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Bhavana walking out of Sudeep's Sampath Kumar?
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By Shekhar Hooli
| Published: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 10:48 [IST]
If sources are to believe, Malayalam actress Bhavana may likely to walk out of her second Kannada movie, which is said to be titled Sampath Kumar. Earlier, she had accepted Sudeep's much-hyped project, which was tentatively titled Production No 47. But the Mallu babe has also signed two Malayalam movies and dates of those films have clashed with Dwarakish-produced Kannada movie.
In a recent interview with the Times of India, Bhavana has made it clear that she is finding it difficult to match her dates for her next Kannada film. She says that she was asked for dates in December and she had given the dates, but Sudeep has been busy putting the finishing touches on his home production. So the film bosses now want her to attend the shooting of the film in March.
But the problem with her is that she has recently committed to act in two Malayalam films i.e. Priyadarshan's next Mollywood project Arabiyum, Ottakavum, Madhavan Nairum and Kunchacko Boban's Dr Love. Both are much-hyped movies and she does not want to lose them. Meanwhile, dates of these movies are clashing with her Kannada project.
However, Bhavana's debut Kannada movie Jackie, which stars Powerstar Puneet Rajkumar in the lead, has recently completed 100 days at the Box Office. The success of the movie has brought her several Kannada offers. But the actress is said to have rejected all the offers due to her dates issue. Now, Gandhinagar Pandits are eagerly waiting to know whether she will opt out from her second Kannada film.
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Samsung Galaxy F41 Up For Grabs Via Offline Stores In India: Should You Buy?
| Published: Saturday, November 7, 2020, 15:31 [IST]
Samsung Galaxy F41 debuted last month in India as the company's new budget smartphone. The device has been made available for sale via e-commerce platform Flipkart in the country. However, it can now be purchased via offline retail stores as well. The highlight of this device includes a Super AMOLED display, massive 6,000 mAh battery, and more. Let's have a look at its pricing details and see if it's worth a buy?
Samsung Galaxy F41 Price And Sale Details
As per a report via 91Mobiles, the Samsung Galaxy F41 is available for purchase via brick and mortar stores in the country. The device will be selling for Rs. 16,999 which is the price of the base model with 6GB RAM and 64GB storage space. The 6GB RAM+ 128GB storage option will be selling for Rs. 17,999 via the offline retail stores. It can be purchased in blue and green colour options.
Samsung Galaxy F41: Should You Buy?
If we look at the internals, the Galaxy F41's internals then the handset comes with a 6.4-inch Infinity-U Super AMOLED display panel. It comes with an FHD+ resolution. The smartphone offers a triple-lens setup with a 64MP primary lens, an 8MP secondary sensor, and a 5MP depth lens.
For selfies and video calls, the device uses a 32MP camera with an f.2.2 aperture. The unit runs on the Exynos 9611 processor. As mentioned above, the handset comes with 6GB RAM and up to 128GB storage option. The unit runs on Android 10 OS and has One UI 2.5 interface pre-loaded. It is powered by a huge 6,000 mAh battery with 15W fast charging support.
If we look at the overall spec-sheet, the smartphone is well-rounded to handle the daily tasks with ease. In fact, it can handle multitasking fairly well and also perform well with gaming. The pricing is also on the lower end of the spectrum. This handset makes for a good mid-range option if you don't want to opt for a Chinese brand.
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‘I’ll cut your legs off’: Teen’s chilling machete threat
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"GET on your f***ing knees or I'll cut your f**ing legs off and slice you."
These were the chilling words shouted by a youth wielding a machete before he and his mate hijacked a car.
The two young male victims knelt on the ground beside their car when the youth they had given a lift to made his demands.
Details of the incident were heard before Ipswich Children's Court, where one of the offenders appeared for sentence this week.
Now aged 17, the youth pleaded guilty to a new Crown charge of threatening violence with intent to cause alarm while brandishing a knife on July 15, 2019 in Leichhardt; stealing; and unlawfully using a stolen motor vehicle.
Jason Todman for the Crown prosecution said the youth (then aged 15 and 11 months) was not known by the two male victims.
The victims gave the defendant and another youth a ride so he could look for his missing phone, but he suddenly turned on them.
Wielding the machete he ordered them to get down on their knees, making his threat to slice them.
He then snatched the car keys from the driver and threw them to his mate. They got into the car and as they drove away and yelled out: "See ya suckers".
Mr Todman said the stolen car was later recovered.
The owner's wallet and phone had been in the car.
The youth spent 29 days in a juvenile detention centre after his arrest.
Mr Todman said the co-offender, who was 17 at the time, received a 12-month probation order when sentenced earlier this year.
Defence barrister Nicholas Bennett said the youth had organised a job interview at McDonald's.
In sentencing, Judge Dennis Lynch QC said he took note of the defendant's efforts to improve.
"I've been impressed by the efforts you have made to change your life," he said.
"A lot of people come here after doing stupid things and it takes them a while to wake up. You seem to have done that.
"It is good that you have changed your way of living and have real prospects."
Judge Lynch said fortunately no one was injured when the youth was waving his knife around and making his demands for them to get down on their knees.
He said the youth had been candid in his admissions that his previous offending was committed while he was affected by drugs.
Judge Lynch sentenced him to a six-month probation order.
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Man jailed after drunken assault in Govan
He was jailed for 13 months reduced from 18 for his early plea of guilty.
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A man has be jailed for 13 months after robbing another man of his Samsung Galaxy S3 mobile phone during a drunken assault.
Peter Carr, 25, currently in Barlinnie, was in the dock beside co-accused Robert Strang, 25, Napier Place, to face charges of attacking and robbing four men of Iraqi origin.
The men, aged 17, 18, 19 and 20 were walking along Govan Road when they were set upon by the two accused and another third male who was described in court as ‘unknown to the prosecutor.’
Procurator Fiscal Depute Zahra Latif told court that one of the victims was pushing a bicycle. Another was holding the smartphone when the ‘unknown male’ grabbed him and said ‘give us your phone’ and ‘motherf****r.’
The man immediately handed over the phone.
Miss Latif said the two men in the dock were not involved at that stage until Strang punched one of the men to the side of the head.
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The four men tried to get away from the trio but the ‘unknown male’ threatened the man pushing the bike with a glass bottle while Carr and Strang punched him on the head.
The ‘unknown man’ tried to take the bike off the victim before the man managed to cycle away from the scene.
A passing motorist, Chris Quinn, witnessed the assault and stopped to help the men.
When he done this. the gang of thieves ran away from the scene.
Mr Quinn called the police.
When officers arrived they took the victims into the back of a police van to get statements via an interpreter.
However as they drove to the station the men alerted them that Carr and Strang were the men who assaulted and robbed them.
Carr’s lawyer Miss Crilley said her client had been drinking from the Thursday to Sunday with ‘little or no sleep’ when he was arrested.
She said he had little recollection of the events.
Carr pled guilty to two counts of assault on January 8, 2017 at 813 Govan Road. He also admitted resisting arrest and threatening and abusive behaviour towards police on the same date.
Strang’s lawyer Mr McNair asked Sheriff Daniel Scullion to call for reports as his client had settled into a new job and his partner had recently had a baby.
Strang pled guilty to robbing the mobile phone and assaulting one of the victims during the same incident.
He will re-appear for sentencing next month.
Police or the prosecutor has never traced the third ‘unknown male’.
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Rebus: Long Shadows (A Stage Play)
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The stage debut for the legendary detective John Rebus in this brand new, original story by Ian Rankin, written alongside the award-winning playwright Rona Munro.
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into thirty-six languages and are bestsellers worldwide.
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Joanne Arnold, owner of Soulful Sister Aromatherapy, appreciates the way more people in the community are supporting local businesses by shopping locally. (Rick Stiebel/News Staff)
The ups and downs of business on the West Shore this COVID Christmas
More people staying home helps some local shops
Rick Stiebel
The West Shore Chamber of Commerce and local businesses herald the support the community is providing this holiday in making an effort to shop local during the pandemic.
Julie Lawlor, executive director of the WestShore Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber is appreciative of local support.
“Local businesses make up the fabric of our community,” said Lawlor, who begins her sixth year with the organization in January. “It’s our local businesses who do so much to support the community through funds and donations in kind to local non-profits and charities. The creativity and resilience local business owners have shown in such a short period of time is really impressive. The chamber would like to thank our members for supporting our work during these challenging times. We have a wealth of resources available and welcome any business owner to get in touch with us.”
Visit westshore.bc.ca for more information, or call 250-478-1130.
The Cloth Castle in Langford is weathering the storm by inspiring a wave of newcomers to the art of needles and thread.
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“We’ve found that more people have gone back to their hobbies because they’re spending more time at home,” said manager, Maria Porter, daughter of the original owner Sylvia Ratcliffe, who launched the business more than 50 years ago.
“There’s a higher demand for classes than we expected, so we have restructured our classes to follow COVID protocols and health guidelines,” said floor manager Natasha Cloutier.
The demand for material for masks and inquiries on how to make them in March and April helped business as well.
“We’ve come up with new kits with easy projects for gifts for Christmas,” Porter said. “There’s a lot of new sewers and kids learning to sew out there. We’ve seen a lot of young entrepreneurs as well, school-age kids starting businesses that revolve around fabrics. We want to inspire the next generation of sewers, so that’s really neat to see.”
While it’s important any time to support local businesses, people are taking the time to come in to discuss the best way to achieve what they want to do instead of just ordering online, Cloutier said.
Although The Cloth Castle has curbside pickup and mail order available for those that prefer that, Porter said most people still prefer to come into the store. For more on classes and products, weave your way over to clothcastle.com.
The stress caused by COVID-19 has more people seeking solace through more natural means, and that’s led to quite an increase in people looking for essential oils, said Joanne Arnold, the owner of Soulful Sister Aromatherapy. “A big part of that is many people are home more and they’re looking for natural ways to relieve their stress,” said Arnold, who operated out of her Colwood home for more than 10 years before opening her store in Langford three years ago.
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The pandemic has also impacted her business in negative ways.
“I normally sell to about 100 other stores across Canada and that’s down by two thirds,” she said. “A lot of gift stores have closed or are really struggling. I usually travel across Canada at this time of the year doing about six major craft shows, but they’ve all been cancelled because of COVID. I’m super fortunate to have a retail store to sell our products from. I’ve been selling online for 10 years, and that’s gotten better since COVID. More people are definitely shopping online.”
As someone who’s been part of the community for 20 years, Arnold understands the important role shopping locally plays in keeping small businesses afloat.
“There’s been an amazing response,” she said. “Many people come in and say they want to shop local and support local businesses.”
Arnold is pleased to pass that support along that along this year by donating 15 per cent of her profits for a week in December to the Goldstream Food Bank.
For a look at the products, visit soulfulsister.com.
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Lot 67 (Chateau Impney, 7th December 2016)
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Good V8-250s are keenly sought by those believing its lighter engine results in superior handling to its Jaguar sibling - this could well be the car for them. In the same ownership for 34 years, it has apparently covered a mere 22,500 miles and largely been restored, serviced and maintained by its keeper, a retired Chartered Mechanical Engineer and long-standing member of the Daimler and Lanchester Owners' Club - 'whatever needed doing was done'. Significant body repairs were carried out in 1985/1986, when the colour was changed from Silver Grey to Dove Grey. It was then mainly stored for two decades from 1990, during which spring hangers, jacking points, sills etc were all attended to. The power steering was overhauled in 2009, and the automatic transmission by Graham Whitehouse and engine similarly refreshed in 2010 by Russ Carpenter. A concours award winner, 'VMC 900G' comes complete with original toolkit, 34 years of receipts, tax discs and MOTs, plus an MOT valid into October 2017.
PLEASE NOTE: We have been contacted by a former keeper who advises the mileage is 122,500 and not 22,500 as stated in the catalogue. Due to this the vendor has revised the estimate to £16,000 - 18,000.
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As a writer, I want to produce books that are always entertaining, easy to read and follow, and which contain damn good stories.
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Old Guns, April 28, 2006
Drove to Somerset today for lunch with Oliver and Colette Barnham. Oliver is the son of Denis Barnham, a Malta Spitfire ace who I wrote about in my Malta book, and we’ve kept in touch ever since. Their farmhouse is lovely with large outhouses and barns – and which are full of Oliver’s collections of militaria. He’s the most unlikely person to have this stuff, but used to supply films and so on with props as well as collecting things for other people – he even has a complete submarine torpedo in his garage. Very kindly, he asked me whether I’d like to have a German MG34, complete with oil cans, bipod and wooden box. I’d love to, I told him. By the time I left I had a complete Bren and Sten gun and a number of other bits and pieces. Incredibly generous of him – and a delicious and very entertaining lunch as well.
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Director of Deep Purple royalty management firms jailed for stealing £2.2million from company accounts
Dipak Rao, 71, invested and lost the money in fraudulent scams
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A director who stole £2.2million from two companies that managed the royalties of legendary 70s rock band Deep Purple has been jailed.
Dipak Rao, 71, of Worcester Park, transferred large sums of money from the accounts of Deep Purple Overseas Ltd and HEC Enterprises Ltd into his own.
He then invested the cash into a number of money making schemes, all of which later transpired to be scams and resulted in Rao losing the money.
The fraudster was sentenced to six years and four months imprisonment by Judge Rufus Taylor at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday (April 30).
Both royalty businesses were started in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the former manager of Deep Purple, Tony Edwards and his business partner John Coletta.
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They would take royalty payments for the band, as well as a number of other artists, before distributing them and keeping a percentage of the money.
Prosecutor Peter Pride told the court that Rao's offending had begun in 2008 and lasted until 2014 when the children of Tony Edwards voiced concerns at the companies' accounts after inheriting parts upon their father's death in 2010.
When passing sentence, Judge Taylor summarised: "After he died, the children and Edwards' family started to become very worried about the management of the companies. They felt you failed to provide the full financial picture, so in time they became directors on about June 17, 2014."
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Rao resigned from both companies in November 2014 after a board meeting uncovered the stolen funds. It was upon conclusion of civil proceedings that Surrey Police became involved.
Victim impact statements read out to court by two of Mr Edwards' children highlighted the devastation caused by Rao's actions, labelling him a "deceitful conman".
Both said that their father's name had been "tarnished" by litigation into the companies in the time after 2014. The companies were liquidated in early 2019.
Dipak Rao was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday (April 30) (Image: Grahame Larter/Surrey Advertiser)
Daughter and journalist Abigail Flanagan added: "The stress that we have been under during this time is immeasurable.
"He has devastated the legacy that my father spent his life building.
"This devastation was brought about by a man that we had known for years and trusted."
Rao was made a director of HEC Enterprises Ltd and Deep Purple Overseas in 2003 and 2009 respectively, the latter coming just months before Mr Edwards' death from cancer in 2010. He had been a secretary at both since 1992.
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The fraudulent activity had been kept quiet by Rao, with the court hearing from defence counsel Rhys Meggy that the 71-year-old had first used company money "in a moment of madness that kickstarted this entire awful affair".
It was noted that Rao did not use the millions to invest in a lavish lifestyle, while Mr Meggy said that the enormous transactions had been made in attempts to recover losses.
He said: "His conduct is most accurately and fairly seen as the conduct of a foolish man who got out of his depth."
Rao will serve at least half of his sentence in jail before being released on licence. He has also been disqualified as a director of a company until 2028.
He pleaded guilty to two offences, fraud by abuse of position and transferring criminal property, on March 29.
The disgraced director has lost his house, assets and pension, equating to £779,000 in total. His wife now lives in Canada with their son, working as a child minder for their grandchildren.
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A Jump (O)ff Reading List by Genre Of Faves [Vol. 1] #SummerAtoZ
Kimberly Lynne
Inspired by Goodreads 28 Books That Got You Hooked on a New Genre, we decided to create our own Genre Jump Off List from several popular Book Genres. We’re hoping that we can, in turn, inspire some of you to get hooked on a new genre!
Alternate History – Dread Nation, Justina Ireland
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, changing the fate of the nation forever. In this new nation, laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children, like Jane, attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. When families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies.
This was such a fun twist on a zombie/historical fiction book. You’ll love the protagonist, Jane, who is fierce and fearless and you may find yourself enjoying not only alternate history books but apocalyptic books as well after reading this.
[Buy Dread Nation @ Amazon]
Historical Fiction – Orphan Monster Spy, Matt Killeen
After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah–blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish–finds herself on the run from a government that wants to see every person like her dead. Then Sarah meets a mysterious man. He’s a spy, and he needs Sarah to become one, too, to pull off a mission he can’t attempt on his own: infiltrate a boarding school attended by the daughters of top Nazi brass, befriend the daughter of a key scientist, and steal the blueprints to a bomb that could destroy the cities of Western Europe.
I’ve read a lot of WWII books and many of them were so incredibly good. Orphan Monster Spy is right up there with my favorites. I found it interesting to see the war from not only a teenagers point of view, but the point of view of a spy.
[Buy Orphan, Monster, Spy @ Amazon]
Science Fiction – Nyxia, Scott Reintgen
Emmett Atwater isn’t just leaving Detroit; he’s leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited him is a mystery but it’s not an opportunity he can afford to turn down. But Babel’s ship is full of secrets. And Emmett will face the ultimate choice: win the fortune at any cost, or find a way to fight that won’t forever compromise what it means to be human.
I loved this book because despite pitting all ten recruits against each other, they still manage to come together in the end. There is also a bit of a cliff hanger that left me really excited to read the second book.
[Buy Nyxia @ Amazon]
Gothic and Victorian – A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Her new life is lonely and to make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why?
Even though I read this nearly a decade ago it remains one of my favorite Libba Bray books. It’s really magically written and hard not to love the beautiful Victorian setting turned Wonderland-esque nightmare.
[Buy A Great and Terrible Beauty @ Amazon]
Steampunk – Leviathan, Scott Westerfield
Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She’s a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered. With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn’s paths cross in the most unexpected way…taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever.
Yes, this is a middle grade read but hear me out. Part alternate history, part Steampunk, it’s so well done and the characters are so vibrant that you’ll fall head over heels for this new-to-you genre.
[Buy Leviathan @ Amazon]
Space Opera – Old Man’s War, John Scalzi
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife’s grave. Then he joined the army. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine–and what he will become is far stranger.
I love the premise for this book. Elderly inhabitants of Earth are given the opportunity to serve 2 years in a space age war against alien races. If they survive, they’re given a generous severance package. People like John Perry, who have no family left, and nothing to lose, go for it. Only thing is, it’s a crazy and brutal war they’re fighting. Give this one a try. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
[Buy Old Man’s War @ Amazon]
Cyberpunk – Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Hidden within the digital confines of this space are clues based on 80s trivia, that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. Wade can’t even believe it when he stumbles upon the first clue and the game is on!
Well, you have to read this one whether you like 80s trivia or not- a movie is out! But truly, this book is a romp from start to finish and it’s just so much fun.
[Buy Ready Player One @ Amazon]
What genre have you been wanting to try out?
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Coronavirus Australia live update: PM Scott Morrison to hold press conference after Victoria records deadliest day – latest news | World news
Jul 27, 2020 HerbalDepEcoNa
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The organisers of tomorrow’s Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney say they are still trying to “negotiate an alternative plan of gathering in the Domain” to allow the protest to go ahead.
The supreme court yesterday ruled in favour of a police application to prohibit the protest from going ahead.
In a Facebook post, organisers of the rally told supporters:
We are trying to negotiate an alternative plan of gathering in the Domain – Djarrbarrgalli, a huge public space just behind NSW Parliament House. We will be able to spread out there and abide by the Covid-19 regulations if people stay in groups of less than 20. We are still fighting in court for our original plan… If we succeed in court however, we will try and negotiate with police to allow us to alter the Form 1 to begin in the Domain.
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Victorian premier Daniel Andrews will give a press conference at 11am.
The defence minister, Linda Reynolds, and foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, are travelling to the United States to attend the 2020 Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (Ausmin), which are scheduled to take place in Washington on Tuesday.
It is, as a few people have commented, an indication of the seriousness of the issues under discussion that the ministers are travelling to the US at this time to hold the meetings in person, rather than conducting them remotely.
In a joint statement, Reynolds and Payne said:
This 30th Ausmin meeting comes at a critical time, amid significant strategic challenges, and a global pandemic with far-reaching social and economic impacts. Our relationship is built on our shared values, and a shared understanding of the importance of maintaining presence and leadership in our region.
In the face of an increasingly complex and contested regional environment, it is vital we continue working together across the breadth of our relationship.
They said the visit would be conducted with strict adherence to coronavirus safety protocols, and they and their teams will quarantine for 14 days upon return to Australia.
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The Australian Council of Attorneys-General will meet today and discuss the campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility.
Children as young as 10 can be charged with a crime and jailed in Australia, while the global median age is 14. A campaign to raise the age, led by the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (Natsils) has been gathering steam for several weeks.
A survey conducted by the Australia Institute earlier this month as part of joint research with the Change the Record coalition found that 73% of the 1,012 people polled think the age of criminal responsibility is already higher than 10 years old, with 51% believing it is 14 or older. Only 7% of respondents knew that children in Australia could be charged with a crime from the age of 10.
Fifty-one percent of respondents said they supported raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years old. Only 26% of respondents opposed such a change.
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Prime minister Scott Morrison will hold a press conference at 10.30am.
Queensland is prepared to ‘slam the border shut’ if necessary
Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has told reporters this morning that she is prepared to “slam the border shut” to protect Queensland from the growing community transmission of Covid-19 in NSW and Victoria.
There are already restrictions in place for travellers from Victoria and three Sydney local government areas.
More from AAP:
“If there are outbreaks of community transmission or it cannot be sourced or there are clusters, we will not hesitate to declare hotspots or we will not hesitate – if it gets out of control – to slam the border shut,” Palaszczuk told reporters on Monday.
She says any decisions on further hotspots or border closures will be made on the advice of chief health officer, Dr Jeannette Young.
“That advice has stood Queensland in a very good position,” the premier said. “Every single day we are monitoring the situation in NSW.”
It follows the winding back of some freedoms in Queensland restaurants, pubs and clubs. All patrons will have to be seated when drinking or eating, the CHO announced on Friday, blindsiding the hospitality industry.
Opposition leader Deb Frecklington says business deserved more warning.
“The premier is creating this chaos … at five minutes to midnight the premier is changing the rules and businesses can’t keep up,” Frecklington said. “The businesses are telling me they need lead time. The premier needs to give business more notice in terms of regulations.”
Treasurer Cameron Dick said “complacency is the enemy” and the way to stay on top of the pandemic was to remain vigilant.
“The virus is so unpredictable. It’s only reason for existence is to find another host to infect another person. We just need to monitor it so carefully to ensure when we need to take action we will,” he told reporters on Sunday.
Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP
The deputy national chief medical officer, Dr Nick Coatsworth, told Channel Nine’s Today show this morning that the virus was “deeply embedded within the community in Victoria” and would take some time to control.
These quotes are via AAP. Coatsworth said:
We know that Victorians in those lockdown zones are mixing far less, the movement data shows us we’re about where we were in that first wave when the curve started to flatten.
The other bit of silver lining is that those numbers, whilst deeply concerning, are bouncing between about 350 and 450 a day and certainly we’re not seeing doubling during the week, which has to be a good thing.
A reminder from the Victorian health minister:
Jenny Mikakos MP #StayHomeSaveLives
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#COVID19 is not an old persons’ disease. The biggest age group of Victorians diagnosed since 1 July are aged 20-29 years of age & account for a quarter of Victorian cases. And 20% of patients hospitalised in recent days have been aged under 50 years. So please stay home #springst pic.twitter.com/KAlpIke2QE
I’ll let you know, as soon as I know, when we can expect the Victorian press conference today. Hopefully the numbers will continue to stabilise.
A bit of international context, to remind us here in Melbourne that it could be worse: Florida recorded 12,199 new cases yesterday, and that’s only that state’s sixth-biggest one-day jump.
You can follow our rolling global coverage here.
Still on the aged care outbreaks, there is a push from within the sector to move residents who test positive to Covid-19 to hospital as a matter of course, rather than on a case-by-case basis.
Patricia Sparrow, the chief executive of Aged and Community Services Australia (ACSA), an industry body representing aged care facilities, has been calling for this for a few weeks now. ACSA represents about 50 aged care facilities in Victoria that have been linked to at least one positive case, but Sparrow said they have had no fatalities among residents at those facilities at this stage.
She said they are “absolutely looking for state governments to change that policy”.
The South Australian state government has a policy, it’s the only state in the country that I’m aware of that has a policy that means that residents who test positive go to hospital and we think all state governments should do that.
She said a sub-acute hospital facility, as suggested by the Australian Medical Association, could be one solution to ensure people who test positive are moved out of residential aged care facilities immediately.
I think where we’ve got empty beds and where we have got sub-acute services or private hospitals that have capacity, that’s absolutely what should be happening right now.
Sparrow repeated claims that some aged care providers have tried to take residents with Covid-19 to hospital and been turned back.
This is aged care trying to do the right thing. We are not set up as hospitals. We manage infection controls like flu, where there are vaccines and treatments, but we are not set up to the level that hospitals are set up to manage something like coronavirus which is a new virus and deadly in our settings.
Sparrow said aged care facilities are facing staffing difficulties because at least 250 staff have tested positive to Covid-19, and many more are in self-isolation as a close contact.
Up to 30% of aged care staff also work across multiple facilities, but have now been told, as part of efforts to control the spread, that they must be restricted to just one facility.
So the staffing issue is going to get more difficult and we need more staff and we need to use every possible means of bringing in staff who know how to work with older people and can provide that critical support.
Relatives of residents at the St Basil’s Home for the Aged in Victoria wait outside. The facility has had an outbreak of Covid-19. Photograph: Daniel Pockett/EPA
Labor aged care spokeswoman Julie Collins said the establishment of an aged care response centre in Melbourne is welcome but “sadly too late for some residents, staff and families already impacted”.
In a statement, Collins said:
Why was the Morrison government not doing this work sooner?
We have seen the devastating impact of Covid-19 outbreaks in aged care in Australia and across the globe.
Australia’s aged care system was broken before the Covid-19 pandemic and this is only putting extra stress on the system.
She accused the federal government of failing to audit stocks of PPE in nursing homes, prior to the second wave outbreak in Melbourne.
Labor has repeatedly raised concerns about the availability of PPE in aged care – the Morrison government must now ensure nursing homes have adequate supplies.
The federal aged care minister, Richard Colbeck, told the ABC earlier this morning that there was “no shortage of PPE” in the aged care sector. We have heard differently from some aged care workers this morning, who emailed us on the back of that comment.
If you work in aged care in Victoria and also have a view on the availability of PPE, you can reach me at calla.wahlquist@theguardian.com
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Michael Viehs
Head of ESG Integration
Michael Viehs joined the international business of Federated Hermes in 2015, initially as part of EOS, and transferred to the Responsibility Office in 2018. He is Head of ESG Integration for all public market equity and credit funds managed from London. As part of that role, he advises the investment and stewardship teams on their integration approach and ensures that they have incisive ESG, sustainability and engagement information at hand to make better investment and engagement decisions for all of our clients. Furthermore, he is responsible for the ESG and stewardship research activities, proving the value-add from engagement and incorporating ESG information in investment decisions. Michael continues to conduct executive- and board-level engagements on environmental, social, governance (ESG), and strategic issues with German publicly-listed corporations.
Prior to this, Michael was Research Director at University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. His work on responsible investment, corporate governance, and stewardship has been published in Corporate Governance: An International Review and Annals of Social Responsibility. Amongst others, he is co-author of the widely recognised study “From the Stockholder to the Stakeholder – How Sustainability Can Drive Financial Outperformance” and contributed a chapter on active ownership to the recently published book Re-Imagining Capitalism (Oxford University Press) edited by Dominic Barton, Dezsö Horvath, and Matthias Kipping. He has also presented his work on responsible investing at several high-profile academic and industry conferences around the world.
Michael holds a BSc, MSc and PhD from Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics.
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Hermes EOS to provide qualified support for the Chair of Deutsche Börse
Ahead of the Deutsche Börse AGM on Wednesday 16 May, Dr Michael Viehs, Associate Director of Responsibility, comments on Hermes EOS’s voting recommendations and the qualified support for the re-election of Joachim Faber, the Chair of the supervisory board. Specifically, Hermes EOS recommends its clients and other investors to: • Vote against the discharge of the company’s former CEO Carsten Kengeter and the Chair of the supervisory board, Joachim Faber • Provide qualified support for the re-election of Joachim Faber, the Chair of the supervisory board, and call for clarity around his succession by the time of the AGM in 2019 • Vote for the supervisory board nominees
Hermes EOS to raise investors’ concerns at the Volkswagen AGM
Ahead of the Volkswagen AGM on Thursday 3 May, Dr Michael Viehs, Associate Director of Responsibility, comments on Hermes EOS’ voting recommendations and highlights the issues the company urgently needs to address: Recommendation to vote against the candidates proposed for election to the supervisory board • A call for an external supervisory board and corporate culture review • A commitment from the company to enter into a dialogue about the effects of climate change on its business model Supervisory board elections “Volkswagen has nominated Marianne Heiß and Wolfgang Porsche for election to its supervisory board. We recommend our clients vote against both of these nominations. The election of the candidates will result in a board with almost zero independent representation, which clearly goes against good corporate governance practice.
Hermes comments ahead of Siemens AGM
Ahead of the Siemens AGM tomorrow, Dr Michael Viehs, Hermes EOS, discusses why they will support the election of all of the company’s nominees to the supervisory board. Furthermore, Hermes EOS will support all management proposals and ask for a commitment from the company to enter into a dialogue about the effects of climate change on its business model.
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Research and investment experience tells us that ESG creates a differentiating factor for investors, who need to look beyond credit metrics to develop a more complete picture of corporate risk and potential return. ESG risks influence credit spreads, and therefore the prices of credit securities. New research by Dr Michael Viehs, Engagement and Research Manager and Anna Chong, Credit Analyst at Hermes Investment Management explores how the relationship holds up in one sub-sector of the asset class: basic materials, which is particularly exposed to ESG risks. This issue also looks at two case studies – mining companies Vale and Freeport McMoran – to show how contrasting ESG profiles influence views on how instruments should be priced.
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HCL Technologies makes it to the coveted WorldBlu List of the Most Democratic Workplaces for the Fourth Consecutive Year
The WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces™ 2012 is composed of only 48 organizations selected from a breadth of industries including technology, manufacturing, health care, retail, services and energy. The combined annual revenue of World Blu certified companies is more than $17 billion. These organizations are recognized annually for demonstrating exemplary democratic workplace practices contributing to high performance, engagement, innovation and profitability.
“HCL continues to innovate organizationally around the powerful ‘Employees First, Customers Second’ approach, which is very much aligned with WorldBlu’s philosophy, said Traci Fenton, Founder and CEO, WorldBlu. “At WorldBlu, we applaud HCL for creating a world-class democratic business and for recognizing the importance of giving power to the people, which ultimately impacts performance, employee engagement and the bottom line.”
“In the year 2005, HCL embraced the strategy – Employees First, Customer Second, and retooled the company to become this trusted, transparent and democratic organization as it stands today”, Shami Khorana, President, HCL America. “At HCL our 90,000 transformers view themselves as the fundamental source of company’s value, constantly generating new ideas and becoming the drivers for new business growth. This award is a testimony to the employee driven, management embraced culture that is followed at HCL”, he added.
HCL was selected to the list after an extensive employee survey, the WorldBlu Scorecard™ which was sent to a random sample of its worldwide employee base. HCL's organizational practices were evaluated on the WorldBlu 10 Principles of Organizational Democracy™, including transparency, integrity, accountability and dialogue and listening. Developed by WorldBlu, this survey is based on a decade of research into what makes a world-class democratic organization.
Companies become eligible for a spot on the WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces™ only after its employees complete the WorldBlu Scorecard™, an assessment evaluating their organization’s practice of the WorldBlu 10 Principles of Organizational Democracy™. The WorldBlu Scorecard™ was developed based on a decade of research into what makes a world-class democratic company.
Full WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2012 can be obtained from: http://worldblu.com/awardee-profiles/2012.php
To view the previous year’s list, please click the link - http://www.worldblu.com/awardee-profiles/2011.php
HCL Technologies is also one of Britain’s Top Employers
HCL also won prestigious Asian Human Capital Award in 2011 by Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower and Switzerland’s INSEAD for its Employees First, Customers Second (“EFCS”) philosophy.
Please click here to check out HCL’s latest Employee First Effect Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Plr_9iwMqY
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on ‘transformational outsourcing’, underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of ‘Employee First, Customer Second’ which empowers our 82,464 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, has reported consolidated revenues of US$ 4.0 billion (Rs. 19,412 crores), as on 31 March 2012 (on LTMbasis). For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com
About HCL
HCL is a $6.2 bn leading global technology and IT enterprise comprising two companies listed in India – HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups. A pioneer of modern computing and a transformational enterprise, HCL’s diverse range of hardware and software offerings span a wide array of focused industry verticals. The HCL team consists of 90,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 31 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. For more on HCL, please visit www.hcl.com
About WorldBlu
WorldBlu has offices throughout the US and UK and specializes in organizational democracy and freedom-centered leadership, with organizational and individual members in over 70 countries worldwide. Founded in 1997, WorldBlu’s vision is to see one billion people working in free and democratic workplaces. For more information about WorldBlu, visit the website at http://www.worldblu.com.
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Control all the things
Control Center on iPhone and iPad: The ultimate guide
Control Center has more customizations than ever before!
Lory Gil and Christine Chan
Source: iMore
Control Center is your one-stop-shop for quick access to dozens of features on your iPhone, like HomeKit controls, music playback, Apple TV remote, a QR scanner, and a whole lot more. For most controls, you don't even need to open an app. You can perform actions right in Control Center. Here's everything you need to know.
How to enable Control Center on your Lock screen
How to access Control Center
How to customize Control Center
How to disable Control Center on the Lock screen
How to disable access to Control Center from within apps
Everything you can do with Control Center
Control Center on your Lock screen might be off. If you don't see it when you swipe up from the bottom of the screen, check to make sure it's not disabled.
Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
Tap Face ID (or Touch ID) and Passcode.
Enter your Passcode if prompted.
Scroll down and turn the Control Center switch on.
You can access Control Center from any screen on your iPhone and iPad, including while your in an app or playing a game. All you have to do is swipe up on iPhone 8 and older and swipe down from the right corner on iPhone X and newer!
On iPhone devices with Touch ID
Touch the very bottom edge of the screen.
Swipe your finger up toward the top of the screen.
On iPhone devices with Face ID
Touch the top right edge of the screen where the battery, cellular, and wi-fi icons are.
Swipe your finger down toward the bottom of the screen.
Source: Christine Romero-Chan / iMore
In the redesigned Control Center, you can choose what tools you want and don't want. You won't be able to make changes to Airplane mode, cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, audio playback, Lock screen rotation, Do Not Disturb, Screen Mirroring, screen brightness, and volume controls. These controls remain in Control Center.
You can, however, add or remove the following: Flashlight, Timer, Camera, Home, Screen Recording, Calculator, Do Not Disturb While Driving, Notes, Wallet, Accessibility Shortcuts, Alarm, Apple TV Remote, Guided Access, Live Listen, Notes, text size, Low Power Mode, Magnifier, Stopwatch, Text Size, QR scanner, and Voice Memos.
If you don't want Control Center access on your Lock screen, you can disable it entirely. That way, no one will be able to use any of your iPhone or iPad controls without unlocking it first.
Scroll down and turn the Control Center switch off.
You may not be able to disable Control Center on the Lock screen, but you can turn off access within apps.
Tap Control Center.
Turn the Access Within Apps switch off.
Now that there are a couple dozen Control Center controls available, you're probably wondering what each of them does. We have a comprehensive list of every control, what they do, and how you can use them.
Do you have any questions about how to use Control Center? Put them in the comments and we'll help you out.
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Lory is a renaissance woman, writing news, reviews, and how-to guides for iMore. She also fancies herself a bit of a rock star in her town and spends too much time reading comic books. If she's not typing away at her keyboard, you can probably find her at Disneyland or watching Star Wars (or both).
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Lover of coffee, Disney, food, video games, writing, and photography. I've been writing about Apple and video games for almost a decade. If I'm not writing, you can probably find me over at Disneyland. Don't forget to follow me on Twitter and Instagram as @christyxcore.
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Is Tom Brady the greatest ever?
Patriots QB wins his fourth Super Bowl with MVP performance
Josh Peter
GLENDALE, Ariz. — When Tom Brady reached his locker, about an hour after victory and a series of interviews, he was done talking to the news media. But his locker spoke for him.
Prominently displayed was was a four-inch bronze elephant-headed statue — Ganesha, the Hindu God. Or as Brady quietly told a visitor, "The remover of obstacles.''
Two team officials shielded him from the news media with the same intensity that the New England Patriots offensive line protected him from the Seattle Seahawks. "Tom's done,'' one shouted as the MVP-winning quarterback arrived. But the locker spoke.
Ganesha, remover of obstacles, almost beckoned to the curious.
Brady knows obstacles better than most. A sixth-round pick out of Michigan. A season-ending injury that could have threatened his career. Two heart-breaking Super Bowl defeats, extending his Super Bowl title drought to a decade. And then the latest scandal — DeflateGate.
Ganesha illustrates the spiritual side of his psyche developed with trainer and adviser Alex Guerrero. But the spiritual is coupled by mental commitment, evidence by more items in his locker.
Lying next to Ganesha were five note cards and handwritten notes that included: "Bend knees more on drop.''
And, perhaps most important, ''Be on toes.''
He was on his toes all night, shaking off two interceptions, throwing four touchdown passes and, in what was again Brady at his best, leading the Patriots back from a 10-point rally. On his toes on a 20-yard pass to Rob Gronkowski on the game-winning drive.
"Tom made some nice throws,'' Gronkowski said. "Excellent drive. Excellent execution.''
He could have been speaking of Brady's career as much as the drive.
Brady, 37, can now rival Joe Montana as the greatest quarterback of all time. They are tied with Terry Bradshaw with four Super Bowl victories, and Brady has appeared in a record six Super Bowls with three MVPs. Brady also broke Montana's record for career touchdown passes in the Super Bowl on Sunday, throwing four against the Seahawks to increase his total to 16.
And Brady has the highest career playoff winning percentage among quarterbacks (.724), while Montana (.696) ranks second.
"He's the best quarterback to ever play this game, man,'' Patriots cornerback Darrelle Revis. "And I feel like all the hard work pays off for Tom. ... I think it's really awesome. It puts another championship under his belt."
Brady celebrated with his teammates as if they were family.
"LG,'' he shouted.
Running back LeGarrette Blount lifted his head and looked at the quarterback.
"Great game,'' Brady exulted. "Slugged it out.''
Receiver Brian Tyms passed by. "BT, way to go,'' Brady gushed, and the two clasped hands.
Embracing a steady well wishers and with others posing for pictures — each time, holding four fingers in the air, representing his four Super Bowl victories — he looked like the proud father of a football family. But that's a significant distinction between Brady's first three Super Bowl titles and this latest — football family vs. real family.
On the side of his locker, someone had taped a poster with blue- and red-painted handprints and the following message: "Go Patriots. Love you Daddy.''
Clearly the work of his son, Benjamin, and daughter, Vivian. With perhaps a a little help from their mother, Brady's wife, Gisele Bündchen.
But there was some vanity, too. Brady, unlike his teammates, got two lockers. In the second he had three suits and a sport coat that would match his ankle-high black boots. When the news media cleared out, he selected one of the black suits, a black and white checked shirts and, with obstacles removed, with the note cards stored and his kid's poster stored away, Brady walked into into the cool night air and toward the team bus with impeccable style.
At that point, Brady could not be lured in even by talk of the remover of obstacles.
"No Ganesha,'' he said with a grin.
It was an obstacle — one Brady's locker removed.
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Home > World > Welcome To the EU Fortress’s Greek Laboratory
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ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: Voyage dans le laboratoire grec de l’Europe forteresse
by Émilien Urbach
Welcome To the EU Fortress’s Greek Laboratory
Translated Wednesday 19 November 2014, by Isabelle Métral
From our special correspondent in Greece
Her name is Zarah.. In the village of Klio, a few kilometres away from the haven of Molivos, on the island of Lesbos, in Greece, a group of eight are walking up the main street. Among them a woman and a five-year-old girl. Zarah. Two men are walking behind them, carrying bundles of clothes that hang from heavy wood clubs. They are cold, they are wet still, having spent an hour and a half on a small boat that sits five.
They want the police to come and notify to them that they are under the obligation to leave the Greek territory. That would enable them to cross over to Athens on the ferry. They spend the night on the hill-top of the village, waiting around a fire that was lit by another Afghan family that arrived the day before. The next day they are walking still towards Moria, heading for Europe, along the road that leads to Mytillene.
This wandering child is the face of danger that the EU wants to shut out by sealing its borders. Since Italy stopped its rescue operations at sea –called “Mare Nostrum” – on November 1st, the Frontex agency is to launch a new operation called “Triton”. Precisely, for the last five years, Greece – as the EU fortress’s laboratory - has been providing a foretaste of the European policy against illegal immigrants such as Zarah and her family.
In the Psychico neighbourhood in Athens, the UNHCR office building is near the embassies that stand in rows parallel to the lines of orange-trees along the streets. Stella Nanou, in charge of the institution’s public relations, knows what she is talking about when she says that “Frontex has nothing to do with the reception of immigrants.” The Greek agency has been supervising the “Poseidon” operation since 2011. As with “Triton” in Italy, the aim is to support and coordinate the country’s management of its borders, the explicit objective being to “fight against and check migratory flows”. More repressive by far than the objective set for “Mare Nostrum”, a mixture of military and humanitarian dispositions, that sought to save lives right to Libya’s sea borders. Like “Triton”, “Poseidon” entails military and police operations.
In conformity with this repressive approach, a fence re-inforced with Eurosur high-tech devices, was set up along the land border with Turkey in August, 2012. The number of immigrants arriving by sea has sky-rocketed in the same proportions. On the island of Lesbos, about 15 kilometres away from the Turkish coast, Sotiris Petrakis rents out cars on the haven of Mytilene. “At night from Skala Skamnias (in the northern part of the island) it’s possible to see with the naked eye immigrants’ boats sailing out to sea””, he says. Sotiris knows these boats well. “I am also in charge of ship disinfection for the prefecture,” he slips in, pointing at the badge hanging from his coat-hanger. “I once found a corpse that had been devoured by fish in the hold of a boat. You couldn’t tell whether it was a woman’s or a man’s.
Nearly 65,000 foreigners held up between August and December 2012.
The Greek migration policy has nevertheless changed over the last years. It was reformed in 2011 to ensure greater respect for the people held for questioning and a better reception of asylum-seekers. But lacking sufficient means and a real political determination, it is not really implemented. In real fact, when a migrant is intercepted off the island, coastguards will straight away file a criminal case. The judge will then speed up procedures by turning it into an administrative case. The immigrant is then transferred to the police, placed in a detention centre for identification. If it comes out that the person is in real danger, a Syrian, or a child, or an old person, the expulsion procedure may be suspended for a period that may last from a few days to up to six months. The immigrant is also given notice of the obligation to leave the island, and so allowed to cross over to the mainland.
Immigrants who do not benefit from these procedures are transferred to one of the country’s eight detention centres for up to eighteen months until they are expelled. Should they succeed in filing an asylum request, they will remain in the detention centres as long as the case is being studied. “They are all illegal migrants,” Colonel Samaras Pangiotis bluntly declares. He is chief police officer on the island of Lesbos. “If you cross the border illegally, whether you are seeking asylum or not, you are an illegal immigrant." The local policy towards immigrants is still characterized by the same suspicious approach. Witness the “Xenios Zeus” operation implemented by the Greek Interior ministry, in order to raise the number of immigrants arrested. 65,000 foreigners were arrested between August and December 2012, among whom only 4,000 were in an irregular situation.
Frontex lends a momentous support to these policies. At Molivos, on the other side of the island, lieutenant René Aquilina commands a unit of eight soldiers that are members of the Maltese armed forces. They were sent here under the egis of Frontex as part of the “Poseidon operation”. “Our mission is to help coastguards protect their borders,” he claims. He is obviously proud of his quick-response vessel, its three 352 horse-power engines, and its night vision equipment. It’s his last day on this mission. His unit is to be replaced the next day by a Polish contingent. All armies obey the same law: silence. He says nothing about immigrants being potentially forced to return to Turkish territorial waters. In 2013, the EU’s agency for basic rights did voice their concern, as did the special UNO reporter on migrants’ rights, over the interceptions of migrants in the Aegean.
A few hours later, deep in the night, the Aegean got rough. On board his vessel, Captain Costtas Talanis, a coast-guard on an operation with three other Hellenic agents is sailing along the line between the Turkish and the Greek waters. “When we spot an immigrants boat in Turkey, we ask them to stop and we contact the authorities,” he explains. “If she is on the Greek side, more often than not, when they see us approaching, they will sink their boat and then we start a rescue operation.” But lawyer Marianna Tzeferakou see things differently; “They fire into the air, hold up the boats, and tow them into the Turkish territorial waters.” She even mentions cases where manoeuvres caused the deaths of immigrants.
Modes of detention open to criticism.
It’s impossible to tell if Frontex agents are involved in devious manoeuvres of this kind that offend article 3 of the Geneva convention. But the Frontex mandate was altered in 2011. One of its prerogatives now obliges the agency to stop or suspend any “conjoint operation” in case of a serious or persisting incident. The text even goes so far as to state that the agency “assumes full responsibility for all of the actions and decisions that were made in the execution of its mandate.” Although all migrant control operations are carried out within the Poseidon cadre, whether they involve Frontex members or Greek agents, the agency’s responsibility is most unlikely ever to be established. For article 8 in the regulations that define the modalities of its operations specifies that the European communities’ protocol of privileges and immunities applies to the agency. To put it bluntly, agents operating within the cadre of a Frontex operation enjoy legal immunity.
Modes of detention in Greece are open to criticism. In the UNHCR offices Ariann Vassilacli draws a plan of the new detention camp in Moria. Under the new law on immigration the centre is to become a first reception centre. The Lesbos centre remains a place for administrative detention and identification. Arianna evokes the possibility that over a thousand migrants might be concentrated in that long row of white huts divided by corridors of barbed wire and wire fences. “The part designed to become a first reception centre can take 98 people,” comments Papazoglou Konstantinos, the local immigration police chief and camp manager. “But we have made space for two hundred additional newcomers in the buildings designed for retention should too many migrants turn up.” Simply, the first new reception centre is overcrowded even before it has started operating. “What we do is list the names, first names, ages and origins,” the manager goes on to say.” We also discuss cases, with a view to establishing the migrants’ itineraries from the places they started from to this place.” Officially, those debriefing sessions are meant to identify the smuggling networks but they are actually an exceptionally efficient way of putting thousands of human beings on file. The manager sounds hesitant when Frontex and “Poseidon” come up in the interview. He is obviously at a loss to decide what he may or may not say.
Eleven o’clock. A van stops outside the door to the part of the camp reserved for detention, the doors open, that have no windows, showing benches inside to sit six to eight people. Migrants stand in a line within the camp. A supervisor calls out names. At each shout a migrant hurries into the van. Fifteen or sixteen people are huddling there, among whom women and children and old people. Then comes a second van. Papazoglou Kostantinos explains that they are about to be transferred to be identified biometrically, within the cadre of the Eurodac system. They will be freed on the port of Mytilene. Then comes a four-wheel drive. Three supervisors get out, among them a Spaniard who presents himself as a “Frontex support officer”. “We provide assistance for identification, debriefing and missions at sea,” he proudly declares. “We coach special interrogation units. But no, we don’t store any data.”
When caution goes unheeded
One after another vans arrive from the Moria camp at the haven of Mytilène. Out come Afghans and Syrians of all ages, each holding an official notice to leave the island. They queue to buy tickets for the ferry to Athens. “When we were out at sea, men wearing masks arrived on very fast boats”, relates George, one of the Syrians just out of the vans. “They took our money and our cell phones, and ordered us to turn back. They spoke German. I know this language!”
Standing some way off, Abbas Ali, who has not yet turned sixteen, explains that he had a nice crossing but that several people told him that there had been violent treatments out at sea by supervisors speaking another language than Greek. A female lawyer, hired as interpreter, confirms that she regularly receives similar oral evidence.
Associations regularly denounce the secrecy around Frontex operations, and the prevailing military and repressive logic that is gradually becoming the norm in the management of migratory flows. “Policies like these unquestionably violate universal human rights,” Migreurop insists. “They are costly and inefficient.” But caution goes unheeded. The European institution is shortly to allot three million euro to Frontex monthly, in addition to six vessels, two planes and one helicopter, in order to deploy operation “Triton”. The prospect does not appeal to Stella Nanou. “What we need, for the management of immigration, rather than “Triton”, is a rescue program like “Mare Nostrum”, but one that is set up collectively in Europe,” the UNHCR officer specifies. She dreads the coming of winter and its tempests. “Tragedies at sea are bound to multiply,” she fears.
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UK 40p Tax Rate: Third of Workforce to be Dragged Into Bracket
By Lianna Brinded
July 24, 2014 08:22 BST
The Office for Budget Responsibility has revealed that 9.2 million Britons will fall into the 40p tax rate by 2033, while 1.7 million will tumble into the 45p bracket, equating to around a third of the UK workforce.
According to the group, the number of middle class owners paying the higher tax rate will more than double, but if the government pegged the bracket to rise in line with earnings instead, 4.6 million fewer people would be paying the 40p tax rate.
"But because earnings are expected to rise more quickly than prices in the long term (due to productivity growth), this would result in the average tax rate rising steadily over time as more income moves into higher tax bands," the OBR added.
UK Chancellor George Osborne raised the 40% tax rate bracket in the government's 2014 Budget announcement, to £41,865, from £41,540.
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Osborne ignored calls from his own Conservative Party members that the bracket needed to be relaxed.
The architect of the 40p tax rate, Lord Nigel Lawson, called for Prime Minister David Cameron and Osborne to scrap the tax bracket as too many middle-income professionals have fallen into the higher band.
Lord Lawson, who introduced the 40% tax rate 25 years ago, said pushing more "middling professionals" into the tax band would be a "mistake."
While the Tories have pledged to help the poorest Britons by raising the tax-free personal allowance, which has dragged more than two million people out of the tax system, middle class pockets have become increasingly tight as wage rises drag more people into the higher tax band.
The 40% tax band was introduced a quarter of a century ago by the former Conservative Chancellor Lawson. At the time, only one in 20 people paid the higher rate, compared to one in six people today.
This equates to about 1.35 million in 1988, compared to 4.4 million people in 2013.
This has risen to 4.6 million and over the next year, this number is set to rise to 5 million.
"The government has taken significant steps to help hardworking people keep more of the money they earn," said the UK Treasury spokesperson in response to the OBR analysis.
Related topics : Tax George Osborne
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Large Scale Oval Racing
What would make you travel......
AZOutlaw
Just trying to get some input from fellow racers, I was wondering what would make it worth your while to travel to a race? I know there are people who do
the NCS series races, usually make three races that are close to home to run for the points championship but what I am interested in is what it would take to get people to come from around the nation to one big event? Back in the day it was always the Las Vegas Super Nats was the biggie but over the years it has fallin off as the race of the year. I know QSAC has been trying to do something like that with there final race show down but even that hasn't been drawing in the people. Some of us race because we love to and others want to race for something whether it be money, nice big trophy/plaque or a new car. I guess I would like to see it like the old days were we had 150 + entries, I know the economy sucks but it would be great to have one big race a year like the Super nats that people would come to.
