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Trend Tracker: Instant meals, halal trends, health-nourishing tonics, and more feature in our round-up
17-Jan-2020 - Last updated on 17-Jan-2020 at 04:00 GMT
Trend Tracker: Instant meals, halal trends, health-nourishing tonics, and more feature in our round-up ©Pixabay
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Whole Kids snacks trend, Takasago enters halal market, Vesbo functional instant porridge and more in this edition of Trend Tracker.
Convenience key: Australia’s largest organic kids’ snacks range Whole Kids plans APAC expansion
Australia’s largest organic children’s snacks brand Whole Kids sees convenience for both mothers and kids as well as delivering delicious tasting products as its major priorities whilst planning for its upcoming expansion into the Asia Pacific region.
The entire range of Whole Kids’ snacks, which comprise over 50 product varieties, are certified organic, additive free and allergen friendly.
More importantly, in the firm’s attempt to cater to its prime target demographic of mothers and children between six months and ten years of age, it has innovated a variety of products to deliver ‘good quality nutrition’ in a convenient way.
“Convenience is a very important concept to us – we want to ensure our products are convenient for both parents and children,” Whole Kids co-founder Monica Meldrum told FoodNavigator-Asia.
South East Asian push: Takasago unveils 100% halal production focus for its new Indonesia factory
Japanese flavours and fragrances giant Takasago International has revealed a completely halal production focus for its latest factory established in Indonesia, in a bid to strengthen its presence in the South East Asian market.
The new facility is located in West Java, Indonesia, and involved US$25mn of investment to complete. According to Takasago, this was the company’s first local production factory, and its biggest investment in the country so far.
“Indonesia represents a significant opportunity for Takasago to improve its share in the Asia-Pacific region,” Takasago International (Singapore) Managing Director Andy Arguelles told FoodNavigator-Asia.
“[It is] the biggest market in the [region], and Takasago has made a significant investment [here] to enable us to further strengthen our presence in this growing market.”
Functional porridge: Malaysian firm targets major halal markets with bird’s nest product
Malaysian firm Vesbo is hoping to target major halal markets with its functional instant porridge containing bird’s nest and collagen.
Vesbo Malaysia’s founder, Terry Swee, said it was a huge advantage that the product was halal certified.
While the firm is currently focusing on the Asian market, Swee believes there is high market demand for their products in other regions such as in the West and Middle East. “We obtained the halal (JAKIM) certification in 2016. We think that our product is fit to fill up the needs of halal food market across the globe.”
The products contains brown rice, oats, collagen, bird’s nest and milk, and is preservative and MSG free.
Tmall forecasts sports nutrition and health-nourishing tonics to take the centre stage in 2020
Tmall has identified six food and beverage consumption trends that will take the centre stage this year, including the rising demand for sports nutrition products and health-nourishing tonics.
Instant meals, single-person consumption, place of origin, and cross-category products (i.e. products made from collaboration with non-food and beverage brands) were the other four key trends.
The e-commerce giant made the forecast based on the consumption statistics from last year, where the middle-aged, elderly, females, and consumers born post-1995 were core spenders.
As a whole, the market size of health-nourishing foods expanded at a faster rate than the general food and beverage products for the last two years.
Snacking, hemp and energy drinks: Three categories ripe for APAC F&B industry growth in 2020
With the Asia Pacific food and beverage food industry growing at a rapid rate over the past few years, and even more advancement predicted to come, we bring you three of the most significant emerging categories showing strong potential for growth moving into 2020.
Emerging snack markets in India, China, Indonesia
Snacks as a category are rapidly growing in popularity within the Asia Pacific region, driven by consumer trends such as a preference for convenience and GDP growth.
Within this region, snacking giant Mondelez has identified the markets in India, China and South East Asia, especially Indonesia, as those with the most significant potential for growth moving forward into 2020, making these very significant emerging markets for the company.
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When a woman is kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight‚ Jack Reacher is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He’s kidnapped with her. Handcuffed together and racing across America toward an unknown destination‚ they’re at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because Reacher’s female companion is worth more than he imagines. Now he has to save them both — from the inside out — or die trying.
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Game addiction confessions: 14 dumb things we've done because of gaming
By GamesRadar Staff 07 April 2014
We can stop any time we want to
We've all been there. It's 2 am, you have somewhere to be in only a handful of hours, but you're not asleep. Far from it, you're wired, playing an MMO or a MOBA or an RTS or an RPG or a shooter. You don't have to be, sure, but you want to be, so you are and no one is going to stop you because you're a mature person who can make your own choices. Or yeah, you might have a problem.
Luckily, you're not alone. We at GamesRadar have a lengthy history of gaming addiction (in case you couldn't have guessed), and we're prepared to anonymously air our dirty laundry for everyone to see. We've done some really stupid things in the past--or, in some cases, recently--and we might as well share those stories with the world (provided we leave our names off these confessions).
Woke up at 4:30am to play Diablo 2
My parents didn't want me staying up until four in the morning when I was 15, but I wasn't about to let that get in the way of Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction. I needed to kill Mephisto and loot his stuff, but there weren't enough hours in the day. So I found a solution: don't stay up late, wake up early. I needed to catch the bus to school at 7am, so I'd typically wake up at 6am. But by waking up at 4:30am, I could play D2 for nearly two hours before needing to head out. No one else was awake yet, either! It was the perfect crime. And I eventually found a Blade Of Ali Baba, so it was totally worth it.
Lost track of time playing Professor Layton
I remember, a long time ago (it feels like centuries now), I used to work in a bakery on Pudding Lane in central London. It meant getting up really early, but luckily I had my DS to keep me company while I was waiting for all the bread to bake. Anyway, one early-morning in September, I was involved in a really heavy session of Professor Layton and the Lost Future, and I completely lost track of time. In fact, I only stopped playing when I noticed a burning smell coming from one of the ovens. I looked up in horror--the bread was actually on fire. I panicked, and just ran for it. Pretty sure it all worked out, but I never really found out, as I never dared go back to my job at Thomas Farriners Bakery! Hey, should I even be writing that?
Started writing about games at school
I used to love my home computer when I was about 8 years old. I used to play games on it whenever I could, which was a lot. This concerned my parents, who naturally thought it would do me more good to be playing outside with my friends. Things came to a head when I was in an English lesson and wrote a short story about me and my sister getting sucked into the TV screen and confronted with the enemies in the game. Gaming had literally started to "affect my schoolwork" in that I was writing about games at school. That was the tipping point. My parents sold the computer and I was game-less for about a year and a half. Tsk. Looking back on it now, I realise how foolish I was. As if writing about games would ever get me anywhere.
Almost slept through an extremely important test
I may not have been a very productive college student, but I did make it to class everyday. What I was doing in class (like sleeping) doesnt matter--I was physically present. But I do remember the one time I almost completely slept through a midterm test because I stayed up all night playing a game (not going to tell you which). By all night, I mean, it was probably 6am by the time I went to bed and I had to get up at 7 to get ready. I only woke up because my friends were at my door at around 9ish, anticipating that I was most likely still in bed and figured they'd do me a favor and drive me to class. I did make it to the class. I definitely did not pass that test.
I called into work sick to watch E3 three years in a row
Before I was in a position where I'd actually go to E3, I felt as though I needed to be a part of it. How? Well, by watching it online (on websites like GamesRadar, obviously), but there was a problem: I had a job. And that job required me to, you know, go into a building. To work. And not watch E3. That wouldn't do. So three years in a row, I managed to somehow get "sick" near the beginning of June. "Yeah. *cough* Really bad throat, might be a--*cough*--cold? I'll get some rest. Thanks."
Shared my address with people I didnt actually know
So everyone's done something really stupid when they're younger, right? Like, the "I don't have much life experience so all this is new and exciting to me!" kind of thing? The ability to talk to virtually anyone in the world on the Internet was a very exciting to a nave 14-year old. You could make friends who lived in far off exotic places like Texas! Or Connecticut, or whatever. Well, that also meant that I got lured into these emotional traps where old people (at the time, old meant 20+) would try to cozy up to me and develop a "virtual relationship" with me. Now it never got to the point where I would indulge in cybersex or give out my private information, but I was dumb enough to give out my address once and received some really disturbing photos and letters from totally creepy internet people.
Blew off a friend's going away party to play World of Warcraft
Yeah, I'm not proud. At 22, I was working two part-time jobs while tackling a full-time college semester's load of classes. In my limited free time, I rather enjoyed playing World of Warcraft. And by limited free time, I mean somewhere in the ballpark of 40+ hours per week. Not only did this cause tension between myself and my parents, who believed playing video games was a waste of one's life, but it also meant passing on weekly hangouts with my lifelong pals every now and then. Problem is, one of those "now and then" moments included my buddy's going away party. He was moving halfway across the country. Sorry, Brandon--it was a raid night.
Like I said, I'm not proud.
Stole a friend's copy of Age of Empires, then lied to him about it when confronted
The year is 1997. My dad just bought an Acer computer that runs Windows 95. I invite my best friend over to play Jazz Jackrabbit, and he one-ups me with this game called Age of Empires. Within minutes, I'm hooked. I'm building entire towns and razing them for the hell of it; I'm simultaneously slaughtering deer for food and sending warriors to battle. I'm packing enemies into a custom map, in the middle of which I spawn four Nuke Troopers (using the 'e=mc2 trooper' cheat code, of course) to see just how long futuristic soldiers with laser guns can survive the continuous onslaught of hundreds of chariot archers. Then, when it's my friend's time to leave, he forgets the disc in my tray. In turn, I purposely forget to remind him about it. Days later he calls to ask if I still have his Age of Empires disc. As I'm destroying the Egyptians with my Greek army, I tell him "no."
Nearly missed Christmas dinner because of a Frostwyrm
I stopped raiding in WoW well before the Burning Crusade expansion was even out. That meant that I completely missed the Naxxramus instance--which is a shame, because it contained some of the coolest boss fights at the time. Blizzard being cool (and maybe just a LITTLE bit lazy) brought back Naxxramus for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, which had handily taken over my Christmas vacation at release. It got to the point where my cousin and I were in a 25-man raid on Christmas Eve, fighting the huge undead ice dragon Sapphiron, while my mom called up the stairs that dinner was ready, the frustration and anger in her voice slowly rising. This was the exact moment that I realized: I didn't owe any of these random strangers a minute of my time. And so me and my cousin bailed mid-battle, and Christmas was effectively saved.
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In the wake of Haiti’s devastating January 2010 earthquake, media attention focused the world’s eyes on the devastation in the capital city, Port-au-Prince. Meanwhile, a catastrophe unfolded on Haiti’s southern coast in Jacmel, a city where 70 percent of the homes were damaged or destroyed.
Gensler learned of Jacmel’s plight from Operation USA, an international relief agency heavily involved in Haitian relief efforts. With project funding from Honeywell, Operation USA enlisted a Gensler Los Angeles team to provide design services for the reconstruction of the Ecole Nationale Jacob Martin Henriquez. The Jacmel school re-opened October 18, 2011, to a host of smiling children eager to revive school-day routines.
A Safe Place to Learn
Jacmel’s school serves more than 400 students in grades K-7 who otherwise cannot afford primary education. Rebuilt, the school not only provides children a safe place to learn during the country’s reconstruction, it enables local engineers to learn how to build structures capable of withstanding future earthquakes and hurricanes.
Operation USA completed the school working in close collaboration with then Mayor (now Senator) Edwin Zenny, a nationally renowned activist and anti-corruption leader committed to Jacmel’s future. This partnership with the mayor’s office ensured the project proceeded smoothly and conformed to community’s needs.
Surveying the Scene
Given the need for an immediate response following the quake, five Gensler team members traveled to Jacmel and spent four days studying the region and its design and building conditions. Team members quickly established that every effort from locating construction supplies to designing a working plumbing system posed significant challenges.
Gensler donated all design services for the school project and secured the donation of structural drawings from U.S.-based engineering firm Miyamoto International.
A Repeatable Design Process
Gensler’s design team proposed single-story buildings that could be constructed simply by local builders. To promote local redevelopment, all supplies, from construction materials to furniture, came from within the country.
The team strove to ensure that the design would be both cost-effective and easily replicated by other Haitian engineers and construction workers. This approach allows the school structures to demonstrate essential design and engineering principles that can be applied in constructing subsequent buildings across the region and country.
Rebuilding Community
The extensive damage to roads and public buildings had segregated many communities; the school’s design renews the sense of community, giving kids a place they feel comfortable calling their own. The buildings are laid out around a series of outdoor spaces and courtyards that function as social connectors between the classrooms of varying grade levels.
The school’s design also takes advantage of the warm tropical climate by orienting classroom buildings in a north-south direction to capture prevailing westerly winds. This natural ventilation system cuts cooling costs, while literally giving students breaths of fresh air throughout their school day.
“Little by Little ”
Each aspect of the school design is intended to contribute to a vibrant, campus-like environment of shared, multi-generational educational experience and community involvement.
As Gensler team member Wendi Gilbert says, “The Haitians have a saying, ‘piti piti na rive’ that means ‘little by little, we will arrive.’ ”It’s an apt sentiment for Jacmel, a school preparing children for their future, one class at a time. Re-opening the École Nationale Jacob Martin Henriquez is a small step in the city’s rebuilding process. Having a secure place for students to cultivate their academic and social development helps residents see brighter days ahead.
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Finally, in contrast of what if it can seem, in result of the occurred natural incident lastimvel, we remain ourselves previously firm in our position concerning the use of the nuclear energy in the Brazilian territory for the innumerable pointed factors, amongst them, we present, now, one another one: – the redoubled security guard that if imposes when of its application, either the one that heading will be. Let us remember to us: The energy nuclear it has a description enviable of security if compared with the deaths of other energy sectors. Although this, is forbidden to fish in next waters to the central office. (3) the sample collected in the sea close to the nuclear central office in the Wednesday, 31/03/11, showed an iodine-131 concentration that exceeds 4,385 times legal limit e, since then, the Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power, company that generates the central office of Fukushima) left to divulge resulted, after detecting errors in its programs of measurement. (4) the used materials of construction in the construction of structures of protection of nuclear reactors are of first quality, the methods constructive, especially well-taken care of and the structural projects use security coefficients very above average. Moreover, the measures of passive and active security gifts in a nuclear central office and respective critical systems have a degree of superior redundancy to any structure made for the man. (5) In the case of the central office of Fukushima it was necessarily the feeding of the systems of cooling of emergency that failed. Had to the sismo and the impact of the Tsunami, the generators auxiliary had left to function, provoking the interruption of the functioning of the bombs and the stop consequence of the water circulation in the interior of the tubings of cooling of some reactors.
This lead to the gradual heating of the nuclei and increase of the pressure in the interior. Some occured explosions had resulted of this increase of presso.(6) the authorities had more than raised the official rocking of victims of the sismo for eleven a thousand deceased, have, still, thousand of missing people who at least can be contabilizados.(7) Beyond the nine inhabitants, whose contamination already was confirmed, it has about 60 people who could have been contaminated while they waited the helicopter in the esportivo field of a school in Futaba (Fukushima). In none of them it has risk of morte.(8) the AIEA (International Agency of Atomic Energy) recommended to the Japan that extends the withdrawal of inhabitants of the next region to the plant. The director of the Department of Nuclear Security of the AIEA, Denis Flory, affirmed yesterday that the analyses made in the region of Iitate show to excess of radioactivity in a located area the 40 kilometers of the Nuclear Plant of Fukushima, north-eastern of Japo.(9) the Japanese government forbade to the milk sales and two types of vegetables produced in the four city halls (states) next to the central office to Fukushima, which had to a high level of radioactivity. Although discarded any contamination in such levels the criteria of security and prudence are demanded.
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Famous for its beaches, villas, and pearls, Mallorca is a little taste of paradise off Spain's Mediterranean coast. For decades it's been a popular hotspot for summer and winter holidays alike due to its many diverse attractions. Here are ten of the best.
1. La Seu (Palma Cathedral)
Designed by Antoni Gaudí and Miquel Barceló, Palma's magnificent cathedral is unlike any in the world. Mass times vary, but you can be sure to catch one at 9:00AM daily.
2. Serra de Tramuntana
The winding road through this breathtaking valley is well worth renting a car for. Be sure to stop off at the red-brick village of Deià and Sa Calobra's beautiful cove - but don't forget your map!
3. Cap de Formentor
This is arguably Mallorca's most spectacular landscape, to be found at the eastern end of the Formentor peninsula. It's known locally as the "meeting point of the winds."
4. Castell de Bellver
Conceived as a royal residence, this unique 14th-century castle in fact spent more time in use as a prison. As well as incredible hillside views, it's also home to a museum.
5. Fornalutx and Biniaraix
The walk between these two quaint towns covers some of the island's most exuberant scenery, with olive, oak, and pine trees, a watermill, and Fornalutx's citrus-littered cemetery.
6. Jardines d'Alfàbia
Nestled in the rugged mountains of Serra d’Alfàbia, is this ambrosial garden that was once the courtyard of an Arab viceroy. Today, however, it's occupied by rambling farm animals.
7. Alcudia
In historical terms, Alcudia is Mallorca's second city. Its old town is encircled by a medieval wall, and its beaches and coves are perfect for swimming and snorkeling.
8. Puerto de Soller
Soller's port is the scenic highlight of this historic town, with twin lighthouses forming a gateway to its sandy bay. Don't miss touring the seafront on its vintage trams!
9. Illa de Cabrera
If you just can't get enough peace and quiet, then head to this uninhabited islet and National Park off Mallorca's south coast to sunbathe, hike, or explore its old castle.
10. Beaches
Visiting Mallorca for the sea and sand? The resort beach of Playa de Muro is one of the best, but if you fancy something a little more isolated, then head to the wilder Es Trenc.
The best time to visit Mallorca is between June and August, when the weather averages about 86°F and the coastal breeze stops temperatures from getting intolerable. This is also when the island hosts its music and film festivals. For a nice wintry trip with mild weather October won't disappointed - it's better-suited to exploring Mallorca's local cultures and historic buildings.
The simplest way to reach Mallorca is by flying to Palma de Mallorca Airport in the island's capital city. There are also several ferry services available from Barcelona, Valencia, and Ibiza.
The milder months (September-March) are probably a suitable time to visit if you are looking for a quiet getaway - however, the island really comes to life in the summer.
What people are saying about Mallorca
The glass bottom is a bit of a novelty really, most the time you can't see too many fish swimming about, but it was certainly interesting enough. The trip was fantastic, swimming in the sea at the first stop in an alcove and then Formentor beach was stunning clear waters. Bring a snorkel!! The views during the journeys are beautiful. There is a bar on board, but only served beer, water, lemonade or coke. Also can buy burger/chips on board too. The staff were all friendly at attentive and explained what was happening and how much time we had etc. They also fed the fish off the side of the boat to attract them over so we had plenty to see :)
Mallorca: Glass Bottom Boat Trip to Formentor Beach Reviewed by Kate, 02/09/2020
Wow! What a fantastic experience. Anna welcomed us and made us comfortable as we were early. From walking in the door to riding out on the quads the staff make you feel confident and welcome. Our tour guide was amazing, supportive and kept us entertained throughout. I can’t not justify how beautiful the tour is with words. An incredible experience. I would highly recommend, I can’t wait to return myself!! P.S always a bonus when your hunk of a tour guide cliff jumps with you!
Mallorca: Off-Road Quad Biking, Snorkeling & Cliff Jumping Reviewed by Shawnna Louise, 31/08/2020
They cancelled my first booking, the food was not too great, you have to wear a mask almost all the time, and they don’t sell alcohol during the trip :( But in spite of all that, the trip was amazing and totally worth the time. One of the best experiences from my trip to Mallorca :)
From Palma: Sunset Catamaran Excursion With Food and Drinks Reviewed by Max, 31/08/2020
It was very well run. We didn't stand around wasting a lot of time. We showed up and they were ready to go. Expect to help after landing. It's a big job to take down the balloon and pack it all up. Everyone helps.
Mallorca: 1-Hour Hot Air Balloon Flight Reviewed by Noel, 22/10/2020
Really fun trip, was a gift for my partner and he really enjoyed it. Me too!! Made 2 stops and crew was really attentive and accommodating! The food was also nice to get some energy :-). Book confidently!
From Palma de Mallorca: 5-Hour Catamaran Cruise Reviewed by Amalia, 07/09/2020
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No, Coronavirus Probably Won't Kill You–Yes, You Should Still Prepare
Like many of you, I’ve been having conversations with friends and colleagues about COVID-19 (aka Coronavirus/SARS-CoV-2) and how–if at all–we should be preparing for it.
My position: you should be prepared to spend at least 2 weeks isolated in your home, and should take other precautionary measures like buying a mask.
Many denounce this position as paranoid and ill-informed, as the disease doesn’t yet show signs of high mortality, particularly for someone like me who is young and in good health.
But not only do I believe this position to be the right one from a risk standpoint, I think I, and others in a similar position, have an obligation to prepare.
Disaster Prepping is a Cost/Benefit Analysis
Before we get to specifics of COVID-19, let’s be clear: all disaster preparation is a cost/benefit analysis.
There is some cost–in time, money, or otherwise–to preparing for a disaster or potential negative event.
We accept many of these costs every day–when we wear seatbelts (effort), when we upgrade to a safer car (cost), when we walk a little slower on icy sidewalks–because we evaluate the cost/benefit ratio to be worthwhile.
For some things, like wearing a seatbelt, this is influenced by both sides of the equation: the data is clear about the increased risk of collisions when we don’t wear a seatbelt, and given that seatbelts are standard on every car, and the effort required to wear one is very low (and there is a penalty if caught without one), the cost/benefit ratio makes sense.
Whenever we are faced with a new potential danger in life, we consider the cost/benefit ratio, and decide whether to take action or not.
We Are Bad at Prediction
Nassim Taleb shook the establishment when he published Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and the following books in his Incerto, as he showed that we consistently fall victim to the narrative fallacy, and are terrible at predicting the future, particularly when it comes to low-probability, high-consequence events.
He illustrated this with the example of the turkey problem: a turkey is fed for 1000 days, living a life of relative ease, each day becoming more confident that his butcher master loves turkeys and that his life has little risk. But of course Thanksgiving comes around on day 1001, and the turkey is no longer safe.
By definition, if we were able to predict future events with certainty, there would be little risk in our world. That this is not the case should be obvious. That we are poor at prediction is not always obvious, but one need merely look at the financial crisis or geopolitics to know this is the case.
In Taleb’s words: “Prediction requires knowing about technologies that will be discovered in the future. But that very knowledge would almost automatically allow us to start developing those technologies right away. Ergo, we do not know what we will know.” - The Black Swan
So, we are bad at prediction...does that matter?
Small Probability Does Not Mean Small Consequences
Indeed, often unlikely events have the most drastic consequences, and humans are particularly bad at estimating probability and severity in the “tails”–the areas of extremely low probability on a distribution.
Much of Taleb’s argument centers around the fact that it is actually these improbable events–the “tail risks”–which have an outsize effect on the outcome.
Examples of potential tail risks include cataclysmic disasters like potent viruses and nuclear war. It’s hard to estimate the probabilities of these events, and imagine the full consequences; there are a lot of unknowns.
Further, is it really possible to calculate the risk when there is a chance of death?
Clearly, as we make that choice every day by stepping outside, and stepping into cars, etc.
But typical methods of probability estimation often break down in cases where death is a significant possibility.
Taleb uses the example of calculating the expected probable outcome of a $1M game of Russian roulette. In this scenario, your expected chance of winning is ⅚, or 83.3%, and so your “expected value” as calculated by an economist is $833,333–clearly you should always play!
But most of us would choose not to, because the lower probability of dying is still too high for us to accept.
As Taleb says, “...if you keep playing Russian roulette, you will end up in the cemetery. Your expected return is...not computable.”
COVID-19 Still Has Many Unknowns
How does this relate to COVID-19?
Well, first of all, death is a legitimate concern. We’ll talk about how likely it is for different populations, but the mortality rate is not negligible.
Second of all, there are still too many unknowns about COVID-19 to do much of an analysis at all.
The fatality rate is rumored to be around 2%, but it varies by population, and many of the cited numbers are questionable due to their source.
Much of the early data fit an almost perfect quadratic curve, which doesn’t align with the estimated R0 of this virus and others that are similar (the rate at which it infects others).
The current estimated fatality rate is higher than seasonal flu, which already kills thousands of people per year (~60K/yr in the US).
The point here, however, is not the specific data that already exists; it is that we are unlikely to have sufficient, reliable data before the point at which we need to be prepared.
The virus is spreading too quickly, and so waiting for more data before making a decision about severity is not possible.
This doesn’t even include other possibilities, like virus mutation, which only add to the unknown risks.
The spread of this disease has so far been rapid enough that it is likely to spread across the world.
From The Economist:
“It has become clear in the past week that the new viral disease, covid-19, which struck China at the start of December will spread around the world. Many governments have been signalling that they will stop the disease. Instead, they need to start preparing people for the onslaught”
From The Prepared:
“Our baseline scenario — what we feel is most likely to unfold — is that the virus will spread person-to-person in a sustained way globally, not only in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, but also in the US or Europe. We’re expecting disruption to daily life at some point here in the US, and in most places worldwide.”
From Elad Gil:
“Despite the WHO’s assurances that things can still be contained, every epidemiologist I have spoken to thinks the virus has broken out and will spread around the world. Many think >20% or more of humanity will be infected due to a lack of baseline immunity and therefore herd immunity for this disease (as an example, the 2009 H1N1 flu infected 16% of all humans)”
There is reason to believe that this is one of the most severe pandemics we’ve seen so far.
From Bill Gates’ assessment of the disease:
“Global health experts have been saying for years that another pandemic whose speed and severity rivaled those of the 1918 influenza epidemic was a matter not of if but of when.
There are two reasons that Covid-19 is such a threat. First, it can kill healthy adults in addition to elderly people with existing health problems. The data so far suggest that the virus has a case fatality risk around 1%; this rate would make it many times more severe than typical seasonal influenza, putting it somewhere between the 1957 influenza pandemic (0.6%) and the 1918 influenza pandemic (2%).
Second, Covid-19 is transmitted quite efficiently. The average infected person spreads the disease to two or three others — an exponential rate of increase. There is also strong evidence that it can be transmitted by people who are just mildly ill or even presymptomatic. That means Covid-19 will be much harder to contain than the Middle East respiratory syndrome or severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which were spread much less efficiently and only by symptomatic people. In fact, Covid-19 has already caused 10 times as many cases as SARS in a quarter of the time.”
The spread of the disease so far, and the apparent incubation period in which people exhibit few symptoms, yet still spread the disease, lead me to believe that global spread is a legitimate scenario (though I acknowledge we are terrible at prediction).
Further, if state-controlled countries like China have failed to quarantine the virus, I find it unlikely that Western countries will manage either.
Common Counter-Arguments
This Guardian piece does a good job of laying out many of the common arguments against preparing for COVID-19, and I’ll cite and address some of them here.
Young People Are Safe
“Claim: ‘It only kills the elderly, so younger people can relax’
Most people who are not elderly and do not have underlying health conditions will not become critically ill from Covid-19. But the illness still has a higher chance of leading to serious respiratory symptoms than seasonal flu and there are other at-risk groups – health workers, for instance, are more vulnerable because they are likely to have higher exposure to the virus. The actions that young, healthy people take, including reporting symptoms and following quarantine instructions, will have an important role in protecting the most vulnerable in society and in shaping the overall trajectory of the outbreak.”
This particular argument irks me, because while I fall into the group of people not likely to become critically ill, this argument basically says “yeah, I don’t care about anyone else.”
Do you interact with anyone who is older? Do the people you work with have parents? Young kids? Of course they do. If you get infected and then spread the disease to them, and they in turn spread to their family, do you carry some responsibility? I believe so.
This is the key sentence in the above quote: “The actions that young, healthy people take, including reporting symptoms and following quarantine instructions, will have an important role in protecting the most vulnerable in society and in shaping the overall trajectory of the outbreak.”
You have an obligation to try and avoid being infected due to the consequences for others.
We’ll All Get Infected Anyway
“Claim: ‘If a pandemic is declared, there is nothing more we can do to stop the spread’
A pandemic is defined as worldwide spread of a new disease – but the exact threshold for declaring one is quite vague. In practice, the actions being taken would not change whether or not a pandemic is declared. Containment measures are not simply about eliminating the disease altogether. Delaying the onset of an outbreak or decreasing the peak is crucial in allowing health systems to cope with a sudden influx of patients.”
The key point here is this sentence: “Delaying the onset of an outbreak or decreasing the peak is crucial in allowing health systems to cope with a sudden influx of patients.”
This is related to the counter-argument I laid out above: you have an obligation to others to try and reduce the peak of this disease, so that those who need it can seek treatment.
The Flu Is Just As Dangerous
“Claim: ‘It is no more dangerous than winter flu’
If borne out by further testing, this could mean that current estimates of a roughly 1% fatality rate are accurate. This would make Covid-19 about 10 times more deadly than seasonal flu, which is estimated to kill between 290,000 and 650,000 people a year globally.”
I hope by now I’ve made clear that I don’t think it is a reasonable assumption to think we know this yet, or will know with certainty before we have to make a decision about precautions.
Elad Gil suggests,
“Most estimates suggest 80% of COVID-19 cases are mild and feel roughly like a flu. Estimates I have seen suggest that roughly 10-15% of cases will be more significant and may necessitate hospital visits (see also) with 1-3% potentially needing an ICU.”
If this indeed were the case, do you think our healthcare system could cope with 10-15% of the population needing to visit the hospital? 1-3% requiring an ICU? I don’t.
If you’re healthy and have the means to do so, I believe you are obligated to try and avoid infection so that others who need it have access to further treatment.
How You Should Prepare for COVID-19
I’ll restate my position from the beginning of this article: you should be prepared to spend at least 2 weeks isolated in your home.
This is in anticipation of the virus reaching where you live, and having to participate in either a voluntary or imposed isolation.
The Prepared does a good job of laying out what’s required for various scenarios, and here’s their basic list:
A source of potable water (storage is preferable, but if space is tight then get a filter)
Extras of any essential medications you’re taking
Toilet paper, feminine hygiene products, soap, detergent, and everything else you need to keep your body and your home clean
Nitrile gloves and an N95 mask
Food for ~2 weeks
The part to emphasize here is that almost all of these things are items you already have or will use.
There is very little required to spend ~2 weeks at home if you think ahead (assuming the taps continue running).
I dislike accumulating or owning anything that isn’t regularly used, and I try to adhere to a zero-waste lifestyle, so some of these items are tricky. That said, most of the required items for 2 weeks at home are things you would use anyway.
My preparation:
Stock up on various basic medications (I don’t take any prescriptions, but would stock up if so)
Toilet paper, detergent, cleaning products–get products in larger quantities than usual (I tend to buy in bulk anyway)
Nitrile gloves, Tyvek suit, N95 respirator–most of these items I had anyway, from painting that I had done previously
2 weeks worth of food–stocked up on canned goods, pasta, rice, sardines, frozen cooked food–things I normally eat anyway, I just stock larger quantities
Water filter–I have a Lifestraw I use hiking and camping, but otherwise am assuming that water service will remain–I also have various water bottles, CamelBaks, etc.
And that’s it! When it comes down to it, the cost of preparing is low–another reason I’ve been advocating preparing in this particular case.
How Startups Should Prepare for COVID-19
Elad Gil’s post has more details about how you can prepare personally and how startups should be preparing.
Here are some of the items for startups:
Encourage hand-washing.
Wipe down work areas regularly.
Encourage flu vaccination.
Zero tolerance sick policy (Anyone who is sick, or starting to feel sick, should take a sick day or work from home).
Curtail travel and conferences and move to video calls.
Curtail visitors from other countries.
Plan for the remote work contingency.
In the end, preparing for disasters comes down to the cost/benefit analysis.
In my view, the costs here are few (some effort, some up-front cost, but mostly things you would use anyway) for the potential large downside risk.
As Tim Ferriss recently outlined in a blog post:
“I am not panicking this time, either. That said, I am curtailing unnecessary travel and group interactions for the next 2–3 weeks to see how things shake out, particularly given the asymptomatic “incubation period” of up to 14 days.
Might that be an overreaction? Might I be misinformed? Totally. But then again, how many head-on car accidents have I had? Zero. I nonetheless put on my seatbelt every time that I drive, and we have great data on traffic fatalities. Do you have a fire extinguisher in your kitchen? Would you accept $100 to get rid of it? $1,000? I wouldn’t. As unlikely as a kitchen fire may be, the extreme known consequences of an out-of-control fire easily justify a fire extinguisher, even if it gathers dust forever. It’s cheap disaster insurance, just like having emergency stores of water in the garage.”
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‘We’ve Been Pirated!’ Brockbank reflects on past, prepares for future
May 2016 Granite Schools
A large model pirate ship docked outside the front doors of Brockbank Jr. High signaled the dawn of a new era for the school.
Beginning the 2016-17 school year, Cyprus High School will shift from a 10-12 grade model to a 9-12 grade model. As a result of the change, Brockbank will be repurposed as a satellite campus for the high school to adequately accommodate the influx of students at Cyprus. Students who were slated to attend Brockbank for 7th and 8th grade will begin attending Matheson Jr. High, which has the capacity to serve all 7-8 grade students in the Cyprus High network.
Brockbank’s ‘We’ve Been Pirated’ event allowed current and former students to reflect on the school’s 65-year history as a junior high school.
Granite School District assistant superintendent Mike Fraser is one of many former Brockbank students with fond memories of the school.
“It’s a special place. Everyone in the Magna community looked forward to attending Brockbank because, at that time, it was the only feeder school to Cyprus.”
While its purpose may be changing, Brockbank will surely continue to be a special place for all students who walk inside.
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ADVISERS NEED TO STAY ABREAST OF ALTERNATIVE FINANCE LANDSCAPE TO APPEAL TO PRIVATE BUSINESSES
Ben Hewson is business development manager and professional services sector specialist at Hitachi Capital Invoice Finance
Accountants increasingly need to demonstrate their knowledge of the shifting alternative finance landscape in order to secure the trust of business owners and match them to the right finance solution. But is their knowledge up to date?
Facing intense competition from new market entrants and a downward pressure on fees, a growing number of accountants are finding that understanding alternative finance can add significant value to their client relationships. In particular, their ability to advise business owners about asset-based finance and manage introductions in areas like crowdfunding and invoice finance is an increasingly important element of their professional client service.
While most forward-looking accountants appreciate that it is important to stay up to date with all lending options, others are falling behind. In these cases, there are real risks that they could be cut out of the equation altogether as tech-savvy business owners choose to go it alone. In the past, accountants acted as intermediaries; helping businesses to import Sage systems and the like, but increasingly businesses are sourcing cloud accounting packages independently and filing their tax returns to HMRC online.
In reality, the average business owner of a small or growing firm is unlikely to have the resources or expertise to navigate their finance options without the guidance of a trusted adviser. However, there is a real risk that they might try to do so if their accountant seems unable to help.
Staying abreast of what is happening in the world of alternative finance is not easy of course and accountants need to be able to help businesses to make the right choices. One area where their knowledge can sometimes fall short, for example, is in the area of invoice finance.
Modern invoice finance offerings can be extremely helpful to private businesses seeking flexible finance to fund their growth plans. It can be sourced quickly, usually within 24 hours, and can be managed easily by the business owner via an online portal. As a secure form of asset-based finance, business owners often find they have access to more funds than expected because they are calculated based on the company’s debtor’s ledger rather than its balance sheet. They also appreciate the flexibility of invoice finance, which can be used in conjunction with a standard over draft facility. The business owner can draw down funds as and when they are needed and as the company’s profits increase, they can reduce their use of invoice finance gradually and chart their way to a self-funded future.
Another key area of finance that accountants need to have a good grasp of is Peer-to-Peer lending, including crowdfunding platforms. By matching the business owner to the right source of finance, the business can gain access to some valuable market insights to support their business growth. However, the returns payable to some crowdfunds can be high and in some instances, investors may require some degree of business control. The business owner and their professional adviser need to take such factors into account.
Based on a recent survey, we know that about 40% of small businesses approach their accountant first for advice about their finance options. This is a real opportunity for professional advisers who want to differentiate their service and position themselves as a financial friend to small and growing businesses. The key to success is big picture thinking and sound knowledge of the ever-changing alternative finance marketplace.
