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Welcome to The People’s Dispensary FRESNO
MEET THE TPD FRESNO CITY CO-FOUNDERS
Cannabis advocates Cesar Casamayor, left, and Gidai Maaza of Fresno stand outside Fresno City Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. They are co-founders of The People’s Dispensary FRESNO, a perspective cannabis dispensary aimed at helping underserved communities.
A message from one of our investors.
I was a but a few months away from retiring as Dean of Library Services at Fresno State, when I went one evening to a community meeting where social justice activists, environmentalists and labor union folk had gathered to share their forward-looking ideas and projects related to one of the poorest regions of the country, the Central Valley of California, my home for the past twelve years.
The usual progressive topics were under discussion, when three somewhat awkward gentlemen were called to the dais to talk about social equity in the newly legalized California cannabis industry. Earlier that fall, the citizens of California had voted YES to a statewide proposition to make cannabis both recreationally and medicinally legal under the usual regulatory guidelines in places in states like Oregon and Washington to the north.
The three speakers introduced themselves. one was an Ethiopian immigrant, a psychotherapist, another a Latino ex-pat from Brooklyn, New York, and the last a shaggy-haired homeboy, cap backwards, who had misspent his youth in and out of detention centers. At first sight, an odd panel of speakers. But what they had to say was electrifying and it was soon apparent all three of them were passionate spokespeople for giving people of color and the disadvantaged a chance to enter the cannabis industry as entrepreneurs. They made clear how the war on drugs had ravaged their poorer neighborhoods of Fresno, as everywhere. The youth himself shared how had been in and out of jail for selling bags of street weed as a juvenile street offender. I was mesmerized by how articulate, knowledgeable and passionate these advocates were.
And so I came to meet Gidai Maaza (the psychotherapist), Cesar Casamayor (community organizer from Brooklyn – once my own home hood) and the juvenile offender Juan B – . When they were done speaking, I followed them out into the nighttime parking lot and we chatted for half an hour. It was then that I first heard about The Peoples Dispensary (TPD) out of Oakland. As their slogan says, TPD is an investment incubator to ‘Empower Communities Through Cannabis’ providing business know-how, financial capital and expert guidance for marginalized communities (African-American, LGBTQ, Latino etc) to get the resources and the backing to go through the arduous state licensing regulations to open their own dispensaries in marginalized neighborhoods. The TPD model is essentially built on sound financial planning and expertise, but aimed heavily toward supporting any marginalized community showing moxie and determination to get into this burgeoning business.
Gidai and Cesar are the catalysts to bring a TPD supported dispendary to Fresno (TPD-F), our largely conservative city sadly, still fiddling about with convoluted regulatory hurdles to open even one dispensary (let alone the fourteen planned) where elsewhere in the state San Francisco and Berkeley, for example, their pot-shops have been open for several years now. Long and short, I am now a significant investor in this enterprise because I
whole-heartedly support their core business ethic to promote social equity and opportunity to the marginalized in Fresno, to open a dispensary for the people and of the people where a portion of profits is to be recycled back into the community for specific projects of social empowerment. Indeed Gidai and Cesar are now
known throughout Fresno as the fiercest advocates supporting a proposed 10% city equity tax on cannabis sales that they say must be returned to improve the very communities where future dispensaries are to be located.
My gender pronouns are ‘he, him, his’ – and I’m white. But I am 100% radical in my politics, a longtime unapologetic socialist, a fierce environmentalist and I strive every day to be clear-eyed about my Anglo privilege. To that end, I have carved $5000 out of my TPD investment for a program to seed five $1000 share bundles in the TPD-F for five worthy minority youths (Juan B among them) so they will have for the first time in their lives investment capital in their future. Working with TPD National we are now sorting out how this can scale to all investments within the TPD model. I am truly honored to be part of this progressive, people-centered enterprise.
Peter McDonald
Dean Emeritus, Fresno State
Where is City Of Fresno the cannabis industry?
As it stands to date, the City of Fresno is on schedule to open the application process for licensure between July 2020-December 2020 w/ licenses being awarded by Jan 1 2021 for Brick and Mortar dispensary
June 9th-Dec 20 will include regulation release, application release, interview by potential candidates (selected ½ part of City Mayor/manager office and ½ Dist council members nudging)
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
To inform the work and decisions of policymakers and community leaders in regards to the incoming cannabis industries impact on the community which it will reside in (especially our most vulnerable zip codes in SW and SE Fresno) Released on 4.25.20
Written comments concerning the Draft EIR are due by 5:00 p.m., June 9, 2020 and should be submitted to:
City of Fresno
Israel Trejo, Supervising Planner
2600 Fresno Street, Room 3043
Or via email to israel.trejo@fresno.gov
How does TPD plan to fit in the City Cannabis industry?
We are a social enterprise business model that does not just rely on stakeholders, community gatekeepers but we are grounded on community grassroots organizing and hold accountability in communities we serve
We come from the communities we serve (city wide)
We advocate all sector collaboration within the industry
We advocate for the industry to be viewed as an economic development tool centered around communities
We encourage all sectors to use local resources in a way that enhances economic opportunity in and outside the cannabis industry to improve the social/emotional/communal communities in a sustainable way.
We are building in Mental Health support services to support the way cannabis medicine is used in our communites
Entrepreneurship and employment opportunities centered in the industry as well as auxiliary businesses.
Recognize the community benefit fund as a economic development tool that supports community deemed needs
‘Social equity’: Fresno’s West Side lost in the war on drugs, and now it hopes a revival will be tied to marijuana
We hope you continue to follow our journey. We are still taking investment so if you have someone you would like to recommend to us we would appreciate it!
hello@mytpd.com
Please fill out the form below to receive our whitepaper.
Welcome to The People's Dispensary. Empowering Communities Through Cannabis.
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Reno felon sentenced to prison for possession of a pound of meth
Nevada Appeal Capitol Bureau
Jimmy Evans Sr., 49, was sentenced to 12½ years in prison Tuesday for possession with intent to distribute nearly a pound of meth.
U.S. Attorney Nick Trutanich said Evans had been under investigation so some time when a detective with the Sparks Police learned Evans had not updated his residential address, required because he is an ex-felon. Trutanich said the detective approached Evans at a gas station and the defendant admitted he had failed to update his address. A Washoe Sheriff’s K-9 was berought to the scene and alerted to the van. Inside, officers found a backpack containing 925 grams of methamphetamine, 144 grams of heroin, 35 grams of marijuana and a digital scale.
Other officers searched the Evans home and found another 423 grams of meth and two pistols along with an assault rifle.
Evand pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute.
His wife, Bobby Jo Kissel, pleaded guilty to knowingly concealing a felony and not notifying authorities. She could receive three years in prison when sentenced in January.
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Steve Pokin
Answer Man: What's being built on East Cherry Street just west of Highway 65? I heard there is a dog park going in. Is that right? — Dwight Wamsley, of Springfield
Yes, a dog park and more.
My newsroom colleague Gregory Holman wrote about plans for The Bark Yard in July.
The business will be a place for dogs and humans to play. It will include an off-leash dog park, a bar-and-patio area, a limited food menu, an indoor play area, retail shops featuring dog items and doggie daycare and boarding for 40 to 50 canines.
The five-acre lot will have a 6,000-square-foot building.
The general contractor is Construct LLC in Ozark. I spoke to office manager Terry Winslow Friday. He confirmed that work on the construction site has begun, including the removal of some trees.
The two entrepreneurs behind the project are Tommy Buterbaugh and Blake Gammon.
In the July story, they said they wanted to be open before cold weather sets in this year.
Buterbaugh told me Friday that the time line has been pushed back because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The opening likely will be pushed back to early 2021. Nevertheless, he hopes the 6,000-square foot building will be finished by December of this year.
Back in July, Buterbaugh told the News-Leader he believes the Cherry Street location is close to potential customers.
"We wanted to create an easy spot to get to after work, or throughout the day, without having to do a 15-minute drive on the outskirts of town to get to it."
Back then, he said it was too early to know how much he and Gammon will charge for boarding and daycare services, but that he expects it will be "competitive" with existing offerings in Springfield.
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They plan to sell memberships for the dog park, either annually or as day passes.
He said Friday that the bar area will operate just like any bar or restaurant; a pass will not be needed.
According to the July story, Buterbaugh and Gammon plan to hire about 20 employees, a mix of full-time and part-time.
Keep those questions coming. Send them to The Answer Man at 417-836-1253, spokin@gannett.com, on Twitter @stevepokinNL or by mail to 651 Boonville Ave., Springfield, MO 65806.
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Tracing lineage to demonstrate direct astrocyte-to-neuron conversion in mouse brain
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 16 2020
Regeneration of functional new neurons to repair injured human brain is a long-term unsolved problem up till today. The lack of neuroregeneration is one of the major reasons why so many brain disorders such as stroke and Alzheimer's disease do not have a cure yet. A research team led by Prof. Gong Chen at Jinan University (Guangzhou, China) published a work on October 9th in Neural Regeneration Research, providing unambiguous data that brain internal astrocytes are directly converted into neurons through lineage tracing studies. Using brain internal astrocytes, a type of supporting cells to neurons, to directly convert into new neurons is an innovative brain repair technology that may benefit millions of patients worldwide.
Human brain has two major types of cells, neurons and glial cells. Neurons cannot divide and therefore don't have self-regeneration capability, but glial cells can divide and self-regenerate. Prof. Chen's team has previously demonstrated through a series of works that brain internal glial cells can be directly converted into neurons through NeuroD1-based gene therapy. Many other labs have also confirmed such direct glia-to-neuron conversion in the brain, spinal cord, and retina. However, some people, both inside and outside the regenerative medicine field, still have some benefit of the doubt on direct glia-to-neuron conversion and demand more evidence to support such ground-breaking discoveries.
In this study, Chen's team employs transgenic reporter mice that can faithfully trace astrocytic lineage to unambiguously demonstrate that astrocytes can be converted directly into neurons in adult mouse brain.
We crossed Aldh1l1-CreERT2 mice with Ai14 mice and administered tamoxifen to induce Cre-mediated recombination so that many astrocytes will be lineage-traced permanently by red fluorescent protein tdTomato."
Dr. Zongqin Xiang, first author and postdoctoral fellow
"Then, we injected AAV expressing neural transcription factor NeuroD1 under astrocytic promoter GFAP into the mouse cortex, and detected clear expression of NeuroD1 in the tdTomato-labeled astrocytes at 7 days post viral infection", added by the co-first author and a PhD student Mr. Liang Xu. "Most excitingly, at 135 days post NeuroD1 infection (experiments delayed by COVID-19), we observed that many NeuroD1-expressing tdTomato-labeled astrocytes had now been converted into NeuN-positive neurons with typical neuronal morphology. This experiment provides unambiguous evidence on in vivo astrocyte-to-neuron conversion", concluded by Prof. Gong Chen.
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Besides AAV viral system, Chen's team employed another viral system, the retroviral system, to further demonstrate such direct glia-to-neuron conversion process. "While AAV has the advantage of low immunogenicity and relatively safe as a gene therapy vector for the treatment of neurological disorders, its capability to infect both neurons and glial cells may cause confusion if AAV dosing and promoter are not used properly," said Prof. Wenliang Lei, a co-corresponding author of the work. "We therefore employed retroviral vectors to express NeuroD1 exclusively in dividing glial cells, and we were able to further confirm that the newly generated neurons were directly converted from dividing glial cells", added Prof. Lei.
With two lines of unambiguous data in hand, Chen's team went on to address some confusions in the field caused by some improperly designed experiments and high dosing of AAV used by some labs. "A recent work challenged the field of in vivo glia-to-neuron conversion based on one set of experiments using high dose of AAV that produced artifacts in the mouse cortex," said Prof. Wen Li, another co-corresponding author of the work. "We demonstrated in this work that when an appropriate dosage of AAV was used, the artifacts of so-called leakage can be minimized if not completely avoided", added Prof. Li.
"For newcomers entering into this exciting in vivo glia-to-neuron conversion field, we highly recommend all investigators using different viral systems at different dosing, and performing both in vitro and in vivo studies to prove or disprove any hypothesis," Prof. Chen provided insightful comments as a leader of this emerging new field. "With the addition of this indisputable evidence from lineage tracing studies, we believe that this exciting in vivo glia-to-neuron conversion technology will provide an unprecedented opportunity to repair damaged brain with internal glial cells", Prof. Chen concluded with unwavering confidence.
Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Institute of CNS Regeneration, Jinan University
Xiang, Z., et al. (2020) Lineage tracing of direct astrocyte-to-neuron conversion in the mouse cortex. Neural Regeneration Research. doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.295925.
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More than 30 lawmakers call for investigation into ‘suspicious’ access to Capitol Complex ahead of breach
by: Haley Townsend
WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) — More than 30 Democratic members of Congress are calling for an investigation into what they believe were suspicious tours of the U.S. Capitol, alleging that the visitors to the Capitol Complex on Tuesday appeared to be “associated” with the Wednesday rally ahead of the breach of the Capitol building.
NewsNation affiliate PIX11 reports Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) in a Facebook Live Tuesday night alleged unidentified colleagues had groups walking around the Capitol in “reconnaissance for the next day.”
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On Wednesday, Sherrill, along with more than 30 other lawmakers, formally requested an investigation from the Acting House Sergeant at Arms, the Acting Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the Acting Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police into what they called “suspicious behavior and access given to visitors to the Capitol Complex” on Tuesday, the day before the Complex was breached as Congress certified the Electoral College vote for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
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According to the letter, tweeted by Sherrill Wednesday afternoon, she and other lawmakers noticed tours conducted on Tuesday, Jan. 5, that were “a noticeable and concerning departure from the procedures in place as of March 2020 that limited the number of visitors to the Capitol.” The letter continues to say the tours were “so concerning” they were reported to the Sergeant at Arms that Tuesday.
“The visitors encountered by some of the Members of Congress on this letter appeared to be associated with the rally at the White House the following day,” the letter alleges in part, before stating “Given the events of January 6, the ties between these groups inside the Capitol Complex and the attacks on the Capitol need to be investigated.”
The letter concludes, before laying out a number of questions, “the fact remains that there were unusually large groups of people throughout the Capitol who could only have gained access to the Capitol Complex from a Member of Congress or a member of their staff.”
Police investigating after some lawmakers claim Capitol tours were given to rioters ahead of breach
No Republican lawmakers signed the letter calling for the investigation.
The letter doesn’t provide any evidence of the allegations. Friday, Capitol Police confirmed they are investigating the matter.
Read the full letter below:
Today I joined with more than 30 of my colleagues in requesting an investigation from the Acting House SAA, Acting Senate SAA, and USCP into the suspicious behavior and access given to visitors to the Capitol Complex on Jan. 5, 2021 – the day before the attacks on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/zpPUSUuSrj
— Rep. Mikie Sherrill (@RepSherrill) January 13, 2021
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KLICKITAT COUNTY, Wash. (KOIN) -- Walt Patrick slowly rolls a giant wooden spool-shaped cradle back and forth. Inside, a human body is gradually being turned into compost, one of the first licensed "natural organic reductions" to be performed in the entire country.
"This is simply another option at a time when people feel they have no options," Patrick said. "You know, death has intervened and changed your life forever. How can you do something at least to make it the way you want?"
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Players in Strict Quarantine Before Aussie Open in 'Revolt'
Lech Kaczynski
Pilots Blamed for Russian Plane Crash
Russians: Pilots ignored fog warnings
By Mary Papenfuss, Newser User
Posted Apr 12, 2010 1:22 AM CDT
Artist Kiki Garber works on completing a portrait of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, in her apartment in Brooklyn yesterday. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
(Newser) – Error by Polish pilots likely caused the Russian plane crash that killed Poland's president, his wife, and 94 others, according to Russian officials. Investigators have ruled out any technical flaws in the Russian-made plane and blamed pilots for ignoring control tower warnings not to land in heavy fog. "The recordings that we have confirm that there were no technical problems with the plane," said the chief Russian investigator. The pilots, members of the Polish air force, were "informed about complex weather conditions but nevertheless made a decision to land."
Probers are continuing to sift through wreckage of the plane as the investigation continues into the crash that also claimed the lives of Poland's army and navy chief and the head of the Polish central bank. Observers were questioning why so many highly ranked officials were allowed to travel on the Tu-154 plane, a type of aircraft involved in 66 crashes in the last decade, reports the Telegraph. Poland had not retired the presidential plane because of cost, and instead recently overhauled the aircraft. Mounting conspiracy theories in the blogosphere are linking the crash to the Russians.
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Indian singer wins music competition in Seoul
IANS Friday, 21 September 2018 07:00:12 PM
Seoul : Indian singer Hanita Bhambri beat artistes from Australia, Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan to win 'Project: Aloft Star Asia Pacific' - a competition spearheaded by Aloft Hotels in partnership with Universal.
It identifies emerging music talent from around the globe, offering them a chance to kick-start their careers.
"I feel so blessed to be chosen as the ultimate winner. Music has always been a passion of mine and I'm so thankful to Aloft Hotels and Universal Music Group for giving me this opportunity to follow my dreams," Hanita said in a statement.
Composer Salim Merchant, the face of the India campaign and mentor to Hanita, said: "To perform at a global stage takes a lot of courage but I was confident that Hanita had what it takes.
"Being a songwriter and a great performer, she was always in the running to win. I congratulate Hanita for making India proud."
Published : Friday, September 21, 2018 19:00 [IST]
Karun Nair to lead Board President's XI against Windies
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Trace amounts of 'Erin Brockovich' chemical found in regional water
Clarissa Cooper
ccooper@newsleader.com
Trace amounts of the chemical chromium-6, known because of the film "Erin Brockovich" which shows the environmental activist fighting against use of the potent chemical that has been linked to health issues such as cancer, have been found in regional water supplies during a national Environmental Protection Agency test.
The amount of the chromium-6 found in Staunton, Augusta and Waynesboro falls far below the standard for overall chromium in water supply, which is 100 parts per billion. In Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro, respectively, the average levels of chromium-6 found during testing were .26, .21 and .28 parts per billion, according to data results from the water samples collected from 2013 to 2015.
Ken Fanfoni, executive director of the Augusta County Service Authority, said federal regulations don't require testing for chromium-6 specifically, but rather just a level of overall chromium in the water supply.
Fanfoni said California, where the Brockovich battle took place, was the first and only state so far to set a regulation for chromium-6 specifically in 2014, when they set the maximum allowed as 10 ppb. The EPA study with national data on chromium-6 said California's public health goal was to have only .02 ppb of chromium-6 in the water supply.
"States don't typically set standards beyond what the EPA sets," Fanfoni said.
In Augusta County, the highest test result for chromium-6 was .47 parts per billion, found in 2013 at the Greenville Booster sample site. Staunton's highest result was .31 ppb and Waynesboro's was .23 ppb.
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Jean Andrews, lab and compliance manager for the ACSA, said the numbers the data showed for regional testing is most likely naturally occurring amounts of chromium-6 from underground water sources.
"In California, it was industrial. What we're seeing, the .2, is naturally occurring," Andrews said.
Analysis from the Environmental Working Group of the EPA data found that an estimated 200 million Americans having drinking water that contains some amount of chromium-6.
Chromium-6 is one of many chemicals that the EPA does not regulate, but was required to test. Fanfoni said federal law regulates that the EPA choose about 30 unregulated chemicals every five years to be tested across the nation, put in place as an amendment to the Safe Water Drinking Act in 1996. That data is then collected and evaluated to see how it impacts public health, and could potentially lead to more drinking water standards if any chemicals tested are found to be causing harm.
"We've tested to date 81, there's been 81 of these unregulated chemicals. Chromium-6 is just one of the 81 that they've selected," Fanfoni said.
Fanfoni said the EPA will release an opinion on whether or not they will recommend chromium-6 for national regulation in water testing after evaluating all the data. Locally, chromium-6 levels remain far below the only set limit of 10 ppb in California, Fanfoni said.
"I don't think these results would be alarming to anybody when you look at the national standard and the California standard," Fanfoni said. "The state health department is pretty vigilant looking at the testing that we all do."
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Congress terms Kejriwal's comments against MPs an insult to nation
New Delhi, Sun, 26 Feb 2012 ANI
New Delhi, Feb 26 (ANI): With Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal calling Members of Parliament 'robbers, murderers and rapists', Congress Party on Sunday urged the media not to broadcast such statements, and said such intemperate comments not only insult the democracy and parliament, but also insult the people of the country."I will say that we should not comment on people, who make such statements. The media should not broadcast such statements. The country's democracy weakens through such statements. If there will be no respect for the Parliament in the country then how will the democracy survive. Those elected, either they are good or bad, they are elected by the people of the country," said Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi.
"The Parliament has a majority of those people, who are willing to do anything for the country. They reach there through hard work. Such statements not only insult the democracy and parliament, but also insult the people of the country. Parliament is because of the people of the country. The people have elected them. If you make such statements against them (Parliamentarians) this means you are insulting the people of the country," he added.
Alvi further accused Team Anna members of trying to achieve cheap publicity through their comments.
"The media should not broadcast such statements. They (Team Anna) make such statements so that they get the publicity," he said.
Addressing a gathering in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida city on Saturday, Kejriwal said: "All types of elements have entered Parliament, including 'robbers, murderers and rapists'. Parliament has become the biggest problem of the country. It is now essential to change its character."
Terming the ongoing probe against corrupt politicians to be a mere drama, Kejriwal said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has become a tool in the hands of the ruling UPA Government.
"Suresh Kalmadi, A. Raja and Kanimozhi are sent to jail for just a few days and come out very quickly," he said. (ANI)
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NIF Around the World
Upholding the Declaration of Independence
Naomi Chazan Fellowship
NIF Australia Podcast
TV as a Window Into Israeli Society
Join us for an entertaining and enlightening 5 week interactive course led by Ittay Flescher who’ll join us live from Jerusalem. He will use insights from modern Israeli TV to help us better understand the fears and hopes of Israeli society. Each week, he will connect the ideas to an NIF grantee active in the issue area.
You do not have to have seen any of the series beforehand as clips, with English subtitles, will be shown throughout the sessions. Each session is 90 minutes from 8pm - 9:30pm
The courses can be attended individually for $15, however we suggest attending the entire course for $50 to get the best overview.
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Course content and dates:
1. The Jews are Coming, 3 November at 8pm
In August 2020, hundreds of Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protested outside the Kan public broadcaster’s offices in Jerusalem against its satirical TV show “HaYehudim Baim” (“The Jews are Coming”), over its depiction of biblical and religious figures. The irreverent and acclaimed show employs sketches of biblical figures to comment on contemporary Israeli and Jewish social, political, and religious issues. Through watching a number of clips from different episodes in the series, we will explore why the satirical show has become so controversial.
2. Unpacking Fauda, 10 November at 8pm
This session explores the jagged line between justice and revenge, based on the Netflix series Fauda. It delves into the many ethical questions raised about the role both Israelis and Palestinians play in perpetuating the conflict.
3. The Beauty and the Baker, 17 November at 8pm
This Romeo and Juliet story of two lovers from either side of the ethnic and class divide in Israel is both insightful and heartwarming. It explores the unlikely love story between a poor Mizrachi baker and a beautiful Ashkenazi supermodel.
4. Our Boys, 24 November at 8pm
What does the HBO series Our Boys teach us about solidarity, grief and revenge? This co-production between an Israeli and Palestinian director about the tragic kidnappings and murders of three Israelis and a Palestinian during the summer/Ramadan of 2014 in Jerusalem has been called “antisemitic” by Prime Minister Netanyahu and a “powerful tool for peace and reconciliation” by bereaved parent Robi Damelin. Through watching excerpts and vigorous discussion, this session will give you the opportunity to reflect on the role of shows like this to mirror our past and shape our future.
5. Bridge over the Wadi, 1 December at 8pm
For the first time in Israeli history, a group of Arab and Jewish parents in 2004 decide to establish a cooperative binational, bilingual school inside an Arab village. The film Bridge Over the Wadi follows the school’s first year, and, through the personal stories of its children, parents and teachers, portrays the complicated and fragile nature of co–existence in modern Israel.
Ittay Flescher is the education director at Kids4Peace Jerusalem, an interfaith movement for Israelis and Palestinians, and Jerusalem correspondent for Plu61J Media. He also frequently teaches on gap year programs about the identity, narratives and cultures of the people who call Jerusalem home. He was a Jewish educator in Melbourne for many years.
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Do I need to file taxes for years when I was in prison?
By Karin Price Mueller | NJMoneyHelp.com for NJ.com
Q. Do I need to file taxes if I've been in prison for 2018 and 2019?
— Finally free
A. The short answer is yes.
Individuals who are in prison are still subject to all the IRS filing requirements, said Michael Maye, a certified financial planner and certified public accountant with MJM Financial in Gillette.
He said if the individual meets the IRS income filing thresholds, they are required to file an income tax return.
“For example, for 2018, for an individual filer, the filing threshold is $12,000, which is the standard deduction for a single person under the age of 65,” Maye said. “In 2019, the filing threshold for a single person was $12,200.”
Email your questions to Ask@NJMoneyHelp.com.
Karin Price Mueller writes the Bamboozled column for NJ Advance Media and is the founder of NJMoneyHelp.com. Follow NJMoneyHelp on Twitter @NJMoneyHelp. Find NJMoneyHelp on Facebook. Sign up for NJMoneyHelp.com’s weekly e-newsletter.
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The Deerfield Time Trial is a rolling 12.7 mile individual time trial along River Road in Deerfield. The course begins on River Road just north of the intersection with Route 116, at the first fire hydrant on the left. It runs north on River Road, with a flat section for the first couple of miles, then a couple of rolling hills, and another flat section of about 1.5 miles to the turnaround. The course turns around at mile 6.3 at the grassy triangle on the right at McClelland Farm Road, where River Road bends sharply left. It then proceeds back to the starting line. Riders are responsible for their own timing, so make sure that you have a cycle computer or watch. Drafting is not allowed. Riders will leave in 30 second intervals, starting loosely from slow to fast. The course is flat at the beginning and end of each leg, with rolling hills in the middle. It gains 565 feet over 12.7 miles, for an average gradient of 0.8%.
Time Trial - Deerfield
1 6/4/19 Tim Mitchell 26:23
2 8/13/13 Jay Gump 27:48
3 8/27/19 Nick Hight-Huf 28:17
4 7/16/19 Owen Wright 28:23
5 7/5/16 Jay Gump 28:26
6 5/24/11 Damien Callahan 28:30
8 4/17/12 Sean McCarthy 28:38
12 7/10/12 Jay Gump 28:54
13 4/9/13 Jay Gump 28:56
17 5/25/10 Alec Donahue 29:14
21 6/5/18 Owen Wright 29:40
36 7/18/17 Owen Wright 30:17
38 8/28/18 Eric Kirouac 30:24
40 7/5/11 Steve Roszko 30:27
47 7/10/12 Steve Weller 30:40
53 7/2/13 Keith Burgoyne 30:54
64 5/26/15 Frank Sleegers 31:23
68 8/12/14 Mark Wendolowski 31:31
78 4/13/10 Todd Holland 31:45
79 7/1/14 James Dietz 31:46
90 5/26/15 Joe Lellman 31:56
94 7/1/14 Joe Lellman 32:00
101 8/12/14 Dan Stasz 32:05
103 7/2/13 Andrew Pazmany 32:08
104 7/5/11 Clayton Jarvis 32:09
104 7/1/14 Mitch Isaacson 32:09
108 8/28/18 Luiz Horta 32:11
111 4/17/12 Zak Page 32:13
113 4/8/14 Alec Donahue 32:14
117 4/12/11 Andrew Pazmany 32:20
121 4/9/13 Keith Burgoyne 32:24
126 7/16/19 Clio Dinan 32:29
128 7/16/19 Zinj Guo 32:32
128 7/6/10 Rob Hyldahl 32:32
136 5/26/15 Mark Hewitt 32:39
137 5/20/14 Frank Sleegers 32:40
143 8/21/12 Bob Ethier 32:44
145 4/13/10 Rob Hyldahl 32:45
151 8/16/11 Martha Grinnell 32:48
153 4/12/16 Dan Hocking 32:49
154 7/1/14 Joe Jewett 32:50
156 4/17/12 Mike Bartlett 32:52
163 7/1/14 Mark Wendolowski 33:01
166 7/1/14 Jack Morse 33:05
171 5/20/14 Kevin Mepham 33:09
172 4/12/11 Scott Green 33:10
176 7/2/13 Greg Schweitzer 33:13
183 7/5/11 Zak Page 33:21
188 7/2/13 Christian Whitsett 33:24
189 8/27/19 Kevin Weinman 33:26
194 4/17/12 Thom Barry 33:29
203 4/17/12 Mark Stevens 33:41
203 7/18/17 Jonathan Mauterer 33:41
210 6/4/19 Terry Mckeon 33:47
213 8/28/18 Casey Gibson 33:50
215 8/18/15 Brian Pierce 33:52
217 8/17/10 Dave Wilson 33:54
218 7/1/14 Kevin Weinman 33:55
219 7/5/11 Ed Parrot 33:56
226 8/16/11 Mukunda Feldman 34:00
232 7/5/16 Brian Pierce 34:06
234 4/9/13 Jake Roy 34:08
236 5/25/10 Paul Cooke 34:09
237 7/5/11 Kevin Mepham 34:10
246 4/23/19 Gus Lellman 34:19
248 4/17/12 Alec Donahue 34:20
259 7/5/11 Paul Dickson 34:29
265 4/9/13 Frank Sleegers 34:35
268 4/8/14 Thom Barry 34:36
273 7/10/12 John Reino 34:40
274 5/25/10 Rebecca Cooke 34:41
274 8/21/12 Frank McDonald 34:41
276 5/20/14 Jack Morse 34:42
281 4/9/13 Eric Kirouac 34:47
283 7/6/10 Adam Nabewaniec 34:51
286 5/25/10 Gregg Murray 34:53
295 7/5/11 Frances Morrison 35:00
295 7/1/14 Meg Bilodeau 35:00
299 7/1/14 Mike Griffin 35:03
306 5/25/10 Keith McCormick 35:06
312 5/25/10 Ashley Krause 35:10
315 8/18/15 Meg Bilodeau 35:14
319 7/16/19 Craig Pepin 35:18
322 7/10/12 Bob Sagor 35:20
328 8/21/12 Brian Wadman 35:23
336 6/4/19 Donovan Pollitt 35:26
341 8/21/12 Kate Queeney 35:29
347 7/5/11 Kathryn Roszko 35:32
358 6/5/18 Jon Storm 35:44
360 7/5/11 Frank McDonald 35:47
364 4/13/10 Kevin O'Fallon 35:49
368 7/2/13 Tom Montovani 35:52
376 7/5/11 JoEllen Cameron 35:57
383 5/26/15 Walter Schaeffler 36:04
387 7/10/12 Jesse Coull 36:07
389 7/6/10 Brian Wadman 36:09
396 7/6/10 Bob Sagor 36:13
400 8/18/15 Alicia Wendolowski 36:16
407 6/5/18 Tom McNamara 36:24
413 7/1/14 Kate Queeney 36:28
415 7/2/13 Bryant Johnson 36:29
421 7/16/19 Ian McCahill 36:31
425 7/10/12 JoEllen Cameron 36:35
425 7/5/11 John Reino 36:35
425 7/2/13 Jesse Coull 36:35
429 7/5/11 Cynthia Lodding 36:37
432 8/12/14 Alex Weinman 36:39
441 7/16/19 Melissa Warwick 36:47
447 7/1/14 Rich Clark 36:56
451 7/1/14 Alicia Wendolowski 37:02
453 8/13/13 Lisa Chase 37:04
458 8/28/18 Patty Clements 37:09
462 7/10/12 Elaina Mertens 37:18
471 4/9/13 Jonathan Brody 37:21
481 5/25/10 Spencer Fetrow 37:33
492 7/16/19 Sam Randall 37:41
503 8/12/14 Sebastian Caicedo 37:52
515 7/18/17 Caroline Mannaerts 38:00
521 7/16/19 Carl Fetteroll 38:03
526 8/17/10 Steve Shattuck 38:11
531 4/23/19 Daryl Beck 38:22
541 5/24/16 Ray Brown 38:42
554 7/16/19 Gabby Yarosh 39:08
556 7/10/12 Steve Nickoski 39:10
558 4/17/12 David Gregory 39:13
560 4/9/13 Lisa Chase 39:17
563 7/10/12 Rodney Furr 39:23
564 8/16/11 Dena Childs 39:29
570 5/25/10 Becky Shattuck 39:43
573 4/9/13 Rodney Furr 39:51
579 6/5/18 Gabby Yarosh 39:58
579 7/5/11 Dena Childs 39:58
582 7/18/17 Casey Hecox 40:10
584 7/16/19 Jeff Cebula 40:13
584 5/20/14 Pat Mahar 40:13
586 7/5/16 Dana Parrot 40:18
587 5/24/16 Phil Bricker 40:24
588 5/20/14 Sam Lakas 40:26
594 4/14/15 Bob Welsh 40:39
595 4/23/19 Jessica Beck 40:45
599 6/5/18 Brooke Weinman 40:47
602 8/21/12 Sasha Lansky 41:10
606 8/17/10 Phil Jackson 41:30
618 6/4/19 Jeff Cebula 42:44
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Northmill Bank appoints new CTO
– Tobias Palmborg will scale up and accelerate the neobank's technology and product organization
Stockholm 16 December 2020: The Swedish neobank, Northmill Bank, which has the vision of improving people's financial life, has recruited Tobias Palmborg as new Chief Technology Officer, CTO. Most recently, Tobias comes from a role as CTO at the online gambling provider Netent. He also has a background as Development Manager at Unibet and Engineering Manager at Klarna. His mission at Northmill Bank will be to scale up and accelerate the technology and product organization, strengthen the connection to the core business, and prepare for continued expansion. Tobias also takes a seat in the neobank's Management Team.
Hikmet Ego, CEO and co-founder at Northmill Bank, comments:
“We are happy to welcome Tobias to Northmill Bank! He has a wide experience and international expertise, and has a deep knowledge of how a modern and agile tech and production organization works. Today, over fifty percent of our employees work with tech and we have the ambition to continue our long-term commitment and grow profitably. We want to be a positive driver for more customer-centric financial products, and have a high degree of relevance and personalization in our offerings. Tobias will play an important role in this exciting and business-critical work.”
Tobias Palmborg, CTO at Northmill Bank, comments:
“There is another dimension to Northmill Bank which attracted me. A genuine desire to improve people's financial lives, and with the help of technology and genuine customer focus, create a banking experience that doesn’t exist today. There’s also a culture of courage where they dare to challenge and question things, that feels very inspiring. There is already a natural scalability and a high operational efficiency in place. I look forward to continuing developing and creating a product and technology organization, which not only supports the business, but actively pushes towards the goal of improving our customers' financial lives.”
Northmill Bank is a completely digital and cloud-based bank working with leading technology companies in the world, such as Amazon AWS and Snowflake. During the year, the neobank also entered into a partnership with the open-banking platform Tink. This is something the new CTO sees as a great opportunity in the future.
Tobias Palmborg comments:
"During my first short time at Northmill Bank I have already noticed that there is a very strong commitment and technical competence among the employees, and a willingness to constantly investigate how new technology can develop our products. Obviously, we want to maintain this speed and engagement, since it will be important to continue testing new solutions that optimize the customer experience."
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Montana's Legislature Could Decide Medicaid Expansion's Fate : Shots - Health News If a funding extension can't be hammered out in the Montana Legislature, the state could be the first to undo an expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
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After Midterm Defeat, Advocates For Montana's Medicaid Expansion Turn To Legislature
November 8, 20183:46 PM ET
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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, warned that failure of a Medicaid-funding initiative on the ballot could make for a tough legislative session in 2019. William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, warned that failure of a Medicaid-funding initiative on the ballot could make for a tough legislative session in 2019.
A ballot initiative that would have continued funding Montana's Medicaid expansion beyond June 2019 has failed. But advocates say they'll continue to push for money to keep the expansion going after that financial sunset.
"We now turn our attention to the legislature to maintain Montana's bipartisan Medicaid expansion and protect those enrolled from harmful restrictions that would take away health insurance coverage," said a concession statement Wednesday from Chris Laslovich, campaign manager with the advocacy group Healthy Montana, which supported the measure.
The initiative, called I-185, was the single most expensive ballot measure in Montana history. Final fundraising tallies aren't in yet, but tobacco companies poured more than $17 million into Montana this election season to defeat the initiative. That's more than twice as much cash as supporters were able to muster.
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Big Tobacco Spends Big To Block A Tax And Medicaid Expansion In Montana
Most of the money in favor of I-185 came from the Montana Hospital Association. "I'm definitely disappointed that big money can have such an outsized influence on our political process," said Dr. Jason Cohen, chief medical officer of North Valley Hospital in Whitefish.
The ballot measure would have tacked an additional $2 per-pack tax on cigarettes. It would have also taxed other tobacco products, as well as electronic cigarettes, which aren't currently taxed in Montana.
Part of that $74 million in additional tax revenue would have funded continuation of Medicaid expansion in Montana.
Unless state lawmakers vote to continue funding the Medicaid expansion, it's set to expire. If that happens, Montana would become the first state to undo a Medicaid expansion made under the Affordable Care Act.
In September, Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, told the Montana Association of Counties that if the Medicaid initiative failed, "we're going to be in for a tough [2019 legislative] session. Because if you thought cuts from last special session were difficult, I think you should brace, unfortunately, for even more."
Republican State Rep. Nancy Ballance opposed I-185 and disagrees with Bullock's position. "I think one of the mistakes that was made continually with I-185 was the belief that there were only two options: If it failed, Medicaid expansion would go away; if it passed, Medicaid expansion would continue forever as it was."
Ballance, who didn't receive money to campaign against the initiative, said Medicaid expansion in Montana can be tweaked without resorting to a sweeping new tax on tobacco products.
"No one was willing to talk about a middle-ground solution where Medicaid expansion is adjusted to correct some of the things that we saw as issues or deficiencies in that program," she said. "I think now is the time to roll up our sleeves and come up with a solution that takes both sides into consideration."
Ballance says conservatives in the Legislature want recipients of expansion benefits to face a tougher work requirement, and for means testing, so those with low incomes who also have significant assets like real estate won't qualify.
In any event, Ballance said she suspects that if the initiative had passed, it would have immediately faced a court challenge.
