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Sandy Hook 'truther' begs for mercy -- insists harassing calls to school were just ‘words’
Timothy Rogalski in court (Screen capture)
A Connecticut man who believes that the December, 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School never took place has been arrested for harassing members of the school staff.
According to WFSB News, 30-year-old Timothy Rogalski of Wallingford was arrested Tuesday and went before a judge on Wednesday after he made a series of threatening phone calls to the elementary school where 26 adults and children were murdered.
Rogalski is a believer of the so-called "truther" movement, which maintains that the massacre at Sandy Hook was not the work of disturbed gunman Adam Lanza, but an elaborately staged hoax portrayed by gun control advocates who want to disarm the population in order to make way for an authoritarian takeover by a unified, socialist world government.
On Tuesday, Rogalski left four disturbing messages on the school's answering machine.
First, he called up pretending to be a father interested in enrolling his child in the school.
"I just wanted to make sure that there was going to be no fake shooting on the day that I enrolled him," he said, according to court records. "I just wanted to clarify that he wouldn't get shot by a fake Adam Lanza."
Rogalski then asked if Sandy Hook survivor Kaitlin Roig could be his son's teacher and left a message for deceased school principal Dawn Hochsprung, who died in the attack.
When taken before the judge, Rogalski insisted he was just talking, not issuing actual threats against the school.
"I know I may have offended people, but they were words, and I made no threats," he said. "I wasn't going to do anything."
On Tuesday, the school was able to trace the calls back to Rogalski.
The Newtown Police Department served him with a misdemeanor charge of harassment.
Rogalski is being held on $50,000 bond in the Monroe Police Department lockup.
Watch video about this story, embedded below:
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Ben Carson: Taking in Syrian refugees is just ‘trying to be politically correct’
Ben Carson speaks to ABC News (screen grab)
GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson declared on Sunday that people in the United States wanted to take in Syrian refugees because it was "politically correct," which he warned would put the country "at risk."
Speaking on ABC News, Carson told host Martha Raddatz that his experience as a brain surgeon gave him the necessary skills to be president.
"Let me ask you this then," Raddatz replied. "How would you handle the refugee crisis right now?"
"I would recognize that bringing in people from the Middle East right now carries extra danger," Carson explained. "And we have to be extra cautious."
"You know, we need to tighten it up and be very careful," the candidate added. "Because we cannot put our people at risk because we're trying to be politically correct."
Watch the video below from ABC's This Week, broadcast Sept. 13, 2015.
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John Oliver mocks Queen Elizabeth II's hats: 'A penis that's literally died of embarrassment'
Last Week tonight host John Oliver paid sarcastic tribute to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday for becoming her nation's longest-serving monarch after more than six decades on the throne.
"Essentially what I'm saying is: Congratulations your majesty," he said. "You have spent 63 years doing a job that could have effectively been done as well by a styrofoam mold of a human head."
Oliver then showed a montage of the queen's collection of hats, accompanied by some withering voice-over descriptions like, "A baby smurf's uncircumsized penis," "what mold thinks about when it masturbates," and "a penis that's literally died of embarrassment," among others.
The host also took a jab at CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips for comparing the queen to a train, saying the 89-year-old monarch "just keeps chugging along."
"For one thing, people need trains," Oliver said. "Trains still serve a practical purpose in the modern era. You’re being mean to trains."
Watch Oliver's commentary, as posted online, below.
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US consumer finance agency expected to punish Equifax: lawyers
Credit cards, a chain and an open padlock is seen in front of displayed Equifax logo in this illustration taken September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illutration
The U.S. consumer finance watchdog agency is expected to punish Equifax for its cyber breach with the wide-ranging powers it has used with Wall Street, former agency officials and lawyers said this week.
The credit-reporting company is subject to five federal laws governing listed companies, the use of public data and the fair treatment of customers, and the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are examining the hacking theft of personal information on up to 143 million people.
But because Equifax is not strictly a financial company, questions arose whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency created after the 2008 financial crisis, has the power to penalize the firm for the breach.
Legal experts said the CFPB is likely to weigh in using powers it wields under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
"Its Dodd-Frank mandate gives the CFPB authority to investigate Equifax even without cyber security rules," said Quyen Truong, former deputy general counsel for the agency.
Equifax is one of the country's three major credit bureaus which, along with TransUnion and Experian PLC, gather data on consumer spending habits which is then purchased by banks to determine a customer's creditworthiness.
The CFPB and legal experts said the regulator could pursue Equifax under an aspect of the Dodd-Frank Act banning unfair, deceptive and abusive acts and practices (UDAAP).
CFPB spokesman Sam Gilford pointed to fines the CFPB levied on Equifax in January for allegedly deceiving consumers about the usefulness and cost of credit score information they bought, using this aspect of the law.
He declined to comment on whether the regulator has already or plans to open an investigation. An Equifax spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
The UDAAP provision does not specifically address cyber incidents, but because it is "very broad and very vague," the CFPB could argue Equifax breached the law, said Alan Kaplinsky of law firm Ballard Spahr.
Data from law firm Morrison Foerster show almost 80 percent of the agency's enforcement actions included a UDAAP claim in 2015, and the agency pursued online payment system Dwolla over cyber issues.
In addition to forcing companies to take certain actions or desist from damaging behavior, the CFPB can fine them up to $1 million per day if a company knowingly violated the law.
"If they think Equifax treated consumers unfairly or misled, or did something that caused consumer harm, they’d use it," said Kaplinsky.
(Reporting By Patrick Rucker and Lisa Lambert; editing by Michelle Price and Cynthia Osterman)
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World Muslim Leader Opens Annual Convention in Germany
June 29, 2013 Press Releases
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad opens Annual Convention with Friday Sermon
The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad opened the three-day Jalsa Salana Germany with a faith inspiring Friday Sermon on 28 June 2013 in the city of Karlsruhe. During his address, His Holiness spoke about the true purpose and objectives of the Annual Convention.
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad also informed that in both the United States and in Kababir the Annual Conventions of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community were also taking place this weekend.
During his Friday Sermon, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad emphasised that the real purpose of the Annual Convention is self-improvement and the development of a spirit of righteousness amongst all participants.
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said:
“Good deeds should be performed selflessly. To do a favour to someone in return for a favour and in the hope of gaining benefits is not the right way. Our only motivation should be to gain the pleasure of God the Almighty.”
The Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community further emphasised the need to fulfil both the rights of God and of mankind.
“We cannot bring the people of the world closer to God until we ourselves have established a strong bond with Him. And we cannot fulfil the rights of mankind until we develop within ourselves a spirit of truthfulness, love, brotherhood and selflessness.”
The Jalsa Salana continued on Saturday morning with an address by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad to Lajna Imaillah (Ladies Auxiliary Organisation) in which he counselled them on the importance of modesty in all respects and the importance of the moral training of all Ahmadi children.
Later on Saturday Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad will address non-Ahmadi guests in English about the true teachings of Islam. On Sunday afternoon, His Holiness will deliver the concluding address of the Jalsa Salana.
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Blood 2
A RAGE QUIT REVIEW A Bloodless FBT dies a slow slow death Blood is my favourite game from the Doom era, the only one with a true original anti-hero – his put-downs, meta-refs and bleak outlook sounded theatrically real compared to Duke’s hyperbole or Lo-Wang’s Benny Hill impression. It referenced practically everything I was in to; it even had my Elvira calendar on the walls. It was one-part gothic horror story, one-part fanboy fun-fest but still managed to have its own identity - and a true storyline, a rarity during that FPS era. But the best thing about Blood? It still runs. Blood 2 however, doesn’t. Even though both GOG and Steam merrily sell it. No matter how many times I change the compatibility mode, run as admin, alter the settings, I get that goddamn ‘MFC Application has stopped working’ message. Hundreds of forums, politely unhelpful Microsoft tech support plus dismissive ‘read the small print’ from GOG and I’m no nearer understanding what an MFC is and why it hates early noughties gaming. The answer is seems, is Lithtech. Monolith’s engine, intended to sit alongside id’s Tech and Epic’s Unreal powered a fair few games from this era, all of which collapse when you try to run them on modern systems. Somehow, it just doesn’t gel with later Windows and no one’s found a DOSBox-like one-size-fits-all fix. And so, I dive into the world of free patches and fixes, following links I hope are not adware while Chrome and McAfee panic like parents spotting their kid poking his fingers in a socket. Why must I be forced to risk my PC’s health and my personal data because GOG and Steam can’t get their shit together? But someone did, and they created something that makes Blood 2 work. Good on yer. But I don’t really know what I’m doing, even when the instructions are on the screen. I download anyway, using Internet Explorer which seems to have a laissez-faire attitude towards dangerous sites with hidden agendas. Or maybe Chrome is being too nannying. I just hope my nudes aren’t being hacked. After downloading zip-files galore, blindly opening, running and installing without the faintest idea what I’m doing, I start randomly changing everything in the launch menu, making up new and creative ways to murder the inventor of MFC each time it pops up when suddenly … it worked! I’m back in Caleb’s world! It wasn’t good. I did play Blood 2 when it was released but I don’t recall it being this bad. This is from Monolith; they knocked out classic after classic – Blood, FEAR, NOLF 1 & 2, yet Blood 2 is a mess. This is what all that effort and pop-ups telling me my PC was infected and I need to call a toll-free number to fix it was for? In the years since Caleb avenged his wife and friends by killing their dark god and destroying the Cabal, the remnants of Techenborg’s followers did a corporate restructure and became an omnipotent mega-corp. One day, Caleb is taking a trip on a Cabal Co. subway when some bloke called Gideon takes control and crashes the train, sending various baddies after Caleb to finish him off. Presumably Gideon is up to something and doesn’t want Caleb getting in the way. Too late now. Caleb arms himself and goes after Gideon. There’s nothing of the original’s gothic horror tone, the plotting is confused, the art design nonsensical and it looks like it was built on a trial version of Quake. You’re often backtracking in a way that suggests padding and exits turn up in random places. What happened to levels like the Overlooked Hotel, the Friday the 13th woods, the tundra? Where’s the Elvira love, the John Carpenter refs? How does a game made five years after the original, and with that background wind up this anodyne and lazy? The original looks better than this, how is that possible? I get that Cabal has gone corporate but the suits and soldiers are boring and they have two lines of dialogue - “come out, we won’t hurt you” when they can’t see you and “You will die a slow slow death” when they can – and they have one tumble move they all do in unison. Nowhere near as much fun as the cloaked priests who looked like evil Jawas. Elsewhere we’re running into sub-par monsters which remind you of creatures you’ve fought before in better games – little grubs in the sewers latch onto victims and transform them; Headcrab-lite anyone? There’s sketchy little bird-reptile things and floating wizardy types but nothing like the stone gargoyles and that amphibious fish nightmare. There’s NCPs running about with stretchy faces and random behaviours but it’s a very empty, straight game. If it wasn’t for Caleb you’d not know you were in Blood-land. Aww man, Caleb has been neutered too. Now he’s glib about the situation rather than the murderous manic of Blood 1. A rift has opened up and Gideon wants to control it; that’s where the creatures are from, and only Caleb with his Techenborg powers can close it, hence Gideon wanting him dead. Each time we close a portion of it, one of Caleb’s old friends appears, somehow trapped. Caleb realises this means his beloved Ophelia might be trapped in the portal too, so now he has a real reason to keep fighting – this emulates the original where he was driven by pure rage to avenge her death and now he’s driven to save her, but that’s barely explored and when they do meet they’re indifferent to each other. They just have a domestic that’s left unresolved. It’s hugely disappointing. You can play as any of the Chosen, but doing so idiotically causes all the cut-scenes to skip since you can’t be Ophelia and save her – way to manage your narrative. It could have worked as a reverse of Blood 1 where Caleb brings them all back, but it’s plot is one of many signs that B2 is an unfinished game. Blood supposedly went through a torturous development process but even with the basic level design, confusing plotting and chaotic feel, this isn’t Blood. It’s not just the look it’s the feel; it’s missing the narcissistic tone, the clever references - the original Blood bled horror-geek, you knew the devs were just like you, watched the same films, listened to the same soundtracks, had the same t-shirts, fancied the same Elvira. I don’t know who Blood 2 is, but I wouldn’t have a pint with them. Even after all that mucking about, I can’t really be bothered with this. When I face-off against dismembered Evil Dead 2 hands, it’s too little too late, it just reminds me of what could have been. I rage quit, then convince myself I'm being hasty - this is Blood, I will force myself to love it. But when I try to load it up again, the final boss, MFC Application returns and despite not having changed anything I can’t get B2 to run again. The combined rage at MFC and B2’s crappiness mean I can’t be bothered to keep trying. Rage Quit. And I bought this off Steam and GOG when I could have downloaded for illegal-free? FFS. As much as I love them, I blame GOG and Steam for not getting their act together and ensuring the games they sell will run on modern rigs. Those platforms have brought back many a good old game, but it’s no good absolving themselves with a disclaimer about requirements – who has Win98 anymore? They need to step it up or stop selling it. Retro games need retro attention; if GOG are still ‘Good Old Games’ they need to make them Playable Good Old Games. They’re missing a trick not creating their own emulators. If they did a LithtechBox or a MFCBox they’d clean up. Short of going on ebay and buying rigs for each windows iteration I’m out of luck and that’s a shame. How is it even possible that I have an emulator that lets me play SPECTRUM games on WINDOWS 10 and I can't play this? If GOG and Steam don’t start future-proofing their old games they won’t have a future either. I can’t say I was enjoying Blood 2; it’s a huge, bitter disappointment but I would have liked to finish it; I can’t even get the Nightmare Add-On levels to run, where the Chosen sit around a campfire and tell tall tales which Caleb winds up stuck in. That sounds more like the original Blood but I’ll never get to find out. Damn you MFC; it's a real frustration but the real Rage Quit is GOG and Steam, leaving it up to enterprising modders to do their work for them while I’m left to download files from dodgy sites. If you see me naked on the net forward it to Steam. 1998 | Developer, Monolith Productions | Publisher GT Interactive Platforms; Win (Steam/GOG)
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November 22, 2016 by andii
Established in 2000, Prime Telecom is the first telecom company which supplied all operators transport services and connectivity in neutral regime.
In 2003, Prime Telecom began developing its own metropolitan fiber optic infrastructure, installing the first 200 km in Bucharest. This was extended in Cluj and Constanta in 2004, the year in which was established the international presence in Ancotel, the neutral collocation center from Frankfurt.
In 2008, Prime Telecom merged with Net Vision Telecom, which led to the extension of the range of telecommunications services. As a result of this merger, Prime Telecom completed its carrier services with a comprehensive range of solutions for corporate customers: Internet access, corporate VPNs, etc.
In 2009 the consolidation process continued by taking over VipNet, one of the first alternative telecom operators in Romania. With this step, Prime Telecom has strengthened its position in the local market of telecommunication services, increasing the coverage of its network.
Currently, Prime Telecom is positioned on the Romanian telecommunications market as an operator that offers complete solutions, from Internet access and IP telephony to Ethernet / SDH data transport, video monitoring, alarm and access control.
Prime Telecom has developed a solid portfolio of clients, from a wide range of sectors such as telecom, IT, banking, pharmaceuticals, media, etc. Also, among Prime Telecom customers there are government organizations, local authorities, cultural and educational institutions.
Prime Telecom’s Infrastructure
Over 8000 km of national and european fiber
Tenths of presence point in Romania and Europe
Multiple 10G capacities
National and European fiber rings
What are the advantages of fiber optics?
Fiber optic is a data transmission medium, with multiple advantages. Among the most important are: very high speed of transmission, higher bandwitdth, interference free, relative safety.
What about your national coverage?
In Bucharest, Prime Telecom’s infrastructure covers over 90% of the city, and we are able to connect you almost in every point. At the national level we have points of presence in the following cities: Cluj, Iasi, Craiova, Ploiest, Timisoara, Oradea, Bacau, Giurgiu, Constanta and via our partners we can reach any point in Romania. For details please contact us directly.
Do you have 24/7/365 tech support?
Yes, our Technical Support departament, answers to your requests permanently via phone or email:
E-mail: support@primetelecom.ro.
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40 Things Your Airplane Pilot Won’t Tell You
Michelle CrouchUpdated: Nov. 29, 2020
We asked pilots from across the country to give us straight answers about maddening safety rules, inexplicable delays, the air and attitudes up there, and what really happens behind the cockpit door. What they told us will change the way you fly.
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I’ve been struck by lightning twice
Most pilots have. Airplanes are built to take it. You hear a big boom and see a big flash and that’s it. You’re not going to fall out of the sky.—Airplane pilot for a regional carrier, Charlotte, North Carolina. Stop believing these common myths about airplanes.
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Sit in the back if you’re always cold
The general flow of air in any airplane is from front to back. So if you’re really concerned about breathing the freshest possible air or not getting too hot, sit as close to the front as you can. Planes are generally warmest in the back.—Tech pilot at a regional airline, Texas. You may not know about these places planes are forbidden to fly over.
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Turbulence isn’t dangerous
Pilots find it perplexing that so many people are afraid of turbulence. It’s all but impossible for turbulence to cause a crash. We avoid turbulence not because we’re afraid the wing is going to fall off but because it’s annoying.—Patrick Smith. Find out what really happens when your plane experiences turbulence.
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Listen when I tell you to put your laptop away
We don’t make you stow your laptop because we’re worried about electronic interference. It’s about having a projectile on your lap. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to get hit in the head by a MacBook going 200 miles per hour. And we’re not trying to ruin your fun by making you take off your headphones. We just want you to be able to hear us if there’s an emergency.—Patrick Smith
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If you’re a nervous flier, book a morning flight
The heating of the ground later causes bumpier air, and it’s much more likely to thunderstorm in the afternoon.—Jerry Johnson, airplane pilot, Los Angeles. Don’t miss these 16 airport mistakes you need to stop making before your next flight.
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Some FAA rules don’t make sense to us either
Like the fact that when we’re at 39,000 feet going 400 miles an hour, in a plane that could hit turbulence at any minute, (flight attendants) can walk around and serve hot coffee and Chateaubriand. But when we’re on the ground on a flat piece of asphalt going five to ten miles an hour, they’ve got to be buckled in like they’re at NASCAR.—Jack Stephan, US Airways captain based in Annapolis, Maryland, who has been flying since 1984. While you’re flying, never do these things in an airplane bathroom.
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The smoothest place to sit is often over or near the wing
The bumpiest place to sit is in the back. A plane is like a seesaw. If you’re in the middle, you don’t move as much.—Patrick Smith, airplane pilot and author of Cockpit Confidential. Learn more about the best airplane seats for every need.
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We’re more worried about updrafts than turbulence
A plane flies into a massive updraft, which you can’t see on the radar at night, and it’s like hitting a giant speed bump at 500 miles an hour. It throws everything up in the air and then down very violently. That’s not the same as turbulence, which bounces everyone around for a while.—John Nance, aviation safety analyst and retired airline captain, Seattle. There’s a very slight chance that your plane could collide with a flock of birds–here’s what would happen.
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There’s a reason you can’t use your cell phone
Well, what can happen is 12 people will decide to call someone just before landing, and I can get a false reading on my instruments saying that we are higher than we really are.—Jim Tilmon, retired American Airlines pilot, Phoenix Here’s exactly what might happen if you don’t put your phone on airplane mode.
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We fudge numbers when it comes to flight time
No, it’s not your imagination: Airlines really have adjusted their flight arrival times so they can have a better record of on-time arrivals. So they might say a flight takes two hours when it really takes an hour and 45 minutes.—AirTran Airways captain, Atlanta
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Being on time is more important than getting everyone there
The Department of Transportation has put such an emphasis on on-time performance that we pretty much aren’t allowed to delay a flight anymore, even if there are 20 people on a connecting flight that’s coming in just a little late.—Commercial pilot, Charlotte, North Carolina That’s why airlines use this method to board as fast as possible.
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I’m constantly under pressure to carry less fuel than I’m comfortable with
Airlines are always looking at the bottom line, and you burn fuel carrying fuel. Sometimes if you carry just enough fuel and you hit thunderstorms or delays, then suddenly you’re running out of gas and you have to go to an alternate airport.—Captain at a major airline
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You’ll never hear, “One of our engines just failed”
What they’ll say instead: “One of our engines is indicating improperly.” (Or more likely, they’ll say nothing, and you’ll never know the difference. Most planes fly fine with one engine down.) You’ll also never hear, “Well, folks, the visibility out there is zero.” Instead they’ll say: “There’s some fog in the Washington area.” Here are what the most common flight codes you may hear actually mean.
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The truth is, we’re exhausted
Our work rules allow us to be on duty 16 hours without a break. That’s many more hours than a truck driver. And unlike a truck driver, who can pull over at the next rest stop, we can’t pull over at the next cloud.—Captain at a major airline
When you get on that airplane at 7 a.m., you want your pilot to be rested and ready. But the hotels they put us in now are so bad that there are many nights when I toss and turn. They’re in bad neighborhoods, they’re loud, they’ve got bedbugs, and there have been stabbings in the parking lot.—Jack Stephan
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There’s no such thing as a water landing
It’s called crashing into the ocean.—Airplane pilot, South Carolina. If you end up in a worst-case scenario, this is how to survive a plane crash.
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We’re actually jealous of your onboard meal
Sometimes the airline won’t give us lunch breaks or even time to eat. We have to delay flights just so we can get food.—First officer on a regional carrier
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Most people get sick after traveling not because of what they breathe but because of what they touch
Always assume that the tray table and the button to push the seat back have not been wiped down, though we do wipe down the lavatory.—Patrick Smith. Here are 17 tricks for staying healthy on a flight.
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It’s one thing if the pilot puts the seat belt sign on for the passengers …
But if he tells the flight attendants to sit down, you’d better listen. That means there’s some serious turbulence ahead.—John Greaves
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Driving is WAY scarier than flying a plane
People always ask, “What’s the scariest thing that’s ever happened to you?” I tell them it was a van ride from the Los Angeles airport to the hotel, and I’m not kidding.—Jack Stephan. You probably had no idea these hidden features existed on an airplane.
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Most of the time, how you land is a good indicator of a pilot’s skill
So if you want to say something nice to a pilot as you’re getting off the plane, say “Nice landing.” We do appreciate that.—Joe D’Eon, a pilot at a major airline who produces a podcast at flywithjoe.com. Be to stay awake—this is why you should never sleep through an airplane landing.
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The two worst airports for us: Reagan National in Washington, D.C., and John Wayne in Orange County, California
You’re flying by the seat of your pants trying to get in and out of those airports. John Wayne is especially bad because the rich folks who live near the airport don’t like jet noise, so they have this noise abatement procedure where you basically have to turn the plane into a ballistic missile as soon as you’re airborne.—Airplane pilot, South Carolina
At some airports with really short runways, you’re not going to have a smooth landing no matter how good we are: John Wayne Airport; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Chicago Midway; and Reagan National.—Joe D’Eon
Remember: Bad weather exists BETWEEN cities, too
This happens all the time: We’ll be in Pittsburgh going to Philly, and there will be a weather delay. The weather in Pittsburgh is beautiful. Then I’ll hear passengers saying, “You know, I just called my friend in Philly, and it’s beautiful there too,” like there’s some kind of conspiracy or something. But in the airspace between Pittsburgh and Philly there’s a huge thunderstorm.—Jack Stephan. These are the best things to do during a flight layover or delay.
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Is traveling with a baby in your lap safe? No
It’s extremely dangerous. If there’s any impact or deceleration, there’s a good chance you’re going to lose hold of your kid, and he becomes a projectile. But the government’s logic is that if we made you buy an expensive seat for your baby, you’d just drive, and you’re more likely to be injured driving than flying.—Patrick Smith. Don’t make these other worst mistakes parents make when flying with their babies.
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Keep your seatbelt on
Most of you wouldn’t consider going down the highway at 60 miles an hour without your seat belt fastened. But when we’re hurtling through the air at 500 miles an hour and we turn off the seat belt sign, half of you take your seat belts off. But if we hit a little air pocket, your head will be on the ceiling.—Captain at a major airline
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Whatever you pay to fly, we pay more
Please don’t complain to me about your lost bags or the rotten service or that the airline did this or that. My retirement was taken to help subsidize your $39 airfare.—Pilot, South Carolina
I know pilots who spend a quarter million on their education and training, then that first year as a pilot, they qualify for food stamps.—Furloughed first officer, Texas. Take matters into your own hands with these 16 tips for getting the cheapest airfare possible.
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You can recline, but be mindful of who’s behind you
If you’re going to recline your seat, for God’s sake, please check behind you first. You have no idea how many laptops are broken every year by boorish passengers who slam their seat back with total disregard to what’s going on behind them.—John Nance
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We’d give you perks if we could
We miss the peanuts too.—US Airways pilot, South Carolina. Here are things you can still get for free on an airplane.
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We don’t wear our hats in the cockpit, by the way
On TV and in the comics, you always see these pilots with their hats on, and they have their headsets on over the hat, and that always makes us laugh.—Joe D’Eon
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We hear some dumb things
Here’s a news flash: We’re not sitting in the cockpit listening to the ball game. Sometimes we can ask the controllers to go to their break room to check the score. But when I fly to Pittsburgh on a Sunday afternoon, the passengers send the flight attendants up at least ten times to ask us the Steelers score.—Commercial pilot, Charlotte, North Carolina
I am so tired of hearing “Oh my God, you’re a girl pilot.” When you see a Black pilot, do you say “Oh my God, you’re a Black pilot”?—Pilot for a regional carrier. Learn 15 of the craziest things flight attendants have seen on the job.
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There’s a good reason for everything we ask you to do
We ask you to put up the window shade so the flight attendants can see outside in an emergency, to assess if one side is better for an evacuation. It also lets light into the cabin if it goes dark and helps passengers get oriented if the plane flips or rolls over.—Patrick Smith
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People tend to think the airplane is just flying itself. Trust me, that’s not true. It can fly by itself sometimes. But you’ve always got your hands on the controls waiting for it to mess up. And it does mess up.—Airplane pilot, South Carolina. Find out how autopilot really works on planes.
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Those buddy passes they give us?
I give them only to my enemies now. Sure, you can get a $1,000 airfare to Seattle for $100. But since you have to fly standby, it will take you three months to get back because you can’t get a seat.—Pilot, South Carolina
Leave flip-flops in your luggage
I always tell my kids to travel in sturdy shoes. If you have to evacuate and your flip-flops fall off, there you are standing on the hot tarmac or in the weeds in your bare feet.—Joe D’Eon
We do have control of the temperature
Cold on the airplane? Tell your flight attendant. We’re in a constant battle with them over the temperature. They’re moving all the time, up and down the aisles, so they are always calling and saying, “Turn up the air.” But most passengers I know are freezing.—Captain at a major carrier. Learn the real reason airplanes are so cold.
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Here’s the truth about airline jobs:
You don’t have as much time off as your neighbors think you have, you don’t make as much money as your relatives think you make, and you don’t have as many girlfriends as your wife thinks you have. Still, I can’t believe they pay me to do this.—Commercial pilot, Charlotte, North Carolina
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Don’t ask for directions
I may be in uniform, but that doesn’t mean I’m the best person to ask for directions in the airport. We’re in so many airports that we usually have no idea. –Pilot for a regional carrier, Charlotte, North Carolina. After you find your gate, avoid these 18 things you should never do on an airplane.
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Some airline lingo:
Blue juice: The water in the lavatory toilet. “There’s no blue juice in the lav.”
Crotch watch: The required check to make sure all passengers have their seat belts fastened. Also: “groin scan.”
Crumb crunchers: Kids. “We’ve got a lot of crumb crunchers on this flight.”
Deadheading: When an airline employee flies as a passenger for company business.
Gate lice: The people who gather around the gate right before boarding so they can be first on the plane. “Oh, the gate lice are thick today.”
George: Autopilot. I’ll let George take over.”
Landing lips: Female passengers put on their “landing lips” when they use their lipstick just before landing.
Pax: Passengers.
Spinners: Passengers who get on late and don’t have a seat assignment, so they spin around looking for a seat.
Two-for-one special: The plane touches down on landing, bounces up, then touches down again.
Working the village: Working in coach.
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We sleep in the cockpit
Do pilots sleep in (the cockpit)? Definitely. Sometimes it’s just a ten-minute catnap, but it happens.—John Greaves, airline accident lawyer and former airline captain, Los Angeles If that information makes you even more anxious about flying, let us at least reassure you with these common airplane sounds and what they really mean.
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We don’t dress up for cargo flights
One time I rode in the jump seat of a 747 freighter, which carries cargo, not passengers. As soon as the doors closed, the first officer went in back and put on a bathrobe and slippers. No kidding. He said, ‘I’ll be damned if I’m going to wear a tie for a bunch of boxes.’ –Tech pilot at a regional airline, Texas
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Don’t complain
Remember this before you complain about the cost of a ticket: Fares today are about the same as they were in the 1980s. –Patrick Smith. These are 20 more secrets your flight attendant won’t tell you.
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My first week at the Miami Workers Center, I was handed a press list and told to get reporters to a press conference the following week.
“How?” I asked.
“Figure it out,” was the response.
MWC Leader Ms. Nesbitt (RIP) telling the press how it is.
But I wasn’t left out to dry. I worked closely with a dedicated mentor and manager. She invested time in teaching me the hard skills of communications work, from press release writing to throwing awesome press events. She, along with other staff and member leaders, invested countless hours developing my strategy chops. I learned in campaign meetings crowded around a second-hand table plotting plans on a dry erase board, in casual early morning conversations over coffee, on late night phone conversations debriefing actions, and most importantly – through doing the work and learning from my mistakes (of which there were many).
I was lucky.
I had a mentor and a whole organization invested in my development as a strategist and a communicator. They wanted to win justice for their community and they had the foresight to see strategic communications as central to the fight. When I started doing more work outside of Miami with other groups in Florida, and then outside of Florida with groups across the country, I realized that this perspective and stance – communications as an integrated strategy for building power and winning – was exceptional.
While a handful of organizations offer trainings in media engagement, digital organizing, or campaign strategy development, there is still a woefully small number of communications strategists in social movements with a deep grounding in organizing. Somewhere there is a hole in the pipeline.
I am partnering with Center for Story-Based Strategy, with support from Ford Foundation, to build an experiment that seeks to solve this problem. We are launching the ReFrame Mentorship, a strategic communications program that supports emerging strategists and their organizations to bring communications in from the cold, and integrate it throughout their campaigns. We are building an awesome team of veteran movement communicators to serve as mentors and trainers, and we have an extended group of advisors who have been offering leadership and guidance.
While this program has been a long-time dream of mine it is not mine alone. Countless scheming and generative conversations with people from the Center for Media Justice, Center for Story-Based Strategy, Praxis Project, and the Progressive Communicators Network led to this*. The Reframe Mentorship rests on the shoulders of those who came before us creating foundational theories and practices for strategic communications for social justice movements. In this way it is nothing new, just a next phase.
This blog will be a place for reflection on the program from mentors, mentees, trainers, and co-conspirators. We will post what we are learning about the changing field of communications, the cool tools we are discovering, the lessons we are learning, and resources for the communications nerd in all of us.
Joseph Phelan
He is the co-founder and director of ReFrame. He is a creative strategist grounded in modern social movements for justice and liberation. With over two decades of experience – from big-puppet strewn direct actions in the ’90s global justice movement, to the multi-racial hip-hop beat infused mobilizations against police brutality at the City University of New York, to the deep power building organizing of the Miami Workers Center and Florida New Majority – Joseph finds inspiration in the simple moments of a shared story and excitement in big strategy.
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Sex Cells
Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
University of California Press (2011)
Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. In Sex Cells, Rene Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Although both men and women are usually drawn to donation for financial reasons, Almeling finds that clinics encourage sperm donors to think of the payments as remuneration for an easy "job." Women receive more money but are urged to regard egg donation in feminine terms, as the ultimate "gift" from one woman to another. Sex Cells shows how the gendered framing of paid donation, as either a job or a gift, not only influences the structure of the market, but also profoundly affects the individuals whose genetic material is being purchased.
Visit the publisher's website (here) to read the Introduction, review the table of contents, and recommend your library buy it.
From the back cover...
“What happens when sex cells sell? Do human bodies become degraded objects of commerce? Challenging simplistic accounts of commodification, Almeling offers a compelling analysis of contemporary markets for eggs and sperm. A superb contribution to 21st century economic sociology.” -Viviana A. Zelizer, author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
“This is a highly informative book. Almeling provides a balanced approach to this highly controversial subject. Although you might be conflicted by the ethical issues, you will definitely be extremely well-informed when you finish this book.” -Alan H. DeCherney, MD, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
“Almeling offers a wonderfully thoughtful analysis and an innovative cultural lens for viewing the gendered lives of sex cells and their commodification in the contemporary USA.” -Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Impact of Amniocentesis in America
“Putting a Price on a Human Egg,” Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2015
Interview on NPR’s “All Things Considered” for a story about women turning to online sperm donation sites, 2014
“Does the wrong sperm mean ‘wrongful birth’?” Interview on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer radio show, 2014
“Baby Boom: What Happens When One Sperm Donor Has Dozens of Offspring?” Interview on NPR's Here and Now, 2011.
“Secrets of the Sperm Bank,” Q&A on Salon.com, 2011
Almeling 2013. “The Unregulated Sperm Industry,” New York Times
Almeling 2017. "The Business of Egg and Sperm Donation." Contexts Magazine
Almeling, Radin, and Richardson 2014. “Egg-freezing a better deal for companies than for women,” CNN.com
Almeling 2007. “Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material.” American Sociological Review
Almeling and Willey 2017. "Same Medicine, Different Reasons: Comparing Women's Bodily Experiences of Producing Eggs for Pregnancy or for Profit." Social Science and Medicine
Almeling 2015. “Reproduction.” Annual Review of Sociology
Timmermans and Almeling 2009. “Objectification, Standardization, and Commodification in Healthcare: A Conceptual Readjustment.” Social Science and Medicine
Interviews about Sex Cells with Glenn Cohen for his free HarvardX bioethics course...
Part 1: Sperm donation market
Part 2: Egg donor selection
Part 3: Cost of eggs and sperm
Part 4: Recruiting sperm donors
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Sistani's son welcomes Soleimani, Muhandis funeral in Najaf -Iraqi state TV
BAGHDAD, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The son of Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric was there to welcome the funeral procession for Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf, state TV said on Saturday.
“Mohammed Redha al-Sistani receives the bodies of the martyrs ... in Najaf,” state TV said.
Mohamed Redha is the son of the country’s top Shi’ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
A procession carrying the bodies of Soleimani, Muhandis and other Iraqis killed in a U.S. strike moved on Saturday from Baghdad to the Shi’ite holy city of Kerbala and finally arrived in Najaf. (Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Maha El Dahan)
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Russian Swapped State Secrets For Mercedes
July 28, 2006 08:05 GMT
Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin was one of the witnesses called in the trial (file photo) (ITAR-TASS) July 27, 2006 -- A Moscow court has sentenced an official from the Finance Ministry to 10 years in a labor camp for passing on state secrets in return for a Mercedes.
One businessman was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in jail and another to one year and nine months for offering the bribe.
The car was worth $110,000 dollars.
Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin appeared as a witness in the trial.
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Afghanistan: Police Raid On TV Station Sparks Protest
April 18, 2007 13:00 GMT
(RFE/RL) KABUL, April 18, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- More than 100 journalists, supported by some members of the Afghan parliament, protested in Kabul today against a police raid on a private television station that was ordered by Afghanistan's attorney-general.