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Fusion Loan IQ Alternative Reference Rate module and Fusion LIBOR Transition Calculator will help the bank move away from LIBOR
KBC Bank, a Belgium-based bank with operations across Europe, US and Asia Pacific, has chosen Finastra to help manage its transition through the upcoming interbank references rates changes. It has selected Fusion Loan IQ Alternate Reference Rates (ARR) module to manage new rates and to expand its lending business. The bank has also opted for the Fusion LIBOR Transition Calculator to help calculate rates ahead of the transition period.
Melinda Christens, Business Program Manager LIBOR Transition at KBC Bank said, “We’ve been using Fusion Loan IQ for a number of years, and have been impressed with the way the solution is able to continuously adapt over time, adding new functionalities in line with changing regulations. The transition away from LIBOR is daunting for most banks, but with the help of Finastra’s solutions we’re able to continue to calculate rates and embark on a smooth transition.”
Fusion Loan IQ is Finastra’s solution for commercial lending, powering 71% of all syndicated loans around the world. It alleviates the high costs of system and process redundancy within commercial lending operations, as well as increasing transparency, improving risk management and simplifying entry into new markets or business lines. The latest version of the solution, enhanced to support ARR, provides banks with core capabilities to issue new loans using the replacement rates, allowing them to begin to transition their existing LIBOR portfolio safely.
Fusion LIBOR Transition Calculator will help KBC Bank manage the transition before the ARR module is rolled out. It enables market participants to calculate their own ARR or Risk-Free Rates (RFR) and interest accruals. The calculator service independently accesses the ARR/RFR from external official sources, such as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, for the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR). It then calculates compounded in arrears rates and daily non-cumulative compounded rates, along with corresponding interest accrual amounts for a set of inputs. Depending upon the rate method chosen, the calculator has the flexibility to calculate the daily compounding rates for the whole period or only for the end date. It follows Finastra’s Fusion Loan IQ ARR calculations, which gives market participants consistent and accurate results.
Built on FusionFabric.cloud, Finastra’s open innovation platform, the calculator’s open API facilitates the integration with systems that don’t yet have a solution in place for calculating ARR/RFR rates. This significantly reduces operational risk.
“The shift away from LIBOR is the biggest change the market has seen in lending over the last three decades. It is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to innovate and serve customers better, and so the need for a flexible service that can expand over time is a must,” said Robert Downs, Global Head of Corporate and Syndicated Lending at Finastra. “Our Fusion Loan IQ ARR module and the transition calculator are designed to keep pace as ARR methodologies and conventions evolve, protecting our customers from risks associated with complex system changes and ultimately future-proofing their businesses.”
By Kaushalya Somasundaram, Head of Payments Partnerships & Industry Relations at Square, UK
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused continued uncertainty for the hospitality industry. Many have been forced to pause operations or adjust the operations so they can keep trading.
Businesses are continuing to address social distancing rules by rapidly accelerating their digital capabilities. From bakeries to pubs, we have witnessed businesses shift to selling online, offering click and collect services to making their goods available for delivery.
But one of the most integral ways technology is aiding these businesses is on the payment front.
Contactless payments and cashless businesses have been around for years, gaining popularity for the ease and convenience it offers businesses and customers alike. However a new significance has been placed on all technologies that reduce physical contact and time needed to complete a transaction.
It’s no surprise the number of cashless businesses in the food and drink sector is skyrocketing, from 8% in January 2020 pre-lockdown, to 33% in July 2020.
Contactless payment technology has played a vital role in the survival of many businesses, including a pop-up pizza business based in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire.
From hobby to hub
When Sam Corban first tried his hand at pizza-making, it was out of interest. But after moving to Cambourne, he decided to turn what had quickly become a hobby into a business.
Sam approached local council offices to seek support in getting his idea for an artisan pizza pop-up business off the ground. And in February 2017, 400° Pizzeria fired up its oven for the first time, trading every Friday night at the Cambourne Cricket Pavilion.
Prior to the pandemic, Sam’s trademark 24-hour slow proof dough – which had taken him almost nine months to perfect – had garnered him a fond reputation around the village. It wasn’t long before his popularity meant he could hire his first staff member.
However, fostering a close relationship with his local community has been equally essential to Sam’s success. He has several pizzas named after customers – from the classic Nduja to The Debbie – and often asks his regulars for feedback regarding new recipes.
The success of his pop-up has influenced other local artisan street food providers, who’ve since joined him at the Pavilion on Fridays which has helped create a local hub for Cambourne locals.
Once the pandemic hit and a new normal descended on the world, Sam knew he had to react quickly and intelligently if he was going to continue doing business and be a positive force in his community.
And that all started with how he took payments.
The unexpected virtues of contactless
Despite accepting cash, Sam has always encouraged his customers to pay with card whenever possible, even pre-pandemic. It’s simply a quicker way to complete a transaction, especially now most bank cards have contactless chips.
After trying out a few contactless terminals, Sam decided to use the Square Terminal, an all-in-one card machine for everything from managing items and taking payments to printing receipts and getting paid. Once the pandemic started it was a no brainer to become completely cashless. “As all my payments are processed seamlessly through the Square Terminal, I’m cash free,” explains Sam. “This means I can process orders faster and don’t have to deal with hygiene issues posed by taking cash.”
And, the peace of mind this offers customers can’t be overstated. It means they can get a slice of community and normalcy (along with pizza) in a time where they’re cooped up at home and need to keep contact to a minimum.
As a result, Sam was able to keep operating safely and successfully throughout 2020.
A future-proofed pizzeria
Sam’s success is closely linked to how he connects and engages with his local community. As well as his weekly pizza pop up, he’s also started stocking his van with dry goods such as flour and pasta to deliver goods to those who can’t leave the house. He has even started offering home pizza making kits – giving local families a fun way to jump on the lockdown home baking trend.
These acts, plus the digital transformation he’s undergone over the course of the year, will resonate positively for the pizzeria long after this pandemic is past. Not only has he cemented his place in his local community, but the technology he’s adopted has helped him flex his operations.
As Sam shows us all, with a sprinkle of technology and a healthy serving of community spirit, every crisis can also be an opportunity to grow and evolve.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Deliveroo said on Tuesday it has beefed up its board ahead of an expected initial public offering this year with the appointment of Simon Wolfson, the veteran boss of clothing retailer Next, as a non-executive director.
The food delivery company said on Sunday it had raised a further $180 million from existing investors, including minority shareholder Amazon, in a move that values the business at more than $7 billion.
Deliveroo is set to hold an IPO in the coming months, in what would be the biggest new share issue in London for three years.
Wolfson’s appointment comes after Deliveroo named Claudia Arney as the company’s first chair in November.
Deliveroo founder and CEO Will Shu said Wolfson would bring “great knowledge and insight” to the board.
Wolfson has been Next’s CEO since 2001.
He is also a peer of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, sitting in the upper house of parliament.
(Reporting by James Davey and Paul Sandle; editing by Sarah Young and Pravin Char)
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2020-21 Allianz Premier 15s Fixtures revealed
Gloucester-Harpury Women face Exeter Chiefs in opener
6 October 2020 10:36 | Tim Rogers
The Allianz Premier 15s season will start on Saturday 10 October and will be played over 18 rounds ending with play-offs and a title final on 8 May 2021 (venue TBC).
Gloucester-Hartpury Women will kick off their Premier 15s campaign by welcoming Susie Appleby’s Exeter Chiefs, as the newcomers travel to the Alpas Arena on Saturday 10 October.
Sean Lynn’s side will then travel to Loughborough Lightning the following week (17 October), before hosting Sale Sharks in round three.
The side will finish their season just as they started it, with the return fixture against Exeter Chiefs on Saturday 10 April.
At the conclusion of the regular season, the top four teams will play their semi-final over one leg, hosted at the respective grounds of the first and second ranked team after the conclusion of the regular season.
See the full fixture list below:
Gloucester-Hartpury Women Fixtures
Return to Play protocols
The Allianz Premier 15s season is starting under the Government’s Elite Sport Return to Play Guidance. Law variations have been approved** to reduce in game face-to-face contact along with a range of medical and monitoring requirements to mitigate potential transmission risks and to allow competition to start without weekly testing.
All players and support staff are receiving thorough training modules and the choice to opt in to return to competition.
Before seeking approval for adapted laws, the RFU undertook a detailed risk analysis which demonstrated that compared to the Men’s Elite Game there was a higher frequency of scrums, but a lower frequency of high or smother tackles in the Women’s Elite Game (i.e. those with greater face-to-face contact).
A risk mitigation strategy has been agreed for the Allianz Premier 15s which is different to the Men’s Premiership to reflect the different on-field risk as well as recognising the practicalities of weekly testing among players with careers in addition to rugby which would prohibit testing at specific times and locations and would present challenges in terms of self-isolating as a result of false positives.
The focus for Allianz Premier 15s teams is on medical and operational practices including; symptom control, temperature checking, minimum operating standards including risk assessments, enhanced cleaning regimes, high levels of equipment and hand sanitisation and comprehensive medical support.
Transmission risk is also reduced through a prescriptive approach to training practices and an 80% reduction in face-to-face contact as a result of law variations including:
A play advantage law from a knock-on reducing scrums by over 75%
Free kicks awarded to the opposition for a forward pass – reducing face-to-face contact by 6%
Removal of the option for a scrum at a free kick or penalty – reducing face-to-face contact by 7%
A maul may only have one stop then the ball must be used to reduce the length of the maul
No players who are not in the start of a lineout can join a maul to reduce the number of players in the maul
It will only be possible to drive a lineout in 22m to reduce the number of mauls
Strict social distancing while ball is out of play including set water breaks, named bottles, limited face-to-face warm up
Game time is reduced to 35 minutes each way to mitigate risk while also recognising the game will be faster with fewer stoppages and thereby supporting player welfare
The opening nine rounds of the season will be played using the adapted law variations for the elite women’s game. The control measures employed will be reviewed and a decision will be made whether to continue with the amendments or revert to standard laws for the second half of the campaign. All matches will be played behind closed doors until further notice.
Ponsford added: “We’re thrilled to be able to announce the fixtures for the 2020/21 season. After the early ending of the 2019/20 campaign due to Covid-19, it’s been a real whole-game effort to get the Allianz Premier 15s back and I’d like to thank all clubs and departments who have worked together to reach this point.
“The Allianz Premier 15s is set to be the perfect curtain-raiser for an exciting year of women’s rugby.”
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WEDNESDAY, March 18, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Recess is an essential part of children's school days that can help set students up for success once they head back to the classroom, a new study suggests.
Yet, many schools are cutting back on recess or not offering quality recess time. This may have unintended negative consequences, the Stanford University researchers cautioned.
"Recess isn't normally considered part of school climate, and often is shortchanged in tight fiscal times, but our research shows that [recess] can be a critical contributor to positive school climate in low-income elementary schools," study co-author Milbrey McLaughlin, the founding director of Stanford's John W. Gardner Center, said in a university news release.
When planned well, recess can boost attendance as well as academic performance, the research showed. It can also help kids make friends, learn how to resolve conflicts and gain a more positive outlook about learning, particularly for those in low-income schools, the study's authors noted. High-quality recess can also curb bullying among students, according to the researchers.
"We saw how a positive recess experience can benefit classroom climate in low-income elementary schools through students' improved conflict-resolution skills and sense of teamwork," McLaughlin said.
In examining the effects that recess has on students, the researchers analyzed information on six low-income elementary schools that had implemented a non-profit organization's recess-based program designed to encourage a safe, healthy and inclusive environment.
Trained, full-time coaches were sent to these schools to improve their recess programs, establishing organized games with rules, offering conflict-resolution tools, encouraging positive language and making sure no students were left out. All of the schools had two recess periods daily.
The coaches, teachers and principal from each school were interviewed. The researchers also conducted student focus groups and observed recess periods. They compared their findings to other schools with a variety of recess programs ranging from poor to very good.
The study revealed that good recess programs rely on adult supervision and guidance. Conflicts can arise when children do not agree on games and rules. The study showed that 89 percent of the teachers surveyed saw an improvement in recess organization once the coaches were sent in to offer support.
"It's more of a structured, fun environment. You can see that they're playing soccer, whereas, before, you weren't sure what they were playing," one teacher commented in the study.
The recess improvements also appeared to lead to a more positive environment. Nearly half of the teachers polled said the students became more encouraging of each other and used better language.
"There's a lot more collegiality between the kids," another teacher responded in the survey. "They're using, 'Hey, good job, nice try,' instead of 'Ha ha, you're out.'"
High-quality recess programs also foster an environment that helps prevent conflicts and bullying, the study showed. The recess improvements had a number of positive effects on the students, such as:
The children initiated games more often
The students felt better and safer overall
Girls, in particular, became much more engaged
"This analysis points to a new framing for how a high-quality recess can positively contribute to a school's climate," the study authors wrote.
The importance of play or recess time for children is already recognized by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which views this time in the school day as essential for kids' well-being.
A set of guidelines has also been established by the American Academy of Pediatrics to help schools develop positive recess programs. The Stanford researchers cautioned many schools are currently not meeting these standards and have cut back or eliminated recess programs entirely. And, without proper supervision, McLaughlin said that recess can end up being a time when kids feel unsafe -- both physically and emotionally.
SOURCE: Stanford University, news release, Feb. 11, 2015
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Malware may trick biologists into generating dangerous toxins in their labs
An end-to-end cyber-biological attack, in which unwitting biologists may be tricked into generating dangerous toxins in their labs, has been discovered by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers.
Malware could replace physical contact
According to a paper, it is currently believed that a criminal needs to have physical contact with a dangerous substance to produce and deliver it. However, malware could easily replace a short sub-string of the DNA on a bioengineer’s computer so that they unintentionally create a toxin producing sequence.
“To regulate both intentional and unintentional generation of dangerous substances, most synthetic gene providers screen DNA orders which is currently the most effective line of defense against such attacks,” says Rami Puzis, head of the BGU Complex Networks Analysis Lab, a member of the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering and Cyber@BGU. California was the first state in 2020 to introduce gene purchase regulation legislation.
“However, outside the state, bioterrorists can buy dangerous DNA, from companies that do not screen the orders,” Puzis says. “Unfortunately, the screening guidelines have not been adapted to reflect recent developments in synthetic biology and cyberwarfare.”
A weakness in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) guidance for DNA providers allows screening protocols to be circumvented using a generic obfuscation procedure which makes it difficult for the screening software to detect the toxin producing DNA.
“Using this technique, our experiments revealed that that 16 out of 50 obfuscated DNA samples were not detected when screened according to the ‘best-match’ HHS guidelines,” Puzis says.
The synthetic DNA supply chain needs hardening
The researchers also found that accessibility and automation of the synthetic gene engineering workflow, combined with insufficient cybersecurity controls, allow malware to interfere with biological processes within the victim’s lab, closing the loop with the possibility of an exploit written into a DNA molecule.
The DNA injection attack demonstrates a significant new threat of malicious code altering biological processes. Although simpler attacks that may harm biological experiments exist, we’ve chosen to demonstrate a scenario that makes use of multiple weaknesses at three levels of the bioengineering workflow: software, biosecurity screening, and biological protocols. This scenario highlights the opportunities for applying cybersecurity know-how in new contexts such as biosecurity and gene coding.
“This attack scenario underscores the need to harden the synthetic DNA supply chain with protections against cyber-biological threats,” Puzis says.
“To address these threats, we propose an improved screening algorithm that takes into account in vivo gene editing. We hope this paper sets the stage for robust, adversary resilient DNA sequence screening and cybersecurity-hardened synthetic gene production services when biosecurity screening will be enforced by local regulations worldwide.
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Actress Sally Field toasts Steven Spielberg in the presentation speech.
CHICAGO – It was a “close encounter of the legend kind” in Chicago three weeks ago, as Steven Spielberg stopped by to pick up the 2014 Lincoln Leadership Prize, given by The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation. The director was nominated for an Oscar for his sweeping portrait of the Great Emancipator, entitled “Lincoln” (2012). The actress who portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln, Sally Field, presented the award on March 19th, 2014.
Blu-ray Review: Lavish Release For Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’
Submitted by BrianTT on April 22, 2013 - 10:28am
Tony Kushner
Theater, TV, DVD & Blu-Ray
CHICAGO – The first Steven Spielberg film to win an acting Oscar (look it up…amazing, I know), “Lincoln” was recently released on Blu-ray and DVD in a lavish 4-disc combo pack that does service to the great film it brings to a wider audience. A commentary track would have been nice but the special features are informative and the transfer is stellar. The continuing trend of major studios offering multiple options to watch a film — BD, DVD, & digital — is a great one. Now you can take Honest Abe anywhere.
Film News: ‘Argo’ is Best Picture at 2013 Oscars
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 25, 2013 - 12:18am
Seth McFarlane
CHICAGO – With Seth McFarlane as host, the 86th Academy Awards had more fun, and culminated with “Argo” winning Best Picture. Other major awards went to Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor, “Lincoln”), Jennifer Lawrence (Best Actress, “Silver Linings Playbook”) and Ang Lee (Best Director, “Life of Pi”).
Film Feature: HollywoodChicago.com Predicts the 2013 Academy Award Winners
Submitted by BrianTT on February 21, 2013 - 2:14pm
Matt Fagerholm
CHICAGO – Hollywood’s favorite night of self-congratulations commences this Sunday, finally putting an end to the awards season and allowing us to get on with the new year in film. One last look back at 2012. Will it be “Argo” or “Lincoln”? Spielberg or the field? What the heck wins Best Original Screenplay?
Entertainment News: Winners of the 70th Annual Golden Globes
Submitted by BrianTT on January 13, 2013 - 7:08pm
CHICAGO – The 70th Annual Golden Globes, hosted by Tina Fey & Amy Poehler, were given away on Sunday, January 13, 2013 and we have our continuously updated list of winners for your persual below. Keep refreshing for the latest winners and enjoy!
Film Feature: The Best Lead Performances of 2012
Submitted by BrianTT on December 14, 2012 - 1:22pm
Denis Lavent
CHICAGO – I worked my way through the best supporting performances of 2012 earlier today and I’m back with the much-stronger array of actors and actresses who challenged themselves with great leading performances in film this year.
Film Review: ‘Lincoln’ Magnificently Humanizes the Man, Our History
Submitted by PatrickMcD on November 9, 2012 - 10:43am
CHICAGO – There is an argument that Steven Spielberg is the most “American” of directors, at least in his generation. He deftly and brilliantly teams up with playwright Tony Kushner and actor Daniel Day-Lewis to humanize and realize our 16th president in “Lincoln.”
Blu-Ray Review: Glorious ‘Nine’ With Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard
Submitted by BrianTT on May 3, 2010 - 12:36pm
CHICAGO – History will be kind to “Nine”. Due to wildly extreme expectations caused by the pedigree of the film’s cast, many critics and audiences dismissed Rob Marshall’s musical on its release in late 2009. “Nine” falls short of perfection but the Blu-ray release proves that it gets a lot closer than most people thought the first time they saw it.
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Kristen Stewart Uses Grilled Cheese Metaphor To Explain Her Sexuality
She knows how to relate to us.
Isabelle Khoo
08/03/2017 12:43pm EDT | Updated August 4, 2017
Sexuality is a complicated thing, which is why Kristen Stewart doesn't like to define it. But in a September cover story for Harper's Bazaar U.K., the 27-year-old broke it down on terms we can all understand — by using grilled cheese.
"Some people know that they like grilled cheese and they'll eat it every day for the rest of their lives," she explained. "I want to try everything. If I have a grilled cheese once I'm like, 'That was cool, what's next?'"
Kristen Stewart at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. (Photo by Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Stewart made her comments after the magazine asked whether or not she would date men again. Although she has strictly dated women since her infamous relationship with "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson, her answer was, "Yeah, totally. Definitely."
The actress' sentiments regarding her sexuality boil down to a simple concept: love is love. Essentially, people are people and food is food, so choose whatever the hell you like.
The "Café Society" star is currently dating New Zealand model Stella Maxwell, but has previously been linked to Alicia Cargile, French singer-songwriter SoKo and American musician St. Vincent.
"I've been deeply in love with everyone I've dated," Stewart declared in her Harper's Bazaar interview. "I've always really embraced a duality. And really, truly, believed in it and never felt confused or struggling. I just didn't like getting made fun of."
Marc Piasecki via Getty Images
Stella Maxwell and Kristen Stewart spotted at Orly airport in Paris, France in June. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/GC Images)
Stewart has always kept her personal life private, which is why she was praised by fans when she came out on "Saturday Night Live" earlier this year by calling herself "so gay."
Additionally, the 27-year-old has always been adamant that she's "not ashamed and not confused" about her sexuality. In an interview with The New York Times Style Magazine last year, she said she decided to make her relationships less private in hopes of setting a good example of love and acceptance.
"I would never talk about any of my relationships before, but once I started dating girls it seemed like there was an opportunity to represent something really positive," she said.
Keep doing you, Kristen.
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Call for Government to level-up rural areas to support England’s economic recovery from COVID-19
The Rural Coalition has published Rebuilding Rural: Growing Back Better, setting out its priorities for a successful recovery by seizing the potential social and economic opportunities across rural England.
Rural areas are home to 9.3 million people – more than Greater London – but they have long faced the challenges of sparsity, remoteness, poor connectivity and a history of unequal funding and patchy service delivery. Some communities which are heavily dependent on tourism and seasonal work are now at risk of being left further behind. The COVID-19 crisis has exposed weaknesses in the narrow economic base of some of these areas, but also highlighted the opportunities rural economies can make to the recovery. Now, this potential needs to be unlocked through a programme of investment.
The Rural Coalition is calling for the Government to set out its vision for rural England providing:
Opportunity for all in rural England – Levelling-up access to good quality jobs, homes, education and health services in rural areas with fair funding for public services
A more resilient rural economy – More investment in skills, retraining and digital infrastructure, to attract new businesses to the area and increase economic diversity
A major contribution to becoming net zero – Capitalising on opportunities for green rural growth, whilst helping to deliver the nation’s net zero emissions target
The Rural Coalition supports a national response to the COVID-19 pandemic that is equitable across the country. Growing back better will ensure equal opportunities for all – no matter where they live and work.
Chair of the Rural Coalition, Margaret Clark, said: “The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into focus a number of rural vulnerabilities. How we plan for building back better offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address these issues but also to unlock the potential of rural areas to make a significant contribution to the nation’s economic recovery and ensure no one is left behind.”
The full Rebuilding Rural: Growing Back Better document from the Rural Coalition is available here: https://acre.org.uk/cms/resources/rural-coalition-rebuilding-rural-final-digital-version.pdf
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Articles by Monami Thakur
Satellite Pictures Reveal Intrusion into Endangered Tribe's Land
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Rare Working Apple I Computer Sold 500 Times over Original Retail Price
Apple I computer designed by founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak fetches £238,869 at Sotheby's auction house.
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One of the greatest and most important motor car-finds of the last decade, the "Lost Mercedes" is to be offered at Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale.
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Europe, US Sign Major Environmental Monitoring Agreement
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Microsoft and Google assure safe search on the web with encrypted pages
The volume of encrypted web traffic on Firefox server dwarfs the average unencrypted volume, according to Microsoft's latest report.
By Poulami Nag
February 23, 2017 17:26 +08
Online security has been a major concern over the years , especially with advanced kinds of cyber attacks breaking the defences that predominantly remain rudimentary in their abilities. However, what is heart-warming is that in the recent years, the need for web-encryption has taken precedence, and according to a recent report, at least half of Internet traffic is now protected by HTTPS.
If you are wondering how do you know that the website you are using has encryption or not. There is a very simple way to find out. Check if the website you have opened on your browser has a little green lock right next to its address. That little lock is the indicator that the page you are using has been sourced via HTTPS, which is the web's secure protocol, rather than plain old HTTP which was prone to attacks.
When you visit a site that makes use of HTTPS (secure connection), the website's server has to provide a certificate to prove their identity to browsers, like Firefox. This acts to provide legitimacy for the website and also to make the users aware if any transactions or important information that they will share on the website will be secure or not.
Over the years all the major websites and social media platforms have adapted this protocol to ensure that their website and their users enjoy a layer of protection while using the Internet. The report cited that in 2017, Mozilla announced that due to the impetus given to security, now the volume of encrypted web traffic on the Firefox server dwarfs the average unencrypted volume. Meanwhile, Google has also shown data that in the recent times, there has been a consistent rise in the usage of HTTPS and now more than half of the pages accessed from their browser across all operating systems is secure in nature.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi to show Luke Skywalker disillusioned with Jedi path?
Now it seems that Luke has lost faith in the Jedi path, at least according to a report.
By Riddhiman Mukhopadhyay
The path of a Jedi has been treated as the highest spiritual path in the Star Wars canon. It is a Jedi who has the potential to be one with the Force; an energy that flows through all living things in the galaxy and binds them. Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Luke Skywalker were all Jedi. Now it seems that Luke has lost faith in the Jedi path, at least according to a report anyway.
It was recently revealed in the 'Twin Suns' episode of 'Star Wars Rebels' that Luke is the chosen one to bring balance to the Force. Obi-Wan believed in Luke's father Anakin being the chosen one, but the latter betrayed everyone and became the evil Sith Lord Darth Vader. However, he did redeem himself in the end; thanks to his son Luke.
Similarly, Luke had faith in Han Solo and Leia's son Ben, but he too betrayed his master and turned to the dark side to follow in the footsteps of his late grandfather, Anakin. Taking the moniker Kylo Ren, Ben Solo formed the Knights of Ren and killed all the Jedi that Luke had been training. He even murdered his father, Han Solo in cold blood. It is quite expected that Luke, who has spent ages hiding in Ahch-To, the first Jedi temple, would have become disillusioned with the ways of the Jedi.
Express UK mentions that Star Wars News Net has learned from a source that Luke is having a serious crisis of faith following Ben Solo's betrayal. The purported leaks reveal that Luke has discovered various Jedi artifacts over the years only to find out they are forgeries or that they no longer reflect the original purpose behind their making.
The source has also claimed that Luke has begun doubting the teachings of his master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and the Jedi way. He also apparently doubts his father Anakin, which is odd considering until the very last moment Luke had no reason to trust him at all. It is only in his dying moments that he redeems himself by killing Palpatine.
Express UK suggests Luke may have stumbled upon some dark and devastating secrets about the Jedi that has shaken his faith in the order, once and for all. The final scene in 'The Force Awakens' revealed to us a broken, haggard looking Luke who has isolated himself from the rest of the galaxy. It'd take a lot of convincing by Rey to bring Luke back into the fold. He might want to avenge the deaths of his Jedi students by killing Kylo Ren, or might train Rey to accomplish that task.
In any case, Luke Skywalker's return will no doubt have far-reaching consequences in the galaxy, one that might result in the destruction of the Galactic Empire forever or the final eradication of the Jedi knights.
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Jon D. Hoover
Family Law, Divorce And Mediation
Preventing errors involving high-risk medications
On behalf of Hoover Law PLLC | Jan 6, 2020 | Medical Malpractice |
Some 7 million people in West Virginia and across the U.S. fall victim to preventable medication errors every year. Worldwide, 2% to 5% of all hospital admissions are due to these types of errors, and of those patients, 30% suffer medication-related harm and 7% suffer severe harm.
Some factors will raise the risk for a medication error: for example, advanced age, the presence of one or more chronic diseases, kidney failure, the taking of multiple medications and the use of high-risk medications. These medications can include insulin, opioids, antimicrobials, anticoagulants like heparin and electrolytes like potassium. The risk level may differ, of course, with the environment that pharmacists and other healthcare professionals are working in.
High-risk medications are simply those that are liable to cause serious harm should an error occur. To avoid errors with these drugs, hospitals and medical centers should limit access to them. Other steps that can be taken to reduce medication errors in general include hiring a medication safety leader, using nationally-recognized concentrations for drugs and coming up with an action plan in case of shortages.
Above all, health care professionals across different disciplines must be able to collaborate with one another. Pharmacists, who have undergone medication-centered training, are in a unique position and can guide the dialogue between professionals.
Medical centers may do all they can, but a doctor may still commit an error out of a failure to live up to an objective standard of care. This is where medical malpractice law comes in and says that the victims of such negligence are eligible for compensation. Filing a claim and seeking that compensation can be difficult, though, so victims may want legal representation.
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One Of America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys: In 2019, Jon D. Hoover was selected among America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys. Attorneys must be invited for selection. Invitations are reserved to identify the nation’s most exceptional litigators for high-value personal injury, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, product liability, and medical malpractice matters. With high standards for selection, less than 0.5 percent of active attorneys in the United States receive this honor.
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5 Windows Explorer Alternatives For Windows 10
By Zoran Valentak on March 7, 2016 Featured Windows 10
Here’s a list of 5 Windows Explorer alternatives or Windows 10 which you can use as an alternative to Windows Explorer. Those that aren’t exactly sure what Windows Explorer is, let’s just say that it’s the part of Windows that displays pretty much the entire desktop. If you turned off explorer.exe using task manager right now, all that you would see is the desktop background, nothing else. Most people, when they mention Windows Explorer, refer to the file and folder management aspect of it. That’s exactly what I’m going to be doing today. Applications from the list down below are a great alternative to Windows Explorers file management functionality.
Explorer++ for Windows 10
I’ll start the list with Explorer++, which just like Notepad++, is an improved “clone” of Windows Explorer, with additional features. One of the more interesting functionalities available in Explorer++ are tabs. Tabs are something that even Windows 10 is lacking. Entire interface look and feel isn’t that different from the one offered by Windows Explorer, as you can see from the screenshot above.
Left sidebar holds a directory tree, for quickly jumping between directories. Right click context menu is pretty much the same as that of Windows Explorer. Additional options were added to the very top (for opening a directory in a new tab). On the right-hand side the actual folder/file browsing area can be found. Notice tabs at the top of it. They operate just like tabs in web browsers. System and file/folder info is given in a strip down below. Menu with all the usual tools like bookmarking, copy, cut, paste, layout change, search and so on can be found in the top left corner. Explorer++ is portable.
Get Explorer++.
xplorer² free
xplorer² free is a Windows Explorer alternative for Windows 10 where an even better selection of features can be found. Here not only do you get a tabbed user experience, but you also get dual pane view, so that two folders can be opened at the same time, like I have them opened on the image above.
Another interesting tool available in xplorer² free is the built-in folder synchronization tool. It makes syncing folders a breeze. Other functionalists worth mentioning include things like an advanced find tool, built-in command prompt (underneath the ribbon menu strip above), bulk rename tool and more. Free version is limited in functionality. Interface looks and feels more modern (when compared to Explorer++). I already mentioned that there’s a ribbon menu up top. Tabs are here on the bottom of the panes. Note that the dual pane view can be setup both vertically and horizontally. During installation you’ll be offered to replace Windows Explorer with xplorer² when clicking on folders, making it the default file manager on the system, which is nice.
Get xplorer² free.
Also have a look at Feature Rich, Free File Manager For Windows: Unreal Commander.
Q-Dir – free Windows Explorer alternatives for Windows 10
Q-Dir is available in both installable and portable versions. It builds on top of the dual pane functionality available in xplorer² free and allows you to actually open up up to four different panes at the same time. This is a very unique feature not found in any of the other Windows Explorer alternatives for Windows 10 that I tested
Each pane can have a different folder location opened within it. Files and folders can be easily moved between the panes, making it the perfect tool if you’re managing lots of files, documents, images, music, etc. Top right corner has a large selection of different layouts that can be chosen. Dual pane side-by-side, dual pane in a vertical stack, quad pane in a side-by-side and more. Quick shortcuts for opening command prompt, new text file within individual folders opened in panes and more are available. Other features include things like an advanced search tool, bookmarks and folder/file list printing.
Get Q-Dir.
CubicExplorer
CubicExplorer doesn’t have any kind of overly advanced features like Q-Dir does with its quad pane setup. It’s a small and lightweight Windows Explorer alternative software for Windows 10 which supports tabbed browsing, has built-in file preview, bookmark saving, etc.
Left sidebar can be used to display a file directory tree and then either bookmarks, quickview window, filters and a file stack. One feature that makes CubicExplorer stand out from all the other Windows Explorer alternatives that I covered here today is support to save sessions. Saving sessions allows you to save and load up all the tabs and folders that you had opened in previous sessions.
Get CubicExplorer.
Also have a look at CubicExplorer: Free Replacement for Windows Explorer.
Just like CubicExplorer, Unreal Commander has a simplistic feel to it, but unlike CubicExplorer, there is a couple of interesting functionalities and file management tools that are offered.
For starters, here you get folder synchronization, which lets you compare and synchronize data between two directories opened in the dual pane view. Each of the two available panes can have multiple directories opened in tabs. Another interesting feature available in Unreal Commander that makes it stand out from all the other Windows Explorer alternatives is FTP support. It can connect to remote FTP servers and manage files there as well.
Get Unreal Commander.
Out of the 5 Windows Explore alternatives for Windows 10 from the list above, the ones I really liked are Explorer++ and Unreal Commander. First one has a nice mix of features and functionalities while the second one, Unreal Commander, has FTP support. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment down below.
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Thailand and the IMF
How to order IMF Publications
Structural Transformation — How Does Thailand Compare?
Author/Editor:
Vladimir Klyuev
Electronic Access:
Free Download. Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF file
Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate
Thailand stands out in international comparison as a country with a high dispersion of productivity across sectors. It has especially low labor productivity in agriculture—a sector that employs a much larger share of the population than is typical for a country at Thailand’s level of income. This suggests large potential productivity gains from labor reallocation across sectors, but that process—which made a significant contribution to Thailand’s growth in the past—appears to have stalled lately. This paper establishes these facts and applies a simple model to discuss possible explanations. The reasons include a gap between the skills possessed by rural workers and those required in the modern sectors; the government’s price support programs for several agricultural commodities, particularly rice; and the uniform minimum wage. At the same time, agriculture plays a useful social and economic role as the employer of last resort. The paper makes a number of policy recommendations aimed at facilitating structural transformation in the Thai economy.
Working Paper No. 15/51
Agricultural sector Industrialization Labor productivity Migrant labor Nonmetropolitan areas Thailand
9781498395335/1018-5941
WPIEA2015051
Please address any questions about this title to publications@imf.org
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Home Airlines Emirates Airlines (EK): A brief History, Destinations, Passenger Services and more!
Emirates Airlines (EK): A brief History, Destinations, Passenger Services and more!
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Emirates Airlines (EK)
“Hello Tomorrow.”
Sweeping as many as four awards including the Best Airline Worldwide award at the Business Traveller Awards 2017, Emirates Airlines (EK) is the Middle East’s largest and most reputed international airline. The airline is a subsidiary of the famed and highly reputed Emirates Group and is based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). With its major hub at Dubai International Airport, the airline serves multiple destinations spanning across six continents in the world. Emirates is one of the most popular airlines travelers prefer to use owing to the world-class service it provides.
A brief history of Emirates Airlines
1985 was the year Emirates Airlines (EK) was started and with as few as two aircraft. Dubai to Karachi was the first flight of the airline in October month of the same year. In just about a year, the airline included destinations such as Cairo, Colombo, and Dhaka among others. Over the years, Emirates Airlines rapidly grew to be one of the top international airlines in the world. In fact, it saw such tremendous success during its beginning year that Gulf Air suffered an estimated 56 percent drop in its profits. Emirates Airline, by choice, is not a member of any of the three world airline alliances. The airline feels it will be a ‘hindrance’ to progress as there will be the need for alliance partners’ consensus to move and react in the marketplace.
Destinations Emirates Airlines serves
From its hub at Dubai International Airport, Emirates Airlines (EK) operates roughly about 3,600 flights every single week. These fly to more than 140 destinations in the world spread across about 81 countries. This is not all. The airline makes it a point to add to its flight operations list several new places to serve every year. It has codeshare agreements with several international airlines such as Air India, JetBlue, South African Airways, Korean Air, and Malaysia Airlines among others. Emirates flights to India are in high demand as are Emirates flights to USA
Emirates Airlines Fleet
Emirates Airlines (EK) operates a massive fleet of more than 200 aircraft as per the estimates as of October 2017. The airline is famous for operating the largest ever Boeing 777 as well as Airbus A380 fleets in the world. When it comes to its mainline fleet, Emirates Airlines does not possess any narrow-body aircraft. The aircraft the airline uses come equipped with features designed to provide utmost comfort to passengers. For Emirates Executive, the airline uses an Airbus A319-100 aircraft.
