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Numbers 26 :: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Census of a New Generation
Num 26:1
Num 26:1 - [fn]Then it came about after the plague, [fn]that the LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
Num 26:2 - “Take a [fn]census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ households, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel.”
Num 26:3 - So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Num 26:4 - “Take a census of the people from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD has commanded Moses.” Now the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:
Num 26:5 - Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
Num 26:6 - of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
Num 26:7 - These are the families of the Reubenites, and those who were numbered of them were 43,730.
Num 26:8 - The son of Pallu: Eliab.
Num 26:9 - The sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the LORD,
Num 26:10
Num 26:10 - and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, so that they became a [fn]warning.
Num 26:11 - The sons of Korah, however, did not die.
Num 26:12 - The sons of Simeon according to their families: of [fn]Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of [fn]Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;
Num 26:13 - of [fn]Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
Num 26:14 - These are the families of the Simeonites, 22,200.
Num 26:15 - The sons of Gad according to their families: of [fn]Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
Num 26:16 - of [fn]Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
Num 26:17 - of [fn]Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
Num 26:18 - These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, 40,500.
Num 26:19 - The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Num 26:20 - The sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
Num 26:21 - The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
Num 26:22 - These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, 76,500.
Num 26:23 - The sons of Issachar according to their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of [fn]Puvah, the family of the Punites;
Num 26:24 - of [fn]Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
Num 26:25 - These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, 64,300.
Num 26:26 - The sons of Zebulun according to their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
Num 26:27 - These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, 60,500.
Num 26:28 - The sons of Joseph according to their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Num 26:29 - The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir [fn]became the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
Num 26:30 - These are the sons of Gilead: of [fn]Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
Num 26:31 - and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
Num 26:32 - and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Num 26:33 - Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.
Num 26:34 - These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were 52,700.
Num 26:35 - These are the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of [fn]Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
Num 26:36 - These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
Num 26:37 - These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.
Num 26:38 - The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of [fn]Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
Num 26:39 - of [fn]Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of [fn]Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
Num 26:40 - The sons of Bela were [fn]Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
Num 26:41 - These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,600.
Num 26:42 - These are the sons of Dan according to their families: of [fn]Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan according to their families.
Num 26:43 - All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were 64,400.
Num 26:44 - The sons of Asher according to their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
Num 26:45 - Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
Num 26:46 - The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
Num 26:47 - These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, 53,400.
Num 26:48 - The sons of Naphtali according to their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
Num 26:49 - of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
Num 26:50 - These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,400.
Num 26:51 - These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel, 601,730.
Num 26:52 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Num 26:53 - “[fn]Among these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
Num 26:54 - “To the larger group you shall increase their inheritance, and to the smaller group you shall diminish their inheritance; each shall be given their inheritance according to those who were numbered of them.
Num 26:55 - “But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall [fn]receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
Num 26:56 - “According to the selection by lot, their inheritance shall be divided between the larger and the smaller groups.”
Num 26:57 - These are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
Num 26:58 - These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath [fn]became the father of Amram.
Num 26:59 - The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.
Num 26:60 - To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Num 26:61 - But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
Num 26:62 - Those who were numbered of them were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel since no inheritance was given to them among the sons of Israel.
Num 26:63 - These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Num 26:64 - But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Num 26:65 - For the LORD had said [fn]of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” And not a man was left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
NASB Footnotes
Ch 25:19 in Heb
Ch 26:1 in Heb
Literally: sum
Literally: sign
In Gen 46:10 and Ex 6:15, Jemuel
In 1 Chr 4:24, Jarib
In Gen 46:10, Zohar
In Gen 46:16, Ziphion
In Gen 46:16, Ezbon
In Gen 46:16, Arodi
In Gen 46:13, Puvvah; in 1 Chr 7:1, Puah
In Gen 46:13, Iob
Literally: begot
In Josh 17:2, Abiezer
In 1 Chr 7:20, Bered
In Gen 46:21, Ehi; in 1 Chr 8:1, Aharah
In Gen 46:21, Muppim; in 1 Chr 7:12, Shuppim
In Gen 46:21, Muppim and Huppim
In 1 Chr 8:3, Addar
In Gen 46:23, Hushim
Literally: To
Literally: inherit according to
Or, to
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THE FIRST BRIDE
The Civil War had decimated the male population back East. The few available men in her hometown paid her no mind. She stood too tall, lacked the fine-boned features men favored, and was a mite sharp-tongued and opinionated. Only one man had showed interest, but that nightmare was over.
Besides, she craved adventure. Yet, travelling from the East Coast to Puget Sound in Washington Territory proved to be more adventure than she’d bargained for, with the storms and whatnot.
But they’d made it. Every one of them. She glanced at each of her two sisters standing in front of her on the railing. Olivia, the shy middle sister who’d rather be reading a book, shrank back at the sight of all that masculinity and gazed up at Lizzie, obviously overwhelmed.
“I just want to sleep on a bed that doesn’t pitch and roll all night long.” Olivia pushed her glasses up with the tip of her finger and squinted at the crowd.
“As do I.” Lizzie patted her sister’s arm.
“I’ll never set foot on a boat again.”
“It doesn’t hold much interest to me, either. But we’re here, and look at the reception we’re getting.”
“It is disconcerting.”
Lizzie couldn’t agree more, but for once, held her tongue.
“It’s impressive. All these men. I could swoon.” Amelia, the youngest and prettiest sister, assessed the crowd. Her sharp eyes missed nothing. “I see several possibilities.”
“With your fair appearance, you’ll have your pick.” Lizzie smoothed her wrinkled dress and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, aware of what a fright she must appear. Not that it mattered. She wasn’t here to marry, only to find mates for her sisters, good, kind husbands.
“Yes, you will. They won’t even notice us.” Olivia let out a deep breath.
Amelia smiled and squeezed Olivia’s hand. “You, Olivia, will also have no shortage of suitors.”
Olivia turned to Lizzie. “And you, too.”
“I’m twenty-five, way past marrying age.” Her age was the least of her problems.
“I suspect if you’re a female and still breathing, you’re marrying age around here,” Amelia quipped and waved her handkerchief at one particularly enthusiastic man who’d climbed a tall pole to see over the crowd.
“She’s right, you know.” Olivia peered at the men over the rims of her reading glasses.
“I have no desire to be subservient to any man.” She didn’t add why. They all knew why.
“Yet you would wish that fate on us?”
“The both of you wouldn’t consider it fate, but a pleasant task.”
“Very pleasant.” Amelia leaned further over the railing. Her cleavage caught the men’s attention as she waved at the group with her lace handkerchief. Lizzie prayed she’d marry Amelia off before she soiled her reputation as a lady. Her bold approach to men and her inherent recklessness worried both older sisters. Amelia barely avoided scandal back in Boston.
Lizzie looked into the crowd. One man stood back from the group, leaning negligently against a tree. With a big, muscled body, dark wavy hair, and a ruggedly handsome face, he’d attract attention wherever he went. He oozed authority in the way of a stallion in a herd of mares. His gaze slammed into her with an intensity which almost sent her reeling backward. He trapped her with a look and held her captive. With a knowing smirk, he tipped his stained hat at her. Lizzie’s body heated, and her breath sat heavy in her lungs, making it hard to draw a breath. Moistness grew between her legs.
Lizzie forced her attention elsewhere, but she could still feel his eyes on her, almost as if he’d physically caressed her. Shaken, she busied herself by grabbing her bag and rummaging through it. When she stole a glance in the man’s direction, he’d disappeared into the crowd.
Watching his brother fuck Lizzie so thoroughly and Lizzie loving every second of raunchy sex with his brother shattered Logan’s paper-thin control.
Not even allowing her a second to recover, Logan flipped her over onto her stomach.
“On your hands and knees,” he growled into her ear. She tried to comply, but her limbs wouldn’t cooperate. Lizzie sprawled on the bed and buried her head in the pillow. The little vixen was still recovering from her second orgasm of the night, but they weren’t done with her yet. Not even close.
“She’s not cooperating, is she, brother?” Gage grinned. He loved this part. Knowing the routine, Gage opened the drawer in the nightstand and removed a leather strap. He tossed it to his brother and waited.
“Lizzie, this is the last time I’m going to ask you nice. On all fours, now.”
“Please, not yet.”
Logan raised the strap and brought it down hard on her bare ass, leaving a nice red stripe across one rounded butt cheek.
Lizzie’s head shot up, and she screamed in surprise and pain.
“No screaming, woman. That’s one of the rules, remember?”
Lizzie nodded and struggled to her hands and knees, but she’d been disobedient and Logan liked obedience in his bed. He raised the strap three more times, leaving nice little crisscross marks on her ass, not hitting her hard enough to raise welts.
He nodded to Gage. “Give her something to do with that mouth of hers.”
Gage grinned. He knew what came next. Kneeling in front of her, Gage offered Lizzie his half-erect cock. “Clean my cock, hon, and don’t leave any of your juices on it.”
Lizzie bent her head to the task. Logan spread her knees wider and exposed her beautiful pink pussy. Raising the strap, he aimed and snapped it down between her legs, hitting his target perfectly. Lizzie threw her head back and let out an enraged scream.
“What the hell was that for?”
She tried to turn around, obviously pissed as hell. Gage held her shoulders, keeping her in place. That bit of attitude really turned Logan on. He’d tame this little wench or have a damn good time attempting to do so.
Tossing the strap aside, for he’d proven his point, Logan plunged his cock into her cum-drenched hole. He ground his crotch into hers, pulling out and leaving only the tip inside, he slammed into her again. She moaned and tilted her hips to take him deeper. That was his little Lizzie. In a few short weeks, she’d learned to love his cock as much as he loved her pussy. Withdrawing, he thrust harder, pushing her head into Gage’s stomach.
Gage guided her mouth onto his half-hard cock, and she sucked greedily on it. When it disappeared deep into her mouth, Logan buried his cock deep in her cunt. Damn, one of the most beautiful sights was watching his cock slide in and out of his wife’s cunt while she sucked on his brother’s cock.
Logan knew he wouldn’t last much longer. He also knew Lizzie liked her pleasure served with a little pain. Reaching underneath her, he pinched both nipples and twisted while he fucked her hard from behind. Gage muffled her cries by holding her cock-filled mouth.
Logan threw back his head and shouted his release. He pulled out and emptied his load on her striped butt cheeks. The thick substance splattered on her ass and ran down her legs. Logan rolled onto the bed and collapsed, as boneless as a jellyfish. He lay still for a moment, savoring the tempestuous emotions bombarding him. The sounds of Gage fucking her mouth drifted to him, sweet music to his ears, and brought him back to the present. Rolling over, he watched as Gage thrust his cock in and out of her mouth.
“Keep her occupied,” Logan gave Gage a brother-to-brother look, and Gage nodded. Time to start the next phase of his wife’s training.
Withdrawing completely, Gage grinned at Lizzie’s whimpered protest. “You want more, baby?”
THE HUSBAND CONTRACT
“I want it tighter.” Amelia turned to the side, examining the length of her figure in the looking glass Logan had given her sister Lizzie for Christmas.
Olivia laid her book down next to her on the bench at the foot of Lizzie’s bed. “If I pull those laces another inch, they will either snap to pieces or you’ll be resting your chin on your bosoms all evening.”
They had been in Lizzie’s bedroom for the past two hours while Amelia primped and preened her already-beautiful features and scandalous curves to practically sinful perfection. Olivia would like to pretend she had worried less about her own appearance for this evening because vanity was not the mortal sin she succumbed to. The truth of the matter was she knew that no amount of combing, dabbing, and corset tightening would disguise her plainness or her lack of enthusiasm for the outrageous flirting Amelia had turned into an art form.
Olivia sighed. In Boston, she had experienced impulses that drew her thoughts into arenas a true lady would never enter, but here, amidst the loosened morals of this wild Northwest Territory, her unspeakable impulses haunted her more frequently than ever. Almost daily, she caught herself daydreaming of big, strong hands, bare skin, pleasures of the flesh that could only be satisfied by all manners of indecencies she dared not drift into thinking about now. Heat rose up from her chest despite the wet winter chill that hung in the room.
She reached into her skirt pockets for a fan and fingered the cameo necklace her mother had given her. Ann Marie Prescott would turn in her grave if she knew such thoughts crossed her daughter’s mind. Olivia murmured a quick prayer for forgiveness and crossed herself. Surely it was simply the overabundance of bachelors at her disposal that gave her such audacious ideas.
She pushed her glasses up her nose with the tip of her finger. Her saving grace was that she hadn’t fallen in love with any of the lumber men the way Lizzie had. But with the increased frequency of her salacious fantasies, she barely trusted herself to go t the required social hours anymore. She feared she may meet an available gentleman she hadn’t yet noticed and that in the throes of infatuation she may not be able to control her Jezebelian impulses. The same uncertainties made her hesitant to attend tonight’s New Year’s Eve party. If she had a choice, she would remain in Lizzie’s parlor for the evening and allow herself to be seduced by her own wicked thoughts and the pages Jane Austen had so scandalously penned.
She lifted her chin and waved the fan in front of her neck. “I fear my head is beginning to ache. Perhaps I should stay in tonight.”
“Honestly, Liv, do you care to find a husband or not?”
Aaron stroked her arm and looked over at Jack. “We should let her choose now.”
Jack lifted Olivia’s hand. Her delicate fingers curled around his palm and the floral scent of her perfume sang in his nose. The trust in her eyes and the rosy blush that colored her fair skin undid something deep inside him. He swallowed the flood of emotion that welled in his chest. She was the woman he had searched for on both American coasts and abroad. She was intelligent, honest even when it may not have served her, fully trained in the social graces, and lovely in a way that took his breath away. She kept her sensual nature tucked away from prying eyes, but behind closed doors, she wasn’t afraid to give or receive pleasure. She was eager to learn the secrets of her body and theirs, and he wanted to spend the rest of his life making those discoveries with her.
“Who would you like to be the first to make love to you?” Jack squeezed her hand, hoping she would answer the way he wanted her to, but knowing she wouldn’t have an easy time answering at all.
Her perfect pink lips opened then closed again. For three long breaths there was only silence in the room, and then she began to rock her head slowly from side to side. Unshed tears pooled in her eyes, and a frown skewed her features.
“How could I ever choose? I want you both.” She looked from him to Aaron and then back again. Equally. I don’t know how to separate one from the other.”
Jack drew in a breath of relief and drew the sash from behind his back. “That’s exactly what I had hoped you’d say. I have a solution.”
“Everything is more sensual in the dark.” Olivia could almost taste the sexual tension between them on her tongue as she lay in the huge bed between Jack and Aaron. Their skin felt smoother beneath her hands, their kisses wetter and hotter against her neck, her mouth, her breasts. The silk that covered her eyes heightened her hearing and her sense of smell. The low rumble of ragged breath and yearning drew her own breath out faster. The mattress shifted beneath her as the men moved. Hands covered her body, making every place they touched intimate. This was the fantasy she had dreamed for years. Hands and bodies moving together. She didn’t know who was touching her where or whose teeth nipped at her shoulder or whose cock was in her hand or between her lips. And she’d never enjoyed anything more in her life.
The hands held on tighter. The strokes against her skin became more urgent. Restrained strength tensed already hard, masculine muscles. Two cocks throbbed and strained beneath her touch. Breaths came faster and harder. A knee pushed her thighs apart. A rigid belly pressed against the softer skin of hers, and then the silkiest of heated skin slid over her clitoris and lower, spreading the folds of her most intimate place. The wide head hovered at her entrance, pressing gently.
PATIENCE IS THEIR VIRTUE
And then he kissed her. No, he didn’t just kiss her. He devoured her, sending spikes of arousal to attack the tender flesh between her legs in a shower of scorching need.
He weakened her resolve and shattered her resistance. She had to have him again, had to feel his touch. She’d die if he didn’t place his hands on her and love her, taking away the horrors of her morning.
“I love the way your pale eyes turn to an icy blue when you’re upset with me.” He bit at her lower lip. “And I am equally upset with you, my sweet wife. So much, in fact, that I’m afraid I must punish you.”
That didn’t sound good. She shuddered at the thought of what that might entail.
Raven cleared his throat. “Need I remind you that you have a staff?”
Adam reached down and ran the heel of his hand along the rigid bulge between his legs. “That I do.”
Oh, dear Heavens. She couldn’t stop her gaze from traveling down his impressive physique. Her mouth watered at the thought of the flesh beneath that fabric.
“Adam, you can’t be certain they won’t hear.”
Adam lifted the corner of his mouth into a crooked grin and scraped that wicked grin across her body. “I plan to make sure she is adequately preoccupied while we deliver her punishment.”
“What are you going to do?” Her chest heaved as she panted. Liquid pleasure burned between her legs, and her nerves throbbed angrily, demanding attention.
“You’ll find out soon enough.” Adam lowered her to her knees and motioned for Raven to join him. “Take care to keep her quiet.”
And then he disappeared behind her.
Raven, without a sound, pulled out a semi-hard erection and began to stroke it right in front of her. A single drop of glistening, clear liquid peeked out of its tip. “Sweet Patti, open your mouth.”
“You want me to take that into my—oh!” She didn’t get the chance to finish before Raven slipped his cock between her lips. With Adam’s urging, she fell forward to her hands. In one swift move, he had her skirts up around her waist and her drawers around her knees, leaving her exposed to him.
She was about to pull back when she felt the first strike against her bare backside. Gasping, she struggled, but Raven’s cock grew in her mouth, and she sucked greedily, eager to taste him, to please him the way he’d pleased her.
The next light tap didn’t strike her cheek. Adam had centered in on her dripping pussy and slapped it. She cried and sucked at Raven’s cock as sensations she never thought possible tore at her. Her need for more gushed down her channel, drenching her pussy and giving away just how much she enjoyed this punishment.
Adam spanked her pussy again and a surge of fiery lust shot through her. She moaned and slurped at Raven’s flesh in desperation. Just one more slap, maybe two, and she’d shatter.
But then Adam lashed at her with his tongue gently, too gently, and Patience rocked against him with a whimper. She needed more, so much more, or she’d die before her next breath.
Raven fisted her hair and powered into her, rocking his hips in steady motion as she took every inch of him. “Oh, yeah. That’s it, Patti. Suck me. I’m going to explode. Take it. Swallow my life. Suck me harder. Yes, that’s it. Yes. Just like that. Ah!”
Thick, hot semen jetted from the end of his erection and down her throat, and she swallowed all of the sweet, sticky liquid. Adam continued to lick her pussy slowly. Such torture.
“Please,” she whimpered. “You have to give me more.”
“This is your punishment,” he explained in a rasp. “We will drive you close to release but won’t allow it. Now turn around.” When she didn’t, he and Raven switched positions without a moment’s hesitation. “Another reason to punish you, my wife. You need to follow my instruction.”
She knew defying him at this moment as she knelt on all fours, her drawers around her knees, her skirts around her hips, really wouldn’t be the smartest move. But that didn’t stop her. “I–I take orders from no man.”
“Raven, be sure to show no mercy. Now, my lovely, defiant wife, it’s my turn with that sweet mouth.”
THE BRIDE BARGAIN
Tate sighed. He’d never be more to her than an occasional dance partner. While they’d enjoyed a casual acquaintance, her actions made it clear he didn’t suit her needs as a marriage prospect. Not that he’d ever propose. He’d been down that painful road before.
It didn’t matter. No decent woman would have him with the ugly scar marring his once-handsome face. Instead, they cringed at the sight of him. He knew his face scared people, except for his logging crew. They respected him, and his disfigurement actually added to their awe. His refusal to talk about the incident cast a certain air of dangerous mystery, which further kept the men in line.
His lumberjacks dismissed the jagged scar starting above his left ear and zigzagging across his cheek and under his chin. Women did not. And vain as it might sound, Tate hadn’t gotten beyond it either. He’d spent the better part of his twenty-eight years enjoying the benefits of being a handsome man. He’d spent the last three repulsing, rather than attracting, beautiful women. A weaker man might wallow in self-pity, but Tate wasn’t a weak man. Maybe his ego suffered, and his dreams of a family faded, but he still had his work.
Tate looked up when Lucy hit a particularly earsplitting note. Tipped back on her heels, Lucy flung her arms wide and thrust her chest forward. She belted out the last few notes with such passion Tate was mesmerized. He swallowed in an attempt to clear the obstruction in his throat. Her one-size-too-small dress hugged her curves, as her lush, pink lips parted in a near perfect O.
Despite being in God’s house, Tate’s wayward thoughts centered around various methods he could use to stop her singing. The good Lord knew if she made that kind of sound in his bed, he’d be obligated to shush her up.
He jerked his gaze away and drew in a sharp breath, irritated at the reaction of his body. His cock grew hard under his Sunday-best trousers. His heart thumped a little faster. He wiped his sweaty palms on his pants and covered his erection with his hymnal.
Damn, it’d been too long since he’d bedded a woman. Despite his situation, he refused to lower himself like many men who visited Madame Chen and requested her laundry service. Rumors had it her girls did more than a man’s laundry. Tate snorted. He didn’t pay attention to rumors. Facts were all he cared about. Whatever Madam Chen and her staff did behind closed doors was none of his business.
As soon as the service ended, Tate stood quickly, fully intending to hightail it out of there. His brother, Jason, cut him off at the pass. The spoiled and flirtatious Amelia stood next to Jason, her hand resting on the crook in Jason’s arm. Even though her smile appeared welcoming, she avoided looking at Tate’s face.
“We saved you a seat next to us at the table, brother.” Jason grinned like a fool, obviously flying high with Amelia at his side. Tate witnessed her in action too many times. She flirted with every eligible man in town—except him—and strung his brother along by his dick, one of a herd of admirers. Everyone in town knew Andrew Gallagher ranked at the head of that pack. Jason couldn’t compete with the Gallaghers’ assets or power. Even now, the usually glib Andrew stood across the room, arms crossed over his chest and an uncharacteristic scowl on his face. The fierce light of possession gleamed in his eyes. Tate sighed and hoped he wouldn’t be breaking up a fight before the night ended.
Turning away, Tate followed Jason and Amelia through the potluck line. His stomach rumbled. Food abounded, and he heaped his plate with a thick stew.
“Don’t.” Hattie Rose, the local innkeeper and former madam of a San Francisco brothel, stood next to him. The older woman’s strong perfume smothered the air around them, and he stifled a sneeze. Her red-tipped fingernails dug into his arm.
“Why?” He smiled, amused at Hattie’s reaction.
“Lucy made that dish.” Hattie looked up at him, one of the few women not bothered by his scar.
Tate dropped the serving spoon into the large pot as if it’d burnt his hand. “Thanks for the warning. I have to work tomorrow. It looked good. Her stuff usually looks as bad as it tastes.” Even the bravest lumberjacks with cast-iron stomachs avoided her dishes at the church potlucks.
Before he could move on to the next dish, Lucy rushed up to him. Her flowery scent swirled around his nostrils. His cock happily signaled its readiness to get down to serious business.
“Tate, don’t pass this by. It’s my signature stew. I know how you love my cooking.” Not giving him an opportunity to respond, Lucy heaped his plate full. Tate stood in line, holding his plate, fully aware others ducked past them in an attempt to avoid Lucy’s current culinary disaster.
Hattie raised one eyebrow and winked at him. “Good luck,” she whispered.
Taking a seat next to his brother, he caught sight of Lucy out of the corner of his eye. She sat next to her best friend Constance. The black-haired beauty sat next to Miles Petty, a cousin to the Gallaghers and also their nemesis, at a table on the opposite side of the room. Tate, nice guy that he was, always pretended to eat Lucy’s cooking at these potlucks. There’d be no pretending this time, as Lucy kept one eye on him. Steeling himself, he brought the spoon up to his mouth and forced himself to swallow. He forced a pleased expression on his face, which made Lucy smirk with pride.
Despite Lucy’s faults, he admired her ability to create her own reality, making her life what she wanted it to be. Dragging his eyes away from Lucy, Tate frowned and wondered why he felt a tug inside every time he gazed at this woman, who talked too much about nothing, couldn’t cook or sing, or keep a secret to save her soul.
Tate managed to choke down the entire plate of food. He congratulated himself on his cast-iron stomach as it growled in protest. His satisfaction was short-lived when Lucy hustled over to him, her roasting pan in hand.
“Tate, you’re one hungry man. Please have some more.” Lucy leaned over him to fill his plate. One ample breast rubbed his arm. He lost all ability to think as he stared at the bosom only a few inches from his face. Damn. Double damn. He wanted to rip her bodice open and fill his mouth with her rosy nipples, sucking and nipping at them until they were swollen from his mouth and red from the burn of his whiskers.
Oblivious to his discomfort, Lucy flounced off, leaving him with a raging hard-on and a protesting stomach.
Lucy danced around the room in the arms of her husband. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught Jason watching them with what appeared to be longing in his eyes. He was probably wishing he was with Amelia. Why such a thought depressed her, she didn’t know. Perhaps she worried about his well-being.
Before she could figure out a way to draw Jason back into their little celebration, he turned on his heel and left the room. Tate caught her staring after his brother.
His gray eyes narrowed, but not in anger. “Meet me in the bedroom. Tonight.”
His words snapped her attention back to him. His husky voice promised more seductive treats were in store for her adventurous spirit. Lucy didn’t need a second invitation. The hot looks Tate cast her way during dinner and afterward heated her body and caused great moisture between her legs. Tonight he’d promised to tutor her in more pleasures of the flesh. She quickly rushed upstairs and readied herself.
Tate joined her a few minutes later. He stared at his wife sitting on the edge of the big bed.
“Shed your garments. Tonight it’s my turn to pleasure you.” His harsh voice set her back a bit even as it excited her. Lucy’s eyes grew big. An unexpected moment of fear clutched her. Lust burned in his eyes. Tate was obviously a man on the edge of losing control. And a very big man at that. She shrank back into the shadows of the room, abhorring her cowardliness.
He spoke more softly. “Take off your dress. I will not harm you.”
Of course he wouldn’t. Despite the fire burning in his eyes, his gentle words emboldened her. Lucy nodded as her trembling fingers fumbled with the fastenings on her dress. Tate removed his own clothes until he stood in all his naked glory before her. She’d never seen him completely naked before. Her pussy tingled with excitement at the sight of his muscled body. The man was magnificent.
“Lucy, your clothes,” he reminded her. She continued to stare at his chest, his cock, his strong legs, and at the many scars on those legs. She suspected each scar told a story.
Tate abandoned his patience. He stepped forward and grasped the front of her dress. He fumbled with the remaining buttons with his large fingers. Frustrated by his lack of progress, he ripped the bodice of her dress. Buttons flew across the room.
Lucy gasped, partially from shock and partially from irritation. “That was my good dress, sir.”
He gritted his teeth. “Tate. I’m now your husband, and my name is Tate. Tonight you’ll scream out my name.”
Words escaped her, a rare thing, indeed. She removed the pins from her hair. It fell to her waist in long, wavy curls. With a defiant toss of her brown hair, she pulled the torn dress past her hips and to the floor. The rest of her clothes followed. Naked, she shivered, but not from the cool night breeze wafting through the open window.
Tate swallowed. He flexed and unflexed his fingers, as if dying to bury them in her soft mane. “On the bed.”
Lucy considered defying him, but the look in his eyes vetoed that idea. She lay on the bed and waited. For what she didn’t really know. The women had enlightened her on how to pleasure a man, but she didn’t really know what a man did to pleasure a woman. Tate lay down beside her. She turned her head toward his. Their eyes met in silent recognition of their mutual attraction. Tate’s face moved closer. Lucy’s moved closer. Then all hell broke loose. Their lips clashed in a blaze of hot fire. His mouth ravaged hers, rough and demanding. She gave it right back to him, just as rough, and just as demanding.
THE BANISHED BRIDE
“Quick! We have to hurry!”
Noah ran into Logan’s office and stumbled to a stop, holding on to the back of the closest chair as he panted. Andrew and Logan exchanged tired glances.
Logan cleared his throat. “Are you attempting to outrun the devil, brother?”
“Quite possibly. This is a matter of life or death!”
Andrew shook his head. When it came to Noah, it was always a matter of life or death. “Are you sure the angry husbands of some of your quests haven’t finally caught up to you?”
“Joke if you will, but I assure you, this is serious.”
“It has to do with Amelia.”
That caught Andrew’s attention. He pushed away from the wall. “What is it?”
“I was just at Madam Chen’s and spotted none other than that terrible uncle Lizzie has been warning us about.”
The power of Noah’s words sank in, and Andrew’s mouth ran dry. “You saw Robert Prescott? Here in Port Steele?” He jerked his gaze to Logan, who had the same concerned look on his face as Andrew surely had.
“Are you sure?” Logan asked as he stood.
Noah nodded at Logan. “Positive. He even referred to Amelia as his niece.”
“Son of a bitch,” Logan muttered and fell back into the chair behind the desk. He then sat straight as a board and leaned forward. “This does not get back to Lizzie, is that understood?”
“She has a right to know,” Andrew protested.
Logan nodded. “And as soon as I find out what he wants and then run him out of town, I’ll let her know he was here and gone.”
“That’s not fair,” Noah said, joining in on the protest. “Lizzie, Olivia, and Amelia have already gone through so much.”
“Exactly.” Logan nailed him with a penetrating look. “Why add to that without reason?”
Andrew and Noah exchanged glances. Andrew read the trouble brewing in Noah’s expression. There was already cause to add to the Prescotts’ grief with their uncle. “What is it, Noah?”
With a solemn look to match his tone, Noah said, “Robert Prescott means to take Amelia back to Boston.”
“Over my dead body.” Andrew growled and started for the door. “Come, Noah. We are going to pay a visit to Madam Chen’s and make sure the uncle knows exactly how unwelcome he is here.”
“Wait.” Logan brought up his hand. “This man is clearly insane if he thinks he can come back here and try this shit again. But he’s also dangerous. I refuse to have you two make Amelia a widow before she even marries. Let me talk to him.”
Andrew frowned and shook his head. “He’s not going to listen to you.”
“Yet you think he’ll listen to you?”
He didn’t have a comeback for that, so he said nothing.
“He’ll listen to no one,” Noah stated in an angry voice. “He was adamant as he spoke with Madam Chen. The man is back for Amelia. We can’t let him take her.”
Logan gave him a curt nod. “And we won’t.” He then turned to Andrew. “Find Gage. We need to talk about what to do about this.”
“And me?” Noah asked. “I should check on Amelia.”
“No!” Logan and Andrew demanded in unison.
“Why not? She could be in danger.”
“She’s not in any danger. That man won’t dare to attempt to kidnap her with Mildred around. If anything, she’s safest when she’s at the house.”
Noah clearly didn’t believe him. From the look on Logan’s face, he had his doubts as well.
“Let me free,” she whimpered.
“Not yet.” Noah kissed her as Andrew stopped his assault on her pussy. She whimpered a protest. “It’s my turn, Amelia. I can’t wait to taste your sweet pussy again. I’ve been dying for it.”
He dove between her thighs as Andrew hovered his mouth above her nipple. He locked his gaze with hers as he lowered his head down and drew her nipple into his mouth.
Their connection did nothing for her resistance. Andrew held her arms above her head with the help of the scarf as he feasted on her breast, while at the same time Noah overwhelmed her with his attack on her pussy.
“Oh, Noah. I can’t stand it. Oh, Andrew.”
“I’ve got to have you, Amelia.” Andrew’s breath against her skin whispered goose bumps across her body. “This time it’s my turn in your sweet ass.”
“Yes.” She loved it when he used such wicked words.
“My sweet Amelia,” Noah murmured against her sensitive nerves, and she jerked, the sensation too much. He stretched out and rolled her over on top of him. She would have crashed into him had Andrew not grabbed the scarf binding her wrists.
Noah lifted her hips and sank her weeping channel onto his hard cock. She cried out at the tight penetration and shifted, sending her deeper onto his shaft while Andrew held her wrists.
“That’s it, baby. Oh, yeah. Jesus. So fucking tight.” Noah dug his fingers into her hips. “Oh, Amelia. I can’t wait to make you my wife. Please, baby. Just say yes.”
He thrust deep, and she threw her head back. “Yes!”
“Say yes to me.” Andrew untied her wrists, and she dropped her hands down to Noah’s shoulders to hold on as he fucked her slowly and steady, driving her mad with want. When Andrew licked at her tender puckered entrance, she released a shuddering cry.
Andrew pressed the blunt tip of his cock against the tight entrance to her ass. When he rocked his hips and the hole loosened, allowing him penetration, it sent a rush of flames burning through her. He eased in farther, and she bucked her hips.
“Say yes to me.” Andrew growled from behind her. He pulled out and pushed in, over and over until his gentle, unyielding assault allowed him to sink all the way inside her rear.
“Say yes,” he groaned and held her hips so she couldn’t move. Hell, she couldn’t move if she wanted to. Noah was still buried deep inside her. With Andrew in her at the same time, she could barely cry out.
“Yes, Andrew. Yes!”
“I was first,” Noah said and slowly slid out, and then eased back inside the depths of her pussy. “And I didn’t have to beg. Ah, Jesus! Amelia, you feel like hot silk, baby.”
She couldn’t take it. They were killing her with pleasure. Could a person die from too much pleasure? She was sure of it. They were close to killing her. Oh, dear God. She’d never survive this.
“Andrew!” She screamed when he slammed into her ass, and felt the muscles of her ass clench around his cock.
Noah withdrew and then pushed back into her with a strong thrust.
“Noah!”
It was sweet rapture, having both of them inside her at the same time. Every thrust pushed her higher, closer to the cataclysmic explosion that would release her from the torment.
When they both drove deep inside her at the same time, she threw her head back and screamed at the pleasure that burned so hot it hurt. One more invasion like that and she’d shatter.
“Make your choice,” Andrew demanded in a low growl.
“Do it.” Noah stabbed his flesh into her, and she cried out.
“I won’t.” And she wouldn’t. How dare they make her choose when she was on the verge of ecstasy?
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"Those of us privileged to live here today in this ancient and unique place are but fleeting custodians. We have a duty to secure this wonderful heritage and pass it to future generations with a plan for its further evolution and inevitable growth."
(from the early draft of our Plan)
The lack of a formal and agreed Boxford plan has limited our ability as villagers to influence recent planning decisions on major housing developments, despite strong and informed arguments made to Babergh planners by committed groups and individuals. As a result of their most recent decision, 64 dwellings are to be built at the top of Sand Hill. We need an agreed Neighbourhood Plan within the next two years if we are to influence further housing development approvals and to shape what our village and its surroundings look and feel like in future years.
A group of us have been working to produce an early draft of such a Plan and we want to share our thoughts with you and get your ideas at this early stage in its development. It is vital that as many villagers as possible contribute so that we get the best possible Plan and one that you approve of.
The work has already begun, led by a small volunteer steering group. Research, evidence gathering and drafting is already underway with the help of a wider group of individuals and you are welcome to join us. We will be consulting a wide range of people as we proceed and your ideas will make the Plan better. At the end we must gain the approval of a majority of the village if the Plan is to be accepted by Babergh. For such a plan must belong to all of us, young and old alike and crucially, while respecting the unique past and present of the village, chart a hopeful future as a much loved home for all ages.
One of Boxford's strengths is that it never stood still, despite periods of history when its outward and physical characteristics changed little. Growth and change are largely why it didn't become one of those rural villages that have become largely dormitories. Sadly there are many in East Anglia without a school, shop or a Post Office, a pub or sports facilities but with a disused church and a graveyard and neatly maintained houses from which residents emerge in the morning in their cars to make the journey to other towns or the metropolis. Commuters do set off early in Boxford of course but they are followed by schoolchildren assembling, their parents chatting at the school gates, shops opening and constant busy traffic of vehicles and people throughout the day and into the evening.
The ancient fabric of Boxford which estate agents call "desirable" must be maintained, but its real desirability is its continued vibrancy. This is expressed through its social life, school, shops, cafe, pub, clubs and societies, sport, church, and the diversity of its local housing communities and inhabitants.
Controlled growth, allied to sensitive preservation influenced by the views of residents in a Neighbourhood Plan, can ensure a village that retains its precious characteristics while contributing to a future for all. All the more reason now to strengthen the village's hand in future development and to ensure:
A Boxford specific context helps to inform Babergh's planning decisions.
Our own housing needs are addressed by giving Boxford a say in where and what any new housing should look like, who it should be for.
Sufficient village amenities and services remain and flourish and that such community funds as may be made available for those amenities are used to Boxford's benefit.
Boxford protects what it values today and wants its children and grandchildren to have the chance to enjoy.
Boxford presents itself as forward looking and willing to take its share of appropriate future housing consistent with its classification as a "core village". This should avoid undue expansion and enable all to join and move up and down the housing ladder.
Boxford needs a Neighbourhood Plan to both preserve its heritage and support its evolution for future generations. The alternative is that we do nothing and allow developers, those that determine planning applications on our behalf and a future nationally directed planning system to decide our future.
The Boxford Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group, already hard at work on major elements of the plan, is David Burden (Co-Chairman), Hugh Phillips (Co-Chairman), Andrew Good and Roger Loose. They are being advised by Andrea Long, a professional consultant. Good progress is being made despite lockdown and it was planned to have a "walk in" meeting in the village hall in late October. Such a meeting has been prevented by recent announcements on group gatherings but it is hoped to keep the village regularly updated and invite views at every opportunity.
The Box River News will regularly include information and invite comment. Your participation is essential by email or social media and this notice will also be on the Boxford Noticeboard on Facebook.
QUESTIONS FOR YOU
1. In 2016, The Times included Boxford in the '40 best villages in Britain' and the 10 most desirable in the south of the country. Briefly, what do you find desirable about Boxford?
2. Please say what any new housing should look like and who it should be for?
3. In a few words describe your hopes for Boxford in the next 30 years?
Complete our online questionnaire or send our Steering Group an email: boxfordnp@gmail.com
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Throughout the Neighbourhood Plan, Boxford means the whole Parish of Boxford including the hamlets of Stone Street, Calais Street and Hagmore Green, as well as the main village.
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Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother.
Bawdy Comedy
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Capa > v. 2, n. 4 (2020) > Fernandes
Consequências da crise financeira no empreendedorismo / Consequences of the financial crisis in entrepreneurship
Hélio de Jesus Branco Corguinho Fernandes
Este artigo produz uma revisão analítica dos mais importantes estudos dedicados à relação empreendedora com os choques económicos provocados por crises financeiras. A análise é baseada numa meta-análise utilizando estudos de avaliação de impacto que eram do domínio público em maio de 2017. A pesquisa foi focada em crises e efeitos económicos no comportamento de empreendedores e trabalhadores independentes. Os seguintes critérios foram escolhidos para considerar um país ou uma região como estando ou não em crise financeira: inflação de preços dos ativos, alavancagem crescente, grandes deficits da conta corrente e uma trajetória de desaceleração do crescimento económico. Houve duas perguntas de pesquisa que construíram a lógica do artigo:
1. Quais são os principais fatores de uma crise financeira que afetam a atividade empresarial?
2. Quão diferente foi a crise financeira de 2008/2009 de outras?
Verificamos que o principal efeito se baseia no ambiente económico e que quase todos os países experimentaram uma diminuição nas atividades empresariais durante a crise e no pós-crise imediato.
empreendedorismo, meta-análise, crise financeira, economia empresarial.
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Sherie Rene Scott
Sherie Rene Scott is a two-time Tony nominee whose credits include The Front Page, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Aida and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. In addition to acting, Scott has written a number of the shows she has starred in, including Whorl Inside a Loop, Everyday Rapture and Piece of Meat. She was recently seen off-Broadway opposite Jason Alexander in The Portuguese Kid and has reunited with The Last Five Years co-star Norbert Leo Butz to create Twohander.
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East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH)
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) aims to maximise the quality of life for children and young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition, and to support their families.
42 High Street Milton Cambridge
Post Code: CB24 6DF
Website: http://www.each.org.uk
Membership Type: Charity <100 staff
The EACH care team based at our hospice in Milton provides care and support for local families both in the hospice and families' own homes. The children that we care for have complex needs and need highly specialist care, so our support is tailored to the needs of the individual child. Some children may only have a very short time to live, perhaps only weeks or months; others may reach young adulthood, but EACH’s aim is always the same – to enhance their quality of life and support their family.
In addition to the all-important end of life care that is always a priority, our services include ongoing respite care, family support, music therapy and assisted play. Our aim is to enable the child and their family to make the most of their precious time together and reach their full potential, whatever that may be.
Cambridgeshire companies support EACH in a variety of different ways, including staff fundraising, event sponsorship, payroll giving and corporate donations.
To find out more about getting involved, call 01223 205194.
Milton Hospice
The hospice building has seven bedrooms for children and four rooms for families to use for overnight stays. There is a multi-sensory room, hydrotherapy pool, music room, play room, teenage room, sensory garden and specialist outdoor play equipment...
Work by world-renowned Antony Gormley one of over 30 pieces in online art auction for EACH
Antony Gormley is among a distinguished list of creative talents who have contributed works of art to an exclusive online auction supporting East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH).
EACH stalwart gives charity reason to celebrate as she reaches landmark anniversary
It has been tough all round for charities this year, but East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) has been celebrating at the end of it and marking an incredible 30 years of service from Senior Care Assistant Sandra Holmes.
Rotary clubs pledge to raise thousands for EACH
East Anglia’s Rotary clubs have committed to the challenge of raising £80,000 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) over the next three years.
Celebrity Bottom Drawer auction raises nearly £150,000 for EACH
The huge auction of celebrity items to raise money for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) ended on Sunday, with a flurry of late bids taking the total to a phenomenal £146,466.
Late excitement on Celebrity Bottom Drawer auction site as original Tracey Emin work joins mega sale of A-listers’ stuff
Tracey Emin has just put an original piece of artwork up for auction on the Celebrity Bottom Drawer site – alongside items from the likes of Dawn French, racehorse Enable, Cate Blanchett, Ed Sheeran, Delia Smith, Paul McCartney, Ricky Gervais and Coldplay – with bidding to close this Sunday (6 December).
Auction items raise over £53,000 and counting for EACH
Five days of bidding on stuff from famous people - including Dawn French, racehorse Enable, Cate Blanchett, Ed Sheeran, Delia Smith, Paul McCartney, Ricky Gervais and Coldplay - has already raised over £53,000 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH).
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Mother and son supported by children’s hospice join Santa and his elves race for charity
Mum Josie Heal, 40, from West Cambridge, is set to join Santa and his elves for a festive run next month in aid of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH).
Decades of jam-makers raise thousands for charities
A jam stall in the Cambridgeshire village of Hildersham, set up some three decades ago, has raised money for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), enjoying one of its best years yet due to increased footfall caused by lockdown.
Charity helps to take away the post-Christmas blues with environmentally-friendly tree collections
After the excitement and buzz of Christmas comes the seemingly endless month of January. The decorations are put away, but there is still a now brittle tree hanging around.
Children’s hospices receive generous donation of medical supplies
Ray Morrissey, 72, from Milton, owner and founder of Infutech, which supplies needles to administer medication, has generously offered to provide East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) with three months’ worth of needles free of charge.
Griff Rhys Jones continues EACH fundraising with Celebrity Bottom Drawer auction
A one-of-a-kind film camera coffin made in Ghana is among quirky items that could be yours this Christmas as A-listers sift through their D-list stuff to raise money for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH).
Intellectual Property firm donates generous £15,000 to children’s hospices
The Cambridge team of European intellectual property firm Mewburn Ellis has chosen East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) as its charity of the year.
Woman raises thousands for children’s hospices by sewing over 700 masks
Morag Clifford, from Thriplow, has sewn over 700 masks and raised £3,500 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH).
New research finds respite care reduces stress and leads to fewer GP visits for parents of seriously ill children, as EACH joins call on ministers to give families a break
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) is calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to give families of seriously ill children a break. The campaign comes as new research estimates more than one in 10 (11%) parents of children who need respite delivered by children’s palliative care providers, like EACH, would experience significantly less stress and improved...
EACH volunteers begin returning to their ‘new normal’
After months of uncertainty and concern, volunteers who support East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) are slowly beginning to resume activity.
EACH gives away free children’s books every week of the summer holidays
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) shops have been offering one free book per child each week of the summer holidays.
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East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) is set to host a virtual shopping fair through its eBay store on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th August.
EACH eBay shop takes record-breaking £24.3k on return from lockdown
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) has seen its eBay shop smash its previous record for monthly income following its return from lockdown.
EACH to reopen more shops in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk next week
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) is to reopen a further three shops, with those that unlocked doors on Monday (27 July) across Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex recording a highly successful day of sales.
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Peugeot 508 Sport Engineered concept revealed for Geneva
Performance PHEV claims 4.3-second 0-100 sprint and 50km electric range, previews upcoming electrified go-fast line-up.
Peugeot Sport has revealed a high-performance version of the 508 Hybrid, ahead of its public debut at the Geneva motor show next month.
Dubbed the 508 Peugeot Sport Engineered, the concept car teams a 'PureTech 200' 150kW turbocharged petrol engine with a 110bhp (82kW) electric motor on the front axle, while an additional 200bhp (150kW) electric motor drives the rear wheels, giving the performance sedan all-wheel drive.
The French company claims the electrified concept can dash from 0-100km/h in just 4.3 seconds, on its way to a limited top speed of 155mph (250km/h).
Electric power is drawn from an 11.8kWh battery pack, allowing for a zero-emissions driving range of up to 31 miles (50km) on the WLTP test cycle.
As for the design, the 508 Peugeot Sport Engineered concept gets numerous special appointments, including redesigned bumpers incorporating 3D-printed elements, a rear diffuser, winglets on the quarter panels, carbon-fibre side mirrors, special 'Selenium Grey' paint, and an anodised finish for the lion badge first seen on the e-Legend concept.
Inside, there's 'comfort fit' seats trimmed in leather and Alcantara with Kryptonite green and Onyx Black top-stitching, extended Alcantara trim on the steering wheel and gear selector, along with the headlining.
The bright Kryptonite colour also adorns the accents for the door handles and dashboard, along with featuring in the interface for the 12.3-inch digital instrument panel and 10.0-inch central touchscreen.
Peugeot says the concept "marks the beginning of an important year", where it will continue the rollout of its electrification strategy – by 2023, the company plans to electrify its entire range.
"Electrification provides a marvellous opportunity to develop new driving sensations," said Jean-Philippe Imparato, CEO for the Peugeot brand.
"We are creating a "neo-performance", new energy sources, new features, new territories, new challenges....sheer pleasure for only 49g of CO2/km."
The company has confirmed it will introduce its first all-electric model later this year, likely to be a variant of the new-generation 208 light hatch.
Stay tuned for all the latest Peugeot news during our coverage of the Geneva motor show from March 5.