The April 17 raid has fueled new concerns about harassment of Afghan media by the government.
Attorney General Abdul Jabar Sabet today defended the raid on Kabul's private Tolo Television, which he ordered, saying reporter Hamid Haidari had inaccurately paraphrased his remarks in a way that could provoke unrest.
Sabet said he telephoned Haidari to ask for an explanation and a correction. He says he only ordered the raid after Haidari ignored a request to come to the attorney-general's office.
"My purpose was to ask this gentleman to correct the report that he has [issued] so that we would not have to purse legal charges against him, because we do not want to have conflict with the press," Sabet said.
Sabet said he was talking about difficulties of implementing Afghan law in remote and insecure areas. He complained that his remarks were taken out of context in a report that quoted him as saying merely that "Afghan law is weak."
Station Stands By Report
Tolo's management has stood by Haidari and his report, saying it was accurate and truthfully represented statements made by Sabet at a press conference.
Since the raid, the station has repeatedly aired edited video of Sabet's original remarks.
A statement issued by Tolo alleges that the raid was illegal because none of the 50 police presented a written court order or arrest warrant.
It says that when asked to present such a document, a deputy district police commander simply scribbled a note on a piece of paper.
"The enemy of freedom of expression is not just those who are against the government."
That note was rejected by Tolo's legal advisers, who said it was not valid under Afghan law. They cited Article 38 of the Afghan Constitution, which states that "no one, including the state, shall have the right to enter a residence or search it without the owner's permission, or by order of an authoritative court, except in situations and methods delineated by law."
The Tolo statement says police physically abused three staff members who refused to allow authorities to enter the building without a written legal order. Those employees were held by police for about 40 minutes before being released without charge.
Haidari was not among those detained, but colleague Siddiq Ahmadzada was.
Alleged Beatings, Detentions
Ahmadzada also was one of about 100 Afghan and foreign journalists at a street protest in Kabul today objecting to the raid.
"The police beat us with the butts of Kalashnikovs and with the barrels of Kalashnikovs. And they punched us and kicked us," Ahmadzada said. "And...they took us and the other journalists to the attorney general's office."
AP has confirmed that four of its staff members also were detained while observing the raid from outside the Tolo building. AP reporters said they saw some detainees being kicked or punched by police.
Shukria Barakzai, a member of the Afghan parliament, joined journalists protesting today against the police actions.
"They really [violated] the law," Barakzai said. "That's the reality, unfortunately. It's a small example for the journalists in Afghanistan. We have lots of violence. The enemy of freedom of expression is not just those who are against the government. Somehow, our government is also against [free speech] because they are afraid [of the] reality which the media is broadcasting."
"Without taking note of the media law and the Constitution of Afghanistan, they sent the police to attack Tolo TV and arrest some journalists and members of Tolo TV," said Mir Ahmad Joyenda, another lawmaker supporting today's demonstration. "For that, the journalists union and all journalists of Afghanistan, together with members of parliament, have gathered here to condemn this work of the [attorney-general] and the police for attacking Tolo TV and beating the Tolo TV staff."
Sabet accuses Tolo of exaggerating the scale of the raid. But he has apologized for the alleged beating of journalists by police officers. Sabet says he is launching an investigation into those allegations.
(RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan and correspondent Hamid Pazhman contributed to this report.)
Ron Synovitz
Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
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The Cuccinelli Admiration Society
By Kyle Mantyla | March 25, 2010 10:29 am
This New York Times profile of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli mentions his anti-gay views, his flirtations with Birtherism, and even his Social Security paranoia and notes that Cuccinelli’s magnetism for controversy is not sitting well with fellow Republican Governor Bob McDonnell.
But I think that was best demonstrates Cuccinelli’s radical views is the people who are coming to his defense:
“Ken is in tune with typical family people, people who work in this state,” said Robert G. Marshall, a Republican delegate from Prince William County. Mr. Cuccinelli’s popularity, he said, derives from his sharp legal mind and steadfastness to his principles regardless of what others think.
“When others make him seem controversial, it just raises his name recognition,” Mr. Marshall said.
That would be Bob Marshall, the Delegate who made news last month when he declared that disabled children were God’s punishment for abortion:
You know someone is radically right wing when Bob Marshall declares that they are doing a great job.
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RMU’s Sport Management Conference engages both alumni and students
Nick Buzzelli, Sports Editor|October 16, 2013
Dave Synowka
When Dave Synowka and Robert Morris University’s Sport Management Advisory Board decided to assemble a sports business symposium, they were optimistic about the program’s growth, but never thought that it would be such a substantial component of the major’s curriculum.
That was in 2004.
Now, currently in its 10th consecutive year, the RMU Sport Management Student Career Conference serves as an outlet for current students to network with professionals and also allows alumni the opportunity to serve on panels.
“After the first year, I’m thinking ‘what are we going to do for the next one?’ And it’s just amazing that we’ve gotten better with each successful conference,” said Synowka, the head of the Sport Management Department at RMU. “[The objective of the first seminar] was to educate students about career possibilities, but now it has become so much more. It really is an important part for alumni to comeback and engage with us, but also to engage among themselves.”
The conference, which is scheduled for October 18, features more than 50 professionals who will share their insights about the field.
“The RMU Sport Management alumni are a very loyal group of individuals who love the sports industry and know that without the education they received at Robert Morris University, they would not be as successful as they are today,” said Harry Leckemby, Jr., the conference’s alumni program director. “This event has grown into an annual reunion for RMU Sports Management alumni to come back and see classmates and make new friends with alumni.”
One of the chief indicators of the program’s past success has to do with the fact that 10 universities will be in attendance, while another, unable to make it to campus that day, will be listening to the panels via web-streaming technology.
Last fall, the University of Salford, in the United Kingdom, reached out to Synowka about the possibility of developing a relationship between the two institutions located nearly 3,586 mile apart. Although they are unable to be present at this years’ seminar, Synowka believes that this is the first step in developing an “international outreach” between the two educational organizations.
“One of the most rewarding things is that we have [individuals] who attended the conference as students, and when they get out to be industry professionals, they want to come back and be on the other side of the audience,” said Synowka, who was been at RMU for more than 30 years. “That’s how you build a culture, that’s how you build success, and you do everything that we’ve set out to do.”
Nick Buzzelli, Sports Editor
Nick is a senior communication major with a concentration in journalism at Robert Morris University and is the Editor-in-Chief of RMU Sentry Media.
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Rally-X NES edition (b.b.car hack)
Author Topic: Rally-X NES edition (b.b.car hack) (Read 5728 times)
SuperStarFox
Re: Rally-X NES edition (b.b.car hack)
Well, I got good news... I finally found another version of Mi Hun Che! And yes, it's the one that does have copyright info!
There's actually one from Tawian and it's still glitchy.
There's another version of Mi Hun Che which contains a different style on the title, that one's glitchy too.
But still, looks like this game along with the hack might get some more love and attention someday.
verme
I have the version where glitch does not occur!
The problem is that, when I try to modify this rom, the game crashes when we press start on the title screen, it is still possible to play, but it is necessary to wait for the game demo to appear, then hit start.
I believe that this is some kind of protection against alteration, which is unfortunate, as this version has more potential to result in a better rack.
More good news, I found BB Car! But after doing a ton of searching on the internet... I guess Qi Miao Che is nowhere to be found on the internet since it's literally the same game but with a different title. However, the one version of Qi Miao Che I found is all glitchy and even laggy when the game starts.
Hopefully I can find a version of Qi Miao Che, one that isn't glitchy, buggy, and laggy. But until then, my mission into finding the missing versions of Mi Hun Che is all done... for now (or probably for good).
But anywho, I would love to see some more previews of how the rom-hack is doing so far.
« Last Edit: November 03, 2020, 12:40:43 am by SuperStarFox »
Weasel-Weasel
Hack on!
I really like the improvements you made, with the strong exception that you took the music out. I know a lot of people like it that way, but I don't too much, particularly. Do you think you could make another patch that would keep the music in for people like me that still want it? Many thanks in advance!
Hello Weasel-Weasel, my intention is to replace the BBCar music with that of Rally-X, but unfortunately it has not yet been possible.
But, if you like BBCar music, you can enable the sound yourself! open the game with FCEUX, then go to "Debug / Hex Editor" inside the editor, go to "View" and select "Rom File"
find position 1D00 and change byte 02 to 0f and you're done!
Wow! Thanks for that! I'm actually on Android and had to use a hex editor app, but had no problem! Thanks again!
Xander max
Quote from: verme on October 30, 2020, 09:58:39 pm
Hi! Were you able to correct the glitch?
Check out dozens of my projects on youtube!
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Hi Xander max
Unfortunately not yet.
I need help with that.
Boy, it's been so many weeks and there's still no info about this hack. I guess this major update has been cancelled as of now.
I wouldn't say canceled is the definitive word, but unfortunately I didn't get it myself, and I also couldn't get help to break Mi Hun Che's anti-hacker protection.
What makes me sad is that, apparently this is a simple thing for more experienced hackers, but it seems that none of these hackers are interested.
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Adhesive wear mechanisms uncovered by atomistic simulations
Author(s): Jean-François MOLINARI 1 , * , Ramin AGHABABAEI 2 , Tobias BRINK 1 , Lucas FRÉROT 1 , Enrico MILANESE 1
Publication date (Print): 05 September 2018
Journal: Friction
Publisher: Tsinghua University Press
Keywords: adhesive wear, molecular dynamics, continuum mechanics
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In this review, we discuss our recent advances in modeling adhesive wear mechanisms using coarse-grained atomistic simulations. In particular, we present how a model pair potential reveals the transition from ductile shearing of an asperity to the formation of a debris particle. This transition occurs at a critical junction size, which determines the particle size at its birth. Atomistic simulations also reveal that for nearby asperities, crack shielding mechanisms result in a wear volume proportional to an effective area larger than the real contact area. As the density of microcontacts increases with load, we propose this crack shielding mechanism as a key to understand the transition from mild to severe wear. We conclude with open questions and a road map to incorporate these findings in mesoscale continuum models. Because these mesoscale models allow an accurate statistical representation of rough surfaces, they provide a simple means to interpret classical phenomenological wear models and wear coefficients from physics-based principles.
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An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments
W.C. Oliver, G.M. Pharr (1992)
The indentation load-displacement behavior of six materials tested with a Berkovich indenter has been carefully documented to establish an improved method for determining hardness and elastic modulus from indentation load-displacement data. The materials included fused silica, soda–lime glass, and single crystals of aluminum, tungsten, quartz, and sapphire. It is shown that the load–displacement curves during unloading in these materials are not linear, even in the initial stages, thereby suggesting that the flat punch approximation used so often in the analysis of unloading data is not entirely adequate. An analysis technique is presented that accounts for the curvature in the unloading data and provides a physically justifiable procedure for determining the depth which should be used in conjunction with the indenter shape function to establish the contact area at peak load. The hardnesses and elastic moduli of the six materials are computed using the analysis procedure and compared with values determined by independent means to assess the accuracy of the method. The results show that with good technique, moduli can be measured to within 5%.
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Diatomic Molecules According to the Wave Mechanics. II. Vibrational Levels
Philip M. Morse (1929)
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Contact and Rubbing of Flat Surfaces
J. F. Archard (1953)
Journal ID (nlm-ta): Tsinghua Science and Technology
Title: Friction
Publisher: Tsinghua University Press (Xueyuan Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China )
Pages: 245-259 (pp. )
[ 1 ] Civil Engineering Department, Materials Science Department, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
[ 2 ] Department of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus 8000, Denmark
* Corresponding author: Jean-François MOLINARI, E-mail: jean-francois.molinari@ 123456epfl.ch
Jean-François MOLINARI. He is the director of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LSMS) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He graduated in 1997 with a MS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne, France. He also obtained a MS degree in aeronautics in 1997 from the California Institute of Technology, USA, and graduated with a PhD degree from Caltech in 2001. He then held professor positions at the Johns Hopkins University, USA, and ENS Cachan, France, before joining EPFL. His research interests cover multiscale modeling with applications to fracture mechanics and tribology.
Ramin AGHABABAEI. He obtained his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2012. He joined the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LSMS) at École Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne (EPFL) as a post-doctoral fellow. In September 2017, he joined the Engineering Department of Aarhus University in Denmark, as a tenure-track assistant professor, and the principle investigator of the surface mechanics group (SMG). The research interest of his group is to understand the underlying mechanics and physics of failure in materials surfaces at different scales with application to tribology and manufacturing.
Tobias BRINK. He received his doctoral degree in materials science from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He is currently working at the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LSMS) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland on atomistic simulations of wear at the asperity level. In this context, his research interests include working towards understanding nano-scaled wear mechanisms and how they result in macroscopic wear relations.
Lucas FRÉROT. He holds a bachelor of science and a master of science in civil engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), with a focus on computational methods in the modeling of solids and structures. He joined the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory at EPFL in 2015 as a PhD student to conduct research on the elasto-plastic contact of solids with rough surfaces, with application to the study of friction and wear.
Enrico MILANESE. He trained as a civil engineer at the University of Padua, Italy, where he received both his bachelor and master degrees. He later investigated fracture avalanche behaviour in porous media at the same university. Since 2016 he is pursuing a PhD at the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His current research focusses on surface roughness and adhesive wear.
Publisher ID: 2223-7690-06-03-245
Figures: 6, Tables: 0, References: 72, Pages: 15
Self URI (journal page): http://friction.tsinghuajournals.com/EN/2223-7690/home.shtml
Subject: Review Article
ScienceOpen disciplines: Materials technology, Materials properties, Thin films & surfaces, Mechanical engineering
Keywords: continuum mechanics, molecular dynamics, adhesive wear
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On Wednesday, the L.A. City Council will be voting on an ordinance meant to prevent landlords from discriminating against the recipients of Section 8 vouchers.
Section 8 is a federal government program that subsidizes housing for low-income families, people who are disabled and the elderly. The proposed ordinance would prevent landlords from creating blanket bans on Section 8 vouchers as well as rejecting tenants who pay rent through other subsidy programs like those intended to provide housing for the homeless.
Landlords say the government process for approving Section 8 units is cumbersome and delays the move-in process. Some landlords also associate Section 8 tenants with causing problems. Housing advocates push back against that characterization, arguing that the belief is evidence of a stigma toward lower-income families and people of color, who make up the majority of those who have Section 8 vouchers.
We debate the ordinance. Plus, if you are a Section 8 voucher recipient, what’s been your story of trying to find housing in Los Angeles? If you’re a landlord, what’s been your experience with the Section 8 voucher program?
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First death by shark attack of the year is confirmed in Pernambuco
By: Al Brenneka|Published on: Jul 21, 2013|Categories: Shark Attacks - Related Incidents| 0 comments
Decision of IML was released on Thursday (6). The body of José Rogério Tavares da Silva,
41, was found on May 28 in Cabo de Santo Agostinho
The State Committee for Monitoring Incidents with Sharks (Cimit) confirmed on Thursday (6), the
first case of death by shark attack recorded in 2013 in Pernambuco. According to the agency,
which released report of the Institute of Forensic Medicine (IML), José Rogério Tavares da Silva,
41, found dead in Paiva Beach, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Litoral Sul State, on May 28, died
victim of bites of a large animal.
“The IML completely ruled out the possibility that the victim died drowned and later bitten by a
shark. Cause of death of man bites were the animal,” said Dr. Rosangela Lessa, president Cimit.
Also according to the President, the report also points out the IML that the incident occurred about
three days before the body was found. “Everything indicates that the attack happened in the Coral
Cove (also in the municipality of Cabo), where the victim was last seen on May 25, three days
before the date on which the body was found. According to the niece of Joseph Rogério, he used
to drink and must have entered the sea after consuming booze, which may have facilitated the
accident, “he pointed out.
Dr. Rosangela also reported that the presence of sharks is normal in the Coral Cove and the
attitude of the victim may have contributed to the attack. “Many cases of shark attacks happen
when swimmers who can not swim in the sea come after ingesting booze. This is very risky,” he
concluded. With this case, increases to 58 the number of victims of animal attacks in the state.
The incidents began being recorded 21 years ago.
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Austrian Lake District and Vienna
Join us on this exciting 9-day tour as we journey through deep valleys, past rugged mountains, picturesque villages and glistening waters. We enjoy a boat cruise across Lake Wolfgangsee to the resort of St. Wolfgang, before visiting the lovely spa town of Bad Ischl and idyllic Hallstatt village. With a day spent in the magnificent capital city of Vienna, along with the chance to visit Salzburg, also known as 'The Sound of Music City', this holiday combines spectacular natural beauty with history, culture and grand architecture. A splendid Austrian tour!
8 nights hotel with continental breakfast
1 packed lunch
Local departure by coach or Home Connect service, then to Belgium for an overnight stay.
We continue our journey into Austria and to St Georgen for a six-night stay.
Day 3: Mondsee and Attersee
Today, our optional excursion takes us around Salzkammergut Lakes. We visit the crystal-clear Lake Mondsee, one of the largest lakes in the region and also one of the warmest. We spend time in the delightful and principal resort of Mondsee, located on the banks of the lake.
Mondsee is home to the Basilica of St. Michael, the famous wedding church where Maria married Georg von Trapp in the film ‘The Sound of Music’. This Gothic former monastery is just as striking today as ever, with its two towers stretching 52 metres high.
We continue to Lake Attersee, where we spend some free time.
Lake Attersee
Mondsee & Attersee
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Day 4: St. Wolfgang and Boat Cruise
Today, our included excursion takes us to the town of St. Gilgen, famed as the birthplace of Mozart’s mother, and on a boat cruise across Wolfgangsee.
Wolfgangsee is one of the largest and most famous lakes of the Austrian Lake District, and lies in the heart of the region.
We arrive in the resort of St. Wolfgang, where there will be free time to explore and perhaps enjoy a spot of lunch.
Lake Wolfgangsee
St. Wolfgang & Boat Cruise
Day 5: Bad Ischl and Hallstatt
Today we enjoy an included excursion to the lovely Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl, former summer residence of the great Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The town has been associated with the Habsburg dynasty for over 700 years, and is home to the Imperial Villa in which the Emperor, Franz Josef I, called “heaven on earth” for him and his family.
We continue to idyllic Hallstatt village, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. Hallstatt is one of the most photographed spots in Austria.
Day 6: Vienna
Join our full day included excursion to the Imperial City of Vienna, which is without question, one of Europe’s greatest cities. As the home of the former Habsburg monarchy and the present day capital of Austria, it has much to charm the visitor.
There is a lot of walking involved to see all the sights, so why not let us introduce you to Vienna on our optional guided sightseeing tour?
We begin by coach, where we will be taken along the Imperial Boulevard known as the Ringstrasse. Here you will see the Hofburg Palace, the Parliament building, the Opera House, National Theatre and City Hall.
During our tour, we will also see the majestic Danube River, and later as we pass by the Prater amusement park, a chance to view the famous “Giant Wheel” built over 100 years ago, and today one of the most well-known landmarks of the city.
There will be frequent stops during the drive, where you will have photo opportunities and the chance to admire Vienna at its very best.
Included meals: Breakfast, Packed Lunch,Dinner
Vienna Guided Sightseeing Tour
Day 7: Salzburg
Today, we offer an optional excursion to Salzburg, one of the most beautiful cities in Austria. Salzburg has something to offer every visitor, from lovely squares and medieval lanes to Gothic churches and quaint cafés. Many beautiful baroque buildings are a testament to the city’s illustrious past when it was controlled by the powerful and wealthy bishops.
Why not join our optional guided walking tour to introduce you to the city, before spending the afternoon at leisure? Accompanied by our local English-speaking guide, the walking tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and takes in the many sights and attractions of this famous alpine city.
Salzburg Guided Walking Tour
We retrace our steps back towards Belgium, for our final overnight stay.
Single Room Supplement from £119.00 (9 days).
You will stay for six nights at the Hotel Attergauhof, St Georgen.
Attergauhof
This family-run hotel with restaurant and bar is located in the centre of the charming village of St. Georgen im Attergau, near Lake Attersee. The restaurant offers regional and international dishes. During our stay at the hotel, we will enjoy a traditional dance evening with live music. Overnight stays in Belgium will be in city-style hotels.
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UnREAL Season 3 Spoilers From 4 Cast Members & the Showrunner
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The last time UnREAL fans saw Quinn and Rachel wreaking havoc on the set of Everlasting was all the way back in 2016.
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The Lifetime drama finally returns on Tuesday, and it sounds like the show is exploring new territory. Season 3 goes deeper into the lives of both Rachel and Quinn, and there is a major change coming to Everlasting: a female suitress.
Her name is Serena, and she’s played by Caitlin Fitzgerald (Masters of Sex, Rectify, Gossip Girl). The first two seasons featured male suitors, so this just might be the change UnREAL needs to get back to its roots and what fans loved so much in Season 1.
SheKnows talked via email with this season’s showrunner, Stacy Rukeyser, and four new stars (Brandon Jay McLaren, Adam Demos, Bart Edwards and Kassandra Clementi). From our conversation, it sure sounds like the third season has a lot in store for viewers.
With that, let’s dive into all the spoilers they gave about Season 3, which will probably get you even more excited for the new season.
More: 18 Hilarious Quinn UnREAL Quotes That Prove You Don’t Mess With Her
1. A new Everlasting psychologist
I put on…. @ualbany @ualbanysoccer
A post shared by Brandon Jay McLaren 🇬🇩🇹🇹 (@brandonjaymclaren) on Feb 25, 2017 at 6:08pm PST
Dr. Simon (McLaren) is a former corporate crisis counselor and is known for being something of a fixer. Quinn brings him to the set of Everlasting as a psychologist and, McLaren said, he’ll go on “an intimate, emotional journey” alongside her.
“When first introduced to the Everlasting set, there is a steep learning curve for him, as he must acclimatize to their unusual and cutthroat work practices. But once he learns the ropes, his laser focus on improving Rachel’s mental health may result in him compromising his own,” McLaren told us.
“Dr. Simon starts off as a highly professional, hyper-ethical man of integrity. Then Everlasting happens. He quickly finds himself behaving in the same manner that he initially loathed.” That sounds about right for anyone who enters this reality TV world. And the most shocking thing fans will see from his character? It “involves a camera and a grip truck,” McLaren said.
2. Rachel has a tough journey ahead
Image: James Dittiger/Lifetime
At the end of Season 2, Coleman and Yael got into a really bad car accident that appeared to be caused by Jeremy. It seemed to be his way of saving the show — and Rachel. Well, that will be touched upon this season.
“Quinn has brought in what we call a ‘real-ass shrink’ to Everlasting for the first time,” showrunner Rukeyser said. “Dr. Simon was supposed to just be a ‘safety net’ for Rachel. But he turns out to be much more in that he forces Rachel to confront her own responsibility in terms of what Jeremy did to Coleman and Yael. Dr. Simon then takes it a step further when he encourages Rachel to confront where the darkness inside her comes from.”
In Season 2, it was also revealed that Rachel was raped by one of her mom’s patients when she just a child, which has understandably affected her entire life. That’s something she’s going to face and work through in the third season.
“This season really is Rachel Goldberg’s #MeToo moment — even though it was written and produced and edited before that movement even had a hashtag! — in the sense that Rachel confronts not only the rape she suffered when she was 12 years old, but also as she confronts the way her parents dealt with that trauma. Or refused to deal with it,” Rukeyser said. “Of course, because she’s Rachel Goldberg, she’s not going to handle this process by the book, but she is earnest in her attempt.”
More: 10 Times Rachel’s Been More Manipulative Than Quinn on UnREAL
3. Keep your eye on August
You better familiarize yourself with August (Demos), a pro surfer and humanitarian who appears to be getting close to Rachel, as you can see above. Demos’ role is said to be a pivotal one, which may or may not have to do with August becoming “involved in a major love triangle that becomes so important to the show it carries into Season 4 as well,” according to his character description.
Demos described August as “a good bloke who’s on the show to promote certain causes and who’s also a bit of a ladies’ man, which definitely gets him into trouble.” But, he said, August does grow throughout the season: “I think by the end he’s no longer quick to judge that people can form a legitimate connection on a dating show.”
If you really want to see what August is up to this season, scroll down to No. 8 and check out the Season 3 trailer.
4. Jasper Hunt, the one for Serena?
Image: Bettina Strauss/Lifetime
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Jasper Hunt (Edwards) is a handsome, successful Wall Street investment banker, but he’s “full of himself,” Edwards said. “He enters the mansion with all the confidence in the world. On paper, he’s a perfect match for Serena. Be ready to see some bubbles burst.”
Edwards also called this season a “roller coaster for everyone” and said, “You’ll certainly be seeing Jasper and all the other contestants battling tooth and nail for Serena’s heart. Be assured punches will not be pulled. It’s going to be exciting to see how much ego really can fit in the mansion.”
5. Chet’s new girlfriend
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That’s right — Chet has a new lady in his life: Crystal (Clementi), a “bubbly, naive and enthusiastic girl who is dubbed as Chet’s ‘midlife crisis’ choice in girlfriend.” Clementi added that Crystal “comes in and shakes things up between [Chet and Quinn] and inevitably herself too.”
6. A new struggle for Quinn
Last season, Quinn learned she couldn’t have children, so what’s ahead for her? Especially with Chet walking around with a 24-year-old swimsuit model girlfriend? Rukeyser told us, “It’s one thing for Quinn to know that she can’t have children and to preemptively break up with her boyfriend, as she did at the end of Season 2, if she knows that her career is soaring. That is so much how Quinn self-identifies.”
Rukeyser continued, “But as we start Season 3, her career has taken a real hit. Everlasting has been put on hiatus and Quinn’s reputation has suffered. So getting the show back up and running and establishing her empire is even more important for Quinn. And yet, her journey is made that much more difficult by the fact that Chet has this new, younger, ‘easier’ girlfriend. The pressures in both Quinn’s personal and professional life cause her to act out in ways we haven’t seen before.”
There’s also a theme of gender politics that hits close to home for Quinn. Chet feels like he can be more “vulnerable and honest” with Crystal than he could with Quinn, Rukeyser said. “He tells Quinn, ‘It’s just easier. She’s easier.’ And that is maddening and insulting — the implication that who Quinn is as a person was somehow responsible for what went wrong in their relationship. But by the end of the season, even Chet must decide if easier is what he wants or if there is something incredibly alluring and satisfying about a strong woman who can be an equal partner.”
More: INTERVIEW: How UnREAL Gave Johanna Braddy a New Respect for Women
7. Women will relate to Serena
Serena sounds like she is someone female viewers will absolutely relate to. Rukeyser described her as a “feminist suitress” who is “smart and successful, but for some reason still single. And no one is more mystified about why that is than she.”
What should hit home for a lot of women watching this season is how Serena feels that it’s even more of a struggle to find love as she becomes more powerful at her job. “She is in that all-too-common predicament where she finds that the higher she climbs the ladder at work, the harder it is for her to find a man,” Rukeyser said. “There is an undercurrent of insecurity, in that she can’t help but wonder if perhaps she is the reason she’s still single. And that insecurity makes her susceptible to the producers on Everlasting. She is honest in her desire to find a husband, but that desire doesn’t always coincide with what the producers have in mind.”
8. This season addresses the current national conversation
Season 2 wasn’t well received by either fans or critics, and Rukeyser addressed that. “We took a lot of big story swings in Season 2 and that I do admire. But there were some plot points that we had not had the chance to explore fully on a more emotional, psychological level,” she said.
But fans should look forward to Season 3 because it relates to so much that’s going on today. Rukeyser said, “What’s exciting about Season 3 is that we get that opportunity, and while there are still a lot of big OMG moments, there are also a lot of deeper personal storylines for both Rachel and Quinn. We’re really excited about this season because it addresses so many themes that are very much in the national conversation these days about women, gender politics, sexual assault and power dynamics in Hollywood.”
9. That Bachelor in Paradise situation
Image: Giphy
The Bachelor in Paradise situation involving Corinne Olympios and DeMario Jackson will not be featured or alluded to in any way in Season 3. Rukeyser told us, “Season 3 was in the can, completely edited and done before the Bachelor in Paradise scandal. But I did find the story riveting, the idea that after all these years, this was the first time a producer was making a complaint to the studio. This is a really big deal and it did become, in part, an inspiration for Season 4.”
10. Jeremy is still around
Jeremy drunkenly assaulted Rachel in Season 2, so fans are probably wondering if that will be addressed and if Jeremy will face any kind of consequences. First, Rukeyser wanted to make it clear that Season 3 was “written, shot and edited” before #MeToo.
Secondly, she said, “We do certainly address many of the same issues, simply because we are women (and men) who have experienced certain things in Hollywood and in the world about which we want to speak out. And it’s certainly wonderful that these issues are now being talked about on a broader scale.”
As for Jeremy, Rukeyser explained, “Jeremy comes into Season 3 determined to make amends to Rachel. He is sober, has gone through anger management and is repentant. He believes that what he did to Coleman and Yael is what Rachel wanted — that even that was an act of amends. Which, of course, is crazy. So he has to come to terms over the course of the season with what he’s done, and how much being in this place has affected him.”
More: UnREAL Will Make You Never, Ever Want to Go on The Bachelor
Who else is ready for the new season? UnREAL Season 3 premieres Tuesday at 10/9c on Lifetime.
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Judge says OSHA violation wasn’t willful because supervisor was confused
When is an OSHA fine categorized as willful rather than serious? The question arose in the recent appeal of a construction case involving trenching.
Someone tipped off OSHA that employees were working in a trench without shoring or sloping that was more than five feet deep.
OSHA sent an inspector to the construction site in Meeker, CO. The inspector found one section of the trench where two employees were working was eight feet deep and, as reported, had no shoring or trenching.
OSHA issued a willful citation to Bolton Fencing and Construction on the grounds that:
the competent person onsite exposed employees to a cave-in hazard by allowing them to work in a trench with vertical walls in excess of five feet in height without taking precautions to protect the employees inside, and
employees were exposed to cave-in hazards while working in a trench with vertical walls in excess of five feet in height with no protective system in place.
Bolton was fined $49,000.
OSHA said the violation should be willful because, by ordering employees into the trench, the supervisor on duty ignored an obvious hazard, including Bolton’s own established safety procedures.
The company appealed to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), and the case was heard by an administrative law judge (ALJ).
Because of a language barrier, the OSHA inspector had difficulty understanding the supervisor at the excavation. That caused confusion about some details regarding the case.
And despite completing training to become a “competent person” under OSHA regulations, the supervisor lacked experience.
The ALJ found that the supervisor, “despite his competent person training, was inexperienced, uninformed and confused about how to protect employees working in anything other than a basic trench or excavation.”
“The facts of this case do not establish that [the supervisor] possessed a state of mind that, if he were informed of the [OSHA] standard, he would not care.”
For that reason, the ALJ found OSHA had failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the violations were willful. The judge reduced their severity to serious and cut the fine to $5,000.
What do you think about the ALJ’s decision? Let us know in the comment box below.
(Secretary of Labor v. Bolton Fencing and Construction, OSHRC Docket No. 11-0590, 8/7/12)
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Speculation Nation
Could Silat Be the Next Potential Owner of the Behelit?
Thread starter The Hawk Of Light
The Hawk Of Light
Before I begin, I think I should briefly state who Silat is just in case no one knows who he is.
Silat is the prince of the Bakiraka, a clan of Kushan assassins that are seen throughtout the story.
He wants to bring his clan back to their former glory and as leader, he his goal is the well-being of his clan members.
He has four large body guards called the Tapasa who accompany him almost everywhere on his missions as well as a legion of skilled assassin warriors.
Now, to explain why I think he would make a possible candidate to own Guts' behelit is that he so far is the only character with a goal outside of fighting against the inhumans.
I mean, it's only a matter of time before Rickert and Guts reunite again and Silat puts two and two together and they become allies, somewhat like how Farnese and Serpico ended up being.
I also think it would go without showing that if his goal to reinvigorate his clan were to fail somehow or he would be made unable to fight or move, his will could possibly crumble.
A lot of people tend to say that Farnese or Serpico could possibly be the ones to activate the Behelit, but Farnese is a wierd case because I doubt she would have anything besides Serpico and her new friends to look after.
This goes double for Serpico, because Farnese is the only and main concern for him at this point. I couldn't think of anything causing him to lose himself in sorrow unless Farnese died.
And since I don't know much about Roderick's backstory or Azan's (not to mention Isidro is a comic relief so definitely a no go) I thought "hey what if the behelit ended up going outside Guts' inner circle?"
Of course, even if Silat were to envoke the Behelit and summon the Godhand, I doubt he would be able to go through with the sacrifice:
This right here is by far my favorite panel of Silat ever and there is nothing else to topple it. You see, I've always wondered what would happen if somone had refused a sacrifice before they had been turned into a demon?
I think Silat would be a perfect way to showcase what would happen along with the fact that not everything will go the Godhand's way since Silat has a few credentials in order to be someone who would possibly sacrifice:
1) An outside goal
2) An ambition
But what do you think?
You've answered your own question about whether Silat would or not. His scene in Volume 33 with Jarif seals the deal. Silat doesn't trust the idea of putting humanity in the hands of something that is beyond human. It would also be antithetical to what seems to be the Bakiraka way -- embracing martial arts that push the limits of the human body.
As for what would happen if someone refuses a sacrifice, we already know even if we haven't been explicitly shown it. The ceremony would halt, and they'd go on living, but within "the ruins of their dream." That's explained by Void in Volume 12 to Griffith. The way the count's ceremony ended in volume 3 is pretty much that, only he died by the circumstances with his fight with Guts beforehand.
The Hawk Of Light said:
(not to mention Isidro is a comic relief so definitely a no go)
You'd have been better off not mentioning such a thing at all. Isidro cracks a lot of jokes. He's a kid, afterall. But relegating him to just comic relief isn't consistent with how he's been portrayed in the series. He has an ambition, and he's grown as a character quite a bit since he first appeared. If you don't see that, maybe go re-read some of his highlights from Vol 18 to 22, then 24-26, then 35-37. Now... will Isidro use the beherit? I doubt it. I don't think Miura's going to use that beherit in a traditional means, even though it's obviously there as an element of dramatic tension.
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The assumption that the beherit Guts has been carrying must absolutely be used by someone to turn into an apostle is misguided to begin with.
Putting that aside, I don't see how becoming an apostle would move the needle on restoring the Bakiraka's place among the Kushan empire. I mean, we know one of their members became an apostle at some point (Rakshas) and he was exiled. Lastly, that goal he had ceased being relevant in Fantasia.
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Obviously Guts is going to use the Behelit as ammunition in a dwarf-modified arm cannon to gank Femto. His gunpowder will probably be made from an anti-causal reagent and gnome dung for good measure.
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Karligula
Foss or a member of the Vandimion family besides Farnese could be a candidate, though it might be used as a key for the inhabitants of Skellig to attack the God Hand.
PsychoViper said:
Why Foss...? And what would the significance of a Fosspostle be?
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Manlet rage
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He reminds me of Ubik...
Foss or a member of the Vandimion family besides Farnese could be a candidate
though it might be used as a key for the inhabitants of Skellig to attack the God Hand.
Guts has already been told it can't be used that way.
What episode was that? It’s been a while since I’ve re-read the series.
Episode 202, when he asks Flora about it.
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ISLANDERS DEFEAT RANGERS… ONCE AGAIN
The Islanders came out of the All-Star break without alternate captain Kyle Okposo but that didn’t seem to be an issue as they beat their local rival, the New York Rangers 4-1.