Services offered by Emirates Airlines
First Class cabins come with two different types of seating. On board a First Class cabin of an Emirates Airlines (EK) flight, you’ll have the chance to enjoy a private suite and gourmet cuisine among other services. You will also be served exclusive beverages in-flight and can enjoy their Shower spa facility.
Business Class cabin amenities include winged headrest, massage facilities, a partition for privacy, reading lights meant for individual use, and angled flatbeds among others. You can also enjoy entertainment of over 600 channels on ICE. So book Emirates business class flights and enjoy luxury travel at its very best.
Economy Class cabins also come with their own share of comfort amenities which include adjustable headrests, laptop power ups in-seat, and ICE in-flight entertainment that lets you enjoy over 3000 channels. Emirates Airlines (EK) offers upgrades to some passengers in case the Economy Class is booked full.
Dining on Emirates flights
Emirates Airlines (EK) offers among the most diverse dining options in the world. The airline keeps in mind dietary restrictions, age, religious observation, and preferences of its passengers when catering to them. The airline offers this in all types of travel class. While halal meals are part of the flight services, you’ll need to pre-order special meals by at least 24 hours before flight departure.
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In-flight Entertainment System
Not many are possibly aware of the fact that Emirates Airlines (EK) was among the first international airlines which introduced in a commercial flight a personal entertainment system. Today, all three travel classes of Emirates flights have this feature which is split into two main parts – ICE and ICE widescreen which is digital.
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10 Steps to Successfully Sourcing and Recruiting Startup Talent
April 13, 2010 by Ben Yoskovitz 32 Comments
Hiring people remains one of the biggest challenges and mysteries for startups. Since most CEOs and founders aren’t trained recruiters, they generally have very little idea about how to recruit properly. And because they’re so busy running their startups, they rarely invest enough time in the recruiting process.
Hiring at startups is extremely difficult
Even for startups that have tons of attention it’s hard. You absolutely need attention and buzz in order to hire. That’s why I advocate that startups turn themselves into recruiting magnets. I also believe that recruiting will evolve into something similar to inbound marketing. But sometimes you can’t build a magnet big enough and you have to go on the offensive.
Sourcing is an art and science unto itself. It’s a tricky, roll-up-the-sleeves and dive in kind of business. And unfortunately, too few startup CEOs and founders do it. But honestly, there’s no choice. If you’re running a startup and you’re not actively hunting for the best talent, you’re screwed.
Here’s what you need to do:
Get a decent contact management system. Try something like Network Hippo or Gist. Or, stick with Excel. You could even build your own little database to handle the specifics of what you need.
Use every service possible to find people. Start with the obvious ones: LinkedIn, Google and Twitter. Facebook might work too, although it’s a bit more closed. WeFollow and Twellow can come in handy too. Search for relevant keywords. Use Thesaurus.com if you need to find appropriate synonyms (although you should already know these.)
View every profile and make snap decisions. Scan every result very quickly and make a snap judgment call as to whether you want to pursue a relationship or not. Remember: You might find someone that’s not a perfect fit to recruit but that’s likely going to know other interesting people. You’re not just looking for hires, you’re looking for connectors too. On LinkedIn, if you’re only 2-steps away from the person then ask the mutual friend to introduce you. (Quick tip: People occasionally put their email addresses in their LinkedIn profiles. If they do, send them an email.) From LinkedIn you’ll often find a blog, company site or Twitter account. Check those out too.
You’re making snap decisions because you don’t want to invest a ton of time analyzing each person’s profile and information. Use your best judgment and move on. Even if you reach out in some way and things don’t work out, that’s OK. What’s important is that you try.
Follow people on Twitter. This is the lightest touchpoint you can create. I don’t think there’s any problem with being fairly liberal with who you follow. Check to see if they follow you back. Use a service like MutualTweeps.com to see who you know in common.
Keep track of everything. This is absolutely essential to running a successful and ongoing recruiting process. Track things such as: where you found the person, what other profile information you gathered, did you follow them on Twitter, who you know in common, etc. All of those details are relevant, because ultimately over time you want to be ranking people by appropriate criteria for your startup and the positions you have available (now and in the future.)
Follow up religiously. If you get a nibble from contacting someone, make sure you follow up instantly. Otherwise it’s just plain rude, and you can very easily damage your reputation. Remember: If you can’t hire the people you need there’s a very good chance you’ll fail.
Keep connecting even if you’re not hiring them. I’m a big fan of building a network — not when you absolutely needed it yesterday — but for the future. So as you’re going through this exercise, reach out to people via DMs, messages, email, etc. and drive them to your Career page. But if it’s not immediately the right fit, feel free to connect with your growing network openly and regularly. Find out more about them. Get the information you need to help rank them internally, so you can assess whether or not they’re worth pursuing in the future.
Find the leaders. Every community has leaders. So if you’re looking for Javascript developers, figure out the most well-known ones in your city (or area). Take them out for lunch. You’re not even (necessarily!) recruiting at this point (although you’re always recruiting and everything you do is a reflection on you and your company’s brand). You’re schmoozing and learning about the community. Who drives it. Where are the events. How you can participate. Etc.
Ask for referrals. You can’t be shy when recruiting. Ask for referrals. Friends. Friends of friends. Ex-co workers. Ultimately you’re building your database. Without it you can’t source effectively.
Rinse and repeat. You should be doing this every single day that you’re actively recruiting. And it should become a regular routine even when you’re not actively recruiting. I absolutely believe in the mantra, Always be recruiting. If you’re not, you’re going to lose out on people when you need them most.
I realize this might sound a bit cold and mechanical, but it doesn’t have to be. You’re trying to actively extend your network and make new friends, contacts, build relationships and ultimately (hopefully!) hire kick ass people. Who doesn’t want that? Some of the process might be a bit unfriendly sounding but without a good system in the background tracking everything for you it’s very difficult to stay on top of things. Imagine doing sales without a CRM tool. You might be able to pull it off at the very beginning but once you’ve got 1,000 customers and 50 new ones per day …
Recruiting at startups is about putting yourself in a position to attract the best. That starts by building the foundation, the magnet you need to attract and excite people about your company and job opportunities. But once that’s done if you sit back and wait you’re dead. So you have to source talent, source the best people, dig deep and look everywhere. The more aggressive you are at sourcing the better chance you’ll find the diamond in the rough, the person that’s sitting in a dead-end job but isn’t quite sure what to do. You’re the one that’s going to find that person, connect with them and pull them out of there.
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Selling on Instagram
Many shoppers use Instagram to view images, videos and Stories, and end up uncovering new designs, trends and products in the process. Having a presence on the platform allows businesses to reach their target market. And thanks to Instagram’s integrated shopping features, brands and retailers can now easily sell their products via the app. But how can you boost sales by selling on Instagram?
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Social media has an enormous reach and that’s why it should be included in any marketing plan. According to research conducted by eMarketer.com, more than three billion people use social media networks at least once a month, which presents enormous potential for marketers. Social media already reaches 70% of all internet users worldwide and as technologies improve across emerging markets, its potential is growing.
Social network use is on the rise. That’s why selling on Instagram can be very lucrative. / Data source: https://www.emarketer.com/chart/214528/social-network-users-penetration-worldwide-2016-2021-billions-change-of-internet-users
Aside from the forecasts or the cool-factor, there is plenty of data to support the use of Instagram and other social media channels for commerce. Instagram now has over one billion users. According to Instagram’s own figures, around 60% of its users discover new products on Instagram. And more than 200 million Instagrammers follow at least one business or brand profile on the app.
Brand engagement on the app is much higher than on its parent platform Facebook or the messaging app WhatsApp. However, some target groups are easier to reach on Facebook than on Instagram. Depending on the products you sell and your target audience, you should also consider selling on Facebook
Central to a successful presence on Instagram is the use of Stories. According to Instagram’s own data, users spend more time (80%) viewing videos in Stories than the classic feed. The good news is that around one-third of the most viewed Stories weren’t created by influencers or private users but by brands.
Instagram is one of many platforms that retailers and brands should consider as part of their marketing plan. Networks such as Facebook or Pinterest provide good opportunities for reaching customers. And over the last few years, social media advertising, social selling and social commerce have become even more tightly connected.
The basis for successful commerce on Instagram is an attractive business or brand profile. This is similar to a brand homepage, but on Instagram. The more genuine interactions and views a brand attracts, the higher its chances of success. A business profile can also integrate product images and videos into its stream or Stories, but these should be added organically.
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The following three elements are vital when establishing a business profile on the app:
A profile photo or logo that attracts and engages your target audience. The image should be fully visible and match the marketing on your website or web shop.
An optimised Instagram biography. A successful biography reflects the brand’s identity and gets customers’ attention in few words as possible.
A direct link to a web shop or website. Instagram enables businesses to share just one link in their profile. Brands should ensure that their link is working and the URL is being tracked in order to measure how many visitors are generated on Instagram.
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Instagram Ads are the next step. Ads on Instagram allow brands to reach a larger audience irrespective of how many images or videos it has shared. In other words, you don’t need to be the most active Instagram user in order to post an advert on the site. Depending on the advertising format, Instagram Ads will be featured in the classic stream where they blend in natively. All adverts are clearly marked as “sponsored.”
Adverts can be used to increase a profile’s followers and likes. It’s also possible to generate direct sales using Instagram Ads. Simple but attractive products together with a quick customer journey that links to a product landing page tends to generate faster transactions.
Much like other established online ads (for example, Google Ads), Instagram Ads can be customised and updated continuously. The business functions offered by Instagram provide all the relevant data to optimise adverts.
A more direct way to generate sales on the app is Instagram Stories with product links. Stories are one of the most popular formats among Instagrammers, partly because they’re only visible for 24 hours and then disappear. If content is fun, emotional or informative, customers may even view an ad multiple times. This makes Instagram Stories highly suitable for direct sales – particularly for trending products, apps and games, and special offers.
Using Stories, brands can also get around the app’s notorious web link frugality. Each Story can include another external link to a shop or website.
This also allows brands to track a product link and measure the success of an Instagram Story in driving customers to its website. The results can be used to improve future campaigns. Monitoring and regularly updating Instagram Ads is the key to long-term commerce success on the platform.
Brands are able to embed shop links with Instagram Stories / Source: https://www.instagram.com/bershkacollection/
Some social media-savvy target groups aged 18 to 29 years can only be reached on channels such as Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest. That’s why for certain brands, successful sales depend on having a presence on these networks and apps. Websites and online shops are important for the final transaction, but an increasing number of online shop visitors find these via social media channels, rather than via Google searches.
Selling on Instagram is as much about exclusivity as it is about direct contact with the customer. Therefore, it’s recommended that you use dedicated content on the app and not share the same images on Instagram that you’re posting on Facebook. Some Instagram Ads are viewable two years after they were first published because they generated such great results.
Using images is a great way to get customers’ attention because over 90% of the information that reaches our brains is visual. Adding movement and sound can generate an even longer-lasting impression. That’s why videos tend to outperform images and images outperform text. When selling on Instagram, remember that text plays a minor role on the app.
To live up to the high image standards on Instagram, it’s worth working with professional photographers and video producers, particularly during the early stages of channel development or a marketing campaign. Later on, once a business has generated enough Instagram know-how, they can self-produce Stories, images and videos in house.
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You can also use Instagram’s DM function to sell your products. Use your feed as a catalogue and ask your followers to reach out via the Direct Message function to close a sale.
Despite all these possibilities, it’s still a challenge to establish a strong presence with significant reach on the app. Luckily, the platform is full of influencers catering to any product category. Influencer marketing connects brands with social media influencers, so they can form a temporary or long-term strategic relationship. Influencers or creators organically promote a brand’s products to their followers with the aim of boosting sales. The better the influencer’s personality matches the brand, the easier it will be to sell your products on Instagram.
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is also recommended, especially for businesses with small marketing budgets. Brands that are successful on Instagram and that are generating sales are well-positioned in terms of SEO because Instagram hashtags are similar to SEO keywords. Both reflect the demand and interests of the customer. Therefore, many tactics used in search engine marketing can be applied to social media marketing.
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Social selling for artists and craftspeople on Facebook and Instagram
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Cafes and restaurants on Instagram and Facebook
Social media profiles are worthwhile for companies in various ways. In addition to the extra marketing, Instagram and Facebook can be used to sell products directly. Restaurants and cafes can also take advantage of this. Convenient buttons on the platforms point customers to ordering or reservation pages.
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Behind Josh Sperling’s Dynamic “Composites”
American artist Josh Sperling recently wrapped up his first international solo exhibition, at Perrotin, Paris. The work was colorful and whimsical—a perfect introduction to what Sperling does. One gallery wall supported an installation of 48 squiggly forms, each painted a different color, hung together in a well-balanced, amusing looking composition; the squiggles resemble something in between Play-Doh Fun Factory pasta noodles and squirts of multi-colored toothpaste. On the other walls hung new composites—constructed reliefs Sperling makes out of combinations of shaped canvases and panels. Some of his composites resemble recognizable things, such as an ice cream cone, a donut, a hair tie, or a human face. Others look like a spilled assortment of craft materials—something found on the floor of a pre-school. The work is not intended by Sperling to contain figurative references; it is purely abstract. Sperling titled the exhibition Chasing Rainbows. He said he chose the title because it seemed mysterious. He called it, “intangible, but also fun.” In general, that is the perfect description of his work. It is intangible: each piece is something, but its presence is hard to grasp. And it is undeniably fun, at least to look at: it is bright, light, and it seems to ask nothing more from us than the most basic consideration we might give to a patch of sunshine on the street, or a brightly colored piece of gum we happen to see on the sidewalk. Most of all, it is simple, in the best way. The work possesses no agenda, other than to inspire happiness, and possesses no content, other than whatever story we, the viewers, choose to bestow upon it.
The Beauty of Method
When I first saw the work in Chasing Rainbows I thought it seemed familiar. I could not say why, exactly. There was just something about it I recognized. My art writer instinct was to interrogate it—to scan my memories of art history in search of that from which it might have been derived. I forced a couple of quick connections. The first was the Memphis Group, a mid-1980s design movement, recently resurged in popularity, which was reliant on fanciful geometric and biomorphic forms painted in bright, primary colors. Next, I thought of Elizabeth Murray, and her fantastically engaging constructions, which jump off the wall with the excitement of comic book fight scenes. Then I stopped myself, remembering how unfair it is to compare what one person does to the things other people have done. I looked at this work again as though it was derived only from the mind of Sperling. From this point of view, I saw it for what it really is—play.
Josh Sperling - Chasing Rainbows, installation view at Perrotin Paris, France, 2018, photo courtesy Perrotin
When Sperling is in the studio, he is like a kid at recess, but just any kid—that one really smart kid who takes his playtime seriously. He begins every new piece by playing on the computer. He starts with a couple of colors or some new shapes then goofs with them until something satisfying emerges. He has said he likes to start with two colors that look ugly together then unify them by combining them with other elements. He also likes math, and derives satisfaction by bringing his compositions to fruition as the result of some mathematical equation, presumably one that is meaningful only to him. After each design is fully realized on the computer he builds the work. This means carving panels or piling layers of wood together then stretching canvas over the stacks. This is also a form of play—but more constrained. There are rules to it. He follows the design exactly. The only change he allows is he sometimes adjusts the colors if he dislikes the relationships they create on the realized work. His method is like constructed automatism—a sort of digital Surrealist doodle actualized in three-dimensional space—the dreamlike visual relics of directed play.
The Art of Googie
One of the key influences Sperling cites is “Googie Architecture”—a futuristic and intentionally whimsical Mid-20th Century style employed to make fast food restaurants, consumer storefronts and roadside attractions seem like exciting places to be. One way this influence seems apparent is that the work Sperling makes employs the actual forms, lines and color combinations one might see on Googie signs and Googie buildings. However, there is another way in which his work is Googie, and that is in its intent. Googie was intended to do one thing—attract the eye. It was an outgrowth of the Post War American economy, in which everyone had a car and could easily travel farther on down the road if they did not like the offerings at one store or restaurant. Googie architecture lured people in. Whatever experience they had after that was not the concern of the architect, graphic designer, or builder.
Contemporary image culture is as saturated with competition as Route 66. Artists feel compelled to fight to attract our eyes. They want us to stop and see what they are offering. In his effort to catch our attention, Sperling has trained himself to be part graphic designer, part architect, part builder, part psychologist, and part artist. His works are like glimmering objects on the horizon promising us happiness if we just pull over and bask in their glow. Are they intended only as art? Or are they also advertising for the Sperling brand? In an interview with fellow artist San Friedman in Juxtapose Magazine, Friedman asked Sperling, “Where would you like to see your life in 10 years?” Sperling answered, “Supporting my wife and kids from my art with a big-ass studio.” He described that studio as having “lots of natural light and lots of employees.” Based on this response, I would say his practice is driven more by business than art. In that sense it is not just inspired by Googie: it is an expression of the exact same intent.
Featured image: Josh Sperling - Chasing Rainbows, installation view at Perrotin Paris, France, 2018, photo courtesy Perrotin
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Darwin's Nemesis
Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
Edited by William A. Dembski
Foreword by Rick Santorum
Creation, Evolution, Origins & Intelligent Design
Dimensions: 6 × 9 in
With the publication of Darwin on Trial in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis in scientific research.
This book reviews and celebrates the life and thought of Phillip Johnson and the movement for which he has served as chief architect. Editor William A. Dembski presents eighteen essays by those who have known and worked with Johnson for more than a decade. They provide personal and in-depth insight into the man, his convictions and his leadership of the intellectual movement that called into question the hegemony of Darwinian theory.
Michael Behe
Jay Wesley Richards
Francis Beckwith
Timothy Standish
David Berlinski
Michael Ruse
Scott Minnich
Jay Budziszewski
Marcus Ross
Paul Nelson
Henry Schaefer III
Walter Bradley
Phillip E. Johnson
The high quality of essays collected here announces that ID will not disappear anytime soon. In the meanwhile, those interested in gaining "insider" perspectives on the ID movement can do no better than to consult this book.
Amos Young, Religious Studies Review, April 2007
This book is a fine testimony to the human quest for truth. I recommend this book both to friends and critics of ID.
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, September 2007
"These essays reveal [Johnson] as an influential strategist and mentor within the ID movement."
Publishers Weekly, February 13, 2006
Foreword by Senator Rick Santorum
Preface by William A. Dembski
Introduction: A Mythic Life
Part I: Portraits of the Man and His Work
1. Your Witness, Mr. Johnson: A Retrospective Review of Darwin on Trial
2. From Muttering to Mayhem: How Phillip Johnson Got Me Moving
3. How Phil Johnson Changed My Mind
4. Putting Darwin on Trial: Phillip Johnson Transforms the Evolutionary Narrative
Part II: The Wedge and Its Despisers
5. Dealing with the Backlash Against Intelligent Design
6. It's the Epistemology, Stupid! Science, Public Schools and What Counts as Knowledge
7. Cutting Both Ways: The Challenge Posed by Intelligent Design to Traditional Christian Education
Part III: Two Friendly Critics
8. Two Fables by Jorge Luis Borges
9. Darwinism and the Problem of Evil
Part IV: Johnson's Revolution in Biology
10. The Wedge of Truth Visits the Laboratory
11. Common Ancestry on Trial
12. The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories
13. Genetic Analysis of Coordinate Flagellar and Type III Regulatory Circuits in Pathogenic Bacteria
Part V: Ever-Increasing Spheres of Influence
14. Design and the Recovery of Truth
15. Phillip Johnson Was Right: The Rivalry of Naturalism and Natural Law
16. A Taxonomy of Teleology: Phillip Johnson, the Intelligent Design Community and Young-Earth Creationism
17. Complexity, Chaos and God
Part VI: Epilogue
18. Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement: Looking Back and Looking Forward
19. The Final Word
Download more info about Phillip Johnson and intelligent design.
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
Reason in the Balance
The Lost World of Adam and Eve
The Language of Science and Faith
Mapping the Origins Debate
Death Before the Fall
ABOUT William A. Dembski
William A. Dembski (PhD, mathematics, University of Chicago; PhD, philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago) is senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He has previously taught at Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Dallas. He has done postdoctoral work in mathematics at MIT, in physics at the University of Chicago, and in computer science at Princeton University, and he has been a National Science Foundation doctoral and postdoctoral fellow.
Dembski has written numerous scholarly articles and is the author of the critically acclaimed The Design Inference (Cambridge), Intelligent Design (InterVarsity Press), and No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence (Rowman and Littlefield).
Visit the Discovery Institute for more information about intelligent design and other recent scientific research.
BY William A. Dembski
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Harm Resulting from Inappropriate Telephone Triage in Primary Care
David E. Hildebrandt, John M. Westfall, Douglas H. Fernald and Wilson D. Pace
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine September 2006, 19 (5) 437-442; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.19.5.437
David E. Hildebrandt
John M. Westfall
Douglas H. Fernald
Wilson D. Pace
Purpose: Our objective was to assess and categorize harm occurring to patients who called their physicians’ office after-hours but did not have their call forwarded to the physician because they stated that their call was not an emergency.
Methods: We collected data on 4949 calls handled by our answering service for 1 year in a family medicine residency office in Denver, CO. Of the 2835 after-hours clinical calls, we reviewed all 288 clinical calls that were not forwarded to the “on-call” physician. Complete data on 119 clinical calls included reason for call, frequency of next day appointments, Emergency Department visits, hospital admissions and outcomes. Outcomes were reviewed and coded for harm to the patient by experienced medical errors coders.
Results: When patient calls were not forwarded, 51% had an appointment, 4% an Emergency Department visit, and 2% were admitted to the hospital within 2 weeks. Analysis revealed that 3% suffered harm, and 26% experienced discomfort due to the delay. Although 66% required no intervention, 1% required emergency transport and 4% a medication change.
Conclusions: Harm may occur when patients’ calls are not forwarded to the on-call physician. Although the level of harm is generally temporary and minimal, the potential exists for serious harm to occur. Physicians need to re-evaluate the way they handle after-hours calls.
Over the past 10 years, the majority of studies of patient safety have focused on the hospital setting. A great deal of time, money, and energy has been spent identifying types of errors and system problems.1–3 The frequency of errors has varied from 6% to 18% with only a small portion of those errors resulting in permanent harm or death to the patients treated.4 Naturally, serious harm has garnered the most attention.5 Recently, attention has been focused on the ambulatory care settings, where errors may be even more frequent. For example, in the ambulatory care setting, adverse drug events may occur at a rate that is 4 times higher than that found in the hospital setting.6
Attempts to classify the types of errors that occur in the ambulatory care setting have evolved in the past few years. Preliminary attempts focused on broad categories of errors such as “gaps in knowledge,” “administrative failure,” “treatment delivery lapse,” and “miscommunication.”7,8 Applied Strategies for Improving Patient Safety (ASIPS)9 used a detailed, multi-axial taxonomy containing 10 axes within 4 domains10 to code safety events. The overall ASIPS project developed and implemented an ambulatory primary care error reporting system, received and analyzed error reports, and implemented interventions to improve patient safety. Analysis of error reports submitted to ASIPS indicated that communication problems represented the most frequent error process within the ambulatory care setting. Furthermore, the failure to complete communication between providers and patients was associated with an increased risk of clinical harm.
We conducted a series of studies focusing on the after-hours telephone calls that patients make to physicians’ offices. We have documented the frequency and nature of these calls,11 described patients who call frequently,12 and identified barriers to adequate patient-physician communication in current telephone triage systems.13 Our previous study of offices in the Denver, CO metropolitan area found that two-thirds of primary care offices used an answering service, and 93% of these offices required the patient to decide if their problem was an “emergency.”13 In examining the calls triaged by patients, 90% were forwarded to the on-call physician but 10% were not. A panel of physicians who reviewed these calls reported they would have wanted to talk to the patient that evening in over 50% of the calls. In the present study, we have combined resources with the ASIPS staff to evaluate the actual clinical outcomes for patients who decided their problem was not an emergency and whose phone calls were not forwarded to the on-call physician.
All after-hours telephone calls (5 pm to 8 am, weekends and holidays) made to a free-standing community-based family practice training program were collected for the 12-month period between April 2000 and March 2001.11 A recorded message directed the caller to “call 911” if they had a life-threatening emergency or stay on the line and the operator would help them. The operator recorded date and time of the call, caller’s and patient’s first and last name, primary care physician, patient’s pregnancy status, date of last office visit, and chief complaint(s). Finally, the operator asked whether or not the caller felt this was an emergency. Only calls reported by the caller to be an emergency were forwarded to the on-call physician. All information was recorded and a paper copy was faxed to the office the next morning for review and management. For the present study, all after-hours clinical phone calls (N = 288) during a 1-year period that were not forwarded to the physician on call were evaluated.
Chart abstraction and hospital database review identified the reason(s) for the call, frequency of next day appointments, emergency department (ED) visits, hospital admissions, diagnoses and treatments, and outcome of the visits. The data were abstracted approximately 2 years after the calls were made, and some charts were not available due to a variety of reasons. Of the 288 charts, 29 had no name on the fax sent to the office the next day, and 140 had incomplete data or the chart could not be found. Many callers were not registered patients in the practice and had never been seen in the office; others had transferred care, and their charts could not be located in the practice; and some patients were deceased or had moved, and their charts had been archived and were no longer available. We report on a total of 119 patients with complete data.
A complete description of the data abstraction procedure has been described elsewhere.10,12 The age, sex, reason for call, time of follow-up visit, physician-documented outcome, and treatment were coded using the ASIPS Dimensions of Medical Outcomes (DMO) taxonomy, which has been previously described.14 Briefly, a team of trained coders (made up of 3 members, including one physician) reviewed and assigned all relevant codes from the DMO taxonomy to each event in a consensus approach. The team reviewed each of 119 abstracted cases and applied codes describing the outcome of the event which included: 1) the level of harm to the patient, 2) change in the status of the patient, and 3) any intervention required as a result of the delay in communication between the patient and the on-call physician.
Harm and Change in Patient Status
Six types of clinical harm were defined for coding: minimal harm was defined as a change in some physiologic function that did not require medical attention; moderate harm was defined as decreased function of an organ system but did not require hospitalization; severe harm was defined as a major change that required hospitalization; and death. Increased future risk of clinical harm was defined as potential for problems to the patient or others in the future (eg, a missed diagnosis of diabetes for several years or an Rh-negative woman who is sensitized due to failure to check a blood type during a spontaneous miscarriage) and patient discomfort or inconvenience (eg, prolongation of pain due to lack of treatment, or a patient having to return to the office to repeat an uncomfortable procedure).
Interventions Required Due to the Error
Medical interventions were defined as action taken as a result of the error. Examples of this include starting a new medication to mitigate harm, repeating diagnostic tests, ED visit as a result of the error, or requiring emergency transport. We coded “no intervention” in cases where patients received usual care for their diagnosis even though in some cases it may have been delayed.
The University of Colorado institutional review board (IRB) and the Rose Health One IRB approved this project.
Table 1 presents how we obtained our final sample of subjects. In a 1-year period, there were 4949 total calls with 2835 after-hours clinical calls; 288 of these clinical calls were not forwarded to the on-call physician.
Overview of After-hours Calls and Patient Harm
Table 2 presents the age, gender, number of office and ED visits, hospital admissions, harm and interventions required for the same group. When the patient’s call was not forwarded, 51% of them had an office appointment in the next 2 weeks, 4% had an ED visit related to their original phone call and 2% were admitted to the hospital. One patient who called with “chest pain and the pain running down his left arm” was not forwarded to the on-call physician because he did not tell the operator that his problem was an emergency. This patient went to the ED anyway, was admitted, and diagnosed with gastrointestinal disease.
Description of Calls Not Forwarded Group
Of the 119 events, 37 (31%) had insufficient information in their chart dealing with the after-hours phone contact to determine patient outcome related to their phone call. Many office visit notes did not mention the previous phone call. Some patients were not seen in the office, affiliated ED, or hospital for months after the call. In the cases where we could determine the patient outcome, 3 patients suffered clinical harm. Two patients were at risk for future harm. Thirty-one of the 119 patients (26%) experienced continuing discomfort due to a delay in care. This discomfort was due to conditions such as untreated fractures, kidney stones, and pelvic pain. Seventy-eight patients (66%) did not require additional interventions or care beyond what would be typical for the specific diagnosis or condition. Eleven patients (8%) required at least one type of intervention including: emergency transport (n = 1), ED visit (n = 5), office visit (n = 2), medication change (n = 1), or other intervention (n = 2). Table 3 provides examples of particularly vivid cases that illustrate the potential problems when patients are required to determine whether their concern is an “emergency” and their call is not forwarded to the physician.
Examples of After-hours Phone Calls Not Forwarded to On-call Physician
This study is the first to directly assess adverse patient outcomes due to the inability of patients to make contact with their physician after-hours. In telephone triage systems where the patient is left to decide whether their problem is serious, a small percentage of patients will not get through to their physician and risk serious harm. We found that more than one fourth of patients whose after-hours phone call was not forwarded to the on-call physician suffered ongoing pain and discomfort. We found that 3% suffered clinical harm, and 8% required an ED visit, new office visit, or medication change. We found that for most patients whose calls were not forwarded, there was no change in their status arising from the missed contact, and for most patients, there was no additional intervention needed beyond what would be expected from normal care. Although this study did not find any case of severe harm, the potential exists for serious harm and death as in the case of the patient who called with chest pain.
It appears from the high frequency of office visits within 1 week that many patients took it upon themselves to follow-up with an office visit. Short of a perfect after-hours clinical care system, patients may play an important role in assuring their own well being by seeking care when their problem persists.15 Although the ASIPS Project has created a working definition of clinical harm and non-clinical harm to patients, we believe it will be important in future studies to solicit from patients their own perceptions and definitions of harm.14 It may be that discomfort, psychological distress, or financial impacts are significant forms of harm we did not adequately address with current coding approaches.
After-hours phone calls to physicians are handled in many different ways13 depending on the size of the office, an urban versus rural practice, and whether or not an answering service is used. We found that a majority of practices in Denver used a similar system to the one reported here; that is, they ask the patient to determine whether their problem is an “emergency” requiring notification of the on-call physician.13 We suspect that this system is prevalent in urban areas throughout the United States. The instructions given to the answering service personnel are crucial in determining who triages the patient’s complaint. We hypothesize that as physicians began using an answering service, this standard language was added as a way of screening calls and making sure only really important calls were forwarded to the on-call physician. Over time it seems that this language has become a barrier to appropriate communication between patients and physicians.
One limitation of our study is the large number of patient charts no longer available for review. We believe this reflects the mobile nature of patients in today’s medical climate. Many calls were made by patients who did not have an established relationship with the practice. We believe they may have had our office on their insurance card but never had an appointment, or they simply chose our office out of the telephone directory because we were close to their home. Other patients left the practice because they moved or were forced to change third party carriers due to company or employment changes. However, our focus was on describing the outcome for patients who continued in the practice and for whom we continued to provide medical care. We only had access to the records of care obtained in our residency-affiliated hospital. Patients may have received emergency care or hospitalization in other facilities; hence our findings are a conservative estimate of patient harm. We do not include a comparison group of patients whose calls were forwarded to the on-call physician. It may be that they also suffered ongoing pain and discomfort. However, their ongoing pain would have been due to some other issue and not directly related to the answering service triage system.
Medical providers may need to change their expectations when they think of medical errors and harm to patients.16 The “6 Sigma” level accepted by other industries17 (eg, the FAA and General Electric), view error rates of greater than 4 in a million as unacceptable. While we found only about 1% of the patients making an after-hours clinical call suffered harm or discomfort, this is a 2500-fold higher rate than is considered acceptable by other industries. When considering patients who experienced harm or additional pain and suffering, we believe that it is necessary to rethink what is an acceptable barrier to after-hours communication between patients and physicians.
This article confirms previous studies that found system problems in telephone triage. We propose that primary care offices remove barriers to patient-physician communication and forward all clinical calls to their on-call physician.
This article was externally peer-reviewed.
Received for publication October 28, 2005.
Revision received February 21, 2006.
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Assistant RB coach Donovan leaves for University of Washington
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Jacksonville Jaguars helmet during a joint training camp practice session with the Baltimore Ravens Monday, August 5, 2019 in Owings Mills, MD. (Rick Wilson/Jacksonville Jaguars)
JACKSONVILLE – Another Jaguars offensive assistant has moved on.
John Donovan, a Jaguars offensive assistant since 2016 and assistant running backs coach this past season, on Friday was named the offensive coordinator at the University of Washington.
"I have been working with John since our time together at Georgia Tech, and it's been a privilege to see how much he's grown as a coach over the past 20 years," Jaguars Head Coach Doug Marrone said in a statement. "He is a diligent worker and has had success coaching offenses in the collegiate ranks at Penn State and Vanderbilt, and I look forward to seeing the impact he makes at Washington.
"I appreciate his time in Jacksonville and how deeply he cares for developing the players he works with, and I wish him, his wife, Stacey, and their family all the best in Seattle."
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Multicultural Support Funding for the Northern Beaches
Member for Manly, James Griffin is encouraging culturally diverse media and grassroots groups to apply for a share of $1 million in new funding to support community-led responses to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mr Griffin said the NSW Government funding will support the community during the ongoing challenges surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Multicultural organisations and media are critical connectors within our community,” Mr Griffin said.
“During 2020, our multicultural media sector has proven to be an indispensable part of our response to the pandemic and has helped us communicate important health messages to all members of our Northern Beaches community.
“This funding will support them to share important health information, link our locals with essential services and support cultural celebrations in the New Year.”
Acting Minister for Multiculturalism Geoff Lee said supporting the community to drive the recovery is crucial to NSW’s success.
“The trials and pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic have touched all parts of the NSW community including our diverse multicultural communities,” Mr Lee said.
“We are excited to partner with organisations and groups to create projects, festivals and events for the year ahead, which celebrate and strengthen our communities in NSW after a challenging year.
“Grants of $10,000 will be offered to multicultural media outlets to reach new audiences and pilot innovative approaches to disseminate public health information to harder-to-reach communities.”
This funding is additional to the $600,000 of COVID-19 immediate support grants delivered in June, to 120 multicultural community organisations.
Applications for funding open Thursday 17 December and close Friday 29 January.
For more information go to: https://multicultural.nsw.gov.au/grants
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Posts tagged as CJPs Nasirul Mulk
Hearing of Mukhtaran Mai review petition adjourned till March 27
By Amreen Malik on March 6, 2019
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of a review petition filed in the Mukhtaran Mai case against the acquittal of 13 people accused of gang-rape.
A three-member bench led by Justice Gulzar Ahmed fixed the hearing for March 27.The decision came after the accused sought time to hire legal counsel.SC to take up Mukhtaran Mai’s review plea on 6thIn June 2002, Mai was gang-raped on orders of a ‘panchayat’ as punishment after her younger brother was accused of illicit relations with a girl from a rival tribe.
In August 2002, an anti-terrorism court awarded death penalty to six out of 14 identified by Mai – four were sentenced for rape while two were awarded capital punishment for being part of the village council. The ATC released eight others.In March 2005, five convicts were acquitted by a Lahore High Court bench while one’s sentence was converted into life imprisonment.The acquittal was challenged in the apex court.
A three-judge bench headed by Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan and comprising former CJPs Nasirul Mulk and Mian Saqib Nisar upheld LHC decision and rejected the appeal in its April 2011 verdict.Mai filed a review petition against the judgment in May 2011.
In her review petition, Mai has pleaded that the court should review and recall the judgment and grant relief as prayed in the appeal. She has also requested the court to constitute a larger bench to hear her petition, contending that she is aggrieved of and dissatisfied with the findings of the court.
13 accused in Mukhtaran Mai case set freeMai took the rare step of filing criminal charges against her attackers. Her decision to speak out earned her widespread recognition.She was named Glamour magazine’s 2005 woman of the year and her autobiography at one point was the number three bestseller in France.She started the Mukhtar Mai Women’s Welfare Organization to help support and educate Pakistani women and girls with money she received from the government and from donations.
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Home Game Recap Recap of Jets 31-23 victory over the Dolphins
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Recap of Jets 31-23 victory over the Dolphins
Tyson Rauch September 27, 2010
Entering Sunday night’s game against the Miami Dolphins no one truly knew what to expect from the New York Jets. Gang Green was coming off of an impressive victory over the New England Patriots, but endured several injuries and had to deal with a major off the field distraction with the Braylon Edwards arrest. Would the Jets be able to rally the troops and beat their fierce division rival to take the top spot in the AFC East? Or would Gang Green melt under the bright lights at Sun Life stadium?