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Audi and Nvidia Bring Autonomous Q7 Concept to CES
By Greg Fink
A fully autonomous vehicle on the market by 2020: That’s the stated goal of Audi and Nvidia. The two companies formally announced their partnership at the 2017 CES technology show in Las Vegas, where the duo marked the occasion by bringing a self-driving Audi Q7 to the show.
Wrapped in splashy graphics and fitted with Nvidia’s Drive PX 2 artificial-intelligence platform, the autonomous Q7 Deep Learning concept relies on neural networks and deep learning to achieve an understanding of its surrounding environment—a dynamism missing in preprogrammed systems—by taking in information during driving sessions initially completed by a human user. Despite this achievement, both Audi and Nvidia acknowledge the current concept is merely a demonstration of what’s to come, as additional neural network platforms will need to be integrated to create an automated vehicle ready for use on public roads. That reality, paired with the fact that Nevada law requires that a human operator be seated behind the wheel of roadgoing autonomous vehicles, meant Audi and Nvidia fenced off an area of the parking lot outside the Las Vegas Convention Center to create a closed course for the self-driving Q7.
With an empty driver’s seat, a dashboard-mounted screen displaying a live feed from the automated Q7’s front-mounted camera, and a representative of the project in the front passenger seat to keep tabs on the vehicle, we sat in the crossover’s comfortable second-row bench seat and played Miss Daisy to the Q7’s Hoke Colburn. From there we watched the vehicle work the wheel, throttle, and brakes with the expertise of a seasoned chauffeur, cruising without a hiccup over a small sections of dirt and grass and quickly adjusting course when a handful of Audi and Nvidia team members attempted to confuse the system by putting an obstacle in its path.
The automated Q7 Deep Learning concept performed admirably, but the controlled nature of the drive left us a little cold. We ultimately exited the concept feeling much the same as we had after seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens—not overly impressed, but excited to see what’s to come.
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Gabriel Josipovici
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We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural shift from societies that celebrated ritual remembrance at fixed times and places, to our own Western world where the lack of such mechanisms leads to a fear of forgetting, to what Nietzsche diagnosed as an unhealthy sleeplessness that infects every aspect of our culture.
Moving from the fear of Alzheimer's to invocations of 'Remember the Holocaust' and 'Remember Kosovo' by unscrupulous demagogues, from the burial rituals of rural societies to the Berlin and Vienna Holocaust Memorials, from eighteenth-century disquiet about the role of tombs and inscriptions to the late poems of Wallace Stevens, Josipovici has produced, in characteristic style, a small book with a very big punch.
Gabriel Josipovici's novel The Cemetery in Barnes (2018) was shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize.
Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 to Jewish parents of Italo-Russian, Romano-Levantine extraction. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to England. He read English at a St.Edmund Hall, Oxford and from 1963 to 1998 was first a lecturer, then a Professor in the School ... read more
Awards won by Gabriel Josipovici Long-listed, 2019 The Republic of Consciousness Prize (The Cemetery in Barnes) Short-listed, 2018 The Goldsmiths Prize (The Cemetery in Barnes)
'Josipovici is at his best in his dissections of art's representations, its bridges between personal and cultural worlds.'
Bernadette Ashby, DURA Dundee
'Gabriel Josipovici provides an elegant lesson, to cite the title of his final chapter, in letting go'
Ben Hutchinson, Times Literary Supplement
'Forgetting is second to none on the demands of the present when it comes to our cultural memory. Josipovici writes generously, with deep consideration and empathy, on the subject and has written an enlightening collection that serves as both consolation and a warning during this time of crisis.'
Jack Solloway, Review 31
'To call it a "success" would be praise too simple for such a rich work. It is a book to be remembered and re-remembered'
Scott Beauchamp, The New Criterion
'As always, Josipovici asks big questions. Why, as a culture, are we fascinated by issues of forgetting? Is there something a little anxious about the injunction to "never forget"?'
David Herman, The Jewish Chronicle
'... a fascinating book of reflections on memory and forgetting... This mix of detailed readings has been typical of Jisopovici's critical work... It is what has made him one of the outstanding critics of our time.'
Praise for Gabriel Josipovici 'On first read this slender volume of sixty pages is at once recognized as being among the highest quality of literature [...] Poetic, dramatic, and certainly lyrical.'
Rogue Literary Society
'Art demans a certain silence, when creating it and viewing it. Josipovici captures the essence of this silence in both the art and the artist himself in this deceptively complex narrative which he subtitles, "A Triptych after Pierre Bonnard"'
Melissa Beck, The Book Binder's Daughter
A 'subtle, disconcerting and remarkable novel'
Volume, 2019
'the novel shows its characters overwhelmed by the temporal medium in which everything takes place, and the characters are depicted not so much against light (contre-jour) as against time (contre-temps)... time is always the overwhelming, unresolvable problem.'
'The narrative is constantly destabilised, leaving us puzzling over what is and isn't 'true'... his debts to writers like Thomas Bernhard, Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet are obvious.'
Simon Collings, Stride
'Josipovici's best fiction has always been able to turn silence and reticence into powerful emotions, producing stories of pain and sadness. Contre-Jour is Josipovici at his very best.'
'The Cemetery in Barnes, though outwardly modest, expands in the mind and then lingers there - a tribute to its author's rejection of the need to explain, his willingness to hint at all the ways in which life is a "labyrinth" without trying to say the last word about any of them.'
Leo Robson, The New Statesman
'The Cemetery in Barnes is a subtle, disturbing meditation on death and desire, on murder, suicide and arson glimpsed, as it were, out of the corner of the eye; an examination of a life lived in three locations and told - the cue being taken from Monteverdi's Orfeo - in three interweaving voices, whose total effect has the disturbing power of a bad dream.'
Nick Lezard, Goldsmiths Prize Judge
'A seriously amusing, at times amusingly serious novella... its artfulness partly lies in its temporary suspension of certainty'
Michael Caines, TLS
'Concealed in this wry interview is an exhilarating "world tour" of music, and how it comes to be created. Music aficionados will recognise Infinity's central figure with delight; newcomers will learn all they need, and more, about an extraordinary composer, and the anguished musical era - the twentieth century - in which he lived and worked.'
'Gabriel Josipovici is a deeply perceptive critic, always rewarding with a wide range of reference. The Singer on the Shore is a beautifully written and enjoyable book.'
Dame Muriel Spark 'A tour de force of straightfaced high-culture lunacy ... very funny, deeply serious, at once scathing about the sublime preposterousness of modernism and profoundly admiring of it. Infinity is that rare thing - a novel about a creative genius in whose artistry you are made to believe, and who, for all his monstrous egoism and crackpot theorising, you come to care about and finally applaud.'
Howard Jacobson 'A Doctor Faustus for our time. Like Thomas Mann's great novel, Infinity shows how a composer's times are reflected in the creative process of composing, and has the novel's structure itself parallel the composer's aesthetic. Books as insightful as these into the composer's world are rare indeed.'
Jonathan Harvey 'Josipovici is one of the UK's most distinguished and fearless writers... [Infinity] is a charming, sexy, modern and scholarly novel - an unusual mix but all the better for it.'
Deborah Levy, Jewish Quarterly
'Gabriel Josipovici's Infinity is a wondrous Mobius strip of a narrative that turns ideas of biography, memory and the making of art into a story that one reads with rapt attention, in one sitting.'
Kirsty Gunn, Scotsman Books of the Year 2012
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Devils' Nicholas Merkley: Doesn't make team out of camp
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Merkley was waived by the Devils on Monday, Corey Masisak of The Athletic reports. This move comes a mild surprise, as Merkley was expected to make the team out of camp after registering a goal and an assist in a four-game cup of coffee with New Jersey last season. Acquired from Arizona as part of the return in the Taylor Hall trade last season, Merkley will look to earn a promotion to the NHL with a strong start to his minor-league campaign. The 2015 first-round pick has scored at least 34 points in all three of his AHL seasons, though his rookie totals of 18 goals and 39 points in 38 games at that level still represent Merkley's high-water marks.
Devils' Nicholas Merkley: Returning from loan spell
Merkley's loan deal with Assat (Finland) has come to an end, and he will head back to North America ahead of the 2020-21 campaign, Corey Masisak of The Athletic reports. Merkley played in just four NHL games for the Devils last year, recording one goal on eight shots, one assist and nine hits. The 23-year-old center should compete for a roster spot during training camp but may not avoid spending some time in the minors with AHL Belleville. As such, he likely won't have a ton of value outside of deeper dynasty formats.
Devils' Nicholas Merkley: Pens two-way deal
Merkley signed a one-year, two-way contract extension with the Devils on Wednesday. Merkley will begin the 2020-21 campaign with Assat of Finland's Liiga before returning to North America for New Jersey's training camp. The 23-year-old winger spent the majority of the 2019-20 season with the Devils' AHL affiliate, notching 19 points in 28 contesets, but he also made four appearances with the big club, picking up two points over that span. He'll likely have a similar role next season, so don't expect him to be a useful fantasy option.
Devils' Nicholas Merkley: Sent back to minors
Merkley was reassigned to AHL Binghamton on Monday. Merkley registered one goal and one helper during his four-game stint in the NHL. With the Devils potentially still selling pieces off prior to Monday's trade deadline, Merkley could find himself back in the NHL before long, perhaps even in time to suit up versus Detroit on Tuesday.
Devils' Nicholas Merkley: Back in action
Merkley (face) will return to the lineup Saturday against the Capitals, Mike Morreale of NHL.com reports. Merkley missed Thursday's win over San Jose due to a facial laceration, but he'll tough it out against Washington. The 22-year-old rookie, who's picked up two points in three games this campaign, is expected to skate on the Devils' third line Saturday.
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Mazda MX-30 named Favourite Electric Car in the 2021 Driving Electric Awards
The all-new Mazda MX-30 has been named Favourite Electric Car in the 2021 DrivingElectric.com Awards. With the title decided by votes from the readers of the specialist electric and hybrid vehicle review site, the recognition comes ahead of the car’s arrival in UK next March.
Commenting on the MX-30’s award, DrivingElectric.com Editor, Richard Ingram, said: “Mazda’s compact SUV was the clear winner in our poll to find the readers’ favourite among the new electric cars revealed this year. The Japanese brand has taken a slightly different direction to rivals, focusing on stylish design, an engaging driving experience and sustainable interior materials rather than the biggest battery for the longest range possible. This approach clearly resonates with all those who voted for the MX-30, as does its relatively affordable starting price of just over £25,000”.
Mazda’s first battery electric production car, the highly anticipated Mazda MX-30 is a stylish and versatile crossover EV with an AC synchronous electric motor and a 35.5kWh lithium-ion battery that delivers a range of 124miles. It comes with AC charging up to 6.6kW and DC rapid charging designed to meet 125A Combo Charging standards.
Having clearly made an impression on the readers of DrivingElectric.com, the MX-30’s styling reflects a unique expression of Kodo design that emphasises the cars beauty as a solid mass, while the freestyle doors and framed glasshouse hint at the open spaciousness of the cabin. The front doors open forward to an angle of 82 degrees, while the rear doors open backwards to an angle of 80 degrees to reveal the stylish and driver focused interior.
The MX-30’s distinctive, stylish and sustainable cabin features high-quality materials and a driver focused interior. The lower console incorporates a 7-inch colour touch-screen air conditioning control panel, and in a nod to Mazda’s founding as the Toyo Kogyo Cork Company in 1920, the Mazda MX-30 features cork lined centre console trays and inner side door handles. Harvested from the bark of trees without felling, the use of cork and door trim materials that incorporate fibres from recycled plastic bottles, are perfectly suited to Mazda’s first pure electric production car. Benefiting passengers and drivers alike, the sense of space is enhanced with a floating centre console that sits independently from the dashboard, while the use of environmentally-friendly materials has been carefully matched to meticulous quality and finish.
Staying true to the ‘Jinbai Ittai – car and driver as one’ ethos found across Mazda’s combustion engine range, the Mazda MX-30 has been designed to deliver the intuitive responses, natural feedback and involving handling you’d expect of a Mazda. Electric G-Vectoring Control Plus (e-GVC Plus) enhances chassis performance by using motor torque to optimise the front-rear load shift for improved stability and the MX-30’s Skyactiv-Vehicle Architecture is specifically tailored to complement the smooth power delivery of the e-Skyactiv drivetrain. The dynamic focus also extends to a throttle pedal that delivers a seamless transition between linear power delivery and smooth regeneration on lift off, equally, the braking system offers a seamless transfer between energy regeneration and hydraulic brake action.
Available to order now, all Mazda MX-30 First Edition models registered by 31st March 2021 will receive the offer of a free home wall box charger with standard installation. This further enhances the value of the 500-model limited-edition First Edition, which is the first opportunity to order and take delivery of Mazda MX-30. The £27,495^^ First Edition is available with a choice of free-of-charge Ceramic Metallic or Polymetal Grey Metallic single colours. The First Edition can also be ordered with either £950 three-tone Ceramic Metallic or £1,250 three-tone Soul Red Crystal Metallic paint. This three-tone design further marks out the MX-30’s unique styling with a brilliant black roof and metallic dark grey upper side panels to contrast the Soul Red Crystal or Ceramic Metallic main body colour. Other standard equipment highlights on the First Edition include adaptive LED headlights, satin D pillar trim and signature LED rear lights. Inside, the First Edition features a light and modern cabin ambiance with light grey cloth and stone leatherette combined with orange seat stitching. Eight-way power adjustable driver’s seat and chrome interior details, plus heated front seats compliment the interior style.
Following the March arrival of the First Edition models, the full UK MX-30 range will arrive in UK dealerships in April 2021. Available across three generously equipped model grades – SE-L Lux, Sport Lux and GT Sport Tech, standard equipment on all UK MX-30s includes LED headlights with daytime running lights, reversing camera, Mazda Radar Cruise Control with Intelligent Speed Assist, navigation and head-up display. Each MX-30 comes as standard with a Type 2 AC charging cable and a socket for 50kW rapid charging, which can in just 36 minutes deliver up to 80 per cent battery charge.
The Mazda MX-30 range starts with the £25,545^^ Mazda MX-30 SE-L Lux. Marked out by 18-inch Silver Metallic alloy wheels, black door mirrors and a black grille, it’s exclusively offered in a single tone paint design with a choice of five colours: standard Arctic White solid, or £550 Polymetal Grey Metallic, Ceramic Metallic and Jet Black Mica, plus £670 Machine Grey Metallic.
The £27,545^^ MX-30 Sport Lux promises to be a popular model in the range. It features 18-inch Bright Metallic alloy wheels and sees an increase in standard equipment with the addition of power seats, lumber support adjustment and smart keyless entry. Like the First Edition, there’s the option to choose the optional three-tone design on Soul Red Crystal or Ceramic Metallic main body colours. In addition, Polymetal Grey Metallic can be matched to a Brilliant Black roof and Silver Metallic side panels.
The range-topping GT Sport Tech costs £29,845^^ with a light grey cloth interior trim and £30,045^^ when equipped with a dark grey interior and brown artificial leather. The range topping GT Sport Tech MX-30’s equipment tally includes a front wiper de-icer and a power and tilt sunroof, while inside a heated steering wheel and 12-speaker Bose surround sound compliment the generous standard specification.
All MX-30s come with a comprehensive standard safety specification, while GT Sport Tech adds to this with a host of extra active safety technology and a 360-degree view monitor. The Mazda MX-30’s safety credentials were recently confirmed by its performance in the latest Euro NCAP tests where it was awarded the maximum five-star rating by Euro NCAP in its latest series of tests with 91% and 87% scores in its respective adult and child occupancy categories. The 91% rating is the best adult occupant protection result yet registered amongst all vehicles tested in the latest 2020 Euro NCAP tests. Achieving maximum points in the lateral impact tests, the MX-30 also scored full marks for crash test performance based on six and ten-year old children for both frontal and lateral impact.
Commenting on the Mazda MX-30’s recognition by DrivingElectric.com, Managing Director, Mazda Motors UK, Jeremy Thomson, said: “our first all-electric Mazda heralds an exciting start to Mazda’s second century in business. And to win an award like this before the first customers in the UK have even taking delivery of an MX-30 is fantastic and shows that EV buyers share our passion for the MX-30’s style, design and quality. It’s very encouraging that the MX-30 is resonating with potential UK buyers who voted for it against a talented field of rival EVs”.
Adding, “and the good news is that with the First Edition MX-30 order book now open, they can reserve a car for just £800 for delivery early in 2021, while a free home charging installation further adds to the excellent value of this limited-edition model. A battery electric vehicle conceived and created with Mazda’s well-renowned focus on distinctive styling, innovative technology, driver focused dynamics and class-leading interior quality, the MX-30 will be a stand out addition to the rapidly evolving EV marketplace. Part of Mazda’s multi-solution approach to efficient vehicles, the launch of our first pure electric car is a milestone moment for the brand and a landmark moment for our dealers and customers here in the UK. And with the announcement of pricing and specification of the three-model UK MX-30 line up, our customers and dealers can see that next year we will have a well-equipped EV range that forms part of an electrification strategy that has already seen Mazda M Hybrid, mild hybrid fitted as standard to the Mazda3, Mazda CX-30 and manual Mazda2s. And over the coming months across our digital platforms and our dealer network we will have a range of opportunities for potential customers to get familiar with the MX-30, ranging from answering their questions, to seeing the car and even opportunities for early test drives.”
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Kim responds to Kanye ‘divorce’ drama
23rd Jul 2020 5:01 AM | Updated: 5:27 AM
Kim Kardashian West has taken to Instagram to respond to the latest drama surrounding her relationship with husband and presidential candidate Kanye West.
On Wednesday, the rapper again unleashed on his family in a series of nonsensical tweets, a mere 24 hours after causing concern among fans for his mental health with a similar outburst.
Among a slew of claims, he seemingly revealed he has tried to file for divorce from Kim Kardashian West, while reiterating that she and matriarch Kris Jenner have attempted to have him hospitalised.
Overnight, Kim defended Kanye and made mention of his mental health, noting bipolar disorder.
"Any one who has this or has a loved one in their life who does, knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand," she wrote.
"I've never spoken publicly about how this has affected us at home because I am very protective of our children and Kanye's right to privacy when it comes to his health."
But Kardashian West noted she felt compelled to speak "today" because "of the stigma and misconceptions of mental health."
"Those that understand mental illness or compulsive behaviour know that the family is powerless unless the member is a minor. People who are unaware or far removed from this experience can be judgemental and not understand that the individual themselves have to engage in the process of getting help no matter how hard the family try."
In Kanye's earlier tweets, he mentioned rappers Meek Mill and Drake, who have been at the centre of unsubstantiated Kim Kardashian cheating rumours over the years, and made wild claims about Michael Jackson's death, as well as branding his mother-in-law a "white supremacist".
The tweets have since been removed from his page.
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Kim Kardashian West responds on Instagram.
Yesterday, Kanye tweeted, then deleted, a number of claims that his family "tried to lock him up" following a rambling presidential campaign rally in South Carolina in which he cried while saying that he and Kim had once contemplated aborting their 7-year-old daughter North West.
West, who announced earlier this month that he was running for president, deleted almost all of the tweets - leaving up the one promoting his upcoming album, DONDA, tweeting "Ima focus on the music now".
Among the many posts, the rapper and father-of-four, 43, claimed Kris Jenner and Kim Kardashian-West "put out a statement without my approval", writing "white supremacy" and claiming in a further tweet that he has been "trying to get divorced since Kim met with Meek (Mill) at the (Waldorf) for 'prison reform'".
He also included a screenshot of his recent texts to Kris Jenner which read: "This Ye. You wanna talk. Or go to war?" along with unanswered messages.
The image was posted with the caption: "white supremacy at its highest".
Kanye posted his text receipts to his mother-in-law. Picture: Twitter.
Kanye West has taken to Twitter with another worrying outburst. Picture: AFP.
Reality star Kim has been campaigning for prison reform since 2018, having met with US President Donald Trump in April this year to discuss "changes to the justice system".
Rapper Meek Mill, who Kanye was seemingly referring to in his tweets today, has praised Kardashian West for her work in the past.
He went on to refer to his mother-in-law as "Kris Jong-Un", and in another, lashed out at Jenner again writing: "I will live for my children Kris I'm in Cody if your not planning another one of your children's playboy shoots (sic)".
He also made several bizarre references to Michael Jackson's 2009 death, suggesting he was murdered.
"MJ told you about Tommy before they killed him. Kim saved my daughters life in the name of Jesus. It's Gods choice only. I will live for my children Kris I'm in Cody if you're not planning another one of your children's playboy shoots (sic)."
The star appears to be referring to the singer's highly-publicised fallout with former Sony CEO Tommy Mottola, who Michael spoke out against before his 2009 death - calling him "devilish" and "racist".
Kanye again lashed out as his wife on Twitter, claiming her family have tried to have him hospitalised. Picture: Twitter
In another message written in capital letters, he asserted his daughter North would "never be exploited by the system of white supremacy."
Less than 20 minutes after they were posted, he removed them all.
Kanye West has again caused concern for his mental health following a second slew of bizarre tweets. Picture: Twitter
The illiterate updates were similar to his outburst yesterday, in which he addressed his wife and mother-in-law directly, writing: "Kris and Kim, call me now" before posting a screenshot of a text message to Jenner, in which he accused her of "avoiding" his calls.
In separate tweets, Kanye also compared his life to the movie Get Out - a movie about an African-American man who is brought to his white girlfriend's family home and uncovers a series of disturbing details about them - and called out Jenner for her handling of his wife's sex tape and Playboy shoot.
In a tweet unrelated to his wife and family, he wrote "NBC locked up Bill Cosby", seemingly in support of the convicted sex offender.
Kanye shared the same opinion of the disgraced actor back in 2016, tweeting that he was innocent. Picture: Twitter.
Earlier this week, Kanye West broke down in tears and became unintelligible during the first event of his presidential campaign, before embarking on a bizarre rant.
The rapper grew emotional during a monologue on the issue of abortion, revealing that he and his wife Kim Kardashian considered not having their first child, North West.
"In the Bible it says thou shalt not kill," Kanye said.
"I remember that my girlfriend called me screaming and crying. And I'm just thinking - and at that time I was a rapper, I was out there, I had different girlfriends and everything. And I was like, I want to word this in a way that - hey I don't give a f***.
"She said she was pregnant, and for one month, and two months, and three months, we talked about her not having this child. She had the pills in her hand. When you take the pills, and if you take it, the baby's gone."
West's teary rant sparked the beginning of fresh concern for his mental health. Picture: Supplied.
At that point West started to cry, and it became difficult to discern much of what he was saying.
"I almost killed my daughter! I almost killed my daughter!" he shouted.
West's emotional speech comes after he addressed his political platform and revealed his thoughts on US abortion clinic Planned Parenthood in a tell-all interview with Forbes.
"Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil's work," he told the magazine.
A "completely devastated" Kim Kardashian has this week told friends she's "living through the worst nightmare of my life" amid Kanye West's very public meltdown.
The bombshell detail about their daughter, now 7, reportedly left Kardashian "furious" and feeling "betrayed".
"She's furious about how this will affect their kids, and feels incredibly sad for North," a source told The Sun.
Kanye has in the past opened up about his struggles with bipolar disorder, but his recent erratic behaviour has again called into question his health and treatment.
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Franklin Graham, Matt Chandler Sound Warnings as Study Reveals 'Epidemic' Levels of Loneliness in US
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By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter Follow | Tuesday, May 08, 2018
A number of American pastors have spoken out as a major study released by a global insurance company last week found that U.S. citizens face "epidemic" levels of loneliness.
Cigna said in a press release last week that a survey of more than 20,000 U.S. adults, carried out by Ipsos between Feb. 21 and March 6, with a credibility interval of plus or minus 0.8 percentage points, discovered that nearly half said that they sometimes or always feel alone.
What is more, Generation Z, or adults aged 18–22, were found to be the loneliest of all.
Matt Chandler, megachurch pastor of the Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, tweeted on Saturday in responce to the survey: "The data around this social experiment is coming in and it's not pretty."
Chandler referred to another tweet written by Matt McCauley, family minister at Village Church, who suggested that social media might be playing a big role in people suffering from loneliness.
"Parents, limit screen time and push your kids outside into the real world of face-to-face interaction. 10,000 followers doesn't cure loneliness," McCauley wrote.
The Cigna study does list social media use as one of the factors it examined.
It noted that respondents with very heavy social media use have a loneliness score of 43.5 based on a 20-item questionnaire on the UCLA Loneliness Scale, though that was only slightly higher than those who said they never use social media, at 41.7 points.
Others, such as the Rev. Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, shared a message to all those who are feeling lonely:
"I would like each one of them to know that there is Someone they can count on to always be with them. Jesus loves us and promises to never leave or forsake us — we just have to put our faith and trust in Him in order to have that personal relationship," Graham wrote on Facebook on Monday.
"God's Word tells us, 'Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.'"
The Cigna study found that there are several factors that can influence loneliness, noting that people who have meaningful in-person interactions have a much lower loneliness score, and enjoy better health in general.
It further found that those who sleep just the right amount have lower loneliness levels, along with those who spend the right amount of time with family, get the right amount of physical activity, and spend the right amount of time at the workplace.
"We view a person's physical, mental and social health as being entirely connected," said David M. Cordani, president and chief executive officer of Cigna.
"It's for this reason that we regularly examine the physical, mental and social needs of our people and the communities they live in. In analyzing this closely, we're seeing a lack of human connection, which ultimately leads to a lack of vitality — or a disconnect between mind and body," Cordani continued.
"We must change this trend by reframing the conversation to be about 'mental wellness' and 'vitality' to speak to our mental-physical connection. When the mind and body are treated as one, we see powerful results."
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Hasans: McInnis trying to ‘wiggle out’ of repaying $300K for plagiarized articles
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Embattled Colorado Republican candidate for governor Scott McInnis has so far avoided making any arrangements to pay back to the influential conservative Hasan Family Foundation the $300,000 he was paid to produce a series of water articles he plagiarized. After repeated failed attempts to recover the money or to workout a payment plan with McInnis, the foundation has now handed the matter over to its attorneys.
“The general consensus was that he is trying to wiggle out of this,” said Dr. Aliya Hasan, a foundation board member. “We didn’t hear anything from him at all. So finally we asked our lawyer this week to send a letter formally asking for our money back.
“We heard back from Scott’s lawyer,” she continued. “There was nothing in his letter about paying us back or about proposing a way to pay us back. The letter said that Scott wants to meet with you to make this right. You know, what he always says, ‘I want to make this right.’”
Hasan said the foundation doesn’t want to hurt Republicans but that McInnis’ evasiveness has forced the foundation to turn to its lawyers.
“He’s spoken to my dad already, and we’ve made it quite clear what our position is. There’s nothing more to discuss except the terms for how he is going to pay us back, which we felt our lawyer could do. And our lawyer advised us that it’s probably not a good idea to meet with him, since we are considering legal action, and we agreed. It’s one of those anything-you-say-can-be-used-against-you situations.”
“And so we’ve basically said that we are not going to meet with him,” she said. “We want our money back. Tell us how you are going to do this. And if we don’t hear back from you, then we are going to proceed to legal action. There’s no point in dragging this out further.”
In an interview aired Wednesday, Colorado Public Radio asked McInnis if he had kept his promise, which he made 14 days ago, to repay the money. McInnis only said he had not given the money back yet and that he might do so later.
“I’ve got to make it right,” he said. “That’s my point. What shape that takes, whether it’s the funds or whatever it is, it’s going to have to be done. I have got to make it right.”
Hasan said the foundation was ready to work with McInnis to get the money back, as he had promised publicly, but McInnis never contacted the foundation to work out the details. She said that the foundation wants to use the McInnis money for projects that benefit the community, which is the purpose of the foundation, and that’s the underlying motivation for the potential legal action.
“We’re not vindictive about what happened. We’re upset, yes, but we just want our money back.”
There’s no firm date for filing the lawsuit, Hasan said.
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25 Token Black Characters From '90s TV Shows, and What Happened to Them
ByBrooklyne Gipson
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Monochrome casting—that is, casting people of all the same race (typically white people), has been a problem in Hollywood for decades. However, television shows, especially starting in the '90s, attempted to rectify this issue by mixing in a few minorities here and there. By minorities we typically mean African-Americans. Thus, the token black character.
In retrospect, this was a cheesy way to deal with diversity. But even today, shows continue to struggle to find a balance. Just last year, HBO’s Girls was criticized for depicting a relatively minority-free New York City and in response brought in Donald Glover to play Hannah’s new boyfriend for a brief two episodes in the second season.
A lot of the '90s TV series were successful in that they tried to stay away from stereotypes of African-Americans and even dispel some by casting blacks in roles of authority, or casting them opposite the co-star as a buddy character to implicitly level the playing field. However, many of these shows also failed because they, more often than not, dealt with race differences by simply ignoring them.
Here’s a look at some of the funny, awkward, and interesting ways all-white television shows have added some color into their casts: 25 Token Black Characters From '90s TV Shows, and What Happened to Them.
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Apple tries to kill its own Java on most Macs
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Present in Java 5. 6 and 7, leaves Windows PCs and Macs open to attack
A security researcher known for finding Java bugs has uncovered a new critical zero-day vulnerability in all currently-supported versions of the popular Oracle software.
The bug, which was publicly reported on the Full Disclosure security mailing list Tuesday by Adam Gowdiak, the founder and CEO of Polish security firm Security Explorations, can be leveraged to hijack a machine equipped with Java, letting attackers install malware on the system.
Windows PCs and Macs are equally at risk if their users have installed Java, or in the case of OS X, are running 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, or earlier. Snow Leopard was the last edition where Apple bundled Java with the operating system.
All currently-support versions of Java, including Java 5, Java 6 and Java 7, contain the bug.
Gowdiak has found other Java vulnerabilities in the past: Earlier this year he reported more than a dozen to Oracle. Months later, hackers independently uncovered one of the bugs, then began using it in widespread attacks during August.
On Aug. 30 Oracle shipped one of its rare emergency, or "out-of-band," security updates to patch the exploited Java bug.
The vulnerability Gowdiak revealed Tuesday was both potentially more serious than the already-exploited flaw and less of a risk to users at the moment.
"The potential impact is bigger when it comes to the number of Java desktops," said Gowdiak in an email reply to questions. "The vulnerability affects up-to-date installs of Java 5, 6 and 7. We even tested the developer preview of Java 7 Update 10, a build from Sept. 20, 2012, [and] verified it was also vulnerable."
The Java zero-days exploited by cyber criminals last month were in Java 7 only -- the newest edition -- and because of that, Gowdiak and other experts recommended users downgrade to Java 6, which was safe.
Not the case now, as all editions of Java harbor the flaw.
Gowdiak, using installed-base statistics cited by Oracle, argued that approximately 1 billion computer users are at risk because of the unpatched vulnerability.
On the other hand, there is much less urgency with this vulnerability than the one exploited last month for the simply fact that there's no evidence it's in the hands of hackers. "We are not aware of any active attacks that would exploit this vulnerability," Gowdiak said.
While Gowdiak said that he found the new Java bug last week -- and took the weekend to create and test a proof-of-concept exploit -- he only reported it to Oracle on Tuesday. In a follow-up email to Computerworld, Gowdiak said, "We just received confirmation of the issue from Oracle."
The company also told him that the bug will be patched in a future Java security update, but that it did not name which. The next on Oracle's quarterly schedule will ship Oct. 16.
That was one of several reasons Gowdiak used to explain why he went public with the bug -- albeit sans technical details -- rather than privately reporting it to Oracle and waiting for the company to quietly patch Java. "There are still three weeks until the scheduled Java October Critical Patch Update [CPU], so it might be possible that Oracle manages to address the bug [on Oct. 16]," he said.
Gowdiak also said it was "simply our obligation to provide users with a proper warning," especially in light of recommendations last month to shift from Java 7 to the then-safe Java 6.
The fact that Java 6 is vulnerable will be of special interest to anyone using a Mac that runs OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Although Apple stopped bundling Java with OS X starting in 2011, 2009's Snow Leopard and 2007's Leopard included the software. If hackers have found -- or do find -- Gowdiak's vulnerability on their own, and exploit it before Oracle patches, Snow Leopard and Leopard users will be at risk, just like those running Lion or Mountain Lion.
The publicity of the newest Java zero-day -- several media outlets reported it yesterday -- will, of course, put some pressure on Oracle to act quickly, a reason often cited by security researchers who broadcast the existence of a flaw before a patch is available.
Gowdiak had an answer for that, too.
"We [make] public announcements, so that users are aware that there are some risks associated with given software or a technology, and can plan their actions accordingly," he said. He also declined to share more information about the nature of the vulnerability than the vague description in the Full Disclosure message.
Gowdiak confirmed that his proof-of-concept exploit worked against the Java plug-in used by the current versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9, Opera and Safari on Windows 7.
As virtually every security professional has done when a Java vulnerability or exploit surfaces, Gowdiak yesterday urged users to disable the plug-in in their browsers until Oracle issues a patch.
Security Explorations keeps an up-to-date account of the vulnerabilities it reports to vendors, and their reactions, if any, on its website.
Instructions for disabling Java in the major browsers can be found on the US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) website.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is gkeizer@ix.netcom.com.
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The Awakened Fate Ultimatum (PS3) Review
Doug Mercer
When you begin The Awakened Fate Ultimatum you find the main character, Shin Kamikaze, narrating his own life and by his own admission, it’s pretty sad. A loner, Shin finds solace in seclusion and he truly prefers it that way. Imagine his surprise when winged devils descend and attack him and he is protected by a beautiful angel who arrives just a little too late; Shin is killed by the devils. Luckily, the angel manages to fly Shin to Celestia where he is implanted with the Fate Awakening Crystal and resurrected. Even more to his surprise, the Crystal has turned him into Celestia’s god – their ultimate weapon to help them finally overcome the devils in their eternal war.
To help Shin coming into his powers and to cope with his new status of ‘God’ are angel warrior Jupiel and devil scientist Ariael. In order to save Shin and activate the Fate Awakening Crystal, Jupiel and Ariael gave a piece of their soul up and are physically and mentally connected to Shin. For every choice that comes to Shin throughout the story he, quite literally, has an angel and a devil on opposite shoulders telling him what to do.
The gameplay is split into two avenues. The actual game is a classic dungeon crawler where you have a limited number of items and a limited amount of energy and health to navigate the various labyrinth’s that represent each mission. You can choose to explore the dungeon in its entirety and get maximum experience and pick-ups at the risk of dying and losing everything, or you can choose to find the exit to the next level and clear the dungeon as fast as possible.
The second part is the RPG element of the game and where the term Ultimatum comes into play. You’re dungeon diving will allow you to level up and acquire skills and increase your stats to allow you to continue through the game. However, you are also tasked with choices to make and deciding one way or the other will also give you Angel or Devil points to further increase your powers on either side. In the dungeons you are able to switch between an angel’s and a devil’s powers to help you better combat either devil or angel enemies that you run into while you explore. As an angel your are more effective against devils and vice versa. Your choices will not only affect the story, but it will also you give you extra skills and power ups when you are one or the other. I ended up far more powerful as an angel in my game and thus began to fear running into angel enemies while in the dungeons.
The gamble in Ultimatum‘s dungeons is that while it is possible to zip through them as quick as you can, choosing to fully explore them results in far better weaponry and pick-ups than you would find in the store as well as giving you substantial amounts of experience to level you up. However, dying in the increasingly difficult dungeons will result in you losing everything on your possession for good and that could mean setting your gear back by a lot. This is what keeps the dungeons challenging as you progress through the game. It’s always a numbers game as you balance, health, power and movement to try to maximize exploration without getting stuck or killed.
However, the big downside to Awakened Fate Ultimatum is that the dungeons end up being little more than interruptions to having a manga voice acted for you. The story unfolds as the characters stand on screen and talk to one another and you can read Shin’s inner monologue. While the story is interesting to begin with, it quickly devolves into the same old character tropes we’re all accustomed to from watching anime and reading manga. Additionally, Shin Kamikaze is a terrible protagonist as he whines his way through the story, taking time to complain and belittle every choice you make, regardless of the outcome. With the story making up the majority of the game and choice being so integral to it, having the story go stale quickly and making the response to your choices so obnoxious really detracts from the game.
Ultimately, The Awakened Fate Ultimatum ends up being a pretty decent dungeon crawler that gets bogged down by a cumbersome story and poor lead character. Challenging dungeons and okay RPG elements are overshadowed by the domination of a mediocre storyline presented in an incredibly pedestrian manner. I know the series has its fanbase, but I can’t help feel that this entry to the genre will be overlooked and quickly forgotten.
However, the big downside to Awakened Fate Ultimatum is that the dungeons end up being little more than interruptions to having a manga voice acted for you.
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This Is the Least Amount of Exercise You Need to Get the Best Results
3:00PM EDT 3/12/2018 CBN News/Lorie Johnson
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Many people fear getting older means losing their independence, memory and mobility. However, it doesn't have to be that way.
Barbara Hannah Grufferman proves it's never too late to turn back the clock. At age 61, she feels happier and healthier than many people half her age.
"We can't control getting older, but we can control how we do it," she said.
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Although Barbara is the picture of health now, until about a decade ago, she ate the wrong foods and never exercised.
"The last time I had worked out seriously was back when Jane Fonda was doing those tapes, you know, feel the burn and all that stuff," she laughed.
By middle age, she put on weight, felt sluggish and believed her best years were behind her.
"And I was starting to feel, 'Is this what turning 50 is all about?' And it was a very upsetting moment for me and it was a very scary time for me," she said.
In the midst of her depression, she chose to take a little walk.
"I put one foot in front of the other," she recalled. "I literally took my first step to my whole new life. I didn't realize it then."
The walks started happening more often, became longer and she soon started mixing in a little jogging.
"I was starting to lose the weight," she said, "I was starting to have more energy, I was starting to look better and starting to feel for the first time since turning 50 actually positive about my future."
That positive feeling led to her completing five marathons, writing three anti-aging books, including her latest, Love Your Age, becoming an AARP ambassador and staying medication-free.
Exercise: Ditch the Pills, Avoid Disease
Doctors say regular exercise means we can ditch a lot of the pills we take like antidepressants, blood pressure medication, sleeping pills, cholesterol medicine and more. Exercise also reduces the risk of chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes, according to the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Michael Roizen.
"Well it's never too late until you're six feet under," Dr. Roizen smiled, "So it's never too late until they're putting dirt on top of you."
In his book Age-Proof, Dr. Roizen cites research showing exercise can significantly strengthen our immune system.
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"This is really strange," he said, "Because nobody expected this."
Scientists now tell us our ability to fight off everything from the common cold to Alzheimer's Disease is largely determined by the bacteria in our gut.
"Believe it or not," Roizen explained, "Exercise was one of the great things at changing the bacteria inside you, we don't know why, into being much healthier."
But not just any exercise. Researchers developed a four-pronged approach the delivers the best results for the least amount of effort.
The Winning Formula
10 thousand steps a day: Many people enjoy using fitness trackers to measure their steps.
20 jumps each morning and night: Just jumping in the air is fine or traditional jumping jacks.
30 minutes of resistance training three times a week: Resistance training is also called weight-bearing exercise.
20 minutes of cardio three times a week: Cardio, which is short for, "cardiovascular," is exercise that raises our heart rate. Roizen says it's the type of exercise that "makes you sweat in a cool room."
Avoid Falling; Don't Break Anything If You Do
As a spokeswoman for the National Osteoporosis Foundation, Barbara feels particularly passionate about the importance of resistance training, which she says far too many people avoid. Resistance training strengthens our bones, which is especially important as we age.
This is because starting in our thirties we start losing bone density. As our bones become less dense they become more brittle and therefore to break.
"This is critical," she explained, "Because people, when they fall at an advanced age, can be debilitated for the rest of their lives. And that is something I think about."
Grufferman recommends getting a bone density test each year and points out that while we cannot regain lost bone density, we can prevent losing even more. In fact, she said since age 50 she has managed to maintain her bone density thanks to resistance training combined with plenty of calcium and vitamin D.
Grufferman says while many people prefer to do resistance training by lifting weights, she likes using her own body weight as resistance with exercises like pushups, planks and squats.
While resistance training helps reduce the risk of a broken bone, balancing exercises reduce the risk of falling in the first place. Grufferman says simply standing on one foot is enough to significantly improve our balance, and can (and should!) be done just about anywhere such as standing in line at the grocery store or in the kitchen fixing dinner.
Grufferman said although she never planned on a total health overhaul, when she started moving more, she naturally began adopting other healthy habits.
"Because I was feeling so much better and motivated to live a healthier life," she recalled, "I decided to investigate, 'Well, what should I eat?'"
Grufferman said she switched to a mostly plant-based diet, and avoids sugar and processed foods.
So while aging is inevitable, don't give up on life. Walking, cardio, resistance training, balance and jumping can help us avoid many of the pitfalls of getting older.
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Railway accidents in Hong Kong are extremely uncommon, and scrapping of rolling stock due to collision damage is even rarer. From what I have been able to find, the most recent rail accident to occur in Hong Kong was all the way back in 1984. Here is a contemporary news report:
Some additional photos of the wreckage can be found on the blog of a local railfan
The Wikipedia article on the East Rail line has the following to say about the accident:
On 25 November 1984, a train derailed between Sheung Shui and Lo Wu station. The incident occurred when the driver, preparing to back the train up to Sheung Shui station, failed to follow a speed/stop signal while the train was exceeding the speed limit. The train crashed into a boulder buffer with the first two cars piling on top of each other. The degree of damage was so extensive that the cars never returned to service. Passengers were unloaded prior to the crash, while the driver sustained only minor injuries.
Given that that details in Wikipedia sounds like poorly translated English, I went over to the Chinese version of the same article, and ran it through Google Translate.
My interpretation:
Sheung Shui station was the terminus of a northbound service,
All passengers leave the train so that the train can change direction,
To head back towards Hung Hom, trains proceed into a turnback siding at the north end of the station,
After changing ends the driver brought his train back towards Sheung Shui station,
The train failed to negotiate the crossover back to the main line, instead continuing along the siding into a dead end,
The train hit the buffers at a high speed, with the leading two carriages being written off due to the damage inflicted.
Unfortunately I can’t find a diagram showing the track layout of Sheung Shui station circa 1984 – presumably the turnback siding was removed when the Lok Ma Chau spur line was opened in 2008. From what the news footage shows, the turnback siding was located on the eastern side of the line at the north end of the station.
Finding out which carriages were scrapped as a result of the collision is also difficult – Google Translate and the HKRail.net website says the following:
E45 (145-245-445) scrapped after the accident at Sheung Shui in 1984
It appears that the remaining good carriages were shuffled around, with the remains of carriage 272 were used to build a display at the Hong Kong Railway Museum. Unfortunately but by the time I visited in 2010 it was gone – so here is an older photo of the mockup by Gordon Graham.
Other accidents
The Chinese version of Wikipedia lists two other major accidents on the East Rail line page. They are, via Google Translate:
1923 Ma Liu Shui derailment
On June 14, 1923 at 11:00 am a southbound train encountered a landslip at Ma Liu Shui, the locomotive and first car derailed, fortunately no one was injured. The locomotive was repaired and re-entered service, but was scrapped after it was involved in a second accident in 1931.
In the afternoon of April 20, 1931 heavy rain caused streams to burst near No. 22 bridge south of University Station. About 17:10 a Kowloon-bound train approached the damaged bridge which overloaded and collapsed, leading to the locomotive and the first four passenger carriages derailing and falling 20 feet below the roadbed. Carriages 3 and 4 telescoped into each other.
After the incident, railway bureau, police and the fire brigade were immediately deployed to carry out the rescue, nearby residents have rushed to help, but because of the remote location, the lack of suitable tools and inclement weather, the work is very arduous. The accident caused a total of 12 people were killed, the highest death toll of any Hong Kong railway accident.
The locomotive involved was the same one as the 1923 derailment, and was scrapped as a result of the accident. Damage to the railway resulted in the service not resuming until June.
With only one fatal accident in the 100 years of railways in Hong Kong, I reckon their safety record is very good.
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15 Responses to Rail accidents in Hong Kong
There’s more then that. besides the 1931 and 1984 accident; there was the famous 1955 accident. in NOV 1955, the new diesel locomotive no.51 “Sir Alexander” (the one in the Railway Mueseum now) led a full loaded passenger service north bound through from Tai Po to Fan Ling. At the same time, a tank from the British Army was passing through this level crossing on the military road. (cuz its a military road, it does not have boom gates or any thing) The tank was at the middle of the crossing when the diesel train stuck it at high speed. The locomotive went over the tank and took it some 100 meters before coming to a stop. Few were killed with many injured on the train and all crews on the tank was killed. All the carriages was scrapped, the tank was a write-off and the locomotive was rebuilt and out of service for 3 months. The commander of the tank was later charged with manslaughter.
Thanks Alan for the details of this accident – there doesn’t seem to be much written in English regarding railway accidents in Hong Kong.
A booklet produced by the KCRC for the 100th anniversary of railways in Hon Kong fails to mention any kind of accidents or crashes:
http://www.kcrc.com/en/images/about/KCRC018_Booklet.pdf
I also came across a book tittled ‘Moving Millions: The Commercial Success and Political Controversies of Hong Kong’s Railways’ that does detail a number of MTR and KCR incidents, but it only goes as far back as the 1980s:
http://www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=420832
I was stationed at Lo Wu when the tank was hit by the train in 1955 but did not witness the accident and have a picture of train astride the tank. if my mememory serves me right there was one member of the tank crew killed.
David Ives says:
Re: the 1955 fatal accident between a tank and diesel locomotive in Hong Kong.
There was a large-scale 5 day services exercise on at the time.
I was soon on the scene and nearby we had a searchlight emplacement (Movement Light Troop RA) so I directed that searchlight on to the site to help the rescuers/workers.
I suddenly thought of the accident just now, do not know why, so Googled it!
This Chinese language forum thread appears to have some photos of the accident:
http://www.discuss.com.hk/viewthread.php?tid=21661621&page=17#pid366443324
In particular this one:
http://n2.hk/d/attachments/day_130706/20130706_0f0975399f4e1d9a97feBmxlEsJHj2rt.jpg
Thank you Marcus!
Myrtonos says:
Although most certainly a recent addition to the underground stations, platform screen doors ought to help keep things safe.
Research has been done into the effectiveness of platform screen doors – this paper found they “effectively prevent suicides”:
However the cost effectiveness of the doors in achieving this is still to be determined:
http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2011/01/25/jech.2010.115188.abstract
In adition to “effectively preventing suicides” they basically restrict access to tunnels, and that’s what’s important, especially for train drivers.
Jamie Kiang says:
The up direction for East rail line is towards Lo Wu / Lok Ma Chau, while the down direction is towards Hung Hom. I think you have mixed them up.