North Valley Hospital's Cohen said he hopes Montana will pass a tobacco tax someday. "We all know how devastating tobacco is to our families, our friends and our communities," Cohen said. "And I think we also all know how important having insurance coverage is, and so I think people are dedicated to fighting this battle and winning it."
This story is part of NPR's reporting partnership with Montana Public Radio and Kaiser Health News. Montana Public Radio's Edward O'Brien contributed to the story.
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Home » Solutions » Defense Overview » Naval Operations
Naval operations are some of the most complex, covert and remotely operated military missions in the world. The naval theater of operations today relies on access to secure, continuous and reliable Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) data for critical situational awareness, safe navigation, network communications, critical infrastructure for naval bases, unmanned systems, search and rescue and C5ISR systems in the naval battlespace. Orolia provides a full range of solutions to ensure mission success both onshore and at sea.
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Orolia delivers a modular, scalable system with flexible design to integrate internal and external IMUs, internal clocks and other PNT sources for Resilient PNT. The system is GPS SAASM ready with a defined path for M-Code and Galileo PRS. The flexibility of configuring inputs and outputs offers a unique and affordable advantage to meeting a broad range of PNT requirements.
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World first premiere: Successful demonstration of SeaOwl Energy Services teleoperating the VN Rebel (80 meters long) at the Naval Base of Toulon (France). Orolia was on board with our GPS signal integrity control device, essential data for this demonstration (Positioning, AIS, Satellite Communications), and alternative positioning integrated into the ship's cybersecurity system.
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A naval customer needed to ensure resilience against threats to critical oceanic data for safe navigation and situational awareness in the naval battlespace. Military operations at sea pose extreme challenges as environmental factors impact Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) reliant systems.
The ability to synchronize radios, radars as well as other critical infrastructures to get very precise and accurate positioning, navigation and timing data can be managed by Orolia’s portfolio of network time servers & solutions.
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In order to keep GNSS signals resilient and reliable even in case of interferences, Orolia offers a comprehensive array of GNSS spoofing and jamming detection, suppression and countermeasure technologies.
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Medicare Issues Draft Local Coverage Determination for Signatera™
By Kathy Musson
Medicare Issues Draft Local Coverage Determination for Signatera™ in Immunotherapy Response Monitoring. Proposes expanded coverage of the Signatera minimal residual disease (MRD) test in a broad range of solid tumor types and indications including immunotherapy (IO) monitoring.
Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a pioneer and global leader in cell-free DNA testing, today announced that the CMS Molecular Diagnostics Program (MOLDX) has issued a draft local coverage determination (LCD) to provide expanded coverage for circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) tests that detect MRD in patients with a history of cancer. In particular, the proposed expansion would cover the Signatera MRD test for immunotherapy response monitoring. The LCD is posted here on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website.
The proposed LCD follows Medicare’s recent final coverage decision in colorectal cancer released earlier this month. In its description of the IO monitoring indication, the draft LCD specifically references Signatera and the pan-cancer validation study recently published in Nature Cancer.1 In that study, Signatera identified treatment non-responders with a 100% positive predictive value, when used in conjunction with imaging.
In addition, the draft LCD creates a pathway for coverage of Signatera in additional solid tumor types and indications, where it is clinically validated with peer-reviewed evidence and where the clinical utility is established. Signatera has been validated across multiple cancer types to detect residual disease up to 2 years earlier than standard diagnostic tools.2-5
“Medicare’s proposed coverage offers enormous benefit to the over 200,000 patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors,6” said Solomon Moshkevich, General Manager of Oncology at Natera. “We look forward to working with the oncology community to generate further evidence supporting the clinical value of Signatera in both early-stage and advanced-stage cancers.”
About Signatera
Signatera is a custom-built circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) test for treatment monitoring and molecular residual disease (MRD) assessment in patients previously diagnosed with cancer. The test is available for clinical and research use, and in 2019, it was granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the FDA. The Signatera test is personalized and tumor-informed, providing each individual with a customized blood test tailored to fit the unique signature of clonal mutations found in that individual’s tumor. This maximizes accuracy for detecting the presence or absence of residual disease in a blood sample, even at levels down to a single tumor molecule in a tube of blood. Unlike a standard liquid biopsy, Signatera is not intended to match patients with any particular therapy; rather, it is intended to detect and quantify how much cancer is left in the body, to detect recurrence earlier and to help optimize treatment decisions. Signatera test performance has been clinically validated in multiple cancer types including colorectal, non-small cell lung, breast, and bladder cancers. Signatera has been developed and its performance characteristics determined by Natera, the CLIA-certified laboratory performing the test. The test has not been cleared or approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). CAP accredited, ISO 13485 certified, and CLIA certified.
About Natera
Natera is a pioneer and global leader in cell-free DNA testing. The mission of the company is to change the management of disease worldwide with a focus on women’s health, oncology, and organ health. Natera operates an ISO 13485-certified and CAP-accredited laboratory certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) in San Carlos, California. It offers proprietary genetic testing services to inform obstetricians, transplant physicians, oncologists, and cancer researchers, including biopharmaceutical companies, and genetic laboratories through its cloud-based software platform. For more information, visit natera.com. Follow Natera on LinkedIn.
All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this press release are forward-looking statements and are not a representation that Natera’s plans, estimates, or expectations will be achieved. These forward-looking statements represent Natera’s expectations as of the date of this press release, and Natera disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including with respect to our efforts to develop and commercialize new product offerings, whether the results of clinical or other studies will support the use of our product offerings, our ability to successfully increase demand for and grow revenues for our product offerings, our expectations regarding the reliability, accuracy and performance of our screening tests, or regarding the benefits of our screening tests and product offerings to patients, providers and payers, or coverage and reimbursement determinations from third-party payers. Additional risks and uncertainties are discussed in greater detail in “Risk Factors” in Natera’s recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q and in other filings Natera makes with the SEC from time to time. These documents are available at www.natera.com/investors and www.sec.gov.
Investor Relations: Mike Brophy, CFO, Natera, Inc., 650-249-9090
Media: Paul Greenland, VP of Corporate Marketing, [email protected]
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Reinert T, Henriksen TV, Christensen E, et al. Analysis of plasma cell-free DNA by ultradeep sequencing in patients with stages I to III colorectal cancer. JAMA Oncol. 2019;5(8):1124–1131.
Coombes RC, Page K, Salari R, et al. Personalized detection of circulating tumor DNA antedates breast cancer metastatic recurrence. Clin Cancer Res. 2019;25(14):4255-426.
Abbosh C, Birkbak NJ, Wilson GA, et al. Phylogenetic ctDNA analysis depicts early-stage lung cancer evolution. Nature. 2017;545(7655):446-451.
Christensen E, Birkenskamp-Demtroder K, Sethi H, et al. Early detection of metastatic relapse and monitoring of therapeutic efficacy by ultra-deep sequencing of plasma cell-free DNA in patients with urothelial bladder carcinoma. J Clin Oncol. 2019; 37(18):1547-1557.
IQVIA™ Institute for Human Data Science Releases Global Oncology Trends 2019 Study: Record Number of Cancer Drugs Launched in 2018 across 17 Indications. IQVIA. https://www.iqvia.com/newsroom/2019/05/iqvia-institute-for-human-data-science-releases-global-oncology-trends-2019-study-record-number-of-c. Published 2019.
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TravelEssays
A Kielbasa Too Far
When we travel, we think we don’t want to get sick, but maybe, less consciously, we’re not so sure. If nothing of note happens on a journey, was it one?
Throughout the pandemic, we'll keep publishing news to help you navigate the state of travel today (like whether travel insurance covers the coronavirus), as well as stories about places for you to put on your bucket list once it's safe to start going more far-flung.
TRAVEL, AND YOU GET SICK, sooner or later. This truth is universal. I remember reading somewhere that the queen of England, when she leaves her country, always takes with her a certain number of units of her own blood. (Ordinary blood would be unsuitable, I guess, should the queen happen to need a transfusion.) Maybe that's just a myth. The fact remains that if you travel, no matter who you are, eventually you will be brought low.
Even when you're healthy, the dislocation of traveling is itself kind of like being sick. (Of course, this presumes that you're traveling somewhere different from the place where you usually are, a distinction increasingly difficult to make in the USA.) To begin with, in a different place there's the strangeness of time, exaggerated, almost always, by jet lag. Then there are other strangenesses of smell, of light, of currencies, of the way people dress and walk and smile or never smile. Sometimes just the sparrows flying around inside the terminal are enough to throw me. If you don't speak the place's language, or don't speak it well, a spine-deep queasiness comes with that, too. And when on top of everything you actually do get sick in this place, the experience is generally several times worse than it would be at home.
Worse, that is, and then better when you start to recover, you may feel a weird elation that's as great as your previous sufferings were bad. The only foreign country in which I've traveled much is Russia, and I've been sick there twice. The first time was in a hotel in St. Petersburg, the Oktyabrskaya, a Soviet-era immensity with doorways receding to the vanishing point down bleak halls, and room telephones like flatirons that always rang with calls from prostitutes half a minute after I came in and closed the door. Late one night, lying on the narrow bed pushed up against the wall (Russians love to sleep against the wall), I awoke in the direst kind of renal pain. I was clammy, contorted, and shaking so badly I could barely tie my shoe. Once dressed, I staggered out to the desk of the floor lady, at an intersection where two of the endless halls converged. (Most hotels in Russia have floor ladies, sort of like monitors, on every floor.) I told the floor lady I needed a doctor. Without the least show of sympathy, she said she would call one and ordered me back to my room.
I lay there. The doctor didn't come. I sweated, suffered, writhed. The lamps in the room were of a Soviet modern style, set flush with the wall so they cast their radiance upward like the lighting inside a coffin. At one point, despairing, I put on my coat and set out for a foreigners' emergency room in a far neighborhood mentioned in my Cadogan guidebook, but the floor lady caught me, berated me, and sent me back to wait some more. The doctor, when he finally did arrive, looked like one of the Marx brothers, from their early movies when they were young. He had a long white coat, wacky side hair, and eyes that seemed to rotate in opposite directions in his round black spectacles. He carried not a doctor's bag but a big black box, with shiny metal reinforcements at the corners. Inside it were row upon row of German pharmaceuticals in glass ampules that could be opened only by breaking the tops. I described my symptoms the best I could (he spoke almost no English), and he took out two ampules. They looked like something a Nazi would use to kill himself. The doctor broke the tops, administered the bitter, mahogany-colored contents to me, told me to drink lots of water, gave me his card, and left.
Whatever had afflicted me a constriction of the kidney capillaries, brought on by dehydration, was his diagnosis began to moderate. The light of dawn rose faintly in the room's high windows. The morning's first trolleybus went by on the street below, the sparks under its wheels throwing reflected flashes on the ceiling. The city's ravens started their morning ratcheting. In my sudden, growing feeling of non-illness, I became so grateful to the mad doctor, and so restored to myself, I almost levitated. Sinister-seeming foreign medicine was actually curing me. My irrational love of Russia returned, and I rolled back against the wall to sleep.
WHAT UNDOES YOU, USUALLY, is what you gulp. Once, in a bar in Montana, I held my hand against the glass of a case containing a coiled and rattling rattlesnake; if I could keep my hand against the glass when the snake struck, the bartender said, he would buy me a beer. The bet proved a safe one on his part, because it is in fact impossible not to flinch from a striking snake, no matter how thick the intervening glass or strong your will. When you travel, a similar deeply conditioned response occurs: You know the food is bad, the water dangerous. You discipline yourself consciously, stick to bottled water, eat only the mildest, most scrutinized food. Vigilance carries you through one trip, maybe several. But then in an unguarded moment you're hungry, you're thirsty, something smells good, the water from the spring looks refreshing, your reflexes take over and you gulp.
(Although, strangely, what sickened me that time in Russia was not gulping but caution. I had been so careful about what I drank, I became dehydrated from not drinking enough.)
And the result of gulping, most of the time, is that you come down with a certain ailment. This ailment is in fact the most common one that travelers get. It is so well known that it does not need to be named; you know the ailment I mean. Usually it is caused by food. It is disagreeable and inconvenient but not serious. It sneaks up on you no matter how careful you are. Sufferers usually recover from the worst of it in two to three days. In its commonest form I don't even consider it an illness, technically. It will not kill you. What does kill travelers is accidents (if you're young) and preexisting medical conditions (if you're old). These problems are rarer, thankfully. But in almost all travel stories, an unmentioned amount of the most common travel ailment can usually be assumed.
People who described journeys in former times, when one refrained from being gross in polite company or in writing, indicated attacks of the ailment with the word indisposed. A caravan trekker who crossed Asia, reached the Great Wall, entered China, and then ate his first-ever Chinese banquet might report that after the feast he "suffered a most severe indisposition." Many notable journeys involved these indispositions, usually left more or less blank in the tale.
Francis Parkman, a Boston Brahmin and Harvard grad, went west the summer after finishing law school, in 1846, to observe and live with Indians on the Plains. When he and his companion, Quincy Adams Shaw, reached Fort Laramie, in present Wyoming, Parkman became ill. His "disorder" was so severe he could hardly sit his horse, and of course he made slow progress toward the Sioux camp, having to dismount all the time. Parkman kept riding, on to the Black Hills, so ill at moments out there in the wilderness that he feared he would die. His intrepidity and persistence not only outlasted the ailment but made his book and, arguably, his later career as a great American historian. Shaw, for his part, came down with poison ivy and spent much of the journey back at the fort "lying on a buffalo robe . . . solacing his woes with tobacco and Shakespeare."
At least Parkman didn't have to deal with the great discrepancy in bathrooms that exists today. Presumably, using the outhouse at Fort Laramie (not to mention simply the bushes) did not differ a lot from similar necessities anywhere. Nowadays, though, if you leave America and travel to someplace interesting like Asia or Africa or South America (I'm sorry, but I don't consider most parts of Europe interesting), you encounter bathrooms that are an unimaginable nightmare. Most countries that are not America occupy a different universe, bathroomwise. A friend who travels in China and Nepal says that what the U.S. should send to foreign lands is not Peace Corps volunteers or World Bank economists but plumbers and plumbing supplies. In northern parts of Russia, where winter temperatures go to 45 below, liquids freeze so quickly that a kind of stalagmite effect occurs in the outhouse, rising up through the hole in the floor. . . . As the poets say, let us draw a veil across the scene.
The common traveler's ailment causes many of us to see more of this sort of thing than we're really interested in. But, as with a lot of unfortunate circumstances in real life, it could get worse. You could eat bad fish in Thailand and get liver flukes. I'm not even sure what liver flukes are, but you don't want them. You could consume a generous helping of a coral-reef fish that has been feeding on crustaceans rich in some bizarre nerve toxin, and absorb the toxin, and fall into a zombie state (real zombies ingest this toxin deliberately, I believe, in order to become zombies), and lie in a near-death paralysis for who knows how long, as happened to the novelist Saul Bellow. In his seventies at the time, the Nobel Prize winner went out to dinner on the island of St. Maarten, came back to the hotel, felt poorly, and lay catatonic for months. Don't order the grouper is the moral here.
So many maladies for you to catch! Malaria is still quite active in equatorial climates, and drug-resistant strains exist now. Web sites devoted to the disease feature constantly updated maps showing the worst malarial zones. Cholera, a frightening-sounding illness, waits in drinking water and kills by dehydration; if you get it, and can keep hydrated and take antibiotics, it goes away in about a week. Tick-borne illnesses thrive all over, in temperate as well as tropical lands. Serious versions of Lyme disease that can put you in the hospital may be found no farther away than upstate New York. In Russia, a certain kind of tick that lives east of the Ural Mountains carries a fever for which there is no cure. Camping in the summer in Siberia, I awoke one morning to find a tick the Russian word is pronounced "kleshch," a triumph of onomatopoeia kleshching to me. I showed it to my Russian companions and they assured me that though it was indeed the kind of tick that carries the fever, the insect is contagious with it only in the spring.
Giardia, a troublemaking intestinal parasite, does well in much of India and can be in untreated water almost everywhere. It turns up sometimes in the tap water in St. Petersburg. A tricky aspect of giardiasis is the time-lapse way it presents: You think at first you merely have the common traveler's ailment, until it goes on too long. Schistosomiasis, another parasitic disease, also waterborne, has similar symptoms. A swim in the Yangtze or the Mekong may give you a dose of it. Dysentery also resembles the common traveler's illness, only it involves blood. Typhoid, hepatitis, polio, SARS, avian flu I'm getting depressed and of course the various STDs threaten travelers. A male flight attendant for Air Canada was supposedly the first major international transmitter of AIDS. Even watching the Travel Channel and eating snacks causes arteries to harden and plaque to accumulate in your veins. There is no real hope anywhere.
TRAVEL RULES THAT I HAVE LEARNED, sometimes painfully: Eat no unwashed fruits and vegetables, and no washed ones, either. Salmonella bacteria can persist deep in the crinkles of a lettuce leaf. No fruits or vegetables should be consumed unless they're cooked to a fare-thee-well. Ditto all other food, basically. If it's really cooked, it's probably not bad. Bread is usually OK; also cookies. In general I try not to eat seafood except in the U.S. (and I've gotten horribly sick on it once here, come to think of it). Never drink raw milk, though it looks tasty and bucolic. Carry Wash'n Dris and wash your hands frequently. Once, after visiting the men's room (to return to that grim subject) in the Omsk airport, I used about eight Wash'n Dris, then for good measure asked my Russian friend to pour straight alcohol all over my hands as well as on the soles of my shoes. My God, that place. I never saw anything so gross.
Alcohol, in strengths you drink, does not purify anything. Ice in drinks is always a bad idea; luckily, foreigners aren't as in love with iced beverages as we are. Boiled water is safe for drinking, but opinion differs on the amount of boiling required. I've heard that water needs merely to be brought to a boil, and also that it should boil vigorously for ten minutes at the very least. A travel doctor I consulted before a trip to the Russian Far East strongly recommended the ten-minute rule, and I promised myself I'd abide by it not a practical plan, as it turned out. After an open-boat journey in wind and rain in early fall with two indigenous Chukchi guys across a fjordlike body of water on the Chukchi Peninsula, the guys beached on a rocky spit, tipped the boat on its side, got under it, took out a blowtorch, and lit it. Then they applied the blowtorch to a teapot, quickly boiled water, made tea, and offered me a cup. At that point I could not really request that they blowtorch it for ten minutes more.
The travel doctor I saw also told me to drink only bottled beverages if possible. "You can get bottled water everywhere," he assured me. Conversations in a clean, quiet anglophone doctor's office in North America don't always give you a clear idea of the actual situations awaiting you. You cannot get bottled water everywhere. In fact, the purpose of many journeys is to go beyond the places where you can. In Russia, knockoffs exist of many products. There's even a watery version of Johnson's Baby Shampoo, eerily similar to the original, down to the bottle and scent. Of course, there's fake bottled water in Russia, too. Russians sometimes laugh at people who insist on bottled water only, and tell them it's just tap water with a cap on.
For more advice on such subjects, I recently called Dr. Mark Wise, graduate of Britain's London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, director of a travel clinic in Toronto, and author of a book about staying healthy while you travel. On the water question, Wise recommends buying bottled water in places where you can see many bottles of it and cases of it still sealed. Failing that, buy fizzy water. "Carbonation is harder to forge," he says. As to boiling, Wise is a bring-to-a-boiler; two minutes of a rolling boil kills most bacteria and parasites, while boiling longer wastes water and fuel at a tiny increase of safety. The Canadian-made water-purifying tablet with the brand name Pristine tastes better than iodine, he says, and may be used when no other means of purification are available. "Sometimes, though, you just have to trust what common sense says is OK," he adds. "You can also go too far being paranoid."
Wise became a travel doctor because of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which inspired him to take a backpacking trip around South America. Contemplating a volcano in Ecuador while simultaneously enduring an acute onset of the common traveler's ailment concentrated his mind on what could be done for the suffering traveler. Today, Wise is the travel-medicine consultant for several nongovernmental organizations as well as for a number of unaffiliated travelers, and at any one time he has many patients scattered in different parts of the world who are in touch with him by e-mail. "Even on short journeys, a third to a half of all travelers to the poorer parts of the world will get sick," he says. "Usually it's with stomach or bowel problems from dirty water or dirty food. If you can keep hydrated, stay near a bathroom, and let the illness run its course, usually it clears up by itself in a few days. But people e-mail me about many other health problems, too malaria, animal bites, vehicle accidents, falls. I had a fall myself a few months ago while traveling in Ghana stepped into a dry, dark sewer as I was walking along at night and screwed up my leg and ankle."
A traveler's problem that Wise deals with more often than you might expect is psychosis. "Psychotic episodes are more common in the younger age group," he says. "The antimalarial drug mefloquine can contribute to them. A kid will be in a faraway country, in a strange environment, maybe taking medications which can cause hallucinations, and he or she will lose touch with reality. These episodes sometimes occur even without an obvious chemical cause. Sometimes we have to send a psychiatric nurse to take care of the person and get him or her out of there. That's one reason I tell people they can't travel without medevac insurance. In a worst-case scenario, you want to be able to have your mother fly over and bring you home.
"When you're sick in a foreign country, there's generally a lot of chatter around you," Wise continues. "You may be treated with presumptive medicine, where a doctor or somebody guesses at the problem and tries to cure you by polypharmacy. Or else people tell you misleading things local things, herbal things to try. None of that is necessarily bad, but it clutters and confuses your mind. You want to be sure it doesn't cause you to miss something important. In the midst of all that, getting in touch with North American medicine, even by a simple e-mail, can be a bit of a lifeline."
I know what Wise means. Global culture, which carries you along when you travel, is powerful but blunt. It doesn't bother about details, especially human details. As we pass from country to country, we probably have no idea what the people around us are saying, and what they're thinking is ten times more mysterious. Often the best we can do is listen for tones anger, joy, fear the way animals do. This ad hoc approach is unreliable and frustrating. I've spent weeks among people where my grasp of what was going on with them, and vice versa, was a scrambled TV signal almost constantly. The mutual obtuseness wears everybody down and makes them mad. When you get sick, your condition isn't generic but specific. Not getting it exactly right can have frightening consequences.
ANOTHER ALARM IN THE NIGHT in St. Petersburg: This time I was staying at a friend's apartment in the middle of the city. The friend was away. Russian apartments are double-sealed against the world, with double windows and often double doors. The outer of the two doors to this apartment opened with a key a long and heavy one, like a movie jailer's, which needed the touch of a safecracker to work. The second, inner door had a knob but no lock or key, just a heavy sliding bolt you shot once inside. With this door bolted, a person in the apartment could keep out anyone, even someone with a key. When the first symptoms jolted me from sleep, I wondered fearfully and obsessively about those doors, in between jolts. Should I throw the doors open in advance for the rescue squad? I never had enough of a pause between symptoms to decide.
The pains squarely occupied my middle, like a bull's-eye. This had to be a heart attack. Self-diagnosis is an objective, grown-up skill I lack, but in this case, further symptoms, lower down rumblings, crampings, and other demonstrations made the problem seem not cardiac but gastrointestinal. Maybe it was both.
I had come to the city a week earlier to report on its 300th-anniversary celebration. I had walked many miles, seen the elephant, stayed up all through some of the white nights. The day I got sick, I finished the last of my reporting around noon, and then to celebrate bought a two-liter bottle of Baltika Beer my first mistake, as the kielbasa the color of machine grease that I'd bought to go with it was my second. Later, I went to dinner at a friend's apartment in a high-rise on a far edge of the city. My friend's wife made a dinner of which I ate a lot, because she had gone to some trouble and seemed to have a hard life. I took several helpings of salad, possibly not thoroughly washed. Everything I ate that day was suspect, the kielbasa most of all.
Spasms and more spasms these Russian germs were mean. They grabbed and shook me like a soda can. I'll skip the full details. After an hour or so, I ruled out a heart attack in favor of the common traveler's illness, with all the extras. Or possibly dysentery: I had a symptom of that, too. I tried to drink bottled water to stay hydrated but couldn't keep up. I was hot and shivering. During a short respite after vomiting, I dressed and made it out of the apartment relocking the outer door took the last of my concentration and then sort of sleepwalked through the city's strange boreal dawn, down empty sidewalks to a clinic I'd seen advertised in an English-language newspaper. The walk proved harder than I'd imagined, and by the time I reached the clinic, I was all in. I veered across the waiting room to the check-in desk and said to the nurses there, "Dumaiu, shto ia umriu!" which means "I think I'm dying!" an overstatement, but on the other hand they didn't make me wait.
You hear bad reports about every institution in Russia, including Russian medicine. True, this was a clinic for foreigners; but to me, in off the street, it could have been anything. It turned out to be great. A young doctor named Viacheslav Zuev examined me and took my temperature and gave me an EKG. Zuev spoke pretty good English, and when he couldn't think of a word, he would snap his fingers on either side of his face and pull it from the air. He put me in a bed in a single room with the lights dimmed and started an IV. In Russia, sheets are still cotton, not percale or whatever miracle fiber has replaced it here. The sheets on this bed were white, fresh, like in a 1950s bedroom, and the pillowcases the same. Above the bed on the wall hung a clock the size of a steering wheel. I watched it fixedly and barely moved, waiting for this particular moment to be in the past.
The biggest surprise, and the point of this story, was the nurses. Russian women, I should mention in an aside, are beautiful; anyone who has been to Russia recently can verify this. No explanation exists for this phenomenon; it just is. I won't go on about it at too great a length, so as not to seem weird, but there are many, many lovely women in Russia. Anyway, these nurses were up to the standard of their countrywomen and then went beyond it. In America, nurses are brisk, goal-oriented, and upbeat. They don't get paid enough, and they have too much to do, and they want you to recover and move on, and that's fine. But Russian nurses (to judge by these) suffer with you. These wore starched old-fashioned nurses' caps, like the false fronts of buildings, and modest uniforms with pleats. They looked like the nurses little girls used to want to be when they grew up. I forget these nurses' names Liuda, Sofia, and Elena . . . When they talked to me, their voices cooed sweetly and mournfully. "Oh, yes, life is very hard," their manner seemed to say.
I conversed with them slowly in my limited Russian, the sentences as if taken from the beginning workbook. Where are you from? I live in the state of New Jersey. Have you ever been to the United States? Where do your friends in the United States live? Do your friends like New Haven? Do they like to study at Yale? My wife's name is Jacqueline. She is not a Frenchwoman. She was born near Boston, in the state of Massachusetts. Yes, that is not far from New Haven.
These nurses were of the tradition that compares nurses to angels. They sympathized quietly, wholeheartedly, and from someplace unreachably high. They came and went, and I lay conversing in a disembodied voice. As it became clear that what I had contracted (salmonella poisoning, according to the lab report) was not going to finish me off, I felt embarrassed to have gotten so carried away. Americans are crybabies that's me. No doubt my nurses had seen similar behavior before.
The window of the room was open, and I could hear the footsteps of passersby on the sidewalk just a few feet away. The steps increased in number as people awoke and the day began. I lay there listening to the steps. Like the nurses, they were different from the American version. They were Russian-sounding, cossack-dance footsteps, every one of them. I would not have confused them with American footsteps in a million years. For hours I looked at the motion of the clock and listened to the Russian footsteps. By evening I had recovered enough to be discharged. I consider this one of the most satisfactory days I've spent anywhere.
All journeys bring to mind the truck drivers' adage "There ain't no easy run." When we travel, we think we don't want to get sick, but maybe, less consciously, we're not so sure. If nothing of note happens on a journey, was it one? Travel pursues romance, and romance requires the unknown an element in shorter supply now that technology is encompassing the world with ever-multiplying pings. The goal is not only to arrive at some numinous, far-off destination; it's to return to your usual place clothed in exciting unfamiliarity: You're the boy who lived with pirates, the girl brought back from the wilderness who has grown so accustomed to Indian life she had to be coaxed away. A key element here is the cool impression made on one's friends. Illness is a passage, and when it happens on a journey a passage within a passage it leaves you doubly transformed. When you get better, you feel doubly recovered and strong. Getting sick while traveling is one of those tricky accomplishments you simultaneously want to have done and don't ever want to do.
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Last month, the state Department of Environmental Protection dropped the latest numbers on oil and natural gas production in the commonwealth.
From its report, DEP found that Pennsylvania produced its largest volume of natural gas in a single year to-date in 2019, recording 6.8 trillion cubic of natural gas produced.
Pennsylvania remains the second largest producer of natural gas in the country, behind Texas, the report noted.
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In 2019, DEP reported that:
1,705 drilling permits were issued; 1,475 *unconventional and 230 conventional
There were 787 wells drilled; 615 *unconventional and 172 conventional
DEP conducted 35,324 inspections and found 5,496 violations
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*Note: In Pennsylvania, unconventional wells refer to a well that is or will use fracking to obtain the oil or gas due to the geological formations below.
Carnegie Mellon University has an interactive map to locate unconventional wells across Pennsylvania.
Chart from Pa. DEP (Capital-Star Screen-Capture).
DEP reports that 90 percent of produced fluids (Fluids that return to the surface after the hydraulic fracturing process) were recycled or reused in the production or fracking of other natural gas wells.
Produced fluids that are not able to be recycled, the report stated, are disposed of in Class II Underground Injection Control (UIC) disposal wells, which dispose of waste fluids. DEP reports that 8 percent of the produced fluids in 2019 were disposed of in this manner.
Pennsylvania currently has 11 active UIC disposal wells.
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Since then, DEP has been tasked with locating and plugging abandoned wells across the commonwealth.
Disposal well locations (Capital-Star Screen Capture).
In its report, DEP estimates that there are approximately 200,000 undocumented orphaned/abandoned wells across the state.
In 2019, the state agency reported that it located 11,953 orphaned/abandoned wells.
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When the sun was directly overhead in syene, why was it not directly overhead in alex
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1. When the sun was directly overhead in syene, why was it not directly overhead in Alexandria
The size of Earth was first measured in Egypt by Erathosthenes about 235 BC. He calculated the circumference of Earth in the following way. He knew that the Sun is highest in the sky at noon on June 22, the summer solistice. At this time, a vertical stick cast its shortest shadow. If the Sun is directly overhead a vertical stick casts no shadow at all, which occurs at the summer solstice in Syene, a city south of Alexandria (where the Aswan Dam stands today). Eratosthenes learned that the Sun was directly overhead at the summer solstice in Syene from library information, which reported that, at this particular time, sunlight shines directly down a deep well in Syene and is reflected back up again. Eratosthenes reasoned that, if the Sun's rays were extended into Earth at this point, they would pass through the center. Likewise, a verical line extended into Earth at Alexandria (or anywhere else) would also pass through Earth's center.
At noon on June 22, Eratosthenes measured the shadow cast by a vertical pillar in Alexandria and found it to be 1/8 the height of the pillar. This corresponds to a 7.1° angle between the Sun's rays and the vertical pillar. Since 7.1° is 7.1/360, or about 1/50 of a circle, Eratosthenes reasoned that the distance between Alexandria and Syene must be 1/50 of the circumference of Earth. Thus the circumference of Earth becomes 50 times the distance between these two cities. This distance, quite flat and frequently traveled, was measured by surveyors to be about 5000 stadia (800 kilometers). So Erastosthenes calculated Earth's circumference be 50 X 5000 stadia = 250,000 stadia. This is very close to the currently accepted value of Earth's circumference.
We get the same result by bypassing degrees altogether and comparing the length of shadow cast by pillar to the height of pillar. Geometrical reasoning shows, to a close approximation, that the ratio shadow length/pillar height is the same as the ratio distance between alexandria and syene/Earth's radius. So just as the pillar is 8 times greater than its shadow, the radius of Earth must be 8 times greater than the distance between Alexandria and Syene.
Since the circumference of a circle is 2∏ times its radius ( C = 2∏r), Earth's radius is simply its circumference of a divided by 2∏. In modern units, Earth's radius is 6370 kilometers and its circumference is 40,000 km.
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3. because the angle 7.1° can correlate to the length of distance between alexandria and syene which is 7.1/360 which would be 1/50 of the earth but a different distance than syene I am sure on another day other than June 22 the sun would be directly over alexandria due to the fact of the Earth's angle and the sun and the earths rotation.
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Your answer is incorrect.
The sun can only be directly overhead a town if that town lies between the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere and the Tropic of Capricorn in the sourthern.
Hint: Check the latitude of the tropics as well as Alexandria and Syene. You might wish to change your answer.
Hint 2: Read the wikipedia article on Syene
On Wikipedia I read well what I interpreted from the reading is the Aswan is the driest place on earth 2001 was the first time this place has seen rain in seven years.
The latitude for the Tropic of Cancer is said to be 23° 26′ 16″
The latitude of Alexandria is 31.2000° N, 29.9167° E
The latitude of Syene is 24.0667° N, 32.9167° E
Oh the Tropic of Cancer and Syene are one of the same O.K.
The latitude of the Tropic of Capricorn is 23° 26′ 16″
So would the answer be there are only two spots on planet earth that the Sun can be directly over head and that is in Syene and Chile?
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I meant this bit...
The latitude of the city that would become Aswan – located at 24° 5′ 23″ – was an object of great interest to the ancient geographers. They believed that it was seated immediately under the tropic, and that on the day of the summer solstice, a vertical staff cast no shadow. They noted that the sun's disc was reflected in a well at noon. This statement is only approximately correct; at the summer solstice, the shadow was only 1/400th of the staff, and so could scarcely be discerned, and the northern limb of the Sun's disc would be nearly vertical.
Alex is too far north for the sun to ever be directly overhead. The earth doesn't tilt that much.
No it can be overhead anywhere between the tropics (at different times of the year).
Syene (24°N) is roughly on a tropic (23°N) so at noon on mid summers day the sun will be almost directly overhead.
Alexandria (29.9° E) is roughly due north of Syene (32.9° E) so at the same time and date it's easy to compare the length of the shadow. You don't even need to go to Syene you can assume it's zero.
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Siene is at the Tropic of Cancer, and Alexandria was due north of Syene. So the sun is never overhead in Alexandria. The question is why the sun is not overhead in both town at noon, on the same day. Hint: what would be the situation with a flat Earth?
Erathosthenes estimated the circumference of Earth but it was more basic that his observations proved that the Earth was not flat.
With a flat earth there would be no significant angle change? because there would really be no angles other than I guess the suns rotation but if the earth was flat than the sun was something completely different.
Wouldn't the answer be because of the angular differential or something?
CWatters said:
Can the same experiement be done at the Tropics of capricorn with the same calculations of a fraction of a shadow or only in the Tropics of Cancer?
If the Earth was flat the Sun rays would make the same angle with the surface at the same time. Erathosthenes knew that the Sun shined into that deep well in Syene at noon June 22, but it cast shadow in Alexandria at the same time. So the surface of the Earth must be tilted with respect to the sun rays in Alexandria, while it is normal to the rays in Syene : it must be curved.
The Tropic of Capricorn would be appropriate, too. Only the ancient Greeks did not travel there...
That's pretty cool one of the first documented discoveries showing the earth had angles actually, a little awesome discovering it as well!! Well for me at least!!
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Eggnog topped with nutmeg. This one is made with whiskey, but you can use different spirits.
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'Enough with the rhetoric': Chris Wallace gives Stephen Miller epic grilling after he blames 'deep state'
Stephen Miller and Chris Wallace (FOX/screen grab)
Fox News host Chris Wallace blasted White House adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday for refusing to answer questions about the whistleblower who started the drive to impeach President Donald Trump.
During an interview on FOX News Sunday, Miller accused the whistleblower of being part of a "deep state" conspiracy against the president.
"This is a deep state operative, pure and simple," Miller charged. "People who haven't been in the federal government, who haven't worked in the White House may not appreciate this but the situation is you have a group of unelected bureaucrats who think that they need to take down this president."
"Enough with the rhetoric," Wallace shot back. "Let's talk about some specific facts in this."
The host then pressed Miller about why Trump chose to use private attorneys like Rudy Giuliani to push Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.
"How about answering my question?" Wallace interrupted after Miller tried to avoid the topic.
"I understand," Miller replied. "I understand that you have your question, I have my answer."
"It's a non-answer at this point," Wallace observed.
Watch the video clip below.
With less than a day until President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration—which will come in the wake of outgoing President Donald Trump's historic second impeachment for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol—Washington, D.C. and communities across the country are heeding the FBI's recent warning and bracing for more violence.
While, according to Military Times, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy has authorized up to 21,000 National Guard members from throughout the United States to help provide security for next Wednesday's inauguration, the FBI earlier this week warned that right-wing groups are also planning armed insurrections in state capitals nationwide.