I know Offroad R/C has there Worlds championship every other year, and Dirt Oval has the Custom works/Tony Stewart race, 1/12 scale has a big race every year in Nov in Ohio (can't remember what they call it) and 1/10th scale
has the Snowbirds in Feb. half of these races are run at the same place every year so people plan on running it. Like I said just looking for some input!
hobbyten
the ohio race is call the cleveland indoor champs and it's held over thanksgiving every yr. lots of travel time for most. hooters girls would help a little as well......
:grin2:
Freddie's Hobbies
Well I really feel the economy has a lot to do with things this year. Next year we are hosting the 1/4 Scale Paved Oval Nationals.
I expect all the manufactures to show up and show their wares and support the people that buy and race their vehicles. I will be paying travel money for that race, along with a lot of nice prizes. When I use to race tunnel hulls they paid us travel money and it helped with gas money and a little hotel.
We need to start having the people involved with 1/4 scale start supporting their own sport. Its been to one sided for to long. We cannot have the racers expected to do everything. The manufactures need to step up to the plate
I really think once the economy turns back around and we grow QSAC back to the numbers it use to have things will be back to normal.
2013 All Star Series
Steve, Terry, and Freddie, teaming up for one great series :thumbsup:
Cash and Time are my enemy.
My wish list would be this.
1st) A race centrally located, so to make travel a little easier for the west and east coast people.
2nd) A track that is set-up temporarily, something like the Royal Oak race was. Or the Knoxville nationals. This way there is no home track advantage.
3rd) I would NOT want to race for money, because the money races seem to bring out the worse in people.
I know that I don't have all the answers. But I would like to think that this would be a good start.
FMurry8995
I don't like racing for money. It gets a lot of equiptment torn up and racers upset. I race for fun. Winning would be an extra. I would like to see a big race or a big race centrally located that would have attractions for the non racing family members. A two or three day race with a meeting to discuss rules and such. I loved going to Royal Oak. It was a big part of my racing year. I am checking to see about getting it back next year. I am also working on another charity race for QSAC. details as soon as they are worked out if we can get it organized. You will love this one.
Another race we need to support is the Knoxville Nationals. This event draws alot of attention and could really benifit QSAC if we work it proper. I know I will be there next year.
Fred Murry
I do like Freddie's idea of tow money, that would be a great start for bringing racers in for the big race, but how many tracks or clubs can afford to do that? What would be the break down.
I like the Knoxville Nationals for the big race, you have a big audience and media from all over the country to help promote our sport or hobby. It's centrally located also. If there would be a draw back for Knoxville, I would think hotel cost can't help for that week. I'm sure that the hotel's like to price gouge because of the main event. Also hotel availability can't be easy.
stivy said:
I have stayed in Knoxville for 4 days with zero hotel cost. I have camped out and you can get a shower and a shave in for a couple of bucks at the rec center and at the schools. There are folks that open up there homes to people coming in for the race. Yes hotels are not cheap. There are only two in knoxville if I remember correct. Super 8 and not sure about the other. I do not remember them jacking the rates like the ones around a Nascar event. One super 8 on route 81 on my way to Bristol one year had trippled there rates. I told them what they could do with there room.
Agreed, hotel and motel would be a minor issue if you have the ability to camp out. Everything else seem to be ideal for a big yearly event.
Centrally located, equal travel distance for most everybody.
Big audience, great chance to help promote the hobby.
Extra curricular activities, don't forget the big race in town.
No home track advantage, temporary track set up.
Tow money, could be raised by entry fee and or 50/50 or other source.
Timing, the race is held while most people take there vacation.
Lodging, somewhere to stay hotels or camping.
The big thing is to cut cost. No matter which track we choose to race at, these are some of the things that I would look for, to get people to travel for a race.
johnnyhacksaw
topdog of blackflags
The big thing is to cut cost. No matter which track we choose to race at.
sounds like royal oak! me myself i liked... working on something just like royal oak for maybe next year. also, get more tv time! done it before everybody likes to see there cars on the tv... mention it to fred murray will see.
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Harriet Nuttall and Silver Lift win at Hickstead
Posted on August 31, 2019 by Jeannie Knight
A major highlight of action at Hickstead on Saturday was the Douglas Bunn 1.35m Challenge (Drawn Order) against the clock. A total of 42 riders took part in this event. The winner was Harriet Nuttall, competing with Rupert Nuttall’s Silver … Continue reading →
Exciting action at Hickstead
THE Science Supplements All England Jumping Championships at Hickstead had a busy day of jumping, with five rings of competition running all day yesterday, including a 1.40m class in the Longines International Arena.
Entrance and parking is free for the show and everyone is welcome. There is also a prize givaway with the chance to win a tripe of a lifetime to the Al Shira’aa International Horse Show in Abu Dhabi in a prize giveaway.
Thrilling action at Hickstead
Photo: Nigel Goddard
Here is today’s programme for an outstanding day at Hickstead- which is a prelude to the weekend’s schedule of top class competitions on both days, culminating in a day of breathtaking championships on Sunday.
Friday August 30: 9am start with the All England 1.40m Open followed by the All England Four-year-old championship 1.10m; All England Five Year Old Championship against the clock.
8am All England 1.20m Amateur Championship 2nd Qualifier in the Equine America Ring 3A. Competition in two phases against the clock. Followed by the Senior British Novice Championship first round. Then there will be the All England 1.20m Open Championship first qualifier.
There will be another chance to win a trip of a lifetime to the Al Sira’aa Internetional Horse Show in Aby Dhabi in a prize giveaway.
Don’t forget, entrance and parking is free and everyone is welcome.
Emile Faurie to deliver Dressage Masterclass at HOYS 2019
The Dressage Masterclass at Horse of the Year Show is a firm favourite amongst fans and has seen advice and training tips shared from the likes of four-time Olympian Richard Davison, Olympic Gold Medallist Charlotte Dujardin and her trainer and fellow team rider, Carl Hester.
For 2019, top international dressage rider, Emile Faurie, is set to inspire the HOYS audience on Dressage Thursday as he hosts the demo for the very first time. Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1963, Emile’s early experiences with horse riding were far from what they are now. It wasn’t until the late Molly Sivewright, founder of the Talland School of Equitation, came to visit Emile at the age of 20 that he decided that this was the career for him.
Photo: British Dressage
Little did he know that he was about to embark on a journey which would shape the rest of his life. In 1982 Emile moved to Germany to work for the famous Performance Sales International (PSI), helping back and prepare youngsters for auction. In this he gained understanding on how to recognise a good horse and expand his horse knowledge to form the career he has today. In 1993, Emile won an individual bronze and team silver medal at the European Championships riding a horse called Virtu.
His work with PSI allowed him to set up his own yard in Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire in 1996, where he continued to train and work with the young horses from Germany. Emile went on to represent Great Britain in three more European Championships, two Olympic Games and three World Equestrian Games, including 2018 in Tryon where he helped Britain secure team bronze with the 12-year-old Dono Di Maggio.
At Horse of the Year Show last year, Emile was placed fourth in the Dressage Future Elite riding Café’s Caletta scoring 74.5%; the 10 year old mare, who was bred to showjump but had a change of career at the age of six, is now competing successfully at Grand Prix level with Emile this season.
Emile Faurie riding Cafe’s Caletta at HOYS 2018
Emile’s picturesque yard is based in the heart of the Cotswolds. There he trains and rides with up and coming rider Tom Goode, who has established a name for himself recently with Grand Prix wins aboard a stunning chestnut stallion Dior III, who is owned by Sam Geddes.
Speaking about what the HOYS audience can expect from his Dressage Masterclass on Thursday at Horse of the Year Show, Emile commented: “It’s a great honour to have been asked to host the Dressage Masterclass; HOYS is such an iconic show and the crowd there really know their stuff, so it is a little bit nerve wracking but an honour all the same.
“HOYS has just got this special quality to it, you can’t encapsulate it in words. It has a great sense of tradition and it is so special to be a part of, I really enjoy competing there. For the masterclass I will be bringing three young horses from Germany from the Performance Sales International who I work for; they will demonstrate exactly what it is we look for in a world class dressage horses and I will talk through how we start them out in their training.
“Then in the second half, Tom [Goode] will ride Dior who is enjoying his first season at Grand Prix level this year, so they will demonstrate the higher level movements and show the levels of progression through to the finished product.”
Event Director, Emma Williams, commented: “We are so excited to announce that Emile Faurie will be hosting our Dressage Masterclass on Thursday at HOYS this year. He is one of the most successful British riders who is still competing on the circuit and has a wealth of experience which he is eager to share with the HOYS crowd this year. I am sure that visitors will be left feeling inspired with plenty of ideas of exercises to try and home with their horses.”
Horse of the Year Show takes place at The NEC Birmingham Resorts World Arena, October 2 – 6 2019. Thursday tickets are Gold Tickets, meaning that they allow you full access to the show for the full day- that is more than 16 hours of equestrian entertainment at its best with prices starting from £34.00.
Visit https://hoys.co.uk/tickets/ or call the Box Office on 0844 581 8282.
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Spectacular Bank Holiday racing at Goodwood
FROM the sensational fireworks display that took place on Friday evening, to the superb performances on the track, the August Bank Holiday fixture at Goodwood Racecourse from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 August was nothing short of spectacular with glorious weather to match.
Spectacular fireworks at Goodwood Photo: Goodwood Racecourse
After racing, the very popular Batala drummers set a hypnotic beat, drawing crowds from around the stands before fireworks lit up the night sky. The crowd were so impressed that there was rapturous applause and cheers after the finale.
Volkan Star was a sensational winner of The European Breeders Fund EBF Novice Stakes, trouncing his rivals by an impressive six lengths to justify the £1million price tag paid by Godolphin for Charlie Appleby and William Buick. Green Power showed his liking for the Sussex track once again by winning the feature Levin Down Handicap- proving that victory at the Qatar Goodwood Festival in the Chelsea Barracks Handicap was no fluke.
Volkan Star when he was sold at the sales for racing
Photo courtesy of Laura Green
On Saturday, Duke Of Hazzard got the better of Turgenev in the Group 2 Ladbrokes Celebration Mile, heralding jockey, Rossa Ryan’s, biggest career win to date. The three-year-old now has a Group 1 entry in the Prix du Moulin at Longchamp.
Rossa Ryan, 19, who is in his first year after riding out his claim, commented; “I didn’t sleep well last night and spent a lot of time on my tablet, working out what might happen and how the race would go.
Up and coming jockey Rossa Ryan Photo: John Simpson
“Blinkers have brought out a big improvement in him, and he loves it round here. Paul Cole (trainer) has been very kind to me and I am grateful to him and Mrs. Fitri Hay for putting me up.”
Richard Kingscote rode a tactical race on Boomer. who stuck her neck out to repel the late challenge of Dark Lady in the Group 3 Ladbrokes Prestige Stakes, before a small but select field contested the Group 3 Ladbrokes March Stakes.
Sir Ron Priestley and jockey Franny Norton, following their victory at Goodwood Racecourse in the March Stakes, in memory of the late John Dunlop.
Photograph by Sam Stephenson, 07880 703135, www.samstephenson.co.uk.
Run in memory of local trainer, the late John Dunlop, it was Sir Ron Priestley who obliged becoming the third Qatar Goodwood Festival winner to follow up with a win at the meeting. Having been headed by the strong travelling Promissory, he won convincingly, under a confident ride from Franny Norton.
John Dunlop’s widow, Sue, was on hand to present the trophy for the race to Deirdre Johnston, wife of trainer Mark Johnson, and owner Mr. Paul Dean.
On Sunday, the warm weather continued to grace the Sussex Downs with Oisin Murphy enjoying a good day with two winners. The first came aboard Queen’s Soldier in The Chichester City Selling Stakes, before Le Don De Vie followed up in the Handicap Stakes.
Suedois rallied gamely under Danny Tudhope as Momkin challenged late in the Group 3 Weatherbys Racing Bank Supreme Stakes; the ultra-consistent eight-year-old holds an entry at Irish Champions Weekend.
Red Stripes made the long trip from Cheshire worthwhile for Lisa Williamson by winning The Ladbrokes Download The App Handicap Stakes, before Blue Medici won the final race of the weekend, the Silk Series.
Throughout the meeting, racegoers not only enjoyed the blissful weather, but also family fun including live music, a traditional fairground, donkey rides, Punch and Judy shows and a petting zoo. For those keen to sit back and enjoy the afternoon, food outlets proved extremely popular, while those who stayed into the evening could toast marshmallows on fire pits as the sun set.
The racecourse is now looking forward to two Midweek fixtures on September 3 and 11, before the season comes to a close on October 13 with the Harvest, Hops and Horseracing fixture.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit :htpps//www.goodwood.com
Posted on August 27, 2019 by Jeannie Knight | Leave a reply
BHS key initiatives benefit horses and riders
The British Horse Society works hard to make a positive impact on the lives of horses and horse owners with wide-ranging campaigns and initiatives.
Its core foundations – education, welfare, access and safety – are more important than ever as they demonstrably make a difference to horses’ lives.
It is committed to committed to supporting the best interests of horses and owners, and it works with the law and helps its members to comply with the many requirements – which is why you can find a lot of information and advice on its to help you understand these laws and the legal requirements.
Ride Out UK 2019
The society works to provide a strong voice for horses and people through a range of areas. It is pro-active in the following spheres:
Welfare services for horses and advice for owners.
Campaigning for and protecting equestrian rights of way.
Improving safety for horses, riders and carriage drivers.
Promoting riding for all.
Offering world-class qualifications.
Approvals system awarding quality instruction and care.
For more information on any of these initiatives contact the British Horse Society at https://www.bhs.org.uk/contact-us
European medallist Holly Smith to compete at final 2019 Hickstead event
European team bronze medallist Holly Smith will be competing at the final show of the Hickstead season – the Science Supplements All England Jumping Championships ( August 29 to September 1).
Holly is currently representing Great Britain at the FEI European Jumping Championships in Rotterdam, where she helped her team clinch a team bronze medal as well as securing qualification for Tokyo 2020.
Holly has had excellent form at Hickstead in recent years, including second places in the Al Shira’aa Derby and the Nations Cup, plus wins in the Bunn Leisure Derby Tankard and Derby Trial. The Leicestershire rider makes her return to the All England Jumping Course after missing last month’s five-star Longines FEI Nations Cup meeting due to a broken collar bone.
Holly Smith and Hearts Destiny in action
Photo copyright Sian Hayden
Other Hickstead stars to compete at the four-day national championships include Hickstead Derby winners Trevor Breen, Phillip Miller and Guy Williams, along with four-time Al Shira’aa Derby runner up Harriet Nuttall. Young talents to look out for include Yazmin Pinchen, Georgia Tame, Chuffy Clarke, Alfie Bradstock, Joe Stockdale and Oliver Tuff. Two members of the famous Whitaker family are due to compete, Louise and Joanne.
The show also attracts entries from a number of eventers, with five-star riders Pippa Funnell, Sharon Hunt, Gemma Tattersall and Francis Whittington all competing at this event.
“Entries have been flooding in for our season finale, and we’re set for an exciting few days of competition to round off what’s been a fantastic summer of sport,” said Hickstead Director Lizzie Bunn.
First held in 2011, the All England Jumping Championships have gone strength to strength. This year, unaffiliated Arena Eventing has been added to the schedule for the first time, with classes starting at 80cm. There are showjumping classes from British Novice level (90cm) up to the 1.40m Science Supplements All England Grand Prix, plus Young Horse classes for Four-, Five- and Six- & Seven-Year-Olds.
This is the first year the championships have run under the title sponsorship of Science Supplements. The leading supplements company came on board as a Hickstead sponsor this season, and also sponsor several major classes at the international shows, including the British Speed Derby and the Queen Elizabeth II Cup.
Entry and parking for the Science Supplements All England Jumping Championships is free to spectators, with a select group of trade stands open across the four days as well as a range of bars and eateries.
The action from the Longines International Arena will be live streamed on ClipMyHorse.TV from Friday to Sunday.
RDA group’s successful Ashington Festival day
Thanks to the dedication, planning and hard work from Denise Lee and her husband Alan, Long Furlong RDA group had another successful day at The Ashington Festival.
Much to the group’s relief the weather stayed dry and its bottle tombola attracted the usual queue for tickets.
Many thanks to volunteers, riders, families and friends for donating the lovely selection of bottles, everything from champagne to shampoo.
One of the group’s volunteers, Val spent hours filling and decorating 117 Jolly Jam Jars for the children. All the jars were sold and not one child was disappointed.
The committee of LFRDA would like to thank all volunteers and their partners for their generosity, good humour and hard work, the willingness of the public to part with their cash and the organisers of the festival for allowing charities to take part without payment.
The excellent total of £668.00 was raised, which is so very necessary to allow the group to continue offer therapeutic riding to disabled adults.
A heartfelt big thank you to all involved.
Intro to basic equine massage at Moorcroft
Don’t miss the next event at Moorcroft Racehorse Welfare Centre at Huntingrove Stud, RH13 ORB, Slinfold, West Sussex on Wednesday September 4 when Elizabeth White presents a Public Introduction to Basic Equine Massage.
The event starts at 7pm and ends at 9pm. ·Tickets can be obtained via www.tickettailor.com
This is a fun packed practical workshop on basic equine massage you can take home with you and share with your own horses, ponies and donkeys.
Don’t miss Moorcroft’s equine massage demonstration
Photo: Mark Beaumont
Elizabeth will be demonstrating these techniques with the Moorcroft Racehorses in the comfort of the stable block.
Joining Elizabeth, will be some of the Healing Animal Organisation equine massage graduates; so participants can experience for themselves practical exercises using touch, feel, pressure and hand strokes.
Elizabeth will be sharing with you how equine massage can be an additional healing modality to help our equine friends physically, emotionally and mentally and how to integrate these simple, yet powerful movements into every day equine holistic healthcare
Just £25 per person – All proceeds go to help the horses at the Centre.
Please book online using the link https//www.tickettailor.com/events/moorcroftracehorse/286795/ or with Mary on
07929 666408 or email moorcroftracehorse@gmail.com
Supreme Products to sponsor HOYS championship
Established in 1993, Supreme Products have been the choice of champions for many years and HOYS is delighted to welcome them as title sponsor for the Supreme Horse of the Year Championship at Horse of the Year Show 2019.
This prestigious championship will be renamed the Supreme Products Horse of the Year Championship and cumulates on the Sunday evening of the show.
This is when the Andrews Bowen International Arena sees all of the champions from the horse classes throughout the week compete for the ultimate accolade to be crowned the Supreme Horse.
Nicole Pavitt riding Connollys Red Mills to victory at HOYS Photo: 1st Class Images
Horse of the Year Show is highly regarded amongst the showing community as being ‘the’ show to qualify your horse for to highlight and reward the quality breeding, conformation and performance of each animal.
With an astounding 29 different showing championships available to qualify for, thousands of competitors set out each year for a place in the final at HOYS with only 12 exhibits eligible to come forward for the Supreme Horse Championship.
As suppliers of quality British made garments and products designed specifically for the show ring, Supreme Products are long time supporters of many top riders that share their drive for show ring excellence and include reigning Horse of the Year Show Champions.
Laura Clegg, Brand Manager for Supreme Products commented: “We are delighted to be sponsoring the Supreme Horse of the Year at HOYS, it’s the one show everyone wants to be at and to go to.
“Supreme is what dreams are made of! Showing at this level requires the overall picture of horse and rider to be perfect, all the hard work and dedication over the year leads to this show. The standard is so high and everyone wants to stand out from the crowd; our range of products and garments will help people achieve the ultimate show ring look for when presentation matters most.
“The quality of horses and ponies here is outstanding and something we believe should be celebrated. It is great to be involved and support such a prestigious show that so many of our customers strive to compete at.”
Event Director Emma Williams commented: “I am delighted to welcome Supreme Products as a new sponsor for the show. It has always been incredibly important to us that such a prestigious title should be associated with an established brand like Supreme Products that is already the choice of champions. Supreme Products have been long term trade stand supporters at the show and we are really looking forward to working with them both as a trader and now sponsor in 2019.”
Horse of the Year Show takes place this year from October 2 – 6 2019 at the Resorts World Arena, the NEC Birmingham for another year of breath-taking displays and unbeatable competition. For a full list of showing qualifiers please visit https://hoys.co.uk/competitor-zone/showing-qualifiers/ .
Tickets and a full timetable of events will be released in February. To stay up-to-date with the latest HOYS news and to be the first to know what’s happening, sign up to our newsletter here: https://hoys.co.uk/newsletter-sign-up/
Good win for Louise Simpson at Bolesworth
LOUISE Simpson and Unex Cognac IV saw triumph over adversity after a difficult year for the 11-year-old who had an eye removed eight months ago.
The West Sussex rider has been thrilled with his progress and took home a win in the Equestrizone CSI2* Two Phase at the Equitop Bolesworth Young Horse Championships.
Heading the class in a time of 29.96 seconds, Louise came home just ahead of Louise Saywell and her well-known partner the speedy Feigtling.
CS12 star winner Louise Simpson and Unex Cognac IV Photo: Spidge Event Photography
The Nottinghamshire rider, Louise Saywell, galloped home in 30.91 seconds with Georgia Tame once again in the line-up, this time in third on Canya Dance.
Unex Cognac IV is another ride Louise Simpson shares with her husband David and she is delighted to have him back in competition action.
The couple are based at DLS Showjumping, Coolham, in West Sussex and are professional riders.
Said Louise: “We’ve taken our time to bring him back and although I am aware of giving him an extra stride to fences when turning on certain angles the operation doesn’t appear to have bothered him at all.
“We will continue to build his confidence and take it slowly but I have no concerns he will soon be jumping on top form again.”
Louise Simpson winning the Equestrizone CSI2* Two Phase with Sara Lamyman of Equestrizone. [Credit Spidge Photography]
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Can This Dump Truck Do Wheelstands? Any Why Would Someone Try?
David Freiburger answers questions about Stubby Bob, a Roadkill fan-favorite project truck.
David FreiburgerAuthor, PhotographerRobert GuioPhotographerWilliam WalkerPhotographer
It's a 1950 Ford F-6 two-ton dump truck that does wheelies, and no one planned any of it. The Roadkill project truck known as Stubby Bob started with a surprise in episode 44 when Mike Finnegan bought the truck off a farm as a gag. We then shortened the wheelbase from 158 to 104 inches for no apparent reason and walked away from it when the brakes didn't work well enough for a road trip. The truck carries a supercharged big-block Chevy aft of the cab and drives the rear wheels through a Gearstar 4L80E transmission and an antique boat V-drive we scored off the coolest dude ever, Slim at Slim's Fab Farm, home of rad choppers and wheelstanding vintage vans. In one of our favorite episodes, we threw this all together and created the world's most unlikely and treacherous wheelstander, with Stubby Bob capable of slicing a trailer hitch through asphalt like a boss.
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No one's more surprised than us that we pulled this off, and fans had many questions about the alternate reality where we win this big. Here's the story of Stubby Bob through answers to queries posed to us via Facebook by the Roadkill Nation.
What were the original plans for Stubby Bob?
After episode 44, wherein we shortened the wheelbase on the truck, Stubby Bob was sent to storage in Georgia for a few months before being shipped to California to get weighed and certified for a title, then rotted in the Roadkill shop for another month. Finnegan and I started to look over the truck when prepping for Roadkill's 50th episode project-car competition because we'd considered installing the supercharged big-block engine from the Crusher Camaro. What happened is what you saw in the episode: We were estimating how to fit the engine under the hood when I realized it really belonged out back. Prior to that brainchild, it was gonna be a more conventional hot rod, and probably slammed.
Why is the engine in the back—because Roadkill?
Initially it was just because it fit so much better than it would have under the hood, and honestly, it was much less work to fit it out back.
What did the suits think when they first heard about this stunt?
Virtually everyone in the office started following the buildup as soon as we mocked up the engine behind the cab. The big boss at the time loved this thing from day one, especially because there's been no lawsuit yet.
What was the biggest challenge with the Stubby Bob project?
My normal drama is that I hate hacking up old sheetmetal. I got over that as soon as we dropped the engine out back and had the vision. By far the biggest question the whole time was if it would or would not wheelie. We knew we could do it with the engine mounted really far back for weight transfer and leverage over the rear axle, but it looked goofy to do that, so we decided to move the engine forward where it looked most neato. But that risked the sure-fire wheelstands.
Why use a Chevy engine in a Ford?
We tried pretty hard to use a 460 big-block Ford, but it was well more than double the cost of what we spent on the 454 Chevy—mostly because the blower kit was so much more expensive.
Why go with the 454 over a blown LS engine with EFI?
Image! The wheelstanders of the '60s and '70s all had big-blocks, usually with 8-71 blowers. If we could have easily used Enderle mechanical injection on alcohol, we would have.
What are all of Stubby Bob's engine specs?
We dunno! In true Roadkill style, the engine is just patched together. The long-block is a 454ci Gen VI big-block Chevy from a late-'90s Chevy 3/4-ton truck. We bought this from prolific gearhead freelancer Richard Holdener for $1,000—likely a tidy profit for ol' Richie after he snagged it from a junkyard and used it for some dyno testing. He mentioned that it made 900 hp or something like that with a big turbo, and Finnegan asked no more questions when he bought it. We don't even know the cam specs.
"I can die knowing I've seen the best thing ever filmed." — Davy Jones, Roadkill fan
We do know the heads are iron oval-ports. The supercharger is a Weiand 8-71, installed as a complete kit with the intake and belt drive. The carbs are a pair of the Holley supercharger-specific 850-cfm double-pumpers we've used a number of times. They work perfectly out of the box. We also got the Weiand fuel-inlet and linkage kits. The zoomie-style headers were made by Finnegan from a Hooker kit.
How difficult was it to make the blower fit the newer-generation big-block?
In the episode, we discovered the Weiand kit was not intended for Gen VI engines. The intake manifold is for rectangle-port heads and the Gen VI stockers are oval-ports, but that's a mismatch that can work when you use rec-port gaskets and some silicone. We also had to grind the intake manifold at the gasket surface to make it fully seat onto the heads.
Would you consider the Crusher Camaro's blown big-block as a replacement for the current big-block in Stubby Bob?
The most-asked-about engine at Roadkill is the Weiand-blown 489ci engine that was in our '67 Chevy Crusher Camaro before we removed it on a live video feed and installed an LS7. That Crusher engine has been discussed for a number of vehicles, but it's so similar to the one currently in Bob that there's no reason to swap it out.
What will happen to the old flathead motor?
Stubby Bob came from the factory with a 239ci Ford flathead V-8 with 100 hp; it was the 8BA/8RT style popular with retro hot rodders. It ran great! I'm hanging onto it, hoping to use it in a flatfender Jeep or perhaps as a core for a Bonneville race car.
How much horsepower and torque is the motor putting down to the wheels?
We have never dyno-tested the engine in Stubby Bob. We've been telling people 600 hp at the crank, which is very conservative. In the past, I've made 750 hp with a similar 454 Chevy with the same blower and same pulleys but with a solid roller cam and rectangle-port heads. Bench race it from there, and take your best guess.
Was there any cooling on the engine?
HOT ROD Garage's Lucky Costa built the cooling system using a Jeg's aluminum radiator and fans up front and plumbing the water to the rear using exhaust-pipe steel tubing with universal flex hoses at the connections. The downer is that the radiator cap is lower than the engine, so the system needs to be filled by removing the hose from the thermostat housing.
What was the reaction of the HOT ROD Garage guys when they discovered the hole in the Bonemaro's hood?
In the buildup episode, we cut some sheetmetal from the unused hood of HRG's project turbo-LS Camaro and used it for our carb scoop. We considered it payback for when they stole the seat from General Mayhem in one of their episodes. Lucky endorsed it. Tony Angelo has been silent about it. But probably irritated.
Why did you use a V-drive instead of a 4x4 transfer case with an unused output? Wouldn't the extra gearing make wheelies easier and the parts to do it cheaper?
Our challenge was figuring out how to drive the rear axle when the engine was mounted directly above it with the transmission pointing forward. We solved this using a V-drive, a gearcase that takes forward-pointing input and transfers it to rearward output, as is commonly done with propeller-powered speedboats.
"Personally I think it's the most stupid episode yet." — Mike Holmes, Roadkill fan
We could have used a transfer case from a 4x4 truck, but we would have had to use the output that was designed for the front axle, which is offset from center. The V-drive is inline to match the centered rear axle in the truck.
What kind of ratio is the V-drive? Is it gear-to-gear or chain-driven?
Slim traded us a conventional, 1967-vintage Casale V-drive for a toploader out of his van. It's a gear-driven setup. V-drives commonly have over- or underdrive ratios; ours did not seem to be 1:1, but we did not bother to check the ratio. It's not like we would have changed it even if we knew what it was.
What is the process of setting up an electronically controlled transmission with a carbed engine?
The trans we used was a modern, electronic 4L80E four-speed overdrive from Gearstar Transmissions. There are many controllers you can buy to use these without a factory computer, and they require inputs for rpm, speed, and throttle position. Ours was from CompuShift.
Was Stubby Bob still running the same rearend from the first episode and the 50th shootout episode?
What gear ratio and/or ratios are in the rearend? I remember you guys saying it was a two-speed rearend.
Yeah, it's an Eaton-built two-speed, common in trucks like this. From the factory, it was vacuum-shifted from a knob under the dash and could be used to split gears. They came in versions with ratios of 5.83:1 and 8.11:1 or with 6.33:1 and 8.81:1. We don't know which version we have. We are pretty sure we ran it in the high ratio (5.83:1 or 6.33:1) but can't be certain.
Do you guys not have some insurance representative saying, "No, we would rather you didn't have an exposed prop shaft right next to your legs while you do a wheelie without a harness?"
Don't ask, don't tell.
Did you ever get rid of the spit rims?
Nope! The old truck uses 20-inch wheels that retain the tire beads with antiquated and fragile locking rings that you saw getting swapped in episode 44 when we first got Bob. These wheels are terrifyingly dangerous, and no one should be putting big power through them or doing wheelies on them.
Does the engine starve of oil because it is getting thrown into such an extreme angle?
When the truck is doing a wheelie at full tilt, sure, oil pressure becomes optional as the lube flows away from the oil-pump pickup tube in the pan. But we're talking about losing pressure for maybe a second, and we're talking Roadkill. So it's fine.
Why did Finnegan let off the pedal during the wheelie and let the truck slam to the ground!?
True, best practice in a big wheelstand is to stay on the throttle to carry out a softer landing, and you can short-shift the trans into second rather than lifting off the throttle to reduce power and bring the front end down. Finnegan says he was thrown forward when the bumper hit the ground during the wheelie, tossing his foot off the pedal and causing him to crash down and bounce.
How many cameras were used to get all the cool shots?
Our crew is drastically smaller than any "real" TV show. During the wheelie scene, we only had two camera operators, one shooting live action and another on the slow motion. One more camera was on a fixed tripod. We had two GoPro cameras inside the cab, one under the front suspension, one on the trailer hitch, and one looking rearward at the engine.
How long was the mark on the ground from the wheelie?
Oh, we expect it'll be there for a loooong time. Wait, you mean distance? Dead reckoning, says one mark at about 2 feet and a second contact at 8.
How long until the 66-year-old suspension breaks from landing those killer wheelies?
The suspension had a lifespan of let's say 1 millisecond after re-entry. The driver side front leaf spring broke in half at the rear mount.
Any concerns about the fuel tank being that close to the pavement once it stands up?
You bet! During the buildup, as we mounted the beer-keg fuel tank between the rear framerails, we spent a lot of time with straightedges trying to figure out if it was possible for any of the fittings or the tank itself to contact the ground in a worst-case scenario. It wasn't.
Wondering if you broke the motor plates on last last run?
Watch the video, and it sure looks like the aluminum motor plate is gonna let go of the big-block, but it didn't. We inspected it after seeing the replay, and there were no cracks or bending. Finnegan did a great job on that motor-mount plate. We think the truck's frame is a lot more flexible than we'd hope.
Did you collect on the bet?
In the wheelie episode, we took a lot of guff from our pal KJ Jones (check out KJ on the premiere episode of Shift Talkers!), the official Roadkill naysayer. I really didn't think a wheelie was gonna happen, but Kaje harangued us so much that I threw down a hun that said we'd drag the hitch on the ground. True to honor, KJ had the green in hand when we showed our stuff, but I turned it down. It was all in good fun, and we needed the motivation.
Can Stubby Bob do burnouts?
No! That's the shocker. Stubby Bob won't smoke the tires at all. It just moves out or up. I think the gears are so low that there's no wheel speed and a lot of pinion-gear climb, plus the weight of the engine is over the centerline of the rear axle, which makes for a lot of traction.
Will Stubby Bob cruise at 70? What's it run at the dragstrip?
Yes, it'll probably cruise 70. We did about 60 in testing before the wheelie, thanks to tall tires and overdrive. But the front-suspension situation is super sketchy after the wheelie, and we have not had time to fix it or take it to a dragstrip. We'd probably stick to an eighth-mile.
How does something like this (as wonderful as it is) remain eligible for road registration?
Didn't your mamma teach you how to not get caught? Just remain inconspicuous. That's our secret.
Will you ever let Slim from Slim's Fab Farm have a go with it?
Slim totally hooked us up with the good V-drive and made the episode happen! Dude is our bro and can wreck Bob any time he wants.
How loud is it inside Stubby Bob?
The open zoomies are brutal. Stubby Bob is our loudest vehicle ever, and it's not just loud but also piercing. Finnegan made a little kid cry at the Car Craft Summer Nationals just by whacking the throttle.
What was the total cost of Stubby Bob?
You don't really want to know. The truck and new tires were $3,000, and the engine was $1,000. Holley donated the blower, carbs, fuel pumps, AN lines, and headers, and those add up to at least $7,000. The Gearstar Level 4 trans and converter and all the extras are about $4,000. Throw in all the other little junk, and it's pretty much $17,000.
How much time did the project take from getting it from Finnegan's house to marking up 8 feet of road?
Keep in mind that video production slows down car work quite a bit. Two of us worked on it for three days for the first episode. For the engine installation and V-drive and everything, Finnegan worked the hardest, putting in about five days. I was in and out for three days, and Lucky came in for two days.
If you could redo the Stubby Bob build, what would you change?
We didn't think about it until you asked because we still had the glow of victory, and nothing else matters. We'd do it the same, I guess, but we have ideas about how to make it more functional, like adding a wheelie bar and creating a softer long-travel front end for better landings. A trans brake would ensure good launches. We hate the split-rim wheels, but it's hard to find a cool-looking solution. The cooling system needs more flex joints so it doesn't crack. And maybe we should glance at the brakes.
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Who Did the First Wheelstand?
HOT ROD archival photos show drag-race cars capable of pulling the front wheels off the ground way back in the early '50s, but the big wheelstands didn't come until the advent of the blown nitro-burning slingshot dragsters of the late '50s. The exhibition sport of wheelstanding was invented in 1965 with the Dodge Little Red Wagon, a forward-cab A100 pickup that the factory built as an NHRA experimental racer by placing a 426 Hemi just behind the seats. It was supposed to be a real race car, but the truck ended up just pulling big wheelies all the time. It became known as The Original Wheelstander, and several versions were campaigned for decades by Bill "Maverick" Golden.
The second most well-known wheelstander was the Hurst Hemi Under Glass, a Plymouth Barracuda with a Hemi engine under the enormous backlight. There were many iterations of this car, as well, driven by Bob Riggle, and you may have seen the most recent one get barrel-rolled with Jay Leno riding shotgun on an episode of Jay Leno's Garage.
The late '60s saw an ever-increasing array of showmen in wilder and wilder exhibition wheelstanders, from Corvair wagons to VW pickups to Corvettes and even tanks, school busses, and stagecoaches. But not one of 'em was a '50 Ford dump truck.
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Two employment agencies charged for deploying underaged foreign domestic workers
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Ministry of Manpower 24 May 2018 On 24 May 2018, the Ministry of Manpower (“MOM”) charged an employment agency licensee, 35-year-old Khor Siew Tiang (“Khor”), who is also the sole proprietor of Vista Employment Services, for breaching employment agency (“EA”) licence conditions. She failed to ensure that a foreign domestic worker (“FDW”) mee
Employer charged for failing to ensure safety of foreign domestic worker
Ministry of Manpower 17 May 2018 On 17 May 2018, the Ministry of Manpower (“MOM”) charged a 36-year-old employer, Belinda Huber (“the accused”), in the State Courts for failing to provide safe working conditions for her foreign domestic worker (“FDW”). The accused contravened the Work Permit Conditions1 and committed an offence under section 22(1
MOM advisory to employers of Indonesian Foreign Domestic Workers on Indonesian Embassy's new Performance Bond requirement
Ministry of Manpower 8 May 2018 The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Singapore has notified Employment Agencies (EAs) here that it would impose a new $6,000 Performance Bond requirement on employers who hire Indonesian foreign domestic workers (FDWs). This is not a requirement of the Singapore Government. It is separate from the $5,000 Security Bond which MOM requ
Employment agency runner charged with abetment of illegal employment
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Ministry of Manpower 12 December 2017 On 7 December 2017, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged 52-year-old Singaporean Ng Siew Leng (“Ng”) in the State Courts, for abetting the illegal employment of a foreign domestic worker (FDW). Ng, an employment agency runner, faced one charge under section 5(1) read with section 23 (1) under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Ac
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Ministry of Power 27 September 2017 In the State Courts today, a 60-year-old Singaporean Noor Hayah Binte Gulam (“Noor”) was convicted and fined $50,000 in default 10 weeks’ imprisonment, for running an employment agency (“EA”) without a valid EA licence. She pleaded guilty to one charge under Section 6 (1) of the Employment Agencies Act (EAA). As
Employer fined $15,000 for not paying salaries to her Foreign Domestic Worker
Ministry of Manpower 13 September 2017 On 12 September 2017, a Singaporean woman, Li Jun (“Li”) was convicted in the State Courts for failing to pay salaries to her foreign domestic worker. She was fined $15,000 in default six weeks’ imprisonment. On 15 August 2017, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged Li with 13 charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act (
Employer charged for not paying salaries amounting to $5,700 to her Foreign Domestic Worker
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Ministry of Manpower 17 August 2017 On 15 August 2017, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged a 30-year-old Singaporean woman, Li Jun (“Li”) in the State Courts with 13 charges for failing to pay monthly salaries and rest day pay totalling about $5,700 to her foreign domestic worker (‘FDW’). If convicted, the accused can be fined up to $10,000, or fac
Two sisters and their two foreign employees convicted for making false statements in Work Pass applications
Ministry of Manpower 16 August 2017 In the State Courts yesterday, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged two Singaporean sisters, Leong Chew Peng (“Peng”, 45) and Leong Chau Yee (“Yee”, 47), for making false statements in the work pass applications to the Controller of Work Passes in September 2014 and in August 2016. It was declared in the respective applic
Changes To Personal Accident Insurance Requirements For Foreign Domestic Workers From 1 October 2017
Ministry of Manpower 7 May 2017 The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will be making changes to the Personal Accident Insurance (PAI) requirements for Foreign Domestic Workers (FDWs) with effect from 1 Oct 2017. This is to ensure that all FDWs continue to be adequately compensated should they become permanently disabled or passes away during their employment in Singapore. The key changes are as
Woman charged for running employment agency without a valid licence
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Keenum incident shows NFL's lack of progress on concussions
Opinion // Brian T. Smith
Brian T. Smith Nov. 23, 2015 Updated: Nov. 23, 2015 10:26 p.m.
1of3The Rams' Case Keenum stayed in Sunday's game after suffering a concussion, prompting an NFL investigation into how that was allowed to take place.Photo: Patrick Semansky, STF
2of3Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick took a head-jarring hit Sunday but remained in the game after passing a concussion evaluation.Photo: Brett Coomer, Staff
3of3This is a 2015 photo of Brian Hoyer of the Houston Texans NFL football team. This image reflects the Houston Texans active roster as of Wednesday, July 1, 2015 when this image was taken. (AP Photo)Photo: FRE
A 302-pound man violently slammed Case Keenum against hard, unmovable ground.
Keenum's 205-pound body briefly flopped like a dying fish on concrete. Then the ex-Texans quarterback's head bounced like a discarded watermelon that was supposed to explode.
Keenum immediately grabbed his helmet, his hands trying to reach a brain that had just been concussed. He rolled around in dazed, clueless pain, unable to stand or walk.
The NFL's safety-first response Sunday? The Rams' calculated in-game answer? Allowing the former University of Houston star to keep playing the most dangerous sport in America like his 27-year-old life wasn't worth worrying about.
"I saw Case go down. But I didn't see anything else that took place," said St. Louis coach Jeff Fisher, who chairs the league's competition committee. "I didn't see him struggle to get up."
Of course not. The ex-Oilers/Titans coach was coaching to keep his job and had bigger things to worry about with time still left on the clock.
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On the same day, I watched former Texans QB Ryan Fitzpatrick's helmet ripped off at NRG Stadium's goal line. His body crashed into safety Eddie Pleasant's on a gritty, headfirst touchdown dive, then ricocheted off another Texans defender nearby. Seconds after Fitzpatrick's protective headpiece flew away, he blankly staggered through the end zone, propped up by a Jets teammate.
Like Keenum, Fitzpatrick was allowed to stay in the game. Like Keenum, Fitzpatrick responded by soon turning the ball over in a late post-crush haze.
"They came over to me … but I was fine," said Fitzpatrick, perfectly summing up the NFL's still-flimsy emphasis on the long-term effects of brain damage.
Memory loss surfaces
Now think back to Nov. 16 in Cincinnati. Texans QB Brian Hoyer mysteriously disappearing into the locker room. "Monday Night Football" trying to figure out on national TV why Hoyer had left. The real truth coming a day later, when it was revealed a concussion had created short-term memory loss in a 30-year-old man who was forgetting his team's plays in real time.
After all these years - the promises and assurances, the hundreds of thousands of unbelievably destructive personal collisions and brain-jarring hits - the NFL still hasn't learned a darn thing.
That's what Keenum's collapsed body and concussed brain showed us. That's what a quick chat and instant green light with a clearly shaken Fitzpatrick proved. That's why it was up to Hoyer to realize there was something seriously wrong with him, instead of the most powerful league in the world first having any idea.
"I was surprised nobody had called down to stop the game and at least get (Keenum) checked out," said Dr. Erin Manning, neurologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. "My understanding of the policy is that there's supposed to be somebody up in the booth watching."
There was. An independent certified trainer, serving as a spotter, who could and should have stopped the game immediately. Also the Rams' doctor and trainer.
The NFL has repeatedly referred to concussion protocol, which was given life only after lawsuits, investigations and more lawsuits. For a league that loves to tell you every week how much it cares about soldiers, breast cancer, giving back to the community and that super-sweet Patriots-Broncos matchup on prime-time TV, the fact Keenum was still handed a ball after he had just been thrown down like a $10 aluminum trash can tells you everything you need to know about pro football's ongoing support of its players' brains.
The NFL has obviously made strides. It's also still way behind the times.
"It's all for show. It's all PR. … It's disheartening," said Super Bowl-winning linebacker Ted Johnson, a local sports radio host who has struggled with post-career issues since retiring in 2005. "This is real life. This isn't wrestling. … These are real people who have serious health problems later in life."
Union not helping
Asked about Keenum's body slam and continued play, Johnson requested time so he could fully compose his answer. Then he wisely forced the NFL Players Association to share the dirty spotlight.
The NFLPA went all out for deflated Tom Brady and accused woman-abuser Greg Hardy. But 24 hours after Keenum's head bounced off M&T Bank Stadium's cold turf, neither the league nor the union had said anything real about why a QB with a clear concussion was given an OK. The union didn't even back its player.
"They're missing the bigger picture. The bigger picture is guys are freaking screwed up after (NFL) life, cognitively speaking and behaviorally," Johnson said. "The NFLPA - it's almost as egregious as what the NFL is doing. By not doing anything, the inaction makes me disgusted."
The NFL and NFLPA said Monday they're investigating the incident. ESPN reported the league will conduct a mandatory conference call Tuesday with every team's head athletic trainer to discuss the concussion protocol.
That's too late for Keenum.
"It might be 10, 15 years down the line. But there's going to be some kind of an effect on a hit like that, believe me," said ESPN analyst Mike Ditka, who played during a time when the league cared even less about players' post-NFL lives.
How do you fix this?
Major fines and in-season suspensions for protocol violators. Removing the murky gray line that still divides player safety and another W for the ol' ball coach.
Keenum's hit will fade by Thanksgiving, thanks to three national TV games for families throughout the country. But this ugly brain-damage thing isn't going away.
There's a big movie coming out. Christmas Day. Silver screens across the nation. It's about a big, bad empire and the little people who work for it. It only needed a one-word title.
"Concussion."
Go see it.
Watch what it's like when the NFL gets its brain beat in.
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Twitter changing verification process from January 20
"We plan to use both automated and human review processes"
Twitter will launch its new verification process from January 20 after receiving feedback from thousands of users on how policy for the blue tick icon should be shaped.
Inactive and incomplete accounts stand to lose their verified badge once the rules come into force, though the social network said it would not affect accounts of deceased members.
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Those at risk of losing the verified badge will receive an email and an in-app notification informing them to make the necessary changes before January 20 to avoid verification removal.
And those who severely or repeatedly violate Twitter’s wider rules also risk being stripped of the blue tick.
“We will continue to evaluate such accounts on a case-by-case basis, and will make improvements in 2021 on the relationship between enforcement of our rules and verification,” the social network said.
As part of the revamped criteria, people will no longer be required to include a profile bio or header image in a bid to make the process less restrictive.
“The process will include asking applicants to select a category for their verified status and confirming their identity via links and other supporting materials,” Twitter said.
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“We plan to use both automated and human review processes to ensure that we are reviewing applications thoughtfully and in a timely manner.
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Net sales in fiscal year 2013 came in at $48.6 billion. A significant increase by $12.4 billion compared to the previous period was recorded. The Cisco's profit amounts to $10 billion, 24.2% higher than the previous figures. Company’s cash funds reached $50.5 billion. Dividend payments on equity issues were held at the rate of 62 cents per one security. In general, $3.3 billion was spent on these needs. In addition, the purchase of 128 million of unfavoured shares at a cost of $2.8 billion was made according to the program of asset buyout. Thus, the total volume of redemption of shares came in at $78.9 billion.
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Marcus John Paquette was convicted of possessing child pornography in May 2018. (Black Press Media files)
Judge rejects Terrace man’s claim that someone else downloaded child porn on his phone
Marcus John Paquette argued that other people had used his phone, including his ex-wife
A Terrace man convicted of possessing child pornography has lost his appeal after a judge didn’t buy his argument that someone else could have downloaded the graphic photos onto his iPhone.
Marcus John Paquette – a father, avid hunter, and registered forest technologist – was charged with one count of possession of child porn in July 2016 after the social media platform Tumblr advised the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a user was uploading pornographic images to its site, according to court documents published on Tuesday.
The Vancouver Police Department was able to track the IP address of the uploaded photos to Paquette’s home, where local RCMP conducted a search warrant and found his iPhone 3GS in a cupboard. A desktop computer, iPad, laptop and second iPhone were seized as well.
Police ran two different software programs to unlock the contents of the seized technology. They found “several hundred” images and videos of child porn that were downloaded between November 2015 to July 2016. They also found a folder containing internet addresses with “child pornography‑related terms” on the iPhone 3GS, which was backed up to his laptop.
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Paquette, now aged 57 or 58, was found guilty in May 2017. He was sentenced to one year behind bars and ordered to be placed on the National Sex Offender Registry.
Earlier this month, he argued at the B.C. Court of Appeal that someone else could have downloaded the photos, even though his phone had a passcode lock, and that the trial judge, Justice Robert Punnett, didn’t adequately take this into consideration.
The photos were stored on an app called iZip, which is used to open .zip files. That app was downloaded using Paquette’s email address and password connected to his Apple Store ID, according to an expert Crown witness.
At the initial trial, Paquette’s ex-wife said she had used the phone when she travelled to Peru in January 2016, and that their young daughter used it to play games and watch movies before the trip. She denied ever having seen the child porn and said she did not downloaded it nor see her husband looking at it.
The court also heard that two Facebook users had attempted to log in to the app on Paquette’s phone.
“I find it highly improbable that a person would have the inclination and opportunity to download a large volume of child pornography onto a password‑protected iPhone which they did not own and likely would not have regular access to and to store that material in a manner in which it was readily accessible to the owner of that iPhone,” Punnett wrote in his decision.
He also determined Paquette must have known the iZip files existed, because the app was organized on his iPhone screen so that it was next to an app called BuckHunter, which was likely used frequently given Paquette’s interest in hunting.
On Nov. 12, Justice Barbara Fisher of the appeals court agreed with Punnett and rejected Paquette’s bid.
“In my view, the trial judge did not misapprehend the evidence, drew inferences of fact that were available to him on the evidence, and did not reverse the burden of proof,” Fisher wrote.
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Virginia Bluefin Record Broken….Twice
April 7, 2015 By InTheBite Editor
Ate Up’s 606 eclipsed the state record in just a few days
Virginia State Bluefin Tuna Record Broken…Twice
On April 2nd, Robert Smith got the right bite while bluefin tuna fishing on the Bella Donna, captained by David O’Halloran. Smith fought the big critter for five and a half hours on a Shimano Tiagra 80W after it nailed a ballyhoo skirted with a Joe Shute blue and white skirt. Back at the docks at the Virginia Beach Fishing Center, the tuna weighed 576 pounds and was good enough to break the existing state record.
Then on April 7th, Capt. Jake Hiles ran the Ate Up with crewmembers David Toombs, Phil Casone, Charles Dawson and Chase Robinson to some productive water. Late in the day Robinson had his shot at a big one, which the team fought for five hours before finally boating the fish. The following morning the tuna weighed 606 pounds, eclipsing the state record for the second time in just a few days.
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International DNA database drives genetics research
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Genetics researchers around the globe have access to a comprehensive record of all sequenced DNA, thanks to an international effort to share massive amounts of information between databases in Japan, the United States, and Europe.
The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) relies on high-bandwidth network connections to copy the genetic data between DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), operated by the National Institute of Genetics (NIG); the United States-based GenBank, provided by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information; and the European Nucleotide Archive, operated by the European Bio-informatics Institute in the United Kingdom.
Making data accessible to researchers worldwide
The combined database is accessible to genetics researchers around the world, who use it across many disciplines, including biology, medicine and agricultural sciences. The ability to access and share sequencing information helps them make life- and world-changing findings: from identifying disease-causing genetic variants, to producing disease-resistant plants and animals, to using the data as forensic evidence in criminal cases.
Within the INSDC, each piece of sequenced DNA is assigned a unique ID – which must be referred to in any academic publication – and is organised based on the location the sample was taken, and the part of the organism. This allows researchers to easily access, re-use and re-test the data, improving the accuracy and efficiency of their research.
Data bank and supercomputing facilities
The National Institute of Genetics is an inter-university research institute for all of Japan’s genetics advanced studies and education. In addition to the DNA Data Bank, it also offers supercomputing services to analyse genomic data using a next-generation sequencer. The NIG supercomputer is a key infrastructure supporting Japan’s DNA research. It has almost 2,500 registered researchers, who can access the combined International Nucleotide Sequence Database and upload their own sequencing information.