Also, as far as I know, carriage 145 have never been in the Railway Meseum. They are scrapped instead. However, the remainder of the incident train set in 1984, E44, is reserved in depot without conducting modernization work in the late 90s because the remainder set E44 is only 3 cars and cannot form a 12 car set train like other trains after modernization. There are recommendations to put the non modernized E44 into the railway museum from rail enthusiasts but no official decisions made.
Thanks for the correction! I’d assumed that mainline border was in the down direction, given the zero km post is at Hung Hom:
https://www.checkerboardhill.com/2017/11/mileposts-along-mtr-east-rail-line/
Wikipedia confirms your point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_directions#Other_names_for_north_and_south
In Hong Kong practice, the up track refers to northbound, and the down track refers to southbound. This old practice on the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway has trains towards the city center of Kowloon in the “down” direction instead of the “up direction”.
This diagram of the Shatin to Central Link works shows the same for East Rail (North-South Line):
https://www.epd.gov.hk/eia/register/report/eiareport/eia_2002011/EIA/pdf/Appendices/Section%206/Appendix%206.1%20-%20Preliminary%20design%20of%20aboveground%20facilities.pdf
But then to confuse matters, the East-West Line is shown here with the down track towards Ma On Shan:
https://www.epd.gov.hk/eia/register/report/eiareport/eia_2002011/EIA/pdf/Appendices/Section%203/Appendix%203.1%20-%20Vertical%20Profile%20of%20SCL%20from%20Tai%20Wai%20to%20Hung%20Hom%20Section_20110930.pdf
I found some photos of E44 in storage at Ho Tung Lau Depot here:
https://www.checkerboardhill.com/2018/03/final-kcr-yellow-head-unrefurbished-metro-cammel-train/
As for carriage 145, looks like I got that wrong – the remains of carriage 272 were used to build the display that once existed at the railway museum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_Metro_Cammell_EMU_(AC)#Preserved_examples
There was a new derailment today during the morning at Hung Hom if you don’t know.
I also need to add the 2019 crash at Central:
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3003747/mtr-corp-faces-record-hk25-million-fine-after-crash-left
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Altria has interests in both the heat-not-burn IQOS device and Juul e-cigarettes. Late last year, Altria purchased a 35% interest in San Francisco-based Juul Labs for $12.8 billion. And as for IQOS, Altria has a marketing agreement to sell IQOS in the United States. Altria will introduce the product in the Atlanta market starting in the fall.
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Inaki2
I'm currently designing the lighting for a production fo Bye Bye Birdie at a local High School. Its fun to be back at a school, and teach the kids stuff. The show itself is another story, I think its terribly outdated.
Anyone has any interesting stories about this show? I've gone to 2 crew meetings and have already seen enought stuff to scare me!
Ignacio \"Iñaki\" Rosenberg
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Ugh. Add this to the list of shows that I have done ENOUGH times. The last time we did it, the only really fun thing we did was inspired by a strange stage direction. During the number "Ed Sullivan," there is a stage direction that says "People come out of the woodwork" Suggesting that people walk in from nowhere and begin to sing along. We took it's meaning rather literally, and built in a hole everywhere possible. All of the cabinets would open and actor's heads would pop out singing. Two of the stairs flipped up: actors singing. The fridge opened, actors. The pictures on the walls flipped open, actors. Kind of like a horrid nightmare I keep having . It twas quite funny. /my bye bye birdie story.
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Hate that show...done it one too many times...but then I hate all the shows I've had to do over and over and over.. What do ya wanna know about the show? Think "gong-show meets small town cheesey plot meets Elvis gets drafted kind of story" and you got the thing down..
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We did this show three years ago. I HATED IT. That "We love you Conrad... Oh yes we do" song from the start of the show was stuck in my head for months.
'One man's trash, is another man's second-hand trash"
i think this is one of those shows EVERYONE has done 1 too many times. I just finished doing it for my, ::starts counting on fingers::...6th time..
argh "we love you conrad" and all the "AHHHHHHHH"s
luckily, ive done the show enough to know when screams are coming, and while teching, cover my ears....
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I think we watched that movie once in band, though I can't remember because I lost interest in it immediately and stopped paying attention.
"We can rebuild him, we have the technology, but I don't want to spend a lot of money."
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They have chosen the books they have felt most able to identify with and which reflect their experiences of adoption and some of the issues that have arisen for them.
Oliver, aged 10, said in his review of Picnic in the Park by Joe Griffiths and Tony Pilgrim
I sometimes feel different to my friends, as they have a mum and dad, and brothers and sisters. This book shows how many different families there are, and all are happy, safe, and love each other, which is the most important thing. So now if anyone says something horrible to me, I tell him, I am happy with my family, then I run off and play.
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2020 Election Facts First Election 101
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Trump planning 40 days of midterm campaign travel, White House says
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Published 8:53 PM EDT, Tue August 21, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 11: The Senate side of the US Capitol is shown October 11, 2016 in Washington DC. House and Senate Republicans are in a close race with Democrats to keep control of both houses of Congress. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump is planning to spend at least 40 days on the road campaigning for Republicans before the midterm elections in November, the President’s top White House political advisers said on Tuesday.
“We identified and held 40 – at least 40 – days of travel from August 1 to Election Day,” counselor to the President Johnny DeStefano, who oversees the White House’s political operations, told reporters on Tuesday.
DeStefano said the midterm campaign travel they are planning for Trump would put him on the road more than his last two predecessors spent campaigning during that time period. President George W. Bush spent 33 days on the campaign trail during the two midterm elections of his presidency, while President Barack Obama spent 22 days and 36 days during the midterm elections, DeStefano said.
Over the next six weeks, DeStefano and White House political director Bill Stepien said Trump is scheduled to travel to six different states – North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Kentucky and Tennessee. They cautioned the states could change as events are often not locked in until two weeks ahead of time, to give Trump more flexibility on where he can best deploy himself.
Trump was busy flexing his midterm muscles in West Virginia on Tuesday, where he invited the Republicans Senate nominee Patrick Morrisey to join him on stage and warned his supporters of the consequence of a “blue wave” in November.
“A blue wave in November means open borders, which means massive crime,” Trump said, seizing on the issue of immigration and border security. “A red wave means safety and strength, that’s what it is.”
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The White House political team is plotting out the President’s midterm travel as it confronts the increasingly clear reality of the steep odds Republicans face to hold onto their majority in Congress in 2018.
“One thing that is important to note is history. We all know the challenging nature of history in a midterm election cycle. The opposing party historically gains seats in midterm elections with just 2 exceptions since the Civil War,” Stepien said on Tuesday.
The importance for the President of ensuring Republicans keep hold of their majority in the House was magnified later Tuesday when Michael Cohen, the President’s longtime personal attorney, pleaded guilty to eight federal charges including a campaign finance violation that he said he carried out with Trump’s knowledge and under his direction. The legal implications could heighten the threat of impeachment if Democrats take over the House.
Trump’s efforts to boost Republicans in House, Senate and gubernatorial contests extend beyond stumping on the road.
“Rallies are just one tool in his toolkit,” Stepien said, noting that Trump has directly raised more than $75 million for Republicans running for re-election through 16 fundraising events.
Top Trump administration officials are also being deployed on official business across the country to key congressional districts.
Stepien said Cabinet members – like Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and Energy Secretary Rick Perry – senior staffers, like Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, have held 35 events so far in August in key House districts.
But rallies will be key as Trump looks to galvanize his political base into turning out to vote in November, even though he is not on the ballot, Stepien said.
“His rallies bring out not just the conservative, deep-red voter who votes in every local election and every school board election,” Stepien said. “Less likely midterm voters are in attendance at those rallies As many as a quarter of those in attendance only vote in presidential years.”
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Researchers Expose Flaw in Bitcoin Wallets That Could Be Exploited for Double-Spending
(Adrian Swancar/Unsplash)
Jul 2, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. UTC Updated Jul 2, 2020 at 8:34 p.m. UTC
A standard way to transact bitcoin could be misused to enable a kind of double-spending, new research has found.
Blockchain sleuths at ZenGo, a wallet startup, have found a vulnerability that affected at least three major competing crypto wallets – Ledger Live, Edge and Breadwallet (BRD) – and potentially more.
The bug, which the Tel Aviv-based firm calls BigSpender, allows a hacker to double-spend a user’s funds and possibly prevent them from ever using their wallet again. It works by exploiting how certain wallet’s handle Bitcoin’s replace-by-fee (RBF) function, a failsafe that enables users to swap an unconfirmed transaction with one that has a higher fee.
“[BigSpender] can lead to substantial financial losses and in some cases to make the victim’s wallet totally unusable, with no way for the victim to protect themselves,” ZenGo CEO Ouriel Ohayon said in an email. “So this can be seen as a high severity attack.”
Like other optional Bitcoin features with associated vulnerabilities, such as time-locked transactions, the RBF function has become a standard way for users to send value back and forth. It was pitched and accepted by the developer community as a way for Bitcoiners to circumvent slow confirmation times by paying more in fees.
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From the outset, there were fears the RBF function was not well supported by bitcoin wallets, despite being integrated at the Bitcoin system’s protocol layer, the pseudonymous Bitcoin researcher 0xB10C said. “ZenGo shows that a user can be tricked into thinking he is receiving bitcoin when he is not. I believe this to be novel. I’ve at least not heard about it before,” he said.
The firm tested nine different wallets including Ledger Live, Trust wallet, Exodus, Edge, Bread, Coinbase, Blockstream Green, Blockchain and Atomic Wallet. Of those tested, three were found to be vulnerable to the theoretical exploit.
“We have not tested all the wallets but it could be that if three of the largest are implicated, more out there are, too,” Ohayon said. ZenGo alerted the firms about its findings, and gave them 90 days to repair the vulnerability.
Ledger and BRD have released code changes to prevent the attack from happening, and paid undisclosed bug bounties to ZenGo, while Edge is undergoing a “significant refactor” that will address the issue, Edge CEO Paul Puey said in an email.
The hack leverages a known vulnerability in how certain wallets treat unconfirmed transactions, including but not limited to RBF ones, said Peter Todd, a former Bitcoin developer and RBF’s architect.
How it works: Attackers send funds to their intended victim, and set fees low enough to nearly guarantee the transaction will not receive a confirmation. For vulnerable wallets, this pending transaction will be reflected as an increase in the recipient’s account balance, possibly leading some victims to erroneously believe the pending transaction has already been confirmed. The attacker then “cancels” the pending transaction, in ZenGo’s terminology, by using RBF to change the recipient to an address they control. By the time the victim realizes that the transaction has, in fact, been canceled, he’ll have delivered the goods.
To be clear: Similar attacks were possible before RBF, but in the absence of proper precautions by wallet providers, the payment option has highlighted the risk.
This discrepancy between a victim’s stated and actual balance could be exploited by malicious actors tricking people into providing goods or services without paying for them – except the minimal amount of fees spent. In this sense, the flaw is with a wallet’s UX and UI design.
Double trouble?
If a hacker can trick a person into believing they received payment, while simultaneously maintaining control of the bitcoin, this is a double-spend, according to ZenGo’s researchers. Others contest this use of the term.
“You have to decide what is the definition of a double-spend. Most people that aren’t trolls would say that a double-spend is when you have a confirmed transaction that is somehow invalidated and spent with a different confirmed transaction,” Jameson Lopp, CTO of custody startup Casa.
This attack, by its nature, takes advantage of the way wallets display unconfirmed transactions. In this sense, the attack – while fraudulent – isn’t breaking the way the Bitcoin code functions.
“The whole point of the blockchain is to prevent the double-spend problem,” Lopp said. “It goes back to the original Satoshi white paper, which says the solution to double-spending is to have a distributed ledger that many people are checking.”
The only thing you can rely on is transactions that have been mined
A general rule of thumb when transacting with bitcoin is to never trust a transaction with fewer than six confirmations, 0xB10C said. This was a point repeated by a number of developers, including Todd, Lopp and BRD CTO Samuel Sutch. If this exploit goes through, at least some of the responsibility is on the victim.
“The only thing you can rely on is transactions that have been mined,” Todd said.
In this sense, Sutch called BigSpender a “minor bug,” and “kind of contrived,” but also something worth fixing and paying a bug bounty for. BRD recently passed 5 million users, Sutch said.
“More wallet developers need to know their users don’t know the distinctions under the hood,” Lopp said. Many don’t even know the difference between confirmed and unconfirmed from a security standpoint. So the onus is on developers to build a better user experience so they cannot be confused and defrauded by things like this.”
To this end, Ledger updated the way the wallet displays pending transactions. If users are unsure “to check the status of a transaction” using a block explorer. “Such verification is not possible with your bank today,” Ledger’s CTO Charles Guillemet said over email.
Updating wallets to clearly display what is happening during a RBF transaction is well and good for everyone involved. However, ZenGo researchers found there is a second-order attack, which follows the same scheme outlined above, and could permanently disable a wallet with or without the victim’s knowledge of the transaction.
In this case, the attacker again artificially inflates a victim’s balance by sending repeated transactions to her wallet. This can be done without a victim’s consent. By rerouting the transactions before they are confirmed, the victim’s stated wallet balance and actual funds are again decoupled, making their wallet unusable. Worse, the attack can affect multiple wallets at the same time.
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Essentially, it’s a denial of service (DoS) attack, preventing people from using their wallets.
“This also disables other kinds of sending attempts if the wallet’s coin selection algorithm chooses funds from this nonexistent transaction,” Ohayon said. These wallets are “bricked,” to use Sutch’s parlance. “It’s a huge inconvenience.”
Sutch said BRD made the vulnerability a top priority for the firm after it was alerted. Strangely, it managed to fix the bug while working an unrelated problem, he said.
The issue ZenGo raises with its security research is not sequestered to the wallets the team tested. The vast majority of Bitcoin wallets are capable of receiving RBF transactions, and many of the companies behind them are “resource-constrained,” Sutch said, and are unable to provide a fix immediately.
When enabling RBF functionality on Casa, Lopp said he configured the system to not display these types of transactions until confirmed, which is non-standard in the industry. “The default parameters would display these transactions,” he said.
Update (July 2, 20:15 UTC): A passage paraphrasing Peter Todd was modified to make it clear he was referring to the problem of how some Bitcoin wallets display unconfirmed transactions broadly, not just RBF transactions. Other passages were revised for clarity as well.
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Penrith logistics firm reroutes lorries to avoid UK-France border closure
by Andrew Keogh
in News, Featured
A Penrith-based logistics firm has had to reroute its vehicles following the closure of the UK-France border which has seen thousands of lorry drivers stranded in Kent waiting to depart.
AW Jenkinson, one of the UK’s largest haulage firms, doesn’t have any drivers stuck in the chaos caused by more than 40 countries banning UK arrivals due to concerns about the new coronavirus variant, but with European nations continuing their discussions on how to co-ordinate a response to it, managers are keeping a close eye on the situation.
A spokesman for the logistics firm, which has trucks delivering biomass to Sandwich, in the Dover district of Kent, said: “We have managed to work around it by using different roads to get where we need to be.”
The UK-France border reopened this morning with French citizens, British nationals living in France and hauliers are among those now able to travel – if they have a recent negative test – and soldiers have joined NHS Test and Trace staff in Kent to carry out rapid tests on stranded lorry drivers.
In May, A W Jenkinson emblazoned two of its lorry trailers with the message to “stay at home” wherever possible, in order to help protect the NHS during the coronavirus crisis.
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Riis re-states intent of going to CAS over Contador points
By Cycling News 05 July 2012
Calls UCI position “ridiculous”
Bjarne Riis has attracted a new sponsor to his squad. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Alberto Contador is chased up the climb by a film crew (Image credit: AFP)
Alberto Contador - staying warm or hiding? (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Bjarne Riis has repeated his intention of taking the International Cycling Union (UCI) to court if it does not allow Alberto Contador to earn points for his team for two years. The Saxo Bank-Tinkoff team owner called the situation “ridiculous”.
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UCI re-confirms that Contador's points won't count for Saxo Bank
Contador is serving a two-year doping-related ban, and will return to riding for the team early next month. Under UCI rules, points earned by such riders will not count for a team for two years after the rider returns.
Saxo Bank-Tinkoff is in desperate need of points to retain its WorldTour licence in the coming year. It is currently at the bottom of the standings, with only 44 points as compared to Sky Team, who lead the list with 803. He also faces the option of signing additional riders with points, which would be made be possible by the recent inclusion of Tinkoff Bank as a name co-sponsor.
The UCI has reiterated that any points Contador earns will not count for the team, and if they continue to uphold that position, “I will go to the sports tribunal CAS. This is ridiculous," Riis told De Telegraaf.
"The UCI would like to do things in their own interest. It would be better if they did more good things for cycling, instead of fighting with the teams over various things.”
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Inside Brooks: the saddle-making institution
We headed to the Midlands to uncover a secret or two about the saddle-making institution
Simon Smythe October 30, 2015 11:00 am
Style never goes out of fashion, it’s said. Almost a century and half since its founder made his first leather bicycle saddle, Brooks England is living, working proof of this maxim.
John Boultbee Brooks was the son of a Victorian leatherworker who sold horse tack. When his own horse died, so the legend goes, Brooks started commuting to the workshop in central Birmingham on a velocipede, the latest craze in 1866.
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A week or so in, its wooden saddle was giving him so much trouble that he made his own out of leather. Fast-forward 149 years and some of the earliest saddles that JB Brooks patented — notably the B17 — are still being produced in Birmingham to a virtually identical specification.
Of course quality is something else that never goes out of fashion, particularly if it’s a high-quality product that’s made in Britain using traditional methods and natural materials.
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Certainly that means Brooks saddles will be more expensive than their synthetic counterparts from the Far East, but looked after properly they will last decades. And when you see how they’re made, the £90 price tag on a B17 starts to look very reasonable indeed.
Steven Green is Brooks’s UK sales and events manager. He has worked for the company for 37 years. Just as Brooks and the saddles it produces are in it for the long term, so too are the staff at the Smethwick factory, whose combined experience adds up to centuries.
Staff loyalty
Sonia Thomas, Brooks’s longest serving employee, operating a riveting machine. Photo: Chris Catchpole
Who is the longest serving Brooks employee? “We have a lady who has been here for 43 years,” says Steven Green. “Her name is Sonia Thomas. She’s worked here ever since she left school at 15 or 16.
“She started in 1972 and was making Raleigh Chopper saddles.
“There’s a lot of people who have been here 10, 15 years plus,” continues Green. “We’ve started to bring in younger people because we have this anxiety that we’re all getting older here and there’s no one to carry it forward.
“So we’ve brought a new batch of younger people in and they’ve been here five or six years or even longer!”
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Green is small and bespectacled and speaks with a homely Brummie accent. He’s the most laid-back sales manager you’ll ever meet. With a product like Brooks saddles to sell, he doesn’t have to be pushy.
“I came to work here straight from school,” he says with obvious pride. “It was my first job.” Instead of pushiness, Green brings to his job an incredible depth of knowledge and understanding.
The redbrick Victorian factory in Smethwick, an unlovely but historic part of industrial Birmingham, is in fact the third location for the Brooks business.
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“The first two were in Birmingham city centre,” says Green. “The original one was just off New Street where the shopping centre is now, then, as the company grew and the saddle business took off, Brooks had a purpose-built building right next to Snow Hill railway station. There was more space there at the time. When the family sold the business in 1958 to Raleigh that’s when things started to move towards Smethwick.”
Pallets from the days of Raleigh ownership go on forever. This one probably dates from the 1970s. Photo: Chris Catchpole
Throughout the 1950s there was heavy investment in new, purpose-built machines for saddle making — but no one could have predicted those same machines would be making the same saddles 60 years later. How is this possible?
“Most of the companies that built them for us no longer exist,” says Green. “So we’re lucky being in Birmingham that if a machine or a part breaks we can just take the broken part down to engineers round here or find some drawings and they’ll make a new one for us.”
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However, Green admits that some of these ancient machines — which have taken on personalities of their own throughout the decades — can be temperamental, particularly the spring and wire-forming ones.
“A couple of years ago there was a major concern when one of the spring-making machines broke. We ended up having to buy a newer one second-hand and cannibalised it for spare parts for our two [there’s one machine that makes the right-hand spring of Brooks’s sprung saddles and another that makes the left]. But that all worked out in the end,” Green says with a wry laugh.
The machine that makes the left-hand springs can be temperamental. Photo: Chris Catchpole
Once a machine is set up to run a particular metal part — which can take two days — Brooks makes large quantities of it “to be safe”, explains Green. Or in other words, before the machine changes its mind.
Brooks has been owned since 2002 by saddle giant Selle Royal. Is the small British factory ever concerned that its Italian masters might decide to scrap the old machines, make production more automated and lay off some Birmingham staff?
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“These things have been talked about,” says Green. “There is new machinery around that would do a similar job, but this is a selling point for us. People like to come and see the machines running. There was talk at one time of a modern machine doing all the work and keeping the old ones here for when visitors come. But that seemed a bit fake to us so we’re sticking with what we’ve got.”
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The Brooks factory receives visitors regularly. “We have journalists, cycling groups, distributors, and our better stockists like to come and have a look: after all it’s an appreciation of the work that goes into making the saddles that they’re selling.”
Reading leather
Saddle tops are cut using something similar to a pastry cutter. Photo: Chris Catchpole
As long as the machines are willing to play ball, making the springs, rails and backplates is a repeatable process. However, turning cowhide into Brooks saddles has the potential to be a little more hit and miss.
Leather has to be soaked in water before it can be turned into a saddle and, according to Green, knowing how long to soak it for is “a very subjective kind of dark art. You put one piece of leather in the water and it will soak it up much quicker than the next piece.
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So it’s a case of the operators through their experience going back to the water tanks, feeling the ‘blanks’ and saying ‘OK this is ready now’, or ‘this needs another five minutes’ and putting it back into the water.”
Backplates have their three-dimensional curvatures. Photo: Chris Catchpole
How long does it take to learn how to read a piece of wet leather?
“The people who do that have been here for more than 15 years, going on 20 years,” says Green. “Some of the newer employees we’ve taken on have been here seven or eight years. They still need to consult the experts at times. So they’re still learning.”
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Once a flat leather ‘blank’ has been appropriately soaked so that it’s pliable, a leather-blocking press gives it its initial curvature. “We call that the blocked top,” says Green. “There’s no heat involved. The machine presses at 2,000lb per square inch, and because the leather is wet it stays in that shape.
“We take it out, put it on the rack to dry for a couple of hours and it retains that curvature. At that particular stage there are only four shapes formed by four machines. There are 10 different blank shapes but they all go into those four presses.”
The B17 is the oldest model — “going since about 1879,” according to Green — and is the most popular, along with the Swallow, for the UK market and Japan. Europe, mostly Germany and the Netherlands, go for the sprung saddles such as the B66 or B67 that are designed for Dutch bikes or traditional roadsters.
Tension shackles are stamped out of sheet steel. Photo: Chris Catchpole
What’s next for Brooks? Are there more leather saddles in the back catalogue waiting to be revived and relaunched? “Every year we go to Eurobike and like to bring out two or three new items to keep the faithful interested and excited,” says Green.
“It’s not always possible with leather saddles now because we’ve been there and done everything, so we’ve started reintroducing anatomic leather saddles with a cutout — again that’s nothing new: it was done way back.
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“We’ve introduced the Cambium, which is made from natural rubber with a cotton cover. The range of those is growing and that’s becoming very popular because of the low maintenance involved, the better resistance to adverse weather and so on. Those are partly assembled in Smethwick and partly in Italy so we’ve got a 50-50 arrangement. All the components are supplied through the Italian company [Selle Royal].”
A blanking press that uses Brooks’s own specialised insert. Photo: Chris Catchpole
Is there ever a new or relaunched Brooks saddle that doesn’t work?
“We’ve launched saddles in the past that haven’t sold that well and taken them out of the range… and people have complained!” laughs Green. “But there are products we’ve tested that didn’t even pass our internal field tests so never went out.
“With leather saddles we try new colours. Some don’t work out. We always try to use plant and vegetable dyes but when they react with the leather, the end colour can turn out completely different. Particularly the yellows — they go mustard or ochre. We struggle to get a bright yellow; blues too.”
Whether the most vivid colours make it through or not, the vibrancy of the company itself certainly does. Brooks’s anglophone Italian owners have a hand in keeping Brooks hip through sponsorship of high-profile retro events like L’Eroica and by operating the ultra-chic Brooks boutique, B1866, in Covent Garden.
However, the trendiness of the brand ought to be at odds with the ultra-traditional factory with its old machines and long-serving staff but, uniquely, it isn’t and that’s part of the attraction.
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Something that’s regarded as a bona fide national treasure is not normally also regarded as ‘cool’ but Brooks is both, as the broad spectrum of Brooks riders, from grizzled Audaxers to retro-grouches to hipster polo players to City Brompton commuters, proves.
Will the B17 still be the height of fashion in another 150 years’ time? Why wouldn’t it be?
1,000 saddles a day
Saddle tops waiting to be soaked and pressed. Photo: Chris Catchpole
There are currently 34 people working in the Brooks factory making saddles. The factory is roughly divided into three sections: metalworkers, leatherworkers and assemblers.
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“We can make 1,000 saddles a day,” says Brooks’s Steven Green. “So it comes to about 5,000 a week, and we work 46 weeks of the year.”
Shoulder to rump
The ‘blank’ is pressed into shape using 2,000lb per square inch and no heat. Photo: Chris Catchpole
Brooks leather is only sourced from English and Irish cattle because the relatively harsh island climate means these animals have developed thick skins.
Saddle-worthy leather only comes from the back: from the shoulder blades down to the rump. Approaching the shoulder blades it becomes too thin and the belly too soft.
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The raw material, before it’s cut, arrives in Smethwick as a sheet of leather called a butt.
The leather starts its journey towards becoming a saddle by being soaked in water for between 30 and 50 minutes — the amount of time these ‘blanks’ spend in the water tank is critical. Once the process is started and the leather soaked, it must be followed through, since the leather must not be allowed to dry out.
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This first era of rock and roll dates (more or less) from Eisenhower’s first election in 1952 to The British Invasion in 1964. Doo wop was a signature sound with its beautiful vocal harmonies, beat, and nonsense syllables, but there was a lot of pioneering going on with rhythm and blues, rock and roll, rockabilly, and crossovers from country music. That’s why we go beyond the doo wop genre per se and explore those years. Each blog post is just a mosaic. When put together, the posts start to provide a picture of the time. Please visit the Rec Room for a featured record on the record player, a TV with four channels, and a jukebox with 60+ songs. We have an all request Juke Box Saturday night in the rec room each weekend so you can hear your favorites from the 50s and 60s. There is also a Daily Doo Wop for videos of those golden oldies.
Published by dev at April 22, 2018
Golden Oldies Music
A Sunday Kind of Love by The Harptones
Published by Jane Minogue at April 8, 2018
The Harptones Life is But a Dream
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I-Team: Lack of fuel quality testing in Ohio leaves drivers in the dark about what’s in their tanks
Credit: DaytonDailyNews
The state of Ohio does not have any gas quality laws in place in an effort to make sure that gas that is being put into our vehicles is of the best quality. News Center 7's John Bedell reports.
news | Feb 11, 2020
More and more Miami Valley drivers are finding themselves victims of what some call a bad gas loophole.
News Center 7’s I-Team discovered how some Ohio communities have taken action as we took a look at the lack of fuel protection law that most other states have.
After bad gasoline ended up in several drivers’ tanks last month, the lack of a fuel quality testing law in Ohio is now fresh on many people’s minds.
Most of us expect regular fill ups to never result in costly damage to our vehicles, like what we saw last month.
But even before January, drivers in the Miami Valley have reported issues with bad gas.
>> RELATED: Customers find diesel in gas tanks after visiting Enon station; some face hefty damages
Last April, Larry Hess filled up his diesel truck at a Huber Heights gas station.
Less than 70 miles later, his check engine light came on for water in his fuel system.
He still has some of what the dealership drained from his tank.
“The diesel fuel here on top is kind of yellowish,” he described. “That's contaminated diesel fuel because it's normally a light green. What the stuff is on the bottom, the dark brown stuff, we have no idea.”
Bad gas cost Shaun Desmarais a lot of money.
“They gave us the initial quote; they said probably four to five grand,” he said of the repairs.
He ended up with diesel in his gas tank when he filled up at a Speedway in Enon last month.
Speedway said a delivery mix-up meant gasoline shipments to that station and three others last month may have been contaminated with diesel.
The service manager at Wagner Subaru in Fairborn showed News Center 7 what they pulled from a car's fuel system right after that driver filled up at the Enon Speedway after the mix-up.
“It’s almost got like a Mountain Dew look to it,” said Wayne Wilson. “If I had to guess, I’d say it’s probably 70% diesel and 30% gas.”
Ohio is one of three states that does not have statewide fuel quality testing.
That means there’s no way to tell there’s a problem until it’s too late.
Here in Ohio, most county auditor's offices are only allowed to test for the quantity of gas — are the pump dispensing true gallons when you fill up? But most of those same inspectors cannot test for the quality of what's going in your in tank.
Only Summit County tests fuel quality in Ohio.
>> RELATED: One county in Ohio tests for bad gas. What do they do?
A unique government structure there gives county inspectors the power to test gas on their own. They don’t need a state law to allow it.
Summit County’s fiscal office told the I-Team that they test about 178 stations every year.
Over the last eight years, they’ve received 15 formal complaints from drivers about bad gas.
The office told News Center 7 that they haven’t uncovered any bad gas with the program in the last nine years, but Summit County feels the real consumer protection is the program prevents haulers from unloading gas that wouldn’t pass inspection.
“Other states in the union has quality programs and Ohio being one that doesn’t,” said Montgomery County Auditor Karl Keith. “It seems like there’s something we’re missing.”
Here in Dayton, Keith’s office tests 7,000 pumps every year.
But again, they can’t test gas quality. They can only check if you get a gallon when you pump a gallon.
“They could do some of these simple quality tests,” said Keith. “It just seems like a thing that we should be doing.”
>> RELATED: After bad gas at Speedway, auditor says it’s time for Ohio to test fuel quality
Ohio lawmakers have tried to pass a statewide fuel testing law before, but those efforts have stalled at the Statehouse.
State Rep. George Lang, West Chester, is trying to restart that work.
He told the I-Team he’ll introduce a bipartisan bill in the next 60 days to give every county the authority to test gas quality.
“I think the biggest gander is the financial devastation,” he said. “Especially if you’ve got someone that’s not financially well off. I mean, $1,500 is a lot of money to some people, and $5,000 is enough to devastate some people.”
As someone who’s felt that financial impact, News Center 7’s John Bedell asked Hess about the bill.
>> RELATED: 4 Speedway stations received regular gas possibly contaminated with diesel
“I’d sign up for it,” he said. “Especially given my experience.”
But until the law changes, Hess and other drivers will have to continue to wonder how much bad gas could cost them.
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The data are processed and stored for the time required for the purposes for which they were collected.
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The user data is collected to allow the owner to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: statistics, address management and sending of email messages, payment management, interaction with external social networks and platforms, contacting the user, SPAM protection, business affiliation, management of landing pages and invitation pages, content performance and functionality tests (A/B testing), user database management, heat mapping and session recording, interaction with platforms for online surveys and interaction with live chat platforms.
To obtain further detailed information on the purposes of the processing and on the personal data that are concretely relevant for each purpose, the user can refer to the relevant sections of this document.
Details on the processing of personal data: Personal data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Facebook permissions required by this site
This site may require some Facebook permissions that allow it to perform actions with the user’s Facebook account and to collect information, including personal data, from it. For more information on the following permissions, refer to the documentation of Facebook permissions and the privacy policy of Facebook.
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The basic information of the user registered on Facebook which normally includes the following data: id, name, image, gender and language of localization and, in some cases, the “Friends” of Facebook. If the user has made additional data publicly available, they will be available.
Sharing instead of user.
Provides access to insight data for pages, applications and domains that the user owns.
Provides access to the list of all the pages that the user has marked with the Like.
Contact the user
Mailing List or Newsletter (this site)
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Personal data collected: Email and Name, Telephone Number.
Contact form (this site)
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Personal data collected : Email and Name, Telephone Number, City and all the data necessary to meet the user’s needs.
Address management and mail sending
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GetResponse is an address management service and sending of email messages provided by Implix Sp. Z oo
Personal data collected: Email and all those necessary to meet the user’s needs.
Processing location: Poland – Privacy Policy
Mailchimp is an address management and email service provided by Mailchimp Inc.
Personal data collected: Email and Name and all those necessary to meet the user’s needs.
Processing location: USA – Privacy Policy
SendinBlue is a solution for sending emails and SMS in self-service mode for companies.
Processing location: France – Privacy Policy
With registration to the mailing list or newsletter, the user’s email address is automatically inserted into a list of contacts to which email messages containing information, including commercial and promotional information, relating to this application may be transmitted. The user’s email address could also be added to this list as a result of registration to this application.
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Personal data collected: Email and Name and all those necessary to meet the user’s need.
TypeForm is a service for creating and managing forms that allows this site to integrate these contents within its pages provided by TypeForm S.L.
Personal data collected: Email and Name. Various types of data as specified by the privacy policy of the service.
Processing location: Spain – Privacy Policy
Vola SPA
Vola.it is a service for sending SMS.
Personal data used: Name, Telephone Number. Various types of data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Vola is a provider of electronic communications services in possession of Ministerial authorization (art. 25 of the Electronic Communications Code) and is registered in the Register of National Communication Operators (ROC) at number 23886.
Processing location: Italy – Privacy Policy
These services analyze the traffic of this site, potentially containing users’ personal data, in order to filter it from parts of traffic, messages and contents recognized as SPAM.
Akismet is a SPAM protection service provided by Automattic Inc.
Personal data collected: Various types of data as specified by the privacy policy of the service.
Access Accounts Third Party Services
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Access to the Twitter account (Twitter, Inc.)
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Personal data collected: Various types of data as specified by privacy service policy.
Access to the Facebook account (this site)
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Required permissions: Sharing, Insight and Likes.
The services contained in this section allow the owner to monitor and analyze traffic data and are used to keep track of user behavior.
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google uses the personal data collected for the purpose of tracking and examining the use of this site, compiling reports and sharing them with other services developed by Google. Google may use personal data to contextualize and customize the ads of its own advertising network.
At the following link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=it it is also made available by Google the browser add-on for the deactivation of Google Analytics
Personal data collected: Cookies and Usage data.
Processing location: USA – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook, Inc.)
Facebook Ads conversion tracking is a statistics service provided by Facebook, Inc. that links data from the Facebook ad network with actions performed on this site.
Comments on contents
Comment services allow users to formulate and make public their comments regarding the content of this site. Users, depending on the settings decided by the owner, may leave the comment anonymously. In the case of personal data released by the user there is email, this could be used to send notifications of comments regarding the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their comments. In the event that a comment service provided by third parties is installed, it is possible that, even in the event that users do not use the commenting service, it will collect related traffic data to the pages where the comment service is installed.
Facebook Comments is a service managed by Facebook, Inc. which allows the user to leave comments and share them on the Facebook platform.
Processing location : USA – Privacy Policy
Donations/payments management
Donation management services allow this site to process donations by credit card, bank transfer or other means. The data used for the payment are acquired directly by the manager of the requested payment service without being in any way treated by this site. Some of these services could also allow the scheduled sending of messages to the user, such as emails containing invoices or notifications concerning the payment.
PayPal is a payment service provided by PayPal Inc., which allows the user to make donations or online payments using their PayPal credentials.
Processing location: Luxembourg – Privacy Policy
Interaction with Social Networks
These services allow interactions with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this site. The interactions and information acquired from this site are in any case subject to the user’s privacy settings relating to each social network. In the case in which an interaction service with social networks is installed, it is possible that, even if the users do not use the service, the same collect traffic data relating to the pages in which it is installed.
+1 Button and Google+ social widgets (Google Inc.)
The +1 button and Google+ social widgets are services of interaction with the Google+ social network, provided by Google Inc.
Linkedin button and social widgets (LinkedIn Corporation)
The Linkedin button and social widgets are services for interacting with the Linkedin social network, provided by LinkedIn Corporation.
Like button and Facebook social widgets (Facebook, Inc.)
The “Like” button and Facebook social widgets are services for interacting with the Facebook social network, provided by Facebook, Inc.
Personal data collected: Cookies and Usage data .
Tweet button and Twitter social widgets (Twitter, Inc.)
The Tweet button and Twitter social widgets are services of interaction with the Twitter social network, provided by Twitter, Inc.
Pinterest Button (Pinterest, Inc.)
The Pinterest button is an interaction service with the Pinterest social network, provided by Pinterest, Inc.
Personal data collected: Cookie and Usage data.
GetSiteControl (GetWebCraft Limited)
GetSiteControl Chat Widget: interaction with live chat.
GetSiteControl Promo widget: interaction with data collection platforms and other third parties.
GetSiteControl social widget: interaction with social networks and other external platforms.
GetSiteControl contact form: contact the user.
Personal data collected: Email, Cookies and Usage data.
GetSiteControl Subscribe widget: interaction with data collection platforms and other third parties.
GetSiteControl Survey Widget: interaction with online survey platforms.
Processing location: Cyprus – Privacy Policy
Contents on external platforms
These services allow you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this site and to interact with them. In the event that such a service is installed, it is possible that, even if the users do not use the service, the same collect traffic data related to the pages in which it is installed.
Vimeo is a video content visualization service managed by Vimeo, LLC that allows this application to integrate such contents within its pages.
Youtube is a video content visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows this site to integrate such content within its pages.
Google Font (Google Inc.)
Google Fonts is a font style visualization service managed by Google Inc. that allows this site to integrate such contents within its pages.
Personal data collected: Cookies and Usage data
Google Maps (Google Inc.)
Google Maps is a map visualization service managed by Google Inc. that allows this site to integrate these contents within its pages.
Google Translate (Google Inc.)
Google Translate provides an automatic translation of the site in various languages that the user can choose from the widget at the top of each page of the site.
Widget Leadin (HubSpot Inc.)
Leadin is a service for managing email addresses and tracking user behavior on the site for statistical purposes provided by HubSpot, Inc.
Leading is used to collect users’ personal data. Once registered, the service collects data on user behavior on the site such as pages visited and viewing time.
Personal data collected: Cookie, Usage data, Name, Surname, Mail address
Zopim Widget (Zopim Technologies Pte Ltd) – Zendesk
Zopim’s Widget is an interaction service with the Zopim live chat platform, provided by Zopim Technologies Pte Ltd.
Processing location: Singapore – Privacy Policy
Smartsupp’s chat (Smartsupp.com, s.r.o.)
Smartsupp is a live chat with visitor registration.
Processing location: Czech Republic – Privacy Policy
Getsmartlook.com
These services are used to identify which areas of a page are subject to the cursor passing or mouse clicks in order to detect which of them attract the most interest. These services allow the monitoring and analysis of traffic data and are used to keep track of user behavior.
These services allow this site and its partners to communicate, optimize and serve advertisements based on the past use of this site by the user. This activity is carried out by tracking Usage data and use of Cookies, information that is transferred to the partners to which the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity is connected.
Facebook Remarketing is a Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this site with the Facebook advertising network.
DNS Services
CloudFlare is a service for optimizing and distributing traffic provided by CloudFlare Inc. The CloudFlare integration methods require that this filters all the traffic on this site, ie the communications between this site and the user’s browser, also allowing the collection of statistical data on it.
Personal data collected: Various types of data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
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Muse – Unsustainable
Submitted by Mark / 9 years ago / New Album Releases
Surprisingly, Muse recently announced that they are set to release a brand new album on October 2nd called “The 2nd Law“. The first teaser track to be taken from their new release comes in the form of “Unsustainable“, which was apparently inspired by seeing a live performance by Skrillex when he visited the UK last October.
If you take a listen to the stream below you will probably agree with me that the Dubstep parts sound quite terrible, but I guess that was to be expected when you use proper instruments instead of a VST like Massive. I’m not expecting the whole album to be like “Unsustainable“, so I’m not getting worried about the album just yet.
Muse, Skrillex
Jack Ü – Take U There feat. Kiesza
Skrillex & Alvin Risk – Try it Out (Neon Mix)
Chase & Status – International (Skrillex Remix)
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2019 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor:
Significant Advancement
In 2019, Costa Rica made a significant advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. The government published data from the 2018 National Household Survey, which includes information on the prevalence of child labor in Costa Rica. In collaboration with the International Labor Organization, the Ministry of Labor began implementing the Risk Module for Identifying Child Labor, which assists government officials in targeting communities at greater risk of employing child labor. In addition, prosecutors obtained sentences for three individuals on charges pertaining to the commercial sexual exploitation of children, and the government passed new laws on trafficking in persons, including one that increased the statute of limitations for victims. The government also adopted a new 4-year National Plan for Development that includes strategies for addressing child labor. However, children in Costa Rica engage in the worst forms of child labor, including in commercial sexual exploitation, sometimes as a result of human trafficking. Children also engage in child labor in agriculture. Furthermore, existing social programs are not accessible to workers in all sectors and the labor inspectorate lacks the authority to assess penalties for labor violations.
I. Prevalence and Sectoral Distribution of Child Labor
Children in Costa Rica engage in the worst forms of child labor, including in commercial sexual exploitation, sometimes as a result of human trafficking. Children also engage in child labor in agriculture. (1-10) Table 1 provides key indicators on children's work and education in Costa Rica.
Table 1. Statistics on Children's Work and Education
Working (% and population)
Working children by sector
Attending School (%)
Combining Work and School (%)
Primary Completion Rate (%)
Source for primary completion rate: Data from 2018, published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2020. (11)
Source for all other data: International Labor Organization's analysis of statistics from Módulo de Trabajo Infantil (ENHAO-MTI), 2016. (12)
Based on a review of available information, Table 2 provides an overview of children's work by sector and activity.
Table 2. Overview of Children's Work by Sector and Activity
Sector/Industry
Cultivating bananas, pineapple, vegetables, roots, and tubers (8)
Picking coffee (2,3,13-16)
Weeding, clearing land, and watering seeds (4,17)
Cattle raising, including for the production of milk (2,8,13,17)
Fishing,† including shellfish extraction (13,18)
Construction, including of buildings (2,8,17,18)
Mining† gold (17)
Manufacturing, activities unknown (2,18)
Working in restaurants, shops, and hotels (2,8,18,19)
Street vending,† car washing, and repairing motor vehicles (2,8,10,13,17,20)
Domestic work (2,8,10,17,18,21)
Categorical Worst Forms of Child Labor‡
Commercial sexual exploitation, sometimes as a result of human trafficking (5,6,10,22,23)
Use in the production of pornography (17,24,25)
Forced labor in the agriculture, construction, fishing, street vending, and commercial sectors (7,24,26)
Domestic servitude (22,23)
Use in transporting or selling drugs, sometimes as a result of human trafficking (17,22)
† Determined by national law or regulation as hazardous and, as such, relevant to Article 3(d) of ILO C. 182.
‡ Child labor understood as the worst forms of child labor per se under Article 3(a)–(c) of ILO C. 182.
In 2019, Costa Rica published the results of its 2018 National Household Survey (ENHAO), which includes partial data on child labor. The survey found that 13,328 children between the ages of 12 and 17 were working in Costa Rica. (10,27) The Ministry of Labor's Office for the Eradication of Child Labor and Protection of the Adolescent Worker (OATIA) noted that working children in Costa Rica are employed in agriculture, domestic service, and street vending. Children in Costa Rica, including migrant children, are also subjected to commercial sexual exploitation, particularly in tourist destinations, border areas, and in the northern and Pacific coastal zones. (5-7,10,26) Costa Rica is also a destination country for child sex tourism, particularly with tourists from Europe and the United States. (22) Migrant children, typically from Nicaragua, are subjected to forced labor in agriculture, domestic servitude, and commercial sexual exploitation. (22,23,26)
Although preschool and general basic education are free and compulsory, children in rural areas, girls, LGBTI youth, and children from indigenous and Afro-descendant communities face challenges, such as discrimination and gender stereotypes, in accessing and completing their education. (1,5,28-30)
II. Legal Framework for Child Labor
Costa Rica has ratified all key international conventions concerning child labor (Table 3).
Table 3. Ratification of International Conventions on Child Labor
Ratification
ILO C. 138, Minimum Age
ILO C. 182, Worst Forms of Child Labor
UN CRC
UN CRC Optional Protocol on Armed Conflict
UN CRC Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
Palermo Protocol on Trafficking in Persons
The government has established laws and regulations related to child labor (Table 4). However, gaps exist in Costa Rica's legal framework to adequately protect children from the worst forms of child labor, including the prohibition of non-state military recruitment of children.
Table 4. Laws and Regulations on Child Labor
Meets International Standards
Minimum Age for Work
Articles 78 and 92 of the Childhood and Adolescence Code (31)
Minimum Age for Hazardous Work
Articles 1 and 5 of Law 8922; Article 87 of the Labor Code (32,33)
Identification of Hazardous Occupations or Activities Prohibited for Children
Article 94 of the Childhood and Adolescence Code; Article 5 of Law 8922; Article 88 of the Labor Code; Articles 5–6 of Regulation No. 36640 (31-34)
Prohibition of Forced Labor
Articles 20 and 56 of the Constitution; Article 8 of the Labor Code; Articles 7, 170–172, 189 bis, 192, 376, 381, and 383–384 of the Penal Code; Article 84 of Regulation No. 36659; Article 7 of the Trafficking in Persons Law (33,35-38)
Prohibition of Child Trafficking
Articles 7, 170–172, 189, 192, 376, 381, and 383–384 of the Penal Code; Article 84 of Regulation No. 36659; Article 5 of the Trafficking in Persons Law (35,36,38)
Prohibition of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Articles 160, 168, and 170–174 of the Penal Code (35)
Prohibition of Using Children in Illicit Activities
Articles 7, 188, 381, and 390 of the Penal Code; Article 77 of the Narcotics Law (35,39)
Minimum Age for Voluntary State Military Recruitment
N/A†
Prohibition of Compulsory Recruitment of Children by (State) Military
Prohibition of Military Recruitment by Non-state Armed Groups
Compulsory Education Age
17‡
Articles 57 and 59 of the Childhood and Adolescence Code; Article 78 of the Constitution (31,38)
Article 59 of the Childhood and Adolescence Code; Article 8 of the Education Law; Article 78 of the Constitution (31,38,40)
† No standing military (38)
‡ Age calculated based on available information (31,38)
In 2019, the National Assembly passed two laws related to trafficking in persons. (23) Law No. 9726 revised the definition of trafficking in persons published in the 2018 amendment to Article 5 of the Trafficking in Persons Law by removing the requirement of demonstrating movement of a victim and clarifying that means such as force, fraud, or coercion are not necessary to establish child trafficking. (36,41) Law No. 9685 extended the statute of limitations for victims to 25 years, which begins to run once the victim is age 18, for crimes involving sexual abuse, including child commercial sexual exploitation. (23,42)
During the reporting period, the government collaborated with the NGO Paniamor Foundation to amend the country's comprehensive list of hazardous occupations, with a final bill expected to be sent to the National Assembly in early 2020. The revisions would restrict the participation of minors in public presentations and some fishing activities. (10) The government also passed the Dual Law on Education and Forma Training No. 9728 in September of 2019. The law establishes the legal criteria and scope for adolescents over age 15 and under age 18 to participate in employment-related education and job placement alternatives. (43,44) Costa Rica's minimum age for work is lower than the compulsory education age, making children between 15 and 17 vulnerable to child labor exploitation.