<p>"The biggest threat posed by right-wing extremists is not in Washington, D.C., but in state capitals, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former law-enforcement officials, local authorities, and domestic-extremism experts," <em>TIME </em><a href="https://time.com/5929296/far-right-extremism-state-capitols/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a> Thursday. "For years, local law enforcement officials have largely failed to keep pace with the growing menace of right-wing violence and are ill-equipped to track the network of extremists operating in their jurisdictions."</p><p>"If you have people showing up to state capitals with weapons, even if they don't have the intent of launching an attack, the prospects for confusion or miscommunication are much higher," Colin Clarke, senior research fellow at<a href="https://thesoufancenter.org/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> the Soufan Center</a>, told <em>TIME</em>. "That's what I'm concerned about—Lansing, Michigan, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Richmond, Virginia, and the Pacific Northwest in the coming days and weeks."</p><p><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/state-capitols-threats-security-armed-protests-harrisburg-trenton-pa-nj-trump-20210114.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">According to</a> <em>The Philadelphia Inquirer</em>:</p> <blockquote> Officials in Pennsylvania haven't identified specific threats to Harrisburg, but Gov. Tom Wolf is ordering the Capitol to close Tuesday, when three statewide officials are to be sworn in, and Wednesday, Biden's inauguration. The Capitol complex has been generally closed to the public amid the pandemic, and the state Senate said its offices would close Saturday through Wednesday.<br/> </blockquote> <blockquote> The administration activated 450 members of the Pennsylvania National Guard to assist State Police, Capitol Police, and Harrisburg Police in securing government buildings and other potential targets across the commonwealth. Police plan to close streets around the Capitol ahead of any demonstrations, and State Police are providing aviation support in the form of helicopters and drones.<br/> </blockquote> <p>Clarke told the newspaper that securing the U.S. Capitol is essential but he also worries that as it becomes more "hardened" thanks to the flood of National Guard troops pouring into D.C., state capitals will become bigger targets, particularly states such as <a href="https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-militias-20200914-u6dfwx7hkff4vghtwjihnmvcua-story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pennsylvania</a> and Michigan, with established militias.</p><p>At the Wisconsin statehouse in Madison, for example, the lower-floor windows have already been boarded up in preparation for possible violence on Sunday, January 17—a date that has been reported as a focus for some right-wing, pro-Trump elements.</p><p>In April 2020—just days after Trump tweeted, "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!"—armed gunmen <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/30/america-age-trump-armed-gunmen-enter-michigan-capitol-demanding-end-covid-19" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">stormed</a> the statehouse, demanding an end to public health measures related to the coronavirus pandemic, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order. In October, federal and state officials <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/08/months-after-trump-declared-liberate-michigan-13-charged-plot-kidnap-governor-storm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> terrorism, conspiracy, and weapons charges against 13 men accused of plotting to kidnap Whitmer as well as an attack on the Michigan State Capitol.</p><p>The Michigan Capitol Commission on Monday voted unanimously to ban the open carry of guns inside the building, after resisting such a move for years. <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/01/11/michigan-capitol-open-carry-gun-ban/6623331002/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">According to</a> the <em>Detroit Free Press</em>, "Critics say the ban does not go far enough and the commission should ban all firearms inside the Capitol, whether they are carried openly or concealed, by anyone who is not law enforcement."</p><p>Other states are also boosting security around government buildings, from California to Georgia to Texas to Washington state, <em>NPR</em> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/01/13/956413365/state-capitals-tighten-security-amid-threat-of-armed-protests-ahead-of-inaugurat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">noted</a> Wednesday.</p><p>Amnesty International USA <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/13/amnesty-urges-us-mayors-and-governors-protect-people-armed-right-wing-groups" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wrote</a> in an open letter to U.S. mayors, governors, and state attorneys general on Wednesday that it "is deeply concerned by reports that armed white supremacist groups and individuals are planning further disruption" and urges local and state leaders "to do everything in your power and within human rights standards and obligations to protect people from violence by these armed groups and individuals, and to condemn white supremacy."</p><p>In a statement <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1349436862184697865" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wednesday afternoon</a>, Trump—who was <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/09/big-tech-further-mutes-president-far-right-megaphone-demands-trump-removal-swell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">banned</a> from various online platforms after the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol—<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-from-the-president-011321/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a>: "In light of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking, and NO vandalism of any kind. That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers. Thank You."</p><p>After the Democrat-controlled U.S. House impeached the president an unprecedented second time later Wednesday—noting that at a rally before the attack, he <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">repeated</a> lies about the November election and urged the crowd to march to the U.S. Capitol—Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1349492130578919425" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">released</a> a video with similar remarks discouraging violence.</p><p>However, some experts worry that even if Trump sticks to those talking points in the days ahead and leaves office because Biden is sworn in—rather than <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/07/growing-list-lawmakers-and-groups-support-impeaching-trump-or-invoking-25th" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">being removed</a> via the 25th Amendment or a Senate vote before the inauguration—violence from right-wing groups will continue across the country.</p><p>"There's more threats now and the online chatter feels more violent and energized than at any point in the past four years," Clarke told the <em>Inquirer</em>. "The Capitol siege has provided far-right extremists with significant momentum."</p><p>As <em>TIME </em>put it:</p> <blockquote> The forces that converged to cause chaos in D.C. have been building across the country for years, from the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in 2017 to armed demonstrators who overcame police and stormed the Michigan and Idaho statehouses this summer. While it was Trump's election loss that galvanized them to act on January 6, their far-right, anti-government, white supremacist, and other causes won't end with his time in the White House. Now, newly emboldened by what they view as a successful siege on January 6, they have dispersed back into their communities, preparing for the next round of armed demonstrations, not just timed to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration but in the future.<br/> </blockquote> <p>Michael German, a retired FBI special agent who is now a fellow with the Liberty & National Security Program at New York University Law School's Brennan Center for Justice, told the outlet that "it has created a real nightmare here."</p><p>"Many of the people committing violence at these rallies have been conditioned to believe that law enforcement will allow it to happen," he explained. "They believe they're the shock troops of the United States. Not just organized groups, but a lot of people you have taught that acting violently against their political enemies is okay. It's hard to put that back into the bottle."</p>
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Port Gibson to Emerald Mound
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Old Man River, Father of Waters, “body of a nation,” Big Muddy—by any name the mighty Mississippi cuts a mythic figure across the American landscape.
Port Gibson
One of the many little gems of the GRR is 30 miles south of Vicksburg: Port Gibson, the town General Grant found “too beautiful to burn.” As they did with Savannah, Georgia, the Union Army spared Port Gibson during the Civil War, and decades of economic doldrums have spared the town from the Walmart sprawl that at times seems to have enveloped the rest of the South. Fine homes still grace the pleasantly shaded main drag, but most eye-catching is the giant Monty Python prop known as the Church of the Golden Hand because its steeple is topped by a gold-leafed hand, its index finger pointing the way to heaven. Actually, this is the circa-1859 First Presbyterian Church (601/437-5428), whose interior is lit by the gasoliers of the famous steamboat Robert E. Lee, the record-setting winner of the Great Steamboat Race of 1870. Newspapers of the day reckoned that millions of dollars were wagered on the outcome of the New Orleans-to-St. Louis race, which attracted international attention. The Lee’s three-day, 18-hour, and 14-minute victory was an upset for the favored title holder, the Natchez.
Across the street from the Golden Hand, next to an Exxon station, stands another unusual building, Temple Gemiluth Chassed, an elaborate Moorish-arched temple built in 1892 by Port Gibson’s then large and prosperous Jewish community.
The Natchez Trace Parkway
A mile or so south of Port Gibson, US-61 and the GRR cross the much more relaxed Natchez Trace Parkway, which, like the Blue Ridge Parkway, is a scenic route managed by the National Park Service. The parkway follows the route of the old Natchez Trace, a pre-Columbian Native American path that grew into the major overland route between the Gulf Coast and the upper Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys in the years before steamboats provided a faster alternative. The Natchez Trace appeared on maps as early as 1733, and from the 1780s to the 1820s, when steamboats made it obsolete, the Natchez Trace was one of the nation’s most traveled routes. Farmers and craftspeople in the Ohio River Valley would transport their products by raft downstream to Natchez or New Orleans, then return on foot, staying at the dozens of inns along the route while doing battle with swamps, mosquitoes, and bands of thieves.
The entire 444-mile length of the parkway, which runs from Nashville south to the edge of Natchez, with a short break around Jackson, is well paved and makes a delightful driving or riding route, with places of interest marked every few miles. Just north of Port Gibson at mile marker 41.5, the Sunken Trace preserves a deeply eroded 200-yard-long section of the trail, the canopy of moss-laden cypress trees offering one of the most evocative five-minute walks you can imagine. Between Port Gibson and Natchez, sights along this short and eminently bikable stretch include the prehistoric Emerald Mound, the second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States, which dates from around AD 1250 and offers a commanding view of the woodlands. Mount Locust, at mile marker 15.5, is a restored roadhouse and visitors center and the best place to pick up parkway information.
The National Park Police keep the parkway under thorough radar surveillance, by the way, so try to stay within the posted speed limit, generally 50 mph.
The Ruins of Windsor
From Port Gibson, you can race along the 70-mph US-61 to Natchez or follow a quietly scenic 50-mile detour along kudzu-lined country back roads and the serene Natchez Trace Parkway. The great Mississippi writer Willie Morris said “there is no more haunted, complex terrain in America” than this, and traveling through here you can’t help but be aware of the region’s many ghostly remnants. The looping first part of this route leaves Port Gibson next to the Exxon station, heading west on Rodney Road (Hwy-552) toward the Mississippi River past abandoned homesteads and picturesque old cemeteries rotting in the woods. After about 12 miles, look for a small sign and follow a short gravel road until you spot giant stone columns poking through the treetops. This is the Ruins of Windsor. Once the state’s most lavish Greek Revival mansion and a landmark to river pilots, it was reduced by an 1890 fire to its bare Corinthian ribs.
Emerald Mound
Another enigmatic ruin is farther south, nearly invisible in the lush growth: Emerald Mound (daily), a prehistoric platform over 400 feet wide and 35 feet tall. The second-largest mound in North America, it was built around AD 1250 and was still in use as a ceremonial center when the first Europeans arrived; Emerald Mound is located on Hwy-553 just west of Natchez Trace Parkway milepost 10.3.
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Ince & Co and KPMG investigated by administrator over financial records
The administrator of Ince & Co is investigating the firm's internal financial controls as well as the work of the firm's auditor, KPMG, in the wake of its acquisition by listed firm Gordon Dadds, RollOnFriday understands.
Gordon Dadds completed its purchase of the troubled shipping and insurance firm on New Year's Eve. But it was subsequently revealed that Ince & Co was placed into administration immediately beforehand as part of a pre-pack deal. Pre-packs are notorious for enabling a purchaser to buy a business free of its liabilities, potentially leaving creditors in the lurch. Its use has led to accusations that Ince Gordon Dadds engaged in sharp practise.
Amongts its debts, Ince & Co, renamed Blue Co London UK in administration, has a pricey lease of premises at Aldgate Tower in London. RollOnFriday understands that it also owes Quadrant Chambers over £1 million in fees. Quadrant declined to comment.
When the purchase was announced, it also emerged that Gordon Dadds only bought the firm's UK business, along with its offices in Beijing and Shanghai, contrary to the original plans. The £27 million price, payable to Ince & Co members over four years, did not include Ince's Cologne, Dubai, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Le Havre, Marseille, Monaco, Paris, Piraeus or Singapore offices.
Insiders told RollOnFriday that IGD hopes in due course to purchase the international network, which will continue to trade as Ince & Co. But they said it has no interest in acquiring the France or Monaco offices, characterising them as a drain on profits.
Press attention has focused on the possibility that Ince & Co's creditors may lose millions of pounds. But insiders told RollOnFriday that the pre-pack was the only way to complete the deal after Ince & Co proved incapable of identifying its liabilities to the satisfaction of Gordon Dadds and its investors.
Adrian Biles, chief executive of Gordon Dadds, said, “Following our acquisition of the members’ interests of Ince & Co LLP, the advice we received was that to facilitate the transfer of its regulated business to Gordon Dadds LLP and minimise the risk to our investors, we should follow this process". He said it gave "confidence that the transaction was done at proper value and could not subsequently be challenged by a creditor in Ince & Co.”
Insiders told RollOnFriday that Ince & Co was unable to identify the size of the risk because it could not establish how much money members owed to former members, or even what balances were owed by one office to another. The mess resulted in the firm deciding to exclude most of its international network from the deal and enter a pre-pack to get Gordon Dadds over the line before 2019.
In the aftermath, questions are now being raised about Ince & Co's financial controls. A source told RollOnFriday that the most recent audit carried out by KPMG may also have failed to comprise an accurate view of what Ince & Co owed and owned. The administrator, Quantuma, is understood to be investigating the accountancy firm's role as part of its assessment.
KPMG declined to comment.
BREAKING: RollOnFriday understands that IGD has started a redundancy consultation in Ince's London office with 45 roles expected to go. What a lovely way to kick off the New Year. A spokesman for IGD responded using the dread word 'synergies': "Naturally, as with all mergers, there are synergies that can be found", he said. "However, no decisions have been made as of yet. We will work with Ince & Co to review the best approach to harmonise our teams, and we will make sure that we clearly communicate with staff every step of the way".
BREAKING AGAIN: IGD's spokesman has clarified that decisions have in fact been made: "A redundancy consultation process will begin next week", he said. "However, we are committed to exploring ways to minimise the number of employees affected and no final decision has been made as of yet".
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Anonymous 11 January 19 09:14
hmm - GD not interested in France and Monaco? That doesn’t have the ring of truth about it; they were over at least twice on bended knees, the Steptoes.
France, Germany and Monaco have been shovelling profit towards London for years.
Lydia 11 January 19 09:25
That is pretty bad. How could the firm not know what it owed within the firm? That should have been clear so I am not surprised they did not want to take it on lock stock and barrel on that basis.
Anon 11 January 19 09:49
Please. France & Monaco so the takeover for what it was. A small regional firm with no understanding of the workings of an international firm and an aggressive and cut throat culture. Monaco and France got out whilst they could.
Dreadful cynic 11 January 19 10:56
Is is such a surprise that post-merger the entity is looking for cost-savings? I'm a heartless so-and-so and no Corp Law/M&A expert ... but surely...?
French 11 January 19 11:07
More like France and Monaco were too profitable to accept joining the Biles show.
Ex Ince Fee Earner 11 January 19 11:30
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The [out-going] managing partner used to stand up in front of the whole London office every quarter and preach about how healthy the Firm's financials were, and how we didn't have any debt. Well he is enjoying a nice jolly in one of the international offices not affected by the merger-come-takeover having got a nice payoff and [removed by ROF]. Still, 27M for a Firm's name, three offices, 25 largely unprofitable equity partners and a continued exodus of fee earners seems like a great deal to me... Such a shame for a Firm which was genuinely an excellent law firm with high quality people and a great culture back in the day. Sold up the creek without so much of a tug boat.
It's 27m of the firm's own current and future earnings, naturally. They are charging 8m to collect 14m of Ince's WIP and AR ...
WTF thought this was a good idea?
Shame indeed for a firm which once upon a time not so long ago had a decent reputation. Reality suggests that was supported by little more than hot air, or worse.
Agree with Ex Ince Fee Earner - hadn't expected another case of mis-management a la Halliwells, but some interesting parallels. Ultimately a failure to adapt to changing business environment (comparable firms like HFW and WFW are doing fairly well), with bolt-on poor decision making at and around the top. Feel sorry for all those who not unreasonably expected a decent career there and either no longer or will soon not have one anymore.
Get a clue 11 January 19 16:34
Pricey lease? GD have moved in there, so where’s the risk? Don’t see a problem losing support staff roles that are doubled up, that’s pretty standard. France and Monaco too profitable? Since when? You guys are sounding like Trump. So who’s going to pay for the wall?? ?
heh - GD only buys firms that are desperate so they don't have to pay anything. If you aren't desperate - you tell them to beat it. Quite obvious, really.
SRA 11 January 19 20:34
What is the SRA doing about those responsible for running the firm in this way?
The SRA? Indeed ...
It seems to say to creditors out there, if you hear the "exciting news" of GD being interested in firm X, get your insolvency experts in - fast.
They also stopped paying 3rd party invoices months before the pre-pack. Leaving small recruiters and similar tens of thousands out of pocket.
This would suggest a planned move and highly cynical.
Lost touch, lost business, lost their staff, lost their moral compass, fat cats walked away flush. Poor form.
EXCLUSIVE Firm which blamed COVID-19 for redundancies accused of misleading staff
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Aggression Replacement Training/Capacitación para el reemplazo de la agresión
Una intervención integral para jóvenes agresivos
Dr. Barry Glick
Dr. John C. Gibbs
Additional Media Included:
Data CD
This book is a direct translation into Spanish of the Third Edition of Aggression Replacement Training®.
Originally developed by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein and Dr. Barry Glick, Aggression Replacement Training (ART) is now revised and updated to reflect over 30 years of use in schools, community agencies, juvenile institutions, and other settings. The third edition of Aggression Replacement Training offers step-by-step session plans for teaching ART's three coordinated components:
Teaches participants what to do, helping them replace antisocial behaviors with positive alternatives.
Anger Control Training
Teaches participants what not to do, helping them respond to anger in a nonaggressive manner and rethink anger-provoking situations.
Helps raise participants’ level of fairness, justice, and concern for the needs and rights of others.
The authors clarify the theory underlying the ART components and include user-friendly suggestions for successful implementation of the 10-week program. They also address critical implementation concerns, describe program applications at various sites and evaluations of ART’s effectiveness, and detail issues in program administration and management.
Appendixes include the complete Skillstreaming curriculum for adolescents, session evaluation checklists, additional moral reasoning problem situations, and other materials helpful in running the program.
An accompanying CD provides PDFs of all the reproducible forms and student handouts.
“ART is not only an approach that can be effective in classrooms, but other clinicians and even parents can benefit from using this model for teaching their students how to deal with others in a more effective manner.”
—Intervention in School and Clinic
“The general premise of ART is that 'every act of adolescent or child aggression—in school, at home, in the community—has multiple causes, both external and internal to the youth.' . . . ART consists of multiple components to address the various causes of aggressive behavior.”
—Shannon Montag, The Drummer,
Blackhawk Area Special Education Newsletter
“This is a text all social group workers should have in their libraries. The authors cover one of the most empirically based intervention programs available for antisocial children and provide an excellent introduction for practitioners on dealing with the social problem of antisocial children.”
—John S. Wodarski, Social Work with Groups
“Overall, this work may be viewed as an exemplary resource for all individuals interested in the problems of youth aggression and violence.”
—Michael Leeds, The Prevention Researcher
Evaluation Summaries
ART has been evaluated by numerous studies, including the five studies summarized below.
The ART program was implemented at Uniting Networks for Youth, a SAMHSA-funded project administered through Ramsey County Juvenile Probation from 2001 to 2004. Through this agency, 283 youth, aged 12 to 18, received ART at one of four different sites: a residential program, a school-based program, and two community-based programs. All youth were on probation. Three months after discharge from the program, follow-ups with youth and their parents indicated that 80 percent of youth reported no additional arrests. Seventy-nine percent of parents and 75 percent of youth reported that the program helped youth improve relationships with teachers at least a little; and 80 percent of parents and 92 percent of youth felt that ART helped the youth become more responsible (Wilder Research Center, 2004).
Washington State passed the Community Juvenile Accountability Act (CJAA) to reduce juvenile crime by establishing “research-based” programs in the state’s juvenile courts. All adjudicated
youth were assessed to determine the level of risk in nine domains: school, freetime, employment, relationships, family (current and prior), drug/alcohol, mental health, antisocial attitudes, and skills. Another score was developed to measure aggression. Youths who demonstrated a moderate or high-risk level were admitted into either the experimental group that received ART or the control group that received the standard juvenile court services. They found that ART reduced the 18-month felony recidivism rate by 16 percent compared with the control group (Barnoski, 2004).
Another study introduced the ART program at a runaway shelter in order to reduce antisocial behavior in male and female adolescents. They chose an interrupted time series design, and the case records of 522 11–17 year-old runaways who lived in the shelter were examined. The results found a reduction in the reported cases of antisocial behavior among the adolescents. Outcome measures were the daily rate and daily number of antisocial behavioral incidents. The ART program was associated with a 20 percent decrease in the daily rate and a 17 percent decrease in the daily number of antisocial behavioral incidents (Nugent, Bruley, & Allen, 1998).
Adolescent residents at a long-term treatment facility also participated in an ART program study. Two-thirds of the residents had a DSM IV diagnosis of conduct disorder. A 10-week ART program was introduced to the experimental group of 21 residents, and the control group of 14 residents received no ART training. Results indicated that the experimental group scored significantly higher on one measure: knowledge of social skills. No other significant differences were found between the two groups (Coleman, Pfeiffer, & Oakland, 1992).
A study introduced the ART program at a residential school for troubled adolescent girls to reduce maladaptive behaviors. Assessments of the girls’ behaviors were completed three weeks prior to the start of the program. During the four months following the conclusion of ART, assessments were completed three additional times. Although results indicated an increase in positive behaviors, it had no effect on delinquent behaviors and little effect on aggressive behaviors (Cleare, 2001).
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UK businesses still hiring despite imminent furlough withdrawal
Over three quarters of businesses are still looking to recruit, according to a survey by Keep Britain Working.
Businesses’ responses indicate that they are preparing for an increase in demand as children return to schools and employees return to offices. This is despite anticipated job losses once the government’s furlough scheme ends.
53% of respondents said that they were “still hiring, but less” when asked how their recruitment activity had changed from prior to COVID-19. A further 23% indicated that they were recruiting more than before the pandemic, with only one-fifth saying they had enacted a recruitment freeze.
The findings form part of a survey into how UK businesses are ‘getting back to work’, encompassing business strategy, recruitment decision making and general confidence.
Businesses ready to recruit
Of the 76% of businesses who are recruiting, almost three-fifths attributed this to an increase in demand, supporting recent economic figures which showed that the economy was starting to rebound following lockdown. One-third of respondents said that a need for new skills was driving their recruitment activity.
Many of the companies not currently recruiting believe this will only be a short-term measure, with almost half stating that they were in ‘wait and see’ mode and expected to hire again soon.
This waiting game is related to overall business confidence, with just under half of firms citing a lack of demand as their biggest challenge. Despite this, more firms said they were performing the ‘same as’ or ‘better’ than before the pandemic (64%) than ‘worse’ (36%).
Candidates and skills sought by businesses
When asked about the types of roles for which they are recruiting, 36% of those surveyed said HR and people management positions, while both business resilience and strategic planning employees were being sought by 17% of respondents.
This highlights businesses’ continued challenge when planning for the next few months, as well as signalling that managing staffing issues, whether that be redundancies or employee wellbeing, will continue to be a big focus.
Firms are recognising that talented employees across the worst-affected sectors are now looking for work. 62% of those surveyed said they would consider hiring a candidate who lacked the precise skills or experience required for the role – if it could be made up through training.
With a previous Keep Britain Working survey finding that 31% of jobseekers were looking for positions in sectors with better job security, there is likely to be a realignment in the types of work preferred.
The predicted increase in jobseekers from redundancies will place even more pressure on hiring managers to find the best candidates among a greater number of applicants. This, combined with current economic pressures, led 60% of respondents to suggest they are ‘very likely’ or ‘likely’ to change their route to hire.
With business demand beginning to increase as more coronavirus restrictions are relaxed, more businesses will look to start recruiting again. This will support those made redundant when the furlough scheme and other government support ends.
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21 is a perfect example of how something that's "based" on a true story can nevertheless exist mainly in the realm of fiction. While it's true that the source material for the movie, Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House relates events that actuall...
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Over the years, many films have taken a dark look at the supposedly perfect ideal of a white picket fence, a little house, and a nuclear family. For many, the suburban life is the American dream. For others, however, it can turn into a twisted ni...
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Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver seeks to inject a dose of high octane into a heist film while illustrating how it’s possible to make a car chase exciting in an era when few action staples have become more boring and predictable. The film also s...
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It's almost a shame that A Bug's Life is debuting so close in the wake of Antz (although, to be fair, the latter film was the first to enter production). No matter when the Pixar/Disney production reached theaters, comparisons between the two comp...
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Casino Jack (originally called Bagman), George Hickenlooper's dramatization of the rise and fall of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, can be succinctly summarized this way: the straightforward narrative provides a platform for a powerhouse performance by Kev...
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Directed By: Julien Temple
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An at times exciting, restless and absorbing film. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Benjamin H. Smith
... effectively paints a three dimensional portrait of Strummer, unafraid to confront his philosophical contradictions, though neither dwelling on his flaws, and showing how by finding his humanity, he ultimately lived up to the ideals he espoused.
Joshua Rothkopf
Original Score: 4/5
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Lively doc on the late Brit punk rocker guitarist for the Clash.
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This offers Strummer fans unlimited access to the man behind the legend. Though it really is for fans - who should run and buy it.
Julien Temple's film is an energizing work of art, a visually striking and inspiring look at a band that never 'sold out' and the leader who saw to it that they didn't.
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly
The big unanswerable question is: Do we wish Strummer would have listened to David Lee Roth's advice that "You don't have to take life so seriously, honey"?
Miracle of miracles, a valuable portrait of Strummer manages to emerge from the chaos, helped by the film's one consistent thread: tapes of a BBC World Service radio show he hosted in his final years.
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies
[Director Julien Temple] stops short of hagiography, while exhaustively positing Strummer as one of the most important cultural figures of the 20th century.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5
Liam Lacey
Temple, who chronicled the Sex Pistols...offers the full, sometimes bloated, context of Strummer's life through the testimony of his many friends and collaborators.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Temple gets at the heart of Strummer's character, at the unbridled joy that existed within his righteous anger, the satisfaction of knowing he was on the right side of history and hadn't had to sell any part of himself to get there.
Philip French
Observer (UK)
The film is the work of an admirer, but not an uncritical one.
Temple's film is a fittingly conscientious and absorbing tribute to his complex, contradictory personality.
Carina Chocano
A beautiful, evocative collage composed of concert footage, photographs, interviews and film clips, as well as interviews with people who knew him, the film is a rigorously thorough biography and an impassioned accolade.
David Edelstein
Temple has plenty of cinematic tricks and willing interview subjects.
V.A. Musetto
Compelling viewing, even for people who don't care a bit for the punk scene.
Marc Savlov
One of the most compelling documentary portraits of a musician yet made.
Future is overlong and will best be enjoyed and understood by fans, but even newcomers will appreciate the essential drive of the man, who died of a sudden heart attack in 2002, and admire his ability to balance anger and ecstasy.
Full Review | Original Score: B-
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Charities confirm merger plan
Posted by Deanna Hurst, Partner
Two leading charities have confirmed they intend to merge, creating the UK’s largest youth support agency. YouthNet and Get Connected announced the proposed merger earlier this month and said the move would allow them to build a much improved service …
Two leading charities have confirmed they intend to merge, creating the UK’s largest youth support agency.
YouthNet and Get Connected announced the proposed merger earlier this month and said the move would allow them to build a much improved service for 16 to 25-year-olds.
Last year, the organisations reached around 1.7million young people across the UK between them and by pooling resources, they hope to increase the figure to two million by 2018.
Chris Martin, YouthNet’s chief executive, has been lined up to lead the new organisation.
“Young people today face unprecedented challenges that have resulted in an epidemic of mental health issues,” he said
“By combining YouthNet’s digital reach and expertise with Get Connected’s excellent 121 telephone support service, we can offer young people a recognisable, safe and trusted place to turn whenever they need it.
“Demand from young people for support has never been greater and we believe that our new charity will help to fill the gap where statutory services have been withdrawn and smaller organisations for young people have shut down.”
The merger is expected to be completed by the end of the year, with a new charity brand unveiled to the public shortly afterwards.
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No new 2p or £2 coins to be made for 10 years
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Anyone who likes to see a new production date on their coins is set for a disappointing decade.
The Royal Mint has no plans to make new 2p or £2 coins for the next 10 years.
A coin mountain lies in storage as demand has dropped, in contrast to banknotes.
The issue was revealed in a wide-ranging report on the future of cash by the National Audit Office (NAO) warning it could become harder to access by those who rely on it.
It warned that the authorities were not keeping up with the pace of change in digital payments – leaving those who needed cash at risk.
Future of 1p and 2p coins secured ‘for years to come’
Coronavirus ‘will hasten the decline of cash’
Ten years ago, cash was used in six out of 10 transactions but by 2019 it was used in less than three in 10 purchases.
The NAO said the coronavirus outbreak may have accelerated the trend.
Despite the decline in cash use, a riddle remains over demand for coins and banknotes.
The old, round £1 coin was withdrawn from circulation in 2017
Coin-making has been cut by The Royal Mint but stocks of every coin in circulation are exceeding its targets. For £2 coins, the hoard is 26 times over target.
A spokeswoman for The Royal Mint said 2p and £2 coin production could return if needed.
“We constantly monitor the demand for coins from the banks and Post Offices, and seek permission to manufacture more from HM Treasury,” she said.
These coins have not been needed because lots of old coins were returned to circulation when the 12-sided £1 coin was launched in March 2017.
Everyone had six months to return their old round pounds and emptied savings jam jars or money stores at work, sending the entire contents back to their banks.
In contrast, demand for banknotes has been rising and there is little reliable information over the whereabouts of £50bn worth of notes in circulation.
They are not used in transactions or held as savings, but may be overseas, tucked away in homes unreported or being used in the “shadow economy”.
Old and poor ‘left behind’
The NAO said there were wider issues over access to cash, partly owing to the closure of 17% of cash machines in two years.
Older and lower-income consumers tended to use cash more and were at risk if nobody took responsibility for stopping the slide in cash access.
“Cash use might be declining overall but it remains a vital part of millions of people’s lives – particularly for some of the most vulnerable in society,” said Meg Hiller, who chairs the influential Public Accounts Committee in the House of Commons.
“The government took its eye off the ball and too many people already have to go out of their way to get their hands on cash.
“It and the regulators will have to hurry to catch up with fast-moving technology, or even more people could be left behind.”
The government has committed, with legislation, to protect access to cash, and address the sustainability of the cash infrastructure as its use falls. Some businesses that transport or process cash could struggle, it said.
The NAO said it could not currently see a clear link between the government’s aim and which of the various public bodies involved in overseeing the cash network could actually make it happen.
Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, said: “The approach is fragmented, and it is not clear that the action being taken will keep up with the pace of change.
“As society progresses towards the wide use of digital payments, the use of cash in transactions is dwindling. It may become harder for people to access cash when they need it and those without the means to pay digitally will struggle if cash is not accepted.”
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Irish Pension Managed Funds Fall Back in October
Irish pension managed funds declined 1.6% on average during October. Friends First delivered the best performance this month with a return of -0.8%, while Davy Asset Management delivered the worst, with a return of -2.2%.
Irish pension managed funds have lost an average of 3.5% over the first ten months of 2020. This headline figure conceals a wide range of returns, however. Of the funds surveyed, Merrion Investment Managers’ delivered the best performance over the year to date, with a return of 9.3%, while New Ireland’s underperformed the rest of the peer group, with a return of -14.6%. Over the past twelve months, Irish pension managed funds are broadly flat, having delivered a 0.2% loss on average. Returns for the past year ranged from +11.5% (Merrion Investment Managers) to -11.0% (New Ireland).
The average managed fund return has been 3.3% per annum over the past three years. The five-year average return is 4.4% per annum. Irish group pension managed fund returns over the past ten years have been a healthy 8.0% per annum on average.
The full table of results can be found over at our investment fund performance calculator.
Please note: The returns quoted are those experienced by a specific peer group of active balanced managed funds which are used by many pension schemes. Details of these funds can be found on our calculator help page. These returns may be viewed as a rough proxy for the performance of Irish pension funds in the “growth” stage; however, they do not necessarily equate to the experience of the pensions market as a whole, or of any specific pension scheme or member. Nor do they necessarily reflect the relative performance of the investment managers in relation to their broader offerings. These figures are provided for information only and do not constitute investment advice. You should always seek independent financial advice before making any investment decisions.
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SOUTHLAKE, Texas AND DULLES, Va. – Oct. 23, 2019 – Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR) and ATPCO announced today a new long-term retailing agreement enabling Sabre to distribute ATPCO’s Routehappy content to Sabre-connected travel agencies, online travel agencies and other travel buyers as well as airline IT customers. The new distribution scope includes Sabre’s air shopping APIs and direct airline shopping and merchandising solutions, in addition to Sabre global distribution system (GDS).
Building upon the companies’ existing partnership, the new agreement supports Sabre’s omni-channel retailing and distribution strategy for traditional and NDC-enabled solutions. Integrating the content into Sabre’s offer engines and agency points of sale will help airlines better sell their products, the way that they want, across all channels.
“Our expanded agreement with ATPCO further demonstrates Sabre’s commitment to modernize the airline retailing experience for our customers through next generation retailing, distribution and fulfillment capabilities across channels,” said Wade Jones, president of Sabre Travel Network. “This long-term agreement will allow us to enhance our leading air shopping solutions with ATPCO’s Routehappy Rich Content today and in the future as the airline industry continues to evolve.”
Additionally, Sabre will continue to support ATPCO’s Next Generation Storefront™ (NGS) standard, which helps sales channels modernize the shopping experience for consumers. Sabre has been a key partner with ATPCO and other industry players to help develop and test a new, innovative approach to shopping based on NGS standards.
With this new agreement, ATPCO is now an authorized provider of airline rich content to Sabre, and Sabre is now an authorized distributor of Routehappy Rich Content. In addition to API access, ATPCO will also provide flat file access to Routehappy Rich Content to Sabre for the first time. This accelerates the rate at which Sabre can integrate Routehappy’s descriptive and visual content across its applications including Sabre Red 360 and Sabre Dev Studio APIs and in airline direct channels.
“ATPCO’s new long term retailing agreement with Sabre demonstrates the momentum of industry-wide transformation in flight shopping. Not long ago, Sabre introduced sweeping improvements to how travel agents shop for airline products with a new graphical interface and Routehappy Rich Content, representing important first steps in a journey of change for our industry,” said Robert Albert, EVP Retailing at ATPCO (formerly Founder & CEO Routehappy.) “Now Sabre is committed to NDC, NGS™ and full integration of Routehappy Rich Content across its travel agency and airline applications. The tipping point for modernizing flight shopping at scale is finally here.”
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Sabre Corporation is the leading technology provider to the global travel industry. Sabre’s software, data, mobile and distribution solutions are used by hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotel properties to manage critical operations, including passenger and guest reservations, revenue management, flight, network and crew management. Sabre also operates a leading global travel marketplace, which processes more than US$120 billion of global travel spend annually by connecting travel buyers and suppliers. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world.
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ATPCO is the world’s leading provider of pricing and retailing content, tools, and services to airlines, global distribution systems, travel agencies, and technology companies. With a focus on driving innovation, reducing complexity, and delivering network economics to the entire distribution ecosystem, ATPCO continues to develop new standards and technology solutions that are underpinned by its reliable airline pricing data that lies at the foundation of flight shopping. Owned by airlines, ATPCO content and standards ensure industry-wide consistency, including for NDC, NGS, and dynamic pricing. With its recent acquisition of Routehappy, its retailing solutions are also setting the standard by which airlines differentiate their products using compelling rich content, and which channel partners are using to create informative, next-gen shopping displays. For additional information, visit atpco.net.
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Synopsis: Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that none of the crime gangs are behind the killings.
Director(s): Jim McBride
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty, John Goodman
Production: HBO Video
4 wins & 4 nominations.
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for nearly 20 years,
and was still in your employ
at the time of his death?
Can I go?
You know, kid, your father would
never drag me down here.
If he wanted to see me,
he'd come to the house!
He knew a little something
about respect.
Di Moti:
I can't believe you were so
obsequious with that man.
What does "obsequious" mean?
It means you had a high-ranking
member of the Mafia
in your office and
you kissed his ass.
Well, let me point
out a few things to you.
First of all, nobody
uses the word "Mafia" anymore.
Down here we call them "wise guys. "
You're not from here, are you?
I only say this to save
you any kind of embarrassment.
I'll bear that in mind, lieutenant.
Hey, you like spicy food;
why don't we have dinner?
I know this little cajun place.
Relax, Romeo.
Tell me what you learned
from two minutes of ass-kissing.
Actually I learned a
lot from that little interview.
Do you read minds?
No, I read people; and
after seeing "The Cannon,"
I can probably tell you why
Freddy sprung a leak last night.
I suppose you know
who the killer is, too.
Oh no, but I bet we find his body
floating in the lake
in a couple of weeks.
Then what will you do?
I told you we never
have enough to take to court.
Hell, I'd close the case
right now except for one thing.
I'll tell you over dinner.
Hey, come on, we don't
have to stand in line.
- Hey!
- Hey, man!
How embarrassing.
That's what's great about being a cop.
(singing in cajun)
All right, Willie!
Come on, we're going
to work up an appetite.
Hi, Remy.
I thought we were
here to discuss business.
Business and pleasure,
I can't do this.
Wait, didn't they
dance where you come from?
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Daniel Mannix Petrie Jr. (born November 30, 1951) is a Canadian-American producer, writer, and director of film and television. He is best known for pioneering the sub-genres of action comedy and buddy cop films through movies like Beverly Hills Cop and Turner & Hooch. He served as President of the Writers Guild of America, West between 1997 and 1999, and then again between 2004 and 2005. more…
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HMRC scheme to help self-employed traders during the Covid-19 crisis
The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced a support package for self-employed workers. An outline follows.
The scheme will allow individuals to claim a taxable grant worth 80% of their trading profits up to a maximum of £2,500 a month for the next three months at least.
It is available to self-employed individuals or members of a partnership who have submitted their income tax self-assessment tax return for 2018-19; traded in 2019-20; are trading when they apply, or would be except for Covid-19; intend to continue to trade in 2020-21; and have lost trading profits as a result of the virus.
Profits must be less than £50,000 and comprise more than half of the individual’s income.
For taxpayers who began trading between 2016 and 2019, HMRC will use only the years for which they filed a self-assessment tax return.
Individuals who have not submitted their 2018-19 return must do this by 23 April 2020.
When the scheme is open, HMRC will contact eligible taxpayers and invite them to apply online.
More details of this scheme can be found in ‘An ill wind’ by Richard Curtis on page 14 of this week’s issue.
HMRC self-employment income support scheme: http://tinyurl.com/hmrcsec19m
Deadline dates for April 2020
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BJP Manifesto promises sanitary napkin at Re 1 under Suvidha Scheme
by STP Team
The BJP has promised sanitary napkins for Re 1 to all women and girls across India in its manifesto. This is part of the manifesto focussed on providing reproductive and menstrual health for women. “With the expansion of ongoing Suvidha scheme, sanitary pads at an affordable cost of just Rs 1 will be provided to all girls and women.”
The government has been under tremendous pressure by activist groups seeking a slash in sanitary napkin taxes to make them affordable. GST Council finally had to exempt sanitary napkins from the tax after months of outrage from women all over the country over the government’s decision to levy a 12% charge on the essential commodity.
Sanitary pads (Pic by STP)
Suvidha scheme was launched in March 2018 – to offer 100% Oxo-biodegradable Sanitary Napkin, under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP). The affordable sanitary napkin were made available for Rs. 2.50 per pad at over 3200 Janaushadhi Kendrasacross India and would ensure ‘Swachhta, Swasthya and Suvidha’ for the underprivileged Women of India, it had said in its release.
With this new announcement, the government is saying it will lower the price of the sanitary pad offered. According to the National Family Health Survey 2015-16, about 58 percent of women aged between 15 to 24 years use locally prepared napkins, sanitary napkins and tampons. Further, about 78 percent women in urban areas use hygienic methods of protection during menstrual period; only 48 percent women in rural areas have access to clean sanitary napkins.
Shri Ananthkumar had then said in March 2018 that “this is one of the most important requirement in ensuring the Health Security to that section of Women in India who still use unhygienic aids during menstrual period due to non-affordability of some of the popular brands of sanitary napkins available in the market.”