Osamu Ogasawara, Project Associate Professor at the DDBJ Center, explains how the international database came to fruition.
“Soon after the Sanger method of DNA sequencing had been developed (in 1977, which made sequencing much less labour intensive than it had been previously) it was expected that a considerable amount of sequenced data would be generated in the future. In response to this, there was increasing momentum to create an international database, which included our DNA Data Bank.”
Since the introduction of the Sanger method, dramatic and ongoing improvements in the performance of DNA sequencers have resulted in substantial increases in the amount of data that the Data Bank stores, shares and analyses.
Managing rapid data growth
Yasukazu Nakamura, a Professor at the Genome Informatics Laboratory, explains how the National Institute of Genetics keeps pace.
“The performance of our newest sequencer – called the Next-Generation Sequencer improves so rapidly. Sequence analytical speed is 1000-fold from 2005 through 2014, and its cost of sequencing an average human genome is precipitously down from $10million to $100 only several years after next-generation sequencers entered the market in 2005.
And as a result, the data volume which Data Banks handle increased explosively”.
“We rely on ever-more powerful network connections to copy increasing volumes of sequencing information to the other DNA banks that form the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration,” he says.
High performance network is key
Japan’s Data Bank is connected to SINET, the country’s high-speed research and academic network. Via its international connections, SINET provides the Bank with dedicated research connectivity on to Europe and the United States, for high-bandwidth connection on to the American and European databases.
“There is greater demand for access to the Data Bank from outside our organisation than from inside, which means that the network that connects the Data Bank to the rest of the world needs to demonstrate a very high level of performance and reliability,” explains Professor Nakamura.
“Thanks to our SINET connection, we provide a reliable connection that meets the needs of researchers, with average traffic flows of 3-4Gigabits per second.”
“As previously mentioned, there is no sign of a slow-down in the amount of data that is generated or in performance improvements in sequencers and computers. In future, we will need to make sure we are making the most of our network bandwidth and we have great expectations for the development of our SINET connection.”
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Spencer Pratt wants to be part of Charlie Sheen’s 'winning team'
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The former ‘Hills’ star has offered to work for the troubled ‘Two and a Half Men’ actor for free as his publicist after Charlie’s longtime representative Stan Rosenfield, quit on Monday following a series of explosive interviews Charlie gave blasting bosses on his TV show.
Mr. Rosenfield – who also works with George Clooney and Robert De Niro – said in a statement:"I have worked with Charlie Sheen for a long time and I care about him very much. However, at this time, I’m unable to work effectively as his publicist and have respectfully resigned."
After hearing the news, Spencer told TMZ: “I want to be Charlie Sheen's new publicist…. I am offering to be his media point man and that I have great contacts with media outlets and will work for free just to be part of his 'WINNING TEAM'."
Earlier today Charlie – who was recently rushed to hospital after a 36-hour drink and drugs party with a group of porn stars - ranted to E! Online that he was planning to sue ‘Two and a Half Men’ bosses for shutting down production on the show.
He said: "These fools are so predictable. I'm suing for front end and back end and want them to get out of my personal life. For eight years they were control freaks. Look at what a guy, me, delivers. I don't roll with amateurs. If you wanna stay up till Christmas partying, you've got to work."
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Some Interior bars are taking new COVID-19 rules in stride
September 9, 2020 [email protected]_84 bars, COVID19, interior, Rules, stride
It won’t be much of a challenge for Dakoda’s Sports Bar in Kelowna to adjust to new closing times imposed because of COVID-19.
The new rules say bars have to stop serving alcohol at 10 p.m. They also have to close by 11 p.m. unless they’re serving full meals.
“When the outbreak in Kelowna happened we reduced our hours,” bar manager Shauna Flynn told iNFOnews.ca.
That was in July following a number of parties where, ultimately, more than 170 people were infected with COVID-19.
While Dakoda’s does stay open until 11 p.m. on some nights, they already close at 9 or 10 p.m. on others.
A number of other Kelowna bars have cut hours so they’re open no later than 11 p.m. but the owner of one sports bar, who didn’t want his name or bar named, stays open until 1 a.m. some nights and said “it will be a challenge.”
While the late hours weren’t peak times, as one of the few late night bars it does mean a loss of business.
Also of concern is the new rule that music and TVs have to be turned down to the level of normal conversation so there won’t be as much yelling and spraying of possibly infectious droplets.
Flynn can’t predict how customers will react but did note that, even at 50 per cent capacity, the bar can seat 144 people with lots of room for safe distancing.
The new rules were imposed by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry after there were 429 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend.
While only nine of them were in the Interior Health region, Flynn doesn’t agree with the idea of different rules for different parts of the province.
“I think everybody should be doing their part so we can get this over and done with, so this won’t happen again,” she said. “This is a social responsibility on everybody. Once we do certain places with different rules, you’ve got to keep everybody out. That would mean nobody from Vancouver could come here.”
Nightclubs and banquet halls were ordered closed altogether.
READ MORE: Nightclubs and banquet halls ordered closed as B.C. health officials report 429 new COVID-19 cases
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10 Best Sites To Watch Movies Online Free In Full HD Quality
Are you checking out sites to observe Watch Movies Online Free fully HD quality? If your answer is Yes’ then you’re reading the proper article to urge your best streaming website to watch Movies Online and television shows and an end your searching.
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Here you have to face some annoying popup ads while Watching Movies Online and a few websites using malware to steal your data, so you want to need to protect yourself from these sorts of issues.
You can safely be using these websites and protect yourself easily. Here are some tips to following before accessing any Online free Movies streaming websites.
How To Safely FreeWatch Online Movies?
Tips for browsing any free streaming movies websites safely on the Internet
Install antivirus on your system/phone. Otherwise, you may use a VPN with a premium ad blocker to make protecting and ad-free environment.
Use VPN to dam all kinds of harmful activities like redirection to wrong sites, popups, Ads, and more dangerous things.
10 Best Sites to Watch Movies Online for free of charge In 2020
Now we were getting to the last word list of 10 best free online streaming websites to observe Movies & TV Series In High-Definition quality.
2. PutLocker
3. 123Movies
4. Amazon Prime
5. IMDb TV
6. Tubi TV
7. PopcornFlix
8. Fmovies
9. Vumoo
10. AFdah
YouTube is one of the considerable movies hosting websites. It gives you Free and Paid both choices to Watch Movies Online and television Shows.
Google started the movie section in 2011. Where you’ll watch movies on purchase and rent for a lifetime. If you don’t want to pay some co for watching movies, there’s cost also a free choice available.
Most of the free streaming Online Movies available here in HD quality,’ but you’ve got to face some ads while watching the movies, but you’ll skip it easily anytime, anywhere. All of the Free movies, TV Shows are tagged here as free with ads.
I think it’s the simplest one to Watch Movies Online and television Shows free with none annoying popups and risk. This video streaming website maybe your most suitable option.
Putlockers is a superb source to Watch Movies Online and television Series for free of charge. Putlocker website was pack up for a couple of months, but it’s again launched under the new name of PutLockers2.
The website is exceptionally almost like the older one, you’ll see one improvement within the website section which has issues earlier, but an honest streaming website to Watch Movies Online Free. You’ll find here every movie with quality HD.
But You have to face some ads here like other free streaming websites, but don’t ruin your watching experience. I even have already suggested you to use VPN and adblocker to go to this sort of latest movie streaming website.
This is another good website to stream movies with none signup. 123Movies is beat one site to observe Watch Movies Online and television Shows.
You can find almost all kinds of Movies like Thriller, Sci-Fi, Action, Fiction, Sports, Music, Biography and many more.
Apart from online movies, this website provides you free television program also. Overall, 123Movies is superb for watching free movies in HD quality.
Amazon Prime full-fill your every wishes you’re trying to find. It’s a paid streaming website, but you’ll Signup here for 30 days test period, which will be free. You’ll cancel it After completing your test period.
It has a really well-organized interface, and therefore the streaming quality is excellent and ads-free. Amazon prime has 100 million-plus registered Users worldwide.
It has thousands of TV shows and films to Watch Movies Online fully HD Quality without any ads like other paid streaming websites. Aside from Movies and Television Series, Amazon Prime also offers thousands of songs, albums and unlimited photo storage, deals, and same-day free delivery, and many more.
You can be watching Amazon prime Movies on any devices like phone, laptop, tablet, smart TV and set-top box, etc. Once you signup here, you’ll never need the other source to observe movies, TV Shows, and other entertaining movies.
IMDb TV is the top best streaming website to Watch Movies Online free. It’s impressive storyline summaries, reviews, catalog of Rating, and cast lists.
IMDb provides free services, that’s why the website is ad-supported, so you’ve got to face some ads while watching movies. There’s no choice to remove the ads and no option to skip the commercials. But this website ads don’t harm your computer.
But Now Only USA Members are often watching movies on IMDb TV. If you’re not from the USA, then you’ve got to use VPN to observe videos on IMDb TV from your region or Country.
The website features an affect many of the leading TV and Hollywood studios, Warner Bros, including MGM Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. It means’ unlike many more free movies and TV shows.
Some are famous TV shows on IMDb TV, including Colombo, Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Dallas, The A-Team, Midsomer Murders, and Alf.
It is very almost like Sony Crackle, and this Site also provides you to watch free TV shows and Watch Movies Online free regardless of which devices you’re using.
Tubi TV is available on Xbox One, Sony Smart TVs, Samsung Smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV, Android, iOS, Roku, Playstation 4, therefore, the web. Rather than free services, the location showing you some ads while watching movies or TV shows.
It has content quite 250 partners, including NBC Universal, which offers around 400 classic Titles like are Hercules; The legendary journeys, Xena: The A-Team, The cyborg, Punky Brewster, Transformers, warrior princess, etc. It’s also a trustworthy website to Watch Movies Online and television shows free in HD quality.
Popcorn Flix may be a trustworthy streaming website to Watch TV Shows, Movies Online, and Viral Vids. This website has three-section, TV shows, Movies, and, therefore, the Viral Vids, where you’ll find your choices, TV shows, and films easily.
You can access the varied genres through this menu: Action, Documentaries, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Dallas, The A-Team, old fashioned Cool, Family, Mystery.
The website provides you a unique featured in it is a video player that gives you create GiFs from the video. You’ll comment about the films after watching it in order that others can read what you’re saying about the Movie. Popcorn also allows you to video scrubbing, full-screen button, volume control, except for these features, you’ve to make a free account.
As a free streaming service provider, you’ve got to face here 15-20 second ads at the start of the Movie. But you don’t need to meet a slow loading problem. Confirm you’ve got an honest internet connection. Overall, PopcornFlix may be a great streaming website to Watch Movies Online free and television Show for free of charge.
It is another good site to Watch Movies Online and television Shows for free of charge, and therefore the interface is impressive. You’ll easily connect any devices like TVs, Mobiles, Tablets, Laptops, and Computers. You don’t require registration and downloading here to observe any TV Shows and movies.
Fmovies permits its users to seek out their favorite TV shows and films by using the search box. This website also offers you various filtering options to filter your option movies by genre quickly; Country, release date, name, Rating, run time, A to Z list. This website is additionally showing ads but not popups ads while you’re playing the videos.
The movies quality is HD CAM, HD 720, VOD & HD RIP. Each available Movie has quite three servers to observe movies and a few additional details about the TV shows and films, just like the Movie plot, IMDB rating, Released date, Rating, and therefore the quality, etc. Overall the Fmovies isn’t harmful to observe free movies and television shows online for free of charge.
Vumoo is another good website to stream movies and television shows in HD quality without downloading requirements and signup. This website is best than other free Movie streaming websites because it doesn’t confuse you by popups ads while streaming TV Shows and films. It’s an easy homepage with an enormous collection of flicks and television Shows online.
This website works sort of a video program. You’llsearch here. Movie you would like to observe, then the site gives you the download link through which you’ll watch your favorite TV shows and movies.
Here you receive two options to observe any Movies and Television Series. Just in case if you’ve got to face any problem with one, you’ll choose the second option.
Provides you the right alternative to seek out your choices, TV Shows and movies, just enter the movie name within the Search Bar box and hit the enter button, and you’ll get your relevant results.
Vumoo doesn’t provide you with different options to short Movies like genres, Country, released a year, and, therefore, the IMDB rating. But it gives you a neighborhood to observe trending and most viewed Movies or any TV shows.
I prefer this website to Watch Movies Online and television Shows.
It is also free streaming movie websites that provide you a vast verity of flicks. Here you’ll quickly find old and newly released movies.
Afdah movie’s website interface is spotless and secure. And therefore, the neatest thing isn’t ruined by popups ads. Yes, you don’t need to face annoying ads here while playing any videos. If you’re using an ads blocker, then you’ve got to disable it for this website to Watch Movies Online in HD Quality for free of charge.
You will also watch TV shows here, but the TV shows collection is restricted. It’s available on Android and iPhone iPad.
Last Words :
I have tried to list here trusted Free streaming websites to Watch movies online in 2020.
I hope you’ll like this post.
If you recognize any useful free movies website, please comment below, I’ll add your suggested Site.
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Orange courts small firms with new tariffs
By Staff Writers on Jun 1, 2007 2:46PM
Operator tackles the 'work-life blur'.
Orange UK is to shake up the traditional pricing models for small and medium businesses with three new tariffs designed specifically for sole traders and SMEs.
SMEs account for nearly half of UK employment, according to the Department of Trade and Industry, and Orange hopes to tap into this market with its Solo, Venture and Momentum packages.
Solo is aimed at sole traders and includes benefits such as Orange Care which replaces lost, stolen or faulty handsets within 24 hours and offers a choice of unlimited calls to landlines or unlimited texts.
The package also includes a promotional offer of free megabytes of data for business owners keen to explore the possibilities of mobile email and internet.
Venture is aimed at 'always-on' workers at small businesses, typically with fewer than 10 employees.
Momentum targets larger businesses and includes unlimited calls and texts between sharers to allow colleagues to communicate freely.
"We recognise that Britain's small and medium businesses are not a homogenous group, and we have developed a range of new tariffs to respond to their individual needs," said Martin Lyne, director of small business at Orange UK.
"Designed to span the work-life blur faced by many small business owners, we hope to offer a communications package that enables them to live life on their terms."
Orange said that it is planning to offer further products aimed at the small enterprise sector supported by a range of add-on 'work style' bundles later in the year.
The operator has also launched a new business advisory service in its major high street shops, as well as regional competitions in which winners receive £1,000 (A$2,387) worth of free advertising space.
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RIB invests in an MTWO MSP Partner in India and UAE
February 21, 2019 - Corporate News
Stuttgart, Germany, 21 February 2019. The RIB Group invests into a 250 people leading IT company headquartered in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Bangalore (India), called Levtech Ltd. (Levtech Consulting).
With 150 R&D employees in Bangalore, India’s IT headquarters, Levtech develops, maintains and supports the delivery of their own cloud industry solutions for the international Real Estate Industry (Property 365) and Construction Industry (Payroll and Projects 365) as well as asset management software for CAPEX owners (EAM 365) based on Microsoft Dynamics Technology. In addition to software sales and development, Levtech has 95 enterprise consultants to run international digital transformation projects in all English-speaking countries.
Levtech was founded by seven entrepreneurs (3 Investors / 4 Management) and serves today 19,000 USERS from 5 offices in India, Singapore, UAE, Qatar and KSA. The consulting firm is a three-time Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle awardee and was ranked 12th in the Dubai SME100 program.
RIB has taken over 60% of the shares from Levtech Investors, based on an enterprise value calculated using 8 times EBIT/DA. 40% Management shares will be still owned by the four previous Directors in India and UAE.
3,600 Levtech USERS are already using Cloud and partly MSP services. The company has reached over USD 11 Million revenue and is planning to grow the business within a double-digit margin in 2019.
Even with having invested heavily into the Cloud and switching from on-premise licenses to subscription-based, industry-specific offerings, Levtech reached a 15% average positive EBIT/DA margin p.a. in the past 3 years, not including Microsoft revenue.
Within the RIB & Levtech cooperation, it is planned to integrate Levtech’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 based industry solutions, Property 365, Payroll 365, Projects 365 and EAM 365 with the MTWO platform, and to integrate the modules into the iTWO 4.0 architecture as ready to go cloud ERP industry solutions for the Real Estate and Construction Industries. It is also planned to transfer thousands of Levtech USERS to the MTWO cloud platform and train the 95 Levtech consultants in iTWO 4.0 implementation to support international RIB clients. RIB plans to use the Bangalore R&D center as the third international RIB global R&D delivery and 24/7 support center for iTWO 4.0 with a special focus on U.S. and countries using British building standards and rules.
The target is to enter a high revenue growth phase, to win by 2019/2020 10,000 USERS for MTWO, to achieve a 20-30% EBIT/DA margin in the midterm, and to support the target to increase the regional MTWO USERS to over 200,000 in the midterm.
Anilesh Kumar, CEO of Levtech: “Levtech’s top management shares the vision of Microsoft and RIB to build with MTWO the global No.1 vertical cloud for the building and infrastructure industries. With strong capabilities in business applications and analytics, we are experts in digital transformation technology and consulting and have carefully analyzed the global market before we decided to join the MTWO platform initiative. The synergy between MTWO and Levtech’s industry solutions based on Dynamics 365 will bring the latest in construction and real estate technology to enterprises across the world. We are now proud to be “running together” with the RIB team and delivering one of the globally most advanced cloud/AI based enterprise ERP solution to the Real Estate and Construction Industries.”
Mark Kefford, Chairman of RIB Asia/Pacific: “MTWO is targeting to win 2 Million USERS worldwide in the midterm and is today one of the most advanced cloud-based enterprise solutions in the AEC and EPC Industry. With our Bangalore investment, we will not only get access to an extremely strong management and a fantastic new technology, but also, we get direct access to a market with 5 Million English speaking IT workforce to support the fast-growing demand for iTWO technology and to reach our target to satisfy up to 2 Million MTWO platform USERS in the future. With the UAE we will have a strong team in a region that intends to invest more than USD 1,2 Trillion in buildings and infrastructure in the near future. With our R&D Centers in Guangzhou, China and Bangalore, India, we are positioned in two countries which are standing for almost 40% of the world’s population.”
This investment follows RIB’s previous investments in ICS located in the U.S., A2K headquartered in Australia and SaaSplaza located in the Netherlands and continues the MTWO initiative with Microsoft following the capital increase in the first half of 2018 to build up the world’s first vertical cloud for the construction and real estate industries, which account for USD 10 trillion in global expenditure, or 14% of global GDP in 2017, and expected to grow to USD 14 trillion by 2025 according to a McKinsey Global Institute report.
About Levtech Consulting
Established in 2009, Levtech Consulting is a Microsoft gold-certified partner and has been previously awarded Microsoft “Reseller of the Year” for the MEA region. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, Levtech Consulting delivers best-of-breed business solutions and industry-specific consulting services from international technology companies such as Microsoft and LS Retail. Today, Levtech operates from offices in U.A.E., Singapore, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and India. Driven by a strong management team with diverse industry experience, the practice consists of some of the finest talent in the areas of Business Consulting and Project Management for Enterprise Applications. With a team size of over 250 consultants, the firm has helped over 200+ customers transform their business globally.
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Knox Chamber facing EEOC complaint over CEO's hiring
Victor Ashe
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Recently, it became public through Compass Knox that there is an EEOC complaint by Rhonda Rice Clayton against the Chamber of Commerce over its process for picking a new CEO to replace Mike Edwards. Clayton had applied for the CEO position, but Mike Odom from Texas was chosen. Clayton has been at the Chamber over 22 years.
She is represented by David Burkhalter, who is a recognized authority in employment law. Burkhalter successfully represented Steve King in winning back his job as city deputy engineering director after Mayor Madeline Rogero had abolished it. Burkhalter also represented Dee Anne Reynolds in her two lawsuits against the Metropolition Planning Commission and Knox County, in which she won a combined $1.4 million.
Burkhalter only takes on cases he considers substantive. He often prevails or the case is settled in his client's favor. What will happen here can only be speculated about as the content of the complaint is not yet public.
The complaint was filed first with EEOC, which has six months to act – late January or early February 2020. If EEOC decides not to act on it, then the plaintiff (Clayton) may sue in federal court, in which case it would become a public document.
Even then it is likely to go on into 2021 unless settled. There will be depositions and a potential trial. Meanwhile, Clayton continues working at the Chamber. The chamber will be represented by attorneys selected by its insurance carrier. The new CEO, Odom, is not responsible as he did not determine the selection process. This is not a nuisance lawsuit but as serious as a heart attack with an able attorney representing Clayton.
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Doug Bataille lands parks job in Florida
Former Knox County Parks and Recreation Director Doug Bataille now holds the parks and recreation director's job with St. John's County in Florida. St. Augustine, one of the oldest cities in America, is its largest city. Bataille was hired by former Knox County executive Dwight Kessel and worked for the county 24 years. Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs did not retain Bataille when he became mayor on Sept. 1, 2018.
St. John's County is governed by a five-member commission. It has 250,000 citizens. The county has 43 miles of beaches and 6.3 million tourists a year. Bataille supervises 80 employees. His salary exceeds what he made in Knox County.
When I spoke to him, Bataille seemed excited and energized with his new job.
Farragut's Andrew Davis, 24, who has worked in Nashville for the State Department of Revenue on legislative issues, resigned and started to work last week for U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett on his political staff, being paid from Burchett's campaign fund (not his congressional staff).
Democrats should rally behind Mackler for Senate
While media attention has been on Republicans Manny Sethi and Bill Hagerty for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Lamar Alexander next year, there is a viable Democrat running. He is James Mackler, Nashville attorney and an active member of the Tennessee Air National Guard, where he was a Blackhawk pilot.
Mackler, 47, ran for the U.S. Senate in 2018 until former Gov. Phil Bredesen entered the race and he withdrew to avoid a divisive Democratic primary. Mackler is married to Shana Goldstein, who is a rabbi at The Temple, Congregation Ohabai Sholom, in Nashville. They have two daughters. Rabbi Mackler was named one of America's 32 most inspiring rabbis in 2016 by Forward magazine.
In a future column, I will continue items from an interview I conducted with Mackler at Yassin's Falafel House in downtown Knoxville. Suffice it to say, he is intelligent and credible. Democrats have a statewide candidate they can promote and unify the party.
Mackler did voice support for open TVA board committee meetings, which is pending in bipartisan legislation from Burchett and Democrat Steve Cohen of Memphis.
City Council candidate Amy Midis ran second to Amelia Parker for Seat C. Parker consistently surprises people with the active grassroots support she has citywide. She has a message many find appealing. Midis will need to sharpen her game and become specific on issues if she expects to win Nov. 5.
Her support of Recode has not been a winner for her at the ballot box. Whether she will support a pause in Recode, as proposed by Mannis, to allow more review by those who are confused or even angered by its contents is unclear.
Sept. 9: Steve Queisser is 55. Businessman Pete DeBusk is 77. Jennifer Mirtes is 47. Kathy Hawes is 45.
Sept. 10: Judge Bill Ailor is 63. Jeff Talman is 62. Hadley Gamble is 38.
Sept. 11: Ramsey Cohen is 32. Artist Jim Gray is 61.
Sept. 12: Former Knoxville first lady Janet Testerman Crossley is 85. Council candidate, former councilman and MPC Commissioner Charlie Thomas is 65 (he would be the only member of council to speak both Spanish and English if elected). Madge Cleveland, who ran the mayor's office for many years, is 63.
Sept. 13: Charlie Bradshaw is 55. Former District Attorney General Randy Nichols is 71.
Sept. 14: Former sheriff’s deputy Lee Tramel is 55. UT Law Dean Melanie Wilson is 54. Criminal Court Clerk Mike Hammond is 67. State Rep. Jeremy Faison of Cosby, who just elected House GOP caucus chair, is 43. George Laurence-Krieps is 58. Former Democratic state Senate nominee Cheri Siler is 48.
Victor Ashe is a former Knoxville Mayor and former Ambassador to Poland. He is a columnist for Shopper News.
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Pirámide del Sol
Orchestration: solo pno – 3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – timp; 4 perc – cel; hp – str
Year composed: 2015
Commission: Mexican Endowment for the Arts and Culture with support of the EtM Con Edison Composers’ Residency, administered by Exploring the Metropolis in New York.
Premiere: September 11, 2015. Palacio de Bellas Artes; Mexico City, Mexico. National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico; Abdiel Vázquez, piano; Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor.
Awards: 2017 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award Honorable Mention
Teotihuacan, whose name means “city of the gods,” was the first great metropolis in America. Located in the Valley of Mexico, its pre-Columbian inhabitants believed that the Pyramid of the Sun, built in the heart of the city, was the matrix that gave birth to humanity. The inspiration for Pirámide del Sol (Pyramid of the Sun) came from envisioning that the layout of Teotihuacan is replicated when a piano concerto is performed, placing the solo instrument (pyramid) at the front of the stage and surrounding it by the orchestra (civilization).
The murals in Teotihuacan indicate that its citizens were the first to practice the “Juego de Pelota” (“Ballgame”), a ritual in which its players struck a ball with their hips to pass it beyond their opponent. The winner received the honor of being sacrificed as an “Ofrenda” (“Offering”) to the gods. The concerto is a musical portrait of this rite. The piano represents the Pyramid of the Sun that observes the ballgame, comments on it, and celebrates the victory and sacrifice of its winner with a “Danza Emplumada” (“Feather Dance”).
—Juan Pablo Contreras
October 17, 2019. Teatro Degollado. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico City. Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra; Enrique Radillo, conductor; Abdiel Vazquez, piano.
December 4, 2016. Teatro Degollado; Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra; Abdiel Vázquez, piano; Enrique Radillo, conductor.
November 20, 2015. Sala Simón Bolívar; Caracas, Venezuela. Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra; Abdiel Vázquez, piano; José Luis Hernández-Estrada, conductor.
September 11 & 13, 2015. Palacio de Bellas Artes; Mexico City, Mexico. National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico; Abdiel Vázquez, piano; Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor.
“Contreras’ Piano Concerto Pirámide del Sol will be known as one of the greatest works in the Mexican classical repertoire.”
Abidel Vázquez
“Pirámide del Sol, a piano concerto written for Vázquez, is a conversation between the orchestra, four percussionists, and the piano as protagonist.”
Alida Piñon
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Won`t Die
The humans won`t die quickly enough so that the enslavers can get through the next generation. The original 1908 model T Ford mass produced motor car from the Henry Ford manufacturing plant in Detroit, Michigan state, in the United States of America, was a petrol driven pedal and wheel controlled vehicle that demanded a great deal of attention from the driver that resulted in an individual sitting stilly as if paralyzed while the world travelled around him. The scenery travelled while the man sat in his seat and worked very hard with his feet, hands and brain. By the first decade of the 21st century the visual look of the motor car had improved. The analogous comparison is the Hollywood, Babylon, television series Star Trek (1966-69) in which the starships of the Federation of planets are depicted maintaining the peace of the known cosmos colonized by Earth devised by experts in visuals. When the series was revived as Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94) the visuals had improved. Although freedom is the slogan popularized by the United States of America with its female statue of `Liberty` in the harbor of New York city, treadmills were invented by the Americans for their slave plantations during the period of the Southern United States` usage of mainly black Africans as cotton picking labor for the clothing manufacturing industries. The treadmills in which sometimes thousands of people applied their feet to grind flour, for example, although the mechanism often did nothing productive, were used to inure slaves to drudgery. The Civil war (1861-65) was fought by the North against the South to manumit slaves, but the invention of the motor car to run along straight roads with directional indicators and traffic jams twenty miles long returned men to the age of the treadmill in slavery. Because improving how things look to others is what slavers are for, cars look better, although their mechanical operation by hands, as well as feet, makes of them an improved treadmill.
According to the Bible, God told Adam, the first man, he must labor, while Eve, the first woman, would experience labor pain, before Redemption. In Christian iconography Jesus` mother, the Virgin Mary, is depicted standing on the head of the serpent, because Jesus` birth uncontaminated by male semen is the victory of `woman`s seed`, which is what God told Eve would happen after Eve and Adam were expelled from the garden of Eden by God for accepting slavery in death from the serpent who gave them the `fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil`, saying `You shall be as gods.` (Gen: 3. 5) Expelled, because they rejected the `tree of life`, which was immortality, God told Eve, `You shall crush the head of the serpent with your foot, although he shall bruise your heel.` (Gen: 3. 15) Because Eve`s `foot` is woman`s futanarian `other` with her own penis` semen, the race of woman`s `seed` represented by Jesus` birth uncontaminated by male semen, and with that as his teaching, the race of futanarian women is to have Resurrection and Ascension to heaven on the strength of their own sexually reproduced brains` powers for labor saving technologies to escape the enslaving drudgery of male braining and so crush the head of the serpent beneath her futanarian foot. Jesus` death in occupied Jewish Palestine, as a `dissident` betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, after his being nailed onto a cross of wood upon the hill of Calvary by the Roman Empire, occurred because the Jewish Messiah represented a threat to war and the Empire of the male brain, while Jesus` subsequent Resurrection and Ascension to heaven prefigures the Resurrection and Ascension of `woman`s seed` to the stars and planets of colonial heaven depicted by the United States in their various television Star Trek series and Hollywood, Babylon, movie franchise, beginning with Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Although men had removed the woman`s penis and so spoiled the visuals permanently, the uniforms of the crew of the Starship Enterprise improved, because there weren`t any unsightly women`s human erections bursting at the seam as they bustled about the corridors and on the bridge in their short skirts and curvaceous body suits. Mass media depictions of the Star Trek women in bikinis and appearing scantily clad to boost print sales of magazines belied the existence of the human penis. The `Hays code` devised by Will Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which made it taboo for a woman`s `foot` to be raised from the floor of the bedroom in romantic scenes during movies, meant it became impossible for women`s `seed` to be popularized through knowledge of the futanarian human penis` existence and so women`s enslavement continued in ineducable male brained ignorance:
`Mystery, Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of the abominations of the Earth.` (Rev: 17. 5)
Although women seem to have improved their looks during the 20th century, men`s implementing a design flaw in the human model began as early as Eden when the human species` penis of women`s futanarian `seed` upon the Earth began to be devoured by the male brainer. By the early 21st century, `woman`s seed` had almost disappeared, `The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.` (Rev: 12. 4) Although Jesus is depicted as the child, who will `rule the nations with an iron scepter`, (Rev: 12. 5) the child he`s ruling for is the little girl of the mother, who is the futanarian daughter of the human species with her own penis` semen for the sexual reproduction of her own brains` powers, which will crush the brains of the serpent beneath her futanarian foot as it starts to run its race to escape from men`s host womb slavery into freedom:
`One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.`1
North American Space Administration (NASA) Apollo 11 astronaut, Neil Armstrong, was the first man to put his foot on the moon during the Apollo space program, but women`s futanarian foot wasn`t there because Hollywood, Babylon, had made it impossible for women`s foot to be seen and so raised from the floor of the bedroom. Although Jesus called himself `the son of man`, he was crucified after fulfilling his role as human host at the `Last Supper` for his disciples, where he gave `bread and wine` as symbols of his `body and blood`, because Judas Iscariot, his disciple, betrayed the human host of `woman`s seed` by labeling Jesus as `dissident` and giving him over to the Roman Empire for execution as an enemy of Empire and male braining, which Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong represents also. On March 23, 1983, US President Ronald `Ray Gun` Reagan inaugurated the `Strategic Defense Initiative` (SDI), which was known as `Star Wars` after another science fiction movie franchise that began with Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and featured actress Carrier Fisher as Princess Leia, leader of the Federation against the evil Empire`s henchman, Darth Vader. Reagan was Vader insofar as his plan was to implement a global `ground and space based missile system` that effectively required permission from the President of the United States for anyone who wanted to leave and so `Star Wars` effectively imprisoned women`s futanarian `seed` of humanity upon the Earth where it could more easily be exterminated.
Although looks were improved from Star Trek (1966-69), through Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94), and on into the 21st century, with Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-5), a prequel, there was a dark side emerging that made its presence felt with the twelfth movie in the franchise, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), because there weren`t any women in the picture. Human sexual relations would interfere with the look of the thing, which looks like visual improvement but is actually a visual impairing of the male viewer living in uneducated ignorance like an animal as the evil Empire of the alien prepares him to die in its racist war against the Earth`s species. Captain James T. Kirk is rejuvenated in a scenario that amounts to drinking the blood of his enemy, Khan, who`s crashed the Starship Vengeance into San Francisco, symbolically, and the male brain goes careering on into extinction as a virus that inveigled itself into the host wombs of the human species of futanarian woman eons ago and now emerges to war upon its host and kill her because that`s what parasites are for:
`Men cursed the God of heaven for their pains and their sores but refused to repent of what they had done.` (Rev: 16. 11)
By the late 20th century men`s rejection of immortality in favor of slavery for women in ephemerality in death had resulted in their mixing blood, shit and semen in each others` anuses and spreading the incurable killer disease, HIV/AIDS, in what amounted to their `biological warfare` against `woman`s seed` in order to keep her in fearful faithfulness to ring slavery in monogamy. Men`s institutionalization of homosexuality in pederasty and war began in Western Europe with the Greek model of democracy in which women were host womb slaves for the Greeks` wars against city states like Troy, where they deployed a huge hollow wooden horse, according to the poet Homer in his Iliad (760-10 B.C.), which the Trojans took into Troy and the Greeks emerged to enslave the host wombs of the women for homosexuality in pederasty and war and spread their virus further. By the late 20th century, the Greeks` successors, the geeks, had developed `bad machine code` based on the HIV/AIDS` virus to infect and kill computer brains so that women`s memories would be as short as their lives. What men had done was enslave the host wombs of women in parasitism for the spread of homosexuality in pederasty amid conventional and biological war designed to eradicate the human species from the Earth.
Although Greek democracy was held as the zenith of Western civilization`s achievement, the absence of futanarian `woman`s seed` doesn`t simply mean that women have to fight for suffrage in dictatorships, but that there aren`t any women to vote even if they`re vouchsafed the franchise. Christianity boasts Western democratic freedom as its mainstay but only in the nations of Islam amongst the Moslems is the marital basis for sexual reproduction between women found in the four wived marriages of Islam that derive from Sara`s ancient biblical decision to give her maid, Hajer, to Abraham, when Sara was barren after the birth of her son, Isaac, who founded Judaism. Hajer gave birth to Ishmael, who was of the lineage of the founder of Islam, the Prophet Mohamed, and which celebrates the fourfold marriage of woman each year with a pilgrimage bearing the name of Hajer, the Haj, to the temple of Abraham in Saudi Arabia`s city of Mecca. Before Jesus` death the Messiah said that a spirit would teach after him, and the Prophet Mohamed received the Koran (610-30 C.E.), which is the holy book of Islam, divinely inspired, and containing the stories of Abraham and Jesus, over six hundred years after Jesus` Resurrection and Ascension to heaven. When Al Qaeda, the Afghanistan terrorist group, `the base`, with support from the Moslem misogynist Taliban regime there, hijacked civil airliners and crashed them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York city on September 11, 2001, and Saddam Hussein, dictator of Iraq, whose summer palace overlooked the ancient city of Babylon, declared his support for the terrorists, it looked as if Christianity would be triumphant as the United States of America quickly removed the Taliban government in the capital city, Kabul, and in March 2003 invaded Iraq to subsequently depose Saddam who was executed on December 30, 2006. The `Arab Spring` of 2011, which saw the fall of North African dictators, Ben Ali pf Tunisia, Mubarak of Egypt, and Gadaffi of Libya, represented the chimera of democracy in male braining, while the rise of the Independent State of Iraq and Syria meant the refusal of Moslem women to accept dictatorship of the male brain either in the style of Western democracy or by rule of male autocracy. During the Bosnian war (1992-95) as Eastern European nations were incorporated into the European Union, Serb Christians set up `rape camps` in Bosnia to male brain a generation of Moslem women which was condemned as immoral by Christianity but without any understanding at all or indeed an attempt to educate the people of Europe through the mass media as to why it was immoral, which was criminally immoral on the part of the Christian clergy preaching from the Bible and using the words of Jesus Christ, born uncontaminated by male semen from his mother, the Virgin Mary, to justify homosexuality in pederasty:
`Love your neighbor as you love yourself.` (Mk: 12. 31)
Humans are made for loving each other, men aren`t, and men`s socio-economic history of slavery is a witness. Although Judeo-Christianity seems antithetical to Islam, because the Jews are the `chosen people` of the Bible comprised of the Torah and Talmud, that is, the law and history of the Jews, as well as the story of Jesus, which is the New Testament based on Jesus` teaching, the fact that it isn`t possible to be born a Jew unless from a woman means that the Jews are women and that the Christian German National Socialist Party`s pogrom against the Jews during the German Empire`s attempt to enslave Europe and the world in the 1939-45 war, was an attempt to exterminate women`s futanarian `seed` of humanity. Consequently, Jesus` role as `woman`s seed` born uncontaminated by male semen from his mother, the Virgin Mary, and that of the Prophet Mohamed, whose Koran is the basis for the four wives permissible within Moslem marriages affording the sexual reproduction of humans through the `seed` of futanarian women, represent a unified religious belief system rather than division, which is what the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre sought. Because homosexuality in pederasty and war seeks the extinction of the human race, and `world trade` is a euphemism for `rough trade`, that is, `brutality and violence`2 between men engaged in homosexuality in pederasty, Al Qaeda sought to suppress knowledge of the supposedly transsexual and transvestite community of New York city`s `Big Apple` by provoking global conflict and terror designed to foster the Empire of the male brain in war, while suppressing the knowledge of futanarian women and their `seed` for the sexual reproduction of their own brains` powers for liberation through labor saving technologies and regenerating medical science. If the human race of women is extinguished through war economy, there isn`t human resource to be devoted to labor saving and health care, so the human species of women can`t escape host womb slavery in parasitism for death in war. Consequently, Islam and Moslem women`s fourfold marriage affording futanarian sexual reproduction, privately within the family between women, represents an 80% to 20% societal split based on women`s capacity to sexually reproduce against men`s that would make Islamic democracy 4/1 in favor of women and so inaugurate the era of women`s democratic rule, which is why Western democracy is a sham and dictatorship is almost the rule in Moslem nations. Men`s socio-economic booster is the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) which functions like a psychological complex insofar as, rather than turn to labor saving and healthcare as a means of socio-economic well-being for their populations, governments turn to slavery and the MIC as a means of ensuring a quick death to the latest generation while they prepare the next for the same fate. Women`s futanarian socio-economy isn`t based on invasion through penetration by an alien seeking to possess her species` host womb and steal her penis` semen to foist devouring war upon the host race, although it`s likely that a single human futanarian species of woman with her own penis` semen watching Star Trek would be delighted to see her race sexually enjoying themselves without being supervised by the aliens` navy.
While the visuals improve for Star Trek Beyond (2016) and Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), it`s only window dressing for `business as usual` in the slave economies of the Earth as the parasite continues to gestate itself in the host wombs of the human futanarian race of women before emerging as her devourer in death in life devoted to war against her species of woman. In Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) `Amok Time`. actress Arlene Martel was the Vulcan, T`Pring, with the pointed ears, while actress Susan Oliver was green-skinned Veena in `The Cage` on the planet, Talos, and actress, Marina Sirtis, was Deanna Troi, the Betazoid telepath and starship Enterprise therapist during the Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94) series, but despite wearing everything but a red nose and clown`s boots there`s still no sign of the alien woman`s penis, or her daughters`, because men wouldn`t be able to see her enjoying sex without wanting to exterminate her. Marching swiftly along the corridors ignoring the penis of the race of the human species of futanarian woman that they`ve stolen as her alien parasite eons ago in order to wage war against her species to extinction is what the Confederacy of the men of the Southern United States were for.
1 Armstrong, Neil July 21, 1969, UTC: 2. 56.
2 `Violent, often brutal sex acts,` or `a person, especially a male prostitute, who engages in or appears likely to engage in such acts,` https://www.thefreedictionary.com/rough+trade .
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Everything you need to know about the Future of Work
5 reasons why you must attend Asia’s largest HR Tech conference: TechHR Singapore 2019
The world of work is moving at a fast pace with rapid innovation disrupting and challenging business models almost every day and at the heart of this continuous development lie the two key elements that drive transformation- ‘talent and technology’.
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To help the leaders design the future of work and lead the business of tomorrow, People Matters brings together a plethora of professionals from across the globe on one platform at Asia’s largest HR Tech conference, TechHR Singapore 2019 on 28th February 2019 at Marina Bay Sands.
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People Matters TechHR Singapore 2019 will be a platform for professionals across industries and regions to come together and learn from each other and the experts. Some of the world’s most influential technology leaders like Rudy Karsan, HR tech entrepreneur turned investor and Brian Sommer, Founder, TechVentive and global thought leaders like Dr. Robert Hogan, President & Founder at Hogan Assessment and Jason Averbook, Co-founder and CEO, among others will be at the conference. Asian HR leaders like Aileen Tan, Group CHRO, Singtel; Kulshaan Singh, Chief People Officer, Charoen Pokphand Group; Elaine Lin, VP HR, APAC, Baxter and Merianna Lok, SVP, Regional Head - HR, APAC, MetLife Asia, among others will also join and brainstorm ways of solving the most pertinent talent challenges.
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Through exclusive small group sessions on topics like CHRO's Digital Roadmap Guide and Building Digital Workforce Experience will be hosted by some of the big-time speakers, influencers, analysts and HR technology experts. These masterclasses will provide solutions to some of the pressing talent challenges and give attendees an opportunity to learn from the experts in the space. However, these masterclasses have limited seating capacity and hence requires pre-registration. Click here to see all Masterclasses in the agenda and register fast.
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New Zealand: The South Island with Mt Cook, Milford Sound, Abel Tasman, Queenstown, Christchurch
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The South Island of New Zealand has mountains, lakes, and glaciers. The world-renowned Mt Cook is in the South Island. Also the Fiordland National Park with Milford Sound. Abel Tasman National Park is the most beautiful marine park in New Zealand. Queenstown is the destination for adventure sports and skiing. Queenstown, set against the dramatic Southern Alps, offers the most spectacular landscapes.
Crossing the Cook Strait from Wellington to Picton
Wellington is a fantastic city with a breathtaking bay. However, after two nights in Wellington, we were ready to move on to the South Island. So, we got on the early Bluebridge ferry and we had luck with the weather. The crossing is one of the highlights of New Zealand road trips and it lasts about 3 1/2 hours between the North and South Islands. We crossed over Cook Strait finishing in Picton.
The Cook Strait
Nelson, the oldest city in the South Island
From Picton, we drove to the town of Nelson which is facing the Tasman Bay. However, our Airbnb was in Richmond, a small town less than 10 minutes’ drive from the center of Nelson.
Lara at Abel Tasman National Park
The area of Nelson is a very popular base for nearby caving sites, vineyards and Abel Tasman National Park. As a result, nature is at its best in the region of Nelson and there are plenty of activities to do and many playgrounds for children. We also had the best Fish and Chips of New Zealand at The Sands, just in front of the beach.
After two days in Nelson, it was now time for New Zealand’s most famous glacier: Franz Josef Glacier. We started by heavy rain but we ended up by beautiful sunshine once we reached Punakaiki Pancake Rocks.
Punakaiki Pancake Rocks, Blowholes, New Zealand
Time for lunch and for some pictures with a few MacLarens meeting up at a local restaurant. Unfortunately, we met one of those beautiful cars later on in Queensland totally destroyed in a car accident. The drive to Franz Josef Glacier was full of breathtaking views. We stopped many times to take pictures and we were awestruck with the different lovely hues.
The road in front of the Franz Josef Glacier
We arrived before sunset and was able to see from a distance the Franz Josef Glacier and the Fox Glacier. I was not into it yet, especially going up hiking, that must be tiring for Mom and Dad to carry me. There are not so many Airbnb near the glaciers, so our only choice was the Rainforest Motel Fox Glacier. Hotels are much more expensive than Airbnb in New Zealand and you would probably have to break the bank if you chose that option. However, despite the price, we can recommend this Motel.
The Franz Josef Glacier
The beautiful road to Queenstown
The next day with limited time and with me, just a little baby, we had a look at the great glaciers again and we decided to have a nice walk at Lake Matheson where we met other families with other babies and could play together.
Lara at Lake Matheson
Having still a long drive till our next destination, we took our car and left these beautiful mountains. To reach Queenstown coming from Franz Josef you have to drive thru the Haast Pass and its spectacular roads. Before reaching our destination, we stopped for dinner in Wanaka at a Turkish kebab opposite the lake. It is a very beautiful and peaceful town but we had no time for a visit. We drove from Wanaka to Queenstown thru a spectacular winding road while the sun was setting on the horizon.
Nature at its best in New Zealand
Stunning Queenstown
We arrived late at our Airbnb. It was an independent small flat with a beautiful garden in front where I even played with our hosts’ kids. We surely recommend Sarah’s place:
Visto su AirbnbMaster suite, private entrance,close to ski fields
Queenstown is the jewel of New Zealand and we could not find anything that was not beautiful. The landscape is unique, everything is kept at its best, the environment is protected and the food is good, especially the meat that in New Zealand is mouth-watering. We spent 4 nights in Queenstown.
The perfect city of Queenstown
All the beauty around Queenstown
We also visited nearby places so beautiful themselves but because they are so close to the Queen of the Towns they do not find much recognition on travel maps. Glenorchy, for example, is such a quaint and amazing little town with a wonderful lake that we fell in love with this place. Arrowtown is a small village just a short drive from Queenstown and it has a pretty town center with beautiful streets and elegant cafés and shops.
The incredible nature of New Zealand. Lara at Glenorchy.
Despite being a bit far, we used Queenstown as our base for the Milford Sound. It was almost a four-hour drive but you can never get bored of it. In fact, the road to Milford Sound is one of the most spectacular in New Zealand.
Driving to Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park.
We booked the boat tour online and we had the cheapest offer with Go Orange Cruises. I do not think that there is a big difference with other tours since they all go the same routes and they could even cost more than double. The fjords are impressive and inhabited by sea lions, otters, and other beautiful creatures.
Our Tour of Milford Sound
Visiting Te Anau
After our tour, considering the long drive, we hit the road again but we stopped for dinner at Te Anau. We enjoyed the food that tasted yummy because we were all so hungry from the morning breakfast and the little snacks onboard the boat. As a matter of fact, we could have stayed one night in Te Anau but because it is still almost two hours from the Sound we thought that staying the all the time in one wonderful place was the best option for us and indeed it was.
When looking into your mirror in New Zealand
Lake Pukaki
Our last stop on this wonderful journey was Christchurch and, for that reason, we left Queenstown early on a serene December morning. The drive maybe is long but, as everywhere else in New Zealand, However, it does not feel tiring, for the beauty of this country is beyond any traveler’s expectations. It was midday when we reached Lake Pukaki and the scene in front of our eyes was unforgettable. We had the best view of Mt Cook at the lookout at the Information Center after the turnoff coming from Twizel.
Mount Cook at Lake Pukaki, New Zealand
We moved on again on the way to Christchurch and just 40 minutes later we reached Lake Tekapo, another great spot of New Zealand. We had a nice lunch at the Reflections Café and Restaurant, overlooking the lake. Besides, Lake Tekapo is picturesque by day and dazzling by night. In fact, it is a UNESCO Dark Sky Reserve, making it the perfect spot for stargazing.
The beautiful colors of the Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo
The lake has a remarkable turquoise colored water and faces the mountainous drama of the Southern Alps. Lake Tekapo gets its intense milky-turquoise color from the fine rock-flour suspended in the water. Even more, it was the season for the blooming lupins which was all over the river bank with pink and purple hues that makes the place more astounding.
Colors of Lake Tekapo
Finally in Christchurch
We would have stayed longer but we had to get to Christchurch and we made it before dark. Besides, we had the chance to visit the second city of New Zealand and what we saw was really sad. The powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake of 2016 that rattled the city was still very much visible. After spending the night in our Airbnb, we headed to the airport, left the car and took our plane back to Auckland.
After the earthquake in Christchurch
Auckland, back to the start
In Auckland, I was feeling sick and I had a slight fever, so we could not see what we had planned to do. However, we still managed a short walk in the lively-by-day city center. In fact, we had a relaxing last day in New Zealand. Unfortunately, all great things come to an end, so it was time to fly home on the other side of the world.
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More photos of the South Island…
The breathtaking colors of Lake Pukaki
Lara at Lake Pukaki
The bridge to the Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo
Lara and Mom at Lake Pukaki
Dad and our little car at Lake Pukaki
Colors of New Zealand
Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo
The Homer Tunnel going to Milford Sound
Sea lions at Milford Sound
Powerful waterfalls at Milford Sound
Lara in a cookie shop
Lara at the ice Bar in Queenstown
Paradise at Glenorchy, South Island
Lara and Mom on the way to Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park.
The Beach of Queenstown
Lara and Dad in amazing Glenorchy
Lake Wakatipu, South Island
Lara and Dad at Glenorchy
Glenorchy, New Zealand
Downtown Queenstown
City life in Queenstown
Walking around Lake Matheson
Stop on the way to the Hasst Pass
Somewhere near the Hasst Pass
Road going to the Hasst Pass
Mount Cook on the way to the Hasst Pass
In front of our hotel at Franz Josef Glacier
Going to Queenstown
Around Lake Matheson
Around Franz Josef Glacier
The road to Franz Josef Glacier
Tahunanui Beach, Nelson, New Zealand
Punakaiki Pancake Rocks, Blowholes
Mom at Mapua Wharf
Mapua Wharf
Playground at Tahunanui Beach, Nelson, New Zealand
Lara fishing at Mapua Wharf
Lara at Punakaiki Pancake Rocks, Blowholes
Fish and chips at The Sands in Nelson, New Zealand
Lara and Dad at Mapua Wharf
Abel Tasman National Park
The Bluebridge Ferry crossing the Cook Strait
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Sicily Essentials
How Many Days Should You Spend in Sicily?
Sicily can be experienced in as little as 3 to 5 days if you are short on time and interested in a quick coastal retreat. However, it’s much better to spend at least a week discovering this Mediterranean paradise. If you have 7 days you can explore a meaningful section of the island. Lucky travelers who have 14 days for their trip to Sicily can comfortably drive around Italy's entire coastline, experiencing the island's colorful clash of amazing flavors, ancient ruins, medieval villages, beaches and volcanoes.
7 Days in Sicily - 3 Unique Self-Drive Itineraries
If you have a week in Sicily, it’s best to focus on one or two regions as opposed to trying to see everything. There's the wine country of the west, the medieval villages of the southeast and the giant Etna volcano in between. The following 7-day itineraries offer some of these attractions, plus incredible food, dramatic coastal views and a history and culture that stretches to time immemorial.
3 Days in Sicily - 2 Coastal Itinerary Ideas
With three days you can encounter a slice of Sicily and its wonderful coastlines, culture and ancient ruins. We have brought together two itineraries that show off these highlights and more. One trip starts from the bustling city of Palermo and continues to the scenic wineries of western Sicily. The other takes you to the younger Catania, located in the shadow of Mt. Etna and close to quaint seaside resorts. Both itineraries will introduce you to Sicily's culture of wine, food and music that together create an unforgettable experience.