III. Enforcement of Laws on Child Labor
The government has established relevant institutional mechanisms for the enforcement of laws and regulations on child labor (Table 5). However, gaps exist within the authority and operations of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) that may hinder adequate enforcement of their child labor laws.
Table 5. Agencies Responsible for Child Labor Law Enforcement
Organization/Agency
Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS)
Monitors and enforces provisions in the Labor Code related to child labor, including conducting inspections and verification at worksites to ensure children are not engaged in hazardous labor or engaging in work that compromises a child's education. (31) Through the Office for the Eradication of Child Labor and Protection of the Adolescent Worker (OATIA), responds to and attempts to prevent child labor through policy development and public awareness campaigns. (45) Protects adolescent labor rights by conducting school and workplace visits, providing referrals to government services, and writing socio-labor studies and technical reports to inform policies and programs. (19,31)
Enforces criminal laws protecting children, including laws prohibiting forced child labor, human trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of children, and the use of children in illicit activities. Coordinates with the Judicial Investigative Police, Immigration Police, Uniformed Police, and municipal police forces, and administers the following investigative and prosecutorial units: Specialized Prosecutorial Unit against Trafficking in Persons, Organized Crime Unit, Specialized Prosecutorial Unit for Gender Issues, and Juvenile Justice Unit. (10,17,46)
Judicial Investigative Police
Investigates child labor violations, including child trafficking, child commercial sexual exploitation, and the use of children in illicit activities. (23)
National Child Welfare Agency (PANI)
Leads the coordination of government and civil society efforts in child and adolescent protection. (47) Ensures that child labor victims receive social services, including temporary shelter, legal advice, counseling, and reintegration into the educational system. (31)
During the reporting period, the Institutional Technical Committee (CTI) of the National Child Welfare Agency (PANI) initiated revisions to the Protocol for Attention to Minor Victims of Trafficking based on a new management model adopted by PANI. The CTI also developed information-sharing capabilities using social media and mail services and planned training for at-risk minors through its mobile unit and early intervention center programs. (10)
Labor Law Enforcement
In 2019, labor law enforcement agencies in Costa Rica took actions to combat child labor (Table 6). However, gaps exist within the authority and operations of the MTSS that may hinder adequate labor law enforcement, including the ability to assess penalties.
Table 6. Labor Law Enforcement Efforts Related to Child Labor
Overview of Labor Law Enforcement
Labor Inspectorate Funding
$10,351,774 (1)
$14,000,000 (10)
Number of Labor Inspectors
Inspectorate Authorized to Assess Penalties
No (10,33)
Initial Training for New Labor Inspectors
Training on New Laws Related to Child Labor
Refresher Courses Provided
Number of Labor Inspections Conducted
15,873 (1)
18,082 (10)
Number Conducted at Worksite
Number of Child Labor Violations Found
Number of Child Labor Violations for Which Penalties Were Imposed
Number of Child Labor Penalties Imposed that Were Collected
Routine Inspections Conducted
Routine Inspections Targeted
Unannounced Inspections Permitted
Yes (10,33)
Unannounced Inspections Conducted
Complaint Mechanism Exists
Reciprocal Referral Mechanism Exists Between Labor Authorities and Social Services
While the labor inspectorate identified 23 child labor violations during the reporting period, OATIA also identified 369 minors working, including 56 children under age 15. Meanwhile, PANI reported receiving 75 reports of minors engaged in child labor exploitation. (10) In 2019, three cases of child labor were forwarded to OATIA so that social services could be provided. (10)
The Labor Inspection Office has indicated that its 2019 budget was sufficient to meet its needs. (10) However, enforcement of child labor laws, particularly in rural areas, is reportedly challenging due to insufficient funds for travel, facilities, and per diem costs incurred during inspections. (1,17) In addition, the Labor Inspection Office indicated that the number of labor inspectors was insufficient to cover the target population. (10) The number of labor inspectors is likely insufficient for the size of Costa Rica's workforce, which includes more than 2 million workers. According to the ILO's technical advice of a ratio approaching 1 inspector for every 15,000 workers in industrializing economies, Costa Rica would employ about 148 inspectors. (48,49)
The labor inspectorate is authorized to give warnings to employers and conduct re-inspections. However, the authority to assess labor-related penalties rests with Labor Courts in the Judicial Branch. (10) Government monitoring and enforcement of child labor laws is also limited in the informal sector, in which most child labor occurs, especially hazardous adolescent work. (2,13,25,50,51) Informal work is more common in agriculture than in other sectors in Costa Rica. (2)
Criminal Law Enforcement
In 2019, criminal law enforcement agencies in Costa Rica took actions to combat child labor (Table 7). However, gaps exist within the operations of the criminal enforcement agencies that may hinder adequate criminal law enforcement, including training for criminal investigators.
Table 7. Criminal Law Enforcement Efforts Related to Child Labor
Overview of Criminal Law Enforcement
Initial Training for New Criminal Investigators
Training on New Laws Related to the Worst Forms of Child Labor
Number of Investigations
Number of Prosecutions Initiated
Number of Convictions
Imposed Penalties for Violations Related to The Worst Forms of Child Labor
Reciprocal Referral Mechanism Exists Between Criminal Authorities and Social Services
In 2019, the National Coalition against Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Persons (CONATT) identified two child victims of forced domestic labor and commercial sexual exploitation, one girl age 15 from Costa Rica and one girl age 15 from Nicaragua. (10) CONATT's Immediate Response Team certified that four minor girls were victims of trafficking in persons, including the two victims of commercial sexual exploitation, and referred them to social services. (23) Meanwhile, PANI reported identifying 73 victims of commercial sexual exploitation during the reporting period. (10)
In addition, investigators arrested two people on charges of sexual trafficking, remunerated sexual acts with minors, and dissemination of images containing sexual abuse of minors. Authorities identified six victims, five of whom were minors. (23) In March 2019, one of the traffickers was convicted and sentenced to 39 years in prison. (23) In a second case, three individuals were arrested on charges of commercial sexual exploitation of a minor. Two of the perpetrators were sentenced to 300 years and 19 years of prison respectively, and the third one was acquitted. (23) In 2019, authorities within the Attorney General's Office investigated 30 cases of remunerated sexual acts with minors, 2 cases of remunerated sexual relations with minors, and 1 case of attempted remunerated sexual relations with minors. (10) However, the Government of Costa Rica did not provide disaggregated data identifying the totality of criminal investigations and penalties issued in relation to the worst forms of child labor for inclusion in this report.
During the reporting period, the Specialized Prosecutorial Unit against Trafficking in Persons offered extensive training on trafficking in persons and related crimes, including those involving organized criminal organizations, to more than 50,000 individuals representing government agencies and the public. CONATT reached almost the same number of individuals through training it provided in 2019, significantly increasing the reach of its training compared to 2018. (23)
Reports indicate that the judiciary, prosecutors, and the police require additional staff, training, and resources to identify victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, refer victims to appropriate social services, and investigate, prosecute, and convict perpetrators. (6,23,26,52) Costa Rica also lacks a database to track human trafficking cases, making it difficult to target enforcement and prevention efforts. (26)
IV. Coordination of Government Efforts on Child Labor
The government has established mechanisms to coordinate its efforts to address child labor (Table 8). However, gaps exist that hinder the effective coordination of efforts to address child labor, including sufficient resources to ensure coordination among relevant agencies.
Table 8. Key Mechanisms to Coordinate Government Efforts on Child Labor
Coordinating Body
Role & Description
MTSS Office for the Eradication of Child Labor and Protection of the Adolescent Worker (OATIA)
Coordinates government policies and programs to combat child labor. (2,4) Oversees the Inter-Institutional Coordinating Protocol for the Protection of Working Minors. (53) In 2019, OATIA worked with ILO to finalize the first phase of the Risk Module for Identifying Child Labor, which will enable authorities to proactively target child labor by identifying communities at risk. (10)
National Committee for the Elimination of Child Labor and the Protection of Adolescent Work
Develops and promotes policy and program initiatives focused on eliminating child labor and regulating adolescent work. Overseen by OATIA and includes a technical secretariat that comprises representatives from various sectors. (4,54) As part of the committee's work, in 2019 OATIA developed child labor and hazardous adolescent work eradication projects focusing on indigenous populations primarily in the Limon province, and projects in artisanal fishing in the Central Pacific region and the islands in the Gulf of Nicoya. (10)
National Coalition against Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Persons (CONATT)
Leads government efforts to combat human trafficking and coordinates with OATIA and the National Commission Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents (CONACOES). (6,17) In 2019, produced a documentary called Sobrevivir (Surviving), which includes testimonies of victims of trafficking as a tool to train public employees and civil society. Also created a training process focusing on labor exploitation for approximately 600 public employees and continued its training and awareness-raising programs during the reporting period. (10) In addition, CONATT worked on achieving final approval and publication of its Public Policy on Trafficking and Smuggling and the policy's implementation plan, and finalized a draft bill against the smuggling of migrants to combat labor exploitation. (10)
National Commission Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents (CONACOES)
Prevents the commercial sexual exploitation of children and provides assistance and protection to victims. (17) Led by the National Council of Childhood and Adolescence; coordinates with OATIA and CONATT to address the worst forms of child labor. (17,55) Underwent a restructuring process in 2019, which included the Institutional Technical Committee drafting new regulations for the commission. (10)
Reports indicate that coordination is lacking between institutions responsible for investigating the worst forms of child labor and those providing social services to victims. (4,6) OATIA has reported that its office needs additional staff to better assist children engaged in child labor and their families. In addition, OATIA has noted that its office shares one vehicle with two other MTSS units, which limits its ability to provide oversight of child labor programs. (46)
V. Government Policies on Child Labor
The government has established policies related to child labor (Table 9). However, policy gaps exist that hinder efforts to address child labor, including implementation.
Table 9. Key Policies Related to Child Labor
Roadmap against Child Labor and the Worst Forms of Child Labor (2010–2020)
Aims to eradicate all forms of child labor in Costa Rica by 2020 by strengthening anti-poverty, health, and educational programs and policies, and by raising awareness of child labor. (56-58) During the reporting period, MTSS implemented the first phase of the Child Labor Vulnerability Model, including publishing national- and provincial-level vulnerability statistics on its website. (10,59)
Inter-Institutional Coordinating Protocol for the Protection of Working Minors
Outlines provision of services for child laborers through collaboration between MTSS, PANI, the Ministry of Public Education, and the Joint Institute of Social Assistance (IMAS), and their regional and local agencies and the private sector. (2,4,60) Research was unable to determine whether activities were undertaken to implement the protocol during the reporting period.
National Plan for Development (2019–2022)†
Outlines the government's objectives, priorities, and goals in the use of resources and in the implementation of policies, plans, and projects over a 4-year period. The plan incorporates labor rights, child welfare and development, and poverty reduction, and integrates child labor as an indicator for establishing decent work and reducing employment insecurity. (10,62)
†Policy was approved during the reporting period.
VI. Social Programs to Address Child Labor
In 2019, the government funded and participated in programs that include the goal of eliminating or preventing child labor (Table 10). However, gaps exist in these social programs, including the accessibility of programs to all relevant groups.
Table 10. Key Social Programs to Address Child Labor
Bridge to Development†
Aims to reduce poverty and eliminate vulnerability, including child labor, by providing social services to families in poor communities. (4,25,58,63) Relaunched in 2019 under the new administration, the program was expanded to cover more than 75 districts. (64)
Face of Justice Shelter†
NGO-run shelter for child victims of human trafficking that provides PANI-funded monthly subsidies to victims and care from full-time staff, including a trauma psychologist and health practitioner. (24,26) During the reporting period, assisted 30 victims of child commercial sexual exploitation and initiated a campaign to purchase the shelter in which it houses clients. (67) In 2019, PANI provided additional funding of $176,000 to support services for sexually exploited children and to increase Face of Justice's service quotas. (68)
Houses of Joy (Casas de la Alegría)†
Public-private alliance that provides culturally sensitive daycare and meals to Ngäbe Buglé, indigenous children whose parents work on coffee farms in Coto Brus. Aims to promote social inclusion and developmental opportunities for indigenous children and provide an alternative to child labor during the coffee harvest. (3,14,17,25,69-71) IMAS funds meals, caregiver salaries, and training; farm owners provide the land and classrooms, with financial contributions from UNICEF for building and teaching materials. (1,14,17,25,55,60,70) Assisted 737 children during the reporting period in Coto Brus and in new centers established in Tarrazu and Grecia. (10)
Let's Get Ahead Program (Avancemos)†
IMAS program that provides monthly conditional cash transfers to low-income families to keep children in school and out of exploitative work. (2,30,72) In 2019, 199,896 high school students received cash transfers and the government invested $95,000,000 in the program during the reporting period. (10)
USDOL-Funded Projects to Support Youth Apprenticeship
USDOL-funded, $3 million Youth Pathways to Leadership, Learning, and Livelihoods in Costa Rica (2016–2020) and $2.9 million Promoting Apprenticeship as a Path for Youth Employment in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Kenya through Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN) National Networks (2016–2019). (73,74) Additional information is available on the USDOL website.
† Program is funded by the Government of Costa Rica.
‡The government had other social programs that may have included the goal of eliminating or preventing child labor. (75,76)
Research indicates that Ngäbe Buglé, indigenous children in Costa Rica who migrate with their families to work seasonally on coffee farms, face additional challenges in accessing social services due to long distances to service providers, language barriers, and complications in obtaining required documents from government institutions. (3,14,15)
VII. Suggested Government Actions to Eliminate Child Labor
Based on the reporting above, suggested actions are identified that would advance the elimination of child labor in Costa Rica (Table 11).
Table 11. Suggested Government Actions to Eliminate Child Labor
Suggested Action
Year(s) Suggested
Ensure that the law criminally prohibits the recruitment of children under age 18 by non-state armed groups.
Raise the minimum age for work to be commensurate with the compulsory age for education.
Authorize the labor inspectorate to assess penalties.
Publish information on the number of child labor violations for which penalties were imposed and collected, and disaggregate data related to the totality of criminal investigations conducted and penalties issued in relation to the worst forms of child labor.
Allocate sufficient resources to ensure regular labor inspections in rural areas and the informal sector, including child labor inspections, particularly in agriculture.
Increase the number of labor inspectors to meet the ILO's technical advice.
Ensure that the judiciary, prosecutors, and the police have sufficient staff, training, and resources to investigate, prosecute, and convict perpetrators of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children; and identify victims of child trafficking and refer them to appropriate social services.
Develop a mechanism to properly track human trafficking cases to improve enforcement and prevention efforts.
Strengthen coordination and information sharing between institutions responsible for investigating child labor and providing social services to victims.
Increase transportation and human resources for the Office for the Eradication of Child Labor and Protection of the Adolescent Worker so that the office can improve program oversight.
Ensure that government policies, such as the Inter-Institutional Coordinating Protocol for the Protection of Working Minors, are actively implemented, and report on regular activities.
Enhance efforts to eliminate barriers and make education accessible for all children, including children in rural areas, girls, LGBTI youth, and children from indigenous and Afro-descendant communities.
Improve access to social services, particularly for migrant, Ngäbe Buglé indigenous children in coffee-growing areas.
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Is a vegan diet suitable for young children?
December 3, 2018/Early Years Guidance Blogs, General, Infant Nutrition Blogs, Nutrition Services, Parent Blogs, Toddler Nutrition Blogs
A number of food trends have become popular over the last few years, including a shift towards a vegan diet. According to Google searches, interest in the vegan diet has increased seven fold in the five years between 2014 and 2019. It now gets almost four times more interest than vegetarian and gluten free searches. The Vegan Society reports there are currently 600,000 vegans (1.16% of the population) in Great Britain. While it’s thought the number of vegan children is on the rise in the UK, current figures only accounts for people over the age of 15 years.
The Veganuary campaign, which encourages people to go vegan for the month of January, had 400,000 people sign up in 2020, in comparison to 250,000 people in 2019, and up from 59,500 in 2017! We are also seeing an increase in vegan food products as demand for meat-free food in the UK increases. In 2018, one in six products launched in the UK carried a vegan claim. Across 2019 this figure rose to nearly one in four. During 2020 every one of the top UK supermarkets (by revenue) had their own vegan range and every one of the top UK restaurants / food-to-go outlets has a vegan (or plant-based) offering.
In the UK, vegan rights are protected under the human rights and quality law (Equality Act 2010).
So what does a vegan diet look like?
Vegans follow a plant-based diet which does not include meat, fish or other substances that come directly from killing an animal or from agricultural practices which lead to unnecessary death or suffering of any animal. You can follow a vegan diet by including a range of fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, seeds, beans and pulses. Vegan diets will not include:
dairy products such as cows’ (or other animal) milk
milk products such as cheese and yoghurt
eggs or foods containing eggs
any foods which contain gelatin or animal fats
products fortified with vitamins that have come from an animal source (for example, vitamin D which is added to some foods and drinks, and which usually comes from sheep wool lanolin).
What are the recommendations for vegan children?
The recommended age to introduce vegan and vegetarian babies to solid foods is around 6 months (the same advice for non vegan and vegetarian babies). You can find further information and advice on in our blogs on the introducing solid foods and feeding your toddlers.
The British Dietetic Association has stated that a well-planned vegan diet can “support healthy living in people of all ages”. The First Steps Nutrition Trust also state that “vegan diets can be safely given to infants and children providing that care is taken that all nutritional needs are met”.
Infants and young children, in particular, need enough energy (calories) to grow and be active, and enough nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins and minerals) to ensure they remain healthy, fight infections, and support learning and levels of activity. It is possible for infants and children to get all the nutrition they need from a vegetable-based diet, but it does take thought and planning.
It’s essential that early years staff speak to parents and understand what families do and don’t eat. It’s also important for families to seek advice on diet and health from an appropriate health professional and receive guidance if using specialist vegan supplements, e.g. vitamin drops, to ensure the dosage is correct.
Eating well in the first 6 months
Breast milk meets all the nutritional needs of infants in the first 6 months of life. There are no infant formulas suitable for vegan infants currently for sale in the UK because, even if they contain no animal-derived ingredients (for example, if they are made from soya rather than cows’ milk), the vitamin D that is added to them is sourced from sheep’s wool. The following should also be considered for other infant formulas:
Soya-based infant formula is suitable for vegetarian infants, but should not be given to infants under 6 months of age, and not used as the main milk drink for infants until they are over the age of 1, unless recommended by a health professional. Although these milks are available, there is no evidence that they prevent food allergies or intolerance. They are not recommended for infants who have cows’ milk intolerance, as these infants may be, or may become, allergic to soya protein. Soya-based formulas are more likely to cause dental decay, as they contain glucose rather than lactose. There are also some concerns about the high levels of phyto-oestrogens which can pose a risk to future reproductive health.
A rice-based infant formula is available in Europe but this is not currently approved for sale in the UK. Families who buy this formula should be advised that the instructions for making the powdered milk up safely are not in line with UK recommendations and they should seek advice from a health professional. Any milk alternative made from rice that is not a highly modified formula (e.g. rice drinks), must not be offered to children under 5 due to the arsenic content.
Unsweetened calcium-fortified soya milk alternative can be used in cooking for vegan children from 6 months, but should not be used as the main milk drink until after 1 year of age. Breast milk, or an appropriate first infant formula, should remain the main milk drink from 6-12 months. Unsweetened calcium fortified soya milks are widely available and are usually inexpensive.
Eating well for vegan infants from 6 months
First foods for babies around 6 months of age include a wide range of unprocessed foods including vegetables, potatoes, cereal foods (such as rice, oats, polenta, semolina, pearl barley), pulses (peas, beans and lentils), tofu, ground nuts (whole nuts should not be offered to under 5’s due to the risk of choking) and seeds, and fruits.
Salt, sugar and artificial sweeteners should not be added to foods for infants. Naturally sweet fruits (such as apples or bananas) and vegetables (such as carrots, sweet potatoes or butternut squash) can be used to sweeten foods rather than adding sugar. If using commercial baby foods (such as jars and pouches), follow the manufacturer’s instructions carefully. Just be mindful that these foods are usually expensive, less nutritious, sweet, bland in taste and often very smooth compared to foods you can make yourself at home.
Check out our blog Baby Foods – A review of homemade and shop-bought food for more information.
Important nutrients in vegan diets for 1-4 year olds
Offering children a variety of foods will help to ensure they get all the nutrients they need to grow and develop. Vegan children must be offered adequate amounts of foods that supply these nutrients, or be offered fortified foods and/or supplements. Vegetarian and vegan foods can be higher in fibre and lower in calories than a diet that includes meat. When it comes to starchy foods, in addition to wholegrain and wholemeal versions, children need some lower-fibre foods, such as white bread and rice, until they are 5 years old. This is because wholegrains are high in fibre and can fill children up before they have taken in enough calories and nutrients. The following are the key nutrients that need to be considered when following a vegan diet:
Iron is essential for the function of several body systems, particularly the pigmentation of red blood cells, called haemoglobin, which carry oxygen. A deficiency in iron can cause anaemia. This results in less oxygenated blood, meaning the body receives less oxygen than it needs, which limits our ability to be physically active. Children with iron deficiency will often appear pale, tired and their general health, resistance to infection, appetite and vitality will be impaired. It is important to speak to a healthcare professional if you are concerned about your child’s iron levels. Suitable sources of iron for vegan children include:
fortified cereals (some may contain Vitamin D which may not be suitable for vegans based on how it is sourced)
dark-green leafy vegetables e.g. kale
wholegrains, such as wholemeal bread and brown rice (please note that children need a variety of while and wholemeal)
smooth nut butters
dried fruit, such as apricots and figs. Remember: offer these with meals, rather than as a snack between meals, to help prevent tooth decay.
Tip: The absorption of iron may be enhanced if foods or drinks rich in vitamin C are consumed at the same meal e.g. pepper, broccoli, cabbage, kiwifruit, pineapple.
Protein is needed for growth, maintaining and repairing body tissues, and to make the enzymes that control many body functions. Good sources of protein for children who eat some animal foods include:
Vegan children can get enough protein as long as they eat a good variety of foods each day. Plant foods that contain protein include:
beans and lentils, and foods made from them – such as tofu, hummus and soya mince
soya milk alternative and yoghurt (unsweetened varieties)
finely ground nuts or smooth nut butters.
Please note: peanuts and allergies
If your child already has a diagnosed food allergy, or there is a history of allergies in your child’s immediate family – including asthma, eczema or hayfever – families should talk to their health visitor or GP before offering foods containing peanuts for the first time.
Requirements for calcium are high in children aged 1-4 years. Calcium is needed for building and maintaining good bone health, for the transmission of nerve impulses, muscle actions and for many other bodily functions. Whole milk and full-fat dairy products are a good source of calcium. Suitable alternatives to milk and dairy foods include:
unsweetened calcium-fortified milk alternatives, such as soya drinks, from the age of 1 as part of a balanced diet (rice milk is not suitable for children under 5 years)
green leafy vegetables – such as broccoli, cabbage and okra, but not spinach
ground nuts and smooth nut butters
bread and anything made with fortified flour.
Vitamin B12 interacts with folate and vitamin B6. Together, these vitamins help the body to build up its own protein. B12 is essential for the formation of red blood cells and a healthy nervous system. Vitamin B12 is found in animal foods including eggs, cheese and milk.
Children may show signs of a B12 deficiency more rapidly than adults. Deficiency may lead to loss of energy and appetite and failure to thrive and, if not corrected quickly, it can lead to permanent damage. Recommendations for the amount of vitamin B12 needed in fortified foods or as a supplement vary. As a sensible measure, The Vegan Society recommends that young children aged 1-4 years have about 1.5 micrograms a day from fortified foods and a supplement of 3 micrograms a day. There are no children’s vitamin supplements available which provide this amount. However, a children’s dose of the Vegan Society supplement VEG1 (half a tablet) would provide 12.5 micrograms a day, which is still a safe dose.
Foods that may be fortified with vitamin B12 include:
baby and breakfast cereals, soya yoghurts, and non-dairy milks such as soya, oat and almond (300-400ml of fortified unsweetened milk alternatives will provide adequate vitamin B12 (about 1.5 micrograms a day))
Vitamin B12 is also found in yeast extract, which is suitable for vegans – parents should choose a brand with no added salt if offering to their child.
Parents or guardians should consult a GP if they are worried that their child may have vitamin B12 deficiency.
Iodine is essential for the production of the hormone thyroxine, which affects the function of the thyroid gland. It is used to regulate the body’s metabolism, and affects the heart rate, body temperature and how the body uses energy from food. It is also important for brain development. Children aged 1-4 years need about 80 micrograms of iodine a day. Too much iodine can be harmful and parents or guardians should take advice before giving 1-4 year olds supplements or fortified foods that will provide more than 200 micrograms of iodine a day.
For many years iodine intake in the UK was thought to be more than adequate but recent research has shown mild iodine deficiency in schoolgirls and pregnant women. There is now concern that many adult women may not be getting enough iodine, particularly in pregnancy.
Iodine is found in a range of foods, the richest sources being fish and dairy products. Seaweed is a concentrated source of iodine, but it can provide excessive amounts (particularly so in the case of brown seaweed such as kelp) and therefore eating seaweed more than once a week is not recommended, especially during pregnancy. White fish contains more iodine than oily fish. Milk and dairy products are the main sources of iodine for most people.
Research in the UK has shown that organic milk has a 35-40% lower iodine content than conventional milk. Soya milk is rarely fortified with iodine (check the label) and therefore will not replace the iodine in cows’ milk. Vegetarians and particularly vegans are at risk of iodine deficiency as they do not eat rich iodine sources (fish and/or dairy products).
Plant-based sources of iodine suitable for vegans include:
cereals and grains, such as whole wheat and rye. However, the levels of iodine in these foods vary widely and relying on these alone will not provide sufficient iodine.
It is recommended that all 1-4 year olds take an iodine supplement rather than use sea vegetables as a source of iodine.
Omega-3 fats have been recommended in the diet to prevent heart disease in adults. Omega-3 fatty acids are mainly found in oily fish, such as salmon and mackerel. Other sources of omega-3 include:
flaxseed (linseed) oil
soya oil and soya-based foods, such as tofu
walnuts – offer these ground or as a nut butter for children under 5 to reduce the risk of choking
eggs enriched with omega-3 (for non vegan children).
Omega-3 fats are found in both animal and vegetable foods, but vegetable sources of omega-3 fats do not provide the same fatty acids as those from animal (fish) sources.
Although alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) is present in vegetable oils and seeds such as rapeseed, soy, flaxseed, hemp, chia and walnuts for example, ALA is poorly converted into DHA and EPA – the fatty acids that are associated with better heart health and that are found in fish oils. Any health consequence of lower amounts of DHA and EPA in vegans is poorly understood, but eating a good mixed diet, including good sources of ALA, is recommended. Micro-algal sources of omega-3 fats have been suggested for vegans, but the impact of these on health is not yet known.
Vitamin Supplements for children
The Department of Health recommends that all children aged 6 months* to 5 years are given vitamin supplements containing vitamins A, C and D every day. It’s also recommended that babies who are being breastfed are given a daily vitamin D supplement from birth, whether or not mums are taking a supplement containing vitamin D. Vitamin D2 is suitable for babies and children who have a vegan diet, and you can also get supplements containing vitamin D3 derived from lichen. It is important to speak to your health visitor for advice on vitamin drops for babies and young children.
*Babies who are having more than 500ml (about a pint) of infant formula a day don’t need vitamin supplements because formula is fortified with vitamins.
Vitamin supplements for breastfed infants
It is recommended that all breastfed babies have a supplement of 8.5-10 micrograms of vitamin D a day from birth (or in some areas, from 1 month).
Healthy Start vitamin drops will be suitable for use from birth from 2018/2019, but vegan families may not want to use these for their infants as they include vitamin D sourced from sheep’s wool lanolin.
Baby DDrops contain 10 micrograms of vitamin D and the manufacturer suggests that the drops can be put directly on the breast when breastfeeding. However, parents are advised to put the drops on a sterilised spoon to give to their infant as this can be a safer way of getting the right dose. The manufacturers say the vitamin D is sourced from sheep’s wool lanolin, but that animals are not harmed in the process.
A number of other supplements are marketed as suitable for vegan infants – for example, Abidec and BioCare Baby A, C, D Plus drops. These supplements contain a range of other nutrients as well as vitamin D, but BioCare Baby dose not provide the new recommended dose of 8.5-10 micrograms of vitamin D. If there is any concern about vitamin D intakes specifically, then vegan vitamin D supplements are available and families should talk to their pharmacist or GP.
Vitamin supplements for 1-4 year olds
Abidec vitamin drops are suitable for vegan children, and for vegan 1-4 year olds 0.6ml a day is recommended. This provides about 700 micrograms of vitamin A, 10 micrograms of vitamin D,
0.4mg thiamin, 0.8mg riboflavin, 0.8mg vitamin B6, 8mg niacin and 40mg vitamin C. Families may prefer to give vitamin D separately in the form of Vitashine spray (available from
pharmacies) which provides 25 micrograms of vitamin D a day and is within safe limits for children aged 1-4 years, providing the dose is not exceeded. Families who wish to provide additional vitamin B12 and iodine should ask their pharmacist or another health professional for advice about a suitable supplement for a 1-4 year old vegan child
Information about suitable supplements can also be found on The Vegan Society website. Families are strongly advised to seek advice from a health professional to ensure they do not provide harmful doses of any nutrients to infants.
You can learn more about Vitamin D requirements for Infants and Toddlers in our blog here!
Challenges for vegan children
If families choose to follow a vegan diet it’s important they understand that growing children need plenty of energy (calories) and nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins and minerals) to ensure they grow and develop well. Vegan diets are based on vegetable foods only, so extra care must be taken to make sure that vegan children get a good variety of foods that can provide all the nutrients they need. Planning is key and parents therefore need to be very well informed to ensure they reduce the risk of vitamin D, calcium, iron and possibly vitamin B12 deficiency. In the toddlers years, fussy eating can be common and children typically have small appetites, so achieving their daily calorie needs can be a challenge. It is important for families to liaise with a health professional if choosing a vegan diet for their child and refer to the resources listed below for practical support.
Choosing vegan products
If following a vegans diet many families are very confident on planning meals to meet their nutrient requirements and so will be very familiar with the fruit and vegetable aisle! Other staples like grains, nuts, beans and pulses will likely take up much of the shopping trolley and unprocessed foods like these are often the easiest to determine as vegan. There is however an increasing rise in the number of processed vegan products on the market. Between 2012 and 2016 there was a 185% increase in the number of vegan products launched in the UK! Just Eat reported that demand for vegetarian options among its customers grew by 987% in 2017. Veganuary often see the launch of new vegan menus such as Greggs Vegan Sausage roll and Domino’s Vegan Pepperphoni pizza!! It is always important to read the labels when making food choices. While vegan ‘meats’ are often perceived to be healthier they can contain on average even more salt than meat burgers. Any food that has been highly processed should be eaten occasionally, so not necessarily avoided completely, but some vegan products may have a high salt content with added additives and preservatives. Also consider the overall nutritional value of the product you are buying.
Early Start Nutrition for blogs, recipes and e-learning
Eating well: vegan infants and under-5s from First Steps Nutrition Trust for lots of recipe ideas
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Jovial and as expendable as a hotel beach towel, it’s a guilty pleasure done right. Details: 3 stars out of 4; available now on Netflix.
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1.1 Policy
1.2 Audit The Federal Reserve
1.3 On The Federal Reserve's Power
2 Ted Cruz
Rubio's's Monetary Policy (section page):
"Sound monetary policy would also encourage middle class job creation. The arbitrary way in which interest rates and our currency are treated is yet another cause of unpredictability injected into our economy. The Federal Reserve Board should publish and follow a clear monetary rule -- to provide greater stability about prices and what the value of a dollar will be over time." (TA)
Audit The Federal Reserve
"I am proud to support a bill, just like I have every year since joining the Senate, that would require an audit of the Fed and allow Congress to examine its activities like they do other government institutions." (MRWAF)
On The Federal Reserve's Power
"the Fed has taken an outsized role in the American economy, purchasing over $4 trillion in bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and other assets. Its balance sheet is now larger than the GDP of Germany. This overreach has created an unhealthy, Fed-centric economy that leaves businesses and investors hanging on the arbitrary, unpredictable decisions of a few central bankers. Unwinding the current situation, as everyone knows is necessary, will come with even more new risks." (MRWAF)
Ted Cruz Monetary Policy (section page):
"We need sound money. And I think the Fed should get out of the business of trying to juice our economy and simply be focused on sound money and monetary stability, ideally tied to gold" (RD3)
"Instead of adjusting monetary policy according to whims, and getting it wrong over and over again and causing booms and busts, what the Fed should be doing is number one, keeping our money tied to a stable level of gold, and number two, serving as a lender of last resort," (RD4)
Trump's Monetary Policy (section page):
"The Federal Reserve -- right now, in this world, the way we built it up -- probably has more of an impact than almost any other position, other than the couple of biggies"(HP)
Donald Trump said in an interview with the hill that the reason the federal reserve is keeping the interest rate down is because "Obama doesn’t want to have a recession-slash-depression during his administration.” (IBT). He made that claim again during a news conference saying that "They are not raising them because Obama has asked them not to raise them" (HNGN)
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Lost and Turned Out
By Ernest Morris
Read by Honey Jones
Ernest Morris Blackstone Publishing 9781943686315
Lost to the streets … lost forever. This is the story of Chastity. Born into poverty to an addict mother who was eventually claimed by her addiction to drugs, Chastity is then taken in by her grandmother, the only person to ever really love Chastity like her own. But her sudden passing would leave Chastity alone, yet again. Chastity’s uncle would then step forward. Offering to take her in. An arrangement that quickly dissolves when Chastity begins to blossom. As her body changes, her uncle begins to see her as more than just a niece. A repulsed Chastity refuses his advances. Which leads to him throwing her out. On her own once more, Chastity meets a handsome young hustler named Hakeem. He treats Chastity like a queen, and as their relationship deepens, he eventually becomes her “first.” Unfortunately, the law catches up with her beau, and with him gone so are her means of financial support. Chastity tries her hand at stripping for awhile, but her minor status makes it a brief stint. Again, lacking funds, Chastity soon meets some new friends who introduce her to a trafficker named Nasty. This leads to Chastity and the gang becoming players in the Florida drug trade. A move which quickly opens a major new revenue stream for her. The new “job” is paying dividends, and Chastity has gotten a taste of the life once more. Only this time she’ll make sure it’s permanent.
Lost to the streets … lost forever.
This is the story of Chastity. Born into poverty to an addict mother who was eventually claimed by her addiction to drugs, Chastity is then taken in by her grandmother, the only person to ever really love Chastity like her own. But her sudden passing would leave Chastity alone, yet again. Chastity’s uncle would then step forward. Offering to take her in. An arrangement that quickly dissolves when Chastity begins to blossom. As her body changes, her uncle begins to see her as more than just a niece. A repulsed Chastity refuses his advances. Which leads to him throwing her out.
On her own once more, Chastity meets a handsome young hustler named Hakeem. He treats Chastity like a queen, and as their relationship deepens, he eventually becomes her “first.” Unfortunately, the law catches up with her beau, and with him gone so are her means of financial support. Chastity tries her hand at stripping for awhile, but her minor status makes it a brief stint.
Again, lacking funds, Chastity soon meets some new friends who introduce her to a trafficker named Nasty. This leads to Chastity and the gang becoming players in the Florida drug trade. A move which quickly opens a major new revenue stream for her. The new “job” is paying dividends, and Chastity has gotten a taste of the life once more. Only this time she’ll make sure it’s permanent.
Author Bio: Ernest Morris
Many who know him call Ernest “EJ” Morris “the Urban Fiction Literary Guru.” EJ made his first entry into the literary world in 2014 with his debut novel, Flippin Numbers. His mission is to take the urban literary world by storm one reader at a time.
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Nanticoke Electricity Rates
Commercial Electricity in Nanticoke
^ The average commercial electricity rate in Nanticoke, PA is 6.95¢/kWh.[1]
Residential Electricity in Nanticoke
^ The average residential electricity rate in Nanticoke, PA is 11.82¢/kWh.[1]
Industrial Electricity in Nanticoke
^ The average industrial electricity rate in Nanticoke, PA is 3.31¢/kWh.[1]
Nanticoke, PA Electricity Statistics
Commercial electricity rates in Nanticoke
The average commercial electricity rate in Nanticoke is 6.95¢/kWh.[1]
This average (commercial) electricity rate in Nanticoke is 26.38% less than the Pennsylvania average rate of 9.44¢/kWh.[2]
The average (commercial) electricity rate in Nanticoke is 31.12% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh. Commercial rates in the U.S. range from 6.86¢/kWh to 34.88¢/kWh.[2]
Residential electricity rates in Nanticoke
The average residential electricity rate in Nanticoke is 11.82¢/kWh.[1]
This average (residential) electricity rate in Nanticoke is 7.29% less than the Pennsylvania average rate of 12.75¢/kWh.[2]
The average (residential) electricity rate in Nanticoke is 0.51% less than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh. Residential rates in the U.S. range from 8.37¢/kWh to 37.34¢/kWh.[2]
Industrial electricity rates in Nanticoke
The average industrial electricity rate in Nanticoke is 3.31¢/kWh.[1]
This average (industrial) electricity rate in Nanticoke is 54.22% less than the Pennsylvania average rate of 7.23¢/kWh.[2]
The average (industrial) electricity rate in Nanticoke is 50.37% less than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh. Industrial rates in the U.S. range from 4.13¢/kWh to 30.82¢/kWh.[2]
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Commercial electricity in Pennsylvania
Commercial electricity rates in PA [3]
The average commercial electricity rate in Pennsylvania is 9.44¢/kWh, which ranks 24th in the nation and is 6.44% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh.[3]
Commercial electricity consumption in PA [3]
Commercial electricity consumption in Pennsylvania averages 5,201 kWh/month, which ranks 35th in the nation and is 16.62% less than the national average of 6,238 kWh/month.
Commercial electricity bills in PA [3]
The average monthly commercial electricity bill in Pennsylvania is $491, which ranks 35th in the nation and is 21.94% less than the national average of $629.
Learn more about commercial electricity in Pennsylvania
Residential electricity in Pennsylvania
Residential electricity rates in Pennsylvania [3]
The average residential electricity rate in Pennsylvania is 12.75¢/kWh, which ranks 16th in the nation and is 7.32% greater than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh.
Residential electricity consumption in PA [3]
Residential electricity consumption in Pennsylvania averages 837 kWh/month, which ranks 32nd in the nation and is 7.31% less than the national average of 903 kWh/month.
Residential electricity bills in PA [3]
The average monthly residential electricity bill in Pennsylvania is $107, which ranks 20th in the nation and is exactly equal to the national average of $629 per month.
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Industrial electricity rates in Pennsylvania [3]
The average industrial electricity rate in Pennsylvania is 7.23¢/kWh, which ranks 16th in the nation and is 8.4% greater than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh.
Industrial electricity consumption in PA [3]
Industrial electricity consumption in Pennsylvania averages 160,367 kWh/month, which ranks 21st in the nation and is 42.98% greater than the national average of 112,158 kWh/month.
Industrial electricity bills in PA [3]
The average monthly industrial electricity bill in Pennsylvania is $11,591, which ranks 20th in the nation and is 54.9% greater than the national average of $7,483.
Learn more about industrial electricity in Pennsylvania
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Electric bills: The average residential electricity bill in Pennsylvania is about $107/month, ranking 20th in the U.S. and exactly equal to the national average of $629.[5]
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Nanticoke is a city located in Luzerne County in the state of Pennsylvania, and has a population of approximately 10,465.[6]
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The Monthly Sculptures Determined by the Daily Quantification Records
Throughout 2003, Harrison also collected data about 14 different elements of her everyday life onto Daily Quantification Records. Each month this data was converted into a set of averages, which was then applied to a set of scales and systems to output the specifications for a monthly sculpture. The first six months’ worth of sculptures was installed at the 2003 Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show.
The Monthly Sculptures Determined by the Daily Quantification Records were created using data collected during the Daily Quantification Records project. Every day throughout 2003, Harrison recorded data about 14 different aspects of her daily life on to A5 sheets of paper known as Daily Quantification Records. She recorded the number of steps she took using a pedometer which she wore at all times. She recorded her mass and body fat percentage every morning. She also counted the number of people she spoke to, website hits received, text messages received, pages of book read, gaseous emissions, spots, swear words uttered and alcoholic beverages consumed each day.
Each month this data was compiled to give a set of monthly averages, which was then applied to three specially devised systems to determine the form, colour and volume for a Monthly Sculpture. The form of the sculpture was dependant on the average number of alcoholic beverages consumed by the artist. The colour of the sculpture was dependant on the average number of swear words uttered by the artist and the volume of the sculpture was dependant on the average mass of the artist.
For this installation at the 2003 Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show, the six Monthly Sculptures (January to June) were suspended from the ceiling revolving on motors. The sculptures’ positions within the room were dependant on other elements of the data. A large scale poster (200 × 140 centimetres) was hung at the end of the space to describe in detail the three systems used to convert the data into sculptures. In the corner of the room two films below played on a loop.
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Some of data collected on the Daily Quantification Records has also been used in some of Harrison’s other projects including Statistics Are Hot Air and Sneezes 2003.
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Ely Standard > News
Radio host launches new folk music show
Published: 12:37 PM January 14, 2021 Updated: 12:58 PM January 14, 2021
Former BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcaster Sue Marchant, of Ely, has launched her own folk music show on DELUX Radio. - Credit: SUSAN MARCHANT
An Ely woman who took voluntary redundancy from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire at the end of 2020 has launched her own folk music show.
Sue Marchant's show for DELUX Radio, which airs on Saturday evenings from 8-10pm, is growing quickly and attracting listeners from around the world.
Having hosted specialist shows playing folk, roots and Americana in her previous roles, Sue said her passion is in live music and helping new musicians/bands.
Sue is also involved with the Ely Folk Festival, Folk East, Cambridge Folk Festival, The Cambridge Rock Festival, Gate to Southwell Festival and Festivals for Rock, Blues and Folk at Butlins, Skegness.
She is also putting out a folk show on Spotted in Ely on Monday evenings from 7-9pm.
Sue said: "I am really excited by these new opportunities that modern technology allows. There are many plans and projects which will be revealed as they happen."
Aside from music, Sue set up an Ely Market stall - Groovy Sue's - where she sold smellies and antiques before the latest Covid-19 lockdown.
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NBN Co. meets FTTH deployment goal, but competitors want lower wholesale prices
Jul 5, 2013 10:51am
NBN Co., the public-private company building out Australia's National Broadband Network, said that it has met its revised end-of-year target of 190,000 to 220,000 homes passed by its fiber to the home rollout. However, a key wholesale customer is threatening to abandon the NBN over its prices.
As of the end of June, the service provider passed 207,500 premises, including both Brownfield and Greenfield housing developments. In addition, the service provider reported a four-fold increase in the total number of NBN users, while fiber-based connections increased seven-fold.
Out of the 70,100 homes and businesses that signed up for an NBN connection, 33,600 were accessing services via fiber. Out of that of number, 22,400 were at Brownfield sites, with the remaining 13,200 at Greenfield sites. It also signed up about a total of 1,900 fixed wireless and 34,600 satellite broadband customers, up from 100 and 9,600, respectively, from a year ago.
After reporting in March that its buildout fell 10 weeks behind schedule due to what it said was a lack of qualified workers and "ambitious" targets, NBN Co. issued a revised rollout forecast that the network would pass between 190,000 and 220,000 premises with fiber by the end of June.
Despite meeting its homes passed target, one of its key wholesale customers, iiNet, which just began offering services over the NBN in Perth last month, said that it may abandon the NBN if they don't lower their wholesale prices.
"NBN Co's attitude is very dictatorial, it's very public service and it's very 'take it or leave it'," said Steve Dalby, iiNet's chief regulatory officer in a Telecompaper article. "It's just surprising they have this attitude when you can actually leave it."
Dalby's comments emerged following the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's release of its draft changes for the NBN Co.'s Special Access Undertaking, a document that lays out the pricing and conditions to provide wholesale services to competitive service providers such as iiNet.
- see the release (.pdf)
- Telecompaper has this article
Australia's NBN Co. purchases iiNet's FTTP network
Australia NBN faces 3-month delay as rollout stalls
Telstra migrates South Brisbane copper network to fiber
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The Poor Man's Phantom
Now Playing: The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Pros: A prime example of Hammer's famous lavish look on a small budget; A Phantom who is both frightening and pitiable
Cons: Wasted dramatic possibilities; A mildly irritating plot "cheat"
R.I.P. Herbert Lom (1917 - 2012)
When I was a kid, I knew one Phantom of the Opera, and his name was Claude Rains. By the time I got to high school, I'd seen Universal's 1943 remake several times, and ol' Claude was for me the definitive Phantom. Of course I'd seen the great, hair-raising stills of Lon Chaney as the Phantom in Famous Monsters magazine and various books, but he was from a dim, dark and very silent era -- practically another universe -- and he'd never shown up on any of the afternoon or late night creature features I loved so much.
It took some maturing ("A silent film, are you kidding me? How could anyone watch something with no dialog?!") and a little discretionary cash before I got my hands on Chaney's original, masterful film version. But by then, the damage was done. I discovered that Rains had made other highly-regarded movies like Casablanca (heard of that one?), and so over the years I kept an eye out for his stuff on TV and in the classics section of the video store. I could appreciate Lon Chaney from a sort of abstract, historical perspective, but for a kid raised on talking monsters from the '30s, '40s and '50s, he could never be the definitive anything. (Similarly, when I visualize the Hunchback of Notre Dame, I see Charles Laughton, not Chaney. I wonder if there's anyone walking around out there who only knows the Hunchback from Disney's wretched animated version -- now that would be a true shame!)