Well the Jets in their 31-23 victory over the Dolphins showed that they are a united, resilient team that is focused on winning games no matter what is thrown at them. Here are some notes from the game.
1) Sanchez shines- Another great game for quarterback Mark Sanchez who went 15/28 for 256 yards, with 3 touchdowns. Sanchez displayed great command in the pocket, made very smart decisions and got the offense moving very early on in the game.
2) Aggressive playcalling- Offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer established the tone early as the Jets came out passing the ball, putting the Dolphins back on their heels. Schotty got Sanchez comfortable early in the game and established Dustin Keller as a threat, which opened up the passing game. There were some questionable calls late in the game where the Jets should have ran the ball to kill the clock, but overall the game plan was aggressive with the intention of putting pressure on the Dolphins and winning the game.
3) Slauson struggles- The offensive line struggled at times on Sunday night, with left guard Matt Slauson leading the way with several penalties (one taking a touchdown off the board). At some point you just wish the Jets could find a way to bring in a veteran lineman to solidify the line before it truly hurts them.
4) Keller continues to impress- Tight end Dustin Keller had another huge game, 6 catches for 98 yards and 2 touchdowns. Keller is a match-up nightmare for any defense and placed his stamp on the game in the Jets first 2 scoring drives. It is evident that once the Jets get Dustin going, the rest of the passing game follows.
5) Edwards makes impact- After being benched for the first quarter, wide receiver Braylon Edwards came out with a fury scoring a long 67-yard touchdown. (Of course Braylon had to dance after the touchdown, which was borderline embarrassing) Edwards did an excellent job blocking in the running game and drew a big pass interference call late in the fourth quarter.
6) LT continues to make plays- LaDainian Tomlinson is quickly becoming the “go to” back in the Jets offense. LT is explosive out of the backfield, effective in the passing game, and very stout in pass protection. For whatever reason it appears Shonn Greene has lost some of his 2009 mojo.
7) Smith jack of all trades- Wide receiver Brad Smith had an excellent game on offense and special teams. Smith effectively ran the Jets version of the “wildcat” formation, which gave the Dolphins defense fits.
Before we look at the Jets defense lets keep one very important note in mind. The Jets are playing without their best run stuffer (Kris Jenkins), their best cover guy and arguably their best defensive player (Darrelle Revis), as well as their best pass rusher (Calvin Pace).
1) Secondary struggles- The New York Jets secondary was torched by Dolphin quarterback Chad Henne (26/44 363 2tds). The Jets sorely missed Darrelle Revis in this game as the secondary had their hands full with all of the Miami receivers. Rookie Kyle Wilson continues to get picked on, with the remainder of the secondary dealing with communication issues.
2) Taylor torments- Jason Taylor continues to play very well for the Jets and did a good job of applying pressure on the Miami offense. The Jets are asking Taylor to do a lot and it will be interesting to see how much better he can play once Calvin Pace comes back from injury.
3) Bend but don’t break- This was not one of the Jets best defensive performances as they gave up 436 yards of offense. Gang Green’s defense was clearly gassed in the second half of the game and had a hard time getting off of the field. To their credit, the unit made plays in the fourth quarter when it mattered most, something they did not do last year.
Last year the Dolphins stole a game from the Jets primarily due to their special teams play. On Sunday night the Jets played excellent on special teams, with a blocked punt and several long kick returns.
This is a huge win for the New York Jets. Mark Sanchez continues to play very well and it is great to see the Jets offense able to pick up the slack for a struggling defense. Gang Green has some work to do in terms of all of the penalties they are accumulating, before they truly come back to haunt them.
Overall a win is a win, and when it is against your division rival, on the road, it is even better.
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Blogs | Slice of History | May 10, 2012
Scanning Electron Microscope
By Julie Cooper
In late 1967, this Stereoscan Mark VI scanning electron microscope (SEM) was delivered to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory by the Cambridge Instrument Company. They were in high demand at the time, and JPL had to wait nearly a year between placing the order and delivery. It was used by the Electronic Parts Engineering Section Failure Analysis Laboratory to examine microcircuits for defects. Other possible uses were for the study of metals and other materials, and to examine spores for the Capsule Sterilization Program. It used an electron beam to scan the specimen rather than visible light, at a magnification of 20X to 50,000X. The camera on the front right side could be used to record the images.
This post was written for “Historical Photo of the Month,” a blog by Julie Cooper of JPL's Library and Archives Group.
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'Abbas to ask Arab League for peace conference'
PA delegation in Cairo to confer with Arab League on next step after Amman talks; int'l peace conference to be floated, official says.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas 311 (R)
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will ask the Arab League to call for an international peace conference during talks in Cairo, AFP quoted a Palestinian official as saying on Sunday.
Azzam al-Ahmad, who is in Cairo along with Abbas, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, told AFP that the delegation would ask the Arab League to back the idea of a conference during a meeting on Sunday.
"One of the proposals we will request from the Arab Follow-Up Committee is for a call to convene an international peace conference on the Palestinian issue," AFP quoted Ahmad as saying.
Abbas arrived in Egypt on Saturday, where he is scheduled to consult with the Arab League on the PA’s next step following five rounds of exploratory talks between Israeli and PA negotiators in Jordan in January.
Abbas is set to brief an Arab League committee on the progress of the talks.
Palestinian news agency Ma’an quoted Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud al-Aloul as saying the president will seek the Arab League’s support for his position not to return to direct negotiations with Israel.
Abbas also met with the leader of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi in Cairo on Sunday.
Official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the two leaders discussed the peace process, the talks held in Jordan in January and other developments concerning the Palestinians.
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Chiefs begin preps for Super Bowl in Miami
by: DAVE SKRETTA
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs advanced to their first Super Bowl in 50 years by doing things decidedly their way.
They let Patrick Mahomes and their potent offense wing the ball all over the field, never worrying for a moment that they were being too cavalier. They stuffed the line of scrimmage to take away Tennessee running back Derrick Henry, then did just enough in pass defense to ensure the Titans’ Ryan Tannehill didn’t beat them through the air.
It sounds like a simple formula, but it’s one the Chiefs have followed all season, even when they trailed the Texans by 24 points in the divisional round and when they trailed the Titans by 10 in the AFC championship game.
“I think it’s that never-give-up mentality,” Mahomes said. “It’s that we’re going to go out there and give our best effort every single play and really had to take advantage of every single play the rest of the game. We don’t care if we’re down 10-0 or if we’re up 10-0, we’re going to go out there and execute and do everything we can to have success on every single play.”
The Chiefs certainly had their share of success in their 35-24 victory on Sunday.
Mahomes was 23 of 35 for 294 yards and three touchdowns while running for 53 yards and another score — a memorable 27-yard run in which he cut at the sideline, chugged up field and bowled over a trio of tacklers at the goal line.
The Chiefs were 6 of 10 on third down, allowing them to control the ball and keep it out of the hands of Titans running back Derrick Henry. In fact, they matched Tennessee in time of possession, a big win given their propensity for quick scores.
On defense, the Chiefs took the Titans out of their run-run-run game plan. Henry managed just 7 yards after halftime, and he never once carried the ball in the fourth quarter because of Kansas City’s big lead.
“Something we have been preaching though is chasing perfection and improvement,” Chief safety Daniel Sorensen said “You see that show up and resonate as the season has gone on, and now we’re going to strive to get better as we go into these next two weeks. That’s our focus.”
The offense is humming and the defense has been playing as well as any in the NFL since Week 10. In other words, just about everything is working, whether it’s the passing game with Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins or the running game with Damien Williams or the defense, led by newcomers this season in Tyrann Mathieu and Frank Clark.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
Special teams have hardly been special in the playoffs. The Chiefs had a punt blocked and fumbled a punt return in the divisional round, and they allowed Titans punter Brett Kern to throw a pass to Amani Hooker for an easy conversion on a fake punt Sunday. It was particularly embarrassing given it was 35-17 in the fourth quarter and just about everyone in Arrowhead Stadium was looking for the fake — except the 11 guys on the field wearing red.
Clark brashly talked about shutting down Henry all week, providing the Titans plenty of bulletin board material. But he came through with aplomb. Clark helped hold Henry to 69 yards rushing while providing plenty of pressure on Tannehill, even sacking him late in the game to put an exclamation point on the win.
STOCK DOWN
Dave Toub, the Chiefs’ special teams coordinator, has been among the best in the business for years, and as recently as last offseason got some interest for head coaching jobs. But his units have struggled throughout the postseason, and a mistake in the third phase of the game in the Super Bowl could be the difference against the 49ers.
Nobody for a change. The Chiefs have weathered plenty of injuries this season, including injuries to Mahomes, Clark and Tyreek Hill, but everyone should be ready to go in Miami. That includes defensive tackle Chris Jones, who played through a calf injury against the Titans but came out of the game feeling good.
KEY NUMBER
50 — Is there another more incredible number than the five decades since the Chiefs were last in the Super Bowl?
Chiefs coach Andy Reid spent Monday morning breaking down film of San Francisco, and the team planned to meet in the afternoon. The Chiefs will spend the week in Kansas City before departing for Miami, where the festivities begin in earnest with opening night next Monday at Marlins Park.
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Super Bowl Experience construction ramps up along Tampa Riverwalk
by Megan Gannon / Jan 18, 2021
TAMPA, Fla (WFLA) – With just 20 days to go before Super Bowl LV in Tampa, construction has ramped up across Tampa Bay in preparation for the big game.
“You are seeing a lot of the plans come to life. This is something we have been working on for a while so to visually see the progress is amazing,” said President and CEO of Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV Host Committee Rob Higgins.
Bucs with BA: Arians sets stage for Buccaneers-Packers showdown in NFC Championship
by Dan Lucas / Jan 18, 2021
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers advanced to the NFC Championship game on Sunday night with a stunning 30-20 win over the New Orleans Saints. Bucs head coach Bruce Arians joined News Channel 8's Dan Lucas on Monday for their weekly exclusive "Bucs with B.A." conversation.
It did not take long for coaches and players to turn the page toward this Sunday's conference title game against the Green Bay Packers. Even during the postgame locker room celebration, players were ready to look ahead to another test.
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BTS Reveals Which Members Share The Same Sense Of Humor
They named their best matches and explained why.
Each BTS member is funny in his own way, but which of them share the same sense of humor?
BTS answered this question and more in a new 7-Second Interview video about their album, BE.
Jimin named Jin as his partner-in-comedy. “Jin-hyung,” he answered. “Just watching his face is fun. Just looking at him is so fun.”
Did Jin pick Jimin too? Nope!
These days, Jin feels that Jungkook and RM are the members who match his sense of humor best.
I’d say these days Jungkook and RM share the same sense of humor with me. Like, we find it funny even when we just look at each other.
— Jin
RM agrees. His best matches are Jin and J-Hope.
“I’d say J-Hope and Jin these days,” he said. “They’re literal angels. Angel.”
In this interview, BTS also talked about their favorite BE tracks, what they have been doing in their spare time, and more. Watch the video here:
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Thoughts on 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini
by Gratia Bamurange 6 years ago 2 min read
A thousand Splendid Suns is a sensational masterpiece of modern storytelling that revolves around war, which has by far managed to engage every line of audience; a non-regrettable amount of time and attention. It is a tale of war and oppression, it is a tale of family and roots, it is a tale of destruction and violence, but, above all, it is a tale of love; one of the truest, purest and unexpected kind. A range that not only helps us relate to and understand current and past events but also walk us through an array of feelings and emotions, onto which a limit is usually placed when qualifying.
Well, this is what awaits if you haven’t read this book; a story of unimaginable splendour that will instigate curiosity and more developed opinions minimized by the timed, graceful but unevenly estimated news on TV, Twitter; you choose.
Hosseini exceptionally narrows his message down to a personal level in this book.
Traditionally when war stroke, children and women were supposed to stay out of the unsettling side of things. But as we all know, that is not the case anymore, they powerlessly and tragically suffer from all of this just like a soldier on the battlefield or worse.
Hossein’s book is about the pedigrees of humanity and finding love in the most impossible situations. This is a story about two women who helplessly find themselves in a domestically abused household but eventually come together forming a strong bond from which courage, strength and sacrifice are born. A bond that might surpass describing them as mere humans but extra ordinary beings that hope for a better day.
There is a vibrant portrayal of these characters, an almost real time depiction of feelings, a likeness to the imagination left only for the reader to figure out and of which the character remains unaware sometimes. He balances struggle and fondness despite their unreciprocated values. There will be a dozen pages describing hardship but there will also be a one page treat with a beautiful description of the tiniest moments of serenity and hope disregarding how minimal they are throughout the book.
It kicks off as any other initiation life; little Mariam curious about her father who dances around with her illegitimacy and existence. She lets this dance go on for a while even with the warnings of her mother. She holds onto a naiveté that is a result of longing a sense of an additional yet normal belonging. She isn’t just deprived of fatherly love, after her mother unfortunately commits suicide, she is also forced to marry a man way older than her; a man she does not know.
Laila on the other hand, is a dynamic brilliant young girl who lives with both her parents and siblings and a good friend. But she loses her parents after the Talibans bombard their village and the idea that Tariq too, her boyfriend; is dead.
Mariam and Laila’s lives intersect when the latter is forced to be Rasheed’s second wife; Mariam’s husband. Naturally, it is almost impossible for concubines to get along, Mariam being childless from her marriage, accuses Laila of stealing her husband. The violence extends to Laila with time, and when she gives birth to her first child, Aziza, a friendship between them stirs as Laila finds herself growing very fond of Mariam’s children. Together they eventually stand up to Rasheed. Mariam doesn’t make it far in life but she makes sure Laila does.
Read it!
Gratia Bamurange
Gratia is a writer who is passionate about creative expression, music, and entertainment.
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The third Thursday of the month at 8:40am
Hosted by Tom Yoder
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The Fish Bowl is a monthly interview program on KSJD that features the voices, thoughts, and opinions of youth in our communities on topics that matter to them. It is produced in partnership with the School Community Youth Collaborative in Cortez, Colorado.
Teen Perspectives on Standardized Testing
By Tom Yoder • Apr 21, 2016
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The Fish Bowl is KSJD's monthly conversation that features the voices, thoughts, and opinions of youth in our communities on topics that matter to them. In this episode, KSJD's Tom Yoder sat down with Faith Asnicar, a junior at Mancos High School, and Sam Bagge, a junior at Montezuma-Cortez High School, about how the number of standardized tests they are required to take has increased throughout their time as students, and the impact these tests have had on their education.
Helping Teens Stay Safe Behind The Wheel
By Tom Yoder • Mar 17, 2016
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In this episode of the Fish Bowl, KSJD's Tom Yoder talked with Shellbee Romine and Faith Krebs, students at Montezuma-Cortez High School, about why teen driving is so dangerous, and what they are doing to help keep their peers safe when they are driving.
By Tom Yoder • Feb 18, 2016
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In this episode of The Fish Bowl, KSJD's Tom Yoder talks with Raquel Lucero, a student at Cortez High School, and Victoria Heman, who attends Dolores High School, about their thoughts on kindness, how they try to practice kindness in their lives, and the impact that kind acts have in the world.
Youth Perspectives On Climate Change
By Tom Yoder • Jan 21, 2016
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In this episode of The Fish Bowl, KSJD's monthly program that features the voices of younger people in our community, KSJD's Tom Yoder talks with Sam Allsup and Blair Rice of the Cortez Youth for Climate group about how they are working to raise awareness around climate change, and their frustration at how world leaders are dealing with this issue that could severely affect their generation.
Youth Perspectives On Guns and Gun Violence
By Tom Yoder • Dec 17, 2015
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In this episode of The Fish Bowl, KSJD's monthly conversation with youth in our communities, Tom Yoder talks with Kayleen Bowie and Kelly Matthews, students at Dolores High School, about guns, gun control, and the threat of mass shooting in America, especially in schools.
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Vintage by the Sea festival, Midland Hotel, Morecambe - photo special
PUBLISHED: 00:00 01 November 2013
Photography: Kirsty Thompson
Claudia Jazz-Haley
Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway planned a little pop-up festival but more than 5,000 headed for the iconic Midland Hotel
Lancashire fashion guru Wayne Hemingway was born in Morecambe and has many happy memories of the seaside town. But the chances are he’s never seen anything quite like the Vintage-by-the-Sea festival at the iconic Midland Hotel.
It was so successful, that he and his wife Gerardine are already planning a repeat performance in 2014.
The aim of the festival was to showcase the best of British music, fashion, film, art, dance, food and design from the last 80 years as part of as series of celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the art deco Midland.
Wayne said: ‘Vintage by the Sea was a fantastic event. It was only supposed to be a little pop-up festival, but we got over 5,000 visitors. I think the popularity of the event and the really positive feedback we got from everyone locally demonstrates that there is a real enthusiasm in Morecambe for this type of festival.
‘Morecambe is really important to me as I was born there, so it has been great to be involved in something that benefits the town and which has brought so much of the community together.’
The event included a very popular vintage market, lovingly preserved vintage cars, and dancing, with instruction from professionals Anthony Padgett and Stephanie Sturgess.
Highlights of the evening included a 1930s-themed ‘Torch Club’ at The Midland with a five-course meal and dancing, and at The Winter Gardens there was a 70s Northern Soul session and an 80s disco with DJ sets by Wayne and his son Jack.
‘I’d like to say a big thank you to English Lakes and The Midland Hotel team for the support they gave us,’ said Wayne.
‘I’m also really grateful to the other local businesses and, of course the public for the faith they had in us. We aim to be back next year - bigger and better!’
Wayne Hemingway was born in Morecambe in 1961 and it was with his childhood sweetheart - now his wife Gerardine - that he set up the internationally-famous fashion house, Red or Dead.
He has an interesting background - his father was the Canadian Mohawk chief and 60s wrestling star Billy Two Rivers. He abandoned the family and returned to north America when Wayne was young. His motherwas passionate about showbusiness and encouraged young Wayne whose earliest memories include his mother and grandmother dressing him as Elvis and parading him up and down Morecambe pier.
Wayne, now an MBE, has been involved with social housing and town planning since selling Red or Dead. But he never abandoned his roots and has been involved in projects to help young people.
Glory days are back
The Midland Hotel is as famous as the people who have stayed there - and that’s quite a claim when you consider its stylish staircase handrail has been gripped by the likes of Laurence Olivier and Coco Chanel.
However, it gained an international audience in more recent times as the backdrop for television adaptation of ITV’s Hercule Poirot series, starring David Suchet.
For generations of Lancastrians, it will be the place they met their sweetheart or spent their honeymoon, later having family holidays there.
But the stylish hotel fell on very hard times and was boarded up until the Urban Splash regeneration company took it on and restored it to its former glory. Tireless efforts were made to return interior fittings which had gone missing, including magnificent wall reliefs by Eric Gill. It is now run by English Lakes Hotels, which has five hotels in the north west.
Liz and Rob Naylor enjoy afternoon tea
Anthony Padgett (Jazz Swing Dance) and Stephanie Sturgess
Mark and Erika Gavillet
Florence Fox
Millicent Lipshaw and Wendy Martin
Sally Middleham and Amanda Brooks
Cara Stevens
Julie Evans, Frances Foran and Eileen Jones
Carol McFadden, Lynn Turner, Rosalind Bracegirdle and Caoimhe O'Reilly being served afternoon tea
Afternoon tea is served...
Toast during afternoon tea
Entertaining the crowds...
Gerardine and Wayne Hemmingway with Phil Storer
Michael and Kate Buckman
Antonia Miejluk winner of the best dressed attendee
Wayne and Gerardine Hemmingway with a selection of the best dressed winners
One of the best dressed outfits chosen on the day...
Dancing fun in the hotel...
Veronica Hoof, Gordon Finnan and Kathleen Jeffries
Gillian Robinson and Philip Halkyard
Kate Drummand serves a traditional 99
Vintage beauty makeover
Anne Colledge and Corrina Miranda
Linda Smailes
Shelley Eton and Larissa Dunn
Smile...
Louise Tobin
Paul Harper, 1930's entertainer
Jane Gaunt, Michelle Hollamby and Lynne Bagshaw
Tea dance class...
Linda Smalley, Blanca Callen and Jonnet Middleton, promoting Morecambe to be the mending Mecca of the North
Tea dance
Marie and Martin Campbell
Laura Dobson and Evonne Prior
Jane Upton and Suzanne Plumb
Priscilla Jones
Carole Stirrup and Phil Storer (Kuhl Vintage)
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Moment tractor caught on CCTV in police chase on country roads
Could it have been any slower?
Danielle HoeReporter
A video has captured the moment that a tractor was pursued by police in a chase along country roads.
Police were called after reports that a tractor and trailer travelling with a shredded tyre and dim headlight, was travelling from Osgodby near Market Rasen towards Caenby Corner and then Gainsborough just before 11pm on Thursday, September 5.
CCTV footage has now emerged showing the tractor and two police cars pass Hemswell Cliff Post Office in a low speed chase.
Police cars can be seen in front and behind the tractor in an attempt to make it stop in the almost half an hour chase.
A road block had to be set up to stop it
Armed response officers were called and found the tractor weaving around on the road sending sparks flying from being driven on a wheel rim which damaged the road surface.
The vehicle failed to stop and officers pursued it at 14mph for about 25 minutes before it was stopped by a road block of police cars at the Springthorpe junction near Corringham.
Pictures emerge after armed police stop runaway tractor that was a 'risk to life'
One police car was slightly damaged. A 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of stealing a tractor, criminal damage to the highway, and failing to stop.
Superintendent Paul Timmins praised the armed police, control room staff and local officers for their work in halting what "had the potential to cause severe damage and was a risk to life".
The chase almost lasted half and hour (Image: Lincolnshire Police)
He told Lincolnshire Live: "The tractor was going at a slow speed and was weaving over both sides of the road.
"One of the tyres from the tractor or what it was towing was shredded and there were sparks at it was going along the road.
"The driver failed to stop and we pursued it at slow speed for 20 to 25 minutes.
Armed police chase runaway tractor at 14mph in Lincolnshire
"There is quite a lot of damage to the road surface from the wheel rim.
"We needed to stop the tractor before it reached a built-up area and I would rather have damage to a police vehicle than injury to members of the public or damage to property."
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Power struggle at Warner Bros.
From left to right, Bruce Rosenblum, Jeff Robinov, and Kevin Tsujihara.
(Warner Bros.)
By Ben Fritz and Meg James, Los Angeles Times
Two years ago Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes created an Office of the President to inspire three ambitious executives into collegial competition for the top job at Warner Bros., Hollywood’s largest film and television studio.
“These three will work as a unit,” Bewkes declared.
But the effort has inspired distrust and disharmony inside Warner Bros., the studio known for Batman, Bugs Bunny and “The Big Bang Theory” as well as for its decades of management stability.
The three competing candidates — Television Group President Bruce Rosenblum, Motion Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov and Home Entertainment Group President Kevin Tsujihara — do not work as a unit. They rarely meet as a trio or get involved in one another’s businesses, according to several people associated with the studio who were not authorized to speak publicly.
And although Bewkes said anyone jockeying or politicking for the job of Warner Bros.’ chairman would “eliminate themselves” as contenders, the three men have been maneuvering for position while their subordinates quietly advertise their bosses’ qualities and rivals’ shortcomings.
Morale is low and anxiety is high on Warner’s Burbank lot. Some insiders describe an atmosphere in which executives are hesitant to extend contracts, staffers are afraid to cross department lines for fear of “taking sides” and potential partners are wary of signing long-term deals without knowing who will be in charge.
Some have also expressed frustration that the succession process has dragged on so long and that Bewkes has remained publicly silent on the matter.
“People are very preoccupied with the issue of succession, and it creates an undercurrent of tension and awkwardness,” said a Warner Bros. executive, one of more than a dozen interviewed by The Times who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. “It’s like being a kid wondering if your parents are about to break up.”
The runoff officially launched in September 2010 when Warner’s professorial chairman, Barry Meyer, agreed to postpone his planned retirement until the end of 2013 — after 42 years at the company and 14 in the top job.
Bewkes, who like the three candidates declined through a spokesperson to be interviewed, envisioned the Office of the President as a way to groom Robinov, Rosenblum and Tsujihara by helping them “see and think beyond their own businesses,” according to a person familiar with his thinking.
Bewkes is expected to announce early next year whether he has selected one of the three men to be the new chairman or if, after the long and public bake-off, he is electing to bring in an outsider.
The historic Burbank entertainment company, founded in 1923 by brothers Jack, Harry, Sam and Albert Warner, has traditionally been Hollywood’s most stable studio. Jack Warner sold it in 1967, and two years later new owner Steve Ross installed talent agent Ted Ashley, who remained in charge until 1980. Former CBS President Bob Daly and film executive Terry
Semel then sat atop Warner Bros. from 1981 to 1999, when Meyer was named chairman.
“This is a company that is 90 years old and basically has had just four management teams,” Daly said. “It’s the culture of the studio — its history and continuity — that makes Warner Bros. so special. There’s such a family feeling there.”
But the family feeling has become strained. Robinov and Rosenblum are said to be the most personally competitive, while turf wars over topics such as whose division controls Web shows have popped up between Rosenblum and Tsujihara. Robinov and Tsujihara have maintained the tightest relationship.
Rosenblum is viewed by many at the studio as the front-runner for the top job. Meyer was a longtime TV business affairs executive before ascending to the corporate suite, and television has become increasingly important to Warner’s bottom line.
The affable and ambitious Rosenblum — who has worked at the studio for nearly 24 years, including seven as the top TV executive — has been accused of promoting his candidacy. Last year he was elected chairman of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which bestows the annual Emmy Awards, a move seen by detractors as a way to boost his leadership credentials.
At a 2011 farewell party for Meyer’s longtime deputy, Alan Horn, a string of speakers shared fond memories of the outgoing executive. Rosenblum’s remarks surprised some attendees, however, when he jokingly reminded them that most Warner leaders had come up from the TV ranks.
The reserved and rough-edged Robinov — who joined the studio 15 years ago and replaced Horn as Warner’s top movie executive last year — has a lower public profile. Perhaps to combat this, he has enlisted an outside publicist to help burnish his and his group’s image.
Tsujihara appears to be the least competitive and the likeliest to partner up should Bewkes solve the leadership issue by appointing two executives to run the studio. However, the buttoned-down Stanford MBA, who is known as a digital guru and acquisitions expert, lacks operational experience in the studio’s marquee film and TV production businesses.
By any financial metric, Warner Bros. has been running smoothly. It is regularly No. 1 or No. 2 in the box-office rankings, has the top market share in home video and sells more shows to TV networks than any other studio. Revenue last year climbed 9% to $12.6 billion, operating income increased 12% to $1.26 billion, and the studio is on track to have another record year.
But management experts say corporate runoffs, while not unusual, can be disruptive.
The process “creates competition and makes it hard for the candidates to cooperate with each other on a daily basis,” said Edward Lawler, director of the Center for Effective Organizations at USC. “They are always trying to look better than the other person. It can put a bit of a strain on the organization.”
Contract renewals, deal making and companywide initiatives at the studio have been complicated by the uncertainty.
During recent contract renewal talks, movie marketing President Sue Kroll is said to have sought additional responsibilities in part because of concern that her boss and longtime ally Robinov might not remain in his post.
Several other key Warner executives have not negotiated new employment contracts — and appear unlikely to do so until the leadership situation is resolved. They include TV studio President Peter Roth, DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson and Toby Emmerich, president of film label New Line Cinema.
The turf skirmishes have slowed development of movies based on Warner-owned DC’s superheroes such as the Flash at a time when rival Marvel Entertainment is cranking out blockbusters like “The Avengers.” Uncertainty about who will run Warner Bros. has stymied the studio from renewing its important deal with finance and producing partner Legendary Pictures. The deal expires at the end of next year.
“There is not paralysis,” said one longtime Warner insider, “but a murkiness and lack of clarity at a place that is not used to having those conditions.”
Warner Bros. is one of only two Hollywood studios that house movie and TV production together. Film is its largest business, producing about two-thirds of revenue. But television is more profitable, generating half of operating income. The TV business has been growing while the movie industry is contracting.
“Time Warner is basically a TV company,” Bewkes told analysts this year. “Between our TV networks [HBO, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network and CNN] and our Warner TV production business, we derive over 80% of our profits from television.”
Rosenblum, who started his career as a tour guide at Universal Studios, has helped build the division into a juggernaut with more than 50 shows, including “Two and a Half Men,” “Mike and Molly” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” During his tenure, Warner has expanded internationally and outbid rivals to secure deals with top talent such as “Revolution” producer J.J. Abrams and “Two and a Half Men” creator Chuck Lorre.
But some people in the film division fret that Rosenblum has no movie experience. The UCLA law school graduate’s skills are on the business side, they say, adding that TV studio president Roth is the one who develops the shows.
That is in contrast to Robinov, who decides what movies Warner Bros. makes and is deeply involved in their production. A former talent agent, Robinov has built his reputation on an ability to cultivate relationships with successful filmmakers such as Chris Nolan (“The Dark Knight”), Ben Affleck (“Argo”) and Todd Phillips (“The Hangover”). Fiercely loyal, he stuck with “300" director Zack Snyder through three subsequent flops and then handed him the keys to next year’s Superman reboot “Man of Steel.”
Although Robinov oversees more than $2 billion per year of production and marketing spending, he is less schooled in evolving digital business models.
Tsujihara enjoys a more down-to-earth reputation. He is an avid sports fan who last month flew to San Francisco and back in a single night to watch his beloved Giants play in the World Series.
Some of his business moves have been polarizing. Charged with reversing a multiyear decline in DVD revenue, Tsujihara has been Hollywood’s most aggressive proponent of Ultraviolet, a digital movie initiative that Warner launched in late 2011 when some other studios believed that it had too many glitches.
He also successfully pushed Redbox and Netflix in 2010 to wait until four weeks after a DVD goes on sale to offer cheap rentals, although he failed this year to extend that window to eight weeks.
Tsujihara led delicate negotiations over “The Hobbit” with partial rights holder Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in late 2010, which got production started on the long-delayed movie series.
Bewkes’ first major step in the succession process, pushing out the well-liked Horn, upset many on Warner’s Burbank lot, particularly after Horn landed this year in the top job at Walt Disney Studios.
Many worry that when Bewkes announces his choice for chairman it will create further instability, particularly if one or two of the losing candidates flee after losing the public runoff.
If Bewkes were to choose an outsider, it’s possible all three could leave.
“I would try to keep them all in some form or fashion,” said Daly, the former chairman. “All three guys are very successful executives.”
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Meg James is a corporate media reporter for the Los Angeles Times, covering the business of television and digital disruption in the entertainment industry. She has been a member of the Company Town team for more than a decade. She previously wrote for the Miami Herald and the Palm Beach Post. A native of Wyoming, she is a graduate of the University of Colorado and Columbia University.
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Thirteen killed in attack on Aden airport moments after new Yemen cabinet lands
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At least 13 people were killed and dozens more wounded in an attack on Aden airport on Wednesday moments after a plane landed carrying a newly formed Saudi-backed cabinet for government-held parts of Yemen.
Hours after the attack, a second explosion was heard around Aden's Maasheq presidential palace where the cabinet members including Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik, as well as the Saudi ambassador to Yemen, had been taken to safely, residents and local media said.
In the airport attack, loud blasts and gunfire were heard shortly after the plane arrived from Riyadh, witnesses said. A local security source said three mortar shells had landed on the airport's hall.
Two security sources gave the casualty figure. Medecins Sans Frontieres aid group said 17 people had been treated for wounds at its hospital in Aden.
There was no claim of responsibility.
It was unclear what caused the second blast and there were no immediate reports of casualties.
"We and the members of the government are in the temporary capital of Aden and everyone is fine," Maeen tweeted from Maasheq palace. "The cowardly terrorist act that targeted Aden airport is part of the war that is being waged against the Yemeni state and its great people."
Jaber tweeted: "Peace, security and stability will prevail thanks to Yemenis' strong will and their brave government."
The new cabinet unites the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi with southern separatists, intended to fulfil a Saudi aim of ending a feud among Riyadh's allies.
The two groups are the main Yemeni factions in a southern-based, Saudi-backed alliance fighting against the Iran-aligned Houthi movement that controls the north, including the capital Sanaa.
TV footage from Saudi-owned Al Arabiya channel showed dozens of people leaving the airplane when a first blast hit the airport's hall. Heavy gunfire from armored vehicles followed with plumes of white and black smoke rising from the scene.
Other video showed damage to the terminal's concrete walls and smashed glass.
The southern port city of Aden has been mired in violence because of a rift between the separatists and Hadi's government, based there after being driven from the capital by the Houthis in 2014.
The separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC), which seeks independence for south Yemen, declared self-rule in Aden in April, triggering clashes and complicating United Nations efforts to forge a permanent ceasefire in the overall conflict.
The Saudi-led coalition announced the new power-sharing cabinet this month after more than a year of intense Saudi mediation between the government and the separatists.
The Houthis denied any responsibility for the attack. The separatists said their leadership was the main target of the attackers and not the government.
U.N. Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths condemned the attack in a statement.
"I wish the cabinet strength in facing the difficult tasks ahead," he said. "This unacceptable act of violence is a tragic reminder of the importance of bringing Yemen urgently back on the path towards peace."
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Appeal judges reject divorcee’s negligence claim
Posted by Nick Hilborne
Jewellery: Valuation dispute
The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that a negligence claim brought by a woman against her law firm over its work on her divorce was out of time.
Lord Justice McCombe said the rights of a divorced spouse to sue their solicitor for negligence were subject to the same rules on limitation as “other forms of litigation”.
McCombe LJ said making a distinction between matrimonial finance proceedings and other forms of civil litigation on the basis that family law claims could not be assigned to anyone else “would be a triumph of technicality over reality”.
He went on: “The object of the law is to compensate for damage caused by the loss or diminution of valuable rights by professional negligence.
“The valuable rights of a spouse on divorce should be subject to the same rules in this context as other such rights and should not be the subject of artificial technical distinctions, serving no useful purpose.”
Julia Holt was represented by Somerset law firm Holley & Steer in her divorce. Following a hearing that ended on 16 March 2012, with judgment handed down and the order made on 30 May 2012, District Judge Daniel awarded Ms Holt 60% of the net matrimonial assets, excluding pensions, of £483,000.
In 2016, Ms Holt sent the firm a “formal letter of complaint”, claiming to have suffered losses, for which the firm was responsible.
In response to a claim from the law firm for unpaid fees of £48,700, Ms Holt launched negligence proceedings on 5 April 2018, seeking damages of over £124,000.
She argued that failing to advise that she obtain formal valuations of a property portfolio and jewellery had adversely affected her position in the financial relief proceedings.
Ms Holt said limitation only started running when the final judgment was handed down and the order was made, ie 30 May 2012.
Until that time, she argued, any party could have applied to the court in the divorce proceedings to adduce further evidence, including the valuation evidence in question.
The law firm argued that the latest date for limitation purposes was 16 March 2012, the last day of the final hearing in the financial relief proceedings.
At first instance, District Judge Watkins agreed with Ms Holt’s position, but His Honour Judge Ralton allowed the law firm’s appeal in October 2019, granting summary judgment.
Delivering judgment in Holt v Holley & Steer Solicitors [2020] EWCA Civ 851, McCombe LJ said the core issue was identifying the point at which Ms Holt was financially worse off/had suffered measurable damage.
In “many cases”, the potential consequences of a negligent approach to valuation “can be seen and, to some extent, it can be assessed” before any judgment is delivered, the judge observed.
He described Ms Holt’s loss as “sufficiently well measurable, if not precisely quantifiable, when she lost the ability to adduce the evidence that she avers that she should have been able to produce before District Judge Daniel in the financial remedies proceedings”.
He said that date “may, in reality, have been shortly after” the financial dispute resolution hearing in October 2011.
“It may have been when the firm (as is to be inferred) recognised, in January 2012, that any application to the Family Court to adduce more valuation evidence would have been bound to fail.
“In the present case, it could hardly have been later than the end of the hearing on 16 March 2012.”
McCombe LJ said it “goes without saying that Ms Holt did not have to issue her proceedings against the firm before the district judge’s judgment” and she could have waited “until quantification became clearer after the judgment”.
Either way, however, she had “nigh on the full six years to do that, even assuming that damage had been suffered in late 2011 or early 2012”.
He went on: “I do not ignore the theoretical possibility of a judge in divorce proceedings, of his/her own motion, taking the view that the evidence before the court is unsatisfactory and requires improvement or clarification.