Sicily in Every Season: Best Time to Visit Sicily
Sicily's iconic beaches, historic palaces and cathedrals are best visited from May to June or September to October, when temperatures hover around 70ºF (21ºC). While the weather is ideal during these periods, be prepared for larger crowds and higher prices. Prices for accommodation drop and the tourist crowds thin out at other times of the year, making off-season travel a good option. Travel in November and December is highly recommended for these reasons.
Sicily in January: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
Sicily's first month of the year is also its wettest. But with the rainy weather comes the start of Carnival season, fewer crowds, and lower costs than other times of the year. This is also one of the best winter months to do a little skiing on the slopes of Mount Etna.
Sicily in February: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
February is the tail end of Sicily's short winter, offering snowy adventures on the island's highest peaks, blossoming almond trees in the south, and massive festivals—as well as fewer tourists and lower prices. A predominantly Catholic region, Sicily gets into festive spirits around Lent and Carnivale, kicking off the coming of spring with Mardi Gras celebrations across the country. Find out what to do and where to go with this February guide.
Sicily in March: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
Spring has sprung along the coast, while there's still snow in the mountains and on Mount Etna, perfect for travelers looking to do it all. Tourist numbers are low and prices for accommodation and flights remain attractive, making this an ideal time to see uncrowded popular attractions or head outdoors to hike, bike, and get in some skiing.
Sicily in April: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
The Italian island is green, lush, and dotted with blooming wildflowers and citrus fruit—with the entire country coming out for Easter festivities. Take advantage of the fewer crowds and cheaper airfare during this shoulder season month and get yourself outdoors to experience all that Sicily has to offer. Read this monthly guide for more.
Sicily in May: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
May is undoubtedly one of the best times to get outdoors and explore Sicily. The weather is consistently pleasant, the crowds aren't yet at their peak, and there are a number of fun and tasty festivals to experience, granting you an all-access pass to the Italian island. Find out what to do and where to go with this May guide.
Sicily in June: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
Sicily begins to heat up in June; the weather is beach-perfect drawing holidaymakers to the coastline and popular cultural attractions. And though you'll have to contend with the crowds, there are plenty of destinations to choose from in which to craft your perfect island holiday. Read this monthly guide to learn more.
Sicily in July: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
Without a doubt, July is Sicily's most popular time for travelers. The weather is hot and sunny, the Mediterranean is warm and inviting, and there are a host of fun and lively cultural and musical events that take place throughout the month and all over the island. Read on for more tips on where to go and what to expect in Sicily this month.
Sicily in August: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
August is the last full month of Sicily's lively (and pricy) high season. The weather is sunny and hot, perfect for beach days and all things watersport related, though you'll have to contend with the hordes of foreign and local tourists. Don't let that deter you though, as this guide will tell you what to do and where to go.
Sicily in September: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
September is a fantastic month to experience Sicily as the summer weather continues and the crowds start to thin. There are endless options to take advantage of, from outdoor activities and cultural events to wine-and-food festivals, though if you're in search of a bargain you'll want to look toward the end of the month. Read on to learn more about visiting the Italian island in September.
Sicily in October: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
October is an ideal time of year to visit Sicily and explore its popular attractions without the crowds. Plus, the weather is pleasant enough to entice beachgoers and harvest festivals are plenty. Let this monthly guide help you find the best places to visit and things to do.
Sicily in November: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
While the weather is a little rainier than the rest of the year, November remains an excellent month for urban and cultural exploration as well as a possible beach day. November also ushers in wine season with St. Martin's Day kicking off a host of festivals celebrating seasonal fare and of course, wine. Let this monthly guide help you find the best places to visit and things to do.
Sicily in December: Travel Tips, Weather, and More
December welcomes Christmas and New Year visitors looking to spend the holidays in Sicily's festive towns and cities. An excellent month to peruse Christmas markets, feast on local Sicilian delicacies, and explore ancient Greek and Roman ruins with next to no crowds.
6 Unique Experiences in Sicily: Food, Nature, and History Beyond the Highlights
Like the proverbial iceberg, the bulk of Sicily's allure and natural beauty exist just beneath the surface. Beyond the major tourist sites, there are lesser-visited offshore islands, remote coastline with secluded beaches, and delicious street food found in cobbled alleyways. It's on excursions like these that you'll get to the true heart of Sicily.
Ultimate Guide to Sicily: Palermo, Syracuse, Mount Etna, & Beyond
Sicily is a cultural melting pot. Greek and Roman ruins, hilltop fortress towns, and Arab and Norman palaces are a testament to the island's legacy of foreign conquest. You'll get a vivid sense of this history as you drive Sicily's coastal roads, travel over its inland mountain ranges, sample its delectable cuisine, and stroll the cobbled streets of its historic cities—and this guide will help you make the most out of all of it.
Sicily Itineraries
Spectacular Self-Drive Tour Around Sicily - 14 Days
Experience Sicily in all its glory by driving around the island in 2 weeks. Highlights of this tour include Palermo, a cultural melting pot with stunning monuments and vibrant local markets and Taormina, the elegant village famous for its Greek theater and the postcard views. You'll also visit Syracuse and Agrigento, with their archaeological masterpieces, and hike Mt. Etna—Europe's most active volcano.
Road Trip Around the Scenic Sicilian Coast - 15 Days
An island as beautiful and historically rich as Sicily deserves to be experienced at a leisurely pace. This 15-day itinerary features beaches and cathedrals, fishing villages and urban markets, a volcano and ancient archeological sites. Take your time as you circumnavigate this stunning region of Italy.
Sicily Highlights Tour - 7 Days
Explore the highlights of Sicily beginning in its capital of Palermo. In this cultural melting pot, the aromas of exotic spices carry from backstreet markets to cobbled throughways lined with Arab-Norman buildings. Then it's off to the Baroque gem of Catania, where en route you'll stop at Greco-Roman ruins and medieval fortress towns guarding long stretches of postcard beaches.
Discover Sicily's East Coast: Picturesque and Stunning Sicily - 8 Days
Many of Sicily's highlights — volcanoes, ancient ruins, beautiful beaches and great cuisine — are found along the region's east coast. This 8-day tour will guide you through these stunning coastal towns at a comfortable pace and set you up at comfortable boutique hotels each night. You'll visit the natural wonders of Mt. Etna and Ciclopi Riviera, as well as enjoy some of the more refined aspects of Sicily, such as its great wine!
Sicily's West Coast in 7 Days: Fishing Villages, Wineries & Archaeology
This tour of Sicily starts in the island's largest city, colorful and vibrant Palermo, before continuing to the country for scenic drives and island hopping. Boat rides, visits to wineries, walks along cobblestone streets and exploration of archaeological sites are just a few of the bucket list items you can tick off on this Sicilian adventure.
Best of Sicily: Palermo, Syracuse, Taormina, & Catania - 14 Days
If you have two weeks and a thirst for Sicilian sunshine, delicious street food, and fascinating culture, then this is the trip for you. Spend four days exploring Palermo's diverse history, shopping at bustling markets, and relaxing on sunny beaches. Visit Syracuse—home city of mathematician Archimedes—and explore the Old Town of Ortygia, then head to Taormina to hike Mount Etna and catch a performance at the ancient Greek Theater. End your trip with a street food tour and sunny views of the Ionian Sea in Catania.
7 Days in Sicily: Mount Etna, the Ionian Coast, and Cefalú
This region of Sicily is perhaps the most popular part of the Mediterranean's most iconic island — and for good reason. Europe's largest volcano, ancient archeological sites, shimmering turquoise waters, and easy to navigate resort towns are all reasons travelers flock to this region of the island in droves each year. Step slightly off the beaten path, however, and it is still possible to catch a glimpse of the Ionian coast's beauty, history, and culture.
Explore the best of Sicily on this 15-day itinerary, from Palermo's famous food scene to the Greek theater in Taormina. Visit Syracuse, the birthplace of Archimedes, to see the 2700-year-old town of Ortygia and sunny Arenella Beach. Spend four days enjoying nature and the arts in Taormina, then head to Catania, where filming sites from the Godfather trilogy, delicious street food, and bustling fish markets await.
Best of Sicily: Palermo, Taormina, Catania - 12 Days
A favorite with bikers and hikers, Sicily's hilly landscapes are also perfect for travelers who want big views, diverse cultures, and sunny weather. Explore all this and more on this packed 12-day itinerary, which starts in the food capital of Palermo. Tour medieval churches and relax on sunny beaches, then head to Taormina to dive into the arts and theater scene. Explore Mount Etna and the local winemaking culture, then end your trip in Catania, where churches, street food, and views of the Ionian Sea create the perfect Mediterranean atmosphere.
Best of Sicily: Palermo, Taormina, Catania - 8 Days
Discover what drew ancient and modern people to strategically-located Sicily on this 8-day tour. Start in Palermo to explore its colorful history and exceptional food scene. See the 12th-century Norman Cattedrale, shop for lunch at the busy Vucciria street market, and soak in the Mediterranean sunshine on the Mondello Beach. Continue to Taormina where you'll catch a performance at the Greek theater, see Sicily from the top of the Mount Etna volcano, and stuff yourself on delicious fried street food.
Sicily Highlights Self-Drive Tour - 10 Days
This 10-day itinerary features a perfect mix of culture, history, adventure, and relaxation. Explore ancient Greek and Roman cities, medieval hilltop towns dotted with ornate baroque buildings, and coastal ramparts. Begin in Sicily's regional capital of Palermo and drive your way around the Italian island to end in Catania. You'll visit stunning landscapes, like Trapani's historic salt pans, sip fortified wine in charming Marsala, and dine on fresh seafood in sophisticated Taormina.
This 7-day highlights itinerary is perfect for travelers on a time crunch. Start in Palermo, voted in 2015 by Forbes as the European capital of street food, to explore Sicily's vibrant culture and history. Visit a variety of churches, from an Italo-Albanian Catholic Church to the 12th-century Monreale Cathedral, and learn how to prepare a 4-course Sicilian meal. Continue to sophisticated Taormina to explore the arts and hike to the top of Mount Etna. End your trip in Catania to see Baroque architecture and cool off with refreshing watermelon granitas.
Explore why Sicily has been one of the world's most densely occupied regions for over 2,000 years on this colorful 9-day itinerary. Begin in the food capital of Palermo to see 12th-century churches, Italy's largest opera house, and learn to make a 4-course meal. Continue to the resort town of Taormina to hike Mount Etna, see a show at the Greek theater, and explore the beautiful little island of Isola Bella. End in Catania, where finger-licking street food and Baroque architecture dominate the scene.
Cliff diving is the national pastime in Sicily, and it's easy to see why on this beautiful 10-day itinerary of the mountainous island. Begin your trip in diverse Palermo to discover history and culture through the medium of street food. Go back in time with a trip to the Cappuccini Catacombs and enjoy the sunshine and turquoise water on Mondello Beach. Explore art and history in Taormina and see Sicily from the top of Mount Etna, then end your trip with a street food tour in beautiful Catania.
Explore Western Sicily - 5 Days
Explore western Sicily on this 5-day trip, from cultural Palermo to sunny Cefalu. You'll see medieval churches, tour the macabre Caphucin Catacombs, and soak in the sunshine on Cefalu's beaches. From the hustle and bustle of the street markets to the quiet of the Palermo Cathedral, this trip is the perfect way to explore the region's diverse culture.
Palermo and Surroundings - 7 Days
Explore Palermo, Sicily's regional capital, and its nearby surroundings on this 7-day tour of the island's northwest. A cultural melting pot, Palermo is home to stunning baroque monuments and bustling markets, as well as a mouthwatering street food scene. You'll begin in Palermo with a visit to the Norman-Byzantine Monreale Cathedral, find your way to the millennia-old Greek temple of Segesta, and spend a day in the coastal town of Cefalù.
Enjoy northwestern Sicily's top city with this 5-day tour of Palermo and its surroundings. Go on a street food tour of the regional capital after admiring the city's intricate baroque architecture before making a day trip to the stunning Doric temple of Segesta. End your quick trip with a day spent in the popular seaside town of Cefalù where you'll climb the Rocca for striking views, swim in the inviting Tyrrhenian Sea, and sip an afternoon apertivo while taking in the setting sun.
Enjoy this 11-day self-drive itinerary around the Italian island where you'll begin in Palermo and end your stay in Catania. Along the way, stop to explore medieval hilltop towns and baroque cities, wander amid ancient Greek and Roman ruins, hike active Mount Etna, and choose from a number of stunning beaches along the coast. Catch a sunset over the Trapani salt ponds, sample fortified wine in charming Marsala, and learn to cook a 4-course Sicilian meal in Taormina.
Sicily has long been a favorite with maritime travelers, and you'll fall in love as well on this incredible 13-day trip. Tour churches and busy street markets in Palermo, then head to Syracuse, home of the famed mathematician Archimedes. Haggle for your lunch at the bustling Ortygia Street Market and visit the 13th-century Castello Maniace before making your way up the coast to Taormino and Catania, where theater, street food, and seafront promenades are a trip highlight.
Sicilians consider themselves Sicilian first, and Italian second—discover the source of their fierce pride on this beautiful 11-day itinerary. Start in culturally rich Palermo, voted by Forbes as the 2015 European food capital. See a variety of churches, from 12th-century to modern-day, and learn to make a traditional 4-course meal. Head to Taormina, where art and theater dominate the region. Catch a show at the Greek theater overlooking the Ionian Sea, then end your trip in bustling Catania—the perfect place to try finger-licking street food and enjoy views of Mt. Etna.
Sicily Highlights Self-Drive Tour - 9 Days
Enjoy cultural and historical experiences on this 9-day circuit of Sicily beginning in the regional capital of Palermo, a cultural melting pot, and ending in lively Catania. Along the way, you'll visit stunning landscapes, like the limestone cliffs of Scala dei Turchi, roam ancient Greek and Roman ruins at Agrigento and Syracuse, and learn to cook a traditional Sicilian meal in Taormina.
This complete 12-day self-drive tour covers Sicily's best, from cultural stops in baroque-infused cities to the exploration of ancient Greek and Roman temples and archaeological parks. Explore medieval hilltop towns, lively markets, ancient ruins, and old Norman castles. You'll sip fortified wine in Marsala, hike the slopes of active Mount Etna, and relax on Cefalù's inviting golden-sand Lungomare beach.
Uncover Sicily's colorful history and culture on this 6-day itinerary focused on Palermo and its nearby popular attractions. Begin in the lively regional capital and discover the stunning baroque monuments, vibrant markets, and delicious food scene. Find your way to Monreale to check out its 12th-century cathedral, ride the cable car up to the hilltop town of Erice, and visit the 2,400-year-old Doric temple of Segesta.
Featuring a combination of culture, adventure, and relaxation, this 8-day self-drive tour of Sicily will bring you to the regional capital of Palermo, the Greek temple ruins of Agrigento, and the brilliant baroque laneways and staircases of Ragusa Ibla, Modica, and Scicli. Marvel at the impressive Norman-Byzantine details of Monreale Cathedral, hike the slopes of Mount Etna, and take in the breathtaking scenery in Savoca and Forza D'Agrò.
Discover Sicily's highlights with this quick 7-day self-drive itinerary. Starting in the regional capital of Palermo, you'll spend time discovering the Norman-Byzantine Monreale Cathedral, before cutting across the island to explore the Greek temple ruins of Agrigento. Cap off the trip with four nights in Catania, the perfect access point to the Sicilian-Baroque cities of Ragusa Ibla, Modica, and Scicli, as well as the historic Syracuse and the elegant seaside town of Taormina.
Discover Palermo and its surroundings on this in-depth tour of Sicily's regional capital. A cultural melting pot, Palermo is home to stunning monuments and vibrant markets, not to mention a mouthwatering food scene waiting to be explored. Start in Palermo to uncover its colorful history, see the 2,400-year-old Greek temple of Segesta, wander the medieval hilltop town of Erice, and spend a full day visiting Cefalù on Sicily's northern shore.
This 13-day grand tour of the Sicilian island perfectly blends culture and history with adventure. Start in the regional capital of Palermo and wander the historic centers of Trapani and Erice before spending a little time on the Aegadi Islands. Visit the impressive Valley of the Temples and sprawling mosaics of Villa Romana del Casale, discover ornate baroque architecture in Noto, Modica, and Scicli, and lose yourself in the maze of narrow streets and underground passageways of Syracuse's Ortygia Island.
Follow this two-week circuit around Sicily for unique cultural experiences, hiking adventures, and coastal relaxation. Begin on the northern shore in cultural-melting-pot, Palermo before heading to Trapani and the Aegadi Islands in the west. Wander amid Roman ruins and extensive mosaics in Agrigento, get lost in the baroque cities of Modica, Ragusa Ibla, and Scicli and their medieval centers, wind through crypts and catacombs in historic Ortygia, and relax along the Ionian Sea enjoying fresh-caught seafood in Taormina.
Sicilian Bike Tour - 7 Days
Sicily is a captivating destination, with scenic beauty, historic sites, and culinary delights. This 7-day itinerary is for the active traveler looking to experience the best of the island while cycling and walking.
Explore the highlights of Sicily as you circumnavigate the Italian island starting and ending in the regional capital of Palermo, a cultural melting pot with stunning monuments and vibrant markets. Along the way, you will explore ancient Greek, Roman, and Norman ruins, medieval fortressed towns dotted with ornate baroque buildings and stunning beaches. You'll trek coastal trails in the beautiful Zingaro Nature Reserve, sip fortified wine in charming Marsala, and dine on fresh seafood in sophisticated Taormina.
Sicily Road Trip & Relaxing Sardinia - 21 Days
Experience Sicily and Sardinia—Italy's two largest islands—in all their glory during this immersive three-week trip, which offers a nice mix of guided tours and free time to explore on your own. Highlights of your self-driving tour of Sicily include Palermo, a cultural melting pot with historic monuments and colorful local markets and Taormina, the elegant village famous for its Greek theatre and postcard views. You'll also visit Syracuse and Agrigento, with their archaeological treasures, and Mount Etna—Europe's most active volcano. Finally, combine a city stay with beach trips in Sardinia for the last 4 days of your trip.
Sicily Highlights Self-Drive Tour with Aeolian Islands - 16 Days
Experience the highlights of Sicily on this in-depth tour. Beginning and ending in Catania, you'll cover the Italian island as well as spend some time exploring the impressive Aeolian Islands. You'll visit ancient Greek, Roman, and Norman ruins, medieval fortressed towns dotted with ornate baroque buildings and stunning beaches. Discover remote island settlements on Stromboli, meander and climb the narrow laneways and staircases in Modica, Ragusa Ibla, and Scicli, and dine on fresh seafood in sophisticated Taormina.
Explore Sicily's highlights, including four days on three of the Aeolian Islands, on this 15-day itinerary. Starting from Catania, you'll head to Milazzo and on to Lipari, Vulcano, and Stromboli to relax in mud baths and on black sand beaches, and to hike the Stromboli volcano. Visit Palermo, the regional capital before checking out the Greek and Roman ruins of Agrigento and Syracuse and ending the trip with a cooking class in the elegant seaside town of Taormina.
Enjoy this 11-day itinerary from Catania to explore the Aeolian Islands before picking up your rental car and continuing to circle Sicily. Starting with the regional capital of Palermo, you'll dive into its colorful history and impressive architecture on a city tour, then discover the ridgetop temples of Agrigento and the Greek and Roman ruins of Syracuse, capping off the trip with a hike up Mount Etna.
Spend two weeks delving into Sicily's historic and cultural highlights on this complete itinerary. Discover remote island settlements on Stromboli, meander and climb the narrow laneways and staircases in Modica, Ragusa Ibla, and Scicli, and dine on fresh seafood in sophisticated Taormina. You'll begin and end in lively Catania and spend four nights on the Aeolian Islands before picking up your rental car and touring the Italian island from Palermo to Taormina, with Cefalù, Agrigento, and Syracuse in between.
Discover the highlights of Sicily with this 10-day loop of the island, featuring three nights on two of the Aeolian Islands as well as time spent in Palermo, the regional capital, and historic Syracuse. You'll witness Stromboli's spectacular pyrotechnic display of red and orange lava, take a passeggiata along Cefalù's seaside promenade, and enjoy traditional Sicilian fare in a rustic trattoria in Syracuse's historic core. Explore historic Norman castles, ancient Greek temples, and Roman amphitheaters, and enjoy the impressive baroque architecture of lively Catania.
Rome & Sicily Highlights - 16 Days
Lose yourself in the sights and sounds of Italy's capital before venturing south to the historic island of Sicily. This packed 16-day itinerary begins in Rome, where you'll visit the emblematic city sights. Then you'll jet south to Palermo and embark on a road trip around Sicily to discover its rich culture, cuisine, and history.
Perfectly blending culture and history with adventure, this 13-day tour starts in the regional capital of Palermo and takes you to three of the Aeolian Islands. You'll pick up your rental car and check out the popular Lungomare beach in Cefalù, discover the impressive Norman-Byzantine Monreale Cathedral, and wander amid the ridgetop temples in Agrigento. From there, you'll explore the tightly woven network of narrow and winding alleys in Ortygia, hike Mount Etna, Europe's largest volcano, and end your trip in Catania, Sicily's next largest city.
This 15-day itinerary places you in the heart of two of Italy's most historic locales: Rome and Sicily. The adventure begins in Italy's capital where you'll have multiple days to tour its most famous sights and uncover its lesser-visited gems. Then you're off to Sicily for the road trip of a lifetime as you visit Greek and Roman ruins, dine on incredible street food, and ascend Mt. Etna.
This 12-day grand tour of Sicily is a perfect mix of culture and adventure and includes four nights on the Aeolian Islands. Beginning and ending in Catania, you'll discover historic ruins on Lipari, soak in a mud bath on Vulcano, and go on a sunset hike of Stromboli before picking up your rental car in Milazzo. Tour Palermo, the regional capital, wander amid the impressive Greek temples in Agrigento, and enjoy a passeggiata along Syracuse's seaside promenade in Ortygia.
Sicily Highlights Self-Drive Tour with Aeolian Islands - 9 Days
Experience Sicily's coastal cities, Sicilian-baroque towns, and the remote Aeolian Islands with this 9-day circuit from Catania. Start in Milazzo and discover the ruins of Lipari and the black-sand beaches of Stromboli before picking up your rental and driving to elegant Taormina. Learn to prepare traditional Sicilian fare in a cooking class in Taormina, navigate narrow and winding lanes and alleys in Syracuse's historic Ortygia, and take in the embellished architecture of charming Noto.
In two weeks you'll not only immerse yourself in the splendor of historic Rome, but you'll also embark on an unforgettable road trip around the cultural melting pot that is Sicily. In the former, you'll tour famous sights like the Colosseum and Vatican plus take part in a local cooking class. In the latter, you'll drive around the island at your leisure, stopping at historic and beautiful cities like Syracuse, Agrigento, and Taormina.
Naples, Amalfi Coast, & Sicily - 11 Days
11 days is enough time to plan a whirlwind tour of southern Italy's most beautiful locales and historic sights. You'll start in Naples, birthplace of pizza, before sojourning on the Amalfi coast with its terraced vineyards and lemon groves. After fun and sun on Capri, you'll head to another great island—Sicily—for an unforgettable self-driving tour of ancient cities, Greek ruins, and active volcanoes.
No Italian holiday is complete without visiting Rome, and no trip to Sicily is complete without driving around that historic island. On this 11-day itinerary you'll do both, starting with tours of Rome's most ancient and beautiful sights. In Sicily, you'll hop in a rental car and travel from its capital of Palermo along the stunning north coast to the east side, stopping at other historic cities like Syracuse and Catania.
Puglia & Sicily Highlights - 18 Days
This 18-day itinerary covers two of southern Italy's most stunning regions: Puglia and Sicily. It begins in Puglia with visits to the cone-shaped trulli homes of Alberobello and the ancient cave dwellings in Matera. Then head to Lecce to see Baroque architecture and Roman ruins before experiencing the highlights of Sicily on a self-drive road trip.
In less than two weeks you can visit some of the most incredible locales in Italy. This includes the ruggedly beautiful Amalfi Coast, the postcard island of Capri, the cultural hotbed of Sicily, and even the birthplace of pizza: Naples. In addition, you'll get to tour historic sights like the ruins of Pompeii and natural wonders like Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Italy.
If you want to see as many of Italy's historic sights and locales as possible on a limited time frame, you'll visit two places: Rome and Sicily. This 13-day itinerary covers both, beginning in Italy's capital with tours of the city sights and art museums. You'll then fly to Sicily for a road-trip adventure in which you'll stop at its most famous cities, ruins, and landmarks, like Mt. Etna.
In a little over two weeks you can enjoy comprehensive tours of southern Italy's most beautiful regions: Puglia and Sicily. The adventure begins in the former, where you'll visit historic cities on Italy's heel of the boot like Lecce, Bari, and Alberobello. Then it's off to Sicily, where on a self-drive road trip you'll discover Palermo, visit ancient Greek and Roman ruins, and hike up to Mt. Etna.
Rome & Sicily Highlights - 8 Days
Get ready for a brisk tour of some of the most famous, beautiful, and ancient sites in Italy. This eight-day getaway begins with your arrival in Rome and guided tours of Roman landmarks like the Colosseum and globally renowned art museums like the Borghese Gallery. In Sicily, you'll make the capital of Palermo your base of operations as you go on street food tours and day trips to gorgeous coastal cities like Cefalú.
This packed 17-day itinerary includes visits to the most stunning locales in southern Italy. It begins in the birthplace of pizza, Naples, with excursions to the ancient city of Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius. You'll continue to the incomparable Amalfi Coast and Capri Island for some leisure and beach time before heading to Sicily for street food tours and visits to ancient Greek temples.
On this 17-day tour of Italy's southern regions, you'll go beyond medieval and Roman history and also visit the ruins of ancient civilizations. 9,000-year-old cave dwellings exist in the historic city of Matera, in Italy's Puglia region, but you'll also visit coastal gems like Lecce and Bari. The adventure culminates in Sicily with tours of Greek and Roman ruins and a hike up Mt. Etna.
Over 10 days you can add some of the most beautiful locales in Italy to your holiday scrapbook. This itinerary begins in the south and Naples and includes tours of both the ruins of Pompeii and an ascent of Mount Vesuvius. Then it's pure postcard beauty as you travel to the Amalfi Coast and Capri before jetting off to Sicily for a road trip around that island's most famous and historic sights.
Embark on the trip of a lifetime with a visit to not one but two of Italy's most historic locales. On this 10-day jaunt you'll enjoy city tours of Rome plus a cooking class where you'll learn to prepare traditional Italian dishes. Then you'll fly to the island of Sicily, where on a road trip you'll travel to coastal cities like Palermo and Cefalú, visit ancient Greek ruins at Syracuse, and even ascend Mt. Etna.
Southern Italy always makes for an unforgettable vacation. This 12-day itinerary guarantees that outcome, as it begins in Naples, continues along the ruggedly beautiful Amalfi Coast, and includes a jaunt to Capri, the crown jewel of the Mediterranean. You'll cap the adventure with a road trip from one side of Sicily to the other, during which you'll enjoy all the great food and historic sights that island has to offer.
On this 12-day holiday in Italy, you'll visit ancient ruins and historic sights in two of Italy's most beautiful southern regions: Puglia and Sicily. Moreover, you'll enjoy various activities, from cooking classes to beach trips and even a hike up Mt. Etna. The best part is you'll finish the trip with a road trip around Sicily, visiting its most famous locales like the ancient Greek ruins at Syracuse.
12 days is not only enough time to enjoy an unforgettable Roman holiday, but you can add a road-trip adventure through Sicily to the itinerary. In Rome, you'll tour famous sights like the Vatican and Borghese Gallery plus learn the secrets to Italian cuisine in a cooking class. Then, after jetting to Sicily, you'll hop in a rental car and drive from one beautiful coastal city to another, from Palermo to Taormina to Syracuse to Catania.
This two-week holiday combines anthropology and history with a road-trip adventure in two of Italy's most unique regions. First, you'll tour Puglia, Italy's "heel of the boot," which is home to beautiful beaches and ancient cities. Then you'll fly to Sicily for a road trip from the cultural melting pot of Palermo to ancient Greek and Roman ruins—plus enjoy a jaunt to Mt. Etna.
You can do a lot with the traditional two-week vacation. Case in point, it's enough time to jaunt to southern Italy and tour beautiful locales like Naples, Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast, and the island of Capri. You'll even have time to road trip around the island of Sicily, enjoying incredible street food and touring ancient Greek ruins as you do.
Get ready for the trip of a lifetime as you abscond to southern Italy for 16 unforgettable days. The grand tour begins with a bit of history on a tour of the Pompeii ruins before you sail off to the ancient Roman playground of Capri Island. The last portion of the trip is a comprehensive tour around the island of Sicily as you enjoy street food in Palermo, visit Greek ruins in Agrigento, and ascend Mount Etna volcano.
This packed 16-day adventure combines the culturally rich region of Sicily with one of Italy's less-heralded gems: Puglia. First, you're off to the heel of Italy's boot, home to ancient and unique cities like Matera and Alberobello. Then you'll jet to Sicily, where you'll hop in a rental car and drive across the island, stopping at ancient Greek and Roman ruins along the way.
Rome, Amalfi Coast, & Sicily - 18 Days
Take in the sights and sounds of Italy's romantic capital, travel along the ruggedly beautiful southern coast, and dive deep into Sicily's ancient culture. You'll do all this and more over 18 unforgettable days, beginning in Rome with tours of the city's emblematic sights before heading to the rocky beaches of the Amalfi Coast and the sunny island of Capri. Then you'll visit the island of Sicily, where you'll experience the best of its culture and cuisine on an adventurous road trip.
Get away from it all on this comprehensive 18-day trip to the Amalfi Coast, Naples, and the island of Sicily. You'll soak in the sunshine of Amalfi and visit the ancient ruins of Pompeii, located near the pizza epicenter of the world: Naples. The trip ends in Sicily with a drive around this Mediterranean island while visiting its many highlights.
Volcanoes of Sicily: Aeolian Islands & Mt. Etna - 9 Days
Dominated by volcanic peaks, some of them still active, Sicily and the Aeolian islands offer dramatic coasts and fertile interiors. Explore the beautiful Aeolian Archipelago—7 diverse islands including Lipari, Vulcano, and Stromboli—whose active volcanic cone dominates the horizon. End your trip with a climb to the top of Mt Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano.
Southern Italy is a treasure chest of historic sights and locales of unparalleled beauty. You'll discover much of it over 15 days as you travel from Naples and the Amalfi coast to the island of Capri and finally to the cultural melting pot of Sicily. Throughout, you'll dine on great pizza, pasta, and seafood while also taking wine tours, visiting ancient ruins, and hiking up to the top of iconic volcanoes.
Ancient ruins, beautiful beaches, historic cities—you'll get all this and more on a 13-day tour of southern Italy. First up you'll visit cave dwellings and go on food tours in Puglia, the southernmost region of mainland Italy. Then you'll fly to the island of Sicily, which you'll discover on a road trip that will take you from postcard coastal towns to ancient Greek ruins in Syracuse.
In a mere week, you can craft an unforgettable Italian holiday that includes two historic regions. The first is Rome, with its ancient Colosseum, Vatican, and the myriad other sights you'll discover on a city tour. Then you're off to Sicily for a bit of culture and island fun in the form of street-food tours and a day trip to Cefalú, one of the most beautiful coastal cities in the world.
Nine days is enough time to both discover Rome and set off on an exciting road trip around the island of Sicily. In Rome, you'll tour the unmissable city sights like the Vatican, Colosseum, and the Borghese Gallery. Upon arrival, in Sicily, you'll pick up a rental car and set off from the streets of Palermo along the gorgeous coast to Mt. Etna before finishing the trip in the Baroque city of Catania.
This 17-day grand tour of Italy is your ticket to all the beauty and living history for which that country is famous. You'll begin in Rome and visit the most famous sights, including the Colosseum, Vatican, and Roman Forum, before absconding south to the sunkissed shores of the Amalfi Coast. A jaunt to Sicily and a road-trip around that incomparable island completes the adventure as you discover its great food, wine, and natural beauty.
Enjoy a different kind of vacation with this adventure in southern Italy. You'll arrive in the Puglia region and immediately visit historic cities like Alberobello, Matera, Lecce, and Bari. You'll then fly to Sicily, where you'll take a quick self-drive road trip around the island, stopping at ancient ruins and the historic beach town of Cefalú.
This 16-day adventure includes visits to some of the most incredible locales in Italy. This includes everywhere from the capital of Rome to the Amalfi Coast to the island of Sicily. On top of the beautiful sights, you'll also enjoy unforgettable activities like museum visits, a street-food tour of Palermo, hiking up Mt. Etna, and more.
Over 15 days you'll experience the highlights of Italy. In the capital Rome, you'll visit landmarks like the Colosseum and historic institutions like the Vatican. You'll then enjoy the pebble beaches and sun-kissed coast of Amalfi before venturing far south to Sicily, where a road trip will take you from Palermo to Mount Etna.
Get away from it all for 12 days of unforgettable experiences in Italy. This includes touring the most famous sights of Rome, lazing on the pebbly beaches of the Amalfi Coast, and marveling at the cotton-candy-pink sunsets of Capri. The Mediterranean dream doesn't end there—you'll also embark on a road trip adventure around Sicily, from the historic streets of Palermo to the Greek ruins of Syracuse.
Over 10 days you'll explore Puglia and Sicily, two of the most historic and culturally unique regions of Italy. You'll begin this southern adventure with a tour of colorful villages like Alberobello and ancient cave dwellings in Matera. Then you'll arrive on the island of Sicily, where you'll embark on a street food tour of Palermo, visit Greek ruins at Segesta, and laze on the beaches of Cefalú.
Get ready for the ultimate 15-day Mediterranean experience. You'll first tour the highlights of Rome before venturing south to Italy's Amalfi Coast and the nearby island of Capri, which rises out of the sapphire blue waters like a siren. The adventure then kicks into high gear with an epic road trip around Sicily, where you'll explore its famous ruins, luxuriate in its rich culture, and dine on its incomparable cuisine.
Give yourself over to the beauty of Italy for 13 days of culture, romance, and adventure. After touring the famous sights of Rome, like the Forum and Colosseum, you'll travel south to the ruggedly beautiful Amalfi Coast and the incomparable Mediterranean gem of Capri. The trip culminates with an exciting road trip around the island of Sicily in which you'll tour Palermo and visit ancient Greek ruins.
Explore the Amalfi Coast and Sicily - 18 Days
This tour starts along the Amalfi Coast, exploring picturesque hillside villages, the famous Path of the Gods hiking trail, the lively city of Naples, and the islands of Ischia and Capri. You'll then fly to the island of Sicily, where you'll discover the famous Sicilian-Baroque architecture in towns like Ragusa, Syracuse, Noto, and more, plus ancient ruins in Agrigento and the Valley of the Temples. End the trip on the top of Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, and along the historic streets of Taormina and Catania.
History and Architecture of Malta and Sicily - 11 Days
Explore the highlights of Malta and Sicily, starting in Valletta with day trips to prehistoric cities and sites, ancient temple ruins, and the natural beauty of the Blue Grotto and Gozo Island. Sail to Sicily to admire its famed baroque architecture, its ancient temples and Greek ruins, and the views atop Mount Etna. Explore cities like Syracuse, Catania, and Palermo, plus enjoy a wine tasting and some of the region's best cuisine.
The only thing better than visiting one incredible region of Sicily is visiting three. Over 11 days you'll do just that, beginning in Rome with tours of its ancient ruins and historic sights. You'll then travel south to the incomparable Amalfi Coast and island of Capri before finishing up in Sicily with an epic road trip that includes a visit to historic beach towns like Cefalú and ancient Greek ruins.
Puglia & Sicily Highlights - 9 Days
Discover Puglia, one of the lesser-visited yet stunningly beautiful regions of Italy. Over nine days you'll experience the highlights of this southern coastal region, including the ancient caves at Matera and the historic streets of Lecce and Bari. To cap the trip, you'll fly to Palermo, Sicily, where you'll discover the culture on walking tours plus visit Cefalú, one of the most beautiful beach towns on the island.
History and Architecture of Malta and Sicily - 9 Days
Combining the two islands of Malta and Sicily, this tour starts with ancient history and ruins in Valletta, where you'll visit prehistoric and medieval cities, a deep sea cave, and megalithic temples. Sail to Sicily on a catamaran to explore the island's impeccable baroque architecture in Ragusa, Noto, and Syracuse, then enjoy the history, views, and wine of Mount Etna. End your trip with a visit to ancient Greek and Roman ruins in Taormina, plus a Sicilian dinner in the city of Catania.
In just 10 days you can craft an unforgettable Italian vacation that includes many highlights. This, of course, includes the historic locales in Rome, but you'll also travel south to the ruggedly beautiful Amalfi Coast and Capri, a pure postcard region if ever there was one. You'll then immerse yourself in the rich culture of Sicily on an adventurous jaunt that will take you from Palermo to Cefalú to ancient Greek ruins.
Starting in Valletta, Malta, this tour explores the island's ancient ruins and historical cities, with visits to Mdina, Marsaxlokk, and the "Three Cities", plus the Blue Grotto sea cave, the megalithic temples, and Gozo Island. Sail to Sicily to discover its beloved baroque architecture in Ragusa, Noto, and Syracuse, followed by a day atop Mount Etna for impeccable views of the island, lessons on past eruptions, and a wine tasting. End your tour with a visit to Taormina's Greco-Roman theater and a farewell dinner amongst Catania's historical streets.
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Raster Images vs. Vector Graphics
Computer graphics can be created as either raster or vector images. Raster graphics are bitmaps. A bitmap is a grid of individual pixels that collectively compose an image. Raster graphics render images as a collection of countless tiny squares. Each square, or pixel, is coded in a specific hue or shade. Individually, these pixels are worthless. Together, they're worth a thousand words.
Raster graphics are best used for non-line art images; specifically digitized photographs, scanned artwork or detailed graphics. Non-line art images are best represented in raster form because these typically include subtle chromatic gradations, undefined lines and shapes, and complex composition.
However, because raster images are pixel-based, they suffer a malady called image degradation. Just like photographic images that get blurry and imprecise when blown up, a raster image gets jagged and rough. Why? Ultimately, when you look close enough, you can begin to see the individual pixels that comprise the image. Hence, your raster-based image of Wayne Newton, magnified to 1000%, becomes bitmapped before you can isolate that ravenous glint in his eye. Although raster images can be scaled down more easily, smaller versions often appear less crisp or "softer" than the original.
To maximize the quality of a raster image, you must keep in mind that the raster format is resolution-specific -- meaning that raster images are defined and displayed at one specific resolution. Resolution in raster graphics is measured in dpi, or dots per inch. The higher the dpi, the better the resolution. Remember also that the resolution you actually observe on any output device is not a function of the file's own internal specifications, but the output capacity of the device itself. Thus, high resolution images should only be used if your equipment has the capability to display them at high resolution.
Better resolution, however, comes at a price. Just as raster files are significantly larger than comparable vector files, high resolution raster files are significantly larger than low resolution raster files. Overall, as compared to vector graphics, raster graphics are less economical, slower to display and print, less versatile and more unwieldy to work with. Remember though that some images, like photographs, are still best displayed in raster format. Common raster formats include TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PCX and BMP files. Despite its shortcomings, raster format is still the Web standard -- within a few years, however, vector graphics will likely surpass raster graphics in both prevalence and popularity.
Unlike pixel-based raster images, vector graphics are based on mathematical formulas that define geometric primitives such as polygons, lines, curves, circles and rectangles. Because vector graphics are composed of true geometric primitives, they are best used to represent more structured images, like line art graphics with flat, uniform colors. Most created images (as opposed to natural images) meet these specifications, including logos, letterhead, and fonts.
Inherently, vector-based graphics are more malleable than raster images -- thus, they are much more versatile, flexible and easy to use. The most obvious advantage of vector images over raster graphics is that vector images are quickly and perfectly scalable. There is no upper or lower limit for sizing vector images. Just as the rules of mathematics apply identically to computations involving two-digit numbers or two-hundred-digit numbers, the formulas that govern the rendering of vector images apply identically to graphics of any size.
Further, unlike raster graphics, vector images are not resolution-dependent. Vector images have no fixed intrinsic resolution, rather they display at the resolution capability of whatever output device (monitor, printer) is rendering them. Also, because vector graphics need not memorize the contents of millions of tiny pixels, these files tend to be considerably smaller than their raster counterparts. Overall, vector graphics are more efficient and versatile. Common vector formats include AI, EPS, CGM, WMF and PICT (Mac).
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“The Lark” Lexis Show Home Offers West-Coast Vibe
This post originally appeared as an editorial article in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix (August 18, 2018) by Jennifer Jacoby-Smith and has been republished with permission.
This Lexis show home, located at 251 Greyeyes-Steele Way in The Meadows, is part of the Parade of Homes. (Jennifer Jacoby-Smith)
There’s a definite west-coast vibe in the latest show home by Lexis Homes. Located in The Meadows at 251 Greyeyes-Steele Way, this brand new floor plan from Lexis is called The Lark.
With hickory finishes and pops of navy blue and green decor, the family-friendly home is definitely channelling a relaxed chic vibe.
The home is a 1,991 square-foot, two-storey Holmes-Approved home. The home is designed to fit on a narrower city lot and maximize the available space. “We’ve jam-packed a lot in here,” says Liz Carswell from Lexis. The result is a home that is perfect for a busy, modern family that “ticks all the boxes.”
When visitors enter the home, they will be greeted by a feature wall with hickory wood panelling and alcoves to show off artwork for framed photos. The hickory picks up tones of grey while still feeling natural and welcoming.
Last weekend was the first opportunity for the public to see The Lark and Carswell said the feedback was very positive.
The Lexis show home is a brand new floor plan called The Lark. The home offers 1991 square feet over two floors, in an efficient, contemporary design. (Jennifer Jacoby-Smith)
Coming home to the Lark would be a joy with a mud room that boasts tons of customized built-in lockers and organization helpers. It feeds right into the walk-through Butler’s pantry with more built-ins and storage. The built-in microwave is also located in the pantry to give more space to cabinetry. The pantry also boasts a window to keep the space bright and beautiful.
The main living area is open with a contemporary fireplace and sculptural mantle. Tons of natural light flood into the space from the oversized windows.
Upstairs, there are three bedrooms and bonus for the family to enjoy. The master bedroom is spacious and bright. Of course, the ensuite is like a spa hotel with a gorgeous stone detailed shower with glass door. There’s the dual sink vanity and a makeup table, so getting ready in the morning will be a breeze.
The west-coast inspiration even extends to the exterior with architectural details in a mix of hardie-board, stone and cedar wood. The result is appealing right from the curb. The show home also backs onto walking paths, a park and a playground, ensuring privacy and easy green space access.
The Lexis show home has three bedrooms upstairs with a bonus room. The master bedroom boasts a beautiful ensuite with gorgeous shower with stone details. (Jennifer Jacoby-Smith)
Lexis has also become known for their Holmes-Approved homes. The particular home has been inspected and certified Holmes-Approved. Energy upgrades include R24 batt insulation in exterior walls, R60 in attic, R28 in basement walls, and R10 rigid Styrofoam insulation under basement slab, plus triple plane, low E argon windows.
The Saskatoon and Region Home Builders Association Parade of Homes is on until Sept. 16. Visit the Lexis show home at 251 Greyeyes-Steele Way. The show home is open Monday to Friday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday, Sunday and holidays from noon to 5 p.m.
Interested? Learn more about The Lark’s Floor Plan details (description, pricing, specifications, and more).
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Pirates put third baseman Jung Ho Kang on the disabled list
Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang is congratulated by his teammates after hitting a one-run home run against the Dodgers on Aug. 13.
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Third baseman Jung Ho Kang was put on the 15-day disabled list by the Pittsburgh Pirates because of a left shoulder injury.
Kang probably will sit out from two to four weeks.
He was injured while sliding headfirst into second base in the eighth inning of Pittsburgh’s 6-5 loss to the Miami Marlins on Friday.
Outfielder Carlos Gomez was signed Saturday by the Texas Rangers to a minor league contract and assigned to triple-A Round Rock. Gomez, a Gold Glove center fielder with Milwaukee in 2013, hit .210 with five home runs and 29 runs batted in with the Houston Astros. ... Third baseman Luis Valbuena could be lost for the season to the Astros after experiencing a setback in his quest to return from a right hamstring injury. ... Catcher Matt Wieters was put on the paternity leave by the Baltimore Orioles. Wieters left the team Saturday to join his wife, Maria, who is due to give birth to the couple’s second child.
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Title 22. FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
Chapter 18. UNITED STATES INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
Subchapter VII. ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
22 U.S. Code SUBCHAPTER VII— ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
§ 1471. Authority of Secretary of State
§ 1472. Department of State and other Government agencies
§ 1473. Use of existing Government property and facilities
§ 1474. Additional authority of Secretary of State or other Government agency authorized to administer provisions
§ 1475. Travel expenses
§ 1475a. Replacement of passenger motor vehicles
§§ 1475b, 1475c. Repealed. Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIII, § 1336(1), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–790
§ 1475d. Compensation for disability or death
§ 1475e. Use of English-teaching program fees
§ 1475f. Repealed. Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIII, § 1336(1), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–790
§ 1475g. Overseas public diplomacy posts and personnel overseas
§ 1475h. Overseas public diplomacy grants
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FCC Dials VOIP for USF
News Analysis Light Reading 6/21/2006
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wednesday increased the amount of money the government can tax wireless and VOIP operators for the Universal Service Fund (USF).
The Commission ruled that 64.9 percent of VOIP revenues are “interstate” and therefore are subject to assessment for the USF. That’s the same rate at which wireline carriers pay into the USF.
Today’s move was widely anticipated as the Commission moves to find new money sources for the underfunded USF, a system of assisting rural and poor areas with funds to provide basic phone services. Like most things regulatory, the USF is in serious need of an overhaul for the broadband age. (See TIA Testifies at Final Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Telecom Reform Bill.)
VOIP providers were not suprised by the FCC's actions. “Basically we think this will result in a slight increase to our customer bills, but on the whole we really don’t view it as a competitive needle mover,” said Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG) spokeswoman Brooke Schulz. (See FCC Fines Carriers for USF Violations.)
In the past, the contributions to USF came primarily from wireline telephone service providers through small fees charged to their customers. These days, however, mobile phones and VOIP services are beginning to replace some traditional voice service, and so are increasingly tapped for contribution to the fund.
As it stands today, “interstate” calls are taxable at the federal level while intrastate calls are taxable at the state level. The problem is, it’s tough to tell which are which when the communication medium isn’t phone lines but the Internet. Some in VOIP circles have argued in other contexts that VOIP is “inherently interstate,” which would logically qualify all VOIP revenues for contribution to the fund.
“This is the FCC opening the door to taxation of VOIP service,” says Voice On the Net (VON) Coalition president Stacy Pies.
“The reason the FCC needs to come out with this order is because the time period to access [tax] DSL service is going to expire at the end of July and they will have a $350 million hole in the Universal Service Fund,” Pies contends. The FCC ruled in 2005 that broadband should be considered an “information service,” not a telecommunications service –- a ruling that was backed up by the Brand X court decision. (See Supremes Sing Cable's Praises.) This effectively put broadband out of bounds for USF contribution.
Pies believes the FCC’s ruling might lead to state-level taxation of VOIP as well. “The states might be given the opportunity to say that if 65 percent of the calls are interstate then 35 percent must be intrastate, and so we may well see some states acting after this."
The FCC also ruled that 37.1 percent of wireless revenues are interstate and subject to USF contribution, up from 28.5 percent.
“Like public safety goals, universal service obligations transcend new technologies and cannot be compromised,” FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement Wednesday.
The Bells, of course, aren’t heartbroken at the thought of VOIP companies chipping in for USF. “This order ensures that all telecom providers pay their fair share of universal service support, stabilizing the fund while the Commission considers comprehensive reform of the way contributions are calculated,” says BellSouth Corp. (NYSE: BLS) spokesman Herschel Abbott.
— Mark Sullivan, Reporter, Light Reading
falsecut 12/5/2012 | 3:50:58 AM
re: FCC Dials VOIP for USF The tax people will just have to continue to concentrate on taxing users. Even though a company is HQd outside the US, they should be able to collect the revenues in most cases (at least from the reputable companies).
The consumer is just going to get more and more crap on their bills. It's almost impossible to read the bills now, and I know what to look for.
paolo.franzoi 12/5/2012 | 3:50:58 AM
re: FCC Dials VOIP for USF
I understand that the FCC has really no choice with this band-aid. However, USF funds have to move to the general fund. The technology is moving faster than the ability to change the tax structure.
How will VoIP companies HQed in Mexico be taxed?
If you are outside the US, then local taxes apply NOT US taxes.
"Ill" Duce 12/5/2012 | 3:50:49 AM
re: FCC Dials VOIP for USF What's the deal with USF anyway?
Has anyone really gone through and audited the path of revenues and expenses? I really doubt that the money went to it's intended use.
And what about the excise tax? The Spanish American war only lasted three months (then became the Phillipine-American war.)
And how about everyone's favorite Local Number Portability. When the TRO went down, that issue was dropped like a flaming spud, yet we are still paying for it. At some point, all the numbers are marked as ported and it's a matter of maintaining the database. I have yet to know anyone who actually had a number ported.
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What is an induction and when is it necessary? | Living and LovingLiving and Loving
What is an induction and when is it necessary?
Published: June 7, 20188:14 am Updated: July 13, 20188:24 am
There are many reasons why a birth may have to be induced. Here’s what to expect. By Julia Boltt
Induction is when your labour is started artificially, using mechanical means, such as rupturing your membranes, or with medication. There are several reasons to induce labour, but the most important criteria is that the risks of prolonging your pregnancy outweigh the risks of delivering your baby.
About 10% of pregnant women will go beyond their due date, says specialist gynaecologist and obstetrician Dr Trudy Smith. The cut-off for pregnancy is considered to be 10 days past your due date, as placental function begins to decline at this point. “Once this happens, the risk of interuterine death is much higher,” she says. However, induction may also be considered if there’s a medical concern that is affecting you or your baby’s life – regardless of whether you’re past your due date.
ALSO SEE: 11 ways to induce labour naturally
To assess whether you’re a candidate for an induction, your midwife or gynae will use the Bishop score to rate the readiness of your cervix for the process. “The Bishop score helps us assess the readiness of the cervix through a number of criteria like the station of the head, dilation, how thin the cervix is and consistency of the cervix,” explains registered midwife Xoli Makabane.
A low score means that medication is necessary to ripen the cervix, while a high score means that the membranes can be ruptured and Syntocinon (oxytocin that stimulates contractions) administered.“An induction with a score of less than eight [out of a possible 13] is far more likely to end up with a C-section,” says Xoli.
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If your cervix isn’t dilated or thin enough yet, your healthcare provider will ripen the cervix using medications. Sometimes this is enough to get the contractions started. If this doesn’t initiate labour, you may be given a drip delivering oxytocin, provided that the cervix is ripe. Your midwife may also rupture your membranes or use a catheter bulb to exert pressure on the cervix. Xoli says that this can take some time. “It’s important to be patient and wait between interventions to give them time to work before adding another medication or procedure,” she advises.
Will I be induced?
The most common reason for an induction is being overdue, says Dr Smith. Other reasons for an induction are if the baby has stopped growing, your membranes have ruptured but labour hasn’t started, or you are suffering from health complications like diabetes, cardiac disease or high blood pressure.
