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The Albert Lea Convention and Visitor’s Bureau organized a gift card challenge to help local businesses during COVID-19. - Colleen Harrison/Albert Lea Tribune
Gift card challenge a success for businesses during COVID-19
By Colleen Harrison
Published 12:00 pm Saturday, October 3, 2020
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closures or limitations of businesses earlier this year, the Albert Lea Convention and Visitors Bureau started a gift card challenge in response.
Through the challenge, people can purchase gift cards in $25 increments from local businesses, and then ask the business to hold the gift card. The gift card purchaser will then fill out a form on the CVB’s website, www.explorealbertlea.com. The CVB will then contact the business with the name of a person in need who has been granted the use of the gift card. People in need of immediate help can fill out a form on the CVB’s website to be connected with gift cards as well.
“Now more than ever, shopping local is a matter of doors ever being able to open again for many of our local restaurants and retailers,” said Holly Karsjens, Albert Lea CVB and Main Street Program executive director, in an April interview with the Tribune. “They have worked so extremely hard to get where they were before this storm overcame us, let’s pull together and sandbag around them with our support so they don’t get swept away.”
The challenge has only grown in the months since its inception. As of early September, 157 gift cards for a total of $4,200 had been donated through the initiative. At the beginning of the challenge, Farmers State Bank said it would match the first $1,500 in gift cards purchased with more cards purchased from local businesses.
Farmer’s State Bank matched the first $1,500 in gift cards purchased with more cards purchased from local businesses. – Colleen Harrison/Albert Lea Tribune
“We’re a community bank, and a lot of the businesses here in town are going through a unique time,” said Brandon Brackey, the business deposit officer and information security officer with Farmers State Bank. “It’s the least we can do.”
“We had so many givers, it really showcases how awesome our community is, and willing to lend a hand to our small businesses as well as the rest of the community,” Karsjens said in September.
She said every call or email to notify someone has been met with gratitude and excitement, and a desire to pay it forward.
“We had quite a few who wanted to pay it forward to others, and many that did. They would turn around and purchase another card and donate it,” Karsjens said. “Businesses were happy to have people buying cards, and to have maybe people that had never been in their store have a great excuse to now shop there — either with curbside, online or in person.”
She said she would love to continue the pay-it-forward program, but, above all, wants the community to know that they can pay kindness forward all on their own as well.
“Grab a gift card from your favorite store the next time you’re there, and put it in the mail to a special someone to let them know you’re thinking of them; have fun with it, and leave it unsigned,” Karsjens said. “Or the next time you order food, pay for the person behind you.”
“It’s very easy, given what the circumstances are, to do everything online,” Brackey said. “But Amazon isn’t going to support sports or other community projects. This community makes this town what it is.”
“The program was really successful because of the people, I hope they know that,” Karsjens said. “And that they can do it any time, any where on there own.”
About Colleen Harrison
Colleen Harrison is the photo editor at the Albert Lea Tribune. She does photography and writes general-assignment stories.
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FTC Issues Highest Monetary Judgment Ever in a Made in USA Labeling Case
By Elizabeth Brotherton-Bunch
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FTC Made in America Made in USA
Penalties for false Made in USA labeling have historically been weak. In some cases, companies that deceptively labeled imported products didn’t even have to admit fault. But the FTC issued financial penalties in two recent cases, and appears to be moving toward stronger enforcement. Getty Images
Chemence, Inc., and its president will have to pay the agency $1.2 million for deceptively labeling several brands of glue.
Just before much of official Washington closed-up shop for the holiday break, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a decision that could signal that the agency plans to continue to get tough on those who deceptively label their imported products as Made in USA.
The FTC announced on Dec. 22 that it had settled a case with glue manufacturer Chemence, Inc., and its president James Cooke, finding that the company had “supplied pre-labeled and pre-packaged glues with deceptive ‘Made in USA’ claims” for a variety of retail glue brands. As part of the settlement, Chemence and Cooke must pay $1.2 million to the FTC, the highest-ever monetary judgment in a Made in USA case.
The FTC’s decision is another step forward in the fight for stronger Made in USA labeling enforcement. For years, companies that were found to have improperly labeled their imported products as Made in USA faced little-to-no consequences for their actions. In some cases, they didn’t even have to admit any fault.
But things appear to be shifting at the FTC, the government agency charged with overseeing Made in USA enforcement. In March 2020, the commission announced a $1 million settlement with Williams Sonoma over repeated labeling violations, the first time the FTC had issued a financial penalty in a Made in USA labeling case. In July 2020, the FTC proposed codifying the Made in USA standard into a rule that will allow the agency to seek civil penalties, damages and other sanctions for violations of Made in USA.
And the Chemence case is another sign that the FTC (rightly) plans to continue to take substantive action when companies are found to have knowingly mislabeled imported goods as Made in USA. In a statement, FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra said the agency is “turning the page on our permissive policy of the past.”
“Our new approach is a critical step forward for protecting the Made in USA brand, and it is a model for other FTC enforcement areas,” Chopra added. “There is more work to do, including finalizing a Made in USA fraud rule, but we are clearly moving in the right direction.”
Chemence is a repeat offender when it comes to Made in USA deception. The FTC settled a suit against the company in 2016 for making deceptive advertising claims for products sold under a number of glue brands, including Kwik Fix, Hammer Tite, and Krylex.
An example of glue falsely labeled as Made in USA by Chemence, Inc. Photo courtesy FTC
In the most recent case, the FTC alleged that Chemence and Cooke “supplied glues in packages labeled with deceptive unqualified ‘Made in USA’ claims, some with an image of the American flag.”
According to the FTC, the company provided its trade consumers with promotional materials that indicated that Chemence’s private-label and other products “were all or virtually all made in the United States,” despite the fact that “in numerous instances foreign materials accounted for more than 80 percent of the materials costs and more than 50 percent of the overall manufacturing costs for these products.”
Products that featured the misleading Made in USA claims included Master Super Blue, JB WELD SuperWeld, Stick Fast Instant CA Adhesive, Pink Gel Nail Glue, SAATI Ultrafix CA – MV, and Kiss Maximum Speed Nail Glue.
Chopra noted that the $1.2 million settlement with Chemence “represents a sea change from the era of no-money settlements” and “reminds businesses that FTC orders are not suggestions.”
While there’s certainly more work to be done when it comes to Made in USA enforcement – AAM President Scott Paul outlined a handful of ideas in a recent blog post, for example – the FTC’s action in the Chemence case is a very solid step in the right direction.
Made in USA means something. American manufacturers work hard, and often face unique challenges, to make their products in the United States. They do it for a number of reasons, from being able to produce a higher quality product to creating jobs and economic growth in their communities.
Consumers know this, which is why many of them prefer to buy American-made products whenever possible. A lot goes into “Made in USA,” and having that label on a product can help it stand out.
When companies like Chemence or Williams Sonoma use deceptive advertising, they are aiming to take advantage of the public relations boost that comes with a Made in USA label without doing any of the hard work. That’s unfair to manufacturers, and it is unfair to consumers, too.
But now the FTC is beginning to take real action to discourage this cheating. We hope the agency will continue to investigate when companies engage in deceptive Made in USA labeling, and importantly, be willing to take substantive action to enforce the rules when cheating is uncovered.
The Made in USA Label Matters. We Haven’t Done Enough to Protect It.
Williams Sonoma to Pay $1 Million to FTC for Falsely Labeling Products as Made in USA
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HTC rolls out Android Oreo for unlocked U11 Life in the U.S
Kaiser 11/30/2017 09:41:00 PM
The HTC U11 Life was launched in two variants: Sense version with Android 7.1.1 Nougat for the U.S and Android One version running Android Oreo out of the box from day one for the rest of the world. However, HTC promised Oreo update for U.S version within 30 days.
Now keeping the promise HTC has announced that Oreo update will roll out starting today to the unlocked HTC U11 Life in the U.S. This will put the U.S U11 Life version on par with the Android One version. The latest update news comes soon after HTC released Android Oreo for the U11 flagship on Monday, November 27.
The announcement was made by Mo Versi, HTC's VP of Product Management on Twitter: "HTC u11 life unlocked customers! You're next with Oreo! It's available to download starting today! Thank you!"
The update will bring native Android Oreo features like Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode, notification channels, adaptive icons, notification dots, smart text selection, Autofill API and more. It is also likely to bring November Android security patch as well. Since this is a major update, you should expect over 1GB download size.
To recap the specs, the HTC U11 Life features 5.2-inch Full HD display, Snapdragon 630 processor, 3GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, 16MP rear & front camera and 2600mAh battery. Other notable features are Edge Sense, Bluetooth 5.0, USB Type-C, IP67 water and dust resistance, 4G VoLTE and fingerprint scanner. Do note that, it does not have 3.5mm audio jack. The U11 Life retails in the U.S for $349.
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It was further mandated to assess the state-of-art of technology and set directions for future technological development in India in important socio-economic sectors. As a unique knowledge network institution in India, TIFAC activities encompass a wide array of technology areas and fill a critical gap in the overall S&T system of India.
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“Barbados Heat” – Murder Mystery set here gives us a failing grade: Sad thing? Most of it, is Accurate!
by AirBourne / October 17th, 2014
Take Barry White’s voice and mash it into Dr Dre’s body, make him an unofficial sidekick of the hero – add a situation which mimics yet exceeds Al & Tipper Gore’s campaign to put warning labels on compact discs then place a grisly murder connected to an earlier and even grislier murder which fell under a tropical setting and you pretty much have Don Bruns’ second musical mystery “Barbados Heat.”
The hero seems like an alternative version of MTV’s Kurt Loder and he is initially drawn to a case where the suspect is his former best friend who later bilked him for heavy cash, only investigating from a pure get-the-story perspective it soon appears there may be a possibility of a set up… Is it it wishful thinking, hoping to revive camaraderie lost so long ago or is it a sense of impartiality also hoping to unravel hot clues for a top story even Rolling Stone would kill to have?
Congressman Robert Shapply is no saint. A former music insider who fleeced his clients for millions, he now leads the crusade against offensive and violent rap lyrics. When he is attacked and murdered in front of his Adams Morgan home , the list of suspects—from former clients to current headliners—is endless.
But the killer might be closer to home: Police arrest Shapply’s son and charge him with murder.
For music journalist Mick Sever, covering this case is personal. Mick, a former client of the congressman and best friend of the accused killer, knows the case isn’t quite as simple as it appears. He believes his friend’s claims of innocence and sets out to prove them. With the help of his ex-wife and an old friend, Mick must penetrate the bizarre Shapply family—the icy matriarch, Alicia, the disturbed daughter, Amber and the minister brother-in-law—to find the truth.
From Washington, D.C. to Sarasota, Florida and Barbados, rock and roll journalist Mick Sever follows the leads, trying to prove the innocence of his former childhood friend. Threatened by unknown assailants and dangers at every turn, Mick becomes the hunted as the killer turns the tables in a stunning climax.
This is not a new book, it was printed 2003, it is his second from a series of five books set in the Caribbean – I found it in a second hand store on the south coast. I decided to buy it and see what kind of portrayal Barbados earned. I was glad yet sad, it seems Mr Bruns fairly nailed it, but not like how you find Barbados in the Top Ten restaurants and feel pleased kind of way – more like the Casa Grande warnings found on Trip Advisor.
Without providing any direct spoilers, it appears Sever stayed at Bouganvillea on the South Coast, saw Mount Gay in the North but did not call it by name… The intrepid hero has his 21st Century Watson tagging along; we read how every time T-Beau (muscular Barry White a la Dr Dre) came here, he said the roads were dug up and this time it was to lay down new sewers and what took a month in USA takes 2 or 3 years in Barbados. Ouch! Has he been here or what?
T-Beau and Sever chug several bottles of Banks beer, while they learn how it is both difficult and easy to get Police to cooperate in attempting to dredge a Cold Case of a 20 year old murder. When they do hit paydirt and access the true nitty-gritty, it becomes apparent based on statements recorded even back then, people turned a blind eye as money passed hands… How many cases in Barbados have remained ‘Unsolved‘ for those very reasons?
What I liked about Bruns’ approach in covering Barbados was that he did not try to convey or imitate our dialect nor use any famous words either… He would convey Bajan syntax via standard English, e.g. “Where you is?” However – in the end, protagonist Sever is not a happy camper and has no pleasant memories of Barbados and gives it a failing grade – the thing is, in my view, he seemed to really pick up on how things happen here… So this is not slander, when do we wake up and start shaking out the maggots from these still potentially ripe fruit trees, before no one looks to harvest any more?
Still appreciate this review. Number 16 releases in March.
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World Travel Market London 2019 Welcomes 170 New Exhibitors
London (United Kingdom) – November 1, 2018 (travelindex.com) – Almost 170 exhibitors are making their debut at this year’s WTM London 2018 – the event where ideas arrive. They include airlines, movie-set tour providers, adventure operators and sports venues, as well as tourist boards, destination marketing companies, tech innovators and car-hire companies.
Among new airlines that are flying in are US-based Air Transat; Indian-based Go Airlines; Middle Eastern carrier Royal Brunei Airlines and Iceland’s national carrier, Icelandair.
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Also over from Iceland is tour company Guide to Iceland, which offers accommodation, packages and tours including Game of Thrones-themed itineraries for fans who want to visit the settings for some of the hit TV show’s most iconic scenes.
On the subject of the epic TV series, first-time exhibitor Brit Movie Tours counts its Game of Thrones tour, taking in filming locations around Belfast, as one of its best-sellers. Visitors to the UK and Ireland section of WTM can also find out about Brit Movie Tours’ wide range of other options, including Downton Abbey and London gangster tours,
Lewis Swan, director of Brit Movie Tours, explained: “I launched Brit Movie Tours in 2009 as the premier provider of TV and film location tours in London and the UK. As we approach our 10th year in business we felt it was time to have a presence at the premier meeting place for the travel industry to help take our business to the next level. We look forward to welcoming both existing and new customers to our stand (UKI360).”
New tourist boards and destination representation bodies at WTM London 2018 include the Armenian Tourism Development Foundation, which is keen to showcase itself as a hotspot for adventure lovers; the National Tourism Office of Djibouti, a mostly French- and Arab-speaking country on the Horn of Africa and Costa del Sol Malaga Tourist Board, which is boosting its profile with its first stand-alone exhibition space in addition to maintaining a presence on the main Spain stand.
In the Caribbean section, the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board, is returning to WTM London after a seven-year absence. The collection of 60 unspoiled islands that ‘pack the best of the Caribbean into one convenient destination’, will be updating partners on its recovery progress following devastating damage incurred by Hurricane Irma just over a year ago.
Ginny Hawksley, managing consultant for BVI Tourist Board in London said: “We are thrilled to be exhibiting at the WTM London. We feel it is incredibly important to support our trade partners and be present, as well as let the industry know that we are very much open for business and on the road to a full recovery after Hurricane Irma.
“The UK travel industry and friends of the BVI have shown significant generosity and support to the Hurricane Irma BVI relief efforts, raising funds, volunteering time and donating needed aid supplies. With this is mind the British Virgin Islands Tourism Board feels a great responsibility and duty to ensure presence at this incredibly important industry show.”
New regional representatives include Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau, representing the Japanese island in the East China Sea, which describes itself as ‘the portal between Japan and the tropics’. Also new is Tamilnadu Tourism Department, representing one of India’s 29 states, Tamil Nadu, famed for its Dravidian-style Hindu temples; beautiful sunrises at Kanyakumari, India’s southernmost tip, and its historically important capital Chennai (formerly known as Madras).
Twenty two years after the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine, tour company CHERNOBYL welcome, which operates packages taking in ‘ultimate experience’ guided tours to the ghost town of Pripyat and surrounding region, is making its debut at WTM London.
New exhibitors from the accommodation sector include the Queen Elizabeth 2 hotel in Dubai, which previously sailed the oceans as the iconic flagship of UK cruise line Cunard.
Upcoming enhancements to the QE2 hotel, which is now docked permanently at Dubai’s Mina Rashid, include a swimming pool, gym and private beach.
Katie King, director of marketing for the QE2 Dubai said: “This is the first year that the QE2 is operating as a floating hotel docked permanently in Dubai, so attending such high-profile trade show is important for us to introduce the QE2’s new concept in our key markets. Given the QE2’s British heritage and her roots in Scotland, the UK is an essential market for us and is in fact our biggest outside of the United Arab Emirates, so exhibiting at WTM is a key part of our sales and marketing strategy.”
There are over 60 new exhibitors from the fast-moving technology sector all exhibiting in Travel Forward, the event highlighting the future of technology in the travel and hospitality industry, including Travel Ledger, an industry-owned and run B2B billing and settlement platform, built using Ethereum Blockchain technology.
Similar in concept to IATA’s BSP, Travel Ledger highly automates the travel purchasing and payment process along the entire distribution chain and will replace the current and mostly manual billing, reconciliation and settlement process to make it fast, easy and inexpensive to transact non-airline provided travel services electronically.
Travel Ledger CEO Roberto Da Re said: “After the initial development phase we are looking forward to WTM London and Travel Forward where we will be engaging with travel companies globally to raise awareness about the project and encourage companies to get involved with the continuing development effort, in preparation for the platform launch in 2019.”
Another payment method making its debut is consumer-focused Fly Now Pay Later, which describes itself as ‘the hassle-free way to pay for travel’.
Last, but not least, WTM London is welcoming a number of new exhibitors from the world of sport, including Wembley National Stadium and Manchester City FC.
WTM London, Senior Director, Simon Press, said: “With 170 new exhibitors -covering premier sporting venues, prime-location accommodation, new and established destinations and attractions, transport providers and technology innovators – this year’s WTM London and Travel Forward boasts the greatest collection so far of diverse travel and tourism organisations from across the globe under one roof at ExCeL in London.
“With new and existing exhibitors all waiting to do business with industry partners,
WTM London 2018 truly is THE event where Ideas Arrive.”
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Mark 12 :: King James Version (KJV)
Parable of the Vine-growers ©
(Mat 21:33–46; Luk 20:9–19 )
Mar 12:1
Mar 12:1 - And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Mar 12:2 - And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
Mar 12:3 - And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
Mar 12:4 - And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
Mar 12:5 - And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
Mar 12:6 - Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
Mar 12:7 - But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
Mar 12:8 - And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mar 12:9 - What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
Mar 12:10 - And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
Mar 12:11 - This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Mar 12:12 - And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
Jesus Answers the Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes ©
(Mat 22:15–22; Luk 20:20–26 )
Mar 12:13 - And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
Mar 12:14 - And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
Mar 12:15 - Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
Mar 12:16 - And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
Mar 12:17 - And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.
Mar 12:18 - Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
Mar 12:19 - Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Mar 12:20 - Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
Mar 12:21 - And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
Mar 12:22 - And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
Mar 12:23 - In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
Mar 12:24 - And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
Mar 12:25 - For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Mar 12:26 - And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Mar 12:27 - He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Mar 12:28 - And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
Mar 12:29 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Mar 12:30 - And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mar 12:31 - And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Mar 12:32 - And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
Mar 12:33 - And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mar 12:34 - And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
Mar 12:35 - And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?
Mar 12:36 - For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Mar 12:37 - David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
(Mat 23:1–7; Luk 20:45–47 )
Mar 12:38 - And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
Mar 12:39 - And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:
Mar 12:40 - Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
The Widow's Mite ©
(Luk 21:1–4 )
Mar 12:41 - And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
Mar 12:42 - And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
Mar 12:43 - And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
Mar 12:44 - For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
The Authorized Version or King James Version (KJV), 1611, 1769.
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'We're not doing guns': Elmer Fudd loses his rifle in HBO's 'Looney Tunes' cartoon reboot
Bryan Alexander / USA TODAY
Elmer Fudd has many means for cartoony violence and mayhem in HBO Max's "Looney Tunes Cartoons," the reboot of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons.
But the infamous rabbit hunter will not be blasting his cartoon rifle.
Like all characters on the throwback animated series that started last week on HBO Max, Fudd will be gun-free. The new episodes harken back to the Looney Tunes, which had their peak in the 1940s and 1950s heyday, in every other way – filled with cartoonish dynamite explosions and intricate ACME-brand booby traps.
"We’re not doing guns," Peter Browngardt, the series executive producer and showrunner, told the New York Times. "But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in."
As the Times explains, in one short "Dynamite Dance," Elmer Fudd comes at Bugs Bunny with a deadly scythe, an attack stopped as the hare jams a stick of lit dynamite into Elmer's mouth.
Over the course of the short animated video, the explosives get bigger as the rabbit jams dynamite in Elmer’s ears, on top of his bald head, and down his pants. The relentless assault moves from rowboat to unicycle to biplane.
Despite the lack of guns for Fudd, and characters like pistol-shooting Yosemite Sam, Browngardt vowed to keep to the original feel of the cartoons, considered some of the greatest in animated cartoon history.
"I always thought, ‘What if Warner Bros. had never stopped making 'Looney Tunes' cartoons?’” said Browngardt. "As much as we possibly could, we treated the production in that way."
Nonetheless there was an outcry on social media about the lack of guns.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE THE NEW LOONEY TUNES CARTOONS *cough* which are actually great, go check them out *cough* WON'T LET ELMER FUDD USE A GUN," wrote one Twitter user.
I CAN'T BELIEVE THE NEW LOONEY TUNES CARTOONS *cough* which are actually great, go check them out *cough* WON'T LET ELMER FUDD USE A GUN.
ELMER'S ONLY CHARACTER TRAIT IS A GUN. THAT'S IT. THE ORIGINAL CREATORS WOULD NEVER MAKE A CARTOON WHERE HE DIDN'T USE A GUN AT ALL-
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Dr. Howard Bierman The plan was to build a beautiful medical building that was both patient-friendly and efficient for physicians.
A place where private physicians could share a waiting room, business office and medical equipment and still see their individual patients. With shared services reducing costs, and a wider array of services available to the patients due to the pooling of resources, physicians could afford to practice medicine at the highest level of excellence. Patients receive the benefit of improved care and attention.
Hence, Beverly Hills Medical Plaza was born. Dr. Bierman gave a strong mandate to the top architectural firm in Los Angeles, Gensler and Associates, to create a Class A building that was distinctive, light, airy and cheerful. With continued guidance and inspiration from Dr. Bierman, Gensler architect Andrew Cohen created a wonderful open light pink granite medical building, with a skylighted three story glass atrium and waterfall in its center. Dana Bierman oversaw the construction, while Tracey Darroll handled the leasing and management for the new project. Constructed between 1987 and 1989, Beverly Hills Medical Plaza opened in the early fall of 1989 to a virtually fully leased building.
Amongst our first tenants were Drs. Rabin and Kornreich, Dr. Peter Waldstein and Pacific Oaks Medical Group, all who are still with us today.
Beverly Hills Medical Plaza prides itself on its care for each tenant and respect for all patients, and each other. Most of us have been with Beverly Hills Medical Plaza for many years. We believe that quality, care, and integrity are paramount.
Though Dr. Bierman is not with us today, the dream he built is carried on by his family. His daughter Tracey Darroll, currently the managing partner, oversees all aspects of leasing, management, maintenance, finances, and tenant improvements.
Today Beverly Hills Medical Plaza serves the premier physicians and patients in the Beverly Hills, Westside and Hollywood areas.
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Top-Rated Engagement & Wedding Ring Designers
Shopping for an engagement ring and wedding band can be overwhelming. Between trying to stick to a budget, navigate the wide variety of styles and brands, and choose a ring that you’ll wear forever, it’s a lot to manage! And then on top of that, there are the 4Cs of a diamond to take into account.
Fortunately, there is a way to make your shopping experience more manageable—by focusing on a handful of ring designers. By narrowing down your ring search to a select few designers that speak to you, you will be able to find that perfect ring sooner. Read on to learn about some of the top engagement and wedding ring brands in the industry.
ALTR is leading the world in the creation of lab-grown diamonds. ALTR Created Diamonds combine spectacular beauty and advanced technology to create a gorgeous diamond. These lab-created diamonds are not only beautiful, but they are earth conscious as well, utilizing only a fraction of the energy used to mine diamonds.
Employing a sophisticated growing process that utilizes conditions that mimic nature, these created diamonds are graded by the same standards as mined diamonds. ALTR’s proprietary diamond reactors and methods use a Type IIA diamond seed to make these real diamonds. Type IIA is the highest certification given to the purest diamonds, and ALTR ensures that all their Created Diamonds have them.
ArtCarved was founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1850 by J.R. Wood and was known by the original company name, J.R. Wood & Sons. The company boasts a long and storied history of success and innovation in the engagement and wedding ring industry. Their first engagement ring design was named the “Victoria,” in honor of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, who profoundly influenced fashion and style. Then, in the 1890s, the company developed the first seamless soldered rings. In the 1920s, the name ArtCarved was realized as their skilled craftsman began designing and manufacturing rings featuring unique and exquisitely detailed carved designs. In the 1940s, during WWII, ArtCarved was the only jewelry brand allowed to continue making wedding bands and thus popularized the dual ring ceremony, where both spouses receive a ring as a sign of their love and commitment. Many American men fighting in WWII wore an ArtCarved wedding band – a profound piece of home that served as a reminder of who they were fighting for.
Today, ArtCarved continues to pioneer new manufacturing techniques to allow for some of the most intricate carved designs. Their values of tradition, authenticity, quality and beautiful design have cemented them as a premier designer of engagement and wedding rings.
A.JAFFE is one of the most respected and longest-serving brands in bridal jewelry, engagement rings and wedding bands. Established in 1892 on 47th Street in downtown New York, Abraham Jaffe built his company in an area that would eventually become the international diamond jewelry epicenter. Since then, the A.JAFFE brand has continued to be at the forefront of bridal jewelry, blending classic craftsmanship with an inherent understanding of engagement ring trends. A.JAFFE’s engagement ring designs are perhaps most notable for their patented squared band, which prevents the ring from twisting on the finger and keeps the diamond centered while maximizing comfort.
Each A.JAFFE ring takes up to 80 hours to create. Each creation must pass ten quality checkpoints, including six polishing stages and an additional burnishing stage for a lustrous final product. Also, all prongs are handmade, ensuring maximum security of all the diamonds in the ring.
Established in 1987, Precision Set may be newer to the bridal industry than some of the other designers on this list, but they have managed to set the standard for modern platinum and 18k gold engagement and wedding rings. Precision Set is focused on creating engagement rings and wedding bands that are customizable, providing brides with both classic design and versatility. They are respected across the industry for the success of their Flush Fit Collection, which consists of engagement rings and wedding bands that fit together comfortably and sit completely flush on the finger, ensuring that your rings are both stylish and comfortable for everyday wear. Based in the United States, Precision Set is one of the few remaining companies to design, manufacture, distribute and support all their products from under the same roof.
Elege is an antique cushion collection from Precision Set. Once the very peak of the diamond cutter’s art, the cushion cut was the style of choice for such legendary diamonds as the Hope and Regent. Exquisitely faceted, the beauty of a cushion cut diamond could be ignited by nothing more than a single candle’s light. Over the years, the traditional cushion cut was replaced by styles that were more forgiving of a diamond’s flaws and less demanding of the diamond cutter’s skill.
Elege’ by Precision Set, and in partnership with Master Diamond Cutter Jack Reiss, pays homage to the cushion cut diamond’s artistry and beauty and recalls a more glamorous age. Elege is the only collection on the market to offer a true antique cushion cut. The diamonds used are 1.00 carat and above and must be certified by the GIA and AGS as “brilliant.”
For more than 70 years, family-owned and operated Rahaminov Diamonds has been a trusted purveyor of beautifully cut, rare diamonds. Tamara Rahaminov and her husband Amir Goldfiner, who met while studying at the Gemological Institute of America, opened the Los Angeles office in 1989 and steadily developed it from a fine diamond house into a luxury brand of exquisite diamond jewelry. Tamara’s designs have received critical acclaim, winning numerous awards.
Headquartered in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, Rahaminov Diamonds’ designs are executed in platinum and 18k gold and incorporate classic white and fancy color diamonds. The collections feature both precise and unusual cuts that are expertly faceted to highlight and enhance each diamond’s shape. At Rahaminov, the diamond inspires the design, and each design is proudly manufactured locally in Los Angeles.
In 1907, Sam Kwiat turned his passion for diamonds into a small business on Canal Street in New York City. In partnership with his son, David, they nurtured a small family shop into a diamond legacy. Today, more than a century later, Kwiat has evolved into one of the most trusted family-owned houses of diamond jewelry design. The Kwiat family continues to design and craft the most exquisite and timeless diamond jewelry and are known for their discernment in selecting and cutting only the most brilliant diamonds. Designs for Kwiat diamond jewelry are developed in their New York City workshop. From there, diamond cutters, graders, jewelers, setters and polishers work closely with the design team to bring the Kwiat vision to life.
Kwiat collections are designed for their wearer’s modern lifestyle. Light and airy settings allow diamonds to show off their brilliance. Flexible and fluid connections let jewelry float comfortably against the skin. Each piece is crafted around the beauty of its diamonds to create timeless jewelry that is simply extraordinary.
JB Star is led by its founder, artistic designer and visionary leader, Rafael Fouzailoff. The history of JB Star began in 1946 when Rafael’s father became one of the largest manufacturers of loose diamonds in Israel. Rafael decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and founded JB Star in 1979. Based in New York City, the brand now boasts some of the jewelry industry’s finest artists. Every JB Star jewelry creation is handmade using only platinum, 18k yellow and pink gold, and uses only high-quality stones. Each piece of his jewelry is carefully crafted, inspected and analyzed by hand, ensuring the highest standard of quality. This attention to detail has made JB Star one of the premier and most respected jewelry industry leaders.
Furrer Jacot was founded in 1858 by Fritz Furrer and Lucienne Jacot. Today, more than 150 years later, Furrer Jacot is still creating exclusive engagement rings and wedding bands in line with its founders’ tradition. Boasting 100% premium Swiss quality, the uniqueness, creativity and exclusivity that Furrer Jacot rings offer is of the highest importance to their clients. In light of this, Furrer Jacot has become a leader in creating men’s carbon fiber wedding bands that are stylish, durable and comfortable.
Peter Storm is a family brand founded on the principle that every ring sold is a love story. Peter began his jewelry career in his early 20s, selling high-end, precious jewelry. From there, he began to weave together his imagination with his intimate knowledge of bridal clients’ wants and needs. Thirty years later, Peter Storm is a family company founded on the principle that every ring sold is a love story.
Peter’s cutting-edge designs have secured the brand a unique place in the jewelry world. While still an intimate company where clients can work directly with the designer, Peter’s designs are fresh and innovative, allowing his pieces to stand out next to other top designers.
Whether you are looking for a classic engagement ring or something more trendy, finding a designer whose signature style resonates with you will help you in your journey towards finding the perfect engagement ring. From preset diamond rings to custom engagement rings, Borsheims has an extensive selection of engagement rings and wedding bands for every soon-to-be bride and groom.
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Locksley on the Lower East Side
Posted on: September 24th, 2009 at 6:31 am by Elie
Last modified on: September 24, 2009 at 11:07 am
Thanks to @jenniapolis for sending along the link to this music video by Madison-based (but now Brooklyn) foursome Locksley. Entitled “Darling It’s True” (first single from their upcoming album Be in Love), the video centers on the lead singer as he walks the streets of the Lower East Side, including significant face time on Rivington and Attorney. Shout outs include Clemente Soto Velez and Stop 1 Deli. We reached out to the director, Chris Stocksmith, to find out more information.
– Video was shot back in April (4/22/09). The chosen take was actually shot in a light rain. We wrapped the camera in a garbage bag.
– We shot seven takes. The first three takes went sour early on, then the next four were complete. Of those four, we had two takes that were hard to choose between.
– The band wanted a video that shows them making their way to their practice space in the LES. The shot started at the Essex St. – Delancey subway stop, goes down Essex to Rivington, then along Rivington.
– The shot is 6 minutes, 22 seconds in length. As you can see, we sped through parts to fit the final song length of 3 ½ minutes.
– The guy working at the bodega is Louis Santell, a NYC based musician, who actually works at the bodega. Always the great self-promoter, he taped his name on the hat.
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Sprite’s #Evolution Campaign Accentuates Its Unchanged Refreshment Since 1961
B&L Editorial Posted On August 14, 2019
Evolution of technology has transformed the world. Cars are now ‘Self-driven’. Video games have become a ‘Science’. And appliances have become ‘Smart’.
#Evolution is the new campaign of Sprite, the refreshing, lemon-and-lime sparkling beverage from Coca-Cola India. This campaign takes a light-hearted look at how technology has evolved solutions for everything, but when it comes to thirst, Sprite’s unchanged refreshment is the only solution. The young Bollywood actor Ishaan Khattar is seen in the Hindi campaign, while the Telugu campaign features Nani and the Tamil campaign stars Anirudh Ravichander.
Commenting on the new campaign, Shrenik Dasani, Vice President – Sparkling Category, Coca-Cola India and South West Asia, said, “Sprite has always been known for being clearly the best refresher, and consumers have come to love the same clarity in our communication. With the launch of #Evolution campaign, we are excited to bring to our audience, yet another take on retaining clarity in the face of overhyped trends. This tongue-in-cheek campaign reminds us that while advancing technology may bring ‘better’ solutions for many of life’s problems, when it comes to some basic problems e.g. looking for the ‘best idea for refreshment’, the solution remains unchanged- A chilled Sprite.”
The film opens with a humorous narrative that ever since Sprite came into existence in 1961, the world has evolved and so has technology. But some things still haven’t changed: thirst and Sprite’s refreshment. For instance, the ‘Grandpa’ may not know how to open a high-tech refrigerator, but even he does know what happens when one pops open the Sprite bottle kept inside. The film ends with a simple message, ‘Sprite. Born to Refresh.’, reiterating Sprite as the ultimate refresher.
Commenting on the idea behind the campaign, Ms. Amarinder Butalia, Managing Partner from Ogilvy said, “In a world where every brand wants to ride the cultural wave, Sprite, in its own inimitable style, offers a refreshing counter narrative. Technology has literally found a fix for everything imaginable out there, but when it comes to something as basic as refreshment, nothing can beat Sprite.”
The campaign will be supported by a robust integrated marketing campaign, including TV commercials in seven languages- Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada and Oriya.
Creative Team on the campaign:
Agency: Ogilvy Delhi
Account Management: Amarinder Butalia (Managing Partner), Subhash Kumar (CSD), Sheena Rustagi (Account Supervisor)
Creative Team: Shailendra Mahajan (Group CD), Neha Bhatia (ACD)
Production House: Corcoise Films
Post Production House: Corcoise Films
Director: Prasoon Pandey
DOP: Tanay Satam
Music: Dhruv Ghanekar
About Coca-Cola India
Coca-Cola in India is one of the country’s leading beverage companies, offering a range of healthy, safe, high quality, refreshing beverage options to consumers. Since its re-entry in 1993, the company has been refreshing consumers with its beverage products – Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero, Diet Coke, Thums Up, Thums Up Charged, Thums Up Charged No Sugar, Fanta, Limca, Sprite, Sprite Zero, Maaza, VIO flavoured milk, Minute Maid range of juices, Minute Maid Smoothie and Minute Maid Vitingo, Georgia range of hot and cold tea and coffee options, Aquarius and Aquarius Glucocharge, Schweppes, Smart Water, Kinley and Bonaqua packaged drinking water and Kinley Club Soda. The Company along with its owned bottling operation and other bottling partners, through a strong network of over 2.6 million retail outlets, touches the lives of millions of consumers, at a rate of more than 500 servings per second. Its brands are some of the most preferred and most sold beverages in the country – Thums Up and Sprite – being the top two selling sparkling beverages.
The Coca-Cola India system provides direct employment to 25,000 people and indirect employment to more than 150,000 people. The Coca-Cola system in India is contributing in its own small way to building sustainable communities through community initiatives like Support My School, VEER, Parivartan and Unnati and by reducing its own environmental footprint.
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CPG giants won't survive without data, says outgoing Mondelez media boss
by Shona Ghosh August 30, 2016
In an exit interview with Campaign, Bonin Bough--who is leaving to helm a CNBC series with Lebron James--talks about the biggest challenges facing packaged goods marketers
The CPG establishment can't survive until it solves its data problem, according to Mondelez's outgoing chief media and ecommerce officer, Bonin Bough
Bough made his comments during an exit interview with Campaign on life after Mondelez.
He stepped down last week to host a reality show about small businesses, Cleveland Hustles, on CNBC, and has become an advisor to video streaming start-up Centric.
While Bough couldn’t comment on Mondelez for legal reasons, he said the "biggest challenge" to the wider market was a lack of first-party customer data.
He pointed to subscription snacking service NatureBox, which boasts "millions" of users and has seen considerable revenue growth by using an algorithm that recommends better snacks over time, similar to the way Netflix recommends shows a viewer might like.
"They can sit down across the table from a retailer and predict how big a product will be from subscription to big box retail," says Bough. "New manufacturers entering the market are data rich. We are data starved."
Bough pointed to Unilever’s surprise $1 billion acquisition of Dollar Shave Club, a subscription razor service.
"Unilever bought Dollar Shave Club because they are data rich," he says. "Why do you think Amazon has such strength? Every other retailer that is a growth retailer is data-driven."
As Campaign found earlier this month, Unilever and P&G are looking to partner with or acquire start-ups that can bolster them in customer data. They are also looking to young businesses to inject some fresh thinking into a corporate structure that has become formulaic.
Bough is optimistic, however, that the CPG giants can turn things around.
Unlike critics who suggest CPG companies might struggle to change their culture, he believes that the acquisition strategy will work.
"P&G and the other big FMCG companies are going to be digital innovation leaders at some point in time – whoever can accelerate that timeline the fastest will win," he says, using the British equilivent for CPG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods).
"Food will be 3D-printed, it’ll happen," he adds. "If you can see this will happen, if you can see finish line and you know it’s a finish line, it’s who can run the fastest to get there."
The growth of messaging apps
Bough has for some time been banging the drum about the importance of messaging apps such as Snapchat and WhatsApp, and is himself working in the area.
He won't say whether this might be a messaging start-up, but points out the dearth of analytics for messaging apps.
"I left Mondelez because there's an opportunity in the messaging space that's untapped," he said.
"I'm working across the messaging space, but don't have full details to share," he added. "But what are the standards? Where's the IAB for messaging? There's lots of room in the market."
Earlier this year, Mondelez announced it would up its overall spend on Facebook for 2016, though it didn't say how much. This includes building a chatbot to speak directly to consumers via Facebook Messenger.
In spite of this, Bough says bots are "only a piece" of the wider messaging equation.
"Brand engagement on automated bots – customers aren't going to want that," he says.
He pointed out that customers spend huge amounts of time in messaging apps, at least in the US.
"I’m appalled that as an industry we haven’t taken more notice," he added. "I was the only person at Cannes talking about creativity in a world where you send a person a message."
This article first appeared on campaignlive.co.uk.
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Ontario Corn Fed Beef
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By Debbie Furber
There’s nothing more motivating for members of a beef value chain than walking into a store or restaurant and seeing their brand name on the store shelf or beside an entree on a menu, says Jim Clark, executive director of Ontario Corn Fed Beef (OCFB) and the Ontario Cattle Feeders Association (OCFA) at Woodstock, Ont.
That opportunity for producers and for Ontario consumers to purchase locally produced beef has doubled with the May reintroduction of OCFB in Loblaws retail stores, including Zehrs, Your Independent Grocer and value mart outlets in the province.
Loblaw’s senior vice-president of conventional fresh, Sal Baio, says there is a real desire on the part of consumers to purchase locally produced food. Quality and competitive pricing are also important factors. Partnering with OCFB will help Loblaws meet those consumer preferences as well as its commitment to source product with integrity and locally to help support the sustainability of the beef industry.
It has taken more than a decade to move the initiative from a concept in 1999 to a sustainable reality, though Clark now realizes that’s not unusual in the big scheme of things. He’s been at the helm from the get-go and recalls that Alberta was promoting the original Alberta beef program at the time. It miffed him as to why he couldn’t find Ontario-identified beef in the stores. He was confident that there was a place for a program of their own to make it easy for consumers to identify and purchase an Ontario brand of beef with known quality and production attributes, but they would have to do more as producers to tell their good-news story and make it happen.
The OCFB brand was created and developed by a group that included cow-calf producers, feedlots, packers and industry representatives. It became the flagship brand of the OCFA formed only a year earlier in 1998, when feeders banded together with the goal of reclaiming and increasing beef’s market share in the province.
“The big thing is that I have been allowed to look down the road, think about where the industry is headed and how to get there,” he says, admitting that there were times when they thought it would be easier not to do it than to persevere. “Now that we’ve made it this far, people on all sides realize we are in the game to stay and the brand really starts to mean something. Our producers take great pride in that.”
The OCFB brand was officially launched in 2001 with a retailer who had six stores, which required about 25 head per week. Things were rolling along just great — the brand resonated with consumers and producer acceptance was good, too, so it was a real shocker when the retailer closed out in 2002.