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How Two Bengaluru Teens Are Providing Hygiene Products To Women In Lockdown
COVID-19 Lockdown: Sanitary Pads Now Listed As Essential Commodity
Govt. Reduces Price Of Biodegradable Sanitary Pads To One Rupee
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A prediction about the end of the world was found in “The Big Bang Theory”
TV show fans spotted a hidden prophetical doomsday message in “The Big Bang Theory” comedy series.
In the days of self-isolation, millions of people over and over again began to revise their favorite old films and series – and notice what they had not paid attention to before. And in one of the most popular sitcoms in the history of television, The Big Bang Theory, attentive viewers found a gloomy prediction of a global cataclysm that would destroy the world in 2020.
Someone very meticulous decided to take a closer look at the series screensaver. There, for half a minute, an accelerated chronicle of the development of life and civilization on Earth unfolds on the screen. Below is a countdown of the passing years – and if you look at this part of the frame in slow motion, you can see that the history of mankind somehow ends in 2020, although the show began in 2007, when no one knew about its closure in 2019, and moreover about the upcoming epidemic.
The audience is already seething in social networks: they say that the creators of The Big Bang Theory clearly knew something about our future! Does their hint mean that coronavirus will destroy the world?
Not to be an alarmist or anything but has anyone else noticed that the opener for the Big Bang Theory has a timeline that ends on 2020?? Just sayin……. 😂😂 #BigBangTheory #Covid_19 #CoronavirusPandemic pic.twitter.com/4zV4Ek7CiV
— Luke Erlenbusch (@WarriorGoof) April 17, 2020
It should be noted that from the very beginning of the pandemic, people around the world began to look for predictions of today’s disaster in the past, turning to some of the “legacies” of Nostradamus and Vanga, and to films and books in the “post-apocalypse” genre.
Related Topics:end of the worldThe Big Bang Theory
What predictions of the futurists of the 1950s have already come true, and which will soon come true: distance learning, drones, etc.
Faces of Two Chinese Doctors Turn Black from Coronavirus after surviving the deadly illness
Mayan calendar points to 2020?
Planet Nibiru is approaching the Earth
No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
How Close Is Doomsday?
Are We All Secretly Hoping For The End Of The World?
Life After the Apocalypse
Recently, scientists have begun registering too many anomalies associated with the Earth’s magnetic field. It periodically weakens or disappears altogether, deforms and twists. Experts cannot yet say for sure what is happening to the planet.
American researcher James Kaufman published interesting results: for some reason, the density of the solar wind in the nighttime part of the planet is much higher. As soon as the sun rises, this density begins to decrease.
Previously, the solar plasma went in the direction of the orbit of Mars and other planets, but now it moves in the opposite direction from the globe.
It is impossible to find an explanation based on existing physical laws. Some have put forward the incredible hypothesis that the Sun has turned into a black hole and is now close to the Earth.
According to some researchers, this could lead to the fact that the radiation does not move from the Sun to other planets, but from Pluto to the Sun.
According to other experts, on the side of Mars there may be a massive body, the radiation of which is comparable to that of the sun. A second stream is created, which blows off the Earth’s plasma and carries it to the Sun.
The presence of such a space object could explain the multiple increase in the number of meteorites, comets, asteroids falling to the Earth and flying past it – which can be a cloud of debris going in front of such a huge object.
The closer this object approaches the Earth, the more falling meteorites will be, and as the object approaches, the size of the meteorites falling to the Earth will increase. Then, loud boom sound are getting more intense and sun-like objects appear out of nowhere:
As far as we know, neither the airlines nor even the Pentagon have such devices. Moreover, the thing was somehow very powerful, since its brightness is phenomenal – the light sources merged into one and illuminated the entire space around.
Strangesounds.org, have prepared an excellent overview of the so-called “booms in the sky” that have been roaring over the United States lately:
NORTH CAROLINA LOUD BOOMS: Thousands of people are reporting hearing loud boom sounds (at least 2) between 5-8pm, possibly localized to the Lewisville area. FCSO says 911 is overwhelmed by calls- but no reports of injuries. The cause is unknown. @WFMY pic.twitter.com/anZZFvCUoc
— Ben Smart (@BenSmartWFMY) January 3, 2021
People hear a rumble, as if the fighter took the sound barrier directly overhead. But – no one sees any planes anywhere. Unfortunately, it is very rare to “photograph” the crash, but it so happened that one woman accidentally filmed how her door to the veranda began to shake from this “boom in the sky”:
What kind of object could it be and create all these anomalies? For example, a wandering planet, the same mysterious planet X (aka Nibiru in the ancient epic of the Sumerians)?.
TWO SUNS RISING!!! Has anyone ever seen this phenomenon? Taken with iPhone 12 Max Pro… I couldn’t believe what I was seeing… didn’t notice until playback.
📷 Elliott Edward Powell #twosuns #nibiru #planetx pic.twitter.com/RiiNsrSZch
— Sweetleaf505 (@sweetleaf_505) January 14, 2021
#Nibiru #planetx #twosuns pic.twitter.com/vJLllHtbPK
— 🌌🌠🛰️☄️ (@NibiruIsAHoaxxx) January 11, 2021
These are only assumptions, and it takes time to find out what is really happening with our planet.
A Tesla electric car with an activated autopilot function recorded an invisible person who allegedly moved around the cemetery. Social network users jokingly noted in the comments that, most likely, this is some new function from Elon Musk, which allows you to see ghosts.
In the United States, a Tesla electric car with an activated autopilot function recorded an invisible person who allegedly moved through a cemetery.
The corresponding video was posted by Twitter user Ovidiu Maciuc.
The recording shows how a silhouette of a man appears on the monitor of an electric car, moving around the cemetery. After that, the driver raises the camera and starts filming the graveyard through the windshield, but there are no people there.
After some time, the “ghost” went in the opposite direction from Tesla and disappeared from the on-board computer screen.
Tesla collision avoidance system detecting an invisible human/entity at the cemetery. Excuse me but wtf @elonmusk ? pic.twitter.com/VcANAzH1uh
— Ovidiu Maciuc (@OMaciuc) January 12, 2021
Social network users jokingly noted in the comments that, most likely, this is some new function from Elon Musk, which allows you to see ghosts.
For many though, if you take into account the comments, the video seemed rather creepy. Some even tried to guess what the navigation system actually showed.
Some users thought the system could recognize ghosts. Others refuted this version and said that the reason for all this is an insufficiently accurate sensor, which was used for the equipment of the Tesla car.
Earlier it became known that Tesla electric cars in the near future may receive a new function with which they can talk with pedestrians. For this, American cars will be equipped with special external speakers.
In addition, Tesla cars in the future will receive the option to change the horn and sound of movement at low speeds to warn pedestrians. According to Elon Musk, among the sounds of movement there will be the sound of the clatter of a horse’s hooves, and as a whistle – the bleating of a goat.
About two weeks ago, Tel Aviv residents noticed that the concrete surface outside their homes was heating up and steam was coming out of the ground. Tests showed that steam that reached 60 ° C (140 ° F) was water based.
The witness explains: “I was afraid that there was a power line in the area and asked a worker to dig out the ground with a shovel. Steam suddenly came out. I imagined it was probably a geyser. It seemed to me that this was a geological incident – also because there were no problems with electricity in the building. “
עוד אנשי מקצוע בשטח. אני מבין שכל גורמי התשתיות ובהם גם אנשי חברת החשמל במקום pic.twitter.com/2vCfqrVqnl
— Bar Peleg (@bar_peleg) January 1, 2021
Although the experts did not find any hazardous substances or any risk to the stability of buildings at the site, residents as well as kindergartens in the area were evacuated.
Officials described the heat source as “trapped energy” of unknown origin.
Work continues, steam is still rising and the ground is still hot. It is currently unclear what is causing the warming. Note the hole dug in the area. The area is still blocked.
Mysterious origins
City officials said they will “continue to monitor the temperature of the earth, which is expected to cool down for a long time, and will continue to investigate the causes of the unusual event.”
Israel Electric Corporation has not found a connection between heat and power in the area.
חדשות מחמי גבירול: העבודות והמדידות נמשכות. האדים כנראה פסקו וגם האדמה מעט התקררה (שימו לבל לסרטון, במקום המדידה הזה 39.3 מעלות). כמה סברות ששמעתי על הסיבה מגורמים שעבדו בשטח: תשתית חשמל ישנה בעומק הקרקע (חברת חשמל שללו) או חומר אורגני שבמגע עם מי תהום התחמם
צילום @ilanrcohen1 pic.twitter.com/CDKtDxVdQF
The Israel Geological Survey confirmed the rise in temperature after testing ground and water temperature levels, but said it has not yet found an explanation.
Despite their best efforts, municipal officials, the fire department, Israel Electric Corporation and the Ministry of the Environment have yet to find a source of heat.
Meanwhile, the Tel Aviv municipality has informed dozens of evacuees that they can return to their homes. However, residents are not going to return until they receive a detailed account of the source of the mysterious event.
“They evacuated us because they were concerned about our safety, and now they are urging us to return without any convincing explanation. How can you be sure that there is no more danger? “
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Usher- Versus (album review/preview)
August 21, 2010 /1 Comment/in Black Milks's Featured Posts, Featured Posts, Music, News By Genre, Reviews, Rhythm & Blues, Unreleased Album, Video /by BB8Finn
Got my hands on the new Usher EP “Versus” set for release August 24th, 2010 so thought I’d bless my Soulified folks with a little preview of the album as well as my thoughts on it. For those that don’t know what an “EP” is it stands for Extended Play which is pretty much a short album that usually has 3 to 5 songs. Versus has 5 songs if you exclude “There Goes My Baby” which was on Raymond VS Raymond and the “Someone to Love remix” which is Just Beiber’s song.
My first thought of this album when I first heard it was coming out just 4 months after Usher’s 6th studio album Raymond Vs Raymond was that these tracks were the tracks that didn’t make the cut. Especially knowing that production for this album took place during 2008 to 2010. If that is the case I couldn’t tell at all because every song on this album is pretty dope. The singles “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” featuring Pitbull,was released for the mainstream audiences, and “Hot Tottie” featuring Jay-Z was released for the urban audience but that shit isn’t urban to me at all. I mean yeah Jay-Z is on it but the song to me is boo boo. For one who the hell drinks hot tottie? Or for that matter who know’s what a hot tottie consist of? lol Of all drinks he could describe a woman as he choose that. And didn’t even spell it right (Toddy). lol
“Lingerie” is probably my favorite track on the EP. It has a grown ass, sexy up tempo vibe that goes into a dope Michael Jackson type vibe every time its about to go into the hook. And I happen to be a “freak for sexy lingerie.” hahaha Anyways enjoy the preview and download’s and make sure to get the album. Oh and here’s the “There Goes My Baby” video for those that havn’t seen it and love this track as much as I do. Not so much loving the video though. Usher seems to be feeling up on the concrete wall he’s singing against more then the love interest in the video. There not feeling or grown and sexy in it at all. What do yall think?
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6urbZyHgO4
01. Love Em All
02. DJ Got Us Falling In Love (Feat. Pitbull)
03. Hot Tottie (Feat. Jay-Z)
04. Lay You Down
05. Lingerie
07. Get In My Car (Feat. Bun B)
08. Somebody To Love (Remix) (Feat. Justin Bieber)
09. Stranger
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4 out of 5 Cartons
-Black Milk
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BARRY CONVEX AWARD
REVIEW: “You’re Not Dead Until You’re Forgotten – a Memoir”
Shivers (1975)
“You’re Not Dead Until You’re Forgotten – a Memoir”
John Dunning with Bill Brownstein
McGill-Queens University Press
**Book launch at the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday September 11, 2014 6:30pm-8:30pm
at Ben McNally Books (366 Bay Street) – FREE Admission!**
John Dunning is a pivotal figure in Canadian film history, so it’s more than scandalous that he only began to get his proper due at the end of his life. The founder and creative force behind Montreal’s Cinepix Productions, Dunning and his longtime cohort Andre Link brought the ideals of creative integrity and acerbic social commentary to the eternally maligned lower rungs of genre filmmaking.
For over two decades, their output – from the ‘maple syrup porn’ of Valerie and Loving & Laughing to the bluenose-baiting outrages of Shivers and Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS to the 80s horror touchstones Happy Birthday to Me and My Bloody Valentine – set a standard of invention and energy and, yes, artistic quality that was rarely matched in this country. Whether shaping his material directly as screenwriter or stewarding his charges (Ivan Reitman, David Cronenberg, Don Carmody, Larry Kent) as producer, Dunning was at the eye of the 70s/80s exploitation hurricane, and more than earned his sobriquet as “Canada’s Roger Corman”.
Loving and Laughing (1971)
With the written history of Canadian cinema still struggling to reclaim itself from hermetic academia and incomprehensible flag-waving, we are more than privileged that prior to his 2011 demise he put his name on an autobiographical manuscript. Edited and ornamented by Bill Brownstein, “You’re Not Dead Until You’re Forgotten” takes us on a near-complete tour through a life immersed, virtually from birth, in cinema. Structurally lumpy, and stronger on action and wit than characterization, it’s a page-turner and a revelation nonetheless.
The opening chapters recall his depression-era childhood and wartime adolescence as the son and professional heir of Verdun movie house pioneer “Mickey” Dunning. Dizzyingly compact, humane yet unrelentingly brutal, teeming with anecdote after uproarious anecdote, this sequence is a masterfully entertaining social history of early Canadian moviegoing. Dunning squanders his teen years in the service of the family enterprise, rescuing drunks from toilet drownings, ferreting indigent candy thieves out of the floorboards, and praying that the local steel mill drunks won’t rip the seats out when the distributors saddle him with the latest ‘women’s picture’. Meanwhile the theatre (and Dunning himself) are besieged from the outside by the church, the morality squad, the mafia, the cops. After three years of hellishness, it’s small wonder this scrawny, crosseyed film geek needs psychotherapy – except then his therapist sells Dunning his shares in a production partnership with a psychotic named Fernand Seguin, whose own apparent nervous breakdown precipitates the founding of Cinepix itself.
Link and Dunning in 1969
After Link comes on board in the early 60s, the narrative levels out abruptly, and tales of Dunning risking life and limb are more or less subsumed by a procession of episodes from the trenches. At first they work the only market available to them, as importers; they bring Quebec audiences everything from Luis Bunuel to the blackface jungle epic Lana, Queen of the Amazons. This sequence returns repeatedly and explicitly to Dunning’s view of this stuff as a conscious challenge to the puritanism of Duplessis-era Quebec, a complement to Jean Lesage’s ‘Quiet Revolution’, and while it may take some acclimatization to see such fare as a force for liberation, for the most part the argument is heartfelt and convincing.
The clincher in the social argument comes when Cinepix grows weary of managing the schlock of others and determines that the time has come to grow their own:
“We had been buying hard-edged sex films from Germany for the last few years. Films featuring drug and pimps on the edge. We were doing decently with these movies, but it dawned on us that no one ever seemed to make a nice film about a hooker. A woman who enjoys what she does, who is sensitive about helping her clients. A woman proud about her profession, in a romance movie that would end happily.”
And so along comes 1969’s Valerie – a softcore film so dear to Dunning’s heart that the protagonist is named after his daughter, and a landmark in the emergence of feature film culture in Quebec. Dozens of productions followed, at an intense clip that was to continue for two decades, with Dunning managing production and Link taking care of the distribution end. The book dedicates a page or two to each, and these are varied and entertaining and frequently laugh-out-loud funny.
Eventually they get tired of dealing with the kind of crooked distributors that handle their brand of fare, but as they graduate to major studio deals in the 80s they find out that these guys aren’t much more honest or principled. The key to the book’s perspective is Dunning’s disparagement of the ‘tax shelter’ wave in the late 70s, which he doesn’t deny exploiting for his own ends: “We called it the invasion of the carpetbaggers…Suddenly it wasn’t the film that was important, it was the deal…” To the ‘enlightened’ viewer there might be little difference in redeeming social value between My Bloody Valentine and, say, City On Fire; but Dunning saw himself as apart from such phenomena. He was dealing in art, on whatever terms the market could support.
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
By the late 80s the market was beginning to squeeze out this breed of independent idealist, and the corporate machinations that turned Cinepix into CFP and Dunning from creator to executive are both sad and severely truncated. No doubt Dunning found less fun and less adventure in these times, and thus his manuscript abruptly ends, leaving Brownstein to fill in the gaps with a brief coda and a series of ‘testimonials’ which spend too much time raking over the CFP years in tedious and redundant detail.
Of course, dying with your manuscript unfinished is a hell of a way to treat your editor, and Brownstein does his best here. But as one flips through the final third of the book, the attempt at resolution feels partial and failed. Not that unity was in the cards in the first place given the episodic nature of the original manuscript. But I wish a way had been found to integrate the other perspectives into the narrative, creating a true oral history of an era that needs one badly. This would have also allowed mainstays like Link and Carmody to emerge as characters in a way that they never do in Dunning’s text, and to smooth over some contradictions (were or were not Cinepix ‘blackballed’ from state funding after Shivers? Dunning and Cronenberg disagree).
The Surrogate (1984)
There are frustrations in the body as well – Glenn Ford is “ornery” and then there’s that “very temperamental SOB” Jacques Tati; so why not identify the litigious “leading man” of The Surrogate by name, when anyone can easily look him up on imdb? (Litigiousness, one supposes.) This diplomatic hedging reaches its absurd conclusion when Dunning can’t even bring himself to refer to the Christina Applegate vehicle Vibrations by name! And while it was a sweet idea to augment the filmography with a litany of Dunning’s “firsts”, the research on these is appallingly sloppy – for example, it lists Larry Kent’s Keep It In the Family as his first Quebec film when in fact it was his fourth!
Keep it in the Family (1973)
Such shortcomings make “You’re Not Dead Until Your Forgotten” into a less compelling pure reading experience than it could have been, which is truly a shame; this rendition is unlikely to touch the popular imagination, limiting its likely audience. But if you’re a fan, or think you could be, don’t hesitate to pounce on this product while it’s on the shelf. Imperfection never bothered Cinepix fans before, for the excellent reason that the good stuff is worth it. And there’s a lot of really, really good stuff in this book.
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Jonathan Culp was introduced to the world of filmmaking and animation when he met silhouette master Lotte Reiniger at age three. His own filmography includes over 50 titles, ranging from Super 8 experimental shorts to feature length comedy. His most recent work is the narrative collage feature “Taking Shelter", which assembles clips from over 300 Canadian tax shelter films. Jonathan has also written about film for Fuse, Clamor, Canadian Dimension and others, and has programmed screening events with Trash Palace, The 8 Fest, Blue Sunshine, and the Satan Macnuggit Video Road Show. Currently he can be heard performing with local bands Opera Arcana and Broken Puppy.
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Johnathan. Spot on review and critique. Thank you. I hope there is appetite and interest in a You’re Not Dead 2.0, with the Andre Link side of the story and some historical context.
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Trying to contact Greg Dunning. Feisty great grandma Leah was sister of my feisty great grandma left behind in England. Would like to share information
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Hi Jacqueline – contact me at bigsmashproductions@gmail.com and I’ll connect you with Greg.
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Sony Walkman E580 and E380 take on Apple’s iPod nano
Ewdison Then - Jul 10, 2013, 7:24am CDT
More and more people may be relying on their smartphones for portable entertainment, but Sony isn’t willing to leave even a shrinking PMP market to Apple’s iPod, hence the new E-Series Walkman range. The Walkman E580 and Walkman E380 each support music, video, and photo playback, with the E580 having a 2-inch display and a battery good for up to 77hrs of use, while the smaller E380 scales it down to 1.77-inches of screen and up to 30hrs of runtime.
The Walkman E580 – effectively an iPod nano alternative – comes in 8GB and 16GB capacities, good for up to 3,700 tracks. It will play MP3, WMA, Linear PCM, AAC, HE-AAC, FLAC, and Apple Lossless audio, and AVC, MPEG4, and WMV 9 video, and comes with a set of MDR-NC31 noise-cancelling earphones.
They work with Sony’s own Clear Bass, Clear Stereo, and Clear Phase digital processing, as well as “Virtualphones Technology” (VPT) which is basically the company’s attempts at modeling different environments, such as a recording studio or a club.
As for the Sony Walkman E380, that’s the smaller version, coming in 4GB and 8GB capacities for up to 1,950 tracks. It’ll play 4hrs of video, though only supports WMV 9; audio support misses out on the HE-AAC, FLAC, and Apple Lossless of its bigger sibling.
It also gets a more mundane pair of bundled headphones, though Sony does at least throw an FM radio inside. Listeners also get the Clear Bass and Clear Stereo processing.
Both the Sony Walkman NWZ-E580 and Walkman NWZ-E380 will go on sale in Europe later this month, with pricing yet to be announced.
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The unique service of Gregorian chant to the Church
The chant we now call Gregorian is the descendent of the basic cantilation that evolved in the Roman rite from its beginning. Although some of it dates from the earliest days of Christianity, using music from the
was long dead, naming it for the great pope was intended to enhance its prestige and special place in the Roman rite. That special place has endured.
Following the lead of earlier popes, most notably Pope St. Pius X and Pope Pius XII, Vatican Council II declared in its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy that, ‘The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy. Therefore, other things being equal, it should be given the principal place (principem locum) in liturgical services.’ (Sacrosanctum Concilium, Chapter VI, no. 116) And after stating that the vernacular languages should take their proper place, that same document, adds: ‘Nevertheless, steps should be taken enabling the faithful to say or to sing together in Latin those parts of the Ordinary of the Mass belonging to them.’ (Chapter II, no. 54)
. In the booklet’s preface, Pope Paul wrote that that Gregorian chant provides a service, ‘to be a bond that forms the members of many nations into a single people, gathered together in Christ’s name with one heart, one mind, and one voice.’ He elaborated on this in his cover letter to the bishops, ‘Whenever the faithful pray together as a community, they show at once the complex diversity of a people gathered ‘from every tribe, language, and nation’ and their unity in faith and charity. The diversity stands out in the many languages lawfully used in the liturgy and in the song settings suited to those languages. . . . The unity of faith, on the other hand, stands out in a marked manner through the use of Latin and Gregorian chant.’
Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI frequently repeated this request, and established offices and programmes to support and promote the use of chant. There are important reasons for this. Chant plays a fundamental role in the basic structure of the liturgy of the Mass and the Divine Office. In ancient times, the core elements of readings, chants, and prayers, were always proclaimed with a basic form of chant, or cantilation. This blend of speaking and singing was— and is—a way to clearly distinguish sacred and important texts from ordinary conversation, as well as to allow the voice to carry the texts to reach large groups of people in large spaces. It also helped in the memorization of texts, when written versions were scarce. Even today, cantilation is the preferred way to proclaim the readings and prayers, at least on more solemn occasions or in communities that regularly chant the entire liturgy. So the primary function of chant in the liturgy is not purely musical. It is to put music at the service of the liturgy in its work of proclaiming the Word and celebrating the Eucharist. Or in the words of Dom Jean Claire quoting his mentor, Dom Joseph Gajard: ‘Gregorian chant is the authoritative, official commentary which the Church gives to the liturgical texts.’
Pope Benedict XVI explained to us that all the directives of the popes and of the Council are...
...meant to put church music once again at the service of the liturgical text, and of adoration. Church music was to be no longer a performance on the occasion of a liturgical service but rather the liturgy itself: that is, joining in with the choir of angels and saints. Thus it was to be made clear that liturgical music was to lead the faithful into the glorification of God, into the sober intoxication of the faith. The emphasis on Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony was therefore ordered at once to the ‘mystery’ aspect of the liturgy and its Logos-like character and to its link with the Word in history.
The use of liturgical Latin also supports the chant in the promotion of unity, as well as reinforcing its sense of the sacred. The great scholar of Christian Latin, Christine Mohrmann, affirmed in her book, Liturgical Latin: Its Origin and Character:
. . . Latin used in the liturgy displays a sacral style. The basis and starting point of liturgical Latin is the Early Christian idiom, which, however, through the use of features of style drawn from the Early Roman sacral tradition mingled with biblical stylistic elements, has taken on a strongly hieratic character, widely removed from the Christian colloquial language. In this liturgical Latin the requirements demanded by Hilary for the style of the Christian exegete are realized to the full: Non enim secundum sermonis nostri usum promiscuam in his oportet esse facilitatem. [There is no place here for the loose facility of the colloquial language. (In Ps., 13.1)]. The advocates of the use of the vernacular in the liturgy who maintain that even in Christian Antiquity the current speech of everyday life, ‘the Latin of the common man,’ was employed are far off the mark. Liturgical Latin is not Classical Latin, but neither is it, as is so often said, the Latin which was considered decadent by educated people. The earliest liturgical Latin is a strongly stylized, more or less artificial language. . . . This language was far removed from that of everyday life, a fact which was certainly appreciated, since, at the time, people still retained the sens du sacré [sense of the sacred].
Gregorian chant, then, is a universal musical language. It helps us avoid a danger that Thomas Day, in his book Why Catholic’s Can’t Sing, explained. ‘Throughout the centuries, Roman Catholicism feared the Mass would merely become a specimen of the local ethnic folklore or peprally for nationalism. The church, in its collective wisdom, kept its eyes ever fixed on the job of fulfilling the commands of the Jewish Jesus . . . the Mass was not an occasion for ethnic and nationalistic boosterism.’
This quality of ‘universality’ takes its meaning beyond its Latin roots and actually refers to a totality that extends beyond the boundaries of our planet. Pope Benedict has observed that ‘it is no accident that in the Catechism of the Catholic Church we find the verb to sing for the first time in the section that deals with the cosmic nature of the liturgy, in a quotation from the conciliar constitution on the liturgy: ‘In the earthly liturgy we take part in a foretaste of that heavenly liturgy which is celebrated in the holy city of Jerusalem toward which we journey as pilgrims . . .; with all the warriors of the heavenly army we sing a hymn to the glory of the Lord.’ (Sacrosanctum Concilium, no. 8)
Gregorian chant is a valuable and esteemed gift from God to accompany us on that journey.
Article courtesy of Stan Metheny.
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Welcome to the SoftwareONE Accessibility & Digital Inclusion Virtual Summit
SoftwareONE UK, in conjunction with Microsoft, warmly welcomes you to our Accessibility & Digital Inclusion Virtual Summit. Our aim is to educate, inspire and connect organisations who are committed to making the workplace accessible for everyone.
Due to Covid-19, we turned our planned in-person events in Manchester and Dublin, to this Virtual Summit. We have endeavoured to make this event as accessible as possible, including using Microsoft Teams Live Events to host it, which includes live captioning and screen reading tools. If for any reason you cannot access the event or have technical questions, please contact kylie.stent@softwareone.com and one of our team will assist you in getting on line.
Welcome Talk – Andy Dunbar and Una Keeshan, SoftwareONE
Microsoft's Vision for Accessibility – Hector Minto, Microsoft
It Starts with a Culture Shift – Simon Bishop, SoftwareONE
Delivering Accessible Experiences for Everyone – Andy Hall, Scope
Technology: The Power and the Promise – Robin Christopherson MBE, AbilityNet
Demo of Microsoft 365 Accessibility Features – Joe Morley, SoftwareONE
Accessing Brains in Business – Caroline Turner, Creased Puddle
Demo of Microsoft 365 Accessibility Features – Peadar O’Sullivan, SoftwareONE
Inclusion & Diversity - The Opportunity & Support – Gerry Ellis, Bank of Ireland & Feel the Benefit
Closing Remarks – Andy Dunbar, SoftwareONE
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ACCESSIBILITY TECH
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Ask Caroline, Gerry and Robin about their first had experiences of working with a disability or difference.
Ask Andy Hall, Andy Dunbar, Simon and Hector on what steps should be taken to make a more accessible organisation.
HECTOR MINTO – ACCESSIBILITY EVANGELIST, MICROSOFT
Hector has been a Microsoft Tech Evangelist for Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa for almost 4 years, sharing his expertise in accessibility, assistive technology and disability issues.
Previously, Hector was co-creator of the learning curve for eyegaze technology, a pedagogy for children (and often adults) to embrace technology despite complex physical, cognitive and emotional disabilities.
His goal at Microsoft is to driving change in disability employment, awareness, design principles and inclusion.
ANDY HALL - DIGITAL INCLUSION LEAD, SCOPE
Andy has a wealth of experience and knowledge in leading digital and technology product accessibility projects for both public and business systems.
From delivering a research program to develop new working practices and focused solutions for unemployed blind and partially sighted people at the RNIB during his 9 year tenure, Andy has more recently been heading up the Digital Inclusion team at Scope.
Whilst at Scope, Andy has led many projects to drive change in accessibility, with programs such as delivering working practices to BS8878 and providing the technical aspects of ‘The Big Hack’ – which is Scope’s mission of calling on business to improve their digital services for disabled customers by making sure websites, apps and online services are delivering inclusive design and are accessible to everyone.
GERRY ELLIS - ACCESSIBILITY & USABILITY CONSULTANT, BANK OF IRELAND
Gerry is Chairperson of Bank of Ireland's Accessibility Network within its overall Inclusion and Diversity program.
With almost 40 years of experience at the bank, Gerry's 9 - 5 responsibilities is as a technical expert on the bank's mainframe computers. As chairperson of the Accessibility Network, he promotes the development and delivery of an inclusive work environment where all colleagues are enabled to reach their full potential and where the bank's services meet the needs of the maximum number of its customers.
Parallel to this, Gerry has promoted the social inclusion of persons with disabilities for over 30 years in a voluntary capacity under the name of Feel The BenefIT.
Nationally, Gerry's many achievements include being the former Chairperson of the Irish Council of People with Disabilities, founder member and first Chairperson of the Visually Impaired Computer Society and Co founder with Professor John Kelly of the Association for Higher Education Access and Disability (AHEAD) .
Internationally, Gerry has spoken at accessibility-related conferences in around 35 countries on 5 continents, is a member of the European Disability Forum's Accessibility Expert group, vice-Chairman of the ITU's Joint Co-ordinating Activity for Accessibility and Human Factors, and has contributed to several ISO and European standards.
CAROLINE TURNER - NEURODIVERSITY CONSULTANT & DIRECTOR, CREASED PUDDLE
Caroline is the founder of Creased Puddle Ltd, a York based Neurodiversity training and consultancy company. Caroline spent 21 years as a Police Officer qualifying to Inspector Level before retiring in 2017. In 2015 she was supported by her Chief Officer team to create the first Neurodiversity support group in British Policing.
Creased Puddle was launched in early 2018 and has since grown to become a nationally recognised centre of excellence for Neurodiversity, employing the concept of “Nothing about us, without us”.
Now delivering training and consultancy for the NHS, National Crime Agency, Cybercrime UK, RWE, and Police forces throughout the country, Caroline employs Autistic and ADHD professionals.
Caroline is also the founder of www.neuropool.co.uk and sits on a number of steering groups for cognitive diversity promoting the benefits and explaining the challenges for neurodivergent brains in business.
ROBIN CHRISTOPHERSON MBE - HEAD OF DIGITAL INCLUSION, ABILITYNET
After studying engineering at Cambridge University, Robin worked as an IT instructor for the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) before becoming a founding member of UK tech charity AbilityNet. Now globally acclaimed as leading experts in their field, AbilityNet specialises in advising individuals on adaptive and assistive technology, delivering workplace and DSA (Higher Education) assessments, and helping clients design attractive websites, software and apps that are easy to use by all.
Central to his mission is raising awareness of the inclusive power of tech through writing regular articles on a range of current and future-facing technologies, as well as delivering a busy public speaking schedule in the UK, Europe and the US.
ANDY DUNBAR – SERVICES DIRECTOR, UK AND IRELAND
Andy Dunbar is Services Director for SoftwareONE UK, South Africa, Ireland and Iceland.
With 20 years experience across a range of technologies and multiple market sectors including retail, public sector, not-for-profit, legal, manufacturing, distribution and finance, Andy now works with organisations to develop end-user focused technology solutions to deliver on strategic and operational objectives.
He is responsible for driving SoftwareONE’s Service Portfolio, Practices and Delivery Support, with a focus on digital transformation initiatives. He previously worked at a number of systems integrators, having started his career as a developer and business analyst. Andy is also a Trustee for Knowsley Disability Concern, a charity focused on helping people with disabilities to live independent lives. A die-hard Liverpool FC fan and a Saturday Dance Dad.
SIMON BISHOP – GLOBAL HEAD OF RECRUITMENT, SOFTWAREONE
Simon has worked in sales and recruitment for 20 years, in head-hunting, corporate and advisory roles in the Technology and Financial Services sectors.
He joined SoftwareONE in 2016 to build and lead its internal Talent Acquisition Team and create and drive its Employer Brand, with a key focus on ensuring it was established correctly and then could evolve to match the fast changing nature of SoftwareONE’s business.
In his TA role and as a member of the Executive Leadership and Global People & Culture teams one of his key focuses now is attracting and utilising all the leading talent in the market, removing barriers to entry for any group and ensuring SoftwareONE has a work environment which is both diverse & inclusive, giving each and every employee the greatest experience of their working life.
PEADAR O’SULLIVAN – SENIOR FUTURE WORKPLACE CONSULTANT, SOFTWAREONE
Peadar has over 22 years experience delivering technology projects.
When he began to explore the human side of IT, he had a greater appreciation for the impact his technology projects were having on those using the technology.
He became passionate about how technology can make a positive difference to the lives of everyone. Peadar was actively involved in establishing the One for All accessibility initiative at SoftwareONE.
Through Peadar’s role he has seen the many varying approaches to accessibility features in technology, ranging from having them disabled completely to having them widely promoted within an organization. As a Trusted Advisor, Peadar uses this experience to guide organizations on the best ways to ensure technology is not an impediment to anyone’s ability.
UNA KEESHAN - COUNTRY MANAGER, SOFTWAREONE IRELAND
Una has worked in the channel for over 20 years, working as a Senior Client Director for other Licensing Solution Providers before she joined SoftwareONE in 2012 to manage and build the SoftwareONE Ireland subsidiary.
Over the years Una has successfully built the Irish business to be one of the largest Microsoft technology partners in Ireland, winning many Microsoft awards.
Una has vast knowledge in account and relationship management, she has a deep understanding of software licensing and the managed services industry. Her experience has helped many of her clients realize cost savings, by performing contract analysis and engaging in software license advisory services. Her expertise allows her to advise on suitable licensing contracts whilst ensuring that software spend aligns with a client’s cloud technology strategy. Her deep expertise in software allows her to drive the digital transformation of her customers’ businesses and enables SoftwareONE Ireland to be at the forefront of innovative cloud and technology solutions and services.
JOSEPH MORLEY - PRE-SALES CONSULTANT, FUTURE WORKPLACE, SOFTWAREONE
Joe is a passionate IT professional with a colourful background of IT support and leadership roles – the latter being an introduction and springboard to designing and implementing diverse technology platforms with inclusion and diversity as a requirement, not a nice to have.
Alongside Peadar, Joe is involved with our One for All accessibility initiative, ensuring that we influence our internal business in designing and nurturing an environment that includes everyone – shaping inclusive design across our lock screens, documentation, templates and tools we use
As a Pre-Sales Consultant, Joe is involved in evangelising functionality and features across Windows 10 and Office 365, ensuring that administrators and end-users alike are comfortable and confident in the tools that they utilize in everyday life – and that everyone can work (and in the case of Minecraft for Education, play) together.
Learn more about how our speakers’ organisations can help you become more accessible.
SoftwareONE is a leading global provider of end-to-end software and cloud technology solutions. With capabilities across the entire value chain, it helps companies design and implement their technology strategy, buy the right software and cloud solutions at the right price, and manage and optimize their software estate. SoftwareONE is Microsoft’s largest global partner and is helping to spread the word about accessibility & digital inclusion, including setting up its own One for All initiative. SoftwareONE has a range of adoption and change management services to help organisations bring HR and IT together to make the workplace more accessible.
Visit our accessibility content hub here.
At Microsoft, we are passionate about creating products and services that are accessible for everyone, including people with disabilities. Our mission to ‘empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more’ doesn’t just begin and end with the products we create. It extends to the people we hire, to our marketing and communications, to the standards to which we hold our partners and vendors, and to our workplace. There are no limits to what people can achieve when technology reflects the diversity of everyone who uses it. Building accessibility into everything we do helps empower everyone to achieve more. Learn about Microsoft’s accessibility journey and initiatives here.
Scope is a disability equality charity in England and Wales. It provides practical information and emotional support when it's most needed most and campaigns relentlessly to create a fairer society. Learn more about Scope here.
Bank of Ireland’s purpose is to enable its customers, colleagues and communities to thrive. The Group is one of the largest financial services providers in Ireland, offering a wide range of banking and other financial services and operating Ireland’s largest retail branch network. In the UK, the Group has long-established partnerships with the Post Office and the AA providing consumer financial services. The Group’s international business is conducted by its Corporate Banking and Global Markets teams operating from Dublin, London, and offices in continental Europe and the United States. Find out about its Accessibility initiatives here.
AbilityNet supports people of any age, living with any disability or impairment to use technology to achieve their goals at home, at work and in education. We do this by providing specialist advice services, free information resources and by helping to build a more accessible digital world. Learn more about AbilityNet here or download a flyer on AbilityNet’s services.
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Nigeria approves spectrum for 5G trial
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the spectrum for the trial of 5G services in the country.
The Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Umar Danbatta, disclosed this at the opening of the maiden International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Digital African Week on Tuesday in Abuja.
Mr Danbatta said that Nigeria had exceeded the 30 per cent penetration target set by the National Broadband Plan of 2013 to 2018 and stood at 33.31 per cent at the end of June 2019.
He said the commission had developed a framework to facilitate the deployment of broadband infrastructure across the country through the licensing of Infrastructure Companies (INFRACO).
Mr Danbatta said the framework would also deploy metro and intercity fibre and broadband Point of Access with a minimum capacity of IOG bps across the 774 local government areas of Nigeria.
He said the NCC had taken steps to involve members of the Academia as strategic stakeholders in the activities towards developing the Telecom sector.
Mr Danbatta said the Research and Development Department of NCC was collaborating with universities and other institutions of higher learning to develop the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector.
He assured that the NCC would continue to drive and implement policies, projects and programmes aimed at facilitating digital revolution and digital inclusion in Nigeria.
”We have Put in place, Broadband implementation and Monitoring Committee (BIMC) to monitor the full implementation of the INFRACO projects within the four-year implementation plan.
