/Fort Worth. 2017 went down on record as one of the costliest years for natural disasters in the United States, standing at $306 billion in damages. Last year, Hurricane Michael had a devastating effect on coastal towns, disrupting the supply chain and leaving close to total destruction. Together, Florida and Texas represent nearly 15% of the U.S. economy. MORE
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Top 5 Markets for Dynamic Warehousing Demand
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4 Dallas, TX: The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area is high on our demand list partly because of its prime location for access to major interstate highways and its air cargo infrastructure. Many retailers and wholesalers are recognizing the need to expand their warehouse networks, so they can locate products closer to customers, compete with Amazon and establish more competitive omni-channel strategies. MORE
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4 Reasons We Love the Drivers Who Keep Our World Moving
– Sharon Varner, supervisor, capacity team, Fort Worth, TX. 4 Reasons We Love the Drivers Who Keep Our World Moving. This week is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week , a time to show our gratitude to the 3.5 million men and women who keep our lives and businesses moving. Last year we shared obscure truck driving facts , this year I wanted to focus on stories from our people. MORE
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Logistics property update: December 2020
Allied Electronics & Automation increases Fort Worth distribution centre. Allied Electronics & Automation has added more than 200,00 sq ft of space to its North American distribution centre in Forth Worth, Texas. Jaguar Transport acquires Ohio warehousing site. MORE
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Top 10 Freight Markets for Contract and Spot Freight
Los Angeles ranks #8 for spot market flatbed loads, behind Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth in Texas; also behind Chicago, Cleveland, and surprising South Bend, IN in the Midwest. Current trends in freight can be explained by looking at the top ten contract markets by percentage of contract-spot mix. For the last six weeks, rates have been sliding on the spot market despite strong volumes for the January-February period. MORE
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Freight Surge Expected for Q2 and July 4
Rates in Fort Worth are rebounding now, from a downturn earlier in the month. Van freight was a little quiet last week, but a rebound should be underway now, to close the second quarter on a high note. Reefer freight volume should get a boost too, due to last-minute demand for fresh food, ahead of the July 4th weekend. Flatbed traffic has been subdued all year, especially compared to the fracking boom times. This week was no exception. MORE
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Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller
The Logistics of Logistics
FreightWaves started in Fort Worth, Texas, but we moved here. [01:04] Tell us a little bit about you and your company. I am Craig Fuller, founder and CEO of FreightWaves, which is based in Chattanooga, TN. I grew up in a trucking family and worked in my dad’s company. FreightWaves is the leading Freight Intel provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. [03:50] 03:50] Your content at FreightWaves is so insightful. MORE
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Van Rates Peak in July, Flatbed Prices Rise in Southeast
DAT Flatbed TriHaul of the Week: Houston - Oklahoma City - Ft Worth - Houston. If you have a good roundtrip, say, between Houston and Ft Worth or Houston and Oklahoma City, you don’t want to mess with it, especially if you can do the 900-mile trip in two days, including load and unload times. So, you’re taking a load from Houston to Oklahoma City , and then you haul a second load from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth. MORE
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Organized Retail Crime is Growing, Losses up 7% from Last Year
Philadelphia, and Arlington/Dallas/Fort Worth, tied; and 10) Fort Lauderdale and Seattle, tied. A National Retail Federation report found that 92% of companies surveyed had been a victim of organized retail crime in the past year. Organized retail crime is on the rise, with nearly three-quarters of retailers surveyed reporting an increase in the past year, according to the 14th annual ORC study released recently by the National Retail Federation. MORE
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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2017
Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) Conference , April 30 – May 3, Fort Worth, TX. Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Most of the conferences on our list are in the U.S., although some are in Europe, South America, and Asia. Many of the leading ERP and supply chain software vendors have customer events in various countries around the world.; MORE
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REPOST: Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller
FreightWaves started in Fort Worth, Texas, but we moved here. Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller. Craig Fuller and Joe Lynch discuss why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of trucking. MORE
This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)
On Wednesday Amazon announced “the expansion of Prime FREE Same-Day Delivery to even more metro areas including Charlotte, Cincinnati, Fresno, Louisville, Milwaukee, Nashville, Raleigh, Richmond, Sacramento, Stockton, and Tucson, plus new areas in Central New Jersey, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and San Diego.” Back in December, we welcomed two new members to our family: Milo and Otis, guinea pig brothers we adopted. MORE
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Saddle Creek Logistic Services
For Ryan Cunningham, a Supervisor at Saddle Creek Logistics Services in Fort Worth, Texas, a supportive work environment was crucial. What makes you want to join a new company? That was the primary reason he joined the company’s Management Trainee Program (MTP) in 2019. “I I received other offers, but, ultimately, I chose Saddle Creek because I felt I would be valued as an associate,” Ryan explains. MORE
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2019 – The Year of Amazon Air
Logistics Trends and Insights
Regional Air Hub at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport opens. In what was an overall dismal global air cargo market, I’m declaring 2019 the year of Amazon Air. What a year this group had. Amazon’s air cargo group literally took off as the overall company went from 2-day free delivery for Prime members to next-day free deliveries for its members. MORE
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October Flatbed Rates Were Highest of the Year
Flatbed rates were down out of a handful of Sunbelt markets: Atlanta, Savannah, Fort Worth, and Phoenix. The national flatbed rate for October was the highest of the year, boosted at least in part by rebuilding efforts in Florida and the Gulf Coast after the storms from a couple months ago. Volumes were up and down over the course of the month, though, as markets adjusted to constantly changing demand. MORE
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All Roads Lead to Dallas
Supply Chain Link
Famously known for the barbecue, the Cowboys, and the State Fair of Texas, Dallas ranks as the ninth largest city in the United States with the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metropolitan area ranking fourth. As the fourth largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in 2016, Dallas has been among the United States’ economic growth leaders and. Read More. Distribution Supply Chain Transportation MORE
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</p> <p><strong>#4 </strong><strong>Dallas, TX: </strong></p> <p>The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area is high on our demand list partly because of its prime location for access to major interstate highways and its air cargo infrastructure. MORE
This Week in Logistics News (May 7-11, 2018)
At its research facility at the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, NASA will use the data supplied by Uber to simulate a small passenger-carrying aircraft as it flies through DFW airspace during peak scheduled air traffic. Reaching that critical mass will be a challenge,” I said last October, “but it’s a challenge worth pursuing if you believe in the power of networks and communities.”. MORE
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Signs of Spring in Flatbed Markets
Other big declines were in Phoenix and Fort Worth, TX , but both markets had rising volumes that could reverse pricing trends. Flatbed trends have been mostly neutral overall so far in February. There are signs of spring, with higher volumes in many markets over the course of the past three weeks. That’s been offset by a slump in volumes out of Houston , though. MORE
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Rebuilding Efforts Fuel Flatbed Demand
In Texas : Dallas outbound rates have been kept in check because of the high number of inbound loads, but… Fort Worth rates rose 15% last month. The immediate impacts from Harvey and Irma first showed up in van freight, then reefers. Now it's looking like flatbed’s turn. Load counts are up on DAT load boards , with more flatbed freight shipping to support the rebuilding and recovery efforts in areas affected by the storms. MORE
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Flatbed Freight Continues to Gain Momentum
Roanoke, VA , saw the biggest increases, but prices also rose out of Dallas, Fort Worth, Baltimore and Birmingham. February has been a strong month for flatbed freight. That's not something you hear all that often, but the national average flatbed rate has increased each week this month, while rates trended in the opposite direction for vans and reefers. Overall, flatbed volumes are 20% higher than they were a year ago, while rates are 22% higher compared to the same period in 2017. MORE
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Storms and Rising Fuel Costs Put Pressure on Flatbed Rates
Volumes have bounced back in Fort Worth , but the lane to Houston dropped to $2.27 Flatbed rates haven’t moved much in the past month, but that could change in the coming weeks. Emergency supplies are usually delivered in dry vans or reefers at first, but once rebuilding efforts are underway, construction materials will start moving on flatbeds. Spot market capacity had already tightened in the weeks between Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. MORE
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3 Signs that Reefer Rates Could Rise Soon
This is a good way into Texas , where you can usually find a load out of Dallas, Fort Worth , and especially Houston. National average rates dropped again last week, but all equipment types could be getting ready for a rebound. Load availability is up in the largest van freight markets, accompanied by a big increase in reefer freight movements compared to the previous week. Flatbed is also gaining strength, especially in the Southeast and South Central regions. MORE
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Busy Being Busy
BlueYonder
But, several months ago when I received an invitation from AWESOME’s Nancy Nix to join other women from the Dallas-Fort Worth area for lunch I accepted, thinking that if I was too busy when the day rolled around I could send my regrets. Two lunches and a chance meeting in the Home Depot parking lot recently have me thinking about how I spend my time. And how I answer when someone asks, “How are you?” Surprisingly, they’re both related. First, the lunches. MORE
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The Texas Triangle
16 Fort Worth – 850 K (part of Texas Triangle). #20 The other day I was talking with my friends, Kevin and Wayne at Loadtex and they kept referring to the “Texas Triangle.” Being a Yankee from the great state of Michigan, I had never heard of the Texas Triangle, so I asked what it was. Even though I hoped the Texas Triangle was a football formation or a cowboy thing, I also mentally prepared myself for it to be some ridiculous, country line dancing thing. MORE
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Countdown to Black Friday: Are You an Easy Target for Cargo Theft?
Be especially mindful in traditionally active cargo theft areas like Southern California, the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Miami, and Atlanta. With Black Friday on the horizon, consumer goods of all kinds are making their way from manufacturers to distribution centers and retail locations across the country. MORE
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Spot market demand heats up out West
Last week saw strong movements out of Baltimore, Fort Worth, Cleveland and Savannah. The spot market continues to offer a mixed bag. Van volumes got a late-winter boost on the West Coast, which led to higher rates on many high-traffic lanes, but it wasn't enough to lift prices in the interior of the country. As a result, we saw continued decline in the national average rates for vans, reefers and flatbeds. MORE
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Be especially mindful in traditionally active cargo theft areas like Southern California, the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Miami, and Atlanta. Countdown to Black Friday: Are You an Easy Target for Cargo Theft? Transportfolio. With Black Friday on the horizon, consumer goods of all kinds are making their way from manufacturers to distribution centers and retail locations across the country. MORE
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Seasonal Lull Continues for Flatbeds, But Bright Spots Emerge
per mile last week, as declining rates in Birmingham, Harrisburg and Baltimore offset increases in Tampa, Pittsburgh and Fort Worth. Look for a load from Lubbock to Fort Worth, which is paying $1.86/mile this week. In Fort Worth, you should have no problem finding a second load to take you back to Houston – or deadhead a few miles to Dallas and find a load there. MORE
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Today, she serves as Director of Fulfillment, based in Fort Worth, T.X., In just a few short years, Nicole Lee has established a remarkable track record at Saddle Creek Logistics Services. She joined the company as part of the Management Trainee Program back in 2010 and has earned frequent promotions, contributing to the company in four different locations. and oversees several order fulfillment operations in multiple U.S. markets. MORE
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Why is a Data Center Like a Supply Chain?
Facebook announced today that it is moving forward with building a fifth data center , with plans to build in Fort Worth, Texas. They don’t seem too similar, but data centers could benefit from supply chain management. This will be the second of five data centers built for Facebook that runs completely on renewable energy sources – it’s not hard to imagine how much power the information of 1.4 billion users might require, and renewable options cut costs in the long-term. MORE
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Fort Worth Related Topics
Cargo Freight Transportation Warehousing Logistics Shipping Sourcing Supply Chain Manufacturing Procurement More Related Topics >
Robert Hurley of Bayer and Roger Mancion of Fort Worth, TX Take Home the Prize
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Famously known for the barbecue, the Cowboys, and the State Fair of Texas, Dallas ranks as the ninth largest city in the United States with the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metropolitan area ranking fourth. As the fourth largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in 2016, Dallas has been among the United States’ economic growth leaders and. Read More. Distribution Supply Chain Transportation
Be especially mindful in traditionally active cargo theft areas like Southern California, the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Miami, and Atlanta. With Black Friday on the horizon, consumer goods of all kinds are making their way from manufacturers to distribution centers and retail locations across the country.
Philadelphia, and Arlington/Dallas/Fort Worth, tied; and 10) Fort Lauderdale and Seattle, tied. A National Retail Federation report found that 92% of companies surveyed had been a victim of organized retail crime in the past year. Organized retail crime is on the rise, with nearly three-quarters of retailers surveyed reporting an increase in the past year, according to the 14th annual ORC study released recently by the National Retail Federation.
Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) Conference , April 30 – May 3, Fort Worth, TX. Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Most of the conferences on our list are in the U.S., although some are in Europe, South America, and Asia. Many of the leading ERP and supply chain software vendors have customer events in various countries around the world.;
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For Ryan Cunningham, a Supervisor at Saddle Creek Logistics Services in Fort Worth, Texas, a supportive work environment was crucial. What makes you want to join a new company? That was the primary reason he joined the company’s Management Trainee Program (MTP) in 2019. “I I received other offers, but, ultimately, I chose Saddle Creek because I felt I would be valued as an associate,” Ryan explains.
Allied Electronics & Automation increases Fort Worth distribution centre. Allied Electronics & Automation has added more than 200,00 sq ft of space to its North American distribution centre in Forth Worth, Texas. Jaguar Transport acquires Ohio warehousing site.
Be especially mindful in traditionally active cargo theft areas like Southern California, the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Miami, and Atlanta. Countdown to Black Friday: Are You an Easy Target for Cargo Theft? Transportfolio. With Black Friday on the horizon, consumer goods of all kinds are making their way from manufacturers to distribution centers and retail locations across the country.
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per mile last week, as declining rates in Birmingham, Harrisburg and Baltimore offset increases in Tampa, Pittsburgh and Fort Worth. Look for a load from Lubbock to Fort Worth, which is paying $1.86/mile this week. In Fort Worth, you should have no problem finding a second load to take you back to Houston – or deadhead a few miles to Dallas and find a load there.
Those being purchased by BREIT are in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Chicago, central Pennsylvania, Atlanta and south and central Florida, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. A recent article in Bloomberg suggests that warehouses are now becoming one of the hottest investments in the market, based on recent moves by the Blackstone Group LP, who are betting $18.7 billion on the shift towards e-commerce.
On Wednesday Amazon announced “the expansion of Prime FREE Same-Day Delivery to even more metro areas including Charlotte, Cincinnati, Fresno, Louisville, Milwaukee, Nashville, Raleigh, Richmond, Sacramento, Stockton, and Tucson, plus new areas in Central New Jersey, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and San Diego.” Back in December, we welcomed two new members to our family: Milo and Otis, guinea pig brothers we adopted.
Air shipments were re-routed through surrounding hubs—Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas/Fort Worth. 2017 went down on record as one of the costliest years for natural disasters in the United States, standing at $306 billion in damages. Last year, Hurricane Michael had a devastating effect on coastal towns, disrupting the supply chain and leaving close to total destruction. Together, Florida and Texas represent nearly 15% of the U.S. economy.
Facebook announced today that it is moving forward with building a fifth data center , with plans to build in Fort Worth, Texas. They don’t seem too similar, but data centers could benefit from supply chain management. This will be the second of five data centers built for Facebook that runs completely on renewable energy sources – it’s not hard to imagine how much power the information of 1.4 billion users might require, and renewable options cut costs in the long-term.
At its research facility at the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, NASA will use the data supplied by Uber to simulate a small passenger-carrying aircraft as it flies through DFW airspace during peak scheduled air traffic. Reaching that critical mass will be a challenge,” I said last October, “but it’s a challenge worth pursuing if you believe in the power of networks and communities.”.
Flatbed rates were down out of a handful of Sunbelt markets: Atlanta, Savannah, Fort Worth, and Phoenix. The national flatbed rate for October was the highest of the year, boosted at least in part by rebuilding efforts in Florida and the Gulf Coast after the storms from a couple months ago. Volumes were up and down over the course of the month, though, as markets adjusted to constantly changing demand.
The state also is home to the Fort Worth Alliance Airport, which is a public-use airport located 14 miles north of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The 2018 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card , conducted by Conexus Indiana for the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research, rates U.S.
Last week, flatbed volumes surged 10% higher, led by Houston, Fort Worth and Cleveland. The oil industry has also fueled the Texas markets: Rates were higher last week out of Dallas and Fort Worth , while Houston held firm. While the van markets might be showing signs of heating up, flatbed has been hot all winter long, and getting hotter. The national average flatbed rate for April was $2.65/mile, the highest it's ever been in DAT Trendlines.
Regional Air Hub at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport opens. In what was an overall dismal global air cargo market, I’m declaring 2019 the year of Amazon Air. What a year this group had. Amazon’s air cargo group literally took off as the overall company went from 2-day free delivery for Prime members to next-day free deliveries for its members.
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Today, she serves as Director of Fulfillment, based in Fort Worth, T.X., In just a few short years, Nicole Lee has established a remarkable track record at Saddle Creek Logistics Services. She joined the company as part of the Management Trainee Program back in 2010 and has earned frequent promotions, contributing to the company in four different locations. and oversees several order fulfillment operations in multiple U.S. markets.
But, several months ago when I received an invitation from AWESOME’s Nancy Nix to join other women from the Dallas-Fort Worth area for lunch I accepted, thinking that if I was too busy when the day rolled around I could send my regrets. Two lunches and a chance meeting in the Home Depot parking lot recently have me thinking about how I spend my time. And how I answer when someone asks, “How are you?” Surprisingly, they’re both related. First, the lunches.
Roanoke, VA , saw the biggest increases, but prices also rose out of Dallas, Fort Worth, Baltimore and Birmingham. February has been a strong month for flatbed freight. That's not something you hear all that often, but the national average flatbed rate has increased each week this month, while rates trended in the opposite direction for vans and reefers. Overall, flatbed volumes are 20% higher than they were a year ago, while rates are 22% higher compared to the same period in 2017.
Other big declines were in Phoenix and Fort Worth, TX , but both markets had rising volumes that could reverse pricing trends. Flatbed trends have been mostly neutral overall so far in February. There are signs of spring, with higher volumes in many markets over the course of the past three weeks. That’s been offset by a slump in volumes out of Houston , though.
In Texas : Dallas outbound rates have been kept in check because of the high number of inbound loads, but… Fort Worth rates rose 15% last month. The immediate impacts from Harvey and Irma first showed up in van freight, then reefers. Now it's looking like flatbed’s turn. Load counts are up on DAT load boards , with more flatbed freight shipping to support the rebuilding and recovery efforts in areas affected by the storms.
4 Dallas, TX: The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area is high on our demand list partly because of its prime location for access to major interstate highways and its air cargo infrastructure. Many retailers and wholesalers are recognizing the need to expand their warehouse networks, so they can locate products closer to customers, compete with Amazon and establish more competitive omni-channel strategies.
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</p> <p><strong>#4 </strong><strong>Dallas, TX: </strong></p> <p>The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area is high on our demand list partly because of its prime location for access to major interstate highways and its air cargo infrastructure.
16 Fort Worth – 850 K (part of Texas Triangle). #20 The other day I was talking with my friends, Kevin and Wayne at Loadtex and they kept referring to the “Texas Triangle.” Being a Yankee from the great state of Michigan, I had never heard of the Texas Triangle, so I asked what it was. Even though I hoped the Texas Triangle was a football formation or a cowboy thing, I also mentally prepared myself for it to be some ridiculous, country line dancing thing.
Last week saw strong movements out of Baltimore, Fort Worth, Cleveland and Savannah. The spot market continues to offer a mixed bag. Van volumes got a late-winter boost on the West Coast, which led to higher rates on many high-traffic lanes, but it wasn't enough to lift prices in the interior of the country. As a result, we saw continued decline in the national average rates for vans, reefers and flatbeds.
FreightWaves started in Fort Worth, Texas, but we moved here. [01:04] Tell us a little bit about you and your company. I am Craig Fuller, founder and CEO of FreightWaves, which is based in Chattanooga, TN. I grew up in a trucking family and worked in my dad’s company. FreightWaves is the leading Freight Intel provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. [03:50] 03:50] Your content at FreightWaves is so insightful.
Rates in Fort Worth are rebounding now, from a downturn earlier in the month. Van freight was a little quiet last week, but a rebound should be underway now, to close the second quarter on a high note. Reefer freight volume should get a boost too, due to last-minute demand for fresh food, ahead of the July 4th weekend. Flatbed traffic has been subdued all year, especially compared to the fracking boom times. This week was no exception.
FreightWaves started in Fort Worth, Texas, but we moved here. Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller. Craig Fuller and Joe Lynch discuss why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of trucking.
Robinson employees, we’re proud of what we do in our roles as general manager of the Fort Worth office and as director, global forwarding admin, out of Grapevine, TX. This post was coauthored by Paul “MO” Moline, general manager, Fort Worth, TX, and Jim Round, director, Global Forwarding Admin, Grapevine, TX. 5 Ways to Ignite Your Employees’ Passions.Transportfolio. As C.H.
– Sharon Varner, supervisor, capacity team, Fort Worth, TX. 4 Reasons We Love the Drivers Who Keep Our World Moving. This week is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week , a time to show our gratitude to the 3.5 million men and women who keep our lives and businesses moving. Last year we shared obscure truck driving facts , this year I wanted to focus on stories from our people.
Los Angeles ranks #8 for spot market flatbed loads, behind Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth in Texas; also behind Chicago, Cleveland, and surprising South Bend, IN in the Midwest. Current trends in freight can be explained by looking at the top ten contract markets by percentage of contract-spot mix. For the last six weeks, rates have been sliding on the spot market despite strong volumes for the January-February period.
Volumes have bounced back in Fort Worth , but the lane to Houston dropped to $2.27 Flatbed rates haven’t moved much in the past month, but that could change in the coming weeks. Emergency supplies are usually delivered in dry vans or reefers at first, but once rebuilding efforts are underway, construction materials will start moving on flatbeds. Spot market capacity had already tightened in the weeks between Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
DAT Flatbed TriHaul of the Week: Houston - Oklahoma City - Ft Worth - Houston. If you have a good roundtrip, say, between Houston and Ft Worth or Houston and Oklahoma City, you don’t want to mess with it, especially if you can do the 900-mile trip in two days, including load and unload times. So, you’re taking a load from Houston to Oklahoma City , and then you haul a second load from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth.
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This is a good way into Texas , where you can usually find a load out of Dallas, Fort Worth , and especially Houston. National average rates dropped again last week, but all equipment types could be getting ready for a rebound. Load availability is up in the largest van freight markets, accompanied by a big increase in reefer freight movements compared to the previous week. Flatbed is also gaining strength, especially in the Southeast and South Central regions.
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Without planting more trees in the tropics, we can’t fix the climateGrazing the ancient soil
The millennials setting up their own farms
Farmstart schemes and the demand for local food | By Isabella Cipirska
Chris and Emily Huskins had always dreamed of growing organic vegetables on their own farm. The couple, now aged 32 and 29, were already doing as much as they could from their home at the edge of Southampton, alongside their jobs in marketing. They had taken on two allotments and were renting a large piece of land at the front of a country manor, as well as tearing up their own garden for planting—much to their landlord’s dismay.
But they yearned for something more secure, something of their own.
UK Farming: Old and exclusive
Like all new entrants to farming in the UK, however, they faced a number of hurdles, with cost perhaps the most insurmountable. The price of agricultural land is at record levels, an average of £9,000 per acre. And with land increasingly concentrated into fewer hands, securing some is not always easy. One per cent of population—or 25,000 land owners—own more than 50 per cent of the land in England alone, as Guy Shrubsole revealed in his 2019 book Who Owns England.
This means that for many young people, the farming life seems unattainable. More than half of the millennials questioned in a 2018 survey believed they could not afford to become a farmer, while 43 per cent thought they would need to inherit land to do so. Meanwhile the farming population is ageing rapidly, with the average age of a British farmer now 55.5.
Encouraging new farmers
Calculating how long it would take to save up and secure their own farm, Chris and Emily put together a 15-year plan. But then they came across the Ecological Land Cooperative (ELC). “We thought they were too good to be true, to be honest,” Chris said. The ELC gives new entrants a way into establishing their own farming businesses by developing affordable and secure smallholdings. After putting down a deposit, roughly the same as what they would have needed for a small flat, Chris and Emily secured their own 3.7-acre smallholding, one of three on a field just under 20 acres in size in East Sussex. Their business Fanfield Farm is now delivering vegetable boxes to dozens of doorsteps in the area, with 150 more homes on their waiting list. “It’s fantastic,” Chris said.
The ELC model takes away the often prohibitive cost new entrants face when getting started. Money raised through community investment is used to purchase and develop parcels of land, which are then subdivided into small ecological farms and leased on—with a rent-to-buy scheme meaning farmers only need a deposit to begin.
The cooperative also secures residential planning permission—a complex process that can take up to two years—so that the farmers can live on the land alongside running their enterprise. This is key for farmers like Chris and Emily, whose regenerative growing process, which uses hand tools, requires constant supervision. It also solves one of the other pressing issues faced by new farmers: where they will live. Rural homes are expensive—20 per cent more so than those in urban areas, according to a 2017 Halifax survey, thanks to high demand from commuters, retirees and second-home owners. And with the connections between homes and land increasingly thin, it is no longer the norm to rent or buy a home in the countryside that has land attached to it.
"It's not bigger is better. It's about diverse and resilient business models that are providing food for people more directly.” - Rachael Forster
Profiting from local initiatives
The ELC argues that ecological smallholdings not only help revitalise the countryside and reduce carbon emissions by creating shorter supply chains but, crucially, they can also make money—as it shows in its Small Farm Profits report. "It requires a paradigm shift as to what we think of as a good business model," said Lauren Simpson, communications manager at the cooperative. "It's not bigger is better. It's about diverse and resilient business models that are providing food for people more directly.”
From a consumer side, demand for local fruit and vegetables has never been higher. More than 60 per cent of British people said they would be looking to buy more home grown produce as a result of the pandemic and Brexit, according to a recent survey. Lauren said: "In lockdown, the reaction to the supermarkets running out of supplies, we saw that people started to realise there might be a farmer down the road. We saw a huge increase in demand for veg box sales. Hopefully, that will be a shift that stays.”
Training for new farmers
But more needs to be done to further open up farming to new entrants. The ELC wants to see more support and start up grants for new entrant farmers, as well as clear pathways for people to learn about ecological agriculture.
One initiative that is attempting to give new entrant farmers the skills and training they need is the farmstart model. Farmstarts typically provide access to land, markets and equipment to give people the opportunity to test out their growing ideas in a protected environment.
Rachael Forster from Tamar Grow Local, whose farmstart scheme offers parcels of land from just half an acre in size in the Tamar Valley, said it took away the financial risk for new farmers and gave them an opportunity to experiment. “It’s a really important test bed for new businesses,” she said. “Everything is there ready to go. They can focus on the important bit of growing—learning what grows well and what doesn’t.”
“Most decisions that are being made on a government level play into the hand of bigger farms, rather than smaller ones.” - Rachel Riley
Rachel Riley and her partner Matt White launched their market garden Hoe Made Acre at the Tamar Grow Local farmstart in June last year. While they were initially attracted to the scheme by its affordability—they pay £500 a year for one acre of land—Rachel said she had increasingly realised the benefits of being part of a larger network. Most helpful has been access to an established route to market through Tamar Grow Local’s food hub. Without it, the 33-year-old said: "We would have been a bit isolated. We would have to set up all the connections ourselves."
Schemes like the farmstart are invaluable to new farmers, but Rachel said they were too few and far between. "There definitely needs to be more support for people who want to do land based projects to access training and access the land,” she said. “Most decisions that are being made on a government level play into the hand of bigger farms, rather than smaller ones.”
But changes are on the horizon. The UK Government recently announced that controversial EU farm subsidies, which saw farmers paid taxpayers’ money based on the amount of land they farm, will be phased out. Going forward, with the pandemic ongoing and the Brexit transition period coming to an end, Rachel is confident that supporting small-scale growers will become even more important. “In terms of our food resilience, moving into a post-Brexit landscape, being able to support small scale operators probably leaves us in a more resilient position.”
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Every Day Horror Day 21: Brian Yuzna's Society
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It's October 21. Only 10 more days to Halloween. That's exciting! We're kinda sorta almost in the home stretch of watching horror movies. Not that there's any reason to stop. Literally no horror movie is worse than the news!
And on that note, today on Every Day Horror the co-host of the official Wynonna Earp podcast, Max Tedaldi, has brought with him the Brian Yuzna classic Society (released in 1989 in the UK; 1992 in the USA). Yuzna is a real horror hero. He worked on the Re-Animator movies, helped guarantee my eternal fear of orthodontics with The Dentist franchise, and of course brought us probably the first-ever zombie romance movie with Return of the Living Dead III (1993).
But today we're focusing on Society, a movie that is all about how the wealthy 1% are secretly a group of monsters who want to manipulate and assimilate all of the best traits of the poor before devouring them. I just wish Max had picked a film that had parallels with the modern day!
Ha ha ha, just kidding. We're living Society, which is why it's pretty crazy that Yuzna's proposing a Society sequel that would have the tagline, "Revenge of the 1%." I mean, if this ain't it, right here, right now, then I'd hate to see what the rich people ruining all of our lives really look like, y'know!
Anyway, Max and I talk about all of that and also about the cool gore effects, the dude who is literally a butt head and we also argue over whether or not you even need to watch anything but the last ten minutes of the movie. Where did we land? Listen and find out!
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The community garden at Park Avenue Elementary School in the North Bellmore School District has served as an outdoor learning space for 10 years, and a former student recently spearheaded an effort to give it a makeover.
Gus Bresnaider, a senior at Mepham High School and a 2015 Park Avenue graduate, completed his Eagle Scout community service project at the garden on Nov. 21. He and about two dozen volunteers – many fellow scouts from Troop 123 – worked all day to make several improvements. They created a sign for the front of the garden that reads “Park Pride” and installed narrower garden beds that make it easier for young children to harvest the crops. Gus’s project also included two wheelchair-accessible garden beds that follow the children’s ADA regulation for elevated tables.
“I picked my former elementary school as a way of giving back for all that I had learned and the wonderful experiences I had,” he said. “I wanted to pay it forward and make the next students’ memories even better than my own, and I hope this installation may help with that.”
Art teacher Jill Skelly and first grade teacher Robin Obey are the garden coordinators and we on hand for the installation. They met with Gus in advance to identify projects that would best improve the garden, deciding that more child-friendly garden beds and raised beds for students with special needs were most needed.
“We were overjoyed when he came to us last year and wanted to do something for the garden for his Eagle Scout project,” Ms. Skelly said, noting that Gus was a student at Park Avenue when it was first created. “Gus’ professional handling of the whole project was truly worthy of the Eagle title. The new beds guarantee another 10 years of healthy planting with much easier access for the students.”
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1: Gus Bresnaider, a 2015 graduate of Park Avenue Elementary School, refurbished the school’s garden for his Eagle Scout community service project.
2: Volunteers from Gus’s Boy Scout troop helped build and install child-friendly garden beds outside of Park Avenue Elementary School on Nov. 21.
Photos courtesy of the North Bellmore School District
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TP-Link unveils smart dimmers, light switches, Wi-Fi systems, and doorbells at CES 2021
by Jonathan Greig in Hardware on January 12, 2021, 11:18 AM PST
The new suite of smart home products is aimed at security and ease of use, the company says.
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The company released a bevy of home-based products including the Motion-Activated Kasa Smart Dimmer Switch, the Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Light Switch with three-Way Dimmer Kit, the Kasa Smart Doorbell, the Kasa Spot Pan Tilt with 24/7 Recording, the Kasa Cam Outdoor with 24/7 Recording, and the Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Outdoor Plug.
"We are extremely proud of our new suite of smart home products that make life easier, safer and more productive for our users," said Jeff Barney, COO of TP-Link USA, said in a statement. "These new products can effortlessly turn any home into a smart home, while providing a new level of convenience, comfort, and peace of mind for our customers."
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Kasa Products
In a release, the company said the dimmer switch came with a Smart Motion Detection feature that allows users to set a time based on motion when lights could be set to automatically turn off. And thanks to the Ambient Light Sensor, the lights will never turn on automatically during the daytime.
The dimmer also comes with a feature that allows you to fade the lights in and out at night and in the morning, so there is a seamless transition into both the early mornings and evenings.
Similarly, the Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Light Switch with 3-Way Dimmer Kit gives you easy control over your home lighting. The Wi-Fi switch allows users to turn the typical three-way lighting to smart wireless Wi-Fi lights, and with the Smart Dimming feature, you can automatically change how bright your home lights are.
It even comes with a voice control feature, allowing you to turn your lights on and off whenever you need to, all through the power of your words. You can even tie your voice-controlled lights to an Alexa, Google Assistant, and Samsung SmartThings device.
The company also announced the release of the Kasa Smart Doorbell, which comes with 1080p Full HD video, an AI-backed Person Detection feature, and local as well as cloud storage that allows you to save any footage on a 128 GB microSD card.
The interactive doorbell also comes with protection against both rain and dust thanks to IP64 weatherproofing, as well as a number of different Indoor chimes. The Kasa Spot Pan Tilt with 24/7 Recording has built-in 2K HD Video with 4 MP high resolution that gives users vivid video capture as well as colorful videos even in low-light environments thanks to the Starlight Night Vision feature.
There are a number of features that come with the Kasa Spot Pan Tilt, including motion tracking features that track and follow objects within its view and a Patrol Mode where different viewpoints can be set and programmed so that the camera can track multiple regions at selected intervals. Thanks to local storage features, you can save up to 256 GB of footage on a microSD card. The Kasa Cam Outdoor with 24/7 Recording similarly allows for the capture of high-quality video, night vision, starlight sensors, and comes with IP65 weatherproofing.
TP-Link also unveiled the long-range Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Outdoor Plug that comes with a power amplifier and can automatically turn plugged-in devices on and off no matter where you are. It also allows users to remotely control your smart plug through the Kasa Smart app via your phone or tablet with the Control from Anywhere feature.
Deco Products
At CES 2021, TP-Link announced a new line of Deco products, including the Deco Mesh Wi-Fi 6E and Archer router. TP-Link is also offering a 10G router and switch as well as the 5G Wi-Fi gateway Deco X80 and the HomeShield premium security service for both home networking and businesses.
According to TP-Link, Deco Voice X20 comes with a Mesh Wi-Fi system with smart speakers that allow for full voice control. The Deco Voice X20 works with TP-Link Mesh technology and allows users to create a unified network that covers up to 4,000 square feet and seamless connectivity throughout a home.
If combined with Alexa, users can manage their entire home with voice control and can sort through calls, messages, announcements, and more.