“However, in a case like the present the reality is that the expert evidence of values upon which a party may rely, and upon which proceedings will be resolved, will be settled well prior to the date of the hearing.”
McCombe LJ said that if one party lost the opportunity to adduce expert evidence that put their case in the best possible light, then the value of their claim was “inevitably diminished” at that stage.
Dismissing Ms Holt’s appeal, he ruled that her negligence claim was statute-barred by section 2 of the Limitation Act 1980.
Lady Justice King and Mr Justice Keehan agreed.
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Death and injury caused by animals
Injury caused by animals is regularly in the news. Today (14 May), it was reported that two men walking a dog in a field in Wiltshire were trampled by a herd of cows. One of them died as a consequence of the animal inflicted injuries and the other, seriously ill from his injury, was admitted to Frenchay Hospital, Bristol.
In tragic circumstances such as these, is there a remedy for those individuals who suffer death or injury caused by animals?
Is there an entitlement to compensation?
The Countryside and Rights of Way Act gives us the right to walk in the country across mapped access land (mountain, heath, down and registered common land) in addition to public rights of way, which include public foot paths. Footpaths often cross fields where cows or livestock are grazing and the animals may react to our presence with sometimes disastrous consequences.
The Animals Act makes the keeper of an animal responsible for any damage or injury caused by their stock, in most cases. There is an onerous responsibility on the landowner to assess the amount and type of public access across their land, in their consideration of what reasonable precautions they should be taking. This is in addition to considering the likely behaviour of the livestock and the public’s right of way. If the animals are known or suspected to be aggressive then they should not be kept in a field that is used by the public. The Occupiers’ Liability Acts 1957 and 1984 also require landowners and managers to exercise a duty of care towards people – even trespassers – who are on their land.
The Animals Act is a complex piece of legislation but its aim is to provide a remedy to the public in situations like those described.
If you need help with an accident or injury contact our specialist Animals Act team or call Elaine Snell on 0117 904 6326 email [email protected]
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The Journal News/lohud first team all-stars
P – Ella Utschig, White Plains: The freshman phenom was a stalwart for the Tigers, earning league pitcher of the year honors and spearheading the team to the Section 1 Class AA final. Utschig won nine of her 14 games via shutout, struck out 160 batters and posted a 1.02 ERA. The seventh team all-state pick also drove in 21 runs at the plate.
C – Lauren Rende, Ardsley: The senior player of the year finalist was nothing short of sensational for the Panthers, who captured their first-ever state title. Rende led the section in batting average (.663), compiling 61 hits for the year. She also had 12 home runs, 63 RBIs, 22 doubles, 48 runs, 20 stolen bases and just three strikeouts on the year. Rende was named the Class B state player of the year and will play for Manhattan next year, where she will move to her primary position at shortstop.
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INF – Bella Feraca, Panas: The Rochester-bound second baseman played a vital role in the Panthers' unlikely run from the 10-seed in the Section 1 Class A tournament to the state semifinals. Feraca was one of the top hitters in the state all year and finished her illustrious six-year career with 141 hits, 121 runs scored, and 60 stolen bases.
INF – Alexa Galligani, White Plains: The Tigers are flush with young talent, and the freshman second baseman is at the heart of that core. Galligani was one of the top hitters in the section, batting .609 for the year with 39 hits (21 for extra bases), 48 runs, 18 walks, and a .699 on-base percentage out of the leadoff spot.
INF – Brooklyn Ostrowski, Port Chester: The junior shortstop quietly continued to be one of the top offensive producers in the state, finishing with 13 home runs for the year. The Villanova recruit holds a .475 (147-for-309) career batting average, with 162 RBIs and 119 runs scored.
INF – Sarah Rende, Ardsley: The younger sister of Lauren Rende made a name for herself this season, earning first team all-state honors for her exceptional hitting and defense at shortstop. Rende batted .585 with six home runs and over 30 RBIs to cap a breakout season.
OF – Krystal Badillo, Lakeland: The junior center fielder batted .468 with two home runs, 27 RBIs and 30 runs for the section-finalist Hornets. Badillo will likely take on more of a pitching role next season with team ace Claire Fon set to graduate.
OF – Sami Blackman, Ardsley: If you did not know who she was before the state tournament, you should now. The junior left fielder was instrumental in winning a state title for the Panthers, coming up with a clutch go-ahead double for her 100th career hit and game-ending outfield assist in the semifinals. This year was Blackman's coming out party, and it was a full-blown fiesta.
OF – Sam Riccardulli, Yorktown: The senior center fielder capped a sensational career by batting a team-high .550 and breaking the program hits record previously held by local legend Cassie Reilly-Boccia. Riccardulli, who was the subject of a feature for her overcoming a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, committed just three errors in her four-year varsity career.
DP – Claire Fon, Lakeland: Along with Shannon Becker and Lauren Rende, Fon was a player of the year finalist and for good reason. The Adelphi-bound senior became the first player in NYSPHSAA history to hit 40 career home runs and win 40 games as a pitcher. Fon batted .540 for the year with a state-high 16 home runs and 45 RBIs, and also posted a 17-1 record on the mound to lead Lakeland (22-1) to the sectional final. Fon was named first team all-state in Class A.
UTIL – Sam Hausman, Scarsdale: The junior standout anchored one of the best seasons in recent memory for the Raiders, who finished 16-5 for the year. Hausman earned league player of the year honors and was also a constant threat at the plate.
UTIL – Ava Rainone, White Plains: After missing last year with an ankle injury, the sophomore bounced back with a vengeance. Rainone, who primarily played first base, batted .514 with 28 RBIs and went 4-0 as a pitcher with 46 strikeouts in 26 innings.
Coach of the year — Dale Chappelle, Panas: No double-digit seed ever won a sectional title before Panas' improbable run this year. Chappelle and the Panthers put together a remarkable postseason finish that proves their sectional final upset of Lakeland was no fluke and that this team accomplished something truly special.
P – Olivia Bordenaro, Panas, So.
C – Alex Waters, Putnam Valley, Jr.
INF – Sarah DiSanto, White Plains, Jr.
INF – Sophia Mangone, Ardsley, So.
INF – Mia Martinez, Ursuline, Jr.
INF – Emilie Oliver, Eastchester, Sr.
OF – Jill Attinelly, Hen Hud, Jr.
OF – Julia Jamesley, Scarsdale, Sr.
OF – Madison Ostrowski, Port Chester, Fr.
DP – Gianna Bencivengo, Valhalla, Sr.
UTIL – Katie Blanch, Rye Neck, 8th
UTIL – Emily McKenna, Putnam Valley, So.
KP Boggs, Pelham, Sr.; Michaela Capicotto, Hen Hud, Jr.; Madison Chiudina, Brewster, Jr.; Allie Cortino, Yorktown, Jr.; Michelle DellaMura, Mahopac, So.; Alana Espinoza, Hen Hud, Fr.; Ashley Graham, Eastchester, Sr.; Kristi Iannacchino, Harrison, Sr.; Tava Kasper, Mamaroneck, Sr.; Gabby Krumper, Ardsley, Sr.; Gabby Mazzotta, Somers, Sr.; Natasha Mendez, White Plains, So.; Lila Mogavero, Harrison, Sr.; Karly Moscarello, Somers, Sr.; Maggie O’Hare, Tuckahoe/Bronxville, So.; Mary Grace O’Neill, Pleasantville, So.; Victoria Papaleo, Ursuline, Sr.; Carissa Pecchia, Rye Neck, Fr.; Francesca Reyes, Putnam Valley, So.; Arielle Rosenblatt, Solomon Schechter, Sr.; Shannon Scotto, Lakeland, Fr.; Kayla Song, Scarsdale, Jr.; Josie Steinberg, Mamaroneck, Sr.; Shianne Twoguns, Haldane, Jr.; Abbie Vetrone, Scarsdale, Sr.; Jenna Yusi, Port Chester, So.
Follow Mike Zacchio on Twitter and Instagram at @Zacchio_LoHud.
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"Your own voice..." Advice for students of poetry.
Lee Johnson, who has recently retired as a Professor of English at the University of British Columbia after four decades of teaching and study, and also after four decades of quietly writing poetry, is now touring with his first collection, Poetria Nova (St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2014).
Johnson is featured, along with Susan McCaslin, at London Open Mic Poetry Night on May 7th, 2014.
In preparation for the event, we interviewed him, with some of our questions reflecting Johnson's unique background: thus the problem of whether and how students can develop their own poetic voices within the strict and heavy course structure and academic environment of a university. We asked for advice. Below are pertinent excerpts. Stay tuned for the full interview, along with a group of Lee Johnson's newly published poems, to be posted this Friday, May 2nd.
Lee Johnson, who was Susan McCaslin's PhD dissertation advisor at UBC, and her favourite professor, grew up near the centre of the continent on a chain of lakes in rolling countryside and developed a love of Nature in all its forms. His intended careers at that time were to become an ornithologist and an astronomer, depending on the time of day. There were, and are, so many birds around a region of lakes because of the abundance of food; and the night skies in a rural area are compelling. Is it any wonder, then, that, in early youth, the poetry of Wordsworth called to him with the force of a conversion experience, showing how interactions with Nature could be recreated in poetry? Later, as a professor for four decades at the University of British Columbia (1970-2012), Lee wrote two books on this particular poetic mentor: Wordsworth and the Sonnet (Copenhagen: Anglistica, 1973) and Wordsworth’s Metaphysical Verse: Geometry, Nature, and Form (Toronto UP, 1982).
Poetria Nova (St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2014) is Lee’s first book of published poetry, a selection that draws on his love of Nature, Renaissance and Romantic poetry, music, astronomy, and mathematics. All these interests flowed into his formal career as a Professor of English who was noted for his insights into the art of poetry and its history, going back to classical times. Essays on Virgil, Milton, and T.S. Eliot, among other masters of the metrical art, emphasize the range of Lee’s inquiries. At that time, most of his energy as a writer went into academic studies; now in retirement, he is returning to his essential love of poetry that, like an underground stream, nourished him throughout his years of earning a living. He works with traditional metric, geometrical progressions, and rhythms in a way that makes Pythagorean and Medieval number theory new for our times.
Interview by Stan Burfield, organizer of London Open Mic Poetry Night
.......Towards the end of my second year as an undergraduate, I had to take a course on English and British literature. One of our tasks was to read large sections of Wordsworth’s long poem The Prelude. My usual habit was to read material for these “incidental” courses in the late afternoon before dinner at the college residence and to work on my “serious” science courses after dinner, well into the night. I started reading The Prelude around 4 p.m. and stopped around twelve hours later, just before dawn the next day, having forgotten to eat or to sleep. ......I soon thereafter started to devour poetry from all eras, including eastern traditions. .....I could see a line of influence from Virgil to Milton and from Milton to Wordsworth: in fact, the Fourth Eclogue, Lycidas, and the Immortality Ode are all deeply interlinked in their themes and even in their smallest details of sound and form in their status as three of the greatest short poems in western civilization.
SB: Do you have any advice for young poets who are starting out at university?
LJ: There is obviously a strong connection between what one reads and what one writes. Read as much, and as widely as possible, so that your own voice can be formed without having been commandeered by only one or a small handful of other voices. Say, for instance, that you are “drunk” on Keats, a most understandable condition. Unfortunately, your own poems will sound like recycled Keats but will be inferior to his voice, which he attained after writing typical verse of his time, when he composed his sonnet on Chapman’s translation of Homer. Typical verse of any era, it seems to me, is likely to assert itself in the critiques that inspire classes in creative writing. Such classes certainly stimulate you to write, but the standard of what is expected will be the collective consciousness or superego of the time. Your own voice will still need to form itself. Perhaps that is best done by reading as much and as widely as possible so that no one voice, individual or collective, dominates your sensibility and prevents your own voice from emerging. It is of supreme importance to realize that poets are as distinct and different from one another as people in general are: there is no such thing as The Poet, of which we are all emanations. There are millions of poets, all unique. There is consequently no one right way to compose poetry. Wallace Stevens was a school of one; imagine him having to endure critiques in a creative writing class.
....... It seems clear to me that I have always been most entranced with poetry that “sings” rather than merely “talks”: there is a music in the poems of my most beloved poets, whether ancient or modern. Yeats, for example, often wrote poetry that is intellectually not of the highest order; but, my goodness, does his poetry sing! So much so, that he is probably the finest modern poet who has written in English.
.......doing something interesting with language and form in relation to the history of poetry is more important than simply expressing oneself in verse. My only claim for Poetria Nova is that it offers something a little bit different by emphasizing form and the art of poetry itself.
.......My academic interests, such as those in my 1982 Toronto Press book on Wordsworth, simply feed into my larger interest in being alive with such a keen sense of strangeness about being alive in such strange things as the Universes of space-time and mind. Poetry is thus not an end in itself but a major way of exploring the nature of Being.
........ Yeats mentioned that he knew a poem was finished when he felt it “click” with that perfect blend of form and expression. I know exactly what he meant, but it is not something one can explain all that clearly. The literary experience is far too complex for that.
WHERE: The Mykonos Restaurant at 572 Adelaide St. North, London, Ontario. The restaurant has a large, covered terrace just behind the main restaurant, which comfortably holds 60 poetry lovers. Mediterranean food and drinks are available. Except for the coldest months, the terrace is open to the parking lot behind. Overflow parking is available across the side street and in the large lot one block north, in front of Trad’s Furniture.
WHEN: May 7th, the first Wednesday of the month, at 6:30.
LIVE MUSIC: Singer/songwriter Carly Thomas will open the event, at least by 6:30. She will also perform during the intermission and at the end of the event.
THE FEATURED POETS, first Lee Johnson, followed by Susan McCaslin, open the poetry portion of the event at 7:00, followed by a Q&A. Read interview and poems by Susan McCaslin
OPEN MIC: Following the featured poet, there is about 1.5 hours of open mic, ending about 9:00 pm. Each poet has five minutes (which is about two good pages of poetry, but it should be timed at home). Sign up on the reader`s list, which is on the book table at the back. It's first come, first served.
RAFFLE PRIZES: Anyone who donates to London Open Mic Poetry Night receives a ticket for a raffle prize, three of which will be picked after the intermission. The prizes consist of poetry books donated by Brick Books and The Ontario Poetry Society. Donations are our only source of income. We still haven't paid off our initial debt!
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Jacob Scheier
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Raheem Sterling questions will of social media companies to combat online racism
Raheem Sterling has questioned whether there is the will among social media companies to combat online abuse towards footballers after a new study highlighted the shocking extent of the problem.
More than 3,000 explicitly abusive messages were sent publicly via Twitter over the six-week Project Restart period to 44 high-profile players currently or formerly involved in English football, research has shown.
Forty three per cent of the Premier League players in the study (13 out of 30) experienced targeted and explicitly racist abuse, while three players who called out racism during the period – Manchester City and England forward Sterling, Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha and Wycombe’s Adebayo Akinfenwa – received 50 per cent of all the abuse.
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— Raheem Sterling (@sterling7) June 22, 2020
Sterling said far more needed to be done to tackle the problem.
“I don’t know how many times I need to say this, but football and the social media platforms need to step up, show real leadership and take proper action in tackling online abuse,” he said.
“The technology is there to make a difference, but I’m increasingly questioning if there is the will.”
The study, which looked at 825,515 messages in total which were sent to the players, was commissioned by the Professional Footballers’ Association Charity, carried out by data scientists at Signify and supported by anti-discrimination group Kick It Out.
It also found that 29 per cent of the abuse came in emoji form, which the study commissioners described as a “glaring oversight” in the algorithms used by Twitter to spot hateful content.
A Twitter spokesperson said: “Racist behaviour has no place on Twitter and we strongly condemn it. We continue to take action on any account that violates the Twitter Rules.
“We welcome people to freely express themselves on our service, however, as outlined in our Hateful Conduct Policy, account holders cannot promote violence against, threaten or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity or other protected groups.
“We have proactively engaged and continue to collaborate with our valued partners in football, to identify ways to tackle this issue collectively. We remain focused on proactively actioning hateful content – now more than 1 in 2 Tweets are identified and removed without reports.
“We want to reiterate that abusive and hateful conduct has no place on our service and we will continue to take swift action on the minority that try to undermine the conversation for the majority. We will continue to play our part in curbing this unacceptable behaviour — both online and offline.”
Very disappointed we didn’t get a better result yesterday but I wanted to come on here to thank you for all your messages of support. I would also like to thank West Midlands Police for their swift action in making an arrest. People need to understand that whatever your age, that your behaviour and your words come with consequences and you cannot hide behind social media. It is important social media platforms do as they did yesterday and seek out these individuals and remove them. This is not the first time I have received messages like this, nor am I the only player to receive messages like this – it happens every day. I want to thank everyone for the love and support but enough is enough ! It is not enough to be disgusted by these messages I received and move on. It isn’t enough to just say #notoracism . We need action, we need education, things need to change.
A post shared by Wilfried Zaha (@wilfriedzaha) on Jul 13, 2020 at 2:24am PDT
Earlier this month, it was confirmed that the social media giant was in partnership with Kick It Out over its ‘Take A Stand’ initiative. At that time, Twitter said it proactively removed more than one in two tweets deemed hateful from its platform.
Facebook’s vice-president for northern Europe, Steve Hatch, said that between April and June action had been taken against 22.5 million pieces of content and that 94.5 per cent of that was detected and removed proactively by Facebook, rather than by users reporting it.
Akinfenwa said: “As someone who has experienced online abuse first-hand and spoken to team-mates who have experienced the same, I can say that players don’t want warm words of comfort from football’s authorities and social media giants, we want action.
“The time for talking has passed, we now need action by those who can make a difference.”
The report authors say the data demonstrates the need for football’s stakeholders to work together on the funding of a system to proactively monitor online abuse using artificial intelligence.
It also calls for more work to be done to ensure there are “real world consequences” for online abusers such as prosecutions and stadium bans, and for more pressure to be brought to bear on social media companies to act proactively and strongly against abuse.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
Kick It Out Racism
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Torayvino relaunches as IVO water purifier in the Philippine
Japan’s preferred brand for high water purifying efficiency at the convenience of your own home and space
There are a lot of benefits when someone owns a purifier at home or at the office. Aside from the fact that one can save many pesos a month, having your own purifier ensures security from strangers and assures highest purity standard when it comes to water quality and would no longer have to be handled and delivered by a third party whose compliance to health and sanitation is hugely unknown. It can even save space as most of us would need storage for 5-gallon containers and operating water dispensers.
Consumers can do away with water PET bottles when they own purifiers at home, and reduces plastic waste therefore helping save the environment. Because of these reasons, water purifiers are gaining traction in the local market.
Introduced two years ago in the Philippine market under the original brand name of Torayvino, a wholly Japanese technology faucet-mounted water purifier is being re-launched in the country this April. The IVO, short for Innovation and Evolution, will now hit the stores starting this month as a brand for safe and secure water purifiers. According to Toray Industries of Japan, producer of IVO, Moduvi, Inc. will still be the exclusive distributor of IVO in the country, despite the change in brand name from Torayvino.
Torayvino is the dominant water purifier in the Japanese market with 66 percent of the consumers using the brand. Worldwide, Torayvino has already sold over 1 billion units of these water purifiers.
Toray Industries of Japan was founded in 1926 and has consolidated sales of more than 2 trillion yen and employees of over 45,000 worldwide. Its businesses are in fiber and textiles such as those used by Uniqlo’s Airism and Heattech lines, plastics and chemicals, IT-related products, carbon fiber composite materials such as those used in aircrafts, environment and engineering, and life science such as hollow fiber membrane filters used in Toray’s dialysis machines, artificial kidneys, and Torayvino water purifiers.
The 0.1 micron filtration of Torayvino, or IVO in the Philippines, ensures 99.99 percent bacteria-free water without unduly sacrificing water flow or pressure. The filter is able to remove disease-causing microorganisms in water such as Amoeba, Salmonella Typhi (Typhoid Fever), Vibrio Cholerae (Cholera), E. Coli up to the 0.1 micron unit.
IVO also removes residual chlorine, harmful chemicals, bad odor, rust, sand, sediments, and other impurities and has three selections: filtered spray (for drinking); unfiltered spray which is recommended for washing vegetables and dishes and unfiltered straight which is for other regular kitchen activities. The unfiltered spray also gives you 30% water savings because it has more area coverage than unfiltered straight which is perfect for washing your dishes.
There is no plumbing and no electricity are required in installing IVO filters as they are easy to install and eco-friendly.
Moduvi’s General Manager Donna Yan said the company is bringing IVO to North America and other Asian countries.
Yan said that Moduvi will continue in aggressively promoting IVO filtration systems in condominiums, where space is limited and water delivery can be time consuming and troublesome. This is apart from its marketing tie-up with O Shopping (TV) and outlets of True Value and All Home.
An IVO filtration unit costs P1,980 with a cartridge that has a capacity of 1,500 liters or about 79 pieces of 5- gallon containers. A typical family of 3 to 5, with an average consumption of 15L per day, can use the filter for three months.
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Maps tells the story in this innovative volume, and the story of Canada they tell is profoundly engrossing and rewarding. The atlas covers a period of a thousand years and contains essentially all the historically significant maps of the country. Gathered from major archives and libraries all over the world, they include treasures from the National Archives of Canada—many never before published—and many from the archives of the Hudson's Bay Company. Included are maps by the founder of New France, Samuel de Champlain, by Philip Turnor and Peter Fidler. There are English maps and French maps; Spanish maps and Russian maps; American, Italian and Dutch maps as well as maps drawn by Native people such as the Beothuk, Blackfoot and Cree. Canada's colourful past unfolds in sumptuous visual detail—history seen from a whole new perspective.
Canada’s History Illustrated with Original Maps by Derek Hayes.
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LITRG urges self-employed to check eligibility for SEISS
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has urged self-employed individuals to check their eligibility for the first round of the government's coronavirus (COVID-19) Self-employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) grant.
The claim window for the first SEISS grant will close on 13 July. The LITRG stated that HMRC used IT systems to identify potential SEISS claimants in May. However, the group is concerned that some self-employed individuals did not receive HMRC's correspondence.
The LITRG also said that there is 'some confusion' in regard to the time periods for the SEISS grants. HMRC recently updated its guidance and outlined that a business that has been affected by COVID-19 at any point up to 13 July is eligible for the first SEISS grant, assuming all other conditions are met.
Only if a business is adversely affected by COVID-19 from 14 July can the self-employed claim the second grant.
Commenting on the issue, Victoria Todd, Head of the LITRG, said: 'The self-employed and individual partners trading in partnerships whose businesses have been affected adversely by COVID-19 but who are yet to claim the first SEISS grant should check urgently whether they are eligible.
'It is unfortunate if potential claimants miss out because they did not realise there was a deadline or because they were unsure if they could claim.'
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McLaren Racing and VELO launch new esports series
The four-part VELO ESERIES will see top celebrities go head-to-head against internet sensations
06.01.21 06 Jan 2021 11:00 (UTC)
McLaren Racing and VELO, a leading nicotine pouch brand, today launched the VELO ESERIES as part of its ongoing global partnership with BAT. It marks VELO’s expansion into esports, using its partnership to engage adult audiences with exciting content, driving global brand awareness as companies continue to adapt to the ongoing environment.
Presented by ex-Top Gear host and TV presenter, Rory Reid, the four-part VELO ESERIES will see top celebrities go head-to-head against internet sensations. Launching this weekend, Series One kicks off with globally renowned DJ, singer-songwriter and producer Craig David, and Supercar Blondie, the world’s largest automotive creator.
The VELO ESERIES brings together VELO’s passion points to drive global brand awareness and connect fans across motorsport, music and entertainment. It will see VELO reaching its adult nicotine consumers in new, exciting and engaging ways, giving them the opportunity to participate and race against celebrities with a host of exclusive prizes up for grabs, including VELO-branded racing overalls, gloves and games consoles.
Mark Waller, Chief Commercial Officer, McLaren Racing, said: “McLaren and VELO share a similar passion for putting fans at the heart of engaging experiences. It’s great to kick-off the New Year while we wait for the new Formula 1 season to get underway with this exciting new eracing initiative. Fan engagement continues to be more important than ever during these times so it’s great to work with our partners to develop fantastic experiences like this.”
Paul Lageweg, BAT’s New Categories Director, said: “VELO is all about creating exciting experiences for our adult nicotine consumers, encouraging them to find their edge, and we are bringing this to life with our new VELO ESERIES programme. The popularity of adult gaming has continued to grow, so we’re excited about tapping into this trend, adding an exciting and entertaining twist with some famous faces. It’s important that we always look for new and creative, digital-first ways to use our global partnerships to connect with our consumers and delight audiences around the world.”
Craig David, DJ, singer songwriter and producer, said: “Hanging out at McLaren’s HQ was an incredible experience where they properly put me through my paces with F1 training and simulator practice - hopefully I’ll have some major skills going into the virtual race. A huge thank you to all the team there and at VELO for allowing me to be part of this eracing series!”
Alexandra Hirschi, Supercar Blondie, said: “I absolutely loved racing against music legend Craig David. That’s what I love about cars, it brings people together who would otherwise never meet. VELO and McLaren have brought back a real enjoyment for esports!”
VELO ESERIES 1 launches this weekend, with further episodes set to air over the coming months, concluding at the end of April. All content will be available on VELO’s social channels, including the livestream of each virtual race on VELO's YouTube channel. The Craig David and Supercar Blondie race for series 1 is set to take place at 1PM (GMT) on Saturday 6 February.
The VELO brand is a leading nicotine pouch brand and is part of a portfolio of new category products that BAT offers adult nicotine consumers as alternatives to traditional tobacco products. The company has been Principal Partner of McLaren Racing since early 2019, a partnership which is focused on helping to accelerate its transformation with these new products it offers.
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My Own Private
Shock Corridor
The Situational Ethicist
by Bob Schneider
When I was in third grade and on my a.m. recess from Hebrew studies, I jaunty-jollied down Henry Street bouncing my spaldeen. My destination — Cheap Naftali’s — was across the street, next to my pastrami/corned beef deli. My mission: to acquire a couple of Israeli stamps. But before I could cross on the green, not in between, the neon sign right in front of me—a story up, two stories tall, about thirty feet from ground to apex — sent out its siren call. My attention deficit disordered me and now I was on to something new. I had to prove what had so quickly morphed from momentary musing to earnest belief — that I could toss my spaldeen up and over the sign, and catch it on the other side before it bounced. I went over the mechanics in my head, step by step, until I was certain of them. I turned my body at an angle to the sign, placed my left leg in front of my right, bent both slightly at the knees, gripped the spaldeen in my throwing hand, took a deep breath, cocked my arm, and hurled. It took only a nano after release for me to fully comprehend the hubris of my miscalculation. The ball hit the sign about a third of the way up. I watched in shock as the neon tubing crackled, broke into a billion pieces, and rained down on me. After an eternity of terror paralysis, I came to my senses. I didn’t even take the time to retrieve the red rubber instrument of my downfall, I just tore ass out of there as fast as my Keds could carry me — a plus-sized, baby-faced, wingèd Mercury, running for dear life.
I didn’t stop running until I reached the cafeteria in the yeshiva’s basement. I was farshvitst,1 huffing and puffing so wheezily I thought I might have a fatal asthma attack before I could finish the caramelized, crinkle-cut french fries, which, along with spaghetti and fish sticks, were the only things worth eating in Mrs. Ausfresser’s Maison de Feh.
The rest of the school day I sat in dread of the inevitable. It was as if I were mourning over the corpse I would soon become — the lay-away plan of sitting shivah.2 Surely someone had seen what I had done, had seen where I had run to. It was just a matter of time before I would have to answer for my crime.
In class that day, as the teach attempted to explain long division and simplify (ha!) the mystical process of mapping a sentence,3 all I could do was keep my ears peeled, listening for the stamp, stamp, stamp of jackboots as the Polizei clomped on the marble treads of the iron stairwell up to my home room. They would call me out, cuff me, haul me off to the hoosegow, the mean-spirited catcalls of my classmates providing the soundtrack to my perp walk.
The police never materialized, but that night, as I boarded the train to Hell’s Kitchen, I felt far from home free. And I was right. On this night the nest was just another anteroom in hell. Every time the shofar4 rang I expected my tale of transgression to be tattled to whichever of the parentals picked up; and the shofar wouldn’t stop ringing. With each new call I jerked about like a fish out of water, like I had stuck my tongue in an electric socket.
By the fourth or fifth involuntary twitch the womb’s maternal instinct kicked in and she started asking me the same question each time I seemed about to jump out of my skin: What’s the matta, Rob-it?
To which I would petulantly reply, Nuthin’, Mom, lee-mee alone.
With each passing iteration of the question her tone became more hysterical, mine more defensive. It was a Slavic standoff.
Knuckleheaded nine-year-old that I was on the day of the spaldeen disaster, having had a belief system best deemed Talibanic Yiddishkeit rooted into my very core, I totally bought into the deus ex panopticon model of the universe. With the same certainty I had that my aunt Debbie’s rugelach were the best on earth, even better than those to be had at Sussman’s or Gertel’s, I knew the Volcano God’s eye in the sky had seen what I had done and it was just a matter of time before my punishment would be made manifest. And so it was that, as the nuclear family gathered ’round our burning bush that evening to watch with awe, amazement, and perhaps even a smidge of disbelief as the platonic form of the Amurrican family went through the motions on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet — pops in the club chair throne, womb in the wing chair of hysteria, and spawny old me supine on the couch of death — I was imploding with guilt, percolating closer and closer to critical mass. My heart was beating like the bongo in the belly of the boat in Ben Hur—my lub-dub-lub-dub-lub-dub speeding up like the ever-quickening tempo dictated by Quintus Arrius: Battle speed, Hortator… Attack speed… Ramming speed! — until ram I finally did, into the inescapable conclusion that the time had come today for me to tell the truth and face the consequences, that I must come correct before El Supremo smites me.
My confession refluxed up from my guilt-ridden gut, exploded out of my big motormouth.
The confession that poured out of me was ululatory, a monosyllabic wail, sharing in common with the Mosaic Torah of Sinai5 an absence of starts and stops. Womb and seed were fascinated and horrified by my act in equal measure, managing the Oscar-worthy performance of showing parental concern and adult impatience at the same time.
While Depresso-Dad, spooked by his son’s emotional outburst, nestled himself even deeper into the fortress of solitude that was himself’s club chair, Hystero-Mom found herself in the cradle of her comfort zone; although she would’ve denied it, she was grooving enthusiastically to the beat of my yowl. She made her stab at soothing the savage beast in the only way she knew how — by rotating the potentiometer to twelve, screaming at me that she couldn’t understand a word I was saying, screaming at me that she couldn’t help me if she couldn’t understand me, screaming at me to explain what I was bawling about right this very second. Having lived with this level of hysteria since I was a zygote, I knew what I had to do. I took deep breaths that would have made a swami proud, regained a semblance of emotional control, and told my tale of crime and regret, all the while making it perfectly clear how very sorry I was, how very remorseful I was.
I closed my eyes. I expected the gnashing of teeth, the rending of clothes, the pulling of hair, the slaps and screams of outraged parentals.
That is not how it went down. After a beat or two I reopened my eyes in time to see the father-mother exchange a glance, after which the womb asked, Did anyone see you, Rob-it? Unwilling to state the obvious — that God had seen me — I went with the secular and said, No, I don’t think so.
Another beat. Another glance. And then the womb said, If nobody saw you, let’s not worry about it.
⫷⫸
Henri-Cartier Bresson defined the decisive moment — a phrase he had coined — as the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression.
The Island of Lost Souls recounts the scientific adventures of Dr. Moreau, evolution engineer, who performs metamorphic surgery without anesthesia on the beasts of the wild in what he chillingly, threateningly refers to as the House of Pain, the end result of which is a tribe of low-lumen ani-men, gathered together in a creepy crawl just outside the doc’s main gate, a jungular congregation who both revere and fear him.
Edward Parker, the straightest man in the South Pacific, is cast ashore on this island hell, and Moreau, his ulterior motive a plot point as yet unrevealed, opens his spooky mansion to him, offering comfort, sustenance, and the companionship of Lota, whom he represents as his daughter (but who is in actuality the Panther Woman whom Moreau created to play Eve in his newly minted, mad-scientist riff on the Garden of Eden).
After walking in on Moreau and his assistant-with-the-criminal-past (read backstreet abortionist) anatomizing yet another George of the Jungle, Parker takes the pliable Lota by the hand and makes a break from Bio-Hell only to discover that Vivisection Village stands between them and the safety of the sea.
Seeing Adam and his lab-made Eve makes the natives restless (this film being the source of that cliché). They launch a regression swarm. Just as it looks like this is the end of the line for the man and his metamorphized maiden, Moreau appears on a promontory above the tropic ghetto, a whip in one hand, a striker in the other; he one-hands the gong,6 snaps his whip, and gets the attention of his lab-made freaks. Aided by his high priest, the Sayer of the Law,7 he commences a recitation of a primitive, abbreviated moral code—the Three Commandments—that his creations must live by:
BEASTS (in unison): Are we not men?
Then the Sayer of the Law soulfully recites the service’s final, mournful benediction: His is the hand that made; his is the hand that heals; his is the House of Pain.
The beasts are tranquilized, the Sayer of the Law slinks back to his A-frame hut, and Moreau, Parker, and the Panther Woman head back to the mad doctor’s manse, where Moreau fills Parker in on his backstory: I started with plant life in London twenty years ago… I performed a miracle… I stripped a hundred thousand years of slow evolution… by a slight change in the… germ plasm; it’s as simple as that. Following the discovery of an escaped dog much the worse for wear, Moreau had to flee London, the newspapers at my heels, aroused England crying for my blood. It was then he hightailed it to his present location, the Island of Lost Souls, where he produced my first great achievement — articulate speech controlled by the brain. Oh, it takes a long time and infinite patience to make them talk. With each experiment I improve upon the last; I get nearer and nearer… Mr. Parker, do you know what it means to feel like god?
The doc’s off-handed assumption of divine powers thoroughly spooks Parker.
The following morning, as Parker sits by the reflecting pool reading, Moreau the matchmaker pushes the Panther Lady at him. She snuggles up against him, purrs suggestively to him, gazes upon him, her eyes tractor beams of desire, until he can no longer control himself. He scoops her up in his arms and locks lips with Lota. Although Parker regains control momentarily, for Moreau it’s plain to see that a performance of the (half-literal) beast-with-the-double-back is inevitable.
But the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ mad scientists gang aft agley.
It’s paradise lost when Parker’s relentless Amurrican fiancée, la Rubia Ruth, who’s been combing the South Pacific for her man, shows up on Lost Soul Island in a tramp steamer captained by an old salt in sway to the demon rum, and from that moment the movie cascades toward its climax: Ruth takes Parker’s room, locks the door behind her; the simian Ouran, eager to get his letch on, lopes up the limb of a tree, yanks out a bar in Ruth’s window, and hops in, his tiny, pheremonic-fogged mind ruled by his jumbo frank; Ruth screams; the Cap and Parker come running and Ouran beats a hasty retreat; Back-Alley Abortionist, who has had enough of sado-surgery and would rather do his time in a more conventional house of pain, offers to help the visitors escape; Cap volunteers to race back to his boat for reinforcements; Moreau gives Ouran a one-time dispensation from Commandment Three and instructs the anthropoid to snap Cap’s neck; Ouran does as he is told; he drags Cap’s limp body to display before his coreligionists; the Sayer of the Law attempts to perform his eponymous task, to bring the hammer of primordial righteousness down upon the head of Ouran, but Apeman insists he did it with Moreau’s blessing; there follows a spirited, if intellectually challenged, ethical debate — is it permissible to spill blood if He says so?; the mob whoops and roars its answer in the affirmative; by applying the principles of logic for idiots, they go even farther — these once-they-were-animals, now-they-are-men conclude that if Cap can die, so can Moreau; the Sayer of the Law, now fully on board, articulates the tribe’s epochal epiphany — He can die, law no more!; cut to chez Moreau, where Doc Baby Killer produces a gun, and he, Parker, and Ruth make good their escape; coincidental with their escape, Moreau beats the gong, snaps his whip, in an attempt to flog his restless flock into submission; thrilled, liberated by their newly gained understanding that He can die, they have moved beyond his control; terror sets in for Moreau; he tears ass back to the safety of his gated community of one, but before he can secure the gate, he’s overpowered by his creations, who cart him off to the House of Pain, where they make good on their metaphysical discovery; going one step further than Freaks, the camera rolls as the creatures change potentiality into actuality, grabbing the tools of their torturous transformation to prove the proposition — He can die.