“With the development of Smart Cities KPIs by the ITU, it is imperative to have pervasive and ubiquitous broadband infrastructure across all our towns and cities to achieve the objectives of making them Smart.
“We will continue to work hard to ensure that all citizens of Nigeria have access to affordable broadband connection in respective of their circumstances or location,’’ he said.
In his remarks, Bako Wakil, Director, Technical Standards and Network Integrity, NCC, said that the programme was to bring the African perspective to the standardisation of the new technologies to fit and support African nations.
Mr Wakil said that the African nations could also contribute to the standardisation process of the ITU and also come up with proposals and ideas that best suit the African nation.
Helen Nakiguli, a representative of Uganda, explained that the group was responsible for evaluating ICT effects on climate change and study design methodology for ICT environmental effects generally.
Ms Nakiguli noted that the interest was to engage the African region to be part of the standards development that will help the African region and the study group.
“This particular event is really critical for Africa to be part of the contribution to the development of standards that will help the region generally.
“Standardisation of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IOT), smart cities and communities, e-waste and circular economy and electromagnetic radiation are very important to the African continent,” she said.
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Game On: Remasters, remakes and rose-tinted glasses are rampant in the gaming industry
UPDATED: Thu., May 7, 2020
Arcade-style “beat ’em up” game “Streets of Rage 4” was released April 30, revisiting a series left behind in 1994.
By Riordan Zentler quartzlcc@yahoo.com(209) 761-1107
For every new video game to hit the market lately, it seems like there’s a remake of an old game, too. “Final Fantasy VII Remake” was released April 10, followed by “Streets of Rage 4” on April 30. There are boatloads of simple ports of classic games to modern consoles, but neither of these two was a quick cash grab – “Final Fantasy VII Remake” was re-created from the ground up and spent five years in production. Developer Lizardcube spent two years creating all-new assets for “Streets of Rage 4,” a sequel to a long-dead series that hadn’t seen a release since 1994.
As someone who poured many hours into the original trilogy on the Sega Genesis, I feel qualified to say this: “Streets of Rage 4” is excellent. It manages to be faithful to the originals while adding enough new elements to justify its existence in 2020. The game is a side-scrolling “beat ’em up” akin to the “Final Fight” or “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” games you can find in almost any arcade.
It’s a struggling genre, but there’s something timeless about dispensing vigilante justice on crime-ridden streets alongside a friend while pumping electronic music fuels the rampage. “Streets of Rage 4” scored 80-85/100 on Metacritic, the latest in a string of successes from Sega, allowing outside developers to take on its franchises.
Bigger publishers are in on the remake craze, too. For Sony, “Crash Bandicoot,” “Spyro the Dragon” and even “MediEvil” saw remasters of its PlayStation 1 games throughout 2017-19. Microsoft doesn’t own many iconic IPs, but it has kept the old Halo games alive with the consistently updated “Master Chief Collection,” and Microsoft is rumored to be bringing back “Fable” soon.
Ironically, the publisher with its eyes most set toward the future also is the one who’s been in the market the longest: Nintendo. Nintendo offers digital downloads of its classic games ported to modern consoles, but otherwise the company tends to leave the past in the past. This might change – Nintendo has almost always taken a conservative approach to the evolving industry. It was the last console manufacturer to use CDs instead of cartridges, the last to implement internet connectivity and the last to let players download full games, among other things.
Even Nintendo is starting to acknowledge the demand for remakes, most notably releasing “The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past” in 2019 for the Nintendo Switch – the original was released in 1993. Most of Mario’s 3D games from 1996 onward will be remastered this year.
The trend is good and bad for consumers. It’s great for newcomers who may have missed out on older video games – according to Statista, there were 1.8 billion gamers in the world in 2014, while current estimates are 2.5 billion. On the other hand, one could argue that more resources being dedicated to revitalizing old games equates to less resources being put into making brand new ones, so there are fewer fresh experiences for seasoned gamers.
Remaking classic games is a safe bet for publishers, but most of those classics became popular because the developers produced bold, new ideas to challenge players and offer fresh experiences. I don’t know if it’s because of this trend or I’m getting older and more cynical, but it’s been a long time since a game made me say “wow.”
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Knicks win again, Amare out indefinitely
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Knicks beat Bucks 89-80 in key NBA East matchup
The Knicks won the battle, an 89-80 win over Milwaukee but may have lost the war as Amare Stoudemire will be out indefinitely with a bulging disc in his back. Carmelo Anthony has 28 points and 12 rebounds as the shorthanded Knicks moved 2 1/2 games ahead of Milwaukee for the eighth and final playoff spot in the NBA East. New York was also without Jeremy Lin who is battling knee problems. The Knicks are now 7-1 under Mike Woodson who coached his 500th game.
In other Monday games in “The Association”, the Pacers spanked Miami 105-90 sending the Heat to their second double-digit loss in 24 hours. Danny Granger had 25/9/3 for the winners, Dwayne Wade had 24/5/6 for Miami. The Pistons used a 26-15 fourth quarter to take down the Wiz 79-77. Orlando crushed Toronto 117-101, the Magic shooting 54% from the field and knocking down 15 treys. Boston rolled Charlotte 102-95 behind 36 and 10 from Paul Pierce. Utah opened a 104-85 can of whup ass on New Jersey despite all five starters playing 50+ minutes in the night before’s 4OT loss at Atlanta. Denver, Houston, and the Clippers also won.
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With ten days and five to six games per team left in the NHL regular season, almost every game from here on out has playoff implications. On frozen pond, Detroit smoked Columbus 7-2 and will go to the playoffs for the 21st straight year. The streak is the longest in professional sports and 3X longer than the next longest streak in the NHL. Steven Stamkos scored his team record 53rd goal breaking the Lightning single season record of 52 set by Vincent Lecavalier. The Bolts kept their slim playoff hopes alive with a 5-3 win over the Flyers. Ottawa waxed Winnipeg 6-4. Calgary scored four goals in the second period and then held on to beat Dallas 5-4. Roberto Luongo had 38 saves in Vancouver’s 1-0 shutout of the Kings. San Jose took a one-point lead in the Pacific with a 5-1 win over the Avs.
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St. Paul PeeWee Baseball team–then and now
By Mary Thoemke (TC Daily Planet) | October 23, 2008
Then, they were in sixth grade and played PeeWee baseball in 1955 at Scheffer playground in Saint Paul. Now, 53 years later they still get together every couple of months or so for breakfast at the Coffee Cup on Rice Street. Dick Miller, Jay Allen, Jerry Sinna and John Brodrick attended the old Scheffer grade school, while Bill Braeker and Derrill Lambert went to St. Adalbert’s. All lived near the playground and came together to play under the late Coach Joe Sullivan. Brodrick describes Sullivan as “ an icon in the neighborhood.”
Brodrick, a retired teacher and now a member of the Saint Paul Board of Education, says the team wore hand-me-down old-style white flannel uniforms with baggy pants and their shirts read “Public Safety Post 449.” That year the PeeWees played against Front, Rice-Lawson, Sylvan, and Valley playground teams. Brodrick laughs as he recalls that the “only hit I got all year was against Front.”
In those days the boundaries of the North End/Rice Street and Frogtown neighborhoods were not as clearly defined. Today the Scheffer playground, which is the oldest playground in the city, still exists as Scheffer Recreation Center at Como Avenue and Marion Street in Frogtown. Brodrick, who lived just off of Rice Street, says, “I always considered myself a Rice Streeter. I guess you could say we were a hybrid team.”
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I grew up watching Star Trek in reruns with fanatic devotion, and always dreamed about my very own themed wedding — complete with someone in a bumpy skullcap delivering a romantic Shakespearean sonnet in the original Klingoni. Afterwards, everyone would beam to a Starfleet bar, while a shuttle craft delivers the crotchety uncles and aunts that object to having their molecules scattered across the galaxy.
OK, that is a lie. Not the part about watching every Star Trek episode, usually in Saturday marathons hosted by some guy that was an extra in "The Trouble with Tribbles." No, the lie is the wedding dreams. As a sci-fi watcher and reader, the idea of marriage was as dim and distant as the light from attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion when viewed from the Tannhäuser Gate.
Since the opportunity to plan a Star Trek-themed wedding only happens once in a lifetime (I hope), and there was scant help for me in making any arrangements, I thought that relating my experiences could help in planning your own Star Trek-themed weddings (or viewing parties, and convention room food fests, for that matter).
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Pour yourself a tea, Earl Grey, hot, and follow along, if you like.
First of all, unless you have the advantages of an arranged marriage or the desperation of pon farr, you’re going to need to find a suitable mate. Here is my only advice offered in that regard: SoHvaD ylyuDQo’, or, “To Thine Own Self be True” if you read Shakespeare’s translation. I have known several geeky friends who only revealed their sci-fi obsession after their vows were exchanged, and their wives found that to be disingenuous, at best. Be bold and honest with your loves, both human and televised, and thank me later. On the flip side, being honest did undermine a lot of relationship chances through the years, which left me waiting for someone to propose to me until I was 37, but I think that it was worth the wait. Plus, my wife is reading this over my shoulder as I type it, and she knows my sleeping schedule, so I have to say that everything happened for a good reason.
Next, you’re probably going to want to make a grand romantic gesture that ties your love of Star Trek into your proposal to your significant other. In my case, my girlfriend proposed to me after showing up in an Original Series science officer dress, and had made modifications to her baby’s onesie so that it looked like a 2270’s all-white uniform with insignia. I donned my Next Generation shirt, we dined at our favorite burger joint — and we had near-private dining on a busy weekend night because no one wanted to sit near the Trek fans. In the 23rd century, I hope that girls proposing to boys while all are wearing Star Trek uniforms is not as alarming to people as it turned out to be when I had to explain what transpired to her parents.
Needless to say, quotes from the series of your choice should be mixed into the proposal, and although the standard thought is that you should buy a ring with a dilithium crystal worth three months' credits if possible, a good person would proudly wear a self-sealing stem bolt on her finger if it was from his or her true love.
Everything after the proposal is a whirlwind of reservations, and I’m not just talking about cold feet. After a lot of disappointing meetings, I found that the only way to get anything offbeat arranged was to go with extremely small producers of wedding supplies and to check out a lot of venues that were not traditionally used for weddings. Maybe these people were less judgmental, or maybe they just couldn’t afford to turn away any business even if their clients — us — made odd requests. But the net effect was that these people came through for me in every single instance.
For the cake, after trying dozens of stale slices from all of the specialty bakeries in town, we happened upon a newer husband-and-wife team that didn’t just hand you a checklist to fill out. Instead of showing us a catalog of cakes that all look the same (and then being told that every change from the ordinary fare would be an upcharge of a dollar per change desired per serving), these kind people fed us fresh cake, showed us their past creations, and then waited to hear what we really wanted our wedding cake to look like. When I started to explain the tri-dimensional chess board cake that I was dreaming of, the baker already had called up pictures on her phone. Three main boards of chocolate raspberry, coffee hazelnut, and lemon, and then four attack boards of more chocolate hazelnut (I supplied the chess pieces).
When it came to the decorations, I already had enough phasers and tricorders (plus I borrowed a few from my friends) that all we needed to purchase to spruce up the reception were some Star Trek photos and a large print of Kirk and Spock to make into a frame-able guestbook. I’m sure that we could have procured a lot more science-fiction themed party favors and table decorations on the cheap if we had checked the costume shops during their after-Halloween closeout period, but I was working two jobs and negotiating to buy my first house at the time, so I forgive myself for dropping the ball on that one.
As for the venue, I knew that a standard church service or bland reception hall wouldn’t do. I’ve always been a baseball fanatic, so I was able to persuade my now-wife into letting me go with an homage to my third favorite Deep Space Nine episode, "Take Me Out to the Holosuite." After laughing/crying at the amount of money that the Cincinnati Reds would charge for doing anything at their shiny, new park, I found a much more reasonable price and a much more accommodating group sales team with the local minor league team, the Florence Freedom.
The easiest part of the planning was finding an officiant to marry us. When we found someone willing to perform in "alternative" ceremonies, we did have to survive an interview with her that Elim Garak would have approved of in his Obsidian Order days, but she approved of us in the end. I’m sure that it helped that we wanted very few changes to the usual wording, because I worried that going too far into character would result in a couple of Klingoni mispronunciations that would render us unrecognized as married according to the state of Kentucky. In the end, we added "Live long and prosper" to the end of our vows in place of "You may now kiss the bride," and that was good enough for us.
By buying out two of the air-conditioned suites for a Saturday afternoon game to use as our reception, a wonderful baseball game replaced the horrible DJ or lame cover band that would normally be employed as the post-wedding entertainment, a major upgrade. The team was so happy to get to deal with a wedding, even a weird wedding, that we also were given free access to the seating area before the game to have our ceremony. Afterwards, the included buffet of ballpark hot dogs and BBQ sandwiches that all of the private suites had access to would prove to be the second best tasting food of any wedding I’ve ever been to, which either says a lot about my taste buds or very little about the quality of catered food (probably both).
Of course, there were a multitude of minor problems on the actual wedding day, starting with the rain out of the previous night’s game that necessitated a doubleheader that would start an hour earlier than our original planned time. The ballpark workers shuffled all of the non-wedding guests to the far side of the park before the game, the players on the field suspended their warmups during the short ceremony, and the Star Trek theme song played over the grandstand’s loudspeakers. It was so quiet and organized during the exchange of vows that you could hear the tinny sound of my fiancee dropping my wedding ring, and still follow the noise as it bounced off of the third base dugout, down the steps, and then rolled to within an inch of the nearest storm drain.
The rest of the day was close enough to perfect, including getting cheered after we each threw out a ceremonial pitch before the second game of the double header. My wife threw a fastball right down the middle of the plate despite her high heels and wedding dress, whereas my noticeably weaker arm produced a high enough throw that the catcher had to leap to get it, although it was over the plate. (In my defense, my tricorder spun around, altering my windup, and I was subconsciously picturing a much taller batter — something on the order of a Mugato.)
Certainly things could have been smoother, and I would not recommend a mid-June outdoor wedding after seeing my older relations melting in the sun, but the photographer dropping the uneaten portion of the various cakes while ducking from a poorly timed foul ball was the worst of the day, and that’s not so bad. Of course, my wife falling off of a cliff the next day during a honeymoon hike was less than desirable, but I did catch her, and we’ve lived long and prospered ever since.
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Clashes in the eastern countryside of al-Suwaidaa and shelling by the regime forces targets Douma
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Clashes took place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against fighters of the factions in the eastern countryside of al-Suwaidaa, and confirmed information about casualties in the ranks of both parties.
Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
The regime forces renewed the shelling on areas at Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta, and warplanes have targeted the city today with 6 raids which killed a woman and her child girl and injured 7 persons.
Casualties in a fight between gunmen loyal to the regime at Homs city and renewed shelling on al-Wa’er neighborhood and the regime forces target Dael
Violent clashes in Al-Raqqah countryside lead to new advancement for Syria Democratic Forces
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Area Information for Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW
Wardour Street in Westminster is in the London region of England. The postcode is within the St James's ward/electoral division, which is in the constituency of Cities of London and Westminster. This page combines information for the address Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW, and the neighbourhood in which it resides. If you wish, you can also view information for the whole of W1D here. For more details on the exact area these statistics cover, please see the map below and click "Show Census Area Covered" immediately below the map.
Local Authority Westminster
Ward St James's
Constituency Cities of London and Westminster
Region London
Our information is available for almost all UK postcodes. Why not take a look at some of these other postcodes in the immediate vicinity of Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW:
Gerrard Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6JL
Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QN
Gerrard Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6JN
Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QL
Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QJ
Gerrard Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6JR
Alternatively, click here to view demographic information about W1D as a whole.
The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2011. They are performed once every 10 years. Please note: census information may include figures for adjacent streets and postcodes. The figures are therefore representative of the local area, not a specific street address or row of houses. The census collection is designed so that each group of postcodes should contain at least 100 people (50 in Scotland). This is done to preserve the anonymity of the people in that area, as some postcodes cover a very small area, sometimes a single building. You can see the area covered by the census statistics by clicking "Show Census Area Covered" below the map above.
There have been no house sales reported to the Land Registry in this postcode since January 1st 1995.
The area containing Wardour Street, Westminster, London consists predominantly of flats, which is common in inner cities, student neighbourhoods and poorer suburban settings. Please note that the figures may include adjacent streets - see the Summary tab for an explanation and map of the area that these figures cover.
Semi-Detached 0
Terraced 4
Flat (Purpose-Built) 152
Flat (Converted) 12
Residence in Commercial Building 69
Caravan/Park/Temporary 1
The area containing Wardour Street, Westminster, London contains a higher than average level of rented housing (excluding social housing) - 61% of household spaces. This contrasts with the national average of just over 16%.
Owned with Mortgage 9
Rented: From Council 10
Rented: Other Social inc. charities and housing associations 37
Rented: Private Landlord inc. letting agents 116
Across the UK as a whole, the gender split is roughly 49% male, 51% female. The local area around W1D 6QW however is predominantly male (59%). This can be caused by a number of factors, but amongst the most common are: areas associated with nearby higher education, areas that contain large establishments such as boarding schools, and areas with younger populations (females on average live longer than males, so are more likely to be found in retirement areas).
In the immediate vicinity of W1D 6QW there is a large concentration of residents that are single - 53% of the resident population. On average, around 35% of census respondents were single. Areas with large single populations are often in built-up areas, with good entertainment facilities. It is also common to see a younger population in these areas.
Single 207
Separated 11
Good 148
Degree or Similar e.g. professional qualification (accountancy etc) 141
Wardour Street, Westminster, London can be considered more ethnically diverse than the UK average. As whole, the UK population claims itself as approximately 86% white, with residents of this area being 43% so.
Mixed Ethnicity 11
Bangladeshi 13
Other Asian 17
Black African 9
Other Black/African/Caribbean 1
In this area (Wardour Street, Westminster, London), only 33% of the residents were born in England, so the majority of the residents of this area were not born in England.
European Union 38
Note that an individual may hold one or more passports. The data may include people living in adjacent addresses to W1D 6QW
Europe (including European Union) 43
African Countries 11
Middle East or Asia 113
North America or Caribbean 17
Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and nearby islands) 10
No Religion 133
Buddhist 67
Muslim 32
Not Stated 26
This address within the St James's ward is entrepreneurial, with a larger than average concentration of residents that are self-employed - 16% of the resident population. On average, around 9.7% of census respondents were self-employed. Male residents were more than twice as likely to be self-employed than women.
Long-Term Sick or Disabled 11
Accommodation and Food 77
Information and Communication 23
Financial ServicesInc. Insurance 24
Public Administration and Defence 1
OtherInc. Arts, Recreation etc. 26
Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW is within the West End and Chinatown policing neighbourhood, under the Metropolitan Police Service force area. For non-urgent queries, contact 101. For emergency assistance, please contact 999. In November 2020, 1096 crimes were reported within half a mile of W1D 6QW.
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Crime: Click here to view 1096 crimes committed near Wardour Street
Neighbourhood Team Address West End and Chinatown
Website: http://www.met.police.uk/a/your-area/met/westminster/west-end-and-chinatown/
Key: Tube Station DLR Station Railway Station Hospital GP Dentist Optician Primary School Secondary School
Below are the details of the closest services to Westminster. All distances are straightline distances, please consult the map of the facility to check the exact location. You can also view these details on our interactive services map for W1D 6QW.
Listed here are the 20 closest railway stations to Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW. The nearest railway station is London Charing Cross, approximately 740 yards away.
London Charing Cross 740 yards
London Waterloo 0.9 miles
London Waterloo East 1.1 miles
London Euston 1.2 miles
London Blackfriars 1.2 miles
City Thameslink 1.2 miles
London Victoria 1.2 miles
Farringdon 1.3 miles
London St Pancras International 1.4 miles
London Kings Cross 1.4 miles
London St Pancras (Intl) 1.5 miles
London Marylebone 1.6 miles
London Cannon Street 1.8 miles
Vauxhall 1.8 miles
Elephant & Castle 1.8 miles
Moorgate 1.9 miles
London Paddington 2 miles
London Bridge 2.1 miles
Old Street 2.1 miles
Camden Road 2.1 miles
Nearest Tube/DLR Stations
Listed here are the 20 closest Tube and Docklands Light Railway stations to Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW. The nearest Tube station is Piccadilly Circus, approximately 220 yards away.
Piccadilly Circus Tube Station 220 yards
Leicester Square Tube Station 270 yards
Charing Cross Tube Station 600 yards
Covent Garden Tube Station 610 yards
Tottenham Court Road Tube Station 630 yards
Embankment Tube Station half a mile
Oxford Circus Tube Station half a mile
Green Park Tube Station 0.6 miles
Goodge Street Tube Station 0.6 miles
Holborn Tube Station 0.7 miles
Westminster Tube Station 0.8 miles
Temple Tube Station 0.8 miles
Bond Street Tube Station 0.8 miles
St. James's Park Tube Station 0.8 miles
Russell Square Tube Station 0.9 miles
Waterloo Tube Station 0.9 miles
Warren Street Tube Station 1 mile
Chancery Lane Tube Station 1 mile
Euston Square Tube Station 1 mile
Great Portland Street Tube Station 1 mile
Listed here are the 10 closest primary schools to Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW. The nearest is Soho Parish CofE Primary School, approximately 200 yards away.
Soho Parish CofE Primary School 200 yards
St Josephs Catholic Primary School 0.5 miles
St Clement Danes CofE Primary School 0.6 miles
All Souls CofE Primary School 0.7 miles
St George's Hanover Square CofE Primary School 0.8 miles
St Matthew's School, Westminster 1 mile
St George the Martyr Church of England Primary School 1 mile
St Vincent's Catholic Primary School 1 mile
St Alban's Church of England Primary School 1.1 miles
Burdett-Coutts and Townshend Foundation CofE Primary School 1.1 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest secondary schools to Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW. The nearest is Westminster City School, approximately 1 mile away.
Westminster City School 1 mile
The Grey Coat Hospital 1.1 miles
London Nautical School 1.1 miles
The St Marylebone CofE School 1.2 miles
Oasis Academy South Bank 1.2 miles
Maria Fidelis Catholic School FCJ 1.3 miles
Notre Dame Roman Catholic Girls' School 1.5 miles
Regent High School 1.6 miles
Haberdashers' Aske's Borough Academy 1.6 miles
Pimlico Academy 1.6 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest GPs (General Practitioners) to Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW. The nearest is Soho Centre For Health And Care, approximately 390 yards away. Please consult the NHS Choices website to check if the facility is currently accepting new NHS patients.
Soho Centre For Health And Care 390 yards
Soho Square General Practice 390 yards
Great Chapel Street Medical Centre 490 yards
GT Chapel Street Medical Centre For The Homeless 490 yards
Covent Garden Medical Centre 710 yards
Museum Practice 0.6 miles
Kings College Health Centre 0.6 miles
Gower Street Practice 0.6 miles
Ridgmount Practice 0.6 miles
St Philips Medical Centre 0.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest dentists to Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW. The nearest is Leicester Square Dental Clinic, approximately 160 yards away. Please consult the NHS Choices website to check if the facility is currently accepting new NHS patients.
Leicester Square Dental Clinic 160 yards
Soho Dental Care 390 yards
Soho Orthodontic Clinic 390 yards
CLCH Dental Service for Homeless People 490 yards
Covent Garden Dental Clinic 500 yards
Centre Point Dental Practice 510 yards
Nigel Meyer & Associates Dental Practice 0.7 miles
Malmin Orthodontic Group Ltd 0.8 miles
Esthetique Dental Care 0.8 miles
T E Davies & R J O 0.8 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest hospitals to Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW. The nearest is Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals, approximately 0.7 miles away.
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals 0.7 miles
No25 Harley St Phoenix Hospital Group 0.7 miles
No9 Harley St Phoenix Hospital Group 0.7 miles
Harley Street Specialist Hospital (Queen Anne Street) 0.8 miles
University College Hospital Grafton Way Building 0.8 miles
Hospital For Tropical Diseases 0.8 miles
The Royal London Hospital For Integrated Medicine 0.8 miles
National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square 0.9 miles
London Welbeck Hospital 0.9 miles
Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children 0.9 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest opticians to Wardour Street, Westminster, London, W1D 6QW. The nearest is David Clulow Opticians, approximately 180 yards away.
David Clulow Opticians 180 yards
Eyecare Clinic 230 yards
Boots 240 yards
Washin Optical London 310 yards
Sight Care 590 yards
Boots-London - Strand 650 yards
Optical Express 710 yards
Specsavers Opticians 720 yards
Boots-London - Tottenham Court Road 760 yards
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Colorado River District revisiting mill levy increase
Heather Sackett
Aspen Journalism
The Colorado River Water Conservation District owns water in Ruedi Reservoir. River District directors are considering whether to put a tax increase question to voters this November.
Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism
Fourteen of the 15 directors of the Colorado River Water Conservation District, gathered for a 2019 meeting. The directors are appointed by county commissioners in 15 Western Slope counties. Back row, from left, Alden Vanden Brink, Rio Blanco County; Karn Stiegelmeirer, Summit; Doug Monger, Routt; Marc Catlin, Montrose; John Ely, Pitkin; Steve Acquafresca, Mes; Bill Trampe, Gunnison; Stan Whinnery, Hinsdale. Front row, from left, Mike Ritschard, Grand; Kathy Chandler-Henry, Eagle; Dave Merritt, Garfield; Martha Whitmore, Ouray; Tom Alvey, Delta; Rebie Hazard, Saguache; Not shown, Tom Gray, Moffat County.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — The directors of the Colorado River Water Conservation District are revisiting a recommendation to ask voters to restore part of the district’s original mill levy.
River District General Manager Andy Mueller recommended at the district’s quarterly board meeting this week asking voters in the November 2020 election to raise the district’s property tax rate from a quarter-mill to a half-mill, taking its budget from roughly $4 million to $8 million.
That works out to 50 cents for every $1,000 of assessed property value.
According to a memo from Mueller, the River District has taken steps over the past year to reduce expenses — which have climbed at a rate of 3% per year — such as putting a grant program on hold, instituting an early retirement program to reduce the number of full-time employees and reducing its fleet of vehicles by two. These efforts, however, are not a long-term fix to what Mueller called a structural deficit.
“ We are trying to help people realize there is an agency charged with protecting two-thirds of the West Slope and assist in the long-range planning for water supply and helping them realize while we may not touch their daily lives, how important that work is.”Andy MuellerGeneral manager, Colorado River Water Conservation District
Mueller’s recommendation seeks to remedy a dwindling general fund caused by the bane of many Colorado taxing districts: the Taxpayer Bill of Rights and Gallagher Amendment, which restrain the growth of government by placing limits on the amount of taxes allowed to be collected. The River District gets 97% of its revenue from property taxes.
“It’s not with lack of thought that I’m recommending this board consider asking the voters, appropriately under TABOR, to support a tax increase,” Mueller told River District directors. “We want to see that money going to partners on the West Slope and projects that span the scope of our water improvement needs.”
Some directors said they supported the measure, which was first publicly discussed at a February 2019 meeting.
“I think it’s obvious this is a necessary step forward,” said Karn Stiegelmeier, who represents Summit County.
Others agreed about the need to increase the River District’s revenue but expressed doubt a tax measure could pass in western Colorado’s more conservative counties, such as Mesa, Montrose and Delta, especially in a presidential election year with high turnout.
“I think we face a really difficult battle,” said Tom Alvey, who represents Delta County. “There are a number of tax-averse areas on the Western Slope.”
Building awareness
The River District was created by the state Legislature in 1937 to protect and develop water supplies in 15 Western Slope counties, including Pitkin, Garfield and Eagle. County commissioners appoint its directors to three-year terms. The Glenwood Springs-based organization works to shape Colorado water policy and advocates for keeping water on the Western Slope.
Even though the River District plays an important role in Colorado water planning, its financial might has lagged behind its political clout. A revenue increase would help remedy that, Mueller said.
“What we are trying to do is respond to the public’s concerns about (a secure water future) and be the leader at the table and not just with our skilled staff and political influence, but also with money,” he said.
But before the tax money can start rolling in, voters have to know what the River District is and what it does. To that end, staff has undertaken a rebranding of the River District to help voters connect what it does with its name. Staff has stepped up efforts with social media, a newsletter and video featuring Mueller and West Slope water users, and also is planning a series of webinars and workshops around the 15 counties.
In addition to Mueller, the River District employs attorneys, engineers, hydrologists, legislative lobbyists and communications specialists to protect the West Slope’s water interests. Directors did not make a decision at this week’s meeting on whether to put the tax question on this year’s ballot. Instead, they agreed to continue to research the issue and discuss it with their constituents.
Aspen Journalism collaborates with The Aspen Times and other Swift Communications newspapers on coverage of rivers and water. Go to aspenjournalism.org for more information.
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Cyient invests in Israeli rail-cybersecurity firm Cylus
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Vignesh Ananthraj 7 Jun, 2019
Engineering and technology solutions company Cyient Ltd said it has invested in rail cybersecurity solutions provider Cylus Ltd, based in Israel.
The investment, whose value was not disclosed, is a bid to develop smarter and safer mobility solutions for the rail industry. The partnership brings together Hyderabad-based Cyient’s expertise in engineering for rail digitisation and Cylus’ cybersecurity solutions for the rail industry.
Cyient also said that the move enables both the companies to expand their industry-specific cybersecurity value proposition, accelerate the development of modern cybersecurity solutions for rail and jointly address market needs.
Cylus is the developer of CylusOne, a cybersecurity software product that is designed for mainline and urban rail systems. The solution works by detecting cyber threats in the signalling and control networks, both on the trackside as well as onboarding.
“We are excited about investing in Cylus and their world-leading cybersecurity solutions as part of our strategy to develop intelligent mobility solutions for a safer tomorrow,” said Prabhakar Atla, senior vice-president, rail transportation, Cyient.
Atla added that the investment would allow Cyient to leverage the rapid evolution of connected and intelligent rail assets to help the rail industry to design, build and maintain safe assets and secure networks.
Amir Levintal, chief executive and co-founder of Cylus, said that the rail systems of today have become technologically advanced and the threat of cyber-attacks has been steadily growing.
“We have already established strong relationships with key players in the rail industry and are growing our partnerships with leading rail operators. We are moving full steam ahead to scale our team and expand globally,” said Levintal.
Cylus’ founders include veterans from the Elite Technological Unit of the Israel Defense Forces’ Intelligence Corps, along with executives from the railway industry.
Cyient, apart from the rail transportation vertical, works in the domains of aerospace and defence, healthcare, telecommunications, semiconductor, geospatial, industrial, and energy. The company currently employs close to 15,000 workers spread around 20 countries.
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Could the new Nokia 3310 end up being a bad thing for next-gen Nokia phones?
By Patrick Goss 26 February 2017
When a retro phone overshadows your new offerings you're treading a difficult path
The furore around the all-new Nokia 3310 has been a joy for phone fans to behold - as thousands upon thousands get enthused all over again about an update to a phone that has become the most iconic of all time.
But despite this early burst of enthusiasm, the new company behind this reimagining must be careful that it does not become a nostalgic millstone around its neck.
A straw poll of what people were looking forward to from this year’s Mobile World Congress showed that rather than the new flagship LG G6 phone or the burgeoning Huawei P10, it was the Nokia retro phone that was picking up the most attention.
You can understand why; this was a phone that established itself as a true classic; robust, functionally perfect in its simplicity and with a battery life measured in days not hours. And then there was the game that everyone still remembers: Snake (or Snake 2 to be strictly accurate).
This new offering is a little different - and not just because its features have been dragged, probably kicking and screaming, into the 21st century.
The Nokia phone brand is now licensed by a company called HMD, and manufacturing the new range of phones is being looked after by megalithic Chinese company Foxconn.
Nokia 6 - overshadowed
But although capitalising on the retro cool of a revamped and low cost 3310, the popularity could also be a pitfall for HMD.
The general consensus is that HMD will be looking to quickly push the loyal old Nokia fans on to its more modern wares (like the newly announced Nokia 6.
In the same way as Nintendo appreciates our custom for its retro cool Nintendo Entertainment System Classic but would really really like it if we could all start spending a considerable larger number of our pennies on the new Nintendo Switch, HMD Nokia will be desperate to move us on from nostalgia to new fairly swiftly.
In fact, there’s a very real danger that the new Nokia will be written off as a retro phone company, unless the smartphone offering can now step out from the shadow being generated by the classic chassis.
It’s a view shared by Ian Fogg Head of Mobile Analysis at IHS Markit: “HMD must balance two competing brand goals with its new handsets,” he suggested.
“HMD must appeal to those consumers who recall the Nokia brand from when Nokia was the leading handset and smartphone manufacturer in the early 2000s while establishing Nokia as a modern and up to date brand again known for innovation.
“The launch of the new re-imagined Nokia 3310 featurephone threatens to overshadow HMD’s modern smartphones. HMD must avoid the Nokia brand being seen as purely a nostalgia brand.”
It’s a cliche that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but as politicians in the past 12 months have proven it’s got a big chunk of truth attached to it.
Ultimately HMD Nokia will be delighted with the wave of interest the 3310 has generated, and having a phone that is overshadowing your others in the range is not a bad problem to have.
It just doesn't make it any easier to solve.
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New Exhibit Helps Teens And Adults Understand Human Trafficking’s Toll
The Bullock Museum’s “Not Alone: Working Together in the Fight Against Human Trafficking” answers questions and guides supporters of those who have experienced trafficking.
By Alexandra Hart & Shelly BrisbinJanuary 12, 2021 1:05 pmArts & Culture, Crime & Justice
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The exhibit, "Not Alone: Working Together in the Fight Against Human Trafficking" runs through May 30 at the Bullock Museum in Austin.
In recent years, state leaders have turned their attention to the issue of human trafficking. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently proclaimed January to be Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and a a new exhibit at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin aims to shed more light on the subject. The exhibit is called “Not Alone: Working Together in the Fight Against Human Trafficking.”
Margaret Koch is director of the Bullock Museum. She told Texas Standard that the exhibit, which is suitable for teens and adults, attempts to answer several questions related to human trafficking.
“We looked at what are the basic questions people have about this,” Koch said. “So, what is human trafficking? We help people understand at a very basic level what that is: it’s when someone uses your body, or your free work, to make money for themselves.”
Other questions about trafficking addressed by the exhibit include: who does trafficking affect, and why are relationships so important in preventing trafficking?
“[The] fourth questions we looked at is, What role does social media play? It has its pros and cons,” Koch said. “It can make people more vulnerable because traffickers can exploit the vulnerabilities that they may see in the way that someone responds on Twitter or Facebook. But it can also be a way out for people who are in the midst of trafficking.”
Koch credits trafficking survivors and advocates for sharing their experiences honestly.
“In this exhibition, in a very safe space, you don’t just take our word for what trafficking is, and what you can do to fight against it,” she said. “You’re listening to people who actually lived through it.”
SEE MORE: A Sex-Trafficking Survivor Tells Her Story
Teens can take home activities from the exhibit that help young people see how they can fight against trafficking, Koch says.
“Even if you’re 14 years old, you can help your friends,” Koch said. “You can help create that healthy relationship that supports them.”
Koch says statistics show that up to 300,000 Texans are being affected by trafficking at any given time.
The exhibit will be open through May 30.
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August 6, 2020 — 9.00pm
During the sunny days of an Austrian Tyrol summer, Merran Loewenthal of Vienna (Austria) introduced "the younger members of our Australian/Austrian/German family to the fizzy drink with ice-cream we had enjoyed as children called Spiders. I can remember it with ginger beer but, as that is completely unknown in continental Europe, I used lemonade. While the young loved the 'Australian' drink, I could not remember why it was called a Spider." Can any Column 8 readers help Merran out?
Depending on whom you ask, the mystery of the flight of helicopters (C8) is really no mystery at all. "As any fixed-wing pilot will happily tell you, helicopters don’t actually fly, they’re so ugly that the Earth repels them in disgust," writes Richard Murnane of Hornsby. According to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, "helicopters do not actually fly. Instead, they brutally beat the air into submission".
Garrett Naumann of Cammeray notes that the new owners of the commercial part of Cammeray Square are attempting to rebirth it as Cammeray Village (C8). "We are waiting for the renaming of businesses to Ye Olde Bakery, Ye Olde Butchery, Ye Olde Shoppe. Arts and craft and cheese-making classes planned."
Due to the thorough physical distance strategy in place at the outdoor Kiama Farmer’s Market on Wednesday, for Jenny Stephenson of Wollongong "it felt like being in the scene from the 2007 film version of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, where the genteel talk and walk as they parade around in a circular motion within a parlour room or such".
"The only surety in supermarket aisle order (C8) is that milk and bread will be towards the back of the store to make you walk through aisles where you may pick up other things," writes Fran Jones of Elanora Heights. "Also, once you have worked out which aisles contain the items you need the supermarket will change the aisles and so you are walking through every aisle again to find the items you need."
With the lack of rainfall being an ongoing problem in parts of the country Peter Riley of Penrith was concerned by a report on television where a farmer said that "his situation was so dire he had even hired a water diviner. We've got more laws in this country than you can shake a water divining stick at. Surely one of them could be used to stop these shonks from exploiting desperate farmers with their mumbo-jumbo?"
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There Is a Reason For The Stunning Success Of India’s Pulse Polio Programme — These People!
What went into scripting one of the greatest public health successes India has seen in recent years? We reached out to the grassroots to find the answers.
Post author:Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk
Post category:Health Care / India / Karnataka
India’s Pulse Polio campaign, which began in 1995, undoubtedly ranks among the greatest public health successes this country has seen in recent years.
Phrases like ‘Do Boond Zindagi Ki’ and ‘Polio Sunday’ are known to nearly everyone with a child in India. The last polio case in India was reported from Howrah district of West Bengal January 13, 2011. A stunning success.
But how is this possible? We all know India is full of remote, inaccessible areas cut off from the rest of the country, if not the world. So how could those ‘Do Boond’ reach such places.
We here at The Better India discovered one such case, which is an example that should shed more light on how this seemingly impossible task was achieved.
Speaking to government health officers and members of a WHO-appointed external monitoring team, The Better India explores how front-line health workers across the remotest villages situated in the heart of the Dandeli-Anshi (Kali) Tiger Reserve Forest in Uttar Kannada district, Karnataka, have ensured each child under the age of five receives their share of the polio vaccine. The Pulse Polio dates for this year were January 28 and March 11 (both falling on a Sunday).