An entirely new line of Wi-Fi 6E products was also unveiled at CES, including AX7800 Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi 6E System (Deco X96), AX5400 Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi 6E System with Smart Hub (Deco X76 Plus), AX7800 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6E Router (Archer AX96), and AX11000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6E Router with 10G Ports (Archer AX206).
The AX7800 Whole Home Mesh WiFi 6E System—Deco X96 gives users access to the 6 GHz band, which has only recently been opened and provides more bandwidth and lower latency.
TP-Link said it was able to boost speeds to 7800 Mbps and used AI to provide Wi-Fi networks that are specific to your home.
"Archer AX206 also features a pure 6 GHz band for dedicated Wi-Fi 6E, enabling a cleaner, broader 6 GHz band for unstoppable transmission. The advanced OFDMA and UL/DL MU-MIMO technology eradicates latency and makes it easy to transfer data to and from multiple devices simultaneously, reducing wait times drastically," the company said in a release.
"Plus, it comes with HomeShield Security, which provides comprehensive network protection, robust parental controls, and real-time IoT protection."
The company also announced TP-Link HomeShield, a security service designed to protect home networks and IoT devices with scanners that automatically monitors any device on the network and sends out alerts in case of problems.
"Robust networking protection blocks malicious URLs or other potential threats, and fixes network vulnerabilities," the company said. "It also prevents DDoS attacks by recording abnormal incoming traffic and refusing requests from enlisted IPs. In addition, HomeShield provides more comprehensive reports to help you get a complete understanding of your home network activities such as online time analysis and threat reports."
For certain international markets, users will have access to the Deco X80-5G Whole Home Wi-Fi 6 Gateway, which provides download speeds up to 5.0 Gbps, or 33-times faster than 4G.
Enterprise customers will also have access to new Wi-Fi 6 devices as part of the Omada SDN solution, making setup for IT departments a bit simpler.
"Finally, TP-Link is introducing the Deco ISP Cloud management system, a more efficient and simple ISP solution. The Deco ISP Cloud is an integrated, cloud-based network solution for ISP remote management," the company added. "It allows WISPs, SIs, and small businesses to monitor and manage all Deco products with a centralized management platform via the cloud."
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When I reviewed Nile’s fourth album, Annihilation of the Wicked way back in 2005, I mused how long the band could keep up the high quality and continue the long running Egyptian themes. Well 14 years and 5 albums later, that answer is pretty clear.
Even with a bit of a lull with 2012s At the Gates of Sethu, and maybe 2007s Ithyphallic, Nile has essentially stayed an elite death metal act since the bands first 3 or four arguably classic releases. And with a the band’s last album, What Should Not Be Unearthed, they showed that they can deliver material as dynamic as their early efforts over 20 years later. But with album number 9, founder Karl Saunders and long time drummer George K0llias ( at least since 2004) has managed to somehow up the ante again, and deliver what I’m confident in saying is their best effort since In Their Darkened Shrines.
As with the last album, where bassist Brad Parris joined, a new member join the ranks in guitarist Brian Kingsland (Enthean, ex Rites to Sedition), and again , Nile seems better for it. Also the addition of Mark Lewis (Carnifex, Deicide, Arsis, Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Murder) with a mastering/mixing adds some real beef to Saunders’ production, and it all comes together perfectly.
The recipe is still the same: blasting, wall of noise, brutal technical death metal with a heavy Egyptian backbone, and while there a few little surprise here and there, its all pretty much the same, but on this release there seems to be just a little more restraint and focus on those heaving, lumbering songs and moment that made songs like “To Dream of Ur”, “Unas”, “Black Seeds of Vengeance” and ““To Walk Forth From Flames Unscathed” so dynamic.
Songs like opener “Long Shadows of Dread”, “That Which is Forbidden”, and the closing duo of “The Imperishable Stars Are Sickened” and “We Are Cursed”, all deliver moments of bone rattling, thunderous, earth shifting heft. And that’s not even including the album’s 9 minute standout “Seven Horns of War”, this album’s “Unas” or “Ur”; a blasting and lumbering behemoth of a track with monstrous mid song brass section (is that Lord of the Rings I hear?) that gives me goosebumps, and is the best Nile song in several years.
Of course, there are still those teeth rattling, writhing faster, tracks like “Vile Nilotic Rites”, The Oxford Handbook of Savage Genocidal Warfare”, the aptly named “Snake Pit Mating Frenzy” or utterly devastating “Where Is the Wrathful Sky” (even with its little mid song Middle east jaunt). And Sanders is adding a few more tricks in some pure movie sound track/choral/ orchestral/symphonic moments like “Revel in Their Suffering” (my second favorite track) the album’s most experimental track, the heaving , lurching “The Imperishable Stars Are Sickened” with its clean-ish/chanted vocals and menacing lumber of “We Are Cursed”.
After virtually saving American death metal in 1998, with Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka, (“Rameses , Bringer of War” is still my go to Nile song) it blows my mind that Sanders and Nile are still this good twenty years later, and its high time we started mentioning them in the same breath as Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse Morbid Angel and Obituary as true American Death metal legends.
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Commented by: Gabaghoul
Best since Shrines? That is high praise. And my favorite Nile album. The first two singles haven’t blown me away but I’m looking fwd to hearing the whole album – and to hear if Dallas’ absence will leave a big sarcophagus-shaped hole…
on Oct 28th, 2019 at 07:07
Wow is Nile paying royalties to Howard Shore? That is definitely a cue from LOTR in Seven Horns. One note changed. Not like they haven’t done homage before (Candlemass in the opening to Unas Slayer of the Gods)
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Boris Johnson has defended the Government's new tier system as he said the nation needed "simplicity and clarity" in how it rolled out a plan.
The Prime Minister said the tiers, which will be voted on in Parliament next week, could not be assigned by dividing "the country up into loads and loads of very complicated sub-divisions".
His comments come as Labour has refused to reveal whether it supports the new Covid tiers as a Tory rebellion builds.
Sir Keir Starmer will decide early next week if his party will support the Government's plans.
With up to 70 Tory MPs threatening to rebel over the new restrictions Labour's support will be crucial for Mr Johnson if he hopes the restrictions to pass on Tuesday.
From the Tory shires to "Red Wall" seats, a full-blown rebellion appears to be growing with many citing accusations of "unfairness" and "inconsistency".
Robert Jenrick, Communities Secretary, was defiant this morning saying he thinks the Government will "succeed" in getting support.
And on that note
It's been another busy day in Westminster and beyond.
As things stand a growing number of Tory MPs continue to feel disgruntled over the "illogical" tier system and Labour has yet to come out and state which way it will be voting.
The vote is next week on Tuesday and will be one to watch.
Coronavirus latest:
The Government said a further 521 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Friday, bringing the UK total to 57,551.
Separate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies for deaths where Covid-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate, together with additional data on deaths that have occurred in recent days, show there have now been 72,000 deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK.
The Government said that, as of 9am on Friday, there had been a further 16,022 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.
It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 1,589,301.
The Brexit Deal
James Crisp, our Brussels Correspondent, gives his thoughts on whether we should be getting excited that a Brexit deal is on the horizon...
For all the talk of significant differences between the two sides, and Michel Barnier’s gloomy assessment of the negotiations in a meeting with EU ambassadors in Brussels this morning, I am still confident a Brexit trade deal will be done.
It probably won’t be next week but, with more than 95 percent of the deal agreed, a deal could be announced before the crucial EU summit on December 10.
The talks have not been as smooth as hoped and there is no breakthrough on the three critical issues of fishing rights, level playing field guarantees and the deal’s enforcement.
But the friction is also likely to be a consequence of the two sides clashing heads as they finally get to grips with the detail of reconciling their different positions.
Despite the apparent lack of progress on the three major obstacles, the important fact is that the two sides are still talking.
Just as importantly, neither the UK or the EU want the economic damage of no deal on top of the coronavirus crisis on January 1 - no matter how much the PM insist the UK can prosper on WTO terms.
Afternoon read: Keir Starmer is walking a tightrope when it comes to Gov's lockdown measures
Tom Harris argues that Sir Keir "has taken great care to instil a degree of discipline in his front bench" at a time when the government "grapples with increasingly emboldened back benchers’ vocal opposition to lockdown measures".
However Harris says that by Sir Keir removing himself from the national debate over lockdown and the tier system, it begs the question whether "anyone authoritatively say what Labour’s position is and whether it supports ministers’ decisions in this area?"
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UK Gov allocates 1 m of lateral flow device kits to Scottish Government
The facility in St Andrews will open on Saturday and has capacity for approximately 1,500 students to be tested each day.
It will remain open until December 18.
Alastair Merrill, the vice-principal for governance at the University of St Andrews, said all students who are considering travelling are being asked to take two tests, three to five days apart.
Mr Merrill said Public Health Scotland has described the university's response to managing the risks of Covid-19 as "exemplary", with no evidence to date of any transmission among students in classrooms.
He explained no student residences have had to be shut down and no members of the university have become seriously ill due to coronavirus.
University of St Andrews to have mass coronavirus testing centre
A mass centre has been set up to allow students to be checked before returning home for Christmas.
It is part of a rollout of asymptomatic Covid-19 testing to students throughout Scotland before the festive break.
They are invited to take the free self-administered tests, which involve swabbing the back of the throat and inside the nose, overseen by the university's third-year medical students.
Results of the lateral flow tests are known within 30 minutes and students will receive an email or text within 24 hours telling them whether they have tested positive or negative for Covid-19.
If these come back positive, students will be asked by NHS Test and Protect to take a further type of test at the centre to confirm the result and should then self-isolate.
More from the unfolding situation in Wales
First Minister Mark Drakeford has insisted that Wales "benefited hugely" from its 17-day firebreak lockdown.
He said: "The advice we have is that the firebreak achieved everything that we had hoped for it, it probably achieved a little bit more in the extent to which it suppressed the virus.
"The problem is that in the post-firebreak period, as people have mixed it's come back faster and further than we had anticipated and that it why we are taking the additional actions that I've described today."
Mr Drakeford said he could not rule out another firebreak lockdown in Wales in the future.
"We benefited hugely from the firebreak period and all the efforts that were made, we now have to do a bit more to add to the repertoire of actions we are taking in the post-firebreak period," he said.
"The rapidity with which the pattern changes, the speed at which this virus can move means that it just isn't sensible to rule out any response that we may need to make later on and into next year."
Wales' First Minister says further restrictions for Wales
Mark Drakeford says further restrictions to limit spread of COVID-19 coronavirus will come into effect across Wales from next week.
This led to Paul Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservatives, calling for the Welsh Government to provide more detail on the impending further restrictions.
"This is going to be a real blow for countless hospitality businesses up and down the country, businesses that have suffered greatly over the last eight months," he said.
"We now need to know the details from the Welsh Government because this will create an even more anxious and worrying time for businesses struggling to keep afloat."
He called for targeted interventions, based on hyperlocal data, rather than a single approach across Wales.
AstraZeneca vaccine programme
Asked if Boris Johnson was concerned with reports that North Korea attempted to hack the AstraZeneca vaccine programme, the PM's spokesman said:
"As you know, I wouldn't comment on security matters. But working alongside our allies the NCSC is committed to protecting our most critical assets, the health sector including vaccine research and development against threats."
Questions loom over vaccine efficacy data
The PMs spokesman reiterated that the Oxford vaccine has shown "encouraging results".
He added that it resulted in no hospitalised or severe cases in anyone who received the vaccine.
He also set out clearly it's the role of the MHRA to look at the data in its entirety.
"I would point you back to what Patrick Vallance said in the press conference yesterday around the importance of looking at the data in its entirety," he said.
"That is the MHRA's role and we've been clear that we will only roll out a vaccine if it is deemed by the independent body to be safe and effective." Downing Street denies ministers had put pressure on those conducting the trial to "speed things up".
Mass testing to be prioritised in Tier 3
The PM's spokesman said local authorities that fall into tier three will be able to apply for support from NHS test and trace and the Armed Forces to deliver a six week rapid community testing programme.
He said: "You have the word from the Prime Minister in the press conference yesterday when he talked about the need for local leadership on this.
"We have been clear that we will make that support available and we will set out further details next week.
"It will be for local authorities to discuss it with us and apply. Engagement with local authorities in Tier 3 is already under way."
It comes after Ben Wallace said this week that 14,000 troops would be on standby to help with mass testing.
Mr Wallace said this figure had been refined because last time they were "crude" and had 20,000 personnel at the ready "but only used 4,000 a day".
A Government spokesman said:“ From next week, local authorities that fall into tier 3 will be able to apply for support from NHS Test and Trace and the Armed Forces to deliver a six-week rapid community testing programme."
Government has hope for a deal
Following on from Lord Frost's comments (see post at 12.14) a Brexit deal is "still possible".
The Prime Minister's spokesman said that a trade deal is "still possible".
"That continues to be the case and we will continue to negotiate over the weekend," he adds.
"We are keen and we are negotiating to reach a FTA as soon as possible. If one is agreed we are sure that Parliament will want to come together to ensure any negotiated outcome can be implemented on time."
'No plans' for Union Flag on vaccines, PM's spokesman insists
This morning it had been reported that Downing Street had attempted to get doses of the Oxford University vaccine labelled with Union Flags.
However, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: "There are no plans for the Union Jack to be on doses.
"We've said previously that manufacturing for some of the leading potential vaccines is already on the way. So they can be rolled out quickly if and when approved. "Manufacturers are well versed in the best ways to package products."
Boris Johnson urges to be 'careful' with elderly relatives
The PM's spokesman backs comments by Chris Whitty that suggested people should not hug elderly relatives in their Christmas bubble this year.
He said: "We've always said that we wanted to allow families to meet over Christmas but it remains important for people to be careful."
More information on tiers from Downing Street lobby briefing
It will be welcome news for some as the Prime Minister's spokesman suggests that areas could move down in tiers before Christmas.
He said it was the Government's "hope" that districts would be able to loosen restrictions as long as the five criteria for improvements are met.
The spokesman said: "We are introducing the new regionalize tearing approach precisely to continue to reduce the transmission of the virus.
"We've seen in Liverpool, an area which was previously in tier three, which is now in tier two given the excellent work that's gone on there and the public effort that's gone into driving down the transmission of the virus. Obviously we will continue to keep all the latest data under review."
He said the Government has been "clear" there will be a review of tiers on December 16. When asked about a potential Commons defeat he said he would not "get into" such a scenario.
Brexit deal 'still possible', Lord Frost insists
Away from coronavirus, Boris Johnson's Europe adviser has insisted a deal "is still possible" as face-to-face Brexit talks are about to resume in London.
He tweeted: "I look forward to welcoming @michelbarnier and his team to London and to resuming face-to-face talks tomorrow. We are glad all are safe and well.
"Some people are asking me why we are still talking. My answer is that it's my job to do my utmost to see if the conditions for a deal exist. It is late, but a deal is still possible, and I will continue to talk until it's clear that it isn't."
"But for a deal to be possible it must fully respect UK sovereignty. That is not just a word - it has practical consequences.
"That includes: controlling our borders; deciding ourselves on a robust and principled subsidy control system; and controlling our fishing waters.We look to reach an agreement on this basis, allowing the new beginning to our relationship with the EU which, for our part, we have always wanted. We will continue to work hard to get it - because an agreement on any other basis is not possible."
Tory MPs 'sure' Labour will consider supporting rebellion as party stays tight lipped
Tobias Ellwood, Chairman of the Defence Select Committee and former minister, said he was "sure they [Labour] will consider" supporting the Tory rebellion in next week's vote on the new tier system, as he said he would "probably abstain" himself.
He said he sees his opposition to it as a chance for a "conversation" with the Government rather than a "rebellion".
The MP for Bournemouth East, whose constituency will be in Tier 2 after the English national lockdown ends, called for clarity on the issue.
"We would really like to see criteria, to see the justification for this and also better understand what we need to do to get out of this tier," he said.
"I think that clarity of communication is so important at this time."
Boris Johnson defends Government's tiers
The Prime Minister has insisted the tiers are "essential to get coronavirus down", although acknowledged that many people felt aggrieved, particularly if they were in an area with low infection rates.
"I know it is frustrating for people when they are in a high-tier area when there is very little incidence in their village or their area. I totally understand why people feel frustrated.
"The difficulty is that if you did it any other way, first of all you'd divide the country up into loads and loads of very complicated sub-divisions - there has got to be some simplicity and clarity in the way we do this.
"The second problem is that, alas, our experience is that when a high-incidence area is quite close to a low-incidence area, unless you beat the problem in the high-incidence area, the low-incidence area I'm afraid starts to catch up."
Boris Johnson visits Porton Down on Friday Credit: ADRIAN DENNIS /AFP
SAGE official says moving between tiers won't come quickly
Professor John Edmunds, a member of Sage, warned there would be limited scope for easing controls so quickly.
"I think that is quite an early time to be able to see what the effect has been. I think we will still be seeing the effect of the lockdown at that point in time," he told the Today programme.
"I can't imagine there will be huge changes at that point, just simply because I don't think we will have accumulated much data by then."
He added it is important to keep rates down - even in areas of low infection - and that ministers have had to strengthen controls as the previous tiered restrictions had failed to curb the spread of the disease.
Tiers to stay until a vaccine arrives
Mr Jenrick has said the tiered restrictions in England are designed to see the country through until a vaccine becomes available.
The point of the tiered approach is, can we get tiers that are sufficiently robust to steer the country through the last few months before we manage to get the vaccine programme rolled out.
He said families will have to make their own decisions as to whether they hug elderly relatives over Christmas.
"It is very hard not to come together with your kids and grandparents and not want to have a loving family Christmas. That is a matter of a personal decision for individual families," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"I suspect some families will conclude they want to do things differently this year than they have in the past."
Relying on Labour 'would mark a dangerous erosion of authority'
Writing in today's Telegraph, Fraser Nelson warns that if Boris Johnson has to rely on Labour "for a flagship policy would mark a dangerous erosion of authority".
He quotes one Tory grandee saying to him: “A government that needs the Opposition to get its agenda through tends not to be a government for very long."
Communities Secretary says Government's aim is for 'de escalation' of tiers
Robert Jenrick said some areas in England could have their coronavirus restrictions eased before Christmas, as he said there was "every reason" to believe some places could see a change when the current tiers are reviewed on December 16.
"It is possible," he said.
"At that point we - advised by the experts - will look at each local authority area and see whether there is potential to move down the tiers."
Mr Jenrick said the places that are most likely to be in this changeable position are those that "were on the cusp of different tiers".
"We have also got to bear in mind that there will be an opening over the Christmas period which is likely to drive some higher rate of infection if some people choose to go and meet family and friends on Christmas Day and the days surrounding it," he told Sky News.
"Our overall approach is trying to insure the tiers hold the line and that places are in a process of de-escalation. What we don't want to do is ease up too quickly and then find that in January we are having to put tiers back in place again."
Labour call for further dialogue with Government
Justin Madders, shadow health minister, warned of the "significant implications for businesses " the new tiers set to be imposed and said this would be particularly troublesome for the hospitality sector.
He said: "We need further dialogue with the Government, particularly at this time of year where we know pubs do most of their business over the Christmas period. Are we confident we have given enough support to those in the hospitality sector?
"There's still more conversation to be had on that as well."
Boris Johnson wakes up to a fight on his hands as a growing number of Tory MPs are threatening to rebel next week over the new Covid tier restrictions.
It's thought that as many as 70 MPs are gearing up to vote against the restrictions and Labour has yet to make its position clear on whether they will support, or resist, the Government.
If the Tory rebellion goes ahead as suspected Labour's support will be crucial for the Government getting its legislation over the line.
Perhaps today Sir Keir Starmer will provide some clarity on his party's stance?
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DJ’s new web-series for ALTBalaji
By Dharini Sanghavi
MUMBAI: DJ’s - A Creative Unit, which is helmed by Tony and Deeya Singh, has produced many hit shows such as Parvarrish – Kuchh Khattee Kuchh Meethi, Left Right Left, Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin, and Chotti Bahu – Sindoor Bin Suhagan, is working on a new project.
According to our sources, they are currently concentrating on rolling out interesting concepts OTT platforms. There are already reports about them producing a web-series titled Mannphodganj for Applause Entertainment featuring Miss India 2015 semi-finalist Pranati Rai Prakash in the lead role.
We have now learned that the makers are gearing up to launch another web-series. It will stream on ALTBalaji.
We could not get through to the producers for their comments.
TellyChakkar will update readers on further development.
Tags DJ’s web-series ALTBalaji Tony Deeya Singh Parvarrish Kuchh Khattee Kuchh Meethi Left Right Left Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin and Chotti Bahu – Sindoor Bin Suhagan TellyChakkar
“I was scared to play a ghost in Ragini MMS Returns Season 2”, says Antara Banerjee
BARC RatingsWeek 14: Naagin 3, Kullfi, and Kumkum Bhagya bag top positions
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Case Timeline
David Nosal resigns from Korn/Ferry. [Read More]
FBI conducts raid on Nosal Partners offices and on the homes of five of approximately 15-20 individuals planning to join the company.
Korn/Ferry files civil suit and launches PR initiative claiming that David Nosal orchestrated the downloading of 32,000 records.
The Korn/Ferry allegations that were articulated through two Wall Street Journal articles by Joann Lublin were later proven to be false.
David Nosal’s civil suit is dismissed in court as allegations were proven to be false.
U.S. government indicts David Nosal on 20 counts:
Count 1 – Conspiracy to Misappropriate, Receive, Possess, and Transmit Trade Secrets, Gain Unauthorized Access to a Protected Computer, Exceed Authorized Access to a Protected Computer, and Traffic in a Password Allowing Unauthorized Access to a Protected Computer.
Counts 2 through 9 – Unauthorized Access to a Protected Computer with Intent to Defraud and Obtaining Something of Value.
Count 10 – Theft, Misappropriation, and Unauthorized Downloading of Trade Secrets.
Count 11 – Unauthorized Receipt and Possession of Stolen Trade Secrets.
Counts 12 through 18 – Mail Fraud.
Counts 19 and 20 – Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud.
Nine counts (counts 12-20) are dismissed by San Francisco Federal Court as not being supported by law.
Five additional counts (counts 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7) are dismissed by San Francisco Federal Court as not being supported by law.
Federal lawyers appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
9th Circuit Court of Appeals rehears case en banc and affirms the dismissal of five counts by San Francisco Federal judge.
With 14 of 20 counts thrown out, the last 6 counts go to trial.
David Nosal is convicted by jury on the final 6 counts (Counts 1, 3, 8, 9, 10 and 11):
three counts of violations of the CFAA (Based on actions taken by others, not Nosal).
two counts of trade secret violations (Based on actions taken by others, not Nosal).
one count of conspiracy.
David Nosal is sentenced.
A divided 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denies petition by David Nosal to rehear case.
A divided 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirms conviction on six counts, but significantly reduces the amount of restitution.
Spencer Stuart files civil suit against Korn/Ferry for trade secret violations when Korn/Ferry hired Francois Truc and Edouard Paquet away from Spencer Stuart. They alleged that Korn/Ferry asked Messrs. Truc and Paquet to steal (download and erase) a substantial amount of proprietary information before leaving Spencer Stuart in an attempt to dismantle Spencer Stuart’s global automotive practice. [Read the case here]
Korn/Ferry settle lawsuit in civil court subject to a non-disclosure agreement with no criminal charges filed against Messrs. Truc or Paquet, or Korn/Ferry. Court records are quickly buried and the terms of the settlement are sealed. [Read More]
Supreme Court declines to hear David Nosal’s case.
David Nosal files a Writ of Coram Nobis to allow the court to correct unfairness of David Nosal’s sentence, a request for Brady material and petition for an evidentiary hearing, as well as a Motion for Post-Remand Restitution Reduction. [Read More]
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Murray State University partners with area organizations to present Women in Economic Development Conference Series
Series, established in part by Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business, kicks off Oct 15. with presentation by Regent Virginia Gray
MURRAY, Ky. — The Murray State University Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business, alongside the Lake Barkley Partnership, Greater Paducah Economic Development and Madisonville-Hopkins County Economic Development Corporation, present the inaugural Women in Economic Development Conference Series this October and November.
The virtual series is designed to facilitate networking, professional development and collaboration among women in Kentucky’s economic development world. Each event will connect participants with their peers and provide information about available resources through presentations and group discussions.
Murray State University Regent Virginia Gray will kick off the series Oct. 15 at 9 a.m. Series topics will include working with elected officials to navigate challenging projects, economic development resources, changing trends in the industry and how to prepare for them, different strategies of economic development, resources for economic development and future plans and events for the group.
“This event will draw together women from across the region and the state and in doing so will provide an opportunity to establish contacts and relationships for support and growth,” said Chris Wooldridge, Director of the Murray State Center for Economic and Entrepreneurial Development housed in the Bauernfeind College of Business. “We are so very excited to be a partner in supporting economic development in the region and more so in supporting professional women advancing this field.”
"There are so many women in the field of economic development; we just need a space to connect and share our energy and enthusiasm for our profession,” said Lake Barkley Partnership Executive Director Amanda Davenport. “I am very excited for this conference to bring together such a great group of professionals to share our perspectives, ideas and strategies on economic development in our communities.”
A full schedule is below. Each event is free and open to the public; learn more and register today at bit.ly/EconDevSeries.
Oct. 15 — Working with Utility Partners presented by Virginia Gray, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Sharla Wells, Kenergy
Oct. 22 — Roundtable Sessions
Oct. 29 — Presentation from Kristina Slattery, Cabinet for Economic Development
Nov. 5 — Presentation from Emily Jones, Tennessee Valley Authority
Sharing stories, news, and business updates updates from the Lake Barkley Region of Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, and Lyon Counties.
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What does Internet Governance have to do with open data?
[Summary: What do Internet Governance and Open Data have to do with each other?]
As a proposal I worked on for a workshop at this years Internet Governance Forum on the Internet Governance issues of Open Government Data has been accepted, I’ve been starting to think through the different issues that the background paper for that session will need to cover. This week I took advantage of a chance to guest blog over on the Commonwealth IGF website to start setting them out.
It started with high profile Open Government Data portals like Data.gov in the US, and Data.gov.uk in the UK giving citizens access to hundreds of government datasets. Now, open data has become a key area of focus for many countries across the world, forming a core element of the Open Government Partnership agenda, and sparking a plethora ofInternational conferences, events and online communities. Proponents of open data argue it has the potential to stimulate economic growth, promote transparency and accountability of governments, and to support improved delivery of public services. This year’s Internet Governance Forum in Baku will see a number of open data focussed workshops, following on from open data and PSI panels in previous years. But when it comes to Open Data and Internet Governance, what are the issues we might need to explore? This post is a first attempt to sketch out some of the possible areas of debate.
In 2009 David Eaves put forward ‘three laws of open government data‘ that describe what it takes for a dataset to be considered effectively open. They boil down to requirements that data should be accessible online, machine readable, and under licenses that permit re-use. Explore these three facets of open data offers one route into potential internet governance issues that need to be critically discussed if the potential benefits of open data are to be secured in equitable ways.
1) Open Data as data accessible online
Online accessibility does not equate to effective access, and we should be attentive to new data divides. We also need to address bandwidth for open data, the design of open data platforms, cross-border cloud hosting of open data, and to connect open data and internet freedom issues. Furthermore, the online accessibility of public data may create or compound privacy and security issues that need addressing.
Underlying the democratic arguments for open data is the idea that citizens should have access to any data that affects their lives, to be able to use and analyse it for themselves, to critique official interpretations, and to offer policy alternatives. Economic growth arguments for open data often note the importance of a reliable, timely supply of data on which innovative products and services can be built. But being able to use data for democratic engagement, to support economic activity, is not just a matter of having the data – it also requires the skills to use it. Michael Gurstein has highlighted the risk that open data might ‘empower the empowered’ creating a new ‘data divide’. Addressing grassroots skills to use data, ensuring countries have capacity to exploit their own national open data, and identifying the sorts of intermediary institutions and capacity building to ensure citizens can make effective use of open data is a key challenge.
There are also technical dimensions of the data divide. Many open data infrastructures have developed in environment of virtually unlimited bandwidth, and are based on the assumption that transferring large data files is not problematic: an assumption that cannot be made everywhere in the world. Digital interfaces for working with data often rely on full size computers, and large datasets can be difficult to work with on mobile platforms. As past IGF cloud computing discussions have highlighted, where data is hosted may also matter. Placing public data, albeit openly licensed so sidestepping some of the legal issues, into cloud hosting, could have impacts on the accessibility, and the costs of a access, to that data. How far this becomes an issue may depend on the scale of open data programmes, which as yet can only constitute a very small proportion of Internet traffic in any country. However, when data that matters to citizens is hosted in a range of different jurisdictions, Internet Freedom and filtering issues may have a bearing on who really has access to open data. As Walid Al-Saqaf’s power presentation at the Open Government Partnership highlighted, openness in public debate can be dramatically restricted when governments have arbitrary Internet filtering powers.
Last, but not least, in the data accessibility issues, whilst most advocates of open data explicitly state that they are concerned only with public data, and exclude personal datafrom the discussion, the boundaries between these two categories are often blurred (for example, court records are about individuals, but might also be a matter of public record), and with many independently published open datasets based on aggregated or anonymised personal data, plus with large-scale datasets harvested from social media and held by companies, ‘jigsaw identification’, in which machines can infer lots of potentially sensitive and personal facts about individuals becomes a concern. As Cole outlines, in the past we have dealt with some of these concerns by ad-hoc limitations and negotiated access to data. Unrestricted access to open data online removes these strategies, and highlights the importance of finding other solutions that protect keydimensions of individual privacy.
2) Open data as machine readable
Publishing datasets involves selecting formats and standards which impact on what the data can express and how it can be used. Often standard setting can have profound political consequences, yet it can be treated as a purely technical issue.
Standards are developing for everything from public transport timetables (GTFS), to data on aid projects (IATI). These standards specify the format data should be shared in, and what the data can express. If open data publishers want to take advantage of particular tools and services, they may be encouraged to chose particular data standards. In some areas, no standards exist, and competing open and non-open standards are developing. Sometimes, because of legacy systems, datasets are tied into non-open standards, creating a pressure to develop new open alternatives.
Some data formats offer more flexibility than others, but usually with connected increase in complexity. The common CSV format of flat data, accessing in spreadsheet software, does not make it easy to annotate or extend standardised data to cope with local contexts. eXtensible Markup Language makes extending data easier, and Linked Data offers the possibility of annotating data, but these formats often present barriers for users without specialist skills or training. As a whole web of new standards, code lists and identifiers are developed to represent growing quantities of open data, we need to askwho is involved in setting standards and how can we make sure that global standards for open data promote, rather than restrict, the freedom of local groups to explore and address the diverse issues that concern them.
3) Open data as licensed for re-use
Many uses case for open data rely on the ability to combine datasets, and this makesc ompatible licenses a vital issue. In developing license frameworks, we should engage with debates over who benefits from open data and how norms and licenses can support community claims to benefit from their data.
Open Source and Creative Commons licenses often include terms such as a requirement to ‘Share Alike’, or a Non-Commercial clause prohibiting profit making use of the content. These place restrictions on re-users of the content: for example, if you use Share Alike licensed content to in your work, you must share your work under the same license. However, open data advocates argue that terms like this quickly create challenges for combining different datasets, as differently licensed data may be incompatible, and many of the benefits of having access to the data will be lost when it can’t be mashed up and remixed using both commercial and non-commercial tools. The widely cited OpenDefinition.org states that at most, licenses can require attribution of the source, but cannot place any other restrictions on data re-use. Developing a common framework for licensing has been a significant concern in many past governance discussions of open data.
These discussions of common licenses have connections to past Access to Knowledge (A2K) debates where the rights of communities to govern access to traditional knowledges, or to gain a return from use of traditional knowledge have taken place. An open licensing framework creates the possibility that, without a level playing field of access to resources to use data (i.e. data divides), some powerful actors might exploit open data to their advantage, and to the loss of those who have stewarded that data in the past. Identifying community norms, and other responses to addresses these issues is an area for discussion.
Further issues?
I’ve tried to set out some of the areas where debates on open data might connect with existing or emerging internet governance debates. In the workshop I’m planning for this years IGF I am hoping we will be able to dig into these issues in more depth to identify how far they are issues for the IGF, or for other fora, and to develop ideas on different constructive approaches to support equitable outcomes from open data. I’m sure the issues above don’t cover all those we might address, so do drop in a comment below to share your suggestions for other areas we need to discuss…
Michael Gurstein’s First Monday paper on Open Data explores who might benefit from open data. The theme is picked up in a number of articles in the Open Government Dataspecial issue of the Journal of Community Informatics
Christophe Gueret’s paper at the recent W3C Using Open Data Workshop argued that we need to look at ways to decentralise open data – creating infrastructures that do not rely on a constant Internet connection or keyboard and screen, but that link open data up with voice interfaces, local radio, and peer-to-peer infrastructures on low cost hardware like the XO laptops.
Kieron O’Hara’s review for the UK Government on the potential privacy impacts of open data explores key elements of the debate and highlights that this is an area in need of much more research.
The Critical Development Perspectives on Open Data research project will be looking at a number of these issues in the coming months, and has published a draft research outline for consultation at http://www.opendataresearch.net
(Other suggested references welcome too…)
Addition: over on the CIGF post Andrew has already suggested an extra reference to Tom Slee’s thought provoking blog post on ‘Seeing like a geek’ that emphasises the importance of putting licensing issues very much on the table in governance debates.
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Tim Davies says:
Tariq Kokhar’s questioned at the International Open Government Data Conference whether we also need global policy frameworks to make sure data is compatible. Giving the comparison of organising a global virtual conference on WebEx but where not everyone speaking could be recorded because national laws prohibit it. What ‘global policy requirements’ are there for being able to integrate data globally.
Is this an IG issue? Or how does this attach with IG issues.
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World of Warcraft: Play for Free
Shadowlands is nearly here, and you and your allies are needed back on the front lines. This weekend, we're giv
Players with inactive accounts will be able to play for free from November 5th to November 8th.
Shadowlands is nearly here, and you and your allies are needed back on the front lines. This weekend, we're giving all players with inactive World of Warcraft accounts full access to the game* and all of your characters without a subscription. You’ll be able to access all expansions including Battle for Azeroth, so you can play the most recent content and be ready for Shadowlands when it launches on November 23, 2020 at 3 p.m. PST. Rejoin your guild, rally your comrades, and prepare to brave the beyond.
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Conducting baseline survey to evolve methodology for fixation of Minimum Support Price for selected Minor Forest Produce
06 Oct 2015 30 Jun 2016
Dr Yogesh Gokhale
The forest dwelling communities in India have been legally endowed with ownership and governance of minor forest produce (MFP) through two seminal legislations of Government of India, namely PESA, 1996 and Forest Rights Act, 2006, which gives the “right of ownership, access to collect, use and dispose of minor forest produce which has been traditionally collected within or outside village boundaries”. Minor Forest Produce forms the largest unorganized sector, often leading to unsustainable harvesting of these forest products. Despite this, the communities remain largely deprived and impoverished.