Mikhail Grabovski returned to the lineup after missing the previous five games with a lower body injury. He replaced Okposo on the first line and scored the game’s first goal. After Johnny Boychuk broke up a Rangers rush, he stormed back the other way leading a 4-2 opportunity. He fed Tavares who sent it across ice to Josh Bailey back to Boychuk then again to Bailey who found a wide-open Grabovski. It was a play that stunned the raucous crowd at Nassau Coliseum.
“When you are out for a while and play against a team like that I thought he (Grabovski) did real well,” head coach Jack Capuano said following the Islanders third win against the Rangers this season. “I thought his conditioning was real good and he got a big goal for us.”
Despite the snowstorm that hit Long Island pretty hard the fans came out and packed Nassau Coliseum. It was the 12th sell-out of the season for the Islanders.
“The atmosphere in this building was tremendous, “Capuano continued. “We were just feeding off our fans here tonight and that was big a part of our win.”
After posting a shutout the last time these two teams met, Jaroslav Halak came within seconds of doing it again. Carl Hagelin scored with 8.1 seconds remaining to get the Rangers on the board but it was not nearly enough.
“It was obviously disappointing but we got the win,” Halak said after his 26th victory of the season. “Its not like it was a one-goal game where I would be more upset but hopefully next time I will have more luck at the end.”
Halak was not the only one who played goalie tonight as Johnny Boychuk had a number of blocked shots. When asked what his best save of the night was Jaro replied, “I don’t know, Johnny had a few, he had like three or four. Especially in the first period he blocked a lot of shots.”
The team has certainly appreciated Halak’s effort between the pipes.
“He is just so good at that first shot,” captain John Tavares said. “Controlling pucks and rebounds and making it easy for us to regroup and take away those second and third opportunities.”
The Islanders got contributions from everyone on the roster tonight which will be needed going forward. The team got the two points they needed but overall they were not pleased with the way they played.
“We found a way to win and that’s what good teams do,” Capuano said. “I know certain guys in that room know they need to be better. We did some good things and when your goalie steals a game for you like that it’s a big plus for us.”
Next, the Islanders will face the Boston Bruins on Thursday evening at Nassau Coliseum.
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April 01, 2009 News & Features » News and Features
Morrissey Files Suit Against Style Weekly
State delegate sues for $30.35 million.
By Scott Bass @scttbass
Henrico County Delegate Joe Morrissey has filed a libel suit against Style Weekly, charging that a story detailing his legal battles with former associates intended to “damage Morrissey's reputation for honesty in the community.”
In the lawsuit, filed March 30 in Richmond Circuit Court, Morrissey asks for $10.35 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The suit also asks that compensatory damages be tripled under a provision in state law for allegedly conspiring to damage an individual in his or her trade, profession or business.
The lawsuit alleges that in story published April 2, 2008, Style knowingly made false statements in regard to Morrissey's testimony in an ongoing legal battle with the late Garien Wycoff, a local contractor who got into a fight with Morrissey in 1999. Wycoff sued, and was awarded $1 million in damages in 2002. The settlement was later reduced to $390,000.
In the article, “Bunco Joe?” by staff reporters Amy Biegelsen and Chris Dovi, Style reports that Morrissey maneuvered his financial resources to avoid paying Wycoff. In his lawsuit, Morrissey says the story states that he “committed perjury” in the process.
Biegelsen, Dovi and Style Editor in Chief Jason Roop are named as defendants in the suit, along with Style's parent company, Landmark Communications. Frank Batten Jr., chairman and chief executive of Landmark, is also a defendant.
“Because we're all named in Delegate Morrissey's lawsuit, it would be inappropriate for us to comment,” Roop says. “But we will answer his charges in court.”
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Learn How To Pronounce French Words
21 March 2018 ∙ 8 minutes reading time
FrenchFrench Pronunciation: How to Sound like a Local
How To Pronounce French Vowels 1: Simple Vowel Sounds
How To Say French Vowels 2: French Accents and What They Do
Learn to Speak French Consonants: Note the Difference
How To Pronounce Certain Letter Combinations In French Speech
Learning French is one thing: you learn your French vocabulary and French grammar, write your flashcards, make your adjectives agree, memorize your verb conjugations, practice your spelling - and you can write perfect French. But then you open your mouth - and you sound like a bad imitation of the Pink Panther’s Inspector Clouseau.
Speaking French means mastering pronunciation. And that is more difficult than simply learning French greetings and saying “bonjour”, “merci” and “bonne nuit”. Studies have shown that babies become focused on the sounds of their mother tongue even before they are born; the older you are, the harder it is not only to form different sounds, but to hear the subtle differences between two similar sounds when listening to a language.
But cheer up! There are enough French dialects and accents that a certain variation in the pronunciation of words is not unusual. And the most important thing is not 100% correct pronunciation - it’s getting it just enough right that everyone understands you.
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Vowels are the bane of English speakers trying to learn a second language. This is because few English vowels are pure.
Remember that classic film, “My Fair Lady”? (If you don’t, go out and rent it, borrow it or stream it.) Apart from featuring a rather horrid Cockney accent by Audrey Hepburn, it also shows a professor of Phonetics shuddering at the amount of vowel sounds in one “oi!”. Most English accents don’t have just one sound within a vowel, but several. Linguists call these diphthongs.
Just think of how O is pronounced in English. Notice how your mouth closes a bit in a W sound a the end? Or how the A in “spade” rhymes with “may”? (If you don’t speak with one of the “standard” English accents, just bear with me. And you have diphthongs, too, I assure you.)
The French language has very few diphthongs, and those are generally easy to spot as they are usually written with two letters (see below). So, if you speak with British pronunciation or American pronunciation, you will need to learn to shorten your vowels and make them purer when you speak French.
Here is a little pronunciation key for the usual French vowels:
English equivalent sound
How you can modify it to sound more French
A Similar to the A sound in “lawn” For the French A, open your throat more, but don’t make the sound too long
I same as the English letter E, or ee as in “seed” Again, don't make it too long
O like in “location” Open the throat more and make the mouth rounder
U like the German Ü, “you” Take that tiny sound right after the Y in “you” and tighten your lips more
Y he Y sound in yellow, not in spy; or an “ee” sound if followed by a consonant That’s it, basically.
The variations of the vowel E
Beginners can easily get confused at the different ways that the French pronounce the letter E. You can listen to the different pronunciations on this site.
The letter E is often pronounced like the letter combination “eu”. This is closest to the German “ö” than anything the English language can produce. It’s nearest perhaps to the “ur” or “ir” sound in “survey” and “girl”, or the E in “angel” but open it up a lot and form your lips into an O sound.
It is pronounced that way at the end of words (”le”, “te”), or in words with a two-consonant + e + one consonant group (”mercerie”, “pelleteuse”…) and between two single consonants (”menuisier”, “cerise”)
Another way to pronounce E is like in the English word “set”. This is the case between two single consonants in a one-syllable word (”mer”, “cher”) or before a two (or more) -consonant set (”serpent”, “envers”), or at the beginning of words (”express”, “expérience”).
Yet another way to pronounce E is like “eh” with an Australian accent (take a moment to really sit back and imagine it.) Remember to keep it short! This is how it is pronounced when it is written with the accent aigu.
At the end of words, barely pronounce the E. It’s just a soft way of letting French words fade out rather than ending abruptly. This is standard French; there are French regional accents where it is spoken more strongly, like an “eu”.
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Fortunately, very often, E gets an accent that tells you exactly how it should be pronounced. When you learn French, it’s easy at first to ignore the little strokes on top of the vowels. However, they are important, and you should pay attention to them as they are an integral part of the spelling of French words. They modify the value of the vowels.
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The accent grave in the word "mystères" open up the E and lengthens it slightly. Photo credit: april-mo on VisualHunt.com
There are three accent marks in the French language:
The accent aigu (acute accent) : é. Only used with the letter E. Almost like the A in “same”, but lose the Y sound at the end and close up your throat. You might want to close the sides of your mouth a little more, too.
The accent grave (grave accent): è, à, ù, is only placed on those three letters. It opens and lengthens these vowels somewhat: eeeh, aah. The use on ù consists exclusively of the French word où (where), where it actually shortens the “ou” (”oo”) and sets it apart from “ou” (or).
The accent circonflexe (circumflex accent): ê, î, â, ô, and the letter û. The only vowel that cannot get a circonflexe is Y. The circonflexe greatly opens and lengthens the vowel, more so than the accent grave. It is common in certain verb conjugations and often pops up in a French word that used to have an S after the vowel, such as hôpital (from the same root as the English word hospital), hôte (see English “host”), “gîte” and others.
The tréma, or diaeresis: only on the letters ï and occasionally ë. It shows that a vowel is pronounced separately in a double-vowel group: Noël (noh-elle) or maïs (mah-ees).
When you learn French, remembering what these little strokes are for will help you pronounce French nouns and French verbs correctly.
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How To Learn French Vowels 3: Nasal Sounds and Diphtongues
These sounds are both the most iconic in the French language and the easiest to mispronounce when you are a beginner French student. When pronouncing nasal vowels, try to make the sound, not so much in your throat as in your nose. To practise, try closing your mouth and speaking though your nose. It won’t get you the exact sound yet, but will help you practise that nasal component and get a feel for it before your next French classes Ottawa.
The basic French nasal sounds are:
On: say an O through your nose; the n is a silent letter and only there to show it is a nasal.
An, am* / en, em*: Open up the “on” into an A or schwa. Technically, the “an” spelled with an “a” are more open in the throat that those written with an E. In conversational French, though, they are often interchangeable, even for a native speaker.
In /im*/ain: say an I through your nose.
Un: In daily speech, French people barely differentiate “un” from “in”; however, there is a subtle difference. Try saying “uh” nasally.
*the spelling with the M is used before a P. If the P comes at the end of the word then it is silent.
French has two diphthongs:
Oi: careful, this diphthong is pronounced “wa” and not like the English “oi” or “oy”. (Except in the Quebec dialect where they pronounce it “wè”.)
“Il” and “ille”: if preceded by a vowel, they are pronounced “eey”:œuil (ö-y), pareille (pah-rey).
In French spelling, the Q is always followed by a U, and makes the sound "K". Photo credit: april-mo on VisualHunt.com
When reviewing the French alphabet in your French class or French online lesson, remember that not every consonant is pronounced exactly like in the English language. For example:
C is generally pronounced like a K except in front of an E or an I, where it’s pronounced like the S in English: carapace = ka -ra-pa-s, précis (pray-see).
G like in “garden” except when it is between two vowels, in which case it sounds like the English J without the D sound in front of it: “gomme” (gom) but garage (gah-raj) and luge (lüj).
H is mute. There is often a slight glottal stop at the beginning of words starting with H, but the sound is never, ever pronounced. However, French grammar occasionally acknowledges it is there: while certain words beginning with an H get treated as though they start with a vowel (l’homme, l’hysterie), others acknowledge the H and don’t contract or do the “liaison” before it (un hibou. Un haut arbre.)
J like the English J, but say it without the D sound at the beginning. (Juge, jouer)
L those who speak English say the L with the tongue near the teeth. In French, try putting your tongue a little further back on your palate. It gives the L a slightly different intonation that makes you sound like a francophone. Listen to French sound files and you will hear it.
Q almost always appears followed by U. Together, they form a K sound (quelle, question, enquête…)
R The French R is not rolled as in Italian or Scots, but it isn’t quite the English R either. When you say it, try rolling the R sound not with your tongue, but at the back of the throat. Listen to Edith Piaf, a French singer. She rolls her Rs rather theatrically, but this paragon of French music can show you th difference to the Italian R if you are willing to listen carefully.
W like the English pronunciation of the letter V (wagon).
The mute H takes a contracted apostrophe, as though the word starts with a vowel. Thus, it's "d'heure" and not "de heure". Photo credit: april-mo on Visual hunt
An addition to the French alphabet: the symbol ç
In your beginner French course, you might have noticed that the French C is sometimes embellished with a little tail: ç. It is derived from the Visigoth script version of the letter Zet.
The C with a cedilla is used in the middle of words to indicate that the letter C should be pronounced differently - namely like an English S instead of K: placard (plah-kar) and glaçage (icing, as in a cake) and, of course, français.
French typewriters have a few extra letters and symbols: in addition to the French accents, there is also the ç. Photo credit: april-mo on Visualhunt
When reading French phrases out loud, here is how you should be pronouncing the following letter combinations if you want an authentic French accent:
Eu like the German “ö”, but shorter. See the first pronunciation for E above.
Er at the end of a sentence is pronounced like the “é”
Ou like English “oo”, but shorten the sound.
Ai like the è (maire, faire, laisse)
Ei like the è (peigner, Seine)
Gn - in the middle of a word, this corresponds to the Spanish ñ, sounding a bit like the “ny” in “Bunyap” or "ni" in “onion”: “peigne” (peh-nye), chignon (shee-nyon)
Ch is the equivalent to “sh” in the English language: “chat” (shah, cat), “cheveux” (sheu-veu, hair)
And now, one more thing. If you want to learn French, you have to realise that many of the endings are not pronounced at all. The dictionary will use the phonetic alphabet to tell you how to pronounce things correctly; however, it pays to remember: -ent endings in French verb forms are usually silent, as are endings in vowel + s and vowel + t.
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This Couple Made Sure Their First House Would Be Their Forever Home
Credit: Ball & Albanese; Styling: Matthew Gleason
A happy coincidence brought Dorothy and Isaac Lidsky back to Florida. “We had lived in Delaware; Washington, D.C.; London; and then New York, where I gave birth to our triplets,” says Dorothy, who grew up in Windermere, a small town outside Orlando known for the sparkling lakes that surround it. Hoping for a slower pace of life for their children, the couple began searching for a new place to call home. Then, a business opportunity for Isaac presented itself in Orlando, near Dorothy’s family—kismet. The couple packed up their brood and headed south, but they didn’t want to commit to just any old house. They rented instead, waiting four years for the right place. “The same day we heard about this listing, we met here and stood on the lot,” says Isaac of their lakefront would-be homesite. “It was this peaceful, beautiful day, and we knew that this was where we would build our home.”
Fifteen years of living in city apartments and temporary rentals meant that the pair knew exactly what they wanted in their first home: comfortable, no fuss spaces where they could unwind with their four children (their youngest daughter was born in April 2017) and an easy-to-navigate layout for Isaac, who is blind. Dorothy also wanted the house to feel fresh, with plenty of color and room to grow. She turned to designers Erika Powell and Meagan Burks of Urban Grace Interiors in Santa Rosa Beach for their twist on Southern traditional. “Every time someone walks into our house and says, ‘This is so you! This is your family!’ that to me is the biggest compliment because our home really is an extension of us,” says Dorothy. Here, the couple and the designers share their moves for crafting a forever home.
Design A Family-Friendly Living Room
With a Perennials acrylic fabric on the armchairs and an indoor/outdoor material on the Lee Industries sofa, the living room can weather wet swimsuits and spills. The painting over the fireplace is by Florida artist Teresa Cline.
Make Room for a Crowd
The family of six spends a lot of time in and around the kitchen, so plenty of seating was a must. Slipcovered counter benches from Lee Industries make a prime homework spot for the triplets, and the breakfast nook is a sunny place to start the day. As in the living room, Powell and Burks covered the window seats in an outdoor fabric and layered patterns with throw pillows. “You can get away with using lighter colors when you go with outdoor fabrics,” says Powell. Belgian linen shades in Radish Moon’s hand-illustrated Radish pattern in Indigo keep the kitchen windows playful. The ceiling is painted White Dove (OC-17) by Benjamin Moore.
Go (A Little) Formal
An antique brass-and-amber glass-rod chandelier from Arteriors was the first thing the designers found for the dining room. From there, they built off its formality, choosing an heirloom-worthy table and buffet from Baker that both work well for entertaining. To unify the space with the more casual kitchen and living room, Powell and Burks stuck to the blue-and-white color palette, layering in window treatments in Schumacher’s Nanjing fabric, an abstract painting by Florida artist Liza Snyder,and Dorothy’s antique Chinese pottery. The designers also kept the kids in mind, covering the chairs in an indoor/outdoor fabric.
Put It in Neutral
“Dorothy wanted this to be their retreat,” says Burks of the master bedroom. So Isaac could also appreciate its serenity, the designers chose textured pieces, like a tufted-linen headboard from Vanguard Furniture and table lamps covered in ceramic petals by Currey & Company. “The day we moved in, when I finally got to roam free and feel the different furniture and finishes with my hands—it’s difficult to describe how amazing that experience was,” says Isaac. “I couldn’t believe I got to live in this house!” The custom pressed-hydrangea artwork that flank the bed is by Lauren Lachance.
Create a Personal Retreat
In the master sitting room, bamboo-frame armchairs and a muted palette ground the space and keep the focus on the lake view. The lamps are by Visual Comfort & Co.
Dial Up the Brights
“Pink is her favorite color, so we went wild with that,” says Powell of the decision to cover the older daughter’s bedroom in pink-and-orange toile wallpaper by Manuel Canovas. Dorothy didn’t want to skimp on the children’s rooms, adds the designer, who selected high-quality furniture in styles that can grow with them, even as their tastes in colors change over the years. “This family is not planning to move again, so they wanted to get things right the first time.”
Tie In Complementary Colors
For the girls’ Jack-and-Jill bath, Powell and Burks chose Sister Parish Design’s Serendipity Wallpaper in Red.
Automated retractable screens along the side of the house bridge the gap between indoors and out. “We worked with a company here in town to make everything in the home automated,” says Isaac. “Speakers, lighting, pool equipment—all of it is connected to an app that’s accessible to me, so for the first time, I can actually control everything in my house.” Now, they’re working to integrate Amazon Echo Dots into the system. “That means I could reconfigure lighting or turn on a Spotify playlist with a voice command,” he adds. “Dorothy’s unrivaled favorite music genre these days is yacht rock.”
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3 of 8 Go (A Little) Formal
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6 of 8 Dial Up the Brights
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8 of 8 Think Smart
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Home special needs Early Christmas for SEND, or Scrooge dressed up as Santa?
Early Christmas for SEND, or Scrooge dressed up as Santa?
By Tania Tirraoro December 16, 2018 December 16, 2018
The Department for Education has announced a £350 million funding package to support children with complex needs and disabilities, along with a number of other interesting initiatives.
The surprise cash includes £100 million capital investment to provide more specialist places in mainstream schools, alongside new special schools and colleges.
The DfE says local authorities will receive an additional £250 million over the next two years, on top of, “...the £6 billion already provided for the high needs budget this year, to provide much needed support for children and young people with complex SEND”.
The funding to pay for additional teaching and other support, breaks down as:
An additional £125million of high needs funding for 2018/19
£125million of high needs funding for 2019/20.
All LAs in England are included except the Isles of Scilly and City of London, presumably because they have tiny numbers of children, let alone children with SEND.
More SEND school places
The government has also announced an additional £100m of SEND capital funding in 2019-20, for LAs to invest in improved facilities and more school places. That includes new special free schools as Education Secretary, Damian Hinds, confirms he will, “…approve all high quality bids in the current round of special and alternative provision free schools applications.” This, it says takes, “...total capital funding to £365m from 2018 to 2021…”. It says the funding could “include more state-of-the-art facilities, such as sensory rooms and specialist equipment.”
Hold on a minute… in March 2017 they offered LAs a share of £215 million last year for facilities. That time, LAs had to tell the DfE how they would spend it before they could get hold of it, presumably so it didn't disappear to plug other council shortfalls. That was the first tranche of capital funding, then in May this year, they added £50 million to the total grant value. Now, they’re adding a further £100 million, taking it to £365m. How has your LA spent theirs so far?
Education Secretary Damian Hinds said:
“We recognise that the high needs budget faces significant pressures and this additional investment will help local councils to manage those pressures, whilst being able to invest to provide more support.... Every school or college should be one for a young person with special educational needs; every teacher should be equipped to teach them, and families need to feel supported.”
Funding for Educational Psychologists
The Government has also confirmed an expansion of funding to train more educational psychologists. “From September 2020 there will be a further three training rounds and an increase in the number of trainees from 160 to at least 206, to help keep up with demand for this specialist advice.”
This is something that will be very welcome, as existing Ed Psychs are loathe to work for LAs because they spend most of their time doing assessments for growing numbers of EHCP requests. This leaves little to no time left for more interesting (and beneficial) early intervention work or providing support strategies for teachers to use. It’s incredibly hard for many schools to get an Ed Psych visit, with many finding access is severely limited or even rationed by the LA.
“I welcome today’s announcement from the Department for Education, which is good news for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families. Our inspections show that we still have a long way to go before children and young people with SEND are getting all the support they deserve.
"In too many local areas, the implementation of the 2014 SEND reforms is not living up to expectations.... “We are halfway through our inspections of local areas and have just started to re-visit areas where inspectors have identified significant concerns. We will continue to give real weight to the experience of children and young people with SEND in our inspections of schools.”
Ofsted HMCI, Amanda Spielman
SEND leadership board
The announcement also talks about a new advisory SEND System Leadership Board, including local health, social care, and education services, and will work closely with charities, school and families. We’ll have more news about this next year. One thing it's hoped to do is encourage better joint commissioning of local services between LA education and social care services and the NHS.
A timely announcement…
This news will please the Local Government Association, the body that represents local councils, but the timing will be bittersweet. That's because the LGA has some brand new research it was publishing today, calling for an “emergency injection of funds” to provide a temporary solution to the crisis facing SEND funding.
The LGA says councils are facing a potential funding gap of up to £1.6 BILLION by 2020. Its analysis, by the Isos Partnership, forecasts that the current SEND funding deficit could DOUBLE to an estimated £806 million next year, based on historical trends. It claims this could continue to rise to between £1.2 billion and £1.6 billion in 2020/21.
Cllr Anntoinette Bramble, Chair of the LGA’s Children and Young People Board, said: “The current system…is at a tipping point, and in need of an emergency injection of funding just to keep services afloat. Councils have done all they can, but the reality is the money is not there to keep up with the unprecedented demand they are experiencing.”
And then, BOOM! As if to steal their thunder, the DfE makes this announcement. On a Sunday. The same day the LGA’s report was due to be published. A coincidence? Dear readers, there are no coincidences, especially not in politics. So while on the one hand, the LGA will be pleased that they've likely forced the government's hand, it will also be hoping its own research doesn't get overlooked - because the new funding nowhere near plugs the gap the LGA highlights.
So let’s not ignore the LGA’s research in the clamour over the DfE funding. The LGA says councils have almost exhausted their reserves to make up a projected £472 million shortfall. Its report reveals that 97% of the 93 councils who responded to its survey, say they expect their SEND spending to continue to increase. Meanwhile, more than 80% are not confident they will be able to balance their budgets in future.
The pressures in the pipes
We know what the pressures are: the implementation of the reforms brought an expansion of the right to statutory support up to the age of 25. This was great for young people with SEND, but the government either underestimated, or forgot, to provide a corresponding expansion of funding to match.
Additionally, there are increasing numbers of children who need support (for various reasons), but cuts to the services that provide that support. And that means more parents find themselves compelled to apply for legally enforceable, specific provision or specialist schools. And as Matt reported last week, when LAs try to stop them getting it, the SEND Tribunal finds parents are right almost nine times out of ten.
The LGA’s now calling for the Government to launch a national review of SEND provision to overhaul of the support for disabled children. It wants this to include “a fundamental reboot” of the commissioning powers councils need, as well as "rethinking what is needed to address the pressures that are driving ever-greater demand". They want councils to be given powers to ensure schools, health and social care all share costs associated with SEND, rather than it just being a local government responsibility. And they have a point, because at present, local NHS can - and often do - flatly refuse to cough up their share of provision in an EHCP
But just as the LGA make their call for a review, BOOM! along comes the DfE again, today announcing the launch of something called ‘SEN Futures’. This is what it describes as, “..a flagship package of long-term research and analysis to provide evidence on the impact of current SEN provision on children and young people’s outcomes, and to assess the value for money of SEN provision in England. Procurement for the first pieces of work in this programme will begin tomorrow (Monday 17 December).”
To better understand the financial incentives that influence how schools, colleges and councils support children and young people with special educational needs, the Department for Education will be gathering more evidence in the New Year. This will include looking at the first £6,000 schools pay for SEND support costs before accessing additional funding from local high needs budgets.
Department for Education press release 15/12/18
Not quite a “fundamental reboot”, but enough to say they’re doing something.
Headteacher Jules White of the Worth Less? SEND funding campaign reacted with cynicism to the news, fearing it may not be what it seems.
"Damian Hinds’ additional commitment to provide £250m over two years to help cover the High Needs Block is obviously better than a poke in the eye but it’s way too little, way too late. It doesn’t even cover LA High Needs shortfalls now. Yet again there is no money to help schools support SEND pupils day in day out. We can’t help the most deserving children now and again our budget pleas are being ignored.
"Of even greater concern is the fact that this does not appear to be ‘new money’ in any way shape or form. If this is the usual Department for Education trick of dressing up a funding announcement whilst taking money from schools and LAs budgets elsewhere it would be a cruel trick indeed. As one area sees cash an increase are we going to see other crucial related services - counselling, children’s wellbeing, staffing levels - get battered at the same time?
Jules White, Worth Less? Campaign
SNJ’s view
So immediately, 150 local authorities will share £125m to cover the last three months of this financial year until the end of March. It’ll help to staunch the bleeding and will slightly reduce the High Needs Block deficit that almost all LAs are continuing to rack up. It might help a few of them avoid total meltdown - but it’s not enough to make a game-changing difference.
Looking at the year from March 2019 onwards, £125m is simply inadequate; it’s a 2% increase on the size of next year’s HNB. It won’t allow LAs to even keep pace with the growing funding problem, let alone overcome it.
With reference to the LGA projections, £125m won’t mop up an expected £800m deficit for 2019-2020. And when you consider the LGA figures, bear in mind that all their projections have current default LA SEND policy baked into them, lots of which isn’t lawful, as Jessie Hewitson revealed in The Times on Saturday.
Jessie's report pointed to a number of LAs whose policies on their websites were brazenly illegal, with Shropshire for one, demanding schools provide 12 pieces of evidence of a child’s SEND when they request an EHCP assessment, including an educational psychology report. Which as we see above, essentially puts the kibosh on the application. But folks in Shropshire, just ignore what they’re demanding - it ain’t what the law asks for and that’s what counts.
So, what do we take from today’s excitement? For one, the DfE is getting fed up of bad news about SEND. It’s hard to believe they can just conjure up a funding package overnight to avert a PR annoyance, so they've clearly had this up their sleeve, perhaps for the Dedicated Schools Funding announcement. With wind of the LGA report, they've possibly just brought Christmas for SEND forward, landing their sleigh right on top of the Local Government Association's Grinch.
So it seems they really are “still listening”, but just not quite hard enough to the detail of what’s needed to solve the problem. And as we know, it's not just funding; it's culture in LAs and the NHS too that needs an overhaul. Sadly, that's not something that comes gift-wrapped in shiny paper.
But now they’ve announced the “long-term research”, they can effectively say they’re going to wait to see what it says before they put their hand in their pocket again. Unless, that is, there’s more in the upcoming Spending Review, but the likelihood of that is now much reduced, especially with the “nebulous” uncertainty of Brexit-Britain…
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Home parenting Special needs parenting: Love, determination and fury
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Special needs parenting: Love, determination and fury
By Tania Tirraoro February 14, 2020 February 14, 2020
The first time I held my eldest as a newborn, it hit me that my needs would never come first again. It may sound strange, but it hadn’t quite occurred to me in the previous nine months that the life chances afforded to this tiny human in my arms was up to us. In my exhausted, slightly befuddled state, after a 32-hour labour and emergency caesarean, I promised him unconditional love and that I would never let him down.
Within hours of his birth, I could recognise his cry from the other babies. It was louder for a start, and quite indignant. He came out that way, the volume of his scream so ear-splitting even the doctors looked a bit shocked. Almost two weeks late, he’d clearly been quite happy where he was, until he was rudely grabbed by gloved hands and pulled from his place of comfort. Not quite so comfortable for me, I can tell you.
All-consuming love
But my heart burst with love so intense it consumed me. My tiny human, whose future was in my hands. The thought guided everything I did, from being determined to breast-feed, despite no guidance from the too-busy midwife, to lovingly making, home-pureed baby food, frozen in ice-cube trays. I dedicated every waking moment to ensuring everything I did would have a positive impact. I was a mindful parent before mindfulness was invented, driven by a need to make up for the deficits in my own childhood.
His birth was the last time he was ever late for anything. He talked early, loved jigsaws and duplo, loved to “read” and rarely slept for long. The child was a whirlwind, walking at 9½ months, then a frequent-flyer at A&E for running into things, not noticing anyone or anything else. He was banned from toddler gym by age two for his Tasmanian Devil-style circuits of the gym equipment, knocking mere mortals out of his way or trampling them underfoot. Where had this kid come from?
I bet some of you are nodding your heads with recognition. The child with undiagnosed ADHD, “as if driven by a motor” as the assessment checklists say.
Then he’d flop into a heap and be out cold for an hour before being ready to go again.
A love multiplied
When his younger sibling arrived 19 months after him, I wondered how I could have as much love for another child. But as every parent with more than one child knows, you just do. Your heart is an infinite vessel filled to the brim with love. Loving a second, and subsequent children takes nothing from the first. I had to explain this to him when he worried he had to share a finite amount of love with his younger sibling. My love for him didn't have to be shared, it was all his and always would be.
The new baby was quiet, sleeping, barely crying—until prodded none too gently by their big brother. My husband and I looked at each other and said in wonderment, “Oh, a real baby!” How cute!
But No2 was had an unstable hip that was slow to heal. Then they needed an operation at five months. At 13-months they started suddenly and terrifyingly turning grey and collapsing, not breathing, up to three times a day. A diagnosis of reflex anoxic seizures followed.
As every parent knows, along with the love there is a band of fear and anxiety of anything bad ever happening to your child. It tightens a bit, or a lot, depending on the severity of a situation that's out of your control, sometimes making you feel like you can barely breathe. Every time a seizure occurred, it gripped me. I had to learn to be calm and breathe despite the tightness, so it didn’t reflect back to the children. Sometimes, I didn't succeed.
A new and worrying world
Our lives began to follow a pattern so many of you will recognise. A new world of medical appointments and tests and more diagnoses. Then, the world of education.
We’d hear from nursery that there’d been an incident, or something unusual had been noticed. That behaviour was out of the ordinary for some reason, but they’d grow out of it. That they were both very bright, but something was… different. Eldest exasperated them. Youngest’s cuteness was adored but emerging difficulties dismissed as being, “young in the year”.
These were the early days of the internet at the turn of the century, but there was still enough online and in books that pointed to reasons. “Indigo children”, an early name for neurodiversity, perhaps. “Parenting your Spirited Child”, 1-2-3 Magic. Then on to Tony Attwood and Thomas Brown.
Despite my mindful parenting, conversations with school staff revealed they suspected I was a “bad parent”, unable to instil discipline. As a mindful parent, this was horrifying and enraging. This was nothing to do with parenting, it was real! Being disbelieved by people in authority is incredibly disempowering.
You can buckle. Or you can fight back. For me, there was no alternative, because it wasn’t about me or my feelings.
The fight-back
The overwhelming love for my children and my determination not to let them down, drove me on to find answers.
I did research, I asked questions, I sought advice from specialists half-thinking they might also think we were just rubbish parents. But our concerns were confirmed and investigations into what might be the cause began.
Vindication doesn’t make you feel triumphant. It makes you furious that your concerns and instincts were rejected. But again, it wasn’t about me.
Fury can be great to fire you up, but if you don’t learn to manage it, its effects will destroy you. And this is a marathon, not a sprint. No one’s perfect, controlling anger isn’t always possible when you’re overwhelmed. But simply holding it in can cause more harm than good; suppressing it isn't the same as finding positive ways to manage it. Some run, some do yoga, others let off steam socially with other SEND parents.
SNJ has managed my anger. My jungle is filled with scary monsters and I am armed with a MacBook Pro, a well-known smart weapon with a laser-sharp aim…
ADD/ADHD: The same yet different
It made no sense. How could these two children have the same parents, the same environment, the same food, the same love and care? Yet they were total opposites. One independent and openly defiant, the other reliant, quiet and clinging.
But, eventually, they had the same core diagnoses: ADHD and Autism (then as Asperger’s) and, more lately, Ehlers Danlos syndrome (among other individual diagnoses). The big difference is that one has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the other, Attention Deficit without hyperactivity.
This is what many school practitioners fail to understand: that children with the same basic diagnosis can present completely differently and have wildly different needs. Even siblings. Diagnostic labels are very useful as a gateway to support, but beyond this, the support should be led by the needs of the individual child, not the label.
Outcomes come after provision
Many years have passed. Statements obtained, then EHCPs. Specialist schooling obtained, attended, and graduated with bags of qualifications. They're now young adults and I’m no longer required to advocate for their educational outcomes. They’re now at their respective universities and out of my control. Dear reader, it’s terrifying.
It's hard, letting go of the handlebars so they can ride off into their adulthood, where mum isn’t there to stand between them and trouble. Hard, but necessary, according to their needs. One doesn’t need it. For the other, advocacy continues in other forms for other reasons; other battles for support and acceptance not yet won. But we will get there.
But the love is the same.
Unwavering love for them has been my strength through everything and will continue to be. It’s been the one constant, and no matter their age, it will never change. The anxiety is still there too, and that must be quietly managed from afar, aided by WhatsApp and mutual Google tracking.
Parenthood hasn’t been what I expected. How could I expect something like additional needs that I knew nothing about? I sometimes ask myself, if I knew then what would unfold, would I still do it?
The answer is yes. Because despite everything, the love is worth it, many times over. It’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced; a daily, unconditional reward that reminds you why your determination to get them the support they need can never waver. It’s as involuntary as breathing. And now, as I await the arrival of my first grandchild, I look forward to the dazed look in eldest's eyes when he discovers all this for himself.
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The couple instead allegedly submitted false applications that did not disclose their relationship or cohabitation to government bodies responsible for benefits programs that included Section 8 rental housing assistance and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, among others, from at least October 2010 to August 2018, according to charges.
Yolanda Coleman, 50, of Minneapolis, also allegedly acted as a personal care attendant for Robert Coleman, 45, of Minneapolis, for several years and withheld information about their relationship in his case file in violation of PCA regulations.
Both are charged in a 16-page indictment with conspiracy and one count each of theft of government funds. The charges outline numerous alleged fraudulent filings by the two that spanned nearly a decade. For example, after Yolanda Coleman bought a home in Brooklyn Park in 2016, the two submitted a shelter verification form to Hennepin County that listed the home's address as Robert Coleman's residence and stated that he was the only adult living in the home. They then allegedly forged the signature of the home's previous owner and listed a false address and phone number for that past owner.
Robert Coleman has also been charged with two counts of making false statements and an additional count of Social Security benefits fraud. Yolanda Coleman was charged with theft from a program receiving federal funds.
Applications for the benefits programs Robert Coleman participated in required information that included family composition. Benefits from programs like SNAP are calculated based on income, expenses and the number of people who live with the participant, and eligibility for programs like Supplemental Security Income can turn on an applicant's living arrangements.
According to the charges, Robert Coleman and Yolanda Coleman had a child together in 2008 and were married in 2014. They lived together throughout the dates of the alleged conspiracy, and if they had disclosed Yolanda Coleman's income and their living arrangements, Robert Coleman would have been disqualified from receiving benefits from four programs from which he received thousands of dollars, according to the indictment.
The two will make their first appearances in federal court at a date yet to be scheduled, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Attorneys were not listed for either defendant and a phone number listed for Robert Coleman was disconnected.