And therefore, Law no more.
You might think that I would have been relieved when the womb proffered a pass for my destructive miscalculation, but you would be wrong. Make no mistake, it came as a great relief to be spared the physical and mental pain of the parental kabuki of crime and punishment that would have included (but was not necessarily limited to) Pops smacking me while yelling in Yiddish or Polish about what a decisively rotten little pischer I was, while Mom would be initially wondering what she had done wrong to have deserved a kid like me, then insisting the hospital had to have switched their true offspring for the satanic changeling that stood before them, then building to the climax of her triune pity party: the prophecy that I would be the death of her yet, the yet both defiant and accusatory, which I understood to mean that my clear and ongoing campaign to kill her, though still not successful, could not at that point in the space-time continuum yet be deemed a failure. But my relief at this escape, as welcome as it was, did in no way shrink or disappear the great abyss that had opened at my feet8 when Mom made it clear that there was no such thing as real, prescriptive rights and wrongs, and that, in fact, the only thing that could be judged a bad deed, the only thing you could absolutely not get away with, was the thing you were caught in the act of doing.
And that is how I developed what could be called ethical Asperger’s.
1 Heavy duty sweat that can be caused by exertion, like tearing ass from the scene of the crime, or by anxiety (see Albert Brooks as the guest anchor in Broadcast News) or, as in this case, a combo of the two.
2 Jews spend seven days sitting on milk crates in rent clothes while relatives from the Men in Black branch of the mishpuchah, who only materialize during periods of group grief, gobble herring, inhale marble cake, slurp schnapps, and babble nonsense about the will of god.
3 I am to this day not certain that mapping a sentence was a core part of the elementary school curriculum or just something I hallucinated after I inhaled a pastrami sandwich on ergot-laced deli rye. In memory, at least, it would start out peacefully enough, like the morning the Japs sneak-attacked Pearl Harbor. We would just be taking our seats after having consumed a huge lunch, which left us collectively feeling a tad logy, when Mrs. Wolpinsky would screech that she was about to teach us how to map a sentence. And that’s when shit went banzai, bombs away. Mrs. W would turn to the blackboard, which ran the width of the classroom from door to window, and chalk on the most complicated sentence imaginable, fraught with subjects, direct and indirect objects, prepositional phrases, gerunds — the gansa grammatical gamut. (A sentence such as this — In December of 1972 some friends and I gathered at the home of My Friend the Gleaner, on the corner of Bergen and Flatbush, a top-floor, thousand-room slum, that looked like the set of a German Expressionist horror movie, parked ourselves in front of the Trinitron he had salvaged from an abandoned Rockaway bungalow, and passed the Thai stick, again and again, as we watched the first-round AFC playoff game between the Oakland Raiders and the Pittsburgh Steelers that ended with the legendary immaculate reception — the pigskin, having caromed off the colliding carcasses of Frenchy Fuqua and Jack Tatum, was mere microns from touching the astro turf when Franco Harris scooped it up and tore ass into the end zone with but ten ticks remaining on the clock, producing glorious chaos in both Three Rivers Stadium and Park Slope Brooklyn, where our circle of way wasted potheads could not fucking believe what we had just seen.) She would then go Otto Jespersen all over our foggy little minds. She first drew one long horizontal line to which she would affix verticals and diagonals both above and below it. She would write some of the words of the sentence in and around some of these squiggles. There would be arrows, turned inward, pointing outward, then more horizontal lines above and below the original to which were added the now familiar verticals, diagonals, arrows, and dots. By the end of her disquisition, the board was a tree of words branching everywhere—it looked downright Leibniztian, only with English words in the place of Greek letters and Arabic numerals. And while Wolpinsky rattled on and on, I would be sitting in the back of the room—we were seated as we were marched, in size order—absolutely lost, experiencing the feeling that education, be it of the elementary, high, or higher variety, was just not for me. And so I therefore gave myself permission to let it pass over me as if I had put a figurative splash of blood on my mental doorway so that the Angel of Boredom and Confusion might pass me by.
4 In The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon created a vocabulary of hard-boiled Jew slang and assigned the word shofar (a primitive bugle fashioned from a ram’s horn) to designate the telephone.
5 In addition to the granite dos and don’ts Moish brought down following his tête-à-tete with the almighty, he also lugged down from the mount the Torah. But at the time of his descent Moish and the Chosen People were only halfway through Exodus — there were still three and a half books that hadn’t happened yet. The temporal paradox implicit in this was not lost on the young scholar Rob-it, and prompted him to wonder aloud why God would be handing out a crib sheet for the future. Instead of seeing my blurt as an egregious lapse of classroom etiquette punishable by a proto-plasmatic slap upside my head, the rebbe chose to use it to further his didactic agenda. He explained that it is the purview of god, and god alone, to know the future, and so, in order to keep Moses from co-opting the privileges of the deity, which would have left Yahweh with no other choice but to smite him, the scroll he handed down from his volcanic crib had all future actions of the wandering Jews spelled out as one seemingly endless word, absent diacritical marks (the Semitic linguistic equivalent of vowels), which Moses then decrypted as events transpired along the forty-year desert stroll.
6 In the process becoming a short, stubby stand-in for Rank’s Gongman — the trademarked superhero of the titles/credits universe and a ubiquitous target of satire in the Mad magazine of my yoot.
7 Bela Lugosi in what is not his most well remembered performance but might very well be his best.
8 While Charlton Heston was off on his Ten Commandments walkabout, the now leaderless yids began to second-guess the whole he-is-the-one true-God spiel. They decided to hedge their theological bets. They let Edward G. Robinson (the only known Jew in a cast of thousands, cast as Dathan, the Pharaoh’s house Jew, overseer and governor of the enslaved chosen people), who had played bad angel to Moses’s good angel and used every hiccup along the way to the land of milk and honey to wax nostalgic about and urge the return to bondage, appoint himself high priest of the cult of the newly minted Golden Calf. When Charly descended with the twin tablets of Jehovah’s top ten thou shalt and thou shalt nots and witnessed the orgiastic Dance of the Idolators, he lost his mind for what he was doing and hurled the slabs at the Dionysiacs. At the moment of impact, they felt the earth move under their feet, they felt the sky come tumbling down, as a great fissure opened and swallowed them.
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Dr. Moreau
Who’s a Good Boy!
Things God Does When He Closes a Door
Tips from Jokes and How to Tell Them, Published in 1963
by R.J. White
16 Tricks to Stretch Out an Essay
by Lucas Gardner
Final Sentences of Essays I Wrote in College
by Brian McMullen
My Own Private Shock Corridor: Chance is a Fool’s Name for Fate, Part 4: She Walks into Mine
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Alfa Laval to Buy Finnish Supplier
Alfa Laval -supplier in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling -has agreed to acquire the Finnish company Fincoil-teollisuus Oy from Carrier Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. Alfa Laval will pay SEK 425 million in cash (US$67 million).
The company manufactures and markets products for industrial cooling applications. Fincoil has a turnover of SEK 375 million and 150 employees.
Fincoil is established in the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries and Russia. About 80% of its sales are exported. Fincoil has one manufacturing site outside Helsinki in Finland.
The acquisition of Fincoil is in line with Alfa Laval's strategy to expand the presence in the European air heat exchanger market, which we estimate has a size of ...
The acquisition of Fincoil is in line with Alfa Laval’s strategy to expand the presence in the European air heat exchanger market, which we estimate has a size of approximately SEK 5.5 billion,” says Lars Renstr& ouml; m, CEO and president of the Alfa Laval Group.
Fincoil is the second acquisition in the world-wide industrial cooling and refrigeration market. Some months ago Alfa Laval acquired the Dutch company Helpman with sales of SEK 200 million (US$31 million).
The intention is to fully integrate Fincoil into Alfa Laval.
Currency exchange as of Nov. 9, 2007.
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Pivot Strikes Sponsorship Deal With Monster Worldwide, Targets Millennials
by Wayne Friedman , September 16, 2013
Pivot, the new TV network for young viewers, has struck a sponsorship agreement with Monster Worldwide, the big job site. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The effort, the companies say, is to bridge the “perceived gap between millennials and potential employers with a series of Monster.com branded components.” The sponsorship agreement, which will roll out Sept. 16, will integrate content on-air, online and across social media.
Some of the unusual creative executions will include a Pivot-produced original documentary that explores the personal stories of real-life job seekers across the country.
Pivot will air Monster.com branded segments for its late-night topical show, “TakePart Live,” which include nine in-studio “Find Better” segments to air September through December. These segments will feature career coaches, seasoned executives and job seekers.
Pivot, a network from Participant Media, launched last month with 40 million cable, satellite and telco subscribers, targeting viewers 18-34.
Evan Shapiro, president of Pivot, said earlier this year during its upfront presentation the network will be distributed to an estimated 10 million homes that have broadband access but no television.
employment, sponsorship, tv
Andrew Eklund - Ciceron, Founder and CEO
Gibbs Haljun - GroupM’s Mindshare, Total Investment Lead
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COVID-19 informação para constituintes
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BWXT Uranium Processing Facility
Metrolinx Davenport Diamond Project
Housing and Tenants
Menstrual Equity in Schools
Safer Cycling
Stop Ford's Eviction Bill
Cannabis Retail Licensing
No COVID Evictions
Teddy's Law
About Marit
Marit Stiles MPP, Davenport
People need a rent subsid...
People need a rent subsidy to get through COVID-19: Horwath
NDP Leader lays out plan for 80% rent support, eviction ban, six-month rent freeze
QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath believes people need an 80 per cent rent subsidy to get through the COVID-19 pandemic, and make it to the other side of the crisis without the crushing debt of months of unpaid rent behind them.
“For many people in our province, the rent is due this week and they have no way to pay it,” said Horwath. “This public health crisis is also an economic crisis, and renters who usually don’t have much wiggle room at the end of the month are vulnerable. The province needs to have the backs of folks who have lost their jobs or lost income as a result of the pandemic.”
For households experiencing unemployment or lost income as a result of COVID-19, the NDP is proposing the government subsidize 80 per cent of the household’s monthly rent, up to $2,500 per home, per month, for up to four months. The funds should go directly to renters, and arrive as quickly as possible, said Horwath. The same payments should be accessible to help small and medium-sized businesses with their leases.
The NDP also believes renters need more protection from evictions. Horwath said there should be a legal ban on evictions, lockouts and disconnections — including business tenants — for four months, and a legal ban on threatening to evict or disconnect a tenant’s utilities.
Horwath also said rent prices should stay put for six months, with a provincial freeze, along with a federal ban on mortgage foreclosures, so people have protection as they’re getting back on their feet after the pandemic has passed.
“Deferring rent for months could put tenants, and some landlords, into crisis,” said Horwath. “But together, we can get through this if the province steps up to do its part. It’s time to give people the help they need so that we can guarantee no one in Ontario will lose their home as a result of this pandemic.”
Ban on evictions or disconnections
The NDP is calling for a legislated provincial moratorium on evictions, lockouts or disconnections of tenants for the next four months, backed by law.
The legislation should include commercial leases for small and medium-sized businesses.
The NDP is calling for the legislation to make it illegal for any landlord to attempt or to threaten tenants with eviction or utility shut-off.
This would be achieved through legislation or amendments to the Residential Tenancies and Commercial Tenancies Acts. Penalties under the Act are currently punished by a fine of $25,000.
The NDP is also calling for a federal moratorium on mortgage foreclosures.
80 per cent rent subsidy
The NDP is calling for a provincially-funded rent subsidy of 80 per cent of a household’s rent, up to $2,500 a month, for each of the next four months, for anyone qualifying for the federal emergency benefit. The money would be paid to the tenant.
The same should be payable to small and medium-sized businesses to defray lease costs.
Six-month freeze on rent increases
The NDP is calling for a six-month freeze on rental rates until, at least, September 2020.
This could be achieved by a regulatory change.
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X-Men (Age of Apocalypse)
A Guided Tour Through the ‘Age of Apocalypse’
When time travel went amok, the X-Men’s alternate reality was born! Read the entire saga on Marvel Unlimited.
Recap the X-Men’s 4 Seminal Moments
Before you read ‘House of X’ and ‘Powers of X’ in Marvel Unlimited, try these major mutant milestones that paved the way for the X-Men’s all-new era.
Force of Nature is the name of a team of four superhuman mercenaries posing as employees of Project: Earth and defenders of the environmental issues. Project: Earth is an ecological direct action group based in Geneva, Switzerland, that regularly uses violence and deceit in retribution against those who damage the earth's ecosystem.
Even though many of Project: Earth's activities are behind-the-scenes, the group appears to skirt the edges of terrorism in the public eye. One such action involved creating the group Force of Nature, employing villains like Water Wizard and Firebrand by giving them a chance to hurt or kill people and destroy property under the guise of nobility; only the member Terraformer has expressed an actual interest in the planet's well-being. The villains were given codenames to reflect mankind's molding of elemental forces and disharmony with nature-- Aqueduct for Water Wizard and Skybreaker for Aireo, Terraformer and Firewall.
Force of Nature's first public mission was to stop developers in the Amazon rainforest. At the same time, Project: Earth's leader Omar Barrenos had the Project's inner circle fake their own kidnapping as a publicity stunt to encourage sympathy for their cause and discredit the developers. The group of young heroes called the New Warriors investigated the disappearance of one of the inner circle members, Madeline Baldwin, mother of the Warrior Speedball. Force of Nature, however, ambushed and subdued the heroes, and Barrenos tried to persuade them to join the cause. Although the team refused, Speedball pledged their help anyway after seeing that his mother was among the Project: Earth crew. The Warriors and Force of Nature were to attack the developers together, but instead the Warriors saved the lives of the clear-cutting crews and defeated Force of Nature. A last-ditch effort on Barrenos' part to martyr Madeline Baldwin and frame the developers was derailed by Speedball, but the administrators were able to escape into the forest during the confusion. Project: Earth was discredited, and Force of Nature were incarcerated and turned over to the Brazilian government.
Project: Earth soon arranged for Force of Nature's release, believing them to be more successful as a group than they had been as individuals. However, the operative Firewall was lost a few months later and was replaced by the mercenary Firebrand. The team was given another mission-- to put out the oil well fires raging in the war-torn Middle Eastern country Trans-Sabal. The mission went awry, and after a few weeks, Project: Earth officials contacted the New Warriors. The Project claimed to have surreptitiously assisted the heroes previous to this, and made them agree to pull the Force of Nature out of Trans-Sabal. The Warriors were successful, and Force members Terraformer, Skybreaker and Aqueduct were remanded to custody at the American prison called the Vault.
Since this incarceration, the Force of Nature has yet to band together again. Terraformer and Skybreaker were seen in a small riot at the Vault, stopped by Justice while he was imprisoned there. Aqueduct and Firebrand have since returned to their mercenary lifestyle.
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We Have Seen The Future Of Music Journalism : Queens of the Stone Age's Josh & Dean On The Hot Seat
Big apologies to the family and friends of Wally George for the above headline, but I just couldn't resist.
QOTSA.com
Green Day Out Buy Early Get Nows Us
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If Feist would finally confirm to host the first-ever "Christoper Pell Lombardi Awards For Excellence In Convoluted Marketing Schemes", the fourth installment of Buy Early Get Now (aka The New Ps "Box Of Air") would finally get its due in the Lifetime Achievement category. (Note: Dave Martin still maintains that only time will help folks discover BEGN #4's genius, and Dave knows both time and genius.)
So here we are, five years and two IHeartRadio Festivals later...and the majors have finally decided to embark on the trail toward customer confusion that we so dutifully blazed. To wit, Green Day's foray into the world of selling futures in music.
And because other members of the Matador family have done a far better job lampooning Billie and friends, I'll leave only a link to this space where we can all watch customer ire unfold in real time:
Magic Kids MEMPHIS EVERYWHERE In-store Tour
To celebrate the 8/24 release of their debut album Memphis, Magic Kids are going on an epic in-store tour to visit all of their favorite Southern independent records stores. Each store will host a free in-store performance and have some goodies to share with people that show up. All this will be benchmarked by a really really really special Memphis release-date performance that we can't quite tell you about yet....but it is gonna be amazing. Ok, come say hello!!! MEMPHIS EVERYWHERE!!!!!
Wed. 8/25 Knoxville, TN Disc Exchange 6pm
Thu 8/26 Atlanta, GA Criminal Records 7pm
Fri 8/27 Charlotte, NC Lunchbox 6pm
Sat 8/28 Cincinatti, OH Shake It Records 6pm
Sun 8/29 St. Louis, MO Vintage Vinyl 6pm
Mon 8/30 Nashville, TN Grimey's 6pm
Magic Kids- Superball (mp3)
Image from Steve Louie’s Flickr
It's Like Halloween Never Happened
August 27th, 2009 at 4:10 pm by Gerard
Thanks to the folks at BuyCostumes.com, for a mere $34.99 your kids can celebrate All Hallows Eve done up like the bastard love kid of Wattie and one of the stars of "District 9". There's no truth to the rumor, btw, the young model above was the subject of a recent bidding war won by Fat Possum. There's even less truth to the rumor Matador made the higher offer, but talks broke down over choice of producer. (costume link courtesy Henry Owings)
The Nuge Walks In The Big Footsteps Of Babe Ruth, Paul O'Neil...
May 6th, 2009 at 12:50 pm by Gerard
...and Mean Joe Greene! From the TC Palm.com , you can file this one under "Journey To The Center Of You're-Not-Reading-The-Onion"
A Palm Beach County girl is getting a rock star send off from Fort Lauderdale airport today as the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida sends her to meet rock star and outdoorsman Ted Nugent.
Brianna Curry, 6, of Jupiter is battling a brain tumor and became of fan of Nugent by watching his reality show "Spirit of the Wild" on the Outdoor Channel. Make-A-Wish Foundation officials say Brianna even enjoys the rocker's music.
During her wish vacation, Brianna, her parents and 4-year-old brother will spend four days in Texas during which she'll meet Nugent on the set of his program at the Spirit Wild Ranch in China Spring, TX.
Wear the Good-Cause Hat: Anna Ives vs. Cancer
Anna Ives is the very young, very adorable daughter of Zac and Amy Ives. Zac is co-owner of Goner Records, the singer for Final Solutions, and a flat-out great guy. The Goner Records BBS is currently holding an auction while Zac, Amy, and Anna are in Boston, where the latter is receiving specialized radiation treatment. The auction is to help offset the Ives' mounting hospital bills. I'm here to encourage Matablog readers to either bid on some of the great finds that have made it to the block, and to offer their own donated items for auction. All of the needed information, including Anna's story, can be found HERE.
The auction can be found HERE.
Read the Memphis Commercial Appeal story about Anna...
Additional questions not answered by those links can be directed to Eric Friedl: [email protected]
The Last Days of Polaroid, featuring Times New Viking
If like me, you consider yourself a budding artist and photographer, seeing beauty in our concrete jungle and capturing those happy days of youth on film and uploading them onto various social networking sites; you may have once invested in a Polaroid camera.
The Polaroid camera caters for the needs of the impatient - to achieve that instantaneous hit of immediacy and to document the here and now. Sadly, in the past few months, Polaroid have decided to discontinue manufacturing the blessed Polaroid film. Within the next few months there will be no Polaroid film left.
Thankfully I managed to snap up some film in advance of the recent UK ShredYrFace tour with Times New Viking, No Age and Los Campesinos!
I could think of no better way to use my final Polaroid film than to document the 10 day SYF journey. The highs, the lows, the good times and the hungover mornings. For your viewing pleasure :
Mad props going out to Annette Lee for her scan and Photoshop efforts.
Fucked Up answer your questions on Gigwise
October 7th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Log in to the Gigwise chatroom here on Wednesday 8th October at 4pm GMT (11am EDT) and join the kids in asking Mike from Fucked Up for his opinions on the state of global economy and, more importantly, Vampire Weekend.
Shred Yr Face : The Skinny
So we already brought you a teaser of info about the forthcoming triple-fun-shot-fest that is SHREDYRFACE. Now here's the full lowdown :
SHREDYRFACE.COM
This will be regularly updated on the road by all bands, showing you exactly what goes on on tour. So keep heading back there for updates and exclusives.
Times New Viking, No Age and Los Campesinos! travel across the UK in a big old bus, singing show tunes and making noise. Often individually, occasionally together. We're pretty sure a bit of Kumbaya will be going down.
14 Brighton, England - Komedia
15 Liverpool, England - Academy 2
16 Leeds, England - Irish Centre
17 Dublin, Ireland - Whelans
18 Glasgow, Scotland - School of Arts
19 London, England - Pure Groove (in-store) (3 p.m.)
19 London, England - Beyond Retro (in-store) (5 p.m.)
19 London, England - Rough Trade East (in-store) (7 p.m.)
20 London, England - Electric Ballroom
21 Bristol, England - Fleece
7" ACTION :
The three bands have got their collective heads together for a limited edition tour 7" that will be available from the Coalition group of indie stores in the UK.
01 Los Campesinos!: "Death to Los Campesinos! (Napoleon III Remix)"
02 No Age: "Revolving Credit for Kitty"
03 Times New Viking: "Anything Could Happen" (The Clean cover)
INSTORE(S) :
As well as all this, there's gonna be some super hot instore action where you can get up close and personal with each band. Maybe you'll even get sweated on by Beth?
14 Brighton Resident - No Age
16 Leeds Crash - Times New Viking
19 London Pure Groove (3pm)
19 London Beyond Retro (5pm)
19 London Rough Trade East (7pm)
22 Manchester Piccadilly - Los Campesinos!
So this is where it gets a little confusing. You'll already get TNV up at the Leeds Crash store, but as well as that, all three bands will play a store of their choice around London on October 19th. They'll hit Pure Groove at 3 p.m., Beyond Retro at 5 p.m., and Rough Trade East at 7 p.m., but its currently a big secret as to who plays where. So why not go to all?
ONE LAST THING :
Seattle artist Carlos Ruiz has designed a t-shirt and a limited edition silkscreened poster for the Shred Yr Face tour, both of which will be available at the shows and at Coalition stores. So get down there early and bag your own piece of history.
Matador's Street Team Gets A New Recruit
Yo La Tengo never pass up an opportunity for self promotion.
Courtesy of our good friend Stewart Green - roaming reporter at Latitude Festival this weekend.
Mexico : A Place Where "Emo Must Die" Is No Mere Figure Of Speech
March 27th, 2008 at 3:31 pm by Gerard
Exclaim's Brock Thiessan reports "in recent weeks, a wave of emo bashings has swept across Mexico". To which I can only add, Matador Records Is Very Opposed To Hate Crimes, but if you must commit a hate crime...can't you target Widespread Panic fans, instead?
According to Daniel Hernandez, who’s been covering the anti-emo riots on his blog Intersections, the violence began March 7, when an estimated 800 young people poured into the Mexican city of Queretaro’s main plaza “hunting” for emo kids to pummel. Then the following weekend similar violence occurred in Mexico City at the Glorieta de Insurgents, a central gathering space for emos. Hernandez also reports that several anti-emo riots have now also spread to various other Mexican cities. Via the Austin American Statesmen, several postings on Mexican social-networking sites, primarily organising spot for these “emo hunts,” have been dug up and translated. One states: “I HATE EMOS!!! They are not even people, they are so stupid, they cry over meaningless things… My school is infested with them, I want to kill them all!”
Another says: “We’ve never seen all the urban tribes unite against one single tribe before… Emos, their way of thinking is for crap, if you are so depressed please do us all a favour and kill yourselves!”
More recent reports state that the emos have begun to fight back against the other “urban tribes” and organised marches in Guadalajara and Mexico City, escalating the violence and leading to increased police presence. Also, some Mexican newspapers, such as El Porvenir, have called for government intervention to protect the emos, writing, “It’s the responsibility of the authorities to make sure the threats aren’t carried out and the aggressions are punished.”
Patrick Amory: March 12, 1983
March 5th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Painstakingly fished from the Live at The Bradford Ballroom, March 12, 1983 DVD that accompanies Vs.
Dead Meadow get got.
Every Sunday at midnight, or at least first thing Monday morning, I On-Demand (my verb) the next Wire episode. So, this morning while I've been trudging through other concerns, the 2/3 episode has played twice in the background. I won't give anything away, but let's just say that McNulty offers his critical take on Dead Meadow. No, let's just say that Marlo's people make a buy at a Dead Meadow show. No, let's just say that Dead Meadow play a secret show at the mission. No, let's just say that Senator Clay Davis rocks some Dead Meadow in the car. No, let's just say that I'm more than a little stressed about this Just Farr A Laugh legal problem. For real.
January 1st, 2008 at 8:43 pm by Patrick
This hamburger is about to be eaten. It took me two minutes to do so. It's based on a recipe by James Beard. The ground beef is mixed thoroughly with half a grated onion, about 2-3 tbs heavy cream, and freshly ground pepper. It's then cooked in butter and oil over high heat in a cast iron pan for about 5 minutes a side, so that it's totally seared on the outside and very rare in the inside. As you can see, it's served on a buttered English muffin. No condiments are needed - just salt and maybe a slice of onion. It's buttery, onion-y, fatty and heavy. I ate it with a side of boiled, buttered green beans. I think now I'll have a Tahiti cookie for dessert.
Shat In The (Linkin Park's) Van!!
No square inch of scenery left to chew, no square inch of Shatner's ass to kiss, and no clips of the interview on YouTube yet, but one can enjoy Mike Patton exploring everything that happened in music between The Infectious Grooves and Linkin Park!
We (Still) Believe That Children Are The Future...
...however, that doesn't mean these tykes weren't way out of line when they told Tom Surgall to fuck off and made their own video instead. Video link from Popbitch (thanks to Natalie Judge for the heads up)
Cliffbos, Mandybos and Humperdinkbos
From yesterday's Guardian:
A new weapon in the fight against antisocial youth has been discovered: Cliff Richard records.
The organisers of a travelling funfair have found that a few bars of The Young Ones is enough to instantly disperse a gang of unruly teenagers.
"You don't really need Asbos when you've got Cliffbos," said Seth Carter from the family-run Carters Steam Fair.
Last Saturday the travelling funfair was in Hayes, Essex, when Mr Carter became concerned about the intimidating behaviour of a gang of about 20 teenagers dressed in hoodies.
The fair's ploy is the latest use of sonic warfare in tackling antisocial behaviour.
Last year the Local Government Association urged councils to use the "Manilow method" to break up gangs. The recommendation came after the authorities in Sydney, Australia drove away gangs in car parks by playing them Copacabana and Mandy.
The LGA produced a list of 20 songs that would deter teenagers. Top of the list was Release Me, by Englebert Humperdinck. Cliff Richard's Mistletoe and Wine appeared at number 19.
Land of the Free, Home of the Metal Names
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Note to recently proud papa Adam Farrell: maybe Ella's nickname should be 'TimesNewViking?' What do you think? From our friends at the Associated Press:
Metallica may be a cool name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to convince officials it is also suitable for a baby girl.
Michael and Karolina Tomaro are locked in a court battle with Swedish authorities, which rejected their application to name their six-month-old child after the legendary rock band.
"It suits her," Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. "She's decisive and she knows what she wants."
Although little Metallica has already been baptized, the Swedish National Tax Board refused to register the name, saying it was associated with both the rock group and the word "metal."
Tomaro said the official handling the case also called the name "ugly."
The couple was backed by the County Administrative Court in Goteborg, which ruled on March 13 that there was no reason to block the name. It also noted that there already is a woman in Sweden with Metallica as a middle name.
The tax agency appealed to a higher court, frustrating the family's foreign travel plans.
"We've had to cancel trips and can't get anywhere because we can't get her a passport without an approved name," Tomaro said.
Ironically enough, if I recall correctly, original Metallica bassist Cliff Burton met his untimely demise in the home country of Jesper Eklow, so Swedish National Tax Board, if you're listening/reading and asking "For Whom the Bell Tolls," well it tolls for thee.
"The More Depressed You Look, The More Points You Earn"
February 27th, 2007 at 5:47 am by Gerard
Once again, The Times' Sunday Styles section is brutally scooped.
Girls Aloud get political
Girls Aloud interview for The New Statesman
link via Popjustice
My beloved Girls Aloud get their Noam Chomsky on:
Nadine: "You know that basically Labour is the working class and the Conservatives are the really, kind of, upper class, and then everything else is . . . I have no idea."
Foolhardy Nadine later has an awesome rant about footballer's wives, momentarily forgetting that her bandmate Cheryl is one.
Their Greatest Hits album, out now, is disappointingly low on Billy Bragg covers.
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If anyone is considering any development at all within the Town, it is important for the developer to check with the Shire’s Environmental Health Officer or the Chief Executive Officer, to ensure that the proposed development does not contravene the existing Town Planning Scheme that is current within the Shire. Failure to do this can result in time delays, and cost the developer more money than first anticipated.
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The minimum standard of plans shall be a front and side elevation, section and floor plan of a scale not less 1:100, a block or site plan not less 1:200 and two copies of specifications. All drawings must be done in ink.
Specifications shall describe materials to be used in the construction, the sizes thereof together with all other information not shown on the drawings, which is necessary to show that the building will, if constructed in accordance with the specifications, comply with the provisions of the Building Code. Further information to be suppled when required by the Building Surveyor can include:
a list of the performance requirements applicable to that building which will be satisfied by a method other than that set out in the Deemed-to-Satisfy Provisions of the Building code;
details of assessment methods to be used to establish compliance with those listed requirements;
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The proposed gradient of driveway, and a stormwater drainage plan;
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Normally, residential houses require a minimum of a 1500 Septic Tank and a 1200 Septic Tank connected to 2x12 metres of leach drain, installed in accordance with the relevant regulations. It is important to note that the registered plumber must check these details with the Environmental Health Officer before proceeding with any construction.
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Excavate 1m either side of the leach drain to a depth of 300mm below the final invert level of the drain segments.
Ground under each leach drain to be shot fired every 610mm along the entire length to a depth of 2m (i.e.: 2300 below the final level of the leach drain).
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Council is only authorised to approve domestic systems. The Health Department of WA (HDWA) must approve any Commercial, or other installations.
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Proposition 19 would expand homeowner tax breaks
AnalysisAnalysis Based on factual reporting, although it Incorporates the expertise of the author/producer and may offer interpretations and conclusions.
Election: Prop 19 would expand homeowner tax breaks
Realtor-backed proposal also creates new fire-fighting fund
(Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Proposition 19 would allow property tax breaks to homeowners devastated by wildfires like the 2018 Camp Fire. The measure would also expand property tax exemptions for homeowners buying new properties. (File photo, Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
By Louis Hansen | lhansen@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 28, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 28, 2020 at 3:26 p.m.
Ellie and Jack Rosebush lost their Paradise home in the Camp Fire two years ago.
The last thing the couple wanted to worry about after deciding to rebuild downtown was a jump in property taxes based on their new construction, Ellie Rosebush said.
The Rosebush’s are using a one-time exemption to carry their old property tax rate to their new Butte County home but worry about neighbors being ineligible for the tax break because they’ve moved multiple times. Rosebush, a real estate agent, believes Proposition 19 on the November ballot would grant relief to homeowners struck by natural disaster.
“We haven’t had many wins,” said Rosebush, 64. “It feels fair to me.”
But property tax relief for homeowners devastated by wildfires is only part of Proposition 19. It’s a complex proposal affecting older homeowners, family ownership transfers, inheritance, fire protection and expanding the benefits of Proposition 13, which placed caps on property taxes.
The measure generally would allow homeowners 55 and older to sell a property and keep their lower tax assessment on another purchase in all other California counties. Under current law, homeowners can take their preferential tax rate to the same county or 10 others in the state, including Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
Realtors have long promoted property tax portability, saying it would increase sales and encourage long-time homeowners to move out of the Bay Area and Los Angeles and ease the housing shortage. Property taxes are based on the value of a home at the time of purchase, so someone who bought a home 30 years ago pays much less than a next-door neighbor who bought last year.
But proponents, led by the California Association of Realtors, prefer not to focus on property tax portability, an unpopular proposal that was defeated soundly in 2018. Instead, they say the measure closes a tax loophole that allows descendants to keep taxes on certain inherited property artificially low, and creates new, dedicated funding for fire protection.
“Everyone’s susceptible to a wildfire in their community,” said Becky Warren of the Yes on 19 campaign.
Opponents say the proposal expands a tax break that’s already hampered housing production and would dig the state deeper into a crisis. Others see it as a $1 billion property tax increase on inherited properties.
“What the Realtors have done is taken a proposition that failed and added a $1 billion tax hike to it,” said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
The conservative group endorsed the 2018 proposal that would have allowed homeowners to take their property tax assessments with them. Adding a firefighting fund to this year’s measure, he said, “is a cynical ploy.”
Under Propostion 19, older homeowners could sell their house and keep the lower property tax assessment if they moved elsewhere in the state. This includes purchases of more expensive properties, in addition to empty-nesters seeking to downsize. The reassessment exemption can be used multiple times.
To be eligible, a homeowner must be at least 55 years old, severely disabled or have had their property ruined by natural disaster or contamination. The new measure would allow older residents to move without serious property tax consequences if they have declining health or need to be closer to family, Warren said.
Proposition 19 also closes the so-called “Big Lebowski” tax loophole, dubbed for favorable property tax rates received by actor Jeff Bridges and his family on an inherited rental property in Malibu. The measure would limit low-tax allowances to homes used as a primary residence by a child or grandchild. Inherited farms must continue to be working family farms or the owners would forfeit their tax break.
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Tax bills would also escalate on inherited high-value homes and farms. The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates the measure could increase tax revenues by tens of millions of dollars, and grow over time. Some of the additional revenue would go to a dedicated fund for fire protection.
The property tax portability idea is similar to Proposition 5, backed by Realtors in 2018 and rejected by a 20 percent margin.
Warren said almost all of Proposition 19 is new.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has endorsed the measure. The Yes on 19 campaign is fueled by $15.7 million from the California Association of Realtors and $2.8 million from the National Association of Realtors. No opposition groups have registered donations with the state.
The proposal has drawn sharp opposition from several media organizations in the state, including the editorial boards of the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register and this news organization.
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Louis Hansen covers housing issues for the Bay Area News Group and is based at The Mercury News. He's won national awards for his investigations and feature stories. Prior to joining the organization, he was an investigative reporter at The Virginian-Pilot, where he covered state government, the military and criminal justice.
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Peter Mensah
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Peter Mensah (born on 27 August 1959 in Accra, Ghana), is an English/Ghanaian actor, best known for his roles in Tears of the Sun and 300, and more recently on the Starz original series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and Spartacus: Vengeance. Mensah comes from an academic family. He was born in Ghana, to parents of the Ashanti People but he moved to Hertfordshire, England with his father, an engineer, and his mother, a writer and two younger sisters at a young age. Mensah moved to Canada 11 years ago. He emigrated from Britain to see the world and it was a toss-up whether his destination would be Canada or Australia. The paperwork for Canada came through first. Mensah's film credits include Avatar, 300, Hidalgo, Tears of the Sun, Jason X, Harvard Man, Bless the Child and The Incredible Hulk. He also stars in the short film The Seed, produced and directed by Linkin Park's DJ Joe Hahn. He has made television appearances in Star Trek: Enterprise, Tracker, Witchblade, Blue Murder, Relic Hunter, Earth: Final Conflict, Highlander: The Raven and La Femme Nikita. He was a member of the repertory cast of the A&E Network series A Nero Wolfe Mystery.
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Oil Nears $56, FG May Reintroduce Fuel Subsidy
The sustained increase in global crude oil prices has pushed up the landing cost of imported petrol closer to the current pump prices of the product in Nigeria, and appears to have triggered a return to petrol subsidy era, ’ FEMI ASU reports
Since November 13 , 2020 when the pump prices of Premium Motor Spirit ( petrol ) were last increased in the country, the price of the international oil benchmark, Brent crude, has been on an upward trajectory, rising from $41. 51 per barrel to close at $51. 22 per barrel on December 31.
Fuel marketers had in December expected another upward adjustment of PMS prices to reflect the further rise in crude oil prices .
However , a N 5 reduction in petrol price , effective December 14 , was announced by the Federal Government – a development that left them reeling in shock and questioning the deregulation of petrol price .
Crude oil price accounts for a large chunk of the final cost of petrol , and the country has continued to spend so much on petrol imports for many years amid low domestic refining capacity .
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, had said in September last year that the Federal Government had stepped back in fixing the price of petrol , adding that market forces and crude oil price would determine the cost of the product .