TERI's research against this background has helped to set up a methodology to determine the Minimum Support Price of 12 identified products, such as tamarind, honey, mahua seeds and tendu leaves, which will enhance the income of produce collectors. Owing to the large domestic and international demand for MFPs, there is tremendous potential to create large-scale employment opportunities for rural people, especially women, and help reduce poverty and empower communities. Addressing key aspects in the MFP value chain - some of these are listed below - would help create employment opportunities for the communities:
Value addition of the MFP collected
Setting up procurement units at haat bazaars in the villages
Policy Brief_Sustainable Harvest of Minor Forest Produce (MFP)_10-02-2018.pdf270.51 KB
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More GCSE students record progress
The government says progress measures were 'impacted by the alternative processes to award grades in 2020'
Tes Reporter
Most students did not make positive progress in English and maths at GCSE or equivalent – despite the proportion who did growing significantly this year following the cancellation of exams.
Since August 2014, students on 16 to 19 study programmes of 150 hours or more who do not hold at least a GCSE grade 4 (or equivalent) in English and/or maths are required to study these subjects.
Statistics published today show 45.2 per cent of students made positive progress in English in 2019-20 – meaning over half did not. That compared with 37.7 per cent in 2018-19 and 37.3 per cent the year before that.
In maths, 44.6 per cent made positive progress in 2019-20 – 8 percentage points higher than in 2018-19 (36.5 per cent) and 6 percentage points higher than the same measure in 2017-18. Around 150,445 students were in the scope of this measure this year – a slightly lower number than in 2018-19.
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Student progress is calculated by the Department for Education by subtracting the points associated with their best grade during 16 to 18 from their points at the end of key stage 4.
How the coronavirus affected GCSE resits
The DfE said the maths and English qualifications reported in the progress measures (for example GCSEs and functional skills) were “impacted by the alternative processes to award grades in 2020”. Exams were cancelled this summer, due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and students were instead awarded centre-assessed grades (CAGs).
“As such, the historically large increases in progress, and the jump in the proportion of students making positive progress cannot be interpreted as a change in underlying performance,” said the DfE.
Earlier this month, colleges saw thousands of students sitting GCSE exams in English and maths – with many institutions seeing cohorts oh hundreds of learners.
While the overall number of candidates was expected to be similar to the November resits in previous years, some colleges were reporting a significant increase in entries, and others were seeing a drop.
GCSE resits in maths and English up by over 50 per cent
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GCSE resits: November exams 'pose public health risk'
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL | Simmons, Young lead defenses in Clemson-Ohio State clash
By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer
CLEMSON, S.C. — There is little doubt the nation’s best defensive player will take the field at the Fiesta Bowl when No 2 Ohio State faces No. 3 Clemson for a trip to the national championship game.
The only debate for some is which sideline he’s on.
Buckeyes defensive end Chase Young and Clemson linebacker Isaiah Simmons have won plenty of awards and shown the skills that will make them high NFL draft choices, perhaps as soon as this spring. The two juniors are key cogs for the nation’s top two overall defenses, with Clemson leading the way.
Young led Ohio State (13-0, No. 2 CFP) and the nation with 16.5 sacks this season on the way to winning the Hendricks and Bednarik awards. The 6-5, 265-pounder from Maryland was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy.
Young had four sacks in Ohio State’s first of two wins over Wisconsin, then had three in a critical victory against Penn State after missing the previous two games due to suspension.
Young has done all this despite opponents using extra bodies to get in his way.
""Teams put a lot more focus on chipping Chase, putting a guard on Chase, doubling Chase," said Buckeyes freshman defensive end Zach Harrison.
It hasn’t really work as Young had 21 tackles for loss and six forced fumbles despite missing those two November games.
"When a play has to be made, we make it, get off the field for the offense," Young said. "I think that’s the best thing we can do."
Clemson’s Simmons has a similar style for the Tigers (13-0, No. 3 CFP), although no offense is ever sure if he will line up in the secondary or closer to the line of scrimmage.
"What he brings to the table is unmatched," Tigers safety K’Von Wallace said. "I feel like he’s changing the style of sports today."
Simmons, the 6-foot-4, 230-pounder from Kansas, describes himself as a Swiss Army knife, able to fit and excel wherever Tigers defensive coordinator Brent Venables needs him.
He leads Clemson with 93 tackles, but his versatility and coverage skills show up elsewhere on the stat sheet: He also tops the team with seven sacks and seven passes broken up this season.
His play won him the Butkus award along with the Atlantic Coast Conference defensive player of the year.
Venables said Simmons was a skinny prospect who never stopped moving and developed himself through hard work and studying the game.
"I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 100 times, he plays so hard," Venables said. "His endurance is like nothing I’ve ever been around. That’s his best attribute."
He has a knack, Venables added, for knowing the right gap to go through when he’s called on to rush the passer. And he is lightning fast.
Simmons got his first taste of starting last season in the Tigers’ undefeated run to the national title.
With the front four of last year’s defense off to the NFL, Simmons was called to take a larger leadership role this year. He considered the NFL last winter before deciding he had more to learn before leaving Clemson.
Simmons and Young are found in many mock drafts for the upcoming NFL draft. First, though, the Dec. 28 showdown in the playoff semifinals.
Simmons said he does not see the game as his chance to prove he’s every bit the star as Young, just the next opportunity for the Tigers to keep their landmark run going.
Young "is a great player, a very dominant player who affects the game," Simmons said. "But I just go out there and play my game. I don’t really worry about things like that."
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Movie Review: Mirror Mirror (2012)
A fantasy drama comedy aimed at a family audience, Mirror Mirror enjoys a unique, over-the-top fairy tale aesthetic and an enchanting Julia Roberts performance.
Snow White (Lily Collins) is the beautiful daughter of the kindly King (Sean Bean), a popular and benevolent leader. Unfortunately he disappears while riding through the forest, and his devious wife Queen Clementianna (Julia Roberts), who is also the narrator, takes over as ruler of the land. A vain woman obsessed with her beauty, Clementianna confines Snow White to one room and a darkness descends onto the land.
Prince Andrew Alcott (Armie Hammer) of Valencia tangles with the seven dwarves while riding through the forest and is rescued by Snow White, who is on an unsanctioned trip outside the palace. Clementianna sets her eyes on the handsome prince as marriage material, and arranges for her assistant Brighton (Nathan Lane) to kill Snow White. But Brighton does not have the heart to do so, Snow White takes refuge with the dwarves, and starts to plot her return to power.
Directed by Tarsem Singh, Mirror Mirror is an irreverent take on the Brothers Grimm Snow White story. Tangentially side-swiping the legend from the perspective of the evil Queen, here the dwarves are dirtier and edgier, they fight on stilts and teach Snow White battle tactics, and a power-hungry and lustful love triangle features mother-in-law and daughter.
While the plot does tilt more towards adult themes than children's fare, Singh entertains younger eyes with outlandish sets and ridiculous costumes. Despite a limited number of locations and what appears to be a confined and theatrical milieu, Mirror Mirror pops with colour, oversized hats, and inventive set design. The basics of the story may be well known, but the presentation is highly imaginative.
As the eyes absorb all the fantastical aesthetics, Roberts entertains the ear with snarky narration. Her take on the Queen is unapologetically manipulative, a satirical extrapolation of a culture obsessed with looks, fame, power and little else. By design, this is mostly the Queen's story, but Snow White is provided with some feminist steel in the second half of the film, choosing a warrior's costume, standing up to her rights, and going toe to toe in forest fights as she battles to win back her land and claim her man. Lily Collins does well in the role, infusing it with quiet confidence.
Mirror Mirror is a reimagining of a popular fairy tale; all the elements are familiar, but the warped reflection is reasonably enjoyable in its weirdness.
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Labels: Arnie Hammer, Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, Sean Bean
Miss Waiching Liu 81 15 August 2017 at 07:28
Julia Roberts was mildly amusing in this film, but mirror mirror didn't shake things up for me. & I'd take her as Tinkerbell in Hook over Queen Clementianna, any day.
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Michel Barnier: Theresa May never threatened no-deal Brexit at EU talks
Theresa May and her ministers “never” threatened during negotiations with the European Union to take the UK out without a deal, Michel Barnier has claimed.
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, who insisted the Withdrawal Agreement was the only way to leave in an “orderly manner”, said the UK would have to “face the consequences” if it crashed out.
In an interview with the BBC’s Panorama – recorded in May, before the start of the Conservative leadership contest – Mr Barnier was asked if the Prime Minister or her negotiators ever mentioned or threatened a no-deal exit.
.@MichelBarnier told @bbcnickrobinson for #BBCPanorama that the thrice-rejected agreement negotiated by @theresa_may was the “only way to leave the EU in an orderly manner”. Watch Britain’s #Brexit Crisis tonight, 9pm, @bbcone pic.twitter.com/EuuPBwgbU2
— Panorama 🌐 (@BBCPanorama) July 18, 2019
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He replied: “No, no, I never listened to such a sentence. Never.”
The European Commission’s top official, Martin Selmayr, told the same programme the UK was unprepared to leave without a deal.
“We have followed the British debate and the British preparations very, very closely and we have seen what has been prepared on our side of the border for a hard Brexit – we don’t see the same level of preparation on the other side of the border.
“You would have to establish a lot of authorities in the United Kingdom that you don’t have at this moment in time so I think the European Union have been very well-prepared for that – we could live with a hard Brexit.
“We don’t think the same level of preparation is there on the UK side.”
David Lidington, the de facto deputy prime minister, also told the programme that the EU offered to put Brexit on hold in 2018 for five years and proposed a “new deal for Europe”.
He said: “Martin (Selmayr) sort of said ‘Look, why don’t we have a deal whereby we just put all this on ice for five years? … Let’s see how things go, let’s get the UK involved with France and Germany, let’s see how the dust settles and let’s talk about whether we can come to a new deal for Europe’.”
Panorama fake news by omission to save the teresa may;s tory party-if this had been known back then May would have had to call an election, no brexit party would have emerged (the conspiracy theorist in me thinks this was the tory plan all along, form brexit party, play for time with disgruntled electorate, May resigns Boris comes in and with an alliance with the Brexit party, finally defeats the left in a GE ,like thatcher did) and if May had face corbyn in an election, she would have been annihalated. Could kind of see Brexit party as an instrument to kill UKIP and labour while saving the conservative party
The Canary , 19th December 2020
This Brexit front page from the Mail on Sunday sums up the abhorrent UK government
Steve Topple , 13th December 2020
Drug lord ‘El Chapo’ sentenced to life in US prison
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The Office Cast Reunites for Superfans’ Zoom Wedding on SGN
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With the sequel to his blockbuster The Quiet Place delayed until fall, John Krasinski has had some extra time on his hands. The COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine have us all doing our best to fill our days and be productive, and Krasinski has been using his time to help people feel better.
The erstwhile Jim Halpert’s Some Good News YouTube page makes headlines every week as the former Office star enlists his wife, his friends, former castmates, Grammy sensations, and Red Sox players to help his spread some joy during these dark times.
For Krasinski’s latest episode, he called on his former Office-mates to help make a newly married couple’s quarantined wedding day a little more special.
John and Susan are bigtime wedding fans who’d recreated Jim and Pam’s gas station engagement, and so Jim himself decided he’d join the fun, getting ordained so he could officially marry the pair, and bringing some of his old friends along to share in the excitement.
Krasinski invited nearly the entire cast of The Office to dance along with the wedding couple, recreating the hilarious wedding scene from Season 5 of The Office, wherein Jim and Pam tied the knot amid a collection of their colleagues. Joining their old friend, and the bride and groom’s family, were cast members Steve Carell, Mindy Kaling, Rainn Wilson, Ed Helms, Ellie Kemper, BJ Novak, Brian Baumgartner, Angela Kinsey, Creed Bratton, Kate Flannery, Oscar Martinez, and Phyllis Smith. Jenna Fischer even served as Maid of Honor!
SGN even snagged country star Zac Brown to perform the wedding song.
Check out the hilarious virtual dancing below:
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D-Link Shipping 4 New Wireless AC Routers
By Kevin Parrish 16 May 2013
D-Link has introduced four new Wireless AC routers to fit every budget.
D-Link on Tuesday announced the launch of four Wireless AC routers to address everyone from the hardcore data hog to the casual Facebook lurker. Prices start at $79.99 USD, and speeds range from a maximum of 433 Mbps via the 802.11ac standard to the full-blown 1300 Mbps. All four silo-shaped routers will be available at local retailers soon.
First up is the Wireless AC1750 Dual Band Gigabit Cloud Router, which costs $169.99 USD and serves up Wireless N speeds at up to 450 Mbps and Wireless AC speeds at up to 1300 Mbps. This is the group's top-of-the-line model, providing premium wireless networking speeds at a premium price. Next is the Wireless AC1200 Dual Band Gigabit Cloud Router, which costs $149.99 USD and provides Wireless N speeds at up to 300 Mbps and Wireless AC speeds at up to 867 Mbps. These two routers also feature four Gigabit Ethernet ports on the back.
The next two routers are more mainstream, offering the benefits of Wireless AC technology for a more reasonable price. The AC1000 Dual Band Cloud Router offers Wireless N speeds at up to 300 Mbps and Wireless AC speeds at up to 650 Mbps, and costs $119.99. The Wireless AC750 Dual Band Cloud Router provides Wireless N speeds at up to 300 Mbps and Wireless AC speeds at up to 433 Mbps, and costs a mere $79.99. These two routers also feature four "Fast" Ethernet ports (non-Gigabit) on the back.
Granted, all four routers are dual-band and these reported maximum speeds are likely on the 5 GHz channel, as Wireless N on the 2.4 GHz channel only has a max speed of 300 Mbps. To achieve the highest Wireless AC rates, customers will need a dual-band Wireless AC dongle, network card, or a mobile device with built-in dual-band Wireless AC connectivity. All four models are backwards compatible, and all speeds listed here are "theoretical" and don't guarantee actual networking results.
D-Link said that the new routers offer easy remote network management thanks to the free mydlink Lite app for iOS and Android. This app allows users to see what websites are being visited, block unwanted connections, and set up automatic email alters when unauthorized connections are made. Other features include a built-in USB port that works with the company's free SharePort mobile app for streaming and sharing files, and easy router setup via a mobile device using the free Quick Router Setup (QRS) app.
"Today’s average home now has more than 15 devices, oftentimes with multiple iPads, iPhones, as well as Android phones and tablets, and consumers are looking for the best in wireless connectivity to help deliver uninterrupted HD video streaming, online gaming and multiple user capabilities," said Daniel Kelley, vice president of marketing, D-Link Systems, Inc.
"With the introduction of the new 11AC Router line, D-Link provides next-generation wireless speeds to meet the needs of the digital home coupled with advanced remote management and sharing capabilities to better suit mobile lifestyles."
The new line of AC routers will be available throughout D-Link’s vast network of retail and e-tail outlets in the United States. Here are the links to the individual product pages:
Wireless AC1750 Router (DIR-868L) -- $169.99
Wireless AC750 Router (DIR-810L) -- $79.99
unknown9122 16 May 2013 20:21
Wow that a nice change. They actually look really cool.
Onus 16 May 2013 20:51
The "silo" design is prone to tipping, especially when multiple cables are plugged into it. It has some kind of proprietary mount on it, but nothing in the documentation (or even a template) about it.
The dual-band "N" (not AC) model I tested was loaded with features though, including all kinds of access control, Radius authentication, Guest networking, etc. It also has a USB port, although it's 2.0 and not as straightforward to set up and then use as other devices I've used.
TeraMedia 16 May 2013 21:14
Given the results of the first AC performance tests that THG did a while ago, I'd like to see how these compare, rather than just see them info-tized.
soundping 17 May 2013 01:47
Curious to see how heat is displaced. The design isn't wall hanging friendly.
The mounting slots for some kind of bracket are on the underside. It would stick straight out from the wall.
smokeybravo 17 May 2013 02:21
This is silly marketing. No one has a connection speed of 400mbps let alone 1300mbps. This isn't going to let you download or browse faster than your 65mbps router. The only time it will get you speed like that is if you're running a LAN with several computers and need to do some hefty file transfers or playing a LAN game.
bit_user 17 May 2013 07:54
I'm very interested in power dissipation specs, as wireless routers (especially bleeding edge ones) tend to run hot. This causes two issues for me - heat (during summer) and electricity cost (since I leave it on 24/7).
> smokeybravo
It's not just about broadband - I copy files over my WLAN all the time. Often big ones, like video and music.
Someone Somewhere 17 May 2013 11:35
What exactly is the point of having 100Mb/s speeds without Gigabit ethernet?
Given most of the WiFi traffic over my WiFi router goes to the NAS, why the hell would you ever use "Fast ethernet"?
Plus, as I would guess that the WAN port is also 100Mb/s only, a fast fibre connection would be handicapped.
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Nilgiri’s Rare ‘Pale’ Tiger Photographed: Neither an Albino nor a White Tiger
Last Updated: June 22, 2018 Tour My India
The picture of a rare ‘pale’ tiger is creating a buzz amidst wildlife conservationists and enthusiasts. Photographer Nilanjan Ray happened to get lucky with spotting of what they are considering a ‘rare’ tiger in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Ray was on a wildlife safari at an undisclosed location in the reserve along with a forest guide when they spotted a tiger with quite a pale coat that had golden brown patches. The sub-adult tiger, whose unusual colour is being determined as the case of ‘color morphism,’ scampered up the hill on noticing the presence of a vehicle. However, Photographer, Nilanjan Ray was able to take some clear pictures of the tiger, which he shared with forest officials, Zoologist, Parvesh Pandya and Conservationist and Film-Maker, Belinda Wright.
As per Zoologist, Parvesh Pandya, the tiger is unusual, but not a new find. According to him the unique coat of the tiger could be due to recombination of genes. It is a possibility that the parents of the tiger’s carried genes that control pigmentation and concentration of melanin in the body. On the other hand, conservationist, film-maker and founder of Wildlife Protection Society of India, Belinda Wright confirms that the photographed tiger is certainly not an albino. She also recollected sighting of a similar tiger in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in 1980’s, however, this one according to her is much paler.
The forest authority after being informed has assured to install camera traps and close monitoring of the movement of the tiger. They even confirmed the location the tiger, however, is likely to keep it undisclosed to keep the poachers and crowd of tourists away.
Photo Credit: Nilanjan Ray
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Published: 06 Jul, 2017
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"Yes," said the dealer, "our windfalls are of various kinds. Some customers are ignorant, and then I touch a dividend on my superior knowledge. Some are dishonest," and here he held up the candle, so that the light fell strongly on his visitor, "and in that case," he continued, "I profit by my virtue." Markheim had but just entered from the daylight streets, and his eyes had not yet grown familiar with the mingled shine and darkness in the shop. At these pointed words, and before the near presence of the flame, he blinked painfully and looked aside. The dealer chuckled. "You come to me on Christmas Day," he resumed, "when you know that I am alone in my house, put up my shutters, and make a point of refusing business. Well, you will have to pay for that; you will have to pay for my loss of time, when I should be balancing my books; you will have to pay, besides, for a kind of manner that I remark in you to-day very strongly. I am the essence of discretion, and ask no awkward questions; but when a customer cannot look me in the eye, he has to pay for it." The dealer once more chuckled; and then, changing to his usual business voice, though still with a note of irony, "You can give, as usual, a clear account of how you came into the possession of the object?" he continued. "Still your uncle's cabinet? A remarkable collector, sir!" And the little pale, round-shouldered dealer stood almost on tip-toe, looking over the top of his gold spectacles, and nodding his head with every mark of disbelief. Markheim returned his gaze with one of infinite pity, and a touch of horror. "This time," said he, "you are in error. I have not come to sell, but to buy. I have no curios to dispose of; my uncle's cabinet is bare to the wainscot; even were it still intact, I have done well on the Stock Exchange, and should more likely add to it than otherwise, and my errand to-day is simplicity itself. I seek a Christmas present for a lady," he continued, waxing more fluent as he struck into the speech he had prepared; "and certainly I owe you every excuse for thus disturbing you upon so small a matter. But the thing was neglected yesterday; I must produce my little compliment at dinner; and, as you very well know, a rich marriage is not a thing to be neglected."
There followed a pause, during which the dealer seemed to weigh this statement incredulously. The ticking of many clocks among the curious lumber of the shop, and the faint rushing of the cabs in a near thoroughfare, filled up the interval of silence. "Well, sir," said the dealer, "be it so. You are an old customer after all; and if, as you say, you have the chance of a good marriage, far be it from me to be an obstacle. Here is a nice thing for a lady now," he went on, "this hand glass - fifteenth century, warranted; comes from a good collection, too; but I reserve the name, in the interests of my customer, who was just like yourself, my dear sir, the nephew and sole heir of a remarkable collector." The dealer, while he thus ran on in his dry and biting voice, had stooped to take the object from its place; and, as he had done so, a shock had passed through Markheim, a start both of hand and foot, a sudden leap of many tumultuous passions to the face. It passed as swiftly as it came, and left no trace beyond a certain trembling of the hand that now received the glass. "A glass," he said hoarsely, and then paused, and repeated it more clearly. "A glass? For Christmas? Surely not?" "And why not?" cried the dealer. "Why not a glass?" Markheim was looking upon him with an indefinable expression. "You ask me why not?" he said. "Why, look here - look in it - look at yourself! Do you like to see it? No! nor - nor any man." The little man had jumped back when Markheim had so suddenly confronted him with the mirror; but now, perceiving there was nothing worse on hand, he chuckled. "Your future lady, sir, must be pretty hard favoured," said he. "I ask you," said Markheim, "for a Christmas present, and you give me this - this damned reminder of years, and sins and follies - this hand-conscience! Did you mean it? Had you a thought in your mind? Tell me. It will be better for you if you do. Come, tell me about yourself. I hazard a guess now, that you are in secret a very charitable man?" The dealer looked closely at his companion. It was very odd, Markheim did not appear to be laughing; there was something in his face like an eager sparkle of hope, but nothing of mirth.
"What are you driving at?" the dealer asked. "Not charitable?" returned the other gloomily. "Not charitable; not pious; not scrupulous; unloving, unbeloved; a hand to get money, a safe to keep it. Is that all? Dear God, man, is that all?" "I will tell you what it is," began the dealer, with some sharpness, and then broke off again into a chuckle. "But I see this is a love match of yours, and you have been drinking the lady's health." "Ah!" cried Markheim, with a strange curiosity. "Ah, have you been in love? Tell me about that." "I," cried the dealer. "I in love! I never had the time, nor have I the time today for all this nonsense. Will you take the glass?" "Where is the hurry?" returned Markheim. "It is very pleasant to stand here talking; and life is so short and insecure that I would not hurry away from any pleasure - no, not even from so mild a one as this. We should rather cling, cling to what little we can get, like a man at a cliff's edge. Every second is a cliff, if you think upon it - a cliff a mile high - high enough, if we fall, to dash us out of every feature of humanity. Hence it is best to talk pleasantly. Let us talk of each other: why should we wear this mask?Let us be confidential. Who knows, we might become friends?" "I have just one word to say to you," said the dealer. "Either make your purchase, or walk out of my shop!" "True, true," said Markheim. "Enough fooling. To business. Show me something else." The dealer stooped once more, this time to replace the glass upon the shelf, his thin blond hair falling over his eyes as he did so. Markheim moved a little nearer, with one hand in the pocket of his greatcoat; he drew himself up and filled his lungs; at the same time many different emotions were depicted together on his face - terror, horror, and resolve, fascination and a physical repulsion; and through a haggard lift of his upper lip, his teeth looked out. "This, perhaps, may suit," observed the dealer: and then, as he began to re-arise, Markheim bounded from behind upon his victim. The long, skewerlike dagger flashed and fell. The dealer struggled like a hen, striking his temple on the shelf, and then tumbled on the floor in a heap.
Time had some score of small voices in that shop, some stately and slow as was becoming to their great age; others garrulous and hurried. All these told out the seconds in an intricate chorus of tickings. Then the passage of a lad's feet, heavily running on the pavement, broke in upon these smaller voices and startled Markheim into the consciousness of his surroundings. He looked about him awfully. The candle stood on the counter, its flame solemnly wagging in a draught; and by that inconsiderable movement, the whole room was filled with noiseless bustle and kept heaving like a sea: the tall shadows nodding, the gross blots of darkness swelling and dwindling as with respiration, the faces of the portraits and the china gods changing and wavering like images in water. The inner door stood ajar, and peered into that leaguer of shadows with a long slit of daylight like a pointing finger. From these fear-stricken rovings, Markheim's eyes returned to the body of his victim, where it lay both humped and sprawling, incredibly small and strangely meaner than in life. In these poor, miserly clothes, in that ungainly attitude, the dealer lay like so much sawdust. Markheim had feared to see it, and, lo! it was nothing. And yet, as he gazed, this bundle of old clothes and pool of blood began to find eloquent voices. There it must lie; there was none to work the cunning hinges or direct the miracle of locomotion - there it must lie till it was found. Found! ay, and then? Then would this dead flesh lift up a cry that would ring over England, and fill the world with the echoes of pursuit. Ay, dead or not, this was still the enemy. "Time was that when the brains were out," he thought; and the first word struck into his mind. Time, now that the deed was accomplished - time, which had closed for the victim, had become instant and momentous for the slayer. The thought was yet in his mind, when, first one and then another, with every variety of pace and voice - one deep as the bell from a cathedral turret, another ringing on its treble notes the prelude of a waltz - the clocks began to strike the hour of three in the afternoon.
The sudden outbreak of so many tongues in that dumb chamber staggered him. He began to bestir himself, going to and fro with the candle, beleaguered by moving shadows, and startled to the soul by chance reflections. In many rich mirrors, some of home designs, some from Venice or Amsterdam, he saw his face repeated and repeated, as it were an army of spies; his own eyes met and detected him; and the sound of his own steps, lightly as they fell, vexed the surrounding quiet. And still, as he continued to fill his pockets, his mind accused him with a sickening iteration, of the thousand faults of his design. He should have chosen a more quiet hour; he should have prepared an alibi; he should not have used a knife; he should have been more cautious, and only bound and gagged the dealer, and not killed him; he should have been more bold, and killed the servant also; he should have done all things otherwise: poignant regrets, weary, incessant toiling of the mind to change what was unchangeable, to plan what was now useless, to be the architect of the irrevocable past. Meanwhile, and behind all this activity, brute terrors, like the scurrying of rats in a deserted attic, filled the more remote chambers of his brain with riot; the hand of the constable would fall heavy on his shoulder, and his nerves would jerk like a hooked fish; or he beheld, in galloping defile, the dock, the prison, the gallows, and the black coffin. Terror of the people in the street sat down before his mind like a besieging army. It was impossible, he thought, but that some rumour of the struggle must have reached their ears and set on edge their curiosity; and now, in all the neighbouring houses, he divined them sitting motionless and with uplifted ear - solitary people, condemned to spend Christmas dwelling alone on memories of the past, and now startingly recalled from that tender exercise; happy family parties, struck into silence round the table the mother still with raised finger: every degree and age and humour, but all, by their own hearths, prying and hearkening and weaving the rope that was to hang him. Sometimes it seemed to him he could not move too softly; the clink of the tall Bohemian goblets rang out loudly like a bell; and alarmed by the bigness of the ticking, he was tempted to stop the clocks. And then, again, with a swift transition of his terrors, the very silence of the place appeared a source of peril, and a thing to strike and freeze the passer-by; and he would step more boldly, and bustle aloud among the contents of the shop, and imitate, with elaborate bravado, the movements of a busy man at ease in his own house.
But he was now so pulled about by different alarms that, while one portion of his mind was still alert and cunning, another trembled on the brink of lunacy. One hallucination in particular took a strong hold on his credulity. The neighbour hearkening with white face beside his window, the passer-by arrested by a horrible surmise on the pavement - these could at worst suspect, they could not know; through the brick walls and shuttered windows only sounds could penetrate. But here, within the house, was he alone? He knew he was; he had watched the servant set forth sweet-hearting, in her poor best, "out for the day" written in every ribbon and smile. Yes, he was alone, of course; and yet, in the bulk of empty house above him, he could surely hear a stir of delicate footing - he was surely conscious, inexplicably conscious of some presence. Ay, surely; to every room and corner of the house his imagination followed it; and now it was a faceless thing, and yet had eyes to see with; and again it was a shadow of himself; and yet again behold the image of the dead dealer, reinspired with cunning and hatred. At times, with a strong effort, he would glance at the open door which still seemed to repel his eyes. The house was tall, the skylight small and dirty, the day blind with fog; and the light that filtered down to the ground story was exceedingly faint, and showed dimly on the threshold of the shop. And yet, in that strip of doubtful brightness, did there not hang wavering a shadow? Suddenly, from the street outside, a very jovial gentleman began to beat with a staff on the shop-door, accompanying his blows with shouts and railleries in which the dealer was continually called upon by name. Markheim, smitten into ice, glanced at the dead man. But no! he lay quite still; he was fled away far beyond earshot of these blows and shoutings; he was sunk beneath seas of silence; and his name, which would once have caught his notice above the howling of a storm, had become an empty sound. And presently the jovial gentleman desisted from his knocking and departed. Here was a broad hint to hurry what remained to be done, to get forth from this accusing neighbourhood, to plunge into a bath of London multitudes, and to reach, on the other side of day, that haven of safety and apparent innocence - his bed. One visitor had come: at any moment another might follow and be more obstinate. To have done the deed, and yet not to reap the profit, would be too abhorrent a failure. The money, that was now Markheim's concern; and as a means to that, the keys.
He glanced over his shoulder at the open door, where the shadow was still lingering and shivering; and with no conscious repugnance of the mind, yet with a tremor of the belly, he drew near the body of his victim. The human character had quite departed. Like a suit half-stuffed with bran, the limbs lay scattered, the trunk doubled, on the floor; and yet the thing repelled him. Although so dingy and inconsiderable to the eye, he feared it might have more significance to the touch. He took the body by the shoulders, and turned it on its back. It was strangely light and supple, and the limbs, as if they had been broken, fell into the oddest postures. The face was robbed of all expression; but it was as pale as wax, and shockingly smeared with blood about one temple. That was, for Markheim, the one displeasing circumstance. It carried him back, upon the instant, to a certain fair-day in a fishers' village: a gray day, a piping wind, a crowd upon the street, the blare of the brasses, the booming of drums, the nasal voice of a ballad singer; and a boy going to and fro, buried over head in the crowd and divided between interest and fear, until, coming out upon the chief place of concourse, he beheld a booth and a great screen with pictures, dismally designed, garishly coloured: Brownrigg with her apprentice; the Mannings with their murdered guest; Weare in the death-grip of Thurtell; and a score besides of famous crimes. The thing was as clear as an illusion; he was once again that little boy; he was looking once again, and with the same sense of physical revolt, at these vile pictures; he was still stunned by the thumping of the drums. A bar of that day's music returned upon his memory; and at that, for the first time, a qualm came over him, a breath of nausea, a sudden weakness of the joints, which he must instantly resist and conquer. He judged it more prudent to confront than to flee from these considerations; looking the more hardily in the dead face, bending his mind to realise the nature and greatness of his crime. So little a while ago that face had moved with every change of sentiment, that pale mouth had spoken, that body had been all on fire with governable energies; and now, and by his act, that piece of life had been arrested as the horologist, with interjected finger, arrests the beating of the clock. So he reasoned in vain; he could rise to no more remorseful consciousness; the same heart which had shuddered before the painted effigies of crime, looked on its reality unmoved. At best, he felt a gleam of pity for one who had been endowed in vain with all those faculties that can make the world a garden of enchantment, one who had never lived and who was now dead. But of penitence, no, not a tremor.
With that, shaking himself clear of these considerations, he found the keys and advanced towards the open door of the shop. Outside, it had begun to rain smartly; and the sound of the shower upon the roof had banished silence. Like some dripping cavern, the chambers of the house were haunted by an incessant echoing, which filled the ear and mingled with the ticking of the clocks. And, as Markheim approached the door, he seemed to hear, in answer to his own cautious tread, the steps of another foot withdrawing up the stair. The shadow still palpitated loosely on the threshold. He threw a ton's weight of resolve upon his muscles, and drew back the door. The faint, foggy daylight glimmered dimly on the bare floor and stairs; on the bright suit of armour posted, halbert in hand, upon the landing; and on the dark wood-carvings, and framed pictures that hung against the yellow panels of the wainscot. So loud was the beating of the rain through all the house that, in Markheim's ears, it began to be distinguished into many different sounds. Footsteps and sighs, the tread of regiments marching in the distance, the chink of money in the counting, and the creaking of doors held stealthily ajar, appeared to mingle with the patter of the drops upon the cupola and the gushing of the water in the pipes. The sense that he was not alone grew upon him to the verge of madness. On every side he was haunted and begirt by presences. He heard them moving in the upper chambers; from the shop, he heard the dead man getting to his legs; and as he began with a great effort to mount the stairs, feet fled quietly before him and followed stealthily behind. If he were but deaf, he thought, how tranquilly he would posses his soul! And then again, and hearkening with ever fresh attention, he blessed himself for that unresting sense which held the outposts and stood a trusty sentinel upon his life. His head turned continually on his neck; his eyes, which seemed starting from their orbits, scouted on every side, and on every side were half-rewarded as with the tail of something nameless vanishing. The four-and-twenty steps to the first floor were four-and-twenty agonies. On that first story, the doors stood ajar, three of them like three ambushes, shaking his nerves like the throats of cannon. He could never again, he felt, be sufficiently immured and fortified from men's observing eyes; he longed to be home, girt in by walls, buried among bedclothes, and invisible to all but God. And at that thought he wondered a little, recollecting tales of other murderers and the fear they were said to entertain of heavenly avengers. It was not so, at least, with him. He feared the laws of nature, lest, in their callous and immutable procedure, they should preserve some damning evidence of his crime. He feared tenfold more, with a slavish, superstitious terror, some scission in the continuity of man's experience, some wilful illegality of nature. He played a game of skill, depending on the rules, calculating consequence from cause; and what if nature, as the defeated tyrant overthrew the chessboard, should break the mould of their succession? The like had befallen Napoleon (so writers said) when the winter changed the time of its appearance. The like might befall Markheim: the solid walls might become transparent and reveal his doings like those of bees in a glass hive; the stout planks might yield under his foot like quicksands and detain him in their clutch; ay, and there were soberer accidents that might destroy him: if, for instance, the house should fall and imprison him beside the body of his victim; or the house next door should fly on fire, and the firemen invade him from all sides. These things he feared; and, in a sense, these things might be called the hands of God reached forth against sin. But about God Himself he was at ease; his act was doubtless exceptional, but so were his excuses, which God knew; it was there, and not among men, that he felt sure of justice.