Placental concerns like placental insufficiency, growth restriction, oligohydramnios (deficiency of amniotic fluid) or abruptio placentae (premature separation of the placenta from the uterus) are also reasons for an induction, as are a multiple pregnancy, if you have experienced a previous abruptio, previous stillbirth, chorioamnionitis (amniotic fluid infection), foetal compromise (Rhesus disease) or, tragically, foetal demise, explains Dr Jana Rossouw, a specialist gynaecologist and obstetrician.
ALSO SEE: 3 placenta problems explained
Why an induction?
“A C-section is a surgical procedure that can have complications. Birthing is a natural process that is always preferred. A C-section was designed to save lives, not to be a primary method of birthing,” says Xoli. If you’re a good candidate for induction, the risks of a surgical delivery outweigh the risks of an induction of labour, explains Dr Rossouw. However, she adds, “it is absolutely imperative that induction of labour is only performed in hospital under direct supervision of a doctor, with nursing personnel, foetal monitoring, uterine contraction monitoring and theatre facilities for a C-section”.
Induction is not for everyone
Not every pregnant woman is a candidate for induction. If you are suffering from placenta praevia (your placenta is near to, or covering, your cervix), vasa praevia (your baby’s blood vessels run too close to your cervix), severe placental insufficiency, uncontrolled pre-eclampsia, have had two previous C-sections, suffer from severe cardiac or lung disease, have active genital herpes, severe obstructive genital warts or an abnormal pelvis, you’ll be ruled out as a candidate.
Other reasons to rule out an induction include a baby who has an abnormal lie, for example, a breech baby, in some instances of multiple pregnancies, or where the baby is large for gestational age (foetal macrosomia), says Xoli. Large for gestational age would be a baby weighing more than 4kg in a diabetic mom, or more than 4.5kg in a non-diabetic mom at the time of birth.
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40 Million Dollar Jackpot – All Winnings To Charity
Unheard of, brave and so heart warming all at once, is the story of Canadian Tom Crist and his lottery win. While on a golfing holiday, Crist received news that he just became a winner of the Lotto Max lottery. What would one do with 40 million US dollars? Buy a house, a car or go on exquisite vacation? Instead, Tom decided to give all his winnings to charity, something no one expected.Tom became one of the little people who won such extremely lottery prize and kept to his basic living standards. Crist did not wish for a lifestyle upgrade or expensive cars, he decided to devote all his winnings to a cancer charity in memory of his late wife Jan who died of lung cancer in February 2012 at the age of 57.
Tom Crist standing by one of his charities
Tom explains that he did not want media or friends to know about his winnings simply because he does not want the attention or to be in public eye. ”I tell them they don’t need to meet me, because it’s not all about me being in the paper or on TV, I just want to help them and disappear”. Tom also feels that meeting cancer patients will refresh sad and surreal memories of the love of his life Jan, who lost her 6 year battle with cancer.
Crist retired as the CEO of EECOL Electric in late September 2013 and is financially well off, able to look after himself and his children. “I don’t need that money” is what Crist is heard saying to press.
Crist also reveals that he plans on creating a family trust where this money will be stored and his children will be able to withdraw these funds for the purpose of donating to their chosen charities.
One of his charities of choice where he donated a large portion of his winnings is the Canadian Cancer Society and Calgary’s Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Canada.
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Dietz, William L. "Wm., Bill"
Senate 1935-50 (District 17)
Counties Served: Le Sueur
Birth Place: Montgomery, Minnesota
Birth County: Le Sueur
Other Names: Wm., Bill
City of Residence (when first elected): New Prague
Occupation (when first elected): Farm Owner and Operator, 197 Acres, Le Sueur County
Montgomery Grade Schools; Elementary School;
Montgomery High School; Secondary;
University of Minnesota, School of Agriculture; Attended College;
U.S. Executive Branch: LeSueur County, Minnesota, Agricultural War Board; 19?? to 19??
U.S. Executive Branch: Federal Farm Loan Association Board, LeSueur County, Minnesota; 19?? to 19??
County Board/Commissioner: LeSueur County, Minnesota (County Fair Association Board); 19?? to 19??
Spouse: Mary M. Kalal (married on April 12, 1921)
Children: Five children: Dan L., Ray M., and Lee (sons); Evelyn and Carolyn (daughters)
He was born and raised on a farm.
He died after a long illness at the Masonic Hospital in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota.
Religion provided by In Memoriam.
Residence: Montgomery
Term of Office: 1/29/1947 to 1/1/1951
Counties Represented: Le Sueur
Occupation: Farmer/Insurance Representative
Markets and Marketing (Chair)
Session Notes: William L. Dietz was involved in a contested election with Frank M. Wrabek in the 1946 election. Neither of them were seated until the Minnesota Senate decided that William L. Dietz was entitled to the seat.
Dairy Products and Live Stock
Cooperatives (Chair)
Occupation: Farm Owner and Operator
Occupation: Farm Owner and Operator, 200 Acres
Residence: New Prague
Occupation: Farm Owner and Operator, 197 Acres, Le Sueur County
Duckstad, Robert J. Memorandum Re: Election Contests. Minnesota: Office of Senate Counsel, December 24, 1970, p. 1-4.
In Memoriam: Senators A.A. Anderson, Fred W. Behmler, Fay George Child, William Dietz, Blake Fisk, Sr., H.P. Goodin, J. William Huhtala, Joseph A Kozlak, Sr., Leo J. Lauerman, Wendell L. Ledin, et al. State of Minnesota Senate Chamber, March 29, 1967.
Wrabek v. Dietz, Contested Election. Minnesota Journal of the Senate, January 8, 27, and 29, 1947, p. 27, 92-97, 119-121.
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Holmberg, Nathaniel John "N.J., Nate"
Counties Served: Renville
Birth Place: Renville, Minnesota
Birth County: Renville
Other Names: N.J., Nate
City of Residence (when first elected): Renville
Occupation (when first elected): Farmer
Renville Public Schools; Elementary School;
Renville High School; Secondary;
University of Minnesota, School of Agriculture; College Graduate; Class Orator, Spring 1902
Municipal Government: Sacred Heart, Minnesota (Township Supervisor, 3 years); 1??? to 1???
School Board/Administration: Renville, Minnesota (School Board); 1??? to 1???
State Board/Commission/Council: Minnesota State Horticultural Society (Honorary Life Member); 19?? to 06/13/1951
State Board/Commission/Council: Minnesota State Board of Grain Appeals (Appointed by Governor Burnquist); 1918 to 1919 [Appointed]
State Agency: Minnesota Department of Agriculture (Commissioner, First One); 1919 to 1931 [Appointed]
State Board/Commission/Council: Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission; 1940 to 1952 [Elected]
Spouse: Single (when first elected); Hilda M. Peterson (married on June 3, 1908)
Children: Two children: Edith (born while he was in office, daughter), (son, died in infancy)
He was of Swedish ancestry.
He was born in a log home on a farm in Sacred Heart Township, Minnesota.
He called the first meeting of the group that created Land O'Lakes Creameries.
He was a Master Mason in the Ancient Landmark Lodge of St. Paul, a member of the Masonic Veteran Association of Minnesota, director of the American-Swedish Institute of Arts, Literature and Science; member of the Renville County Historical Society, and a member of the Ramsey County Garden Club.
He died from a heart attack in the City Council Chambers in St. Paul, Minnesota.
He was a member of Augustana Lutheran Church, and Grace Lutheran University
Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Religion provided by the Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1953, and the Minnesota Journal of the Senate, April 8, 1953.
Residence: Renville
Counties Represented: Renville
Occupation: Proprietor; Highland Farm, Renville
Agriculture, Dairy Products and Live Stock (Chair)
Education and Educational Institutions
Grain and Warehouse
Agricultural Schools
Elections (Chair)
State Normal Schools
Immigration (Chair)
Telephone and Telegraph
Dairy Products and Live Stock (Chair)
State Prison and Reformatory
University and University Lands
State Fair and Agricultural Societies
N.J. Holmberg Memorial. Minnesota Journal of the Senate, April 8, 1953, p. 1580-1584.
"N.J. Holmberg (Memorial)." Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1953, St. Paul, Minn.: Secretary of State, 3 pages before page 1.
"Nathaniel J. Holmberg". The History of Renville County, Minnesota. Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., 1916, p. 943.
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The Board has updated Good medical practice: a code of conduct for doctors in Australia
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Renew your registration online now
Doctors in training are having their say
The 2020 Medical Training Survey is now open
Medical college assessment of specialist international medical graduates
Updated standards for the assessment of specialist international medical graduates
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National Registration and Accreditation Scheme Strategy 2020-25 published
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An updated Code of conduct will apply to all doctors in Australia from 1 October 2020, after a scheduled review. The changes to Good medical practice include strengthened guidance about discrimination, bullying, sexual harassment and vexatious complaints, an expanded section on cultural safety, more on patient safety and clinical governance, and a new section on career transitions for doctors. The consultation on these changes generated a lot of interest in the code, which we’ve updated to make clearer the Board’s intentions.
We’re also keen to hear from all doctors in training through the Medical Training Survey, which is open now. In 2020, we ask more about the culture of medicine and the impact of COVID-19 on training.
Dr Anne Tonkin
Chair, Medical Board of Australia
An updated version of Good medical practice: a code of conduct for doctors in Australia will take effect on 1 October 2020.
Changes in the 2020 version aim to provide clearer guidance to doctors and better explanations of expected professional standards. The changes do not significantly change expected professional standards, but some content has been reworded and reordered to improve flow and readability.
Updates in the 2020 version include:
strengthened guidance about discrimination, bullying, sexual harassment and vexatious complaints
an expanded section on cultural safety, including a new definition agreed across the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (National Scheme)
more on patient safety and clinical governance, and
a new section on career transitions for doctors.
Good medical practice describes what is expected of all doctors registered to practise medicine in Australia. It sets out the principles that characterise good medical practice and makes explicit the standards of ethical and professional conduct expected of doctors by their professional peers and the community.
The 2020 version follows extensive public consultation in 2018 and collective work in 2019 across the National Scheme to consult and develop consensus on a definition of cultural safety.
The public consultation identified a range of issues in the Board’s original proposed draft, including concerns about doctors’ rights to free speech and conscientious objection, discrimination and the meaning of culturally safe practice.
The 2020 version addresses these concerns by revising the following sections to make the Board’s intentions and expectations clearer:
section two on professionalism and doctors making public comment
the section on access to care and conscientious objection, and
the section on culturally safe practice.
The Board is publishing the 2020 version of Good medical practice before it comes into effect, to give doctors time to familiarise themselves with the new content.
You can now apply online to renew your medical registration for another year. If you have provided Ahpra with your email address, we have emailed your first reminder to renew.
The 2020/21 registration fee for medical practitioners is $811. The fee schedule is available on the fees page.
A video and tips for renewing online are available for medical practitioners on the registration renewal page.
There is also information about:
CPD requirements if you have not been able to complete CPD because of COVID-19, and
the financial hardship payment plan if you are experiencing genuine financial hardship.
Doctors in training who have general registration can do the Medical Training Survey when they renew. Follow the MTS survey link after the workforce survey.
Registration renewal for medical practitioners with general, specialist and non-practising registration is due by 30 September 2020. A late payment fee is due on renewal applications received in October.
By law, all practitioners who apply to renew on time can practise while their annual renewal application is being processed. If you apply to renew on time or during the late renewal period, you can still practise medicine even if:
we are still processing your application to renew, and/or
the registration expiry date displayed on the register has passed.
When your name appears on the online national register, you are registered even if the registration expiry date displayed has passed.
We understand that this can be confusing. If an employer or a member of the public wants to confirm that you are registered, they can also call us on 1300 419 495.
If you do not apply to renew your registration by the end of the late renewal period your name must be removed from the register of medical practitioners. Your registration will lapse and you will not be able to practise medicine in Australia. A ‘fast-track’ application can be made, but you cannot practise until it is processed and the national register is updated, which can take time.
Download your registration certificate and tax invoice
Your registration details will be updated on the online register of practitioners when your renewal application is finalised. The online register is updated every day and is the safest and most up-to-date way to check a practitioner’s registration details.
Paper registration certificates will no longer be mailed out. If you need a copy of your registration certificate or to access your renewal tax invoice, you can print these from the online portal, once your renewal has been finalised.
Australia's 30,000+ doctors in training in Australia are now having their say about the quality and experience of medical training in Australia.
The 2020 Medical Training Survey (MTS) is now open. This year, doctors in training are calling out the impact of COVID-19 on their training. Updated questions on the culture of medicine will create a clearer picture of bullying and harassment.
The MTS is anonymous, confidential and accessible online. We have prioritised confidentiality and do not publish results when there are fewer than 10 responses.
Longitudinal data from successive surveys will fill gaps caused by privacy and confidentiality protections and enable reporting of results across smaller specialties and jurisdictions.
If you’re a doctor in training, you can do the MTS when you renew your medical registration. Look out for the MTS link at the end of the registration renewal process.
If you’re an intern or an international medical graduate (IMG), look out for your unique MTS survey link in an email from the Medical Board of Australia.
Visit the MTS website to learn how 2019 results are already being used to improve training, create your own reports, check out the 2020 questions and listen to what doctors in training have to say about the MTS.
There’s also a new Ahpra podcast about the MTS: A look into medical training in Australia.
Revised standards to guide how specialist medical colleges assess IMGs will take effect on 1 January 2021.
The updated Standards for specialist medical college assessment of specialist international medical graduates are now published. They will replace the current Good practice guidelines for the specialist international medical graduate assessment process.
The updated standards aim to improve transparency and procedural fairness and make the requirements of the assessment clearer. They do not significantly change the approach to the assessment of specialist IMGs.
Differences include:
rewording and reordering to make requirements clearer
colleges to provide applicants with a summary highlighting any gaps between their application and college requirements, and an opportunity to make corrections to any errors in their information, before the college makes a decision
introducing a mandatory minimum period of supervised practice for specialist IMGs assessed as substantially comparable or partially comparable.
The update reflects the recommendations made by Deloitte Access Economics’ external review of the performance of the specialist medical colleges in the assessment of specialist IMGs.
The updated standards are on the Board’s IMG page.
The Board has approved the following:
Medical school program of study
James Cook University Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery
Six-year program 29 July 2020 31 March 2022
University of Western Australia Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery
Four-and-a-half-year program 29 July 2020 31 March 2022
An independent report has found reforms of the regulatory management of allegations of sexual misconduct have had a profound impact.
Ahpra and the Medical Board commissioned a report to assess what had been achieved since the 2017 Independent review of the use of chaperones to protect patients in Australia and identify what more could be done to improve regulators’ handling of sexual misconduct allegations.
Professor Ron Paterson, Professor of Law at the University of Auckland and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Melbourne Law School, conducted the 2017 and 2020 reviews. He found that Ahpra and the Board have fully implemented ‘nearly all’ his recommendations and made significant changes to regulatory practice.
Professor Paterson found the changes made by Ahpra and the Board have been wide and deep, with profound impacts in terms of how notifications of alleged sexual abuse are dealt with by regulators.
While the report notes it is too early to say whether the changes will flow on to have a positive impact on patients and the public, it identified promising signs.
The report notes the huge changes since 2017 to community and media discussion of sexual misconduct arising from the #Metoo movement and as a result of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The report finds that the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme compares favourably with international health practitioner regulators on this issue, and is ‘highly advanced in how it operates in this complex and demanding area’.
Major changes to regulatory practice made by the Board and Ahpra since 2017 to improve the handling of allegations of sexual boundary violations include:
abandoning the use of mandated chaperones and only rarely imposing practice-monitor restrictions
centralising the expertise and handling of allegations of sexual boundary violations, and
extensive specialised education and training for decision-makers and investigators handling these matters.
Ahpra and the Board have accepted all Professor Paterson’s recommendations to ensure continuous improvement, including by:
improving communication with notifiers and practitioners and reducing timelines
improving support for notifiers (especially when cases go to tribunals), and for decision-makers and staff, and
applying new ministerial ‘public interest’ guidance to sexual boundary notification decisions.
Professor Paterson’s report notes the ongoing use by tribunals of chaperones as a mechanism to protect the public, despite the recommendations of his initial report.
Highlights of Ahpra’s action plan to address Professor Paterson’s 2020 recommendations include:
piloting a new support service for notifiers, to provide practical and emotional support during the regulatory process
considering options for expanding the specialised approach to deciding sexual boundary cases to other professions
strengthening and expanding expert training for staff handling sexual boundary notifications
Ahpra-wide work to reduce timelines for notifications management, and
developing guidance on physical examination.
The report is available on the Ahpra website. The 2017 Independent review of the use of chaperones to protect patients in Australia and more information about Ahpra’s action plan is also available.
Ahpra and the National Boards have published our National Scheme Strategy 2020-25.
The strategy describes the vision, mission, values and strategic themes guiding the work of National Boards and Ahpra.
National Boards, advisory groups and staff have all contributed to the development of the National Scheme Strategy 2020-25:
Vision: Our communities have trust and confidence in regulated health practitioners.
Mission: Safe and professional health practitioners for Australia.
Values: Integrity, respect, collaboration and achievement.
There are four strategic themes to help articulate our strategy. These are regulatory effectiveness, trust and confidence, evidence and innovation, and capability and culture.
The National Scheme Strategy 2020-25 is available on the Ahpra website.
We have published a new guide explaining how National Boards and Ahpra apply the National Law* in the management of notifications about a practitioner’s performance, conduct or health.
The guide aims to make it easier to understand how and why decisions are made.
The Regulatory guide and an executive summary are available on the Corporate publications page on the Ahpra website.
*Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, as in force in each state and territory.
The latest episode of the Taking care podcast looks at what it’s like for patients, and the health practitioners who care for them, in this strange, ever-changing pandemic. It hears from a patient diagnosed with brain cancer just before COVID-19 reached Australia, and from three health practitioners with stories of what it’s like caring for patients, their families and themselves during this difficult time. They discuss how the pandemic is constantly changing the way they work and how they see it affecting their patients.
This and other Ahpra podcasts are available on the Ahpra website. Ahpra releases a new episode every fortnight, discussing current topics and the latest issues affecting safe healthcare in Australia. You can also listen and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and by searching ‘Taking care’ in your podcast player.
Latest tribunal decisions have been published online
There are important lessons for registered medical practitioners from tribunal decisions. The Medical Board of Australia refers the most serious concerns about medical practitioners to tribunals in each state and territory. No new cases were published this month.
Publication of panel, court and tribunal decisions
Ahpra, on behalf of the 15 National Boards, publishes a record of panel, court and tribunal decisions about registered health practitioners.
When investigating a notification, the Board may refer a medical practitioner to a health panel hearing, or a performance and professional standards panel hearing. Under the National Law, panel hearings are not open to the public. Ahpra publishes a record of panel hearing decisions made since July 2010. Practitioners’ names are not published, consistent with the National Law.
Summaries of tribunal and court cases are published on the Court and tribunal decisions page of the Ahpra website. The Board and Ahpra sometimes choose not to publish summaries, for example about cases involving practitioners with impairment.
In New South Wales and Queensland, different arrangements are in place. More information is available on Aphra’s website on the Raise a concern page.
The Medical Board of Australia and Ahpra can be contacted by phone on 1300 419 495.
For more information, see the Medical Board of Australia website and the Ahpra website.
Lodge an enquiry form through the website under Contact us at the bottom of every web page.
Mail correspondence can be addressed to: Dr Anne Tonkin, Chair, Medical Board of Australia, GPO Box 9958, Melbourne, VIC 3001.
Please note: Practitioners are responsible for keeping up to date with the Board’s expectations about their professional obligations. The Board publishes standards, codes and guidelines as well as alerts in its newsletter. If you unsubscribe from this newsletter you are still required to keep up to date with information published on the Board’s website.
Comment on the Board newsletter is welcome and should be sent to newsletters@ahpra.gov.au.
For registration enquiries or contact detail changes, call the Ahpra customer service team on 1300 419 495 (from within Australia).
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Ronald McLaren Thumbly 1.0
Like many people, I oftentimes hold my iPhone in one hand and type with my thumb. This was actually fairly easy to do on the smaller screens of the older iPhones, but as screen sizes have gotten progressively larger, that practice has become more challenging. And unless you have particularly large hands, typing single-handedly on the iPhone 6 Plus seems practically impossible; at least not without Thumbly Keyboard, a $1 alternative iOS keyboard by Ronald McLaren.
As its name implies, Thumbly is an alternative iOS keyboard with a layout that's optimized for one-handed typing. Rather than using the regular typewriter-style keyboard layout that spans the entire screen, Thumbly's keyboard is laid out like a fan at the bottom corner of the device. This lets you hold your iPhone or iPod touch in one hand and reach all the characters with your thumb without having to stretch your hand across the full width of the screen.
Thumbly's right-handed keyboard.
Like many other keyboards, Thumbly predicts your next word and presents those choices above the top "row" of keys. It also offers autocorrection which you can easily toggle on/off directly from the keyboard. When enabled, autocorrect will also flag unrecognized words and record them for later use when you select them. There are special keys that switch the keypad to numbers and symbols, as well as a small collection of smilies and emoji characters. Another handy key flips the keyboard from one side to the other in order to accommodate both left and right-handed use.
Typing with Thumbly felt a little odd at first, but since it still uses the familiar QWERTY layout, I grew accustomed to it pretty quickly. The keys seem a little small for my fairly normal size hands, so some people may find that it takes a little practice to hit the smaller targets. But handily, little bubbles pop up to show each character you're typing in case there's any doubt. The word suggestions could stand to be a little larger and bolder, as they're sometimes difficult to read clearly. But highest on my wish list is a swipe-to-type option. I'm a big fan of swipe-style keyboards and this option seems like an obvious choice for a keyboard like Thumbly; being able to type with one hand while keeping your thumb planted on the screen would be a big help, especially when wielding a huge device like the iPhone 6 Plus.
The only language Thumbly currently offers is US English, so hopefully the developer has plans to add more languages. On a similar note, Thumbly lacks the ability to select accented versions of letters, so I'm hoping this feature will be added as well.
Thumbly's left-handed keyboard.
For a 1.0 product, I think Thumbly is a great start towards a convenient solution for people who prefer to type on their iOS devices with one hand. More so, I think it has the potential to be especially helpful to those who are forced to use their devices one-handed due to mobility issues. For that reason alone, I recommend that everyone download the app and help support the developer in making Thumbly even better.
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EV Connect launches cert program for EV charging stations
Along with ensuring compatibility with advanced charge station use cases, the EVCS Certification Program ensures that charge station hardware complies with the Open Charge Point Protoco.
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In an effort to make electric vehicle (EV) charging more accessible to drivers and manageable for site owners, EV Connect launched its EV Charge Station (EVCS) Certification Program for EV charging station manufacturers. A leading provider of EV charging solutions, EV Connect developed the certification program to allow manufacturers to remotely self-certify and complete the vast majority of steps required to ensure that their EV charge stations seamlessly accommodate the most common driver, network operator, and utility use cases.
Along with ensuring compatibility with advanced charge station use cases, the EVCS Certification Program ensures that charge station hardware complies with the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP), an internationally established, open-standards-based protocol for communication between electric vehicle EV charge station hardware and charge station networks.
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EV Connect provides the industry’s most innovative cloud-based software platform for managing networks of EV charging stations, their interaction with utilities, and the improvement of the driver experience. Charging stations certified under the EVCS Certification Program are automatically cleared to operate on EV Connect’s management platform, EV Cloud, and ensure that charging stations adhere to the highest levels of network reliability, maximized station performance, standards compliance, and customer satisfaction.
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U of Fla., FDOT, City partner to create ‘smart testbed’ for advanced technologies
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The City of Gainesville, University of Florida (UF), and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) announced a partnership to develop a “smart test bed” for new and evolving advanced transportation technologies and equipment.
Advanced technologies, such as connected and autonomous vehicles, smart devices, and sensors, will be tested on the UF campus and surrounding highway network. Goals for the test bed include improving mobility and safety on the UF campus and around Gainesville; facilitate the incorporation of UF invented technologies; quantify how people engage with automated vehicles; collaborate with businesses to test and enhance their own technologies; and become a national and international model for the use of technology to enhance transportation.
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This will be the first such program in Florida to involve a city, a university, and a state DOT. It will also involve industry partnerships to facilitate the development and operation of test bed.
This initiative aligns with the UF and City of Gainesville Strategic Plans by helping to turn Gainesville and UF into a proving ground for solutions that challenge cities nationwide; testing and implementing transportation alternatives for the community; and providing technologies that highlight UF as a preeminent university and the City of Gainesville as a New American City.
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FDOT is funding the beginning research effort of the initiative. UF officials with the UFTI are currently reviewing literature and other test bed applications around the world before setting an official date to begin local tests of new transportation technologies.
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Eskom served with summons for prosecution on air pollution
Minister of environment, forestry and fisheries to prosecute Eskom over Kendal Power Station pollution.
By Chris Yelland 30 Nov 2020 08:06
Eskom's internal investigation highlights false and misleading classification of regular, ongoing and extended atmospheric emission. Image: Waldo Swiegers, Bloomberg
Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Barbara Creecy has notified Eskom of the decision by the senior public prosecutor to pursue criminal prosecution in respect of air pollution by Eskom’s Kendal Power Station.
This includes, amongst others, a charge of supplying false and misleading information in reports prepared by management at Kendal Power Station to an Air Quality Officer, which is a criminal offence listed in Section 51(1)(g) of the Air Quality Act. The summons orders Eskom representatives to appear in the Witbank Regional Court on January 28, 2021.
Internal investigation
This follows an internal investigation and report prepared by Eskom audit and forensic (A&F) into air quality compliance and reporting, initiated by Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter on May 17, 2020, following investigations and articles by EE Business Intelligence on these matters.
The Eskom investigation report finds that “allegations made by media personalities are mainly proven true”, and that Eskom Generation management should take heed of the reality of Kendal’s poor emissions performance.
“The department of environment, forestry and fisheries (DEFF) has yet to receive the full report on Eskom’s internal investigation and findings in respect of air quality compliance and reporting at Kendal Power Station. A thorough and detailed analysis of the full report is needed in order for the Department to understand the implications of its findings and how these may affect the action currently being taken against the power station”, commented Minister Creecy.
The Eskom internal investigation report highlights the false and misleading classification of regular, ongoing and extended atmospheric emission contraventions above the statutory limits as “Section 30” exceedances in reports to the regulatory authorities.
A Section 30 exceedance, however, refers to a short-term exceedance that may occur in an incident or emergency situation, such as an unexpected, sudden and uncontrolled release of a hazardous substance, including from a major emission, fire or explosion.
Continued operating and reporting irregularities
Following extended periods of non-compliance of all six generation units at Kendal in 2018 and 2019, the DEFF finally issued a Compliance Notice to Eskom on December 10, 2019. The notice essentially compelled Eskom to cease operation of two units, and ordered corrective measures to be undertaken, over time, in order to ensure that operations are undertaken in compliance with the Kendal’s Atmospheric Emissions License (AEL).
“However, and despite the above, some of Eskom’s units at this power station have continued to operate in non-compliance, which has resulted in the Department issuing a further warning on 17 November 2020”, said Minister Creecy.
Upon notification to Eskom and Kendal Power Station of the wrong classification of contraventions as Section 30 exceedances in its reports to the regulatory authorities, the reports were modified and subsequently resubmitted in March 2020.
However, the Eskom investigator found that the significant misreporting and misleading reporting identified in the original reports was perpetuated in the resubmitted reports. The investigator concluded that this was a continuation of a failure to apply a “duty of care” by Kendal.
Failure of duty of care
The Eskom investigator found that exceedances of particulate matter atmospheric emissions of up to 10 times the allowable limit of 100 mg/Nm3 occurred consistently for extended periods over the past two years at Kendal Power Station, and that this was having a very significant impact on people and the environment.
For the 12-month period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020, the Eskom investigator identified continuous and almost daily particulate matter emission exceedances by all six generation units at Kendal Power Station of up to 13 times the statutory particulate matter emission limit.
Of the 1 308 days of exceedances by the six units during this 12-month period, the investigator found that 325 days were reported as grace days, with the balance of 983 days reported as Section 30 incidents. The anomaly is that none of the exceedances were reported as legal contraventions to the regulatory authorities.
The investigator pointed out that this was a failure of the duty of care required in Section 28 of the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA), and therefore constituted a breach of Clause 4.2 of Kendal’s Atmospheric Emissions Licence (AEL). Kendal would therefore be subject to sanctions set out in Section 28 of NEMA.
The investigator concluded that: “The current state of plant operation and the continuous exceedance above the emission limit does not show any duty of care, nor care for the people and the environment, nor support of Eskom’s values of zero harm and integrity.”
Incompetence, negligence or deliberate misrepresentation?
One of the stated intentions of the investigation included determining whether any identified false and misleading information provided by Eskom to the regulatory authorities and the public was the result of incompetence, negligence or deliberate misrepresentation by the utility and its officials.
Eskom has an environmental Centre of Excellence (CoE) staffed by qualified, experienced persons who have worked at Eskom for years. The Eskom investigator reported that “together with continuous communication and training, there should not be an excuse for any relevant person to not be able understand the identification and reporting of exceedances”. There can thus be no suggestion of incompetence.
The investigation report does, however, appear to find evidence of negligence, perhaps even criminal negligence, stating that “management continued to allow this vein of reporting without adequate measures to correct it”, and that “there should have been generation and environmental management intervention in terms of interrogating the continuous exceedances at the levels reported and which were not identified, classed or reported as contraventions”.
However, it will be for the courts to decide whether there has been any deliberate criminal misrepresentation of contraventions in reports to the regulatory authorities and to the public by Eskom officials, and/or through specific actions and/or inactions by management and officials at Eskom Megawatt Park and Kendal Power Station.
A legal view
“The findings and conclusions in this Eskom internal risk audit report are extremely disconcerting, coming from an organ of state with a duty of care toward the public, and an obligation to protect people’s constitutional rights”, comments Timothy Lloyd, an attorney and specialist in environmental law at the Centre for Environmental Rights.
“This is especially so in light of an April 2020 expert report which estimated that Kendal’s air pollution during this non-compliance period was responsible for between 67 and 144 early deaths in 2018, and 61 and 130 early deaths between November 2018 and October 2019.
“Of equal concern is that this report is an illustration of firstly, an unlawful practice of deliberately concealing contraventions which are causing harm to people, and secondly, a wider problem of continuous licence contraventions across Eskom’s coal-fired power stations, 12 of which are in the Mpumalanga Highveld.
“Eskom’s status as a ‘perpetual contravener’ of its environmental licences is well documented in government’s own annual enforcement and compliance reports, and in independent expert analysis exposing thousands of exceedances of the air pollution limits across its fleet of power stations – with little consequence to date.
“This Eskom risk audit report not only justifies government’s compliance enforcement action against Kendal Power Station earlier this year, but, the evidence of blatant false reporting, among other findings, clearly warrants criminal sanctions as provided for in our law. Furthermore, government authorities must urgently investigate the state of air quality compliance at Eskom’s other coal-fired power stations, including the reporting practices at each station. The rule of law must be upheld, without exception”, concludes Lloyd.
Eskom response
In response to the internal Eskom investigation report, CEO André de Ruyter indicated that Eskom has conducted a thorough investigation into allegations of non-compliance with emission standards at its Kendal Power Station.
Eskom’s Bruce Moyo, general manager of a cluster of power stations that include Kendal, provided EE Business Intelligence with details of an emissions reduction strategy roadmap and action plan to return the six generation units at Kendal to compliance by end July 2021.
“We have launched a comprehensive recovery programme, overseen by a high-level steering committee, to address the root causes of high emissions, and have already seen some improvements. We will continue to work hard to ensure that we can improve on our emissions at our coal-fired power stations to ensure that we reduce our impact on the environment and on human health,” said De Ruyter.
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Sensei 2 months ago
One branch of the state prosecutes another branch of the state for the way they abuse citizens with pollution, while the prosecuting party abuses the same citizen further by expecting him to finance the operating expenses of the polluter, the prosecuting party and the lawyers.
The voter is basically polluting himself and then prosecuting himself for doing so, while he funds the entire farce out of his social grant.
The solution is to simply get rid of the whole mess and to privatise everything.
This ANC government is like a birthday party at a creche where the teachers and parents are absent, total chaos.
LuluAlert 2 months ago
Spot on. ANC fools leading ANC bigger fools wasting taxpayers money.ANC= an insane delusional circus devoid from all reality. Everything they touch turn to dust in Africa style.What a pathetic joke.Just when you think the farce cannot get any worse.
afewdollarsmore 2 months ago
Agree, but I do think there is some PR spin going in here; Measuredly we are being told how bad Eskom is on various platform until we are all in agreement (brainwashed) that it’s time for a nuclear deal…
Mandinean 2 months ago
Kendal, as the licensed legal entity, may be guilty of a continuing failure to apply a duty of care. It’s possible that there are actual warm-blooded beings who are, also legally, guilty of a continuing failure to apply a duty of care. The moral threshold for guilt is much lower. What are the names of these beings?
yeboBRU 2 months ago
No ways. Why look for a fall guy, somewhere in middle management? The country badly needed the power of we would have had more load shedding. Prosecute the ANC for gross negligence in not building power stations fast enough… Some middle management guy, just following orders from the top, does not deserve to end his career because of the gross engineering ineptitude of our ruling elite….
Dougalan 2 months ago
Simple. Shut the whole of Kendal down. Retrain workers to install PV panels and wind turbines. Case closed.
daniemare 2 months ago
Dougalan,
Although Wind and PV must be part of the mix, exactly how does Wind and PV help at night and/or when the wind does not blow? (and heaven forbid, at the same time)
This suggestion of replacing base load generation with Wind and Solar seems a bit illogical to me, but I am very interested to understand how it can work. Care to elaborate?
Fair comment, although the CSIR did provide evidence that the geological distribution of windfarms in South Africa enables it to provide base load. Your comment on solar is valid. This is where gas enters the scene. Gas turbines are cheaper to run that coal plants, and can be started up at short notice as needed in the evening. Gas is a crucial element in the bigger green energy scheme.
Coal has become too expensive in running cost as well as pollution and greenhouse emissions. Coal is dead.
Many factories do not operate at night so baseload requirement is lower. As Sensei has noted, gas turbines are also able to start at short notice. Then, finally it is interesting to note that battery storage is fast on the increase worldwide due to ever-decreasing costs. In Hornsdale, Australia, where Elon Musk completed a battery storage facility a couple of years back, it has been so successful that they are now building one twice as large. China and America are also building large battery storage units. Maybe one day we will wake up too.
Navigator 2 months ago
Total farce. A bit like the zondo comission and ace not standing down for corruption charges.
Gee, don’t know why we bother.
Richardthe Great 2 months ago
They said the same about South Australia. Endless wind and sun. Unfortunately this turned out to be false. For days on end the wind does not blow and rainless does not mean cloudless. The 1.4GW wind capacity produces often less than 50MW. South Australia has to import COAL power from neighbouring states. The much touted giant Hornsdale battery is there to ensure that the grid does not fall over during the transition. It powers South Australia for a few minutes.
The only solution is to privatise the mess and let the market sort it out. If solar and wind are so marvellous, cheap and readily available, then market forces will oust coal. To shut down Kendall on a whim is a recipe for disaster. No responsible sane person should recommend this.
The pollution problem is due to the facilities being run by the ANC. Under socialism or communism there is no accountability. The most polluted places/ biggest environmental disasters on earth are in the ex Soviet Union e.g. Norisk, Chernobyl, Karabash and Kyshtym. In Australia there are strict environmental regulations and privatised coal fired power stations such as Hazelwood produce electricity for about AUD30 / MWh yet still meet the stringent environmental protocols.
If the Hornsdale battery as so bad, as claimed in the above post, it’s certainly strange that Australia has spent good money on increasing its size. See direct quote below from Aus mag.
‘Neoen’s Hornsdale Power Reserve‘s (HPR) 50%, $71 million storage expansion is complete. HPR, also known as the Tesla Big Battery, is now 50 MW/64.5 MWh bigger, with an upgraded capacity of 150 MW.’
‘South Australian Minister for Energy and Mining was similarly buoyed, noting that the expansion was a “demonstration” of “how batteries can provide system strength similar to traditional power generation.”
casper1 2 months ago
Aagh — shut it down — SA do no need Eskom — we generate our own power!!!
auretha 2 months ago
Cabinet resolved in 1998 already that new power stations must be built with private investor funding. They undertook to pave the way for this by legislation, but because the ruling party is ruled by trade unions, nothing came from this intentions. All they did since then was to appoint incompetent people in Eskom management and built two disfunctional coal fired stations. Due to mismanagement, which eventually resulted in load shedding, competent power station engineers were refused shutdowns for maintenance and upgrades. I am certain there are people at Kendal who knew this bomb was going to explode, but what do you do if you are being bullied by top management who do not care and are stealing the money that should have been used to fix this problems. They are not allowed to fix it. They are not even allowed to complain about the rubbish coal they receive from the “preferred” suppliers. We can not at this moment live without Eskom, but I am afraid De Ruyter has not even touched the top layer of the mess this organisation is in.I hope he has the staying power to dig deeper.
Paining 2 months ago
@auretha: It occurred to me how wonderful it would be if Ramaposer were to be inspired by the likes of De Ruyter and Van Coller in systematically going about tackling corruption in his little organisation of comrades. I know – it will never happen (like Father Xmas bringing me my Ferrari next month). Nice thought however.
Bobby Dollar 2 months ago
No, the taxpayer was hit with the summons and will stump up for the fine too. Bastards!
BenDL 2 months ago
People seem to miss the point that it was an internal Eskom report that highlighted the most of the problem areas.
Kudos to them for that level of transparency.
Big Al 2 months ago
All of the comments so far ignore the number of people killed by the air pollution , why are the responsible managers not being charged with genocide? The column of fly ash going up the Kendal stacks is 100% opaque, dust so thick that you can’t see through it. The Witbank area is one of the worst pollution areas in the world.
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By Ben Nicholson-Smith | April 19, 2012 at 1:18pm CDT
The latest links from around MLB…
Placido Polanco, John Mayberry Jr. and Jim Thome aren't hitting, and David Murphy of the Philadelphia Daily News points out that this puts the Phillies in an uncomfortable situation. Murphy looks back at some of the Phillies' offseason decisions and wonders if the team should have prioritized a hitter over a closer.
Michael Silverman of the Boston Herald points out that two of Boston's primary offseason additions – Andrew Bailey and Mark Melancon — are no longer contributing on the big league roster just two weeks into the season. Bailey is recovering from thumb surgery and the Red Sox optioned Melancon to Triple-A.
Ken Davidoff of the New York Post says the Rangers might have the best 25-man roster in baseball. Davidoff believes Texas can sustain its success even if prominent players leave as free agents.
Infielder Ramon Vazquez is looking to make a comeback and some teams are showing interest, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com tweets. The 35-year-old hasn’t played in the Major Leagues since 2009.
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Marlins Notes: Ramon Vazquez, Morrison, Fernandez
By Tim Dierkes | August 15, 2011 at 10:34am CDT
The latest on the Marlins…
The Marlins signed infielder Ramon Vazquez, tweets SI's Jon Heyman. The 34-year-old last appeared in the Majors with the Pirates in '09; this year he's played for the Triple-A affiliates of the Cardinals and Blue Jays. Presumably he'll head to Triple-A for Florida.
The Marlins took a hit in credibility in optioning Logan Morrison to Triple-A and telling him it was because of his batting average, writes Dave Cameron of FanGraphs.
Marlins' first round draft pick Jose Fernandez has an interesting back story as a Cuban defector. Drafted 14th overall, the Fish appear to have offered Fernandez a bonus right around the $1.6MM slot so far. His advisor, Richard Arena of Team One Management, told Juan C. Rodriguez of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on August 7th, "It’s definitely going to get done. There’s no question."
Miami Marlins Ramon Vazquez Transactions
Minor Moves: Vazquez, Diamond
By Mike Axisa | July 23, 2011 at 8:48am CDT
Let's keep track of all the day's minor moves here…
The Blue Jays have released infielder Ramon Vazquez according to the Pacific Coast League transactions page. The 34-year-old hit .288/.367/.363 in 90 Triple-A plate appearances after signing a minor league deal in mid-June.
The Twins released right-hander Thomas Diamond according to the International League transactions page. Diamond, 28, pitched to a 8.25 ERA with 10.1 K/9 and 5.6 BB/9 in 24 innings for Minnesota's Triple-A affiliate after landing a minor league contract last month.
Minnesota Twins Ramon Vazquez Thomas Diamond Toronto Blue Jays Transactions
Minor Deals: Castillo, Vazquez, Gotay, Carter
By Zach Links | June 19, 2011 at 5:23pm CDT
We'll keep track of all of the day's minor deals right here:
The Diamondbacks have signed left-handed pitcher Alberto Castillo, according to CBSSports.com. Castillo, 35, was designated for assignment by the Orioles on June 10th. The veteran has a 2.89 ERA with 8.9 K/9 and 2.7 BB/9 across four seasons of play at the Triple-A level.
The Blue Jays signed infielder Ramon Vazquez to a minor league deal, according to the CBSSports.com transactions page. The 35-year-old last appeared in the majors in 2009 when he spent the year with the Pirates. Vazquez has experience playing shortstop, second base, and third base.
The Braves signed infielder Ruben Gotay and outfielder Chris Carter to minor league deals and assigned them to Triple-A Gwinnett, according to David O'Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (via Twitter). Gotay last appeared in the bigs with Atlanta in 2008, while Carter played in 100 games with the Mets last season.
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Cardinals Release Ramon Vazquez
By Mike Axisa | June 10, 2011 at 8:55pm CDT
The Cardinals have released Ramon Vazquez according to Matt Eddy of Baseball America. St. Louis signed him to a minor league deal back in January.
Vazquez, 34, hit a respectable .275/.362/.321 in 150 plate appearances for the Cardinals’ Triple-A affiliate, playing all three non-first base infield spots. He hasn’t appeared in the majors since 2009, when he followed up a breakout .290/.365/.430 performance with the Rangers with a .230/.335/.279 effort with the Pirates.
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Minor League Transactions: Vazquez, Rabelo, Calero
By Ben Nicholson-Smith | July 23, 2010 at 9:01pm CDT
The focus at this point in the season is on major league transactions – trades, to be precise. But that doesn't mean the minor league transactions stop. Matt Eddy of Baseball America has the latest on the minor league transactions that occurred between July 6th and July 13th:
One year after posting a 1.95 ERA in 67 major league games, Kiko Calero finds himself a free agent once again. He signed with the Mets and then with the Dodgers, but the Dodgers released him after he posted a 3.00 ERA in 15 minor league appearances. Calero struck out 11 and walked seven in 15 innings.
The Tigers released Mike Rabelo, a backup catcher who spent parts of 2006-08 with Detroit. The 30-year-old struggled through 36 plate appearances at Triple A before the Tigers let him go.
Ramon Vazquez hit much better in the Astros' system than he did in the Mariners', but the Astros released the former Pirate anyways. The 33-year-old had a .900 OPS in 64 plate appearances.
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Astros Sign Ramon Vazquez
By Tim Dierkes | June 29, 2010 at 8:54am CDT
The Astros signed infielder Ramon Vazquez to a minor league deal on Friday, the team confirmed to MLBTR. Vazquez has already appeared in four games for the Triple A Round Rock Express, playing shortstop and second base. The Astros' middle infield currently features Jeff Keppinger, Oswaldo Navarro, and Geoff Blum as they wait for Tommy Manzella's broken finger to heal.
The Pirates released Vazquez on April 8th, assuming his $2MM salary in the process. He was signed to a minor league deal by the Mariners eleven days later. Vazquez's '09 offensive struggles carried over to his Tacoma stint, and Matt Eddy of Baseball America reported his recent release.
Houston Astros Ramon Vazquez Transactions
Minor League Transactions: Worrell, Vazquez
By Ben Nicholson-Smith | June 28, 2010 at 11:05pm CDT
Russell Branyan, Garrett Atkins and Gary Matthews Jr. have been making headlines at the major league level, but some under-the-radar moves have been completed, too. Matt Eddy of Baseball America has the latest minor league transactions for June 14th-21st:
The Padres released right-hander Mark Worrell, who had been pitching in Triple A. His 5.45 ERA isn't pretty, but his 9.3 K/9 and 3.0 BB/9 suggest that the 27-year-old could contribute on a team whose bullpen is a little thinner than San Diego's.
The Mariners released Ramon Vazquez, who appears to have signed with the Astros. The M's picked Vazquez up soon after the Pirates released him this spring, but the infielder wasn't the bargain pickup Jack Zduriencik was hoping for; Vazquez posted a .599 OPS at Triple A.
The Mariners signed David Winfree not long after the Yankees released him. The 24-year-old has posted a .700 OPS while playing first base, left and right at Triple A in 2010.
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CMS schedules HealthCare.gov downtime during open enrollment
Shelby Livingston
HealthCare.gov will again be taken offline for maintenance for a maximum of 60 hours during the upcoming open enrollment for Affordable Care Act exchange coverage, the CMS announced Tuesday.
Consumers may not be able to select a plan from the federally operated marketplace each Sunday between 12 a.m. and 12 p.m. ET, except on Dec. 9, the final Sunday of open enrollment. The CMS said the scheduled downtime, which is the same as last year's, is during periods when HealthCare.gov sees the lowest traffic.
While the CMS alloted 60 hours total for maintenance, it said the 2018 open enrollment's actual downtime totaled 21.5 hours. Last year, some observers criticized the Trump administration for what they considered excessive maintenance periods meant to undermine the healthcare exchanges. Open enrollment for 2019 coverage kicks off Nov. 1 and lasts until Dec. 15 in most states.
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Here are the female comedians who could spoof the men in Trump's administration for 'SNL'
By Mathew Rodriguez
After three weeks of protests and a meteoric rise in disapproval ratings, one thing has Trump rattled: a Saturday Night Live impression. On Monday, reports surfaced that Trump was not amused by Melissa McCarthy's impression of Sean Spicer on the late night sketch program, because being played by a woman made Spicer look "weak."
After news spread that Trump was deeply affected by the comedy bit, his arch-nemesis Rosie O'Donnell threw her hat in the ring to play former Breitbart editor and chief adviser Steve Bannon.
With McCarthy and O'Donnell in place, Mic decided to play casting director for Saturday Night Live for the rest of Trump's Cabinet and advisers. Here are our suggestions for the best female comedians to spoof the president's boys' club.
Ellen DeGeneres as Vice President Mike Pence
Mike Pence (left), Ellen DeGeneres (right) Mic/Getty Images
Is there any better choice to play Trump's stoic second banana, who is not the biggest LGBTQ community supporter, than the zealous and openly lesbian DeGeneres? DeGeneres' friendly comedy style would also strike a definite contrast with Pence, who reminds many people of the villain in every comic book.
Megan Mullally as Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Jeff Session (right), Megan Mullally (left) Mic/Getty Images
If you need someone to play the small, squeaky-voiced Sessions, look no further than Will & Grace star Megan Mullally, whose high-pitched Karen Walker kept people laughing for the better part of a decade. Mullally also has a knack for playing absent-minded characters who don't always play with a full deck of cards, which might be a good take on Sessions, who is a little forgetful of his history of racism.
Sarah Silverman as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
Steve Mnuchin (left), Sarah Silverman (right) Mic/Getty Images
The dark hair, the narrow features and the nasal tenor make Silverman a dead ringer for Mnuchin. Add in Silverman's whip-smart irreverence and she'd add a unique flavor to any skit poking fun at Trump's cabinet.
Wanda Sykes as Housing Secretary Ben Carson
Ben Carson (left), Wanda Sykes (right) Mic/Getty Images
Carson's soft voice and gentle manner have already been sent up by SNL alum Jay Pharoah. But now that Pharoah's gone, the opportunity exists for Sykes, who is in every way different from Carson, to carve out a brand-new impression of the housing secretary.
Janeane Garofalo as Energy Secretary Rick Perry
Rick Perry (right), Janeane Garofalo (left) Mic/Getty Images
It's more than just the glasses. Garofalo redefined stand-up comedy in the 1990s with her own brand of laid back, feminist stand-up. Swapping out Perry, who infamously got a "D" in a class called "Meats," for the smart and sarcastic Garofalo would not only send up Perry but draw attention to how little he reportedly understands his role as energy secretary.
Rachel Dratch as Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
Wilbur Ross (right), Rachel Dratch (left) Mic/Getty Images
Dratch has already proven to be a master of disguise, after playing a litany of roles on 30 Rock. Dratch's talent is turning every character into an oddball. Given that she fits the physical bill, the small-statured former cast member can most definitely pull off Ross, the 79-year-old banker in charge of commerce. And hey, if she has to deliver any bad news while in character, we already know she can pull off Debbie Downer.
Ana Gasteyer as Health Secretary Tom Price
Tom Price (right), Ana Gasteyer (left) Mic/Getty Images
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price's voice is that of a gentle, old Southern woman. During her tenure on Saturday Night Live, Gasteyer played old women like high school vocal teacher Bobbie Mohan-Culp and gentle-voiced women like Delicious Dish co-host Margaret Jo McCullen. For Gasteyer, Price would be a cinch.
Molly Shannon as Chief of Staff Reince Priebus
Reince Preibus (left), Molly Shannon (right) Mic/Getty Images
As chief of staff, Priebus has the frantic job of managing the president's office. And if you want a comedian who excels in being frantic, ask the energetic Molly Shannon, who played Catholic school girl Mary Katherine Gallagher and the kicking-in-her-fifties Sally O'Malley during her SNL tenure.
Catherine O'Hara as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
Rex Tillerson (left), Catherine O'Hara (right) Mic/Getty Images
Playing Rex Tillerson requires a bit of gravitas. That's why actress Catherine O'Hara, veteran comedic actress and star of Home Alone, could easily fill the role. Sure, John Goodman has played him once, but in the name of comedy, we're sure he'd be willing to pass the torch over to O'Hara.
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Crowdfunding campaign launched for ‘Eberwhite Playground’ project in Ann Arbor
LANSING, Mich. – A dedicated group of Ann Arbor residents and parents are coming together to complete an inclusive playground through a new crowdfunding campaign, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Eberwhite Parent Teacher Organization announced today. The campaign is being offered through the Michigan-based crowdfunding platform Patronicity.
If the campaign reaches its crowdfunding goal of $50,000 by May 1, the project will win a matching grant with funds made possible by MEDC’s Public Spaces Community Places program. For project details and to donate, please visit: patronicity.com/play.
“The development of universally accessible play spaces for people of all abilities is at the forefront of placemaking today,” said MEDC Senior Vice President of Community Development Michele Wildman. “We are pleased to have the Eberwhite Playground participate in our Public Spaces Community Places program as an example of inclusive placemaking.”
For nearly 30 years, local children and their families cherished the former Eberwhite Playground at Eberwhite Elementary School. In 2018, the playground was demolished due to structural decay and being assessed as unsafe for play. This project is a result of volunteer response to the loss of that community space. The campaign will complete the play space by funding the second and final phase, which is a third-through-fifth grade playground. The new Eberwhite Playground will provide a safe, accessible and vibrant space for neighbors and residents to gather and play for decades to come.
“From start to finish, the Eberwhite Playground Rebuild has been an opportunity to see just how much a community can do when they have a shared vision,” said Eberwhite Playground Rebuild Steering Committee Chair Karmen Saran. “The PSCP matching grant is a perfect partner for our modern-day barn raising – the building of an accessible playground that will inspire generations of kids through the power of play. After two years of fundraising, planning and building, we are honored to partner with the MEDC to achieve our goal.”