The Federal Government removed petrol subsidy in March 2020 after reducing the pump price of the product to N 125 per litre from N145 on the back of the sharp drop in crude oil prices . The price reduction lasted till June.
Nigerians saw increases in the pump prices of petrol in four months, rising from N 121. 50–N 123. 50 per litre in June to N140 .80- N 143. 80 in July , N 148- N150 in August , N 158- N162 in September and N163 -N 170 in November.
Brent, the international oil benchmark, has risen by about 35 per cent since November 13 when the pump price of petrol was last increased. It closed at $55 .99 per barrel on Friday, its highest level in 11 months .
Going by the petrol pricing template of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, the landing cost of petrol rose from an average of N 143. 60 in December to N158 .53 per litre on January 7, with the expected open market price ( retail price ) being N 181. 53 per litre.
The product is currently being sold at between N160 and N 165 per litre at many filling stations in Lagos.
The cost of petrol quoted on Platts rose to $480. 25 per metric tonne ( N 139. 67 per litre, using N 390/$ 1) last Thursday from an average of $430. 107 per MT ( N125 .09 per litre) in December . The cost of petrol averaged $391. 75 per MT ( N113 .24 per litre) in July , according to PPPRA’ s template .
Apart from the increase in global crude oil prices , the devaluation of the naira last year also led to a significant rise in the cost of imported petrol .
The PPPRA used an exchange rate of N306.90/$1 on January 14, 2020 to calculate the cost of petrol, while N387.63/$1 was used on July 31.
The naira closed at 393.50 against the dollar on Friday at the Investors’ and Exporters’ Foreign Exchange Window, and 472/$1 at the parallel market.
As of January 7, the cost of petrol plus freight stood at $500.72 per MT, translating to N145.62 per litre.
Other cost elements that make up the landing cost include lightering expenses (N4.57), insurance cost (N0.21), Nigerian Ports Authority charge (N2.38), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency charge (N0.23), jetty throughput charge (N1.61), storage charge (N2.58), and financing (N1.33).
The pump price is the sum of the landing cost, wholesale margin and the distribution margins. The wholesale margin is N4.03 while the distribution margins comprise transporters allowance (N3.89), retailer (N6.19), bridging fund (N7.51), marine transport average (N0.15), and admin charge (N1.23).
The NNPC, which has been the sole importer of petrol into the country in recent years, is still being relied upon by marketers for the supply of the product despite the deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector.
Private oil marketing companies have continued to lament that their inability to access foreign exchange at the official rates has hampered efforts to resume petrol importation.
If the pump price of petrol is left unchanged amid the rise in oil prices, it means the NNPC would again bear the latest subsidy cost on behalf of the government as it did for several years before its removal last year.
There is currently subsidy, but it is being absorbed by the government through the NNPC,” the National Operation Controller, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Mr Mike Osatuyi, told our correspondent.
He recalled that he said in December that petrol pump price was moving closer to N180 per litre, adding that with the current price of crude oil, petrol subsidy would gulp about N800m daily with an average consumption level of 40 million litres.
He said, “Because of the volatility of petrol in the Nigerian political landscape, government does not have the boldness to allow full deregulation of petrol because of the spiral effects on Nigerians, and bearing in mind that Nigerians are in very hard times.”
Osatuyi said, “But the government is supposed to come out and present the subsidy to the National Assembly. They should tell Nigerians that we are going back to subsidy. But because of the loans from the IMF and World Bank that they got with the condition that petrol should be deregulated, I believe the government is trying to manage the problem.
“If we are going to do genuine deregulation, there must be a level playing field for the players. We are not where we are supposed to be; there is still some dark, hidden elements in our ‘deregulation’.
“We are practising monopolistic deregulation – where one player is on the field and it is the goalkeeper, the defender and the referee.”
The President, Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, Dr Billy Gillis-Harry, stressed the need for deregulation to be properly done.
He said, “The concern I have is that we are not getting it right. We must think inwards and grow our local production capacity. I don’t know why our refineries should not work.
“Deregulation is the way to go; we want the sector to be deregulated. But we need to do it rightly. There should be a level playing field for all operators; everybody should be able to access forex at the same rate.”
While opposing the return to subsidy, he said, “We call on the government to fast-track the regulatory process to ensure that deregulation is in place.”
The PUNCH had reported on September 8, 2020 that the Federal Government’s removal of petrol subsidy and the increase in electricity tariff were in line with reforms being sought by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
“The recent introduction and implementation of an automatic fuel price formula will ensure fuel subsidies, which we have eliminated, do not reemerge,” the Federal Government told the IMF in the letter of intent dated April 21, 2020 with respect to its request for emergency financial assistance of $3.4bn.
In July, Sylva said in a statement that the Federal Government had reached a conclusion that it could no longer bear the burden of petrol subsidy.
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The Well-Being Index has joined a network of over 100 organizations to support the National Academy of Medicine's initiative on clinician well-being. As a Network Organization for the Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, the Well-Being Index is committed to improving the mental health and wellness of healthcare providers around the world.
The Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience was launched by the National Academy of Medicine "to improve baseline understanding of challenges to clinician well-being, raise visibility of clinician stress and burnout, and elevate evidence-based, multidisciplinary solutions." As one of the initiative's many stakeholders, the Well-Being Index will now provide input on activities of the Collaborative, partner with the National Academy of Medicine to build new efforts around clinician well-being, and share resources to support the Collaborative's goals and objectives.
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The latest statistics show that clinician distress is at an all-time high and continuing to rise. A wide array of systemic factors including increased bureaucratic tasks, staff shortages, ineffective communication, and burdensome technologies add up to a volatile state of healthcare which increases the risk of clinician distress and burnout. In addition, the strain of current events has led to unprecedented levels of distress, career implications, and dangerous consequences for medical workers and organizations.
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Space shuttle Atlantis on last leg of last mission
Atlantis is pictured against the Earth in this image taken from the International Space Station on Sunday, leaving behind what one astronaut called a "palace" in space that is 98 percent finished after 12 years of construction. NASA TV / NASA TV
May 25, 2010, 1:26 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
By By Marcia Dunn
Atlantis' homeward-bound astronauts paid tribute Tuesday to their space shuttle, close to winding up its final journey after a quarter-century of flight.
Commander Kenneth Ham noted that Atlantis has spent nearly 300 days in orbit over 32 missions, and traveled 120 million miles. He and his crew took along a small U.S. flag that actually flew on Atlantis' first flight.
"Atlantis is just a fabulous ship," said Ham's co-pilot, Dominic "Tony" Antonelli. "If this ends up being space shuttle Atlantis' last flight, we've got an American flag here that we're honored to fly," he said, holding it up and explaining that it flew on Atlantis back in 1985.
This is the last flight on the books for Atlantis. Only two missions remain as NASA's shuttle program winds down, unless the Obama administration agrees to add one more trip for Atlantis.
Touchdown is scheduled for 8:48 a.m. EDT Wednesday. Mission Control warned the crew that rain could interfere, but noted: "We think we've got a pretty good fighting chance." Atlantis has enough supplies to remain in orbit until Saturday.
With just 26 hours officially remaining in their mission, the six astronauts beamed down a video they recorded over the previous few days aboard Atlantis as well as the International Space Station.
"I hope that when she lands successfully — which I'm relying on these guys up front to do — that she'll go somewhere and get the respect she deserves as a ship of exploration," said astronaut Piers Sellers, nodding to the pilots on board. He's flown on Atlantis twice.
The astronauts spent Tuesday getting Atlantis ready to come home after 12 days circling the Earth, and checking the critical flight systems. They're returning from the space station, where they delivered and installed a new Russian compartment, an extra antenna and 12 fresh batteries.
In an interview with the crew, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert asked if they were double-A batteries. Astronaut Michael Good pointed out they were nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing nearly 400 pounds apiece and that he and his fellow spacewalkers had to work out at the gym in advance.
"But why would you have to work out? I thought nothing weighs anything in space," Colbert said.
"Oh no, you figured it out," replied astronaut Garrett Reisman.
"Busted!" Colbert shouted. "The whole thing's a fraud. No wonder they're canceling the program. It's all been a sham the entire time."
Given that it's the third-to-last shuttle mission, the TV comedian asked, "You guys putting your resumes together?"
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Antonelli replied that he's been collecting all the school calendars from the local community college back home in Houston and checking on the schedule for the truck-driving class.
As for Atlantis' future, the shuttle will be prepped for a potential rescue mission for the very last shuttle flight, to be conducted by Endeavour no earlier than November.
Assuming no emergencies arise, NASA would like to fly Atlantis anyway, in June 2011. Space agency officials said they need to know from the White House by June or July whether that's going to be possible. That's how much lead time would be needed to train a crew and flight control team, and prepare the payloads.
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Carmelo Anthony should stay in Portland -- That's what George Karl believes
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When the Trail Blazers season ended in the Orlando Bubble following a 4-1 first round series loss to the Lakers, Carmelo Anthony expressed his desire to return to Portland next season. Melo even said he prays he’ll be back with the Blazers.
Along with his teammates and fans in Portland, Anthony’s former coach George Karl also believes Melo has found a good fit with the Trail Blazers.
After Anthony’s triumphant return to the NBA last season, and now as a free agent, there’s no doubt that other teams will have interest in the 36-year old.
But Coach Karl thinks Melo should stay put.
Karl joined SiriusXM NBA radio this week to talk more about the player he coached from 2005-10, which included Anthony’s only trip to the Conference Finals.
I think he fits in Portland. It seems like him and [coach] Terry [Stotts] have a connection and a communication level that I haven’t seen with Melo at a lot of his stops along the way in his career. And he fits with the team.
George Karl
Karl not only knows Melo very well, he also knows Coach Stotts well. In fact, the two go way back.
Stotts started his coaching career with Karl.
He joined Karl's coaching staff as an assistant in the CBA with the Albany Patroons in 1990–91. Stotts then coached the CBA's Fort Wayne Fury for one season before taking a job on the Seattle SuperSonics coaching staff with Karl. And that wasn’t their last stop together. When Coch Karl went to the Milwaukee Bucks in 1998, so did Stotts.
So if anyone understands a good player-coach relationship between Melo and Stotts it would be Coach Karl.
Plus, Karl posed this question:
Why try to figure it out someplace else when you got a good place, good team that’s close to being really good? I would recommend him going back to Portland.
With Anthony’s success including starting all 58 games played with the Blazers in 2019-20 while averaging 15.4 points and 6.3 rebounds during the regular season, not to mention his strong relationship with Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, it would be easy to see why a Melo return to Portland is in the cards.
Melo has said on multiple occasions that he believes he has found a home in Portland.
And Coach Karl and many others have seen just that.
[Listen to the latest Talkin’ Blazers Podcast with special guest Trail Blazers President and CEO Chris McGowan]:
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Breathing new life into the pneumatic dream
Technology 14 August 2013
ONCE upon a time, there was an unconventional US entrepreneur who devised a revolutionary mode of transport that would send people hurtling through narrow tubes at high speeds.
Not Elon Musk, who this week unveiled a system designed to put Los Angeles within 30 minutes’ reach of San Francisco (see “Hyperloop: Musk unveils high-speed pneumatic transport“), but Alfred Beach, whose Pneumatic Transit briefly carried people under New York in 1870.
Several “atmospheric railways” also operated in the UK around that time, including one built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. And many shared Beach’s dream of a pneumatic age, in which everything from mail to meals whizzed around cities.
But the dream rapidly faded as the technology proved expensive and fiddly – though it still has its uses today (see “Newmatics: antique tubular messaging returns“).
Musk’s Hyperloop is far more sophisticated. But whether it will prove any more viable remains to be seen. Mass-transit systems need government support, and high-speed rail is contentious in the US. On the other hand, a flamboyant scheme might be just what’s needed to spur interest. Perhaps Beach’s dream will belatedly come true after all.
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Oxford Uni vaccine stops 70% developing symptoms
The coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford stops 70% of people developing Covid symptoms, a large-scale trial shows.
It will be seen as a triumph, but also comes off the back of Pfizer and Moderna showing 95% protection.
However, the Oxford jab is far cheaper, and is easier to store and get to every corner of the world than the other two.
So it will play a significant role in tackling the pandemic, if it is approved by regulators.
There is also intriguing data that suggests perfecting the dose could increase protection up to 90%.
The UK government has pre-ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford vaccine, enough to immunise 50 million people.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “Incredibly exciting news the Oxford vaccine has proved so effective in trials.
“There are still further safety checks ahead, but these are fantastic results.”
The vaccine has been developed in around 10 months, a process that normally takes a decade.
“The announcement today takes us another step closer to the time when we can use vaccines to bring an end to the devastation caused by [the virus],” said the vaccine’s architect Prof Sarah Gilbert.
More than 20,000 volunteers were involved, half in the UK, the rest in Brazil.
There were 30 cases of Covid in people who had two doses of the vaccine and 101 cases in people who received a dummy injection.
The researchers said it works out at 70% protection.
When volunteers were given two “high” doses the protection was 62%, but this rose to 90% when people were given a “low” dose followed by a high one. It’s not clear why there is a difference.
“We’re really pleased with these results,” Prof Andrew Pollard, the trial’s lead investigator, told the BBC.
He said the 90% effectiveness data was “intriguing” and would mean “we would have a lot more doses to distribute.”
There were also lower levels of asymptomatic infection in the low-followed-by-high-dose group which “means we might be able to halt the virus in its tracks,” Prof Pollard said.
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The foreign ministries of Poland and Lithuania tell Newsweek they are closely monitoring Belarusian border exercises, as President Alexander Lukashenko accuses them of hatching a U.S.-led plot against him.
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A historical ‘record’ of Thai elections
James Buchanan - 23 Mar, 2019
“Knock, knock, knock! Let’s go out to vote!” says a promotional music video reminding Thais to vote in the general election on 24 March 2019. And people really should vote, say the three female singers, because democracy has been “lost” for a while.
At the start of the song, we are introduced to the singers: first time voters who would have been just 13-15 years old when General Prayut executed his coup in 2014, putting a “freeze” on Thai democracy. “Where have you disappeared?” they ask, as if speaking to democracy itself. “Always coming and going, or did someone steal you?” (หายไปไหนมา ประชาธิปไตย แวบมาวูบไปหรือใครช่วงชิง). The song was produced by media company Katikala, who wanted to encourage young people to engage with the upcoming election.
Thailand has a long history of using music to promote elections. But whereas the songs nowadays are set to well-produced videos and circulated online, in the past they were made the old-fashioned way: on vinyl.
Although Thailand had a booming record industry in the 1960s and 1970s, the election records would have held little interest for the commercial market. Instead, they were made by government agencies and distributed to radio stations around the country to raise awareness and encourage people to vote. Since most households in Thailand had wireless radios at that time, the election songs likely had a much wider audience than 2019’s Knock, Knock, Knock, which struggled to compete for attention amidst the online throng (amassing only some 80, 000 views by the eve of election day).
I own two such vinyl records, promoting the elections of April 1976 and April 1979. They were produced by the Government Public Relations Department and the Department of Provincial Administration respectively. I was also able to find another on YouTube, publicising the elections of January 1975. The albums feature a variety of Thai musical genres with vocals in different regional dialects, allowing DJs to choose the best option for their audience. As historical documents, they give us insight into the elections and politics of one of Thailand’s most turbulent decades.
The 1976 election record
In January 1975, Thailand was enjoying a period of relative democratic openness. Student-led protests in 14 October 1973 had rid the country of the “three tyrants”: Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, his son Colonel Narong, and Narong’s father-in-law General Praphas Charusathien.
Now freed from a despised dictatorship, the songs express an optimism and desire for more worthy representatives. “Choose good people, who are trustworthy. It’s a good opportunity to look for leaders who are capable,” voters are told in one song (เลือกคนดีที่ไว้ใจ โอกาสดีที่จะหาผู้แทนที่เก่ง). “We were able to get democracy, we were able to get a constitution. So don’t squander your rights that people died fighting for,” says another, reminding listeners of the debt they owed to those killed by security forces on 14 October 1973 (เพราะเราได้มาประชาธิปไตย เพราะได้รัฐธรรมนูญมา แม้จะเสียชีวิตไป อย่ามัวใช้สิทธิในทางตัน เพลง: เห่ เลือกตั้ง).
The Democrat Party, led by Sen Pramoj, won the largest number of seats in the January polls that year but was unable to form a viable coalition. By March, his brother and political rival Kukrit managed to piece together a coalition of centrist to right-wing parties, led by his Social Action Party. But the coalition was messy and faced strong opposition from the Democrats and a number of left-wing parties, who had fared rather well in the election. After a chaotic ten months, Kukrit’s 16-party coalition broke down and he dissolved parliament to hold a fresh election.
The record promoting the vote on April 1976 has quite a different tone from the January 1975 album. The sense of optimism and pride in democracy is replaced by a fear of communism and desire for stability.
Several songs mention the chaos of the previous parliament (for example, ที่แล้วมาสภาผู้แทนต้องยุบ มุ่งทำลายกันแหลกลาญ) and urge people to focus on electing a party rather than individual representatives, in the hope of forming a more stable government (เลือกพรรคกันดีกว่า อย่าเห็นแก่หน้าโดยเลือกบุคคล). The songs implore voters to reach a stronger public consensus (เพื่อมติของมหาชน) to bring harmony to the nation (สามัคคีกันเถิดไทยเอย).
Much of the record carries a stringently anti-communist message, with communists dismissed as “villains, who have bad intentions and cause divisions” (คอมมิวนิสต์คิดชั่ว ตัวร้าย ทำให้แตกแยก). The refrain “don’t choose the communists” (อย่าไปเลือกคอมมิวนิสต์) echoes throughout the recording, with listeners told that communism isn’t suitable for Thailand (นิยมคอมมิวนิสต์อย่าไปเลือกมัน ไม่เหมาะกับประเทศไทย). Instead, voters should choose a party whose policies protect the nation, religion and monarchy (เลือกพรรคที่มีนโยบายบำรุงชาติ ศาสน์ กษัตริย์). By contrast, it is claimed the communists seek to damage Thailand’s ‘three pillars’ (ชาติ ศาสน์ กษัตริย์ จะถูกทำลาย).
The record reflects the rising anti-communist hysteria of the time and the songs when played on the radio would have fuelled the fire. The newly founded Thai Nation Party—now Chartthaipattana Party—contested the election under the slogan “the Right should kill the Left” (ขวาพิฆาตซ้าย) and Boonsanong Punyodyana, a leader of the Socialist Party of Thailand was indeed murdered shortly before the election. His party had won 15 seats in the poll the previous year.
On election day on 4 April 1976, Seni Pramoj’s Democrat Party again won the most votes and was this time able to form a coalition. But the country’s politics remained volatile and by October things reached a boiling point when right-wing mobs and state security forces massacred left-leaning students at Thammasat University. Seni was overthrown by a right-wing military coup shortly afterwards and democracy “disappeared” again.
After three years of military rule, Thailand went to the polls again in April 1979. Kukrit Pramoj’s Social Action Party won the most votes and could easily have formed a coalition with other royalist-conservative parties, but instead capitulated to the military by nominating General Kriangsak Chomanan to stay on as prime minister. Kriangsak retired a year later and Thailand’s entered its 8-year period of guided democracy—or Premocracy—under General Prem Tinsulanonda. Elections were held in 1983 and 1986 but the parliament was subordinated to Prem and the palace.
The election record for April 1979 demonstrates the beginning of this new hollow politics quite well. There is nothing like the optimism of 1975, or even the contention of 1976. The lyrics are stripped of all real meaning and seem to reduce the election to a mere administrative task, with much obsessing over making sure that voters’ names on the electoral register matched those on their house registration document and national ID card (ตรวจบัญชีว่ามีชื่อเลือกตั้ง, บัตรประชาชน ชื่อในทะเบียนบ้านตรงกับชื่อในบัญชีผู้มีสิทธิเลือกตั้ง).
There is also no mention of communists, indicating a change in policy under Kriangsak and Prem, who were concerned that the harsh measures of the 1970s were merely generating public sympathy for the communists and boosting their ranks. Both leaders worked hard on conciliatory measures instead, which included an amnesty to former communist cadres. By the mid-to-late 1980s, the Communist Party of Thailand was in serious decline, as was left-wing politics more generally.
With the proliferation of music cassettes and compact discs throughout the 1980s and 1990s, vinyl was also in decline. It’s not clear when the last vinyl record promoting a Thai election was produced but had they continued until today, lyrics may have mentioned further military coups in 1991, 2006 and 2014. Some songs might also have covered the killing of unarmed protesters in 1992 and the chaos and violence that has plagued Thailand since the 2006 coup, including the murderous military crackdown on red-shirt protestors in 2010.
The election song Thailand desperately needs is one that looks back on its vicious circle of crises, coups, protests and military massacres as a thing of the distant past. A rousing anthem about unity in diversity, with a chorus celebrating a mature electoral process, and verses extolling the smooth and peaceful transfer of power at the ballot box—with all sides accepting the results.
Sadly, the 2019 election seems unlikely to herald such an era. The electoral process has lacked legitimacy since the beginning and the aftermath seems destined to be contentious. All indications are that the vote will lead to a parliamentary crisis, which could give way to street protests once again. And so the vicious circle of Thai politics keeps on turning, like a bad vinyl record playing on repeat.
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James Buchanan is a PhD candidate at Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong. His writing on politics and youth culture in Thailand has appeared in The Guardian and Vice.
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Oklahoma Department Of Corrections Asking For Employee Raises
Wednesday, January 23rd 2019, 7:42 pm
By: Aaron Brilbeck
The state Department of Corrections is backing off on its request for two new prisons, for now. But the agency is asking the legislature for more money.
The Department of Corrections originally wanted more than $800 million for two new prisons. Now, the DOC is nixing that plan and instead asking for an additional $72 million to give corrections employees pay raises.
Right now, starting corrections officers make just $13.74 an hour.
"Quite frankly, the number one item is pay raises across our system,” said Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh. “We cannot hire folks for the jobs that we have. And furthermore, we can't retain them once we bring them on board."
Allbaugh says the state’s crumbling prisons still need to be replaced though.
"We've got a ton of facilities that are costing the taxpayer boatloads of money that could be spent better on personnel and the inmates and programs in a state of the art facility."
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One suggestion; to make State Question 780, which reduces penalties for nonviolent crimes, retroactive.
"I'm for that,” said Allbaugh.
He continued, “By our numbers right now we have a small universe of 15-hundred individuals, possession only. A lot of people are affected by 780 that are already in the system, but they have another controlling crime that drives their term in our system."
Kris Steele with Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform added, "Another idea would be to reduce the length of time a non-violent offender, repeat nonviolent offender would have to spend behind prison bars. Another proposal would be to reform our bail practices for misdemeanors and non-violent criminal convictions."
Attendees also talked about educational and rehab opportunities for prisoners.
Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell says the state needs to fund these programs.
“I think so. Absolutely. Some of this is funding. There’s no doubt about it. But this is collaboration. Some of this is making sure that we do a better job of letting people know that when they get out of prison that there is help,” said Pinnell.
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Lighting designer and now MFA directing candidate, Alan Brodie (right) stages the Tennessee Williams classic Summer and Smoke, which marks theatre professor Allan Stichbury’s (left) final set design for the Phoenix Theatres before his retirement. Brodie brings his vision of Summer and Smoke to the stage March 10 to 19.
Alan the director and Allan the set designer embark on a spring of Summer and Smoke; Alan Brodie in his first full-length directorial debut and theatre professor Allan Stichbury in his final production before retirement.
Brodie learned quickly that directing was a full-time job, leaving little space to micromanage lighting anyway.
“No question it’s a massive challenge, but it’s been a thrill to serve from the inside out. Coming up with what’s important in the characters and the story, that’s given me a new perspective,” Brodie said.
Brodie spent nearly three decades as an award-winning lighting designer – “That’s been the lens that I’ve looked at this through for the last 27 years,” he says – before returning to seek his masters in directing in UVic’s Department of Theatre. Brodie brings his vision of Summer and Smoke to the stage for the Phoenix Theatre, March 10 to 19.
The entire production could have fast become a battle for light.
“He will have things to say, because he has such a strong visual background,” said Stichbury who also has had a lengthy career in design, including both light and set design, and serves as set designer for the Tennessee Williams play.
Instead they developed as a collaborative visual team. Last fall Stichbury presented a set design so near Brodie’s vision that it remains largely unchanged as the curtains come up this week.
“It’s a fluid design that gives me a lot of space,” Brodie said.
Stichbury’s set design intentionally veers from the instructions outlined in the playbook dating back to the original performances decades ago.
“We did not want to do that,” Brodie said.
“And we can’t. It doesn’t fit in our room and it doesn’t fit in 2016,” Stichbury added. “It wasn’t going to be valuable to Al as a director in his learning. It needed to be more fluid.”
Brodie holds a similar depth of trust and faith in lighting designer, and fellow masters student, Eryn Griffith.
“What I’ve discovered with my graduate studies is my ego is very much removed from the process,” Brodie said. “The trick will be to say ‘that doesn’t feel right’ and allow her to do the job of fixing it.”
Coming in with a confidence and certainty about his work – he’s won multiple awards – Brodie sought the MFA as much for a transformation of practice as anything.
“You’re doing something which will either open an absolutely new door or open cracks in what you’re doing,” Stichbury advised. “It will enliven your practice. It gives you many more years of engaged work.”
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“We’re in the hands of a master playwright,” Brodie said. “We know it’s well written.”
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“Pedagogy really is the No. 1 thing,” Brodie said. “When you’re 20 it’s life and death. (As a returning student) it’s liberating.”
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Though Facebook bans children under 13, millions of them have profiles on the site by lying about their age.
The company is now testing ways to allow those kids to participate without needing to lie. This would likely be under parental supervision, such as by connecting children’s accounts to their parents’ accounts.
Like many other online services, Facebook prohibits kids under 13 because federal law requires companies to obtain parental consent if they want to collect information about those children.
Such information collection is central to Facebook. Every photo or status update a kid posts on Facebook could count as information collection. Many companies consider the parental-consent requirement too burdensome, so they simply ban all children under 13 instead.
But that ban is difficult to enforce. In many cases, parents themselves help children skirt it by setting up profiles for them and lying about their ages. There are an estimated 7.5 million kids under 13 on Facebook, out of more than 900 million users worldwide.
In a statement, Facebook noted that many recent reports have highlighted “just how difficult it is to enforce age restrictions on the Internet, especially when parents want their children to access online content and services.”
“We are in continuous dialogue with stakeholders, regulators and other policymakers about how best to help parents keep their kids safe in an evolving online environment,” the company said.
Few details are available on the nature of Facebook’s tests, which The Wall Street Journal reported on in Monday’s editions. Relaxing the ban on younger children could be a long way off, or never get implemented, as happens with many features that Facebook tests.
The report comes just two weeks after Facebook began trading stock as a public company. Its stock price has fallen in part because of concerns about its ability to keep increasing revenue and make money from its growing mobile audience.
To James Steyer, the CEO of the nonprofit Common Sense Media, Facebook’s discussions on permitting young kids to join is about expanding its audience — and profits.
“With the growing concerns and pressure around Facebook’s business model, the company appears to be doing whatever it takes to identify new revenue streams and short-term corporate profits to impress spooked shareholders,” Steyer said in a statement.
But Stephen Balkan, the CEO of another kids-and-technology nonprofit, the Family Online Safety Institute, disagrees.
Balkan, who sits on Facebook’s Safety Advisory Board in an unpaid position, said the company has been discussing the issue for more than a year. That’s months before Facebook made regulatory filings in February for its initial public offering of stock, which took place in mid-May.
“It has nothing to do with the IPO,” he said.
Balkan offered some ideas about what Facebook could look like for kids. For one, the default setting to their account could be set to “friends only” so that strangers can’t see their posts. Teenagers who are 13 to 17 currently have their accounts set to “friends of friends” by default, so the under-13 restriction would be a step beyond that.
In addition, parents could have final say on whom their kids become friends with on Facebook. And Facebook could even keep advertising off kids’ accounts, he added.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some movement from Facebook this before the end of the year,” Balkan said. “By the way I think it would be a good thing if they do it right, rather than this untenable situation of just kicking off under-13s when they discover them.”
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One of the reasons that insurers aren’t too worried about the low signup rate for Obamacare is that it’s early days. They figure things will work out eventually, and in the meantime they’re protected from serious losses during the first three years by a provision of the bill called “risk corridors.” The details aren’t too important here. In a nutshell, if it turns out that an insurer has seriously miscalculated the cost of its coverage on the exchanges—perhaps because too few people have signed up—the federal government will reimburse them for part of their losses.
This is all very wonky stuff designed to smooth the transition to Obamacare. You’re only reading about it now because a little while back some bright spark decided that if you called this an “Obamacare bailout” it might turn into a big campaign issue. Maybe Republicans could even get it repealed, which in turn would make life so hard for insurers that they’d drop out of Obamacare entirely! Bwa-ha-ha!
But their plan isn’t going anywhere, and Dave Weigel thinks it’s partly because conservatives have acted too much like a stock villain from a James Bond movie:
I mention Bond villainy for a reason. What’s the mistake that Goldfinger and Blofeld and 006 et al constantly make? They explain the plot while there’s still time for 007 to stop it. Conservative groups from FreedomWorks to Heritage Action have rallied behind Rubio’s bill and a companion House bill, and obviously the hope is that a “no bailout” bill would gather momentum in the Senate and make life difficult for red state Democrats. But Congress just passed an omnibus funding bill that takes care of things for the rest of the year. A good chance to pressure the Senate on Obamacare — slotting the “no bailout” language in the House bill — has been lost. Even a scheme backed by Krauthammer, Ponnuru, and Cannon, all well-respected on the right, failed to gain traction in a Congress that’s been chastened by the shutdown, and is more fearful of causing a crisis to gut Obamacare.
Neither Democrats nor the insurance industry were ever going to be fooled by any of this, but by making it clear that the real goal of repealing risk corridors is to cripple Obamacare completely, proponents lost even the slim chance they had to get a hearing from the press and from independents. They might take another crack at making this a big issue when the debt ceiling comes up, but it probably won’t get them anywhere. Their tea party allies will be thrilled, but everyone else will see it as yet another in a long, tired string of contrived outrages designed to kill Obamacare. Time to move on, folks.
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MAPS: Biblical Flooding Is Coming to a Refinery Near You
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Oil and water don’t mix, but that may soon change.
A rare Senate hearing on the threat of rising sea levels last week coincided with a new report from Climate Central, a non-profit that publishes peer-reviewed environmental research, that shows rising seas may soon be lapping at the country’s oil and gas refineries, electric and natural gas power plants, and even nuclear facilities.
Climate change has raised global sea levels by eight inches since the late 19th century, amping up storm surges and flooding around the world. Extreme coastal deluges—of the sort that’s only supposed to happen once a century—are those that reach at least four feet above local high tides. The rate of this kind of biblical flooding is expected to more than double by 2030, according to the report. Check out the researchers’ map of coastal threats from rising waters in your area:
This is bad news for coastal energy facilities. The analysis, which assessed data from the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, the US Geological Survey and FEMA, tallied nearly 300 locations, spread across 22 coastal states, which stand on ground below that critical high tide-plus-four level. That includes 130 natural gas, 96 electric, 56 oil and gas, and 4 nuclear facilities. Here’s Climate Central‘s map of of all the at-risk locations. (You can adjust the data to show energy facilities at higher and lower flood levels.)
More than half are in Louisiana. That state can’t win.
Ben Strauss, Director of Climate Central’s Program on Sea Level Rise, and co-author of the report, who testified at the Senate hearing, says flooding of energy facilities could result in blackouts, damage to critical access roads and destruction of mechanical systems. At refineries storm surges could cause spillage, damage to storage tanks, and national oil supply shortages. Or imagine an American Fukushima, in which flood waters cut off power supplies, keeping reactors from being cooled, and triggering a nuclear meltdown.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the lone Republican at the hearing, called the report’s findings “a wake-up call.”
Scientists expect waters to rise 20-80 more inches this century, depending on whether the world gets it together policy-wise. Don’t hold your breath.
Well, actually, you might need to.
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Bills That Would Gut Wall Street Reform Overwhelmingly Pass House Committee
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On Tuesday, three bills that would gut the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill passed the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) in decisive fashion, with just six members of the 61-member committee voting against all of them.
The three bills passed over serious objections from the Obama administration. On Monday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew wrote a letter to Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the chairman of the committee, urging “members to oppose these bills and others like [them] that would weaken the important regulatory changes that Wall Street Reform has made to the derivatives market.” A year ago, former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made a similar statement against a slate of nearly identical bills.
Financial reform advocates say that the three bills would do serious damage to parts of Dodd-Frank that deal with derivatives, which are financial products with values based on underlying numbers, like crop prices or interest rates.
Only six of the 28 Democrats on the committee voted against all three of the bills—Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the senior Democratic member of the committee; Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.); Mike Capuano (D-Mass.); Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.); Al Green (D-Tex.); and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.). Another six Democrats voted against some of the bills. Sixteen Dems voted in favor of all three bills. Thirty-one of the 33 Republicans on the committee voted for all the bills; Reps. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) abstained on two of the bills.
House Financial Services Committee members received some $14.8 million in contributions from the financial services and banking sectors during the last election cycle.
One of the offending bills would allow certain derivatives that are traded within a corporation to be exempt from almost all new Dodd-Frank regulations. The second would expand the types of trading risks that banks can take on. The third would allow big US-based multinational banks to escape US regulations by operating through international subsidiaries. Financial reform advocates say it is way too early to start messing with Wall Street reform, especially since key parts of Dodd-Frank have yet to go into effect.
In an opening statement before the vote, Waters listed a series of financial scandals in the wake of the 2007 crisis that she argues make strong financial regulations imperative. “These scandals include, but aren’t limited to, money laundering to drug cartels, Libor [interest rate] manipulation, and the case of the ‘London Whale,'” the nick-name for JPMorgan’s massive trading loss last year, she said.
The bills will now head to the House floor for consideration, and have a good chance of being taken up in the Senate.
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Awful truth behind explosive Princess Diana interview
The BBC is investigating the tactics used to obtain an interview with the late Princess Diana where she uttered the tragic statement about her marriage to Prince Charles: "There were three of us in this marriage".
The interview between journalist Martin Bashir and Diana aired in 1995 but 25 years on, new evidence suggests that the reporter may have used forged bank statements and other unethical methods to convince Diana to agree to the interview.
The incident is now being properly investigated, but it's complicated as Bashir, 57, is now gravely ill with COVID-19.
Over the weekend, the BBC apologised to Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer after he brought forward the evidence.
The network admitted that Bashir showed Spencer bank statements doctored by a staff graphic designer. Spencer had alleged that Bashir told his sister “fantastical stories to win her trust” and showed him fake bank records that reportedly helped land Bashir the interview.
Charles said he found a letter sent to him by Bashir that brought up rumours of an affair between Charles and the family nanny.
At the time, Diana was allegedly deeply worried she was being spied on and Bashir's "evidence" made her confident to do the interview.
“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,” Diana said in the interview, referring to Charles’ affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.
Weeks after Diana uttered that sentence, the royals began divorce proceedings.
“Suggesting that mocked-up documents were genuine was wrong then and it’s wrong now; the BBC of today is happy to apologise for this. The BBC’s editorial processes are now even tougher and this would not happen today,” said a statement from a BBC spokesperson sent to the New York Post. “The BBC’s records say that the Princess of Wales said she hadn’t seen the mocked-up documents and they had played no part in her decision to take part in the interview.”
The BBC is now investigating the interview.
“The BBC has apologised. We are happy to repeat that apology. And while this was a quarter of a century ago, we absolutely will investigate – robustly and fairly – substantive new information,” a spokeswoman told Deadline. “We have asked Earl Spencer to share further information with the BBC.
“Unfortunately, we are hampered at the moment by the simple fact that we are unable to discuss any of this with Martin Bashir, as he is seriously unwell. When he is well, we will of course hold an investigation into these new issues.”
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The Completely Bonkers Story of the Beatles' 'Lord of the Rings' Movie That Never Was
By Vivian Kane | Miscellaneous | August 25, 2015 |
The Beatles’ second movie Help! turned 50 on Tuesday. While as an adult, I recognize A Hard Days Night as the vastly superior movie, as a kid, I was obsessed with Help! If you’ve never seen it, do. Follow the Beatles on a caper around the globe following Ringo’s discovery of a giant ugly ring and the band’s subsequent harassment at the hands of a weird religious cult. The film’s original title was Eight Arms to Hold You and it is bonkers.