Inspector general offices for both the federal Housing and Urban Development agency and Social Security Administration investigated the case along with the Hennepin County Fraud Unit.
Stephen Montemayor covers politics and government in Minnesota. He previously reported on federal courts and law enforcement for the Star Tribune.
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20 Years Ago This Month – A Special Goodbye to Steve
A Day of Celebrating an Extraordinary Life
The private Reeves memorial and funeral service occurred at the McLeod Mortuary Chapel in Escondido, CA on Saturday, May 6, 2000. This was an invitation only service for about 100 special guests; people who crossed Steve’s path via family, fitness, entertainment, journalism, or just close friendships. Russ Warner, Leo Stern, Joe Weider, Lou Ferrigno, Gene Mozee, George Coates, Reg Lewis, Richard Harrison, and Reeves’ official biographer, Milton T. Moore, were just some of Steve’s closest friends who came to pay their final respects.
Regrets on not being able to attend came from friends Sly Stallone, Bo Derek, Gordon Scott, Robert Wagner, John Little, Armand Tanny, Gordon Mitchell among others.
In addition to coverage by a local San Diego TV station, a recap of the service was later published in “Flex”, “Ironman”, and “Muscle and Fitness” magazines, in addition to Steve’s hometown newspaper, “Valley Roadrunner Newspaper”.
McLeod Mortuary Chapel in Escondido, CA
The Memories on Display
The Service - May 6, 2000
The beautiful service began at 3:30 p.m. with Hank Williams' I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry and ended with the Chordetts' Mr. Sandman, two of Steve's favorite songs. Conducting the service was Rev. Richard Huls from Valley Center, Steve's hometown at the time. Today Rev Huls is pastor emeritus of the Christian Reformed Church in Escondido, chaplain to the Escondido Police and Fire Departments, and voice of the Dial-A-Prayer ministry.
Reverend Richard Huls
Rev. Huls Eulogy:
Rev. Huls' tribute to Steve was very warm, thoughtful, and certainly quite touching.
"Good afternoon. We’re here today to honor a man who was bigger than life.
"For most of us, our introduction to Steve Reeves was movies, a character known as Hercules: half man, half god. Looking at his pictures here, it hurts all of us I’m sure. But even more so, the unexpected death of Steve brought so many of you a relationship that is extremely meaningful. I wish to express my condolences to family members, friends, and to all of you who have come here to share today.
I understand that Steve was a very humble man, he didn’t tell people how humble he was, and I want you all to know that it humbles me to be here. I am a resident of Escondido and Valley Center. Our paths never crossed. But simply as a member of the community, I can appreciate how a service like this can humble anyone. And as we all join together, I’m sure this is how he would have wanted it, not to somehow make him more than what he was, but simply recognize that he was a member of the community as much as he was a star. We join together today to remember him, pay our respects to him, and recognize the qualities of his life that all of us in many ways vie for in ourselves. And hopefully, we have already taken some of those.
"I’d like to pause, as Steve often did, for a word of prayer. Pray for God’s company and strength. 'Our father in heaven we pause here, to think of a man you gave life to, who went through many experiences in life, not without trials and tribulations but certainly with successes and recognition. A man who not only was able to achieve but wanted to achieve on behalf of others and to enable them to become achievers as well. We want the very best for the body you have given and for the spirit that makes it possible for us to be people of success. We are thankful for those who have come to join together this afternoon and as we bow in prayer we would ask that your peace will rule over all of us in the name of our Lord we pray.
"I’d like to begin today with a poem that Steve wrote. I think it’s commendable that one would reflect upon his own life and his mortality and the conclusion of his life.
When my days on earth are over, With my faithful dogs by my side, I will ride through new deep clover On a horse called Classic Pride. They have been my true companions, Along mountain trails and rivers wide, My friends will look at me with envy When we cross the great divide.
"I’m sure that Steve didn’t know that when he wrote this poem when the crossing of that great divide would take place. But as it has happened, he recognized some aspects of his life. He highlighted them. His date of birth Jan 21, 1926, born in Montana, and it is my understanding that his remains will go there. He died May 1, the year 2000. Steve was 74 years old. And, as so many of you know, his death was totally unexpected.
"It is I think worthy of those of you who knew him to say a few words about him. Certainly from my perspective, it could only be secondhand. But many of you knew him perhaps more directly. Sometime or other he touched you, maybe as a neighbor or as a friend. But one whose life found meaning in a meaningful relationship. There are really two ways to look at that. As you look at these pictures, here's a man who lived in Valley Center for 43 years. Much of his life is due to the fact that people who touched him said things to him, shared time with him and rejoiced with him, found things meaningful just as your lives were touched by him. But his life was really arepresentation of your lives; and your lives in many ways are a representation of his. This is the time when I would like to ask any of you to say a few words."
Special Tributes:
Many heartfelt tributes were then given about Steve. We've included a few here from people who knew Steve for many years.
Actor Richard Harrison:
"I’ve been a friend of Steve’s since 1955. When I first met Steve I was a manager in a gymnasium for Vic Tanny. Steve had just come back from New York City about the time he was in the film 'Athena'. He stayed with me at my place, and we got along very well. It was a time when his career as an actor wasn’t going too well so I introduced him to friends of mine who owned gyms and he went to work for them. Then, thank God, he got the part of 'Hercules' in Italy. Very soon afterward, I was under contract for a couple of studios and I went to Italy and joined him. We had a wonderful time together in Spain, Italy, and Malaysia and all over in films.
"Many people would say it’s true that if you looked in the dictionary under perfection the first definition you'd expect to see is Steve Reeves. He definitely was the most handsome and developed adult man who was ever born. Probably it would take a laboratory to make another one like him. But Steve was much more than that. I think his main thing in life was living. He loved to do many things.
"When he worked out in a gym, he didn't talk much about working out. He did what he had to do because it was his job. He did win Mr. America and Mr. Universe. He was paid as an actor and he did a very good job as an actor too. But he never once wanted to talk about bodybuilding. He knew his body very well; he knew it like a doctor. He would work out just like a doctor, moving every little muscle, but he never wanted to show off in any way. He was incredibly strong by the way. I've heard people in the past say, "Well he couldn't be very strong with a beautiful body like that" He was incredibly strong. I remember in the gym when he and Gordon Scott would work out they would take 120 pounds in each hand and do 20 reps at a time. Steve would do everything perfect without any exertion whatsoever.
"I never heard Steve once say a bad word about anybody. He was a very private person, and he didn't talk a lot either. He was extremely intelligent, didn't like to waste words and didn't like to hear stupid words either. He was a beautiful human being.
"I am so thankful that Steve came into my life because like everybody else, he was my hero and Iwas so proud to be his friend. I was also so proud to know so many of the people that were friends of his. I'm going to miss him very much. But I'll tell you one thing, he's going to be here forever because there was only one living god that I ever met and that was Steve Reeves. He'll be around for a long time for all of us to admire. Thank you."
Writer Gene Mozee:
"I am a long-time friend of Steve's, and I was proud to have known him for many, many years. I first read about him in a copy of Joe Weider's magazines 'Muscle Power' and 'Your Physique' in 1950.
"When I was 16 years old, one day my brother and I journeyed down to Muscle Beach on the bus and the first person we looked for was Steve Reeves. We went up and approached him and he was so kind to us and treated us like his little brothers. I had this relationship with him ever since that day. I've called his home on occasions and he was always pleasant to talk to. He would remember my family always asking how my brother and mother were. He was just the greatest human being that anyone could meet.
"As a bodybuilder he was unmatched. Michelangelo once made a drawing of what he considered to be the perfect human being: so many cubits tall, so many hands wide and exact proportions. David P. Willoughby, one of the experts in the field of bodybuilding, found that Steve's measurements were almost identical to the depiction of the perfect man by Michelangelo.
"Not only was Steve perfect physically, but I never met a man who was more thoughtful. I never heard him utter a negative word against anyone. He was always grateful for his success and very modest. If you started to compliment him, he'd stop you if you went too far, but he appreciated your compliment. He was not a man who had an actor's ego. Steve was a man who knew who he was and what he was. I don't know if he really understood how much he meant to the world. In my three gyms, Steve Reeves was always the man whose picture was in the place of honor. He was always the hero of our gyms because he was like the King of the Spartans, Leonidas, who lead the 300 Spartans against 30,000 Persians. Steve Reeves was every bit the great man that all of you knew.
"I want everyone to know that Steve Reeves was a man who would give his time and help people. For a couple of unknown kids, like my brother and me to walk up to a big superstar like Steve and for him immediately to be so kind, so generous with his time and become life-long friends it says it all. I don"t know of an actor or a bodybuilder in the world today you could walk up to and become instant friends. Steve was that type of man. He was the greatest man I ever met. Thank you."
Publisher Joe Weider:
"I have been a friend of Steve Reeves since 1947. This was when he first corresponded with us and he came to Montreal to have photographs taken after his Mr. America title. We all know from what everybody has said here today what a wonderful human being he was.
"Steve Reeves was one of the first models that made the world see the human body: what it is and what it could accomplish. He helped to start a whole physical movement that changed the world by his example as a human being and as a physical specimen. Nobody approached him at that time, and he influenced everybody through his character and personality. With his great body and great face, he was almost like a Greek god. The combination of his looks and character made him so startling.
"But most important, he was like the boy next door. With all these characteristics, he inspired me in my business and millions of people throughout the world to be great. It was because of him that the world has changed to a physical way of thinking about the human being. I and hundreds of millions of people throughout the world knew him, loved him and admired him. He has been a great inspiration, and he will remain a great inspiration as long as physical fitness and the love of the human body character remains. Thank you”.
Closing Thoughts by Rev. Huls:
Following the tributes that afternoon, Rev. Huls finished the service with these touching words about Steve:
"How does one summarize a man's life: a man like Steve Reeves. We've heard so many things here today. I would like to try, in a humble way, to bring into focus something that I always ask when I'm asked to do a service, especially for a person I don't really know. I ask if an individual has been religious or been to church or some aspect of that. Being a Pastor you like to know those things.
"I'm sure these words from the Book of Corinthians were meant for Steve Reeves. 'Do you know that you are a temple of God or that your body is a temple of God in his spirit and that the spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him. But the temple of God is holy and that is what you are.
"As we're here this afternoon, we think of Steve Reeves. I'm sure many of you have seen young people walking down the street with weights in their hands doing powerwalking. The inspiration for that kind of Powerwalking came from Steve Reeves. He was a person who enriched an appreciation, as we've heard, for bodybuilding. But more than that, bodybuilding that was drug-free and done just on the merits of one's capabilities.
"I especially find a sentiment here today because of Steve's service in the Army. He was involved in combat in the Philippines and in the occupational forces of Japan after the war. But for all of us, as we take a look at these scripture passages here today, we would say that Steve surely was a spiritual man. He regarded the body as a gift of God, to be taken care of, to be enriched, to be recognized, not flattered but honored. For each of us here today, we humbly can say thank you to this man. That understood, this is what Paul meant when he wrote these words: 'Do you not know that your body was the temple of God?' Perhaps in some strange way, even ironical, the figure of Steve Reeves was a definition of these words: That the body, physical as we well know, has a time on this earth. Let the spirit dwell within. May God give to him all that he ever wanted to be as he was on this earth and for all eternity.
"In conclusion today, I was very gratified to have heard this expression of Steve Reeves. 'He was a man who was what he said he believed.' And that is something that all of us can well imitate and emulate in our lives. Thank you all for coming today".
Following Rev. Huls' kind words, Steve's second cousin Gordon Reeves, was then presented with the U.S. flag in honor of Steve's military service. It was a touching moment to end a beautiful service.
A Gathering of Friends
After the service, many people gathered outside the chapel to reminisce about Steve as well as renew some old acquaintances. This is what Steve would have wanted.
Deborah Stewart and Russ Warner
Gene Mozee, Russ Warner, and George Helmer
Bob Delmonteque, Lou Ferrigno, Betty Weider, Unknown, and Joe Weider
The service was followed by a lovely luncheon at the impressive Lawrence Welk Country Club in Escondido, CA. Special thanks to Deborah Stewart for putting on such a wonderful reception for all.
Lawrence Welk Country Club in Escondido
It’s hard to believe that 20 years have passed since Steve departed for the Heavenly skies. It was a very tough time back then for many people. But I feel comforted today because I have faith that Steve is enjoying the rewards that he so deserves.
I knew Steve for almost 15 years. He was a good friend, mentor and business partner who trusted me with his image to protect it. I always respected his ideas and looked to him many times for words of advice and encouragement and tried to do the best I could. Steve was always generous with his time and made my job that much easier.
A day won't go by when we won't think of Steve. Moreover, we will always consider him a true legend and an exceptional human being that did exceptional things during an exceptional lifetime. Yes, Steve you were truly one of a kind, and we thank you for letting us be a part of your unique world. We wish you continued rest and peace.
George Helmer, President, Steve Reeves International
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Regulators Approve CRA Revisions
Recent revisions to Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rules expand the definition of community development and increase the number of banks designated as "small" by adding "intermediate small banks" to the category.
The changes—approved by the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency—went into effect Sept. 1, 2005.
The new rules ease the regulatory burden on community banks while making CRA evaluations more effective in persuading banks to meet community development needs.
The final rules are essentially the same as ones the agencies proposed last spring. They increase the asset-size threshold for small banks to less than $1 billion, without regard to holding company affiliation. Intermediate small banks are those with assets of at least $250 million and less than $1 billion. The changes are also intended to encourage banks to provide meaningful community development lending, investment and services.
Under the new rules:
Intermediate small banks no longer need to collect and report CRA loan data. However, examiners will continue to evaluate bank lending activity in the CRA examinations of intermediate small banks and disclose results in the public evaluation.
Intermediate small banks will be evaluated under two separately rated tests: the small bank lending test and a flexible new community development test that includes an evaluation of community development loans, investments and services in light of community needs and the capacity of the bank. Satisfactory ratings are required on both tests to obtain an overall satisfactory CRA rating.
In addition, for banks of any size:
The new rules expand the definition of community development to include activities that revitalize or stabilize designated disaster areas and distressed or underserved rural areas. By including designated distressed or underserved rural areas, the agencies are recognizing and encouraging community development in more rural areas. (Designated distressed or underserved rural areas are to be listed by the agencies on the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council web site, www.ffiec.gov/cra.)
The regulations also clarify when discrimination or other illegal credit practices by a bank or its affiliate will adversely affect an evaluation of the bank's CRA performance.
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Irish peace is too precious to be squandered by the Brexit ultras
Dearbhail McDonald
The British rush to a no-deal Brexit puts Irish unity urgently back on the agenda. We risk repeating history
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Fri 2 Aug 2019 01.00 EDT
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In The Ultras, the brutal, brilliant novel by Eoin McNamee set during the Troubles, the protagonist (based on the real-life undercover British intelligence officer Robert Nairac) finds himself in the company of dangerous men like himself. The Ultras plot terrible events and create dark polities while forcing everyone else to live with their consequences. “Ultra meaning beyond,” wrote McNamee. “Ultra meaning extreme.”
The so-called war cabinet formed by the new British prime minister, Boris Johnson, and whose course the maverick arch-Brexiteer Dominic Cummings now charts, of course bears no resemblance to the characters in the war of the Ultras imagined by McNamee. But the sheer velocity and ferocity of their opening salvoes about crashing out of the EU with no deal on October 31 unless the backstop – the insurance policy to avoid a hard border in Ireland – is abolished, raise the kind of alarm that we in Ireland have not felt since the dark years of the Troubles.
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The political fear is that this new breed of “Brexit Ultras” (Johnson’s cabinet with Nigel Farage’s Brexit party snapping at its heels) could deliberately pursue a no-deal EU exit at the expense of a volatile Irish peace.
The sabre-rattling and pre-emptive blame-shifting of course is intended to shore up political support in the UK ahead of a possible general election, but also to intimidate Ireland into abandoning the backstop while shaking the unity of the EU27. Europe, with its own demons to face, has its red lines too and will not sacrifice the single market or its external borders, or jeopardise the wider integrity of the European project. Ireland, and the fragile peace process that has been built over the past 20 years, falls between these two positions.
And while it is still early days for the Johnson premiership, we have a deteriorated state of Anglo-Irish relations following his ascent to power. How real is the damaging rhetoric emanating from London and the anti-Irish tropes spewing from much of the British media? David Yelland, the former editor of the Sun, revealed that he had been shocked when “Tories of influence” told him privately that Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s taoiseach “isn’t bright” and “the Irish will blink”. “It seems, amazingly, that this is the actual policy of HMG under Johnson,” tweeted Yelland. “They are anti-Irish, arrogant, dangerous and wrong.”
That relations between London and Dublin are now strained is beyond dispute, though officials in Dublin insist that much of the noise is to be expected and aimed at a domestic UK audience rather than Ireland or the EU.
Still, following his appointment, it took almost a week for Johnson to place a phone call with Varadkar, who leads a confidence-and-supply coalition that – while shaky on a series of domestic issues – serves as a national government in all but name for the purposes of Brexit. When the phone call did proceed, both men adopted an uncompromising stance: Johnson insisting the removal of the backstop is a precondition for any deal, Varadkar adamant that the EU will not relent on the withdrawal agreement.
Varadkar rightly reminded Johnson of the British government’s obligation – as a co-signatory of the Good Friday agreement – to exercise its power in respect of Northern Ireland with rigorous impartiality. Johnson’s government relies, for the time being, on the support in the Commons of the Democratic Unionist party to prop up its narrow majority. The difficult parliamentary arithmetic, combined with Johnson’s inflammatory rhetoric, represents a serious challenge to the UK’s obligation to act as an honest broker in respect of Northern Ireland – the majority of whose citizens voted, like their Scottish brethren, to stay in the EU.
Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar and UK prime minister Boris Johnson. Photograph: Rex and PA
And although unionists are being comforted, for now, by Johnson, their confidence that a hard Brexit will not give birth to a united Ireland must also be fraying at the seams. This is not least because nearly two-thirds of the Tory party indicate in polling that they would rather sacrifice the union – and see Northern Ireland and Scotland leave it – than abandon Brexit.
Johnson (just like his predecessors) has yet to offer any meaningful alternatives to the backstop, yet blindly insists, as a pre-condition to talks with Brussels, that it must be removed. Given such a hardline starting point, what compromises would a deal with Brussels before October 31 entail? The recent ITV interview with the foreign secretary Dominic Raab on the issue of what flexibility the UK government has shown to date does not augur well for what lies ahead.
The high-handed, perhaps not entirely unexpected tone of the hard Brexiteers, including Johnson, has undoubtedly reawakened bad memories in Ireland. Nobody on the island is blind to the reality that in standing by the backstop in order to avoid a hard border, they could end up with one if the UK crashes out without a deal. Indeed, the Irish government has conceded, in its latest updated contingency action plan, that it will implement increased checks and procedures in the event of a no-deal Brexit. That means border infrastructure and checkpoints that, however they are named and wherever they are, will have social and economic consequences both foreseen and unforeseen.
One of those consequences is the possibility of a united Ireland – a prospect that terrifies me if the process of getting there is not given the time and breadth it needs, and if that existential, constitutional question it is not curated with the utmost inclusiveness and sensitivity.
Last week Varadkar stated the obvious when he told the MacGill summer school that a hard Brexit would force communities in Northern Ireland to consider the possibility of a united Ireland. They already are. What was once an entirely fringe aspiration for nationalists, and a dreaded fear for unionists – each side comforted by the thought that the conversation about unification was decades away – has become an urgent debate for all.
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Contrary to anti-Irish tropes that the backstop is a Trojan horse in order to secure a united Ireland, the truth is that both communities in Northern Ireland – as well as citizens across the island of Ireland – are fearful of what a botched, rushed conversation about unification might yield. That fear is that the birth of a united Ireland would be accompanied by violence and upheaval.
Unification without the support of unionists, whose traditions and identity must be protected as part of any shared future, cannot be pursued as a zero-sum game. Otherwise we risk repeating history: the Troubles in reverse. Northern Ireland could not, in its current perilous state, survive either a hard Brexit or a united Ireland. Its communities are suspended in an in-between space, in which they have enjoyed 21 years without violence but have not yet progressed to a positive peace or meaningful integration – a process that takes time and effort to heal wounds.
What many people in the UK forget or are indifferent to is the fact that, for all the successes of the Good Friday agreement – a vital edifice that allows us to identify as British, Irish or both – peace is not fully won.
That is why all the trash talk is so damaging, and why we need to pull back from the rhetorical brink. That is what is lost in this war of the Ultras: that the price of political power could be the unforgiveable loss of peace.
• Dearbhail McDonald is an Irish commentator and the author of Bust
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Charlottetown councillor says city dragging feet on controversial statue issue
Dave Stewart ([email protected])
Published: Jan 11 at 8:05 p.m.
Updated: Jan 12 at 7:19 a.m.
City workers clean off red paint dumped on the John A. Macdonald statue in this file photo. - Stu Neatby
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. —
A Charlottetown councillor says the city is dragging its feet on decisions involving a controversial statue.
During council’s regular public monthly meeting on Monday, Coun. Mike Duffy asked why the issue around the Sir John A. Macdonald statue has not progressed in seven months.
Council passed a unanimous resolution on June 25 last year declaring that the statue would not be moved off its present location at the corner of Queen Street and Victoria Row. Further to that, an ad-hoc committee was tasked with engaging Indigenous stakeholders on where to go next.
“Here we are seven months later and we don’t seem to be getting anywhere,’’ Duffy said, asking Coun. Julie McCabe, chairwoman of council’s standing committee on economic development, tourism and event management for an update. “Tourism season is coming upon us and that’s a major area of the city. I don’t see any progress.’’
McCabe said meetings with stakeholders, such as L’nuey, the Mi’kmawq Confederacy of P.E.I. and the Native Council of P.E.I. are ongoing and information between those groups and the city is being shared.
Coun. Julie McCabe - Contributed
Coun. Terry Bernard echoed Duffy’s frustration, saying that it really comes down to rewriting the plaque located adjacent to the statue to tell Macdonald’s full story.
While he was Canada’s first prime minister, Macdonald was also the architect of the country’s residential school system. Residential school officials forcefully removed Indigenous children from their families and many of them were abused and died in the schools.
Bernard said it should not take seven months to rewrite the plaque that details Macdonald’s history.
The bench statue of Sir John A. Macdonald at the corner of Victoria Row and Queen Street in Charlottetown shows the effects of having been sandblasted recently after it was doused with red paint. - SaltWire file
McCabe said efforts are being made to work collaboratively with the stakeholders.
“We need to make sure we are on the same page,’’ McCabe said.
At one point, Mayor Philip Brown chimed in to remind council that Parks Canada is looking at making some significant changes to the area in the leadup to the reopening of Province House, which is expected to take place in 2023.
“Sometimes you can’t rush these issues,’’ Brown said. “This is part of a dialogue that is taking place with different organizations.’’
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There was no new information about a design for a third fire hall at Monday’s meeting.
Council awarded the design tender to SableArc Studios last month but things hit a snag when Bill Chandler, owner of Chandler Architecture, said he was considering challenging the decision, pointing out that his firm finished with a better score in the bidding process.
One councillor told The Guardian discussions are taking place in private at the moment.
Coun. Mitchell Tweel continues to argue that the city should be hiring more police officers and creating a traffic unit whose sole job would be to enforce the Highway Traffic Act.
Tweel said the city falls 17 officers short of the national average in municipal police forces.
Coun. Greg Rivard, chairman of council’s standing committee on protective and emergency services, said these are discussions that will take place as the city determines what it’s budget for 2021-22 will be.
However, Rivard warned that hiring officers and creating a traffic unit, which did exist at one time in the city, would cost major dollars and would likely only happen if the municipality raised taxes.
Dave Stewart is The Guardian's municipal reporter.
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New blood and urine tests can indicate autism in children earlier
The “first of their kind” tests measure damage to proteins that can be an early indicator of autism.
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NEW TESTS HAVE been developed that can indicate autism in children earlier than current methods of testing.
The earlier tests could lead to children with autism being given appropriate treatment much earlier in their lives.
The academic team who conducted the international research at the University of Warwick believe that their new blood and urine tests which search for damage to proteins are “the first of their kind”.
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are defined as developmental disorders mainly affecting social interaction and they can include a wide spectrum of behavioural difficulties.
These include speech disturbances, repetitive and/or compulsive behaviour, hyperactivity, anxiety, and difficulty to adapt to new environments, some with or without cognitive impairment. Since there is a wide range of ASD symptoms diagnosis can be difficult and uncertain, particularly at the early stages of development.
The paper – called Advanced glycation endproducts, dityrosine, and arginine transporter dysfunction in autism – a source of biomarkers for clinical diagnosis – has been published in Molecular Autism. The team was led by Dr Naila Rabbani, Reader of Experimental Systems Biology at the University of Warwick who said: “Our discovery could lead to earlier diagnosis and intervention.”
We hope the tests will also reveal new causative factors. With further testing we may reveal specific plasma and urinary profiles or ‘fingerprints’ of compounds with damaging modifications.
This may help us improve the diagnosis of ASD and point the way to new causes of ASD.
How the tests work
The researchers found a link between ASD and damage to proteins in blood plasma by oxidation and glycation – processes where reactive oxygen species (ROS) and sugar molecules spontaneously modify proteins. They found the most reliable of the tests they developed was examining protein in blood plasma where, when tested, children with ASD were found to have higher levels of the oxidation marker dityrosine (DT) and certain sugar-modified compounds called “advanced glycation endproducts” (AGEs).
Genetic causes have been found in 30-35% of cases of ASD and the remaining 65-70% of cases are thought to be caused by a combination of environmental factors, multiple mutations, and rare genetic variants.
However the research team also believe that the new tests could reveal yet to be identified causes of ASD.
The team’s research also confirmed the previously held belief that mutations of amino acid transporters are a genetic variant associated with ASD.
The Warwick team worked with collaborators at the University of Bologna, Italy, who recruited locally 38 children who were diagnosed as having with ASD (29 boys and nine girls) and a control group of 31 healthy children (23 boys and eight girls) between the ages of five and 12. Blood and urine samples were taken from the children for analysis.
The Warwick team discovered that there were chemical differences between the two groups. Working with a further collaborator at the University of Birmingham, the changes in multiple compounds were combined together using artificial intelligence algorithms techniques to develop a mathematical equation or “algorithm” to distinguish between ASD and healthy controls.
The outcome was a diagnostic test better than any method currently available.
The next steps are to repeat the study with further groups of children to confirm the good diagnostic performance and to assess if the test can identify ASD at very early stages, indicate how the ASD is likely to develop further to more severe disease and assess if treatments are working.
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Newsletters / ULC Newsletter - January, 2019
We're 1 day into the new year, and we hope your resolutions are going well.
Because collectively, we seem to be regressing. Recent days have seen relentless talk of border walls, the baby Jesus lobbed around like a football from one fight to the next, even more clergy sexual abuse, and witch hunts (both real and imagined). We didn't know what 2019 would look like, but we certainly wouldn't have predicted it would look like 1419 AD.
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Step-father takes the stand in court
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A MAN accused of the indecent treatment of his step-daughter was called to give evidence today on the second day of his trial.
Earlier this week the Rockhampton District Court heard a police interview of the girl, then six, alleging her step-father came into the lounge room where she was sleeping and sexually assaulted her.
As the alleged incident had an unspecified date, the defendant told the court he was unable to comment on the night in question, but said there was one evening the girl could be referring to that fell between Cyclone Marcia and the birth of his son in April.
The defendant said one night he and the girl's mother were sitting outside when they heard her crying.
He maintains he went in to check on her, told her to go back to sleep and did not assault her adding, he hadn't remembered the evening until he watched a video of the girl giving evidence in late June.
Crown prosecutor Ryder Reid pressed the defendant on why he hadn't immediately told his lawyer he had remembered the evening, but the defendant said the memory developed over time and he was unsure of dates.
The defendant also said he hadn't told the girl's mother the exact details of the crime he is alleged to have committed but had told her "bits-and-pieces".
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Uber continues talks to make low-cost Dubai service available long term
Company continues 'positive conversations' with Transport Authority towards securing permanent place for pilot scheme UberX
UberX will remain available on the app as the company continues negotiations with the RTA. Antonie Robertson / The National
An affordable Uber service has been well-received by Dubai commuters, the company says, with a large number of rides booked from metro stations and areas where transport is not easily available.
The UberX service, which began in April as a three-month pilot observed by the Roads and Transport Authority, continues to be available in Dubai.
“UberX will remain available on the app as we continue our positive conversations with the RTA. We will continue to work with the RTA to see UberX extend beyond a pilot to a permanent product in Dubai,” said Anthony Khoury, Uber’s Middle East general manager.
“The results of the pilot launch of UberX have been great. We have seen it complement the existing public transport system, with a significant portion of rides beginning or ending at a metro station. We have also seen UberX serve as transportation where other options are not available as they are in the city centre. To date, UberX confirms the viability of an economic solution in Dubai in helping to address congestion and expand the use of public transport.”
During the testing phase in April, the service was only available to select riders who could choose lower fares on less expensive vehicles instead of the Uber limousines.
The RTA had approved the service on a limited number of vehicles.
Since then the service has been made available for all residents covering most areas in the emirate.
Talks to bring a cheaper Uber ride service to Dubai have been 'positive' says company
The company did not provide figures for the current number of vehicles that are providing the affordable service, but said demand had tripled since the launch seven months ago.
“The response has been phenomenal and we have seen a significant increase in the percentage of rides that begin or end at a metro station. Since launch, and to match the demand, we have seen supply grow three times, but it still remains limited as per our agreement with the RTA,” Mr Khoury said.
Uber is required to offer fares that are at least 30 per cent higher than regular cabs according to the terms of its licence with the RTA.
The RTA did not respond to questions about whether the service would be made permanent.
The company has been involved in talks with transport authorities as part of the city’s Vision 2021 programme, and to introduce cheaper transport across the emirate.
UberX user Shalini Dev welcomed additional moves to reduce the cost of transportation.
“The best option would be if there are better walkways from the metro station or more buses so in good weather we would not even need a cab,” said Ms Dev.
“Anything that reduces how much we pay on taxis is a good move.”
Referring to Uber’s partnership with the Dubai Taxi Corporation, Mr Khoury said the company would work to bring innovative solutions and grow the city’s smart mobility systems.
“Studies conducted in North America and Europe show that ridesharing companies reduce vehicle reliance and increase public transport use, which reduces congestion, and in this short time we are already seeing the potential for this to happen right here in Dubai,” he said.
When the pilot service was announced in April, Abdulla Yousef Al Ali, chief executive of the RTA’s public transport agency described it as encouraging news.
The RTA aimed to expand the integration of public transport, including metro, tram, public buses and marine transport, he said, adding that the low-cost Uber was part of smart mobility plans.
“Smart mobility is a key pillar of every smart city and the provision of economic solutions is an integral element of smart mobility. The pilot will offer an affordable option for residents to move around Dubai and encourage a larger pool of people to reconsider car ownership, instead opting for more convenient and efficient transport solutions, which we believe would translate to a happier city,” he said.
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Concerns Remain Over New Bird Flu Rules for Free Range Producers
Genetics and breeding Free range Poultry welfare Poultry health
by Alice Mitchell
UK - Farming organisations have reacted with relief to the new rules proposed by the government to deal with bird flu, which should preserve free range status for many egg producers around the country.
If housing orders in place to prevent bird flu had continued beyond the end of February, poultry products could no longer have been labelled free range across the country, under EU rules. The proposed changes allow birds outside under certain conditions in most of the country, although those in high risk areas will still have to be housed or have ranges covered with netting.
High risk areas will include those near the coast or large bodies of water, and farming organisations still have concerns about producers in these areas.
The British Free Range Egg Producers Association says its priority is now to help those producers who are in the High Risk Area to overcome the challenge of temporarily losing their free range status.
Chief Executive Robert Gooch said: “Our members have coped fantastically with the unprecedented challenge of housing their birds.
“But there are those producers in the High Risk Area who will be forced to continue to house birds. They face the prospect of their eggs being downgraded which we estimate to cost businesses at least 20p per dozen.
“At this stage we are unsure of the exact number of producers that are going to have to continue to house their flocks, but BFREPA is already working with the government, packers, retailers and industry to find solutions for these producers and will continue to do so.”
Free range producers have placed additional enrichments in sheds to keep birds entertained, but labour and feed costs in some instances have increased. BFREPA said producers would be relieved to get birds outside again.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) President Meurig Raymond said: “Free-range poultry producers now face significant threats to their businesses after Defra’s introduction of Higher Risk Areas. The affected producers will now lose free-range status from 1 March and this will have a considerable effect on the supply chain."
He added: “The NFU has concerns over the complexity that this system brings to the supply chain but the lifting of the housing order will be welcome news to producers outside Higher Risk Areas. Producers should assess the risk of AI on their farms appropriately before allowing their birds into the range area.
“We will be working with all free-range producers to ensure that they are as prepared as possible when new changes come into place.”
Meanwhile, the British Veterinary Association (BVA) and British Veterinary Poultry Association (BVPA) said: “These measures, informed by the best scientific evidence available in what is a complex situation, are sensible and proportionate.
"We know that for farmers and bird keepers in the Higher Risk Areas this will not be the news they were hoping for but it is vital that these important precautions are taken to protect the health of birds."
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PORT ST. LUCIE — Following a tough day at the plate Monday where he went 0 for 2 with two strikeouts, Tim Tebow had a better approach in the batter's box on Tuesday.
Tebow went 2 for 3, both singles, and scored a run during a three inning New York Mets Florida Instructional League simulated game.
Tebow ended the game with a running catch in left field, fully extending himself making the grab with his backhand before falling to the ground.
It was another step for Tebow’s ongoing development under the direction of New York Mets minor league coordinator Kevin Morgan.
"I honestly feel like everyday (I'm) getting a little more comfortable,” Tebow said. “Just being able to see live pitches and (have) live at-bats just every approach everyday, all the work that we're putting in and just getting a bit better everyday.
"That's the goal."
Tebow was slotted in the No. 2 spot in the lineup and his first at-bat mirrored the two he had Monday. On a 1-2 count facing pitcher Marcos Molina, Tebow swung through a 91 mph fastball.
His second at-bat against Molina was better.
Tebow hit a 92 mph fastball over diving shortstop Hansel Moreno for a hit.
After advancing to second base, Tebow attempted to steal third, but the batter swung and hit and infield ground that Moreno made a bad throw to second base.
Tebow's instincts took over from there and he scored.
“Something that everyone has been talking about is when you're on the base paths you want to put pressure on them,” Tebow said. “Make the defense throw us out.”
His third at-bat was his best. Against pitcher Cameron Planck, Tebow ripped a 93 mph fastball to left field to load the bases.
He reached second base before the half-inning ended.
Tebow recorded two putouts in the bottom of the third inning, including that back-hand catch to end the simulated game.
Wednesday will be a different test for Tebow. It will be the first time he will face pitchers from another team as the Mets will be hosting the St. Louis Cardinals’ instructional league team at noon on Field 7 at the Tradition Field Complex.
"It's not like I've ever seen these guys before, either,” Tebow joked. “It’ll be fun. I think everybody's excited about it just getting to play against another team and compete. But we've been competing everyday, so I think it's one more day, one more opportunity and you just want to get a little bit better with it."
Preparation has been key for Tebow since arriving in Port St. Lucie last week. He says he won’t be doing anything out of the ordinary going into the matchup with the Cardinals.