In addition, the playground embodies the school’s emphasis on being a “Green School.” Eberwhite has long been recognized for actively teaching and practicing earth-friendly habits. There are 29 acres of natural woods immediately surrounding the playground and school, and the new playground will incorporate these natural features and include natural playscapes for play and learning.
Public Spaces Community Places is a collaborative effort of the MEDC, the Michigan Municipal League and Patronicity, in which residents can use crowdfunding to be part of the development of strategic projects in their communities and be backed with a matching grant from MEDC. Communities, nonprofits and other business entities can apply at https://patronicity.com/puremichigan.
“Creating inclusive public spaces is key to great placemaking,” said Dan Gilmartin, CEO and executive director of the Michigan Municipal League. “This playground rebuild will help people of all abilities feel welcome in the community.”
The Public Spaces Community Places initiative started in 2014 with MEDC providing matched funding of up to $50,000 for community improvement projects throughout Michigan. As of Feb. 27, 2020, MEDC has provided nearly $7.3 million in matching grants. Since the launch of the program, 238 projects have been successful in reaching their goal, with nearly $8.5 million raised from 43,395 individual donors.
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This land isn’t your land: how England privatised its greatest asset
Over half the land in England is owned by 1 per cent of the population, whether aristocratic families or large rent-seeking companies.
By Jon Trickett
Labour's democratic socialists have nothing to fear from debate with internal rivals
The times we live in demand a pioneering, radical and transformative government, not technocratic social democracy.
Bono’s Maltese investments are a reminder that tax avoidance has been normalised
Charity begins with paying tax.
Why Ed Balls is wrong about what Jeremy Corbyn's Labour needs to do to win
Rather than becoming "insiders", Labour must remain insurgent outsiders - the public want a radical alternative to austerity.
Jon Trickett: Rich Tory donors have thrived this year - for nurses it's a different story
The 35 people who donated almost £20m to the Tory party increased their wealth on average by £230m per week this year.
These are new times - we need a new style of leader
These are new and challenging times for the Labour Party. We need new ways of thinking says Jon Trickett MP.
It was the working class, not the middle class that sunk Labour
Labour's next leader must hold onto and increase our middle class vote, reaching out to working class voters, and mobilise Labour identifiers who did not vote Labour.
The NHS is under threat - from the Conservatives, and Ukip
The NHS is Labour's finest achievement. But it's under threat from five more years of the Conservatives
How Labour is making its trade union link stronger than ever
Allowing members of members of affiliated unions to become Affiliated Supporters will give them the chance to shape the party's future.
Market rule isn’t working, but we can build a new world
The way we have run our economy is fundamentally flawed.
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TMX Group Consolidated Trading Statistics - November 2016 Français
Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange,
Montréal Exchange and NGX
TORONTO, Dec. 5, 2016 /CNW/ - TMX Group Limited today announced November 2016 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha), Montréal Exchange (MX) and NGX.
MX set multiple volume records during the month. On November 14, 2016, MX reached a new official non roll daily volume record for the Ten-Year Government of Canada Bond Futures (CGB) with 130,157 contracts traded.
MX also set a new monthly volume record for CGB of 2,901,876 contracts and an overall monthly volume record in November 2016 with 9,398,416 contracts traded.
NGX set a new daily overall energy record with the equivalent of 226,278 terajoules traded on November 29, 2016.
All TMX Equities Marketplaces *
$6,668.1 million
Year-to-date Statistics
$1,414,765,033,716
S&P/TSX Composite Index Close
S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index Close
$116.8 million
Alpha**
Montreal Exchange
Derivatives Volume (Contracts)
Open Interest (Contracts)
Volume (Contracts)
NGX
Energy Volume*** (Terajoules)
*2015 trading totals for "All TMX Equities Marketplaces" include TMX Select trading up until September 18, 2015. TMX Select ceased operation at the close of business September 18, 2015.
**Alpha relaunched as an unprotected marketplace with a new trading model, revised trading rules and new pricing schedule on September 21, 2015. Going forward from that date, statistics will not be directly comparable to prior periods.
***NGX Total Energy Volume includes trading and clearing in natural gas, crude oil and electricity.
All figures are as of November 30, 2016. Because certain trades do not settle on the trade date, figures may be subject to change until all November trades are finalized. The previous month's data has been updated to reflect known trade corrections.
TMX Group does not guarantee either the completeness or the accuracy of this information. The information contained in this media release is provided for informational purposes only and you agree not to rely upon the information contained in this media release for any trading, business, or financial purposes. By using this media release, you expressly agree to the condition that TMX Group assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies in this media release.
S&P is the trade-mark of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and is used under license.
TMX Group's key subsidiaries operate cash and derivative markets and clearinghouses for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange, The Canadian Depository for Securities, Montréal Exchange, Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation, NGX, Shorcan, Shorcan Energy Brokers, AgriClear and other TMX Group companies provide listing markets, trading markets, clearing facilities, depository services, data products and other services to the global financial community. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and operates offices across Canada (Montréal, Calgary and Vancouver), in the U.S. (New York and Houston) as well as in London, Beijing, Singapore and Sydney. For more information about TMX Group, visit our website at http://www.tmx.com. Follow TMX Group on Twitter: @TMXGroup.
SOURCE Toronto Stock Exchange
For further information: Mathieu Labrèche, Manager, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, TMX Group, 416-947-4473, [email protected]
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Rowan Student Psyched For New Digs at Opening of 220 Rowan Boulevard
When Rowan University senior Tom Marsella first heard about a new building that would house students at 220 Rowan Boulevard, his ears perked up — he was curious.
But when he finally got to take a tour of the complex for the first time, the 20-year-old human resource management major said it was a done deal and he “fell in love with it right away.”
Tom Marsella — a 20-year-old senior at Rowan University — attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the new mixed-use building at 220 Rowan Boulevard Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. Marsella is one of the tenants who will soon move into the new complex where he will share a four-bedroom unit with three other students. (Spencer Kent | For NJ.com)Spencer Kent | For NJ.com
Once word hit of what the building would offer — large kitchens and spacious living rooms and bedrooms; hardwood floors and a view of the entire downtown district — Marsella quickly became the envy of all his campus friends, he said.
“I was talking to them and they said, ‘Oh man, I can’t believe you’re living there,” said Marsella, wearing a satisfied grin.
On Friday, state legislators, county and borough officials and representatives from the university attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of 220 Rowan Boulevard — a 316,000-square-foot mixed-use building that offers 119 units for Rowan students and 57 luxury apartments for private residents.
“This is a long time in the making,” said State Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-West Deptford), who was one of the speakers during the ceremony.
Reposted From: http://newsinnj.com/rowan-student-psyched-for-new-digs-at-opening-of-220-rowan-boulevard-2/
Ushering in Change
220 Rowan Boulevard to Hold Ribbon Cutting Ceremony This Friday
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The National Day of the Republic of Turkey, representing the proclamation of the Republic, on 29 October 1923, offers the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs the pleasure to convey the most sincere congratulations to the Turkish people.
Romania and Turkey have a longstanding tradition of cooperation, as we are preparing to celebrate, in 2018, 140 years of diplomatic relations. We are happy to mention the very good bilateral relations between the two countries, which have enjoyed a special dynamics after 2011, when the Strategic Partnership was signed. The calendar of high level visits in recent years, which has been followed by a multitude of contacts in various spheres, including economic, cultural or military fields, confirmed the relation with Turkey as a priority of the Romanian foreign policy agenda.
The relations between our two countries are based on solidarity and confidence. After the July coup attempt, Romania has expressed its solidarity and strong support for the constitutional, democratically elected Turkish authorities. We trust that Turkey will continue to develop as a stable country, with strong institutions, based on the democratic values and rule of law.
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The community of Turkish origin, concentrated on the Black Sea coast, is a model of integration and coexistence in our country. Its members are respected and valued by the Romanian society. The Turkish identity, culture, as well as the Islamic faith, are an important part of the cultural mosaic our country is proud of.
The positive trend and the important potential of our bilateral relations is rooted in the geographic proximity and common history, as well as in the common interests in a region faced with many challenges.
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The quality of oregano oil is based on its species and carvacrol content. Wild Oregano C93 contains the rare species Origanum minutiflorum, which boasts the highest naturally occurring carvacrol concentration of total volatile oils when compared to other oregano oils available: a potency-validated 93.14%. This wild-crafted species of oregano doesn’t have to be “certified” as organic, as it already grows at elevations over 1,500 m in the Turkish wilderness, untouched by the contaminants of modern civilization.
The Science Behind Wild Oregano C93
Origanum minutiflorum grows in the higher altitudes of the Mediterranean region. Its naturally occurring carvacrol content has been demonstrated by scientific research carried out by Anadolu University, at the Department of Pharmacology. More research, conducted at Ankara University, has further verified it to be naturally occurring, without the use of any synthetic chemicals or solvents. Over 21 species of Origanum grow wild in the Mediterranean alone; the altitude where they grow affects their carvacrol content.
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At New Roots Herbal, we have access to the same laboratory equipment (brand and model) that is used for drug testing on Olympic athletes. Montreal hosts the headquarters for Olympic drug testing, and their lab confirms and/or verifies any disputes that may arise in these sporting events. Our sensitive, high-technology instruments have a greater sensitivity than older scientific-testing equipment. With these sophisticated instruments, we achieve the most precise test results possible. Our lab can identify and validate oregano species and their carvacrol content.
This research is critical, as carvacrol has been determined as the key ingredient behind the extraordinary properties of oregano oil.
Adults: Put 5 drops under the tongue and gulp or mix with 30 ml of water or juice, three to five times daily or as directed by your health-care practitioner. Take with food. If you are taking supplements containing iron, zinc, calcium, or copper, take this product a few hours before or after them. For occasional use only.
Cautions and warnings: Do not use if you are pregnant or breast-feeding or if you have hypersensitivity or are allergic to herbs in the Lamiaceae family. Discontinue use if you experience gastrointestinal upset. Do not exceed recommended dosage.
Each drop contains:
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Other ingredient: Extra-virgin certified organic olive oil.
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https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2014/10/introducing-league-si-superheroes-new-champions-metric
Introducing the League of SI Superheroes: The New Champions of Metric
To celebrate Metric Week (Oct. 5-11), the National Institute of Standards and Technology would like to introduce you to the League of SI Superheroes. The League of SI Superheroes use their incredible powers of measurement to perform amazing feats of science and engineering.
Measurement is an incredibly powerful tool. Measurements are how we describe what we know, uncover what we don't know, ensure quality and enable creativity.
Rear Admiral and computing pioneer Grace Hopper famously said, "One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions." What she meant is that opinions are fine, and expert opinions are even better, but they aren't knowledge until there are measurements to back them up.
The customary units in the United States grew out of our everyday experience. Gallons, feet and pounds were conveniences based on prescientific notions of accuracy and repeatability that served, and continue to serve, people's everyday needs adequately enough (though their continued use does act as a barrier to trade and can occasionally lead to mishaps).
It was around the time of the Enlightenment that people began to get serious about measurement. Scientists realized that they needed a rational set of interrelated measures rooted in natural constants if they were going to make any further progress. This was the driving force behind the creation of the International System of Units, or SI, which, even though its use is not mandatory, serves as the foundation for all the traditional units with which we in the United States are most familiar.
Some of the most famous figures in science have lent their skills (and their names) to the SI, and the drive to improve those and related measurements has led to groundbreaking scientific and technological achievements, including four Nobel Prizes (and counting) for NIST scientists.
Today, we welcome the newest champions of measurement, the League of SI Superheroes. Emerging from their environmentally shielded headquarters around the globe, the superheroes are dedicated to the fight against uncertainty, imprecision and inaccuracy and to improving the quality of our lives and the things we build.
The League of SI Superheroes was designed to encourage students to learn about metric measurements as they consider science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers. SI familiarity and fluency must be developed along the STEM career pipeline to prepare the future workers with essential measurement skills.
Educators are encouraged to use this resource in their classrooms when introducing the seven base SI units to students.
The League of SI Superheroes are:
Meter Man: With his laser interferometer eyes, graduated arms and extendable body, no dimension is too big or too small for Meter Man to measure.
The Mole: Able to sniff out and count the atoms of every element, the Mole is a master of chemistry.
Professor Second: By reading the vibrations of her laser-cooled cesium atoms, Professor Second can synchronize any frequency and calibrate any clock.
Monsieur Kilogram: Monsieur Kilogram loves lifting weights, and it shows. With his balance scale arms, no mass is too big or too small for him measure.
Ms. Ampere: Ms. Ampere rules the flow of electrons—electrical current—and makes sure that the right amount gets where it needs to go.
Dr. Kelvin: Dr. Kelvin heats up or cools down objects by speeding up or slowing down the particles inside them. He can also measure the temperature of anything in the universe with his trusty thermometer.
Candela: Don't let her small size fool you. Candela's power over light helps to brighten the whole world.
The League of SI Superheroes' work is never done. They toil tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure the measurements that interweave our lives are as accurate and precise as possible. And they hope to release another of their harrowing adventures to the public soon.
In the meantime, watch their pilot episode, Desperate Measures, and let them know what you think about their work. And be sure to let them know if you are in need of their assistance.
If you would like to learn more about the SI, check out these fine resources:
Becoming Familiar with the SI
Everyday Estimation
Metric Units of Measurement
Measurements in Sports
Teachers can also request a classroom set of SI educational materials by submitting their contact information and grade level to TheSI@nist.gov.
More information about Metric Week can be found at these sites:
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
NCTM Position - Teaching the Metric System for America's Future
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Position - Use of the Metric System
U.S. Metric Association – Metric Week (link removed; no longer active)
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Released October 6, 2014, Updated August 21, 2018
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N.J. Attorney General asks Obama administration if medical marijuana program could violate U.S. law
Updated Mar 31, 2019; Posted Apr 20, 2011
By Susan K. Livio | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Chris Hondros/Getty ImagesA jar of marijuana is seen on a vendor table at the Cannabis Crown 2010 expo April 18, 2010 in Aspen, Colorado.
TRENTON — The debate over the legality of medical marijuana in two western states has prompted State Attorney General Paula Dow to ask the Obama administration whether New Jersey's future program could violate federal law.
Dow’s office sent a letter late today to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to clarify whether those licensed to grow or sell pot — as well as the state workers who will administer the program when it launches later this year — could face arrest.
Possession and distribution of the drug is a crime even though 15 states passed laws making it available to select patients.
"As the state’s chief legal adviser to all of the departments in the Executive Branch, many of which are participating in carrying out the medical marijuana legislation, it is critical that I properly advise them as to the potential criminal and civil ramifications of their actions in carrying out their duties," according to Dow’s letter.
"Accordingly, I ask that you provide me with clear guidance as to the enforcement position of the Department of Justice relative to New Jersey’s medical marijuana legislation and the scope of the entities and individuals who may be subject to civil suit or criminal prosecution," the letter said.
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Gov. Chris Christie’s administration raised the question following the public debate last week in Washington state, where Gov. Christine Gregoire, who is weighing whether to sign a law creating a program licensing growers and sellers, asked federal officials if it would run afoul of federal statutes.
The Justice Department replied by repeating earlier assertions by Holder that patients legally using a program would not be targeted, but offered no blanket immunity to program operators.
"We maintain the authority to enforce the Controlled Substance Act vigorously against individuals and organizations that participate in unlawful manufacturing and distribution activity involving marijuana, even if such activities are permitted under state law," according to the letter from Washington U.S. Attorneys Jenny Durkan and Michael Ornsby.
A California U.S. Attorney offered the same response to Oakland officials when similar inquiries were made in February.
Dow also sent the letter to New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman, whose spokeswoman, Rebekah Carmichael declined to comment tonight because the letter had not yet arrived.
Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D-Union) co-sponsor of the law, said he was "certainly concerned" about the recent mixed messages from federal law enforcement. "Anything that gives pause or credence to a slowdown of the process is not good for patients," he said.
The legal questions potentially raise more obstacles to the state's fledgling program that lawmakers and patients expected to begin last fall.
Democratic legislators and Christie, a Republican, have been fighting for months over how the program should run. The governor has said he thinks the law is too lax. Democrats oppose the administrations' rules that limit on how potent the drug can be and how many strains may be sold, and require doctors who recommend it to their patients undergo training in addiction treatment.
Scutari, who has spearheaded an effort to legally overturn the proposed rules, said no compromise has been reached with the administration.
Attorney Dave Evans of Pittstown and executive director of the Drug Free Schools Coalition, predicted that anyone associated with running the program is in legal jeopardy.
"We regret that the sponsors of the medical marijuana bill did not seek legal advice about the conflict with federal law before they got the medical marijuana bill passed. We repeatedly told them there were violations of federal law,'' Evans said tonight. "We should not override our federal medicine approval process by passing state medicine laws. The FDA has stated that smoked marijuana is not safe or effective as a medicine."
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Mellow - Trello to Coggle Converter
I wanted to figure out how to set up serverless things so I opted for a simple application, although it turned out the architecture of it all had a lot of moving parts. The application in question is taking the Trello board JSON export and converting it to an MM file for Coggle.
Let's say you are primarily using Trello to organize your to-do list. It's a great tool with a lot of features, why not use it. But you are more of a visual type, and seeing it in a color-coded diagram could help you prioritize and group up the tasks more efficiently. If that's the case, this small app would competently meet that very specific need.
It's as simple as going to a Trello board settings and exporting it as JSON.
You can either save a file to disk from your browser or copy the JSON content to a clipboard. With it, you can go to the service I made and put either of those there and press the "Convert" button.
It will give you an MM file for download that you can save and when you later open up Coggle, you can create a new diagram and drag and drop the file there.
The result is your Trello board in a new, mind map, view.
Simple as that, without any hassle of giving permissions and any info to the app. I called the converter from Trello board to MM for Coggle, Mellow.
Why I actually went for it is that we've suddenly found ourselves in the process of looking to buy an apartment, and moving things on the screen and seeing them presented in different ways actually helps a lot with establishing previously unseen patterns and connections. Both Trello and Coggle came in handy, and as I am a tinkering IT guy, Mellow came to be as well.
That was really the main reason. The other reason is taking my mind off from the fruitless pursuit of finding a space we would actually pay to own, rather than tolerate to rent.
But back to Mellow. I made a primitive SDK and CLI for converting the Trello export to Coggle so it was just a matter of wrapping it in a web service.
Now on to the boring part about the architecture. The front-end part is a simple static app that just features plain old HTML and some new JavaScript for modern browsers. It is jQuery, though, since jQuery comes as a requirement for the Bootstrap components that the front-end is made with. It made sense to keep it minimal, but I had to include a bigger version of jQuery to compensate for the CORS calls to a different service. I put the Trello to Coggle front-end repository on GitHub in the end since it allows for the deployment previews in Netlify as opposed to Bitbucket that I'm usually working with. Vesna helped around a lot with the parts I didn't know how to make, but had a rough idea. Netlify is an option that came recommended from a friend since you can specify the security HTTP headers properly with it.
Having the front-end set up, I had to have something that it could communicate with. I made a small Flask web application that takes a text string as an argument via form submit and gives back the JSON in response. If successful, it will have the base64 string that is used to construct an MM file in the browser. I didn't want to deal with file management in the transfer. The application imports the SDK and CLI script as a dependency and it worked properly with the front-end communicating the data it needed. A small set of tests were added to it to make sure it responds correctly.
Since it's Python all the way, I opted for Zappa to create a serverless AWS Lambda function out of the Flask application. The resulting URL of the function is added as the form action attribute in the front-end of the service. Of course, I've set up the custom subdomain for it on the existing one I already own. The FaaS repository for Trello to Coggle converter is hosted on the Bitbucket and I'm deploying it with their Pipelines making sure that the tests it has pass before deployment.
Deploying to Netlify is just a push away with the settings in the netlify.toml file. It doesn't have a specific build since I didn't want to overengineer it. Deploying to AWS is described in the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file and is pretty straightforward.
To recap what I had problems with, it was definitely debugging the security headers. I thought that I've cleared everything up so it's not inline, but apparently extensions can throw you off. You'd need to run your browser in the safe mode to see the proper output. The other thing is pointing the custom domains from your DNS (Digital Ocean in my case) to Netlify and AWS. While that didn't present a problem because you just follow the instructions for adding a custom domain and issue a CNAME redirect on your DNS, getting certification, so you can use HTTPS, in AWS only works in the us-east-1 region, the Virginia center. I couldn't register a certificate in my preferred region. I had to resort to that other one for the moment.
Regarding costs, the service falls in the free tier in every part since it's not like it's going to be overly used. I also disabled keep_warm in Zappa because it's not like the service needs to be up all the time. I didn't want to add the auth mechanism because that would require me to dabble with the user info and the GDPR compliance. It could be useful to connect the apps and just negotiate the content, but it's not necessary for now. I just wanted to try out the FaaS part. The domain I already own so it was just a question of adding the subdomain to the service. The service could benefit from additional tests and analytics as well as monitoring, however, it would be an overkill at this stage.
I hope some of you will find Mellow, the Trello to Coggle converter useful. If you do, but find it can be improved, speak up.
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'Raazi': Alia Bhatt thrills with her performance
by Veena May 27, 2018 0878
By Troy Ribeiro
Film: “Raazi”; Director: Meghna Gulzar; Cast: Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Soni Razdan, Jaideep Ahlawat, Rajit Kapur, Shishir Sharma, Arif Zakaria; Rating: ***1/2
Director Meghna Gulzar’s “Raazi” based on Harinder S. Sikka’s novel, “Calling Sehmat” is not a conventional espionage thriller, but it does depend upon surprises, thrilling moments and unexpected revelation of characters and they grow naturally out of the story.
Set in the early 1970s just before the India-Pakistan war and inspired from real events, “Raazi” is the tale of a Kashmiri girl, Sehmat Khan (Alia Bhatt) whose life changes after she gets to know her dying father’s last wish. As a dutiful daughter, she can do little but surrender to his passion and patriotism and follow the path he has so planned for her.
So from an ordinary, college-going girl she is trained by an Indian intelligence agent Khalid Mir (Jaideep Ahlawat) to become a deadly spy. She is then married off to Iqbal Syed (Vicky Kaushal), the son of the well-connected Pakistani Brigadier Parvez Syed (Shishir Sharma) and her mission is to regularly pass information to the Indian intelligence.
How Sehmat survives her stint in Pakistan, forms the crux of the tale.
With perfect infusion of sentiments in a gripping plot, the story touches one’s heart especially because of Alia Bhatt’s power-packed performance. In an author-backed role, she is natural and undoubtedly captures your heart with her restrained and mature act.
Vicky Kaushal as Iqbal Syed has little to do on screen. But, within the given screen-time he shines brilliantly, especially at the end when he realises that his marriage was just a farce and he earnestly asks Sehmat, if the moments which they spent together were for real?
Among the supporting cast; Rajit Kapur as Sehmat’s father Hidayat Khan, Shishir Sharma as Iqbal’s father Brigadier Parvez Syed, Soni Razdaan as Sehmat’s mother are all effective and effortless.
The only odd one out was Arif Zakaria, portraying Abdul, the family help of the Syeds. With his standoffish get-up and mysterious demeanour, he stood out like a sore thumb and seemed cliched.
Also, Sanjay Suri’s guest appearance is a clever ploy by the director to stamp a loaded statement.
With excellent production values, Jay I. Patel’s cinematography captures the performances and the era to perfection. Shankar- Ehsaan-Loy’s music elevates the viewing experiences.
Overall, Raazi offers a subtle dose of patriotism that makes you root for the film as it brings to life the story of the unsung heroine of the India-Pakistan war.
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Steak n Shake airs first steps in strategic revamp
INDIANAPOLIS Pressed for strategic changes by two investor groups, Steak n Shake Co. said today that it would "critically" review costs and intensify its focus on field operations. The 490-unit casual-dining operator also said it would evaluate "potential opportunities" through a newly appointed financial advisor and a just-formed special committee of outside directors.
In addition, the new strategic plan calls for "simplifying initiatives," though Steak n Shake did not explain what it meant by that term.
Steak n Shake stressed that it has just begun to craft the new strategic plan, and did not disclose specifics of the directional change. "Management looks forward to sharing our evolved strategic plan with shareholders in the near future," said interim chief executive and president Alan Gilman.
The announcement follows Monday's disclosure that the activist investor who chairs The Lion Fund, owner of a 5.8 –percent stake in Steak n Shake, would seek seats on the company's board for himself and an associate. Sardar Biglari has previously used the holdings of The Lion Fund to seek board seats at Friendly Ice Cream Corp. and Western Sizzlin, where he currently serves as chairman.
In June, an investment group holding 9.5 percent of Steak n Shake's stock said it would pursue meetings with management to raise the value of the restaurant company's stock. The discussions could include "exploring an acquisition or other transaction,Ó the consortium said at the time. The group includes Dallas-based hedge fund HBK Investments LP, Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon parent Lone Star Funds and Texas investor Robert J. Stetson.
In between those two developments, Peter Dunn abruptly resigned as president and CEO of Steak n Shake after five years in the posts. The stated reason was to pursue other opportunities.
In disclosing today that it was drafting a new strategic plan, Steak n Shake said it has retained Merrill Lynch & Co. as a financial advisor. It also appointed a committee of three non-management directors to assist in considering strategic alternatives. It did not say if a sale or merger could be among the possibilities.
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Telecom Alert - 6 GHz Band PN; T-Band Mandate Repealed; Verizon... by: Wesley K. Wright and Gregory E. Kunkle
Jace H. Goins
Anders W. Lindberg
Monté L. Williams
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Health Law & Managed Care
Professional / Malpractice
West Virginia Legislature Amends Comparative Fault and Medical Professional Liability Acts
The West Virginia State Legislature recently passed amendments to WV Code § 55-7-13d (the "Comparative Fault Act") and § 55-7B-5 of the Medical Professional Liability Act. This alert serves to highlight the changes to these two code provisions.
First, the following amendments were enacted to the Comparative Fault Act, which will affect causes of action arising or accruing after May 24, 2016:
Explicitly removing dollar-for-dollar setoffs representing prejudgment settlement amounts when jurors assess non-party liability at trial. This change removes the previous version's apparent grant of both a proportionate verdict reduction based on a percentage of a non-party’s liability and an implicit dollar-for-dollar setoff based on the total amount of settlement value between plaintiffs and settling parties. Conversely, now the total verdict may only be reduced by a jury's assessment of a non-party's proportionate fault at trial.
Clarifying the intent of the previous version to provide for a complete bar against all recovery for all damages resulting from all injuries occurring during the commission or flight from a felony or violent misdemeanor and explicitly including wrongful death actions under the Act.
Providing for a mandatory stay of a civil action, upon motion by a defendant, during the pendency of any criminal action that forms the basis of the support of the complete bar to recovery as noted above.
Correcting the non-party liability notification requirement from the previous "108" days to the more logical "180" days.
Second, the following amendments were enacted to the Medical Professional Liability Act:
Providing for a complete defense for actions against health care providers (including pharmacies) related to the prescription or dispense of controlled substances when a plaintiff’s damages arise as a proximate result of his or her violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, similar state and federal law, or the commission of felonies and violent misdemeanors.
Limiting such defense if a plaintiff proves that health care providers (or pharmacies) prescribed or dispensed controlled substances, which were the proximate cause of a plaintiff's injuries, in violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act and/or similar state and federal law. However, it remains unclear if the amendment requires a plaintiff to make a prima facie showing of such violations, in order to avoid motions to dismiss or motions for summary judgment.
Click here to read the full text of Senate Bill 7, which was passed on February 24, 2016.
© Steptoe & Johnson PLLC. All Rights Reserved.National Law Review, Volume VI, Number 83
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Jace Goins practice is focused primarily on the area of professional liability litigation, and more specifically on the defense of long-term care facilities, physicians, and hospitals. He also represents defendants in the areas of medical device product liability, toxic and mass torts, legal malpractice, and workplace injury. He has also developed expertise in the area of federal preemption of claims against medical device manufacturers. He has tried numerous cases to verdict in both state and federal court, and is licensed to practice in West Virginia and Kentucky.
jace.goins@steptoe-johnson.com
www.steptoe-johnson.com
Anders Lindberg is the Practice Group Leader for the firm's Professional Liability Practice Group. Mr. Lindberg focuses his practice in the areas of professional liability defense, employment litigation, and general litigation.
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Monté Williams often tells his clients, "I'm here to try to eliminate your worry." Monté puts his skills as a litigator to work to protect his clients, whether he's defending them at trial, managing litigation, negotiating settlements, conducting investigations, or partnering with them to find ways to avoid future problems. His background as a former West Virginia State Trooper gives clients trust that issues will be thoroughly investigated and evaluated quickly and strategically. Monté collaborates with his clients long before litigation is a reality to protect them...
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UPDATED: No indication when Mead tennis courts will be open
News // Town Government
June 14, 2018 Updated: June 25, 2019 10:18 a.m.
1of3Three tennis players at the Mead Park tennis courts on Friday afternoon, June 8, hold out their hands to say 'why aren't the courts open for play?' — Greg Reilly Show MoreShow Less
2of3At 2 p.m. Friday, June 8, there was work equipment at the Mead courts but no workers. — Show MoreShow Less
3of3At least four of the Mead Park tennis courts look like this — sticks, leaves, no net and locked door. — Greg Reilly photo Show MoreShow Less
[UPDATED JUNE 14] The Town's tennis court contractor, Atlantic Tennis, has not given the Town any new indication when it will get the Mead Park courts open, according to Director of Public Works Tiger Mann. What the Town is hearing is that the company does not have the clay-like material that is needed, and there is no expected time when it will be available.
"I have not date on the outside end" from the company promising when the courts will be opened.
Last Friday, June 8, a worker on site told the Advertiser, "We don't have the material; if we had the material we'd have the courts open tomorrow."
Mann said that he has not found an alternative solution to simply waiting at the mercy of the contractor.
Mann said the company originally committed to opening the courts by May 9, five weeks ago.
[ORIGINAL STORY, JUNE 8] New Canaan tennis players and pass holders for the Mead Park courts are getting restless since the courts are not yet opened for the season as of June 8, 2 p.m. Director of Public Works Tiger Mann told the Advertiser, “We’re not happy about it either.”
As of Monday, June 4, there was a contracted crew of three workers on site with some equipment on a court, and one of the workers was working. Friday at 1 p.m. there was equipment on site and no workers. Friday at 2 p.m. there were still not workers. At that time, however, three tennis players showed up to check on whether or not the courts were open, and, recognizing the Advertiser editor, they asked if some pressure could be put on the Town to get the courts opened.
Mann explained that it rained 22 days in May, and that was 22 days of lost work for the contractor that the Town hires for this routine, annual court-opening work. The courts are a clay-like surface that requires more maintenance work than asphalt-and-paint courts. It is the surface found at virtually all private country, field and lake clubs in the area.
He said that the contractor had said also that they were four-to-five weeks behind. The reasoning for that is believed to be the snow in April that pushed back all the spring work for the contractors.
Mann said he told the contractor that the current late situation is “not acceptable” and all contracts would be at risk if they did not make their guaranteed open date.
For the residents’ seasonal privilege of using the Mead Park tennis courts, the adult fee is $115; seniors pay $70; youths pay $50; and the guest fee is $5. The Town Recreation Department web page says that the season begins mid-May, weather permitting.
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Electronic Logging Devices
Bill to delay ELD mandate two years filed in House
James Jaillet
Owner-operators would receive two extra years to adopt electronic logging devices if the bill is enacted.
A bill has been filed in the U.S. House to delay the compliance date of the federal government’s electronic logging device mandate two years, to December 2019. The change, if enacted, would give owner-operators two additional years to switch from paper logs to an electronic logging device.
The legislation was introduced Tuesday and referred to the House’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Texas Republican Rep. Brian Babin filed the ELD Extension Act of 2017. Babin’s introduction of the bill came a day after a House panel recommended that the U.S. DOT study whether a “full or targeted delay” of the mandate is needed. Both developments signal that efforts to engage Congress on the issue have gained traction. In a report issued Monday, members of the House cited the burden placed on smaller carriers, like owner-operators, and questions surrounding enforcement and “technological concerns” as reasons to delay the ELD mandate.
For Babin’s ELD delay bill to become law, it must be passed by the House and Senate and signed by President Trump.
Other than passed as a standalone bill, the legislation could also be attached to broader legislation, such as the DOT appropriations bills currently in the works in both chambers of Congress.
Lawmakers have used the DOT funding bills as avenues to enact trucking policy reforms in recent years, such as the reversal of some of the hours of service changes implemented in 2013.
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ELD delay faces big hurdles, even with added co-sponsors
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Quantitative Assessment of Nocturia Patient’s Urination Pattern and Drug Treatment Effects using a Joint Ordered Categorical Model
Authors Hyerang Roh (1), Hankil Son (2), Young Deuk Choi (3), Kyungsoo Park (2)
Affiliations 1. Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Supported by Brain Korea 21 Plus Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University, 2. Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 3. Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Presenters Hyerang Roh
Background: Nocturia occurs in about 70% of the elderly, lowering the quality of life seriously. However, due to the lack of understanding of the disease, no objective tool is available for evaluating drug effects.
Objective: To develop a model for quantitative assessment of disease characteristics and drug effects in nocturia
Design, Setting, and Participants: This study analyzed data retrospectively obtained from 20 male Korean outpatients with severe nocturia (≥ 3 urinations /night) over three periods, before treatment (Period 1), after 1 month of mono-therapy of tamsulosin (Period 2), and after 3 months of combination therapy of tamsulosin and solifenacin (Period 3).
Outcome Measurements and Statistical Analysis: Outcome measurements were the urination frequency every 2-h (FREQ) and the average urine volume per void every 2-h (FBC, functional bladder capacity) within a 24-h interval, taken from Frequency Volume Chart (FVC) recorded by study patients, which were analyzed using the joint ordered categorical model using NONMEM 7.2
Results and Limitations: FREQ was divided into 0, 1, and 2 urinations, and FBC into 0, 1-100, 100-200 and >200 ml (no, small, medium and large FBC, respectively). Drug effect assessed by the model increased the probability of no-urination at nighttime from 17% up to 45% and 52% in period 2 and 3, respectively, while that of large FBC from 26% up to 41% in period 3, where the drug effect on FBC has not been found by the conventional approach yet. Another new finding identified from this model was that solifenacin has significant effect on decreasing nocturia frequency, a supportive evidence justifying the use of this drug in nocturia patients which has been controversial. The results for the combination treatment were similar to previous studies. One limitation with the current work is that no demographics information was included in the model, resulting in the model with limited prediction ability. Nevertheless, we expect that the developed model can be used as a supportive tool in the treatment of nocturia.
Conclusions: These results demonstrate the feasibility of applying the proposed method to quantitative understanding of nocturia characteristics and objective assessment of drug effects.
Hyerang Roh
Yonsei Univ. College of Medicine
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Mechanism-based pharmacodynamic modelling approach to optimise synergistic carbapenem plus aminoglycosides combinations to combat carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
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Health restrictions delay guilty plea in case of Sylvan Lake man accused of killing wife
Satnam Sandhu now expected to plead guilty to manslaughter on Feb. 23
Jan. 12, 2021 11:30 a.m.
A Sylvan Lake man’s expected guilty plea for allegedly killing his wife in September 2019 was delayed Tuesday because of COVID-19 restrictions at Edmonton Remand Centre.
It only came to light on Monday that Satnam Singh Sandhu would not be able to make his planned Tuesday morning court appearance because health restrictions do not allow him to be transported to court from the remand centre.
Sandhu’s case was adjourned until Feb. 23 when he is expected to plead guilty to manslaughter in connection with the death of his wife, Kulvinder Sandhu, 36.
Little information has been released by police about the circumstances surrounding Kulvinder’s death
Sylvan Lake RCMP said they were called to a local home at about 10 a.m. on Sept. 11 and found Sandhu’s wife badly injured.
Satnam Sandhu, then-41, was arrested at the scene. He was initially charged with second-degree murder.
Kulvinder Sandhu, 36, died three days later in hospital.
Justice Michele Hollins told Sandhu’s lawyer, Dan Murphy, to alert the remand centre well ahead of Sandhu’s next appearance that he needed to be available.
Murphy suggested the justice system’s handling of prisoners and court appearances has been baffling at times.
“I’m at a loss how to deal with institutions and how they’re handling prisoners,” he told the justice.
Satnam Sandhu listened in on Tuesday’s proceedings by phone. The courtroom was not equipped with a closed-circuit video link.
The court heard that Sandhu does not speak English and could not follow what was happening because an interpreter was not available.
The judge ordered that a Punjabi interpreter be available for his next court appearance, when he is expected to be sentenced.
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34-year-old Michael Gilchrist has been arrested for his involvement in the thefts.
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25-year-old Rachelle Okrusko has been missing since Jan. 12, 2021.
UPDATE: Missing Wetaskiwin woman found
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Community donations from 4-H groups, Mulhurst Fire and local businesses key to this years success.
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View from the top: Cattle, climate change & animal welfare
There are a lot of myths about leather, particularly concerning the process of cattle rearing, and International Leather Maker aims to debunk the biggest ones in a two-part podcast episode.
In the first part, Isabelle Griffiths is joined by Steven Sothmann, President of the Leather and Hide Council of America (LHCA), Julia Herman, Beef Cattle Specialist with the National Cattleman’s Beef Association in the U.S., and Ashley Lembke, Vice President of Food Safety and Quality Assurance at American Foods Group. They discuss the topic of animal welfare standards and the leather industry. They discuss the zero-tolerance expectations the sector is subject to and how continuous innovation keeps pushing the standards. One example is the Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program, which requires farmers to recertify every three years to the latest guidelines. There are complex frameworks in place in the meat industry, to ensure that all processes are monitored closely.
In the second part, Stephen Sothman and Frank Mitloehner, Professor in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis, discuss methane emissions. One of the biggest misunderstandings in the carbon footprint debate is the impact of agriculture. Understanding this topic is not an easy matter, as certain ‘created’ standards have heavily skewed the way we measure emissions. Frank Mitloehner has for years agitated against an incorrect standard, in the form of CO2-eq. By equating every emission to a CO2-like standard, important factors are overlooked, which is a dangerous thing if we look at challenges like climate neutrality in contrast with veganism, anti-meat and leather propaganda.
Listen to the podcast and find out from the horse’s mouth what’s really going on in the leather industry.
environmental Article How companies can source leather more sustainably
environmental Article Ruminant agriculture can help us deliver zero emissions
ethical Article Sizing up vegan leather: is it just a fad?
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Skip Holtz
Week 2: No. 6 Florida Gators v. South Florida Bulls
September 10, 2010 | By Adam Silverstein
Location: Ben Hill Griffin Stadium – Gainesville, FL Weather Forecast: 89°F, 20% chance of precipitation Time: 12:21 p.m. (EST) TV: SEC Network Sirius/XM: 219/200 Online Video: ESPN3.com Online Audio:...
9/7: Florida reflects on Miami, looks ahead to USF
September 8, 2010 | By Adam Silverstein
The Florida Gators make a selection of coaches and players available to the media each Tuesday, many of whom reflect about the previous game while simultaneously looking ahead to the upcoming contest....
9/6: Urban Meyer’s Monday press conference
Head coach Urban Meyer meets with the media each Monday after the Florida Gators participate in a game the previous Saturday. OGGOA has compiled some of the most important notes and quotes...
TWO BITS: Skip Holts at USF, Runaway Lane
January 16, 2010 | By Adam Silverstein
1 » Though the coaching change at Tennessee is garnering much national attention, the Florida Gators 2010 schedule may have just gotten a little tougher if you believe that Skip Holtz has...
Holtz hired, Gators 2010 staff likely complete
Now that East Carolina Pirates‘ Skip Holtz has been hired as the new head coach of the South Florida Bulls, the Florida Gators 2010 coaching staff appears to be solidified. Associate head...
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MOD treating Kathleen Thompson family with 'contempt'
| 13 November 2018
Kathleen Thompson
The family of a Derry mother-of-six, shot dead in her own back garden, says Britain’s Ministry of Defence is treating them – and an inquest into her death - with complete contempt.
Even the Coroner hearing the case has expressed deep disappointment at the MoD’s failure to confirm the identities of soldiers who were in Creggan on the night she was shot. – four months after the information was requested. Not a single soldier has been identified to the Coroner.
Kathleen Thompson, aged 47, was killed in November 1971 as the British Army raided homes on the Creggan Estate.
A new inquest began work last March with “Soldier D” from the Royal Green Jackets (RCJ) accepting he was possibly the soldier who shot Mrs. Thompson. Soldier D was NOT identified by the MoD but had instead made himself known to the PSNI.
Her family do not wish the inquest to end, however, without a greater effort to locate Soldier’s A, B and C who were with Soldier D at the time the fatal shots were fired.
Four months after the family and their lawyers outlined the search avenues they wanted the MoD to pursue, nothing concrete has been received from London, enraging the Thompson family.
The PSNI has provided a list of soldiers’ names to the Coroners service and, last month, the Coroner asked the force to search the complete list of former soldiers with whom it engaged during their investigation into Bloody Sunday.
The source of this list was also sought but, to date, nothing has been clarified.
Moreover, the Coroner has also made a previous order for the MoD to ask the Directorate of Judicial Engagement Policy (DJEP) for information and the source of their information on the Royal Green Jackets.
Astoundingly, Counsel for the MoD has informed the court they sent correspondence to the wrong address for DJEP (another functioning arm of the MoD - not a separate institution).
The Thompson legal team and family members say they this is farcical and far-fetched. Particularly as Matthew Lewsley, the head of the DJEP, appeared at the inquest earlier this year.
James Kinchin-White, a former RGJ soldier, has provided a list of names to the Thompson legal team which they sent to the MoD, yet the MoD have yet to come back with further information arising from inquiries.
Counsel for the Thompson family said in court last week that they find the MoD response “completely inadequate”.
The Coroner also says she is “disappointed” that she has no answers that she needs “fully articulated written responses towards the issues raised”.
Meanwhile, the Thompson family are questioning the credibility and legality of the MoD’s abject failure to engage with the inquest and are considering other legal avenues if sufficient responses are not received by the next preliminary hearing on Monday November 19th.
The Pat Finucane Centre (who are assisting the Thompson family) said that effective, human rights compliant investigations are the law and protected under Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights.
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PFC’s submission to the United Nations Committee Against Torture
PFC's latest submission to the Committee of Ministers
‘Good Samaritan Bombing’ family win Court of Appeal judgment against Attorney General for Northern Ireland
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Halo 6 won't be revealed or discussed any time soon
By Shaun Prescott 20 June 2017
343 Industries spokesperson lays to rest any expectation regarding a new game.
Since Microsoft started releasing its Xbox One exclusives for PC, there's been renewed interest in the possibility of a Halo 6. Shooting aliens is fun after all, and even though Halo 5 got a level editor and multiplayer offering on PC in the form of Forge, it's just not enough. We want a campaign, too.
It's inevitable that a full-blown Halo will release for PC, but don't hold your breath. Holding one's breath for a matter of minutes – let alone weeks, let alone years – will result in death. Writing on the Halo Waypoint website, 343 Industries spokesperson Jeff Easterling said that a new instalment isn't coming any time soon.
Discussing fan expectations following last week's Microsoft E3 press conference, Easterling took the time to address a new Halo specifically. "While there’s little to nothing that can be said on that front, it’s been made clear that we won’t be talking about Halo’s next major title for quite some time," he wrote.
"And no, that doesn’t mean Gamescom. Or PAX. Trust us, when we’re ready to begin pulling back that proverbial curtain, you’ll know. It won’t be soon."
In the meantime, there's always Destiny 2 looming on the horizon, developed by the studio which founded Halo. And there's plenty of other shooters coming, so hopefully we'll feel very busy while we wait for this fabled sixth instalment.
Shaun Prescott
Shaun is PC Gamer’s Australian editor and news writer. He mostly plays platformers and RPGs, and keeps a close eye on anything of particular interest to antipodean audiences. He (rather obsessively) tracks the movements of the Doom modding community, too.
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Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City trailer commits zombiecide
By Tom Senior 31 March 2011
This is the first teaser trailer for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. The title helpfully pops up every few seconds in case you forget what you're watching, which is good, because at several points I thought I was watching Left 4 Dead. Would it be a bad thing if Resident Evil took inspiration from Valve's co-op zombie shooter? The game will have four player co-op, and is set in Raccoon city between Resident Evil 2 and 3, and has you battling zombies and government forces as they try to cover up the zombie virus outbreak.
Tom Senior
Based in Bath with the UK team, Tom loves strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.
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Prisoners Defenders
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Posted in Cuban Prisoners Defenders, Detentions, Political Prisoners, Prisoners Defenders, Report, Repression, United Nations
United Nations condemns the imprisonment of political prisoners in Cuba and targets the Criminal Code and the lack of independence of lawyers
Prisoners Defenders 17 febrero, 2020 Leave a comment
Cuban Prisoners Defenders’ press release, February 17, 2020:
UNITED NATIONS PERFORM AUDITS TO THE JUDICIAL PROCESSES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS…
The first three cases reviewed are that of Josiel Guía Piloto, Iván Amaro Hidalgo and Marbel Mendoza Reyes, in a new resolution of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which comes to endorse and extend the resolution of the case of Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces.
In its resolution, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention attacks against the figures of contempt, disorder, social danger and attempt, contained in the Criminal Code, which “are extremely vague and lack the requirement of sufficient accuracy to provide legal certainty to the population”, and which have been the cause against these three political prisoners.
Likewise, it indicates that “the criminal types for which Mr. Guía Piloto, Ms. Mendoza Reyes and Mr. Hidalgo were tried and deprived of liberty, being extremely vague, do not allow to specify their meaning or identify the conduct to be regulated, so that they contravene the international obligations of Cuba, and invalidate them as the legal basis of the arrest, which makes it impossible to invoke a legal basis to justify the detention, making it arbitrary”, which is a “violation of article 9” and also “Articles 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the Universal Declaration”, as well as Articles 10 and 11, for the “impossibility of accessing evidence” and affecting “their right to defend and receive effective legal assistance” and in “detriment of the obligation of publicity”.
In the same way, UN accuses Cuba of carrying out a systematic methodology on political activists and that these arrests “were made within the framework of a systematic arbitrary detentions of political opponents, committed by Cuban authorities of recent years.”
UN recalls that « the Inter-American Commission [IACHR] recognized that arbitrary detention is systematically used in Cuba as a” method of harassment “against opposition political organizations, such as the Patriotic Union of Cuba, noting that people are accused of public disorder, pre-criminal social danger and contempt. He has also identified that persons deprived of liberty in this context have been subjected to “aggressions, threats and ill-treatment and their access to medical care and treatment would be restricted within prisons”. »
The United Nations agency concludes in its resolution that the detentions are “the result of the exercise of human rights” and that “there are no proportional grounds that justify the detention and, therefore, the criminal trial.”
It reminds Cuba of the need, already expressed by the Committee Against Torture, to « reform the provisions of the Criminal Code with regard to pre-criminal social danger, to “end administrative detention based on subjective criminal figures, vague and inaccurate.” »
The agency attacks legal defence system in Cuba, and ensures that “the Working Group was able to verify that, under Decree-Law on the practice of Law and the National Organization of Collective Law Firms, and its Regulations (issued by the Ministry of Justice), the Ministry of Justice exercises extensive regulatory and supervisory functions over the legal profession. This includes the high inspection of the National Organization of Collective Law Firms, the determination of rates for legal services, serves as an administrative instance of appeal against decisions that deny entry or separate individuals from the legal profession, receives reports from the National Board of Directors, can authorize the exercise of the profession, approves the creation and extinction of collective law firms, supervises the training regime for newly graduated lawyers, among many other control activities (see articles 3, 11, 20, 29 and Special First Provision of Decree-Law, as well as articles 20 and 42 of the Regulation).”
It indicates that “This is not the first time that the Working Group has been analysing a case where it is alleged that there have been serious irregularities in access to legal assistance for detainees in Cuba; otherwise, it has been verified in recent cases that detainees have not had the fundamental guarantee of access to a lawyer who can exercise their defence without limitations or interruptions. The Working Group has even received cases of lawyers who have been subjected to arbitrary detention.”
The United Nations Working Group indicates as usual to find “serious irregularities in access to legal assistance” and that detainees have not “had the fundamental guarantee of access to a lawyer who can exercise their defense without limitations or interruptions”. “The Working Group has even received cases of lawyers who have been subjected to arbitrary detention,” they sentence.
The United Nations reminds Cuba that « the Committee against Torture has indicated with concern that “there have been no significant changes in the justice system of the State party since the presentation of its initial report in 1997. In particular, it notes with concern the lack of independence from the executive and legislative branches of both the judiciary and the role of lawyers.” »
The United Nations therefore ruled that “Guía Piloto, Mendoza Reyes and Amaro Hidalgo did not have the fundamental guarantee of independent legal assistance, which represented their rights and exercised the defense of the accused freely, in accordance with the international standards”, and that “the Cuban authorities seriously disregarded international norms relating to the right to a fair impartial trial to the detriment of Mr. Guía Piloto, Ms. Mendoza Reyes and Mr. Amaro Hidalgo, which contravenes the provisions of the Articles 9, 10 and 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”.
The United Nations, in view of everything presented in these cases by Prisoners Defenders, indicates that it will also refer the cases “to the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; to the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association; to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, as well as to the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers.”
The United Nations states that “the appropriate remedy would be to place Mr. Pilot Guide, Mrs. Mendoza Reyes and Mr. Amaro Hidalgo immediately in full freedom and grant them the effective right to obtain compensation and other types of reparation, in accordance with the international right.”
Prisoners Defenders hopes that Cuba understands that the best way out of this situation, and that of all political prisoners on its list (129 on February 1, 2020), is to conduct an audit of the cases, as the United Nations has done to these cases and, in an act of judicial rectification, agrees the absolution of the inmates, as well as the compensation of the damages that have been caused to them with all processes. Such gestures would allow us to believe that there are in Cuba officers os the State who want to get out of a human rights situation on the island, created by the State Security -the regime- that, if it continues, will only bring more misery and isolation to the Government of Cuba.
CASE DOCUMENTATION
United Nations resolution (MAIN DOC): VER
Reply of Prisoners Defenders to Cuba: VER
Response of Cuba to Prisoners Defenders / UN: VER
Reports sent to the UN:
Case of Josiel Guía Piloto: Report, Extension sent to IACHR and UN, Resolution IACHR
Case of Iván Amaro Hidalgo: Report, Extension sent to IACHR and UN, Resolution IACHR
Case of Marbel Mendoza Reyes: Report, Extension sent to IACHR and UN
As for the pre-criminal convictions, like the case of Marbel Mendoza Reyes, it should be remembered that there are more than 8,400 cases in Cuba in prison and more than 2,500 in house sentences (11,000 in total).
It is necessary for Cuba to carry out a process of review of multiple fundamental human rights deficiencies, caused by the State Security’s action on state officials and professional workers, a review that has been requested by Edel González, President of the Judiciary Provincial in Cuba, in a presentation in Madrid.