We often speak of generations when referencing pop culture influences, especially when it comes to music -- the Big Band generation, the Rock and Roll generation, the Hip Hop generation, etc. Less so for movies, but the generational influences can't help but be there. For example, I'm a '60s Monster Kid who was glued to the old black and white TV whenever a creature feature reared its ugly head on the air. (Saturday nights were a special treat at central Iowa's Gravesend Manor, one of the many locally-produced shows that featured bizarre hosts introducing Shock Theater package flicks. Manor "residents" Malcolm, Claude and Esmerelda were a hoot, and the movies weren't bad either. Sadly, only a couple of minutes of tape survives from the show-- see it here on YouTube.)
My wife, who is (ahem) a few years younger, grew up in rural northern Illinois. While she is not the monster fan I am, she managed to take in a few creature features here and there, and to this day is a huge fan of Universal's Mummy series. Interestingly, the Phantom she vividly remembers is not dashing Claude Rains, but the creepy Herbert Lom. (She also likes Andrew Lloyd Webber's version, but I try not to hold that against her.) In honor of Herbert, and recalling how creeped out my wife was by his makeup and performance, I checked out The Hammer Horror Series Franchise Collection from the library and gave Hammer's version a spin.
The eye of the Phantom is upon you!
A short pre-title sequence is extraordinarily eerie. The faint strains of organ music sound as a hand-held camera pans around an enormous darkened opera hall. The dirge-like organ music grows louder as the shot dissolves into the dank, dimly lit environs of the Phantom, the camera exploring the bric-a-brac of a madman's Victorian parlor somehow plopped down in a cavernous sewer. We see a dark-clad figure hunched over the organ, and then the camera pans to a dark, strange-looking gnome of a man sitting cross-legged on a dry perch above the running water, listening with rapt attention. Cut to a closeup of bluish, corpse-like hands at the organ keys. The camera quickly sweeps up and freezes on a dark, bloodshot eye staring out of a grotesque, mouth-less mask. Orchestra music swells up and the main titles appear. Wow! Nothing else that follows is quite as effective, but if that doesn't grab you, nothing will!
As you might expect, Hammer's Phantom is a remake of Universal's 1943 version with Rains, but turns what was essentially a lavish romantic melodrama with Gothic overtones into an honest-to-goodness horror film. All the familiar story elements are there: the beautiful but modest chorus singer Christine with the angelic voice; the mysterious accidents that plague the opera house; the haunted opera box that the Phantom has reserved for himself; a falling chandelier (but fortunately in this version the opera goers are spared). I especially like the recycling of the 1943 origin story for the Phantom, wherein a poor humble musician and amateur composer has his music stolen by a greedy, wealthy man who publishes his works as his own. When the aggrieved musician discovers the theft and tries to stop publication of his music under the phony's name, an accident with printer's etching acid creates a monster.
The Phantom's original creator, Gaston Leroux, would probably not have recognized this character. Leroux's Erik was deformed from birth, and was so repulsive his own mother refused to touch him; deformation of the mind and a career as a phantom followed. I find the 1943/1962 stories more compelling and poignant. An accident of nature is one thing, but we feel so much more for a man who has been victimized by greed and arrogance, and who has become a monster through his desperate, tragic attempts to reclaim his music and his name.
Hammer's distinctive touches include a London, rather than Paris Opera house setting; a hunchbacked, Igor-like henchman for the Phantom; a variation on the classic chandelier scene that is just as dramatic, but sadder and more humane; and best of all, a masked Phantom who is both chilling and heart-wrenching. With their immaculate, stylish masks, the Claude Rains and Andrew Lloyd Webber Phantoms are dapper and intriguing-looking. Herbert Lom's Phantom looks like he spent several months in the grave before being dug up by some wild animals. His clothes are worn and tattered and his hands are tinged blue like a dead man's. He wears a grimy, lumpy mask that covers his entire face. There is only one eye hole and no mouth. Even masked, he presents a horrible, frightening visage. This is no glamorous lead in a romantic melodrama. You really, really don't want to see what's behind that disturbing mask.
And you don't, except for a very fleeting moment at the end of the film. Compared with Lon Chaney's classically horrific unmasking, Lom's is anticlimactic and pedestrian. It's his creepy masked presence at various moments that lends suspense and atmosphere to Hammer's version. The Phantom was makeup maestro Roy Ashton's biggest disappointment at Hammer (for more on this brilliant craftsman, see Roy Ashton: Monster Maker elsewhere on this blog). As a child, Ashton had been profoundly affected by the original cinematic Phantom of the Opera, and was greatly inspired by Lon Chaney. When he learned of Hammer's remake, he jumped at the opportunity. (Bruce Sachs and Russell Wall, Greasepaint and Gore: The Hammer Monsters of Roy Ashton, Tomahawk Press, 1998.)
In typical fashion, Ashton spent a great deal of time researching Leroux's description of Erik, then exploring the macabre subject of burns and human tissue. After a lot of work and some sleepless nights, the production heads told him they didn't want anything too complicated, as the makeup wasn't going to figure into the film that much. Roy was greatly disappointed, but got a second opportunity to challenge himself when it came time to design a mask. The studio had hired a mask maker, but when his designs didn't pan out, the makeup department was called in. Once again, Roy did a lot of research, but ironically, the end result was due more to happenstance than hard work. Ashton:
"My suggestion was that the Phantom, almost certainly, would have picked up some mask from the theatre properties to conceal his features. Something readily available, because he wouldn't be able to go into any shops or anything like that… I thought about old Japanese masks as they were pictured in a sumptuous publication entitled 'Masks of the World', which I found in the Victoria and Albert Museum. I invited [producer] Tony Hinds to come and have a look, but he told me he couldn't spare the time. So I made a few drawings and showed them to him, but it was not exactly what he hoped for. … Three weeks later we were in the theatre where they had to photograph Herbert Lom with his mask on, and no decision had been taken yet. 'Look,' I said, 'give me five minutes and I will make you one.' I got an old piece of rag, tied it round his face, cut a hole in it, stuck a little bit of mesh over one of the eyes, two bits of string around it, and tried it. 'Great!' they cried out, 'that is just what we want!'" [Ibid.]
For a moment's inspiration, the "rag" mask is very effective and creepy, qualifying Herbert Lom in my book as the scariest masked Phantom. Hammer's Phantom also benefits from the studio's trademark sumptuous look on a limited budget. Director Terence Fisher makes good use of London's New Wimbeldon Theatre for the opera house interiors, and the opera scenes themselves are nicely staged.
"You will sing only for me Christine, only for me..."
The acting is uniformly good, or at least interesting. Heather Sears is cute, engaging and vulnerable as the decidedly un-diva-ish Christine, the chorus girl elevated to opera stardom. Edward de Souza does a nice job as a sort of "Prince Charming" producer who recognizes Christine's extraordinary talent, and does battle with the smug, smarmy Lord Ambrose d'Arcy (Michael Gough) and the deranged Phantom to save the sweet girl. Once again, Gough plays his patented scoundrel and lecher with aplomb. He's a guilty pleasure to watch as he screws Prof. Petrie (Lom) out of his life's work, and tries to literally screw the female singers. Sharp-eyed Dr. Who fans will also get a kick out of the appearance of the "grumpy Doctor," Patrick Troughton as the opera house rat catcher. Troughton, almost unrecognizable with his grubby outfit and brown, rotting teeth, provides a bit of comic relief as he licks his chops while describing to Christine and Harry all the fat, juicy rats he's caught in the opera house (moments later, he gets a knife in the eye -- ouch! -- for his troubles).
Lom is alternately pitiful and scary as the humble music teacher, Prof. Petrie, driven to madness by Lord d'Arcy's thievery. Years after Phantom's release, producer/screenwriter Tony (Anthony) Hinds told an interviewer that Hammer had offered Cary Grant (?!!) the Petrie/Phantom role, and even came up with a device to sweeten the deal: a loyal, mute and violent hunchback to take the blame for all the murder and violence plaguing the opera house, making the Phantom that much more sympathetic. Grant ended up declining, and supposedly Lom was recruited at the last minute. Later, Hinds recanted that Grant was ever considered. (Greasepaint and Gore.) Regardless, the hunchback "cheat" seems forced and unnecessary, and serves to dissipate some of the film's dramatic energy at the climax, when the Phantom clumsily pins the murders on the poor wretch.
The smarmy Lord Ambrose d'Arcy (Michael Gough) appears to be
interested in more than just Christine's (Heather Sears) singing talent.
Still, as the Halloween season ramps up, this is a pretty good, pretty scary Phantom to add to your viewing list. Not a romantic melodrama Phantom, or a treacly musical Phantom, but a good, solid working man's Phantom. Luckily, this Phantom is part of the Hammer Horror Series Franchise Collection, which includes some other similarly good and relatively unheralded Hammer Horrors like Brides of Dracula (1960), Kiss of the Vampire (1963), and The Evil of Frankenstein (1964).
"In the shadows lurks a monstrous evil!"
Posted by Brian Schuck
Labels: Edward de Souza, Heather Sears, Herbert Lom, Horror, Michael Gough, Phantom of the Opera; The (1962), Roy Ashton
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29/10/2019 - By Ivan Dikov In The Neighborhood
Looking behind France’s Shameful Veto on Albania, N. Macedonia’s EU Accession Talks
The rationale for Macron’s decision doesn’t make sense as purely “enlargement fatique”.
There has already emerged something like a wide-ranging consensus among pundits that French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to block the start of the EU accession negotiations of Albania and North Macedonia has been very, very wrong.
Something like US President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Syrian Kurds but on behalf of France and on the intra-EU stage – either disastrous, or disgraceful, or both.
A decision that is hurting the credibility not just of France as an European leader but also of the entire European Union and all values, principles, and other wonderful stuff it stands for.
My first draft of this article was entitled, “Tell Macron You First Start EU Accession Talks, Then Drag Them Out as Needed”, or something of the sort.
The logic of EU accession negotiations is that simple – they are not a guarantee for EU membership by any means, they can last as long as needed, and they might even end up being entirely unsuccessful.
All that depending on the will and capabilities of the EU candidate country to reform and meet the already well-articulated EU criteria.
The best thing about EU accession talks is precisely that – they are this incredibly efficient and amazing instrument to get the EU candidates to reform, and to reform primarily in the interest of their own people.
It’s the most powerful, and perhaps the only major tool in the EU toolbox for relatively successful dealing with the corrupt oligarchies of Eastern Europe in literally forcing them to improve the lives and prospects of their own compatriots, all the while meeting the criteria of the European Union in order to become full-fledged members.
(That’s assuming the candidate countries are from the still underdeveloped corners of Europe to the East and Southeast because if the likes of the already highly EU-convergent Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, you name it, for some reason decided to apply for EU membership, the talks would have more or less a purely harmonizational character.)
Sure, getting the invitation to start negotiations is also a similar strong tool but perhaps not as powerful starting them.
Think about it – once the EU candidate countries are on that track, their ruling elites would feel pressure from all sides to be doing the right things. Those respective societies will have a sense of direction that might have been lacking. Their citizens would be becoming a lot more aware of what this whole EU thing means for their nation and for them as individuals, and would act to hold their countries’ leaderships accountable on that count – at least to some extent.
Having witnessed all positive changes which took place in Bulgaria during its own EU accession talks, I can testify to their significance firsthand.
The only problem in Bulgaria’s was that those changes were profound enough and conclusive enough because the EU negotiations were over too quickly. They should have been dragged out in order to exert greater pressure on Bulgaria’s ruling elites to reform – that was literally what the not-very-empowered Bulgarian civil society was expecting. The EU, however, wrapped them up quite swiftly, within the course of 5-6 years, so while the technicalities were certainly completed and resolved, the Bulgarian society hadn’t changed enough.
What we ended up – we meaning both Bulgaria and the EU as a whole – was a rather unpleasant outcome in which the EU and Bulgaria’s nasty ruling post-communist oligarchy found a way to co-exist – a process and a topic that I discuss in-depth a book of precisely that title (“Ugly Bargain: How the European Union and Bulgaria’s Post-Communist Oligarchy Fit Together”).
If one compares the amount of positive changes in Bulgaria during its EU accession talks and during the utterly toothless Cooperation and Verification Mechanism in which the European Commission has been monitoring for 13 years now the country’s supposed “post-accession” progress on its “problem areas” of the rule of law and organized crime, the balance is overwhelmingly in favor of the former period.
Albania and North Macedonia are no more or no less prepared for EU membership than Bulgaria and Romania were when they began their own accession negotiations, a process which has produced great benefits for the people of Bulgaria, Romania, and the entire European Union, albeit not as great as they could have been if there had been more EU reform pressure, including by dragging out those talks.
So there you have it – EU accession negotiations of a reasonable length (meaning longer, rather than shorter) are the best way for the Union to make a difference for itself and the people of the candidate countries.
By vetoing the start of EU membership talks with Albania and North Macedonia, for whatever reason, Macron’s France – as well as partly the Netherlands and Denmark – have acted as though the question at hand was whether to admit Albania and North Macedonia in the European Union right away, right now, hands down, no questions asked.
In North Macedonia, they had been concerned about a possible Bulgarian veto (over the not-so-long story over dispute stemming from how it historically used to be a part of Bulgaria before the present-day Macedonian nation was formalized by the Comintern, the former Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and its Bulgarian puppets before their respective dictators Tito and Stalin fell out). At the end there was no Bulgarian veto despite some conditions spelled out by Sofia but the veto came from Paris.
So what was the reason?
The number one explanation for the French veto is the good old “enlargement fatigue.” Which makes no sense whatsoever, especially in this particular case of two relatively tiny countries with a combined total population of a little over 5 million people, against the backdrop of the existing EU’s 500 million (pre-Brexit but still).
Macron’s official justification for the French veto on Albania and North Macedonia’s EU talks has been that the European Union needs to reform itself first (whatever the heck that means) – which is like saying that one should stop doing their job while renovating their house – and that the methodology of EU enlargement needs to be changed (which literally means nothing).
As far as enlargement fatigue goes, discontents from the state of affairs of the EU rant about things ranging from EU development funds all the way to the influx of migrants from Asia and Africa – as though the latter problem has anything to do with fellow European countries and societies working hard to meet the EU’s own criteria in order to become part of the Union, therefore spreading peace, stability, security, and prosperity further and further east!
The enlargement fatigue syndrome is just another case of the Western Europeans not just looking down on the Eastern Europeans but of treating them as their very last priority in the world – for reasons ranging from sheer political idleness to colonialism guilt complexes, which do not apply to Eastern Europeans as they were colonized by non-Europeans.
Sure, enlargement fatigue, French-style, is as good a justification for rejecting EU candidate countries as any. It’s basically telling the respective countries that… “Screw you, we don’t want to deal with you, we don’t care about leaving you the backwater that you are, despite our promises, our commitments, the EU’s underlying principles, and basic common sense.”
Of course, the consequences of such an approach could be dire in the medium run since if the EU doesn’t want or is unable to plug its own geopolitical gaps, other players would be eager to fill them up.
Then there come some bizarre but not implausible explanations as to why Macron and France did what they did with respect to vetoing Albania and North Macedonia’s EU accession talks.
One Croatian newspaper – Croatia being a fellow Western Balkan (former Yugoslavia) country to Albania and North Macedonia, and the latest newcomer to the EU in 2013 – was utterly enraged about the French veto, and accused France of wanting to see Serbia become a member of the EU before any other of the candidates from the region.
Such an accusation might have been based more on historical affiliations than on current realities but if there is any truth to them, they would mean a lot of trouble since in terms of attitude Serbia is far less ready for EU talks and membership that any of the Western Balkan states.
I’ve already mentioned in some articles that the European Union is a Union of “losers”, and that is a great thing – meaning that its member states have experienced total collapse or failure one way or another and have come to grips with it in order to swallow their unconditional “national pride”, thus being able to build something very different, supranational.
That hasn’t quite been the case with the UK, hence its constant uneasiness inside the EU and now Brexit. Despite the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, a fully unnatural and artificial state entity, that hasn’t been the case with Serbia, either, where many still seem to be pining after Greater Serbia, Greater Yugoslavia, or some other vision of greatness the way it was deemed worthy in old times.
The nonetheless highly dubious Serbia-first French scenario aside, another interesting extrapolation on Macron’s EU talks veto on Albania and North Macedonia comes from Russia.
For a while now, one leading pro-democratic Russian political commentator has been talking of a new West – Russia grand bargain under development in which Putin’s Russia would abandon its anyway unsuccessful alliance with China in order to come back to an alliance with the West.
That is said to be grand deal in the making between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with French President Emmanuel Macron acting as the broker. This scenario is allegedly yet to unfold and is conditional on Trump’s political survival and reelection but the recent exchange of POWs between Ukraine and the pro-Russian forces in Donbass is said to have become possible because of it.
So if such a scenario is indeed unfolding, a long shot as it is, would it be conceivable that Macron would agree to a potential tiny goodwill gesture to Moscow such as delaying the course of some Western Balkan countries’ towards member in the European Union – even as France is ratifying the protocol North Macedonia’s accession to NATO?
If the veto on Albania and North Macedonia’s EU accession talks is due to “enlargement fatigue”, that is shameful. If it’s due to some backstage dealings or ulterior motives, that is utterly disgraceful.
In either case, with the French veto, the pro-Western, pro-democracy citizens of Albania and North Macedonia got a giant slap in their faces for no sensible reason despite their own efforts to go the right way. (Let’s not forget that one of those countries even had to change its name for that.)
They know they have a very long road ahead if they want to become full-fledged EU countries but they haven’t even been allowed to get on that road.
Here’s to hoping refusing them that road doesn’t play out horribly for all parties involved.
Ivan Dikov
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accession negotiations Albania Bulgaria Croatia Emmanuel Macron EU accession EU enlargement former Yugoslavia France Macedonia North Macedonia Russia Serbia Western Balkans
Ivan Dikov is a Bulgarian journalist and author. He studied political science / international relations and history at Dartmouth College and later in Sofia, in the Eastern Balkans. He’s served for five years as the editor-in-chief of Bulgaria’s largest English-language media – Novinite.com. As a freelancer, he has collaborated with media from the US, the UK, Germany, and Australia.
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By Everyday Health Guest ContributorFor My Cancer Story
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Two years ago I was told I had inoperable stage IV pancreatic cancer and most likely had six to eight months left.
At that moment I never thought I would be here today to tell my story and, I hope, give encouragement to others like me.
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I have been receiving chemotherapy every two weeks for about one-and-a-half years. On my non-treatment weeks, I am cherishing this time and making the most of my moments. I may not be able to run five miles, but I can walk two. I regularly visit family along the East Coast, have been out west, and have participated in six of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s PurpleStride 5k events. I’ve been able to "wage hope" in Boston, Scranton, Tampa, Atlanta, and Orlando. My family and friends have organized teams in all of these cities, and also in Raleigh, North Carolina, in Philadelphia, and in Houston.
These events have allowed us to really connect with other pancreatic cancer survivors and their families. They also raise additional funds to help provide personalized support for patients, research grants, and advocacy efforts to increase federal pancreatic cancer research funding.
I want to give hope to those with pancreatic cancer who can't have surgery. All of the survivor stories I found involved the Whipple surgery. I wanted to hear just one story from someone like me. For that survivor with inoperable stage IV pancreatic cancer, there is hope beyond that dismal prognosis.
Resources for Patients Like Me
I encourage anyone facing this disease to contact the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network's patient and liaison services team online or by phone 877-272-6226. They have the very latest information about clinical trials and will perform individualized clinical trial searches for patients, free of charge.
I will continue to be a vocal advocate for clinical trials. I credit the clinical trial and treatment team, my tremendous army of support, and most of all my faith for increased quality of life and additional time with my loved ones.
This summer, I am eager to welcome a new granddaughter.
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Patricia Theobald, shown above with her grandson Asher, is 64 and lives with her husband in Florida, near Dunnellon. She is retired after working for 33 years in social work for the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. The Theobalds moved to Florida from New York seven years ago.
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Grain-Free, Gluten-Free: A Doctor's Life-Changing Diet Journey
By Everyday Health Guest ContributorFor My Health Story
By Kellyann Petrucci, ND, Special to Everyday Health
My first foray into discovering how food affects health came while I was working with a professional trainer who focused on physical fitness and nutrition. I was entering fitness and bodybuilding contests and had enlisted a trainer to help me become more competitive.
The first thing he told me was to do away with wheat and gluten, which was an unconventional idea at that time. The result? I not only lost body fat, but also overcame a few nagging health issues almost immediately. Needless to say, gluten had not been my best friend, nor was it on my radar anymore.
When I rid myself of gluten, my body got super lean. I was stronger than ever and, even better, my longtime battle with endometriosis vanished. My mother had taken me to the doctor several times for this chronic condition that causes painful periods, and all they could offer was birth control pills and high doses of Motrin to relieve the pain. For me the answer turned out to be as easy as cutting gluten from my diet. That was my first aha moment about how food could affect my body in a profound way.
Going Sideways to Avoid Gluten-Free Food
But like many others I took the gluten-free thing too far, which is a SUPER COMMON PROBLEM! If you are a medical professional like myself (I'm a Naturopath), you may know that there is real harm in telling patients to simply go gluten-free. The message is tangled in confusion.
When I went gluten-free, I ate fruit, veggies and lean meats, and yes, I also ate everything gluten-free I could get my hands on. As long as the package said gluten-free, in my book it was fair game.
Bad move. What I was getting instead was potato starch, cornstarch and any other starch that makes food taste good without evil gluten. The problem is, all of those starches are equally bad for you, or a pretty close second. Going gluten-free saved me from nothing. I still had intestinal issues, inflammation, and fatigue, and my skin started looking bad, even though I was living a gluten-free life. I eventually crashed and burned.
The answer? Don’t just go gluten-free – give grains the heave ho, too!
What I learned when I removed grains from my diet was this: Gluten-free was a great first step for me – if I had done it without all of the gluten alternatives. But what really worked for me was to not only go gluten-free, but grain-free too. That’s when I experienced true health benefits.
The Case Against (Some) Grains
If you're trying to decide whether to go wheat- and gluten-free, that’s great! But when I say “great,” I only mean great if you truly know what you are doing. Plenty of issues can arise when you kick wheat and glutens to the curb, believe me.
First and foremost, the second you start shopping at your local market, you’ll see dozens of replacement foods out there … gluten-free muffins, brownies, cake mixes, etc., as well as lots of replacement flours for wheat flour. The thing is, many of these substitutes can be just as damaging to your gut and immune system as wheat and gluten, especially if you add them to your diet on a regular basis.
So many who go gluten-free end up filling up on foods that have other "ugh" ingredients — like corn — to which many have sensitivities. Those on the substitute bandwagon also find they’re adding a lot of starches to their diet because ingredients like, say, potato starch, are often replacements for wheat flour.
Consider the following grains: Barley, corn, durum, kamut, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, spelt, tuff, triticale, wheat (all varieties), wild rice and whole grains. Gluten is found in barley, rye, wheat and any foods derived from these ingredients. And then there are the pseudo grains, like amaranth, buckwheat, chia and quinoa.
I believe all of these can cause leaky gut syndrome, as well as an overgrowth of bacteria in the gut (gut dysbiosis).
Since so much of the health of your immune system stems from the gut, having a weakened gut leaves you wide open to just about every modern-day disease out there.
How Grains Can Damage Your Gut
What is it about grains that can cause damage? Our bodies are not adapted to eating grains, particularly in large quantities. We have only been eating grains since the advent of agriculture, some 10,000 years ago, and while that may seem like a long time, from an evolutionary standpoint, it’s really just a hiccup in time. It takes a seriously long time to affect our genes, tens of thousands of years.
I say, send gluten packing, but don’t do "modern-day gluten-free" by stocking up on starches instead. I tell my patients who are interested in trying out this lifestyle to replace grains with other options like nut flowers or arrowroot when baking.
Plus, you can make many great gluten-free dishes in a snap using zucchini (zucchini “noodles” make a mean lasagna), squash (spaghetti squash makes a fantastic gluten-free "pasta"), eggplant (makes a great shell for casseroles), sweet potatoes (incredibly versatile and will fuel you better than any almost any other starch), pumpkin (pumpkin pancakes are tasty winners) and cauliflower (makes great mashed “potatoes” and meatballs).
My advice: Keep your gluten-free diet as real as possible. Fill it with unprocessed real foods and shy away from packaged gluten-free foods, which are pricier and definitely will not get you on the health track. You won’t miss a thing. Promise!
Kellyann Petrucci, ND, is a lifestyle expert, nutritionist, naturopathic doctor, and the author of five healthy-lifestyle books and two food planson her drkellyann.com website, the 30-Day Reset and My Paleo programs. Dr. Kellyann appears regularly on local and national TV shows, on ABC, NBC, FOX , and Daytime, and has been a guest on The Dr. Oz Show. She conducts workshops and seminars worldwide to help people feel — and look — their best. She enjoys a busy family life that includes two young sons. She lives in the Philadelphia area.
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Touring holidays of Spain with tailor-made tours for individuals, by air, car and train staying at luxury hotels throughout Spain
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One of our luxury, tailor-made, touring holidays of Spain allows you to discover the extraordinary variety that Spain has to offer in its scenery, culture, cuisine and climate. Explore this wonderful country at your own pace, travelling by car or train through stunning landscapes and staying in high quality hotels which are superbly located and that have been personally-selected by us. We have created a hand-made selection of suggested self-drive, fly-drive and rail touring itineraries in Spain. We offer the following options for Spanish touring holidays: • Fly-drive touring holidays of Spain • Fly-rail touring holidays of Spain • Rail holidays to and within Spain • Self-drive touring holidays with the ferry to Spain and then continue in your own car Your touring holiday can be as simple or as complex as you wish – you can choose to follow one of the sample itineraries which we have created, you can modify one of these itineraries according to your requirements, or you can allow us to develop a whole new itinerary based on your preferences. We will use our expertise to create a bespoke touring holiday just for you, offering advice to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
Our hotels in Spain
All the luxury hotels in Spain that are featured by Expressions Holidays have been selected to provide high standards of comfort, service and cuisine. Most of the hotels we feature are four or five-star, although we have also chosen some small, charming hotels that haven’t been officially categorised. In this programme you will find our hand-picked selection of characterful boutique gems, exclusive seaside resorts, modern hotels and rustic properties in a rural setting, some located on large countryside estates. We also feature the renowned Parador hotels, a collection of state-run hotels which occupy historic buildings such as former monasteries, mediaeval fortresses and hilltop castles.
Fly-drive touring holidays of Spain
Travelling to Spain by air is an obvious and popular way to travel. With daily, frequent, scheduled flights from London and other regional airports to major Spanish cities and a flying time of about two and a half hours, this is a quick and easy way to start your touring holiday of Spain. Our fly-drive touring holidays include scheduled flights with British Airways. This allows our clients to choose the departure date and holiday duration, with the possibility of the Club Europe premium cabin. Wherever these scheduled airlines fly from and to, we can offer you their services. If there is no direct flight from your local airport, we offer a connecting flight with British Airways at a small supplement. A popular option for touring holidays is to fly into one airport and back from another and this is offered by Expressions Holidays as a matter of course for holidays that start and end in different places. A hire-car is essential for many, but not all, of our hotel stays in most regions of Spain. We include a hire-car for most holidays as it is a cost-effective means of getting from the airport to your hotel and back and provides the means to explore the area during your holiday. We include a basic group A car with Avis with all our fly-drive holidays to Spain. This is usually a Peugeot 107 or similar with air-conditioning which is adequate for just two people, a short break or if you don’t intend to do much driving. However, you might want to upgrade to something larger or more powerful.
Rail-drive touring holidays of Spain
A rail-drive touring holiday to Spain is a rewarding way to combine the experience of a rail journey from London to Spain, perhaps taking the train from London to San Sebastian or London to Barcelona, and then to be able to explore with the use of the hire-car, returning by train from the same or a different station.
Rail touring holidays in Spain
A rail touring holiday within Spain works very well. You fly to a Spanish city, for example Madrid, and then take the train from place to place. Typical combinations might be Madrid, Cordoba, Granada and Seville, or Madrid, Bilbao and Barcelona.
Self-drive touring holidays to Spain
A self-drive touring holiday to Spain is a popular option, especially as it is possible to travel by ferry to northern Spain with your own car. Brittany Ferries offers weekly ferries from Plymouth to Santander (journey time around 20 hours), twice weekly ferries from Portsmouth to Bilbao (journey time around 24 hours) and twice weekly ferries from Portsmouth to Santander (journey time around 24 hours). It is also possible to travel between Spanish islands by ferry, for example in the Canary Islands where travelling between the islands by ferry is a popular way to travel. We have a suggested touring holiday of the Canaries that includes ferry travel and the use of a hire-car for the holiday.
We wanted something at very short notice and you provided what we needed excellently.
Mrs H, July 2018
Our touring holidays of Spain include
● Travel arrangements with flights, ferries, trains or car-hire as required
A GRAND TOUR OF SPAIN
14-night grand tour of Spain by air, rail and hire-car staying in nine different places from Andalusia to Barcelona, to Madrid, San Sebastian and along the Saint James way ending in Santiago de Compostela. From about £2,820 per person.
ALONG THE SILVER WAY IN SPAIN TOUR
9-night fly-drive touring holiday following the pilgrimage route of the Silver Way from Andalusia north to Santiago de Compostela and witness the diverse culture and history of Spain. Also included are several authentic cultural experiences. From about £1,870 per person.
ANDALUSIA AND MADRID HOLIDAY BY AIR AND TRAIN
7-night luxury holiday by air to Madrid for 1 night and then train in between visiting the cultural cities of Andalusia: Granada, Cordoba and Seville, staying in luxury hotels with included local excursions. From about £1,690 per person.
FROM MADRID TO TOLEDO AND ANDALUSIA FLY-DRIVE TOUR
7-night fly-drive luxury touring holiday from Madrid, through Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha to the Andalusian cities and towns of Baeza, Cordoba and Ronda.. From about £1,440 per person.
THE HIDDEN CHARMS OF ANDALUSIA TOUR
9-night fly-drive luxury touring holiday of Andalusia staying in four places reflecting the culture and landscape of the region. You stay in white-washed mountain villages, on the coast overlooking the Bay of Cadiz, and on a country estate near Seville. From about £1,860 per person.
THE WHITE VILLAGES OF ANDALUSIA TOUR
6-night fly-drive luxury touring holiday of Andalusia staying in the picturesque ‘white villages’ or ‘pueblos blancos’ in the hills behind the Costa del Sol and in the sherry town of Jerez, steeped in Andalusian traditions and history. From about £1,320 per person.
BARCELONA, LA RIOJA AND BILBAO BY RAIL
8-night luxury holiday by train from Barcelona to La Rioja and Bilbao, returning by air. Visit the cultural cities and the vineyards of Rioja. From about £1,860 per person.
CATALAN MOUNTAINS AND COAST DISCOVERY TOUR
8-night fly-drive holiday discovering Catalonia, including Barcelona, the mountains of the Pyrenees and the rugged Costa Brava..From about £1,890 per person.
SPANISH ART AND ARCHITECTURE TOUR
8-night luxury touring holiday with a focus on Spanish art and architecture including stays in Madrid, Bilbao and Barcelona. Stay in luxury hotels, travel by air and rail in Spain. From about £1,960 per person.
WESTERN CANARIES ISLAND-HOPPING TOURING HOLIDAY
12-night fly-drive island hopping touring holiday of the Western Canaries. From Tenerife you visit La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro, staying in boutique, authentic hotels and touring by hire-car, from island to island. From about £1,960 per person.
BASQUE COUNTRY TO CATALONIA FLY-DRIVE TOUR
10-night fly-drive luxury touring holiday of north-eastern Spain, including the Spanish Basque Country, La Rioja, Aragon and Catalonia staying on the coast and in the country, as well in the ancient city of Lleida. From about £1,920 per person.
FROM COSTA BLANCA TO CATALONIA BY TRAIN TOURING HOLIDAY
10-night fly-rail touring holiday of the eastern Spanish coast including Alicante, Valencia, Girona and Barcelona. From about £2,070 per person.
FOLLOW THE WAY OF ST JAMES SPANISH FLY-DRIVE TOUR
10-night fly-drive holiday following the Way of Saint James along northern Spain from Pamplona to Santiago de Compostela. From about £1,880 per person.
GREEN SPAIN COAST AND COUNTRY TOUR
11-night self-drive luxury touring holiday of northern, Green Spain, including the regions of Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia staying on the coast and in the mountains, as well in the cities of Santiago de Compostela and Leon. From about £1,880 per person.
CASTLES, PALACES AND WINDMILLS OF SPANISH CASTILE
7-night luxury fly-drive holiday to Spain visiting the castles, palaces and windmills of Madrid and central Spain including Don Quixote’s La Mancha. Stay in historic hotels and paradores. From about £1,650 per person.
MADRID AND HEART OF SPAIN BY RAIL
12-night fly-rail luxury touring holiday of central Spain, including Madrid, Castile la Mancha and Extremadura staying in historic cities off-the-beaten-track. From about £1,930 per person.
SPANISH EXTREMADURA HISTORY AND HERITAGE TOUR
9-night fly-drive luxury touring holiday to the Spanish Extremadura, historic central region of Spain. Discover the heritage staying in five historic parador hotels. From about £1,490 per person.
CITY OF VALENCIA AND ISLAND OF MALLORCA FLY-DRIVE TOUR
9-night fly-drive luxury touring holiday of Valencia and Mallorca including coast, countryside and culture. From about £2,410 per person.
MALLORCA COAST, COUNTRY AND MOUNTAINS FLY-DRIVE TOUR
8-night luxury fly-drive holiday visiting the charming coast, dramatic mountains and picturesque countryside of Mallorca. From about £2,980 per person.
MALLORCA SCENIC AND CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS TOUR
10-night luxury fly-drive holiday of Mallorca, visiting the capital, the countryside, artistic villages, the fishing ports, beaches and nature reserves. From about £3,060 per person.
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Out On The Weekend
(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog's Second-Favourite Canadian)
There seems to be little doubt now that Jesus invented America so we could rule at slopestyle. However, as much as I love the fact that somebody made a winter sport out of what all those kids do to annoy people in the public parks all summer, my second-favorite character at the Winter Olympics is the half-pipe commentator who described one participant as "a machine gun of awesomeness." My favorite is Grandma Backstrom, whose son, Nicklas, is a big noise in the NHL and is now playing for Sweden. This does not impress Granny B.
"He will make a fool of himself," Grandma Britt said, according to a Google translation of the Aftonbladet story. "He has played so poorly. For a long time." A faithful follower of the Capitals from her home in Sweden, she said she watches most games. But, she added, "when it's bad I go to bed."
I can't remember an athlete ever being smack-talked by his grandmother before.I blame sports-talk radio myself for coarsening the world's grandparents. Olaf from Borlange, you're next...
My pal Jim from Colorado reminds me that I left this cluck outof the Laboratories roundup this week. My bad.
Sen. Bernie Herpin, R-Colorado Springs, said it "was maybe a good thing he (suspect James Holmes) had a 100 - round magazine because it jammed," in a July 2012 shooting that killed 12 and injured dozens. "If he had instead had four, five, six 15-round magazines, no telling how much damage he could have done until a good guy showed up," said Herpin, as he offered testimony before a Senate Judiciary Committee on a bill to repeal a law that limits ammunition magazines to 15 rounds.
The punchline, of course, is that Herpin is the guy who was elected to replace the Senate President who was recalled after he'd guided a package of gun-control legislation through the Senate in the aftermath of the Aurora and Sandy Hook massacre -- and by "punch line" is mean the detail that will make you punch yourself in the head repeatedly. Teachable Moments, indeed. And, please, I am begging you, stay out of the comments section. I value my readers and their sanity.
Tucker Carlson once had a thriving career. Now he's trolling pre-schoolers. The next step is...naw, I don't even want to think about what the next step might be.
Meanwhile, goggle-eyed homunculus logic continues to amaze and astound.
"If I'm at a wedding reception here and somebody has a drink or two, most people wouldn't say they're wasted," he said. "Most folks with marijuana wouldn't be sitting around a wedding reception smoking marijuana." "Now there are people who abuse (alcohol), no doubt about it, but I think it's a big jump between someone having a beer and smoking marijuana," he added.
As it happens, I attended several weddings in the very state that Walker currently manages on behalf of Koch Industries. This was during the time, or shortly after that time, when I was successfully pursuing the degree that Walker mysteriously never managed to catch up with. If I recall those weddings correctly, one did not have to jump from a beer to some weed. One merely had to walk out the side door of the Legion post.
Happy Valentine's Day! From the Vikings!
Sounds easy, right? Nordby sifted through all the findings of rune codes in northern Europe, mainly Scandinavia and the British Isles, to settle on his conclusion. Cryptologists previously thought the code was used to communicate secret messages, but Nordby thinks the pattern might have been instrumental in the teaching of rune instead. For instance, a means of memorizing the order of the alphabets. "We have little reason to believe that rune codes should hide sensitive messages," Nordby claims. "People often wrote short everyday messages." Amongst them -- "Kiss me," shown in coded rune in the first image above.
Granny Backstrom, of course, would like equal time.
We'll be back on Monday with some Olympics-related gobshitery. Be well and play nice, ya bastids. Or Granny B will be at your door with her machine gun of awesomeness.
Lindsey Graham Should Really Just Shut Up
Mark Wahlberg: The Modern Fatherhood of a Street Kid
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Why Boeing’s jilting leaves Embraer bitter and frustrated
By David Kaminski-Morrow2020-04-26T11:02:00+01:00
Embraer’s fierce reaction to prospective suitor Boeing’s decision to bale from their intended commercial partnership is hardly surprising, given that the Brazilian airframer stands to lose heavily from the split.
While the tie-up proposal, unveiled in late 2017, might have given the impression of a hastily-shoehorned response to Airbus’s audacious swoop for the Bombardier CSeries programme, Boeing and Embraer already had collaborative interests, and a merger had genuine merits.
Source: Embraer
Embraer’s re-engined E2 could have benefited from Boeing’s marketing power
Boeing stated that the decision would “strategically align” with its commercial development, production and lifecycle services operations. A new joint venture, 80%-owned by Boeing and named ‘Boeing Brasil – Commercial’, would have handed the US airframer its own “highly complementary” presence in the regional aircraft sector with the re-engined E2 version of the Embraer E-Jet family, along with income from Embraer’s services and support arm.
Both Boeing and Embraer had separately put pressure on the CSeries, through trade and subsidy disputes. But Airbus’s intervention – and Boeing’s losing a high-profile trade case against Bombardier shortly afterwards – simply gave the CSeries, rebranded as the Airbus A220, additional momentum and the backing of a powerful partner.
Embraer’s E2 stood to gain a similar advantage under Boeing, capitalising on the US firm’s global marketing network and heavyweight presence in procurement and cost negotiation. While the A220 has flourished under Airbus, the E2 has lost traction – total orders for the family have actually declined since 2017, even discounting the specific US scope-clause peculiarities which led to the removal of 100 E175-E2s, the entire backlog for the variant, from Embraer’s books.
Absence of orders aside, the E175-E2’s planned service-entry date of 2021 reflects another key reason for Embraer’s interest in the Boeing tie-up. While the manufacturer has been exploring a complementary turboprop development, it has been looking to Boeing to provide potential post-E2 openings for its engineering personnel.
When the tie-up was initially disclosed, Boeing had just started delivering the 737 Max to customers and – with the Max the probable final iteration of the 737 – the airframer had been wrestling with options for a successor as well as a proposed New Mid-size Airplane to bridge between its single- and twin-aisle lines. Embraer would be able to offer technical specialists at a lower Brazilian cost base.
But Boeing’s aircraft development ambitions, already set back by the 13-month-and-counting grounding of the 737 Max, have been overturned by the calamitous impact of the coronavirus crisis, which has demolished the forecasts and assumptions behind the Boeing-Embraer proposal.
Not least, Embraer’s share price has halved since the outbreak and its market capitalisation of around $1.1 billion is barely a quarter of the $4.2 billion that Boeing had been set to pay just for its 80% of the commercial aircraft venture. Embraer would have had a protective put option for its 20% balance.
The tie-up had also been mired in regulatory uncertainty in Europe. Having lost its trade case against Bombardier by virtue of the CSeries having no overlap with the 737, Boeing has ironically been facing objections from the European Commission because the E-Jet family is viewed as a 737 competitor.
Embraer appears to “exert some price constraint” on Boeing and Airbus, the Commission argues, even “beyond the boundaries” of the 100- to 150-seat sector, and the regulator has expressed “serious doubts” over the merger given that it could remove a “small but important” competitive influence.
While a final ruling from the Commission has been pushed back, Boeing’s withdrawal from the deal will practically render the decision academic.
Embraer had newly-completed, in January, its ‘carve-out’ preparations to separate its commercial aviation division, ahead of the Boeing acquisition. The company disclosed in March that the separation costs relating to this carve-out, some $120 million, had wiped out its full-year EBIT.
Even as it negotiated with Embraer, Boeing had been under its own financial pressure not only from the 737 Max situation but also the broader fall in long-haul jet demand. It is cutting 787 production and orders for the 777X have barely moved in almost three years.
But coronavirus has since exacerbated the situation, carving into the crucial single-aisle market while inflicting further damage to the weakened long-haul sector. Airbus is setting the level of A320 production back by eight years and – while that does not necessarily translate to the timeframe for industrial recovery – all bets on the future shape of air transport, the market for which is being torn down and potentially reconstructed, are essentially off.
Under such conditions Boeing’s revisting the strategic rationale for pursuing an expensive Embraer deal is hardly a shock, especially following the change in the US manufacturer’s leadership in mid-January and its requests for US government funding. But the decision has – equally unsurprisingly – left Embraer frustrated, furious and bitter, its future direction another uncertainty among the myriad unleashed by the most extraordinary of circumstances.
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Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer is reducing its workforce in the Latin American country by 4.5%, or about 900 employees.
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Embraer announced several shifts in its commercial aircraft division’s management team just weeks after Arjan Meijer took the helm of the division at the Brazilian airframer.
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Matador who is famous for becoming the first torero to surpass fighting 2,000 corridas. He reached his first major triumph in North America at the 1991 International Fair of San Sebastian, before going on to achieve major success across Europe and Latin America.
He killed his first bull calf at age 9. He would later make his full debut as a matador in 1988.
He has become known as one of the most prolific and successful bullfighters to ever fight. He suffered a severe goring in March 2014, and eventually came back to full strength.
His grandfather Rafael Ponce Navarro was also a famed Spanish bullfighter.
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Broken English, Pidgin English and Nigerian English
By Farooq A. Kperogi
Is Nigerian English the same as (Nigerian) Pidgin English or, for that matter, “broken English”? I have been asked this question many times. And my short answer is no, although there are occasional overlaps between Nigerian Pidgin English and Nigerian English.
But, first, what is “broken English”? Well, it is a somewhat pejorative label used by native speakers of English to describe the often hysterical violations of the basic rules of Standard English syntax by non-native speakers of the language. Two other popular names for broken English are “halting English” and “faltering English.” For instance, the sentence, “I want to see you” may be rendered as “me like see you” in broken English. “I will see you tomorrow” could become “Me is come see you tomorrow.” And so on.
As it should be obvious by now, the people who are apt to speak or write broken English in the classical conception of the term are often people for whom English is a foreign language (e.g. Chinese and Japanese people) rather than people for whom it is a second language (e.g. Nigerians and Indians).
It should be noted, though, that uneducated or barely educated people in English-as-a-second-language linguistic environments can— and indeed do— speak or write broken English, while people who are well-schooled in English in English-as-a-foreign-language environments don’t speak or write broken English.
Now, since even native English speakers routinely violate the rules of their own language, tolerable grammatical errors can’t be regarded as “broken English.”
Pidgin, on the other hand, is a technical term in linguistics that refers to a “contact” or “trade” language that emerged from the fusion of foreign (usually European) languages and indigenous (usually non-European) languages. In this linguistic fusion, the European languages provide most of the vocabulary and the indigenous languages provide the structure of the language.
Look at this Nigerian Pidgin English sentence, for example: “Wetin dey hapun nau?” The informal Standard English equivalent of this expression would be “What’s up?” Now, “wetin” is a distortion of “what is,” “hapun” is the corruption of “happen,” but “nau” is derived from the Igbo word “na” or “nna.”
In the above sentence, the vocabulary is mostly English but the structure of the sentence is decidedly African. Let me give just one example to illustrate this. In African languages, it is usual to end sentences with what grammarians call terminal intensifiers. An intensifier is a word that has little meaning except to accentuate the meaning of the word or phrase it modifies.
A “terminal intensifier” is therefore an intensifier that appears at the end of a sentence. Words like “o” in “E don taya me o,” [I’m fed up], “na” in “wia you dey na?” [Where are you?], and “sha” in “Di ting get as e be sha” [That’s really unusual] are terminal intensifiers because they appear at the end of sentences and merely heighten the meanings of the phrases that preceded them. With a few exceptions, intensifiers appear either at the beginning or in the middle of sentences in English. E.g., “Honestly” in “Honestly, this doesn’t make sense to me,” “really” in “I’m really tired.”
Another structural characteristic of Nigerian Pidgin English, which is derived from indigenous Nigerian languages, is "reduplication." Linguists use this term to describe the deliberate repetition of a word to create plurals or for emphasis. Examples: "Abeg come here quick quick [Please come here quickly], "The omoge fine well well" [The girl is very beautiful], "Di ting dey yanfu yanfu" [There is plenty of it], "Di kontri don jaga jaga" [The country is terribly ruined]. This mimics such words as maza maza [quickly] in Hausa, kia kia [quickly] in Yoruba, etc.
Additionally, pidgins are characterized by a simple, often anarchic and rudimentary grammatical structure, a severely limited vocabulary, and are used for the expression of really basic thought-processes. This is because they emerged as “emergency” languages for casual, short-term linguistic encounters. Therefore, pidgins can’t express high-minded thought-processes and are usually not anybody’s primary or first language.
Where pidgins acquire complex, well-ordered, rule-governed grammatical forms, a rich lexicon for the expression of complex thoughts, and become the first language of a people, they mutate to “creoles.” In the socio-linguistic literature, it is traditional to label pidgins as “artificial languages” and other languages, including creoles, as “natural languages.” Problematic as this taxonomy is (at least to me), it does underscore the sense that pidgins don't have the same social prestige as other languages.
Now, in Nigeria, it is customary to use “Pidgin English” and “broken English” interchangeably. But Pidgin English isn’t broken English because it does not attempt to approximate the linguistic conventions of Standard English. In other words, it isn’t the product of an incompetent attempt to speak or write Standard English; it’s the product of a historically specific, socio-linguistic alchemy of Nigerian languages and English. Additionally, it seems to me that broken English, deformed as it is, is often comparatively more intelligible to monolingual native English speakers than Pidgin English.