“That’s when reality set in,” Clark says. “We found out that we had been running before we walked and that we had a lot of developmental work left to do with the brand and building our customer base.” They moved onward by working with independent butchers, small retailers and food service outlets, which helped to offset one another in balancing supply and demand.
The chain was nicely positioned to accommodate a surge of interest from retailers who were looking for a way to say “our beef is local” in the immediate wake of BSE. Production edged upward, nearing 450 head per week, however, things didn’t really move ahead until early 2007 when Loblaws began featuring OCFB in 100 Ontario stores. This experience showed them how important it is to have the production side really nailed down as it rose to 800 head per week.
Needless to say, it was a huge disappointment when the retailer made a move to supply stores across Canada with a single national branding strategy and dropped the OCFB contract at the end of the year.
Perseverance prevailed once again. OCFB began working closely with the Beef Information Centre to identify customers and products to meet the needs of those customers along with point-of-sale materials.
The Loblaw relaunch adds another 156 locations to the 125 stores, butcher shops and restaurants across Ontario and a handful of locations in the northeastern states that carry OCFB. Clark anticipates production to ramp up within the next six months from the current 2,500 to 3,000 head per week to near 4,000 head per week to obtain the balance of cuts required to meet the growing demand. Loblaw expects its demand could represent close to 3,000 head per week once the program is in full swing.
Clark and the OCFA’s commitment to the branding program has been the cornerstone of its success, however, they haven’t gone it alone. They’ve been successful at developing working relationships with suppliers, service providers and processors and have garnered support from the Ontario Cattlemen’s Association, the Beef Information Centre and the provincial and federal governments.
“I feel we are having success because we aren’t competing with any of the other sectors. They know that we really don’t have interest in owning plants, running stores or operating feed companies. Those specialized services are already there so we are trying to work with them by complimenting what they do,” Clark explains.
Lesson learned: Branding is a long process and it takes a lot of money to stay in the game, but never say never and don’t ever let down your guard, especially when it comes to promoting your product. Even though everything is coming together nicely for OCFB, the board has recently purchased a mobile kitchen to take to community events because members feel it’s just as important now as it was in the beginning to be out and about telling their story and keeping their brand in the front of consumers’ minds.
The OCFB branding process begins at the feedlot level. There is no requirement to be a member of the OCFA, which today represents 110 family-run operations that finish 55 per cent of the fed beef in the province. Now that they’ve built the foundation, OCFB is looking at ways to draw Ontario cow-calf producers and backgrounders into the fold.
Participating farms must be approved through the OCFB quality- assurance training program. Currently, there are about 500 approved farms and OCFB is looking to bring another 200 on stream as the brand moves forward.
The Guelph Food Technology Centre was contracted to develop the protocols and quality-assurance program with corn grain and corn products comprising at least 80 per cent of the finishing diet. OCFB’s quality-assurance manager, Dave Murray, works with the participating feedlots to ensure that the requirements are met and the health and feed records are in order. Efforts are now underway to develop a system to match the OCFB program needs with those of the national traceability program.
The feedlots market their finished cattle to the processing plants with an affidavit confirming that the cattle meet the specifications for the OCFB brand. OCFB contracts the services of the Canadian Beef Grading Agency to verify production through the plant to the box. Only Canada AA and Canada AAA beef qualifies for the OCFB label. The plants ship the product directly to retail and food service customers who have signed no-cost licensing agreements with OCFB.
Packer participation has definitely been a success factor. The provincially inspected Norwich Packers plant has been a strong supporter of OCFB from the outset. Four federally inspected packers are now participating as well: Cargill at Guelph, St. Helen’s, Ryding Regency and Corrsetti at Toronto. Morton Wholesale is the food service wholesaler.
It works both ways because the packers want to retain their feedlot customers who are in the OCFB program and the feedlots in the OCFB program are motivated to do business with packers who want what they produce.
“We have to realize that at the end of the day, it’s the consumer who has the final say. The reality is that retailers can bring in their beef supply from anywhere and packers can purchase cattle from anywhere. As the OCFB program evolves we have a great opportunity to make sure our beef we produce here goes ahead of other suppliers. Our job is to build awareness of our brand, get consumers wanting it and make it easy for them to find it in the stores. Consumer demand will drive the tonnage, allowing us to feed more cattle right here in Ontario.”
It’s a story he has told many times at meetings with producers looking for premiums and it always ends with the same take-home message: “What will be the cost of not stepping up and getting behind OCFB as a program you own?”
For more information visit www.ontariocornfedbeef.com.
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Our debtor left the country in 1998 some months after the flooding of his principal place of business, in Easter of that year. He took with him a significant sum of cash and, in anticipation of his departure, had transferred considerable sums of money and land to various pension schemes believing that by doing this they would be safely out of the reach of any Trustee in Bankruptcy were a Bankruptcy to ensue.
The new trading premises were managed by a husband and wife team. They arrived at work one morning to find a note which said simply “Gone to New Zealand – appoint receivers”. He was a sole trader.
There are no provisions for the appointment of “receivers” in this situation. A trade creditor was identified who was sufficiently agitated to help progress matters through what was perceived likely to be the “least bad” way forward. They petitioned for the Debtor’s Bankruptcy and for the appointment of myself as Special Manager. A Bankruptcy Order was made and shortly thereafter I was confirmed as Trustee in Bankruptcy by appointment of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.
While acting as Special Manager the BRI team were able to identify a Bank Account which had been opened in New Zealand by the Debtor. New Zealand is a commonwealth country with reciprocity arrangements in place in respect of insolvency matters. An Order in Aid and Mareva Injunction were obtained which resulted in the New Zealand bank account being frozen. The Debtor, whose intention it had been to purchase a property in New Zealand the following day, was alarmed to find that he could not then do so as his account had been frozen subject to “living expenses” being withdrawn pending the making of a Bankruptcy Order or other order(s).
The Debtor reported the above freezing of accounts to the Auckland police who, in turn, reported matters to Interpol who likewise advised Northamptonshire police who, the following morning, attended at the business premise of the Special Manager to enquire as to what had taken place. Within minutes they departed shaking their heads and saying “it’s civil”.
As special manager I had agreed the sale of:
The dwelling house (in 1998 for £400,000) (delayed further due to issues with Pension)
Some land
Funds with third parties were subject to my order
Property in New Zealand were subject to a NZ Court Order
As trustee there followed a number of Court hearings with pensions companies to unravel the Debtors attempts to put assets “beyond the reach of creditors”. S423 of the Insolvency Act (Transactions Defrauding Creditors) was used.
Since around 2003 we have been endeavouring, through a series of different solicitors, to deal with two plots of land and a barn whose title has been under some dispute.
The Debtor had been married previously and this marriage had ended in divorce. The divorce took place following the debtor and his former wife having traded individually and in partnership. The land that remained to be dealt with, and from which rental income was being earned, was unregistered. The title deeds were known to have been in the possession of the Debtor’s former solicitors who had dealt with both his property matters and his subsequent divorce. However, the title deeds were believed to have been collected by the Debtor for reasons which are far from clear but, one might now suppose, may have been to put these assets out of the reach of creditors.
The Debtor has been required to account for what happened with the title deeds and to clear up what may have happened to the property as a result of the divorce from his former wife. He was unhelpful in both regards including by way of a public examination.
Agents were engaged to trace the former wife. Upon opening communications, via solicitors (who changed regularly throughout our dealings), it was clear that some compromise/settlement was to be sought given that there was some value in the property and a commercial settlement was likely to be more cost-efficient than trying to obtain determination by the Court.
All evidence lead the Trustee to conclude, given the payment of rental income to the Debtors estate and the absence of any action in respect of the land by the former spouse for some decades, that title had remained with the Debtor. It was, however, not something that the Land Registry would accept without either the agreement of the former spouse or an appropriate Order of the Court.
Accordingly, and after many years of wrangling, a settlement was reached and a payment has been made to the former spouse for her waiving of any potential interest and a contribution towards her associated legal costs. My solicitors were put in funds in early January 2014.
Accordingly matters are now drawing to a close.
The Debtor has been very unhelpful throughout these proceedings and appears to have done his best to secure his own financial position at the expense of his creditors. Whilst there is little doubt that he was in a very poor state of mind in the run up to his insolvency and that his business suffered a natural disaster on Good Friday 1998 (as did ours), through flooding, he has had many opportunities to “do the right thing” but had railed against that throughout. His pensions’ providers too fought every endeavour to restore funds to the estate and his former wife has done little to assist, with matters exacerbated by numerous changes in which solicitors were acting for her.
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Contemporary Suburban Living
Studio b designed this contemporary landscape for a client in Charleswood. The project was primarily managed by Mat and Marie.
We used a number of our key suppliers: Barkman Concrete supplied the slate and Travertine, Expocrete supplied the Allan Block for the retaining walls and planters, Reimer Soils supplied the black granite boulders, and Gillis Quarries supplied the Tyndall Stone for the path and fireplace.
Features of this beautiful back yard include:
Custom wood deck built on screw piles, with slate tiles and traditional pergola
Stone steps constructed on top of a concrete pad with screw piles
Native vegetation
Travertine patio
Custom Tyndall Stone fireplace
Water feature with built-in bench
A wooden deck clad with slate tile was built to accommodate an existing gas line that runs along the south wall of the house. Stone steps were built up on a piled concrete pad to a matching height. These steps were designed with longer runs to make walking up and down more comfortable, and they lead down to the Travertine patio. Adjacent to the deck and steps is a patch of greenery with ornamental grasses and shrubs, which creates a sense of enclosure.
The patio includes a water feature with a built-in bench…
…as well as a custom-built Tyndall Stone fireplace, which acts as the central focal point of the space.
This Charleswood property has a south facing yard, which provides a lot of natural light. This on-site microclimate was taken into consideration, and the patio was designed to provide areas of both shade and sunshine throughout the changing seasons.
This project was completed in two phases. The yard had a finished look and was fully functional by the end of the first phase, which allowed the client to utilize the space and make minor modifications as they moved forward into the second phase.
Privacy and comfort were the main factors behind this design. The client wanted direct access to their backyard from the door at the rear of the house, so the raised deck was implemented to act as a transitional space between the interior and the main outdoor living area.
Privacy screening and vegetation were used to enclose the space and make it more private. The various features of this project were carefully chosen to maximize the outdoor living potential of the space all year-round!
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Dave Orr Band
Playing the blues is never as simple as it seems. It’s a balancing act between virtuosity and feel, rawness and finesse. Many try, but few seem to nail it like DAVE ORR. At the heart of his music is that unmistakably raw blues guitar. It’s the sound of late night whiskey bars, of musicians stretching themselves and just letting loose.
Rewind a few years and Dave was cutting his teeth performing with the kind of all out fusion acts Brisbane seems so good at producing – rock, pop, ska, funk it was all in there. His breakthrough came with power pop trio Numbers Radio; a band that scored national airplay through TripleJ and a growing live following drawn to the bands ability to pen whip smart pop tunes and play them live like nothing else. In his heart though, Dave has always been a blues man and he has relished years of late nights rocking up to small bars with his beat up Gibson and losing himself in music. Despite playing just about any style you could name over the years, he has always found a home with Bluesy guitar driven Americana, and it’s a sound he has nailed on his recent debut release, Champagne. Johnny Winter, Gary Clarke Junior, Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Peter Green…its music as mother’s milk for Dave.
Dave’s reputation as a peerless guitar player has also seen Dave tour Europe and North America as a session musician. And it was while he was camped out in a friends 1950s caravan near Austin, Texas that the new songs started to really take shape. From acoustic picking to blistering solos, the songs not only showcase his jaw-dropping guitar work, but song writing smarts earned from years making music.
Rockin’, real, and impossible to resist Dave Orr may be one of the country’s most experience players – with his best yet to come.
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Apostolic Chamber
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Kevin Joseph Farrell, Cardinal, Chamberlain (Camerlengo)
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Pier Luigi Celata, Vice-Chamberlain Emeritus
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Francesco Salesio Della Volpe † (31 Dec 1891 Appointed - 23 Jul 1903 Appointed, Prefect of the Roman Curia - Other)
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Paolo Bertoli † (5 May 1979 Appointed - 25 Mar 1985 Retired)
Sebastiano Baggio † (25 Mar 1985 Appointed - 21 Mar 1993 Died)
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Kevin Joseph Farrell (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 14 Feb 2019)
Giampiero Gloder (Vice-Chamberlain: 20 Dec 2014 to 11 Oct 2019)
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Luigi Cornaro † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 10 May 1570 to 10 May 1584)
Ettore Cunial † (Vice-Chamberlain: 23 Dec 1975 to 23 Oct 2004)
José da Costa Nunes † (Vice-Chamberlain: 16 Dec 1953 to 19 Mar 1962)
Filippo de Angelis † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 20 Sep 1867 to 8 Jul 1877)
Francesco Salesio Della Volpe † (Prefect: 31 Dec 1891 to 23 Jul 1903; Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 25 May 1914 to 5 Nov 1916)
Camillo Di Pietro † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 28 Mar 1878 to 6 Mar 1884)
Pietro Francesco Galleffi † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 20 Dec 1824 to 18 Jun 1837)
Pietro Gasparri † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 4 Dec 1916 to 18 Nov 1934)
Frediano Giannini, O.F.M. † (Vice-Chamberlain: 12 Feb 1936 to 25 Oct 1939)
Giacomo Giustiniani † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 2 Oct 1837 to 24 Feb 1843)
Filippo Guastavillani † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 14 May 1584 to 17 Aug 1587)
Lorenzo Lauri † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 11 Dec 1939 to 8 Oct 1941)
Ludovico Ludovisi † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 17 Mar 1621 to 7 Jun 1623)
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 27 Mar 1885 to 7 Dec 1913)
Bartolomeo Pacca † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 26 Sep 1814 to 1824)
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Carlo Rezzonico (Jr.) † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 24 Jan 1763 to 26 Jan 1799)
Tommaso Riario Sforza † (Chamberlain (Camerlengo): 3 Apr 1843 to 14 Mar 1857)
Paolo Sardi † (Vice-Chamberlain: 23 Oct 2004 to 22 Jan 2011)
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It's silver for Australia's women in the 4x200m freestyle
Peter Farquhar
Emma McKeon. Picture: Getty Images
It was always going to take a monumental effort, and Australia’s women left nothing in the tank to finish second in the 4x200m freestyle relay final.
A late change to the team saw Madeline Groves drop out to recover after winning silver in the 200m butterfly final.
That gave 17-year-old Tamsin Cook her biggest moment, stepping in to race alongside Bronte Barratt, Emma McKeon and Leah Neale.
After entering the second leg in seventh, a sensational swim from McKeon pulled Australia right into contention, reeling back the field to hand over a lead to Barratt.
Barratt held the lead and left it up to the Cook to hold off Katie Ledecky, but Ledecky showed why she’s the world and Olympic champion, taking the lead by the end of the first lap and holding it.
Cook held on a body length behind however, and courageously held off the Canadians to grab Australia’s second silver of the day.
Earlier, Australia scored its third swim gold after 18-year-old Kyle Chalmers’ shock win in the men’s 100m freestyle.
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The new Nissan Armada is channeling its rugged heritage
Nissan2017 Nissan Armada.
The Nissan Armada SUV is finally getting the second generation that it has so desperately needed.
Nissan unveiled the new 2017 Armada at the 2016 Chicago Auto Show last week.
After debuting in 2003, Nissan’s flagship SUV has soldiered on with only minor updates for more than a decade.
All the while Nissan has completely revamped its crossover and SUV lineup with the introduction the new Rogue, Murano and Pathfinder models.
The Armada is more than ready for some fresh blood.
And the model’s market performance has reflected this.
In 2015, Nissan sold just under 13,000 Armada’s in the US, which equates to a relatively unimpressive 1.5% of share of the full-size crossover/SUV market.
That’s down more than 15% from 2014, at a time when SUV sales are surging.
For 2017, the Armada will receive fresh styling, an updated interior and a more powerful 390 horsepower, 5.6-litre V8 engine.
Unlike the first generation Armada, 2017 model will not be based on the Nissan Titan pickup. Instead it will be engineered like the company’s Patrol SUV that’s sold in numerous markets around the world.
As a result, it will retain a truck-like, body-on-steel-frame construction — and will be able to tow 8,500 pounds.
Although the Patrol moniker may be unfamiliar to most American SUV buyers, it’s a nameplate that has been in production for more than 60 years.
Nissan Patrols can also frequently be seen shuttling United Nations staffers, diplomats and freedom fighters around some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.
“While the new Armada is intended primarily for family adventures here in North America, Armada owners will benefit from its underpinnings as a strong, durable and authentic full-size SUV with ruggedness to spare,” Nissan North America vice president of product planning Michael Bunce said in a statement.
The 2017 Armada will join the Infiniti QX80 as the second Nissan Patrol-based SUV sold in the US. The Patrol-based QX80 has been on sale in the US since 2011 as the QX56. In fact, the the Armada and the Infiniti will share similar eight-passenger cabin designs and infotainment systems. Although the Infiniti’s interior appointments will likely be much more plush.
Business Insider had opportunity to test out a 2015 QX80 and were impressed by the Infiniti’s athletic driving dynamics, strong V8 engine and luxurious cabin.
The Armada will be assembled in Japan, while its V8 engine will be forged in Tennessee.
Nissan will announce official pricing for the 2017 Nissan Armada sometime before it arrives in US Showrooms this Summer. The 2015 first generation Armada started at $38,510.
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A house that takes cues from the architectural style established in the late 19th century
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“Located at the corner of Houston and Mulberry Street in Manhattan’s NoLita neighborhood, Mulberry House consists of 8 full-floor, 3 bedroom residences, and one triplex penthouse. Its proximity to the Puck building, notable for its decorative brickwork, as well as contextual zoning regulations dictating a “predominantly masonry” façade, led to the contemporary reinterpretation of this ancient art form as a design objective. The rippled brick façade treatment acknowledges the fact that the brick is panelized not load bearing, and at the same time pays tribute to the highly articulated historic brick façades in the neighborhood.
This design approach provides an energetic contradiction between the inherent solidity of masonry and the suspended nature of a curtain wall, evoked through the undulating and highly textured pattern of the embedded brickwork. In its unusually decorative application of a solid and structured material, Mulberry House takes cues from the architectural style of the Vienna Secession movement, established in the late 19th Century. Known for pushing aesthetic boundaries and exploring the use of decorative ornamentation while working outside of traditional and established academic practice, this movement informed Mulberry House’s distinctively mannered application of durable and functional materials.
The building’s interior calls on that era’s sense of opulence and luxury while providing durability of material, maximizing available space, and taking advantage of site requirements. The façade’s diamond-like pattern is carried through to the building’s lobby, which features a material palate of black lacquer, solid whites, and richly figured marble. These colors and textures continue throughout the building’s residences. Honed Jet Mist granite was selected as a kitchen countertop material for both its durability and its visual softness in comparison to the high polish of white glass cabinets by Schiffini.
The unit bathrooms feature custom solid wood vanities and concrete tubs designed by SHoP. All residences at Mulberry House include private keyed elevators, radiant-heat walnut flooring, and oversized double-glazed windows. There is a landscaped common terrace accessible to all residents at the second floor, as well as a private rooftop terraces at each floor of the penthouse.”
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AC Milan have three-man list to replace Rodriguez: the names
As soon as Fenerbahce will conclude the now imminent purchase of Ricardo Rodriguez, AC Milan will focus on the arrival of a new fullback to take his place and be the backup for Theo Hernandez.
According to Tuttosport (via milanlive.it), the number one goal to replace the Swiss fullback is Wigan's Antonee Robinson, a young player of perspective, who has been identified as the perfect replacement by Milan's scouts.
However, Wigan's demands for the American fullback are deemed excessive by the Rossoneri. The English club evaluates the play at 12 million euros and Milan are not willing to pay that amount.
For this reason, there are two alternatives on the list of the Milan management, both coming from the British football environment. If the Robinson deal does not go through, the Rossoneri could turn to Matty Cash (Nottingham Forrest), a versatile player who can play on both flanks.
The other name is that of the very young Aaron Hickey, a Scottish left-back playing for Hearts. Both would be cheaper options but Robinson remains the main target and Milan are working to lower Wigan's requests.
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If the rumored sale of Digital Equipment Corp’s Alpha business to Intel Corp ever comes to pass, the bits that are still left of DEC assume more and more significance if the company is to have a viable future as a product company, rather than merely a collection of Windows NT engineers. One of smallest, […]
If the rumored sale of Digital Equipment Corp’s Alpha business to Intel Corp ever comes to pass, the bits that are still left of DEC assume more and more significance if the company is to have a viable future as a product company, rather than merely a collection of Windows NT engineers. One of smallest, but fastest growing units is its AltaVista Internet Software Ltd, whose initial public offering was abandoned in June resulting in the resignation of its chief executive last month. But the reintegration has been such that AltaVista doesn’t really exist inside the company as a unit any more, according to head of electronic marketing Freddy Mini, who was previously worldwide marketing manager for AltaVista. Sources tell us that since the start of this year, AltaVista has recorded advertising revenues on its website of around $23m, which is some going in such a short space of time. Such a performance should be looked at up against the likes of Excite Inc and Yahoo! Inc, which have always carried advertising. The former had revenues of $17.0m for the first six month of this year and the latter recorded revenues of $23.0m for the same period – the same as AltaVista Last we heard the AltaVista unit was on track to be profitable by the end of this year, but that’s impossible to calculate now, says Mini. He said the services side of the business – the search engine and advertising on it has caught up with the product side, which comprises selling the mail server directory server as well as the search engine server itself. Yahoo! is the poster boy among search engine companies on Nasdaq with a current market capitalization of some $1.5bn. Maybe DEC could have basked in the reflective glory of having its own little Yahoo! in its camp. But that’s something we shall never know.
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"Heartbroken": MAC becomes first FBS conference to cancel fall football season over coronavirus
August 8, 2020 / 12:34 PM / AP
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The Mid-American Conference on Saturday became the first league competing at college football's highest level to cancel its fall season because of COVID-19 concerns. "I'm heartbroken we are in this place," MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said.
With the MAC's 12 schools facing a significant financial burden by trying to maintain costly coronavirus protocols, the conference's university presidents made the decision to cancel all fall sports — including soccer and volleyball — and explore making them up in the spring season.
But Steinbrecher stressed this was first a decision about the health and well-being of the athletes, and the conference's medical experts were not comfortable that sports could be run safely.
MAC schools rely heavily on revenue from playing road games against power conference teams. Most of those games were canceled when the Power Five went to exclusively or mostly conference games. Without them, the strain became too great of trying to implement all that it would take to keep players and staff safe during a pandemic.
The conference that built a brand name - #MACtion - and managed to score an ESPN deal by playing football games on Tuesdays and Wednesday nights is now the first to surrender to the pandemic, hoping it can regroup in with a spring season.
MAC Commissioner Dr. Jon Steinbrecher delivers his State of the Conference speech during the Mid-American Conference football media day on July 26, 2017 at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Nine of 13 conferences at Division I's second-tier of football, the Championship Subdivision, have already announced postponed their fall football seasons, with an eye toward making them up in the spring.
But in FBS, conferences have been putting in place plans - however tentative - for the coming season. The Power Five went first and then the so-called Group of Five, with the American Athletic, Sun Belt, Mountain West and Conference USA all completing schedule models this week.
The MAC was the last one without a stated plan. A meeting of its presidents earlier in the week was expected to produce an agreement on how to go about a fall season, but instead some schools pushed to not play.
The final decision was kicked to a Saturday morning meeting. The news, first reported by the online sports network Stadium, started leaking within 90 minutes of the scheduled start of the meeting. The league soon announced a news conference with its commissioner an hour later.
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by Dr. Nicole R. Robinson | April 27, 2020
The global outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) has created significant challenges for academic leaders in the education profession. Amid this unprecedented crisis, leaders must make difficult decisions while simultaneously providing empathy and support to their faculty, staff, and students, who more than likely, are struggling to adjust to a “new normal.” Creating “cultures of belonging” (CoB) – a culture that accepts, values, and views strength in differences – centers around connecting and leveraging commonality among differences. In the midst of COVID-19, the need for CoBs becomes even more important, however, specific strategies are needed to navigate and circumvent the unique challenges created by COVID-19.
Cultural Connections by Design (CCBD) is sponsoring a FREE Inclusive Leaders: In the Midst of COVID-19 Masterclass on May 18th – May 23rd at 7PM (EDT). This six-day masterclass is designed for all academic leaders – public school principals, district leaders, department chairs, deans, committee chairs, faculty, etc. – who understand the importance of creating a CoB as a core tenant and value system within the institution so faculty, staff, and students can thrive in the midst of COVID-19.
We interviewed our founder & CEO, Dr. Nicole R. Robinson, to learn more:
What was your reason for developing the Inclusive Leaders: In the Midst of COVID-19 masterclass?
I am so excited about this upcoming masterclass because I love working with academic leaders. They bring an electrifying synergy into the space and as educators themselves, they fully embrace the opportunity to learn new content to better serve their faculty, staff, and students. I enjoy guiding the transition from “academic leader” to “inclusive leader.”
Academic leaders have the positional power to implement organizational change. I think leaders do not always realize or embrace their ability to shift the cultural paradigm of their institution. Organizational change begins with individual people; it does not begin as the organization itself. As the leader changes, the organizational culture changes incrementally.
With each incremental change in leadership, there is a ripple effect throughout the institution.
Academic leaders have the positional power to implement organizational change.
An inclusive leader works diligently to establish a CoB that assures everyone is treated respectfully and fairly, are valued and feel they belong. When an academic unit functions as a CoB, faculty, staff, and students are inspired to bring the best version of themselves into the community. Inclusive leaders can leverage and harness these differences in a way that elevates the entire organization.
The process to build inclusive cultures requires time and energy; a leader’s two most precious commodities. Therefore, it is important to mobilize and short-circuit the pathway to success as quickly as possible and this is where guidance is needed. Inclusive leadership requires courage, strength, and bravery. Unfortunately, exercising these brave acts can result in feelings of anxiousness, loneliness, and isolation. COVID-19 has intensified the normal challenges in creating CoBs, and for many, the feelings of loneliness and isolation have deepened. Inclusive leaders need community. They need a strong support system. The Inclusive Leaders Masterclass: In the Midst of COVID-19 will establish a community for these leaders to find a soft place to land during the difficult times.
Why does it seem so difficult to implement inclusive leadership practices into an organization?
When we look at the big picture, academic leaders on all levels have experienced a tsunamic shift in their job responsibilities. Because this shift occurred at such a rapid pace, many leaders feel as though they are in a race against time. Academic leaders do not have the luxury of time because of the direct impact of educational inequalities on student achievement. While attempting to increase their own personal growth and cultural intelligence, they are responsible for shepherding their teams’ individual and collective cultural development for a successful CoB, while simultaneously reshaping policy and best practices to align with desired outcomes. As with anything, there are missteps along the way, which, unfortunately, may cause these leaders to be misjudged, misunderstood, and mischaracterized.
Why is creating a culture of belonging even more important now amid COVID-19?
Creating a CoB should be the desired goal of any leader, at any time. However, in the midst of COVID-19, CoB becomes even more vitally important. Unfortunately, we cannot wait until post-COVID-19 to begin to establish CoBs. Regardless of where the institution is on the spectrum of inclusivity, the results of COVID-19 will have long-reaching implications. For example, institutions that had already begun implementing a comprehensive diversity education process may be in jeopardy of losing gains they have made. An institution that has yet to start a diversity education process, the required long-term distancing of COVID-19 may create wider gaps to close. Additionally, any specific culture that currently “lives” in the institution (i.e., a fractured faculty, etc.) will only be intensified post-COVID-19. It is important to develop a strategic plan now that is specifically designed to circumvent the challenges of COVID-19.
Who should attend the Inclusive Leaders: In the midst of COVID-19 masterclass?
The Inclusive Leaders: COVID-19 masterclass is for anyone who wants to be the best leader possible in the midst of one of the most difficult situations they will ever experience in their career. CCBD is ready to provide all-inclusive leaders with the support needed to navigate these unchartered territories.
How do I register to join the masterclass?
We have a very simple registration form on the Inclusive Leaders Masterclass landing page. You can also visit that link to learn more about the sessions and goals of the class!
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DOJ: State AGs could make good partners in big tech antitrust probes
Facebook and Google are taking heat from the federal government as well as the states.
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Makan Delrahim, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's antitrust division.
Facebook and Google are facing antitrust scrutiny from all sides -- from both state officials and federal regulators. The Department of Justice is probing the companies, while state attorneys general are also looking into their potentially monopolistic practices.
But while those probes may be separate, investigators from both levels of government could make helpful allies.
"States can be important partners," Makan Delrahim, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's antitrust division, said Tuesday. He made the remarks at the Wall Street Journal's Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California.
Neither Google nor Facebook immediately responded to requests for comment.
Silicon Valley is facing intense scrutiny when it comes to antitrust issues. Google in July acknowledged that it was under investigation by the Justice Department. The DOJ is also opening a probe into Facebook, according to a report last month by Reuters.
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Meanwhile, the states have turned up the heat as well. Texas AG Ken Paxton is leading a coalition of 50 attorneys general over Google's business practices when it comes to its massive digital advertising operation. And in September, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a probe into Facebook. The investigation will focus on "Facebook's dominance in the industry and the potential anticompetitive conduct stemming from that dominance," James' office said in a statement at the time.
On Tuesday, James trumpeted additional support for the Facebook probe, announcing that the investigation will have participation from 47 attorneys general from around the nation.
But while Delrahim said the states and the federal government could make good partners, he allowed that their interests could also "diverge." That's because the state AGs are elected officials who may have to appeal to their constituents, while he is an appointed official.
"But I think at this point it's safe to say it's strong [bipartisanship]," Delrahim said. "The states and Justice Department agree as far as a direction of an investigation."
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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has released his 2016 budget putting $24 million toward the disgraced sheriff’s department, which will be able to hire 43 new deputies and a computer system for controlling the jail, reports Jon Murray for The Denver Post.
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Bad gas
It’s not the bugling elks that’s attracting the Bureau of Land Management to South Park. It’s the possibility of a gas boom, reports The Gazette. But some locals worry the oil-and-gas industry would explode the economy, which depends on good fishing and hunting.
TABOR trouble
A lot of people have tried to tackle TABOR, writes Megan Schrader in The Gazette. But the new bipartisan group Building a Better Colorado might have just what it takes to get rid of the so-called Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.
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The Denver Post’s editorial board took umbrage with what they call Rep. Scott Tipton and Sen. Cory Gardner’s “baseless hysteria” over the possibility that the federal government might relocate Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants (which the lawmakers called “terrorists,”) to Colorado.
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Coronavirus stimulus plans: What we know about the negotiations between Congress and the Trump White House
Nicholas Wu Christal Hayes
WASHINGTON — Negotiations over another stimulus package are deadlocked a month and a half before the November elections and as millions of Americans are left waiting for another round of aid.
Democrats and Republicans have been unable to come together on a deal to deliver COVID-19 relief weeks after unemployment benefits and eviction protections lapsed for many Americans.
Here's what we know about the state of stimulus negotiations in Congress:
How much time does Congress have?
The House and Senate only have a few weeks left in their scheduled session before they leave ahead of the November elections. The House is scheduled to stay in session until Oct. 2, and the Senate will stay until Oct. 9. After they leave, the two chambers are not scheduled to return until after Election Day. The House is set to come back on Nov. 16, and the Senate on Nov. 9.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Tuesday the House would stay in session until a deal was reached.
"We are committed to staying here until we have an agreement, an agreement that meets the needs of the American people,” Pelosi said on CNBC Tuesday.
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What proposals are out there?
Several recent stimulus proposals have emerged, though only one has passed the House or Senate.
House Democrats passed their more than $3 trillion plan, the HEROES Act, in May. It included billions for cash-strapped local and state governments and another round of stimulus checks. Republicans in the Senate refused to take it up, and President Donald Trump said it was “dead on arrival.”
Senate Republicans have offered two proposals. The first one, the $1 trillion HEALS Act, offered a $200 boost to unemployment insurance, compared with $600 in the Democratic plan, and no money for state and local governments. The HEALS Act never came up for a vote amid criticism from Senate Republicans who called it misguided and expensive. The second, a $300 billion plan, was blocked from coming up for a full Senate vote by Senate Democrats earlier this month.
On Tuesday, the Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers, many of whom face tough reelection battles in the fall, unveiled their own $1.5 trillion plan for a relief bill. Democratic leadership has signaled the bill would not come up for a vote, but the White House said it could help provide a basis for future negotiations. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who has been one of the lead White House negotiators, said Wednesday the bill "provides a foundation" for a potential deal. He said the legislation and Pelosi's promise to keep the House in session until a deal was brokered left him "encouraged" that a deal could come to fruition.
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Do these plans include stimulus checks?
The HEALS Act, the HEROES Act, and the Problem Solvers’ plan all include $1,200 stimulus checks for adults. The HEROES Act offers $1,200 per child, whereas the Problem Solvers’ plan and the HEALS Act include a benefit of $500 per child.
The smaller $300 billion Senate Republican plan did not include stimulus checks.
Why can’t they come to an agreement?
The two sides are deadlocked over issues like unemployment insurance for out-of-work Americans, funding for cash-strapped state and local governments, and liability protections for companies.
Senate Republicans have voiced concerns about increased deficit spending and have said they do not want to bail out Democratic states and cities with an infusion of aid. Democrats have refused to budge on the amounts they've allocated for state and local funding.
Both sides also differ over the amount of money to give in enhanced unemployment benefits. The stimulus package passed by the House and Senate in March gave a $600 weekly boost to state unemployment benefits. That benefit ran out at the end of July. Since then, Democrats have supported renewing that benefit at $600 per week, while Republicans have offered $300 and $200 in their proposals. The Problem Solvers' plan offered an amount in the middle — $450.
Meadows said Wednesday on CNBC he hoped for a price tag in the $250 to $300 billion range for state and local funding, down from the nearly $1 trillion Democrats have been pushing for.
Democrats have offered to cut $1 trillion from their package to bring it down to a $2.2 trillion price tag, an offer Republicans have so far not accepted.
“We have come down, but the needs of the American people…can only go so far,” Pelosi said Wednesday on MSNBC. She said a package needed to address other issues that had come up since Democrats passed their plan like relief for airlines and restaurants.
Who is negotiating?
The prolonged talks on the latest package have been largely between top Democrats: Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and White House negotiators: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Meadows.
What about the relief that already passed?
COVID-19 led to Congress passing the largest ever emergency aid package, known as the CARES Act. The more than $2 trillion bill included stimulus payments to many Americans, bolstered unemployment benefits and forgivable loans to small businesses. Many of the most popular programs that were created by Congress have expired, including a $600 weekly boost to unemployment, a federal moratorium on evictions and a small business loan program.
The impasse led Trump to sign a series of executive orders in August that added a $400 weekly unemployment boost, suspended some student loan payments, protected some renters from eviction, and deferred payroll taxes.
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When was the last time Congress passed COVID-19 relief?
Congress passed a handful of COVID-19 stimulus bills that were signed into law in March and early April. The aid totaled more than $3 trillion.
But since then, there hasn't been another deal for new coronavirus stimulus spending, despite each side saying Americans need more relief.
The latest bill that received bipartisan support was passed in July and did not include more funds, but rather an extension that offered small businesses several more weeks to apply for federal loans under the Paycheck Protection Program.
What does the election have to do with this?
Lawmakers face an artificial deadline to wrap up a deal by the time they head out to campaign before the election. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., the chair of the House Budget Committee, told USA TODAY recently, “It's not good government to leave without doing anything” if both sides fail to reach a deal.
“I think we ought to signal that we are willing to do something and we are willing to compromise,” he said.
Groups of moderate lawmakers in both parties like those in the Problem Solvers Caucus, many of whom face tough re-election races this fall, have tried to push their parties’ leadership to get back to the bargaining table.
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What have leaders said about the path forward?
Pelosi has repeatedly said a broad package was the only way to meet the needs of Americans weathering this crisis, casting aside concerns from Republicans and even some moderate Democrats that a smaller package might stand a better chance of passing and offer immediate relief.
“It’s hard to see how we can go any lower when you only have a greater need," Pelosi said at a Thursday news conference, adding that while there are differing factions within the Democratic caucus on how best to proceed, "the fact is, we want to have an agreement and we will stay until we have an agreement."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., again cast blame on Democrats Wednesday in a speech on the Senate floor, saying Pelosi was too concerned with her “personal ego” to compromise and claimed Democrats were “intent that working families cannot receive any more relief until Election Day.”
Meanwhile, the president appeared to be lobbying against the position of congressional Republicans, saying he wanted a broad package that included stimulus checks – something that was not included in the last GOP bill.
"Go for the much higher numbers, Republicans, it all comes back to the USA anyway,” Trump wrote on Twitter. The president reiterated that stance at a White House news conference Wednesday evening, applauding the bipartisan bill posed by the Problem Solvers caucus as a starting point for negotiations and explaining that despite GOP opposition to a larger bill, he could "convince" them to get on board.
Following Trump's tweet, Pelosi and Schumer said in a statement they were "encouraged" by Trump pushing Republicans to increase the price tag of the bill and looked forward to negotiating further.
Why is this impasse such a big deal?
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Mark Russell’s RED SONJA #13 kicks off year 2 with Bob Q and Jae Lee
Beginning in February, Russell’s acclaimed Red Sonja run gets a second year
Deanna Destito
The She-Devil with a Sword is showing no signs of slowing down! Eisner-nominated writer Mark Russell’s acclaimed run on Red Sonja is getting another full year, according to publisher Dynamite Comics. Artist Bob Q is set for interiors while Jae Lee makes his return to Dynamite on covers.
Red Sonja #13 finds Sonja the Red in an unfamiliar position. At the beginning, she was crowned Queen of Hyrkania, pitting her against Dragan the Magnificent. This glory of victory is short-lived. In a time of relative peace, Sonja must deal with the impossible part… ruling. With no food, infrastructure, or plan, she is faced with difficult choices.
“The first year was about telling the story of Sonja leading her people against the world’s most powerful emperor, as adapted into fantasy from the historical story of Queen Tomyris and Cyrus the Great. Being a huge fan of ancient history, it was an amazing opportunity to get to tell a longform and pretty freeform story adapted from the history books, which back then, were almost works of fantasy themselves.This next one is going to be different in that it’s less about adapting stories from ancient history and more about moving the characters we’ve created forward. It’s about the consequences of war, even for winners. About how all our actions have unintended consequences. Mirko was really great at establishing that sense of historic authenticity and the griminess of war, which was so important to those first issues. As the story moves beyond that initial source of inspiration, Bob will have to invent his visual approach to these settings and characters, but we’ve worked together on other projects and I have nothing but confidence in his ability”
Bob Q is on art duty for issues #13-18. The artist says:
“The last few months have been a game of mental ping pong, jumping back and forth between secret weapons bunkers, super heroes and police conspiracy to the political dealings of a barbarian queen and her stable of loyal consorts all on horseback… it’s a real challenge. In the few issues I’ve contributed to the series so far, I’ve already drawn cosmic space snake gods, ancient tree people, elephant warriors, and spooky wizards in an obsidian tower…. I can only imagine where Mark’s going take us next.”
Lee (Batman/Superman, Inhumans) returns to Dynamite as cover artist along with Amanda Conner, Joseph Michael Linsner, Bob Q himself, and others.
“This is my chance to draw fantasy!,” said Lee. “Red Sonja is one of the most iconic fantasy characters ever created. I’m honored to be doing a run of covers for Dynamite. Despite the horror elements in my work, my true passion has always been to work on a fantasy book.”
Red Sonja #13 will be available for preorder at local comic book shops in December. It is slated for a February release. Head to Dynamite’s website for more. It will also be available digitally on Comixology, Kindle, iBooks, Google Play, Dynamite Digital, ComicsPlus, and more.
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May 06, 2009 News » Cover Story
The Green 25
Green Issue: ‘Ecopreneur’ Scott Cooney gives props to local green pioneers and innovators.
By Scott Cooney
As the co-founder and former publisher of a green business directory for the greater Salt Lake area, I am grateful that green has gained so much public interest in recent years and hope that the trend continues. The following Top 25 green things in the Salt Lake City area is a very subjective and totally personal list. As a lifetime student of sustainability, I compiled and ranked the list according to the principles of sustainability: community building, progressive seventh-generation thinking, social responsibility, civic participation, the three R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle), and just as importantly, things that make sustainability fun (which in turn makes it something people want to do), such as the incredible organic fare at Sage’s Café, the super fun eco-transportation at Eco-Moto where I bought my Phantom scooter, and the beautiful, green-built downtown library, where I wrote the grand majority of the text for my book (Build a Green Small Business, McGraw-Hill). We are truly blessed to have so many great, green resources at our fingertips. Supporting them and enjoying them will help to create the kind of community we all hope to live in … peaceful, prosperous, sustainable, livable, equitable, and enjoyable.