“You don't want to change anything,” Tebow said. “You don't want to make a game day bigger than other days. Consistency is the key and being able to show up and work on the same things."
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3 Ways To Use Vine In The Project-Based Learning Classroom
June 13, 2013 - Updated on February 23, 2020
ed note: As of 2017, Vine has been shutdown and its content archived
Project-based learning (PBL) — an educational approach in which students work together to solve real-world problems — is redefining how many kids learn. Vine, a social video app purchased by Twitter, is growing in popularity — and fast. What happens when the two collide? PBL teachers across the country intend to find out.
What Is Vine?
Recently we took a more general look at Vine in the classroom, but in short, Vine is video’s answer to the popular photo-sharing app Instagram, with a bit of tumblr and twitter thrown in.
This deceptively simple application allows users to capture and share six-second video clips–rather than pure gif animations–through social media. This short window might sound like a detriment to some, but is actually what makes Vine such a powerful creative tool: Users must consider how they will capture, edit and share content in a way that conveys their intended messages. The results can be stunning, and in the right hands, surprisingly effective means of communication.
This is precisely some teachers have adopted Vine as an educational tool, especially in the PBL classroom.
1. Simple how-to videos
Depending on how it is used, Vine can produce videos that play more like mini stop-motion films.
This approach lends itself well to simple how-to videos. When teachers ask students to create such videos, they are really inviting students to learn, internalize and relay information in a way others can understand. It also serves as an easy means of review days, months or even years down the line. This student-created Vine teaches viewers how to create a garden starter with a recycled water bottle, and is an excellent example of PBL and Vine in action.
2. Historical works, remixed
English and drama teacher Jodie Morgenson had a problem: Her students were so bored or put off by Shakespearean language that they seemed to disengage from the works entirely. Vine helped chang everything.
Morgenson asked her students to choose a favorite character from Macbeth, become that character (costumes encouraged), and then deliver that line via Vine. The results were fun, creative, and — best of all — made Shakespeare relevant and accessible to a new generation of students. You can see some of those Vines on Morgenson’s blog.
3. Science: in (and out) of the lab
The White House’s first Vine was not a major policy announcement or political statement — it was an educational message from its annual science fair. It fits: Vine and science are a natural pair. Science is a process of trial and error — a notion that PBL applies across all disciplines — and while written lab notes important, they are limited and do little for visual learners. Vine, on the other hand, lets students easily capture their experiments, analyze the data and relay what went right — and what didn’t.
Check out this student-created Vine to see this concept in action.
Get Started With Vine
These projects represent just a few of the ways Vine and PBL can work together in the modern classroom. With a little creativity, teachers can leverage Vine in a myriad of ways, and in virtually any discipline. You have to understand Vine before you can teach your students how to make the most of it, however, there are a number of online resources that can help you get started, including some amusing lessons from author and Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman.
As with most PBL projects, however, the best way to learn may be to just get your metaphorical hands dirty and create some Vines.
Why not create your own Vine to introduce a project, relay an important classroom procedure or demonstrate a key concept from your curriculum? Download Vine on your iPhone or Android device, and then share your experiments with others.
Aimee Hosler is a writer and mother of two living in Virginia. She specializes in a number of topics, but is particularly passionate about education and workplace news and trends. She hold a B.S. in Journalism from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo; image attribution flickr user flickeringbrad and nwabar teachers
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Home Applications Best 26 Photoshop Alternatives from Around the Web
Best 26 Photoshop Alternatives from Around the Web
Adobe Photoshop may be a powerful photo editing software that is still an industry leader for over 28 years. The word ‘Photoshop’ became a verb meaning polish, or to retouch something to form, and it looks perfect.
Photoshop Alternatives has plenty of useful features that allow you to crop and resize images, retouch a photograph, refine the sting of objects, remove unnecessary items from a photograph, and far more. But, at an equivalent time, these features make Photoshop a sophisticated system at a high price. If you would like software with some basic features for your startup, then Photoshop isn’t the proper solution for you.
Check out these 26 Photoshop Alternatives that allowed you to figure together with your graphics online or on the smartphone, do some basic photo-cropping as complicated editing. A number of these Photoshop tools are web-based so that you’ll use them on any system, but a number of them are available just for Mac OS or Windows. Scroll down and choose the most straightforward suitable Photoshop alternatives for you.
1. Affinity Photo
4. Acorn
6. Pixelmator
7. Sketch
8. GIMP
9. Corel Photo-Paint
10. Photo Pos
11. SumoPaint
12. Fotor
13. Photoshop Express
14. Krita
15. PhotoLine
16. Ribbet
17. BeFunky
18. Pizap
19. Luminar
20. Photolemur
22. Paint.net
23. Venngage
24. Placeit.net
25. Visme
26. Design Wizard
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Affinity Photo is perhaps one of the first powerful Photoshop alternatives thus far. The software is aimed at photographers and professional designers. It works without a subscription. Besides, Affinity Photo is far cheaper than Photoshop. Initially, this tool was created for Mac OS, but now it’s available on Windows.
Platform: Mac, Windows, iPad
Pricing: £48.99/$49.99 (one-off payment)
With PicMonkey you don’t need to worry about software comparability because it’s a web-based tool. Photoshop Alternatives features an upscale font tool and layers, a bit like Photoshop. But do not expect it to be as powerful as Photoshop; it’s going to respond slowly from time to time and can’t export images unless you’re a professional user.
Platform: available Online, mobile app
Cost: Free; Basic $7.99/mo; Pro $12.99/mo
Canva differs from Photoshop, but it’s a well-liked useful gizmo to make various designs. They provide free templates for social media, for instance, Pinterest, Instagram, and Youtube, along with different side postcards and business cards.
In a few clicks, you’ll modify these templates, add your text, images, and shapes. Canva may be free online software that you simply also can use on your mobile device. All of your designs are stored at your account, and you’ll always revisit them. They also offer a premium version with extended features.
Platform: Online, mobile apps
Cost: Free or $12.95USD per month
Acorn was designed in 2007; since that point; it had been a budget Photoshop alternatives with many similar features.
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Use blending layers, modes, filters, effects, and curves in Acorn. With the newest version of Acorn, you’ll transform objects and clone across segments.
Pixlr is another free Photoshop alternatives app with quite 600 effects and borders. It gives you the capability to try to everything you’ll do with a standard photo editor, like photo resizing, cropping, teeth whitening, and more.
The interface is sort of almost like Photoshop so that it might be easy to select up with the tools. Use it on a mobile or online. But Pixlr has no pen tool, and it’s not as flexible as Photoshop Alternatives.
Platform: Web
Pricing: Free; Pro version at $5/month
Pixelmator has been around for a short time. Recently they released Pixelmator Pro with one page. UI that permits you to figure together with your file without distractions. It’ll be beneficial for Mac users, but users of other systems may find the interface not as comfortable.
Pricing: 30-day free trial available; $60
Sketch has made a buzz in designers; community latest year. This software features a simple interface and tons of features, almost like Photoshop and Illustrator, like gradient, layers, and color picker.
With numerous Sketch plugins, you’ll dramatically increase its functionality.
Pricing: $99/year
GIMP is an open-source, free device available for Mac, Windows, and even Linux users. If you’ve got a coffee budget and are trying to find free software, almost like Photoshop, GIMP may be a perfect solution.
Their interface looks almost like Photoshop that creates it more comfortable to modify to the present tool quickly. You’ll work with popular file formats, make selections, cloning, and painting using GIMP.
Platform: Windows, macOS, Linux
Pricing: Free
Corel Photo-Paint maybe a photo editor from CorelDraw. It can assist you to regulate perspective or straighten your image. It supports stylus control that reacts to different pressure that’s impressive. If you employ drawing tablets for photo editing, Corel Photo-Paint is the right device for you. For Windows users; this software also supports multi-monitor viewing.
Cost: $599.99 / £599.99 (entire CorelDRAW Graphics Suite) or go for free
Photo Pos maybe a photo editing software that gives interfaces for both newbie and advanced users. With a novice interface, you’ll apply one-click filters and adjustments. If you’re a complicated user, Photo Pos interface is far almost like Photoshop, and you’ll intuitively know what to try to to.
Just like in Photoshop, you’ll use layers and layer masks, also as clone and brush device. Import to photos directly from your camera because Photo Pos supports Camera RAW files.
cost: Free; $29.90
SumoPaint may be a great alternative that’s much simpler than Photoshop alternatives. It provides tons of tools and effects. Sumopaint is online software that you simply can use on any device, whether it’s Mac OS or Windows. It’s a cropping and resizing tools also as layers and blending modes for much more complicated designs.
Sumopaint will cover most of the photos editing features but their interface is sort of outdated comparing to modern standards.
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Platform: Online
Fotor is a web photo editor, almost like Photoshop and Canva. It provides tons of templates that you simply can edit, including Facebook covers, posters, photo cards, banners, and more.
But to use and edit these templates, you would like to buy the subscription. Fotor also allows you to select photos, create collages, and retouch portraits.
Platform: Online, Mac OS, Windows, app
Pricing: $8.99 per month
Photoshop Express may be a free version of Adobe Photoshop. It allows you to try some necessary things, like cropping and rotating pictures, but also work with Camera RAW files and edit text. You’ll use this Photoshop alternatives app on your smartphone, tablet, and desktop.
Krita may be a free feature-rich tool with many similar settings to Photoshop alternatives. It’s and seems like Photoshop once you see the interface. You’ll open many images directly, work with layers, and it also features a dark theme by default.
It is free software, but there’s also a premium version for developers. Krita supports drawing tablets and has many effects, but it’s no history and Camera RAW filter.
Pricing: Free, open-source
PhotoLine is a picture editing device with a feature-rich, easy to use interface. It supports blending modes, guides, layers, and rules. Besides, you’ll use a bunch of high filters and effects. The apps also allow you to draw vector shapes that make it an Illustrator, Photoshop alternative.
It offers 30 days free test period, but then, you’ve got to pay $67. The disadvantages may be a lack of a pen tool, slice tool, and a patch tool.
Platform: Windows, Mac
Pricing: 59 Euro
Ribbet maybe a photo editor with necessary adjustments and thousands of beautiful filters. With their help, you’ll create different collages and ‘fancy cards’ for social media and web. You’ll crop, resize, and rotate images and fine-tune your leads to only one click.
Platform: Mac OS, iPad, iPhone, and Android.
Cost: Premium subscriptions for $4.95/month, $19.95/six months ($3.33/month), or $29.95/year ($2.50/month)
BeFunky may be a quick and straightforward online photo editing tool. You’ll open the editor and drop a photograph you would like to edit. Then, you’ll crop, resize, or rotate the image.
Also, change clarity, vibrancy, and glow with ease using BeFunky. Just in case you would like to exchange background or color, you would like to upgrade your account to Pro version.
Platform: Online editor that works on any systems
Cost: $6.99/mo or $4.99/mo billed annually
Use PiZap to form all necessary changes to your photos, like cropping, changing contrast or exposure, adding borders, and text. You’ll select one among many sources and import a photograph from the computer, Dropbox, or Google Drive. first Test it using seven days of a free trial.
Platform: iPhone, Mac OS, Windows, Android, Linux
Cost: Annual Plan – $2.99/month (billed yearly $35.88, save 50%) 7-day free trial. Monthly Plan – $5.99/month seven days of the free trial.
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Luminar allows you to regulate your photos in no time and organize your photo library. It combines your pictures in the order that the library is straightforward to navigate. There are many features, like AI Sky Enhancers, Dehaze, and Advanced Contrast, to call a couple of. Luminar offers 30 days free trial.
Platform: Mac & PC
Pricing: $70 with 60 days money-back guarantee
Using Photolemur, you’ll enhance your images in only a couple of clicks. After you import your images into the Photoshop Alternatives app, it’ll do all the dirty jobs automatically. You’ll use a free version, but once you export images, they’re going to have Photolemur watermark. The software is out there for both Mac and Windows users.
Pricing: Free; $35
21. PaintShop Pro
If you’re trying to find a tool cheaper than Photoshop Alternatives, choose PaintShop Pro. Of course, it lacks several of Photoshop’s most advanced features. However, it offers far more . for instance, it’s instant effects and screenshot tools, which Photoshop doesn’t have.
Platform: Windows 10
Pricing: $98
Paint.net was just a natural replacement for popular Microsoft Paint. However, it added new features, like multiple layers and more advanced photo editing tools.
Venngage may be a Photoshop alternative for non-designers you’ll access anywhere. This drag and drop online design device is made for design newbies. Access many business-focused templates and create social media graphics, logos, infographics, reports, presentations, and far more using the intuitive editor.
Platform: Online Editor
Cost: Free, $19 and up per month for premium templates and features.
With Placeit.net, you’ll create high-quality branding and marketing assets for your business. With their extensive selection of design templates, you’ll make a logo for your company or mockups to showcase your merchandise or maybe videos for your social media platforms. Anyone from individuals to big companies can create amazing visual assets for their brand; no matter technical or artistic skills.
Platform: Windows, iPad
Cost: $29.00 per month for unlimited mockup, logo, design, and video downloads.
Visme may be a powerful graphic design tool that permits marketers, business owners, educators, and other professionals to quickly and simply create beautiful content. Whether it is a social media graphic; a presentation, an infographic, a report; or another sort of document, Visme has the templates and, therefore, the design elements to form your content attractive and exciting.
Platform: Mac, Windows.
Pricing: Ranging from $29/Month
Design Wizard is powerful graphic design software for creating high-quality images and videos. The free features allowed you to resize your designs and make custom color palettes. You’ll also upload fonts, photos, and logos on the professional plan. It’s a library of over 1 million premium images, thousands of high-quality videos, graphics, illustrations, and more.
Every video and images have also been licensed for commercial use!
Cost: start for free of charge, with paid plans starting at $9.99 a month.
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How To Change App Icons On Android
byChevaugn Powell
Are you looking for a way to change app icons on Android? Since one of the coolest things about Android smartphones is the different levels of customization it offers to the users, I think boredom is the last thing that an Android user can experience. New layouts, fun backgrounds and a variety of icons can give your phone a new look every time you get bored of the current one. So if you have recently started to feel like your app icons are not fun enough then try one of the given methods that explain how to change app icons on Android phone.
See also: How to set up a new Android phone or tablet
Ways To Change App Icon On Android
There are two ways in which you can change Android icons. The first method is to use a launcher while the second one is to use a standalone icon pack. Both of these methods do not require your phone to be rooted.
Method 1: Using a Launcher
There are quite a few launchers available on the Play store which you can choose from. Check the ratings and look for feedback to make sure you pick a launcher that works well and is suitable for your device. Once you pick the launcher you want to use on your phone, simply download and install the launcher.
After the launcher is installed, you will automatically be asked if you would like to start using the launcher when you press the home button. Choose the launcher as the default, and depending on the launcher you are using, you may be prompted with further steps to customize your screens.
Users who have been using a launcher before as well will be able to import the settings of their previous launcher, or else, you may need to spend some time to bring the different widgets and apps you use to your home screen.
Some launchers like Nova Launcher will even allow you to pick an image from your gallery for your app icon. With such amazing levels of flexibility in changing the app icons, you can continually assign your apps new icons either from images from your gallery or by using different launchers.
Launchers bring with them a spectrum of wallpapers, themes and app icons which can dress up your device the way you want it to be. Some of them may contain ads but they work well especially if you are a person who enjoys exploring variety when it comes to the way their phone looks.
Method 2: Using an App
Some of our readers do not find themselves to be comfortable using a launcher. But they do not mind changing the app icons to give their phones a fresh new look. In a situation like this, an app is a good way to change the app icons without changing the skin of your phone by using a launcher. Apps like Awesome Icons and Icon Changer are known to be user-friendly apps which can help you in changing Android icons.
Depending on the app, the steps for using it will vary. But for most of the apps that help in changing app icons, once the app is downloaded and installed, you must click on the app to open it and then choose the apps for which you want to change the icons. Some apps may even allow you to rename the app. This can be a fun way of giving your phone a new look.
It can also help in keeping prying eyes away from your phone, especially when you rename your banking apps or if you happen to be using adult apps, you can rename the app and change the icon and it is easier to use your phone without others knowing which apps are installed on your device.
Use these two methods to customize app icons so that you can give your phone a new look. Not only does it make Android interesting, it also ensures that you do not get tired looking at the same set of app icons on your phone. You can change the icon on your device as often as you like with these methods. Both of these methods can be used on phones without the need to root your device or by having a deep technical know-how of smartphones.
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Using the novel genome editing technique, CRISPR, a team of researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute have isolated the genes involved in regulating T helper cell activation. The study, conducted in mice using T helper type 2 (Th2) cell lines, was recently published in the journal Cell.
The immune system is the body’s protection mechanism against infectious organisms and foreign invaders. T cells are central players in determining a successful outcome in response to such organisms, and therefore the ability to manipulate and even enhance their activation has a wide spread application in the field of medicine.
In order to provide the appropriate immune response, T helper cells must differentiate into one of two subtypes, T helper 1 (Th1) and T helper 2 (Th2). “Until now, there has been no systematic understanding of T cell activation and differentiation, processes which are crucial for the immune system.” explains Sarah Teichmann, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and senior author of the paper.
Why has determining the processes underlying T cell differentiation proven so challenging up until now? "In the past, immunologists have been investigating Th2 mostly one gene at time.” comments Xi Chen, joint first author from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, in a recent press release. CRISPR technology enables scientists to target and cut a cell’s genome at a desired location, providing the unique opportunity to remove and explore the role of all the specific genes within one cell. “In this study, we developed a new retroviral CRISPR library, which has enabled us to efficiently knock-out each individual gene in mouse T helper cells for the first time.”, Chen adds.
The research team created a genome-wide CRISPR library of 88,000 guides, enabling them to effectively regulate each of the 20,000 genes in mouse Th2 cells. They then subjected the cultured Th2 cells to a mimicked infection and observed the response when switching off individual genes. Their findings highlight a variety of genes involved in regulating Th2 development, both verifying the role of those recognized in previous work, and identifying novel factors, such as Pparg and Bhlhe40.
“The actual screening was carried out in just 6 months. This technology can now be used to investigate other targets very efficiently.” says Teichmann. Thus, in addition to fulfilling their research aim of exploring immune system regulation, the scientists have further refined the experimental processes in CRISPR methods.
Teichmann adds that there are plans to continue this work beyond the scope of animal models and in a variety of cell types. “My current team has now mainly focused on human studies. Henriksson will be using this technology to model how T cells (not just Th2) behave during immune response in different infection models. Chen will utilize this library to combine CRISPR screening with single cell ATAC-seq to study key factors that affect chromatin accessibility during cellular differentiation.”
Sarah Teichmann was speaking to Molly Campbell, Science Writer for Technology Networks.
Henriksson, J., Chen, X., Gomes, T., Ullah, U., Meyer, K., Miragaia, R., Duddy, G., Pramanik, J., Yusa, K., Lahesmaa, R. and Teichmann, S. (2019). Genome-wide CRISPR Screens in T Helper Cells Reveal Pervasive Crosstalk between Activation and Differentiation. Cell. DOI:https://doi:10.1016/j.cell.2018.11.044.
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Avengers: Infinity War: 15 important details you may have missed
Thor and Rocket Racoon in Avengers: Infinity War
Rebecca Hawkes
1 May 2018 • 8:20am
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Warning: contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War
Loved Avengers: Infinity War but still have a horde of questions? You’re not the only one. Found yourself so overcome by emotion you fainted during the final scenes and missed some of the details? Again, you’re also not the only one: some fans have reportedly passed out in cinemas, so overcome were they by that crushing ending.
Even for those of us who managed to stay conscious, the impact was still a fairly devastating one – and the Twitter reaction to the Marvel film’s final twist, in which villain Thanos achieves his goal of wiping out half the universe, has been understandably intense.
Either way, if you’re recovered enough to handle a revisit, here’s a round-up of all the significant little details from the film that left us scratching our heads – or at least wildly speculating as to what they might mean. Some have an explanation; others, alas, remain a mystery. Either way, don’t rush in if you haven’t yet seen Infinity War: this piece is (necessarily) packed with spoilers.
1. Thanos may have been holding back
Just how strong is Thanos? And why wasn’t he able to easily defeat the likes of Tony Stark in combat, especially once he had four of the stones in his grasp? There’s a few possible answers to this, but perhaps the most plausible explanation is that, while Thanos was focused on getting the Time Stone, he didn’t actually want to kill Tony Stark – or any of the other heroes he was battling – if he could possibly avoid it. His threat to do so, right at the end, was more about persuading Strange to give him the stone than about any desire for a vengeful individual kill.
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Our mauve-hued mega villain, after all, had spent his life obsessing about a fair, clean cull, in which half the life in the universe would be wiped out at random. To him, the “at random” part of this was immensely important. The comic book incarnation of the character may have a slightly different take on death (more on that later) – but big-screen Thanos is scrupulously fair in his fanaticism. Killing enemies ahead of time would have been less satisfying to him than instigating his deadly click, and he may have therefore chosen not to obliterate Quill, Nebula, Stark, Peter Parker, Mantis, Drax and Doctor Strange before he was ready (Stark and Nebula, of course, survive the mass-obliteration).
It’s also worth noting that, at this point, Thanos was being attacked on all sides, distracted and gradually worn down as the team battled to relieve him of his gauntlet. We saw, at the beginning of the movie, that he was able to easily take down the super-strong Hulk when battling him one-on-one . But, if we accept that Thanos was reluctant to kill without having to, and focused more on getting the stone rather than wiping everyone out, then the fact that our heroes could temporarily hold their own during the fight on Titan makes sense.
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2. Stark’s suit was significant
Stark’s humanity – his strength comes not from supernatural superpowers but from his own ingenuity – has been a key theme throughout the movies. It’s therefore worth noting that it was his latest suit, identified by fans before Infinity War came out as a version of the comic books’ Bleeding Edge armour, which enabled him to take on a stone-wielding Thanos (presumably the most powerful being in the universe).
Iron Man on Titan Credit: Disney-Marvel
The suit uses nanorobots to instantly transform Stark into a plated hero – and, until his defeat, even enabled him to make a bit of a dent in our big big bad. Yes, the super-strong Titan may have been holding out a little, and still triumphed over Stark and others in the end.
But showing us that the fight wasn’t absolutely hopeless was important: it implies there’s a chance Thanos could still be beaten in the fourth Avengers movie. (And let’s face it: after that masterful but harrowing ending, the good guys really do need to win next time round.)
3. Red Skull’s outfit may have had a double meaning
The surprise cameo was a neat twist – and suggests the character has been trapped for years as the guardian of the soul stone. According to some fans, however, his shroud-like choice of garb may have been a clever nod to the comic book Infinity War story in which Thanos is in love with Marvel’s Mistress Death, the physical – and very female – embodiment of the big finish.
Marvel's Mistress Death
While the film does away with this plotline, instead imbuing Thanos with a fanatical passion for death as a means of survival, the appearance of Red Skull in the film recalls some of the death imagery from the comic books – even if he isn’t quite as alluring as his on-page counterpart (allowing for tastes, of course).
Thematically, too, such a link would be important, as it reminds us of comic book Thanos’s capacity for love. The big-screen version of the character, we might have previously assumed, was a colder creature by far, incapable of experiencing the emotion – but, as the super-sad Gamora twist went on to prove, we’d have been wrong.
4. Strange’s final words were very important
Most fans have already deduced that, when Doctor Strange chose to trade the Time Stone for Stark’s life, he wasn’t having a sudden attack of sentimentality. Oh no. Instead, he’d presumably seen something important, during his super-speedy all-possible-futures browse, and had identified that the one reality in which things worked out okay would involve Stark staying alive. All this was clearly signposted by his final words, “Sorry Tony, it was the only way”.
Interestingly, however, there’s been some disagreement as to whether or not Strange was also pleading with Thanos to spare Stark when it came to his big wipe-out. While some fans have suggested this could be the case, the idea that Thanos would have any control over who might live and who might die once he clicked his fingers would be a huge betrayal of his underlying ethos.
Yes, his principles are extremely warped – but Thanos does still have principles, and absolute fairness is one of them. A more likely explanation is that, in the version of events which Strange foresaw and chose to follow – the version in which Stark was spared by Thanos in exchange for the Time Stone – Stark also happened to survive the massacre.
5. Strange may have seen that Stark will be the one to finally topple Thanos
This isn’t necessarily the case, of course – but Strange’s decision does suggest that, whatever the ultimate outcome of the Thanos story may be, Iron Man will be at the heart of it. Will Stark survive Avengers 4? It’s hard to say – but the apology aspect of Strange’s last words implies that he may have seen a particularly tough future in store for the surviving Avenger. It’s also been noted by several fans (and confirmed by cast and director interviews) that Stark seems to have a unique bond with Thanos.
He claims that the tyrant has been “in his head for six years”, presumably referencing his experiences in the first Avengers movie and his devastating vision in Age of Ultron – and later on, Thanos himself recognises and acknowledges Stark as a worthy adversary, telling him that he isn’t the only one to “share in knowledge”.
Josh Brolin as Thanos
Some fans have speculated that Stark will have to make a final noble sacrifice, while others have wondered if he’ll perhaps do something important technology-wise, creating a weapon or suit that will enable someone else to take on the Titan. It seems likely, after all, that Shuri – super-talented sister of the Black Panther – is still alive, given that we didn’t witness her on-screen death during the mass snuffing-out scene. Combining her skills with Stark’s could lead to some formidable developments.
Nebula, too, survived the mighty cull – and, seeing as she’s already part-robot, it could be interesting to see what the combined talents of Stark and Shuri might be able to do for her. On a thematic and emotional level, it’d also be fitting if Thanos were finally defeated by his shunned surviving daughter.
6. Vision could still come back
While we’re on the subject of Shuri and her skills, it’s also worth noting that, while she didn’t have time to complete her stone-extraction operation in the film, the work she did on Vision may still have had an impact. After all that discussion about how Vision is more than just the Mind Stone – he’s essentially a composite of several different people and influences, including Stark’s old AI JARVIS – it seems likely that the character, apparently killed off by Thanos, might still make a return, at least in some form or another.
Paul Bettany as Vision
Shuri’s operation, after all, seems to have centred around the need to reroute some of the neurons in Vision’s head, bypassing the stone. Any progress she did make, even if incomplete, may still have allowed some of Vision to survive, in some form. It’s also possible that the character may have worked out a way to save himself. As pointed out by The Wrap, he did (as JARVIS) manage to do something similar once before, effectively hiding himself from Ultron by uploading parts of his consciousness to the internet.
7. The young Gamora massacre scene foreshadowed the character’s death
Flashbacks showed us Thanos’s history with Gamora, slowly revealing how the tenderness he felt for the young girl was at odds with his otherwise ruthless nature. He was moved, it seems, by her bravery, and by the guileless trust she placed in him, unknowingly turning to him for comfort as her family and others were executed en-masse behind her. It was a truly chilling sequence. Gamora, we know from previous Guardians films, is the very last of her people, the green-skinned Zenwhoberi – and would only have realised the full extent of her father figure’s betrayal as she grew older.
Zoe Saldana as Gamora
But there was also a grim symmetry to the way in which Thanos, initially moved to spare Gamora from his mass-slaughter, was later forced to sacrifice his adopted daughter – to enable his final massacre. The one person he chose to save would also later become one of his few deliberate murder.
8. Thanos’s final vision of young Gamora might also be significant
In Infinity War, the Soul Stone was important as one of the six stones needed to complete the gauntlet but we never really got a proper look at what it actually does as a single entity (compared, for instance, to the trippy Reality Stone). But in the Marvel comic books, the Soul Stone traps souls – and some fans think that the spirit of Gamora, sacrificed by Thanos in order to retrieve the stone, may still be somehow held inside it, in a special dimension.
It’s even been suggested that the final glimpse of young Gamora in the film isn’t just a representation of Thanos’s conflicted emotions, combining with his memories at his ultimate moment, but an indication of the connection he now has, through the stone, to Gamora’s soul.
9. Thor, alas, may not have taken an elective in Groot at college after all
We like to think he did. I mean – we’d happily go back to school if learning Groot were an option. But while the throwaway line was one of our favourite quips from the film, some fans have pointed out that comic book Thor, like many Marvel characters, is gifted with “Allspeak” – meaning that he is magically able to understand all languages in the Marvel universe, and that his words will be automatically heard by others in their own language.
Chris Hemsworth as Thor
10. Nebula’s memory replay function could crucial
At the time, we were too distracted by the drama – and by the Thanos-related-threat – to really think about just how important this revelation was. But Nebula’s ability to replay memories, word for word, could prove vitally important in the next Avengers movies. The tortured cyborg and unloved adopted daughter of Thanos spent most of her life with our key villain, after all – and who knows what important information and details she may have unwittingly retained?
11. Some of the other Asgardians are still missing
After all the chaos and drama of Infinity War’s opening scenes, and the dramatic deaths of Loki and Heimdall, it was easy to forget that some of the other Asgardians – last seen at the end of Thor: Ragnarok – are still unaccounted for. (Where, for instance, is Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie?) We didn’t see them disintegrate during those emotional final moments, meaning that some characters may yet crop up in future films.
Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie (centre) in Thor: Ragnarok
12. Thanos’s gauntlet seems to be out of action for now
The act of using the gauntlet to wipe out half the universe may have busted the device itself, if our final glimpse of it is anything to go by – but this doesn’t necessarily mean that Thanos’s command of the six stones is at an end. He may be able to fix the gauntlet – or possibly even combine the stones in a new way. Even so, the decision to show the apparently-destroyed glove feels important. If the film-makers were determined to leave Thanos in full control of the stones, then there was no real reason to show the gauntlet’s destruction at all. It’s a magical object, after all: we’d have accepted its magical survival.
Thanos with the gauntlet
Instead, focusing on the burned-out device felt like a way of emphasising the fact that Thanos’s work is now done, his life’s ambitions achieved. His future plans, we suspect, will likely centre around guarding the stones rather than using them – ensuring that no one else will take them to reverse his work. Logically speaking, his best bet might even be to destroy them, if he can – especially the Time Stone.
13. The scene with the abandoned forges has confused many – but it all makes sense, just about
It’s been described as a plot hole – but the moment in which Thor sees that the dwarves of Nidavellir were forced to create Thanos’s Infinity Gauntlet isn’t too problematic, as long as you account for a bit of a longer timeline than the film implies, and a bit of a blind spot on the part of Asgard. The dwarves, sole survivor Eitri reveals, were made to create the gauntlet before being massacred by Thanos – and Eitri himself has since been mutilated, to ensure he can never make another.
Eitri, as seen in the Marvel comics Credit: Marvel
Some fans have argued that this scene implies that the creation of the gauntlet happened relatively recently – and that this is incompatible with glimpses we have of Thanos with the gauntlet back in Age of Ultron. But it’s still just about conceivable that the Nidavellir massacre took place around the same time as the events of Ultron, with Asgard mysteriously not cottoning on at the time.
Either way, it’s important to note that the gauntlet, in contrast to what many of us previously guessed, is no ancient artefact. Instead, it’s something Thanos had made – and therefore, presumably, something that someone might be able to recreate in the future. With the original apparently destroyed, this feels important.
At least one spare gauntlet, of course, has already cropped up in the MCU – although it was finally revealed as a fake in Thor: Ragnarok.
14. There’s an explanation for why tech king Tony Stark has such a terrible phone
Okay, so those with a good memory will probably already have twigged this – but, just in case you were wondering, there’s a good reason Stark pulls out a super-dated flip phone when planning to contact his former friend Captain America near the beginning of the film. The disposable phone, pre-programmed with Steve Rogers’s number, was sent to Stark by the Cap at the end of Captain America: Civil War – and this is the first time he’s contemplated using it since.
15. The confusing Homecoming timeline problem is still confusing
If Thanos has been in Tony Stark’s head “for six years” at the time of Infinity War, but Spider-Man Homecoming is set eight years after the events of The Avengers (according to the film itself) and The Avengers is set in 2012, and Infinity War is set in 2018, then that means… nope, we’re still confused.
Perhaps the best thing to do is to not ascribe exact dates to all the MCU movies. It’s clear, after all, that Homecoming is supposed to take place before Infinity War – and that Homecoming certainly isn’t meant to be set in 2020, in the future. According to Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, a certain amount of generosity and leniency is required when thinking about the MCU timeline – especially when it comes to that confusing “eight years later” Homecoming reference. As far as Marvel is concerned, Infinity War takes place more or less in 2018, the year of its release, and future and past films can slot in around it as needed. And that's that.
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Tennessee Broadband Association featured House Majority Leader William Lamberth in the latest episode of “Lead Tennessee Radio.”
Rep. Lamberth, R-Portland, serves a portion of Sumner County and sits on a number of committees, including the Judiciary Committee; Finance, Ways, & Means Committee; Government Operations Committee; Select Committee on Rules; Select Committee on Ethics; and a number of subcommittees.
During the podcast, TNBA government affairs team member Kim Adkins asked Lamberth about the impact his rural upbringing had on his decision to seek political office. Lamberth also discussed broadband’s impact on rural development and how broadband can improve access to health care in rural Tennessee.
State Representative William Lamberth, left, is interviewed by Kim Adkins for Lead Tennessee Radio.
Lamberth, an attorney, lives in Portland, Tennessee, with his wife and two children. He is chairman of the Portland Community Education Foundation and a board member of Children are People. He is the former president of the Gallatin Rotary Club and a member of the Chambers of Commerce in Portland, Hendersonville, Gallatin and Westmoreland.
“Lead Tennessee Radio” is produced by the Tennessee Broadband Association. The podcast is an opportunity to hear state leaders discuss issues facing the Volunteer State. Previous episodes feature Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge.
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Tennis Magazine launches iPad app
Australian Tennis Magazine has made its mark in the digital sphere by launching its official iPad application.
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In a worldwide first, the magazine will give fans the opportunity to access latest issues online and continues the publication’s 35-year history of being the source of information for all Australian and international tennis enthusiasts.
The application is free to download and includes a complimentary version of this year’s summer issue, with the July, August and September issues available for purchase for only AUD $1.99.
Editor of Australian Tennis Magazine Vivienne Christie said the application ensured that content could be easily navigated and readily accessible for readers.
“Tennis fans all over the world expect up to date information to be made available to them at all times regardless of their current location or time zone,” Christie said.
“The most rewarding aspect of the application is the high quality reproduction of content that is not available in print format.
“To the best of our knowledge, Australian Tennis Magazine is the first specialist tennis publication to provide a standalone iPad application and will be a superb complement for fans.”
The online issues feature stories enhanced by additional content and high quality photographs, as well as videos that enable fans to gain private access to their favourite players.
The interactive application brings new life to Australian Tennis Magazine and will take readers to the action on court, off court and online.
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Leonie Cooper opens London Rivers Week at Ladywell Fields, Lewisham
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Leonie Cooper, front centre, opened London Rivers Week where families enjoyed activities such as pond dipping and river wades at Ladywell Fields. Photographs by John Sutton/Clearwater Photography
Nordic walking, river dipping and wading in the Ravensbourne were among the attractions at the launch of London Rivers Week on Sunday at Ladywell Fields, Lewisham.
Opening the event, Leonie Cooper, who chairs the London Assembly’s Environment Committee, described how she spent a lot of time in rivers when growing up in the Lea Valley.
“I spent a lot of my childhood with nets in a river,” she told the audience at the launch, hosted by Thames21, London’s leading waterways charity. “Most people will know the River Lea and will have seen and admired it, because it runs through the Olympic Park.
“I now live in the Wandle Valley and we’re trying to get it all cleaned up.