Interestingly, Nigerian Pidgin English is now increasingly being creolized especially in Nigeria’s deep south and in such cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic urban centers as Lagos and Abuja. It’s anybody’s guess where this will all end.
What of Nigerian English? In an earlier article on this subject in 2007, I wrote: “By Nigerian English I do not mean Nigerian Pidgin English. Nor do I mean the English spoken by uneducated and barely educated Nigerians. I mean the variety of English that is broadly spoken and written by our literary, intellectual, political, and media elite across the regional and ethnic spectrum of Nigeria.
“I know this definition is barefacedly elitist. But this is true of all ‘standard’ varieties of all ‘modern’ languages in the world. What is called British Standard English, for instance, is no more than the idiosyncratic usage of the language by the English royalty—and by the political, intellectual, literary, and media elite of the country.
“The social and intellectual snobbery of the French language is even more blatant. There is a French language academy that not only consciously privileges the elite dialect of the language but that also polices its usage all over the world.
“An additional problem with my definition is that Nigerian English has not yet been purposively standardized. Our English teachers still dismiss it as mere ‘bad English.’ I remember that when I served as an English language examiner for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in 1997, our team leader instructed us to penalize students who wrote ‘Nigerian English.’ The irony, however, is that no Nigerian who was educated at home, including those who deride Nigerian English, can avoid speaking or writing it either consciously or unconsciously.”
“It was the legendary Chinua Achebe who once said, in defense of his creative semantic and lexical contortions of the English language to express uniquely Nigerian socio-cultural thoughts that have no equivalents in English, that any language that has the cheek to leave its primordial shores and encroach on the linguistic territory of other people should learn to come to terms with the inevitable reality that it would be domesticated.”
I then identified the following as the fundamental sources of Nigerian English: linguistic improvisation (to express unique socio-cultural thought-processes that are absent in the standard varieties of English), old-fashioned British English expressions, initial usage errors fossilized over time and incorporated into our linguistic repertory, and a mishmash of British and American English.
In my weekly language interventions, I try to highlight the distinctiveness of Nigerian English and its deviations from standard American and British English, not to ridicule it, as one pathetically quixotic, intellectually insecure “pan-Africanist” pretender claimed sometime ago (how could I ridicule what I too write and speak every day?), but to heighten people’s awareness of the ways in which our English is different from the two dominant varieties of the language and therefore aid intelligibility across these varieties.
If you know, for instance, that the term “international passport” has limited intelligibility outside Nigeria, you won’t use it when you are in Britain or America. You would also not tell an American or a Briton that you would “flash” him because that could get you arrested!
1. A Comparison of Nigerian, American and British English
2. Why is "Sentiment" Such a Bad Word in Nigeria?
3. Ambassador Aminchi's Impossible Grammatical Logic
4. 10 Most Annoying Nigerian Media English Expressions
5. Sambawa and "Peasant Attitude to Governance"
6. Adverbial and Adjectival Abuse in Nigerian English
7. In Defense of "Flashing" and Other Nigerianisms
8. Weird Words We're Wedded to in Nigerian English
9. American English or British English?
10. Hypercorrection in Nigerian English
11. Nigerianisms, Americanisms, Briticisms and Communication Breakdown
12. Top 10 Irritating Errors in American English
13. Nigerian Editors Killing Macebuh Twice with Bad Grammar
14. On "Metaphors" and "Puns" in Nigerian English
15. Common Errors of Pluralization in Nigerian English
16. Q & A About Common Grammatical Problems
17. Semantic Change and the Politics of English Pronunciation
18. Common Errors of Reported Speech in Nigerian English
Posted by Farooq A. Kperogi at 12:58 PM
Labels: Broken English, Daily Trust on Sunday, Farooq Kperogi, Nigerian English, Pidgin English, Politics of Grammar
Nice piece of work. As a native speaker of Nigerian Pidgin English (Surprised? Yes, you get native speakers in Delta state ~ with no understanding of any other language), I would spell 'happen, taya and wia' as 'happen, tire and where', other wise I'll end up spelling 'be and you' as 'bi and yu'
wetin dey happen now/na/nau? (it's an attempt to pronounce 'now', it's 'nna' only when it comes at the beginning, say,
nna wetin dey happen? (hey what's happening/ hey what's up?)
P.S I took my WAEC in 1997. Who knows?
Farooq A. Kperogi said...
Thanks for stopping by and for sharing your insightful thoughts with me.
Let me respond to some of the issues you raised.
If by "now" you mean the English word by the same spelling, you're wrong. It doesn't fit the sense we imply when we use "nau" in Nigerian Pidgin English. Nna, na or whatever other variation you have of the word is clearly Igbo; it's NOT a corruption of the English "now."
You said you would spell some of the Nigerian Pidgin English words I cited differently. Well, that's the nature of pidgins; their grammar and spellings are not often standardized, so there is no consistency in how they are written or spoken. When/if they are standardized they become creoles.
Lastly, you wonder if I am surprised that you are a "native speaker of Nigerian Pidgin English." Well, if you read my article carefully, you wouldn't ask that. I wrote: "Interestingly, Nigerian Pidgin English is now increasingly being creolized especially in Nigeria’s deep south and in such cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic urban centers as Lagos and Abuja. It’s anybody’s guess where this will all end." By "creolized" I mean that Nigerian Pidgin English is becoming the first (or native) language of many people, and by "Nigeria's deep south" I mean the Niger Delta.
Sai said...
Great post! I was trying to figure out how Nigerian pidgin english sounds. It was referenced in Chimamanda Adiche's books, which made me very curious. Being from India, Indian English (believe is considered a dialect) has its own unique flavor.
For example, a lot of people will say "give an exam" as opposed to take an exam.
The other one is "my head is paining" as opposed to hurting.
Fortune Nwaiwu said...
Please Professor,Is Pidgin a debased and corrupted variety of some prestige language? Please discuss with examples.
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Dr. Farooq Kperogi is a professor, journalist, newspaper columnist, author, and blogger based in Greater Atlanta, USA. He received his Ph.D. in communication from Georgia State University's Department of Communication where he taught journalism for 5 years and won the top Ph.D. student prize called the "Outstanding Academic Achievement in Graduate Studies Award." He earned his Master of Science degree in communication (with a minor in English) from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and won the Outstanding Master's Student in Communication Award. He earned his B.A. in Mass Communication (with minors in English and Political Science) from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, where he won the Nigerian Television Authority Prize for the Best Graduating Student. He writes a weekly column for the Nigerian Tribune. His research has won top awards. Read more about him here: https://www.farooqkperogi.com/p/about-me.html
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Expected trends in the audio industry in 2021
It has almost been a year since the pandemic took the world by the storm. The lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the pandemic has altered people’s behaviour and expectations as they are preferring to stay at home than going out to seek entertainment. As per a report, in the first phase of India’s lockdown, the total TV consumption grew by 37% and crossed a record 1.21 trillion minutes.
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The amount of time spent outdoors has been greatly reduced which has further resulted in people seeking entertainment at home. Hence, we are witnessing a noticeable increase in online content consumption through OTT channels and music streaming apps. According to a report by ET Money, the outdoor entertainment under lockdown spends on this category has been reduced to less than 40% of last year. This has prompted filmmakers to skip theatrical release to take OTT route which has resulted in the increased digital media consumption. According to a report by Tech Mahindra on ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Media and Entertainment Industry’ theatres are closed, production has come to a halt, advertising has been disrupted, and most importantly, consumption of entertainment at home has been on the rise.
In today’s digitally disrupted world, companies too are staying relevant as they are constantly looking out for technologies to enhance the audio experience of consumers. Here are some most impactful audio trends to look out for in 2021:
1. In this pandemic phase, we have witnessed families investing in soundbars to spend quality time together. People are looking for immersive technologies to recreate the theatre-like experience from the comfort and safety of their homes, thereby creating a need for technologically superior soundbars. Since the past 75 years, Sennheiser has always been at the helm of shaping the future of audio industry in India. To keep up with the passion of constantly innovating, Sennheiser recently introduced the AMBEO Soundbar which delivers a 3D home audio experience in one bar.
2. The Immersive audio experience is the ability of the speakers/audio device to create a 3D space wherein people can not only hear sound coming from the source but can also sense the sound coming from all corners. In short, it is devices that capture and amplify real life that transforms every moment into a supernatural experience. Immersive audio is poised to be the future of the audio industry in the coming years. It has the capability to completely revolutionise the way audio is consumed and created today. An increasing number of products and experiences these days are offering immersive audio across segments, but there is still a lot of unchartered territories when it comes to exploring the multiple possibilities this technology has.
3. Ever since the lockdown occurred, online workout sessions, virtual challenges have become popular. These individual workout sessions have led to people investing in seamless and hassle-free immersive audio experience, thereby creating a need for technologically superior truly wireless earbuds. Truly Wireless Segment has now evolved with superior features such as longer battery life, sweat resistance, better Bluetooth compatibility, enhanced audio quality, and ANC for noise-free listening feature amongst others. Seeing the potential of the TWS, a lot of smartphone brands have started investing in this segment.
2021 will be the year that will witness the technological advancements in the industry. In the coming year, it will be interesting to see how technology in the audio space will impact the lives of customers and professionals alike.
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3From an upstart to one of the most popular Android flagships: The journey of Samsung Galaxy S series
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BRIAN DICKERSON
GOP delivers a gift for taxpayers who have everything
What do you give the taxpayer who has everything?
Despite a few last minute glitches, congressional Republicans appear to have solved that gift-giving challenge with a $1.5 trillion tax cut designed to reward the wealthiest Americans at the expense of just about everyone else.
The GOP's relief is profound, and understandable: Seldom have one party's elected office-holders owed so much to so few. And if some of the juiciest tax breaks showered on the GOP's richest benefactors just happen to work out for the president and legislators who cooked them up — well, that's just icing on the cake, no?
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Why Michigan's Republican members of Congress should expect constituents to join their celebration is less clear.
While it's true that a majority of taxpayers will enjoy lower tax bills in the congressional-election-year ahead, those benefits will be short-lived. By 2027, according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, more than half of all taxpayers will face higher tax burdens than if the current taxation scheme has been left intact.
The explanation for this programmed reversal-of-fortune is that, unlike the more generous corporate tax cut at the center of the Republican plan, the individual rate reductions it envisions are scheduled to expire within a decade.
The tax bill's architects reason that corporate planners require predictability to make long-term capital investments. Fair enough. But why is predictability less critical for families planning to purchase homes, cars, and college educations?
What's more, these projections of short-term gains transformed into long-term losses don't even take into account the reductions in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits Republicans are expected to demand if economic growth fails to offset the tax cuts' cost.
The official Republican position, of course, is that corporations and wealthy investors poised to become the biggest beneficiaries will use their tax-cut windfalls to create more job opportunities and higher wages for all. But this is wishful thinking endorsed by neither economists, nor voters, nor even the corporate CEOs Republicans are relying on to supply their happy denouement.
Skepticism runs especially high in Michigan, most of whose residents are still waiting for the meaningfully higher incomes they were promised when Gov. Rick Snyder and Republican state legislators shifted the state's tax burden from corporations to individuals six years ago. Unemployment is down, but most economists credit the auto industry recovery, not tax cuts; meanwhile, the deterioration of infrastructure and municipal services is manifest throughout our state.
In Michigan as in the rest of the nation, joblessness is hovering near historical lows. Income inequality — the concentration of spending power in the hands of a smaller and smaller percentage of taxpayers — has supplanted employment as the nation's most urgent economic challenge. But the Republicans' cynically misnamed "middle class tax cut" is designed to exacerbate, not ameliorate it.
Southeast Michigan lawmakers including Rep. Mike Bishop (R-Rochester), Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-Dryden), Rep. David Trott (R-Birmingham) and Rep, Tim Walberg (R-Tipton) are betting that the fleeting benefits most constituents are poised to reap next year will distract them from both the long-term costs of the tax bill and its bias toward the state's wealthiest families.
But the early indications are that middle class voters are wary of the tab for the GOP's generosity to its wealthiest patrons, and disinclined to be mollified by the crumbs the tax bill tosses their way. That kind of realism could play havoc with a lot of Republicans' reelection plans next November, however profound the gratitude of their party's donor class.
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Holiday Travel Guides
Planning a holiday? Not sure where to go? Then why not have a browse through our guides? This expanding collection of maps, links, articles and videos will aim to point you in the right direction. It's also a great way to search for holiday lets by following the links provided - and don't forget to pay our Go2 YouTube Channel a visit too!
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Travel Guide to holidays in... Timberscombe, Somerset, England
Timberscombe is a town in Somerset, England. It is located not far from Minehead, Dunster, Luccombe, Exmoor And Country, Exton, and Old Cleeve and is one of 132 towns or villages in Somerset in which Go2 has cottages or holidays lets available. The closest cities are Exeter (population 106,772), Wells (population 10,406), and Bristol (which has a population of 420,556 according to the 2001 Census). Follow the links to find holiday cottages and lets available in this area on Go2, or view the surrounding area on the map below.
With its lovely beaches beautiful countryside and fascinating history, dating back to the times of the Ancient Britons, Somerset makes a wonderful cottage holiday destination. And the best way to experience the county’s many attractions is from your base in one of our holiday cottages in Somerset. Bath has some of Britain’s most majestic Georgian architecture, as well as the famous Roman Baths (not mention great shopping). Then there’s Wells, England’s smallest city. Wandering around the cathedral close, with its unspoilt medieval lanes is like taking a step back in time. And for a real sense of mystery, there’s Glastonbury (home of the world-famous music festival), supposedly the site of King Arthur’s mythical Avalon. All await you on one of our Somerset cottage holidays. The county has more than its fair share of beach resorts too. The Grand Pier at Weston-Super-Mare is superb, as is the wide beach here, while Minehead and Burnham-on-Sea offer a choice of traditional seaside pleasures. Meanwhile, for nature lovers there’s the wild landscape of Exmoor, and the Mendip and Quantock Hills, both Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Cheddar Gorge is truly stunning. Great for real Cheddar cheese too!
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What to Visit and Where to Eat in Timberscombe
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Walks Around Britain - Britain's only walking website with video walks. Walking routes, maps, information and more about walking in Britain - on DVD and Blu-ray too.
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Travelling to or from Ireland? Don't forget the ferry! Not only does it give you the freedom of taking your own car but it provides a superb experience of travelling by sea and exploring the coastline. With convenient routes between Holyhead and Dublin, or Pembroke and Rosslare, we recommend Irish Ferries for great, low-cost, transport. They are the leading Irish ferry company and provide both an excellent service, and excellent prices.
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University of Tennessee Medical Center
University of Tennessee Medical Center Uses MFT to Improve the Security of Sensitive Patient Data
Healthcare providers share and transfer sensitive patient data among a variety of vendors and partners, including other providers and health insurance companies. But many providers still use time-consuming and inefficient manual processes to manage their file transfers.
Federal regulations such as HIPAA and HITECH have increased the security and encryption requirements associated with these file transfers, making it even harder for hospitals to rely on these outmoded manual processes.
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Eliminating Manual Processes & Strengthening Data Encryption
The University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville has streamlined its file transfer processes while increasing data security using a managed file transfer solution: GoAnywhere MFT.
Previously, the center relied on manual processes to execute and manage transfers as well as to confirm that the transfers had been completed. The system used a standard Microsoft Windows install with an FTP component for incoming transfers. The outgoing process was based on the Microsoft Windows task scheduler and Visual Basic (VB) scripts. Best practices followed for these transfers included PGP and SSL, or VPN tunnels.
Because the transfers relied on scripting, it took a long time to add new FTP jobs. If there was a file transfer error, the troubleshooting process required looking through lengthy log files. The VB script was relegated to one full time employee, and that employee was dedicated to the development and monitoring of the FTP scripts with only limited additional duties.
The medical center wanted to find a way to reduce reliance on this sole employee, while automating the file transfer process in a way that would eliminate the time-consuming VB scripting and comply with HIPAA requirements.
The dedicated employee's limited skill set and failing physical health posed an operational challenge. The additional members of the team did not have the skill set to take over VB scripting, and there was an ongoing concern that when the dedicated employee was on vacation or out sick that it would be difficult to modify or fix scripts if an issues arose. In addition, management felt that additional team members could, and should, share in the responsibility of building and maintaining the FTP environment.
→ Everything you need to know about PGP encryption. Learn more. ←
"The medical environment is changing with new regulations and mandates to be addressed," said Scott Schwarze, manager of information services at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. "We wished for a product that would do most of the heavy lifting. Coding and encrypting files needed to be completed in some automated fashion. With a small staff but large output, the goal was something that all team members could be trained on."
Trading Partner Compatibility
In addition, the operational personnel that man the NOC center needed to be able to monitor the transfer process on a 24/7 basis. The medical center also wanted to strengthen data encryption. "We assumed going in that we could not impact vendors," said Schwarze. "Most of the vendors provided an SFTP or FTPS connection for file transfers."
Our modified policy also stated that data must not only go over an encrypted connection, but the files need to be encrypted as well. All of the vendors that we currently work with support the PGP encryption protocol. Even though the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) does not require the double encryption method we felt, in this technology environment, it would be prudent."
Automation and Security in One Solution
To improve and strengthen its file transfers, the medical center selected GoAnywhere MFT. The center selected GoAnywhere to fulfill its encryption, scheduling, and monitoring needs. According to Schwarze, the solution integrated with its existing Microsoft Windows infrastructure.
GoAnywhere automates and secures data exchanges among various trading partners. It can connect to most systems using standard file transfer protocols, and can encrypt and compress files using Open PGP encryption and other standards. The solution automates FTP processes, and provides connection retries and auto-resume functionality to ensure delivery. It encrypts, signs, and decrypts files via PGP, can connect to most popular database servers, and can generate detailed audit trails, which are critical for HIPAA compliance. The solution also allows the center to run recurring transfers via the built-in scheduler and can even monitor a folder so when a file is dropped in it, the file will automatically be processed.
GoAnywhere includes a secure FTP server (and optional web server) that allows companies and their trading partners to exchange files in a secure environment. The on-premises solution includes an enterprise SFTP server, FTPS server, and FTP server with management controls and an audit log reporting function. A secure HTTPS server can also be enabled in the solution for ad-hoc file transfers and sending secure mail. Using this solution, the medical center is able to maintain local control over trading partner and vendor accounts, permission, and data files.
→ GoAnywhere can meet any file transfer need. Learn more. ←
"The ability of GoAnywhere to incorporate connections to our SQL Server and other data sources was important in our solution selection," said Schwarze. "This connectivity allows us to eliminate steps in the process by being able to pull or push data directly to a database."
The biggest integration hurdle the medical center faced was going through the VB scripts to identify schedules, PGP keys, and the correct locations from which to pull data. "After a quick installation and a few hours of training we were up to speed," Schwarze said. "It only took two to three weeks from installation of the product to the first five FTP projects going into production." During the evaluation of the existing FTP process, staff discovered that some steps could be removed from the procedure. The medical center was able to eliminate custom processes, and all of that work is now handled within GoAnywhere.
"By eliminating cut off times for output from SQL jobs, labor hours for SQL developers were cut in half," Schwarze said. "FTP administration is now more evenly distributed to handle individual vendor needs. The team is able to extract the data, write it out to a vendor's specifications, and PGP encrypt and SFTP the files out with a complete audit log for compliance."
With a robust, secure MFT solution, the medical center can provide a file transfer service to the enterprise that is more stable and reliable, and completes transfers in less time. The Server Team is able to produce a complete FTP package with vendor testing and monitoring in less than a day.
→ Calculate how much MFT could save you with this ROI calculator. ←
After having GoAnywhere in place for just 14 months, the center was able to run an average of 2,800 jobs per month. Additionally, the company implemented a new mandate to create a single point of entry and exit for transfers in their environment using GoAnywhere's managed file transfer solution for file transfers.
You can learn more about the University of Tennessee Medical Center by visiting their website.
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There’s a reason why people who travel *South Africa come back home a little bit different from when they left. Around each corner unfolds a new treasure, a new thing to discover about the world that you didn’t know about before, or had only seen in books or on television.
There’s a reason why people who travel South Africa come back home a little bit different from when they left. Around each corner unfolds a new treasure, a new thing to discover about the world that you didn’t know about before, or had only seen in books or on television. South Africa is one of those places that’s as wild and primal as it is cultural and civilized. It’s an absolutely magnificent place that has become a new obsession for so many travelers. It will become yours too...
This is the largest game reserve in South Africa! You’ll want to take some photos here, but you’ll also want to put your camera down and let yourself be present in the moment. There’s nothing quite like seeing any one of the “Big 5”- elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and rhino roaming freely in their natural habitat. You might even see a graceful giraffe, an impala and a zebra on your safari!
Not only are the animals a sight to see, but the landscape is absolutely magnificent. It’s one of those places you re-visit in your mind again and again forever.
Located at the end of South Africa’s Garden Route, this woodsy town is famous for magnificent views and a perfect blend of adventure and relaxation. The main attraction here is the Knysna Heads, the entry to the Knysna lagoon. The Featherbed Nature Reserve is the place to be if you’re into flora and fauna. Stop in to the Elephant park and Monkeyland for more animal spotting opportunities.
Cape Town holds a place on many a bucket list. It has plenty of opportunities for adventure with beaches, mountains, gardens and harbors to keep visitors very busy. Gently rotating cable cars climb to the top of Table Mountain, the flat-topped mountain where you can enjoy incredible views of Cape Town and its busy harbor while dining in a cafe and drinking local wine.
Magnificent Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the world. While it’s not the highest or the widest waterfall on the planet, it’s considered to be the biggest due to its combined height and width. You simply have to see it in person to fully appreciate the sheer power of this tremendous sheet of falling water.
No matter if you’re in for lounging on the beach, going on a wildlife safari or taking in some mountaintop views, South Africa tour has it all and then some!
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Vegetable recall for possible listeria hits stores across U.S. and Canada
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A California-based packing company announced a voluntary recall of vegetable products over a potential listeria contamination, according to the company's news release.
Mann Packing Co. of Salinas, California, alerted buyers that several vegetable products were being voluntarily recalled from stores such as H-E-B and Walmart in the U.S. and Canada.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Canadian Food notified the company about the potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Though no illnesses were reported Sunday, these products are being pulled from retail shelves.
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria that causes serious infection with symptoms such as fever and diarrhea. The infection is most likely to sicken pregnant women and their newborns, adults aged 65 or older, and people with weakened immune systems, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The recall includes fresh and frozen products including vegetable medleys, veggie trays and blends, according to the release.
For a full list of recalled products and their photos, visit mannpackingproductlist11-2019.us.
The recalled products have a best buy date of Oct. 11-Nov. 16, 2019.
The recalled brand names are:
H-E-B Organic
Hungryroot
Kroger Organic
Mann's Family Favorites
Mann's Organic
Mann's Snacking Favorites
Marketside
Marketside Organic
O Organics
Signature Farms
Sysco Imperial
Customers who have bought these should dispose of the product. For questions, contact the company's 24-hour customer service at 7-844-927-0707 or email consumers@mannpacking.com.
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Part of our group in front of The Captain James Cook
In mid-September, twelve GTOs and guests joined Val Baynton on a Readers’ Event sampling a lunch cruise with City Cruises York followed by a guided tour of the city. Val reports back.
We all gathered for our lunch cruise with City Cruises York at King’s Staith Landing, which is close to the city centre and near to coach and car parks as well as being an easy 10-minute walk from York railway station. Welcomed by Mark Mattinson and Frazer Cronin from City Cruises, we boarded the Captain James Cook for our lunch time sailing. City Cruises also sail from a second city centre landing stage – Lendal Bridge Landing – so it couldn’t be easier to combine a cruise along the River Ouse with a day visiting York and taking in some of its historic attractions.
The 90-minute cruise sailed downstream to Bishopsthorpe Palace, the riverside home of the Archbishop of York. All the food for our two-course lunch was freshly cooked on board and was excellent, with great choices available for vegetarians and vegans. As well as lunch, City Cruises also offer Afternoon Tea Cruises and daytime and evening sightseeing tours, whilst Evening Dinner Cruises are launching in 2020. For Christmas there is a festive one-hour voyage with a glass of wine and mince pie – a warming option amidst a visit to York’s Christmas Markets.
At Bishopsthorpe Palace, Captain Keith slowly turned the boat so we could all admire the beautiful building and gardens, and as we travelled back upstream we enjoyed his commentary and amusing anecdotes about the heritage of the river. The Palace itself dates back to the 11th century when it was built by Archbishop Walter de Grey using stone from an earlier manor house on the site. We learnt about the Ouse, which meanders from its source in the Dales through York to Goole and the Humber estuary, and its importance to York’s history. We heard about the road bridges over the river including the A64 York bypass, which was built in two parts – one for each carriageway as a safety measure – and about the winning design based on bicycle wheel spokes for the Millennium Bridge, which opened in 2001.
All too soon we were back at the landing stage where we were introduced to Matthew Greenwood from Exploring York, who led us on an interesting walk from Clifford’s Tower through the winding medieval streets to York Minster. Matt’s stories brought the history of York from Viking times onwards to life – he explained the local language – that streets are known as gates, gates are known as bars and bars as inns! – and once you’ve mastered this bit of insider knowledge it’s much easier to find your way around. In the middle of the Shambles, we peeped inside the shrine to Margaret Clitheroe, persecuted for her Catholic beliefs and, in nearby Blake Street, learnt how Italian restaurant, Ask, is the tenant at the Grade One Listed Grand Assembly Rooms, which were built in magnificent Palladian style some 300 years ago.
As we all parted company to explore York further (using the York Pass supplied by Visit York), readers agreed that this city has plenty to entertain a group – and it would make a great base for an extended break as well as for a day trip. Thanks to City Cruises York and Matthew for hosting the day.
Walking tour to York Minster with Exploring York
“Having not taken a group to York for eight years we were delighted to return and booked two extra days to give us time to explore…The City Cruises lunch cruise was very enjoyable and the menu choice was good… The guided walk was very informative and we learned a lot. We used our extra days to revisit many attractions including the Jorvik Centre, recently refurbished, and the Minster. York is an amazing city and a great location for groups. We will definitely be back.”
Laraine and Ashley, Gemmaway Travel
“A great showcase of what York has to offer today, so much to do and so at least a one or two night mid-week break would be my recommendation.”
Ruth, Fun & Fellowship, Stockport
“Can’t tell you how impressive today’s visit to York was! As well as being well organised, it was informative and really enjoyable. York has so much to offer that I definitely think it warrants a two day visit. I shall be working on this!”
Jill, U-GO Events, London
For further information, visit City Cruises York
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Dredging Works Increase Harbour Depths
Gladstone Ports Corporation’s (GPC) Port of Bundaberg maintenance dredging campaign has been labelled a success, with port navigation depths restored.
The Trailer Suction Hopper Dredge (TSHD) Brisbane worked around the clock, restoring the main berth depth from 10.4 to 10.5 meters and channel depth from 8.5 to 8.6 meters.
GPC Acting CEO Craig Walker said maintenance dredging works are an integral part of the port’s operations.
“The TSHD Brisbane removed approximately 100,000 tonnes of material which has restored the declared depths of the areas, allowing a safer passage for vessels”, Mr Walker said.
“This is not the first time we have seen the TSHD Brisbane in Bundaberg waters - it is engaged annually to conduct maintenance dredging.
“In the same way we maintain roads and rail lines for freight transport, we need to look after our port infrastructure and the $630,000 investment ensures that we keep the port safe and open for shipping and trade opportunities.”
GPC’s Port of Bundaberg Manager Jason Pascoe said the campaign was finalised last week with no environmental or safety incidents.
“The works were undertaken with the strictest environmental conditions,” Mr Pascoe said.
“Monitoring was undertaken throughout the campaign, and results have indicated that there were no negative impacts on the water quality in the port channel.”
The Regional Harbour Master has reviewed the post dredge survey and a Notice to Mariners with the amended port navigation depths will be issued shortly.
GPC is positioning the Port of Bundaberg to go from strength to strength and is committed to exploring new opportunities for the port moving forward.
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Surgical Procedures and Blood, Oh My!
Our client, a national medical TV producer, needed a clear shot of a new throat surgical procedure in Charleston, SC. By mounting the camera on a Jimmy Jib we were able to accomplish this without compromising the sterility of the operating field. We also recorded the surgeon’s head camera to a Pix240 HD recorder, along with the surgeon’s audio commentary. This was the 3rd surgery Mark shot in a 2-week period. The others were open heart surgery in Asheville, NC. Let’s just say he’s had his fill of blood for a while!
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Wheelin’ and Dealin’!
For the last five years, we’ve had the pleasure of working with a local auto dealership on their TV spots. Under the direction of the dealership’s agency, we’ve created several commercials that they’ve been very pleased with. For our last shot, we used our new Sony FS7 4k/HG camera with our Dana dolly.
The camera, when combined with great lighting, makes for a great shoot and phenomenal results. Clients are able to get a lot of bang for their buck while getting some amazing footage, including beautiful selective focus and 14 stops of latitude. This camera can handle some extreme situations and create some sweet, smooth footage. We’re definitely a fan!
January 19, 2016 /by gefen_admin
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My Big Fat Fabulous Life Podcast
Company News, Web Video
We recently shot a podcast session for TLC’s hit new show, My Big Fat Fabulous Life, which is set right here in Greensboro, NC. The show’s star, Whitney Thore, had a great personality and was fun to work with! Also along for the shoot were her mom, Babs, her roommate, Buddy, and her dance partner, Todd. We shot with two cameras for Discovery and TLC’s social media efforts.
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Our New Dana Dolly
We are excited to announce the recent purchase of a Dana Dolly, which is actually a larger slider used in video production. It allows us to give the camera a great deal of movement with easy set up and quick location changes. It also lets us get moving camera shots in difficult situations quite easily. Where it may have taken a crew to set up a dolly track, now a single person can easily set it up with very little efforts. It’s a real shot-making rig!
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Sports Illustrated Tailgate Tour 2015
We recently had a fun opportunity to shoot and edit an episode for the Sports Illustrated Tailgate Tour 2015 at the Virginia Tech/Ohio State football game on September 7th, 2015. The video was shot, edited and delivered within 24 hours and is now live on the Sports Illustrated website!
Featured are Chef Michael Isabella, Pro Bowl NFL player Bruce Smith, and host Chris Arnold.
Click here to see the video on Sports Illustrated Campus Rush.
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Gadgets at Gefen: The Sony FS7 Camera
At Gefen Productions, we admittedly like our toys. We’re always looking for the newest and most advanced technology, including fancy gadgets that can make your business look sharper and more relevant for today’s market than ever. Our newest acquisition, the Sony FS7, is a compact powerhouse of a camera with incredible bells and whistles.
What’s so great about the Sony FS7?
First of all, it yields a shallow depth of field, creating a more cinematic look. It can shoot super slow motion, up to 180 frames per second. And it can shoot in 4K…this refers to pixels for the most detailed images available. 4K resolution has horizontal resolution of 4,000 pixels, the same level of crisp imagery used for digital cinema. In other words, it’s ultra-HD. This camera competes with the high end cameras used in Hollywood at a fraction of the cost. It truly is a “game changer” in the industry, and elevates our production value to a new level!
Want to learn more about our fancy gadgets for a video? Contact us.
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Aerial Solutions Takes Flight with Innovative Tree Trimming Method
The president of Aerial Solutions, a North Carolina based company that pioneered the use of helicopter tree trimming, announced that the company will be featured on an upcoming episode of Innovations by Ed Begley, Jr. on the Discovery Channel. We had the opportunity to work with the president, Cleve Cox (seen pictured here with one of his helicopters), on a video project leading up to this exciting debut.
This was a very cool project that we had a lot of fun with…meaning we got to ride in a helicopter and video a thirty foot long chainsaw trimming trees like a knife through butter. Aerial Solutions, Inc. has worked with utility companies across the United States since 1985 by offering a unique, fast, and cost-effective alternative to conventional side-trimming methods, with the ability to provide complete sky-to-ground clearance near power lines. Other methods have been limited by terrain, regulations or environmental restrictions.
The air-to-ground method used by Aerial Solutions reduces lateral vegetation encroachment along power lines, resulting in improved safety and service reliability. In other words, they trim vegetation back so when heavy winds occur, nearby towns don’t lose power due to trees falling on the lines.
You can see our footage here.
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Reading FC manager Jaap Stam says he's not thinking about a new contract yet
Royals' boss signed a two-year deal when he joined the club last summer
Reading FC manager Jaap Stam says he is happy to put his contract talks to one side until the summer.
The Dutchman penned a two-year deal with Royals when he joined the club last June and has exceeded expectations among fans so far this season.
Stam has overseen a dramatic change in Reading's fortunes this campaign, with the club being in the top six for the majority of the season.
Reading FC: Jaap Stam contract talks on hold, says Brian Tevreden
A play-off spot is now a genuine possibility while automatic promotion is still within reach.
And the manager, who has already been linked with vacant managerial positions in the Premier League this season, says he is not concerned about not extending his stay with Reading in the immediate future.
"I've still got another season after this one so I'm not thinking about it," said Stam.
"I'm just enjoying my work with the team.
"Hopefully we can do well and towards the end of the season we'll be talking about that."
Reading FC boss Jaap Stam on the 3-2 win over Brentford
Reading's technical director Brian Tevreden admitted contract talks with the manager are likely to take place over the summer, when the season has finished.
Fans' support
Stam has proved to be a popular figure for the players and fans alike, and he says feeling wanted is key to deciding his future.
"It's always good the fans back you up and support you in your work," said the 44-year-old.
"I like the fans as well.
"They've been good not just at home games but at the away games too so if you look at the combination it's good.
Reading FC fan's verdict: A fantastic game against Brentford, but Royals really rode their luck
"But it's not a guarantee [it will be like that] for three or four years.
"If you have a bad spell people can turn on you but up until now we are very happy with how things are going."
Stam signed five players in the January transfer window has also overseen new contracts handed out to several key players in recent months, including Garath McCleary and Yann Kermorgant.
And the boss said plans are already in place ahead of next season.
Yann Kermorgant signed a new Reading contract until 2018
"Every manager wants to strengthen their squad in January because now you're already thinking about next season," he said.
"It's always good if something can be done and the owners back you up.
Yann Kermorgant signs Reading FC contract until 2018
"You always want to bring in extra quality so it makes it more difficult to make choices.
"If you want to grow as a club and do well you need to work like that."
Don't forget you can keep up to date with the latest Royals action via the free getreading app.
You can even set it to receive push notifications for all the breaking Reading FC news.
Download it for Apple devices here and Android devices here.
Reading 3 Brentford 2
Key points from the game
Stam's verdict
Recap the game as it happened
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New walk-in Covid-19 testing facility to open at Prospect Park in Reading
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Announcement imminent: Liverpool to complete transfer of 12-goals in 21 games striker
August 26, 2017 Editor Liverpool, Tottenham, Transfer Reports 0
While Liverpool are happy not sell Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona despite the colossal sum offered, they are willing to allow Belgian striker Divock Origi leave on or before deadline day, in other to boost his chances of starring his for his country in the World Cup, according to reports.
Origi arrived Liverpool in the summer of 2014 after a £10million deal was agreed with Lille for his transfer. He was loaned back to Lille in the same season but since his return in 2015, the 22-year-old attacker has failed to nick a place in the first team of Klopp.
Liverpool have already bolstered their squad this summer with the signing of Dominic Solanke and Mohamed Salah and it appears that the coming of the aforementioned duo has pushed him down the selection pecking order of Klopp. He has to contend with the likes of Roberto Firmino, Saido Mane and Mohamed Salah in the attack but the front trio have been in impressive form this season.
Origi is yet to lace his boots for Liverpool this term and he was even left out of the squad that thumped Hoffenheim 4-2 in their Champions League qualifier. Apparently, his best bet at playing regularly is away from Anfield.
According to the Telegraph, Origi is wary of his chances with the Belgian team in the World Cup of next summer. If he remains on the bench, he may not even be called and despite Klopp’s desire to keep, he’s likely the grant the player a transfer.
Tottenham are heavily linked with a move for the player but he may not also play regularly there.
Despite being out of favour, Origi record of 12 goals in just 21 league starts speaks volume of his prospect.
Announcement imminent: Ed Woodward to sanction new deals for super stars
New signing reveals reason behind his frustration after joining Chelsea
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Liverpool To Lose Powerful Midfielder In The Summer To Bayern Munich
March 8, 2019 Editor Liverpool, Transfer Reports 0
Liverpool may have to tighten their grips on Serbian Marko Grujic before they lost him to Bayern Munich or Lazio.
Grujic who is currently on loan at German side Hertha Berlin is delivering the goods at the club. But that has not stopped interests from swirling for the player’s services.
According to the Sun, Bayern and Lazio are keen on the midfielder who is impressing on loan at Hertha.
His praising performance at the middle of the park for the Bundesliga side has earned him some accolades from the club’s manager Pal Dardai.
In 14 appearances, the 22-year-old has scored three goals and registered one assist for the club, a good score that will easily snuff out the whole tally registered among Reds midfielders: Jordan Henderson, James Milner, Gini Wijnaldum and Fabinho–just six shared between them.
It could difficult for Reds to hold on to the 22-year-old whose swashbuckling rendition for the German side has seen him get a nomination for the “Rookie of the Year” award in Germany.
“Marko is by far the best midfielder I’ve seen in my time at the club,” commended Dardai, who has been a huge admirer of the midfielder.
Liverpool’s midfield needs the presence of a powerful midfielder, and all that they have in Grujic. If he returns and they can solidly hold on to him, it would make them even more competitive next season.
Man United to announce transfer of talented star
Nicolas Pepe to Arsenal will be completed for €80m, Man United linked
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Commission: No special election needed since Yona mayor's seat is not vacant
Haidee Eugenio Gilbert
Although Yona Mayor Jesse Blas remains in a jail, a special election isn't needed to fill his seat because there is no vacancy, Guam Election Commission members said.
Blas, who was indicted in September on charges of extortion and bribery related to illegal drugs, remains the village mayor, election commissioners said.
Mayors' Council of Guam Executive Director Angel Sablan also said on Wednesday that Blas remains Yona's mayor, until the courts and the election commission say the seat is vacant. Blas is currently on paid administrative leave, he said.
Both the election commission and the mayors' council referred to an Oct. 4 opinion from the Office of the Attorney General which states, in part, that either the election commission or the courts could decide whether a specific set of facts constitutes a vacancy under Guam law, triggering a special election.
"I'm not a lawyer but I just read it, and it doesn't trigger a special election. So there's really no action for us to take with regard to the Yona mayor's situation," Election Commission Vice Chairwoman Alice Taijeron said at the Thursday meeting.
More about the Jesse Blas case:
AG: Yona mayor's detention in criminal case doesn't necessarily mean the office is vacant
Yona mayor asks to be released from detention while he awaits trial
FBI alleges Yona Mayor Jesse Blas had connections with high-ranking prison officials
Other commissioners, including Chairman Mike Perez, agreed with Taijeron. They then proceeded to discuss other items on their meeting agenda.
While Blas was arrested and charged, he's not convicted of any crime. Guam election law says conviction of a felony, or of a crime involving moral turpitude, creates a vacancy in the mayor's seat, along with eight other specific events such as death or resignation.
Blas will be back in federal court on Oct. 25 for a hearing on his motion to revoke his detention. The mayor, through his attorney, asked the court to release him from jail while waiting for his trial.
No acting mayor in Yona
Because there is no vice mayor for Yona and Blas didn't appoint members of the Yona Municipal Planning Council, there is no acting mayor for Yona.
The Yona mayor's office's daily operations are handled by staff, while Mayors' Council of Guam's Sablan has been overseeing budgetary and financial matters temporarily. Other mayors have also been on standby to help with what they can, the mayors' council said.
Blas is the only one among 19 current mayors who did not appoint a Municipal Planning Council, which acts as an advisory council. The council could vote to fill a vacancy should the mayoral post become vacant within 240 days of the next election.
If there is a vacancy in the Yona mayor's seat between now and March 8, 2020, the election commission is required to conduct a special election within 60 days of the vacancy.
As far as the Guam Election Commission is concerned, there is no vacancy at this time, so there is no need for a special election, executive director Maria Pangelinan said.
Reporter Haidee Eugenio Gilbert covers Guam's Catholic church issues, government, business and more. Follow her on Twitter @haidee_eugenio.
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Don Mann
Don Mann (CWO3, USN) has for the last thirty years been associated with the Navy SEALS as a platoon member, assault team member, boat crew leader, or advanced training officer; and more recently program director preparing civilians to go to BUD/s (SEAL Training). Up until 1998 he was on active duty with SEAL Team 6. Since his retirement, he has deployed to the Middle East on numerous occasions in support of the war on terror. Many of the active duty members of SEAL Team 6 are the same guys he taught how to shoot and conduct ship and aircraft takedowns and trained in urban, arctic, desert, river and jungle warfare, as well as Close Quarters Battle and Military Operations in Urban Terrain. He has suffered two broken backs, two pulmonary embolisms and multiple other broken bones, in training or service. He has twice survived being captured during operations.
Co-writer Ralph Pezzullo is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning playwright, screenwriter and journalist. His books include Jawbreaker (with CIA operative Gary Berntsen).
Books by Don Mann
SEAL Team Six Book 5: Hunt the Fox
Don Mann, Ralph Pezzullo
SEAL Team Six Book 4: Hunt the Jackal
SEAL Team Six Book 3: Hunt the Falcon
SEAL Team Six Book 2: Hunt the Scorpion
SEAL Team Six Book 1: Hunt the Wolf
Inside Seal Team Six: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors
SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Leopard
SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Viper
SEAL Team Six Book 6: Hunt the Dragon
Ralph Pezzullo, Don Mann
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Homepage > Catalog > Economics > Case Scenarios
Religion and Economy: England
Essay, 2005
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Simone Gerbig (Author)
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1. Current situations in England
1.1. Religion
1.2. Education
1.3. Economy
2. Religious impact on schools and education
3. Value systems – The basis for behaviour
3.1. System of decision-making
3.2. System of anxiety reduction
3.3. System of inequality and equality
4. How to do business regarding to culture and religion
4.1. Negotiating
4.2. Greetings
4.3. Wardrobe
4.4. Gestures
5. The vital aspect about the English culture
Figure 1: Ethnicity and Religion in England
Figure 2: Education focused on Ethnicity and Religion
Figure 3: GDP Growth
Table 1: Religions in England
In general it can be said that the official religion in England is Christianity. The Christian church is called Anglican Church or Church of England to which most English people belong to. It was founded during the reign of King Henry VIII when England split from the Roman Catholic Church (cf. Morrison, 1994, p. 109).
Besides the Christians there are a lot of other religions represented, which can be seen in the following table (cf. Tab. 1).
Tab. 1: Religions in England
Source: Census, April 2001, Office for National Statistics, http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=293&Pos=7&ColRank=1&Rank=176)
The table shows that there are about 6 different religions in England. Over three-quarters reported to have a religion. 72 % said, that they were Christians. After Christianity, Islam was the second largest religion represented in England with 1.6 million Muslims. Next religious group are the Hindus, followed by the Sikhs, Jews, Buddhists and people from other religions (cf. Author unknown http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=395).
Besides it is very interesting to see which ethnic background these religions have. Even the population is very diverse, it can be clearly stated, that the most important fact is that the majority of the Christians were white. The majority of black people as well as those from mixed ethnic backgrounds can be identified as Christians (cf. Author unknown http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=293&Pos=7&ColRank=1&Rank=176). The following total overview shows the various ethnic backgrounds of the earlier stated religions (cf. Fig. 1).
Fig. 1: Ethnicity and Religion in England
Source: Census, April 2001, Office for National Statistics, http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=395)
Education in England is compulsory for everyone between the ages of five and sixteen, and is provided by two kinds of schools: state-funded schools and independent (fee-charging) schools. State-funded schools are financed by the government administered through local education authorities. Independent schools are also called public schools. They rely for finance solely on fees charged to parents. According to religion education is often based on the Church of England. These schools are called faith schools, where children are educated from a particular viewpoint or ideology. In 2001 there already existed 6.955 Christian faith schools, 36 Jewish, 5 Muslim and 3 Sikh faith schools (cf. Author unknown, http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/faithschools.html#Better).
University of Cooperative Education Mannheim
Religion, Economy, England
Simone Gerbig (Author), 2005, Religion and Economy: England, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/51667
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Cyberevolution - William Gibson's evolutionary Ideas
Thorsten Felden (Author)
I. Introduction – Evolutionary Fiction
II. Nature and Technology
A. The Evolution of the Human Species
1. Invasion of the Body Shapers
2. Dissolving into Cyberspace
B. The Evolution of Human Culture
1. Intelligent Machines
2. The Notion of ‘Oneness’
3. Autopoietic Enterprises
III. Chaos and Order
IV. Conclusion
V . Bibliography
I Introduction - Evolutionary Fiction
Classic evolutionary theory always looks backwards. Darwin, his predecessors and successors put forward their theories by comparing present organic records with those of the past. Indeed some ideas of social evolution are imbued with a certain kind of perspective into the future, believing in an ongoing progression of human societies. Spencer, for instance, “believed that the end result of social evolution would be the elimination of social problems and the perfection of society” (McGee/Warms 12). Still, in order to prove the accuracy of those ideas, one had to rely on evidence taken from history or from cultures which were believed to be primitive and thus representing former states of societies. Science fiction’s view goes quite in the opposite direction: Here, the present marks the point of view from where we look into the future of society, the future of mankind. The following paper examines the notions of evolution we can find in William Gibson's work. I will try to deal with the question how we can perceive an evolution of the human race in his novels and what other ideas of evolution Gibson incorporates into his work.
Starting off with the query whether there is to find any sort of biological evolution in Gibson's work, the second chapter will deal with the picture of nature Gibson draws. How does he describe nature (meaning organic beings or biological environments), or to put it more correctly, how is nature conceived through the eyes of his protagonists? Then I will take a closer look at the dualistic relationship of nature and technology. What importance has technology for the societies Gibson sketches, and what effect has technology on their inventors? The main topic of this chapter will be the investigation of nature's and technology's evolutionary features in Gibson's work: How does the human species develop and which way does human made technology take? Finally, the chapter will deal with capitalism as a very own kind of evolutionary concept.
Chapter three will take a look at the concept of evolution in Gibson's work from a different angle, treating evolution not as concrete biological-technological development but more as some sort of abstract principle. The focus will shift here from the dualism of biology-technology to the dialectics of chaos and order. Does Gibson see evolution more as a force driven by chaos or as a force that creates structure, patterns and order from mere chaos?