When he had got safe into the drawing-room, and shut the door behind him, he was aware of a respite from alarms. The room was quite dismantled, uncarpeted besides, and strewn with packing cases and incongruous furniture; several great pier-glasses, in which he beheld himself at various angles, like an actor on a stage; many pictures, framed and unframed, standing, with their faces to the wall; a fine Sheraton sideboard, a cabinet of marquetry, and a great old bed, with tapestry hangings. The windows opened to the floor; but by great good fortune the lower part of the shutters had been closed, and this concealed him from the neighbours. Here, then, Markheim drew in a packing case before the cabinet, and began to search among the keys. It was a long business, for there were many; and it was irksome, besides; for, after all, there might be nothing in the cabinet, and time was on the wing. But the closeness of the occupation sobered him. With the tail of his eye he saw the door - even glanced at it from time to time directly, like a besieged commander pleased to verify the good estate of his defences. But in truth he was at peace. The rain falling in the street sounded natural and pleasant. Presently, on the other side, the notes of a piano were wakened to the music of a hymn, and the voices of many children took up the air and words. How stately, how comfortable was the melody! How fresh the youthful voices! Markheim gave ear to it smilingly, as he sorted out the keys; and his mind was thronged with answerable ideas and images; church-going children and the pealing of the high organ; children afield, bathers by the brookside, ramblers on the brambly common, kite-flyers in the windy and cloud navigated sky; and then, at another cadence of the hymn, back again to church, and the somnolence of summer Sundays, and the high genteel voice of the parson (which he smiled a little to recall) and the painted Jacobean tombs, and the dim lettering of the Ten Commandments in the chancel. And as he sat thus, at once busy and absent, he was startled to his feet. A flash of ice, a flash of fire, a bursting gush of blood, went over him, and then he stood transfixed and thrilling. A step mounted the stair slowly and steadily, and presently a hand was laid upon the knob, and the lock clicked, and the door opened.
Fear held Markheim in a vice. What to expect he knew not, whether the dead man walking, or the official ministers of human justice, or some chance witness blindly stumbling in to consign him to the gallows. But when a face was thrust into the aperture, glanced round the room, looked at him, nodded and smiled as if in friendly recognition, and then withdrew again, and the door closed behind it, his fear broke loose from his control in a hoarse cry. At the sound of this the visitant returned. "Did you call me?" he asked pleasantly, and with that he entered the room and closed the door behind him. Markheim stood and gazed at him with all his eyes. Perhaps there was a film upon his sight, but the outlines of the newcomer seemed to change and waver like those of the idols in the wavering candlelight of the shop; and at times he thought he knew him; and at times he thought he bore a likeness to himself; and always, like a lump of living terror, there lay in his bosom the conviction that this thing was not of the earth and not of God. And yet the creature had a strange air of the commonplace, as he stood looking on Markheim with a smile; and when he added: "You are looking for the money, I believe?" it was in the tones of everyday politeness. Markheim made no answer. "I should warn you," resumed the other, "that the maid has left her sweetheart earlier than usual and will soon be here. If Mr. Markheim be found in this house, I need not describe to him the consequences." "You know me?" cried the murderer. The visitor smiled. "You have long been a favourite of mine," he said; "and I have long observed and often sought to help you." "What are you?" cried Markheim: "the devil?" "What I may be," returned the other, "cannot affect the service I propose to render you." "It can," cried Markheim; "it does! Be helped by you? No, never; not by you! You do not know me yet; thank God, you do not know me!" "I know you," replied the visitant, with a sort of kind severity or rather firmness. "I know you to the soul." "Know me!" cried Markheim. "Who can do so? My life is but a travesty and slander on myself. I have lived to belie my nature. All men do; all men are better than this disguise that grows about and stifles them. You see each dragged away by life, like one whom bravos have seized and muffled in a cloak. If they had their own control - if you could see their faces, they would be altogether different, they would shine out for heroes and saints! I am worse than most; myself is more overlaid; my excuse is known to men and God. But, had I the time, I could disclose myself."
"To me?" inquired the visitant. "To you before all," returned the murderer. "I supposed you were intelligent. I thought - since you exist - you could prove a reader of the heart. And yet you would propose to judge me by my acts! Think of it; my acts! I was born and I have lived in a land of giants; giants have dragged me by the wrists since I was born out of my mother - the giants of circumstance. And you would judge me by my acts! But can you not look within? Can you not understand that evil is hateful to me? Can you not see within me the clear writing of conscience, never blurred by any wilful sophistry, although too often disregarded? Can you not read me for a thing that surely must be common as humanity - the unwilling sinner?" "All this is very feelingly expressed," was the reply, "but it regards me not. These points of consistency are beyond my province, and I care not in the least by what compulsion you may have been dragged away, so as you are but carried in the right direction. But time flies; the servant delays, looking in the faces of the crowd and at the pictures on the hoardings, but still she keeps moving nearer; and remember, it is as if the gallows itself was striding towards you through the Christmas streets! Shall I help you; I, who know all? Shall I tell you where to find the money?" "For what price?" asked Markheim. "I offer you the service for a Christmas gift," returned the other. Markheim could not refrain from smiling with a kind of bitter triumph. "No," said he, "I will take nothing at your hands; if I were dying of thirst, and it was your hand that put the pitcher to my lips, I should find the courage to refuse. It may be credulous, but I will do nothing to commit myself to evil." "I have no objection to a deathbed repentance," observed the visitant. "Because you disbelieve their efficacy!" Markheim cried. "I do not say so," returned the other; "but I look on these things from a different side, and when the life is done my interest falls. The man has lived to serve me, to spread black looks under colour of religion, or to sow tares in the wheatfield, as you do, in a course of weak compliance with desire. Now that he draws so near to his deliverance, he can add but one act of service - to repent, to die smiling, and thus to build up in confidence and hope the more timorous of my surviving followers. I am not so hard a master. Try me. Accept my help. Please yourself in life as you have done hitherto; please yourself more amply, spread your elbows at the board; and when the night begins to fall and the curtains to be drawn, I tell you, for your greater comfort, that you will find it even easy to compound your quarrel with your conscience, and to make a truckling peace with God. I came but now from such a deathbed, and the room was full of sincere mourners, listening to the man's last words: and when I looked into that face, which had been set as a flint against mercy, I found it smiling with hope."
"And do you, then, suppose me such a creature?" asked Markheim. "Do you think I have no more generous aspirations than to sin, and sin, and, at the last, sneak into heaven? My heart rises at the thought. Is this, then, your experience of mankind? or is it because you find me with red hands that you presume such baseness? and is this crime of murder indeed so impious as to dry up the very springs of good?" "Murder is to me no special category," replied the other. "All sins are murder, even as all life is war. I behold your race, like starving mariners on a raft, plucking crusts out of the hands of famine and feeding on each other's lives. I follow sins beyond the moment of their acting; I find in all that the last consequence is death; and to my eyes, the pretty maid who thwarts her mother with such taking graces on a question of a ball, drips no less visibly with human gore than such a murderer as yourself. Do I say that I follow sins? I follow virtues also; they differ not by the thickness of a nail, they are both scythes for the reaping angel of Death. Evil, for which I live, consists not in action but in character. The bad man is dear to me; not the bad act, whose fruits, if we could follow them far enough down the hurtling cataract of the ages, might yet be found more blessed than those of the rarest virtues. And it is not because you have killed a dealer, but because you are Markheim, that I offer to forward your escape." "I will lay my heart open to you," answered Markheim. "This crime on which you find me is my last. On my way to it I have learned many lessons; itself is a lesson, a momentous lesson. Hitherto I have been driven with revolt to what I would not; I was a bond-slave to poverty, driven and scourged. There are robust virtues that can stand in these temptations; mine are not so: I had a thirst of pleasure. But today, and out of this deed, I pluck both warning and riches - both the power and a fresh resolve to be myself. I become in all things a free actor in the world; I begin to see myself all changed, hands the agents of good, this heart at peace. Something comes over me out of the past; something of what I have dreamed on Sabbath evenings to the sound of the church organ, of what I forecast when I shed tears over noble books, or talked, an innocent child, with my mother. There lies my life; I have wandered a few years, but now I see once more my city of destination."
"You are to use this money on the Stock Exchange, I think?" remarked the visitor; "and there, if I mistake not, you have already lost some thousands?" "Ah," said Markheim, "but this time I have a sure thing." "This time, again, you will lose," replied the visitor quietly. "Ah, but I keep back the half!" cried Markheim. "That also you will lose," said the other. The sweat started upon Markheim's brow. "Well, then, what matter?" he exclaimed. "Say it be lost, say I am plunged again in poverty, shall one part of me, and that the worse, continue until the end to override the better? Evil and good run strong in me, haling me both ways. I do not love the one thing, I love all. I can conceive great deeds, renunciations, martyrdoms; and though I be fallen to such a crime as murder, pity is no stranger to my thoughts. I pity the poor; who knows their trials better than myself? I pity and help them; I prize love, I love honest laughter; there is no good thing not true thing on earth but I love it from my heart. And are my vices only to direct my life, and my virtues without effect, like some passive lumber of the mind? Not so; good, also, is a spring of acts." But the visitant raised his finger. "For six-and-thirty years that you have been in this world," said he, "through many changes of fortune and varieties of humour, I have watched you steadily fall. Fifteen years ago you would have started at a theft. Three years back you would have blenched at the name of murder. Is there any crime, is there any cruelty or meanness, from which you still recoil? - five years from now I shall detect you in the fact! Downward, downward, lies your way; nor can anything but death avail to stop you." "It is true," Markheim said huskily, "I have in some degree complied with evil. But it is so with all: the very saints, in the mere exercise of living, grow less dainty, and take on the tone of their surroundings." "I will propound to you one simple question," said the other; "and as you answer, I shall read to you your moral horoscope. You have grown in many things more lax; possibly you do right to be so; and at any account, it is the same with all men. But granting that, are you in any one particular, however trifling, more difficult to please with your own conduct, or do you go in all things with a looser rein?"
"In any one?" repeated Markheim, with an anguish of consideration. "No," he added, with despair, "in none! I have gone down in all." "Then," said the visitor, "content yourself with what you are, for you will never change; and the words of your part on this stage are irrevocably written down." Markheim stood for a long while silent, and indeed it was the visitor who first broke the silence. "That being so," he said, "shall I show you the money?" "And grace?" cried Markheim. "Have you not tried it?" returned the other. "Two or three years ago. did I not see you on the platform of revival meetings, and was not your voice the loudest in the hymn?" "It is true," said Markheim; "and I see clearly what remains for me by way of duty. I thank you for these lessons from my soul; my eyes are opened, and I behold myself at last for what I am." At this moment, the sharp note of the door-bell rang through the house; and the visitant, as though this were some concerted signal for which he had been waiting, changed at once in his demeanour. "The maid!" he cried. "She has returned, as I forewarned you, and there is now before you one more difficult passage. Her master, you must say, is ill; you must let her in, with an assured but rather serious countenance - no smiles, no over-acting, and I promise you success! Once the girl within, and the door closed, the same dexterity that has already rid you of the dealer will relieve you of this last danger in your path. Thenceforward you have the whole evening - the whole night, if needful - to ransack the treasures of the house and to make good your safety. This is help that comes to you with the mask of danger. Up!" he cried; "up, friend; your life hangs trembling in the scales: up, and act!" Markheim steadily regarded his counsellor. "If I be condemned to evil acts," he said, "there is still one door of freedom open - I can cease from action. If my life be an ill thing, I can lay it down. Though I be, as you say truly, at the beck of every small temptation, I can yet, by one decisive gesture, place myself beyond the reach of all. My love of good is damned to barrenness; it may, and let it be! But I have still my hatred of evil; and from that, to your galling disappointment, you shall see that I can draw both energy and courage."
The features of the visitor began to undergo a wonderful and lovely change: they brightened and softened with a tender triumph, and, even as they brightened, faded and dislimned. But Markheim did not pause to watch or understand the transformation. He opened the door and went downstairs very slowly, thinking to himself. His past went soberly before him; he beheld it as it was, ugly and strenuous like a dream, random as chance-medley - a scene of defeat. Life, as he thus reviewed it, tempted him no longer; but on the farther side he perceived a quiet haven for his bark. He paused in the passage, and looked into the shop, where the candle still burned by the dead body. It was strangely silent. Thoughts of the dealer swarmed into his mind, as he stood gazing. And then the bell once more broke out into impatient clamour. He confronted the maid upon the threshold with something like a smile. "You had better go for the police," said he: "I have killed your master."
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OMG!! Two Die In Stampede Over Tinubu's Ramadan Gifts
Two elderly women died on Saturday in a violent struggle for Ramadan gifts distributed on behalf of a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at Onikan Stadium in the state.
Sunday Punch learnt that a middle-aged man fainted in the commotion, while several others were injured during the distribution by the Iyaloja General of Nigeria and Tinubu's daughter, Mrs. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo.
The Lagos State Police Command, however, said no deaths were recorded from the stampede.
Each gift pack was said to have included a package of rice, salt, noodles and sugar, as well as a sum of N1,500 contained in an envelope, which were given to each person.
It was learnt that the injured were rushed to the Marina General Hospital, while corpses of the deceased women, who were said to be in their sixties, were deposited at the hospital's morgue.
An eyewitness, Musbau Adeyanju, who spoke with Punch on the telephone on Saturday evening, said a crowd had besieged the stadium around 8am to collect the gifts, with males and females maintaining separate queues.
He said the exercise was smooth until around 11.30am when it was disrupted by some impatient persons.
Adeyanju said, "We started entering the stadium with a pass as early as 8am. The distribution started at 10am and each person was collecting a bag containing rice, semovita, noodles, sugar and salt and a sum of N1,500. It was Iyaloja General that represented Asiwaju.
"Around 11.30am, people became impatient for the fear that the gifts might not get to them. There was a stampede and two persons died in the process. Their bodies were laid under a tent, while an ambulance that would carry them was being awaited. It was when the clothes that were used to cover their faces were removed that I discovered they were elderly women.
"Their bodies were eventually taken to the mortuary by an ambulance of the Lagos State Ambulance Services. Several people were also injured. I left the place after the women died."
Another eyewitness, who identified himself only as Idris, said some hoodlums cashed in on the stampede to dispossess people of their valuables.
"Initially, the programme was well organised. A gate was opened for males and another for females. Suddenly, some hoodlums at the stadium started snatching phones from people. It was almost my turn when the distribution was disrupted. The age of the women that died should be around 60," he said.
An emergency official, who spoke to Punch on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, confirmed that there were casualties during the rampage.
He was, however, silent on whether there were fatalities among the casualties.
"I cannot say whether the casualties involved loss of lives. But some people were rushed to the hospital," he stated.
General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Michael Akindele, denied knowledge of the deaths.
"LASEMA did not get any report of such," he said.
The Lagos State Police Command's spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, said it was only a man who collapsed and was treated on the spot before he was taken to the general hospital for further treatment.
She said, "It was a Ramadan lecture organised by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu but he was not there. He was represented. The place became rowdy during the distribution of gifts and a man collapsed in the process. He was treated inside the ambulance at the stadium and was later taken to the hospital for proper treatment. No death was recorded."
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Neon museum livens up South Glendale
Griff Wynne
From a catchy John Mayer song to an easy party theme, there’s no denying that neon is a versatile substance. Apart from lining the streets of Vegas, neon art is a popular contemporary art medium gracing galleries, exhibits and museums alike. Now, the Museum of Neon Art (MONA), which previously operated on the Universal Citywalk, Grand Hope Park and Historic Core, is set to bring culture and creativity to the south of Glendale.
Sitting directly across from the Glendale Americana, the distinctive lights and front glass wall sharply mark the angular building from the surrounding brick and brownstone. As of their Feb. 7 grand opening, the museum is now open on Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 7 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m.
The red and white logo (in neon, of course) entices the eye and draws quite a crowd — not to mention the front wall of windows enabling passersby to peek at the lobby gift shop that hosts the front exhibit.
The City Council of Glendale invited MONA to set up shop in an effort to solidify and fortify the Arts and Entertainment Corridor, the budding arts district of the city which includes Alex Theater and the Glendale Arts nonprofit. The rehousing of MONA is one of many city wide initiatives to make art, culture and entertainment thrive in Glendale.
Neon signage and sculpture as a medium has had its ups and downs in mainstream popularity, and MONA has served as an effort to both preserve historic signs and promote the contemporary art form. As a medium, neon art derived from pipe art, in which artists began blowing and pulling glass tubes in place of metal. Once the notion of using neon was introduced, the style of sculpture electrified and took on a new dimension of incorporating science and math in art.
Senior Adam Rose was inspired by the history of the art form and the museum staff’s in-depth knowledge of the subject.
“When you learn about the history, from pipe working and glass pulling, the museum becomes more than just a room filled with bright lights. Learning about the skill needed to work with neon and the small number of artists who can do it really added to my experience,” Rose said.
Working with different gases, glasses and fluorescent covers, neon artists manipulate their materials in myriad ways. Most of the older pieces in the MONA collection are invaluable, as the glass tubes for each sculpture were custom made by the artists, some of whom have passed away. If a piece breaks, tube restoration is incredibly difficult and replacement is nearly impossible.
Additionally, the art form is incredibly interdisciplinary and requires scientific knowledge as well as artistic.
“Neon is a gateway between scientific principles and artistic expression,” MONA’s website says. “Neon illumination integrates electrical technology, creative design, and fundamental concepts of physics and chemistry.”
The marriage of science and art leaves viewers in awe. Some pieces are interactive, welcoming visitors to press buttons and crank levers, while some warn onlookers not to get too close to the voltage. From a wall of emoji texts to giant pink bobby pins, the pieces shine innovation, creativity and whimsy.
MONA hopes to emulate other local small museums, like the Norton Simon, in terms of accessibility and community engagement. At $8 for adults, $5 for students and $4 for residents of Glendale, the museum is more affordable than LA’s bigger museums, and much more navigable. MONA will soon host art classes and viewings of neon artists working, both open to the public. The architecture of the museum itself allows viewers to “window shop” the collection (in the spirit of the neighboring shopaholic’s heaven that is the Americana), and soon the top part of the building will host even more lights.
Though the museum is small, MONA’s collection is immense in number and size. Some of MONA’s pieces simply won’t fit inside the door of the building, but for the fixtures that do, MONA will rotate exhibits every four months from their private extensive collection.
And with ample parking and close proximity to endless shopping and food, the buzzing building is an artistic and electrifying oasis in a sea of brown buildings.
The Museum of Neon Art is located at 216 S. Brand Blvd. in Glendale, Calif.
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Support Each Other: The Lesson of Brazilian Sportsmanship at the Pan Am Games
The joy of a clear round: that is Brazil’s three day eventing Pan Ams medalist Carlos Parro on the right, celebrating with his show jumping counterparts after Rodrigo Lambre’s round. Photo © Erin Gilmore
BY ERIN GILMORE
The winners are always the happiest bunch at a show. At a championship, they are even easier to find. Here in Lima, Peru at the Pan American Games, each nation has an official uniform in the colors of their flag—some more obvious than others. For instance, every member of Team Brazil wears a head-to-toe, bright green and gold tracksuit. The only variation is if they’re actually riding, in which case the tracksuit bottoms are swapped for breeches. And of course, a green hunt coat.
Photo © Erin Gilmore
These colors made for a green and gold mass celebration when their third-to-last rider secured the team gold with a clear round. I promise, you’ve never seen joy like that of a Brazilian team who has just secured their Olympic qualification. And it should be said that 2nd-placed Team Mexico, which also qualified for Tokyo 2020, were equally as thrilled with their Team Silver medal.
With three disciplines held over 14 days, the dressage, show jumping and three-day-eventing do not overlap. When one ends, the next begins. Riders rotated in and out, with most of them catching a plane home the same night their competition ended. I get it. Many of the riders have businesses, families and other horses to get back to. And most of the time, one discipline doesn’t have a huge connection to the other—but not for Team Brazil. Among a day full of absolute unabashed joy, smiles, hugs, and some happy tears during the team show jumping final, that is what stood out to me the most.
The three day eventing riders had wrapped up their competition several days earlier. Ruy Fonseca, Brazil’s most senior rider suffered the worst cross country fall of the day, breaking his shoulder and three ribs in a rotational fall (despite his elimination Brazil still won a medal without a drop score.) The eventers had every reason to be out of there and on the way home, but they stayed to support their show jumping counterparts. Fonseca, fresh out of the hospital, returned to the venue to cheer on Team Brazil show jumpers on Wednesday, his arm in a sling. When show jumper Rodrigo Lambre crossed the finish timers clear, Brazil’s three day eventer, Carlos Parro, was part of the group hug on the kiss and cry.
Show me another nation that supports each other to this level! During a crazy week of depressing news events in both the horse world and the real one, this level of cross-discipline sportsmanship was the best thing to see.
By the way, Brazil had a tall order to fill at the Pan Am Games, with all three of their teams needing to finish on the podium in order to qualify for Tokyo. The Pan Ams, which are held every four years in the Pre-Olympic year, are often the last chance at qualification. And they did it—with Team Bronze in dressage, Team Silver in eventing, and Team Gold in show jumping.
The show jumping individual final takes place on Friday, August 9th. Brazil’s Pedro Veniss is in individual gold medal position with his amazing partner Quabri d’Isle, with Canada’s Erynn Ballard in 2nd with Fellini S. USA’s Beezie Madden and Breitling LS dropped to 6th after two unusual rails, but with two more rounds to jump on Friday, anything can still happen. Check with ESPN 3 for a livestream, and follow live results at this link.
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Atul Kumar’s new play brings alive the alleys of the port-city of Bombay in the 1940s and 50s.
Alpana Chowdhury
Updated: 03 Jul 2018, 2:23 PM IST
Knitting together the worlds of graphic novels, gangster films, the noir genre, black-and-white Hindi films, Alfred Hitchcock and Charlie Chaplin, Atul Kumar, actor-director and founder-member of The Company Theatre, presents an entertaining play, Detective Nau-Do-Gyarah.
The opening play of the fourth season of Aadyam, a theatre initiative of the Aditya Birla Group, Detective Nau-Do-Gyarah is a roller-coaster ride through the alleys of the port-city of Bombay in the 1940s and 50s. A simple, old-fashioned, detective story about a psychiatrist caught in a murder-mystery, the play is peopled with spies, glamorous women, crooners, bumbling cops, dons et al.
âDetective Nau Do Gyarahâ by Atul kumar at St Andrews. So so so much fun . Evoking all the Hindi noir of the 40âs and 50âs with such an amazing live jazz band. So much fun , after a long time I was laughing till I cried..
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) July 1, 2018
Detective Nau-Do-Gyarah is a roller-coaster ride through the alleys of the port-city of Bombay in the 1940s and 50s.
(Photo courtesy: Aadyam)
To escape the tedium of his life in the small hill-station of Khandala, psychiatrist Dr Shekhar Kumar makes a trip to Bombay to spend an evening at the iconic Royal Opera House to watch one Mr Yaadgar regale audiences with fantastic memory games. But a sudden gunshot interrupts the show, and in the chaos that follows Dr Shekhar finds himself, willy-nilly, rescuing a stylish damsel who turns out to be Russian. What follows is a tale of international espionage, KGB included.
But Atul Kumar’s narration of this simple story is far from simple.
He creates smoky dens and clubs, modest lodges, luxury-liners, trains, automobiles, and a host of other locales, using the same set of props in an amazing manner; a live jazz band enhances the mood of each scene with background music; fade-outs, costumes that re-create the era of trench-coats and hats; stereotypical characters delightfully spoofed; and above all, the choreographed movements of the actors make his narration a layered one that incorporates various methods of story-telling.
A still from the play.
For instance, you see the influence of black-and-white Hindi films in several scenes. The title itself is borrowed from Dev Anand’s 1957 film, which also had a simple crime story. Then, the shadowy dons in Kismet and Howrah Bridge clearly shaped the character of Rai Bahadur Sinha in Kumar’s play; and one spots the similarity between Kumar’s club singer and Howrah Bridge’s Edna (Madhubala).
A popular Geeta Dutt song, Khayalon mein kisi ke, adds to the mood of a romantic scene between Dr Kumar and a Meena Kumari-sounding Rosie.
At one point, the story of the play is taken forward through an interesting graphic-novel format, projected on a large screen. And then, as if stepping out from the screen, the flesh and blood Dr Kumar resumes his run from the sleuths chasing him. It is a seamless amalgamation of two mediums, very entertainingly executed.
A live jazz band adds to the mood of the play.
Kumar’s light design too, is imaginatively conceived, combining elements of the old and new. For the most part, the live band, at an elevated level, is in semi-darkness, heightening the noir ambience, whereas the hectic goings-on in the forefront are lit by two Fresnel lights that are manually operated to follow the characters and their actions on stage.
When the multi-purpose props are moved around, the stage is plunged into pitch darkness; to light up again, within seconds, to reveal another location.
Everything happens at an exhilarating pace with the actors’ nimble-footedness accelerating the speed. Whether it is Sukant Goel, as the hapless doctor on the run, or Anna Ador playing a cardboard cut-out version of a Russian spy, or Rachel D’Souza paying tribute to Hindi film heroines like Meena Kumari, or Neil Bhoopalam and Gagan Dev Riar multi-performing as cops, henchmen and ticket checkers, the entire team of actors, that include many more, keep the momentum going with their energy, verve and perfect timing.
The influence of black-and-white Hindi films is manifest in several scenes.
The play gave me an opportunity to work with physically-trained actors who could jump genres within a singular world and move smoothly through farce to commedia to physical comedy. The backstage and onstage merge, as a team of 12 performers jump in and out of the action as they change costumes in front of the audience, light up the scene manually and take on many characters.
Atul Kumar, Director
Where the play falters is in the screenplay and dialogues, to borrow two terms from cinema. A little more humour in the dialogues and fewer repetitive sequences would prevent the play from flagging in parts.
Sukant Goel, Neil Bhoopalam and Gagan Dev Riar in a still from the play.
But these are minor flaws in a play that leaves you spellbound with the sheer scale of its operation. Simply spectacular!
(Detective Nau-Do-Gyarah will be next performed at Royal Opera House, Mumbai on 21 and 22 July, and Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi on 4 and 5 August 2018.)
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Valemount Glacier Destinations MDA approved: Early ski resort construction to begin this summer
Published on : March 28, 2017 May 16, 2018 Published by : The Goat
Left to right: Simpcw First Nation Chief Nathan Matthew, Provincial Minister and MLA Shirley Bond, and resort designer Oberto Oberti sign the Valemount Glacier Destinations’ Resort Master Development Agreement. / EVAN MATTHEWS
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There is nothing left to sign; the Master Development Agreement is signed, and Valemount Glacier Destinations ski and sightsee resort is slated to start construction this summer.
Early construction includes land surveys and engineering pertaining to the lifts and resort roads, tasks that the resort designer Tommaso Oberti calls the “preparatory work” before applying for construction permits to have shovels in the ground.
Oberti says VGD is working toward starting major construction on things like ski lifts in summer 2018, with an estimated open date during winter 2018-2019. The first phase of the resort plan will cost roughly $100 Million.
The two main investors are Hunter Milborne and Greg Marchant, both of Toronto. Marchant called Tommaso Oberti during the Master Development Agreement (MDA) signing as a show of support, symbolically confirming their association with the project.
The resort is located in the Premier Mountain Range — Simpcw First Nation territory — and will result in the Simpcw obtaining Band property within the resort village as part of the Impact and Benefits Agreement.
The resort will provide public access to glaciers at over 3,000 metres (9,850 feet) — the only such access in North America — with a vertical drop of 2,050 metres (6,726 feet), the largest in North America and third largest in the world.
The MDA is a signed contract between VGD and the Province, managed by Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.
The B.C. Government approved the VGD Master Plan in August 2016.
Chief Matthew celebrates with Minister Shirley Bond. / EVAN MATTHEWS
B.C.’s Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and MLA for Prince George-Valemount, Shirley Bond, gave the announcement on Tuesday morning to a full house — 60 people — at the Best Western in Valemount. Simpcw First Nation Chief Nathan Matthew, Resort Designer Oberto Oberti, Regional District of Fraser-Fort George Director Dannielle Alan and Valemount Mayor Jeannette Townsend were also in attendance to help give the announcement.
“This project meets all our requirements for ourselves, the land we live on, and the people we live on the land with,” says Chief Matthew.
“It meets the requirement to respect the land, and we want to be involved in sustainable projects… that benefit future generations,” he says.
Though resort construction is confirmed, how the resort area will be governed remains up in the air.
The resort is located in the Premier Mountain Range, in Simpcw First Nation territory, and will provide public access to glaciers at over 3,000 metres (9,850 feet) — the only such access in North America — with a vertical drop of 2,050 metres (6,726 feet), the largest in North America and third largest in the world.
In mid-March, the B.C. government approved a $35,000 Restructure Planning Grant to the Village of Valemount for a municipal boundary extension study that would include the destination resort.
The Village of Valemount is still in the process of securing more funding for the study, according to Council’s Mar. 28 agenda.
The Premier Range, and site of the new resort. / SUPPLIED BY VGD
The grant enables Village of Valemount officials and staff — and the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George (RDFFG) — to study the impact, benefits and challenges involved in extending the Village’s municipal boundary to include the proposed VGD Resort, according to the Province.
The governance and boundary extension process is supposed to help Council, the RDFFG and Valemount area residents consider how the ski resort will be governed — whether the resort be part of the Village, Regional District, or its own municipality. The Village of Valemount could incorporate the resort by a contiguous (geographically-connected) or satellite boundary extension, according to the Village’s Economic Development Officer Silvio Gislimberti.
The study’s aim is to identify the pros and cons of the various options.
The study will examine: services such as sewer and water to the area of extension, the financial health of local government, additional areas of responsibility, community identity and cohesion, and current tax rates.
The RDFFG finished the resort area’s rezoning — zoning created specifically for the resort — and its Official Community Plan amendment in August 2016, according to the regional district, while the Simpcw First Nation signed the Impact and Benefit Agreement with VGD in September 2016.
A community celebration will be held in June 2017.
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Study: Metabolomics approach uncovers dramatic shift in biological clocks in digestive organs — (Details)
James M. Patterson
Working night shifts or other nonstandard work schedules increases your risk of becoming obese and developing diabetes and other metabolic disorders, which ultimately also raises your risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Exactly why this happens has been unclear, but a new study conducted at Washington State University (WSU) has brought scientists closer to finding the answer.
Published in this week’s online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study dispels the belief that the metabolic disruption in shift workers is driven primarily by the brain’s master clock, which normally keeps our bodies on a day-night cycle and uses light cues to synchronize the rhythms of the body’s organs and tissues. Instead, the study revealed that separate biological clocks (so-called peripheral oscillators) in the liver, gut and pancreas have a mind of their own.
Working with colleagues at the University of Surrey, the WSU team collected blood samples from healthy volunteers who had just completed either a simulated day shift schedule or a simulated night shift schedule. The investigators analyzed the blood samples for metabolites — products of chemical reactions involved in digestion, such as the breakdown and oxidization of food molecules, as well as in other metabolic processes in cells and organs. They found that, following the night shift schedule, 24-hour rhythms in metabolites related to the digestive system had shifted by a full 12 hours, even though the master biological clock in participants’ brains had only moved by about 2 hours.
Biological clocks in digestive organs
“No one knew that biological clocks in people’s digestive organs are so profoundly and quickly changed by shift work schedules, even though the brain’s master clock barely adapts to such schedules,” said co-senior author Hans Van Dongen, director of the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center and a professor in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. “As a result, some biological signals in shift workers’ bodies are saying it’s day while other signals are saying it’s night, which causes disruption of metabolism.”
Van Dongen said the next step is to find out whether the shifted metabolite rhythms are driven by the shift workers’ altered sleep/wake schedules, the changed timing of their food intake, or both. Once that is known, scientists could try to pinpoint the underlying cellular and/or hormonal processes, which would support the development of new treatments to resynchronize shift workers’ brain and body clocks to prevent negative long-term health consequences.
Long-term health consequences
The research team’s work may also have implications for the study of other chronic diseases shift workers are more susceptible to, including chronic kidney disease and breast, prostate and skin cancer.
“We believe ours is the first study to suggest a mechanism for the connection between shift work and chronic kidney disease,” said co-senior author Shobhan Gaddameedhi, an assistant professor in the WSU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He noted that the simulated night shift group had altered rhythms in two metabolites commonly associated with chronic kidney disease — tryptophan and kynurenine.
However, as a cancer biologist, Gaddameedhi first and foremost wants to unravel the link between shift work and cancer.
“It’s possible that changes in the metabolism of shift workers are associated with altered activity of cellular processes that may be involved in cancer development later in life,” Gaddameedhi said. “Once we understand those cellular processes, we could potentially identify the genes involved and use that knowledge to find ways to prevent cancer in shift workers.”
Metabolomics Used to Study Rhythms
The study included 14 participants who each spent seven days inside the sleep laboratory at the WSU Health Sciences Spokane campus. First, half of them completed a three-day simulated night shift schedule, while the rest were on a three-day simulated day shift schedule. Then, after completing their simulated shifts, all participants were kept in a constant routine protocol used to study humans’ internally generated biological rhythms independent of any external influences.
During this protocol, they were kept awake for 24 hours in a semireclined posture. They received identical snacks every hour and were kept under constant light exposure and room temperature. Every three hours a blood sample was drawn.
The blood samples were analyzed at the University of Surrey’s Metabolomics Core Facility for 132 different metabolites related to metabolism and the digestive system.
“Twenty-seven metabolites followed a 24-hour rhythm during both the simulated night and day shift schedules,” said first author Debra Skene, professor of neuroendocrinology at the University of Surrey. “Of these, 24 displayed a dramatic 12-hour shift in rhythm following the simulated night shift schedule, which was not observed following the day shift schedule. This indicated that just three days of being on a night shift schedule has the potential to disrupt metabolism. Pinpointing the disrupted metabolic pathways will help unravel the mechanisms underlying shift work and metabolic disorders.”
In addition to Skene, Van Dongen, and Gaddameedhi, co-authors include Elena Skornyakov, Rajendra Gajula, Brieann Satterfield, and Kenneth Porter of WSU and Namrata Chowdhury and Benita Middleton of the University of Surrey.
Support for the study came from internal funding from the WSU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, as well as grants awarded to WSU by the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program and National Institutes of Health and to the University of Surrey by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme.