“Rivers give us all a sense of health and well being.”
Debbie Leach, Chief Executive of Thames21, told those gathered at Ladywell Fields: “Once upon a time the rivers that flowed through London were thought about as a bit of a problem. They were put into concrete straight jackets. People forgot they were rivers and they looked like drains.
“There was the odd kingfisher to give us a bit of a clue. We started to re-naturalise them into fantastic places for wildlife and fantastic places for people.
“Since 2008, we have restored more than 20km of rivers – but it’s only just the start. London Rivers Week is about giving people the chance to see for themselves what can be done.”
The opening event was also attended by London Borough of Lewisham councillors Alan Hall, the area’s ward councillor, and Liam Curran, chair of the sustainable development committee in the borough.
Visitors enjoyed a range of activities, from pond dipping and river wades led by the Environment Agency and Thames21 to introductions to Nordic walking, yoga and a herbal walk to emphasise the health and well being benefits of open spaces and rivers.
London Rivers Week celebrates the restoration of more than 20.5km of rivers since 2008. This year’s festival has more than 30 events taking place between June 26 and July 2, across the capital.
Londoners across the capital will don waders, jump in canoes and go on walks to find out about the many forgotten rivers waiting to be discovered during London Rivers Week, a free festival celebrating London’s rivers.
Many of our rivers are great natural green spaces which can help Londoners ward off stress, obesity and social isolation but too often they have been hidden behind buildings and fences, or even underground, making them hard to access.
New river restoration projects across the city have removed some of these barriers, increased the amount and variety of plants on the river banks and created new community spaces.
London Rivers Week showcases some of these newly restored natural spaces and raises awareness about how they are vital for Londoners’ well being. Environmental organisations including Thames21, the Zoological Society of London, London Wildlife Trust, the Environment Agency, Thames Estuary Partnership and the South East Rivers Trust are all putting on free events during the week.
This week, Londoners across the capital have the chance to don waders, jump in canoes and go on walks and talks to find out more about their local stretch of river.
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By Shalini Wiseman, Chartered Physiotherapist in Women’s Health & Continence, Cork University Maternity Hospital in Ireland
As a physiotherapist in women’s health, my introduction to the Comfortable Upright Birth- Support (CUB-Support) was in the labour ward. No, not for myself, but for the purpose of updating the hospital guidelines on the management of pelvic girdle pain in labour.
This was during my trip to the down under (or labour ward, as the staff call it) with another colleague to review the new beds being used. This is a bi-annual opportunity for us to examine the beds and evaluate the range of movement required for the labouring hips, especially for antenatal women suffering from debilitating pelvic girdle pain.
In a corner-we spotted a cosy looking blue inflatable seating. The midwives raved about how useful it was during labour,’ working as a gym ball during labour with the comfort of being seated with support and safety’.
As curios physios do, we proceeded to take turns, sitting on it and adopting different positions- gravity-assisted positions for the first phase of labour of course!
It was surprisingly comfortable and felt more secure than a gym ball. CUB-Support provided the safety of being supported while sitting, with the ability to rotate and tilt your pelvis to alleviate any discomfort at the sacroiliac joints (SIJ). It also allows you to lean forward onto it in kneeling, or in a forward lean with the CUB-Support on a bed (Fig.1). From this position, you can rock back and forth with ease and safety, thereby easing any discomfort in the low back. This secure support is not felt with a gym ball unless a husband kindly obliges by holding it while you do different gravity-assisted dynamisms.
Small rocking movements at the lumbosacral joints have been utilised in many traditions to help ease labour pain, the Mexican Rebozza techniques being one such example. The CUB-Support allows for a bit more: working as a gym ball to alleviate restriction and aids movement at the SIJ and hips while allowing for the Rebozza techniques without the woman being restricted on a seat or her hands and knees. Additionally, the CUB-Support has a distinct sensation of while you rock your pelvis, a combination of mild vibrations, wobble and bounce with a definite sense of being supported and secure while doing so.
I am really taken by this! I needed to take this out of the down under and move it to the first floor (Physio department). In order to aid women in their second and third trimester in the self-management of pelvic girdle pain with safety, I decided to modify some of their gym ball exercises for use on the CUB-Support. This approach proved very beneficial.
Forward kneeling, upright positions and rocking have always been advised in the late trimester to allow the descent of the baby into the pelvis. CUB-Support allows 36 weekers to sit upright or adopt a supported kneeling position and leaning forward onto the CUB-Support to rock back and forth with secure support
The majority of the women loved the fact that with the CUB-Support they could experience the same benefits that the gym ball provided in the easing the SIJ discomfort while also experiencing the soothing affects of the wobbling motion that is peculiar to the CUB-Support. And all this with the added assurance of knowing they would not fall off it. The CUB-support is not just useful in labour. I have found it helpful in antenatal classes especially for women with debilitation pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain who need the reassurance of safety while exercising.
The above information is a clinical opinion based on clinical experience. The CUB-Support has only been used with patients under supervision. There is no research supporting my claims, but this has been my anecdotal experience. However, there is the scope for utilising CUB-Support for pelvic girdle exercises in the third trimester by politely borrowing it from the labour ward.
Sarah Geo Walton
Sarah is the owner of Bright Heart Birth Services and co-owner of the family boutique and support center The Nurturing Nest in Reno, Nevada. She is both a Birth and Postpartum Doula (DONA), a Certified GentleBirth Childbirth Educator, a trained Placenta Encapsulation Specialist and a Certified Birth Assistant.
Sarah grew up in an empowered do-it-yourself environment. Supporting others has always been, and continues to be, a large part of who she is. She shines best in moments of vulnerability and connection and has been known to do knee slides on the dance floor.
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Raised in Green Bay, Emily has been a labor and postpartum doula since 2011. In 2012, she added placenta encapsulation services to her list of expertise, in 2016 certified Newborn Care Specialist and 2017 Certified childbirth educator. Emily’s strength lies in supporting families through the childbearing years, in whatever manner they envision it unfolding. Prior to doula work, Emily worked as a nanny, respite provider and ABA behavioral therapist for 8+ years. She has extensive experience with special needs and children with spectrum disorders.
Shalini Wiseman, Chartered Physiotherapist in Women's Health & Continence
Shalini is the Clinical Lead Physiotherapist at the Cork Womens Clinic and works as a Senior Physiotherapist in Women’s Health and Continence at the Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH).
She has vast experience in treating a broad range of Women’s Health related conditions such as incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, pelvic floor dysfunctions, dyspareunia, and ante-natal and post-natal pelvic girdle dysfunction.
Alayna Spratley, Certified Childbirth Educator and Doula
Alayna is a certified childbirth educator through Lamaze and Birth Boot Camp and is also an Indie Birth community instructor. She helps families, community stakeholders, and professionals engage in meaningful conversations regarding birth equity, healthy and safe birth practices, and the benefits of shared decision-making! Alayna supports using a collaborative grassroots education and action model to ensure all people have a voice in improving birth outcomes for individuals, babies, and families. She steadfastly believes that peace on Earth begins with birth.
MeriBeth Glenn, Midwife in Pennsylvania
MeriBeth is from Pennsylvania. She has been involved in birth for nearly 20 years. Her jouney began as a doula, CBE and breastfeeding peer counselor. For the past 15 years MeriBeth has been a traditional midwife offering out-of-hospital birth. She has also had the honor of being a midwife teacher and mentor to several doulas and aspiring midwives. On a personal level, MeriBeth is a homeschooling mom to many blessings. Her personal birthing experiences gives her an important and valuable insight into birth and helping to support the natural process. It is her desire to see upright labor and birth postures become a normal and highly encouraged option for women in all birthing environments.
Sarah Newton, Doula in Virginia
Sarah is a certified Birth Doula and twice trained Postpartum Doula through DONA. Her practicing as a licensed massage therapist adds a lot to her doula experience which is now counting for more than 7 years. Sarah is passionate about guiding women and their families through pregnancy, childbirth, and the post-partum while attending all types of births as a doula.
Camille Nyman, Doula and Childbirth Educator in Maryland
Camille is a Certified Doula, Chidbirth Educator and Doula Agency Owner from northern Baltimore County, Maryland. She sits on board of two non-profit organizations working to improve birth. With a holistic perspective and emphasis on natural comfort measures, Camille is a passionate educator.
Gemma Wilson, Lamaze Childbirth Educator
Gemma is a Lamaze Childbirth Educator and Doula in Australia, owner of Birthability Birth Education. After the birth of her two children she saw and felt how amazing and empowering birth truly was so Gemma became a Doula as she wanted to help women to find their power. She is very passionate about providing support for women and their partners right at the time it is needed the most.
Michelle Hardy, Doula and ICEA Trainer in Wisconsin
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Court approves Hatten Land unit’s scheme of arrangement with creditors
Hafiz Yatim
January 07, 2021 20:08 pm +08
KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 7): The High Court in Melaka has approved the scheme of arrangement between MDSA Ventures Sdn Bhd — a subsidiary of Singapore-listed Hatten Land Ltd, and its creditors.
Judicial Commissioner Maidzura Mohammed granted a sanction order to the company, after being told that the scheme was approved by 96% of the total value of the creditors present and voting in person or by proxy at a creditors’ meeting on Dec 18.
“The court grants the sanction order to approve the proposed scheme of arrangement and the debt restructuring of MDSA Ventures,” the court ruled yesterday.
Counsel Lee Shih of Lim Chee Wee Partnership appeared for MDSA Ventures.
Hatten Land, in an announcement to the Singapore Exchange, said the scheme is now binding on MDSA Ventures and the creditors.
“The Court Order dated Jan 6, 2021, approving the scheme, will be effective once the court order is lodged with the Companies Commission of Malaysia.
“The board further wishes to update that the High Court had granted an extension of the restraining order for a further one month from today,” the real estate developer said.
On July 12 last year, MDSA Ventures Sdn had obtained a three-month restraining order for it to engage in the restructuring exercise.
“During the moratorium period, MDSA Ventures shall work with its legal counsel to formulate the details of the scheme to be presented to the creditors for their consideration,” Hatten Land's executive chairman and managing director Datuk Colin Tan June Teng said in a statement to the Singapore Exchange then.
A restraining order is basically a court-ordered moratorium protection. It allows the company to have protection from legal proceedings, while the company is pursuing restructuring under a scheme of arrangement.
The Edge Singapore reported on July 2 that Hatten Land has unveiled various initiatives to strengthen the resiliency of its business, following the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
This also entailed the strategic restructuring for MDSA Ventures and another subsidiary, MDSA Resources, in a bid to strengthen their balance sheet.
Hatten Land’s operations in Singapore and Malaysia were heavily affected during the lockdown measures in both countries.
In Melaka, where the group’s portfolio is primarily based, a significant decline in international and domestic tourist arrivals has affected consumer expenditure, as well as big ticket items such as local properties.
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The Punjabi version of the official website of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was launched on Monday, an official statement said. "People can now visit the PM website in Punjabi language at the URL www.pmindia.gov.in/pa," the statement said. The website which was initially started in English and Hindi, is now accessible in nine regional languages — Bengali, …
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Coronavirus in Scotland: Antivaxers will not face sanctions for refusing jabs
Mark McLaughlin, David Leask
Thursday December 03 2020, 12.01am, The Times
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Sceptics who refuse to be given the coronavirus vaccine will not face a fine or sanctions in Scotland, it has been revealed.
The rights of antivaxers will not be restricted under a government plan to win over “hearts and minds” that would allow refuseniks to visit public buildings, restaurants and pubs despite rejecting the jab.
Covid deniers are preparing to launch a political party called “Saving Scotland”.
The fledgling party, which styles itself as a grassroots movement opposed to lockdown, announced that it was looking for candidates to fight for a “new politics” in coming elections.
The group also said it would rally at the Scottish parliament this weekend.
Fliers published online suggest speakers will include Mark Devlin, a DJ who believes the entire pandemic
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TIBCO Makes Enterprise-Class Messaging Available to Everyone
TIBCO Introduces Enhanced Messaging and Community Editions of Popular Products
TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, announced today its new offering, TIBCO Cloud™ Messaging, along with Community Editions for TIBCO FTL®, TIBCO eFTL™, and TIBCO ActiveSpaces®. Digital businesses demand faster performance, greater scalability, and deeper real-time insight, which requires applications to have instant access to data, regardless of whether the data is on the local system or distributed between applications. With these announcements, TIBCO makes enterprise-class in-memory data grid and high performance messaging tools more accessible to mainstream organizations, including midsize businesses, with little-to-no upfront investment.
TIBCO Cloud Messaging and Community Editions for TIBCO FTL and TIBCO eFTL provide simple, yet robust, messaging platforms for users looking for high-performance messaging, or the transportation of messages through IT architecture. With the Community Editions, users can deploy up to 100 production instances of TIBCO FTL and TIBCO eFTL or connections of up to 1,000 web or mobile devices free of charge. While TIBCO already makes it quick and easy to send messages with guaranteed delivery, end-to-end security, and fault-tolerant software, the cost of access is now significantly lower. Alternatively, TIBCO Cloud Messaging delivers a fully cloud-based approach to messaging for the secure, reliable exchange of data between applications that eases the setup and maintenance of a messaging infrastructure. To support different levels of usage, TIBCO Cloud Messaging offers straightforward pricing plans that allow TIBCO Cloud Messaging to grow along with application usage.
The Community Edition of TIBCO ActiveSpaces® provides a highly scalable, distributed, in-memory data grid for systems of record use cases. With this product, organizations can quickly create real-time, engaging customer applications, and developers gain access to the software for development, test, and even production environments. TIBCO ActiveSpaces® - Community Edition supports up to 25 nodes for free. The Community Editions of TIBCO FTL and TIBCO eFTL offer an attractive alternative to open source options that allows users to start projects with zero upfront investments.
"TIBCO is changing its fundamental approach to the market with its in-memory data grid and messaging products to drive more innovation and digitalization for customers. These new offerings are simple and easy to use for anyone who needs an enterprise-class solution," said Denny Page, Chief Engineer, TIBCO. "Whether you're looking to install everything yourself with the Community Editions or have TIBCO run the messaging infrastructure for you in the cloud, we've made the process as quick and painless as possible. TIBCO remains dedicated to supporting customers as they shift operations to the cloud, enhancing their experience with the overall TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud."
The enhancements across these products showcase TIBCO's continued innovation to deliver solutions that enable users on their digital journeys. From new solutions to community editions, TIBCO is addressing a wide audience to encourage collaboration.
Learn more about TIBCO Cloud Messaging here, along with Community Editions of TIBCO ActiveSpaces, TIBCO FTL, and TIBCO eFTL.
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Grand Veneur Chateauneuf de Pape Blanc Le Miocene 2019
Grand Veneur Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc Le Miocene is made from 60% Clairette, 40% Roussanne
Pale yellow colour with hints of green, aromas of white flowers (may blossom, honeysuckle).
The palate is pleasantly balanced between liveliness and roundness, which brings out characteristics of dried apricot, honey and elderberry. A Châteauneuf du Pape white displaying a great finesse.
Best between 1 and 8 years.
Soil type Coming from the single vineyard named “La Fontaine”, the plot is facing north.It is made of clay-sand and limestone. Thanks to the northern orientation, it is always very well aired. This sector allow the Roussane and Clairette to mature in great conditions without losing freshness, which we believe is key point. Winemaking & ageing Whole-bunch pressing. Vinification in stainless-steel tanks. Fermentation temperature controlled at 15°C.
"Based on a 60/40 split of Clairette and Roussanne brought up all in tank, the 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape Le Miocène Blanc offers a pretty, already complex nose of mulled citrus and pear fruits, leafy herbs, and honeyed toast. With notable richness, medium body, and bright acidity, as well as a clean, dry finish, it’s classic white from this great region to enjoy over the coming 3-5 years."
- Jeb Dunnuck (October 2020), 92 pts
Grand Veneur Chateauneuf Du Pape Blanc La Fontaine 2018
Grand Veneur Chateauneuf Du Pape Blanc La Fontaine is made from 100% Roussane.
Yellow-gold color. The nose is rich in aromas of citrus fruit, tropical fruit, quince and honey, with a touch of vanilla. On the palate, the same aromas appear together with a fatness combining exotic fruit and vanilla : the wine is rich, generous and elegant, with extraordinary length. "La Fontaine" is often considered to be one of the best Châteauneuf du Pape white, and it is by definition a superb gastronomy wine.
"The top cuvée is the 2018 Châteauneuf Du Pape La Fontaine Blanc and it's all Roussanne brought up in 50% new barrels. Deeper and richer than the base cuvée, it offers terrific notes of caramelized pineapple, honeysuckle, white flowers, and buttered toast as well as medium to full body, nicely integrated acidity, terrific balance, and a great finish. It's rich, nicely concentrated, yet balanced and lively on the palate. It's geared for the dinner table and should keep for 4-5 years, if not longer."
- Jeb Dunnuck (August 16th 2019), 94 pts
Grand Veneur Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge Le Miocene 2016 (magnum)
Grand Veneur Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge Le Miocene is made from 65% Grenache noir, 25% Syrah, 10% Mourvèdre.
An intense dark-ruby color. The nose develop aromas of ripe black fruit (such as blackberry), cherry and spice box. The palate reveals the presence of tannins, in high quantity and elegant. The finish is long and luxurious. This is the Châteauneuf du Pape expression, displaying all the characteristics of the terroir.
Soil type: Plots are located northern part of Châteauneuf du Pape and the vines are grown under organic process.The soil is marked by the violence wrought by the Rhone river. It consists of a layer of marine molasses of the Miocene period covered by alpine alluvium. The presence of a great number of rounded stones known as "galets" in the earth is evidence of the time when the Rhone, then a torrent, tore fragments of rock from the Alps and deposited them on the plain. The GRAND VENEUR cuvee will express year after year a great power and aromatic complexity.
Winemaking & ageing: Harvest is sorted by hand, destemmed and crushed. Fermentation temperature is controlled at 30°C. Vatting period of 18 to 20 days. Matured in vats and oak casks.
"Floral, garrigue notes mark the nose of the 2016 Chateauneuf du Pape Le Miocene. This full-bodied wine has ripe black cherry fruit, creamy tannins, tremendous power and length but loss of detail or precision. Licorice and almost amaro-like notes linger on the finish. Tasted twice, with consistent notes. - Joe Czerwinski"
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Issue 238, August 31st 2018), 93 pts
"Accents of toast, spice and nut lend nuance to intensely ripe black cherry and preserved strawberry in this opulent wine. It's boldly fruity yet savory, shaded by umami tones of balsamic vinegar, soy sauce and earth. This full-bodied, complex wine is ready now but could improve through 2026 and hold further. - ANNA LEE C. IIJIMA"
- Wine Enthusiast (March 2019), 93 pts
Siegel Gran Crucero Limited Edition 2011 is made from 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Carmenere and 25% Syrah
A deep purple color. There are aromas of cassis and cherries with hints of spices, chocolate and violets. This wine exhibits complexity and finesse which is in perfect harmony with its structure, with a very long finish.
The grapes are carefully hand picked, selected and taken to the crusher where the stems are separated. They are placed in stainless steel tanks for cold maceration for 5 to 6 days. Temperature is carefully raised to start fermentation at 24ºC and 28ºC in order to keep varietal aromas. During the initial fermentation, a daily pump over is done and when fermentation is finished part of the wine is left in post fermenting maceration for 2 to 3 weeks; it is then separated from the skins and pressed. Malolactic fermentation takes place in barrels (10% American and 90% French), where the wine stays for about 16 months. Finally a soft clarification and a cold stabilization when necessary are done.
Herbal, briary berry aromas are minty and suggestive of olive. The mouthfeel is plump and juicy, while herbal blackberry and black currant flavors finish with a blast of toast and mint. This blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère and Syrah is quintessentially Chilean in aromas, flavors and intensity. Drink through 2020. - 91 Points Wine Enthusiast
The Vina Siegel Crucero Estate
Alberto Siegel was born in Santiago in 1946, the third generation in Chile of an Austrian family. His grandfather was an Austrian architect that built some very important and traditional buildings in downtown Santiago, at the beginning of the 20th century, including the Chilean Federal Reserve.
His father, Don Germán, was a viticulturist that spent most of his career in charge of Viña San Pedro’s vineyards near the town of Molina, 140 miles south of Santiago. There Alberto grew up, literally in the middle of the vines. It was not a surprise when he decided to study Agronomy and specialize in winemaking at the Universidad Católica in Santiago.
After finishing high school, he spent a year working in wineries in Germany, and upon his return in 1971, he joined the German company Bayer. His job was to sell fertilizers to farm owners in the Colchagua area, 100 miles south of Santiago. Through this job he got to know almost every land owner, most of which were grape growers and wine producers.
A few years later and as a natural consequence, he started to act as a wine and grape broker, selling the production of small owners to the big Chilean wineries. He established Sociedad La Laguna, and he soon became the most important Chilean broker in this field, a position that he holds today by far. There is hardly any Chilean person or company involved in the wine business that has not dealt with Alberto Siegel at least once.
In parallel, and together with his father, Alberto founded Viña Siegel in 1980. They started planting vineyards in Colchagua and building the Winery in Santa Cruz. When Don Germán died in 1998, Alberto became the owner, together with his family. In the beginning, Viña Siegel only sold bulk wines to the biggest Chilean wineries, like Concha y Toro, San Pedro and Santa Rita. In 1997, Alberto decided to enter the bottled wines business and made the necessary investments to go ahead with this project.
Today, the winery has a capacity of over 3 million gallons and the company owns over 1,850 acres of vineyards in Colchagua. Their wine cellar has state of the art technology, such as vertical pneumatic presses, vacuum filters, and stainless steel tanks with total temperature control, for both cooling and heating. Viña Siegel Winery is still a family operation, with Alberto Siegel as chairman and chief winemaker. The winery has two consultants in enological matters.
The Vina Siegel Crucero Vineyard
The varieties of grapes grown are Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carménère, Syrah, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc, with other new varieties being added as markets demand. Viña Siegel is currently working with terroir consultant Pedro Parra to design a new site in Los Lingues, which will be planted with several new varietals, including Carignan, Grenache, and Mourvedre. The winery produces a range of varietal wines, along with reserve wines that highlight the quality of the grapevines born in this valley. The Colchagua Valley is truly a synthesis of the country’s way of life and wine has been produced here since time out of mind. This area, which has deservedly been raised to the category of estate bottling in wine making, has maintained its prestige due to the great quality of its wines. One of its noted symbols is its high quality Cabernet Sauvignons, and its red wines in general. Its variety of soils and climatic variations, some warmer, some cooler, have given the region innumerable attributes for grapevine cultivation.
Cazaux Gigondas Tour Sarrasine 2018
Cazaux Gigondas Tour Sarrasine is made from 75% Grenache, 15% Syrah, 10% Mourvèdre. 45 year old vines on average.
Intense, persistent red and dark fruit aromas. Raspberry, pepper and spice flavors. Silky tannins.
Enjoy with game meat or strong cheeses.
"Moving to the 2018s, the 2018 Gigondas La Tour Sarrasine offers a forward, sweetly fruited, incredibly charming style as well as classy notes of black cherries, black raspberries, scorched earth and garrigue. It’s medium-bodied, has plenty of ripe tannins, and I suspect is going to be an outstanding wine."
- Jeb Dunnuck (September 2019, Southern Rhône Part 2: 2017 & 2018 from Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Cairanne, and Rasteau), 89-91 pts
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Public TV Request FCC Fully Fund Consumer Repack Education
By Phil Kurz 26 September 2018
WASHINGTON—Public TV broadcasters Sept. 26 urged the FCC to fund fully the consumer education program set up by Congress to help TV viewers learn about new TV channel assignments stemming from its repack of television spectrum.
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting made the request in a filing with the agency.
“In today’s filing, we urge the Commission to follow Congress’s explicit directive and invest $50 million in a comprehensive consumer education program as television channels are repacked over the next two years into a narrower band of broadcast spectrum,” said APTS President and CEO Patrick Butler.
The APTS head had praise for the FCC’s recognition that educating consumers successfully requires a multi-media response, “including consumer service call centers, special outreach to those who need special help with the transition and active engagement with local media.”
Pointing out that public broadcasters have a long track record of engaging with viewers through efforts such as fundraising drives and local partnerships, Butler said several public TV stations that already have completed their repack have drawn on these close community ties to smooth the transition for viewers.
“We hope that the FCC will enlist public television stations in a nationwide effort to ensure that our resources are put to good and full use in this consumer education initiative – and that the congressionally-mandated funds will cover important activities like station staff training, staff time on the call centers, on-air promotional announcements, website work and social media time, among other extraordinary expenses required by the auction and its aftermath,” said Butler.
For a comprehensive list of TV Technology’s ATSC 3.0 coverage, see our ATSC3 silo.
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Best Racing Games for Linux
1. DiRT Rally
2. VDrift
3. TORCS – The Open Racing Car Simulator
4. Super TuxKart
5. Speed Dreams
6. Road Redemption
7. F1 Series
8. Grid Autosport
9. Super GTR Racing
10. Vector 36
11. FlatOut2
12. Mad Max
13. Rocke Leauge
14. Trigger Rally
15. iRacing
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Top 15 Best Linux Racing Games That You’ve Maybe Never Heard of
Many games are available on the Linux platform. Just a few years back, it was believed that Linux platform has an inadequate number of games nevertheless; in recent years that perception has been changed. Linux racing games are significantly developed and entirely contemporary thus; thrill, amusement, and excitement can thrive in those games. Game –savvy people would find numerous games which are enough for titillation, and online game enthusiasts can have a brilliant time by playing those games. In addition, among many games, some of them are free and open source, and the rest of others need to buy albeit; you would get back a good value of money.
In this article, all the details of Linux racing games have been reviewed. Along with a short discussion, a few features have been given too. Additionally, all the required information, data, and links are provided in this article also. Hopefully, you will walk along with me in this article.
Dirt rally is believed one of the most thrilling and breathtaking racing game. It will let you drive crazy with its speed, and your excitement will be accelerated with the acceleration of this car. This racing game is notable for its speed moreover; the Linux community has tested this game more than 80 million miles of road around the world.
You will be provoked to have the white knuckle feeling and will be pushed to the edge to experience the breakneck speed with this racing game. DiRT Rally also offers officially licensed World Rallycross content, will give the stimulation to go through the breathless and high-speed thrills off-roads and around. This car racing game will provide you with a good value of money.
Features of DiRT Rally
DiRT Rally boasts over its more than 40 model cars which are the stunning, auspicious, iconic and most relevant modern car for racing.
This racing game is featured with six giant rallies along with over 70 stages in a different part of the world. It offers being thrilled with the head to muddy in the Wales, fascinating dusty trails of Greece and icy cold tarmac of Monte Carlo.
You can participate in any event with any car by customizing and configuring it as to compete in a single or multiplayer game.
This Linux racing game is flexible and user-friendly; thus; you can upgrade, repair, setup, and tuning it the way you want.
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Among numerous racing games for Linux, VDrift is a free open source simulation car racing game that is designed by taking into consideration of drift racing. This game has been programmed to thrill the game player with quality racing simulation and to have titillation with the breakneck speed. Moreover, it was designed with a motto to utilize the best modern computing technology for racing simulation to create the buzz across the arena.
Though it was released very earlier stage of the car racing era, nevertheless; it has been got updated throughout the tome thus; still it offers the best features, sensation, and stimulation for the game player. This game will tempt you to be addicted to its white knuckle speed.
Features of VDrift
This game has 45 real-world tracks what will make you feel having real-life racing among thousands of spectators.
This racing game is designed with 39 different real-life models; hence; you would choose the best car that you desire.
It is programmed with Mouse/joystick/gamepad/wheel/keyboard support in addition; this simulation grade racing game will offer you a realistic racing vibe.
Multi-camera modes are operational in this game, and what is more, drivers are facilitated with automatic shifting, traction control, anti-lock braking, and so on.
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TORCS is another free open source racing game that is well designed for the racing thrill seekers. It has given an international standard; thus; the game player would find it lucrative and stunning for their real life like racing. Game-savvy people would be allured with the distinct features that have made it striking and sensational.
It can be played with and around the tracks, moreover; artificial intelligence been used in its program; thus, it would run on the tracks automatically too. Racing related multi features have been used in this Linux racing game, therefore; the game player can choose the best option, tracks and model to play this game.
Features of TORCS
In the earlier version of this game, the car engine was not available; however; finally, when the engine got added the fan, the community had a blast.
Multiple camera angles are featured with this racing game additionally; texture mapping that is used in this game gives more details of the car.
This racing game was design with an inspiration of robot auto racing simulator where a 3dfx graphic design card has been used to develop this game.
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If you are a fun loving person, then Super TuxKart is the right game for you. This Linux racing game would offer you relax and fun time to play hour after hour. It is a free and open source game where you can play, and even you can participate in different event moreover; you can win the race with an award.
At the earlier stage player was able to choose a Tux only; however, now you can select different mascots related to the penguin. This game released in 2006; nevertheless; it has been updated a couple of times; thus; you won’t ever feel it boring. You can select types of race, for instance, single or group and you can get numerous tacks in different cities.
Features of Super TuxKart
The latest version of this Linux racing game is updated with different characteristics, for instance; new karts, tracks, and surroundings of the tracks.
A few tracks have been updated such as ‘Cornfield Crossing’ is set up in the farm, ‘Candela City’ that is a nighttime track in the European city, and ‘Las Dunas stadium’ an arena for the battle mode.
Players are awarded new tracks, and those tracks would be used for playing in the next level.
Karts have been updated as well where headlights got added with the exhausted smoke; thus; the player would find a real-life racing vibe with this racing game.
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Speed Dream is another breathtaking 3D racing simulation that will thrill you whenever you try it. This Linux open-source racing game is free and has been published under the GNU General Public License. Its features and real life like vibe would give the white knuckle speed what will push you to the edge of sensation. Its multi-tracks that have been designed with the European city glamour will make breathless, and you will be driven crazy.
Features of Speed Dreams
This racing game is the fork in the open source simulator where AI opponents have been added to make this game much thrilling and competitive.
It is featured with visually reworked menus moreover; three amazing fine-tuned and balanced cars are set.
Having been updated with the TRB1 car sets now, it is much more realistic behavior and well balanced as well.
In this new edition, smashing liveries have been integrated along with the TRB first-class robot for the supercars.
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Road Redemption is an arcade racing game that is believed one of the violence and illegal road race competition. In the ’90s, a game that was called Road Rash is considered the predecessor of this bloody game. It is exciting, blood spilling, and in some cases, it is gruesome; however, there are many positive reviews from the gamers who believe it is entertaining to play this game.
It is a bike gang race across the country road where they believe there is a single chance to live, and through the journey, they make money from the competition, robberies, assassination, and different other challenges. There is a feature that is called permadeath; however; they use their collective experiences to upgrade bike, characters, and weapons.
Features of Road Redemption
In this racing game; there is a form of Mad Max where a character has been set who is manifested as a dictator and rules the world.
The violence takes place in a bid to find the assassin who killed the leader in the earlier stage.
The fighting is very expansive with the range of grabs, kicks, and counter where opponents get very aggressive and beating the enemy is the main motto of this game.
Multi player’s mode is available in this game and what is more; a vast range of weapons can be chosen for this game.
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This game will give the real feel of racing in the Grand Prix event. It has been designed for the gamers who dream of participating in the real F1 race. It offers different year’s championship, win the race by breaking all the previous record that has been set by the F1 cars and to this end; a gamer can use the most iconic cars that were used in the last 30 years.
In this racing game, a career can be expanded for ten years when a varied range of game can be played on the championship event. It is believed that F1 is the most complete and thrilling video game where the gamers would find the white knuckle speed and sensational craziness while the game is being played.
Features of F1 Series
The greatness of this game is having the excitement not only the on track but also off-track dealing and opportunity to develop the car and getting access to have the required accessories.
Career can be expanded in this thrilling game where a gamer would be facilitated to participate in the training program to sharpen the skill in this field.
Moreover; the gamer can participate in the research and development program that would expedite them to get into the depth of the car management, for instance; driving control, engine knowledge, and so on.
Along with many more features, this game allows the gamer to be thrilled in the stunning locations and beautiful characters to be interacted with in different occasion.
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This racing game is all about the rivals, team, and race in a sensational and intense new arena of professional motorsport. It is entirely a team game where you have to play along with the teammates moreover; you have to beat the rivals to satisfy the team sponsor in an aggressive and ferocious atmosphere where every pass and position count.
This game is thrilling, enduring, fascinating, and alluring for the gamers where they have to participate in the race and beating the rival is the only motto. The players get thrilled in, and each features series that is dedicated to different classes and even the touring cars. This stunning game offers 100 different routes and 22 different locations across the world that are incredibly contemporary and unique.
Features of Grid Autosport
The central theme of this game is developing a professional racing career, join team, switch into another group, get sponsored, be awarded, and beat the rivals.
This game is versatile and pleasant because of its range of series for instance; Touring Cars, Super Modified vehicles, Hypercars, Endurance GT Cars, Prototypes, Single-Seaters, Drift cars and many, many more.
It facilitates the racers to experience the most exciting cars such as that you have dreamt of driving in your real life.
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Super GTR Racing is a casual game that implies you might play it to have a brilliant time while you are alone and you have little things do. It just like other game, you have to compete against many opponents, and you would aim to win the race.
This Linux racing game is pretty compatible for this platform, and the updated version is available on the steam. In this game, you need to focus on the track and make sure opponents don’t push you are to track off; hence; you will be the winner.
Features of Super GTR Racing
This game is featured with championship mode where you would encounter many cars with AI opponents.
It contains stunning graphics, and you would find many steam achievements while you are on the race.
You will be thrilled by the actual completion and what is more; many trails of this game will make you much more concentrated.
Additionally, there is a single play option and championship too thus; you won’t be bored.
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Vector 36 is a Physics based racing game that is set on the terraformed surface of Mars. This game is entirely customizable, and being a pilot, you are a skimmer, and you have got a skimmer vehicle. Having control over every component of the skimmer, you are solely responsible for the performance of that vehicle. How well capable you are of piloting and how good knowledge you have on engineering are the determiners of the race losing and winning.
You would be thrilled to race with others pilot in different tracks on the Mars where you have to compete on the Tournaments, Circuits and Sprint modes and have to have the aim to win credits, parts, or new Skimmers. There is a ghost replay system in this Vector 36’s game where you can play with your friends. The motto of the game is developed your skill and knowledge and push the limits and race fast to settle on Mars.
Features of Vector 36
The physics theory binds the skimmer that is used in this game; each part of it, for instance; moving internal components will balance the gravity, and its flights get affected with the adjusting angles.
It is believed, fine-tuning is the mantra to winning or losing the game. Thus the skimmer has to be driven and move around with handy hands.
Winning the game by beating opponents will make your fortune, and you would be awarded the new skimmers, support bots, parts, weapons, tracks, obstacles, opponents, and game modes.
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This racing game is branded “A crash and smashes driving game” which is extraordinary with many features, and you will get a white knuckle speed in this game. This game lets you drive around the track and smash opponent’s cars to have the racing advantage. It is designed such a way you can drive AI cars off the road and smash your pathway to the victory and glory.
This game is programmed with the motto to race the cars with your unparalleled driving skill aggressively and violently to win the race. Crashing up was immensely popular in the middle of the 2000s, and this game was on the pinnacle of this sort of games and having stunning music in this game another advantage that would let you be driven crazy whenever you smash an opponent’s car.
Features of the FlatOut2
Being a violent and aggressive game, your car might summersault, crack, and break and would bounce back there is so fun.