1. Local farmers markets. Bill McKibben, in Deep Economy, details how we can build local living economies, get healthy food to the masses, fight sickness and disease, and keep more of our money away from the agribusiness giants … and the answer starts with farmers markets. Salt Lake’s Downtown Farmers Market is a spectacle to behold and a terrific way to spend a Saturday morning. Park City’s Park Silly Sunday Market has gone zero-waste (only seven and a half bags of trash sent to the landfill in 2008), to boot, with everything going to recycling or composting. Both sport organic produce, artisan breads, local cheeses, handicrafts, eco-friendly goods, a variety of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) projects, and, as McKibben notes about farmer’s markets as compared to shopping at a traditional grocery store: “One-tenth the energy [consumed from fossil-fuel sources]; 10 times the [community-building] conversations.” DowntownSLC.org, ParkSillySundayMarket.com
2. Søren Simonsen, Salt Lake City Councilman. Who better to help with city planning for a sustainable Salt Lake City than a green architect? Simonsen is laying the groundwork now to provide the framework for a walkable, bike-friendly, sustainable Salt Lake City full of energy-efficient buildings, cool neighborhoods, and locally owned businesses. Since it may be that U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, is not progressive enough to represent our blue island, maybe we should start printing the bumper stickers: S%uFFFDren for Congress in 2010!
3. Vegetarian-friendly Salt Lake. Switching to a vegetarian diet can reduce your ecological footprint more than switching from a gas-guzzler to a hybrid Prius. Vegetarianism’s reduced environmental footprint is showcased au extraordinaire in several Salt Lake City establishments (see No. 10), but overall, Salt Lake City took No. 3 on GoVeg.com’s ranking of vegetarian-friendly small U.S. cities. Salt Lake City was dubbed a “vegan’s paradise” by GoVeg. They recommend the vegan cheese pizza at Este in Sugar House and downtown and the organic basil macadamia pesto pasta at Sage’s Café.
4. Wasatch Community Gardens. WCG is a community-based nonprofit established in 1989 that empowers people of all ages and incomes to grow and eat healthy, sustainable food. With a plant sale featuring heirloom, organic and drought-resistant plants (May 9 at Rowland Hall on Guardsman—stop by before or after Live Green!, No. 17 below), and workshops on composting, organic gardening (en Español, tambien!), container gardening, fruit-tree pruning, solar cooking, urban chicken-rearing, and starting a school garden, WCG is helping Salt Lake City build community, grow local food organically, and educating thousands of people (especially kids!) to do the same. Salt Lake City garden locations include: Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 S. 600 East; Fairpark Garden, 1037 W. 300 North; and Fourth East Garden, 553 S. 400 East. In Sandy, Historic Sandy Garden, 8400 S. 115 East. WasatchGardens.org
5. Caffe Ibis. Artisan roaster in Logan produces seriously sustainable coffee that is organic, Fair Trade, and shade grown, meaning it creates community, preserves rainforest and eliminates poverty. And, it’s really freaking good. Served at The Coffee Garden, among other places! CaffeIbis.com
6. TreeUtah. With 300,000 trees planted since 1990, it would be hard to argue that anyone is making a bigger difference for clean air and carbon sequestration in the state of Utah. TreeUtah also maintains the educational EcoGarden at the Day- Riverside Library (No. 14). 740 S. 300 West, Suite 301, 801- 364-2122. TreeUtah.org
7. The Green Building Center. The appropriately named retail outlet continues to provide goods and services to help citizens and businesses build and remodel green. Recently, Planned Parenthood of Orem worked with the Green Building Center to install bamboo floors, use American Clay products as well as recycled tiles and eco-friendly countertops from the Green Building Center. It will be the first LEED-certified building in Orem, as well as the first LEED-certified Planned Parenthood in the country. The Green Building Center is worth a visit as an example of one of the coolest green retail outlets out there. 1952 E. 2700 South, Salt Lake City, 801-484- 6278; 1105 Iron Horse Drive, Park City, 435-649-8262. GreenBuildingCenter.net
8. Utah representing red states in green initiatives. No, really! California has led an effort, signed on to by 16 other states, to measure CO 2 emissions from vehicles in order to demand that automakers make fuel-efficient cars. Of the states, Utah is the only red state (there are two to three swing states that may occasionally go red). Take that, you Northeast and West Coast liberals!
9. The Bike Collective. This organization offers bike maintenance classes, a community bike shop, bike valet parking at community events (including the Downtown Farmers Market), youth education, and advocacy for a bike friendly Salt Lake City. And you should see the bicycle lawn mowers! SLCBikeCollective.org
10. Sage’s Café & One World Everbody Eats. Whenever I have friends visit Salt Lake City, I take them to a lot of the usual places. When they leave, they always remember One World and Sage’s. These are true institutions of sustainable food, and we have no idea how blessed we are to have them right here. Sage’s may be most famous for making meat-a-tarians dispense with their former predispositions about vegetarian fare not tasting good. A cousin of mine who rarely eats a vegetable other than potatoes (french fries) ranked Sage’s his new favorite restaurant (and only afterward did I tell him it was all vegan). One World is one of the most unique eateries I’ve ever seen, designed to eliminate food waste by asking people to pay what they think their meal was worth, rather than a set price for an all-you-can-eat buffet which encourages overeating and waste. With mostly vegetarian options and organic, local and seasonal ingredients, One World provides a truly sustainable eating experience. Sage’s Cafe, 473 E. 300 South, 801-322-3790, SagesCafe.com; One World Everbody Eats, 41 S. 300 East, 801-519- 2002, OneWorldEverybodyEats.com
11. Permaculture and sustainable landscaping. Utah is one of the driest states in the nation, and several ecopreneurs are helping save water, reduce chemical dependency, and grow sustainable landscapes. Highly recommended companies are Sage’s Way Landscape & Design, Grow Wild (also a native plant nursery in Sugar House), and architecture firm Cooper Roberts Simonsen (though Simonsen himself, No. 2 on this list, may be leaving the firm to pursue major environmental initiatives, I’ve been assured their terrific green work will continue). Sage´s Way Landscape & Design, 533 S. Windsor St., 801-573-8934, SagesWay.net; Grow Wild, 372 E. 2100 South, 801-467-8660, GrowWildNursery.com; Cooper Roberts Simonsen, 649 E. South Temple, 801-355-5915, crsa-us.com
12. Salt Lake City (and now County) E2 Business Program. Originally started under Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and continued by Mayor Ralph Becker, the E2 (environmentally and economically sustainable) program has now expanded to the county under the direction of county Mayor Peter Corroon. It’s free for businesses to join, and the programs help them save money on water, electricity and heat, as well as become good corporate citizens. SLCGreen.com
13. In Hot Water Heat & Power. The Eden, Utah, based company helps homeowners and businesses go renewable and clean by specializing in the financially smart solar hot-water systems and coordinating them with clean energy production. InHotWater.net
14. The Salt Lake City Public Library. Through a variety of initiatives, the City Library is going green … everything from reducing paper and plastic waste to being a recycling center for compact fluorescent light bulbs. The downtown library has many energy-efficient features (including a green roof), and the Day-Riverside Library has an EcoGarden maintained by TreeUtah that demonstrates sustainable gardening methods (permaculture). This spring, the City Library is holding public education workshops under the moniker of a “Sustainable Living Series.” These events range in topic from green business to commuting without cars. Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, slcpl.org
15. Eco-Moto. Who would have thought when ecopreneur Jon Schlee put out a shingle in front of a tiny retail space near the University of Utah to sell electric bikes and high-efficiency scooters, the business would be thriving six years later? Eco-Moto sells a variety of nifty transportation gadgets, ranging from the practical (electric cruiser bikes for easy transportation) to the downright suh-weet (the Vectrix electric scooter: top speeds of 62 mph, 70 miles on a single charge), and is now located in a much bigger retail space at 1050 S. State, 801-583-3390. EcoMoto.com
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Antiochian Orthodox Church in Riverside CA
There were several challenges facing the design team in this particular project. This parish consists of members with very diverse congregational and ethnic backgrounds. As a result the architect had to respond with a design which creates an inclusive fusion of various ancient Orthodox churches, in particular St Catherine in Thessaloniki and the Vatopedi Monastery at Mount Athos, Saint Andrew Orthodox Church. This stylistic decision was a direct result of dealing with a majority convert parish.
In addition there were numerous budget constraints, and creating a relationship with an existing building on site. The Parish has officially Consecrated their new Orthodox temple on the highly visible site adjacent to UC Riverside, and as the architect of this beautiful and impressive temple, Christ Kamages was on hand with Fr Josiah Trenham and the rest of the Parish for the ceremony commemorated on December 13th, 2011 to celebrate this important occasion.
This project is a two part phasing study. The next phase is to build the Hall component of the design, which is in process of getting financed.
In order to fulfill their goals and need while remaining on their current site, the Antiochian parish of St. Andrew desired a new temple immersed in and radiating the venerable tradition of Orthodoxy.
An inclusive fusion of various ancient Orthodox churches, in particular the Vatopedi Monastery at Mount Athos, inspires the new temple on a visible site adjacent to UC Riverside.
Architecturally, this traditional form is characterized in plan by a dome set within a square with a series spaces reinforcing the cruciform shape of the church. The dominant features of this church are therefore the seven distinctive domes, influenced by the church of St. Katherine in Thessalonica, Greece.
The mix of the light-filled Byzantine Central Dome and four Supporting Domes, Romanian Conical Dome above the Chapel, and Antiochian Pyramidal Dome above the Baptistery reinforce the Orthodox presence and proclamation, as a witness to a Pan-Orthodox Parish, that the dome’s volumetric circular geometry symbolizes heaven, eternity and the compassion and inclusiveness of God’s unceasing love while distributing God’s light and grace to the interior of the Church.
The site plan also contains provisions for expanded parking, a future Great Hall & Administrative/visitor center, educational complex, and a convenient drop-off directly in front of the temple revolving around an Athonite phiali. As a modification of the fountain tradition, the phiali is a large basin of sanctified water surrounded by columns and surmounted by a dome expanding the liturgical flow outdoors. Symbolically inclusive and open to all, the phiali shows that the church exists not to remain closed up inside but to flow out into the world and transform it.
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Published: June 14, 2020, 11:13 pm Updated: June 15, 2020, 8:04 pm
Tags: Government, politics, Breonna Taylor, Mitch McConnell, Tim Scott, James Clyburn, Donald Trump
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FILE - In this May 7, 2020, file photo, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks during a Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on new coronavirus tests on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Republicans are poised to unveil an extensive package of policing changes that includes new restrictions on police choke holds and other practices as President Donald Trump signals his support following the mass demonstrations over the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans. Scott, the sole African American Republican in the Senate, has been crafting the package set to roll out Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)
WASHINGTON – Driven by a swift-moving national debate, Senate Republicans are on the brink of introducing an extensive package of policing changes with new restrictions on police chokeholds and other practices as Congress rushes to respond to mass demonstrations over the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans.
It's a sudden shift of GOP priorities, with President Donald Trump signaling support. The White House will announce its own executive actions on law enforcement procedures on Tuesday, a crush of activity that shows how quickly protests over police violence and racial prejudice are transforming national politics.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opened the chamber Monday declaring that Senate Republicans are developing “a serious proposal to reform law enforcement."
While the emerging GOP package isn't as extensive as the sweeping Democratic proposal, which is headed for a House vote next week, it includes perhaps the most far-reaching proposed changes to policing procedures from the party long aligned with a "law and order” approach. Confronted with a groundswell of public unrest over police violence, in cities large and small nationwide, even the most conservative senators are joining the effort.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the sole African American Republican in the Senate, has been crafting the package set to roll out Wednesday, and said he spoke with Trump about it over the weekend. Scott warned that pushing voting into later this summer would be a “bad decision.” He has said the chokehold, in particular, “is a policy whose time has come and gone.”
The weekend shooting death of Rayshard Brooks by a white officer in Atlanta led to a renewed public outcry, more street protests and the police chief’s swift resignation.
Democrats have said the GOP package doesn’t go far enough to match the outpouring of support for reforms. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned Republicans not to settle for minor changes.
“Now is the time to seek bold and broad-scale change, not change around the margins,” Schumer said Monday.
Two senior administration officials told reporters that Trump's executive order would include establishing a database that tracks police officers who have complaints about excessive use of force in their records. The officials said the president wants to keep officers facing such accusations from being able to hop from one police department to another.
The officials said the executive order would also establish a national credentialing system that would give police departments a financial incentive to adopt best practices on such things as use of deadly force. The two officials briefed reporters on the executive order on the condition that they not be identified.
With the political debate fluid, it is unclear whether the parties will be able to find common ground. The proposals share many similar provisions but take different approaches to address some of the issues. Neither bill goes as far as some activists want in their push to “defund the police” by fully revamping departments.
The debate is changing almost daily, complicated by the fall election, with the Senate Republican majority at risk. McConnell, who is up for reelection in November, is backing the GOP effort after the death of Breonna Taylor when police entered her home in Louisville. It's a dynamic political environment in the aftermath of the killing of black Americans and the outpouring of protests and Black Lives Matter demonstrations that have overwhelmingly altered the national conversation.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider policing issues at a hearing Tuesday.
Central to the Republican package would be the creation of a national database of police use-of-force incidents, similar to what the president is proposing in the executive order to improve transparency so officers cannot transfer without public oversight of their records. The Democrats have a similar provision.
The GOP bill would encourage police body cameras and include a long-stalled effort to make lynching a federal hate crime.
Additionally, the Republican package is expected to restrict the use of chokeholds by withholding certain federal funds to jurisdictions that continue to allow the practice, according to a Senate Republican unauthorized to discuss the pending bill and granted anonymity.
While chokeholds have become a symbol of police brutality — and a ban is included in the Democrats' bill — the maneuver is already banned in many departments. Police nationwide are far more likely to kill someone by shooting.
Yet the Republican bill does not go as far as the Democratic proposal, particularly on the issue of eliminating “qualified immunity," which would enable those injured by law enforcement personnel to sue for damages. The White House has said that is a line too far. But it's a timely issue after the Supreme Court on Monday declined to get involved, rejecting cases to take up the issue. As an alternative, Scott has suggested a “decertification” process for officers involved in misconduct.
Still, Democrats signaled a willingness to look at the Republican approach for areas of common ground.
"Nothing is a non-starter," said Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the House's third-ranking Democrat, on a conference call with reporters.
Democrats face criticism over activists’ calls to defund the police, and party leaders in Congress have distanced themselves from that approach. It focuses on shifting policing resources to other community services. Democrats did not include it in their bill, which instead provides grants for jurisdictions to consider new ways of policing.
Leading civil rights groups have backed the Democratic bill, but it's unclear if the Republican proposal will be extensive enough to gain broad support.
“This is really a moral issue at this point,” said Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
In an interview, she warned that any bill with “half measures” will be “woefully insufficient to meet the moment.”
At the same time, one large police union, the influential Fraternal Order of Police, said in a statement it is working with Congress and the White House on the proposals, having provided “feedback” on the Democratic bill and “substantial input” on the emerging GOP package from Scott.
Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Kevin Freking, Colleen Long, Michael Balsamo and Padmananda Rama contributed to this report.
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Black body radiation
Climate-Debate.com > Discussion Forum > Climate debate in general > Black body radiation
Black body radiation14-08-2019 17:04
olyz
(87) From wiki:
"A closed box of graphite walls at a constant temperature with a small hole on one side produces a good approximation to ideal black-body radiation emanating from the opening.[17][18]"
Presumably this can be verified experimentally. Why doesn't a gap show up in the spectrum at CO2 vibration frequency due to CO2 in the air?
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olyz wrote: From wiki:
Dismissed.
olyz wrote: "A closed box of graphite walls at a constant temperature with a small hole on one side produces a good approximation to ideal black-body radiation emanating from the opening.[17][18]"
Question: What's the scientific term for a very close approximation to an ideal black body?
Answer: An ordinary black body.
A Spaghetti strainer with the faucet running, retains water- tmiddles
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Printing dollars to pay debt doesn't increase the number of dollars. - keepit
If Venus were a black body it would have a much much lower temperature than what we found there.- tmiddles
Ah the "Valid Data" myth of ITN/IBD. - tmiddles
Ceist - I couldn't agree with you more. But when money and religion are involved, and there are people who value them above all else, then the lies begin. - trafn
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The Stefan-Boltzman equation doesn't come up with the correct temperature if greenhouse gases are not considered - Hank
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IB STILL hasn't explained what Planck's Law means. Just more hand waving that it applies to everything and more asserting that the greenhouse effect 'violates' it.- Ceist
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olyz wrote:
Olyz you still seem to think that the nature of a body, how much it is or is not a black body, and so on have anything to do with what it radiates.
My understanding is that ANYTHING, jelly donut, granite boulder, planet, will emitt exactly and only what it's temperature corresponds to.
So you wont have Item A and Item B at precisely 500C emitting anything other than the wavelength produced by 500C, even if they are composed of different matter, have different masses, different emissivities, or anything else.
tmiddles wrote:My understanding is that ANYTHING, jelly donut, granite boulder, planet, will emitt exactly and only what it's temperature corresponds to.
No. I believe you misunderstand.
Only the *power* (Radiance) is determined by the temperature and emissivity. That is the Stefan-Boltzmann law. There is no wavelength value in that.
Different materials, however, radiate differently at different wavelengths as temperature changes. This is where absorptivity comes in for different wavelengths.
Wein's law determines the wavelength at which a body's radiance is greatest for its temperature.
IBdaMann wrote:
tmiddles wrote:My understanding is that ANYTHING, jelly donut, granite boulder, planet, will emitt exactly and only what it's temperature corresponds to....
Only the *power* (Radiance) is determined by the temperature and emissivity. That is the Stefan-Boltzmann law. There is no wavelength value in that....
I was thinking that it was 1 wavelength to 1 temperature. I see that a particular temp a "perfect black body" (from link)
So at 300K there are emissions peak at 10 millibars but quite a bit above and below that.
Earth can look like this:
I thought that the curve was because not all the bits were the same temperature. The top graph though shows that even if they are you have a range of wavelengths right?
Or do different objects each do their own thing? Depending on emessivity?
Edited on 15-08-2019 07:29
So this is the same idea but it's not a single wavelength but a bell curve of them with the peak as determined by Wein:
Wien Law: (link
wavelength of peak (in Angstroms)= 3 x 107/T)
"The Wien Law gives the wavelength of the peak of the radiation distribution, while the Stefan-Boltzmann Law gives the total energy being emitted at all wavelengths by the blackbody"
tmiddles wrote:
I don't know the extent of your math proficiency but the best way to take in black body science is to start with Planck's law which is the base model on which black body science is built. It defines black bodies and builds in the laws of thermodynamics. Max Planck also explained what is going on with photons ... before they were called photons ... and then Einstein came along and claimed the Nobel prize for the concept.
Note: I had been asking you about the thermal feedback between a red hot 475degC steel inner ball and its 80degC outer shell. Planck's law explains how there is no such thing as a "thermal feedback" (yes, it was a trick question). The inner ball will go no higher than the 475degC. The outer shell can have no effect. It's the same with the earth's atmosphere; it cannot "warm" the surface. Planck's model answers this question.
Planck's law is a 2-parameter function of radiativity, i.e. it predicts the radiance (power per surface area) at a particular wavelength of a body at a particular temperature. This forms a familair graph of radiance over different wavelengths. You are, no doubt, familiar with the famous, nay, standard graph of Plank's for an ideal black body, i.e.:
Kirchoff's law tells us that absorptivity = radiativity, ... ergo Planck's, which graphs radiativity, also tells you absorptivity at a particular wavelength for a body at a particular temperature.
Note: this corroborates enforcement of the 2nd law of thermodynamics because photons of a particular wavelength of a cooler body will not be abosrbed by a body at a higher temperature.
Stefan-Boltzmann is the integral of Planck's over all wavelengths to get total radiance (power per surface area).
Wein's is the first derivative of Planck's, set to zero, to find the peak wavelength.
There's nothing mysterious.
IBdaMann wrote:I had been asking you about the thermal feedback between a red hot 475degC steel inner ball and its 80degC outer shell. Planck's law explains how there is no such thing as a "thermal feedback" (yes, it was a trick question). The inner ball will go no higher than the 475degC.
Yes I haven't forgottent he ball shell and have been working through that in the other thread. Also just put up a post that relates to this in the other thread.
So I'm crystal clear on the NET flow of thermal energy going from the hotter to the cooler in either conduction or radiance.
I'm now VERY confused by the prospect that a HOT body cannot absorb infrared radiation? Is that what cooler body wavelengths not being absorbed means? If so what happens to them? Don't they have to either pass through the hot body as though it was transparent or be reflected?
I thought the only 3 options were: Absorbed, Reflected, Pass through.
So if Object A is 500C and object B is 100C and they are right next to each other, two plates, and Object A is radiating out, 1/2 of it goes to the back, 1/2 of it runs right into object B. Now object B radiates, 1/2 of it goes out the front, half of it back toward Object A, but is passes through Object A?
..................A....B..................
...<----------A=>B..................
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Pretty sure I'm misunderstanding which is why I'm being specific.
tmiddles wrote:So I'm crystal clear on the NET flow of thermal energy going from the hotter to the cooler in either conduction or radiance.
Don't do this. You obviously did some research on one or more fanatical Marxist warmizombie websites. You can't say that I didn't warn you to stay away from them. This is a standard warmizombie manipulation.
This is what's going on. You found an article or site that sets gullible victims up to regurgitate a "net flow" argument. Global Warming dogma violates the laws of thermodynamics and warmizombies are forever pulling out their hair and gnashing their teeth at their inability to get around physics.
So the article/site assures the victim that Global Warming doesn't actually violate thermodynamics ... that it's perfectly OK for thermal energy from cooler objects to flow into warmer objects as long as the "net flow" is from the warmer to the cooler.
The gullible victim is then reassured that objections to Global Warming on the basis of thermodynamics violations are totally without merit because Global Warming is accomplished with the portion of the thermal energy that is allowed to violate thermodynamics, and that there is enough other thermal energy to ensure there is a "net flow" adhering to thermodynamics.
keepit wrote:I'm now VERY confused by the prospect that a HOT body cannot absorb infrared radiation?
No one said that. A very hot body can absorb infrared photons from an even hotter body (one of higher temperature) because the photons of the higher temperature body will have enough energy to become absorbed.
keepit wrote:I t half of it back toward Object A, but is passes through Object A?
The photons do not go through. They reflect.
Don't do this. You obviously did some research on one or more fanatical Marxist warmizombie ....
I did not and so far I'm not sure it makes a difference if there is net energy flow as they describe it or as you are.
There is a disturbing lack of clarity out there. I think our discussion so far wins.
So a photon=electro magnetic radiation= radiance just so I'm clear on that.
So that last bit is the important part I wasn't aware of:
If a photon has less energy than the temperature of what it's hitting it's reflected away?
So in the Ball/Shell you have the radiance coming from the ball and hitting the shell where it's absorbed. You than have what I call the "hand back" of the radiance coming from the shell to the ball, but this is simply reflected back instantly because of the temperature of the ball?
tmiddles wrote:There is a disturbing lack of clarity out there.
It's intentional misinformation for the purpose of preaching/converting to the Global Warming faith.
tmiddles wrote:So a photon=electro magnetic radiation= radiance just so I'm clear on that.
You can't use the "=". A photon is a discrete particle of electromagnetic radiation, which is a form of energy.
Radiance is an amount of electromagnetic radiation per unit time per a unit of surface area.
tmiddles wrote:So that last bit is the important part I wasn't aware of:
Your wording is off.
If you are citing the 2nd law of thermodynamics then you simply state that thermal energy flows from higher temperature to lower temperature and does not flow between bodies of the same temperature (important for thermal equilibrium). Thermal energy does not flow from lower temperature to higher temperature.
If you are citing Planck's law, photons from a body of lower energy state (temperature) are of insufficient energy to raise the energy state of a body of a higher energy state.
tmiddles wrote:So in the Ball/Shell you have the radiance coming from the ball and hitting the shell where it's absorbed. You than have what I call the "hand back" of the radiance coming from the shell to the ball, but this is simply reflected back instantly because of the temperature of the ball?
Yes, exactly ... except that it is not correct to say that the thermal energy is "reflected back." The energy is deflected in some way but the best wording is to simply state that it is not absorbed.
OK now that makes sense and I wasn't aware of it no.
A perfect black black body will absorb everything though right?
I guess if a perfect black body is white hot it's emitting bright white light. If some infrared radiation hit it then it would not be absorbed.
That's where the definitions collide for me.
Also I notice this is about the power of the photon not the wavelength right?
tmiddles wrote:A perfect black black body will absorb everything though right?
First, it's "ideal" black body, not "perfect."
Second, ideal black bodies don't exist so I would be lying if I were to assert that "we know" how they behave.
Third, according to the science model, any ideal black body is of a particular temperature. If you have an ideal black body A at 60degC radiating into another ideal black body B at 80degC, B will not absorb thermal radiation from A, but A will be absorbing from B until the two reach thermal equilibrium.
tmiddles wrote: Also I notice this is about the power of the photon not the wavelength right?
Photons don't have power. Each photon represents a quantity of energy.
To have power you need a body that is radiating.
Power = Energy over time per surface area.
any ideal black body is of a particular temperature. If you have an ideal black body A at 60degC radiating into another ideal black body B at 80degC, B will not absorb thermal radiation from A,
OK that helps. So basically radiance is going to behave exactly as conduction does, no swimming up stream.
Two scenarios trouble me:
If two plates of the same temperature are separated by a gap they will radiate back and forth in the gap right? The radiation cannot bounce off as it would not be absorbed by either plate and just bounce back and forth. And if same temp allows absorbtion what's the cut off in temp difference?
Is the "rate" or "intensity" of radiance effected by the presence of other radiance?
If a ball is at 500C in a void it radiates out at some rate x. If it's now surrounded by a shell at 400C then it won't radiate out, in the cooling down sense, as it would otherwise. How is the cooler shell influencing the radiance out of the ball if it's not able to have it's radiation absorbed by it?
tmiddles wrote:OK that helps. So basically radiance is going to behave exactly as conduction does, no swimming up stream.
tmiddles wrote: Two scenarios trouble me:
If two plates of the same temperature are separated by a gap they will radiate back and forth in the gap right? The radiation cannot bounce off as it would not be absorbed by either plate and just bounce back and forth.
No. Photons are not little rubber boucy-balls. This might be a little disappointing but we don't have science that predicts exactly what photons do in every situation. Photons reflect, deflect, become absorbed, interact and other things we can't imagine because we cannot see individual photons and we cannot account for each one.
This is why it is best to simply state the specific negative, that photons from a cooler body are not absorbed by the warmer body. That, at least, is correct. That is something that we can list under "that which we know." Identifying exactly what does happen to each and every photon we cannot list under "that which we know." This means that you are free to speculate just like everyone else, and your thoughts are just as valid as anyone else's as long as you don't claim that photons from a cooler body are being absorbed by a warmer body.
I'd like to return to my comment concerning photons not being bouncy-balls. They actually do behave like bouncy-balls ... and they absolutely do not behave as bouncy-balls. The moment you shift your context from the macro world (bodies, familiar objects, planets, two plates of the same temperature, etc..) to the quantum world (electrons, photons, elementary particles, etc..) nothing actually applies because the quantum world doesn't behave as the macro world. We run a certain risk whenever we try to apply macro world references, e.g. "bouncing back and forth" to quantum world scenarios.
If you aren't familiar with the double-slit experiment, you should become familiar with it to better understand what you need to consider when you traverse contexts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
... and to this end, do yourself a favor and do a quick read on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. If you don't understand that then you'll get lost on a lot of stuff in the quantum world.
tmiddles wrote:Is the "rate" or "intensity" of radiance effected by the presence of other radiance?
If you watched the above video then you know that in the quantum world there is interference and cancelation. In the macro world, you can get a good idea of this if you put two different transmission antennae from two different systems too close to each other. However, this is just one example. In the quantum world, there can be many types of effects that don't have macro world equivalents.
tmiddles wrote: If a ball is at 500C in a void it radiates out at some rate x. If it's now surrounded by a shell at 400C then it won't radiate out, in the cooling down sense, as it would otherwise.
Sure it will. The ball is of a higher temperature than the shell so the ball will radiate into the shell, increasing the shell's temperature. The shell, being of a lower temperature, will not increase the temperature of the ball.
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The same is true for convective heating. No swimming upstream.
No. Not all photons emitted are the same frequency. Not all molecules in either plate are either. There will some absorption by some molecules, and all molecules will be emitting at various frequencies.
And if same temp allows absorbtion what's the cut off in temp difference?
Zero, if and only if all molecules are exactly the same temperature (they never are).
If a ball is at 500C in a void it radiates out at some rate x.
I recently used a ball at 1600 deg F, but...meh.
If it's now surrounded by a shell at 400C then it won't radiate out,
It was surrounded by a shell at 22 deg C because I fired the fuse to blow it up. The ball in the center radiated out and heated the shell to 1600 deg C, you see.
in the cooling down sense, as it would otherwise.
Everything cooled off afterwards, just like normal.
How is the cooler shell influencing the radiance out of the ball if it's not able to have it's radiation absorbed by it?
The cooler shell DOES absorb the ball's radiance. Quite rapidly too in this case.
The effect was spectacular. People watching it liked it. Of course, the car the ball was put into didn't fare so well. I have a nice video of the rear door flying away about 50 ft.
We called the junk yard and told them they could have it back now that we were through with it.
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I think this is really a key to move on from. If the results of radiance and the results of conduction with interacting matter have the same behavior than it makes it a lot simpler.
Also the "global warming"(magazine article headline identification purposes) talk of "radiating down" really tell the reader there is new energy somehow. Since the behavior is no different than conduction this is pointlessly misleading (or deliberately misleading!)
I think ITN was mentioning at one point that my sweater is not heating me, it generates no thermal energy. It's simply acting as an insulator and "reducing heat" for my body to the surroundings.
The whole thing is so hard to grasp based on my own experience it's really frustrating. That video is great but the subject is so hard to get. The observer thing I mean, the rest is fascinating and makes sense.
Also I don't really understand what the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is ( I read it just don't get it ).
There was a movie, what the bleep do we know:
I really hated and I'm pretty sure it's garbage. Have you seen it? Deals with the uncertainty principle but a lot of other BS (like poetry showing up in ice).
Sure it will.
But it's heat is reduced by the shell and it will take longer for it to radiate out to drop in temperature right? It is insulated by the shell to a degree correct?
But no differently than a ball with a shell that it's in physical contact with so it's conduction instead of radiance.
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I find that the easiest to visualize since it's an actual flow of matter that would push other matter out of the way.
Ah right good reminder that it's always some kind of mix.
So if I have object A at 500C butted up against some object C at 100C it will conduct out from A to C. If object A is directly next to a void it will radiate out.
If I place object B at 300C inbetween object A and object C then object B will reduce the heat of A and insulate it from C, the conduction would be reduced from A to C by B. If object B is inbetween object A and the void, not touching, what happens with A's radiance? It would also have reduced heat right? It would simply take longer for the thermal energy to drop with B in the way than without it there correct?
Into the Night wrote:I have a nice video of the rear door flying away about 50 ft.
Post it if you can!
It is being deliberately misleading. You cannot heat a warmer surface using a colder gas. You cannot make heat flow backwards. The article is denying the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
Actually, FROM your body to the surroundings. Sweaters don't even make you warmer. Your body heat is controlled by your own body automatically for you. All a sweater does it allow you to do that by consuming less food. Of course, you body can only consume so much food in a given time, so if it's cold enough, your body temperature will drop without a sweater. In that case, your body simply cannot consume enough food fast enough to maintain your own body temperature. This condition is called hypothermia and is a very dangerous condition that is life threatening and needs IMMEDIATE treatment.
In most cases where you would want to use just a sweater, you will feel chilly, but you will be able to cope without the sweater and still maintain your body heat.
Heh. It's a bit screwy looking to say the least. Basically, all that Heisenberg is saying is that for subatomic particles (he was addressing electrons as an example when he said this), you can either know where the particle is, or you can know how fast it's moving, but not both. This principle is a mathematical one in nature, and essentially ends up describing any photon, neutron, proton, or electron, or even the atom itself as a wavelet...a kind of localized set of waves (which has the properties of speed and frequency), and a particle (which has the properties of location in space). It is essentially neither. All matter is can be represented by a wavelet.
It becomes a wave when you consider a moving particle and the particle looks more like a single frequency.
It becomes a band of frequencies, centered around some center frequency, when you try to determine it's location in space. It's in there somewhere.
No rubber balls. No little miniature solar system like constructs for the atom (otherwise known as the Bohr model of the atom, the kind shown in crappy textbooks). No orbits for electrons. They have orbitals instead. The electron is in there somewhere, but we don't know where. We know it's average shape of orbital for each level of energy, but it's only an average.
As Stephan Hawking once remarked, "God not only rolls dice, he rolls them where you can't see them!". This quote was talking about astronomy, but it certainly pertains to the weird world of quantum physics!
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Yup. Always good to remember.
If I place object B at 300C inbetween object A and object C then object B will reduce the heat of A and insulate it from C, the conduction would be reduced from A to C by B.
A's blackbody radiance is not determined by any nearby body. It is solely determined by the Stefan-Boltzmann law, which relates temperature to radiance (conversion of thermal energy to electromagnetic energy).
If object B is inbetween object A and the void, not touching, what happens with A's radiance?
It would also have reduced heat right?
Nope. A can easily heat B by radiance.
It would simply take longer for the thermal energy to drop with B in the way than without it there correct?
Nope. It's easier. B is closer than C. The light that intercepts any object when radiating from a point source (such as A) is reduced by the inverse square law with distance. This law holds true for anything radiating from a point source, whether it's photons, bullets, or debris from an explosion. Distance is your friend when working with explosives or being confronted by a deranged shooter!
Plan to. I have to get a better computer setup before I can get it into a form where I can post it. Frankly, I am surprised that no one has posted it already. We had a lot of photographers there with better equipment than mine, including a drone camera.
BTW, the size of the sphere I used was about 3 inches across and was filled with black powder and titanium.
Isn't the rate at which temperature drops reduced by the presence of another object nearby? It is with conduction and I thought radiance behaved the same way.
No. Radiance does not follow Fourier's conduction law. It follows the Stefan-Boltzmann law. Nearby objects make no difference at all.
Light is not heat. It can be a medium of heating, but it in and of itself is not heat.
It takes energy to radiate light. That energy can come from thermal energy (i.e. the Stefan-Boltzmann law). Emitting light in and of itself cools the primary object. It is also not the only way to generate light. ANY method of generating light requires energy.
Radiance is heat. It is heat to some far away body or it is heat to a nearby body. It doesn't matter.
Light is not in and of itself heat. It is a medium. It will continue to travel through space until it is absorbed by something. Sooner or later, it WILL hit something that will absorb it. Light is little packets of energy streaming away from whatever generated them.
They are not rubber balls. They are not all the same amount of energy. Remember Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Planck's law.
If the results of radiance and the results of conduction with interacting matter have the same behavior than it makes it a lot simpler.
Conduction and black body radiation are not the same thing. They have the same "results" insofar as adhering to the 2nd law of thermodynamics but I spelled out the differences along with the similarities.
tmiddles wrote:I think ITN was mentioning at one point that my sweater is not heating me, it generates no thermal energy. It's simply acting as an insulator and "reducing heat" for my body to the surroundings.
Correct. Specifically, the sweater reduces conduction because the sweater has a low thermal coefficient. Your body's radiance, however, remains unaffected because your radiance into the sweater is dependent only on your absolute temperature. The sweater doesn't somehow alter your body's emissivity.
tmiddles wrote:The whole thing is so hard to grasp
Nope. I'm not buying it. Children easily understand it.
In the quantum world, the act of measuring an elementary particle alters the particle measured. Ergo, whatever your measurements read, that's what it isn't. The more you measure just to be sure, the more surely it isn't what you measure.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle specifically states that the more you know about a particle's position, the less you know about its momentum, and the more you know about its momentum, the less you know about its position.
Let's say you fire photons that will deflect off an electron and be captured by a sensor, telling you where the electron is. Well, the act of pummeling the electron with photons changes the electron's path so when you calculate an extrapolation of where the electron is one microsecond later, all you can be certain of is that it is not there.
As you noticed, people like to treat physics like it's mysterious, and they can't resist the urge to take literary license when describing the quantum world. One of the most common examples is to refer to "an observer" instead of saying "take a measurement." It's intuitive to understand how the act of measuring affects elementary particles but people find it more interesting to make physics seem mysterious and instead imply that the mere act of observing somehow changes the behavior of elementary particles.
tmiddles wrote:But it's heat is reduced by the shell and it will take longer for it to radiate out to drop in temperature right? It is insulated by the shell to a degree correct?
No. The shell, being of the same material, has the same thermal coefficient of conduction and the same emissivity as the ball.
Conduction is thermal energy flow through physical contact of matter. A substance is considered "insulation" in conduction if its thermal coefficient is "low."
Thermal radiance, however, is dependent only on temperature. A substance is considered "insulation" in thermal radiation if its emissivity is "low."
This question is split between two topics. Easier to keep it here: link
And I don't think school children have no trouble with the observation of an electron changing it's movement from a wave to a particle. It's freaky.
Children have no trouble whatsoever because electrons and photons don't change behavior between particles and waves. You have allowed yourself to become confused even though I warned you in advance.
Elementary particles in the quantum world act as both waves and particles. Waves are simple macro world references that we humans can understand. Bouncy-balls are simple macro world references that we humans can understand. In the quantum world, there are no bouncy-balls and no beaches. Elementary particles are unlike anything we can experience in our macro world.
So the result is that you think that's "freaky." That does not mean that children have a difficult time understanding concepts when properly explained.
Once I was with some little-leaguers when we had an opportunity to throw baseballs against a backstop machine that registered how fast a baseball was traveling when it hits the machine (it wasn't a radar gun, you throw the ball at it). After a while of letting the kids throw at it to see how fast they threw, I asked the kids if the machine worked. They all said yes. I asked them if they were sure. They said that they had been using it. I asked one kid to throw a ball at the machine. It registered 51 mph. I pointed to the baseball on the ground and said "the machine says this baseball is going 51 mph but it's not moving. I don't think the machine is working." The kids laughed and told me that the ball was moving that fast but it hit the machine and stopped. I asked if the machine should be telling me "zero" instead of "51" and they said no, that they wanted to know how fast it was going, not how fast after it was stopped.
I did not mention to them that they had just learned the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle but they had.
IBdaMann wrote:they said no, that they wanted to know how fast it was going, not how fast after it was stopped.
Cool analogy.
I'm getting that being confused about conflicting references to something isn't the same as being confused about the something.
I guess if I told someone that money was like energy and the economy worked like an engine, things could go south pretty fast as they asked about how a fiat currency related to coal.
The freaky bit for me was in that video how the spray pattern of electrons changed with a measuring device being present.
tmiddles wrote:The freaky bit for me was in that video how the spray pattern of electrons changed with a measuring device being present.
That part bothered me, i.e. the way they portrayed the electrons as being sneaky, sentient beings that "knew" they were being "observed" and intentionally screwed with the test results.
In the double slit experiment, the only way to observe/measure the electrons causes interference which alters the resulting pattern. It's the intrusion of the act of measuring that alters the results, not the mere act of "observing." I hate deceit in the name of generating interest in otherwise boring material.
If you want more examples of this sort of crap, try reading about "Schroedinger's Cat" and "The Copenhagen Interpretation." They are both straightforward concepts that children can understand ... but you won't be able to really figure them out judging by how people write about them.
Give it a try. If you're not getting it, feel free to blame the writer of incompetence and of dishonestly hyping what is otherwise common sense until it is not fully understandable.
If you want more examples of this sort of crap, try reading about "Schroedinger's Cat"
Oh yeah! Schroedinger tries to point out the absurdity of something only to have is joke used as an example. I know that one well.
... and to have millions of people name their cats "Schroedinger" ... and think they're being original.
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Stealin’ Thunder is the new album from Ohio-based rock outfit The Magic Lightnin’ Boys and it includes an exciting variety of musical styles. Ranging from tracks with a strong blues influence to a straight up rock sound, the record contains frequent changes in pace and stripped-down, traditional, but at the same time fresh-sounding music.
A long, drawn-out cry of a harmonica opens Bones, the album’s second track, followed shortly afterwards by lead vocalist Kasey Gomez’s wailing, bluesy lyrics. The guitar riff intensifies the blues feel.
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Lyrically, The Ride, the first single from the album, is a typical rock song. But the harmonica and guitar gives it a bluesy edge which helps it stand out. This combination continues through the following tracks, including Mojo, and especially Rubber Side Down.
Two short instrumental interludes, including The Cleansing and Bondo’s Ballad, add yet another dimension to the album. These are acoustic pieces which slow the pace down a lot.
The Magic Lightnin’ Boys play well together throughout. Gomez’s vocals are solid and each instrument gets a chance to show off, including the guitar solo on Fear and Freedom and a drum solo on N2U, which is again a more standard rock track. Not a bad way to end a record which successfully combines a modern sound with a throwback to an earlier era of rock and blues music.