II Nature and Technology
Looking closely at Gibson's work, one will soon come to the conclusion that he doesn't bother much with actual biological evolution. In his San Francisco trilogy (consisting of Virtual Light, Idoru and All Tomorrow’s Parties), he touches on this topic with the religious-mythical figure of J.D. Shapely, a former male prostitute who had been carrier of a non-lethal form of HIV. This form of HIV has proven to overpower its lethal relative and seems to be a good example of a ‘survival of the fittest’, the term Herbert Spencer coined which proved to survive the (dis)course of evolutionism itself. In the world Gibson creates, AIDS can be avoided by vaccination with the nonlethal HIV virus, which has resulted in an extinction of the lethal virus. There should be noted, however, that this evolutionary step is induced by human intervention, the Sherman Group's scientific researches and their practice of vaccination.
These kinds of human intervention can always be found when it comes to the topic of nature in Gibson's work. Nature here always seems to be mingled with human culture in one way or another, and there seem to be only a few forms of purely biological organisms or environments left on earth. The "squirrel wood" (178) in Count Zero is such a place, while Gibson's first novel Neuromancer is distinctive for its complete absence of natural elements. This leads to the effect that most of Gibson's characters have become estranged from nature: The meadow on the roof of Freeside's Intercontinental is filled with "what seemed to Case an unnatural number of trees" (Neuromancer 153), and the grass exudes an unpleasant odor: "'What's that smell?' he asked Molly, wrinkling his nose. 'The grass. Smells that way after they cut it.'" (154) Regarding nature as being unnatural seems paradoxical at first, but in Gibson's universe this paradox is cleared up, cultural and technological environment having invaded the space formerly occupied by nature. What seems to be biological has either been genetically or otherwise artificially constructed, like the meadow and trees on the Intercontinental's rooftop in Neuromancer or the simulacrum of the mountain with the sheep on top of the New Suzuki Envoy Hotel in Mona Lisa Overdrive, or it has been artificially supplemented. And what seems to be purely technological unfolds natural features: "The plane was smart, smart as any dog, with hard-wired instincts of concealment." (Count Zero 178) While such comparisons still do not make the plane a true biological being, we can also find instances where technological environments literally create natural phenomena:
The Sprawl's patchwork of domes tended to generate inadvertent microclimates; there were areas of a few city blocks where a fine drizzle of condensation fell continually from the soot-stained geodesics, and sections of high dome famous for displays of static-discharge, a peculiarly urban variety of lightning. There was a stiff wind blowing, as Bobby followed Lucas down the street, a warm, gritty breeze that probably had something to do with pressure shifts in the Sprawl-long subway system. (Count Zero 164)
Besides those references of the artificial actually becoming or creating the natural, there are innumerable metaphors and comparisons of artificial and natural intertwinings in Gibson's work. Daniel Cordle argues that this imagery calls "into question the natural-artificial divide, transgressing the border from both directions: there is a migration of things normally associated with the natural into machine territory, and vice versa." (115) Before I go further into this interweaving of biology and technology, I want to take a closer look at the evolution of each of these tracks separately as they are depicted in Gibson's writing, beginning with the field of biology – the human species.
As I mentioned earlier before, evolution in a natural scientific understanding can scarcely be found in Gibson's work. Instead, the human species has brought forth its own means of development. Regarding his physical appearance, man has come to a point where he can model himself just as he likes, often resulting in a dim conformity: "The handsome, inexpressive features offered the routine beauty of the cosmetic boutiques, a conservative amalgam of the past decade's leading media faces. The pale glitter of his eyes heightened the effect of a mask." (Neuromancer 59) It should be noted that you find this kind of mass look mostly with characters the reader clearly isn't meant to identify with. Gibson's favored characters seem to be either not surgically altered at all or altered in a very distinguishing way which adds artificiality to them, like the 'razor girl' Molly or Porphyre, a hairdresser whose "depilated skull displayed a symmetry unknown to nature." (Mona Lisa Overdrive 60)
While we have been dealing with physical alterations of greater or lesser extents so far, some of Gibson's characters have begun to despise their physical self in favor of a life mostly spent in virtual realities. Since the release of Neuromancer in 1984, the term 'cyberspace' has been so deeply imprinted on our cultural memory that it does not seem necessary to define it anymore. Case and the other cyberspace cowboys who ride the infinite planes of the matrix depicted in Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy (i.e. Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive) have evolved "a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat." (Neuromancer 12) Requiring no bodily appearance, cyberspace releases humans from the restraints of real life. To put it in David Porush's words: "Cyborg hackers take the next evolutionary step that was begun in Daedalus's dream of flight to become electronic angels, freed from the laws of physics." (109) While human existence in cyberspace is indeed disembodied, it should be noted that virtual existence is still connected to a body in real life, so that events in cyberspace can have an effect on the body: "[T]he great corporate hotcores burned like neon novas, data so dense you suffered sensory overload if you tried to apprehend more than the merest outline." (Count Zero 62) Even personality constructs like Dixe Flatline have some sort of bodily appearance, "a hardwired ROM cassette, replicating a dead man's skills, obsessions, knee-jerk responses." (Neuromancer 97) Daniel Cordle's argument goes in the same direction: "Importantly, there is a direct feedback from the virtual world to the real world – get caught by defence systems in the matrix and the operator can die, a fate which nearly befalls Bobby Newmark, an aspiring cyberspace cowboy and the eponymous hero of Count Zero." (110)
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A Food and Drug Administration panel of outside advisers will meet on December 10 to discuss whether to recommend emergency use authorization of the Pfizer vaccine. They are expected to review Moderna’s candidate a week later.(REUTERS (Representative image))
US to prepare for swift vaccine roll out as Covid cases surge
Some 60 million to 70 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine could be available per month beginning in January, after the expected regulatory approval of products from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc.
By Reuters | Posted by Nilavro Ghosh | Washington
UPDATED ON DEC 02, 2020 07:15 AM IST
US officials on Tuesday unveiled plans to begin vaccinating millions of Americans against Cpvid-19 as early as mid-December, as coronavirus infections and hospitalizations in the United States soared once more to unprecedented heights.
With outgoing President Donald Trump’s coronavirus strategy relying heavily on a vaccine, the chief adviser of his administration’s Operation Warp Speed program said on Tuesday that 20 million people could be inoculated by the end of 2020, and that by the middle of 2021 most Americans will have access to highly effective vaccines.
“Within 24 hours, maybe at most 36 to 48 hours, from the approval, the vaccine can be in people’s arms,” Moncef Slaoui, a former GlaxoSmithKline executive, said at an event conducted by The Washington Post newspaper.
The highly contagious virus infected 4.36 million people in the United States in November alone, more than double the tally of new cases the previous month, as many Americans refused to wear masks and traveled for holiday gatherings against the recommendations of health experts.
Some 60 million to 70 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine could be available per month beginning in January, after the expected regulatory approval of products from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc, Slaoui said.
A Food and Drug Administration panel of outside advisers will meet on December 10 to discuss whether to recommend emergency use authorization of the Pfizer vaccine. They are expected to review Moderna’s candidate a week later.
The distribution timeline described by Slaoui and US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar appeared to assume that the FDA’s authorization of the first vaccine would come within days of the December 10 meeting.
But the head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Dr. Peter Marks, told patient advocacy groups last week that it might take “a few days to a few weeks” for his agency to render its decision.
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has likewise said the process could take longer than the Trump administration has suggested.
Asked in a ABC News interview on Tuesday whether the vaccine could become available the week of December 15, Hahn said: “It is possible,” but noted, “it will depend on what sort of questions and data come out of the vaccine advisory committee.”
The US Transportation Department said on Tuesday it has made preparations to enable the “immediate mass shipment” of Covid-19 vaccines and completed all necessary regulatory measures.
A panel of advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday voted 13-to-1 to recommend that healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities should be first in line to receive initial doses of Covid-19 vaccines when they become available.
The CDC will take the recommendation into account and provide guidance to the states to assist governors in their decisions about vaccine distribution priorities.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday complained about the lack of federal funding for vaccine distribution. He also criticized a data-sharing agreement put forward by the government that he said could “dissuade undocumented immigrants from taking the vaccine.”
Cuomo expressed concern that data on those receiving the vaccine could end up in the hands of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Meanwhile, leading medical officials are pleading with Americans to abide by public health measures for slowing a pandemic that claimed 37,000 US lives just last month.
A record nearly 96,000 Covid-19 patients were reported in US hospitals on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally.
Hospitalizations and deaths are expected to spike even higher in the midst of the holiday travel season, a trend that officials have warned will push an already strained healthcare system to the breaking point.
The monthly toll of US Covid-19 deaths are projected to nearly double in December to a pandemic-high of more than 70,000 and surpass 76,000 in January before ebbing in February, according to a widely cited model from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
The monthly record for US Covid-19 deaths of 58,740 was set in April.
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A bipartisan group of US lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled a $908 billion Covid-19 relief bill aimed at breaking months long deadlock between Democrats and Republicans over new emergency assistance for small businesses, unemployed people and industries.
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New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi urged at-risk residents to halt non-essential activities and stay in as much as possible as the city battles its second coronavirus wave.
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A nurse prepares a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at Guy's Hospital in London.(AP)
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Britain's Foreign Affairs Secretary Dominic Raab arrives at Downing Street, in London. (REUTERS)
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The History Department celebrated its centenary in 2017. On October 27, 2017 there was a celebration of the department and a commemoration of the way Western faculty and students have contributed to our understanding of the past, especially Canada’s history.
As 2017 is also the sesquicentennial of Canada, we organized three events that connect Western’s History Department and 150 years of Canadian history: Greatest Canadian Competition, Historians Between Two Ferns, and an Historical Knowledge Contest.
The Festivities Begin
Chair Francine McKenzie welcomed students, faculty, local historians, alumni, emeriti, and friends of the History Department to its centenary celebration. Everyone looked forward to an afternoon of fun and educational events, beginning with tours of the department, the display of a new timeline showing the origins and growth of the History Department, the digital history lab, the medical artifacts collections, and a pop up digital exhibit on London neighbourhoods curated by Mark Tovey, MITACS Post-doctoral fellow in public history.
Greatest (Dead) Canadian Competition
A packed classroom listened to nine contestants champion their nominees for “Greatest (Dead) Canadian”, hosted by Alan MacEachern. There was a real mix of nominees – from Mary Two-Axe Earley to Lucy Maud Montgomery, Frederick Banting to Leonard Cohen. And of nominators, too – undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and the broader London community were all represented. Most impressive was that, with only three minutes to make their pitch, all the champions made informative, creative, and impassioned arguments as to why their Canadian was the greatest Canadian. James Flath, for example, revealed unexpected musical talents with an original ballad about his candidate, Yip Sang. Carla Joubert made a moving case for Annie Pootoogook. Jonathan Vance employed a costume and a cute dog to support his case for L. M. Montgomery. For the three judges -- Amber Lloydlangston of Museum London, Joel Ralph of Canada’s History, and History doctoral student Sara Poulin – it was difficult to decide who should end up with the $200 grand prize. They chose – drumroll – student Sara Raza’s entertaining and educational introduction of anti-slavery activist and publisher Mary Ann Shadd. Congratulations, Sara! – and Mary Ann!
Talman Room Dedication
Next, everyone moved downstairs for the Talman Room dedication. When the History Department moved into Lawson Hall in 2011, it reconnected with a key figure in the development of the department: James Talman, professor from 1939-1987 and chief librarian from 1949-1970.
Before becoming a history professor and chief librarian, Dr. Talman was an undergraduate student at Western. He studied theology, but always loved history. He enjoyed history so much that he did an MA in history at Western before moving to Toronto to do a PhD. By the time he completed his doctoral training, the Depression had started and jobs were scarce. He found work as a librarian and archivist in Toronto before returning to Western in 1939 as assistant librarian and a lecturer in History. His office was in Lawson Hall and under his guidance the library’s collection quadrupled in size.
Dr. Talman was promoted to a professorship in the History Department in 1949 and he retired in 1987. He taught a lot of courses during his career, including Canadian, Ontario, American, and Latin American history and the history of journalism. He also supervised 22 graduate theses at Western. Dr. Talman was a specialist in Ontario’s social, intellectual, and cultural history, with a particular interest in religious history. He wrote extensively about the London area, too, including works on prominent early settlers, and histories of Huron College and – with his wife, Ruth – of Western University. All together he wrote over 300 articles and books, a remarkable achievement.
The History Department dedicated Lawson Hall 1218 to Dr. Talman because he helped put the History Department on the map as a place for serious historical research and excellent teaching and for the advancement of Canadian and Ontario history.
Several people who knew James Talman attended the dedication and shared their memories of him, including Raj Jain, who was hired by Dr. Talman as a librarian; Rod Millard, an emeritus faculty member; Ragnhild Talman, his daughter-in-law; and Mariann Talman, his granddaughter.
Historians Between Two Ferns
Following the room dedication, we held the first ever event in what is now the Talman Room, combining commemoration, historiography, and the current state of Canadian and American history. Rob Wardhaugh and Laurel Shire discussed how their respective fields have and have not changed over the last 100 years. Some topics considered essential a century ago have fallen by the wayside whereas others are firmly entrenched. Even though university courses now include discussions of race, class and gender, dominant national narratives persist. Wardhaugh and Shire discussed current historical debates – such as the commemoration of John A. Macdonald and Robert E. Lee – and what these debates tell us about how history is alive and contested in the present. They fielded tough questions from the audience, including being asked to predict what historians will be teaching about Canadian and American history in 2067.
Triva Contest
The afternoon ended with the historical trivia draw. Congratulations to our winners: Michael Brown, Maggie O’Riordan-Ross and Maggie Morris.
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1► North Carolina (Washington County), Creswell — B 29 — Charles Pettigrew —
First Bishop-elect of Episcopal Church in N.C., 1794. St. David's Church, erected 1803 at his expense, and his home are ½ mile southeast. — — Map (db m57006) HM
2► North Carolina (Washington County), Creswell — Cherry —
Named by surveyor Gisbourne J. Cherry. Post Office established 1898. 8 stores, 2 cotton mills, 1 gristmill, 1 blacksmith shop, 2 sawmills, 1 jail, 2 churches, 2 schools; 1 colored, 1 white, Charitable Brotherhood Lodge Hall, 1 barber shop. — — Map (db m57041) HM
3► North Carolina (Washington County), Creswell — Cherry Colored School — circa 1920's — (A Rosenwald School) —
Conceived in the 1900's by black educator Booker T. Washington and his Tuskegee staff. The Rosenwald program represented a massive effort to improve black rural schooling in the South through public-private partnership. Rosenwald schools were also . . . — — Map (db m57043) HM
4► North Carolina (Washington County), Creswell — Concord Primitive Baptist Church —
Original deed 14, December 1808 Jacob Hassell to James Ambrose and Andrew Oliver, commissioners. Constituted 1810. — — Map (db m57040) HM
5► North Carolina (Washington County), Creswell — Cool Spring —
Was known as Cool Spring in 1826. Hillie Holmes' Store was the last surviving relic as Cool Spring post office was moved into what became the town of Creswell in 1874. — — Map (db m57039) HM
6► North Carolina (Washington County), Creswell — Davenport Homestead — circa 1770 —
Colonial home of Daniel Davenport, farmer, surveyor, and first Senator from Washingtyon County. He served in the Revolutionary War. Homestead 3 miles -> — — Map (db m57044) HM
7► North Carolina (Washington County), Creswell — B 12 — James Johnston Pettigrew —
Confederate General, famed for charge at Gettysburg. His grave is 8 miles south. — — Map (db m56999) HM
8► North Carolina (Washington County), Creswell — B 35 — Lake Company —
Josiah Collins, Sr., and partners drained part of 100,000-acre tract near Lake Phelps with 6-mile canal, completed 1788; mouth 2 mi. southeast. — — Map (db m57010) HM
9► North Carolina (Washington County), Creswell — B 57 — Somerset Place —
Antebellum plantation of Josiah Collins III, who grew rice & corn. Home in 1860 to 328 slaves. Located six miles south. — — Map (db m57014) HM
10► North Carolina (Washington County), Creswell — The Davenport Home —
This house was built ca 1778. Daniel (1755-1807) and Sarah Nichols (1756-?) were the first Davenports to occupy this home. They were wed in 1786, and from this union came: Elizabeth Warrington, Eunice Arnold, Priscilla Long, Nancy Bateman and . . . — — Map (db m57045) HM
11► North Carolina (Washington County), Mackeys — Mackeys Ferry — 1735-1938 —
Established by permission of King George II. Operated for 203 yrs. making 8 mile trips from Mackeys to Edenton. The largest vessel to operate was the John W. Garrett, a twin side wheel steamer 351 ft. x 41 ft. It carried railroad passengers, . . . — — Map (db m57066) HM
12► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — BBB-6 — 85th Redoubt —
Union fort built by the 85th New York Regiment. It was taken on April 18, 1864, in one of the heaviest assaults of the siege. — — Map (db m57018) HM
13► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Ausbon House — Sniper’s Nest —
Bullet holes around the upstairs window of the Ausbon House are haunting reminders of a fight to the death here on December 10, 1862, when a Confederate sniper refused to surrender. Hoping to drive out the U.S. forces occupying Plymouth then, Lt. . . . — — Map (db m56977) HM
14► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — BB-6 — Battle of Plymouth —
At 4 P.M. on April 17, 1864, an advanced Union patrol on the Washington Road (A) was captured by Confederate cavalry (B). A company of the 12th N.Y. Cavalry attacked the Confederates, but was repulsed (C). Soon a large force of Confederate infantry . . . — — Map (db m56926) HM
15► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Battle of Plymouth — Strategic Port & Transportation Center —
The Battle of Plymouth, April 17-20, 1864, was the last major Confederate victory of the Civil War and the third largest battle fought in North Carolina. Two North Carolinians, Gen. Robert F. Hoke and Gen. Matthew W. Ransom, led the Confederate . . . — — Map (db m56973) HM
16► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — B 9 — Battle of Plymouth —
Confederates under Gen. Robert F. Hoke, aided by the ram "Albemarle," took the town, April 17-20, 1864. — — Map (db m56995) HM
17► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Battle of Plymouth —
Confederate troops led by Brig. Gen. R. F. Hoke achieved a brilliant victory in the capture of Plymouth from the United States military and naval forces, April 17-20, 1864. The iron-clad “Albemarle,” commanded by Capt. J. W. Cook, . . . — — Map (db m57065) HM
Confederate troops led by Gen. Robert F. Hoke, aided by ram Albemarle, retook Union-occupied town, April 17-20, 1864. — — Map (db m76833) HM
19► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Battle of Plymouth Memorial —
Honor to whom honor is due Dedicated to the memory of civilians and military forces engaged at the Battle of Plymouth, NC 17-20 April 1864 — — Map (db m76846) WM
20► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Brick House Landing — circa 1711 —
Owned by Arthur Rhodes. From this plantation, he sectioned off one hundred acres into what is now the town of Plymouth circa 1790. — — Map (db m57047) HM
21► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Carthagenia Lodge —
No. 38 Prince Hall Affiliated (Founder of Black Masonry) Established 1800's Rebuilt 1975 — — Map (db m57049) HM
22► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — CSS Albemarle — Ironclad Gunboat —
In 1863, 19-year-old engineer Gilbert Elliott contracted with the Confederate Navy Department to construct an ironclad gunboat designed by John L. Porter, the navy’s chief architect. Elliott built the vessel at Edwards Ferry on the Roanoke River, 60 . . . — — Map (db m56972) HM
23► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — CSS Albemarle —
The iron clad ram, the CSS Albemarle was the most successful Confederate ironclad of the Civil War and twice defeated the Union Navy. Build in a cornfield on the Roanoke River near Scotland Neck, the Albemarle played a pivotal role in the Battle of . . . — — Map (db m62228) HM
24► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Cushing’s Torpedo — Sinking of CSS Albemarle —
CSS Albemarle, which had been built in a cornfield beside the Roanoke River in 1863-1864, helped drive the U.S. Army from Plymouth in April 1864 and defeated seven U.S. gunboats in May. The ironclad ram seemed invincible, but 21-year-old US. . . . — — Map (db m56975) HM
25► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Fort Compher Battlefield — The Breakthrough —
Atop the hill in front of you, on the left side of the field, stood Fort Compher (also called Fort Comfort), a key position for U.S. forces occupying Plymouth. The nine-sided fortifications was named for Capt. Alexander Compher of the 101st . . . — — Map (db m76831) HM
26► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — BBB-9 — Fort Williams —
Principal Union fort at Plymouth, named for Gen. Thomas Williams, stood here. It was the last fort to fall, April 20, 1864. — — Map (db m57020) HM
27► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Hampton Academy —
Dr. John Hampton, Benefactor Hampton Academy replaced Plymouth Academy and other small schools as principal white school in Plymouth 1902-1922. Reopened as a primary school 1928-1958. Plymouth Woman's Club acquired and preserved it in 1959 and . . . — — Map (db m57059) HM
28► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — BBB-4 — Hoke's Final Line —
The extreme left flank of Confederate General Robt. F. Hoke's brigade was formed a few yds. N. just before the final attack, April 20, 1864. — — Map (db m57015) HM
29► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Latham House — circa 1850 —
Built by Charles Latham who occupied the house until 1882. Home was occupied for decades by descendants of its builder, a Lawyer, County Sheriff, and State Representative. During the battle of Plymouth, town residents sought protection in the . . . — — Map (db m62226) HM
30► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — BBB-8 — Naval Action —
The Confederate ironclad ram "Albemarle" sank the Union gunboat "Southfield", April 19, 1864, one mile N.E. in the Roanoke River. — — Map (db m57019) HM
31► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — New Chapel Baptist Church —
Established in 1867. Rev. Abraham Mebane entered into a lease agreement with the Lowell Colored School Society, giving New Chapel the right to erect a church on lot No. 41 in the town of Plymouth. — — Map (db m57053) HM
32► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Plymouth State Normal School — Original Site circa 1881 —
Established by the NC General Assembly as one of two NC schools for training black teachers. Moved to Elizabeth City, NC in 1903 and was parent school to Elizabeth City State University. — — Map (db m57050) HM
33► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Plymouth United Methodist Church —
Records first mention the appointment of William J. Waller as pastor of the Plymouth Methodist Episcopal Church, February 15, 1826. The first building was constructed in 1832. The church cemetery predates the church with the earliest grave dating . . . — — Map (db m57054) HM
34► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — B 10 — Ram Albemarle —
Confederate ironclad, winner of notable victories under Capt. J. W. Cooke, was sunk 600 feet north, night of Oct. 27, 1864. — — Map (db m56998) HM
35► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — BBB-5 — Ransom's Assault —
General Matt Ransom's brigade formed in line of battle near here in the final Confederate attack, April 20, 1864. — — Map (db m57016) HM
36► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Replica 6.4 inch Brooke Rifled Cannon — Confederate Naval Cannon from the CSS Albemarle —
The Brooke Rifle is named after its developer, Commander John Mercer Brooke (CSA), who served as Chief, Dept. of Ordnance and Hydrography. While closely resembling the popular Parrott Gun used by the Union, the Brooke Rifle is considered to be the . . . — — Map (db m57028) HM
37► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Roanoke River Lighthouse —
Roanoke River Lighthouse established by US. Lighthouse Service 1866, Plymouth North Carolina — — Map (db m62224) HM
38► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Rt. Rev. Alfred Augustin Watson — 1818-1905 —
1st Bishop Diocese of East Carolina Rector of Grace Episcopal Church Plymouth, NC St. Luke's Episcopal Church Roper, NC 1844-1858 "The past is gone, the future is here." — — Map (db m57060) HM
39► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Siege of Plymouth, NC —
Union Forces Under the command of General Henry Walton Wessells Engaged and captured April 17-20, 1864. "Plymouth Pilgrims" 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery - Companies G & H 12th New York . . . — — Map (db m57025) HM
40► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — BBB-7 — Union Earthworks —
The main line of Union defenses during the Battle of Plymouth, April 17-20, 1864, was built across the road at this point. — — Map (db m76834) HM
41► North Carolina (Washington County), Plymouth — Washington County Courthouse —
The first courthouse was located at Lee's Mill, Roper 1801. Moved to Plymouth 1823. It was destroyed by fire three times, 1860-1862-1881. Present courthouse built 1918. — — Map (db m57062) HM
42► North Carolina (Washington County), Roper — B 23 — Buncombe Hall —
The home of Col. Edward Buncombe of the Continental Line, who was captured at Germantown and died a prisoner in 1778, stood one mi. N. — — Map (db m57005) HM
43► North Carolina (Washington County), Roper — B 22 — Mackeys Ferry —
Established 1735 over Albemarle Sound, succeeding Bells Ferry. Discontinued in 1938. Southern terminus was 3 miles northwest. — — Map (db m57003) HM
44► North Carolina (Washington County), Roper — Sleepy Hollow —
Harrison-Blount House circa 1835. Located on Kendricks Creek in a lovely setting of moss-draped cypress trees in Lees Mill. — — Map (db m57070) HM
45► North Carolina (Washington County), Roper — St. Luke's Episcopal Church — Original Site — 1836 —
Built on Edward Buncombe property purchased from the estate for one dollar. De-consecrated and torn down in 1918. The Church of the Advent Episcopal Church in Roper renamed St. Luke's Episcopal Church. It became St. Luke's-St. Anne's Episcopal . . . — — Map (db m57069) HM
46► North Carolina (Washington County), Skinnersville — Pearidge — Saharah Plantation —
1837-1840 Josiah Collins & Ebenezer Pettigrew purchased 500 acres of land, planted 40,000 mulberry trees and raised silk worms for the silk business. S.S. Simmons Fishery circa 1835 Piney Grove Freewill Baptist Church circa 1895 Sound Post . . . — — Map (db m57067) HM
47► North Carolina (Washington County), Skinnersville — B 49 — Rehoboth Church —
Colonial Anglican congregation known as Skinners Chapel. Present church constructed 1850-1853. Now United Methodist. — — Map (db m57013) HM
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Interviews Comics Watch
'Batman/The Shadow' To Team Classic Detectives For An Unsolvable Murder Mystery (Exclusive Art)
January 23, 2017 8:00am by Graeme McMillan
Courtesy of Riley Rossmo/DC Entertainment
The six-issue series pairing the Dark Knight and his pulp inspiration launches in April.
This April, more than one person will know what evil lurks in the hearts of men as two classic creatures of the night team up in the first issue of Batman/The Shadow, a six-issue comic book crossover from the all-star team of Scott Snyder, Steve Orlando and Riley Rossmo — and The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive look at Rossmo's interior artwork.
In the series, Batman's investigations into the murder of one Gothamite seem to identify Lamont Cranston as the prime suspect, but there are only two complications. Firstly, Cranston is, unbeknownst to the Dark Knight, none other than the Shadow himself … and secondly, Cranston appears to have died half a century earlier.
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"To bring together the World’s Greatest Detective and the World’s Greatest Mystery is an honor," co-writer Steve Orlando (Midnighter, the upcoming Justice League of America) said in a statement. "Batman/The Shadow will pay tribute to legacies in comics and pulp fiction, as the two characters meet in a generations-deep conflict unlike any they’ve seen before, with a case that stretches back to the origins of time and which will redefine murder."
The new series, published by DC Entertainment in partnership with Condé Nast and Dynamite Entertainment, isn't the first time that the Dark Knight has run into one of his primary inspirations (The Shadow debuted on an episode of radio show Detective Story Hour in 1930, nine years before the Detective Comics No. 27 debut of Batman); the two first met in two issues of Batman's regular monthly comic in 1973 and '74.
Batman/The Shadow No. 1 will be released in comic book stores and digitally April 26. Below, get a glimpse at Rossmo's line work for that issue.
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Showdown at Viacom: What's Next as the Sumner Redstone Era Ends
5:07 PM PST 2/3/2016 by Kim Masters
Eric Ogden
Shari Redstone appears to be prepared for a battle pitting her against CEO Philippe Dauman. His fate remains unclear as Viacom's board meets on Thursday.
With her action installing Leslie Moonves as chairman of CBS on Wednesday, Shari Redstone has set the stage for a pivotal board meeting at Viacom on Thursday.
The board presumably is going to name a successor to ailing 92-year-old executive chairman Sumner Redstone. A run-up of Viacom shares, which surged 11 percent in after-hours trading, suggests that Wall Street believes significant change is on the horizon — with some hoping that is the case.
The central question is the fate of beleaguered chief executive Philippe Dauman. Viacom’s board long has been perceived as in Dauman’s control, but with a rising chorus of discontent from shareholders as the company’s stock has slid, the pendulum may have swung in Shari’s direction.
Unclear is who would replace Dauman if he departs. Some industry insiders speculate that Moonves could be tapped for the chairman's role. "I can't see them doing better than that," says one high-level executive at another media company.
Of course, it is still possible that Dauman has enough power to take the chairman’s title. Viacom confined itself to a statement confirming only that a board meeting has been set.
Following CBS' announcement on Wednesday that Sumner was resigning, Redstone’s 61-year-old daughter issued a statement on succession that sent a pointed message to Viacom’s board, which includes nine members other than Shari and her father: Dauman, 61, should not become chairman.
As Shari noted in her statement, her father’s trust states his intention that she succeed him as non-executive chairman of both CBS and Viacom. She declined to do so in the case of CBS, she said, because she is a member of the trust that will oversee her father’s media empire when he is no longer in the picture. In her statement, Shari said, “It is my firm belief that whoever may succeed my father as Chair at each company should be someone who is not a Trustee of my father’s trust or otherwise intertwined in Redstone family matters, but rather a leader with an independent voice.”
While her statement made no specific reference to Dauman, he also is a member of the trust that will determine the fate of Redstone’s media empire once the frail mogul is no longer in control. And as Dauman was named Sumner’s healthcare proxy following the October ouster of Redstone’s companion, Manuela Herzer, the reference to being “otherwise entangled in Redstone family matters” also seems directed at Dauman. One executive close to the situation said if Dauman exits, he likely will resign as Redstone’s healthcare representative.
If the board names Dauman chairman of the company, it would come in the face of rising shareholder unrest. A lawsuit filed Jan. 19 in Delaware Chancery Court accuses Dauman of failing in his duty to shareholders and questions the board’s independence. Activist shareholder SpringOwl Asset Management published a 99-frame slideshow online excoriating Viacom — parent of MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount — for “chronic underperformance against peers” and slamming the board for being “too large, too cozy and too overpaid for underperformance.”
Viacom has described the suit as “without merit.”
In the wake of Wednesday’s developments, SpringOwl again called for change at Viacom, saying: “We strongly urge management and the board to appoint an independent director as executive chairman and that it not be Philippe Dauman. We hope management and the board will continue to act responsibly in addressing Viacom’s depressed stock price relative to its much higher asset value.”
Analyst Steve Birenberg of Northlake Capital Management echoed that sentiment, saying it would be “good to have someone independent of the trust and the Redstone family” as head of Viacom.
Dauman’s contract extension last year contained a new clause stipulating that he has the right to resign in the case of “the appointment as executive chairman of the board (or co-executive chairman) of a person other than” Sumner Redstone or himself. He could stand to gain hundreds of millions of dollars if that clause is activated.
His deal, which runs through the end of 2018, gives him an exit package worth millions. His compensation for 2015 rose to $54.2 million even as the stock dropped more than 40 percent.
Herzer has a lawsuit pending arguing that Redstone was not competent to replace her as his healthcare representative. Just days ago Redstone underwent a court-ordered examination by Herzer’s expert, geriatric psychiatrist Stephen Read. Though Read has not yet filed a report on that evaluation, he already concluded that Redstone lacked the capacity to sign the challenged document based on his peculiar signature, which the doctor said in a court filing appeared “as if someone moved the paper under his pen.” Redstone’s expert also has filed a report stating the frail mogul was competent to make the switch.
In court filings, Herzer has asserted that Dauman has lied repeatedly when saying that he has engaged in extensive conversations with Redstone in recent months.
Given the dispute over Redstone’s condition, it is noteworthy that he was not quoted in the CBS press release and issued no statement.
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FEI SPORTS FORUM: KEY POINTS DISCUSSED
THE SUSTAINABILITY AND IT INITIATIVES FEATURE
The FEI Sustainability Programme and the proactive sustainable steps that can be taken at equestrian events around the world were detailed by Dr Harald Müller (GER), FEI Director Education and Standards, to open the afternoon session of the FEI Sports Forum 2014.
The new FEI Sustainability Handbook for Event Organisers, circulated during the session and also available online, encourages organisers to implement sustainability initiatives based on their own set priorities to help reduce negative environmental impact and create positive legacies.
“Sustainable sporting events are a major priority for organisers and the network of organisations who help make these happen - governments, sponsors and the communities in which the events takes place to name just a few,” Dr Müller said.
“Equestrian events are unique in many ways, and are also very different to each other based on geography, existing infrastructure and financing, but they do have one thing in common: sustainable action can be taken at every event. The FEI Sustainability Handbook is designed to highlight how, and also what proactive measures can be taken in the future.”
ONLINE ENTRY SYSTEM
The FEI Online Entry System, the single platform that enables Organising Committees and National Federations to process the entries of athletes and horses to manage results more efficiently, was reviewed in the second afternoon session.
Gaspard Dufour, FEI IT Manager, highlighted the key system developments and outlined areas for further improvement with the National Federations.
FEI Sports Forum delegates were invited to give feedback on how the system has facilitated their work and discuss ways in which it could be further improved.
PRINCESS HAYA SIGNALS INTENTION TO STAND FOR RE-ELECTION AS FEI PRESIDENT
RH Princess Haya today signalled her intention to stand for re-election as FEI President following an overwhelming vote in favour of amending the FEI Statutes to allow FEI Presidents to serve three consecutive four-year terms in office.
The vote on amending the Statutes to prolong the term of the FEI President took place at the FEI Extraordinary General Assembly (EGA) in Lausanne (SUI) today, with 103 National Federations voting in favour of the amendment. There were three votes against the amendment and no abstentions. The EGA also voted in favour of applying the same term to all FEI Bureau members.
Princess Haya had stated in September last year that she would not stand for re-election, despite an earlier move by FEI Regional Group Chairpersons and the National Federations to amend the FEI Statutes at the 2013 General Assembly. The FEI Presidential election will take place at the General Assembly in December.
FAR-REACHING INITIATIVES ANNOUNCED AT ENDURANCE ROUND TABLE
The FEI today announced bold steps that will ensure improved protection of the welfare of horses in Endurance events, proposing unprecedented athlete penalties for equine injuries, extended rest periods and increased accountability. The moves were fully supported by delegates attending today’s Endurance round table on the second day of the FEI Sports Forum in Lausanne (SUI).
“The welfare of the horse is not just a veterinary issue, it’s an issue for all those who work in the sport,” FEI 1st Vice President John McEwen and chair of the FEI Veterinary Committee said.
Proposed rule changes relating to officials’ accountability and responsibility, increased protection of horses through athlete penalty points and extended rest periods, appointment of Independent Governance Advisors (IGA) and improved conflict of interest regulations received wide support from attendees.
NORMANDY UPDATE AND EVOLUTION OF VAULTING
Committee of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2014 (23 August to 7 September) and the FEI marked the 116-day countdown to the FEI’s flagship event today in the afternoon session of the FEI Sports Forum 2014.
Two members of the Organising Committee - Laurent Cellier (FRA), Sports Director, and Pauline Laidi (FRA), Head of Services to National Federations - gave delegates a detailed update on the event preparations covering the timetable, competition venues, veterinary services, logistics, accreditations, entries, communications and key dates.
Vaulting round table
The popularity of Vaulting on digital media, the revision of competition formats, introduction of new tests and protecting horse welfare were the focal points of the Vaulting round table, the final session of the FEI Sports Forum 2014.
The FEI Vaulting Technical Committee proposed the introduction of a new Junior level - CVIJ3* - designed to raise the standard for young athletes looking ahead to Senior competition. The new level would test Junior vaulters with three technical exercises to be performed in front of the surcingle.
“The proposed introduction of a CVIJ3*, which will be presented to our National Federations for further feedback, would help our Junior athletes to progress more easily to Senior level”, explained Emma Seeley (USA), Chair of the Vaulting Committee and round table panellist. “The level of our Junior athletes has progressed to such a high standard that we have very gifted athletes around the world, who are ready for this challenge.”
At Senior level, the introduction of a new CVIO4* format was proposed in which the team competition would take place at the end of the event as a grand finale, ensuring an exciting build-up for spectators. Chef d’Equipes would declare their teams only after the performances of their individual, squad and pas-de-deux athletes, adding to the excitement of the final competition.
To deepen the topics discussed visit www.fei.org.
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If someone is dominating in an area that someone else wants to rule, they might try to play down their competitor’s achievements, throw some shade or call them names in order to get ahead.
But BMW isn’t bitter and doesn’t roll that way. Although Tesla is seen as the leader in the electric car segment, BMW’s i division seems to be a gracious competitor that can appreciate everything the American automaker has done.
“At Tesla and BMW i, we share the same attitude that new technology needs to be emotionally desirable otherwise it will never work,” said Wieland Brúch, media relations manager of BMW i and electric mobility. “I think they did a wonderful job in terms of emotionalizing e-mobility because as long as e-mobility means just getting emissions-free driving from A to B, that’s not sufficient to make it a success.”
Prior to Tesla, electric cars were boring and only “the treehuggers” were buying them, Brúch said, but that approach wasn’t going to make EVs mainstream and truly successful. “They are doing a very good job to help e-mobility become more widespread,” he said. “We think Tesla is very helpful in pushing e-mobility and we are welcoming everyone member of the e-mobility team.”
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Rather than see Tesla and Jaguar as threats, the latter of which is new to the electric vehicle segment with its i-Pace crossover, Brúch says BMW i welcomes the competition of anyone who is working towards the goal of mass adoption for electric cars. BMW is especially welcoming of Tesla, which changed attitudes towards electric cars by making them sexy and elevating them to status symbols.
“This is exactly the development we need to get e-mobility on the screen of everybody,” he said, adding that the more visibility EVs get, the better.
But the real reason BMW probably doesn’t see Tesla as a big threat? The German automaker has 100 years of history and the reputation and manufacturing expertise to match it. Its EV sales also aren’t too shabby. Last, year, the BMW i brand sold about the same amount of electrified vehicles as Tesla, around 103,000 globally. Just to put that into perspective, the i brand sold more cars last year than the BMW M brand, whose tally was 76,000 units globally. BMW, as well as its i brand, which is 10 years old, has its production and distribution down to an art, which are things Tesla still struggles with. And as long as people trust BMW to make status symbols, people will still buy its cars, whether they are electric or not, and BMW says that is what will give it a competitive edge.
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Important If True 50: 4468, Y'all
By Jake, February 16, 2018 in Important If True Episodes
Important If True 50:
4468, Y'all
On this podcast we explain the unexplainable. We solve the unsolvable. Our method is simple: We take the tiniest problem you might have, the grain of sand scratching at the back of your mind, and we roll it down a hill to see what it might pick up along the way, until that grain of sand has picked up dirt and sticks, until it's grown and grown, until it's the size of the Earth itself. Does that mean that any question, any problem, no matter how small or dumb, when properly spun out past its breaking point, can explain the important truths of life itself, of our existence on this planet? Probably not, but we'll keep trying for some reason. So ask away! Just don't ask us to explain this podcast. Fifty episodes in, it's abundantly clear that's one question we'll never answer.
Discussed: Valentine's Day, Valentine's Boxing Day, what this podcast is, David Lynch, a Mythbuster, busting, Thimbleweed Park, real-life hint system, staying on the phone, Albert Brooks, the quantum physics of the universe, y'all, the Google/Facebook mega-matrix, Alexa, J.J. Abrams, 4468 Cloverfield, the incomprehensible infinitude of data we have at our disposal, trading hint futures on Wall St., real-life save system, Edge of Tomorrow, Live Die Repeat, respawning to prevent organ failure, Silicon Valley anti-toxin tech bro Peter Thiel, the most useful life (to benefit Peter Thiel), Lore Lord Bean, Important If True 35: "Hammacher, Schlemmer, and You", the death of tragic goose Thomas, the mixing up of Flemish words, too much clam in the beverage, Clamato, massively popular Canadian drink the Caesar, weathered old bromides
Thank you all so much for listening to 50 episodes of Important If True! Send us your questions at questions@importantiftrue.com. If you enjoyed this and would like to subscribe to an ad-free feed, please consider supporting Idle Thumbs by backing our Patreon.
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Chris' Secondary Endorsement: Extra long-handled shoehorn
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Backseat Driver
I can't help but hear Lore Lord Bean as "Warlord Bean," who I think has a very different backstory.
bestmmaren
I'm sure the expression "Too much clam in the beverage" had been uttered on an earlier episode but can't figure out when! Anyone else have this feeling? It just sounded too familiar.
RubixsQube
What's your favorite planet?
Lore Lord Cool J
thenexus6
As soon as my Sister told me this was a late night recording I had to watch this week instead of listen to witness the madness with my own eyes.
Problem Machine
I'm like 20 minutes in and how was there an entire conversation about the spiritual dissolution of a Mythbuster without the phrase "Bustin' made me feel bad"?
Also I want to see every version of this hint line movie you all describe. I think a Very Good throughline of the cast in general has been spinning outlandish premises into different hypothetical movies, so next time you're struggling to describe the cast maybe you can mention that.
Okay now I'm going to listen to the rest of the pod.
Deadpan
I listened to all of A Very Fatal Murder last night based on Chris' recommendation and it really is very good.
I also wanted to add a little more context in response to Anya's email. Verb pairings like learn/teach, give/take, borrow/lend or buy/sell are some of the most frequently cited examples of the linguistic theory of verb valency. We intuitively tend to think of nouns as the basic "content" words of language because that's how we are usually introduced to language in our childhood: somebody points to a tree and says "tree", somebody points to a car and says "car". By contrast, this theory suggests that it is actually verbs that are at the center of language. The verb forms the core of a sentence and then fills a certain amount of slots around it with arguments like subject and object to add context to the basic activity it describes.
There's a variety of arguments for why it makes sense to think of language like this, and verb pairings like these are one of them. Under conventional models, which assume that nouns carry the bulk of communicative meaning and most other verb classes simply put these nouns into relation with each other, it's surprising how frequently and easily people use the "wrong" verb out of these pairings (as all of you have noted). This phenomenon is easy to describe with verb valency theory, however, because all of these pairings describe the same basic activity, the only difference being whether you make the recipient the subject or the object of the sentence. In other words, the sentence isn't really wrong, you just messed up the word order, which is a much easier mistake for your brain to make.
11 hours ago, Problem Machine said:
I felt like saying that phrase would make the whole thing collapse so it remained unsaid. I got the feeling everyone felt that way. You don’t want to pull out the keystone.
17 hours ago, Jake said:
It just feels cruel to tease everyone this way though. I guess it's an audience retention trick, because now we have to tune in to all future pods to see if you say the thing. Saying "Bustin' made me feel bad" would make me feel good, and then the bustin' cycle would finally be complete.
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Location: Birmingham, UK
I lost it in public at lore lord bean
On 2/17/2018 at 3:58 AM, Deadpan said:
Ditto (except the last night part). A very good podcast.
SecretAsianMan
Thumbs Candyman
Backing up Chris' endorsement of an extra long shoehorn. I own the same model and it is legitimately nice to have. It came in especially handy when my wife was pregnant and bending over became more and more of a challenge.
On the topic of messing up verbs, there is a similar thing I do in Chinese all the time. In English, everything on your person is "worn", be it clothing or accessories, unless you are physically holding it in your hand. In Chinese, only certain articles of clothing are "worn", others are "brought/carried". For example, you would "wear" a shirt but "bring/carry" a watch. I constantly fuck this up.
Professor Video Games
Active Thumb
Did I miss the explanation for why "y'all" is bad?
decent enough
I don't know if there's a more specific reason, but I suspect since "y'all" isn't usually a part of Chris or Nick's dialectal vocabulary it could sound unnatural/grating/forced coming out of their mouths.
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8 hours ago, Professor Video Games said:
I think Jake has an almost violent instinctual reaction to other people trying to introduce phraseology that he perceives as being affected or foreign to the speaker. It's somewhat ironic because I think out of anyone I know, Jake is the most likely to adopt a new speech pattern or phrase that he will subconsciously spread to everyone around him.
infamous space turtle
As much as I snigger at shoe horns I currently have a rough calloused patch on the top of my index finger from trying to get shoes on.
cooljammer00
16 hours ago, Chris said:
I would say that's hella silly, y'all.
(But in all honesty, I've listened to enough hours of people from Northern California podcasting over the years for some NorCal slang to get into my vocab. Similarly, I dated a girl from Texas for several years so I heard "y'all" quite a bit, though I only started using it fairly recently as it's gotten popular as the preferred non-gendered term for a group of people.
Gormongous
30 minutes ago, cooljammer00 said:
But in all honesty, I've listened to enough hours of people from Northern California podcasting over the years for some NorCal slang to get into my vocab. Similarly, I dated a girl from Texas for several years so I heard "y'all" quite a bit, though I only started using it fairly recently as it's gotten popular as the preferred non-gendered term for a group of people.
Honestly, as a native Texan, it's been really interesting over the last couple of decades to watch "y'all" transition from a humiliating signifier of my lower-class upbringing in a cultural backwater to the preferred second-person plural pronoun for a sizable minority of English speakers. Now if I can just live to see people appreciate the distinction between "y'all" and "y'aw," a matter of specific vs. general address like "nous" and "on" in French...
It’s more specifically that you sometimes try to seed a bit and then troll us with it by revealing far later what you’re up to. It smelled strongly of that!
11 minutes ago, Jake said:
Remember when he tried to get "Sly Boots" over on you? Oddly enough, I've seen it pop up a few times lately. Maybe it's coming back into vogue?
1 hour ago, Gormongous said:
I'll be dead in the ground before I recognize the Pittsburghian "yinz" for a 2nd person plural pronoun.
YES I was worried I was being Sly Bootsed.
Also re: my blanching at "Y'all" possibly being injected into the podcast by Chris as a deliberate attempt to start some phrase.... he tried to do that with TOO MUCH CLAM IN THE BEVERAGE in this very episode!!
Yeah but I didn’t even do that with y’all! It was Nick, and he was totally blatant about it!
2 hours ago, Chris said:
My initial outburst at the very top of the episode was because I suspected (incorrectly) that you were trying a Slyboots with Y’all... and then Nick caught on and did it himself. I realize that by drawing attention to it, I created it.
Meanwhile though, that was all a distraction: While we were all y’alling, you sprang your real trap, “clam in the beverage.”
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How to Force Quit an App on Apple Watch
Lori Kaufman @howtogeek
Dec 18, 2015, 10:24 am EST | 1 min read
If an app on your Apple Watch stops responding, or you just want to fully quit an app, there is a way to force the app to quit rather than rebooting the entire watch. The procedure is pretty simple.
While you’re in the app you want to quit, press and hold the side button.