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Cuban Prisoners Defenders is an independent group of analysis, study and legal action, which counts on the collaboration of all dissident groups on the island and the relatives of political prisoners to gather information and promote the freedom of all political prisoners and rights Humans in Cuba. Cuban Prisoners Defenders is part of Prisoners Defenders International Network, a legally registered association based in Madrid, Spain, whose focus of action is the promotion and defense of human rights and democratic values, and whose Internet address is www.prisonersdefenders.org.
The works of Cuban Prisoners Defenders are adopted by numerous institutions and are sent, among others, to the United Nations Organization, Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Civil Rights Defenders. Freedom House, European Parliament, United States Congress and Senate FNCA, ASIC, UNPACU, Government of Spain, Spanish Transition Foundation, International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights, FANTU, Party for Democracy Pedro Luis Boitel, College of Pedagogues Independent of Cuba and the Citizen Movement Reflection and Reconciliation, among many other institutions and organizations of equal relevance.
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InfoBAE: "Traer médicos cubanos a #Colombia para atender el covid-19 sería una violación de los #DerechosHumanos, asegura eurodiputado" El eurodiputado Javier Nart: la situación de los médicos de #Cuba es una ‘forma contemporánea de esclavitud’: https://www.infobae.com/america/colombia/2021/01/19/traer-medicos-cubanos-a-colombia-para-atender-el-covid-19-seria-una-violacion-de-los-derechos-humanos-asegura-eurodiputado/
#Cuba Sinceramente agradecido por la solidaridad del Eurodiputado Javier Nart. Emocionado, muy emocionado. Este español tiene un admirable historial d lucha por los derechos humanos y ha arriesgado su vida en muchas ocasiones por la defensa de la justicia
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Home News & Analysis Deals How to co-operate your way through a crisis
How to co-operate your way through a crisis
Our annual conference in New York (virtual of course) lifted the lid on how participants in the direct lending market are faring in a changed landscape.
Andy Thomson
This week, we’ve been bringing the asset class together through our virtual New York Forum 2020. Here are some observations we heard from those involved in the direct lending market:
Collaboration has surprised on the upside: The usual caveats about vested interests may apply here, but the view was loud and clear that sponsors and lenders have generally been rubbing along well during the crisis (so far at least). Sponsors have been providing capital infusions for portfolio companies, assisting with operational aspects and taking cost out where necessary. “Everyone has worked together constructively,” said one panellist. Both lenders and sponsors appear to be resigned to, on average, longer hold periods.
The approach to deal opportunities is open-minded: One exec at a largely US-focused GP said his firm had headed to New Zealand to do a deal, a “good credit risk-adjusted” transaction in a country viewed as having dealt well with the virus. On the whole, a panellist said, deals are “a bit more off-the-run and bespoke” but certain businesses, especially those that have embraced digital adoption, are still capable of delivering 8-12 percent returns. Life science is popular (either not correlated to covid-19 or possibly even helped by it), while contrarian investors are eyeing dislocation opportunities in energy.
Dealflow is picking up: Panellists noted a pick-up in M&A activity over the last few weeks, some of it growth opportunities and some restructuring. A lot of incremental facilities are being put together to allow portfolio companies to fund acquisitions and roll-ups, and some of these have been priced fairly aggressively. In the secondary market there was a window in the spring but opportunities remain as “some credits are still trading lower than they need to be”, according to one observation.
There’s a strong level of competition: The message was that there are still plenty of lenders out there in decent health. While there has been some consolidation of sub-scale business development companies, the industry has not witnessed the wipe-out some predicted in the immediate aftermath of the viral outbreak. For some deals, competition is now considered to be significant and exacerbated by lenders gravitating to a smaller number of favoured sectors.
Other observations: Lower interest rates may not have the impact on returns some imagine given the incorporation of LIBOR floors into many deals; while there hasn’t been much consolidation so far, it is likely to pick up over time; venture debt has momentum, with strong demand from growth companies for non-dilutive capital.
Write to the author at andy.t@peimedia.com
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara, commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture... (wikipedia)
Born in Santa Fe, Argentina
Died On 10/9/1967
↪ Born On June 14, 1928
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Revolutionary Leaders Quotes
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Anarchy Quotes
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Hands Quotes
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Political Quotes
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Country Quotes
The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.
Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.
Each spilt drop of blood, in any country under whose flag one has not been born, is an experience passed on to those who survive, to be added later to the liberation struggle of his own country. And each nation liberated is a phase won in the battle for the liberation of one's own country.
Arms Quotes
Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.
Race Quotes
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead.
Perfect Quotes
Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.
Views Quotes
...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions. You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you.
Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.
Waiting Quotes
It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.
Facts Quotes
In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.
Our World Quotes
Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the need and their availability.
Sacrifice Quotes
Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.
One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.
Machines Quotes
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!
This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.
Should Have Quotes
If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.
Mean Quotes
Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.
United States Quotes
While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.
Adventure Quotes
I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.
Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them.
Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.
The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
Army Quotes
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory
Overcoming Quotes
We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.
How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?
Games Quotes
It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.
New York Quotes
If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.
Numbers Quotes
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression.
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.
Victory Quotes
The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.
As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.
Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn,
I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.
There are no borders in this fight to the death; we cannot be indifferent to what is happening in any part of the world.
People Quotes
The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.
Running Quotes
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.
Determination Quotes
The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.
Ku Klux Klan Quotes
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.
Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war.
Pieces Quotes
I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.
The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.
Tired Quotes
Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.
Freedom Quotes
There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.
Wall Quotes
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.
The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.
Baths Quotes
The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths
How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.
Each time a country is freed, we say, it is a defeat for the world imperialist system, but we must agree that real liberation or breaking away from the imperialist system is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. Freedom is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end.
Politics Quotes
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.
The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.
Octopus Quotes
I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on onerous terms; investments that place a given country in the power of the investors; almost total technological subordination of the dependent country to the developed country; control of a country's foreign trade by the big international monopolies; and in extreme cases, the use of force as an economic weapon in support of the other forms of exploitation.
Stars Quotes
The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.
Lying Quotes
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
Popular Vote Quotes
Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.
I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.
It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words.
We must strive everyday so that love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
Reading Quotes
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.
Law Quotes
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!
We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to disappear.
The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City!
Rain Quotes
Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
Justice Quotes
The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.
Two Quotes
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
Revolution Quotes
The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!
Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.
Struggle Quotes
Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.
Band Quotes
Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians.
Destiny Quotes
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...
Soldier Quotes
A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
Revolutionary Quotes
Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.
Years Quotes
Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.
Suits Quotes
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.
We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.
Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.
Deeds Quotes
Words without deeds are worthless.
Doors Quotes
The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto—not just as regards students but also professors Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.
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Caroline Flack wins Strictly Come Dancing 2014
The former-Xtra Factor presenter has been named this year's Strictly Come Dancing champion
By Ellie Walker-Arnott
Saturday, 20th December 2014 at 8:55 pm
Caroline Flack has been named the winner of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing.
The former-Xtra Factor presenter has beaten fellow finalists The Saturday’s singer Frankie Bridge and Blue band member Simon Webbe to the coveted Strictly glitterball.
“This has been the best experience of my whole life,” said Caroline, as she lifted the trophy. “Thank you so much for voting. It’s been so lovely to have your support.”
“I could not imagine a better partner,” adder her professional dancer Pasha Kovalev.
Caroline Flack was the first Strictly celebrity to score full marks throughout the series. In fact, she bagged the full 40 points for all four of her last dances, making her the first person in Strictly history to get three sets of 40 points in the final.
Craig Revel Horwood called her final dance “absolutely phenomenal,” while Darcey said it was the best performance of the series.
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The Lil' Chris Festive Sketchbook
Lil' Chris draws…
JESUS BEING BORN
"I don't really know how to explain what I'm drawing here."
(Chris' worried PR suggests "perhaps you could draw him in a manger".)
"This is baby Jesus coming outâ?¦" (Chris' worried PR notes that "we're all going to hell".)
"He's already got his beard and a full head of hair, and actually he's got a thumb and then there's Mary."
Festiveness: 8/10
A SNOWMAN
"The mouth is a sausage with a hole cut down the side, and he's going to have a cucumber nose just because he's different. He's individual. He's got his own individual style.
"Having said that his arms are sticks because he's not that individual, I mean, we can't change our fingers. We can have nosejobs, but we can't change our hands, can we?"
"So he's got loads of little branch and the one arm is little stub arm cos during birth he got his finger caught. It's a horrible story."
Lil' Chris draws…A REINDEER
"This reindeer is going to have his own individual style as well, I think all these pictures are going to be in their own individual style because I can't draw for shit."
"This reindeer has hooves. Can it be explicit in any way? He also has a stub horn. He has a little stubby sausage horn. "
"Because he's realistic, he's got a dong. Yeah."
Lil' Chris' draws…HIS GRAN WEARING A HAT FROM A CHRISTMAS CRACKER
"That's the hat, but it's got a little rip in it cos when she was getting it out, she ripped it. She was gutted."
"She's got a little fringe. All those indie kids think they're cool with their sweeping hair. I've got a sweep, but my nanny's got one too, so they're clearly not cool."
"She's got one half of the cracker in one hand and one in the other. She had to pull it on her own because all her friends have got little stub arms."
Lil' Chris draws…AN EMO VEGETARIAN EATING CHRISTMAS DINNER
"I was going to draw a smile, but why would be smiling? He's really unhappy. In fact, he's crying because he is so emo."
"He's cutting his wrists because he's really upset but he's cutting them with a wooden spoon. Oh, and then there's the turkey."
Lil' Chris draws…A DOG ABANDONED TWO WEEKS AFTER CHRISTMAS
"They didn't want him because he's too big. Drawing a big, big nose and a big mouth. Now why would he be happy? I've just drawn a smile again, why would he be happy?"
"The dog is about seven foot tall. That's another emo kid walking past. No, he's eighty foot tall."
"It was a bit of a stupid Christmas present in the first place really?¦"
Lil' Chris draws…A DRINK DRIVING ACCIDENT
"This isn't my real car drawing. This is one of those toy 'tyke' cars with another on the top of it. Because they've got holes in the middle, where you push with your feet, there's a baby fallen through the hole."
"This one was pissed and he's got some vodka and some rum in the boot of his car."
Lil' Chris draws…TWO ELVES KISSING
"Hehehehehâ?¦ This one has a big hat with an earring. He's tonguing the other boy elf. These are homosexual elves. All elves are gay."
"This one's got a little stub eye and a stubbly chin and a funny little ear. The other elf is giving him a reacharound with his extra, extra long arm."
A CHILD WHO HAS LEARNED THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA
"He's a really ugly kid so people don't care that he's crying. People never pay attention to the ugly kids do they, it is a shame because they should."
"I wouldn't tell my kids that Father Christmas didn't exist, I'd let them find out for themselves. I still believe in him."
"This is the kid, yeah, and he's just got one solitary tear dripping from his cheek. He's really sad."
Lil' Chris draws…A LADY BEING SICK AFTER CHRISTMAS DINNER
"It has to be cashew nuts, because that's what happened to me last Christmas. I ate loads of cashew nuts and I'm allergic to them. It's not a dangerous nut allergy, it's just cashews that make me feel sick"This is a person having the fattest spew. Here's a little cashew nut there. Another one. There's a little orange. What's she missing? A nose. There's the nose."
A FAMILY BURGLED ON CHRISTMAS EVE
"The Christmas tree has been tipped over and it is totally ruined. It is also on fire."
"There's a mirror in the back, and the robber has spray-painted 'gutted, I nicked all your presents' on it."
"Then here are the family being really sad. There's a baby with one arm and he's the saddest of the lot."
NAKED SANTA
"He's sucking in because he's fat. He's got really long nipples and a hairy chest. His beard is there, but his face has been censored so nobody knows who he is."
Thank you very much Lil' Chris!
Lil'Chris' album is out now. Buy it here.
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Sales Leads Latin America
SALES LEADS LATAM: Diageo, Holiday Inn, Back Forty Beer Co…
A summary for Corporate Marketers, Media Sales Executives and Advertising Agencies to see what clients are moving into the Latin American market and/or targeting Latin American consumers right now.
CHECK OUT PORTADA’S INTERACTIVE DIRECTORY OF CORPORATE MARKETERS AND AGENCY EXECUTIVES TARGETING LATIN AMERICAN CONSUMERS! with newly introduced upgraded features (see at the bottom of this article. 15 NEW LEADS HAVE JUST BEEN UPLOADED. To acquire the database, please contact Silvina Poirier at 1-800-397-5322 or e-mail her at silvina@portada-online.com.
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Diageo, owner of brands like Smirnoff, has decided to retain Dentsu Aegis Networks’ Carat in North America (including in the U.S.), Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, WPP’s Mindshare in India and South Africa, and Publicis Media’s Mediavest in Australia. The brand concluded a global review of its US$2.3bn that began last May.Diageo spent US$105 million on measured media in the U.S. last year, down from US$147 million in 2014, according to Kantar Media. The firm indicated that its advertising remained focused on Cîroc, Crown Royal, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, and Johnnie Walker and increased on Don Julio and Bulleit.
The Story Room
Antoinette Zel and Diego Prusky have joined to create The Story Room, a new digital, content and performance marketing company specializing in the US Hispanic and Latin American markets.The Story Room will leverage Zel’s unique experience heading content-centric media businesses and Prusky’s digital expertise into a one-stop shop of digital services for brands targeting 700 million US Hispanic and Latin American online audiences.Clients roster includes BBC Worldwide Latin America, Scripps Interactive/Food Network Latin America, Mattel / Barbie & American Girl, Sony Music, NBC Universal, Syfy, E! Entertainment Latino, Anheuser-Busch Presidente, Los Tigres del Norte, Marc Anthony, Gente de Zona and Marco Antonio Solis.Based in Miami, The Story Room has a staff of 50 employees across offices also in Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
InterContinental Hotels Group is opening the 108-room Holiday Inn Express Mexico Toreo hotel, located in Naucalpan in greater Mexico City’s north-western area.This hotel opens following an investment made by its franchisee of more than US $2 million dollars.The Holiday Inn Express Mexico Toreo hotel provides easy access to great tourist attractions such as Inbursa Aquarium, Soumaya museum, Chapultepec Park or Auditorio Nacional.
Back Forty Beer Co
Latin America is the latest target for Alabama trade leaders seeking growth markets for state businesses.Representatives of a dozen companies are participating in a trade mission this week that started Sunday in Mexico and continues Wednesday in Chile. For Gadsden’s Back Forty Beer Co., the trade mission is an opportunity to expand a new focus on international sales.Back Forty, regarded as one of the pioneers of craft beer in Alabama, is currently exporting several of its beer varieties — including Naked Pig, Truck Stop Honey and Freckle Belly – to China and Canada. The company is expanding its global effort in Mexico, the No. 3 market for Alabama exports, and Chile. In 2015, state exports to the country were valued at US$95 million, and this year’s numbers are outpacing last year’s by 21 percent.Along with Back Forty, other Alabama companies participating in the trade mission include Alabama Roll Products Inc., The Dixie Group Inc., Giles & Kendall Inc., Induron Coatings LLC, Knox Kershaw Inc., Process Barron, RMCI Inc., SEPCO, Smarter Services LLC and Warren Manufacturing.
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Update on Community Meals as of Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Our weekly Community Meal schedule has been modified, based on Governor Wolf’s March 12th mandate. Please note the following changes and meal options:
Monday Lunch will continue to be served at Christ Episcopal Church; however, the meal will be a bag lunch for guests to take and eat on their own.
Tuesday Evening meal at Trinity United Church will be be a meal for guests to take and eat on their own.
We have been told that the 6 PM Meal at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, run by another organization is continuing to be held; however, it will be a meal for guests to take and eat on their own.
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Please know that we will continue to evaluate the situation as we get more information. We are committed to providing the same access to food resources as we usually do, while taking into consideration the safety and health of both those being served and those serving.
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PCRC’s Community Meals program has been offering meals to residents of Pottstown for over 50 years. Five local worship centers open their doors on separate weekdays to serve meals assisted by many congregations and organizations in the Pottstown area. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Community Meals schedule:
Sunday: Pottstown Bible Church – 366 South
Street from 9:30 am to 10:30 am
Lunches are served from 11:45 am–1:15 pm
Mondays: Christ Episcopal Church – 316 E High Street
Wednesdays: The Salvation Army – 137 King Street
Fridays: Emmanuel Lutheran Church – 150 N Hanover Street
Dinners are served from 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
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Thursdays: First Presbyterian Church – 750 N Evans Street
Saturdays: Emmanuel Lutheran Church – 150 N Hanover Street
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Trinity Reformed United Church of Christ, 60 N Hanover Street
(November through April)
See also FOOD PANTRY
food se·cu·ri·ty
1. the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
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Digital Processing Radar
Tim Bartlett
Target Acquired
Radar systems today are loaded with features to increase usability, such as side-by-side dual-range views as shown on the Furuno NavNet 3D (above) and a split-screen with a useful chart overlay, as depicted on the Raymarine e165 multifunction display (below).
No More Mixed Signals
Adding digital processing to radar—both pulse and solid-state—has created a powerful tool for navigating and safety at sea.
Remember how your TV picture used to go “snowy” when your neighbor started his lawnmower, and that high-pitched buzzing whine that came on the radio when someone nearby switched on a hairdryer or electric drill? They were both examples of electromagnetic interference (EMI)—radio noise pollution that is created as an unwanted byproduct whenever an electric circuit is interrupted or changes direction.
Microprocessors, in particular, are creators of EMI as well as victims of it, so the huge increase in the use of electronic devices means that EMI could easily have become a worldwide pandemic.
The fact that the electronic revolution didn’t grind to a halt in a tidal wave of its own interference is largely due to the determined efforts of engineers and lawmakers around the world, who have devised ways of minimizing its effects, and have set increasingly stringent limits on the levels of EMI that are tolerated.
Even transmitters are affected by the clean-up legislation. Of course, they’re not prevented from transmitting on the frequencies they need to do their jobs, but there is increasing pressure to limit the “spurious emissions” on adjacent frequencies. Until 2003, radar was exempt, but since then, it has been subject to the same increasingly stringent regulations as other transmitters.
One reason for radar’s special status was that almost all marine radars depend on a device called a magnetron. Magnetrons are brilliant at producing intense pulses of high-power microwave energy, but not so good at nailing them to a single frequency. Now that cleaner versions are available though, there’s no justification for treating radar as a special case.
Simrad 4G Broadband radar (below) offers a feature called beam sharpening (above), which is shown in use to the right, and turned off to the left—note the target separation. All of Navico’s FMCW radars use little power and longer pings to paint targets.
The latest generations of radar are pumping far less pollution into the electromagnetic environment. Even better, they are easier to use than ever before, with clearer pictures and more features. But as new technologies emerge, the question arises: Is there still a place for conventional, pulse radar? The Big Four manufacturers—Furuno, Raymarine, Navico, and Garmin—continue to offer them, even if Navico’s brands—Simrad, Lowrance, and B&G—are hedging.
Replacing dirty magnetrons with clean ones would have conformed with the letter of the law, but Navico took a far more radical step when it introduced Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Broadband radar in 2008. The latest version from Simrad is the Broadband 4G radar ($2,299), which the company says has a 36-mile range.
Just like conventional marine radar, FMCW radar transmits microwave energy, and listens for the echoes that bounce back to its antenna. But instead of transmitting pulses that last less than a microsecond each (1 millionth of a second) it transmits “sweeps” that last more than a millisecond each (one thousandth of a second). The clever bit about FMCW technology is that it achieves range performance that is comparable with a typical 2-kilowatt magnetron radar, but from a solid-state transmitter with an output of just 165 milliwatts (less than one fifth of a watt).
FMCW offers quite a package of other benefits as well, including no minimum range, improved range discrimination, reduced susceptibility to rain and sea clutter, no warm-up, no tuning, and low radiation.
So why haven’t Furuno or Garmin followed suit? And most surprisingly, perhaps—why haven’t we seen an FMCW radar from Raymarine, whose parent company already produces FMCW radars for military use?
One answer is that—at the moment—it’s not possible to produce an FMCW radar with enough power to achieve the kind of long-range, small-target detection that some users want at prices they are prepared to pay.
Garmin’s xHD open-array radars (starting at $3,699.99) vary pulse width and repetition rate to work with user range settings.
The other companies have systems under development, however. “One of the things you’ll see is kind of a melding of our existing digital radar Ethernet sensors that we have out there with solid-state transmitters,” says Eric Kunz, senior product manager at Furuno USA. “You’ll see that from most manufacturers. It’s going to definitely improve system reliability for heavy commercial users. Magnetrons have a limited lifetime—they’re about a 5,000-hour product. Solid-state transmitters last up to 100,000 hours or more.”
The second answer is that the other companies are concentrating their R&D efforts on going digital. “Digital radar” isn’t really new: Digital signal processing (DSP) of raw radar data was an essential part of the early “daylight viewing” radars, 30-odd years ago. What makes the current generation of digital radars different is that back then, digitizing was one of the last steps in the process of converting pulses in the scanner into pixels on the screen. Now, it’s one of the first.
Super HD Color Open Array radar systems are available with 48- or 72-inch antennas, and either a 4- or 12-kilowatt transmitter. They range in price from $4,849.99 to $6,549.99. www.raymarine.com
Raymarine: The Digital Pulse
“On our HD Color and Super HD Color products, the entire radar signal is processed in the digital realm,” says James MacGowan, marketing manager at Raymarine. “The heart of all of our HD Color scanners is the TigerSharc digital-signal-processing chipset, and the specialized software we developed to run on it. Radar with analog technology is limited in the accuracy of its filtering capabilities.” So as users increase the filters on analog systems to take away sea and rain clutter, interference, and false targets, they are also taking away more of the good target information, especially the weak targets.
Raymarine’s Super HD Color radar has a 256-color display palette. “This is useful to the boater because it brings out details and subtleties in the image that would normally be lost,” MacGowan says. “By varying the colors according to the intensity of the return, we can see nooks and crannies in the shoreline, and get a feel for what the terrain is like—rocky vs. sandy vs. trees. We can clearly detect a boat inside a rain squall because the radar paints the rain as one color, and the harder return inside another color.”
Going digital early in the process has several advantages. The first—though it’s easily overlooked—is that any echo returning to the radar scanner is very weak: It needs to be massively amplified before any other kind of processing can be applied to it. But if you amplify an analog signal, then you also, inevitably, amplify the radio noise that is mixed up with it, as well as adding more noise created within the receiver itself. A digital signal, on the other hand, is easy to amplify without adding noise.
To put it another way: You could say that digitizing early increases the signal-to-noise ratio—almost like increasing the transmitter power.
The more obvious advantage of digitizing though, is that it opens up countless opportunities to enhance the picture. It can even give the illusion that the scanner is considerably bigger than it really is. “With the digital signal processing that we’ve done on the receiver end of our 18-inch broadband radar, we can define targets like a conventional pulse radar—the grunty performance from our 4G dome paints targets like a 3 ½-foot 4-kilowatt open array,” says Dennis Hogan, product manager for Navico America. “It’s very compelling, but not easy to do. We’ve spent years refining our side-lobe suppression and digital processing to reduce noise and increase clarity on the screen.” So it’s not gathering more data, it’s just using it differently.
To see how, we need to accept that a radar beam is a bit like the beam from a car headlight: It’s fairly well defined, but with fuzzy edges. The more carefully you examine it, the more difficult it becomes to decide exactly what is inside or outside of the beam.
Now, imagine the effect of this fuzzy-edged beam sweeping across a small radar target, such as a buoy. A few stray whispers of radar energy start to reach the buoy and are reflected back to the scanner while the center of the beam is still several degrees to the left of the marker. As the scanner rotates, the intensity of the energy hitting the buoy will increase, reaching a maximum when the beam is pointing straight at it, and will then fade away as the beam sweeps around the horizon.
Much the same can be said about “pulse length.” When the specification says your radar has a pulse length of one microsecond, it’s natural to assume that the radar transmits nothing, then transmits at full strength for a microsecond, then stops. But again, that’s an oversimplification. Each pulse starts from nothing, builds to a maximum, and then fades away.
The combined effect of the fuzzy-edged beam and the slightly soft-start pulse means that there is really no such thing as a perfectly crisp, sharp-edged radar contact, even from a good reflector at short range.
Generations of radar operators have learned to live with the problems this produces—with buoys that appear to be as big as container ships, and inlets that don’t appear until you’re within half a mile of the entrance. But now, digital signal processing is cleaning up those smudgy images. In effect, the processor looks at each contact and removes the fuzzy edges to leave only the crisp central heart, producing pictures that look as though they came from a scanner that is twice as big as it really is.
With multiple hardware technologies in the works and new software tweaks, radar keeps evolving. And even though each manufacturer keeps its R&D plans close to the vest, radar will continue to become more useful and better integrated into the helm in whatever form it takes in the future.
RESOURCES:www.bandg.com; www.furunousa.com; www.garmin.com; www.lowrance.com; www.raymarine.com; www.simrad-yachting.com
This article originally appeared in the March 2013 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.
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by Play2Smart
Easy !
Fun !
VocaWars 1000
The easy way to learn English
No need to study. Just play the game !
You will learn the most useful 1000 words.
Play solo or battle against other players !
Get the app right now !
Watch the image and guess the correct word. 10 questions per round.
Solo Mode
Guess the correct word before time runs out. You receive 10 gold coins per correct answer. The timer is set to 5 seconds by default. You can change this in Settings but then you will not earn any coin.
Here, you must be faster than your opponent. The timer is set to 5 seconds and cannot be changed. You can play against (1) any connected player in the world, or (2) a friend. When playing with a friend, one player must create a room and a secret code. The second player can enter the room with that code. You need 100 gold coins to play a Multiplayer game: the winner takes 100 coins from the loser.
You can choose your username and adjust game settings here.
Stats keeps a record of your performance. "Force" is your average score x win rate.
Match Log shows the results of your last 5 battles.
1. Is the app free? - Yes, this app is totally free. No in-app purchases and no ads: you get access to the full game !
2. How do I download the app? - Download the app on Apple's App Store or Google Play Store. For mainland China, download the Chinese iOS version from App Store for China. The android version is currently not available for mainland China. You can use the links to the stores on top of this page.
3. The app is not working. - Check if you have Internet connection (wifi or data). The app must connect to the server, even if you play alone in Solo mode. Don't worry: the app uses very little data.
4. Multiplayer: I want to leave the "Waiting for an opponent" page. - With the android version, you can leave with the "Back" button of your phone / tablet. Apple devices don't have this button: close the app and open it again.
5. Multiplayer: I want to leave during a battle. - Use the "X" Exit button on the top right side of the screen. If you leave, your opponent wins automatically by 10 to 0. Leaving using the "Home" button during a battle is not recommended: your opponent will still win the game but only after 5~7 seconds. Try to finish the game, and if you really have to leave, use the "X" Exit button.
6. Leaving the app using the "Home" button and then coming back - The app will need 3~5 seconds to reload. On some devices, this can take a little longer. If you start a new game before reloading is done, your game might be interrupted. If that happens, close the app and launch it again.
7. Other minor issues - We could not test the app on all existing devices. If there is a minor issue, please close the app and launch it again.
8. I have a question. / I want to report an issue. - Send an email to info@play2smart.com or contact us through Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Thank you for playing VocaWars 1000 !
Info about the game
The 1000 words used in the game were selected on the basis of (1) frequency, (2) usefulness in everyday conversations, and (3) their importance in building English vocabulary. If a person masters these core 1000 words, he/she will have enough vocabulary for basic communication in every situation.
Pictures / Content
Each picture was carefully chosen and edited in order to match the correct answer as closely as possible. Also, we have done our best to select content that is appropriate for all ages and is not culturally biased. However, please understand that working with stock photos has its limitations.
More a game than a learning app
Many users will play the game to learn English but you can also play VocaWars just for fun.
VocaWars is an exciting quiz game, especially in Battle mode !
Created & Edited by Joon Han
App Design by Joon Han & Usama Ahsan
Unity Development by Digiservnetwork.com
Pictures from Adobe Stock (~750) & Pexels (~250)
Icons from Flaticon
Music from W.O.W Sound
Sound from Patrick de Arteaga
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Podcast: Are regional policies failing women?
New Policy Forum Pod looks at women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region
Jacqui True, Kelly Hayward
Development, Economics and finance, Government and governance, Arts, culture & society | Australia, Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, The Pacific
New Policy Forum Pod tackles gender inequality in the Asia-Pacific region, and how public policy can help, or hinder, women’s rights.
Is the Asia-Pacific region doing enough to tackle gender inequality? And how can public policy help to address women’s rights and ensure greater opportunities in the workforce? A new Policy Forum Pod looks at the challenges facing women in the region. Listen here: http://bit.ly/PFPOD_equality
In the podcast, Policy Forum’s Associate Editor Kelly Hayward talks to two experts about the challenges facing women in Asia, and the obstacles preventing gender equality throughout the region. The speakers in this podcast are: Associate Professor Susan Harris-Rimmer, Griffith Law School, Brisbane, Australia; and Professor Jacqui True, Monash University, Australia.
You can catch up with all of our Policy Forum podcasts on iTunes, on Stitcher and Soundcloud. If you like what you hear, please give us a review on iTunes and help us get the word out.
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Jacqui True is Professor of Politics & International Relations and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne.
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This Is What Starbucks Was Almost Called
Marissa LaliberteUpdated: Mar. 06, 2019
Ever wondered what 'stars' or 'bucks' have to do with coffee? Starbucks' name has a surprising origin that you'd never guess from its logo.
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Starbucks branding is truly iconic. Even without seeing a logo, you can probably spot its drinks just by the color of the straw. But as often as you’ve passed (and let’s be honest, stopped at) the coffee chain, you probably haven’t given its name a second thought. Just make sure you’re not committing any of these barista pet peeves.
Just looking at a Starbucks cup doesn’t give much of a hint about what its name means. The woman in its logo is a mythological siren, so what does that have to do with stars? Or bucks? And why is it one word?
Originally, the chain was going to be called “Cargo House, which would have been a terrible, terrible mistake,” co-founder Gordon Bowker tells the Seattle Times. The owners had also considered using “Pequod” after Captain Ahab’s ship in Moby Dick.
But Terry Heckler, the brand consultant who designed the chain’s logo, wasn’t so crazy that name either. Heckler mentioned offhand that like these power words, things starting with “st” sounded powerful—a good trait for a brand that would grow to more than 25,000 locations by 2016. From there, Bowker made a list of “st” words. But Starbucks wasn’t on it. Another Starbucks marketing choice: take a look at the real reason why Starbucks coffee sizes aren’t small, medium, and large.
As the team tried landing on a name, Heckler brought out an old 1800s map of Mt. Rainier and the Cascades. The name of one mining town, Starbos, stood out to Bowker. He immediately thought of the first mate on the Pequod: Starbuck.
They added the S because it sounded more conversational. After all, anyone talking about the coffee shop would probably say they were “going to Starbucks,” so might as well make it official.
The company says its name “evoked the romance of the high seas and the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders,” but Bowker brushes that off. He says Moby Dick has nothing to do with their coffee, and “it was only coincidental that the sound seemed to make sense.” But hey, we didn’t need a nautical adventure anyway. We’re perfectly content with a simple latte. Take a look at these 13 things Starbucks employees won’t tell you.
Originally Published: March 06, 2019
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Startups are struggling to get PPP money. Now a Fed rule may freeze them out of loans, too
Lawmakers are pushing for changes to the Main Street Lending Program.
The Federal Reserve's Main Street Lending Program offers the promise of $600 billion in loans -- for those who can get them.
Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
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A growing number of midsize startups say they're likely to be locked out of the Federal Reserve's $600 billion loan program, and lawmakers are lining up behind them to change the Fed's rules before it's too late.
The Fed's Main Street Lending Program, which was created by the $2 trillion stimulus package, is geared toward midsize businesses that need a fast influx of money due to the coronavirus crisis. But the Fed's formula effectively means money will be doled out only to businesses that can prove they were operating profitably, or "EBITDA-positive," in 2019, leaving many midsize tech startups in a no man's land of being too big to qualify for other relief measures, like the Payment Protection Plan, but still locked out of loans.
A group of 41 lawmakers, including members of Congress representing startup hubs Silicon Valley and Austin, asked the Fed Thursday to adjust its guidelines before the program officially launches.
"Without changes to the Main Street Lending Program, many emerging midsize businesses will be ineligible for both programs, which could have devastating effects on the employees of many otherwise successful companies," the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Rep. Anna Eshoo took the lead on the letter, with sign-ons from Reps. Will Hurd, David Cicilline and Jackie Speier, among others.
"We can't afford [to] let a generation of startups fail just because government programs didn't account for their needs and business models," said Rep. Mike Doyle, who heads the House Energy and Commerce technology subcommittee. "Startup companies are focused on growth at this stage in their development, not profit. That's what they should be doing. They shouldn't be penalized because they're trying to create something new."
In some ways, the situation mirrors the chaos around the PPP, a loan program for small businesses that startups say they cannot access because of quirks in its guidelines; both programs have bipartisan groups of legislators clamoring for change.
The Fed's Main Street loans are substantially different than the PPP loans, however. They are not forgivable, making them attractive only to companies that can take on debt amid coronavirus. And they are aimed at businesses with head counts between 500 and 10,000 employees.
Lightspeed Venture Partners' Amy Wu, who has been advising startups on PPP and other lending programs, said a number of its portfolio companies had hoped to qualify for the Main Street lending program. But she said that the EBITDA-positive requirement, and the way the program favors larger companies, means many will be shut out unless there are changes. "Most likely we'll be sitting out of this one," she said.
Alon Rotem, general counsel for online retail startup ThredUp, told Protocol that his company has been looking into the Fed's Main Street program as an alternative to the PPP because it's too large for the small business loan but could benefit from a boost as the economic downturn hits the retail industry particularly hard. He said the company recently had to furlough some of its employees.
"As we go through the high level terms [of the Main Street lending program], virtually everything lines up and looks like we would qualify — but for the EBITDA component," Rotem said.
There is serious money at stake. Rotem said it is "within the ballpark" for midsize businesses to be asking for loans between $10 million and $20 million. (For new loans, the maximum is about $25 million; it is significantly higher for the Fed's expanded loans program.)
Another general counsel for a midsize tech startup, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about his company's financials, told Protocol there is a "real possibility" that companies like his will "fall through the cracks."
"For companies like ours and others that didn't contemplate COVID but have been negatively impacted by it, the EBITDA requirement puts this money out of reach and could have draconian ramifications," he said. His company applied for a loan through the PPP but did not hear back before the money ran out last week. The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to pour $320 million more into the program, though that is expected to dry up within a matter of days as well.
The Fed did not immediately respond to Protocol's request for comment on the EBITDA requirement. But the program's contours are still in flux. The central bank announced the lending program's guidelines on April 9 and accepted comments from outside stakeholders until last week. The issue has attracted a wave of advocacy from startup trade associations and advocacy groups including TechNet, the National Venture Capital Association and Engine, with TechNet in particular beginning to press members of Congress on it.
Justin Field, the senior vice president of government affairs at the National Venture Capital Association, told Protocol that he recognizes that the program is "probably still only going to work for a small percentage of the later-stage companies," even if the Fed updates its rules. But he said it could still be a "helpful program" for a significant number of startups.
"They gotta do something. You can't enact a program and cut out, arguably, the most valuable, high-growth companies," said Cooley lawyer Ron Hopkinson, who has been advising many companies on the lending program. While tech startups are one sector that may be boxed out, he said that R&D-focused, publicly traded life sciences companies or private-equity-owned companies could also come up short.
Banks already lend to many of these kinds of high-growth companies and use other metrics, from market caps to internal valuations, to make lending decisions. The same could be done for the Fed's program, he told Protocol. "I think they drew the box too narrowly. EBITDA is one metric, but they're going to have to come up with another metric or another program," Hopkinson said.
In its comments to the Fed, TechNet suggested that the program set loans at a fraction of 2019 gross profit. Other groups and companies have floated their own specific proposals for addressing the issue without using EBITDA in 2019 as a metric. The lawmakers suggested allowing lenders to use a recent month's EBITDA or month-over-month growth of revenue.
ThredUp's Rotem said he understands that the Fed is trying to strike a balance — even if he wishes it were doing it differently.
"On the one hand, they want to support medium-sized businesses," he said. "On the other hand, they need to do what's in the public's interest, and that's not to fund companies that are going to go out of business."
It's unclear when the Fed will officially open up the Main Street program, but it's possible more guidelines are coming that could clarify the role of startups and even tweak the EBITDA requirement. Until then, "lobbying efforts are ramping up," said NVCA's Field. And lawmakers have pledged to keep pushing.
"The Main Street Lending Program should not only ensure that today's thriving businesses survive," the lawmakers wrote in their letter to the Fed, "but also support those businesses with the potential to drive expansion when the economy recovers."
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Rep. Jeff Van Drew signed a letter urging changes to the Main Street Lending Program. This story was updated on April 23, 2020.
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Did someone mention a chance to burnish reputations and juice balance sheets?
New cloud-based offerings and favorable contract terms are convincing startups to switch to software from Oracle and SAP earlier in their lives than your might expect.
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Joe Williams is a senior reporter at Protocol covering enterprise software, including industry giants like Salesforce, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle. He previously covered emerging technology for Business Insider. Joe can be reached at JWilliams@Protocol.com. To share information confidentially, he can also be contacted on a non-work device via Signal (+1-309-265-6120) or JPW53189@protonmail.com.
In the hunt for their next big-ticket customers, SAP and Oracle are trying to cast off reputations as stodgy tech providers by making a huge push to provide their software to startups.
Both companies have found themselves in choppy waters recently as potential customers have turned to the cloud, shunning the on-premises solutions SAP and Oracle are known for. That's coupled with a global pandemic that dried up demand for the expensive enterprise-grade software that drives profits at the vendors.
<p>Now, to help bolster the balance sheet, they're trying to find the next Starbucks, General Motors or Medtronic as early as possible. </p><p>"Oracle and SAP have recognized that they need to go downmarket," Valoir analyst Rebecca Wettemann told Protocol. "The reality is, there just aren't that many companies that have the appetite or the interest … in doing a big investment." </p><p>It may surprise some to see such a focus on smaller organizations, which are typically loath to invest in what is traditionally thought of as enterprise-grade technology, especially given the cost. But improvements in the products from both providers, their pivots to cloud-based offerings and favorable contract terms are convincing founders of the value of deploying software such as an enterprise resource planning, or ERP, system from a large vendor earlier in the life cycle. So much so that, at Oracle, the startup business is growing at a clip of as much as 400% year-over-year. At SAP, the company brought 773 new customers in the space last year. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="1"> </div> </div></p><p>"It's been a steady plod over the past few years just to let startups know Oracle is here," said Jason Williamson, the vice president of Oracle for Startups. "Now, we're in that phase of the flywheel to really deliver on the promise." </p><p>Take the Jennifer Lopez- and Alex Rodriguez-backed startup Super Coffee. In 2018, the bottled energy drink company was finding it difficult to share daily sales data with its national team. Ultimately, it meant that only the top brass of the organization had a 360-degree view of the business. That prevented employees from, among other things, pinpointing the most successful sales strategies to use in their own outreach. So it tapped Oracle's NetSuite for an ERP system, industry jargon to refer to software that effectively helps back the most foundational business segments at enterprises, like finance and supply chain operations </p><p>"We were running our business gradually as we went, using spreadsheets," co-founder and president Jordan DeCicco told Protocol. "When we introduced the ERP, we had everything that we needed in one place and we could easily access and share it with the entire company. [Salespeople] had the same knowledge as the leadership team when they are making decisions." </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="2"> </div> </div></p><h2>Getting in on the ground floor </h2><p>Super Coffee is not alone. Other startups are using similar products to help prepare for looming growth, gain efficiency in their daily operations and broadcast the maturity of the firm to potential customers or investors, according to startup executives. </p><p>In the past, founders may have shunned the more expensive products from Oracle or SAP in favor of cheaper alternatives catered to small businesses, such as Acumatica, Intact or FinancialForce. But there's now acknowledgement that deploying the costlier solutions sooner could save on a more arduous implementation down the line. And because most of the software is now offered through the cloud, it can scale much more easily as the company grows, without the added burden of managing the tech in-house. </p><p>"We saw a lot of the companies who were the size that we wanted to be in a couple years using the tool," DeCicco said. "It was kind of a no-brainer for us." </p><p>For SAP and Oracle, the business is unlikely to ever serve as a suitable replacement for enterprise licenses, given the software is often provided at a discount and startup success is the exception, not the norm. Instead, the goal is to try to make a connection with companies before some of them hit it big. As operations expand and the workforce grows, often so do the number of software licenses; since it's costly to switch out ERP platforms, that could mean more revenue for SAP and Oracle over the long term, even if only a handful of clients see huge growth. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="3"> </div> </div></p><p>Electric car maker Rivian, for example, <a href="https://news.sap.com/2019/08/sap-hyper-growth-rivian/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tapped SAP's S/4HANA in 2019</a>. Since then, the startup has raised billions in funding and is reportedly close to hitting a $25 billion valuation, becoming one of the most prominent companies in the automotive industry despite having not yet shipped a finished vehicle. Rivian declined to comment for this article. </p><p>"These are companies that have high expectations for growth," SAP Senior Vice President Greg Petraetis said. "They want to move from being ramp-ups to category leaders to global leaders in what it is that they do. They want to invest in a technology stack that they will never outgrow." </p><p>Growing the pipeline is so critical that Oracle is even expanding its outreach to catch entrepreneurs early, particularly at the university level, before they even begin the work to launch a company. "You reap what you sow," Williamson said. "If we want to gain the next big startup unicorn, we have to be early."</p><p>For SAP and Oracle, the partnerships also help shed their reputations as stodgy tech providers of yesteryear. Internally, both have made strides to improve their technology to blunt this criticism, but it still takes work to persuade potential customers of the upgrades: a continual challenge, but one that likely gets easier as they win more startup business. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="4"> </div> </div></p><p>"We had to actually convince people in our company to give it a chance. It's not the same SAP," said Tim Flaherty, chief financial officer at medical device startup Enable Injections, an S/4HANA customer. "Back 10 years, we probably wouldn't have gone this way."</p><p>And as both of those giants move toward small businesses, rivals that already catered to that market — such as FinancialForce, which offers a very similar product — are also making strides toward becoming a partner that can grow alongside the startup itself. Those competitors have the ability "to be a growth partner beyond the [small business] phase. There's nothing from a capability perspective that limits them … from supporting a large organization," said Wettemann. </p><h2>The modern ERP </h2><p>For startups, deploying big-ticket software signals to both investors and customers that the company is prepared to handle any major surge in business. While even just a decade ago, such a purchase would be almost unheard of for a smaller organization, the products are becoming more "out of the box" solutions, meaning that clients don't have to go through the often time-intensive and costly customization efforts. </p><p>"Would I have considered an ERP of 10 years ago in a startup? No way. Way too clunky, way too difficult to deal with," said Livekindly Chief Information and Digital Officer Rogan Moore. But, he added, legacy ERP systems and the modern digital offerings "are very different things." The vegan food collective is relying on SAP's S/4HANA to help it rapidly scale and compete against the globe's largest food producers for ingredients and partnerships. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="5"> </div> </div></p><p>SAP and Oracle are also giving the companies attractive contract terms, such as set costs for additional licenses or add-on applications. Oracle, for example, provides a 70% discount on additional credits or licenses for startup customers for at least two years, according to Williamson. </p><p>"We bought what we needed at the time and we have a blend of things that we have pricing on that we think we will need in the future that we managed to lock in," Moore said. </p><p>There are also other non-operational benefits, like connecting startups to potential investors or customers. Enable Injections, for example, opted to go with SAP over other providers like Oracle due to its influence within the healthcare sector. As many as 80% of pharmaceutical companies use the company's software, per Flaherty. </p><p>Clearly, there are advantages on both sides of these relationships: startups get better tools and cred with investors; Oracle and SAP get to burnish their reputation and start on the ground floor with the corporations of the future. And while the startup business isn't the most lucrative for SAP or Oracle right now, the early battles being waged could help determine the fate of earnings reports in the years to come.</p>
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Is this a VC bubble, or just the new normal?
Huge deals, little diligence and hyper-fast follow-on rounds have become commonplace. For now.
Things are looking awful frothy, aren't they?
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Tomio Geron
Tomio Geron ( @tomiogeron) is a San Francisco-based reporter covering fintech. He was previously a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, covering venture capital and startups. Before that, he worked as a staff writer at Forbes, covering social media and venture capital, and also edited the Midas List of top tech investors. He has also worked at newspapers covering crime, courts, health and other topics. He can be reached at tgeron@protocol.com or tgeron@protonmail.com.
The VC industry is "frothy," "overheated" or "bonkers," investors say. Whether this is the new normal or unhealthy signs of an overheated market depends on your point of view — and how well your portfolio is doing.
There are signs that VC has changed all around. In recent months, deal sizes and valuations have spiked in hot deals; due diligence on startups has evaporated as investors compete to get into hot deals first; venture firms are investing much more than they normally do; there are hyper-fast follow-on rounds; and more non-traditional investors are backing early-stage startups.
<p>In one recent example, low-code startup Retool, which helps companies quickly and cheaply build internal software tools, attracted top-tier investors who bid for a round that ended up valuing the quickly-growing company at close to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/retool-nears-1-billion-valuation-with-funding-from-sequoia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">$1 billion</a>. Sequoia Capital won the deal, leading the Series B. Despite its fast growth and high valuation, Retool's annualized revenue run rate at the time of funding in October was between $5 million to $10 million, according to those familiar with the deal. (It has since jumped higher, one source said.)</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="1"> </div> </div></p><p>That sort of sky-high revenue multiple is not uncommon for companies that are seeing strong growth and happen to fit into a particular theme that venture investors are chasing. </p><p>This shift started as far back as 2018, when tech's dominance in the market became clearer, some investors say, but has ramped up in the past six months or so. Some point to particular enthusiasm about a post-pandemic economy and perhaps a wave of relief-induced investment once the pandemic actually boosted many startup sectors, such as enterprise, ecommerce and gaming. </p><p>Whatever the original motivation, the surge of investment is being made possible by <a href="https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/venture-capital-q4-2020/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">cash</a> that's flooding into the venture industry, a trend driven by low interest rates, exuberance over unusually strong exits last year in companies such as enterprise software firm <a href="https://www.protocol.com/snowflake-ipo" target="_self">Snowflake</a> and high valuations for late-stage companies, such as gaming company Roblox. </p><p>"Capital is flooding into the VC market because of high returns in VC," Zach Coelius, founder at Coelius Capital, said. "That leads to more investors splashing money around and driving up prices and investing in companies that shouldn't be invested in."</p><p>New macroeconomic conditions — as well as startups growing faster and generating higher revenues than ever before — are behind this, said Chirag Chotalia, partner at Threshold Ventures. Previous "category-defining companies" used to typically exit at $1 billion to $5 billion, but now those outcomes are $10 billion to $30 billion or higher, he said.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="2"> </div> </div></p><p>"We think about it as the new normal," Chotalia said. "The biggest revelation for me is the size of the outcomes really supports the quote-unquote frothiness in the cycle. In many ways, what was irrational a couple years ago is now much more rational today because of what we're seeing on the exit side."</p><p>Even if the stock market drops, these new startups still have strong fundamentals, he thinks. "The magnitude of the exits is not driven so much by the stock market but by the revenue scale and the growth rate of these companies. I don't see it nearly as cyclical as past cycles," Chotalia said. "Valuations may come down, but not these growth rates. Multiples might be questionable for some portion of companies, but revenues are here to stay, as are the growth rates."</p><h3>'No time to dilly-dally'</h3><p>With the fierce competition for top deals, the rigor of due diligence is declining. Startup deals used to entail days of calls and research at the seed round and weeks at Series A or later. Now seed deals can now be done in hours, and Series As within days.</p><p>"Diligence cycles have become much more compressed," Coelius said. "You don't have time to dilly-dally anymore. It's 24- to 48-hour decision cycles. You have to have done your diligence beforehand."</p><p>Investors have gone beyond "preemptive" deals where they seek to invest in a company before it searches for funding. One new strategy: VC firms might <a href="https://twitter.com/gokulr/status/1349536685214687234?s=21" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">send</a> a term sheet to a startup even before a "get-to-know-you" meeting; some even hire diligence firms to do this work for them. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="3"> </div> </div></p><p>"Now it's turned to firms coming in saying, 'I've done all my work; here's a term sheet,'" said Matt Murphy, partner at Menlo Ventures. "It's a way to force something on people before they're even ready."</p><p>"Everyone is saying 'I can't miss the next Snowflake at A or B or C,'" said Semil Shah, founder at Haystack. "It's not just fear of missing out: It's now fear of missing that company that could be a $100 billion company. That fear is sharpened."</p><p class="pull-quote">What was irrational a couple years ago is now much more rational.</p><p>Another aspect that's ratcheting up is the speed of follow-on rounds. Some hot companies are raising a new round in two to three months after a previous one. "It used to be like, 'Damn, I missed it, I'll check in in six to 12 months,'" Murphy said. "Now what everyone is doing is moving to a dynamic of: 'I missed it. It doesn't matter, I'll put a term sheet in two to three months later.'"</p><p>Nontraditional startup investors, particularly in early-stage deals, could also lead to startups getting funded before they're ready. In a recent example, a venture investor pointed to the unusual case of a banking advisory firm leading a deal for an early-stage startup at the Series A. This is a step beyond investment banks leading deals, which has already been common.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="4"> </div> </div></p><p>The frenzy is especially focused on the hottest deals among top entrepreneurs or companies, Coelius said. It's a maxim among venture capitalists that each year there are <a href="https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/ama-marc-andreessen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">15 to 20 startups</a> that will be massively successful, and those are the only companies that matter in driving investors' returns.</p><p>But this filters down to lower-quality deals. For example, companies that are not snapped up by top investors are then backed by newer investors who are trying to break into the industry. And they may be even less diligent than established firms, Coelius said.</p><p>"The risk is always: Mediocre companies raise at high valuations," said Mamoon Hamid, partner at Kleiner Perkins. "If historically you wrote $10 million checks, now you're losing $20 million [when a startup fails]. It's going to happen. But people don't think that way. They think, 'what's the upside,' not the downside."</p><h3>The Icarus effect</h3><p>Valuations are so high at the moment that one new firm, Apeira Capital, is seeking to create synthetic vehicles to essentially short <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/overvalued-startups-could-be-shorted-by-new-firm-11607337001" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">overvalued startups</a>. There are a plethora of companies that may be fundamentally good companies but are just overvalued due to the way that venture capitalists value and invest in them, Apeira founder Natalie Hwang said. </p><p>And despite the flood of cash going into the market, capital is not being distributed evenly, said Deena Shakir, partner at Lux Capital. The proportion of funding that went to female-founded startups in 2020 dropped to 2.3% from 2.8% in 2019, according to Crunchbase. </p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="5"> </div> </div></p><p>Venture firms investing much more than they typically do could come back to bite them. One limited partner who requested anonymity said some firms that typically make one to two deals per quarter are now making upwards of seven to nine. If it's true that there are only 15 to 20 truly winning startups in a given year, that pace could push investment returns down.</p><p>"It just can't end well," the investor said. "It almost feels like we're looking at an entire cohort [of investors] that's going to have substandard returns."</p><p>For limited partners, this could lead to trouble when it comes to exits. "There's no price diversity," said Chris Douvos, founder at fund-of-funds Ahoy Capital. "You're just playing the momentum. It's a buy high, sell higher mentality. My concern is, as a whole, the entire industry has conditioned itself to need those kinds of exits for success."</p><p>Many investors today don't think about — or weren't around during — the last real downturn, he added. "Pricing things for perfection and glossing over weaknesses won't hurt you in a one-way market," Douvos said. "But if there's ever a hiccup, you'll have the Icarus effect where the higher you fly, the further you'll fall."</p>
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COVID-19 bruised TripActions’ business. It chose to innovate.