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RBC v. Trang - Ontario Court of Appeal Examines Disclosure of Mortgage Discharge Statements without Consent under PIPEDA
**Please note that this decision has been overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada. My blog post on the SCC decision is here**
This week the Ontario Court of Appeal released a decision that examined when mortgage statements can be released without the express consent of a mortgagor under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA"). The answer? Basically, only by court order and only after the party seeking the release has exhausted all other remedies.
RBC had a judgment against the Trangs who owned a property which they had mortgaged with Scotiabank. The Sheriff refused to sell the property without a mortgage discharge statement from Scotiabank. RBC tried to obtain this statement by examining the Trangs but they refused to attend for examination. Scotiabank also refused to release the statement arguing that PIPEDA precluded them from doing so. Scotiabank needed the Trangs' consent, which they did not have. RBC brought a motion for an order that Scotiabank produce the discharge statement. The motion judge dismissed the motion relying on the Court of Appeal's judgment of Citi Cards Canada Inc. v. Pleasance, 2011 ONCA 3 which had similar facts. RBC appealed.
In a 3-2 split decision, the Court of Appeal dismissed RBC's appeal, finding, among other things, that RBC had not (similar to Citi Cards) exhausted all of its options: It could still seek to obtain the mortgage discharge statement by a motion under Rule 60.18(6)(a) of the Rules of Civil Procedure . Rule 60.18(6)(a) states: "Where any difficulty arises concerning the enforcement of an order, the court may, (a) make an order for the examination of any person who the court is satisfied may have knowledge of the matters. . .". Here RBC could show "difficulty" in enforcing its judgment, both because the Trangs failed to appear for two judgment debtor examinations and because Scotiabank would not produce the discharge statement. The Court held that under Rules 34.10(2)(b) and (3) (the rules requiring a person being examined to produce all non-privileged documents), Scotiabank would be required to bring to the examination and produce the discharge statement. An order made under Rules 60.18(6)(a) and 34.10 would permit Scotiabank to disclose the mortgage discharge statement to RBC without the Trangs' consent. It would satisfy the exemption in s.7(3)(c) of PIPEDA which authorizes an organization to disclose personal information without the individual's knowledge and consent if disclosure is required to comply with a court order or the rules of court relating to the production of records.
The dissenting judges (Justices Hoy and Sharpe) would have allowed RBC's appeal, finding that the mortgage discharge statement should be disclosed as the Trangs' consent to the disclosure of the discharge statement could be implied.:
"The Statement constitutes 'less sensitive' information for the purposes of s.4.3.6 of Schedule 1 to PIPEDA, and disclosure accords with the reasonable expectations of an individual in the Trang's position. Had this court in Citi Cards considered s.4.3.6, it would have - or at least should have - come to a different result." (para.93).
The dissent would not have required RBC to bring another motion: "Whether RBC purported to move under rule 60.18(6)(a) or simply asked the court for an order requiring the mortgagee to disclose the Statement is immaterial. In either case the relief sought is substantively identical. Requiring a further motion would not be just, and it certainly would not be expeditious." (para. 96)
The full decision is an interesting read and can be found here: RBC v. Trang 2014 ONCA 883
UPDATE: Please note that on July 16, 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada granted leave to appeal from this decision. See RBC v. Trang 2015 CanLII 43097 (SCC)
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No, the Pandemic Is Not Emptying Out America’s Cities
By Jeff Andrews
Photo: Westend61/Getty Images
This story was originally published by Curbed before it joined New York Magazine. You can visit the Curbed archive at archive.curbed.com to read all stories published before October 2020.
Over the weekend, the New York Times published a story about how there are bidding wars for homes in tristate area suburbs, and how urban apartment dwellers (especially those with kids) are worried about the uncertainties of living in crowded cities come winter. It’s the latest piece to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on national housing markets, and seems to support the theory that cities are being abandoned en masse in favor of suburbs. This theory has frequently been posited by the New York City–based news media, where TV producers and newspaper editors know many professionals with the means to relocate. But it seems to be something of a distorted narrative; The past six months of housing data clearly indicate that the trend is really only visible in two places (both of which were, until recently, among the most overheated housing markets on the planet): Manhattan and San Francisco, which were seeing outbound migration prior to the pandemic because of extremely expensive housing.
There’s no shortage of examples of the COVID-19 urban flight story. CNBC.com doubled down on it with a June headline of “The flight to the suburbs is real and growing.” On its cable network, CNBC recycles this narrative regularly, and opened a segment on the housing market this week by saying, “The housing market is staying hot as people continue to flee the big cities for the suburbs.”
CNBC gonna die on this hill. https://t.co/zCEAYg0dQr
— Jeff Andrews (@jandrews81) August 25, 2020
If you live in a city, you probably know people who have left for the suburbs since the pandemic hit. There’s no denying the reality that many people have done this since March; many people also did this prior to the pandemic, and many more will do so in the years to come.
“People move out of New York all the time,” says Nancy Wu, an economist with StreetEasy. “The people who are moving to the suburbs to start a family there or to have a bigger place are looking now and buying their houses now, rather than renting in Manhattan for a few more years.”
But a nationwide, pandemic- or protest-induced urban-to-suburban migration taking place on a scale that impacts both urban and suburban housing markets in a measurable way? There is zero empirical evidence to support such a trend. None. Nothing. Zero.
Earlier this month, real-estate-listings giant Zillow published an exhaustive study examining every conceivable housing-market data point related to cities and suburbia to see if there are major divergences that suggest an urban-to-suburban migration trend.
Are pending home sales between urban and suburban areas different now than they were before the pandemic? They aren’t!
Are suburban homes selling more quickly than homes in urban areas? Nope!
Are suburban homes selling above their list price at a higher rate than urban homes? Not at all!
Are urban homes seeing price cuts at a higher rate than suburban homes? If anything, the opposite!
Are home valuations accelerating faster in suburban areas than in urban areas? Urban zip codes have a slight edge!
Are suburban home listings getting a larger share of search traffic relative to urban areas now than they were last year? The suburban share is actually down 0.2 percentage points!
This list is only a small sample of the myriad ways in which housing-market data do not support the theory of an urban exodus. (See also: People are not searching for larger homes in 2020 compared to 2019.) So why do news outlets keep repeating this thoroughly debunked narrative? Well, there are half-truths to the narrative that — if you string them together — form what sounds like a logical idea.
Yes, suburban housing markets are booming, but that’s not because of outbound migration from cities. When cities went into lockdown in the early days of the pandemic, housing markets completely stalled during what is usually the busiest time of year for home sales. In the late spring and summer, as people came came out of lockdown, markets across the country — suburban and otherwise — began seeing spikes of pent-up demand. At the same time, the number of homes for sale has plummeted and remained down around 30 percent of what it has been in recent years — leaving the market with nearly twice the demand and two-thirds of the supply. Couple that with record-low interest rates, and prices are rising dramatically all over the country.
The two exceptions to this are San Francisco and Manhattan (not Brooklyn, mind you), two of the most expensive housing markets in the country. When the pandemic hit, many did leave, although not always permanently. San Francisco and Manhattan have seen home prices drop, rental prices drop, and vacancy rates soar. (If you own in one of those places — at least for now — the shifts are really slight, and probably not an issue unless you bought very recently and need to sell right away.)
Given that the media industry is concentrated in Manhattan — with another good chunk in San Francisco — journalists seem to be confusing the minor outbound migration from two ridiculously expensive areas with the double dose of demand happening across the country.
More insidiously, some members of the media are willing to peddle stories about nonexistent carnage in the streets, extrapolating that the cities — all cities, but especially the diverse, Democratic–led ones — are headed for inevitable collapse. And it’s hard not to separate that dark fantasy from a Republican talking point.
But, according to the data, it’s just not happening.
Are People Fleeing to the Suburbs? Hard Nope.
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Canadian Election Survey, 1997
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02593.v3
Dataset : survey data
Gidengil, Elisabeth (York University (Canada). Institute for Social Research)
Nadeau, Richard (York University (Canada). Institute for Social Research)
Nevitte, Neil (York University (Canada). Institute for Social Research)
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Canadian National Elections Study (CNES) Series
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
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Chretien, Jean; economic conditions; elections; government performance; Mulroney, Brian; national elections; political campaigns; political candidates; political interest; political issues; public confidence; public opinion; separatism; voter attitudes; voting behavior
For this survey of Canadians' political attitudes and voting behavior, citizens 18 years of age or older who spoke one of Canada's official languages (English or French) and who resided in private homes in the ten Canadian provinces and two territories were eligible to be surveyed. The survey included three components: the Campaign-Period Survey (CPS), the Post-Election Survey (PES), and the Mail-Back Survey (MBS). Approximately 110 interviews were completed each day of the CPS for a total of 3,949 interviews. Eighty percent, or 3,170 of the CPS respondents, completed the PES survey, and 1,857 of the PES respondents completed the MBS. The CPS respondents were queried on their voting intentions, interest in the election and its media coverage, whether parties/candidates had contacted them during the campaign, the state of the economy, knowledge of the parties and leaders, personal stances on major policy issues such as cutting taxes, maintaining social programs, and Quebec, assessment of the Liberal government, and electoral expectations. Specific questions on political actions and personal character were posed regarding Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Conservative Party Leader Jean Charest, New Democratic Party Leader Alexa McDonough, Reform Party Leader Preston Manning, Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe, Premier Lucien Bouchard, and former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The PES repeated many of the CPS questions, and addressed additional topics such as government spending, social issues including abortion, unions, businesses, education, health care, and capital punishment, Quebec separation, and attitudes towards social groups including big business, feminists, and aboriginal peoples. The MBS dealt with broader political issues and values, including the respondents' confidence in institutions, the distribution of power among various societal groups, and individual rights. Background information on respondents includes age, sex, ethnicity, political party, political orientation, voter participation history, education, marital status, religion, employment status, household income, union membership, country of birth, knowledge of Canadian political history, financial status, and disability status.
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Time period: 1997
Collection date: 1997
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Canadian citizens 18 years of age or older, who spoke one of Canada's official languages (English or French), and resided in private homes with a telephone, in the ten Canadian provinces and two territories.
A two-stage probability selection process was utilized to select survey respondents. Afterward, a weight was added to the sample, by province.
2000-05-09 The SAS and SPSS data definition statements, SPSS export file, and codebook for this collection have been revised to incorporate changes noted in the errata file (October 1998) previously distributed with this collection.2000-03-23 A logical record length version of the dataset is now available in addition to the SPSS export file previously released. SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been created. Funding insitution(s): Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) (412-96-0007).
This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions via web download.
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DOI: 10.3886/ICPSR02593.v2
Andersen, Robert, Fox, John. Pre-election polls and the dynamics of the 1997 Canadian Federal Election. Electoral Studies.20, (1), 87-108.2001.
ID: 10.1016/S0261-3794(00)00003-2 (DOI)
Blais, Andre, Gidengil, Elisabeth, Nadeau, Richard, Nevitte, Neil. Measuring party identification: Britain, Canada, and the United States. Political Behavior.64, (1), 5-22.2001.
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Blais, Andre; Gidengil, Elisabeth; Nadeau, Richard; Nevitte, Neil (1998): Canadian Election Survey, 1997. Version 3. Canadian National Elections Study (CNES) Series. Version: v3. ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02593.v3
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Motley Fool: W.P. Carey’s diversification paid off
Plus: What a payout ratio is, ideas for raising cash and this week’s trivia.
New York-based REIT W.P. Carey's 10 top tenants include Marriott International and Extra Space Storage.(Jason Hornick)
By The Motley Fool
5:00 AM on Jan 10, 2021 CST
The Motley Fool Take
Diversified real estate investment trust W.P. Carey was recently down 20% from its 52-week high, in part because of its exposure to sectors hit hard by COVID-19, such as retail and restaurants. But about 47% of its portfolio consists of industrial properties and warehouse spaces, some of which have enjoyed tailwinds from the pandemic-driven growth in e-commerce. The company’s diversification has paid off. Also impressive, W.P. Carey collected 98% of the rent it billed in the third quarter.
W.P. Carey is a “net-lease” REIT. Essentially, it owns single-tenant properties, and its tenants are responsible for most of the operating costs of the assets they occupy. That’s generally considered a fairly low-risk approach to owning real estate. Furthermore, W.P. Carey tends to buy properties directly in sale-leaseback transactions, finding companies that are looking to raise cash (to shore up their balance sheets or invest in growth) by selling properties they still want to occupy.
Long-term investors in W.P. Carey can profit from its solid business model and its hefty dividend, which recently yielded nearly 6% and has been increased annually for more than two decades. It has a strong performance history, and recently sported a reasonable valuation, with shares recently trading for around 15.5 times its cash flow per share.
For those interested in real estate income, W.P. Carey is worth a closer look.
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From M.W. in Bradley, Ill.: Can you explain payout ratios?
The Fool responds: A company’s payout ratio is the percentage of its earnings (net income) that’s paid out to shareholders as dividend income. For example, PepsiCo’s trailing earnings per share over the past year were recently $5.05 and its annual dividend was $4.02 ($1.023 per quarter). Divide $4.02 by $5.05 and you’ll get 0.80, or a payout ratio of 80%.
A payout ratio above 100% reflects that a company is paying out more than it’s earning, which is not sustainable over the long run. (It can be OK in the short term, if the company is going through a temporary rough patch.) A high payout ratio — say, 80%, 90% or more — gives a company little flexibility regarding what it can do with its cash. That can be OK for big, established companies that don’t need to reinvest much in their businesses. A low payout ratio reflects lots of room for dividend increases.
Consider a very steep payout ratio a red flag, as the company may have to reduce its dividend.
From R.P. in Beaverton, Ore.: How many stock mutual funds exist?
The Fool responds: According to the Investment Company Institute, as of November, there were about 7,677 mutual funds in the U.S., with about 4,478 of them focused on stocks. It’s worth counting exchange-traded funds, too, as they are also pooled money invested in portfolios of various securities. As of November, there were 2,165 ETFs, 1,634 of them focused on stocks.
To learn more about investing in mutual funds and ETFs, visit Morningstar.com or the “Investing Basics” nook at Fool.com.
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It’s common to suddenly face an unexpected expense — or simply to be severely short on cash. Ideally, you’ll be ready for such unwelcome developments with your well-stocked emergency fund. But if you don’t have an emergency fund (yet), you do have some other options, though many have significant downsides:
You can borrow money — from friends, relatives or a bank, via a personal loan. That can provide relief, but you’ll need to repay the loan. Failing to do so could damage relationships or hurt your credit rating.
You might also borrow based on any equity you have in your home, via a home equity loan or a home equity line of credit — or you might refinance your mortgage, taking out cash in the process. These strategies can offer better interest rates than other loans, but they’re secured by your home, putting your homeownership at risk.
You can address cash shortfalls by charging expenses on your credit card, but if you’re already deep in debt, that can just make a bad problem worse. It’s especially bad if your credit card is charging a high interest rate, as most do. See if you can get a 0% APR credit card instead, which offers an initial period charging 0% interest. Aim to completely pay off what you’ve charged during that period.
Retirement accounts and even life insurance policies may also offer funds you can borrow or cash out, but by doing so, you could short-change your retirement nest egg and leave less money for your heirs when you pass away.
One of the best strategies, if you can manage it, is to spend less and to earn extra money via a side gig. There are many ways to earn more income, and a little research online will help you find appealing ones. For example, you might drive for a ride-sharing service; rent out space in your home via Airbnb or a similar service; tutor students online; make and sell crafts on Etsy and elsewhere; or sell unwanted items from your closets, garage or attic.
My Smartest Investment
From G.R.L., online: My smartest investments ever have been lunches with my mentors — because their experience has been tried and tested.
The Fool responds: Few people think of mentoring as investing, but as you suggest, it’s an excellent kind of investing — in someone’s future.
If you’re young — or even midway through a career — you’d do well to seek out people willing to serve as mentors for you. Some companies have formal mentoring programs you can join. Alternatively, you might find one or more mentors by approaching superiors you admire and offering to treat them to a coffee or lunch so that you can ask questions about their career path and how they’ve succeeded. (Some career counselors advise not asking directly for someone to be your mentor, but instead to let such a relationship simply develop by asking questions and working hard enough to get noticed.) Ideally, a mentor will offer guidance and honest feedback — and, if they’re in a position to do so, help you land better jobs.
If you’re already well-positioned in your career path, consider seeking out promising younger folks who could use some good advice and support. Mentees, for their part, should listen well and be willing to hear some hard truths on occasion. Ideally, they should proactively drive conversations, not just await pearls of wisdom to be delivered on a platter.
I trace my roots back to 1904, when a son of Italian immigrants founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco, which morphed over time to become the world’s largest commercial bank by the 1930s. I’ve gobbled up lots of companies, including credit card giant MBNA, U.S. Trust, FleetBoston Financial (which traced its roots to 1784) and even Merrill Lynch. Today, based in Charlotte, N.C., I sport a market value recently near $262 billion. I serve about 66 million customers via roughly 4,300 retail financial centers, and about 31 million customers bank with me using mobile devices. Who am I?
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Last week’s trivia answer: General Dynamics
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No. 11 West Virginia rallies, escapes North Texas 62-50
The Mean Green led the Mountaineers at halftime.
North Texas Mean Green logo (UNT).
11:15 PM on Dec 11, 2020 CST
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The uncertainty of playing amid a pandemic is weighing on West Virginia, to the point where the 11th-ranked Mountaineers trailed at halftime to unheralded North Texas and coach Bob Huggins had to light a fire under his team.
The Mountaineers responded, rallying with 18 straight points to open the second half, and fought off a late run by North Texas to win their home opener 62-50 on Friday.
Sean McNeil scored 15 points to lead the Mountaineers (5-1).
“We woke them up. Its been a long few weeks,” Huggins said. “It’s so hard. We’re playing, we’re not playing. We’re playing this team, now we’re not.”
Taz Sherman added 13 points and Derek Culver had 10 points — all in the second half — and 10 rebounds for the Mountaineers. Culver scored seven points during the decisive run.
“I would say the second half after me getting yelled at by Hugs, yes, it woke me up a little bit,” Culver said.
Javion Hamlet scored 15 points and Thomas Bell had 12 for North Texas (1-3).
West Virginia shot an abysmal 9 of 35 (26%), including 1 of 8 from 3-point range, in the first half and trailed 29-21 at the break. North Texas shot 59% in the opening half.
But in the second half it was the Mean Green who couldn’t buy a basket, shooting 6 of 33 (18%), including 2 of 15 on 3-point attempts.
“We just kind of slowed them down,” Huggins said. “We weren’t really trying to steal the ball or make a lot of plays on the ball. We were just trying to slow them down.”
West Virginia outscored the Mean Green 16-6 in the paint in second half after being outperformed 20-10 in the paint in the first 20 minutes.
North Texas had a late surge to get within five points but got no closer.
Find more college sports stories from The Dallas Morning News here.
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Krimml waterfalls and Krimmler Achental high valley
The Krimml waterfalls are the fifth-highest in the world, with a drop height of 380 metres. But not just the waterfalls are a mind-boggling natural spectacle: the inner-alpine forests around the waterfalls, predominantly spruce and fir, are home to no fewer than 327 mosses, all of which thrive in the spray of the Krimml waterfalls. The Krimmler Achental high valley has been a nature preserve since 1958. In 1961, the Krimml waterfalls were designate a natural monument by the Provincial government of Salzburg.
In the cave labyrinth
Eisriesenwelt Werfen
The "World of the Ice Giants" in Werfen consists of a cave labyrinth that spans more than 40km in total. These caves developed during the formation of the Alps, 100 million years ago, and have been shaped and enlarged by chemical processes and water erosion ever since. The Eisriesenwelt is a dynamic ice cave. Depending on the outside temperature, the temperature in the cave can also vary. Various openings in the caves let in meltwater in the spring, which freezes into fascinating shapes in those parts of the cave that are below zero. The caves are only open to visitors in the summer, from early May until late October.
A journey to the past
Freilichtmuseum Salzburg
The Salzburg open-air museum houses one hundred original buildings from the history of the province, all painstakingly reconstructed. This fascinating journey through time comprises farm buildings and workshops as well as structures pertaining to rural trade and industry. For train buffs, the open-air museum has a very special treat in store: The museum railway runs through the area of the museum over a distance of 1.7km. 69 passengers may board this unique heritage train at the "Flachgau" station right at the entrance to the museum and keep going all the way to "Pongau", the final stop.
Cultural and Provincial capital of Salzburg
Sights and attractions in the city of Salzburg
Hellbrunn Castle and water gardens
Hellbrunn is a fixture in every guide book. The beautiful palace was built in the 17th century under the rule of Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus, modelled on late Gothic style by architect Santino Solari. The water gardens of the Hellbrunn summer palace are famous all over the world and continue to delight visitors to this day. Be prepared for a wet surprise or two when taking a tour of the garden, complete with historic anecdotes! This day trip is particular recommended on a clear, warm summer's day.
Hohensalzburg Castle
Hohensalzburg Castle towers on the Festungsberg, one of the three mountains of the city of Salzburg. The castle is definitely the landmark of Salzburg, and, with a building area of 7,000 m2, it is also one of the largest castles in Europe. Built in the 11th century, the castle has been almost fully preserved and is one of Austria's most-visited attractions outside Vienna.
House of Mozart's birth and the Mozart residence
Particularly impressive elements in Mirabell Palace, located right at the heart of the city of Salzburg, are the sweeping and richly decorated marble staircase that leads into the palace and the marble hall. The marble hall of Mirabell Palace is among the world's most popular and picturesque places to get married. The Mirabell gardens were first opened to the public in 1854. The gardens with their magnificent flowers, the Pegasus fountain outside the palace, the dwarf garden and the hedge theatre are popular photo spots for tourists and locals alike.
Mirabell Palace and gardens
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A 20-year-old who two months ago was mistakenly pronounced dead and put in a body bag has died in the hospital.
Timesha Beauchamp died Sunday, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who her family has retained, blames Southfield medics who were called to her home and checked her vital signs. She was later taken to a funeral home in a body bag.
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Posted on October 31, 2009 by Debito Arudou, Ph.D.
CHILD ABDUCTION ISSUE STILL HAS LEGS
1) Letter from US Senators Boxer and Corker to Obama re Child Abductions, for his Nov 12 visit to Japan
2) Joint statement by eight governments re Japan’s untenable stance on international child abductions
3) Global Post’s Justin McCurry on Savoie Child Abduction Case. Issue isn’t passe yet.
4) Letter to Prime Minister Hatoyama regarding Child Abductions and legislative lag, from a Left-Behind Parent
5) MSNBC.com/AP on left-behind dads in Japan regardless of nationality
FALLOUT FROM ISSUES OF LABOR, HISTORY, IMMIGRATION, DOLPHIN AND OTHER SLAUGHTERS
6) Mainichi: Numerous foreign trainees forced to work under harsh conditions in Japan, even to death
7) Mainichi: Chinese trainees file complaint with labor bureau over 350 yen per hour overtime
8 ) Sakanaka Hidenori’s latest paper on assimilation of NJ now translated into English, full text
9) Economist.com BANYAN column on DPJ moves to right historical wrongs
10) Fallout from “The Cove”: TV’s “South Park” takes on Japan’s dolphin slaughters and whale hunts
11) Tangent: Microsoft apologizes for photoshopping out black man from its Poland advertising. Contrast with “Mr James”
12) Tangent: Japan Times reporter Eric Johnston on getting freelance reporting jobs in Japan
13) Tokyo International Players present “Honiefaith”, true story of NJ murder, Nov 6-7-8 in Shibuya’s OUR SPACE Theater
14) New Debito.org Poll: “What should be the DPJ’s NUMBER ONE priority policy for helping NJ in Japan?”
… and finally …
15) My next Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column Tues Nov 3 on Japan politicization of demographic science
By Arudou Debito, Sapporo, Japan (debito@debito.org)
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Letter from two US senators to Obama on Japan’s Child Abductions issue:
“It is particularly troubling that Japan remains the only G-7 industrialized nation that has yet to accede to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Hague Convention has been adopted by more than 70 countries and is an important tool for those seeking access to and/or the return of a child abducted across international borders. We agree that Japan’s accession to the Hague Convention would result in important reforms to Japanese family law and we are grateful that the United States continues to prioritize this issue.
“But while we acknowledge that Japan’s accession to the Hague Convention is an important goal, the United States must also work with Japan to establish a bilateral mechanism to assist with the resolution of current cases. This is critical because the Hague Convention does not pertain to already completed abductions, and therefore cannot be used as a tool to resolve existing cases. We urge your Administration to seriously consider initiatives, including mediation, to foster cooperative and coordinated engagement with the Japanese government on cases of international parental child abduction. Many parents have not seen or heard from their children in years. We cannot sit back and wait while these children grow up without one parent.
“We feel strongly that the recent election of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), under the leadership of Prime Minister Hatoyama, is a unique opportunity for the United States to reinvigorate its dialogue with Japan on the issue of international parental child abduction. As such, we urge you to ensure that the United States continues to raise this issue at the highest possible levels in the context of our nations’ close bilateral relationship.”
http://www.debito.org/?p=4874
Joint Statement on International Child Abduction
By the Ambassadors of Australia, Canada, France, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States
Excerpt: “Because parental child abduction involving Japan affects so many of our citizens, we, the Ambassadors to Japan of Canada, France, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, and the Deputy Head of Mission from the Embassy of Australia, called on Justice Minister Chiba today to address our concerns.
“We place the highest priority on the welfare of children who have been the victims of international parental child abduction and believe that our children should grow up with access to both parents. Therefore, in our meeting with Minister Chiba we called upon Japan to accede to the Convention. We also urged that Japan meanwhile identify and implement measures to enable parents who are separated from their children to maintain contact with them and to visit them.
“Japan is an important friend and partner for each of our countries, and we share many values in common. This makes it all the more important to develop tangible solutions to cases of parental child abduction in Japan. We are eager to work closely and in a positive manner with the new Japanese government on this issue.”
Excerpt: Savoie’s is one of about 80 cases of international parental child abduction involving U.S. citizens, while France and Britain are dealing with 35 each.
The unofficial number is much higher, particularly when failed marriages between Japanese and people from other Asian countries are included. The Assembly for French Overseas Nationals for Japan estimates that 10,000 children with dual citizenship in Japan are prevented from seeing their foreign parent after separation or divorce.
Japanese courts habitually award custody of children to the mother. In many cases, they say they are simply trying to protect the rights of women fleeing abusive former husbands, a claim vigorously disputed by campaigners.
The country’s courts will be tested again later this week when Shane Clarke appeals in a custody battle with Japanese ex-wife…
Conclusion: While I believe you, Prime Minister Hatoyama, are sincere about resolving this issue, the facts lead me to distrust the bureaucrats in the Ministry of Justice and the Foreign Ministry. The Judicial Review Council and the Supreme Court knew about these problems in the first Judicial Reforms that began 10 years ago but chose not to face the tough issue of Parental Rights head on. Now, Mr. Hatoyama, are you relying on these same bureaucrats again? Why, is it that Professor Nishitani refers to a draft statute created by Japanese Scholars that would have paved the way for Japan to implement the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and the bureaucrats are sounding as though we have to start from scratch? If the Judicial Reform Council is drafting this legislation then who are the current members? I hope it is not any of the retired Supreme Court Justices that made the 2000 ruling. Furthermore, the Democratic Party of Japan’s Manifesto states the cabinet will be the center of policy-making. What happens if the DPJ loses power in the next election, which will be in two years, do we start from scratch again? Let’s see what Professor Yuko Nishitani and the Japanese Scholars proposed; maybe the cabinet can start from there. If the government wants the international community and all left-behind parents to cooperate while reforms are being created we need to know, What Are We Bargaining For?
Slightly dated article recently published again in the South China Morning Post, but still worth a read, for how the issues of Japanese family law and child abductions affect Japanese too:
AP: [Left-behind father] Yoshida has banded together with other divorced fathers to form a support group, one of several that have sprung up in recent years.
A few lawyers and lawmakers have showed support for their cause. A bar association group is studying parenting and visitation arrangements in other countries such as Australia.
Japan also faces a growing number of international custody disputes. The U.S., Britain, France and Canada have urged Japan to sign the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, which has been signed by 80 countries. It seeks to standardize laws among participating countries to ensure that custody decisions can be made by appropriate courts and protect the rights of access of both parents.
Japan’s government has argued that signing the convention may not protect Japanese women and their children from abusive foreign husbands. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said this week that officials were reviewing the matter.
Divorced fathers say that joining the Hague convention would be a major step toward bringing the possibility of joint custody to Japan because it would require a major overhaul of the country’s family laws.
Mainichi: The Justice Ministry has confirmed that a record 452 companies and other organizations that accepted foreign trainees were involved in illegal practices last year. About 60 percent of them involve violations of labor-related laws, including unpaid wages and overtime allowances.
A survey conducted by the Japan International Training Cooperation Organization (JITCO) has found that a record 34 trainees died in fiscal 2008. Nearly half, or 16 of them, died of brain and heart diseases that are often caused by long working hours. Experts say that there is a high possibility that they died from overwork.
With the amendment to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law, labor related laws, which had applied to foreign trainees from their second year, now apply to those in their first year of training. As a result, it is now guaranteed that foreign trainees can sign proper employment contracts with their employers, just like Japanese workers.
The government is poised to revise its regulations to inspect companies that accept foreign trainees at least once a month to see if their working conditions are legal as well as stiffen penalties for businesses involved in illegal labor practices and strictly examine the terms of contracts between foreign trainees and employment agencies in their home countries.
However, support groups question the effectiveness of these measures, pointing out that many of those in their second year of training are subjected to illegal labor practices.
Mainichi: According to the complaint and other sources, the [Chinese “Trainee”] women each worked as many as 209 overtime hours per month, and about 2,000 hours per year. The 350-400 yen per hour the women claim they were paid for that overtime falls short of Nagasaki Prefecture’s minimum wage of 629 yen per hour, and well below the standard set by the Labor Standards Act, which requires employers to pay 1.25-1.6 times the regular wage for overtime.
The women claim that during busy periods they each worked from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m., and sometimes did not have a single day off per month. They apparently signed a contract paying them a monthly salary based on the minimum wage, but that excluded provisions for overtime. Working an average of 173 hours per month at the minimum wage would equal a monthly paycheck of about 110,000 yen.
However, the women claim that the company told them their pay was being directly deposited in their bank accounts and did not show them the payment details. Furthermore, the company held both the women’s bankbooks and passports. The company president also apparently checked the clock whenever one of the women went to the washroom and deducted that time from their breaks.
Sakanaka Hidenori, head of the Japan Immigration Policy Institute and author of Nyuukan Senki (his experiences within Japan’s Immigration Bureau), has just had his most recent paper translated into English. Debito.org is proud to feature this paper downloadable in full here, with an excerpt immediately below.
Sakanaka-san has written for Debito.org before, and his 2007 work, “A New Framework for Japan’s Immigration Policies” can be found here. He has taken great efforts to encourage immigration policy within Japan (his prognosis on “Big Japan vs. Small Japan” is worth considering).
Now for his latest, translated by Kalu Obuka. Excerpt, then full download:
Here’s The Economist’s Asia-focus “Banyan” column last week, on the DPJ’s attempt to try and redress the historical running sores that pass for diplomatic relations between Japan and the rest of Asia.
As I voted in the last Debito.org blog poll, the DPJ keeps surprising me with their progressive plans and policies. The proposal for a definitive joint-edited history book of the Asian region is precisely what UN Special Rapporteur Doudou Diene recommended as a salve years ago.
The Economist is right to express a certain degree of skepticism: so many hopes for countries to act like adults, and own up to the bad parts of history (viz. former PM Abe’s call for official whitewashing in the name of promoting Japan as “beautiful” — i.e. shame about the past just gets in the way of training Japanese to love their country), have been dashed time and time again. But as long as the DPJ can maintain the momentum of “not quite business as usual, folks”, I think we just might see decades of regional rhetorical logjam broken, and Japan discovering that international goodwill might be worth as much as good trade relations.
Economist.com: Yukio Hatoyama, Japan’s new prime minister, has pleased the neighbours by promising that rule by his Democratic Party of Japan would transform Japan’s relations with them. He made the pledge in both Seoul, where he met South Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, on October 8th, and then in Beijing at a three-way summit with China’s leaders. Unlike the weasel-worded Liberal Democratic Party, which long ran the country, Mr Hatoyama’s new government, he says, “has the courage to face up to history.”
Both Mr Lee and China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao, were delighted. Dealing honestly with historical matters, they affirmed, would make it much easier to tackle contemporary challenges together●notably, getting North Korea to give up its nukes, and deepening economic co-operation. Mr Lee said Mr Hatoyama had opened the way for “future-oriented relations”. The talk now is of reviving old plans for an undersea tunnel linking South Korea and Japan. Emperor Akihito may visit South Korea, a first. Both South Korea and China have applauded Japan’s proposal for a jointly compiled history textbook…
I’m not kidding. This is making the rounds of the blogoverse. South Park takes on the Japanese dolphin culls and whale hunts, thanks to the publicity from “The Cove”. It’s worth seeing. As a South Park fan, I must say this is all within character for the show… and it as usual ties the issue up into large intellectual knots, and pushes the frontiers of “taboo humor”. Enjoy, I guess.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/251888/
Bit of a tangent but not really. Here’s what happens when another multinational apparently caters to “regional sensibilities” — this time Microsoft photoshopping out an African-American in one of its ads to cater to a Polish audience.
BTW, “Mr James” is saying goodbye to everyone on his “blog” today. Leaving behind such fond memories, boo hoo. He’s in Kushiro now, seems to be avoiding Sapporo. Wonder why.
http://mcdonalds.dtmp.jp/blog/2009/10/091030.html
He’s also suddenly sprouted the ability to write in kanji, hiragana, and katakana. What a quick study!
I attended the Japan Writers’ Conference last weekend in Kyoto (even presented, handout here). A very good time with some very good presentations, one of which was Eric Johnston’s excellent presentation on how to find freelance journalist jobs in Japan. There was so much information in his powerpoint that I asked if I could blog it here for wider consumption. Yeppers, he said, so here are some excerpts. Download the whole powerpoint below for the full story.
REPORTING OPPORTUNITIES IN JAPAN:
A Practical Guide
By Eric Johnston, Deputy Editor, The Japan Times, Osaka bureau…
BY POPULAR DEMAND, TOKYO INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS PRESENTS A SECOND PRODUCTION OF “HONIEFAITH”
Written and directed by Monty DiPietro
When a Filipino hostess’ dismembered body is discovered in a Tokyo coin locker, Manila newspaper reporter Victor Balmori is dispatched to Japan. Balmori is looking for a story, he finds a nightmare.
Written by Monty DiPietro, “Honiefaith” is a three-act play based on real events. The premiere of “Honiefaith” opened Tokyo International Players’ “Second Stage” series in June, playing to full houses at a ‘black box’ theater in Hatagaya. The November production is being directed by the author, and features Filipino television and film actor Percival Florendo Bugayong in the lead role. The play is in English, and runs about two hours with intermission.
November 6-7-8, 2009 at Our Space Theater:
Fri. Nov. 6 ● 7:00 pm
Sat. Nov. 7 ● 2:00 pm
Sun. Nov. 8 ● 2:00 pm
More details, flyer, and link to actual case history in this blog entry.
Allowing Dual (or multiple) Nationality
Allowing noncitizen suffrage in local elections
Creating an Immigration Ministry to draft policies
Stamping out labor abuses of Trainees, NJ workers and educators
Creating stronger labor laws for everyone
Signing the Hague Convention on Child Abductions
Allowing NJ to register residency the same way as Japanese
Allowing joint custody and visitation after divorce
Creating clear guidelines preventing the Japanese police from racial profiling
Granting citizenship from birth, not blood
Easing naturalization requirements
Easing Immigration Bureau’s visa requirements
Passing a law against racial discrimination
Strengthening the MOJ Bureau of Human Rights
Easing credit and loan requirements for NJ
Making clear public statements praising and encouraging immigration
Abolishing the “Re-Entry Permit” system
Something other than the above
Don’t know / Can’t say / Don’t care etc.
Vote at any Debito.org page
http://www.debito.org
Last June I went to a forum on Japan’s future as an elderly society. All the Japanese scientists, however, refused to discuss the issue of immigration as a possible alternative to Japan’s economic decline. Seriously. Demographic studies had become so riddled with politics that Japanese scientists were resorting to bad science. More in my column next Tuesday (Wednesday in the provinces).
All for this week. Thanks for reading!
Arudou Debito, Sapporo, Japan (debito@debito.org)
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Meditation for Everyday Life
Review the Day's Lessons
There's a pacing, obviously to hold this rome wasn't built in a day, so we're trying to gradually sort of feather in some ideas about meditation on dh, hopefully that's at a pace that, you know, we can integrate them and feel comfortable with, um, digging in a little bit deeper if we go on. Duh. I just like to again welcome everybody back from your break and welcome the, uh, online audience back in case you're joining us for the first time, I guess that's possible, isn't it? Somebody could just be tuning in right now, so welcome anybody who's coming in fresh and maybe use that opportunity to give you a little bit, uh, of what we've been talking about together. So, you know, sometimes I ask, uh, he did meditation, teacher or student, what are the most important points, you know? And in the my tradition is called pith instructions, so one of the ways of thinking about is if you were, um, about to expire, and you had your friend there where your child, what would you say? You know, that w...
ould be really, truly important. All right? So I'm curious, out of all the things we've talked about so far, uh, what's stuck, anybody's mind so I wanted to take a minute and just go around and then I'll sum up after that. But what are some of the highlights of what we talked about so far as faras? What really stuck into your mind and, uh could maybe start with the people here live and they will go to the audience outside and then all of a I'll try to sum up sum of things that I thought were important. Okay, so does anybody yeah, julie, when you were talking about the states just passing through that really landed with me having faith fit, like whether it's boredom or agitation are sleepiness no, and you know, for me it leads back teo having compassion so so that those were kind of two things I guess you know, uh there's a very famous buddhist teacher named karmapa who was you may have read about it, but he's the head of one of the main lineages and tibet and I knew the previous on the sixteenth come up but now there's a seventeen come up whose lives in india and he's been to the west a couple times he's only twenty four or five years old but very profound teacher already and the previous karma but they asked him, well, what does an enlightened person experience? So of course that's a sixty four dollar question it was like that remember that commercial where they said, you know, the guy from the brokerage firm would say something and everybody in the like that and so he said impermanence so that's interesting thing is that you know, we're gonna talk about that a lot more tomorrow, but the notion of things, the transitory nature of ourselves and all the things around us is a very powerful thing to wrap our minds around we're going to talk about that quite a bit more tomorrow, but I think that's really what you're looking at it has an upside you see people think there's a downside to impermanence like, oh, I'll lose everything I have but in last space, you know, for for the next thing to happen, doesn't it? For musician and permanence is a very important thing you're still playing last year's hit your thing? Yeah it's already old news, right? Yeah think about that all the sow and the fact that there's some relief and also did some compassionate quality to it, you know? Oh, usually we relate to the kind of sad quality of losing things, but there's a you could say the upside of it, you know? Well, I've certainly experienced that on gigs on recording sessions you know, the elation or the embarrassment of mine a clam, and then both things just pass on by I've often thought about that, you know, for those who you don't know what julie just referred to when a musician makes him a steak it's called a clam I don't know why that is I feel bad for the clam, the poor, innocent little wait could of course, go there, you know? What do you call? What do you call a musician without a girlfriend? You know, you know you so we could do a million of those, but we're going to keep moving on what else? Poke its head out you some impermanence or transitory nous and kind of the relief quality of that, uh, as being part of the experience of meditation? Uh, yeah, well, uh, you know, uh, a couple things one of them being no matter how long you've been meditating or practicing that's the same thing you come up against when you day one you know, there's a lot of similar things about that and and then also wake up before you fall asleep, wake up before you fall asleep. Yeah. That's kind of interesting. So, yeah, just the fact that we're going to be working with some of these things for a long time. So what virtue do you think might be cultivated ble through that perception practice well, yeah, about patients absolutely, which we're going to talk about tomorrow it's like we're in a hurry you know there's a lot of enlightenment intensive in america and in the rest of the world I don't teach you know this is going to be you know, there's gonna be some, uh, sense of slowing the whole thing down and gradually cultivating so I think that's the essence of appointed gradual cultivation and patients your participation rather than anticipation wow, did you make that up just now? You know, I've heard that before, but it applied very ok very keenly, you know what events you said that I thought of a ketchup bottle, a new catch a bottle you know, meditating is a lot like turning a new catch a bottle upside down a little drop of ketchup, so yeah, the notion of not simply looking at life as a way of getting to somewhere else yeah, like that's a very powerful transition that a lot of us can make you know, we've got a pretty goal oriented society and culture going on, so the idea of actually kind of slowing that down to the point where actually appreciate where we are right now, what we're doing right now, okay, yeah thie idea of creating space and the potential that you confined in that space and then also you mentioned very briefly the goal of eliminating the scene between meditation and every other aspect of life and so bringing that space into every aspect the whole thrust of our workshop and it's going to be the thrust of this last session to so thank you for bringing that up we have any you got a comment from michelle actually michelle was joining us earlier on from off the from not from anywhere in europe should talk about the breathing on she says I found david's comparison of focusing on your breathing as how it feels like you would a massage extremely helpful until now I have bean like one of the studio audience member put it in a rating my breathing narrating narrative so I tend to say things in english I'm sorry proper english tennessee coming out together you'll be happy to know that my teacher told him trumper embassy who was tibetan insisted actually that we learn proper english of students of hiss even though he himself was tibetan he he actually learned his english in great britain uh he was training americans to speak english language properly thie irony of that has become the dominant english in the world it's and it's perfectly acceptable I mean I do I do say things like I just said with my tongue very firmly in my cheek it's you know the language of alls yeah it's uh uh interesting one so yeah, the idea of feeling I think it's a very important idea um that uh that she's bringing up there there can be and I'm gonna talk much more about this tomorrow the idea that it's a mental pursuit, you know, you just meditating mentally, you know, as opposed to with your whole body with you all of your, uh, and emotional body as well. So it's a complete practice in that in that sense, we're going talk a lot as a whole session on that tomorrow, so thanks for raising that was another one. Yeah, you want to hear a couple more from seth says starting where we are was a revelation and then kala gator, thirty for me, it's the idea of creating space and everything all right, well, it seems like we're kind of all in sync so far. Um, those are some of the core themes that we covered, um also the idea of being, you know, gentle to yourself and kind to yourself, I think, um, we can't stress that enough, and even if we're looking, then as we move forward towards how we interact with others, the idea of gentleness and kindness and tomorrow and the next they were going to talk about compassion, actually, that the whole thing is not about generating one more thing that we can sort of tighten up on and, you know, and push forward through, but some kind of softness and softening into the practice softening into who we are softening into feeling our world more fully one of the things people could say maybe about the modern world is we're not feeling the world properly anymore we're not in touch so that has to start with touching our own hearts our own world more uh thoroughly and and um making contact in that way and then also the precision element of it you know that were actually developing some kind of clarity about how we're working with our own mind you know, there's a certain amount of uh then you know if you take one of those little thank you one of those little balls that has a city in it in the snow in and you shake it up and it's sort of not clear anymore and sort of like the whole you can't really quite see what's in there but if you leave it settled for a while the snow settles down and all of a sudden you see very very clearly so a certain element of precision in terms of working with mind it is really important dimension of this uh and then you know, we were talking about some common things that come up in the last session irritability, boredom you know, all these things that we considered to be like things to be avoided at all costs and flipping the view that maybe those air gateways towards and more subtle uh, you know, kind of way of working with our our world. So that's sort of gets us up to the present moment, and we also very clearly, I hope, outlined the meditation practice itself. The classic shama, tha, uh, mindfulness, meditation practice. How to actually do that, um, taking the seat one, too. Placing attention on the breath, yeah, awareness of the breath and three labeling thinking so that's, I decided, actually, this was yugos on. When I was in japan, I thought I could do this without speaking at all. I could give meditation instruction, so first one is taking your seat. Second, my first breath going in. Now. Third, I want two, three. If somebody knows, then they could start to practice that that way. First, take the seed to feel the breath going in up three back, so that's our whole practice, you see.