For representational purposes only. (Source: UNICEF)
Living in these dense and largely uninhabited forests are poor migrants from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra, and the unique Siddhi community.
Migrants from the above states are essentially daily wage workers employed by neighbouring plantations for the purposes of cutting sugarcane. Living in makeshift shelters, there is little certainty about where they will move next.
“Therefore, tracing them and immunising them and checking upon them during the post immunisation day surveillance is of paramount importance. It is for this reason we call them ‘High-Risk Groups’. They live in abject poverty and at times do not even have basic sanitation facilities, which again makes them very vulnerable to a lot of communicable diseases. In addition to that, you don’t really expect them to come to the booth to get their kids immunised and thus tracing them and ensuring that they get the drops is pretty necessary,” says Dr Ishan Pathak, a member of the WHO external monitoring team who specialises in community medicine.
A sugarcane cutter and her child, who is being checked for immunisation. (Source: Ishan Pathak)
Another community that lives in these parts are the Siddis, who are descendants of an ethnic tribal group called the Bantu from East Africa brought over to India by the Portuguese as slaves around 300 years ago. Freed during the inquisition of Goa in the 18th and 19 Century, they settled in the nearby forests of present-day Uttar Kannada district, Gujarat and even Karachi, Pakistan.
“We ensured that all their children were given polio drops at booths the government set up and transit sites (bus stations), besides conducting a house-to-house survey to ensure no child is left unimmunised. In fact, few of our grassroots workers in these taluks were from the Siddi community. The involvement of the locals in any campaign acts as a catalyst to its success,” adds Dr Ishan.
Locals who don the role of auxiliary nurse midwives (ANM), accredited social health activists (ASHA), anganwadi workers (AWW), and officials like the regional and district health officers are particularly critical to the ground-level success of these programmes. They are at the front-lines.
Interestingly, even though India has been officially ‘polio-free’ for seven years now, the intense efforts of these workers is what is keeping the epidemic from relapsing in this land.
Health workers of the surveillance team on the ground standing in front of a mobile booth. (Source: Ishan Pathak)
Speaking to The Better India, Dr Anil Bilimale, former Surveillance Medical Officer (SMO) overseeing Belgaum Division, Karnataka, under which these areas fall under, and erstwhile consultant with UNICEF, offers a lucid explanation of why India needs to remain consistent in her efforts.
“We are polio-free, but neighbouring countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan, besides African nations like Nigeria have the polio virus circulating in their country. With constant migration, an abiding reality in India there exists the remotest possibility that the virus may find its way into our environment. Despite receiving the vaccination, these children are protected at only one level. There will be certain kind of people who will be immuno-deficient, which in other words means that how much ever vaccination they receive, they may not possess immunity. If the virus does come back, it can catch hold of these people, and it can come back into our environment. That’s the reason why we keep vaccinating our children so that it will block the virus from coming in,” he explains.
Having said that, there were some real logistical challenges that local health officials and the monitoring team came across.
For example, Karnataka’s biggest taluka, Joida, which stretches to almost 120 kms, the villages have merely 50,000 inhabitants scattered everywhere under cover of the dense forest.
Checking the immunisation status of two children with their mother in Joida taluka. (Source: Ishan Pathak)
“On any given day during a standard vaccination programme, our teams reach 120-130 households in the span of two-three hours without having to travel/walk too much. Here, to cover even 15 households, you will have to travel long distances inside the forest and the time taken is more. Sometimes they’re not there when teams come, and we have to coordinate with local Block officials well in advance to ensure they are present when our team arrives. With phone signal virtually non-existent in these parts, this entire exercise requires serious coordination,” says Dr Anil.
These efforts are aided by international agencies like the WHO, that trains doctors, volunteers and vaccinators, check on the quality of vaccines, assess the quality of activity on the ground and give feedback.
UNICEF takes care of communication and establishing a cold storage chain for these vaccines, while the local Rotary club often contributes to the funding process.
With a shelf life of 1-5 years, these vaccines are sourced from licenced local and international manufacturers who meet the quality control standards set by the WHO.
Speaking to The Better India, Dr Amaresh Patil, another member of the WHO external monitoring team who specialises in community medicine, said, “On the day of monitoring, EMs randomly select a High-Risk Area (HRA) and visit the place along with local health authorities. EMs visit houses in the area randomly and check for various aspects of the programme—number of children under five years of age in the house, number of under-five children immunized with polio drops during the current programme irrespective of the previous immunization status by checking for the mark on the tip of their left little finger and number of houses marked during the programme,”
A child showing the indelible mark on her left little finger indicating her positive immunisation status.
To find children who are more likely to be missed from the immunisation programme, priority is placed on cross-checking of areas which are at risk of being missed, popularly termed as High-Risk Areas (HRAs).
These include residential HRAs which are further divided into—hard to reach areas, low immunisation coverage areas (found out from various surveys), area with known refusals for immunisation, isolated garden houses, thickly populated slums with low sanitation and etc.
Other groups of HRAs include migratory sites which are then categorised as M1: Slums with migration, M2: Nomads, M3: Brick Kilns, M4: Construction site, and M5: Others.
Dr Amaresh goes onto tell The Better India that EMs also visit areas where there is a conglomeration of people like local fairs, bus stands, railway stations, bazaars, fun fairs, temples, mosques, churches and other such crowded places.
The EMs visit such areas and cross check for under-5 children for a mark on their little finger and house marking.
The chances of finding unimmunized children depend on factors like the number of high-risk areas, number of front-line health workers, topographical situations of the area and other inherent factors.
Local children having their mid day meal in a local govt. primary school. (Source: Ishan Pathak)
However, relentless efforts by frontline health care workers, the valuable experience gained by governments, international agencies, non-profits and local self-help groups over the past two decades have ensured that the chances of finding unimmunized children on post immunisation day continue to dip with every year.
“Polio is eliminated from India, but not yet eradicated from the world. We need to ensure that our population’s immunity against polio is maintained. For that we have to keep vaccinating our children with oral polio and injectable polio vaccine,” concludes Dr Anil.
Also Read: Worried About Contaminated Polio Vaccine? Here’s All You Should Know
In other words, this is a constant battle. And the Kali Tiger Reserve example presents a unique example of how front-line health workers in India are successfully implementing India’s Pulse Polio programme.
(Edited by Vinayak Hegde)
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The City over the water is a collection of London fiction written by Chris Roberts and published in October 2019. It consists of short stories set on South London buses.
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It’s London but not as you know it. Welcome to the south, the Surrey Shore, the Sunny Side. Get on a bus, go Transpontine and immerse yourself in some of the stories of the city over the water.
South London is Britain’s second largest city held together by shared geography and buses. The stories are set on, linked by or alongside some of these bus routes and are divided between those that might be considered real and those which could be labelled magically real. This is a less than perfect dichotomy in a place that contains a HellRaiser bus stop near the Bricklayers’ Arms Roundabout, dozens of roving bus preachers as well as the Peckham Terminator at Nigel Road stop. If these are real, and they are real, how does one designate the uncanny?
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'NEST'
Nests are built through love. Stick by stick and branch by branch, they are crafted by couples. They offer a place for companionship and for protection. They act as a perch from which to view the outside world and are also a launching point for their young offspring. Sitting high up in an eagle’s aerie must be a truly beautiful way to experience life.
I am fortunate in recent years to have found deep and profound love with a Haida Eagle woman. Since my primary crest through my Kwagu’ł grandmother’s lineage is also an eagle, I believe our relationship is a powerful combination. Coming together, we knew that we could accomplish anything we set our hearts and minds towards. Where I could provide artistic creations, Erin could impart the overall vision and hard work to forge our dreams into reality. Joining forces has allowed both my art career and her business, Totem Design House, to thrive and to flourish. What we lacked, however, was a place we could call home—a nest where our artistic creations could be our future offspring.
In 2018, Erin started designing our new home and studio space to be built in what was once my grandparents’ backyard on stunning K’omoks First Nation reserve lands. What most people don’t realize is that you can’t simply apply for a standard mortgage on-reserve. Instead, you are forced to get “guaranteed” by your First Nation for your mortgage. Unfortunately, this type of mortgage could only cover less than half of our building costs. Needless to say, any savings that we had accumulated to host our first potlatch together were used in building our nest.
One year ago, we moved into our new home and immediately named our nascent work space “Kwigwatsi Studio”. In the Kwak̓wala language, Kwigwatsi is an “eagle receptacle or box”. The term is also used to mean “eagle nest”. It is from this nest that we will continue to create. It is from this nest that some of our children will venture off into the larger world and it is in this nest that they will always have a home to which they can return.
“Nest” is a limited edition print using the giclée method of printmaking. This print was released in November of 2020 and printed by Andy Everson at Kwigwatsi, the artist’s own studio in Comox B.C. A total of 247 prints bear the title “Nest” and are signed by Andy Everson: 199 in the primary edition bearing the numbers 1/199 through 199/199; 19 Artist’s Proof; 19 Remarques; 9 Special Edition Canvas Proofs and 1 Printer’s Proof. The acid-free 100% cotton rag paper measures about 17x22 inches. Image size measures about 14x19 inches on the paper editions.
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Denver township Michigan Population Charts
According to the most recent demographics data available from the Census Bureau released in December of 2017, Figure 1 Denver township shows it has 2,147 population which is the 3d most of all other places in the area. The city with the highest population in the area is Fremont with a population of 4,038 is about twice as large. Figure 3 compares the population change from 2010 to 2016 and we can see Denver township shows an increase of 219 (11%).
The population percent change for all areas for 2010 to 2016 is shown in Figure 4 and for Denver township shows it has 11.4% Population Change which is the most of all placesin the area. Comparing Population Change to the United States average of 3.2%, Denver township is approximately 3.6 times bigger. Also, measured against the state of Michigan, Population Change of 0.3%, Denver township compares as very much bigger.
Looking at population density in Figure 5 Denver township illustrates it has 63 population density which is in the middle of other places in the area. The next higher population density is Newfield township is 11.4% larger with population density of 70. The city with the highest population density in the area is Hesperia with a population density of 1,250 is very much bigger. Figure 6 shows the median age of the people and Denver township shows it has 41.2 overall median age of all people which is the 3d most of all other places in the area. The city with the highest overall median age of all people in the area is Newfield township with an age of 47.9 measures 16.3% larger. Comparing the median age of men versus women in Figure 7 we find that Denver township shows median age of men is 6.3% larger than median age of women.
Figure 9 shows the breakdown of racial groups in the area and Denver township has the largest proportion of people who are of some other race at 10.9% of the total and is ranked #1. Figure 10 shows the Hispanic or Latino population of the area with Denver township demonstrates it has 10.5% people who are Hispanic or Latino which is the 2nd most of all the places in the area. Figure 11 is the ratio of the population of men to women and shows total male population measures about 14.5% smaller than total female population.
Denver township Michigan Marriage and Families Charts
Figure 14 is the average size of a typical family. Denver township indicates it has 3.4 average family size which is the largest of all placesin the area.
Figure 15 shows the ratio of families to total households and that Denver township shows it has 70% percent of people who are in a family which is the 4th in percent of people who are in a family out of 10 total in the area. The city with the highest percent of people who are in a family in the area is Dayton township with a percent of 81% is 14.9% larger.
Looking at husband and wife headed families as a percent of all families in Figure 16, Denver township shows it has 75% percent of people in a husband and wife family which is the 4th in percent of people in a husband and wife family out of 10 total in the area. The city with the highest percent of people in a husband and wife family in the area is Dayton township with a percent of 95% is 27.6% larger.
Denver township Michigan Mothers and Babies Charts
The next section of charts look at mothers and baby births over the last 12 months. Figure 18 shows the rate of women aged 15 to 50 years old who have given birth. Denver township illustrates it has 6.7% percent of women who gave birth which is the 3d most of all other places in the area. The city with the highest percent of women who gave birth in the area is Leavitt township with a birth rate of 17.6% is approximately 2.6 times bigger. In Figure 21 the percentage is shown of all births in the last 12 months were the mothers were unmarried. Denver township shows it has 59% percent of unwed women who have given birth which is the 5th in percent of unwed women who have given birth out of 10 total in the area. The city with the highest percent of unwed women who have given birth in the area is Hesperia with an unwed mother birth rate of 100% measures 70.6% larger.
Unwed mothers who have given birth in the last 12 months are broken down by age group in Figure 24. Denver township has the largest proportion of percent of unwed births to mothers aged 20 to 34 years old at 100.0% of the total and is ranked #1. Figure 25 shows the comparative rate of unwed mothers who have given birth in the last 12 months are broken down by racial group. Denver township has Hispanic unwed birth rate in the center of other places in the area at 52.6% of the total and is ranked in the middle of the group.
Figure 26 shows unwed mothers who have given birth in the last 12 months broken down by poverty level. Denver township has percent of unwed births to mother living below the poverty level in the mid point of other places in the area at 58.8% of the total and is ranked in the middle of the group. Second, it has the largest proportion of percent of unwed births to mother living between 100% and 199% of the poverty level at 23.5% of the total and is ranked #1.
For all citizens, Figure 27 breaks down the original place of birth it has the largest proportion of percent of unwed mothers who are a high school graduate or equivalent at 82% of the total and is ranked #1.
Denver township Michigan Singles Charts
Figure 28 compares the total single people in each area. Denver township indicates it has 43% percent of people who are single for any reason which is the 4th in percent of people who are single for any reason out of 10 total in the area. The city with the highest percent of people who are single for any reason in the area is Hesperia with a percent single of 53% compares as 23.7% larger. Comparing percent of people who are single for any reason to the United States average of 50%, Denver township is about 17.0% smaller. Also, benchmarked against the state of Michigan, percent of people who are single for any reason of 51%, Denver township is about 18.9% smaller.
Figure 30 compares the single people in each area broken down by never married, divorced, and widowed. Denver township shows it has 21% percent of people never married which is the 6th in percent of people never married out of 10 total in the area. The city with the highest percent of people never married in the area is Fremont with a percent never married of 28% is 37.0% larger. Comparing percent of people never married|percent of people divorced|percent of people widowed to the United States average of 33%, Denver township compares as approximately three-fourths the size. Also, in contrast to the state of Michigan, percent of people never married|percent of people divorced|percent of people widowed of 33%, Denver township measures approximately three-fourths the size. Figure 31 shows the single men in each area. Denver township indicates it has 24% percent of men who have never been married which is the 6th in percent of men who have never been married out of 10 total in the area. The city with the highest percent of men who have never been married in the area is Fremont with a men who have never been married of 36% is 50.0% larger. Comparing percent of men who have never been married|percent of men who are divorced|percent of men who are widowed to the United States average of 36%, Denver township is approximately three-fourths the size. Also, compared to the state of Michigan, percent of men who have never been married|percent of men who are divorced|percent of men who are widowed of 36%, Denver township is approximately three-fourths the size.
Figure 34 shows the single women between the age of 18 and 65, in each area, broken down by age group. Denver township has the largest proportion of percent of Single women 45 to 49 at 16% of the total and is ranked #1.
Denver township Michigan Citizenship Charts
In Figure 37, the percentage of the population who was not born in the United States is shown (i.e. Percent Foreign Born.) Denver township illustrates it has 1.2% percent of population who was born in another country which is the 5th in percent of population who was born in another country out of 10 total in the area. The city with the highest percent of population who was born in another country in the area is Dayton township with a percent born outside United States of 5.7% is approximately 4.9 times bigger. Comparing percent of population who was born in another country to the United States average of 13.2%, Denver township is approximately a twelfth the size. Also, in contrast to the state of Michigan, percent of population who was born in another country of 6.4%, Denver township compares as approximately a fifth the size.
Figure 39 shows the age break down of non citizens. Denver township has the largest proportion of percent of non citizens over 18 years old at 100% of the total and is ranked #1. For non citizens, Figure 41 shows the year that they entered the United States and it has the largest proportion of percent of non citizens who entered the US before 1990 at 100% of the total and is ranked #1.
For all foreign born people who have gone through naturalization (the process of becoming a citizen), Figure 42 shows when they became naturalized. it has the largest proportion of percent of people naturalized between 1980 to 1989 at 48% of the total and is ranked #1.
Denver township Michigan Birthplace Charts
Figure 45 is a table that breaks out all the foreign born people by where they were born. Denver township has the largest proportion of percent foreign born in Americas-North America at 32.0% of the total and is ranked #1.
Denver township, Michigan Demographics Data
Marriage and Families
Mothers and Babies
Figure 1: Denver township, MI and Area 2016 Population Data
Figure 2: Map of Denver township, MI and Area
Figure 3: Denver township, MI Population Change 2010 to 2016
Figure 4: Denver township, MI 2010 to 2016 Population Percent Change
Figure 5: Denver township, MI People per Sq. Mile
Figure 6: Median Age in Denver township, MI
Figure 7: Median Age by Gender in Denver township, MI
Figure 8: Denver township, MI and Area Age by Generation
Figure 9: Denver township, MI and Area Racial Makeup
Figure 10: Denver township, MI Hispanic Population
Figure 11: Male vs. Female Population
Figure 12: Denver township, MI Marriage Status
Figure 14: Denver township, MI Average Family Size
Figure 15: Families as % of All Households
Figure 16: Husband and Wife Families as Percent of All Families
Figure 17: Denver township, MI Head of Household
Figure 18: Denver township, MI Birth Rate (Last 12 months)
Figure 19: All Births Age of Mother
Figure 20: Denver township, MI Teenager Birth Rate
Figure 21: Denver township, MI Unwed Mothers as % of All Births
Figure 22: Denver township, MI Unwed and On Public Assitance
Figure 24: Denver township, MI Unwed Mother Births By Age Group
Figure 25: Denver township, MI Unwed Mother Birth Rate By Race
Figure 26: Denver township, MI Unwed Mother Births By Poverty Level
Figure 27: Unwed Births and Education Level
Figure 28: Total Single People
Figure 30: Denver township, MI Single People Broken Down By Reason
Figure 31: Denver township, MI Single Men in Area
Figure 32: Denver township, MI Single Women in Area
Figure 33: Single Men by Age Group
Figure 34: Single Women by Age Group
Figure 35: Denver township, MI Citizenship Status
Figure 36: Citizen Place of Birth for Denver township, MI
Figure 37: Denver township, MI Percent of Population Foreign Born
Figure 39: Denver township, MI Non Citizen Age Breakout
Figure 40: Non Citizen Median Age
Figure 41: % Non Citizen Year of Entry into USA
Figure 42: Year of Naturalization
Figure 43: Denver township, MI Foreign Born People are From What Region
Figure 44: Denver township, MI Foreign-Born World Region of Birth
Figure 45: Denver township, MI Foreign-Born Sub-Region of Birth
Figure 46: Foreign-Born Country of People Living in Denver township, MI
Figure 47: Foreign-Born Country for all people in the United States
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Lights on an internet switch are lit up as with users in an office in Ottawa, on February 10, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Cybersecurity poll finds 84% rethink engaging with businesses hit by data breach
KPMG conducted the poll after the federal government revealed data breach
A large majority of Canadians are reluctant to do business with companies that suffer a data breach, according to a new study released Monday by KPMG..
The report also says about one-quarter of the people surveyed for the report have had their login credentials stolen from a trusted site.
The consulting firm’s report is based on responses from 2,004 people surveyed online by the consulting firm between Sept. 15 and 18.
KPMG conducted the poll about a month after the federal government revealed in August that thousands of stolen usernames and passwords had been used to apply for services.
The Treasury Board of Canada has since announced that it uncovered suspicious activities on more than 48,000 Canada Revenue Agency accounts following cyberattacks that occurred in July and August.
Among other things, the CRA managed access to federal financial support programs related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Online access was temporarily suspended but resumed by Aug. 19.
Although KPMG didn’t mention any specific incident, it did say cybersecurity threats had become more of a problem because the COVID-19 pandemic fuelled greater use of online accounts for working, shopping and connecting with other people.
Hartaj Nijjar, a KPMG partner and national leader of its cybersecurity practice, said that organizations should take a harder look at the systems and protocols.
“Cyber criminals are ruthless. They’re after your identity, login credentials, money, and sensitive information,” he said in a statement
The KPMG poll, which comes ahead of a government-led national public awareness campaign, found evidence that data breaches can alienate customers.
KPMG says 84 per cent of respondents would consider taking their business elsewhere if a company failed to keep their data safe.
It also says 90 per cent of them said they were “leery” about sharing their personal or financial information with any organization that’s had a data breach.
Online polls can’t be assigned a margin of error because they’re not considered truly random.
However, 54 per cent of the poll’s respondents said they shop online more than they ever did pre-COVID-19.
An equal number said they have received “a lot more” suspicious emails in the last six months.
And, while 25 per cent of respondents overall said they’d had their login credentials stolen from a trusted site that was hacked, some subgroups were more susceptible than others.
For instance, KPMG said 34 per cent of respondents aged 18 to 34 had suffered from stolen credentials.
David Paddon, The Canadian Press
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Prince William's 21st Birthday: June 21, 2003
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'PLEASE ALLOW ME PRIVACY'
Prince William has appealed to the media to continue to allow him privacy at university.
On his 21st birthday he thanked the press for giving him space to be himself and complete his formal education at Eton and now at St Andrews University in Scotland.
"They have been really good about the whole thing and I'm sure they've been very frustrated at the same time," he said.
"I just feel it's better for both sides, St James's Palace and the media, that it happens this way.
"I don't think either side wants to return to the free-for-all of the old days.
"It's a really fine balance and it could be quite volatile if things get out of hand," he said.
"So I don't want to go back to that - I've seen it and I don't like it - and I hope that it all works out the way it is."
Since the death of their mother, Diana, Princess Of Wales, the media have agreed to leave William and his younger brother, Harry, alone to complete their education.
In return, William and Harry have been willing to give interviews and photocalls at significant points in their lives.
For someone who was thought to dislike media attention as a young man, William is determined to act like an adult.
"The media can be tricky at times but so can most people," he said. "But it's something that I want to handle with the most maturity I can. So it is difficult but it's not impossible.
"The way it's been handled so far, particularly to do with me, has been amazing from both sides, St James's Palace and the media.
"I just really hope that continues because I've had such a good time in my first two years at St Andrews and I would be absolutely gutted if that disappeared."
As for his portrayal in the media, William said he just wanted to be seen as himself.
"I don't want to be anything I'm not and I don't want to come across as being super-human or an idiot.
"I just want to come across as me - and I hope that's what will happen."
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WILLS AT 21: MOVING TRIBUTE TO PARENTS
By Jane Kerr Royal Reporter
PRINCE William yesterday paid an emotional tribute to his mum...and also leapt to his father's defence.
Speaking on the eve of his 21st birthday he said he had learned a lot from Princess Diana's life while demanding critics of Prince Charles "give him a break".
Wills said: "My mother used her position very well to help other people, as does my father. And I hope to do the same."
And of Charles he added: "He does so many amazing things.
"I only wish people would see that more because he's had a very hard time and yet he's stuck it out and he's still very positive.
"And he's very happy and protective towards Harry and me."
Speaking publicly for the first time about his mum since her death, Wills told how he wanted to carry on her work with under-privileged people.
The prince, looking remarkably like Diana in his official 21st birthday photo, said his outlook on life was shaped by Diana's concern for the sick and poor.
She was so determined her children should experience life outside the privileged confines of the palace walls that she took them to see a friend with Aids in hospital and to shelters for the homeless.
William said: "I was influenced a lot by my visits to hostels with my mother when I was younger.
"I learned a lot from it, more so now than I did at the time.
"It's made me aware and I think homelessness is one of those topics that people kind of gloss over and don't really focus on.
"It is an important issue that needs to be understood and highlighted."
He seems to be taking his role seriously. This week William visited a drop-in centre for the homeless in Newport, South Wales.
While the prince says he wants to be like Diana, he is under no illusion about the price of fame. He accepts that watching his mother struggle at times in the public glare has had a long-term affect on him.
William admitted if he fancies a girl, he will chat her up. But he said his girlfriends must be protected from the media spotlight.
And, echoing Diana's views on the future of the monarchy, he insisted the royal family must be relevant to ordinary people's lives to survive.
After the princess's death in 1997, many of her admirers - and even her family - said they were concerned her children's lives would be simply immersed in tradition and duty.
But William insisted he never stopped being exposed to the difficulties facing other young people since his mother died.
Before starting university he worked on a West Country farm. William described the graft as "very hard". He added: "It was the toughness of it.
"Admittedly, I was exhausted after only a week as a dairy farm hand, and the guy I was working with did it every day of his life.
"There's hardly any social life because of the hours you work which makes it an even tougher job.
"There were so many genuine people. They didn't care who I was and made me do the jobs I should be doing, like mucking out and driving tractors in the fields.
"They made me see what actually goes on and they trusted me as well."
William revealed Charles's concern for rural issues and the environment had rubbed off on him. He said: "I'm his biggest fan in that sense."
And he shares his father's fears for the future of the countryside. He said: "To me, one of the worrying things is the lack of affordable housing for the younger generation.
"If younger people leave, there is no future for the countryside.
"All the inherited skills you get passed down from farmers, for example, will be lost.
"But I know this is a problem beyond the countryside for young people who are just starting out."
Wills also spoke of his closeness to 18-year-old Harry.
He said: "I have a very good relationship with my brother.
"We've grown up together and we have to go through a lot of things together. We've grown up around the same things and the same people, and we'll always have that common bond.
"We ring each other quite a lot. He usually rings me up to tell me some incredibly amusing story and the things he gets up to. He is a very nice guy and very caring."
William said he had always wanted to help out at the Highgrove Home Farm in the summer holidays but had not yet got round to it.
He added with a grin: "The early mornings are putting me off."
The prince revealed his fondness for walking in the country. He said: "I love it. My father is a great walker, he does a lot of it.
"You can go off, ponder and think about things. It's your own time."
www.ananova.com - Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales was born at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, at 9.03pm on June 21, 1982.
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From the Glittering Royals message board: An official royal portrait released to the media on June 21, 2003 of Britain's Prince William in celebration of his 21st birthday.William says he believes it his duty to succeed his father Prince Charles. REUTERS/Mario Testino
From the Glittering Royals message board: William posing with the band that played at the party and had been flown in from Botswana.
From the Glittering Royals message board: Prince William plays the marimba during a rehersal with the Shakarimba Band from Botswana, ahead of his 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle June 21, 2003. Police say they arrested a man who gatecrashed the event on Saturday night. REUTERS/Phil Noble
From the Glittering Royals message board: The Queen's arrival.
Someone suggested on the board that it would've been funny if the Queen came as a drag queen! Now that would've been a costume!
From the Glittering Royals message board: Some party guests arrive in their very elaborate costumes!
From the Glittering Royals message board: Tara Palmer Tomkinson.
Polfoto 21-06-2003 Rowan Atkinson and wife Sunetra arrive at Windsor Castle, for the 21st birthday of Prince William.
Polfoto 21-06-2003 EMBARGOED: Not for publication before 0001 Sunday June 22, 2003. Prince William plays the drums as the Shakarimba band, who have been flown in from Botswana to perform at the Prince's 21st birthday party on Saturday evening, rehearse in the Queen's Guard Chamber Friday June 20, 2003, at Windsor Castle. The prince has chosen an "Out of Africa" theme for his party and the more than 300 family and friends who have been invited have been asked to wear fancy dress. Watch for PA story. PA Photo: Phil Noble / WPA solo rota.
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Sir Nicholas Soames interview: ‘Johnson is nothing like Churchill and Jacob Rees-Mogg is an absolute fraud’
Sir Nicholas Soames, Tory grandee and grandson of the great wartime leader, tells Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester why he rebelled over Brexit
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Friday September 06 2019, 5.00pm, The Times
Sir Nicholas Soames is wearing skull-and-crossbones braces along with his checked shirt, pink socks and shooting tie. “I have nine different colours,” he says. “I’m now a rebel so I’m officially entitled to wear pirate gear.”
The former defence minister and grandson of Winston Churchill is a stiff-upper-lip traditionalist who once went campaigning on his horse and tells us his favourite recipe for grouse. But he admits that he shed a tear this week when he was told that he had lost the Conservative whip for rebelling over a no-deal Brexit after 37 years as an MP. “I did blub actually, it was a sad moment. I was very emotional. I don’t want to end like this particularly as I am so far from being
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Monterey County Selects Light Rail as Preferred Local Transit Alternative
15 Comments on Monterey County Selects Light Rail as Preferred Local Transit Alternative
» Initial line would extend from Monterey to Marina, with eventual extension to Castroville; commuter rail to San Francisco also due by 2012.
The Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC), California, approved plans yesterday to open a new light rail line by 2015 between Monterey and Marina. A future phase would reach north to Castroville and east to Salinas; both would interface with planned Caltrain and Amtrak service along the corridor.
The route, which extends along the coastline, would also serve the towns of Seaside and Sand City, but the combined population of the affected municipalities totals fewer than 100,000 — meaning that this new line may serve the smallest community of any rail project planned for the United States. With only about 3,500 projected daily riders, the $200 million project won’t reach many people, but the project may well be worth its cost as it will make an already attractive section of the California coastline even more appealing.
If implemented, Monterey Bay would get diesel multiple unit trains every 15 to 30 minutes during the day serving 11 stations between downtown Monterey and Marina. The first phase of the project, which was approved by the transit agency’s board at a meeting yesterday, would cost $130 million, 60% of which TAMC hopes to be covered by the federal government’s Small Start grant program. Trains will run on the already existing Monterey Branch right-of-way, which the county purchased in 2003 for less than $10 million.
Though the cities affected are tiny on the national scale, they are relatively dense, with almost all inhabitants of the area within a mile of the proposed line. In addition, the line’s connection to Cal State’s campus just south of Marina will allow thousands of carless students easier access into downtown Monterey.
The line’s approval comes despite resistance from the Monterey City Council, which wants a more detailed environmental review of the project’s effects. With trains only running four times an hour and little construction required, though, TAMC made the right decision in moving ahead anyway. A BRT system was also being considered, though that option was dropped because of the psychological appeal of rail and the equivalent costs.
The more important advantage of implementing a train system, though, is the potential use of the corridor for future intercity rail service. The county’s transit agency is already planning an extension of Caltrain service from Gilroy to nearby Salinas, which is significantly larger at 150,000 people. The $101 million project, using existing Union Pacific tracks, would allow commuters direct access into San Francisco in three hours or San Jose in 1h45 four times a day; operations are planned for 2012 and are expected to attract around 2,000 daily users. Its funds are mostly accounted for, unlike those of the light rail project. If the light rail line is extended to Castroville as planned, inhabitants of Monterey would have a one-transfer connection to San Francisco.
But the opening of the Montery Branch to new train services would also introduce Monterey, Seaside, and Marina to intercity trains, which could use the same track. If the state of California assembles adequate subsidies, Amtrak could offer trains directly from Monterey to Sacramento or Los Angeles. Either would encourage the development of a statewide rail network; this would be true especially if the line were eventually electrified and California high-speed trains connected via Gilroy.
The light rail service proposed, then, is as much an effort to improve the state’s overall passenger network as anything else, and it opens up long-term possibilities for service expansion in Monterey Bay that won’t be possible unless incremental improvements such as this come to realization.
Image above: Proposed Monterey County Transit, from TAMC
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15 replies on “Monterey County Selects Light Rail as Preferred Local Transit Alternative”
DBXsays:
This is excellent news. This kind of networking and attention to speedy and efficient service and minimal transfers is exactly the sort of thing that will help to boost public transportation. Really, just about every rail line in the state of California ought to have some passenger service, and in the metropolitan areas new lines desperately need to be built.
I think Monterey is going to be surprised at the number of day-trippers that use the line. I think those ridership projections are going to be way low. My only concern is with the DMU approach; I think to be viable in the long run it’s going to need to be electric light rail.
Adam CLarksays:
mmmm that’s nice. There are currently a bus to Monterey Bay and it takes 2 hours from San Jose so 1h 45m doesn’t sound too bad if they can pull it off.
well one major difference is that bus don’t reqire a transfer as it goes striaght to the city while train needs one transfer. But i would take train over bus because it would be much more comfortable. hope it happens!
AlexBsays:
Seems like a good project, if all the pieces come together.
“If the state of California assembles adequate subsidies…” Sorry, but I had to laugh at that one. Maybe in a decade or two.
ColoZsays:
I think the distinction between “commuter” and “intercity” is pretty confused in this piece. A three-hour trip that runs four times per day is basically intercity service. Maybe the occasional super-commuter will use it, but I highly doubt commuters will be the bulk of the ridership. So I hope the trains will be fitted to Amtrak California-type standards of comfort, not what a commuter is used to (non-reclining or bench seats, no food).
ColoZ –
I think you make a good point; however, the reason I referred to the proposed Salinas-Gilroy service as “commuter” is that it is an extension of the Caltrain system, which is unabashedly a commuter operation. I don’t think anyone is discussing Amtrak California-type levels of service here.
Winstonsays:
Coloz,
Nobody would commute from Salinas to San Francisco, but plenty of people commute from Salinas and Santa Cruz county to San Jose. The commuter service being talked about would use Caltrain’s gallery cars, which are the same 1950’s design used by Chicago’s Metra. The extension to Salinas would probably generate a fair number of commuters because the it will also serve Watsonville (Pajaro is a tiny town across the river from the 50,000 person city of Watsonville) and offer southern and central Santa Cruz county (Watsonville, Freedom and Aptos) commuters a faster way to get to San Jose than they currently have.
Having looked at the DMU route in detail, I have a couple of comments. The first is that it’s a shame that they couldn’t find a way to get it to go all the way to cannery row to maximize tourist use, but stopping at the Aquarium is pretty good. That being said, I still think that the first phase will serve the wealthy, heavily touristed areas and CSUMB very well and would make the area nicer to vacation in as well as have placing most places you would want to go within a 15 minute walk of the train. The second phase would serve the very poor cities of Castroville and Salinas, which are quite dense have big carless populations.
Once HSR is built, it would be very nice to have some kind of regular train service to connect Salinas with Gilroy. Caltrain is a possibility, especially since once they switch to non-FRA complaint equipment between San Jose and San Francisco they may end up breaking the railroad in two halves with the compliant half running between Salinas and San Jose and the non-compliant half running between San Jose and San Francisco. Extending the Capitols to Salinas would be another possibility, but doing so would make the capitol corridor awfully long end to end and might harm reliability. There is some money in the HSR bond to do this kind of thing and it would certainly make the Capitols an even better adjunct to HSR.
EngineerScottysays:
No stop at Pebble Beach? :)
what about bringing back the del monte, the train that ran from san francisco direct to monterey? it could be a baby bullet between SF-SJ and then local to Monterey.
i dont really understand having it end at marina, even temporarily, its seems to me it has to go to castroville or salinas at minimum. and what about extending it up to santa cruz?
i believe newport rhode island has a private DMU line called the islander though i believe it has morphed more into a seasonal excursion train. apparently the plan is to make it into more of shuttle train to bring visitors into newport without the traffic, but theyve gone so far as to bring in RDCs on a barge for this.
Robert Cruickshanksays:
Great article. A couple of comments from a Monterey resident (and a strong supporter of this project – I gave public comments at the Monterey City Council meeting earlier this week and at the TAMC meeting yesterday morning where this was approved).
First, the Monterey Herald has totally misrepresented the city of Monterey’s position. The council is supportive of the train and wants it to serve downtown Monterey. A former mayor raised concerns about how the train would run through a bayfront park. The train would run along the side of the park, next to a busy thoroughfare, but this was not adequately explained to the council. Further, the council and TAMC came to an informal understanding at the meeting that if TAMC could provide visual simulations of the train through this park, the council would live with TAMC selecting the light rail option.
Second, to Winston’s point, it won’t serve the Aquarium (which is on Cannery Row). The trains will terminate either at Portola Plaza or Custom House Plaza, which are about 1/4 mile apart. There is no ROW available to use to continue the trains on to Cannery Row or to the city of Pacific Grove. PG would like the train to continue on to their city, and residents of the Cannery Row area (like me) would like the train to serve us as well. But since there is no ROW and since the corridor is already squeezed by the Presidio of Monterey, an active military installation, this is too tricky to plan out at this time. I am confident that if this is built as projected, ridership will be high and public demand will be generated for an extension westward to serve Cannery Row and Pacific Grove.
Third, as to service to the Bay Area, TAMC is talking not only with Caltrain, but with the Capitol Corridor about providing service to Castroville (for a cross-platform connection to the DMU service) and to downtown Salinas. Caltrain and TAMC were very close on an operating agreement, but the recent economic downturn and funding cuts have placed this in some uncertainty. Capitol Corridor is interested in serving Monterey County, whether to Salinas or to Monterey along the DMU corridor.
Fourth, as to the phasing, the initial segment stops in Marina because the bridge over the Salinas River (between Marina and Castroville) has to be totally rebuilt. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake severely damaged the existing bridge (and caused the Highway 1 bridge nearby to be so damaged as to require a total rebuild).
calwatchsays:
I disagree with the final analysis, though. Smaller-scale BRT, like Orlando’s Lymmo, would be appropriate for this corridor, and provide much greater bang for the buck. Monterey is a small town and parking in the touristy areas does cost money, but $200 million would basically end up functioning as a parking lot shuttle from free parking outside of town to the in-town area, where therei sn’t a parking shortage – just a shortage of people who want to pay for parking (since outlying meters are often empty and residential areas are permit parking zones). I don’t see this project as competitive for federal funds, but as a local development generator like a streetcar it might do well.
Jarrett at HumanTransit.orgsays:
I take small pride in having done a network design for Monterey-Salinas Transit a decade or so ago, which helped build up this corridor. As Yonah points out, what matters is not the whole size of the cities, but rather how much development is concentrated along the line. There’s great potential at most of these stations.
But re the intercounty service, I really wish they wouldn’t drag Caltrain into this just for the sake of avoiding a cross-platform connection at Diridon station. If they just focused on Amtrak California service — probably extensions of the Capitol Corridor — I suspect they could get things going sooner and cheaper.
In the consulting business, we joke that we must multiply our cost estimates by the number of agencies involved. It’s not always good to bring more agencies to the table.
Rafaelsays:
Color me confused. If either Caltrain or Amtrak are to run trains out to Monterey, that line has to be built with heavy rails, not light ones. The terms literally refers to the weight of the rails in lbs/linear foot, not to traffic volume.