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Gloucester, UK – A Port City with a Rich History
The city of Gloucester, UK is situated on the River Severn and has a history that extends more than 2,000 years back to Roman times. You can still explore the city’s history today by visiting its architecturally wondrous churches and cathedrals. Or, visit the Gloucester Docks for a mix of modern-day points of interest and tributes to the Victorian port. Spend a day museum hopping, then enjoy a bite to eat at one of the city’s international eateries. With an abundance of historical sites, attractions, and a broad range of hotels and B&Bs, the city is a premier tourist destination for travellers of all ages.
One of the city’s most noteworthy historical sites is Gloucester Cathedral, a medieval building where you can tour the Crypt, climb 269 steps to the tower’s topmost point, and see the Great East Window. The cathedral’s origins trace back to the 670s, and over the course of English history, a number of bishops and noteworthy figures, including Edward II of England, have been buried there. The cathedral has also been a filming site for popular movies, including some of the Harry Potter films. Another historical site is the Great Witcombe Roman Villa Remains, which date back to 250 AD. You can also make your way to Hillfield Gardens, a public house which was originally the site of a Victorian house built in the 1860s. In addition to historic structures, the grounds are also home to some of Gloucester’s oldest trees. Many hotels in Gloucester are convenient to the city’s popular historical attractions, and there are also guided walking tours available to ensure that you don’t miss any prominent sites.
The Historic Docks and Quays
Originally a Victorian port, the Gloucester Docks now also feature modern-day facilities. If you’re interested in learning about the boats of yesteryear, you can visit The National Waterways Museum, which is housed at the Docks’ Llanthony Warehouse. There’s also the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, which occupies the former Custom House and details the history of Gloucestershire soldiers from the past 300 years. The Docks are also a perfect location to climb aboard a leisure cruise for a tour of the canal and River Severn, and there are a number of dockside restaurants, pubs, and cafes available for a meal or a brew as well. If you’re traveling with any shoppers, you’ll want to head to the Gloucester Quays, where you can find an array of clothing and specialty goods outlets, restaurants, and a multiplex. A few of Gloucester’s budget-friendly hotels are located within close proximity of the Docks and shopping centre.
Many Museums
In addition to the museums located at the Docks, Gloucester has many other destinations for museum goers. For one, there’s the Jet Age Museum, which is located on the north side of Gloucestershire Airport. It is home to the Gloucestershire Aviation Collection and displays aircraft, engines, and other aviation exhibits. If you’re staying at one of the hotels near the airport, you can use local transportation to access the museum, as it runs there every ten minutes during peak times. You can also take a trip to Museum of Gloucester, which features dinosaur skeletons, archaeological artefacts, Roman and medieval exhibits, and displays by prominent artists such as Thomas Gainsborough and J. M. W. Turner. Next, there’s the Nature in Art Gallery and Museum, which is dedicated to artwork with nature themes. It features pieces crafted by artists from more than 60 countries, including one mosaic work that dates back 1,500 years. Finally, Gloucester Life is a museum devoted to the city’s social history, which is located in two of Gloucester’s oldest houses.
Should you tire of Gloucester’s museums and historical sites, you can let loose at Kingsholm Stadium, the city’s premier destination for all things rugby. Take the whole family to a match at the stadium, where more than 16,000 fans can gather. Or, head to St. James City Farm, a sanctuary for cow, sheep, and other livestock. Guests can enjoy hands-on experience with lambs, goats, and rabbits, and observe creatures like waterfowl and pigs for a first-hand look at country life. For more animal encounters, stop by Prinknash Bird and Deer Park, where feathered beauties like peacocks and other exotic avian life dwell, as well as reindeer, fallow deer, and pygmy goats. Or, enjoy an unforgettable encounter with birds of prey at The Barn Owl Centre, a sanctuary for owls, hawks, and other winged creatures.
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Gloucester has an array of eateries with virtually every type of cuisine you could imagine, but while you can enjoy International cuisine of exceptional calibre within the city, it is perhaps best known for its historic pubs. Many of these traditional facilities offer real ales, pub fare like fish and chips, and a cheery ambiance. A number of the pubs are also housed in historic inns, such as the New Inn hotel, which is situated in a 14th century building. If traditional British eats aren’t what you’re after, you can choose among authentic Mediterranean restaurants, Greek cuisine, as well as African and Asian eateries. Don’t forget to seek out the region’s famous cheese while you’re in Gloucester! Smart’s Traditional Gloucester Cheeses invites guests to witness the art of cheese making at their farm and has some of the delicious, crumbly dairy treats available for purchase.
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Hotels in Inglewood, USA
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Cloud 9 Inn LAXdeals from S$106
Hotel Cloud 9 Inn LAX Inglewood
The Cloud 6 Inn is situated within a few miles of Los Angeles International Airport. As a result, it is also close to some of the most famous attractions in LA. Each of the hotel's rooms comes with free Wi-Fi and desks. Flat-screen TVs and cable channels round out the entertainment options. The hotel itself offers free self-parking, making it easy for travelers to get in and out. A 24-hour front desk welcomes late arrivals, and tour assistance is available. The Cloud 9 does not offer a complimentary breakfast. However, there are a number of cafes and restaurants in the area representing a wide variety of local and international cuisine. Besides the airport, the hotel is located near to the Los Angeles Forum, Hollywood Park Racetrack, and Hollywood Park Casino. Downtown is a 25-minute drive away. more
Quality Inn & Suites Los Angeles Airport-LAXdeals from S$131
Hotel Quality Inn & Suites Los Angeles Airport-LAX Inglewood
Quality Inn & Suites Los Angeles Airport-LAX, which features an outdoor pool and a free airport shuttle bus, is ideally located for those looking to use Los Angeles International Airport just three miles away. The non-smoking rooms feature up to three large beds and creature comforts such as a flat screen television with HBO and free Wi-Fi. A fridge and a microwave are standard and some rooms offer a whirlpool. Quality Inn & Suites Los Angeles Airport-LAX provides space for meetings and copy/fax services are available. Guests can also enjoy free coffee and complimentary weekday newspapers. A free breakfast is provided with favorites such as waffles, eggs, cereals and fresh fruit. There are plenty of nearby fast food restaurants including El Pollo Loco, and WaBa grill. Baseball fans are 23 minutes by car from Dodger Stadium in downtown Los Angeles. An hour’s drive, Six Flags Magic Mountain offers thrilling rides and attractions. more
Hotel Royal Centurydeals from S$92
Hotel Hotel Royal Century Inglewood
Hotel Royal Century Hotel offers basic, no-frills accommodations in Inglewood, California. The hotel is situated three miles from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and 13 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Modest guestrooms feature cable TV with HBO, a small table and chairs, and free Wi-Fi. Guests can take a dip in the hotel’s outdoor swimming pool or relax in the courtyard garden. The 24-hour front desk is able to assist with tourist information and car rental. The hotel also features a luggage room and free covered parking. A basic complimentary breakfast is served each morning. Guests will find a number of casual dining options on Hawthorne Avenue and West Century Boulevard, both located nearby. Hotel Royal Century Hotel is one mile from the Forum entertainment venue and Hollywood Park Casino. Beverly Hills is ten miles from the hotel, while Santa Monica is twelve miles away. more
Wingate by Wyndham Los Angeles International Airportdeals from S$146
Hotel Wingate by Wyndham Los Angeles International Airport Inglewood
Wingate by Wyndham Los Angeles International Airport is a modern, mid-range hotel located of Interstate 405, 1.5 miles from the airport. Guest rooms boast contemporary décor. Free Wi-Fi, flat screen TV, air conditioning, minifridge, microwave, tea/coffee facilities, iron and ironing facilities, hairdryer, in-room safe, radio, alarm clock, easy chair and desk are standard. Wingate by Wyndham Los Angeles International Airport offers free parking. Fitness center, tennis court, complimentary newspaper, meeting rooms, business center, and dry cleaning services are a plus. Breakfast is included in your stay. There’s a fee for the airport shuttle. This airport hotel serves breakfast only and there is no restaurant or bar on premises. Try Casa Gamino for Mexican food or WaBa Grill for health food. Both restaurants are located close to the hotel. Blackacre State Nature Preserve, The Forum, The Automobile Driving Museum and Downtown Los Angeles are a short drive away. more
Hollywood Inn Express Lax Airport Moteldeals from S$98
Hotel Hollywood Inn Express Lax Airport Motel Inglewood
Offering a convenient, affordable option for guests who are in Los Angeles for a quick stopover, Hollywood Inn Express Lax Airport Motel is situated less than a ten-minute drive from Los Angeles International Airport. King or queen-sized beds are provided in each air-conditioned room, as well as in-room amenities including a microwave, mini fridge, and a flat-screen cable TV. The en-suite bathrooms include a bathtub and hairdryer. Hollywood Inn Express Lax Airport Motel features free Wi-Fi for guests to stay connected during their stay, as well as a 24-hour reception that is able to assist with arranging shuttle services. Complimentary parking is provided for all guests. A continental breakfast is offered free of charge every morning, which includes coffee, juice, pastries, and cereals. For guests wishing to dine out, Yoshinoya Inglewood is a four-minute walk away. Guests staying at Hollywood Inn Express Lax Airport Motel will be about 20 kilometres from downtown Los Angeles, and a 15-minute walk from Hollywood Park Casino. A trip to Alondra Golf Course will take about 15 minutes by car. more
Geneva Moteldeals from S$90
Hotel Geneva Motel Inglewood
Three blocks from the 405 freeway, Geneva Motel offers low-key, no-frills accommodations. The motel is located three miles from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Basic guestrooms come with king or queen-sized beds and are fitted with air conditioning. In-room amenities include refrigerator, microwave and cable TV. Some rooms also offer a dining table and chairs. The motel features a 24-hour front desk and offers free parking and free Wi-Fi. Guests looking for a quick drink or snack will find a 7-Eleven convenience store on the corner, whilst a number of casual dining options – including Carl’s Jr and Subway – are located across the street. Geneva Motel is one mile from The Forum, which hosts concerts and sporting events, and two miles from the Hollywood Park Casino. Guests will find the popular Venice and Santa Monica areas of Los Angeles 20 minutes up the freeway. more
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Nov. 28, 2019 / 3:00 AM
'Movies That Made Us' digs deep on 'Ghostbusters,' 'Die Hard,' more
Dan Aykroyd discusses "Ghostbusters" in Netflix's docuseries "The Movies That Made Us." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
"Ghostbusters" director Ivan Reitman discusses the film in Netflix's docuseries "The Movies That Made Us." File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI | License Photo
"Die Hard," starring Bruce Willis, is the subject of one episode of "The Movies That Made Us" on Netflix. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Nov. 28 (UPI) -- On his Netflix documentary series The Toys That Made Us, creator Brian Volk-Weiss spends one hour exploring the complete history of popular toys like He-Man, G.I. Joe and Barbie. Now he's taking that approach to films in The Movies That Made Us.
Like Toys, a season of The Movies That Made Us features four episodes. Season 1 will tackle the films Die Hard, Ghostbusters, Dirty Dancing and Home Alone. Volk-Weiss knows those all are movies that have been thoroughly covered -- on their own DVD extras and through outside sources -- but he was determined to uncover new information about each.
"We watched every Die Hard making of, DVD extra, everything," Volk-Weiss told UPI in a phone interview.
He added that the episodes would still cover the basics about the making of each film, but go further. "We can do 500 hours of research and find so much stuff that hasn't been covered and put that in, as well," Volk-Weiss said.
Volk-Weiss put his research to the test when he interviewed people who should have known everything there was to know about the movie in question. When he stumped them, he knew he was onto something.
"One of my favorite things is finding the president of a Ghostbusters fan club and saying, 'Do you know this?'" Volk-Weiss said. "[The president would reply,] 'No way, that's not true.' So we were able to do that because we were given the time and the budget to do that deep dive."
The series differs from other programs, such as CNN's The Movies, which looked at an entire decade in each two-hour episode. Volk-Weiss would rather spend one hour, but focus on an entire film.
"Why shortchange Die Hard by spending 20 minutes on Die Hard, 20 minutes on Under Siege, 20 minutes on Speed?" Volk-Weiss asked rhetorically. "There's enough to do an hour on all of those movies."
Most other movie documentaries, even behind-the-scenes DVD features, are simply talking heads recalling their experiences making the film. Netflix also gives Volk-Weiss the resources to visit filming locations, with the creators in tow. He said that will give The Movies That Made Us a new perspective on the classics.
"We were able to take Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd, put them on an airplane, fly them to New York and go back to the library, go back to the Ghostbusters house," Volk-Weiss said. "Certain stuff like that we could do that other docs couldn't do."
It's the same philosophy that made The Toys That Made Us unique.
"We were not the first people to make a documentary about Transformers," Volk-Weiss said. "So we're always working hard to make a better, cooler thing than had come before us."
The Toys That Made Us also was a strong calling card to solicit subjects to discuss their films with Volk-Weiss.
"Ivan Reitman was already a fan of the show and trusted us," Volk-Weiss said. "I was interviewing Ivan Reitman for about 90 minutes, and then he just looked at me and he goes, 'Hey Brian, are we going to talk about Ghostbusters?' So not many people are able to do that when they're doing an interview. We had the time."
Of the first four episodes, Volk-Weiss said he was most reticent to cover Dirty Dancing. By the time he finished the episode, it became the film about which he was most excited. The same thing happened on Toys, where Volk-Weiss said he was not a He-Man collector growing up.
"Just like the Seasons 1 and 2 of Toys, the one I was least excited about going in became my favorite episode," Volk-Weiss said. "Our Dirty Dancing episode might be the hour of content I've produced that I am the most proud of."
The Movies That Made Us premieres Friday on Netflix.
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Differentiated Teaching Approaches for Gifted Students
By Shahfizal Musa
Pix Shahiddan Said
BANGI, 16 Jan. 2012- Gifted students under the Permata Pintar programme will be taught using differentiated approaches most suited to each individual’s level of thinking to maximise their potentials.
Director of the Permata Pintar Negara Gifted Students Centre (PPN) at the National University Malaysia (UKM) here, Prof Dr Noriah Mohd Ishak said methods devised have to be interesting not only to help them learn but also retain what they have learnt.
She was speaking at the registration ceremony of the new intake for the programme at PPN today. A total of 128 gifted students aged 16 registered today for the two year programme.
They will be taught differently from normal schools. Each student have to take a test, to gauge their knowledge on a particular topic at the beginning of each class.
They will then be separated into groups with each group taught differently to maximise their knowledge at every lessons.
The two year programme is designed to produce thinkers who can pave the way for innovations. They are taught to apply their knowledge to solve problems by being innovative.
Apart from the academic programme the students will receive mentoring by researchers from the university. Their mentors will be selected based on their fields of interest. Dato’ Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha is one of the mentors for a few of the students .
After two years at the centre they will be given the choice to continue their studies overseas including in Ivy League Universities of the United States like Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) should they meet the requirements.
Deputy Director of PPN, Dr Melor Md Yunus; Head of Talent Management of PPN, Dr Siti Fatimah Mohd Yassin and the proud parents were present at the ceremony.ceremony.
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UMMC patients can check appointment status on toll-free line
Stringer, Robbins named finalists for UMMC vice chancellor
UMMC responds to city water crisis, continues patient care
UMMC to hold groundbreaking for School of Pharmacy
Waterline breaks close off-campus clinics, hospital operations continue unaffected
Comcast foundation awards grant to Friends of Children's Hospital for the Reach out and Read program
SouthGroup sponsors 5k run/walk for friends of Children's hospital
Chancellor Taps Veteran Faculty for Leadership Roles at Medical Center
Elementary students to receive free check-up for Give Kids a Smile Day
Huckabay joins UMMC surgery faculty
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In this March 2019 photo, Gwen Dew, nurse, examines Albert Russell's throat at the school-based clinic at South Delta Middle School.
By: Kate Royals, kroyals2@umc.edu
No day at the Lanier High Teen Wellness Clinic looks the same for the nurse practitioners and staff who work there.
Some students are regular visitors to the clinic. They come in to speak to a nurse, get food out of the food pantry, or pick up some deodorant and soap. When they’re sick or in need of a check-up, they visit the clinic right there in the school, which allows them to return to class and reduces absenteeism.
The clinic at Lanier provides critical services to young people who face major challenges to health care access. The same goes for the seven other school-based clinics in Jackson Public Schools and the South Delta School District run by the School of Nursing at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
At Lanier, the family nurse practitioner and other staff provide the high schoolers well-child checkups, sports physicals, health education and also see them for acute or episodic visits.
Dr. Valerie Bradley, principal at Lanier High school, says she couldn’t imagine not having the clinic.
“Our children come to school with a lot of physical and mental challenges, and all of those things threaten their well-being as well as their educational performance,” said Bradley.
Hunger, mental health challenges, and a lack of access to health care – whether because of transportation or financial challenges – can all be major barriers to learning.
“One definite benefit is I can send them right down the hall as opposed to somebody coming to check them out, and they may or may not come back that day,” said Bradley. “It keeps them in school, and we can make sure their mental and physical well-being is in check.”
But last fall, the finances of the school-based clinics were on shaky ground, and the survival of the clinics was in danger.
On top of that, the folks at Lanier and several other schools saw a real need for increased behavioral health services beyond what was provided at the time.
Enter Dr. Kayla Carr, an assistant professor of nursing at the School of Nursing who has a longtime relationship with the school-based clinics. Carr’s undergraduate research helped established the Mercy Delta Express clinics at Ripley Blackwell Head Start Center in Mayersville, South Delta Elementary School in Rolling Fork, South Delta Middle School in Anguilla and South Delta High School in Rolling Fork.
In this March 2019 photo, Sarah McGraw, a family nurse practitioner, checks Leilani Gray's abdomen as part of the South Delta Elementary School first grader's well-child exam.
She continued to work as a school nurse, then as a nurse practitioner, in the clinics. As a doctoral student, she did her dissertation on primary care and behavioral health integration, including exploring ways school nurses can improve behavioral health care.
In December, she saw a grant opportunity and jumped on it. Her initiative resulted in the awarding of a three-year, $1.5 million Health Resources and Services Administration grant.
“This funding will keep the clinics viable for at least another three years and give us time to re-think some of our structures and strategies to stay more sustainable, so it’s a great thing,” said Carr.
Dr. Julie Sanford, dean of the School of Nursing, said she and the entire school are thankful to HRSA and to those who donate to the clinics.
“These nurse-managed clinics are impacting students and faculty at the schools and leading to outstanding health outcomes,” she said. “We are so grateful to those who believe in the importance of these clinics.”
The funds will allow the clinic to hire a full-time psychiatric nurse practitioner to work alongside the family nurse practitioner at Lanier and the other school-based health clinics when necessary. The new nurse practitioner will provide services such as screening, medication management and counseling in person and via telehealth.
He or she will also implement a coping skills program for 5th and 8th graders. The program will teach students how to manage their stress and mood, positive communication strategies and when and how to seek professional help.
The grant is also allowing the providers to use the digital mental health platform Silvercloud – a tool that could be crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty about what school will look like the next academic year.
After the school abruptly shut down in March, students lost access to many of the resources the clinic offered.
“We anticipate that all those problems we left in March are only going to be magnified by the pandemic,” said Carr.
Carr said the Silvercloud app and other telehealth services made possible by the grant are going to be “an important bridge” until students and staff return to Lanier.
Students can do daily check-ins and communicate with school clinic staff through the app, which also offers interactive strategies for improving their mood.
Dr. Anne Norwood, clinical director for the Jackson school-based clinics and associate dean for practice and partnerships for the School of Nursing, said she is thankful for Carr’s initiative in applying for and getting the grant.
“The beauty of these clinics is they support the mission of UMMC through education, research and practice,” said Norwood. “We have students from different disciplines who gain valuable urban and rural clinical experiences in medically underserved areas of our state through these clinics. We’re not only a source of health care but also a source of interprofessional education” for students in nursing, medicine, social work and more.
Haynie
Dr. Lisa Haynie, director of the Delta clinics, said she is ecstatic her district’s four clinics will continue to operate thanks to a large anonymous donation coupled with community donations and support from the Mississippi Department of Education, which also helps fund the Jackson school-based clinics.
“We’re excited about the upcoming school year and that we’re able to continue providing these services to the children that we love and adore,” said Haynie.
The care that Carr, Haynie, Norwood and all of the staff members of the school clinics doesn’t go unnoticed by administrators, teachers and parents.
Bradley, who’s been in K-12 education for more than 10 years, said she has a firm belief: truly helping someone requires caring for him or her.
The staff at the clinic always cares and helps.
“The clinic presents that kind of atmosphere,” she said. “Not only will they reach out to the children, but to their families.”
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How Much Does Hairstylist Training Cost?
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by Scott Miller Last updated Jul. 13, 2020
$ Medium: Around $8,000 $ $ High: $15,000-$20,000+
Hairstylists provide various services at salons and spas – they color and cut hair, they style hair for different special occasions, and they offer advice on home hair care for their clients.
The hairstylists can further be trained in the art of makeup application and massage techniques such as scalp massages.
Training is needed to become a hairstylist, and its tuition varies based on the training programs at private technical programs and training programs at state-funded community colleges; however, all programs should train students how to work as a hairstylist.
On the lower end of the scale, students pay around $8,000 for tuition, books, and fees, while on the higher end of the scale, the costs can exceed $20,000.
The average tuition costs at the Aveda Institute are approx. $17,000 for tuition in a 1,700-hour program.
The tuition at community colleges can be less expensive than at private schools for in-state students.
For example, at Everett Community College in Washington State, the tuition fee is approx. $7,500 for a 93-hour program for an associate’s degree; while the tuition costs are significantly higher for out-of-state students or about $23,000.
In general, schools offer hair cutting and styling, coloring and permanents training.
As an extra to hair care, some schools provide training in skincare, haircare, and makeup application.
The training starts in the classroom and then moves to wigs and mannequins, and after that to real people at the beauty school’s salon.
The program length requirements vary in each state and are around 1,500 hours (for example, the requirement in Louisiana) and reputable training programs should meet these requirements.
Certain schools include access to job banks and other job placement services.
The hairstylists must be licensed, and fees for a license vary by state, but in general, the fees are less than $100.
Renewals are required every one to two years and are typically under $100 as well.
State exams are as a rule part of the licensing requirements.
The state exam requirements vary by state, where California charges $110-$125 for its exam, and Kentucky charges only $75 for its exam.
The book costs for the barbering programs are what students usually pay at community colleges or several hundred dollars per semester.
The sum available to students varies significantly by a program – some schools provide federal financial aid such as Pell Grants, Stafford loans and PLUS loans.
Other schools provide aid through the veteran’s benefits.
One should make a check with the financial aid office at each school for information on specific programs.
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Some states, such as West Virginia and Arizona, present accredited schools on their state licensing board websites.
The state licensing boards keep pass/fail rates for licensing exams for graduates of programs in their state.
Many of the private schools require contact information such as e-mail address and phone number, as well as addresses before they release tuition costs to prospective students.
Admissions offices can have information on the success of the past graduates in the school, including the pass rates for the state exam and the rates of the job placement.
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Practices resume Wednesday, November 11, after last Sunday's Cancellation
We received confirmation from BC Speed Skating Association that we may resume practices under Phase 2 Return to Sport guidelines.
Our club has been operating under Phase 2 guidelines since we re-opened in October, so please continue the great job you have been doing to keep everyone safe.
As our season continues, please continue to follow the direction of our Safety Coordinators:
Michael Mong (Wednesdays)
June Lum (Sundays)
Before arriving at practice, please complete our online Pre-Screening questionnaire, on the day of practice. Our Safety Officer will verify this has been completed before allowing entry to the arena.
Skaters are asked to arrive at the arena fully dressed for practice apart from their skates.
Please arrive no later than the "Enter Rink" times listed for your practice on the Club Website. Parent volunteers are needed for putting mats on an off the ice and other safety duties.
If you do not have an official volunteer role, you maybe asked to leave the arena at the start of practice and remain nearby until practice is finished.
Detailed COVID-19 protocols can be found on our Club Website
Special Olympians Return to VSSC!
We're so happy that our Special Olympics skaters are back with us again, starting with tonight's practice! Huge thank you to June Lum, and others, for working so hard to make this happen. June was recognized as a 2020 Community Sport Champion by the City of Vancouver. Check out her video here, filmed last season before COVID distancing protocols.
June Lum awarded 2020 Community Sport Champion
June Lum, our Liaison Officer with Special Olympics of BC (SOBC), and a parent volunteer, has received one of five 2020 Community Sport Champion awards, in recognition of her tireless support in making the sport of Speed Skating accessible to Special Olympians. The award also comes with a $5000 grant in support of our Club.
Since joining the Vancouver Speed Skating Club in 2014, June has been instrumental in engaging many SOBC athletes to participate in speed skating. In addition her enthusiasm in promoting the sport within the SOBC community, she uses her ever-positive and infectious can-do attitude to smooth-out any administrative wrinkles in a timely and accurate manner.
Congratulations: June! Well-deserved!
The City of Vancouver Council recognizes those who dedicate themselves to "making sport accessible in our community" by the annual Vancouver Community Sport Recognition Program: scroll down to learn more of June's significant contributions
Michael Mong receives BC Speed Skating 2020 Presidents Award
Any of us who know Michael and his volunteer work will not be surprised that he was selected by BC Speed Skating to receive the 2020 President's Award. These awards are given to volunteers from Sport BC organizations who demonstrate "the spirit of volunteerism through the dedication, commitment, and tireless energy they give to their sport organizations".
Michael is well-known in the speed skating community for his fabulous photos of speed skaters. He volunteers his time and the sale of his photos provide funds for the Vancouver Club.
You can see his amazing work at the Vancouver Speed Skating Club's SmugMug site.
Were it not for the COVID-19 outbreak, Michael would have been celebrated at this year's Sport BC Athlete of the Year Awards night, on March 12, 2020.
Congratulations Michael, and thank you for all you do for speed skating in British Columbia!
Success at Canadian Youth Long Track Championships
Charlotte Sernoski, one of our long-standing club skaters, won a Gold medal at the Canadian Youth Long Track Championships, held in Red Deer, Alberta, on the weekend of February 8-9.
Charlotte placed first in the 7-Lap Mass Start, a race of 3000 metres and 16 skaters on the starting line.
She finished in 4th place overall in the T2T (Train-to-Train) 14 year old Female Division.
Team BC skated hard, won many medals and and had a great time in Red Deer, Alberta.
Congratulations to Charlotte and her BC Teammates!
VSSC Graciously Accepts Donation from Rick Hansen Group
We would like to acknowledge and thank George and Annabelle Gaffney, of the Rick Hansen Foundation, for donating $1000 to our Club.
We would also like to thank Sasha Faris for coordinating with the Rick Hansen Foundation.
VSSC Wins Podium Tracker Program from Intact Insurance
We'd like to extend our gratitude to Intact Insurance, for having named us a winner of the Podium Tracker Program. The award is accompanied by a $5000 grant.
Our thanks also go to Ed Sernoski and Beth Elliot for their work in applying for the grant.
Adam Ingle named 2017 viaSport Coach of the Year
We are proud to announce that our Head Coach, Adam Ingle, has been selected as ViaSport's 2017 Coach of the Year in the Regional/Provincial Development Category. This award considers coaches from all sports across BC!
Adam is recognized for his dedication and commitment to coaching in British Columbia. He was selected for outstanding achievement in his category and for his unique contribution to the advancement and well-being of athletes and their sport. The award recognizes contributions the coach has made to sport in British Columbia over a number of years.
Adam was honoured at the 2018 BC Sports Hall of Fame Induction Gala, on May 31, 2018.
The Coach of the Year Awards were founded by the Coaches Association of BC, funded by the Bob Bearpark Foundation. The Foundation continues to support viaSport in providing recognition awards for BC coaches in the following categories: Recreational/Grassroots, Regional/Provincial Development and International.
Congratulations, Adam, we all know you deserve this award!
Concussions
Concussion prevention, recognition and return to sport protocols have been heavily featured in the media over the past few years. Speed Skating Canada has a webpage dedicated to Concussions/Brain Injuries, which provides speed skating specific education and resources for coaches, officials, club administrators and parents.
Within BC, the BCSSA Concussion Protocol must be followed at all sanctioned events. The protocol includes the administration of the Concussion Recognition Tool and the provision of the BCSSA Suspected Concussion Form. When skaters attend sanctioned competitions and meets, the entry form requires an acknowledgement that the BCSSA Concussion Protocol has been read.
Laying the Track
A 100m and a 111m track has been set at the Kitsilano Ice Rink ready for the start of the 2015 season. More information about how 11m tracks are laid out can be found here!
Intact Insurance Award
For the 2014-15 Season, our Club received a $1,000 award from Intact Insurance's Podium Tracker Program which supports our national athletes and the regional clubs.
Check out all of the recipients in the video.
BCSSA AGM and dry land training opportunities
The BCSSA's AGM and Excellence Retreat will be held on May 22, 23, and 24 (Fri eve - Sun midday) in Richmond. This year in addition to the AGM, there is an opportunity for skaters to train with High Performance coaches on and off ice, and meet Olympian silver medalist Jessica Hewitt. For coaches, or those parents who want to grow into the role of a coach, there is a similar variety of events. Please take a look at the following link which has full details and registration information.
http://www.speed-skating.bc.ca/agm/
Dry land training is now up and running on Sunday mornings in Connaught Park just outside the rink. Meet at 9am for 1.5 to 2 hours of training on technical aspects of short track and conditioning exercises too. For more information, please contact Alex at straussal@yahoo.com
Year End Party and AGM
The Year End Party and AGM will be held on Sunday, April 12 between 3pm and 5:30pm at the Kitsilano Community Centre.
Year End Skate Dates & Events
Here are the dates for the last practices of the year:
Sunday, March 8 - skating cancelled, unless some parents are willing to lead the practice (one older skater will help out if the session goes ahead). Notify me by Saturday, noon if you can help.
Wednesday, March 11; Sunday, March 15; Wednesday, March 18 - NO SKATE
Sunday, March 22 - trial skate for new skaters - we will need some volunteer parents to help with the boot-fitting and older skaters to help on ice.
Wednesday, March 25 - Last skate, games and boot-return.
More details will follow about the trial skate and boot-return.
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Business Cloud
VersAccounts won the GOLD STEVIE® New Product or Service of the Year – Software – Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution.
Finances Online
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This FrontRunners analysis is a data-driven assessment identifying products in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software market.
Best in Biz Awards 2017
VersAccounts ltd. has been named a Silver winner in Start-up of the Year category in Best in Biz Awards.
Global Bike Part
Railroad Equipment Assembly & Distribution
Prior System: SAP Business One
Jon owns a railroad equipment assembly and distribution company. His company used to be part of a multi-national business. A few years ago, the parent company decided to spin-off Jon’s business unit and sold it to him. The company had deployed SAP on a mainframe computer for their ERP solution.
High on Jon’s list of must have capabilities was the ability of his ERP system to support the complete set of capabilities needed by a complex distribution business all in one system – drop-shipping, shipping and receiving, flexible order packing for complicated invoices, large multi-level bill of materials, and multiple ship-to addresses for a single customer.
Learn how the Express Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system would meet the needs of his new business at less than one-tenth of the cost of a traditional ERP system like SAP Business One.
Summary Of Requirements
Large/Complex Bill of Materials (BOMs)
Multiple Addresses per Location
Multi-Level Sub-Projects
Invoices / Collection
Bills / Payments
Prior System: Sage 50 US, Sage 50 Canada
Erin’s SaaS company, providing marketers with the next generation of Social Media Marketing tools, has two subsidiaries – one in the USA and another in Canada. Customers can subscribe to the company’s products through the company’s website.
The independent financials that each company created in their respective Sage 50 systems were created manually in a spreadsheet so that the proper group tax filings could be made in the USA. This approach worked well in the initial stages of the company’s life cycle. However, once the company’s product hit the market they quickly outgrew the system. It was no longer feasible to manually create each invoice every month and manually email it to the customer.
Learn how the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system allowed Erin to address this concern and put it aside so she could focus on building her business.
Two Companies
Different Home Currencies
Financial Consolidation
Prior System: QuickBooks Enterprise
Jennifer experienced growth beyond her expectations. The internet arrived and she embraced it to expand the sales of her products beyond traditional channels like her retail store and regional distributors, to a global customer base via E-commerce. To do that she had a custom ecommerce site built.
But despite that, Manufacturing costs were not easily tracked. Information was inconsistent and incomplete. The business quickly reached a point where it was no longer possible to grow without a change in the business system
Find out how the Power Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system with custom e-commerce, email, credit card gateway, and bank integration met all of the requirements to slice and dice data to gain competitive insights into her business.
Custom E-Commerce Store
Enhanced Inventory
FIFO & Average Cos
Fractional Units of Measurement (UoM)
Product Specific Conversion Factors
Production Orders
Available / Short Calculation
Substitution / Adjustment
Prior System: MYOB, Sage 50, QuickBooks Enterprise, and others...
James runs a global agricultural chemical manufacturing company that manufactures and distributes a variety of products. It has five different subsidiaries that each manufacture and distribute one or more products for their region as well as for global markets.
With a business that is expanding to new geographies, James’ company needed a system that would let him manage five different subsidiaries. But their existing system operated more like a collection of independent entities that didn’t manifest integration.
Learn how the Power Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system, with custom forms and reports for each entity, as well as email, credit card gateway and bank integration, provides the system he needs to continue his expansion to new geographies.
Five Companies
Cross Location Inventory Sharing
PAN Entity Capabilities
FIFO & Average Costing
Fractional Unit of Measurement
Available/Short Calculation
Substitution/Adjustment
Prior System: xTuple
Suzanna is passionate about high-quality bedding and started manufacturing and selling fine linen from a retail location in NY. Originally, she sold to wholesalers, but over time she set up retail stores in several states in the US. Eventually, she discovered the power of the internet and set up an e-commerce shopping cart
This was made possible by deploying Xtuple, Imonggo POS, and Shopify. But this type of system becomes expensive to maintain, difficult to migrate, & unintegrated. One of the consequences was that an e-commerce order may remain unfulfilled (or worse get canceled) because headquarters does not know that a store in another state had inventory.
Find out how the Power Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system with Shopify and Imonggo, email, credit card gateway and bank integration provides a platform that lets her manage her business with capabilities that many larger companies don’t have.
Multiple E-Commerce Stores
Multiple Retail Locations
Imonggo POS
Inventory Transfers
Landed Cost
Distribution Across Receipts
3PL Workflow - In / Outbound
Global Bike Parts Distribution
Prior System: QuickBooks Enterprise, Agiliron, ShipStation
Brett owns a small but fast-growing company that is doing things that even his biggest competitors can't do. They sell bike parts and accessories to distributors (B2B) & to end customers directly (B2C).