In today’s hectic world, our busy lives often crowd out any chance to sit still. Who has time to focus on mindfulness when there are 40 emails to write? Join Buddhist teacher David Nichtern for an introduction to meditation. David will show you how meditating for just 15-30 minutes a day will clarify your mind and decrease your stress levels.
David will teach you the basics of meditation, unpacking the centuries-old spiritual tradition into a practical playbook for living a balanced life. You will learn simple posture, breathing, and directed contemplation techniques that will help you unclutter your mind and increase your energy.
Stillness is a powerful way to be kind to yourself. At the end of this workshop, you will be more present, aware, and connected to the world around you.
Introduction - Why Meditate?
Asking Audience - Why Meditate?
What is Mindfulness? with Q&A
How to Meditate - Taking Your Seat
Placing Attention on Breath
Labeling Thoughts as Thinking
How to Meditate - Leaving Some Space
Meditation Q&A
Common Threads in Meditation
Bringing Meditation Into Everyday Life
Homework & Q&A
Digging Into the Practice
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Developing Compassions for Ourselves & Others
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Compassion and Mindfulness
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Happiness and Joy Part 2
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I've tried to develop a meditation practice in the past and signed up for this course because of the title ..'everyday life' This course works!! I'd like to thank David and the Creative Live crew for providing a life enhancing course. At first I was a little impatient as I thought the sessions were long, drawn out and repetitive however, half way through it 'clicks' (it made sense) and what may seem as a long-winded preamble is in fact laying a firm foundation for understanding and progression. Hastily wanting to skip to some perceived 'good bit that helps hedge fund mangers etc ' is like sprinting to the end of the rainbow instead of appreciating the various colours. (Your own perceptual colours even ;-)) Anyway, a worthwhile course - so stay the course and feel better for fit
David is an amazing teacher, he has a gift for relating the principles of mindfulness in an accessible, relatable way. Plus, he's really funny. I'm super psyched to participate in this workshop. Thanks CreativeLIVE!
David is a very gifted teacher and this is an awesome opportunity to learn from him in an accessible online environment. I am looking forward to this workshop and really appreciate CreativeLive for making this happen.
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Club information session for the Sports Sustainability Fund – Northern Ireland
December 11th 2020 by Cricket Ireland | International, Other
Join our information session on December 14
Sport NI has opened up a Sports Sustainability Fund to enable clubs in Northern Ireland to apply for financial support during these difficult times.
Cricket Ireland would like to offer further information and clarity in relation to the Sports Sustainability Fund which is available to Cricket Clubs based in Northern Ireland.
Cricket Ireland, the North West Cricket Union, and the Northern Cricket Union want to ensure that cricket clubs have the best chance of success in accessing the funds which are available to them.
To assist Clubs and to navigate through this process and to help them simplify it, Cricket Ireland will be holding an information session on Monday 14 December at 7pm via Zoom.
The information session is free to attend for those involved with cricket clubs across Northern Ireland.
Please REGISTER here and Zoom details will be shared in advance of the session.
- Sport NI Information Page and Application Form: read here
- Sport NI Guidance Notes for Clubs: read here
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Introducing FileMaker 19
Yesterday, May 22, Claris Inc. announced the release of the newest iteration of its flagship business innovation platform, FileMaker 19. This release, while light on features compared with other annual releases, stands out for multiple reasons. The first, which is the first thing any long time users will notice, is the new logo associated with the platform. No longer the iconic partially opened blueish purple office folder; the FileMaker 19 icon is now the Claris Inc. logo on a black circular background. This corresponds nicely with the rebranding the company went through last year and also makes it easier and clearer to tell older versions from the current one! This change also helps highlight the fresh new approach the platform will take to its update cycle. Which will be switching from yearly, annual, updates to more rapid feature releases that correlate more with when features are ready to deliver than to a specific timeline. Apart from allowing new features to not be delayed, it makes the platform more agile and responsive to new emerging technologies. The other thing that has changed is the ‘Advanced’ has been dropped from the desktop client, which will now be known as just FileMaker Pro.
In addition to these big non development changes, there are some significant new platform features to be excited about. So without further ado, here is our breakdown of the new platform features for FileMaker 19.
Aesthetic:
Starting our feature list is features that we consider to be Aesthetic features. The key requirement for this category is that the added feature only enhances a previously existing feature or doesn’t add any new development potential. These aren’t limited just to visual changes and in fact include a lot of changes to non visual aspects, for instance menu options. These can also include any changes to the platform itself.
New Logo, Update Cycle and Branding – We mentioned these above and so won’t spend too much time on them, but the new logo and update cycle have to be considered here as the first and most important non functional update.
Mac OS Dark Mode – Probably one of the cooler updates, FileMaker Pro, when run on Mac OS now responds to the Dark Mode theming that can be applied within the system preferences for the OS. When users have Dark Mode setup, the interface of FileMaker Pro will have matching dark menu bars and toolbars and will even apply the secondary color shading that is selected.
Mac OS Drag’n’Drop Installer – a very minor detail that is easy to miss, and quite honestly something that most regular Mac users might take for granted. Simply drag the application to your drive to install.
Quick Open – this one borders the ‘functional’ category as it can very efficiently do what used to take outside FileMaker knowledge to do. The quick open allows a user to easily specify certain FileMaker files to automatically open when FileMaker opens. Just like the FileMaker platform, it takes what previously was a more complicated task and simplifies it.
Now we come to the functional category. These new features directly add power to the FileMaker platform by allowing developers to do things they couldn’t do before OR allowing developers to more efficiently do things. These include more in your face updates like new script steps or layout objects.
Create in Cloud – Another feature that straddles the line between Aesthetic and Functional, the ‘Create in Cloud’ feature allows developers to directly create apps in the cloud with little to no configuration or deployment. This feature dramatically improves the ease with which users can utilize FileMaker Cloud.
Support for Siri Shortcuts – The ability to utilize Siri Shortcuts within FileMaker Go is one of the more exciting new functional pieces of the FileMaker 19 new feature list. By offering iOS users ways to interact with FileMaker based solutions that don’t involve taps or keyboard strokes it creates potential for new interactions within FileMaker.
Execute Data API – a new script step that allows for easier communication via the FileMaker data API. Not too flashy but has potential to make the data API more reachable.
NFC Support – Script steps that are FileMaker GO compatible that allow users to utilize NFC ( Near Field Communication ) capable devices within their solutions. This should actually be in the HOT category as it offers integration with new technology; however, unless users are already actively trying to utilize NFC devices, most individuals won’t look twice at this.
FileMaker Server for Linux ( Developer Preview ) – technically not a fully fledged feature as its just a developer preview, but extending the FileMaker Server Software to be compatible with Linux based servers makes it a significantly more cost effective option for users hosting via a virtual cloud based server environment.
Rounding out our list of features is the HOT category. These new features not only directly add functionality to the platform, but they do so in a big way. These are the big ticket items. Quite frankly these are the features that we are excited about as they can immediately affect current development and/or offer developers new avenues of development in a big way.
Core ML Support – Core ML is Apple’s Machine Learning system, and the ability to utilize it easily within your FileMaker solution is something that has potential to improve your solution dramatically. Not only that, but the inclusion of Core ML is the type of thing that will attract new users to the platform and opens up FileMaker to new use cases.
Card Windows in WebDirect – I think I can speak for most developers when I say “YES! YES! YES!” to this new feature. Card windows have been around for a couple versions now, and they have allowed for a dramatic improvement in layout and interface design. However, the lack of compatibility with Web Direct was a major hinderance and prevented the potential of this awesome feature from being fully utilized. While seemingly a minor inclusion, this is actually one of the more exciting new additions that rounds out a previously existing feature in a big way.
Javascript in Webviewer – DRUM ROLL Please… this is probably one of the bigger highlights of this release. And I’ll have to admit, as someone who has previously used Javascript in a FileMaker webviewer my first thought was this must be a typo – because we already had the ability to use Javascript in a webviewer. However, upon closer examination this actually comes in the form of a couple new features. One is a javascript function ( or method? my Javascript vocabulary is a little rusty ), that allows users to interact more easily with FileMaker solutions. The other is a new script step that allows users to call javascript defined functions from within a FileMaker script. Both of these actually are a big deal and take away the biggest hurdle when trying to include javascript within a FileMaker solution – communication back and forth between your javascript code and the FileMaker solution.
Add-Ons – I might have prematurely asked for a drum roll because this has the potential to be the biggest game changing new feature. The addition of Add-Ons now gives developers a very easy way of building and extending their apps with modular pieces of reusable code that can be shared. The only reason this isn’t the biggest highlight is that it is not very clear how to create Add-Ons; only that Add-Ons exist and that a few Claris made examples exist ready for use. As a result this feature is more exciting for its potential than its reality in this release.
Regardless of whether you are new to FileMaker or a seasoned veteran – FileMaker 19, as it always does, offers something for everyone which is why it is the leader in business innovation. Now with more rapid version releases and a continued focus on extending the platforms scope FileMaker has positioned itself to remain the leader. Its hard to be on top, its even harder to stay there.
FileMaker 19 is now available for purchase. Please reach out to any members of our development team for more information.
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VersaLogic announces rugged Ethernet Over Fiber Mini PCIe expansion module
Where security matters, a fiber-optic connection excels. Fiber-optic cables have no electromagnetic signature, making them very difficult to tap compared to wired connections.
VersaLogic today announced the E4, an Ethernet Over Fiber Mini PCIe expansion module. Ethernet over fiber offers an dependable, highly secure Ethernet connection that operates over longer distances than copper. Where security matters, a fiber-optic connection excels. Fiber-optic cables have no electromagnetic signature, making them very difficult to tap compared to wired connections.
According to VersaLogic, the E4:
allows cable runs five times longer than Ethernet over copper
protects against external electromagnetic interference and electrical surges
provides security by removing the electro-magnetic signature from the connecting cables
works over the full industrial temperature range of -40° to +85°C
provides 1 Gbit/s speed with full duplex support
The rugged E4 module provides a standardized way to add a bi-directional gigabit channel of Ethernet over fiber to an embedded computing solution. Utilizing latching multi-mode LC type connectors, the E4 can transmit and receive data up to 550 m. This suits the module for defense and medical applications. It meets MIL-STD-202G specifications to withstand high impact and vibration. The latching LC fiber optic connector provides additional protection within harsh environments.
The E4’s small Mini PCIe format allows it to be added to an embedded board with little impact on the system’s overall size. Compatible with various popular x86 operating systems including Windows, Windows Embedded, and Linux, the E4 uses standard Ethernet software drivers.
Th module is RoHS compliant, and includes VersaLogic’s 5+ year production life guarantee. The E4 is customizable, even in low OEM quantities. Customization options include conformal coating, revision locks, custom labeling, customized testing and screening, etc. The VL-MPEe-E4E is available from stock. Pricing is $275 in OEM quantities.
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Excel’s first product, the Integra, used a variety of fitness software tools and social media capabilities. It was launched in November 2013 to positive reviews. Sales were, however, significantly behind the numbers budgeted in the company’s financial plan. Competitors had introduced several other, similar products at the same time, and no offering in this space was yet emerging as the standard.
Around the time that Excel introduced the Integra, there was considerable speculation that the company was readying for an initial public offering. Then, in February 2014, Excel announced that it had acquired Gemini.
The Merger
Gemini was a smaller player in a narrower space: simple bracelets worn to track running performance. However, owing to Dreanan’s knack for publicity, as well as some effective marketing and promotion, Gemini had a far more widely recognized name. Its simpler product was performing better in the marketplace.
The companies did not publicly disclose the terms of the deal, but Gemini shareholders received shares in Excel, the surviving company. Whitney became Chairman of the merged firm, while Dreanan became CEO. Publicly, Whitney endorsed the deal as enabling Excel to continue its growth trajectory, thereby allowing him to focus on engineering and product development, which was his first love.
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Air Force Week in Photos
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Maj. Christopher Wright navigates through a water obstacle during a combat mission readiness evaluation the Pre-Ranger Course at Fort Bragg, N.C., June 14, 2012. Wright is the director of operations of the 14th Air Support Operations Squadron at Pope Field, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/Val Gempis)
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Voters Overwhelmingly Support Eliminating Bullying & Harassment in our Schools
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Equality Texas Launches Effort to Pass Comprehensive Anti-Bullying Legislation
Texans want to eliminate bullying and harassment in our schools now! A scientific poll commissioned by Equality Texas shows voters overwhelmingly support (80%) passage of legislation that would provide direction to Texas teachers on how to protect ALL children from bullying, harassment, and discrimination in school, including the children of gay and lesbian parents or teenagers who are gay.
The Texas Legislature is poised to address this issue with comprehensive, bipartisan legislation that will provide school administrators, teachers and parents with tools to create a culture of respect and safety for all students. Equality Texas is launching its effort to pass this legislation during the 82nd Texas Legislative Session.
The polling results were released Monday morning at a Capitol Press Conference presented by Equality Texas featuring Equality Texas Executive Director Dennis Coleman, Fort Worth City Councilmember Joel Burns, Chair of the Equality Texas Board of Directors Anne Wynne, and renown educator Vicki Baldwin.
Selected media coverage can be viewed from:
KXAN News Austin
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
KHOU News Houston
Equality Texas envisions a state where ALL Texans are treated equally, with dignity and respect. Everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression, deserves to be treated fairly and equally. This first-ever statewide poll on 12 different rights as they pertain to lesbian, gay and transgender citizens clearly shows our vision is already shared by the vast majority of Texans. The concrete data demonstrate a bipartisan shared vision that crosses all demographic lines: political party affiliation, race, age and geographic location.
In addition to anti-bullying legislation, Texas voters broadly support equal treatment for lesbian and gay families: hospital visitation (88%), same legal rights with respect to their children (69%), making end of life decisions for a partner (75%). Voters support prohibiting employment and housing discrimination based on sexual orientation (75%) and gender identity (70%).
These encouraging poll results mean we are closer than ever to meaningful change that will impact the lives of so many. For more polling results, or to download the poll data, visit The Equality Poll 2010 .
How You Can Help – $25,000 Matching Challenge Grant from The Gill Foundation
The Gill Foundation believes that the most immediate and impactful changes for LGBT people will come about in the states. The “lived experience” for most Americans occurs first at the local and state level so making positive changes there is their priority.
The Gill Foundation is providing a $25,000 Challenge Grant to Equality Texas Foundation. When you sign up for monthly giving at $100 per month, the Gill Foundation will award Equality Texas Foundation $500.
Help us earn the full $25,000 Matching Grant by becoming a $100/month Capitol Club member today.
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It might make users more open to switch to the new platform.
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It might take years before Google's Fuchsia OS starts showing up on devices, but when it does, it will apparently be able to run Android apps. 9to5Google has spotted a new file posted on Android's open source project website that says "These targets are used to build ART for Fuchsia." In other words, Google is developing a special version of ART or Android Runtime that will be able to run Android apps on the upcoming operating system.
"They differ from usual Android devices as they do not target specific hardware. They will produce a fuchsia package (.far file)," the rest of the memo reads. Presumably, that means users will be able to install the platform's version of Android Runtime on any kind of device running Fuchsia. Based on what we know about it thus far, Fuchsia will be able to run on PCs, phones and tablets and could eventually supplant Android and Chrome OS.
By giving Fuchsia the ability to access Android apps, people might be less resistant to switching to the new platform when the time comes. They won't have to worry about not having enough options to choose from and not having access to the applications they've been using for years.
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Home Beauty Tips An absolute beauty of a franchise opportunity
An absolute beauty of a franchise opportunity
Laser Clinics Australia have been operating for over 10 years and have established six new clinics across New Zealand.
Would you love to be your own boss, work in a feel-good industry that helps people choose their look and feel good about it, and live in a lifestyle location of your choice, but you’re not sure where to start, and want to partner with an award-winning brand?
A franchise partnership may be just what you’re looking for, giving you a platform to achieve your goals, with the assistance of ongoing support from an established company.
Here are some tips for choosing a franchise partner:
REPUTATION IS EVERYTHING
Laser Clinics Australia has a proven heritage, where it has been operating for more than 10 years and has an established franchise programme with clinics in more than 125 locations. This leading brand has established clinics in New Zealand and is looking for franchise partners to share its success in new locations.
Laser Clinics New Zealand welcome enquiries about franchise opportunities.
JOIN A GROWTH INDUSTRY
A franchise opportunity with Laser Clinics presents a path into a booming industry that’s experiencing steady growth. The aesthetics industry is growing at an incredible rate and discretionary spend on cosmetic treatments continues to rise rapidly. In 2018 alone, Laser Clinics Australia performed more than three million treatments and welcomed more than 226,000 new clients.
PRODUCT IS EVERYTHING
Laser Clinics Australia has built its reputation on offering affordable treatments and investing in new product development and cutting-edge technologies. It has revolutionised the accessibility and affordability of non-surgical treatments, making it easier for clients to have the treatments they want, when they want them. Treatments include laser hair removal, anti-wrinkle injections, dermal filler treatments, and cosmedical-grade skin treatments for common skin conditions such as pigmentation, acne scarring, acne, stretch marks and general skin condition.
The beauty industry is in growth stage and Laser Clinics New Zealand are offering new clinic locations around New Zealand.
GET A GOOD DEAL WHICH INCLUDES SUPPORT
One of the things that sets both the Laser Clinics Australia and Laser Clinics New Zealand franchise model apart is its unique joint-venture arrangement, which sees the franchisee and brand enter into a 50/50 partnership. This reduces start-up costs as they are shared between you and the parent company.
The agreement also rewards the active franchisee partner tasked with the day-to-day operation of the clinic with an attractive remuneration package from day one of $100,000. As a premium turn-key franchise, each state-of-the-art clinic comes fully furnished, including IT set up, industry-leading equipment, retail and professional stock. A dedicated head office team helps with site selection, planning and strategy, branding and marketing, and provides support every step of the way. A comprehensive training programme, ongoing operational support and a full suite of cloud-based business management tools assist with the growth and success of your clinic.
Laser Clinics New Zealand are already open and trading in St Lukes, Takapuna and Queen St in Auckland, in Hamilton, Riccarton and Northlands in Christchurch. Opportunities remain across the country, including in Wellington, Tauranga, Dunedin, Napier, New Plymouth and Palmerston North. Also the thriving Auckland centres of Ponsonby and Botany. It might finally be time to make that career and lifestyle move you’ve been dreaming of.
To find out more about exciting opportunities with Laser Clinics New Zealand visit https://www.laserclinicsfranchising.com/nz or to download the franchise prospectus click here.
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PECO’s Parent Company Foundation Donates $500,000 to The Center for Disaster Recovery
PHILADELPHIA - The Exelon Foundation has made a contribution of $500,000 to Red Cross House - The Center for Disaster Recovery, which provides housing and support services for people displaced from their homes by disasters. The donation is the largest gift yet toward American Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania's goal to raise $25 million for Red Cross House.
Exelon Foundation President Steve Solomon and PECO President and CEO and Exelon Foundation Board Member Denis O'Brien joined American Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania CEO Judge Renée Cardwell Hughes and Chairman Tom Hays at Red Cross House today to announce the contribution.
"This gift from the Exelon Foundation will significantly boost our ongoing mission to build a more resilient community, able to recover from disasters large and small more quickly and more effectively," Hughes said. "The need for the Red Cross House is undeniable."
"The American Red Cross is probably the most trusted brand in the world," said O'Brien. "It stands for immediate, quality service in the most difficult emergency circumstances. Everything we've learned about the Red Cross House convinces us this is a wonderful investment."
In addition to the Exelon Foundation's $500,000 donation, PECO employee volunteers updated one of the House's two lounges, assembling and installing new furniture and turning the lounge into a library for displaced individuals and families to share time together.
"The Exelon Foundation is committed to improving the quality of life in communities throughout southeastern Pennsylvania," Solomon said. "For disaster survivors in the region who need time and a place to recover, Red Cross House is a source of hope, and the Exelon Foundation is pleased to count itself among its supporters."
There is no other facility in the country like Red Cross House. It is a model for disaster recovery. Because Red Cross House is not a homeless shelter, it accepts only families and individuals who have been living independently, but because of a fire or other disaster need some assistance to recover. During a typical stay at Red Cross House, adults continue to go to work and children continue to go to school. The model works. Families at Red Cross House recover and rebuild their lives faster, in about 21 days on average, and at about a third of the cost of a homeless shelter. Red Cross House also keeps those families together during the recovery process.
Red Cross House has housed more than 9,600 people (nearly 3,000 families) since opening in April 2003. Every family admitted to Red Cross House works with a specially trained Red Cross caseworker to develop a long-term Family Recovery Plan, which includes fire safety classes, mental health counseling, financial literacy workshops, and job search programs. When families leave Red Cross House, they have rebuilt their lives, secured a financially stable living situation, and started the emotional healing process.
Not only is Red Cross House home to hundreds of disaster survivors every year, it also serves as home base for all Red Cross disaster recovery operations in the region. Even if someone does not stay at Red Cross House, their recovery plan is still developed and managed by caseworkers at Red Cross House.
It costs about $1.7 million a year to operate Red Cross House. Those costs come directly out of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter's annual budget. Creating a Red Cross House endowment will eventually allow that money to be used for other vital services in the community. The American Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania is calling on the region's business and philanthropic communities to join the Exelon Foundation and PECO to help ensure families in Southeastern Pennsylvania who suffer a disaster will continue to have a safe place dedicated to their recovery.
"With today's donation and their other contributions to the Red Cross, the Exelon Foundation and PECO have truly shown a commitment to the wellbeing of the citizens of Southeastern Pennsylvania," Hughes said. "We hope that this generosity will inspire other companies and organizations to follow their leadership."
Dave Schrader
dave.schrader@redcross-philly.org
Ben Armstrong
benjamin.armstrong@exeloncorp.com
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Sharks in a market in Sri Lanka - credit Claire Collins
Shark fishing bans partially effective
Bans on shark fishing are only partially effective in protecting sharks, new research suggests.
Scientists from the University of Exeter, international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London) and Sri Lankan NGO Oceanswell examined the effects of a blanket ban on landing thresher sharks, brought in by the Sri Lankan government in 2012.
Information gathered from local fishers suggests the ban has stopped targeted fishing for the sharks – but persistent "bycatch" (accidental catching) continues.
The study also found that bycatch appears to be widely unrecorded, partly due to "mistrust and confusion" amongst fishers.
"Sri Lanka's long-standing ban offers us an opportunity to assess the impacts of bans, which are increasingly being implemented globally to protect sharks," said lead author Claire Collins, of the University of Exeter and ZSL’s Institute of Zoology.
"The ban has almost completely halted targeted fishing for these sharks, so in this sense it has been very successful.
"However, continued bycatch is a problem not only because of the direct impact on this vulnerable species, but also because it makes it tempting for fishers to get round the ban.
"Because it is easy to conceal threshers as other shark species, by cutting fins off before landing, fishers can sell them easily and the ban can be hard for authorities to enforce.
"Without addressing continued bycatch, there's always going to be a temptation to land these sharks – especially because in Sri Lanka there is a strong market for shark meat as well as fins."
The study does not address ways to reduce bycatch, but methods could include local fishing bans in areas known for sharks, modifying fishing gear, and reducing the time gear is left in the water so sharks caught by accident have a higher chance of being freed before they die.
Oceanswell researchers gathered data from fishers over a ten-month period last year.
Despite many fishers reporting feeling disengaged with authorities in advance of the ban, compliance with it was very high among communities that used to rely on threshers for their livelihoods.
The study notes "unequal" impacts of the ban.
Unsurprisingly, fishers involved in targeted shark fishing were affected most severely, and the researchers say such impacts should be mitigated whenever possible.
Dr Ana Nuno, senior author of the paper, based at University of Exeter and NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal), added: "If we want conservation and fisheries policies to work, we need to get much better at understanding how they might impact resource users and take that into account during policy design.
"That's key to implementing robust policies that deliver positive outcomes for people and biodiversity."
The study was funded as part of the Bertarelli Programme in Marine Science.
The paper, published in the journal Marine Policy, is entitled: "Using perceptions to examine human responses to blanket bans: The case of the thresher shark landing-ban in Sri Lanka."
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Utah- Science: Biology
Core Curriculum Adopted: 2003
Science: Biology
1: Students will understand that living organisms interact with one another and their environment.
1.1: Summarize how energy flows through an ecosystem.
1.1.a: Arrange components of a food chain according to energy flow.
1.1.c: Describe strategies used by organisms to balance the energy expended to obtain food to the energy gained from the food (e.g., migration to areas of seasonal abundance, switching type of prey based upon availability, hibernation or dormancy).
1.2: Explain relationships between matter cycles and organisms.
1.2.a: Use diagrams to trace the movement of matter through a cycle (i.e., carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, water) in a variety of biological communities and ecosystems.
Cell Energy Cycle
1.2.d: Evaluate the impact of personal choices in relation to the cycling of matter within an ecosystem (e.g., impact of automobiles on the carbon cycle, impact on landfills of processed and packaged foods).
1.3: Describe how interactions among organisms and their environment help shape ecosystems.
1.3.a: Categorize relationships among living things according to predator-prey, competition, and symbiosis.
1.3.c: Use data to interpret interactions among biotic and abiotic factors (e.g., pH, temperature, precipitation, populations, diversity) within an ecosystem.
Pond Ecosystem
1.3.e: Research and evaluate local and global practices that affect ecosystems.
Coral Reefs 1 - Abiotic Factors
Coral Reefs 2 - Biotic Factors
2: Students will understand that all organisms are composed of one or more cells that are made of molecules, come from preexisting cells, and perform life functions.
2.1: Describe the fundamental chemistry of living cells.
2.1.b: Identify the function of the four major macromolecules (i.e., carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids).
2.2: Describe the flow of energy and matter in cellular function.
2.2.b: Illustrate the cycling of matter and the flow of energy through photosynthesis (e.g., by using light energy to combine CO2 and H2O to produce oxygen and sugars) and respiration (e.g., by releasing energy from sugar and O2 to produce CO2 and H2O).
Photosynthesis Lab
2.2.c: Measure the production of one or more of the products of either photosynthesis or respiration.
2.3: Investigate the structure and function of cells and cell parts.
2.3.a: Explain how cells divide from existing cells.
2.3.c: Describe how the transport of materials in and out of cells enables cells to maintain homeostasis (i.e., osmosis, diffusion, active transport).
Paramecium Homeostasis
2.3.d: Describe the relationship between the organelles in a cell and the functions of that cell.
3: Students will understand the relationship between structure and function of organs and organ systems.
3.1: Describe the structure and function of organs.
3.1.a: Diagram and label the structure of the primary components of representative organs in plants and animals (e.g., heart - muscle tissue, valves and chambers; lung - trachea, bronchial, alveoli; leaf - veins, stomata; stem - xylem, phloem, cambium; root - tip, elongation, hairs; skin - layers, sweat glands, oil glands, hair follicles; ovaries - ova, follicles, corpus luteum).
3.1.b: Describe the function of various organs (e.g. heart, lungs, skin, leaf, stem, root, ovary).
3.1.c: Relate the structure of organs to the function of organs.
3.2: Describe the relationship between structure and function of organ systems in plants and animals.
3.2.a: Relate the function of an organ to the function of an organ system.
3.2.b: Describe the structure and function of various organ systems (i.e., digestion, respiration, circulation, protection and support, nervous) and how these systems contribute to homeostasis of the organism.
Human Homeostasis
3.2.c: Examine the relationships of organ systems within an organism (e.g., respiration to circulation, leaves to roots) and describe the relationship of structure to function in the relationship.
3.2.d: Relate the tissues that make up organs to the structure and function of the organ.
4: Students will understand that genetic information coded in DNA is passed from parents to offspring by sexual and asexual reproduction. The basic structure of DNA is the same in all living things. Changes in DNA may alter genetic expression.
4.2: Predict and interpret patterns of inheritance in sexually reproducing organisms.
4.2.b: Demonstrate possible results of recombination in sexually reproducing organisms using one or two pairs of contrasting traits in the following crosses: dominance/recessive, incomplete dominance, codominance, and sex-linked traits.
Chicken Genetics
4.3: Explain how the structure and replication of DNA are essential to heredity and protein synthesis.
4.3.b: Explain the importance of DNA replication in cell reproduction.
4.3.c: Summarize how genetic information encoded in DNA provides instructions for assembling protein molecules.
4.3.d: Describe how mutations may affect genetic expression and cite examples of mutagens.
Evolution: Mutation and Selection
Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection
5: Students will understand that biological diversity is a result of evolutionary processes.
5.1: Relate principles of evolution to biological diversity.
5.1.a: Describe the effects of environmental factors on natural selection.
Rainfall and Bird Beaks - Metric
5.2: Cite evidence for changes in populations over time and use concepts of evolution to explain these changes.
5.2.a: Cite evidence that supports biological evolution over time (e.g., geologic and fossil records, chemical mechanisms, DNA structural similarities, homologous and vestigial structures).
Human Evolution - Skull Analysis
5.2.b: Identify the role of mutation and recombination in evolution.
5.3: Classify organisms into a hierarchy of groups based on similarities that reflect their evolutionary relationships.
5.3.a: Classify organisms using a classification tool such as a key or field guide.
Dichotomous Keys
5.3.b: Generalize criteria used for classification of organisms (e.g., dichotomy, structure, broad to specific).
6.2.e: Relate how weather patterns are the result of interactions among ocean currents, air currents, and topography.
Hurricane Motion - Metric
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Georgia- Mathematics: Precalculus
Common Core Georgia Performance Standards Adopted: 2011
Mathematics: Precalculus
MCC9-12.N: High School---Number and Quantity
MCC9-12.N.CN.3: Find the conjugate of a complex number; use conjugates to find moduli and quotients of complex numbers.
Points in the Complex Plane
MCC9-12.N.CN.4: Represent complex numbers on the complex plane in rectangular and polar form (including real and imaginary numbers), and explain why the rectangular and polar forms of a given complex number represent the same number.
MCC9-12.N.VM.1: Recognize vector quantities as having both magnitude and direction. Represent vector quantities by directed line segments, and use appropriate symbols for vectors and their magnitudes (e.g., ??, |??|, ||??||, ??).
MCC9-12.N.VM.2: Find the components of a vector by subtracting the coordinates of an initial point from the coordinates of a terminal point.
MCC9-12.N.VM.3: Solve problems involving velocity and other quantities that can be represented by vectors.
2D Collisions
Golf Range
MCC9-12.N.VM.4a: Add vectors end-to-end, component-wise, and by the parallelogram rule. Understand that the magnitude of a sum of two vectors is typically not the sum of the magnitudes.
MCC9-12.N.VM.4b: Given two vectors in magnitude and direction form, determine the magnitude and direction of their sum.
MCC9-12.N.VM.5a: Represent scalar multiplication graphically by scaling vectors and possibly reversing their direction; perform scalar multiplication component-wise, e.g., as c(???, ?? subscript y) = (c???, c?? subscript y).
Dilations
MCC9-12.N.VM.10: Understand that the zero and identity matrices play a role in matrix addition and multiplication similar to the role of 0 and 1 in the real numbers. The determinant of a square matrix is nonzero if and only if the matrix has a multiplicative inverse.
Hyperbolas
Parabolas
Points, Lines, and Equations
MCC9-12.N.VM.12: Work with 2 × 2 matrices as transformations of the plane, and interpret the absolute value of the determinant in terms of area.
MCC9-12.A: High School---Algebra
MCC9-12.A.REI.8: Represent a system of linear equations as a single matrix equation in a vector variable.
Solving Linear Systems (Matrices and Special Solutions)
MCC9-12.F: High School---Functions
MCC9-12.F.TF.9: Prove the addition and subtraction formulas for sine, cosine, and tangent and use them to solve problems.
Simplifying Trigonometric Expressions
Sum and Difference Identities for Sine and Cosine
MCC9-12.G: High School---Geometry
MCC9-12.G.GPE.3: Derive the equations of ellipses and hyperbolas given the foci, using the fact that the sum or difference of distances from the foci is constant.
MCC9-12.S: High School---Statistics and Probability
MCC9-12.S.CP.9: Use permutations and combinations to compute probabilities of compound events and solve problems.
Binomial Probabilities
MCC9-12.S.MD.3: Develop a probability distribution for a random variable defined for a sample space in which theoretical probabilities can be calculated; find the expected value.
Independent and Dependent Events
Probability Simulations
Theoretical and Experimental Probability
MCC9-12.S.MD.4: Develop a probability distribution for a random variable defined for a sample space in which probabilities are assigned empirically; find the expected value.
Geometric Probability
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Theological Books & Religious Tracks, Page 3
1. A Memorial of the Reformation:
(chiefly in England) and of Britain's Deliverances from Popery and Arbitrary-power,
Price : $750 Buy now
Published by John Clark;- 1716;- London;- 2nd. Edition with large Additions. & an extensive Index;-Title in black & red titles. 534 pages;- A very Scarce/Rare book;- Original Oxford brown leather binding with a re-bound leather spine, with gilt lettering to the top of the spine. A highly collectable copy of a scarce/rare book, no other copies to be found on the world wide web.
Benjamin Bennet (ca. 1674 – 1 September 1726) was an English Presbyterian Minster.
Bennet was born in Wellsborough, in Sibson, Leicestershire. He received his elementary education in his parish school. He went next to Sheriff Hales in Shropshire, under John Woodhouse who ran a dissenting academy. Bennet began his public ministry as a preacher-evangelist at Temple Hall, a village near his native place. He immediately succeeded John Sheffield on his move to Southwark in 1697. He was not formally ordained until 30 May 1699. This was done in Oldbury chapel in Shropshire by some of the surviving ejected ministers, along with three others, one of whom was John Reynolds of Shrewsbury. He became noted for his eloquence in the pulpit. In 1717 he published A Memorial of the Reformation, growing out of a sermon preached on George I's coronation; it was a Protestant view of the Reformation. It preserved anecdotes from original sources not to be found elsewhere, as, for instance, of Judge Jeffreys’s visit to Newcastle in 1683. A second, updated edition (dedicated to Lord Barrington ) appeared in 1721 covering further episodes in English history such as the Civil War. This work led to a disagreement with Zachary Grey, with Bennet defending himself in his Defence of the 'Memorial of the Reformation' (1723).
2. Fides Christiana Patriarcharum AC Prophetarum;-
Exhibita Dissertationibus Novem Philologico-Exegeticis Ad Selectos Textus (1730)
by Fabricius, Franciscus
Price : $1,500 Buy now
Fides Christiana Patriarcharum AC Prophetarum;-
Exhibita Dissertationibus Novem Philologico-Exegeticis Ad Selectos Textus. Vet. et Novi Testamenti;- 1730;- by Fabricius, Franciscus;- Published: Lugduni Batavorum :
Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1730.
668, [28] p. ; 4to.Notes:"Francisci Fabricii Oratio de scholis prophetarum. ..." and "Francisci Fabricii Oratio de scriba edocto in regno coelorum. Have divisional half-titles on p. [601] and p. [633] respectively.
Title page printed in red and black; with woodcut printer's device.Final leaf blank.Includes index Locorum;- Index Vocum Graecarus;- Index Rerum;- and Nomina. ThisOriginal Book is in Latin. Original parchment covers, with black handwritten name and date to the top of the spine. A fine collectable copy of VERY SCARCE/RARE Book. Franciscus Fabricius, also Franz Fabritius; Born April 10th. 1663 in Amsterdam and Died 27th. July in Leiden;- was a Dutch Reformed theologian. Franciscus Fabricius was a son of the pastor Johannes Fabricius, who died in Nieuwkerk, and his wife Catherine Felbier. He lost his parents at the age of five. His maternal grandfather John Felbier took care afterwards to the upbringing of the boy and sent him to the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam, where he was to acquire a level of education which would enable him to take a theological profession. Here he learned the basics of oriental languages and earned a first skeleton in the theological sciences. In 1681 he entered the University of Leiden, , where he attended the lectures of the leading scientists in this field. In 1687, he was pastor at Velzen and 1696 in Leiden. There he earned such respect that the curators of Leiden University on him 8 November 1705 as the successor to Jacobus trigland the Younger appealed to the professor of theology. After the Senate of the University of Leiden on 11 December 1705 had received an honorary doctorate in theology, he resigned on 15 December he transferred to the Department with the introduction speech De Christo unico perpetual motion ac Ecclesiae fundamento (Leiden 1717) 1705. He established himself as a theologian of the direction of Johannes Cocceius and participated mainly in the training of theologians in the field of homiletics. This brought him on 8 November 1721 a professor of theological rhetoric, which task he 17 June 1722, took over the speech De sacro oratore. In addition, he also participated three times in the organizational tasks of the university and was in the years 1716/17, 1724/25 and 1736/37 Rector of the Alma Mater. These offices he laid in 1717 with the speech De Scholis prophetarum in 1725 with the speech De scriba, docto regno coelorum in 1737, with the speech De provida Christianized praesertim theological senectute down. Due to his advanced age, he was dismissed from his Professorship. The British Royal Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1726 took him on as a member.
3. John BUNYAN;-
The Pilgrim's Progress;-
Published by J Bennett;- London 1826 - Original black leather binding with gilt lettering & decorations to the spine. With explanatory notes by W Mason and Evangelical reflections selected from Rev. J. Newton, J. Bradford, Dr Hawker and others. Engraved frontispiece with hand- coloured Devine Emblems, black & white plates and a hand-coloured Map of the journey.
A fine copy of a very collectable book.
The Most Well-Known Allegory Ever Written by John BUNYAN. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come: delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered, the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country.
John Bunyan (28 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English Christian Writer and Preacher, who is well known for his book The Pilgrim’s Progress. Though he became a non-conformist and member of an Independent church, and although he has been described both as a Baptist and as a Congregationalist, he himself preferred to be described simply as a Christian. He is remembered in the Church of England with a Lesser Festival on August 30, and on the Liturgical Calendar of the Episcopal Church U.S.A. on August 29. Some other Churches of the Anglican Communion, such as the Anglican Church of Australia, honour him on the day of his death (August 31) together with St Aidan of Lindisfarne.