Heavier trains require rails that are both stronger (more steel) and stiffer (taller with a wider base). They also need a beefier foundation for the rails. Finally, tracks that actually connect with the UPRR line at Castroville rather than merely running next to it will be limited to FRA-compliant equipment unless UPRR lets FRA grant a mixed traffic waiver.
US Railcar (formerly Colorado Railcar) does manufacturer FRA-compliant DMU equipment with mechanical rather than series electric transmissions, making it much lighter than the behemoth locomotives Caltrain and Amtrak use today. However, it’s still a good deal heavier than e.g. the UIC-compliant Siemens Desiro DMUs that NCTD uses for its Sprinter service between Escondido and Oceanside in San Diego county.
I think direct service from Monterey to SF and/or Sacramento is a good idea because Monterey is more of a destination than Salinas for anyone but commuters living in the latter city. However, calling the Monterey-Castroville branch line project “light rail’ in this context is misleading, even if it never again carries a single freight train.
any plans to rebuild the bridge at marina? what would the costs be?
aquarium lighting edmontonsays:
This is good information. This type of social media and interest to rapid and effective assistance and little exchanges is exactly the type of factor that will help to increase community transit. Really, just about every railroad range in the condition of Florida ought to have some traveler assistance, and in the places new collections seriously need to be designed.
I think Monterey is going to be amazed at the variety of day-trippers that use the range. I think those ridership forecasts are going to be way low. My only issue is with the DMU approach; I think to be practical in the lengthy run it’s going to need to be power mild railroad.
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St. Elizabeths Public Scoping Meeting
GSA is holding a scoping meeting on Thursday, October 8th on the Environment Impact Statement and Historic Preservation Amendment to the DHS Headquarters Consolidation Master Plan. The Department of Homeland Security is making the west campus of St. Elizabeths into their headquarters and now they need to plan for compliance with the EIS and the National Historic Preservation Act (as I understand it).
Back in March I wrote about the Master Plan and some of the elements that effect cyclists, namely including a bike lane and sidewalk with the access road that will parallel I-295/Shepherd Parkway along the old rail spur to the southwest edge of the campus (but only in option 5). In addition I think they should
Continuing the bike lane on to Malcolm X Avenue SE
Building a MUP along the southern edge of campus, through the "forest preserve" to MLK Avenue at Milwaukee Place
build a short connection from the Malcolm X Avenue connection to Newcomb St, SE.
I didn't write about the Transportation Management Plan. Here's what it includes about bikes. Under the Bicycles section they write:
According to the District of Columbia Bicycle Master Plan, there are currently several bikeways within the study area. There is a signed bicycle route that runs along Howard Road from east of MLK, Avenue to Poplar Point. There are also two multi-use trails, one along Suitland Parkway and the other along South Capitol Street north of Firth Sterling Avenue. It should be noted that when asked (as part of an employee travel survey), “ If you currently do not plan to walk or ride a bicycle to work in the future, what would encourage you to walk or ride a bicycle”, 14% of DHS employees expressed a concern about personal safety along bicycle trails in the Anacostia Neighborhood.
And later for Planned Bicycle Access Improvements
The District of Columbia Bicycle Master Plan Proposed Bicycle Facilities Map shows a proposed bicycle lane on Howard Road (from MLK Avenue to Anacostia Drive) and along MLK Avenue adjacent to St. Elizabeths (from Good Hope Road to South Capitol Street). A multi-use trail is planned on South Capitol Street from Suitland Parkway south to MLK Avenue and on Firth Sterling Avenue (from Howard Road to South Capitol Street).
Currently 1% of DHS employees bike to work, but they expect that to drop to 0% at the new campus with an ambitious goal of 0%. Hey, they've already succeeded. Beer and Ice Cream for everyone! If they hand out maps, work with DDOT, add showers and locker rooms and bike racks in the two parking garages they think they can get back to 1% by 2013 [Take that OPEC]. Again they write:
Less than 1% of the DHS employee population would be expected to ride a bicycle to work. Planned DDOT bicycle improvements in the area would help to facilitate bicycle access to the campus. Improved connections from the Oxon Run Park area on the Maryland side of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge (currently not planned) would be beneficial in improving bicycle access to the campus
The report mentions that 35% of all employees will take Metro. [Aside: one thing the report also mentions is a possible infill station on the green line to serve DHS. It "would require approximately one mile of new track and tie-ins at both ends of the existing track between Anacostia Station and Congress Heights Station" OR a spur from Anacostia to the National Harbor, with a DHS station having a connection to Congress Heights via a 2000' pedestrian tunnel with moving walkways.]
Finally they write:
New bicycle lanes are being constructed as part of the Woodrow Wilson bridge project; however, the bicycle connections are discontinuous on the Maryland-side of the bridge. Maryland-National Capital Planning Commission has reported there are no plans to improve bicycle access on the Maryland-side of the bridge at Oxon Run.
USCG has a bicycle club for employees that bike to work. Currently less than 1% of DHS employees bike to work. The TMP has not indicated a goal for bicycle users due to the lack of safe routes in the vicinity of the site. Local planning agencies including DDOT, MNCPPC, DCOP and NCPC should work together to add bicycle paths from the vicinity of the campus to the South Capitol Street bridge and off-road bike paths to the major roads approaching the campus.
My thoughts.
1. The Bicycle Master Plan in this area is out of date by the very virtue that it didn't plan for a DHS HQ at St. Elizabeths or even a DHS, so it's OK to break out of that a little bit now. It seems DHS wants to do the bare minimum required in the plan, even though more is clearly needed. In fact they go below the minimum as the TMP doesn't mention that a path along the rail spur was in the Bike Plan, so if they really want to adhere to the Bike Plan they need to include that in more than just option 5 (and then as a bike lane). And other items have changed. The bike trail on Firth Sterling was planned when DC thought it would get the CSX tracks there. That isn't going to happen. It's likely that there won't be a bike lane on MLK - not without narrowing the road; or if there is, it will be just a climbing lane on the southbound side. So, the bare minimum elements in the bike plan won't even happen and DHS seems OK with that.
2. 0% is not a goal. It is an acceptance of defeat. 1% isn't even a goal. Not in a city where 2.3% of people bike commute. 4% by 2013 - that's a goal.
3. They could increase the number who take Metro if they encouraged (with free bikes and bike lockers) employees to ride the short distance from the Metro station.
4. Why doesn't DHS consider encouraging DC and MD to connect to the Wilson Bridge. I recently had to drive down 295 and across the bridge. To connect to the bridge here is what you need.
A short path from Overlook Avenue to the existing bridge over Oxon Cove.
I-295 has 6-8 foot wide shoulders on the outside and similar sized ones on the inside. That's 12-16 feet extra. Shift the lanes over 2.5 feet and put a Jersey wall about five feet from the west edge of 295. That would create a 4 foot space. By no means ideal but it would work. Take that new lane from Oxon Cove all the way to the Wilson Bridge.
Break a gap in the wall that separates the current Wilson bridge path from the shoulder and end the Jersey wall past that. Voila! Bike connection on the cheap.
5. Every Coast Guard officer I know seems to ride a bike to work, so I'm not sure why the rest of DHS can't. If the USCG bicycle club is successful, why not expand it to all of DHS?
September 25, 2009 in DC Mayor, Other DC Trails, Suitland Parkway Trail, Wilson Bridge | Permalink
A flaw in your thought #4: FHWA requires shoulders on Interstates, and the standard is 10ft outside and either 4ft or 10ft inside, depending on if it's a rural or urban section...in this case, the latter. Furthermore, standard Jersey barriers themselves require 2ft of width.
Posted by: Froggie | September 25, 2009 at 09:13 PM
a wise suggestion, your #4 is! well done.
i ride out there all the time. the trick is to ride through the neighborhoods behind MLK over to the main drag (210? 214?) as it goes uphill -- it has a big shoulder. you can then ride all the way down the road to Indian Head, passing where the [racers] ran into each other in a car drag race on scattering 8 dead bodies were all over the road...first class act the highway admini is, the outlines ofthe bodies can still be seen on the road (at least when youre on a bike)...
of course, the population of people over there is barely competent, and certainly economically enslaved, so you have to keep your eyes open and be alert. if you want a good chance to endure some violence ride the path through oxon hill farm after meandering through the ghetto to get to it (and bring fat tires the path is joke of "pavement" -- kinda like the CCT the first two miles, or the Met Branch "pavement" behind Catholic up until the dump, albeit worse...what morons approve and supervise these type of SUB par pavings?!).
oh, by the way, your #4 will never be built for all the (non)reasons given by the previous commentator! long live bureacracy, as participatory democracy is dead (just go to anacostia to witness it...)
Posted by: hopeless | September 27, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Froggie, is that a requirement or a recommendation? Clearly there is a waiver process as I-66's shoulders are open to traffic for part of the day, 295's shoulders north of Oxon Cove are significantly narrower than what you've suggested and I've seen Interstates in Arizona where the shoulder was a bike lane. FHWA rules would be the least of my worries.
Posted by: Washcycle | September 27, 2009 at 04:40 PM
And maybe I was unclear on the jersey barrier. If you place (or more accurately center) it 5 feet from the edge that would take a foot from the bike area and a foot from the shoulder (because it's two feet) thus leaving the 4 foot bike area I mentioned.
If there's 20 feet of shoulder, as you described I'm even more hopeful. Make that 6 feet on each side. That leaves 2 feet for the barrier and 6 feet for bikes.
Wash: variances/waivers can be requested and made, but aside from that, it's a requirement. And it needs to be a very good reason why you're trumping safety in asking for the variance. Part of the approval for I-66 was twofold: the existing number of regular lanes needed to be maintained, and FHWA required VDOT to build "emergency parking areas" along the corridor.
Older Interstate highways (such as most of I-295, built back in the late 50s) were generally grandfathered in. However, any reconstruction or improvement projects involving federal funding require the road segment being worked on to be "brought up to code". I.e. the short part of 295 south of Oxon Cove that was rebuilt as part of the Wilson Bridge project.
Several western states (not just Arizona) allow bicycling on Interstate shoulders. But this is also twofold: often, the Interstate was built right on top of the old road, so there are no alternative routes for dozens of mines. And this is a case where state laws (with FHWA approval of course) dictate whether the shoulder can be used by bikes. Given that, in this region, you're rarely more than a mile or two from a "bikable alternative", I don't see allowing bikes on the Interstates to be a viable option.
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Jia Tolentino’s ‘Trick Mirror’
Talk about the fates of young professional women today and you will often alight on two themes: the anxieties that come with living in the ‘digital age’, or the inescapability of ‘late capitalism’ and all its surreal portents. It is not incidental that these women are largely estranged from the seats of power behind these worlds, as formative as these industries may be to their psychologies. Silicon Valley and Wall Street and their international counterparts are both distinct but not dissimilar wellsprings of the worst forms of male delirium, and only appear to make room for women if they are preternaturally beautiful arm candy (Margot Robbie, imperious and magnificent, stamping a stiletto onto Leonardo DiCaprio’s forehand in The Wolf of Wall Street), girl-genius rebrands of iconic men (Elizabeth Holmes, forever in that Steve Jobs-inspired black turtleneck) or savvy can-do businesswomen who can play with the most vicious of them (Sheryl Sandberg, leaning into a void).
Market-friendly femininity is created in boardrooms filled by people who do not care for its subjects at all. To live so far from the seat of power but feel it so intimately gives rise to a fragmented, ever-refracting selfhood that hates her particular slice of the world yet cannot help but feast on its scraps. I spend too much money on Glossier products, despite knowing that the cool-girl beauty brand is snake oil for wannabe socialites. I can’t stop following the Riverdale actresses on Instagram. I do not know how to manage a savings account, and continually fail to girlboss my way to financial freedom despite Sheryl Sandberg’s best efforts. I am impotent, trivial, shallow, and stupid – and at the same time entirely convinced of my own importance.
You may call this self-delusion, or in the words of New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino, the inevitable result of growing up in a time when femininity operates as a ‘trick mirror that carries the illusion of flawlessness as well as the self-flagellating option of constantly finding fault’. Tolentino had written those words in 2015 as deputy editor at self-proclaimed ‘supposedly feminist website’ Jezebel while reflecting on what people seemed to want from women’s media. In Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, she explores this topsy-turvy double-punch of beatification and punishment in essays on contemporary internet culture, the wedding industry, MDMA and megachurches, and the short life of the literary heroine, among others. Delusion undergirds all. The internet invites us to be self-empowered authors of our own public lives; by doing so, we vastly enrich a select few multinationals with questionable business models. Weddings offer women the chance to be unconditionally celebrated, even sanctified, on their own terms; this one-day-only taste of glory comes at the expense of their later diminishment in matrimony (Tolentino notes that this is not the case for every woman, but also points to studies that show that after marriage, happiness levels tend to increase for men and decrease for women). Class A drugs and mass religion share the belief that a flight from the world can help us discover our most untrammeled selves: ‘Your world realigns in a juddering shimmer. You feel that your soul is dazzling, delicate, unlimited; you understand that you can give the best of yourself away to everyone you love without being depleted.’
The nine essays in Trick Mirror capture the slow-burning, quiet dread that comes with living in a world where information is so plentiful – and the need to persistently better yourself has never been stronger – that it induces a paralysing helplessness in the emotionally exhausted subject. But some subjects have been more primed to negotiate this hellscape of willful self-delusion and self-abasement than others. ‘My only experience of the world has been one in which personal appeal is paramount and self-exposure is encouraged’, Tolentino writes in ‘The I in Internet’, her essay on online culture. She is a woman, a writer, and a famous one, after all. ‘This legitimately unfortunate paradigm,’ she follows, was ‘inhabited first by women and [is] now generalised to the entire internet.’ Tantalise the public with flashes of your quirky abject relatability; encase any corny, strongly-felt beliefs in the language of disarming irony, and only let your ego be seen if it is wrapped in layers of jokey self-hatred to ensure maximum likeability – is there any wonder that girls are so good at the internet?
You can see why Tolentino is so drawn to deconstructing digitally-mediated femininity; it’s ingrained in the trajectory of her career. She began writing at The Hairpin, a ‘general-interest site aimed at women’ and quickly ascended to become contributing editor, writing on pop music, social justice, and various pop culture miscellany. Then, as features editor at Jezebel, she wrote bracing essays on Carly Rae Jepsen and all-women weed conferences while covering social justice issues concerning racial discrimination and abortion rights. At the New Yorker, she has covered everything from internet in-jokes – ‘Jia Tolentino writes about punch-me-in-the-face discourse on Twitter’ – to Kanye West’s spiritual awakening; from the rhetoric of #metoo to millennial financial resentment, all with an unflagging commitment to teasing apart how culture intermingles with power, and how power is inextricable from contemporary capitalism.
Tolentino’s writing is not only satisfying to read unto itself, but also wields a two-pronged symbolic importance: it shows heritage publications that they can be both ‘unserious’ and immensely insightful; it tells glossy women’s magazines that behind the neutered Pinterest-friendly ‘You Will Love This $39 Artisanal Mug that Says “Mommy’s Special Wine Cup”’ personalities of their target demographic lies an insatiable appetite for monstrous bloodlust. To read her is to want to protect her. The world of elite journalism so often seems like a high society in-group, where careers are often not so much a sterling testament to the virtues of meritocracy than they are the result of backroom deals brokered between industry insiders and well-connected parents nervous about what else their Large Adult Son with a literature degree could possibly do with his life . But in this gated, insular world, it was Jia Tolentino who rose to become a definitive literary and journalistic voice of today. For those on the sidelines, her rise feels like a long-awaited democratic justice finally hit a historically undemocratic world. She worked her way up the media publicly and laboriously, and eschewed ruling-class snobbery to roundly embrace that which was easily dismissed as trash. She gave underdog writers hope and brought in new readers with her indomitable belief that no part of culture was too crass, too bizarre – and notably, too feminine – to subject to serious, expansive critique.
She does not stand alone. The rise of digital media has built many careers for writers who would have otherwise been quietly rejected by industry gatekeepers, or more likely, would not have even been considered. And thus, the disrupters are at the gate, slowly taking it apart. It is just a shame that the idyll inside is dying. The decline of journalism is well-documented, coarsened into common wisdom: the rise of the Internet saw advertisers move their business away from newspapers to websites; the final blow was dealt by Google and Facebook, who now command 80 per cent of the digital advertising market. Then, a brief flash of hope. In the early 2010s, BuzzFeed was embraced as a model of a media company that could make money, where viral digital content could find an easy partner in venture capitalists (in 2014, it secured $50 million in funding from major Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz).
Today, Buzzfeed serves as a cautionary tale about doing business with people who don’t really care about your product beyond whether or not it is sufficiently meeting growth targets. At the start of this year, the media company, which had wanted to be seen as a legitimate news publication, laid off 15 per cent of its workforce, including its entire national news team. Layoffs followed at Vice, The Huffington Post, Yahoo; online women’s magazine The Pool folded. Meanwhile, humanistically-minded young people, feeling short-changed by a world that raised them on liberal values of self-flourishing without compromise only to be told later that the noble thing to do was to subsume your life to nine-to-six wage labour in the service of capital, are still unfailingly drawn to the profession, flogging their personalities online in hope of a miracle. (This is also how Tolentino describes her own ascent as a writer; ‘It only took about seven years of flogging my own selfhood on the internet to get to a place where I could comfortably afford to stop using Amazon to save fifteen minutes and five dollars at a time.’) Precarious and thankless as it might be, a life spent reading, writing and grappling with ideas that go beyond the all-consuming commercial imperative could offer a greater deal of existential freedom than even the most prestigious graduate job at Goldman Sachs ever might.
And thus, Trick Mirror is delivered to the public on a narrowing horizon of its own possibility, where the idea that someone could and should have the time to sit with ideas, and be paid money for doing so, is persistently under threat. We live, Tolentino observes, in ‘an unbearable supernova or perpetually escalating conflict, a stretch of time when daily experience seemed both like a stopped elevator and an endless state-fair ride’. We hear too much about devastating events we cannot control. There are too many opinions and not enough action. There is so much writing out there, and so little time to read it. The digital-age-cum-late-capitalism, whatever you want to call it, locks us into a repetitive and inescapable circuit of our collective neuroses, and has us endlessly reach for absolution in a world that does not offer it. Given this state of affairs, what can writing do?
In ‘Pure Heroines’, a luminous essay on how young female protagonists in literature are born to a world of endless possibilities that is then problematised in adolescence (the angst-ridden hopelessness of Katniss Everdeen of Hunger Games or wide-eyed passivity of Bella Swan of Twilight) and foreclosed in adulthood (Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, their impossible appetites for life leading them to their deaths), Tolentino uses Simone de Beauvoir’s distinction of ‘transcendence versus immanence’ to illuminate the sexism that underpins approaches to male and female literary narratives. In their respective stories, ‘men were expected to reach beyond their circumstances, while women were expected to be defined and bounded by theirs’.
If, as Tolentino contends, the Internet has universalised the so-called ‘femininised’ subject, it has also reified immanent text as the text par excellence of our culture. Despite its merits, the Internet also rewards quickly churned-out content under the mandate of ‘timeliness’; makes a cynical self-promotional marketplace out of meaningful dissent (if ‘cancel culture’ were real, every contrarian-for-hire opinion columnist would be getting fired, not book deals), and popularises the ‘It Happened To Me’-type essay that asks writers – often young women – to plumb their personal traumas in the service of higher engagement statistics. Heartstrings are pulled; political allegiances re-entrenched; laughs and/or outrage mined from events as widely discussed as they will be quickly forgotten.
Trick Mirror could similarly be read as an essay collection du jour, in which buzzworthy topics –the internet; the unlikeable woman; that horrible exercise known as barre – are dissected with an eye as skillful as it is encased in a particular moment in time. Yet the underlying concern threading the collection seems to me an anxiety about what it means to live in an incoherent self at a time when we demand our selfhoods to be entirely coherent. It is an anxiety, you could say, that is both painfully specific and universally transcendent.
To be a successful writer today – especially one of Tolentino’s stature – involves being a public figure, which necessitates branding yourself in some fashion. Here there is no room for indeterminacy. All public utterances are traced back to a terrifyingly public self which, in the ecology of the Internet, is then rewarded for being ethically good, funny and perennially correct. If you are a cultural critic, you may write about late capitalism’s inexorable drive to render everything sacred a commodity, while wrestling with the fact that your ability to do so means becoming a heightened one yourself. It’s the sort of blazing contradiction that might prompt someone to, say, make reflections on self-delusion.
The pitfalls of the overdetermined public self are explored in ‘The Cult of the Difficult Women’, Tolentino’s invective against the common practice of using celebrity women as sites of broader feminist contestation (‘It takes a beloved cultural pastime [calculating the exact worth of a woman] and lends it a progressive political impact.’) Yes, one can proselytise about the ‘unruliness’ of Kim Kardashian; argue that Winona Ryder presents a more radical vision of womanhood than Gwyneth Paltrow; desperately look for signs that Melania Trump – and in this country’s case, the Queen – are in fact planning the impending demise of our buffoonish male leaders. But does it in fact help us get a clearer sense of power, or rather re-entrench its mystique?
Celebrity culture, she writes, promotes ‘an approach to womanhood that relies on individual exceptionalism in an inherently conservative way’; ‘every inch’ of womanhood, in effect, ‘is now almost impossibly freighted’. It is a doomed exercise. Mining the self for signs of virtue or complicity only takes you so far; let it breathe. Perhaps the more interesting story lies elsewhere.
Trick Mirror puts the reader through a wringer of the multiple contradictions, self-deceptions, and collective delusions that mark our current moment. In dissecting the doomed impotence our individual selves, it also quietly breaks open a new line of inquiry. What new forms of social understanding and care can open up when we approach the self not as a terrifyingly overdetermined site stuck in a never-ending loop of self-glorification and self-abnegation, but rather a matter-of-fact, uninteresting and endlessly malleable tool – one that exists so that you can learn from the world, and perhaps make it better? Where the story begins, but not where it ends. There might be an irony in taking this lesson from a book whose high-octane release has amplified its already prolific author to magnificent heights – Tolentino herself observes the curious case of writers whose ‘fantasy of disappearance’ nevertheless ‘reinscribes the dazzling force and vision of their intellectual presence’. But then again, contradictions do not always have to undermine our social projects. As Trick Mirror shows, they can in fact enrich them – or at the very least, make them more urgent.
Rebecca Liu is a writer in London. She is a film critic at Another Gaze and assistant editor at Prospect.
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Biology Suffixes Phagia and Phage
This close up shows a macrophage cell and bacteria. Macrophages are white blood cells that engulf and digest pathogens.
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Biology Suffixes Phagia and Phage With Examples
The suffix (-phagia) refers to the act of eating or swallowing. Related suffixes include (-phage), (-phagic), and (-phagy). Here are examples:
Suffix Phagia
Aerophagia (aero - phagia): the act of swallowing excessive amounts of air. This can lead to digestive system discomfort, bloating, and intestinal pain.
Allotriophagia (allo - trio - phagia): a disorder that involves the compulsion to eat non-food substances. Also known as pica, this tendency is sometimes associated with pregnancy, autism, mental retardation, and religious ceremonies.
Amylophagia (amylo - phagia): the compulsion to eat excessive amounts of starch or foods rich in carbohydrates.
Aphagia (a - phagia): the loss of the ability to swallow, typically associated with a disease. It can also mean refusal to swallow or the inability to eat.
Dysphagia (dys - phagia): difficultly in swallowing, typically associated with disease. It can be caused by spasms or obstructions.
Geophagia (geo - phagia): a term that refers to the eating of earth substances especially chalky or clay substances.
Hyperphagia (hyper - phagia): an abnormal condition that results in an overactive appetite and overactive consumption of food. It can be a result of a brain injury.
Omophagia (omo - phagia): the act of eating raw meat.
Polyphagia (poly - phagia): a zoological term that refers to an organism that feeds on a number of different types of food.
Suffix Phage
Bacteriophage (bacterio - phage): a virus that infects and destroys bacteria. Also known as phages, these viruses typically only infect a specific strain of bacteria.
Coliphage (coli - phage): a bacteriophage that specifically infects the E. coli bacteria. The family Leviviridae of viruses is one such example of coliphages.
Foliophage (folio - phage): refers to an organism that has as its primary source of food, leaves.
Ichthyophage (ichthyo - phage): refers to an organism that consumes fish.
Macrophage (macro - phage): a large white blood cell that engulfs and destroys bacteria and other foreign substances in the body. The process by which these substances are internalized, broken down, and disposed of is known as phagocytosis.
Microphage (micro - phage): a small white blood cell known as a neutrophil that is capable of destroying bacteria and other foreign substances by phagocytosis.
Mycophage (myco - phage): an organism that feeds on fungi or a virus that infects fungi.
Prophage (pro - phage): viral, bacteriophage genes that have been inserted into the bacterial chromosome of an infected bacterial cell by genetic recombination.
Vitellophage (vitello - phage): a class or type of cell, typically in the eggs of some insects or arachnids, that isn't a part of embryo formation.
Suffix Phagy
Adephagy (ade - phagy): referring to gluttonous or excessive eating. Adephagia was the Greek goddess of gluttony and greed.
Anthropophagy (anthropo - phagy): a term that refers to an individual that eats the flesh of another human. In other words, a cannibal.
Coprophagy (copro - phagy): the act of eating feces. This is common among animals, especially insects.
Geophagy (geo - phagy): the act of eating dirt or soil substances such as clay.
Monophagy (mono - phagy): the feeding of an organism on a single type of food source. Some insects, for example, will only feed on a specific plant. (Monarch caterpillars only feed on milkweed plants.)
Oligophagy (oligo - phagy): feeding on a small number of specific food sources.
Oophagy (oo - phagy): behavior exhibited by embryos of feeding on female gametes (eggs). This occurs in some sharks, fish, amphibians, and snakes.
Suffixes -Phagia and -Phage Word Dissection
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Biology Prefixes and Suffixes: phago- or phag- - The prefix (phago- or phag-) refers to eating, consuming, or destroying. It comes from the Greek word phagein, which means to consume.
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What Can I Do With a Masters in Business Administration?
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Business Degree Options
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What Is an MBA Degree?
A Masters in Business Administration, or an MBA as it is more commonly known, is an advanced business degree that can be earned by students who have already earned a bachelor's degree in business or another field. The MBA degree is one of the most prestigious and sought after degrees in the world. Earning an MBA can lead to a higher salary, a position in management, and marketability in an ever-evolving job market.
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Many people enroll in a Masters in Business Administration program with the hope of earning more money after graduation. Although there is no guarantee that you will make more money, an MBA salary is likely higher. However, the exact amount you earn is very dependent on the job you do and the business school you graduate from.
A recent study of MBA salaries from BusinessWeek found that the median base salary for MBA grads is $105,000. Harvard Business School graduates earn an average starting salary of $134,000 while graduates of second-tier schools, such as Arizona State (Carey) or Illinois-Urbana Champaign, earn an average starting salary of $72,000. Overall, cash compensation for MBAs is significant regardless of the school from which it is received. The BusinessWeek study stated that median cash compensation over a 20-year period, for all the schools in the study, was $2.5 million. Read more about how much you can earn with an MBA.
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Ocean Courage
British Steam merchant
Name Ocean Courage
Type: Steam merchant (Ocean (British Liberty))
Completed 1942 - Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp, Portland ME
Owner Hain SS Co, London
Homeport London
Date of attack 15 Jan 1943 Nationality: British
Fate Sunk by U-182 (Asmus Nicolai Clausen)
Position 10° 52'N, 23° 28'W - Grid EJ 8994
Route Pepel - Freetown (12 Jan) - Trinidad - USA
Cargo 8956 tons of iron ore and 8 bags of mail
History Completed in June 1942 for Ministry of War Transport (MoWT)
At 03.15 hours on 15 Jan 1943 the unescorted Ocean Courage (Master Thomas Harold Kemp) was hit on the port side on the bulkhead of #2 hold by a torpedo from U-182 and sank by the bow within 90 seconds about 200 miles south of the Cape Verde Islands. The crew of 48 men, eight gunners (the ship was armed with one 3in, three 20mm and two machine guns) and two passengers (DEMS gunners on passage) had no time to launch the lifeboats and most of them were lost in the sinking, including the master, six gunners and both passengers. Only a few men rescued themselves on rafts and debris, but only six men on one of the rafts were found and picked up by the British motor merchant Silverwalnut on 21 January and landed at Norfolk, Virginia.
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Flashback: not so weird car branded phones – McLaren, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Land Rover
We decided to take a slight detour from the weird phones from unexpected brands series to focus on car-branded phones. Those have been around for ages and are still relatively popular.
For example, OnePlus made a few McLaren edition phones, Samsung made an Aston Martin Galaxy Z Fold2, iQOO partnered with BMW and, of course, there are the Huawei Porsche Design (though PD is a design company rather than a car maker).
Siemens SX1 limited editions
As we’ve covered previously, long before OnePlus came about there was the Siemens SX1, which was originally released in 2003. In 2004 Siemens unveiled a McLaren limited edition (200 units), inspired by the McLaren MP4-19 Formula 1 car that raced in the 2004 season.
Siemens SX1 McLaren Edition • Mille Miglia edition
There was another limited edition specifically for the Bahrain 2004 GP, of which only 50 units were made (note: that race was won by Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher, both McLaren cars retired with mechanical failures). Then came two Mille Miglia limited editions, named after the 1,000 mile endurance race held in Italy. The first edition comprised of 500 phones, the second of 99.
Nokia 8800 Aston Martin Edition
The 8000-series was Nokia’s premium lineup, which focused more on craftsmanship than technology (for tech, there was the 9000 Communicators). In 2006, Finns and Brits came together to announce the Nokia 8800 Aston Martin Edition.
The Aston Martin logo was laser etched into the phone’s stainless steel exterior. Like with the SX1, most of the actual branding came from pre-loaded digital content. For example, one ringtone was a recording of the roaring V8 engine that powered the Aston Martin Vantage. Also, there was a screen saver featuring the crystal starter button, which (we guess) you have to have driven an Aston Martin to know what that is.
The press release also mentions that a “short documentary film” was pre-loaded, which must have stretched the 64 MB built-in storage to its limit. Yes, megabytes, and there was no card slot. Again, the 8800 was a phone you bought because of its beautiful brushed metal exterior, not because it did more than a 3000-series Nokia.
Motorola RAZR maxx V6 Ferrari
The Motorola RAZR maxx V6 Ferrari Challenge was released in early 2007. Well, sort of, it turned out that Ferrari had pre-sold all the stock available, so you couldn’t just walk into a store and get one.
Not that it was expensive – at $525/€500 it was only slightly more expensive than the vanilla edition. You know the drill by now, Motorola slapped a Ferrari logo on the phone and pre-loaded some Ferrari-themed images and that was about it.
Land Rover S1
So far we’ve seen rather lazy attempts at branding. Or perhaps it’s just that the brands are incompatible – what does Motorola have to do with Ferrari, anyway? Now, Sonim and Land Rover, that’s a pairing that has more in common.
A few days after unveiling the rugged Sonim XP3 Enduro – rugged phones are Sonim’s bread and butter – the company announced a partnership with the car maker that will see the introduction of the Land Rover S1 and Land Rover S2 G4 in mid-2004.
The Land Rover S1 by Sonim
Land Rovers have a reputation of capable off-road cars and the smartphones would live up to that reputation. The S1 was advertised as the world’s first IP67-rated GSM phone, meaning it is resistant to dirt and water. But the phone went well beyond an IP rating.
It survived drops from 2m heights, spent 30 minutes under a meter of water and withstanded 400 kg of pressure. It was also puncture resistant (tested at 75 kg/cm²), shock and vibration resistant and could operate in a wide ambient temperature window, going from -20 to +55°C (that’s -4 to 131°F).
Basically, you can drop it in a mud puddle, run it over with the car then pick it up and make a call. Even if that puddle was frozen. All of that was available at just £300 and came with a three year “unconditional guarantee”.
Here is punishing demo video showing just how tough the Land Rover S1 is:
On the next “Weird phones”…
These are just some of the curios car-branded phones we’ve seen over the years. We’ll put together another installment like this one, but before that we will go back to the general “weird phones from unexpected brands” format – there’s a Coca Cola phone to cover, among other curiosities. But we’ll be back with more car-related phones soon enough.
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Follow Tara Moss to the Syrian border
Author Tara Moss has called for Australians to judge the world’s largest refugee migration for themselves.
Syria conflict
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Author Tara Moss has called for Australians to travel toward the border of Syria with her and judge the world’s largest refugee migration for themselves.
The advocate for women and children will travel with UNICEF Australia to Lebanon where she will meet with Syrian refugee families living in both tented settlements and the Lebanese community after more than four years of fighting in Syria.
As UNICEF Australia Ambassador for Child Survival, Moss said she was distressed the refugee migration out of Syria was due to top more than 4 million any day now and that half of those refugees were children.
"This refugee crisis has slipped from the global radar," Moss said. "We've concentrated on the horrendous acts of a minority and all but forgotten about the immense humanitarian crisis here, the suffering of millions of regular people, including millions of innocent kids."
Moss said children were the most at risk of the massive displacement inside and within countries neighbouring Syria.
"Exploitation, recruitment into armed forces, child labour the increasing rate of child marriage are obvious risks for children during conflict but we’re also seeing alarming trends in maternal health and newborn and infant survival," she said.
"I can’t turn away from that. We can’t turn away from that."
Moss will meet with field staff from the United Nations Children’s Fund on Sunday and begin reporting from tented refugee settlements for UNICEF and its humanitarian partners for three days from Monday.
"I hope to learn a lot during this journey and shine a light on the real human beings most impacted by this conflict - the normal, innocent people, the families, the children, and the heroes and heroines that are the aid workers risking their lives to help.
"It's a responsibility to be able to give the women and children UNICEF works with a voice within Australia, and with Twitter Australia’s support, internationally," Ms Moss said.
Follow UNICEF Australia National Ambassador for Child Survival @Tara_Moss and @UNICEFAustralia on Twitter
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Airport Transfers Praz-sur-Arly
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Airport Transfers to and from Praz-sur-Arly
Transferfix is a great online service which allows you to compare all transfer services between Praz-sur-Arly and every airport which services Praz-sur-Arly. You can choose among a low-priced shared airport transfer, a private one or a premium private luxury limousine transfer.
The comparison service of Transferfix provides you with accurate availability and costs, and you can book and pay for your preferred service in two quick and easy steps.
And you do not have to concern worry about any additional costs! The carrier companies are contracted to offer the same prices in Transferfix as they do on their own website.
Transferfix is available, not only in Praz-sur-Arly, but in many other resorts. Compare and book airport transfers with Transferfix, in many alpine resorts, such as Megève, Les Houches, Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains, Combloux or Morzine.
See all the other alpine resorts in which Transferfix operates.
Journey Times & Distances from Airports to Praz-sur-Arly
From Geneva airport (GVA), the transfer to Praz-sur-Arly takes approximately 1h 20m.
The distance from Geneva airport (GVA) to Praz-sur-Arly is 93 km or 58 miles.
From Lyon airport (LYS), the transfer to Praz-sur-Arly takes approximately 2h 10m.
The distance from Lyon airport (LYS) to Praz-sur-Arly is 169 km or 105 miles.
From Milan airport (MXP), the transfer to Praz-sur-Arly takes approximately 3h 10m.
The distance from Milan airport (MXP) to Praz-sur-Arly is 267 km or 166 miles.
From Turin airport (TRN), the transfer to Praz-sur-Arly takes approximately 2h 40m.
The distance from Turin (TRN) airport to Praz-sur-Arly is 206 km or 128 miles.
From Chambéry Airport (CMF), the transfer to Praz-sur-Arly takes approximately 1h 20m.
The distance from Chambéry Airport (CMF) to Praz-sur-Arly is 91 km or 57 miles.
Transferfix compares services within the tourism sector and it allows for a selection of a service, order a service or pay for it, online and directly to the licensed transportation provider.
Shared Transfers to and from Praz-sur-Arly
Shared transfers are an excellent economical option. You will be taken to, or from your hotel, chalet or apartment, no matter where you are staying in Praz-sur-Arly. You will be sharing the vehicle with other people who will be collected from or dropped off at different locations in Praz-sur-Arly.
You might have to wait for more passengers at the airport or you might have to wait for other passengers to be dropped off in Praz-sur-Arly before you, therefore your journey time might slightly increase. Nonetheless, you will always be notified in due time of your actual pick-up time.
Otherwise, there is always the likelihood that you are fortunate, with all passengers coming off the same flight or from flights landing within minutes of each other. Or, drop-offs in Praz-sur-Arly might be close to one another or you might be the first to be dropped-off in Praz-sur-Arly.
Either way, the shared transfer experience requires a bit of “give and take” and a considerate attitude from all passengers.
Transferfix offers shared transfers to and from Praz-sur-Arly all year long.
What happens if my flight is delayed?
TransferFix is in the process of contracting with all of the carriers so that you might be able to benefit from transportation on the next available mini-bus.
By choosing a seat in a shared vehicle you save money and leave a lower carbon trail.
Private transfers to and from Praz-sur-Arly
Transferfix runs private transfers from many different airports to Praz-sur-Arly all year long.
When you book your private transfer online, you receive an instant confirmation via e-mail or text message and your driver will meet you at the airport.
With Transferfix and a private ride to or from Praz-sur-Arly, you can enjoy the privacy of a taxi service while paying less money than a premium luxury limousine service.
And don’t worry! If your flight is delayed, your driver will still be at the airport to meet you when you arrive.
About Praz-sur-Arly
Praz-sur-Arly is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
Praz-sur-Arly is a charming village which provides an alternative to Megève and Chamonix.
Praz-sur-Arly has a rich history of over six centuries, with the first inhabitants establishing La Thona (La Tonnaz today) in 1375, which was followed by Réon (Rayon at the time) and Le Pratz, which is the centre of the village today.
The village saw the constructions of two chapels and one church - the Mary Magdalene Church - in the 17th century.
A school followed, together with the desire to gain independence from Megève, which was a long process finalized in 1907, when the Town Council, by Government decision, stated that Pratz de Megève should become Praz-sur-Arly.
Praz-sur-Arly is an ideal holiday destination, because of its numerous summer & winter activities, its serenity, its breathtaking scenery and the proximity to bigger resorts, such as Chamonix or Megève.
Praz-sur-Arly became renowned because of hot air ballooning, a rare and exceptional activity.