The screen or powering off your watch displays. Press and hold the side button again. You are returned briefly to the app, and then to the Home screen of your watch. The app is now closed.
NOTE: This procedure closes the app, but if the app has a screen in the Glances, that’s still running. The only way to stop an app in Glances is to remove it from the Glances.
If force quitting an app doesn’t solve the problem you’re having, you can always reboot your Apple Watch by pressing and holding the side button to get to the screen for powering off the watch. Slide the “Power Off” slider button to the right. Wait a few seconds and then press and hold the side button until you see the Apple Logo to turn on the watch again.
Lori Kaufman
Lori Kaufman is a technology expert with 25 years of experience. She's been a senior technical writer, worked as a programmer, and has even run her own multi-location business.
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10/06/2014 04:54 EDT | Updated 10/07/2014 04:59 EDT
Sun News' Future Uncertain After Postmedia Buys Its Sister Papers
By Sunny Freeman
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The future of the struggling Sun News Network is up in the air after its parent company Quebecor sold off the majority of the newspapers that provided the channel with content on Monday.
UPDATE: Quebecor said Monday night it is concerned about the long-term viability of the channel but added that questions about its operation would not be answered until after the sale of the newspapers closes.
The news network will be able to keep its name under a licensing agreement with Postmedia, which is buying 175 English-language Sun Media newspapers for $316 million.
However, Sun News Network must change its circular red logo within a year as part of the deal, the same logo used by the Sun chain of newspapers operating in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa.
Quebecor will continue to run the newspapers until the deal is approved by regulators and shareholders, which means Sun News and the newspapers will continue to share content for the time being.
But little was revealed to employees about how the deal would affect operations at the news network, with few details on how the network will cope without the resources of the Sun newspapers.
“This will become part of the operational discussions within the Sun News -- needs will be assessed and the necessary recommendations will be made,” according to a staff memo obtained by J-Source.
It is the latest in a string of setbacks for the channel which has had to fight for survival since it was launched in 2011 and has run up losses in the $16-million to $18-million range annually.
When asked why the channel wasn’t included in the purchase, Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey said simply “it wasn’t for sale.” He also said that the company was not interested in buying a TV network because it is focused on its print and digital businesses.
Postmedia splintered from its own broadcast affiliations in 2010, when Canwest, under bankruptcy protection, sold its assets. Shaw bought Canwest’s broadcast arm — including Global TV — while Postmedia took over the print properties.
Sun News Network has its own stable of reporters but it also relied on the Sun newspapers, which shared content with the TV station through Quebecor’s QMI wire service.
Senior Conservative sources have told HuffPost that Sun News Network vice-president Kory Teneycke wants to re-launch the channel and was looking for investors to spin it off from Quebecor.
Neither Teneycke nor a Quebecor spokesman could be immediately reached for comment.
The $316 million is a much-needed injection of cash for Quebecor, which lost $54.8 million in the second quarter of 2014, at a time when it is investing in its fledgling Videotron wireless division in the hopes that it will become Canada’s fourth national carrier.
“We believe management would prefer to keep its powder dry should all the right conditions fall into place for the company to pursue wireless expansion,” said Barclay’s Capital analyst Phillip Huang.
The company could use the cash to buy a stake in one of the country’s smaller wireless players such as Wind, or to acquire more wireless spectrum in the next auction, he added.
The sale comes a week after the CRTC ruled against Sun News Network in a payment dispute with Rogers, the largest cable TV operator. The regulator denied the financially troubled news network a deal that would have helped to shore up future revenue for the channel. But the CRTC did side with the network in a similar dispute with Telus, a much smaller distributor.
Quebecor spokesman Martin Tremblay said Monday night it is "studying the financial impacts of the decisions," adding the company believes fair distribution agreements are important for its survival.
Sun wanted cable companies to pay different rates depending on whether the channel was offered in a specialty package or on basic cable, as an incentive for distributors to carry it more widely. Rogers said that Sun News’ proposed rate (which was omitted from the ruling) would “greatly exceed” how much it is paid by Rogers competitors such as Shaw and Bell.
Rogers’ win means it will pay Sun News based on the same model it uses to determine the rate of pay for competitors like CTV News Channel and CBC News Network — the more viewers a channel gets, the more Rogers pays.
The problem for Sun News is that its audience is a fraction of its competitors. Sun argues it has been historically disadvantaged because it was buried in higher channels.
Sun News argued that it was unfair to compare the fledgling network to its long-established competitors because it is only distributed in 40 per cent of Canadian homes, while its competitors were in 100 per cent of homes.
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The AI start-up, only five years old in the space has already reshaped the customer service industry. With its advanced technology, it has given brands the opportunity to create a digital version of their ambassadors or customer service employees to interact with customers more effectively. It is estimated that chatbots will power 85% of all customer service interactions by year end 2020.
Soul Machine recently closed a US$40 Million series B funding round led by Temasek with participation from Lakestar and existing investors such as Horizon ventures, Salesforce ventures and the University of Auckland Investors Fund. The investment is intended to fuel the start-ups geographical expansion with a focus on research and development, as it is currently developing its customer-facing digital avatar and deploying the world’s first digital humans. In addition to this, the fund is also aimed at tapping into the education and healthcare markets.
Some of the company’s customers include big brands such as Google, Sony, the Royal bank of Scotland, Bank ABC, and IBMs Watson just to name a few. Its popularity is attributed to the fact that the start-ups developers have managed to create life-like and perceptive digital avatars that animate autonomously with personality and character that evolve over time and that respond to content and context.
It has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, London, Tokyo, Melbourne, and Auckland. Its team of AI researchers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and artists has allowed the start-up to build emotionally intelligent digital heroes, that can remember faces and accents and determines the best response based on previous interactions.
Rob Keith, Head of Salesforce Ventures described Soul Machine as having “an obsessive focus on improving customer experience by using artificial intelligence technology in new ways.” It truly is the age of AI. The strides the start-ups have made thus far, have revolutionized business approaches to customer service and has improved human-chatbot relationships.
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Efforts On To Reduce NTBs Between India & Kazakhstan: Bidyut Behari Swain, Additional Secretary, Department Of Commerce
2018-11-16 Policy Other Services National
Indian and Kazakhstan are making earnest efforts to reduce Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) and other policy hurdles for promoting trade and economic ties between the two countries, Mr Bidyut Behari Swain, Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, said here on Wednesday while addressing the India-Kazakhstan Investment Forum organized by FICCI, Kazakh embassy in Delhi and Kazakh Invest.
Mr Swain underlined the continued commitment of the Government of India in this regard since Kazakhstan, being the largest and most rapidly growing economy in Central Asia, held immense strategic and economic promise to Indian industry.
Mr Sandip Somany, President-Elect, FICCI and Vice Chairman & Managing Director of HSIL Limited, said "When Prime Minister Modi declared Kazakhstan as India's biggest economic partner in Central Asia, he was specifically underlining the pre-eminence and promise that the country holds for Indian businesses and investors to tap into the economic vibrancy of a 'Nation On The Move'.
Mr Bulat Sarsenbayev, Ambassador of Kazakhstan in India, laid stress on the collaborative support by the two economies to each other at the multilateral level. He spelt out the efforts to expedite the implementation of all the agreements for the future development of the nations.
Mr Manish Prabhat, Joint Secretary (Eurasia), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, appreciated the excellent political relations and historical links shared by India and Kazakhstan. He stressed on the role of International North-South Trade Corridor (INSTC) and its relevance to streamline the physical connectivity between the nations. Efforts need to be made to strengthen the people-to-people relationship to further improve the strategic relationship between the partner nations.
Mr Saparbek Tuyakbayev, Chairman of the Board of Kazakh Invest, said that Kazakhstan of today was completely a changed and vibrant business and investment destination. He stressed on the trade potential, market access, safety standards and ease of doing business in Kazakhstan and welcomed Indian industry to look afresh at Kazakhstan. "Well developed banking and financial systems in the country would only assist the cause of potential Indian companies in their efforts to deepen their business and investment footprints in the country", he added.
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Raising teachers’ pay to affirm the dignity of the teaching profession, Senator Pia S. Cayetano today said raising the compensation of teachers is the best affirmation of government’s high regard for the country’s educators and their contributions to nation-building.
The senator issued the statement in time for National Teachers’ Day, which is being observed on October 5 (Saturday). A staunch education advocate, Cayetano authored Senate Bill No. 70, or the ‘Additional Support and Compensation for Educators in the Basic Education Act.’ The measure proposes a salary increase of P10,000 per month for public school teachers, locally-funded teachers, and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd).
The salary hike shall be granted over three years in three tranches, starting with a P4,000 monthly pay hike in the first year, an additional P3,000 per month in the second year, and a final increment of P3,000 per month on the third year.
The bill is currently being deliberated with similar measures by a technical working group under the Senate Committee on Civil Service, Government Reorganization and Professional Regulation. “Raising the compensation of teachers affirms the dignity of the teaching profession. This will not only improve their lives but also inspire them to further improve,” she explained.
“We have so many hardworking teachers who deserve more support. Also, we can still do better to make the teaching profession more attractive to the best and brightest,” she stressed.
“I want to be able to leave that kind of legacy to our children – that they can go to any school in the Philippines, and get the best education possible because they will be mentored by intelligent and dedicated teachers,” she added.
Cayetano pointed out that empowering teachers to successfully fulfill their role in society is part of the country’s commitments to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Goal 4 of the SDGs particularly states that by 2030, the supply of qualified teachers in the country should have substantially increased.
Apart from the salary adjustment, Cayetano’s bill seeks to grant public school teachers the following benefits: Medical allowance, a yearly bonus based on the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers (RA 4670), and additional compensation from local school board funds.
The former chair of the Senate Committee on Education, Arts, and Culture, Cayetano has championed the passage of landmark laws that enhanced public education in the country, including the National Teacher’s Day Act (RA 10743), Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education or UniFAST Act (RA 10687), Open High School System Act (RA 10665), Open Distance Learning Act (RA 10650), Iskolar ng Bayan Act (RA 10648), and Ladderized Education Act (RA 10647)
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Mountain lion shot to death after breaking into Stanislaus farmhouse
Lion was likely spooked by dogs, officials say
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An 80-pound mountain lion was shot to death after it took a door off its hinges while breaking into a Stanislaus County home, officials said Thursday.Deputies were called to the rural farmhouse about 9 a.m. in the 5000 block of East Linwood Avenue on Sunday.Tami Mendonca said she was in the front yard when, "I heard a huge dog fight, and a crash coming from the back of my house. I ran around and saw my back door had been, what I thought, was kicked in."Fearing a robber, Mendonca said she ran out front and called for help.Sheriff's Department spokesman Royjindar Singh said deputies were alerted to a possible burglary in progress.While investigating, deputies heard noises coming from a tree next to the home, Department of Fish and Game Capt. Robert Simpson said."We all walked over toward the tree and stopped dead in our tracks -- we were looking up at a mountain lion," Mendonca said.Sheriff's officials shot the animal after determining it posed a public safety issue. The lion was considered a threat to livestock and humans, Singh said.A Fish and Game warden was called to the home as well, but the animal descended the tree before the official arrived.The department had said if the mountain lion was a public menace, it could handle the situation.The mountain lion was shot so it couldn't continue wandering the area, Singh said.The area outside Turlock is not a typical habitat for mountain lions, according to Simpson. It's a semi-rural area filled with farmland, corn fields and orchards. There isn't much food for the mountain lions, but because they have no natural predators, they sometimes wander out of their territory.The female mountain lion was described as a "very healthy" adult. She was likely trying to get away from the homeowner's dogs, panicked, and went inside the house, Simpson said."It was very unnerving. Especially since I had been working in the yard and they are an animal of prey," Mendonca said.The woman said her two labs, Bear and Kona, are the heroes for chasing the lion out of the yard and preventing a more serious incident.
TURLOCK, Calif. (KCRA) —
An 80-pound mountain lion was shot to death after it took a door off its hinges while breaking into a Stanislaus County home, officials said Thursday.
Deputies were called to the rural farmhouse about 9 a.m. in the 5000 block of East Linwood Avenue on Sunday.
Tami Mendonca said she was in the front yard when, "I heard a huge dog fight, and a crash coming from the back of my house. I ran around and saw my back door had been, what I thought, was kicked in."
Fearing a robber, Mendonca said she ran out front and called for help.
Sheriff's Department spokesman Royjindar Singh said deputies were alerted to a possible burglary in progress.
While investigating, deputies heard noises coming from a tree next to the home, Department of Fish and Game Capt. Robert Simpson said.
"We all walked over toward the tree and stopped dead in our tracks -- we were looking up at a mountain lion," Mendonca said.
Sheriff's officials shot the animal after determining it posed a public safety issue. The lion was considered a threat to livestock and humans, Singh said.
A Fish and Game warden was called to the home as well, but the animal descended the tree before the official arrived.
The department had said if the mountain lion was a public menace, it could handle the situation.
The mountain lion was shot so it couldn't continue wandering the area, Singh said.
The area outside Turlock is not a typical habitat for mountain lions, according to Simpson. It's a semi-rural area filled with farmland, corn fields and orchards. There isn't much food for the mountain lions, but because they have no natural predators, they sometimes wander out of their territory.
The female mountain lion was described as a "very healthy" adult. She was likely trying to get away from the homeowner's dogs, panicked, and went inside the house, Simpson said.
"It was very unnerving. Especially since I had been working in the yard and they are an animal of prey," Mendonca said.
The woman said her two labs, Bear and Kona, are the heroes for chasing the lion out of the yard and preventing a more serious incident.
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'This is not a playing matter': Perdue plant employees walk out over COVID-19 concerns
Close to 50 employees who walked out Monday morning say some workers on the production line were in contact with people who tested positive for COVID-19
Author: Sarah Hammond
Published: 7:45 PM PDT March 23, 2020
Updated: 6:22 AM PDT March 24, 2020
KATHLEEN, Ga. — The Perdue plant in Kathleen was a little emptier Monday after about 50 employees walked out.
They said they don't feel safe working around people who have potentially been exposed to coronavirus and want the plant to do more to protect their employees.
"We're not getting nothing -- no type of compensation, no nothing, not even no cleanliness, no extra pay -- no nothing. We're up here risking our life for chicken," said employee Kendaliyn Granville.
She said people still working on the production line said they have been exposed to coronavirus.
Granville said her supervisors are telling them they are sanitizing the building every night, but when she comes in every morning, there is food on the floor from the night before and the bathrooms are still dirty.
"All we're asking now is just to sanitize the building. Sanitize the building. Everybody that's been exposed to it, they need to go home. These folks are still on the floor."
Diamond Gray said this is about more than coronavirus concerns. She said they are tired of accepting the bare minimum.
"We're told there's going to be more promotions and more pay for the company, but no one has seen that," said Gray. "I think a lot of people are just tired and with the virus involved. Also, I think it's just gotten to the point where enough is enough."
James Braswell said he's heard of other companies getting extra pay for working during the pandemic, but Perdue is "business as usual."
"We feel like the people who they love, they're letting them work from home, but they got us in here working," said Braswell.
He said supervisors are telling them the building is getting cleaned nightly and putting out hand sanitizers for the workers, but he said it's not enough.
"We gotta go home to our family because you know some of our family, some of our kids and all that, they’re at home, you know what I’m saying? Quarantined, but we’re out here working and all that and being exposed."
Granville said it's time to take a stand.
"You want us to go back on the floor to work? No, first sanitize the line, something, because this is not a playing matter. This is not a game."
Houston County Sheriff's deputies were called and the group dispersed, but they didn't have any other information. Granville said most of the group went home.
Perdue Farms sent the following statement via email to 13WMAZ:
We know that many are feeling anxious during these uncertain times, and we’re doing everything we can to take good care of our Associates while continuing to produce safe and reliable food. Last week, the federal government deemed food industry workers as mission-critical personnel. This is a huge responsibility, and we are committed to fulfilling it while keeping our Associates safe.
We’ve stepped up a number of our protocols to help ensure the health and wellness of our Associates, such as:
We’ve increased cleaning protocols in all of our offices and facilities, not only for sanitation but also in common areas, cafeterias, and locker rooms.
All of our associates have up to four weeks of paid time off, and we encourage them to stay home if they feel ill or may have been exposed to the virus. Importantly, we are also working to make our paid leave policies even more flexible during this time to be responsive and provide added relief to Associates.
We’ve encouraged any Associate feeling ill to call his or her local healthcare provider, or make use of the onsite Wellness Centers at our facilities, which are available to all Associates and their families free of charge. The staff at our Wellness Centers are trained on how to protect our Associates from, and identify and respond to, symptoms of COVID-19. These professionals follow standard operating procedures as defined by the CDC for infectious diseases. We have extended the hours of many of our onsite Wellness Centers for the foreseeable future.
Knowing that the COVID-19 situation is very fluid, we are assessing our policies as needed and are making sure we take thoughtful care of our Associates as it continues to evolve.
Thanks in large part to our dedicated Associates, Perdue, together with other food companies, will play a meaningful part in helping to keep people fed as the world grapples with and recovers from this significant challenge.
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9-Day Itineraries
British Columbia Circuit: Whistler, Shuswap, & Okanagan Valley - 9 Days
This road trip loops through British Columbia's Coastal Mountains to the Okanagan, taking in scenic mountain views, arid deserts, and vine-striped valleys. Beginning and ending in Vancouver, follow the Sea-to-Sky Highway north to Whistler, through Cariboo Country to the quaint lakeside community of Salmon Arm, and down through the Okanagan Valley to Osoyoos. Dine on east-meets-west cuisine in Vancouver, step back in time at Historic Hat Creek, and hike amid alpine meadows and lakes in E.C. Manning Provincial Park.
Dive into First Nations history at UBC's Museum of Anthropology
Rent snowshoes to trek atop year-round snowpack on Whistler Mountain
Stroll Salmon Arm Wharf for views over Shuswap Lake and water birds
Paddle a 30-foot voyageur canoe replica over McGillivray Lake to see wildlife
Don your swimsuit and relax in Canada's warmest freshwater lake in Osoyoos
Brief Itinerary
Day 1 Welcome to Vancouver! Vancouver
Day 2 Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology, Kits Beach, & Stanley Park Vancouver
Day 3 Sea-to-Sky Highway to Whistler Whistler
Day 4 Whistler to Shuswap Lake, following the Gold Rush Trails Shuswap Lake
Day 5 History & Outdoor Adventure around Shuswap Lake Shuswap Lake
Day 6 Shuswap Lake to Osoyoos through Lake & Wine Country Osoyoos
Day 7 Relax and Explore around Osoyoos Osoyoos
Day 8 Osoyoos to Vancouver: Wineries & Local History Vancouver
Day 9 Depart Vancouver
Day 1: Welcome to Vancouver!
Stanley Park, Deadman's Island, and downtown Vancouver
Fringed by the Pacific Ocean and backed by the stunning Coastal Range, Vancouver is one of the world's most livable cities with some of North America's best cuisine, rich indigenous heritage, and outdoor venues that beckon the active traveler.
It only takes around 30 minutes to get from the airport to downtown via taxi or Skytrain ride. The city center and surrounding neighborhoods are easily walkable, and all the main attractions are a short distance away. To get your bearings, start with a stroll along the seawall from English Bay to False Creek before wandering the historical, cobbled streets of Gastown and Chinatown.
With over 60 different cultures, there is a slew of international restaurants serving anything from Asian cuisine to seasonal farm-to-table dishes. For dinner, choose from a selection of top-notch eateries—from downtown and the West End to the North Shore and Kitsilano vicinity. Bear in mind, Vancouverites love eating out any day of the week so be sure to make a reservation if it's a popular restaurant.
Other recommended activities:
Vancouver Art Gallery. See historical and contemporary exhibits by regional, national, and international artists.
Chinatown. Snap pics of the towering Millennium Gate and mosey through the tranquil Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden.
Sam Kee Building. At just 6 feet (1.8 m) wide, marvel at the world's narrowest office building.
Vancouver Lookout. Ride the high-speed elevator up 40-stories for 360-degree views. Keep the receipt and come back later to watch the sun setting over the Strait of Georgia.
Day 2: Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology, Kits Beach, & Stanley Park
A driftwood-strewn beach of Point Grey
In the morning, head southwest of downtown to the University of British Columbia's ("UBC") campus to dedicate a couple of hours to explore the Museum of Anthropology, a great introduction to the history of the Pacific Northwest. Showcasing spectacular First Nations totem poles and impressive carvings, join a free daily tour to get a better understanding of British Columbia's rich indigenous history.
After that, make your way along the coast to Vancouver's trendy beachside suburb of Kitsilano (locally referred to as "Kits") for an afternoon of picnicking on the beach and swimming in the ocean or the outdoor saltwater pool. From Kits' shoreline, you have some of the best views in the city of Vancouver's skyline and nearby Coastal Range.
Walking distance from Kitsilano, head over to Granville Island, checking out the restaurants, gift shops, fresh food markets, and local boutique shops that reflect the island's maritime heritage. For a deep-dive of the island's culinary offerings, join a walking food tour that takes you through the bustling Granville Island Public Market.
Just before sunset, work up an appetite by walking (two hours) or biking (one hour) around Stanley Park's Seawall, a 6-mile (10-km) loop around a 400-hectare natural West Coast rainforest with views over the city. Time your walk to hit the midpoint at Siwash Rock and Third Beach for the best spot to watch the sun dip below the horizon.
Bard on the Beach. Catch a Shakespeare play in beautiful Vanier Park overlooking the city.
Science World. Witness the wonderful world of science with hands-on displays in a 17-story geodesic-shaped dome (great for kids).
Vancouver Aquarium. Learn about Pacific Canada's sea life at Canada's largest aquarium in Stanley Park.
VanDusen Botanical Garden. Get lost in an Elizabethan hedge maze in this popular botanical garden.
Day 3: Sea-to-Sky Highway to Whistler
Morning light over Squamish, one of British Columbia's most popular rock climbing destinations
Collect your rental car (keeping in mind Vancouver's rush hour is from 8-9 am) and begin your road trip north to Whistler along the Sea-to-Sky Highway, one of British Columbia's most iconic drives. A scenic route between the ocean and mountains, there are several great places to stop to break up the short drive.
Halfway to Whistler—and where the ocean, river, and alpine forest meet—there's Squamish, an access point for outdoor activities and adventure. Just before reaching Squamish, you can see the area's most famous peak from the highway, the Chief, a sheer granite rockface popular with skilled climbers. Pick up the Stawamus Chief Trail for a hike up the back to reach the summit (divided into three peaks and graded as an intermediate hike, it takes the average person 3-4 hours to reach the first—and most visited—summit). Or, take the Sea-to-Sky Gondola up the mountain for excellent views of Howe Sound from Summit Lodge at the top where you can also grab lunch.
You'll reach Whistler, an upscale, chalet-style pedestrian village (and venue for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics) in the early to mid-afternoon. Whistler is North America's largest winter sports resort worth a visit at any time of year. The village is built around Whistler-Blackcomb, twin peaks accessed by an ultramodern lift system that provides opportunities to hike, bike, canoe, kayak, rock climb, or zip-line in warmer months and ski or snowboard in the winter.
From Whistler Village, take the Peak 2 Peak Gondola up the mountain for an afternoon adventure. You can hike through the high alpine to Harmony Lake (1.6 miles / 2.5 km from the top of the gondola) or touch the toe of a small glacier on a similarly lengthed trek. For something unique, rent a pair of snowshoes to explore areas covered in year-round snow. Alternatively, there are hiking trails you can take from the village itself. Follow the Valley Trail to Lost Lake, where you can take a dip or enjoy a picnic in the summer months or cross-country ski along its shoreline in the winter.
If you're looking for something more relaxing, spend the afternoon exploring the village: people-watching from an outdoor café, hitting one of the great spas, such as Scandinave, visiting the Whistler Museum, or doing a little shopping. And if you arrive before 4 pm, head over to the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Center to sample First Nations cuisine and visit one of Whistler's best gift shops.
Other recommended stops & activities:
Shannon Falls. Stroll the short trail to British Columbia's third-highest waterfall at 1,099 feet (335 m)
Brackendale Eagles Provincial Park. Home to one of North America's largest eagle populations
Brandywine Falls Provincial Park. Stand atop a 230-foot (70-m) waterfall and hike a 4-mile (7-km) circuit through dense forest and ancient lava beds to Cal-Cheak Suspension Bridge.
Driving time (Vancouver to Whistler): 2 hours (75 miles /120 km)
Day 4: Whistler to Shuswap Lake, following the Gold Rush Trails
Green River in Nairn Provincial Park
Leaving Whistler, drive northeast through Pemberton following the signs for Lillooet. Be sure to stop at Nairn Provincial Park, where you can stretch your legs on a 40-minute (round-trip) hike along a wooded trail from the banks of the Green River to Nairn Falls.
Once you pass the First Nations settlement of Mount Currie, continue to follow the Sea-to-Sky Highway toward Lillooet, a historic town founded as Mile Zero of the 1858 Cariboo Wagon Road (also referred to as the Gold Rush Trail), which lead north to two goldfields. Enjoy the spectacular scenery of fast-moving rivers, icy-blue lakes, flower-laden meadows, and snow-capped peaks because everywhere you turn offers a picture-perfect view.
From Lillooet, follow the weaving Gold Nugget Route east toward Shuswap Lake in the northern Okanagan region of British Columbia. As you make your way, note the changing desertlike scene: sagebrush-covered hills, cacti, and mostly-barren volcanic landscape with the odd blowing tumbleweed.
To break up the long drive today, stop at Historic Hat Creek, where buildings from the Cariboo gold rush still stand—some dating as far back as 1861. Experience the western atmosphere as you tour the grounds, and if you're hungry, lunch on suitably western dishes, like bison chili, at the Historic Hat Creek Ranch.
Arriving in Salmon Arm, the "Gem of the Shuswap," you'll be out of the desert and surrounded by wooded hills, farms, and the Shuswap Lake-based provincial parks. A popular outdoor destination in the summer, check into your accommodation before finding your way to the Salmon Arm Wharf for lake views and to take in the birdlife on a late afternoon stroll.
Driving time (Whistler to Salmon Arm): 5 hours, 30 minutes (249 miles / 401 km)
Day 5: History & Outdoor Adventure around Shuswap Lake
North America's longest wooden wharf, the Salmon Arm Wharf
Just over two miles (2 km) east of Salmon Arm is the R.J. Haney Heritage Village & Museum, home to the town's main historic attractions. Discover Salmon Arm's earliest days and explore the park-like grounds of the adjacent Haney House. You'll find an early-20th-century farmhouse that holds a blacksmith's shop, an old fire hall, a church, and a tea house.
Farther afield, history buffs might venture to the Last Spike in Craigellachie, a 40-minute drive northeast along Shuswap Lake. An important part of Canada's history, it's here you'll find a cairn with a plaque and a piece of railway line to mark the spot where Canada was connected from sea to sea. On your return to Salmon Arm, stop in Sicamous to choose your flavor of ice cream at D Dutchmen Dairy and then plonk your towel on any of the sandy beaches that line the banks.
Taking advantage of the watery playground, join a 90-minute guided paddle of McGillivray Lake to see wildlife and uncover local history in a 30-foot (9-m) voyageur canoe replica with Northwest Voyageur Canoe Tours. Afterward, relax lakeside and indulge in a "fur trader's feast," a multi-course picnic add on (lunch and dinner options available).
Grass Root Dairies. Sample gouda as you watch the cheesemakers at work and explore the farm.
Marine Peace Park. Walk the trails and spot ospreys and blue herons from the boardwalk along the pier.
Hire a boat in Sicamous. Discover why it's known as the "Houseboat Capital of Canada."
Adam's River Sockeye Run. See spawning sockeye in the protected river (first three weeks in October).
Day 6: Shuswap Lake to Osoyoos through Lake & Wine Country
Kalamalka Lake near Vernon
Save your appetite this morning and hit the road to work your way south through the bucolic Okanagan Valley past lakes, orchards, and vine-striped hills, enjoying the several food-and-wine related stops (not to mention outdoor activities) along the way. Just north of Vernon, stop at Silver Star Mountain Resort and take the chairlift to the top from where you can hike or mountain bike the trails back down.
After taking a dip in the clear waters of Kalamalka Lake at Kal Beach, make your way to the Kal Lake Lookout just off the highway. Here you can appreciate the sweeping vistas of the color-changing emerald and turquoise water of the marl lake and surrounding mountain panorama. Stop for lunch in Kelowna and dine on local seasonal eats at Krafty Kitchen + Bar or picnic in the shade of maples and oaks along Lake Okanagan, keeping an eye out for the elusive Ogopogo.
Resting at the arid southern end of the Okanagan Valley along the Canada-US border sits Osoyoos, a small town on a narrow spit of land ringed by the beaches of Osoyoos Lake, as well as the orchards, farms, and vineyards it irrigates. After a long day, don your swimsuit and relax in Canada's warmest freshwater lake.
Historic O'Keefe Ranch. One of the Okanagan's first cattle ranches with a range of fun activities and history lessons.
Summerland. A lakeside hamlet with some of the valley's finest wines at Sumac Ridge Estate.
Rent a bike. Explore the 20-some well-respected wineries spread between Penticton and Naramata.
Black Sage Bench. Region renowned for its premium Bordeaux-style grapes. Check out Stoneboat Vineyards and Burrowing Owl Estate Winery.
Driving time (Shuswap Lake to Osoyoos): 4 hours (165 miles / 266 km)
Day 7: Relax and Explore around Osoyoos
The Native Chief by artist Smoker Marchand in Osoyoos
A day to relax and explore the surrounding region. Head north to Covert Farms to pick fruits, taste organic wine, and shop the country-style market, an excellent local-approved spot to stock up on supplies. Then, if it's not too hot (Osoyoos boasts Canada's highest year-round average temps), return to Osoyoos to visit the Desert Center. Learn about this very unique corner of Canada, from the pocket desert to its desert dwellers, including 23 invertebrates found nowhere else in the world.
When the warm, dry weather becomes a little too much, head to Gyro Beach or Cottonwood Beach on Osoyoos Lake. There's also Sẁiẁs Provincial Park (Haynes Point), a skinny peninsula that juts into the lake south of town, that affords a narrow beach and a walking trail through the marsh. Dry off and have lunch from an outdoor table overlooking the vineyard at Nk'Mip Cellars, the signature restaurant of Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Center.
Early evening, make the short drive to Oliver for dinner at Terrafina, a Tuscan-style restaurant belonging to Hester Creek Estate Winery.
Osoyoos Golf and Country Club. Take to its sagebrush-lined fairways for a round of golf.
Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Center. Watch Coyote Spirit and walk the trail through the desert to significant points of interest complete with interpretive panels.
Mount Kobau. Drive the gravel road to the summit (6,150 feet / 1,874 m) for a bird's eye view over Osoyoos Lake and look out for Spotted Lake, a curious natural phenomenon.
Naramata Heritage Inn & Spa. Pamper yourself with a spa, great food, and local wines.
La Stella Winery. Drink the highly-regarded Cabernet-Sauvignon-based Maestoso at this beautiful winery with terracotta roof tiles and floors—a vision straight out of Italy.
Day 8: Osoyoos to Vancouver: Wineries & Local History
Similkameen River near Keremeos
Following Highway 3 out of Osoyoos, zigzag your way across southern British Columbia to Vancouver. Stop in the Similkameen Valley to visit a winery or two, like Forbidden Fruit or Orofino wineries in Cawston, or check out the historic grist mill in Keremeos and purchase fresh-picked fruit from any number of roadside stands in between.
For a taste of gold rush history, visit Princeton and District Pioneer Museum to see pioneer artifacts from Granite City, Chinese and Salish artifacts, and a considerable fossil display. Stretch the legs and experience the lakes and alpine meadows of E.C. Manning Provincial Park. If you have three hours to spare, hike Heather Trail (12 miles / 20 km) to Three Brothers Mountain and enjoy the colorful views: a carpet of yellow, orange, and white wildflowers (late July to mid-August).
Approaching Vancouver, the scenery transforms from the bright sunlit rock faces of the Coast Mountains to misty coastal cedars and tall firs as you near the coast. Have dinner in the suburb of Richmond for some of the best Chinese cuisine outside of China.
Canyon scenery. Twenty minutes off the main drag, cross the river at the north end of Princeton's Bridge Street toward whimsical Coalmont.
Othello-Quintette Tunnels. Five tunnels carved out of solid granite of the Coquihalla Canyon.
Hell's Gate Airtram. Ride the tram over the Fraser River Canyon, a scenic pit stop (and 50-minute detour north of Hope).
Harrison Hot Springs. Charming village and spring-fed mineral hot springs, popular with families.
Fort Langley National Historic Site. Heritage-style antique shops, boutiques, and restaurants with interpreters in period costume.
Driving time (Osoyoos to Vancouver): 4.5 hours (247 miles / 398 km)
Day 9: Depart Vancouver
False Creek in Downtown Vancouver
Head to The Naam (open 24/7) for an early morning breakfast before making your way to the airport. If you're feeling indulgent, splurge on a seaplane harbor tour to take in the magnificent scenery of the mountain-and-sea-dominated city from a new perspective. Alternatively, enjoy some more time at Stanley Park, paying a visit to Klahowya Village via the Spirit Catcher miniature train to watch cultural performances. Here you can also purchase souvenirs and gifts of traditional First Nations arts and crafts from the Artisan Marketplace and Métis Trading Post.
It usually takes 30 minutes to travel from downtown Vancouver to Vancouver International Airport but allow extra time in case of traffic. Best to arrive at least two hours prior to your international departure while allowing extra time to drop off your rental car.
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Senators Cotton, Cruz, Rubio Urge President Trump to Increase Pressure on Iran’s Nuclear Program
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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Florida) sent a letter to President Trump after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that Iran is in violation of restrictions on stockpiling enriched uranium specified in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The letter calls on the president to counter Iran’s violation by increasing pressure on Iran’s nuclear program, specifically by ending civil-nuclear waivers issued by the State Department and invoking the snapback mechanism in United Nations Security Council resolution 2231, which would respectively restore the U.S. and international prohibitions on Iranian nuclear work.
“First, your administration has continued to issue civil-nuclear waivers allowing Iran to build up its nuclear program as part of an effort to “maintain the nuclear status quo with Iran until a better deal can be negotiated,” including at their Fordow centrifuge facility, a military bunker which they dug into the side of a mountain so they could build nuclear weapons there,” the senators wrote. “The Iranians have now changed the nuclear status quo and are trying to create a new normal of minor violations that will enable their creep toward a nuclear weapon. We urge you to end these waivers. Second, your administration has refrained from invoking the snapback mechanism in United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 2231, which if invoked would restore international restrictions against Iranian uranium enrichment, plutonium-related heavy water work, and ballistic missile development. Paragraph 10 of UNSCR 2231 defines the United States as a participant for the purpose of invoking the mechanism. We urge you to do so.”
Read the full letter here below:
The Honorable Donald J. Trump
Dear President Trump,
We write to urge you to increase pressure on Iran’s nuclear program, in the aftermath of Iran publicly violating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by stockpiling more than 300kg of low-enriched uranium and threatening further violations within weeks. Regime officials have signaled they intend to creep towards a nuclear weapon, while demanding concessions and promising to “reverse” their violations if their demands are met. We urge you to reject their nuclear blackmail.
Two years ago, you correctly decided that the JCPOA gave Iran too much while imposing restrictions that were too little, and that the United States would no longer “continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence, more terror, and the very real threat of Iran’s nuclear breakout.” Last year you correctly reimposed economic pressure on the regime to begin reversing the catastrophic effects of the deal and pressure them into negotiating a better one.
We urge you to respond to Iran’s nuclear violations this week by increasing pressure on their nuclear program as well.
First, your administration has continued to issue civil-nuclear waivers allowing Iran to build up its nuclear program as part of an effort to “maintain the nuclear status quo with Iran until a better deal can be negotiated,” including at their Fordow centrifuge facility, a military bunker which they dug into the side of a mountain so they could build nuclear weapons there. The Iranians have now changed the nuclear status quo and are trying to create a new normal of minor violations that will enable their creep toward a nuclear weapon. We urge you to end these waivers.
Second, your administration has refrained from invoking the snapback mechanism in United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 2231, which if invoked would restore international restrictions against Iranian uranium enrichment, plutonium-related heavy water work, and ballistic missile development. Paragraph 10 of UNSCR 2231 defines the United States as a participant for the purpose of invoking the mechanism. We urge you to do so.
The JCPOA was built to enable Iranian cheating. It disempowered the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) inspection and reporting authorities to find violations, incentivized other parties to preserve the deal by ignoring whatever violations were found, and when necessary pressuring the Joint Commission (JC) to issue still-confidential side deals that redefined noncompliance as compliance, allowing Iran to keep more material than specified in the public version of the JCPOA.
As a result, hundreds of billions of dollars flowed into Iran, allowing the Iranians to boost its military and terrorist activities regionally and globally, even as they maintained nuclear weapons infrastructure, periodically exceeded restrictions on nuclear materials, and inched toward the deal’s promise of an unrestricted civilian nuclear program. When Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure was recently unveiled by Israel in the form of the Nuclear Archive, the IAEA allowed several months to elapse as the Iranian regime scrubbed nuclear weapons-related sites revealed by the Archive, while other parties in the deal downplayed Iran’s violation. That’s how the deal was always supposed to work, that’s how it did work, and that’s why it is imperative that the United States now respond forcefully to Iran’s systematic violations by ending civil-nuclear waivers and invoking the U.N. snapback.
As always, we stand ready to provide you and your administration with whatever resources you need to continue rolling back Iran’s nuclear and non-nuclear malign activities.
Senator Tom Cotton
Senator Ted Cruz
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WEBVTT MATT HOWERTON EXPLAINS.MATT: TORRANCE COUNTY SHERIFFHEATH WHITE PATROLS 7 DAYS AWEEK.AND HE MIGHT BE SPENDING MORETIME BEHIND THE WHEEL NOW THATTHE TORRANCE COUNTY DETENTIONCENTER HAS CLOSED.>> IT IS A HUGE FRUSTRATION.MATT: THE JAIL WAS PRIVATELYOWNED.AND WHEN IT BELLIED UP WHITE HADTO FIND A NEW PLACE TO HOUSE HISINMATES.HE JUST SECURED A CONTRACT FOR65 BEDS AT THE SANTA FE COUNTYJAIL.AND ANY OVERFLOW?GOES TO GRANTS.WHITE KNOWS IT'S NOT THE BESTSCENARIO BUT HERE'S THE REALPROBLEM.HE NEEDS MORE DEPUTIES TOTRANSPORT THOSE INMATES.WHITE FIGURES HE NEEDS 6ADDITIONAL DEPUTIES SOLELYDEDICATED TO TRANSPORTATIOTHE COUNTY HAS ONLY GIVEN HIM TOGUESS GIVEN HIM TWO -- GIVEN HIMTWO WHICH MEANS DEPUTIES WHO ARESUPPOSED TO BE PATROLLING THESTREETS ARE PICKING UP THESLACK.>> ON A GOOD DAY WHEN WEATHER ISGOOD ABOUT 45 MINUTES TO AN HOURDRIVE.ABOUT ANOTHER 35 TO 45 MIUTEINTAKE AND THEN AN HOUR DRIVEBACK.AND AS FOR RESPONSE TIMES?MATT:AND AS FOR RESPONSE TIMES?WHITE SAYS THEY'RE TAKING A HIT.HOW DO YOU EXPECT DEPUTIES TOCOVER ALL OF TORRANCE COUNTY ANDTO TRANSPORT SUSPECTS LIKE THIAT THE SAME TIME?>> IT JUST COMES DOWN TO WORKINGMORE HOURS AND DOING MORELOGISTICS ON THIS.MATT: WHITE SAYS COMMISSIONERSSO FAR WON'T BUDGET TO HELP HIM.FOR NOW?HE'S GOING TO MAKE DO WITH WHATHE HAS.>> IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT THEY
Deputies with the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office are spending more time behind the wheel, and less time patrolling neighborhoods in the wake of the Torrance County Detention Center closing.The privately-run jail closed its doors at the end of the September, leaving a little over 70 inmates belonging to Torrance County up in the air. Last week, Sheriff Heath White inked a deal with the Santa Fe County Jail for 65 beds. Any overflow goes to a jail in Grants, according to White. White feared that if the jail closed, response times within the sheriff’s office would be impacted. And as of now, his fears are a reality. White says many deputies are spending a good amount of time transporting suspects between Torrance and Santa Fe County. He asked the county for 6 additional deputies to solely be assigned to transportation. But as of now, he’s only been approved for 2. “On a good day, when weather is good, it’s about a 45 minute to an hour drive, about another 35 to 45 minutes to process the inmate at intake, and then an hour drive back,” White said. “Most days, deputies are taking three hours at least to transport suspects.” White also fears that transport times will get worse during the winter.For now, he says he’ll make do with what he has. Yet, White says he’ll keep pushing commissioners to budget for more help. “This isn’t a situation they created, it’s not one I created, but this is happening right now and we have to deal with it,” he said.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM —
Deputies with the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office are spending more time behind the wheel, and less time patrolling neighborhoods in the wake of the Torrance County Detention Center closing.
The privately-run jail closed its doors at the end of the September, leaving a little over 70 inmates belonging to Torrance County up in the air.
Last week, Sheriff Heath White inked a deal with the Santa Fe County Jail for 65 beds. Any overflow goes to a jail in Grants, according to White.
White feared that if the jail closed, response times within the sheriff’s office would be impacted.
And as of now, his fears are a reality.
White says many deputies are spending a good amount of time transporting suspects between Torrance and Santa Fe County.
He asked the county for 6 additional deputies to solely be assigned to transportation. But as of now, he’s only been approved for 2.
“On a good day, when weather is good, it’s about a 45 minute to an hour drive, about another 35 to 45 minutes to process the inmate at intake, and then an hour drive back,” White said.
“Most days, deputies are taking three hours at least to transport suspects.”
White also fears that transport times will get worse during the winter.
For now, he says he’ll make do with what he has. Yet, White says he’ll keep pushing commissioners to budget for more help.
“This isn’t a situation they created, it’s not one I created, but this is happening right now and we have to deal with it,” he said.
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Increased border traffic likely as Canada, U.S. economies reopen: Freeland
The ban on non-essential travel is set to expire on May 21
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada and the U.S. are working on plans to deal with what she calls an inevitable increase in cross-border traffic as economies in both countries emerge from their pandemic-induced comas.
Freeland says traffic over the shared border is bound to increase as states and provinces reopen shuttered businesses and ease restrictions on personal mobility, even if the current Canada-U.S. ban on non-essential travel remains unchanged.
That agreement, which has allowed essential workers and trade shipments to continue to move back and forth between the two countries, was first imposed in March and is set to expire on May 21.
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Freeland says discussions about when and how to begin easing those restrictions are ongoing, both between Canada and the U.S. and between the federal government and the provinces.
She says Canada will adhere to the same prudent and sensible approach that has guided it throughout the COVID-19 outbreak.
And she says the premiers “by and large” share the same cautious view as the federal government.
“Inevitably, as our economies start to open up … even absent a single change in Canada’s border restrictions, we will see more travel across the border — we’ll see more Canadians choosing to go back and forth, and we’ll see more business activity, which will mean more essential travel,” Freeland said.
“That does mean that the federal government will need to do even more at all of our borders to keep Canadians safe and well, and that is something that we are working on right now, and we’re very focused on.”
On Friday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford made crystal clear how he feels about the prospect of allowing visitors to Ontario from the U.S., where COVID-19 has exacted a brutal toll: more than a million active cases and 81,000 deaths to date.
“I do not want those borders open,” Ford said, noting that his counterparts in Quebec and B.C. feel the same way.
Screening at airports and border crossings will need to increase “tenfold” once the restrictions are lifted, he added.
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Not only goalies wear masks: NHL coaches must cover faces
Washington Capitals head coach Peter Laviolette, center left, talks to his players during NHL hockey practice at the MedStar Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Va., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via AP)
Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour conducts drills during NHL hockey training camp in Morrisville, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Chicago Blackhawks head coach Jeremy Colliton sets up a drill during an NHL hockey training camp practice Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice struggled to blow a whistle while wearing a mask. Barry Trotz couldn’t see if one of his New York Islanders players was skating toward him because his mask had helped fog up his glasses.
“It was ugly there for a while,” Maurice said. “There’s some challenges to it.”
One of the new challenges for NHL coaches this season is the requirement to wear a mask behind the bench during games and on the ice for practices. Now that goaltenders won’t be the only masked men around the rink, coaches will learn and adjust on the fly like those in other sports have had to in recent months.
“Just being around the rink all day wearing one is an adjustment, but we’ll work it out,” Joel Quenneville of the Florida Panthers said. “Sometimes when you really want to get your point across, you might have to pull your mask down to make yourself clear. But I’ve never changed lines with a face mask on.”
Hockey coaches are more responsible than their counterparts in baseball, football or basketball to bark out directions in real time at a fast pace, which makes this an even steeper learning curve. Get ready for loud yelling and maybe a few more bench minor penalties for too many men on the ice.
“I used to have a big moustache, maybe that was kind of like a mask,” Dave Tippett of the Edmonton Oilers said. “I’m a mumbler at the best of times. You’ll have to be really clear with who’s going on line changes.”
One thing that’s clear is most coaches won’t complain about the extra safety measure to prevent virus spread. Quenneville and his staff have talked about NFL coaches being fined for not wearing face coverings correctly and how they’ve adapted.
Commissioner Gary Bettman told coaches and executives that protocols “are not a suggestion or a recommendation” and the NHL “will vigorously enforce them.”
“I’m going to have to do my absolute best to make sure it stays on and stays right,” D.J. Smith of the Ottawa Senators said. “Ultimately the league’s doing it for a reason, and it’s the safety, and I’ll abide by all the rules.”
So will John Tortorella, who told the Columbus Blue Jackets on the first day of camp he doesn’t want to hear any complaining about health and safety protocols. He said wearing a mask is important and added: “It doesn’t affect me, it will not affect the other coaches.”
Colleagues also see it as personal responsibility.
“It’s the right move under these circumstances,” David Quinn of the New York Rangers said. “If it helps a little bit, we should all do it, so certainly our staff is embracing it. Our organization’s embracing it and we’re just going to have to manage it.”
There are some benefits. Maurice suggested keeping the television cameras off him during games because they won’t be able to pick up anything he’s saying anyway.
Gone — for now — are the days of reading lips of coaches swearing at officials or each other.
“Probably be good for me,” Peter Laviolette of the Washington Capitals said. “Nobody will see what’s coming out of my mouth. My mother will be happy.”
READ MORE: NHLers know not everyone’s happy they’re playing: ‘We’re not blind’
The Canadian Press contributed to this report.
Stephen Whyno, The Associated Press
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