4. Des. Erasmi Rot.
Moriae encomium;-
cum Gerardi Listrii commentariis ; epistolae aliquot in fine additae unà cum Erasmi responsione adversus Martini Lutheri espistolam.
Oxoniæ : Typis W. Hall : 1668
Prostant venales apud S. Bolton ... re-bound in black full leather;- 331 pages;- The Scarce/Rare book is complete;- An early printing of this famous book. Fine collectable book.
In Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin title;- Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid) is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. The essay was inspired by De Triumpho Stultitiae, written by the Italian Humanist Fraustino Perisauli, born at tredozio, near Forli.
Erasmus revised and extended the work, which he originally wrote in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More, at More's estate in Bucklersbury. In Praise of Folly is considered one of the most notable works of the Renaissance and was employed as one of the catalysts of the Protestant reformation.
It starts off with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church—to which Erasmus was ever faithful—and the folly of pedants (including Erasmus himself). Erasmus had recently returned disappointed from Rome, where he had turned down offers of advancement in the Curia, and Folly increasingly takes on Erasmus' own chastising voice. The essay ends with a straightforward statement of Christian ideals.
Erasmus was a good friend of More, with whom he shared a taste for dry humor and other intellectual pursuits. The title "Morias Encomium" can also be read as meaning "In praise of More". The double or triple meanings go on throughout the text.
The essay is filled with classical allusions delivered in a style typical of the learned humanists of the Renaissance. Folly parades as a goddess, offspring of Plutus, the god of wealth and a Nymph, Freshness. She was nursed by two other nymphs Inebriation and Ignorance, her faithful companions include Philautia (self-love), Kolakia (flattery), Lethe (oblivion), Misoponia (laziness), Hedone (pleasure), Anoia (madness), Tryphe (wantonness) and two gods Komos (intemperance) and Eegretos Hypnos (dead sleep). Folly praises herself endlessly, arguing that life would be dull and distasteful without her. Of earthly existence, Folly pompously states, "you'll find nothing frolic or fortunate that it owes not to me."
Moriae Encomium was hugely popular, to Erasmus' astonishment and sometimes his dismay. Loe X thought it was funny. Before Erasmus' death it had already passed into numerous editions and had been translated into French and German. An English edition soon followed. It influenced teaching of rhetoric during the later sixteenth century, and the art of adoxography or praise of worthless subjects became a popular exercise in Elizabethan grammar schools:
5. Robert BARCLAY, [1648-1690].
An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People called Quakers. The Eighth Edition in English.
Published in Birmingham: by John Baskerville, 1765. - Large 4to. Pp. 6 p.l., [ii]-xiii, [1]-504, [16]index, Lacks errata leaf - which is "frequently missing" (Gaskell p. 30). Original three quarter brown leather with marbled paper, red label with gilt lettering to the top of the spine & Baskervile’s name and date in gilt to the bottom of spine;- First Baskerville Edition of Barclay’s classic exposition of Quaker doctrine. First published in Latin at Amsterdam in 1676, and later translated into English by the author in 1678, Barclay’s "Apology" provides an eloquent defense of the principal Quaker tenet of ‘Inner Light’ against the sufficiency of external authorities, including the Bible. Strongly opposed to the extreme views of Calvinism, it "breathes a large tolerance, and is still perhaps the most important manifesto of the Quaker Society. [and] one of the most impressive theological writings of the century."
6. A. Bunn
A Letter to the Rev. J. A. James of Carr's
Lane Meeting House
Published in Birmingham - Printed by the Author, 1824. A scarce book, in re-bound blue marbled paper cover, a very fine collectable copy of a scarce/rare book. 34 pages. Letter to the Rev. J. A. James of Carr's Lane Meeting House. With Notes, Critical, Religious, and Moral by A. Bunn, manager of the Theatre Royal Birmingham. 1st. Edition. With an advertisement from the author to front detailing his reasons for writing this letter to 'The Reverend Gentleman [who] has expressed his determination to treat me with the greatest contempt. ' With a postscript to the last page..
Rare/Scarce
7. William Lewis;
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
OF WILLIAM LEWIS,
Late of Bristol,
To Which Are Added Extracts From Letters,
Addressed By Him to Individuals, On different Occasions.
First edition, Printed for the Editors, at the Albion Press, by Wansbrough and Sanders, Bristol: 1820;- Original grey paper boards, with an old white paper label to the spine.133 pages and complete. A highly collectable book in this original condition.
Sancti Gregorii Papae 1 Cognomento Magni Opera Omnia Ad Manufcriptos Codices Romanos, Gallicanos, Anglicanos Emendata, Aucta, & Illuftrata Notis Tomus Secundus
Published by Claudii Rigaud, In Paris, 1705. Leather Bound. 1st. Edition. Elephant Folio. Original Vellum covers;- Old with age;- Title page with a religious crest within. Tomus Primus;- 1664 Pages and a extensive Index to the back of the book;- An engraving of the Pope Clementi XI....and religious figures to the Opening pages and the Crest of the Pope within. Overall the book is in a fine collectable condition, with all pages present; A fine elephant folio;- Rare/Scarce.
8. Joannes Ernestus Grabe
Eiphnaiot
(Oxonii: E Theatro. Sheldoniano, 1702 in Latin, Published in London;- Original brown full leather binding, with a re-bound spine with gilt lettering label within. Engraved Frontispiece and engraving within the Title Page;- Second Title page, and engraved opening tp page one with engraved letter;-No other copies to be found world wide..This scare/rare book is complete and in fine collectable condition.
9. Jeremy Collier;-
Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain:
chiefly of England from the first planting of Christianity,
to the end of the reign of King Charles the Second
with a brief account of the Affairs of Religion in Ireland.
Volume Two Only;- 1714
Published by Samuel Keble & Benjamin Tooke;- London 1714 ;- The First Volume is dated 1708;- and the Second is dated 1714...so really two different editions...Six years apart;- Title page in red & black titles. Extensive Index to the back pages. Rare in fine condition;-
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F. G. Miller Jr./Sr. High School
Building the Foundation for Tomorrow
FGM Learning Commons
Off Campus Opportunities
New and Welcome
Crusader Clubs
Lifetouch Photo Day
Crusader Craft/Trade Show
Crusader Clarion News
Denise Bjorkman
Assessment Update
An update from SPERD Central Office
Reporting on Student Learning: Assigning Marks and Grades to our Students
As we progress with at-home learning for the remainder of the 2019/20 school year, we would like to update you on our plans for reporting student progress and assigning grades. As per Alberta Education:
Every student will receive a final grade and students who were on track to progress to the next grade will do so in the next year. Teachers will be responsible for assessing a student’s progress and reporting their progress.
For all K to 12 students All students will receive a report card at the end of the school year. There will be no final exams or cumulative type projects. Both Diploma and Provincial Achievement Exams are cancelled. As circumstances allow, we hope our students will put in a reasonable and honest effort into their work right through until the end of June. The last day of school will be June 24, 2020, and students will be provided ongoing learning up until this date. IMPORTANT TO NOTE: When classes were cancelled on March 15, 2020, high school students in semestered courses completed only about 25% of their learning. While Alberta Education mandated that students in all grades that were on track to progress to the next grade/course will do so in the next school year, we also very much know that simply advancing students will cause difficulties for them at the next level. All courses and grade levels rely on the skills and knowledge developed in previous grade levels. For instance, Grade 10 math relies on skills and content acquired from a full Grade 9 math course. As such, it is absolutely critical that students remain engaged and learn as much as possible with feedback from their teacher. While a student may pass their course and receive credits this year, next year’s teachers will be teaching all the required learning outcomes and students will have to meet these standards. Teachers will certainly be reviewing the learning that was missed during at-home learning, but students who put in minimal effort now may struggle more next year and could be unsuccessful.
Kindergarten to Grade 6 For K to 3, education content will focus on language/literacy and mathematics/numeracy outcomes of the provincial curriculum. For Grades 4 to 6, education content will continue to focus on language/literacy and mathematics/numeracy outcomes, and there will be opportunity to incorporate science and social studies outcomes through cross-curricular learning. For Kindergarten to Grade 6, students will still receive their regular outcomes based report card. Rather than assigning a letter grade/achievement indicator, students will receive feedback about their learning in the comments section. For the remainder of the school year, teachers will provide feedback to help move learning forward. Grades 7-9 Education content will focus on core mathematics, language/literacy, science and social studies curriculum outcomes. Students will receive a final grade on their report card for core subjects. For non-core courses, the delivery method of learning may vary greatly and teachers will use their professional judgement to assess any student progress during at-home learning. A final mark for all non-core courses will still be provided. Marks will continue to be updated in Powerschool.
Grades 10-12 Education content will focus on specified and core courses required for high school graduation requirements, including language (English, French and French language arts), social studies, mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics. Content from other courses will be delivered where possible, and accommodations for students unable to complete courses are in place. Students will receive a final grade for all courses in which they are enrolled and credits will be awarded. Those who are on track to receive 100 or more credits will still be eligible to graduate and receive a high school diploma. If the student is unable to complete a course that would have led them to achieving a high school diploma, such as a work experience or a career and technology studies course, principals have the ability to award unassigned credits to ensure the student graduates. Marks will continue to be updated in Powerschool. Determination of Final Marks in Grades 7 to 12 For grades 7 to 12, if students are engaged with at-home learning, marks will not go down from when classes were suspended on March 15, 2020. Student marks may increase based upon demonstration of further learning. For more information, please see the following link from Alberta Education: Education Continuity Plan: COVID-19
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January 14 Bus Update
Update on afternoon buses (January 14, 2021) We have contacted every driver this morning and we have learned that the road conditions vary greatly for individual routes. As each individual driver is i
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Verizon iPhone could have interesting implications on both 3G and LTE
Apple's iPhone is finally coming to Verizon Wireless' network on Feb. 10, and the device could have some interesting implications on both the operator's 3G EV-DO and LTE network.
Reports have indicated that Verizon is bolstering its EV-DO network to prepare for a data onslaught that the iPhone is so well known for on AT&T's network. And the rumor is Verizon will offer an unlimited data plan. Will it finally embrace a WiFi offload strategy?
Since the Apple App Store has significantly more applications than the Android Market at this point, there is a real potential for a rather high number of bandwidth-intensive applications. So far, we know that at least the FaceTime video chat feature will only be available via WiFi, just like on AT&T's network. Verizon has long shunned WiFi as a distinct strategy, although its smartphones are WiFi-enabled. But as more high-bandwidth apps are banned from 3G networks, or simply work better over WiFi, how long can Verizon resist?
Dan Hays, director of the telecommunications practice with consulting firm PTRM, believes the Verizon iPhone will create more of a halo effect for 4G rather than a direct windfall for Verizon. He believes the iPhone will indirectly accelerate subscriber adoption for Verizon's new LTE network by enabling it to lure new customers into stores and then up-sell them on 4G devices.
If the iPhone is wildly popular, I wonder if there will be a direct correlation on how aggressive Verizon will be on the LTE pricing side. It has yet to announce pricing plans for LTE smartphones that are expected to come out by mid-year. When the operator announced rollout plans for its LTE network last year, CTO Tony Melone indicated that the LTE network will give the operator's 3G network more headroom and the ability to provide more services. At this point, the company's $50 LTE modem plan undercuts Verizon's current 3G rate plans by about $10.--Lynnette
P.S. FierceBroadbandWireless will not be publishing on Jan. 17 in observance of the Martin Luther King Day holiday.
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AI & Machine Learning PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships in London
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Automatic DeepFakes Creation and Identification using Deep Learning and Blockchain-Based Approaches
Kingston University Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing
A DeepFake is a multimedia recording (video/image/audio) that appears real but has been either altered or generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Read more
Supervisors: Dr N Barman, Prof M Martini
Year round applications PhD Research Project
PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.
Self-Funded PhD Students Only
This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.
AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabled Robotics for autonomous sensing and inspection of utility and sewage pipes.
Brunel University London Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Traditional manual maintenance of pipelines which requires digging of ground to get access to pipelines is ineffective because of safety issues, high cost and limited human vision. Read more
Supervisors: Dr NM Huda, Dr T G Kalganova
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM)
Queen Mary University of London School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Our Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) offers a four year training programme where students will carry out a PhD in the intersection of AI and music, supported by taught specialist modules, industrial placements, and skills training. Read more
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Some or all of the PhD opportunities in this programme have funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training
UKRI Centres for Doctoral Training conduct research and training in priority topics related to Artificial Intelligence. They are funded by the UK Government through UK Research and Innovation. Students may receive additional training and development opportunities as part of their programme.
Exploring the potential of human-like computing methods and applications in education or healthcare
Brunel University London Computer Science
Intelligent, ‘human-like’ applications, 3D games, and interfaces are becoming more common in our everyday lives, and as an important area of focus within the fields of Multimedia / Human-Computer Interaction research. Read more
Supervisor: Dr A Money
Investigating the value of using emotionally intelligent artificial conversational agents to carry out assessments in higher education or healthcare.
Artificial conversational agents, can be embodied (physical robots or digital avatars on a screen) or not embodied (chat-bots or digital assistants). Read more
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence (STAI) brings together world leading experts from King's College London and Imperial College London to train a new generation of researchers in safe and trusted artificial intelligence (AI). Read more
Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)
Some or all of the PhD opportunities in this programme have funding attached. Applications for this programme are welcome from suitably qualified candidates worldwide. Funding may only be available to a limited set of nationalities and you should read the full programme details for further information.
PhD scholarship in intelligent mobility
University College London Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering
We are offering an exciting PhD studentship at UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering in the Centre for Transport Studies. Read more
Supervisor: Dr B Anvari
Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.
Machine learning based cyber security in IoT appliances
Internet of Things (IoTs) appliances are integrated in our day-to-day life needing a secure platform for us to be comfortable in using them. Read more
Supervisors: Dr J Kiruthika, Dr M Davis, Prof JC Nebel
Medical Image Analysis using Deep Learning
Medical Image Analysis aims to extract information from available visual modalities such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and Ultasonography (US) to detect conspicuous structures, quantigy their properties, evaluate the effectiveness of treatment or diagnose a condition. Read more
Supervisor: Prof D Makris
Visual Internet of Things: Event-based Vision meets Artificial Intelligence under the constraints of IoT devices.
Internet of Things (IoT) framework has continued to evolve; initially IoT systems comprised of lots of small closed networks, but this concept has evolved to incorporate larger more connected networks, for instance smart cities with smart transport infrastructures. Read more
Supervisors: Dr N Khan, Prof M Martini
PhD opportunity in Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Systems Design and Analysis
Imperial College London Dyson School of Design Engineering
I am always looking for excellent candidates to pursue PhD studies in my research group, focusing on the theme of Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Systems Design and Analysis at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Read more
Supervisor: Dr M-A Cardin
Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.
Water Quality Monitoring Technology & Robotics
AquaeyeTM is an autonomous floating aquatic sensor platform with adaptable payload to sense a range of parameters (environmental conditions, chemical and biological hazards) for a variety of applications such as alerting oil spills and toxic algal blooms in bathing waters, pollution and fuel spills in inland waterways, marinas, harbours, shipping lanes and coastal waters. Read more
Supervisors: Dr G Troisi, Dr X Du
Artificial Intelligence in customer interactions: factors influencing value creation and sustained use in a variety of contexts (e.g., healthcare and financial services)
Brunel University London Management
As we enter the fourth industrial revolution, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used by more and more organisations - profit-seeking and otherwise – to automate processes in more and more business areas, and with increasing autonomy. Read more
Supervisor: Dr A Canhoto
PhD opportunities with the Institute for Digital Technologies at Loughborough University London
Loughborough University London Institute for Digital Technologies
The Institute for Digital Technologies offers research expertise and experience in a wide range of subject areas. Our academics are leading research in their field and are extremely well-networked with professionals in a range of industries and sectors. Read more
PhD Opportunities highlight some of the specific PhD projects, programmes or other information currently available from a university.
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Fitzgerald Toyota Gaithersburg Incentives
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Current 2021 Toyota RAV4 SUV Special offers
The standard features of the Toyota RAV4 LE include Dynamic Force 2.5L I-4 203hp engine, 8-speed automatic transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), side seat mounted airbags, curtain 1st and 2nd row overhead airbags, driver knee airbag, airbag occupancy sensor, air conditioning, 17" steel wheels, cruise control, Full-Speed Range Dynamic Radar Cruise Control (DRCC) distance pacing, ABS and driveline traction control, electronic stability.
APR Offer
Applies to select new 2021 Toyota RAV4. See Trims
Qualified buyers can finance a new 2021 RAV4 at 1.9% APR for 60 Months. 1.9% APR for 60 monthly payments of $17.48 for every $1,000 financed. Terms available on approved credit to For only very well qualified customers/lessees through participating Toyota dealers and Toyota Financial Services (TFS). No down payment required if qualified for advertised offer. If you do not qualify for the offer, the amount and percentage of any down payment vary with your credit qualifications. Dealer contribution may vary and could affect price. Individual dealer prices, other terms and offers may vary. Must take retail delivery from dealer’s stock and terms subject to vehicle availability. Cannot be combined with TFS APR Cash, TFS Lease Cash, Customer Cash, Lease, Lease Subvention Cash. See your participating Toyota dealer for details. Offer available in DE, MD, PA, VA, WV regardless of buyer's residency; void where prohibited. Expires 02-01-2021. Toyota Financial Services is a service mark used by Toyota Motor Credit Corporation.2.9% APR for 72 monthly payments of $15.15 for every $1,000 financed. Terms available on approved credit to For only very well qualified customers/lessees through participating Toyota dealers and Toyota Financial Services (TFS). No down payment required if qualified for advertised offer. If you do not qualify for the offer, the amount and percentage of any down payment vary with your credit qualifications. Dealer contribution may vary and could affect price. Individual dealer prices, other terms and offers may vary. Must take retail delivery from dealer’s stock and terms subject to vehicle availability. Cannot be combined with TFS APR Cash, TFS Lease Cash, Customer Cash, Lease, Lease Subvention Cash. See your participating Toyota dealer for details. Offer available in DE, MD, PA, VA, WV regardless of buyer's residency; void where prohibited. Expires 02-01-2021. Toyota Financial Services is a service mark used by Toyota Motor Credit Corporation.ToyotaCare covers normal factory scheduled maintenance for 2 years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes first. 24-hour roadside assistance is also included for 2 years and unlimited miles. The new vehicle cannot be part of a rental or commercial fleet, or a livery/taxi vehicle. See Toyota dealer for details and exclusions. Roadside assistance does not include parts and fluids, except emergency fuel delivery. Truth in Lending Act Disclosure: Down payment will vary with APR and credit. For example, 1.9% APR with $2,500 down payment provides for 60 monthly payments of $17.48 per $1000 financed for qualified buyers. 1.9% APR for a term of 24 months corresponds to a monthly cost of $42.5 per $1000 financed. 1.9% APR for a term of 36 months corresponds to a monthly cost of $28.6 per $1000 financed. 1.9% APR for a term of 48 months corresponds to a monthly cost of $21.65 per $1000 financed. 2.9% APR for a term of 72 months corresponds to a monthly cost of $15.15 per $1000 financed. The rates described are for estimation purposes only; you may not be able to finance at this rate.
Cash Back Offer
Get $1,000 Customer Cash on a new 2021 RAV4 Cash from Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. on select models of the new 2021 RAV4 from participating dealer’s stock and subject to vehicle availability. Cannot be combined with TFS APR Cash, TFS Lease Cash, APR, Lease, APR Subvention Cash, Lease Subvention Cash. Offer available in DE, MD, PA, VA, WV regardless of buyer's residency; void where prohibited. Expires 02-01-2021. See your participating Toyota dealer for details.ToyotaCare covers normal factory scheduled maintenance for 2 years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes first. 24-hour roadside assistance is also included for 2 years and unlimited miles. The new vehicle cannot be part of a rental or commercial fleet, or a livery/taxi vehicle. See Toyota dealer for details and exclusions. Roadside assistance does not include parts and fluids, except emergency fuel delivery.
$750 cash back
Eligible U.S. military personnel and their families may qualify for a $750 reward that can be used toward a new Toyota financed or leased through your dealer and Toyota Financial Services. $750 rebate offered by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. and may be applied toward finance or lease contracts on new Toyota vehicles, dated from 01-05-2021 through 02-01-2021. To qualify for the rebate, at the time of purchase or lease you must (1) be in current active duty status in the U.S. military (Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, Coast Guard and active Reserve) OR a U.S. military inactive reserve (i.e., Ready Reserve) that is part of the individual Ready Reserve, Selected Reserve and Inactive National Guard; OR a retiree of the U.S. military, OR a military veteran within two years of their discharge date; OR a household member of an eligible U.S. military personnel, including Gold Star family members; AND (2) provide verifiable proof of military status or active service; (3) receive a salary sufficient to cover ordinary living expenses and payment for your new vehicle; and (4) receive credit approval from and execute a finance or lease contract through a participating Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services. Not all applicants will qualify. On lease contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Amount Due at Lease Signing or toward the Capitalized Cost Reduction. On finance contracts, rebate must be applied toward the Down Payment. Limit one rebate per finance or lease transaction per eligible U.S. military personnel or eligible household member. Offer not combinable with the College Graduate Rebate Program, the iFi Program, and the Lease-End Refi Program. Vehicle must be taken out of dealer stock. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. Program is not available in AL, FL, GA, HI, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous in your local area. Ask your participating dealer about the military rebate terms in your area. Must pay sales tax. Void where prohibited by law. Not redeemable for cash. Toyota Financial Services is a service mark of Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC). TMCC is the authorized attorney-in-fact and servicer for Toyota Lease Trust. ©2020 Toyota Financial Services. All rights reserved.You must meet all of these conditions: Be in current active duty status in the U.S. Military (Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, Coast Guard and active Reserve) OR a U.S. Military inactive reserves (i.e., Ready Reserves) that are part of the Individual Ready Reserve, Selected Reserve and Inactive National Guard; OR A Military retiree within two years of retirement or honorably discharged veteran of the U.S. Military within two year of their honorable discharge date; OR a Household member* of an eligible U.S. Military personnel; AND Provide verifiable proof of military status or active service at the time of purchase in the form of one of the following documentations: Leave and Earning Statement Military Identification Card Veterans/Retirees DD Form-214 Receive a salary sufficient to cover ordinary living expenses and payments for your Toyota Be credit approved by TFS. *Household member(s):- Household and/or family member of the qualified Military personnel living at the same address as the qualified Military personnel. An eligible service member and his or her household may reside in permanent or temporary housing.- Gold star family members are family members of a fallen hero(s) and are also considered as household and/or family member and are eligible for this program.ToyotaCare covers normal factory scheduled maintenance for 2 years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes first. 24-hour roadside assistance is also included for 2 years and unlimited miles. The new vehicle cannot be part of a rental or commercial fleet, or a livery/taxi vehicle. See Toyota dealer for details and exclusions. Roadside assistance does not include parts and fluids, except emergency fuel delivery.
You may qualify for a $500 rebate if you have graduated within the last two calendar years or will within the next six months and finance or lease a select new Toyota through your dealer and Toyota Financial Services. College Graduate Rebate is available on select new Toyota vehicles. Toyota Certified Used Vehicles (TCUVs) and Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles are not eligible for the Rebate Program. College Graduate Finance Program (which is not a rebate and instead offers competitive APRs and lease terms) is available on the lease or finance (including preferred option) of all new and unlicensed Toyota models or on TCUVs or Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles. Subject to the foregoing limits and requirements below, the College Graduate Rebate Program and College Graduate Finance Program are available upon credit approval from and execution of a finance or lease contract through a participating Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services (TFS). Not all applicants will qualify. To qualify for the College Graduate Rebate Program and College Graduate Finance Program, customers must be currently enrolled in a graduate degree program from an eligible school (as defined below), or enrolled in or be a graduate from an eligible school and provide proof of graduation (showing an upcoming graduation within six months OR a recent graduation within two calendar years from the date of signing your vehicle lease or finance contract) from one of the following eligible schools located in the 50 United States, Puerto Rico, or U.S. Virgin Islands: (a) an accredited four-year college, university or registered nursing program; OR (b) an accredited two-year college associate degree or an undergraduate academic degree as awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges and universities; OR (c) an accredited two-year trade or vocational school; OR (d) an accredited graduate school. In all cases, the student will have two calendar years from receipt of their degree to take advantage of the program. Must provide proof of qualification and any one of the following documents will be accepted: (a) copy of diploma; OR (b) letter from the college/university/trade school registrar’s office stating graduation date and type of degree or certification earned; OR (c) copy of the final transcript confirming graduation date and type of degree earned; OR (d) copy of current transcript (or letter from college/university registrar’s office) confirming current enrollment in a graduate degree program. Eligible customers must also meet credit approval requirements and furnish proof of present or future employment (which will begin within 120 days of credit approval) when submitting credit application. Rebate offered by Toyota Motor North America. Rebate will be applied on TFS lease agreements toward the amount due at lease signing or delivery or capitalized cost reduction or the down payment on TFS finance contracts. Limit one rebate per lease or finance transaction. College Graduate Rebate Program may not be combined with the Toyota Military Rebate Program or iFi Program. Vehicle must be taken from dealer stock. Rebate valid on contracts executed between 01-05-2021 and 02-01-2021. College Graduate Programs are subject to change or termination at any time. Some restrictions apply. Programs are not available in AL, FL, GA, HI, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous in your local area. Ask your participating dealer about the college graduate rebate terms in your area. Under the College Graduate Finance Program, competitive APRs and lease terms are available on eligible finance contracts with terms up to specified number of months for retail and lease and preferred option financing on new vehicles. See dealer for details. Must pay sales tax. Void where prohibited by law. Not redeemable for cash. ©2020 Toyota Financial Services. All rights reserved. Toyota Financial Services is a service mark used by Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC).If you are a student who will graduate from college in the next six months or have graduated in the past two years, you may be eligible for Toyota's College Graduate Rebate Program. You may also be eligible if you are enrolled in or have graduated from a graduate program, have completed a two-year post secondary automotive program accredited by the NATEF or have completed an electrician certification program through NJATC and the IBEW.Can be combined with other Toyota Special offers!Toyota Financial Services College Graduate Program is available on approved credit through participating Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services. Not all applicants will qualify. Incentive offered by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. On lease contracts, incentive must be applied toward the Amount Due at Lease Signing or toward the Capitalized Cost Reduction. On finance contracts, incentive must be applied toward the Down Payment. One incentive per finance or lease transaction. Not compatible with the Toyota Military Incentive Program. College Graduate Program is subject to change or termination at any time. Some restrictions may apply. SEE DEALER FOR DETAILS.Program may not be available in all states. On eligible finance contracts with terms up to 60 months (up to 72 months for Camrys) first payment may be deferred for first 90 days on eligible new Toyota vehicles; finance charges accrue from contract date. Deferred payment not available in Pennsylvania or in connection with the preferred option financial plan. Covers normal factory scheduled service. Plan is 2 years or 25K miles, whichever comes first. The new vehicle cannot be part of a rental or commercial fleet, or a livery/taxi vehicle. See participating Toyota dealer for plan details. Valid only in the continental U.S. and Alaska. Roadside Assistance does not include parts and fluids. Prius Plug-in Hybrid comes with an extra year of roadside assistance, for a total of three (3) years from date of purchase.ToyotaCare covers normal factory scheduled maintenance for 2 years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes first. 24-hour roadside assistance is also included for 2 years and unlimited miles. The new vehicle cannot be part of a rental or commercial fleet, or a livery/taxi vehicle. See Toyota dealer for details and exclusions. Roadside assistance does not include parts and fluids, except emergency fuel delivery.
RAV4 Lease
Qualified lessees can lease a new 2021 RAV4 RAV4 LE FWD 2.5L 4-Cyl. Model 4430 for $239 per month for 36 months with $2,999 Due At Signing. Based on 10,000 miles/yr. Security Deposit waived. Lease includes $500 cash incentive and excludes tax, title, license, registration fees, and dealer options and charges. Terms available on approved credit through participating dealers and Toyota Financial Services (TFS). Not all customers/lessees qualify. Lease example based on 2021 RAV4 RAV4 LE FWD 2.5L 4-Cyl. Model 4430 with MSRP of $27,905, net capitalized cost of $24,254, and a lease end purchase amount of $18,696. $2,999 Due At Signing includes $2,110 customer down payment, first month's payment of $239, and $650 Acquisition Fee. $500 cash from TMS must be applied as a capitalized cost reduction (down payment) that is excluded from due at signing; no cash back option. Dealer contribution may vary and could affect lease payment. Individual dealer prices, other terms and offers may vary. Must lease from participating dealer’s stock and terms are subject to vehicle availability. Lessee responsible for maintenance, excess wear and use, and will pay $0.15 per mile for all mileage over 10,000 miles per year. $350 disposition fee is due at lease end. Cannot be combined with TFS APR Cash, TFS Lease Cash, Customer Cash, APR, APR Subvention Cash. Offer available in DE, MD, PA, VA, WV regardless of buyer's residency; void where prohibited. Expires 02-01-2021. See your participating Toyota dealer for details. Toyota Financial Services is a service mark used by Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC). TMCC is the authorized attorney-in-fact and servicer for Toyota Lease Trust.ToyotaCare covers normal factory scheduled maintenance for 2 years or 25,000 miles, whichever comes first. 24-hour roadside assistance is also included for 2 years and unlimited miles. The new vehicle cannot be part of a rental or commercial fleet, or a livery/taxi vehicle. See Toyota dealer for details and exclusions. Roadside assistance does not include parts and fluids, except emergency fuel delivery. Cannot exceed 10000 miles per year.
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Home black boys black motherhood Black sheroes bree newsome celebration inspiration life lessons Five Lessons Black Boys Can Also Learn from the Indomitable Bree Newsome
Five Lessons Black Boys Can Also Learn from the Indomitable Bree Newsome
by Ryane Nicole Granados
I typically don’t allow my young sons to amass large amounts of conventional media. Raising them in sunny California, surrounded by likeminded families while carpooling to our local constructivist charter school also helps in my efforts to protect their developing mental skies. As a result, it shocked my 7-year old when I told him to sit down and watch the news with me. The story I wanted him to see was the story of a heroic woman named Bree Newsome. I made it a point to let him soak up as many images as possible of a valiant Ms. Newsome scaling the flagpole at the South Carolina statehouse and taking down the confederate flag. “She looks like a soldier Mommy, but why is she taking it down? I responded, as I often do, with an eager, “Good question, son.” Usually this retort is met with slumped shoulders and a child sinking deeper into his seat. He knows an unsolicited educational lesson is about to commence. This time, however, my “Good question, son” was met with wide-eyed enthusiasm. While she is undoubtedly an icon for little black girls worldwide, below are five things my sons and other little boys can also learn from Bree Newsome!
Lesson #1: They matter.
That someone would climb a flagpole to remove a symbol of hate and racism shows how much children matter. This flag, which I had to sadly explain away on one of our many family road trips, was directly tied to the South’s Confederate history, which was directly connected to a deep-seated desire to uphold slavery! All children today deserve to cast their eyes upward and see nothing but open sky and endless opportunities. Relics of racism and failed wars have no place blowing in an American breeze. Like a modern-day Rosa Parks, Bree Newsome was quoted explaining: “My prayers are with the poor, the afflicted, and the oppressed everywhere in the world, as Christ instructs. If this act of disobedience can also serve as a symbol to other peoples’ struggles against oppression or as a symbol of victory over fear and hate, then I know all the more that I did the right thing.” Bree Newsome took the flag down because we are free and we matter.
Lesson #2: To change the future, you must acknowledge the past.
Those who believe slavery was not a central component of the Civil War should read the documents from South Carolina—the first state to secede—as well as Georgia, Texas, and the other Southern states, all claiming that ending slavery would be a risk to their economy, and thus was a reason for secession. It does not require extensive reading or even reading between the lines to understand that the words of those who bore and created this flag were words of hate and supremacy. It is for this reason that contemporary hate groups adorn this flag with celebratory pride. It is for this reason that my parental responsibility calls for me to extend the history lessons beyond the schoolhouse walls and into my very own home. In order to truly fashion a better future, we have to acknowledge the pitfalls of the past.
Lesson #3: Sometimes, in life, you have to take a stand.
One of the many trials of parenthood is teaching your children which battles to fight and which ones they should toss to the side. Refereeing fights about who did what to whom and dissecting end of the day grade school drama also requires a keen ability to help children discern where to plant their flag. Every action doesn’t require a reaction, but sometimes in life you have to take a stand. The term “civil disobedience,” coined by Henry David Thoreau and embodied by the life and work of Martin Luther King, sheds light on the courageous freedom fight of Bree Newsome and her fellow non-violent direct action compatriots. On a much smaller scale, I am reminded of the day my son came home with an expectation sheet in school for “unsafe behavior.” While one teacher felt it imperative that he be reminded of the school rules—a reminder of which I wholly support—another teacher proudly exclaimed to me that my son ran across the yard and retrieved a ball from a peer who had repeatedly taken it away from a fellow classmate with cognitive differences. The teacher went on to explain that she was headed in the direction to address the matter, but my son had gotten there first. It seems, on that particular day, my son was tired of witnessing the ongoing bullying of a friend. I can attest to how tired some of my fellow American friends, especially those living in South Carolina, have been feeling. While we should always be confident in where we plant our flag, sometimes we must also have the courage to take a flag down.
Lesson #4: You can’t be ruled by fear.
In a helmet and using a climbing harness, Bree Newsome took down the Confederate flag. On her way down she could be heard quoting Psalm 27: “The Lord is my light and my salvation -- whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life -- of whom shall I be afraid?'" She was also later quoted saying: “I refuse to be ruled by fear. How can America be free and be ruled by fear? How can anyone be?” This is the heart of the Confederate flag lesson. On the Sunday following Newsome’s heroism I was flying back into town. In between TSA checks and airplane modes, my phone was flooded with glorious images of Bree Newsome. My excitement at what the world got to witness was bubbling over with every new post. Because of my travels, I also didn’t get to take my children to church that Sunday. Nonetheless, as we later watched a woman my son has now come to affectionately refer to as Super Bree, we got a sermon and a civil rights lesson all rolled into one. The book of Psalms took flight across Columbia, South Carolina. The book of James soon followed for James 2:17 reminds us: “In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” Our good works, bolstered by faith, shall never be overruled by fear.
Lesson #5: Women Are superheroes.
In a house where dramatic play often includes action figures and superheroes, this particular Bree Newsome lesson was perfect for my son’s artistic wheelhouse. Superheroes maintain a strong moral code and they are often willing to risk safety to oneself in the service of helping others. By that description, Ms. Newsome steps boldly into the limelight of the many female heroes who came before her. My son knows of Wonder Woman and the Black Widow, yet after this successful flag removal mission, he’s inspired to learn of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Chisholm, and the countless other women warriors on the front lines of humanitarian causes. Then and now, women have soldiered in the battle of good versus evil and they have climbed to new heights of freedom in their bold attempts to save the world.
With these five intentional lessons, I can proudly boast, “I did it!” I captivated my son’s fleeting attention and he punctuated the exchange with yet another perfect sentence: “Mommy, next time we play superheroes, do you want to be Bree Newsome?”
“Good question, son! Good question! What a beautiful, brilliant, hope-filled question!”
A version of this piece originally appeared on Role Reboot.
Photo: Adam Anderson / Reuters
Ryane Nicole Granados is a Los Angeles native, where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her work has been featured in various publications including Dirty Chai, Gravel, Role Reboot, For Harriet, The Manifest-Station, Mutha Magazine, and most recently in Specter Magazine. Additionally, she teaches English at Golden West College and has authored a student success manual titled Tips from an Unlikely Valedictorian.
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Chicago Police looking for woman in attempted Red Line robbery
SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE - Chicago Police are asking for help finding a woman who tried to steal a woman’s cellphone and pulled her hair at a North Side Red Line station in October.
About noon Oct. 26, the woman approached another female on the moving train and tried to forcefully take her cellphone, according to a community alert from Area Central detectives.
When she was unsuccessful in getting the phone, she pulled the female by the hair and tried to drag her from the train, police said.
The suspect ran away at the North/Clybourn station at 1599 N. Clybourn Ave. with three other females, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at (312) 747-8382.
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Cops: Mom poisoned son with feces during cancer treatment
A 15-year-old cancer patient may have missed his best shot at remission, say doctors, and it's allegedly because of his mother. Doctors say the Wolcott, Indiana, teen underwent his first chemotherapy treatment for leukemia in September but returned to Riley Hospital for Children days later suffering from fever, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Doctors soon after discovered he had an unexplained and potentially deadly blood infection, which left doctors temporarily unable to give him chemo. Once surveillance cameras were placed in his room, the alleged cause of the infection was quickly revealed.
According to police, Tiffany Alberts, 41—whose husband died in May—was seen on more than one occasion using a syringe to inject a substance into her son's IV bag, reports WLFI.
At first, Alberts told police the substance was water used to "flush the line" because his medicine "burned," according to court documents. However, police say Alberts later admitted to injecting the bag with fecal matter.
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Former Chicago fire official faces misdemeanor over crash
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police have charged the former third-ranking member of the Chicago Fire Department with misdemeanor drunken driving for crashing his city-owned SUV with a blood-alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit.
The charge filed Wednesday against former Deputy Commissioner John McNicholas came two days after the Cook County state's attorney's office declined to prosecute over the April 20 accident, saying it didn't meet the "legal elements of a felony."
After the crash in Lincoln Park, McNicholas wasn't given a Breathalyzer test until one was administered at fire headquarters more than three hours later. It revealed a blood-alcohol level of 0.154. McNicholas later resigned.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says a police internal affairs investigation is nearing completion.
It wasn't clear whether McNicholas has an attorney who might comment on his behalf.
Chicago man dies after stolen Maserati slams into pole in Gary
Man charged with looting downtown in August, robbing River North business at gunpoint
City Hall, Cook County building to close for inauguration as a precaution
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Weekly Jobless Claims Fall for First Time Since April
The number of Americans lining up for new jobless benefits fell last week for the first time since April, a reminder that the wounded labor market is still slowly healing.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 377,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That was spot on the median forecast in a Reuters poll.
The government revised the prior week's figure up to 389,000 from the previously reported 383,000.
Prior to last week, claims had risen in four consecutive weeks, adding to concerns over several months of lackluster hiring data. While the country emerged from a deep recession three years ago, the jobless rate last month was 8.2 percent, well above its long-term historical average.
Still, most of the recent increases in new jobless claims were marginal and the overall level of claims has held at levels consistent with a modest recovery in the labor market.
The last time claims fell was in the week that ended April 28. The four-week moving average for new claims, a measure of labor market trends, increased 1,750 last week to 377,750.
The claims report comes ahead of congressional testimony scheduled for later in the day by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, where he could give clues about the likelihood of further policy easing.
On Wednesday, Janet Yellen, Bernanke's deputy and the vice chair of the Fed, laid out the case for the U.S. central bank to provide more support to a fragile economy as financial turmoil in Europe mounts.
The Labor Department last week said job growth slowed in May for the fourth straight month, heightening concerns that the deepening debt crisis in Europe and a slowdown in China were starting to dampen an already lackluster U.S. recovery.
Concerns over the course of U.S. fiscal policy may also be weighing.
A Labor Department official said no states estimated their data for last week.
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Students vote yes on referendum to make FSU a sanctuary campus
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The battle of sanctuary cities has arrived at Florida State University.
The referendum requesting to make FSU a sanctuary campus passed by 66.9 percent, a margin to strengthen the move to make the sanctuary campus decision official by SGA and the FSU administration.
After a recent petition movement for a referendum from the Tallahassee sector of Students for a Democratic Society reached 700 signatures, the Student Government Association was required to respond, and added a referendum for students to vote on that, if passed, would request the Florida State administration to declare FSU a sanctuary campus.
The majority voted "yes" on the following statement:
We the students of Florida State University believe in maintaining equality of access to higher education for all students. We therefore support the classification of Florida State University as a sanctuary campus for undocumented students. In particular, we want the FSU administration to guarantee that no FSU agencies will release the immigration status of students to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or allow ICE to come on campus. We also want the FSU administration to guarantee that undocumented students residing in Florida will continue to receive instate tuition waivers. We also want the FSU administration to guarantee that any tuition assistance for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or undocumented student that has already been awarded will not be withheld or revoked on the basis of their legal status.
Proponents of sanctuaries believe areas should be designated for undocumented refugees or immigrants to live without fear of prosecution for their lack of status. Effects of this situation mean that an undocumented person may be more likely to report crime since they no longer risk being arrested themselves, and they can also freely engage in public services to increase their quality of life.
For those against sanctuaries, the primary conflict roots itself in the lack of documentation for the persons involved. Resources intended for citizens and documented persons are now shared with an unforeseen population, and opponents of sanctuaries believe the undocumented person do not necessarily possess a right to these opportunities and materials.