Skiing in Praz-sur-Arly
Praz-sur-Arly is a part of the relatively new Espace Diamant ski domain, which encompasses 192 km of slopes serviced by 85 ski lifts.
Located at an ideal altitude between the Beaufortain massif and the Val d'Arly, facing Mont Blanc, the Espace Diamant is an exceptional playground.
The Espace Diamant is the ideal ski domain for the whole family, as it has 30 green slopes, 67 blue, 49 red and 11 challenging black slopes.
The Espace Diamant ski area usually opens mid-December and closes at the beginning of April.
Praz-sur-Arly itself provides an impressive 35 km of pistes with 26 groomed trails, serviced by 11 lifts. Praz-sur-Arly is mainly suitable for beginners and intermediates, with 53% of ski slopes being classed as intermediate.
Praz-sur-Arly also offers a great off-piste circuit starting from the foot of the slopes, which will take you in the direction of the Cassioz and Megève.
As a rare activity in the mountains, hot air ballooning is a must when in Praz-sur-Arly.
As the balloon flies over the Mont-Blanc massif, the Aravis Chain, the Beaufortain, and part of the Swiss and Italian Alps, the view from the balloon is absolutely fantastic.
Hot air ballooning in Praz-sur-Arly is possible in all four seasons and the resort always has a balloon company on the spot all year round.
There is a 7 meters high climbing tower in Belles Leisure Park, which is ideal for beginners.
For those who are seriously passionate about rock climbing, there are many climbing spots in cliffs around the foot of the Mont-Blanc.
In the summer, the Tourist Office organizes rock climbing initiation in partnership with the Megève Mountain Guides Office.
Entertainment for the whole family
Praz-sur-Arly is a very family friendly resort as it provides activities on a daily basis for the whole family, all year round.
Summer entertainment: make-up workshop, outdoor children's show, "discover the fauna" nature outing, football tournament, "musical cooking" workshop, etc.
Winter entertainment: make-up workshop, children's show, carpentry workshop, treasure hunt, different snow sports workshops, etc.
Airport Transfers - Book now!
From AnnecyBellegarde Train StationChambéry Airport (CMF)Geneva Airport (GVA)Geneva CointrinGrenoble Airport (GNB)Lyon Airport (LYS)Milan Airport (MXP)Turin Airport (TRN) Alpe d'HuezLes ArcsLes Deux Alpes ArgentièreChamonixLes BossonsLes HouchesMontroc / Le TourServozTaconnazVallorcine AvoriazLes GetsMorzine ComblouxContaminesCordonMegèvePraz de Lys-SommandPraz-sur-ArlySaint-Gervais-les-BainsSaint-Nicolas-de-VéroceSallanchesSt Gervais / Le Fayet Train Stn CourchevelLa PlagneMéribelTignesVal d'IsereVal Thorens CourmayeurLa ThuilePré-Saint-Didier FlaineLes Carroz / ArachesMorillonSamoënsSixt-Fer-à-Cheval La ClusazLa Giettaz
To AnnecyBellegarde Train StationChambéry Airport (CMF)Geneva Airport (GVA)Geneva CointrinGrenoble Airport (GNB)Lyon Airport (LYS)Milan Airport (MXP)Turin Airport (TRN) Alpe d'HuezLes ArcsLes Deux Alpes ArgentièreChamonixLes BossonsLes HouchesMontroc / Le TourServozTaconnazVallorcine AvoriazLes GetsMorzine ComblouxContaminesCordonMegèvePraz de Lys-SommandPraz-sur-ArlySaint-Gervais-les-BainsSaint-Nicolas-de-VéroceSallanchesSt Gervais / Le Fayet Train Stn CourchevelLa PlagneMéribelTignesVal d'IsereVal Thorens CourmayeurLa ThuilePré-Saint-Didier FlaineLes Carroz / ArachesMorillonSamoënsSixt-Fer-à-Cheval La ClusazLa Giettaz
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Deceptive Ambiguity by Police and Prosecutors (Oxford Studies in Language and Law)
Mega Sale! Save 21% on the Deceptive Ambiguity by Police and Prosecutors (Oxford Studies in Language and Law) by Oxford University Press at Translate This Website. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. Much has been written about how criminal suspects, defendants, and the targets of undercover operations employ ambiguous language as they interact with the legal system. This book examines the other side of the coin, describing fifteen criminal investigations that demonstrate how police, prosecutors, and undercover agents use deceptive ambiguity with their subjects and targets, thereby creating misrepresentations through their uses of speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, lexicon, and
Much has been written about how criminal suspects, defendants, and the targets of undercover operations employ ambiguous language as they interact with the legal system. This book examines the other side of the coin, describing fifteen criminal investigations that demonstrate how police, prosecutors, and undercover agents use deceptive ambiguity with their subjects and targets, thereby creating misrepresentations through their uses of speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, lexicon, and grammar. This misrepresentation also can strongly affect the perceptions of later listeners, such as judges and juries, about the subjects' motives, predispositions, intentions, and voluntariness. Deception is commonly considered intentional while ambiguity is often excused as unintentional, in line with Grice's maxim of sincerity in his cooperative principle. Most of the interactions of suspects, defendants, and targets with representatives of law enforcement, however, are oppositional, adversarial, and non-cooperative events that provide the opportunity for participants to stretch, ignore, or even violate the cooperative principle. One effective way law enforcement does this is by using ambiguity. Suspects and defendants may hear such ambiguous speech and not recognize the ambiguity and therefore react in ways that they may not have understood or intended. The fifteen case studies in this book illustrate how deceptive ambiguity, whether intentional or not, is used as commonly by police, prosecutors and undercover agents as it is by suspects and defendants.
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Grand Pursuit: Great 20th Century Economic Thinkers and What They Discovered about the Way the World Works by Brand: Fourth Estate at Translate This Website. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands, rather than in Fate. Nasar's account begins with Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing and publishing the condition of the poor majority in mid 19th century London, the richest and most glittering place in the world. This was a new pursuit.
Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands, rather than in Fate. Nasar's account begins with Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing and publishing the condition of the poor majority in mid 19th century London, the richest and most glittering place in the world. This was a new pursuit. She then describes the efforts of Marx, Engels, Alfred Marshall, Beatrice and Sydney Webb, and Irving Fisher to put those insights into action - with revolutionary consequences for the world. From the great John Maynard Keynes to Schumpeter, Hayek, Keynes's disciple Joan Robinson, the influential American economists Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman, and India's Nobel Prize Winner Amartya Sen, she show how the insights of these activist thinkers transformed the world - from one city, London, to the developed nations in Europe and America and now the entire world. In Nasar's dramatic account of these discoverers we witness men and women responding to personal crises, world wars, revolutions, economic upheavals, and each others' ideas to turn back Malthus and transform the dismal science into a triumph over mankind's hitherto age-old destiny of misery and early death. This story, unimaginable less than 200 years ago, is a story of trial and error, and ultimately transcendent, rendered here in stunning narrative.
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Two planes collide during 'mishap' on Visalia airport taxiway
Sheyanne N Romero
Two planes collided while taxiing Tuesday morning at Visalia Municipal Airport.
The question now is, what happened?
The National Transportation Safety Board was called at 11 a.m. to take a report of a "mishap" at the airport, said Airport Superintendent Katherine Bales.
The two planes were moving down the taxiway when one plane clipped the other plane's wing, according to witnesses. The collision caused fuel to leak out of one of the planes.
The extent of the damage is still being evaluated.
One plane belonged to local car dealer Don Groppetti. The other belonged to local farmers and ranchers, the Ritchie family. It's unclear which pilot was at fault.
The runway was not closed, and the spill was contained about three hours after the collision, Bales said. Fire crews were on scene for several hours cleaning the spill, and half a dozen police officers patrolled the area to keep people at a safe distance.
"There were no injuries reported," Bales said. "Visalia fire and police responded within two minutes of the call."
Bales added that she is proud of her staff's quick response.
Crews used absorbent pads to soak up the fuel, said Visalia Fire Battalion Chief Darrin Hughes. Everyone on the planes had safely evacuated by the time firefighters arrived, he added.
More information will be released once NTSB completes its report, Bales said. A final report could take months.
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Mitsubishi vans to return… as rebadged Renaults
By Tim Robson, 10 Nov 2018 Car News
Mitsubishi Australia is set to sell commercial vans again, with new alliance partner Renault providing the firepower
Mitsubishi’s long-departed (and extremely long-lived) Express was the stuff of commercial legend, and the Japanese brand will soon re-enter the light commercial van world… only this time, it’ll be selling rebadged Renault Trafic vans.
Mitsubishi is now part of the Nissan-Renault Alliance, and its chief Carlos Ghosn – one of the most respected car bosses in the automotive world – has been forthright in his desire for the three brands to shed costs by sharing products. In fact, the three companies will cleave around $15 billion in costs by 2022, if Mr Ghosn gets his way. Grafting Mitsubishi badges onto the Trafic is certainly one way of achieving that kind of cross-brand synergy.
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The Trafic sits above the Kangoo and underneath the Master in Renault’s commercial line up, and competes against the evergreen Toyota HiAce, the Hyundai iLoad, Volkswagen Transporter and Ford Transit. Since the departure of the Express in 2014 after an epic 20-year production run, Mitsubishi Australia has been without a light or medium-size commercial van in its lineup.
To this end, he has announced that the Renault Trafic light commercial van will provide the basis for a new range of Mitsubishi LCVs from 2020. To be built in Renault’s huge Sandouville plant, the Mitsubishi-branded product will hit Australia in 2020 – or earlier.
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Wikimp3 information about the music of Meghan Trainor. On our website we have 37 albums and 70 collections of artist Meghan Trainor. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that Meghan Trainor represents Pop genres.
Pop singer and songwriter Meghan Trainor had already devoted most of her life to music when she scored her first hit in 2014 (when she was 20 years old) with a dance-friendly paean to body positivity, "All About That Bass." Born in December 1993, Trainor was born and raised on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts, where she began making music when she was just seven, and wrote her first song at the age of 11. Trainor attended high school at the Nauset High School on Cape Cod; there she sang and played trumpet in the jazz band, and also studied guitar, taking lessons with Johnny Spampinato, noted guitarist with NRBQ and the Incredible Casuals. In addition, Trainor played guitar, keyboards, and sang with a local Nantucket band called Island Fusion for four years. Trainor attended the Berklee College of Music's Performance Program, a special five-week course, in 2009 and 2010, receiving high marks and reaching the finals of their songwriting competition. By the time she was 18, Trainor had self-released three albums of her own material and landed a publishing deal with Big Yellow Dog Music (who placed her songs with artists such as Rascal Flatts, Macy Kate, Common Kings, and Sabrina Carpenter) before she signed a deal with Epic Records. Trainor's first single for Epic was "All About That Bass," in which she proudly declares she's "no stick figure silicon Barbie doll," and "every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top." The pastel-colored video for "All About That Bass" became an online sensation, racking up over 1,600,000 views on YouTube within a month of its debut in June 2014. Soon, "All About That Bass" started storming the Billboard Hot 100, reaching the pole position not only in the U.S. but throughout the world. As it racked up eight weeks on the top of the U.S. charts, it wound up getting certified five times platinum, selling over four million copies in America alone; international sales reached over six million, cementing "All About That Bass"' status as one of the biggest singles of 2014. In comparison, its sequel, "Lips Are Moving," paled, but it was still a notable hit, reaching four on the Billboard charts and earning a gold certification, setting the stage nicely for the January 2015 release of Trainor's debut, Title.
Title: Badass Woman (From The Motion Picture "The Hustle") - Single
Artist: Meghan Trainor
Title: Let You Be Right (Single)
Genre: Pop, Classical
Title: Me Too (Single)
Genre: Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Pop, American Folk
Title: Just Got Paid (Single)
Artist: Ella Eyre, French Montana, Meghan Trainor, Sigala
Title: Throwback Love - Single
Title: I'll Be There For You (" Friends " 25th Anniversary) (Single)
Title: The Love Train
Title: With You (Single)
Artist: Kaskade, Meghan Trainor
Title: Watch Me Do (Single)
Title: No Excuses (Single)
Title: Genetics (Single)
Title: Hurt Me (From " Songland ") (Single)
Title: Close Your Eyes (Single)
Title: Dear Future Husband (Single)
Title: Just Got Paid (feat. French Montana) [M-22 Remix] - Single
Artist: Ella Eyre, Meghan Trainor, Sigala
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: CAN'T DANCE - Single
Title: Good To Be Alive - Single
Title: Thank You (Deluxe)
Title: Run Like The River (From " Playmobil: The Movie " Soundtrack) (Single)
Title: Can't Dance (Single)
Title: All About That Bass (June 2, 2014) (Single)
Genre: Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop, Teen Pop
Title: Goosebumps - Single
Title: With You - The Remixes
Title: A Very Trainor Christmas
Genre: Pop, Traditional Pop Music
Title: ALL THE WAYS - Single
Title: Thank You
Genre: Rock, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop, Teen Pop
Title: No (Single)
Title: Lips Are Movin (Single)
Title: Hey DJ (Remix) - Single
Artist: Sean Paul, Meghan Trainor, CNCO
Title: Hey DJ [Remix] (Single)
Title: Title (Deluxe)
Title: No Excuses - Single
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Pop
Title: Just Got Paid (feat. French Montana) [Remixes] - Single
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: I Love Me (Single)
Artist: Lunchmoney Lewis, Meghan Trainor
Genre: Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B, Pop
Title: TREAT MYSELF
Title: I’m a Lady (from SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE) - Single / I'm a Lady (from SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE) - Single
Title: Title
Title: I'll Be Home For Christmas
Title: NOW That's What I Call Music, Vol. 52
Title: 2015 GRAMMY Nominees
Title: USA Hot Top 40 Singles Chart [Top 100 Debuts] (26 July 2014)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Dancefloor, Club/Dance, Pop
Title: Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart (26 July 2014) (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, World Music, Pop, Indie
Title: Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart (2 August 2014) (CD2)
Title: USA Hot Top 40 Singles Chart (8 August 2014)
Title: Woman In August
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Club/Dance, Pop
Title: USA Hot Top 40 Singles Chart (16 August 2014) (CD1)
Title: Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart (16 August 2014) (CD1)
Title: Top 40 Countdown Australia (Australia's Official Top 40 Music Chart) (09-07-2014)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, World Music, Pop, Indie, Folk
Title: USA Hot Top 40 Singles Chart (6 September 2014) (CD1)
Title: Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart (06 September 2014) (CD1)
Title: USA Hot Top 40 Singles Chart (13 September 2014) (CD1)
Title: Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart (13 Sep 2014) (CD1)
Title: CDClub Promo Only September 2014 Part 4
Genre: Electronica, House, Industrial, Electro, Dancefloor, Pop, Progressive, EBM
Genre: Dancefloor, Pop
Title: Nederlandse TOP 40 2014 (WEEK 37)
Genre: Dancefloor, Club/Dance, Pop
Title: US TOP 40 Single Charts (16. 08. 2014)
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Pop
Title: Billboard Chart Ultra Hit 2014
Genre: Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: 538 Hitzone Vol. 71 (CD1)
Title: Playlist NRJ Latest Hits 2014 (CD2)
Title: Urban Dance Party Electro Pop (CD1)
Genre: Dancefloor, Club/Dance, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart (11 October 2014) (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, World Music, Country, Pop, Dance Pop, Indie, Folk
Title: US Top 20 Single Charts (04.10.14)
Title: 538 Hitzone 71 (CD1)
Title: US Billboard Single Charts TOP 100 (30.08.2014) (CD1)
Genre: House, Hip Hop/R&B, World Music, Pop, Indie, Folk
Title: NRJ Total Hits 2014 (CD1)
Title: Nederlandse TOP 40 2014 (WEEK 41) (CD1: Complete Lijst)
Genre: Dancefloor, Club/Dance, Pop, Dance Pop, Classical
Title: Radio 538 Hitzone 71 (CD1)
Title: German Top 100 Single Charts (October 2014) (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop, Classical
Title: Ö3 Greatest Hits Vol. 67
Title: Los 40 Principales Del 11 Al 17 De Octubre (CD1)
Genre: Progressive House, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: OE3 Greatest Hits Vol. 67
Title: USA Top 100 (October 2014) (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: 3 Greatest Hits Vol 67 2014
Title: Billboard Hot 100 (25.10.2014) (CD1)
Title: Los 40 Principales Del 18 Al 24 De Octubre (CD1))
Genre: Progressive House, Soul, Dancefloor, Pop
Title: DJ Promotion CDPool Pop-Dance 211
Title: Hollyoaks: The Album (CD1)
Genre: Soul, Pop, Indie
Title: Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart (01 November 2014) (CD1)
Title: RTL Hits 2014 (CD1)
Title: Bravo - The Hits 2014 (CD1)
Title: US TOP 20 Single Charts (01 November 2014)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: ITunes Single Vol. 24
Genre: Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Soul, Rock, Dancefloor, Country, Pop, Dance Pop, Alternative, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: German TOP 100 Single Charts (03-11-2014) (CD1)
Title: Los Numeros 1 De 40 (El Disco De Los Exitos) (CD2)
Title: Berlin Tag & Nacht Vol. 6
Title: Much Dance 2015
Title: Master Stensor - Radio Show PortalFM 267
Genre: Breakbeat
Title: DMC Commercial Collection 382: November 2014
Genre: House, Club/Dance
Title: RNB Mania: We Are Popular Vol. 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Soul
Title: Europa FM Del 1 Al 7 De Noviembre 2014
Title: German TOP 100 Single Charts (17.11.2014) (CD1)
Title: Lo Mejor De Los 40 Principales (Noviembre 2014)
Title: NOW That's What I Call Music! 89 (CD1)
Genre: Club/Dance
Title: NOW That’s What I Call Music! 89 (CD1)
Genre: House, Club/Dance, Nu Disco
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Title: Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 53
Title: NOW That's What I Call #1's [Clean]
Title: Radio Disney Music Awards
Title: The Peanuts Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: 30 Todo Dia, Vol. 2
Artist: 538 Hitzone 71
Title: German TOP100 Single Charts (19.01.2015) (CD1)
Artist: Simon Bostock
Genre: Uplifting House
Title: Millennium The Next Generation Vol. 26
Artist: Joe Cefalu
Title: The Peanuts Movie (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: Christophe Beck
Title: Boys Like You (Single)
Artist: Who Is Fancy
Title: The 109th Story
Artist: Studio 33
Title: Billboard Pop Busters Vol 2
Artist: Eminem
Title: Clubfete 2016 - 44 Club Dance & Party Hits
Artist: Scooter
Title: The Christmas Album
Artist: Mariah Carey
Title: Studio 33 Hits Edition 69 (CD2)
Genre: Electropop, Hip Hop/R&B, Pop, Dance Pop, Synth Pop
Title: Songs For Christmas (CD1)
Artist: So Fresh
Title: Marvin Gaye
Artist: Charlie Puth
Title: Select Essentials Vol. 102
Artist: Select Mix
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Soul, Pop, Dance Pop, Synth Pop, Indie
Title: NOW That's What I Call #1's
Title: Top Radio Songs (CD2)
Artist: Best Of Hits
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Dancehall, Reggaeton, Synth Pop
Title: NOW Party Anthems, Vol. 3
Title: Partybreaks And Remixes - All In One October 003 (CD2)
Artist: Remixes
Genre: World Music
Title: Now That's What I Call Music!, Vol. 60 (Deluxe Edition)
Title: Bliss Compilation, Vol. 1
Artist: Various Artist
Title: NOW That's What I Call a Workout 2017
Title: The Album (CD2)
Artist: Lazy Sunday
Genre: Trip Hop, Electropop, Soul, World Music, Country, Alternative, Indie, Folk, Trap
Title: Weeks New Single Vol. 5&6
Artist: EMPiK Presents
Title: I Feel Pretty (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Title: Play These Pop Hits, Vol. 8 (DJ Mix)
Artist: DJ Rob Dinero
Title: Orgullo Gay
Title: Life of the Party (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Title: Play These Pop Hits, Vol. 10 (DJ Mix)
Title: Know.
Artist: Jason Mraz
Title: Know
Title: Pop Madness, Vol. 6 (DJ Mix) (DJ Mix)
Artist: DJ Rest537
Title: Hip Hop Spitters, Vol. 6 (DJ Mix) (DJ Mix)
Artist: DJ Thoro
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap
Title: O Tempo Não Para (Trilha Sonora da Novela) / O Tempo Nao Para (Trilha Sonora da Novela)
Genre: Latin, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Just Got Paid
Artist: Anne-Caroline Joy
Title: 1001 Tracklists (DJ Mix)
Artist: Sam Feldt
Genre: Electronica
Title: Xmas Hits
Title: Chillout Pop inc. John Legend, Miley Cyrus & John Mayer
Title: The Ministry Mix Dec '18 (DJ Mix)
Artist: Sigala
Title: Let's Dance!, Vol. 1 (DJ Mix)
Artist: King Tutt
Title: Platinum Billboard Mega Hits 2019, Vol. 7
Artist: Platinum Billboard
Title: Dance Vibes, Vol. 1 (DJ Mix)
Artist: DJ Rest
Title: Pop Vibes, Vol. 3 (DJ Mix)
Title: Mother's Day Songs
Title: Mastermix DJ Beats Chart The Collection Volume 1 (CD3)
Artist: DJ Beats
Genre: Electropop, Dancehall, Pop, Funk, Indie
Title: Involves Fashion
Artist: Mashup Urban
Genre: House, Electro, Dancehall, Reggae Fusion, Latin, Funk
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STREAMING THEATER REVIEW Broadway by the Decade
by Jonathan Abarbanel, Windy City Times
This article shared 1069 times since Tue Sep 29, 2020
Playwright: Various composer & lyricists
At: Streaming on Vimeo. Tickets: PorchlightMusicTheatre.org; $15-$50. Runs through: Oct. 25
Most musical-theater fans will get a kick out of this well-produced and very well-sung 45-minute dive into Broadway history. Inevitably, however, serious students of musical theater ( me ) will have quibbles about what's been included and what hasn't.
This streaming revue is narrated by Porchlight artistic director Michael Weber, who also directed it. Weber offers a general introduction about the origins of American musical theater ( which didn't exist 150 years ago ) leading to 10 songs, one for each Broadway musical decade from the 1920s to the present. This eliminates George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert and early shows by the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin among others ( although the Gershwins and Berlin are represented by later works ). Why not a one-hour show ( vs. 45 minutes ) so early 20th-century songs could be included?
What IS included is choice material performed by an ensemble including Neala Baron, Blu, Darilyn Burtley, Lucy Godinez, Donterrio Johnson, James Earl Jones II, Michelle Lauto and Michael McBride ( pianist and musical director ), each of whom participates in several numbers either solos or combos.
Burtley kicks off with a smoky rendition of "Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine" from Show Boat ( 1927 ), accompanied by McBride at a white grand piano. The physical vibe says "nightclub," with potted palms, red velvet drapes and shadowy lighting.
The clubby setting of the first four numbers appears to have been shot in a dance studio ( not that it matters ) before videographer Austin Packard takes us elsewhere. There's a wonderful endless tracking shot down a corridor, as Blu and Donterrio Johnson perform the title song from Guys and Dolls ( 1950 ). Then, various rooms of a spacious all-white loft apartment host the remaining numbers.
Tenor Jones knocks it out of the park with "Who Am I?" from Les Miz, while Baron and Godinez cut loose with big alto voices on "I Am My Own Best Friend" from Chicago ( 1975 ). Godinez also nails "She Used to Be Mine" from Waitress ( 2015 ), the final song in this compilation. Along the way, Lauto scores with "Don't Rain on My Parade" from Funny Girl ( 1964 ).
McBride at the piano accompanies several songs, while others are backed by a full orchestra, seeming to play the original Broadway arrangements. I don't know how this was accomplished, but it's a neat trick! Likewise, audio engineer Eric Backus manages to record most of the numbers without any microphones visible ( overhead mics? ) for much richer and more professional sound than folks singing into their computer cameras.
Quibble: I'd have skipped the songs from Les Miz ( a foreign show ) and Beauty and the Beast ( written for the movie ) and kept the songs all American and all written for the stage.
Jonathan Abarbanel is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association. His reviews also can be heard on 90.9 WDCB-FM "The Arts Section" every Sunday morning."
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Home PRESS RELEASES Dept. of Health Services: Launches COVID-19 Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard
Dept. of Health Services: Launches COVID-19 Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) today launched an online dashboard that displays findings from the wastewater surveillance program of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wisconsin. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19 and is found in the feces of infected people. Sewage testing has been used for early detection of other infectious diseases(link is external), and this surveillance system will make it possible to better understand COVID-19 transmission in Wisconsin.
“Surveillance of wastewater is part of our broader statewide efforts to better understand and monitor this virus,” said Secretary-designee Andrea Palm. “This publicly available dashboard will also empower both Wisconsinites and leaders to make more informed decisions about COVID-19 in their communities.”
The new dashboard contains sewershed locations and boundaries, the levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus in the wastewater, and the daily new COVID-19 case rates within the chosen sewershed. A sewershed is an area of land where raw sewage from homes, businesses, and industries flows through a series of sewer pipes to a single downstream point, where it enters a wastewater treatment plant. Approximately 70 sewersheds are currently enrolled in this program, which covers over 50% of the state’s residents.
Over time, wastewater data can show whether levels of SARS-CoV-2 are rising within a sewershed. This change can be observed as early as a week before we see any rise in cases from clinical testing. Wastewater information can be used together with our community COVID-19 case dashboard and other COVID-19-related data to further inform decisions as we continue responding to the pandemic. This data will provide public health officials with an opportunity to identify changes in COVID-19 transmission, circulation within a community, and potentially, early warning detection of outbreaks.
“This wastewater surveillance data can provide a larger window for public health officials to execute targeted public health interventions,” said Dr. Jonathan Meiman, Chief Medical Officer for the DHS Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health. “Along with testing, robust contact tracing, and monitoring disease activity, this new dashboard will be an important tool in preventing the spread of COVID-19 in communities throughout the state.”
Wastewater monitoring began in June and will run through June of 2021. DHS will continue adding sewersheds to the dashboard as more complete data become available.
The Wisconsin Coronavirus Wastewater Monitoring Network is a collaboration between DHS, the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Find the latest information about COVID-19 on the DHS website and follow @DHSWI on Facebook(link is external) and Twitter(link is external), and @dhs.wi on Instagram(link is external).
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Rich Americans are protecting their fortunes from a possible Biden win
Edward A. Renn
Partner | US
This article was initially published by Bloomberg on October 9, 2020 and features commentary from Withers’ Edward Renn.
Wealthy American families are being told by their advisers that they should act now or risk losing millions of dollars later.
That’s in case Democrats win back the White House and U.S. Senate in November. Former Vice President Joe Biden has proposed substantially higher taxes on the rich, including making it much harder to avoid a 40% levy on large estates.
By transferring fortunes to the next generation now, the wealthy can exploit the generous estate tax rules ushered in by President Donald Trump.
Republican tax law changes in 2017 doubled the amount that rich families can pass on without paying the tax, to $11.58 million for individuals and $23.16 million for couples this year. Savvy advisers can protect much more from taxes using complex planning techniques — “loopholes,” according many Democrats — which the Trump administration has declined to ban.
“We’ve been telling people: ‘Use it or lose it,’” said Jere Doyle, an estate planning strategist at BNY Mellon Wealth Management. “It’s the golden age of estate planning for a lot of people. We may not see anything like it again.”
If rich Americans wait and do nothing until the election results are clear, they risk missing their chance, advisers say. It takes time to set up trusts, decide which assets to give away, and appraise businesses and valuable possessions like art. After a Democratic sweep, planners and attorneys are expecting to be very busy.
‘Blue Wave’
“If there is a blue wave, people are going to be hard-pressed to even find lawyers who will meet with them,” said Edward Renn, a partner at Withers law firm. “There will such a flood of demand. That’s why we’re saying to people, ‘Come in now. We have time for you now.’”
Biden has yet to release a detailed tax plan. Instead, he has proposed various ways to raise revenue — almost exclusively targeted at the wealthy and corporations — to cover the costs of extra spending on health care, infrastructure and battling climate change. Moody’s Analytics last month estimated his tax hikes, including higher levies on corporations and individuals earning more than $400,000, would raise $4.1 trillion over 10 years. Lowering the estate and gift tax exemption to the 2009 level of $3.5 million would raise $267 billion.
The clock is already ticking for Americans with large estates. The 2017 tax law’s higher estate tax exemption expires in 2026, when it is slated to drop by half.
Some millionaires have worried about giving away too much of their fortunes to children and grandchildren. A popular option for these clients is the Spousal Lifetime Access Trust, which lets an individual pass wealth out of their estate but allows a wife or husband access to the money. Called SLATs, these vehicles “are the flavor of the day to say the least among married couples,” said Marshall Rowe, president of business owner services at the Colony Group.
No-Brainer
For billionaires and the super-wealthy, transferring assets to the next generation is a no-brainer from a tax perspective. But many still resist giving up control of their fortunes, or procrastinate because they don’t want to face uncomfortable realities.
“A lot of people don’t want to do estate planning. It forces people to look at their own mortality,” said Michael Simmons, director of financial planning at Transitions Wealth Management in Denver. Especially in the realms of the rich, “people want to do things on their time schedule. They don’t want someone dictating to them.”
Even if Biden and Democrats win in November, rich Americans might have extra time to put plans in place. While Congress would have the option of imposing a retroactive tax hike to the beginning of 2021, lawmakers may wait until 2022 or later to change the rules.
Even so, rich Americans have non-tax reasons to transfer wealth soon. Low interest rates mean that the rich can loan assets to their children and grandchildren at ultra-low interest rates without triggering tax consequences. Also, the value of many private businesses has collapsed along with the economy. That makes it easier to pass on those businesses to family members without eating up their entire gift tax exemption.
‘A Lifeboat’
“It’s a great time to transfer assets between generations,” Rowe said. “The combination of lower valuations and potential future tax increases is driving a lot of planning activity.”
Simmons warns his clients against overly complex estate plans. “Oftentimes estate-planning attorneys have a built-in incentive to make things more complicated than they need to do,” he said. “We try to pare that down.”
One relatively simple option for the wealthy is to loan the current exemption amount to a trust benefiting their heirs, or directly to their children, Renn said. Then, if Biden wins in November with a wide Democratic majority, they can simply write a letter forgiving the debt.
“There might not be much time to do much else,” Renn said. “What we’re trying to do is make sure that they have a lifeboat, that they have something in place.”
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NCAA expands ban, joins SEC in targeting Confederate flag
In this April 25, 2020 photograph, a small Mississippi state flag is held by a participant during a drive-by “re-open Mississippi” protest past the Governor’s Mansion, in the background, in Jackson, Miss. This current flag has in the canton portion of the banner the design of the Civil War-era Confederate battle flag, that has been the center of a long-simmering debate about its removal or replacement. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
(AP) – The NCAA on Friday expanded its policy banning states with prominent Confederate symbols from hosting its championship events, one day after the Southeastern Conference made a similar declaration aimed at the Mississippi state flag.
The current NCAA ban, in place since 2001, prevents states from hosting what the NCAA calls predetermined championship sites, such as for men’s basketball tournament games. Mississippi is the only state currently affected by the policy.
The expanded policy means that even when sites of NCAA events are determined by performance, as they are in sports such as baseball, women’s basketball and lacrosse, Mississippi schools will not be permitted to host. Mississippi’s two Southeastern Conference schools, the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State, regularly host NCAA baseball regional and super regional games.
On Thursday, the SEC announced it would no longer hold conference-sponsored championship events in Mississippi until the state flag is changed. The move came with the calls for change from administrators from both Ole Miss and Mississippi State.
Mississippi has the last state flag that includes the battle emblem: a red field topped by a blue X with 13 white stars. White supremacists put the symbol on the flag in 1894 during the backlash to black political power that developed during Reconstruction.
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VU Law & Justice students take over Parliament
VU Law and Justice Students at Parliament
Over the last two days, VU first year Law and Justice students have swapped the classroom for the hallowed halls of Parliament.
Hearing from senior parliamentary officials, students learned about the legislative process, how laws are passed and the role of parliamentary committees.
“This is much more than a tour of Parliament – this is a remarkable opportunity for Law and Justice students to get a behind-the-scenes look at complex legal processes and how our State is managed,” VU lecturer Kathleen Raponi explained.
This has been the first time university students in Victoria have accessed parliament as part of their curriculum, reflecting VU’s First Year Model approach, which encourages educators to take their students out of the classroom to learn from the real world.
The unique collaboration between VU and Victoria’s State Parliament, with input from the Department of Premier and Cabinet, is part of VU’s commitment to a bold and innovative approach to teaching and learning.
Kathleen Raponi
First Year Model Lecturer
College of Law and Justice
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Woman shot while doing laundry inside a friend’s garage in Victorville
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (VVNG.com) — A homeless woman shot while doing laundry inside a friend’s garage is expected to make a full recovery, officials said.
VVNG first reported on the incident when it happened on Sunday, April 19, 2020, at about 9:00 pm, in the 16500 block of Lariat Road.
Sheriff’s Spokeswoman Mara Rodriguez said the the adult female victim was at the location doing laundry in the garage.
According to Rodriguez, “this is the home of a friend who lets the victim use the washer and dryer since she is homeless. While in the garage an unknown suspect pulled up and fired one round from a gun, hitting the victim in the neck.”
The female victim was rushed by ambulance to Victor Valley Global Medical Center and subsequently airlifted to a trauma center in LA County.
“She was treated and has been released, expected to fully recover,” stated Rodriguez. “The victim has yet to provide any further information to investigators.”
Officials had no leads on a potential suspect or suspects and anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Victorville Police Department at 760-241-2911.
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Fashion | 28 Nov 2018 | By Charlotte Jansen
Body talk: artist Giuseppe Palmisano on photographing the female form
Dress, £685, by Sportmax. ‘Tripode G5’ lamp, £504, by Santa & Cole. Photography: Giuseppe Palmisano. Fashion: Camile Kolb. Interiors: Matthew Morris
Giuseppe Palmisano grew up surrounded by fantastical stories. His childhood in Puglia was marked by encounters with local traditions and folklore, Catholic symbols and religious rituals. Theatre and performance were intertwined with everyday life — and moving to Rome to where he join a theatre company was natural for Palmisano, who lived a nomadic existence for a while.
He abandoned his training, however, at 20, and turned his form to a more critical, distant kind of dramatisation — photography. He started to take pictures of women and explore the relationship between their bodies, space, and the unseen sensations they stir up; unusually for a male photographer, though, his aim has never been to eroticise the nude female subject. Women have continued to be a preoccupying theme for Palmisano and play a central role on his stage set for the camera.
Palmisano’s aesthetic—instantly recognisable, drawing on strands of Surrealism and Minimalism manners — has also remained consistent. ‘I know exactly what I want’, the photographer explains enthusiastically, ‘I surround myself with what I like. Usually I try to stick to simple rules: simplicity and harmony. I try to make things happen by inserting a disturbing element into something linear.’
Palmisano has amassed a cultish following on Instagram and has couple of publications and exhibitions to his name, but he had never worked on a fashion editorial until he was approached to do a shoot for the October issue of Wallpaper* (W*235).
Dress, £1,795, by Chanel. ‘Tufty-Time’ modular sofa, from £5,168 for two sections, by Patricia Urquiola, for B&B Italia. Photography: Giuseppe Palmisano
To create the images for the story Palmisano, ‘used two or three furnishing objects and, of course, the clothes. I really enjoyed my time with the whole team.’ Making a selection of ‘literally everything,’ they shot, Palmisano says when it came to editing ‘I tried to recall many things, such as the unexpected positions I usually capture in my photos, but this time I tried to exasperate them and make them even more weird.’
His theatre training possibly helped with the new challenge of directing a whole team — usually, he says, it’s just him and his camera. Since his models are usually nude, working with clothes presented a new challenge, ‘but I have to say that it was even more fun because that situation allowed me to play in a different way.’
The shoot was an audacious step for an artist who has never ventured into fashion editorial before, but Palmisano isn’t afraid of experimenting. ‘I have always tried to avoid monotony: that’s the reason why four years ago I sold my camera and I still go around without any, doing very little actual photographic work. I experiment with different media. I try to avoid becoming the “industry of myself” and produce what I already know people like. If sometimes it seems like I’m repeating myself, what I’m actually doing is trying to subvert this mechanism!’
While theatre and dance continue to inspire the artist, ‘what makes me really emotional and what I try to translate into my art is a mixture of sensations and visions: it’s life, the everyday life. I’m an excellent observer, maybe that’s why my eyes are so big — and the reason why I have such big and dark circles under them!’
You can see more of Palmisano’s recent work at a very personal installation, presented in London at the beginning of 2019. §
As originally featured in the October 2018 issue of Wallpaper* (W*235)
Trousers, £235, by AG. Shoes, £130, by Geox. Socks, £28, by Falke. ‘Domino Next DPU02’ pouf, £668, by Nicola Gallizia, for Molteni & C. Cut and loop stripe carpet in Kent Green or Portland Green (throughout), from £330 per sq m, by Farrow & Ball, for The Rug Company
Blazer, £510, by MSGM. ‘SL88’ sofa, £3,225, by Søren Lund, from Twentytwentyone
Dress, £6,500, by Dior. ‘Hepburn’ velvet armchair, £1,560, by The Conran Shop
Boots, £4,335, by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello
Jumpsuit, £1,150, by Gucci. ‘Diana B’ side table in Ocean Blue, £427; ‘Diana A’ side table in Honey Yellow, £398, both by Konstantin Grcic, for ClassiCon
Jumper, £1,600; trousers, £4,687, both by Hermès. ‘D.151.4’ armchair, £3,120, by Gio Ponti, for Molteni & C. ‘Barrique’ side table, £1,740, by Reflex Angelo
Trousers, £2,220, by Chloé. ‘Fauteuil de Salon’ armchair, from £1,980, by Jean Prouvé, for Vitra. ‘Domino Next DPU12’ pouf, £842, by Nicola Gallizia, for Molteni & C
Jumper, £1,200; dress, £6,800, both by Louis Vuitton. ‘D.154.2’ armchair, £2,670, by Gio Ponti, for Molteni & C
Jumpsuit, £2,005, by Bottega Veneta. ‘Barrique’ side table, as before
For more information, visit Giuseppe Palmisano’s website
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