Though that was not the most crazy project the Beatles were ever involved with. You may have heard the long-fabled rumors of a Tolkein-made Beatles vehicle that never materialized. Legend has it United Artists acquired the rights to Lord of the Rings in 1969, and the Fab Four were set on starring in the adaptation.
At one point, the Beatles asked Stanley Kubrick to direct them in �The Lord of the Rings.� John, Paul, George and Ringo would respectively play Gollum, Frodo, Gandalf and Sam. But J.R.R. Tolkien turned them down. It�s not clear whether Tolkien just realized how unsuited the four would be to a fantasy epic, or whether he had a more personal objection to their noisy practicing. In a letter, he wrote: �In a house three doors away dwells a member of a group of young men who are evidently aiming to turn themselves into a Beatle Group. On days when it falls to his turn to have a practice session the noise is indescribable.
Okay, first of all, this is the best Get Off My Lawn story I’ve maybe ever heard. Of course Tolkein hated all those mop-topped Beatles boys. Second, Tolkien turned them down? Does this mean Kubrick was into the offer? My god, that would have been amazing. Also (or possibly alternatively?), according to the book Tales From Development Hell, the movie would have been animated.
But third, and definitely most important here, WHAT IS THIS CASTING? I understand wanting to play against type and not cast John as Frodo and Paul as Sam, AS ANY SANE PERSON WOULD DO. And honestly, George would have been a perfect Gandalf, with a sitar instead of a staff. But John as Gollum?
RINGO STARR WAS OBVIOUSLY BORN TO PLAY GOLLUM. Look at this face!
Via Variety.
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Fran O'Sullivan: SkyCity Entertainment looks to luck of the Irish for rocky road ahead
Michael Ahearne will take over the chief executive role immediately. Photo / Michael Craig
By: Fran O'Sullivan
Head of Business, NZME
fran.o'sullivan@nzherald.co.nz@FranOSullivan
SkyCity Entertainment chief executive Michael Ahearne has a great passion for the business. He will tell you so himself with a lilting voice which does not quite disguise his Irish origins even after some 20 years outside of Ireland in the global gaming and entertainment industry.
"I would say I am an authentic person. I'm certainly people-focused. I really enjoy working with a large team like we have here at SkyCity," he told the Herald during an interview at the company's boardroom. "I do like this industry and business. It's a very customer-focused industry ... I really have a real energy and passion for [the] entertainment sector."
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Ahearne is going to need all of that passion to lead SkyCity through what remain uncertain times. The International Convention Centre fire and the impact of Covid-19 took a huge financial and human toll on the business with many loyal staff laid off.
"These are unprecedented times in terms of a challenging operating environment," says Ahearne. "I would say we are operating cautiously but we're optimistic about the long-term focus of our industry.
"We have changed the operating model of our business — we're a domestically focused business.
"But we've got a team that knows how to operate ... We will be post-Covid at some point and there will be lots of opportunities ... with that."
Ahearne's sudden ascent to the top role at SkyCity yesterday, after three years as chief operating officer, initially perplexed investors.
Graeme Stephens' retirement as chief executive was not foreshadowed at SkyCity's October annual meeting. The timing was not formally put on the board's agenda until a fortnight ago when negotiations on the management changeout began in earnest.
SkyCity chair Rob Campbell has called for a "business revolution" at the casino firm. Photo / Michael Craig
SkyCity chair Rob Campbell says Stephens had long tipped his retirement. Ahearne and chief financial officer Rob Hamilton had already been assessed by executive consultants Seqel as part of the board's internal succession plan. After further work the board decided to offer the job to Ahearne. All this was brought to a head over the past fortnight, with Stephens now being paid out the retirement entitlements under his contract.
Like Stephens, Ahearne also has an open-ended contract. His remuneration package is less than that of his predecessor, whose pay had tumbled 38 per cent from $3.9 million to $2.4m, following challenging times.
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Campbell recently called for a business "revolution" which no longer looks to narrow "shareholder interests" or pays "excessive" senior executive salaries and bonuses.
He says the total cost to the business of the chief executive package is lower from Ahearne's appointment, as had been the case when Stephens earlier succeeded Nigel Morrison.
"I'm very happy with the package," says Ahearne.
He pays tribute to Stephens, who he describes as a "great supporter and mentor".
"Graeme brought me into the business. I've worked incredibly closely with him over the past number of years."
SkyCity has major initiatives underway including Flare, a $6 million new bar at the Auckland casino
Ahearne's own focus includes major initiatives underway in Auckland and Adelaide and big aspirations down the track to establish online gaming here.
An executive search is underway to replace Hamilton. Ahearne also has to replace himself as COO and Liza McNally, who is returning to Adelaide, as chief marketing officer.
He will look internally first — "we have great talent."
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Non-Muslims want equal rights in Turkey
17/01/2013 | Oasis
www.hurriyetdailynews.com, 17/01/2013
Non-Muslim communities in Turkey have asked for municipal and state services at their funerals similar to the services given to the country’s Muslim citizens.
Municipalities do not provide non-Muslim citizens with free services such as allocation of a funeral car. A graveyard plot costs little money for Muslims in municipal facilities, whereas a plot in minority graveyards that have limited spaces may cost a fortune.
Speaking to the Hürriyet Daily News, authorities from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Cemeteries Directorate said even though they knew the cost of graves and funeral ceremonies for non-Muslim citizens is very high, they did not intervene. “[Non-Muslims] can afford organizing funerals in accordance with their religions and traditions. We do not interfere with them since we are not used to their traditions and ceremonies. Only if they prove their conversion to Islam with witnesses can we hold their funerals,” an official from the directorate said.
Equal citizenship
Burgazada Hagia Yanni and Samatya Hagia Nikola Greek Church Foundation head Andon Parisyanos said the Directorate of Religious Affairs must allocate funds to non-Muslim populations as a requirement of equal citizenship.
“Forget about funerals, we even pay the utility bills for the churches by our own means. However, the Directorate of Religious Affairs meets the expenses of mosques,” Parisyanos said, adding that funeral organization companies should also be supervised.
“Aid should be provided [to non-Muslims], but still it would be more convenient if we organized the funerals according to our traditions,” Parisyanos said.
“Last week, an acquaintance of mine passed away at [Istanbul’s] Medipol Hospital. [The officials at the hospital] told me that they had come across a deceased Christian for the first time and did not know what to do,” Parisyanos said.
Likewise, Garo Paylan, who is a member of the Yeşilköy Armenian School’s Executive Board, said the requirements of equal citizenship must be implemented. “The Directorate of Religious Affairs could allocate funds, which would be conveyed to the owners of the funeral homes through the Patriarchate,” Paylan said.
Yeznik Bahçevanoğlu, owner of an organization company that holds funerals for non-Muslims, said the cost of funerals range from 2,000 to 8,000 Turkish Liras, adding that the prices might vary and increase according to the company. When asked about pricing policies, Bahçevanoğlu said the prices were determined according to the classes of the plots.
“There is a standard price given by the Patriarchate; however, that price increases a lot when other expenses such as obituaries and coffins are added. If the Directorate of Religious Affairs could allocate resources, the prices would not be that high,” Bahçevanoğlu said, adding that some organization companies might exploit their clients.
Vasgen Barın, the Armenian deputy mayor of Istanbul’s Şişli district, in which non-Muslims are densely populated, said municipalities were not responsible for holding funerals.
“Some people may want to be buried in their hometowns; when they appeal to us, we provide them a bus in order to transfer the body,” Barın said.
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Our Principles and Values
15 Jul Critiquing and Rethinking Accountability, Fairness, and Transparency
Blog | odbadmin
By Seda Gürses, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian In this post, Seeta Peña Gangadharan joins forces with Seda Gürses and Suresh Venkatasubramanian to briefly canvas research and works that challenge studies of fairness, accountability, and transparency in statistical and automated decision systems. FAT* stands for...
01 Jun Technologies of Control and Our Right of Refusal
By Seeta Peña Gangadharan Refusal is an important part of how we challenge pervasive data collection and data-driven systems. In the below transcript (remarks prepared for a TedxLondon talk), Seeta Peña Gangadharan introduces Jill, Bebop, Mika, and Sam, all of whom have shared their stories of...
10 Apr ODB at the 2019 Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain
By Kim M Reynolds and Seeta Peña Gangadharan Fresh off the launch of the Digital Defense Playbook: Community Power Tools for Reclaiming Data, Our Data Bodies presented Building Power Not Paranoia: Community-Based Data Defense, at the 5th annual Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain. This workshop...
01 Apr Launching the Digital Defense Playbook at the Digital Equity Lab in NYC
Blog | Kim M Reynolds
By Kim M Reynolds and Seeta Peña Gangadharan In March 2019, Our Data Bodies celebrated the publication of the Digital Defense Playbook, a popular education resource that captures ODB's three-year journey in talking with residents in the most marginalized neighborhoods of Charlotte, Detroit, and Los Angeles....
11 Mar Our Data Bodies Playbook is Out!
More than three years in the making, the Digital Defense Playbook: Community Power Tools for Reclaiming Data introduces a set of tried-and-tested tools for diagnosing, dealing with, and healing the injustices of pervasive and punitive data collection and data-driven systems. The Playbook contains in-depth...
28 Feb ODB Interim Report in U.S. Congressional Record
Brandi Collins-Dexter, Senior Campaign Director at Color of Change, cited to Our Data Bodies in her testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Our Interim Report was subsequently submitted to the Congressional record. Watch her testimony here. ...
05 Feb Credit Score, Credit Report: What’s It Got to Do with Me?
By Kim M Reynolds and Seeta Peña Gangadharan ODB has created a series of "tip sheets" that provide context and background about privacy issues faced by members of historically marginalized groups. Credit Score, Credit Report: What's It Got to Do with Me? is part of this...
05 Feb Data Brokers and Opting Out
By Kim M Reynolds and Seeta Peña Gangadharan ODB has created a series of "tip sheets" that provide context and background about privacy issues faced by members of historically marginalized groups. Data Brokers and Opting Out is part of this series and will soon be published...
19 Jan Taxing the Marginalized: An Overview of Court, Prison, and Probation Fees
By Kim M Reynolds and Seeta Peña Gangadharan ODB has created a series of "tip sheets" that provide context and background about privacy issues faced by members of historically marginalized groups. The idea for Taxing the Marginalized originated from questions raised in our interviews with Angelinxs,...
18 Jan Safety vs. Security: Are You Safe or Are You Secure?
By Tawana Petty ODB has created a series of "tip sheets" that provide context and background about privacy issues faced by members of historically marginalized groups. Safety vs. Security: Are You Safe or Are You Secure? is part of this series and will soon be published...
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Human smugglers roundtable: Kyunghee Kook
Kyunghee Kook
Provided by author
Question 1 – the rhetoric surrounding smugglers is packed with graphic images of violence and exploitation. What does your research indicate? Are smugglers really parasites profiting on human desperation, or, at the end of the day, do they provide a service to those on the move? How do we move the conversation forward?
‘Smugglers’ are often demonised as on a par with, or indistinguishable from, traffickers in academic and international non-governmental writings. They are also stereotyped as unscrupulous individuals willing to deceive innocent migrants, luring them into exploitative situations for their own personal gain. My ethnographic work on North Korean mobility through smuggling networks, and on the multiple roles, motivations and identities of smugglers, challenges these ideas in many ways.
Smuggling operations that move North Korean women into China function using small-scale brokerage through transnational networks. The women’s migration process is operated through layered stages of brokerage primarily involving three different groups or networks of smugglers/brokers: first, informal smugglers who facilitate undocumented border-crossing; second, relatively professionally organised brokers or smugglers who link North Korean women’s mobility with marriage; and third, small-scale brokers based in China who generally recruit Chinese grooms and help North Korean women settle down in China.
The interviews I have conducted with North Korean migrant women suggest that they view smugglers and brokers as absolutely vital service providers – they cannot move and act directly in China because they are illegalised, and therefore someone has to broker all arrangements that make life possible, including moving and marriage. My empirical research draws attention to the fact that 'brokerage' and 'smugglers' are important but insufficiently discussed in the literature.
Question 2 – media, academic and policy circles suggest that human smuggling is a gateway into human trafficking. Many times both terms are used interchangeably. Does your work provide any insight into these phenomena and what does that say about migration?
North Korean smuggling to China is extremely perilous, and escapees are not safe once across the border. In China, they are vulnerable to arrest and repatriation because of their illegal status. This vulnerability often leads them into conditions and relations that are associated with what is typically described as ‘trafficking’. North Korean migrant women are frequently depicted as ‘victims of trafficking’ into forced marriage and prostitution through professional traffickers involved in transnational criminal groups, evidence for which has been amply supplied by media, academic research, and the reports of humanitarian groups.
However, discourse on ‘human trafficking’ arguably over-generalises North Koreans’ migration. My empirical research data reveals that their experiences of exploitation and abuse ranges along a continuum, with some North Korean escapees living in poor but not violent conditions while managing to reside in China and remit money home. Importantly, the majority of North Korean women I interviewed drew a distinction between ‘traffickers’, who they viewed as dishonest, and ‘smugglers’ or ‘brokers’, whom they saw as honest or trustworthy.
The distinction between what is termed human ‘smuggling’ and what is termed ‘trafficking’ is ambiguous and does not help us challenge the human rights violations faced by many North Korean women escapees: being ‘smuggled’ (voluntary contract, relationship with smuggler ends on arrival) does not necessarily mean the absence of victimisation. A smuggled woman can end up trapped in violent exploitative relationship. So the focus on smuggling/trafficking distinction is only really any use and interest to states looking to determine whom they shall punish, ‘victim’ and ‘perpetrator’ (smuggling), or just the ‘perpetrator’ (trafficking).
Question 3 – another myth connected to smuggling is the one pertaining to its organisation. We hear of smugglers organised into cartels, networks or transnational groups, but also of small-scale operations. What does your work suggest, and what does that say about irregular migration?
North Korean irregular migration is often depicted in the media, academic research articles, and NGO reports as operated by large-scale and transnational trafficking organisations.
However, there is a good deal of evidence to show that North Korean smugglers generally rely on small-scale operations. My empirical research data on the experience of migratory North Koreans who have managed to escape to South Korea shows that the majority of the North Koreans move illegally across the border into China, independently, with no assistance of a smuggler. They then offer smuggling services themselves to other North Koreans. Some North Koreans moonlight as informal smugglers, working only through their personal networks with family, cousins, friends, neighbours and acquaintances, whereas other informal smugglers have extended networks that draw in the North Korean military and border guards as well as professional brokers in China. It is those who have connections with the military and border guards who are most successful in their smuggling ventures, and it is therefore unsurprising to find that many informal smugglers are men who have previously served in the military.
In spite of small-scale operations, it is revealed in my ethnographic findings that North Korean smugglers have a divergent range of interests. Some have an interest in ‘smuggling’ for simple greed, but others have a purely altruistic interest and seek to assist those wanting to escape from North Korea. My ethnographic research on North Korean ‘smuggling’ suggests that the dominant discourses and policies have failed to grasp the complex realities of North Korean irregular migration. It also reveals that the differences between trafficking, smuggling, and migration are constructed rather than essential, which contributes to disturbing forced/voluntary dyads.
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Hyde: Here’s what we’ve learned about Tua TUNG-o-vai-LOA so far | Commentary
By Dave Hyde
Sun Sentinel's Omar Kelly and Dave Hyde discuss Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa's struggles in the loss to the Denver Broncos.
Here’s what we’ve learned about Miami Dolphins rookie quarterback Tua Tagovailoa after four starts:
— He’s a strong and mature personality who enjoys the spotlight.
— He calls his parents often (like parents wish their kids did).
— It’s “TUNG-o-vai-LOA.” And, yes, he cares.
— He’s up-and-down like a rookie quarterback.
Twenty starts. That’s what the unwritten rule for NFL folks to define what you have at quarterback. Every sport has such inexact thresholds. In baseball, 1,000 at-bats supposedly decide who a hitter is. In hockey, 300 starts make a defenseman a finished product.
Tua’s four starts are starting to fill in the blanks of a can and can’t checklist.
Can: He’s accurate. He’s agile. He has a wonderfully quick release. He’s mature. He’s has a leader’s personality.
Can’t: He can’t throw open players yet. He can’t solve all defenses and so he holds the ball too long – he held it an average of 2.84 seconds against the Denver Broncos on Sunday, according to Next Gen stats compared to Ryan Fitzpatrick’s 2.3 seconds.
Those are correctable. One thing that isn’t, however, showed on the first play of the fourth quarter, the one he lost two yards on, the one an NFL scout said to watch again for what it meant.
Tua tried to outrun two Denver defensive linemen, Bradley Chubb and Deshawn Williams, to the edge. He instead was run out of bounds for a 2-yard loss. He was too slow. That’s because, well, he isn’t fast.
“You can’t teach him speed,’' the NFL scout said. “It doesn’t mean he won’t be a good quarterback. It just means his legs aren’t going to help like they do a lot of the smaller quarterbacks.”
Arizona’s Kyler Murray ran 40 yards in 4.3 seconds.
Seattle’s Russell Wilson ran it in 4.55 seconds before the draft.
Tua ran a 40 his freshman year at Alabama in 4.76 seconds. Maybe he got faster with strength. It’s more likely he’s slower due to two minor ankle surgeries and a major hip surgery.
Having the ability to run is a critical element for many quarterbacks these days. But it’s not Tua’s game. He hasn’t run for more than two yards in his three other starts. He didn’t even have a rush attempt in Denver.
This isn’t to make this into a wall of worry. It’s just to add to the catalogue on who Tua is. The question becomes if the other parts of Tua’s game are strong enough.
There is also the wise words of his Alabama college coach, Nick Saban. Way back when he was Dolphins coach, I asked him the difference between college and NFL quarterbacks.
“You don’t have to be a great athlete as a pro quarterback,” he said. “That’s down the list. You have to be a great decision-maker, a great leader, have great accuracy, great skills. That combination is hard to find.
“But in college you can be a great athlete, run a 4.7 and outrun most players. In the pros, running a 4.7 doesn’t do much good. Guys run 4.5 and 4.6. They’ll catch you and, over time, hurt you. So athleticism, that’s not as important (in the NFL).”
Tua can be a great quarterback when you look at Saban’s checklist. Great decision maker. Great leader. Great accuracy.
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He’ll learn to throw the ball quicker than Sunday — that aforementioned stat by NextGen Stats of holding the ball 2.84 seconds wasn’t the only indicator. On all four sacks he held the ball more than three seconds.
Denver coach Vic Fangio is 18-7 against rookie quarterbacks as a coach/defensive coordinator. He’s good at messing with young minds. Tua’s still in the learning process.
It’s fun to learn and win as, say, Dan Marino did in winning nine of his first 10 starts. It’s even fun to learn and lose if you’re a Los Angeles Chargers fan and rookie Justin Herbert, who has 22 touchdowns against six interceptions.
For any rookie, the question isn’t just about the learning curve. It’s what learnable. Getting rid of the ball quicker, that’s teachable. Speed isn’t. Maybe it’s not important. Check back after more 16 starts.
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Peckham Town Centre Forum/meetings
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Revision as of 23:05, 5 March 2013 by Eileen.conn (talk | contribs) (→12th November 2012)
Copeland Cultural Quarter
Bussey building
Rye Lane Traders' Association
1 12th November 2012
2 17th October 2012
3 2nd September 2012
4 2nd to 4th August 2012
5 14th March 2012
6 May to September 2011
7 7th April 2011
8 19th February, 17th & 31st March 2011
9 27th & 30th November 2010
10 23rd October 2010
11 13th July 2010
12 22nd April 2010
13 18th March 2010
14 24th February 2010
15 16th December 2009
Nearly 30 people - residents, community groups, artistic & creative enterprises, and businesses - attended the Peckham Vision workshop on the PNAAP (Peckham & Nunhead Area Action Plan). Jon Medlin, a professional Planning volunteer from Planning Aid for London, took us through the special ways that comments and objections have to be made for the latest and final stage of the consultation process. Several objections were made by the deadline of 4th December 2012, all linking to the development of aspects of Peckham town centre, including:
creative industries & their role in the local economy
tall buildings
energy and environmental sustainability
development of town centre sites
The next stage is the Examination in Public (EIP) which is likley to be in July 2013.
[Peckham Society meeting about the historic buildings in the town cnetre and Peckham Vision exhibtion.]
[Peckham Rye Fete town centre exhibtion displays.]
2nd to 4th August 2012
entering the Old Waiting Room at last from platform 3
We had a non-stop stream of visitors to the 3 day exhibition, about Peckham town centre in the Old Waiting Room, as part of the Peckham Cultural Olympiad. Over 600 visitors all keen to know more about the Old Waiting Room, the station restoration, the new public square and the town centre generally. It is clear that there is great local enthusiasm for the planned changes. Here are a few photos to give an insight into the magical experience for three days. For more photos: OWR exhibition photos. For all the display panels and a full report on the exhibition see OWR exhibition.
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summary latest news to be uploaded:
Cllr Fiona Colley Regeneration in Peckham presentation
Council meeting notes
An exhibition and meeting about all aspects of Peckham town centre renewal was held in the CLF Art Cafe in the Bussey building. They were to celebrate and report on recent achievements including:
PTC Forum 14th March 2012
restoration of the Old Waiting Room in the station.
the restoration of the station square now finally on its way.
designation of the Rye Lane Conservation Area.
successful audit by local residents of every town centre building in support of the Council's application for a major heritage restoration grant.
See here for more details and here for an on-line discussion. The events were very successful with a steady stream of visitors to the exhibition from 4pm and over 200 to the meeting 7pm - 9pm. There was enthusiastic support for the latest news and a keenness to be involved in how it all develops. There will be a report later covering the latest on the conservation and historic restoration work, and also the Council's bid for Government's(Mary)Portas Town Team pilot and work to improve public realm maintenance
The meeting started with an illustrated presentation from Benedict O'Looney, from the Peckham Society & Peckham Vision, of the history of Peckham town centre, and the community's initiatives and work to restore the historic buildings. This was all enthusiastically received. The meeting then heard from representatives of the railway industry and of Southwark Council - Cllr Fiona Colley Cabinet Member for Regeneration, and Simon Bevan Head of Planning & Transport. The picture, by Southwark TV, shows Tom Higginison, Head of Network Rail's national Town Planning Department, addressing the meeting. He said that his commitment to Network Rail's role in revitalising Peckham town centre was shown by him choosing to come to the Peckham Town Centre Forum meeting instead of a prestigous opening of new developments at Kings Cross. This was met with enthsiastic applause from the assembled Peckham.
Network Rail at PTC Forum 14th March 2012
He then read out at our request a message to Peckham Vision and to the meeting from Andy Savage, Director of Railway Heritage Trust,the independent charity supported by Network Rail:
My apologies for not being able to attend. I'm delighted with the work you've done on the station to date, and that we've been able to help with the re-fenestration project. We look forward to restoring and extending Driver's staircase with you in the next year or so, and to eventually contributing to a full restoration of the Old Waiting Room, formerly the Billiard Hall, as a community facility.
Paul Trevett, Southern Railway's senior manager for their 150 stations, also gave a brief report and their support for the community effort to revive the station and the town centre.
Following the meeting
Local Southwark TV said:
here is a short video report on Peckham Vision and Peckham Society's campaigning work for the betterment of Peckham town centre. The meeting was held at the Bussey Building - soon to host the Royal Court Theatre again, on 14th March. It was a packed meeting and a tribute to the people driving this campaign and to the people of Peckham who are similarly galvanised.
A local resident's report on the meeting:
This was a very lively meeting, with over 200 people from various walks of Peckham life and multi-ethnic communities, who all had a common purpose -to improve the town centre and make it pleasant to visit, work and live in. There was a wish to have a say in the town centre plans, and great enthusiasm for the proposed improvement of the station and the opening up of the Old Waiting Room for community use. The mood was good-humoured, though with an undercurrent of skepticism, which one has to expect from a community which has not had a happy experience of these matters for many years. The initiatives taken over recent years by residents themselves has given us more hope that progress can be made with new ways of collaborating between all concerned.
May to September 2011
There were a series of public meetings aranged by the Council during this period for consultation on the PNAAP and the proposed town centre Conservation Area. Further information will be posted here on them in due course. In the meantime Peckham Vision's work to develop contacts with small businesses in the town centre continues. This confirms the point that has been emerging in the Town Centre Forum for years that the poor and deteriorating state of the streets in the town centre is a serious pressing issue. Much of the progress made with the Council's Peckham Programme through the Rye Lane & Station Action Group has been set back,and needs to be done again. The Peckham Programme was disbanded in 2008 leaving no part of the Council with an overview of Peckham town centre or responsibility for joined up working between a variety of daily operational maintenance functions, and enforcement and planning policy functions.
PTCForum held a liaison meeting, in the meeting room at McDonalds on Rye Lane, on 7th April to follow up the very successful seminar on the local economy on 17th March. This liaison meeting brought together several council officers, police and businesses to exchange news and ideas about the problems and potential for the town centre. Each of the council officers was responsible for a different aspect of managing an important aspect of the town centre, and the police were responsible for the Police Safer Town Centre Team. A major problem now is that since the abolition of the Council's Peckham Programme team in 2009, there is no one place in the Council that brings all these different working responsibilities together to encourage joined up working, and also for effective liaison with the businesses and enterprises in the town centre. The successful liaison with the planning policy department on future planning policy under the banner 'Peckham Future' over the last two years, needs to be complemented by proactive working together between the enterprises, the police and the Council under the banner 'Peckham Now!'. The PTCForum would approach the Council to seek their agreement to this.
19th February, 17th & 31st March 2011
These very sucessful events were jointly organised by the Council Planning Policy team and the PTC Forum, arising from our discussions in the Peckham Town Centre Forum, in relation to the town centre and the PNAAP. For further information on these events see also Peckham Residents' Network blog
Thursday 17th March 5.00pm for 5.30pm-8.00pm : Local Economy Seminar in the Bussey building.
notes from discussions
video clip Adam Khan presentation: thinking imaginatively for development of shopping in Peckham.
[pictures]
Over 50 people attended creating very lively group discussions - a mix of local residents, local businesses, architecture students, and council officers from several different departments. This was followed up by the liaison meeting for further actions held later on 7th April.
Thursday 31st March 6.30pm : Historic Architecture of Peckham' in the restored Old Waiting Room.
31 March 2011 Old Waiting Room (OWR)
OWR window
short video clip of event
Standing room only in the Old Waiting Room when over 120 people crowded in to listen to fascinating talks from the experts, including English Heritage, on the history of buildings in Peckham town centre, and how much is at risk of demoliton. This is why it is essential to press ahead as soon as possible with a Conservation Area. The other powerful reason was demonstrated fully at the meeting by the inspirational venue at the Old Waiting Room, created by local residents through the Peckham Society and Peckham Vision in restoring it with Council CGS small grant support. The commercial and social life of the town centre could be transformed with a determined effort to integrate in their full beauty the historic budlings into modern uses and developments.
Saturday 19th February 12pm - 3pm : Sustainable Peckham - a neighbourhood event at the Peckham Settlement
This 3 hour event had a steady stream of local residents visiting to learn and discuss the way Peckham can become sustainable in the 21st century. Local groups - Growing Southwark, Peckham Power, Peckham Vision, Transition Town Peckham, Peckham Society, Living Streets, Peckham Settlement - joined with Council officers from Planning, Traffic, and Regeneration to offer information, advice and discussion.
The Council also held a neighbourhood event on the PNAAP in Nunhead on 19th March.
27th & 30th November 2010
Following the successful walkabout and Town Centre Forum meeting on 23rd October, the Council organised in the Bussey building two preview events - Sat 27 November & Tues 30 November - of the Preferred Options of the PNAAP to give the public a chance to give some early feedback. These were excellent chances to make a contribution and become better informed about the revitalisation of Peckham town centre.
The Council had said: "These will be informal sessions. People may come for part of the time if they wish. There will be displays and information on the key emerging preferred options for the Peckham and Nunhead area action plan (PNAAP). As well as an early opportunity to find out what direction the preferred options are heading in, this is a chance to give initial thoughts and reactions as an input into finalising the preferred options that will be consulted on next year."
There were very successful and useful discussions at both events, in spite of the arctic weather on Tuesday. See notes from discussions. Latest news is that the PNAAP Preferred Options report will not now be ready for consultation until May. There will therefore be some community and Council events before then to continue these discussions. Photos below from Saturday 27th November:
walkabout Rye Lane/High St
crowded Rye Lane
Bournemouth Rd - Rye Lane
walkabout route
town centre development site maps
urban design observations (Liz Wrigley, Core Connections)
We had a highly successful 2 hour walkabout of the town centre looking at urban design of the street scene, and also the large development sites and their potential. Discussion focused on:
changes to the street scene design to improve the pedestrian experience – including widening pavements & removing street clutter;
enhancing some historic buildings in prominent locations by cleaning and painting above ground floor level for some quick wins; funding to be secured through heritage sources once Conservation Area status granted;
impact and potential for the major developments both sides of the High Street, and in central Rye Lane opposite the station.
This was followed by another enthusiastic energetic Forum in the afternoon. Open Space discussions focussed on:
Feedback from the walk – street scene, major developments and the PNAAP
Restoration of historic buildings and next steps following on from the walk feedback
Central Rye Lane – especially the multi storey car park and Copeland Industrial site
Food growing and mapping of sustainable initiatives
Peckham Festival in autumn 2011.
Detailed points are in the minutes. Pictures below show the Open Space discussions.
PTC Forum 13 July 2010
some emerging proposals
Emerging themes by July included:
creativity, entrepreneurship & commercial regeneration
local energy and food production
town centre physical fabric revitalisation
how it all relates to health & well being (linking to New Peckham Experiment, and following up the stimulating seminar held on 22 April)
This provided a good base for the July meeting, which was another successful and stimulating gathering with lots of energy and ideas for connections. The Open Space process enabled in-depth discussions on several topics leading to several new actions. These included:
arranging a Town Centre walkabout with local residents to look at urban design issues
setting up a virtual Steering Group for the New Peckham Experiment project
organise a two day October Peckham Town Centre Festival
Meeting with Council Cabinet members on several aspects flagged up
publicising to local businesses an Open Space business group at each Forum.
PTC Forum 13 July 2010.
PTC Forum & PHF seminar 22nd April 2010
A joint seminar was held with the Pioneer Health Foundation (PHF) on the modern application of the Peckham Principles from the historic Peckham Experiment, linking especially to the now urgent need for community, economic and environmental well-being and sustainability. An introduction to the Peckham Experiment was followed by brief presentations from some local community initiatives demonstrating important links beteeen them and Peckham Principles. These included residents' information networks, social support networks, community energy production, participative art, and nutrition in schools. There was also a brief account of the nef project to establish in Peckham a New Peckham Experiment, to demonstrate the key factors and links between social and economic well-being and environmental sustainabilty. There were lively small group discussions for more than 50 enthusiastic participants looking at how the Peckham Principles relate to modern issues and life. It was agreed to bring the ideas at the seminar together with the work of the Town Centre Forum to see how they could be mutually supportive. The ideas continue to inspire a number of community projects in Peckham, especially those to revitalisie the town centre. Links with the Pioneer Health Foundation (PHF) continue to be nurtured. and led to the recent social event on 15th October 2011 in The Montpelier on Choumert Road, Peckham, to present the 2011 Mary Langman essay prize.
Background email
Peckham Vision teamed up with the Peckham Society and the University of Canterbury Architecture School for a Town Centre Forum meeting. 45 second year architecture students joined in to hear about local aspirations for the town centre, the key urban design issues and the need for an integrated vision for the town centre in terms of archticture, innovation and energy potential. The students were about to start their project in urban design and architecture, using Peckham as their case study. [pictures] The meeting coincided with the news that the historic Holdron's building on the corner of Bournemouth Road and Rye Lane was soon to be demolished following an unsuccesful planning application. The owners had been invited to join in the discussions at the meeting but they declined to attend. However, representatives of the owners of the adjacent Copeland Industrial Park, and of the Council buildings stretching along Bournemouth Road, did attend. These will be useful contacts to build on for further discussions about the evolution of the Copeland Cultural Quarter. There were also some participants from the previous Forums and some new participants from some of the creative enterprises in the Copeland Industrial Park site.
Action checklist updated
The Council Planning officers were not able to participate in this meeting as it was deemed not a priority by their Department. Their absence was regretted by those present because the whole point of the new Forum was to enable continuing discussion and deliberation which needed to include Council planning officers. However, the meeting was well attended by 27 participants and as full of life and energy as the first. The discussions included the connections and links between the nef project, to establish a New Peckham Experiment, and the initiatives of interest to all at the Town Centre Forum. The meeting process from the first Forum was used again, and the Open Space enabled many connections and sharing of ideas, and the Action Checklist was updated. There was unanimous commitment to continuing with the Forum. [pictures]
PTC Forum 16th December 2009
This first meeting was held just six weeks after the idea arose at the Rye Lane and Station Action Group (RLSAG) October 2009 meeting. It was arranged in collaboration between Peckham Vision and the Council Planning officers for the PNAAP. This continued the momentum stimulated at the RLSAG meeting. There were 29 participants. The meeting heard the background, and some of the needs for revitalisation and indications of participants' interests. Then moved into Open Space where all present decided who they wanted to talk with. For the last half hour all came back together and reported on issues and actions. The key conclusions are detailed in the checklist (updated) for Discussion Questions, Actions and Ideas, under these headings:
1. Revitalising Commerce
Landlords/property owners
Improve shop fronts & displays
Choumert Street Market
Public Realm & Heritage
Leisure/Evening/Night Economy/Creative enterprises
Town Centre Brand
2. Other Factors
Multiple / parallel communities
Other ideas for Peckham generally
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Qualcomm and Google partner to narrow the gap between Android and iPhone updates
Chris Hall, Editor · 18 December 2020 ·
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(Pocket-lint) - Qualcomm and Google have announced a partnership aiming to make it easier for Android phone manufacturers to ensure that their devices are compatible with the latest version of the Android OS and accelerate the update process.
While there's little practical difference between the functionality of leading Android phones and Apple's own smartphone the iPhone, updates have always been the bugbear of Google's platform.
Not only does Apple manage to update all its devices on the same day, but that often includes support for many legacy devices. iOS 14, the latest iPhone software from Apple goes all the way back to the iPhone SE, announced in 2016. Android 11, by contrast, only goes back as far as the Pixel 2, announced in 2017.
But that's only part of the picture, because many mainstream brands, like Samsung, won't support devices that are older. There's no sign, for example, that the Samsung Galaxy S9 - launched in 2018 - will get Android 11.
Google has been trying to address the issue for updates and update speed through Project Treble, designed to make it faster and easier for vendors to update their devices. That's worked to some extent, with a faster roll-out of the latest Android version in some models over the past few years, helped by things like rolling beta programmes.
The latest announcement from Qualcomm and Google seems to be much more specific. Starting with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, Qualcomm will be supporting four years of OS and security updates to devices using the Project Treble framework. That should make it easier for manufacturers using Qualcomm hardware to push updates and close that gap with Apple's update position - and that's likely to ring true for Google's own Pixel variety of phones.
Of course this is only part of the equation: manufacturers will no longer be able to blame the underlying hardware for lack of updates, but they will still have to ensure that everything else they have in their devices works the way is should. For those companies that change the entire experience, that's still a lot of work to do.
Referring back to Samsung, that might not change the situation for the company which has a huge number of phone variants, split across both Qualcomm and Exynos hardware, but it potentially means longer support for those of those older flagship devices.
Ultimately, Android still faces an uphill battle. Projects like Android One were supposed to deliver an experience that's always up to date. But at the time of writing, Nokia (the biggest user of Android One) hasn't updated any of its Android 10 devices some 3 months since the release of Android 11 on Pixel phones.
We're not expecting parity between Apple and Google - Apple has a huge home advantage, with tighter control over how and where iOS is used - while also only running on premium devices. Android is a lot more open, much more widely distributed and is available on many more affordable devices which might never make it onto a company's update list. But this might strengthen the case for those devices using Qualcomm hardware and at the very least, we'd expect to see longer support for Pixel devices too.
Special CES 2021 edition - Pocket-lint Podcast 86
Writing by Chris Hall.
Source: Qualcomm and Google Announce Collaboration to Extend Android OS Support and Simplify Upgrades - qualcomm.com
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