Although no specific legal backing is retained by sanctuary campuses, the official declaration of such will enact policies to protect undocumented immigrants at FSU. These policies will prevent FSU agencies from releasing information on students to the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE). Additionally, ICE would be prohibited from coming onto campus. According to SGA, the policies will also protect tuition assistance from being revoked and will maintain in-state tuition waivers for undocumented students.
“The referendum, referendums in general, calls for SGA to take action on the opinions of the student body, so I am interested to see what kind of action SGA will take and how they will be held accountable for taking such action," said student body presidential candidate Erin Lusaka after the voting results were announced. "I don’t know that a referendum question was the right medium to go it. I think an opinion question might have suited their frame of reference a little bit more, but I am interested to see what SGA will do, and how the next Student Body President will act upon it.”
Now it will be up to new Student Body President Kyle Hill and the Advance Party as to whether the referendum will be acted upon; with a platform built on inclusivity and the individual student voice, the handling of the referendum will be a telling sign of just how important students' voices are to the party and to SGA as a whole.
"It’s the voice of the student body and we will definitely take that into account into our administration," Hill commented on the referendum. "The students, by 66.1 percent, passed it and believed that statement."
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TradeMark Registration in Pampore is an important mechanism through which a brand can be protected from unwanted use and infringement. Trademark registration process in Pampore has been simplified by the Government and Entrepreneurs can now easily obtain trademark registration for their brands within a few months. In this article, we look at the documents required for obtaining trademark registration in Pampore
Note: During the trademark application process, there is no requirement for submitting original documents. Scan copy of the original document would suffice the requirement.
Individuals & Sole Proprietorship
Any individual Indian National or Foreign National can easily register a trademark registration in Pampore. There is no requirement for forming a legal entity or business entity to register a trademark. Further, the documents required to register a trademark in the name of a proprietorship are the same as that of an individual as under:
Copy of the logo, preferably in black & white (Optional). In case logo is not provided, the trademark application can be filed for the word
Signed Form-48. Form-48 is a authorisation from the applicant to a Trademark Attorney for filing the trademark application on his/her behalf.
Identity Proof of the individual or Proprietor.
Address Proof of the individual or Proprietor.
Partnership | LLP | Company–Small Startup !!
To be classified as a small enterprise, the applicant would have to provide Udyog Aadhar registration certificate. Further, in addition to the Udyog Aadhar registration, the following details would be required.
Partnership / LLP / Company
In case of a partnership firm or LLP, the entrepreneur would have to submit the following:
1. Copy of Logo (Optional)
2. Signed Form-48.
3. Udyog Aadhar Registration Certificate
4. Address Proof of Signatory
5. Identity Proof of Signatory.
6. Incorporation Certificate or Partnership Deed
Other Applicants
All other applicants, including companies that do not have Udyog Aadhar registration will have to submit the following documents to obtain trademark registration in Pampore.
3. Identity Proof of Signatory
4. Address Proof of Signatory.
5. Incorporation Certificate or Partnership Deed.
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Vegan Food Is Now Britain’s Fastest Growing Takeaway — and It's Good News for the Planet
Orders of vegan takeaways jumped by 388% between 2016 and 2018.
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The British public apparently agrees: orders of vegan takeaways grew 388% between 2016 and 2018 while vegetarian orders increased by 137%.
Vegan fried chicken — swoon — and black bean burgers were among the most popular dishes according to new research by the British Takeaway Campaign.
But while Pakistani, Greek, Persian, and Turkish takeaways also grew in popularity, it wasn’t all gravy for English dishes, which saw slow growth in comparison.
Meanwhile food delivery service Deliveroo found a vast increase in meat-free supply and demand.
The Guardian reports that the number of vegan restaurants on its app have increased by 168% over the last 12 months, while vegan orders quadrupled in the last two years. Indeed, Deliveroo hit its record in June for its most vegan orders ever.
“As people look for healthier and more diverse eating options, they aren’t turning away from takeaways, they are turning towards them,” said Ibrahim Dogus, the chairman of the British Takeaway Campaign.
While I'm personally not a massive fan of takeaway food, it's certainly heartening to see that the rise in vegan living continues to increase. https://t.co/O7PXq53HCJ
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While some research has claimed that there’s a whopping 3.5 million vegans in Britain, the Vegan Society has reported it’s more like 600,000. Other estimates from the beginning of this year found that the UK’s vegan population could skyrocket by 327% by 2020.
At the same time, how much we spend on takeaways is increasing too: households now spend an average of 15% of their food expenditure on such orders, up from 11% in 2015.
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Global Women Team volunteer day: Red Cross refugee barbecue
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Barbecue and salads, searing sun, shady totara and cabbage trees, picnic blankets and a lolly scramble: this was the taste of Kiwi culture given to refugees from the Mangere Refugee Centre in Auckland and their NZ Red Cross volunteers, as part of the Global Women office team’s annual day of giving back to the community.
The refugees who took part in last Friday’s Totara Park barbecue in Manurewa had fled Afghanistan, Eqypt, Iraq and Iran to late last year spend six weeks at the Mangere Refugee Centre. They had all left the Centre December 11 2015 to begin their new lives in New Zealand.
NZ Red Cross Pathways to Settlement Volunteer Programme team leader/co-ordinator Heidi Cripps says this time of the year is not the easiest for newly-arrived refugees.
“It’s a rough time for them because they moved out of the Refugee Centre at a time when Auckland closes down. It’s a challenge for volunteers to keep the children occupied since it’s the school holidays. Usually they’re at school within the first or second week once they leave the Centre.”
The volunteers spend this critical integration period connecting families with things they need – establishing relationships with Work & Income to apply for grants for household items such as a fridge and washing machine, English classes, and enrolling them with a GP.
NZ Red Cross client services team leader, Celia Brandon, says a team within NZ Red Cross, Pathways to Employment, starts working with the families to find them employment at week five or six of being in the community. If they have the right skills and there’s good availability of employment, some families will gain employment from the third month onwards, but more often than not it takes a longer – the process of seeking and gaining employment in New Zealand may be different to what they’re used to in their home country.
For example in New Zealand, the CV and cover letter is the gateway to employment, and newcomers also need to understand the standard these must meet in a competitive job market.
“Our employment team help out with that, but it’s also about managing their expectations – some refugees assume getting into the police force, for example, would be easy because that’s where they came from back home, but it’s obviously more complicated,” says Brandon.
Other refugees might have a career plan that they need to get training for, so the NZ Red Cross volunteers would connect them with the right training organisations.
Global Women managing director Faye Langdon says giving back to the community is integral to the values of Global Women as an organisation.
“Activities like this – pulling together the barbecue – are also important for building team culture, especially when working for a values-driven organisation like Global Women.”
Global Women training and development manager Jessica Connors co-ordinated the day, and adds that aside from making a difference in the community, having your workforce run a volunteer day can build skills that are instrumental in a business environment – such as problem solving, mentoring and communications.
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Filipin complex is a neutral polyene originally isolated from S. filipinensis with antifungal activity. It inhibits cell growth as well as mitochondrial terminal electron transport in S. cerevisiae when used at a concentration of 135 ug/ml. Filipin complex binds to various sterols, particularly 24α-methyl cholesterol 24α-ethyl cholesterol, and cholesterol, in aqueous solutions and in fungal cell membranes when used at a concentration of 50 ug/ml, inducing membrane pit formation and leakage of cell contents. It is a fluorescent compound that has been used to label sterols within biological structures for imaging. Filipin complex displays excitation/emission maxima of 338/480 nm, respectively.
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[3]. Miller, R.G. Mini Review. The use and abuse of filipin to localize cholesterol in membranes Cell Biol. Int. Rep. 8(7), 519-535 (1984).
[4]. Kleinschmidt, M.G., and Chough, K.S. Effect of filipin on liposomes prepared with different types of steroids Plant Physiol. 49(5), 852-856 (1972).
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The daughter of Panamanian immigrants, Burns was raised in a New York City housing project. Her hard work earned her a spot at NYU’s engineering school, and she would go on to graduate from Columbia with a Master’s in Engineering.
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Information for people directly affected by forced marriage is also available.
A forced marriage is where one or both people do not (or in cases of people with learning disabilities or reduced capacity, cannot) consent to the marriage as they are pressurised, or abuse is used, to force them to do so. It is recognised in the UK as a form of domestic or child abuse and a serious abuse of human rights.
The pressure put on people to marry against their will may be:
physical: for example, threats, physical violence or sexual violence
emotional and psychological: for example, making someone feel like they are bringing ‘shame’ on their family
Financial abuse, for example taking someone’s wages, may also be a factor.
The Forced Marriage Unit remains in operation during coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) is a joint Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Home Office unit which leads on the government’s forced marriage policy, outreach and casework. It operates both inside the UK (where support is provided to any individual) and overseas (where consular assistance is provided to British nationals, including dual nationals).
The FMU operates a public helpline to provide advice and support to victims of forced marriage as well as to professionals dealing with cases. The assistance provided ranges from safety advice, through to helping a forced marriage victim prevent their unwanted spouse moving to the UK (‘reluctant sponsor’ cases). In extreme circumstances the FMU will assist with rescues of victims held against their will overseas.
The FMU undertakes an extensive training and awareness programme targeting both professionals and potential victims, and carries out a range of work to raise awareness.
The FMU privacy notice describes how we process data to provide support to victims and potential victims of forced marriage. The notice explains how we will use your personal data, and what your rights are in relation to our use of your personal data.
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The FMU has also produced:
Forced Marriage: A Survivor’s Handbook
What is a forced marriage? leaflet
Marriage: it’s your choice (wallet card design) (PDF, 448KB, 2 pages) - this is a business-card sized design which contains contact details for the FMU. They can be given to any potential victim and are small enough to be placed in wallets/purses
The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 made it a criminal offence in England, Wales and Scotland to force someone to marry. (It is a criminal offence in Northern Ireland under separate legislation).
taking someone overseas to force them to marry (whether or not the forced marriage takes place)
marrying someone who lacks the mental capacity to consent to the marriage (whether they are pressured to or not)
Forcing someone to marry can result in a sentence of up to 7 years in prison.
It is also possible for victims or those at risk to apply for a Forced Marriage Protection Order (FMPO). As a civil law measure, an application for a FMPO would be made in the family court. Read guidance from the Ministry of Justice on taking out an FMPO
Failure to comply with the requirements or terms set out in a FMPO granted by the Family Court, is a criminal offence and can result in a sentence of up to 5 years in prison.
In 2017 the government introduced lifelong anonymity for victims of forced marriage to encourage more victims of this hidden crime to come forward.
The government is committed to ensuring that professionals who are made aware of a forced marriage victim have the training and guidance they need to provide effective advice and support. This includes police officers, social workers, teachers, and safeguarding professionals.
The Force Marriage Unit (FMU) has created:
multi-agency practice guidelines: handling cases of forced marriage, which provides step-by-step advice for frontline workers, including health professionals, educational staff, police, children’s social care, adult social services and local authority housing
multi-agency statutory guidance for dealing with forced marriage, which provides guidance for all persons and bodies who exercise public functions in relation to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults
multi-agency practice guidelines for Forced Marriage and learning disabilities, which provides guidance and advise to frontline workers supporting children and adults with learning disabilities.
You can also read:
guidance for members of Parliament and constituency offices – available for all MPs to support them in assisting their constituents, this guidance provides background information on forced marriage and describes best practice for supporting victims and dealing with their families
guidance for registrars – this factsheet is for registrars to refer to when they suspect or know about a forced marriage
The FMU has also developed free forced marriage e-learning for professionals. The modules aim to enable professionals to recognise the warning signs and ensure that appropriate action is taken to help protect and support all those at risk.
Please email fmu@fcdo.gov.uk if you have problems registering.
The FMU runs an ongoing outreach programme across the UK, to raise awareness of forced marriage and delivers training to statutory agencies and voluntary and community organisations (including local authority safeguarding teams, police forces, and the judiciary).
If you would like us to attend your event, please fill out a speaker request form and email it to us.
You can view a collection of Forced Marriage Unit statistics including the most recent yearly release.
Other statistical information on forced marriage
The Ministry of Justice produces, as part of their family justice quarterly statistics series, data on the number of applications made for a Forced Marriage Protection Order and the number of orders granted by the court.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) produces, as part of their Violence against Women and Girls crime report, data on the number of forced marriage referrals from the police to the CPS, defendants charged and prosecutions.
The Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) developed this short film aimed at deterring potential forced marriage perpetrators. The film highlights the devastating impact forced marriage can have on victims and their families, and signposts victims and highlights where victims can turn to sources of further support.
Right to choose: consequences of forced marriage
Consequences of forced marriage
Right to choose campaign audio
The FMU has also produced an abridged audio version of the Right to choose: consequences of forced marriage video. The FMU also commissioned the audio in 5 additional languages: Arabic, Bengali, Punjabi, Somali and Urdu.
The FMU also commissioned 3 short videos to highlight the increased reports of forced marriage during the summer holidays. These videos show how to spot the signs of forced marriage and focus on 3 young people all affected by these issues.
Right to choose: spotting the signs of forced marriage (Nayana)
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Right to choose: spotting the signs of forced marriage (Jess)
Right to choose: spotting the signs of forced marriage (Azim)
The British high commission in Islamabad commissioned short animated documentaries on the issue of forced marriage in Pakistan.
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New £150,000 fund to help digital firms develop technology to combat coronavirus
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The Welsh Government has announced a £150,000 fund for healthcare firms to find new ways to use digital technology to combat coronavirus.
The challenge fund aims to quickly trial solutions in health and care to improve remote diagnostics, data collection and monitor PPE availability.
It is hoped projects applying to the Covid-19 Digital Solutions Fund will change the way people are diagnosed, treated and managed by the health service.
The fund will support the rapid piloting and evaluation of new digital platforms, apps and technologies to determine their long-term use and potential in the health service.
The budget for the competitive call to action will award up to £30k to the best five to eight projects, which meet the criteria.
These will be identified by a panel, including NHS, Welsh Government and industry representatives.
The rapid pilots will run throughout July and August with a potential for the new technology to be roll out from early September.
The following themes have been identified as offering the greatest challenge and potential impact:
Remote diagnosis and triage of patients
Optimising data collection and processing
Tracking, managing and reporting on PPE availability and usage
Remote citizen support and treatment
Applications can be submitted at www.sdi.click/coviddigital. The closing date is June 8.
Health Minister Vaughan Gething said:
“The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted an urgent need for new digital technology to help us contain and respond to the virus.
“This call to action could make a massive difference not only in our immediate response to the pandemic, but in our day-to-day health services.
“It is important we embrace digital technologies and use some of its potential to improve routine care.
“We have already received more than 180 offers of new ideas, products and services from industry, offering staff time, new apps and services during the Covid-19 pandemic. This call to action will help us evaluate the best options and their long-term value.”
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The International Factors Group (IFG) has unanimously approved the proposal of a union with Factors Chain International (FCI) at its 53rd annual meeting in Vienna, Austria.
The union seals the fate of IFG, which will transfer all assets, liabilities, and membership to FCI and will be liquidated as of January 1, 2016. The new entity will acquire a new name, still to be decided, and will have its headquarters in Amsterdam, with a division in Brussels.
The union is seen as a natural consequence given that the two associations were developing along similar and overlapping paths, like launching e-learning programmes on factoring with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The new association should instead harness efforts towards common goals, such as increasing business opportunities, regional reach, and educational programmes. “The benefits are more than what we are giving up,” summed up Margrith Lütschg-Emmenegger, IFG outgoing chairman, at the annual meeting, attended by GTR. “It will change the way the industry operates,” she said, adding that she believes the factoring sector could grow from €2tn to €10tn.
The annual meeting also provided the opportunity for the membership to elect a new board, the shortest-lived in the history of the Group, as its mandate will expire on December 31, 2015.
Jörg Diewald of GE Capital has become the new chairman, and Peter de Koning from ABN Amro, was elected as vice-chairman. Carlos Baudrand retained his position on the board. Other appointments included Peter Klaus from Eurofactor and Ulrich Brink from Bette-Westenberger-Brink in the legal committee, Simon Peterman, Fimbank, and Ilya Pokamestov, Politeks, in the education and events committee, and Nordea’s Jan Danielsen in the innovation committee.
The board and committee members will continue supervising and advising the unifying process of IFG and FCI. “It’s a good thing to take complexity out of the system,” said Diewald, “Our voice will be heard a lot better across the board.”
FCI members had approved the union at their annual general meeting in Singapore in June. FCI’s Peter Mulroy is due to take the helm of the new association as secretary general in January 2016, with IFG’s Erik Timmermans as deputy. “This is a golden era for the industry, it is the right time to do this,” Mulroy said.
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China Economy Revving Up As Western World Prepares For Crises
November 27, 2020 [email protected]_84 China, Crises, economy, prepares, Revving, Western, world
Airport workers wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus wait for COVID-19 … [+] testing at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. (AP Photo)
China’s economy is revving up as the entirety of the Western World — from Australia to the United States — is either bracing for a ‘dark winter’ or dealing with small business closures by the thousands.
Earlier this month, Dr. Anthony Fauci said SARS 2 death rates could easily surpass 400,000 by March.
According to Yelp, an online review forum for businesses, some 60% of the 163,735 businesses that are on Yelp have closed since March. Nearly 97,9oo of them said they were going out of business, according to a Yelp report in September.
Other data points about the pandemic’s impact on American businesses are more sanguine.
A study by researchers at the University of Illinois, Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago suggests that only 2% of small businesses are gone, though that was conducted in May.
said it would lay off 32,000 employees at its resorts in the U.S. But no word about laying them off at Hong Kong Disneyland or Shanghai Disney.
The U.S. stock market may have been humming along on the hopes that the pandemic was winding down, and Congress would dump trillions of stimulus into the economy. But now the ‘dark winter’ narrative is starting to play out. Barring a bazooka stimulus in the U.S. and Europe that is designed to keep small businesses alive and laid off workers financially sound, it is hard not to view China as the winner in the pandemic.
As most of the Western World has taken to rumors of lockdowns, deaths, and even greater panic attacks to come, China — whose citizens are already under the control of its government — is able to itself to Wall Street as the place to be.
About two weeks ago, Ray Dalio said that if the U.S. and Europe are going to be cowering for the next six months until there’s a cure or 60% of their populations are vaccinated with a new drug, then capital is just going to flow where there’s growth and some semblance of predictability. And that’s China.
“It’s called state capitalism, but they’ll produce more billionaires than the U.S.,” Dalio said. “I think capitalism and the development of the capital markets could, in a few years, be more embraced in China than they are in the U.S.”
In other words, top down management of the economy by unelected officials steering money towards favorite sectors — in China’s case, semiconductors, all forms of green tech, and pharmaceuticals — and protectionism.
A rainy November day in Shanghai. According to their government public health authorities, only 7 … [+] people have died of SARS 2 in the city. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)
Here’s how China’s economy.
Industrial profit growth surged to 28.2% annualized in October from 10.1% in September, with the year-to-date growth turning positive at 0.7% in October, up from -2.4% YTD in September and -3.3% in all of 2019. The surge is thanks to manufacturing growth and a boost from investment.
The higher YTD profit growth in October versus 2019 was broadly based across different businesses, with profit growth at state-owned, private and foreign enterprises contracting less to -7.5% annualized at the SOEs, 1.1% for private China companies and 3.5% for the big multinationals that rely on China for cheap labor, low taxes, and weak environmental regulations. Those numbers are an improvement from the -14.3% (SOE), -0.5% (PVT) and 2.6% (MNC) in September. The biggest gains are autos (up 6.6% from -15.9% in September), ferrous metals (-12.9% from -37.6%), and computer & communication equipment manufacturing (12.6% from 3.1%).
“China’s economic recovery remains largely on track,” says Ting Lu, chief China economist for Nomura in Hong Kong. Nomura is sticking with their GDP growth forecast of 5.7% in China for this quarter, up from 4.9% in the third.
Shanghai, which has gone almost completely unscathed by the SARS 2 pandemic so far, is reportedly testing millions of people and closing schools, the AP reported last week. The South China Morning Post and Shanghai Daily have no reports of any lockdown restrictions taking place as of Friday. Currently, 62 people in a city of 24 million are hospitalized with the SARS 2 coronavirus, according to the Chinese government.
Whether those numbers are true or not, Nomura thinks their economy is realistically sailing forward on an even keel and will be doing so in the months ahead.
“We firmly believe Beijing will maintain its policy stance,” Lu said about monetary policy and — like Dalio highlighted — its state directed capital as outlined in its most recent Five Year Plan.
The X-Trackers China CSI-300 ETF, best known by its ticker “ASHR”, is up 1.4% on Friday, beating the S&P 500, which is up 0.4%.
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Richard Orlinski sculpts to sublimate reality and create living, beautiful and timeless works of art that arouse emotion in the gaze of the other.
Resin with hand painted finish
Richard Orlinski is the best selling French contemporary artist in the world. His sculptures are designed around the theme, Born Wild, and reflect a deep reflection on animal instincts and human nature.
After having worked as an architect and interior designer when he started his career, Richard Orlinski decided in 2002 to devote himself fully to art. He left his job and worked hard for two years before revealing his first series of sculptures in 2004. His work became quickly noticed among the art community.
Orlinski reached record levels with collectors worldwide. His art can be seen in over 90 galleries around the world and has been featured in shows such as Art Elysées, FIAC and Art Basel. Richard Orlinski has been among the TOP 10 best selling French artists in the world since 2011 according to Artprice and has ranked first since 2015.
Nevertheless Richard Orlinski wants to make art accessible to the masses and exhibits his larger than life sized sculptures in public parks or cities. Whether it is at the top of the slopes like in Courchevel or Val d’Isères in the French Alps or in cities like Paris or Saulieu, he likes to settle in atypical places in order to meet the audience.
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OSHA 29 CFR 1910
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is a branch of the United States Department of Labor and has the responsibility to ensure day-to-day workplace safety for millions of Americans. As a regulatory agency of the federal government, OSHA creates rules that have the weight of law wherever they apply. For most workplaces, the rules that apply are in 29 CFR 1910.
What is OSHA 29 CFR 1910?
For reference and enforcement, the rules created by all federal regulatory agencies are collected into a multi-part document called the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Within the CFR, regulations are organized by the governing department and the topic of the rules.
The rules from the Department of Labor, including OSHA’s regulations, are found in Title 29 (Labor) of the CFR. The most commonly-encountered OSHA rules are those that apply to the “general industry,” or most workplaces in the United States, and these rules appear in Part 1910 of Title 29. This is where that mouthful of letters and numbers comes from: 29 CFR 1910 just means “Title 29 of the CFR, Part 1910.” This collection of regulations is often referred to as OSHA’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards.
While Part 1910 is the broadest collection of OSHA regulations, OSHA also has different sets of rules that apply to certain industries. Shipyards are covered in Part 1915, for example; construction is in Part 1926, and agriculture is in Part 1928.
What is Covered in 29 CFR 1910?
OSHA’s regulations in Part 1910 are divided into 20 subparts:
Subpart A - General (sections 1910.1-1910.9)
Subpart B - Adoption and Extension of Established Federal Standards (sections 1910.11-1910.19)
Subpart D - Walking and Working Surfaces (sections 1910.21-1910.30)
Subpart E - Exit Routes and Emergency Planning (sections 1910.33-1910.39)
Subpart F - Powered Platforms, Manlifts, and Vehicle-Mounted Work Platforms (sections 1910.66-1910.68)
Subpart G - Occupational Health and Environmental Control (sections 1910.94-1910.98)
Subpart H - Hazardous Materials (sections 1910.101-1910.126)
Subpart I - Personal Protective Equipment (sections 1910.132-1910.138)
Subpart J - General Environmental Controls (sections 1910.141-1910.147)
Subpart K - Medical and First Aid (sections 1910.151-1910.152)
Subpart L - Fire Protection (sections 1910.155-1910.165)
Subpart M - Compressed Gas and Compressed Air Equipment (sections 1910.166-1910.169)
Subpart N - Materials Handling and Storage (sections 1910.176-1910.184)
Subpart O - Machinery and Machine Guarding (sections 1910.211-1910.219)
Subpart P - Hand and Portable Powered Tools and Other Hand-Held Equipment (sections 1910.241-1910.244)
Subpart Q - Welding, Cutting, and Brazing (sections 1910.251-1910.255)
Subpart R - Special Industries (sections 1910.261-1910.272)
Subpart S - Electrical (sections 1910.301-1910.399)
Subpart T - Commercial Diving Operations (sections 1910.401-1910.440)
Subpart Z - Toxic and Hazardous Substances (sections 1910.1000-1910.1450)
Enforcement of 29 CFR 1910
OSHA enforces its regulations with workplace inspections and citations for failure to comply. However, the agency’s workforce can’t inspect every workplace, every day; even counting the state-specific partner agencies, OSHA has only about 2,200 inspectors to cover more than 8 million workplaces. The agency’s goal is to prevent deaths and injuries on the job, so it prioritizes those workplaces where the most serious injuries are most likely to occur, based on several factors.
In general, OSHA uses the following hierarchy of criteria to set the overall inspection priorities for enforcing its Occupational Safety and Health standards:
Imminent Danger. OSHA’s top inspection priority is any situation in which the agency becomes aware of a hazard that could cause death or serious harm. These hazards do not need to be reported to trigger an inspection. In some cases, an OSHA inspector noticed a serious hazard while driving past a workplace, and that workplace then became a top priority for inspection.
Fatalities or Catastrophes (hospitalization of three or more workers). These kinds of events must be reported to OSHA within eight hours of the incident. These events will trigger an inspection. While OSHA’s initial focus will typically be on finding the cause of the event and ensuring that it does not happen again, these accidents are rare in facilities that have made safety a priority; unrelated citations frequently follow.
Complaints. When OSHA receives a complaint about unsafe working conditions from an employee, union representative, the media, or some other knowledgeable source, the agency will give a high priority to investigating those complaints. These complaints may be kept confidential, and OSHA has been known to sue employers who unlawfully retaliate against whistleblowers.
Follow-Up. OSHA will typically return to any workplace that was previously inspected, checking that the necessary actions have been taken to resolve any problems that were found. A repeated violation (one that a facility is cited for more than once in five years) carries a much higher fine.
Planned Investigations / Programmed Investigations. These are ordinary, scheduled inspections that target high-hazard industries and workplaces.
When planning the inspections for this last category, OSHA uses data about a facility’s annual rate of injuries and illnesses to prioritize the facilities most in need of inspection. This is called OSHA’s Site-Specific Targeting program. The rates are measured in two ways: the number of worker Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART), and the number of worker Days Away From Work due to Illness or Injury (DAFWII). (Both of these rates are part of mandatory reporting.) As an example, the criteria for inclusion in OSHA’s Site-Specific Targeting program for 2014 were:
A DART rate of 7.0 or above, or a DAFWII rate of 5.0 or above, for manufacturing facilities
A DART rate of 15.0 or above, or a DAFWII rate of 14.0 or above, for non-manufacturing facilities
OSHA Inspections under 29 CFR 1910
How do inspectors go about conducting an OSHA inspection? Generally, they will follow these steps:
Research. Before beginning the inspection, the OSHA compliance officer will research the inspection history of the workplace and become familiar with the processes and operations taking place in that specific workplace. They will also research the OSHA standards that are most likely to apply to that workplace.
Arrival. When an OSHA inspector arrives, they will present their identification, which includes an OSHA photo ID and a serial number. There have been instances of people impersonating an OSHA inspector, so verifying the identity of the OSHA inspector is a good idea.
Opening Conference. The OSHA officer will meet with representatives of the workplace to give the reason for the inspection and its scope. The employer may have a representative accompany the compliance officer during the inspection. A representative for the employees, often a union representative or a foreman, also has the right to accompany the compliance officer.
The Inspection. The inspection involves walking through the areas of the workplace that the compliance officer stated would be inspected. Also, the compliance officer may look at workplace injury and illness records.
Exit Conference. When the inspection is complete, the compliance officer will meet with the employer and representatives to discuss what was found, and to present any options for future action. After the inspection, OSHA has six months to issue any citations, establish deadlines for correcting hazards, and propose penalties.
Visual Communication in OSHA’s Regulations
Throughout Part 1910, OSHA requires employers to communicate effectively with their employees. When a hazard is present, employees must be made aware of it. Where PPE is needed, employers are responsible for letting their workers know what equipment is required. There are specific communication requirements for specific situations as well, ranging from ladder safety to chemical hazards. Outside compliance experts can provide a clear perspective on safety needs, to make sure nothing is missed.
While initial training for employees is also required in many cases, ongoing communication is often handled with signs and labels. This visual communication can be the most effective and reliable way to provide important safety information. Many OSHA rules specifically require labels and signs for this reason.
Graphic Products has offered solutions for workplace visual communication since 1970, and we’re proud to provide the DuraLabel line of industrial printers to create custom labels on-site and on-demand. We also offer free resources for training and safety, including a free guide to OSHA-compliant safety signage.
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OSHA Hearing Protection Requirements
The stats don’t lie: According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 22 million workers are exposed to potentially damaging noise each year. In turn, $242 million is spent every year on workers’ compensation for hearing loss, per OSHA.
Whether in manufacturing, construction, or other noisy industries, workers must remain vigilant of noise hazards—and for employers to ensure a safe working environment.
Fortunately, OSHA offers numerous rules, regulations, and worker protections to mitigate noise hazards. Here’s a look at those hazards—and what OSHA has to say about hearing protection on the job.
Understanding and Reducing Noise Hazards
Noise is measured in decibels, which measures the intensity of a specific sound on a logarithmic scale. This means that even a small change in the number of decibels can lead to a severe change in the noise level and increase the potential for hearing damage.
The impacts of noise hazards can range from short-term damage (such as tinnitus) to permanent damage (such as total hearing loss). It doesn’t take much for noise hazards to pose a risk; even brief exposure at high sound levels can cause permanent damage, but so can long exposures at lower sound levels.
When left unaddressed, noise hazards can have several debilitating impacts on your workforce. Those may include:
Decreased health (leading to workers’ compensation claims and missed time at work)
Lower productivity and efficiency (when workers struggle to communicate)
Increased workplace accidents (when warning signals and sirens are difficult to hear)
Fortunately, employers can take several steps to reduce workplace noise hazards. Here are a few:
Choose quieter tools and machinery
Operate noisy machines when fewer people are exposed
Limit worker exposure to particular noise hazards
Display signage encouraging or requiring workers to wear hearing protection
Place walls, curtains, and other barriers between employees and the noise source
OSHA’s standard for occupational noise exposure (29 CFR 1910.95) establishes limits on workplace noise exposure.
Whenever noise exposure levels reach a time-weighted average sound level of 85 decibels for eight hours or longer (or 90 decibels in the construction industry), employers must take steps to protect employee health.
When noise levels exceed that amount, 29 CFR 1910.95 outlines the following steps for establishing a hearing conservation program and protecting employee health:
Conduct monitoring, sampling, and annual audiometric testing programs with personal noise monitoring devices; these can tell which employees are exposed to excessive noise and identify any applicable hazards.
Implement procedures for workers whose tests reveal hearing loss after annual audiometric testing. These results should be measured against an initial baseline test and may include a retest within 30 days.
Ensure that impacted workers can observe the noise measurement process.
Notify employees whenever time-weighted average sound levels reach 85 decibels for eight hours or longer.
Offer training programs that educate employees on the effects of noise on hearing, the purpose of hearing protectors, and the rationale for testing.
Provide (and evaluate) hearing protection. This may include earmuffs, earplugs, or a combination of the two. Employees should also receive instruction for fitting, testing, and training for proper use (provided at no cost to workers).
Offer clinical audiological evaluations, as appropriate.
Resources for Meeting OSHA Hearing Protection Requirements
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My Campaign Log – That Which Has Gone Before (Erseta #1 – 8)
November 14, 2011 April 25, 2018 Greyhawk GrognardUncategorizedCampaign Journal, Erseta, Glitterdark, My Campaign, RPG
I started a new campaign to replace the old Greyhawk one about four months ago, but have completely slacked off when it came to posting campaign log entries. Mea culpa. Here is a quick recap of That Which Has Gone Before, so I can start campaign logs after our next session with (hopefully) more regularity. Sorry if this first one turns out to be a bit lengthy. For those who want to skip to the slightly more detailed account of what happened in our most recent game last Friday, it is marked below.
The campaign is set in Erseta, which is a homebrew campaign of my own design that you might just be hearing more about in the future. It’s very much a late Medieval/early Renaissance Europe analogue, and I’m quite content with that; I’m not interested in doing “weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird fantasy”.
We’ll all be rich! Rich as Nazis!
The players started out in the Barony of Rittergeist, having heard tales of the lost dwarven city of Glitterdark and determined to find the place and explore it and become rich.
Initially, they were sent on a mission to recover a certain book from the tower of a famous savant who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. After a few misadventures they discovered what appeared to be the savant himself in the cellar, confined within a magic circle and seemingly unaware of the passage of time. However they cleverly deduced that it was not the savant after all, but a daemon in his guise. They alerted the local High Church officials to the peril, returned the book, and continued on their southeasterly march to Glitterdark.
Upon entering an expanse of forest, they made camp and were approached by a man named Vert, who demanded from them all of their coins in return for being allowed safe passage through “his” forest. The one party member who had been on guard duty, and who had witnessed his transformation from human form to that of a green dragon, convinced the rest to comply, and most did so, albeit somewhat reluctantly.
Upon reaching the village of Tresen, however (the southeasternmost settlement in Rittergeist), they were informed by the locals– with no small amount of mirth– that Vert was indeed a green dragon, but one only three years of age, and eagerly accumulating his first hoard of treasure. Somewhat sheepishly, they continued on their way southeast through the forest, encountering a section that seemed preternaturally dark and foreboding. A carnivorous tree attacked them (and they inadvertently killed one of their own party members while trying to free him and hit the tree), they were beset upon by giant weasels and a giant skunk (the latter having sprayed their encampment when one of them shouted “KA-KAW!” upon seeing the creature; the attempt to frighten it succeeded). Fortunately, one of the spell-casters had the “clean” cantrip, which served to assist greatly with the aftermath of the startled skunk’s attack.
Turning to a more southwardly direction, they emerged from the forest only to encounter a mounted patrol of Vanarian troops, who closely questioned them on their business in that fair kingdom. More to the point, since the party’s two clerics were members of the Dornian Church, and Vanaria adheres to the Reformed Church. (There is general unanimity in religion in the campaign area in theological terms, but the High Church is split by schism into three competing and mutually hostile factions; the Erian Church, the Dornian Church, and the Reformed Church. All worship the same gods and share the same broadly lawful good alignment, and differences of doctrine stem more from history and organization than anything else. Rittergeist has an official policy of tolerance, but it is more common for one faction to be deemed the “official” one of any particular land.) Fortunately the captain of the Vanarian patrol was himself a follower of the Dornian church, even though his men were Reformed, and he allowed the party to return into the forest, and thus Rittergeist, before his men did something unpleasant to the heretics.
The party had not set out with a lot of provisions, and they were now running low on food. This turned out to be a good opportunity to try out the ADD hunting rules, and for the most part things worked out well. However, one of the hunting groups, which had itself split into single hunters, stumbled upon an aurochs in the forest. One of the hunters attacked and almost killed the creature, but was slain before he could do so. The other hunter then came upon the scene, climbed a tree, and finished off the much-weakened beast, providing pot roast for all for a month.
Now reaching the foothills of the mountains in which Glitterdark was held to be located, the party came upon a crazy-looking dwarven smith. Scattered all about the place were piles of tools, weapons, armor, and the like rusting in the grass around the smithy, with the smith, Klegg Irontooth, gibbering to himself as he worked. The party, through careful coaxing, was able to glean that Klegg had indeed been at Glitterdark when the city was sealed against the plague, and he was obviously suffering from a form of survivor’s guilt. When he found that the party was heading into Glitterdark, he became more agitated, but picked up a large key from amongst the various bits and pieces on the ground and handed it to the dwarf in the party. “You’ll need this,” he said.
Some exploring in the mountains finally yielded the lost dwarven city, whose gatehouse had been partially covered by a rockslide. The gatehouse itself was home to a family of bears (which the party shamelessly killed) and kestrel-men who weren’t acting particularly aggressive, but who kept a steady watch on the party. When the party attempted to take them on, however, one of the fighters was quickly slain and the rest backed off.
Upon entering Glitterdark proper, the party discovered a large circular room with six 10′ alcoves protected by barred gates. The key handed them by Klegg Irontooth fit one of the locks, and when the gate was opened the alcove filled with a swirling mist, which disappeared when the key was removed. The gnome was sent forth to investigate and discovered that the mist was actually a magical gate of some sort, leading to an alley in a town above ground, whose exact location and name were a mystery. He reported his findings and after a little more experimentation with the gate to figure out just how it worked, the party continued on into Glitterdark.
Most of the area the party explored seemed to be overrun with goblins. Although they were able to slay quite a few themselves, others had escaped and the party, weakened and injured through a half-dozen fights, decided to retreat through the gate and figure out where exactly it led, despite the gate being only one-way, as far as they could ascertain, since there was no obvious lock for the key on the receiving end.
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It turned out that the gate led approximately sixty miles away to the town of Ritterheim, capital of Rittergeist. There, although still rather low on funds, they were able to rest and recharge in the Red Swan Inn. While getting the feel for the town, the cleric was informed of the visit of one Lord Klammerhark, who had come to woo the Baron’s daughter Siglund. The Dornian church is opposed to any such marriage, because Klammerhark is a Reformed church member. If such a wedding could be short-circuited, the Church would be most happy.
They also approached one of the regulars in the Red Swan, a halfling named Thrivin Mossberg, who says he is in the business of “uniting sellers of rare merchandise with interested buyers (with no questions asked)”. It turned out that the halfling was expecting a certain shipment at the docks that very night, which he would pay 100 g.p. to have brought into the city proper without the prying eyes of the guards at the gate looking through it.
Most of the party leaped to the challenge, and an absolutely hilarious episode ensued as the bard attempted to gain access to the top of the city walls by first entertaining the guards in one tower (distracting them so the gnome could get out of the city), and then convincing the guards in another tower that he wanted to go to the top of the wall so his female companion and he could have some private time (“she likes high places”) in order to help the gnome get the crates back into the city. It was a hoot as he kept stretching the story, and making critical rolls for his attend and other abilities, until the guards finally demanded the pair leave, and a mad dash ensued to get the last of the crates off the wall before the guards discovered it. A wonderful example of improvisational play gently assisted by social encounter rules, rather than simply saying “make a challenge roll”. I think none of us laughed so much in a gaming session in years.
So that’s where the campaign stands at the moment. Still tons of unanswered questions about Glitterdark; what actually happened to the dwarves? Where do those other gates go, and where are the keys to activate them? How do you activate the gate to go into Glitterdark (if it’s even possible)? And some plots and mysteries in Ritterheim are starting to take shape as well; the desire of the church to stop a potential wedding, the contents of those crates that the halfling paid to have brought into the town, and few other things taking shape.
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This is the Fourth part of 12 jyotirlinga in which we will discuss about last four jyotirlinga which are
Nageshwara, Rameshwara, Trimbakeshwar, Grishneshwar. So lets start with the nineth jyotirling.
9) Nageshvara Jyotirlinga:
Nageshvara Jyotirlinga is one of the 12 Jyotirlinga shrines mentioned in the Shiva Purana. Nageshvara is believed to be the first Jyotirlinga on the earth.
Nageshvara Jyotirlinga – 12 Jyotirlinga
The Shiva Purana says Nageshvara Jyotirlinga is in ‘the Darukavana’, which is an ancient name of a forest in India. ‘Darukavana’ finds mention in Indian epics, such as Kamyakavana, Dvaitavana, Dandakavana. There is a narrative in the Shiva Purana about the Nageshvara Jyotirlinga which tells of a demon named Daaruka, who attacked a Shiva devotee named Supriya and imprisoned him along with many others in his city of Darukavana, a city under the sea inhabited by seasnakes and demons. At the urgent exhortations of Supriya, all the prisoners started to chant the holy mantra of Shiva and immediately thereafter the Lord Shiva appeared and the demon was vanquished, later residing there in the form of a Jyotirlinga.
And this is how it happened: the demon had a wife, a demoness named Daaruki who worshipped Mata Parvati. As a result of the demoness Daaruki’s great penance and devotion, Mata Parvati gave her a great boon: the goddess enabled her to master the forest where she performed her devotions, and the forest she renamed ‘Darukavana’ in her honour. Wherever Daaruki went the forest would follow her. In order to save the demons of Darukavana from the punishment of the gods, Daaruka summoned up the power she had been given by the goddess Parvati. Devi Parvati had given her power enough to move the forest and so she moved the entire forest into the sea. From here they continued their campaign against the hermits, kidnapping people and keeping them confined in their new lair under the sea, which was how that great Shiva devotee, Supriya, had wound up there.