He used to deploy different systems and add-ons to run different aspects of his business: QuickBooks Enterprise to manage his financials, Agiliron (QuickBooks add-on) to manage his inventory, and ShipStation for shipping. But Brett encountered the same problem that many add-on users face. It didn’t provide the data synchronization needed to operate efficiently.
Discover how the Infinity Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system with integrations for email, e-commerce, credit card gateway, shippers, and bar code scanners formed a solid foundation for his future plans.
Independent Sales Reps
Customer Specific Capabilities
Retail Feed
Inventory Levels
Orders / Confirmation
Advanced Warehouse Management
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Assembly & Distribution
Owner: Jon
Jon owns a railroad equipment assembly and distribution company. His company used to be part of a much larger, multi-national business. Then, a few years ago the parent company decided to spin-off Jon’s business unit and sold it to him.
The parent company had deployed SAP on a mainframe computer for their ERP solution. The same SAP capabilities were needed by Jon in his new business, but his much smaller company did not have a SAP sized budget.
The ability to track gross margins on a sales order basis was also critical for his business. The system needed to be able to track all revenues and expenses arising from a sales order to ensure that each sale was profitable on its own. The system also needed the ability to ensure all sales orders we completely delivered and all delivered items we invoiced and paid for so that revenue leakage was prevented via items falling through the cracks.
Unlike traditional ERP systems, the VersAccounts software did not have to be customized for Jon’s business. This was because the technologies used to build the VersAccounts solution have evolved over the past several decades to support configuration via option settings and an application programming interface (API). This is a huge improvement over the traditional way customization was accomplished by re-writing parts of the business system software (source code) itself.
Based on a careful evaluation, Jon found that the Express Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system would meet the needs of his new business at less than one-tenth of the cost of a traditional ERP system like SAP Business One. No integrations with third-party, add-on products were required because of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system already has all of the capabilities Jon needed.
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Owner: Erin
After a long career working for Fifth Avenue advertising icon, Erin decided to start a SaaS company providing marketers like herself with the next generation of Social Media Marketing tools. The company she set up has two subsidiaries – one in the USA and another in Canada. Customers can subscribe to the company’s products through the company’s website. These products are offered à la carte allowing customers to pick and choose which service(s) fit their business needs. Billing is monthly based on use instead of fixed price.
To launch their service, the company needed a provisioning and billing system. This system would manage the signup process, provision the servers and software tools the customer would be using, track the customer’s usage, and finally bill the customers. They decided to build the provisioning and billing solution themselves and paired with two Sage 50 systems for accounting (Sage 50 US – Peachtree Accounting Quantum, and Sage 50 Canada – Simply Accounting Enterprise).
Each month customer usage data was manually transferred from the provisioning and billing system to the Sage, after which invoices were manually created and sent to the customer.
Besides the independent financials that each company created in their respective Sage 50 systems, a consolidated set of financials were also created manually in a spreadsheet so that the proper group tax filings could be made in the USA.
In addition, because remote access was required to both systems, the company needed to have the Sage systems hosted by a local cloud hosting provider – an additional cost of almost 3x the cost of the software itself.
This approach worked well in the initial stages of the company’s life cycle. However, once the company’s product hit the market they quickly outgrew the system. It was no longer feasible to manually create each invoice every month and manually email it to the customer. Also, it was no longer feasible to create consolidated financials only once a month; these were needed in real-time, any time. Finally, accessing the Sage systems via Microsoft Remote Desktop or Citrix was slow because the Sage systems were not designed to operate efficiently over the web.
In an attempt to make the system work better, they tried integrating the Provisioning and Billing system with the Sage systems, so that usage data could be transferred electronically. It was impossible. It was also impossible to automate the creation of invoices in the Sage system. Sending invoices from Sage to the customers and having them paid online was also deemed infeasible.
The solution to these difficulties was to replace the two Sage 50 systems, as well as the many spreadsheets that company had developed, with a single multi-entity VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP product. It allowed both subsidiaries to operate independently in their home currencies and supported financial consolidation in real-time, eliminating the manual creation of consolidated reports and once a month reporting. Performance was snappy as the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system is based on modern cloud technologies and operates natively in a browser without the need for access via Microsoft Remote Desktop or Citrix.
The deployment of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system was planned in phases. The focus of Phase 1 was consolidated financials via the Express Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system. Phase 2 was based on the Power Edition and focused on automating the delivery of invoices to customers via integrated email, as well as accepting online payments via integration with a credit card gateway. The focus of Phase 3 was on integrating the company’s proprietary Provisioning and Billing software with the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system so that the entire process of invoicing and getting paid could be 100% automated.
For Erin, scaling the business infrastructure was always a big worry. She knew manual processes were fine to start with however automation was required for growth. The VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system allowed Erin to address this concern and put it aside so she could focus on building her business. On top of that, the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP solution cost less than half of what she was paying previously. No need for Citrix and no need for hosting services.
Soap and Lotion Manufacture
Owner: Jennifer
FIFO & Average Cost
Jennifer experienced growth beyond her expectations. The internet arrived and she embraced it to expand the sales of her products beyond traditional channels like her retail store and regional distributors, to a global customer base via E-commerce. To do that she had a custom ecommerce site built
Simultaneously with the move to QuickBooks Enterprise, Jennifer also realized she needed to put the business online. To do that she had a custom e-commerce site built. Those were still early days and off-the-shelf e-commerce platforms like Shopify and Magento were unavailable. Still, despite these improvements, a lot of work had to be done manually. Orders from the e-commerce site had to be typed manually into the QuickBooks system. Product names, numbers, details, pricing had to be maintained in the e-commerce system and QuickBooks.
Manufacturing costs were not easily tracked. Information was inconsistent and incomplete. The business quickly reached a point where it was no longer possible to grow without a change in the business system. The main requirements of the new business system centered around eliminating as many manual processes and duplicate information silos as possible and making information available in real-time so that decisions could be made quickly.
The custom e-commerce system had to be integrated with the new system so that orders, payment information, tracking details, and product information could flow back and forth electronically. In the future, it should be possible to have multiple e-commerce shops as well as integrations with services like eBay and Amazon. Accepting credit card payments had to be possible within the new system as well as integration with the company’s banks via ACH.
For operations, the production process had to be supported within the system, and spreadsheets had to be eliminated. Fractional batches and lot tracking through the production process was a key requirement as was FIFO inventory costing. The system had to track and recommend the exact lot that had to be used in the production process. Fractional UoM was a key requirement with 6 digits of precision required.
Beyond operational requirements, Jennifer required the ability to slice and dice data to gain competitive insights into her business. The dimensional tagging capability in the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system appealed to her as a very powerful way to quickly get the information she needed at any level of detail that she wanted.
For Jennifer, the Power Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system with custom e-commerce, email, credit card gateway, and bank integration met all of the requirements. Integrations were made electronic, and manual transfer and management of data were eliminated; spreadsheets were eliminated. Most importantly, she was able to get powerful custom reporting which provided insights that allowed her to take her business to the next level.
Her parents’ first accounting system for the business was Quicken. That was in the late 1980s. That was followed by an upgrade to the original DOS-based version of QuickBooks, then Windows-based QuickBooks Pro in 2005, and finally QuickBooks Enterprise in 2012 (when Jennifer took over), a change she made that they could stop using spreadsheets for inventory management. Spreadsheets and a custom-built software system were still used for manufacturing.
Owner: James
James runs a global agricultural chemical manufacturing company that manufactures and distributes a variety of products. It has five different subsidiaries that each manufacture and distribute one or more products for their region as well as for global markets.The company originally ran Sage 50 Quantum US (Peachtree Accounting) in its US headquarters. On expanding to Canada they deployed Sage 50 Quantum Canada (Simply Accounting). Further expansions caused deployments of other local systems in each country in which a new subsidiary was set up. Besides accounting systems, additional add-ons for manufacturing were deployed, custom software was created, and spreadsheets were used.
This resulted in silos of information at each subsidiary that could not be accessed by other locations. While the company was global, it still operated like a collection of independent smaller entities, and this disconnect threatened their competitiveness.
The arrival of cloud-based solutions caused management to seek a solution that could harvest its benefits. They envisioned a single system that supported all the subsidiaries including:
Real-time availability of information at any subsidiary at any time from any device
The ability to leverage the combined size of the company in purchasing contracts
The ability to coordinate manufacturing across locations
The ability to fulfill orders from the most convenient location
They also hoped that add-on software packages could be eliminated, as well as custom software and excel spreadsheets. But at the same time, they wanted each company to be able to operate as an independent entity, in its own home currency, conforming to its local laws and tax codes, using local languages and documentation (including document formats and wording).
For James, the Power Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system, with custom forms and reports for each entity, as well as email, credit card gateway and bank integration, provides the system he needs to continue his expansion to new geographies. The VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system eliminates the silos of information that made decision making very difficult in the past and provides a real-time view of the business upon which better decisions can be made.
Owner: Suzanna
Suzanna is passionate about high-quality bedding and started manufacturing and selling fine linen from a retail location in NY. Originally, she sold to wholesalers, but over time she set up retail stores in several states in the US. Eventually, she discovered the power of the internet and set up an e-commerce shopping cart.
This was made possible by deploying Xtuple, Imonggo POS, and Shopify. But this type of system becomes expensive to maintain, difficult to migrate, & unintegrated. One of the consequences was that an e-commerce order may remain unfulfilled (or worse get canceled) because headquarters does not know that a store in another state had inventory
Suzanna is passionate about high-quality bedding and started manufacturing and selling fine linen from a retail location in NY. Originally, she sold to wholesalers, but over time she set up retail stores in several states in the US. Eventually, she discovered the power of the internet as a way to reach a global customer base and set up an e-commerce shopping cart.
For business systems, she had deployed Xtuple (Open Source ERP system) for accounting at her headquarters, which they ran on local servers. Retail stores deployed Imonggo POS to take and process orders and manage inventory at the store. For the e-commerce store they used Shopify. Besides store inventory that is managed by the Imonggo system, inventory was also stored at the headquarters and with a 3PL. This inventory was managed within the xTuple System.
This system has served them well over the years. However, with each passing year, the system becomes more and more expensive to maintain. Open-source ERP consultants are in high demand, so having someone come in and fix a problem and/or upgrade the software is expensive. In addition, since the system has been customized over the years, it becomes harder and harder to migrate to something else if it is required. And more expensive. On top of that, nothing is integrated. All data has to be re-keyed to transfer it from one system to another.
Other than that, access to information was not real-time. Data had to be manually collected from each location once a week, then consolidated in spreadsheets, before one can get a good overview of the business. One of the consequences was that an e-commerce order may remain unfulfilled (or worse get canceled) because headquarters does not know that a store in another state had inventory.
This situation was remedied by a VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system. Shopify ecommerce, Imonggo POS, the 3PL, credit card gateways and banks were integrated into a single system. This allows Suzanna’s company to hold inventory in as many locations as she chooses so that she can fulfill orders from the most convenient location possible. This gave her capabilities that many larger companies don’t have. In addition, manual data transfers were no longer needed, saving money and time, and eliminating errors including sometimes extremely high costs associated with mistakes.
For Suzanna, the Power Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system with Shopify and Imonggo, email, credit card gateway and bank integration provides a platform upon which she can take the next step in the company’s journey. This includes the management of multiple e-commerce shopping carts from VersAccounts, as well as the Dealer Portal and associated catalog, to enable self-service among her wholesale customers.
Owner: Brett
Brett has a small but fast-growing company that is doing things that even his biggest competitors can't do. His company is a master distributor - a distributor to distributors (B2B) – for bike parts and accessories. He also sells to end customers directly (B2C).
When he started his business, he deployed QuickBooks Enterprise to manage his financials, Agiliron (QuickBooks add-on) to manage his inventory, and ShipStation for shipping.
Unfortunately, for Brett he had the same problem that many add-on users face. The integrations were not very reliable. Data in each of the systems was not synchronized. The biggest problem was getting vendors of these systems to accept ownership for problems. Each one pointed to the other and nothing got done. All the while customers suffered as did the business. In searching for a system, Brett looked for a vendor who would deliver solution without pointing fingers. Beyond that, he was looking for a single cloud product without the need for add-ons.
Since Brett had aggressive expansion plans, with respect to his B2B business, having a dealer portal was important to him. It would allow dealers to log in directly to his business system, browse through products, check inventory levels, and purchase on terms that were unique to them. In addition, it had to support Independent Sales Representatives. These reps would manage dealers via a Sales Rep Portal; including monitoring the activities of assigned dealers, placing orders on their behalf, and tracking their orders for them.
Brett’s B2B business included dealing with retail chains. To support these chains Brett needed the system to offer a real-time feed of product inventory levels. The chains, in turn, could make these products available on their own websites, as well as in their POS systems.
At the same time, Brett also planned to aggressively grow his B2C business. His plans included expanding his online presence to multiple owned sites, as well as eBay, Amazon, and Walmart. The ability to manage multiple e-commerce sites from a single ERP system was essential.
Finally, since Brett shipped product all over the world, it was important that the pick-pack-ship process be such that the chances of shipping the wrong item (requiring replacement) were completely eliminated; via the use of bar-code scanners at every stage of the shipping process.
For Brett, the Infinity Edition of the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system with integrations for email, e-commerce, credit card gateway, shippers, and bar code scanners formed a solid foundation for his future plans. In addition, the VersAccounts Small Business Cloud ERP system eliminated the Agiliron and ShipStation add-ons. Finally, customizations not previously possible could be made via the VersAccounts API, allowing Brett to get a solution that was well-tailored to support his business now and well into the future.
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To launch their service, the company needed a provisioning and billing system. This system would manage the signup process, provision the servers and software tools the customer would be using, track the customer’s usage, and finally bill the customers. They decided to build the provisioning and billing solution themselves and paired with two Sage 50 systems for accounting (Sage 50 US - Peachtree Accounting Quantum, and Sage 50 Canada - Simply Accounting Enterprise).
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The world knows DJ Esco as Future’s DJ, but would we know Future if it weren’t for Esco’s musical input? There is no definitive answer to that question, but this Esco-curated Future album is clear evidence of their collaborative bond. Future appears on every song on Kolorblind, rapping alongside peers like Ty Dolla $ign and Young Thug as well as opposite ends of the NYC rap spectrum, A Boogie wit da Hoodie and Nas. The production ranges from laidback and plodding (“Warzone”) to all the way turned up (“Bring It Out”). Like a Future concert, Kolorblind delivers a wide swath of what the two are capable of together.
1. No Slow Money (feat. Future & Young Thug)
2. Xotic (feat. Future, Rich the Kid & Young Thug)3
3. Chek (feat. Future)
4. Light Show (feat. Future & Guap Tarantino)
5. Warzone (feat. Future)
6. Walk Thru (feat. Nas & Future)
7. Showed You (feat. Young Thug, Future, A Boogie wit da Hoodie & DeJ Loaf)
8. Bring It Out (feat. O.T. Genasis & Future)
9. Code of Honor (feat. Future & ScHoolboy Q)
10. Psychedelik Smoke (feat. Future & Ty Dolla $ign)
11. Fuk Faces (feat. Future)
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The Ferry Building was completed in 1898. The exterior facade facing the Embarcadero was clad in Colusa sandstone, which was quarried at the Knowles Quarry near Sites, California. The building’s base, which is constructed of granite, was quarried at the Leahy & Turner Quarry in Victorville, California. The building’s clocktower was also originally wrapped in Colusa sandstone, while the decorative setbacks at the tower’s top were clad in painted sheetmetal. The Colusa sandstone has a greenish-grey color, and is a porous stone.
The Ferry Building was one of the few structures in downtown San Francisco to survive the 1906 earthquake. The clocktower suffered the most extensive damage and was rebuilt with a concrete exterior, and damaged stone was repaired or replaced in the lower part of the building. At that time, the clocktower was painted a lighter color than the Colusa sandstone in the lower part of the building.
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Knightsbrook Hotel Spa & Golf Resort
Trim, Co. Meath
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Brian Boshell Golf School
18 holes. Open parkland. Gently undulating terrain - a few slopes to climb
Woodland and open countryside.
Christy O'Connor Jr.
37 km NW of Dublin
2 km from the centre of Trim, heading south-east on the Dublin road (R154).
Knightsbrook
Knightsbrook Golf Club
Knightsbrook Golf Club is home to a relatively new parkland addition to the excellent golfing scene around Dublin. It also extends the fine lineage of courses designed by Christy O'Connor Jnr, one of Ireland's legendary Ryder Cup heroes. At times quite open, at others more tree-lined, the layout here is both challenging and creative, with nine small lakes and the meandering Knightsbrook river threatening on several holes.
The course's gently undulating terrain provides plenty of interest and pleasant views onto the surrounding County Meath countryside. With the par-3s coming at the 3rd and 5th on the front-nine, and the 16th and 18th on the inward nine, the middle section of this layout, with its series of excellently crafted par-4s and 5s, is guaranteed to thoroughly test your game from tee to green.
Must book in advance.
Visitor fee, 18-holes in high-season (April thru' Oct): weekdays €35; weekends €45.
Credit cards accepted. Contact club for full details, discounts, Stay&Play packages, etc. [Last updated: 2018].
Knightsbrook's reputation is already growing and will be further enhanced as the host venue for the 2011 Junior Solheim Cup.
Knightsbrook Hotel Spa & Golf Resort4-star
Dublin Road, Trim, Co. Meath
Set in 186 acres of rolling parkland, Knightsbrook Hotel Spa & Golf Resort offers a contemporary 4-star hotel, fully equipped health club with swimming pool, River Spa, Christy O'Connor Jr designed golf course and self-catering Courtyard homes, all located a short distance from Dublin in the picturesque heritage town of Trim. Knightsbrook is a member of the Cusack Hotels group.
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How to french braid
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Braid has been one of the most popular women’s hairstyles for centuries. This term refers to the hairdo made of 2 or 3 strands of hair, braided together, secured at the end against untangling. Over the years, many types have been invented, from classic braids, upholstered to more complex, demanding and quite dexterity. How to make a french braid?
Braid are trendy again
Braided hairstyles are back in fashion! The braid is associated with folk tradition, and yet everything that is folk and rustic is now especially hot! Folk accents appear on clothes (embroidery, prints reflecting folk patterns), as well as on accessories (bags of beads or leather with cut-out panels). The return of the braids was therefore only a matter of time. Braids perfectly match the boho style, strongly associated with summer and festival style!
French braid – how to make it and where it comes from
A French braid is nothing more than a selected braid. It is also called the African braid because of its true origin. The French braid was born in northern Africa, and only later was adopted by women from France. The oldest evidence of the art of braiding comes from Algeria and dates to 6,000 years. The same style of hair matching has also appeared in Greek culture (an example is Kuros statues). The term “French braid” appeared in 1871 in the American women’s magazine “Arthur’s Home Magazine” as a novelty among fashionable hairstyles.
How to make a French braid
We choose 3 thin strands from the top of the head.
We translate the first from the edge over the middle one.
The same thing is repeated with a highlight from the opposite side.
We return to the previous page. Again, we translate the extreme band over the middle one, but this time we choose some loose hair for it.
The same on the other side – we put the extreme strand over the middle one and choose some loose hair for it.
We repeat the same thing until we run out of hair to choose. We finish with a classic braid. We tie the end with an elastic band and it’s ready.
Other braids
The classic braid that was once called the Greek braid differs from the one selected only by the fact that we do not divide the hair on the crown into three parts, but into two parts.
Dutch braid
A Dutch braid is an inverted selected braid. Effect? It is convex, so it looks like it is on top. The Dutch braid is a more modern version of the selected braid. Recently it has become particularly fashionable due to the spectacular weave associated with boxing style. The braid has long ceased to be associated with the ethereal, innocent appearance of young girls. Now it is also a symbol of modern and strong women. How to make a Dutch braid? First, as in the case of regular match, we separate three strands of hair. Then we put them one by one under the middle band, at the same time we select the next strands and add them to the strands from the main braid. It’s quite a difficult weave, so it’s worth watching the instructional video first.
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Smith named 2016 Yearbook Adviser of the Year by JEA January 23, 2017
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Smith named 2016 Yearbook Adviser of the Year by JEA
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Nancy Smith, MJE, adviser at Lafayette High School in Wildwood, Missouri, was named the 2016 H.L. Hall Yearbook Adviser of the Year by the Journalism Education Association (JEA) on Monday.
JEA, an educational organization for journalism advisers, bestows this top honor annually on a high school yearbook adviser in recognition of their work in scholastic journalism in their school and across the country throughout their career.
Smith has advised the yearbook staff at Lafayette High School for 22 years. In the past year, she has been awarded JEA’s Medal of Merit and the Pioneer Award from the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA). In 2014, Dow Jones News Fund named her a Distinguished Newspaper Adviser.
When Smith joined the faculty at Lafayette, she taught one newspaper class with 13 students. She has since built the journalism program into four publications – yearbook, newspaper, online news and digital media – each of which she advises.
JEA named one Distinguished Adviser this year: Justin Daigle, CJE, from Brighton High School in Brighton, Colorado.
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Smith and all of the honorees will be recognized during the adviser luncheon April 8 at the 2017 JEA/NSPA Spring National Journalism Convention in Seattle.
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Euro zone businesses bounce back in July as lockdowns loosen
Posted on July 25, 2020 September 16, 2020 by Mark Kennedy
Euro zone business activity grew in July for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit, as more parts of the economy that were locked down to curtail its spread reopened and people emerged from their homes to work and spend money.
Across the world almost 15.5 million people have been infected by the coronavirus but as the rate of infections has eased across much of Europe, governments have loosened some restrictions.
That unleashing of pent-up demand pushed IHS Markit’s flash Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), seen as a good indicator of the bloc’s economic health, to 54.8 in July from June’s final reading of 48.5, its highest since mid-2018 and well ahead of the 51.1 forecast in a Reuters poll.
“The sharp rise… is an encouraging sign that the economic recovery continued at a decent pace. But we suspect that activity will remain below pre-crisis levels for at least the next couple of years,” said Jack Allen-Reynolds at Capital Economics.
The headline index had been below the 50 mark which separates growth from contraction since March so a return to positive territory will be welcomed by policymakers and governments who have pumped trillions of euros into the economy.
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European Union leaders agreed a €750 billion pandemic recovery fund on Tuesday and with European Central Bank monetary policy expected to stay ultra-loose for a long time, optimism about the year ahead improved.
Markets are still expecting a V-shaped recovery – as are some economists – but while Friday’s data indicated a bounceback of sorts, it is unlikely to support those views.
“A V-shaped recovery seems quite unrealistic, despite the encouraging numbers,” said Bert Colijn at ING.
French business activity rebounded far more than expected as a post-lockdown recovery in the service sector shifted up a gear, PMI data showed.
Manufacturing activity in Germany stabilised, avoiding a contraction for the first time in 19 months, giving hope for a recovery from a long recession exacerbated by the pandemic.
Meanwhile British businesses, outside the euro zone, experienced the fastest upturn in five years during July as more of the economy reopened and shoppers pushed their spending back up to within a whisker of pre-lockdown levels.
Official data showed Britain’s economy shrank more than 25 per cent in March and April, and recovered less than expected in May. A Reuters poll this week suggested the economy would contract more than 9 per cent this year.
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Fund set up by Breonna Taylor's family raises nearly $4.5 million in 3 days
Updated: 5:19 PM EDT Jun 6, 2020
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Breonna Taylor is shown. She died at age 26 during a police raid at her home.
A fund set up by the family of Breonna Taylor has now raised nearly $4.5 milion. Three days ago, Taylor's aunt Bianca Austin started a GoFundMe called "Justice for Breonna." With some fake funds going around, WLKY was able to confirm this one's legitimacy with her family's attorney Sam Aguiar.Click here for the GoFundMeThe family had the goal donation set at $500,000. At 1 p.m. Thursday, there was $1,793,130 in the pot. At 11 a.m. Friday, the fund had raised nearly another million: $2,645,880.As of 8 p.m. Friday, the fund has reached $4.4 million. The fund can also be accessed by going to BreonnaTaylor.com.Earlier this week, the Louisville Metro Police Foundation put out a news release saying that URL was bringing people to a page asking them to "support good police" by donating to their foundation, a COVID-19 fund or Norton Healthcare.Video: Breonna Taylor birthday celebration draws crowd on what would have been her 27th birthday on FridayBut that has since been corrected, and the website now directs people to the fund set up by Taylor's family.Here's the message from them on the page:"The community has been reaching out in support of Bree’s family and wanting to donate to the cause. First off, we are SO THANKFUL for EVERYONE standing up for justice and saying her name! We’re not stopping until we truly get justice! All of you are such a blessing! It’s amazing!"Second of all, we are thankful for the offers for donations. My sister and niece are too proud to say it, but this is a tough fight and it does take a toll. They’re both hard workers and they’re missing out on some work (and sleep!) in this fight for justice."We do not expect anyone to donate to this cause; your voices are being heard and that alone is so powerful! But because of all the calls and the overwhelming generosity, I have set up this account for them."You all are a blessing. Thank you so much again for everything! And let’s keep this fight for justice going!"Taylor's death has sparked protests for more than a week across Louisville. The three officers involved have been put on administrative leave since her death in March.Protesters have been calling for more action against them.
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A fund set up by the family of Breonna Taylor has now raised nearly $4.5 milion.
Three days ago, Taylor's aunt Bianca Austin started a GoFundMe called "Justice for Breonna." With some fake funds going around, WLKY was able to confirm this one's legitimacy with her family's attorney Sam Aguiar.
Click here for the GoFundMe
The family had the goal donation set at $500,000. At 1 p.m. Thursday, there was $1,793,130 in the pot. At 11 a.m. Friday, the fund had raised nearly another million: $2,645,880.
As of 8 p.m. Friday, the fund has reached $4.4 million.
The fund can also be accessed by going to BreonnaTaylor.com.
Earlier this week, the Louisville Metro Police Foundation put out a news release saying that URL was bringing people to a page asking them to "support good police" by donating to their foundation, a COVID-19 fund or Norton Healthcare.
Video: Breonna Taylor birthday celebration draws crowd on what would have been her 27th birthday on Friday
But that has since been corrected, and the website now directs people to the fund set up by Taylor's family.
Here's the message from them on the page:
"The community has been reaching out in support of Bree’s family and wanting to donate to the cause. First off, we are SO THANKFUL for EVERYONE standing up for justice and saying her name! We’re not stopping until we truly get justice! All of you are such a blessing! It’s amazing!
"Second of all, we are thankful for the offers for donations. My sister and niece are too proud to say it, but this is a tough fight and it does take a toll. They’re both hard workers and they’re missing out on some work (and sleep!) in this fight for justice.
"We do not expect anyone to donate to this cause; your voices are being heard and that alone is so powerful! But because of all the calls and the overwhelming generosity, I have set up this account for them.
"You all are a blessing. Thank you so much again for everything! And let’s keep this fight for justice going!"
Taylor's death has sparked protests for more than a week across Louisville. The three officers involved have been put on administrative leave since her death in March.
Protesters have been calling for more action against them.
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LG Velvet Android 11 update reportedly set to begin official beta testing
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LG is one of the most popular names in the tech space. The Korean company has a wide range of products that it is known around the world for, among them smartphones.
Sure, things are not as good in the smartphone business as LG would want. In fact, things haven’t been good with LG Mobile division for years now.
But this hasn’t stopped the company from exploring new avenues to at least bring back its smartphone business on course. The latest attempt to shake things up is the launch of the LG Velvet series of devices.
There are two variants of the LG Velvet – a standard 4G/LTE variant and a 5G model sold across Europe and in the U.S. as well. Having launched this year, the devices have Android 10 pre-installed.
LG did confirm that the Velvet UI that powers the Velvet devices out of the box will at some point come to select devices in the ThinQ family, but it has yet to materialize – at least not for the V35 ThinQ.
You can keep an eye on our Velvet UI tracker to know when your eligible device bags the update here.
LG V35 ThinQ has reportedly received Velvet UI update
Considering LG provides two Android OS updates to its premium devices, both Velvet devices fall into this bracket. It was never in doubt that these two will be upgraded to Android 11 at some point.
But with the failed LG Global Software Upgrade Center, the update was always going to lag behind the competition.
After reports emerged a while back revealing the status of Android 11 update for the LG V60 ThinQ, it is now emerging that LG is in line to begin testing the OS on the Velvet handset as well.
The latest development was put forward by the LG-centric publication, MyLGPhones, revealing a banner that indeed confirms the LG Velvet Android 11 update is around the corner.
We couldn’t trace the source of the info, so be sure to take it with a grain of salt. But the publication’s track record means we can as well rest assured that Android 11 is indeed set to begin testing on the Velvet.
As for the exact release date of the said beta firmware, no one knows for sure. But with the announcement seemingly done, the next phase should be to roll out the update to willing testers.
As usual, we will keep an eye on the developments and let you know when the Velvet bags the stable Android 11 update in more regions across the globe. You can do so too by following this link.
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Ten years after arrest of their illiterate husbands, Indian wives wait for justice
October 5, 2018 By World Watch Monitor India Hindutva, Kandhamal, Odisha
The wives of seven Indian Christians imprisoned for 10 years for a murder many believe they didn’t commit (World Watch Monitor)
It was around midnight on 4 October 2008 that Durjo Sunamajhi and Munda and Sanathan Badamajhi were arrested by dozens of police in their shanty homes in India’s eastern Odisha state.
Ten years on, these three illiterate Christians, from the remote Madaguda area of Kandhamal, are yet to return home.
Four other Christians – Bhaskar Sunamajhi, Bijay Kumar Sanseth, Buddhadeb Nayak and Gornath Chalenthseth – also arrested by police in December 2008, continue to languish in jail.
All seven were charged with the August 2008 murder of Hindu leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati that triggered the worst orchestrated anti-Christian violence in modern India. Nearly 100 Christians were killed, 300 churches and 6,000 Christian houses plundered and torched, leaving over 56,000 homeless after a Hindu nationalist group claimed that the murder was a “Christian conspiracy”.
The seven were abruptly convicted to life imprisonment in October 2013 by a third judge after two trial-court judges – who had openly indicated during the trial that the accused were innocent – were transferred one after another during the long four years of trial.
However, in June 2015, two top police officials, who had relied upon the same conspiracy theory to ensure the conviction of the Christians, testified before the Kandhamal judicial inquiry commission that the allegations were false. Despite this, the appeal hearing has been constantly postponed.
“My husband had never gone to that place [the ashram where the Hindu leader was shot dead]. He was with us at the time the swami was killed. How could he be punished for that murder?” Pabitra Sanseth told local media in mid-September, tears pouring down her cheeks.
With three other wives, she had travelled to Bhubaneswar, 380km from home, for a documentary, ‘Innocents Imprisoned’, commissioned by journalist Anto Akkara, who has championed the men’s case for release.
“Since my husband was a firm believer and active Christian leader, they targeted him,” said Pabitra about her husband Bijay – the only one in the group to go to school in childhood.
Jeremiah Sunamajhi, nephew of Durjo, has a witness to his uncle being carried away by the police around midnight. But in fact, when the swami was killed, Durjo had been out of Kandhamal with Jeremiah to board a train to southern Kerala to seek a job.
“It is a matter of shame and sorrow that the judicial system has let the innocents down,” lamented Jeremiah, who had met the Indian president in 2015 in a delegation seeking the release of all seven men. “Even Hindus around us ask why they are still in jail. We cannot understand why their appeal [in the Odisha High Court] is dragging on.”
“Our lives have been ruined by the illegal arrest and shocking conviction of my father,” Nithaniel Chalenseth, son of Gornat, told World Watch Monitor on 5 October from the Kotagarh area of Kandhamal, where his father was the Block Panchayath (Area Village Council) president before his arrest.
Nithaniel had to drop out of Engineering studies and seek a job to support his mother and younger siblings. A decade on, Nithaniel is still to settle down with a steady job as he often has to rush home for family concerns.
Here is a summary of the men’s cases:
1. Sanatan Badamajhi
Sanatan Badamajhi’s wife Badusi said that a few days before her husband’s arrest, on 4 October, 2008, some Hindu village leaders had warned him he would soon be arrested.
But on the day of the swami’s murder, Badamajhi, 36, had been tending cattle and sheep, according to a Hindu neighbour, Nakula Mallick.
“Police never came to investigate or ask anything about him. If we had been called, we would have testified for him in the court,” said Mallick.
The judge said a gun was seized from Badamajhi’s house, but his wife says they never owned a gun.
Police also claimed to have seized an axe from the house, but his wife said the police brought the axe from the house of Mukantho Mallick, a Hindu neighbour who had accompanied them to identify the house.
“Later, Mukantho has been repeatedly complaining that the police took away the axe. I had only one axe and it is still in my house,” she said. “Can anyone understand my pain and sorrows of the last 10 years without my innocent husband?”
2. Munda Badamajhi
Munda Badamajhi, 34, was arrested on the night of 4 October, 2008, at his home in the village of Duringpodi.
The prosecution said it recovered a gun from his home, but his wife, Bandigudali, said:
“We never had a gun and my husband could not even use a gun. This is shocking …
“Did he commit any mistake? But still to spend 10 years in jail!”
3. Durjo Sunamajhi
Durjo Sunamajhi, 35, was woken up on the night of 4 October, 2008, when police barged into his house in Budapada village and took him away, as well as the barrel of a broken gun that they found in his house.
His wife Gumili said her husband was on a train towards Kerala on the day of the swami’s murder and had never touched the gun, which she said was an old and broken hunting rifle last used by her husband’s grandfather.
“The government claim is that they recovered two guns [from the houses of these people], but actually only one barrel of a broken gun, which has not been used for years, had been picked up,” said journalist Anto Akkara. “[Gumili] says her husband never used it, her husband’s father never used it; only her husband’s grandfather used it. Imagine! And there was only a barrel of the hunting gun. Now, the government claims to have recovered two guns from two houses, but in the judgment the judge says he has got three guns, and he names the three! How is that possible?”
Gumili told World Watch Monitor this month: “We lost our 10 years without committing any mistake! We want justice!”
4. Bijay Kumar Sanseth
Sanseth’s wife, Pabitra, said police phoned her on 12 December, 2008, and told him to report to the police station the next day. He did so, and has been detained ever since.
However, police recorded events differently, saying that on 12 December Sanseth met three of the other accused Christians at a Maoist meeting in a jungle near the village of Sartuli. They added that Sanseth, 42, had been overheard discussing plans to murder the swami outside Kotagarh High School. This claim was attributed to a witness, Mahasingh Kanhar, who initially denied the claim but eventually endorsed it during a retrial.
“Wherever I go, people tell me: ‘He was a good man. Why he is in jail?'” said Sanseth’s father, Salei. “The popularity of my son and his high contacts with government officials have led to this tragedy. Many were jealous of him.”
5. Bhaskar Sunamajhi
Bhaskar Sunamajhi, 32, was playing cards with his friends in the village of Kutiguda when police came to collect him on 13 December, 2008.