According to the different reviews from the gamers, it has been branded as damage and crashing physics-friendly.
There are excellent audio and incredible driving mechanics; thus, you would find the fast-paced screaming excitement.
The main motto of the game is ‘crashing and smashing where the fun begins.’
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Among many racing games, Mad Max is discrete because of its action adventurous nature. This game is a product of the Mad Max franchise that was developed by the Avalanche Studios and published by Warner Bros. In this racing game, player control Max Rockatansky who is happened to be the central character of this game and is seen to progress to the Westland by building a car namely “Magnum Opus.”
The purpose of this car is to fight against gang raiders that are led by Scabrous Scrotus and reach the storied “Plains of Silence” where he believes to have found peace. Mad Max prefers vehicular battle where players can use a range of weapons and armor that can be upgraded to fight against their enemy.
Features of Mad Max
This game is set in an open world where it has been focused on the post-apocalyptic atmosphere, and it has emphasized on the vehicular combat.
A range of weapons can be used in this game for instance; flamethrowers and turbo boosts that are mounted directly to the Magnum Opus.
The vehicle specified with the Chumbucket operates a few more combat tools such as grappling hook and sniper rifle.
What is more, the Magnum Opus engine and its powerful V8 engine can destroy the enemies vehicles and weaponry.
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Rocket League is a physics driven competition that is easy to understand and fluid believed; it is one of the highest profile arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem. This racing game is featured with any things such as casual and competitive online matches and a full featured offline season mode as well. There is a special Mutator that capable of changing rules entirely and baseball; hockey inspired extra modes and fifty millions of extra combination.
Features of Rocket League
This game is believed one of the most critically acclaimed racing, and sports game ever has been introduced in the online platform.
With fifty-seven millions of communities, this game offers free and paid updates that include new DLCs, content packages, features, mode, and arena.
It offers a different form of challenges such as online match, complete weekly challenges, and seasonal match as well.
Lately, it has introduced a new feature where Decals, Wheels, and Player Banners will be manifested for the best team.
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This Linux racing game that is featured with a 3D rally simulation is integrated with a stunning physics engine can drift over 200 maps. Different terrain materials, for instance; salt, asphalt, sand and ice moreover, various types of weather such as fog, lightly give this rally game mileage than other free game of these types.
Time limit is used in this game to make it much more sensational hence; if the player can score better compared with their opponents, then extra advantages can be grabbed. This leverage would help the gamer to improve the game condition further better and what is more all set up single races must win by the limited time to grab the victory.
Features of Trigger Rally
This racing game is well designed and significantly programmed that is supported with spoken co-driver and co-driver icons to facilitate the maps.
Configuration details for the display and audio adjustment that are placed in this game can be customized to make it much more user-friendly realistic.
There is a long playing time since it is designed with 200 races and what is else; this game can be modified very easily.
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iRacing is believed the world’s most premier motorsport racing game, and it is available on the Linux platform. Membership provides the entry of this online game that has been developed with the newest form of a competitive online game.
Internet race is easy, fun, and inexpensive, and game enthusiasts can get thrilled by playing this game while they are bored. This racing game would offer you the best excitement, pleasure, and joy throughout the game.
Features of iRacing
This game will make feel that this is extraordinary racing games that would lift your excitement to the pinnacle.
It is featured with the head to head competition that is easy to utilize central place against real people.
Having a dynamic racing track, the game player would find real-life joy by the course of the racing game.
You will be privileged for having the training, ghost racing, qualifying, testing, and time trialing competition.
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To sum up, the forth mentioned games are available on the Linux platform, some of them are free and rests of others have to buy from the particular website. All the games are top-rated among online games enthusiasts. Even if you buy a specific set, you will get back the actual value of money.
Finally, if you find the given information, description, download links and other aspects of the article are useful, please don’t forget to comment, like and share it.
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UWA Health Campus and Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre
A cutting-edge destination for students, professionals and patients
UWA health and medical students have been taught on the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre (QEIIMC) grounds in Nedlands, Western Australia, since the 1970s.
The site includes two major public hospitals, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Perth Children’s Hospital, and is home to internationally renowned organisations such as the Lions Eye Institute, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, PathWest, The Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, and Telethon Kids’ Institute.
UWA academics and students are embedded in these organisations, where they engage in world-leading research and clinical teaching. Working alongside industry professionals enables students to gain real-world experience before they graduate.
Students enrolled in medicine, dentistry and biomedical sciences have classes on the UWA Health Campus, which features the J. Robin Warren Library, named after one of UWA’s two Nobel Laureates, and which recently underwent a $7 million refurbishment, transforming it into an innovative, technology-rich space.
Dentistry students train at the Oral Health Centre of Western Australia, a state-of-the-art dental teaching and learning facility, united with an oral healthcare clinic.
The campus offers state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities including:
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New clues, mysteries in powerful consultant's death
by Vault Consulting Editors | January 06, 2011
Strange details continue to surface in the story of military consultant John Wheeler's recent murder. While much remains a mystery, the story has developed something of a double narrative of late.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that, at the time of his death, Wheeler was being investigated by Delaware police for attempted arson at a home directly across from his own. The home in question is currently under construction, a process which Wheeler was reportedly suing to have stopped. Recently, local police found evidence of attempted arson at the property; while Wheeler wasn't named a suspect, separate small fires found amongst the construction suggest that someone deliberately tried to burn the structure down. Was John Wheeler responsible for those fires? Was his murder the result of a neighborly catfight that spun wildly out of control? Wheeler's lawyer doubts that the feud is connected to his client's death, though he refuses to rule anything out.
Meanwhile, new revelations continue to suggest that Wheeler's murder was anything other than a bit of neighbor-on-neighbor violence. Police have secured another surveillance video that puts the ex-MITRE consultant in a Wilmington office building the night before his death. In that video, authorities say, Wheeler exhibits the same signs of confusion—as if drugged—that he exhibited in the parking garage video. Between his New Castle parking garage appearance on December 29 and his appearance at a Wilmington office building the next night, authorities don't know how he travelled the distance between the two cities without a car. It also appears that he somehow managed to change clothes overnight.
Drugged, shoeless, without a coat and no longer wielding his stolen briefcase, Wheeler's bizarre behavior is proving difficult for authorities to explain. All the questions remain—so far, the investigation has only brought more uncertainty.
I personally think it's still all about information; John Wheeler possessed a lot of it, and much of what he knew was classified, mission-critical type stuff. The arson-next-door stuff? Standard misdirection.
If you couldn't tell by now, I'm pretty much hooked on this story (yes, even if it isn't really about consulting. He was a consultant, okay? That's all I care about, alright?). So stay tuned.
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Four Small Wheels For Trunki-Kind, A Giant Win For Trunki Daddy!
by Adam Snowden on May 16, 2013
Coming in to the office to find out we’ve won yet another award has put a spring in our steps today! Trunki Daddy (AKA Rob Law) was at The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 awards ceremony last night and picked up our win – the Innovation Award!
And where was this awards ceremony held you ask? Oh, just at Sir Richard Branson’s family home in Oxfordshire. And although plenty of the team offered to take the load off Trunki Daddy and attend the event in his place, off he went, along with a very special Trunki suitcase ;o)
Trunki Daddy, who is not one to imagine any flight (to space or otherwise) without a Trunki on board, set about creating the ultimate Trunki for space travel! The result, a bespoke Virgin GALACTIC Trunki, which he presented to Richard Branson as a gift at the awards night. As you can see from the pictures, Richard took quite a shine to the Galactic Trunki…
Trunki recently ranked 42 nd on The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 league table, which ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing sales over their latest three years.
Each year the top 100 are invited to Richard Branson’s Oxfordshire home for dinner and the ultimate award ceremony.
“It was a massive achievement to have reached 42 out of 100 on the fast track league table and certainly a once in a lifetime experience to receive an invitation to meet with Mr Branson. The icing on the GALACTIC Trunki was definitely winning the Fast Track Innovation award!” – Trunki Daddy.
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Jo Hye Jung is a South Korean actress. Born on December 22, 1992, she made her acting debut in a minor role in the 2014 television drama “God’s Quiz 4” and has since appeared in “Because It’s the First Time” (2015) and “Imaginary Cat” (2015). She is the daughter of veteran actor Jo Jae Hyun.
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Changes in Utah Department of Health Leadership, State To Declare Major Disaster To Federal Gov.
Utah’s Governor Gary Herbert announced on Tuesday that due to pre-existing health concerns, Dr. Joe Minor, the executive director of the Utah Department of Health, would not be able to take care of the day-to-day responsibilities of the department during the coronavirus pandemic.
'One Utah Child Care' Program Announced To Support 'Essential' Workers In Utah
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State officials announced a plan on Monday to provide free child care to essential employees, like health care workers and first responders, while school is out during the coronavirus pandemic.
State Department of Health COVID-19 Updates, Press Conf., Monday, March 30
Confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Utah now exceed 800, as of Monday afternoon at 1 p.m. State epidemiologist Angela Dunn said in today's press conference that over 16,000 people in the state have been tested for the virus so far. This is a 12 percent increase in cases.
Churches Close But Worship Doesn't Stop
By Matilyn Mortensen & Kat Webb • Mar 30, 2020
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During the Easter season is when many churches are busy collecting palm leaves, planning choir programs and preparing for one of the most important days in christianity. But this year, churches across the world are implementing changes, like going digital, to continue to provide services while maintaining social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
Utah Coronavirus Update, Monday Morning
This weekend, the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Utah reached over 700. The state has reported only two deaths related to the disease, but the families of two additional people have said their loved ones also passed away from the virus. These numbers bring the death count to at least four.
Second Coronavirus Death In Utah Reported
The second death related to the coronavirus has been reported in Utah on Friday.
State epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn said in the briefing at 1 p.m. on Friday that this individual was from the south-western part of the state and died in a hospital in Salt Lake County. The individual was an adult under the age of 60 with underlying medical conditions.
Logan Playgrounds Closed
Logan City officials announced on Friday all playgrounds would be closed as part of an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
Disability Rights Activist Shares Concerns About Coronavirus Rhetoric, Crisis Care Plans
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During this global pandemic, many medical decisions are having to be made about who can receive what kind of care. Disability rights activists, like Storee Powell, who works at the Center for Person’s with Disabilities at Utah State University, said many of the current policies are discriminatory. UPR’s Matilyn Mortensen spoke with Powell about why she finds these attitudes so concerning.
State Department of Health COVID-19 Updates, Press Conf., Thursday, March 26
Confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Utah now exceed 400. The case count in the state increased by 56 positive tests between Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the total of residents who have tested positive to 388 and the number of visitors t0 14, for a total of 402 cases total.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Closes All Temples
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On Wednesday evening, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the closure of all of the church's temples around the world.
State Department of Health COVID-19 Updates, Press Conf., Wednesday, March 25
Confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Utah increased by almost 50 between Tuesday and Wednesday this week. There are 346 positive tests in the state right out of the 6,837 tests that have reportedly been completed. Fourteen people who have tested positive for the virus in Utah are visitors to the state.
Nonprofits' Shelves Are Thinning, Too
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As the global coronavirus pandemic continues, more and more people are relying on the services of non-profits. UPR’s Kat Webb has been visiting with different non-profit leaders in Cache County and today, our news director, Matilyn Mortensen, had a conversation with her about what she’s been hearing.
State Plan To Begin Addressing Health, Economic Recovery Released
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A plan drafted by public and private leaders on addressing both health and economic reovery in Utah in response to the coronavirus pandemic was released on Wednesday afternoon.
Cases of the coronavirus in Utah have increased by 14 percent since Monday. As of 1 p.m. on Tuesday, there were 298 confirmed cases of the virus.
All Non-Essential Medical Procedures Restricted For Next Month
In an effort to help healthcare providers preserve the existing supply of personal protective equipment, such as masks and gloves, all non-essential medical, dental and veterinary procedures in the state have been restricted, starting March 25 and going until April 25.
Aimee Winder Newton Announces 'Frugal Dougall' As Running Mate
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On Tuesday morning, Aimee Winder Newton announced in a video on social media that Utah State Auditor, John Dougall, would be her running mate for the 2020 gubernatorial race.
USU Reschedules Commencement
Last week, Utah State University was among the eight state schools in Utah that announced it would not be holding commencement in the spring in an effort to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. University officials announced on Monday that commencement has been rescheduled for the end of August.
Blood Donations Still Needed During Pandemic
By Matilyn Mortensen & Kailey Foster • Mar 23, 2020
With blood drives being canceled all over the country, The American Red Cross is beginning to experience a “crisis within a crisis” -- a dangerously low blood supply. People throughout Utah have been wondering how they can help during this pandemic. One way is by taking the time to donate blood.
Confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Utah are now at 257 people and over 5,000 have been reportedly tested.
Utah's First Coronavirus Death, 45 New Cases Announced
On Sunday, a Utah man over the age of 60 passed away due to complications related to the coronavirus. According to the Utah Department of Health announcement in relation to his death, the man was from Davis County, had underlying medical conditions and had been hospitalized for two days prior to his death.
Ogden's Own To Sell Sanitizer
In an effort to combat hand sanitizer shortages, the FDA has allowed businesses holding distilled spirits plant permits to make and sell sanitizer. Ogden’s Own Distillery, the maker of Five Wives Vodka and Porter’s Whiskey, began selling a sanitizer product on Friday.
One USU Student Says This Is The Second Time A Pandemic Has Affected Commencement For Her
By Matilyn Mortensen & Harley Barnes • Mar 20, 2020
Efforts to eliminate large gatherings continue across the state in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and on Wednesday all eight public universities in Utah announced their commencement ceremonies will be rescheduled or canceled.
In Light of Pandemic, Student Assessment, School Day Requirements Suspended
The Utah State Board of Education has waived the requirement for 180 school days and 990 educational hours and is suspending statewide assessments because of both the state and national state of emergency declarations regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
State Department of Health Updates, Press Conf., Thursday, Mar. 19
As of Thursday afternoon, there are 78 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Utah. The number of visitors to the state who have tested positively is still 10 and the number of Utahns who have been diagnosed with the virus is 68.
Senator Deidre Henderson Files As Spencer Cox's Lt. Gov. Candidate
Senator Deidre Henderson began her political career over a decade ago when she worked on Jason Chaffez’s congressional campaign. In 2012 she was elected to represent Utah Senate District 7 and now she will be adding something else to her political resume-- candidate for lieutenant governor.
Senator Deidre Henderson To Be Spencer Cox's Running Mate
On Thursday morning, Lt. Govenor Spencer Cox announced Utah state Senator Deidre Henderson would be his running mate for Utah's 2020 gubenatorial race.
Round-up of Utah Coronavirus Updates for Wednesday, March 18
Between the earthquake and cornoavirus news, there has been a lot to keep up with on Wednesday. Here are some of the newest developments with COVID-19.
Local Food Resources For Those In Need During The Pandemic
As social distancing measures are being taken during the global coronavirus pandemic, many Utahns may find themselves in need of additional food resources. Utahns Against Hunger have compiled a list of resources that are avalible. That list can be found here.
How To Talk To Children About The Coronavirus And Earthquakes Like Mister Rogers Would
Throughout his career, Mister Rogers often broke down difficult current events in a way that made it easier for children to process them. UPR’s Matilyn Mortensen spoke with Vonda Jump Norman about how parents and caretakers can use the tools he did to help the children in their life navigate uncertainty.
Between efforts to mitigate the spread of coronavirus and the largest earthquake Utah has seen in 28 years, there is a lot of uncertainty right now. It’s hard for everyone to deal with, but children especially may find themselves confused when large, scary, current events like these dominate the news cycle.
State Department of Health COVID-19 Updates, Wednesday, March 18
Wednesday's press conference was cancelled due to the earthquake earlier in the day, so the daily Utah Health Department updates on the spread of coronavirus in Utah were provided online.
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October 2 Friday Update: Conditions Needed for WCCUSD To Re-Open School Buildings
Contra Costa County received positive news on Tuesday when the state updated the county’s COVID-19 status, moving the county from the Purple-tier to the Red-tier status related to the number and presence of coronavirus cases.
It was a welcomed change and evidence that physical/social distancing measures do have an effect on slowing and reducing the spread of the virus. The change allows more business, churches and gyms to reopen at a certain capacity, and schools can consider reopening after the county has remained in the Red tier for 14 consecutive days.
For us to return to in-person instruction safely, all District zip codes must be in the Orange tier for 21 consecutive days and all zip codes and the surrounding counties (Alameda, Solano) meet the following conditions:
Percent positive cases is 3 percent or lower
Less than 10 cases per 100,000
Contra Costa County currently has a 6.3 case rate per 100,000 and a 3.7% positivity rate. We know the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted WCCUSD communities at a higher and disproportionate rate. In a number of WCCUSD’s communities, the case and positivity rate are much higher with El Sobrante (18 cases per/100,000, 5.6% positivity rate), Richmond (16.2/100,000, 7.8%) and San Pablo (17.3/100,000, 6.6%) having some of the highest percentage and cases per 100,000 in the county. The rates for these 3 cities would remain strongly in the Purple. You can view county wide details here.
The impact the pandemic has had on our community is why we have focused our phased-in return to school approach on the HEALTH AND SAFETY of students and staff. As part of the District’s Return to School Plan, we outlined the conditions necessary to safely return to in-person instruction. Those conditions are closely aligned with the state’s Orange-tiered status. If and when we do return to in-person instruction, the phased-in approach will be necessary due to our facilities not being able to accommodate 100% of students within the social distancing guidelines that are required in the Orange tier.
Nothing replaces the experience of in-person, students-teachers and student-student interaction. We miss and need those experiences and are eager to return to in-person instruction. But again, we must do it safely for everyone.
While we are confident the District will be in Distance Learning for the foreseeable future, district staff is in the process of evaluating each school on its readiness to host in-person instruction once that is possible.
If and when we can return, the facilities team will work with school leaders to examine physical/social distancing requirements, proper and adequate ventilation, implementing a check-in process, providing the correct personal protective equipment (PPE) and developing a mask policy. The District’s nurses and safety team have also developed and are piloting a contact tracing procedure and process for students and staff at every school and department.
Switching topics a little, Contra Costa County is offering free flu shots at its COVID-19 testing locations in Richmond (near the Richmond Memorial Auditorium on Nevin Ave.), North Richmond (1547 2nd St. in Richmond), Pinole (Pinole Public Library, 2935 Pinole Valley Road), and San Pablo (West County Health Center, 13601 San Pablo Ave).
The county is also hosting free one-day flu shots clinics at two locations in Richmond: October 8 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Shields Reid Community Center, 1410 Kelsey St. and October 18 from noon to 4 p.m. at Tibetan Association of Northern California, 5200 Dalai Lama Ave. No appointment is necessary
I want to thank everyone that completed the Multipurpose Family Income Forms that we talked about last Friday and to encourage families that have not to please do so. The forms are about much more than lunch and help support a variety of services and programs at your school. Please complete and share the forms with other families. English form.
We also need students to join the Prioritization Committee and help determine the criteria and priorities for updating the District’s Master Plan related to schools and facilities. Students would commit to 4 to 6 meetings over the course of the year. We need two students from each high school family. Please sign up with the Prioritization Committee Nominee form.
I want to make you aware of two other ways to get involved. One is completing the Community Survey about the priorities for the Master Plan.
The second is to join the Redistricting Commission, which is tasked with reviewing and possibly revising the boundaries for the five trustee areas based on the 2020 federal census data that will become available in 2021. The District has committed to using an Independent Redistricting Commission to conduct that review and make decisions about any possible revisions to the trustee area boundaries. To apply or for more information visit https://www.wccusd.net/redistrictingcommission. The boundaries only affect voting for board trustees and do not affect school boundaries.
Last, but not least, I want to wish everyone a happy National Principals Month, which started yesterday. As a former middle school principal, I want to say thank you to WCCUSD’s principals for leading their communities. Distance Learning has made this role more difficult but the principals have done a fantastic job leading us through.
Have a great weekend and remember to stay safe and continue to follow the social/physical distancing guidelines and wear a mask.
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Bomb threats made to Bedford, Mass., Bedford, NH, schools
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School officials in both Bedford, Massachusetts, and Bedford, New Hampshire, say bomb threats forced them to evacuate or cancel classes on Wednesday.Watch ReportAbout an hour into classes on Wednesday, students at Bedford High School in Massachusetts got word of a bomb threat."We got evacuated and had to go from the high school to the middle school," said student Noah Schmitz.Administrators did not offer may specifics, but said the threat was emailed to Principal Henry Turner."I have never received an email like this before as principal, certainly was scared bit, also know that my job is to make sure the school is safe," Turner said.At around the same time about an hour north, classes were being cancelled at Bedford High School in New Hampshire.A school administrator there received a bomb threat saying that a bomb or device was planted somewhere on campus.Investigators don't know if the two threats are related."The Bedford (Massachusetts) Police Department is reaching out the Bedford, New Hampshire, Police Department to work together to identify that threat. We've also reached out to law enforcement partners at the federal level," Bedford, Massachusetts, Police Chief Robert Bongiorno said.In Bedford, Massachusetts, administrators say the threat doesn't appear to be credible but they were not taking any chances."This was absolutely out of an abundance of caution. When it comes to our students, safety that is our number one priority," Bedford, Massachusetts, Schools Superintendent John Sills said.In New Hampshire, Bedford High School and Lurgio Middle School were closed Wednesday. School officials said police are conducting a search of the building.
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School officials in both Bedford, Massachusetts, and Bedford, New Hampshire, say bomb threats forced them to evacuate or cancel classes on Wednesday.
Watch Report
About an hour into classes on Wednesday, students at Bedford High School in Massachusetts got word of a bomb threat.
"We got evacuated and had to go from the high school to the middle school," said student Noah Schmitz.
Administrators did not offer may specifics, but said the threat was emailed to Principal Henry Turner.
"I have never received an email like this before as principal, certainly was scared bit, also know that my job is to make sure the school is safe," Turner said.
At around the same time about an hour north, classes were being cancelled at Bedford High School in New Hampshire.
A school administrator there received a bomb threat saying that a bomb or device was planted somewhere on campus.
Investigators don't know if the two threats are related.
"The Bedford (Massachusetts) Police Department is reaching out the Bedford, New Hampshire, Police Department to work together to identify that threat. We've also reached out to law enforcement partners at the federal level," Bedford, Massachusetts, Police Chief Robert Bongiorno said.
In Bedford, Massachusetts, administrators say the threat doesn't appear to be credible but they were not taking any chances.
"This was absolutely out of an abundance of caution. When it comes to our students, safety that is our number one priority," Bedford, Massachusetts, Schools Superintendent John Sills said.
In New Hampshire, Bedford High School and Lurgio Middle School were closed Wednesday. School officials said police are conducting a search of the building.
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MORGAN: The media sure shut up fast once Nenshi got caught up in the Snowbird Scandal
“But how are we supposed to trust a mainstream media that attacks Kenney with fury, while it gives a complete pass to Nenshi over the same issue?”
Cory Morgan
I am old enough to remember when the Great Snowbird Scandal was the top of the news in Alberta. For well over a week it burned white hot. You couldn’t turn on your radio, TV or read a publication without seeing headlines on the issue. The hypocrisy was unbearable. Albertans on all sides of the spectrum were furious as they saw jet-setting MLAs & staffers travelling to tropical just as the locked their constituents down over Christmas.
The questions kept coming.
“Did Premier Kenney do enough?”
“Should Kenney kick all of the offending MLAs out of caucus?”
“What did Kenney know, and when did he know it?”
“Did Kenney lie?”
“Should Kenney resign?”
A major publication even wrote an entire story on how the Twitter hashtag ‘#ResignKenney’ was trending. The social media mob was swarming and they wanted blood. They would not rest without more heads on more pikes. Kenney went underground, but with every day he was missing, the scandal only seemed to burn hotter.
And then suddenly…. poof! It all disappeared.
It was as if a switch was tripped. The entire issue was suddenly something that was behind us. It was time to move on to other issues. The media was reporting on new stories and the mob – at least the mob on the left – was gone. Poof!
Naheed Nenshi is what happened.
The Calgary mayor was found to have pulled off the same hypocritical stunt that Premier Jason Kenney had. Nenshi’s handpicked Chief of Staff had travelled to Hawaii over the holidays with the Mayor’s knowledge and blessing. Nenshi gave a short statement saying that civil servants should not be held responsible in the same way as elected officials and that he would not fire his chief of staff, as Premier Kenney had. Now that the scandal had touched one of their progressive darlings, the mainstream media decided that it was no longer a story worth covering and slinked away. No follow-up questions, no demands for blood. It was time to move on.
Let’s be clear. A chief of staff is not a civil servant. We are not talking about a bus driver or administrative worker at city hall. A chief of staff is the right-hand man or woman of the elected official they were chosen by. They are political staff. A chief of staff works directly with their boss on the messaging and implementation of policy.
Nenshi’s chief of staff was right in the thick of things when Nenshi demanded that the provincial government lock us all down. Nenshi’s chief of staff helped communicate all of Nenhi’s chiding “stay home, save lives” statements and the chief of staff is privy to meetings where it is decided that police should crack down on kids playing hockey. The chief of staff was surely right behind Mayor Nenshi when he called on Calgarians to snitch upon their neighbours. The chief of staff should be held accountable for his or her actions.
There will be no accountability in Calgary over the hypocrisy. Nenshi is feeling no pressure from this and the media has given him a pass.
For all Kenney’s hypocrisy in this during his government’s own lockdown, Nenshi was even more militant in demanding draconian closures with draconian punishments.
The gross double-standard being practiced by the mainstream media should be noted and remembered. Have no doubt, Premier Jason Kenney has been the architect of much of his own misery. He deserves what he got, and the media should continue to ask questions about his truthfulness in the matter.
Calgary is going into a municipal election year and we can be assured that Mayor Nenshi will yet again get an easy ride from the mainstream media. It is going to be tough for up and comers to challenge an incumbent with the government-funded press on his side.
Thankfully, new media outlets like the Western Standard and others are allowing citizens to bypass the establishment media who feel that they are the gatekeepers of information. With each act of hypocrisy, the mainstream media loses a little more credibility and loses another part of their audience.
While I will call the mainstream media out on it, I don’t want them to stop. They are dinosaurs of a dying and obsolete information medium. Let’s just keep giving them rope and let them finish the job themselves. Eventually, no government subsidies will matter as there will no longer be an audience
Cory Morgan is the Podcast Editor and a columnist for the Western Standard
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“Premier Kenney needs to pick a lane and to stick to it with authority.”
Support for the United Conservative Party under Premier Kenney’s leadership has collapsed. Exclusive polling for the Western Standard has the UCP languishing at an abysmal 26 percent support while the NDP is at 41 percent while the new and still leaderless Wildrose Independence Party has climbed to 9 percent province-wide. This trend is nothing less than catastrophic for the UCP and they will need to make some major changes if they hope to be re-elected in 2023.
With nearly two years in power now, it is tough to point to any concrete changes or policies from the Kenney government. While Jason Kenney talked a great game at campaign time, we have seen little follow-through. Where is the promised democratic reform through citizen’s initiated referenda and recall legislation? Where is the fiscal conservatism and moves to get the budget under control? When will the government act on even one of the Fair Deal panel recommendations?
While Premier Jason Kenney continues to try to be everything to everybody, he is losing support on all fronts. The NDP-left will never learn to love the UCP, yet Kenney remains reticent to take on the government unions which are opposing all efforts at fiscal reform or efficiencies. Kenney has talked tough with unions, but won’t act. It’s time to take a stand and start cutting spending, not just haircuts. We are running out of money and taxpayers are running out of patience. It won’t become any easier for waiting.
On the democratic reform front, Kenney needs to implement the promised referenda and recall legislation. It has been nearly two years and this doesn’t need to be studied any longer. We know what we need and we know what we voted for. Give it to us already.
On the Western alienation front, Kenney has been at his most disappointing. This again has been clearly indicated in the recent polling commissioned by the Western Standard. Support for independence is exploding to new records in Alberta. While the UCP was not elected with a mandate to pursue independence, they were elected as a party expected to stand up to Ottawa. It is time that they did it.
Ottawa has more control over Alberta today than when Jason Kenney came to office. Tough talk is clearly not working.
No more panels. No more “expert” studies. No more kicking the can down the road. Albertans want some leadership and they want somebody to protect Alberta’s interests from an increasingly hostile federal government.
We have made it clear that we want a provincial pension plan. I doubt that I will see it implemented before I am old enough to collect it, and I am only 49 years old.
Why more study on whether or not we want a provincial police force? We know we want it. Now start working on what it will take to create it. What did we get? The province commissioned yet another study.
Where is the Alberta Chief Firearms Officer we were told we would get? How hard is it to appoint somebody? Instead, we got an Alberta Firearms Advisory Committee. More talk.
We are getting a referendum on equalization at least, but Kenney has made clear that there will be no ‘or else’ consequences if Ottawa and the other provinces fail to make reforms.
We are living in tough times. Citizens want to see leadership and that means seeing leaders making tough, definitive decisions. Wishy washy approaches to issues aren’t acceptable.
Premier Kenney needs to pick a lane and to stick to it with authority. If you oppose lockdowns, don’t impose them. If you support lockdowns, do it unapologetically and do it in full. Trying to appease both sides only alienates both sides.
Talk is cheap and we are tired of hearing it. If the current government can’t discover how and where they want to actually act on things, they will be replaced in the next election, and I fear for what that replacement may be.
OUELLETTE & SHAW: Freedom of expression is under attack in Canada
“While Canada is a relatively free country, the pandemic has exacerbated our pre-existing shortcomings in terms of freedom of expression.”
Our freedom of expression is under attack. In recent years, there’s been a significant trend toward censorship in the media, in academia, and among the general population. The controversy at the University of Ottawa over the use of the N-word is one example among others. Why do we need to worry about this trend? For one thing, an attack on our freedom of expression is also an attack on our standard of living.
The virtues of freedom of expression are widely recognized: It improves the quality of our democratic institutions, facilitates the exchange of ideas, and leads to sounder, more transparent public policies.
But aside from these benefits, there is also a strong link between freedom of expression and economic growth. This is confirmed by the economic literature and by many academic papers from different researchers at Stanford University, Dartmouth College, and the University of California, Berkeley, who all arrive at the same conclusion: The exchange of ideas stimulates innovation, and innovation is one of the main engines of economic growth and rising living standards.
Encouraging the exchange of ideas and the protection of freedom of expression is therefore intuitively beneficial, and this is confirmed by the scientific literature. But concretely, what would the average Canadian stand to gain if our governments put in place public policies encouraging greater freedom of expression?
According to our calculations and our econometric model, individual Canadians would be an average of $2,522 richer each year. Obviously, this amount wouldn’t be deposited directly into one’s bank account, but rather, a gradual increase in our living standards would result from the effects of more freedom of expression.
In the sample of 132 countries used in our study, Canada is among the top 15 per cent in terms of freedom of expression. But while it is true that we live in a relatively free society, taking this good ranking for granted would be a mistake.
Indeed, governments have a lot of room to grow when it comes to improving freedom of expression, especially if we compare ourselves to Norway, the top country in the ranking. There, it is standard practice for politicians to make constant efforts, encouraged by citizens, to better protect freedom of expression.
In contrast, in Canada, and especially in certain provinces like Quebec, the government can arbitrarily decide to subsidize one media outlet rather than another, which can potentially hinder media independence and lead to biased and less reliable information. Not to mention that it is increasingly difficult to obtain information from our governments through requests for access to information, which hampers proper public debate. This situation should alarm us.
In order to improve the country’s performance in terms of freedom of expression, thereby also improving our standard of living, we have three recommendations:
Favour media independence from government by limiting arbitrary subsidies and, in their place, creating a regulatory and fiscal framework favourable to all media;
Encourage Canadian public universities to protect freedom of expression in order to truly allow their researchers, professors, and students to express themselves freely without risk of reprisals;
Increase the information and data available to the population by reducing the need to make requests for access to information, in order to facilitate public debate.
While Canada is a relatively free country, the pandemic has exacerbated our pre-existing shortcomings in terms of freedom of expression. We must not allow the current situation to become the new normal. For the sake of our standard of living and the wealth of our country, we must do more to promote and protect the freedom of expression of all Canadians.
GUEST COLUMN: By Miguel Ouellette, Director of Operations and Economist, and Maria Lily Shaw, Economist, Montreal Economic Institute
“If Rehn was the sacrificial lamb, it raises even bigger question about why his head was on the block, and not the other six.”
Derek Fildebrandt
The Great Snowbird Scandal has finally claimed its first real political victim. On Thursday morning, Jason Kenney fired Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn from the UCP Caucus. But none of it adds up.
Rehn – for all his political sin of travelling to Mexico during his own government’s lockdown – was just one of seven snowbird MLAs.
Former Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard was forced to resign from cabinet –a demotion to be sure – but she still remains comfortably in the UCP benches. Jeremy Nixon, Jason Stephan, Tanya Fir, and Tany Yao all still enjoy full membership in the UCP Caucus.
Why is Pat Rehn the only one to be exiled to northwest corner of the legislature – otherwise known as ‘Siberia’?
Publicly at least, Kenney’s statement on the unilateral firing did not mention the Snowbird Scandal at all.
“The most important job of an MLA is to represent his or her constituents,” Kenney wrote in his statement. “It has become clear that Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn has failed to do so. He has made no meaningful effort to work in his constituency, or properly to represent his hard-working constituents.”
“I have repeatedly asked Mr. Rehn to be more present in his constituency. He has ignored calls from me, UCP Caucus leadership, and his constituents to do so.”
So the Snowbird Scandal had nothing to do with it, on paper at least. He was fired because he was an absentee MLA not working very hard, according to Kenney. It’s a curious reasoning that requires some scratching below the surface.
The Slave Lake Town Council issued a scathing letter on January 5 with a laundry list of sins committed by Rehn, including their claim that he doesn’t live in Slave Lake. In fact, they allege that he mostly lives in Texas, something Rehn denies.
While Texas would be a bit far aboard, I have a spoiler for readers: many, many MLAs and MPs do not reside full-time in their constituencies.
Even Jason Kenney himself does not live in his Calgary-Lougheed constituency. In fact, there is pretty strong evidence that he didn’t quite live in Alberta for much of the time that he was a Calgary MP.
It doesn’t really matter, so long as an MP or MLA works hard for their constituents, and earns their support come election day. At the end of the day, constituency boundaries are largely arbitrary lines on a map, drawn up by political appointees.
But for Pat Rehn alone, it appears to have mattered to Kenney.
Kenney official reason given – that he wasn’t working hard or around the constituency – holds no water.
Most backbench MLAs – especially those on the government side of the house – have remarkably little of importance to do. They read cue cards with pre-scripted puffball questions and pablum speeches written by staffers when the legislature is in session. When the legislation is not in session, their biggest job is to show up and be seen kissing babies at their local legion.
Most complaints about Rehn from his constituency is that he wasn’t kissing enough babies. Is that alone really cause to fire an MLA from the caucus?
For those not born yesterday, something clearly doesn’t add up.
So why was Pat Rehn really fired by Kenney?
Western Standard reporters have obtained some interesting documents that appear to cast a new shadow over Rehn. Our reporters will do their due diligence with these documents before we discuss them publicly, but if they are what they appear to be, then this is the real reason that Kenney sacked Rehn.
We can only hope that Kenney did his due diligence with these documents first.
But even if these documents prove the worst possible scenario, Rehn deserves a chance to explain himself fairly.