The arrival of Supriya caused a revolution. He set up a lingam and made all the prisoners recite the mantra Om Namaha Shivay in honour of Shiva while he prayed to the lingam. The demons’ response to the chanting was to attempt to kill Supriya, though they were thwarted by Shiva appearing there and handing him a divine weapon that saved his life. Daaruki and the demons were defeated, and the demons that Supriya didn’t kill were saved by Parvati. The lingam that Supriya had set up was called Nagesha; it is the tenth lingam. Shiva once again assumed the form of a Jyotirlinga with the name Nageshwar, while the Goddess Parvati was known as Nageshwari. The Lord Shiva announced there and then that he would show the correct path to those who would worship him.
10) Ramanathaswamy Temple:
Ramanathaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to god Shiva located on Rameswaram island in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams, where the three of the most revered Nayanars (Saivite saints), Appar, Sundarar and Tirugnana Sambandar, have glorified the temple with their songs.
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According to the Ramayana, Rama, the seventh incarnation of god Vishnu, is believed to have prayed to Shiva here to absolve sin of killing a brahmana, committed during his war against the demon king Ravana in Sri Lanka. Rama wanted to have the largest lingam to worship Shiva. He directed Hanuman, the monkey lieutenant in his army, to bring the lingam from Himalayas. Since it took longer to bring the lingam, Sita, the wife of Rama, built a small lingam out of the sand available in the sea shore, which is believed to be the lingam in the sanctum.
Rameshwaram temple corridor
The primary deity of the temple is Ramanathaswamy (Shiva) in the form of lingam. There are two lingams inside the sanctum – one built by Goddess Sita, from sand, residing as the main deity, Ramalingam and the one brought by Lord Hanuman from Kailash called Vishwalingam. Rama instructed that Vishwalingam should be worshipped first since it was brought by Lord Hanuman – the tradition continue even today.
11) Trimbakeshwar Temple:
Trimbakeshwar (त्र्यंबकेश्वर) or Tryambakeshwar is an ancient Hindu temple in the town of Trimbak, in the Trimbakeshwar tehsil in the Nashik District of Maharashtra, India, 28 km from the city of Nashik. It is dedicated to Lord Shiva and is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas.
It is located at the source of the Godavari River, the longest river in peninsular India. The Godavari River, which is considered sacred within Hinduism, originates from Bramhagiri mountains and meets the sea near Rajahmudry. Kusavarta, a kund is considered the symbolic origin of the river Godavari, and revered by Hindus as a sacred bathing place.
Trimbakeshwar Temple – 12 Jyotirlinga
Trimbakeshwar is a religious center having one of the twelve Jyotirlingas. The extraordinary feature of the Jyotirlinga located here is its three faces embodying Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Rudra. Due to excessive use of water, the linga has started to erode. It is said that this erosion symbolizes the eroding nature of human society. The Lingas are covered by a jeweled crown which is placed over the Gold Mask of Tridev (Brahma Vishnu Mahesh). The crown is said to be from the age of Pandavs and consists of diamonds, emeralds, and many precious stones.
All other Jyotirlingas have Shiva as the main deity. The entire black stone temple is known for its appealing architecture and sculpture and is at the foothills of a mountain called Brahmagiri. Three sources of the Godavari originate from the Brahmagiri mountain.
12) Grishneshwar Temple:
Grishneshwar, Grushneshwar Jyotirlinga is one of the 12 Jyotirlinga shrines mentioned in the Shiva Purana. Grishneshwar is believed as the Last or 12th (twelfth) Jyotirlinga on the earth. This pilgrimage site is located at a village called Verul which lies at a distance of 11 km from Daulatabad (Devagiri) and 30 km from Aurangabad. It lies at a close proximity to the Ellora caves.
Grishneshwar Temple
The temple stands as an illustration of the pre-historic temple traditions as well as of the pre-historic architectural style and structure. The inscriptions on the temples are a source of much attraction to ardent travellers. The temple, built of red rocks, is composed of a five tier shikara. Restored in the 18th century by Ahilyabai Holkar, the temple is 240 x 185 feet tall. It houses beautiful carvings and sculptures of many Indian Gods and Goddesses. Holy water is known to spring from inside the temple.
According to Shivapuran, in the southern direction, on a mountain named Devagiri lived a Brahmin called Brahmavetta Sudharm along with his wife Sudeha. The couple did not have a child because of which Sudeha was sad. Sudeha prayed and tried all possible remedies but in vain. Frustrated of being childless, Sudeha got her sister Ghushma married to her husband. On the advice of her sister, Ghushma used to make 101 lingas, worship them and discharge them in the nearby lake. With the blessings of Lord Shiva, Ghushma gave birth to a baby boy. Because of this, Ghushma became proud and Sudeha started feeling jealous towards her sister.
Out of jealously, one night she killed Ghushma’s son and threw him in the lake where Ghushma used to discharge the lingas. Next morning, Ghushmas and Sudharm got involved in daily prayers and ablutions. Sudeha too, got up and started performing her daily choirs. Ghushma’s daughter-in-law, however, saw stains of blood on her husband’s bed and parts of the body drenched in blood. Horrified, she narrated everything to mother-in-law Ghushma who was absorbed in worshipping Shiva. Ghushma did not deter. Even her husband Sudharma did not move an inch. Even when Ghushma saw the bed drenched in blood she did not break down and said he who has given me this child shall protect him and started reciting Shiva-Shiva. Later, when she went to discharge the Shivalingas after prayers she saw her son coming. Seeing her son Ghushma was neither happy nor sad.
At that time Lord Shiv appeared before her and said – I am pleased with your devotion. Your sister had killed your son. Ghushma told Lord to forgive Sudeh and emancipate her. Pleased with her generosity, Lord Shiva asked her another boon. Ghushma said that if he was really happy with her devotion then he should reside here eternally for the benefit of the multitudes in form of a Jyotirling and may you be known by my name. On her request, Lord Shiva manifested himself in the form of a Jyotirling and assumed the name Ghushmeshwar and the lake was named as Shivalaya thereafter.
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Our mission is to protect the life of the land and the health of our communities through education about organic land care practices. We believe that developing and strengthening certified organic farms will enhance Hawai’i's many fragile ecosystems and be a base for a local sustainable economy.
HOFA was formed in 1993 in response to the federally mandated Organic Food Production Act (OFPA) of 1990. HOFA’s purposes are certification of organic farms, education and research, and providing a unified voice for Hawai'i’s organic agriculture industry. HOFA anticipates that accomplishing these will lead to a viable sustainable agriculture sector in Hawaii, providing for greater self-reliance in food production, greater food security for the State of Hawaii, development of locally produced agricultural inputs, expansion of value-added products, and strengthening of community through support of a healthy diversified agricultural sector characterized by a balanced mix of small, medium and large-scale farming enterprises.
Services that HOFA provides
HOFA is federally accredited to offer Basic Crop, Apiary, Livestock, and Processing/Handling certifications.
Farm Apprentice Program
HOFA’s Farm Apprenticeship Program is a collaborative arrangement between HOFA certified farms and individuals seeking work trade opportunities on organic farms in Hawai’i through hands-on experience and instruction.
Information & Education
HOFA offers many publications and resources to assist producers and consumers with tropical organic agriculture. HOFA conducts workshops, conferences and participates in tradeshows. HOFA has a video, ‘Growing toward the Light’, which showcases Hawaii’s organic farms.
HOFA collaborates with farmers and researchers on projects pertaining to organic and sustainable tropical agriculture.
Who is HOFA?
HOFA members are people like you who care about the food they eat and its impact on the environment. Our membership is made up of local organic farmers, distributors, retailers, students, and consumers wishing to support and promote organic agriculture in Hawaii. You do not need to be an organic producer to be a member. Members receive regular newsletters and notices of events, workshops, conferences, and seminars.
Why organic agriculture is important
Organic agriculture respects the balance of a healthy ecosystem by encouraging wildlife, creating plant and animal diversity, building healthy soils, and through the protection and conservation of water resources. Organic farming is an important building block for the health and future of all resources on our planet while developing economic viability and quality of life for our rural communities.
Any individual, business, or agency wishing to support or promote organic agriculture may join HOFA as a supporting member.
Basic Member $35/year
Senior Member (age 65 or older) $15/year
Student (K-12, college or farm apprentice) $10/year
Family or Business $50/year
Lifetime Membership (one-time payment) $350 ($150 senior)
HOFA
PO Box 6863, 474 Kalanikoa St., Hilo, HI 96720
Tel: 808/ 969-7789;
Hawai'i Tropical Fruit Growers (HTFG)
Hawai'i Tropical Fruit Growers is a nonprofit organization, incorporated in 1989, with the primary purpose of promoting the interests of any and all aspects of tropical fruit in the State of Hawai'i. HTFG is dedicated to tropical fruit research, education, marketing and promotion.
Research: Advancement of Hawaii's tropical fruit industry through research is the heart of Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers. HTFG funds and participates in studies to improve cultural practices and post harvest treatments. Research recently completed includes development of value-added products from off-grade tropical fruit.With our research grants, we work in close partnership with the University of Hawai'i College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR), and the USDA-ARS Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center (PBARC).
Education: The annual International Tropical Fruit Conference each fall serves as the focal point of information dissemination and training for the industry. The far-reaching and timely topics highlight new research, industry news, and trends. Featured speakers are tropical fruit experts from around the world. Now in its fifteenth year, the popular conference also features orchard tours and demonstrations, fruit tasting, and a benefit auction. Chapter workshops and seminars held throughout the year present important issues and informative speakers. These meetings are a great venue for the exchange of knowledge and experience. HTFG organizes tours to international research symposiums. Past tours visited Australia and Thailand. Members receive a subscription to Agriculture Hawaii magazine.
Promotion: HTFG promotes tropical fruits and our members at trade shows, food festivals and industry events. We bring in fresh, delicious, unusual fruits for demonstrations on preparing and enjoying. It is rewarding and fun to watch the participants get excited over their new fruit discoveries. Our West Hawaii Chapter recently introduced tropical fruit posters and cards to promote Hawaii's many tropical fruit varieties to chefs, retailers and consumers. Commercial Grower members receive exposure through HTFG's Commercial Directory, distributed to fruit industry professionals interested in purchasing fruit, trees or value-added products.
Representation: HTFG participates in the Hawai'i Farm Bureau's Commodity Advisory Group, representing the interests of the tropical fruit industry and coordinating state level efforts to benefit Hawai'i agriculture.
The Hawaii tropical fruit industry is growing rapidly, especially on the Big Island. Our membership includes people who work in many aspects of this business: small growers and commercial growers, nursery stock growers of tropical fruit trees, packers and wholesalers, and manufacturers of tropical fruit specialty products. The majority of HTFG members farm on the island of Hawai'i and we have three active chapters here. They are the East Hawai'i Chapter, the West Hawai'i Chapter and the Cacao Chapter.
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Know Your Farmer Alliance (KYFA)
By Geoff Rauch
Know Your Farmer Alliance (KYFA) is a grassroots educational and activist group of farmers/gardeners/friends who support a vibrant and self-sufficient local food economy based on ecological growing methods. We know that a strong community is as self-sufficient as possible and cares for its land and people with a passion. Pure, fresh, local and naturally grown food is our birthright and our vision. There is much to learn from each other and all are welcome.
After six years of workshops, farm tours, newsletters, seed exchanges, meetings and assorted projects such as the “GMO Free Zone” and “Little Fire Ant Alert,” Lyn, Geoff and Nancy are moving in new directions. Lyn’s’ heart is in music and aquaponics, Geoff has initiated the Puna Small Farm Initiative, a “Farm Aid Project”, and Nancy coordinates the Hawaii Island School Garden Network.
The Alliance website remains active and we encourage anyone who would like to do a related workshop, farm tour, etc. to contact us and we will try to support them as much as possible under the KYFA umbrella. There are many new and special eco-agricultural events happening on the Big Island and we are looking for someone (or an existing group) with passion and vision, to guide KYFA into the future.
Meanwhile the Puna Small Farm Initiative (a KYFA project) is about to facilitate its second event. This initiative targets small local family farms for direct community support. Deferred maintenance, simple expansion plans and endless projects that never quite get started or finished are possible candidates for our help. This is an opportunity to physically help those who bring our community the gift of quality local food. It is also a great way to get to “Know Your Farmer.” The families feel supported and valued, we have a great day meeting new friends and working together - knowing we are making a difference! Please consider joining us on Nov. 7, 10 am to 5pm at Milk and Honey Farm in Pahoa (see Events listing above). We will do a variety of tasks and share a healthy farm salad lunch.
Please call KYFA for details and to sign up at 936-7040.
North Kohala Food Forum
By Andrea Dean
The North Kohala Food Forum grew out of a perceived need to bring together all of the parties involved in the producing, buying, selling, and distributing of food in North Kohala for a community conversation on producing more of our food locally.
At the Hawaii Island Homegrown: Food Self-Reliance Workshop held in Hawi on March 8, 2009, a number of action items around community food self-reliance emerged, one of them being to convene a North Kohala Food Forum. The ideas behind the food forum are to:
Share information by providing a forum for communication between the many food self-sufficiency projects, businesses, organizations, and interested parties in North Kohala.
Allow synergistic partnerships to form, so as to not duplicate efforts and to increase community buy-in and support of existing efforts.
Identify the key barriers to local food production and working together.
Glean insight as to what the public is thinking about local food self-sufficiency.
Begin to get a “lay of the land” with regards to who is doing what and why.
Begin to track progress towards food self-sufficiency, but not to impose a plan.
The North Kohala Community Development Plan Strategy 1.4 is to Promote and Support a community of Diversified Agriculture and the first goal is “The North Kohala community will produce 50% of the food it consumes.”
The North Kohala community has many existing and emerging commercial and community projects that could lead to increased food self sufficiency, but there is currently no forum or organized way for all interested parties to share information. The North Kohala Food Forum believes that the sharing of information is the first step in building collaborative partnerships towards a stated community goal. In order to get the “lay of the land” before the actual Food Forum on August 22, 2009, each invited participant was given a survey to complete. You may find the complete unedited responses from each participant, summaries of the data, and a summary of the Food Forum proceedings on the forum web site. You can also view the raw data, track progress, view the PowerPoint presentations from the forum, and connect with other interested community members.
The North Kohala Food Forum is a project of the North Kohala Community Resource Center with funding provided by: the County of Hawaii, Dept. of Research & Development, Hoea Agricultural Park, The Ulupono Initiative, Steering Committee Members, Starseed Ranch, and local contributors. The North Kohala Food Forum Steering Committee consists of Bob Martin, Andrea Dean, Forrest Arnold, Shannon Casey, Guy Kaulukukui, Christine Richardson, Karen Rosen.
Slow Food Hawai'i Convivium
Slow Food Hawai'i subscribes to the Statement of Principles adopted by Slow Food USA:
recognizing the interdependence of people with one another and with our environment
caring for the land and protecting biodiversity for today's communities and future generations
promoting pure food that is local, seasonal and organically grown
recognizing food as a language that expresses cultural diversity
preserving the myriad traditions of the table
cultivating and reinvigorating a sense of community and place
Pleasure and Quality in Everyday Life
celebrating the diverse expressions of our earth's bounty
appreciating and encouraging creativity, passion and beauty
respecting and supporting artisans who grow, produce, market, prepare and serve wholesome food
following democratic principles in a spirit of sharing and service
educating members and others about Slow Food's mission
dedicating ourselves to local cooperation and global collaboration
Authenticity and Integrity
insuring our values are embodied by all staff, board members and convivium leaders
manifesting these values in all of our events, projects and publications
committing ourselves to partnerships with like-minded individuals and organizations
To these we would add a concern for humane treatment of farm animals, and a policy of supporting food charities from the proceeds of all events.
To join Slow Food USA, visit their website
When you sign up, you will be asked which "Convivium" you want to be a part of - select "Hawai‘i Chapter" and you're on board for a variety of wonderful events.
As a member, there are many ways to get involved and be heard. You will have an opportunity to participate in all our programs and attend all local, national and international events.
For more information, contact Shelby Floyd, 351-0723
Sustainable Kohala, North Kohala
by Deborah Winter
Sustainable Kohala is a network of over 200 people living in and around North Kohala who are promoting community sustainability and resilience. We are an informal volunteer group formed almost 2 years ago. As the earthquake of October 2006 reminded us, we live on an isolated island with a very fragile infrastructure. We import most of our food and all of our manufactured goods. Like all of Hawaii, because of our isolation, we are vulnerable to a host of emergencies caused by weather-related disasters, rising fuel costs, economic decline, terrorism, epidemic infections, etc. We now depend on available on-the-shelf food supplies, with less than a week’s reserve on hand. Any of these global events could easily leave us stranded and unable to meet our basic survival needs for food, water, and power.
But even without disasters, we exist to promote a more sustainable life, living lightly, building community, and reducing our carbon footprint. Thankfully, in the not-too-distant past, North Kohala was self sufficient; residents relied upon what they could cultivate, hunt, or make. We work to recover these skills as we connect with our neighbors, listen, help, and learn from each other. An important goal is to spread the spirit of ohana, learn from our elders, and teach each other survival skills. Our vision is a thriving community with emergency readiness, local food security, neighborhood ohanas, sustainable agriculture, sustainable energy, zero waste, ecosystem resilience, affordable housing, inter-generational participation—in other words, “Supersistence” - not just surviving, but thriving with better quality of life.
Our current programs include:
Monthly Film: free showings of full length movies to inform, inspire, and illustrate strategies for sustainability. First Sunday of every month at The Barn behind Luke’s, Hawi (7 p.m.)
Talk Story sessions on Sustainable Agriculture and Emergency Readiness
Green Zone at Kohala Country Fair: Green Booths, Seed Exchange, Green Auction, and Talk Story sessions promoting sustainability
Transition Town Handbook study group
Garden Club in which neighbors help and learn from each other’s gardens
We’ve also held workshops and tours of, bio-dynamic composting, permaculture gardens, raised bed gardening, sheet mulching. In addition, we hold semi annual group meetings with information exchange and potluck dinner, as well as monthly meetings of the Steering Committee.
We have big dreams for what life will look like as a sustainable region: extensive backyard gardens and small farms; enhanced Farmers’ Markets; Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs where customers prepay for weekly produce; effective distribution of fresh food for all income levels; accurate data base of all food being produced in Kohala; farm map so people know when and where to buy local produce from farmers selling directly; gardening programs for all school-aged children; affordable and swift connection to Kohala ditch water for any and all serious gardeners; solar collector on every building; water catchment for every dwelling; re-use and recycle stations throughout Kohala; community gardens; and emergency planning by neighborhoods.
We welcome members into our network. To get on our email list, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Sustainable Kohala is sponsored by the North Kohala Community Resource Center, and can accept tax-deductible donations.
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Has The ‘RPG Style’ Ruined Modern Gaming?
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Ahh, the RPG (Role-Playing Game). Be it turn-based, action, sandbox, tactical, or MMO, there is something to be said for the genre.
Let me say something before I truly begin my quest here. I love Role-Playing Games. I love the open worlds and adventures. The lengthy stories and character development keep me entertained and inthralled for hours on end. Leveling up my character and picking new attributes is my favorite thing about video games. That being said, there are elements from my first love here that are seeping into other games. The problem with this is, I don’t know if it is ruining those other games or making RPGs better.
That Really Grinds My Gears
If you have been paying attention to the way games are evolving you might have noticed that one specific element of the RPG is creeping its way in to all video games, ‘Grinding’. Grinding, while makes sense in RPGs, has no business being in any other type of game. Let me explain. Grinding is a practice where, I, as an adventurer go out into the world, kill monsters, run tasks for villagers, and collect gold (or whatever the monetary value of the game is) and experience to make my character stronger to continue on with said game, over, and over, and over again. As my character grows in power, it allows them to overcome more difficult challenges, and gain even more power from there, be it in my magic, healing, or strength skills.
In RPGs this is a very important element of the game. Grinding may seem tedious, (and it is, don’t get me wrong) but it’s a needed element in the RPG. It is not, however, a needed element in sports/racing, music, or action games. In games such as the Final Fantasy series it is important to find new and powerful gear, raise your power level, and max out stats so that the next big boss fight is manageable. This involves a bit of grinding in the monster filled fields for you to fight over and over again. Running side quest after side quest before doing the main quest features so you have a bit of an easier time with it. It’s just a given that you will spend hours in the country side of Skyrim and Witcher 3 fighting monsters, sneaking, stealing, killing, and performing magic to level up and have phenomenal cosmic powers!
(without the itty bitty living space)
However as great as this playtime is for RPG fans, I can see it growing annoying, and almost silly, for other types of gamers. It’s a game mechanic that can ruin an Action Adventure or First Person Shooter game, however, more and more you see this happening. But, why?
There are plenty of games that let you prove your skill at playing while only giving you new tools as you progress. You don’t have to go and fight the same monsters over and over again just to get better gear. The game will proclaim “Player! You have advanced this far! Here is a new power or new item to help you get a leg up on what is to come”. Sure there are some chances to upgrade those powers as you go but it doesn’t require you to grind.
One series that continues to do this flawlessly is The Legend of Zelda. No matter what incarnation they put out next I’ve never seen an experience bar or skill tree. I don’t have to keep fighting the same enemies if I don’t want to (unless the door locks behind me). The game overall is simply told. You, young boy adventurer, set out on a quest to save a princess from an evil man threatening the kingdom with darkness. You roam somewhat freely from dungeon to dungeon and gain new tools and weapons to help you in the next area and hearts for your life meter as you go. That’s it! Never once have they failed to disappoint me. Even if gameplay is 5, 10, or 15 hours to play through I leave feeling like I saved the land of Hyrule and kept the Triforce safe.
There is no Grinding with Link. I never have to ‘level up’ to get on with the next castle and boss. I use the tools I am given and attack things until they are dead. Or I don’t. The choice is mine and the game isn’t harder or easier for my lack of effort. The Legend of Zelda continues to ‘wow’ fans over and over again despite this easy formula. So why do other games make me grind when the Zelda games figured out that I don’t need to?
Grinding isn’t the only element from RPGs that has made it into most modern games. Secondary/Side Quests given by NPCs (Non-playable characters) in the middle of the the game have become a way AAA games can take their 10-12 hour game and stretch it to 200 hours without batting an eyelash. While this isn’t a bad thing for RPGs for most games it can become a chore and players may even ask what the point is.
In games like The Division I found it hard, and annoying, trying to finish the main story line quests (which there isn’t much of). I felt like I was being thrown this way and that just to find a missing piece of data or to help out in a scene recreating the O.K Corral. Why do First/Third person shooter games, like The Division and Destiny, want to get in on this action? Is it so wrong that FPSs stay Linear? If The Division gave me just one story to follow, going through points of the story and unlocking characteristics to better my play-though it could have been more enjoyable.
Call of Duty (regardless about how you feel about the storylines) has a very specific goal. Tell a story and have players go through said story. Halo has the same idea. With their linear story comes a separate multiplayer aspect that lets people play together without bringing in the RPG elements. Sure, players can ‘level up’ but it just unlocks new guns and perks for you to play with. It has no impact in the story. Having a 5/7 hour gameplay story would be fun for a few play-throughs once and alone or with friends in co-op. Then spending months playing the multiplayer with DLC that comes out once in a while is perfect as far as FPSs go. There is no need to ‘add to the story’ but making me complete worthless side quests that have no impact on me other than experience and in-game currency to buy terrible weapons and gear that I find laying in the street.
Side Quests, much like in The Witcher 3 or Skyrim serve for their own stories. Characters live or die, new loot and enemies are found, new challenges await you, and while yes it distracts from the main story line you feel like your time was well spent (usually) helping out that NPC. In Destiny or The Division I have no idea why I did what I did, who I killed, or why I should care. “DID IT DROP LOOT? No? Damn… Let’s do it again.”
A Story to Tell
The reason games like Gears of War, Call of Duty, and Halo are so popular is because they don’t mix what they are known for with current game trends (well, other than microtransactions). This isn’t to say that Destiny and The Division aren’t good games, but what made them step into the RPG realm with their shooter game? Why do I need to grind and complete side quests to level up my shooter-game character?
The developers focus more on having fans grind for better gear that the stories end up suffering a great deal because of it. RPGs make this one seamless thing. Main Story, Side quests, and Grinding all work seamlessly together. Sometimes they can suffer but on the whole they do a great job. The stories in these games, of which there is little-to-none, and to some players that is frustrating. Thats like if you were to watch Harry Potter, and instead of Harry learning things in school and facing against the Dark Lord and his henchmen and ultimately defeating them, Harry, Ron, and Hermonie instead spent a hour and a half in the basement of Hogwarts killing the same Troll over and over again. That is until they got better wands, robes, hats, owls, cauldrons, spell books, and potions and then just went right up to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and zapped him, just for his ultimate ultra rare 13 1/2″ Yew Wand with a Phoenix Feather core.
This is MY wand. There are many like it but this one is mine! NOW DIE POTTER!
My point is, is that when a story suffers in a game it becomes boring, and repetitive, and then no one wants to play anymore. Games like The Witcher 3 and Undertale take elements of both action and RPG games and mix them together with no issues, like PB&J. The Story holds up and is still well told even after I’ve done two or three side quests or have been grinding for 2 hours before coming back to it.
A lot of what I am asking in this just tends to open up for more questions. I think the gaming industry needs to pick a side and either create a game that works seamless in telling a story, developing characters, AND having a skill tree, or make a linear shooter/action game with a separate multiplayer (or not) for people to enjoy well after playing through the story. While I do love most modern games, like I said before, if you aren’t a fan of this style it might take you out of it. What do you think about it? Are RPG elements ruining your FPS/action/sports games or do you feel that the grinding and lack of story is enhancing them with longer hours of gameplay? Tell me in the comments below!
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John Donadio a.k.a. SomeBeardy2Love is the COO here at GAW. He once had a show that he produced, wrote, and co-hosted called the Wide World of Games, you can probably find it on youtube. He is also a co-host on a podcast called Party Up! John is an Action-Adventurer, platformer, RPGer, and FPS kind of gamer. Quick to play any game that has magic, swordplay, and/or stealthy elements. If you can customize a character he is in it for the long haul or just give me your 2D platform and he's a happy camper. What else do you expect from a gamer with a beard and a bow tie tattoo? Seriously.
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Control “AWE” DLC Review
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About 15 years ago, we saw the first look at Remedy's newest game Alan Wake. The game followed the journey of the title character into the depths...
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Redhill Games, a new studio created by industry veterans from Wargaming and Remedy, announced their debut title Nine to Five at The Game...
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With the many third-person shooter adventures out there in the market, only a handful truly stand out from the rest. Then there's Remedy, a company...
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Turn of Mind (Paperback)
By Alice Laplante
Compact Disc (May 15th, 2012): $22.39
Hardcover (July 5th, 2011): $24.00
Turn of Mind is a heartbreaking, claustrophobic, thrilling, poetic descent into the mind of Dr. Jennifer White, a retired orthopedic surgeon suffering from dementia. Her best friend has been killed, and four fingers were surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime suspect, but she herself doesn’t know whether or not she did it. I read this book in one breathless sitting, on a flight home from a business trip, and the time flew.
— Sara, Atlanta
“This is an emotionally intense story of a 64-year-old hand surgeon, Jennifer White, as she experiences the unyielding onslaught of dementia. On any given day she is lucid, catatonic, violent, or very, very sly. Does she feel any remorse for her less-than-stellar parenting of her two children? Did she kill her friend Amanda and amputate her fingers? LaPlante's exceptional skill with words puts readers inside this brilliant woman's mind so that we might experience her anger, frustration, and increasing confusion. This is a remarkable, heart-wrenching, and utterly compelling debut novel.”
— Susan Wasson, Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM
Summer 2012 Reading Group
A New York Times bestseller, Turn of Mind is a literary thriller about a retired orthopedic surgeon suffering from dementia and accused of killing her best friend. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante's debut novel brings us deep into a brilliant woman's deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse.
When the book opens, Dr. Jennifer White's best friend, Amanda, has been killed, and four fingers surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime suspect and she herself doesn't know whether she did it. Told in White's own voice, fractured and eloquent, a picture emerges of the surprisingly intimate, complex alliance between these life-long friends--two proud, forceful women who were at times each other's most formidable adversaries. As the investigation into the murder deepens and White's relationships with her live-in caretaker and two grown children intensify, a chilling question lingers: is White's shattered memory preventing her from revealing the truth or helping her hide it?
A startling portrait of a disintegrating mind clinging to reality through anger, frustration, shame, and unspeakable loss, Turn of Mind examines the deception and frailty of memory and how it defines our very existence.
A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Wellcome Trust Book Prize
A New York Times and Booklist Editor's Choice
An NPR, Vogue, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Globe and Mail Summer Reading Pick
A San Francisco Chronicle 2011 Holiday Gift Guide Selection
Best Book of the Year:
Amazon.com 10 Best Thriller and Mystery Books
Washington Post Notable Fiction
The Guardian Best Thrillers
Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best in Fiction
Globe and Mail Best Mysteries and Thrillers
Shelf Awareness Top Pick
To call Turn of Mind a thrilleror a chronicle of illness, or a saga of friendship for that matterwould confine it to a genre it transcends. This is a portrait of an unstable mind, an expansive, expertly wrought imagining of memory’s failures and potential. . . . In LaPlante’s vivid prose, [Dr. White’s] waning mind proves a prism instead of a prison, her memory refracted to rich, sensual effect. There are moments of steely, surgical calm, the language tight and fractured . . . and there are moments of blooming, antic poetry. . . . LaPlante has imagined a lunatic landscape well. The twists and turns of mind this novel charts are haunting and original.”The New York Times Book Review
"Gripping . . . Skilfull . . . Unique . . . [A] compelling whodunit . . . . LaPlante has created an unforgettable portrait of the process of forgetting."The Washington Post Book World
"Rare . . . LaPlante's fine novel is both lyrical and shocking." Boston Globe
"Remarkably poignant . . . An artful, ambitious, and arresting attempt to capture the thoughts and feelings, by turns confused, conspiratorial, canny, and clear, of a person in the throes of mental illness . . . LaPlante reminds us all, passionately, that no matter what the state of our health, reality can be elusive and subjective."The San Francisco Chronicle
Expertly paced . . . A stunning act of imagination.”Chicago Tribune
"Unforgettable . . . It sounds like an almost impossible task: to write a murder mystery from the perspective of a suspect with Alzheimer's. And yet LaPlante pulls it off and with flair. . . . Jennifer is a hard, funny, acerbic woman when she is able to marshal her wandering wits. . . . Fragmented and disorienting . . . [A] distressingly believable portrait of a mind sinking into dementia." The Guardian (UK)
This book is to 2011 what Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One was to 2010the dread-filled, un-putdownable page turner. . . . Skillfully written in the memory-loss first person, the book combines murder mystery with family drama, bringing new meaning to the term psychological thriller.’”Vanity Fair
"Haunting . . . Blackly humorous . . . Remarkable . . . [Told in] the crisp, super-intelligent, and brutally confused voice of Dr. Jennifer White . . . LaPlante is certain in her footingthe verisimilitude here is unnerving . . . [as] she takes us into a world of gauzy shadows and scattered puzzle pieces."Newsday
"Daring and confident . . . A tour de force."Minneapolis Star-Tribune
This poignant debut immerses us in dementia’s complex choreography. . . . Dr. White is . . . by turns brilliant, hallucinatory, and heartbreakingly vulnerable. . . . [A] lyrical mosaic, an indelible portrait of a disappearing mind.”People (4 stars)
"This dazzlingly adroit debut novel is full of suspense, rueful humor, and scalpel-sharp insights into the intricacies of love and friendshipas well as the resilience of the human spirit." More
"A brilliant, even audacious conceit . . . Pitch-perfect."Chicago Sun-Times
"Not only was I mesmerized by LaPlante's ability to put the reader in the circumstance of a slowly evaporating ability to stay in the present, but the ending of the book was also one of the most indelible I have read in yearsI was stunned, silent, and shaken."The Daily Beast
"Provocative . . . Nervy and stylish . . . What lingers in the reader's mind is not so much the resolution of the plot as the resilience of Jennifer's character. . . . Alzheimer's patients reshape those around them in ways that transcend anguish and frustration. As the best parts of Turn of Mind reveal, the disease opens us to the very things that make us human." AARP magazine
"A heart-wrenching yet thrilling read . . . It is a mystery, thriller, medical story, family drama, and just an all-around good read."Deseret News
How does LaPlante pull a story out of [a protagonist] with no memory? In a word: deftly. . . . A clever whodunit. . . . If this portrait is correct, Jennifer is a sad but true reflection of a disease that ebbs and flows unmercifully. One minute she stares in wonder at a commonplace item like a toothbrush, the next she reacts with almost animal cunning, and the nextalmost miraculouslyshe displays the most salient facets of her former self. The novel’s ending alone will show what a long and winding road it is from confused to comatose.” The Seattle Times
Moving . . . Unusual . . . Cleverly and well written . . . I was quickly hooked.”Literary Review (UK)
[An] accomplished thriller . . . Vivid . . . Turn of Mind is an incisive, humane exploration of how we can rail against our need for close relationships with others, feeling that they undermine our independence, even as we keep going back for more.”Times Literary Supplement
"A page-turner . . . Creates a startling range and texture of fear. From agonizing, slow-motion-car-crash moments to the ironic frissons of a good horror movie, [LaPlante] hits every bell. . . . The complexity never fades . . . The razor sharp quality of [Jennifer's] thoughts, even at their most fragmented, gives her entire ordeal a "Twilight Zone" feel. Up until the final stages of the disease, she still somehow manages to retain the quality of a lone sane person adrift in a world that definitely isn't." Los Angeles Times
"Brilliant . . . Turn of Mind is relentless and chilling."The Globe and Mail
"The basic premise of this debut novel is pure genius . . . Masterfully written and satisfying."Shelf Awareness (starred review)
Executed with skill and elegance . . . . LaPlante’s real achievement here is creating a character whoeven in the midst of losing her mindis concrete, complicated, smart, and sympathetic. . . . Painfully sad and utterly true.”Bookreporter
"Engrossing . . . Exhilarating . . . A page-turning mystery."San Jose Mercury News
A powerfully affecting novel.”Easy Living (UK)
"A unique premise for a murder investigation . . . Compulsively readable . . . The mystery of the mind has surely been solved."New York Journal of Books
"Turn of Mind is one of my favorite books of the year. I can't wait to see what LaPlante comes up with next." Karin Slaughter, author of Fallen
What bumps Turn of Mind up into the exalted Daphne Du Maurier/Ruth Rendell category of literary thriller’ is LaPlante’s fearless and compassionate investigation into the erosion of her main character’s mind. . . . Turn of Mind reads as a series of fragmentary-but-illuminating first-person conversations between Dr. White and various other characters. . . . In the short space of these dialogues, Dr. White’s grip on reality fades in and out, like an iffy radio frequency and time frames collapse into each other with fluid ease. We readers become (nervously) at home in the haunted house of Dr. White’s head . . . [and] LaPlante’s turn on the suspense formula is especially ingenious because, as anxious-but-enthralled readers, we have to agree to be entrapped inside Dr. White’s crumbling mind for the duration. . . . Forgetfulness, it turns out, may be something of a mercy after all.”Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
"Heartbreaking . . . Telling the story from the point of view of a woman whose mind is slowly failing could have been gimmicky, but LaPlante completely pulls it off."Ladies' Home Journal
Impressive . . . Part mystery novel, part family drama . . . LaPlante has a gift for rhythm, crafting rat-a-tat passages that are their own pleasures. . . . It’s no small feat that LaPlante manages to spin a coherent tale despite her main character’s profound disorientation.”Entertainment Weekly
"An electrifying book, impossible to put down. Gripping, thought-provoking, humane, funny, tragic, it is masterfully done, a tour de force that can’t be a first noveland yet it is. I’ll read whatever LaPlante writes next, and the sooner the better.”Ann Packer
"A uniquely entertaining murder mystery. LaPlante's portrayal of the prime suspect's escalating dementia is gripping, unnerving, and utterly brilliant."Lisa Genova
The Stone Angel meets Momento in this literary page-turner. . . . Smart, strong . . . With its timely and compelling storyline, LaPlante’s debut is ambitious . . . Both an impressive technical stunt and a moving portrait of a difficult, undaunted woman.”Winnipeg Free Press
Haunting . . . [A] startling portrait of a fiercely intelligent woman struggling mightily to hold on to her sense of self. . . . This masterfully written debut is fascinating on so many levels, from its poignant and inventive depiction of a harrowing illness to its knowing portrayal of the dark complexities of friendship and marriage.”Booklist (starred review)
LaPlante’s literary novel explores uncharted territory, imagining herself into a mind, one slipping, fading, spinning away from her protagonist. . . . LaPlante tells the story poignantly, gracefully, and artistically. Jennifer White, as a physician, as a wife, as a mother, leaps from the pages as a powerful character. . . . A haunting story masterfully told.”Kirkus (starred review)
This extraordinarily crafted debut novel guides the reader through family drama that is becoming all too familiar. That the author is able to do it so convincingly through the eyes and voice of [a woman with Alzheimer’s] is an amazing achievement. Heartbreaking and stunning, this is both compelling and painful to read.”Library Journal (starred review)
"Impressive . . . A subtle literary novel."Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Poignant . . . It’s hard to believe that this is a first novelit’s so carefully written and satisfying in every way. . . . A masterful family drama and a thrilling murder mystery.”Valerie Ryan, Shelf Awareness
Turn of Mind blindfolds the reader and spins her around, gives her a push into a maze of echoes. Alice LaPlante’s debut is a tricky nouveau nouveau roman, rife with danger.”Stewart O’Nan
Alice La Plante's brilliantly original novel took me not simply into the life of a woman falling apart, but directly into her crumbling brain as she tries desperately to keep her sense of her own identity from slipping away. She held me there for three hundred riveting pagesand for weeks after I'd turned the last one. If one of the measures of wonderful fiction is its capacity to grant a reader access to characters and experience she might never have imagined (and I think it is), Turn of Mind surely qualifies as a masterful accomplishment.”Joyce Maynard
"Wonderful. This harrowing exploration of the slow disintegration of the mind is deeply touching and utterly heartbreaking, while also being a compelling page-turner. I loved it."S. J. Watson
Turn of Mind is that rarest of books that defies simple classification. It’s absolutely bursting at the seams with humanity, in the fullest possible array, with all of the twists and turns life can throw at us, and which we in turn hurl ourselves toward. Impossible to put down and yet from the very first page so vivid and ripe with language and comprehension that I knew this was not only a book to be savored, but returned to. Alice LaPlante offers a glorious achievement.”Jeffrey Lent
Hey readers, Alice LaPlante has arrived. Turn of Mind features a crazy-smart narrator in a gripping family drama that is itself a brilliant murder mystery. LaPlante possesses both the wild audacity to attempt such a tour-de-force and the pure talent to pull it off. Totally compelling, dark and yet at moments also darkly funny, completely unforgettable. Lord knows what LaPlante will write next. I can’t wait.”Colin Harrison
As the narrator’s mind is devoured by dementia, she struggles to remember the extent of her involvement in her best friend’s murder. LaPlante’s characters are completely convincing, the plotting masterful.”Donna Leon
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: March 27th, 2012
Thrillers - General
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12/30/2013 08:22 am ET Updated Jan 23, 2014
Reading Changes Brain's Connectivity, Study Suggests
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It's no secret that reading is good for your brain. But what actually happens inside your brain when you read a great novel?
“Stories shape our lives and in some cases help define a person,” Dr. Gregory S. Berns, director of Emory University's Center for Neuropolicy in Atlanta, said in a written statement. “We want to understand how stories get into your brain, and what they do to it.”
Now we may have a better idea, thanks to new research by Berns and his research team.
The researchers took fMRI scans of the brains of 21 undergraduate students while they rested. Then the students were asked to read sections of the 2003 thriller novel “Pompeii” by Robert Harris over nine nights. The students' brains were scanned each morning following the nightly reading assignment, and then again daily for five days after they had finished the book.
The scans revealed heightened connectivity within the students' brains on the mornings following the assignments, and the changes persisted for the five days after the students had finished the novel. The areas with enhanced connectivity included the students' left temporal cortex, an area of the brain associated with language comprehension, as well as in the brain's central sulcus, which is associated with sensations and movement.
"The anterior (front) bank of the sulcus contains neurons that control movement of parts of the body," Berns told The Huffington Post in an email. "The posterior (rear) bank contains neurons that receive sensory input from the parts of the body. Enhanced connectivity here was a surprise finding, but it implies that, perhaps, the act of reading puts the reader in the body of the protagonist."
How long do the brain changes persist? Berns said in the email that it wasn't clear, but he added, "At a minimum, we can say that reading stories –- especially those with strong narrative arcs -– reconfigures brain networks for at least a few days. It shows how stories can stay with us. This may have profound implications for children and the role of reading in shaping their brains."
This new research was published in the journal Brain Connectivity on Dec. 9.
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Wellcome Trust employee Zoe Middleton poses for the media by a work entitled 'My Soul' by artist Katherine Dawson, that is a laser etched in lead crystal glass of the artist's own MRI scan, at an exhibition call 'Brains -The Mind as Matter' at the Wellcome Collection in London, Tuesday, March, 27, 2012. The free exhibition is open to the public from March 29- June 17. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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