“You can return tomorrow,” his wife heard them say when they took him away. But to this day, Sunamajhi has still not returned home.
The judge said Sunamajhi was “hand in gloves” with the Maoists and had undergone several weeks of training at a Maoist camp. However, his wife Debaki said he “never ventured [far] from home”.
Biracha Paraseth, a neighbour, added: “This is a total lie. He was with us on the day [the swami was killed]”.
Pavitra Sanseth, another neighbour, added: “He is a good man. He will not do such a crime like killing of a Hindu leader. All of us feel very bad about this. Sir, if we all could have gone [to court] and explained his innocence, please tell us how we can help and ask for his release.”
6. Budhadeb Nayak
Before his arrest, one of the village elders urged Nayak, 42, to go into hiding, but he refused, saying he had done nothing wrong.
Police later came to his house, threatening his eldest son, 20-year-old Lingaraj, that they would soon arrest his father.
On the night of 13 December, 2008, they came back and Nayak was arrested.
“He was wearing only a [sarong]. They tied his hands to take him away. He asked for clothes and I gave him a shawl,” recalled his wife, Nilandri.
Three days later, the family visited him in Balliguda jail. The police said he had been with Maoists in the jungle on 12 December, alongside three of the others accused.
7. Gornath Chalanseth
Chalanseth, 41, was taken into police custody on 13 December 2008 but initially suspected nothing as he was active in politics.
His cousin, a pastor, accompanied him to the police station and saw him taken away.
A couple of days later, after his cousin had not returned, he went back to the station and heard he had been charged with murder.
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Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed North American Headquarters
By klloyd
Building Name: Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed North American Headquarters
Building Location: 20 Moores Road, Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States
Project Size: 277,000 SF
Market Sector: Private
Building Type: Office
Delivery Method: Integrated Project Delivery
Project Completion Date / Date Building Occupied: 11/2015
Neil Liebman (exterior and lobby)
Bernardon
425 McFarlan Road, Suite 200
nliebman@bernardon.com
www.bernardon.com
Richard Marks (interior)
1700 Market St., Suite 1000
Richard.marks@jacobs.com
www.jacobs.com
Francis McCarron
PWI Engineering
165 Township Line Rd., #2200
fmccarron@pwius.com
www.pwius.com
Robert Fogarasi, Vice President and Senior Project Manager
Binswanger
2 Logan Square
robert.fogarasi@am.jll.com
www.binswanger.com
David Fickler
D. Fickler Construction
55 Country Club Road
Downingtown, PA 19335
dfickler@d-fickler.com
www.d-fickler.com
Commissioning Authority
Michael Pavelsky, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Sustainability Director
The Sheward Partnership
mwp@tsparch.com
www.theshewardpartnership.com
Green Building Consultant
Michael W. Pavelsky, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Sustainability Director
Developer and Building Owner
Adam Loew
20 Moores Road Associates, LP
55 Country Club Dr., Suite 200
aloew@jloew.com
www.jloew.com
Nicholas Rakowski
900 W. Valley Rd., #1100
nrakowski@navenewell.net
www.navenewell.com
LEED Commissioning Agent
Travis Alderson
Alderson Engineering, Inc.
407 Lakeside Dr.
talderson@aldersonengineering.com
www.aldersonengineering.com
LEED Energy Modeling
Grey Fowles
Paladino and Company
1932 1st Ave., #200
greyf@paladinoandco.com
www.paladinoandco.com
Bill Smith, Principal
155 Railroad Plaza, #203
Royersford, PA 19468
bill@sustainablesolutionsconsulting.com
www.sustainablesolutionsconsulting.com
Acoustical Consultant
Benjamin Markham, Director, Architectural Acoustics Group/Principal Consultant
Acentech
8 Interplex Dr., #218
Trevose, PA 19053
bmarkham@acentech.com
www.acentech.com
Nathaniel Green
Metropolitan Acoustics
1628 John F. Kennedy Blvd., #1902
n.green@metro-acoustics.com
metro-acoustics.com
Lee Brandt
Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
38 East 32nd Street, 11th floor
lbrandt@hlblighting.com
hlblighting.com
Authority Having Jurisdiction
Saint-Gobain Corporation
The headquarters is located on a 65–acre suburban site, which previously contained two existing four-story buildings joined by a four-story connecting link. The project was completed in two phases: core and shell and interior fit-out. The core and shell project included major renovation of the existing building, with a 40,000-square-foot addition expanding the existing link. The existing structural system has been maintained and reused in the new design. About 15% of the project is classified as new construction and 85% as renovation. The project achieved USGBC's LEED Platinum certification for both Commercial Interiors and Core and Shell.
The headquarters features innovative building materials from the Saint-Gobain family of companies, including glazing, roofing, insulation, gypsum wallboard, and acoustical ceilings and wall panels, and serves as a living laboratory so employees can evaluate products while making improvements. The project achieved 19% recycled content, 16% regional materials, and 67% FSC-certified wood. (See the CS and CI Materials Lists .)
Another major goal was to provide a high-performance, healthy work environment. The interior design minimizes barriers and utilizes flexible configurations to encourage collaboration. The south and west façades utilize Saint-Gobain's SageGlass dynamic glass, which tints on demand to adapt to the sun's intensity while providing access to natural daylight and outdoor views and preventing glare and heat gain.
Elevations showing areas of intelligent glazing applications
The headquarters' design has changed employees' lives. Whether it is the 116 collaborative meeting spaces, 800+ workstations all with outdoor views, open executive offices, an acoustically sound cafeteria, and an industry-leading fitness facility, this building is designed to meet the needs of a dynamic workforce.
Lobby area with glazing to exterior providing ample light and views
OVERALL PROJECT GOAL/PHILOSOPHY
Accessible Goal: The renovated building was brought to ADA compliance through the addition of lifts, lowered placement of appliances, and updated faucets and toilets. The main entrance has ADA-compliant doors and turnstiles to provide wheelchair or scooter access. The company invested in three scooters for employees and visitors who need assistance. Adequate ADA parking was assigned, and the parking lots were resurfaced to meet ADA requirements.
First Floor Plan
Aesthetic Goal: The team was challenged to create an iconic building that would demonstrate the company's mission and values while using its own building materials to create a next-generation workplace that is both comfortable and sustainable. White reflective surfaces are utilized to bounce natural light around the space, and bright colors are utilized to bring the space to life.
Vibrant and flexible interior meeting space with natural daylighting and views
Cost-Effective Goal: It was very important for the headquarters to serve as a "living laboratory" where Saint-Gobain's research team can measure the impact of its products. The interior fit-out design scope focused on maximizing the use of Saint-Gobain's innovative products, from high-performance ceilings to VOC-reducing drywall. The building includes Saint-Gobain's SageGlass dynamic glazing, which reduces solar heat gain and glare and maximizes daylight and outdoor views. Saint-Gobain collected Environmental Product Declarations and Health Product Declarations for a number of the products utilized to ensure the company was using sustainable building materials with a positive impact on occupant well-being. The project included a focus on integrated energy-saving strategies such as occupancy sensors to control both lighting and HVAC and daylight dimming and high-performance LED lighting, which resulted in significant savings for the owner.
Functional Goal: The headquarters was designed to foster cross-team collaboration, and the new space has become a showcase of how the company's products, systems, and solutions make a material difference in how people work. The company surveyed its employees about what they would like to see in the new office space. Employees said they were nervous about an open-plan office, so Saint-Gobain asked the architects to triple the number of collaborative spaces and other private, casual work areas.
The project is a total of 277,000 square feet, including 119,000 square feet of open office space. The building has 116 collaborative spaces of various sizes to meet employees' needs. The outdoor landscaping allows for employees to work outside. Wi-Fi is installed throughout the building interior and exterior to promote movement. Ninety-three percent of the spaces in the building have access to outdoor views and natural light to help promote well-being and productivity.
Productive Goal: The design teams were asked to create a workplace that fostered well-being by maximizing the comfort and health of employees and breaking down barriers to encourage employee collaboration. Saint-Gobain's Sales Support Group increased lead-generation performance 150%, compared to the same period in 2014. The employees demonstrated higher energy levels (attributed to air quality/lighting), increased collaboration, peer support and accountability, and even heightened competitive spirit (attributed to open floor plan) and greater focus with less distraction (attributed to exceptional acoustics). Pre- and Post-Occupancy Surveys indicate that overall feelings of well-being have significantly improved since moving into the new headquarters.
Secure/Safe Goal: Safety and security were integral aspects of the design process as Saint-Gobain moved its North American security operation from Worcester, Massachusetts, to Malvern, Pennsylvania. Technology was installed to monitor the campus from the security office. Callboxes were installed in parking lots for emergency situations, and cameras were installed to monitor all building entry/exit points. The building is wired with an intercom system, allowing the security team to communicate with occupants during emergencies. The elevators and doors that separate the tenant space from the outside were programmed to lock down. Impact-resistant film was installed on the security/safety windows. Emergency evacuation routes were created with identified rally points. "Safe Zones" were identified in case of a weather situation or active shooter.
Safety and security orientation was conducted the first day of occupancy, and further communication and training is regularly provided. First Responder training is provided quarterly, and once certified, these individuals are identified by workstation signs. AEDs and First Aid Kits were installed and are identified on the wayfinding. A full-time employee security team monitors the property 24/7. The security office is wired with a Plain Old Telephone Service (POTs) line in the event that servers are breached.
Typical Code Blue Pedestal Detail
Sustainable Goal: The headquarters was designed in close consultation with local sustainability consulting firms. In addition to LEED Platinum certification, the headquarters is pursuing the Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR® certification.
The headquarters was also designed to adhere to Saint-Gobain's CARE: 4 program (Company Actions of the Reduction of Energy by a factor of 4). This program sets energy efficiency and employee comfort requirements for new construction and major renovation projects and is aligned with Saint-Gobain's sustainability goals of energy efficiency, environmental stewardship, and healthy working environments. The sustainable strategies incorporated into this project, in addition to the use of Saint-Gobain building materials, include:
Diversion of 79% of construction and demolition waste from landfill disposal
Careful selection of building materials containing high levels of recycled content
Special consideration given to locally manufactured materials
Installation of low-flow plumbing fixtures (the headquarters is projected to use 40% less water than a conventional office building)
Installation of interior finishes and furnishings specified to contain little or no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) to provide a healthier and safer environment
Addition of bicycle storage facilities, preferred parking for low-emission and fuel-efficient vehicles, electric vehicle charging stations, and a free employee shuttle service
The integration and optimization was focused around both energy performance and indoor environmental quality metrics. Energy optimization was achieved through extensive energy modeling highlighted in other sections of this nomination. This modeling allowed the designers to adjust the window-to-wall ratio of the project to balance the use of opaque and transparent elements with energy demand and daylighting. The qualities of building surface albedo and resistance to energy flows were considered in concert to better predict what would be experienced by occupants. Initial as well as aged surface values were employed to capture a realistic representation of the building as it ages. Various daylighting models and design iterations were performed in order to maximize the penetration of natural light into the space while reducing glare and other light-related nuisances. Changes of interior finishes have been made in order to understand their impact on daylight penetration and glare, as well as what other changes might need to be made to compensate, such as changing the algorithm controlling the electrochromic glazing.
Saint-Gobain was approaching its 350th anniversary, and the company's headquarters was outdated, created silos, and inhibited collaboration. Saint-Gobain partnered with designers to solve challenges related to its real estate and to create a workplace that promoted the company's goals of showcasing innovation, breaking down barriers, and inspiring and promoting well-being. Utilizing a workplace engagement process of discover, assess, and inform, working teams were guided through an exploration process that allowed employees to become project stakeholders.
Pre-Design/Planning Activities
The Building Steering Committee visited many corporate headquarters to assess office space design variety, ranging from traditional office perimeter with open office space in the interior to a fully open work environment. They evaluated the lessons learned by other organizations, which guided them to the decision to fit out an open office with abundant meeting/collaborative spaces. Working teams were created to assist with other decisions, including office furniture, the fitness center, conference scheduling software, and vendor selection.
Design Activities
Working teams surveyed the employee base to determine which furniture would be used in the new office environment, from task chairs to workstations, and cafe seating. A Fitness Center Working Team surveyed employees to determine preferred equipment and classes, and created inspirational branding and incentives for promoting membership. Of the 800 employees in the building, more than 45% have a fitness center membership.
In order to keep sustainability goals on track, the Sustainability Consultant met with the Construction Manager on-site each month. They reviewed submittal and documentation requirements and discussed sustainability procedures, such as construction waste management, indoor air quality management, and soil and erosion control.
Operations/Maintenance Activities
Saint-Gobain also implemented a green housekeeping program that utilizes environmentally friendly cleaning materials and equipment that help sustain the high level of interior air quality. Additionally, Saint-Gobain created an education program for employees and guests to learn about the lessons the company learned as it pursued sustainability initiatives for its headquarters.
Post-Occupancy Evaluation Activities
Pre- and Post-Occupancy surveys were completed. The Pre-Occupancy survey was completed more than one month prior to the move to Malvern from the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, headquarters the company had called home for more than 40 years. The first Post-Occupancy survey was conducted one year after move-in. Both surveys were conducted by the University of Oregon's High-Performance Environments Lab. Building performance of the old campus and the new building (pre- and post-renovation) was measured by the University to quantify the comfort and effectiveness of the building materials utilized. Measurements for thermal comfort, VOCs, light harvesting, and acoustics have been gathered. The survey project is ongoing, with the second Post-Occupancy survey currently underway. All data and research will be compiled and published in 2018.
INFORMATION AND TOOLS
Design Software: Revit
Energy Simulation Software: eQuest
Benchmarking Software / Methodology: eQuest
Accessible: After extensive surveying of existing employees, the company invested in a shuttle service to provide employees with access to regional rail, Amtrak, and multiple bus lines.
Aesthetic: The design includes the use of ceilings only where necessary and eliminates column enclosures, celebrating the exposed steel structure. This design emphasizes the company's building materials as well as reduces the amount of materials required to finish the space.
Cost-Effective: The original 1960s design utilized fixed tinted glazing suspended as a shading device. Using innovative new technology, the new cladding provides the same protection when needed, but opens up to full clarity when direct solar glare is not an issue. In addition, the new envelope offers significant performance enhancements to eliminate thermal bridging.
Functional: Flexible workplace planning allows for reconfiguration over time. A modular demountable wall system reduces reconfiguration time and waste.
Sliding Door Support Framing Plan
Productive: Open, collaborative areas with different furniture groupings allow for activity-based working groups - allowing for reconfiguration from project to project.
Sustainable: Electrochromic SageGlass was incorporated into the perimeter glazing at key locations to minimize solar gain and maximize daylight-harvesting opportunities. This glazing can be programmed to tint in multiple ways. Careful tuning of the envelope to each specific orientation allows the dynamic glazing to be further tuned over time.
Energy Use Description
Minimizing external loads is achieved through improved roof and wall performance, along with the electronically tintable dynamic glazing, SageGlass. Daylight sensors are located along the perimeter of the building to measure incoming daylight levels and modulate the glass transmittance according to interior needs. SageGlass provides beneficial daylighting and views to the exterior, while reducing uncomfortable glare and solar heat gain. Minimizing internal loads is achieved through the specification of energy-efficient LED lighting throughout, as well as ENERGY STAR equipment and appliances throughout the facility. Overall lighting power density is reduced more than 40% below ASHRAE requirements.
Annual Energy Use by Fuel
Electricity: 3,292,667 kWh
Gas: 28,615 kWh
Total: 14,096.08 MMBtu
Annual Energy by End Use
Heating: 1042.1 MBtu
Cooling: 1780.6 MBtu
Fans & Pumps: 2521.4 MBtu
Lighting: 1083.5 MBtu
Domestic Hot Water: 337 MBtu
Plus Loads & Equipment, Heat Reject: 18.9 MBtu
Annual On-Site Renewable Generation
PV: 28,000 kWh
Total: 27,829 kWh
Peak Use
Peak Electricity Demand: 1373 kWh
Peak Natural Gas Demand: 61 MBH
Peak Cooling: 343 Kw/m2
Connected Lighting Load: 177 W/m2
Data Sources and Reliability
Based on simulation? Yes - computer modeling
If yes, list software and versions. eQuest Modeling Software
Based on utility bills? -No
Comment on data sources and reliability.
The energy simulation software used for this project has all capabilities described in either section "G2 Simulation General Requirements" in Appendix G of ASHRAE 90.1-2007 or the analogous section of the alternative qualifying energy code used. Energy simulation runs for both the baseline and proposed building use the assumptions and modeling methodology described in either ASHRAE 90.1-2007 Appendix G or the analogous section of the alternative qualifying energy code used.
INDOOR ENVIRONMENT
Indoor Environment Approach
An integrated design and construction team was critical to achieving the project's sustainability goals. The team completed a LEED charrette in schematic design to review sustainability goals. Participants in the charrette include owner, tenant, core and shell, and interior fit-out design teams, sustainability consultants, building science professionals, and the construction team. The integrated team developed a schematic energy model to determine base energy savings and then developed 16 energy conservation measures to review in more detail. Each iteration of the energy model determined energy cost savings above a code-compliant baseline, hard construction cost impact and mechanical sizing impacts. These tools were used to select the energy conservation measures that best aligned with corporate sustainability goals, budget and schedule. This assessment contributed to the superior energy savings on the project as well as the project's LEED Platinum certification.
The company pursued ENERGY STAR's Designed to Earn certification. The company pays energy costs for the entire building and site in order to track ongoing energy performance in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.
Approximately 17,000 square feet of SageGlass dynamic glass is installed on the western and southern elevations of the façade and plays an integral role in helping the company achieve its sustainability goals, while creating a next-generation workplace that puts employees' comfort first. The dynamic glass was selected for its ability to dynamically control sunlight, to optimize daylight, maintain outdoor views and enhance comfort by preventing glare and solar heat. By controlling sunlight, it dramatically reduces energy demand and the need for HVAC, while increasing employees' comfort. Specifically, the electrochromic glass incorporates zoned technology so it can have three different zones of tinting within one pane of glass to maximize daylight and allow employees to comfortably enjoy unobstructed views of the outdoors, which have been proven to boost productivity and satisfaction in the workplace.
A double silver-coated high-performing solar glass is used in most of the building's common-area façades, providing an optimal light-to-solar gain ratio in summer months and excellent thermal comfort during cooler periods, thus reducing both cooling and heating loads.
Interior finishes and furnishings installed in the building were specified to contain little or no VOCs. For example, low-emitting products used included adhesives, sealants, paints, coatings, flooring, composite wood and furniture. Reducing the amount of VOCs entering the building provides a safer and healthier environment for building occupants.
To help contain unwanted crosstalk, air rush, equipment noise, moisture buildup and energy loss in the building, duct liner and duct wrap are used throughout all HVAC systems to improve acoustic performance, indoor air quality and employee comfort.
Sustainable fiberglass R–13 and R–19 batt insulation were used to create an environment that is quiet and comfortable and conserves energy and resources. Gypsum wallboard that removes VOCs from the air was used in interior walls, improving indoor air quality and promoting healthier living and work environments. Noise-reducing gypsum wallboard is also used to help reduce noise where acoustic management is needed. In areas of the headquarters where tile bonding is required, particularly in kitchen and bath areas, a tile backer is used for superior moisture and mold resistance and durability.
Project and Community Resilience Goals
After outgrowing its Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, location, Saint-Gobain relocated its North American headquarters to Malvern, Pennsylvania., where the headquarters combines office functions across the country into one location.
The landscape design intent is to tread lightly, gently replacing invasive plants with natives and working to maximize views from the building to the existing woods, while tying into the existing ecosystem. More than 30% of the site is planted with native plantings. The existing pond was restored to deter geese and reduce a potent source of pollution.
Exterior of the headquarters and the pond
The original building was bridged over an active stream, and the new design restores that stream and includes prominent water elements. The main entrance features tiered lawn areas with a cascading waterfall feature. Select landscape areas at the main entrance are irrigated, but a majority of the site is not. The irrigation system and the water feature utilize harvested rainwater, thereby reducing potable water use by 100%. Rainwater is collected from a 7,000-square-foot roof area and stored in a 25,000 gallon cistern on-site.
The site is located in the tributary areas of Valley Creek, so a comprehensive stormwater management plan was implemented on-site. The site is equipped with an underground stormwater detention system, infiltration trench and four rain gardens. The intent is to infiltrate on-site and prevent pollution of local waterways.
The local climate in this region (4A) is mixed, with cold winters and hot, humid summers and a reasonable economizer season. The existing building orientation offered one wing with major east and west faces. Minimizing external loads is achieved through improved roof and wall performance, along with electronically tintable dynamic glass. This was installed along the southern and western facades, but omitted at areas with sufficient tree cover for protection against summer solar heat gain. Daylight sensors are located along the perimeter of the building to measure incoming daylight levels and modulate the glass transmittance according to interior needs. Sensors also control the interior lighting according to incoming daylight. Working in concert, the SageGlass and lighting controls provide a customized interior daylighting solution as well as moderate thermal comfort at the perimeter.
Given the existing orientation, the space planning puts key program elements close to the exterior, with a buffer zone of circulation to temper peak gains and losses through the improved envelope. The preserved and restored deciduous tree stand at the eastern face of the building protects against overheating in summer, but allows for morning pre-heating of the space with beneficial heat gains offsetting morning heat requirements.
PROJECT RESULTS / LESSONS LEARNED
Developing a planning concept to respond to the guiding principles of the project was essential. The space features fundamentals such as maximum daylight for all employees, a sense of collaboration and community throughout the building, effective space utilization that allows the sense of privacy in a 100% open plan environment, and glass-enclosed interior huddle spaces that serve as private meeting spaces.
The layout was set up to provide multiple lines of sight to the exterior from the majority of workstations. Although glass fins above workstations precluded achievement of the LEED credit for Views, the low workstation heights allow for 94% of regularly occupied spaces to have at least one view of the exterior. Each workstation is outfitted with task lighting to accommodate individual controllability. The interior design includes a range of multi-occupant spaces, ranging from smaller phone booths to large conference rooms. Multi-occupant spaces are equipped with carbon dioxide sensors to modulate the HVAC system according to space demand. In addition, they are equipped with lighting controls to manage daylight, adjust light levels and automatically turn off lights when the space is not in use. Monitoring carbon dioxide sensors ensures healthy indoor air quality and increased productivity.
In order to meet corporate sustainability goals under its internal programs, the company established rigorous energy-efficiency goals. The core and shell design includes: improved insulation in walls and roof, light-colored roofing, high-efficiency glazing, argon gas-filled insulated glazing units, and high-performance aluminum curtain wall systems. The Design Team selected high-efficiency glazing from the client's product offerings. Additionally, the dynamic glass modulates throughout the day according to changing sun conditions, thereby reducing solar heat gain.
The Design Team selected high-performance heating and cooling equipment to balance thermal comfort and energy efficiency. Also, LED lighting is specified throughout the building and on-site. The new headquarters achieved 44% interior connected lighting power density savings above code compliance. Multi-occupant spaces include interlocking controls to reduce inefficient and wasteful practices. Lighting occupancy sensors work in concert with the HVAC system to set back temperatures when rooms are unoccupied. Also, SageGlass and daylight harvesting provide synchronized interior daylighting solutions.
The new headquarters is a living laboratory to test the impact of Saint-Gobain buildings and allow the company to make continuous improvements. The company is partnering with the University of Oregon to compare occupant satisfaction in the old and new headquarters. The study included a series of surveys and site visits in the old facility. The University measured quantitative building data, such as lighting levels, acoustics, and ventilation airflow and surveyed employees to determine health and comfort. Lastly, the University collected corporate-wide data on productivity and absenteeism. Once Saint-Gobain moved into the Malvern headquarters, the research team returned to measure these values again with the same staff, but in the new building. The intent is to verify sustainable strategies with the greatest positive impact on occupant health and return on investment. The research team is currently tabulating the results.
The company regularly surveys employees to determine satisfaction with the free shuttle service to the local train station and uses this information to tailor the program to suit occupants' personal schedules.
DESIGN TRADE-OFFS AND INTERACTIONS
Early in the design process, there were cost concerns about the innovative strategies proposed for the building, such as SageGlass and photovoltaics. In the end, the company chose to install these products to protect the health and well-being of occupants, save energy costs and align with corporate goals for reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF THE PROCESS
The core and shell project was owned by the developer, who was using his assigned General Contractor that works on his other projects. The company hired a Project Manager to oversee the project on their behalf. There was a weekly construction meeting that included the PM; the GM and construction supervisors for both projects; sustainability consultants; security consultants; designers and architects; as well as company representation for technology, security, safety and change management.
HOW BUILDING MATERIALS, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCT SELECTION ADDRESSED THE DESIGN OBJECTIVES, GOALS, AND STRATEGIES
One of the main priorities of the project was to achieve superior energy savings. Through 3D computer simulation energy modeling, the building is anticipated to achieve a 30% energy cost savings when compared to a typical code-compliant office building.
Minimizing external loads is achieved through improved roof and wall performance, along with the electronically tintable dynamic glazing SageGlass. Daylight sensors are located along the perimeter of the building to measure incoming daylight levels and modulate the glass transmittance according to interior needs. SageGlass provides beneficial daylighting and views to the exterior, while reducing uncomfortable glare and solar heat gain.
Minimizing internal loads is achieved through the specification of energy-efficient LED lighting throughout, as well as ENERGY STAR equipment and appliances throughout the facility. Overall lighting power density is reduced more than 40% below ASHRAE requirements. The former building infrastructure was demolished to the structural system and reused in the new design. Approximately 90% of the construction and demolition waste was diverted from landfill disposal. Materials were carefully selected for their environmental and human health attributes. The company's array of product offerings contributed to LEED-verified recycled content, locally manufactured materials and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified wood. (See Structural Plans .)
The interior includes low Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emitting building materials, carpeting and furniture for a safe, healthy working environment. All paints and varnishes used in the building renovation were also required to have low VOC content. This contributed to a healthy indoor air quality, which was further enhanced by the installation of partitions that feature gypsum wallboard that absorbs formaldehyde from the air and converts it to a safe inert compound.
HOW THE PROJECT ADDRESSED EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS AND CONTEXT INCLUDING THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY
The overall landscape design was preserved by the design team due to the surrounding residential area. The walking trail was improved, but the same permeable surfaces were used. Parking lot islands were replaced with permeable rocks and plantings to improve water management. Parking lot slope was evaluated and tweaked to prevent ponding. The existing powerhouse was hidden by a green roof system to provide improved aesthetics from the surrounding neighborhood. The landscape design replaced invasive plants with natives and focused on maximizing views from the building to the existing woods while tying into the existing ecosystem. More than 30% of the site is planted with native plantings. The existing pond was restored to deter geese and reduce a potent source of pollution.
The site is located in the tributary areas of Valley Creek, so a comprehensive stormwater management plan was implemented on-site, in part utilizing a system that was already in place. The site is equipped with an underground stormwater detention system, infiltration trench, and four rain gardens. The intent is to infiltrate on-site and prevent pollution of local waterways.
SYNERGIES THAT RESULTED FROM THE STRATEGIES IMPLEMENTED
The company has hosted more than 20,000 visitors since the headquarters' grand opening in October 2015. Tours, accredited by The American Institute of Architects and Green Business Certification, Inc., were developed to share the experience of the building with architects, designers, owners, developers, C-suite decision-makers, students, and future employees. The design team and real estate/project manager are regularly engaged in these events.
HOW THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BUILDING WAS MEASURED OR EVALUATED
Multi-comfort parameters and metrics for thermal, visual, acoustical, and air quality environment were assessed and analyzed both before and after green retrofitting. Both instantaneous and long-term field measurement data of the physical environment and multi-comfort parameters were collected at the level of the building as well as the scale of the occupant work setting. Environmental sensors and data loggers measuring temperature, relative humidity, air velocity and air movement, stratified across the different floor levels of the buildings, were deployed over the winter, spring, and summer seasons respectively. In addition, infrared (IR) and high dynamic range images (HDRI) were taken over the course of sampled seasonal days for the occupants' workstations and from their direct view sheds, employing wide-angle and fish-eye lenses to simulate their perspective and field of vision. The different imaging techniques were employed to document surface temperature, mean radiant temperature, and glare indices over the study period. In addition, acoustical attenuation, sound levels, and speech intelligibility measurements were recorded for typical office simulated conditions in the field at different times before and after the retrofit. To evaluate indoor air quality, approximately 15 liters of air was sampled for high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and mass spectrometry analyses, as well as VOC concentrations. Airborne particulate concentrations were measured using a light-scattering laser photometer in the near-infrared light range.
Occupants' perspective and satisfaction were collected by employing a series of structured and open-ended focus groups. Each focus group included 10–15 employees representing different job levels and workstation locations. This was followed by administering an occupant survey to the entire employee population before and one year after the move into the green-retrofitted office building. Response to the survey was very high, with 289 employees completing the questionnaire before the move and 320 completing it following the move. Data tabulation and coding were performed on both the physical and human-response data sets. Physical measurements and survey responses were spatially tagged and statistically analyzed using SPSS software. In addition, data visualizations and multi-comfort parameters were computed using a suite of software that spatially analyzed the occupants' visual, thermal, acoustical, and indoor air quality (IAQ) across various locations of the building.
HOW THE OWNER/CLIENT AND COMMUNITY BENEFITED
By selecting a previously developed site, Saint-Gobain took advantage of existing infrastructure and the local economy. The project features a walking path that circulates the surrounding woods, serving as an amenity to employees and neighbors. There is a fitness center on-site for employees, promoting healthy, active lifestyles. There is also a community garden on-site that is managed by employee volunteers. The company has donated more than 3,000 pounds of organic produce harvested at its community garden to local food pantries.
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Grid Magazine, Nov. 2015 Issue, pg. 21
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Mississippi State (6-3) has won four straight against Georgia (7-1), including its largest margin of victory in the series, 91-59 at home last season.
Molinar made four 3-pointers and was 8 of 14 from the field. Stewart was 8-of-20 shooting and had seven rebounds. The pair entered averaging 35.9 points, which trails only LSU’s Cameron Thomas and Trendon Watford in the SEC.
Deivon Smith had all 13 of his points in the first half for Mississippi State, which made 12 3-pointers and shot 44% (29 of 66) from the field. Jalen Johnson added 12 points.
P.J. Horne made five 3-pointers and finished with a career-best 21 points to lead Georgia. Toumani Camara added 11 points, and Tye Fagan and Christian Brown had 10 apiece.
Three consecutive 3-pointers, one from Molinar and two from Deivon Smith, gave Mississippi State a double-digit lead midway through the first half as they built a 41-27 halftime lead. Georgia pulled to 67-56 before Mississippi State stretched its lead to 18 with 3:06 remaining.
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Stephanie Lessing is a freelance writer who lives in Demarest, New Jersey, with her husband, Dan, and two children, Kim and Jesse. Stephanie was formerly the Promotion Copy Chief for Mademoiselle magazine and traveled with Mademoiselle to co-host fashion and beauty events, going on to freelance for magazines such as: Vogue, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveler, Self, and Women’s Wear Daily. While attending the American College in Paris, she interned for the Herald Tribune and then graduated from Boston University with a B.S. degree from the School of Public Communications. I recently had the opportunity to question Stephanie about her smart new book, She’s Got Issues.
Us: I enjoyed your essay, “I Hear Voices,” and though I know that it was meant to be funny, I wondered how much truth there was in it. Does your fiction generally start with the characters, then, rather than plot or theme?
Stephanie Lessing: Absolutely. There was no plot, or outline, for that matter. All I had was this idea that women need to be nicer to each other in the workplace. Chloe sort of invented herself. I wound her up, set her down in the offices of Issues Magazine and let her do her thing.
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SL: I wasn’t able to do much of anything when they were small. I pretty much spent all of my time staring at them. I found them fascinating and couldn’t care less about anything else. Needless to say, I didn’t get much writing done. I simply waited until they were in school full time. I write all through the day and night, but if one screams my name, I drop everything. They come first. I write while they’re doing their homework or hanging out with their friends.
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AC: The New York Post described your book as “A lively chick-lit exploration of modern social manners.” Why did you choose the chick lit genre (if you did consciously choose it)? What does this genre offer that others might not?
SL: I’m not sure if I chose to write chick lit but I did, didn’t I? I thought I was writing a sort of satire of the whole genre because Chloe is such an exaggeration of most chick lit characters but the book wasn’t marketed as such. I do love chick lit though, so I’m proud to have written a chick lit book, whether I intended to or not. I think it’s important to find the humor in as many situations as you possibly can. Chick lit offers readers a way to laugh at their problems and to realize they’re in the same boat as so many other women their age. These books bond women together because they all pretty much have one unifying message, i.e., “If you don’t take life too seriously, it’s a lot more fun.”
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SL: I wasn’t conscious of them at all! I know that must sound odd since I pretty much followed every rule but it just happened that way. My only intention, and I’m glad that it came through, was to write a book about how women interact with one another. The romance sort of slipped itself in.
AC: You have enjoyed a successful career in the magazine world, and I understand that She’s Got Issues arose from a series of essays. Did you always know that you wanted to write fiction, or did fiction suggest itself with the essays?
SL: I had no idea nor did I ever intend to write a novel. Someone suggested that I turn the essays into a novel and I thought, “How am I supposed to do that? “ It would be like someone coming up to me now and saying, “I think you should turn your novel into a house.” No clue. I just did it. I have no idea how. Like I said, there was no outline, no plan, no nothing. Just Chloe.
AC: How carefully do you plan out your novels before writing them? For instance, I noted that you are working on a new book from Zoe’s perspective. How much do you know about the new novel at this point and how much will evolve as you work on it?
SL: I don’t plan a thing. I literally sit there and write down whatever pops into my head. That must sound ridiculous but it’s true. I’m always shocked to find out what my characters are up to. Miss Understanding, the new novel, is completed. And in some ways it’s the book I originally intended to write until Chloe took over. This book takes the message of how women get along to an entirely different level. That’s why I haven’t figured out what to do with it. It’s a very different book.
AC: Can you talk about what it’s been like promoting the book? Did your background in the magazine world help with this process?
SL: Yes, my training at places like Vogue and Mademoiselle definitely came into play. One of the big things we did at Conde Nast was try to come up with ways for our readers to sample our advertisers’ products. I tend to think of She’s Got Issues as something that needs to be sampled to get you hooked. A lot of what I did promotionally was based on this idea that if you get a taste of the writing and the humor, you’ll want to read the book. Once you’ve read a few pages and laughed out loud, hopefully you won’t be able to resist coming back for more.