If nobody's booking business flights through your startup, why not help people pay for their corporate takeout instead?
TripActions had to confront a world with far less travel.
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TripActions was a fast-growing startup that helped clients manage their business travel when the pandemic hit early last year. Now, almost a year later, it's also helping businesses with their work-from-home expenses.
Chief financial officer Thomas Tuchscherer compared what happened last spring to being in a speeding car that was forced off a cliff — a terrifying experience shared by most travel industry companies hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis.
<p>"All of a sudden the ground vanishes, so you're flying off in this car that's not supposed to fly," he told Protocol. "It was scary while the car was up in the air, not knowing how to land it. But it forced us to focus and invest in areas that really mattered."</p><p>A major area the startup focused on as COVID-19 took hold is TripActions Liquid, a line of credit it launched last February to help clients finance their business travel. On Thursday, the company said it's expanding the service to cover a broader range of expenses at a time when business travel is still largely down.</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="1"> </div> </div></p><p>While TripActions Liquid was mainly used to pay for clients' flights, hotels and car rental expenses when it first launched, clients can now also use the service to pay for non-travel business needs that are more relevant in the era of remote work, general manager Michael Sindicich said.</p><p>"The type of spend shifted," he told Protocol. "You're not spending on travel as much, but you're still spending on a lot of other business areas ... A lot of it is for digital advertising, it's software spend, it's work-from-home furniture. You see a lot of DoorDash. You see, now that we're just coming off the holidays, a lot of gifts to employees."</p><p>Sindicich said the startup is "leveraging a lot of fintech and different tools" to enhance the ability of businesses to manage their expenses. TripActions Liquid, for instance, uses AI to quickly approve expenses and process payments. </p><p>Tuchscherer said the decision to expand TripActions Liquid to cover expenses beyond travel was also "driven by a natural expansion to capture more spend, and also to become more strategic" to clients' finance teams, including the CFO.</p><p>"If you're only truly present we can only talk about travel, you may be speaking only with the travel managers," he said. By expanding to other expenses, "you move up the finance stack and you start speaking with more strategic financial employees, including controllers, including CFOs."</p><p><div class="ad-tag"><div class="ad-place-holder" data-pos="2"> </div> </div></p><p>TripActions launched the line of credit in February 2020 with $500 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank, Goldman Sachs and Comerica. Initially, it was geared toward making it faster and more convenient for businesses to use the TripActions travel management platform.</p><p>But then the COVID crisis caused travel bookings to plummet by as much as 90% last spring. TripActions was forced to cut costs, including a major round of layoffs, Tuchscherer said.</p><p>"We had to take the very difficult decision of letting go about a quarter of the company back in March," he said.</p><p>The company has started to bounce back as some business travel also resumed. It also began expanding the scope of TripActions Liquid, which has become the startup's fastest-growing business.</p><p>Meanwhile, investor interest has also remained strong. In June 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the company, which had raised $250 million the previous year at a $4 billion valuation, raised another $125 million from investors led by Greenoaks Capital, boosting its total tally to $600 million. The new valuation will be set when TripActions goes public, Tuchscherer said. He declined to set a timeline for the company's IPO.</p><p>Jonah Crane, a partner at the fintech-focused investment firm Klaros Group, said TripActions' decision to expand its financing business shows how startups can tweak their business model, especially during a crisis.</p>"It's a good example of that broader trend where a company will often start getting traction in solving one problem for your customers and then say, 'Hey, we can also, we can also help you with this other thing,'" he told Protocol.
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Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
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In February Red Hen Press will publish Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country by Steve Almond. Described as “a lamentation aimed at providing clarity,” Bad Stories is Almond's effort to make sense of our historical moment using literary voices—from Melville to Orwell, Bradbury to Baldwin—that help dismantle, as Cheryl Strayed describes it, “the false narratives about American democracy that got us into the political pickle we’re in.” Below is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book.
The subtitle of this bewildered little book matters. I’m not offering a single theory, or even a set of theories, as to how our democracy fell apart. I am working toward a synthesis of theories. The ascension of Donald Trump to the presidency is certainly the impetus for this investigation. But it should not be mistaken for my subject.
For most of my adult life, I’ve been tracking the odd and lurching course of our democracy. I’ve pursued this interest not as an historian or a political scientist, but as a reporter and, more recently, a fiction writer. That makes me a storyteller technically, though I feel more often like a woozy student of the American story.
I’ve placed my faith in stories because I believe them to be the basic unit of human consciousness. The stories we tell, and the ones we absorb, are what allow us to pluck meaning from the rush of experience.
In his elegant 2014 book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari insists that our species came to dominate the world because of our unique ability to cooperate flexibly in large numbers. This capacity, he contends, stems from our unique cognitive ability to believe in the imagined, to tell stories that extend our bonds beyond clan loyalties. Our larger systems of cooperation, whether spiritual, political, legal, or financial, require faith in the notion of a common good.
But what happens when some of the stories we tell ourselves are bad, meaning fraudulent either by design or negligence? What happens when the stories are frivolous? Or when we ignore stories that are too frightening to confront? What happens when we fall under the sway of stories intended to sow discord, to blunt our moral imaginations, to warp our fears into loathing and our mercy into vengeance? The principle argument of this book is that bad stories lead to bad outcomes.
I agree with Harrari when he argues that our faith in stories has been integral to our survival as a species. But I also believe that the 2016 election is an object lesson in just how much harm bad stories can inflict upon even the sturdiest democracy.
As I struggled to make sense of the election, my mind kept spiraling back to one particular scene in American literature: Ahab, perched upon the quarterdeck of the Pequod, a “grand, ungodly, god-like man” with a prosthetic leg fashioned from a whale’s jawbone. The captain has come to announce the true nature of his mission, which is not economic in nature but deeply personal. He seeks revenge against the leviathan that maimed him and exhorts his crew with a soliloquy Trumpian in pitch if not diction.
“All visible objects are but pasteboard masks,” Ahab roars. “If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.”
It is this volcanic sense of grievance that fuels Melville’s saga, that binds the crew of the Pequod to their leader. “Ahab’s quenchless feud seemed mine,” Ishmael tells us, rather helplessly. Who can blame the kid? Ahab is something like a natural force, a vortex of vindication as mighty as the beast he pursues.
After four years of maniacal pursuit, Ahab spots his enemy and attacks. It does not go well. The wounded whale smites the Pequod, drowning all aboard and rendering the ship a hearse. In the end, “possessed by all the fallen angels” Ahab himself pierces the pale flank of his nemesis with his harpoon. But in the process, the rope winds up noosed around his neck and the beast drags him to his fate. Even a passing sky hawk gets snagged in the wreckage, “and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it.”
Melville is offering a mythic account of how one man’s virile bombast can ensnare everyone and everything it encounters. The setting is nautical, the language epic, the allusions Biblical and Shakespearean. But the tale, stripped to its ribs, is about the seductive force of the wounded male ego, and how naturally a ship steered by men might tack to its vengeful course.
The plot of Moby Dick pits man against the natural world. But its theme pits man against his own nature. The election of 2016 was, in its way, a retelling of this epic. Whether you choose to cast Trump as agent or principal hardly matters. What matters is that Americans joined the quest. Whether in rapture or disgust, we turned away from the compass of self-governance and toward the mesmerizing drama of aggression on display, the capitalist id unchained and all that it unchained within us. Trump struck through the mask. And it was enough.
When I started writing this book, in the months after the election, I was furious and frightened, worn down by decades of disappointment and determined, mostly, to launch harpoons at those I imagined to be my adversaries.
That, too, is a part of this story. The great peril of our age is not that we have turned into a nation of Ahabs, but of Ishmaels, passive observers too willing to embrace feuds that nourish our rancor and starve our common sense. It is this Manichean outlook that laid the groundwork for the ascent of Donald Trump and has, as of this writing, sustained his chaotic reign.
I am struggling in these pages to see Trumpism in a different light: as an opportunity to reckon with the bad stories at the heart of our great democratic experiment, and to recognize that often, embedded within these bad stories, are beautiful ideals and even correctives that might help us to contain the rage that has clouded our thoughts.
I have taken a patchwork approach to this project, one that knits statistical data, personal anecdote, cultural criticism, literary analysis and, when called for, outright intellectual theft. I’m trying, in the broadest sense, to understand how the American story arrived at this point.
I’ve taken Ishmael as my guide here. For while it’s true that he falls under the spell of Ahab’s folly (as did I, as did I) he is also its only surviving witness and chronicler, the voice left to impart whatever wisdom might be dredged from the deep. Amid the spectacle of a mad captain and his murderous quarry, we mustn’t forget that Moby Dick is a parable about our national destiny in which the only bulwark against self-inflicted tyranny is the telling of the story.
From Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country by Steve Almond. Copyright © 2018 by Steve Almond. Used by permission of Red Hen Press. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Steve Almond is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. He teaches at the Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard University and hosts the New York Times podcast Dear Sugars with fellow writer Cheryl Strayed.
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Standard Agency Terms and Conditions
Qantas has made some important changes to our Standard Agency Terms and Conditions (Terms). If your business markets, sells, facilitates or tickets a booking on Qantas, these terms apply to you. Please take time to read through these terms.
Key changes effective from 1 September 2020:
View our complete Standard Agency Terms and Conditions here
A Booking must be created and ticketed within the same POS (clause 5.1).
For Bookings created within POS Australia, POS New Zealand or POS United States of America, the Agent must conduct the Servicing of these Bookings within the POS that they were created (clause 5.3).
Any practice that changes the POS ID of a PNR in the GDS is now specifically prohibited (clause 4.1(e)).
Unless otherwise approved by Qantas, Agents must ensure that Qantas Special Fares are ticketed by the PCC owner to which the Qantas Special Fare was loaded (clause 4.2 (c)).
Agents must link their booking PCC with their ticketing IATA and/or TIDS, so that both are visible in the PNR (clause 4.1(d)).
Qantas has clarified our right to take over Servicing and responsibility of a booking (without prior permission) where an agent defaults or ceases operating (clause 5.2).
Qantas has clarified obligations in relation to the correct representation of Agent imposed fees, distinct from Qantas imposed fees (clause 3.1(d)).
Reissue and Refunds
Unless prior approval is sought by Qantas, Agents must only reissue or refund a ticket back to the original ticketing IATA Number or an IATA Number that belongs to the Agent. Reissue or refund back to a different IATA Number is audited by Qantas and may result in an Agent Debit Memo (ADM) being raised (clause 6.5).
Ticketing Authority
Qantas has highlighted our right to remove Ticketing Authority from any Agent for prolonged inactivity, for certain breaches of our Standard Agency Terms and Conditions, and where it is deemed the Agent is no longer utilising Qantas Ticketing (clause 2.4 (a) – (c)).
Qantas reserves the right to conduct a third party credit assessment on any Agent for whom we have granted Ticketing rights. The Agent is obligated to comply with the request, or risk having Booking and Ticketing rights suspended (clause 2.5).
1. When Do These Terms Apply
2. Scope of Agency
3. Agent Responsibility to Customer
4. Sale and ticketing of Qantas Products
5. Creation and Servicing of Bookings
6. Payment for Qantas Products
7. Compliance with Law, Rules, Regulations and Procedures
8. Compliance Representations and Remedies
9. Qantas Data Requirements
12. Liability and Termination
15. Definitions and Interpretation
Attachment A: Australian Consumer Law, Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010
1.1 These Terms govern the marketing, sale, booking, ticketing and facilitating of Qantas Products and will apply as soon as the Agent:
(a) markets, sells, books, tickets or facilitates a Qantas Product; or
(b) otherwise holds itself out as being able or willing to sell Qantas Products; or
(c) uses the Qantas Agency Connect Site
1.2 The Agent’s continued marketing, selling, booking, facilitating or ticketing of Qantas Products or use of the Qantas Agency Connect Site, will constitute agreement to, and acceptance of, these Terms.
1.3 Qantas may amend these Terms by posting updates on the Qantas Agency Connect Site with such changes taking effect on 30 days’ notice or earlier if required by law or for operational reasons. The Agent may, within 30 days of such change to these Terms, and by giving written notice to Qantas, terminate its appointment as an agent and will cease to be authorised by Qantas to market, sell, book or ticket a Qantas Product.
1.4 There may be additional terms and conditions that apply to the relationship between Qantas and the Agent. In the event of any inconsistency between these Terms and such other terms and conditions, then the order of priority is:
(a) any Qantas Channel Agreement; then
(b) any Agency Agreement; then
(c) these Terms.
2.1 The Agent must hold any:
(a) applicable licences or memberships required by law; and
(b) other industry accreditations reasonably required by Qantas, such as IATA accreditation, ARC accreditation or participation in TIDS
2.2 The Agent must not, without entering into a separate agreement with Qantas:
(a) act as a Wholesaler on behalf of any company in the Qantas Group;
(b) provide Wholesale products and services on behalf of a Qantas Airline; or
(c) issue tickets for Qantas Products booked or sold by a third party
2.3 Access to the Qantas Agency Connect Site is subject to the Qantas Agency Connect Site Conditions which may be viewed via https://www.qantas.com/agencyconnect/au/en/termsand-conditions-of-use.html or relevant equivalent in the Agent’s jurisdiction.
2.4 Qantas Ticketing Authority is granted to, and may be removed from, the Agent at the sole discretion of Qantas. For example, Qantas may remove or suspend access to the Agent’s Qantas Ticketing Authority where:
(a) the Agent’s Qantas Ticketing Authority has been inactive for a period greater than 6 months; or
(b) the Agent is found to have repeatedly breached clause 4.2; or
(c) where Qantas reasonably believes that the circumstances set out in clause 12.4(d) will apply, or have the potential to apply, to the Agent.
2.5 The Agent acknowledges and agrees that Qantas may conduct credit assessments on any Agent holding Qantas Ticketing Authority and the Agent will comply with any requests for credit information from Qantas or a third party engaged by Qantas for this purpose.
3.1 The Agent must ensure that:
(a) all Qantas Data is accurately displayed, including where information is translated to a language other than English;
(b) it accurately displays the identity of the operating carrier of the Qantas Flights (including in any online search results) and all mandatory fees and charges (including those of the Agent) on all pricing displays to Customers including any marketing materials;
(c) if applicable, the price displayed by the Agent for all airlines complies with the ‘all-inclusive pricing’ regime under the Australian Consumer Law https://www.accc.gov.au/business/pricingsurcharging/displaying-pricesOpens external site; and
(d) any unavoidable fees (including any imposed by the Agent) are included in the headline price of the airfare marketed to Customers and the Agent must ensure that any such fees charged to Customers are accurately identified and distinguished between Qantas imposed fees and Agent imposed fees.
3.2 The Agent must, and must ensure that all of its Personnel selling Qantas Products, comply with all applicable consumer laws, including those covering misleading and deceptive conduct, and, where applicable, sections 18, 29 and 48 of the Australian Consumer Law (as set out in Attachment A of these Terms).
3.3 The Agent must ensure that all itineraries issued by it for Customers travelling on a Qantas Flight make it clear that the Conditions of Carriage apply.
3.4 If the Agent offers or sells a Special Request to the Customer that is an Ancillary Service, the Agent must ensure that Qantas is able to receive and confirm the Confidential Page 2 Agency Terms and Conditions 1 September 2020 acceptance of the Special Request. If the Agent offers or sells a Special Request to the Customer that is not an Ancillary Service, the Agent must clearly disclose to the Customer that the Special Request is not supported or managed by Qantas. If the Agent charges the Customer a fee for a Special Request in addition to any fee charged by Qantas, then that fee must be clearly identified to the Customer as the Agent’s fee.
3.5 The Agent must ensure that it provides full and accurate results of all Qantas Products disclosed in response to a search or request made by a Customer.
3.6 Qantas and Qantas Products must be fairly and accurately represented in the display of all systems within the control of the Agent and any comparisons shown between Qantas and other airlines and their respective products and services will be on a like-for-like product basis or with differences clearly noted. This includes, but is not limited to, reservation systems, websites and online booking tools. Qantas Airlines inventory will not be biased or excluded for any reason other than Customer’s request or price.
3.7 The Agent must ensure that it does not inhibit a Customer’s ability to book and confirm a Qantas Product. If an Agent’s reservation system, website, online booking tool or other booking system is experiencing technical difficulty then the Agent must take all reasonable steps to rectify the issue as soon as possible.
3.8 If Qantas makes a benefit or reward available to a Customer as a result of purchasing a Qantas Product the Agent must not retain, access or otherwise use that benefit or reward, or take any steps to prevent the Customer from obtaining that benefit or reward.
(a) it complies with all applicable IATA resolutions;
(b) all information submitted to Qantas is accurate;
(c) all relevant Customer contact information (including mobile number and email) is passed on to Qantas in accordance with IATA resolution 830d;
(d) the PCC and IATA Number or TIDS Code or ARC Number of the booking agent is recorded in the PNR; and
(e) no changes are made in the GDS to the POS ID of a PNR.
4.2 The Agent must:
(a) implement and maintain appropriate business practices and procedures to ensure it only accesses, markets, sells, tickets and or distributes fares and other Qantas Products in accordance with the appropriate booking class and fare rules and Qantas Special Fare conditions;
(b) take all reasonable steps to ensure the Customer is eligible to be sold the relevant fare or Qantas Special Fare;
(c) ensure that any Qantas Special Fares are booked and ticketed by the Agent holding the PCC to which the relevant Qantas Special Fare was loaded or filed unless otherwise approved by Qantas; and
(d) not engage in any practice which enables the Agent or a third party to access Qantas Data or Qantas Channel Data through unauthorised means, including PCC Sharing.
4.3 If the Agent sells, or facilitates the sale of, a fare or a Qantas Special Fare in contravention of clause 4.2, Qantas will be entitled to compensation from the Agent equivalent to the amount of the difference between the ticketed airfare and the highest airfare applicable to the booking class into which the Customer was booked. Qantas may issue an ADM to recover any amounts owing to Qantas from the Agent.
5.1 A Booking for any Qantas Products must be created and ticketed within the same POS.
5.2 The Agent is responsible for the Servicing of any Bookings made by the Agent. Qantas may take over the Servicing and responsibility of a Booking where the circumstances set out in clauses 12.4(b), 12.4(c) or 12.4(d) apply to the Agent.
5.3 For all Bookings created within POS Australia, POS New Zealand or POS United States of America, the Agent must conduct the Servicing of these Bookings within the POS that they were created and ticketed.
6.1 When accepting and processing Card transactions with Qantas as the merchant, the Agent must comply with the PCI DSS (and any new or updated version of the PCI DSS). Despite any IATA resolution, no Cards issued in the name of the Agent or their respective Personnel may be used to effect the sale of a Qantas Product to a Customer.
6.2 The Agent must use reasonable efforts to validate and verify that the cardholder submitting a Card for payment for Qantas Products has the authority to use that Card. Acceptable verification methods beyond matching the cardholders name to the traveller’s name include obtaining the cardholder’s signature, using stronger authentication such as 3DS, and ensuring the card security code (CVV2, CVC2, CID) is obtained and used for payment authorisation.
6.3 If at any time the Card is not appropriately verified or is declined during payment authorisation, the Agent must use an alternative validated and verified Card or should seek to make payment via other means and not via Qantas as the merchant.
6.4 In the event of a disputed transaction and its subsequent rejection by the card company, the Agent will be liable to Qantas for any chargebacks issued with respect to such transaction. The Agent must provide reasonable assistance and evidence to Qantas in order to allow Confidential Page 3 Agency Terms and Conditions 1 September 2020 Qantas to defend a chargeback by the card company. ADMs will be issued to the Agent for any chargebacks not successfully defended by Qantas.
6.5 If the Agent is required to re-issue or refund a Qantas Ticket, such re-issue or refund of the Qantas Ticket must be made through an IATA Number or ARC Number owned by the Agent. Where a Qantas Ticket is reissued or refunded in contravention of this clause, Qantas may issue the Agent with an ADM.
7.1 The Agent must comply with all applicable laws (including laws in relation to misleading, deceptive or fraudulent conduct), policies, procedures and written directions of Qantas with respect to the marketing, sale, booking, ticketing and facilitating of Qantas Products (as advised in writing or those published on Qantas Agency Connect) and, if applicable, the normal IATA practices and procedures in place from time to time including those related to:
(a) the issue of Qantas tickets and use of ‘Qantas Ticketing Authority’;
(b) the issue of Qantas Electronic Miscellaneous Documents or any other equivalents;
(c) any rules (including fare rules), directions or guidelines relating to booking practices including use of booking classes, fraudulent, duplicate, speculative or fictitious bookings;
(d) any rules, directions or guidelines relating to Servicing of Bookings including the facilitation of any changes requested by the Customer and the timely communication to the Customer of any disruption or service change notifications; and
(e) any other relevant Qantas documentation, policies, procedures, instructions or directions, including the terms of the Qantas Frequent Flyer Program or any other loyalty programs operated by Qantas.
7.2 The Agent must keep and maintain accurate books and records of the Agent’s operations and dealings, so as to record and reflect all information which is relevant for the purposes of confirming the Agent’s compliance with these Terms.
7.3 Where the Agent sells to a Customer a package holiday under the EU Package Travel Directive which includes a flight operated by Qantas, the Agent agrees that:
(a) in the event that the non, incomplete or delayed performance of that flight (‘a disruption’) gives rise to a claim by the Customer against the Agent under the EU Package Travel Directive, Qantas’ liability to the Agent for such disruption will not exceed any direct liability that Qantas in its capacity as carrier may have to pay as compensation to the Customer and Qantas will not be liable to the Agent for any disruption caused by an act or omission of the Agent;
(b) in the event that a disruption gives rise to a claim for compensation by the Customer against Qantas under Regulation (EC) No 261/2004:
(i) the Agent will not pay compensation to the Customer in respect of such a claim without obtaining prior written consent from Qantas; and
(ii) if Qantas settles a claim for compensation under Regulation (EC) No. 261/2004 with the Customer, Qantas will have no further liability to Agent in connection with that claim; and
(c) the Agent will comply with any obligations under the EU Package Travel Directive to provide information to Qantas in relation to concluded packages or linked travel arrangements.
8.1 Each party represents and warrants that, in respect to the matters that are the subject of these Terms, it has not and will not offer, promise, provide or cause to be provided to another person (including a Public Official) an illegal benefit in breach or attempted breach of the:
(a) Criminal Code 1995 (Cth);
(b) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 (US);
(c) Bribery Act 2010 (UK); and/or
(d) any other applicable bribery and/or corruption laws.
8.2 If a party (‘Concerned Party’) reasonably believes the other party or its Personnel have engaged, or is about to engage, in conduct which may result in a breach of clause 8.1, the Concerned Party:
(a) may request that the other party provide information and answer any reasonable questions relating to their performance of these Terms;
(b) retains the absolute discretion to disclose any information connected with these Terms to a legal or regulatory body without any obligation to inform the other party; and
(c) may terminate these Terms immediately and without penalty.
8.3 Each party represents and warrants to the other that in respect of these Terms:
(a) it maintains an effective system for identifying, escalating and resolving real and potential Conflict of Interest; and
(b) it will take reasonable measures to prevent any real and potential Conflicts of Interest that would cause that Party to be in breach of any laws or would impair that Party’s (or its Personnel’s) ability to meet its obligations under these Terms.
8.4 Pursuant to clause 8.3, if any Party reasonably believes that there is a real or potential Conflict of Interest that has or is likely to impact the performance of these Terms, the details of the nature and extent of the interests which actually or potentially could be in conflict Confidential Page 4 Agency Terms and Conditions 1 September 2020 should be disclosed to the other party as soon as practicable.
9.1 Qantas may determine in its sole discretion what Qantas Data is made available to the Agent.
9.2 The Agent understands and agrees that all Qantas Data:
(a) is and will be owned by Qantas; and
(b) may only be used by the Agent in connection with the marketing, sale, booking, ticketing and facilitating by it of Qantas Products.
9.3 The Agent must not, without the prior written approval of Qantas:
(a) obtain Qantas Data other than through Approved Channels;
(b) access Qantas Data via any method that involves screen scraping Qantas.com or any other applicable Qantas website;
(c) use, or facilitate the use of, Qantas Data to benefit a third party or act as an intermediary for distribution of Qantas Data;
(d) re-distribute, re-market, sell or display Qantas Data to or via any third party, except in accordance with clause 9.4;
(e) develop, licence or sell any software or products that are capable of accessing Qantas Data; or
(f) reverse engineer, process, combine, manipulate or otherwise use the Qantas Data for any reason including predicting fare changes or developing other products.
9.4 Subject to clause 9.5, the Agent may re-market or display Qantas Data to or via metasearch providers.
9.5 If the Agent is in breach of any of these Terms, including any failure to comply with the fare rules, Qantas may, by giving written notice to the Agent, remove the Agent’s right to re-market or display Qantas Data under clause 9.4 and the Agent must immediately cease re-marketing or displaying Qantas Data to or via metasearch providers
10.1 Qantas and QantasLink each own various Intellectual Property Rights (‘Qantas IP’). Subject to clause 10.3, the Agent must not use Qantas IP without the prior written approval of Qantas.
10.2 The Agent must not issue any advertising or promotional material with dual airline or dual Wholesaler branding (where Qantas or QantasLink is one of the airlines) without the prior written consent of Qantas, which may be withheld at the absolute discretion of Qantas.
10.3 Qantas grants to the Agent limited, royalty free, nontransferable, non-exclusive permission to use certain Qantas IP, specifically the trademarks and brands ordinarily associated with Qantas and QantasLink (see the Qantas Agency Connect Site for details) (the ‘Qantas Marks’) solely for the purpose of identifying the Agent as an authorised agent to market and sell the Qantas Products. The Qantas Marks must not be altered or changed or used in any manner that may bring Qantas into disrepute. Any unauthorised use of the Qantas Marks will constitute an infringement of Qantas’ rights.
10.4 In using any Qantas IP, the Agent must comply with all policies or conditions advised by Qantas to the Agent from time to time.
11.1 The Agent shall be responsible for and must pay or reimburse Qantas, and defend, indemnify and hold harmless Qantas from and against, all taxes (including Ticket Taxes), charges, fees and other imposts of whatever kind (including any fine or penalty imposed in connection therewith) levied, assessed, charged or collected in connection with these Terms (including payments made under these Terms), the sale of Qantas Products or any services to which these Terms apply.
11.2 Any consideration provided for supplies to which these Terms apply (other than as required by this clause) ('Base Price') has been calculated exclusive of GST. If GST is imposed on a supply to which these Terms apply, the recipient of that supply must pay, in addition to the Base Price, an amount equal to the GST payable by the supplier in respect of that supply. Subject to clause 6.3, any amount payable under this clause 6.2 is payable on the day that payment of the Base Price (or part of the Base Price) for the supply, that has given rise to the obligation to pay GST, is required or where the Base Price is non-monetary consideration, seven days after the recipient receives a tax invoice for the supply.
11.3 Where GST is imposed on a supply, the Agent must ensure that any invoice or other request or demand for payment for supplies provided by it to Qantas constitutes a tax invoice that will enable Qantas to claim tax credits in respect of supplies to which the invoice relates. No amount will be due and payable by Qantas in respect of a supply to which these Terms apply unless Qantas has received from the party making the supply an invoice which complies with this clause.
11.4 Each party will use its reasonable efforts to do everything required by the relevant GST legislation to enable or assist the other party to claim or verify any tax credit, set off, rebate or refund in respect of GST paid or payable in connection with supplies to which these Terms apply.
11.5 If the Agent is a BSP or ARC user: In order to address the payment of GST and Ticket Taxes on the sale of air travel or other travel arrangements to which these Terms apply, Qantas will debit the BSP or ARC system (as applicable) for the gross ticket price, inclusive of GST and Ticket Taxes, less any commission that is owing to the Agent and that can be deducted at source. For the avoidance of doubt, ticket price (be it actual or gross) means the full ticket price without any reduction or setoff in relation to commission.
11.6 If the Agent is not a BSP or ARC user: In order to address the payment of GST and Ticket Taxes payable Confidential Page 5 Agency Terms and Conditions 1 September 2020 on air travel or other travel arrangements sold by the Agent to which these Terms apply, the Agent will either provide Qantas with details of:
(a) the actual ticket price paid by the Customer (inclusive of GST and Ticket Taxes) and remit that amount to Qantas, less any commission that can be deducted at source; or
(b) the gross ticket price (exclusive of GST and inclusive of Ticket Taxes) and remit that amount to Qantas, less any commission that can be deducted at source, and will also remit to Qantas an amount equal to the GST liability applicable to the gross ticket price.
For the avoidance of doubt, ticket price (be it actual or gross) means the full ticket price without any reduction or set-off in relation to commission.
11.7 In respect of any supply made by the Agent, as agent for Qantas, the Agent will be responsible for issuing tax invoices and adjustment notes to the Customer. The Agent indemnifies Qantas against any costs (including any fines or penalties), loss or expenses incurred by Qantas as a result of the Agent’s failure, whether unintentional or not, to issue tax invoices and adjustment notes and to calculate and remit to Qantas the correct amount of GST and Ticket Taxes.
11.8 If required to do so by relevant taxation legislation or regulation to make any deduction or withholding on account of any taxes (including for non-quoting of the Agent’s Australian Business Number (ABN)), Qantas will deduct or withhold the relevant taxes from any consideration provided for supplies to which these Terms apply, except where the Agent can provide evidence issued by the relevant taxation authority of an exemption from, or rate variation of, such taxes (including a written statement approved by the Australian Taxation Office as to the reason for not quoting an ABN). If any taxes are deducted, Qantas will have no obligation to pay an additional amount to the Agent in relation to such taxes. Qantas will upon the Agent’s written request provide to the Supplier evidence of the payment of such taxes.
11.9 In relation to airfares booked on a Qantas Flight for Domestic Australian Travel, the Agent acknowledges that in certain circumstances the airfare will be GST-free for the purposes of Australian GST Law. The Agent must establish a procedure to ensure that the requirements for GST-free treatment are considered, and, where relevant, satisfied. The Agent must retain all evidence required to substantiate the GST-free treatment and provide such documentation to Qantas on request. The Agent may only make GST-free bookings for Domestic Australian Travel where the requirements for Australian GST-free treatment are satisfied. If the requirements are not satisfied, the Agent must sell a GST-inclusive fare. The Agent must indemnify Qantas for any GST liability which arises as a result of a breach of the Agent’s representations and undertakings under this clause. The Agent agrees to co-operate with Qantas in relation to any audit or enquiry from the Australian Taxation Office in relation to the GST treatment of any airfares booked by the Agent.
12.1 The Agent is responsible for the acts and omissions of its Personnel.
12.2 The Agent must take out and maintain valid and enforceable public liability and professional indemnity insurance policies that are adequate to cover its business operations.
12.3 If the Agent breaches these Terms, then, without limiting any other rights, Qantas may, by giving written notice to the Agent, do any or all of the following:
(a) recover any costs incurred or losses suffered by Qantas as a result of the breach;
(b) cancel any affected bookings and tickets;
(c) remove the Agent’s Qantas Ticketing Authority and access to the Qantas Agency Connect Site; or
(d) remove the Agent’s access to Qantas Data including via Approved Channels.
12.4 These Terms may be terminated by either party:
(a) at any time upon 30 days written notice to the other party;
(b) if the other party commits a breach of these Terms which is capable of remedy and fails to remedy the breach within 14 days after receiving notice requiring it to do so;
(c) the other party commits a breach of these Terms which is not capable of remedy;
(d) if the other party:
(i) disposes of the whole or any part of its assets, operations or business other than in the normal course of business;
(ii) ceases to be able to pay its debts as they become due;
(iii) ceases to carry on business;
(iv) being a corporation, becomes the subject of insolvency proceedings, or has an administrator, a liquidator or receiver and/or manager or other like person appointed over any of its assets; or
(v) being a firm or partnership, becomes the subject of an event of bankruptcy or is dissolved; or
(e) as otherwise permitted in accordance with these Terms.
12.5 After termination:
(a) the Agent must immediately stop selling Qantas Products;
(b) accrued rights or remedies of each party are not affected; and
(c) each party’s obligations relating to clauses 9 (Qantas Data Requirements), 10 (Intellectual Property Rights), 11 (Taxes), 12 (Liability and Termination) and 13 (Privacy) and will continue.
13.1 Each party must comply with all applicable privacy legislation, such as the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679). For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this clause 11 is intended to prevent the Agent from meeting its obligations at law.
13.2 The Agent must ensure that if the Agent or its Personnel collects Personal Information about an individual in connection with a product or service supplied by a Qantas Airline or any other Qantas Group Company, the following text must appear on each e-ticket and itinerary receipt issued with respect to that product or service: “Data Protection Notice: Your personal data will be processed in accordance with the applicable carrier’s privacy policy and, if your booking is made via a reservation system provider (“GDS”), with its privacy policy. These are available at http://www.iatatravelcenter.com/privacy or from the carrier or GDS directly. You should read this documentation, which applies to your booking and specifies, for example, how your personal data is collected, stored, used, disclosed and transferred. (applicable for interline carriage)”.
13.3 If the Agent collects any Personal Information in connection with these Terms, the Agent:
(a) must promptly notify Qantas in writing about any unauthorised access or disclosure involving such Personal Information, or other breach of the Privacy Act or other applicable data protection Law in relation to such Personal Information;
(b) must consult with and comply with all reasonable directions of Qantas in relation to clause (a) above; and
(c) must not notify any third party of any of the matters referred to in clause (a) above, without the written approval of Qantas (which will not be unreasonably withheld).
(d) must take all reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Information is protected against misuse and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure;
(e) must not, directly or indirectly use the Personal Information except to the extent:
(i) necessary to exercise its rights or perform is obligations under these Terms; or
(ii) authorised by Qantas or the individual about whom the Personal Information relates;
(f) must not disclose the Personal Information whether directly or indirectly to any person without the prior written consent of Qantas;
(g) may disclose the Personal Information to its authorised Personnel to the extent that they have a need to know for the purpose of complying with the Agent’s obligations under these Terms;
(h) must provide appropriate training on proper Personal Information handling to those authorised Personnel;
(i) must ensure that its internal operating systems only permit those authorised Personnel to access the Personal Information;
(j) must immediately notify Qantas when it becomes aware that use or disclosure of the Personal Information is required or authorised by or under law; and
(k) on termination of these Terms, the Agent must promptly return to Qantas or, if requested by Qantas, destroy, all copies of the Personal Information, in which case any right to use, copy or disclose that Personal Information ceases.
14.1 Notices: A party notifying or giving notice under these Terms must give notice:
(a) in writing;
(b) in the case of Qantas, addressed to the address below or your local Qantas sales office: Qantas Agency Connect Qantas Centre Building A - Level 4 10 Bourke Road Mascot NSW 2020. agencycompliance@qantas.com.au
(c) in the case of the Agent addressed to such address as notified in writing by the Agent to Qantas from time to time including any address identified in the Agent’s Qantas Ticketing Authority application; and
(d) by either:
(i) leaving at or sending by prepaid post to that address; or
(ii) in the case of notices, other than those notifying of default or termination under these Terms, sending by electronic form such as email to that address.
14.2 Service of Notice: A notice given in accordance with clause 14.1 is deemed received:
(a) if left at the recipient’s address, on the date of delivery;
(b) if sent by prepaid post, five days after the date of posting; and
(c) if it is sent in electronic form:
(i) prior to 5 pm on a Working Day, on the following Working Day after the day of sending, or
(ii) otherwise on the second Working Day after the day of sending, where for the purposes of this clause, a Working Day is a day on which banks are generally open Confidential Page 7 Agency Terms and Conditions 1 September 2020 for business in the location where the notice is being received, other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.
14.3 Relationship of the Parties: Nothing in these Terms or any associated circumstances gives rise to any relationship of joint venture, partnership or employer and employee between Qantas and the Agent or between Qantas and any Personnel of the Agent.
14.4 All Things Necessary: Each party must:
(a) use reasonable efforts to do all things necessary or desirable to give full effect to these Terms; and
(b) refrain from doing anything that might hinder performance of these Terms.
14.5 Waiver: If a party:
(a) has a right arising from another party's failure to comply with an obligation under these Terms; and
(b) delays in exercising or does not exercise that right, that delay in exercising or failure to exercise is not a waiver of that right or any other right. A right may only be waived in writing, signed by the party waiving the right.
14.6 Governing Law: These Terms are governed by the laws applicable in the State of New South Wales, Australia and each party submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that State.
15.1 Definitions in these Terms:
Agency Agreement means any agency sales agreement between Qantas and the Agent or the Agent’s head office (in the case of an Agent that is part of a chain or selling group).
Agency Debit Memo or ADM means a debit memo issued by Qantas to the Agent via the BSP. The Qantas ADM Policy can be found on the Qantas Agency Connect Site.
Agent means any person who markets, sells, books, tickets or facilitates a Qantas Product.
Ancillary Services means any product or service that Qantas markets, sells, offers or operates that is sold in addition to the ticket for travel on Qantas Flights, for example, but not limited to baggage fees and seating fees and insurance.
Approved Channels means the mechanism by which the Agent obtains, accesses or receives Qantas Data. Approved Channels are limited to the Qantas Distribution Platform, the GDS, Qantas Agency Connect Site, Routehappy or specific access through other third parties as may be approved by Qantas in writing to the Agent.
ARC means the IATA Airlines Reporting Corporation.
ARC Number means the unique reference provided by ARC to the Agent to represent their ARC accreditation.
Booking means a travel reservation, containing one or more Customer PNR’s and which belong to the same itinerary.
BSP means the IATA Billing and Settlement Plan.
Card means a credit card, charge card, debit card, prepaid card, purchasing card, or air industry card in any form (whether physical or non-physical or “virtual”), including those issued by or carrying the mark of American Express, Diners Club International, Mastercard, Visa or Universal Air Travel Plan.
Conditions of Carriage means Qantas’ Conditions of Carriage, which may be viewed via https://www.qantas.com/travel/airlines/conditionscarriage/global/en, as amended from time to time.
Conflict of Interest means any circumstance where any Personnel of a Party has any personal or commercial interest or affiliation outside of their role for that Party that may conflict with, or could appear to influence the negotiation or performance of, these Terms or any associated Qantas Channel Agreement or Agency Agreement.
Customer means a person who requests information on a travel itinerary from the Agent or for whom the Agent makes a booking of a Qantas Product.
Domestic Australia Travel means travel on flights with a ‘QF’ flight number which are wholly within Australia (including QantasLink regional services but excluding flights on Jetstar), which do not form part of an international journey.
EU Package Travel Directive means Directive EU 2015/2302 which relates to package travel and linked travel arrangements.
GDS means a global distribution system for the travel industry, specifically those systems provided by Amadeus, Travelport, Sabre, Travelsky, Axess or Abacus or any other systems as may be advised by Qantas in writing to the Agent.
GST means any goods and services tax, value added tax or sales tax imposed on the sale or supply of goods, services and rights including a tax imposed by the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth) and the related imposition Acts of the Commonwealth.
IATA Number means the unique reference provided by IATA to the Agent to represent their IATA accreditation.
Intellectual Property Rights means all intellectual property rights in Australia and throughout the world, including:
(a) patents, copyright, rights in circuit layouts, registered designs, trade or service marks, trade, business or company names, indication of source or appellation of origin, and any right to have confidential information kept confidential;
(b) any application or right to apply for registration of, or assert or waive, any of the rights referred to in paragraph (a); and
(c) moral rights, trade secrets, ideas, concepts, materials, know-how and techniques.
Jetstar means Jetstar Airways Pty Limited ABN 33 069 720 243.
PCC or Pseudo City Code means the unique identifier allocated to an agent by a GDS to enable bookings to be made, also referred to as an OID or Office ID
PCC Sharing means the practice where the PCC or Office ID of an Agent is shared with a third party.
PCI DSS means the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, an information security standard for organisations that handle branded credit cards from the major card schemes which is administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council.
Personal Information means information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable:
(a) whether the information or opinion is true or not; and
(b) whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.
Personnel means:
(a) in the case of Qantas, the officers, employees, agents and contractors of the Qantas Group (excluding the Agent and its Personnel); and
(b) in the case of the Agent, includes the Agent, its related bodies corporate and its franchisees and the officers, employees, agents and contractors of each of them.
PNR means Passenger Name Record.
Point of Sale or POS means the geographical location in which an Agent books, sells or tickets a Qantas Product.
POS ID means the country (POS) in which the PCC/Office ID of the Agent is provisioned by a GDS and where the Agent is authorised to operate.
Public Official means:
(a) any officer or employee of a government, government department or government agency;
(b) any officer or employee of a government controlled enterprise;
(c) any officer or employee of a public international organisation;
(d) any political party, political party official or candidate for a political office; or
(e) anyone acting in an official capacity on behalf of those listed above (whether paid or unpaid).
Published Fare means a fare which is commercially available to all agents with no restrictions.
Qantas Airline means Qantas and each QantasLink entity.
Qantas Agency Connect Site means:
(a) the Qantas Agency Connect Site at https://www.qantas.com/agencyconnect/au/en.html; or
(b) the relevant Qantas Agency Connect site for your jurisdiction; or
(c) any successor site as notified by Qantas.
Qantas Agency Connect Site Conditions means the terms and conditions of the relevant Qantas Agency Connect Site.
Qantas Channel is an indirect channel globally offered by Qantas to agents that entitles participating agents to access Qantas Channel content and avoid incurring a channel fee, subject to the terms and conditions of the Qantas Channel Agreement.
Qantas Channel Agreement means the terms and conditions between Qantas and an Agent that governs the Agent’s participation in the Qantas Channel including access to certain Qantas content.
Qantas Channel Data means Qantas Data that is only available to Agents participating in the Qantas Channel.
Qantas Data means any information or data which:
(a) includes Qantas pricing, fares (including Qantas Special Fares and other fares not generally available for purchase by the general public), inventory, schedule and seat (including availability) information;
(b) contains information about the relationship between Qantas and its Customer (e.g. Qantas Frequent Flyer membership or Qantas Club membership);
(c) contains booking and payment data for any Customer;
(d) is information relating to Ancillary Services including pricing and availability;
(e) is any rich content (such as photos, videos and associated descriptions) describing or showcasing Qantas Products;
(f) sets out or is contained in policies, promotions, procedures or any written directions of Qantas with respect to the marketing, sale, booking, ticketing and facilitating of Qantas Products; or
(g) is any other data identified by Qantas in writing as being Qantas owned data.
Qantas Distribution Platform or QDP is a B2B integration platform that houses API Services which enables external connections to access Qantas’ booking systems.
Qantas Flight means a flight that is operated or marketed by any Qantas Airline. Qantas Group means Qantas and its related bodies corporate.
Qantas Group Company means a company in the Qantas Group.
Qantas Product means any Qantas Flight or Ancillary Services.
Qantas Special Fares means any specific fare made available by Qantas to an Agent which is not a Published Fare and has restricted distribution. Qantas Special Fares may include fares that have unique pricing, purchase eligibility and/or fare rules or are available only to a niche market segment or within a specified POS (for example ‘visiting family and friends’, ‘marine’ ‘student’ or ‘corporate fares’ etc.).
Qantas Ticket means a ticket for a Qantas Product issued by an Agent.
Qantas Ticketing Authority means the authority granted to the Agent by Qantas to issue tickets on the Qantas ticketing stock (081) using the Agent’s unique IATA Number or ARC Number..
QantasLink means the regional airlines operating as QantasLink including:
(a) Eastern Australia Airlines Pty Limited;
(b) Sunstate Airlines (Qld) Pty Limited;
(c) National Jet Systems Pty Limited; and
(d) Network Aviation Pty Limited.
Servicing means facilitation of any changes to a Customer’s PNR or Booking.
Special Request mean a product or service that is offered by an Agent to a Customer in addition to the Qantas Flight, with or without an additional fee, including seat selection, additional baggage, meal preferences, bag tracking, service packages and SMS notifications.
Ticket Taxes means all taxes, fees, levies and charges that are payable by the purchaser of an airline ticket, including amounts imposed by airports and taxing authorities and airline-imposed charges such as fuel, insurance and environmental surcharges, regardless of whether a fare is payable for the ticket.
TIDS means the Travel Industry Designator Service programme offered by IATA for non-IATA accredited travel agents not domiciled in the USA.
TIDS Code means the unique reference or industry code provided by IATA to an Agent participating in TIDS which captures POS and other details of the travel agency.
Wholesale means packages which combine air travel with other travel arrangements (including the provision of cars, accommodation, transfers to and from airports and sightseeing).
Wholesaler means an entity which makes available, markets or sells Qantas Products (including Wholesale products) to third party travel agents.
In these Terms, unless the contrary intention appears:
(a) headings are for ease of reference only and do not affect the meaning of these Terms;
(b) expressions not defined in clause 15.1, will have the meaning attributed to them by common usage or trade (if any) within the travel industry in Australia;
(c) the singular include the plural and vice versa;
(d) a reference to a clause is a reference to a clause of these Terms;
(e) a reference to a statute, ordinance or by-law includes regulations and other instructions under it and consolidations, amendments, re-enactments or replacements of any of them;
(f) a reference to a party includes executors, administrators, permitted assigns and successors of that party; and
(g) ‘including’ means ‘including without limitation’.
18 Misleading or deceptive conduct
(1) A person must not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct that is misleading or deceptive or is likely to mislead or deceive.
(2) Nothing in Part 3-1 (which is about unfair practices) limits by implication subsection (1).
29 False or misleading representations about goods or services
(1) A person must not, in trade or commerce, in connection with the supply or possible supply of goods or services or in connection with the promotion by any means of the supply or use of goods or services:
(a) make a false or misleading representation that goods are of a particular standard, quality, value, grade, composition, style or model or have had a particular history or particular previous use; or
(b) make a false or misleading representation that services are of a particular standard, quality, value or grade; or
(c) make a false or misleading representation that goods are new; or
(d) make a false or misleading representation that a particular person has agreed to acquire goods or services; or
(e) make a false or misleading representation that purports to be a testimonial by any person relating to goods or services; or
(f) make a false or misleading representation concerning:
(i) a testimonial by any person; or
(ii) a representation that purports to be such a testimonial; relating to goods or services; or
(g) make a false or misleading representation that goods or services have sponsorship, approval, performance characteristics, accessories, uses or benefits; or
(h) make a false or misleading representation that the person making the representation has a sponsorship, approval or affiliation; or
(i) make a false or misleading representation with respect to the price of goods or services; or
(j) make a false or misleading representation concerning the availability of facilities for the repair of goods or of spare parts for goods; or
(k) make a false or misleading representation concerning the place of origin of goods; or
(l) make a false or misleading representation concerning the need for any goods or services; or
(m) make a false or misleading representation concerning the existence, exclusion or effect of any condition, warranty, guarantee, right or remedy (including a guarantee under Division 1 of Part 3-2); or
(n) make a false or misleading representation concerning a requirement to pay for a contractual right that:
(i) is wholly or partly equivalent to any condition, warranty, guarantee, right or remedy (including a guarantee under Division 1 of Part 3-2); and
(ii) a person has under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory (other than an unwritten law).
Note 1: A pecuniary penalty may be imposed for a contravention of this subsection
Note 2: For rules relating to representations as to the country of origin of goods, see Part 5-3.
(2) For the purposes of applying subsection (1) in relation to a proceeding concerning a representation of a kind referred to in subsection (1)(e) or (f), the representation is taken to be misleading unless evidence is adduced to the contrary.
(3) To avoid doubt, subsection (2) does not:
(a) have the effect that, merely because such evidence to the contrary is adduced, the representation is not misleading; or
(b) have the effect of placing on any person an onus of proving that the representation is not misleading.
48 Single price to be specified in certain circumstances
(1) A person must not, in trade or commerce, in connection with:
(a) the supply, or possible supply, to another person of goods or services of a kind ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic or household use or consumption; or
(b) the promotion by any means of the supply to another person, or of the use by another person, of goods or services of a kind ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic or household use or consumption; make a representation with respect to an amount that, if paid, would constitute a part of the consideration for the supply of the goods or services unless the person also specifies, in a prominent way and as a single figure, the single price for the goods or services. Note: A pecuniary penalty may be imposed for a contravention of this subsection.
(2) A person is not required to include, in the single price for goods, a charge that is payable in relation to sending the goods from the supplier to the other person.
(3) However, if:
(a) the person does not include in the single price a charge that is payable in relation to sending the goods from the supplier to the other person; and
(b) the person knows, at the time of the representation, the minimum amount of a charge in relation to sending the goods from the supplier to the other person that must be paid by the other person; the person must not make the representation referred to in subsection (1) unless the person also specifies that minimum amount. Note: A pecuniary penalty may be imposed for a contravention of this subsection.
(4) Subsection (1) does not apply if the representation is made exclusively to a body corporate.
(4A) Subsection (1) does not apply if:
(a) the representation is in a class of representations prescribed by the regulations; and
(b) the conditions (if any) prescribed by the regulations in relation to representations in that class have been complied with. Note: If the representation is in a class prescribed for paragraph (a) of this subsection and subsection (1) is complied with in relation to the representation, there is no need to also comply with any conditions prescribed for paragraph (b) of this subsection.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (1), the person is taken not to have specified a single price for the goods or services in a prominent way unless the single price is at least as prominent as the most prominent of the parts of the consideration for the supply.
(6) Subsection (5) does not apply in relation to services to be supplied under a contract if:
(a) the contract provides for the supply of the services for the term of the contract; and
(b) the contract provides for periodic payments for the services to be made during the term of the contract; and
(c) if the contract also provides for the supply of goods--the goods are directly related to the supply of the services.
(7) The single price is the minimum quantifiable consideration for the supply of the goods or services at the time of the representation, including each of the following amounts (if any) that is quantifiable at that time:
(a) a charge of any description payable to the person making the representation by another person unless:
(i) the charge is payable at the option of the other person; and
(ii) at or before the time of the representation, the other person has either deselected the charge or not expressly requested that the charge be applied;
(b) the amount which reflects any tax, duty, fee, levy or charge imposed on the person making the representation in relation to the supply;
(c) any amount paid or payable by the person making the representation in relation to the supply with respect to any tax, duty, fee, levy or charge if:
(i) the amount is paid or payable under an agreement or arrangement made under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; and
(ii) the tax, duty, fee, levy or charge would have otherwise been payable by another person in relation to the supply.
Example 1: An airline advertises a flight for sale. Persons have the option of paying for a carbon offset. If the carbon offset is preselected on the airline's online booking system, the single price for the flight must include the carbon offset charge. This is because the person has not, at or before the time of the representation, deselected the charge on the online booking site. If the person deselects the optional carbon offset charge later in the online booking process, the single price does not need to include the carbon offset charge after the charge is deselected because of the exception provided by paragraphs (a)(i) and (ii).
Example 2: The GST may be an example of an amount covered by paragraph (b).
Example 3: The passenger movement charge imposed under the Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978 may be an example of an amount covered by paragraph (c). Under an arrangement under section 10 of the Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978 , airlines may pay an amount equal to the charge that would otherwise be payable by passengers departing Australia.
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