If the UCP had kept its promise to pass recall legislation, then his constituents could judge for themselves. But, they could also decide to pass judgement on the other six snowbirds.
Was Rehn just a sacrificial lamb for the other six Snowbird MLAs? A Mainstreet Research poll conducted for the Western Standard found 68 per cent of Albertans want Kenney to fire all seven (known) Snowbirds. Alarmingly, 41 per cent even wanted Kenney himself to resign over the matter, including 21 per cent of those who voted UCP last time.
If Rehn was the sacrificial lamb for this scandal, it raises even bigger questions about why his head was on the block, and not the other six.
Perhaps Rehn was a rogue and this was a convenient opportunity to cull him from the herd.
One way or another, we don’t know the whole story. I’d be surprised if we know half of it yet.
Derek Fildebrandt is the Publisher of the Western Standard
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Neighbours wake to Point Cook fatal fire
by Jack Paynter
3rd Dec 2020 2:35 PM | Updated: 4th Dec 2020 5:46 AM
A woman has been charged with murder and arson over a house fire that killed a "young, happy" couple and their newborn baby in Melbourne.
Abbey Forrest, 19, her partner Inderpal Singh, 28, also known as Indi, and their three-week-old daughter Ivy were found dead in their Point Cook townhouse after it was engulfed in flames in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Arson and Explosives Squad detectives arrested 46-year-old Jenny Hayes in Airport West on Thursday morning.
She has been charged with three counts each of murder and arson causing death.
Her matter appeared briefly in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday evening, but Ms Hayes did not appear herself on the videolink over which the hearing took place.
She was represented by her lawyer Erin Byrt, who said Ms Hayes was at Richmond Police Station.
The court heard Ms Hayes was in a "poor" state while in custody.
She is on two types of medication and will be assessed for pain management, it heard.
Ms Byrt said it had not been disclosed what Ms Hayes' relationship to the young family was.
Abbey Forrest, her partner Indi and their daughter Ivy were killed after their townhouse at Point Cook burned down. Picture: Handout via NCA NewsWire
Police said earlier in a statement on Thursday that it was believed the woman was known to the one of the occupants of the property.
"Police are not looking for anyone else in relation to the matter," they said.
Ms Hayes was remanded into custody and will next appear in court on March 1, 2021.
Heroic neighbours desperately tried to break an upstairs window with an axe to free the young family but they were forced back by the ferocity of the blaze, which destroyed the house in a matter of minutes.
Abbey Forrest (left), with sister Emily, dad Alan and mum Elizabeth. Picture: Supplied
Abbey's sister Emily Forrest said she had the "biggest, boldest personality".
She visited her sister's house with her partner, Joel Martin, on Thursday to lay flowers and a Peppa Pig toy in memory of the young family.
The family had only moved into the house three weeks before the tragedy.
"To see this is just heartbreaking," Emily said.
"It's been a really hard one for my parents to deal with and I'm just so lucky that we've got so many great family and friends surrounding us through this really hard time."
Emily said she was really close with her only sibling and the pair "grew up riding ponies and always running amok".
"She was an amazing mum; she just took to it like a duck to water. I'm so incredibly proud of her," Emily said.
"She was absolutely smitten. She was so over the moon to become a mum and she did so well."
Emily Forrest (pictured with partner Joel Martin) said her sister Abbey had been a ‘great’ mother and Abbey’s partner Indi a doting father before the new family were killed in a horrific blaze on Wednesday. Picture: NCA NewsWire/David Crosling
The couple had been moving into the townhouse when Abbey went into labour.
Emily said her sister's partner Indi was a "very loving man" who adored Abbey dearly and their daughter just as much.
"I came home early from a camping trip and snuck into the hospital and got to have a quick little visit, despite COVID," she said.
"Then we had a beautiful family dinner only a week or two ago so we got to meet everyone and our son got to meet his cousin; that was really beautiful."
The scene of an apartment fire in Point Cook where a family of three were killed. Picture: NCA NewsWire/David Crosling
Emily said she was in "disbelief" and needed to see the house herself to know something really happened. She also thanked the neighbours who tried to save her sister and her family.
Close friend Gurvinder Singh last spoke to Inderpal on Monday and said he was "really happy" to be a dad.
He said Inderpal had moved to Australia from India about four years ago and they had lived together for about 18 months.
"He helped me so much when I first moved here, with each and everything," Mr Singh said. "I don't have any words, just sadness."
Emergency services were called to the Totem Way property just after 3.30am on Wednesday.
Neighbour Jade Bartolo was one of the first on scene and said she was waiting for her partner to get home from work when she heard someone screaming "fire".
She ran to the front door of the burning house but couldn't get in so she went to her shed and grabbed an axe.
Neighbour Jade Bartolo said she threw an axe at the burning home about five times before watching the woman fall back into the room as flames consumed the property. Picture: NCA NewsWire/David Crosling
"Then we saw someone up at the top window, we saw someone screaming for help," Ms Bartolo said.
"They were trying to half hang out the window and then my partner rocked up and he started throwing the axe at the window, trying to break it for them to get out.
"It happened in about four minutes. There was no smoke and then it was just black, the whole room."
After throwing the axe about five times, Ms Bartolo's neighbour Jemil grabbed an object from the garden bed and was able to break the window.
But by then, it was too late.
"By the time we actually broke the window they didn't hear a response from whoever was up there," Ms Bartolo said.
"We saw their arms, like half their body hanging out the window trying to get out the window but they couldn't.
"Then they fell back in and my partner said he heard them kind of take a breath and then drop to the floor. That's the last we heard."
Ms Bartolo said it was "horrifying" to see the couple unable to escape.
"It was pretty sad to see and hear them trying to get help and we couldn't get them down. We did the best we could," she said.
"They were saying 'help, help'. That's all I can hear in my head right now, just them screaming for help. I can't forget it.
"They were responding at the start for like the first two minutes and then it was just black, the whole room. It was pretty terrifying.
"I've never seen anything happen that fast and go through nearly three houses."
Ms Bartolo said the window was secured by a chain and couldn't be opened wide enough for a person to get out.
She said firefighters arrived five minutes later.
Ms Bartolo said there was no way the family could have escaped through the front if the fire was at the bottom of the house.
She said her house was almost an exact replica of the one that burnt down and she was now "terrified to stay there".
"I've already been looking for other properties, potentially; we're only here until February," Ms Bartolo said.
"It scares the s*** out of me, knowing they were desperate and you can't get out. They had nowhere to go. There's only four windows upstairs. I have my own house and live upstairs myself."
Another neighbour, Kirra Haeata, said she saw someone from the house receiving an Uber Eats delivery about an hour before the fire started.
"I finished work at 1am and I ordered Uber Eats and they were standing out the front waiting for their Uber Eats as well," she said.
"I went to sleep and then the next thing I know was the neighbour screaming to wake me up. You couldn't see anywhere; it was like grey everywhere. Everyone was choking on smoke and their eyes were burning."
Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Kennedy said the fire was being treated as suspicious due to its intensity when firefighters arrived, with the blaze raging at the front and upstairs.
"With accidental fires that doesn't really occur," he said.
"I'm sure with our arson chemist and forensic experts, we have a large team here, I'm hopeful that we'll get those answers."
The house remained cordoned off by police tape on Thursday and a few bunches of flowers had been laid out the front.
A GoFundMe fundraiser has been set up to help the family cover the funeral costs.
jack.paynter@news.com.au
Originally published as Couple, newborn killed in fire revealed
A toy and flowers left by Emily Forrest, the sister of a woman killed in the fire, and her partner Joel Martin. Picture: NCA NewsWire/David Crosling
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Review: The Banner Saga 2
By Matt Thrower 03 May 2016 0
Released 19 Apr 2016
Developer: Stoic
Reviewed on: PC
It's perhaps a stretch to label the ten odd hours of the original Banner Saga as an actual saga. From the length and the ending it was clear there was always going to be a sequel. If you've still got the save files from the original you can start this installment by importing your characters and the aftermath of your choices. If you didn't, or you played it on iOS like me, or you just want a chance to reset the bleak mood, you can begin with a pregenerated slate.
Not that starting over has much of an impact on the grim tale that's unfurling like a ragged banner in this saga. It's hard to talk much about the story without giving stuff away. Let's just say the whole world is collapsing around you and most of the characters are deranged, depressed or dangerous. And that's just the people in your party.
A whole new meaning to walking off the edge of a cliff
You're charged with leading a band of warriors and civilians toward the tenuous possibility of safety. The game is a peculiar and creative mixture of strategy, role-playing, resource management and chose your own adventure book. It reminds me more than a little of the classic King of Dragon Pass, although the story is both more epic in scope and more restrictive in choice.
It also shares with that venerable game a tangible sense of otherworldliness. Of being set in a time and place quite different from our own yet recognisable and real. The Banner Saga draws heavily on Viking culture for its striking visual style and some of its mythology. Many other elements such as the all-male, horned, giant-like Varl, who play a major role in the story, are unique. Either way the lore seems deep and plausible.
It’s not all swords and axes: poems and magic play their part too.
That sense of authenticity helps to draw you into the unforgiving world and makes you care about the characters under your charge. Much of the game involves watching your caravan move across the world, punctuated by multiple-choice decisions and the need to camp to regain morale and provisions. It's a lot more engaging than it sounds.
That engagement comes from the astonishing presentation. The cartoon like graphics appear simplistic at first, but the scrolling backdrops that drift past as you play are astonishingly beautiful. Backed by a fine, evocative score, just watching the game is a pleasure in itself. Partly it's down to your investment in the choices you're presented with. There's rarely much you can anticipate about the outcomes of these decisions, yet each feels crucial. Pick well, and your people will stay safe and prosper. Choose poorly and people will starve and die.
So we're halfway through a review on The Wargamer, and we've said nothing about war. The greater part of the game outside of travelling is fighting tactical battles against the various foes pursuing you down the river. This is standard grid-based combat with some interesting twists. Characters have two essential stats, Armour and Strength. The latter acts as both health and damage. But when you attack, you can strike against either stat, with Armour reducing the damage down to Strength. So every blow is a choice between less damage now against more damage later.
Only Vikings could hold a party wild enough to level a whole town
There's more to it than that, of course. There are different weapons like swords, spears and bows, with different range and reach. Everyone can equip an item too, for stat boosts or additional effects. Each character also has a special ability which you can activate by spending a pool of willpower. You can also use these points to increase damage or move distance, and replenish them by killing enemies.
What these battles lack is much in the way of tension or surprise. None of these factors are random, and foes generally deploy and behave in a predictable manner. Battlefields tend to be cramped, so strategy is as much about number-crunching as it is positioning. This gives the combat a dry, almost abstract feel. There's immense depth in planning a good encounter, from deciding initiative order to chaining up mutually beneficial ability activations. But for all the challenge on offer, I found this by-the-numbers approach quickly became repetitive and dull.
That was a major failing in the first game, which had little to enrich the turgid combat encounters. This sequel has learned some important lessons. Battlefields are more cluttered with scenery, giving you more to think about. And partway through the story the palette of enemies diversifies, which helps a lot toward keeping interest levels up. Ultimately, though, it was the desire to see more of the text-based elements of the game rather than more stat-crunching which drove me toward the conclusion.
I like not these odds. Bring me some better odds!
Depending on your taste, you may find the austere purity of the deterministic combat more interesting and engaging than I did. If so, I'll wager you'll enjoy the semi-random nature of the adventure game elements rather less. Either way, there's an awkward disparity between the two at the core of this game.
It's fortunate that the setting, characters and writing are more than enough to throw a unifying duvet over these awkward bedfellows. The unfolding tale is a struggle for survival which presses primal buttons and elicits powerful responses in the player. Yet it's not all doom and gloom. There's a strange humanity in watching a world die and the characters under your care bend and break under the strain. No matter what dark places this saga goes in future installments, it has the power to remind us of the value of life.
Tags: Role-Playing, Tactical, Turn-based
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von Briesen Launches Chicago Office and Welcomes Nine Intellectual Property Lawyers
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MILWAUKEE, WI – Susan E. Lovern, President and CEO of von Briesen & Roper, s.c., today announced that the intellectual property lawyers of the former Miller, Matthias & Hull LLP firm have joined the firm’s new downtown Chicago office at One North Franklin Street, Suite 2350. In addition to nine lawyers and a registered patent agent, five staff including a patent illustrator have joined the firm. Miller, Matthias & Hull LLP, was a boutique IP firm that had been focused exclusively on patent prosecution and counseling services and previously had been named a “Go-To Law Firm®”, by Corporate Counsel Magazine when conducting a survey of the Chief Patent Counsel of the Fortune 500.
Lovern said, “We have had our sights on both patent prosecution and Chicago as part of our strategic growth plan, and we’re thrilled to be expanding our client services and market presence with this incredible group. The lawyers of Miller, Matthias & Hull have built a superb IP and trademark practice over the last 15 years. They are excited to be joining von Briesen’s larger platform and footprint to meet the needs of their clients and ours. The culture and personality of our firms are a great fit.”
The following lawyers and professionals have joined the firm’s Chicago office:
Thomas A. Miller, Shareholder
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Nicole M. Bulman, Shareholder
Scott E. Baxendale, Counsel
H. Jack Fassnacht, Counsel
Derek E. Clements, Associate
Mary F. Fetsco, Associate
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WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has blasted potential future opponent Anthony Joshua’s worldwide profile in his latest outburst.
As ‘The Bronze Bomber’ continues his preparations to defend the green and gold strap against Luis Ortiz on March 3, Wilder found time to give Joshua a timely reminder of his place on boxing’s world stage.
“He (Anthony Joshua) may have his country behind him and that’s it,” Wilder told ESPN.
“Does he want to be remembered as a country-wide champion? Because he’s not worldwide.
“Over here in America, they don’t even know his name. They just know him as a big guy from England. That’s fact.”
On a potential undisputed five-belt meeting between the pair in the coming months, Wilder added:
“I need him and he needs me at the end of the day, unless he doesn’t want to unify. Unless he wants to stay over his side of the pond and let people gravitate to him and be a fake sign of what he is.
“But he will never be a global icon. You will never be a world-wide figure without me. All roads lead to Deontay Wilder,” said the American.
Wilder, 32, has grown frustrated in his attempts to add more belts to his haul as Joshua collected two for his win over Wladimir Klitschko last April – adding to the IBF strap he claimed against Charles Martin in 2016.
Speaking to WBN on more than one occasion in the past, Wilder has outlined his single-mindedness to unify and have one sole champion in the division, but has since been forced to be patient as Joshua took over from previously unified king and fellow countryman Tyson Fury.
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A history scholar selects essential works about fanaticism
By Alan Charles Kors
Jan. 19, 2008 12:01 am ET
By Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger
The great Enlightenment "Encyclopedia," edited by Denis Diderot (1713-84), defined "fanaticism" as "a blind and impassioned zeal, born of superstitious opinions, which makes men commit absurd, unjust, and cruel acts, not only without shame and without remorse, but, indeed, with a kind of joy and consolation." For Enlightenment minds, the European witchcraft crazes and prosecutions of the 15th through the 17th centuries stood as the most striking symbol of such fanaticism. We use the term "witch hunt" still. No work expressed beliefs about witchcraft more deeply or influenced more zealous behavior than the "Malleus Maleficarum," or "The Hammer of Witches." (A superb critical edition and translation by Christopher S. Mackay was published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press.) Written by two Dominican inquisitors, the "Malleus" never enjoyed the high, official church approval it claimed, but it was used for centuries by both Catholic and Protestant witch-hunters and judges. They relied on its explanations of the unspeakable supernatural horrors that witches performed and on its advice for identifying witches, for torturing or tricking them into confessions, and, finally, for convicting and killing them. The "Malleus" reflected -- and, above all, spread -- a terror of witches, mostly women, who slept with the devil and set about to produce evils that ranged from afflicting men with impotence to causing catastrophic harm and destruction.
The Education of a True Believer
By Lev Kopelev
Harper & Row, 1980
By the 20th century, in Europe at least, it was political, not religious, superstition that led to new terrors. What sort of political fanaticism would lead a bright, idealistic, sensitive young man to join in the immeasurable cruelties of the Bolsheviks' murderous grain requisitions and their deliberate mass starvation of millions of peasants unsympathetic to the future that the Communists desired? Lev Kopelev's autobiographical work puts us inside the fanatical thought and callousness that led to and was indifferent to the suffering of whole peoples. In his chapter titled "The Last Grain Collections (1933)," we see this lover of literature and philosophy taunting a terrified and weeping peasant woman on the verge of death: "Your children will be left hungry, without a mother." He was aware of the human cost but "persuaded" himself not to "give in to debilitating pity." Kopelev and his comrades, after all, were "realizing historical necessity . . . our revolutionary duty." That "duty" slew more in a decade than any witch-hunter ever could have imagined possible.
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Home Players Corey Norman Dragons risk 2019 for future benefit
Dragons risk 2019 for future benefit
Moving Gareth Widdop to fullback means Norman can come into the side. But it is a massive risk for the Dragons in 2019.
Dan Nicholls
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 13: Gareth Widdop of the Dragons looks on during the round 10 NRL match between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the St George Illawarra Dragons at ANZ Stadium on May 13, 2018 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)
Dragons and England superstar Gareth Widdop recently sent shockwaves through the minds of fans wearing the famous Red V when he announced his intention to return home to England.
At first, it sounded as though he may leave before the 2019 season even kicked off, but it has since been settled that he will play out this year before moving possibly as soon as after this season’s finals series.
The Dragons moved quickly to sign a replacement in Corey Norman for 2020 and beyond but given the Eels salary cap position combined with their awful 2018, Norman was released a year early.
All of this makes perfect sense on paper but the Dragons are running a huge risk, at least in early 2019, by trying to fit five into four.
I want to say straight up that Norman is a clever signing and the Dragons had to take their opportunity to replace Widdop given that he is set to leave the club.
That said, the current Dragons set up looks like one that is going to take time to gel.
There is little, or truthfully no doubt, that Widdop is the best number six in that Dragons squad. He was electric in 2018 and was leading the Dally M medal count early on.
Injury and the Dragons loss of form brought him back to the field but even with Norman in the squad, Widdop is the undisputed number one at number six.
He will start the season in the number one jumper.
Although I have no doubt that Widdop will ultimately pay very well in the custodian role, the Dragons are weaker in the halves as a result.
They’ve also alienated their young superstar Matt Dufty who looks set for either a stint in NSW cup or a role that will see him come off the bench each week.
The Charity Shield set up confirmed earlier reports that Dufty would come into fullback in the second half of games with Widdop shifting into the halves with Hunt moving to nine with McInnes coming off the park.
My head hurt just typing that sentence let alone trying to digest it.
If this becomes the norm every week for the Dragons we’ll see an 80 minute number nine, in genuine contention for an Origin jersey less than a year ago, relegated to a 50 minute role.
We’ll see a halfback that the Dragons are paying over a million dollars a season shifted from his playmaking role.
We’ll see the Dragons 2018 top try scorer and at ties sole threat in attack, Matt Dufty take up a bench spot despite only being able to play one position. He’ll play 30 minutes at fullback.
Widdop, the Dragons best player, will be required to play two positions across 80 minutes, including 30-or-so minutes in the defensive line after returning kicks from fullback.
Imagine what this will do to the confidence of Dufty. The very same Dufty which the Dragons re-signed last week to play number one for the club in the long term.
McInness too. Brilliant season Cam, you’re second in line for an Origin jersey but you’ll be forced to play 50 minutes each week so Corey Norman can play 80.
Widdop, learn two games. Yes, the positions can be similar but you spend 50 minutes returning kicks, positioning yourself and directing the defensive line then suddenly you’re in the line. That’s tough, even for a player of Widdop’s pedigree.
As for Hunt, the million dollar man, we’re going to shift you out of position to play number nine to accommodate Norman.
That’s a huge risk for a player who with all due respect has been painfully inconsistent over the past two seasons.
Of course all this is speculation and perhaps Dufty will spend the season playing for the Cutters, but I absolutely hate that option.
Dufty was playing a lone hand at times in 2018. The Dragons faultered after an electric start. Hunt and Widdop struggled. Dufty had the speed and footwork to take on the line.
To lose that, or at worst minimise that, for a one-season quick fix seems a huge risk to me.
The other option is Norman plays for the Cutters. Considering Widdop has spent the pre-season reportedly training at fullback that seems to be out of the question.
Throw in young Lomax being asked to play out of position and the chance that Frizell may have to play lock for the 2019 season and the Dragons are going to take time to settle.
It may work out as the NRL season isn’t won in rounds 1 to 10, however it certainly can be lost.
I fear that the Dragons are taking a risk that could send them backwards, at least in the short term.
Let us know below, will the Widdop to fullback move prove a success? Is Norman worth the risk? Am I seeing too much in Dufty?
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pedro the saint March 3, 2019 At 6:10 pm
I dont think Saints will start with a bang like last year. The spine looks ok.
The edge defence looks terrible and I know it’s only one game but against Souths Mary still doesn’t seem confident with the selection. Souths looked far better in structure.
Dufty knows he has to bide his time.
Young blocker looks ready to have a breakout season.
Corbin looks good to give away at least 2 penalties per game.
As for this rotating hooker role none of the highly successful clubs do it and it feels like we are back in the days of Mitch Rein.
WoodChook March 3, 2019 At 6:58 pm
Norman was purchased as a backup for Widdop, with Widdop still playing and one of the Worlds best 5/8’s then I believe Norman should play fullback and Widdop must play 5/8. Saints with a fit Widdop in last seasons semis would of played in the Preliminary final and for this reason Widdop and Hunt should not be separated in the halves.🎱
michaelb113 March 3, 2019 At 7:08 pm
I couldn’t agree more with this article. The Dragons are going backwards with a clueless coach like McGregor, what can you expect? The edge defence was virtually non existant against South last night. After only 5 minutes Souths were ahead 12-0. I also can’t see the Dragons getting off to a good start. With no Jack De Belin and Leeson Au Mau also gone that takes a lot of strike power out, The Dragons in my opinion will be very ordinary in 2019 and will not make the top 8 then hopefully McGregor will be shown the door which should have happened in 2016.
3hats March 3, 2019 At 9:32 pm
So much for your sorry bunch of loses, you got Nothing,
LMFAO at you!
budgielegs March 3, 2019 At 11:50 pm
There are a few untruths as usual in this article, the first being that the Dragons have alienated Matt Dufty. I suggest to Dan Nicholls and anybody who wants to know the truth about Matt Dufty to go to their website and listen to the interview with Ian Millward.
I reiterate what I have said before about Gareth Widdop playing fullback – It’s a waste of his talents and the team won’t get the benefits he can provide if the coach wants him to play there. I do see this as a gamble, and an unnecessary one, but I stop short of saying “the Dragons risk 2019 for future benefit”. I don’t think Mary is so stupid to do this. Some of the other twaddle in this article about Cameron McInnes, Ben Hunt and Zac Lomax is laughable. The Dragons already have two very good hookers, and if they aren’t careful they will lose one of them (Reece Robson) at the end of the coming season. There are a few clubs who are VERY INTERESTED in him, one being the club where the Australian coach is currently working, and you can be sure that the Roosters will be looking for a replacement for Jake Friend in the not too distant future.
daffy March 4, 2019 At 12:42 am
Amazingly insightful comment. You must have finished kindergarten to come up with these pearls of wisdom.
I think even Donald Trump would laugh at you.
swa9amuff1n March 4, 2019 At 5:14 am
1. Widdop
2. Dufty
3. Aiken
4. Lomax
5. Pereira
6. Norman
8. Vaughan
9. McInnes
10. Graham
11. Frizell
12. T Sims
13. K Sims
14. Feild
15. Leilua
16. Host
17. Latimore/Lawrie
Keep Frizell in the second row. Keep Dufty starting and have Lomax in his best position. Don’t play your best player Widdop in two different positions and don’t play McInnes 50 mins. With Feild on the bench, he can cover 1-6/7. Or ofcourse you can just play 4 forwards off the bench like a lot of clubs do which would ease the pressure of the other forwards having to cover for JDB.
Back2back19 March 4, 2019 At 5:37 am
Look at 3 hats dribbling garbage as usual, your loser club is going to start 2019 the way they finished 2018 getting beat by the superior team/club.
WA DRAGON March 4, 2019 At 6:14 am
Too many changes to a settled team. I’m glad the dragons have signed a replacement for Widdop but play him 5/8 next year when the position becomes vacant. With a year under their belts and Widdop back from injury, the Dragons semi final team of last year would be a big chance this year. That is with Widdop 5/8 and Dufty fullback (he killed Brisbane last year). Add players to enhance a very good team – don’t upset all to bring in an inconsistent player from the wooden spoon club. There were only two changes they needed to make and they have messed up both of them. De Belin is a big loss but why weaken 2 positions to cover one. Leave Frizell wide where he is most damaging and put Blake Lawrie or Korbin Sims into middle role. The other change they HAD to make was to get rid of Lafai – he is a poor defender, slow and won’t hit the line hard. (His 2 tries vs Souths he found himself with the ball, plenty of room and any half decent under 16’s player could have scored.) With him in the centres we lack punch and teams don’t fear our backline with him there. Lomax must be the 1st CENTRE picked. Play Norman as the other centre. He’s played there before and it is where there is actually a spot to fill. Widdop as good as any 5/8 in the comp. I feel the dragons are throwing away a chance at the title moving him.
3HATS you clown🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 I wouldn’t have a clue what your capital lingo means but if you can read capital letters then read this. AZQSXWDCEFVRGBTHNYJMUKILOP…….OK💪🐔👍
hardyards March 5, 2019 At 2:30 pm
Personally, I think the team should be something like this:
3. Lafai
5. Ravalawa
10. Simms
13. Graham (assuming no JDB)
14. Lattimore
15. Kerr
17. Lawrie
I can only see Dufty playing as a full back, maybe he could come on as a rotational player if we are playing smaller packs but I wouldn’t waste an interchange on him.
The right side center/wing combo is up in the air in my opinion, I would want Lomax at center but I would hate to have 2 rookies on that edge as we seem to leak enough points there.
I believe Tyson needs to play on an edge and I think it is crazy rotating any of the spine throughout the game.
I know my team needs a spare back on the bench but I don’t think it can be Dufty (too small to play any position other than fullback) and I haven’t seen enough of our young players to pick one.
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Your Browsers and Devices. We may work with service providers who use information collected from or about you to help us identify the browsers and devices you use for various purposes, including for targeted advertising, analytics, attribution, and measurement purposes. For example, these service providers (along with zone·tv) may use your activity on one browser or device to serve you with more tailored advertising on another browser or device. In connection with your use of browsers and devices, please note that certain opt out choices you have as described in Section 6 (“Your Choices, Including Opt-Out Options”) apply only to the specific browser or device from which you are able opt out.
Advertisers and Advertising-Related Service Providers. We may share the information collected from or about you in encrypted, aggregated, or de-identified forms with advertisers and service providers that perform advertising-related services for us and our business partners in order to tailor advertisements, measure and improve advertising effectiveness, and enable other enhancements. This information includes your use of the Zone·tv Services, access to Content, websites you visited, advertisements you viewed, and your other activities online.
Third Parties When Required By Law or When Necessary to Protect Your or Our Rights. In some instances, we may disclose information from or about you without providing you a choice. For example, we may disclose your information in the following ways: to protect the legal rights of zone·tv and our affiliates or partners, and each of our respective equity holders, directors, officers, employees, agents, and business partners; to protect the safety and security of users of the Zone·tv Services or third parties; to enforce our Terms of Use; to protect against fraud; for risk management purposes; and to comply with or respond to the law or legal process or a request for cooperation by a government entity, whether or not legally required. If you notify us that you believe your legal rights have been violated by zone·tv or another user of the Zone·tv Services, we may provide the information that you provide to us to others to the extent that we believe it is necessary to evaluate and respond to your complaint.
Business Transfers. If we sell all or part of our business, make a transfer of assets, or otherwise might be involved in a change of control transaction, or in the event of bankruptcy, we may transfer information, including personal information, provided that the receiving party agrees to respect your personal information in a manner that is consistent with our Privacy Policy.
Parties with Your Consent or When You Otherwise Choose to Share. In addition to the sharing described in this Privacy Policy, we may share any information from or about you, including information about the Content you view on Zone·tv Services, with any party when we have your consent or when you otherwise choose to share such information. Also, certain functions within the Zone·tv Services may give you the option to share information about your activities on the Zone·tv Services, for example, by email, text message, social networking, or other sharing function.
5. Advertising.
We advertise zone·tv both on the Zone·tv Services as well as on other platforms and services. We also display advertisements from other companies in Zone·tv Content and on the Zone·tv Services, sometimes enabling users to interact with the advertisements or click through to websites, movies, video-on-demand storefronts or other properties owned or operated by zone·tv or other companies. This section provides additional information about the collection and use of information from or about you in connection with such advertising.
Use of Cookies and Similar Technology in Third-Party Advertising. Advertisers, advertising technology companies, and service providers that perform advertising-related services for zone·tv and our business partners may use cookies and similar technologies (including for example those described in Section 2 (“Information We Collect”)) to collect information from or about you through the Zone·tv Services in order to tailor advertisements, measure advertising effectiveness, and enable other enhancements. This information may relate to your use of the Zone·tv Services, websites you visited, advertisements you viewed, and your other activities online. Advertising that is based on information collected from or about you across websites, Zone·tv Apps, other applications and platforms over time is known as interest-based or online behavioral advertising.
Viewing Ads. When you view an advertisement, whether or not you click on it, or when you interact with an advertisement, the advertiser, advertising technology companies, and service providers that perform advertising-related services for us and our business partners may collect some information from or about you. The information practices of these third parties are governed by their own privacy policies and are not governed by this Privacy Policy. Please be aware that zone·tv does not notify you when you have chosen to click through to another website or property when using the Zone·tv Services. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of such websites or properties to determine how they use or share any information they separately collect from you.
To learn about opting out of interest-based or online behavioral advertising, please see the information we have provided in Section 6 (“Your Choices, Including Opt-Out Options”).
6. Your Choices, Including Opt-Out Options.
You have choices and controls over how your data is collected, used, and shared when you use the Zone·tv Services
Collection of Information. You can stop the collection of information through the Zone·tv Services by uninstalling the Zone·tv App on devices in which you have installed a Zone·tv App, by unsubscribing to the Zone·tv Services, by not using the Zone·tv Services and/or by deleting your zone·tv account.
Email and Text Messages. If you no longer want to receive certain communications from us via email or text message, you may opt out of receiving promotional communications from zone·tv by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in a particular promotional communication. Please note that you cannot opt out from receiving all communications from zone·tv, including administrative messages, service announcements, and messages regarding the terms and conditions of your account because those may contain important information.
Push Notifications. You may have the option to receive mobile push notifications from zone·tv. If you subscribe to push notifications and subsequently decide you no longer wish to receive these notifications, you can use your mobile device’s settings functionality to turn them off.
Interest-Based Ads. Interest-based ads are ads that are tailored to your likely interests based on your use of various apps and websites across the Internet. If you are using a browser, then cookies and web beacons can be used to collect information to help determine your likely interests. If you are using a mobile device, tablet, or streaming media device that includes an advertising identifier, then that identifier can be used to help determine your likely interests.
To opt out of interest-based ads from zone·tv in connection with an advertising identifier on a mobile device, tablet, or streaming media devices, please configure the appropriate setting on your device (usually found under “privacy” or “ads” in your device’s settings). You may still see zone·tv ads on your device, but they will not be tailored to your likely interests.
zone·tv supports the following self-regulatory programs, which provide additional privacy choices for interest-based advertising:
In the US: Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) and Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)
In Europe: European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA)
In Canada: Ad Choices: Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (DAAC) / Choix de Pub: l’Alliance de la publicité numérique du Canada (DAAC)
Do Not Track. There is currently no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means and how to respond to “Do Not Track” browser signals. As such, we do not respond to such signals
Additional Choices for California Residents: Your California Privacy Rights. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 entitles California customers to request information concerning whether a business has disclosed personal information to any third parties for their direct marketing purposes. As stated in this Privacy Policy, by using the Zone·tv Services you agree to the sharing of your information with other companies to use for their own marketing purposes. If you don’t want us to share your information collected with third parties, you can stop the collection of information through the Zone·tv Services by uninstalling the Zone·tv App on devices in which you have installed a Zone·tv App, by unsubscribing to the Zone·tv Services, by not using the Zone·tv Services and/or by deleting your zone·tv account.
California customers who want to request further information about our compliance with these requirements or would like to request a copy of information regarding our disclosure to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year or have questions or concerns about our privacy practices and policies may contact us at the contact information listed below.
7. Security and Account Access.
We use reasonable administrative, logical, physical and managerial measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorized access, use and modification. These measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risks of processing your personal information. Unfortunately, no measures can be guaranteed to provide 100% security. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
Please note that if you allow others to use your account or Zone·tv App (including others you permit to set up profiles under your account or Zone·tv App), they may be able to view information about your account or any of the profiles, including information about the videos you view and your email address.
8. Children.
You must be 18 years of age or older to subscribe to the Zone·tv Services. In certain jurisdictions, the age of majority may be older than 18, in which case, you must satisfy that age in order to become a zone·tv subscriber. While individuals under the age of 18 may utilize the service, they may do so only with the involvement, supervision, and approval of a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect personally identifying information from anyone under the age of 13.
9. Third-Party Access Points, Devices, and Links.
The Zone·tv Services may be provided through third-party websites, applications, connected TV devices, set-top boxes and other means of access operated by other companies (collectively, “Third-Party Access Points”). For example, you can access the Zone·tv Services through websites or TV guides of our distributors. In addition, you may launch a Third-Party Access Point using various devices such as mobile devices, connected TV devices or Pay-TV operator set-top boxes. The Zone·tv Services also may contain links to third-party websites or applications. None of these Third-Party Access Points, devices, websites or applications are operated by us, even if they contain our name or logo, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of their operators. Accordingly, we recommend that you review their privacy policies.
10. Deleting Your zone·tv Account.
We use third parties to administer your account and payment information. Please review and consult any third party Privacy Policy and Terms of Use where you signed up for the Zone·tv Services.
zone·tv is headquartered in Canada and the Zone·tv Services are intended for users Worldwide. By viewing any Content or otherwise using the Zone·tv Services, you consent to the transfer of your information to the U.S. and/or Canada to the extent applicable, and the collection, storage, and processing of information under U.S. and/or Canadian laws as may be applicable.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy.
We will update this Privacy Statement from time to time in response to changing legal, regulatory or operational requirements. Therefore, it is important to check the effective date posted at the top of the Privacy Policy each time you visit the Zone·tv Sites or use any of the Zone·tv Services to ensure you are familiar with our most updated policies and practices. We will provide notice of any such changes (including when they will take effect) in accordance with law. Your continued use of the Zone·tv Services after any such updates take effect will constitute acknowledgement and (as applicable) acceptance of those changes. If you do not wish to acknowledge or accept any updates to this Privacy Statement, you may cancel your use of the Zone·tv Services. To see when this Privacy Statement was last updated, please see “Last Updated” above at the top of this document.
13. Questions/Contacting Us.
If you have any questions about this policy, please send an email to privacy@zone.tv, or send a letter to
zone·tv
1795 Ironstone Manor, Unit #4
Pickering, Ontario, Canada L1W 3W9.
We may reject requests that are unreasonable or not required by law, including those that would be extremely impractical, could require disproportionate technical effort, or could expose us to operational risks.
Thank you for taking the time to read this Privacy Policy. We hope you enjoy the Zone·tv Services!
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