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Poll: 17% of Biden Voters Would Have Abandoned Him if They Knew About Stories the Media Censored
By Kipp Jones
Published November 24, 2020 at 6:28pm
As many as 17 percent of those who voted for Democrat Joe Biden might have chosen differently at the polls, had they been given fair media coverage of the candidates in the weeks leading up to the election, according to a report.
Alleged election malfeasance aside, the establishment media, as expected, played a large part in interfering with the 2020 election, as was concluded by Newbusters.
BREAKING: New poll from @theMRC shows 17 percent of Biden voters would have avoided picking Biden if they knew of stories the media suppressed:https://t.co/K8cYAl81UE
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) November 24, 2020
Their censorship of Biden’s scandalous campaign outraged conservatives and proponents for media transparency.
But millions of people were unaware of Biden’s scandals and extreme positions, meaning the censorship campaign to hide information about Biden was a success.
The media watchdog noted the obvious anti-Trump bias in media, while also evaluating the effects of its blackout on presumptive president-elect Joe Biden’s scandals and radical policy positions.
Newsbusters noted that the media’s decision to openly run interference for Biden “meant millions of voters cast their ballots knowing only what the media permitted them to know about the candidates.”
A post-election poll has revealed that once made aware of Biden’s scandalous candidacy, many of the Democrat’s voters might have a bit of buyer’s remorse.
“To measure the true effect of the media’s censorship on the election, the Media Research Center asked The Polling Company to survey 1,750 Biden voters in seven swing states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), six of which (all but North Carolina) were called for Biden,” Newsbusters reported.
“We tested these voters’ knowledge of eight news stories — all important topics that our ongoing analysis had shown the liberal news media had failed to cover properly. We found that a huge majority (82%) of Biden voters were unaware of at least one of these key items, with five percent saying they were unaware of all eight of the issues we tested,” the watchdog group added.
BREAKING: A new poll from @newsbusters shows liberal media censorship cost Trump votes.
Had they known about stories like Biden scandals, Kamala Harris’ leftist views or Trump’s accomplishments, 17% of Biden voters would have voted for Trump.https://t.co/zO5dkWrxqL pic.twitter.com/8rE8mM7Bff
— LifeNews (@LifeNewsToo) November 24, 2020
The poll found that 35.4 percent of Biden voters were unaware of credible sexual assault allegations against him. Had those voters known about the story, the survey concluded 8.9 percent of them would have voted differently.
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Even fewer Biden voters, 45.1 percent, knew about the Hunter Biden email scandal, which implicates Biden himself. Had those voters been aware of the scandal, 9.4 percent of them would have defected.
Roughly one-quarter of respondents were unaware that Sen. Kamala Harris of California, Biden’s running mate, was listed as the Senate’s most liberal member, and if they had, 4.1 percent of them would have changed their votes.
While the media covered for Biden’s deficits as a candidate, one part of its vast censorship campaign included hiding the numerous successes of Trump’s leadership.
The biggest issue was the media blackout of the third quarter record GDP annual growth rate of 33.1 percent, which was a massive positive for Trump.
Forty-nine percent of Biden voters had no idea the country had made such a comeback from the COVID lockdowns.
If those voters had been informed, 5.6 percent of them would not have voted for Biden.
Record economic growth, Middle East peace agreements, positive coronavirus vaccine developments and the country’s energy independence were all ignored by the establishment media.
Newsbusters further reported, for example, “Our poll found 36.1% of Biden voters said they did not know about the administration’s key role in promoting vaccine research through Operation Warp Speed.”
“If they had, 5.3% told us they would have abandoned Biden, flipping Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, giving the President 295 electoral votes,” Newsbusters added.
When evaluating the response of Biden’s voters to stories of which they were largely unaware, Newsbusters noted “our poll found that a total of 17% of Biden’s voters told us they would have changed their vote if they had been aware of one or more of these important stories.”
Add the media’s interference with the obvious anti-Trump bias and outright censorship of conservatives on social media, and the fix was in.
The media watchdog concluded that had it not been for the establishment media’s open campaign of censorship, President Trump would have won every battleground state, and cruised to re-election in the electoral college, garnering 311 votes to Biden’s 227.
The poll, if accurate, highlights just how much influence the establishment media still wields.
Despite the interference, nearly 74 million Americans cast ballots for Trump, which is a silver lining, and evidence that the media’s influence might be waning.
This is of course assuming the reported results, as of today, are accurate.
The election results are of course still contested.
The Polling Company surveyed 1,750 Biden voters online in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from Nov. 9-18
The poll reported an accuracy of plus or minus 2.34 percentage points.
Kipp Jones
Johnathan "Kipp" Jones has authored thousands of news articles throughout his career. He has also worked as an editor and producer in radio and television. He is a proud husband and father.
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Oral diseases such as tooth decay and periodontal disease often start when dental plaque, a bacteria-laden film that collects on teeth, is allowed to build up. These sticky deposits can harden into a substance called tartar or calculus, which is irritating to the gums and must be removed during a professional teeth cleaning.
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Since then, however, Ramsey has become a meticulous flosser, and he proudly notes that the long-ago dental appointment “was the last we heard of any type of gum disease.”
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Fact check: 3 conspiracy theories about the Nashville bombing
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Updated December 30, 2020 5:53 p.m. EST
By Samantha Putterman and Daniel Funke, PolitiFact reporters
Social media is home to several conspiracy theories about the explosion in Nashville on Christmas Day.
The following three posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about PolitiFact's partnership with Facebook here.)
Let's start here: The man behind the Dec. 25 bombing in downtown Nashville, Tenn., died of COVID-19, according to a popular — and wrong — Facebook post.
Fake CNN headline
The post displays a headline from a fabricated story by the Genesius Times, a satirical news website, that reads: "BREAKING: Nashville Bomber died from COVID-19 shortly after blowing himself up."
Below the headline is an image that looks like it’s a picture from a CNN broadcast, with chyron that announces the Nashville bomber "died from COVID."
Some users seemed to recognize the story as fake, but others didn’t. So we will clear it up: It’s fake.
CNN didn’t report that Anthony Warner, the person authorities have identified as the bomber, died from COVID-19. Warner died in the blast, according to authorities.
Breaking news meme generators are frequently used online to create fabricated headlines and chyrons such as this one. The Genesius Times describes itself as the "most reliable source of fake news on the planet" and that it strives "to provide the most up-to-date, accurate fake news on the Internet," the website says.
This screengrab is being shared on social media without that context.
'Missile strike' theory
Conspiracy theorists say the suicide bombing that rocked downtown Nashville was actually the result of a missile strike. Their evidence: a grainy black-and-white video.
The video, which was posted by a Facebook page called Red Pill Radio on Dec. 28, shows the outline of buildings and a highway in Nashville. Then, a plume of smoke rises behind three light poles.
"You can see as there’s a line flying in, there’s a little bit of a glow and then there’s the explosion," a narrator says in the video. "Very, very interesting."
"Nashville explosion a missile strike??" reads the post caption from Red Pill Radio, a Facebook account that bears the slogan of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory on its "About" page.
Similar claims have been shared in hundreds of public posts, according to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool.
In its video, Red Pill Radio cites a Dec. 26 article from WorthyPolitics.com whose headline claims the video "proves Nashville explosion was actually a missile strike." We have seen similar claims from others who say the missile was aimed at the AT&T Building. There is no evidence to substantiate that theory.
While federal investigators are still looking into the bombing, law enforcement officials have said Warner was responsible and died in the blast. The bomb was located in a recreational vehicle that Warner owned. Fact-checkers have debunked claims that the explosion was the result of a missile strike.
The video in the Facebook post is security footage obtained by WKRN-TV, a station based in Nashville. It shows smoke from the explosion over the skyline. The clip does not show a missile hitting the city.
Videos from law enforcement officials and local businesses show that the explosion occurred on 2nd Avenue North in downtown Nashville. The explosion injured three people and damaged several businesses, including the AT&T Building.
One clip captured an audio message warning people to evacuate the area seconds before the explosion. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department identified the RV at the center of the blast in a Dec. 25 tweet.
On Dec. 27, U.S. Attorney Don Cochran said the explosion appeared to be a suicide bombing carried out by a Warner. DNA from human remains found at the scene matched Warner, and investigators found financial records for components that he may have used to construct the bomb.
FBI agents are investigating whether Warner may have been paranoid about 5G technology. Conspiracy theories about the cellular data networks have blossomed on social media over the past year, falsely claiming that 5G spreads COVID-19 and could be used as a spying tool by the government.
The investigation of the Nashville bombing is ongoing, but the Facebook post is inaccurate and ridiculous.
Baseless theory about voting machines
Next theory: The bombing was an attempt to stop an AT&T audit into Dominion software and cover up election corruption.
In the wake of the Christmas morning explosion in Nashville, Tenn., a baseless conspiracy theory started circulating online that claims Nashville’s downtown AT&T complex, which was damaged in the blast, had gotten a contract to conduct a "forensic audit" on Dominion Voting Systems machines. The post implies that the bombing was an attempt to stop the audit and cover up voter fraud.
"AT&T got a contract to do forensic audit on Dominion voting machines and those machines were being moved to Nashville this past week," one Dec. 27 post says. "So, the explosion ‘just happened’ to be at the AT&T location where they ‘just so happen’ to control the cooling system for the super computer and house the dominion voting machines and drives for forensic audit…"
"Wait, the bombing in Nashville was at the AT&T data center right after they got the contract to audit the Dominion voting machines?," one from Dec. 26 reads. "That’s an interesting coincidence."
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But none of this is true. AT&T does not hold a contract to audit Dominion’s software or machines and did not have any of the company’s equipment in its Nashville building.
The FBI confirmed that a man named Anthony Warner was responsible for the bombing and was killed in the blast. The bomb was located in a recreational vehicle owned by Warner.
The explosion injured three other people and damaged businesses in downtown Nashville, including an AT&T switching center, which resulted in widespread communications outages.
Law enforcement authorities have suggested that Warner may have been paranoid about 5G technology, a QAnon-related conspiracy theory that makes an array of unproven claims including that it helps spread COVID-19 and is used as a spying tool by the government.
Spokespeople for both AT&T and Dominion have confirmed that AT&T did not hold a contract to audit Dominion, nor had any of Dominion’s equipment been moved to Nashville in preparation for such an audit.
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Jim Greer, associate vice president for corporate communications at AT&T, was blunt in an email response to PolitiFact: "That is not true," he wrote.
Dominion representatives have also denounced the conspiracy theory, calling it another "bizarre lie" with "zero credibility."
Some posts take the claim a step further, alleging that the former owner of the building was a board member of a firm that owns Dominion.
However, the firm cited in that version of the claim — Cerberus Capital Management — doesn’t own Dominion nor is it connected to Staple Street Capital, which acquired Dominion in 2018.
A public relations firm told the Associated Press on behalf of Dominion that the company "has no connection to AT&T, the building, Nashville, family members of the Bidens or the Clintons, and Staple Street is not owned by Cerberus. These are conspiracies manufactured out of whole cloth."
In an email to PolitiFact, a Dominion spokesperson said the company and AT&T are calling on everyone to reject these baseless rumors: "Americans should continue to seek information from verifiable, trusted sources, such as law enforcement authorities."
Our ruling
Posts online claim that the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville was an attempt to cover up election fraud because AT&T was conducting an audit of Dominion Voting Systems machines and that the equipment was recently relocated to the company’s building that was damaged in the blast.
This is bogus. There is no evidence that suggests that the explosion was election-related. Both companies have denied the posts claims, saying that there was no such audit and that Dominion’s machines were not recently transported to Nashville.
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Power Level: Mid-level
Role: Character (Heroic)
Cerise appeared in the then-popular Excalibur comic in 1992, during the Alan Davis run. She was a bit of a mystery character, and we may never know what Mr. Davis had intended as to her origin.
She’s also one of Marvel’s minor “space characters”, and as such occasionally appears in small roles in interplanetary and cosmic stories.
Real Name: Unrevealed.
Marital Status: Single.
Known Relatives: Subruki, Zarstok, Kuli Ka (genetic ancestors).
Group Affiliation: The Graces; formerly Grand Jhar, Excalibur, Lilandra’s inner circle.
Base Of Operations: Unrevealed; formerly Braddock Manor, Britain.
Height: 5’11” Weight: 125 lbs .
Eyes: Violet Hair: Cerise has variegated feathers instead of hair; white, pink, maroon & black.
A genetically engineered member of an unidentified race (possibly a Shi’ar, but certainly a subject of the Shi’ar Empire), Cerise is more robust than humans.
She also has the ability to generate and manipulate energy fields of coherent light. She can use that:
To dazzle opponents.
As a blast of pure energy.
To form solid objects such as swords, force fields, shields, funnels and more. At one point she flew a 10 ton Sentinel shell across the Atlantic Ocean, with 10 other passengers inside it.
She can also fly under her own power, and hold her breath for six or seven minutes.
Part of her Transit Suit (which was burned out on her first appearance) are the Battle Dress Gloves, which she now wears separately. These contain broad-band sensor arrays, allowing her to search for specific life forms, energies, and temporal/dimensional anomalies.
Cerise has had military and combat training from the Shi’ar. Furthermore, she is a skilled starship navigator and pilot.
Cerise was ’born’ on the planet Shaskofrugnon, a part of the Shi’ar Empire. She appears to have been genetically engineered there, emerging as an adult. As a result, she expressed confusion at the very concept of childhood.
She enlisted in the military, becoming part of the Ghrand Jhar. Cerise served on board an encruitment vessel under the deranged C’efn.
Distraught at the atrocities they carried out as part of their mission to convert planets to join the Empire, and certain that C’efn was insane, she found herself unable to carry out her orders. When C’efn ordered the billions of inhabitants of a planet killed, she sabotaged the ship, sending it into the heart of the planet’s sun. Meanwhile, she fled.
Her shuttle was thrown off course by a resulting solar flare, through a stargate, finding herself in orbit around Earth.
Teleporting down, she was drawn in by the multiversal vortex building up around the lighthouse base of Excalibur. Cerise soon received an invitation to join, which she accepted. She discovered a mutual attraction with Nightcrawler, and the two soon became involved.
Continuity note
Her history as a Shi’ar didn’t seem to be the original intention for the character.
Nightcrawler states when she first appears that her tech is like nothing he’s ever seen before, yet he’s had plenty of exposure to Shi’ar tech in the past, and has probably fixed some used at Xavier’s mansion.
Also the Shi’ar references only appear the issue after Alan Davis (her creator) leaves, in the story which gets her off the team.
Raise the sword
Alongside Excalibur she fought Necrom and the Anti-Phoenix, preventing the destruction of the multiverse. Cerise also helped battle the likes of Jamie Braddock and Sat-Yr-9, Troll Associates, and the Crazy Gang. Meeting the extradimensional Khaos, whom she felt an attraction to, she and Excalibur helped him battle his foe Ghath, on Earth and then on the pair’s homeworld Irth.
They defeated the sorcerer Ghath. But his curse kicked in as Excalibur returned home, as Khaos was also banished with them. Unable to return home, Cerise offered him a place in Excalibur, but he rebuffed the offer, taking off to seek a way home.
She soon accompanied the rest of Excalibur on a journey into the future Rachel Summers (Phoenix) had come from, where they teamed up with some of the local resistance. Cerise flew them across the Atlantic in a hollowed out Sentinel, where they succeeded in infiltrating the Sentinel’s main base.
Fighting their way to the captured Phoenix, they managed to reprogram the prime directives of all Sentinels, forcing them to protect all life.
Space empire
Soon after, she was taken into custody by the Starjammers, acting under Lilandra’s orders. They escorted her back to the Shi’ar Empire, where she had been sentenced in absentia for her crimes. Cerise was sent to the subterranean prison Krag. While there she was attacked by the second Fang, whom she had to kill to survive.
Excalibur arrived just as she killed her enemy, intending to rescue her. Nightcrawler was shocked by her actions. Lilandra interceded on learning the full details of the case, allowing her to serve the remainder of her time as a personal agent. cerise would investigate reports of brutality and violence among Shi’ar officials, and report directly to Lilandra.
She briefly returned to Earth when it had been assigned as an interplanetary prison planet. Cerise was dispatched by Lilandra to contact the X-Men, and thus met Nightcrawler again. He was, at this point, training to be a priest, so they had no chance to resume their previous relationship.
She later became a member of the Graces, a group of female warriors led by Gamora. It is unrevealed what the status of her service to Lilandra is at this point. They were based on the planet Godthab, but were forced to leave when the Annihilation Wave hit.
They joined the forces battling the Wave, and were eventually successful in halting its advance.
Engineered to be a soldier, calm and professional in action, Cerise nevertheless seeks a more peaceful life. Thus, she would rather avoid violence if possible. She found her urges to protect innocents greater than the loyalty to the army she had been born and indoctrinated into.
Friendly and a loyal team mate, she was nevertheless quiet on the subject of her past. She found life on Earth strange, and would often be confused by local customs, although she did develop a liking for the “lip-massage” greeting.
“I am Cerise. Warrior of the Ghrand Jhar. Genestock of Subruki, Zarstok and Kuli Ka. Mine is the power to generate malleable energy fields of coherent light force that obey my will.”
Cerise: “Children ? What is children ?”
Shadowcat: “Infants, babies, youngsters, kids. You know, they grow into adults. Aw, c’mon, Cerise, you must have been smaller once.”
Cerise: “No. I emerged from the source as I am. Kitty, are you still a children ?”
Shadowcat: “Child — NO ! But I’m still growing.”
Cerise: “Hmm — I had wondered why you are so small and puny.”
“If we die, we die together, Graces — all !”
DC Universe History
A Thanagarian trooper who became disillusioned by the actions she was forced to take, she fled after destroying the ship she’d served on. He flight was interrupted as she was captured by the Zamorans, and used to experiment with the energies of the Star Sapphire.
They imbued her with the energies, but the surge of power overrode their restraints and her mind, leaving her with false memories of being an explorer from another dimension. It also transported her across the universe, ending up on Earth.
She met and joined Outsiders, and became attracted to Geo-Force. She was later found by both the Thangarians and the Zamorans, and learned her true history. She was uncertain whether the feelings she’d had for Geo-Force were real, or a product of the powers influencing her.
She left with the Zamorans, who promised to help her gain more control over her new abilities.
Dex: 06 Str: 04 Bod: 05 Motivation: Unwanted Power
Int: 06 Wil: 05 Min: 05 Occupation: Adventurer; former Agent of Lilandra
Energy Blast: 09, Flash: 06, Flight: 06, Force Manipulation: 18, Sealed Systems: 07
Military: 03, Vehicles (Space): 06
Expertise (Astro-navigation), Languages (Shi’ar).
Excalibur (High), Graces (High), Nightcrawler (High), Lilandra (Low).
Guilt.
Battle Dress Gloves [BODY 06, Detect (Temporal/Dimensional Anomalies): 08, Life Sense: 08, Omni-Power (Detect only): 08].
Previous Stats
When she initially appeared, she wore a Transit Suit, a bulky suit of armour which allowed her to teleport to the surface from her stolen shuttle.
The suit’s teleportational circuits were burned out by her initial appearance. Howbeit, the technology contained in the Battle Dress Gloves, which were part of the suit, were undamaged. While she did wear it later, it’s unclear whether or not it had been repaired.
If you decide to drop or de-retcon[glos] her Shi’ar history in favour of her original stated background, then the suit should probably have Dimensional Travel, as well.
TRANSIT SUIT [BODY 07, Teleport (Personal): 10, Life Support (Full)].
She hasn’t used her Force Manipulation for more than creating solid objects, lifting heavy objects and flying with them. It’s unclear whether or not she duplicate any other powers with it.
I haven’t included a Limitation, since I believe this is only due to lack of exposure in her appearances. But if you wish to limit her more strictly to what’s shown, then she should have the Limitation ’Force Manipulation constructs may not have any Powers except Flight‘.
By Gareth Lewis.
Source of Character: Excalibur, Marvel Comics.
Helper(s): Marveldatabase.com , wikipedia.org, Sébastien Andrivet, Chris Cottingham, KalEl el Vigilante.
Excalibur Visionaries: Alan Davis vol. 1-3
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Kara McDowell
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Mommy blogs are great . . . unless the blog happens to belong to your mom. Twin sisters Claire & Poppy are accidental social media stars thanks to Mom going viral when they were babies. Now, as teens, they're expected to contribute by building their own brand. Attending a NY fashion week and receiving fan mail is a blast. Fending off internet trolls and would-be kidnappers? Not so much. Poppy embraces it. Claire hates it. Will anybody accept her as "just Claire"? And what should Claire do about Mom's old journals? The handwritten entries definitely don't sound like Mom's perfect blog persona. Worse, one of them divulges a secret that leaves Claire wondering what else in her life might be nothing but a sham .
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Claire and her twin sister, Poppy, are ‘internet famous’. Every part of their lives have been blogged, photographed, and recorded by their fashion blogger mom. Claire begins to doubt her future on the internet while Poppy loves the limelight. The addition of a new boy in class helps push Claire to spread her wings and want more for her life.
The topic of this book is very timely. When I was growing up there was no YouTube, social medial, or email. There was no pressure to keep up on the latest internet trends and there was no such thing as being ‘internet famous.’ In todays world there are many people who are popular internet celebrities. Their accessibility to the public makes their fans believe that they know them. This can lead many young internet personalities to really lose a sense of themselves. This is what happens to Clair in ‘Just for Clicks.’ Her mother and sister pressure her to continue in the public spotlight (their livelihood depends on it) even when Claire is not comfortable with it. McDowell really shows the reasons why Claire doesn’t like this lifestyle but why she keeps vlogging and blogging anyway. The author also demonstrates how imperative clicks, views, impressions, subscribers, and comments are to anyone with an on-line presence.
I really did love Claire and her relationship with Rafael. Their friendship and romance really took my breath away and I was totally smitten with Raphael myself.
I think Claire is a very human character. She began as very nervous and self-conscious and turned into a whole new self-assured person. The only character that I am not totally sure I liked is Ashley, Poppy and Claire’s mom. Her behavior both inside their ‘brand’ and in their family life was very questionable. She seemed to disregard Claire’s feelings and definitely favored Poppy. I know this is an important point of the storyline but her constant disregard for Claire did bother me at times.
I am so happy to have read, ‘Just for Clicks’. What seems to be a lighthearted story about ‘internet famous’ twin sisters is so much for then that. It is an important topic that I wish was approached more in YA. ‘Just for Clicks’, is a totally sweet romance while still being so much more.
*Side note-I totally loved Claire’s internet friend, Signofthetimes.
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Consultation on Admission Arrangements for Entry into Yavneh Primary School September 2022
The Multi Academy Trust (MAT) Board of Yavneh College Academy Trust is currently considering revisions to the admission arrangements for entry into Yavneh Primary School (the School) in September 2022. As determined by the School Admissions Code and The School Admissions (Admission Arrangements and Co-ordination of Admission Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2012 we are required to consult with you.
Changes to Certificate of Religious Practice
The main changes to our admissions arrangements are to the Certificate of Religious Practice (CRP) form, which is used to demonstrate eligibility for a priority faith place in the School. The changes being proposed are:
To return to accepting verified synagogue attendance as a way to gain CRP points, which was not possible for admissions cycle 2021/22 while synagogues were closed during lockdown.
To remove the exemption that applied in admissions cycle 2021/22 to the sibling of an older applicant to the School who had previously demonstrated faith eligibility, (i.e. who completed a CRP form for the School to which the sibling / current applicant is applying), which meant that they were not required to accrue CRP points. Siblings will return to the previously established position of needing to complete a CRP form themselves (should they need to).
To extend the window during which CRP points can be obtained.
To provide a number of options of dates for participation in the online CRP course.
To require siblings of pupils attending the School at the deadline for application and who are applying for a faith-based place in the School to have a minimum of four points on the School’s CRP so as to be considered as a priority applicant under the sibling over-subscription criterion.
The Trustees are proposing this change as a large group of schools under the religious authority of the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth have agreed to amend their CRP to reflect a change in the Coronavirus (Covid19) Regulations, thereby requiring all children applying to attend a school in this group under the Chief Rabbi’s religious authority to have a minimum of four points on their school’s CRP, where a CRP is required. The consultation to amend the School’s CRP is being coordinated by the Office of the Chief Rabbi on behalf of this group of schools that come under his religious authority.
Children of Staff
The second proposed change is that children of members of staff means a staff member who, at the time of application, has a permanent contract of employment with Yavneh Primary School and i) has been employed at the School for two or more years or ii) has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage, and in both cases i) and ii) will be working at Yavneh Primary School in September 2022.
The Trustees are proposing this change to bring the Yavneh Primary School and Yavneh College rules in line with each other. This was not possible until now.
If you have any comments on the proposed changes to our admission arrangements, please write to Mrs Fiona Graham at the following email address consultation2022@yavnehcollege.org before the end date of the consultation, which is 25 January 2021.
No other changes to the admissions arrangements are proposed. Comments are not sought on any part of the School’s admission arrangements where changes are not proposed. Any comments made on other parts of the School’s admission arrangements will not be taken into account in the consultation.
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Lokmat, the largest selling newspaper in Marathi, recently carried a front page piece that opposed reservation, in relation to the Patel agitation. Soon after there was a peaceful march in Nagpur where the newspaper was denounced, copies of it burnt, and subscriptions cancelled. The very next day, the newspaper announced on its front page that it was not opposed to reservation. In a similar incident from across the globe, a viral video from the Baltimore agitation, earlier this year, shows Geraldo Rivera of Fox News being confronted for its selective coverage of news from Baltimore.
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“Let’s not assume that media is outside the globe,” Paul Divakar, convener at National Campaign On Dalit Human Rights, said on Saturday at the Press Club of India. He was speaking at a public meeting organised in memory of Nagaraju Koppula, ‘Addressing Casteism and Discrimination In Indian Media’. Nagaraju’s death has once again brought the question of casteism in media to the fore, which was first brought to light by B.N. Uniyal with his piece in The Pioneer in 1996. Anil Chamadia, moderating the meeting, said that Nagaraju’s case shows us that Dalits continue to be discriminated against in media, despite their talent, and the meeting sought to bring a continuity to this discourse.
However, it is not surprising that this questioning itself would be seen with suspicion and contempt. Uniyal, in his 1996 piece, recorded several such counter questions, one of them reads: “Do you mean to say the Press is really Manuwadi as Kansi Ram says? Do you think any of us writes or reports as a Brahmin journalist, or as a Kayastha or a Jain journalist?” And in 2015, preempting such comments, Paul Divakar noted that during the tsunami and the earthquake in Gujarat, Dalits had to be flown in to clear the carcasses, they were denied shelter in the makeshift tents, and compensation was denied to them because they were not landowners, indicating that there’s been no change in the casteist structure of the Indian society. If caste operates even in the times of natural disasters, the burden of proof then must lie on the media and not those who question its casteist nature; and as statistics from previous studies were quoted during the meeting, there remained no doubt that the media must be subjected to an examination of casteism inherent in it.
Dilip C. Mandal, former Managing Editor of India Today, brought to notice that a national commission in USA, constituted to look into the causes and prevention of violence in 1968, had at least identified the country’s press as ‘white press’ and called it as such at least four times in the report. While we refuse to accept this in the case of Indian media, which he said could easily be called hindu-male-upper-caste press. He then reminded everyone present, of the study carried out by Anil Chamadia, Yogendra Yadav, and Jitendra Kumar in 2006 that showed that Hindu upper caste men, who form only 8% of the country’s population, hold 71% of the top jobs in national media. While casteism permeates newsrooms in subtle manners- as the case of Nagaraju shows- he expressed surprise at the fact that despite their major readership coming from avarna readers, newspapers continue to write strongly against reservation. “What good are journalists if they don’t speak up during incidents like Babri Masjid, Mandal agitation and caste census?” he asked. To add to that, one might ask why the Cobrapost documentary, on the massacre of Dalits in Bihar, has failed to make it to regular front page news and prime time television despite elections being due in the state.
This representation is important because there are experiences that are specific to Dalits and Adivasis that a member of the upper caste can hardly relate to. Is it surprising that a debate on reservation among upper castes starts with complete amnesia about the Poona Pact and ignorance of regular reports of SC/ST students being denied RTE, being segregated in schools, being beaten up for clearing IIT-JEE? Bhasha Singh, another journalist on the panel, narrated that in a recent meeting with Soni Sori, Sori told her that although a lot has been written about her, she doesn’t hear her voice in those stories. While Paranjoy Guha urged everyone to use everyday technology and smartphones to report stories that the mainstream ignores, Singh was of the opinion that the mainstream needs to be targeted to alter the discourse in the nation. What Singh says surmises that change can’t come only by using alternative methodology, it needs to come by dismantling the hegemony of the mainstream as well.
Satyendra Murli, a journalist from Doordarshan, also highlighted that government owned media weren’t immune to discrimination either, despite constitutional provisions. It is on these lines that a charter of demands was presented by the panel members. In specific, these demands from the state, the media, and civil society organisations are aimed at ending discrimination in the media. The organisers also announced an annual award for Dalit and Adivasi journalists. As Paul Divakar noted in the meeting, “While media is not part of the state, it is akin to state“, and it must, therefore, be held accountable too.
DalitFromIITIIM
Chetan bhagat is idiot. In the garb of seeing merit in numbers written on a sheet of paper he is in turn suggesting to use it (marks) as a exclusionary mechanism, nothing different that using vedas and so called sacred texts to exclude dalits. How will he make sure that dalits don't end up getting lower marks with all things being same just so that you make sure they are excluded in every elite college and upper castes gaining higher marks everytime due to inherent biases in minds of people like him?
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it’s very right and nobody bothered about this.when you ask question, you are casuist.beat wishes for raising this issue. http://www.ragehulk.com
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Left Front gives 24 hours to Congress to seal Lok Sabha seat-sharing deal in West Bengal
In the 2014 Lok Sabha poll, out of the total 42 seats in the state, TMC had won 34, Congress had bagged four while Left and BJP had won two seats each.
Pooja Mehta
Mar 19, 2019, 22:21 PM IST
Kolkata: After Congress announced names of 11 candidates in West Bengal for the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, the Left Front on Tuesday gave the grand old party a window of 24 hours to respond to the seat-sharing plan.
"We are giving 24 hours to Congress for seat sharing, we will wait till Wednesday at 4:30 pm. Only after that Left will say whether the talks on seat sharing can continue or not," Left Front chairman Biman Bose said.
Congress released its first list of 11 candidates on Monday night. The list showed that the party fielded candidates in two seats - Raigunj and Murshidabad where the CPI(M) has sitting MPs. CPI(M)'s Md Salim is the sitting MP from Raigunj and Badrudozza Khan is the sitting MP from Murshidabad.
According to the earlier talks between the two parties, Left Front had demanded that the Congress should not field candidates in the two seats where the party has sitting MPs. In return, the Left will not field candidates in four seats where the Congress had sitting MPs - Malda Uttar, Malda Dakshin, Jangipur and Berhampore.
Congress, however, wanted to field candidates in all 42 seats in the state.
On Tuesday, the Left Front announced names of 38 candidates and left out the four seats where the Congress had sitting MPs. However, if the party cannot reach a point of the solution on seat sharing, the Left will field their own candidates in the four seats.
"If Congress does not withdraw candidates on the two seats - Raigunj and Murshidabad and communicate to us of their decision on seat sharing, then we will field candidates in the four seats," added Bose.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha poll, out of the total 42 seats in the state, Trinamool Congress had won 34 seats, Congress had bagged four seats while the Left had won two seats and BJP had bagged the two remaining seats.
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Home/Politics/Polls: Biden has a double-digit lead over Trump on the nationwide stage
Polls: Biden has a double-digit lead over Trump on the nationwide stage
Zetpress October 4, 2020
New national polls, conducted both before and after President Donald Trump began treating Covid-19 at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, show Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden had a significant advantage over the president a month before election day Has.
One such poll, conducted by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, found that Biden had the biggest lead in the campaign to date, leading his rival by 14 percentage points.
This is in line with some recent polls – including a CNBC poll the day after the first presidential debate, in which Biden had a 13 percentage point lead – and reflects that Biden has been a poll leader for some time. It does, however, register about 6 percentage points more than the average gap between Trump and Biden.
The NBC / WSJ poll found the debate had an impact on registered voters, seeing a 6 percentage point increase in preference for Biden from a poll they completed prior to the debate.
The increase in Biden's support in the poll is partly due to high-ranking voters, who support him by a margin of 27 percentage points (62 to 35 percent) and suburban women, who support him by a margin of 15 points (58 to 33 percent). Both population groups are considered to be key voters.
Men over 50 in particular – an important part of Trump's 2016 base – are showing some signs of shifting their support. After the debate, that group moved from supporting Trump by a 13-point lead to supporting Biden by 1 point, a swing of at least 10 points in just a few days.
Perhaps the debate overshadows the fact that the president now has Covid-19. Poll takers are still determining how this could affect the race, but a Reuters / Ipsos poll, conducted October 2-3 after news of Trump's diagnosis, found voters likely to drop Biden by 10 percentage points advocate.
Other national survey trackers show Biden with a constant lead, but still have that lead in the double-digit range. Biden is 8.7 percentage points above Trump on NBC News' national poll average, and Biden is 8 points above Trump on FiveThirtyEight national poll average.
This smaller gap is also significant; Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, responded to the new polls by pointing to many polls in 2016 that indicated that then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was at the top of the polls: "And now is President Trump in the White House. "
Trump's handling of the coronavirus is on the minds of voters
The usual disclaimers apply to reading this week's polls: polls don't predict the future, but rather reflect a snapshot of a point in time, as Vox's Li Zhou explained.
In addition, while national polls are a good indicator of sentiment, they may overlook some specifics in different swing states. And because the electoral college, not the referendum, decides on the presidency, the 2020 election will likely be decided by a handful of swing states – or even swing counties. State polls (which, in turn, as Zhou has explained, have their limits) show that in the major battlefield states, the race is much closer. For example, a CBS News poll in Ohio from September 30 to October 2 found that Biden and Trump are connected.
And of course there could be radical changes to the polls in the four weeks between now and the elections. Nothing about this year's campaign cycle has been normal, and the coronavirus pandemic, as well as its personal impact on the president, could change the shape of the race.
However, recent polls on the pandemic show that most Americans disagree with how Trump dealt with the coronavirus. The Reuters / Ipsos poll found that only about a third of voters believe Trump was telling the truth about the coronavirus. 55 percent said they didn't, and 11 percent aren't sure – and more than half of Americans, 57 percent, disapproved of his overall answer.
That poll also found that 65 percent of Americans agreed with the statement, "If President Trump had taken the coronavirus more seriously, he likely would not have been infected."
That number included 9 out of 10 registered Democrats and 5 in 10 registered Republicans, according to the survey.
As questions arise about Trump's health, how he dealt with the coronavirus – both personally and as the nation's leader – is sure to play a role in voter decisions.
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